But first, tell us about your district in Pennsylvania, because this is a very, very tight swing district, one of the few legitimate swing districts that's out there.

Right.

Thanks so much for having me on, Alex.

And we're talking about South Central Pennsylvania.

This includes the historic town of Carlisle, home of the U.S. Army War College, the state capital, Harrisburg, also Hershey, the town of York, which is home of York Barbell, formerly home of York Peppermint Patty.

This district was changed.

It was redistricted unconstitutionally by the state Supreme Court.

But what's going on here, Congressman?

Remind America where your district is and who you're up against and why this is so important.

Well, we're in South Central Pennsylvania.

This is Pennsylvania's 10th congressional district.

It's got York County, Dauphin County, and Cumberland County in it.

It's got the state capitol in it and Hershey, Pennsylvania, among other things.

And It's a tough battle because Democrats on the Supreme Court changed the district with Obama and Holder back in the day to make it, you know, the people that complain about all the money in politics made this district a swing seat.

And so they're spending 25, at least 25 million this year.

Now, Scott Perry, tell the American people and the people in Pennsylvania about your record.

yeah

yes i had right they don't all see themselves that way but the point to make is like you said those are the people that are in charge of the policy and that party once it's in power and even when it's not in power that's the voice everybody else is coming along so if you consider yourself a moderate that's great unfortunately your voice is not going to be heard the defund your local police the open up the prisons that's the conversation That's the policy that's going to be offered, and you're going to be forced to vote for it.

And people say, well, I would never vote for that.

I'm, you know, I'm moderate.

You know, what's one thing that is claimed and is right about so-called Democrats? They stick together, right? So when those things are offered to defund your local police and close your prisons and let all the criminals out, those people are going to go right along with it because they – Look, we just had two members of the Democrat Party vote with Republicans on what's called a rule in the House of Representatives.

And the Democrat Party, those other members are coming after them.

As a matter of fact, that you can watch it on TV.

But why do you think that is? Why why are things more expensive than they should be? And what's the solution?

Welcome, Scott Perry.

Perry.Great to be with you.

Look, I'll talk fast 'cause we, we wasted some time there.

You know, for me, uh, I grew up...

When I grew up, we didn't...

I didn't know one person with a peanut allergy.

Uh, no one, very few people had autism.

The American people want America healthy again.

She's certainly not saying anything against it.

Well, yeah, she's not going to say anything about what's happening in Michigan.

Believe it or not, it's happening in Pennsylvania.

The gentleman that's going to take...

A seat in Congress down in Philadelphia has disavowed the founding documents.

It's happening a lot of places across the country, Chicago, etc., where people that that are going to be elected to office, they're going to take the oath.

And I imagine they're going to.

How about you? Has this come up during the campaign?

She's certainly not saying anything against it.

Well, yeah, she's not going to say anything about what's happening in Michigan.

Believe it or not, it's happening in Pennsylvania.

The gentleman that's going to take...

A seat in Congress down in Philadelphia has disavowed the founding documents.

It's happening a lot of places across the country, Chicago, etc., where people that that are going to be elected to office, they're going to take the oath.

And I imagine they're going to.

How about you? Has this come up during the campaign?

I mean, isn't the lasting lesson out of the Middle East that if we just continue to trade allies like dance partners at a Texas square dance, that ultimately we end up funding all sides of every war?

Well, that has been, you're not wrong about that, Matt.

You are not wrong about that.

But I think that there would be provisions where the United States would take more of a lead once, let's say, the Ayatollah and the Quds Force was relieved of duty, so to speak.

But I think the goal, obviously, is to have the Iranian people rule their own country.

Unfortunately, some of the most vocal people willing to willing to stand up against the bloody regime were exterminated in droves last spring.

So we've got to find a way to arm them and to empower them.

What do you think the key issues are right now driving voters in your commonwealth? And how should Republicans be communicating ahead of the midterms?

Man, you guys had a lot of folks standing in line.

We did, Todd.

Great to be with you.

And, you know, it's just, look, it's a good news story in a time and a world where there's a lot of division, right? You know, Senator McCormick, the Republican from Pennsylvania, Senator Fetterman, the Democrat from Pennsylvania, got together with some local businesses and threw it together at the last minute.

And of course, that's part of the story because it was our governor that said he was not going to participate.

Pennsylvania, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, where so much of the 250th occurred 250 years ago, was not going to be part of it.

And of course, Those two senators said, you know, look, we're going to do the right thing for the country.

Any new intel that you can share with us?

What do you think?

Well, look, I still think it's a tall order.

I think you've got to get past some egos.

Some of those folks dislike the president.

That's OK.

This is America.

You can dislike whoever you want to.

What do you make of it?

Isn't that the type of thing that foreign intelligence services do? And what was Epstein trying to extort Bill Gates to do?

Well, Bill Gates didn't really, he didn't allude, at least when I was there, to what he was trying to get him to do.

I think it was just generally to make sure that Bill Gates was, this is what I kind of understood, was in Epstein's orbit as a friend, that Epstein could drop his name, maybe make a phone call, get him to make a phone call, and utilize his friendship for various things, whether it was donations to charities or or things like that.

Now, you know, Gates, you know, says and that we don't have any evidence to prove that he says he was never at the island, that he generally he wasn't at his home in the southwest.

I think he may have met him in New York, but I'm not even sure he went to the townhouse.

He might have done that, but Gates is one of the guys, Bill Gates is one of the guys that seems to be at least partially removed from this sexual profile.

Now, he did say that he was aware that Epstein was a sex felon, but didn't know some other things about that, that you would think a man of his stature, availability to get information and intellect would know.

Where does that currently stand?

So at a high level, just walk us through what the report found.

Yeah, so first, I think it's important to understand, you know, the care that's provided in IRFs, right? IRFs are facilities that provide intensive rehabilitation to patients whose complex medical, nursing, and therapy needs are expected to improve.

And in an inpatient setting, use what they call a team approach to care.

You know, that team will include physical therapists, occupational therapists, and other therapists.

And this approach assures the patients is receiving the quality of care needed so they can hopefully return home or to a setting they were at prior to the hospital stay.

So these are very intensive types of stays with a high reimbursement.

So back in 2018, we performed an audit where we looked at IRF claims and we found a significantly high error rate, roughly 80 percent with five point seven billion dollars in errors.

So if you're speaking to other hospitals that might be at risk for noncompliance or might be the subject of a future report, what would you recommend to them to prevent this sort of overpayment and disagreement from happening?

Right

... from then on has to have a kill switch in it where the car will decide whether you're driving appropriately or not, and if it decides you're driving inappropriately, it will kill your, uh...

It, it will kill the engine, right? You'll stop and you'll have to pull over.

Maybe you'll stop in the middle of the road, but it shuts the car off is the point.

The car is the judge, the jury, and regarding the car, it's the executioner, right? It kills it.

So, um, a- and so, you know, this was all done under the guise of making sure that people didn't drive impaired.

So unfortunately, everybody, whether you drink and drive or whether you don't drink and drive or use some other, uh, substance to impair you, everybody is considered, uh, potentially dangerous, and you, you were mandated to, to, when you buy a new car, that will be in there and functioning.

Uh, tell us a little bit about that and how that could, uh, take a little, uh, or put a little bite back into our wallets.

But tell us why Congress is afraid to kill the

kill switch.

This is a little different than that thing that shuts your car off at the red light or the stop sign.

This is a mandate by the federal government that every car made from 2027, so that's this model year coming up from then on, has to have a kill switch in it where the car will decide whether you're driving appropriately or not.

And if it decides you're driving inappropriately, it will kill It will kill the engine, right? You will stop and you'll have to pull over.

Maybe you'll stop in the middle of the road, but it shuts the car off is the point.

The car is the judge, the jury, and regarding the car, it's the executioner, right? It kills it.

Tell us a little bit about that and how that could put a little bite back into our wallets.

Uh, why are they paying more, 30 cents more, for a gallon of diesel, uh, as a result of this, when we really don't need it, and our supply is l- if we have enough supply for a couple of hundred years?

So this is a long story, Sean.

It started probably in the '70s with, um, the agricultural policies of America, where we used to make sure that farmers didn't all grow the same thing, because they'd be wiped out in a season.

That was gotten rid of in the Administa- the, the Nixon administration, and we decided that we were gonna produce corn at a massive rate, and corn syrup, which, you know, I, we can get into the health effects of corn syrup and everything that corn is involved in.

And this isn't to impugn our farmers, because look, Sean, I've been b- I started out baling hay and picking fruit and working hard, just like you did as, at a young age.

But our farmers are struggling right now, and this is a, this is the, the government tried to fix something, and of course they screwed it up, and now they're fixing it again with screwing it up worse.

And so each one of us, every time we buy a gallon of gas or diesel, we're paying a hidden tax to make sure that farmers have this very special market just to themselves.

Is there a way that you've thought of that you can do that?

What's your initial reaction to the Pentagon seeking $200 billion for this war? Is that something you'd vote yes on?

Well, that's the beginning of the that's the offer on the table, right? We all of Congress, including Republicans and Democrats, are going to want to see the granular details of what that involves.

Remember, the administration also asked for one point five trillion in military spending to rearm, refit, retool the production lines and so on and so forth.

Is this part of that or is that separate? So we've got a long way to go.

That's the initial offer on the table.

But we have questions that are reasonable that we will get answered.

And, you know, we're going to have a say in this thing.

Do you think that this would be in contradiction with America first policies to give 200 more dollars?

Tell us a little bit about the amendment and how important it is.

Well, look, we had several amendments, but the thing that the public really doesn't know about is the negotiation that happened, and it went right up until the very moment of the bill's passage on the House floor.

We knew that the bill could be stronger.

And look, we all, all of us, every single Republican, myself included, wants NEPA reform.

That's the environmental requirements at the federal level that slow every single person every single project down and add huge cost to it.

So when people say, why does it take so long to get a bridge built? Why does it cost so much to do a stretch of road? Why does it, uh, why is my energy bill continuing to go up? The reason for it oftentimes is NEPA and, and these, and the environmentalists, the crazy environmental lobby use it to literally stop projects or make them last for dozens of years.

We wanted to get at that, but we also knew that it could be better than what it was.

Tell us a little bit about what you think is going on and why you sent this letter to the governor this week.

What did they do to you? What happened?

Well, Jesse, thanks for having me on.

Arctic Frost, so named for a variety of oranges, just keep that in mind, so Arctic Frost was an operation to persecute and, uh, prosecute anybody involved with President Trump that had any questions about the 2020 election.

Now, of course, I have thousands of constituents that called in, that came to see me, that emailed, that wrote me, that had questions, and demanded me as their representative to speak for them and ask these questions, which I did.

The US government didn't go after those thousands of people, but if your name was Peter Navarro, if your name was Steve Bannon, if your name was Scott Perry, if your name was a handful of sundry senators, the Department of Justice came after us and Christopher Wray authorized the o- the operation, which means Merrick Garland knew about it, and of course, the intention was to make sure that nobody ever questioned the Democratic Party again or any election, and certainly to throw President Trump in jail and make sure he never became president again.

Uh, I, I, you know, it's, it's political persecution on a scale of places like Cuba, the Soviet Union, the Communist Party of China, uh, North Korea.

Th- that's what happened in the United States and we just lived long enough to survive it, and of course they all believed that President Trump wasn't come back, gonna come back, so they all believed they were gonna get away with it, but of course it's unraveling as we speak.

Can we trust the FBI? 'Cause I'll be honest (laughs), I don't.

What did they do to you? What happened?

Well, Jesse, thanks for having me on.

Arctic Frost, so named for a variety of oranges, just keep that in mind.

So Arctic Frost was an operation to persecute and, uh, prosecute anybody involved with President Trump that had any questions about the 2020 election.

Now, of course I have thousands of constituents that called in, that came to see me, that emailed, that wrote me, that had questions and demanded me as their representative speak for them and ask these questions, which I did.

The US government didn't go after those thousands of people, but if your name was Peter Navarro, if your name was Steve Bannon, if your name was Scott Perry, if your name was a handful of sundry senators, the Department of Justice came after us and Christopher Wray authorized the o- the operation which means Merrick Garland knew about it, and of course the intention was to make sure that nobody ever questioned the Democrat Party again or any election and certainly to throw President Trump in jail and make sure he never became president again.

Uh, I, I, you know, it's, it's political persecution on a scale of places like Cuba, the Soviet Union, the Communist Party of China, uh, North Korea.

Can we trust the FBI? 'Cause I'll be honest (laughs), I don't.

Right.

China's gonna continue to make moves and, and, and so we're gonna have to be able to multitask here and understand that China is interested in essentially eclipsing the United States of America in every single possible way that they can, whether it's economically, militarily, diplomatically, but they sur- certainly use the information and propaganda space.

And they're...

While we're distracted with these other things, they will make moves because they're free to do so, um, to continue to propagandize Americas- Americans and the world and censor them and destroy the platforms that allow for free speech.

So we gotta be able to, uh, walk and chew gum at the same time, deal with the conflicts in the Middle East, which by the way, is the perfect place for, um, a- aircraft carriers as necessary because the capability there doesn't exist like it does in China.

Yeah.

... interested in the reality of, of Iran or quite honestly o- other things.

And they, and they try and kneecap not only the president's, uh, certainly the, President Trump's administration, but anybody that doesn't have this globalist open borders viewpoint of the world.

All right.

... is basically a framework that says we can continue to steal unless we don't steal.

The problem is, and was, is that the Senate refuses to move forward until we pass their language so that we can start the conversation.

Of course, we don't like that.

The House, you know, the House hemmed itself in.

The House said, "We're not going to spend this, this money without getting cuts for it, right, because we don't have extra money.

We're actually broke.

What should I feel about this?

I'm not sure if it's your district or not, but this was, this made a lot of news and Tulsi Gabbard then yesterday comes through and says, as Director of National Intelligence, "These electronic voting machines are not secure and we have evidence of them switching votes and affecting the outcomes of elections." What should happen with electronic voting in the country?

Uh, we should get rid of electronic voting in the country.

We can count, uh, paper ballots.

Matter of fact, in Pennsylvania before electronic voting machines were available, we either did it by paper or we had this old archaic machine that you would wheel in and you would pull these levers and you would pull a big handle and it cast your vote and everybody knew by 10:00 at night who won the race.

And, uh, that seemed to be obvious and acceptable but remember, the advent of electronic voting machines really didn't come into force until Hillary Clinton lost to Donald Trump and there had to be some other explanation other than Donald Trump beat her, so it had to be there were voting irregularities.

And now all we have is voting irregularities where you have decremented votes, you have partial votes, we can't find out from California for two or three or, weeks or a month who won the election.

It is absurd.

Um...

Uh, what's your take, Congressman, on that?

Well, uh, actually, I couldn't...

I don't think I can agree with you more.

Uh, we've been talking about, uh, the civil rights of, uh, violations for political beliefs for a long time and what to do about that and how it only seems to be one-sided.

And in this case, it's fascinating to me that, I don't know, three years ago, Elon Musk was the darling of the left, right? He was getting subsidies from the federal government.

So, uh, you and me had to pay for, uh, subsidies for his cars.

We had to pay people subsidies to buy his cars and, uh, and essentially, you had c- state governments like California and increasingly, the federal government saying that sooner or later, you're gonna be mandated to only buy one of these cars.

Pretty epic.

... why yes on this one?

So, thanks f- uh, for the opportunity, Jesse. By the way, we love the show. So, the reason for this is, look, I went to Washington, uh, to stop the confiscation of all our money and the bankrupting of our country and the bankrupting of Americans, right? And so, if you're gonna save money... Look, if the Democrats would actually ever vote to save money, I would probably vote with them, but they never do. So, in this case, we're actually cutting some funding. We're freezing spending. And anytime you're freezing spending because of inflation and everything else that goes on in Washington DC, you're actually saving some money. It's not a lot, but look, we never save any, so it's- it's some. So, number one, saving money. If you, you know, if you don't mind who gets the credit for something, you can do a lot. So... But the only way to get to that point was to vote for this thing, so that's number one. Number two, the administration. So, who am I talking about? President Trump, Elon Musk, Russ Vought over at the Office of Management and Budget said, "Look, if you pass this thing, we're gonna do the cutting." You can't, because you gotta pass this CR and you're gonna need some Democrat votes to do it. You can't cut anything 'cause they won't vote for anything then. But if you do it, we will do the cutting. Well, I'm for the cutting. I don't care who does it, as long as somebody does it. So, that's number two. Number three, it stops an omnibus, and I'm gonna tell you, there were many in Congress, many in congressional leadership, that were already working on an omnibus. We're not for that, so this is better than that. This kills the omni... R- remember they tried to do one right before Christmas? Elon got ahold of it.

... Elon and McMahon, they can do so much, but Congress has to do something, so will it?

So, that's, uh, tha- that's the rub, right? Like, the, we want the president... First of all, there's no, there's no mention whatsoever i- in, uh, about education in the Constitution, the United States Constitution. This is totally within the purview of the states, right? So, we're right to be taking a look. And le- let's not forget the fact that ever since the advent of the Department of Education, our test scores have gone do- gone down where the price has gone up for education. So, it's gonna be- it's been- it's been a complete failure. And while the administration can do everything it can, at- at some point, if Congress doesn't act, the next Democrat in charge is just gonna revive it all. Now, the problem's gonna be, even if we can get the votes in the House, and there's... You know, look, there are Republicans that probably won't wanna vote for that, I'm just saying, but there are gonna be Democrats that absolutely will not ever vote for something like that. And of course, some of those reside in the Senate. So, the only way you're gonna be able to get that is to attach it to something the Democrats are desperately wanting, let's say like C- California disaster relief or something like that, where they desperately want it and you've got to put them in a bad position to have to vote for this to get that, which is what Democrats always do to Republicans but Republicans never do to Democrats. So, I hope- I hope we take the opportunity to get some real wins by forcing them to stand up in front of their voters and say, "I'm voting for things that aren't in the Constitution because, uh, because we think that that has- that's how it has to be." They take an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution and then snub their nose at it every single day. We have to put them on record with that stuff.

... administration.

Great job. Uh, mark this up in the category of I woke up today to yet one more great thing that I didn't have the day before because Donald Trump is the president. The CBP One app was, was set up by the Biden administration to facilitate the illegal entry of foreign nationals into our country, and the president has turned it into what is effectively their, their, uh, you know, their, their methodology to the doorstep back to where they came from. And more so than that, with the moniker if, you know, and, and the proviso that if you don't self-deport and we have to do it, you can never come back. And also, let this also be known, that government-provided cellphone that your CBP One app is on? Yeah, we're using that to find you as well. So, uh, y- as long as you hang onto that and, and, you know, call some drug dealer in Mexico or some human trafficker that you're working with, we're gonna use that to find you and deport you and probably go find them and arrest them.

Uh, is this thing going, is this thing going past? And, um, you know, what's your take on it?

Well, look, I don't love CRs. This'll be the second one I've ever voted for, but there is, a different context is important. So I certainly don't love CRs when Democrats are in charge and when, uh, Biden's in the White House, and I don't love them much more when Republicans are in charge of the legislature, don't get their work done, and then there's a Democrat in charge. The context is important. Here we have the opportunity to freeze spending for six months while DOOGE and while the Office of Management and Budget continues to make cuts to things that we don't need to be spending money on and that we can't afford. And what it does, we don't want to stop the momentum of DOOGE, we don't want to stop the momentum of Management and Budget or this president, and we certainly don't want Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, and Hakeem Jeffries to determine what we do policy-wise here. And what they're demanding is that we stop DOOGE and that we rein in the president for their votes. That's what their votes would require. So it's gonna take every single Republican, um, on board of keeping the DOOGE going, keeping the Office of Management and Budget from writing and signing and paying out stupid contractual agreements from the Biden administration. I'm in favor of actually getting us to the reconciliation budget. This is just a blip on the radar screen to continue to fund government for the next six months while we get to the real work, which is the reconciliation.