And it feels like this is the same thing that we're dealing with this time around in the midterms.

Well, they're trying to make it feel that way, John, for sure.

The last election, I would call it a change election because we just couldn't take four more years of Biden's disastrous economic policies, double-digit inflation that we hadn't seen in this country for 40 years.

Everything was going through the roof.

Now, the Democrats just can't believe the hypocrisy of these guys.

They created the train wreck, the economic train wreck.

Donald Trump and Republicans have been pulling us out of it.

But do you feel as if Trump is going to be able to sort of rein in what's happening with Iran to get those prices down somewhat prior to November?

What have you been read into? Where do you stand?

Well, I... without naming the company, I've met with a company that's actually, uh, already has a platform in place to deal with AI and potential issues that go beyond the, uh, that go beyond the parameters that are set for AI.

Uh, Brian, th- this gets way too complicated.

Uh, and I'm not the, uh, the high-tech expert, but I'll, I'll tell you this.

Uh, human beings are gonna have to be involved, so the idea that AI is going to take over the world and run things like some sci-fi movie, uh, not accurate.

Uh, do we have to be thoughtful? Do we have to be, uh, uh, deliberate? Yes, we do.

But what we're getting right now is we're in a race with, uh, with China, and I, I tell people at home, uh, and I'll say it to you, uh, data centers, we already have them.

Uh, what's resonating with Michelle? How, how are they suddenly open to, uh, a Republican statewide?

How do you think the convention will go? Thank you for joining us.

You're gonna see tonight Republicans are energized, Lawrence.

I'm, I was surprised when I got down here last night.

Uh, we're gonna have 20 to 30,000 people that are going to attend this event at the, uh, American Airlines Center.

Uh, they are energized all over the place, so again, it's about turnout.

We gotta make sure that Republicans understand despite these so-called experts, this thing is far from over.

Remember, they told us we were gonna lose as many as 24 seats in the House in 2020.

Your thoughts on what transpired in Minneapolis yesterday, Tom?

Well, first off, just talk about the incident.

You have three police officers who sustained injuries.

Thankfully, they don't appear to be life-threatening.

You had people who did lose their life in this incident.

Apparently it came from a allegedly it came from an eviction or an eviction that was in process with a tenant who was being evicted, who has a long history of criminal activity.

And, you know, I'm not saying this is the case, John, but God forbid that we find out that this guy was released over and over again by, for instance, Mary Moriarty, who seems to care more about criminals than she does about the victims that they create.

So talk about the GOP priorities relating to the national debt, but also the future and the possibility of the SAVE Act actually moving forward.

How do you push back politically? Because the polls are clear that the propaganda against these centers is working.

Yeah, David, thanks for having me.

We're going to have to do a lot more of this.

Education is going to be the key.

Look, we live in the technology age, the age of digital.

Data centers are absolutely necessary if you're going to succeed and grow.

And in this case, Kyrsten Sinema, the former senator, talking about the Chinese and their misinformation, the Chinese would love to see us stop building data centers.

They could do much worse damage if we if it wasn't for fracking here in the United States and elsewhere also.

Think about it.

There's 5.7 million people in this state, less than 200,000 even look at that piece of garbage.

And you know what? It's going to get smaller and smaller within the next four or five years if they're still alive.

And I hope they're not.

They are they're going to have about 30,000 people max reading that that worthless political rag.

But when it comes to your question, I call him the lame duck loser.

This was spiteful, John.

So what do you think the inevitability – what do you think the inevitable end of this order will be once Walz is out of

And what happens to our country should we go this route? To me, how do you ever get this thing back on the rails? Should we continue to go down this path?

Well, first off, you see what happens to our country.

I grew up with a president named Ronald Reagan at the tail end of the Cold War.

The younger generation that's out there now, they don't have any of these touchstones.

We remember Reagan telling Gorbachev from the Soviet Union, tear down this wall in East Berlin.

We remember what happened there.

If you study history, just look back when the Bolsheviks took over, the Marxists in Russia.

Is this what I've seen with Project Veritas? Is this on the up and up? Can I take somebody that might not be a citizen of the United States and vote in Minnesota under these laws? Please tell me that this has been overblown.

corroborate and reconcile what went on here with all these Somalis.

Well, I mean, there's your issue.

uh right there the somali fraudsters have ripped this state off for probably as much as nine billion dollars under tim wall's incompetent and perhaps complicit watch uh they've charged uh i think it's over 90 people now uh in the uh primarily in the feeding our future scandal which is a 250 million largest pandemic fraud case in the country By the way, 86 of those were Somalis, and nobody seems to want to call it out for what it is.

The one thing that hasn't happened, Ray, which is not surprising based on what I just told you about Keith Ellison, not one, not one government official has been implicated in this $9 billion bilking of taxpayer funds.

It kind of defies logic that all that money could go out of the Wall's administration right under his nose, right under Keith Ellison's nose, right under Peggy Flanagan's nose, the lieutenant governor who now wants to be our U.S. senator.

And nobody knew about it, Ray? I don't think so.

And I think Keith Ellison, in his testimony in front of Rand Paul's committee in the Senate, when Josh Hawley, and you can go look this up online, Josh Hawley grilled this guy.

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I've never heard such a visceral anti-ICE acceptance speech in my entire life.

Yeah, she's bad news.

Minnesota was very interesting last night, and I want to tie it to Michigan and even Wisconsin.

You guys were talking about polling before I came in.

I think John hit it better than anybody when he talked about landlines.

I would argue to you guys the reason polls are no good is we're doing the same type of polling we've always done.

It's mathematically defensible.

Where's their integrity? Where is their backbone? Where's their moral compass?

Her acceptance speech, I've never heard such a visceral anti-ICE acceptance speech in my entire life.

Yeah, she's bad news.

Uh, Minnesota was very interesting last night, and I, I want to tie it to, uh, uh, to, uh, Michigan and even Wisconsin.

You guys were talking about polling before I came on, and I think John hit it better, better than, uh, anybody when he talked about landlines.

I, I, I would argue to you guys the reason polls are no good is we're doing the same type of polling we've always done.

It's mathematically defensible.

The problem is nobody has a landline, nobody's answering their phone, and I know this is gonna surprise some of your listeners.

Where's their integrity? Where is their backbone? Where's their moral compass?

I've never heard such a visceral anti-ICE acceptance speech in my entire life.

Yeah, she's bad news.

Minnesota was very interesting last night, and I want to tie it to Michigan and even Wisconsin.

You guys were talking about polling before I came in.

I think John hit it better than anybody when he talked about landlines.

I would argue to you guys the reason polls are no good is we're doing the same type of polling we've always done.

It's mathematically defensible.

Where's their integrity? Where is their backbone? Where's their moral compass?

I've never heard such a visceral anti-ICE acceptance speech in my entire life.

Yeah, she's bad news.

Minnesota was very interesting last night, and I want to tie it to Michigan and even Wisconsin.

You guys were talking about polling before I came in.

I think John hit it better than anybody when he talked about landlines.

I would argue to you guys the reason polls are no good is we're doing the same type of polling we've always done.

It's mathematically defensible.

We need to start addressing that as Republicans and begin to create some hope for these young people.

What was that, Tom?

Well, a couple of things.

One, he- you, uh, you know when you sit down with him, he's a team guy.

Uh, Johnny, uh, showed up and he was talking about how he wants to get the America First agenda done, how he wants to support President Trump every step of the way, but he wants to be part of the team that's doing it.

Uh, he's not, uh, showing up to be a show horse.

He wants to show up and be a workhorse.

Uh, nothing against anybody else out there, but we need new, fresh energy in Washington, DC.

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Mm.

Because they take care of each other when it comes to these votes.

All right, let's assume the filibuster, uh, is not gonna go anywhere and, and, uh, let's assume I'm wrong, that it's not, you know, something that they, uh, they use to avoid votes.

The other thing that nobody's talking about, and we just did this last week, we passed a budget resolution for a third reconciliation bill.

Attached to it was the Save America Act.

Now, that goes over to the Senate.

If they start to move that, and remember, this is just the first step.

No.

Do you think there'll be a legislative push in the House to be a force multiplier to the president's direction, to the administration?

I actually hope so.

I mean, there's nothing wrong with election integrity.

What's wrong with our system is these left wing media outlets who want to pretend that it doesn't happen, want to pretend that it's not real.

President Trump laid it out for us the other night.

We should never have our adversaries interfering with our elections.

And this goes on everywhere, but you guys up there, not you personally, but Minnesota seems to really know how to do this.

Oh, think about it.

We're a state of, you know, between five and six million people compared to Illinois, compared to California.

We punch way above our weight, Ray, when it comes to fraud.

It's pretty damn amazing.

And you're right.

I did recently with the entire Minnesota delegation We filed a bill called the Fraud Act.

Where do you see this ending up?

What do you feel emotional about?

Well, what we're watching, John, and I talked to a bunch of interns here in Washington, D.C. last week.

You know, they've been working on the Hill.

I thanked them for showing up, volunteering, being part of the process.

But I asked them all one question.

I asked, How many of you have read The Road to Serfdom by Hayek? Not one hand went up, and I told him, you all need to go read it because Mamdami, the commie, these quote-unquote progressives, that's what that book was written about.

That was Hayek writing that book during World War II to his elitist intellectual buddies about why quote-unquote socialism exists.

But I think right now I think it's getting a little bit out of control for them.

What do you feel emotional about?

Well, what we're watching, John, and I talked to a bunch of interns here in Washington, D.C. last week.

You know, they've been working on the Hill.

I thanked them for showing up, volunteering, being part of the process.

But I asked them all one question.

I asked How many of you have read The Road to Serfdom by Hayek? Not one hand went up, and I told him, you all need to go read it because Mamdami, the commie, these quote-unquote progressives, that's what that book was written about.

That was Hayek writing that book during World War II to his elitist intellectual buddies about why quote-unquote socialism exists.

I think right now I think it's getting a little bit out of control for them.

What do you feel emotional

about? Well, what we're watching, John, and I talked to a bunch of interns here in Washington, D.C.

last week.

You know, they've been working on the Hill.

I thanked them for showing up, volunteering, being part of the process.

But I asked them all one question.

I asked...

But I think right now it's getting a little bit out of control for them.

What can you tell us about that? Do you think the votes are there? And would you support that concept?

No, and I've got to read it before I can comment on the specifics, Matt.

But I do trust you because you've been doing this for a while.

By the way, it's nice to see you wearing a tie.

Well, I'm not wearing a tie.

It's good that you are carrying on.

This is not going to happen.

Do you think there'll be a legislative push in the House to be a force multiplier to the president's direction, to the administration?

What is it that you, with your perch as having been the top guy on the campaign committee say, these are the three things we need to get done that will help us explain to the American people why we're doing a good job, we're good stewards as a majority party?

Well, the great peacemaker Donald Trump has already done the first thing, and that is finding a path forward in the Middle East and with the Iranians.

He has started that process.

You have seen gas prices starting to move downward.

I mean, it'll take a while, but I think the most important thing is he said as soon as this gets taken care of, they will come back down, and they are.

And guess what? We got to be talking about all the good things in the economy, Sean, because there are a lot of good things.

There are 99 cent eggs.

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What is it that you, with your perch as having been the top guy on the campaign committee say, these are the three things we need to get done that will help us explain to the American people why we're doing a good job, we're good stewards as a majority party?

Well, the great peacemaker Donald Trump has already done the first thing, and that is finding a path forward in the Middle East and with the Iranians.

He has started that process.

You have seen gas prices starting to move downward.

I mean, it'll take a while, but I think the most important thing is he said as soon as this gets taken care of, they will come back down, and they are.

And guess what? We've got to be talking about all the good things in the economy, Sean, because there are a lot of good things.

There are 99-cent eggs.

So where are you in the House leadership on the issue of trying to protect kids from the dangers of social media? Well,

Why do you think that is? Why now?

Well, you know, I can only speak from my perspective, and obviously it's probably a little tainted because I've been a supporter before it was even an issue, right? I did radio back in the Twin Cities for a few years, and we started out on the largest FM station.

And then, of course, it was the big sports craze because we were doing political talk radio.

And they switched it from the FM signal that was so strong to AM 1130, which just happens to be the same station that Jesse Ventura was broadcasting on before he became governor in Minnesota.

And it really taught me because we had an amazing following.

Right.

The numbers were comparable with even the stronger signal.

Where do we go from here? How do we get this over the finish line?

Mm

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it did not, as we know, because the Iranians, uh, have not been able to come to grips with the fact that the, uh, they have essentially lost, uh, this battle.

And, you know, God bless Donald J. Trump.

This has been going on for 47 years.

The Iranian regime has killed more Americans than any other terrorist group on the face of the planet.

This should have been taken care of 47 years ago by then President Jimmy Carter, and there have been Republicans and Democrats ever since that have just kicked this can down the road.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

It did not, as we know, because the Iranians, uh, have not been able to come to grips with the fact that the, uh...

they have essentially lost, uh, this battle.

And, you know, God bless Donald J. Trump.

This has been going on for 47 years.

The Iranian regime has killed more Americans than any other terrorist group on the face of the planet.

This should have been taken care of 47 years ago by then President Jimmy Carter, and there have been Republicans and Democrats ever since that have just kicked this can down the road.

Mm-hmm