Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, reacts to empty store shelves, Texas banning enforcing COVID-19 vaccine mandates, Mayorkas' handling of the border crisis, the virtual G20 and his new children's book.
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Steve lets see if Texas
congressman Dan Crenshaw, who
has a new kids book out, called
fame, blame and shame. Is it
possible to mandate the whole
country to Watchfox, AMP friends,
huh that be interesting? I
dont think so.
I dont think I could do that
for you,
Brian, because youre in the
minority
Steve, we are number one already.
So were fine
Ainsley. What do you make of all
of these shortages were hearing
you need to buy Christmas
presents now Christmas tree
shortages. We know bacon is up.
Seventeen percent beef is up more than twelve percent
fish seafood, eggs, poultry.
Everything is through the roof.
Now
gasoline prices
yeah Americans are
struggling on this, probably why
you should go by fame blame
and the raft of shame because
its produced here in America,
but you like that plug,
but seriously. This has been a
long time problem now and its
for a variety of reasons, so its
hard to narrow down exactly what
we should do about it, its
labor shortages, not enough
truck drivers to get these goods
off of the cargo ships, its
covid restrictions and protocols
that slow down the entire
process and create these
bottlenecks at our ports and Ed
is feeling it and it just
compounds the supply chain
issues they compound one after
the another and whatever
business youre in you, cant
seem to get what you need. Nor
can you find workers so watt. Can
we do domestically? We should be
encouraging. The Biden
administration to do is really
the opposite of what theyre
doing.
They should be doing pro growth
policies that encourage more
hiring. If we incentivize
anything it shouldnt be
incentivizing worker toss
stay at home. It should be
incentivizing them to come back
to work if republicans have been
putting forth that kind of
legislation for just about a
year and a half now whether
thats like work bonuses or
whatever it might be
Brian but Dan. I had a ceo
just right me now and just say
this is so important to unload
the ships and drive the trucks.
Is it enough to mobilize the
military to do it?
After all, when you talk about
prices and goods, and you talk
about shortages isnt, this a
national emergency,
its an interesting take
im, not sure what be involved in
that, even if that would help
its, not as if
Brian do they drive trucks,
yeah, possibly
yeah, possibly,
but we have to be thinking of
creative ideas like that. To be
perfectly honest,
this is what happens when
republicans havent been in
charge for a couple years able
to pass common sense legislation
weve been trying to pass
legislation, for instance that
streamlines the process, were
getting qualified truck drivers
on the road at all. But of
course you could pass that right
now,
it doesnt necessarily flip a
switch, and you have ten thousand truck
drivers, so you know what youre
right
national guard. Folks, a lot are
qualified to drive trucks, its
an interesting point to make
and when our economy needs to
recover wants to recover, but
cant, because its constricted
by these factors have you to
take some action
Steve. I think your point
earlier when you were talking
about your new book that well
talk about in a minute cyst made
in America and unfortunately,
this country has become
dependent on stuff thats made
some place else and then, when
Covid hit everything shutdown,
its taken so long to get backup
to speed, because they didnt
anticipate the demand,
its all supply and demand.
Uh, huh, yeah, thats, exactly
right,
a lot of places shut, shutdown,
production fell through the
floor and then people. You
know a few weeks later said.
Look we want to buy things,
whether its online or whether
going out to the retail stores
and that surge in demand costs
is dramatically also causing a
dramatically for energy prices.
Youre, seeing that around the
world, especially in places
like Europe that have been
implementing their own version
of a green new deal for quite a
while. Now they simply dont
have the capacity to deal with
an upcoming winter, so they are
importing more coal importing
more russian gas. China is doing
the same, vastly ramping up
their coal production and keep
saying this over and over again,
what we should be doing is
exporting our: U Dot S natural gas,
which is extremely plentiful to
the rest of the countries and
this administration attacks our
oil amp gas companies and tells
OPEC to turn up the heat.
Its ridiculous
ainsley. Your governor, Greg
Abbott, is banning any entity
from enforcing a covid 19
vaccine mandate.
Whats your reaction to that and
what are the folks in Texas
saying?
Look I hate that we have to
play this game.
This isnt the right way to
govern, to go from mandate to
mandate against a
mandate,
its not the right way to govern.
I still generally believe in
this whole freedom of
Association principle, where you
can associate with people you
want to associate with as an
employer as an employee
but Heres the thing
the federal government already
took that first step and they
are still in the process of
writing the rule under OSHA. That
would require businesses to
vaccinate their employees or
have them fired.
This is an absurd rule such an
overreach unconstitutional,
so these reactions, youre, seeing
from the states, are reaction to
that overstep in the first
place and Governor Abbott did
what he had to do in order to
protect Texas businesses.
This is already even though the
rule is not technically
implemented. Yet it will have.
It already has a chilling effect
on businesses.
A lot of the ceos who you know
they are either woke, or
they are so risk averse that
its pathological thee
immediately implement this stuff,
and people are frightened back
weve all been seeing. Whats
going on with southwest people
are fighting back.
They know its, not practical,
they know its not necessary. A
lot of these people have natural
immunity
if youre a pilot youre sitting
away from everybody, its not
like youre in a crowded area,
Brian, what a joke
we just dont need to be
doing this
Brian and Dan Heres. The other
thing
look at the tone of the uniter
just villifying unvaccinated
people, and not even bringing up
that thirty six states have a decrease
in the delta virus and, like
Israel and the UK, its fallen
off a cliff. Instead of trying
to turn the corner hes trying
to get ratings up by villifying,
the unvaccinated
Heres one of them, Shawn Quaker,
an airline pilot who
says you can fire me because im
not getting it
listen
heard from fellow pilots all
over from all airlines and its
a lot of us are facing the same
situation, but this goes far
beyond the pilots, because its
not just airline pilots,
sure theres airline, pilots,
speaking out and youre, seeing
it in the forefront of news, but
the flight attendants, its the
ground personnel. Everyone
who works for these major
airline corporations.
My health and my medical choice
is more important to me than my
career at this point and I
believe standing up for this and
all of the Americans who feel
the same way as I do is my
career is a small sacrifice:
Ainsley Dan, his wifes, a pilot
too, so both because they arent
going to get vaccinated by
November twenty four. They are both out of
work.
He talked to some other pilots
and one side was a single dad
and hes worried about feeding
his family.
You know whats infuriating
about all of this. Is we already
have a shortage of pilots as
well
its hard to recruit people in
the military, because youre see
military as well? People are
just willing to throw away their
careers because they dont want
to take the vaccine, and the
military is obviously a
little different than a private
organization, but the same
problem keeps bubbling up.
Why are we doing this?
Just because you can do it
doesnt mean you should and
were at a point now were well
over. Seventy percent of the country is
vaccinated and then, if you add
in natural immunity to that
its a very high percentage of
the country that is protected to
a pretty high extent from this
disease,
we can call it good
weve, already seen the down drop.
We know that and based on the
experience of the past two
years, youre going to see these
spikes every once in a while and
were probably closer to the end
of that, and it starts to look a
lot more like the flu.
We can stop panicking and
forcing people to deal with it.
The way wed like them to deal
with it, because it makes us feel
better
its time to start looking at
the science and what works and
what doesnt and accept what we
cannot change as well. Without
forcing people into positions
they dont want to be in
Steve. Well, lets see what they
do.
I see the Houston sky Scape
behind you, the
skyline down in Texas,
the Fox drone team took a shot
Dan of about one hundred dollars million worth
of the border wall and border
wall supply that they simply are
not going to use
its just going to stay there
until who knows what happens?
Texas wind blows it away
Brian until we get a
republican President
Steve. This is one of the
reasons why people hate
Washington.
You are calling for the
impeachment of the
Secretary of Homeland
Security Mayorkas after
canceling. This
explain more
so yeah. I dont just say
that
I dont use that term loosely.
I dont think its a good thing
to do.
I think some people scream
impeachment every time a
politician does something they
dont like
im, not doing that here,
theres very clear examples of
deliberate dereliction of
constitutional duty on the part
of the Secretary of Homeland
Security
Steve to protect this country
it. Actually it has very
little to do with the
cancellation of the border
wall contracts.
I think thats infuriating, but
the real dereliction of duty is
simply refusal to actually
enforce the laws of our country.
Those laws might be our asylum
process laws, those laws might
be internal enforcement inside
where deportations are necessary,
those laws might be
simply crossing the border
illegally and the only action
that DHS has taken has been
against those border agents
trying to do their job on
horseback, trying to stop people
from rushing the border. So this
is very deliberate and the
intent matters when youre
accusing somebody of what is
effectively a crime- and in this
case I think he deserves
impeachment, absolutely
Brian. He knows better. Now the
president of the United
States will have a virtual g 20
today and discuss coordination.
You shouldnt even use that word
with Afghanistan, but
coordination on Afghanistan,
the Taliban, by the way added
to us that they will not do
anything to stop ISIS or Al
Qaeda, but we are agreeing to
give humanitarian assistance.
I would like total transparency
on that.
What is your take
if he doesnt get an earful from
the NATO whose left out in the
cold in the g 20, I dont
know when they will,
they are probably going to let
them have it. I imagine
well, I would hope so.
I think the rest of the world is
frustrated with how Biden pulled
out of Afghanistan and left us
with this mess, which youre
going to continue to hear horror
stories coming out of
Afghanistan, whether its girls,
schools, closing girls being
kidnapped public hangings, the
economy completely crashing
all of it.
I mean none of this was done
responsibly,
id be interested to see what
kind of humanitarian aid the G
twenty comes up with, but
look we cant trust the Taliban.
They wont work with us on any
counterterrorism. They said that
multiple times well take care
of it ourselves and take care of
ISIS.
Now they may not like ISIS,
because they have issues with
them internally, but they
certainly like Al Qaeda and theres, no reason to think they
theres no reason to think they
are going to stop Al Qaeda.
In fact, they are back on track
to grow and reconstitute. So this
is a problem of epic scale.
Ainsley congressman tell us
about your new book, the
Childrens book,
sure. So look we look at
this problem where kids are
exposed to plenty of childrens
books that are woke and
progressive. Often, as were see
ing all over the country,
schools are infusing crt within
their curriculum. They hide it
under the guise of diversity
and inclusion, its time for
conservative parents to be
able to pick from a set of tools
and provide that to their child.
So I partnered with brave books
and go to bravebooks dot com, its
the only place you can get it
not on Amazon, and you can get
my book its the most recent
in whats, going to be a long
saga,
a saga that seckers itself
around Freedom Island a lot of
the same locations when you get
this book, they get a map of
freedom, island and its very
interactive and youll, get a
mission and a cool envelope and
games to play with your parents
in the back of the book to
hammer in the lessons that were
trying to teach and as you can
imagine might be about cancel
culture.
So my book is about cancel
culture, how to overcome it and
what cancel culture is and what
it isnt, because we put that
into a fun story. Kids can relate
to
Steve. It sounds like you put a
lot of work into it for folks
who would like to get it its at
bravebooks, dot, com
called fame, blame and the raft of shame
of shame,
hes, a rhymer,
Ainsley Dan. What age group,
oh young,
definitely for younger kids,
probably under eight, but
Ainsley, all right ill go buy
it
Brian Good,
thanks Dan appreciate it
thanks
Steve, although I bet a lot of
kids over eight would probably like
it too.
Ainsley parents do want to know
how to talk to their kids about
these topics.
Brian tell me if you have any
questions after you hand them.
Transcript generated on 2021-10-13.