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Rep. Crenshaw on supply shortages, vaccine mandates, border crisis, new book

2021-10-12 | 🔗
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.
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
Ridicule people that dont watch well urge you to watch 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.