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BACKFIRE: Trump Deploys ICE to Airports! Illegals Mass ARRESTED, Lines Fixed as Libs SCREAM

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Tue Mar 24 2026

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Episode Title: BACKFIRE: Trump Deploys ICE to Airports! Illegals Mass ARRESTED, Lines Fixed as Libs SCREAM
Host: Benny Johnson
Guests: Rep. Darrell Issa, Rep. Tim Burchett
Date: March 24, 2026

Overview

This episode centers on the recent deployment of ICE agents to major U.S. airports under President Trump, aiming to address both TSA staffing shortages and enforce immigration law. Host Benny Johnson and guests Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) discuss the policy’s effects on airport operations, the political backlash, and its implications for American society and governance. Hot-button issues like congressional privilege, California’s politics, voter fraud, messaging failures in the GOP, and even UFO-related conspiracies are also tackled in Benny’s signature irreverent, combative style.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. ICE Deployment to Airports & Immediate Impact

[01:04], [09:07], [19:32], [20:13], [42:47]

President Trump has "deployed ICE to major U.S. airports" to address critical TSA worker shortages amid a funding fight in Congress.
ICE agents are arresting illegal immigrants at airports, which Benny claims is fixing airport security lines and deterring undocumented travelers.
- “ICE is helping by arresting criminal aliens...And ICE is clearing out airport lines around the country.” (Benny, [01:04]; [09:07])
Benny asserts that the policy’s success reveals how many “illegals” are in the airport system and argues for broader ICE deployment:
- “Can we deploy ICE to every voting booth in America? Would that fix the fraud?” (Benny, [01:04])
He describes seeing firsthand the changes at airports and suggests that complaints come only from “libs” or non-citizens:
- “Scaring illegals away from the airports. That’s what they’re doing. And now, now the lines are fixed.” (Benny, [20:39])
Guests and travelers reportedly support the move, even as Democrats decry its harshness.
- “Most of the travelers we spoke with say...they’re pleased to see ICE agents stepping in.” (Benny, [19:55])

2. Personal Stories & Agency Struggles

[13:04] – [14:05], [31:42], [41:45], [43:58]

Benny recounts conversations with ICE and TSA agents, painting a bleak picture of their financial struggles during the funding standoff.
- “These agents haven’t been paid in two months...I can’t pay my mortgage. I sold my car to pay my mortgage. My wife was retired. She has to go back to work.” (Benny, [14:05])
He highlights that agents blame Democrats for their predicament, considering the Congressional impasse “immoral cruelty.”
Rep. Darrell Issa urges listeners to thank TSA workers, emphasizing their unpaid, essential work during the standoff:
- “I want you to thank...the next time you see a TSA agent working, they are working on a deferred basis. They don’t know when they’re gonna get that money.” (Issa, [31:42])

3. Congressional Privilege & Public Backlash

[15:35], [23:04], [26:44], [45:49], [46:42]

Revelations emerge that Delta and other airlines provide special “congressional desks” for lawmakers, granting them travel privileges even as TSA funding lapses.
- “Delta will temporarily suspend specialty services to members of Congress flying Delta...members will now be treated like flying passengers.” (Benny, [15:35]; [26:44])
Both Issa and Burchett express disapproval of these perks; Burchett calls the system “ridiculous” unless related to safety, and Benny rails against politicians skipping lines while the public suffers:
- “It’s grotesque...for a legislative body that can’t fund TSA.” (Benny, [25:31])

4. Broader Immigration and ‘Heritage Americans’ vs. ‘Paperwork Americans’

[01:04]

Benny starkly divides “heritage Americans” from “paperwork Americans,” questioning the validity of citizenship by paperwork versus shared history and culture.
- “You have to have a common history, culture, language, people” to be a functional society. (Benny, [01:04])
He pushes for mass deportations and ICE in other sectors (“hospitals, daycares, voting booths”) to “preserve Western civilization.”

5. California, Voter Fraud & the Future of Politics

[32:25], [33:13], [35:45], [37:34], [39:55]

Discussion shifts to California as a case study in failed governance.
- Issa: “If you go the wrong direction long enough, you’ll get there. We’ve arrived at the wrong place.” ([33:13])
Issa and Benny decry voter fraud and welfare scams, referencing James O’Keefe’s exposé and the upcoming California voter ID initiative:
- “Is there anyone that doesn’t believe they’ll...codify a prohibition just like California, on any cooperation [with ICE]? That’s going to lead to more deaths, more problems.” (Issa, [26:44])
Issa predicts the voter ID initiative will pass “overwhelmingly,” claiming Dems are out of touch:
- “I think you’re going to see 60%. I think the Governor is going to be rebuked on this.” (Issa, [39:55])
Both guests argue that massive outmigration shows the state’s dysfunction, and that Trump’s agenda resonates because it addresses these core concerns.

6. Legislative Dysfunction, GOP Messaging & Leadership Rants

[43:58], [51:26], [56:24], [60:33], [61:23]

Burchett lambasts both parties for pursuing power at the expense of the public, criticizing the inability to pass key measures like the SAVE Act.
- “Let's take that 85% out for a walk, boys...Let's stop trying to raise taxes...pay down some debt.” (Burchett, [51:26])
Both Benny and Burchett say Congressional priorities are misplaced, with messaging failing to connect with the electorate.
- “The best friend the Democrats have is the Republicans’ messaging.” (Burchett, [60:33])
They assert, only Trump’s straightforward style resonates and gets results.

7. UFOs, Missing Scientists, and Government Secrecy

[65:31], [66:23], [67:43]

The show ends with a wide-ranging tangent on recent deaths and disappearances among American scientists tied to advanced aerospace and UFO research.
- “...you’re never going to convince me otherwise. I don’t care what they find. How does somebody disappear in this day and age?” (Burchett, [66:45])
Burchett hints at classified briefings, government non-cooperation, and the difficulty the President has in accessing withheld information.
- “When I’m told in a setting that the President is on some of this stuff is on a need-to-know basis, I mean, what the heck does that mean, sir?” (Burchett, [68:26])
Benny and Burchett both joke (darkly) about the fate of whistleblowers: “Tomorrow I’ve got 12 bullet holes in the back of my head, make sure, you know, I wasn’t creative in my suicidal attempts.” (Burchett, [71:11])

Notable Quotes & Key Timestamps

On ICE at airports:
- “ICE is clearing out airport lines around the country. Sorry for my mini rant there.” (Benny, [07:18])
- “What's your name?...Where's your badge? Oh, I could watch it all day.” (Benny, mocking ICE confrontation, [09:07])
On congressional privilege:
- “There should be no specialty services to members of Congress flying Delta. Can we, like, get rid of this entirely?” (Benny, [15:35])
On TSA struggles:
- “These agents haven’t been paid in two months...I can’t pay my mortgage. I sold my car to pay my mortgage.” (Benny, [14:05])
- “Thank those people who are selfish enough to pay the high gas prices to come to work...” (Darrell Issa, [31:42])
On the Democratic party:
- “I don't recognize the Democratic Party, and I have friends in the Democratic party and some of them don't recognize it anymore.” (Darrell Issa, [35:52])
On government messaging:
- “We need to worry about our dadgum country, Benny. God's given us an incredible gift and we're just getting ready to burn it in these midterms because our messaging stinks.” (Burchett, [51:26])
On missing UFO scientists:
- “You’re never going to convince me otherwise. I don’t care what they find...How does somebody disappear in this day and age?” (Burchett, [66:45])
- “They’ll...bankrupt you and send you off.” (Burchett, [72:22])

Most Memorable Moments

Benny buying ICE agents Chick-fil-A at the airport as thanks ([14:05])
Darrell Issa joining the show live from travel, critiquing congressional perks and pushing for government funding reform ([23:04])
Tim Burchett’s “dadgum” rants on how Congress has lost its way and the need for single-issue bills ([51:26] onward)
The bizarre, humorous-yet-dark UFO conspiracy segment at the show’s end ([65:31]-[72:22])
The overall combative, tongue-in-cheek tone, invoking “libs,” “heritage Americans,” and “paperwork Americans” throughout

Timestamps for Key Segments

ICE/airport developments:
- [01:04], [07:18], [09:07], [19:32], [20:13], [42:47]
TSA agent struggles and Benny’s airport experience:
- [13:04]-[14:05]
Congressional perks & Delta kerfuffle:
- [15:35], [23:04], [26:44], [45:49]-[47:58]
California, voter fraud & politics:
- [32:25]-[35:45], [39:55]-[41:45]
Tim Burchett on Congressional dysfunction:
- [43:58], [51:26], [56:24]
UFOs/conspiracies:
- [65:31]-[72:22]

Conclusion & Tone

This episode exemplifies "The Benny Show’s" brash, culture-warrior conservatism, combining sharp-edged commentary with dark humor and personal anecdotes. Benny, Issa, and Burchett criticize the Biden-era policies, praise Trump’s ICE move as common-sense enforcement, and rail against both establishment privilege and alleged deep-seated government corruption. The underlying tone is populist, irreverent, and deeply skeptical of entrenched political and bureaucratic elites—interlaced with both comic relief and conspiracy speculation for the show’s ardently engaged audience.

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Transcript

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Benny Johnson (1:04)

Donald Trump dancing through an ice line at the airport in an Elvis costume thing in Elvis. I'm not sure we would actually get there in this show, but thank God. After six years of doing this live stream, we finally gotten here. This is the meme. This is. This is. This is the meme that we brought us all into the singularity. This is enlightenment. This was what we've all been working towards. Try explaining that, by the way, to somebody, time travel back 10 years and be like, donald Trump's gonna be visiting great Graceland as president and talking about how he could kick Elvis's ass, which he did. He was, like, wondering if he could beat up Elvis. And he was asking all of Elvis's heirs, like, whether he could beat him up because Elvis was good at karate. Donald Trump was having that conversation yesterday at Graceland, was giving plenty of fuel to the fire. For people who have hold near and dear in their hearts that President Trump is actually Elvis. There is that contingency of people. Are you among those people? Do you believe that President Trump is Elvis? Do you believe that this is actually like a reincarnation or that Elvis actually skipped off to go live Donald Trump's life? Apparently Trump found out that Elvis was blonde, born blonde, and dyes his hair. I didn't actually know that. And so maybe they have the same hair color, I don't know. And that we are now deploying ICE to fix the airports, which we are, by the way, libs are losing their minds because it's actually working. And ICE is helping by arresting criminal aliens. How many illegals fly in our country? How many illegals are flying? If you deploy ICE to the airports and suddenly all the lines get fixed, how many illegals are the ones flying in the country? We allowed to ask that question. We'll ask on this program. Could you deploy ICE to hospitals or to nursery daycares in Minneapolis? Can we do that? Can we deploy ICE to every voting booth in America? Would that fix the fraud? Of course it would. Why are we even talking about the SAVE Act? You don't need. You don't need the SAVE act if you don't have a nation overrun with criminal aliens. A little anecdotal story. Do you remember flying during the Biden years and, like, obvious third worlders from Guatemala or from Africa or wherever would be boarded, would be taken by little minders and handlers onto the plane. And because they don't have IDs, because they shred their IDs at the border, because they're all criminals, they would have these little placards that they'd hang around their necks and they'd walk them on like chattel onto your commercial airline flights. There was this entire secret system run by the Biden administration to human smuggle on commercial airlines. Criminal aliens all throughout the country. And the government paid for it. There's been no accounting, no reckoning for that. These more deep state arrests, dude, you know, we got. We like, we just. We gotta have it. Like, what they did to this country, what they've done to this nation, can it be undone? I don't know. Do we have the will to save Western civilization? It's got to start with this. It's got to start with getting the people who are antithetical to Western civilization and humanity and our way of life and America, like, the hell out of this country. You know, you call them Paperwork Americans, Paperwork Americans. It's like, you know, you always stamp the paper and you're American. You know, suddenly Ilhan Omar's daughter is off in Cuba trying to save communism in Cuba, wearing Marxist T shirts, talking about how she wants the destruction of this nation. I mean, is that actually American? Of course not. Like, what do you mean? It's the difference between heritage American and paperwork American. You have to have a common history, culture, language, people. You have to have a common belief system. Many people say religion, okay, in order to have a functional society, in order to have, like, a society that's proud of itself, that builds itself up, if you have too much of the other, if you have too much of someone who doesn't share your language, culture, tradition, doesn't share anything with you, then your society completely disintegrates. It goes down to the lowest common denominator, which is survival. And what does survival look like? The people who can get the most welfare. That's what survival looks like. Survival looks like the people who can actually parasitically suck the blood out of the system as much as possible in order to make it so that you don't have a future and they don't have a future. Then they can just move on to the next host. You know, it's terrible. I. I am like, I was disgusted. I think I have photos in my phone. It would have to be back in 2022, so I don't have time to look them up right now. But I would take photos. I'd fly and I'd see these hordes third worlders being brought on our, our flight by I don't know who, like, minders, like somebody, somebody from the airport. Some like, you know, some little dumpy DEI hire from the airport. And I don't know what, I don't know what job they have, but they fly these people with these giant placards. Can a producer try and find this out? Can a producer try and, like, try and try and figure this out? I know that Tucker once had, like, a report on it. I know Miranda Devine had a report on it. Like, these massive commercial flights, they're commercial flights. They're not like military flights. They're like Delta and American. And they would fly in, they would trot on these criminal aliens onto the flights. I'm paying for a ticket. You're paying 400 bucks for a ticket. And these criminal aliens are flying for freight flying on the taxpayer dime. Being driven deep into the heart of America by the Biden administration, no doubt to red states. In order to rig them anyway, there has to be some special program. There has to be somewhere. There has to be some special program somewhere that like, explains what this is. Anyway, the airport issue is popping off today. And so am I. Too much coffee. Tuesday, March 24, 2026 is today. Ice is clearing out airport lines around the country. Sorry for my mini rant there. Supreme Court sets rule against mail in ballots after election day. Yo.

Benny Johnson (9:43)

You are here illegally. What is your badge like? It doesn't work anymore, you know? It doesn't work anymore. It's like them trying to play like a George Floyd. It's like them trying to play the George Floyd card every single, you know, every single weekend in Chicago. It doesn't work if people are sick. People have had a belly full of it. This same op that worked in 2016, it doesn't work today. We've seen the results of open borders. We've seen the death, the American blood spilt on the streets. We've watched the fraud. We've seen the fake daycares. We've seen the rampant health care and Medicaid fraud in California. We've watched the illegals vote. We've seen the indictments for criminal aliens voting. It doesn't work anymore. You can do it the right way or you can go home. By the way, the right way, I mean, for anybody who's dooming and blackpooling, you won't find it here. Okay? We keep the side up. We call balls and strikes. We raged during Epstein. We've been very honest about what we think about Iran, which is we weren't elected president. Nobody elected us President. We don't have the intel that the president has. But people want domestic policies. They don't want foreign entanglements. They want domestic policy wins. This puts that at risk, and you have to be smart about it. And so I guess we'll wait and see. But I love the direction that Trump's going to wrap this thing up. Okay? That's what we believe. But of course, we ain't going to be burning our MAGA hats or lighting ourselves on fire over it, because, quite frankly, you didn't elect me president. All right, I'm a. You know, we're. We're. We're. Dude. We're. Dude. I'm a dude who's, like, a dad that wants to save the country for my kids. And we got a social media page. That's what I am. I went to community college. Okay, so we call balls and strikes. This is a strike. I mean, this is a straight strike by the President Trump. By President Trump's administration. Check out how the lines look now that ICE is at the airports. It's incredible. The lines are so much shorter. It's, like, alleviated so many problems. Libs have no defense. No, they have no defense against this. It's a thing of beauty. And I was at the airport yesterday, and we were giving away Chick fil A and I saw ICE agents there, and we thanked them, and here's what it looked like. I just went and I caught a couple hundred bucks worth of Chick fil a. That's what we did. I told you I was gonna do it. I had no other. No other way to, you know, no other way to say thank you. I don't have enough money to pay all their salaries like. Like Elon Musk. We don't have a lot of money, but I have enough to buy people lunch. And so we got these giant bags of Chick fil A and the ICE agents that come out and walk by client. I don't know if you have this. I don't know if you have this clip, but here, I'll send it to you. The ICE agents that come walk out and walk by, we hand them a sandwich, and that's it. We got permission to do that. We might do something bigger. We connected with the airport. We might have something bigger that they. We might, like, be able to set up, like, in a wing of the airport. The ability to help ice Age. The ability to help out the ICE agents, federal law enforcement, and the. And the TSA agents. But here's your $6 fried chicken sandwich, right? And then that's all that. That's the Ability that God gave us to, like, serve yesterday. But let me tell you what I heard yesterday in three hours of conversations with these ICE agents. What I heard was such a immoral cruelty, it would make your blood boil. It was heartbreaking. These agents haven't been paid in two months. They've gone 45 days without pay. You tried doing that? Most people in America live paycheck to paycheck. I know I spent the vast majority of my life dead broke. And if somebody had cut my pay for no reason other than for political theater, I would have been destitute. I'd be sleeping out on the street. And that's where a lot of them are. And this is what makes me so enraged. These guys are busting their ass

Benny Johnson (14:05)

try and keep our flights safe and tens of millions of American travelers safe every single day. And the Democrats are causing such cruel pain to them. Here are some of the things that I heard yesterday. I can't pay my mortgage. I sold my car to pay my mortgage. My wife was retired. She has to go back to work. I'm going to quit. I got to quit this month. I've been at TSA for nearly 10 years. I gotta quit. I gotta go find something else. I can't pay my. My bills. I'm gonna lose my house. I can't afford gas. I can't afford groceries. I work 14 hours a day. I miss seeing my kids. I come home, I can't even buy them dinner. And every single TSA agent, to a man and woman blamed Democrats, you know, and it was very pragmatic. It's not like they're. You know, it's not like the people I was talking to were like, huge maga. Maybe some of them were. I didn't ask, but they understand how the system works because they work for DHS. They said, yo, ICE is funded through 2030. ICE got all the funding that they need in the big, beautiful bill. Why are they doing this to us? It ain't gonna affect ICE at all. The allocation for ICE has already gone through in Congress. They're just doing this as a pain point, as a pressure point to hurt us. Who are these people? You know, a lot of people are. You know, TSA is big, big agency. The ones that I spoke with yesterday, veterans, cops, moms, dads working in order to provide for their family. A ton of former cops, a ton of veterans. And, you know, it's good. It's law enforcement, right? So it's like an. You know, so if. Maybe if you're getting up there A little bit. And you can't go, you know, run criminals down on the street. You're still doing law enforcement. You're still protecting the country. It's a code of service. It is an immorality, a moral disgrace. What they've done to these people, it's made me very, very angry. I think I'm gonna go back to the airport today and do more interviews. I am pissed at how Democrats are running this op and they hadn't run the op and gotten punched back yet. Like, Republicans keep putting up clean funding bills for TSA every single day. Democrats won't do it. Democrats are clearly hiding the ball here. This is something that they're doing in order to spite Trump. What they didn't like what was going on in Minneapolis. And it's not only immoral, it's completely illegal. It should be illegal. You shouldn't be able to hold up critical infrastructure in our nation in order to engage in political theater. So President Trump has called their bluff. Here's a image of where ICE is all throughout America. Although I saw ICE agents yesterday in Tampa, and Tampa's not on this map, so I think it's probably much larger scope and scale. Good news this morning. Delta has suspended the congressional desk. This is wild. I didn't even know this was. I didn't even know that this was a real thing. Read this from Delta. The airlines need to start pushing back and taking away the special, little, special little goodies and privileges from members of Congress. By the way, members of Congress. Darrell Issa, my team is telling me, Darrell Issa set and ready to go. Give us just 30, a few seconds here, and we'll be popping over to a great member of Congress. Talk about this. Atlanta's Delta Airlines announced this week that it is suspending its standalone service for members of Congress until TSA is fully funded. This due to the impact of the resources. The longstanding government shutdown. Delta will temporarily suspend specialty services to members of Congress flying Delta. There should be no specialty services to members of Congress flying Delta. Can we, like, get rid of this entirely? That you have a specialty service? I'm a taxpayer. Where's my specialty service? You know, I pay the salaries of all these people. Was a member of Congress getting these specialty services next day? Next to safety, Delta's number one priority is taking care of our people and customers who become increasingly difficult in the current environment. Spokesperson for Delta told the Atlanta Journal Constitution that the House and Senate members will now be treated like flying passengers. Oh, good for you. According to their sky mile Status. Incredible. One big club and you're not in it. Sick bastards. These members of Congress go like, they skip the TSA lines. They call ahead. They say, oh, I'm like this glorious, important person. I'm so famous, I'm so important, I could, oh, I control the regulations. I control the appropriations for your industry. Put me in the front of the line, feed me caviar on the plane. I want a back rub. I want it to look like the Lolita Express when I'm flying. Scum gum. And they defund for the rest of us and. And torture the rest of us. Just a couple of. Just a couple of really quick and special owns here. One Travelers Support ice. Let's go with that at all.

Benny Johnson (20:39)

Scaring illegals away from the airports. That's what they're doing. And now, now the lines are fixed. Can we get ICE agents at Disney? Can I get ICE agents at the dmv? We get ICE agents everywhere. Look at what happens to your society when. When you eliminate and delete the criminal aliens. Incredible. The Florida lines are all fixed. A beautiful thing. Obviously, there was, like, the lines. The way that the airports have been managed in Florida have been, like, excellent. Obviously, there are major lines across major hubs, but in southwest Florida, there's no lines. I saw no lines yesterday for TSA either. In Tampa, you can see here, there's, hey, look at that, ice comes in, illegals go home, and it's all fixed. And the only people who have a problem with ice, not the passengers, not the. Not Americans. If you're a. If you're a American, then you have no problem with ice anywhere. If you're an illegal. Of course you are. Or. Or a lib like this. Like, look at this. This is amazing. Is this. Is this Atlanta? Yeah, this is Atlanta. Can. Can libs. So this is in Atlanta, where the lines are four hours long. And can libs find anything that they're not. Can libs find anything that actually helps Americans that they're in favor of? The entire party is predicated on serving criminal aliens and making life for heritage Americans worse. They're actually protesting having shorter lines and more efficient airport security at Atlanta. Sickening. Look at that. I mean, you can see the difference. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm sure Congressman Darrell Issa can see the difference. He's joining us live right now. I don't know if he used his special congressional privileges to get through the airport to where he's going. Let's go ahead and ask Darrell Issa live now. Yo, Congressman, you've always been real on this show. We're huge fans of Daryl Isa on this program. What's. Oh, like, what's going on here with these special congressional privileges in the airport Delta saying, nope, nope, we're taking those back until we get funded.

Darrell Issa (23:04)

Well, Benny, you mentioned something earlier that happens to be true. Some members have played this game of, I've got a security detail, and therefore I can't go through tsa. We're not talking about members of leadership. We're talking about just people like aoc. They have this, you know, in Crockett and so on. I've never done that. I never intend to do it. Having said that, I have 5 million miles and I'm a global with United. So guess what? I've got a better phone call phone line that I get. Because the airlines, if you fly as much as some of us do, they treat you very, very well. Having said that, look, this shutdown, I think everyone should be furious and use every pressure point they can to get it open again. And I think the President's doing exactly the right thing by making sure that our passengers, our travelers are not hurt and candidly, augmenting TSA agents who in some cases just said, like, I can't work for free any longer. I know I'm going to be paid in full when this is over, but I need the money now. And so some of them are, you know, they're off doing part time jobs and I can't blame them. So as our safety is being impacted, the President's making sure that it's not impacted and that the consumer isn't impacted. But having said that, you know, I watched the confirmation on an almost exclusively party line basis last night of a very popular senator who should have gone through, you know, 98 to 2 kind of a thing because it's, the Senate has become very partisan and they're not being reasonable. You know, and Benny, we've got to get reasonable. We've got to realize that every day now people are being killed in sanctuary cities by illegal immigrants. Some of them have been arrested 40, 50 times and yet and for violent crimes and they're still out. So we've got to get back to normalcy. And it's not eliminating ice. You know, the, the new secretary, Mark Wayne Mullen has said, look, I want to do everything to make it safe and effective. If it's body cameras and so on, well, I'll consider everything. But I'm not going to consider just simply opening our borders like the last administration did. And I'm not going to leave violent criminals on the street. And that's the right attitude. And that's why he was confirmed and why I believe he'll be a great secretary.

Darrell Issa (26:44)

rest of us and many. You know, as I said, at a time when Congress is not doing its job, we on the House side would say we've done our job. But until both bodies send something to the President that funds tsa, I'm happy to have any and all pressure used to get people to do the right thing. And again, the right thing is not simply to capitulate to these sanctuary cities or as it's about to become, Virginia. The new governor has not only reversed Governor Youngkin's long standing policy to cooperate with ice, but she's about to sign a bill that will codify a prohibition just like California, on any cooperation that's going to lead to more deaths, more problems. You know, Virginia could become like Minnesota, which is, you know, a disgusting place because they, they in fact, are being un American and they're hurting their own citizens. And, you know, look, TSA exists to keep us safe when we travel. ICE exists to make all of America safer by making sure that criminal aliens aren't here, by making sure that dirty bombs and munitions and all kinds of other things don't get into the country. You know, the idea that if the Democrats had their way, they wouldn't be funding customs, they wouldn't be funding all aspects of homeland security is reprehensible because the American people understand what's going on halfway around the world in Iran is something that will come home to us. I was with people from Iraq who have seen their communities destroyed by Iranian militias that are retaliating in a desperate effort to save a regime that has demoralized most of the world and threatened it for 47 years. So it is a dangerous time. It is the right time to at least set aside the politics of the day and make America safe again. In addition to, obviously, I want to make America great again. I want to make sure that we're a world power economically in addition to militarily. That's what we could be doing. But if you want to cut off all travel and don't let anyone leave the Capitol building until they do it, lock them down with nothing but bread and water, bread optional. I'm all for it.

Darrell Issa (33:13)

Well, what's happening is that if you go there, my father said this to me when I was a young boy and I've never forgotten it. Son, if you go the wrong direction long enough, you'll get there. We've been going the wrong direction for quite a while and we have arrived at the wrong place. We've arrived at a place in which anyone with half a brain and a couple of dollars is looking to leave. The most productive people are leaving. Many of our unicorn founders and executives are leaving. People like Elon Musk, who did not want to leave California, had absolutely no choice but to make business decisions on behalf of his amazing companies to locate new every new opportunity outside of California. And now what we're finding is delusionally the governor on his way out thinks he's going to nationalize for all of America what hasn't worked in California. The fact is California has gone the wrong way long enough that whether it's the sheriff or Steve Hilton, they're going to have to lead a country elite estate to come back to be just somewhere with the rest of the country. And right now it doesn't look good for the legislature or anyone doing the right thing, which means we haven't just arrived in the wrong place. We're heading to a place that's worse than that. In California, Californians just voted Prop 50. They've changed districts to make it more lopsided one way. Is there anyone that doesn't believe they'll do the same thing at the state, at the state legislature level? Absolutely they'll do it. Is there anyone that doesn't believe that as people exit, they're going to continue to have like, talk about billionaire taxes and departure taxes, but the fact is you cannot tax your way into prosperity. Art Laffer lives in Tennessee for a reason. He had enough of California and he said, look, the Laffer curve says this is what happens when you raise taxes unreasonably. People go elsewhere. And. And he walked out and he's never looked back on California. And this is one of the greatest, smartest economists I've known. He said the right thing, which anywhere we lower taxes and give people more discretionary money to invest, we get prosperity anytime government takes it. What we end up with is government. And you know, Venezuela is not a wonderful place. Cuba is not a wonderful place. That's because government does all the decision making and California is becoming that way.

Tim Burchett (51:26)

I would call out the individuals, I would be leadership and I would call out those individuals that chose not to. I would not protect them. That's why we have a weak majority right now. We need to start as I like to. So let's take that majority out for a walk and see how it goes. When I was elected mayor of Knox County, I got an 85%. I got 80, 80. We went with 85%. And that wasn't by any small measure running against a former popular sheriff. And, and you know, it's all that the big boys didn't, didn't play ball with me. They didn't contribute. You know, they always did the day after the election. And I, and I often stated when we were up against a fight on something, I said, let's take that 85% out for a walk, boys. Let's, let's do some things. Let's stop paying. Let's stop trying to raise taxes on people. Let's pay down some debt. Let's do some of the stuff we said we're going to do. And then the next time I ran, guess what? You know, all the big boys, all they hate. I mean, I remember these editorials and stuff. You know, Burchett, you know, needs to govern now. You know, I did something a little crazy. I continued governing on what the heck I ran on. And that's what we need to do. And again, it goes back to Donald J. Trump won overwhelmingly across this country by all standards. And Congress did not. The Republican Party in Congress did not. And the reason they did not is because they did not embrace the Trump agenda. The things that he's talked about that resonates with America, that the boys at the Chamber of Commerce and the boys at the labor union agreed with patriotic Americans, things like that. And I just think we're missing our mark and we're going to blow this country up so somebody can stay in power. I remember when I first got elected, I went to a committee, committee meeting and they issue, they put a p, gave us a piece of paper and told us how much we needed to raise. And all this stuff, it was in the Republican, not in the actual committee. And they talked about how when we get in the majority, we'll get to decide on the codells, you know, the trips where we get to go and who gets to go. We'll be the ones that, you know, get the big office. We'll be the ones with this. And I was like, and I don't give a dadgum about all that stuff. I didn't, you know, we need to worry about our dadgum country, Benny. God's given us an incredible gift and we're just getting ready to burn it in these midterms because our messaging stinks. And to this day, if I could get three minutes alone with the President, this is what I'd tell him. I'd say, these people are trying to ambush you. Look at the week, the week of the State of the Union. What was our address? What were we messaging that week? Appliances. Granted, the Biden administration, it hurt working people, it hurt Americans, it put people out of work, it cost billions of dollars. But America's not focusing on appliances right now. We should have been focusing on that little girl who got run over by that illegal. Because we had legislation in the, in the hopper. But for whatever reason, it wasn't up. We should have been focusing on these border agents and the garbage that they're going through. We should have been focusing on some of these criminals out there that we keep rattling our sabers about and we write them tough letters, but we never do a dadgum thing to them. Those are the things that Trump ran on. That's why he was so strong, and that's why I think we're. We're barely hanging on and we better get that messaging off again. I go back to those executive orders. I'm sorry I'm ranting. I've had two cups of coffee. I'm not supposed to do that. But those executive orders, why did Trump so why didn't he run them through the system? Because we're gutless. That's why we don't have the guts to follow through with these things. You've got, you've got the K Street lobbyists that get associated with these staffers and these dadgum committees are too big, Benny, and they cover too much stuff. And the chairman are all up. Most of them are good people, but their staffers, you know, run the show and they run the bills down or they'll, they'll kill great legislation or they'll water it down or they'll add it on to a bunch of garbage that you have to vote for if you want your bill to pass. And so many times bills that I voted for out of committee, I don't vote for them on the floor because they've loaded them up with garbage. Single issue spending bills. If we did that, we would, we would change the trajectory of this country because the people in power could not defend the garbage. They, that they put every dadgum bill I put on the floor. If I'm fortunate enough to get there, I can defend. And I would love to go on the floor and defend it.

Benny Johnson (73:05)

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Generally. Well, somewhat bipartisan. John Fetterman voted for him. And Martin Heinrich of New Mexico also voted for him. Rand Paul voted against Rand Paul hates Marquis and Mullen. I haven't really done Enough investigation as to why. But they hate each other. They really hate each other. Anyway, maybe we'll ask next time. Maybe we'll ask. The Valero refinery has exploded. It's a massive explosion. Apparently, it rocked the houses throughout West Texas. Smoke billows through the air. Is this something that was an attack? Is this sabotage? Is this what's going on here? You can see the massive oil refinery burst into flames, sending smoke billowing through the air. On Monday night, emergency crews rushed the scene. The Valero refinery in Port Arthur, Texas. Multiple people and neighborhoods. Oh, I'm sorry. Port Arthur. Okay, so it's not exactly West Texas. People heard the boom. What was going on here exactly? I'm not sure. Emergency crews rushed in. Let's go ahead and read. It doesn't look like, you know, it doesn't look like there's any note as to why this exploded, but infrastructure sabotage is obviously a wartime tactic. And could this be. Could this be that, you know, this is a refinery that processes nearly half a million barrels per day of oil. Gas. Average price of gas is $3.19 around the country. It's a terrible time to have oil shortages and to have refining shortages in the country. So it does make me, you know, makes me really wonder, Alex, Danny Klein, anybody know? Like, have they. Have they said what this was and what happened here? Have they said, like, what, you know, what the cause was here for this? Yeah. Still being investigated. I mean, it just makes me, you know, my funny bone pops off here. It makes me worried a little bit because it's wartime and you worry about infrastructure sabotage. We've, of course, seen it plenty of times before. Port Arthur, it looks like, is right there actually, in the. Not West Texas, the easternmost part of Texas, in fact, right up against Louisiana there in the Gulf of America. I always love zooming out and seeing the Gulf of America there on Google Maps. All right, well, that's where it is. Okay. You're watching from there. Send us a tip if you know. One way to get oil prices under control would be a ceasefire in Iran and the ability for oil to travel freely through the Strait of Hormuz. Ladies and gentlemen, what are the odds of this happening by March 31? 14%. April 15. 34%. April 30. 45. And the odds just keep going up all the way through December. So it'd be really nice to have a refocus on domestic policy. We are on the last week of March here. And so, TikTok, you gotta. You're running out of time to tell the tale. So keep plowing forward. Trump administration, we need you, we need this administration to be successful. Foreign entanglements, as George Washington warns, is how you will destroy yourself. Let's wrap it up. Seems like the president is signaling time and time again that that's what he wants to do. Domestic pressures is, is a way to do that. And it's where the country needs to be focused. America first is where the country need to be focused. It's where we are focused on this program. And that's why we leave you with a verse of the day every single day. Ladies and gentlemen, verse of the day from Ecclesiastes 3:1. There's an appointment and time for everything. A time for every affair under the heavens. Oh, it's such a wonderful, wonderful verse in Ecclesiastes. Just a reminder that like God does change the seasons. There's times for building, there's times for saying goodbye. You know, we've learned this the hard way in my family, and those are the best lessons, actually, that God turned everything in his season to his glory. You just have to have the right heart, the right mindset and keep fighting. Do that with our show. March forward with us. It's your boy Benny. See? Yeah. Come on, baby.