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

Summary

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The Benny Show – Episode Summary

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

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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.

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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])

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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])

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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])

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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.”

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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.

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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.

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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])

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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])

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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

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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]

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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]

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[Tim Burchett]

Let's start walking.

[Benny Johnson]

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.

[Tim Burchett]

Very good.

[Benny Johnson]

Darrell Issa and Representative Tim Burchett join the show. It's going to be a based show. My name is Benny Johnson and this is the Benny Show. American Financing can make sure that you are seizing the opportunities that are available to you only if you are out of debt slavery. American Financing is the team that can ensure that you can get out of what should be illegal usury rates of 20 and 30% for credit cards. You're working 40, 50 hours a week just to buy groceries and gas. It's not good. Debt slavery is how you kill people. And I'm against it. And I'm for American Financing. Reconsolidate your mortgage in the percentages that are in the low fives below the fed funds rates. That's what I believe is moral. Give American Financing a Call today Americans home for home loans. 888-528-1219. That's 885-281-2219americanfinancing.net Benny. All right. ICE arresting libs at the airport. I love it. Give it to me. Fine. I want this. I want this in my veins. I could listen to this all day. The criminal alien gets arrested at the airport and is. Is shrieking and screaming as ICE throws her to the ground. And, well, turns out that she had a deportation order since 2019. I need that clip. So the, you know, so this is, this is part of the benefit of having ICE at the airports, which is, by the way, also the. The single greatest. Hey, Alx. Danny, One of you guys, please. Okay, thank you. One of the single greatest benefits of all time. Here, listen to this. This is, this put. You put, you put it right in your coffee in the morning.

[Darrell Issa]

What's your name?

[Benny Johnson]

Can show the badge. Where's the badge? Oh, I could watch it all day. Where's your badge? Here's an illegal Guatemalan. They were ordered by a judge in 2019 to leave our nation. What is your name? What is your name? Where's your badge? Your salty tears, they fill my cup. You're not an American. You're a foreign.

[Tim Burchett]

I'm asking for your badge.

[Benny Johnson]

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

[Darrell Issa]

to

[Benny Johnson]

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.

[Darrell Issa]

I mean, if they're there to help,

[Benny Johnson]

that's fine because you obviously need more people. Cleveland is one of more than 10 US airports where the Trump administration has deployed agents to help amid a shortage of TSA workers. See ICE agents being deployed. What goes through your mind? I like it.

[Tim Burchett]

I mean, I think Trump's going to hell it off. I like it.

[Benny Johnson]

Most of the travelers we spoke with say, well, it's disappointing. The current shutdown is having a negative impact on TSA staff. They're pleased to see ICE agents stepping in. CNN saying, yo, the ICE agents here in Atlanta fixed everything. Here we go. Finally, we can take a deep breath here.

[Tim Burchett]

The numbers have dropped off.

[Benny Johnson]

The lines are getting shorter. I think the average wait time now

[Darrell Issa]

is under 40 minutes.

[Benny Johnson]

So if you have a flight to

[Tim Burchett]

catch today, it's a good time to come to Hartsfield Jackson International talking about those ICE agents.

[Benny Johnson]

You can see a few behind me right there. And then I'm going to walk you this direction and you can see some more of them gathered over here. This is what they've been doing for the most part today is doing the

[Tim Burchett]

patrols around the airport, talking and gathering. Not really helping.

[Benny Johnson]

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]

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.

[Benny Johnson]

So I just really quickly hear Delta shutting down this special desk. I mean, listen, I, I fly American all the time. I'm really like, you do get status. That's the way that every American, you know, gets status. Nobody's arguing against that. What we're, we're what, what I, what is going viral right now and was kind of shocking to people is to learn that there's a special congressional desk buried deep inside of Delta where members of Congress or their staff can call and get special privileges instead of Americans. And Delta's just saying, no, we're actually going to just start treating you like everybody else at Delta, which is according to your style, sky mile status and rank. And I think this comes as sort of a shock to many people, Congressman, who say, well, wait a second, this has been going on, like how long has this been going on where members of Congress are brought to the front of the line or their staff call ahead and get special privileges. You know, I, I, we all watch the AOC fly private for her, fight the oligarchy to her with Bernie Sanders. You know, this seems to be pretty, pretty grotesque for a congressional, for a legislative body that can't fund tsa. Like it's causing travel horrors for the

[Darrell Issa]

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.

[Benny Johnson]

Oh, you're going to go viral for this one, Congressman. Okay, so your, your suggestion, if Darrell Issa ran, the zoo would be locked down. Congress. What about cutting congressional pay? You know, I, I was at the airport for a couple hours yesterday interviewing TSA agents, and what's happening to them is excruciating. Many of them saying that they can't afford Their mortgages, many of them saying they can't afford to buy groceries. They're com. They're. They're taking the bus to work because they can't afford gas. They can't afford. Their wives are having to go back to work. Some of them that are older. Right. That their wives could retire. And they're doing this because they got out of the military. It's a total cruelty. It seems like completely immoral. What do you think? Yeah. What do you think should be the pressures applied to Congress? What would you do if you were in charge?

[Darrell Issa]

If I were in charge, I couldn't change the Constitution as to quote the pay. But I certainly could make sure that nothing else happened, that they couldn't travel, that we couldn't leave the capital area until we voted. If you tell people they can't go home and do that. Politics. And by the way, don't let us prohibit fundraising of any sort. No contribution for either side's reelection until they fund the government and fully funded. You see how fast the Democrats would go. Wait a second here. I've got a party tonight. Oh, I'm terribly sorry, but you can't go to it because it's a fundraiser. And, oh, by the way, you can't leave the ground. So if you live out in, you know, rural Maryland or a nice area in Potomac, you know what? You're going to have to sleep in your office until you pass. I'm good with that. I, you know, I'm not thinking well about how it would smell, but I, I really do believe that we should have rules like that that do what we can do to insist that you fund the government or you don't go home.

[Benny Johnson]

Yes. Yeah, I, Yeah, I just. The bloody cheek of this. Being able to vote for yourself a pay raise and then deprive and to hurt tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions of Americans. Just a quick break. Here's a tip. Planning your next fishing trip? On TikTok, you'll find gear reviews, lake tips and local tricks, short videos, straight to the point. Download TikTok now. I mean, how many people have flown over the last month and a half that they've shut down TSA and cause so many problems for everybody trying to fly? I mean, you're talking tens of millions of Americans that are affected by all of this.

[Darrell Issa]

Absolutely. But, Benny, can I do one thing? Because I'm sure that there are so many people that are going to hear this and see this. I want to thank and I want to ask every one of your viewers and Listeners, 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 going to get that money. They're having to figure out how to pay their bills. They without a check coming in. The one thing we keep forgetting is to thank those people who are selfish enough to pay the high gas prices to come to work, to not be reimbursed till I don't know when. And every time I see them, I thank them in the line because they're doing their job at a time when Congress isn't doing theirs.

[Benny Johnson]

Yes, that's exactly right. Such an, such an absolutely important and critical message. Just really quickly I want to zoom back to the state of California. There's been quite a bit of fraud and quite a bit of reporting out on not only election fraud, welfare fraud, hospice fraud, and James o' Keefe out with a brand new video showing the exchange and buying of votes, the buying of petitions. You've been around California politics for quite a while, Congressman. What, what, what's to become of the state of California? Will there be actual reform? Steve Hilton was on yesterday. Looks like he's doing like 20% in the polls. The sheriff's also doing absolutely great. What, what, what's happening in the state of California?

[Darrell Issa]

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.

[Benny Johnson]

What will happen to a Gavin Newsom running for president in 2028?

[Darrell Issa]

Well, the American people have to decide do they want done to America what was done to California. And I think when they're asked the question of will you be better off in four years than with the guy that did it to California or anyone else, they're going to pick anyone else. So I hope he's the nominee of the party. He's not stupid. Like Ronald Reagan said, liberals aren't stupid. They just know things that don't happen to be true. And he seems to know a bunch of things that don't happen to be true and don't work. And he's doubling down with them and so is his entire party, which is sad because Democrats are leaving the Democratic Party because it doesn't represent most Americans. You look at the safe act, you look at the question of something simple as voter ID. It's an 80% issue. 36 states, 72 senators live in states that require voter ID, and yet the Senate can't seem to get to 60 senators. That's because Democrats in those states are so out of touch with their own people that, that they won't even consider having a national bill to codify what their own states do. That's so far from common sense that you have to ask, where did the party of Bill Clinton Even go. The fact is, I don't recognize the Democratic Party, and I have friends in the Democratic Party, and some of them don't recognize it anymore. It's one of the reasons that you look at President Trump's administration. There are a lot of former Democrats there, including rfk. They didn't leave the Democratic Party. The Democrats left them.

[Benny Johnson]

What is to be done about the egregious fraud in California? Congressman, you know, you can't continue on like this with the spending and with the, the homeless voter registration scam that James o' Keefe caught on camera paying, literally cash for fake ballots and fake initiatives. This is a huge industry. The governor's clearly very scared of this final question here, because our audience really cares a lot about what's going on here.

[Darrell Issa]

The bottom line is that we are still going to go in the wrong direction for a period of time. And the fraud, just like all other wasteful government spending under socialism, in fact, will continue until they run out of other people's money. And as people run out of California, they're going to run out of money. And at that point, finally, somebody will probably come in and say, if we want to keep even half of our liberal programs, maybe we should attack the fraud that's taking some of the money. But that's not happening right now. The governor is showing no signs whatsoever of really attacking fraud any more than the fool in Minnesota is doing it. The fact is, the Democrats, it so far seem like that fraud is just fine.

[Benny Johnson]

Do you believe that there will be a Republican governor of California? Is that even possible?

[Darrell Issa]

You know, I believe in the redemption of souls, and I believe that eventually we will become so desperate that we will elect a Republican governor. But, Benny, you were elected Republican governor and you don't give him a legislature that will work fairly with him. All you're really doing is putting a show horse out there that can't cross the finish line. So I commend the people running for governor. But I asked the people of my state, my chosen state, look at your legislature, look at your representatives, and have people that represent you that'll take the state in the right direction. Right now, you don't have that.

[Benny Johnson]

Yeah, last question. Voter id, obviously, the ballot initiative, it will be on the ballot, 1.4 million signatures, and not even Gavin Newsom's lawyers can get it off the ballot. And now Californians will get an opportunity to choose voter ID for citizens or not. How's that going to go?

[Darrell Issa]

I think it's going to pass overwhelmingly, and I think it's too big a majority for fraud or any of the other games to stop it. And that's where I have faith in the voter, because every once in a while, they. They get a clear understanding of right and wrong and they make the right decision. I think you're going to see 60%. I think the governor is going to be rebuked on this the way he has on some other big issues.

[Benny Johnson]

Fantastic. We love to hear it. You did a wonderful service for a Californian, an honored member of your district. Royce Williams at the State of the Union, getting awarded one of America, America's greatest honor. And it's an incredible moment. Just wanted to give you an opportunity to shout out Royce here.

[Darrell Issa]

Well, Elmer Royce Williams, after 37 years of service and decades more of keeping a secret about his brave mission in 1952, finally got what he should get. And he is now the only living World War II veteran who has the Medal of Honor. He is the oldest one ever to receive it. He waited the longest between earning it and receiving it. And the smile on his face when the first lady put it around his neck paid me dividends. And all of us who worked on that, far greater than our investment. So we're thrilled for Royce, but we're also thrilled for the effect it has on the next generation. Those heroes that you haven't met yet and those you will never meet that gave their last full measure. So I think, all in all, it was the right thing. And I want to thank President Trump because he reached out and did what previous presidents talked about, but never did he recognize this great war hero.

[Benny Johnson]

Beautiful moment, and we want it back. We thought it was the best State of the Union, perhaps ever given. And it was patriotic. It highlighted American stories. And we thank you, Congressman, for bringing, for bringing Royce. Everybody follow Daryl Issa. You probably already are hundreds of thousands of followers here on X. Fight with the people who fight for us. Godspeed, Congressman.

[Darrell Issa]

Godspeed.

[Benny Johnson]

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[Tim Burchett]

I agree with Darrell. The D man, as I call him there is a real self made man. He is the American. He lived the American dream and he's done it. He's a good dude. I'm a, I'm a fan of Darrell's but I, you know, until we change some of the rules and way we do things. I was thinking about that this morning, how if we did, and I always go back to more like Tennessee. We got a balanced budget in Tennessee and everybody knocks Tennessee, but it's disproportionate the number of Tennesseans that go fight the wars compared to a lot of the other states. And also it's disproportionate the amount of people that are moving in versus those moving out. Tennessee is the largest repository or depository of big U haul trucks. I used to be in the U haul business. You never could get those big trucks and, and now that's all there is. You go along, drive down East Tennessee or housing. I was in West Tennessee this, this weekend speaking at an event and a little parade way out of my district I was invited to be a part of. And that's what I saw. Big U haul trucks. And the reason they are is because they do a balanced budget and they have single issue spending bills and people will say, oh, Burchett, the old timers, we'd be here all night. They told me, I said, I don't give a dadgum if you're here all night. You pay us a crazy amount of money for this two hour work week that I'm enduring this week. So yeah, I mean, two nights in a row I've had peanut butter and jelly. I don't get him, you know, I'm kind of like Rudolph. I don't get him invited into too many reindeer games. So I, I, two nights in a row, I ate peanut butter. I've been putting honey on my peanut butter. It's a, it's a. It. I'm kind of, I'm celebrating diversity. Benny.

[Benny Johnson]

Very fancy Congressman. So we've learned something this morning about how fancy some members of Congress actually are. Delta decided to give up the ghost and tell on members of Congress and their staff who use a very special standalone Secret Service inside of Delta where they can get ushered to the front of the line, they can get first class tickets, they can get treated, pampered, get their own little, you know, Jeffrey Epstein treatment on the flights, no doubt. And Delta saying, until you fund tsa, we're shutting you down. Your little, your little special fancy Congressional Service desk is shut down. You're gonna have to travel with the rest of the cattle. Like you're gonna have to be a normal American. First off, Congressman, what is this? You know, I've never actually heard of this.

[Tim Burchett]

It's originally set up. It was supposed to be a safety issue. Occasionally, some of us, like myself, have had notice, might come as a shock to you. We occasionally get death threats. And, and if I announce I'm going to be in an event, I usually have security somewhere. If it's not announced, I'll just sneak in and do my thing. But that's what I think it was originally the plan was for that, whatever that is. This. This past week, I was, as I was standing in line, somebody said, hey, man, are you not supposed to be over there? And I was like, no, no, I'm not. And I didn't. Honestly, I didn't know they were bumping people up to first class. I fly first class sometimes because I've got a gajillion miles. Most of the time I'm right behind that little net looking at sort of episode of Seinfeld, and I was kind of looking over at the other half. And sometimes I get bumped up when somebody cancels out. But I did not know that Delta provided that service. I don't usually fly with Delta. I fly American out of Knoxville. Driver direct flight, so. But that's what originally it was for, is for security. And I think it's just like any other government program or whatever. It's being abused.

[Benny Johnson]

So wait, now you have like AOC and Rashida to leave in Ilhan Omar they call ahead or their Staffers call ahead and they get special treatment while the rest of us have to wait in line.

[Tim Burchett]

I assume that's what happens. I remember one time when we were in the minority and there was some kind of cancellation and I had to fly, get this, from Washington D.C. to Knoxville, but I had to go through Detroit, Michigan first. I never figured that one out. And they held up the plane because one particular member who's not, is no longer in Congress was running late and they held up the plane. And I just thought, never, never seen that happen. You know, I've missed several flights because I got there right as they closed that door. They close that door, it's over. You know, they can't open the door up for you for anything unless it's an emergency. But apparently it's rules for, you know, we don't go by the same rules. And that's unfortunate. I just think unless it's a safety issue, then it shouldn't, shouldn't even be a question.

[Benny Johnson]

It's starting to piss off a lot of Americans, man. I was at the airport yesterday doing interviews and, and it should, it should, it should.

[Tim Burchett]

It's, it's, it's ridiculous that, that TSA is being, is the scapegoat for this crazy. It's because the Democrats want our border agents to have, to not wear masks. And those that are apprehending illegal people in this country because they've been had their lives threatened and their family's lives threatened. It's, you know, to me, it's just, it's. And it doesn't have anything to do with TSA agents or the Coast Guard. And here we are in a, we're in a, we're in a fight overseas. Then we know. I mean, I was told by a ranking, the former, the last democratically elected president of Afghanistan, they think there's probably 500 members of the Taliban in our country right now that came over during the Biden years over our southern border. So, yeah, to me, it's, again, it's all about what this town is about. It's about staying in power. It's not about what, doing what's right, brother. And it's, you know, I want the Suburban, I want the entourage, I want the posse, I want my butt kissed everywhere I go. I want to sit in the front row, I want to sit on the 50 yard line. You know, I want to go backstage at the concert. Has nothing to do with governing and about what's doing what's right. Because the, and I'll tell you this too. There's people that, within our own party, I think, that are trying to wreck this speaker to get into power. And they are. And they'll wreck our country doing it. We'll be like the Israelis going through the Jews. I guess not the Israelis, the Jews going through the wilderness for 40 years. And we'll lose our country as we know it. Because the Marxists, they're not at the gate, brother. They're over the gate. And they're, and they're, they're, they're. They want to disrael this president at all costs. At all costs.

[Benny Johnson]

If you were in charge in dc, what would you do in order to ensure that the SAVE act gets passed, that TSA gets funded? You know what, like what would be the Tim Burchett playbook? Because again, people just feel really frustrated right now.

[Tim Burchett]

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]

Yeah, it does always serve as something that is totally a black pill and remarkable to me that the SAVE act can't ever get passed. The farm bill always gets right. The defense appropriation. Like there's always these massive omnibus bills that can get passed with so much

[Tim Burchett]

and we got food stamps that are blamed. Blame. Pay them for soft drinks.

[Benny Johnson]

Yeah.

[Tim Burchett]

What's the number one trouble that we have? What's the number one disease that was a while back for, for young Hispanics, young blacks and young whites?

[Benny Johnson]

Diabetes.

[Tim Burchett]

Type 2 diabetes. Almost 100% preventable.

[Benny Johnson]

So it did like. It's just the system is so broken. You can, you can judge by the fruits, right? The scriptures say judge them by their fruits. The system only spits out lobbyist garbage and special interest garbage. It never spits out anything that helps the American people. The TSA is a great example of that. Tens of millions of people that are now stuck at airports because this, they don't care. It doesn't matter. They have their own niche little desk.

[Tim Burchett]

They all live here. They all live here. All those Democrats live here in Washington.

[Benny Johnson]

Fly.

[Tim Burchett]

Do what?

[Benny Johnson]

They don't have to fly.

[Tim Burchett]

They all live on a fun trip somewhere. But they're going on a government. I, well, you know, I, I'm going to get that. Here it is, Benny. Here. This is going to air in a few days. They, they, I'm going be sitting back there on center's row on the House floor and somebody's going to come up and give me the word or they'll just give me the sneer. I don't care. I'm, I don't want to lose our dadgum country.

[Benny Johnson]

Benny, what were you going to say? What were you going to say? Just.

[Darrell Issa]

You mean.

[Tim Burchett]

I just going to. I said, they're going to call me out. They're going to say, hey, Burchett, man, you don't need to be saying this stuff. Some of the people are upset in leadership with you for this or that. And I always, it kind of ticks me off because leadership never comes up to me and says that whoever's ticked off at me. And I always say the same thing. But you know, it's the truth, right? I go, well, yeah, we know that, but we really wish you wouldn't say it. So that gummet. I don't care. I'm over it. This is like a five dad gum conversation we're having.

[Benny Johnson]

It's a lot of dead gums, I guess. You know, I guess the, the final question maybe for. For this conversation is how do you, how do you look? What's it going to take to reorient to get back to the policies that people want? And passing the SAVE act and getting legislation through that people actually care about that serves Americans. Americans are just getting bloody sick of it. Congressman, I feel like every, you know, every news cycle is an Epstein news cycle or, you know, or a news cycle surrounded around a foreign country. When. When's our turn?

[Tim Burchett]

You know, I agree. I feel like people like you, though, are a godsend. You may not feel it all the time, but people pay attention to what you say and we've got to. And we got to hold them accountable. I say get your grandkids to show you how to use that dadgum computer and find out what people are voting on and put them on the spot and then hold them accountable. We always do that. And let me tell you, with the SAVE act, if they pass it, all those people that held out and drugged their feet and kept all meaningful. I still can't even get my bill on defunding the Taliban out of the Senate. We send them $40 million a week. Monday morning, boom, they hit another 40 mil of your money. Regardless, when they, if they pass the SAVE act, everybody that voted for it, you know, people are going to forget that they drug their feet or they, they wanted some crazy funding for some garbage. They're just going to say, oh, they voted for it, we're good. No, they're not good. We need to, we need to hold people accountable. And there's. And there should be some retribution. And that retribution comes on election day. But the problem is everybody said, oh, we're going to primary them and the primary dates already passed. We're not educated. We do terrible job of messaging in the Republican Party. The best friend the Democrats have is the Republicans. Messaging.

[Benny Johnson]

Yeah.

[Tim Burchett]

I mean, Trump can message. He understands the game. He puts something out, buddy. He lets it fly and that in it, love it or hate it, he means it. You know it. You met with him. I met with him. He, he is a master at that. And I think he, he really has his hand on the pulse of this country on a lot of this stuff. And we should follow suit.

[Benny Johnson]

Yeah. As I constantly bring up to members of the Senate, you know, if you guys were for mass deportations or for not bringing in or stopped so many criminal aliens from coming into this country, we wouldn't have to worry about illegal voting because it'd just be Americans living here. We wouldn't need a SAVE act if you hadn't have broken the system in the first place by letting 30 million criminals and fight foreigners come into our land. Wouldn't need it.

[Tim Burchett]

Wouldn't need it. Wouldn't need it at all. We just follow the rules.

[Benny Johnson]

Because it'd just be Americans. Yeah, it'd just be Americans voting. Because that's the only people who live here. Right?

[Tim Burchett]

Like, correct. And why aren't Democrat people in their wards or in their, their hometown saying, well, wait a minute, if they're not vote, if, if eagles aren't voting, then why are you worried about this bill? Then why are you, why are you fighting this thing tooth and nail? Why are you further insulting the minority community by saying they're not capable of getting an id, which is free in most states.

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[Benny Johnson]

I mean, yeah, Gavin Newsom says I'm dumb like you. All the black people in Atlanta, you know, don't worry about me. I can't read. I can barely read. Going to be a great 2028. It's going to be really entertaining.

[Tim Burchett]

Yeah, that silver spoon, he was born and with his mouth and needs to.

[Benny Johnson]

Well, anyway, I Do think that. I think that ice at the airport. I mean this is my last question for you. It's kind of what the show's on, the ice, the airports. It's like kind of remarkable what happens when criminal aliens, you know, are out of this country. Like suddenly the lines go down. It's been remarkable. People have seen it like, like suddenly the systems get fixed. If you had ice at voting booths and at hospitals and at daycares in Minneapolis, I think you'd have like a much better country. Do you agree, Congressman?

[Tim Burchett]

100%. I saw Mark Wayne in the gym this morning with the family and I told him I'm praying for him, him and his family. Yeah, you're exactly right. You bring those guys in and gals, illegals. If they're not, if they're not here, then you're not. Then I should, you shouldn't be worried about it. I welcome it. And there again that's Donald Trump. He said, all right, I'm bringing in ice. And that's what he said and he means it. And guess what, it's happening. No, he's not. He's not going to wait on some congressional study committee to, to issue a letter six weeks after the events occurred. He's going to do it. And that's what a real leader does. And that's why this country is needs to get their head out of their butts and figure it out.

[Benny Johnson]

Is Mark Wayne going to get us those mass deportations?

[Tim Burchett]

Do what?

[Benny Johnson]

Is Mark Wang going to get us those mass deportations? You were hanging out with him this morning.

[Tim Burchett]

He better

[Benny Johnson]

talk with him about it.

[Tim Burchett]

Yeah, a little bit. I usually don't discuss out loud too much would I what I say. But he, we just talked about family mostly. He knows where I'm at. We're good. I think he's gonna. Whatever Trump says is what's going to happen. That's, that's another thing, you know, tva, Tennessee Valley Authority, he's, he's kicked people off that board that he's put on that board because they didn't understand who was the boss. They understand it now.

[Benny Johnson]

So we're gonna get those mass deportations. What do you say?

[Tim Burchett]

Well, I don't know. They deported a lot. That's pretty much already happened that in the self deportation. So I would assume that's gonna happen. Whatever Trump said it will happen because Mark Wayne knows who the boss is. All right.

[Benny Johnson]

Congressman Tim Burchett, just one of the, you know, one of the old timers, you know, we love him. He has A Klein you keep having. You have this headline up that I keep staring at because I don't actually know what's behind it. High profile scientists wind up dead. GOP representatives suggest there's a conspiracy. Well, a picture of you in the car.

[Tim Burchett]

Heart.

[Benny Johnson]

Yeah, it's a good headline, Congressman.

[Tim Burchett]

GOP suggest there might be a conspiracy play. Well, they ought to start thinking there is because the FBI shows up when the guy's missing. He had some. Everybody's thinking it's ufo, but he had some nuclear secrets. There's just too many of them disappearing. Benny. I'm just. Nothing happens by coincidence in this town or around this town. Something's going on. It was the week after President announced he was going to start releasing some of those files too. So America needs to start paying attention.

[Benny Johnson]

Some of the. Some of the UFO files.

[Tim Burchett]

Yep, yep. And that may be coincidental, but we had several folks have. Have left this earth or disappeared that had some close proximity to a lot of that, and that's been going on for a while. That's nothing new.

[Benny Johnson]

Do you have any direct knowledge? I mean, you've gone into these classified briefings. Do you have any direct knowledge of this? Did you know any of these guys?

[Tim Burchett]

Possibly.

[Benny Johnson]

So you're telling me that right after President Trump said to declassify all the UFO stuff, that the UFO experts that you have personal knowledge of and that you have personal connection to, they've gone missing or wound up dead?

[Tim Burchett]

Well, one did. The one everybody's looking for. And it's pretty. Yeah, I don't know the circumstances. He left with a.38 in his holster. And. And I just. You're never going to convince me otherwise. I don't care what they find. I don't care what they find at this point. How does. My wife said it the other day. How does somebody disappear in this day and age? How do they disappear?

[Benny Johnson]

Looks like this is.

[Tim Burchett]

I just. I just think there's a lot going on. We got to get to the bottom. There's a lot of. There's. And I talked to the President about that. He asked me what I thought And I said, Mr. President, I think it's. It's like. Just like an onion, you just keep peeling it back. There's that lady right there. She had metallurgical knowledge. Some of our missiles and stuff. And it's just too much, Benny. Too much is going on right now.

[Benny Johnson]

Advanced aerospace, propulsion and plasma physics, fusion and rocket tech. Is the individual who's. Now who's recently gone missing.

[Tim Burchett]

Well, that.

[Benny Johnson]

That sure as Hell, sounds like working on the UFO project.

[Tim Burchett]

Well, in every department. And you know, I see NASA right there and NASA says they don't have anything. We don't have any files. We don't have. Well, what the heck did I get briefed on by those knuckleheads? I'm, I'm over it. I'm over it. We're not going to get this. And when I'm told in a, 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?

[Benny Johnson]

Keeping it.

[Tim Burchett]

That, that's the issue right there.

[Benny Johnson]

They're withholding from the Commander in Chief Information 100 do.

[Tim Burchett]

And I don't know how you get it back. I mean, how do you. What do you fire a whole department? I mean, you know, I mean, everybody said, yeah, you ought to do that. Well, you can't do that. There's national security implications. There's all this other stuff. So you got to put the people in charge. I think that's what Trump's done. And that's, that's another reason they want him out. All these old timers up here in both parties don't like it because he's rocked their boats, upset their little retirement plans.

[Benny Johnson]

I know you gotta go, Congressman, but like, like you're telling me that Independence Day is like the, the, the scene in Independence Day where the President walks down in Area 51 and they're like, oh, this was just a need to know basis. Well, why the hell didn't you tell me? This is a need to know basis. You tell me. That's real.

[Tim Burchett]

I think, I don't, I don't think it's quite like that. You'd have too many people that would know. You can't keep anything secret these days. But you could have what you could in the old days. I mean, you could. I mean, I had a guy discuss with me something that happened to him in the 50s and he was told not to talk about it and he just wanted to get it off his chest, I guess, before he passed. But I think, I don't think it's quite like that. I don't think they're at Area 51 or whatever. I think that's just too obvious.

[Benny Johnson]

No, I'm just saying like the scene itself, they tell the President. Well, we didn't tell you because it need to know basis and you don't need to know.

[Tim Burchett]

Yeah, I think that's right. I think that's, that is clearly right because you're never going to get to the base of these people unless the Lord takes them out.

[Benny Johnson]

Incredible.

[Tim Burchett]

Okay, well, I know that makes me sound like a nut, but, you know, I. Benny, I just wish the President could. Would release everything that myself and Luna and a few of the others have seen. Just do that. And I think that would start the discussion. That would light the fuse on the UFO files. Correct.

[Benny Johnson]

I mean, even what was shown inside of the public briefing was completely alarming, with our Reaper drones shooting hellfire missiles at these objects. And it's the best tech that we have, and it just shrugs it off.

[Tim Burchett]

Yeah, we're not.

[Benny Johnson]

It's crazy.

[Tim Burchett]

We're not giving y' all the full story, but I hope one day they do, Benny. You know, and I'm telling that I'm not suicidal. So 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.

[Benny Johnson]

Yeah, well, I guess that's what we'll start with then. Just release what you've already given to members of Congress.

[Tim Burchett]

Right. Like, you can grab my funeral if you want to.

[Benny Johnson]

I hope to never have to do this, but, boy, I'd give a hell of a eulogy for you dad. I'd give a dad gum eulogy.

[Tim Burchett]

Thank you.

[Benny Johnson]

Yeah, well, that should be hopefully a generation off. And you are a generational talent and a hero of the Republic and somebody that we love having on the program. I'm sure there's nothing more you can tell me about the UFOs that you've seen. Maybe, perhaps you've already said too much, but it's one of the many things that frustrates the American people.

[Tim Burchett]

See, I get that Benny bump. Every time I cracked a half million, I just flew by it.

[Benny Johnson]

It's what? Yeah, that's what Luna went on Joe Rogan's show. And Joe's just like, you can't tell me anything. She's like, nah. But you saw it all. Yeah. What'd you see? Can't tell you. You know, like, it's very frustrating, Congressman.

[Tim Burchett]

I'm very frustrated. So.

[Benny Johnson]

Okay, well, hopefully they don't kill everyone off before we get a chance.

[Tim Burchett]

They'll do is what they do is discredit folks like us. They'll, you know, they'll some bogus charges, and then that never really get resolved. And we can't afford to go after them, fight them. That's. That's the way they do it now. They just bankrupt you and send you off.

[Benny Johnson]

It's and. And. And fa. Famous last Words. You wind up naked in a hotel room.

[Tim Burchett]

That's right. Yep.

[Benny Johnson]

That's right. Famous last words, Congressman. Thank you, everybody. Follow Tim Burchett if you want to know the truth. Well, it's out there. And there's very few people who will give it to you. And Tim Burchett's one of them. So Godspeed.

[Tim Burchett]

Love those sweet babies for me, Benny. Hey, to the wife.

[Benny Johnson]

I will, Congressman. Godspeed. Thank. You. What was that about? That was crazy. At the end, that'll be a clip. Tim Burchett saying that all the UFO scientists are going missing that he knows personally. Whoa. Maybe a good reminder to stay healthy. Armor is a way that you could do that. I mean, I don't know if you know too much about UFOs, if this will help you or not. It certainly helps me. I am a massive fan of colostrum. I don't do sugar and milk in my coffee. I want to. I want to make sure that I'm healthy for my kids. I can't eat too many calories. I already have a really bad snacking bone in my body, so I don't do sugar and milk. It's like an easy way for me to cut calories, but I do colostrum in my coffee. Armor is a incredible colostrum. 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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.

[Tim Burchett]

I'm tired talking.

[Benny Johnson]

Grab your phone.

[Tim Burchett]

Let's start walking.

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[Tim Burchett]

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[Darrell Issa]

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[Tim Burchett]

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