Michael Waltz talks COVID stimulus, Pelosi

Let's bring in forward to Congressman Colonel Michael Walsh, member of the House Armed Services Committee. Congressman, who gets credit? Who gets blame? Well, you know, this has just been swamp politics, D.C. politics at its worst. You know, Speaker Pelosi and Schumer are right to some degree. We have rejected a lot of what they wanted in their multi-trillion dollar HEROES Act they passed back in June that was full of the progressive wish list. Everything from undocumented aliens to this whole progressive piece on corporate boards, how we vote, all kinds of things they tried to throw in there. But meanwhile, Brian, as you and I have talked about, there was $138 billion from the CARES Act left over and unspent for the Paycheck Protection Program. We tried 19 times to say, fine, we can argue about all those other things, but please let businesses have access to these monies. And Pelosi refused because she took a, you know, her way or the highway, all or nothing approach. Well, now we've gone from over $3 trillion down to $2 trillion, now down to $900 billion that it looks like we're going to get an agreement on. We have an agreement on. And here's what I want people to understand, $500 billion of that nine is leftover monies we were able to repurpose. So there is some fiscal responsibility in this package, but it is now targeted on programs that are going to help people get through this pandemic. And I think at the end of the day, this is a win for people who have been suffering. But it is way, way, way too late. Yeah, Colonel, it is. It is amazing all this time. And it almost feels like we're right back where we started on a lot of these items. You mentioned the speaker, though, Nancy Pelosi. Here's here's a couple of clips, one from yesterday and another from early December of her take on this COVID-19 relief bill. Listen, it's because we could not get our Republican colleagues to crush the virus. Why would they not want to invest in the science that has told us so importantly that it required testing, tracing, treatment, separation, sanitation? Joe Biden committed to ending and crushing the virus. What was then before was not more of this. This is has simplicity. It's what we had in our bills. It's for a shorter period of time. But that's OK now because we have a new president. So many so much serious talk and so many words. But ultimately, she revealed right there at the end the motivation behind delaying all this. Yeah, the bottom line is she did not want to give President Trump a win. And meanwhile, the American people were losing. And you know, and you're right, I mean, we did reject some things. Main thing we rejected was a bailout to a lot of blue states who have mismanaged their funds. And and I can't responsibly vote for Florida, Florida's taxpayers who in a state that is managing its budget to bail out New York and bail out California and a lot of other northeastern states. So we did reject that. But meanwhile, we were asking her to at least let businesses have another bite of the apple at monies that were already appropriated. And it just fires me up every time I get a phone call from one of our businesses that are going out forever. And she wanted to play politics so she could see if she had a new president. Again, it's just politics at its worst. Congressman, switching topics here, we want to get your thoughts on the incoming White House press secretary who is talking this weekend on Fox News Sunday about the Hunter Biden probes. Take a listen. He's been emphatic that that person will oversee an independent department. He's looking for somebody of the highest level of integrity. And that person, whomever it is, will be overseeing whatever investigations are happening at the He will not be discussing an investigation of his son with any attorney general candidates. He will not be discussing it with anyone he is considering for the role, and he will not be discussing it with a future attorney general. Congressman, can Americans indeed count on that neutrality that the incoming speaker is discussing there? Yeah, you know, this is the classic trust us, you know, in a situation involving billions of foreign money. Our greatest adversary we've ever faced, China, that we that clearly has a massive influence operation underway throughout our politics. Trust us. Don't worry about it. They're clearly relying on their friends in the liberal media to continue to to not cover it and brush it under the rug. If there's anything that I've ever seen that qualifies for an independent investigator, an independent prosecutor, it's this that clearly affects the son of someone who is on the verge of possibly becoming president and possibly that individual himself, Joe Biden and the rest of his family. But yet, no problem, nothing to see here. We'll take care of it. Don't worry about it. I don't think so. We need and I hope the president moves forward with a special prosecutor. See this through. Keep in mind that U.S. attorney that that is overseeing this investigation can also be replaced by a Biden administration. So we need someone independent. It fits every definition in the book. Yeah. Maybe Joe Biden will bring it up with the attorney general candidate. But Ron Klain would. Meanwhile, let's talk about a New York Times story, ProPublica story combined as well to define something in detail that we already knew. China lied about the virus. We still don't know how it started. We still don't know what the strain looks like. When it emanated, we still don't know why the W.H.O. wasn't clean and just didn't come clean on it and why why they sold out to China. We thoroughly understand that they lied to a CNN, discovered that two weeks ago. And now we have details. Here's a quote. China's curbs on information about the outbreak started in early January, early January. That's before the novel coronavirus had even been identified definitively. The documents show this. When infection started spreading rapidly a few weeks later, the authorities clamped down on anything that cast China's response into negative of light. Think about how the CDC had the wrong test. Think about how we were told the wrong information, the things that we could have done to prepare us for the poisoning of the world. Thanks to China. If this does not warrant a fiscal retribution, I don't know what does. Well, yeah, I couldn't agree with you more, Brian. And look, I mean, remember, they kicked out our journalists. They've arrested their journalists and they've disappeared. We still don't know where they are. In addition to their doctors who are trying to inform the world and then immediately influence its friends within the WHO, whose job was to make sure that the world is prepared. Meanwhile, they're overseeing this army of bots and kind of online cyber warriors that are spreading misinformation all over the global Internet. And one of the biggest pieces, one of the key parts of their campaign is making sure it was not called the China virus or the Wuhan virus, that we all kind of fell into this bland covid-19, which which we have. So they've been successful in that. Right. And, you know, those of us that we're trying to remind the world and remind Americans who started this and where this came from were were pilloried in the press. Why? Because they wanted to make sure that the focus stayed on President Trump in a campaign year. So, you know, all of this coming out after the election shouldn't be too much of a surprise, whether it's from CNN, New York Times or others, but China will pay. We had a task force in the House that was supposed to be Republicans and Democrats. Speaker Pelosi pulled for Democrats at the last minute from participating, looking across the board from the economy to health care, to the military, because she said it distracted from the president trying to divert attention to China. The Democrats have a real problem with China and it's all getting wrapped into this. Colonel, you're you're so right. I mean, we've got a massive China problem, yet the examples, especially on the Democrat side of the aisle, don't give any inspire any confidence for anybody. I mean, so you've got the potential president's son embroiled with the communist Chinese office mates with an energy company over there. Take Nancy Pelosi's husband, who does business in China. Take Diane Feinstein. Yeah. All of these establishment elite members of the Democrat Party have personal fiscal connections to cheap goods and business in China. What expectation can regular folks, workers in America have that Washington will actually step up and confront the communist Chinese in a way that's beneficial to us, in a way that's meaningful? That's not a smokescreen. Well, it's just one more reason we can't lose the Senate. The Republican Party certainly has had a wake up call. I've talked to a number of Democrats who understand what's going on. The Democratic leadership has not. And some of these politicians that they're spotting and assessing early in their career, you know, they're not trying to put them on the shoeshine committee. They're putting them on armed services. They're putting them on the intelligence committee and others that they're influencing. Look, at the end of the day, we that the Chinese Communist Party is in a cold war with the United States. We need a wake up call across the country and it needs to be coming from their elected leaders. And I really fear it's not just those leaders that you pointed out. Biden's son, look at some of his picks and some of his nominees for cabinet positions. And they all have bought into this notion that the rise of China is a peaceful thing. No problem. No big deal. Nothing to see here. And that's exactly what President Xi wants us to believe until it's too late. We are just two years into this DOJ's China initiative, Congressman, in which there were countless prosecutions and convictions of Chinese operatives engaging in espionage and sabotage here. So my question is, do the American people, can they expect that this will be extinguished, that under the incoming administration, all of our formal countering efforts will be wiped away? Yeah, well, I'm certainly going to do everything in my power to not let that happen. It is in remember, we've had the head of Harvard arrested, professors at Emory University, at Texas A&M, the Moffitt Cancer Research Center in Florida. The the Department of Justice has said they have dozens and dozens of individuals under investigation that have taken money from the Department of Defense, taken taxpayer grant funded research from Health and Human Services, NIH, and then they are shipping it wholesale over to Beijing. And what Beijing calls that is their civil mill program, where they take these civilian technologies, materials, robotics, jet engines and flip it right over to their military. Guess what? Now they're rolling out the most advanced stealth fighters, rockets, missiles and others that look exactly like ours. And I have very little confidence that a potential Biden administration sees this for what it is and is going to aggressively go after it, like the Trump administration has and like the president has, whether it's closing down consulates that are serving as spy centers like you did in Houston, putting people under investigation, the 400,000 Chinese students that are here siphoning out, vacuuming up technology. I mean, this is across the board, right, guys, you know, and it's from Wall Street to NBA to Disney. Reportedly, the head of Disney is under consideration to go to Beijing as the ambassador. I mean, we really have to understand the depth and breadth of this. Yeah. And I don't think the Democrats are calling it out for what it is. They're not even close. Yeah. Remember, they want to see Wall Street executives to help them with the Trump administration. Remember what they've done with they've changed movies and Hollywood. Remember, Apple never has a critical thing to write in their new service about him. But let's and if we can, by the way, they've taken our fighter jets. The only thing they removed was a decal. You can still see the glue marks on it. They let they land a Mars probe, a moon probe looks exactly like ours. And there's a push in the Biden administration, at least among officials, to use cooperation as we try to get to Mars. Yeah, let's work with China. Let's not let them. Why make them hack? Well, we could just share and bring them over to the office space. Let's go make some keys. And China's had China's had more launches than the rest of the world, including the United States. It's unbelievable into space. And that's why we need a space force to defend our assets up there. I'm not confident the Biden administration will continue to support that either. And can I just real quick on Florida? You're in Florida. You've been in D.C. You've been in New York. The difference is Florida's governor and their leadership is saying we know the dangers. Live with it the best you can. Let the free market decide if your restaurant's going to be full and your beaches going to be occupied, as opposed to New York. You're out of business. I got your back, but I'll destroy you along the way. How do you handle the criticism that's constantly coming for this direction? You know, but the results speak for themselves. Our schools have been open since back in August, thanks to the leadership of Governor DeSantis. And what he did was he took a fundamentally different approach. He said, families, you make the decision. You've got an in-school option. You've got a hybrid option. But you know what? If you have someone that's vulnerable back at home, a grandparent, what have you, then you can have the virtual. He made families the decision maker for their lives, not government, not Washington, D.C. or a state capital like Cuomo's doing. And that's the fundamental difference. Business owners don't want to get people sick. They don't want to, you know, have to go out of business if that happens. So they're going to take appropriate measures. You know, we're taking an approach where we trust individual citizens with their liberties, with their health to make the right decisions. And you know what the statistics are showing? We're relatively flat despite being open when it comes to hospitals and when it comes to unfortunate deaths, not case numbers that the mainstream media likes to focus on. So that's just a very different approach. Looking at individual liberty versus government mandate and government shutdown. And comparatively, as we all fight through this, it's working. It's called common sense. And you've got a lot of it. Congressman and Colonel Michael Walsh, thank you so much for being with us at the top of the hour. We appreciate it. All right. Well, hey, I'm pushing for Fox and Friends Florida. So come on down and I'll see you. I am, too. I know. Well, I have a bureau when you could have the whole company. We all are. We're in. Pick a spot. Appreciate it, sir.