Congressman Warren Davidson joins the show this morning

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:11):
It's seven five here at fifty five KRSEV talk station.
It is Friday, and I'm very happy Friday to you,
Brian Thomas. Always looking forward to conversations with Congressman Warren Davidson,
So let's have one. Welcome back to the fifty five
CASSE Morning Show. Congressman Davidson. It's always a pleasure to
have you on the program.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Good morning, Brian, definitely my honors to join you. Thank you, and.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Boy, I'll tell you what just before we dive on
into the topics, including your appointment to the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee.
What's it like Donald Trump hitting the ground, sprinting. I mean,
this is what a whirlwind of activities we've seen since Monday.
Your reaction.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Morales high. I mean, what a great time to be
in Ohio and anyway. But you know, the Golden Age
of America is starting again, as Donald Trump has phrased it.
But you know, we get two new senators, one of
them isn't shared bround for the first time in ever.
You know, we get the Vice President of the United States.
The buck guys win a national championship, albeit over my Irish,

(01:09):
so pretty good, pretty good time. And once all the parties,
you know, got in her way. Kind of intermixed with that,
Donald Trump starts cranking out executive orders. I mean the
speeches were pretty good, but you know, we kind of thought, like,
just break out the desk and start signing, right, But
he hadn't taken very many breaks from signing since he
since he took office. And these things are rolling out

(01:31):
with some great effect and you know, changing people's lives
for the better.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
Well, I must observe and just going to get your
action because I am hoping and maybe against hope, I'm
I'm trying to be optimistic about this, that this is
the beginning of the end of the climate change religion.
You know, I observe. Germany has cut its own throat.
Its businesses and industry can't even operate because the price
of energy is so big, and they pursued that green

(01:58):
agenda so much so that they can no longer afford energy.
And energy isn't produced when the wind isn't blowing and
the sun isn't shying. So just the other day they were,
you know, buying nuclear generated energy from France. Of all things,
I mean, their economy, they were the powerhouse of the
European Union, and they've just because of green policy, you
have just sunk and it's it's it's sorry, it's it's

(02:19):
it's a shame to see. But Donald Trump's going the
polar opposite direction, and maybe we'll provide a springboard for
Europe to do the same things. In other words, well,
we'd love to pursue green, but look, the United States
is going a hell bend for leather and producing cheap energy,
and it's becoming a more of an economic powerhouse than
it already is. We need them to survive. So because
of Trump, maybe we'll walk away from this green energy nonsense.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yeah, I mean, I hope they save themselves. But I'm
confident we're going to go to the right direction on energy
in America and on manufacturing. And you know, that's that's
what I was doing before I took office on an
operating manufacturing companies. And you know who surprised. It takes
a lot of energy to manufacture things right, and it
takes people, and you know, without without people showing up

(03:07):
to make the stuff, there's no stuff right. And you know,
we've got so much good energy going on in Ohio,
not just from the natural gas that's over in eastern Ohio.
We we've got some strong energy producers down if you
look at the mind Fort coal fired power plant right there.
Hopefully we can extend the life of that. They were
talking about turning it off because of all this climate

(03:30):
change stuff, and we've got massive demand for energy. Why
would we take supply out of the system.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
Yeah, yes to that. And then I understand Indiana's putting
up a new nuclear plant, and I've just been really
hoping that we would start going the direction of nuclear power.
Given the modern nuclear plants are so comparatively easy to
build and take up such a smaller footprint. They don't
have the design flaws to say, the three mile island
type plants with the big cooling towers.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
And the like.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
I mean that that's that to me, it's just to
be a no brainer because it fulfills the climate agenda
if you believe in it, zero carbon production, but also
provides just bountiful and plentiful amounts of electricity.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
Yeah. I mean, it's all body with nuclear reactors our
gain and fast track approval, and you know you've seen
demonstrations on fusion. So I think nuclear age is going
to be tremendous for meeting the needs. And look, you know,
there were some problems with how HB six came in
to deal with nuclear in Ohio, but there was a
real risk we would take our two reactors that are

(04:28):
in Ohio offline, following the Germans or something crazy. So
thankfully we've got those operating and providing a huge baseload
for our state.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
No doubt about it. Congressman Davidson, congratulations on your appointment
to the Foreign Afairs Subcommittee. What are you going to
be in charge of and what is the role that
the subcommitte plays?

Speaker 2 (04:47):
Well, I'm still on Financial Services, and there I'm the
chairman for National Security and illictit finance, and that's because
that part goes through Treasury all the ways to follow
the money, the sanctions that you put in Treasury uses
the power of the US dollar being the reserve currency
to gather a lot of intelligence and do that in
a foreign affairs way, but you also look at it

(05:10):
in a domestic way, and it is certainly one of
the things that I hope we do that a better
job of is using all those tools not just to
go after true enemies of our country, but enemies of
our people. And one of The biggest is the scams
that are being foisted on our senior citizens, in particular
organized crime going after people. So that's the subcommittee that

(05:33):
I'm the chairman of. But I'm also on the Foreign
Affairs Committee, and there we'll be doing oversight over the
State Department. That place needs reformed. Marco Rubio started out
with a blaze, letting a lot of people go that
have been in positions that haven't been advancing America's interests.
So he's going to repopulate that with good people. And
then we'll be dealing with Western Europe, with Europe, and

(05:54):
of course hopefully we'll get a peaceful resolution in Ukraine.
So those are some of the highlights.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
Well, and you mentioned, you know, he's replacing, you know,
keep people in various different departments, and I understand that,
but the do you expect the regular frontline employees that
aren't being replaced, but you know, hold over to the
Biden administration. It may not, you know, favor or want
to engage in helping out Donald Trump and his agenda.

(06:21):
Are they going to play a ball with the new
department heads?

Speaker 2 (06:26):
I mean the reality is obviously some of them won't.
You'll have people like alex Vinman, who was a swamp
creature that was chargeting Donald Trump over the call to
Ukraine to say, hey, shouldn't you guys look into this
Hunter Biden situation here? And that's what led to the
first Trump impeachment was will weasel like alex Viannman. And

(06:47):
when I asked, he said, well, you know, the president
has a role in foreign policy, so you get to
trust the pros like alex Vinman to really really comprehensively
round out the foreign policy agenda. So there are certainly
some of those folks, but part of the goal is,
look all the things. All the agencies of the federal
government have two ways they exist. One is they're authorized,

(07:08):
and that's the authorizing Committee. In this case of the
State Department, that's Foreign Affairs, in the case of Treasury
that's Financial Services. So we will be reviewing all the
authorizations and the structure of these entities this year and
doing the appropriations, and so you can restructure whole division.

(07:29):
So for example, Donald Trump's executive orders have put a
pause they're going to get paid on administrative leave on
all DEI people. Now, he would lose in court if
he just said you're fired because they legally set them
up under all the you know Biden, you know nonsense
that was going on. And so they passed laws and

(07:51):
funded this stuff. And we are going to pass laws
and defund it and de authorize it, and and so
that'll get us back focused. But in the meantime, some
of the executive orders Donald Trump's done, and I'm sure
in State Marco Rubio who's now confirmed, and eventually when
Scott descent and it gets confirmed to be Treasury Secretary,

(08:12):
they will be doing the same kinds of things down
through the organization so that they get focused. And you know,
when we get cash battel at the FBI, I mean,
that is one of the biggest mandates is you've got
to reform it. Hopefully soon we'll get Tulsa Gabbert confirmed
as the Director of National Intelligence. You look at how
the intelligence that we have great capabilities on intelligence, and
we should, but they're supposed to be used against the

(08:34):
enemies of our country. They were using these against parents.
They're going after parents who showed up at school board meetings,
people who peacefully protested in Washington, d Z. I mean,
so all kinds of things that were you know, pro
life pro life Catholics were targeted as enemys of our
country by the FBI. So these reforms have to be

(08:55):
done aggressively and across so many aspects of our government.
And so you know we're going to that part of
blends right into what the Trump President Trump has worked
with Elon Musk on is doge and leaning out the government.
There's a lot of this stuff that doesn't need to exist.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
Do you real quick, we'll take a break here. This
is the second Congress from Warren Davidson. It all sounds
grand and glorious, you know, pairing back the size of the
scope of government and defunding these these unnecessary departments. Are
any of these going to be stumbling blocks that you're
going to face opposition from the Democrats so much so
that you won't be able to pass the bill.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
Well, I don't know. I can't believe Susan Collins and
Lisa Murkowski couldn't get behind p hexside. So that's very disappointing.
Over in the Senate, you know, hopefully we'll get get
our act together in the House. We've got an even
smaller majority in the House than they've got in the Senate,
so we are going to have to work together. We're
going to be on a retreat next week, getting out
of DC. You know, to me, it doesn't really matter.

(09:52):
We're going to sit in the conference room somewhere, but
we're going to go through a few struggle sessions to
make sure we're singing from the same sheet music. Because
the government's temporarily funded so March fourteenth. And the good
news is we didn't fund it with Biden as president
and Kamala Harris. I mean, the deadline was October first.
But if there's a time to play kick the can,

(10:13):
it's in the face of a big election like the
one we just had. If we play this well and smartly,
we could get a huge turbo booze to the Trump
administration right here in the first hundred days by passing
a Republican oriented funding package by March fourteenth.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
Well, I sure hope the Democrats wake up to the cold,
harsh reality that the American people wants this, and that's
why Donald Trump was elected president. So we'll see. I'm
trying to be cautiously optimistic about that one. It's a
little difficult, carsman.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
Davidson, Well, you're probably right to be a little nervous. Yeah,
but you're dead right. I mean, look, I don't know
very many people that thought Donald Trump was going to
win all of the swing states that a lot of
people thought he was going to win. But with three
hundred and twenty electoral votes and a majority, that's a

(11:04):
pretty powerful win. And so, you know, I think the
people who have had enough of us, you know, woke
nonsense where you know you're gonna go out and pretend
that's not a guy when it plainly is. And then
you're watching stuff like the Olympics where you've got a
man beating up a woman in boxing. I mean, that's
not sport, that's just crazy. And you know, it goes

(11:25):
back to a couple State of the Union addresses ago.
Joe Biden gave a State of the Union and Sarah
Huckabee Sanders, the governor of Arkansas, gave the Republican rebuttal,
and she said, the dividing line isn't Republican versus Democrat,
it's normal versus crazy. And I think that's a big
theme of Donald Trump's executive orders, is that we're just
restoring common sense.

Speaker 1 (11:46):
Amen to that, We'll pause, bring Congress Mom Warren Davidson
back to talk about well Digital Currency, executive order and
what is the big brother Ovary Jact More with Congressman Davidson.
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Speaker 1 (13:43):
Seven twenty one Think about KRCU talks day ed Brian
Thomas with Congressman Warren Davidson moving over to the Trump
executive order on digital assets. What's your reaction to that one,
Congressman Davidson, I am so excited.

Speaker 2 (13:57):
Look, central bank digital currency is one of the big
things there. He banned it, said we're not going to
do anything with it, and no part of the federal
government is either. The reality is the Federal Reserve has
been working to build a central bank digital currency. They've
acknowledged they don't have the legal authority to implement it yet.
But sort of like the Empire in Star Wars was

(14:17):
building the Death Star. You know, they just promise we
won't turn it on. We don't want you to build it,
we don't need to design it, quit working on it.
And I think that alone is a huge executive order.
But you know, digital assets were targeted by you know,
Joe Biden. Elizabeth warrens the ring leader of all this stuff,
and her front man was Shared Brown. Shared Brown was

(14:39):
leading this war on crypto innovation, financial innovation in America,
in driving capital out of our country. So Bernie Marino
defeated share Brown. Elizabeth Warren had to spend a lot
of money in a tough race there in Massachusetts. If
they weren't crazy in Massachusetts, she would have lost. But
now Donald Trump has righted that fire a number of

(15:01):
people already and issued executive orders that come along with it.
It's going to cut up. They were debanking companies just
because they were in crypto, and not that they were
doing illegal things. They were selectively prosecuting and targeting companies,
all designed to scare capital out of the space, and
it was working.

Speaker 1 (15:20):
And so that's like that operation.

Speaker 2 (15:21):
The industry has been targeted in a bad way. So
what good good news?

Speaker 1 (15:25):
That's like that Operation choke Point or chokehold that airic
Holder did was targeting banks that did business with legal,
lawful businesses like payday lenders or firearms manufacturers and threatening
them with I guess audits, compliance audits if they didn't
bend to the will of what aeric Holder was saying.
That sounds like the same thing going on in other
areas of government.

Speaker 2 (15:46):
Yeah, that's exactly it. I mean operation choke Point. I
don't know what this two point zero or six point zero,
but the government keeps using the financial institutions is leverage
to go after political enemies. And you know one of
the banks that that was put out of business, Barney
Frank of the Dodd Frank Act, you know, far left,

(16:07):
the Democrat, had gotten out of government, retired and was
on the board of a bank, and he's like, there
was nothing wrong with this bank. It wasn't insolvent. It
just banked crypto and so they targeted it, basically debanked
everybody there, pushed it up, wiped out the shareholders, and
transferred that to another bank. Us the power of the

(16:29):
regulatory bodies, and so it is an incredible abuse of
power financial services. We will definitely be going after the
people that webinize the government that way.

Speaker 1 (16:38):
Great, it should be unlawful on its face to do that.
If the business is lawful and people are it's not
illegal to engage in that type of activity. How is
it that somebody in government can try to prevent someone
from doing it? Anyway? Congressman Davidson, the what is the
Big Brother Overreach Act.

Speaker 2 (16:57):
Well, there's a little agency called the fin Financial Crimes
Enforcement Network FENCE in for short, and they're, you know,
the hub of our financial intelligence but you don't normally
have to file a report to them if you've got
a small business. Now, if you've got twenty or fewer
employees in a small business, you've got to file a

(17:17):
report and to say who are the beneficial owners? And
these aren't necessarily people that own anything. We had a
guy say, hey, he's being told he has to file.
He's a retiree who's managing a homeowners association. Yeah, and
they told him he had to file. And he's like, well,
I don't own the homeowners association or yeah, but you
control the money of the homeowners association, so you have

(17:39):
to file. That hit.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
My wife's the treasure of your.

Speaker 2 (17:42):
Law firms in Cincinnati, Columbus, around the around the country
that are saying, we will not file these reports for
you for your compor corporations because they face jail time
if they have error, zero mission on the applications. It
is a disastrous law. And so the Big Brother Overreach
repeals this law it's called the Corporate Transparency Act and

(18:04):
just gets rid of it.

Speaker 1 (18:05):
Yeah, that one hit my wife. She's the treasure of
our homeowners association, so she was going to have to
do all the paperwork related to that. I guess it
was held up or the it was stopped in its tracks.
Is that is that by way of a Trump executive order?

Speaker 2 (18:19):
No, not yet. We're trying to get the executive order
to withdraw the rule, I gotcha, and pause it. But
there was a court, I think the Area Circuit that
put a put a nationwide injunction way right as the
deadline was approaching. But just yesterday or day before, there
was a Supreme Court decision to let that proceed, which

(18:41):
essentially lifts the injunction. So we're trying to make sure
that we don't cause more chaos with this just very
badly crafted law in the first place, but the rule
implementing it is an even worse train. Right.

Speaker 1 (18:55):
Well, and again going back to democratic opposition, are there democrats?
There have to be Democrats that are with you and
on board with what this will do and won't stand
the way of it.

Speaker 2 (19:07):
Yeah. I mean this is one of those things like
sort of like the Patriot Act. There are Republicans and
Democrats that are for the Patriot Act, right, and there
are Republicans and Democrats that are opposed to the Patriot Act.
What happened is Democrats when they were in the majority,
attached this bill to the National Defense Authorization Act. Donald
Trump was president when it was signed, but it didn't

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really start to take effect until well into the Bide administration,
and the agency wrote a rule on how to comply
with the law. So the law to say that it
had to be done gets passed by Congress, but then
the mechanism of how to do it website set up
the way you reply with the law. That was all
done under the Bide administration. And that is even worse

(19:52):
than the law mandating than did occur. But your Republicans
broadly on the Committees of Jurisdiction here financial Services, the
chairman french All and I were, you know, really the
leaders on the fight to stop it, and we held
it off for years because the agency wanted to do it.
And first they put the monkey on the banks back
and said, well, every bank has to disclose to us

(20:14):
who owns everything under penalty of jail. And you know,
well you can't do that as an agency. For one
and two, you know, how are the banks going to
know everything? Some companies don't even have a loan, They
just want to open a bank account. And so they said, okay, well,
we'll push it on businesses, and businesses you have to
do this. So then the Chamber of Commerce lobbied and said, well, look,

(20:35):
you to put this on the whole economy. And they said, okay,
well just put it on the small businesses, and they
didn't have a big enough voice by the National Federation
or Independent Businesses has been a strong champion against this
because now you get the smallestly sophisticated businesses in the
country being mandated to do this stuff and they don't

(20:55):
even know that it exists in some case, but because
of all the attention, basically everybody's paying attention to it
now that it affects, but it has huge consequences for
expensive The presumption is you're guilty of illicit finance, money laundering,
basically facilitating illicit activity because you own a business. And
so I think that's why it should be struck down

(21:17):
as unconstitutional. But you know, normally to get that kind
of information, you would get a warrant or a subpoena,
a reasonable suspicion suspicion of a crime, and you'd go
to a judge and get a warren or a subpoena.
That's the way our system is supposed to work here.
They assume that you're involved in illicted activity. You have

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to come and share information with them.

Speaker 1 (21:42):
Unconscionable. It is. Well, I'm glad you're calling it out,
Congressman Warren Davidson. We show the luck in the world
to get in. That act passed, and we'll keep our
popcorn out on the votes on that one until we
get to speak again. Thanks for sharing your time with
my listeners of me this morning, Congressman Davidson. I appreciate
the work you do on behalf of the nation as
well as a specifically, and wish all the hell best

(22:03):
of luck and health in the world.

Speaker 2 (22:05):
Always an honor Bright. Thank you so much. Skeet bless
you and all your listeners.

Speaker 1 (22:08):
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