Congressman Massie Interview with Glenn Beck — Part 1
First half of a long-form sit-down with Glenn Beck — Massie's path into Congress, the Liberty Caucus, and the fight over committee assignments.
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- Thomas Massey who is being a watchdog of our money and our Constitution welcome to the program sir how are you thank you for having me on Glenn yeah the swamp
- nearly crushed me ten days ago for insisting that Congress show up for work and they're going to try and do it again they're trying to pass bills with nobody
- there it's not constitutional and tell me why truck drivers and nurses and grocery store workers have to go to work but Congress doesn't it is it's it's
- obscene Thomas it really is obscene I mean I understand if they don't you know they're but most of them are old and you
- know are prime candidates for getting this so I understand that they don't want to go in but then fine do it on the phone
- do it on the internet that's what we're all having to do do it on zoom' you can do it Congress they they're not even looking for ways to do it in fact
- Nancy Pelosi has said she won't call everybody back because it's just too dangerous we're telling millions of schoolchildren to to go to school online and Congress
- can't even hold a hearing online we it's ridiculous you know this is what I said this time so they're going to try and do something by you see I don't I don't
- want to get crushed again I know I'm going to get crushed again that's what I've said is vote remotely enabled voting remotely for Congress if you
- don't want to show up for work at least work from home but they did this is about not having any accountability and by the way this won't program is it
- appropriate to call the loan program if you expect a hundred percent of the loans to default these are not the banks are not loan originators their grants
- administrators and it's free money is it when you put up a sign and say free money is it any surprise that you run out of three hundred billion dollars the
- first day no we'll run out of 250 billion you know the White House told me when they were trying to get me to vote for this bill ten days ago
- it's so big we're making it so big so we won't have to revisit this issue and sell like July or August that's what they told me oh don't worry we got
- plenty of money there the Fed can leverage it you won't have to vote on anything like this again and not even two weeks later and they're
- telling us they need well the Senate Republicans are saying a quarter of a trillion and then Pelosi saying no we need another quarter of a trillion so
- this would be half a trillion dollars not even two weeks after the first bill and they don't want anybody to go on record so what's in this bill Thomas do
- you have any idea I know that they're now saying the Democrats are saying they won't vote unless and I this this kills me unless we change our voting system in
- November and we allow some sort of remote voting for every American yet they won't remote vote for the bill they
- can't enable remote voting for 535 members of Congress I don't think it's going to go well with the general public by the way that's a state issue there
- are states that have mail-in ballots in their states that don't there's no reason to nationalize this this is something that the states handle people
- need to get out their constitutions and look at them and I will tell you something Glenn I see a very grim future here in a few weeks if the governors
- don't reverse course the assembly lines are shutting down people when you see these jobless numbers those are people who aren't going to the factories and
- aren't working by the way you know we all like to think that the farmers are still working and they are for the most part but most of that food goes through a factory that have to be approved by
- the USDA etc before it gets to your table those factories are shutting down Glenn there were six slaughterhouses like giant meat packers that have shut
- down I know that I know that I know that the farmers are now buying up I mean I
- have cattle on my ranch we're stocking up on food making sure that you have enough so you're not selling your cattle
- because there's no one to take the cattle and and process the the meat I think we'll have meat shortages I think
- because of lack of workers on the ground there's lots of I talked to a farmer yesterday in North Carolina said he's ready to pull a crop up he doesn't have
- anybody to do it and he can't afford to pay anybody to do it because he's not sure he qualifies for the loan because
- he only hires people two months at a time three times a year right and what are they gonna do there won't still
- isn't going to make people come to work you know you've seen pictures of dairies pouring out milk you're going to see pictures of cattlemen shooting their cattle and burying them because they
- can't before there's no feed to be had and there's nobody that will process and meanwhile you're going to have shortages in the supermarket by the way I've got a
- bill I introduced like five years ago to fix this called the prime act that would let local processors process me and you could sell it with inside the state and
- it would and it would allow local processors to fulfill this need so that you don't have farmers killing animals so that of putting them into coming
- Thomas this is the that is the kind of thinking that we need to get on you know Donald Trump was made fun of because America first but that is all that is is
- think globally act locally every hippie understands that and all you're saying is give the local people a
- chance to do things without having to go through the federal government let the states do it the way our Constitution
- was built so what's the what's the holdup on this one you know ironically I have the hippies in Congress have
- co-sponsored my bill it's a it's a collection of conservatives and hippies and the red tape is going to cause people to starve
- here in a few weeks I'm telling you if something doesn't change it's going to get ugly and the people who are still going to work the productive members of
- society they're going to rip when neighbors start taking stuff from other neighbors and they're going to be able to justify it in their mind right they're going to look at a neighbor
- who's got all this food and say you know my kid needs to eat that guy hoarded food that's not fair I'm going to take his stuff when people start taking other
- people's stuff then the productive members of society are going to stay home to guard their stuff and it's going to just grind to a halt so quickly and
- we are we are we wait we are weak the way you you you this is quite a charge I've been talking
- about food shortages now for a while but I don't predict them coming this quickly but this is quite a charge because nobody is talking about this where where
- are you getting this feeling Thomas that that we are that close to food shortages significant food shortages talking to
- congressman Thomas Massie there there's an article out yesterday that talks about six of the big giant meat processing plants I mean one of these
- handles like 1900 adalat day shutting down you know because the workers have the virus and they don't have the test
- to know that which workers don't have it etcetera etc there's there are articles out there and just myself being a farmer
- I've got 65 cattle and and I can tell you the price of cattle is going down meanwhile the prices is going up in the
- supermarket and it's caused by cost because of the supply chains are brittle and we need to get we need to change course because by the by the middle of
- this summer if something hasn't changed it's going to be ugly so Thomas what and what should people be
- doing right now they should be they should be telling their governor's to turn the economy back on they should put
- a mask on they should quit listening to the people who say that masks don't work they should put a mask on that employers should provide masks when you when you
- get to work we need the cheap tests quickly we need to know who's got some immunity conferred to them because they've had it and recovered we need to
- know who's got the virus and needs to stay home instead of washing down all of the United States we just need to we just need to ask the ones who are sick to stay home or carrying the virus so
- there were some things yesterday I was talking because you know I own a couple of companies and I was like you know I don't know why we can't open partially
- yadda yadda and the response immediately was lawsuits Glenn lawsuits if something happens someone
- gets sick even if they're not getting sick from here but you've partially reopened things they can sue you and that's true I mean we we have to have
- protection as businesses that we're not going to get sued you know when we go back to work that's maybe that's a place where we could step in with legislation
- to say as long as your employer is testing every employee and as long as they're giving you a mask a brand new mask when you come to work that they
- can't be held liable for something like that right you know there could be a place for legislation to get us out of this rut it's getting deeper all right
- Thomas Massie hang on the phone for just a second I want to take a one minute break then I come back and I want to ask you about this this voting nonsense from
- the Democrats what else do you know if anything is in this bill and and and again what should we be doing on the
- national level I think you're right the state level is where we need to start because it's where it's really out of control but what we need to do on the national level as well back in just one minute
- stand by