00:06Oh, we'll get the, yeah, let's get the police lights out of the show.
00:09Sorry, we're going to hold this.
00:11That's okay.
00:13How are you?
00:15It feels a lot better here now without the people, right?
00:18I'm sweating.
00:19I'm really sweating.
00:20Okay, same.
00:21Underneath my hair, it's curly right now, so.
00:24To start with, this was a town hall, but definitely a town hall for your
00:29gubernatorial.
00:30Absolutely.
00:31Can your constituents in your district expect to have the same?
00:35I've had four town halls already this year in my district with my federal
00:39office, and I'll continue to have town halls.
00:41I usually have over a dozen town halls a year in district.
00:44So these are in addition to all the other town halls I've already done for
00:48years in South Carolina.
00:50Can you plan to have any during the recess?
00:53This recess, I'm traveling the state, going to different counties.
00:56Okay, so I think our next one is in Rock Hill, and then we're doing Greenville
00:59in my run for governor.
01:01But none, so all these are outside of your district?
01:03I have done four town halls this year.
01:06We'll do close to a dozen probably in district by the end of the year, which is
01:09what I do every year.
01:10Many of those, pre-some of the legislation that's just recently voted on,
01:15some of the big moves that have happened.
01:16You've talked about a big, beautiful bill.
01:17Well, it's throughout the, I mean, we've done four so far this year,
01:20and we're going to continue to do them like I always do.
01:21But you, I noticed that one of the accomplishments, you know,
01:25things you were touting was the I-5-26 interchange.
01:30What was the exit at the Long Point Road?
01:32Yeah, not the interchange.
01:33But that funding came from the inflation reductionist, which you voted against.
01:39Right.
01:40Is that an accomplishment, though?
01:42Is that something you can tout?
01:43No, absolutely.
01:44I mean, absolutely I can tout that, because I will, we'll often argue over how much
01:48money is spent, how much money is wasted, and the vast majority of the funding in
01:53that bill was completely wasted, particularly on the infrastructure bill that was
01:56$1.2 trillion.
01:57We only had $110 billion dedicated to roads and bridges in that particular bill.
02:03Of that $110 billion, only $70 billion.
02:05$70 billion was for public transit, leaving only like $40 billion for roads and bridges
02:10across every state in the country, which is outrageous, right?
02:14And South Carolina in the infrastructure bill only got an extra billion dollars over a
02:18five-year period.
02:19So we fight over how we spend the money, how we appropriate it.
02:23But once the appropriations happen, I'm going to make sure that South Carolina, that we get
02:28our fair share, because that money is getting spent, and our tax dollars in South Carolina
02:32are equal to anybody else who's in California, New York, Tennessee, anywhere else, North Carolina.
02:39We deserve that, too.
02:40So just because we disagree on how the money is spent means we shouldn't get money for our
02:43roads and bridges.
02:44Isn't that kind of hypocritical?
02:45Well, that's ironic.
02:46I think I'm more asking, so you agree, then, if someone, you think it's okay for politicians
02:52who don't vote for them to take credit for...
02:56The federal government, it's literally our job to make sure that our states get the appropriations
03:00that they need when the money is assigned and spent.
03:03But you don't vote against anybody, even when they vote against anybody, even when they
03:05vote against it.
03:06I vote against almost every spending bill I've ever had before me because of the wasteful
03:11spending.
03:11This government has spent money on transgender surgeries for kids.
03:18It's spent money on putting men in women's prisons.
03:22Like, you know, we've spent over $26 million at the NIH to castrate mice and test them on
03:31a date rape drug.
03:32So I, of course, would vote against a bill that did something outrageous like that.
03:37But when there's money being appropriated by the federal government, it is literally
03:40our job to make sure that we help organizations, government entities, state and local, get
03:45those appropriations by supporting them with letters of support.
03:48And that's what my office says.
03:49That's literally part of the job of being a member of Congress.
03:52Maybe you're confused.
03:54You're very confused.
03:55And you're a raging Democrat.
03:57So raging leftist with that kind of questioning.
04:00And I would say as a woman, like, you might want to think about how you view other women
04:05and how you treat other women the way that you question them.
04:07Because women are going to lead this country off the brink and conservative women.
04:12The first female president of this country is going to be a conservative woman, not some
04:15liberal like you.
04:17Okay.
04:17Again, just a question about the bill, whether you voted for it or not, which we're touting.
04:21This is literally the job of a member of Congress.
04:23You might want to look up what a member of Congress does and maybe read the Constitution
04:28next time before asking any such a question.
04:30Okay.
04:31Five times over.
04:32Just looking for clarification in the question.
04:34You clearly need it.
04:36Okay.
04:37Pick up a Constitution and read it.
04:39All right.
04:40Your last question.
04:41Okay.
04:42You were one of the...
04:43Make it good.
04:44You were one of the few Republicans who did vote to release the acting part.
04:48Yes.
04:49This is something that you have talked about, that you're very passionate about.
04:51Yes, deeply.
04:52Victims' rights, things like that.
04:53A hundred percent.
04:54Do you still have confidence, then, in Gandhi and Kash Patel?
04:58I have great confidence in President Trump and his administration.
05:02And President Trump said he wanted files released.
05:04He said he wanted transcripts released from the grand jury.
05:06A judge has blocked it.
05:07And I will remind folks that are out there, Donald Trump was a whistleblower.
05:11He was one of the few people that actually interviewed with the FBI regarding Epstein.
05:14He banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago.
05:16And as a victim's rights advocate, as a survivor, I am going to lay down my life for women and kids and victims everywhere, even if it costs me my career.
05:28So I voted to release the Epstein files.
05:31I'm a co-sponsor of the bill to release the files.
05:33And I will sign the discharge petition when it comes before the House of Representatives in September, when we get back from recess.
05:40Do you still have confidence in Kash Patel and Cambodia?
05:43I answered the question earlier, and I said I've got great confidence in President Trump and his administration.
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