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00:13good evening and thank you for joining us i'm trey gowdy and it's sunday night in america
00:18what a game the two best hockey teams in the world squared off with gold on the line it was
00:26a cliffhanger from the opening drop of the puck the u.s prevailed in overtime with a gorgeous goal
00:33which you just saw but there could have been no overtime save the u.s goalie who put in a
00:39full
00:40day's work stopping shot after shot from a speedy talented canadian squad for those of us alive 46
00:48years ago today we remember the miracle on ice that was the last time u.s men's hockey won olympic
00:55gold in 1980 we defeated an enemy in the soviet union today it was a friend in a world full
01:03of
01:03division and strife sports led by our men's and women's hockey teams provide those moments of
01:10unity we crave 50 years from now some of you will remember where you were when the u.s won
01:17today
01:17just as many of us recall the miracle on ice when we were once young fox and friends first co
01:24-host
01:25todd pierre joins us now welcome todd it seemed like canada had more shots on goal today and yet
01:32somehow the u.s pulled that out how two words and you said it in your intro connor hellebuck uh
01:40i know
01:41the game of hockey and i know the goaltending position pretty well and if you watched throughout
01:45the first and second periods canada was getting a lot of shots and connor hellebuck was in perfect
01:51position every single time it doesn't necessarily need to be the most spectacular save oftentimes it's
01:58all about your positioning and his positioning was perfect and then we get into the third period when
02:04he stood on his head and he did things that a goalie probably shouldn't be able to do including
02:11that one save behind his back that saved the game without that we're talking about a silver medal
02:17for america so we persevered we did not play the greatest game especially in that second period but
02:24on jack hughes's goal the one that ended the game for us trey uh he pinched in there if he
02:31doesn't
02:32poke away that puck on his own end of the ice we're talking again about a canada gold medal because
02:38they
02:38would have been on a two-on-none on a goalie and and there you go usually a two-on
02:42-none with olympic
02:43caliber players they're going to score but instead he poked he was bold they say fortune favors the
02:49bold tray and in this instance fortune favoring the bold led to gold yeah fortune favors the old
02:56too i am glad that i was alive for the miracle on ice and this was not miraculous except to
03:03your point
03:04the goalie was pretty daggone miraculous today todd thank you for joining us on a really really fun day
03:11my pleasure such an emotional and beautiful day all around yeah amen
03:17this week president trump delivers his state of the union address attention is focused on the
03:23supreme court however it's important to note what the court did and did not do president trump imposed
03:30tariffs for myriad reasons drugs a level playing field revenue domestic manufacturing and fundamental
03:37fairness the high court did not weigh in on the propriety of any of those goals the court answered
03:44a narrow question which is to whom does the power to impose tariffs belong and usually it's congress
03:51but sometimes there's been a delegation of that power was that delegation clear that was this case
03:59congress is cited first in the constitution it was intended to be first among equals it has not
04:06not unfolded that way things move slowly if at all in congress and presidents regardless of party
04:13test the boundaries of executive power congress enabled and ignored this tariffs are not gone as
04:21trade rep jameson greer and the president both noted those there are other tools still in the shed
04:27even though the supreme court struck down tariffs under one authority tariffs under other national security
04:34elements remain in place uh tariffs under what we call section 301 related to unfair trading practice
04:39remain in place and so we of course can conduct additional investigations under these tools
04:44to impose tariffs to have continuity in the president's trade policy let's be really clear the group hosting
04:51president trump tuesday night is free to act congress can delegate power more explicitly they can impose
04:57tariffs tariffs on their own they can codify executive action there are countless ways of getting to a
05:03desired goal but america is different because how we arrive matters as much as where we arrive and do not
05:11be misled the court did not rebuke donald trump as the headlines love to scream the court held a mirror
05:19in
05:19front of congress and asked do you still exist and you may hear that question again come tuesday night
05:29joining us is james blair he was the political director for president trump in 2024 and he joins us
05:35now welcome mr blair thank you for being here i'm sure the president is disappointed but there are
05:41myriad other ways to accomplish his trade goals
05:47absolutely and let's be clear what the court said the court said the president does have the authority
05:52to put tariffs in place and many of the tariffs still stand they simply said there's another mechanism
05:58by which he has to do it the president's tariff regime will stand it'll just be done a different
06:03way and it it will ultimately all come back together over the next few weeks and months as
06:07ambassador greer laid out there's different authorities that are very explicit laid out by congress that he
06:12has uh we are disappointed but what's important is the tariffs are working the president wanted to
06:18eradicate the trade deficit that this country has faced for decades he has done that virtually it
06:24almost completely in just a year manufacturing is coming back to this country construction is booming
06:29factories are opening these this there's hard data that back set up there are jobs coming back you just
06:35saw it in the jobs report and ultimately what he has put in place is working and not to mention
06:39the
06:40deficit is down by half a trillion dollars these are things that congress could do we want them to be
06:44partners with us but at the end of the day the president is going to get the job done that's
06:48what
06:48he was elected to do right now they'd be a silent partner james and i say that as somebody who
06:55used to
06:56work there i'm not asking what the president is going to say on tuesday night but i'm asking you as
07:01a
07:01political expert what the jury the american people wants to hear on tuesday night
07:11i think the american people want to hear about the progress we've made and i expect the president
07:16will give a progress report but also hear about the agenda going forward what else the president
07:21and the republicans in congress want to accomplish and i think the president will lay that out that out
07:25very clearly which will frame the midterms uh the midterms are really going to come down to a choice
07:31tray it's a choice of going back to the time when democrats were in charge with joe biden when we
07:36had
07:36five dollar an average gallon of gas now it's under three dollars when we had interest rates to buy a
07:41uh new home at a 30-year mortgage at almost eight percent now you can get them under six percent
07:46all
07:47of these things are going in the right direction and let's not forget these democrats the democrats
07:51that will be in the chamber and the ones that won't be in the chamber all last summer tried to
07:55put in place a four trillion dollar tax hike which would have raised taxes on 90 percent of american
08:01taxpayers by thousands of dollars a year that's what they tried to do when they weren't in power
08:06now fortunately republicans blocked that and instead cut taxes but if they will try to do
08:10that when they're not in charge imagine what they're going to do when they are in charge so
08:14this is about going back to the days of economic stagnation or building on the progress we've made
08:19and ultimately finishing the job to make sure the american people are better off than ever before
08:24economically financially and and safety all right james there are a few people you will meet in
08:32life that have been ruled against more often by judges than i have i i made a living getting ruled
08:39against by judges and trust me i know it can be frustrating but the roberts court has also given
08:45this administration some significant victories notably the immunity case executive personnel power
08:53so i know the president's frustrated but the court has all has also sided with the administration
09:00in a number of high profile cases
09:05yeah that's true and certainly we appreciate the court uh ruling the way that we see the law as
09:11written obviously when it does um but that doesn't mean they don't get things wrong and i don't think
09:16that means the president shouldn't point out that he believes they got it wrong he believes they got
09:21it wrong in this case uh and and he is free to say so and we encourage him to say
09:26so and again it's very
09:27important to say they didn't say the president doesn't have the power to enact tariffs they said
09:31he has to do it a different way so fundamentally uh what the president's purpose was which is to
09:37eradicate the trade deficit and bring jobs back to this country he has the power to do that he's going
09:42to keep doing that and he will just have to do it a little bit different way i i read
09:48the opinion
09:48as much more of a report card on congress than than donald trump i mean it was congress that that
09:54was
09:55unclear in its delegation it wasn't the executive james blair it was great to see you last week and
10:00thank you again it's great to see you tonight thank you for joining us great to see you take care
10:08coming up mar-a-lago is as secure as it is beautiful good thing because a man armed with a
10:14gun was shot
10:15dead trying to break in plus the search for nancy guthrie enters a fourth week are investigators
10:20any closer to finding her
10:30we're back with a fox news alert 21 year old austin tucker martin of north carolina was shot and killed
10:37as he tried to breach security of president trump's florida home mar-a-lago martin was armed with two
10:43weapons when he came face to face with law enforcement secret service says martin was first spotted near the
10:49state's north gate around 1 30 a.m carrying a shotgun and a fuel can federal agents and a palm
10:56beach
10:56county sheriff's deputy confronted martin who was killed on site after he pointed his weapon at law
11:02enforcement joining us is former assistant fbi director chris wecker welcome special agent thank
11:09you for joining us showing up at the president's house with a gun and material for arson is a really
11:14good way to get shot and killed and that's exactly what happened yeah no doubt about it trey i mean
11:20life is an iq test and he flunked on that one um yeah you don't go into mar-a-lago
11:2430 in the morning
11:26going through in the exit with a shotgun and a gas can i mean who knows what he what his
11:32real plans were
11:33but wrong place wrong time even even when the president is not there there's stepped up security
11:39at mar-a-lago anybody that's been in there knows that and he you know he chose the most the
11:44high the
11:45highest traffic entrance so that's the one that's guarded the most or the or the most uh proactively
11:51so not a good move on his part probably an amateur person you know this guy was probably mentally
11:56disturbed we'll find out in the long run here all right special agent martin is dead so he will not
12:03be put on trial but that does not mean there is not an investigation law enforcement is going to
12:09want to find out everything they can about how and why this happened even though there is not a trial
12:15yeah that's true the fbi by statute has jurisdiction anytime there there's an attempted assassination
12:23attempt on a president or vice president and you know that that's that it also extends to cases
12:30like this where even though we don't know that he was there with that the intention they're they are
12:35there to investigate that and then they'll do it you know the way we've heard about in all the other
12:39cases like this they'll dig into all his social media his uh devices his friends his family they'll
12:46dissect his life they'll they'll the the primary goal here now as you say there's no prosecution to
12:51protect but the primary goal is to find out if he has any co-conspirators or what motivated him or
12:58what
12:59enabled him or their third party enablers uh how did he get his hands on the shotgun what's what's
13:04the trigger here and well well i think that we're well on our way to knowing that because they they're
13:10already at his house and we're very early in the morning uh looking into all of that
13:17you know special agent motives are tricky i mean people use the word all the time prosecutors don't
13:24really like that because same people will never understand why martin did what he did but still
13:30you try to piece together a profile to protect other high value targets in the future so even though
13:38we may never know the motive you're still going to look for for for other high value targets
13:45well absolutely i mean we are seeing something of a trend here with young individuals like like the
13:52uh the the would-be assassin and butler you know mangione uh you know just young people
14:00whatever reason sort of going off i mean they're they're highly uh vulnerable if you will to outside
14:08influences they're disaffected they're unhappy they're maladjusted whatever i'm you know i'm not
14:13a behavioral scientist but the behavioral scientists will dig into this but it is seems to be something
14:18of a trend and you wonder how much of this you know this political rhetoric this inflammatory rhetoric
14:23is is setting off people like him it's almost like you got these these embers and they're you know
14:29they're and somebody's throwing uh gasoline right on them and just to stoke up the fire
14:35and you can add tyler robinson to to that as well the alleged killer of of charlie kerr right special
14:41agent thank you for your service to our country and for joining us on a sunday night
14:46and yours as well trey thank you yes sir take care
14:52the guthrie investigation enters a fourth week time tips and technology genetic genealogy is being
15:00tried on gloves found near the guthrie home this method can work as it did tracking down idaho serial
15:06killer brian coberger the dna is run through genealogy sites to see if a family can be identified which
15:13then narrows the universe of suspects sheriff chris nanos is using a private lab our lab tells us
15:21that there's challenges with it the technology is moving so fast and in in such a frenzy that
15:27they think some of this stuff will resolve itself just in a matter of weeks months or maybe a year
15:35police are also pursuing online searches for nancy guthrie's address and savannah guthrie's salary who
15:42did that and why this case is currently being led by the sheriff is it time to let the fbi
15:49take over
15:50joining us is former homicide detective john buehler welcome detective thank you for being here
15:55what do you think are the best leads right now well trey thanks for having me of course the big
16:04thing is
16:04is the dna the dna is going to lock down somebody who was in that house it didn't belong in
16:09there
16:09don't know how long it's going to take that's really an open-ended question again it still remains a
16:14mystery to a lot of us on why the sheriff decided to use the private lab here in florida and
16:20i would
16:20assume it has to be a certified lab forensically so that they can testify in court um not sure why
16:26he didn't opt to go with the fbi they were right there on his doorstep uh not knowing for sure
16:31if
16:31they would be any faster but at least he would have one chain of evidence with that and it wouldn't
16:35be
16:35uh kind of diluted at a couple of different places um as far as the uh search for uh the
16:41uh residents
16:42and savannah's uh salary if those are recent before the abduction took place that's a huge clue
16:48uh because who's looking for that i've you know that's that's going to lead you to somebody and we
16:53mentioned that the other day when i was with griff about uh a reverse keyword search on whether it
16:58was the address or anything like that that might give some ideas on that look i'm trying to get my
17:04head around using a private lab i mean even from a chain of custody standpoint which is no small
17:10matter in court it's much better to use the fbi and they're willing to help and they have
17:15unparalleled technology why is the sheriff insisting on using a private lab yeah i can't really you know
17:24know for sure on that i i know you think over the years when you've watched uh fiction things on
17:29television and movies there's always this kind of um kind of an infighting between the fbi and the
17:36local cops or the the local deputies and things like that and that that might be good for tv
17:41entertainment but in the real world we got along really good with fbi agents uh in california there
17:45were things that i could do as a california police detective that they couldn't do without
17:48approval from washington which would take several days and then of course they had resources that i
17:53didn't it's real easy for the fbi to come in and offer their services and what they do is they
17:58open
17:58up what's called a domestic police cooperation where it doesn't have to be a federal crime but they can
18:03come in and they can start working it from their angle with their resources yeah you know you put your
18:08finger on something media does get it wrong every task force i was ever part of had state and local
18:13cops and they all got along great with one another they have different jurisdictions that are different
18:18reasons to go different routes but the sheriff has had this case for closing in on a month
18:24and and and the kidnapping case time is everything i mean why not say look we may not have interstate
18:31commerce but fbi why don't you take the lead the the goal is not credit the goal is to solve
18:38this case
18:40well trey and you got it exactly right it's you know nobody's going to get uh you know accolades
18:46and a television show and a private jet for solving the thing you the the big thing is is you
18:50know
18:50trying to get nancy back uh my my hope for that diminishes with each passing day um one of the
18:56things see i remember the sheriff here the other day he you know was pretty quick to trumpet that he
19:01cleared all the family members and and probably did i'd like to think he did um but at how did
19:06he do that
19:07did he did he poly any family members that's one of the things that i would have asked for
19:11and not necessarily savannah per se but any family members that are uh somehow related by shirt tail to
19:18uh to nancy if they have any kind of a checkered past or they have associates that have a checkered
19:23past of course you want to poly them and it's not so much what the results are going to reveal
19:27it it's
19:28it's certainly going to be the willingness to say absolutely let's start it right now but if you get
19:32hesitation and you get delays and you get excuses things like that that suggests that oh maybe we
19:38got to look at this person a little bit closer um i'm wondering if they took a look at nancy's
19:42will
19:42that would be something that i would be interested in is when was the last time the will revised
19:47was anybody left off was anybody added on in place of somebody else there are things there that could
19:53create motive and things like that it's really difficult to determine what the motive is because
19:58it's been a little bit light on the the ransom demand stuff you know detective somebody out there
20:06knows something and and all the great police work in the world we still sometimes need a little bit of
20:13luck and help from the public so i'm convinced somebody out there knows something detective thank
20:19you for for your commitment to a really difficult line of work uh i remain hopeful but we shall see
20:26thank you for joining us and loaning us your expertise on a sunday night thanks try i appreciate
20:32it take care still ahead you need an id to board a flight check into a hotel get a library
20:38card whatever
20:40that is but some don't think you should be required to show id to vote congressman dan crinshaw tells us
20:47why next on sunday night america
20:57this is a fox news alert i'm marianne rafferty mexico is on high alert after its army killed the
21:01leader of one of the world's most powerful drug cartels the man known as el mincho died after
21:06being captured in a military raid in western mexico officials say cartel members set fire to vehicles
21:12and buildings while trying to stop the operation the u.s embassy in mexico is urging all americans
21:18and affected areas to shelter in place and some airports including puerto vallarta are closed
21:24and a potentially historic winter storm slamming the northeast with heavy snow strong winds and
21:29blizzard conditions one to two feet of snow is expected from philadelphia to boston the worst
21:34conditions are expected now through tomorrow morning winds between 50 to 70 miles per hour could
21:40also knock out power some public transit is already paused and travel bans are in place
21:45thousands of flights are also disrupted i'm marianne rafferty now back to sunday night in america
21:59welcome back to sunday night in america you have to show multiple forms of id to get a job
22:04shoveling snow in the people's republic of new york so why not show id to vote americans like
22:12common sense which is why 83 percent support showing id to vote it's an overwhelming majority because it's
22:20an overwhelmingly good idea let's say that you an american citizen show up and vote for a candidate
22:26and then somebody else who has no right to vote shows up and votes for a totally different candidate
22:31that person is stealing your vote away from you stealing your sovereignty as a american citizen
22:38americans do not like hypocrisy the same folks who claim it's racist to require id to vote are more
22:44than willing to mandate it to enter their work place enter their government buildings sit by them on
22:50airplanes or shovel snow dan crenshaw is a sponsor of the so-called save act and joins us now welcome
22:57congressman thank you for your service to our country comrade mondani requires id to shovel snow
23:04during emergencies but opposes it to vote in elections dan you got to help me brother that defies logic
23:14and i i can't help rationalize democrats behavior every single time and especially when you got 80 plus
23:20percent of americans who agree with this kind of stuff i mean look we couldn't get any of them to
23:25vote for
23:25my bill to to ban transgender surgeries on minors even though that's also maybe an 80 90 issue with
23:31the american people the democrat party is way out of lockstep with the american people constantly and
23:37we've got to be showing them this as we go into the midterms um i mean heck their big argument
23:42last
23:42year was they want your taxes to increase right they all voted against our our working families tax
23:47cut because they want your taxes to increase and you know they want they want illegals to vote they
23:52want to make it easy for illegals to vote it's not disenfranchising for people to have to show id
23:57if they don't have id let's make it easier for them to get their ids i mean this is it's
24:02it's it's
24:03racist to think that you know that people of color can't get ids that's what's actually racist but you
24:09know that's just too much common sense for them all right i want to get to the cartels because you've
24:15done great work there i hate to let facts get in the way but in georgia after what they call
24:20jim crow
24:202.0 2.0 minority voter participation actually increased which to your point it is racist to
24:28claim that certain parts of the american family can't go get an id but you and i are in violent
24:35agreement with one another there tell us about the cartels in mexico something big just happened
24:43yeah we had a really big uh operation today uh elmencho was killed so that's his nickname but
24:51um his name is nimesio cervantes but he is the head of the cjng cartel otherwise known as the jlisco
24:59cartel it is um up there with sinaloa as being one of the deadliest cartels and one of the main
25:06producers
25:06of fentanyl that traffics into onto u.s streets is also by far the the the most militarized cartel
25:14you'll often see pictures of these guys dressed up like like they think they're special forces
25:18units and they're they're carrying around all sorts of weaponry from rpgs they're using drones
25:23they're using ied attacks um so this is this is a welcome change because we've seen the mexican
25:28government along with our help going after a lot of the sinaloa cartel recently and um you know
25:34there's been a lot of increased intelligence sharing too and i'm sure there was a lot of
25:38intelligence sharing from the u.s with the mexican authorities for this raid as well
25:42so it's good to see them going after the jlisco cartel because that is an extremely deadly cartel
25:47that is it's literally a terrorist insurgency and it i'm my hat's off to secretary omar harfouch you know
25:55people probably don't know who he is he's the secretary of interior security in mexico
25:59he then the jalisco cartel and this guy in particular elmencho led the assassination attempt
26:06on him i think he was shot like five times in mexico city back in 2020 so my hat's off
26:11to him
26:12because he is now leading the charge against the cartels right now that's why we're seeing such an
26:16increase in activity and uh it's it's probably pretty good revenge for him and so you've really
26:23finally got good people in office in mexico that our administration can actually work with
26:28and like it's it's not enough to take off the heads of the snake you got to also take off
26:32all
26:32the middlemen they're doing a good job doing that too that doesn't get headlines every day like this
26:36one does but it's it's it's we're really moving in the right direction along with the plan that i've
26:41been trying to lay out for a long time uh we were down at the border back in 2022 and
26:46i was calling out
26:47elmencho by name back then because i mean he has been around that long as a major threat to our
26:52security and mexican security yeah well you take your hat off to him and i'm going to take my hat
26:58off to you because as you say you've been talking about cartels way longer than most other people
27:04so you stay on it dan crenshaw i know i don't have to encourage a navy seal to stay on
27:09something but
27:10you stay on it uh i hope your health is well i know that you just got out of the
27:15hospital because
27:16i saw some social media but you're a tough guy so you're already back up and working god bless
27:21you thank you for joining us on a sunday night coming up president trump convened world leaders
27:26for the first board of peace meeting meanwhile a decision on iran could come within days former
27:31secretary of state mike pompeo is next
27:42it's called the board of peace and it's all about an easy word to say but a hard word to
27:47produce
27:48peace but we're going to produce it welcome back to sunday night in america he's right peace is hard
27:54which is why someone once said blessed are the peacemakers world leaders gathered in dc to discuss
28:01rebuilding gaza and there's a lot of work to be done there israel should be secure moderate arab
28:07states must recognize israel and then work together for a secure region elsewhere iran is staring down
28:16the barrel of a very large gun what will happen to that despotic theocracy joining us is former
28:23secretary of state mike pompeo welcome mr secretary good to see you as always gaza is tricky
28:30i'd imagine a moderate arrow state is best to take the lead how do you see this board of peace
28:35playing
28:36out it's very great to be with you yeah it's absolutely tricky it's why this has been a problem
28:42that's been nettlesome for the world and for israel for so long i think there's a lot of progress been
28:47made but man there's still a long ways to go i think you're right what you'll see is non-extremist
28:54muslim nations take the lead i'm very happy to hear that nations have already agreed to contribute
28:58significant numbers of troops on the ground to try to keep the peace there that's the next step
29:04because you can't get there without disarming hamas nearly entirely there the israelis are not quite
29:09there yet there's still work to do there's still precision guided munitions they're still trying to
29:13rebuild hamas political leadership still thinks they've got a chance uh this is going to be an awful
29:18lot of work but you have to begin by blocking and tackling and i think that's what president
29:22trump's board of peace is trying to do all right mr secretary here's steve whitkoff on the topic that
29:29you know full well which is iran i'll ask you about it on the other side president asked me that
29:35this
29:35morning and he's i don't want to use the word frustrated it's almost because he he understands
29:41he's got plenty of alternatives but it's curious he's curious as to why they haven't i don't want to use
29:48the word capitulated but why they haven't capitulated why under this sort of pressure with
29:55the amount of um uh sea power naval power that we have over there why they haven't come to us
30:00and said
30:00we profess that we don't want to be we don't want a weapon you know secretary it's hard to negotiate
30:07with a country who thinks god loves only them what do you think is going to happen with iran
30:15trade these two problems gaza and iran are not unrelated we should all remember that right it
30:20was the iranians who were funding the massacre to the that took place on october 7th of 2023 so
30:26this regime changing would be fundamentally good for that problem set as well look i'm actually i
30:32i hear the president being described as not understanding but the truth is i think president
30:35trump understands full well these are not people who are going to give up their weapons hamas is not
30:40going to lay down theirs and the regime is not going to cut a deal that's remotely acceptable
30:44they are intent on building out a nuclear program they're intent on continuing to build their ballistic
30:49missiles they are fully capable of rebuilding their proxy forces and while it may seem illogical to you
30:56and to i at some level it says gosh look at the armada they're going to get wiped out for
31:00them uh this is
31:02jihad right this is their uh this is their uh prophecy that says no we're not going to capitulate to
31:07the
31:07infidels to the big satan the united states of america so i'm unsurprised that they haven't agreed
31:13to the basic ask we have which is like just just behave like a normal nation i suspect they will
31:19not do that and i anticipate president trump will take a response that will put even more pressure on
31:24the regime all right secretary while i have access to your mind which is a very good one let me
31:30ask you
31:31about nato do you think it's evolving it looks like it's evolving and if so how do you see the
31:38future
31:38of nato trey it's undoubtedly evolving uh president trump should get gall at 99 of the credit for that
31:47i give vladimir putin the other one percent of the credit uh for having created this problem uh in ukraine
31:53which uh lit europe on fire and they're still now uh today the fourth anniversary of his full-scale
31:58invasion of that country uh i think the european nations that lead nato right the big countries or
32:03the big economies can now see that the the way they've been doing business for the last two three
32:08decades is insufficient for their own security and so i do see an evolution i hope they will continue
32:13to do that i hope they'll continue to evolve the european nations of nato have to provide a big lift
32:19they have to be the trusted partner that they claim to be and when they are i'm convinced president
32:24trump will full-throatedly support everything it is that nato's trying to achieve he's he's about
32:28peace he's about security he wants partners but we all need partners that are doing their fair share
32:34of the work mike pompeo from service and uniform all the way up to the secretary of state thank you
32:42for
32:42your commitment to our country and for joining us on a sunday night thank you trey bless you have a
32:48good
32:48sunday you too take care coming up georgia is a red state with two blue senators derek duly is trying
32:55to change that and he joins us next when you're young you don't just get handed trust you have to
33:09earn it
33:10by hand
33:11by hand
33:12oh
33:13oh
33:17oh
33:18oh
33:20oh
33:21oh
33:22oh
33:24But I can't stop my mind
33:30I always love me
33:33If you'reapo to love me slowly
33:38No, I don't know me
33:43I always love me
33:48If you'reapo to love me slowly
33:58Welcome back to Sunday Night in America.
34:00Donald Trump and Brian Kemp both won Georgia.
34:03So why is the peach state represented by two liberal Democrats in the Senate?
34:10John Ossoff wants open borders.
34:12He thinks his own state engages in discrimination,
34:15and he's okay with boys competing against girls in sports.
34:19And he thinks Donald Trump is the problem.
34:22Donald Trump's America reminds me of those places and those societies,
34:26and that should chill us all to the bone.
34:29But as for why, I think Donald Trump's rise,
34:34Donald Trump himself is a symptom of a deeper disease in our society.
34:40Attaboy, John. Insult the voters.
34:42That's a surefire way to win their hearts.
34:45Hey, John, he won your state twice.
34:48He almost won it three times.
34:50Is your state symptomatic of an underlying disease?
34:55Ossoff is no moderate.
34:56He is a flaming liberal.
35:00He also worked for that noted philosopher Hank Johnson,
35:04the Georgia congressman who once mused Guamite tip over because of U.S. military presence.
35:11Derek Dooley comes from a famous, beloved family in Georgia.
35:15But football has rules, and politics does not.
35:19Welcome, Coach.
35:20It is great to see you again.
35:22You practiced law.
35:23You went into coaching.
35:24What in the world drew you to politics?
35:29Well, I'll tell you, thank you for having me on the show.
35:32But like millions of other Americans, what happened after COVID and what happened during the Biden administration,
35:38it woke me up.
35:40I started seeing things in our country that I thought I'd never see.
35:44And I felt like Joe Biden and his administration was trying to drive our country off a cliff.
35:50And just as you pointed out in the intro, John Ossoff, our senator from Georgia, was sitting there riding shotgun.
35:57And I wanted to be a part of getting our country back.
36:00But here's another thing, Trey, that really got me to where I am now.
36:05And it's the fact that Congress is just not working for the people the way it used to.
36:10And I drive all around this state, and the sentiment's the same, that there's too many people up there more
36:16concerned about getting reelected
36:19or getting rich and famous or being a celebrity on social media than they are serving the people of Georgia.
36:25And, you know, you mentioned I was a coach.
36:26I spent 30 years in a profession where it wasn't about me.
36:30It was about people.
36:31And when the people succeed, you succeed.
36:34And that's the kind of leadership I want to bring to Georgia.
36:38Well, Coach, Ossoff is a full-fledged liberal.
36:42Donald Trump won Georgia twice, nearly won it three times.
36:47If Trump has put, as I mean, Ossoff said, it's a disease, that Trump is a disease.
36:54Does that mean that Georgians also have this disease?
36:57Because they voted for Donald Trump.
37:00Trey, I've probably put 20,000 miles on my truck in the last six months,
37:05driving around this big, beautiful state.
37:08And you would be shocked at how few people know, really, who John Ossoff is.
37:13He lays low.
37:15You don't see him grandstanding on CNN much, although lately he's starting to get out there.
37:20But it's going to be critical that we have a candidate who can stay on offense on his record
37:26and remind the Georgia voters what he represents.
37:29Let's start with a lot of the things we're dealing with right now.
37:32The 40-year high inflation that he voted to cause back in the Biden administration.
37:39You think about the open borders policy, all the issues that have resulted from him, he supported.
37:46You mentioned the woke stuff.
37:47You mentioned what he does for women's sports.
37:50I could go on and on.
37:52I don't even want to get into the foreign policy, Hunter Biden, the auto pin.
37:56You could go on and on.
37:58He had multiple opportunities to stand up and do what's right for Georgians, do what's right
38:05for the people of Georgia by going against his party or Joe Biden, and he never did it.
38:10And we're going to remind them of that over and over and over.
38:14All right, Coach.
38:15Let me ask you about one other issue that's near and dear to my heart, and that's football.
38:19It's like a religion down south.
38:21Things are different from when your father was beating my beloved Gamecocks.
38:27There's NIL, agents, the portal.
38:29Do you think there's a role for Congress to play?
38:33Because, I mean, football is really important to a lot of us, and it's like unrecognized.
38:37I know you coached in the pros, too, but college has become, like, unrecognizable.
38:43Yes, it has.
38:44Although the dogs are still whooping up on the Gamecocks, Trey.
38:48I've got to say that.
38:49Tell me about it.
38:49Let me open by saying why every viewer should take this issue seriously, even if you're
38:57not a college sports fan, because there's probably a half a million young people around
39:02the country every year getting mentored, getting developed, developing skills, whether it's
39:07hard work, teamwork, overcoming adversity, personal responsibility, that all make them
39:13better husbands and wives and citizens and workers.
39:17So it does a tremendous good for the country.
39:20All right.
39:21So what does Congress need to do?
39:23They do not need to fix college athletics.
39:26God help us if they tried.
39:29All the college athletics needs is some basic legal protection to allow them to enforce rules
39:38so there's a level playing field across all the schools.
39:42It's very simple, because right now there is no rules.
39:46Why?
39:47Somebody doesn't like a rule that gets passed or gets enforced on them, and what do they
39:52do?
39:53They go sue in state court and they win.
39:55This does not take rocket science.
39:57It takes some serious people who care about this sport.
40:01It shouldn't be a partisan issue to give them some simple protection about getting sued.
40:07They can certainly put some guidelines in.
40:09Let's protect women's sports.
40:11Let's make sure the players get protected.
40:13We can even limit it to two or three years and reevaluate it.
40:17But we've got to give the NCAA an opportunity to fix itself.
40:22And that's all that needs to do.
40:24And it shouldn't be about partisan politics.
40:27Leave it to Congress to take an issue that everybody in the country loves.
40:32I don't care how far left and how far right, and they can't even come to an agreement to
40:36try to give it a little help.
40:39All right.
40:40Well, I got two jobs for you.
40:42I know you're a smart guy.
40:44You were a lawyer.
40:45We were in the same firm for just a second together before you went on to bigger and
40:50better things.
40:50Job number one, tell Georgia just how daggum liberal John Ossoff is.
40:56Number two, don't let them mess with college football because it's too important.
41:02Derek Dooley from the great state of Georgia, thank you for joining us on a Sunday night.
41:07Thank you, Trey.
41:08Appreciate you having me.
41:10Yes, sir.
41:11You take care.
41:12And thank you for spending part of your Sunday with us.
41:14Thank you, Jason Chaffetz, for filling in last week.
41:17But it is wonderful to be back with you.
41:20Tune in Tuesday night for the best in the business as they cover the State of the Union
41:25right here on Fox News.
41:26Have a great week ahead.
41:28Until next week, find us online at Gowdy of Miracle or on the Trey Gowdy podcast.
41:33And good night from South Carolina.
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