Security and who we are as a country. Trey we understand why people want to come to this country, to escape persecution, to taste freedom and liberty, to no hard work and education and a level playing field, can combine forces to transform lives. Escaping a country rife with conflict is one thing. Picking a new home is another. And america is picked more than all the countries combined because we are a country that embraces justice, we reward fairness, and we are a nation of laws. In fact, if you look at the oath new citizens take criminal law is mentioned different times. Six times. In one paragraph. Six times, these new citizens swear allegiance to this thing we call law. Is irate we can break this thing we call law and bring allegiance to this thing we call the law. It is ironic to say the least that you would reward people who do not follow the law by administering an oath to follow the law. President obama used is that he wanted a country where everybody plays by the same rules. With respect, president obama, they arent called rules in this country. They are called laws. President taken an oath to enforce those laws, even those you dont agree with. With respect to immigration from history is whispering we have traveled this road before. In 1986, we were told immigration was settled. We were told in exchange for secure borders and employment verification, those who enter the country illegally would not suffer the full panoply of legal consequences. In the minds of many, the country got the amnesty, but is still waiting 35 years later for the Border Security and the employment security. But the greatest consequence that comes when government does not keep its word is a government no one trusts anymore. President s should not issue Executive Orders to supplant congress. Regardless of political party. President s should not change the law they should change the law the right way. The only way. The constitutional way, regardless of party. President s, most of all, should represent the interests of the american citizens, regardless of party. Americans have been through one of the toughest years in our history. They are suffering. They are hurting. There is economic uncertainty, jobs have been lost. Hours have been cut. Families are in dire need. If you are wondering what your government response to this economic catastrophe has been, i want you to just listen to some of their advice. The secretary of transportation said you should focus on finding a new job, a better job. John kerry suggested making solar panels. Vice president Kamala Harris said its time to get out of the coal mines and start clearing landmines. The people who are telling you this are already rich. They already have jobs. In fact, they have government jobs. And to get some of those government jobs, you have to take an oath to protect and defend the United States. Maybe they could start by protecting and defending your job. And your right to provide for your family. Maybe they could start there. Joining me now, from the great state of louisiana, senator john kennedy. Welcome, senator kennedy. How are you . We need you back, gowdy. Im thinking signing bonus. Trey i cannot afford the alimony of going back, but thank you, senator. What is the answer when it comes to immigration . We havent grappling with it for 35 years. You are a smart man. Whats the answer . Trey, i dont understand why the issue is perceived to be so complicated. To me, it is pretty simple. Americans overwhelmingly support legal immigration. Thats why our country invites over a million of our world neighbors every year to become american citizens. Thats more than any other country on the planet. Im flattered that people want to come to america. Other than north korea, and north koreans, what is the last time you heard of somebody trying to sneak into china . They want to come here. But unless you have the iq of a sloth, you know the difference between legal and illegal immigration. Illegal immigration is illegal. Duh. Vetting people at the border, as every country does, is not racist. Its prudent. Its how we enforce our immigration laws. I looked at President Bidens Executive Orders. I support his efforts to try to reunite kids with their parents. I mean, who wouldnt . But the rest of his Executive Orders dont seem to make a distinction between legal and illegal immigration. His Executive Orders are designed to roll back efforts of the trump administration, which did more in four years to stop illegal not legal but illegal immigration, then any other president in my lifetime. And i think i hate to say this, but i think President Biden has decided to adhere to the edicts of congresswoman ocasiocortez, who worships at the altar of open borders, and i think its a big mistake, and i dont think the American People will support it. Trey senator, you represent a state that is a Tremendous Energy producer. You have neighbor states that are, also. What do you make of the Climate Change agenda of this new administration, and what impact is it going to have on workers in your state and throughout the country . Well, let me say a word about President Bidens Executive Orders on oil and gas. Trey. They are immeasurably foolish. They are going to gut louisiana like a fish. Onethird of my states gdp is related to oil and gas. And our state is not alone. Is it is going to destroy our energy independence. Here is President Bidens new energy policy. We are not going to reduce our own oil. Instead, we are going to buy oil from countries that hate us so they will have more money to buy weapons to try to kill us. Its immeasurably foolish. Most americans support and all of the above energy policy. Oil, gas, wind, solar, nuclear, geothermal, hydrogen. But they also understand that we cant run the greatest economy in all of Human History without oil and gas. Not now, and not probably for a long time. I dont know about you, trey, but my car does not run off fairy dust. My car doesnt run off unicorn urine. And i think once again, President Biden has given into the left wing crazies, who say none of us except them care about the planet thats not true. And who, when they break a shoe lace, they blame it on Climate Change. You know, theyve taken a specific, discrete, scientific problem. Is our Climate Change and . How is it changing . What do we do about it . And they turned it into a religion. And President Biden appears to be sucking it up like a hoover deluxe. Trey yeah, ed farmer senator kennedy, former senator kerry, rather, said they should go build solar panels, which im all for people building solar panels, but i dont think that helps the state of louisiana, or texas, right now. Well, look, no disrespect to secretary carey, but he is living in la la. I mean, youre going to tell a 50yearold woman who has been working for oil and gas company, developed extraordinary expertise, who has kids in school, who has a mortgage to play, just to quit your job, because we are going to fire you, anyway, and go Back To School, and then you can go work in a green job, but we havent told you which one yet. I mean, you know, put down the ball. Thats just not realistic. Trey all right, i will pick up the ball up one more time, and i will ask you about next week. As ive got you. I got a really good lawyer. What i used to know about trials, they had witnesses on Cross Examination and the was fair and all of that. Is what we are going to see next week a real trial, or is there a better word for it . Well, we dont know yet. I voted last week, trey, as you know, to dismiss proceedings. I will have another opportunity to do that, and i will vote again to dismiss proceedings for a couple of reasons. Number one, due process matters in america. Speaker pelosi gave President Trump a fair and impartial firing squad. She wouldnt allow him to defend himself. He got no due process. And let me say again, due process matters in america. These proceedings are defective in their inception. Number two, we are asking to impeach a president who is no longer president. The constitutionality of that is dubious at best. So we are being asked to go through put the American People through this, and then later, we will find out if it is constitutional. Third trey well, we will be watching. We will be watching. Trey thank you, senator. We will be watching. Best of luck to you thanks, trey. I love it when you are on, man. I love it when you are on. Trey i love it when you are on. Why wont chicago teachers go back to work . They try to explain their stance using interpretive dance. That just didnt work. We will see if there are new explanation makes any new sense for you. Man whats my safelite story . My truck. Is my livelihood. So when my windshield cracked. The experts at Safelite Autoglass came right to me. With service i could trust. Right, girl . Singers safelite repair, safelite replace. At visionworks, we want you to feel safe and we want you to see yourself in your new glasses and think, ooh but if you get home and your ooh is more of a hmm. You have 100 days to change your mind. Thats the visionworks difference. Visionworks. See the difference. Trey the science is clear children should have gone Back To School months ago. But today makes it Crystal ClearChicago Teachers Union doesnt care about the science. Because they arent following it. Just hours after the city caved to nearly all of the unions demands, one teacher was asked, point blank, why are you going back to work . Your union says that agreements were reached on some serious issues, like Health And Safety protocols, ventilation, contact tracing, and safety committees. What is outstanding . What are your concerns that remain . Well, my concern that remains, number one concern i have, is that covid is still spreading in chicago. Trey robbie sauve is an Associate Editor of reason. Com and the author of Panic Attacks young radicals in the age of trauma. Robbie, it sounds to me like she is saying, thanks for all the money, but we still and going back to work. Yeah, that was quite the admission, wasnt it . The teachers unions, the teachers, its lucy on the football. No matter what they get, no matter how many concessions are met, they still say, well, were not going back to work yet. No exaggeration, revealing they never intend to come under any circumstance, to go back to the classroom. Certainly, covid will still exist next school year. Hopefully we will have it very well under control but there were still be people in this country who get it. Again, hopefully very few come in very few will die from it, but this is a problem we will be dealing with, to some extent, for a long time, and are we really going to keep our Public School children, children most in need of education, we are going to keep them out of the classroom, what, forever . For years . I cant even comprehend and they seem to think thats fine. Trey you know, robby, you put your finger on it. I confessed my bias. I have lived with a Public School teacher for the last 31 years. She loves her children. She has been back in the classroom since august. One of the consequences of this lost year of learning for the children, and who is speaking up for the children . Right, the teachers dont excuse me, the students dont have a union to speak for them. Their voices often absence from this. The longterm consequences for them will be terrible, in terms of their readiness for college and their employment prospects, their math, reading, et cetera, will be set back, but im almost more worried about the immediate the psychological effects. There are kids who havent seen their friends in, like, a year. School is the social hub of adolescence. And to not have that for as long as we have not had that, there is a terrible story it is truly terrible about young kids, teenagers, killing themselves in greater numbers. That actually forced las vegas schools to open because of the suicide rate. What we are doing to our children here is just terrible, and of course the disease is terrible, as well, and we need to have those Mitigation Efforts in place, but the cdc says we can reopen the Public School safely, we have reopened private schools many Catholic Schools have opened everywhere, and they dont have significant spread, so it can be done. Why wont Public School teachers let us do it . Trey well, you know, youve got the cdc and those crazy scientists on one hand, and youve got chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot on the other, that she knows who is to blame for all of this, and she hopes youre going to fall for it. Give this a listen. This is a very difficult situation, and we are in it, still, because of the incompetence of the previous administration, so i think it is important for both sides to come to the table in good faith, recognize that we are both trying to work through a very challenging situation. We must get a deal done. Trey robby, is trump the head of the Chicago Teachers Union . I mean, i know he is out of the white house. Is that where he went . Yeah, how many more months do we have to be blaming trump for the teachers being unwilling to go Back To School . Its just, its so ridiculous at this point. There has been so much time to prepare, trump has nothing to do with it, obviously. Public School Teachers are trumping the vaccine queue, which i think is excellent, if they are going to go back to class. Lets get them back in school if they are going to be vaccinated at the top of the line. Trey amen. Thank you, robby. When we come back, youre going to want to stick around for this. I am, too, because ive no idea who it is. A democrat who actually likes me, which has not always gone over well with her party or the media. Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard joined me next. I have developed friendships that some people may be surprised about, like trey gowdy. And i have disagreed a lot and very strongly on a lot of political issues. We have developed a friendship that is based on respect. Carl shopped for the lowest Mortgage Rate and chose amerisave, a choice hell never regret. Unlike the choice to hitch hike. Ahhh which ruined his hand modeling career. Its over. Dont worry, carl. Things are looking up. Visit amerisave. Com now. Lower Mortgage Rates mean higher savings. Trey fairness is a beautiful word. It has a certain Radiant Symmetry to it. It is challenging to define, but we know it when we see it. We know it when people treat us fairly. We also know it when they do not. And unfairness has a profound impact and a lasting effect. History, literature, music, they are littered with powerful examples of unfairness. Whether it is watching or reading accounts of the innocent people charged, convicted, and punished, unfairness has or should have a profound impact on all of us. Sometimes in life or in sports, the referee or the judge is bad to both sides, like an umpire who just cant decide what the strike zone is, no matter which team is batting and which team is pitching. But sometimes, it seems all the calls go against us. What happens when the Referee Calls Fouls against us but never against the other team . What happens when a different standard is applied to us than is applied to others . What happens when someone notices all of our flaws and all of our faults, but recognizes none of the flaws and faults present in the other side . I have rarely been the victim of unfairness in my life. I have not experienced unfairness so much as i have observed it. But when you do experience unfairness, even with something small, it impacts you. It impacts how you view your yourself, how you view others, and it impacts how you think others view you. Fairness is no longer an objective, it has now become a tool. We reorder or restructure what is fair. We in essence redefine the word. We minimize disparate treatment, the end justifies the means, because the means is no longer evenhanded. When you experience unfairness, you begin to no longer see it as that aspirational virtue we should all long for. We see it as an illusion. A reality for some, but not for others. We start looking for makeup calls, for things to go our ways even if they are undeserved because the fairness equilibrium needs to be restored. Longterm systemic unfairness changes the way review and define what is fair. I think we are in desperate need of a societal referee. A judge that even when we dont always like him or her, we always respect him or her. And that role is supposed to be played by the media. But it is not. And it has not been for many years. The American People are smart enough to see the unfairness, poll after for after poll reflects this. The media is no longer a referee. The media has become a participant. The American People thief, democrat governors like andrew cuomo and devan gavin newsom, winning awards for their handling of the pandemic, republican governors like ron desantis and greg abbott are vilified. If you dont believe me, watch this. You have done an amazing job in california. Governor desantis decision to keep opening the beaches and doing things that are particularly unsafe. It is beyond foolhardy and perilous for them to pursue such a course. Please welcome his excellency, gove