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President trump and he endorsed us a couple of weeks ago. and it's humbly, extremely humbling, having the state of oklahoma with the energy behind and support us. thank you, thank you for supporting us the way you do. gillian: congressman, thank you for your time. we wish you the best. >> thanks for having me on. gillian: you've got it, griff. griff: gillian, we are joined from the other side of the oil house financial services and homeland security committees, richie torres. thank you for taking time and a lot of critics are worried about the inflation reduction act adding irs agents. i want ...

Joy? >> i don't know what he's talking about. our businesses aren't seeing prices come down. yeah, we saw gas come down a little bit, but prices of everything is still through the roof. zero, oklahoma's at 13% or 13.8% inflation rate right now. once again this president throws out fake numbers and none of us believe them. i don't think he believes them, but probably doesn't remember what he's saying anyway. gillian: so the president and the democratic party's big fix for the financial problems is the inflation reduction act. >> yeah. gillian: i want to tease out with you the $80 billion in the...

Abandon him and his policies because they have been pretty popular. you're talking about high popularity for gun control and getting the rich to pay their fair share of tax. so the story they're telling, that includes president biden is working. >> the question that every single one of the democratic senate candidates and incumbents are going to have a good answer for is whether they think joe biden should run again in 2024. it's going to come up in every debate and conference. if they don't have a good answer for it, it's going to hurt them. >> the good answer would be, i'll answer that later...

But it's about turning out your base. but if you look at this polling in the irs approval rating, it's down. but it's especially down among republicans and independents. if you're a republican, you're trying to get up your base. >> right. and you know, it's for the people at home to take a beat and to really get some reputable news sources to understand what's really happening so some of this misinformation and political talking points, they understand the counterpoint. there's nothing changing within the mission of the irs, so if you've ever been on hold for an hour or had paperwork that took...

But 50,000 are expected to retire over the next few years. they say they have 10 million cases backlogged, overhall of technology, improve taxpayer customer service. but the changes haven't taken place yet, so it's kind of tee ball for republicans, and back to your point, suspicion about the deep state or anything washington. >> i remember getting a fund raising text to my phone saying first there's the raid on trump, then the irs, and then they're coming for your guns. it's just kind of refrigerator magnets of fear, and you put all the words together and say send money here. i think that's so...