bret: nikki haley kicking off presidential campaign today. there are other potential as you see the two declared former president trump and nikki haley there. the other woman on that list, however, potential 2024 candidate with us tonight we welcome in south dakota governor kristi noem. governor, thanks for being here. thank you for inviting me. i appreciate it. bret: it s on this day that another female former governor gets in this race. have you made your decision? oh, no. i m focused on south dakota. we re in the middle of our legislative session. we have got some important proposals. the largest tax cut in south dakota history that we re looking to get across the finish line and, frankly, bret, we are defending this country from china right at home because our president isn t doing anything. bret: i want to ask you about that. but you have previously said that you did not believe that former president trump offered the best chance in your words.
house. the white house has to get with the state department. they have to have meetings in mexico. they have to tell the mexican government that we can t have this happen. we are losing 300 americans a day. we have the we had yesterday the fentanyl awareness and prevention day. we have a rally at the white house on september 17th, r. with angry families from around the country. they are taking their an questioner and putting it into action. because the white house isn t doing anything. they are not talking about it. so, the last thing we want is colombia to decriminalize drugs, like cocaine, because they are deadly. we can t have it we have to push back. the state department has to really push back hard. brian: derek, one thing consistent with this administration, they have no interest in central america. they have no interest in south america no. interest in pressuring these governments no. interest in taking and putting any of our aid that we give them and putting it on the line
babin. congressman, good morning to you. good morning to you, steve. good to be with you. steve: it s great to have you, sir. there is a lot of frustration. the part of texas lawmakers, like yourself, because there is, what you refer to as an invasion going on. and the federal government isn t doing anything. simply has fallen down on the job completely. a colleague of mine, jim banks and i wrote an op-ed and we also sent a letter to secretary mayorkas warning him that he needs to reverse course and start securing our border. instead, it s getting worse and worse, and i would say i think it s important for us to remember that under biden and mayorkas his appointee they have erased all of our border control. they are doubling down, tripling
which reveals a terrible double sense of the problem is of course it s actually illegal you are not allowed to do this sort of thing. so we have a lot of concern about our institutions which is a good thing to have, this disregard for a real attack on an entire branch of government trying to work through a very complicated issue is not good for the country. edit the relevant parts with the intent of interfering with obstructing or impeding the administration of justice or the intent of influencing any judge in the discharge of his duty pickups operates in or near a building or residence occupied or used by such a judge shall be fined under the title or imprisoned not more than one year old both. so moe, why isn t the justice department getting involved? they get involved in a lot of things. i m not a lawyer am not a prosecutor not going to pretend to know why the d.o.j. is or isn t doing anything. i was a politically i am against
narrative around it. i cannot provide a lot of context because again it s almost ten years ago. that is how far they have to go back to try to find anything on me. what i can say although i cannot provide a lot of context of that it is a half thought and everything is not there for me too be able to speak to it. but i can say is i love my country. and i have always loved my country. i have always been willing not to blink in the face of difficult discussions but we are facing a lot of difficult discussions almost 1500 miles traveling all around the commonwealth. people feel squeezed and known as ask me about my tweet. what they are talking about the illegal immigration we are on track front million unlawfully present people. this your loan they re talking about inflation. have someone call me the other day saying they are driving over and hour because they heard a rumor about baby formula milk. we have some very real issues