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Wesley Hunt: “When we kill Qasem Soleimani outside of Baghdad Airport…”

Featuring: Wesley Hunt, Republican | U.S. House, Texas, District 38

oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net)

Published October 15, 2020 | Video Starts at 39:32

But Most importantly, Joe, 20 years ago, we would kill a bad guy in the Middle east and then we have to turn around and ask these same countries for resources in oil. That's a conflict of interest, … When we kill Qasem Soleimani outside of Baghdad Airport... We don't have to ask them for oil. … economics, innovation, and of course, make sure that we are good stewards of this Earth. Right? But right now there's roughly 1 billion with a B, roughly 1 billion with a light. (39:32–39:45)

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Asserts that U.S. energy independence negates the need to rely on Middle Eastern oil.

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Wesley Hunt

“My dad did 23 years in the army, retired as a lieutenant colonel.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 01:03-01:08
“My sister went to West Point in my family first, so she's 10 years older than me, did 23 years active duty.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 01:07-01:15
“I went to West Point and my family second.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 01:20-01:24
“Graduated West Point, class of 2004, flew Apaches in Iraq for eight, was actually active duty eight years.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 01:26-01:35
“Did 55 combat air missions in Baghdad.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 01:35-01:38
“Did two tours of duty in Saudi Arabia as a diplomatic liaison officer.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 01:37-01:43
“My brother...also went to West Point, and he did five years in the Navy.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 01:42-01:52
“There's about 60 years worth of military service just in my immediate family.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 01:56-02:01
“My mom...stood at home for two months in 2006 while I was flying combat air missions in Baghdad.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 02:07-02:16
“My sister was doing intel in the Green Zone, and my brother was in the Arabian Gulf on a destroyer for two months at the same time.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 02:15-02:23
“My great, great grandfather was a slave. His name was Silas Crawford, Born on Rose Down Plantation just north of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 03:48-03:57
“Three of his great great grandchildren all attended West Point.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 03:57-04:02
“I earned three master's degrees from Cornell University.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 04:02-04:05
“Brother went to Harvard.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 04:05-04:07
“Sister has her advanced degree in applied mathematics.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 04:06-04:10
“There are actually millions of interactions with our citizens every year.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 06:16-06:21
“The people who end up suffering the most when you defund the police are actually minority communities.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 07:01-07:06
“A lot of minority communities, they don't want to defund the police.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 07:08-07:12
“After the George Floyd event, [I] actually went down to the Houston Police union to go talk to some of the police officers. 100% of them…”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 09:12-09:15
“In Houston, Texas, where a lot of the affluent areas see, they have their own police that are paid for by their own taxes.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 10:06-10:14
“If you talk about defunding the police, again, you're not taking away the safety of those [affluent] communities. You're taking away the…”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 10:15-10:23
“I think the way that we responded to this is, is a bit overkill because I think there is a way for us to make sure that we keep the people…”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 20:07-20:24
“That's the remedy to this whole thing is the more testing we can do, the better.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 20:58-21:03
“The CDC came out and they said, you know, 6% of those who did pass from COVID were Covid only deaths.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 21:46-21:54
“We even have [an] obesity issue that we even have in America.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 22:01-22:03
“I've read some studies, you've even heard about cancer. People that have an optimistic outlook actually have a higher chance of beating…”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 22:22-22:30
“To improve your body, to be able to fight and, and ward off these kinds of viruses and diseases.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 23:38-23:43
“COVID has changed the way that we do things dramatically.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 28:34-28:38
“I announced about a year and a half ago.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 29:33-29:36
“What's really lacking because of COVID is the latter, the person to person stuff.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 29:52-29:57
“Houston is known as the energy capital of the world.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 33:34-33:38
“Congressional District 7, where I am running in, [is] the Energy District of the world.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 33:37-33:45
“I'm also not a big fan of the government saying when an industry is supposed to end.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 37:49-37:55
“Nothing's being proposed that's rational and reasonable that's actually addressing global warming.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 38:15-38:26
“If we don't get India and China and Russia and Africa and South America to reduce their carbon footprint with us, you can literally destroy…”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 38:28-38:41
“China and India are building four coal plants per month.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 38:46-38:51
“We're energy independent. Why? Because of fracking.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 38:59-39:03
“Joe Biden and Kamala Harris actually want to do away with [fracking] by 2035 as well.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 39:04-39:09
“We are reducing our carbon footprint because of fracking, because natural gas burns cleaner.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 39:10-39:17
“There's roughly 1 billion... vehicles in the world today that are gas powered.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 39:57-40:05
“Over the course of the next 20 years, the world is going to add another billion vehicles. And of that billion, 750 million of them are going…”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 40:04-40:17
“You can't fuel [Apache helicopters, Destroyers, and F22s] on solar and wind.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 40:40-40:45
“Joe Biden talks about... being carbon neutral by 2035, which effectively is an end to the oil and gas industry in the United States.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 41:34-41:45
“Another one is fracking bans.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 41:46-41:50
“The oil and gas industry has been hit pretty hard [in Houston, Texas] due to a shortage of demand.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 42:15-42:19
“We would actually only be able to fuel less than, last I read, 8% of [the United States's] energy demands if we were able to completely…”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 44:42-44:53
“From a nuclear standpoint, I also think that [nuclear power has] gotten demonized as well because of some incidences.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 47:11-47:17
“We need to realize that from a technological standpoint, we are certainly further along than we were before.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 47:16-47:22
“We can easily be [able to extract carbon from the atmosphere] in the not so distant future.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 48:32-48:36
“It completely leaves out the other countries. It completely leaves out the globe.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 52:42-52:47
“There is a clear decline in Mr. Biden.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 54:29-54:29
“The reason why Kamala Harris was chosen was probably to make sure that someone of a sounder mind can actually run the country.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 54:37-54:45
“You do understand those values [of Kamala Harris] are going to be the issues that are going to be running Texas as well.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 55:22-55:29
“My dad was born in 1949.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 57:53-57:56
“The Civil Rights act was passed in 1964.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 57:55-57:59
“People like Dan Crenshaw are people that want to make sure that we bring this pendulum back this way.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 58:26-58:32
“Dan Crenshaw could be the president.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 1:03:19-1:03:22
“August Pfluger is running for [a] seat up in District 11. He's an Air Force Academy guy. F22 pilot.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 1:03:45-1:03:51
“You're coming here because of low taxes and low regulation.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 1:04:41-1:04:44
“We believe in allowing and empowering the citizens to make your own personal, informed decisions for your own life.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 1:06:36-1:06:42
“The state's actually buckshot only.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 1:13:51-1:13:54