Louie Gohmert: “I want to thank my friend, Tom Garrett, for arranging this Special Order. He is on his way out, and he cares so deeply…”

“I want to thank my friend, Tom Garrett, for arranging this Special Order. He is on his way out, and he cares so deeply about this country and this country's allies that he would put his life at risk and go and spend time with another American hero. In fact, Dave Eubanks is a hero, and he is someone who has dedicated his life as a Christian, as an American, trying to make the lives of others in the world better, and I thank my friend, Congressman Garrett, for spending that time with him. We shouldn't turn our back on our friends. Sometimes it seems that Mr. Erdogan is not our friend, but we certainly have had a tremendous amount of friendship and lives lost in the Kurdish community, standing up for us, with us, in defense of freedom. That is important. And I also want to address the issue of the wall on our southern border. It appears clear, since we lost over 70,000 American lives last year--that is more than all of the precious American lives we lost in the whole time of the Vietnam war--and we lost those in 1 year from drugs. Most of those drugs coming across our southern border in the form of opiates and other hallucinogens, including fentanyl, are coming from Mexico. So if you want to see another 70,000 Americans die again next year, you don't want a wall. Let's not build a wall.…”