in some crazy circumstances, even this chemical castration we are giving our children. we have to prevent that. unfortunately we have to protect the second amendment at the same time. my opponent said she had guns and all that. she voted to make anyone who owns a pistol brace a felon overnight. we have to actually protect the second amendment. we cannot trust her because she is taking money from big pharma. she took nearly $1 million from astrazeneca that is pumping these narcotics into our kids. that is how we address the mental health crisis. we get them off the drugs and prioritize what we love and stop prioritizing foreign aid in foreign wars and prioritize our children. >> congresswoman glusenkamp perez, washington recently enacted new gun-control laws including a ban on high-capacity magazines. should congress enact some of these restrictions in the name of reducing gun violence? rep. perez: i think that

washington state has done some things that are productive and they have done some things that are going to be overturned in the courts. the second amendment is clear in our right to bear firearms. those discussions and a top-down solution i do not see as productive. there is not a pill that will fix the suicide rate in our children. the things that fix it are getting back to the kind of economy where you can raise a family. we have to rebuild the middle class. right now it feels like the middle class is an endangered species. the reason we had to build a home is because banks don't like loaning to self-employed people in the trades. we have to empower people to be able to own and build their own homes again, ease the regulatory and permitting. these issues that take away hope of economic sufficiency in young people, give them something to look forward to.

so i think it is critical that we uphold the second amendment. >> your response, mr. kent? mr. kent: what is very clear is we have to uphold the second amendment. she voted to make people who may have a disability, like a wounded veteran, to make them felons overnight if they did no register their pistol brace with the atf. records matter far more than rhetoric. we also need to increase the amount of school resource officers and police officers we have here. unfortunately in lockstep with washington state democrat like bob ferguson, marie is taking money from this pac that wants to defund the police. this is what they are openly advocating for. they have given her tens of thousands of dollars paid we have to actually secure our children, protect the second amendment, and we need people who are committed to this, not merely the rhetoric. it is very simple and easy to do as long as we prioritize it.

we can allocate funding to secure and harden our schools. we have no reason to infringe in an unconstitutional way like bob ferguson is doing right now on all of your individual rights. we have to uphold the constitution. not only as she voted against the second amendment, she has voted to allow the federal government to infringe on your right not to have your property searched and seized. she has voted for infringements so the government can with no permission whatsoever go ahead and search and seize your digital data. we need people who actually mean what they say. i took an oath to defend the constitution. when i say i will not touch anyone's second amendment rights, i am going to make gun ownership much more codified into law, while at the same time prioritizing the protection of our children, i absolutely mean it.

>> congresswoman. rep. perez: listen, i have been clear in my record. it is illegal to own a sawed-off shotgun. the bill joe is talking about on pistol braces, there is half a year in which you can say you have modified a firearm and added a pistol brace to it. there are exemptions to mak sure you not paying any fees to do it. supporting the rule, ensuring there is clear communication and uniform standards, those things are important and that is what i have supported. >> thank you. >> probably no public works project has attracted the kind of controversies as columbia river crossing. it's an important project for freight mobility. for southwest washington economy. congresswoman glusenkamp perez, you support her the interstate five bridge and in july announced a $1.5 million federal grant, which will cost between $3 billion and $4 billion to build. mr. kent, you suggested adding a

third bridge, and you oppose inclusion of light rail. whoever wins this election obviously is going to be a major payer in the future of the project so we would like each of you to explain your position and defend it. mr. kent, we'll start with you. mr. kent: look, we need an actual third bridge. the current plan right now the democrats in washington state have proposed, it spends a lot of money and replaces a three lane bridge with a three lane bridge that does nothing to alleviate congestion. by the way, we are going to get light rail that dumps downtown portland's problems into downtown vancouver. it is not just me that dislikes light rail. the snroarts clark county have shot down light rail and tolls every time it has been on the ballot. we cannot let the federal government say we give you some money so therefore you are just going to have to accept light rail. that's a great deal for oregon.

my opponent, her business interest is over on the portland side of the river. the light rail and the tolling is a great deal for portland. it is a horrible deal for washingtonians. we need to make the improvements necessary to keep the historic bridge safe and secure and that needs to be a local bridge between portland and vancouver and then we need to do the federal government to do something radical which is actually prioritize american citizens and interstate commerce. unfortunately for over a decade we have ahead oregon and washington fighting over table scraps while the federal government says sorry we have a couple wars to fund in corporate interests to pay. absolutely not. this is about priorities. let's get the federal government to do something the federal government is supposed to do. build us a third bridge that alleviates congestion and provides a bypass south of portland and allows all that through traffic to bypass vancouver and portland.

we maintain our bridge and if we want to do tolls and light rail has to go back on the ballot in we the people get to have a say. i reject that we have to pay fo this with our federal tax money, state money. if we have the audacity to use the bridge with a toll that is completely unacceptable pretty know tolls and no light rail. third bridge. rep. perez: you really have to reach deep to call a 107-year-old decrepit, obsolete bridge a historic bridge. that is a new one. i love that. i did not bring back $2 billion to replace the decrepit bridg by sending an email asking for money, please. no, i had the secretary of transportation stand on the bridge in the rain and say this bridge is rated as functionally obsolete. it is 107 years old. would you bring your three-year-olds in a car over this? no. you wouldn't. we have to make sure we have the infrastructure our small businesses rely on.

$132 million of freight crosses that bridge every day. we cannot let them afford to collapse into the columbia river. joe said he would have it jump out somewhere around richfield. what he is actually proposing is eminent domain and farmland, adding another third bridge. joe is literally trying to sell you a bridge. that is crazy. my work is to ensure our federal tax dollars come home. that we have the resources necessary to give small businesses the support they rely on for commerce. i am fighting to ensure that when the bridge is built, it is built with southwest washington labor and american steel, and we are growing the next generation of tradesmen who will fix the bridge and go on to address the big projects that demand our attention in this country. i believe in america that can take on the big projects, that can build beautiful things that last, that are proud of what we do. not trying to push it off to

the next generation to deal with. i believe the congress should bring the money home. that's fantasy, not the real world of bringing back our tax dollars. it is only a fantasy for our current set of priorities that prioritizes the major corporate donors, foreign aid, and foreign wars over actual american infrastructure. it is very simple. i am saying we need a third bridge because you cannot relieve congestion b a third bridge with a third bridge. retro grading, whatever it is still a third rate bridge we have a growing area of the gets a ton of through traffic from a trucking. there does nee to be a third bridge to adjust for the growth and alleviate th congestion. if we are going to just spend billions of dollars

relieve congestion by replacing bridge. retro grading, whatever it is still a third rate bridge we have a growing area of the gets a ton of through traffic from a trucking. there does nee to be a third bridge to adjust for the growth and alleviate th congestion. if we are going to just spend billions of dollars to replace a three lane bridge with another one we don't have to put light rail and tolls on it, but that is something she doesn't want to talk about because this plan has light rail's the people of our district and county have voted against on three separate occasions. the light rail will not stop in vancouver. it will continue up the i-5 corridor. i you live here you might have vagrants from seattle or portland dumped on your doorste with this current plan. show less text 01:00:47 >> i've made my living, built my home off of fixing internal combustion engines. i believe i having transportation. it is important we are meeting the needs, but also thinking forward. those are the decision that need to be made at a local and state level. if oregon want to build a taj mahal, a bridge, they need to pay for it. i am working hard to ensure the voices of people who were sitting in traffic trying to ge to their jobs are heard and accounted for when the bridge design is finalized. in my county, 80% of employed people

are employed outside of the county because the timber industry has been hollowed out. it is critical we are rebuildin the timber industry, supporting paper in our mills, but also that our people who have to commute every day are not stuck in traffic and they are at the table. i am fighting to ensure your voices are heard. in the bridge design at the local and state level and bringing back the infrastructure we rely on. >> thank you. >> the ongoing israel-hamas conflict has intensified debate about u.s. policy in the middle east. of all the topics our

community members requested for us to address tonight, this issue rose to the top. as members of congress, how would you approach the role of the u.s. in the region over the nex year? and how do you plan to address security interests, ongoing diplomatic efforts, and the palestinian humanitarian crisis in the region, particularly gaza? let's start with you, mr. kent. >> the current crisis that kicked off almost a year ago, this is a direct result of kamala harris and joe biden giving iran billions and billions of dollars. under president trump we had the historic abraham accords. regardless of how you feel of the people who negotiated that, we had historic peace in the middle east. they were cooperating with israel because iran was a direct threat to bot of them. we economically isolated iran. we we did key counter terrorism strikes, like the killing of -- we had the iranians isolated, but we were not in a hot war with them.

biden gave iran access to over $100 billion and iran does what iran does, they fund their proxies. this is what gave hama the ability to conduct the horrific attack on october 7. it's what gave them the ability to fund others and now they're threatening international commerce in the red sea. we need to maintain and restoree abraham accords and we have to making ourselves easy targets i the region. i spent most of my young life fighting in the middle east. unfortunately, my opponent, has never heard a shot fired in her life, voted to leave american troops devoid -- deployed in iraq and syria. we need three new gold star families defending the try quarter region of iraq, syria and israel. she voted to leave them there. our presence in the region makes us much, much more in an unsafe condition and gives iran the ability to access us in an easy way. deprived iran of targets and funding, strengthen the abraham accords, let israel take

care of their own business. one of the biggest mistakes israel made was calling us and asking us for advice. they are doing just a good enough job right now defending their own borders. we need to cut off every access avenue that iran has to capital. that's what we can do to support our allies in the region. >> joe came here tonight to razzle-dazzle us all with his superior knowledge of houthis i the red sea, and the abraham accords. but the reality is whe i am at the doors, when i am at day care drop-off, what i'm hearing from my community, the top eight issues are all economic. whether you can't afford your m whether you can't afford your groceries, whether you can't afford day care. the top issues are economic in our community, and those of the issues that motivated me to run for 2ongress to reflect our values and our interests. not the interests of partisan politics and advancing a geopolitical agenda. my agenda is the agenda of america, that

we can exercise pe's instability. we do that by supporting our allies. the attack october 7 was the deadliest day for israelis since the holocaust, ok? the fastest way for that war to end is for hamas to release the. that would end the war. it is critical that we are supp our allies and their right to defend their security and their boarders. that's the work that i've advanced. what's going on in gaza is tragic. it is truly tragic. i can't imagine what that is like for them. my heart breaks for them. but the way that we are going to advance security over the next 20 years is not by pulling out support for the only liberal democracy in the middle east, but ensuring that women have a liberal democracy in the middle east. that is how we ease the suffering in the long term. >> mr. kent? >> there's normal razzle-dazzle about making three new gold star

families. i'm a gold star family. my late wife was killed fighting isis in syria. we made three new goldstar fami after you voted to lead our troops there. it lined the pockets of the mil industrial complex supporting her re-election campaign. this is one of congress's funda jobs, authorizing war and the appropriations and the funding for war. we need people who understand and can hold the pentagon and the intelligence community to account. she says she supports israel. her and every single democrat l israel high-end dry when they had american hostages and attempted to negotiate a much better package for other foreign wars that drug on. they les israel high and dry when they had american hostages and teamed to negotiate a much better package for other foreign

wars which drug on. house republicans put forward a that would have given israel immediate aid while hamas still had american hostages. we have to stop making ourselves target in that region. we have to do what is right for the american people to secure our own border we have to support our allies i meaningful ways that truly matt. >> i'm glad you brought up the vote on syria. his best friend in congress matt gaetz put forward a bill that would have demanded the pullout of 900 american soldiers on 180 that is not a realistic timeline. it is part of why i voted to condemn the administration's role in the slapdash retreat fr afghanistan, where we created 13 new service members who died. i was at the congressional gold medal service for those families. i saw them. i can't imagine. that loss will never go away for them. that's why i opposed pulling out of syria on a slapdash record. supported the pullout in somalia, which was a year-long timeline with 450 troops stationed. it was much more safe. that is why i voted in favor of repealing the still existing aumf on iraq from 2002

so i say that i have been consistent and clear in ensurin our geopolitical interests. >> our troops are still in iraq and syria under fire right now because she's going to leave them there. >> we are done with this questi the 2017 tax cuts passed during the prior trump administration are set to expire at the end o 2025. if they're not renewed, federal income taxes will increase for most of us, and some much more than others. where do you stand on those cuts? do you favor total renewal, partial renewal or letting cuts expire? congresswoman perez? >> these tax cuts are going to renegotiated in the next congress. if i am there, i will be fighting to ensure small businesses have a level playing field. one of the things i saw is that my wages earned at an hourly rate were taxed at a muc higher level than my earnings as an owner of the business. that's not right. when billionaires with teams of

lawyers don't foot the bill and play by the rules that are already established, working people are left holding the bag. so i think it's critical that we have a level, predictable playing field for small businesses so they can invest and grow our economy here at home. that's my interest. not creating loopholes or party favors for the corporations that donate to his campaign. he has not upheld his pledge tot take corporate tax money and i have. i'm proud of that, that i am responsible and i'm accountable to you all here. not corporations that fund my campaign. you can look it up on the f.c.c. website. that joe has been taking money from corporate pac's. i have not. that is the reality. so you know who would be negotiating in the interest of our community when those tax rules are renegotiated in the

next congress. >> she's co-chair of the pac that take all the corporate pac money for her. then they phoned her reelection campaign. she thinks you don't understand that. i think it's pretty clear. look, the tax cuts, we need to make sure we maintain those tax cuts. we cannot tax our way out of this debt and we can't spend our way out of this debt. we actually have to put the federal government on a diet and we have to grow the economy. we grow the economy by giving tax breaks to working-class americans. we do it by putting no tax on tips, no tax on the social security you have paid into that's how he actually grow the economy. we work very diligently and hard to actually secure our border, deport the people who came here illegally. she voted to give actual govern assistance none of you get access to two people who have come into our country illegally that's gotta stop. we cannot continue to fund these folks coming here. we have to depress their ability to get legal wages. all the illegal immigrants who

come into our country, these guys are nothing but one big corporate tax subsidy for the government for leaving the board open. the illegals drive down the negotiating power of miles per hour workers. we need to get them out of the labor pool and put our workers first so they don't have to compete with illegal immigrants specialized visas that take awa jobs from tech workers, and als so that our american manufacturing doesn't have to compete with overseas manufacturers that will use slave labor. we have to bring back our manufacturing, implement tariffs, that is how we are going to ease the tax burden. we can fill that void by terrif people who want access to the american economy. we've seen the blueprint for this. we actually saw working-class wages rise under president trump. president trump just needs a congress who will support him and not fight him. >> you can hear clearly that this is about partisan politics for him. it's about delivering a

republican majority. i'm not here for that. i'm here for us. and when you look at the way that i've fought for money to come back here. to ensure that our seniors would have a reliable water system. it's to get dollars to our rurar systems. i'm not trying to get a dog park named after me, the way some of my colleagues are. i am trying to ensure we have reliable water systems in our country. that we have roads and bridges that will last and be an asset. joe keeps talking about blue dog pac, blue dog bark, dogs, because he doesn't want to admit that he is taken corporate pac money. i will be negotiating on the interest of our community, as someone who has actually navigated it as a small business owner in the trade to ensure we have the next generation of machinists and people who know how to make things last in our country. not to get wrapped around the axle about whatever things,

partisan talking points he's landing on. >> mr. kent? >> you have notes right there. who am i taking corporate pac money from? she's taken money from the military industrial complex, astrazeneca, the defund the police pac's, 2he 2ist 2oes 2n. -- the list goes on. she is taking money from the sugar industry so she can continue to subsidize the way sugary beverages in foods are prioritized in food stamp programs to keep our young people obese, so then they need pharmaceuticals from big pharma to make america on a perpetual cycle of being sick and ill. we need to get all these corporate interests out, stop prioritizin foreign aid, and actually prioritize our citizens. >> he did say my name. do i need to respond when he does that? he asked me who he's taking money pac money from. he's taking money from the same organizations, citizens united, that gave corporations the same access to funding and involving

themselves in our local and federal and state elections. that is who he is taking money from. the same people who took away our right to control our election. >> 30 seconds, mr. kent? >> citizens united sent me $25, she has taken almost $1 million from astrazeneca. >> no, i didn't. >> look at the reseeds. she has probably five ads to every ad i have. when you talk about how you don't want to fund a bunch of foreign wars and cut corporate interest from cheap free labor and bring back american manufacturing, there are not a lot of corporate lobbyists knocking on your door offering you a deal but if you have her corporate record, there is ample opportunities to stuff your coffers. >> mr. kent, the biden administration is considering breaching the lower snake river dams to help endangered salmon runs at an estimated cost of $2

proponents argue it would restore vital ecosystems, while opponents, i including utilities and columna -- columbia river ports warn it could reduce hydropower generation and disrupt shipping routes. what i your position on this proposal and would you support necessary appropriations for breaching th? >> short answer, no. that is an absolutely horrible idea by the biden administration and this insane green agenda. our dams provide a great source of hydropower which is clean and renewable, it gives us a lot of our power here. it is also the reason we have so much navigable water on the columbia. i'm sure my opponent will tell you she will stand up to the biden administration because it is an election year. oh, we're very much against this, mr. president. however, they gave the biden ad the executive authority to take this unilateral action without asking anybody here in washington state.

my opponent unfortunately voted against the reins act which would have made this kind of drastic measure go through the legislature. it would have actually stopped these regulatory agencies like the epa and the executive branc from creating regulations that are de facto laws. it would have put control of natural resources like our rivers and fishing and timber industry, put that control right back here where it belongs. so, again, this is where records matter far more than rhetoric. you cannot give the executive branch, regardless of who is in charge, this unchecked power to simply regulate their way into making and creating lawings. luckily the supreme court agreeh us, so we have a real opportunity here with the chevron issue being overturned. we have an opportunity here to go through and dismantle the administrative state and return control back down to the u.s. house of representatives

and the senate. that gives every single american an actual seat at the table in these very critical and impactful decisions. we are not letting bureaucrats washington, d.c. do that. unfortunately, my opponent, regardless of what she says here, she allowed for d.c. bureaucrats to continue to make sweeping regulations that affec all of us. >> when i'm talking to my neighbors in my friends and people at my church, what i am hearing from them is now we hav more than ever a need for cheap reliable, dependable, affordable, emissions free energy. and that's what we get from our hydrosystem. i don't support breaching the snake river dams. each one of the barges you see is about 156 semi-loads of grain. if you are worried about wear and tear on your roads, having that navigable dam system is an integral part of our train structure. in my family we say that it's a shoddy carpenter who blames his

tools. joe keeps harping on this reins act thing. congress already has authority to come after these agencies when they do something that is out of line with our values as a nation. it's called the congressional review act. so he's going on and on about t thing so he can get credit for reinventing the wheel. use the tools you have. i have a very clear voting record on holding agencies accountable when they don't listen to local people, when they don't listen to the facts on the ground. i fought hard with my republican colleague to the east, dan newhouse to get $5 million to support removing sea lions. you want to talk about water quality and fish and natural resources? i have been i live near it. you see these sea lions the size of a corolla and they're

gobbling up fish. i am fighting to ensure we have all the tools necessary to remove them and to stop them from recruiting more sea lions on the river, stopping the families who rely on natural resources like fish from being able to do that. i am proud of my record on this, standing up and ensuring we have in all of the above energy policy and at we move to electrification in some things that we have the power to do that. we have the energy supply at hand. >> thank you. mr. kent? >> if she was going to actually represent the interest of the people here, she would have done it already. she has that ability and power right now. this is why we have -- need the reins act. fine, if there's a better solution. let's stop letting the federal government regulate the columbia river. let's start getting rid of the sea lions. let's start getting rid of the y birds taking the salmon.

i was recently out on the colum with my kids, pulling their first fish out of the water. it was a great day, it was awesome the traffic on the river it was at an all-time high. most of them were charter vessels, a huge boom for the local economy but because of what the sea lions and the bird pray are doing in the way the federal government can shut down the salmon season like they did two years ago, it is a major hindrance on their industry and for us in the district. if she was going to do it, she would have done it by now. this is where records matter more than rhetoric. we have to take away the power d.c. has to regulate our natural resources. >> thank you. kongwoman? forks, washington. you don't know where that is, but it is the nexus of where th wars hollowed out ou communities. so many people in my family lost their jobs when that happened. we have not recovered. we have not seen timber harvest rates come back