Rep. Tim Burchett

I've got this, you know, I'm always afraid I'm going to end up in a refrigerator up in North Carolina, or a freezer in North Carolina somewhere, you know, because I'm not going up there and checking out some guy's finds he's got, you know, and I...

They tried to destroy their careers.

They did that to one of our guys, one of the very first person, the first hearing we had, if you remember, some weekly newspaper reporter found out that one of the guys suffered from PTSD because of his military career.

You know what?

In Tennessee, we embrace that.

My daddy fought on Palo Alto and Okinawa.

And to the day he died, I never woke him up over the top of him.

I always woke him up by his big toe because he might have woke up on one of those dadgum islands and pinned me up against the wall.

And we celebrate our heroes.

But Washington, D.C.

just destroys them.

And to think that a...

Weekly newspaper found out this guy's medical history, which is a total violation of the law.

Somebody should go to jail for it, but nobody did.

They tried to destroy this guy.

And that's what happens to people in Washington, D.C.

That's what happens to our military heroes when they step out of line because of the...

The sewer or deep state or whatever you want to call it.

And that's why we need real whistleblower protection for them.

And I'll have people.