okay joining us now south dakota
governor christie gnome great friend
governor thank you very very much we
appreciate it we know you're in the
middle of a
whole bunch of things so i want to talk
about this mount rushmore july 4th
celebration
and i'm saying to myself i'm reading joe
biden and his administration
are pushing july 4th celebrations
including fireworks
in washington d.c and all around the
country that's what they're saying
and there's only one place and one
person they're picking on
and the place seems to be mount rushmore
south dakota
and the person they're picking on is
governor christie gnome why is this how
can this be governor
well it feels political larry and i
think
uh what happened was that
the biden administration decided to take
punitive action against the state of
south dakota because of the event that
we held last year with president trump
at mount rushmore on july
3rd we really want to celebrate our
nation's independence our freedoms our
liberties
south dakota did it for years with a
fireworks show that drew attention to
our state and that wonderful monument
for
decades and then when president obama
came into office he took it away citing
environmental concerns
so when president trump became president
we spent a year and a half
going through environmental studies
processes getting permits
evaluating the water and quality water
and soil quality
making sure we're protecting that
consulting with tribes
also making sure that we did all the
fire protective
back burning and then agreements with
local state and federal fire officials
to make sure we were prepared
and you saw the results of that last
july third when we hosted
president trump and the entire country
was unified
around celebrating the united states of
america and her birth
that was fabulous you know it was
fabulous it was fabulous
it was it was a moment in a very
difficult time and a very difficult year
it was where we all just we all just
remembered we were americans yeah and
that that's what we wanted to do again
this year we had all that
process done all we needed was a permit
a permit to be
on the grounds at mount rushmore and to
have this event and we were denied that
permit by the biden administration
i don't think they've ever forgiven you
for that that's point number one
i don't think christie they've ever
forgiven you
for reopening the state okay i don't i
think you've always been on their bad
list
even more than that you know i was just
thinking reading
one of the pieces about you so you have
to get a permit from the park
service now tell me if this is wrong the
park service is inside the department of
the interior is it not
it is and now there's one of my favorite
cabinet members the secretary of doi
is this uh former house member from new
mexico deb halland
who basically hates fossil fuels
hates pipelines campaigned and picketed
against the dakota access pipeline
you're in favor of natural resources i
mean you and i have talked a lot down
through the years
um she you're not her favorite person
and i just see even more politics
i see biden politics running right
through ms deb howland
by the way she's the one who closed
anwar um
a whole bunch of other sins so you know
they're just never going to forgive you
that's all
no i think so too and larry you know
according to the administrative
procedures act
they have to give me a reason for
denying the permit and there was no
reason
cited that was credible which is why i'm
challenging this decision
by the biden administration it's why
they i believe they've not followed
federal law
and they declared at one point in some
news stories that it was because of
covid some of their communications said
it was because of
different environmental or fire safety
or lack of consultation
we have proven that all of that is not
true we have done
all of that we held the event last year
with no social
distancing in the middle of the covet
pandemic and had zero cases come out of
it so
we've proven that we can do so safely
we've proven that we can
conduct this and that we've done the
work to make sure that
if there's uh if any kind of fire danger
and the fire officials
agree we can't hold this event safely
there's a go no go check list where we
don't hold it so
they don't have a credible reason it's
arbitrary on what they've done it's
punitive it's political
and that's why i'm fighting to make sure
that we get the chance to recognize this
incredible monument
that celebrates our our history our
celebrates our founders and also
recognizes the importance of
independence day
don't worry south dakota is going to be
celebrating in every single community i
think i've got four or five parades on
the fourth of july a rodeo
i'll be riding in and and everywhere we
go across the state we'll be celebrating
america our founders the sacrifices they
made
and how special this country still is
that's what our show today is all about
our founders the declaration of
independence american history
it's the greatest history in the history
of history um governor gnome thank you
for your time appreciate it very very
much
all best thank you larry happy
independence day