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this is just under hour. eighth congressional district. >> tomorrow at 7:00, wvia-tv will host a debate between the candidates in district nine. congressman heuser and amanda waldman. tonight, we hear from the two candidates competing to represent pennsylvania's 8th district in the house of representatives. we have a live audience in the sardinia theater. they have been instructed to applaud only at the beginning

and the conclusion of the debate. let's begin by taking a look at the eighth congressional district. it incompetence is the scranton-wilkes-barre area and boast of monroe county the district is currently represented by democrat matt cartwright who faces mr. jim bognet. congressman cartwright is seeking his sixth term in the house of representatives. mr. cartwright is permanently the member of the house appropriations committee, chairman of the subcommittee on science and vice chair of the subcommittee on financial services and general government. he has a leadership role in the congress as one of the cochairs of the house democratic policy and communications committee. his challenger, jim bognet, is a native of hazleton. he served in the trump administration, charged with focusing on expanding american manufacturing. mr. barnett is the managing

director of j rv strategies, a consulting and public relations firm. political activities include martha mcsally's 2018 senate campaign as well as working on the campaigns of john mccain and romney. the format for this debate has been agreed to by both campaigns. each candidate will have two minutes for an opening statement in two minutes for a closing statement. responses to the questions by our panelists will be held to 90 seconds. however, at my discretion as moderator, an additional 30 seconds may be allotted for rebuttal. all time will be strictly enforced. all questions are devised by the individual panelists, each of whom submitted a series of questions for review prior to the debate. i, as moderator, have the option to ask. we move now to the opening

statements. as determined by a coin toss this evening, mr. cartwright will begin. rep. cartwright: thank you wvia-tv and all of its partners and panelists for taking part this evening. i ran for congress 10 years ago to become a powerful, effective voice for northeastern pennsylvania and boy do we need that now more than ever. i made it to the top of the u.s. house appropriations committee and that gives pa the kind of clout we have not had an a long time. using that, i have brought back nearly 72 million dollars to fund our police and other worthy projects. i brought back billions from the i ij a, infrastructure and jobs act, to clean up our abandoned mine land that have been there for generations. i worked across the aisle as the

most bipartisan democrat in congress over the last 10 years. i have a 77.1 voting average in voting along with republicans in the house of representatives. we are in the middle of a post-pandemic inflation, and it is painful. people are hurting from it. i have supported a lot of things to fight the inflation like cutting drug prices for seniors and getting a plant here to turn shale gas the car gas. thousands of jobs and cheaper gas. people are hurting. do you know who is not hurting? huge corporations. international corporations are not hurting. they are making record profits, paying little or no tax, price gouging people who are living paycheck-to-paycheck. we see them here in pennsylvania. those corporations are not hurting.

my opponent has been a corporate lobbying executive for huge operations and we are going to hear about that we are going -- that. we are going to hear about shedding values. >> your opening statement mr. bognet. mr. bognet: thank you to the moderators and other stations taking this debate live. i want to thank the viewers and voters for tuning in. my name is jim bognet, born and raised in hazleton. i went to publican -- public school there and graduated from penn state. i was blessed to be born into a loving family. my father runs a small business. i grew up digging ditches and pouring concrete. my mother is a teacher. she taught in hazleton public schools for over 30 years. she instilled in mia love of learning. someone who had a big effect on my life was my grandfather. he was born 100 years ago in

italy. his name was vincenzo. at a less island they turned him into jim. my grandfather had nine children and worked in a coal mine for 50 years. he loved his country so much, he wouldn't let his nine children speak italian at the dinner table b as he wanted them to be american. that is the kind of love of country i want. ladies and gentlemen is off-track we need change and we need it now. we need to instill a love of country and they love of our traditional values of hard work and atria to some back into our country i am running for congress to stop the bite inflation. i am running for congress to stop illegal immigrants from flowing into our country, bringing fentanyl and crime. i am running for congress to protect the american people from

the crime wave unleashed under joe biden. i make a promise here tonight, when i am your congressman i will always fight for you. i will never put the interests of a party or a president above the interests of northeast pennsylvania. i look forward to representing you. >> thank you. we now move on to the question-and-answer portion of the debate. each panelist will be called on in rotation. we begin with boris, a well-known politics reporter for the scranton times tribune. morris, you will have question. >> gentlemen, as someone who recently turned old enough to collect social security, i will ask about that first. we know the trustees of the program say they will have to cut benefits by more than 20% because the trust fund is going to run out of money. the solution seems well-known, how are you going to fix it? mr. bognet: many of my aunts are widowed.

they rely on social security. you worked your entire life for social security, you deserve it. let me tell you what has been done to social security, inflation has ran at over 8% because of joe biden, nancy pelosi and match voting with them. they are killing our senior citizens. i had a senior citizen call me last week, home heating was full -- that cost them $1200 to fill their tank that is because of the biden-cartwright inflation. let me tell you how i think we should protect social security. no benefit cuts. no raising the retirement age. number three, economic growth. we are about to enter a recession. this recession is caused by the biden-pelosi inflation. you all know it. we have seen the economy slow and the stock market killed.

your 401(k) is probably through the floor. we need progrowth economic policy. that is stopping the war on oil, allowing pennsylvania to power the whole eastern seaboard. if we can get our economy moving again, we will bring back the economic growth we had the last four years before his best friend joe biden destroyed our economy. i will always fight for seniors. he is going to tell you the other way but i will fight for seniors. >> mr. cartwright. rep. cartwright: there is only one candidate on this stage that has been endorsed by the committee that protect social security and medicare. i am that candidate. i actually am concerned about what you brought up about solvency of social security. that is why i am a cosponsor of socialist erie 2100. to adjust at, to raise the cap so that more people pay into it longer. my opponent seems to have found

an ep affinity about social security because when he was writing mitt romney's policies, he wrote the plan for cutting social security and he called it the big enchilada. i object to the word entitlement. people are acting entitled? it is not that. it is your money. you paid into it your entire worklife. to have somebody call it a big enchilada we have to cut back, that is what we did. now he is singing a different song but a leopard does not change its spots. rick scott from florida said the quiet part of lout for republicans when he said he thinks all federal legislation ought to be written off the books every five years, then reenacted. what does that mean? that means eliminating social security, eliminating medicare,

eliminating all kinds of rights. that is where they are going. >> a rebuttal. mr. bognet: matt cartwright has been in office for 10 years and joe biden has been in office since 1972. they haven't done anything to protect your social security. they do not have one bill passed. to protect your social security. judge a person by what they have done. he has not protected social security and the inflation that him and biden and pelosi have unleashed asserting our seniors. talk to seniors in our district, they are having a tough time. they deserve big increases. >> mr. cartwright. rep. cartwright: this will not be last of the falsehoods you will hear out of my opponent this evening. one of the reasons i supported the inflation reduction act is that it will reduce the deficit by $200 million this decade. all of that money can go towards shoring up social security and

that is what we intend for it to do. >> let's move onto the second question posed by lisa washington. lisa is an anchor of the evening newscast at wnet. lisa, this question will first be answered by mr. cartwright. >> thank you. the last u.s. supreme court session ended with the overturning of roe v. wade. would you support a federal ban on abortion? something legal in pennsylvania. if so, would you allow for exceptions? rep. cartwright: thank you and welcome to the panel. the supreme court decision in the dobbs case was an attack on women's rights. i believe women ought to make their own choices. it is up to them. their doctors, their faith. they ought to make their own health care decisions in privacy and consultation. i trust a woman's right to make her own decisions, that's why i

voted for the women's health action act of 2021 and 2022. my opponent does not. he wants to have a national ban on abortion with no exceptions. no exception for rape. no exception for incest. no exception even if the life of the mother will be lost he signed a written pledge for that just a few months ago. i think that is extreme. i am not there. i yield my time. >> mr. barnett. mr. bognet: the matter has been sent to the states and i believe that is where it belongs. i do not think we should take federal action on abortion. mr. cartwright should be embarrassed. when he ran 10 years ago, he ran with the same position i had. he was pro-life with three exceptions. when women are put in those situations where their life is at or rape and incest have

occurred, we of course have to make exceptions. he ran with that pro-life position. in my heart, i believe he still has that position. nancy pelosi and joe biden were wire him to be pro choice to get elected. let me tell you what he has had to vote for. he voted against the born alive protection act. that says if an abortion is botched and that baby survives, you have to give it health care. that is extreme. he voted for federal funding of abortion. he wants you to pay for other people's abortions. he has never -- that says if a person is having a bb they don't like the sex of, they can have an abortion for that. that is barbaric. i am pro-life and i believe in a culture of life and i will fight for a culture of life this matter has been decided and it is disappointing matt cartwright held himself up as one of the few pro-life democrats and now is taking money from nancy

pelosi and has this extreme position of abortion on demand until the moment of birth. that is barbaric. >> mr. cartwright. rep. cartwright: once again, my opponent is wrong. i voted for the born alive protection act. check the record. in addition, my wife marion is here in the audience and we are both catholic we would not choose abortion, that is true, but i never ran to take women's rights away. the dobbs decision is such a jarring seachange in american law mode we did not see that coming and i certainly never campaigned the way my opponent suggests. >> mr. blog -- mr. bognet. mr. bognet: for 10 years, matt cartwright has voted frontally from what he told us. he stood on the debate stage in 2012 and 2014 and said he would be pro-life with exceptions. that is a reasonable position.

that is a position that realizes there are amazing challenges we have to address. for him to be for abortion on demand to the moment of birth, to never be able to tell us when he would prohibit abortion, that is disappointing. >> we have to move on to the third question, completing the third round of stringing. roger is the news editor of the times leader newspaper in wilkes-barre. this question will first be answered by mr. bognet. >> according to an ap poll, 70 percent of voters are dissatisfied with the direction of the country. about the economy and inflation, what should the federal reserve to be doing differently to bring prices down without causing recession? mr. bognet: if you are not upset about the state of our country, you are not paying attention. when pressed he left office

commit was two dollars a gallon. groceries have gone up. rent is out of control. we are in a ditch because of the biden-cartwright-pelosi late what can we do to stop that? how did it start. president biden came into office and past bills. $6 trillion in new spending. that causes inflation. the federal reserve reappointed the chairman and kept interest rates. what matt and joe really did that is unbelievable is needed layered war on the american energy industry. they tried to shut down pipelines. keystone xl pipeline was shut down. they pulled federal drilling from federal lands. and now we see gas out of control. matt says he supports a gas plant in luzern county. that plant is imaginary. it might be built in five years if we are lucky and he didn't do anything for it anyway.

he stands with the reading deal lunatics like aoc and votes with them time and time again. we need american oil from american soil. his party commit his speaker, his presidente to american energy. i love american energy. i think should be drilling more. he wants to ban fracking, i support fracking. >> mr. cartwright. rep. cartwright: my opponent seems to be confused about who he is running against. he is not running against joe biden, nancy pelosi or ill on omar. i understand about inflation around here, we feel it at the grocery store and the pump. we know big oil is taking advantage and profiteering off of people living paycheck-to-paycheck. i voted for the anti-price gouging bill. we knew big shipping was driving up prices. i voted for a crackdown on ocean sipping -- ocean shipping profiteering.

we know a big part of it is chinese chips, i voted for the chips built to bring it back from china so we can make it in america. we know we need more gas to bring prices down at the pump. i am helping bring a plant to luzern county, working with the ways and means committee. thousands of jobs and cheaper gas, local pipelines. by january, senior drug costs are going to start coming down. their co-pays and their insulin will be capped and health insurance premiums are coming down as well. my opponent is standing here and said he would have voted against all of that. he would have voted against all of those price cuts for seniors medication. we know why. it is because it angers his pals. big oil, big pharma and chinese pharmaceuticals. >> thank you. 30 seconds for a rebuttal. mr. bognet: that sounds like

something nancy pelosi could have written for you. have you all seen price cuts in pharmaceutical prices? have you seen price cuts in oil and gas? i have not seen these. just like i have not seen these oil plant. he is a very good lawyer. he could sell ice to an eskimo. but none of this stuff exists. they have been in office for 20 months in the country is in a ditch. what have they done to solve our problems? we are suffering every day or at >> sessions. -- we will move on to round two questions. question will first go to mr. cartwright. >> work toward ending guns in public places such as rick ration facilities and playgrounds. do you believe individual cities, boroughs and townships should be allowed to make their own gun laws? should that decision be made at

the federal or state level? rep. cartwright: we can have local control over gun access. the larger point we deal with in washington is gun safety laws. there's no question that to remain static, to not change anything in the wake of horrible shootings -- and i was at orientation in 2012 to become a new congressman. i was sitting next to a lady. she was also a newly elected member of congress. her cell phone went off. i saw her take the call. i saw the blood drain from her face as she listened. she closed up her phone, walked out of the room kind of stumbling. it was elizabeth esty, the newly elected congresswoman from newtown, connecticut where the skin -- she just took the call telling her that 20 little kids had been mowed down by an ar-15

by some kid who had no business having that. six or seven adults were killed as well. we are going to have to do sensible things with gun safety laws. from the federal level is where we need to do them because that is where we set the tone in the u.s. congress. i am in favor of sensible gun safety laws. i am a going honor, i am a hunter. i am not interested in sweeping up people's guns. mr. bognet: on this issue, cartwright just made the argument why you shouldn't send him back to washington good in 2012 he was elected, that was sandy hook. and then we saw parkland and las vegas. this year we have seen uvalde. this is barbaric. in 10 years in office, matt cartwright hasn't done anything to stop it. they just keep coming and he

asks you for two more years as it is going to get anything done. let me tell you what i believe in guns. matt cartwright said we should have local control for guns. ok, gun owners. scranton could then outlaw you from having a weapon. while an exit or you are allowed. hazelton can say you can have a weapon and while friedland says you can't. we need to crack down on people who commit crimes with guns. we need to crackdown on illegal guns. every day i watch the news from philadelphia and there are shootings and carjackings and it is horrible. you know who are doing those? criminals with stolen guns. that is the real threat from guns. we need a federal government that is run by his pal joe biden that will act down and stop that and we need to stop the process enters from his party that are letting people out of jail without bail. we are having a crime wave that

started in the summer of 2020 when matt cartwright and his friends did not order our police. >> mr. cartwright. rep. cartwright: what is crazy is that my opponent keeps trying to strap a to this defund the police idea. he actually spliced an audio tape of me, one of the most dishonest acts i have seen. a young person asked me about defunding law enforcement. i said no. this person asked me a different question where the answer was yes. my opponent doctored to -- doctored the tape to make it sound like i said yes to the police question. one of the most dishonest things i have ever third -- ever heard. mr. bognet: i took the audio from his speech at the black scranton project, a radical pro-crime group and put it on tv. can you imagine? this man stood on stage with john fetterman, the most

pro-crime lieutenant government we have ever seen. a man who lets murderers out of jail. he stood on stage and hugged him. i will always fight for our police officers. every police group in this area has supported me. >> we have to move on. roger, do we have the next question? he will pose it first to mr. bognet. >> ukraine. should the united states continue funding the ukraine war effort? if russia deploys nuclear weapons in ukraine, do you believe a new counterstrike would be justified? mr. bognet: ukraine is a horrible situation and two men are to blame. the first one is easy, vladimir putin. he launched an unprovoked attack against ukraine and it is horrible and i condemned that attack. the second man who because that is joe biden. joe biden pulled out of afghanistan.

he made 13 work old star families because we left 13 heroes in afghanistan. he broadcast weakness to vladimir putin. when the craziest -- when the previous president was in office, vladimir did not invade ukraine. putin has gone into ukraine twice. once under barack obama and once under joe biden. we must support ukraine as they resist russian aggression. i want to talk about the $80 billion that have been spent. $80 billion is a lot of money. if it is being spent wisely come i would support it. i am worried about safeguards. matt cartwright and nancy pelosi seem to think the answer to everything is spending money. if we are going to send $80 billion of your taxpayer dollars are brought, we had better make sure there is oversight. we should remember who is to blame. joe biden.

we must stand with the ukrainians against this aggression. matt and i probably agree on these specific things that have been done. >> my head is going to explode if i do not finish this answer. rep. cartwright: my opponent gave the bald-faced lie he properly ran an audiotape of me, it was not a proper audiotape, it was a deliberate act of dishonesty. the spliced tape that was doctored and a false rating from political fact. when they went on, continuing to deny they had spliced the tape, politico fact gave this man a pants on fire rating. pants on fire. that is really amazing because i have had a lot of people run against me and nobody earned that kind of credential. when people show you who they are, believe them. >> let's try not to talk over each other.

mr. cartwright, the question is about ukraine. >> i favor ukraine come i do not favor a blank check. we have to monitor it closely. >> the next question is boris. >> we are a nation of immigrants. do you favor building a border wall along the united states border with mexico to prevent people from entering? do you favor figuring out a way to allow millions of undocumented immigrants already here a way to achieve legal status? >> there is clearly a question of crisis on our southern border. it has been going on during the last three administration. i support enforcing the rule of law. i am proud to have supported major border security bills that were signed into law by president trump to increase

border patrol funding, fight drug trafficking and secure our border. some in my own party did not support those things. i voted for over $1 billion to build a wall on our southern border. i also voted for a latte these criminal penalties for violent middles who reenter the u.s. illegally after being deported. i also broke with the biden administration in their attempt to lift the current title 42 restrictions on processing applications. right now the border is technically closed because of the pandemic and we are not ready to process those applications. i want the parties to arrive at comprehensive immigration reform so we can finish securing our border and make taxpayers of the people working in the shadows. we need people willing to work across the aisle, not from

throwing ideologues. people like me who are willing to work across the aisle. what you have here is a person who will never work democrats. mr. bognet: 10 years of excuses from matt cartwright on illegal immigration matt cartwright has the worst record on illegal immigration. the man who came up with the concept for a order wall was named donald trump. he is supporting my campaign. here's what he said about matt cartwright. "matt cartwright is a disaster on ration. matt cartwright opposed the border wall. matt cartwright did everything he could to get president trump out of office." lou barletta fought to stop illegal immigration. matt cartwright's record on immigration is so bad, he loved amnesty more than he loves joe biden. when i am in office, we are going to make stopping illegal

immigration one of our biggest thing. hazleton, pennsylvania has been devastated by illegal immigration. 60% of the people in the high school my mom taught in have english as a second language instruction. illegal immigration is bringing drugs and crime. they are poisoning our cities, these cartels. he fights against the portal wall. we need a border wall. we need increased enforcement. we need increased penalties for cartels that send illegal immigrants over. joe biden took office and said the border is open and matt cartwright voted for $1200 stimulus checks to illegal immigrant's. he gave your money to illegals. rep. cartwright: this is exactly how corporate lobbying executives talk. that is why i told you that story about the false rating and the pants on fire. nobody gets a pants on fire

rating from political fact. he got it because of all the lies that constantly trundle out of his mouth again and again. the old saying is this, when people show you who they are, believe them the first time. remember who he is. >> i just want to caution the audience to restrain yourselves from making any sort of verbal reaction. maintain the decorum we set for this debate. mr. bognet: when people show you who they are, believe them. he should as he is weak on immigration. he showed us he loves joe biden. he should as he always puts the interest of illegals over the interests of america. i will eat my shoe if matt cartwright would ever vote to build a border wall. he stands with pelosi and biden 100% of the time. matt cartwright is a wholly-owned subsidiary of joe

biden. >> we will move on to the third round. . . mr. bognet will answer the question first. >> a significant majority of u.s. adults support the right of same-sex couples to marry, including majority support among voters of both parties. would you support federal legislation enshrining that right under the law? mr. bognet: the supreme court makes our decision and they have weighed in and they have allowed same-sex marriage. i will do nothing to change that. it has been a long time coming in this country. that was the decision the court date. i think teaching transgender stuffed our schoolchildren is horrible. i think allowing the teaching of any kind of sexuality to our elementary school students is horrible. i would hope matt would agree.

we have seen an amazing thing in our country. drag queen story hour. men wanting to steal their trophies. where have we gone? when i was an altar boy, we talked about a culture where everyone was created he will and we tried to protect children. we are not protecting children. if you think our children should be exposed to transgender's and sexuality, you should be in jail. i will fight that. that is where i will put my efforts. we deserve equal rights under the constitution for everybody. but we do not need our public schools to have our children and dogs are needed. we had better wake up because it is happening. they are letting drag queens in. nancy pelosi hasn't done anything. how are we letting this be done

to our children? rep. cartwright: here comes the culture war. this is all a big distraction from the main play that is going on. the big corporations have a huge tax cut. many of them pay little, some of them pay no taxes even though they are making record profits and they have people like this shilling for them in washington and distracting everyone by delighting you with tales of culture war. i support marriage equality and i have for over 10 years. who you love is up to you in this country. that is what the constitution says. i would vote to codify that. don't let these culture wars distract you because what they are doing is they are voting against reducing drug prices for seniors because they are sticking up for big pharma. his biggest donor is $160,000. it's a guy who is the board

member of a chinese pharmaceutical company. that is why he is distracting you. that is what he is distracting you from from all of these highlights from fox news. don't fall for that. you are going to miss the big picture. the big picture is that you are getting couched at the pump for gasoline prices. your seniors are getting gouged. their cost-of-living increase for medicare eat not by part d. it is because big farmer has made it illegal to negotiate drug prices. mr. bognet: it is not a culture war, it is a war on culture. nancy pelosi and adam schiff have in waging the war he attacks me about corporations. he has taken more money from horse rations than anyone. his number one funder is nancy pelosi. tomorrow night she is having a fundraiser for him.

adam schiff, nancy pelosi and 20 rich people that represent the biggest companies in the country. that is who matt cartwright really is. >> next question. mr. carper it will be the first answer. >> we hear stories all the time about massive debt people pile up, even when they have health insurance because they have co-pays. how do we get to a point where everyone who needs health care can get health care without going bankrupt? why don't we have medicare for all? rep. cartwright: this is one of my favorite subjects. i first ran to support the patient protection and affordable care act. the reason was i had been on the board of directors at a local hospital for seven years. i learned how health care finance works and what i realized was that the more who are uninsured and show up to

hospitals uninsured, hospitals have an obligation to treat, stabilize them. hospitals take it on the chin if people are uninsured. the more people we get insured, the sounder our hospital's financial footing is in the two years before governor corbett accepted the medicaid expansion under the affordable care act, we lost two hospitals. saint catherine's in schuylkill county and the marion community hospital. health care coverage is all theoretical. you might get sick, you might not. but if you are having a stroke and all of a sudden instead of 15 minutes to get to the hospital it takes 45, that takes -- makes a tangible difference. in a stroke situation, lost time equals lost brain. i want to get as many people

covered as possible because it gives us local, strong, sound hospitals that are going to be there when we need. mr. bognet: a senior citizen in milford said to me, do not let them bring medicare for all in. medicare for all means my medicare will not be as good. matt cartwright says he supports medicare for all. that means letting people of all ages into medicare. that is going to hurt seniors. our seniors work for their medicare and they deserve it john fetterman and bernie sanders are the people he stands with. mr. cartwright went to high school and grew up in canada. he that she must have gone to the same school as justin trudeau. we do not need socialized medicine. we need more choices. i am passionate on reforming medicare and medicaid. especially medicaid. how come when you go into a doctor's office you have no idea what the price of any of

procedures are? if you go to chipotle, you know how much a. costs. matt cartwright has excepted over half a million dollars from the biggest insurance companies in the entry. aflac, cigna. these are the people paying for the attack ads against me. because they know he will protect their gravy train. i want transparency and cost come i want to protect medicare. we need to bring costs down. if his medicare for all proposal makes it through to law, seniors across the country will died because of medicare for all. rep. cartwright: i make no secret of the fact that i like the idea of medicare for all. it has to be done in a way that does not hurt existing enrollees benefits does not hurt the providers. they have to be able to make a living. we've got more work to do on that in the meantime i want

coverage for as many people as possible. as far as who is paying for attack ads, my opponents attack ads are paid for by dark money super pac's. we are not even sure if it is american money. mr. bognet: one more thing on that. look at the company he keeps. he votes with nancy pelosi and joe biden could i'm going to call him mr. 100%. if nancy pelosi brings up medicare for all, mark cartwright will vote for it. we need an independent voice fight for medical transparency. you deserve to know the price you pay. my mother is diabetic. we do not know how much it is going to cost when she goes to the hospital. his insurance funders do not believe in that. >> i will allow a rebuttal. rep. cartwright: do not fall for this bs. i vote 77% of the time with

republicans who vote the same way. mr. bognet: we are at the end of round three. the first answer will be mr. bognet. >> last week, the house select committee investigating january 6 attack on the capitol voted to subpoena former president trump. based on evidence it discovered of the former president's actions following the 2020 election. should the former president testified before the committee? mr. bognet: we are going to have to see what the legal system says about that. we should not politicize these matters as joe biden has done. let me tell you some interesting things about former president trump. the man across from me voted to impeach him twice. he hates president trump. do you know it is amazing? he did an ad asked reaper he had a man wearing a make america

great again hatch saying he likes smacked cartwright. while he stands with joe biden while they called me a semi fascist is shameful. i do not know what a semi fascist is, but i am not one of them. for him to put a man wearing a red hat in his ad, he really must think we are stupid. that man is a lifelong democrat. he was the chairman of the monroe county democratic party. he ran eight times in democratic primaries and voted in those primaries. he has given a lot of money to democrats. matt cartwright has no shame. he plays dirty. he had a democrat put on a hat to try to fool you. matt cartwright's time fooling us is up. we are going to make america great again when we get rid of matt arkwright. rep. cartwright: that is all

utterly false. john -- is the name of the man. you can go visit him in pike county. he is a terrific guy. he loves donald trump through and through. he -- it is not phony. john patrizio is a great guy who would love to talk to anybody. no i do not hate donald trump. i do not hate anybody. i have disagreed with him and i have agreed with him. he had it coming. i didn't impeach him because i hate him. all of the success the ukrainians are having with javelin missiles against russian ration, mr. trump held that up to try to get dirt on joe biden. i did not think that was right. i call them as i see them. i don't hate donald trump. in fact, there are things i like about donald trump.

i have been pushing for easier kidney donation. 13 people led day die waiting for a kidney. i have been pushing a bill i wrote to make it easier to get a kidney. president trump likes to that and turn my bill into an executive order and signed it. he invited me to the ceremony. i thought that was good. he also signed my veterans care for financial protection act of 2017. they gave me the veteran advocate of the year for that. mr. bognet: if you like president trump so much come i would like you to call up your best friend joe biden dent tell him to stop calling every trump supporter a fascist. stop standing on statement joe biden when he attacked half his country and says we are authoritarians. i would like you with this deathbed conversion to wake up and apologize to everybody in

this audience who voted for trump and wants to see a better future. do not try the -- do not try to fool the people. rep. cartwright: i deny that i am on my deathbed. [laughter] i never said trump was a fascist. >> we are quickly running out of time. we have just about enough time to get through one question. especially if i could ask both candidates. will you ask the final question today, boris. the first went to get this question will be mr. cartwright. rep. cartwright: is climate change really? if so, what should congress do about it? i would like to point out that both of you said you favored more exploration for oil and gas. that is not good for reducing climate change, is it? rep. cartwright: yes to the first question.

climate change is real. we feel around here with flood rates rising and more people subject to floodplain and insurance for firemen's. we have to take it seriously. i like that we are investing in renewable technology. we are not there yet. i never said i would ban fracking. that was never true. show me where i said that, sunshine. another thing, we need that energy, that bridge energy. everyone sees what happens with gasoline goes up a dollar it is a real hardship on everybody. it really hurts. people have to drive their kids to school. it affects everything we buy. everything we make, the people that made it have to drive to work, run the production plant,

they had to ship it with energy. that is why price gouging by oil companies was a big target of mine. that is not a reason to stop using hydric turbines right away. we have got to ramp up renewables and use them when they are ready. mr. bognet: i do believe the climate is changing and we should go after the chinese. the chinese are the number one emitters. they are building coal plants and oil plants. we have clean gas and that is what we should be using. in our last abatement he said he was a time exchange guy, he is a green raw deal guy, it told him to practice what he preaches. he flies a jet to washington every week good -- week. that jet releases more carbon than everyone's car in this room combined. we are going to retire him so we can park the jet.

he charges taxpayers to park that jet $435 a month it can you believe that? if there is one thing you remember today about who is lying, he focused on a fact-check. i want to talk about a fact-check. morris right here -- boris fact-check. cartwright votes with biden 100% of the time and that is 100% true. here's a picture of matt cartwright and his boy joe biden. doesn't he look happy? matt cartwright stance with joe biden and nancy pelosi and the liberals and birds. i stand with you and i will fight for you. >> time is our enemy. we move on to the final statements. you each have two minutes. the first to give the closing

statement is mr. cartwright. rep. cartwright: talking about what boris has been reporting, he has also been reporting on the charges about mr. bodner working for a firm with the saudi's and lobbying against victims of 9/11. mr. bognet claims he was not aware of it and was out of the loop. the kinds of things that lobby executive say. the question is how did we find out about his firm lobbying for the saudi's against the american vic's of 9/11? they had to make a public filing of it under the federal agent's reporting act. they had to make a public filing of what they were doing and who they were doing it for. they filed it. they told the world, this firm, that they were making 100

$50,000 a month from the saudi royal family to lobby against of the american victims of 9/11. they told the world that in t is trying to claim he didn't know. they told the whole world and kept it secret from their senior vice resident? in the work affirmed it included munication's work and that was his department. when he tells you he didn't know anything about it, that is a bunch of bs. he knew about it and what i want to know is when he went to work for the trump administration, the 57 day stint he had, he was supposed to fill out a form about where he had been working. he never filled it out. he didn't want to trump to know what he had been up to, helping this firm lobby against victims of 9/11 on behalf of the saudi royal family.

he didn't tell trump because he knew how bad it would make them look. mr. bognet: it is sad to see. matt is desperate, so he lies. i have never been a lobbyist. i don't know any saudi arabians. it is shameful what he did. instead of telling the people what he would do for you in congress, he used his closing statement to attack me. i am grateful to be here tonight. our country is at a crossroads and we are in a ditch. president biden, nancy pelosi have got us into a horrible situation with inflation and open borders. if we keep sending the same people to washington, we are going to keep getting the same thing. excuses, lies come open borders. you have heard me talk about the fact that mr. 100% votes with joe biden. never forget that. he cares more about doing their bidding than doing what is right for our country.

he -- he hates american energy and believe spending money is the answer to our problems. i believe in a different approach. we must stop inflation and close our border. we must stand with the police. the state troopers association and every police organization in this area have endorsed me. not one has endorsed him. all the things he claims to have done for them, not one of them stands behind matt cartwright. even scranton police flp endorsed me. if you think this country is doing well, matt is your guy. if you think we should repeal irs agents come i am your guy. if you think we need more border patrol and not more irs come i am your guy. if you think this country deserves better than the same politicians, that we should return to traditional values, that we have had enough of joe biden, if you think northeastern

pennsylvania can do better and it deserves better, i make a promise to you, i will fight for you every day. >> thank you mr. bognet and mr. cartwright. that brings to an end this debate between the candidates for the eighth congressional district. thanks again to mr. bognet and mr. cartwright for participating. and thanks to our panel. [applause] tomorrow evening, a select panel will question the candidates for the ninth congressional district as congressmen -- debates amanda waldman. it is pennsylvania decision 2022 on wvia-tv tuesday november ochoa is election day. you can view this debate on demand using the wvia-tv. ♪

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