day well i was shocked the other day to see that the so is supporting a republican in your race and you know like i said i don't know that that's ever happened before congratulations thank you thank you i was pleasantly surprised that they did look at it as they're being very objective about their choice well i'm going to read from their article and i hope you don't mind but it said  and talking about your opponent she was only modestly conversation with the issues her own website lacks an issue section that would give the voters detailed idea of her views and following paragraph by contrast is willing to explain positions fully which should please his constituents in the thirty ninth district parts about the park south park jefferson hills and all the other areas you serve right they don't agree with you on everything what i say the people on because i'm on the side of the people on those issues i know why they disagree on it because they you know they have a special agenda special interest agenda on that so they're going to disagree on it but then there's other issues that we can agree on so they were able to look past the fact that we disagree and look to the things that we agree on and i appreciate that i applaud that well that you know you said you have won twice now in your district even though more voters came out the last time you won by the same conservative margin with their endorsement and i'm sure now with a lot of the people have gone on to a couple web sites and found that you have an unusual correlation between your activities and different organizations that actually rate people who are in public office for example the constructor's association of western pennsylvania one hundred percent having been a part of that organization no one has ever got one hundred percent as far and the american conservative union positions you as one hundred percent so you you support conservative values not only in economics but politically and and one we discuss in your books here a little bit because i think that they explain more than any other politician that i've ever met explained how they arrived at their decision let's talk about this recent second the support that you gave and in fact  passed here the within the last week would you like to discuss that sure yeah this is this is going to want people i want people at home to understand it because being port portrayed i should say miss portrayed by the media who is against it look we have a state constitution we have a federal constitution it gives us the right to keep and bear arms and municipalities which are a creation of the state cannot override the state constitution so in other words they can't make a law that says well you can't keep and bear arms in peter's township or you can keep and bear arms in jefferson hills because the state allows us to keep and bear arms so just imagine the result of that if if a number of municipalities made it a crime for you to keep and bear arms and i was passing through sam going from my home to pittsburgh i might pass through thirty minutes a pouty say i stopped in one happened to be carrying my weapon which is legal and in every other municipality but theirs and all of a sudden i've committed a crime i might be a felon and so forth because each municipality has a has their own rule that's why we have a state law for those things so this bill just says in a spouse you cannot supersede state law which was always been the case but it goes one step further and says if you do you can be sued by either the members or the  that represent those members so in this case if it was a second amendment issue it could be the n r a or foe act firearms owners against crime or any other organization that represents them so that will put these mr powers on notice to say look we have to make sure our laws are legal we can we can enact illegal laws and ordinances that that would restrict constitutional rights what i find it was interesting because i fact some research on on that debate and i found that the liberal members of the hols wanted to cut out the idea that the n r a or an associated group on the this bill could in fact not be allowed to support whoever's rights are being violated and you brought that up eloquently whenever you gave your speech that in fact whenever it comes to banning the a c l u for example from doing something for some reason they never they're mum on that that's right they don't mind if a liberal group jumps in but they just don't want conservative groups in there that's right a lot of left wing groups come in and sue municipalities on behalf of their membership environmental groups sierra club i used the example of the freedom from religion foundation which comes in from wisconsin and may object to someone having a creche in front of their building or having the ten commandments or whatever they came in and sue municipalities on behalf of they say their members but they may not even have any members in the state and yet no one complains about that and yet if a membership group wants to protect the second amendment rights the left seems to be up in arms about that you know i'm always amazed whenever i thought social studies i did some some study on the constitution and w got to the second amendment to find that the supreme court ruled five to four to give us the right to keep and bear arms which the constitution gives us and they're supposed to be supporting the constitution but we are one vote off by liberals to in fact stop our rights again and that's it that's the pressing that's the pressing because you know these kids will never grow up in a society that was as free as what we had yes and that's and that's really a shame because the fact that they'll never know the freedoms that are being lost at this time because of activist judges or whatever just ignoring the constitution and want to make it a modern document it's not supposed to be but it's it's had the test of time and now they want to chip away that's true and lucky for us we're strong second amendment state and you know we have the castle doctrine here in pennsylvania which we passed when i first came into the legislature which allows people to defend themselves in their own homes you know before that we have the duty to retreat so if someone broke into your home was threatening your family and your children you had to leave your home you had to surrender your home to them you couldn't defend it and the castle doctrine merely states that yes you can stand your ground and defend your home and your family and your property from anyone who's illegally entering your premises or in fact any other place where you legally are if i'm in my car and someone tries to carjack me and take away my property and threaten my family members arriving with me i can defend myself when i told people nationally when i was running for office we had a we didn't have a stand your ground law in pennsylvania they couldn't believe that people just automatically assume you have always had the right to defend yourself but our laws were so out of whack that we had the right that wrong and we did some pennsylvania is a castle doctrine stand your ground state it was interesting because i worked in a liberal school system who in fact the kids were more than willing to give up their rights and they they got they always got upset with me when i said you don't give up any rights because when you need them you want to give them up so you can't do that they said it it's hard to change the minds of people who are so acquiescent to the government and then maybe it's time to fight back a little bit you know yeah you know i mean i had the benefit of serving in probably the worst totalitarian country in the world i served a year in north korea where there were the citizens have no rights and you know when you see what it's like to live in a society this goes to the t otally the other extreme where your rights of all been taken away imagine living in a society where you're not allowed to have any locks on your doors that the government keeps an inventory of everything you own and they can commune in any time to your home and inspect that inventory if you have acquired something that's not on that inventory you could be sent off to a labor camp or you could be sent to jail so just imagine a society has you give up those rights it's hard because when you do it incrementally you don't realize how important those rights are but just imagine when you look down the road when you see him you've given up all those rights do you want to live in a society that we don't have the rights that we enjoy today our country is one of the freest in the world and we should appreciate those rights and we need to teach our children and our grandchildren about those rights well on the second half of the program we're going to be discussing your many books we don't have very many representatives or senators or and the state or federal level who have written as many books as you have about so many interesting subjects you serve the thirty ninth this week which does not include peter's time ok but what the unique thing here is your service does affect peter's timeship and i'm going to bring up i have to bring this up because my wife's in the other room and she asked me to bring up she's on council here and she wants to know about the initial road bridge ok can you give us some background on that and why they've changed from keeping the traffic open now to closing it you know that little bridge has  been a problem for a number of years here i you know if you anyone who travels that way you can see how it backs up because one lane traffic comes to kind of a chicane there so people going in either direction have to wait one and a time crossing that it backs up can be a much as a mile there so we've been working to get that on the list of bridges to be widened in only really needs to be widened by the lane and a half really needs to be widened about four feet on one side and you know it's about i don't know sixty feet long that bridge it wouldn't seem like it would be such a big deal but it took us two years to get that through the system that shows you how bureaucratic we are and how entrenched that bureaucracy is not difficult it is now expensive because we have such a bureaucracy it's how expensive it is to do things so it took about two million dollars in engineering studies and the time that it is taken to just just to design how we're going to widen this little bridge and i always use you know half jokingly both my sons are civil engineers in the military i was in the military you know we could we could cross a stream like that just a little creek that we're crossing we could lay down pontoon bridges and have tanks running over that bridge in about two hours and it's got it's taken us over two years it's going to take us about three years to fix this bridge at a cost of two million dollars so i mean that just shows you why i'm always fighting against the bureaucracy i mean it adds cost it adds time you know we're finally going to start fixing that bridge next year thankfully  and the bureaucracy always has a reason why they always have a justification why it takes so long and why it cost so much but i think we have to work to reduce that type of bureaucracy was i told you before i work for a company that made bridges ok owned by a resident here peters township and it was amazing to me that when we went to chicago to build a bascule bridge in a basket of bridges is that bridge that goes over a river that actually come up for railroads and in fact we had forty eight hours to tear it down rebuild it and have trains coming on in the forty ninth hour so i'm going to have that little i'll leave out the expletive bridge taking six weeks to in fact and that kind of money to build seems baffling to me well we're going to go ahead take a break now and we'll be back on the other side because i want to talk about you and your very very interesting history thank you thanks and we'll see you on the  a that's very important to the folks who live here it's amazing i mean i merge a response over in the initial area mutual aid coming from there you know it's very important especially to the people over in the area to be able to have that opening so they get the jefferson hospital if they want the everything else so now you know that shutting down there and have to work around the turkey put it back that way which is going to take a few minutes more but in emergency responses for a minute think a lot of the people don't understand that they have people of the quality finally representing them and we have the benefit here in western pennsylvania with tim murphy john moore and yourself representing us which it has been very very beneficial for us but let's talk about a little bio for you you know what you know i'm born and raised in lisbon township went to school i was in the military for career in the air force i went to school as part of my air force training they sent me off to college i finished my bachelor's degree and we were state university in ogden utah and went on to study at the naval postgraduate school national security affairs in monterey california and master of public administration from the university of oklahoma and then i came back home i got my ph d here at the university of pittsburgh international relations ok and i teach out at st vincent college i still do teach out there i teach international relations in comparative politics and political science courses let's talk about your air force career because i  really interesting having been retired military i've been out almost twenty years knowledge as i miss it but your career was very interesting while you served let's talk about that yeah i love you know i went in the air force because i love the airplanes and i started out as an aircraft mechanic worked my way up finished my college degree went into a counter intelligence came a criminal fraud counterintelligence investigator worked overseas and some very interesting places know just every day was something different i really enjoyed had a great career retired from the military and i went back as a civilian to work in iraq as an interrogator during the iraq war so i worked down  you might have seen on television they totally obliterated blew up jonah's team just blew it to smithereens after after being there for what three thousand years they came in and just blew it up but it was john his tomb was there when i was there and it's a  before that actually in north korea for a year if i remember correctly that was during the clinton administration yeah it was during the clinton administration well it was i didn't serve during the clinton estrangement the clinton ministration is the ones that negotiated the agreed framework with north korea to build them to light water nuclear power plants in exchange for them shutting down their weapons grade military program nuclear program so that program that agreed framework lasted about ten years i was there as the american representative for one of those years as the only american living in north korea at any given time it was a very unique opportunity and a very unique experience and i wrote a couple books about it when i came back it's funny that you say that we're going to be talking about this and we'll go the just some of these books i've read a couple of them ok especially the one who will talk about god in our government which in fact is it's in support of our constitution which of course the activists and liberals would say oh my god you know because they use that phrase in the press but ok negotiating with north korea let's talk about a little snippet on that if we could yeah i when i was there i got to negotiate with north koreans every day and i know how difficult it is and we see in the news how hard it is to get a loan to north korean so i felt compelled to pass on some of my experiences on how to be effective negotiating with the north koreans because i was very successful doing so and was there and i thought you know why why are we more successful in the effort that i was there than than we are in general and why is our state department not not as successful why it for sixty years when we've not been able to really negotiate well with  and the reason is i found is because we've really been doing it the same way for sixty years we really haven't tried to tried any new methods to reach reach out to the north koreans and when we did that we were like i say we were very successful there and so i just wanted to document that and  have people do who deal with north korea to be able to look at and say try this it works and so it's been it's been a good successful well i find it interesting because having been served in the military myself  looking at our political stance almost any time in our federal political stance we don't learn a lot of lessons from the past and we continue to make the same i had a discussion with a friend of mine who used to grad who graduated from from peters here and she she was frustrated because unlike me who has shifted from the left over to the right over the over my years as i'm getting older she's stuck over here on the left side so she can understand why why we're having problems with isis why we're having problems with the brotherhood why are we having problems she can't understand that and she doesn't she doesn't even though she does support the military totally she doesn't understand why we haven't learned our lesson you know in vietnam we were we were fighting people but we were fighting a mindset we're doing the same thing now and they don't how the government you can take over they  don't and they don't care because if they fluid they go over here one day and if you push them back then they'll come back but it's been like that through history you know it hasn't been lived in spain for a while i was stationed in the military and i had the opportunity to to visit a lot of those areas that were taken over by the mors before l said help kick them out sees me and the history of their takeovers is bloody but it's not once wasn't bloody just against the christians it was bloody against themselves every kingdom was taken over by their children and they would kill the father and then their children to kill them and their children would kill we're not even waking up to the bull now and having spent the years that i did in the career field of chemical nuclear and biological warfare this is no different and we're dragging our feet this doctor who just got found yesterday a new middle new york city has a bull and he's a doctor and they were complaining about the gentleman who came in from texas he should have known better well the doctor should have he was working with those patients why didn't they keep them isolated for twenty one days and see what happens now he's  playing bowling and everything else in the middle of new york city so i mean we've got a major problem around here and everybody seems to want to put their head in the sand about it frustrating the unseen war in iraq insurgents in the shadows yeah it really talks about our counter intelligence ever how do we gather intelligence how were we gathering intelligence in iraq how do we gather intelligence when we're dealing with an enemy such as a radical islamists in al qaeda and so forth and so i found a document that without revealing classified information try to give the people a feel for how we interrogate and gather intelligence and some of the techniques that we use try to make it interesting because it is an interesting topic and so that book  also very popular people people enjoy reading that because people are always interested in kind of the espionage kind of intelligence that kind of genre so i think that if you like that then you'll like that form of face it james von has been a hero of mine for fifty years now without a problem let's see what other ones we have here because i said you have a plethora of opportunity here koreans to remember fifty famous people who helped shape career you know a lot of people don't know much about korea and so i had spent thirteen years there and i felt that you know we really wanted people to know some of the history and background if you're going to travel there it's an interesting country so i wrote a book about some of the famous people that made that country great the sad part is we were already come down to almost to the end of the program here and we still have four books to discuss so we're out to do that on next show rick i want you to spend a couple of minutes now not only telling people why they should be out to vote but why they should be voting for you  h i really hope everyone gets out to vote it's important why should they vote for me because we are the ones that are governing we've shown in the in the republican caucus the house that we are governing we're the ones that pas reduction of the legislature which people say they want were the ones that passed privatization of the liquor stores which is sitting in the senate still that people said they wanted were the ones that passed but it is the log drug testing for welfare recipients were the ones that passed tort reform were the ones that eliminated the philadelphia traffic court eliminated a whole section of government were the ones that eliminated the inheritance tax for small farms family farms and family businesses so we're out there doing the things that the people we're the ones that passed for on time budgets with no tax increases in the borrowing we're doing the things that the people asked us to do we're showing that we can govern and if you want to continue governing and fixing the problems in this state then i hope you'll get out the vote and i hope you'll vote for me well people not just from peter but from all around the area saying you know bring you on again because of the fact that they wanted to find out more who you were and they never realized that they had intelligent people sitting in their house of representatives so that was no nice open tell invite me to speak at their group there are other rotary of their lines or their church group i'm happy to come and talk about some of my books and my background there i mentioned to the principal here yesterday so will have the opportunity but needless to say we appreciate you coming in and once again november we have the opportunity to in fact one get out the vote being a social studies teacher i have to push everybody to that but in fact what we want to do is just you know say would like you to vote for him but in fact the idea of getting out to vote no dead people voting this time would be a real plus so you know please come back next time for talking politics in western pennsylvania once again think  would hear you know mr speaker the well funded anti gun lobby and its minions their solution to gun violence is to disarm law abiding citizens by adding these local hurdles to their ability to keep and bear arms mr speaker i just want to say to all my colleagues in the anti gun lobby we are not the problem law abiding citizens carrying their weapon is not the problem with directing your solutions out on us what we need to do is stop excusing the criminals and start prosecuting them mr speaker not one of the two hundred forty seven homicides committed in philadelphia last year or is committed with a lawfully purchased a gun this arming responsible citizens merely makes them targets in victims we have a right to defend ourselves and our families as i said we are not the problem most pennsylvanians understand this and we saw that represented in the vote we took two weeks ago so i say let's pass this bill finally and stop