From Navy SEAL to Natural Resources - Coffee with Ryan Zinke

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Society & Culture

4.9 • 11K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Today we sit down with the Representative from Montana, Ryan Zinke. From his roots in Bozeman to the halls of Congress, Zinke's journey is one marked by service, dedication and an unyielding passion for his home state.

Mr. Zinke had a 23-year-long military career as a U.S. Navy SEAL. We discussed his deployments in Asia, his leadership at SEAL Teams SIX, his role in training future SEALs in the wake of 9/11, and his tenure in Congress, and his approach to energy, conservation, and tribal issues as Representative for Montana’s First Congressional District.

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0:00.0	Well, good morning, everybody. I know you're thinking you're going to get some Q&A, but sometimes
0:03.9	I guess drops into your lap and sometimes they have limited time and it didn't make sense to release
0:07.8	this as a full episode. So we're going to call this one coffee with congressman. I guess I don't
0:13.6	know if it'll be a repeat thing because I don't know that many congressmen, but representative Ryan
0:18.0	Zinke, who actually represents the, what would it be? County and district that I live in,
0:23.9	happened to be in town, met up at the coffee shop, walked over, had a little chat about government
0:28.4	in politics. And yeah, why don't you just go listen so I can stop talking. Coffee with congressman
0:36.4	with representative Ryan Zinke. Enjoy.
0:58.7	Here's the only question. How close to we are we for the political system to be unsalvageable?
1:05.0	Because I feel like it's tomorrow. All right. Yeah, for my perspective, look, I've been a congressman
1:11.6	twice, three times a secretary. I haven't seen a problem that's not fixable, right? It is
1:17.7	absolutely fixable, but it's going to take courage. There's a lot of fundamental things we have to
1:22.5	change in a government trust is probably at the, at the front side of it. Let me ask you a question.
1:30.4	So what agency department bureau of the United States government do you have full faith in confidence in?
1:40.0	IRS. Well, there you go. All right. There you go. So when I was a joke. I know. I know. Big joke.
1:47.1	So I don't have full faith and confidence in any department of the government. Well,
1:51.2	and you know, when I grew up, I did. Which one did you have the most faith in?
1:55.4	You know, I, well, it being a former department of defense. When I, when I grew up and remember,
2:02.0	I grew up under in Reagan. And I thought when, when the president of the United States talked,
2:06.7	particularly Reagan, he was talking American people. The division wasn't there, but I trusted it.
2:12.4	When the FBI said something and you and I have friends of the FBI, we trusted him. Well,
2:17.9	that trust now is gone. And that's a problem. So we're going to have to number one,
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