The Courage Crisis in Congress | Rye Barcott
Hold These Truths with Dan Crenshaw
Dan Crenshaw
4.8 • 16.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Rye Barcott joins Rep. Crenshaw for a candid conversation about Crenshaw's recent primary election loss, the pressures facing members of Congress, the rise of social media-driven politics, the tension between effective governance and outrage-driven politics, and why courage remains one of the most important – and increasingly rare – qualities in American leadership.
Rye Barcott is a Marine Corps veteran, entrepreneur, and the CEO of With Honor – an organization responsible for helping elect dozens of veterans to Congress over the past decade. His new book "Courage Can Save Us" profiles ten elected leaders who served our country and the challenges they overcame on the battlefield and in public office.
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| 0:00.0 | We hold these truths to be self-evident. That all men are created. As a member of Congress, I get to have a lot of really interesting people in the office. Experts on what they're talking about. This is the podcast for insights into the issues. China, bioterrorism, Medicare for all, in-depth discussions, breaking it down into simple terms. We hold. We hold these truths. We hold these truths with Dan Crenshaw. |
| 0:22.2 | The angle has landed. Welcome back. Hold these truths. I got my friend Rye Barkoff with us today, |
| 0:28.8 | former Marine head of the four country caucus or the organizer behind the four country caucus, |
| 0:36.8 | which is a group of, |
| 0:38.3 | of members, mostly veterans, right? I think with some exceptions, at least veterans, law |
| 0:43.8 | enforcement, something like that, some kind of former public service that get together and try |
| 0:48.2 | to solve problems. There's a few caucuses like that. This is an effective one focusing more on |
| 0:53.2 | bipartisan national security issues. |
| 0:55.7 | Yeah, you've worked in like private equity before that. And of course, the Marine Corps |
| 1:01.5 | written a couple books, one about your transition out of the Marine Corps, I think. Yep. And, |
| 1:07.3 | and now this new one, which of course I'm featured in, which probably makes it good. |
| 1:14.5 | The best chapter. |
| 1:15.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:15.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:16.1 | There's one chapter worth reading. |
| 1:17.9 | It's probably that one. |
| 1:19.8 | And so that'll be kind of the topic of our discussion today. |
| 1:23.5 | And it's really an assessment about Congress and American civic life. And you've got 10 profiles |
| 1:31.2 | here. You say, I guess 10 profiles in courage. And you know what I want to start with. It's five |
| 1:38.1 | Democrats, five Republicans. And, you know, well, first of all, why, why did you want to write this book what was the what was |
| 1:46.6 | driving you to do because you've been doing this for a while I mean since I first got into |
| 1:51.2 | politics is actually when you kind of started yeah yeah so we've been doing this about the same amount |
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