WEBVTT - "Regime change" in Iran and a long conversation with Brit Hume 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:03.760 Welcome to today's podcast sponsored by Hillsdale College, All Things 0:00:03.800 --> 0:00:06.440 hillsdalet Hillsdale dot ed or I encourage you to take 0:00:06.480 --> 0:00:08.920 advantage of the many free online courses there, and of 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:11.280 course I'll listener to the Hillsdale dialogues, all of them 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:14.560 at Hugh for Hillsdale dot com or just Google, Apple, 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:18.080 iTunes and Hillsdale Supreme Leader. 0:00:17.840 --> 0:00:19.200 In irandeworried right now. 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:22.360 I would say he should be very worried. 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:24.040 Yeah, he should be. 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:27.400 As you know, they're negotiating with us. Morning Glory and 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:31.200 evening Grace America. I'm Hugh Hewitt. That is President Trump. 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:35.080 An hour ago, NBC News released that teaser talks have 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:39.000 broken down. They've been they never began, but they've been canceled, 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:41.159 is perhaps the right way to put it. And the 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:45.479 cancelation of those talks suggests very much that the armada 0:00:45.560 --> 0:00:50.120 that is building, this immense gathering of American strength in 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:51.960 the Middle East is going to be put to use. 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:55.640 And I'm going to talk now with Majority Leader John 0:00:55.720 --> 0:00:59.000 Thune about that. Leader Thune, welcome. I want to begin 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:01.400 by asking if you and Senator Cotton, who are two 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:03.840 members of the Gang of Eight who get briefed on 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:07.000 intelligence matters, have been briefed on anything yet about Iran. 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:12.120 I think in some of the Gang of Eight meetings 0:01:12.160 --> 0:01:14.600 that it's been high level stuff. 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:19.000 You but you know, I obviously don't talk a lot about. 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:21.400 What it's said in those meetings, but I don't think 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:23.280 a lot of specificity. 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:26.920 I would say, what would you conclude from the cancelation 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:29.560 of today's meetings and the dispatch of the George H. W. 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:31.560 Bush carrier to join the Lincoln. 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:36.800 I think that you know, obviously they're the administration perceives 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:41.440 the Iranians to be escalating, and you know, clearly cutting 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:45.080 off the talks was a was a huge signal that 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:47.560 they were sending. But I think it's I mean, we've 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:50.520 got to We've got a lot of interests to defend 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:53.120 in that region of the world, and it has implications 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:54.640 not just for that region of the world, but for 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:57.640 the entire world, and so I think the President his 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:02.240 team are right to take it seriously and to ensure 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:04.560 that America's national security interests are protected there. 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:08.120 Well, last question on Iron, mister leader, if we go 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:12.560 to a battle with them, what is an acceptable conclusion 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:14.160 of that battle from your perspective. 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:18.480 Well, obviously, for me, you what would. 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:20.639 Be regime change? I mean, I think you've got to 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:21.560 get new leadership. 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:25.679 And there's no guarantee that new leadership might be the 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:26.280 answer either. 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:28.280 I mean, we've seen that before in other places around 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:28.640 the world. 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:32.919 But I do think that the Iranian people are clamoring 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:35.400 for a voice. 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:38.080 In their government and for the. 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:40.880 Same rights that people and freedom loving countries have around 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:43.000 the world. And I think that's what we ought to 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:47.600 be supportive of there, And so if that were an endgame, 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:50.160 I think that would be at least a great starting place. 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:52.480 We will pick it up from there. Next time we talk. 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:54.880 I want to thank you, by the way, and congratulate 0:02:54.919 --> 0:02:57.679 you for getting the Defense appropriation built done as well 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:01.480 as eleven of twelve appropriations built. Die, I don't remember 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:05.040 the last time that that happens, so hack tip to 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:08.400 you the leadership Chairwoman Collins, Senator Collins, of course, the 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:11.840 leader of the Appropriations Committee. When was the last time 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:12.440 that happened? 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:15.400 You know, it's been a while, Hugh. 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:18.000 I was actually ran into one of my former colleagues 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:20.040 in the House of Representatives. We had come in together, 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:24.320 you know, almost now thirty years ago, and he said, 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:26.680 I think the last time we did all the appropriation 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:28.160 bills was nineteen ninety six. 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:31.720 Okay, well it's been a while. I've been doing this 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:33.920 show for twenty five years, and I do not remember 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:37.520 it ever happening before. So congratulations on that regular order 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:40.640 is restored, except for the Department of Homeland Security. So 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:43.520 I'd like to go there and ask you where the 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:47.600 status is of those talks, what the Democrats are asking for, 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:50.000 and whether or not we have creative ass facts. 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:51.680 Well we do. 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:53.200 I mean I think there are if you kind of 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:56.360 put it into three categories, there are things administrations already 0:03:56.360 --> 0:03:58.720 doing which are significant, and there are a lot of 0:03:58.720 --> 0:03:59.120 the things. 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:00.000 That Democrats have asked. 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:02.720 Or then there are things you could do through that 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:05.800 DHS funding bill that are funding oriented that you could 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:08.080 you know, increase or withhold funds into. 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:09.880 Certain categories of the DHS budget. 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:12.680 But then there are the things that I think they want, 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:14.880 which are policy changes. And if they're going to insist 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:16.560 on any kind of policy changes, we're going to be 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:19.080 at the table with ours two. Because I don't think 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:22.680 we want we do not want these negotiations evolving into 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:26.440 something that makes it harder to deport and detain dangerous 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:27.719 illegal aliens. 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:28.240 That are in this country. 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:32.080 And so you know, that bill needs to be focused 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:34.880 on protecting and ensuring that law enforcement officers are safe 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:37.320 in their jobs able to do with the American people 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:40.839 expect them to do, and to deport and detain dangerous 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:42.919 illegal aliens. How you go about that matters, and I 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:44.560 think Tom Holme has done a great job on the 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:48.120 ground there of you know, sort of getting that situation 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:53.279 a little bit more in a place that hopefully the Democrats. 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:53.840 Ought to be pleased with. 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:55.520 I mean, I just think of the things that have 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:58.880 already been done here, including in the DHS funding bill, 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:01.440 the original one which they I agree to and help negotiate, 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:04.320 by the way, that it had a number of reforms 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:06.480 in it, including body cameras, and then they walked away 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:08.400 from it. And then they walked away from the two 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:10.240 week funding bill, at least a lot of them did. 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:13.159 And the two week funding bill is way too short. 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:14.640 In the first place, I mean is. 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:16.480 They don't know what they want. 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:19.039 All they know is they want to fight Trump, and 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:21.320 that to me is a really bad motivation and it's 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:22.880 going to get them to make some bad decisions. 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:24.000 Which I think they're doing well. 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:26.320 I think they're in a box canyon out leader. I'm 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:31.279 going to suggest that we Republicans offer them the Dreamers, 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:34.279 which everybody in the country except five percent on each 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:38.039 edge want to be done, along with the ability to 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:41.880 cut off federal funding the sanctuary cities. Because sanctuary cities 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:45.320 are a problem. They are a refuge for dangerous illegal 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:50.920 immigrants and possibly even worse than criminals, maybe terrorists, and 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:54.000 everybody wants the Dreamers done. We can flip the script here. 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:55.800 Any conversation about that on the Hill. 0:05:56.320 --> 0:06:02.920 There are some conversations around that, And again I think 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:05.359 if this does get if the Democrats were actually serious 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:07.640 about negotiating, I think those are things that could be 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:09.520 put in place. Certainly, as you know, there's a lot 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:11.680 of interest on our side and doing the way with 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:14.480 sanctuary cities, which, as you point out, is a huge problem, 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:18.279 and I think the President has expressed in the past 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:23.400 some interest in dealing with the dreamer issue. I think 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:25.599 the president's in a position if he wants to to 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:28.640 be the guy, because he is viewed as the person 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:32.480 who closed and secured the border, could do something. 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:32.839 On this issue. 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:35.000 But in the end you got to have a willing partner, 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:35.440 and I don't know. 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:37.320 He's going to have that with the Democrats. We'll see. 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:39.680 I mean, I think right now what I've suggested, and 0:06:39.680 --> 0:06:41.920 I think it's true, is if the Senate Democrats you 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:43.520 don't want to make a deal here, they're going to 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:45.760 have to sit down with the White House and figure 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:48.200 out a path forward. But I don't think the Democrats 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:50.040 know what they want. I mean they haven't. They haven't 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:52.480 given us the list of their demands yet other than 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:55.680 these vague categories. And I just think they're in a 0:06:55.680 --> 0:06:59.920 tough spot. But tsa FEMA, Coast Guard, cyber you know, 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:03.240 assists of the cyber operations for the country are all 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:06.840 in that bill, and if they decide to shut the 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:09.680 government down, I think it's gonna it's gonna be very 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:10.680 hard position to offend. 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:14.080 Do they even have a lead negotiator, Leader Throne? Do 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:16.200 they have someone that they've had you know, it's going 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:18.200 to be Chuck Schumer is going to sit down with 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:20.640 later Throne and the President to work this out? Or 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:22.280 is it their appropriations? Vice Chair? 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:23.000 What is it? 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:27.200 They haven't said And we've been asking, you know, we've 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:31.400 we've we've said we're prepared to negotiate the White House, 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:32.560 is right, I believe. 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:32.920 To sit down. 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:37.800 Katie bred who chairs the subcommittee on Homeland on the 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:40.200 Appropriations Committee, has sort of taken the lead role or 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:44.200 at least as offered up, you know, the opportunity to 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:46.480 sit down with them, whatever the Democrats want to put forward. 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:48.960 And you know, obviously we will be engaged. 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:50.560 I will be engaged in that as well. 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:53.840 But you know, in the end, the Democrats have got 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:55.760 to tell us what they want and be willing to 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:58.080 negotiate with the White House. 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:00.280 And at this point it seem like. 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:02.520 They're more interested in having the issue than they aren't 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:03.160 having a solution. 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:07.000 Would you personally support a deal that included both the 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:11.480 dreamers and a funding cutoff switch for sanctuary cities? And 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:14.400 that might be one hundred percent, it might be fifty percent, 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:16.440 it might be twenty five percent of all federal funds 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:18.160 in all categories. I don't know what it is, but a. 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:21.840 Trigger, yeah, I mean, let me think about that. I 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:26.320 hate to, I mean to not negotiate in advance or 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:28.760 negotiate against yourself so to speak, until we kind of 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:30.160 figure out what the Democrats want. 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:33.119 But I think like I said. 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:34.960 I think there's some things that could be put on 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:39.720 the table. This is a president who obviously likes to 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:43.040 find solutions and is willing to go places that others haven't, 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:46.800 and so let's see where the conversation goes. 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:48.760 Yeah, I did the first Step Act in term one. 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:52.280 A first Step Act on regularization would make a lot 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:54.360 of sense to me. Let me close by asking you 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:57.600 about the poor people at TSA. During the last shutdown, 0:08:57.600 --> 0:08:59.960 I was flying a lot and they were working without 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:02.520 pay for a long time. Are they back in the 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:04.760 same hopper again working without pay? 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:07.400 Yeah? I mean that's that's the problem. 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:09.719 Now. Fortunately, I mean that it falls on the. 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:12.280 Pay period, so they probably paid for a couple of weeks. 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:15.320 But if this continues, that's what's going to happen. In fact, 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:17.240 I was just talking to one of my colleagues who 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:21.440 flew in just you know, over on Monday here to 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:24.280 come back into town and said he. 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:26.679 Was asked by TSA. 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:28.360 Agents at the airport, you know, are we going to 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:30.400 be in this situation again where we don't know where 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:31.440 the next paycheck. 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:31.800 Is coming from. 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:36.280 That's what the that's what the Democrats are. This is 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:39.520 where this ends up, where this leads us, and again 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:41.840 that's not a good outcome for anybody. So I hope 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:43.800 they figure out what they want, are willing to sit down, 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:47.199 negotiate in good faith, and let's see if there's a 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:49.800 there there, But if not, at least helped let us 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:52.920 fund these agencies with a continuing resolution. 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:54.600 Until the end of the fiscal year. 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:57.800 You know, at a minimum, they ought to be willing 0:09:57.800 --> 0:09:58.160 to do that. 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:01.080 Majority Later, John, thank thank you for joining me. By 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:03.880 the way, good luck to your South Dakota quarterback who's 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:08.360 leaving the fabled Halls of Columbus for greener pastors. But 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:09.680 good luck to Lincoln. 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:11.800 He's a good quarterback. 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:13.959 Yeah, it's gonna be a great, great kid down there. 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:16.560 Thank you, Leadership. Don't go anywhere, America. I'll be right 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:19.360 back with Mary Katherine Ham. Then the one and only 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:22.000 Brit Hume joins me for a long conversation about the 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:25.800 President and Iron and about the Washington Post and about 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:28.920 generally speaking, all the presidents that he has covered and 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:31.640 how they have used force. Don't miss any part of that, 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:33.920 and it rolls out throughout the today's program on the 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:40.280 qqu AT Show. Welcome back, America. I'm to do it 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:43.040 under the thone as usual. Not easy to pin down 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:46.040 on stuff, but fun to talk to anyway, as is 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:49.680 Mary Katherine Ham, host of Getting Hammered podcasts, which I 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:51.760 listened to this morning on my way to the dentist 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:55.160 Shin Vick Mattis for talking about their first cards, Mary Catherineham, 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:58.520 if you had a nineteen sixty eight bug, was it 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:02.840 held together with what don't exist anymore? 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:05.079 I mean they did at the time. 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:09.440 It was a little bit of a you know, work 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:10.040 in progress. 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:14.920 We had to keep it running, yes, for sure. 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:18.120 Well, my first car, and I'm considerably older than you, 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:21.120 since you're the age of my daughter. My first car 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:23.760 was a nineteen seventy three Dodge Dart Sport with a 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:27.400 racing stripe, I will tell you. And it was nice. 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:29.360 It went until the frame cracked a two hundred and 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:32.040 fifty thousand miles. Let me ask you what you and 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:34.480 Vic did not talk about is your theory of cars 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:37.520 as adults. Do you buy them used or new? 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:41.720 Most of ours have been Well, I haven't had that 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:44.839 many cars because I drive them until they die pretty much, 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:46.360 or until I have more children and need a new 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:51.440 car because I just can't fit anymore so, But I'm 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:56.240 now on a plan of we buy usually new, try 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:58.600 to negotiate well, and try not to have a long 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:00.720 term loan on it Ramsey style. 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:05.199 I buy lightly used cars, and I think I've persuaded 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:08.360 all the kids to buy lightly used cars rather than 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:10.800 lose forty percent of the value when they drive it 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:13.960 off the lot. But then I never ever ever give 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:17.120 them back. I'm still driving a twenty ten car that 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:20.000 and it will drive forever, I think, because I'll pay 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:22.960 the repair bills because it's free to me. Mary Catherine, 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:25.920 you mentioned that you were a wrencher, in other words, 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:29.400 a gear gal. How much actual work did you do 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:30.120 on that bug? 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:32.559 No, I didn't do a ton. 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:35.400 I could change spark plugs, I can change brake pads 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:37.600 if I really have to, and I regularly changed oil. 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:39.560 Those are the three things that I could do well. 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:42.000 Those are three things I've never done, not once on 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:45.200 any car. So you're way ahead of me. What about Steve, 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:49.079 the husband, have said Mary Catherine Ham. 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:50.760 He knows his way around. I have not. 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:53.960 Actually since we've been together, you know, we have newish cars, 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:55.960 so there's not as much call to do anything. And 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:57.560 this is one of the things that has changed about 0:12:57.559 --> 0:12:59.600 car culture. It's not easy to work on your car 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:02.440 now because it's got eight thousand computers inside it, and 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:04.080 you can't do what you used to be able to 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:05.960 do when you could just figure things out. 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:09.520 You are a do it yourself person and I am done. 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:13.280 I believe in the in finding experts and have them 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:16.720 come and then pay them. Does do the girls Do 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:19.640 your kids have any knack for this yet? Because I 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:21.680 believe it's either it's a genetic thing and I don't 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:22.400 have the gene. 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:25.520 Well, I will say that we train them to do 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:29.040 household things right, so they're going to know when they 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:32.280 get to college and they live with some hopeless roommate 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:33.959 who can't do anything, They're going to know how to 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:37.480 change the tank of the innards of their toilet tank. 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:40.600 They're going to know how to patch holes and walls. 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:42.600 They're going to know how to do some stuff, take 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:45.360 out trash, put the dishwasher stuff away. 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:47.200 I mean, they know how to do that kind of thing, in. 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:49.880 Valuable skills that my children do not have as we 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:51.960 did not have them. Now, Mary Catherine, we might be 0:13:52.000 --> 0:13:53.920 going to war as we speak. I'm going to go 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:55.800 back to a very serious thing, then come back to 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:58.000 a light hearted thing, and then a very serious thing. 0:13:58.240 --> 0:13:59.720 Do you think we're going to war where. 0:13:59.520 --> 0:13:59.800 They were on? 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:05.200 I mean, it seems likely to me every time Trump 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:08.120 says that he's going to do something that it is 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:11.720 likely to happen. In the case of the Iranian protesters, 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:14.480 he seemed very explicitly to encourage them. I know that 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:17.880 not doing anything obvious doesn't mean that there aren't things 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:19.840 going on behind the scenes, but I did feel like 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:23.080 a pretty large promise was made to look out for 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:26.200 those guys. And now many, many, many people are dead, 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:29.240 and if he feels that he can support them by 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:33.040 taking kinetic action, as they say, I think he might 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:33.800 do that very well. 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:36.560 Yeah. I did a long interview with Brit Hume before 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:39.000 the program today, and Britt and I agree that if 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:41.440 he doesn't do anything, he goes into the Obama category, 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:44.360 gives away all the credibility he built up with Operation 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:48.720 Midnight ham or Absolute Resolve, killing SOLEMANI, killing out Back Daddy. 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:50.760 It all goes away if he doesn't do anything. Do 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:51.760 you agree with that assessment? 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:54.840 I agree with that. I think that's what he cares about. 0:14:55.240 --> 0:14:57.280 I think it is a danger for him, and I 0:14:57.280 --> 0:14:59.640 think it's something that's on his mind because he very 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:03.160 much values that credibility to be able to make the 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:06.280 call and follow through on it, and it ends very badly, 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:08.160 as we saw with the Obama doctrine. 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:10.840 If you let red lines just go right past. 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:15.560 Now to a lighthearted subject. I'm intimidated by Brit Hume 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:18.840 because he's been doing that. He's been a five star 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:23.080 game forever. It's sort of like the Lebron Jaime of news. 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:25.560 Do you have you done panels with him? 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:26.560 Yes? 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:29.160 And I would say the same, Hugh, because I've been 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:32.600 watching him for years and trusting him and seeing him 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:35.160 as someone I would like to emulate the best I 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:36.840 can because I'm never going to be Brit Hume. But 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:39.000 when I am on a panel with him, you know, 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:40.600 I got to really I got to really bring my 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:42.280 a game. But you can't get in your head because 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:43.320 then you'll get too nervous. 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:47.400 Yeah, trusting him, that's the key word. Trust. We also 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:50.440 talked about the Washington Post, which is collapsing in real 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:52.880 time before our eyes, and I feel bad about that, 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:54.880 and he feels great regret about that. How do you 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:55.680 feel about it? 0:15:56.400 --> 0:15:57.160 I don't love it. 0:15:57.600 --> 0:16:01.520 I do think that, even though I don't have rose 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:03.760 colored glasses about the past and the way that news 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:06.440 was covered, I do think newspapers. I grew up in 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:08.720 a newspaper family, and my father was a newspaper editor. 0:16:08.960 --> 0:16:11.760 I think particularly local metro dailies. 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:12.520 Were quite important. 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:16.720 I think the newspaper fights between those local metro dailies 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:19.640 meant that city and state government got covered in a 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:20.800 much more thorough. 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:22.640 Way than they do now, even if it was a. 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:24.920 Little biased on state level, not as bad as it 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:27.480 is on a national level. So I have some sadness 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:30.320 about it. I'm an original, ink stained wretch. I worked 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:34.800 in newspapers, and yet they have brought this on themselves. 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:39.680 The industry has not adapted and has not maintained trust 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:42.080 because it keeps handing out trust like it thought it 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:45.520 was going to last forever on the advertising dollars of 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:49.160 the year nineteen ninety eight, and once Craigslist came about, 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:51.240 that wasn't going to happen anymore. And now you've got 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:53.600 alternative media sources, with many of which I trust more 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:54.480 than the Washington Post. 0:16:55.120 --> 0:16:57.040 Trust is the key word again. Now I want to 0:16:57.080 --> 0:16:59.520 close reething very scerious I spent a couple of hours 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:03.160 yesterday very anxious because in my daughter's neighborhood in Virginia, 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:06.560 it was believed that an eight year old had gone 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:10.280 through the ice, and it was very, very worrisome for 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:13.320 a couple of hours. It turned out not to have happened. 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:17.040 Eight year old turning goodness, I know, but going through 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:18.919 the ice is something I know about because I grew 0:17:19.000 --> 0:17:21.679 up in Ohio and ponds always froze. But you know 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:23.399 you didn't go on the ice because you didn't know 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:26.879 if you knew how to judge color. You take a 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:31.160 broom out. Do southern people not know what northern people 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:34.920 grow up with about ice, about sledding, about driving in 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:37.119 the snow, all that sort of stuff. 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:38.479 No, we know nothing. 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:41.159 We know nothing, And I know my limitations, which is 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:44.760 why when it's like this outside, I'm like, you won't 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:47.119 see me going very far from the house. 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:49.119 You won't see me going on great adventures. 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:53.080 I consider myself not a very timid person, but when 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:56.840 it comes to feats of winter Olympics style, it's not 0:17:56.880 --> 0:17:57.200 for me. 0:17:57.400 --> 0:17:57.960 It's not for me. 0:17:58.160 --> 0:18:02.040 Your girls know about not going on ice in nearby 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:04.240 creeks and stuff like that. Now, you don't live in 0:18:04.280 --> 0:18:06.640 an area with a lot of water. You might maybe 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:08.879 there's a lake in your area, but it's just not 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:11.680