WEBVTT - Michigan's Socialism Test 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:03.720 Welcome to today's podcast sponsored by Hillsdale College, All Things 0:00:03.800 --> 0:00:06.440 Hilldale 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 listen to the Hilldale Dialogues, all of them 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:14.560 at q for Hillsdale dot com or just Google, Apple 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:20.800 iTunes and Hilldale Morning Glory and even Grace America. I'm 0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:24.200 Hugh Hewett. Thank you for joining us today. It's been 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:27.320 a wonderful weekend. I know it's August and that some 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:29.319 of you have left town and some of you have 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:32.400 decided not to pay any attention to anything, But some 0:00:32.479 --> 0:00:34.640 of you have got to work. I know that, and 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:36.479 so I'm here for you. I'm not going to leave 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:38.960 you alone in August. No one will. I want to 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:42.879 begin by playing for you. I'm going to focus a 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:47.040 lot on Abdul Rahman lsayaid, and I don't know if 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:49.480 it's L say ed or L said I say I'm both, 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:52.199 because it's unclear to me whether or not one or 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:54.880 the other is in fact the correct way to pronounce it. 0:00:55.360 --> 0:00:58.720 But I want to start by telling you the most 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:01.680 important race in the United States in twenty twenty six 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:06.920 is Mike Rogers versus Abdul Rahman Lsaed in Michigan. And 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:10.160 what we've got to do is make sure that Mike 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:14.119 Rogers is fully funded. And what that means is that 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:17.040 you're ten dollars or one hundred dollars year. I think 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:20.680 it's twenty eight hundred dollars now. Contribution can be made 0:01:20.760 --> 0:01:26.640 directly to Mike at Rogers for Senate dot Com, R O. G. E. R. S. 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:30.520 Rogers for Senate dot Com. I want to begin by 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:35.240 telling you that Mike Katie Pablick is an old friend 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:38.440 of mine, old town Hall colleague. I've known Katie for 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:41.840 a long time. She is now working with our friends 0:01:41.920 --> 0:01:43.720 over it in New Hiss Nation, and she's doing a 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:47.080 great job ten o'clock Monday through Friday night. But Katie's 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:51.000 a little less inhibited than I am. She's actually posted 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:54.320 over on x what it is that hasan Piker has 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:57.960 said what it is that he is quite proud to 0:01:58.000 --> 0:02:00.960 say again and again, things like America is nine to eleven. 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:04.600 MAO was the greatest person to live in the twentieth century. 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:06.240 Now killed one hundred million people. By the way, in 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:08.040 case you didn't know that, In case you went to 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:13.280 public school. He is anti black, he's anti woman, he's 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:17.040 anti borders, he's anti police. And El Sayed is a 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:21.000 SAN Piker, and a SAN piker is l Sayed. What 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:23.360 I want you to understand is that the two of 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:29.400 them campaigned together, as I've basically joined at the hit. 0:02:29.880 --> 0:02:32.360 They even had a pool party the night before the election. 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:35.760 They were clicking their glasses because they had all these 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:40.600 fake polls out there showing Laed beating Hailey Stevens by 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:43.000 ten to fifteen points. A lot of people didn't even 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:45.680 bother to show up and vote. He won by about 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:48.880 fifteen thousand votes one percent of the vote, not ten, 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:53.480 not fifteen percent. So I'm not really sure that tomorrow's 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:57.480 election in Wisconsin is going to be the real deal. 0:02:57.800 --> 0:03:00.680 I'm not really sure that she's ahead by many points, 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:04.240 as we've been told she's been. But let's go to 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:07.079 the let's go to the tape. I'll say he made 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:11.399 the rounds yesterday trying to normalize himself. He was on 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:14.200 Kristen Welker Cut number eight. 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:18.840 You know, you faced scrutiny for campaigning with socialist streamer 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:22.240 Hassan Piker, who has made a series of inflammatory comments 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:25.320 as you well know, including saying America deserved nine to 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:29.800 eleven describing Hamas as a lesser evil than Israel. Do 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:33.280 you plan to continue to campaign with Hassan Piker in 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:34.800 the general election campaign? 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:39.280 Look, I'm less concerned now with who I'm campaigning with, 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:41.640 a lot more concerned about who I'm campaigning to. We've 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:43.760 got a lot of work to do to continue to 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:45.960 build the coalition that's going to be Mike Rogerson. 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:49.720 Would you welcome him though on the campaign troop? 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:51.560 Like I said, I'm a lot more focused on who 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:55.960 I'm campaigning to. So I think we have this notion 0:03:56.080 --> 0:03:59.880 sometimes on shows like this that we cannot or should 0:03:59.880 --> 0:04:01.800 not talk to certain groups of people. And I will 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:04.560 tell you that the three million people who listen to 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:07.720 Hassan are people I want to make sure understand that 0:04:07.720 --> 0:04:11.480 there's a pathway into our politics around getting money out 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:13.560 of politics so we can keeput money back in pockets 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:15.640 in past Medicare for all. And so I'm going to 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:19.479 continue to have the conversations with those folks who we 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:21.200 desperately need to reach out to, just like I'm going 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:24.280 to continue to have conversations with seniors and senior homes 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:27.000 folks up North, folks in Detroit, forks and Grand Rapids. 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:28.840 So again, I'm a lot more focused on who I'm 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:31.560 campaigning to rather than who I might campaign with. 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:36.320 That's not an answer, because a son Piker is a 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:40.360 malignancy in the country. He's an evil guy. He's deeply 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:43.159 vile if you know anything about it. And I don't 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:45.679 expect most of the people listening to me right now 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:48.599 to have any idea who the son Piker is. But 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:53.240 Twitch is a service that you can basically put yourself 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:56.360 online twenty four to seven and you might draw a 0:04:56.360 --> 0:04:59.280 crowd of seventy five to one hundred thousand people at 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:01.400 any given time. I'm talking to millions of people right now. 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:03.800 So I've been doing this for thirty years, and my 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:07.960 millions of people are normal people. Hassan Piker attracts both 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:10.680 hate watchers and people who are nuts. Listen again to 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:12.560 this answer, cut number eight. 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:18.760 You know you faced scrutiny for campaigning with socialist streamer 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:22.159 Hassan Piker, who has made a series of inflammatory comments, 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:25.679 as you well know, including saying America deserved nine to eleven, 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:29.120 describing Hamas as a lesser evil than Israel. 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:30.760 Do you plan to. 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:34.720 Continue to campaign with Hassan Piker in the general election campaign. 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:39.200 Look, I'm less concerned now with who I'm campaigning with, 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:41.560 a lot more concerned about who I'm campaigning to. We've 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:43.680 got a lot of work to do to continue to 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:46.080 build the coalition that's going to be Mike Rogers. 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:49.640 Would you welcome him though on the campaign trip? 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:51.480 Like I said, I'm a lot more focused on who 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:53.760 I'm campaigning to so present. 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:58.279 What Kristan ought to have done has said, pardon my language, 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:00.960 but I'm going to use eth insta of the F word, 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:03.320 and I'm going to quote a son Piker, and I 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:05.200 want to know if you agree with this quote quote 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:09.480 number one, quote number two, quote number three, quote number four. 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:16.440 I would methodically go through everything this sociopath has said repeatedly, 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:19.800 we want to open the borders so people from the 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:22.520 South can come and rape your sisters and your brides 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:27.279 and your daughters. That's a san Piker. He's crazy. He's 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:31.479 an absolute malignant force and a narcissist. And he's got 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:35.520 seventy five one hundred thousand people who are entertained by malignancy, 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:39.440 like people who like to watch torture videos of cats 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:42.640 being crushed. There's an actual Supreme Court case on that 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:46.480 whether or not it's constitutionally protected to have crush videos. 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:50.160 So asan piker is a walking, talking crush video, there's 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:53.719 got constitutional protection. He's allowed to do whatever he wants 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:56.039 to do and say whatever he wants to say. But 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:59.200 when you're asked on meet the press, do you disavow 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:02.520 this guy? He will not answer the question. In fact, 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:07.800 he said it again. Cut number ten yesterday to Christian Walker. 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:11.600 You know, to sit here and play gotcha politics with 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:14.000 a dumb thing. Somebody said out of context that they 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:16.400 just allowed themselves to say, Oh, well, what does that 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:17.840 mean about what you think? I want to be held 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:20.680 accountable for what I say and what I do, rather 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:23.400 than this idea that we've were so stuck in cancel 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:25.800 culture that all of us agreed was a bad idea 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:27.400 back in twenty twenty, but we seem to want to 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:27.960 bring back. 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:32.200 That is not at all what's being asked. He's being 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:36.240 asked specifically about an individual with whom he traffics on 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:39.760 a daily basis, who he closed his campaign with for 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:43.240 many days, who was at his victory party live streaming 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:46.080 in a profane and vulgar way, saying the same sort 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:49.200 of things that Hasan Piker always says. In fact, today, 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:53.680 Hassan Piker asked to comment on Cea Weaver, who is 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:56.920 director of New York City Mayor Zoron Mamdani's Office to 0:07:56.960 --> 0:08:00.000 Protect Tenants and has been since January one, twenty seven. 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:04.720 She endorsed government seizure of private property, and she endorsed 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:10.640 listeners impoverishing the white middle class. Hassan Piker responded by saying, 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:15.280 beast mode, I love her. Critics highlighted Piker's own two 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:18.680 point seven to four million dollar West Hollywood home, his 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:21.640 two hundred thousand dollars Porsche, and whether or not he 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:25.520 ought to be applauding people who want to impoverish the 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:30.400 white middle class. That's not something that's out of context. 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:36.199 That's today, that's after yesterday's Meet the Press comment. Meanwhile, 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:38.839 he did get asked to a couple of softballs by 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:41.800 Kristen Welker cut number nine. 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:45.200 Just to be very clear, you're describing this tradeoff, you 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:48.559 are effectively acknowledging that people making less than a million 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:51.000 dollars could see their taxes go up. I just wouldn't 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:51.520 be very clear. 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:54.160 Is that a yes, I'm saying that we'd be paying 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:57.240 for healthcare in a different way instead of paying a 0:08:57.240 --> 0:08:59.719 health insurance company who ceo makes twenty million dollars. I 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:03.480 would much rather pay for durable health care into a government, which, 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:07.240 of course we all know provides healthcare for seniors who 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:09.800 need health care the most. So if I'm trading paying 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:13.040 a CEO to make more money or paying a government 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:15.240 to guarantee me health care, I'm picking the latter. 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:15.680 Every time. 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:20.439 He's stupid. That's just a stupid thing to say. That's 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:23.960 that is just a stupid thing to say. It's not 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:28.120 even single payer. It's not Medicare for all. It's stupid. 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:31.280 It doesn't it's not responsive. But then he said this 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:32.320 cut number eleven. 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:37.960 Some Americans worry, though, you can only make Medicare free 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:41.160 and universal if you increase taxes. So if you are 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:44.280 elected and make this push, would you need to increase taxes? 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:49.680 As I've said across this campaign, I am for taxing 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:50.640 billionaires their wealth. 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:53.240 What about people who make less for less than a 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:56.040 million dollars though, doctor elsayd what about people making less 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:57.000 than a million dollars? 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:01.400 So for the average person, and you look at your 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:04.280 W two. If you're an employee, he gets paid every 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:05.360 two weeks or four weeks. 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:07.719 After you pay your taxes. 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:10.000 The next biggest check that comes off the top of 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:14.440 your pay stub is to your health insurance company. So 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:17.320 you imagine instead of paying that to your health insurance company, 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:20.160 who CEO makes twenty million dollars a year. Instead you 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:22.520 paid a little bit more in taxes for healthcare that 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:24.520 you wouldn't lose if you lost your job or turn 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:25.200 twenty six. 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:29.760 So, yes, your taxes are going to go up a lot. 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:32.800 It doesn't make any sense. It's not thought through. He 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:35.880 doesn't have a plan, he doesn't have a platform. He's 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:40.160 a complete imbecile, and he's around a radical Hassan biker 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:44.160 that it makes him himself a radical. Go to rogersfirsenate 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:47.000 dot com and contribute to Mike Rodgers the most important 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:49.680 race in the United States in twenty twenty six. I'll 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:52.280 be right back on the U Zealer check America. Senator 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:55.120 Tom Cotton is from the Great State of Arkansas, the 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:58.720 chair of the Republican Conference, making the third ranking Republican 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:01.640 in the United States Senate. He is also the chair 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:03.840 of the Senate Intelligence Committee, a member of the Armed 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:07.920 Services Committee, Senator Cotton, I want to get to Iran, 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:11.520 but can I first get your comments on the nomination 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:15.160 by the Democrats of Abdul Rahman l Said to be 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:20.400 a United States Senator. I just can't see it happening, heugh. 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:25.960 It's just the latest example and evidence that socialists are 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:28.880 the driving intellectual force and the political muscle and the 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:33.880 Democratic Party. They're nominating these radicals not just in New 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:38.320 York City but now in one of the key swing 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:43.360 states in the Midwest. And abdulah say Ed is truly 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:46.880 radical compared to most normal michigan ors, or our candons, 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:50.880 or Americans, if you look at his deep hostility and 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:56.520 tipathy towards Israel and Jews, if you consider his support 0:11:56.559 --> 0:12:00.319 for abolishing ice, opening the borders, go. 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:00.720 On and on. 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:03.360 But the thing is, that's not really that kind of 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:06.000 the mainstream the Democratic Party anymore. That's kind of what 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:09.840 most Democrats these days, I think, and certainly the way 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:13.760 they vote in part because they're scared of the socialists 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:16.200 who are running against them in primaries, are voting in 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:18.840 these primaries. I suspect you're going to see it again tomorrow, 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:23.800 Hugh in Wisconsin and in Minnesota in jubernatorial and in 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:26.960 Senate primaries there, and it's a reminder of the stakes 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:31.120 of this election. We cannot let these radical socialists take power, 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:33.640 not just in some city that's far away that you 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:36.600 may never want to travel to, but in our Congress 0:12:36.640 --> 0:12:38.360 to make laws that we all live under. 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:42.640 Now, I've been trying to argue to the audience that 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:48.960 Chevalier Valdez, Hamawi, Caros, they will be a problem for 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:52.360 their districts, but they can't screw up the House completely 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:55.760 without the complexity of their party. One senator can do 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:58.439 a lot of damage, can't they. 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:01.360 Well, there's no question that any one senator has a 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:04.839 lot more influence than any one representative. And it's not 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:08.040 just a function Hue, as you suggest, of being one 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:09.960 of one hundred verses one and four and thirty five. 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:14.600 The Senate is a deliberate institution in which each Senator 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:17.440 has a lot more power from a structural standpoint than 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:20.000 each individual representative because the House is a much more 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:24.520 majoritarian institute. So there's there's no question that if l 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:26.079 si Ed were to win, which I do not for 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:29.080 a minute believe he will, that he would be a 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:32.760 massive head a not just for Chuck Schumer and Senate 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:35.400 Democrats before the Senate is an institution for this country. 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:38.320 And unfortunately, he'd probably have a lot of allies as well. 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:42.600 The good news is Mike Rodgers is the nominee. Mike Rodgers, 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:44.439 I don't know if you campaigned for him two years ago. 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:47.240 I guess you would against Elizie Slotkin, but she's kind 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:50.160 of an army Democratic came down to less than one percent, 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:55.520 and I'm hoping that Michigan reconsidered. He's an army guy. 0:13:55.880 --> 0:13:58.960 He's an FBI guy. Fourteen years in the House, he 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:02.160 was chair of the House Intel Committee. He's like abundantly 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:04.440 qualified to join the Senate. Don't you think. 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:09.960 No question to you that Mike Rodgers is assault of 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:12.760 the earth guy. I campaigned with him a lot two 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:15.319 years ago. I served with him the House of Representatives. 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:17.920 As you say, he's a patriot who served our country 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:20.360 in uniform, who served in the FBI, who led the 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:24.440 House Intelligence Committee. He understands where, he understands what it 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:27.840 takes to keep the country safe. He knows what it 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:31.240 takes to get the economy moving, to help prices stabilize 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:33.880 to help improve the quality of life for michigan urs 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:35.000 and keep them safe as well. 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:37.920 All right, no, sa if I can switch over to 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:41.120 Iran with you. Many of our listeners, many of our 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:44.600 viewers today don't really have a good idea of what's 0:14:44.640 --> 0:14:47.320 going on there. I think it's just the blockade and 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:50.960 strangulation strategy. But I don't know how do you view it. 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:56.360 Well, Hugh? At this stage, we haven't had a major 0:14:56.480 --> 0:14:58.800 exchange of fire now and I think nine or ten 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:01.680 days the President said last week that there may be 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:04.600 a deal underway. I frankly think there's never going to 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:07.760 be a deal with these revolutionary fanatics. I wish we 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:10.520 had simply finished the job back in early April, whether 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:14.240 before starting this on again, off again series of cease fires. 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:16.360 I don't think it's too late to finish the job. 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:20.000 We need to destroy the remnants of their military, especially 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:22.200 their military assets that are near the straight Up for 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:24.920 Moves that can continue to threaten shipping through the Straight. 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:25.400 Up for moves. 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:27.280 If we did that, we'd be able to get more 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:29.840 tankers out every single day. That would help get the 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:32.240 price of gas and diesel under control for our cans 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:34.920 ins and all Americans. It would also prevent Ron from 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:37.200 using that point of leverage in the future, and then 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:39.520 in the meantime, we can keep the blockade in place. 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:42.080 Does hundreds of millions of dollars worth of damage to 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:45.800 Iran every single day. We have left their military and shambles. 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:49.720 We have destroyed their nuclear program. So I think it's 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:52.320 better that we try to finish the job sooner rather 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:55.960 than later. That's been my consistent view now for four months. 0:15:55.600 --> 0:16:00.520 And furthermore, we should acknowledage that revolutionary genetics are never 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:03.640 going to make the kind of deal that we could accept. 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:06.640 Now you're on the campaign trail, you're up for election 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:09.120 this year. What do our Kansas say to you about 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:12.200 the war? Because you get a lot of different points 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:14.680 of view wherever you are in the country. I just 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:18.720 wanted prosecuted to a successful conclusion, which means capitulation by 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:22.400 the regime to the reality that they can't terrorize their neighbors. 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:24.880 But what do our Kansons tell you on the trail? 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:30.160 Hughes something very similar. I remember when the war first started, 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:33.960 talking to a farmer who acknowledged that he was already 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:36.960 paying a little bit more for diesel and a little 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:39.120 bit more for gas, but also said, you know, I'm 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:42.920 about your age, Senator. Orn's been terrorizing America for forty 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:46.320 seven years, and it's fine time that we finally ended 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:49.760 this threat once and for all. But I understand that 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:51.240 the people who are paying a little bit more for 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:54.240 gas or for diesel wish we had actually eliminated the 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:56.560 threat entirely in March and in April as opposed to 0:16:56.600 --> 0:16:58.680 go into this series of positive That's why I think 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:01.360 again the best course of action is to finish the 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:04.720 job militarily, especially the threat that are on poses to 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:07.480 the Strait, and then keep the embargo in place. That'll 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:10.679 keep the price of gas and diesel and other products 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:12.920 lower than there are right now. It'll also keep the 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:13.920 vice on a run. 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:17.320 Now, crude oil today is up to eighty two dollars 0:17:17.400 --> 0:17:21.160 and change up about five percent, which usually portends something's 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:23.480 going to happen. But at the same time, every day 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:26.920 and every week we talk the UAE, Saudi Arabia, the 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:30.600 Gulf State, they're building pipelines, they're providing different means of 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:35.280 getting oil to market. Is the straight declining of depreciating 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:39.399 asset for the revolutionary regime as it stands, even if 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:42.439 we don't do anything except the blockade. 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:44.840 I think that's probably the case. You that's a medium 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:47.040 term solution, not a near term solution. The near term 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:49.159 solution is to finish the job and to prevent or 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:52.040 On from continuing a threat in the Strait. That's what's 0:17:52.040 --> 0:17:54.720 going to get prices down for our cantons right now 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:57.280 in the next few months. The near term solution, say, 0:17:57.280 --> 0:17:59.200 over the course of the president's final two and a 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:01.520 half years in office, as you suggest, to build a 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:04.399 new pipeline infrastructure that may basically makes the story to 0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:08.000 removes immateial for global oil supply. That'll keep prices down 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:11.280 in the medium to long term. I've talked to Arab 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:15.080 leaders whose countries would be building and hosting these pipelines. 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:17.560 I talked to leaders of the oil industry who say 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:21.040 the same things. These are not engineering challenges. They're frankly 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:25.520 not even that expensive on the scale of what oil 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:31.000 major major companies and Arab countries have to budget. You're 0:18:31.000 --> 0:18:34.960 talking about very minor expenses and expenses because they don't 0:18:35.160 --> 0:18:37.520 face the same kind of ridiculous obstacles and red tape 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:40.000 to permitting for infrastructure that we have in America that 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:43.800 could probably be brought online within again a couple of years. 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:46.679 That's the way to diminish to runs leverage in the 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:49.600 medium to long term. In the short term, it's to 0:18:49.600 --> 0:18:51.200 finish the job against them militarily. 0:18:51.960 --> 0:18:54.240 I agree, Center Tom Cotton. Always good to talk to you. 0:18:54.320 --> 0:18:56.359 Back to the campaign trail for you, and thank you 0:18:56.400 --> 0:18:58.520 for spending some time with me on this Monday. Don't 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:02.560 go anywhere in commons. I'm joined by kind of a Midwesterner, 0:19:02.680 --> 0:19:06.439 Selena Zito calms to America. I know Pennsylvania is not 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:12.000 really the Midwest, Selena, President Trump's famous favorite journalist, Selena, Uh, 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:14.600 you know the Midwest pretty well for a Pennsylvania who 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:16.320 comes over to our side of the line once in 0:19:16.359 --> 0:19:19.080 a while. What do you make of l Sied in 0:19:19.119 --> 0:19:23.720 Michigan and hung in Wisconsin. How do they fit in 0:19:23.760 --> 0:19:27.480 the Midwestern matrix, of which you are somewhat aware they 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:27.800 do not? 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:31.560 But I think is really interesting is if you remember 0:19:31.600 --> 0:19:36.919 in my book Butler, I laid out that what Democrats 0:19:36.920 --> 0:19:40.680 have been missing is that white working class and Hispanic 0:19:40.760 --> 0:19:44.160 working class and black working class all vote the same, 0:19:44.520 --> 0:19:48.720 and they don't vote far left. So what we saw 0:19:49.119 --> 0:19:53.240 in that in this midterm contest, in the Democratic primary, 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:59.919 he did not win those voters. And it's very talent 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:04.840 because going into a general, those Democrat working class voters 0:20:04.840 --> 0:20:07.080 are going to do one or two things. They're either 0:20:07.119 --> 0:20:10.240 going to sit on their hands and stay home, or 0:20:10.800 --> 0:20:14.280 they're going to vote Republican. 0:20:15.080 --> 0:20:18.080 So let's follow up on that. And Butler, you talked 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:20.840 about the rally would have a lot of African Americans come, 0:20:21.040 --> 0:20:23.160 a lot of people, have all sorts of races come. 0:20:23.720 --> 0:20:26.080 And when we look at the cross stabs in Detroit, 0:20:26.440 --> 0:20:30.399 El Saya did not do what Democrats typically do in 0:20:30.480 --> 0:20:34.840 the inner suburbs or the inner wards of Detroit, blacks 0:20:34.880 --> 0:20:35.560 don't like him. 0:20:35.760 --> 0:20:40.440 Why is that, Oh, well, because you know, I think 0:20:40.520 --> 0:20:45.160 a lot of times people don't understand that black voters, 0:20:45.200 --> 0:20:48.600 in particular black working class voters are much more. 0:20:48.440 --> 0:20:56.239 Conservative than college educated blacks that live in places like 0:20:56.359 --> 0:20:59.959 New York or DC. It's very very different. Their experience 0:21:00.480 --> 0:21:03.760 are very different, and they're much more conservative, much more 0:21:03.880 --> 0:21:07.480 pro life, don't want government in their lives, and they 0:21:07.560 --> 0:21:11.480 don't want an overreaching government, right, which is what you 0:21:11.640 --> 0:21:16.280 have with socialism and communism, right, you do those freedoms 0:21:16.640 --> 0:21:21.119 that they work so hard to achieve from the Civil 0:21:21.200 --> 0:21:23.600 War all the way up to the Civil Rights Act 0:21:23.880 --> 0:21:27.520 are then stripped away under socialism and communism. 0:21:28.040 --> 0:21:31.960 So what do you make of Francesca hang Is on 0:21:32.040 --> 0:21:35.600 the ball tomorrow in Wisconsin not liking Thanksgiving? How's that 0:21:35.680 --> 0:21:40.400 going to fly with the folks in your area of Pittsburgh. 0:21:40.720 --> 0:21:43.560 Well, it's not gonna fly. And it doesn't matter how 0:21:43.560 --> 0:21:46.359 many times she walks it back or pretend she didn't 0:21:46.400 --> 0:21:50.200