WEBVTT - President Trump in Davos 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 Hillsdale at Hillsdale dot ed. 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 Hillsdale Dialogue all of them 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:14.560 at HU for Hillsdale dot com or just Google, Apple, 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:21.040 iTunes and Hillsdale. Welcome back, America. I want to introduce 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:25.120 you to the man of the impossible task. Chairman, sorry 0:00:25.120 --> 0:00:28.240 to say it that way, Representative Jason Smith, the chairman 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:31.440 of the Houseways and Meads Committee, has the impossible task 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:37.279 of getting a second reconciliation through the House Republican Caucus with. 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:41.280 Losing only two votes. Can it be done, mister chairman. 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:43.360 Do? 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:44.599 It's great to be with you. 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:48.360 I said all along that we needed to do one big, 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:51.240 beautiful bill to put as much of the items we 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:55.639 could possibly get in to deliver the president's campaign promises 0:00:55.640 --> 0:01:01.480 for the American people. It is very very difficult, very 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:04.840 very difficult to do two reconciliation bills, and when you 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:08.520 can only lose two people, and one member of our 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:11.039 conference is going to be a no on you know, 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:16.720 whether you support oxygen yes, that that creates a very get. 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:21.720 Is his name Massy? Yes, go ahead. 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:26.120 I won't be saying any names, but I will just 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:30.720 say that the records on the voting records speak for themselves. 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:34.840 But it is so important that the American people know 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:37.759 what we have delivered in the big beautiful bill. 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:40.520 Have I have folks all. 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:43.240 The time when I travel across the country that's like, 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:47.240 I didn't know that there was these investment accounts that 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:50.760 are for new children born in America. Or I didn't 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:53.880 know that you could do one hundred percent expensing on 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:57.120 new machine sheds that's built in America. I mean, there's 0:01:57.200 --> 0:01:59.440 so many things that people don't know about. We need 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:02.240 to do a better explaining what was in the first 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:06.640 Reconciliation Bill before trying to debate of whether there should 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:07.600 be a second one. 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:10.040 Well, there is the debate. So I just want to 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:13.040 test some things out on you. Because you remember when 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:15.120 they have the crossed axes and Robin Wood has to 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:17.679 shoot the arrow through the crossed axes, so you got 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:20.520 to get the arrow through about twenty cross access. What 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:22.640 do you think about a tax credit for first and 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:26.880 last month's rent Because we're talking about an affordability issue. 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:28.960 We got to hit young people. We got to hit 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:31.000 people who don't have a lot of money. How about 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:33.200 a tax credit for first and last month rent for 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:33.800 an apartment. 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:38.519 You know, we've been working with the administration on all 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:43.000 kinds of different tax ideas and proposals about housing affordability. 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:47.280 This is one of the items that I've heard people discuss. 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:53.800 Tax credits though are not very popular. Tax deductions, they're 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:58.000 a little bit more doable. So it's different items that 0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:01.480 we can look at. But I mean, just even looking 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:05.480 at the depreciation schedule that could have a huge impact 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:09.680 on housing. But there's so many different things to look at, 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:14.480 whether allowing people with their four oh one K to 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:18.560 use that as a down payment on purchasing a home. 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:22.839 There's numerous things we can be looking at and that 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:28.240 we are discussing. But all those housing things that we 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:30.800 just brought up, those could be done in a bipartisan 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:33.400 tax bill. There's no reason why it has to be 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:34.600 in a reconciliation bill. 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:37.000 Oh, that's not going to give you any more wins. 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:41.400 They're not. Because I've gone through the tides of House 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:46.360 seat losses. In the second term of Republican President Eisenhower 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:50.800 lost forty nine seats in nineteen fifty eight. Ford lost 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:55.200 forty eight seats in nineteen seventy four, regularly lost five 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:58.880 seats in nineteen eighty six, but w lost thirty seats 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:02.839 in two thousands. So the tides are not with you right, 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:06.720 So to deliver something to the youngs would be big. 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:09.800 I'm not arguing here for the relief for seniors and 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:11.480 let them get their money out of the four oh 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:13.640 one case and the I rate. That was smart for 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:16.360 the first round. But this has to be for young people. 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:18.880 So if you're going to do it, when would you 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:20.920 have to get started on persuading people. 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:25.480 So part of the discussion, too, Hugh, is when I 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:27.440 was referring to the four oh one case, some of 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:33.960 the discussion that's going on is allowing parents to utilize 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:36.120 part of their four oh one K for down payments 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:38.719 for their kids, you know, to try to get more 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:42.720 home ownership. Think first time home ownership went from thirty 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:46.599 two years old when Trump was last president to today 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:49.400 it's forty years old. Is the average age of a 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:52.960 first time home buyer. We had to break that cycle, 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:54.800 and we need to look at all different aspects to 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:58.400 do it. But I do believe that you can find 0:04:58.440 --> 0:05:02.400 the right policies, the right language, and force the Democrats 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:05.080 that they have no other alternative than to vote for it. 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:07.919 We've done that on numerous things within the House. I 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:10.520 think we can do it on some housing affordability issues 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:10.920 as well. 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:12.560 Let me suggest one on that I used to be 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:15.279 a land news lawyer, mister chairman, so I know that 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:20.640 in certain states like Florida, New York, California, the appreciation 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:22.640 of houses that have been held for twenty years is 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:25.320 way over five hundred thousand dollars. It just is. And 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:27.799 so a million dollar houses now a three million dollar house, 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:30.640 so no one can sell that house until they die, 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:33.840 and the basis steps up, Why don't you increase the 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:36.320 exemption from five hundred thousand to a million and a 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:38.880 half or something like that in order to get more 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:41.320 houses on the market, increase supply and drive down demand, 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:44.760 I mean drive down prices a queue. 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:48.400 You're hitting all kinds of different tax provisions that our 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:52.359 committee members have been discussing along with members who's not 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:54.880 on the Ways and Means committees. So it definitely is 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:57.880 of interest to a lot of people. Of course, that 0:05:57.960 --> 0:06:01.000 hasn't changed in decades. Like you pointed, out and a 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:02.880 lot of times you have to update the tax code. 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:04.520 All right, last thing I want to talk to you about, 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:07.320 and this has to be bipartisan, and I think you're 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:09.279 right to go out and talk about all the good things. 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:11.320 That's what the President did at Davos for an hour 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:13.320 and a half today, did at the press conference yesterday 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:16.600 for two hours. California, I've only been back here for 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:18.000 a couple of weeks. I've got a few more weeks 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:20.960 to go. They're bankrupt, they don't know it. They're they're 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:24.560 a zombie state. They have unfunded pension liabilities are through 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:27.200 the roof that Gavin Newsom's running into the ground. We 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:30.159 need a chapter in the Bankruptcy Code for states. We 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:33.360 have them for local governments like Detroit's use it and 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:37.440 sam Bernina County. We don't have a code chapter for states. 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:39.080 Is that something you'd ever tackle? 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:45.640 That is not something within the Ways and Means Committee jurisdiction. 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:50.200 But I have not had any I have not heard 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:55.400 myself any conversation in regards to going after that approach. 0:06:55.920 --> 0:06:59.000 I just wish that states would get their fiscal house 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:02.159 in order. Un Fortunately, we see a lot of them 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:05.960 spin like drunken sailors. But it's just it's crazy. 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:07.960 It's not recoverable in California. 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:10.080 I did the math when I got out here, and 0:07:10.120 --> 0:07:13.240 it's actually they can't do it given the contracts that 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:15.440 they've entered into at their public employee unions. 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:18.320 So, mister Chairman, when will you make the decision? 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:20.720 Go no? Gos figures got to come back from London 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:22.680 and take a victory lap for his great speech in 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:25.040 front of the Parliament. But when do you sit down 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:28.800 and decide go no, go on a reconciliation Try realizing 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:30.080 you can lose one member. 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:33.040 That's impossible, Wow, one member. 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:38.880 Yeah, that's a decision, Hue of leadership. Before a reconciliation 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:43.240 package can even start being crafted in my committee, the 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:47.280 Budget Committee has to pass a budget resolution laying out 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:50.960 the parameters of the reconciliation and so that is the 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:54.000 first step throughout the process before it can even come 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:59.000 to us. So I just don't believe, though, Hugh, that 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:00.400 there's a path way. 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:02.000 I'm glad here you say that. 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:04.760 I don't want to waste time on the majority. That's 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:08.840 very useful. You were the and thank goodness you were 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:11.480 out there arguing for one big beautiful bill because it's 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:14.560 it's only gotten harder. You need a majority of twenty 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:16.640 or so to get two of them done, and it's 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:19.360 not there. But thank goodness, you're here to sell the 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:21.560 rest of it and to make sure the tax code. 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:23.600 Maybe you can get the housing thing through. Who knows, 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:28.240 because that bad exemption hasn't changed in forever. Chairman Jason Smith, 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:31.280 thank you so much for joining me today from the housewaves. 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:33.559 It means committee, great member from the show me state 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:35.920 in Missouri, and we are lucky to have them there 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:39.040 running ways and means don't go anywhere, America. I'll be 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:42.200 back with House Conference chair Lisa McClain in a segment 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:44.400 or two. Don't go Anywhere. Stay tuned to the Sale 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:46.960 News channel or head over to my YouTube channel, Hugh 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:52.040 Hewett and YouTube like and subscribe. Please welcome back in America. 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:55.840 I'm Hugh Hewett, Representative Lisa McClain, as Chairman of the 0:08:55.880 --> 0:08:59.160 House Conference for the Republicans in the House, I should 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:01.839 say chairwoman Presentative welcome. It's great to have you on. 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:05.080 I was just talking with Jason Smith about operating with 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:08.439 a two person majority, which is really one because Congressman 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:11.880 Massi doesn't very often vote with us. What's the plan 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:14.800 for this year? I know that the off years, and 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:18.920 I'll run through the horrible math. IIC lost fifty eighteen 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:21.800 forty eight seat, forty nine seats in nineteen fifty eight, 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:25.840 Ford lost forty eight seats at nineteen seventy four, Reagan 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:28.560 lost five seats in nineteen eighty six, and w lost 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:32.600 thirty seats in two thousand and six. So this is 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:36.319 the second term mid term tough terrain, is it? 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:38.200 Yeah? 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:38.600 It is. 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:42.240 But you know what, We've defied the ads to this point. 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:42.640 Right. 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:46.160 I'm an optimist by nature, and I think we're on 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:48.280 the right side of things. We're right, we are on 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:52.360 the right side of the policies, and it's incumbent upon 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:55.720 us to go out and do shows like yours and 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:58.360 correct the truth with the other half of the truth. Right, 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:01.640 I think Americans vote with their pocketbooks and with the 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:04.040 work that we've done in the working families tax cuts. 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:07.160 I think people are going to see real relief. They're 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:10.240 already seeing real some real relief. But we are going 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:14.200 to continue to dig out of this disastrous mess that 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:18.359 Joe Biden and the Democrats left us, and again I'm optimistic. 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:20.680 I mean, just compare and contrast the two parties. 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:23.760 Goodness gracious, Now, Congresswoman, I went to Michigan Law School 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:25.640 at University of Michigan Law School, So the Michigan is 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:28.720 deep within you. I hear it in your voice. How's 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:30.960 that state looking in the off years? Up there in 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:33.120 the governor and Mike Rogers comes on a lot and 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:35.080 we talk about Mike, how do you feel about it? 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:38.360 You know, again, I feel pretty good. 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:40.800 And I feel pretty good because we're doing everything right 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:43.400 and we're getting out to vote, and if you take 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:44.960 a look at the governor, I think we have a 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:48.040 real shot of winning the governorship. 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:48.160 For the first time. 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:50.760 We've uh, we have good you know, we have good 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:52.719 candidates at the top of the ticket and a law 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:55.520 we have we have that, not to mention that we 0:10:55.600 --> 0:10:58.839 have a pretty strong independent. It's the he's the mayor 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:02.080 of Detroit, and we're all betting that he's going to 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:04.760 take more votes from the Democrats than he's going to 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:08.000 take from the Republican So I'm optimistic about that. I'm 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:11.880 also very optimistic about Mike Rogers winning the Senate. Look, 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:15.679 we've cleared the field in Mike Rogers is our candidate. 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:19.360 Where the Democrats are still fighting in the primary, that 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:23.360 bodes very well for us. And who the Democrats are 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:27.400 talking about and are favoring in the primary is the 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:33.800 radical left wing communism. I mean the policies, the defund ice, 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:38.200 you know, celebrate the criminals, the no law and order, 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:42.120 the transgenders, all the crazy stuff. The Democrat Party in 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:45.600 Michigan is just going way, way, way to the left. 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:48.480 And I think people want how Man sense, and I 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:50.120 think Mike Rogers bring that. 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:53.679 I added a couple of new affiliates in Michigan on 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:57.360 January one. They're up in just on the Lake Way 0:11:57.440 --> 0:11:59.839 up north, not on the up but on the other side. 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:02.520 So we're talking to all of the state. It's really 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:05.040 a red state with a couple of blue dots, right. 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:08.520 Michigan, You got that, right, that right? 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:11.000 One of those blue dots is Ann Arbor. And so 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:13.600 what do you do about a play the college campus 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:16.360 of the United States where they apparently don't teach economics anymore. 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:20.280 Well, the University of Michigan just got a new president, 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:22.800 so I'm a little bit hopeful on that. It's their 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:26.920 board of regents really that are more left wing and 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:30.400 they need to really focus on educating students on how 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:33.160 to think, not what to think. And my hope is 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:37.240 that they will get back to doing just that. But 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:41.120 I think you'll see a different, different landscape up there 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:44.960 too with the unfortunate death of Charlie Kirk or murder 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:47.920 I should say of Charlie Kirk. You know, enrollment of 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:55.760 Turning Point is growing, growing Republicans, young Republicans at the 0:12:55.880 --> 0:13:01.160 universities are really sparking. So that's always encouraged and optimistic. 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:03.960 And if we can get the Save Act on the 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:06.840 floor and get voter registration, I think you're clean up 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:08.480 a lot of those was the voter rolls and have 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:11.800 a really good election. It's going to be tight, right, 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:14.160 We're not going to win by twenty points, but I 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:15.800 think we'll continue to keep it run. 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:16.000 Well. 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:17.959 Let me turn over to the redistricting wars. 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:21.719 I was reading one analysis today that says the Democrats, 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:23.839 if you add it all up for everything that's been 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:27.719 done today, they're plus one. Assuming that California doesn't get 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:30.280 thrown out by Scotus and then we don't get the 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:33.240 voting rights decision and we don't see anything out of 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:35.800 Florida and we don't see anything out of Indiana. Is 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:36.800 that your math. 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:42.599 If all of those things happen. But those are pretty pessimistic. 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:45.600 So I think at the end of the day, we. 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:48.680 As Republicans will probably pick up two because I don't 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:51.240 think all of those things will go in the democrats favor. 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:55.240 I think what we really need to focus on. Quite frankly, 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:57.319 we are on the right side of the issues. He 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:00.679 We are on the side of lawn or we are 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:04.400 on the side of lower taxes for every American. We 0:14:04.559 --> 0:14:07.960 are on the side of common sense. For goodness sakes, 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:11.679 that's what really is going to prevail. And the Democrats 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:14.000 are just going so far to the left. 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:14.920 I mean, we. 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:19.960 Elected a socialist mayor in the city of capitalism, New York. 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:24.320 I mean, let's give New York the world. Let's give 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:28.760 them a real experience on what socialism or communism really 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:31.680 looks like, and let's remember that one that doesn't work, 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:34.880 and they come begging for Congress for more money because 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:37.400 at some point in time, people want to get paid. 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:41.240 So free buses, I think the bus drivers want to 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:44.400 get paid. Gee, free grocery stores, you think the farmers 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:46.840 want to get paid that sells their goods and services. 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:50.120 Everything sounds good, but you know as well as I 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:51.160 do nothing in. 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:54.320 Life very young people. Though I mentioned this to Jason Smith, 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:57.080 Chairman Smith was on with me earlier. How about attack 0:14:57.120 --> 0:15:00.280 credit for first and last month the rent that's really 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:03.080 a rifle shot aimed right at the twenty one to 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:07.120 thirty year old demo? Have we done anything for them 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:09.200 for the twenty one to thirty year olds that you 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:09.800 can point to? 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:13.760 Yeah, I think we're doing a lot of stuff right 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:19.120 now with interest rates with home purchases, and the President 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:19.760 is really. 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:20.600 Focused on that. 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:24.280 We haven't done a ton legislatively to do that, other 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:26.600 than if you look at the no tax on tips 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:29.440 and no tax on overtime. That will have a big 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:32.560 effect on those young people as well, because you look 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:35.120 at a lot of those young people they work while 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:37.600 they're going to while they're going to college, or you know, 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:41.680 they work, and they usually work bartending jobs or waitressing jobs. 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:44.240 That will have a major effect on them as well. 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:46.520 To keep the more money in their pocket and give 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:47.760 less money to Uncle Sam. 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:52.240 Lisa McClain share Women of the House Republican Conference. Always 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:54.239 good to talk to you, great to have a Michigander 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:56.800 on although Ohio State did beat Michigan today, I do 0:15:56.800 --> 0:15:58.360 you have to point that out this year. 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:00.600 To bring that up? Bring that out? 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:04.760 Of course I do. After the year before it, Yes, 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:06.760 after four in a row. Yes, of course I have 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:09.960 to do that. And now we just go back and reset. 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:12.200 We'll talk about again next year after the game again. 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:14.960 We'll play up from the Big House next year. Lisa McLain, 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:17.240 good to talk to you. Don't go anywhere, America. I'll 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:23.840 be right back on the Hugh Hewitt Show. Welcome back 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:26.600 in America. I'm Hugh Hewitt. Mary Katherine Ham is with me. 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:29.160 Mary Catherine Ham as the host of the Getting Hammered 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:32.960 podcast and the Normally podcast. She is a sad SEC 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:35.600 fan because the SEC was not anywhere to be seen 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:37.840 in the College National Championship, which was won by the 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:39.640 Big Ten for the third year in a row, Michigan, 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:42.080 Ohio State, and now Indiana and Mary Catherine, do you 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:43.920 think Georgia will ever return to the Big Game? 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:45.800 Yes, I do. 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:48.880 The thing about being an SEC fan is that we 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:51.960 don't need to ask Big Ten fans or Northwestern fans 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:53.880 to constantly affirm us. 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:56.600 Well, we do because after all the years we've been 0:16:56.640 --> 0:16:59.040 beaten up by the SEC because of the reps of ESPN. 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:01.240 We need to remind you people level the blading field. 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:04.600 I just go, we'll see you next year. 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:06.720 Well, we'll see you next year, and I hope I 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:09.760 think we open with Texas next year. The Buck guy 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:11.880 only were going to do it in Texas, so we'll 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:15.399 start right away. Mary Catherine President was at Davos today, 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:18.520 gave the longest press conference in history yesterday. Well, maybe 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:21.520 Chris Christie still holds that title. Put it all together, 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:23.440 it comes down to we're not going to use for 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:27.080 us to take greenland. Markets are happy. He thinks we 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:29.400 have a great economy. I tend to agree with him. 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:32.080 I also think he's done well in the first year. 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:34.600 But I want him to hit Iran so hard that 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:36.560 the eyes go back in their head and they're out. 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:37.440 What do you think. 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:40.320 I'm with you on Iran. 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:43.840 I thought it was interesting to watch everyone go gaga 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:47.240 over the Canadian Prime Minister Mark Karney, who's certainly a 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:50.639 cut above Trudeau. But it feels very much like Obama nostalgia. 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:53.679 They listen to this pretty cynical speech. If you actually 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:56.520 listen to the meat of it, but given this sort 0:17:56.520 --> 0:17:59.960 of lofty intellectual tone as compared to a Donald Trump 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:01.440 speech and press conference. 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:02.520 Which is a very different animal. 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:06.479 But what he was saying really was like, us middle powers, 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:09.199 we're going to get together, and we're going to tell everybody, 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:12.520 you know, we're going to become powerful somehow. We're not 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:15.440 going to militarize or do the things we need to 0:18:15.480 --> 0:18:17.760 do or create the things we need to create. America 0:18:17.800 --> 0:18:21.959 will still do that, and then sort of like falsely equivalent, 0:18:22.640 --> 0:18:26.000 making false equivalents of China and Russia and the US 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:31.679 as equal superpowers. It was odd to me, and I 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:35.600 think there is something to the idea that what he 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:36.480 was saying was like. 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:39.199 This old, this old thing that we all understood as 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:40.639 the world order was kind of fake. 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:44.400 And now I'm just going to tell you that we're 0:18:44.440 --> 0:18:47.159 exiting it now that it's convenient for us to exit it. 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:48.160 It was convenient for us. 0:18:48.080 --> 0:18:49.760 The whole time, and now we've decided we don't like 0:18:49.800 --> 0:18:51.359 Donald Trump, and so we're out and we're going to 0:18:51.400 --> 0:18:52.280 say hi to China. 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:54.199 And I just found the whole thing very off putting. 0:18:54.520 --> 0:18:57.119 I have to be very careful here because my daughter 0:18:57.119 --> 0:18:59.879 in law is Canadian. Was born in Montreal, and my 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:02.800 my in laws are Canadians, so they have naturalized Americans 0:19:02.800 --> 0:19:05.360 now and now I say bones are high because they're 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:09.520 from Montreal. But I want to point out I didn't 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:12.480 read Mark Carney's beach, I didn't watch Mark Carneie's speech 0:19:12.640 --> 0:19:16.280 because I love Canada, love maple syrup, I really do. 0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:19.040 I don't think they matter much to us. We like 0:19:19.119 --> 0:19:21.239 their oil. They can send it to China, but if 0:19:21.240 --> 0:19:23.439 there ever comes a conflict, they'll be with us, or 0:19:23.480 --> 0:19:26.280 they won't be with anyone. Erry Catherine. That's the reality. 0:19:28.240 --> 0:19:30.480 Well, yeah, I think a lot of this is about 0:19:30.760 --> 0:19:36.160 reality is that Europe and Canada don't like the tone 0:19:36.200 --> 0:19:37.080 of Donald Trump. 0:19:37.440 --> 0:19:39.359 But the tone of Donald Trump is. 0:19:39.359 --> 0:19:41.120 The only thing that's gotten any of them to spend 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:44.920 money on defense, as the Secretary General of NATO pointed 0:19:44.960 --> 0:19:49.120 out at the World Economic Forum. And so even when 0:19:49.200 --> 0:19:52.720 I'm annoyed with Donald Trump's tone or saber rattling, I 0:19:52.760 --> 0:19:55.560 am reminded that I was incorrect about him and NATO 0:19:55.600 --> 0:19:58.679 the first time around, because that is what got people 0:19:58.760 --> 0:19:59.600 to take care. 0:19:59.480 --> 0:20:01.719 Of their busines and to spend more money on defense. 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:05.000 So I'm sort of of two minds about his strategies 0:20:05.000 --> 0:20:07.520 on these things. And I think on the Greenland thing, 0:20:07.560 --> 0:20:11.040 this might be, you know, heading towards attempting to get 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:13.320 a deal by making a bunch of noise, as often 0:20:13.359 --> 0:20:13.960