1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,519 Speaker 1: Welcome in our number three Tuesday edition Clay Travis buck 2 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:06,760 Speaker 1: Sexton Show. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. 3 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:09,600 Speaker 1: We're about to be joined by Senator Ran Paul of Kentucky. 4 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:13,360 Speaker 1: I am in Washington, d C. Buck is on the 5 00:00:13,400 --> 00:00:18,280 Speaker 1: French Riviera for the Big Can Advertising Conference. A lot 6 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:20,680 Speaker 1: of people want to buy into this show as the 7 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:23,919 Speaker 1: audience has continued to grow, and so Buck is over there, 8 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:25,760 Speaker 1: Senator ram Paul with us. 9 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:25,960 Speaker 2: Now. 10 00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:26,680 Speaker 3: We're following a. 11 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:31,440 Speaker 1: Lot of different stories, ongoing uncertainty about exactly what the 12 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:36,879 Speaker 1: United States actions and responses will be as it pertains 13 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:37,519 Speaker 1: to Iran. 14 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:39,880 Speaker 3: We'll talk about that with Senator ran Paul right now. 15 00:00:40,720 --> 00:00:45,600 Speaker 1: Also continued fallout of the Big Beautiful Bill and where 16 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:48,720 Speaker 1: that is headed. But let's start with the number one 17 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:52,640 Speaker 1: question that is out there right now, Senator ram Paul. 18 00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:56,240 Speaker 1: What if President Trump called you and he said, hey, 19 00:00:56,600 --> 00:00:59,200 Speaker 1: what do you think I should do about the situation 20 00:00:59,360 --> 00:01:00,240 Speaker 1: in a ra on? 21 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:01,720 Speaker 3: Your response would be, what. 22 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:03,400 Speaker 4: You know? 23 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:06,760 Speaker 5: The President's had good instincts traditionally on this, and his 24 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:11,360 Speaker 5: instincts have been for restraint, for thinking things through, and 25 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:13,880 Speaker 5: hopefully for not getting us involved in this war. I 26 00:01:13,880 --> 00:01:16,080 Speaker 5: think it would be a bad idea for US to 27 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:18,840 Speaker 5: be involved directly in the war. I think the chance 28 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:22,600 Speaker 5: of negotiation pretty much goes out the window with the 29 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:25,720 Speaker 5: first US bombs dropping. Even as it is, we're so 30 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:28,920 Speaker 5: closely linked with Israel, I think that it's almost depicted 31 00:01:28,959 --> 00:01:31,080 Speaker 5: as a joint action now, but I think it is 32 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:34,040 Speaker 5: a step for the worse if we actually are involved 33 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:37,200 Speaker 5: actively with bombing. The other thing in our country is 34 00:01:37,240 --> 00:01:40,080 Speaker 5: we have this thing called the Constitution that says you 35 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:43,280 Speaker 5: can't go to war with countries without permission. So if 36 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:45,520 Speaker 5: he did decide, and he told me he's absolutely made 37 00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:47,880 Speaker 5: the decision, I would recommend to him that he has 38 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:51,040 Speaker 5: to come before Congress ask us for permission, and we'll 39 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:53,240 Speaker 5: have a vote the same night on whether or not 40 00:01:53,320 --> 00:01:53,840 Speaker 5: to go to war. 41 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:58,760 Speaker 1: Do you yourself, are you concerned about the idea of 42 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:02,440 Speaker 1: Iran having nuclear wayapons? Do you think that's a threat 43 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:04,000 Speaker 1: to the United States? 44 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:07,040 Speaker 4: Well, you know, I think potentially, I think. 45 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:09,680 Speaker 5: That it's more a threat to their regional neighbors. But 46 00:02:09,760 --> 00:02:11,200 Speaker 5: I would say that I don't want them. 47 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:13,200 Speaker 4: To have nuclear weapons. I don't think anybody does. 48 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:17,040 Speaker 5: But the question about every activity is does it make 49 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:19,480 Speaker 5: it more or less likely. So I think you can 50 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:22,600 Speaker 5: argue both sides of does Israel's bombing make it more 51 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:23,480 Speaker 5: or less likely that. 52 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:24,640 Speaker 4: They get a nuclear weapon? 53 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:28,000 Speaker 5: You can say, well, they're destroying their capability, or you 54 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:30,680 Speaker 5: could say that this is the last straw from Iran's 55 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:34,080 Speaker 5: point of view, and Iran will simply rush headlong into 56 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:38,440 Speaker 5: developing a weapon. They may well have stockpiles of highly 57 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:41,960 Speaker 5: enricheranium we don't know about, and once you have it, 58 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:46,639 Speaker 5: you can really hide a cupful of highly enricheranium anywhere, 59 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:50,720 Speaker 5: and probably one couple is probably enough for a decent 60 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:54,120 Speaker 5: sized bomb, and so they have the ability to enrich 61 00:02:54,760 --> 00:02:56,920 Speaker 5: I don't think the bombing gets rid of their knowledge 62 00:02:56,960 --> 00:02:58,160 Speaker 5: of nuclear power. 63 00:02:57,880 --> 00:03:00,639 Speaker 4: Even though they killed many different scientists. 64 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:04,560 Speaker 5: I hope they don't go this direction. But there's always 65 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:08,040 Speaker 5: a question will they passively come back and you know, 66 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:09,720 Speaker 5: hang their head and say we're sorry and we want 67 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:13,280 Speaker 5: to negotiate, or will they you know, have this sense 68 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:16,959 Speaker 5: of nationalism, rally around their flag, put aside their differences 69 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:21,400 Speaker 5: and really unify the sense of uh trying to you know, 70 00:03:21,639 --> 00:03:23,320 Speaker 5: come at an attack. 71 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:27,360 Speaker 1: I presume that since you wouldn't like to see United 72 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:31,040 Speaker 1: States force, you know, bunker busting bombs used. I think 73 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:33,080 Speaker 1: that would be your position based on the answer so 74 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:35,960 Speaker 1: far that you also would want to have no US 75 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:40,600 Speaker 1: involvement in any potential regime change relating to the Ayatolas 76 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:43,600 Speaker 1: or anything else. Your general proposition would be that we 77 00:03:43,640 --> 00:03:45,240 Speaker 1: should not get involved. 78 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:47,440 Speaker 4: Well, you know, we tried that. 79 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:50,600 Speaker 5: You know, we tried it in Afghanistan and for twenty years, 80 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:55,240 Speaker 5: and Afghanistan was a very very tiny backwards country, no 81 00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:58,720 Speaker 5: wealth and very few people compared to Iran, and we 82 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:01,840 Speaker 5: weren't very successful even in that backwater of trying to 83 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:05,600 Speaker 5: get you know, a stable government, and the Taliban ended 84 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:07,720 Speaker 5: up walting in and you know, a matter of days 85 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:10,440 Speaker 5: taking over that government. So I don't know that we're 86 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:12,600 Speaker 5: very good at nation building, nor do I think that 87 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:15,240 Speaker 5: that's really what we should be doing. So no, I'm 88 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:17,719 Speaker 5: not involved with it. Do I wish they're people? Well, yeah, 89 00:04:17,960 --> 00:04:19,760 Speaker 5: I would love to see their people get rid of 90 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:23,880 Speaker 5: their government. Nobody wants to see their people oppressed. The 91 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:27,360 Speaker 5: you know, the women that have been you know, snatched 92 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:30,039 Speaker 5: up off the street, beaten, and who knows else, you know, 93 00:04:30,080 --> 00:04:31,240 Speaker 5: simply for not wearing. 94 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:31,880 Speaker 4: A face covering. 95 00:04:32,520 --> 00:04:35,920 Speaker 5: And you know, the young people of Iran are said 96 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:39,520 Speaker 5: to be very pro western, very much more open than 97 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:42,920 Speaker 5: where the Mullas are as far as you know culture. 98 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:45,279 Speaker 5: And it is sad to see what's happening. 99 00:04:45,320 --> 00:04:48,280 Speaker 4: But you know, our job really isn't. 100 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:51,039 Speaker 5: To send armies everywhere and to send our soldiers and 101 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:52,960 Speaker 5: that's the way people need to think of this. Are 102 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:55,240 Speaker 5: you ready to send your son or daughter, you know, 103 00:04:55,320 --> 00:04:57,560 Speaker 5: to march in a trench and you know, trench to 104 00:04:57,640 --> 00:05:00,880 Speaker 5: trench in Iran? And it really is not what that 105 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:01,960 Speaker 5: we should be involved with. 106 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:03,800 Speaker 3: We're talking to Senator Ram Paul. 107 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:06,360 Speaker 1: All right, let's shift from Iran right now to what's 108 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:09,680 Speaker 1: going on with the so called big beautiful bill. Last 109 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:11,919 Speaker 1: week we had Senator Ron Johnson in. I think you 110 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:15,920 Speaker 1: and he share a lot of the same ideas on 111 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:19,360 Speaker 1: this bill not cutting spending enough. I don't know if 112 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:22,040 Speaker 1: things have changed since the last week. What would you 113 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:24,719 Speaker 1: tell us? What should we know about the current status 114 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:26,080 Speaker 1: of the bill as you see it. 115 00:05:27,279 --> 00:05:28,880 Speaker 5: You know, a lot of the bill is tax cuts, 116 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:32,120 Speaker 5: which I'm for. Making the tax cuts permanent, which I'm for. 117 00:05:32,480 --> 00:05:35,080 Speaker 5: I voted for these tax cuts in twenty seventeen, most 118 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:37,880 Speaker 5: of them. I think they were largely responsible for the 119 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:40,040 Speaker 5: economic growth. 120 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:41,479 Speaker 4: And prosperity in the first Trump. 121 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:45,760 Speaker 5: Administration with low historic unemployment, we were doing great until 122 00:05:45,960 --> 00:05:48,240 Speaker 5: you know, they set the government down, shut the world 123 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:51,000 Speaker 5: down for the pandemic. But I'm for all of that. 124 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:53,520 Speaker 5: The spending cuts, I agree with Ron Johnson. 125 00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:56,400 Speaker 4: They're weak, their anemic, and they will. 126 00:05:56,200 --> 00:06:00,960 Speaker 5: Not materially affect our accumulation of debt. And this is 127 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:03,240 Speaker 5: the thing people need to understand. Our deficit decis is 128 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:06,080 Speaker 5: going to be two point two trillion if you believe 129 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:08,240 Speaker 5: the numbers of the bill, which really probably are not 130 00:06:08,320 --> 00:06:10,400 Speaker 5: accurate in the first year or two, but that we're 131 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:12,560 Speaker 5: going to have cut spending one hundred and fifty billion. 132 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:15,320 Speaker 5: That means instead of a two point two trillion, you'd 133 00:06:15,320 --> 00:06:18,520 Speaker 5: have a two point zero five trillion. So it's really 134 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:22,800 Speaker 5: not materially changing the accumulation of debt, and probably in 135 00:06:22,839 --> 00:06:26,000 Speaker 5: the first couple of years the debt will grow because 136 00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:29,520 Speaker 5: when you reduce tax rates, you do usually get less. 137 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:30,200 Speaker 4: Revenue in the beginning. 138 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:32,280 Speaker 5: Now you tend to get economic growth and grow out 139 00:06:32,279 --> 00:06:33,160 Speaker 5: of it, but for. 140 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:35,120 Speaker 4: A year or two that revenue will go down. 141 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:37,880 Speaker 5: They also have some fake pay fors in there. They 142 00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:40,880 Speaker 5: have a pay for that says, we're getting rid of 143 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:44,560 Speaker 5: the Biden forgiveness of student loans. Well, the course ruled 144 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:47,200 Speaker 5: that illegal and it never went into action. So they're 145 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:49,920 Speaker 5: going to get rid of something that isn't currently happening. 146 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:52,800 Speaker 5: And only in Washington do you call that a cut 147 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:54,839 Speaker 5: when you get rid of something that actually isn't occurring. 148 00:06:55,680 --> 00:06:58,520 Speaker 5: But some of these things aren't real. Some of the 149 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:02,320 Speaker 5: real findings, like putting work requirements on Medicaid, don't start 150 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:06,040 Speaker 5: occurring until after the election in twenty twenty six. So 151 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:07,839 Speaker 5: I think in the first couple of years. 152 00:07:07,680 --> 00:07:08,919 Speaker 4: The devisit does get worse. 153 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:13,680 Speaker 5: So but my biggest complaint really though. 154 00:07:13,560 --> 00:07:14,480 Speaker 4: Is the debt ceiling. 155 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:17,920 Speaker 5: Raising the debt ceiling five trillion when Congress I think 156 00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:19,840 Speaker 5: is terrible with money. 157 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:23,080 Speaker 4: They're irresponsible. We've accumulated thirty six fin dollars debt. 158 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:27,760 Speaker 5: They show no signs of wisening up and actually spending cuts, 159 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:29,760 Speaker 5: and so I think to raise the debt ceiling five 160 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:34,120 Speaker 5: trillion is giving irresponsibility too much, irresponsible people too much credit. 161 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:37,200 Speaker 5: So I'd give them three months and in three months 162 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:38,760 Speaker 5: it's going to be the end of the fiscal year. 163 00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:41,000 Speaker 5: You realize in three months they're going to be coming 164 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:44,520 Speaker 5: back with a big, beautiful omnibus, and so that's going 165 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:47,160 Speaker 5: to be we'll face that in September. And so if 166 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:49,160 Speaker 5: they're going to keep spending money the same way they have, 167 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:52,880 Speaker 5: I would say, you get very little installments of debt ceiling. 168 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:55,160 Speaker 5: We vote on it every three months until we see 169 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:57,240 Speaker 5: if we can trust you with money. 170 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:00,400 Speaker 1: What do you think the timeframe is? You just laid 171 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:03,320 Speaker 1: out the debt ceiling. President Trump has said he'd like 172 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:06,360 Speaker 1: to have this done by July fourth. Ron Johnson said 173 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:09,280 Speaker 1: he didn't think that was very likely. When do you 174 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:12,120 Speaker 1: think the Senate might be able to vote on this bill? 175 00:08:12,440 --> 00:08:14,840 Speaker 1: What does your horizon look like? In that respect? 176 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:19,640 Speaker 5: It all depends on how many people are have courage. 177 00:08:20,320 --> 00:08:25,280 Speaker 5: Four principled conservatives with courage could make this into a 178 00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:28,040 Speaker 5: conservative bill. All would take would be four of us 179 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:29,960 Speaker 5: to say that we don't want the debt ceiling on 180 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:32,000 Speaker 5: there and we're not voting for five trillion of debts, 181 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:34,720 Speaker 5: and they would have to change it. Right now, I 182 00:08:34,760 --> 00:08:40,760 Speaker 5: think it's me and possibly Ron Johnson, and then there 183 00:08:40,800 --> 00:08:42,640 Speaker 5: may be one or two others out there. But I 184 00:08:42,679 --> 00:08:45,160 Speaker 5: really haven't heard a lot that indicates to me that 185 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:45,760 Speaker 5: there are people. 186 00:08:46,040 --> 00:08:47,560 Speaker 4: You have to say you're going to be a no who. 187 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:51,120 Speaker 5: You have to be steadfast and loud, and you have 188 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:53,000 Speaker 5: to tell them why, and you have to tell them 189 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:55,280 Speaker 5: what it takes to get to yes. And that's why, 190 00:08:55,400 --> 00:08:59,360 Speaker 5: despite getting some critic from some of the attack dogs 191 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:01,880 Speaker 5: at the White House, I've been very clear to the President. 192 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:02,920 Speaker 4: I like a lot of the bill. 193 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:06,160 Speaker 5: I like him personally, I support him, and I'll support 194 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:07,800 Speaker 5: the bill, but they have to separate out. 195 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:10,440 Speaker 4: The dead ceiling. They don't want to do that, but 196 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:11,079 Speaker 4: they will. 197 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:13,120 Speaker 5: Do it if I'm the deciding vote. That's what I 198 00:09:13,160 --> 00:09:15,120 Speaker 5: also told my supporters, just that I can't believe you 199 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:17,400 Speaker 5: will vote forever the tax reduction. I said I will. 200 00:09:17,840 --> 00:09:20,679 Speaker 5: I'm for it, and if I'm the deciding vote, I 201 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:23,079 Speaker 5: promise you I'll vote for it. But if I'm the 202 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:25,480 Speaker 5: deciding vote, they're going to have to negotiate, and they 203 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:27,839 Speaker 5: will because that's why it works. The only reason they're 204 00:09:27,880 --> 00:09:30,240 Speaker 5: not negotiating with me on the dead ceiling now is 205 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:32,200 Speaker 5: we don't have the four votes to oppose them. If 206 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:34,720 Speaker 5: we had the four votes, we'd have already separated the 207 00:09:34,720 --> 00:09:36,080 Speaker 5: dead ceiling and I would be a yes. 208 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:39,439 Speaker 1: Now, how frustrated you just mentioned it a little bit. 209 00:09:39,440 --> 00:09:41,360 Speaker 1: Do you think the president is with you. 210 00:09:44,880 --> 00:09:45,560 Speaker 4: A little bit? 211 00:09:45,679 --> 00:09:49,160 Speaker 5: You know, I've known him for quite a while, But. 212 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:51,520 Speaker 1: Is your relationship with the president, sorry to cut you 213 00:09:51,559 --> 00:09:54,000 Speaker 1: off a little bit, Is your relationship with the president 214 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:55,880 Speaker 1: a little bit of a roller coaster? Because sometimes it 215 00:09:55,920 --> 00:09:58,240 Speaker 1: seems like you guys are thickest thieves, and then other 216 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:00,640 Speaker 1: times it's like you're kind of at each other a 217 00:10:00,679 --> 00:10:02,520 Speaker 1: little bit. Do you feel like a little bit over 218 00:10:02,559 --> 00:10:05,040 Speaker 1: the decade that you've been a roller coaster with the president? 219 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:09,079 Speaker 5: Well, it's kind of funny because I personally like him, 220 00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:11,439 Speaker 5: played golf with him a dozen times. I played golf 221 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:14,560 Speaker 5: with him before he was president, probably twenty thirteen twenty fourteen. 222 00:10:15,559 --> 00:10:17,720 Speaker 5: I asked him to support some of my mission trips 223 00:10:17,760 --> 00:10:20,679 Speaker 5: when I did surgery in Guatemala and I believe it 224 00:10:20,760 --> 00:10:23,400 Speaker 5: was twenty thirteen or twenty fourteen, and then at Haiti. 225 00:10:23,760 --> 00:10:25,960 Speaker 5: He supported both trips, and so I've gotten to know 226 00:10:26,040 --> 00:10:28,480 Speaker 5: him over time and actually enjoy his company. 227 00:10:29,640 --> 00:10:32,400 Speaker 4: I was probably one of his biggest defenders on the impeachment, 228 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:35,280 Speaker 4: but you know, there is a mercurial. 229 00:10:34,920 --> 00:10:38,520 Speaker 5: Nature to it though that you know, I think those 230 00:10:38,559 --> 00:10:41,000 Speaker 5: were very important things that defense on that, I think 231 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:44,560 Speaker 5: this bill is just a policy difference, and I'm not 232 00:10:44,679 --> 00:10:45,400 Speaker 5: changing anything. 233 00:10:45,400 --> 00:10:45,760 Speaker 4: I'm poor. 234 00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:48,880 Speaker 5: I've always been against raising massive raises of the dead ceiling, 235 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:49,440 Speaker 5: whether it's. 236 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:50,400 Speaker 4: Biden or anybody else. 237 00:10:51,920 --> 00:10:54,160 Speaker 5: But I think some of his attack dogs at the 238 00:10:54,200 --> 00:10:57,160 Speaker 5: White House simply you know, it's it's my way to 239 00:10:57,200 --> 00:10:59,719 Speaker 5: the highway kind of stuff. But the last time I 240 00:10:59,760 --> 00:11:01,760 Speaker 5: talked and we had a good conversation, it was after 241 00:11:02,720 --> 00:11:05,559 Speaker 5: the big beautiful parade, and he was in good spirits, 242 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:09,880 Speaker 5: and you know, I reiterated what it would take. And 243 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:12,160 Speaker 5: my goal is not to defeat the bill. My goal 244 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:15,120 Speaker 5: is to you know, present a conservative bill that I 245 00:11:15,160 --> 00:11:17,400 Speaker 5: can be happy to support. And a lot of the 246 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:18,960 Speaker 5: bill I like, all you got to do is separate 247 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:21,560 Speaker 5: on the dead ceiling or shorten it, and they could 248 00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:26,040 Speaker 5: well get my vote. But yeah, the relationships up and down, 249 00:11:26,080 --> 00:11:27,160 Speaker 5: but I think. 250 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:31,560 Speaker 4: Still a lot of you know, respect on my part. 251 00:11:32,040 --> 00:11:35,440 Speaker 1: We're talking to Senator Rampaul. Last question for you. You know, 252 00:11:35,559 --> 00:11:37,920 Speaker 1: I know, looking ahead to twenty twenty eight is a 253 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:40,040 Speaker 1: ways away. We still have to get past the midterms. 254 00:11:40,559 --> 00:11:42,800 Speaker 1: But there's a lot of talk about Andy Basheer in 255 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:46,240 Speaker 1: your state running for president. He was one of the 256 00:11:46,280 --> 00:11:49,120 Speaker 1: worst governors in America, certainly the worst governor, I would say, 257 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:50,600 Speaker 1: of a red state during COVID. 258 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:51,640 Speaker 3: Is it kind of. 259 00:11:51,559 --> 00:11:55,000 Speaker 1: Staggering to you that he would be a national political 260 00:11:55,040 --> 00:11:57,640 Speaker 1: figure based on what you have seen of his leadership 261 00:11:57,679 --> 00:11:58,760 Speaker 1: in Kentucky. 262 00:12:00,160 --> 00:12:02,160 Speaker 5: To see that he'll be any kind of national figure. 263 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:06,000 Speaker 5: I think he lacks the you know, charisma, But he 264 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:08,120 Speaker 5: also the things that he did to us in our state. 265 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:11,600 Speaker 5: I mean, shutting down churches, shutting down gym, shutting down 266 00:12:11,960 --> 00:12:16,160 Speaker 5: you know, stores, you name it, limiting how many people 267 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:19,720 Speaker 5: can show up anywhere, banning travel. I mean, the authoritarian 268 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:22,959 Speaker 5: things he did in our state are what many other 269 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:25,280 Speaker 5: Democrats did too. Whittmer did some of the same stuff 270 00:12:25,280 --> 00:12:28,320 Speaker 5: in Michigan, but I don't think that'll be popular. I 271 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:31,920 Speaker 5: think he fools himself into thinking, well, he's a Democrat, 272 00:12:31,960 --> 00:12:34,960 Speaker 5: had won in a Republican state. All Democrats like that 273 00:12:35,040 --> 00:12:36,760 Speaker 5: think they're going to be the next Jimmy Carter or 274 00:12:36,840 --> 00:12:39,520 Speaker 5: Bill Clinton. And that's yet to be seen, but I 275 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:41,440 Speaker 5: kind of doubt it from what I've seen. I can't 276 00:12:41,480 --> 00:12:44,400 Speaker 5: imagine that he'll be much of a force in the 277 00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:45,400 Speaker 5: Democrat primary. 278 00:12:45,880 --> 00:12:48,000 Speaker 1: Senator Ran Paul we appreciate the time. Happy to have 279 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:50,160 Speaker 1: you on whenever and keep us updated on how the 280 00:12:50,160 --> 00:12:54,600 Speaker 1: bill goes. Thanks that is Senator Ran Paul. Look, if 281 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:57,000 Speaker 1: you're frustrated with the cost of your health insurance, you're 282 00:12:57,000 --> 00:12:58,960 Speaker 1: not alone. You might want to consider a new plan 283 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:02,199 Speaker 1: available for everyone out there offers a monthly cost as 284 00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:04,680 Speaker 1: low as two hundred and sixty two dollars. Insurance plan 285 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:08,719 Speaker 1: called Ease for Everyone. 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I should say, unjustified criticisms of my outfit 304 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:16,000 Speaker 1: on Fox News. 305 00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:17,960 Speaker 3: This is Mary Beth Clay. 306 00:14:18,040 --> 00:14:19,080 Speaker 2: Don't listen to him. 307 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:23,680 Speaker 6: I saw you on the Media Buzz show, and you 308 00:14:23,760 --> 00:14:24,800 Speaker 6: looked fantastic. 309 00:14:25,360 --> 00:14:27,000 Speaker 2: It was the perfect shade of. 310 00:14:26,920 --> 00:14:32,360 Speaker 5: Pink for a man, and it was very very appropriate 311 00:14:32,400 --> 00:14:34,480 Speaker 5: for summer. You look fantastic. 312 00:14:35,280 --> 00:14:36,920 Speaker 1: I don't know that I was in pink, so I 313 00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:40,200 Speaker 1: was gonna give Mary Beth a real plaudit's here. But 314 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:42,960 Speaker 1: I do appreciate that she thought I looked good. It 315 00:14:43,080 --> 00:14:46,200 Speaker 1: was a light, airy color, and I can see how 316 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:48,000 Speaker 1: the white could have looked a little bit pink in 317 00:14:48,040 --> 00:14:52,160 Speaker 1: conjunction with my amazing jacket. Anna and Raleigh, what did 318 00:14:52,200 --> 00:14:55,520 Speaker 1: you think of the incredibly masculine crying stunt from Senator 319 00:14:55,520 --> 00:14:58,120 Speaker 1: Padilla that we just saw on the Senate floor as 320 00:14:58,160 --> 00:14:59,880 Speaker 1: a woman, where you swept off your feet. 321 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:10,240 Speaker 2: He needs a grabby. No all planned ign Okay, because 322 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:13,320 Speaker 2: he could have stacked out a phone call to make 323 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:17,080 Speaker 2: an appointment to meet with DHF and ask his questions. 324 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:18,840 Speaker 5: Okay, that's all in reality. 325 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:21,160 Speaker 7: In reality, he would. 326 00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:25,160 Speaker 2: Have expected the exact same courtesy from DHF if they 327 00:15:25,200 --> 00:15:27,720 Speaker 2: had questions for him. 328 00:15:27,840 --> 00:15:29,200 Speaker 3: Thank you for the call. 329 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:32,120 Speaker 1: Doesn't sound like you were overwhelmed by his raw masculine 330 00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:35,720 Speaker 1: power on the Senate floor. Jeff in Houston, we got 331 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:39,280 Speaker 1: a lot of reactions coming in bb KT RH down 332 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:41,360 Speaker 1: in Houston, one of our top affiliates. 333 00:15:41,360 --> 00:15:42,640 Speaker 3: What's Jeff got for us? 334 00:15:43,160 --> 00:15:43,480 Speaker 4: Clay. 335 00:15:43,680 --> 00:15:47,520 Speaker 8: As far as Iran goes, we owe them revenge going 336 00:15:47,520 --> 00:15:50,160 Speaker 8: all the way back to nineteen seventy nine. But as 337 00:15:50,200 --> 00:15:53,280 Speaker 8: far as Iran being a free country, they were never 338 00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:59,080 Speaker 8: a free country. They were Westernized, but Deshaw had the Savac. 339 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:02,200 Speaker 8: Back then, people were terrorized, And I talked to people 340 00:16:02,280 --> 00:16:07,040 Speaker 8: back then who were from Persia as they called it. 341 00:16:07,040 --> 00:16:09,160 Speaker 8: It was much better than it is now, but it 342 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:10,160 Speaker 8: was not free. 343 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:11,000 Speaker 4: Yeah. 344 00:16:11,080 --> 00:16:13,200 Speaker 1: When I say free, I mean in the context of 345 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:17,600 Speaker 1: Middle Eastern freedoms at the time. Iran in the nineteen seventies, 346 00:16:17,640 --> 00:16:21,240 Speaker 1: before the revolution, the people were far freer than they 347 00:16:21,280 --> 00:16:24,920 Speaker 1: are today, and I think that many people who lived 348 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:28,600 Speaker 1: through that envy that era. In fact, I think the 349 00:16:28,680 --> 00:16:31,440 Speaker 1: percentages and again team can look this up, but Iran 350 00:16:31,560 --> 00:16:34,440 Speaker 1: has a huge population of people under the age of 351 00:16:34,520 --> 00:16:38,960 Speaker 1: thirty who look back on that era very fondly and 352 00:16:39,200 --> 00:16:42,080 Speaker 1: actually would love to have more of a connection with 353 00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:44,040 Speaker 1: the West than they do right now. 354 00:16:44,360 --> 00:16:46,640 Speaker 3: And I give credit to Elon Musk. 355 00:16:46,680 --> 00:16:50,240 Speaker 1: My understanding is he's turned on the starlink Internet so 356 00:16:50,280 --> 00:16:52,520 Speaker 1: that the people of Iran don't have to just be 357 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:56,800 Speaker 1: listening to the state subsidized media coverage of what's going 358 00:16:56,880 --> 00:16:58,560 Speaker 1: on there. 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He's in 395 00:18:58,359 --> 00:19:01,919 Speaker 1: studio with us here in Washington, DC. And I know 396 00:19:01,920 --> 00:19:04,359 Speaker 1: you got a ton of different things on your plate, 397 00:19:05,280 --> 00:19:07,280 Speaker 1: so I'm gonna hit you with questions. You may try 398 00:19:07,320 --> 00:19:09,760 Speaker 1: to dodge some of them, just because I understand you 399 00:19:09,760 --> 00:19:10,679 Speaker 1: guys are pretty good at that. 400 00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:13,640 Speaker 3: So let's start off here. 401 00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:17,840 Speaker 1: I think now that President Trump is in office, it's 402 00:19:17,920 --> 00:19:21,320 Speaker 1: fair to say that we have seen maybe a little 403 00:19:21,320 --> 00:19:26,280 Speaker 1: bit of unfairness from ABC, CBS, NBC, among others. 404 00:19:26,359 --> 00:19:26,919 Speaker 3: They have a. 405 00:19:28,520 --> 00:19:31,680 Speaker 1: Government responsibility based on the fact that we have given 406 00:19:31,720 --> 00:19:35,679 Speaker 1: them a license as a country. How fair now that 407 00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:39,000 Speaker 1: we're through the election season, do you think news coverage 408 00:19:39,280 --> 00:19:43,240 Speaker 1: has been What could occur from your perspective, to make 409 00:19:43,280 --> 00:19:46,159 Speaker 1: it fair er because they're supposed to be as a 410 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:48,000 Speaker 1: part of getting a license. You correct me if I'm 411 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:51,679 Speaker 1: wrong not providing some form of biased news coverage. But 412 00:19:51,760 --> 00:19:53,920 Speaker 1: I think most people that are listening to us right 413 00:19:53,960 --> 00:19:57,600 Speaker 1: now would really roll their eyes at the idea that ABC, 414 00:19:57,720 --> 00:20:00,639 Speaker 1: NBC and CBS are providing in some way fair and 415 00:20:00,720 --> 00:20:01,760 Speaker 1: balanced news coverage. 416 00:20:01,840 --> 00:20:03,440 Speaker 7: Yeah, thanks so much. Great to be with you. 417 00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:05,680 Speaker 6: You know, look, if you step back and you think 418 00:20:05,680 --> 00:20:07,800 Speaker 6: about speakers in this country, you've got, you know, the 419 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:09,800 Speaker 6: guy in the soapbox gets to say whatever he wants. 420 00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:12,439 Speaker 6: You've got cable channels which are lightly regulated. When it 421 00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:16,680 Speaker 6: comes to television stations. Those are licensed by the FCC, Yes, 422 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:19,879 Speaker 6: and they are required by federal law to operate in 423 00:20:19,960 --> 00:20:22,960 Speaker 6: the public interest. Now, if you step back over the years, 424 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:25,920 Speaker 6: the FCC and regulators in Washington, I think have walked 425 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:29,639 Speaker 6: away completely from enforcing that public interest obligation, and I 426 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:31,800 Speaker 6: don't think we're better off for it. To your question, 427 00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:34,800 Speaker 6: if you step back, I don't think the national programmers. 428 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:37,040 Speaker 6: So if you look at ABC, CBS, NBC they own 429 00:20:37,119 --> 00:20:40,080 Speaker 6: some stations, but in the mainly program content that goes 430 00:20:40,080 --> 00:20:42,680 Speaker 6: out through licensed stations, I don't think they've been fair 431 00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:44,760 Speaker 6: at all if you step back and look at their 432 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:48,240 Speaker 6: coverage in terms of Republicans or President Trump, and frankly 433 00:20:48,359 --> 00:20:50,560 Speaker 6: that's not just my opinion. If you look at trust 434 00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:54,440 Speaker 6: in that national programmers again, focusing on ABC, CBS, NBC, 435 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:58,160 Speaker 6: trust is at an all time low. Again, Jeff Bezos, 436 00:20:58,160 --> 00:20:59,800 Speaker 6: of all people, did an op ed not that long 437 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:04,720 Speaker 6: ago saying that these national media outlets have lost the 438 00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:07,159 Speaker 6: thread when it comes to where the American public is. 439 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:08,760 Speaker 6: But the good news is this, there's another side of 440 00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:12,120 Speaker 6: the coin. When top of the actual local broadcast TV stations, 441 00:21:12,119 --> 00:21:14,440 Speaker 6: the ones that actually hold the license by the FCC, 442 00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:17,880 Speaker 6: when they run programming, it's actually really trusted by local communities. 443 00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:20,560 Speaker 7: So the biggest policy that we're running. 444 00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:22,480 Speaker 6: At the FEC in terms of media right now is 445 00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:26,080 Speaker 6: how do we empower the local broadcasters to serve the 446 00:21:26,080 --> 00:21:29,400 Speaker 6: public interest and allow them to get some distance from 447 00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:32,960 Speaker 6: the national programmers that are really just generating content in 448 00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:35,639 Speaker 6: Hollywood in New York and sort of force feeding it 449 00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:37,280 Speaker 6: out there. So I think there's actually a lot the 450 00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:41,240 Speaker 6: FCC can do that addresses this issue, and again focusing 451 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:45,239 Speaker 6: on that unique public interest obligations that TV channels have. 452 00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:47,320 Speaker 1: That is super interesting because I think most people out 453 00:21:47,359 --> 00:21:49,439 Speaker 1: there listening to us right now, when there is a 454 00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:52,239 Speaker 1: major thunderstorm, for instance, and they are at home, they 455 00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:57,159 Speaker 1: trust their local news to provide them accurate coverage about danger, tornadoes, 456 00:21:57,240 --> 00:22:00,560 Speaker 1: everything else. But they certainly don't trust the national news 457 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:03,680 Speaker 1: to provide them. So I hadn't really thought about that dichotomy. 458 00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:08,359 Speaker 1: It's interesting NPR PBS we have seen the vote barely 459 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:10,800 Speaker 1: get passed in the House to take away their funding 460 00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:14,800 Speaker 1: as it pertains to government dollars. I've always thought it's crazy. 461 00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:17,320 Speaker 1: To my knowledge, we don't get a massive amount of 462 00:22:17,359 --> 00:22:20,760 Speaker 1: government support. We compete with NPR. This show does the 463 00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:24,560 Speaker 1: premiere networks all over the country, and it's always felt 464 00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:28,000 Speaker 1: like an unfair competition that they get these dollars we don't. 465 00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:30,880 Speaker 1: What do you think what kind of optics does the 466 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:32,520 Speaker 1: FCC have on those issues? 467 00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:34,440 Speaker 7: It really wasn't that long ago. 468 00:22:34,560 --> 00:22:37,400 Speaker 6: If you looked at a cross section of the listeners 469 00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:39,720 Speaker 6: and viewer to NPR and PBS, you'd get a pretty 470 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:42,679 Speaker 6: decent cross section of the country as a whole. And 471 00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:46,320 Speaker 6: at some point not that long ago, things changed dramatically, 472 00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:49,320 Speaker 6: and it appears that NPR and PBS have been appealing 473 00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:53,560 Speaker 6: to a very narrow bespoke, almost Acella horde or portion 474 00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:55,119 Speaker 6: of the country. And you can do that right as 475 00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:58,080 Speaker 6: a First Amendment matter. But if you are going to 476 00:22:58,119 --> 00:23:01,760 Speaker 6: Congress and saying I want you Congress to force people 477 00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:04,919 Speaker 6: to take money out of their pocketbooks, send it to 478 00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:07,800 Speaker 6: Washington and then send it to subsidize that. I think 479 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:10,679 Speaker 6: it's entirely legitimate for people to be asking questions about that. 480 00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:11,320 Speaker 3: It's your point. 481 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:17,240 Speaker 6: Recently recisions package past the House that would save about 482 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:20,240 Speaker 6: a billion dollars from that funding. The FCC, we've launched 483 00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:23,600 Speaker 6: actually an investigation into NPR and PBS. And here's why 484 00:23:24,119 --> 00:23:26,320 Speaker 6: they are. Unlike any other station, like a station here 485 00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:29,239 Speaker 6: at commercial station, they're non commercial, which means they get 486 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:32,760 Speaker 6: special benefits above and beyond those that regular broadcasters get. 487 00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:36,239 Speaker 6: But as a consequence, they can't run advertising. But what 488 00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:39,359 Speaker 6: it looks like they've been doing is running programs that 489 00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:42,760 Speaker 6: appear to be very close, if not to advertisements themselves. 490 00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:45,480 Speaker 6: So we've launched an inquiry at the FCC to make 491 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:47,920 Speaker 6: sure that they're not violating the law, because really you 492 00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:49,520 Speaker 6: can't have it both ways. You can't be getting you know, 493 00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:51,920 Speaker 6: public funding and claiming that you're you know, a non 494 00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:54,679 Speaker 6: commercial and then potentially the same time running commercial. So 495 00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:57,720 Speaker 6: we're looking at as well. Right now, CBS News in 496 00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:00,399 Speaker 6: the news a lot. You got the transcriptra East of 497 00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:03,159 Speaker 6: sixty minutes, the interview that they did with Kamala Harris 498 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:06,640 Speaker 6: right before the election, that was edited in many different 499 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:10,919 Speaker 6: ways potentially beneficially to her. What can you tell us 500 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:14,399 Speaker 6: about the investigation into sixty minutes and how does that 501 00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:18,480 Speaker 6: impact the larger paramount idea they're trying to sell to Skydance. 502 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:21,960 Speaker 6: I believe where is all of that from your perspective? Yeah, 503 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:24,680 Speaker 6: right before January twentieth, inf I think read around January tenth. 504 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:30,560 Speaker 6: I believe the prior administration, the Biden FCC summarily dismissed 505 00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:34,080 Speaker 6: a news distortion complaint that had been filed against sixty 506 00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:37,280 Speaker 6: Minutes based on claims of editing around that answer to 507 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:39,600 Speaker 6: Kamala Harris in the sixty Minutes episode. 508 00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:40,439 Speaker 7: They dismissed it. 509 00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:44,360 Speaker 6: Without actually doing any real inquiry, without doing any due diligence. 510 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:45,560 Speaker 6: And so one of the very first things that we 511 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:49,400 Speaker 6: did was we restored that complaint against CBS. We've put 512 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:51,320 Speaker 6: it out for public comment, and to your point, we 513 00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:54,640 Speaker 6: obtained the unedited transcript in video of that interview. We've 514 00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:56,919 Speaker 6: put it all out there. I think Sunlighty's the best disinfected. 515 00:24:57,080 --> 00:24:59,320 Speaker 6: So right now the American people are participating in this process. 516 00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:01,960 Speaker 6: We haven't made a final decision, but we are weighing whether, 517 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:04,119 Speaker 6: in fact it is a news distortion or not, and 518 00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:07,719 Speaker 6: that's under active investigation at the FCC. Separate from that, 519 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:10,840 Speaker 6: we do have a transaction before the FCC where the 520 00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:13,199 Speaker 6: owners of CBS are looking to sell and as of 521 00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:15,520 Speaker 6: right now, we're just running our normal course review on 522 00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:17,800 Speaker 6: that and no significant update as to where we are 523 00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:18,040 Speaker 6: on that. 524 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:22,840 Speaker 1: When you look at the spectrum, and I know people 525 00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:25,240 Speaker 1: think about this a lot. I was out in San 526 00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:28,280 Speaker 1: Francisco recently, got to go in a weymo. I felt 527 00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:29,760 Speaker 1: like I was in the future. 528 00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:32,800 Speaker 6: For all the weymouth started getting before good get out 529 00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:33,320 Speaker 6: of that clay. 530 00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:38,080 Speaker 1: We got out safely. There doing research on that. The 531 00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:40,959 Speaker 1: amount of spectrum that's going to be required for autonomous 532 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:42,800 Speaker 1: vehicles actually pretty extraordinary. 533 00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:43,480 Speaker 3: Uh. 534 00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:45,520 Speaker 1: The government, I'm sure a lot of people out there 535 00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:49,840 Speaker 1: understand this, may not has control of the wireless spectrum 536 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:53,760 Speaker 1: universe out there. Is there enough to be able to 537 00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:57,760 Speaker 1: handle all the technology coming? What would be beneficial in 538 00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:00,280 Speaker 1: your mind as you look at the auctions of this 539 00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:03,320 Speaker 1: spectrum and the utilization of the spectrum. 540 00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:05,400 Speaker 6: Yeah, this is a really important issue. It's a practical issue, 541 00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:08,000 Speaker 6: it's a national security issue. Most people they pick up 542 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:10,119 Speaker 6: their smartphone or they hop into a weaimo, they just 543 00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:12,120 Speaker 6: assume it works. They don't know how. Maybe they think 544 00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:16,160 Speaker 6: it's magic or pixie dust. But it's these invisible airwaves 545 00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:18,440 Speaker 6: that you need to power everything. And when you look 546 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:21,640 Speaker 6: at the future of technology, whether it's autonomous vehicles, whether 547 00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:26,560 Speaker 6: it's ARVR AI, the data demand to carry data traffic 548 00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:29,400 Speaker 6: wirelessly is just like a hockey stick through the roof. 549 00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:32,560 Speaker 6: And right now China has leaped out to a really 550 00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:33,800 Speaker 6: significant lead over the US. 551 00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:34,760 Speaker 7: Didn't used to be this way. 552 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:37,480 Speaker 6: If you batch the first Trump administration, China was ahead 553 00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:40,200 Speaker 6: of US early on, and President Trump stepped in, showed 554 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:42,840 Speaker 6: strong leadership, and the US closed the gap. That's why 555 00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:45,399 Speaker 6: you saw four G and five G explode in the US. 556 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:48,200 Speaker 6: Now President Biden stepped in and we just fell into 557 00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:52,080 Speaker 6: a deep malaise when it comes to freeing up spectrum. 558 00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:54,639 Speaker 6: And President Trump recently has articulately that he wants the 559 00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:56,400 Speaker 6: US to lead again and we're going to do it. 560 00:26:56,520 --> 00:26:58,320 Speaker 6: So one of the things that the One Big Beautiful 561 00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:02,320 Speaker 6: Bill does is it restore the FC's authority to free 562 00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:05,240 Speaker 6: up these airways, which lapsed during the Biden years. Senator 563 00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:08,359 Speaker 6: Cruz Chairman Cruz has been phenomenal in leading on this, 564 00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:11,639 Speaker 6: but we are hundreds of megahertz behind where China is 565 00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:14,760 Speaker 6: right now, and to your point, our commercial sector needs it, 566 00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:18,000 Speaker 6: DoD uses it as well. But I think ultimately right 567 00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:21,200 Speaker 6: now where we're short is commercial spectrum for high power use. 568 00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:23,919 Speaker 6: President Trump and Chairman Crews have been clear. But it's 569 00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:27,040 Speaker 6: national security, it's economic growth, and it's bridging the digital 570 00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:29,280 Speaker 6: divide because we use that spectrum to connect people, to 571 00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:30,080 Speaker 6: connect communities. 572 00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:34,679 Speaker 1: Your job, to a large extent, I would think, and 573 00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:36,880 Speaker 1: you can correct me if I'm wrong, is to try 574 00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:39,879 Speaker 1: to allow the marketplace of ideas to work at the 575 00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:43,119 Speaker 1: best of its manner and ensure that the government is 576 00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:45,520 Speaker 1: not putting a hand or a finger on the scale 577 00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:49,520 Speaker 1: to allow one side to have an advantage. How fair 578 00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:53,160 Speaker 1: do you think the overall media environment is from your 579 00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:57,160 Speaker 1: perspective as FCC chairman, when you look at it across 580 00:27:57,200 --> 00:27:59,920 Speaker 1: the scope of all of the different arenas that you 581 00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:02,640 Speaker 1: are monitoring right now, do you think we have a 582 00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:05,679 Speaker 1: fair system in place right now or do you think 583 00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:06,919 Speaker 1: there's still a lot of things that need to be 584 00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:07,399 Speaker 1: done well. 585 00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:10,600 Speaker 6: I think there's still a significant ways to go in 586 00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:13,520 Speaker 6: terms of making sure that broadcasters in particular live up 587 00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:16,680 Speaker 6: to the public interest obligation. Again, the studies and survey 588 00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:19,399 Speaker 6: in terms of lack of trust speak to that. But 589 00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:22,159 Speaker 6: if you step back, particularly during COVID, we saw this 590 00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:25,480 Speaker 6: massive acceleration of censorship in this country, and a lot 591 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:28,040 Speaker 6: of it took place on social media and on big 592 00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:31,280 Speaker 6: tech platforms. Silicon Valley was deciding whether you got to 593 00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:34,040 Speaker 6: stay on the digital town square what you could say. 594 00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:36,240 Speaker 6: And the evidence also shows that the Biden administration was 595 00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:39,240 Speaker 6: effectively colluding with a lot of these social media companies 596 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:42,160 Speaker 6: to shut down free speech. And it didn't just happen 597 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:45,440 Speaker 6: here in the US, it's spreading globally. In Brazil, there's 598 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:47,880 Speaker 6: this justice stayle Moray, this government official there that's been 599 00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:51,040 Speaker 6: censoring social media. In Europe, they're passing laws to sort 600 00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:54,520 Speaker 6: of force US technology companies to abide by their version 601 00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:57,320 Speaker 6: of censorship, and so to some extent, we are on 602 00:28:57,360 --> 00:29:00,560 Speaker 6: the back side of that, meaning as the government controls 603 00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:03,400 Speaker 6: with COVID RESCIND, we see free speech re emerge because 604 00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:05,120 Speaker 6: you can't have both, right, if you're gonna have massive 605 00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:07,520 Speaker 6: government controls that came with censors that came with COVID, 606 00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:10,520 Speaker 6: you necessarily have censorship as well. Because free speech is 607 00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:13,360 Speaker 6: a check on those types of government controls. And President 608 00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:15,280 Speaker 6: Trump has come in and very clearly said that he's 609 00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:17,440 Speaker 6: going to restore free speech in this country. So, whether 610 00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:20,080 Speaker 6: it's the work of the FCC, the Federal Trade Commission 611 00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:22,760 Speaker 6: is doing great work on this, the DOJ, we're looking 612 00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:27,440 Speaker 6: to sort of break up that collusive conduct that really amounted, 613 00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:29,800 Speaker 6: in my view, to a censorship cartel. There's still work 614 00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:32,320 Speaker 6: to do, but I think we're finally turning the tide 615 00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:32,560 Speaker 6: on that. 616 00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:35,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm sure a lot of people out there 617 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:38,320 Speaker 1: listening right now listening to us on traditional radios podcast, 618 00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:43,920 Speaker 1: certainly still watching some news broadcast CBSABC, NBC. But for 619 00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:46,920 Speaker 1: my kids, they get almost all their news from TikTok 620 00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:51,719 Speaker 1: and YouTube. So to your point on the power of media, 621 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:53,880 Speaker 1: the dynamic has shifted in a big way. Like I 622 00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:56,480 Speaker 1: don't even know that my kids could find local news 623 00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:59,719 Speaker 1: on television other than watching sports. They never watch it. 624 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:02,680 Speaker 1: Everything through YouTube. And I'll give you an example on 625 00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:06,840 Speaker 1: this program. YouTube wouldn't allow our interview with President Trump. 626 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:09,640 Speaker 1: Would we just had ran Paul on at the top 627 00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:11,760 Speaker 1: of the last at the top of the hour. They 628 00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:14,480 Speaker 1: wouldn't allow our interview with Rand Paul to be posted 629 00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:18,800 Speaker 1: because they said something that YouTube didn't like. But in 630 00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:23,120 Speaker 1: an election universe, in a democratic universe, should it, at 631 00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:26,880 Speaker 1: a bare minimum, everything that a political figure says be 632 00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:30,280 Speaker 1: distributed as widely as possible and not restricted and censored. 633 00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:30,600 Speaker 6: Yeah. 634 00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:31,000 Speaker 7: Absolutely. 635 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:32,400 Speaker 6: One of the things that I focused a lot on 636 00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:35,280 Speaker 6: is this concept of user empowerment, Like, we don't want 637 00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:38,960 Speaker 6: any one, single centralized authority, whether it's a Silicon Valley 638 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:42,320 Speaker 6: company or otherwise, deciding who can participate in the town square. 639 00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:44,160 Speaker 6: What can they say in the digital town square. We 640 00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:46,360 Speaker 6: need to empower individuals. If you don't want to see 641 00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:48,280 Speaker 6: Ram Paul, great, don't follow him. If you don't want 642 00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:51,200 Speaker 6: to see this video, Okay, block or unfollow the show. 643 00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:53,080 Speaker 7: But we need to sort of get those. 644 00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:57,280 Speaker 6: Decision making, this decisions back into the hands of individual 645 00:30:57,400 --> 00:30:59,600 Speaker 6: users and take it out of the hands of the 646 00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:02,200 Speaker 6: big corporations, for instance, on social media. You know, one 647 00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:04,719 Speaker 6: idea we've talked about is should we have content filters 648 00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:06,600 Speaker 6: that you can choose, Like, let's say you want the 649 00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:08,760 Speaker 6: reasons that Escape me, but you want MSNBC to filter 650 00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:10,479 Speaker 6: your feed for you. Okay, yeah, plug that in and 651 00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:12,479 Speaker 6: do it if you want you know this show to 652 00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:14,240 Speaker 6: have one. Great if you want Fox News to do it, great, 653 00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:17,440 Speaker 6: but let's let's get that power back to individuals unless 654 00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:20,840 Speaker 6: this centralized, because when you make a mistake at a 655 00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:24,400 Speaker 6: system wide level like that, like, the consequences are very serious. Yeah, 656 00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:27,040 Speaker 6: people think about, Wow, there's harm that comes from hate speech, 657 00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:29,520 Speaker 6: which obviously is protected by the First Amendment, But think 658 00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:31,120 Speaker 6: about the other side of it, like when you couldn't 659 00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:33,959 Speaker 6: talk about the origins of COVID nineteen, when you couldn't 660 00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:36,560 Speaker 6: talk about the costs and benefits of masking young children 661 00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:38,960 Speaker 6: who were trying to get speech development at that point 662 00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:41,920 Speaker 6: in time. So there's very real harms that flowed from 663 00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:43,640 Speaker 6: the sensors that we live through. Let alone, you know, 664 00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:46,800 Speaker 6: electoral consequences with a Hunter Bye laptop story that. 665 00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:50,800 Speaker 1: Goes on the last question for you. AI is taking 666 00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:54,240 Speaker 1: off at a rapid rate, and we have fun with 667 00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:56,840 Speaker 1: AI memes that people will post of me playing the 668 00:31:56,880 --> 00:31:59,960 Speaker 1: flute like and all sorts of ridiculous things out there. 669 00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:02,800 Speaker 1: But it's rapidly evolving to the point where I think 670 00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:05,800 Speaker 1: being able to determine what's real and what's fake is 671 00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:10,160 Speaker 1: going to become really very difficult. Are you concerned about that, 672 00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:12,280 Speaker 1: because it's one thing to restrict something that we know 673 00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:15,040 Speaker 1: is real, But how in the world do we have 674 00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:18,160 Speaker 1: the ability to let people know what is true and 675 00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:20,600 Speaker 1: what is false, and what someone's actually said and not said. 676 00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:23,920 Speaker 6: Yeah, if you've seen these AI general videos of the 677 00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:27,280 Speaker 6: podcasters that are in the baby, yeah, Yeah, they're hilarious. Yes, 678 00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:28,680 Speaker 6: those are the very fun I don't know if they've had 679 00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:30,240 Speaker 6: any those use of you or not, but. 680 00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:31,880 Speaker 3: I think they may think I'm a baby already. Yeah. 681 00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:34,080 Speaker 6: I felt on a meme hole at one time looking 682 00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:35,720 Speaker 6: at all those. I thought they were hilarious. Mean, Look, 683 00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:38,160 Speaker 6: I think we'd be very careful here. During the last administration, 684 00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:43,760 Speaker 6: President Biden had the FCC proposed putting labels on political 685 00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:47,360 Speaker 6: speech political ads that were generated in any way with 686 00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:49,880 Speaker 6: AI content, and really it just became a way of 687 00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:53,080 Speaker 6: sort of slowing down the use of AI because they 688 00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:55,520 Speaker 6: viewed it as in my view, Republicans were being more 689 00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:57,560 Speaker 6: successful in the mem wars than they were. So I 690 00:32:57,640 --> 00:32:59,680 Speaker 6: think there is some harm, as you noted, but I 691 00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:02,000 Speaker 6: think we be very careful that we don't stifle this 692 00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:04,280 Speaker 6: early on, because ultimately it can start to look a 693 00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:06,520 Speaker 6: lot like censorship. So I do think that people need 694 00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:09,160 Speaker 6: to be vigilant and we need to educate people. And 695 00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:11,040 Speaker 6: it's I think it easier for younger folks. Think older 696 00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:12,640 Speaker 6: people can get, you know, fooled a little more easy. 697 00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:15,000 Speaker 6: Well if you just step mechl online scams in general. 698 00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:16,480 Speaker 6: But I think this in area we have to proceed 699 00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:19,200 Speaker 6: very cautiously, and I'd be very skeptical of regulation at 700 00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:19,560 Speaker 6: this point. 701 00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:22,280 Speaker 3: FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, appreciate the time. 702 00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:24,880 Speaker 1: Appreciate you coming in video, coming in studio with us, 703 00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:27,760 Speaker 1: sitting in on video here and we hope to talk 704 00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:28,320 Speaker 1: to you again soon. 705 00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:29,040 Speaker 7: Yeah, good be with you. 706 00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:29,720 Speaker 3: Thanks for sure. 707 00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:33,360 Speaker 1: Look a lot of you out there right now, got 708 00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:35,400 Speaker 1: all sorts. We're just talking about all the different ways 709 00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:38,520 Speaker 1: media can evolve. You got VCRs, you got old film reels, 710 00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:41,680 Speaker 1: you got old photographs? How many of you have digitized 711 00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:44,640 Speaker 1: those forever? Because the VCR wasn't made to last forever? 712 00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:48,200 Speaker 1: Do you have the ability to share old movies with 713 00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:51,480 Speaker 1: your family? Do you have old slides, old pictures digitized? 714 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:54,600 Speaker 1: This is what Legacy Box does. They help you preserve 715 00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:59,960 Speaker 1: and ensure that your family's history lives on long after 716 00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:01,760 Speaker 1: or all of us are gone. 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Now, I don't know, 737 00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:21,200 Speaker 1: maybe some of you out there. That's breaking news. Maybe 738 00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:22,880 Speaker 1: you were like, oh Man, I was thinking, you know, 739 00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:25,920 Speaker 1: summer in Tehran, it's only one hundred and eighty degrees 740 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:28,480 Speaker 1: and there's a you know, a chance of getting hit 741 00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:31,120 Speaker 1: by bomb. That sounds like an amazing way to take 742 00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:32,320 Speaker 1: off for summer vacation. 743 00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:34,000 Speaker 3: Don't do it. 744 00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:37,279 Speaker 1: So that is news from the State Department that was 745 00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:40,680 Speaker 1: just released. I'm not even making that up. So do 746 00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:45,880 Speaker 1: not travel to Iran in case you were thinking about it. Also, 747 00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:50,880 Speaker 1: they are suggesting no one traveled to Israel more seriously, 748 00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:54,719 Speaker 1: and I know that that's probably far more common. But 749 00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:57,360 Speaker 1: given the situation that's going on, I know there's not 750 00:35:57,480 --> 00:36:01,040 Speaker 1: very many planes that are traveling into Israel right now. 751 00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:03,279 Speaker 3: But that also being told. 752 00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:05,759 Speaker 1: That's Tammy Bruce just in the last few minutes State 753 00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:09,640 Speaker 1: Department spokesperson saying both of those things. 754 00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:10,840 Speaker 3: So we'll see. 755 00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:14,319 Speaker 1: What happens tonight as the drama continues to build surrounding 756 00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:19,360 Speaker 1: what exactly is going to happen, and the Iranian Crown 757 00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:22,960 Speaker 1: Prince has said a nationwide uprising could put the nightmare 758 00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:25,920 Speaker 1: to an end and he would be with you soon. 759 00:36:26,640 --> 00:36:30,600 Speaker 1: That is potentially a new regime much to follow. We 760 00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:33,400 Speaker 1: will get you all of that tomorrow live from DC. 761 00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:39,680 Speaker 1: Have great Tuesdays. Sleeve Travis and Buck Sexton on the 762 00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:41,440 Speaker 1: front lines of truth.