1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,719 Speaker 1: It is sad to say that there is only one 2 00:00:03,120 --> 00:00:07,400 Speaker 1: US Senator right now that's standing between a massive infrastructure 3 00:00:07,440 --> 00:00:10,080 Speaker 1: bill that has nothing to do with infrastructure. In fact, 4 00:00:10,119 --> 00:00:13,280 Speaker 1: we now know that it's filled with pork barrel spending. 5 00:00:13,640 --> 00:00:15,640 Speaker 1: And when I say port bill spending, I'm talking about 6 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:18,040 Speaker 1: a ton of it. More than seventy five percent of 7 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:20,799 Speaker 1: the infrastructure bill we are now being told has nothing 8 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:27,200 Speaker 1: to do with infrastructure spending. And there's only one Senator 9 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:32,800 Speaker 1: that's saying no to this anarchy, this massive spending bill 10 00:00:32,840 --> 00:00:38,400 Speaker 1: that has nothing to do with actual infrastructure. That senator 11 00:00:38,479 --> 00:00:41,239 Speaker 1: is going to join US, Bill Haggerty from Tennessee in 12 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:44,000 Speaker 1: just a moment. But let me tell you about what 13 00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:47,000 Speaker 1: we know now about the Republicans that have sold out. 14 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:54,600 Speaker 1: A total of eighteen Senate Republicans now eighteen have decided 15 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:56,760 Speaker 1: to put the so called infrastructure build on a glide 16 00:00:56,760 --> 00:01:00,880 Speaker 1: path to passing it. These eighteen Republicans centers have voted 17 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:03,960 Speaker 1: on Sunday to clear the final hurdle before a four 18 00:01:04,080 --> 00:01:07,240 Speaker 1: vote to advance the so called bipartisan Infrastructure Bill. Now, 19 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:10,520 Speaker 1: there is something shocking about this bill that everybody listening 20 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:14,840 Speaker 1: needs to understand, and that is this it is insane. 21 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:17,959 Speaker 1: This bill has not even been marked up yet in 22 00:01:17,959 --> 00:01:23,880 Speaker 1: the House. What that means in translation is this bill 23 00:01:23,959 --> 00:01:29,679 Speaker 1: will actually get more extreme. Did you hear me? It 24 00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:35,520 Speaker 1: will get more extreme, not less. It will get more extreme. 25 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:40,520 Speaker 1: The Senate bill is already extreme. It will get more 26 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:45,160 Speaker 1: extreme when it goes to the House. Usually it's the 27 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:47,800 Speaker 1: other way around. But they've designed it this way on 28 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:49,480 Speaker 1: purpose because they figure if they could just get it 29 00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:52,000 Speaker 1: out of the Senate and throw it back over the 30 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:54,040 Speaker 1: House and they could add even more crap into this, 31 00:01:54,080 --> 00:01:56,200 Speaker 1: and then everybody would just be like, all right, fine, whatever, 32 00:01:56,320 --> 00:01:59,200 Speaker 1: let's just move on, Like, let's get through this as 33 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:01,520 Speaker 1: quick as we pass we can. Let's move this on, 34 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:03,720 Speaker 1: and then we'll move on down the road, and we'll 35 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:05,760 Speaker 1: all get what we want, right, We'll get the port 36 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:08,040 Speaker 1: will spending that we want, We'll get the pet projects 37 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:11,720 Speaker 1: that we want, We'll get everything that we want. That 38 00:02:11,919 --> 00:02:14,120 Speaker 1: is the goal of this. That is exactly why these 39 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:17,760 Speaker 1: eighteen Republicans have gone along. Now, the Senate voted sixty 40 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:20,079 Speaker 1: eight twenty nine to vote to invote culture on the 41 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:25,120 Speaker 1: bipartisan infrastructure bill. This they're calling at the Infrastructure Investment 42 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:26,880 Speaker 1: in Jobs Act. It really has anything to do with this. 43 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:29,639 Speaker 1: The vote means the Senate could take up the bill, 44 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:35,520 Speaker 1: possibly by Tuesday morning afternoon evening, meaning they could pass 45 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:40,440 Speaker 1: this mammoth two thousand, seven hundred and two page, one 46 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:43,959 Speaker 1: point two trillion dollar legislation in the dead of night. 47 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:47,760 Speaker 1: This bill is twice as long as the Bible and 48 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:51,280 Speaker 1: the King James version. So grab your Bible, your King 49 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:54,000 Speaker 1: James version, and double the size of it. And that's 50 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:57,200 Speaker 1: how big this bill is. Do you think anybody's read 51 00:02:57,240 --> 00:03:01,720 Speaker 1: this thing yet? No? Nevertheless, eighteen scumbag Senate Republicans voted 52 00:03:01,760 --> 00:03:06,280 Speaker 1: to advance the bill on Sunday, clearing the significant hurdle 53 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:09,320 Speaker 1: of passage of the bill through the Senate. The eighteen 54 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:12,440 Speaker 1: Republicans that did this, so I'm gonna give you each 55 00:03:12,440 --> 00:03:14,120 Speaker 1: and every one of their names, because many of you 56 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:17,760 Speaker 1: listening will recognize them, and you're gonna want to call them. 57 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:23,639 Speaker 1: Roy Blunt Missouri, Richard Burr North Carolina, Bill Cassie Louisiana, 58 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:30,040 Speaker 1: Shelley Moore Republican West Virginia, Susan Collins, Republican Maine, Kevin Kramer, 59 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:35,080 Speaker 1: Republican North Dakota, John Hovan, Republican North Dakota. Here's one 60 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:37,840 Speaker 1: that will shock many of you. Mitch McConnell voted in 61 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:42,720 Speaker 1: favor of this. Republican Kentucky, Lisa Murkowski, Republican from Arkansas, 62 00:03:43,160 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 1: Rob Portman, Republican Ohio, Jim Reich, Republican Idaho. Met Romney 63 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:53,560 Speaker 1: no surprise there, Republican Utah, Tom Tillis, Republican, North Carolina. 64 00:03:53,720 --> 00:04:00,560 Speaker 1: Deb Fisher Republican, John Cornyn, Republican Texas. Roger Wicker, shock there, 65 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:07,320 Speaker 1: Republican Mississippi. Dan Sullivan, Republican Alaska. And Mike Crapo. That's 66 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:11,800 Speaker 1: my favorite senator ever, Republican Idaho. Wicker by the way, 67 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:15,520 Speaker 1: the Republican from Mississippi. This is just to shows you 68 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:19,840 Speaker 1: how fast people can sell out. He previously voted against 69 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:22,640 Speaker 1: advancing the legislation. He voted in favor of invoking culture 70 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:25,480 Speaker 1: Sunday quote. The bill we're not debating as far from perfect. 71 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:27,880 Speaker 1: If I were the only one with a pen, I 72 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:29,560 Speaker 1: would have made many changes. But at the end of 73 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:31,440 Speaker 1: the day, he said, I believe this package will do 74 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:33,839 Speaker 1: a great service states of American, a great service to 75 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:36,200 Speaker 1: my home state of Mississippi. In other words, they paid 76 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:37,680 Speaker 1: him off. He got a bunch of craft in there 77 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:41,320 Speaker 1: that he thinks will help Mississippi said, screw it, let's go. Young, 78 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:43,520 Speaker 1: by the way, who also previously voted to advance the 79 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:47,240 Speaker 1: infrastructure bill, came out against the legislation Sunday. He is 80 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:49,680 Speaker 1: up for reelection in the twenty twenty midterm elections. Young 81 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:52,520 Speaker 1: said in a statement Sunday, for the last several months, 82 00:04:52,520 --> 00:04:56,240 Speaker 1: I've been working diligently with my colleagues towards a bipartisan 83 00:04:56,279 --> 00:05:00,560 Speaker 1: infrastructure bill to provide crucial funding for a crumble roads 84 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:04,599 Speaker 1: and bridges, and to make targeted investments that yield positive 85 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:08,160 Speaker 1: long term results in areas like broadband, ports and airports. 86 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:09,960 Speaker 1: By the way, less than twenty five percent this bill 87 00:05:09,960 --> 00:05:12,359 Speaker 1: has to do with infrastructure. So when he tells you 88 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:16,240 Speaker 1: that crap, don't listen to him. He went on to say, 89 00:05:16,279 --> 00:05:18,640 Speaker 1: I've said many times, while I'm eager for a bill 90 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:21,640 Speaker 1: that makes his investments, I'm also committed to doing so 91 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:23,760 Speaker 1: in a physically responsible way. Well, this bill is not 92 00:05:23,839 --> 00:05:25,880 Speaker 1: paid for in a physically responsible way. So he's also 93 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:29,479 Speaker 1: again breaking his own quote rule having a review the 94 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:33,520 Speaker 1: CBO's estimate and the fiscal impact this legislation is currently 95 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:36,360 Speaker 1: constructed and frankly, still not being comfortable with the number 96 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:40,760 Speaker 1: of Democratic priorities contained in this version, I will vote no. 97 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:45,279 Speaker 1: Senators tried unsuccessfully to add amendments to the bill, but 98 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 1: the Senate failed to agree on how to add amendments 99 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:49,440 Speaker 1: to that bill because they said, well, we don't want it. 100 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:56,680 Speaker 1: Senators Cynthia Loomis, Republican Wyoming, and Ron Wyden, Democrat Oregon, 101 00:05:56,680 --> 00:05:59,800 Speaker 1: and Pat Toomey, Republican Pennsylvania have proposed an amendment to 102 00:05:59,839 --> 00:06:02,359 Speaker 1: the Infratructor bill that would address the thirty billion tax 103 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:07,360 Speaker 1: on the cryptocurrency industry. Lawmakers and industry officials contend the 104 00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:12,320 Speaker 1: bill could send jobs overseas. Insert Centator Bill Haggerty, who 105 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:15,040 Speaker 1: will join us in a moment. He has tried to 106 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:17,040 Speaker 1: slow down the advancement of this bill to bring up 107 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:22,280 Speaker 1: amendments to the bill. But Senator christ and Simona, a 108 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:25,640 Speaker 1: Democrat Arizona, objected, claiming that Haggerty refused to agree to 109 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:30,920 Speaker 1: a timetable on the amendments. Then insert center Chuck Grassley. 110 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:33,360 Speaker 1: He tried to bring up his own amendment that would 111 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:37,640 Speaker 1: lessen the bill's fiscal impact. It failed. He said, quote, 112 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:41,120 Speaker 1: I offered two bipartisan amendments to Infrastructure Bill one that 113 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:43,840 Speaker 1: would have saved taxpayers one hundred plus million of fraud 114 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:47,920 Speaker 1: via false claims. At two would give states more flexibility 115 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:51,960 Speaker 1: of funds to strengthen rule broadband. Both make bill better 116 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:58,839 Speaker 1: for Iowa, but DEM's blocked by denying the unanimous consent request. Quote, 117 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:00,920 Speaker 1: we have wasted all day, the day Saturday, and now 118 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:03,640 Speaker 1: through Sunday. Grassley said, that's enough time to vote on 119 00:07:03,760 --> 00:07:05,960 Speaker 1: a multitude of amendments, and we just set around these 120 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:11,120 Speaker 1: three days accomplishing nothing. Well, it's not true, right, it's 121 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:13,400 Speaker 1: not true at all. You guys accomplish a hell of 122 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:15,880 Speaker 1: a lot. You got all the Portbrail spending in there 123 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:19,160 Speaker 1: you could possibly ask for. And let's deal with Senator 124 00:07:19,280 --> 00:07:22,440 Speaker 1: Roger Wicker. I know, full disclosure, Roger Wicker. I'm in 125 00:07:22,560 --> 00:07:27,320 Speaker 1: shock by the pandering and the flip flopping by Senor 126 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:30,000 Speaker 1: Roger Wicker in favor of backing this one point true 127 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:34,200 Speaker 1: two trillion dollar infrastructure bill. And I think his calculated 128 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:37,680 Speaker 1: decision was pretty simple. He decided to announce his support 129 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:41,160 Speaker 1: for this so called bipartisan infrastructure bill Sunday after voting 130 00:07:41,160 --> 00:07:43,040 Speaker 1: against the bill because he got a bunch of money 131 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:46,680 Speaker 1: for things port rail projects that he wanted for a state. 132 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:49,240 Speaker 1: He went on to say, a rise this afternoon to 133 00:07:49,280 --> 00:07:53,360 Speaker 1: announce my support for this bipartisan infrastructure legislation. Coming to 134 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:56,440 Speaker 1: this decision has not been easier straightforward. Wicker, the ranking 135 00:07:56,440 --> 00:07:58,760 Speaker 1: member of the Transportation Committee, said, on the Senate for it. 136 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:00,400 Speaker 1: Don't worry. He got a bunch of stuff he wanted. 137 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:04,160 Speaker 1: He got a lot of stuff that he wont it. 138 00:08:04,840 --> 00:08:07,360 Speaker 1: The Mississippi Republican said the bill is not quote perfect, 139 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:09,680 Speaker 1: and that amazing how fast everybody says it's not perfect, 140 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:11,960 Speaker 1: but they vote for it anyway. He said, even vote 141 00:08:11,960 --> 00:08:14,400 Speaker 1: for the bill because it was it would allegedly benefit 142 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:19,320 Speaker 1: the country, and specifically Mississippi said, quote the bill we're 143 00:08:19,320 --> 00:08:21,880 Speaker 1: now debating is far from perfect. If I ever the 144 00:08:21,880 --> 00:08:23,200 Speaker 1: only one with that pen, you know, I would have 145 00:08:23,200 --> 00:08:24,920 Speaker 1: done it differently. But hey, I gotta get it done. 146 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:30,120 Speaker 1: Mississippi vote senator voted against advancing the legislation Saturday. Then 147 00:08:30,120 --> 00:08:31,559 Speaker 1: he got a bunch of crap in there he wanted, 148 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:33,280 Speaker 1: and he was like, all right, now, let's go for it. 149 00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:38,320 Speaker 1: He said, I will vote yes on this legislation, and 150 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:42,520 Speaker 1: that's when he joined seventeen other Senate Republicans who now 151 00:08:42,559 --> 00:08:47,000 Speaker 1: back this one point two trillion dollar trojan horse liberal 152 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:51,840 Speaker 1: bill that has nothing to do with infrastructure. Mike Lee 153 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:55,679 Speaker 1: had this to say about just how bad this bill 154 00:08:55,760 --> 00:08:58,480 Speaker 1: actually is. He says, it's not only an inflation bomb, 155 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:03,319 Speaker 1: but it's already a bill that he believes is completely 156 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:07,800 Speaker 1: designed to destroy this country. And it's a mighty sentence, 157 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:10,560 Speaker 1: a lead so great you could join us tonight. I mean, look, 158 00:09:10,679 --> 00:09:13,320 Speaker 1: there's this story out there that someone putting out. There's 159 00:09:13,320 --> 00:09:15,560 Speaker 1: the good bill, and then there's the bad bill. I mean, 160 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:18,199 Speaker 1: it's all just one bill, isn't it. And Republicans should 161 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:22,080 Speaker 1: be against it. It's a terrible bill and it look, 162 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:25,200 Speaker 1: this is yet another inflation bomb dropped on an already 163 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:29,560 Speaker 1: carpet bombed economy. This is something that reinforces the false 164 00:09:29,679 --> 00:09:32,839 Speaker 1: notion that the federal government is in charge of everything. Yes, 165 00:09:33,559 --> 00:09:37,280 Speaker 1: and it's also based on a false notion that this 166 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:41,280 Speaker 1: is principally about infrastructure, which it isn't. And by the way, 167 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:44,000 Speaker 1: most infrastructure isn't federal and should never be in the 168 00:09:44,040 --> 00:09:46,720 Speaker 1: first place. This is going to make everything more expensive 169 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:49,559 Speaker 1: for Americans. It causes inflation. Inflation hurts the poor and 170 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:52,600 Speaker 1: middle class more than anyone else. This bill is going 171 00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:57,160 Speaker 1: to make a substantial effort at destroying the budding cryptocurrency industry. 172 00:09:57,559 --> 00:10:02,319 Speaker 1: It's also going to wreak havoc on homeowners as homebuyers 173 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:05,719 Speaker 1: find these increased fees that they're putting in place, They're 174 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:07,880 Speaker 1: going to make everything more expensive in the real estate 175 00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:10,800 Speaker 1: market they already can't afford. On top of all this, Steve, 176 00:10:10,880 --> 00:10:14,240 Speaker 1: this is a massive intrusion into privacy as this creates 177 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:18,199 Speaker 1: a pilot project to monitor where you drive and how 178 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:20,480 Speaker 1: many miles you drive in a year. This is not 179 00:10:20,520 --> 00:10:22,880 Speaker 1: what the federal government ot to be doing. And this 180 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:25,320 Speaker 1: is not bipartisan and chip in action. This is the 181 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:28,680 Speaker 1: uniparty forcing the will of Washington, d C. This isn't 182 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:32,480 Speaker 1: just about Democrats versus Republicans. This is Washington DC against 183 00:10:32,480 --> 00:10:35,760 Speaker 1: the American people. And it's wrong exactly. And I'm so 184 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:38,839 Speaker 1: pleased you started with that point about centralization. It's something 185 00:10:39,160 --> 00:10:43,200 Speaker 1: I feel so strongly about too. This is totally antithetical 186 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:46,960 Speaker 1: to not just the letter, but the entire spirit the 187 00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:50,480 Speaker 1: idea of the Constitution, which is to decentralize power. This 188 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:54,679 Speaker 1: just centralizes so much in Washington, as you say. Now, 189 00:10:54,800 --> 00:10:58,559 Speaker 1: in terms of the process, we're hearing that Schumer is 190 00:10:58,559 --> 00:11:01,600 Speaker 1: hoping to get one hundred Senates to vote for this. 191 00:11:02,800 --> 00:11:05,440 Speaker 1: The SOCl Bipartisan want tomorrow so they can expedite the 192 00:11:05,440 --> 00:11:07,600 Speaker 1: process and get onto the thing they really want, which 193 00:11:07,679 --> 00:11:10,240 Speaker 1: is the Bernie Bill. Are you going to be parts 194 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:12,240 Speaker 1: of that? What can you do to stall poor hold 195 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:14,920 Speaker 1: any of this up. Honestly, the best thing we could 196 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:17,320 Speaker 1: have done to stop the Bernie Bill is to stop 197 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:19,760 Speaker 1: the uniparty bill, the one that the Senate's working on 198 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:22,520 Speaker 1: right now, because we've got a few people who have 199 00:11:22,640 --> 00:11:25,800 Speaker 1: made clear that they're not either going to pass unless 200 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:28,800 Speaker 1: they both pass, and so we shouldn't be facilitating that 201 00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:31,040 Speaker 1: in the meantime, with this does come up, when the 202 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:34,120 Speaker 1: budget resolution comes up, I and my fellow Republicans I 203 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:36,080 Speaker 1: think we're going to be united on that one. I 204 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:38,880 Speaker 1: wish we were united against the bipartisan bill as well. 205 00:11:38,920 --> 00:11:41,280 Speaker 1: Apparently we're not. We're going to fight like heck over this. 206 00:11:41,640 --> 00:11:43,679 Speaker 1: Three and a half trillion dollars is what they want 207 00:11:43,679 --> 00:11:45,520 Speaker 1: to spend. Many estimates that it will be more like 208 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:48,640 Speaker 1: five that two is going to dilute the buying power 209 00:11:48,679 --> 00:11:51,079 Speaker 1: of every dollar in the American economy that hurts poor 210 00:11:51,120 --> 00:11:54,960 Speaker 1: and middle class people. And let me just say two 211 00:11:55,000 --> 00:12:00,160 Speaker 1: things about what Mike Lee just said. Here this bill, 212 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:04,920 Speaker 1: as he described it, which would accelerate the inflammatory trend 213 00:12:05,559 --> 00:12:08,600 Speaker 1: underway in the US economy of pass we would see 214 00:12:08,640 --> 00:12:14,160 Speaker 1: massive inflation. He said. This is another inflation bomb dropped 215 00:12:14,200 --> 00:12:19,360 Speaker 1: on an already carpet bombed economy. He also said, this 216 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:23,040 Speaker 1: is something that quote reinforces the false notion that the 217 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:25,280 Speaker 1: federal government's in charge of everything. And it's also based 218 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:29,400 Speaker 1: on a false notion that is principally about infrastructure, which 219 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:32,359 Speaker 1: it isn't, he said. And by the way, most infrastructure 220 00:12:32,559 --> 00:12:34,720 Speaker 1: isn't federal and should never be in the first place. 221 00:12:34,760 --> 00:12:39,800 Speaker 1: He's right. Look at what happened with the famous Memphis 222 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:45,440 Speaker 1: bridge that was fixed without an infrastructure bill, that was 223 00:12:45,480 --> 00:12:50,079 Speaker 1: fixed by two different states. The point is very clear. 224 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:52,959 Speaker 1: It's not the federal government's objective. It's not the federal 225 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:58,040 Speaker 1: government's job to fix all of these problems. It's not, 226 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:01,760 Speaker 1: it never has been. But if you call it infrastructure, 227 00:13:01,760 --> 00:13:03,920 Speaker 1: then how could you be against it? Even though this 228 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:07,439 Speaker 1: has nothing to do with infrastructure, right, I mean, this 229 00:13:08,160 --> 00:13:10,520 Speaker 1: literally has nothing to do with infrastructure. Less than twenty 230 00:13:10,559 --> 00:13:13,719 Speaker 1: five percent of the spending goes infrastructure, and infrastructure is 231 00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:17,400 Speaker 1: not the job of the federal government, never has been. 232 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:21,880 Speaker 1: Predominantly it is of the state government's decide, not the 233 00:13:21,920 --> 00:13:26,840 Speaker 1: federal government. People should pay attention to that, but they're not, 234 00:13:26,920 --> 00:13:28,760 Speaker 1: and they're not paying attention to it on purpose. And 235 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:32,120 Speaker 1: the reason why, I think is very clear, because this 236 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:35,480 Speaker 1: bill really has nothing to do with infrastructure spending, and 237 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:39,800 Speaker 1: they know it, and they're okay with it. This has 238 00:13:39,880 --> 00:13:44,400 Speaker 1: nothing to do with actually fixing our roads and our 239 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:49,480 Speaker 1: bridges and YadA, YadA, YadA. Great example is cryptocurrency. Okay, 240 00:13:49,559 --> 00:13:51,719 Speaker 1: let's let's deal with what you just mentioned there. Why 241 00:13:51,760 --> 00:13:54,320 Speaker 1: does an infrastructure bill put a tax on cryptocurrency and 242 00:13:54,360 --> 00:13:59,880 Speaker 1: push jobs overseas? I would love for someone to answer 243 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:06,080 Speaker 1: that for me. Would someone please answer that for me? 244 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:11,840 Speaker 1: Explain that to me. There are so many things in 245 00:14:11,840 --> 00:14:15,080 Speaker 1: this bill that have nothing to do with infrastructure, and 246 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:17,000 Speaker 1: of course it doesn't have to do with infrastructure for 247 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:22,000 Speaker 1: one main reason, because this is port barrels spending at 248 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:29,880 Speaker 1: its finest. There's even programs in here that are going 249 00:14:29,920 --> 00:14:33,600 Speaker 1: to monitor how many miles you drive and then you 250 00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:37,080 Speaker 1: will be charged per mile that you drive. They're actually 251 00:14:37,120 --> 00:14:41,680 Speaker 1: now looking into that. There are programs in here that 252 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:47,080 Speaker 1: would put a breathalyzer machine in cars, private cars. Can 253 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:48,520 Speaker 1: you imagine every time you get in your car, and 254 00:14:48,520 --> 00:14:50,080 Speaker 1: of course they're gonna say this is non invasion of 255 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:52,680 Speaker 1: your private See, this is going to make you safer. 256 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:54,640 Speaker 1: You got to blow into the machine just like everybody 257 00:14:54,640 --> 00:14:56,080 Speaker 1: else to start your car, and they're gonna say, oh, 258 00:14:56,080 --> 00:15:00,560 Speaker 1: to save lives. Again, I want you to actually think 259 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:05,080 Speaker 1: about that, Think about what that means for your life. 260 00:15:05,920 --> 00:15:10,560 Speaker 1: All of these things are designed with one thing in mind. 261 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:14,360 Speaker 1: They are designed to control every part of your life. 262 00:15:15,040 --> 00:15:19,400 Speaker 1: No infrastructure, this is about government control. And I also 263 00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:21,120 Speaker 1: think the amount of money they're spending right now is 264 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:25,440 Speaker 1: very clearly deliberate. If you get a government into so 265 00:15:25,560 --> 00:15:28,160 Speaker 1: much debt that you have no choice but to raise taxes, 266 00:15:28,160 --> 00:15:30,960 Speaker 1: and you can push taxes being raised on the quote 267 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:36,080 Speaker 1: evil rich people. Right, that's something you can do. It's 268 00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:39,680 Speaker 1: pretty amazing. We should all be excited about that, shouldn't we. 269 00:15:41,160 --> 00:15:43,920 Speaker 1: That's what the Democrats are doing now. This is all 270 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:49,480 Speaker 1: being done in advance of massive increases and taxes, because 271 00:15:49,520 --> 00:15:52,480 Speaker 1: at some point you have to pay for this now 272 00:15:52,520 --> 00:15:56,280 Speaker 1: with hyperinflation, does that give the government more or less power? 273 00:15:56,360 --> 00:15:59,400 Speaker 1: Gives them more because more people are going to be 274 00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:01,240 Speaker 1: desperate for the government to step in on all sorts 275 00:16:01,240 --> 00:16:08,440 Speaker 1: of issues, for example, the housing markets, rent, government aid, 276 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:14,160 Speaker 1: unemployment benefits, all of the things that democrats desperately need 277 00:16:15,400 --> 00:16:20,840 Speaker 1: to contain, containing and grow their power over Americans. That's 278 00:16:20,920 --> 00:16:24,160 Speaker 1: part of what this is about. It's about government control. 279 00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:28,480 Speaker 1: And the more money that you spend, right, the more 280 00:16:28,520 --> 00:16:31,040 Speaker 1: money that they put us into debt, the more power 281 00:16:31,080 --> 00:16:33,840 Speaker 1: they have over us because they get to decide how 282 00:16:33,880 --> 00:16:35,640 Speaker 1: and when and where to raise our taxes. And when 283 00:16:35,640 --> 00:16:37,160 Speaker 1: you raise our taxes, and you do it in a 284 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:43,680 Speaker 1: significant way, right when you raise our taxes. What happens 285 00:16:43,680 --> 00:16:48,120 Speaker 1: when you raise those taxes? What goes down when you 286 00:16:48,240 --> 00:16:56,880 Speaker 1: raise taxes. It's very simple, folks. They own you, and 287 00:16:56,920 --> 00:16:58,720 Speaker 1: they've already said they want to take from the rich 288 00:16:58,760 --> 00:17:00,320 Speaker 1: and they want to give to the poor. And that's 289 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:04,000 Speaker 1: their objective. They've already said that's what they want to do. 290 00:17:04,600 --> 00:17:10,440 Speaker 1: They've already said that their total goal. That's their accomplishment. 291 00:17:11,840 --> 00:17:13,600 Speaker 1: At the end of the day, you put us into 292 00:17:13,680 --> 00:17:20,159 Speaker 1: such a financial, bad situation, such a terrible situation that 293 00:17:20,280 --> 00:17:24,040 Speaker 1: then it's just game on. We have no choice but 294 00:17:24,200 --> 00:17:26,320 Speaker 1: to raise the taxes on quote the rich, which is 295 00:17:26,359 --> 00:17:28,400 Speaker 1: going to be anybody making over seventy grand a year. 296 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:32,760 Speaker 1: They'll have more people that will be on government aid 297 00:17:32,840 --> 00:17:36,320 Speaker 1: because they will have suffocated the economy, which means again 298 00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:44,520 Speaker 1: they win. This is really about winning, if you really 299 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:49,040 Speaker 1: get down to it. This is just about total government, anarchy, 300 00:17:49,520 --> 00:17:53,159 Speaker 1: total government control, and no other way to explain it. 301 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:55,320 Speaker 1: Then we spend all your money, and now we got 302 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:56,840 Speaker 1: to pay it off, and now we get to dictate 303 00:17:56,920 --> 00:17:58,679 Speaker 1: you what we can and can't do, what you can 304 00:17:58,760 --> 00:18:02,880 Speaker 1: and can't do. All right, joining me now, US Senator 305 00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:05,119 Speaker 1: Bill Haggerty, the only man standing in the way of 306 00:18:05,160 --> 00:18:09,480 Speaker 1: this bill becoming a reality. You were the only Republican 307 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:12,639 Speaker 1: to Halter try to halt Shimmer's fast track of this 308 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:15,840 Speaker 1: massive infrastructure spending bill, which has less than twenty five 309 00:18:15,880 --> 00:18:19,280 Speaker 1: percent of spending even goes infrastructure. Yeah. Then it's been 310 00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:21,479 Speaker 1: pretty lonely up here. You know. I was told this 311 00:18:21,520 --> 00:18:23,240 Speaker 1: morning I needed to get a food taste or and 312 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:27,000 Speaker 1: step up my security detail inside the Capitol. And I 313 00:18:27,080 --> 00:18:29,439 Speaker 1: understand that the hottest selling item here in Washington right 314 00:18:29,440 --> 00:18:32,159 Speaker 1: now at least among lobbyists a dartboard with my picture 315 00:18:32,200 --> 00:18:36,840 Speaker 1: on it. But and congratulations, that means you're actually doing 316 00:18:36,840 --> 00:18:39,040 Speaker 1: your job, right, I mean, if that's what's happening, a 317 00:18:39,040 --> 00:18:42,760 Speaker 1: good jobs. It's shocking to see what is in this bill, 318 00:18:42,920 --> 00:18:45,360 Speaker 1: you know a little bit more about than others. Run 319 00:18:45,440 --> 00:18:47,119 Speaker 1: us through some of the things. I have nothing to 320 00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:49,440 Speaker 1: do with infrastructure. There was even something in their provision 321 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:54,800 Speaker 1: for breathalyzers and cars for goodness six You know, then 322 00:18:54,840 --> 00:18:58,080 Speaker 1: this is something that has been built and advertised as 323 00:18:58,200 --> 00:19:00,960 Speaker 1: as hard infrastructure all along. It was billed as being 324 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:04,400 Speaker 1: paid for, and then we find out that it indeed 325 00:19:04,520 --> 00:19:06,960 Speaker 1: is not paid for. And it's got a lot of 326 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:09,600 Speaker 1: stuff that are really more or less a down payment 327 00:19:09,640 --> 00:19:13,359 Speaker 1: on the Green New Deal. The items that you mentioned, 328 00:19:13,359 --> 00:19:18,000 Speaker 1: they're more. They get into, you know, research on unalternate energy. 329 00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:21,640 Speaker 1: You know, we're going to put electronic vehicle charging stations 330 00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:24,359 Speaker 1: in place. We're going to sell off the strategic Patroleum Reserve. 331 00:19:24,520 --> 00:19:26,840 Speaker 1: It's interesting Biden does that after he jacks up the 332 00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:30,080 Speaker 1: price of oil and everyday Americans, then he turns around 333 00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:32,600 Speaker 1: in profits from it to pay off this bill. But 334 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:35,240 Speaker 1: what really concerns me and I think This is where 335 00:19:35,280 --> 00:19:38,000 Speaker 1: I really want to point our conversation is they're trying 336 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:39,920 Speaker 1: to rush this through. And you know they tried to 337 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:42,200 Speaker 1: rush it through last Thursday night. They dropped a twenty 338 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:45,560 Speaker 1: seven hundred page bill on our desk just six days 339 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:49,119 Speaker 1: prior to put it into perspective the King's James Bible, 340 00:19:49,119 --> 00:19:52,080 Speaker 1: and sitting here on my desk, it's thirteen hundred pages. 341 00:19:52,520 --> 00:19:55,919 Speaker 1: That's more than twice the size of the King James Bible. 342 00:19:56,320 --> 00:19:59,359 Speaker 1: And then they hold back to scoring, meaning the so 343 00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:03,240 Speaker 1: called caut in pay for of it, until the very 344 00:20:03,320 --> 00:20:05,639 Speaker 1: day that they want to try to accelerate its package. 345 00:20:05,680 --> 00:20:08,119 Speaker 1: And guess what it turns up not just a little short, 346 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:10,560 Speaker 1: but a quarter of a trillion dollars in the hole. 347 00:20:11,119 --> 00:20:12,879 Speaker 1: And then the goal was to pass it in the 348 00:20:12,960 --> 00:20:15,159 Speaker 1: dark of nights so they could move straight on to 349 00:20:15,280 --> 00:20:19,640 Speaker 1: this three point five trillion dollar quote soft infrastructure bill. 350 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:21,239 Speaker 1: I can tell you I wasn't going to let them 351 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:23,440 Speaker 1: light the fuse in that three point five trillion dollars 352 00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:26,359 Speaker 1: socialists at bomb I stopped this that night. I would 353 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:28,960 Speaker 1: not going to allow them to accelerate it. We're still 354 00:20:28,960 --> 00:20:32,040 Speaker 1: debating it, and you know what's happening, people are hearing 355 00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:35,560 Speaker 1: from their voters. We've actually had members of the so 356 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:39,240 Speaker 1: called bipartisan committee that negotiate this they're saying now they're 357 00:20:39,280 --> 00:20:41,600 Speaker 1: not going to vote for it. If I think about 358 00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:43,639 Speaker 1: some of the vulnerable members in the House who are 359 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:46,639 Speaker 1: in swing districts, those Democrats that won in twenty twenty 360 00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:49,600 Speaker 1: in swing districts, I'm sure they're getting a lot of pressure. 361 00:20:49,640 --> 00:20:53,159 Speaker 1: I'm hearing that they're having a great deal of pressure 362 00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:55,040 Speaker 1: right now. I hope there'll be a revolt over there, 363 00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:56,800 Speaker 1: and I hope that as long as I can keep 364 00:20:56,840 --> 00:20:58,440 Speaker 1: this open and look, there's a limit to what I 365 00:20:58,480 --> 00:21:00,679 Speaker 1: can do here, but as long as I could keep 366 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:03,320 Speaker 1: this open and keep having conversations like we're having right now, Ben, 367 00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:05,520 Speaker 1: the greater the chances are that we can move this 368 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:08,760 Speaker 1: in a different direction, of better direction for a miracle. Well, 369 00:21:08,840 --> 00:21:11,919 Speaker 1: let's talk about how long you can hold up by yourself. 370 00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:15,240 Speaker 1: Have there been any other Republicans that have come to 371 00:21:15,280 --> 00:21:16,680 Speaker 1: you and said, hey, man, let me help you out 372 00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:18,800 Speaker 1: with us, or hey, I'm seeing what you're doing with 373 00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:21,080 Speaker 1: your leadership here. Let me let me get in on 374 00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:23,240 Speaker 1: this as well. Are you still just sitting there on 375 00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:25,560 Speaker 1: an island by yourself and how long until that island 376 00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:30,879 Speaker 1: gets flooded? Well, in the Senate, I'm the loan person 377 00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:34,479 Speaker 1: that's holding this up, but I've had support from loads 378 00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:37,040 Speaker 1: of people on the outside. President Trump put out a 379 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:41,280 Speaker 1: statement yesterday talking about this. But look, he's a businessman 380 00:21:41,359 --> 00:21:42,920 Speaker 1: like i am. Ben. You know, I've been a business 381 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:46,040 Speaker 1: person all my life. I'm not against infrastructure. I grew 382 00:21:46,119 --> 00:21:48,240 Speaker 1: up I shoveled asphalt and working my way through college. 383 00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:50,879 Speaker 1: My father and my grandfather were in the road construction business. 384 00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:53,840 Speaker 1: President Trump was in the real estate development business. We 385 00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:58,800 Speaker 1: understand infrastructure, hard infrastructure that generates a real return on investment. 386 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:00,960 Speaker 1: But when you put together there are package like this 387 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:04,000 Speaker 1: that has some infrastructure in it, but so much more 388 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:07,000 Speaker 1: that's not if you run up another quarter of a 389 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:09,480 Speaker 1: trillion dollars a debt, and that's probably generous given some 390 00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:11,720 Speaker 1: of the other maths I've seen on this, and you 391 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:14,639 Speaker 1: use this really as a threshold or a gateway to 392 00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:16,960 Speaker 1: get to the three point five trillion, And I'll explain 393 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:19,960 Speaker 1: that in just a minute. That really does, you know, 394 00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:23,880 Speaker 1: go well beyond anything that a business person would think 395 00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:25,600 Speaker 1: would be a good deal for America, would be a 396 00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:28,160 Speaker 1: good deal for taxpayers. Certainly not something that I thought 397 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:31,280 Speaker 1: Tennessee would want me to be supportive of. And if 398 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:33,400 Speaker 1: you let me sort of break this down a little 399 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:36,439 Speaker 1: bit further, here's what I believe the Democrats strategy is. 400 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:40,880 Speaker 1: And it's not something that I'm using a crystal ball 401 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:44,320 Speaker 1: with Nancy Pelosius stated it. We just need to listen 402 00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:47,480 Speaker 1: to what the Democrats are saying. Pelosius said, and I'll 403 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:50,080 Speaker 1: use her words, there ain't going to be an infrastructure 404 00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:53,800 Speaker 1: bill unless she gets her three point five trillion dollar 405 00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:58,920 Speaker 1: reconciliation bill. Reconciliation is a code word for a fifty 406 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:03,159 Speaker 1: person completely partisan vote that Kamala Harris comes in and 407 00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:05,800 Speaker 1: throws the tie off. That's what they did back in 408 00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:08,560 Speaker 1: March with the one point nine trillion dollar quote COVID 409 00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:11,000 Speaker 1: relief package that ninety percent of it had nothing to 410 00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:14,080 Speaker 1: do with the with the pandemic. That's the same policy 411 00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:15,920 Speaker 1: that they're going to use again, the same procedure they're 412 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:17,439 Speaker 1: going to use again when they can get to it 413 00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:20,560 Speaker 1: on this three point five trillion dollars socialist debt bomb. 414 00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:22,960 Speaker 1: They're going to bring Kamala Harrison and they're going to 415 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:25,680 Speaker 1: pass it on completely partisan lines. What's going to happen 416 00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:28,080 Speaker 1: is Nancy Pelosi is going to get this infrastructure, this 417 00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:31,480 Speaker 1: so called bipartisan infrastructure packaging in, and then she's going 418 00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:33,879 Speaker 1: to use that as leverage on the senators in the 419 00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:38,760 Speaker 1: more moderate Democrat senators to force them to support this 420 00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:41,600 Speaker 1: three point five trillion dollar fiasco if they ever want 421 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:45,600 Speaker 1: to see their one point two trillion dollars infrastructure bill 422 00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:48,400 Speaker 1: see the light of day. That's going to be the strategy. 423 00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:51,119 Speaker 1: Biden revealed it within two hours of getting to a 424 00:23:51,119 --> 00:23:55,240 Speaker 1: handshake with this group of bipartisan negotiators. Within two hours, 425 00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:58,160 Speaker 1: he said, well, of course I'm not going to pass 426 00:23:58,200 --> 00:24:02,080 Speaker 1: this bipartisan bill unless I have this holy partisan reconciliation 427 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:05,639 Speaker 1: three point five trillion dollars wish list on my desk 428 00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:08,240 Speaker 1: at the same time and passed them together. Check Shumer said, 429 00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:10,520 Speaker 1: it's a two track process. The first track is what 430 00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:13,080 Speaker 1: we're on right now. Of course I'm doing everything I 431 00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:16,480 Speaker 1: can to keep that from accelerating. But the second track 432 00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:19,359 Speaker 1: will be this three point five trillion dollars again what 433 00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:21,960 Speaker 1: I call a socialist death bomb that's going to push 434 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:24,480 Speaker 1: our nation toward far more government dependency. It's going to 435 00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:27,159 Speaker 1: make America look like Western Europe and it's going to 436 00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:30,000 Speaker 1: be devastating for our children and grandchildren. So what is 437 00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:32,960 Speaker 1: in it for these other Republicans that have decided these 438 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:35,800 Speaker 1: eighteen to say, Okay, let's act like Democrats for a day. 439 00:24:36,359 --> 00:24:38,560 Speaker 1: Is it just straight up port Brell spending for them 440 00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:41,040 Speaker 1: in their in their pet projects or their state. I 441 00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:44,560 Speaker 1: still understand the political play here. For some of these guys, 442 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:46,520 Speaker 1: I don't get it at all, and usually I understand 443 00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:50,080 Speaker 1: exactly what they're trying to do. Well, Ben, each senator 444 00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:53,280 Speaker 1: has got to make their own decision that they'll come 445 00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:56,080 Speaker 1: to their own conclusions. As I said, one of them 446 00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:58,840 Speaker 1: last night, who was involved in the in the drafting 447 00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:00,800 Speaker 1: of this who was a part of that bipartisan team, 448 00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:03,280 Speaker 1: made the decision that he couldn't support it once he 449 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:06,280 Speaker 1: saw and analyze the CBO score. I'm hopeful that more 450 00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:08,840 Speaker 1: will move over. I'll tell you what I've heard. We 451 00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:11,600 Speaker 1: need to prove that we can get something accomplished on 452 00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:14,640 Speaker 1: a bipartisan basis. That's one of the arguments here. We'll 453 00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:18,640 Speaker 1: get me something bad accomplished for America. Doesn't really satisfy 454 00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:21,880 Speaker 1: that for me. Another is that we need hard infrastructure. 455 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:25,240 Speaker 1: I've never argued that, As I said, it's in my DNA, 456 00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:28,000 Speaker 1: but we need hard infrastructure that has a real return 457 00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:31,280 Speaker 1: on investment for taxpayers. And I've seen deals move like 458 00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:34,000 Speaker 1: this before. Ben. You get so wedded to the idea 459 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:36,359 Speaker 1: of the deal itself, yet you look back and the 460 00:25:36,359 --> 00:25:39,160 Speaker 1: other side continues to drop more and more bad things 461 00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:41,720 Speaker 1: in it. It's clear to me that the Democrats drafted 462 00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:45,040 Speaker 1: this bill because it's chock full of things that are infrastructure, 463 00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:46,960 Speaker 1: and when you get to the actual calculation of how 464 00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:49,840 Speaker 1: it's paid for, whether you agree with how the CBO 465 00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:52,840 Speaker 1: does it or not, the CBO, the Congressional Budget Office, 466 00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:57,040 Speaker 1: is the umpire that Congress has selected to determine how 467 00:25:57,080 --> 00:25:59,520 Speaker 1: these things are going to be scored, and they're the 468 00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:01,800 Speaker 1: ones that are as needed to call balls the strikes. 469 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:03,720 Speaker 1: No one senator can sit there and say, well, I'm 470 00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:05,199 Speaker 1: going to do my own map and here's how it 471 00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:07,480 Speaker 1: scores out. I'm hearing a lot of that right now, 472 00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:10,200 Speaker 1: seeing the CBO is wrong that this really does pay 473 00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:12,119 Speaker 1: for itself, Well, how do you get a quarter of 474 00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:14,560 Speaker 1: a trillion dollars miss? You know, it's not even close. 475 00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:18,520 Speaker 1: So you know, you talk about infrastructure. You talk about 476 00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:21,760 Speaker 1: infrastructure center, and there's one question that I have to 477 00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:23,920 Speaker 1: ask because I haven't been able to get a straight 478 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:28,119 Speaker 1: answer in an infrastructure bill. You can't imagine that there 479 00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:31,960 Speaker 1: wouldn't be direct money going to deal with the problem 480 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:34,280 Speaker 1: that we saw on the Memphis bridge. Right, it was 481 00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:37,320 Speaker 1: a it was catastrophic what could have happened? It was 482 00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:43,520 Speaker 1: also catastrophic in many ways to just commerce traffic, shipping, 483 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:48,120 Speaker 1: the river being shut down for several days. The list 484 00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:51,280 Speaker 1: goes on and on. In this infrastructure bill, was there 485 00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:55,800 Speaker 1: anything in there for specifically major corridor bridges like the 486 00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:59,439 Speaker 1: Decto Bridge. Well, there's one hundred and ten billion in 487 00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:01,919 Speaker 1: there for a highways and bridges. Again, more work to 488 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:04,040 Speaker 1: be done as it's strapped it out. But I got 489 00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:06,720 Speaker 1: a very snide comment from one of my Democrat colleagues 490 00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:09,040 Speaker 1: last night, how about that bridge in Memphis? Well, you 491 00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:12,679 Speaker 1: know what, then we fixed it. It's reopened again, and 492 00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:16,159 Speaker 1: we did it without this bill. Tennessee and Arkansas, t 493 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:19,320 Speaker 1: DOT and art DOT, you know made this happen. I 494 00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:22,919 Speaker 1: want to see, you know, an investment, irrational investment in 495 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:25,480 Speaker 1: our infrastructure. I think everybody in Tennessee supports set across 496 00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:28,159 Speaker 1: the nation. People support that, but people don't want to 497 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:30,960 Speaker 1: see that held hostage or something that's going to be 498 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:34,439 Speaker 1: absolutely devastating for our children and grandchildren. And that's what 499 00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:37,560 Speaker 1: I mean by this. Not only is the initial infrastructure 500 00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:39,800 Speaker 1: build chalk with a lot of stuff that's not infrastructure 501 00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:42,480 Speaker 1: and runs a quarter of a trillion dollars into the hole, 502 00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:46,639 Speaker 1: but this again opens the door to Pelosi's entire negotiating 503 00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:49,639 Speaker 1: strategy to slam this three point five trillion dollars you 504 00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:53,639 Speaker 1: so called soft infrastructure package, which I would call the 505 00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:56,719 Speaker 1: biggest step towards socialism we've seen since the nineteen sixties 506 00:27:56,720 --> 00:28:01,040 Speaker 1: Great Society Package. We're going to spend three point five trillion, 507 00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:03,960 Speaker 1: lay another twenty percent of GDP on the backs of 508 00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:05,720 Speaker 1: our children and grand children at the time when we've 509 00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:08,119 Speaker 1: already got in place in running rampant. This makes no 510 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:10,679 Speaker 1: sense at all, and that's what I think people need 511 00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:13,280 Speaker 1: to be focused on right now. Last question, what do 512 00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:15,040 Speaker 1: people need to do if they want to help you 513 00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:18,600 Speaker 1: in this fight? I think they need to reach out 514 00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:22,800 Speaker 1: to not only their senators, but to their congressman as well, 515 00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:24,760 Speaker 1: because this is going to wind up back over in 516 00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:28,480 Speaker 1: the Congress, and my hope is particularly those Democrats that 517 00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:30,800 Speaker 1: are in swing districts are going to get a lot 518 00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:32,560 Speaker 1: of pressure. They're going to hear the same things I 519 00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:36,000 Speaker 1: hear from Tennessee In's and realize that this is not 520 00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:38,120 Speaker 1: going to be good for the nation, and it's not 521 00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:41,400 Speaker 1: going to be good for them if they support and 522 00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:45,240 Speaker 1: vote for this. We've got to stop it. As I said, 523 00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:48,160 Speaker 1: I think we've got people moving the right direction here 524 00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:50,240 Speaker 1: in the Senate. Well I get there by the time 525 00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:52,160 Speaker 1: the clock runs out of me. I don't know here 526 00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:53,880 Speaker 1: in the Senate, but I'm going to keep talking about it, 527 00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:56,080 Speaker 1: keep pushing it. The conversation that you and I are 528 00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:58,000 Speaker 1: having right now with your listeners I think helps this. 529 00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:01,560 Speaker 1: The more sunshine that this get so the more taxpayers 530 00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:04,280 Speaker 1: realize what's happening, I think, the harder it's going to 531 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:08,520 Speaker 1: be for senators and representatives to pass something like this. 532 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:10,720 Speaker 1: And I certainly stopped it from being passed in the 533 00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:13,520 Speaker 1: dead of night last Thursday. So this is all good. 534 00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:16,480 Speaker 1: We're moving in the right direction, and let's pray that 535 00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:19,600 Speaker 1: we were able to stop it in the end. Senator Haggerty, 536 00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:22,000 Speaker 1: I appreciate your time. 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