WEBVTT - Exclusive with Scott Jennings 0:00:01.120 --> 0:00:04.240 Welcome in his verdict with Center, Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson 0:00:04.360 --> 0:00:06.680 with you and Senator, We're going to have a really 0:00:06.880 --> 0:00:10.600 fun show today with a happy warrior, A good friend 0:00:10.640 --> 0:00:12.799 of mine, a good friend of yours is going to 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:15.520 join us, a man that you know from probably going 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:18.960 viral on CNN. Scott Jennings is going to join us 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:21.440 to talk about a really cool book he's written where 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:24.000 he actually got to sit down multiple times with the 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:26.720 President and every one of the cabinet members to talk 0:00:26.720 --> 0:00:28.760 about the inner workings of the President, what he's doing 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:29.600 to save the country. 0:00:29.800 --> 0:00:30.880 Well, that's exactly right. 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:33.960 We have a terrific guest on our show today, Scott Jennings, 0:00:34.040 --> 0:00:38.240 the intrepid conservative warrior who goes on CNN every day. 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:41.760 He battles the crazy comedies on CNN. He does so 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:44.200 with a smile, he does so with a light touch. 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:48.720 He absolutely dominates the lefties. 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I think that's on purpose. 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:17.680 I think they didn't like it was an unfair fight. 0:03:17.720 --> 0:03:19.760 When you have the brilliant brain of Scott and then 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:21.960 you know I'm there as well. I'm not saying I'm brilliant, 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:23.760 but I'm saying it's a nice duo here. 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:26.040 But it's really fun. 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:29.040 To have Scott Dinnings with us on the podcast where 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:30.720 a really cool book he has put out. 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:33.919 Well, Ben, I will say, you spent seven years battling 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:36.880 the comedies on CNN and then I love you man, 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:39.560 But you ran scared for the hills. Ah. 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:40.720 You came to the. 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:45.120 Safe confines of the Verdict podcast swhere. Other than some 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:47.760 ridicule about old miss and you used to have a 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:53.040 football coach. Other than that, you avoid any confrontation. 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:57.680 Yes, outside of that, I'm Switzerland, as you put it, sir, 0:03:57.760 --> 0:03:59.240 in Republican primaries. 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:02.920 So and I will say Scott Jennings has joined us. 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:06.040 I got to tell you Scott is on CNN now. 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:12.640 He is battling with these Bolshevik idiots and I actually 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:17.719 feel bad for them because like he is beating the 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:22.440 living crack out of them, and I watch I watch 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:26.200 the clips on Twitter. I'll confess I do not watch CNN, 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:28.680 so it's got to go viral for me to watch it. 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:30.760 If it's actually on TV, I won't turn the damn 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:33.159 thing on. But if you have a moment that is 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:37.960 ninety seconds that you're just like body slamming someone I 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:41.760 inject it like heroin into my veins. I mean, it 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:45.599 is so all right. And let's be clear. Why is 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:47.520 Scott here. He is here for the oldest reason in 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:49.960 the book. So it is eleven forty three at night. 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:52.200 This poor man has to get up at four in 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:54.760 the morning to fly on a plane to La correct. 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:57.159 He is here for one reason only. It's not that 0:04:57.240 --> 0:04:59.520 he loves me. It's not that he loves Ben Ferguson. 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:02.000 Here because he is selling a damn book. 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:03.720 So it's a good one. 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:06.400 It's a good So his book is a revolution of 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:09.960 common sense, how Donald Trump stormed Washington and fought for 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:12.839 Western civilization. And there's a great picture of Donald Trump 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:15.359 and a bright red tie. So go buy his book. 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:17.599 His book is on Amazon, It's on Barnes and Noble. 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:19.599 I feel confident you can get it. And any place 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:22.720 books are sold, yes, sir, other than a lefty bookstore 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:26.120 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, they will not have this book, but 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:30.360 they will have how to be a transgender Witch and 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:33.760 study Marxism. So if you want that book, go to 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:36.760 that bookstore. But anywhere else you can get a revolution 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:38.880 and common sense. Scott, Welcome to Verdict. 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:41.000 Thanks for having me on, and it's a true story 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:43.440 about the bookstores. We've been setting up book tour events 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:45.800 around the country, so we'll call ahead and say, oh, 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:47.960 these people want to buy you a couple hundred books, 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:51.160 and we've been hung up on We've been told no. 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:54.080 I mean, I'm like literally trying to filter, you know, 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:55.800 book purchases through your. 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:57.640 Bookstore, and they literally won't do it. 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:02.240 And so we talk about these lefties constantly complaining about 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:02.880 banning books. 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:03.800 The only one I ever. 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:04.440 Heard of was this one. 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:06.880 It would carry it, all right. 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:09.159 So how did you come? How did you start to be? 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:12.000 And Sea tell us the start of how this began. 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:14.279 Yeah, I've actually been there for eight and a half years, 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:16.359 but for the first six years of it or so, 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:18.520 it was really very much a part time job for me. 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:22.200 I got recruited in twenty seventeen. I had done some 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:24.800 work on Fox News in the election in twenty sixteen. 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:28.000 They recruited me over because after Trump won and they 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:31.120 didn't expect it, they didn't have many conservatives been was there, 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:33.159 he knows, and so they were looking for a few 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:36.000 people who could explain what was going on, and so 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:38.640 I did it. It was very part time. But then in 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:43.080 the twenty twenty four election and the advent of this 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:46.000 debating show, it's become a much bigger part of my life. 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:47.640 So I've been a long time. 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:50.240 Member of the family, but lately it's taken up a 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:51.440 big percentage of my life. 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:55.080 Scott, I want to ask you real quick about this book. 0:06:55.279 --> 0:06:57.520 And the cool part about this book is a lot 0:06:57.520 --> 0:06:59.640 of people write books, but one of the things is 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:03.000 you actually talked to the White House the President about 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:06.279 writing the book and them cooperating with you to do 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:07.039 this book. 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:08.719 How did that come about? 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:11.080 Who did you get to sit with How often did 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:13.240 you get talk to the President to come up with 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:14.360 all of the material in it? 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:16.320 Yeah, I went to see him in February. You know 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:18.720 this title, a revolution of common Sense is a phrase 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:21.360 that he used in his inaugural address. I was sitting 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:23.440 on the set at CNN listening to the speech, thinking 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:25.680 that would be a good title for a book, and 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:27.880 so I went to pitch a president on it. Truthfully, 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:30.280 I didn't really know him. I talked about him a lot, 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:31.680 but it hadn't spent any time with him. So I 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:34.120 went to meet with him in early February and thought 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:35.840 I was meeting with him alone. I went into the 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:38.640 Oval office, and the whole cabinet and the staff were there, 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:41.080 so I sort of got inserted into one of these 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:44.320 famous meetings where it's like six meetings at the same time, 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:47.880 and we spent some time together. And I just told 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:49.320 him that day, like, I think one hundred of the 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:51.480 usual suspects are going to come along and write books 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:54.360 crapping on you. I think someone who likes you and 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:57.000 voted for you and wants you to succeed, should, you know, 0:07:57.120 --> 0:07:59.000 get a chance to cooperate with you about a book 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:01.280 about what you're trying to accomplish here and the obstacles 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:03.360 that you face. I told him, I thought he revolutionized 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:05.920 campaigning in twenty twenty four, and he was about to 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:09.560 revolutionize governing, and that it would be a good opportunity 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:11.720 to tell the story to you know, half or a 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:13.880 little more than half the country that doesn't get that 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:17.840 much good news or you know, true narrative about what's 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:19.520 going on out of his White House. 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:20.960 And so we discussed it. He agreed. 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:24.960 I spent some time with him a few meetings over 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:26.720 the course of the spring. I traveled with him to 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:30.120 Michigan on his one hundred day in office. I interviewed 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:31.960 most of the cabinet, interviewed quite a bit of the 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:34.280 White House senior staff, and you know, some of the 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:36.880 book is also just my observations. I picked out the 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:38.959 issues that I thought were the biggest ticket issues of 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:42.440 the first hundred days, and some of it's also informed 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:44.319 by the debates that I was having on CNN. 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:46.480 I was, so, what are the biggest ticket issues from 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:47.280 the first hundred days. 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:49.720 Well, at number one, I thought the volume of executive 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:53.800 orders made his presidency the most active presidency since FDR. 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:56.800 To immigration is a big issue in this book. 0:08:57.040 --> 0:08:58.600 At a massive success. 0:08:58.240 --> 0:09:01.400 And probably his biggest success, and it's the biggest promise. 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:04.560 Kept ninety nine percent decrease. I mean, that's insane, it's crazy. 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:05.920 We have passed any new laws. 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:08.720 As you know, We've just got a new enforcement mechanism 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:14.160 called the President. And then also energy frankly, and the 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:16.560 book kind of ends where they're getting to passing the 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:20.760 big beautiful bill and the energy piece and sort of 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:23.520 how that's going to impact the race to win the 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:27.960 AI competition against China. Also, frankly, some of the cultural 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:31.600 issues that he took on transgender issues, the DEI stuff. 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:35.600 I mean, these are not inconsequential matters because not only 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:37.320 did he sort of rip them out of government, but 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:39.480 it created a permission structure to rip them out of 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:42.040 corporate America. Yes, even just today, I think I saw 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:45.040 AT and T get rid of their DEI stuff finally, 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:50.280 and so the world's changed. It was an amalgam of policy, political, 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:52.839 and cultural issues, and he put a lot of balls 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:54.280 in the air. A lot went through the net, some 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:57.439 are still laying out there. But what I came away 0:09:57.440 --> 0:09:59.720 with was this that when you become a Republican president, 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:03.160 you have entrenched things that are working to destroy You 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:05.840 have media that's trying to destroy you, bureaucraft's trying to 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:13.080 destroy you, you have federal judiciary trying to destroy you. 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:16.080 And they're all sort of worked together to overwhelm you. 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:19.280 And he basically just decided, I'm not going to be overwhelmed. 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:20.480 I'm going to overwhelm them. 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:22.120 That's the story of the book. 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:26.040 So look, I think there are very real differences between 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:29.040 first term President Trump and second term President Trump. What 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:30.200 do you see is the biggest differences? 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:30.920 Totally agree. 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:34.880 Spending time observing him with the team, he got the 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:36.600 team that matches his leadership style. 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:36.880 Yep. 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:40.240 First time around, not sure they expected to win, sort 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:41.480 of inherited, you know. 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:43.280 The first time. I think they were kind of the 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:44.960 dog that caught the car. They were like, holy crap, 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:50.599 we won. And I'll confess that there were some mistakes 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:52.560 in terms of the early appointments that were people that 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:55.400 were put in the administration the first term who worked 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:57.600 against the president. And I think he regrets making those 0:10:57.600 --> 0:11:00.559 appointments this. I think the second term is much better. 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:02.040 It's a much stronger team. 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:04.439 Yeah, and they know how to work with him. They 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:08.000 know that they're there to execute his agenda, not their own, yep. 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:10.600 And they also understand the hands on nature of it. 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:13.400 What I witnessed in the Oval office with him is 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:16.240 this is not a passive sort of situation. This is 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:18.440 him telling them, go do this and come back to 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:20.880 me and report. One of the cabinet secretaries said to me, 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:23.959 you can tell the President we're working on it one time, 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:26.000 but you don't get a second bite at that out. 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:28.720 He expects you to go do it and come back 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:31.959 and tell him what's happened and give your progress report. 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:34.680 I witnessed that, and so this time around. They thought 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:36.520 they were going to win. They knew who they wanted 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:38.520 to do a point, they knew the issues they wanted 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:39.199 to attend. 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:41.240 And they had spent four years thinking about exactly what 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:42.880 they wanted to hit, and so they hit the ground 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:46.280 running with a speed. I mean, there is literally no 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:49.480 precedent in American history for a president that has moved 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:53.320 so fast, so many executive orders, so many actions, and listen, 0:11:53.440 --> 0:11:55.960 the vast majority I agree with are a couple of 0:11:56.120 --> 0:11:58.640 missteps that I think occurred. But you know what, I 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:03.120 would describe this as a bias towards action versus a 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:06.240 bias towards it action. And I'll take action. If you're 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:09.400 moving fast, you make a few things. But they are 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:13.120 moving And it's I joke, but it's actually the truth. 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:14.880 I wake up every morning, I grab my cel phone 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:16.880 and I'm like, what the hell did we do today? Yeah? 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:21.080 And it is, I mean, it is fast moving. 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:23.160 And in the early days, in the. 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:26.360 Early days of this, it had the effect of overwhelming 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:30.439 the opposition. Yes, the Democrats really didn't know what hit 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:33.280 them for the first several weeks of what he was doing. 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:35.839 And one reporter told me that I interviewed she said, 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:37.920 we don't know what to cover every day because. 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:40.000 There's so much we don't know where to start. That 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:40.720 was the point. 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:45.200 He overwhelmed the forces that normally try to engulf and 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:47.079 suck under any Republican administration. 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:52.440 So you and I met twenty five years ago when 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:56.119 we were both young staffers and the George W. Bush administration. 0:12:56.200 --> 0:12:57.640 You were in the White House, and we've known each 0:12:57.640 --> 0:12:59.920 other a long time. And I actually came up with 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:03.640 this theory then, which is there is a quantum of 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:08.319 outrage in the media, and I call it the arsenic quantum. 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:10.480 So if you remember, in two thousand and one, George W. 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:13.080 Bush becomes president and one of the first things that 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:19.080 happens is the EPA repeals a rule from the Democrat 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:22.880 administration concerning the percentage of arsenic that could be at 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:25.640 a water and it went from I don't know, like 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:31.320 four million parts per gallon or whatever it was to 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:34.000 five million parts per gallon. I mean, it was an 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:39.440 infinitesimal shift, but the media lost their ever loving mind, 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:43.480 and for about three months, every media story was George W. 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:45.840 Bush wants to put arsenic in your water to poison 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:48.319 your kids, and I mean their hair was on fire. 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:50.600 They were losing their minds. And I think one of 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:53.720 the things that the tru President Trump has understood, particularly 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:58.600 the second term, that's all the outrage there is. So 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:01.120 if you do one hundred things and a hundred things 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:05.200 that are incredibly consequential, you get the arsenic quantum of outrage. 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:08.080 They're still they scream, but they don't know what to 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:11.800 hit because they're moving so fast on so many fronts. 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:17.000 They're repealing regulations, they're implementing policies that the media are 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:20.360 just frustrated out of their mind. You're living on CNN. 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:22.360 Do you see that on a daily basis? 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:24.600 Yes, I mean every day you're going to get some 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:27.240 outrage about some I mean today, the guy had a 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:28.720 three hour cabinet meeting. 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:29.040 YEP. 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:31.560 So I showed up over there this afternoon and for 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:33.840 like six seconds of the three hours, he closed his 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:37.840 eyes listening to Marco Rubio talk about something. And they're like, oh, 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:41.880 Donald Trump slept through a cabinet meeting. He literally conducted 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:44.520 a three hour meeting. He held a press conference at 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:45.000 the end of it. 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:46.360 This is crazy. 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:49.840 And so yes, they have to pick something and try 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:52.960 to generate outrage, whether it's warranted or not. I will 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:56.400 tell you I think in this book and my recollections 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:58.240 of the first part of the year, the outrage was 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:01.480 almost all directed towards these immigrats stories. Yeah, particularly the 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:03.720 Kilmer Obrego Garcia case. 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:05.120 And that's so. 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:08.280 Tell me, do you think it is a good political 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:14.320 judgment for Democrats to say our party wants more illegal alien, 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:21.280 violent gang member, wife abusing human trafficking criminals in America, 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:24.160 and if you elect us, the Democrats, we will bring 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:30.480 MS thirteen to your neighborhood. Like, help me explain, Help 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:36.600 me understand the reasoning behind a party that says, let's 0:15:36.640 --> 0:15:40.280 go have dakeries with MS thirteen gang bangers and say 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:43.320 we're for bringing them into your community. 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:44.320 Yeah. 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:46.400 I'm only moderately good at math. But no, I don't 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:48.720 think that is a great political strategy. But you know, 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:51.760 I also think they're doing it again on this narco 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:54.840 terrorist issue. I mean, you've got people out here, you know, 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:58.200 buying into the idea that these poor Venezuelan fishermen, you know, 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:00.320 have fallen under the gaze of Don Trump. 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:02.880 You look at the loud style fasherman. Fisherman don't have 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:04.560 twelve kilos of. 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:08.040 Coke in their boat and then you know, on top 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:09.960 of that sort of basically. 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:11.480 Maybe it's one hundred kilos of coke. I don't even 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:13.840 know how much they have, but it ain't good. 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:16.880 And also threatening these I mean essentially that like Mark 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:20.360 Kelly and others are saying, now, look, if you follow 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:22.560 the president's orders, we may come back to you in 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:26.600 a few years and retroactively decide that you broke the law, 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:28.400 and we will come after you if you help the 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:31.880 president serve as the legitimately elected commander in chief. I mean, 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:34.520 that's what they're It's all about throwing sand in the gears, 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:37.080 shut down the government to keep him from operating, get 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:39.880 military people to stop obeying orders, to keep him from 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:43.840 operating his commander in chief. That's the outrage that is 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:47.640 coming out of their base. It's it's the demand, like 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:50.520 you must stop him because we still don't give him 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:51.240 as legitimate. 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:54.600 They're the party of hate, Like the unifying theme of 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:57.880 the Democrat Party is they hate, hate, hate Donald J. Trump, 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:01.720 and and it's performance theater each one of them. The 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:04.280 shutdown happened because Chuck Schumer and the Democrats had to 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:07.680 show they hate him, Yes, and it is. Listen, I've 0:17:07.680 --> 0:17:11.760 been in the Senate thirteen years. This is the stupidest 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:15.320 shutdown I've ever seen because it had no objective other 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:22.560 than simply demonstrating we hate Trump. And look you see 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:25.159 it on CNN. I mean, I mean, I actually really 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:29.520 like your book, A Revolution of common Sense. You know 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:31.480 it used to be all right, So there's a very 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:33.719 common As you talk to people just across the country, 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:36.920 there are a lot of folks that will say both 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:41.280 parties have gotten to extreme, and that sounds very reasonable. 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:43.800 Like if you're sitting around at the dinner table and 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:46.960 you say that, that makes you seem very reasoned, very moderate. 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:49.760 And I'll say to folks like, look, I get why 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:52.960 you're saying that. That feels like it makes sense. I 0:17:53.040 --> 0:17:53.880 just don't think it's true. 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:54.639 I agree with you. 0:17:54.960 --> 0:17:57.040 And if you look at the two parties, one part 0:17:57.080 --> 0:18:00.239 of the Democrat Party has gone backcrap crazy. I mean 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:05.639 they've embraced policies complete open borders, embracing human traffickers and 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:12.280 narco terrorists, abolishing the police, boys and girls, sports mutilizing 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:16.960 little boys and little girls like these are extreme rat 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:22.760 embracing hamas, celebrating anti Semitic protesters, Like, it's almost like 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:25.840 every issue that's eighty twenty. Yes, they went across the 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:27.639 bard and said, let's take the twenty. Let's take the twenty. 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:28.680 Sometimes it's ninety ten. 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:30.639 And why because Trump's on the eighty. 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:34.520 And if you look at the other side, and I'll 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:39.040 say to people over dinner, I'll say, look, what are 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:45.200 Trump's policy positions? Secure the border, cut taxes, cut job 0:18:45.280 --> 0:18:49.400 killing regulations, support small businesses, support the police, protect our families, 0:18:49.480 --> 0:18:51.640 support the constitution, and the Bill of. 0:18:51.600 --> 0:18:52.679 Rights, welfare reform. 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:57.360 Like those are mainstream, middle of the road positions. Those 0:18:57.400 --> 0:19:00.919 are not crazy right wing positions. Those are common sense. 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:05.879 And what's amazing is the Democrats have abandoned the middle 0:19:05.920 --> 0:19:11.240 of the of the field. They've abandoned the middle ground. Now, 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:14.440 sometimes the rhetoric is a little hot, so the sort 0:19:14.440 --> 0:19:17.480 of both sides are two extreme. I do wish occasionally 0:19:17.520 --> 0:19:20.160 the rhetoric would ratchet back a little bit, but the 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:23.639 actual substance of the policies, and I got to say, 0:19:24.600 --> 0:19:26.720 even when I'm sitting down with lefties that they don't 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:30.600 have a good response, like what policies is Trump implementing 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:33.600