1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:07,280 Speaker 1: On this episode of News World. When President Biden held 2 00:00:07,280 --> 00:00:10,200 Speaker 1: a two hour press briefing on January nineteenth of the 3 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:13,800 Speaker 1: White House, I expected the press would ask the usual questions, 4 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:16,520 Speaker 1: what was he doing about Russia's invasion of Ukraine, where 5 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:19,520 Speaker 1: by the way, he made an enormous mistake and they 6 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:22,000 Speaker 1: spent the next two days trying to correct it. Would 7 00:00:22,040 --> 00:00:24,640 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris be his running mate in twenty twenty four? 8 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:28,200 Speaker 1: How does he address inflation issues and the continuing COVID crisis? 9 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:30,520 Speaker 1: But then he came to one part in his press 10 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:34,040 Speaker 1: conference that immediately caught my attention. Think about this, what 11 00:00:34,159 --> 00:00:39,000 Speaker 1: a Republicans for? What are they for? They be one 12 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:42,880 Speaker 1: thing they're for? So I tell my Republican fans here 13 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:45,760 Speaker 1: I come. This is going to be about what are 14 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:50,159 Speaker 1: you for? What are you? Well? I'm here to answer 15 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:53,600 Speaker 1: President Biden's question because we're going to win twenty twenty 16 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:55,760 Speaker 1: two in a landslide. Now, We're going to win it 17 00:00:55,880 --> 00:00:58,520 Speaker 1: both in a campaign that is a referendum on the 18 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:02,040 Speaker 1: reality of his failures and a campaign that is a 19 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:05,880 Speaker 1: clear choice between the policies that do not work with 20 00:01:05,959 --> 00:01:10,119 Speaker 1: big government socialism and the policies Republicans are developing, so 21 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:12,800 Speaker 1: I think at the end of this podcast you'll agree 22 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:17,640 Speaker 1: Republicans have many answers, many solutions, and many opportunities to 23 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:30,080 Speaker 1: win the debate. As we go into the selection, I 24 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:32,240 Speaker 1: actually want to answer the President and lay out for 25 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:35,920 Speaker 1: you today what Republicans do stand for, what the historic 26 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:40,200 Speaker 1: record is, and why I'm confident that in a campaign 27 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:43,640 Speaker 1: involving a choice between what he's trying to do and 28 00:01:43,720 --> 00:01:46,800 Speaker 1: what Republicans will try to do, we will win decisively, 29 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:50,800 Speaker 1: as well as the campaign about reality, where his failures 30 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:55,800 Speaker 1: also guarantee that we would win decisively. From my perspective, 31 00:01:56,280 --> 00:01:58,000 Speaker 1: if he wants to have a debate over what are 32 00:01:58,040 --> 00:02:00,960 Speaker 1: you for, it's further ill states how out of touch 33 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:04,720 Speaker 1: he is with the American people, because on virtually every topic, 34 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:10,000 Speaker 1: what he is for is pretty unpopular, and what Republicans 35 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:12,760 Speaker 1: are for is pretty popular. And I think that it's 36 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:16,600 Speaker 1: important to realize that there's a great virtue to the 37 00:02:16,639 --> 00:02:20,800 Speaker 1: Republican Party in outlining whether you call it the Contract 38 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:25,079 Speaker 1: with America as we did in nineteen ninety four, or 39 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:28,640 Speaker 1: whether it is a commitment to America, which is the 40 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:31,960 Speaker 1: term that Kevin McCarthy used when they picked up fifteen 41 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:35,440 Speaker 1: seats in two twenty Remember that was a time they 42 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:39,080 Speaker 1: were supposed to lose twenty five. So with Kevin McCarthy's leadership, 43 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:41,840 Speaker 1: you had a swing of forty seats from where the 44 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:43,680 Speaker 1: experts thought at the bend of the year they would 45 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:45,520 Speaker 1: end up. And I think part of it was that 46 00:02:45,560 --> 00:02:49,040 Speaker 1: they were positive, they were committed to something. I watched 47 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:52,440 Speaker 1: the same thing happen with Glenn Yuncan's campaign for governor 48 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:57,960 Speaker 1: in Virginia. Yuncan stood for very specific, positive Virginia's solutions, 49 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:02,680 Speaker 1: while his opponent, the former Democratic governor Terry mcculiff, tried 50 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:06,079 Speaker 1: to wage a national campaign and tried to focus on 51 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:09,400 Speaker 1: Donald Trump. And the fact is Virginians felt they needed 52 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:12,720 Speaker 1: a governor who cared about Virginia and it turned into 53 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:16,240 Speaker 1: being I think a really historic victory, which in his 54 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:20,480 Speaker 1: first week as governor, Yuncan has fully implemented the things 55 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:24,400 Speaker 1: he campaigned on and has been very effective, I think 56 00:03:24,639 --> 00:03:28,040 Speaker 1: at convincing the people of Virginia that he actually means 57 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:30,359 Speaker 1: what he said and he's actually going to get something 58 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:35,160 Speaker 1: good done. So the question is twofold, One should Republicans 59 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:38,920 Speaker 1: run a positive campaign? And two if they did what 60 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:43,040 Speaker 1: are the contrasts between us and the Biden administration Democrats 61 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:46,560 Speaker 1: and of course the Schumer Pelosi Democrats. I think they 62 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:49,160 Speaker 1: are wide open. And this is where I think Biden 63 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:51,240 Speaker 1: is in a real trap. On the one end, he 64 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:54,560 Speaker 1: can't run a performance campaign. He can't go out and say, 65 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:56,920 Speaker 1: do you like the price of oil? Do you like 66 00:03:57,040 --> 00:03:59,640 Speaker 1: the fact that there's nothing on your grocery shelf? Are 67 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:02,840 Speaker 1: you happy to have another million people across the border illegally? 68 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:06,320 Speaker 1: Are you comfortable with the level of murder and robbery 69 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:08,800 Speaker 1: going on in our big cities. You know, he can't. 70 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:12,440 Speaker 1: Let's have a referentum on performance, which is what frankly 71 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:15,120 Speaker 1: it's going to become, in part because he'll get killed. 72 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:17,719 Speaker 1: So he's come up with this idea, Oh, let's force 73 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:20,919 Speaker 1: a contrast, because what they don't understand on the left 74 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:24,880 Speaker 1: is people don't like them, They don't want these things. 75 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:27,719 Speaker 1: You go out and you ask people about a whole 76 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:30,120 Speaker 1: series of things that the Democrats are doing, and it 77 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:33,360 Speaker 1: turns out, on item after writem that they're a disaster. 78 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:36,680 Speaker 1: I've been working on an American Majority project, and we've 79 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:40,880 Speaker 1: done a whole series of focus groups, several polls, We've 80 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:44,320 Speaker 1: also taken the questions on a number of other national polls, 81 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:47,240 Speaker 1: and when we go out and we test ideas, if 82 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:52,279 Speaker 1: you contrast making Trump's tax cut permanent with the idea 83 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:57,039 Speaker 1: of the Biden tax increase, overwhelmingly the American people would 84 00:04:57,120 --> 00:05:00,960 Speaker 1: rather make the tax cuts permanent and not have tax increases. 85 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:03,920 Speaker 1: If you go out and ask the American people they 86 00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:06,800 Speaker 1: think there's enough waste and fraud and government that you 87 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:09,760 Speaker 1: could balance the federal budget just by cutting out the 88 00:05:09,839 --> 00:05:13,800 Speaker 1: corruption and the fraud, over seventy percent say yes. Now, 89 00:05:13,839 --> 00:05:16,160 Speaker 1: think about it. That means the average Americans out there 90 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:19,320 Speaker 1: saying that Joe Biden is presiding over so much fraud 91 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:22,440 Speaker 1: and so much waste that we could have a balanced 92 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:25,680 Speaker 1: budget if we just had an honest government. When you 93 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:27,920 Speaker 1: go down this whole list of things, you suddenly discover 94 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:31,080 Speaker 1: what was a key factor in Glen Yunka's victory. It 95 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:35,680 Speaker 1: was education. Now, historically education was an issue for the Democrats, 96 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:40,640 Speaker 1: but they've combined several things that really a terrible formula 97 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:43,719 Speaker 1: which you can't run a contrast campaign as a Democrat 98 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:47,599 Speaker 1: and expect to win an education right now, why one 99 00:05:48,200 --> 00:05:50,800 Speaker 1: the big inner city schools don't work. We all know 100 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:54,000 Speaker 1: they don't work. We knew this in nineteen eighty three 101 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:57,279 Speaker 1: when the Ring administration released a Nation at Risk, the 102 00:05:57,360 --> 00:06:02,800 Speaker 1: Imperative for Educational Reform. So the teachers unions defend the 103 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:06,200 Speaker 1: right to be paid for schools that aren't functioning, and 104 00:06:06,279 --> 00:06:10,200 Speaker 1: nobody makes any serious effort to fix them. Second, people 105 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:14,160 Speaker 1: are very angry about this whole idea of teaching racist 106 00:06:14,279 --> 00:06:18,400 Speaker 1: ideas and racist concepts in school, telling young white children 107 00:06:18,440 --> 00:06:22,200 Speaker 1: that they should feel guilty because they're privileged, and rigging 108 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:24,640 Speaker 1: the game. And the result has been and this was 109 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:27,640 Speaker 1: a major factor in glen Yonkan's victory in Virginia. The 110 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:30,960 Speaker 1: people just fed up with the Third, people want schools 111 00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:34,640 Speaker 1: based on merit. They actually think you should learn. They 112 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:37,479 Speaker 1: think that grades should mean something, and when they run 113 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:40,719 Speaker 1: into these left wing cuckoos. For example, the State of 114 00:06:40,760 --> 00:06:44,600 Speaker 1: Oregon Department of Education published a report on possibly abolishing 115 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:49,040 Speaker 1: mathematics because some people don't do well at math, So 116 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:51,559 Speaker 1: in order to let them feel better, we just won't 117 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:53,839 Speaker 1: have math, and then they won't be able to fail 118 00:06:54,120 --> 00:06:56,120 Speaker 1: and they'll feel better about themselves. Of course, they won't 119 00:06:56,120 --> 00:06:57,720 Speaker 1: be able to do any math. They won't be able 120 00:06:57,760 --> 00:07:00,320 Speaker 1: to get a job, and people will decide that they're 121 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:03,599 Speaker 1: functionally incompetent, but they'll feel better while they're in school. 122 00:07:03,960 --> 00:07:06,120 Speaker 1: This is the kind of thing the average American looks at, 123 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:08,279 Speaker 1: and it was a big factor again in Junkin's campaign 124 00:07:08,279 --> 00:07:12,400 Speaker 1: in Virginia because the left had talked about phasing out 125 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:16,360 Speaker 1: all of the magnet schools for really good students, and 126 00:07:16,520 --> 00:07:21,640 Speaker 1: people in particular Asian Americans feel very deeply that education 127 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:24,120 Speaker 1: is the path to the future, and they want their 128 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:26,640 Speaker 1: children to study hard, and they want their children to 129 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:29,320 Speaker 1: go to the best schools, and they deeply resent the 130 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:33,960 Speaker 1: idea that we should eliminate grades, eliminate achievement, eliminate excellence, 131 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:37,640 Speaker 1: and just pretend that everybody should feel good about themselves 132 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:39,880 Speaker 1: because nobody's ever going to tell them whether or not 133 00:07:39,960 --> 00:07:42,720 Speaker 1: they can read. That is a formula for disaster, and 134 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:46,720 Speaker 1: the country knows it. The trap that the Biden, Harris 135 00:07:46,760 --> 00:07:50,640 Speaker 1: Schumer Pelosi team are caught in is they can't win 136 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:55,840 Speaker 1: a debate on performance, and they can't win a debate 137 00:07:55,840 --> 00:07:59,120 Speaker 1: on the issues. To suggest that Republicans don't have any 138 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:03,280 Speaker 1: solutions is just nonsense, first of all. But let's just 139 00:08:03,320 --> 00:08:07,080 Speaker 1: take something as simple as making the Trump tax cuts permanent. 140 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:11,560 Speaker 1: That's about a fifty seven to twenty. Yes, people get it. 141 00:08:11,960 --> 00:08:14,480 Speaker 1: They liked the tax cuts to be permanent. They liked 142 00:08:14,520 --> 00:08:17,200 Speaker 1: the kind of job growth they were creating, and they 143 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:20,720 Speaker 1: think that tax increases will kill jobs. Take the question 144 00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:23,000 Speaker 1: of crime. I mean, just in the last few weeks, 145 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:26,200 Speaker 1: it is finally exploded and people have begun to look 146 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:28,960 Speaker 1: at whether it is the young girl who was killed. 147 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:32,040 Speaker 1: I think she was nineteen in New York working at 148 00:08:32,040 --> 00:08:34,839 Speaker 1: a burger king man just walked in and shot her 149 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:38,400 Speaker 1: for no good reason. I think the term evil has 150 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:42,120 Speaker 1: to be resurrected. We've gone through two generations of what 151 00:08:42,600 --> 00:08:47,040 Speaker 1: Daniel Patrick moynihan, the senator and famous sociologist, wrote an 152 00:08:47,160 --> 00:08:51,240 Speaker 1: essay called Defining Deviancy down, which she said, in order 153 00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:54,640 Speaker 1: to cope with reality, you pretend things aren't bad, and 154 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:59,079 Speaker 1: so gradually, over time, bad language becomes acceptable because people 155 00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:03,400 Speaker 1: use it, behavior becomes acceptable, and so forth. Well, maybe 156 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:06,360 Speaker 1: the time has come to define deviancy up and to 157 00:09:06,440 --> 00:09:09,640 Speaker 1: say some people are just evil. The man who was 158 00:09:09,679 --> 00:09:13,000 Speaker 1: a career criminal in Los Angeles who killed the twenty 159 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:16,560 Speaker 1: four year old UCLA student in the furniture store was evil, 160 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:19,440 Speaker 1: and people who are evil shouldn't be on the street. 161 00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:22,280 Speaker 1: They should be locked up for life if you don't 162 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:24,320 Speaker 1: believe in the death penalty, or in some cases they 163 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:27,120 Speaker 1: should get the death penalty. But there's no excuse this 164 00:09:27,240 --> 00:09:31,200 Speaker 1: particular person had, I think eleven different arrests, had been 165 00:09:31,240 --> 00:09:35,200 Speaker 1: released eleven times, and finally killed a totally innocent young 166 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:38,480 Speaker 1: woman who deserved to have a full and healthy and 167 00:09:38,640 --> 00:09:42,120 Speaker 1: free life, and instead she's dead. And I think one 168 00:09:42,160 --> 00:09:45,319 Speaker 1: of the great differences between the left and the Republicans 169 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:49,480 Speaker 1: is the willingness of Republicans to value the innocent above 170 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:52,960 Speaker 1: the criminal, and the willingness of the left to protect 171 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:55,080 Speaker 1: the criminal rather than innocent. In fact, there was a 172 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:58,240 Speaker 1: memo which has now been withdrawn by one of the 173 00:09:58,360 --> 00:10:02,280 Speaker 1: left wing district atorneys at George Soros's money helped elect, 174 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:04,720 Speaker 1: in which she said, if somebody comes in and robs 175 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:06,960 Speaker 1: you with a gun but they don't actually shoot you, 176 00:10:07,559 --> 00:10:09,640 Speaker 1: we should treat it as a misdemeanor, kind of like 177 00:10:09,760 --> 00:10:13,480 Speaker 1: you know jaywalking. Well, when that memo got out, people 178 00:10:13,520 --> 00:10:15,640 Speaker 1: were so unraged they had to pull it, but it 179 00:10:15,760 --> 00:10:19,760 Speaker 1: told you the mindset of these left wing district attorneys. 180 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:21,959 Speaker 1: The one in New York, I suspect is going to 181 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:24,200 Speaker 1: get fired because New York state law apparently allows the 182 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:27,480 Speaker 1: governor to fire them. The two in San Francisco and 183 00:10:27,640 --> 00:10:32,000 Speaker 1: Los Angeles now face recalls I suspect. The Pennsylvania state 184 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:35,680 Speaker 1: legislatures looking at firing the district attorney in Philadelphia. These 185 00:10:35,679 --> 00:10:40,720 Speaker 1: are all people who represent the values of the Biden, Harris, 186 00:10:40,760 --> 00:10:45,120 Speaker 1: Pelosi Schumer system, and they're all wrong. And Republicans do 187 00:10:45,240 --> 00:10:47,000 Speaker 1: know how to solve crime. If you go back and 188 00:10:47,040 --> 00:10:50,400 Speaker 1: you look at Chief Bill Bratton and Mayor Rudy Giuliani, 189 00:10:50,880 --> 00:10:53,560 Speaker 1: they turned around New York City in less than two years. 190 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:56,560 Speaker 1: They took it from a city where people were frightened, 191 00:10:56,920 --> 00:11:00,680 Speaker 1: where crime was rampant, where Times Square felt safe even 192 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:03,400 Speaker 1: at noon, and within two years they had begun to 193 00:11:03,440 --> 00:11:06,920 Speaker 1: create the safest big city in America. Who was followed 194 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:09,800 Speaker 1: up on by Mayor Bloomberg. And the result was, by 195 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:12,360 Speaker 1: the end of those two mayors, New York City was 196 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:16,240 Speaker 1: literally safer, the biggest city in the country, huge number 197 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:20,880 Speaker 1: of immigrants, but very very safe. Well, every single principle 198 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:25,000 Speaker 1: that Bill Bratton, that's police chief, had imposed was repudiated 199 00:11:25,040 --> 00:11:27,840 Speaker 1: by the left, and the result has been exactly what 200 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:31,079 Speaker 1: you'd expect. So when they say, well, Republicans don't have 201 00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:33,680 Speaker 1: any ideas, sure we do. It's just that our IDs 202 00:11:33,679 --> 00:11:52,719 Speaker 1: aren't acceptable to people like Joe Biden. We have very 203 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:56,199 Speaker 1: clear ideas about the mourner finished the wall. I did 204 00:11:56,240 --> 00:11:59,360 Speaker 1: a podcast recently with the mayor of Yuma, who has 205 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:03,080 Speaker 1: seen a two thousand and five hundred percent increase in 206 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:07,600 Speaker 1: illegal immigration in his town, two thousand and five hundred 207 00:12:07,679 --> 00:12:10,559 Speaker 1: percent under Biden. And he says, you know, we got 208 00:12:10,559 --> 00:12:13,240 Speaker 1: a wall, assist that we don't have the gates, so 209 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:15,720 Speaker 1: you just have to walk down the wall to the 210 00:12:15,720 --> 00:12:18,360 Speaker 1: open gate and walk through. How none he can it be? 211 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:20,480 Speaker 1: We know how to stop. And I think about the 212 00:12:20,559 --> 00:12:25,960 Speaker 1: reality the well pressuring, browbeating firing. Going through all these 213 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:31,359 Speaker 1: steps to get Americans to get vaccinated, the Biden administration 214 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:35,720 Speaker 1: is doing nothing to vaccinate or to check four COVID 215 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:39,000 Speaker 1: or for other public health diseases all the people who 216 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:43,040 Speaker 1: are pouring across the border. Similarly, the Biden administration does 217 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:46,040 Speaker 1: nothing to check about whether or not they have criminal records. 218 00:12:46,360 --> 00:12:48,440 Speaker 1: And as word gets out that Joe Biden loves you 219 00:12:48,480 --> 00:12:51,200 Speaker 1: and wants you to come America, they're coming from everywhere. 220 00:12:51,559 --> 00:12:53,360 Speaker 1: The mayor of Yuma was telling me how many people 221 00:12:53,559 --> 00:12:57,440 Speaker 1: come from India, I said, often carrying Gucci handbags and 222 00:12:57,559 --> 00:12:59,800 Speaker 1: going straight to the airport to buy an airplane ticket 223 00:12:59,840 --> 00:13:02,240 Speaker 1: to somewhere in America. At the same time, in the 224 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:05,400 Speaker 1: last couple of days along the Texas border, they picked 225 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:08,760 Speaker 1: up several people from China. The reality is the words 226 00:13:08,760 --> 00:13:11,320 Speaker 1: going out around the planet that Joe Biden is willing 227 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:14,160 Speaker 1: to let you come into the US illegally. So we 228 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:16,960 Speaker 1: have all of these restrictions at airports, we have all 229 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:19,480 Speaker 1: the effort to screen people as long as you come 230 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:23,000 Speaker 1: in legally, but if you go through Mexico, you come 231 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:25,439 Speaker 1: in illegally. I mean, if you think about it, it's 232 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:28,400 Speaker 1: totally nuts. And for Biden to say, we don't have ideas, 233 00:13:28,640 --> 00:13:32,240 Speaker 1: let's just start with the simple basic idea control the border. 234 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:35,559 Speaker 1: Now he doesn't like that idea, so he can say 235 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:37,800 Speaker 1: we don't have an idea I like. But that's the 236 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:41,280 Speaker 1: whole point of this conversation that the things we would 237 00:13:41,280 --> 00:13:45,160 Speaker 1: do are not things that Biden is comfortable doing. The 238 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:49,200 Speaker 1: fact is we would be for American energy. Biden is 239 00:13:49,200 --> 00:13:52,360 Speaker 1: apparently for Saudi Arabian and Russian energy. So on the 240 00:13:52,400 --> 00:13:55,680 Speaker 1: one hand, he's threatening Putin. On the other hand, he's 241 00:13:55,720 --> 00:13:58,320 Speaker 1: allowing the price of oil to rise, which is the 242 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:01,839 Speaker 1: primary source of Putin's revet. So Putin has more money 243 00:14:01,880 --> 00:14:04,720 Speaker 1: to spend on the Russian military thanks to Joe Biden, 244 00:14:05,280 --> 00:14:07,960 Speaker 1: and Biden is now begging the Russians and the Saudis 245 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:10,760 Speaker 1: and others to pump more oil at the very same 246 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:14,760 Speaker 1: time that he's stopping the American companies from pumping American oil. 247 00:14:15,559 --> 00:14:18,680 Speaker 1: So again, he may not like the Republican ideas, but 248 00:14:18,760 --> 00:14:21,360 Speaker 1: there's a very simple idea. Go back to what Trump 249 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:25,520 Speaker 1: was doing. Maximize American oil and gas production, and by 250 00:14:25,520 --> 00:14:28,560 Speaker 1: the way, maximize the export of gas, which is a 251 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:31,960 Speaker 1: great way if you're concerned about global warming. If you 252 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:36,160 Speaker 1: convert from coal to gas, you dramatically reduce the carbon 253 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:38,920 Speaker 1: loading of the atmosphere. And the US could have an 254 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:43,440 Speaker 1: enormous business selling natural gas around the world, except, of course, 255 00:14:43,720 --> 00:14:46,480 Speaker 1: we have a president and a Democratic party that is 256 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:50,520 Speaker 1: opposed to natural gas. They are opposed to anything except 257 00:14:50,520 --> 00:14:53,520 Speaker 1: solar power, which is guess what, mostly made of panels 258 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:57,880 Speaker 1: manufactured in China, So they increase our dependence on China. 259 00:14:57,920 --> 00:15:01,280 Speaker 1: They increase our dependence on Saudia in Russia, and they 260 00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:04,160 Speaker 1: say that we don't have an alternative one. Their policy 261 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:06,120 Speaker 1: doesn't work. You know that every time you go to 262 00:15:06,120 --> 00:15:09,600 Speaker 1: the gas station two, we do have an alternative. It's 263 00:15:09,640 --> 00:15:12,520 Speaker 1: just not acceptable to them. Let me see just a 264 00:15:12,640 --> 00:15:15,440 Speaker 1: number of other areas where I think that Biden just 265 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:21,200 Speaker 1: doesn't get it. Republicans favor a defense department focused on defense. 266 00:15:22,040 --> 00:15:25,040 Speaker 1: We do not believe having a defense department focused on 267 00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:28,640 Speaker 1: woke sociological values is the very good idea. First of all, 268 00:15:28,640 --> 00:15:31,880 Speaker 1: I think it's very dangerous, and it's very divisive, and 269 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:34,680 Speaker 1: it means you're not focusing on the big threats. I mean, 270 00:15:34,680 --> 00:15:37,520 Speaker 1: the biggest threats China. And the fact is right now, 271 00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:40,480 Speaker 1: I'm very concerned that we would lose a major war 272 00:15:40,560 --> 00:15:45,000 Speaker 1: with China. I see no evidence that this particular Pentagon, 273 00:15:45,120 --> 00:15:48,720 Speaker 1: with the current leadership, has any hope of defeating China. 274 00:15:48,760 --> 00:15:51,920 Speaker 1: And again that's a major difference. While Donald Trump was 275 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:54,800 Speaker 1: trying to get us out of Afghanistan and had said 276 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:57,200 Speaker 1: publicly we should get out, he was trying to get 277 00:15:57,240 --> 00:16:02,000 Speaker 1: us out in a very complicated negotiation which had basically 278 00:16:02,040 --> 00:16:05,080 Speaker 1: stopped the Taliban in its tracks. The fact is no 279 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:08,280 Speaker 1: American soldier had been killed for a year and a half, 280 00:16:08,880 --> 00:16:12,600 Speaker 1: and Trump was very prepared to use American air power 281 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:16,920 Speaker 1: to annihilate the Taliban if in fact they had broken 282 00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:21,400 Speaker 1: their word and started killing Americans. The level of incompetence 283 00:16:22,040 --> 00:16:26,840 Speaker 1: displayed by the American military and withdrawing from Afghanistan, The 284 00:16:26,960 --> 00:16:30,440 Speaker 1: degree to which somebody conceded that we could give up 285 00:16:30,480 --> 00:16:33,440 Speaker 1: Bagram Air Base but try to keep the air base 286 00:16:33,440 --> 00:16:37,360 Speaker 1: at its inside cobble and try to keep the embassy 287 00:16:37,680 --> 00:16:40,680 Speaker 1: when we were giving up our military capabilities. All of 288 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:43,800 Speaker 1: this stuff is nuts. When Biden says there's not an 289 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:47,600 Speaker 1: alternative schuon there is, have a competent Pentagon fire all 290 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:50,080 Speaker 1: the people who proved to be incompetent, which would include 291 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:53,120 Speaker 1: the Secretary Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. 292 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:57,520 Speaker 1: Insist on promoting generals and admirals who actually believe in 293 00:16:57,560 --> 00:17:00,600 Speaker 1: winning wars and who are willing to be taught and 294 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:04,800 Speaker 1: in favor of the steps necessary for national security to operate, 295 00:17:05,080 --> 00:17:07,680 Speaker 1: and you'd be in much better shape. There's some other 296 00:17:07,720 --> 00:17:09,720 Speaker 1: things that I think we have to confront where we 297 00:17:09,800 --> 00:17:13,680 Speaker 1: just represent a very different approach to things. It's very 298 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:18,560 Speaker 1: clear that the public health system in United States failed 299 00:17:18,920 --> 00:17:22,679 Speaker 1: in the entire COVID epidemic process. And it's very clear 300 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:27,960 Speaker 1: that we need a profound review of what happened, from 301 00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:32,360 Speaker 1: the Center for Disease Control, to the Food and Drug Administration, 302 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:36,479 Speaker 1: to the Health and Human Services to the local public 303 00:17:36,520 --> 00:17:40,159 Speaker 1: health agencies. The truth is there's not a single public 304 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:43,760 Speaker 1: health system in United States. Every county is different. You 305 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:46,919 Speaker 1: still have a system in which many places uses a 306 00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:50,359 Speaker 1: fax machine. We have to say to yourself, if McDonald's 307 00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:54,760 Speaker 1: can have thirty eight thousand stores worldwide report every evening 308 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:58,600 Speaker 1: in real time, why is it takes two weeks to 309 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:01,720 Speaker 1: figure out what's happening in Rochester, New York, or what's 310 00:18:01,760 --> 00:18:04,760 Speaker 1: happening in Atlanta, Georgia. And the fact is that the 311 00:18:04,800 --> 00:18:09,040 Speaker 1: Center for Disease Control has proven itself to be bureaucratic, cumbersome, 312 00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:13,080 Speaker 1: and incompetent. The fact is, I say this with great sadness, 313 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:15,760 Speaker 1: that the National Institutes of Health failed in their job. 314 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:19,639 Speaker 1: The fact is that doctor fauci knew that he had 315 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:25,119 Speaker 1: been funding Chinese experiments in taking a virus and making 316 00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:28,320 Speaker 1: it easy for the virus to go from animal to human. 317 00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:32,440 Speaker 1: And it's very likely that fauci knew from day one 318 00:18:32,880 --> 00:18:36,320 Speaker 1: that the new virus was almost certainly released from the 319 00:18:36,320 --> 00:18:40,639 Speaker 1: Wuhan Military laboratory because it's spread among people too fast. 320 00:18:41,359 --> 00:18:47,040 Speaker 1: A natural, wildlife based virus takes time to accommodate to humans. 321 00:18:47,480 --> 00:18:50,159 Speaker 1: Go back and look at SARS or MIRS or the 322 00:18:50,160 --> 00:18:52,080 Speaker 1: bird flu. I mean, we've had a whole series of 323 00:18:52,119 --> 00:18:55,800 Speaker 1: experiences dealing with these things, and we know that normally 324 00:18:55,880 --> 00:19:00,320 Speaker 1: there's a very slow transition. This was extraordinarily fast, and 325 00:19:00,480 --> 00:19:04,320 Speaker 1: people now I think generally agree that it was done 326 00:19:04,359 --> 00:19:09,200 Speaker 1: by some kind of biological engineering. So we haven't had 327 00:19:09,359 --> 00:19:13,119 Speaker 1: either an honest, open evaluation of the last two years, 328 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:16,840 Speaker 1: nor have we had proposals for the kind of reforms 329 00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:19,560 Speaker 1: we need. I mean, if something like this occurs again, 330 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:23,960 Speaker 1: we need to have a radically better, faster, more sophisticated 331 00:19:24,040 --> 00:19:28,120 Speaker 1: response than we had this last time. Republicans would be prepared, 332 00:19:28,560 --> 00:19:31,560 Speaker 1: I think, to look at all of those aspects. It's 333 00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:36,560 Speaker 1: clear that the current administration is not prepared to examine 334 00:19:36,600 --> 00:19:40,720 Speaker 1: in a serious way anything that's going on about public health. 335 00:19:41,119 --> 00:19:43,840 Speaker 1: The very fact that doctor Fauschy continues to work for 336 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:46,800 Speaker 1: the government continues to show up on TV. If you 337 00:19:46,840 --> 00:19:50,920 Speaker 1: were to put together everything Fauschi has said starting back 338 00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:54,040 Speaker 1: in January and February of twenty twenty, it would be 339 00:19:54,080 --> 00:19:56,960 Speaker 1: a little bit like looking at Kamala Harris laughing. I mean, 340 00:19:57,000 --> 00:20:01,280 Speaker 1: you would realize that Fauschi routinely contradict himself but does 341 00:20:01,320 --> 00:20:04,600 Speaker 1: so with enormous self confidence and hopes that you only 342 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:07,560 Speaker 1: look at the current interview and forget everything he's said 343 00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:10,080 Speaker 1: over the last two years. So there's an area where 344 00:20:10,119 --> 00:20:14,639 Speaker 1: I think Republicans would be prepared to really review seriously 345 00:20:15,160 --> 00:20:18,680 Speaker 1: the process of the public health system. There's no evidence 346 00:20:19,040 --> 00:20:22,639 Speaker 1: that President Biden has any ability to do that. But 347 00:20:22,760 --> 00:20:24,719 Speaker 1: let me carry you to a couple of other areas 348 00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:30,080 Speaker 1: that are very clearly different. We've had an amazing amount 349 00:20:30,280 --> 00:20:33,800 Speaker 1: of theft and the money that we have put out 350 00:20:34,280 --> 00:20:37,280 Speaker 1: during the period of trying to respond to COVID and 351 00:20:38,040 --> 00:20:43,400 Speaker 1: California alone, it has estimated that thirty two billion dollars 352 00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:49,040 Speaker 1: was stolen from the unemployment compensation fund. I talked with 353 00:20:49,520 --> 00:20:52,679 Speaker 1: the District Attorney of Sacramento who's been investigated, and she 354 00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:57,520 Speaker 1: says that in fact, it's almost certainly stolen by convicts. 355 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:00,959 Speaker 1: Think about this, convicts in the state prison using the 356 00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:06,040 Speaker 1: state computers to create false identities to steal the money 357 00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:08,159 Speaker 1: and then have friends of theirs on the outside go 358 00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:13,119 Speaker 1: and collect the checks. Thirty two billion, not million billion 359 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:18,280 Speaker 1: dollars in California alone, now where Republicans would actually think 360 00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:22,439 Speaker 1: that was a really bad idea, Biden actually promoted the 361 00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:27,240 Speaker 1: head of the California Unemployment Compensation Fund, who had presided 362 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:32,800 Speaker 1: over thirty two billion dollars in theft. That person now 363 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:36,280 Speaker 1: has a federal job. The same thing happened in Washington State, 364 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:38,560 Speaker 1: where they had a much smaller number. They only had 365 00:21:38,560 --> 00:21:42,520 Speaker 1: about six hundred and twenty million dollars stolen, probably most 366 00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:45,840 Speaker 1: of it, if not all of it by Nigerians who've 367 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:49,800 Speaker 1: developed a really good personal foreign aid program of going 368 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:53,480 Speaker 1: to a local shop and getting on the internet and 369 00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:57,080 Speaker 1: pretending to be an American. Whereas I think Republicans would 370 00:21:57,080 --> 00:21:59,640 Speaker 1: have said, if you're dumb enough to preside over the 371 00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:02,359 Speaker 1: theft of six hundred twenty million dollars, you shouldn't be 372 00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:05,159 Speaker 1: in government. That person got promoted by Biden to a 373 00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:08,320 Speaker 1: federal job. But let me go one or two steps further. 374 00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:11,719 Speaker 1: With all the problems of Hunter Biden and all the 375 00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:15,760 Speaker 1: problems of their relationship with the Chinese. It's very hard 376 00:22:16,240 --> 00:22:19,280 Speaker 1: for the Biden administration to take head on the greatest 377 00:22:19,280 --> 00:22:22,480 Speaker 1: single problem with China, and that is that there is 378 00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:25,280 Speaker 1: so much manufacturing now, Senator, in China. We discover this 379 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:29,800 Speaker 1: after the Chinese exported their virus. They then exported their mask, 380 00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:32,040 Speaker 1: so you could have a mass to protect you from 381 00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:33,639 Speaker 1: the virus they sent you. Now, I want you to 382 00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:36,480 Speaker 1: think about that, a great deal of the basic stock 383 00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:40,200 Speaker 1: of pharmaceuticals is made in China. Between China and Taiwan, 384 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:43,399 Speaker 1: an enormous percent of the world's chips are made in 385 00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:45,919 Speaker 1: those two countries. We are going to have to have 386 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:49,560 Speaker 1: a major program to in source back into the US 387 00:22:50,119 --> 00:22:53,639 Speaker 1: levels of manufacturing that relate to national security. That's not 388 00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:58,520 Speaker 1: something that a Biden administration, which is very cautious about China, 389 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:01,600 Speaker 1: is likely to take very far or to do very 390 00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:05,080 Speaker 1: much about. So again, you have, I think a very 391 00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:09,160 Speaker 1: dramatic difference in how the two parties would approach these 392 00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:29,800 Speaker 1: kinds of issues. The fact is that the Biden administration 393 00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:34,280 Speaker 1: is going to lose this fall on performance and if 394 00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:37,520 Speaker 1: the Republicans will be prepared to do something like the 395 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:42,440 Speaker 1: Contract with America or Kevin McCarthy's commitment to America if 396 00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:46,119 Speaker 1: we make clear what we stand for, and we have 397 00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:50,119 Speaker 1: candidates who run not just negative, not this is a 398 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:53,919 Speaker 1: referendum on Biden. Although it's a referendum he'll lose, but 399 00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:57,679 Speaker 1: also I think running on a positive basis. I was 400 00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:02,560 Speaker 1: very encouraged that the day after Biden's comments, Kevin McCarthy, 401 00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:04,240 Speaker 1: who I think is going to be the next Speaker 402 00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:07,719 Speaker 1: of the House, was on Morning with Maria and he 403 00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:11,720 Speaker 1: laid out an example of how different we are and 404 00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:15,560 Speaker 1: that we're quite prepared to wage a campaign of contrast, 405 00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:18,920 Speaker 1: not just a campaign that's a referentement performance. But listen 406 00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:21,960 Speaker 1: to Kevin's response, I'll tell you what we're for. We'refore 407 00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:24,680 Speaker 1: secure boarders, before parents having a bill of rights in 408 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:29,240 Speaker 1: their children's education, before stopping inflation and actually focusing on 409 00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:32,800 Speaker 1: small business. Were for freedom that individuals can live their 410 00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:35,359 Speaker 1: life and not being mandated by government telling them what 411 00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:38,160 Speaker 1: to do. Were for a fair and free election. That 412 00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:40,120 Speaker 1: if there's one place that you can show an ID 413 00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:41,919 Speaker 1: it's when you vote, not when you have to go 414 00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:46,160 Speaker 1: get dinner. I've watched for we're four safe streets. We're 415 00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:49,320 Speaker 1: not for cutting the police. Were four people understanding the 416 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:52,879 Speaker 1: law and living by it before being strong around the world, 417 00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:56,679 Speaker 1: not inviting Putin to invade Ukraine. We're also for freedom 418 00:24:56,680 --> 00:24:59,840 Speaker 1: when it comes into China too. We're for American supply 419 00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:02,359 Speaker 1: chain that works, that ships aren't coming from China, but 420 00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:04,840 Speaker 1: we're building the products here and we're shipping our products 421 00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:07,760 Speaker 1: around the world. This is a president that's had one 422 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:11,240 Speaker 1: year anniversary, one party control, and what do we have. 423 00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:14,800 Speaker 1: We have an economy that's damaged, we have streets that 424 00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:18,000 Speaker 1: are dangerous, we have our enemies dominating, and we have 425 00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:21,840 Speaker 1: American morale low. And China's holding the Olympics next month. 426 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:25,159 Speaker 1: And he just invited Putin to invade Ukraine on the 427 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:28,600 Speaker 1: one hundredth anniversary of the creation of the Sylviet Union. 428 00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:31,760 Speaker 1: As you could see, there is a movement of foot now. 429 00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:35,080 Speaker 1: There are always going to be some Republicans. Back when 430 00:25:35,119 --> 00:25:37,719 Speaker 1: we did the contract in ninety four, there were some 431 00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:40,960 Speaker 1: Republicans who said, o gee, you don't have to do anything. 432 00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:43,800 Speaker 1: You can just be negative. And I said to him 433 00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:47,560 Speaker 1: at the time, if we run an anti Clinton campaign, 434 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:51,120 Speaker 1: we'll pick up twenty five or thirty seats and we'll 435 00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:53,600 Speaker 1: still be in a minority. But if we can run 436 00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:57,919 Speaker 1: a Contract with America campaign. Remember, we had very big, 437 00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:02,920 Speaker 1: very popular ideas on the federal budget, overwhelmingly supported as 438 00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:07,080 Speaker 1: it still is today by the way welfare reform, extraordinarily 439 00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:12,280 Speaker 1: positive support, tax cuts, people wanted economic growth. The fact 440 00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:15,760 Speaker 1: is many of the things we adopted are things which 441 00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:19,280 Speaker 1: would solve today's economic problems. We have an inflation brought 442 00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:22,880 Speaker 1: about by the fact that there's too much money chasing 443 00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:25,680 Speaker 1: too few goods and services. And one of the great 444 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:29,600 Speaker 1: tests that Biden wants to see a campaign between two alternatives. 445 00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:34,359 Speaker 1: He stands for the failed model of building up domestic 446 00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:38,440 Speaker 1: demand and hoping that somehow good things will happen. Well, 447 00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:41,320 Speaker 1: we've tried that before. Jimmy Carter tried it. It leads 448 00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:45,680 Speaker 1: to inflation. Inflation is caused because we are slowing down 449 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:48,880 Speaker 1: the development of new jobs. We're slowing down the development 450 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:52,119 Speaker 1: of new businesses. We're slowing down. The process of the 451 00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:56,120 Speaker 1: logistics supply chain, for example, is a disaster. There are 452 00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:59,400 Speaker 1: still over a hundred ships sitting off Long Beach. They're 453 00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:02,040 Speaker 1: unloading about as many has come in every day, but 454 00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:04,760 Speaker 1: they're not catching up. So there's still about literally one 455 00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:07,880 Speaker 1: hundred and one to last week sitting there. The crime 456 00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:11,080 Speaker 1: problem is a major part of the logistics problem. If 457 00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:14,720 Speaker 1: you look at the Union Pacific rail yard in Los Angeles, 458 00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:19,760 Speaker 1: it's astonishing. And Union Pacific has reported they're picking up crooks, 459 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:23,320 Speaker 1: turning them into the police, and the crooks back out 460 00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:26,360 Speaker 1: before the police have finished their paperwork, and the next 461 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:29,479 Speaker 1: day they're picking up exactly the same cruk. And there 462 00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:33,639 Speaker 1: are some pictures of the Union Pacific rail yard that 463 00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:36,120 Speaker 1: look like it's a war zone. I mean, there are 464 00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:39,840 Speaker 1: thousands of packages thrown all over the place by people 465 00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:43,520 Speaker 1: who are stealing. It's a variation on the eighty five 466 00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:48,000 Speaker 1: people who stole from Nordstrom and a suburb just outside 467 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,760 Speaker 1: of San Francisco. When you look at that video, you 468 00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:53,720 Speaker 1: know this is a civilization that's on the ropes. Because 469 00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:56,600 Speaker 1: if you can't protect a store like Nordstrom and you 470 00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:59,920 Speaker 1: have eighty five people going through the store looting it, 471 00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:04,240 Speaker 1: you're really watching an enormous assault on the whole concept 472 00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:07,360 Speaker 1: of civilized life. Well that's what's happening in Los Angeles, 473 00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:10,120 Speaker 1: and Union pacifica said they may well just pull out 474 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:13,360 Speaker 1: of Los Angeles because there's too much crime. Now, if 475 00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:16,480 Speaker 1: you have too much crime for a railroad, you know, 476 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:20,119 Speaker 1: you have policies that are failing. So when you can't 477 00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:23,000 Speaker 1: get the ship unloaded, you can't get the train to 478 00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:25,360 Speaker 1: come in and pick up the products, you can't get 479 00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:27,920 Speaker 1: the truck to show up, you end up with. As 480 00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:30,920 Speaker 1: the former CEO of Walmart said the other day, and 481 00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:33,840 Speaker 1: I was really surprised he said this. He said, our 482 00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:38,400 Speaker 1: stores right now resemble the Soviet Union in its declining phase. 483 00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:42,920 Speaker 1: He said, we have shelf after shelf that we cannot fill. Now, 484 00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:46,040 Speaker 1: if Walmart can't get organized to fill it, you have 485 00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:50,440 Speaker 1: a real national crisis. The notion of Buddha judge solving 486 00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:53,200 Speaker 1: this problem is like having Harris try to solve the border. 487 00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:57,280 Speaker 1: It's an absurdity. This is an administration which not only 488 00:28:57,360 --> 00:29:00,200 Speaker 1: has very left wing ideas, but it appoints people who 489 00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:03,680 Speaker 1: have just been competent they can't possibly get these jobs done. 490 00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:07,480 Speaker 1: I'm very happy for us to have a competition this fall. 491 00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:10,600 Speaker 1: I think we should have a set number of very 492 00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:14,920 Speaker 1: big things that we want to do again. Some Republicans 493 00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:17,800 Speaker 1: will say, oh, you can just be negative. Well, they're wrong. 494 00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:22,000 Speaker 1: I think that is a guaranteed invitation to having a 495 00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:25,160 Speaker 1: much smaller turnout a much smaller election, and you have 496 00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:26,880 Speaker 1: no idea what the candidates are going to do when 497 00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:30,400 Speaker 1: they get here. But second, I think some Republicans will 498 00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:34,120 Speaker 1: say that, well, we really can't get anything done. Well 499 00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:38,360 Speaker 1: Biden's president, Well I was speaker while Bill Clinton was president. 500 00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:41,520 Speaker 1: We would balance the budget for four straight years. With 501 00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:46,360 Speaker 1: a Democratic president. We reformed welfare in the largest conservative 502 00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:51,480 Speaker 1: social reform in modern American history, and children left poverty, 503 00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:55,320 Speaker 1: their parents got jobs. We fundamentally changed every welfare office 504 00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:59,080 Speaker 1: in America into a work pursued office. That was with 505 00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:02,440 Speaker 1: a Democratic president. We had the largest capital gains tax 506 00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:06,160 Speaker 1: cut in American history, leading to a boom in investing 507 00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:09,640 Speaker 1: in things like software and the Internet. That was with 508 00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:12,240 Speaker 1: the Democratic president. So this idea that we have to 509 00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:15,440 Speaker 1: get elected and then twiddle our thumbs for two years 510 00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:17,920 Speaker 1: because even though we're a majority, were intimidated by the 511 00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:22,280 Speaker 1: White House, that's just stupid. It's historically false. The fact 512 00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:25,760 Speaker 1: is there are three players in this game, the Congress, 513 00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:29,760 Speaker 1: the President, and the American people. And if Republicans will 514 00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:35,320 Speaker 1: identify specific reforms that the American people want, you can 515 00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:37,920 Speaker 1: get a lot done. And frankly, you can split the 516 00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:41,880 Speaker 1: Democratic party once Pelosi's gone, and she will be gone 517 00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:46,720 Speaker 1: after this election, and Kevin McCarthy is the speaker, Mike 518 00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:49,560 Speaker 1: bet Is that they're thirty or forty Democrats in the 519 00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:52,480 Speaker 1: House and probably six or eight in the Senate who 520 00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:54,720 Speaker 1: are going to say, you know, I'm tired of fighting. 521 00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:57,920 Speaker 1: What can we do together? And I think that there 522 00:30:57,920 --> 00:30:59,840 Speaker 1: will be a lot of things that could be done together, 523 00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:02,280 Speaker 1: and a lot of things where the public would be 524 00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:05,360 Speaker 1: so supportive that members would just decide for their own 525 00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:08,480 Speaker 1: survival that they had to do it now. I also 526 00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:11,400 Speaker 1: think it's telling that seventy percent of the country, which 527 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:14,959 Speaker 1: means Democrats, Republicans, and independence, seventy percent of the country 528 00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:18,080 Speaker 1: does not want Biden to run again. And after his 529 00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:21,520 Speaker 1: two hour press conference, as people fought through how many 530 00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:23,840 Speaker 1: mistakes he made in how many lies he told, that 531 00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:26,800 Speaker 1: number may be going up. So I think you're very 532 00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:30,040 Speaker 1: likely to have an open race for president in two 533 00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:33,120 Speaker 1: twenty four. And I think the Republican goal should be 534 00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:35,960 Speaker 1: to lay down a set of ideas and a set 535 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:39,280 Speaker 1: of reforms and a set of proposals that are so 536 00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:43,320 Speaker 1: popular with the American people that whoever the Republican nominee 537 00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:46,280 Speaker 1: is whether it's Donald Trump, or it's Ron de Sandis, 538 00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:49,040 Speaker 1: or it's any one of at least twenty potential candis. 539 00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:52,240 Speaker 1: Remember we had sixteen in two and sixteen, so the 540 00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:55,000 Speaker 1: number of people who might show up to run a governor. 541 00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:57,640 Speaker 1: Senuna is saying he might run, for example, in New 542 00:31:57,640 --> 00:32:00,400 Speaker 1: Hampshire and he would certainly have an advance in his 543 00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:03,840 Speaker 1: home state in the opening primary. I think what our 544 00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:08,040 Speaker 1: goal should be to create a positive idea oriented, solution 545 00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:12,720 Speaker 1: oriented agenda, to take President Biden's challenge seriously and to 546 00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:16,600 Speaker 1: wage a two part campaign. Part one is big government 547 00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:20,320 Speaker 1: socialism doesn't work and isn't working, and they're all you 548 00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:22,200 Speaker 1: got to do is stand at the gas station and 549 00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:24,239 Speaker 1: as people fill their car up, asking do you think 550 00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:26,360 Speaker 1: it's working and they're going to say no, Or stand 551 00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:29,080 Speaker 1: at the grocery store and as people come out frustrated 552 00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:31,200 Speaker 1: because they can't get what they were looking for, is 553 00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:34,040 Speaker 1: this working? So Part one is it isn't working, and 554 00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:37,520 Speaker 1: it isn't working because big government socialism can't work. Part 555 00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:41,080 Speaker 1: two is, here are better solutions, better ideas. Here's what 556 00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:44,520 Speaker 1: the twenty some Republican governors are doing that is working. 557 00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:47,880 Speaker 1: Here are the reforms around the country that are really good, 558 00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:50,800 Speaker 1: and I think if we take that two part program, 559 00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:54,400 Speaker 1: we will have an astonishing victory this fall, maybe the 560 00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:58,200 Speaker 1: biggest since the nineteenth century, and we will be set 561 00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:01,920 Speaker 1: to then have a choice where Biden spends the last 562 00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:06,080 Speaker 1: two years of his career signing Republican bills because popular 563 00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:08,680 Speaker 1: support won't give him any choice. And then we should 564 00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:11,080 Speaker 1: be able to win in twenty four and do good 565 00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:14,520 Speaker 1: things to make America capable of competing head to head 566 00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:17,000 Speaker 1: with China and winning. And that should be the goal 567 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:19,560 Speaker 1: of the Republican Party, and I think we can do it. 568 00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:22,160 Speaker 1: And I wanted to take this time to respond to 569 00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:25,680 Speaker 1: President Biden's press conference because I thought it was an 570 00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:28,440 Speaker 1: illustration that he fundamentally doesn't understand where we are as 571 00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:31,000 Speaker 1: a country and what's possible. And I hope you found 572 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:34,040 Speaker 1: this useful, and if you get a chance, you'll see 573 00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:36,760 Speaker 1: both in my book, Leon Biden, and and other things 574 00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:39,640 Speaker 1: we're working on with our newsletters and with these kinds 575 00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:41,960 Speaker 1: of podcasts, that we could be at the edge of 576 00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:46,200 Speaker 1: a really amazing breakout where America once again becomes the 577 00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:49,719 Speaker 1: most dynamic, most exciting country in the world. Joe Biden 578 00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:52,680 Speaker 1: ironically may have set that up by being so bad 579 00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:56,520 Speaker 1: that he gives us a very nice alternative to offer people. 580 00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:58,840 Speaker 1: So thank you very much for listening this. I hope 581 00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:06,720 Speaker 1: you find it useful. Thank you for listening. 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