WEBVTT - GOP Standing Strong - October 21st, Hour 3 0:00:00.000 --> 0:00:02.440 All right, News, roundup, information, overload hour. Here's our toll 0:00:02.440 --> 0:00:04.520 free number. It's eight hundred and ninety four one sean 0:00:04.559 --> 0:00:06.120 if you want to be a part of the program. 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.440 A lot to talk about, the Schumer shutdown, the President 0:00:10.920 --> 0:00:13.520 taking on these narco terrorists. What should the role of 0:00:13.520 --> 0:00:16.319 the federal government be in all of this. We have 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:18.959 an update on the issue in the battle and the 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:24.440 conflict out of Russia with Ukraine. The President canceling this 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:27.440 upcoming meeting with Putin because he won't agree to cease fire, 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:30.319 which I think is the right message to send. We 0:00:30.440 --> 0:00:34.360 still have a lot you know, Hamas is not abiding 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:39.000 by the agreement, which, as the President said, he's going 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:41.760 to give the green light for Israel to go in 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:45.519 there and pretty much annihilate Gaza and Hamas. If they 0:00:45.560 --> 0:00:48.560 won't do it themselves, this is sort of their last chance. 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:52.360 We welcome back to the program, Senator Rampaul of Kentucky. 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:54.400 The president's pretty pissed off of you. 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:59.120 Know, I wouldn't go that far. We've had some spats 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:01.480 in the past, and you know. 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:03.560 I'd go that far. He's pretty pissed off. 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:07.440 I've known the President for over a decade. You know, 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:10.120 I've played golf with him dozens of times. We still 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:12.920 have our moments, But I think at the same time, 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:15.800 people in America, particularly Republicans, still want there to be 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:21.639 a voice for balanced budgets, less spending, fiscal responsibility, and 0:01:21.760 --> 0:01:25.480 right now I'm in and so I think we'll continue 0:01:25.520 --> 0:01:28.120 to have that debate. But I still support the President 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:31.440 on quite a bit of the agenda, lower taxes, I 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:33.360 love what he's done with the border. So there's a 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:34.399 lot of agreement as well. 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:40.119 So I find myself in an amiable position. I'm going 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:43.360 to have to defend something that I don't fully support, 0:01:43.440 --> 0:01:47.200 and principle I agree with you on And you know, 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:51.120 I don't like government shutdowns in the sense that, all right, 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:53.480 we know what happens with him, I'm not as afraid 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:56.440 of them. I'm consistent when Democrats shut the government down, 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:57.760 Republicans shut the government down. 0:01:57.760 --> 0:01:59.200 I'm like, it's not the end of the world. 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:01.960 Everyone going to get a free vacation, come back and 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:05.000 get back pay. That's how it always ends, one way 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:07.040 or the other, and that's how this one is going 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:09.240 to end. It's just now a matter of time. They 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:10.519 had I think they had to get through their no 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:13.600 King's weekend. Democrats were not going to piss off their 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:16.320 base in the lead up to these protests this weekend, 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:20.560 so you will not vote to reopen the government with 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:26.280 a continuing resolution. Now, the problem that it gets more 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:30.960 nuanced than complicated. As you know, Republicans don't have sixty votes. 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:36.280 They the Democrats, with the exception of maybe John Fetterman 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:39.320 and one or two others, you know, there are not 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:45.400 enough votes. The Democrats are holding the country hostage by 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:48.639 demanding one point five trillion in new spending. That includes 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:52.200 you know, billions for hundreds of billions for moneies for 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:53.240 illegal immigrants. 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:53.680 Healthcare. 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:57.480 That includes continuing the Obamacare subsidies that Joe Biden put 0:02:57.520 --> 0:02:59.880 in place during COVID, which was supposed to be to 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:06.440 That includes funding MPR and PBS and DEI initiatives around 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:07.040 the globe. 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:07.919 That's insane. 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:10.919 That's never going to happen, and I think it's only 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:12.560 a matter of time till they cave. Then they go 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:15.600 to a continuing resolution, which is where negotiation begins. But 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:19.720 Republicans don't have the votes to do what you want. 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:23.280 Your caucus doesn't have them. And I'm just looking at 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:27.200 it from a realistic standpoint, and I know you're taking 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:31.000 a principal stand. I admire principal stands. I just we're 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:32.760 never going to get to where you want unless we 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:33.640 take first steps. 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:35.880 In my view, Well, the debate is over what the 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:39.440 spending level should be. So the Republican Continuing Resolution would 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:42.720 add about two trillion in debt over the next year. 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:45.000 The Democrat plan would add over three trillion. So I'm 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:47.680 opposed to the Democrat plan, but I'm also opposed to 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:50.400 the Republican plan because they both add two trillion to 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:53.400 three trillion in debt. And there is another alternative. I've 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:55.920 put it forward. It's a Penny Plan, and it would 0:03:55.960 --> 0:03:58.720 balance the budget over five years. Each year the deficit 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:02.680 would be less Now, if I'm gone, and if everybody 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:06.360 marches lockstep and everybody just does what they're told, that 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:08.400 there'll be no Penny Plan, there'll be no voice for 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:10.760 the Penny Plan, There'll be no voice for balanced budgets. 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:13.680 I don't have the votes now, but if you ask 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:17.040 the people across the country that people listening to this program, 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:19.320 are they with me that we should be balancing the 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:22.520 budget and lessening the debt? Or should I vote for 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:25.760 the Biden spending levels from last year. See the Republican 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:28.600 c Are is a continuation of the Biden spending levels 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:32.240 from December of last year. The irony is every Democrat 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:34.960 up here actually voted to these spending levels last December. 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:38.200 A lot of conservatives voted against them. Now the roles 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:41.120 have switched for the exact same spending numbers. You've got 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:44.640 Republicans voting for the Biden spending levels and Democrats voting 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:47.880 against them. And I'm the only voice up here talking 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:50.640 about that the debt instead of being two trillions, should 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:53.120 be less. And people say, well, I. 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:53.799 Want to be clear. 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:55.880 And you've been on this program and we've discussed the 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:59.240 Penny Plan many many times over the years. I've been 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:01.720 a long time I'm advocate of the Penny Plan since 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:05.080 Connie Mack introduced it many years ago in the House. 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:08.040 Maybe we're up to the two cent plan or five 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:09.120 of the Nickel Plan. 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:09.640 I don't know. 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:13.880 But to me, there are two things that are that 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:17.920 are going on simultaneously that give me hope. One is 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:22.720 the President has commitments of seventeen trillion dollars in new 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:28.320 manufacturing monies for semiconductors, automobiles and pharmaceuticals. Also a new 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:31.719 deally made on rare earths with Australia eight point five trillion. 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:33.960 I think it's going to be critical for national defense. 0:05:34.640 --> 0:05:37.839 The President also has opened up energy dominance, and I 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:41.760 think that's going to lead to an enormous impact on 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:45.240 the economy over time. When Reagan dropped the tax rates 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:48.680 from seven eight to twenty eight percent, we doubled revenues 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:51.480 to the government and it led to twenty one million 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:54.520 new jobs, longest period of peacetime economic growth. The problem 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:56.920 back then is the problem we faced today. Congress spent 0:05:56.960 --> 0:05:59.120 a buck twenty five for every new dollar he brought 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:02.520 in he doubled revenue. So I'm with you on the 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:06.800 Penny Plan. I just you know, at this time, with 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:10.039 the Senate configured as it is, I don't see any 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:11.200 Democrats supporting it. 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:14.200 Yeah, they don't. And what's going to happen, though, is 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:17.240 in the end the big government, Democrats and Republicans will 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:20.240 join hands. This is what always happens. The government will 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:22.240 open up. They won't stay close forever. It's going to 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:25.160 open in the next week or two, and the Democrats 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:27.839 will join the Republicans. But there still has to be 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:31.000 a voice. Historically, there's been a voice more than one person. 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:34.080 Right now, it's me my. Historically, there have been other 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:36.640 Conservatives that did not vote to raise the debt ceiling, 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:39.839 that did not vote for Republican plans to raise the debt. 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:44.760 Now they're all moving in lockstep, and I'm ostracized. You know, 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:47.800 I'm the one that's catching the flack. But if I'm 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:51.279 not here, there is no voice left if I'm not. 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:54.400 You have you had this conversation directly with the president. 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:57.640 I have, and sometimes it goes well and sometimes not 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:00.920 so well. It depends on his mood. But I think 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:04.360 he fundamentally has agreements, and he's just been told by 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:07.480 you know, the people influencing him the most now are 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:11.920 actually the establishment Republicans, not the conservative Republicans. He's influenced 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:15.080 by the leadership, and he's influenced by let's just get 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:15.880 rid of these things. 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:16.680 We can't do this. 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:18.320 We don't have the votes, so we're going to do that, 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:22.480 And some of that is the expediency of the day. 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:25.680 But I don't think we have fundamental disagreements. That's why 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:28.160 I downplay how much he may or may not be 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:30.720 angry with me because, like I say, I've not him 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:32.800 for a decade, and there are many things I like 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:35.720 about him. I'm still the voice that liked the president 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:38.520 who didn't like the Iraq war, the president who didn't 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:41.480 like Obama's Libyan war, and so I continue to be 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:44.520 that voice. But if I'm quiet, or if I am 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:48.040 just become a rubber stamp, there's nobody from the you know, 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:52.320 less interventionist wing on foreign policy. He's only hearing the interveners, 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:55.920 he's only hearing the bombers, and so there has to 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:57.800 be people who stand up for things. It doesn't mean 0:07:57.840 --> 0:07:59.880 we always have to agree. I mean, look, you and 0:07:59.880 --> 0:08:02.720 I I have had a lot of great conversations. We 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:05.280 don't always agree, but you're always respectful to me, and 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:07.680 I like coming on. And the thing is is we 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:09.120 don't have to agree on everything. 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:13.680 Well, let me there's only two ways to fix the deficit. 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:20.400 Reduce spending, okay, which is like, you know, an exorcism 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:24.480 for DC, and increase revenues. I'm pretty confident that the 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:29.720 President's you know, tax cuts, his energy policies, the seventeen trillion, 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:33.160 and new investments in the country, which is unprecedented. 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:33.880 We've never had. 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:36.640 That is going to increase revenues to the government so 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:39.680 that that side of the equation is done. Reducing spending 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:42.200 is always going to be the hard part, and you know, 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:44.719 these guys, you know, think they get their power by 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:48.840 increasing spending. Let me ask you on the foreign policy front, 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:52.360 were you against taking out Iran's nuclear sites. 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:57.040 I think that we when we have an action of 0:08:57.080 --> 0:08:59.920 war against another country, should be voted on by Congress first. 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:03.640 Any kind of offensive action. I think the founders intended 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:07.239 that Congress would vote on these. It's what the Constitution mandates. 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:12.760 So I'm not for having unchecked executive power. Now, whether 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:15.000 that was a good thing or bad things another discussion, 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:16.920 you know, whether or I would have voted for it. 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:19.840 I think that there, you know, were reasons to think 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:22.959 that it would succeed, and it did. But as far 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:23.439 as with it. 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:26.640 The president does have sixty days to act without going 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:30.400 to Congress if he's going to engage a military action 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:34.079 at you know, enumerated powers and the Constitution. As commander 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:35.920 in chief, you don't disagree with. 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:39.319 That, Well, the Constitution says that to declare war, an 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:41.840 offensive action that is planned has to be voted on 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:42.480 by Congress. 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:46.520 First, well, you know, if you go back historically, no 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:50.440 president has ever been abiding by any of these resolutions. 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:54.240 And I think, as commander in chief, do you not 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:58.360 agree that Iranian the Iranians with nuclear weapons is an 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:01.280 existential threat to the entire way world because it was 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:03.920 obvious to me in a window of opportunity opened up, 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:07.160 and I believe it's fully constitutional the president out of 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:09.880 the authority to do so. Well talking about the War 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:12.000 Powers Act, to be specific, the. 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:15.280 Debate with the Founders was pretty explicit, from Hamilton all 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:17.440 the way over to Jefferson. They disagreed on a lot 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:20.080 of things. They disagreed on the extent of the central government, 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:22.800 but they all agreed that the president shouldn't declare war 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:26.720 have offensive actions without the approval of Congress. You know, 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:28.480 there have been times we have voted to go to 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:30.560 war and we've been much more united as a country. 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:33.520 World War II was one. It was a defensive war 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:37.240 fought against people who attacked us. After nine to eleven 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:39.680 we were attacked as well. We voted in Congress to 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:41.839 vote in Congress. I think it was four hundred and 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:44.040 thirty four to one on the House side, and I 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:46.600 think ninety nine to zero. In the Senate side, I 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:49.840 think we can people think, oh, it's impractical to vote 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:53.200 in Congress. It actually brings us together. It also means 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:56.719 that all the representatives bear responsibility. If we don't all 0:10:56.800 --> 0:10:59.040 vote for it, we go to war on a decoration 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:02.680 by the president, then what happens is I think people 0:11:02.760 --> 0:11:05.480 could nitpick and backstab and do to that, and we've 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:07.720 become less united as a country. If we all vote 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:10.840 for it, then it's the responsibility of everybody voted for it. 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:14.520 Oh to me, if you know, this was the problem 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:17.040 with the lead up to the Iraq conflict in my 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:22.720 view is we were telegraphing, telegraphing, telegraphing, and it allowed 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:26.840 I believe at the time, you know, everybody to prepare 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:29.640 and then put our troops in greater harms way. 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:30.200 I think. 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:33.160 Look, I like the Trump doctrine. I believe he's right 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:36.120 with no forever wars. I think the military actions that 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:40.320 he's taken, whether if he did, his defeat of the 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:44.199 Caliphate was critical for world security and for American security. 0:11:44.920 --> 0:11:48.719 Taking out Solomani, the world's worst terrorist, was the right 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:51.959 thing to do the same with Bagdaddy. I thought at 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:54.120 the time it was appropriate to drop the mother of 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:58.400 all bombs on Afghanistan. And I think again, in the 0:11:58.440 --> 0:12:01.719 case of taking out the Iranian nuclear sites, we had 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:05.520 a window of opportunity and a president as commander in chief. 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:10.520 I believe as the authority. Past presidents seem to have 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:14.479 agreed with me. No president has agreed with your interpretation 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:18.559 of what our framers founders said, and it's been in 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:23.120 dispute since, you know, for decades and decades now that 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:25.600 if you have a window of opportunity to make the 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:27.960 world a safer place in the long run, and he 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:31.400 did it without creating a forever war. I kind of 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:33.600 like the Trump doctrine, and I would think that part 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:34.440 of it you like too. 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:37.640 I think most presidents up through Roosevelt, up through World 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:39.559 War Two did agree that we didn't go to war 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:41.840 without a vote, even George Bush. 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:44.640 Really there wasn't called way you defining as a war. 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:47.360 Every military action is not necessarily a war. 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:50.959 I would say that a planned offensive action is if 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:53.200 your ship through attack at sea. So let's say your 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:57.960 ships are off because of yeahmen and they're being bombed 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:00.440 by the Hooties. To respond to those as is not 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:03.440 an act of war because it's a defensive action attacking 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:05.880 and self defense, the same as the Barbary Pirates was 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:08.400 an act of self defense. When you're being attacked by 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:10.880 all means, you always have the mind the ability to 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:12.400 respond without a vote of Congress. 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:15.400 Well, we know Iran and killed the Americans in Iraq 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:19.040 and Afghanistan and elsewhere, and they've been fomenting terror throughout 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:21.000 the region and targeting American. 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:22.760 Well, then the vote should be pretty easy. You bring 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:25.360 it to Congress, and I think Congress probably would have 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:27.800 approved of it. But I think these debates need to 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:30.760 happen because there's still some unknowns. Well, right now, it 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:34.040 looks like it was a really good, well planned executed 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:36.320 and the result was good. There is still a question 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:40.280 although the uranium still still exists, the uranium didn't disappear, 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:43.080 there is a question will they continue on and we 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:45.440 don't know because they would do this in secret. Will 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:47.679 they continue on with development of the bomb because of 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:50.400 the attacks or will they be chastened? And I think 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:52.480 there is some evidence that they are chasing I think 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:54.400 there is a great deal of evidence at this point 0:13:54.440 --> 0:14:00.199 the bombing had good effect that their ancillary. 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:02.559 Goal do you worry that we're putting troops at risk 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:05.160 because we surrender the element of surprise. 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:07.760 Well, I don't think anybody was surprised by this either. 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:09.760 They talked for it for two bloody weeks, you know, 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:12.800 before he bombed them. It was explicitly discussed in the 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:15.320 media for weeks and weeks that it was coming, and 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:18.120 that the resolution isn't to bomb you any certain day 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:20.680 and time or place. The resolution is that we are 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:23.360 a state of war. The reason it makes a difference too, 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:26.000 is because then you don't have to have any process. 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:28.560 You kill the enemy. It's the same problem we have 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:31.320 with Venezuela. Now, without any kind of decoration of war, 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:34.600 we are killing people accused of running drugs, but we 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:36.880 don't have any evidence of who they are or that 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:40.520 there actually are smuggling drugs. All we have is an accusation. 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:41.840 And you can do that. 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:44.280 In a war. But you can't let the president declare 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:46.320 a war. You have to go through Congress. So there 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:50.600 is a much more uniform or much more universal approval 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:51.120 of the war. 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:55.160 Well, no modern day president has followed those rules, as 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:58.200 you know, and I think that it is I think 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:01.320 the enumerated power as president commander in chief. He's got 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:04.080 to be able to take military strikes when opportunity presents 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:06.840 itself to keep the nation safe. I think he did 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:09.640 the right thing in the case of Iran. I love 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:11.800 the fact that twelve days later there was even peace 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:14.640 with Israel and Iran. So and the world is safe 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:17.280 for place as a result of it. People that are 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:20.920 smuggling drugs in our country, I'm sorry they are attacking 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:23.640 Americans and trying to kill Americans. I don't care if 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:25.600 you guys have a vote on it or not. Frankly, 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:29.280 I'd love to put the Democrats on record being against it. 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:30.560 Anyway. 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:33.760 Always fun. We appreciate your time, Senator ram Paul, Thank you, sir. 0:15:34.240 --> 0:15:34.640 Thank you. 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:41.840 All right to our busy phones as we say hi 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:44.840 to Jeffrey in Washington State. Jeffrey High, how are you, 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:45.920 and We're glad you called. 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:50.640 I'm well, Sean. I'm just want to say personal thanks 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:52.520 to you and your team for the great work you 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:55.400 do keeping this the electric informed of what we need 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:58.080 to be informed about to keep our country great. 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:01.440 It's our pleasure to be here every day. 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:05.040 You make it possible for us to continue doing this job. 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:06.280 We appreciate you. 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:08.840 And it's our goal every day to give you news 0:16:08.960 --> 0:16:11.800 information in a little bit of an entertaining way to 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:16.680 you know, you know, it's our job is kind of easy. 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:20.280 We're the opposite of the mainstream media. You know, they 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:23.040 don't talk about what we talk about. They just kew 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:25.960 everything and they're just you know, locked up in Trump's 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:27.600 arrangement syndrome twenty four to seven. 0:16:27.640 --> 0:16:29.720 But thank you. It is my main point. 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:34.320 Yeah, for sure. As I've been following the issue regarding 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:38.640 the Blue state resistance to the federal government's help and 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:46.560 the National Guard recently the exposure of the bounties and 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:50.000 the threats from the cartels, gangs and Antifa, it's caused 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:53.320 me to ask the question, is there any impact from 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:57.800 these organizations on say the governor of Illinois or the 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:01.960 mayor such that that's them to look away or to 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:07.600 push back because they're getting pressure from themselves personally or 0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:10.600 for a particular threat to their power in their state. 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:12.800 And I just haven't heard anything. Wondered if your group 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:15.280 had had had heard anything to that effect. 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:19.359 Look, I know of no such connections. Nothing in this 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:21.480 day and age and all the years I've been doing 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:25.560 this would shock me or surprise me. I don't know why. 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:28.240 You know how you can be the governor of a state, 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:31.719 have four thousand people dead, have five times the homicide 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:34.720 murder rate than New York City, and you're more mad 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:39.600 at Donald Trump for trying to for offering you help 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:43.040 to secure safety and law and restore law and order 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:47.120 in your state. Is beyond any understanding comprehension I have. 0:17:47.200 --> 0:17:50.080 It defies all logic, It defies all common sense to me. 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:55.560 But that is Chicago, that is New York City. New 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:59.199 York City now is on the precipice of electing a 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:02.680 guy that wants to hire social workers and replace police 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:06.639 with social workers. You're on the precipice of the you 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:09.840 know here you have the largest tax city in the nation, 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:14.439 and he's gonna raise taxes further. He's offering everything for free, 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:18.440 free buses, you know, more, rent, free apartments. He lives 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:21.199 in a rent stabilized apartment, which is unbelievable to me, 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:23.439 considering he's a man of means. He has plenty of 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:27.160 money to pay for a free market apartment. And I'm 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:30.639 telling you what the net predictable net result is gonna be. 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:33.920 They're gonna leave and people that can afford to leave 0:18:33.960 --> 0:18:36.080 will leave, and people that can't afford to leave will 0:18:36.119 --> 0:18:40.520 be stuck. And all these promises that it's it's I 0:18:40.600 --> 0:18:43.040 wrote a whole chapter and live for your die always 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:49.439 ends the same way, unfulfilled promises, more poverty, not less, 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:52.560 and a loss of freedom in the name of false 0:18:52.640 --> 0:18:56.520 government security. And if you don't believe me, ask yourself. 0:18:56.920 --> 0:18:59.400 You know, how are things working out in your town 0:18:59.480 --> 0:19:05.560 or city with government run schools, with defund dismantled no 0:19:05.720 --> 0:19:09.000 bail laws. How are things working out where democrats are 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:13.639 in charge? Not very well. So you know, we'll watch, 0:19:13.880 --> 0:19:16.800 we'll learn it's going to be a case study over 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:20.280 time that this is all a failure. But you know, 0:19:20.480 --> 0:19:22.840 I New York City is New York City. There's a 0:19:22.880 --> 0:19:25.240 reason I don't live in the state of New York anymore. 0:19:25.280 --> 0:19:27.440 I mean, when I say I'm out of New York, 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:30.560 I am totally disconnected from New York. 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:33.480 I am done. I am out. That's it. 0:19:33.840 --> 0:19:34.040 You know. 0:19:34.200 --> 0:19:37.639 I'll occasionally go see my sister, occasionally, you know, do 0:19:37.680 --> 0:19:38.639 an event for Fox. 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:40.440 Short of that, I don't go there. 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:44.200 Well, Hey, we appreciate all you're doing. We can sure 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:47.000 use your input out here. In Washington State, that's for sure. 0:19:48.040 --> 0:19:51.879 Washington. You might want to consider, you know, Idaho next door. 0:19:51.920 --> 0:19:55.960 You might want to consider Vegas or Nevada or Arizona, 0:19:56.240 --> 0:19:58.320 or you know, there's a lot of great states you 0:19:58.320 --> 0:20:02.080 could move to. Maybe Montana, Wyoming. I don't know, and 0:20:02.160 --> 0:20:04.480 I guess Liz Cheney is still in Wyoming, but the 0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:05.920 politics are much better there. 0:20:06.400 --> 0:20:07.760 Anyway, appreciate it. 0:20:07.840 --> 0:20:11.480 Jeffrey eighth and nine four one sean number if you 0:20:11.520 --> 0:20:14.160 want to call in Margaret, New York, New York. 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:15.800 What's up, Margaret? How you doing. 0:20:16.680 --> 0:20:19.080 I'm doing well, Shawn. Thank you for taking my call, 0:20:19.119 --> 0:20:20.800 and thanks for your team as well, for all the 0:20:20.840 --> 0:20:24.159