WEBVTT - Schumer Shutdown-What to Expect plus Dem Rhetoric Keeps getting Worse, Inciting Violence & Endangering Law Enforcement 0:00:01.000 --> 0:00:03.800 Welcome in his verdict with Center, Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson 0:00:03.840 --> 0:00:05.320 with you. It's nice to have you with us, and 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:08.600 we've got a packed show for you on this Monday morning, 0:00:09.400 --> 0:00:13.360 including the very sad news that is coming out of Michigan. 0:00:14.040 --> 0:00:17.880 An attack there on a church, a Michigan church shooting attack. 0:00:18.280 --> 0:00:20.920 The new numbers we have are four dead, ten wounded 0:00:20.960 --> 0:00:23.480 as of when we are recording this and centered it's 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:25.480 just another tragic event we're witnessing. 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:26.400 Well. 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:29.120 Unfortunately, this is a pattern we're seeing over and over 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:34.839 again of violent murderers attacking churches, attacking Christian schools, targeting 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:39.680 people of faith. In this case, it was the Church 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:42.800 of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints, the Mormon church 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:47.959 in Grand Blank Township, Michigan. A deranged man drove his 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:51.280 truck through the front of the church while the church 0:00:51.320 --> 0:00:57.360 members were worshiping, open fire, murdered as you said, four dead, 0:00:57.720 --> 0:01:02.000 ten injured as of right now, and also set the 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:04.920 church on fire. All of us I think today saw 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:09.039 the images of the church a flame. And at this 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:11.280 point we don't know the details, we don't know the 0:01:11.280 --> 0:01:17.000 motivations of why this deranged killer targeted this church, But 0:01:17.040 --> 0:01:20.160 we've seen so much hatred for people of faith. And 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:22.720 I will say right now, my prayers and I know 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:26.399 yours too, men are with all of those who are wounded, 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:29.400 that they would reach a swift recovery. Where our prayers 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:32.600 are with the families of those who were murdered, and 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:35.280 everyone in the LDS church that is really just just 0:01:35.560 --> 0:01:41.280 hurting right now at this persecution. It is another manifestation 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:44.559 of the hate that we have seen day after day 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:47.520 after day. And I very much pray our nation gets 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:51.320 beyond this vicious hate. Yeah, no doubt. 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:55.200 And I got to say law enforcement did an unbelievable 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:58.080 job of saving lives and showing up very quickly after 0:01:58.160 --> 0:02:03.000 this heinous attack began, and probably save countless lives based 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:05.280 on the number of people that were inside and center. 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:08.640 This just goes back to a really important point that 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:11.720 we have got to stop demonizing law enforcement in this country. 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:14.240 The way that Democrats have continued to do that. Ice 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:16.440 agents is a great example of what we saw last week, 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:19.280 because these men and women who put on a badge 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:22.000 every day are willing to go into situations where they 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:24.600 don't even know what's going on and save people's lives. 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:26.240 They did it yet again in Michigan. 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:30.640 Well, you're exactly right, and I will say in Michigan, 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:34.720 law enforcement responded within minutes, came in and took out 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:38.240 the shooter, and no doubt saved a lot of lives, 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:41.040 including a lot of children. And later in the podcast, 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:46.919 we're going to talk about the consistent pattern of rhetoric 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:51.000 and demonizing law enforcement, demonizing ice that we have seen 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:54.840 from Democrats, and even in the face of these horrific murders, 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:59.639 Democrats keep ratcheting up the rhetoric and tragically that rhetoric 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:02.480 is in violence. We're going to lay that out in detail, 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:05.360 but before we do that, we're going to talk about 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:08.959 the impending Schumer shutdown. We are two days away from 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:13.200 the expiration of funding for the federal government, and I 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:15.440 believe it is highly likely that Chuck Schumer and the 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:20.760 Democrats will force a shutdown this Sunday. On the Sunday Shows, 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:25.480 the Democrats were out in force, all blaming the impending 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:28.240 shutdown on Donald Trump. Donald Trump, which is no surprise 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:31.280 because in their world everything is Donald Trump's fault. But 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:33.400 we're going to break down number one why it is 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:36.120 so likely that the Democrats are going to force the 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:38.720 Schumer shut down. But number two, what to expect? What 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:41.120 does it mean? What are the consequences of a government 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:46.720 shutdown if on midnight September thirtieth, the Democrats block funding 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:48.440 the government. We're going to explain it all to you 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:49.800 on today's pod. 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:52.880 All of you know that I am a pro Second 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:55.960 Amendment guide. I've shared on numerous occasions how caring my 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:59.600 firearms saved my life from a gang related attack. But 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:02.080 for those of you out there with family members who 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:04.880 may not be comfortable having a gun by their side, 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:07.280 you still want them to be able to protect themselves 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:09.960 and others in times of danger. And that's where the 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:13.760 Berno launcher comes in. Berna is a handheld pistol that 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:17.400 fires both kinetic rounds and chemical irritants to separate you 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:21.160 from an attacker. Berna is a handheld pistol that fires 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:25.760 both kinetic rounds and chemical irritants to separate you from 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:29.080 the attacker. I'm here today with Josh Cherard from Berna 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:32.479 to share the true story of how a California homeowner 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:36.400 used a burner launcher to stop a home intruder. Josh 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:37.359 tell us what happened. 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:39.840 You know, Bob Braid was one of the earliest adopters 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:42.000 of Berna back when we first started. He lived in 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:46.040 California in a residential suburb of la that was pretty 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:48.120 prone to a lot of vagrancy, a lot of homeless 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:50.440 walking up and down the street. He kept to Berna's 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:53.120 living room and one of these vagrants wandered in his home, 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:57.279 just confused, probably chunk and intoxicated in the wrong house. 0:04:57.400 --> 0:04:59.760 Bob was able to pull his burner out, point it 0:04:59.800 --> 0:05:03.120 out the intruder, who promptly backed out of the home 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:05.080 back into the yard. And of course it was all 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:07.800 taught on surveillance. He didn't even have to use the 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:10.839 Berna and he was able to ward off this intruder 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:15.000 in a situation that could have ended incredibly badly had 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:17.680 more force than used. This is a great demonstration of 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:19.880 how the lowest level of force can be used to 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:22.480 rectify a situation. And of course it was all caught 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:26.040 on video, which it makes for a great illustration of 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:27.640 how that burner can be used on a day to 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:28.200 day basis. 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:29.599 There's a lot of people are going to say, well, 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:31.839 why wouldn't the homeowner just use a gun in this case? 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:34.719 Yeah, Well, One, it comes down to the legality. You know, 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:37.560 in this part of California, it made me very difficult 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:41.000 to use a gun. And then two, we saw that 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:44.680 this intruder literally just stumbled into the wrong home in 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:48.040 an altered state of mind. Nobody wants to kill anybody 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:51.640 that doesn't need killing that they absolutely don't have to. 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:54.000 So this is a great instance where the burner was 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:56.599 able to be used, the lowest level of less legal 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:59.640 forces able to use rectify the situation without bringing a 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:01.160 gun into that situation. 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:03.279 Yeah, I tell you I have one of these. My 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:05.760 family members do as well a lot of my friends. 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:08.720 If you want more information on how you or a 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:11.440 family member can protect themselves with a Berno launcher, go 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:16.680 to Berna by RNA dot com. That's burna dot com 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:21.200 by RNA dot com. Again, protect yourself and your family 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:25.560 burna by RNA dot com. All right, so let's get 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:30.520 into this shutdown, Senator, And this is a very interesting shutdown. Democrats. 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:34.440 Obviously they have a game plan. They were rolling it out, 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:37.080 as you mentioned on the Sunday shows, and what they're 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:40.000 clearly aiming for is a shutdown where they can say 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:43.960 this is Donald Trump's fault Hakeem Jeffries. He was on 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:48.480 TV about the government shutdown, unloading on the president and saying, look, 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:54.000 Republicans have behaved as consistent rubber stamps for Trump's extreme agenda, 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:57.359 and so therefore there has to be some accountability for that. 0:06:57.520 --> 0:07:00.680 So this is a shutdown they're going to cause, even though, 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:04.040 as you mentioned, it's clearly a democratic shutdown if it happens. 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:07.559 Well, let me explain what a shutdown is and why 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:10.320 this is relevant. So, the way the federal government works 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:15.360 is the executive branch cannot spend money unless Congress has 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:18.440 appropriated that money. That's how the constitution works. That Congress 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:22.440 has to appropriate money in order for the executive to 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:27.720 make it expenditure of taxpayer funds, and typically those appropriations 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:29.880 are for a period of time. The fiscal year of 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:34.360 the federal government runs from October first to September thirtieth, 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:38.360 So at midnight on September thirtieth, the existing funding for 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:42.480 the federal government will expire. In order to continue funding, 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:46.280 Congress has to act. Now, the House has passed a 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:50.680 continuing resolution, it's also called a CR. A continuing resolution 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:55.960 essentially says nothing changes and the House's continuing resolution funds 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:59.120 the government until the middle of November. It changes no 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:02.559 policy at nothing. It just says everything that's happening. Now, 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:06.880 let's keep it going for a couple of months. The 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:09.840 House has passed it. It is now in the Senate. 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:13.360 In order for legislation to pass the Senate, it takes 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:18.080 sixty votes, that's the ordinary filibuster rule. A week ago 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:22.760 we took up the houses clean CR. There's no riders, 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:25.320 no attachments, nothing on it. It's just a clean let's 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:28.880 keep the government open. And the Democrats voted party line 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:33.240 against it. Now we cannot pass funding for the government 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:37.000 in the Senate unless at least seven Democrats vote for it. 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:41.200 We have fifty three Republicans, we need sixty. That means 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:46.160 if seven Democrats won't vote with us, nothing passes the Senate. 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:49.720 And a week ago the Democrats all lined up party line. 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:51.880 They are projecting right now we're going to vote this 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:55.160 week again on a clean CR. And mind you, this 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:59.480 is not a Republican piece of legislation. With it with 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:01.800 some made your Republican priority. I'd love to see some 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:04.200 Republican priorities in there, but this is not. This is 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:06.880 simply let's keep the lights on, let's keep the government open, 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:10.440 and the Democrats are lining up to say no. Now, 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:13.240 let me tell you why the Democrats are, I think 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:16.840 very likely to force a shutdown because several months ago, 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:20.400 when we had the last battle over government funding, Chuck 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:24.640 Schumer agreed to keep the government open, and the left 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:28.240 wing of his party lost their mind. AOC and all 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:33.680 of the woke radicals, the socialists got furious with Chuck Schumer. 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:36.320 Chuck Schumer's favorabilities plummeted, and I've got to tell you, 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:40.480 Chuck is terrified of being primary by AOC. His job 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:43.640 is in real jeopardy. And so I believe Schumer's made 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:46.560 a decision. He's going to shut the government down because 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:48.560 that's the way he proves to the crazies in his 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:52.960 party that he is a ferocious warrior. Now, let me 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:56.880 give you some quotes from multiple Democrats about government shutdowns. 0:09:56.880 --> 0:09:59.680 And the only thing that was different on this is 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:02.080 that the time of the quotes, you had a Democrat 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:04.480 in the White House. So here's what Chuck Schumer said 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:07.960 in January of twenty twenty four quote. Passing a clean 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:11.360 cr this week is important for two main reasons. First, 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:14.520 passing the cr of course, will avert a harmful and 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:19.400 unnecessary government shutdown. No reasonable member on either side, Democrat 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:24.000 or Republican, wants a government shutdown. About Chris Murphy, one 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:27.520 of the biggest radicals in the Senate. In September of 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:30.640 twenty thirteen, Here's what he said, quote, there is a 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:33.480 time and place to debate healthcare, just like there is 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:36.079 a time and place to debate energy policy and immigration 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:38.920 and education. But not when the funding of the federal 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:41.719 government and all the lives are impacted by it hang 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:44.920 in the balance. How about Elizabeth Warrens same time, September 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:48.680 twenty thirteen. The least we can do, the bare minimum 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:51.240 that we can do, would be to pass a continued 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:53.720 resolution to keep the doors open and the lights on. 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:57.520 Threatening a shutdown is the last resort for those who 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:01.400 can't otherwise win their fights through elections, can't win their 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:04.400 fights in Congress, can't win their fights for the presidency, 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:08.480 and can't win their fights in courts. Here's what Brian 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:13.040 Shotts said in September of twenty twenty three. I've seen 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:16.800 the same thing over and over again. Shutdowns don't work. 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:20.120 The government eventually reopens, and neither side has accomplished a 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:23.720 single thing. No one wins, but Americans have a lot 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:27.600 to lose. Senator Mark Warner, September of twenty twenty four, 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:32.400 that's a year ago. Government shut downs unleash chaos on 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:37.520 federal workers, delay pay for service members, and weaken our 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:43.840 position on the global stage. Bernie Sanders in January of 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:47.800 twenty eighteen. Shutting down the government is a serious and 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:53.040 dangerous action. That's a terrible Bernie Sanders impersonation. Sorry about that. 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:56.760 That We must do everything possible to prevent shutting down 0:11:56.760 --> 0:11:59.280 the government would impact tens of millions of our fellow 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:03.080 Americans who would be unable to access government services. It 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:07.240 would severely impact federal employees who would not get the 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:11.119 paychecks they expected. It would also have a very significant 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:14.120 impact on our armed forces. In other words, we must 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:18.040 do everything that we can to prevent a government shutdown. 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:21.959 Senator Mark Kelly, a supposed moderate from Maryland, September of 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:26.439 twenty twenty three. Quote. A government shutdown would have serious impacts. 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:30.200 Service members won't get their paychecks, airports could have major delays, 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:33.720 Nutrition assistance for children could be cut off. We can't 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:36.640 let any of that happen. Congress needs to work together 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:41.160 to prevent a shutdown. I literally have twenty more of 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:45.920 these quotes. Senator Tim Kane, January twenty nineteen. I'm a 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:48.400 Senator from Virginia. Some of the hardest effects of a 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:51.400 shutdown would be seen in my state. Well, you know what, 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:53.280 every one of these guys, I think it is very 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:55.800 likely they're going to vote in the next forty eight 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:58.880 hours to shut the government down. And it's not because 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:02.480 they think government shutdown is a good idea. It's because 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:04.920 their base just hates Trump and they want to have 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:09.920 a primal scream. And so I think the odds are 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:13.680 very high the Schumer shutdown will happen because he will 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:16.680 force the Democrats all to vote to shut the government down. 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:20.880 When you talk about this vote and when this goes down, 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:24.360 what's the time frame? And then how does he come 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:27.440 out of this getting Is it just a few days? 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:29.079 You think? Is this one of those that could turn 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:32.080 into weeks that we've seen in the past because or 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:34.439 is it just Hey, I did it. Therefore I really 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:37.480 am a radical Democrat, so therefore you should keep voting 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:39.000 for me instead of AOC. 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:40.080 Yeah. 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:42.400 Look, I think there's a chance this extends to weeks. Now, 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:47.079 let me explain what a shutdown means. A government shutdown 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:51.120 doesn't shut down every function of government. So the basic 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:57.040 principle is essential functions continue even when government funding has expired. 0:13:57.080 --> 0:14:00.360 So what does that mean. The military continues to and 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:04.480 protect this nation. Law enforcement continues to serve. Border patrol 0:14:04.520 --> 0:14:08.120 continues to serve. FBI agents continue to serve anyone who 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:12.080 is essential for the public safety continues to serve. Air 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:15.559 traffic controllers continue to serve. The Coast Guard continues to serve. 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:21.560 Throughout the government. What happens agency by agency is the 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:26.280 agency heads have to designate employees who are quote essential 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:31.440 and employees who are quote non essential, and the non 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:36.240 essential workers stay home. They stay home, they're not paid. 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:40.040 The government paychecks stop now typically after a shutdown, and 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:44.240 shutdowns can expend extend weeks or even longer. Typically, at 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:47.800 the end of the shutdown, the workers all come back 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:51.000 and they're paid back pay. So it actually costs the 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:54.200 federal government a lot of money and a lot of 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:56.800 functions that are non essential. So one of the classic 0:14:57.320 --> 0:15:00.560 areas that will be shut down if Schum forces the 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:04.000 Schumer shutdown up will be national parks. So I will 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:07.440 say if you were planning this weekend to take your 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:09.920 family to a national park, if you're going to Yellowstone, 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:13.040 I would watch the news very closely because if the 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:16.320 Schumer shutdown happens, Yellowstone Park will be closed. If you're 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:18.440 planning to bring your family to DC to go to 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:22.280 the Smithsonian, the Smithsonian museums will be closed if the 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:27.440 Democrats force a shutdown. That being said, I will tell 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:32.440 you something that has changed the terrain very significantly. So 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:35.600 last week Russ Vote, who is the head of OMB 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:38.840 the Office of Management and Budget, put out a memo 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:43.240 to federal agencies and said, I want you to lay 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:48.360 out a plan if the Democrats force a shutdown to 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:52.800 terminate workers who are working government workers who are working 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:56.840 in areas that are not consistent with the President's agenda 0:15:57.160 --> 0:16:01.240 and the priorities of this administration. I gotta tell you, 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:04.000 I feel a little bit like rare rabbit. Throw me 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:07.560 in that briar patch. I think if Schumer and the 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:11.120 Democrats force a shutdown, we're going to see the Trump 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:16.600 administration give pink slips, not furloughs, but terminate workers, and 0:16:16.640 --> 0:16:21.240 in particular, terminate workers in government agencies that are critical 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:25.920 to Democrat priorities. So you could see workers in the 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:28.560 EPA being terminated. You can see workers in the Department 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:31.360 of Labor being terminated. You could see workers in the 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:35.320 irs being terminated and not just furloughed for a few days, 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:39.120 but handed to pink slip, given a reduction for saying 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:41.680 your services are no longer required. And I will tell 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:45.320 you if that happens this week, we will hear a 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:50.280 collective howl of agony from Democrats. And I'm willing to 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:55.960 bet so. Senators will all return to Washington on Monday. 0:16:56.240 --> 0:17:00.240 Our first vote will be at five thirty Monday evening. Tuesday, 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:02.960 all the Democrat senators will have lunch together. All the 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:06.720 Republican senators will have lunch together. Given this memo from 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:09.520 the Trump White House, I'm going to predict that the 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:12.240 Democrat senators are going to be screaming at each other 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:14.320 in that lunch because they're going to be some Democrat 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:19.320 senators who say, do not give Trump the excuse to 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:23.480 lay off a bunch of workers who are who are 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:27.280 fighting for Democrat priorities and what we care about. And 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:31.800 I think Schumer is scared for his own political survival, 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:33.199 So I think he's going to try to force a 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:38.440 shut down anyway, but that memo has changed the dynamic 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:41.720 in a very real way, and so there is a 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:45.280 non zero chance that seven Democrats decide to heck with it. 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:47.280 I'm going to break with Schumer and vote to keep 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:49.639 the government open. That would be a good thing if 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:51.639 it happens. But we'll see what happens this week. 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:53.640 So let me ask you this question, because I think 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:57.840 it's an interesting one, and that is, should we secretly 0:17:57.880 --> 0:18:00.680 be hoping this happens so that we get this those 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:04.480 jobs that many people say, Hey, I lay them off, 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:07.080 and let's get leaner as a government and stop all 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:09.480 the waste and abuse and the fraud and the overspending. 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:12.520 This would be in that kind of Doge mentality, or 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:15.400 is that a cautionary tale of like, hey, you may 0:18:15.440 --> 0:18:16.879 think this is great, but it's really not. 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:20.119 Yeah, look, I think that could end up being a 0:18:20.240 --> 0:18:24.639 very good outcome. If the Democrats force this, It would 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:28.120 be worthwhile for them to feel a very real consequence 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:33.360 in terms of their constituencies who fund fund their endeavors, 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:38.240 losing the ability to promote their priorities and listen within 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:40.920 the federal government, within the deep state. There are a 0:18:40.960 --> 0:18:44.719 great many bureaucrats who are left wing bureaucrats who are 0:18:44.760 --> 0:18:48.200 fighting for the teachers' unions, who are fighting for the 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:53.440 radical environmental groups, And it would be good for America 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:58.520 for anyone that is actively undermining the country, actively undermining jobs, 0:18:58.600 --> 0:19:01.679 actively un mining the ability of kids to get a 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:04.280 good education. It'd be good for America for those folks 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:08.679 to be terminated. And I do think if the Democrats 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:13.120 force a shutdown that President Trump will view that as 0:19:13.320 --> 0:19:17.199 all the justification he needs to make permanent reductions and force, 0:19:19.040 --> 0:19:20.840 which could be a very good outcome. I think what 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:23.760 will happen then is the Democrats will cave and the 0:19:23.760 --> 0:19:26.800 government will be funded. And if the government shuts down 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:28.720 for a few days because the Democrats want to have 0:19:28.720 --> 0:19:31.840 a temper tantrum at the end of the day, the 0:19:31.880 --> 0:19:35.040 consequences of that are not enormous. They're going to blink, 0:19:35.760 --> 0:19:40.800 They're going to give in because simply keeping the lights 0:19:40.840 --> 0:19:42.240 on at the end of the day, they don't have 0:19:42.280 --> 0:19:43.199 an argument against that. 0:19:44.840 --> 0:19:48.680 So final question on this, and that is if this 0:19:48.840 --> 0:19:53.080 does extend and everything happens and the shut down the 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:55.320 way that you described it, and what this really looks like, 0:19:55.960 --> 0:19:58.520 at what point does this hurt the Democrats? Like, is 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:00.480 it weeks or months? In I mean, I mean we've 0:20:00.480 --> 0:20:03.560 seen longer shutdowns that it does seem that shutdowns now 0:20:03.720 --> 0:20:06.240 are just automatically taking a little bit longer. 0:20:07.320 --> 0:20:10.080 So look, in the first Trump administration, we had a 0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:15.440 lengthy Schumer shutdown. And at the time of the Schumer shutdown, 0:20:15.440 --> 0:20:19.640 in the first Trump administration, uh, the federal government had 0:20:19.800 --> 0:20:24.280 funded the military, had passed had passed funding for the military, 0:20:24.320 --> 0:20:27.000 and so our active duty military soldiers, sailors, airmen, and 0:20:27.080 --> 0:20:32.280 marines were getting their paychecks. But unfortunately, we had not 0:20:32.560 --> 0:20:35.800 funded the Coast Guard. And the Coast Guard is funded 0:20:35.960 --> 0:20:39.960 in a different title than than than than the remainder 0:20:40.000 --> 0:20:42.320 of the military. And so I went to the to 0:20:42.359 --> 0:20:46.600 the Senate floor and fought to fund our coast guardsmen. 0:20:46.600 --> 0:20:50.440 Our coast guardsmen are are often left out. And by 0:20:50.440 --> 0:20:53.680 the way, the coast guardsmen were going to work, that 0:20:54.280 --> 0:20:57.200 they were protecting our border, that they were rescuing people 0:20:57.240 --> 0:21:01.480 in distress. Uh, the they were doing the heroic work 0:21:01.520 --> 0:21:03.520 that the Coastguard does every day, but they were not 0:21:03.640 --> 0:21:06.080 getting their paychecks. And I'll tell you, the Democrats stood 0:21:06.119 --> 0:21:10.320 up and objected and said no, we will not pay 0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:13.480 the men and women of the Coastguard. I think you'll 0:21:13.480 --> 0:21:16.159 see some of that that same effort if there is 0:21:16.200 --> 0:21:22.200 a shutdown. You can anticipate that that multiple Republicans, myself included, 0:21:22.240 --> 0:21:24.280 will go to the Senate floor and try to fund 0:21:25.080 --> 0:21:27.920 individual portions of the government. Say, Okay, Chuck Schumer, you 0:21:28.800 --> 0:21:30.640 want to shut the government down. How about the Coast Guard? 0:21:30.680 --> 0:21:33.400 Will you pay for them? And the Democrats will probably object, 0:21:34.480 --> 0:21:36.800 how about NIH the National Institutes for Health? Do you 0:21:36.800 --> 0:21:39.000 want to fund them? Do you want to do cancer research? 0:21:39.080 --> 0:21:41.359 Or do you want to shut that down? And my 0:21:41.440 --> 0:21:44.359 prediction is the Democrats will object over and over and 0:21:44.400 --> 0:21:48.400 over again to each of these individual funding efforts. And 0:21:48.960 --> 0:21:51.040 part of the reason they'll do that is they're counting 0:21:51.080 --> 0:21:56.520 on the media to be dishonest to try to blame 0:21:56.920 --> 0:21:59.640 the shutdown on Trump. I think that is very hard 0:21:59.680 --> 0:22:02.800 to do when the bill on the floor is a 0:22:03.119 --> 0:22:06.640 clean cr All it is doing is continuing the status quo. 0:22:07.680 --> 0:22:12.480 Will CNN and MSNBC and and and the corporate media 0:22:12.560 --> 0:22:14.880 try to say that means it's Trump's fault that really 0:22:14.920 --> 0:22:17.639 to keep the government open, he should spend over a 0:22:17.720 --> 0:22:22.800 trillion dollars and give in to the democrats demands of 0:22:22.960 --> 0:22:25.720 passing their extreme agenda. Sure, they'll try to say that, 0:22:25.760 --> 0:22:27.600 but that's a hard argument. 0:22:27.680 --> 0:22:28.240 And so. 0:22:30.359 --> 0:22:32.320 I think you'll see lots of spinning. But part of 0:22:32.359 --> 0:22:36.359 the problem is I think Democrats feel there are no 0:22:36.480 --> 0:22:40.199 consequences to them when that when they embrace extreme positions, 0:22:40.280 --> 0:22:43.639 and and so you could see an extended shutdown because 0:22:43.680 --> 0:22:46.600 the first Schumer shutdown in the first Trump administration, I 0:22:46.600 --> 0:22:50.160 think the Democrats felt they paid no political price for it, uh, 0:22:50.240 --> 0:22:53.280 and and that probably emboldens them to force another shutdown. 0:22:54.280 --> 0:22:57.040 You know, you talk about the extremism uh of the 0:22:57.040 --> 0:22:59.879 Democratic Party. You're witnessing it now on this issue on 0:23:00.119 --> 0:23:03.360 Capitol Hill. But we're also witnessing it with their rhetoric 0:23:03.400 --> 0:23:07.040