WEBVTT - Nikki Haley Talks US Presidential Politics 0:00:02.440 --> 0:00:09.600 Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news. 0:00:12.280 --> 0:00:14.400 Ambassador Haiti, thank you very much for catching up with 0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:17.279 Bloomberg this morning. If Lenawmi, I'd like to go straight 0:00:17.360 --> 0:00:18.800 to some of the polls, because I think you find 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:21.880 yourself in a really peculiar position. Head to head with 0:00:21.880 --> 0:00:25.320 a sitting president, you dominate him. Within your own party, 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:28.520 you're struggling. The latest poll from the Washington Post Monmouth 0:00:28.640 --> 0:00:32.120 University shows fifty eight percent of South Carolina voter support 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:35.120 Trump compared to thirty two percent for you. So my 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:37.760 question would be how much daylight is there between what 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:39.879 your party wants and what you think is. 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:40.320 Good for it. 0:00:40.880 --> 0:00:42.600 Well, you know, first of all, I'm really proud of 0:00:42.640 --> 0:00:44.960 what we've done. We had fourteen people in the race. 0:00:45.400 --> 0:00:47.680 We've defeated a dozen of the fellas. I just got 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:50.200 one more. I've got to catch up to. Everybody said 0:00:50.200 --> 0:00:51.920 we wouldn't be able to do it. We started with 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:54.320 two percent in Iowa, we ended up with twenty percent. 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:56.800 We went to New Hampshire we got forty three percent 0:00:56.840 --> 0:01:00.440 of the vote. We increased twenty five points in the 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:03.360 last three weeks of New Hampshire. This race is still 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:05.759 very much moving. We are going to continue to close 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:08.560 that gap in South Carolina as we had to Michigan 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:12.880 and Super Tuesday. Remember, seventy percent of Americans don't want 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:14.400 to see a Trump Biden rematch. 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:16.199 I am pushing. 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:18.520 Through to make sure they have a voice. That's what 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:21.200 we have to do. That's what matters. You've got, you know, 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:24.520 a decision whether to keep more of the same or 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:26.360 whether to go in a new direction, more of the 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:28.399 same as not just Joe Biden, more of the same 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:31.280 as Donald Trump. And we've got to stop the chaos. 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:34.080 We've got to stop the division. But more importantly, we've 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:36.319 got to get our domestic issues on track. We've got 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:38.880 to get our national security on track, and we've got 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:41.040 to get the American families back on track. 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:42.880 Well, let's kick it off with some foreign policy. So 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:46.280 you've voiced opposition clearly to Trump's remarks on NATO over 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:48.680 the weekend. I'm struggling to find more than a handful 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:51.840 of Republican senators who agree with you. Is that any 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:55.160 evidence that Trump's thinking is unpopular with GOP voters. 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:57.840 Well, you know, it's not to go and blame the voters, 0:01:57.840 --> 0:01:59.960 and it's not to go and blame the American people out. 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:03.200 I've always said it's important for Joe Biden and Congress 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:06.040 to tell the American people why they should care to 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:08.000 give them the other side, And you don't hear that. 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:11.119 The other side is that NATO's been a seventy five 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:12.400 year success story. 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:14.240 We have not had war in the region. 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:17.720 And if you look, Russia has never invaded a NATO country. 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:21.760 They've invaded Georgia, They've invaded Ukraine, they've invaded Moldova. So 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:23.840 we want to make sure that, yes, do we want 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:26.080 NATO to pay more, of course we do. But the 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:29.079 last thing we're going to do is side with a thug. 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:33.120 Keep in mind Putin kills his opponents. Keep in mind 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:36.200 that he has arrested Evan Gersovitch, who's been sitting in 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:39.320 jail just for doing journalism. Keep in mind that this 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:42.000 is a man who has wanted to destroy America and 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:46.080 defeat America for years. I dealt with Russia every single day. 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:48.920 It is a mistake for Trump to side with Putin 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:52.080 over our allies. We needed a lot of friends after 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:55.240 nine to eleven. We better remember that. But it takes 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:56.720 a friend to get a friend. 0:02:57.160 --> 0:02:59.440 Ambassador Haley, I'm sure you've seen the comments from the 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:02.440 likes of Lyn Graham and Marco Rubio when it comes 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:04.920 to NATO. Do you feel like you're potentially at a 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:07.160 step with members of your own party. 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:10.160 You know it's not. The goal is never to follow 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:13.720 the polls. The goal is to make sure you communicate 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:16.400 what's right. We need to make sure that we have 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:20.120 an alliance that's strong. Our whole goal is to prevent war. 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:22.760 That's the main thing. I mean, you look at Russia 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:26.480 right now. The reason people should care about Ukraine is 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:30.400 because one it's a pro American freedom loving country. But two, 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:33.760 listen to what Putin said. Putin said, once he takes Ukraine, 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:37.080 Poland and the Baltics are next. Those are NATO countries 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:40.840 that immediately puts America at war. This is about preventing war. 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:43.560 This is about keeping an alliance strong. This is about 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:47.280 bringing more friends in, not pushing friends away. Donald Trump 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:50.480 doesn't get that, and that's what will creep us into war. 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:51.560 We can't have that. 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:53.560 And so our goal is not to go and blame 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:56.600 the American people for feeling the way they do. It's 0:03:56.640 --> 0:03:58.760 to make sure we get our message out on why 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:00.800 they should care and how this is in the best 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:04.040 centrists of America, and for those politicians who are refusing 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:06.600 to say that, that's a disservice to the people that 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:07.080 they serve. 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:09.120 If the goal to bring more friends in would you 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:11.320 agree that President Biden has done a good job in 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:12.880 expanding the NATO alliance? 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:16.279 Well, I think first of all, I think that he, yes, 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:19.719 he understands the importance of NATO, but he doesn't understand 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:23.400 the importance of preventing war. He could have prevented Putin 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:26.280 going into Ukraine. All of this wouldn't have happened if 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:28.400 we wouldn't have had the debacle in Afghanistan. 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:31.159 I mean, think about the fact that we left boger. 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:33.840 Mair Force Base in the middle of the night without 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:36.760 telling our allies who stood shoulder to shoulder with us 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:40.200 for decades because we asked them to be there. Think 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:43.480 about what that told our friends. More importantly, think about 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:46.239 what that said to our enemies. So there's no surprise 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:49.279 that Putin went and invaded Ukraine. There's no surprise that 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:52.600 we're seeing Aron push its terrorist proxies to do evil. 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:52.960 Around the world. 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:56.080 There's no surprise that Hamas has invaded Israel. There's no 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:59.600 surprise that China is doing surveillance and intimidation over Taiwan. 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:02.839 They see that the US is weak and they don't 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:05.680 trust it. And the fact that we are watching Joe 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:09.159 Biden in decline is not helping that Russia, China, and 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:12.039 iron are watching every day the decline of Joe Biden. 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:15.640 This is bigger about a bigger than a party. This 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:17.280 is about the fact that we've got to look out 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:20.200 for the national interests of our country. And that's when 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:22.400 you put all of this aside and say, what do 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:22.919 we need. 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:24.320 We don't need. 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:27.479 Two eighty year old candidates running for president. We need 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:32.520 someone who can serve eight years. Discipline, strong, no volatility, 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:36.320 no drama, no vindictiveness. Just get the job done for 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:38.320 the American people. That's what I'm trying to do. 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:40.480 Well. When it comes to mental acuity, I know you 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:43.440 want to make a standard that they have to take 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:46.039 these tests. You said you're willing to take these tests. 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:49.359 Do you expect Biden or Trump to take a mental 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:51.080 acuity test before November? 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:54.320 I expect that if you look at the fact, this 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:57.760 is just a fact. There's a reason pilots can't fly 0:05:57.960 --> 0:06:00.719 after the age of sixty five. There's a reason you 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:04.320 have to get out of the military after a limited age. 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:06.839 There are a lot of industries that do that because 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:09.960 it is fact you are in decline. You look at 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:12.719 Joe Biden two years ago, very different than what you 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:15.159 see Joe Biden today. You look at Donald Trump in 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:18.520 twenty sixteen, very different than what you see today. Donald 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:21.200 Trump the other day went on three four times saying 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:23.160 that I should have had security at the Capitol on 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:26.599 January sixth. I didn't never had a job in DC, 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:28.760 I never was in charge of security. 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:31.039 He was confused. That is what happens. 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:32.360 What I am saying is I don't care if you 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:35.360 do mental competency tests for fifty en up. But these 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:38.680 are people making decisions on our national security. These are 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:41.560 people making decisions on the future of our economy. We 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:43.440 need to know they're at the top of their game. 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:45.640 This is not about whether you like them or they 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:48.080 hold a baby well. This is about the fact that 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:50.760 we have serious issues in our country. Our country is 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:53.840 in disarray and the world is on fire, and we 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:56.320 can't go through four more years of chaos. We won't 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:56.880 survive it. 0:06:57.120 --> 0:06:59.279 And Massad Haley, you point out a number of gaffes, 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:01.520 not just from the former President Trump, but also current 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:04.680 President Biden. At the same time, they're still beating you 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:07.360 in polls when it comes to Trump, even the ft 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:09.880 over the weekend, when it comes to handling of the economy, 0:07:10.120 --> 0:07:12.560 you're trailing Biden. Why is that? 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:15.400 Well, first of all, if you look at the general 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:18.920 election polls, you see that I do defeat Biden by 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:20.600 almost seventeen points. 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:22.560 You can look at the Marquete pole that just came 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:23.280 out last week. 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:27.120 I defeat Biden and Wisconsin by fifteen points. Trump doesn't 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:29.720 defeat Biden. And we have to look at the fact 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:32.760 that if we go in all the swing states, I 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:35.400 defeat Biden and if I win by double digits. 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:36.400 Do you know what that means? 0:07:36.720 --> 0:07:38.920 That means you go into DC with a mandate, A 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:41.640 mandate to stop the wasteful spending and get our economy 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:44.239 back on track, a mandate to get our kids reading 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:46.480 again and go back to the basics and education. 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:47.640 A mandate to. 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:50.600 Secure our borders with no more excuses, a mandate for 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:53.360 law and order back in our cities, and a mandate 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:56.000 of a strong America that prevents wars that we can 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:58.880 all be proud of That's the goal of where we're. 0:07:58.720 --> 0:07:59.320 Trying to go. 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:02.200 We've got to get past this partisan it's got to 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:04.600 be him or him. I think the problem is both 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:07.240 of those men. You look at it, whether it's these 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:10.440 court cases where they had national security documents they shouldn't 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:13.520 have had. If you've ever had a job that dealt 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:17.240 with any sort of security documents, you know that they 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:21.120 are handled with extreme care. The fact that both of 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:26.440 these gentlemen were so arrogant to have those documents, bragging 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:29.400 around about them or having them in a garage tells 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:31.400 you this is more about them than it is about 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:32.360 the American people. 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:33.280 That's the focus. 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:35.640 We've got to get this back on the American people 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:38.640 and stop getting it on these two men who are 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:40.200 refusing to give up their power. 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:42.920 We can focus on that right now. Bassidor Haley, you 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:45.440 mentioned the economy, let's talk about it. Last summer, you 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:48.839 spoke to this network about ways to combat rising debt. 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:50.800 I've got the transcript in front of me. My colleague 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:53.239 Joe Matthew asked you, how would you manage the entitlements 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:56.840 to try and get our arms around soaring debt? Your answer? 0:08:56.880 --> 0:08:59.479 Any candidate that says they're not going to touch entitlements 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:02.760 that basically going to go into office and leave America bankrupt. 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:06.000 One option you offered, we change retirement age to reflect 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:10.720 life expectancy. Your original answer is now part of Trump campaign. 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:12.839 Ats is that still something you want to do? 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:15.040 Well, First of all, that's not what I said. 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:18.360 What I said is we should not ever take away 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:20.960 from those who have invested in and those who have 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:24.400 been promised America should always keep their promises. I said 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:26.600 we should go and change the rules for those in 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:30.160 their twenties. That's the problem those in their twenties, like 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:34.200 my kids. For them, we should change the retirement age 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:37.360 to life expectancy. Instead of cost of living increases, we 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:40.480 should do increases based on inflation. We should cap the 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:44.400 benefits on the megawealthy, and we should expand Medicare advantage plans. 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:47.800 What Donald Trump wants to do is he doesn't want 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:50.160 to touch it, so that when Social Security goes bankrupt 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:53.240 in ten ures, everybody gets a twenty four percent cut 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:54.040 across the board. 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:57.000 That's not how you handle a problem. I'm going to 0:09:57.080 --> 0:09:58.800 count it. The thing you do is you get in 0:09:58.840 --> 0:09:59.800 front of the problem. 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:02.960 When we make those changes, that's when you start focusing 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:05.200 on what it takes to make sure not only does 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:08.360 everybody who've paid and keep what they get, but you 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:10.800 make sure that our kids will actually have something when 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:13.120 the time comes for them as well. We have to 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:16.160 take that seriously, and we have to stop having Congress 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:19.880 raid the Social Security accounts. Right now they're rating all 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:23.360 of those accounts. Instead of stopping the wasteful spending, we'll 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:27.000 stop the spending, stop the borrowing, eliminate the pet projects, 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:29.679 and al Vito any spending bill that doesn't take us 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:30.920 back to pre COVID levels. 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:33.960 Ambasso, do you still think sixty five is way too 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:35.559 low when it comes to retirement. 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:37.160 I think it depends. 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:38.680 We need to go and look at the numbers and 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:41.040 see exactly where it should be. I think right now 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:43.560 we do know that people are living longer. What the 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:47.520 age should be depends. But for everybody that's paid in 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:50.160 the system, the age is sixty five. That will stay 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:53.000 sixty five for those in their twenties. That's where we're 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:54.520 going to have to go and look and say what's 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:56.800 the right age for us To do that we can 0:10:56.920 --> 0:10:59.800 solve this problem. People don't have to live in fear 0:10:59.840 --> 0:11:01.760 the they're going to lose their social Security, but we 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:04.480 need to be honest with them. Communicate to them that 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:07.400 social Security will go bankrupt in ten years, Communicate to 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:10.120 them that Medicare will go bankrupt in eight and let 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:11.680 them know that we're going to find a way to 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:12.920 make sure they keep what they have. 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:15.080 But we're going to have to make changes. 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:16.560 Going forward so that we can start to make sure 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:17.840 these things are solvent. 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:18.400 In ten years. 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:22.800 Just changing some of the respect to twenty year olds 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:27.640 isn't going to necessarily change the equation financially in terms 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:31.200 of making Social Security more sustainable. So what else could 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:34.080 you do in the near term to make the sustainable. 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:37.120 Well, right now, Joe Biden and Donald Trump are saying 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:39.120 they're not going to do anything, which means you're going 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:42.040 to have a twenty four percent cap twenty four percent 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:44.640 cut in ten years. At least I'm willing to do 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:46.640 something about it. At least I'm willing to tell the 0:11:46.640 --> 0:11:48.960 American people the truth that there is a problem and 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:49.520 that we're going. 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:49.920 To fix it. 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:52.360 So the thing is you start with that, you also 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:55.160 start with cutting out the wasteful spending that's happened from 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:59.200 Republicans and Democrats. We saw that two point two trillion 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:02.760 dollar COVID Stace simulus bill that passed with no accountability. 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:04.600 That's now expanded welfare. 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:08.040 That's left us with eighty million Americans on Medicaid, forty 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:09.840 two million Americans on food stamps. 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:11.240 That's a third of our country. 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:14.520 And instead of Republicans doubling down and trying to make 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:17.800 something right, they opened up pet projects and earmarks for 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:20.600 the first time in ten years, pushing through seven thousand 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:21.440 of them last year. 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:22.920 You've got to stop that. 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:24.480 The other ways we're going to do it is we're 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:26.959 going to take as many programs in the federal government 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:30.040 as we can and pass them down to the state level. 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:33.199 That will dramatically reduce the size of the federal government, 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:36.280 but it will empower people on the ground. Think education, 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:39.880 think welfare, think healthcare, think mental health. When you go 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:42.280 and cut those strengths and allow that to go down 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:45.160 to the people, you're reducing the size of the bloated 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:48.520 government we have. Everybody loves to talk about how great 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:52.040 the economy was under Donald Trump. Well, yet seemed great, 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:55.320 but at what costs? Well, he put US eight trillion 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:57.960 dollars in debt in just four years Joe Biden went 0:12:58.000 --> 0:12:59.920 and doubled down and put us even more in debt. 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:02.119 That's not how you fix the economy. 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:05.080 That's how you go and leave younger generations in a 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:07.120 situation they'll never be able to pull out of. 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:11.480 Meanwhile, Donald Trump is talking about heavily taroffing Chinese goods, 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:13.960 potentially up to forty percent. Do you see this as 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:15.800 one viable way to raise money. 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:17.000 Absolutely not. 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:20.240 All that does is raise taxes on the American families 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:22.480 and our small businesses that we need to be taken 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:22.840 care of. 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:24.439 It is ludicrous that. 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:27.160 He wants to go and raise those tariffs to everything 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:30.160 that we import that's going to affect American families on 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:34.559 anything from baby strollers to appliances. Every American family will 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:37.800 see at least a twenty eight hundred dollars increase in 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:40.920 their taxes. Not only that, Not only does he want 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:43.640 to cut Social Security by twenty four percent ten years, 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:46.600 he wanted to raise the gas tax by twenty five 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:51.480 cents per gallon in twenty eighteen. He doesn't understand the 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:54.640 value of a taxpayer dollar. He doesn't understand that you 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:57.720 don't go in debt, you don't tax the American people. 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:00.800 You don't go and take away big take care of 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:03.800 big corporations. You take care of small businesses and American 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:06.760 families by making sure they have more cash that they 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:10.240 can spend. That's been what's lost not only in Donald Trump, 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:13.320 but in Joe Biden and in every member of Congress. 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:15.760 And Masiba Haiti. Given that, given that you seemingly consider, 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:17.920 and many of us do too, that a tariff on 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:21.320 China is a tax on American consumers, would you consider 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:24.520 repealing existing tariffs on Chinese imports. 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:28.280 China's different now when you talk about Trump wants to 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:31.480 do tariffs across the board from every country, China we 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:34.040 have to deal with differently. We have to understand China 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:37.160 has been preparing for war with US for years. 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:39.600 That's not an exaggeration. They're already here. 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:42.000 We know that they bought four hundred thousand acres of 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:45.320 US soil, most recently near Grand Forks Air Force Base, 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:46.040 where our most. 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:47.440 Sensitive drone technology is. 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:51.160 They're putting millions of dollars into our universities, stealing our 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:55.400 research and spreading Chinese propaganda. They've got Chinese police stations 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:58.120 throughout our country. We know they had the Chinese by 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:00.960 balloon that was doing surveillance over a country that now 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:04.560 connected with a US Internet company and sent that surveillance 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:09.160 to China. They're building up their military threatening America. What 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:10.920 we need to do is when we look at China, 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:13.440 you look at it through a national security lens. You 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:15.440 look at it and say, if China pulled the rug 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:19.080 out from under us tomorrow, would we be ready? Think 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:22.240 about what happened during COVID. Everybody was told to wear 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:26.120 a mask? Who made the masks China did? Everybody was 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:27.400 told to take a COVID test. 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:28.120 You turned it over. 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:30.600 It was made in China. Go into your drug stores 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:33.600 right now. All of those medications are made in China. 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:36.920 We've got to focus on what do we do to 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:40.600 change that narrative, to make sure that the American. 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:41.840 People are not dependent on China. 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:44.000 But we move that trade either to where we make 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:46.720 it in South make it in America, or we go 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:55.120 and we make it with our allies and our friends.