1
00:00:01,840 --> 00:00:05,640
Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the

2
00:00:05,720 --> 00:00:10,240
Speaker 1: George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

3
00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:17,239
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Jetty and no he Armstrong and Yetty.

4
00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:28,480
Speaker 3: But apparently our nation civil service is now synonymous with waste.

5
00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:30,000
Speaker 2: Fraud, and abuse. The gravy train.

6
00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:32,479
Speaker 4: For a lot of these folks, it's been on biscuit

7
00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:35,000
Speaker 4: wheels and it's about to run off the dead gum tracks.

8
00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:36,040
Speaker 2: It's about time.

9
00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:42,920
Speaker 3: First of all, there is no way you actually talk

10
00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:50,559
Speaker 3: like that. No way, you're a congressman from Tennessee. You

11
00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:54,680
Speaker 3: didn't spring fully formed out of a primordial cracker barrel.

12
00:00:56,960 --> 00:01:02,000
Speaker 3: All of this help burocra see is a shot uga shoot, shoot.

13
00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:05,120
Speaker 2: To approp this boil on the flat jacks.

14
00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:11,840
Speaker 4: Very funny from the Eastern media elite to media elite. Michael,

15
00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:15,960
Speaker 4: very very well chosen. We'll have a chat after the show.

16
00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:17,480
Speaker 4: I know plenty of people who talk like that.

17
00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:21,600
Speaker 5: I do too, but we need to take it down

18
00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:24,480
Speaker 5: a little on the right with the clever sayings.

19
00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:27,280
Speaker 2: Just too many of them, I feel.

20
00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:31,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, John Kennedy, we're looking at you.

21
00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:33,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.

22
00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:35,800
Speaker 5: They've just realized, if you want to get on TV,

23
00:01:35,959 --> 00:01:37,840
Speaker 5: a little blurb on Fox News or whatever. You have

24
00:01:37,959 --> 00:01:40,560
Speaker 5: some clever, little homespun saying, and that'll get you on.

25
00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:45,559
Speaker 5: May I apologize to the audience for lying. I said

26
00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:48,520
Speaker 5: that Congressman Tom McClintock would kick off this hour of

27
00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:50,960
Speaker 5: the program. Indeed, we will visit with him at the

28
00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:53,040
Speaker 5: bottom of the hour, but are looking forward to it

29
00:01:53,280 --> 00:02:00,280
Speaker 5: very much. I just read his editorial Washington Times. Great stuff. Yeah, yeah,

30
00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:01,880
Speaker 5: I look forward to asking him about this stuff.

31
00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:02,560
Speaker 2: Part of the.

32
00:02:02,520 --> 00:02:06,360
Speaker 5: Problem with framing Doge in all this is waste, fraud

33
00:02:06,360 --> 00:02:10,639
Speaker 5: and abuse is that it misses the point that, even

34
00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:13,640
Speaker 5: if it's all legitimate, we can't afford it.

35
00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:17,440
Speaker 2: So oh yeah, well said I.

36
00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:21,000
Speaker 5: Mean you if you I've been here before when I

37
00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:23,760
Speaker 5: I was broke, sometimes you look at like where can

38
00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:25,919
Speaker 5: you cut and you think I need all of these

39
00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:29,680
Speaker 5: things I'm spending money on, but you still don't have

40
00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:32,760
Speaker 5: as much money coming in as going out, and something

41
00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:33,399
Speaker 5: has got.

42
00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:34,959
Speaker 2: To go right, right.

43
00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:39,120
Speaker 4: Indeed, it might be helpful to say waste, fraud, abuse

44
00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:44,680
Speaker 4: and overreach. Yeah, or or at some point and some

45
00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:47,560
Speaker 4: point soon it's going to be which of these things

46
00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:50,200
Speaker 4: that we like and need do we like and need?

47
00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:52,920
Speaker 2: The least because sure the rubber is going to meet

48
00:02:52,960 --> 00:02:54,840
Speaker 2: the road at some point anyway before.

49
00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:57,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, Mike has got to go in favor of need,

50
00:02:57,200 --> 00:02:59,360
Speaker 4: because like is spending us into oblivion.

51
00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:00,000
Speaker 2: Back to you.

52
00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:05,080
Speaker 5: Starbucks announced their coffee chain is laying off eleven hundred jobs,

53
00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:07,960
Speaker 5: seven percent of its non retail staff. Is there gonna

54
00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:12,320
Speaker 5: be a big media scramble to get to Starbucks employees

55
00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:14,280
Speaker 5: and have them on there.

56
00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:16,320
Speaker 2: I thought I'd get to work at Starbucks forever. I

57
00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:17,920
Speaker 2: just moved here for this job.

58
00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:21,480
Speaker 5: I was working really hard because that would I'm sure

59
00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:23,160
Speaker 5: plenty of them would say that. But they lost their

60
00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:25,480
Speaker 5: jobs because here in the private sector, that happens all

61
00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:26,360
Speaker 5: the flip and time.

62
00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:27,200
Speaker 1: Right.

63
00:03:28,639 --> 00:03:31,040
Speaker 5: Another economic thing that I thought was interesting that I

64
00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:32,639
Speaker 5: will explain why I think it is a big deal.

65
00:03:32,639 --> 00:03:35,960
Speaker 5: In the second, Apple said it's gonna invest half a

66
00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:39,600
Speaker 5: trillion dollars in the United States over the.

67
00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:40,680
Speaker 2: Next four years.

68
00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:44,320
Speaker 5: So half a trillion over four years and open a

69
00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:47,760
Speaker 5: new factory in Houston to build AI servers. I gotta

70
00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:50,320
Speaker 5: wonder if maybe they had they wouldn't have built that

71
00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:51,320
Speaker 5: in China or something.

72
00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:54,800
Speaker 2: If this were twenty years ago. Oh yeah, one hundred

73
00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:55,440
Speaker 2: percent and.

74
00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:57,120
Speaker 5: Now it's gonna be built in the United States for

75
00:03:57,240 --> 00:03:59,160
Speaker 5: you know, all the reasons that you know. But at

76
00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:01,560
Speaker 5: the same time, brit Hume tweeted this out and thought

77
00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:04,120
Speaker 5: this was a big deal. Huma Fox. I follow him

78
00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:07,400
Speaker 5: because I generally think he's right. The President just released

79
00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:10,280
Speaker 5: a new policy that does some big things. It's an

80
00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:13,920
Speaker 5: economic policy. It makes it easier for friendly nations to

81
00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:16,600
Speaker 5: invest in the United States, and makes it harder for

82
00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:19,279
Speaker 5: hostile nations to invest in the United States. And it

83
00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:22,320
Speaker 5: makes it harder for hostile nations to steal American technology.

84
00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:25,360
Speaker 2: Those are all big things that are definitely welcome.

85
00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:28,480
Speaker 4: I would like to see, and this is an issue

86
00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:31,080
Speaker 4: nobody talks about. I would like to see China booted

87
00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:32,839
Speaker 4: the hell out of our housing markets.

88
00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:35,400
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Yes, oh my god.

89
00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:40,919
Speaker 5: Yes, conglomerates buying up like every house for sale they

90
00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:42,800
Speaker 5: can renting them, and.

91
00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:44,599
Speaker 2: It becomes impossible to get a house.

92
00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:47,920
Speaker 5: Yeah, in my town, absolutely, that what goes on. When

93
00:04:47,920 --> 00:04:49,280
Speaker 5: I was trying to buy a house. I'm a renter.

94
00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:51,280
Speaker 5: When I was trying to buy a house and all

95
00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:54,640
Speaker 5: these houses that seem ridiculously overpriced were selling, That's what

96
00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:55,680
Speaker 5: real estate agents told me.

97
00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:56,640
Speaker 2: No the Chinese.

98
00:04:56,680 --> 00:05:00,240
Speaker 5: The Chinese, various entities and businessmen are buying up pay

99
00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:03,839
Speaker 5: cash and they don't care what they cost, And yeah,

100
00:05:04,040 --> 00:05:07,280
Speaker 5: that is a distortion. And I butt head sometimes with

101
00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:11,440
Speaker 5: my libertarian brethren on this topic because foreign investment in

102
00:05:11,839 --> 00:05:13,480
Speaker 5: the United States is one of the reasons we all

103
00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:15,880
Speaker 5: have such a great standard of living, and that's absolutely true.

104
00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:19,919
Speaker 5: But a commodity is limited and incredibly necessary is housing,

105
00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:24,400
Speaker 5: which is then limited so severely by government policies zoning

106
00:05:24,440 --> 00:05:27,760
Speaker 5: and environmental stuff and whatever. That just causes a distortion

107
00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:32,280
Speaker 5: that beats down American families, American workers. And it reminds

108
00:05:32,279 --> 00:05:34,479
Speaker 5: me of what we were talking about last hour, where

109
00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:37,680
Speaker 5: David Leonhardt, a fairly moderate guy at the New York Times,

110
00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:40,520
Speaker 5: is writing, Hey, all these left wing governments from the

111
00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:46,640
Speaker 5: US to France, to Germany to Canada to Australia, when

112
00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:49,320
Speaker 5: their working class was saying, hey, this rampant the immigration

113
00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:53,000
Speaker 5: is hurting us badly. They were told shut up by

114
00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:55,680
Speaker 5: their left leaning governments, and now it's coming home to

115
00:05:56,040 --> 00:05:57,400
Speaker 5: coming back to bite them.

116
00:05:57,760 --> 00:06:00,160
Speaker 4: I think the housing thing is similar. People are They're

117
00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:03,320
Speaker 4: screaming for relief and we've got our communists over lords.

118
00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:04,640
Speaker 4: Snap it up houses.

119
00:06:04,680 --> 00:06:06,000
Speaker 2: It can't last well.

120
00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:08,440
Speaker 5: Last week we were talking about Senator Tom Cotton's new

121
00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:10,880
Speaker 5: book Seven Things You Can't Say about China, and we

122
00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:13,760
Speaker 5: hope to talk to him soon. One of them, I

123
00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:15,480
Speaker 5: don't know if he mentions the housing market at all

124
00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:17,080
Speaker 5: in the book. We'll have to ask him about that,

125
00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:22,080
Speaker 5: because that's interesting. But one of them is how China

126
00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:25,840
Speaker 5: sending their bright young people over here to attend our

127
00:06:25,839 --> 00:06:30,080
Speaker 5: colleges at full freight and eating up all the slots

128
00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:33,520
Speaker 5: in the colleges and distorting the price of college because

129
00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:35,280
Speaker 5: they don't care what it costs. They just want to

130
00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:37,800
Speaker 5: send their students over here to get the best engineering degrees,

131
00:06:37,839 --> 00:06:41,920
Speaker 5: invest this and that, and also occasionally a spy distorted

132
00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:46,159
Speaker 5: the whole college market. Always a spy had this headline

133
00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:48,599
Speaker 5: sitting around, hadn't get gotten to it yet. Under Biden,

134
00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:53,520
Speaker 5: American universities raked in nearly a billion dollars from offshore donors,

135
00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:57,800
Speaker 5: including many link to China. Yeah, China, and cutter and

136
00:06:57,880 --> 00:07:01,640
Speaker 5: all sorts of loathsome regimes have utterly perverted the curricula

137
00:07:02,279 --> 00:07:06,680
Speaker 5: of American universities. Again, we fell so in love with

138
00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:12,080
Speaker 5: the whole global thing. We forgot that not everybody's nice

139
00:07:12,280 --> 00:07:14,440
Speaker 5: like we are. It's funny, the great Satan, the big

140
00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:17,080
Speaker 5: belliger in America. No, we're like the nicest people on earth.

141
00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:21,280
Speaker 5: We think everybody wants to be our friend worthy the proverbial,

142
00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:26,600
Speaker 5: if somewhat insulting naive corn pone from Iowa buying fake

143
00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:31,720
Speaker 5: rolexes in Manhattan because we don't know better as a country.

144
00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:32,800
Speaker 2: Which is really crazy.

145
00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:36,160
Speaker 4: As the superpower, it's it's almost endearing, but the evildoers

146
00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:37,960
Speaker 4: are starting to really exploit it, and it's time to

147
00:07:37,960 --> 00:07:38,400
Speaker 4: get tough.

148
00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:41,840
Speaker 2: I bought a fake rolex.

149
00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:45,040
Speaker 5: I knew it was a fake rolex in Times Square

150
00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:49,200
Speaker 5: in New York once, and it was quite cheap. It

151
00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:52,920
Speaker 5: did not work and felt very flimsy. My son has

152
00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:58,040
Speaker 5: a great fake rolex that he bought on Amazon for

153
00:07:58,480 --> 00:07:59,480
Speaker 5: seventy dollars.

154
00:07:59,680 --> 00:08:01,040
Speaker 2: It was like super cheap.

155
00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:06,320
Speaker 5: It is great, really heavy, good metal runs. Wow, looks

156
00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:10,000
Speaker 5: real your son or rapper he gets. He gets compliments

157
00:08:10,040 --> 00:08:14,240
Speaker 5: on it all the time. It's just the look though

158
00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:15,760
Speaker 5: a teenage boy with a road.

159
00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:20,440
Speaker 4: It's a little odd, but you know, teach their own

160
00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:24,240
Speaker 4: u So speaking of economic matters, and then we'll take

161
00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:26,600
Speaker 4: a break because we've got something just great to get to.

162
00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:32,960
Speaker 4: Two years ago, you might remember Teamster's boss Sean O'Brien.

163
00:08:33,040 --> 00:08:35,480
Speaker 4: You remember him spoke at the Republican Convention and said

164
00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:40,359
Speaker 4: I hate Republicans. He touted a historic labor agreement with UPS.

165
00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:43,959
Speaker 4: United Parcel Service. Now comes the rest of the story,

166
00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:49,800
Speaker 4: and it's not pretty. UPS shares are plunged recently after

167
00:08:49,840 --> 00:08:53,520
Speaker 4: it announced workforce and delivery reductions. Workers who lost their

168
00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:56,240
Speaker 4: jobs can thank mister O'Brien once again.

169
00:08:56,320 --> 00:08:59,160
Speaker 2: Interview the UPS of people that lost their jobs. I

170
00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:01,480
Speaker 2: thought I could work here forever. I just moved here

171
00:09:01,480 --> 00:09:02,120
Speaker 2: for this job.

172
00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:05,679
Speaker 4: Like the government employees, UPS is having to shrink, shrink

173
00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:09,000
Speaker 4: its contracts, just do less work and make less money

174
00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:13,200
Speaker 4: and less profit because in Amazon, one of the big clients,

175
00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:14,760
Speaker 4: is not going to do more of their own deliveries

176
00:09:14,760 --> 00:09:18,400
Speaker 4: because UPS can't do it at a cost anywhere near

177
00:09:18,760 --> 00:09:24,200
Speaker 4: Amazon can. Because Amazon's drivers aren't unionized. The Teamsters, according

178
00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:27,200
Speaker 4: to the General Editorial Board, have found little success trying

179
00:09:27,240 --> 00:09:31,960
Speaker 4: to organize Amazon workers. The UPS agreement increased average compensation

180
00:09:32,040 --> 00:09:34,440
Speaker 4: from full time drivers over five years to one hundred

181
00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:38,680
Speaker 4: and seventy thousand dollars a year. Teamsters at UPS get

182
00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:43,119
Speaker 4: up to seven weeks of vacation and don't pay healthcare premiums.

183
00:09:43,640 --> 00:09:44,960
Speaker 2: Yes, I was a teamster.

184
00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:49,160
Speaker 5: It was the most amazing healthcare I ever had in

185
00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:52,520
Speaker 5: my entire working life. It was insane, but as actually,

186
00:09:53,120 --> 00:09:55,680
Speaker 5: you shouldn't have healthcare this good as a guy who

187
00:09:55,720 --> 00:09:58,400
Speaker 5: stacks boxes for a living. I mean, it's just it

188
00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:01,360
Speaker 5: doesn't really make sense. Loved it, of course, but it

189
00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:03,640
Speaker 5: was pretty ridiculous given US standards.

190
00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:08,800
Speaker 4: So UPS is firing thousands of workers and management closing

191
00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:12,440
Speaker 4: two hundred sorting centers. You know, union to have their

192
00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:14,959
Speaker 4: role and certainly have in history, but a union like

193
00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:17,000
Speaker 4: this one, in this case, all it does is concentrate

194
00:10:17,080 --> 00:10:19,600
Speaker 4: wealth in the hands of its members and leaders. It

195
00:10:19,679 --> 00:10:22,080
Speaker 4: has nothing to do with work. We're for working people,

196
00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:25,080
Speaker 4: We're for labor. No, you're for yourself and your members,

197
00:10:25,480 --> 00:10:30,000
Speaker 4: which is fine, but society and UPS need to recognize

198
00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:33,880
Speaker 4: that and encounter it. It's just hundreds and thousands and

199
00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:36,520
Speaker 4: thousands of workers are losing their jobs so that the

200
00:10:36,640 --> 00:10:39,040
Speaker 4: chosen few can get artificially high salaries.

201
00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:42,000
Speaker 2: Oh that's just lovely. Ah.

202
00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:48,520
Speaker 5: The Trump versus the AP fight is way more important

203
00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:51,120
Speaker 5: than you might think. It's not over the Gulf of America.

204
00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:53,920
Speaker 4: Well, it kind of is, which is funny, but it's

205
00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:56,320
Speaker 4: about something much more interesting and important.

206
00:10:56,320 --> 00:10:57,800
Speaker 2: We'll talk about that in a second.

207
00:10:58,120 --> 00:11:00,600
Speaker 5: When I was a team stur at ups, the insurance

208
00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:04,000
Speaker 5: was I had one hundred percent coverage on medical, no deductible,

209
00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:08,359
Speaker 5: one hundred percent deadal noductible, and no do and no payments.

210
00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:10,800
Speaker 5: I should have gotten all my teeth pulled and had

211
00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:13,600
Speaker 5: several babies. I just should have taken advantage of it.

212
00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:14,439
Speaker 2: You're a fool.

213
00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:17,000
Speaker 5: We got all that stuff Joe mentioned, And we're going

214
00:11:17,040 --> 00:11:19,760
Speaker 5: to talk to a Republican Congressman, Tom McClintock coming up

215
00:11:19,760 --> 00:11:25,199
Speaker 5: this hour. I look forward to talking to Tom McClintock

216
00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:27,560
Speaker 5: as a fiscal conservative and a member of the House

217
00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:31,520
Speaker 5: of Representatives, a Republican where he is on the whole

218
00:11:31,520 --> 00:11:32,040
Speaker 5: doage thing.

219
00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:36,720
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh yeah, I have a feeling, I know, since

220
00:11:36,720 --> 00:11:39,360
Speaker 4: he's been a fiscal hawk, since he was a.

221
00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:40,920
Speaker 2: Knee high to a grasshopper. Oh that's right.

222
00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:44,440
Speaker 4: We're not going to be charmingly homespun anymore. There's too

223
00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:47,959
Speaker 4: much of that in our nation's discourse. Uh So, one

224
00:11:47,960 --> 00:11:53,079
Speaker 4: of my many jihads is against conservatives and even moderates

225
00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:56,960
Speaker 4: who for some reason conformed to the language demands of

226
00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:01,000
Speaker 4: the left. They say, don't say this that anymore, say this,

227
00:12:01,280 --> 00:12:05,760
Speaker 4: and we obey them, even though that change in language

228
00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:09,880
Speaker 4: is deliberately designed to pervert the argument or to win

229
00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:13,920
Speaker 4: the argument in advance, Like gender affirming care that settles

230
00:12:13,920 --> 00:12:16,160
Speaker 4: the argument. Well, all you're doing is affirming the poor

231
00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:18,959
Speaker 4: child's gender. Now it's a sex change experiment.

232
00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:19,920
Speaker 2: Anyway.

233
00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:24,920
Speaker 4: Trump and the administration are in a bit of a

234
00:12:24,920 --> 00:12:28,320
Speaker 4: frakis a bit of a sparring match with the Associated Press.

235
00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:30,760
Speaker 4: You may have read about it, the particulars of their

236
00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:34,000
Speaker 4: band from the press room, temporarily whatever, the Gulf of

237
00:12:34,040 --> 00:12:37,880
Speaker 4: America thing. That's all a distraction because the main issue

238
00:12:37,920 --> 00:12:42,120
Speaker 4: is the AP and its style book, which if you're

239
00:12:42,120 --> 00:12:45,760
Speaker 4: not in journalism you might not realize is incredibly influential

240
00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:49,199
Speaker 4: and has been for decades. It essentially says, all right,

241
00:12:49,240 --> 00:12:52,679
Speaker 4: here's how to word something. Here's what words are acceptable unacceptable,

242
00:12:52,800 --> 00:12:55,480
Speaker 4: here's the punctuation you should use. From the very mundane

243
00:12:55,760 --> 00:12:58,760
Speaker 4: to now. And this is a new development in the

244
00:12:58,840 --> 00:13:03,920
Speaker 4: last you know, several years now, it's become extremely ideological.

245
00:13:04,760 --> 00:13:07,280
Speaker 4: For instance, and we mentioned this late in the show. Yesterday,

246
00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:11,280
Speaker 4: AP began capitalizing black when used as a racial designation,

247
00:13:11,679 --> 00:13:15,320
Speaker 4: but not white, because no, no black especial white is

248
00:13:15,440 --> 00:13:17,439
Speaker 4: just well, you are white people, and you're bad people.

249
00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:22,480
Speaker 4: There are a bunch of other examples. You can't use

250
00:13:22,760 --> 00:13:28,439
Speaker 4: alien it's banned, or illegal immigrant in discussing immigration, even

251
00:13:28,480 --> 00:13:32,920
Speaker 4: though those are both statutory you know terms. You can't

252
00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:36,560
Speaker 4: say chain migration, anchor babies, and they have all sorts

253
00:13:36,559 --> 00:13:41,320
Speaker 4: of euphemism, like when CNN infamously described the George Floyd

254
00:13:41,400 --> 00:13:44,400
Speaker 4: riots as a mostly peaceful protest that was partly in

255
00:13:44,480 --> 00:13:47,880
Speaker 4: deference to the the AP saying don't.

256
00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:52,160
Speaker 2: Use riot, oh wow, too hard. Yeah.

257
00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:56,400
Speaker 4: And then there is its twenty nine hundred word ideological

258
00:13:56,480 --> 00:14:01,960
Speaker 4: Manifesto that says, quote, do not use the term transgenderism,

259
00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:06,439
Speaker 4: which frames transgender identity is an ideology. It is filled

260
00:14:06,440 --> 00:14:09,360
Speaker 4: with bizarre assertions and jargon which reporters are mandated to

261
00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:13,240
Speaker 4: accept as if they supersede the facts of life. According

262
00:14:13,280 --> 00:14:15,160
Speaker 4: to the guide, a child isn't born a boy or

263
00:14:15,160 --> 00:14:16,640
Speaker 4: a girl quote rather.

264
00:14:16,559 --> 00:14:20,800
Speaker 5: Sex is quote usually assigned at birth by parents or attendants,

265
00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:23,440
Speaker 5: and can turn out to be inaccurate, which happens one

266
00:14:23,440 --> 00:14:27,120
Speaker 5: out of ten thousand times. Examples of gender identities include

267
00:14:27,160 --> 00:14:30,720
Speaker 5: non binary, bigender, agender, gender fluid, gender queer, and combinations

268
00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:35,560
Speaker 5: of identities such as non binary woman. This is all

269
00:14:35,640 --> 00:14:37,240
Speaker 5: radical gender theory.

270
00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:40,280
Speaker 4: Which nobody knew about, cared about, or thought about, and

271
00:14:40,320 --> 00:14:43,040
Speaker 4: certainly didn't believe until a cup of coffee ago.

272
00:14:43,080 --> 00:14:44,120
Speaker 2: And they say the dead.

273
00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:47,520
Speaker 4: Naming a transgender person, that is accurately reporting such a

274
00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:52,080
Speaker 4: person's given name, even posthumously, in obituaries or other coverage,

275
00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:55,480
Speaker 4: is often considered disrespectful to the deceased, their survivors, and

276
00:14:55,520 --> 00:14:58,680
Speaker 4: any transgender people. So if you work for the AP,

277
00:14:58,880 --> 00:15:02,600
Speaker 4: you'd have to say Aitlyn Jenner won the decathlon in

278
00:15:02,680 --> 00:15:03,720
Speaker 4: nineteen seventy six.

279
00:15:04,160 --> 00:15:06,240
Speaker 2: For example. Hey, I got a question.

280
00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:10,440
Speaker 5: Has anybody encountered like you're gonna have a baby and

281
00:15:10,480 --> 00:15:11,840
Speaker 5: you you have the doctor?

282
00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:14,240
Speaker 2: You know telepens a boy or girl? Do they like

283
00:15:14,360 --> 00:15:15,560
Speaker 2: fudge their language?

284
00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:18,320
Speaker 5: Do they just say we see a penis or something

285
00:15:18,440 --> 00:15:20,200
Speaker 5: like that to not declare it a boy?

286
00:15:20,240 --> 00:15:21,120
Speaker 2: I wonder if they do that.

287
00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:27,400
Speaker 4: And there's more about how reporters are instructed to squelch

288
00:15:27,440 --> 00:15:30,680
Speaker 4: any challenge to the accepted authorities on sex and gender.

289
00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:35,000
Speaker 4: Don't quote people speaking about biology or athletic regulations unless

290
00:15:35,040 --> 00:15:37,320
Speaker 4: they are experts with a proper background, which is why

291
00:15:37,400 --> 00:15:41,320
Speaker 4: Katanji Brown Jackson infamously said, I can't define woman. I'm

292
00:15:41,320 --> 00:15:43,560
Speaker 4: not a biologist, which is one of the most idiotic

293
00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:46,760
Speaker 4: things ever said. But then I came across a bunch

294
00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:51,240
Speaker 4: of other examples. Blah blah blah blah.

295
00:15:51,280 --> 00:15:52,320
Speaker 1: Buh.

296
00:15:52,520 --> 00:15:55,880
Speaker 4: The AP wants refer to former Vice President Kamala Harris,

297
00:15:56,040 --> 00:15:58,960
Speaker 4: one of the most liberal senators to serve in the

298
00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:02,680
Speaker 4: Senate in the twenty first entry as a centrist. The

299
00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:06,920
Speaker 4: AP style book is widely used manual guiding editorial decisions

300
00:16:06,920 --> 00:16:10,520
Speaker 4: for thousands of newsrooms. It says, use the term anti abortion,

301
00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:14,800
Speaker 4: not pro life, oh wow, but use the term abortion

302
00:16:15,040 --> 00:16:17,840
Speaker 4: rights for those who are in favor of abortion. So

303
00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:21,440
Speaker 4: pro lifers are stuck with the anti tag. Pro abortion

304
00:16:21,640 --> 00:16:22,560
Speaker 4: goes with rights.

305
00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:23,360
Speaker 2: Cute.

306
00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:28,880
Speaker 5: There was an AP memo in twenty twenty one instructing

307
00:16:28,920 --> 00:16:31,720
Speaker 5: all reporters staffers not to refer to the border crisis

308
00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:34,440
Speaker 5: as a crisis that's under Biden.

309
00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:38,880
Speaker 4: Remember, and I could go into the numbers of border crossers,

310
00:16:38,880 --> 00:16:42,640
Speaker 4: but it's astounding. A few years before a memo went

311
00:16:42,680 --> 00:16:45,480
Speaker 4: out when Donald Trump was president and said few would

312
00:16:45,560 --> 00:16:49,080
Speaker 4: argue that a humanitarian crisis is unfolding, and.

313
00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:49,600
Speaker 2: Again they are.

314
00:16:50,720 --> 00:16:53,400
Speaker 5: We'll go ahead, the point being that this battle between

315
00:16:53,520 --> 00:16:57,240
Speaker 5: Trump's White House and AP is not just about Gulf

316
00:16:57,280 --> 00:16:57,880
Speaker 5: of Mexico.

317
00:16:57,920 --> 00:17:00,720
Speaker 4: It's all this other strint and using the two pregnant

318
00:17:00,760 --> 00:17:05,119
Speaker 4: people instead of women, for instance, Congressman Tom McClintock next

319
00:17:05,480 --> 00:17:06,200
Speaker 4: gonna talk.

320
00:17:06,080 --> 00:17:09,360
Speaker 1: Doge Armstrong and getty.

321
00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:13,680
Speaker 6: Lots of confusion here. We should point out that Elon

322
00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:16,560
Speaker 6: Musk is not an elected official, not Senate confirmed to

323
00:17:16,640 --> 00:17:20,399
Speaker 6: run any agency and is asking employees to report outside

324
00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:22,280
Speaker 6: of their chain of command. And that is what these

325
00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:26,280
Speaker 6: unions are saying is essentially illegal. And now these unions

326
00:17:26,320 --> 00:17:30,440
Speaker 6: are suing and we learned about them amending an existing lawsuit.

327
00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:33,439
Speaker 6: That hearing for that lawsuit against this email set by

328
00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:36,080
Speaker 6: Elon Musk is set for hearing this Thursday.

329
00:17:36,440 --> 00:17:36,960
Speaker 2: Hilarious.

330
00:17:37,040 --> 00:17:39,879
Speaker 5: The mainstream media is so concerned with the flow of

331
00:17:40,040 --> 00:17:42,200
Speaker 5: power and who has the right to do what when

332
00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:45,400
Speaker 5: it's cutting government jobs or it's the Trump administration versus

333
00:17:45,520 --> 00:17:47,840
Speaker 5: Joe Biden doing all kinds of crap that he wasn't

334
00:17:47,880 --> 00:17:50,360
Speaker 5: supposed to be able to do well, speak for yourself,

335
00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:53,600
Speaker 5: I for one, am heartbroken at the whole reporting outside

336
00:17:53,640 --> 00:17:55,000
Speaker 5: the chain of command thing.

337
00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:55,880
Speaker 2: Is that terrible?

338
00:17:56,320 --> 00:17:59,120
Speaker 4: To discuss this and the activities of the doge Fellas

339
00:17:59,119 --> 00:18:02,440
Speaker 4: and more. Please, welcome to the show. Congressman Tom McLintock

340
00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:04,720
Speaker 4: of the fifth District of California. If you don't know Tommy,

341
00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:08,800
Speaker 4: he's often described as the gold standard for fiscal conservatism

342
00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:10,639
Speaker 4: in Congress. Tom, always a pleasure.

343
00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:11,040
Speaker 2: How are you?

344
00:18:11,480 --> 00:18:13,280
Speaker 1: This is my pleasure. Thanks for having me back.

345
00:18:13,720 --> 00:18:16,240
Speaker 2: We're wondering where you are on the whole doage thing.

346
00:18:16,280 --> 00:18:19,159
Speaker 5: And Elon telling federal workers they got to justify their

347
00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:21,360
Speaker 5: job with five things they did last week in all

348
00:18:21,359 --> 00:18:21,960
Speaker 5: of the hubbub.

349
00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:25,520
Speaker 1: Well, it this a pretty simple situation. A new boss

350
00:18:25,560 --> 00:18:28,320
Speaker 1: takes over, he brings it an auditor. The auditor calls

351
00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:30,680
Speaker 1: in the staff and says, folks, I'd like to see

352
00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:36,040
Speaker 1: your expense account receipts, and the staff absolutely freaks out, Well,

353
00:18:36,119 --> 00:18:38,040
Speaker 1: what does that tell you about what's been going on

354
00:18:38,119 --> 00:18:41,680
Speaker 1: all that time? And this discussion about well, Musk is

355
00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:45,159
Speaker 1: an unelected official. Well, I've got news for these people.

356
00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:49,359
Speaker 1: The only elected official in the entire executive branch of

357
00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:53,160
Speaker 1: our government is the president. All of the executive authority

358
00:18:53,320 --> 00:18:55,800
Speaker 1: is vested in the president, not some of it, all

359
00:18:55,840 --> 00:18:59,160
Speaker 1: of it. So under the Constitution there's no executive authority

360
00:18:59,160 --> 00:19:02,439
Speaker 1: that's independent of the president. Musk is acting under the

361
00:19:02,480 --> 00:19:06,480
Speaker 1: President's direction, as is every one of the some two

362
00:19:06,680 --> 00:19:09,119
Speaker 1: million employees in the executive branch.

363
00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:16,000
Speaker 4: Not only that, but as you know, regulation and agency

364
00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:17,760
Speaker 4: overage is a big part of the effort, and I

365
00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:20,399
Speaker 4: don't think most Americans fully appreciate. Not only do we

366
00:19:20,520 --> 00:19:24,080
Speaker 4: have a fourth branch of government, the bureaucracy, it's not

367
00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:28,160
Speaker 4: in last place in terms of power. It's really important.

368
00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:28,240
Speaker 2: Day to day.

369
00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:31,960
Speaker 1: Well, it actually now passes ten times the number of

370
00:19:32,080 --> 00:19:35,439
Speaker 1: laws that the Congress passes, and not coincidentally, you have

371
00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:39,280
Speaker 1: about ten times a greater chance of being hauled before

372
00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:43,399
Speaker 1: an administrative law court than an actual Article three court

373
00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:47,360
Speaker 1: that respects all of your rights. Of this is entirely

374
00:19:47,440 --> 00:19:51,720
Speaker 1: contrary to the entire central architecture of the Constitution, the

375
00:19:51,840 --> 00:19:55,440
Speaker 1: entire vision of the American founders, which was to separate

376
00:19:55,720 --> 00:20:00,320
Speaker 1: the three functions of government into three quite separate brand is.

377
00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:02,840
Speaker 1: We all learned that in grade school, but it seems

378
00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:05,439
Speaker 1: more and more of us have forgotten. Is the debate

379
00:20:05,520 --> 00:20:05,879
Speaker 1: goes on.

380
00:20:06,640 --> 00:20:10,040
Speaker 5: I'm going to throw you the all time fat softball

381
00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:10,800
Speaker 5: to a guy like you.

382
00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:13,639
Speaker 2: Is the government too big?

383
00:20:15,280 --> 00:20:18,760
Speaker 1: Well? Yes, the only thing who's keeping us afloat right

384
00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:21,840
Speaker 1: now is the fact that there are still capital markets

385
00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:24,719
Speaker 1: willing to lend us money. But the fact is, every

386
00:20:25,119 --> 00:20:28,600
Speaker 1: dime of our discretionary spending, that's the entire government, including

387
00:20:28,640 --> 00:20:32,360
Speaker 1: the Defense Department, every dime of that is now borrowed

388
00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:37,399
Speaker 1: of the interest on our thirty seven trillion dollars of debt.

389
00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:41,880
Speaker 1: Just paying an interest on what we've already spent now

390
00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:45,639
Speaker 1: costs us more than the entire defense establishment. You know,

391
00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:48,760
Speaker 1: it was what about twelve or thirteen years ago now

392
00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:53,760
Speaker 1: that Mike Mullen, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,

393
00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:58,760
Speaker 1: warned that in his professional military judgment, the greatest threat

394
00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:00,880
Speaker 1: to our nation was the nation debt. And that's when

395
00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:03,880
Speaker 1: the national debt was about half less, in fact, less

396
00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:05,240
Speaker 1: than half of what it is right now.

397
00:21:06,119 --> 00:21:09,560
Speaker 4: Would you agree that if we cannot successfully communicate that

398
00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:12,560
Speaker 4: to the American people before the disaster strikes, it's time

399
00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:17,480
Speaker 4: to abandon democracy and try monarchy again, because well, I mean,

400
00:21:17,520 --> 00:21:21,320
Speaker 4: it's not like you know, we've stepped in front of

401
00:21:21,359 --> 00:21:23,440
Speaker 4: a bus, or we're heading toward a cliff. I mean,

402
00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:25,960
Speaker 4: we're heading toward the biggest cliff in the world. There

403
00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:29,159
Speaker 4: are giant signs that say cliff aheads stop running.

404
00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:30,640
Speaker 2: It would just it would.

405
00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:34,639
Speaker 4: My head will explode if we can't get our heads

406
00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:35,840
Speaker 4: wrapped around this or.

407
00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:37,159
Speaker 2: Do something about it.

408
00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:39,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was what the election was all about. I mean,

409
00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:44,080
Speaker 1: there were two central questions, both of which are these

410
00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:47,639
Speaker 1: warnings that history is shouting at us. Countries that cannot

411
00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:51,000
Speaker 1: defend their borders aren't around very long, and countries that

412
00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:54,560
Speaker 1: bankrupt themselves aren't around very long. Because before you can

413
00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:58,760
Speaker 1: provide for the common defense or provide for the general welfare,

414
00:21:58,920 --> 00:22:00,800
Speaker 1: you have to be able to pay for and you

415
00:22:00,880 --> 00:22:04,919
Speaker 1: can't pay for it if you are running up a

416
00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:10,720
Speaker 1: debt so huge that it threatens your ability to continue.

417
00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:12,040
Speaker 1: And that's where we are.

418
00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:14,359
Speaker 5: How do we get entitlements back on the table as

419
00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:18,000
Speaker 5: a conversation, though since both the last two presidents, Trump

420
00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:19,560
Speaker 5: and Biden have said they're off the table.

421
00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:22,680
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, the first and obvious thing to do

422
00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:28,960
Speaker 1: is to restore the Clinton era work requirement in all

423
00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:32,840
Speaker 1: entitlement programs we forget. That was Bill Clinton. Remember, he

424
00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:35,159
Speaker 1: said we were going to end welfare as we knew it,

425
00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:40,959
Speaker 1: and he did. He installed a very strong requirement that

426
00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:44,240
Speaker 1: able bodied people have got to be looking for a

427
00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:48,000
Speaker 1: job and accept one off one's offered as a condition

428
00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:54,720
Speaker 1: of receiving all federal welfare grants. And you know what happened.

429
00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:57,640
Speaker 1: We saw about a fifty percent reduction in welfare roles

430
00:22:57,680 --> 00:22:59,920
Speaker 1: because people went back to work, and by the way,

431
00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:05,160
Speaker 1: we saw their lives improved dramatically because they were now

432
00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:08,879
Speaker 1: earning productively in the private sector. We saw our tax

433
00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:12,080
Speaker 1: revenues go up, and the economy took off like a

434
00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:14,640
Speaker 1: bat out of hell. So, I mean, that's the first

435
00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:17,400
Speaker 1: and obvious thing to do is restore that work requirement

436
00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:20,240
Speaker 1: that there was lost during the Obama years. Get that

437
00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:22,639
Speaker 1: back in place. That's not a new law, that's an

438
00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:25,359
Speaker 1: old law. Would simply be bringing back an old law

439
00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:30,320
Speaker 1: that worked, and that would mean enormous just in medicate.

440
00:23:30,359 --> 00:23:32,520
Speaker 1: Aloness estimated that would say about one hundred and nine

441
00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:34,080
Speaker 1: billion dollars a year.

442
00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:37,520
Speaker 4: And as we've said many times in discussing this stuff,

443
00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:40,919
Speaker 4: you'll hear somebody occasionally say, well, this is just clipping

444
00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:44,200
Speaker 4: around the edges what Elon and the Doge boys are doing.

445
00:23:44,280 --> 00:23:46,840
Speaker 4: And the one hundred million here and twenty million there.

446
00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:49,159
Speaker 4: I mean, that's just a tiny percentage of the federal budget.

447
00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:54,679
Speaker 4: But we think a culture of accountability and thrift is

448
00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:58,240
Speaker 4: the big kahuna, and I just wish we could get

449
00:23:58,240 --> 00:23:59,800
Speaker 4: that going among the American people.

450
00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:02,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's that old ever at Dirkson Line. A

451
00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:04,600
Speaker 1: million dollars here and a million dollars there, and pretty

452
00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:06,760
Speaker 1: soon you're talking about a lot of money. Well, now

453
00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:09,800
Speaker 1: we're counting it in billions and now occasionally trillions. You know.

454
00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:13,320
Speaker 1: Think about it this way. Every billion dollars that we

455
00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:17,879
Speaker 1: spend in Washington, that's eight dollars from your family's budget.

456
00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:22,600
Speaker 1: So a trillion dollars, that's eight thousand dollars from your

457
00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:25,520
Speaker 1: family's budget. And you pay for it one way or another.

458
00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:28,160
Speaker 1: You either pay for it through direct taxes, you pay

459
00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:30,879
Speaker 1: through it through the deficit, which is future taxes and

460
00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:34,600
Speaker 1: interest on that borrowing, or you pay for it through inflation.

461
00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:37,560
Speaker 1: And we just came through the worst inflation in forty

462
00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:41,680
Speaker 1: years paying for the Inflation Reduction Act Doges.

463
00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:45,040
Speaker 4: I'm a quintalk of the Fifth District, California on the line.

464
00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:46,359
Speaker 2: Go ahead. Jack Doge is.

465
00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:54,240
Speaker 5: Up against obviously just an entrenched everything lifestyle attitude, offices

466
00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:58,119
Speaker 5: and people, and in some cases a protection of the

467
00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:02,840
Speaker 5: bureaucracy in so many ways around on the how optimistic

468
00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:06,480
Speaker 5: or pessimistic are you about Doge actually getting anything accomplished.

469
00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:10,320
Speaker 1: I think it's already accomplished quite a lot. They say

470
00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:14,040
Speaker 1: that the most closely guarded secrets of the government are

471
00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:16,240
Speaker 1: not those that are labeled top secret. They're those that

472
00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:21,800
Speaker 1: are labeled embarrassing. And Musk has already succeeded in embarrassing

473
00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:26,199
Speaker 1: the political establishment and that goes a long way to

474
00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:31,280
Speaker 1: engaging the American people. You mentioned in American democracy, Well

475
00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:35,160
Speaker 1: it works. That was one of the key issues that

476
00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:39,360
Speaker 1: decided this election. And now we have an elected president

477
00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:44,480
Speaker 1: who is fulfilling his commitment to bring spending back under

478
00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:46,720
Speaker 1: control before it crushes American families.

479
00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:50,200
Speaker 4: Something I've been howling for years, and I think California

480
00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:53,040
Speaker 4: may be lost at least temporary attempt. Rarely on the

481
00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:56,320
Speaker 4: score is that if government itself and government workers become

482
00:25:57,240 --> 00:26:01,360
Speaker 4: an important enough lobbyist of government, people are doomed. Because

483
00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:05,040
Speaker 4: it's just it's a perpetual motion machine of self interest.

484
00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:08,840
Speaker 4: How close to that are we in the federal government?

485
00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:11,919
Speaker 4: Can we the people overcome the bureaucratic class?

486
00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:15,600
Speaker 1: Well, I do worry about that because of you know,

487
00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:18,360
Speaker 1: you hear the left talk about the importance of our

488
00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:24,800
Speaker 1: independent agencies. Well, well that begs the question independent of home. Well,

489
00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:27,040
Speaker 1: what they mean is independent of the president, which means

490
00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:30,640
Speaker 1: independent of the people. Well, that's the very definition of tyranny.

491
00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:36,400
Speaker 1: I think one of the the real threat to democracy

492
00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:44,200
Speaker 1: is an unelected bureaucracy that acts on its own whims,

493
00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:47,840
Speaker 1: irrespective of how people vote. You know that the Democrats

494
00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:51,880
Speaker 1: are telling us it's it's undemocratic for a democratically elected

495
00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:57,160
Speaker 1: president to question how the unelected bureaucracy is executing the laws. Well,

496
00:26:57,480 --> 00:26:59,679
Speaker 1: you know, those are laws the presidents elected to uphold.

497
00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:02,119
Speaker 1: How can can he faithfully execute those laws if he

498
00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:05,879
Speaker 1: and his deputies can't clearly and accurately see where the

499
00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:09,240
Speaker 1: public money's going, verify that it's being spent in accordance

500
00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:11,480
Speaker 1: with law, and put a stop to it when it's not.

501
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:13,639
Speaker 1: And that's what this fight is really all about. It's

502
00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:17,119
Speaker 1: about whether or not the executive branch of government is

503
00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:20,560
Speaker 1: responsive to the people, or has taken on a life

504
00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:21,560
Speaker 1: of its own.

505
00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:24,200
Speaker 4: What's the next big move we can expect to see

506
00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:25,760
Speaker 4: from dogs you're the president.

507
00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:30,080
Speaker 1: Well, the budget resolutions on the House floor today. That's

508
00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:32,760
Speaker 1: going to set a framework to reduce federal spending by

509
00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:35,760
Speaker 1: about two trillion dollars over the next decade and stop

510
00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:39,280
Speaker 1: the massive tax increase that will be going into effect

511
00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:41,600
Speaker 1: if we don't act. That tax increase is going to

512
00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:46,120
Speaker 1: cost a family earning seventy five thousand dollars about fifteen

513
00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:50,400
Speaker 1: hundred dollars a year in added taxes. By reducing spending

514
00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:53,600
Speaker 1: by that two trillion dollars, that's going to relieve every

515
00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:57,080
Speaker 1: family on the average of about sixteen thousand dollars of

516
00:27:57,119 --> 00:27:59,760
Speaker 1: expenses over that decade. And that's just the beginning that

517
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:02,440
Speaker 1: has to be done in order to get the reconciliation

518
00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:06,960
Speaker 1: process in place. That process will then enact the reforms

519
00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:10,000
Speaker 1: that are necessary to bring that spending down. At the

520
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:13,760
Speaker 1: same time, does we will be able to put into

521
00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:17,359
Speaker 1: that reconciliation bill a great deal of the statutory changes

522
00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:21,440
Speaker 1: that DOGE needs to implement its recommendations.

523
00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:23,560
Speaker 5: I'm sure we'll have you back on in the midst

524
00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:26,080
Speaker 5: of the tax battle, because that's going to be epic.

525
00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:30,000
Speaker 5: I was not used to seeing the United States on

526
00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:32,320
Speaker 5: the side of Russia and North Korea in a vote

527
00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:34,760
Speaker 5: in the UN yesterday. Where do you come down on that,

528
00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:38,960
Speaker 5: on the United States not wanting to condemn Russia for

529
00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:39,840
Speaker 5: invading Ukraine?

530
00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:45,000
Speaker 1: You know, well, I'm still catching up with that, but uh,

531
00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:47,640
Speaker 1: you know I will. I am willing to cut the

532
00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:51,240
Speaker 1: President considerable slack right now as he tries to h

533
00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:53,720
Speaker 1: to to bring this war to an end. You know,

534
00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:57,880
Speaker 1: I believe that Russia was the clear aggressor. I voted

535
00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:04,840
Speaker 1: for the military aid to prevent Ukraine from being defeated

536
00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:06,760
Speaker 1: by Russia because I thought it was so important to

537
00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:10,160
Speaker 1: send that message around the world that you cannot succeed

538
00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:15,120
Speaker 1: by this kind of wanton invasion. But a lot of

539
00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:20,120
Speaker 1: that money disappeared without being spent for Ukraine's military defense.

540
00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:23,120
Speaker 1: This has gone on way too long, and if the

541
00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:26,080
Speaker 1: President can put a stop to this war and bring

542
00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:28,920
Speaker 1: about a negotiated settlement, I'm willing to cut him quite

543
00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:30,120
Speaker 1: a bit of slack right now.

544
00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:34,600
Speaker 4: Congressman Tom McClintock is fifth District California, often described as

545
00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:37,400
Speaker 4: the gold standard for fiscal conservatism in Congress.

546
00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:39,480
Speaker 2: Tom always great to talk. Keep fighting a good fight.

547
00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:41,120
Speaker 1: Thanks guys, thanks for having me.

548
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:45,000
Speaker 2: You got it. His tendency is toward optimism.

549
00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:48,560
Speaker 5: I don't know how optimistic I am toward doje accomplishing

550
00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:54,959
Speaker 5: that much it's worth the effort. Oh oh, absolutely absolutely.

551
00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:56,920
Speaker 5: I'm not in the camp of this is a waste

552
00:29:56,920 --> 00:29:57,680
Speaker 5: of time at all.

553
00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:00,640
Speaker 4: I don't think people have a serious concept of how

554
00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:03,920
Speaker 4: close we are to a terrible, terrible crisis.

555
00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:08,200
Speaker 2: Ruin Yeah, in short, ruin yes. A quick word from

556
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:09,240
Speaker 2: our friends and sponsors.

557
00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:11,040
Speaker 4: At prize picks, you can now win up to a

558
00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:13,480
Speaker 4: thousand times your money on prize picks. The best way

559
00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:16,000
Speaker 4: to get action on sports more than thirty states is

560
00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:19,560
Speaker 4: Prize Picks. Join over ten million price picks users and

561
00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:20,480
Speaker 4: sign up today.

562
00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:23,640
Speaker 5: See you got a lot of opinions maybe about basketball,

563
00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:26,840
Speaker 5: who's hot, who's not, who's winning, who's not, And you

564
00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:29,960
Speaker 5: can turn your opinions into money this basketball seeding with

565
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:33,080
Speaker 5: prize Picks. You should download the price picks app, sign

566
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:35,120
Speaker 5: up today and get fifty dollars instantly. When you play

567
00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:37,280
Speaker 5: five dollars, you don't even need to win to receive

568
00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:38,240
Speaker 5: the fifty dollars bonus.

569
00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:39,000
Speaker 2: It's guaranteed.

570
00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:43,400
Speaker 4: It's a welcome President President. In short, download the Prize

571
00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:45,760
Speaker 4: Picks app today. Use the coat Armstrong and you get

572
00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:49,480
Speaker 4: fifty dollars instantly after you play just a five dollars

573
00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:52,880
Speaker 4: lineup again. That's the Prize Picks app and the code

574
00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:55,960
Speaker 4: is Armstrong. Bez the ball about to get started. That'll

575
00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:59,560
Speaker 4: be fun too, Prize Picks, run your game.

576
00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:01,720
Speaker 2: I think I.

577
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:04,600
Speaker 5: Bought some snake oil over the weekend. I kind of

578
00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:06,560
Speaker 5: knew there was a decent chance I was doing that.

579
00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:12,240
Speaker 5: I have a squeaky snake. You know how it is

580
00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:14,760
Speaker 5: various products that claim they're going to do all these

581
00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:17,520
Speaker 5: different things, and you think, YE know that day. But

582
00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:19,000
Speaker 5: I went ahead and pulled the trigger. I'll tell you

583
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:20,400
Speaker 5: about coming up, among other things.

584
00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:20,760
Speaker 2: Stay here.

585
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:28,920
Speaker 4: When lunk had be Kamala Harris lost the election, proving

586
00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:33,800
Speaker 4: that there is a god, we lost a truly unique

587
00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:36,880
Speaker 4: voice on the American scene. Although she's like ahead of

588
00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:40,640
Speaker 4: those totally stupid, meaningless polls about who the Democratic comedee

589
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:41,720
Speaker 4: ought to be next time around.

590
00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:44,080
Speaker 5: Plus she'll be governor of California soon.

591
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:48,240
Speaker 2: Enough, oivey. Anyway, but haven't we missed her? Pearls of

592
00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:52,160
Speaker 2: wisdom goes through your mind when you see this. You're here,

593
00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:53,760
Speaker 2: You're now seeing it up close.

594
00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:59,080
Speaker 7: It's not only saying it, Alex. You can smell it,

595
00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:02,520
Speaker 7: feel it, right, So it's seeing it with our eyes.

596
00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:05,000
Speaker 7: And many people have seen it. You all are covering it.

597
00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:07,920
Speaker 7: But to literally be on the ground here, you can

598
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:16,920
Speaker 7: smell the smoke that was here. You can feel the toxicity, frankly,

599
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:22,960
Speaker 7: of the environment. You can feel the energy of all

600
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:24,960
Speaker 7: of the folks who are still here on the ground.

601
00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:28,640
Speaker 4: She's not good at kamala at the wildfires. Yes, I

602
00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:31,760
Speaker 4: should have not that I'm good at talking nor thinking.

603
00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:35,240
Speaker 4: Often the two go hand in hand.

604
00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:38,400
Speaker 5: So somehow I got on this list from the New

605
00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:40,560
Speaker 5: York Times and I remember what it's called, but it's

606
00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:43,280
Speaker 5: a they recommend products, and I get their emails all

607
00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:44,800
Speaker 5: the time, and been a lot of really good stuff

608
00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:47,720
Speaker 5: on there. And it's not always an expensive product like

609
00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:50,440
Speaker 5: this one. It's often quite cheap. But it's like the

610
00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:52,959
Speaker 5: every day I get when it's like the best coffee

611
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:55,880
Speaker 5: cup or the best I don't know, anything you can

612
00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:58,400
Speaker 5: think of, the best ironing board or whatever. And they

613
00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:00,800
Speaker 5: have their critics go through like you know, we'll go

614
00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:03,920
Speaker 5: through five hundred different ironing boards and pick out the

615
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:05,320
Speaker 5: one they think is the best for the price, and

616
00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:08,040
Speaker 5: they'll have the best luxury model gratifying work if you

617
00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:09,120
Speaker 5: can get it.

618
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:10,120
Speaker 2: But I mean just anything.

619
00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:12,520
Speaker 5: It might be sink sponge, I mean just it, socks,

620
00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:14,760
Speaker 5: pair of socks, I mean just anything you can think of,

621
00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:16,840
Speaker 5: and sometimes I really like them. Anyway, they had one

622
00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:19,000
Speaker 5: the other night for pillowcases, and I've been really having

623
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:21,200
Speaker 5: trouble sleeping lately, so I got my attention.

624
00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:21,680
Speaker 2: Whatever.

625
00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:25,960
Speaker 5: But anyway, it's this silk pillowcase, which I've never slept

626
00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:28,400
Speaker 5: on silk before. Katie, are you a silk person.

627
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:31,480
Speaker 2: Yes, because it's supposed to be good for your hair.

628
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:33,560
Speaker 2: Jack Well, it's supposed to be good for lots of things.

629
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:35,960
Speaker 5: It might be the ultimate snake oil of the modern

630
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:38,200
Speaker 5: world with these silk pillowcases. Listen to some of the

631
00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:44,560
Speaker 5: verbiage around here. It's really hilarious. Clinically shown and it's

632
00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:47,960
Speaker 5: got an asterisk next to it. It's clinically shown them

633
00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:54,120
Speaker 5: down at the pillowcase clinic. Yes, to visibly improve the

634
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:58,480
Speaker 5: appearance of fine lines on your face, skin hydration, skin texture,

635
00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:02,680
Speaker 5: and smoothness skin radiance, luminosity, or brightness. So I'm just

636
00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:05,680
Speaker 5: wondering if any of you have noticed any increased luminosity

637
00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:08,040
Speaker 5: out of me since I started using the silk.

638
00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:11,200
Speaker 4: You're glowing, Yeah, just sunglasses to do the show.

639
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:12,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, neighbors.

640
00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:17,839
Speaker 5: Are you pregnant? You're just glowing? Nope, I've been using

641
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:21,800
Speaker 5: this new silk pillowcase thingy. Over ninety percent of users

642
00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:25,560
Speaker 5: agreed that they their skin felt more moisturized and hydrated

643
00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:26,480
Speaker 5: after it.

644
00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:27,640
Speaker 2: Also claims they didn't.

645
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:33,839
Speaker 5: It also claims creates forty three percent less friction on average.

646
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:37,800
Speaker 5: Oh finally, Oh is that a thing you deal with

647
00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:39,120
Speaker 5: with your pillow cases currently?

648
00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:41,960
Speaker 4: For the friction, I never really thought about it. I

649
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:44,279
Speaker 4: wake up with blisters on my cheek. There's so much

650
00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:45,320
Speaker 4: fris sometimes bleeding.

651
00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:46,000
Speaker 2: That's right.

652
00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:47,959
Speaker 5: Well, I particularly liked that they were able to nail

653
00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:51,560
Speaker 5: it down specifically to forty three percent less friction, because

654
00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:51,880
Speaker 5: that's a.

655
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:53,320
Speaker 2: Very specific lumber.

656
00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:56,160
Speaker 4: Boy, it's a real it's a masterclass in how to

657
00:34:56,600 --> 00:35:03,080
Speaker 4: bulls consumers. Yeah, weirdly, specific numbers seem more credible.

658
00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:06,840
Speaker 5: Yeah, that is exactly right, because you just have an

659
00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:10,240
Speaker 5: automatic belief that, well, they wouldn't if you said.

660
00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:11,880
Speaker 2: About forty percent, you could be making up.

661
00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:14,360
Speaker 5: If you say forty three percent, clearly you did some

662
00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:17,600
Speaker 5: science to come up with forty three percent. I like,

663
00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:20,959
Speaker 5: they got a picture of this young woman. Two nights

664
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:24,160
Speaker 5: on a regular pillowcase, she looks all gloom, two nights

665
00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:28,160
Speaker 5: on this slip silk pillowcase, she's all happy.

666
00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:31,480
Speaker 7: You know what.

667
00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:34,200
Speaker 5: And if you're wondering how big a sucker I am

668
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:36,600
Speaker 5: for snake oil, I did spend one hundred.

669
00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:38,000
Speaker 2: Dollars one pillow case.

670
00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:44,000
Speaker 5: Whoa, it's a desperate I am for decent sleep jack.

671
00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:50,279
Speaker 5: There's this tiny little website called Amazon you can usually find.

672
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:53,920
Speaker 5: This is from the website of the of the stupid product.

673
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:55,320
Speaker 2: The New York Times.

674
00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:59,320
Speaker 5: They're actual, actual reporters said they really really noticed the

675
00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:01,560
Speaker 5: difference on their sleeping and it was huge. And I

676
00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:03,960
Speaker 5: mean they're not paid by the companies or anything for that.

677
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:06,400
Speaker 5: They stressed that, and I thought, well, man, if it

678
00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:07,760
Speaker 5: made a difference the way I've been sleeping.

679
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:11,680
Speaker 4: Coming up next hour, why is Trump kissing up to Russia?

680
00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:13,400
Speaker 4: Does he have a bigger plan in mind?

681
00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:15,400
Speaker 2: Stay with us, Armstrong and Getty