Speaker 1: We welcome Vice President Mike Pence. Mister Vice President, thank
Speaker 1: you so much for joining Boomberg Television. We just heard
Speaker 1: from President Biden on this historic UAW strike, as well
Speaker 1: as Sean Fain. You and Sean Faine actually share some geography.
Speaker 2: He worked at a plant in.
Speaker 1: Kokomo, Indiana, one hundred miles from your hotown of Columbus.
Speaker 2: But he's striking against the Big Three.
Speaker 1: This is about Detroit and Michigan, a state you and
Speaker 1: President Donald Trump flipped to red the first time Republicans
Speaker 1: flipped Michigan in twenty sixteen since the nineteen eighties, but
Speaker 1: you lost it in twenty twenty. Are you on the
Speaker 1: side of the workers? Do you think what they're doing
Speaker 1: is justified?
Speaker 3: Well, look, let me say I'm on the site of
Speaker 3: the American people who are struggling under the failed policies
Speaker 3: of the Biden administration. Joe Biden is weak in this
Speaker 3: country at home and abroad. But the gusher of spending
Speaker 3: when they came into office two trillion dollars in unnecessary
Speaker 3: spending launched the worst inflation in forty years. Wages haven't
Speaker 3: kept up the backdrop of what's happening between the big three,
Speaker 3: and the U a W today is that American workers
Speaker 3: are hurting. I hear it everywhere I go across the country.
Speaker 3: You know, people are struggling to pay for groceries, They're
Speaker 3: struggling to pay for gasoline at the pomp and it's
Speaker 3: you know, I tell people this one crisis after another,
Speaker 3: but they're all man made crises. And that man's name
Speaker 3: is Joe Biden. And so I think the first thing
Speaker 3: is the strike and the demands that you hear from
Speaker 3: workers are being driven by people that are that are
Speaker 3: that are enduring the failed policies of Bidenomics. But I
Speaker 3: also think, Amory, I honestly think what you touched on
Speaker 3: just a few moments ago is an unreported.
Speaker 4: Aspect of this. Look. I was governor of state of Indiana.
Speaker 4: It's the second your.
Speaker 2: Right to work state.
Speaker 3: It's a right to work state. But we have a
Speaker 3: proud U a W tradition. They're a proud automotive tradition.
Speaker 4: In the state of Indiana.
Speaker 3: So, and I will tell you what what I'm hearing
Speaker 3: around the country is that that auto workers are very,
Speaker 3: very concerned about Joe Biden's Green NWD deal, heavy handed.
Speaker 4: Effort to use taxpayer.
Speaker 3: Dollars to drive these automotive companies into electric vehicle production.
Speaker 3: I mean, you got you got one hundred and forty
Speaker 3: five thousand workers out there that have been many of
Speaker 3: them built a lifetime making gasoline powered cars, and suddenly
Speaker 3: they see Joe Biden and liberal Democrats pushing down this
Speaker 3: electric vehicle the gend. You see states like California that
Speaker 3: are saying at the end of the decade, they don't
Speaker 3: even let you sell a gasoline powered vehicle in the state.
Speaker 4: I think that's also driving this.
Speaker 3: So the backdrop of the failed policies of the Biden administration,
Speaker 3: plus the heavy handed effort with their Green New Deal
Speaker 3: to to use taxpayer dollars to drive these companies away
Speaker 3: from the traditional manufacturing that so many UAW workers have
Speaker 3: made it in.
Speaker 4: I think that's what brought us to today.
Speaker 5: Let's talk a little bit more about what Sean Feyin
Speaker 5: and his union members are saying.
Speaker 6: They're trying to play catch up.
Speaker 5: They say, sure, with a massive gap between worker pay
Speaker 5: and executive pay. He said, we're tired of living office
Speaker 5: scraps left by millionaire executives. When it comes to wages,
Speaker 5: you opposed raising the minimum wage in two thousand and
Speaker 5: seven as a congressman at that time, believe it was
Speaker 5: five point fifteen. They wanted to raise it, and I
Speaker 5: believed into seven twenty five at the time. And as governor,
Speaker 5: you blocked an effort that would have had local municipalities
Speaker 5: essentially demand higher wages from some companies. I know that's
Speaker 5: actually in line with your politics. So I guess I
Speaker 5: would ask you here, how should they be catching up?
Speaker 5: If wages kept par with profit growth over the last
Speaker 5: two decades, would these workers be in the same spot.
Speaker 4: Well, let's be clear.
Speaker 3: I mean I believe in free market economics. Free enterprises
Speaker 3: created the most prosperous nation in the world has ever known.
Speaker 4: We have to preserve that.
Speaker 3: And minimum wage debates that always came up back in
Speaker 3: my day, Anderson, even when I was governor. I mean,
Speaker 3: you looked around state of Indiana. You look at labor shortages. Today,
Speaker 3: nobody's making minimum wage. I mean, the marketplace is paying
Speaker 3: out a higher number all across the country, with very
Speaker 3: few exceptions. But I think you put your finger on it, Joe.
Speaker 3: I think what's happening with this strike and I'm glad
Speaker 3: it only affects thirteen thousand workers so far far because
Speaker 3: of all these one hundred and forty five thousand workers
Speaker 3: go on strike, that's going to have an enormous impact
Speaker 3: on an economy is already struggling and is literally on
Speaker 3: the verge of a recession. But I think that rather
Speaker 3: than going back to the same rhetoric about closing the
Speaker 3: gap between the executives and others, will hear that more
Speaker 3: we just heard that from President Biden is to recognize
Speaker 3: that under Biden's economic policies, wages have not been keeping
Speaker 3: up with inflation, and hard working Americans out in the
Speaker 3: heartland know that inflation.
Speaker 2: Is starting to come down now.
Speaker 1: A lot of these legislative products of the Biden administration
Speaker 1: is really also about China. They're trying to move the
Speaker 1: supply chain away from China to get an EV tax credit.
Speaker 1: Most of that car needs to be assembled or some
Speaker 1: of the battery materials has to be.
Speaker 2: Come from North America.
Speaker 1: Because you know better than anyone China is dominating when
Speaker 1: it comes to advanced technology, when it comes to battery
Speaker 1: war materials and making evs.
Speaker 2: And you're about to give a major policy speech Monday
Speaker 2: on China.
Speaker 1: You were basically the front man under the Trump administration
Speaker 1: to talk about China.
Speaker 2: And in twenty nineteen at.
Speaker 1: The Woodrow Wilson Institute, you said you constantly get asked
Speaker 1: are we trying to decouple from China?
Speaker 2: And you said a resounding no. Is that still the case?
Speaker 3: It's still the case, But we have to recognize that
Speaker 3: China is the greatest economic and strategic threat of the
Speaker 3: United States of America.
Speaker 2: So why not decouple.
Speaker 3: Well, because I think using access to the most powerful
Speaker 3: economy in the world, the United States of America, is
Speaker 3: a mean of having China end decades of trade abuses
Speaker 3: and intellectual property theft, stop their military provocations, and end
Speaker 3: the human rights abuses that we've been witnessed of with
Speaker 3: regard to Muslim leger As Christian pastors, it should be
Speaker 3: the objective in the goal of the United States. But
Speaker 3: everything begins with strength. And I'll actually return to the
Speaker 3: Hudston suit where I gave actually the very first speech
Speaker 3: on changing our administration's policy towards China many years ago,
Speaker 3: and I'm going to say, then it all begins with
Speaker 3: not just rebuilding our military, but building a military fitted
Speaker 3: to the widening challenges in the Asia. Pacific and around
Speaker 3: the wider world. I want to build a three hundred
Speaker 3: and fifty five ship navy by the.
Speaker 4: End of the decade.
Speaker 3: I believe the United States of America can eclipse the
Speaker 3: Chinese Navy and the Asia Pacific, and that'll send a
Speaker 3: decisive message that we are going to ensure freedom of navigation.
Speaker 3: We're going to ensure that our treaty allies in the
Speaker 3: Regent I have the support that they need. Look, I've
Speaker 3: met President she I've sized him up as a person individually.
Speaker 3: I've told him some things that he didn't want to hear,
Speaker 3: and we've spoken plainly at conferences about the interests of
Speaker 3: our respective notions. China only understands strength, and if I'm
Speaker 3: President of the United States, We're going to meet that
Speaker 3: moment with American strength. But we're also going to use
Speaker 3: access to this the most powerful economy in the world,
Speaker 3: as a means of bringing China forward, just like we
Speaker 3: did Anne Marie with the Phase one trade deal in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty. People long since forgotten it, and by all accounts,
Speaker 3: Joe Biden hasn't held China to.
Speaker 4: Their word with the Phase one trade deal.
Speaker 3: Well, we put two hundred and fifty billion dollars in
Speaker 3: tariffs on China, and literally almost overnight, they were at
Speaker 3: the negotiating table saying, how do we figure something out?
Speaker 3: And we did a phase one trade deal where they
Speaker 3: made commitments to agricultural goods, to manufactured goods, to dealing
Speaker 3: with trade abuses. I think Joe Biden and his administration
Speaker 3: have largely dropped the ball. Now, the other piece of this,
Speaker 3: I believe in free trade with free nations, and the
Speaker 3: other piece of this is we ought to be working
Speaker 3: on a free trade agreement with Japan. We ought to
Speaker 3: be looking to strengthen trading relationships with free countries across
Speaker 3: the Asia Pacific.
Speaker 4: It's part and parce of what we'll talk about.
Speaker 6: Let's talk about trade with China.
Speaker 5: Now we've seen what China is capable of with this
Speaker 5: recent revelation of Huawei suddenly emerging with a smartphone that
Speaker 5: includes ships that we're trying to keep away from China.
Speaker 5: Are we dancing around the edges here? Is it possible
Speaker 5: to continue compartmentalizing that relationship. I know you don't want
Speaker 5: to decouple, but why not cut off our entire technological
Speaker 5: relationship with Beijing?
Speaker 3: Well, look, we led the fight internationally against Huawei. So
Speaker 3: that's a good on Western nations, and we won that fight.
Speaker 3: If you remember the UK and other nations, we're going
Speaker 3: all in on and the United States said it's not
Speaker 3: going to happen. This whole issue of TikTok. I know,
Speaker 3: I know that one of my competitors, Vekram swamme at
Speaker 3: the Republican primary. He had rightly described TikTok as a
Speaker 3: digital fentanyl for American youth, and this week he signed
Speaker 3: up for TikTok. I said he'd met with one of
Speaker 3: their executives and they changed his mind.
Speaker 4: Well, they're never going to change my mind.
Speaker 2: We shouldn't expect you on TikTok's not anytime soon.
Speaker 4: We'll be banning TikTok.
Speaker 3: TikTok is a platform of the communist Chinese government. They're
Speaker 3: collecting data on Americans every single day. And I got
Speaker 3: to tell you, I've raised three young people in this generation,
Speaker 3: all right. Two of their families are in the armed services.
Speaker 3: And what young Americans deserve to know is that their
Speaker 3: privacy is being compromised with participation in the TikTok platform.
Speaker 4: We've got to make that case.
Speaker 3: We've got to protect privacy and the intellectual property rights
Speaker 3: of Americans.
Speaker 1: When you give this speech, are you're going to outline
Speaker 1: more tariff because you're talking about free trade deals with
Speaker 1: countries like Japan. Well, what does that mean for the
Speaker 1: record trade the United States has with Beijing?
Speaker 3: Well, I think what we're going to do is lay
Speaker 3: out a vision for giving China an opportunity to join
Speaker 3: the Family of Nations and respect the international rules of
Speaker 3: the road.
Speaker 4: As I like to say, but I.
Speaker 3: Really do believe that it begins with American strength. I mean,
Speaker 3: we've gone through a period of time where we're trying
Speaker 3: to flew a balloon over strategic you know, facilities in
Speaker 3: North America, and at the same time, their ships are
Speaker 3: cutting off our ships in the Asia Pacific aircraft cutting
Speaker 3: off American aircraft on patrol near Taiwan. That's got to stop,
Speaker 3: and it stops when they see that America's not doing
Speaker 3: what Joe Biden has done over the last two and
Speaker 3: a half years, which is make every effort try and
Speaker 3: cut military spending. I mean a lot of people don't
Speaker 3: know this recent debt ceiling deal. If they don't pass
Speaker 3: all of their thirteen bills, which looks more in doubt
Speaker 3: every day it's a one percent cut in military.
Speaker 1: Republicans who voted against even debating the defense budget on the.
Speaker 5: House floor, and it's this president that actually asked for
Speaker 5: additional Pentagon funding that appears to be Well.
Speaker 3: Look, what I've seen from this administration early on is
Speaker 3: a consistent effort to cut military spending. When they did
Speaker 3: that Omnibus bill at the end of the Democrat control
Speaker 3: of Congress a half a year ago, they were able
Speaker 3: to backfill those cuts.
Speaker 4: But look, it's like I've said.
Speaker 3: When we came in in twenty seventeen, we had to
Speaker 3: rebuild a military after years of budget cuts under the
Speaker 3: Obama Biden administration. But my vision is going to be
Speaker 3: we don't need to rebuild a military. We need to
Speaker 3: build a military fitted to the widening challenges. War raging
Speaker 3: in Eastern Europe, China continuing to menace in the Asia Pacific.
Speaker 3: Will have peace through strength and will also ensure prosperity.
Speaker 6: There projecting American power.
Speaker 5: We talked to Senator Tommy Tubberville just two days ago
Speaker 5: about his blockade on military promotions. We're hearing a lot
Speaker 5: of people suggest that that is weakening our posture and
Speaker 5: in fact, impacting military readiness. This is, of course, in
Speaker 5: protest the Pentagon's abortion policy. I know you said in
Speaker 5: a town hall the other night that you would not
Speaker 5: ask Tommy Tubberville to step down or stand down, but
Speaker 5: you would ask the Pentagon to stand down on this.
Speaker 5: What about military families, You know a lot about this.
Speaker 5: You have a son who's a Marine Corps pilot. Military
Speaker 5: families who might be in temporary housing, their kids are
Speaker 5: waiting to go to school. They're not getting the pay
Speaker 5: increase that they were waiting for. That's tied up in
Speaker 5: a confirmation vote at some point.
Speaker 6: Is that just the cost the sacrifice of being in
Speaker 6: the military.
Speaker 3: Well, I've got a son of the military and a
Speaker 3: son in law. Yeah, So don't leave anybody out.
Speaker 4: I'll be out in trouble.
Speaker 6: God.
Speaker 3: Look, President of the United States, I'm going to look
Speaker 3: across the river at the Pentagon and I'm going to
Speaker 3: say stand down on playing politics.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 3: I mean, the Supreme Court of the United States returned
Speaker 3: the question of abortion to the States and the American people.
Speaker 3: States have adopted pro life laws. It is not the
Speaker 3: place of the Pentagon to use taxpayer dollars to undermine
Speaker 3: state pro life laws around the country. There's nothing that
Speaker 3: restricts military personnel from taking leave, traveling wherever they want
Speaker 3: to travel, and obtaining healthcare services. I'm pro life, I
Speaker 3: don't apologize for it. But the issue here is taxpayer funding,
Speaker 3: and it's part and parcel. It seems to me Joe
Speaker 3: of kind of this liberal and oftentimes woke politics that's
Speaker 3: made its way into the hallways at the Pentagon. If
Speaker 3: I'm president of the United States, We're going to have
Speaker 3: a Secretary of Defense, We're going to have chairman of
Speaker 3: the Joint Chiefs of Staff that focus on the mission,
Speaker 3: but on the larger question of life. It is something
Speaker 3: that separates me from other candidates in the Republican field,
Speaker 3: with maybe one exception, I mean the former president. Other
Speaker 3: candidates in this race want to relegate the question of
Speaker 3: abortion to the States only, and I'm one of the
Speaker 3: few leading candidates.
Speaker 4: It's actually called.
Speaker 3: For a minimum national standard. I think we ought to
Speaker 3: align the laws across this country with most of Europe.
Speaker 3: Most of Europe limits abortion after fifteen weeks, but.
Speaker 2: There are exceptions.
Speaker 1: We could be four exceptions, life of the mother, fetal issues.
Speaker 3: And Marie, if you check my record in Congress. I
Speaker 3: always recognized receptions in cases of rape incests, life of
Speaker 3: the mother. But I just think looking today at we've
Speaker 3: made great progress. I speak as a pro life American
Speaker 3: in states around the country, but I think there's a
Speaker 3: case that seven out of ten Americans agree with me.
Speaker 3: According to Poles, that at the moment at which an
Speaker 3: unborn child can experience pain, we at a limit abortions
Speaker 3: after that, that's roughly about fifteen weeks. And as president
Speaker 3: of the United States, unlike Donald Trump, unlike other leading
Speaker 3: candidates in this primary, I'll be a champion of the
Speaker 3: right to life in that national standard.
Speaker 1: But back to Senator Turberville, Should one senator have this
Speaker 1: power to undermine what people I'm hearing? I mean, General
Speaker 1: Mark Kelly says that you're hearing champagne bottles hit the
Speaker 1: ceilings at the Chinese Embassy in Washington, d c Up
Speaker 1: Connecticut Avenue because of what he's doing to undermine US
Speaker 1: military preparedness.
Speaker 2: Should one senator have that power?
Speaker 1: And you seem to be a defense hawk, aren't you
Speaker 1: concerned this is undermining national security?
Speaker 4: It's the reason why I would i was president of
Speaker 4: the United States.
Speaker 3: I tell the Pentagon to stand down, stop playing politics
Speaker 3: with this. But look, the other thing is, come on,
Speaker 3: Senator Schumer can just bring Senator Turberville's bill to the floor.
Speaker 3: Depentagon unilaterally decided to start using taxpayer dollars to pay
Speaker 3: for members of the Armed Services to travel out of
Speaker 3: state to see an abortion. That ought to be something
Speaker 3: that Congress talks about in debates.
Speaker 4: It's the use of taxpayer dollars.
Speaker 3: And it used to be one of the things that
Speaker 3: we agreed on in Congress in a broad and bipartisan basis,
Speaker 3: was whatever your view of abortion, you recognize that it
Speaker 3: was simply wrong to take the taxpayer dollars of millions
Speaker 3: of pro life Americans and use it to subsidize abortion.
Speaker 3: That's the same principle. Chuck Schumer could put that bill
Speaker 3: on the floor tomorrow, vote it and let the votes
Speaker 3: be counted, and the policy will be said at the Pentagon.
Speaker 3: But we just got to get the politics out of
Speaker 3: the Pentagon. If I'm President of the United States, I
Speaker 3: promise you I will, because a good part about the
Speaker 3: Pentagon different from Congress is they take orders.
Speaker 5: Let me ask you this philosophically, then you have famously
Speaker 5: said that you are first a Christian, then a Conservative,
Speaker 5: and then a Republican.
Speaker 6: In that order, in that order.
Speaker 5: So would your north star be your faith, your Christianity
Speaker 5: and making other decisions in the olah.
Speaker 3: Well, it would guide the way that I deal with others.
Speaker 3: I'm someone that believes that civility is essential democracy. Well,
Speaker 3: when it comes to the right to life, Joe, that's
Speaker 3: that's where my pro life views spring from.
Speaker 4: The Bible says before I formed you in the womb,
Speaker 4: I knew you.
Speaker 3: I mean, I said before you life and death, blessings
Speaker 3: and curses. Now choose life.
Speaker 5: So that's your one exception when it comes to your Christians.
Speaker 3: But on a broad range of issues, well, that that
Speaker 3: informs my faith, I think more than anything else. I
Speaker 3: hear people across Iowa, across New Hampshire who want to
Speaker 3: see us restore a threshold of civility in public life,
Speaker 3: to get back to treating others the way we want
Speaker 3: to be treated, which is at the very core of
Speaker 3: my faith. And you all known me for more than
Speaker 3: a few years. You know I'm a conservative, but I'm
Speaker 3: not in a bad mood about it. People that knew
Speaker 3: me in Congress.
Speaker 1: Conservative because you feel like populism has taken control.
Speaker 2: Of your party.
Speaker 4: No, it's a different issue.
Speaker 1: I just me.
Speaker 3: I think you get fifteen miles out of Washington, d C.
Speaker 3: The people of this country actually get along pretty well.
Speaker 3: It's our politics as deeply divided as it is today,
Speaker 3: and I think the American people long to see our
Speaker 3: politics reclaim the kind of civility that most Americans show
Speaker 3: each other every day. Look, we're a nation of diverse
Speaker 3: views and diverse opinions. And as my late father, a
Speaker 3: combat vetter and used to say, I may disagree with
Speaker 3: what you say, but I'll fight to the death for
Speaker 3: you right to say it will defend the freedom and
Speaker 3: the liberties of every American. But I think the American
Speaker 3: people want us to get back to more respect in Washington,
Speaker 3: d C. The same kind they show each other every day.
Speaker 2: Joe brought up Christianity.
Speaker 1: And there's another man of faith who had some interesting
Speaker 1: words that we're learning how to say about you, Centermt Romney.
Speaker 2: He's retiring.
Speaker 1: There's this new biography out about him, and an excerpt
Speaker 1: this is what was said Romney. He had long been
Speaker 1: put off by Pence's pious brand of trump psycho fancy
Speaker 1: no one, he told me, has been more loyal, more
Speaker 1: willing to smile when he saw absurdities, more willing to
Speaker 1: ascribe God's will to things that were ungodly than Mike Pence.
Speaker 2: He is deeply religious. What would you say to him.
Speaker 3: Well, he doesn't know what I what I ascribed to.
Speaker 3: He wasn't there, he was. He's entitled his own opinion.
Speaker 3: But I'm proud of the record of the Trump Pens administration.
Speaker 3: I'm proud of what we did for the right to life,
Speaker 3: for religious liberty. I'm proud of how we revived our economy.
Speaker 3: I'm proud of how we rebuild our military, and the
Speaker 3: greatest honor in my life to have served as vice president.
Speaker 3: And I know he's had his problems with the president,
Speaker 3: but I'm very confident that we were where we were
Speaker 3: called to be during those four years.
Speaker 4: But now you know, I'm.
Speaker 3: Running for president because I think different times call for
Speaker 3: different leadership, and not just different style of leadership. But
Speaker 3: as I said last week in New Hampshire, you know,
Speaker 3: when Donald Trump ran for president, he promised to govern
Speaker 3: as a conservative, and we did for four years. But
Speaker 3: Donald Trump makes no such promise today. In fact, I
Speaker 3: see him walking away from American leadership on the world stage,
Speaker 3: talking the language of appeasement. When it comes to the
Speaker 3: war raging in Eastern Europe, Joe Biden's policy on entitlements
Speaker 3: is insolvency. He won't even talk about it. Donald Trump's
Speaker 3: position is the same as Joe Biden's. And when it
Speaker 3: comes to the right to life, Donald Trump and others
Speaker 3: in this race want to marginalize the right to life
Speaker 3: to a states only issue. So my message to people
Speaker 3: is that because of the experience I had at the
Speaker 3: White House and as a governor and as a leader
Speaker 3: in the Congress of the United States, I believe I'm
Speaker 3: the most qualified, the most tested, and the most experienced,
Speaker 3: and the most ready conservative in this race.
Speaker 5: It were called a rather unique position on January sixth.
Speaker 5: And you have said recently that Donald Trump asked you
Speaker 5: to put him over the Constitution.
Speaker 6: You chose not to.
Speaker 5: But Vice President Pence, were there other times that Donald
Speaker 5: Trump tried to put himself over the Constitution when he
Speaker 5: may not have asked for your help that you witnessed
Speaker 5: in the White House.
Speaker 3: I.
Speaker 4: Don't believe.
Speaker 3: So. I believe that January sixth was a tragic day
Speaker 3: and the President was surrounded by a gaggle of crackpot lawyers.
Speaker 3: It should have never been allowed on the White House grounds.
Speaker 3: They told him things that just simply weren't so. But
Speaker 3: I think all along the way in our administration we
Speaker 3: kept faith with the American people with the agenda we
Speaker 3: ran on. My differences with the president today are they
Speaker 3: remain over that day. I mean, I'll always believe, by
Speaker 3: God's grace, I did my duty under the Constitution that day,
Speaker 3: And as I travel around the country, there's almost not
Speaker 3: a day goes by that someone Republican's independence. Even many
Speaker 3: Democrats stop me and thank me for just keeping my
Speaker 3: oath to the Constitution. But I have other differences with
Speaker 3: the former president, and they have to do with the
Speaker 3: direction of the country.
Speaker 4: I think this country's in a lot of trouble. I
Speaker 4: think Joe Biden.
Speaker 3: Has weakened our nation on the world stage. I think
Speaker 3: Joe Biden's economic policies have failed people from Detroit to
Speaker 3: all across this country.
Speaker 4: And what we need to do.
Speaker 3: Is return to those time honored, time tested, common sense
Speaker 3: conservative policies that I've always been about in the course
Speaker 3: of my life. In the career, if I'm President of
Speaker 3: the United States.
Speaker 4: I know we will we have.
Speaker 2: Under a minute, So this is a quick yes or no.
Speaker 1: What's raging in Washington now is whether or not we're
Speaker 1: going to have a government shutdown.
Speaker 2: What's your take?
Speaker 3: Well, as you know, I was a House Conservative before
Speaker 3: it was cool. I mean, I remember when we dug
Speaker 3: in in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and demanded that
Speaker 3: there would be offsets to pay for that. So I
Speaker 3: think it's important that how Republicans take a strong stand.
Speaker 3: But let's be clear that whatever's accomplished in this moment,
Speaker 3: it's still just going to be nickels and dimes, but
Speaker 3: Ukraine funding against the massive debt crisis that our nation
Speaker 3: is facing. And I'm the first candidate and one of
Speaker 3: the only candidates for presidents said I'm going to be
Speaker 3: willing to lead our nation forward on common sense and
Speaker 3: compassionate reforms of entitlements and save this in future generations,
Speaker 3: Preserve Social Security and Medica. Today, let's save our kids
Speaker 3: from a debt crisis that threatens our futures.
Speaker 5: Their Vice President, thank you for coming to see us.
Speaker 5: How about we meet in Iowa. Former Vice President Mike
Speaker 5: Pence with us here on Bloomberg.
Speaker 6: Thanks for the time, sir,