1 00:00:01,080 --> 00:00:03,120 Speaker 1: All right, thank you Scott Shannon, and thanks to all 2 00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:05,360 Speaker 1: of you for being with us. Right down our toll 3 00:00:05,440 --> 00:00:08,200 Speaker 1: free telephone number if you want to be a part 4 00:00:08,280 --> 00:00:10,320 Speaker 1: of the program. 5 00:00:10,600 --> 00:00:12,039 Speaker 2: Well, it's been a long night. 6 00:00:12,760 --> 00:00:17,680 Speaker 1: Maybe slept a couple of hours up throughout the entire night, 7 00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:21,440 Speaker 1: and I can tell you the behind the scenes if 8 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:22,160 Speaker 1: you're interested. 9 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:24,320 Speaker 2: That's what we do on this program. 10 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:26,560 Speaker 1: And I spoke with a lot of senators all throughout 11 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:31,440 Speaker 1: the night, and it wasn't until about eight am, nine 12 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:36,559 Speaker 1: am this morning that word got back to me that well, 13 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:38,360 Speaker 1: let's put it this way, all throughout the night, they 14 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:40,440 Speaker 1: did not have the votes to pass this one big, 15 00:00:40,479 --> 00:00:45,159 Speaker 1: beautiful bill. I mean, this is the problem that Republicans 16 00:00:45,159 --> 00:00:50,640 Speaker 1: have with a small minority in the House, in the Senate. 17 00:00:50,760 --> 00:00:53,960 Speaker 1: It's very tough, and you're dealing with people that all 18 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:57,760 Speaker 1: have their different agendas involved in the process. 19 00:00:58,120 --> 00:00:59,360 Speaker 2: And I don't like it. 20 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:05,480 Speaker 1: I will was different and it's frustrating when we get to, 21 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:09,479 Speaker 1: you know, the point where you know the differences are, 22 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:13,520 Speaker 1: you know, for me, it was like it was sort 23 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:15,720 Speaker 1: of like go back to when I did the town 24 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:20,840 Speaker 1: hall with Speaker Johnson and House Republicans. The first thing 25 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:26,000 Speaker 1: I said to all of them on TV is you 26 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:28,679 Speaker 1: all know you're not going to get everything you want. 27 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:30,880 Speaker 1: And the first thing I did when I had the 28 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:33,280 Speaker 1: Senate town hall. John Thune was on that and Ted 29 00:01:33,319 --> 00:01:36,800 Speaker 1: Cruz and a bunch of other Senator Kennedy Graham and 30 00:01:36,959 --> 00:01:40,280 Speaker 1: many others, and I said, you all know you're not 31 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:45,400 Speaker 1: going to get everything that you want now, for better. 32 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:46,120 Speaker 2: Or for worse. 33 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:50,840 Speaker 1: That's just the system of governance, as imperfect as it 34 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:56,000 Speaker 1: is that we have. But with all of that said, 35 00:01:56,640 --> 00:01:58,040 Speaker 1: and I will be the first to tell you, the 36 00:01:58,080 --> 00:01:59,760 Speaker 1: bill is not perfect. I can tell you that the 37 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:02,680 Speaker 1: visions and policies. I've not read the entire bill because 38 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:06,040 Speaker 1: I don't have time to read a thousand pages and 39 00:02:06,360 --> 00:02:10,760 Speaker 1: digest it and completely understand it. So I look through 40 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:12,919 Speaker 1: the various summaries that I've been able to see this 41 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:15,240 Speaker 1: there's plenty that I don't like here. I wish it 42 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:17,600 Speaker 1: did cut more and spending that it ended up that 43 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:20,560 Speaker 1: Ted Cruz ended up being right that the Senate version 44 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:24,480 Speaker 1: cuts more money than the House version does. And now 45 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:26,280 Speaker 1: it will make its way to the House. I believe 46 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:28,240 Speaker 1: the schedule is they're going to debate it and vote 47 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:33,640 Speaker 1: on that tomorrow. Leading into the fourth of July. But 48 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:36,280 Speaker 1: let me tell you what I do like about it. 49 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:40,560 Speaker 1: This is probably when you look at all of the 50 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:43,320 Speaker 1: bills that have ever been passed, it's they're all the same. 51 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:47,920 Speaker 1: None of this is any different than how Washington always works. 52 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:49,920 Speaker 1: It's like watching sausage get made. You don't want to 53 00:02:49,919 --> 00:02:52,200 Speaker 1: watch how it gets made, but you want to eat it, 54 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:55,200 Speaker 1: and you want to take the good out of this. 55 00:02:55,520 --> 00:02:56,920 Speaker 2: And then the beauty is. 56 00:02:56,919 --> 00:02:59,080 Speaker 1: With the Republicans have in control of the House and Senate, 57 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:03,280 Speaker 1: there is an opportunity. I'm not putting my confidence in it. 58 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:05,920 Speaker 1: They might have just been better off doing the three 59 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:09,080 Speaker 1: smaller bills as had been proposed at one point and 60 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:11,799 Speaker 1: not gone for one big, beautiful bill. But here's where 61 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:13,919 Speaker 1: we find ourselves. And now the House is going to 62 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:16,760 Speaker 1: have to struggle with this. I assume it will be 63 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:19,840 Speaker 1: as touch and go as it was all night long 64 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:24,280 Speaker 1: with with senators. And you know, I can't stand as 65 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:26,680 Speaker 1: salt deduction, for example, drives me crazy. I would have 66 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:28,480 Speaker 1: liked to save more money. You know, I don't like 67 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:32,119 Speaker 1: you know, the state and local tax deduction. It rewards 68 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:36,600 Speaker 1: blue states that'll elect you know, tax and spend liberals 69 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:42,080 Speaker 1: and regulate everything for their constituents. Here's why that provision 70 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:46,040 Speaker 1: was included. I'll be very straight up because the Republicans 71 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:51,200 Speaker 1: that are elected officials, especially in Congress, in the House, 72 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:56,480 Speaker 1: in California, states like California, Illinois, and California, because without 73 00:03:56,840 --> 00:03:59,040 Speaker 1: fighting for that, they'd have nothing to go back to 74 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:02,000 Speaker 1: their stituents and say that they were able to get 75 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:05,960 Speaker 1: out of this bill. It's very expensive. Thought. A dollar 76 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:08,520 Speaker 1: deduction for person is a lot of money. If you 77 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:11,240 Speaker 1: get to this deduct state and local taxes, that's a lot. 78 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:15,040 Speaker 1: So there are provisions here. Now, That's how the sausage 79 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:18,159 Speaker 1: is made. That's how the game is played. I don't 80 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:20,880 Speaker 1: think you know you're ever going to get representatives that 81 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:24,080 Speaker 1: are going to stand okay, I will support this and 82 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:25,880 Speaker 1: not want to put their changes in there. And they're 83 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:28,359 Speaker 1: going to they have a duty to represent those that 84 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:32,599 Speaker 1: elected them. But the legislation is packed with some of 85 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:37,400 Speaker 1: the most conservative things, especially on the economy, that really 86 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:41,320 Speaker 1: make me happy. The twenty seventeen tax cuts will be 87 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:45,080 Speaker 1: made permanent. That will be the largest tax cut now 88 00:04:45,640 --> 00:04:50,560 Speaker 1: ever in American history. Democrats ended up voting against or 89 00:04:50,640 --> 00:04:53,720 Speaker 1: voting for the largest tax increase in American history by 90 00:04:53,760 --> 00:04:57,279 Speaker 1: not supporting it. You know, this bill does eliminate taxes 91 00:04:57,279 --> 00:05:01,200 Speaker 1: on tips and taxes on overtime. Eight percent of seniors 92 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:04,760 Speaker 1: will not pay taxes on Social Security according to it 93 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:08,520 Speaker 1: an analysis we have in spite of the lies being told, 94 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:12,159 Speaker 1: every American working men and women will benefit from the 95 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:15,640 Speaker 1: Trump tax cuts and that is a fact. We'll get 96 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:18,760 Speaker 1: into more specificitaty in details in the next hour. But 97 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:23,159 Speaker 1: the bill cuts Medicaid for people who rely on it. 98 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:27,400 Speaker 1: That's another lie that's told. It's not true. The bill 99 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:28,720 Speaker 1: explodes the deficit. 100 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:29,640 Speaker 2: You know. 101 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:32,839 Speaker 1: The problem with that mindset and that thinking is there 102 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:34,520 Speaker 1: is a believe well, if you cut taxes, you've got 103 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:36,960 Speaker 1: to pay for them. That is the main argument of here. 104 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:40,520 Speaker 1: That's what liberal Democrats always say. But it doesn't factor 105 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:44,320 Speaker 1: in the growth of the economy aspect of cutting taxes. 106 00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:47,320 Speaker 1: You know, how is it Reagan dropped the top marginal 107 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:49,880 Speaker 1: rate from seventy to twenty eight percent, and revenues to 108 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:53,440 Speaker 1: the government ended up doubling, and we resulted in twenty 109 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:56,560 Speaker 1: one million new jobs and the longest period of peacetime 110 00:05:56,600 --> 00:05:59,359 Speaker 1: economic growth in history. How is it the twenty seventeen. 111 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:03,880 Speaker 1: Trump tax cuts ended up creating one record low after 112 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:09,760 Speaker 1: another after another after another. Unemployment for African Americans, Hispanic Americans, 113 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:12,720 Speaker 1: Asian Americans, women in the workplace, in African American youth, 114 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:18,680 Speaker 1: unemployment because tax cuts increase revenue to the government, and 115 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:21,560 Speaker 1: this is a misnomer that you have to quote pay 116 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:24,000 Speaker 1: for them. What you then have to do is what 117 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:26,960 Speaker 1: Doze is doing, for example, and Doze is still in place, 118 00:06:27,560 --> 00:06:31,040 Speaker 1: Elon Musk Ando Elon Musk, and they are looking and 119 00:06:31,080 --> 00:06:33,160 Speaker 1: we saw this last week. They were over to identify 120 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:36,200 Speaker 1: what was at one point seven billion dollars in waste, 121 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:38,960 Speaker 1: fraud and abuse. And that also is part of this 122 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:41,880 Speaker 1: bill that they're going to be austere and putting their 123 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:44,560 Speaker 1: budgets together, and that's going to be a process that 124 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:47,720 Speaker 1: is ongoing, which I'm very happy and no administration has 125 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:51,200 Speaker 1: ever tried to tackle this before. But the largest tax 126 00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:54,440 Speaker 1: cut in American history. Democrats vote for the largest tax 127 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:58,000 Speaker 1: increase in American history, helping out men and women that 128 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:00,919 Speaker 1: work in the service industry with a dominating taxes on 129 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:05,720 Speaker 1: tips and taxes and overtime. For people that work extra hard, 130 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:08,160 Speaker 1: they deserve to keep more of their money, I think 131 00:07:08,279 --> 00:07:11,160 Speaker 1: is a great idea too, getting rid of getting rid 132 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:14,360 Speaker 1: of waste, fraud, and abuse of Medicaid. That's that's a win. 133 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:19,000 Speaker 1: Creating a work requirement for able bodied Americans now enrolled 134 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:20,360 Speaker 1: in the program, that's a win. 135 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:21,840 Speaker 2: You know it did. 136 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:25,680 Speaker 1: Also, this bill extends the full child tax credits standard deduction, 137 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:29,920 Speaker 1: allocates funds for Trump's Golden Dome and the next generation 138 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:34,320 Speaker 1: of weaponry. I mean, our military under Biden and Harris, 139 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:39,360 Speaker 1: you know, had been completely neglected and frankly desperately needs 140 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:43,560 Speaker 1: the monies to get to this goal. It Also, this 141 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:48,400 Speaker 1: bill is funding desperately needed border security funds and the 142 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:52,320 Speaker 1: monies to continue the deportation of criminals. Nobody been more 143 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:56,280 Speaker 1: outspoken on this issue than Tom Homan. And it will 144 00:07:56,280 --> 00:07:59,640 Speaker 1: put America on a path towards energy dominance, which, by 145 00:07:59,640 --> 00:08:02,600 Speaker 1: the way, we need desperately, which also will create high 146 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:06,160 Speaker 1: paying career jobs for Americans and all the wealth that 147 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:11,040 Speaker 1: comes with it because oil, gas and coal remain It's 148 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:15,120 Speaker 1: been now forever, in spite of all these attempts at 149 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:19,360 Speaker 1: other forms of energy, eighty percent of the lifeblood of 150 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:24,160 Speaker 1: the world's economy, you know, Biden e climate rules, regulations, 151 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:28,960 Speaker 1: repealed the Green tax credit, eliminated Biden's student loan scheme 152 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:35,360 Speaker 1: officially over, and the bill does not decrease Medicaid, Medicare, SNAP, 153 00:08:35,640 --> 00:08:39,280 Speaker 1: or Social Security benefits, although many Democrats have been demagoguing 154 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:42,960 Speaker 1: and flat out lying about it. Those earning Social Security 155 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:45,079 Speaker 1: are going to end up taking home more money thanks 156 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:48,680 Speaker 1: to a reduction in taxes. Medicare payments will increase, while 157 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:53,560 Speaker 1: Medicaid recipients are protected from fraud, waste, and abuse. It 158 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:57,920 Speaker 1: also does not increase the deficit. Instead, the deficit will 159 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:00,720 Speaker 1: go down by around well just the little Shia two 160 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:03,880 Speaker 1: trillion dollars according to estimates, but they still have a 161 00:09:03,880 --> 00:09:05,920 Speaker 1: long way to go to get us to a balanced budget. 162 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:09,640 Speaker 1: There's no doubt about it. Now, this is going to 163 00:09:09,679 --> 00:09:13,880 Speaker 1: benefit working class Americans. Now here's my hope. When you 164 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:19,839 Speaker 1: combine the President's tax cuts and especially for working men 165 00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:23,000 Speaker 1: and women in the service industries, and working men and 166 00:09:23,040 --> 00:09:25,560 Speaker 1: women in the trades, and people that get paid by 167 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:27,520 Speaker 1: the hour and they work over time and they get 168 00:09:27,520 --> 00:09:30,920 Speaker 1: to keep more of their money, and you still keep 169 00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:33,880 Speaker 1: in the essential services that Americans have always shown that 170 00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:37,679 Speaker 1: they wanted, Medicaid, Medicare, social security of a lot of it. 171 00:09:37,760 --> 00:09:41,079 Speaker 1: They have lost their original purpose. And you know, as 172 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:44,079 Speaker 1: I once warned that Obamacare was just going to funnel 173 00:09:44,120 --> 00:09:47,439 Speaker 1: everybody into, you know, one of these programs as a 174 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:52,800 Speaker 1: backdoor towards universal healthcare. When you put all of that 175 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:55,240 Speaker 1: in place, then you add the ten trillion dollars in 176 00:09:55,280 --> 00:09:58,719 Speaker 1: commitments that the President has gotten from countries and companies 177 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:04,400 Speaker 1: for manufacturing in this country. Ten trillion, not billion trillion 178 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:08,439 Speaker 1: in the next four years. It's great for national security. 179 00:10:08,440 --> 00:10:12,040 Speaker 1: Why we're gonna now be making our pharmaceuticals here in 180 00:10:12,120 --> 00:10:15,079 Speaker 1: America with the monies that are committed by a lot 181 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:18,000 Speaker 1: of the pharmaceutical companies. That means we won't be reliant 182 00:10:18,040 --> 00:10:21,680 Speaker 1: on China. We've been far too reliant on foreign countries 183 00:10:21,760 --> 00:10:25,120 Speaker 1: for semiconductor chips. That is coming to an end as well, 184 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:29,080 Speaker 1: as a result of the President's push for tariff and 185 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:33,679 Speaker 1: free and fair trade. That's a big benefit. Automobile manufacturing 186 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:36,880 Speaker 1: is coming back to America. All of these sectors will 187 00:10:36,920 --> 00:10:40,600 Speaker 1: have high paying career jobs. Now, add one more thing 188 00:10:40,679 --> 00:10:45,600 Speaker 1: to that, the President's commitment now to the country to 189 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:50,000 Speaker 1: now start production of rare earth minerals and magnets and 190 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:54,320 Speaker 1: all these other things. These components that are necessary for 191 00:10:54,440 --> 00:10:59,559 Speaker 1: computers and cars and industry and especially our defense department. 192 00:10:59,640 --> 00:11:03,160 Speaker 1: These are critical, critical items. And yeah, he did make 193 00:11:03,160 --> 00:11:05,440 Speaker 1: a deal with China. Yeah, that's great for the short term, 194 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:08,760 Speaker 1: but we can no longer be dependent on foreign countries, frankly, 195 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:12,960 Speaker 1: for anything, as far as I'm concerned. And it's you know, 196 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:16,120 Speaker 1: and we we really did see a lot, I mean, 197 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:20,359 Speaker 1: between this and Mandani Mandani whatever, his name is, Auran Mandani, 198 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:26,280 Speaker 1: the Marxist Mandani as we call him affectionately, You see 199 00:11:26,559 --> 00:11:29,040 Speaker 1: a void that this could be the party of working 200 00:11:29,080 --> 00:11:31,480 Speaker 1: men and women they claimed for a long time to be, 201 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:35,440 Speaker 1: but no, they have now evolved into a radical you know, 202 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:38,400 Speaker 1: in this case, this guy is a stated Marxist. We've 203 00:11:38,440 --> 00:11:41,360 Speaker 1: got new information about him today. He's now talking about 204 00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:42,960 Speaker 1: seizing the means of production. 205 00:11:43,160 --> 00:11:43,640 Speaker 2: Literally. 206 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:47,600 Speaker 1: Well, that's like what Fidel Castro did in Cuba. That's 207 00:11:47,640 --> 00:11:52,160 Speaker 1: what they did during the Bolshevik Revolution in the former 208 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:57,679 Speaker 1: Soviet Union in Russia. You know, but Mamdani's goal is 209 00:11:57,880 --> 00:12:01,920 Speaker 1: very very clear. It is a part that is institutionalized, 210 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:06,560 Speaker 1: you know, hatred against people that I never thought possible. 211 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:10,040 Speaker 1: You know, we now have the radical Squad and this 212 00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:12,680 Speaker 1: is now the power base and the power brokers. This 213 00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:16,640 Speaker 1: the Mom Donni's of the world, the Aocs of the world, 214 00:12:16,760 --> 00:12:20,200 Speaker 1: the Jasmine Crockets of the world, the Grandpa Bernie's of 215 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:22,320 Speaker 1: the world, the Elizabeth Warrens of the world. 216 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:23,840 Speaker 2: The squad. 217 00:12:24,559 --> 00:12:27,640 Speaker 1: This now represents the heart and soul of the Democratic Party. 218 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:31,640 Speaker 1: And as goes New York in California, so goes the 219 00:12:31,679 --> 00:12:34,920 Speaker 1: rest of the country. And if you want the results 220 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:37,320 Speaker 1: that they have in New York and California, then my 221 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:40,040 Speaker 1: advice is go out there and vote for those policies, 222 00:12:40,679 --> 00:12:42,240 Speaker 1: and you will regret them. 223 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:43,640 Speaker 2: Is it is. 224 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:49,720 Speaker 1: Beyond strange, bewildering, bizarre, and troubling to me that people 225 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:54,240 Speaker 1: are so willing to give up their freedom and the 226 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:58,240 Speaker 1: name of this false security and guaranteed everything from their government. 227 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:01,440 Speaker 1: And when you ask a simple question, what does government 228 00:13:01,520 --> 00:13:05,679 Speaker 1: do right? The answer is you can't name anything except 229 00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:08,320 Speaker 1: maybe the military. But even there we do waste too 230 00:13:08,400 --> 00:13:11,440 Speaker 1: much money. There could be more efficiency, and I know 231 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:14,200 Speaker 1: they're working to clean that up now since Donald Trump 232 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:18,240 Speaker 1: has got elected. But most schools look at blue states 233 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:20,400 Speaker 1: and blue cities, how are their school systems doing? 234 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:20,959 Speaker 2: Not well? 235 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:24,160 Speaker 1: Spending more per capita on education per student with the 236 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:29,320 Speaker 1: worst results. How was defund dismantled, no bail laws and 237 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:34,400 Speaker 1: you know, release the criminals from jail and sending social 238 00:13:34,440 --> 00:13:38,520 Speaker 1: workers Marxist when Donnie wants to do How's that going 239 00:13:38,559 --> 00:13:39,000 Speaker 1: to work out? 240 00:13:39,040 --> 00:13:40,160 Speaker 2: You don't have to be a genius. 241 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:43,400 Speaker 1: By the way, everyone that predicted Donald Trump was wrong 242 00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:46,440 Speaker 1: on tariff, Well, Department of Homeland Security collected more than 243 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:49,240 Speaker 1: one hundred and six billion in tariff revenue since Donald 244 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:53,079 Speaker 1: Trump took office. And guess what, We're not experiencing an 245 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:56,840 Speaker 1: increase in inflation. And while Americans struggle with health care 246 00:13:56,880 --> 00:13:59,520 Speaker 1: costs and it, Democrats fought to preserve free health care 247 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:04,000 Speaker 1: for illegal immigrants. The Senate Democrats moved to block efforts 248 00:14:04,559 --> 00:14:08,760 Speaker 1: last night to strip you illegal immigrants of taxpayer funded benefits. 249 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:12,880 Speaker 1: They voted fifty six forty four on an amendment from 250 00:14:12,960 --> 00:14:16,280 Speaker 1: John Cornyan that would have reduced federal Medicaid payments to 251 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:19,760 Speaker 1: states that offer healthcare to with legal immigrants. Why would 252 00:14:19,760 --> 00:14:22,040 Speaker 1: they want to do that? Why would Kamala Harris support 253 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:25,800 Speaker 1: taxpayer funded sex change operations for illegal why did she 254 00:14:25,960 --> 00:14:28,880 Speaker 1: Why did Tim Wall support free college tuition? They're being 255 00:14:28,920 --> 00:14:33,120 Speaker 1: sued now by Pam Bondi anyway, eight hundred nine one, Sean, 256 00:14:33,160 --> 00:14:34,560 Speaker 1: if you want to be a part of the program. 257 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:38,440 Speaker 1: This will now make its way to the House, and 258 00:14:38,760 --> 00:14:41,760 Speaker 1: you know there's some anger already emerging. But I think 259 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:43,960 Speaker 1: at the end of the day, they're going to go 260 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:46,880 Speaker 1: along with the president's policies, look at the overall good 261 00:14:46,880 --> 00:14:49,160 Speaker 1: in it, and then maybe come back and make it better. 262 00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:51,360 Speaker 1: That's my hope. All right, twenty five now to the 263 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:53,600 Speaker 1: top of the hour. Eight hundred nine four one. Shawn 264 00:14:53,720 --> 00:14:57,000 Speaker 1: was on number. You know, so many dedicated first responders 265 00:14:57,040 --> 00:15:01,920 Speaker 1: service members, you know, like Austin Reese, they have paid 266 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:04,920 Speaker 1: such a high price for the safety and the freedom 267 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:07,000 Speaker 1: that we take it. You know, we take for granted 268 00:15:07,040 --> 00:15:11,200 Speaker 1: too often, but we enjoy. Austin served three deployments in Iraq. 269 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:13,760 Speaker 1: He learned how to skydive on the job. He became 270 00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:17,880 Speaker 1: a military free fall instructor, but in what was supposed 271 00:15:17,880 --> 00:15:20,960 Speaker 1: to be a routine jump, something went terribly wrong. He 272 00:15:21,040 --> 00:15:23,760 Speaker 1: hit the ground at sixty five miles an hour. In 273 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:27,920 Speaker 1: that moment, his life changed forever. He broke his pelvis ankle. 274 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:31,200 Speaker 1: He sleftfered a spinal cord injury that left him paralyzed. 275 00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:35,800 Speaker 1: But thanks to the generosity of friends like you and 276 00:15:35,920 --> 00:15:39,680 Speaker 1: the Tunnel to Towers Foundation. Well, your generosity helped provide 277 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:42,520 Speaker 1: the Tunnel to Tarers Foundation with the money that could 278 00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:45,760 Speaker 1: they could give Austin a specially adapted smart home to 279 00:15:45,880 --> 00:15:50,200 Speaker 1: enable him to rebuild his life after this unimaginable hardship. 280 00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:53,600 Speaker 1: And you helped Austin restore his dignity, his independence, his 281 00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:56,520 Speaker 1: hope for the future. And in doing so, you honored 282 00:15:56,520 --> 00:15:59,400 Speaker 1: his service in the most meaningful way. And you can 283 00:15:59,440 --> 00:16:03,400 Speaker 1: help pro like Austin. Please, you know, donate generously. If 284 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:06,200 Speaker 1: you can commit to eleven dollars a month, we'll have 285 00:16:06,360 --> 00:16:10,000 Speaker 1: enough money to help out every deserving VET and first responder. 286 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:12,560 Speaker 1: Go to their website the letter T, the number two, 287 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:15,000 Speaker 1: the letter T dot org. The letter T the number two, 288 00:16:15,040 --> 00:16:17,280 Speaker 1: the letter T dot org for the Tunnel to Towers 289 00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:21,160 Speaker 1: Foundation all the way. This is pretty interesting. There's in 290 00:16:21,240 --> 00:16:25,520 Speaker 1: Big Big Pack reviews about fake new CNN. But anyway, 291 00:16:25,520 --> 00:16:30,160 Speaker 1: this guy, Henry Harry Enton is pretty interesting. He gets 292 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:32,400 Speaker 1: a lot of press. I'll say that he said the 293 00:16:32,440 --> 00:16:36,120 Speaker 1: President Trump now is more beloved among his party's voters 294 00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:40,280 Speaker 1: than any other past Republican president in the last few decades. 295 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:43,400 Speaker 1: He has a whopping sixty three percent approval rating among 296 00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:48,280 Speaker 1: Republican voters as of today. This rating is higher than 297 00:16:48,680 --> 00:16:52,320 Speaker 1: other Republican presidents going back to former President Ronald Reagan, 298 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:56,360 Speaker 1: those approval ratings did not exceed sixty percent by the 299 00:16:56,400 --> 00:16:59,720 Speaker 1: fifth month of their term. And he said, it's history making. 300 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:03,640 Speaker 1: We've let all these Republican presidents going back thirty six, 301 00:17:03,720 --> 00:17:07,320 Speaker 1: thirty seven years, five months in, look at this. Former 302 00:17:07,359 --> 00:17:11,320 Speaker 1: President George HW. Bush forty six percent, former President George W. 303 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:15,360 Speaker 1: Bush fifty nine percent. And remember he had very high ratings. 304 00:17:15,480 --> 00:17:17,360 Speaker 1: You know, after nine to eleven. He did a great 305 00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:20,600 Speaker 1: job rallying the nation at that point. You see in 306 00:17:20,680 --> 00:17:23,760 Speaker 1: President Trump's first term it was fifty three percent. Now 307 00:17:23,760 --> 00:17:26,840 Speaker 1: it's sixty three percent, and he beats all the Republicans 308 00:17:27,119 --> 00:17:30,360 Speaker 1: on the board, and you know, even beats Reagan when 309 00:17:30,359 --> 00:17:34,720 Speaker 1: it comes to strongly the strongly approved category five months in, 310 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:38,520 Speaker 1: and of course Reagan was coming on. You know that 311 00:17:38,520 --> 00:17:42,600 Speaker 1: that was after that assassination attempt. Reagan's approval ratings stood 312 00:17:42,600 --> 00:17:45,840 Speaker 1: between fifty eight and sixty percent in early July nineteen 313 00:17:45,880 --> 00:17:49,280 Speaker 1: eighty one, only four months after John Hinckley Junior tried 314 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:52,960 Speaker 1: to assassinate him outside the Washington Hilton Hotel. To the 315 00:17:52,960 --> 00:17:55,439 Speaker 1: bottom line is Trump is really making history with the 316 00:17:55,440 --> 00:17:56,600 Speaker 1: Republican base. 317 00:17:57,200 --> 00:17:58,600 Speaker 2: And very beloved right now. 318 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:01,920 Speaker 1: You know, we'll get into the issue at the top 319 00:18:01,960 --> 00:18:04,320 Speaker 1: of the hour of the myths of what is being sent. 320 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:07,600 Speaker 1: The only thing I can say is it was it 321 00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:11,000 Speaker 1: was a long night last night. It was frustrating, but 322 00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:14,560 Speaker 1: I understand it. I've been through too many of these battles. 323 00:18:14,840 --> 00:18:19,440 Speaker 1: Reagan had his you know, his own battles and fights 324 00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:21,720 Speaker 1: within his own party. You know, it's hard to get 325 00:18:21,760 --> 00:18:25,320 Speaker 1: people five hundred and thirty five people, you know, if 326 00:18:25,359 --> 00:18:28,000 Speaker 1: you have slim majorities like Republicans now do in the 327 00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:30,919 Speaker 1: House and Senate, which really does highlight the need to 328 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:35,000 Speaker 1: elect more you know, maga conservative Republicans so we can 329 00:18:35,040 --> 00:18:38,800 Speaker 1: get more and bigger things done. But this was a 330 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:42,200 Speaker 1: very very heavy lift. And all throughout the night I 331 00:18:42,240 --> 00:18:45,200 Speaker 1: was getting updates and it's like, uh, we'll still shy 332 00:18:45,240 --> 00:18:47,479 Speaker 1: one vote, still shy. If I could show you all 333 00:18:47,520 --> 00:18:50,679 Speaker 1: the texts, still shy one vote, still shy one. We 334 00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:53,879 Speaker 1: have an Alaska problem. That was Lisa Mkowski. It's frustrating, 335 00:18:54,720 --> 00:18:58,040 Speaker 1: but they eventually got there, and that's the good news. 336 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:00,879 Speaker 1: I'm not going to sit here and be mad at 337 00:19:00,880 --> 00:19:02,600 Speaker 1: people that voted whatever way they voted. 338 00:19:02,680 --> 00:19:04,400 Speaker 2: It's just I'm just glad it got done. 339 00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:06,679 Speaker 1: I don't think as you know, going through all the 340 00:19:06,680 --> 00:19:10,000 Speaker 1: things that I mentioned, I won't repeat myself. But there's 341 00:19:10,080 --> 00:19:13,240 Speaker 1: so much conservative goodness in this. And here's the best 342 00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:15,159 Speaker 1: part to me. If you're looking at this through a 343 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:19,480 Speaker 1: political lens, it's not the politics of winning. It's it's 344 00:19:19,520 --> 00:19:23,399 Speaker 1: the policies that will lead to the better economy, and 345 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:26,960 Speaker 1: that's the tax cuts. It also shows the American people 346 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:30,840 Speaker 1: that the Republicans are the party of working men and women, 347 00:19:31,160 --> 00:19:34,880 Speaker 1: and Democrats voted for the biggest tax increase in history, 348 00:19:35,240 --> 00:19:38,080 Speaker 1: and voted against working men and women, and voted for 349 00:19:38,280 --> 00:19:43,199 Speaker 1: open voters, and voted against energy independence, and voted against 350 00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:47,400 Speaker 1: deporting criminals, and voted against you know, funding the next 351 00:19:47,440 --> 00:19:52,480 Speaker 1: generation of weaponry. And it's that's that's on them as 352 00:19:52,520 --> 00:19:57,160 Speaker 1: they go and elect their Marxist mandanis of the world. 353 00:19:57,960 --> 00:20:00,440 Speaker 1: You know, I know that Elizabeth Warren had to fit. 354 00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:03,439 Speaker 1: This is outrageous, this is wrong. We'll show you some 355 00:20:03,480 --> 00:20:08,359 Speaker 1: of this tonight. This this I'm angry he's very angry 356 00:20:08,359 --> 00:20:12,600 Speaker 1: about this. What did you think was gonna happen? You know, 357 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:15,840 Speaker 1: Americans are struggling with health care costs. Senate Democrats fought 358 00:20:15,880 --> 00:20:18,680 Speaker 1: to preserve free health care for illegal immigrants in this bill. 359 00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:22,200 Speaker 1: Then I voted fifty six forty four in an amendment 360 00:20:22,760 --> 00:20:25,719 Speaker 1: by John Cornyan that would have reduced federal Medicaid payments 361 00:20:25,800 --> 00:20:29,800 Speaker 1: to states that offer health care to illegal immigrants charged 362 00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:33,840 Speaker 1: their convicted of serious crimes. You know, the four Senate 363 00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:36,719 Speaker 1: Democrats booked their party to pack the measure. The amendment 364 00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:40,800 Speaker 1: failed to clear the sixty vote threshold and will therefore 365 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:43,720 Speaker 1: not be is not included in this one big, beautiful bill. 366 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:46,879 Speaker 1: That's the party of the Democrats, the party that puts 367 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:50,680 Speaker 1: the rights of illegals, so called rights of illegals over 368 00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:55,159 Speaker 1: your safety, including criminal illegals like a Brego Garcia. You know, 369 00:20:55,200 --> 00:20:58,200 Speaker 1: look at all the temper tantrums out as ICE is 370 00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:00,439 Speaker 1: trying to do their job in Los Angeles. They arrested 371 00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:04,080 Speaker 1: murderers and child molesters, gang members, I mean, some of 372 00:21:04,119 --> 00:21:06,000 Speaker 1: the worst of the worst. You'd think they would be happy, 373 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:11,879 Speaker 1: but they're not. And that's the Democratic Party. And you know, 374 00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:15,280 Speaker 1: blue states have enrolled over a million illegal immigrants in 375 00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:17,119 Speaker 1: the program of Medicaid. 376 00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:18,400 Speaker 2: Why are we paying for this? 377 00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:24,399 Speaker 1: MPR reporting more than one million illegal immigrants, most of 378 00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:27,720 Speaker 1: them lack permanent legal status covered by state health programs 379 00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:30,320 Speaker 1: like medical Look at all the money they've had to 380 00:21:30,359 --> 00:21:34,600 Speaker 1: borrow out in California to pay for healthcare for illegals 381 00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:39,480 Speaker 1: and all the other services associated with it. It was 382 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:42,960 Speaker 1: interesting on the Lisa Murkowski question here that this did 383 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:46,199 Speaker 1: a lot for Alaska. This bill a lot, especially on 384 00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:51,680 Speaker 1: the issue of energy. In the end, she was I mean, 385 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:54,880 Speaker 1: there were no votes from Rampaul, Tom Tellis, and Susan Collins. 386 00:21:54,880 --> 00:21:58,080 Speaker 1: My understanding was that they're at ram Paul was willing 387 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:02,360 Speaker 1: to meet the rest of his colleagues halfway and if 388 00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:06,359 Speaker 1: they would reduce the amount of money in terms of 389 00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:10,080 Speaker 1: raising the debt ceiling by like eighty percent, he would 390 00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:12,320 Speaker 1: have He would have been the crucial last vote for 391 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:18,120 Speaker 1: this because Susan Collins Tom Tillis were a hard nos. 392 00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:23,639 Speaker 1: Not surprising in either case, but that was that was 393 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:26,000 Speaker 1: kind of like the behind the scenes. And then finally 394 00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:28,520 Speaker 1: I got the I don't know the text, I don't 395 00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:32,080 Speaker 1: remember phone call, I don't remember from who got to 396 00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:33,960 Speaker 1: give credit to those people that fought for it. I 397 00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:36,760 Speaker 1: know that there are going to be House members that 398 00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:40,719 Speaker 1: are unhappy changed at all. I can only say from 399 00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:45,640 Speaker 1: being up and awake and in touch with a lot 400 00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:48,840 Speaker 1: of people involved in this last night, that this was 401 00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:51,240 Speaker 1: the only way it was going to get over the 402 00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:57,560 Speaker 1: finish line. And that is that's just the process. And 403 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:00,560 Speaker 1: you know, when you look at other issue is involved 404 00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:02,880 Speaker 1: in the economy. The President is not wrong to send 405 00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:07,119 Speaker 1: mister too late Jerome Powell a fiery notes spelling out 406 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:10,119 Speaker 1: you know, interest rate failures costing the US of fortune. 407 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:10,760 Speaker 2: He's not wrong. 408 00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:15,359 Speaker 1: You know, President Trump's tariffs have earned eighty one point 409 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:17,840 Speaker 1: five billion in new money according to the Department of 410 00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:22,280 Speaker 1: Homeland Security. But with that we also have the ten 411 00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:23,800 Speaker 1: trillion dollars in investments. 412 00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:25,280 Speaker 2: You know. 413 00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:29,840 Speaker 1: The I mean for the President was warning a wopping 414 00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:33,760 Speaker 1: sixty eight percent tax increase on the American people of 415 00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:37,000 Speaker 1: this bill did not pass, and that is now going 416 00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:39,480 Speaker 1: to be in the hands of the US House of 417 00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:41,720 Speaker 1: Representatives and and there's going to be a lot of 418 00:23:41,760 --> 00:23:44,960 Speaker 1: pressure on them to go along with these tax cuts, 419 00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:47,600 Speaker 1: go along with these border security measures, go along with 420 00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:51,560 Speaker 1: these energy policies go along with, you know, filling the 421 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:55,800 Speaker 1: gap of vulnerability with our military and helping our defense 422 00:23:55,840 --> 00:24:02,480 Speaker 1: department and anyway. It is, uh, it's just very interesting 423 00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:06,440 Speaker 1: to watch. I'm very you know, I've always been pretty 424 00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:11,320 Speaker 1: close to the House Freedom Caucus. They are upset now 425 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:14,240 Speaker 1: there are other issues here that get complicated and I 426 00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:15,880 Speaker 1: hate to get in the weeds because I don't think 427 00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:20,119 Speaker 1: most of you really care, but the weeds kind of matter. 428 00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:23,159 Speaker 1: They have rules in the House and rules in the Senate. 429 00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:25,679 Speaker 1: The only way this bill had a chance to be 430 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:30,119 Speaker 1: passed is when the budget chairman in the Senate, Lindsey Graham, 431 00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:34,000 Speaker 1: went forward and said, we're going to use reconciliation. Reconciliation 432 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:37,080 Speaker 1: means you don't need cloture. Cloture is sixty votes, but 433 00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:42,160 Speaker 1: it has all these provisions have to be budget related 434 00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:47,000 Speaker 1: issues where you lower the threshold from a sixty vote margin, 435 00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:48,840 Speaker 1: because you were never going to get any Democrats to 436 00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:53,080 Speaker 1: support this bill. This is how Obamacare was passed, this 437 00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:59,280 Speaker 1: is how the Inflation Reduction Act was passed, and it 438 00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:02,560 Speaker 1: is Yeah, I think is I think the proof is 439 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:06,760 Speaker 1: going to be in the putting if history holds, And 440 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:10,720 Speaker 1: by that I mean if cutting taxes does what it 441 00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:14,280 Speaker 1: always does, and that stimulates the economy, results in more revenue, 442 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:18,360 Speaker 1: coupled with the ten trillion dollars in investment in manufacturing, 443 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:23,200 Speaker 1: coupled with you know, hopefully on a path towards energy dominance. 444 00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:25,679 Speaker 1: I think at that point there will be a period 445 00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:30,040 Speaker 1: of American prosperity we've not experienced before. I've always believed 446 00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:34,520 Speaker 1: in conservatism, and one of the fundamental parts of conservatism 447 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:39,600 Speaker 1: is is more freedom, less government intervention in our lives. 448 00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:42,320 Speaker 1: And I think that holds true today in so many 449 00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:44,720 Speaker 1: different ways. You know, it's interesting. I mean, you look 450 00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:47,600 Speaker 1: at a focus on the one comment of Mom Dannie, 451 00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:50,480 Speaker 1: you know billion No, he doesn't want any more billionaires, 452 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:52,960 Speaker 1: and he wants to take over the means of production. 453 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:55,240 Speaker 1: We got new cuts of him. I mean, I think 454 00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:57,640 Speaker 1: Mark Simona is going to end up being proven right. 455 00:25:57,720 --> 00:25:59,840 Speaker 1: He was on yesterday that this is going to be 456 00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:01,800 Speaker 1: more or stuff that this guy said that is going 457 00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:04,240 Speaker 1: to be coming out every single day. But you know, 458 00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:07,800 Speaker 1: the idea that we shouldn't have billionaires, he said, I 459 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:09,680 Speaker 1: don't think that we should have billionaires. 460 00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:10,160 Speaker 2: All right. 461 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:14,280 Speaker 1: You are a self described democratic socialist, do you think 462 00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:16,080 Speaker 1: that billionaires have a right to exist. 463 00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:20,640 Speaker 3: I don't think that we should have billionaires because frankly, 464 00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:23,920 Speaker 3: it is so much money in a moment of such inequality. 465 00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:27,959 Speaker 3: And ultimately what we need more of is equality across 466 00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:30,119 Speaker 3: our city and across our statement, across our country. 467 00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:32,040 Speaker 2: Equality. 468 00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:36,440 Speaker 1: This is why I call them Marxist mom Dannie, because 469 00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:39,280 Speaker 1: two each according to his need, from each according to 470 00:26:39,359 --> 00:26:42,760 Speaker 1: his ability. That's right out of Karl Marx's mouth, and 471 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:46,440 Speaker 1: that's exactly what he's talking about with equality here. How 472 00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:48,679 Speaker 1: do people get wealthy? 473 00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:49,160 Speaker 2: Now? 474 00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:51,639 Speaker 1: Look, people go into professions all the time. They know 475 00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:54,560 Speaker 1: they're not going to get wealthy in these professions. If 476 00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:56,920 Speaker 1: you have a calling, and again I'll go back to 477 00:26:56,960 --> 00:26:59,560 Speaker 1: the word education. It's root derivative from the Latin which 478 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:02,119 Speaker 1: is a duke, which means to bring forthrom within. Everyone 479 00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:05,679 Speaker 1: was born, in my view, created by God, born with talent. 480 00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:08,560 Speaker 1: We all have our unique fingerprint. You know, the Bible 481 00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:10,560 Speaker 1: tells us the very hairs of our head are counted. 482 00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:13,680 Speaker 1: And if that's if that's true, which is what I believe, 483 00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:17,520 Speaker 1: and that we all are born with different talents and 484 00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:21,560 Speaker 1: callings in life. And if say your calling is law enforcement, 485 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:24,119 Speaker 1: most people don't get into law enforcement. And I have 486 00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:27,840 Speaker 1: many friends and family members that have thinking they're going 487 00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:31,720 Speaker 1: to get rich, but it's a calling. It's something that 488 00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:35,080 Speaker 1: they feel compelled to do, or teachers they feel compelled 489 00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:37,919 Speaker 1: to do. You know, you don't even become a doctor 490 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:40,080 Speaker 1: these days with the expectation that you're going to be 491 00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:44,920 Speaker 1: particularly wealthy. And then there are entrepreneurs, and then there 492 00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:48,359 Speaker 1: are inventors, and then there are people that create goods 493 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:53,280 Speaker 1: and services. And you don't become wealthy if you create 494 00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:56,520 Speaker 1: or provide goods and services that people want, need and desire. 495 00:27:56,720 --> 00:28:01,199 Speaker 1: And if that service, that service, or those goods are 496 00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:04,639 Speaker 1: in such high demand that makes you wealthy, well, you're 497 00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:06,080 Speaker 1: still paying taxes on that money. 498 00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:06,600 Speaker 2: Number one. 499 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:11,840 Speaker 1: Number two, they're also improving the lives of other people 500 00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:15,600 Speaker 1: because nobody's forcing people to buy your whatever it is 501 00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:18,280 Speaker 1: you've produced, or whatever service it is that you are 502 00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:23,159 Speaker 1: offering here. And it's also the ultimate and a meritocracy. 503 00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:26,520 Speaker 1: You know, if you believe in meritocracy, and that is 504 00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:30,080 Speaker 1: that the human spirit, if you live in freedom and 505 00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:34,320 Speaker 1: you happen to be successful. I mean, they're again, do 506 00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:37,680 Speaker 1: we not want these companies to exist in New York? 507 00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:41,719 Speaker 1: These private equity companies, these big banks, these investment firms. 508 00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:44,400 Speaker 1: What do you how does that How is that going 509 00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:47,440 Speaker 1: to play out in the end? You know, go ahead 510 00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:50,680 Speaker 1: with the guy that you know wants to confiscate wealth. Well, 511 00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:53,719 Speaker 1: what do politicians do with wealth when they confiscated they 512 00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:57,320 Speaker 1: didn't earn it? I don't know, you know, putting aside 513 00:28:57,320 --> 00:29:00,960 Speaker 1: trust fund brats, but people that made their money the 514 00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:04,080 Speaker 1: old fashioned way through hard work and dedication and innovation. 515 00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:08,200 Speaker 1: Why do we think that we have a right to 516 00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:12,760 Speaker 1: empower a politician to take their money and give it 517 00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:13,360 Speaker 1: to us. 518 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:15,600 Speaker 2: What does that do for the politician? 519 00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:19,240 Speaker 1: Well, that then creates a base of support that wants 520 00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:23,280 Speaker 1: him empowered. Basically taking money from other people and giving 521 00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:29,760 Speaker 1: it to them. I mean, it's insane. And this is 522 00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:33,880 Speaker 1: where the radicalized Democratic Party unfortunately is gone and where 523 00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:38,200 Speaker 1: they're going. You know, mom, Donnie now defending his plan 524 00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:42,640 Speaker 1: to punish white people. I mean, he doubled down Sunday. 525 00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:45,440 Speaker 1: He wants to jack up property taxes on richer and 526 00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:50,800 Speaker 1: whier neighborhoods. Now, let's play jeopardy at home. If somebody said, oh, 527 00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:58,320 Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna tax Hispanic Americans more or African American, 528 00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:02,720 Speaker 1: African Americans, more Asian Americans, more Jewish Americans, more whatever 529 00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:06,040 Speaker 1: it happens to be. I mean, what do you call that? 530 00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:10,000 Speaker 1: I know one word comes to my mind. I think 531 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:13,760 Speaker 1: you're all thinking the same word. Not hard to figure out. 532 00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:17,560 Speaker 1: Trump said, he warns that he may cut federal funding 533 00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:21,720 Speaker 1: the New York of Mama Dami wins and uh, you 534 00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:25,920 Speaker 1: know Mamdani's pledging to stop ICE from even doing their job. Well, 535 00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:29,000 Speaker 1: that would be at odds with the federal government. This 536 00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:31,680 Speaker 1: guy is, you know, he wants to He has the 537 00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:39,720 Speaker 1: end goal of seizing the means of production. That is socialist, statist, radical, 538 00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:44,480 Speaker 1: Marxist one oh one, that's him. That's Cuba. That's the 539 00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:50,160 Speaker 1: Bolshevik revolution. That's been tried, many forms, names, manifestations. It 540 00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:54,120 Speaker 1: all ends the same, great promises unfulfilled and then of 541 00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:57,280 Speaker 1: course more poverty. And then you calculate how much freedom 542 00:30:57,320 --> 00:31:02,040 Speaker 1: you gave up in the name of security that was 543 00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:02,880 Speaker 1: never secure. 544 00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:05,040 Speaker 2: It's an age old mistake.