1 00:00:04,840 --> 00:00:07,560 Speaker 1: On this episode of Newts World. When the Biden administration 2 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:11,160 Speaker 1: took office in January twenty twenty one, Eric Schmidt had 3 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:13,760 Speaker 1: been Attorney General for the state of Missouri for two 4 00:00:13,800 --> 00:00:17,960 Speaker 1: years and had been focused on tackling violent crime. As 5 00:00:17,960 --> 00:00:20,919 Speaker 1: soon as he began to see the outrageous excesses of 6 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:24,279 Speaker 1: the Biden administration, he and his team snapped into action, 7 00:00:24,920 --> 00:00:29,400 Speaker 1: waging war on the Biden regime's stunning attempts at government overreach, 8 00:00:29,800 --> 00:00:32,800 Speaker 1: winning some of the most important fights in modern American 9 00:00:32,880 --> 00:00:35,960 Speaker 1: history and helping set the stage for a return to 10 00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:40,400 Speaker 1: common sense in government now. In his new book, The 11 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:44,839 Speaker 1: Last Line of Defense, Senator Schmidt takes us behind the 12 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:47,840 Speaker 1: scenes of those battles for the first time and describes 13 00:00:48,040 --> 00:00:51,519 Speaker 1: how consertis can keep winning in court and beyond. Some 14 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:55,560 Speaker 1: of his biggest court battles were against masked mandates, student 15 00:00:55,640 --> 00:01:00,280 Speaker 1: debt forgiveness, restrictions on Second Amendment rights, woke idealla in 16 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:04,600 Speaker 1: our schools, open borders, attacks on free speech, and the 17 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:09,360 Speaker 1: weaponization of government agencies. I am really pleased to welcome 18 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:13,200 Speaker 1: my guest, Senator Eric Schmidt. He is a sixth generation 19 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:16,520 Speaker 1: Missourian currently represents the people of Missouri and the United 20 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:32,240 Speaker 1: States Senate, and he previously served as his state's attorney general. Eric. 21 00:01:32,440 --> 00:01:34,800 Speaker 1: Welcome and thank you for joining me on Newts World. 22 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:36,720 Speaker 2: Dude, it is great deed back with you. I was 23 00:01:36,760 --> 00:01:39,959 Speaker 2: on four years ago when we sued China, and a 24 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:42,360 Speaker 2: lot has happened in those four years, so it's great 25 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:43,000 Speaker 2: to with you. 26 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:46,440 Speaker 1: It's hard to believe how much has gone on in 27 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:47,440 Speaker 1: the last four years. 28 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:50,200 Speaker 2: Isn't it. Yes, the world's turned over A few times. 29 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:54,200 Speaker 1: Before we start discussing your book, I understand you just 30 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:59,640 Speaker 1: recently announced a historic FBI investment to combat violent crime, 31 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:03,320 Speaker 1: and say, Lewis, tell us about how that partnership came together. 32 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:07,840 Speaker 2: Yeah. So this administration from the get go was very 33 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:11,480 Speaker 2: open about their desire to help crime plague cities deal 34 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:14,800 Speaker 2: with those challenges. And so during the confirmation process and 35 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:18,520 Speaker 2: talking to Pambondi and talking to Cash Betel specifically, we 36 00:02:18,639 --> 00:02:22,480 Speaker 2: kind of hatched this plan as Cash was saying, hey, look, 37 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:25,239 Speaker 2: I want to get FBI agents out of Washington into 38 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:27,200 Speaker 2: the field, and I said, well, I've got just the 39 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:30,080 Speaker 2: place for you. And so we've been working on this 40 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:33,280 Speaker 2: for a while and it represents the largest infusion per 41 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:35,840 Speaker 2: capital of any place in the country of permanent FBI 42 00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:38,240 Speaker 2: agents to take on violent crime. So these are not 43 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:42,320 Speaker 2: going to be vapor pushers. These are people that are 44 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:45,080 Speaker 2: specifically dedicated to taking on the worst of the worst 45 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:47,960 Speaker 2: because what we're seeing happen in Washington, d C in 46 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:51,000 Speaker 2: a different context. Of course, a little bit because of 47 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:53,560 Speaker 2: Washington d C versus Saint Louis in the state is 48 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:56,720 Speaker 2: that there's just no substitute news for a law enforcement presence. 49 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:00,720 Speaker 2: There just isn't and prosecutions that follow, and so that's 50 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:02,880 Speaker 2: what we want to see and their willingness to do it. 51 00:03:02,919 --> 00:03:04,400 Speaker 2: I think this will end up being a model for 52 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:07,079 Speaker 2: other places. So you'll have the permanent presence of more 53 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:09,360 Speaker 2: FBI agents to take on by the crime. And then 54 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:13,480 Speaker 2: also we'll be working towards multilateral efforts with other agencies 55 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:18,160 Speaker 2: like the DEA, atf ICE, others to kind of surge 56 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:20,399 Speaker 2: in Saint Louis and other places to get the worst 57 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:21,520 Speaker 2: of the worst off the streets. 58 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:25,200 Speaker 1: What do you expect in terms of the actual number 59 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:26,600 Speaker 1: of agents. 60 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:28,680 Speaker 2: Or can I keep in that number a little bit 61 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:30,840 Speaker 2: on the down low? I guess, so to speak, But 62 00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:34,200 Speaker 2: it's not a small number. And what we really want 63 00:03:34,320 --> 00:03:36,520 Speaker 2: is again because we talked about it. I mean, you've 64 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:39,280 Speaker 2: seen FBI agents go to particular places. Maybe it's an 65 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:41,880 Speaker 2: anti terrorism kind of thing, and all those things are important, 66 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:44,600 Speaker 2: But when you're dealing with cities like Chicago or Saint 67 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:47,280 Speaker 2: Louis or any major metro area right now, or the 68 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:49,800 Speaker 2: urban core, what they really need are people who are 69 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:52,680 Speaker 2: willing to go in and arrest the bad guys and 70 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:54,600 Speaker 2: chase them and find them and go get them and 71 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:55,320 Speaker 2: put them in jail. 72 00:03:55,920 --> 00:03:59,440 Speaker 1: Why do you think the local police just literally can't 73 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:01,120 Speaker 1: cope with Well. 74 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:03,600 Speaker 2: There's a lot of reasons. These guys are heroes, you know, newt. 75 00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:06,320 Speaker 2: But something happened on the way to where we're at now, 76 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:09,600 Speaker 2: which is during that whole defund the police movement. Ironically, 77 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:12,000 Speaker 2: that kind of began in Ferguson ten years ago in 78 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:14,600 Speaker 2: the Saint Louis area when you saw that nonsense happen, 79 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:16,920 Speaker 2: and that was really the beginning of the Black Lives 80 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:20,840 Speaker 2: Matter movement, which is this neo Marxist group that's really 81 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:23,200 Speaker 2: been exposed. But then, of course in the summer of 82 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:27,280 Speaker 2: twenty twenty, with those riots, really you saw a lot 83 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:31,080 Speaker 2: of law enforcement professionals early retirement. Somebody asked me when 84 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:32,960 Speaker 2: I was Attorney General what keeps you up at night? 85 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:35,080 Speaker 2: And there were a few things, but one of the 86 00:04:35,279 --> 00:04:37,800 Speaker 2: things was what prominent was that just all the people 87 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:40,840 Speaker 2: that will never go into law enforcement right because of 88 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:43,240 Speaker 2: the disrespect they were shown. So their budgets were slashed, 89 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:46,440 Speaker 2: they were being spit on. Morale was really low. We're 90 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:48,719 Speaker 2: starting to see an uptick I think in that now, 91 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:52,080 Speaker 2: which is good. So the numbers have been depleted. They 92 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:54,800 Speaker 2: were not able to do their jobs new in places 93 00:04:54,839 --> 00:04:56,839 Speaker 2: like seeing Wes we don't have anymore. But Kim Garden 94 00:04:56,960 --> 00:05:00,320 Speaker 2: was a Soros funded prosecutor. There was much more likely 95 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:03,120 Speaker 2: to go after cops in many instances than criminals. We 96 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:05,440 Speaker 2: had the McCloskey incident where she went after people defending 97 00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:07,680 Speaker 2: their homes as opposed to the rioters. So you had 98 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:11,240 Speaker 2: this environment where they were out doing their jobs in 99 00:05:11,279 --> 00:05:13,680 Speaker 2: some of the roughest neighborhoods, but then the prosecutor wouldn't 100 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:16,200 Speaker 2: actually charge on the crime. Now, one of the things 101 00:05:16,279 --> 00:05:18,240 Speaker 2: I did was as AG we partnered with the US 102 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:20,560 Speaker 2: Attorney's Office to get around that to some degree, to 103 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:23,600 Speaker 2: go after carjackings and an awful possession of firearms in 104 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:26,520 Speaker 2: a federal court system. But now that she's gone, it 105 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:28,760 Speaker 2: sort of opens up, I think, more opportunities. So these 106 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:32,400 Speaker 2: partnerships with the federal agents and locals be working side 107 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:34,080 Speaker 2: by side is really what this is about. So it's 108 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:37,800 Speaker 2: increased capacity while they grow their numbers locally. But you 109 00:05:37,880 --> 00:05:39,760 Speaker 2: got to have some leadership as far as them being 110 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:41,440 Speaker 2: deployed and letting them do their jobs. And I think 111 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:42,120 Speaker 2: that's the lesson. 112 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:45,919 Speaker 1: Well, it is amazing. Whether it's Saint Louis or New Orleans, 113 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:50,480 Speaker 1: or Baltimore, or Chicago or Washington, d C. The degree 114 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:54,160 Speaker 1: of decay in terms of violent crime in the last 115 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:58,159 Speaker 1: ten or twelve years has been really startling and totally 116 00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:00,240 Speaker 1: different than it was a general. 117 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:03,360 Speaker 2: It is and one thing that's worth noting, I think 118 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:05,200 Speaker 2: too is one of the things I think that's really 119 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:10,400 Speaker 2: incredible about trump forty seven presidency right now is all 120 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:13,760 Speaker 2: of these assumptions that people made about intractable problems that 121 00:06:13,839 --> 00:06:16,800 Speaker 2: couldn't be solved in many ways are being solved. Think 122 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:19,320 Speaker 2: of the border. Joe Biden sort of threw his hands 123 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:22,520 Speaker 2: up and Congress was debating this idea of adding more laws, 124 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:24,880 Speaker 2: which was a Democrat trojan horse that I objected to. 125 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:26,480 Speaker 2: I just said he needed a new president. And that's 126 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:28,360 Speaker 2: what we got, a new president. Now we have all 127 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:32,760 Speaker 2: time low border crossings or meeting mass migration with mass deportations, 128 00:06:32,760 --> 00:06:34,440 Speaker 2: which is a good thing. And then you look and 129 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:36,960 Speaker 2: see what's happening in Washington, d C. I mean, carjackings 130 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:40,479 Speaker 2: over two week period are down eighty five percent. Robberies 131 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:43,200 Speaker 2: are down fifty percent. So we shouldn't just accept that 132 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:45,599 Speaker 2: these problems are too big to solve. We just need 133 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:48,120 Speaker 2: the willingness and the political will to go do it. 134 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:49,839 Speaker 2: And I think President Trump's leading the way on that. 135 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:53,280 Speaker 1: I was surprised, given that I'd always known you when 136 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:56,360 Speaker 1: you were Attorney general. I didn't realize that you didn't 137 00:06:56,400 --> 00:06:59,760 Speaker 1: grow up around lawyers. What drew you to the law and. 138 00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:03,159 Speaker 2: The Yeah, I grew up in a working class neighborhood. 139 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:05,320 Speaker 2: My dad worked seven days a week in the midnight shift. 140 00:07:05,839 --> 00:07:09,360 Speaker 2: My grandfather operated a forklift. My other grandfather was a butcher. 141 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:13,080 Speaker 2: For me, I saw law as giving structure for people 142 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:15,960 Speaker 2: to pursue their dreams, whatever that was, and it kind 143 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:18,600 Speaker 2: of coincided. Then my entry into politics was with my 144 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:21,000 Speaker 2: son having some medical challenges spurred me to action. But 145 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:23,920 Speaker 2: I also when I was growing up, I watched Crossfire 146 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:25,840 Speaker 2: with my dad at night we went to my ball 147 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:28,200 Speaker 2: games where we watched Crossfire, watch Jack Camp, I watched 148 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:31,559 Speaker 2: Pap Buchanan. I was in college during the nineteen ninety 149 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:34,400 Speaker 2: four revolution that you led. I mean, those were formative 150 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:37,640 Speaker 2: things for me. Running for office wasn't necessarily something I 151 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:40,360 Speaker 2: was really considering. I was practicing law, and I was 152 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:42,760 Speaker 2: attracted to the structure of it and what it meant 153 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:45,560 Speaker 2: for our republic and the fact that in courtrooms the 154 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:47,960 Speaker 2: facts are supposed to matter. I was attracted to it. 155 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:49,200 Speaker 2: So I went to the first person to go to 156 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:51,040 Speaker 2: college out of high school and my family, and the 157 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:53,120 Speaker 2: certainly first person to go to law school. So to 158 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:55,400 Speaker 2: then serve as the Attorney General was just a big 159 00:07:55,440 --> 00:07:57,960 Speaker 2: honor for me. It was just kind of unimaginable where 160 00:07:58,000 --> 00:07:59,880 Speaker 2: I grew up that somebody like me would be in that. 161 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:01,640 Speaker 2: So I just tried to make the most of it. 162 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:03,960 Speaker 2: And the rule of law I think is just central 163 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:05,120 Speaker 2: to this American experiment. 164 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:10,120 Speaker 1: I think you cannot have freedom without the rule of law. 165 00:08:10,200 --> 00:08:12,480 Speaker 1: It's not possible. And I think it's something that we 166 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:16,760 Speaker 1: don't drive home often enough. In the end, each of 167 00:08:16,840 --> 00:08:21,160 Speaker 1: us individually is protected by the Constitution and the laws 168 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:23,320 Speaker 1: that grow out of it, And in fact, it is 169 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:27,440 Speaker 1: precisely the weak who are the most in danger if 170 00:08:27,440 --> 00:08:29,120 Speaker 1: the rule of law breaks down, which is why I've 171 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:32,040 Speaker 1: always been astonished that liberals who claim to be for 172 00:08:32,080 --> 00:08:36,240 Speaker 1: the poor don't understand that it is precisely the poor 173 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:40,040 Speaker 1: who most need the rule of law, because there the 174 00:08:40,040 --> 00:08:43,319 Speaker 1: ones most likely to be exploited in a lawless environment. 175 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:46,560 Speaker 2: That was my family's experience in the sense that I 176 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:49,280 Speaker 2: didn't know any lawyers growing up. There was nobody to 177 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:52,120 Speaker 2: call that could help. I viewed it as a way 178 00:08:52,160 --> 00:08:54,440 Speaker 2: of being able to fight for the little guy in 179 00:08:54,520 --> 00:08:56,480 Speaker 2: many ways, and it's one of the things that attracted me. 180 00:08:56,520 --> 00:08:58,559 Speaker 2: But also, as you point out, the rule of law 181 00:08:58,640 --> 00:09:00,960 Speaker 2: is so important. It's why when I Attorney General and 182 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:05,400 Speaker 2: Biden came in, what was so astonishing about what was 183 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:07,840 Speaker 2: happening and why I wrote the book Last Line of Defense, 184 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:09,920 Speaker 2: How to Beat the Left and court people can get on. 185 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:12,079 Speaker 2: Amazon just got hit with the designation of New York 186 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:14,319 Speaker 2: Times Bestseller, which is you know, nude for a conservative 187 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:16,520 Speaker 2: is a big deal. But I think The point of 188 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:20,040 Speaker 2: it is I saw what was like. It's kind of 189 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:22,280 Speaker 2: a field manual of what it was like to be 190 00:09:22,559 --> 00:09:26,160 Speaker 2: on the front lines against this left wing lawfair machine 191 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:28,400 Speaker 2: that came at as from so many different angles. It 192 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:31,680 Speaker 2: was the election of twenty twenty. We beat Mark Elias 193 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:34,280 Speaker 2: three times in Missouri. He was successful in other states 194 00:09:34,280 --> 00:09:37,280 Speaker 2: to weaken their election laws. It was the COVID restrictions 195 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:39,960 Speaker 2: that seemingly went on forever and ever. We sued fifty 196 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:42,320 Speaker 2: school districts to get in the back off mass mandates. 197 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:44,760 Speaker 2: We took on the student loan debt forgiveness scan that 198 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:47,440 Speaker 2: would have stuck taxpayers with a half a trillion dollars. 199 00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:49,120 Speaker 2: We took that to the Supreme Court. We won. We 200 00:09:49,160 --> 00:09:51,360 Speaker 2: took the vaccine mandate cases all the way to Supreme 201 00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:53,520 Speaker 2: Court and we won. And perhaps most famously, with fouled 202 00:09:53,520 --> 00:09:56,360 Speaker 2: the Missouri versus Biden lawsuit, which before Eline Musk bought 203 00:09:56,400 --> 00:10:01,440 Speaker 2: Twitter before congressional hearings, really exposed this censorship enterprise that 204 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:04,120 Speaker 2: the Biden administration was working with big tech companies when 205 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:07,080 Speaker 2: that was just called the conspiracy theory. So we took 206 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:09,640 Speaker 2: on DEI, we took on CRT, We took on the 207 00:10:09,679 --> 00:10:12,120 Speaker 2: net zero banking alliance, all that in a couple of years. 208 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:13,920 Speaker 2: I'm really proud of that work, and I think the 209 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:17,439 Speaker 2: book gives the reader your audience. It's not written for lawyers. 210 00:10:17,679 --> 00:10:20,120 Speaker 2: I hope lawyers read it, but it's really what was 211 00:10:20,160 --> 00:10:22,400 Speaker 2: it like to see all this happening? And what was 212 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:24,760 Speaker 2: it like to take Anthony Fauci's deposition in that Missouri 213 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:26,720 Speaker 2: versus Biden case. What was it like to take Elvis 214 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:29,679 Speaker 2: Chan's deposition the FBI agent who was pre bunking the 215 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:32,600 Speaker 2: Hunter Biden laptop story on the way to twenty twenty. 216 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:35,880 Speaker 2: All that's in the book, and more importantly than just 217 00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:39,439 Speaker 2: war stories, it is a playbook of what we need 218 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:42,240 Speaker 2: to do when we see this stuff happening sometime soon, 219 00:10:42,520 --> 00:10:44,680 Speaker 2: hopefully farther away, but it'll happen again. 220 00:11:03,040 --> 00:11:08,319 Speaker 1: I think part of your natural aggressiveness came out of 221 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:12,040 Speaker 1: your background in sports. You were very active in playing 222 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:13,000 Speaker 1: in sports. 223 00:11:13,280 --> 00:11:15,360 Speaker 2: It's right, I had not written a book before. You know, 224 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:19,040 Speaker 2: when you do, you reflect on what were the experiences 225 00:11:19,080 --> 00:11:22,319 Speaker 2: that forged you in this moment your willingness to stand 226 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:24,120 Speaker 2: up and fight, And the title of the book is 227 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:25,880 Speaker 2: Last Line of Defense. I realized I played a lot 228 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:28,640 Speaker 2: of sports growing up, including in college. I realized that 229 00:11:28,679 --> 00:11:31,959 Speaker 2: in every sport that I played, in basketball, i'm six 230 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:34,120 Speaker 2: six too, which has probably explained some of this. But 231 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:37,720 Speaker 2: in basketball I played in the paint, in baseball, I 232 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:41,600 Speaker 2: played in the outfield, and in football I played free safety, 233 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:44,200 Speaker 2: which in every sport was like the last line of defense, 234 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:47,199 Speaker 2: I mean, your last barrier. So I suppose I've always 235 00:11:47,320 --> 00:11:51,400 Speaker 2: kind of, whether by nature or nurture, embraced the role 236 00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:54,760 Speaker 2: of being a defender of the things that we hold dear. 237 00:11:55,360 --> 00:11:58,680 Speaker 2: And I love this country, our framework, I love our people. 238 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:01,800 Speaker 2: I love America. What I saw happening from the Biden administration, 239 00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:05,200 Speaker 2: the left had taken over that White House. People who 240 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:07,680 Speaker 2: were just probably a year earlier with a gender studies 241 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:11,040 Speaker 2: degree from Harvard writing white papers about open borders, were 242 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:13,800 Speaker 2: suddenly in charge of opening up our border. And he 243 00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:16,400 Speaker 2: saw corporations fall in line here too, you know, in 244 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:19,200 Speaker 2: your home town of Atlanta and Coca Cola, they were 245 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:22,360 Speaker 2: having struggle sessions where employees had to explain how they 246 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:24,560 Speaker 2: were going to be less white. And then you had 247 00:12:24,679 --> 00:12:27,280 Speaker 2: five year olds being forced to wear masks all day long, 248 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:29,120 Speaker 2: even though there was no science to support. It was 249 00:12:29,160 --> 00:12:32,760 Speaker 2: just a wild, crazy time defined by a pandemic and 250 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:37,800 Speaker 2: social unrest. And I think the most aggressively liberal administration 251 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:39,160 Speaker 2: we've seen in American history. 252 00:12:39,520 --> 00:12:42,160 Speaker 1: Oh, I think that's right. I think they basically were 253 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:45,199 Speaker 1: Obama's third term, and they brought all of his most 254 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:49,640 Speaker 1: radical appointees forward to be the Biden administration. It's a 255 00:12:49,679 --> 00:12:54,040 Speaker 1: big reason why Trump ended up winning, because the country 256 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:59,640 Speaker 1: was increasingly turned off by how radical and how aggressive. 257 00:13:00,200 --> 00:13:02,319 Speaker 2: I start the book Last Line of Defense, How to 258 00:13:02,320 --> 00:13:03,960 Speaker 2: Beat the Left and court people and get Now. In 259 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:07,760 Speaker 2: November of twenty twenty four, the fever broke. I really 260 00:13:07,760 --> 00:13:10,320 Speaker 2: believe it really kind of looked back on the fever 261 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:13,600 Speaker 2: dream that we were living through, and you know, it 262 00:13:13,640 --> 00:13:16,800 Speaker 2: was a time of these lockdowns and mandates and censorship, 263 00:13:16,880 --> 00:13:20,400 Speaker 2: not somewhere else but in our country. And I've said before, 264 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:23,040 Speaker 2: I don't think power necessarily corrupts, but I do think 265 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:27,120 Speaker 2: power reveals, and I think COVID in particular was a 266 00:13:27,160 --> 00:13:30,400 Speaker 2: test run. It revealed the true nature of the left 267 00:13:30,440 --> 00:13:32,760 Speaker 2: and what they would do if they could actually consolidate 268 00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:35,400 Speaker 2: power and weaponize it in ways we've not seen before. 269 00:13:35,559 --> 00:13:39,040 Speaker 2: Take that, apart from even the lawfare against President Trump 270 00:13:39,280 --> 00:13:41,600 Speaker 2: that they were willing to employ because they labeled him 271 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:44,439 Speaker 2: a quote unquote threat to democracy when they were bulldozing 272 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:47,960 Speaker 2: democracy and the republic along the way. It's just very revealing, 273 00:13:48,040 --> 00:13:50,680 Speaker 2: and I think you're right. The American people sat in 274 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:53,880 Speaker 2: their own jury box and they saw all this stuff happening, 275 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:55,480 Speaker 2: and they rendered their verdict. Thank god. 276 00:13:56,200 --> 00:13:59,920 Speaker 1: Biden was so bad and the Democrats he represents were 277 00:14:00,160 --> 00:14:03,920 Speaker 1: so bad that he actually created an environment for Trump 278 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:07,240 Speaker 1: to be even bolder and, if you will, more radical 279 00:14:07,760 --> 00:14:10,720 Speaker 1: in his reforms than he was in the first term, 280 00:14:10,760 --> 00:14:13,680 Speaker 1: because now he's operating against the backdrop of things that 281 00:14:13,720 --> 00:14:16,319 Speaker 1: are horrible. This is not the America they wanted. 282 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:18,960 Speaker 2: I agree, And I also think and I told President Trump, 283 00:14:18,960 --> 00:14:20,840 Speaker 2: I play well enough to get invited back to play 284 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:23,680 Speaker 2: golf with President Trump. I only disposed private conversations with him, 285 00:14:23,680 --> 00:14:25,960 Speaker 2: but I did tell him one time that you know, 286 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:30,800 Speaker 2: it's almost the non consecutive term for him is in 287 00:14:30,920 --> 00:14:35,680 Speaker 2: some ways, I think it's divinely inspired, because not only 288 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:38,920 Speaker 2: did you see the excesses of the Biden term, but 289 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:41,440 Speaker 2: he also was able to put together a team now 290 00:14:41,640 --> 00:14:44,120 Speaker 2: and a strategy. You know, would have been different if 291 00:14:44,160 --> 00:14:46,280 Speaker 2: it would have been the consecutive term. By the way, 292 00:14:46,320 --> 00:14:48,920 Speaker 2: his incentive structure is different now too. You know, he's 293 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:51,800 Speaker 2: got this four year window here to do all of 294 00:14:51,840 --> 00:14:56,280 Speaker 2: the things that as conservatives we've thought about doing, but 295 00:14:56,400 --> 00:14:57,920 Speaker 2: not a lot of people have had the guts to 296 00:14:57,960 --> 00:14:59,720 Speaker 2: go do. I also think that's one of his great 297 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:03,160 Speaker 2: leg sees to our party is he's inspired people to 298 00:15:03,240 --> 00:15:07,880 Speaker 2: be fearless and the left that's never been their problem. 299 00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:10,960 Speaker 2: They want to upend things and they don't apologize for it. 300 00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:13,280 Speaker 2: But just look at this redistricting battle that's going to 301 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:15,840 Speaker 2: unfold across the country. That would have been unthinkable for 302 00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:18,080 Speaker 2: Republicans to engage in that. I hope we do because 303 00:15:18,120 --> 00:15:21,080 Speaker 2: the Democrats have done it. They've already done it well, 304 00:15:21,080 --> 00:15:22,960 Speaker 2: you just ought to play by the same rules. And again, 305 00:15:23,640 --> 00:15:25,320 Speaker 2: the reason why I wrote the book the last line 306 00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:28,400 Speaker 2: of defense was in the legal world. I think conservatives 307 00:15:28,440 --> 00:15:31,120 Speaker 2: seated the courts too easily in the past. We've got 308 00:15:31,160 --> 00:15:32,760 Speaker 2: to be willing to fight on all fronts, and that 309 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:34,720 Speaker 2: means in the Article three branch in the courts too. 310 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:36,560 Speaker 1: I have to go back, just for a minute, to 311 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:41,160 Speaker 1: your athletic background. If you were six six and you 312 00:15:41,200 --> 00:15:44,320 Speaker 1: were free safety, you must be very fast A. 313 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:48,480 Speaker 2: Long time ago, Nick, though in fact I probably should 314 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:49,960 Speaker 2: have been a tight end, but I couldn't put on 315 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:52,520 Speaker 2: the weight when I was eighteen nineteen years old. That 316 00:15:52,560 --> 00:15:55,120 Speaker 2: came later, a little later in life. I had some 317 00:15:55,160 --> 00:15:57,280 Speaker 2: wheels back then, but that's a long time ago. And 318 00:15:57,320 --> 00:15:58,800 Speaker 2: the only time I get to do anything now nude 319 00:15:58,840 --> 00:16:00,000 Speaker 2: is in the Congressional baseball game. 320 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:02,400 Speaker 1: Yes, I'd never thought about it, but I guess if 321 00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:04,840 Speaker 1: you are a free safety who's six', six you also 322 00:16:04,960 --> 00:16:07,280 Speaker 1: just by putting your arms out cover a lot more 323 00:16:07,280 --> 00:16:09,680 Speaker 1: of the field than a smaller guy. 324 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:12,000 Speaker 2: Does, well it was a bit of a ball, hawk 325 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:13,800 Speaker 2: SO i had a lot of. Fun but, also you, 326 00:16:13,840 --> 00:16:15,440 Speaker 2: know growing up WHERE i grew up, Too i'm not 327 00:16:15,520 --> 00:16:18,920 Speaker 2: afraid of confrontation. EITHER i think that if you care 328 00:16:18,960 --> 00:16:21,280 Speaker 2: about the things that you believe, in as you, know 329 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:23,280 Speaker 2: you've got to be in the, arena and when you do, 330 00:16:23,360 --> 00:16:25,560 Speaker 2: that you realize that when you get on the other 331 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:26,680 Speaker 2: side of, it there's a lot of things that you 332 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:28,600 Speaker 2: being proud. Of and what PEOPLE i think are dying 333 00:16:28,640 --> 00:16:31,880 Speaker 2: for more than anything right now is authentic leadership and 334 00:16:32,040 --> 00:16:34,080 Speaker 2: you just be. Yourself and for, Me i've always been 335 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:35,760 Speaker 2: a fighter in that, way AND i do think it's 336 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:38,400 Speaker 2: interesting now as The democrats will fall over themselves to 337 00:16:38,560 --> 00:16:42,040 Speaker 2: position themselves this sort of fake tough guy thing that 338 00:16:42,040 --> 00:16:45,040 Speaker 2: they're all trying to pull. Off it's just fake, authenticity 339 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:47,880 Speaker 2: like they just discovered cuss. Words it's just so. 340 00:16:48,040 --> 00:16:51,920 Speaker 1: Ridiculous SO i thought that Tim wolves trying to use 341 00:16:51,960 --> 00:16:55,040 Speaker 1: a shotgun was probably as good an example are for that, 342 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:58,800 Speaker 1: matter back in two thousand and, four Watching John carey 343 00:16:58,800 --> 00:17:01,160 Speaker 1: try to go goose hunting in an outfit that he 344 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:02,000 Speaker 1: clearly had bought that. 345 00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:04,560 Speaker 2: Morning, hey you wonder why they have a problem with 346 00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:06,800 Speaker 2: young men right? Now that would explain some of. It 347 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:09,400 Speaker 2: AND i also, think by the, way what they did 348 00:17:09,520 --> 00:17:13,919 Speaker 2: DURING covid the young people that is also as you 349 00:17:13,960 --> 00:17:17,480 Speaker 2: AND i both, Know i'm jen. X even though it's 350 00:17:17,480 --> 00:17:19,760 Speaker 2: gotten way more conservative as people get, older which is 351 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:24,280 Speaker 2: typically the, trajectory the current eighteen to twenty four year 352 00:17:24,320 --> 00:17:27,560 Speaker 2: old population is more conservative than any generation before. Them 353 00:17:27,600 --> 00:17:29,080 Speaker 2: SO i think that bodes well for us too if 354 00:17:29,119 --> 00:17:30,160 Speaker 2: we can keep this coalition. 355 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:33,600 Speaker 1: Together in terms of coalitions only go back from you 356 00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:36,600 Speaker 1: run for The Senate Missouri senate in two thousand and, 357 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:39,119 Speaker 1: eight what led you to decide to get into elected. 358 00:17:39,160 --> 00:17:42,040 Speaker 2: OFFICE i was in my early. THIRTIES i had just 359 00:17:42,080 --> 00:17:44,639 Speaker 2: made a partner and things were, great and we were 360 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:47,760 Speaker 2: starting a, family and my, Son stephen was, born and 361 00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:50,480 Speaker 2: we found out just five months in that he was 362 00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:53,280 Speaker 2: born with a rare genetic. Condition in, fact we took 363 00:17:53,359 --> 00:17:55,399 Speaker 2: him to the hospital the dermatologists because he had the 364 00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:58,280 Speaker 2: sort of an angel wing birthmark on his, leg and 365 00:17:58,359 --> 00:18:00,560 Speaker 2: we thought so little of the doctor's. APPOINTMENT i joke 366 00:18:00,600 --> 00:18:02,960 Speaker 2: that my wife let me Take steven to the dermatologist that. 367 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:05,600 Speaker 2: Day SO i take him and they put him under 368 00:18:05,640 --> 00:18:07,760 Speaker 2: a black, light and the dermatologist, said he probably has 369 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:10,399 Speaker 2: something called tuberous. Sclerosis will run some more, tests AND 370 00:18:10,440 --> 00:18:12,800 Speaker 2: i was, like what is. That turns out it's a 371 00:18:12,840 --> 00:18:16,120 Speaker 2: genetic condition where tumors form in different, organs Including stephen's, 372 00:18:16,119 --> 00:18:19,120 Speaker 2: brain so it severely affected his. Development he just turned 373 00:18:19,119 --> 00:18:21,800 Speaker 2: twenty one last. Week he's, nonverbal he's on the autism, 374 00:18:21,880 --> 00:18:24,840 Speaker 2: spectrum but he is, epilepsy which is the most medically 375 00:18:25,119 --> 00:18:27,960 Speaker 2: challenging part of the, diagnosis so he's seizures almost every. 376 00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:30,399 Speaker 2: Day but when he was really, young we were just 377 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:33,280 Speaker 2: getting accustomed to this. Diagnosis he would have seizures that 378 00:18:33,320 --> 00:18:35,639 Speaker 2: would last a long, time including a four hour Seizure. 379 00:18:35,720 --> 00:18:38,040 Speaker 2: Newt you, KNOW i was holding his hand on the hospital. 380 00:18:38,040 --> 00:18:40,360 Speaker 2: Bed they were trying these medications to try to get 381 00:18:40,359 --> 00:18:42,400 Speaker 2: it to. Stop nothing would. Work finally the last one. 382 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:45,560 Speaker 2: Did we almost Lost. Stephen we were in THE icu 383 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:47,800 Speaker 2: for over a week AND i went through this kind of, 384 00:18:47,840 --> 00:18:50,359 Speaker 2: discernment this reflection on what DO i want to do 385 00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:52,200 Speaker 2: with my? Life that was something as a first time, 386 00:18:52,240 --> 00:18:54,359 Speaker 2: father who was you, know in my early, Thirties it 387 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:56,439 Speaker 2: kind of spurred me into want to do, more and 388 00:18:56,480 --> 00:18:58,280 Speaker 2: so for, me it was running for office to try 389 00:18:58,320 --> 00:19:00,600 Speaker 2: to make a. Difference that's HOW i decided to do, 390 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:03,000 Speaker 2: it after a lot of, prayer And steven's always been 391 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:05,320 Speaker 2: that inspiration to go do. It he still is and 392 00:19:05,359 --> 00:19:07,560 Speaker 2: to fight for. THINGS i think there's probably something to 393 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:09,760 Speaker 2: that WHERE i know That stephen isn't going to have 394 00:19:09,760 --> 00:19:12,119 Speaker 2: those same. Opportunities he has no. WORDS i think it 395 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:14,639 Speaker 2: propels me to make the most of. It so that's 396 00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:16,720 Speaker 2: WHY i ran for the State. Senate was able to 397 00:19:16,760 --> 00:19:21,000 Speaker 2: do some things there In, missouri autism insurance, reform tax, 398 00:19:21,119 --> 00:19:23,879 Speaker 2: cuts taking on government overreach that did, that and then 399 00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:26,080 Speaker 2: was in statewide, office as you, know his attorney. General 400 00:19:26,080 --> 00:19:28,960 Speaker 2: and then When Roy blunt announced he wasn't going to 401 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:32,159 Speaker 2: seek another, term jumped into that race and was. Successful But, 402 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:35,160 Speaker 2: stephen it was the catalytic event for all of, this 403 00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:36,960 Speaker 2: and still to a day kind of my. 404 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:40,960 Speaker 1: Touchdown it must have been very frightening to see a 405 00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:42,720 Speaker 1: young child have those kind of. 406 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:46,720 Speaker 2: Seizures, yeah And stephen still. Does we haven't had a 407 00:19:46,720 --> 00:19:48,800 Speaker 2: four hour one in a. While he still will. Have 408 00:19:48,880 --> 00:19:52,080 Speaker 2: grandma see hears you feel very powerless because there's nothing 409 00:19:52,080 --> 00:19:54,560 Speaker 2: you can really do about it except pray and be 410 00:19:54,680 --> 00:19:57,439 Speaker 2: there for. Him so very. Love but it's taught me a. 411 00:19:57,480 --> 00:19:59,960 Speaker 2: Lot it's taught me a lot about what's really, important 412 00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:03,679 Speaker 2: what really matters in this, life and that you, know 413 00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:06,480 Speaker 2: and strengthen my. FAITH i know that sometimes that sounds 414 00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:09,240 Speaker 2: strange to, people BUT i think That god has given 415 00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:12,040 Speaker 2: Us stephen to protect. HIM i talk about that in 416 00:20:12,080 --> 00:20:14,240 Speaker 2: the book a little bit, Too that protect or INSTINCT 417 00:20:14,320 --> 00:20:17,520 Speaker 2: i GUESS i had in, sports AND i remember specifically 418 00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:20,160 Speaker 2: WHEN i was in seventh grade there were some bullies 419 00:20:20,359 --> 00:20:23,080 Speaker 2: picking on a kid who had special, needs And, i'd 420 00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:26,800 Speaker 2: for whatever, Reason i'd whisperred to defend, him didn't really 421 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:28,560 Speaker 2: know the kid that, well but felt like that was 422 00:20:28,640 --> 00:20:32,800 Speaker 2: unfair and eventually shamed these guys with my, words but 423 00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:35,200 Speaker 2: was prepared to go further than. That BUT i remember 424 00:20:35,240 --> 00:20:37,399 Speaker 2: going home and my dad was a great guy and 425 00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:39,159 Speaker 2: still living and just, said, yeah you don't ever let 426 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:41,560 Speaker 2: anybody take advantage of somebody in that kind of. Position 427 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:43,040 Speaker 2: and that stuck with me a. Little DID i know 428 00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:44,840 Speaker 2: That i'd be a father right of a son with 429 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:47,280 Speaker 2: those kind of, issues with more profound issues than. That 430 00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:50,560 Speaker 2: SO i Think god Sent steven Our way for a 431 00:20:50,560 --> 00:20:52,159 Speaker 2: bunch of, reasons and he's taught me a, lot AND 432 00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:54,360 Speaker 2: i think anybody that's ever met him made him a better. 433 00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:59,639 Speaker 1: Person you've responded to the challenge and are remarkably caring 434 00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:03,399 Speaker 1: in compassionate, way WHICH i think is a wonderful model 435 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:03,920 Speaker 1: for the rest of. 436 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:05,120 Speaker 2: Us, well thank. 437 00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:28,720 Speaker 1: You you go to the State, senate you survey eight. 438 00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:30,600 Speaker 1: Years what led you to run for attorney? 439 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:34,000 Speaker 2: General, well actually there was a stint Where missouri was 440 00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:36,800 Speaker 2: changing over. It as you know as a student of, 441 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:39,760 Speaker 2: Politics missouri had been this ultimate Bell weather and was 442 00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:41,879 Speaker 2: a purple. STATE i, Mean Harry truman was From, missouri 443 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:44,639 Speaker 2: right was run By democrats for a very long. Time 444 00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:47,000 Speaker 2: republicans would break through every once in a. While it 445 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:50,920 Speaker 2: was always a very conservative, state But republicans really didn't break. 446 00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:53,000 Speaker 2: Through they did in the legislature in the early two, 447 00:21:53,040 --> 00:21:55,880 Speaker 2: thousands like a lot of, places but in statewide offices 448 00:21:56,040 --> 00:21:59,320 Speaker 2: not so. Much in twenty, sixteen for, example every statewide 449 00:21:59,359 --> 00:22:02,040 Speaker 2: office holder was A democrat except for. One and that 450 00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:05,480 Speaker 2: was the year that we kind of broke. Through Josh 451 00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:08,679 Speaker 2: hawley was actually attorney general before, me AND i was 452 00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:12,440 Speaker 2: elected treasurer and we kind of swept. Through hally then 453 00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:15,880 Speaker 2: goes to The. SENATE i was appointed then to fill 454 00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:19,320 Speaker 2: his remaining two years of his, term ran for attorney 455 00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:22,840 Speaker 2: general in one in twenty, twenty and then The senate 456 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:24,720 Speaker 2: was in twenty twenty. Two SO i served as attorney 457 00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:27,159 Speaker 2: general for four, years But Josh holly was the immediate, 458 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:29,920 Speaker 2: predecessor and Then Adrian bailey followed me. Up so we've 459 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:32,439 Speaker 2: had a good run Of AG's And. Missouri you, KNOW 460 00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:35,119 Speaker 2: i Think missouri in particular knew you'll appreciate. THIS i 461 00:22:35,119 --> 00:22:36,959 Speaker 2: think people want to. Understand as somebody asked me one, 462 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:38,639 Speaker 2: time is it a northern? State is it the southern? 463 00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:41,120 Speaker 2: State is in A midwestern, state is it A western? 464 00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:44,080 Speaker 2: State and my answer is, yes it's kind of all those. 465 00:22:44,119 --> 00:22:47,200 Speaker 2: Things that's a cultural. Crossroads but one thing that ties 466 00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:50,760 Speaker 2: all those regions together is it's always been very suspicious 467 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:53,720 Speaker 2: of a federal government one thousand miles away telling us 468 00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:55,760 Speaker 2: how to run our. Lives and SO i think WHEN 469 00:22:55,800 --> 00:22:58,160 Speaker 2: i WAS ag and we saw that happening In, washington 470 00:22:58,480 --> 00:23:00,720 Speaker 2: WHICH i relay in the Book Last, line it was 471 00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:02,480 Speaker 2: our time to stand up and fight for not Just, 472 00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:04,960 Speaker 2: missourians but for the rest of the country on some big. 473 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:07,760 Speaker 1: Wins you happen to be in a unique position because 474 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:11,639 Speaker 1: you had two years With trump where you could focus on, 475 00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:15,560 Speaker 1: crime and then, boom you suddenly have this very aggressive 476 00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:19,440 Speaker 1: left wing radicalism of The biden. Demonstration in terms of 477 00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:22,560 Speaker 1: your own thinking and your own team's, operation how long 478 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:25,080 Speaker 1: did it take you to shift gears and realize that 479 00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:25,840 Speaker 1: you were in a different. 480 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:29,199 Speaker 2: World, well we had Special Litigation unit sort of think 481 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:30,679 Speaker 2: of it as a seal team that you have in 482 00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:32,760 Speaker 2: an AG's. OFFICE i wanted to have WHEN i came, 483 00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:34,320 Speaker 2: in even the first two. YEARS i wanted to have 484 00:23:34,359 --> 00:23:36,960 Speaker 2: the MODEL ag office in the. Country and we looked 485 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:38,680 Speaker 2: and saw were the things that we could, do so 486 00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:41,760 Speaker 2: we wanted to push back against federal. Overreach at the state, 487 00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:44,880 Speaker 2: level we weren't. Deferring think About chevron. Deference we weren't. 488 00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:47,680 Speaker 2: Deferring even though we were defending. Agencies we never argued 489 00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:49,360 Speaker 2: to the court that they were the experts who wanted 490 00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:51,399 Speaker 2: the judges to rule on the law as it was, 491 00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:53,040 Speaker 2: written not how they wanted to be or what some 492 00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:55,520 Speaker 2: experts that it should. Be and at the local, level 493 00:23:55,560 --> 00:23:58,200 Speaker 2: we would go after local governments that exceeded their. Authority 494 00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:00,680 Speaker 2: think of mass, mandates think of those sorts of. Things 495 00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:03,000 Speaker 2: BUT i was. Fortunate we had a great. TEAM i 496 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:06,080 Speaker 2: mean My Solicitor general and for your, audience that's the 497 00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:08,719 Speaker 2: person that typically will argue the cases that The Missouri 498 00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:10,720 Speaker 2: Supreme court or The United States Supreme court was a 499 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:14,080 Speaker 2: guy in the named Of John, sower WHO i recommended To President. 500 00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:16,639 Speaker 2: Trump And John sowers now The Solicitor general of The 501 00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:19,399 Speaker 2: United states Of. America so we had a great. Team 502 00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:22,040 Speaker 2: John sower led that. GROUP i had a great chief of, 503 00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:25,280 Speaker 2: Staff Justin. Smith and what, Happened newt and you appreciate 504 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:28,359 Speaker 2: this when you exhibit that kind of. Leadership we started 505 00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:31,760 Speaker 2: having people from all across the country apply to work 506 00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:33,840 Speaker 2: in our office because they saw the work that we were. 507 00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:36,560 Speaker 2: Doing and when you look at the, landscape the country's 508 00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:40,080 Speaker 2: divided into different judicial. Circuits missouri is the biggest state 509 00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:44,080 Speaker 2: in The Eighth, circuit which is typically pretty. Conservative appellate 510 00:24:44,359 --> 00:24:46,560 Speaker 2: court in The Eighth, circuit and then you kind of 511 00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:48,879 Speaker 2: had a mix in the district court. Level, now the 512 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:51,359 Speaker 2: first four district court judges appointed By President trump or 513 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:53,080 Speaker 2: In Saint, louis they all worked for me in The 514 00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:56,199 Speaker 2: Attorney general's. Office so you're starting to see then one 515 00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:58,600 Speaker 2: of the Things i'm most proud, of that courage was 516 00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:02,800 Speaker 2: contagious and it's playing itself out now in senior positions 517 00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:05,680 Speaker 2: at The department Of justice and courts and other places 518 00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:07,240 Speaker 2: THAT i think we can be really proud of. It 519 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:09,639 Speaker 2: and again that's part of the playbook here in the. 520 00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:12,600 Speaker 2: Book the last line of defense is conservatives shouldn't see any. 521 00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:14,879 Speaker 2: Ground we should, fight and you'll forge a lot of 522 00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:16,960 Speaker 2: character in doing. It but we saw it pretty early 523 00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:19,680 Speaker 2: that they were going to be very aggressive with their executive, 524 00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:22,240 Speaker 2: orders and we were ready and we had a legal, 525 00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:24,440 Speaker 2: team and then you, know other states would join or 526 00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:26,240 Speaker 2: we would join with other, states but we tried to 527 00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:28,520 Speaker 2: take the lead as much as we. Could AND i 528 00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:32,360 Speaker 2: think though that once we got into the vaccine mandate, 529 00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:35,239 Speaker 2: cases once we got into the censorship, case we were 530 00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:37,360 Speaker 2: drawing a lot of attention because we were doing good. 531 00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:39,280 Speaker 2: Work we were taking on the tough fights and we were. 532 00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:40,439 Speaker 2: Winning it kind of became a. 533 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:45,120 Speaker 1: Model you really did a tremendous. Job and the first 534 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:48,280 Speaker 1: really big mal es say case on the social cost 535 00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:51,439 Speaker 1: of carbon. Rule for those of us who are not, 536 00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:54,080 Speaker 1: expert can you explain why did this matter so? 537 00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:59,439 Speaker 2: Much? So this social cost of greenhouse gases rule was 538 00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:01,520 Speaker 2: the most important. Rule no one had ever heard. Of 539 00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:04,040 Speaker 2: what they were trying to. Do this is like The 540 00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:07,119 Speaker 2: Green New deal without anybody ever having to vote on. 541 00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:10,639 Speaker 2: It because what they would do was they would extrapolate 542 00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:14,760 Speaker 2: into hundreds of years into the, future taking into account 543 00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:18,439 Speaker 2: historical events that they would predict what would be impact 544 00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:21,880 Speaker 2: of you building something b what would be the carbon 545 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:25,600 Speaker 2: impact of that years down the. Road it's all, speculation 546 00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:28,480 Speaker 2: but what it was meant to do was to give 547 00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:32,679 Speaker 2: unelected bureaucrats the ability to say no to things that 548 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:35,200 Speaker 2: should have been allowed to be constructed or built by. 549 00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:38,200 Speaker 2: Law of, course you would have the right to build 550 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:41,840 Speaker 2: this highway connecting point an POINT, b but they would 551 00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:44,800 Speaker 2: come up with some ridiculous excuse justified by this rule 552 00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:46,800 Speaker 2: to say no to. You so that was just like 553 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:50,160 Speaker 2: the first. Instance, then of, course they tried to undo 554 00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:53,000 Speaker 2: all of the executive orders That President trump had on the, 555 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:57,199 Speaker 2: border Like remain In, Mexico title forty two building the. 556 00:26:57,280 --> 00:27:00,800 Speaker 2: Wall we fought those and one for a. While, ultimately 557 00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:03,800 Speaker 2: Though biden was able to reverse the executive orders from 558 00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:07,000 Speaker 2: the previous. Administration but we held the dam back for a, 559 00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:09,720 Speaker 2: while and probably millions of people didn't come in for 560 00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:12,560 Speaker 2: the times in which we had injunctions in. Place but 561 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:14,119 Speaker 2: it wasn't a lot of. SALT i, mean that's what 562 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:17,080 Speaker 2: you ka saw was what it, was the, border on 563 00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:20,640 Speaker 2: the environmental, stuff on the just sort of personal freedom 564 00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:23,560 Speaker 2: side of. It think about. This congress passes The Chips, 565 00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:25,120 Speaker 2: act so you can build more chips in The United, 566 00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:28,840 Speaker 2: states sigen. Chips they were holding up a project In 567 00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:31,840 Speaker 2: arizona to do this because they hadn't hired enough ex 568 00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:35,280 Speaker 2: convicts to MEET dei. Requirements That congress never voted on. 569 00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:38,960 Speaker 2: Broadband there was money for broadband to connect Rural america 570 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:42,000 Speaker 2: to The, internet and those projects were being held up 571 00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:46,960 Speaker 2: because there weren't climate action plans submitted by small. CONTRACTORS i, 572 00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:49,280 Speaker 2: mean this is kind of just the viating that can 573 00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:53,800 Speaker 2: exist in government that really restricts not just people's individual, 574 00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:58,439 Speaker 2: liberty but, progress, construction us being a dominant player for 575 00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:01,919 Speaker 2: pharmaceuticals that we need to be back, home or the industrial, 576 00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:05,280 Speaker 2: base the reshoring of. Manufacturing if you have a government 577 00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:07,840 Speaker 2: that's weaponized really against all of that, stuff it's really 578 00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:09,680 Speaker 2: hard to. Do so our job is to try to 579 00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:11,920 Speaker 2: fight back against those. Things when we saw it. 580 00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:16,680 Speaker 1: Was very impressive the number of different lawsuits you filed 581 00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:19,359 Speaker 1: in a short period of time before running for The. 582 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:22,680 Speaker 1: Senate how did you pick which ones to? File biden 583 00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:26,440 Speaker 1: and his, Team we're giving you so many, opportunities how 584 00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:29,440 Speaker 1: did you single out and pick the ones you really 585 00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:30,119 Speaker 1: wanted to focus? 586 00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:34,040 Speaker 2: On, nationally we were viewed The Republican Attorney's General. Association 587 00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:36,359 Speaker 2: it's a great. ORGANIZATION i was vice chaired for a, 588 00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:38,800 Speaker 2: while briefly chaired UNTIL i had to step down to 589 00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:41,280 Speaker 2: run for The. Senate it was a good. Group everybody 590 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:43,760 Speaker 2: had really good relationships and some people would just kind 591 00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:46,719 Speaker 2: of take the, lead and some offices had more horsepower 592 00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:50,520 Speaker 2: than others just because of size or, focus and we 593 00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:52,840 Speaker 2: ended up just sort of just, saying, hey we've got something. 594 00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:55,520 Speaker 2: Drafted who wants to? Join and it's always just, initiative you. 595 00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:57,760 Speaker 2: Know but you, know it's interesting how some of these 596 00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:00,240 Speaker 2: cases that come, along like image in the Book Last 597 00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:01,760 Speaker 2: line Of, Defense how To beat The left And. Court 598 00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:03,560 Speaker 2: people can get it On amazon right. Now is like 599 00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:05,560 Speaker 2: the people who ask, me why did you decide to 600 00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:09,000 Speaker 2: file this censorship lawsuit The missouri Versus? Biden, well you, 601 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:11,719 Speaker 2: Know i'm there with my. Team we're Watching jensaki at 602 00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:15,320 Speaker 2: the podium talk about, openly like, hey we're flagging this 603 00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:19,400 Speaker 2: stuff For facebook ON covid misinformation or. Something and then 604 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:22,520 Speaker 2: they floated this idea of a disinformation governance, sport you, 605 00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:24,440 Speaker 2: know where the government would be deciding what the truth 606 00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:26,640 Speaker 2: is and what you could. Say and it just struck, 607 00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:29,200 Speaker 2: me knowing HOW i know things. Work if they were 608 00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:31,800 Speaker 2: willing to say that out loud, publicly there was a 609 00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:35,800 Speaker 2: lot more beneath the, surface and so we filed the 610 00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:38,120 Speaker 2: lawsuit In may of twenty twenty, two alleging that The 611 00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:42,680 Speaker 2: biden administration was, colluding coordinating course and social media companies 612 00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:45,000 Speaker 2: to do their bidding and sensor. Speech when we filed, 613 00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:48,080 Speaker 2: it of course everyone lampooned it as a conspiracy theory 614 00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:51,680 Speaker 2: and it was for attention grabbing purposes and all. This 615 00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:54,520 Speaker 2: but we made a strategic. DECISION i think this is 616 00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:56,480 Speaker 2: why the book will be interesting to people who aren't, 617 00:29:56,520 --> 00:29:58,480 Speaker 2: lawyers and it's not really written for. Lawyers LIKE i, 618 00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:01,280 Speaker 2: SAID i hope lawyers read, it but it's really for your, 619 00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:03,600 Speaker 2: audience like normal people who were willing to see what 620 00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:05,840 Speaker 2: was going on at the. Time, normally in those kind 621 00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:08,120 Speaker 2: of lawsuits new you seek an, injunction which is right, 622 00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:10,440 Speaker 2: away which is a temporary restraining order to get the 623 00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:13,160 Speaker 2: government or some party to stop doing what they're doing 624 00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:16,680 Speaker 2: that you find. Objectionable what we decided to do because 625 00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:18,800 Speaker 2: we knew we're going to need, Evidence we asked the 626 00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:23,000 Speaker 2: judge for discovery first and he granted. It and the 627 00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:25,320 Speaker 2: moment that all of this kind of came home to 628 00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:27,360 Speaker 2: me as just truly shocking was when we got the 629 00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:30,240 Speaker 2: reams and reams and thousands of pages of emails and 630 00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:33,800 Speaker 2: text messages from high ranking government officials to senior members 631 00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:36,440 Speaker 2: of leadership teams on social media saying take this. Down 632 00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:39,479 Speaker 2: THE cdc was giving them words and phrases to. Censor 633 00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:43,000 Speaker 2: they CENSORED Rfk junior day three of the administration because 634 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:46,920 Speaker 2: of his encouraging vaccine asitency or whatever the issue. Was 635 00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:51,320 Speaker 2: it was just shocking how aggressive they. Were we all 636 00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:54,240 Speaker 2: know government can't censor your, speech but you can't outsource it. 637 00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:56,960 Speaker 2: Either then they were working with these NGOs new With 638 00:30:57,200 --> 00:31:00,680 Speaker 2: stanford And university Of washington to have them this stuff 639 00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:03,960 Speaker 2: too for social media. Companies and by the, way this 640 00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:07,240 Speaker 2: enterprise really kind of Predated biden needed coming in. Office 641 00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:09,240 Speaker 2: that's one of the things that's most. Shocking THE. Fbi 642 00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:11,720 Speaker 2: we took the deposition Of Elvis, chan who was pre 643 00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:14,640 Speaker 2: bucking The Hunter biden laptop story in twenty, twenty and 644 00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:16,720 Speaker 2: THE fbi had it in twenty. Nineteen they knew it was, 645 00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:18,880 Speaker 2: real yet they were telling social media companies look out 646 00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:21,920 Speaker 2: for This russian Hacken league. Operation what it turns, out 647 00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:26,200 Speaker 2: as early as twenty, seventeen they were working With democrat 648 00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:29,920 Speaker 2: staffers facilitating meetings with social media companies to flag certain 649 00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:33,040 Speaker 2: speech to take down about the border or things they found. 650 00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:36,280 Speaker 2: Objectionable and one of the crazy. Things is start connecting 651 00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:39,680 Speaker 2: all the dots. Here The General council at THE fbi 652 00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:43,360 Speaker 2: during the end of twenty, sixteen when you start This 653 00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:45,680 Speaker 2: Russia gate, nonsense was a guy by the name Of 654 00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:50,680 Speaker 2: James baker Me then during The Hunter biden laptop censorship 655 00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:53,360 Speaker 2: effort in twenty twenty is The General council Of. Twitter 656 00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:58,280 Speaker 2: so these, guys they were in some instances working hand in. 657 00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:02,280 Speaker 2: Glove in other, instances The biden administration was threatening. Investigations 658 00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:04,840 Speaker 2: section two thirty protections would go away if they didn't 659 00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:08,200 Speaker 2: do what they wanted them to. Do it's chilling that 660 00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:11,040 Speaker 2: kind of censorship regime in The United states Of. AMERICA 661 00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:12,840 Speaker 2: i don't care if you're A republican or A democrat 662 00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:15,960 Speaker 2: like that is not something we should accept in this 663 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:17,920 Speaker 2: country and was, happening and we exposed it in The 664 00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:19,920 Speaker 2: missouri Versus biden lawsuit that we talk about in a. 665 00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:25,000 Speaker 1: Book when you're clearly making a historic impact As attorney, 666 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:28,880 Speaker 1: general then you run for THE Us, Senate President trump endorses, 667 00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:33,680 Speaker 1: You you win, decisively and When trump himself, announces you're 668 00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:36,920 Speaker 1: one of the very first senators to endorse. Him why 669 00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:37,640 Speaker 1: did you move so? 670 00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:41,000 Speaker 2: EARLY i Think President. Trump i've gotten to know him 671 00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:43,880 Speaker 2: really well as you'd spend time with. Him he Loves. 672 00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:48,400 Speaker 2: America he's. Authentic people see, it and he connects with real. 673 00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:50,920 Speaker 2: People AND i think where we're at right now in 674 00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:54,120 Speaker 2: this country is we need that more than. EVER i 675 00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:57,640 Speaker 2: also think the level of disruption that he brings to Permanent, 676 00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:00,600 Speaker 2: washington we need more of. It so for, me it 677 00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:02,320 Speaker 2: was a no, brainer AND i did everything THAT i. 678 00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:03,760 Speaker 2: Could i'd spent a lot of time on the campaign 679 00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:06,000 Speaker 2: trail with, them did WHATEVER i could open up before 680 00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:08,360 Speaker 2: he came in with the rallies and closing days of the. 681 00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:11,560 Speaker 2: Campaign he has also brought a great realignment of our 682 00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:15,120 Speaker 2: party to fight for working. People that's WHERE i grew. 683 00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:18,840 Speaker 2: UP i think working folks need a champion for, him 684 00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:22,760 Speaker 2: and The democrats have completely abandoned that. Space The democrats 685 00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:25,479 Speaker 2: THAT i grew up, around or pro life or pro, 686 00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:29,600 Speaker 2: gun those people don't hold elected office. Anymore So President trump, 687 00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:31,320 Speaker 2: SPOKE i think to. People and by the, way the 688 00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:33,800 Speaker 2: people that get hit with this double, whammy new of 689 00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:38,240 Speaker 2: their jobs were shipped overseas for lower, wages and then 690 00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:41,400 Speaker 2: as they're looking for new careers and new jobs through illegal, 691 00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:44,080 Speaker 2: immigration their wages were being undercut in that way, too 692 00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:46,440 Speaker 2: and they needed somebody to fight for. Him President trump's 693 00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:49,400 Speaker 2: been that, person and so, YEAH i was very. Early 694 00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:53,240 Speaker 2: AND i also thought that WHAT i saw in a 695 00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:57,200 Speaker 2: place Like missouri was people still very much wanted him 696 00:33:57,600 --> 00:33:59,920 Speaker 2: back in. OFFICE i just never thought anybody was ever 697 00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:02,240 Speaker 2: going to have a chance against the. GUY i believe 698 00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:05,000 Speaker 2: in them still do and so now be somebody that 699 00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:06,640 Speaker 2: gets to spend time with them or fight for his. 700 00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:08,600 Speaker 2: AGENDA i actually got to as a freshman. CENTER i 701 00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:11,080 Speaker 2: got to handle The precisions package in The senate that 702 00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:12,879 Speaker 2: we got. 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