1 00:00:03,560 --> 00:00:06,200 Speaker 1: On this episode of Newts World. There is so much 2 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:08,520 Speaker 1: happening in our country right now, and many of you 3 00:00:08,640 --> 00:00:11,760 Speaker 1: have questions. As part of my Inner Circle Club, I 4 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,600 Speaker 1: hold regular video meetings where you can ask you questions. 5 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:17,600 Speaker 1: Today I met with my Inner Circle, and there were 6 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:20,759 Speaker 1: so many great questions that are so timely for what's 7 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:23,160 Speaker 1: going on right now that I thought it was the 8 00:00:23,160 --> 00:00:26,240 Speaker 1: best way to share with you what I'm thinking about 9 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:30,840 Speaker 1: as I watch a really remarkably chaotic period in America. 10 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:34,160 Speaker 1: I hope you will find it informative. You can join 11 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:45,239 Speaker 1: my Inner Circle at newts inner Circle dot com. Let 12 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:50,199 Speaker 1: me start on a sad note. Sheldon Addolson, who was 13 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:54,880 Speaker 1: a remarkable entrepreneur, started out as a paperboy in Boston, 14 00:00:55,800 --> 00:00:58,920 Speaker 1: worked his way up, ultimately ended up as one of 15 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:03,640 Speaker 1: the wealthiest men in America, and always fought for policies 16 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:06,400 Speaker 1: that would let other people have a chance to rise 17 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:10,360 Speaker 1: to do well. He also was very very close to Israel, 18 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:13,560 Speaker 1: very close to bib Net and Yahoo, the current Prime Minister, 19 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:18,360 Speaker 1: and he and his wife Miriam were major investors in 20 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:24,720 Speaker 1: fighting drugs, helping with drug rehabilitation, and in endowing a 21 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:30,080 Speaker 1: medical research foundation that has amazing reach and that combined 22 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:34,440 Speaker 1: his entrepreneurial spirit with the best of science. He will 23 00:01:34,520 --> 00:01:37,759 Speaker 1: be badly missed. He was one of the most important 24 00:01:38,319 --> 00:01:42,120 Speaker 1: Republican supporters in the entire country in terms of his 25 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:45,840 Speaker 1: generosity and his commitment. He was a good friend to 26 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:49,080 Speaker 1: both clost In me and our prayers go out to 27 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:52,000 Speaker 1: Miriam and the family on the passing of Sheldon. I 28 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:54,360 Speaker 1: just wanted to start and say that because he was 29 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:57,000 Speaker 1: a remarkable friend. And of course we live in a 30 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:00,160 Speaker 1: period one so many of us have friends who are 31 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:03,520 Speaker 1: threatened by COVID and of other sorts of health problems. 32 00:02:04,160 --> 00:02:05,920 Speaker 1: We are in a very strange parade. Those of you 33 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:08,679 Speaker 1: who are you know, circle members, know that I've been 34 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:12,440 Speaker 1: sort of giving you brief commentary almost every day, and 35 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:15,399 Speaker 1: I have to tell you it takes hours to try 36 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:20,079 Speaker 1: to understand what's going on. You look at Nancy Pelosi 37 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:24,720 Speaker 1: rushing to impeach the president eight or nine days before 38 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:28,720 Speaker 1: he's going to leave anyway. You wonder what's motivating her. 39 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:33,160 Speaker 1: You look at President like Biden, who said this is 40 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:35,960 Speaker 1: a time for us to put our divisions behind us 41 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:38,880 Speaker 1: and to work together, and you wonder whether he ever 42 00:02:38,919 --> 00:02:42,600 Speaker 1: talks to Pelosi. Because there are certainly on two very 43 00:02:42,639 --> 00:02:46,880 Speaker 1: different tracks, and he either has no influence or doesn't 44 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:49,600 Speaker 1: want to have any influence over the craziness of the 45 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:54,360 Speaker 1: House Democrats. Earlier this week, the House Democrats adopted a 46 00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:57,680 Speaker 1: new set of Rules of the House which eliminated twenty 47 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:05,519 Speaker 1: nine words including mother, father, brother, sister, and uncle. Just 48 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:09,560 Speaker 1: go down the list. It's the kind of nutty radicalism 49 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:12,760 Speaker 1: that the average American does not understand. And I suspect 50 00:03:12,760 --> 00:03:15,840 Speaker 1: a lot of those Democrats two and seventeen of them 51 00:03:15,919 --> 00:03:19,359 Speaker 1: who voted yes for that new set of rules, are 52 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:22,440 Speaker 1: going to find it impossible to explain and defend them 53 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:25,760 Speaker 1: back home. So that's going on. At the same time, 54 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:30,360 Speaker 1: I think we are faced with the opportunity being taken 55 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:33,919 Speaker 1: by our opponents on the left to go all out 56 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:36,800 Speaker 1: to try to destroy the conservative movement. Not only are 57 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:40,680 Speaker 1: they trying to destroy President Trump, but they're also working 58 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:44,440 Speaker 1: very hard to eliminate people from Twitter, from Facebook, to 59 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:47,240 Speaker 1: cut off their believing good jobs. But I've never seen 60 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:51,600 Speaker 1: anything like the level of ruthlessness and the desire to 61 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:55,240 Speaker 1: go out and destroy people though we're seeing on the left. 62 00:03:55,680 --> 00:03:59,400 Speaker 1: They use as an excuse the violence which I have condemned. 63 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,440 Speaker 1: The capital of last Wednesday. But these are the same 64 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:06,080 Speaker 1: people who all summer were quiet while Black Lives Matter 65 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:11,400 Speaker 1: and Antifa were burning down entire neighborhoods, destroying private businesses, 66 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:15,920 Speaker 1: trashing entire streets. Somehow that was all okay, and in fact, 67 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:18,800 Speaker 1: some of the TV commentators even talked about the fact 68 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:21,240 Speaker 1: that it was okay to have a little violence with 69 00:04:21,400 --> 00:04:25,320 Speaker 1: your protests. Now suddenly last Wednesday not only as horrible, 70 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:27,440 Speaker 1: and by the way, it was horrible, it is wrong. 71 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:30,640 Speaker 1: As the former Speaker of the House, I'm very angry 72 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:34,440 Speaker 1: that they would desecrate what should be the center of 73 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:37,240 Speaker 1: freedom on the planet. But at the same time, the 74 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:41,720 Speaker 1: level of hypocrisy and the intensity of their condemnation, and 75 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:44,840 Speaker 1: the fact that they're clearly using this as an excuse 76 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:48,680 Speaker 1: to try to destroy the conservativement, which remember that seventy 77 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:53,000 Speaker 1: four million votes, won an increased share of the US 78 00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:56,760 Speaker 1: House of Representatives, won an increased share of state legislatures, 79 00:04:57,040 --> 00:05:01,000 Speaker 1: picked up a governorship, and became very close to keep 80 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:03,320 Speaker 1: in control of the Senate. In fact, they still have 81 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:07,560 Speaker 1: fifty seats the Senate. Only the vice president vote by 82 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:11,160 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris is going to give the Democrats control, So 83 00:05:11,560 --> 00:05:13,400 Speaker 1: if you look at all that and you think, how 84 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:17,360 Speaker 1: are you going to unify America if you have half 85 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:21,719 Speaker 1: the country being told that it's unacceptable, that it should 86 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:24,839 Speaker 1: be unemployable, that it should not be allowed to be 87 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:28,359 Speaker 1: on Twitter or Facebook, etc. And I think we're in 88 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:31,640 Speaker 1: a very dangerous period and I don't right now see 89 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:34,279 Speaker 1: an easy way out of it. I also think we're 90 00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:36,920 Speaker 1: a dangerous praid in terms of building with COVID. The 91 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:41,080 Speaker 1: public bureaucracies of this country are not very competent, and 92 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:43,919 Speaker 1: they're not getting the job done very well. And we 93 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:48,720 Speaker 1: are way behind schedule on distributing the vaccine. Ironically, that 94 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:52,040 Speaker 1: turned out you could develop the vaccine within a year, 95 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:55,680 Speaker 1: as President Trump said, but they didn't have a parallel 96 00:05:56,000 --> 00:06:00,320 Speaker 1: distribution scheme that really works at the same time, sort 97 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:04,080 Speaker 1: of study that. In Iceland, they've had only six deaths. 98 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:08,159 Speaker 1: Now it's a very small country, but they responded very early. 99 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:12,920 Speaker 1: They adopted very carefully tracked policies of finding out who 100 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:15,480 Speaker 1: has a disease, what do we need to do about it, 101 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:18,360 Speaker 1: how do we isolate them? They had seven weeks, have 102 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:22,279 Speaker 1: shut down one time and got the disease under control, 103 00:06:22,720 --> 00:06:25,599 Speaker 1: and since then they've done such a good job that 104 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:28,080 Speaker 1: they actually are now open for tourism. They've had people 105 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:31,640 Speaker 1: from some forty six countries come to Iceland as tourists 106 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:34,839 Speaker 1: in the last few months because they know that if 107 00:06:34,839 --> 00:06:37,039 Speaker 1: they tried to lock the whole country down very long, 108 00:06:37,320 --> 00:06:39,400 Speaker 1: they would go bankrupt. You know, it's not a big 109 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:42,800 Speaker 1: enough country to withstand the kind of insanity that we're 110 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:46,240 Speaker 1: seeing in New York and Illinois, in California. So again 111 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:49,880 Speaker 1: it's a reminder of just a challenge we were faced with. Finally, 112 00:06:49,960 --> 00:06:54,440 Speaker 1: in Chicago, the school superintendent has said if teachers don't 113 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:57,799 Speaker 1: show up, they're going to be counterless to leave without 114 00:06:57,839 --> 00:07:00,599 Speaker 1: pay and they're going to start losing their salary. Not 115 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:04,599 Speaker 1: only took months and months and months. Overall, there are 116 00:07:04,720 --> 00:07:07,479 Speaker 1: a lot of challenges ahead of us. I am very 117 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:10,560 Speaker 1: concerned about our inability as a country to have a 118 00:07:10,640 --> 00:07:15,200 Speaker 1: serious news media, have a serious conversation, whether it's about China, 119 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:19,680 Speaker 1: or it's about education reform, or it's about election reform, 120 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:24,280 Speaker 1: or about getting our bureaucracy so they're competent, or fighting corruption. 121 00:07:24,760 --> 00:07:28,800 Speaker 1: The FBI has reported they're investigating one scheme where several 122 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:32,080 Speaker 1: hundred million dollars may have been stolen on the internet 123 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:35,840 Speaker 1: by Nigerians who figured out a way to take some 124 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:39,480 Speaker 1: of the supplemental money that came out and divert it 125 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:42,840 Speaker 1: to phony accounts. So we have a lot of work 126 00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:46,840 Speaker 1: to do, and we are going to continue to devote 127 00:07:46,840 --> 00:07:49,720 Speaker 1: these things. And I find it very helpful to get 128 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:52,880 Speaker 1: your questions and your ideas and hear from you, and 129 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:55,680 Speaker 1: so that's part of why we do these instead of 130 00:07:55,680 --> 00:08:14,920 Speaker 1: a genuine interaction. So let me start by turning to 131 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:18,440 Speaker 1: Debbie and asking her if she's got some questions that 132 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:22,160 Speaker 1: people have already emailed in. Yes, one question. We got 133 00:08:22,160 --> 00:08:24,640 Speaker 1: it from a lot of people, summon the inner circles, 134 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:28,520 Speaker 1: some from Facebook. Can you please explain your newsletter comments 135 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:31,880 Speaker 1: about Vice President Pence being brave in his actions and 136 00:08:32,040 --> 00:08:35,640 Speaker 1: could Pence do what President Trump was asking him to do. 137 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:39,720 Speaker 1: That's a superb question I'm glad to answer. First of all, 138 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:44,840 Speaker 1: I thought, whether you agreed or disagreed with his decision, 139 00:08:45,960 --> 00:08:49,000 Speaker 1: he clearly made it on his own and I thought 140 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:51,520 Speaker 1: that that took courage. And I thought it was important 141 00:08:51,520 --> 00:08:56,200 Speaker 1: to remember the Vice president swore an oath to the Constitution. 142 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:59,520 Speaker 1: He didn't swear an oath to the Republican Party. He 143 00:08:59,559 --> 00:09:03,160 Speaker 1: didn't where an oath to the president. He swore an 144 00:09:03,160 --> 00:09:06,640 Speaker 1: oath to uphold the Constitution. I've known Mike for years, 145 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:10,760 Speaker 1: since nineteen eighty eight, and I am convinced that he 146 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:14,320 Speaker 1: did what he thought was right and that he thought 147 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:16,480 Speaker 1: it was his duty to do that. And I was 148 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:19,200 Speaker 1: delighted to note that he and the President have met 149 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:21,880 Speaker 1: and have talked, and they are going to work together 150 00:09:21,920 --> 00:09:23,760 Speaker 1: through the rest of the term. So I think the 151 00:09:24,160 --> 00:09:27,200 Speaker 1: anger that the President had, the frustration that the president 152 00:09:27,880 --> 00:09:30,839 Speaker 1: may have burned out a little bit since then. But 153 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:34,520 Speaker 1: I would also point out to people, had Pence tried 154 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:37,880 Speaker 1: to do what the President wanted to do, he just 155 00:09:37,880 --> 00:09:40,640 Speaker 1: would have been overruled by the House and Senate. The 156 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:46,880 Speaker 1: fact is they didn't have enough proof to convince members 157 00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:50,640 Speaker 1: that they should block the states from having their electors seated, 158 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:54,240 Speaker 1: and therefore, in the absence of that proof, people were 159 00:09:54,240 --> 00:09:58,439 Speaker 1: going to vote by substantial numbers to overturn to block 160 00:09:58,520 --> 00:10:04,840 Speaker 1: the vice president unilaterally on his own making that decision. Furthermore, 161 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:07,720 Speaker 1: we have no evidence ever in American history that the 162 00:10:07,760 --> 00:10:11,600 Speaker 1: founding fathers wanted one person to decide who was going 163 00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:14,439 Speaker 1: to be president, that they set up a process that 164 00:10:14,559 --> 00:10:17,920 Speaker 1: included the House, and included the Senate, and included the 165 00:10:17,920 --> 00:10:21,360 Speaker 1: state of legislatures. It's a very elaborate process, and I 166 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:23,720 Speaker 1: think it would have been a huge mistake to have 167 00:10:23,760 --> 00:10:26,560 Speaker 1: had one person decided that they were going to insert 168 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:31,200 Speaker 1: themselves and make that decision an overarching question for many 169 00:10:31,240 --> 00:10:35,360 Speaker 1: people as well. When we don't control the presidency, the Senate, 170 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:38,520 Speaker 1: and the Congress, what can be done about removing social 171 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:42,000 Speaker 1: media as immunity from lawsuit by being classified as a 172 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:46,640 Speaker 1: public carrier? And can you explain Section two thirty. There 173 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:48,440 Speaker 1: are two parts of US that have emerged. One is 174 00:10:48,800 --> 00:10:53,719 Speaker 1: Section two thirty, which is a protection to Internet companies 175 00:10:54,280 --> 00:10:57,960 Speaker 1: that they can carry material without being sued because they're 176 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:00,800 Speaker 1: not publishers. And there's a very good argument of that 177 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:04,240 Speaker 1: section in fact is now obsolete and we should get 178 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:07,840 Speaker 1: rid of it. But there's an even better argument that 179 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:12,520 Speaker 1: the big internet companies are such an oligopola, they're so 180 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:16,960 Speaker 1: narrowly controlling that in effect they are an arm of 181 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:20,840 Speaker 1: the government, and that the courts have ruled over and 182 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:24,760 Speaker 1: over again that the Congress and the government cannot get 183 00:11:24,800 --> 00:11:28,199 Speaker 1: the private sector to do what the government can't do. 184 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:32,360 Speaker 1: So the whole issue of freedom of speech, I think 185 00:11:32,840 --> 00:11:34,920 Speaker 1: is going to come back to bite them. I was 186 00:11:34,960 --> 00:11:37,960 Speaker 1: delighted that Parlor filed a lawsuit. I think there'll be 187 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:41,480 Speaker 1: more lawsuits being filed. And I also am delighted to 188 00:11:41,520 --> 00:11:44,599 Speaker 1: report that I'm already talking with a number of conservatives 189 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:49,120 Speaker 1: who are putting together and alternatives. You'll presently have a 190 00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:53,800 Speaker 1: conservative alternative to Facebook, conservative alternative to Twitter, and I 191 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:56,520 Speaker 1: think they will grow very rapidly, and I think people 192 00:11:56,559 --> 00:11:59,880 Speaker 1: will be shocked how many people leave those largens to 193 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:03,640 Speaker 1: us and go to these new, freer, more honest, and 194 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:07,760 Speaker 1: more open systems. Which do you think is the correct 195 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:10,560 Speaker 1: path going forward on social media? And this question is 196 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:14,400 Speaker 1: from Alex There's two types of proposals except the break 197 00:12:14,440 --> 00:12:17,400 Speaker 1: and as you were saying, build a separate infrastructure that 198 00:12:17,440 --> 00:12:21,439 Speaker 1: can accommodate conservatives and continue to protect free speech or 199 00:12:22,040 --> 00:12:24,960 Speaker 1: be valuable, take note of what they're doing, but try 200 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:28,280 Speaker 1: to bring everybody together to work within their system. Which 201 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:30,720 Speaker 1: approach do you think is the correct one? I think 202 00:12:30,760 --> 00:12:34,520 Speaker 1: you are much safer to have competition. We've always had 203 00:12:34,679 --> 00:12:39,760 Speaker 1: a distrust in America of really big systems. We distrusted 204 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:42,000 Speaker 1: the railroads when they were at their peak. In fact, 205 00:12:42,040 --> 00:12:45,800 Speaker 1: the original reform movements were very often against the railroads. 206 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:49,600 Speaker 1: We distrusted Standard Oil when it was essentially a monopoly. 207 00:12:50,160 --> 00:12:53,320 Speaker 1: We have distrusted IBM when it was virtually a monopoly. 208 00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:56,800 Speaker 1: We distrusted AT and T when it was a monopoly. 209 00:12:57,120 --> 00:12:59,800 Speaker 1: So I think we've had a long tradition of saying 210 00:13:00,200 --> 00:13:04,120 Speaker 1: we want competition, and we don't trust the government to 211 00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:07,079 Speaker 1: try to regulate these big companies, because the big companies 212 00:13:07,160 --> 00:13:11,600 Speaker 1: ultimately simply undermine the government and manipulate it, and they 213 00:13:11,640 --> 00:13:15,160 Speaker 1: place their people in key positions. And I've recently experienced 214 00:13:15,160 --> 00:13:18,040 Speaker 1: this in trying to get five G worked out as 215 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:22,160 Speaker 1: a form of internet communications, because I've watched, particularly AT 216 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:25,160 Speaker 1: and T, with its huge amount of muscle and its 217 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:28,439 Speaker 1: giant lobbying system, do everything it could to protect it 218 00:13:28,520 --> 00:13:32,320 Speaker 1: from any competition. These big companies don't like competition, and 219 00:13:32,440 --> 00:13:35,920 Speaker 1: I think competition is good because it gives you, the consumer, 220 00:13:36,720 --> 00:13:39,800 Speaker 1: the ability to choose. It puts you in the key place, 221 00:13:40,280 --> 00:13:43,880 Speaker 1: and nothing I think keeps a system honest as fast 222 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:48,520 Speaker 1: as competition. Terry from Missouri asks what are you in 223 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:51,840 Speaker 1: gingage three sixty doing to try to prevent your losing 224 00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:55,839 Speaker 1: the ability to communicate with us. We need you, thank you, 225 00:13:56,200 --> 00:13:58,080 Speaker 1: thank you for that. Well, one of the things we're 226 00:13:58,080 --> 00:14:02,560 Speaker 1: doing is encouraging everybody to sign up for the newsletters, 227 00:14:02,920 --> 00:14:06,200 Speaker 1: because are three newsletters which go out every week for free. 228 00:14:06,600 --> 00:14:08,240 Speaker 1: They're housed in such a way that none of the 229 00:14:08,240 --> 00:14:11,360 Speaker 1: big Internet companies can cut them off. So that's part 230 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:14,440 Speaker 1: of our fallback plan. We also have a fallback plan 231 00:14:14,520 --> 00:14:17,440 Speaker 1: for our podcasts, which do not come out through the 232 00:14:17,440 --> 00:14:21,200 Speaker 1: big Internet companies, and so we hope that we're gonna 233 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:23,000 Speaker 1: be able to stay in touch now. To be honest, 234 00:14:23,040 --> 00:14:26,360 Speaker 1: it's a huge advantage to have over two million people 235 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:29,400 Speaker 1: on Twitter and over a million people on Facebook, and 236 00:14:29,480 --> 00:14:32,040 Speaker 1: that lets us have a reach in saying things and 237 00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:36,080 Speaker 1: in communicating people that is valuable and that I've tried 238 00:14:36,120 --> 00:14:41,520 Speaker 1: to use virtually every single day. But as an absolute 239 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:44,240 Speaker 1: final fallback, I would urge you, if you don't already 240 00:14:44,280 --> 00:14:47,520 Speaker 1: get it, to go to English Sweet sixty and sign 241 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:51,560 Speaker 1: up for the newsletters that will help you continue. Similarly, 242 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:55,560 Speaker 1: we can reach you directly through Inner Circle without anybody 243 00:14:55,600 --> 00:14:58,280 Speaker 1: being able to cut it off, so we're consciously working 244 00:14:58,280 --> 00:15:00,240 Speaker 1: on that end. We're talking with a lot of weather 245 00:15:00,280 --> 00:15:05,320 Speaker 1: conservatives about establishing some competitive systems that will enable us 246 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:09,080 Speaker 1: to reach millions of people in direct competition with these 247 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:13,480 Speaker 1: big companies. What is being done to investigate involvement by 248 00:15:13,560 --> 00:15:17,240 Speaker 1: Antifa and Black Lives Matter members as part of the 249 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:19,800 Speaker 1: violence at the Capitol last week? And this is from 250 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:23,120 Speaker 1: Sharon from California, who feels part of this was a setup. 251 00:15:23,760 --> 00:15:26,640 Speaker 1: I do feel like the people who were violent in 252 00:15:26,680 --> 00:15:31,680 Speaker 1: no way resemble your normal Trump's supporter. But what I 253 00:15:31,680 --> 00:15:34,480 Speaker 1: would say just is that the FBI is very deeply 254 00:15:34,520 --> 00:15:37,720 Speaker 1: into this. I think they've already arrested fifty or sixty people. 255 00:15:38,120 --> 00:15:41,480 Speaker 1: They're looking at the videos, they're trying to track people down, 256 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:44,120 Speaker 1: and I think over the next week or two we'll 257 00:15:44,160 --> 00:15:47,200 Speaker 1: learn a great deal about who is doing this. And frankly, 258 00:15:47,720 --> 00:15:50,040 Speaker 1: people who are violent on the right are just as 259 00:15:50,080 --> 00:15:53,040 Speaker 1: bad as people are violent on the left. There are 260 00:15:53,080 --> 00:15:55,520 Speaker 1: more people on the left who are violent, but there 261 00:15:55,520 --> 00:15:58,520 Speaker 1: are some small groups on the right that are very violent, 262 00:15:58,840 --> 00:16:01,600 Speaker 1: and we have to be prepared to oppose those fully 263 00:16:01,600 --> 00:16:03,840 Speaker 1: as much as we would oppose people on the left 264 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:06,400 Speaker 1: who are violent. Here's another one that we got a 265 00:16:06,400 --> 00:16:08,720 Speaker 1: lot of feedback on for you to talk about an 266 00:16:08,760 --> 00:16:12,000 Speaker 1: address a lot of people are very frustrated and very 267 00:16:12,040 --> 00:16:15,880 Speaker 1: angry with the Republican Party. So Inner Circle member Paul 268 00:16:16,800 --> 00:16:18,320 Speaker 1: kind of summed it up, and he wants to know 269 00:16:18,480 --> 00:16:20,600 Speaker 1: what's your take on the direction of the party in 270 00:16:20,640 --> 00:16:22,800 Speaker 1: the next two years, and how do we get them 271 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:25,200 Speaker 1: to be more in touch with the people and what 272 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:28,040 Speaker 1: the people are concerned about. They feel very tone deaf 273 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:30,960 Speaker 1: to what the people are saying, and how do we 274 00:16:31,080 --> 00:16:34,040 Speaker 1: unify it. Well, Paul, let me say first of all 275 00:16:34,080 --> 00:16:39,160 Speaker 1: that I have been active since August of nineteen fifty eight, 276 00:16:39,840 --> 00:16:44,200 Speaker 1: between my freshman sophomore years in high school. I've been 277 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:47,440 Speaker 1: doing this a long time, and I share your frustration. 278 00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:51,480 Speaker 1: One of the reasons Trump got nominated in sixteen was 279 00:16:51,520 --> 00:16:54,560 Speaker 1: that people were fed up with the Washington leadership of 280 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:57,560 Speaker 1: the Republican Party. And I think they'll be very interesting 281 00:16:57,600 --> 00:16:59,440 Speaker 1: in the next few wants to see what not at 282 00:16:59,480 --> 00:17:02,000 Speaker 1: the party said at all. I can tell you that 283 00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:05,600 Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy, the Republican leader in the House, clearly gets it. 284 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:09,640 Speaker 1: He went out and recruited very intelligently with the largest 285 00:17:09,720 --> 00:17:12,560 Speaker 1: number of minority members and the largest number of women 286 00:17:12,640 --> 00:17:15,920 Speaker 1: members in history. I think he has a sense that 287 00:17:15,960 --> 00:17:19,960 Speaker 1: you have to be a people oriented Republican party and 288 00:17:20,119 --> 00:17:22,919 Speaker 1: have to represent people. If you're going to be successful 289 00:17:22,920 --> 00:17:25,879 Speaker 1: in doing this. You can't just be a country club party. 290 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:29,200 Speaker 1: You can't just be a corporation party. But I also 291 00:17:29,240 --> 00:17:32,440 Speaker 1: think that the culture of Republicans is a real problem 292 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:36,840 Speaker 1: the Democrats, because they represent trial lawyers and union leaders, 293 00:17:37,480 --> 00:17:40,960 Speaker 1: they're very used to fighting, and they're instinct is to fight. 294 00:17:41,040 --> 00:17:43,399 Speaker 1: Watch what they're doing right now in trying to destroy 295 00:17:43,520 --> 00:17:47,359 Speaker 1: the president when they're just really used to fighting. Republicans, 296 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:50,919 Speaker 1: who tend to come out of more orderly backgrounds, tend 297 00:17:50,960 --> 00:17:54,680 Speaker 1: to have sort of a managerial attitude of let's get 298 00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:59,360 Speaker 1: together and let's be reasonable, let's do a PowerPoint presentation. Now. 299 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:03,560 Speaker 1: Luckily we have among younger Republicans had a number of 300 00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:08,960 Speaker 1: veterans from Afghanistan and Iraq and elsewhere. I think that's 301 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:11,200 Speaker 1: giving us a little more of a taste of what 302 00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:13,720 Speaker 1: we need to be. But there isn't a real problem 303 00:18:14,080 --> 00:18:17,080 Speaker 1: that the culture of the Republican Party, I think isn't 304 00:18:17,119 --> 00:18:19,639 Speaker 1: as a tune to people as it should be, and 305 00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:21,399 Speaker 1: that that was one of the great things that Trump 306 00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:25,600 Speaker 1: brought in the twenty fifteen and sixteen was an instinctive 307 00:18:25,720 --> 00:18:29,959 Speaker 1: understanding of who his supporters were and what they really wanted, 308 00:18:30,200 --> 00:18:35,000 Speaker 1: and his willingness to stand with his supporters against the establishment. 309 00:18:36,160 --> 00:18:39,680 Speaker 1: Mark from Virginia asks where do we go from here? 310 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:43,520 Speaker 1: He agrees with the podcast you did called Bipartisan Boulogne. 311 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:46,439 Speaker 1: He feels that it's been madness since the sixties and 312 00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:49,600 Speaker 1: it's so lopsided it's crazy. Is there anyone that will 313 00:18:49,680 --> 00:18:52,119 Speaker 1: lead us back to the foundations of the republic and 314 00:18:52,240 --> 00:18:54,880 Speaker 1: what do we do from here on out? Well, Mark, 315 00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:57,000 Speaker 1: I would say it's a great question, and the first 316 00:18:57,040 --> 00:19:02,240 Speaker 1: answers you in the state legislature, in local governments to 317 00:19:02,280 --> 00:19:06,280 Speaker 1: make substantial gains, and I suspect we will make substantial games. 318 00:19:06,760 --> 00:19:08,920 Speaker 1: And I think that if you look at how bad 319 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:11,240 Speaker 1: the governor of Virginia has been, the Democrats have a 320 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:15,120 Speaker 1: pretty bad track record right now. So I would say, 321 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:18,880 Speaker 1: let's start by beginning to recover in places like Virginia 322 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:23,520 Speaker 1: and New Jersey, in Kentucky and Louisiana this year, and 323 00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:25,800 Speaker 1: then in twenty twenty two we can have a chance 324 00:19:25,800 --> 00:19:29,400 Speaker 1: across the whole country to continue to accelerate that recovery. 325 00:19:30,119 --> 00:19:33,480 Speaker 1: Marietta asked, did you agree with the Supreme Court decision 326 00:19:33,520 --> 00:19:37,080 Speaker 1: about not wanting to take the election fraud case, should 327 00:19:37,080 --> 00:19:39,679 Speaker 1: they have taken it? And if they didn't take the 328 00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:43,280 Speaker 1: case because they didn't want to influence the election, aren't 329 00:19:43,320 --> 00:19:46,560 Speaker 1: they influencing the election by not taking the case. Yeah? 330 00:19:46,600 --> 00:19:48,639 Speaker 1: I thought they were wrong to not take the case, 331 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:54,040 Speaker 1: partially because I think what is frustrated the Trump's supporters 332 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:58,240 Speaker 1: as much as anything is the inability to find a 333 00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:02,040 Speaker 1: place where you could have an honest conversation about the evidence. 334 00:20:02,640 --> 00:20:04,800 Speaker 1: And I think people feel like it's been squelshed by 335 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:08,040 Speaker 1: the news media, it's been squelshed by the internet companies, 336 00:20:08,359 --> 00:20:11,040 Speaker 1: that's been squelshed by the courts, and so they feel 337 00:20:11,080 --> 00:20:13,480 Speaker 1: like they don't have their day in court. And I 338 00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:15,520 Speaker 1: think that it would have been healthy for the country 339 00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:18,920 Speaker 1: to have actually had a trial and actually allow people 340 00:20:18,960 --> 00:20:21,560 Speaker 1: to bring the evidence in and to go through cross 341 00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:24,880 Speaker 1: examination and see whether or not they could have made 342 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:28,080 Speaker 1: a clear and compelling case. Bruce had sent us a 343 00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:31,840 Speaker 1: lengthy proposal on a suggestion he had calling for a 344 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:36,000 Speaker 1: national revote. Can you talk about would a national revote 345 00:20:36,480 --> 00:20:39,160 Speaker 1: ever be possible? Would it be possible in this instance? 346 00:20:39,280 --> 00:20:42,160 Speaker 1: Why not? I think it would be very hard to do. 347 00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:45,320 Speaker 1: I actually think it would be better off to have 348 00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:49,439 Speaker 1: a significant, focused effort over the next four years to 349 00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:52,840 Speaker 1: tighten up our election laws, starting with a very obvious, 350 00:20:52,840 --> 00:20:55,679 Speaker 1: simple thing. You ought to have a photo idea that 351 00:20:55,760 --> 00:20:58,160 Speaker 1: proves who you are, and you should have to prove 352 00:20:58,160 --> 00:21:01,000 Speaker 1: who you are before you vote. I mean this idea 353 00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:06,200 Speaker 1: that you have ballots coming in from everywhere with no signature, verification, etc. 354 00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:10,200 Speaker 1: Is just an invitation to theft. And so I'm very 355 00:21:10,280 --> 00:21:13,240 Speaker 1: much for fixing the election laws. But I think, frankly, 356 00:21:13,560 --> 00:21:17,760 Speaker 1: if we could have one election one time, know that 357 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:20,000 Speaker 1: it was honest, I know that was accurate, that would 358 00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:22,199 Speaker 1: be far and away the best thing we could do. 359 00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:25,320 Speaker 1: And a follow up question from David, do you know 360 00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:28,920 Speaker 1: what is the strategy to roll back some of these 361 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:32,080 Speaker 1: voting changes that happened across the country. I don't think 362 00:21:32,119 --> 00:21:34,600 Speaker 1: it's as clear as a strategy yet, but I think 363 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:37,119 Speaker 1: there are a lot of different people who intend to 364 00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:41,320 Speaker 1: work on honest, accurate elections. And we're lucky because in 365 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:46,119 Speaker 1: twenty four states we have Republicans control both the House 366 00:21:46,119 --> 00:21:48,639 Speaker 1: and the Senate and the governorship, so we should be 367 00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:52,000 Speaker 1: able in this coming year to pass some legislation that's 368 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:56,240 Speaker 1: effective and actually get things done that really matter. And 369 00:21:56,400 --> 00:22:00,879 Speaker 1: this question, mister Speaker, my question is can Nancy Pelosi impeached? 370 00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:04,399 Speaker 1: And if so, how No she could be defeated. That 371 00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:06,679 Speaker 1: would require all you have to do is move to 372 00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:08,920 Speaker 1: vacate the chair, and if you had two hundred and 373 00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:12,159 Speaker 1: eighteen votes, she'd be kicked out. That happened to the 374 00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:15,560 Speaker 1: Speaker Cannon back in nineteen o nine. She has a 375 00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:18,400 Speaker 1: very narrow majority. I think she's going to be far 376 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:21,119 Speaker 1: too radical and I would not be at all surprised 377 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:24,919 Speaker 1: to see Kevin McCarthy become the de facto leader of 378 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:28,080 Speaker 1: the majority of the House just because I think he's president. 379 00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:30,640 Speaker 1: Are gonna be able to win votes against her. John 380 00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:33,720 Speaker 1: and Arlene ask, what do we know and when can 381 00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:36,639 Speaker 1: we expect the results of the Durham Report? Will Biden 382 00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:40,040 Speaker 1: be able to suppress the full report? Well? First of all, 383 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:44,520 Speaker 1: I think that one of the nominations which Biden has 384 00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:48,440 Speaker 1: done well is the Attorney General. I think almost everybody 385 00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:54,639 Speaker 1: believes that Mary Garland is a serious professional, an honest person. 386 00:22:55,760 --> 00:22:57,399 Speaker 1: I was very worried they were going to put in 387 00:22:57,440 --> 00:23:02,240 Speaker 1: somebody who would be the kind of aggressive vicious partisan 388 00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:04,560 Speaker 1: who would have spent the next few years going out 389 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:07,600 Speaker 1: and trying to hunt down Republicans. I don't think that'll 390 00:23:07,640 --> 00:23:11,119 Speaker 1: happen now. I suspect they will allow Durham to issue 391 00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:14,159 Speaker 1: the report that he wants to issue. Every evidence we 392 00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:18,600 Speaker 1: have is that he's a serious person. He was substantially 393 00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:21,440 Speaker 1: slowed down by COVID, but I have not heard any 394 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:24,879 Speaker 1: reports then in any way indicate he's backing off. And 395 00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:26,919 Speaker 1: so I suspect the next couple of months we'll learn 396 00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:30,280 Speaker 1: a great deal and that it will probably involve some 397 00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:33,760 Speaker 1: people that will surprise us. What if question from Glenn 398 00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:39,600 Speaker 1: and California? What if Trump stepped down and made Pence president? 399 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:44,480 Speaker 1: Could Pence then pardon any or all of Trump's accused offenses. 400 00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:51,119 Speaker 1: He could certainly pardon Trump. But if I were Trump, 401 00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:54,920 Speaker 1: I would be very cautious about that because that implies 402 00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:58,320 Speaker 1: there's something he has to be pardoned for. I think 403 00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:01,160 Speaker 1: he's probably better off to fight it out. I know 404 00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:03,680 Speaker 1: there are elements that would like to go after him, 405 00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:06,200 Speaker 1: but he's even in lawsuits. Most of his business crew 406 00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:09,600 Speaker 1: know he understands lawsuits. That would just be very cautious. 407 00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:11,119 Speaker 1: I think it would be very hard to run in 408 00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:14,639 Speaker 1: twenty four if he got pardoned, because it would have 409 00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:16,920 Speaker 1: a presumption that there was something that had to be pardoned. 410 00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:19,720 Speaker 1: And I think if he wants to run in twenty four, 411 00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:22,560 Speaker 1: then he needs to be prepared to fight to win 412 00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:25,639 Speaker 1: the argument and I prove to people necessary in courts 413 00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:29,560 Speaker 1: of law that he was in fact innocent and not guilty. 414 00:24:30,119 --> 00:24:35,639 Speaker 1: Damien from California ass I'm a believer in supply side economics. Thus, 415 00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:39,359 Speaker 1: concerned about a government controlled by liberals and high taxes 416 00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:43,200 Speaker 1: and increased government regulations. What do you expect from Congress 417 00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:48,160 Speaker 1: and it's impact on our GDP over the next two years. Well, 418 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:51,680 Speaker 1: I suspect we'll go back to the Obama Biden tradition 419 00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:56,440 Speaker 1: of too many regulations, too much taxation, too many favors 420 00:24:56,440 --> 00:25:00,960 Speaker 1: for big unions, too much chrony investment in that don't work. 421 00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:04,639 Speaker 1: Those are the hallmarks of the Obama period for eight years, 422 00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:08,440 Speaker 1: and I suspect that the economy will be substantially weaker 423 00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:11,920 Speaker 1: than it would have been under President Trump. Remember also, though, 424 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:14,919 Speaker 1: in the short run, if the vaccines get out and 425 00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:17,640 Speaker 1: turn out to be working, and you have a dramatic 426 00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:20,879 Speaker 1: decline in COVID by summer. You have so much money 427 00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:23,480 Speaker 1: that's been given away by the government, you're going to 428 00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:26,000 Speaker 1: get a boom, at least for a while. So they 429 00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:29,240 Speaker 1: may have a much better economy for a year or two, 430 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:32,240 Speaker 1: just because of all the pent up demand and all 431 00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:34,480 Speaker 1: the money that the government's been handing out to people. 432 00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:39,280 Speaker 1: But I suspect that the instinct of the Biden team 433 00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:43,800 Speaker 1: to adopt policies that slow economic growth, kill jobs, and 434 00:25:43,920 --> 00:26:01,159 Speaker 1: make it harder for us to get ahead. Nude I 435 00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:03,800 Speaker 1: was wondering, if you were in a position to do 436 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:07,520 Speaker 1: a new contract with America, what items would you have 437 00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:10,119 Speaker 1: on In other words, what should the Republican platform be. 438 00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:13,960 Speaker 1: What should we be uniting behind as our policies. It's 439 00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:16,480 Speaker 1: a great question. Some of them are obvious. We ought 440 00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:19,600 Speaker 1: to be uniting behind honest elections. We ought to be 441 00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:25,000 Speaker 1: uniting behind very dramatic and deep educational reform that applies 442 00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:27,680 Speaker 1: to every American, because we're gonna have millions of Americans. 443 00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:31,040 Speaker 1: We need to be retrained. Because as the economy of als, 444 00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:35,720 Speaker 1: I would personally like to see a very dramatic shift 445 00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:40,480 Speaker 1: towards solving the challenges of aging and solving the challenges 446 00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:45,000 Speaker 1: of things like Alzheimer's, which are enormous both human problems 447 00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:48,399 Speaker 1: but also financial problems. I think that we have to 448 00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:51,760 Speaker 1: confront how bad our bureaucracies are. I think, frankly, there 449 00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:55,680 Speaker 1: should be some commission that looks at the whole public 450 00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:59,760 Speaker 1: health process over the last year and recognizes that this 451 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:04,000 Speaker 1: has been a disaster. We've gotten mixed advice, confused advice. 452 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:06,800 Speaker 1: The Center for Disease Control in many ways failed to 453 00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:09,679 Speaker 1: do its job. The whole mix of state and local 454 00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:15,760 Speaker 1: public health services are too bureaucratic and too slow. And 455 00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:18,080 Speaker 1: I think that we have a lot of reasons to 456 00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:22,480 Speaker 1: believe that if you compare what we're doing with say 457 00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:30,080 Speaker 1: South Korea or Taiwan, or Singapore, or New Zealand or Iceland, 458 00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:32,520 Speaker 1: that there are a lot of lessons we should be 459 00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:36,760 Speaker 1: learning to reform our system before we get to another pandemic. 460 00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:42,800 Speaker 1: You said the Republicans need to fight more, and I 461 00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:49,360 Speaker 1: was looking for things specifically in quotes that Trump said, 462 00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:56,080 Speaker 1: and what I saw was everything that he said to 463 00:27:56,080 --> 00:28:01,040 Speaker 1: talk about fighting more, the media took and twisted and 464 00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:05,119 Speaker 1: made it sound like he was asking for the violence 465 00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:09,679 Speaker 1: that actually happened. And so how can we change that? 466 00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:14,920 Speaker 1: I think you can fight over words and fight over principles. 467 00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:17,879 Speaker 1: I think, for example, the fact that the Republican Party 468 00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:21,639 Speaker 1: has not yet really taken head on the fact that 469 00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:24,000 Speaker 1: they have two hundred and seventeen Democrats in the House 470 00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:27,359 Speaker 1: will voted to abolish mother and father. Now, how many 471 00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:31,600 Speaker 1: districts do you think if every citizen understood that they're 472 00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:34,520 Speaker 1: representative was so whacked out that they were prepared to 473 00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:38,400 Speaker 1: abolish mother and father, son and daughter, and and uncle. 474 00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:41,480 Speaker 1: I mean, this is lunacy. I just talked to a 475 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:44,240 Speaker 1: very sophisticated person a couple of hours ago. He had 476 00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:47,960 Speaker 1: no idea they've done that. I blame the Republican Party. 477 00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:50,160 Speaker 1: I mean, we've got to learn to be much better 478 00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:53,480 Speaker 1: at taking things and getting them to people. How many 479 00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:57,360 Speaker 1: Americans know that the bureaucracy is so incompetent that some 480 00:28:57,440 --> 00:29:01,400 Speaker 1: Nigerians stole several hundred million dollars in funds that we're 481 00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:04,320 Speaker 1: supposed to go to Americans just go down the list 482 00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:07,280 Speaker 1: of these kinds of things. Cuomo's record in New York, 483 00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:10,280 Speaker 1: the Republican Party in New York how to figure every 484 00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:13,960 Speaker 1: possible angle to go after Cuomo every day because he's 485 00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:17,040 Speaker 1: terrible as a go but he gets great press and 486 00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:19,880 Speaker 1: the Art Press Corps likes him, so he's sort of 487 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:23,120 Speaker 1: propped up no matter how bad he is. But you 488 00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:25,640 Speaker 1: look at the stuff he's been doing, it's pretty goofy 489 00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:29,240 Speaker 1: and it's killed people. Well, his policy towards nursing homes 490 00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:33,240 Speaker 1: literally killed several thousand senior citizens, and we should be 491 00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:39,800 Speaker 1: driving those kinds of messages. Well, I am a stay 492 00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:44,560 Speaker 1: at home homeschool mother with two teenage children, and we've 493 00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:47,960 Speaker 1: had lots of good discussion of the last few months. 494 00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:50,840 Speaker 1: But the one question that keeps coming up for my 495 00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:54,600 Speaker 1: children is how can we get an explanation from our 496 00:29:54,680 --> 00:30:00,240 Speaker 1: judicial branch. They feel let down, and so we're writing letters. 497 00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:03,760 Speaker 1: But I'm just curious from you. Did they give us 498 00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:08,440 Speaker 1: an explanation on why they refused to hear or even 499 00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:12,600 Speaker 1: look at any of the election irregularities. If you actually 500 00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:17,600 Speaker 1: pull up their various judgments, they have explanations in each judgment. 501 00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:19,719 Speaker 1: But in addition, I think it'll be great for your 502 00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:22,920 Speaker 1: kids as part of the education, write the Chief Justice 503 00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:26,800 Speaker 1: of the Supreme Court a personal letter and say we're 504 00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:30,120 Speaker 1: studying this, would you be willing to help explain to 505 00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:33,000 Speaker 1: us exactly why you made that decision. I think that 506 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:35,760 Speaker 1: would be a great test of the system. I'm delighted 507 00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:38,640 Speaker 1: your homeschooling. I hope that they will tackle that, and 508 00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:41,880 Speaker 1: I hope they'll get an answer. It's the speaker, how 509 00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:46,800 Speaker 1: does America control taxation and reduce expenses to recover from 510 00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:51,160 Speaker 1: the recent giveaway economic stimulus plans of the Obama and 511 00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:57,640 Speaker 1: Trump errors. Look, I was in favor of whatever it 512 00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:00,800 Speaker 1: took to get through this period because I think this 513 00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:04,600 Speaker 1: is the biggest challenge ince World War Two, and living 514 00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:07,479 Speaker 1: in Italy, as I have with Callista's ambassador of the Vatican, 515 00:31:08,120 --> 00:31:11,160 Speaker 1: we've watched close up what happened here. So I don't 516 00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:15,080 Speaker 1: begrudge in general the kind of resources that went out 517 00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:18,800 Speaker 1: to help people survive getting through this. I think once 518 00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:21,120 Speaker 1: we come out of this, and this is where I 519 00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:23,719 Speaker 1: think those of us who believe in supply side economics 520 00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:29,200 Speaker 1: worry about the kind of Biden, Obama, Kamala Harris liberal 521 00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:34,000 Speaker 1: approach to the economy. We need very deep, dramatic economic 522 00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:38,640 Speaker 1: growth in order to generate the resources to pay down 523 00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:41,240 Speaker 1: the debt and to get things back under control and 524 00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:44,200 Speaker 1: to get back to a balanced budget. And my worry 525 00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:47,360 Speaker 1: is that basically They're going to find themselves in a 526 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:51,960 Speaker 1: situation where the only way they can handle it, given 527 00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:55,840 Speaker 1: liberal economic doctrine, is going to be to have a 528 00:31:55,840 --> 00:32:00,120 Speaker 1: lot of inflation and basically inflate away the debt by 529 00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:03,240 Speaker 1: making the dollar cheaper. I think that's a disaster for 530 00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:07,160 Speaker 1: most Americans. It makes life much harder. When Jimmy Carter 531 00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:11,520 Speaker 1: tried it, it just collapsed his presidency. So I think 532 00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:14,200 Speaker 1: we'd be much better off once we come out of 533 00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:18,360 Speaker 1: this pandemic to go to a much more structural reform, 534 00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:23,160 Speaker 1: significant tax cuts, real incentage to get economic growth. And 535 00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:25,840 Speaker 1: I think that's almost the opposite of what we're like 536 00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:29,800 Speaker 1: to get out of Biden and the Democrats, first of all, 537 00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:32,560 Speaker 1: thank you so much. We are so grateful to you 538 00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:38,280 Speaker 1: for everything you do. Clearly Biden is cognitively impaired and 539 00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:42,360 Speaker 1: intellectually handicapped. He must know that he is a puppet 540 00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:46,960 Speaker 1: whose strings are controlled by the Democratic Party. The strategy 541 00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:50,360 Speaker 1: must be simply that he will be declared incompetent within 542 00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:53,479 Speaker 1: six months and here as will take over. What do 543 00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:56,440 Speaker 1: you think, sir, I've watched him one days when it's 544 00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:58,480 Speaker 1: been a little bit strange, and I wonder what was 545 00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:01,560 Speaker 1: going on. I would say he's performed pretty well since 546 00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:04,280 Speaker 1: the election, but much better than I thought he would. 547 00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:07,720 Speaker 1: And I think he's probably in charge right now, so 548 00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:09,800 Speaker 1: we'll have to wait to see. I don't think it's 549 00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:12,960 Speaker 1: as obvious or as easy as some people might think. 550 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:16,880 Speaker 1: I think that he's actually someplace, has been very thoughtful, 551 00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:20,840 Speaker 1: and I think as overall had well. I disagree with 552 00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:23,720 Speaker 1: a couple of his choices, particularly the Secretary of Health 553 00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:28,240 Speaker 1: and Human Services, who's radically pro abortion and who has 554 00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:31,760 Speaker 1: consistently sued the Little Sisters of the poor, and I'm 555 00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:36,000 Speaker 1: basically against suing nuns. But overall his appointments have not 556 00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:39,479 Speaker 1: been as radical as I would have guessed. And I 557 00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:41,480 Speaker 1: don't think it's the kind of cabinet that would be 558 00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:45,520 Speaker 1: inclined to execute the twenty fifth Amendment unless it was 559 00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:48,720 Speaker 1: absolutely unavoidable. So i'd have to say he's done better 560 00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:51,520 Speaker 1: than I expected in the opening weeks, as I would 561 00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:55,120 Speaker 1: have thought given his performance the campaign, I would have 562 00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:58,520 Speaker 1: thought he would look more impaired than he has during 563 00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:03,760 Speaker 1: this period. As a transition. Good morning, Thank you for 564 00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:06,400 Speaker 1: doing what you do. I was wondering if you could 565 00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:13,239 Speaker 1: tell us why young Americans from fourteen, two thirty four. 566 00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:19,880 Speaker 1: I'm so fascinated with socialism as opposed to capitalism. Thank you. 567 00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:23,920 Speaker 1: It's a great question, and sadly the answer is, we 568 00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:27,200 Speaker 1: gave up control of the schools to left wing cuckoos, 569 00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:30,759 Speaker 1: and they define the language, they define the curriculum, they 570 00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:33,600 Speaker 1: define the reading guide. You end up with an amazing 571 00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:37,320 Speaker 1: number of young people who are brainwashed up through colleging 572 00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:40,319 Speaker 1: writer at school, and that's been a major factor in 573 00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:43,560 Speaker 1: the shift of America to the left. You cannot understand 574 00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:47,520 Speaker 1: what has happened in this country without understanding how far 575 00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:50,120 Speaker 1: to the left the teachers unions are and how far 576 00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:53,600 Speaker 1: to the left the college faculty is. That's a real challenge, 577 00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:57,359 Speaker 1: is Ronald Wringaman said, It isn't what they don't know 578 00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:00,000 Speaker 1: that scared him. That's what they know that isn't true. 579 00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:03,160 Speaker 1: And that's I think the case of modern American education. 580 00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:06,160 Speaker 1: All too often teaches people things of just plain not true. 581 00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:08,799 Speaker 1: But that's what they get grated on, and so they 582 00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:10,879 Speaker 1: learn to say it and they learn to believe it 583 00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:13,319 Speaker 1: is true. And it's I think a huge challenge to 584 00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:16,319 Speaker 1: our survival in the long runers of country. Let me 585 00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:19,279 Speaker 1: thank all of you for joining us today. I hope 586 00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:22,600 Speaker 1: you find this useful. If you do find the regular 587 00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:25,919 Speaker 1: reports that we send out by audio and the other 588 00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:30,200 Speaker 1: things we're doing with the Inner Circle, be delighted if 589 00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:32,880 Speaker 1: you want to share those with your friends and encourage 590 00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:35,239 Speaker 1: them to join the Inner Circle. I found it's been 591 00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:39,360 Speaker 1: a very very useful organization to help me stay in touch, 592 00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:41,879 Speaker 1: and I think I will continue to do these kinds 593 00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:45,160 Speaker 1: of events, probably more frequently as we get into the 594 00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:48,000 Speaker 1: Biden period and have lots and lots of stuff to 595 00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:52,600 Speaker 1: talk about. So thank you very very much for joining today. 596 00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:56,200 Speaker 1: Thank you to the members of my Inner Circle club. 597 00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:59,360 Speaker 1: You can learn more about the Inner Circle and sign 598 00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:03,000 Speaker 1: up at Newt's Inner Circle dot com. I'm new Gingrich. 599 00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:04,520 Speaker 1: This is News World.