1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: There is a scandal that is brewing in Minnesota that 2 00:00:03,440 --> 00:00:07,600 Speaker 1: is costing taxpayers hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars. 3 00:00:08,400 --> 00:00:11,319 Speaker 1: It involves a man that the Democratic Party said should 4 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:13,360 Speaker 1: be the Vice President of the United States of America, 5 00:00:13,720 --> 00:00:17,919 Speaker 1: Tim Waltz. This scandal is now involving, as I mentioned, 6 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:22,080 Speaker 1: hundreds of millions of dollars that were stolen from a 7 00:00:22,280 --> 00:00:27,360 Speaker 1: federally funded nutrition program, and him now may starve the 8 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:31,920 Speaker 1: Minnesota governor's chances of a political future. The Hill newspaper 9 00:00:31,960 --> 00:00:37,600 Speaker 1: is reporting this weekend the controversy involving Minnesota's influential Smalley 10 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:42,800 Speaker 1: community focuses on millions and millions of dollars stolen from 11 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:47,440 Speaker 1: the program and has led to more than fifty convictions. 12 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:52,199 Speaker 1: This was a massive fraud. Federal prosecutors are now accusing 13 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:56,320 Speaker 1: dozens of people of stealing funds from a government program 14 00:00:56,480 --> 00:01:03,040 Speaker 1: that was to feed children during the coronavirus pandemic. What 15 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:07,600 Speaker 1: happened in reality anything but that. Even The New York 16 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:10,560 Speaker 1: Times put the story on the radar of legacy media 17 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:13,960 Speaker 1: outlets on November twenty ninth, with a report that federal 18 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:20,800 Speaker 1: prosecutors said as much as one billion dollars. I'm gonna 19 00:01:20,840 --> 00:01:27,760 Speaker 1: say that again, as much as one billion dollars. This 20 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:33,640 Speaker 1: is all taxpayer money may have been stolen in separate 21 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:40,160 Speaker 1: fraudulent schemes. Longtime allies are reportedly wondering if the governor 22 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:43,280 Speaker 1: should walk away from a reelection attempt for a third 23 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:47,480 Speaker 1: term as governor. That according to DC political news outlet 24 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:51,400 Speaker 1: The Hill. The Hill also reporting it this way, quote, 25 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:55,240 Speaker 1: the governor I think has done a very respectable job, 26 00:01:55,760 --> 00:01:59,320 Speaker 1: a good job in Minnesota for the years that he's 27 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:03,279 Speaker 1: been there. But he clearly is vulnerable, and in my view, 28 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:07,240 Speaker 1: he is riskier than any Democratic candidate that might run. 29 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:11,520 Speaker 1: That is what a former Minnesota Democratic state senator and 30 00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:14,919 Speaker 1: a political analyst in the state said. There was another 31 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:19,680 Speaker 1: one that also said fraud happened on his watch and 32 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:25,239 Speaker 1: that Waltz can't erase that, while another political analyst said 33 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:28,799 Speaker 1: the governor is taking steps to rectify it, including audits. 34 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:34,440 Speaker 1: Those investigations will probably uncover more what more of your 35 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:39,200 Speaker 1: tax dollars being stolen? Now, All of these Minnesota analysts 36 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:42,640 Speaker 1: said the issue is the headlines in Minnesota nearly every 37 00:02:42,639 --> 00:02:45,560 Speaker 1: other day are coming up with more money that has 38 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:49,520 Speaker 1: been stolen from taxpayers, and they are now predicting the 39 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:53,160 Speaker 1: issue will quote continue to surface through the next year. 40 00:02:53,639 --> 00:02:55,480 Speaker 1: I mean, there's a very good chance that this could 41 00:02:55,520 --> 00:02:58,880 Speaker 1: be a massive amount of waste, fraud and abuse, corruption 42 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:03,080 Speaker 1: that has caught rusting taxpayers. Not millions, not tens of millions, 43 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:06,400 Speaker 1: not hundreds of millions, but billions of dollars literally, And 44 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:09,800 Speaker 1: this is just in one state. All of this happening 45 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:14,480 Speaker 1: under the leadership of former VP candidate and Governor Tim Woltz. 46 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:18,959 Speaker 1: That's what people need to understand. On Saturday, by the way, 47 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:24,320 Speaker 1: a small business Administration, the SBA Secretary Kerry Lawfler posted 48 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:29,960 Speaker 1: on Exit the SBA was also uncovering fraud and accused 49 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:34,120 Speaker 1: the governor of using his quote best efforts to obstruct 50 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:39,000 Speaker 1: the investigation. I'm going to read for you her exact 51 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:42,760 Speaker 1: tweet so you understand exactly what was said, because this 52 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:46,640 Speaker 1: goes back to just how corrupt the state is. Numerous 53 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:51,680 Speaker 1: Kelly Laffer put individuals and nonprofits indicted in the one 54 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:57,760 Speaker 1: billion dollar Minnesota COVID fraud scandal, including Feeding our Future, 55 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:03,480 Speaker 1: received SBA PPP loans in addition to other state and 56 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:07,800 Speaker 1: federal funding. Today, I have ordered an investigation into the 57 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:13,560 Speaker 1: network of Somali organizations and executives implicated in these schemes. 58 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:18,760 Speaker 1: Despite Governor Walt's best efforts to obstruct SBA continues to 59 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:25,400 Speaker 1: work to expose abuse and hold the purpetutors accountable full stop. Now, 60 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:29,320 Speaker 1: this is I would argue a national emergency. I also 61 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:32,400 Speaker 1: think the federal government should cut off all funding to 62 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:35,719 Speaker 1: the state of Minnesota until the state can prove there 63 00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:38,440 Speaker 1: is no more fraud. I mean it when I say 64 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:42,000 Speaker 1: they should actually cut it off. Why would you send 65 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:46,120 Speaker 1: federal tax dollars there knowing now what we know. The 66 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:50,040 Speaker 1: bottom line is simple, you follow the money and until 67 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:55,120 Speaker 1: there's accountability, you don't give them any more money. Now, 68 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:58,880 Speaker 1: another longtime ally of Governor Waltz told The Hill that 69 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:02,880 Speaker 1: the controversy could not only sink his gouvernentor re election 70 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:07,440 Speaker 1: for a third term, but likely a presidential bid that 71 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:11,800 Speaker 1: he's been obsessing over as well. The challenges are the 72 00:05:11,839 --> 00:05:15,920 Speaker 1: men are that Minnesota has a very low tolerance for fraud, waste, 73 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:19,400 Speaker 1: and abuse. It's a very low threshold, and that's one 74 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:21,720 Speaker 1: of the reasons the state has worked so well for 75 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:26,760 Speaker 1: so long. The unnamed ally said, it's clearly a real vulnerability. 76 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:31,360 Speaker 1: Nearly five hundred. By the way, employees in Minnesota state's 77 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:37,040 Speaker 1: government say that Governor Waltz deliberately ignored their constant warnings 78 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:41,920 Speaker 1: about the massive fraud by Somali's in the state's aid programs, 79 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:48,960 Speaker 1: also alleging that his allies punished whistleblowers for raising the alarms. 80 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:54,240 Speaker 1: Waltz's sixty one He was introduced into the national political 81 00:05:54,279 --> 00:05:58,279 Speaker 1: spotlight sixteen months ago when then Vice President Kamala Harris 82 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:01,479 Speaker 1: chose the I guess you could call him an animated 83 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:06,520 Speaker 1: governor as her running mate. Quote. I think we all 84 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:09,400 Speaker 1: had our high hopes for him, but I don't think 85 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:12,280 Speaker 1: he's a very effective running mate at the end of 86 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:15,760 Speaker 1: the day. That's what one top Democrats strategist said to 87 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:18,960 Speaker 1: The Hill. It never seems like he was comfortable in 88 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:22,640 Speaker 1: that role beyond his roll out. Now you go back 89 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:26,320 Speaker 1: to those that were screaming about the waste, fraud, and abuse, 90 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:31,760 Speaker 1: and this goes back to Governor Waltz's leadership. Nearly five 91 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:36,040 Speaker 1: hundred and the majority of them, I'm being told we're Democrats, 92 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:41,880 Speaker 1: registered Democrats. Nearly five hundred employees in Minnesota's state government 93 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:46,679 Speaker 1: say the Democratic governor Tim Waltz ignored their constant warnings 94 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:50,720 Speaker 1: about massive fraud by Somali's of the state aid program. 95 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:54,880 Speaker 1: The staffers in the state Department of Health Services also 96 00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:58,800 Speaker 1: say that Waltz retaliated against them for exposing the corruption 97 00:06:59,279 --> 00:07:02,520 Speaker 1: in the States Somali community. Why because he didn't want 98 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:05,720 Speaker 1: to lose a Somali vote. The group of state employees 99 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:09,400 Speaker 1: have been operating an x account for several years where 100 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:12,480 Speaker 1: they warned the public of cases of fraud and theft 101 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:17,120 Speaker 1: that they are finding in the aid programs. It's all there, 102 00:07:17,280 --> 00:07:20,400 Speaker 1: you can go read it. In the years pass they 103 00:07:20,480 --> 00:07:24,600 Speaker 1: warned the former Democratic presidential candidate that the citizens of 104 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:29,280 Speaker 1: Minnesota and the Democratic Party needed to understand the widespread 105 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:32,600 Speaker 1: issues that they were uncovering. But in a new post, 106 00:07:32,640 --> 00:07:35,600 Speaker 1: the group is saying that not only has Waltz ignored 107 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:39,480 Speaker 1: their warnings, he has punished them for raising the alarm. Quote. 108 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:43,120 Speaker 1: Tim Waltz is one hundred percent responsible for massive fraud 109 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:45,880 Speaker 1: in Minnesota, the group said in November twenty ninth posts, 110 00:07:46,480 --> 00:07:49,480 Speaker 1: referencing the New York Times article on the crimes. We 111 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:52,840 Speaker 1: let Tim Waltz know of the fraud early on, hoping 112 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:57,080 Speaker 1: for a partnership and stopping fraud. But no, we got 113 00:07:57,120 --> 00:08:02,400 Speaker 1: the opposite response. They added Walt's thematically retaliated against the whistleblowers, 114 00:08:02,440 --> 00:08:07,400 Speaker 1: using monitoring threats, repression, and did his best to discredit 115 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:10,840 Speaker 1: fraud reports. Instead of a partnership, we got the full 116 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:15,640 Speaker 1: weight of retaliation by Tim Watts, certain DFL members and 117 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:21,080 Speaker 1: an indifferent mainstream media. It's scary, isolating, and left us 118 00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:24,880 Speaker 1: wondering who can we turn to now we know it's 119 00:08:24,920 --> 00:08:28,200 Speaker 1: costing us more than a billion dollars. 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I want to move to Senator 136 00:09:32,920 --> 00:09:37,840 Speaker 1: Tom Cotton into another story that's also extremely important, and 137 00:09:37,880 --> 00:09:40,559 Speaker 1: it deals with the mainstream media trying to push a 138 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:43,120 Speaker 1: narrative that are men and women in uniform of somehow 139 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:46,720 Speaker 1: should be court martial, should be put in jail, should 140 00:09:46,760 --> 00:09:51,240 Speaker 1: be imprisoned, that they are murderers. Why because they said 141 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:54,000 Speaker 1: that if you go after those on a drug boat 142 00:09:54,520 --> 00:09:57,360 Speaker 1: who are carrying drugs, who are narco terrorists and you 143 00:09:57,440 --> 00:10:01,880 Speaker 1: shoot them, that apparently that's an execut The Democrats and 144 00:10:01,880 --> 00:10:04,800 Speaker 1: the media have teamed together. They have partnered with one 145 00:10:04,840 --> 00:10:08,040 Speaker 1: another to try to undermine the present keeping us safe 146 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:13,600 Speaker 1: from narco terras who are bringing countless amounts of fetanyl 147 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:19,200 Speaker 1: in pills into this country. There are many days where 148 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:23,360 Speaker 1: upwards of three hundred people die from accidental fetanyl overdoses. 149 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:27,880 Speaker 1: I want you to think about that these narco terrasts 150 00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:32,839 Speaker 1: are killing hundreds of Americans every day, and what is 151 00:10:32,880 --> 00:10:35,240 Speaker 1: the media doing to hurt Donald Trump and to try 152 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:37,920 Speaker 1: to attack him. They're trying to say, oh, drug boats 153 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:42,640 Speaker 1: are not in fact valid targets. The Washington Post even 154 00:10:42,720 --> 00:10:48,120 Speaker 1: ran an insane story saying that there were fishermen that 155 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:52,200 Speaker 1: were targeted that were actually on a drug boat. Anything 156 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:56,240 Speaker 1: to undermine President Trump. Senator Tom Cotton went on Meet 157 00:10:56,280 --> 00:10:59,560 Speaker 1: the Press and was asked about the quote, as NBC 158 00:10:59,640 --> 00:11:03,199 Speaker 1: News allege drug boats even though you can see the 159 00:11:03,280 --> 00:11:06,079 Speaker 1: drugs on the boat, they want to put doubt in 160 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:08,920 Speaker 1: the American people's minds. And I want you to listen 161 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:10,360 Speaker 1: carefully to what he had to say. 162 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:13,840 Speaker 2: And joining me now is the chairman of the Senate 163 00:11:13,880 --> 00:11:17,719 Speaker 2: Intelligence Committee who was in those briefings this week, Republican 164 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:21,040 Speaker 2: Tom Cotton of Arkansas. Senator Cotton, welcome back to Meet 165 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:23,000 Speaker 2: the Press. Thanks for having me on, Christen, thank you 166 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:25,679 Speaker 2: so much for being here after a very big week. 167 00:11:25,720 --> 00:11:28,240 Speaker 2: I want to ask you about our new reporting. NBC 168 00:11:28,360 --> 00:11:31,600 Speaker 2: News is reporting this morning the Defense Secretary Pete Hegseith 169 00:11:32,160 --> 00:11:35,600 Speaker 2: his order was to kill all eleven individuals on that 170 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:39,560 Speaker 2: boat because they were on a list of Narco terrorists 171 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:43,960 Speaker 2: who intelligence and military officials determined could be legally targeted. 172 00:11:44,720 --> 00:11:48,120 Speaker 2: Was Secretary Hegsis's order to kill everyone on the boat 173 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:49,960 Speaker 2: because they were on this target list. 174 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:55,560 Speaker 3: Senator the ordered, like the entire operation Kristen, is to 175 00:11:55,559 --> 00:11:59,880 Speaker 3: destroy these drug boats which are running drugs under our 176 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:04,440 Speaker 3: country from foreign drug cartels and traffickers that are killing 177 00:12:04,640 --> 00:12:08,280 Speaker 3: hundreds of our Canons every year and hundreds of thousands 178 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:13,240 Speaker 3: of Americans. Now, of course, before our military conducts such 179 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:17,640 Speaker 3: a strike, they have multiple sources of intelligence. They give 180 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:21,280 Speaker 3: high confidence that everyone on that boat is a foreign 181 00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:25,040 Speaker 3: drug trafficker, not an innocent civilian who's being human trafficked, 182 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:29,400 Speaker 3: for instance. And therefore Secretary Hegseeth said, and I agree, 183 00:12:29,640 --> 00:12:33,480 Speaker 3: they're all valid targets. Now, this controversy, let's remember, all 184 00:12:33,520 --> 00:12:36,640 Speaker 3: started with a Washington Post story about nine days ago 185 00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:40,199 Speaker 3: that said after the first strike there were two survivors 186 00:12:40,200 --> 00:12:43,079 Speaker 3: that were helpless, and then they were ordered to kill 187 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:46,120 Speaker 3: these helpless survivors. That is simply not the case. They 188 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:48,920 Speaker 3: were not floating in the ocean on a wooden plane 189 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:52,280 Speaker 3: or in life jackets. They were on the capsized vessel. 190 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:55,680 Speaker 3: They were not incapacitated in any way. It was entirely 191 00:12:55,720 --> 00:12:58,679 Speaker 3: appropriate to strike the boat again to make sure that 192 00:12:58,760 --> 00:13:03,280 Speaker 3: it cargo was destroyed. It is in no way violation 193 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:05,640 Speaker 3: of the law of war. And I think the Washington 194 00:13:05,679 --> 00:13:09,839 Speaker 3: Post O Secretary Hexath and especially Admiral Mitch Bradley, a 195 00:13:09,920 --> 00:13:13,080 Speaker 3: highly decorated career Navy seal, an apology for that slander. 196 00:13:13,240 --> 00:13:17,880 Speaker 1: Now you hear Tom Cotton correct the record. This is 197 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:21,760 Speaker 1: the man that served his country. He explains the reality 198 00:13:21,760 --> 00:13:26,320 Speaker 1: of the situation. This is a reality that NBC News 199 00:13:26,520 --> 00:13:30,640 Speaker 1: already knows. I want you to listen how Christian Welker 200 00:13:30,679 --> 00:13:34,040 Speaker 1: responds on Meet the Press to what was just said, 201 00:13:34,360 --> 00:13:36,200 Speaker 1: and listen to her pushback. 202 00:13:36,679 --> 00:13:38,680 Speaker 2: Okay, and we're going to get to what you saw 203 00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:40,360 Speaker 2: in the video momentarily. But I just want to be 204 00:13:40,480 --> 00:13:43,760 Speaker 2: very clear because what you're saying is significant. Senator, it 205 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:48,079 Speaker 2: sounds like you're confirming. Did Admiral Bradley brief lawmakers that, 206 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:51,319 Speaker 2: in fact, all of the people on that boat were 207 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:53,240 Speaker 2: on a military target list. 208 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:55,880 Speaker 3: I did not hear him personally say anything about a 209 00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:58,959 Speaker 3: military target list. Now, he had several briefings the day. 210 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:01,560 Speaker 3: I wasn't in the briefing, for instance, with Mark Warner, 211 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:03,679 Speaker 3: my counterpart in the Senate Intelligence Committee. I can only 212 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:06,720 Speaker 3: say what he told me. He said they had high confidence, 213 00:14:06,760 --> 00:14:09,720 Speaker 3: based on multiple sources of intelligence, that everyone on that 214 00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:13,960 Speaker 3: boat was part of a foreign or foreign terrorist organization 215 00:14:14,040 --> 00:14:15,600 Speaker 3: and been designated by the US. 216 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:17,920 Speaker 2: Government, so they could be legally targeted. They could be 217 00:14:17,960 --> 00:14:21,680 Speaker 2: officially and legally targeted. Be argued, yes, okay. 218 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:23,800 Speaker 3: Both before the first strike and after the first strike. 219 00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:27,000 Speaker 2: Was Admiral Bradley acting on Secretary Hexas orders. 220 00:14:27,040 --> 00:14:29,760 Speaker 3: Senator, Well, anytime you have an operation like this, there's 221 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:34,400 Speaker 3: an operation order. It's written down, it's got very detailed instructions. 222 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:37,480 Speaker 3: I think because this was the first strike, Secretary Hegseth 223 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:40,160 Speaker 3: and Admiral Bradley both wanted to be present and be 224 00:14:40,240 --> 00:14:42,600 Speaker 3: making the decision. As you heard Secretary Hegseth in the 225 00:14:42,680 --> 00:14:46,920 Speaker 3: opening say, he initiated the first strike. You've seen the video. 226 00:14:47,160 --> 00:14:48,760 Speaker 3: There's a lot of smoke. It takes a long time 227 00:14:48,760 --> 00:14:51,320 Speaker 3: to clear. I'm sure Secretary Hecsath had many other matters 228 00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:54,080 Speaker 3: that he had to attend to, and he trust Admiral Bradley. 229 00:14:54,280 --> 00:14:57,080 Speaker 3: Once the smoker clear, once cloud covered cleared, it was 230 00:14:57,120 --> 00:14:59,280 Speaker 3: clear that the first strike had not destroyed the boat 231 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:02,120 Speaker 3: or Admiral Bradley made a decision for the second strike. 232 00:15:02,200 --> 00:15:04,480 Speaker 3: Now in subsequent strike since then, because there's been more 233 00:15:04,480 --> 00:15:08,120 Speaker 3: than twenty obviously it's no longer a Secretary, Hesath or 234 00:15:08,160 --> 00:15:10,600 Speaker 3: even four star generals making that decision, nor should it be. 235 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:12,320 Speaker 3: But on the first strike, I believe they both wanted 236 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:13,600 Speaker 3: to be present and be observing it. 237 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:17,360 Speaker 2: Let me ask you about the aftermath of that first strike, 238 00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:21,280 Speaker 2: the Pentagon's Law of War manual, which you're familiar by. 239 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:24,640 Speaker 1: The way, let's just stop there and let's just talk 240 00:15:24,680 --> 00:15:28,800 Speaker 1: about this for a second. You have the Senate Intelligence 241 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:32,560 Speaker 1: Committee chairman saying that all the people on a Venezuelan 242 00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:36,280 Speaker 1: drug boat were subject to the Trump administration cracked down 243 00:15:36,320 --> 00:15:41,480 Speaker 1: the Caribbean where quote valid targets quote unquote, Welker says, 244 00:15:41,680 --> 00:15:44,280 Speaker 1: I want to ask you about our new reporting NBC 245 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:47,680 Speaker 1: WWOS reporting this morning that defend Secretary Pete his order 246 00:15:47,760 --> 00:15:49,720 Speaker 1: was to kill all eleven individuals on the boat because 247 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:53,040 Speaker 1: they were on a list of narco terras who intelligence 248 00:15:53,040 --> 00:15:58,200 Speaker 1: and military officials determined could be legally targeted. Was Secretary 249 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:00,120 Speaker 1: Heads ordered to kill everyone on the boat because as 250 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:04,360 Speaker 1: they were on the target list, And Cotton said the 251 00:16:04,480 --> 00:16:07,360 Speaker 1: order like the entire operation, Kristen is to destroy these 252 00:16:07,520 --> 00:16:10,280 Speaker 1: drug boats which are running drugs in her country from 253 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:14,520 Speaker 1: foreign drug cartels and traffickers that are killing hundreds of 254 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:17,440 Speaker 1: our Kansas that's the state he represents every year and 255 00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:21,720 Speaker 1: killing hundreds of thousands of Americans. That's a fact of course. 256 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:24,120 Speaker 1: Before a military conducts such a strike, they have multiple 257 00:16:24,160 --> 00:16:27,400 Speaker 1: sources of intelligence. They give high confidence everyone in the 258 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:30,880 Speaker 1: boat is a foreign drug trafficker, not an innocent civilian 259 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:35,280 Speaker 1: who's being human trafficked for instance. Secretary of Headseth and 260 00:16:35,320 --> 00:16:41,000 Speaker 1: I agree, they're all valid targets. You understand that when 261 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:44,120 Speaker 1: you hear this story, this should be the end of it. 262 00:16:44,880 --> 00:16:46,960 Speaker 1: Why did the media run with this story because they 263 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:51,160 Speaker 1: hate Donald Trump and they want to put somebody in 264 00:16:51,240 --> 00:16:54,040 Speaker 1: jail in his administration. I'm going to state again, they 265 00:16:54,120 --> 00:17:00,560 Speaker 1: want to put somebody in jail in his administration. That 266 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:04,280 Speaker 1: is what this is really all about. And they want 267 00:17:04,320 --> 00:17:06,480 Speaker 1: people in our military. And this was just what two 268 00:17:06,560 --> 00:17:09,440 Speaker 1: weeks after they put out that video saying you can 269 00:17:09,520 --> 00:17:15,320 Speaker 1: defy orders. Remember that you can defy the president's orders, 270 00:17:16,880 --> 00:17:21,280 Speaker 1: they were calling for a military coup, slash insurrection. That 271 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:25,639 Speaker 1: is what they were calling for and now they're saying, 272 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:28,320 Speaker 1: if you are a part of this, you deserve to 273 00:17:28,359 --> 00:17:32,720 Speaker 1: go to jail, that you are some sort of war criminal. 274 00:17:33,119 --> 00:17:39,920 Speaker 1: Another example of this. It is totally insane. I cannot 275 00:17:40,040 --> 00:17:46,080 Speaker 1: tell you how frustrating it is to watch how un 276 00:17:46,080 --> 00:17:50,040 Speaker 1: American these men and women in law enforcement actually are. 277 00:17:50,880 --> 00:17:53,879 Speaker 1: I cannot tell you how frustrating it is to watch 278 00:17:53,880 --> 00:17:58,000 Speaker 1: these men and women who hide behind keyboards and say, 279 00:17:58,119 --> 00:18:03,440 Speaker 1: I'm a journalist who clearly are there putting out propaganda 280 00:18:03,520 --> 00:18:08,280 Speaker 1: to destroy our men and women in uniform by the cartels. 281 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:11,560 Speaker 1: You've got to ask yourself this question, who are they 282 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:16,720 Speaker 1: really working for? I'm going to say that again, who 283 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:20,480 Speaker 1: are they really working for? Are the journalists working for 284 00:18:20,520 --> 00:18:24,840 Speaker 1: the cartels? 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That's where I would really go 318 00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:34,679 Speaker 1: with this because it just it's gonna make for a 319 00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:38,399 Speaker 1: great conversation that also, I can promise you you know 320 00:20:38,520 --> 00:20:42,520 Speaker 1: him from CNN. His name Scott Jennings. The book A 321 00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:48,080 Speaker 1: Revolution of Common Sense, and it is a book that 322 00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:50,400 Speaker 1: you got to write. And Scott welcome. It's so nice 323 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:52,919 Speaker 1: to have you on the Ben Ferguson Show. This is 324 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:55,760 Speaker 1: a book that you got to sit down and have 325 00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:59,960 Speaker 1: multiple conversations with President Trump, but not only with President Trump, 326 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:03,960 Speaker 1: but with members of his cabinet. What made you decide 327 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:06,000 Speaker 1: to write this book, When did you decide to write it, 328 00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:08,600 Speaker 1: and how did you approach the president to be involved 329 00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:08,840 Speaker 1: in it? 330 00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:11,119 Speaker 4: Well, thanks Ben for having me on and thanks for 331 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:15,960 Speaker 4: your endorsement. I was watching the President's inaugural address in 332 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:19,479 Speaker 4: January and he used his phrase a revolution of common 333 00:21:19,520 --> 00:21:21,400 Speaker 4: sense and I turned to Van Jones on the set 334 00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:23,600 Speaker 4: and I said, that would make a really great book title. 335 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:26,800 Speaker 4: So I've never written a book. I've been thinking about it, 336 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:29,919 Speaker 4: and that title spoke to me. That phrase spoke to 337 00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:32,400 Speaker 4: me because it kind of summed up what Trump had 338 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:36,560 Speaker 4: been branding his political movement. And so in early February 339 00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:38,600 Speaker 4: I went talked to President about it and got him 340 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:40,680 Speaker 4: to agree to cooperate. And as you said, I've sat 341 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:43,320 Speaker 4: down with him, I traveled with him, I observed him 342 00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:45,480 Speaker 4: in meetings. I talked to the cabinet, I talked to 343 00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:48,280 Speaker 4: the White House senior staff, and I sort of melded 344 00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:52,040 Speaker 4: those conversations and observations with what I was doing on 345 00:21:52,119 --> 00:21:54,520 Speaker 4: CNN and some of the big issues of the first 346 00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:56,400 Speaker 4: you know, one hundred hundred and twenty days. So it's 347 00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:59,560 Speaker 4: really a story about how Trump stormed back into Washington 348 00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:03,080 Speaker 4: and sort of overwhelmed the bureaucracy and the Democrats and 349 00:22:03,119 --> 00:22:05,080 Speaker 4: the media in order to get a lot of things 350 00:22:05,080 --> 00:22:06,000 Speaker 4: done right out of the gate. 351 00:22:07,119 --> 00:22:08,760 Speaker 1: One of the things that I think is really cool 352 00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:11,560 Speaker 1: in this book, and for everybody listening again, you can 353 00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:13,520 Speaker 1: grab on Amazon orherever you get your books, it's say 354 00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:17,320 Speaker 1: Revolution of common sense, how Donald Trump stormed Washington and 355 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:21,359 Speaker 1: fought for Western civilization. Scott, is you set down with 356 00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:24,439 Speaker 1: cabinet members, I think this cabinet is going to go 357 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:27,359 Speaker 1: down in history, is one of the most loyal cabinets 358 00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:31,359 Speaker 1: to a president that their job was to really, I 359 00:22:31,359 --> 00:22:35,200 Speaker 1: think they understood it early on, was to execute the 360 00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:37,960 Speaker 1: will of the voters, the will of the people, and 361 00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:41,720 Speaker 1: the will of what got Donald Trump elected. They understood 362 00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:44,679 Speaker 1: going in that they needed to be a cabinet that 363 00:22:44,760 --> 00:22:47,320 Speaker 1: was united. They need to be a cabinet that was 364 00:22:48,280 --> 00:22:50,400 Speaker 1: really I think the best way to describe as being 365 00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:54,840 Speaker 1: tight lipped and not leaking to the press. This cabinet 366 00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:58,679 Speaker 1: is insanely different than President Trump's cabinet he picked in 367 00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:01,600 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen that I do not believe served him well 368 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:05,560 Speaker 1: at all. When you set down with these cabinet members, 369 00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:07,919 Speaker 1: did you get that feeling as well, that this was 370 00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:09,400 Speaker 1: just going to be different. 371 00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:13,240 Speaker 4: Yeah, I think everything you said is absolutely true, And 372 00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:15,919 Speaker 4: I'll just throw one more thing on there. They are 373 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:18,920 Speaker 4: all the kinds of people who work well with President 374 00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:22,359 Speaker 4: Trump's management and leadership style. The book is also about 375 00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:25,080 Speaker 4: how Trump leads and how he manages the government it's 376 00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:28,399 Speaker 4: very hands on. He expects immediate action. If he tells 377 00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:30,639 Speaker 4: one of them to do something, you know, he expects 378 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:32,600 Speaker 4: him to go do it. You know, with Donald Trump, 379 00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:36,160 Speaker 4: you get the cabinet secretary told me. You can say, oh, 380 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:38,760 Speaker 4: we're working on it one time, you get white at 381 00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:40,879 Speaker 4: that apple, but you don't get you don't get a second. 382 00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:43,879 Speaker 4: He expects results, and so I think last time around, 383 00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:45,600 Speaker 4: as you pointed out, the cabinet was a little bit 384 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:49,359 Speaker 4: of a mismatch for him. This time they're loyal, they're dedicated, 385 00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:52,399 Speaker 4: but they know how to work within his leadership style 386 00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:55,679 Speaker 4: and structure. This has allowed them to move so fast. 387 00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:58,359 Speaker 4: As you and I have talked about and done some 388 00:23:58,359 --> 00:24:01,880 Speaker 4: commentary on television together, these folks have moved I think, 389 00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:05,280 Speaker 4: faster than any Republican, any supporter could have imagined. They've 390 00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:08,200 Speaker 4: gotten more things done this year than anybody could have imagined. 391 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:11,159 Speaker 4: Everybody I know is beyond thrilled with the pace of 392 00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:14,400 Speaker 4: results from this Trump administration. A lot of it has 393 00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:16,480 Speaker 4: to do with the way that cabinet works with him 394 00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:18,359 Speaker 4: in his management style. 395 00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:22,120 Speaker 1: Let's also talk about transparency. You got to sit down 396 00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:25,880 Speaker 1: with the President multiple times. He really seems to enjoy 397 00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:30,520 Speaker 1: talking to the press. He seems to enjoy having these 398 00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:34,480 Speaker 1: open dialogue and conversations cabinet meetings that are lasting two, 399 00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:37,840 Speaker 1: three four hours. That's something Even when you were in 400 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:40,080 Speaker 1: the Bush administration, and I worked in the Bush administration 401 00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:43,240 Speaker 1: in the campaign, we didn't see that. And George Bush 402 00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:46,960 Speaker 1: was a pretty transparent guy, but you never saw this 403 00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:49,720 Speaker 1: type of access that I can remember in my lifetime 404 00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:54,520 Speaker 1: in any administration. The president loves sitting down and talking 405 00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:58,280 Speaker 1: with different people. I actually think that's probably one of 406 00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:01,919 Speaker 1: the x factors that is making this administration just so 407 00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:03,120 Speaker 1: successful so far. 408 00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:07,199 Speaker 4: I agree with you. He's very transparent and he's very accessible. 409 00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:11,720 Speaker 4: My observations of him is that he really enjoys listening 410 00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:15,119 Speaker 4: to people debate issues. And I watched him, you know, 411 00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:19,280 Speaker 4: sort of set up debates among cabinet members and advisors. 412 00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:22,280 Speaker 4: You know, what should we do about this topic? You 413 00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:25,119 Speaker 4: get some in the room debate. He asks good questions. 414 00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:28,280 Speaker 4: He is a really good listener. He listens to these 415 00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:31,480 Speaker 4: you know, backs and forth, he engages in them. But 416 00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:33,520 Speaker 4: he's also very decisive, and I think this is a 417 00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:37,080 Speaker 4: big difference between him and Biden. Biden was famously absent 418 00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:41,240 Speaker 4: and when he was president, he was very indecisive. Trump listens, 419 00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:44,920 Speaker 4: he takes in information, he forms an opinion, he makes 420 00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:48,280 Speaker 4: a decision, and then everybody salutes, and they go and execute. 421 00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:50,320 Speaker 4: I mean, that's pretty much what we elect a president 422 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:51,920 Speaker 4: to do, and that's exactly what I observed. 423 00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:56,600 Speaker 1: Let's also talk about where we are politically right now. 424 00:25:56,920 --> 00:25:59,360 Speaker 1: We're seeing a lot of attacks on this president. We're 425 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:02,879 Speaker 1: saying kind of same playbook. You've got a media that 426 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:05,200 Speaker 1: looks the other way when more than a billion dollars 427 00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:10,240 Speaker 1: of fraud is found in Governor Timwalt state that now 428 00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:12,639 Speaker 1: literally could be the undoing of his entire career. If 429 00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:15,560 Speaker 1: it was Republican, I think the governor would have already 430 00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:19,080 Speaker 1: had to resigned. And then meanwhile, you look at you 431 00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:21,879 Speaker 1: got guys like Tom Cotton coming out this morning on 432 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:24,520 Speaker 1: Meet the Press saying everyone on that drug boat was 433 00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:26,960 Speaker 1: a valid target The Washington Post it was a slander 434 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:29,879 Speaker 1: of our military and a BS story about us killing 435 00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:33,119 Speaker 1: like innocent people that the media ran with you and 436 00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:34,919 Speaker 1: I have to defend this a lot. You do it 437 00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:38,040 Speaker 1: every day on CNN as well, and yet we see 438 00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:40,920 Speaker 1: the same playbook happening to try to undermine this president. 439 00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:44,159 Speaker 4: Yeah, you know something about the book, and this is 440 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:47,600 Speaker 4: a retrospective sort of analysis that I've made, is that 441 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:51,159 Speaker 4: when you're a Republican president, and especially this one, you 442 00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:56,080 Speaker 4: face several entrenched and colluding institutions and interests in Washington 443 00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:58,840 Speaker 4: that are trying to destroy it. You have Democrats that 444 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:00,960 Speaker 4: are trying to destroy you, you have the media trunk 445 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:04,359 Speaker 4: to destroy you. You have federal bureaucrats trying to destroy you, 446 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:07,480 Speaker 4: and in the case of Trump, increasingly radical federal judges. 447 00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:11,600 Speaker 4: So he's got these four aligned interests that are trying 448 00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:14,480 Speaker 4: to destroy him every day, and they lie about you. 449 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:18,520 Speaker 4: You know, they give you bogus court rulings. You know, 450 00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:20,879 Speaker 4: they shut down the government, they tell the military to 451 00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:23,480 Speaker 4: stop following orders. I mean, you name it. And they're 452 00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:25,760 Speaker 4: throwing everything at him to try to overwhelm you. And 453 00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:28,520 Speaker 4: one of the decisions Trump made early on, and they're 454 00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:31,240 Speaker 4: planning for this term, was I'm not going to be overwhelmed. 455 00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:34,600 Speaker 4: We are going to overwhelm them. And they largely succeeded 456 00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:37,560 Speaker 4: at that. Obviously, these institutions haven't stopped, as you just 457 00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:40,440 Speaker 4: pointed out, but that's what a Republican faces when they're 458 00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:43,560 Speaker 4: the president, these groups of people and these institutions that 459 00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:46,480 Speaker 4: collude to try to suck you under. They try to 460 00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:49,720 Speaker 4: overwhelm you and drown you basically, and Trump, I think 461 00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:52,160 Speaker 4: it happened to him then somewhat in the first term. 462 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:54,840 Speaker 4: They learn from that and they were just determined not 463 00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:55,800 Speaker 4: to let it happen again. 464 00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:59,360 Speaker 1: My guests with me Scott Jennings his new book out. 465 00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:01,600 Speaker 1: You should grab it for Christmas and grab it for 466 00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:04,800 Speaker 1: a great stocking stuff for as well a revolution of 467 00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:08,680 Speaker 1: common sense, how Donald Trump stormed Washington fought for Western civilization. 468 00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:11,080 Speaker 1: When you sit down with the president, one of the 469 00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:13,240 Speaker 1: one of the X factors here, I do think is 470 00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:15,800 Speaker 1: you can go in and and go hard, and that 471 00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:18,879 Speaker 1: that first hundred days is obviously sending everybody kind of 472 00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:21,240 Speaker 1: hyper focus on They don't focus here as much on 473 00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:23,560 Speaker 1: the next hundred days or the next hundred days, and 474 00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:25,320 Speaker 1: then you kind of get in the mundane side of it. 475 00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:28,399 Speaker 1: Do you think they can keep up this level of 476 00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:32,119 Speaker 1: pressure of getting things done? Based on your conversations with 477 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:33,600 Speaker 1: him and also the cabinet members you. 478 00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:36,720 Speaker 4: Met with, I think the first hundred days were about 479 00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:39,120 Speaker 4: tackling so many of the issues that got him elected. 480 00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:42,480 Speaker 4: Some of them were, you know, reversing just very dangerous 481 00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:47,960 Speaker 4: and wrong headed Biden administrative actions, regulatory actions and executive actions, 482 00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:50,360 Speaker 4: and of course Trump, uh, you know, put in motion 483 00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:52,959 Speaker 4: a number of executive orders on day one and in 484 00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:56,120 Speaker 4: the days following. You know, the next little phase for 485 00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:58,240 Speaker 4: them was to pass the big beautiful bill that got 486 00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:00,560 Speaker 4: done by July the fourth. I think the rest of 487 00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:02,520 Speaker 4: the year they kind of spent on foreign affairs. You know, 488 00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:06,680 Speaker 4: Trump's been really successful in solving conflicts overseas. You obviously 489 00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:09,320 Speaker 4: had the tariff agenda that he was not just implementing, 490 00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:12,160 Speaker 4: but also they were negotiating trade deals with other countries. 491 00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:16,280 Speaker 4: To me, now, yes, they're still in the process of governing. 492 00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:18,960 Speaker 4: They have problems to solve, the healthcare issue to something 493 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:21,120 Speaker 4: that's coming up at the end of the year. But 494 00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:23,040 Speaker 4: some of this ben is just now, you've got to 495 00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:26,560 Speaker 4: go sell people, here's what we've done, Here's what the 496 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:29,040 Speaker 4: Democrats did to you, and what they would do to 497 00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:32,400 Speaker 4: you again. And that's the argument. He's going to have 498 00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:35,320 Speaker 4: to lead for the midterm. And so they have problems 499 00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:37,400 Speaker 4: to solve. There's no doubt about that. They have work 500 00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:39,800 Speaker 4: to do. But part of the work is political. He's 501 00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:41,400 Speaker 4: got to hit the road, and I understand that he's 502 00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:44,200 Speaker 4: going to and start talking to the American people about 503 00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:47,800 Speaker 4: the bright lines that exist between the parties and really 504 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:49,960 Speaker 4: the issues that put him in the White House in 505 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:52,680 Speaker 4: the first place. It feels like democrats and people in 506 00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:55,280 Speaker 4: the media have forgotten who took prices to the moon. 507 00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:58,760 Speaker 4: Affordability didn't just start today, It was happening during the 508 00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:00,800 Speaker 4: Biden years. They seem to it for man, but someone 509 00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:01,760 Speaker 4: needs to remind them. 510 00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:04,720 Speaker 1: It's yeah. I couldn't agree with you more. 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