1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:04,560 Speaker 1: The Team forty seven podcast is sponsored by Good Ranchers. 2 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:06,320 Speaker 2: Making the American Farm Strong Again. 3 00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:14,200 Speaker 1: Team forty seven with Clay and Buck starts now, Okay, 4 00:00:14,280 --> 00:00:16,120 Speaker 1: so I know a lot of you are going to say, 5 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:19,239 Speaker 1: wait a minute, Clay, we just had an election. We 6 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:23,640 Speaker 1: just had November fifth. We just celebrated we won the presidency. 7 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:26,960 Speaker 1: Who won the House? We won the Senate. But the 8 00:00:27,040 --> 00:00:33,560 Speaker 1: House majority is tenuous, comes down to a few seats. Tuesday. 9 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:37,879 Speaker 1: Two of the seats are being filled by guys who 10 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:43,680 Speaker 1: step down. Matt Gates in Florida one is going to 11 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:47,680 Speaker 1: be replaced by Jimmy Patronis. I know Jimmy. He's done 12 00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:50,559 Speaker 1: really good work in the state of Florida. All of 13 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:53,959 Speaker 1: you out there in the Panhandle Florida one, you need 14 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:56,480 Speaker 1: to get out and vote. But I want to talk 15 00:00:56,480 --> 00:00:57,760 Speaker 1: about Florida six. 16 00:00:57,800 --> 00:00:58,000 Speaker 3: Here. 17 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:03,400 Speaker 1: This is this eat that was relinquished by Mike Waltz 18 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:07,840 Speaker 1: when he decided to join the Trump cabinet, the Trump administration. 19 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:12,520 Speaker 1: It is a very comfortable Trump district. But I want 20 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:14,720 Speaker 1: to hit you with these numbers. Buck, you were also 21 00:01:14,959 --> 00:01:19,640 Speaker 1: just reading this. The Democrats, in an effort to try 22 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:25,720 Speaker 1: to steal this seat, have spent nine point seven million 23 00:01:25,959 --> 00:01:31,200 Speaker 1: dollars in Florida six compared to the five hundred and 24 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:36,880 Speaker 1: sixty thousand dollars spent by Randy Fine, who is the 25 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:43,000 Speaker 1: Republican candidate. This is a very pro Trump district. You guys, 26 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:46,800 Speaker 1: I understand you just voted. You need to get back 27 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:52,040 Speaker 1: out and vote because they're concerned enough about how tenuous 28 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:56,280 Speaker 1: this House majority is that they just pull the least 29 00:01:56,280 --> 00:02:02,080 Speaker 1: Stephanics un ambassador role over being concerned about her New 30 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:05,920 Speaker 1: York congressional seat. And then you've got two different seats 31 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:10,400 Speaker 1: that are available for the remainder of the term that 32 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:13,960 Speaker 1: are up on April first, that's Tuesday. I think a 33 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:16,520 Speaker 1: lot of you listening to us in Florida right now 34 00:02:17,160 --> 00:02:20,320 Speaker 1: may not even be aware this is going on because 35 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:23,000 Speaker 1: so many of you right after the election, you're taking 36 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:26,600 Speaker 1: a breather, you're kicking back, you're enjoying the results of 37 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:30,000 Speaker 1: the Trump victory. But you need to turn out again 38 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:34,359 Speaker 1: because if Democrats can whittle down and take back the House, 39 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:38,040 Speaker 1: they're not passing anything that Trump wants to get done. 40 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:39,960 Speaker 1: And this is going to be the risk next year 41 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:43,360 Speaker 1: in the midterm when all four hundred and thirty five 42 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:45,560 Speaker 1: House seats are up for grabs and we'll have to 43 00:02:45,560 --> 00:02:48,400 Speaker 1: see how that goes next year. But in the meantime, 44 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:51,760 Speaker 1: we got to preserve what we've already won. And so 45 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:54,280 Speaker 1: if you're listening to us in Florida right now, or 46 00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:58,000 Speaker 1: you've got friends and family, these are very Trump districts. 47 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:02,359 Speaker 1: Trump won Florida one by thirty seven. He won Florida 48 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:05,040 Speaker 1: six by thirty But a lot of the people that 49 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:08,280 Speaker 1: voted for Trump may not be coming out, they may 50 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:10,799 Speaker 1: not even be aware of these special elections. So this 51 00:03:10,919 --> 00:03:14,160 Speaker 1: is I think just hey, pay attention, keep your head 52 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:14,959 Speaker 1: on a swivel here. 53 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:17,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it would be it would be a 54 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:20,480 Speaker 2: disastrous state of affairs for the Trump agenda if we 55 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:22,600 Speaker 2: were to lose control of the House. Even with the 56 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:26,520 Speaker 2: very narrow control that we have, it still is effectively there. 57 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:30,040 Speaker 2: So that's something that we need to keep an eye on. 58 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:33,360 Speaker 2: And it's interesting to see how Democrats are able to 59 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:37,480 Speaker 2: funnel I'm sure, Clay if you looked at it's public information, right, 60 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:40,840 Speaker 2: I'm just guessing. But the of the almost ten million 61 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:43,240 Speaker 2: dollars the Democrat has raised in this district, remember a 62 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:46,160 Speaker 2: district that Trump won by thirty points Okay, ten million 63 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:49,000 Speaker 2: dollars for a congressional seat that you are minus thirty 64 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:51,120 Speaker 2: in the last election, which was just a few months ago, 65 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:55,280 Speaker 2: just goes to show you Democrats they will funnel cash in. 66 00:03:55,440 --> 00:03:59,080 Speaker 2: I bet a huge percentage of it is money out 67 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:00,840 Speaker 2: of the out of the district from you know, it's 68 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:03,720 Speaker 2: money that's coming in from New York and Los Angeles, 69 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:06,320 Speaker 2: and you know people are giving money to whatever they 70 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:10,040 Speaker 2: have to to try to sneak this congressional seat into 71 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:12,760 Speaker 2: the Democrat column. So you know, we sit here, we 72 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:15,280 Speaker 2: talk about the Democrats have no messaging, which is true. 73 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:17,520 Speaker 2: They do have a lot of money though they totally 74 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:20,640 Speaker 2: outspent Trump the last time around. They totally outspend Trump 75 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:24,080 Speaker 2: the first time around, and they will do things like this, 76 00:04:24,839 --> 00:04:27,560 Speaker 2: which is something we have to be prepared for. So 77 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:29,960 Speaker 2: if you're listening, you know we're on in this area, 78 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:33,480 Speaker 2: in the sixth District of Florida. We have a huge 79 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:37,440 Speaker 2: Florida audience. Thank you very much, Floridians. Our Florida audience 80 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:39,960 Speaker 2: has grown by I think overall like twenty five or 81 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:42,880 Speaker 2: thirty percent in the last couple of years. So we 82 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:44,800 Speaker 2: have a lot of Floridians that are listening, and I 83 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:47,559 Speaker 2: know some of you in Daytona Beach area. Right, that's 84 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:51,240 Speaker 2: I think roughly roughly what this. So if you're listening 85 00:04:51,279 --> 00:04:53,760 Speaker 2: to us in Daytona Beach area, you cannot let the 86 00:04:53,760 --> 00:04:56,680 Speaker 2: Democrats take this one. Get out there. This is where 87 00:04:56,720 --> 00:04:59,720 Speaker 2: also yard signs, I mean the basic stuff, right. This 88 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:03,320 Speaker 2: is going to be a small number overall of people 89 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:07,040 Speaker 2: who are determining this congressional seat. So if you're listening 90 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:09,800 Speaker 2: to us and you're in this district, whatever you can 91 00:05:09,839 --> 00:05:11,880 Speaker 2: do makes a difference. This is not you know, oh, 92 00:05:11,880 --> 00:05:14,400 Speaker 2: but do I really does the president need my vote? 93 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:17,760 Speaker 2: H Randy Fine needs your vote? Get out there? Yeah? 94 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 1: And it is I think true if you look at 95 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:25,599 Speaker 1: the data that the die hard left wing, crazy town 96 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:28,960 Speaker 1: base of the Democrats does better at showing up on 97 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:33,159 Speaker 1: special elections than the average Republican voter does. They're super 98 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:35,480 Speaker 1: committed for these things that a lot of people don't 99 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:38,360 Speaker 1: pay attention to. That they do better at primary turnout, 100 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:42,520 Speaker 1: they do better in special elections. We do better as 101 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:46,240 Speaker 1: a party in mid terms when they're actually big midterms. 102 00:05:46,279 --> 00:05:50,320 Speaker 1: In election now with presidential races, the turnout is very good. 103 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:54,000 Speaker 1: But don't get caught napping, and to your point, I mean, 104 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:57,599 Speaker 1: think about that nearly. I'm always bad at math live. 105 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:00,560 Speaker 1: But we're talking about twenty to one being outspent in 106 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:04,320 Speaker 1: that Florida sixth congressional district, so they think they can 107 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:06,560 Speaker 1: steal it. And by the way, also if you're up 108 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:10,920 Speaker 1: on the Panhandle, get out and vote as well. Again, 109 00:06:11,760 --> 00:06:14,560 Speaker 1: I don't think we're pressing the alarm too soon, but 110 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:18,680 Speaker 1: if if they were super confident about their majority, at 111 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:22,599 Speaker 1: least Stephonic wouldn't be stepping down from the UN ambassador position. 112 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:25,120 Speaker 2: But I will make this, I'll make this prediction right 113 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:27,479 Speaker 2: now so we can log this as a prediction. At 114 00:06:27,560 --> 00:06:32,919 Speaker 2: least Dephonic in uh, the after this next cycle is 115 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:35,440 Speaker 2: gonna end up getting something even more exciting in the 116 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:40,240 Speaker 2: Trump administration than a US Ambassador to the UN role, 117 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:42,080 Speaker 2: which is which is high up there obviously, but I 118 00:06:42,279 --> 00:06:45,080 Speaker 2: think she could be in line for something even a 119 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:50,440 Speaker 2: little more exciting because for her to obviously voluntarily say okay, okay, 120 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:53,200 Speaker 2: I'm not gonna take the that US Ambassador to the 121 00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:56,120 Speaker 2: UN role. I'm gonna stay in Congress offense to Congress. 122 00:06:56,160 --> 00:06:58,440 Speaker 2: But there's a lot of them, Uh, they're they're gonna. 123 00:06:58,440 --> 00:07:00,520 Speaker 2: They're making some kind of a sweetheart deal for her 124 00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:02,760 Speaker 2: to do what's right for the team, and I think 125 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:03,680 Speaker 2: she's willing to do that. 126 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:08,320 Speaker 1: And again I don't want to speculate on who. I 127 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:10,640 Speaker 1: also think buck this tells us that there may be 128 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:15,800 Speaker 1: some health issues in the larger Republican caucus because it 129 00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:17,960 Speaker 1: only takes again, we've seen this happen. Look at what 130 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:21,400 Speaker 1: happened with Diane Feinstein at the end of her tenure 131 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:25,720 Speaker 1: as the Senator from California. What's happened with Mitch. 132 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:28,600 Speaker 2: McConnell and his health, the falls that he's had. 133 00:07:29,080 --> 00:07:31,720 Speaker 1: When you start getting people in their seventies and eighties, 134 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:34,560 Speaker 1: this is one of the dangers of having a gar 135 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:38,680 Speaker 1: intocracy when it comes to leadership. People age differently, as 136 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:42,080 Speaker 1: many of you know, but you can go from very 137 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:47,520 Speaker 1: healthy in your seventies to really in dire straits very quickly. 138 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:49,480 Speaker 1: And there are a lot of people in their seventies 139 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:52,800 Speaker 1: and eighties who are a part of our leadership. And 140 00:07:52,880 --> 00:07:55,360 Speaker 1: so when you've got to margin this fine, this tiny, 141 00:07:55,920 --> 00:07:58,600 Speaker 1: I think that everybody needs to make sure it makes 142 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:01,760 Speaker 1: certain that they make national good decisions and get out 143 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:03,880 Speaker 1: and vote in these races. 144 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:06,720 Speaker 2: So this also is a powerful reminder that while we 145 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:08,880 Speaker 2: sit here and it has been there's been a little 146 00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:12,200 Speaker 2: bit of political euphoria in the first sixty days of 147 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:16,160 Speaker 2: Trump's term because of the team he's assembled and the 148 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:20,440 Speaker 2: accomplishments they're racking up and the focus the messaging it's 149 00:08:20,520 --> 00:08:24,360 Speaker 2: been this is fantastic stuff. Okay, they've they've been doing 150 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:26,200 Speaker 2: everything that we want them to do and then some. 151 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:29,120 Speaker 2: But remember from the beginning we said they really have 152 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:32,839 Speaker 2: twelve to eighteen months to save the country or or 153 00:08:32,920 --> 00:08:37,000 Speaker 2: to make meaningful, lasting change for the United States in 154 00:08:37,559 --> 00:08:41,920 Speaker 2: very positive ways. This this midterm election is going to 155 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:43,080 Speaker 2: be It's going to be a dogfight. 156 00:08:43,280 --> 00:08:43,959 Speaker 3: It just is. 157 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:47,000 Speaker 2: That's the reality of being the party in power. And 158 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:48,960 Speaker 2: it's not like we're going into it with fifteen or 159 00:08:48,960 --> 00:08:52,560 Speaker 2: twenty seats of majority. So on the Senate side, I 160 00:08:52,559 --> 00:08:54,679 Speaker 2: think it looks a lot better. But if Democrats were 161 00:08:54,679 --> 00:08:57,800 Speaker 2: to take the House, oh my gosh, they you know, 162 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:03,000 Speaker 2: the hearings'll find something. They'll be having hearings on signal gate, 163 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:06,160 Speaker 2: you know, and it's the whole thing. They're just going 164 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:09,840 Speaker 2: to go into. Anything to slow down and mess up 165 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:14,080 Speaker 2: Trump is justified and necessary. So it's It reminds us 166 00:09:14,160 --> 00:09:17,400 Speaker 2: all that there is a finite window here to get 167 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:21,240 Speaker 2: very important stuff done to fix the country. Hopefully it 168 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:23,319 Speaker 2: doesn't become an issue because we keep the majority and 169 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:26,240 Speaker 2: Trump can keep doing great stuff. But you can't. You 170 00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:28,600 Speaker 2: can't plan on that. You gotta plan on getting it done. 171 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:33,440 Speaker 1: Now you're listening to Team forty seven with Clay and Buck. 172 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:40,000 Speaker 1: Senator Ran Paul of Kentucky joins us. Now, Senator, we 173 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:42,640 Speaker 1: got a lot to dive into with you. Appreciate you 174 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:45,800 Speaker 1: joining us. Let me just start here right off the top. 175 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:51,600 Speaker 1: How is the budget and border bill process going? How 176 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:54,240 Speaker 1: does the timeline look to you? How would you assess 177 00:09:54,280 --> 00:09:55,040 Speaker 1: it at this point? 178 00:09:56,600 --> 00:09:59,920 Speaker 4: I'm worried. I'm very worried that they're wanting to add 179 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:03,520 Speaker 4: five trillion dollars to the debt ceiling. All the good 180 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:07,960 Speaker 4: news we've heard about Elon Musk, about cutting contracts and 181 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:11,600 Speaker 4: cutting bornade, all that has been so energizing to our base, 182 00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:15,440 Speaker 4: to conservatives like me, we jump for joy, we cheer, 183 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:17,800 Speaker 4: and then they say, well, but the bill's going to 184 00:10:17,880 --> 00:10:20,520 Speaker 4: increase the debt ceiling by five trillion. We say, well, 185 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:23,600 Speaker 4: how is that possible? We thought we were cutting spending. 186 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:26,880 Speaker 4: Why would we increase it more than two trillion dollars 187 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:28,920 Speaker 4: a year for the next two and a half years. 188 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:32,000 Speaker 4: And there's not a good explanation. And so I've told 189 00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:34,280 Speaker 4: them I won't vote for any bill that adds five 190 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:38,160 Speaker 4: trillion to the deficit. That's not physically conservative. 191 00:10:38,559 --> 00:10:40,280 Speaker 3: Now, I'll vote for the tax cuts. 192 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:42,240 Speaker 4: I voted for him in twenty seventeen. I'll vote to 193 00:10:42,280 --> 00:10:45,520 Speaker 4: make the tax cuts permanent. I'll vote for spending cuts, 194 00:10:45,880 --> 00:10:48,199 Speaker 4: but I didn't vote for the spending. And I'm damn 195 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:52,360 Speaker 4: sure not voting for adding five trillion dollars to the 196 00:10:52,480 --> 00:10:55,960 Speaker 4: national debt. I just think that's outrageous. And people are 197 00:10:55,960 --> 00:10:57,640 Speaker 4: going to wake up. People who listen to your show, 198 00:10:57,640 --> 00:10:59,360 Speaker 4: We're going to wake up in a couple of months 199 00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:01,000 Speaker 4: from noways. I thought we. 200 00:11:01,040 --> 00:11:04,440 Speaker 3: Voted for something conservative. I thought Doze was cutting all 201 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:06,679 Speaker 3: his spending, and yet they're still going to add two 202 00:11:06,760 --> 00:11:07,920 Speaker 3: trillions to the death this year. 203 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:09,080 Speaker 4: Something's not right. 204 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:12,560 Speaker 2: You know, Senator Paul appreciates you being with us. We've 205 00:11:12,559 --> 00:11:17,280 Speaker 2: played for the audience some sound bites from years past 206 00:11:17,520 --> 00:11:22,520 Speaker 2: when people like Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, and other very 207 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:26,760 Speaker 2: high profile Democrats talked about stopping fraud, waste and abuse 208 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:31,000 Speaker 2: in government spending, reining in unnecessary spending. So we know 209 00:11:31,080 --> 00:11:34,600 Speaker 2: that they've said stuff like that, But to where we 210 00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:38,360 Speaker 2: are right now, it seems like everything that Doze tries 211 00:11:38,440 --> 00:11:41,400 Speaker 2: to do in terms of recommendations to the president, and 212 00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:43,839 Speaker 2: then everything that Trump tries to do to rein in 213 00:11:43,880 --> 00:11:47,480 Speaker 2: that spending Democrats opposed. Are there any Democrats in the 214 00:11:47,480 --> 00:11:50,160 Speaker 2: Senate who do want to cut spending? In all honesty, 215 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:52,440 Speaker 2: is there anyone who actually wants to see that number 216 00:11:52,559 --> 00:11:55,000 Speaker 2: go down for anything other than the military? 217 00:11:56,160 --> 00:12:00,480 Speaker 4: Zero, not a No Democrat in the entire body of 218 00:12:00,520 --> 00:12:04,520 Speaker 4: Congress will vote to cut even a dollar. So I 219 00:12:04,559 --> 00:12:08,760 Speaker 4: had an amendment last week that would have cut about oh, 220 00:12:09,040 --> 00:12:11,400 Speaker 4: sixteen billion out of four and AID four and AD 221 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:14,000 Speaker 4: is about forty billion. I would have cut sixteen billions, 222 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:16,200 Speaker 4: so a little less than half. And this was to 223 00:12:16,280 --> 00:12:19,679 Speaker 4: represent what Doze was doing, what Elon Musk had proposed, 224 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:23,760 Speaker 4: what really Secretary Rubio has already said he's canceling these contracts. 225 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:27,400 Speaker 4: I would just put it into law. Zero Democrats voted 226 00:12:27,440 --> 00:12:31,720 Speaker 4: for that, but even worse, about half the Republicans voted 227 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:32,640 Speaker 4: against me as well. 228 00:12:32,640 --> 00:12:34,760 Speaker 3: I got a little over half of the Republicans with me, 229 00:12:35,160 --> 00:12:38,240 Speaker 3: about half the Republicans against me. And the reason I 230 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:42,200 Speaker 3: put it forward was to show that even low hanging fruit, 231 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:47,480 Speaker 3: even two million dollars for sex changes in Guatemala, three 232 00:12:47,559 --> 00:12:53,240 Speaker 3: hundred thousand dollars for food justice for queer and transfarmers, 233 00:12:53,679 --> 00:12:57,840 Speaker 3: crazy stuff like that, you can't even get all of 234 00:12:57,880 --> 00:13:00,920 Speaker 3: the Republicans on board. Did you get zero Democrats? 235 00:13:01,160 --> 00:13:05,640 Speaker 4: So we still have a problem. And I'm the lonely 236 00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:08,719 Speaker 4: voice crying out on this because people are going to 237 00:13:08,760 --> 00:13:11,480 Speaker 4: be disappointed, and they're going to be upset, and they're 238 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:14,760 Speaker 4: going to be saying, what happened? What happened to the Republicans. 239 00:13:15,080 --> 00:13:17,240 Speaker 4: When the end of the year rolls around and there's 240 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:19,840 Speaker 4: still a two trillion dollar deficit this year and the 241 00:13:19,880 --> 00:13:23,520 Speaker 4: Republicans are anticipating another two trillion the next year, that 242 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:26,880 Speaker 4: it just shows that there is not a true seriousness, 243 00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:28,840 Speaker 4: even on the Republican side. 244 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:32,640 Speaker 1: How much of this is the embedded cost of COVID 245 00:13:32,760 --> 00:13:37,360 Speaker 1: becoming standardized in budgets going forward? Because we had Senator 246 00:13:37,760 --> 00:13:40,200 Speaker 1: Ron Johnson on and he's talked about this quite a lot, 247 00:13:40,559 --> 00:13:44,080 Speaker 1: that if we just went back to budget spending twenty nineteen, 248 00:13:44,520 --> 00:13:46,640 Speaker 1: that we would have a balanced budget right now. I 249 00:13:46,640 --> 00:13:49,600 Speaker 1: know inflation has risen since then, and that there are 250 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:53,960 Speaker 1: other costs that continue to grow, but it does seem 251 00:13:54,160 --> 00:13:57,520 Speaker 1: that the growth of the federal government has now been embedded, 252 00:13:57,640 --> 00:14:01,160 Speaker 1: which is what Democrats wanted in all few your budget bills, 253 00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:04,040 Speaker 1: with the idea being anything that doesn't continue to grow 254 00:14:04,080 --> 00:14:06,280 Speaker 1: those rates is considered to be a massive cut. 255 00:14:07,360 --> 00:14:10,160 Speaker 4: I think that's true. During pandemic, you know, the deficit 256 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:12,200 Speaker 4: went up to three and a half trillion in a year. 257 00:14:12,679 --> 00:14:16,360 Speaker 4: The deficits have come down, yes, remember Biden was bragging he's. 258 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:17,280 Speaker 3: Bringing the deficit down. 259 00:14:17,640 --> 00:14:19,880 Speaker 4: Yeah, well from three and a half trillion to two trillion. 260 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:23,080 Speaker 4: But a lot of that spending got embedded into government 261 00:14:23,120 --> 00:14:28,280 Speaker 4: and still there. But realize that those pandemic programs, all 262 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:30,520 Speaker 4: those free money that was passed up, all the checks 263 00:14:30,520 --> 00:14:33,520 Speaker 4: that were passed out, that was all the Democrats and 264 00:14:33,680 --> 00:14:38,080 Speaker 4: most of the Republicans. That was a bipartisan screw up. 265 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:40,400 Speaker 4: If you will to lock the economy down, just print 266 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:43,520 Speaker 4: up money. I opposed every bit of it, every bit 267 00:14:43,560 --> 00:14:44,920 Speaker 4: of the Cares program. 268 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:45,040 Speaker 3: The PPP. 269 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:47,360 Speaker 4: I said, you shouldn't lock us down, we shouldn't do this, 270 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:51,640 Speaker 4: and we did, and that's part of it. But part 271 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:54,800 Speaker 4: of it is this disconnect that people will say, oh, 272 00:14:54,840 --> 00:14:56,800 Speaker 4: they love you on us, they love the cuts, and 273 00:14:56,800 --> 00:15:00,640 Speaker 4: they're not for you know, transgender surgery and water and 274 00:15:00,640 --> 00:15:03,640 Speaker 4: they're not for all these crazy trans operas in Columbia. 275 00:15:03,880 --> 00:15:07,000 Speaker 4: But when push comes to shove, they're at least ten 276 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:10,280 Speaker 4: or fifteen Republicans of the Senate who love floignade. They 277 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:13,160 Speaker 4: think it's the best thing since slice bread. I think 278 00:15:13,160 --> 00:15:15,440 Speaker 4: it's one of the worst and most egregious of all 279 00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:18,760 Speaker 4: the spending we have in Congress. And yet if they 280 00:15:18,760 --> 00:15:22,080 Speaker 4: won't cut that, you then say, well, will you cut 281 00:15:22,120 --> 00:15:24,600 Speaker 4: any of the entitlements? Will you look at Medicare or 282 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:28,520 Speaker 4: Medicaid or cert Security or food stamps so welfare. Oh no, 283 00:15:28,560 --> 00:15:30,560 Speaker 4: they're not looking at that either, And you start to wonder, 284 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:34,560 Speaker 4: all these Republicans really conservative at this point. And mind you, 285 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:37,680 Speaker 4: there are zero Democrats. I admit that there are zero Democrats. 286 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:40,600 Speaker 4: But we're trying to pass something this spring that will 287 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:44,080 Speaker 4: be only Republican votes, and yet we can't get Republican 288 00:15:44,160 --> 00:15:47,360 Speaker 4: votes even to have the states pay more of their 289 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:52,240 Speaker 4: fair share. So Medicaid normally it's fifty to fifty states 290 00:15:52,280 --> 00:15:56,000 Speaker 4: pay fifty. Fedral government pace fifty. But when they expanded Obamacare, 291 00:15:56,200 --> 00:15:59,800 Speaker 4: they expanded Medicaid and they made it ninety percent. Cederl 292 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:03,040 Speaker 4: Guy paid for in ten percent states. If we just 293 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:05,320 Speaker 4: went back to fifty to fifty says that half a 294 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:08,200 Speaker 4: trillion dollars for the federal government, and it makes it 295 00:16:08,280 --> 00:16:11,120 Speaker 4: a more conservative program because the states traditionally have to 296 00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:14,480 Speaker 4: balance the budgets. They don't have a federal reserve. And 297 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:17,560 Speaker 4: yet we've got five or ten Republicans in the Senate 298 00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:21,960 Speaker 4: that won't consider any changes to having the states pay 299 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:23,560 Speaker 4: more of their fair share for Medicaid. 300 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:27,280 Speaker 2: We're speaking of Senator Ran Paula, Kentucky Senator. Is there 301 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:31,480 Speaker 2: anything that the Trump administration you think could do or 302 00:16:31,520 --> 00:16:34,200 Speaker 2: you'd like you'd like to see them do, whether it's 303 00:16:34,440 --> 00:16:37,440 Speaker 2: leading the charge to try to get something through, involving 304 00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:41,480 Speaker 2: the Congress, or just in an executive capacity using executive 305 00:16:41,560 --> 00:16:44,680 Speaker 2: orders to try to tackle some of these problems. Because 306 00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:46,640 Speaker 2: on the one hand, it's great that we have an 307 00:16:46,640 --> 00:16:50,720 Speaker 2: administration that's trying, and you know you're trying. But on 308 00:16:50,760 --> 00:16:53,520 Speaker 2: the other hand, if this doesn't work with Trump and Elon, 309 00:16:53,680 --> 00:16:56,200 Speaker 2: people like you and the Senate what hope is there 310 00:16:56,240 --> 00:16:57,600 Speaker 2: for it to get better in the future. 311 00:16:58,160 --> 00:17:00,640 Speaker 4: Yeah, So I don't blame the administration all. This is 312 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:03,520 Speaker 4: the best administration we've had in a lifetime. He's picked 313 00:17:03,520 --> 00:17:07,800 Speaker 4: the best cabinet. They are action players. They're not waiting around. 314 00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:10,119 Speaker 4: I was with Robert Kennedy for breakfast this morning. He 315 00:17:10,160 --> 00:17:13,000 Speaker 4: says he's cutting ten to twenty thousand workers over there. 316 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:16,320 Speaker 4: They're consolidating programs. They are doing what you would do 317 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:18,560 Speaker 4: as a CEO to clean house. So I don't blame 318 00:17:18,600 --> 00:17:22,119 Speaker 4: the executive branch at all. The one thing they could do, though, 319 00:17:22,240 --> 00:17:25,600 Speaker 4: is as they're finding savings, Dose says they've saved one 320 00:17:25,680 --> 00:17:29,040 Speaker 4: hundred and forty semi billion dollars, they should send that 321 00:17:29,119 --> 00:17:32,359 Speaker 4: money back to Congress. It's called Recision. It has a 322 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:34,879 Speaker 4: special name, but it can be voted on by a 323 00:17:34,920 --> 00:17:38,439 Speaker 4: simple majority. And some of them say, well, we're worried 324 00:17:38,440 --> 00:17:41,440 Speaker 4: that four or five of the big government Republicans in 325 00:17:41,480 --> 00:17:44,240 Speaker 4: the Senate won't vote for it. That's when President Trump 326 00:17:44,320 --> 00:17:48,880 Speaker 4: should use his political capital. He should come to Capitol 327 00:17:48,960 --> 00:17:51,960 Speaker 4: Hill and say I'm sending you fifty billions in cuts 328 00:17:52,240 --> 00:17:54,320 Speaker 4: every month. I'm going to send you another fifty billion 329 00:17:54,359 --> 00:17:57,480 Speaker 4: in cuts, and I need you as Republicans to pull 330 00:17:57,480 --> 00:18:01,040 Speaker 4: together on it. Instead, the pressure is coming to me 331 00:18:01,240 --> 00:18:04,639 Speaker 4: to say, why won't you vote for a spending build 332 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:08,359 Speaker 4: that attaches five and new borrowing, And it's like, really, 333 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:12,720 Speaker 4: it seems like we're at odd purposes here that on 334 00:18:12,760 --> 00:18:15,080 Speaker 4: the one hand you have Elon Musk and doos cutting. 335 00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:17,840 Speaker 4: On the other hand, they're pressuring conservatives like me to 336 00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:21,040 Speaker 4: vote for five trillion and borrowing. Something doesn't sit here. 337 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:25,040 Speaker 1: You see the New York Times over the weekend and 338 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:27,840 Speaker 1: ten days ago or so, a five year anniversary of COVID. 339 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:30,920 Speaker 1: I know you haven't forgotten about it, said that we 340 00:18:30,920 --> 00:18:35,359 Speaker 1: were misled by where COVID might have come from, and 341 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:37,040 Speaker 1: in some of our response. 342 00:18:37,880 --> 00:18:40,600 Speaker 4: We were misled by the New York Jobs. 343 00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:41,480 Speaker 2: That's right. 344 00:18:42,040 --> 00:18:44,040 Speaker 1: I want to give you an opportunity to tee off 345 00:18:44,040 --> 00:18:46,000 Speaker 1: on that because you were one of the first people 346 00:18:46,040 --> 00:18:49,320 Speaker 1: to test positive for COVID and the way that you 347 00:18:49,359 --> 00:18:53,399 Speaker 1: were treated, the way your family was treated, frankly, was unacceptable. 348 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:56,440 Speaker 1: And now five years later, I do find it very 349 00:18:56,440 --> 00:18:59,240 Speaker 1: interesting that the New York Times, like you said, comes 350 00:18:59,280 --> 00:19:01,400 Speaker 1: out and says, oh, oh, you know, we were misled. 351 00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:04,080 Speaker 1: It's like the Arson is saying, boy, somebody's really lighting 352 00:19:04,160 --> 00:19:05,000 Speaker 1: fires around here. 353 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:08,399 Speaker 4: Well, the next step, you know it, sort of coming clean, 354 00:19:08,440 --> 00:19:10,280 Speaker 4: would be to say, not only we were misled, but 355 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:14,360 Speaker 4: we were misled by our government and by media establishment 356 00:19:14,359 --> 00:19:19,320 Speaker 4: figures who paired it. Every move and word of Anthony Fauci. 357 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:22,800 Speaker 4: He was wrong virtually on everything. Six foot of distance, 358 00:19:23,160 --> 00:19:26,360 Speaker 4: he's now admitted doesn't work. But actually it was bad advice. 359 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:29,480 Speaker 4: It was probably bad advice if you were older and overweight, 360 00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:32,560 Speaker 4: or of any kind of sickly nature, to be thirty 361 00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:34,240 Speaker 4: feet from somebody in a closed. 362 00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:36,520 Speaker 3: Room during the height of the pandemic, you probably should 363 00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:39,480 Speaker 3: have been told to stay home. But six feet of distance, 364 00:19:39,800 --> 00:19:41,919 Speaker 3: you didn't need that for kids at all. You can 365 00:19:41,960 --> 00:19:44,719 Speaker 3: put them all together because guess what, kids got it 366 00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:47,880 Speaker 3: very readily, but they got over it very readily. So 367 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:50,520 Speaker 3: the idea that kids were a danger and somehow shouldn't 368 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:52,119 Speaker 3: be in school or should be six feet apart, and 369 00:19:52,119 --> 00:19:55,840 Speaker 3: we should build these monstrous thousand acre schools so the 370 00:19:55,920 --> 00:19:58,560 Speaker 3: kids can all be six feet apart. No science behind it, 371 00:19:58,880 --> 00:19:59,720 Speaker 3: and it led. 372 00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:01,840 Speaker 4: To bad behavior in the form of adults who are 373 00:20:01,880 --> 00:20:05,800 Speaker 4: at risk, and then inappropriate separation and school closure on 374 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:08,960 Speaker 4: the other end, the masks they told people were in 375 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:12,119 Speaker 4: a cloth mask was a good idea, So elderly people 376 00:20:12,119 --> 00:20:14,520 Speaker 4: went in to feed their elderly spouse with a cloth 377 00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:18,200 Speaker 4: mask on. Guess what, that's bad medical advice. That's how 378 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:21,320 Speaker 4: you catch COVID. The cloths don't work at all. But 379 00:20:21,359 --> 00:20:26,120 Speaker 4: they went years telling people inappropriate, unhealthy behavior. And then 380 00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:28,840 Speaker 4: the one thing they really failed on was once you 381 00:20:28,960 --> 00:20:31,840 Speaker 4: got COVID, they should have reassured you that you didn't 382 00:20:31,880 --> 00:20:33,600 Speaker 4: need a mask and you didn't have to worry about 383 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:36,320 Speaker 4: catching it again, and that the chances of you dying 384 00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:40,439 Speaker 4: were basically zero. After you've got it and recovered, the 385 00:20:40,520 --> 00:20:43,480 Speaker 4: chance of getting it again and dying are virtually zero. 386 00:20:44,320 --> 00:20:46,800 Speaker 4: And there were a lot of good, hardworking people, people 387 00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:49,679 Speaker 4: working in meat packing factories where they all got COVID 388 00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:52,960 Speaker 4: early on. Instead of bundling them up in all this 389 00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:55,680 Speaker 4: hot clothing, we should have been saying the good news 390 00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:56,640 Speaker 4: is when you come back. 391 00:20:56,440 --> 00:20:58,280 Speaker 3: From work, when you're fueled up in a week or two, 392 00:20:58,760 --> 00:21:00,399 Speaker 3: Guess what, you're not going to get it again and 393 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:03,200 Speaker 3: you don't have to world this BS protective gear. 394 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:06,840 Speaker 2: Is there anything that can be done or you think 395 00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:09,480 Speaker 2: will be done? You said, you just had breakfast this 396 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:13,719 Speaker 2: morning with RFK Junior he was running AHHS. I worry 397 00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:16,680 Speaker 2: Doc that, well you are doc as well as a senator, 398 00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:19,879 Speaker 2: so but I worry that the doctors out there and 399 00:21:19,920 --> 00:21:26,199 Speaker 2: the medical establishment has not been forced to finally admit 400 00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:30,120 Speaker 2: that they were wrong. And as a matter of government 401 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:34,000 Speaker 2: administrative policy, have these things changed. I mean it should 402 00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:37,200 Speaker 2: now be to me at least AHHS that have officially. 403 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:39,200 Speaker 2: Hey guys, we looked at all the data. Masks don't work. 404 00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:41,520 Speaker 2: This is on the AHHS website just so you know, 405 00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:42,520 Speaker 2: is that coming. 406 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:45,840 Speaker 4: You know, that's a good point and I'm going to 407 00:21:45,920 --> 00:21:48,080 Speaker 4: keep fighting that battle as well. But the other way 408 00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:50,240 Speaker 4: to correct it is is like all the soldiers that 409 00:21:50,280 --> 00:21:53,680 Speaker 4: were fired, they are giving them, you know, the Trump 410 00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:55,760 Speaker 4: administration's position now, and I think it was done by 411 00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:58,800 Speaker 4: executive orders to let them get their jobs back. We 412 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:01,200 Speaker 4: should do that to the doctors nurses that were fired 413 00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:04,560 Speaker 4: as well. So think about it, the doctors and nurses. 414 00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:07,080 Speaker 4: If you were a doctor working in February March of 415 00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:10,159 Speaker 4: twenty twenty, it was a pre potent disease then, and 416 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:13,399 Speaker 4: there were doctors who died because you risked your life 417 00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:16,040 Speaker 4: to help people you got COVID, you survived, and you 418 00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:18,200 Speaker 4: came back to work, and then they said, oh, you're 419 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:20,000 Speaker 4: fired because you don't have a vaccine. And you're like, well, 420 00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:22,280 Speaker 4: wait a minute, I got the disease. Why would I 421 00:22:22,359 --> 00:22:24,520 Speaker 4: need to get vaccinate. I have already got the disease. 422 00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:27,080 Speaker 4: And you use common sense on them and they fired you. 423 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:30,359 Speaker 4: Those people ought to be reinstated. There's still thousands of 424 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:34,040 Speaker 4: doctors and nurses now in some states. You tried to 425 00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:37,000 Speaker 4: fix some of this. In Florida, they passed a law 426 00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:41,280 Speaker 4: that said you cannot take a doctor's license for speech. 427 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:44,719 Speaker 4: Now that would seem to be pretty obvious, but many states, 428 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:48,399 Speaker 4: including California, were saying if you if you were to 429 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:51,320 Speaker 4: say things that I said, often that children don't need 430 00:22:51,359 --> 00:22:54,720 Speaker 4: to be vaccinated for COVID, they would say, oh, you 431 00:22:54,760 --> 00:22:56,480 Speaker 4: can't say that, and they would try to take my 432 00:22:56,560 --> 00:23:00,040 Speaker 4: license away. Nobody did, but in California they did to 433 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:03,000 Speaker 4: other doctors who are saying similar things. There's a lot 434 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:04,800 Speaker 4: of things that need to be corrected. I think we've 435 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:08,600 Speaker 4: learned some lessons, but I fear one we're still paying 436 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:11,760 Speaker 4: for research that could turn into this nightmare again. Gain 437 00:23:11,760 --> 00:23:15,520 Speaker 4: a function. Research still happening in the US and outside 438 00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:18,720 Speaker 4: the US, funded by tax players. I'm still working on 439 00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:22,040 Speaker 4: getting that stopped. But also we need to make sure 440 00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:26,720 Speaker 4: that the essence of medical freedom exists in our country 441 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:29,320 Speaker 4: and that people are allowed to make choices for themselves 442 00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:30,240 Speaker 4: and not be bullied. 443 00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:33,119 Speaker 2: Senator Paul always appreciate you making the time for us. 444 00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:33,479 Speaker 2: Thank you. 445 00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:39,439 Speaker 1: Thanks guys, you're listening to Team forty seven with Clay 446 00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:44,399 Speaker 1: and Buck. We also have a major judicial election in 447 00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:48,879 Speaker 1: the state of Wisconsin, probably the number one battleground state 448 00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:52,760 Speaker 1: in all the nation right now, Wisconsin decided by thirty 449 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:57,040 Speaker 1: thousand votes for President Trump. Every single Senate seat comes 450 00:23:57,080 --> 00:23:59,920 Speaker 1: down to the margins. Our friend Derek Hovedy lost by 451 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:03,960 Speaker 1: a tiny pinprick, Our friend Ron Johnson won by a 452 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:06,480 Speaker 1: small margin up there. I mean, it is just an 453 00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:10,560 Speaker 1: absolute battleground of all battlegrounds. And we are joined now 454 00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:15,919 Speaker 1: by the latest battleground race, which is the Republican side, 455 00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:20,359 Speaker 1: Judge Shimmel running for reelection, running for election to the 456 00:24:20,359 --> 00:24:24,880 Speaker 1: Wisconsin Supreme Court. For people out there, Judge Shimmel, who 457 00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:30,120 Speaker 1: don't understand what the stakes are. All over the country, 458 00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:33,520 Speaker 1: money is being spent on this race, but certainly everybody 459 00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:35,639 Speaker 1: in Wisconsin needs to get out and vote because we 460 00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:37,280 Speaker 1: know this is going to be close. We've got a 461 00:24:37,359 --> 00:24:39,879 Speaker 1: monster audience in Wisconsin. We love all of you. We 462 00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:42,399 Speaker 1: hung out with you at the RNC, have had a 463 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:45,239 Speaker 1: fabulous time. Judge Shimmel, what do they need to know 464 00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:47,600 Speaker 1: about this race and its importance? 465 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:50,560 Speaker 3: Well, first off, it's great to be on with you. 466 00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:54,400 Speaker 3: I am part of that major audience in Wisconsin. Every day. 467 00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:58,640 Speaker 3: My lunch break between my morning trial calendar and afternoon 468 00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:01,760 Speaker 3: trial calendar got you guys tuned in every day. So 469 00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:06,159 Speaker 3: it's yeah, what's at stake today? What's that stake in 470 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:10,040 Speaker 3: this race? The Liberals have taken over the Wisconsin Supreme 471 00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:12,800 Speaker 3: Court and they are using it as a way to 472 00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:15,760 Speaker 3: take over the United States Congress. Right now, my opponent 473 00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:19,520 Speaker 3: was on a national zoom call with billionaire liberal donors 474 00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:22,199 Speaker 3: from across the country offering up if she gets on 475 00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:26,360 Speaker 3: the court, she will turn two Republican congressional seats into 476 00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:30,639 Speaker 3: Democrat congressional seats. And now the House Minority Leader Hakim 477 00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:34,480 Speaker 3: Jeffries just earlier this week confirmed the same thing. They're 478 00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:38,160 Speaker 3: using this court to change the district maps for congressional 479 00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:41,400 Speaker 3: seats to jerrymander them in two seats that are better 480 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:44,400 Speaker 3: for Democrats. You know, the really interesting thing is, as 481 00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:47,400 Speaker 3: Hakim Jeffries complained about these maps in Wisconsin, you said 482 00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:50,719 Speaker 3: they were jerrymandered. The maps in Wisconsin for our congressional 483 00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:54,879 Speaker 3: seats were drawn by Democrat Governor Tony Evers. These aren't 484 00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:58,120 Speaker 3: Republican maps. But what they're learning, what they found out 485 00:25:58,240 --> 00:26:01,320 Speaker 3: is that they move the maps to make harder for Republicans, 486 00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:06,119 Speaker 3: and those Republicans still won because there because Democrat ideas, 487 00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:10,320 Speaker 3: the liberal ideas are not prevailing with Wisconsin voters. We're 488 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:13,120 Speaker 3: tired of this nonsense. Well they got that, they got 489 00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:15,720 Speaker 3: it handed back to them last November. So now they're 490 00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:17,919 Speaker 3: going to work harder to make these seats even tougher 491 00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:20,199 Speaker 3: by using the court to do it. That's why this 492 00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:21,159 Speaker 3: got nationalized. 493 00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:25,800 Speaker 2: What would also have what were the other implications for Obviously, 494 00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:29,000 Speaker 2: the congressional issue is front and center right now. My 495 00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:32,359 Speaker 2: understanding is Elon is going to be helping the campaign 496 00:26:32,359 --> 00:26:34,560 Speaker 2: in this and this is truly getting national level attention 497 00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:38,000 Speaker 2: right now because Wisconsin such an important state, such a 498 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:41,360 Speaker 2: critical swing state for both congressional control in the midterms, 499 00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:43,159 Speaker 2: and then, as we know, in the next election cycle 500 00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:46,840 Speaker 2: Wisconsin's going to be a battleground again. In addition to 501 00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:51,680 Speaker 2: the congressional gerrymandering concern What are some of the other 502 00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:55,159 Speaker 2: things that will come before this court and if it 503 00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:58,920 Speaker 2: were a left leaning court, could be problems to take 504 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:01,480 Speaker 2: Wisconsin and the wrong to whether it's just in the 505 00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:03,560 Speaker 2: day to day business of it or in the next 506 00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:05,199 Speaker 2: presidential election cycle. 507 00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:09,480 Speaker 3: Well, this court's already been messing with voter integrity laws. 508 00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:14,240 Speaker 3: They created a new way of looking at our Wisconsin 509 00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:17,560 Speaker 3: statute that permits these ballot drop boxes that can be 510 00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:21,040 Speaker 3: put out. The legislature mid did not authorize that. This 511 00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:24,520 Speaker 3: court decided they want them because it opens up opportunities 512 00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:27,119 Speaker 3: for fraud. It opens up all sorts of opportunities for 513 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:30,880 Speaker 3: ballot harvesting, which would be illegal in Wisconsin. But those 514 00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:32,679 Speaker 3: are the things they want, they want to get rid 515 00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:36,000 Speaker 3: of that. We have got major battles dealing with the 516 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:39,959 Speaker 3: relative powers between the legislative and executive branch in Wisconsin, 517 00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:42,880 Speaker 3: similar to what's going on at the national level between 518 00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:46,399 Speaker 3: President Trump battling out between what is his authority as 519 00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:49,520 Speaker 3: the chief executive versus what some of these district courts 520 00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:52,359 Speaker 3: are doing. We're seeing those same kind of battles happening 521 00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:56,280 Speaker 3: in Wisconsin. They're going to go after our voter ID law. 522 00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:59,280 Speaker 3: They're going to go after our if we call it 523 00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:02,520 Speaker 3: Act ten. It's a law that you may remember back 524 00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:05,280 Speaker 3: in twenty eleven, all those huge protests at the Wisconsin 525 00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:09,920 Speaker 3: Wisconsin Capital, those are over Act ten. Act ten put 526 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:15,399 Speaker 3: some limits on the negotiating powers of public employee unions. 527 00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:18,320 Speaker 3: Has nothing new with private sector unions, just public employee 528 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:22,399 Speaker 3: unions who were effective for negotiating with themselves. We're looking 529 00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:26,360 Speaker 3: estimates say that that's going to cost Wisconsin taxpayers. Well, 530 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:29,159 Speaker 3: we've saved that law has saved them in over thirty 531 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:32,160 Speaker 3: billion dollars. We're looking at that being turned right back 532 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:34,960 Speaker 3: to taxpayers if that comes down. These are the issues 533 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:36,280 Speaker 3: that are going to be in front of this court. 534 00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:40,480 Speaker 3: Opponent was the lead lawyer going after Act ten when 535 00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:43,080 Speaker 3: she was in private practice. She was a lead lawyer 536 00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:46,080 Speaker 3: going after our voter ID law. She called it traconian. 537 00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:47,840 Speaker 3: These are all issues that are going to end up 538 00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:52,000 Speaker 3: in this court. And she's out signaling file these lawsuits 539 00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:53,600 Speaker 3: and you'll get a good turnout. 540 00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:58,000 Speaker 1: We're talking to judge bradshemmel. If Trump's voters turn out, 541 00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:02,760 Speaker 1: you will win. Democrats very often are better at the 542 00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:07,600 Speaker 1: special elections, at these non traditional let's call it that 543 00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:11,360 Speaker 1: voting times. What is your message to people out there 544 00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:15,160 Speaker 1: who voted for Donald Trump and want Trump's agenda to 545 00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:18,800 Speaker 1: be implemented, because, as you said, if they rewrite these 546 00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:23,080 Speaker 1: house districts, basically what Democrats are doing is they're thinking, 547 00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:26,560 Speaker 1: we'll take away the House from Republicans and that will 548 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:29,640 Speaker 1: be the roadblock to Trump's agenda. Have I gotten that right? 549 00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:32,240 Speaker 1: But I think that's important for you to kind of 550 00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:34,719 Speaker 1: lay out for people who may not understand the larger 551 00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:35,360 Speaker 1: stakes here. 552 00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:38,640 Speaker 3: Yeah. I think that's why President Trump has weighed in 553 00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:41,600 Speaker 3: on this race. When we talked last Friday before he 554 00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:45,840 Speaker 3: announced his endorsement, he asked me straight up, Brad, what 555 00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:48,120 Speaker 3: do you think about activist judges? And I told him, 556 00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:51,440 Speaker 3: mister President, the whole reason I'm running is to end 557 00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:54,680 Speaker 3: the reign of activist judges on our Wisconsin Supreme Court. 558 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:58,200 Speaker 3: We have to restore our courts to objectivity judges who 559 00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:01,000 Speaker 3: will follow the law, not make the law from the bench. 560 00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:03,960 Speaker 3: And that was when President Trump said, look good, then Brad, 561 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:07,040 Speaker 3: you've got my full and complete endorsement. We have to 562 00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:11,240 Speaker 3: prevent the movement that is restoring America from bypassing Wisconsin 563 00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:15,560 Speaker 3: because we've got partisan judges on our Supreme Court who 564 00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:17,760 Speaker 3: are just doing everything they can just put up a 565 00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:21,240 Speaker 3: roadblock to everything that conservatives try to do to make 566 00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:24,560 Speaker 3: our states stronger and better and more prosperous and safer. 567 00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:30,680 Speaker 3: My opponent is a horrible Madison leftist who has had 568 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:35,200 Speaker 3: a terrible record on criminal sentencing. She goes way back. 569 00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:39,160 Speaker 3: She was chief legal counsel for former Democrat Governor Jim Doyle, 570 00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:41,560 Speaker 3: who did a lot of damage to our state. She 571 00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:44,000 Speaker 3: was leading the charge on all that as his attorney. 572 00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:48,400 Speaker 2: We're speaking to Brad Schimmel, Judge Simmel, who is running 573 00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:53,000 Speaker 2: for this critical Wisconsin State Supreme Court seat, and this 574 00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:55,560 Speaker 2: election is coming up in just a matter of days. 575 00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:57,600 Speaker 2: It is very tight right now, and it is very important. 576 00:30:57,960 --> 00:30:59,960 Speaker 2: We're not just the future of Wisconsin as a state, 577 00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:03,040 Speaker 2: but the future of the United States Congress and the 578 00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:07,760 Speaker 2: control thereof for the Trump agenda. So as goe with Wisconsin, 579 00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:10,560 Speaker 2: perhaps so goe with the Congress. It's very important for 580 00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:13,840 Speaker 2: all of us to understand what these stakes are and 581 00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:17,800 Speaker 2: to that end. To that end, Judge Shimmel, I'm wondering 582 00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:20,880 Speaker 2: what kind of money are the Democrats thrown into this 583 00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:23,600 Speaker 2: and what are some of the We know that this 584 00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:26,560 Speaker 2: is one of these situations where they're going to pretend, oh, 585 00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:29,600 Speaker 2: it's just all about Wisconsin from the Democrat side, But 586 00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:33,000 Speaker 2: they're getting New York money, Hollywood money, all over the 587 00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:35,240 Speaker 2: country they're piling in. I'm sure. So what are the 588 00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:36,760 Speaker 2: numbers like and what are you seeing? 589 00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:41,080 Speaker 3: How about this number four out of five donors to 590 00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:43,719 Speaker 3: my opponent don't live in Wisconsin. 591 00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:44,880 Speaker 2: There we go. 592 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:48,960 Speaker 3: That's crazy, That is shocking, right, But another number that's 593 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:51,440 Speaker 3: great for me. I've got over seventy five percent of 594 00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:54,800 Speaker 3: the sitting sheriffs in Wisconsin are publicly endorsing me, meaning 595 00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:58,120 Speaker 3: Democrat and Republican sheriffs, because they know my work as 596 00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:00,840 Speaker 3: attorney general and as a former district attorney in one 597 00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:03,520 Speaker 3: of our biggest counties in the state. I've got every 598 00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:07,800 Speaker 3: single law enforcement organization in Wisconsin's publicly endorsing my campaign. 599 00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:13,320 Speaker 3: That that means the organization's representing over sixteen thousand frontline 600 00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:17,640 Speaker 3: law enforcement officers are publicly backing me. She's got out 601 00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:20,400 Speaker 3: of state people trying to buy this Supreme Court. I've 602 00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:22,240 Speaker 3: got the people who take care of public safety in 603 00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:23,760 Speaker 3: our state who are backing me. 604 00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:27,800 Speaker 1: We've got people listening all over the state of Wisconsin, 605 00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:31,760 Speaker 1: but in particular WISN are incredible affiliate in Milwaukee. We've 606 00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:34,640 Speaker 1: been number one for a long time. They do phenomenal work. 607 00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:38,320 Speaker 1: Judge Schimmel, do you think people out there are aware 608 00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:41,240 Speaker 1: enough of what's going on with this race? Do you 609 00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:44,320 Speaker 1: get the sense that the base is in the same 610 00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:47,520 Speaker 1: way they were in twenty twenty four aware of the stakes, 611 00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:49,920 Speaker 1: or even with that money that's being spent, a lot 612 00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:52,200 Speaker 1: of it against you, do you think that a lot 613 00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:54,840 Speaker 1: of people still don't realize the stakes at play here 614 00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:56,800 Speaker 1: and even the fact that this race is happening. 615 00:32:58,040 --> 00:32:59,480 Speaker 3: I knew that it was going to be tough to 616 00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:02,800 Speaker 3: get that message to penetrate that this April election is 617 00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:05,440 Speaker 3: every bit is important as November. So I got in 618 00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:08,880 Speaker 3: this race sixteen months before election day to make sure 619 00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:11,600 Speaker 3: I got campaigned in all seventy two counties of our state. 620 00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:15,800 Speaker 3: I have I'm traveling constantly for this last sixteen months, 621 00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:18,200 Speaker 3: going and getting face to face with voters, and I 622 00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:22,520 Speaker 3: think it's worked. I've never seen conservatives this fired up 623 00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:25,560 Speaker 3: about a court race. They get it we're doing. We're 624 00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:29,320 Speaker 3: doing six to eight rallies every day, and at these 625 00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:32,600 Speaker 3: rallies we're getting huge turnouts. I ask people if you 626 00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:35,440 Speaker 3: lost any of your energy from November fifth, and they 627 00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:39,120 Speaker 3: all yell out, no way, not announced. We are with you, Brad. 628 00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:42,080 Speaker 3: We're fired up. And here's the great news. All we 629 00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:45,160 Speaker 3: have to do, because this race has so much smaller 630 00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:48,960 Speaker 3: turnout than November elections, if we turn out sixty percent 631 00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:52,680 Speaker 3: of President Trump's voters from November fifth, I'll win this thing. 632 00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:55,480 Speaker 3: And sixty percent is not a bad number to have 633 00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:55,920 Speaker 3: to hit. 634 00:33:56,720 --> 00:33:58,560 Speaker 2: No doubt thing. You want anything you want to tell 635 00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:02,840 Speaker 2: anybody about the day, the voting, voting hours, the website 636 00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:05,240 Speaker 2: to go to to contributor help out, or anything like that. 637 00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:08,800 Speaker 2: We just we got a huge audience wisconsuptrictar WISN number 638 00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:11,919 Speaker 2: one there. Thank you all WISN listeners. What do people 639 00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:13,359 Speaker 2: need to know to make sure we get this done 640 00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:14,720 Speaker 2: and bring you over the finish line? 641 00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:18,759 Speaker 3: Well, check us out at shimmelfor Justice dot com. S 642 00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:22,040 Speaker 3: C H I M E L F O R Justice 643 00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:24,319 Speaker 3: dot com and you can find out how you can 644 00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:26,720 Speaker 3: help us make sure we bring home the win. Today 645 00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:30,600 Speaker 3: is you can still go vote early today. In most 646 00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:33,600 Speaker 3: communities in Milwaukee, they can vote all the way through 647 00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:36,480 Speaker 3: the weekend, but most communities can't afford to have clerks 648 00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:39,279 Speaker 3: work all weekend. So for most of my most of 649 00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:41,960 Speaker 3: your listeners, today is the last day to vote early 650 00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:44,720 Speaker 3: and then on Tuesday, and we've got to get this done. 651 00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:47,319 Speaker 3: This is going to be easy. There's the lines will 652 00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:50,480 Speaker 3: be short, there will nothing bad is going to happen, 653 00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:51,840 Speaker 3: and you're going to be able to wake up on 654 00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:54,560 Speaker 3: April second feeling great that you were part of a 655 00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:57,319 Speaker 3: movement that's going to save our state, just like they 656 00:34:57,320 --> 00:34:59,399 Speaker 3: were part of a movement to save our nation back 657 00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:02,239 Speaker 3: on November fifth. We've got to do this again, and 658 00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:04,920 Speaker 3: this is a turnout race. Got to get our people out. 659 00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:07,520 Speaker 3: Every vote is going to count. You talked earlier about 660 00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:10,080 Speaker 3: how close some of our races are. This one is 661 00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:12,880 Speaker 3: going to be absolutely as tight as all those previous races. 662 00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:14,799 Speaker 3: Show up and we'll get this done. 663 00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:18,560 Speaker 1: Judge Shimmel get it done for him. We appreciate you listening, 664 00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:21,280 Speaker 1: and we love all of you in Wisconsin. We're asking 665 00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:23,600 Speaker 1: you one more time, keep the battle going and help 666 00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:26,200 Speaker 1: keep Donald Trump able to do the job that you 667 00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:29,640 Speaker 1: elected him to do as the chief executive Judge. Thank you, 668 00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:31,680 Speaker 1: have a good weekend and good luck on Tuesday. 669 00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:33,319 Speaker 3: Thank you so much. 670 00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:34,960 Speaker 2: Take care, Judge. 671 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:42,040 Speaker 1: Bradshimmel, Wisconsin, Wisconsin Natives, you did it for Donald Trump. 672 00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:44,279 Speaker 1: You did it for Ron Johnson. You need to do 673 00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:46,759 Speaker 1: it for Brad Shimmel. Get out and vote and make 674 00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:47,360 Speaker 1: sure you do