WEBVTT - The Truth with Lisa Boothe: Getting to Know Pennsylvania's Dave McCormick 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:02.800 Pennsylvania is one of the most important states for this 0:00:02.920 --> 0:00:06.840 presidential election and also for winning back the United States Senate. 0:00:06.960 --> 0:00:08.719 It's going to be one of the most expensive Senate 0:00:08.800 --> 0:00:11.200 races in the country, and it comes down to Republican 0:00:11.240 --> 0:00:16.160 businessman Dave McCormick versus Democrat Bob Casey. Now, Dave has 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:19.400 been able to avoid a nasty primary because the entire 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:22.680 Republican delegation of the state has gotten behind him. Now 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:27.120 he's been an incredibly successful businessman. He also graduated from 0:00:27.120 --> 0:00:30.280 West Point, served in the military, earned a bronze star. 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:33.159 But who is Dave McCormick. I want to introduce you 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:35.120 to him In this episode. We'll get to know him 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:37.480 a little bit better. I'll ask him about the state 0:00:37.520 --> 0:00:40.080 of the country, ask him about his views on abortion, 0:00:40.200 --> 0:00:43.120 get into his background a little bit. So who is 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:51.800 Dave McCormick find out Stay tuned well, Dave, it's great 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:54.600 to have you on the show. I know that campaigning 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:57.840 is busy and so you're probably exhausted and out there 0:00:57.880 --> 0:01:00.320 working hard, so we appreciate you making the time for 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:00.760 the show. 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:02.600 Oh, I'm glad to be on. Thanks Lisa. 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:06.480 Okay, so you grew up in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. Tell me 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:07.320 about Bloomsburg. 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:12.000 Yeah, well, I was a seventh generation Pennsylvania. My dad 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:14.560 was born in Indiana County, which is out in the 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:17.200 western part of the state. Mom was born in punk Satani, 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:20.280 and I was born in Washington County, which is right 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:23.800 next to Pittsburgh. But they moved around when I was 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:26.559 a young kid. And I grew up in Bloomsburg, which 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:30.760 is about fifty miles south of Scranton, and it's like 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:35.000 the perfect quintessential small town. So my folks had a farm. 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:37.680 My dad worked at the college, but they had a farm, 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:39.959 and he was the president of a little state college. 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:44.639 And so I grew up bailing hay and trimming Christmas trees. 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:47.200 I was a bus boy at the local hotel. I 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:51.960 was a paper boy, and I played sports like most 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:55.760 young Pennsylvania boys and girls, and I wrestled and played football. 0:01:56.040 --> 0:01:58.800 And wrestling in Pennsylvania is it's. 0:01:58.680 --> 0:01:59.160 A big deal. 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:02.320 It's in the Blood Street, it's on a Saturday night. 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:04.800 If you walk into the gym during wrestling season, it'll 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:08.000 be jam packed. And so wrestling kind of defined me 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:11.600 and I wrestled in high school and then that got 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:14.920 me to college wrestling. I was recruited to wrestle at 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:18.640 West Point and I ended up wrestling all four years there, 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:21.200 and I was the co captain of the wrestling team. 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:25.680 And so wrestling in small town gyms like chic Alemmy 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:29.360 and Chick Shiney and Sealings Grove and North Scoogle that 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:30.680 was a big part of my growing up. 0:02:32.200 --> 0:02:34.919 So you grew up near scrant and Joe Biden. 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:39.080 Well, I don't know he's he claims, but you know, 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:42.600 I think the office is probably a lot bigger connection 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:46.040 to most people than them Bob are than Joe Biden, 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:48.000 because I think Joe Biden left Scranton at the age 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:49.760 of five or something like that, so he. 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:51.360 His claim is limited. 0:02:51.400 --> 0:02:54.480 Although there is certainly, uh, there is certainly a highway 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:56.320 up there that has Joe Biden on it, which I 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:57.400 take note of every time. 0:02:57.280 --> 0:02:57.840 I drop by. 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:02.200 Yeah, well, I would do something else, but you know 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:06.040 it would involve two figures going out. But anyhoy e 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:12.040 sadly exactly all right. So you have six daughters, So 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:14.840 I have three brothers, and my parents told me that 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:17.760 I was more difficult to raise that all three boys combined. 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:21.880 So how was that that been. 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:26.880 So I have four daughters, and then I remarried and 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:29.800 I have two more daughters. So I have six in total, 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:31.720 their ages twenty three to seventeen. 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:35.400 And so we had a moment where we had six 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:37.560 teenagers all at the same time. 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:40.760 And essentially what I've said is, listen, I've done wrestling 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:42.840 in college, I went to Ranger School, I served in 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:46.360 the eighty second in Iraq. I've been in business, I've 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:47.160 been in politics. 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:47.960 Nothing. 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:51.480 Nothing will test a man like being the father that 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:52.640 to sixteenage daughters. 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:52.960 Nothing. 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:56.880 And so it's been a joy. And we're all most 0:03:56.880 --> 0:03:59.400 empty nesters at this point, and we're proud of all 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:02.720 six of them. They're not so sure they love this 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:05.480 political stuff. In fact, they're pretty much one hundred percent 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:10.280 against their father running or their stepfather running. But but 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:11.480 but they're loving and supportive. 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:12.880 Nonetheless, Well you. 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:15.120 Know the why? You know why run because you know, 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:17.440 let's face it, look, you're really rich, which is a 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:19.800 great thing everyone wants to be. You know, like before 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:22.200 you quit your job in twenty twenty two, you're you're 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:25.560 making twenty two million or more as CEO of Bridgewater Associates. 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:28.400 So why, you know, why give that up, right. That 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:31.040 sounds well, that sounds pretty good. You know, I'm not 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:31.520 gonna lie. 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:33.840 If you're rich, the best way to get less rich 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:37.040 is to go into politics. That's that's the starting point. 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:42.640 But all kidding aside, I feel like the luckiest guy 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:42.960 in the world. 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:43.840 I'm fifty eight. 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:47.040 You know, I grew up in rural Pennsylvania and and 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:49.120 didn't didn't you know, I didn't have I didn't have 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:51.039 any money. I went to West Point and had that 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:53.080 career that I talked about. I ran a couple of 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:57.480 country companies. I ran a company in Pittsburgh that created 0:04:57.520 --> 0:05:00.680 about a thousand jobs, and six hundred of them in Pittsburgh. 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:03.200 And then I served in the government again and then 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:07.240 went on to run Bridgewater. And so when I look 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:10.800 at my life, I mean, I am so feel so blessed. 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:14.279 And you know, the only person more surprised by my 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:17.240 success than me as my dad. And so I look 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:19.480 at it and say, wow, only in America. 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:20.479 And it's the same with my wife. 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:23.600 Dina's story was an immigrant from Egypt and you know, 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:26.159 came to Dallas at the age of five and worked 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:29.080 away through college and has had this remarkable career in 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:32.680 government and business, and that America we love is in trouble. 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:36.040 And so my simple answer to your question is, if 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:39.720 you believe America is exceptional, if you believe that you've 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:42.640 been benefited by the America dream, if you believe America 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:45.760 is in trouble and you believe you can do something 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:48.719 about it, then you're called to serve. And that's why, 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:51.320 even though you know politics isn't the most pleasant thing 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:54.839 these days, that I decided to do it, and I 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:57.320 did it with full knowledge of what it entails, because 0:05:57.720 --> 0:05:59.400 as you know, I ran in twenty twenty two and 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:02.800 lost a very close primary. So I'm in this with 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:05.560 eyes wide open that it's it's a contact sport and 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:09.160 it's tough. But if we don't have good people who 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:12.039 frankly don't need the job, jumping in to take on 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:13.840 these jobs, then I think we're going to be lost 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:14.520 as a country. 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:16.680 No, I agree, but I think we need I mean, 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:18.880 you know, for instance, you you look at someone like 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:23.839 Joe Biden. All he's done is government, Yet you know 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:25.440 we send him when the country is a mess. You 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:27.080 can't fix a problem that you know he's been a 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:28.960 part of for for this long and part of that 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:32.520 is really a chaotic world that we live in right now. 0:06:32.600 --> 0:06:35.360 I know you've got a big foreign policy background. You mentioned, 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:37.760 you know, you're a veteran, served in the Army, went 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:40.960 to West Point. You know, you worked as a deputy 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:46.160 National Security advisor for the Bush administration as well. How 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:48.440 do you think we got here? How much of where 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:50.360 we are now in this chaotic world has to do 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:53.000 with Joe Biden? And I guess kind of what scares 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:56.839 you the most about sort of this global unrest that's happening. 0:06:57.839 --> 0:06:59.279 Well, the you know, the. 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:02.360 Career tician part about Joe Biden, I agree with him. 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:04.920 That's the same with my opponent, Bob Casey. He's been 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:09.080 the Senate for eighteen years, he's been in statewide public 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:12.000 office for thirty years, so his entire life has been 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:14.040 devoted to public service. So we should thank him for 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:16.840 a service. But it's not it's not what we need now, 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:20.720 and we need true change in leadership that's going to 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:23.920 get the country back on a position of strength. And 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:27.360 what's happened on the world stage under President of Byness 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:31.720 in the world's increasingly complex. It's a tough neighborhood. We've 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:35.200 got you know, adversaries around the world that are growing 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:37.400 in power. But under Joe Biden, what's happened is we've 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:41.880 lost to terrence. And deterrence is a combination of power, 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:47.280 economic and military strength. It's a combination of will, the 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:52.560 willingness to use that power, that strength, and of uncertainty, 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:56.360 you know, whether the enemy or the adversary wonders what 0:07:56.880 --> 0:07:59.600 and how you'll do it, and that creates fear, fear 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:01.800 of challenging us. And so you know, you and I 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:04.360 learned on the playground we were kids that if the 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:07.440 bully smells weakness, the bully is going to push the case. 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:10.800 And right now what's happened around the world is our 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:14.960 adversaries smell weakness. And it started with the botched withdrawal 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:18.760 out of Afghanistan, which was an absolute disgrace. It continued 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:23.360 with the very weak mixed messages that Biden gave putin 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:27.680 the approval of the nord Stream two pipeline. The mixed messages, 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:31.280 you know, will send Zelenski a plane when Russia invaded? 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:34.680 You know Biden's remarks that, you know, how would he respond? 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:37.280 What depends you know, how far Putin goes. 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:38.800 It's the weak. 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:41.160 Response to the Chinese surveillance balloon, which which may seem 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:43.360 like a small thing, but you think about that that 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:46.760 balloon was flying over our military basis for you know, 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:50.880 the better part of a week and the week response 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:55.320 to the terrorist attacks throughout the Middle East. There's been 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:58.480 over one hundred and sixty attacks last year, many of 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:02.200 them against US forces in the least and Biden's response 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:06.439 every step of the way has been hamhanded, slow, weak, unclear, 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:10.000 and that's made our enemies think now's the time, now's 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:12.400 the time to push, now's the time to test. And 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:14.640 that's what I think our biggest problem is. And unfortunately, 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:17.560 deterrence is like your reputation. You know how hard it 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:20.640 is to build a great reputation and how easy it 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:22.920 is to lose a good reputation if you make a mistake. 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:24.320 What's that way with deterrence. 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:27.120 It's hard to build, it's easy to lose, and once 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:29.160 you lose it, it's hard to get back. And I 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:31.440 don't think we're going to get deterrence back under Joe Biden. 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:34.040 I think we're going to need to get a new leader. 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:36.440 I'm getting Preident Trump in the office. President Trump had deterrence. 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:38.960 When you blow up a guy like Solo Moni. The 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:40.960 folks in Iran are saying, wait a second, this guy 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:45.080 means business and we need that kind of leadership in 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:48.319 the Senate. And Bob Casey has been an absolute appeaser 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:53.680 of tyrants around the world, most notably Aaron because he 0:09:53.800 --> 0:10:01.320 signed the JPCA in twenty fifteen, the Iran Deal, which 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:05.760 gave Iran back one hundred billion dollars of sanctioned money, 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:07.880 and that's it's used that money. 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:09.520 To support these terrorist proxies around the world. 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:12.200 No, my my favorite part is when Trump was talking 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:15.240 about having chocolate cake with President She and then was 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:17.560 telling him that he was setting the Tomahawk missiles to 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:21.040 steer over chocolate cake, which is just kind of a 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:23.000 you know, power move, and then dropping the mother of 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:26.240 all bombs in Afghanistan after he took off, as I think, 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:28.360 kind of just sending a message that hey, there's a 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:31.000 new sheriff in town, like we're not messing around. 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:34.240 You tell that story. My wife was at that table. 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:35.880 Oh my god, no. 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:38.760 Room in the in the subsequent meeting with the National 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:41.559 Security Council, and she tells that story, and that's absolutely 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:45.600 the case that that is uh that's that's that. 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:46.680 That sends a message. 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:50.000 And I think President Trump had a uh had a 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:54.600 lot of success in demonstrating that deterrence. And you know, 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:57.520 the thing about him which I which I agree with, 0:10:58.080 --> 0:10:59.880 he said, the last thing you want to do is 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:02.719 broadcast how you're going to respond to your enemy. So 0:11:02.760 --> 0:11:05.760 he created a lot of uncertainty in how we would respond, 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:08.840 and that's that's the key to deterrent. So I think 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:11.000 that's our biggest problem on the world stage right now. 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:15.359 That and the fact that China, you know, China's orchestrating 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:18.360 a lot of what's happening around the world behind the scenes. 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:20.679 And you know, it was notable a couple months ago, 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:22.400 you may you may have seen it on the front 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:24.640 page of the Wall Street Journal. 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:25.760 There was a. 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:31.840 Picture of President Shei in Moscow, you know, standing behind 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:35.440 Putin of course, supporting his efforts in Ukraine. And during 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:37.360 that on that very same day, there was a picture 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:44.640 of the Foreign Minister from China in Saudi Arabia welcoming 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:47.960 the foreign minister from Iran and Saudi Arabia that we're 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:53.240 in talks with China seeking to orchestrate that China is 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:55.600 playing a role in the world stage, on connecting all 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:59.160 the dots, underwriting and supporting many of the challenges to 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:03.720 American leadership. And that's because China's explicit goal under President 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:07.840 She is to displace America as the global superpower and 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:11.000 challenge our interests and challenge our goals around the world. 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:13.240 And so you know, we've got to have a tough 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:17.440 minded strategy that not only returns to terrence, but also 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:21.000 stands tall against China and holds China accountable. 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:22.240 For bad behavior. 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:25.439 Who the a strategy that make sure we're not dependent 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:28.160 on China for key parts of our national security, make 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:32.080 sure that our companies and our investors aren't supporting China 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:36.880 by investing in the Chinese military or the Chinese Communist Party. 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:40.480 So that's also a big, a big challenge on the 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:44.240 global stage that the Biden administration has failed to address 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:45.719 in any meaningful way. 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:47.920 We've got to take a quick commercial break more with 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:53.839 Dave McCormick on the other side, you can't really hold 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:58.360 a country, you know, accountable when you know your son 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:02.319 has profited off a bit business deals with China and 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:05.400 you potentially have as well, right, I mean, he's the 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:10.160 big guy potentially you know, God has been the recipient 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:12.959 somehow of some of that money allegedly, you know, his 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:16.080 son definitely has. Yeah, so you know, how does that 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:18.960 shape Joe Biden's ability to deal with China? 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:19.320 Yeah? 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:22.520 This is what this is one of the more disturbing 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:26.120 things in the last three years, which is I mean, 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:29.559 what you're referring to is just this two tier justice 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:34.079 system where we see playing out in real time a 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:41.040 political motivation behind prosecution prosecutions at President Trump, whether it's 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:45.800 in the New York case or in Georgia where it's 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:51.440 highly highly politicized. It clearly wouldn't be like this if 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:54.599 the man that they were prosecuting wasn't Donald Trump. And 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:58.280 then you see two cases that are pretty similar with 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:02.400 sensitive doctor Humens, and the treatment of Joe Biden by 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:04.960 the justice system and the treatment of Donald Trump by 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:10.119 the justice system are dramatically different, despite very similar challenges 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:16.160 or very similar accusations of of of misbehavior. And it 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:19.200 gives us all pause, Wait a second, do we have 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:22.280 a justice system that's actually gonna bring justice that's going 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:24.440 to be fair to all involved? Or has it been 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:27.520 hijacked and politicized? And I think the Hunter Biden case 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:29.640 is a perfect example of that, where you know, you 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:33.200 had this laptop, you had these accusations against President Trump 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:37.800 of collaborating with the Russians, and then you know, out 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:41.440 of hand, all these national security figures and intelligence figures 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:45.160 slap down the accusations that that's Hunter Biden's that that's 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:48.160 Hunter Biden's laptop, and you know, this is all this 0:14:48.240 --> 0:14:52.440 is all disinformation. And then with time we see that 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:54.880 that that's in fact not the case. And with time 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:57.400 we're finding that President Trump is being treated in a 0:14:57.440 --> 0:15:00.440 way that's not consistent. You know, this five hundre million 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:03.720 dollar fine, I'm surd I've been in business. I've been 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:05.680 in business for almost thirty years. I've been a CEO 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:08.800 of two companies. I've never heard of anything remotely like 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:11.160 that in terms of that fine, particularly when there's no 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:13.880 one who's been damaged, so there's no damages that are 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:17.200 being ruled against. And this is this is a fundamental 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:21.240 fear because America is based on the idea of a 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:25.200 justice system which is fair to all innocent until proven guilty, 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:27.840 and that you'll get a fair shake. And I think 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:31.040 we see that under President Biden and the Democrats leading 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:36.280 the justice system judicial process. We're getting two very different 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:38.320 approaches in Yeah, well, I. 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:40.440 Think that's kind of all been thrown out the door, 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:43.080 you know, sadly under this administration is sort of the 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:46.080 direction the country is going in with you know, censorship, 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:48.600 A lot of it happened during COVID and has just 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:50.960 gotten worse since then. I wanted to ask you on 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:55.360 China specifically, why do we have so many Chinese nationals 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:58.680 entering the United States through the southern border, and with 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:02.600 your background and working on Chinese related issues, why are 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:04.160 they doing that? What's the objective? 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:05.840 You know, I. 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:09.960 Don't know the objective, although I can imagine what the 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:12.800 objective is. I mean, I think the thing that we've 0:16:13.120 --> 0:16:18.080 lost sight of is that with ten million illegal migrant 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:20.520 entering our country in a three year period, that those 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:24.640 are not people from Mexico. Those are people from across 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:29.480 the world, from Syria, from Central Asia, and from China. 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:33.360 The last numbers I saw were twenty thousand or something 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:37.320 like that in the past year, and it's hard to 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:40.200 imagine that that's not part of a very conscious effort 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:44.400 to infiltrate the United States, particularly given how difficult it 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:46.920 is to get out of China, so hard to imagine 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:49.800 the government isn't somehow behind this y'or sanctioning it. And 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:55.280 that's part of a comprehensive approach to undermining, challenging and 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:59.880 becoming integrated into America in a way for some Chinese 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:03.280 nationals that is very, very counter to America's interests. Many 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:07.040 Chinese nationals that come go to graduate school stay in 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:09.879 America and or contributing citizens and become American citizens, but 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:14.919 there are many that are part of an effort to 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:19.040 undermine our national security by stealing state secrets and becoming 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:26.520 part of a framework of compromising America's interest And you 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:29.560 see these confusion centers around the United States, you see 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:35.240 the infiltration into some of our cities. You see in 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:38.080 our universities. There's many great graduate students who come from 0:17:38.160 --> 0:17:40.320 China with the best motivations. There's some that are very 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:45.080 explicitly targeted by the Chinese government, and that's an enormous 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:48.120 national security problem. When you think about twenty thousand coming 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:51.320 across our border last year, I can't but imagine that 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:55.360 there's a nefarious intention behind that, and I think it's 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:56.040 really scary. 0:17:56.640 --> 0:17:58.440 We also know there's just a lot of foreign money 0:17:58.440 --> 0:18:00.600 going to our universities as well, which you would have 0:18:00.640 --> 0:18:05.120 to imagine shapes what happens on those campuses as a result, 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:07.119 in the same way that you know, obviously the Biden 0:18:07.400 --> 0:18:11.000 family taking money from China probably shapes his positioning on 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:14.520 foreign policy. You would imagine, what do you think the 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:17.320 biggest issue we face as a country is right now? 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:22.320 Well, I think there's there's sort of the fast burn 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:25.080 and the slow burn. I mean the fast burn is 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:30.600 we got two big issues that are affecting Pennsylvanians and 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:33.440 Americans in a big way. One is the economy. And 0:18:34.040 --> 0:18:36.840 you know what's happened under Joe Biden and the enormous 0:18:36.880 --> 0:18:40.200 spending and the war on fossil fuels, is that prices 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:43.159 have gone up by twenty percent, wages have gone up 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:46.679 by fourteen fifteen percent. And so if you're of the 0:18:46.800 --> 0:18:50.240 sixty percent of Pennsylvanians who live paycheck to paycheck sixty 0:18:50.280 --> 0:18:54.240 percent most Pennsylvanians live in paycheck to paycheck, man, under 0:18:54.320 --> 0:18:55.600 Joe Biden, you're getting squeezed. 0:18:56.240 --> 0:18:59.439 Your life got hard or not easier. You're living paycheck 0:18:59.440 --> 0:18:59.840 to paycheck. 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:03.000 If you have a bad day and your transmission goes down, 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:05.480 you don't have a thousand dollars in your checking account 0:19:05.520 --> 0:19:09.679 to fix it. That is unacceptable. And that is the 0:19:09.680 --> 0:19:14.080 direct result of a set of policies that Joe Biden 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:16.520 and Bob Casey have supported, which is the warrant energy 0:19:16.560 --> 0:19:17.800 and the EXCESSUS spending. 0:19:17.800 --> 0:19:18.400 That's a big deal. 0:19:18.760 --> 0:19:21.399 Well, the second the second big deal was the border. 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:24.760 I mean that we talked about all the problems from that, 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:28.040 the fentanyl crisis, the crime in our cities. That's the 0:19:28.080 --> 0:19:31.440 second big problem, and I think it's I think it's 0:19:31.520 --> 0:19:36.000 absolutely undermining the quality of life, the safety, the well 0:19:36.040 --> 0:19:40.960 being of our fellow Americans and our fellow Pennsylvanians. Now, 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:44.080 the long burn problem is a bit what we were 0:19:44.119 --> 0:19:47.960 talking about. If you go to our college campuses and 0:19:48.000 --> 0:19:50.560 our young people only thirty percent of them, I think 0:19:50.600 --> 0:19:54.399 America is exceptional. If you look at our recruiting numbers 0:19:54.400 --> 0:19:58.000 for our military, they can't meet the recruiting numbers because 0:19:58.600 --> 0:20:02.600 our young peopleeople can't pass the obesity test or the 0:20:02.640 --> 0:20:05.439 physical fitness test, or they have drug problems. And of 0:20:05.480 --> 0:20:09.200 the few that are able to actually qualify, the majority 0:20:09.240 --> 0:20:11.320 don't want to serve. And then if you look at 0:20:11.560 --> 0:20:15.760 the statistics on TikTok and social media in terms of 0:20:15.760 --> 0:20:17.879 how our young people are spending their time. You know, 0:20:17.920 --> 0:20:21.880 these are the building blocks of or the key factors 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:25.480 undermining the quality of our society. If our citizens don't 0:20:25.480 --> 0:20:27.600 want to serve, if they don't believe America is special, 0:20:27.640 --> 0:20:30.720 if they're being co opted by social media, some of 0:20:30.760 --> 0:20:35.520 it from a foreign adversary that is undermining our. 0:20:35.359 --> 0:20:36.800 Social norms or mores. 0:20:37.400 --> 0:20:40.920 That is the long run problem, and I think really 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:44.200 undermines our ability to remain the greatest country in the world. 0:20:44.840 --> 0:20:47.400 How big of an issue in Pennsylvania. You know, Joe 0:20:47.440 --> 0:20:50.840 Biden has been trying to set all these deadlines for 0:20:50.960 --> 0:20:53.840 this big push for electric vehicles, even though the market's 0:20:53.880 --> 0:20:56.720 not really demanding it. How much is that going to 0:20:56.720 --> 0:20:57.960 impact Pennsylvania. 0:20:58.240 --> 0:20:59.360 It's a huge impact. 0:20:59.480 --> 0:21:02.399