In this episode, I sit down with Republican presidential candidates Rick DeSantis, Tim Scott and Bobby Scott to discuss why they are better than Joe Biden and why they should be the Republican nominee for president in 2016. They discuss their economic backgrounds, their views on taxes, the economy, and their vision for the future of the country. I hope you enjoy this episode and tweet me if you do! with any questions or comments! Timestamps: 3:00 - What s your biggest takeaway from this episode? 4:30 - Why you should vote for Rick De Santis 6:15 - Why Scott Scott is better than Biden 7:00 - Why they should both run for President 8:00 -- Why they re better than the other two 9:10 - How they differ from each other 11:20 - Who s better on the economy 12:00- What s the best economic plan for the country 13:20 16:20- Why they ve done the most for the economy so far 17:30- Why the country needs to get back on track 18:10 19:15 21:30 22:15- How they veered away from the status quo 23:50 - How much money should we spend 26:40 27:40 - How should the country get back 28:00 | What s going forward 29:30 | How would you vote for the next president? ? 32:00 // 33:00 & 35:00 + 35:10 | How do you feel about Joe Biden? 35:40 | What would you like to be the next President? 36:00 Is it possible? 37:00 What do you think of Joe Biden s plan? 39:00 Do you think I m going to get the job done? 40:00 Can I win in 2020? ) 39:40 & 45:00 Are you ready to vote for Joe Biden for President in 2016? 41:00 And so on the other side of the ticket? 45:10: Who do you agree with Joe Biden ? 44: What do I think Joe Biden have a plan for me? 47:00 Or do you have a better plan for my plan for a better economy? & 47:30 & 48:00 How would I vote for you?
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00:00:48.000So tonight, these candidates have a big opportunity to break out of the pack and to explain why they are best prepared to be the Republican choice for president, at a time when the likely Democrat nominee, President Joe Biden, is working to convince the country that with Bidenomics, things are looking up.
00:02:22.000There's rich men all for rich men Lord knows they all just wanna have total control This is insane Wanna know what you think Wanna know what you do And they don't think you know But I know that you do Cause your dollar ain't shit And it's taxed to no end All for rich men All for rich men
00:04:18.000Well, look, I do agree predominantly with what Governor DeSantis just laid out, and I think that if you asked every one of us up here, that we would agree predominantly with what he just laid out.
00:04:29.000The difference is that we're going to have to work and make sure that we sell these ideas, and be able to put ourselves in a position where we get a majority of the vote, not only by winning the Congress and the Senate,
00:05:21.000Truth and accountability are the things we need to do to fight waste.
00:05:25.000And I'd say the last thing is this, Brad.
00:05:27.000We cannot sit by any longer and allow the kind of spending that's going on in Washington, because every dollar they spend is a dollar that these people are not allowed to spend on their children and their grandchildren.
00:05:40.000It's robbing our country and it's wrong.
00:05:41.000Well, Governor, let me just follow up very quickly.
00:05:43.000All they're talking about is... All they're talking about is money.
00:06:01.000Debt that had been left to us by three Democratic gubernatorial predecessors of mine who ran up that debt tremendously.
00:06:09.000And what you also saw us do was to cut the unemployment rate in half.
00:06:13.000It was over 10% when I became governor in 2010.
00:06:17.000What we also did was cut pension payments to public employees to make sure that taxpayers were not being soaked by a public employee union system that was killing the taxpayer.
00:06:59.000Over the last several years, I've had an opportunity to vote against spending package after spending package after spending package.
00:07:05.000What we also need to understand is that Joe Biden's Biden-nomics has led to the loss of $10,000 of spending power for the average family.
00:07:16.000When you see 16% inflation, your gas is up 40%.
00:07:21.000Your food is up 20%, your electricity is up 20%.
00:07:24.000We can stop that by turning the spigot off in Washington, sending the money back to the states and allowing the decisions to be made at their own houses.
00:07:35.000I helped write the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in 2017.
00:07:39.000We cut taxes for a single mom like the one that raised me by 70%, for dual
00:09:44.000And I am genuinely worried that that American dream will not exist for our two sons and their generation unless we do something about it.
00:09:52.000And I do think Brett is gonna take an outsider because for a long time we have professional politicians in the Republican Party who have been running from something.
00:09:59.000Now is our moment to start running to something.
00:10:03.000To our vision of what it means to be an American today.
00:10:07.000If you have a broken car, you don't turn over the keys to the people who broke it again.
00:10:11.000You hand it over to a new generation to actually fix the problem.
00:10:14.000That's why I'm in this race and we're just getting warmed up.
00:12:05.000Well, first off, thanks for the question.
00:12:07.000Thanks for letting me respond to a reference to our administration's record.
00:12:12.000I'm incredibly proud of the record of the Trump-Pence administration.
00:12:16.000I mean, in four short years, we rebuilt our military, we revived our economy, we unleashed American energy, and we appointed three conservatives to the Supreme Court that gave the American people a new beginning for the right to life.
00:12:32.000Martha, you asked earlier who's the most best prepared for this job.
00:12:37.000And I must say, with all due respect to all of my friends on the stage, and even to one that's probably looking on, I think unquestionably I am the best prepared, the most tested, the most qualified and proven conservative in this race.
00:12:53.000I was a leader in the Congress of the United States.
00:12:55.000I led Indiana where we balanced budgets and had a triple-A bond rating.
00:13:00.000When I was governor and as vice president of the United States, we spent funding to backfill on the military cuts of the Obama administration and then we were there in the worst pandemic in 100 years.
00:13:13.000All that being said, I was the first person in this race.
00:13:16.000To say that we've got to deal with the long-term national debt issues.
00:13:21.000You got people on this stage that won't even talk about issues like Social Security and Medicare.
00:13:27.000Vivek, you recently said a president can't do everything.
00:13:35.000A president of the United States has to confront every crisis facing America.
00:13:40.000I will put our nation back on the path to growth and prosperity and restore fiscal responsibility, just as I did in Congress and as governor and when I was vice president.
00:16:14.000We're just going to have some fun tonight.
00:16:16.000And the reality is, you have a bunch of people, professional politicians, super PAC puppets, following slogans handed over to them by their 400-page super PACs last week.
00:16:26.000The real choice we face in this primary is this.
00:16:29.000Do you want a super PAC puppet, or do you want a patriot who speaks the truth?
00:16:33.000Do you want incremental reform, which is what you're hearing about, or do you want revolution?
00:16:39.000And I stand on the side of the American revolution.
00:16:48.000There are two people who have not... We're going to get back to that.
00:16:52.000There are two people who we have not heard from yet, so let's hear from Governor Burgum and then from Governor Hutchinson on the economy, sir.
00:18:46.000We have 14% fewer state employees in Arkansas after I left government than when I took over as governor eight years ago.
00:18:55.000I tell that because that's what we need in Washington, D.C.
00:18:59.000We need somebody who can actually constrain the growth of federal government that can actually reduce the size, and I've pledged to reduce by 10%, our federal non-defense workforce.
00:20:07.000And a tropical storm hit California for the first time in 84 years.
00:20:11.000The ocean hit 101 degrees off the coast of Florida.
00:20:15.000And in the last month, the heat wave in the southwest broke records nearly 50 years old.
00:20:20.000So Alexander Diaz from Young America's Foundation has a question for you.
00:20:26.000Polls consistently show that young people's number one issue is climate change.
00:20:29.000How will you, as both President of the United States and leader of the Republican Party, calm their fears that the Republican Party doesn't care about climate change?
00:22:06.000I've had enough already tonight of a guy who sounds like Chat GPT standing up here
00:22:14.000The last person in one of these debates, Brett, who stood in the middle of the stage and said, what's a skinny guy with an odd last name doing up here was Barack Obama, and I'm afraid we're dealing with the same type of amateur standing on stage tonight.
00:23:11.000But if you want to go and really change the environment, then we need to start telling China and India that they have to lower their emissions.
00:23:21.000And these green subsidies that Biden has put in, all he's done is help China, because he doesn't understand all these electric vehicles that he's done.
00:23:29.000What that does, half of the batteries for electric vehicles are made in China.
00:23:34.000And so that's not helping the environment.
00:23:36.000You're putting money in China's pocket.
00:24:14.000As a kid who grew up in a single-parent household marred in poverty, I wondered, was the American dream real for kids who were devastated by poverty, devastated by the challenges of life?
00:24:25.000I came to the conclusion that America can do for anyone what she's done for me if we focus on restoring hope, creating opportunities, and protecting America.
00:24:35.000If we want the environment to be better, and we all do, the best thing to do is to bring our jobs home from China.
00:26:40.000And it's interesting because she is an establishment candidate, and even though she is establishment, she is playing the anti-establishment card.
00:26:50.000And I think this whole night shows the indelible mark that Trump has left on politics, specifically on the Republican side.
00:26:57.000Because they're all bringing the banter, they're all aggressive, they're all really trying to...
00:27:04.000On the one hand, they're balancing with the experience, because that's conventional part of it, is, oh, I was a governor, I was a, when I was governor, when I was vice president.
00:27:12.000But at the same time, some of them are going for this, even they're going for an anti-Republican angle, which I don't know that that was very popular before Trump.
00:27:39.000Because if you're young, maybe you don't remember this, but Chris Christie famously gave Barack Obama a hug, I think after Hurricane Sandy.
00:27:48.000And Trump and Rand Paul attacked him for that eight years ago.
00:27:53.000So that but that didn't quite land when he said oh, give me a hug then it was fire, but he didn't I Don't know that that landed great.
00:28:01.000The timing was a little off same thing with Mike Pence I think Mike Pence kind of kicked the shit out of him a little bit.
00:28:07.000So the banter's not topped I'm just gonna say I don't think the banter is really landing but he is very effective like he stole the initiative from Mike Pence early on and
00:28:32.000Besides that, I mean, I know the topic is fiscal conservatism, but it's interesting that that's what all their opening statements were about.
00:28:41.000Because the question was about the song.
00:28:43.000The question was about this Oliver Anthony song and broadly about Bidenomics and they're all effectively giving their opening statements and it's all just about money.
00:28:54.000Like, I didn't hear immigration mentioned one time.
00:28:58.000It's all been about energy and the budget.
00:29:02.000Which, you know, in the same way that maybe this shows how the style has changed, people are more pugnacious like Trump, at the same time the substance has slid back.
00:29:14.000I'm talking about their tactics are Trumpian, but the things that they're saying sound like the pre-Trump Republican Party, the way they're all talking about debt, spending, unemployment, inflation.
00:29:26.000Not that those things aren't important, they are, it's a big deal, but
00:29:30.000That was not front and center in the last two elections.
00:29:33.000The last two elections were about a culture war, really.
00:29:38.000And immigration being at the center of that, so... I guess we'll have to wait and see as the debate goes on.
00:29:43.000I'm sure immigration will be brought up eventually, but those were the opening statements.
00:29:48.000And everybody's opening statement was a prosperity agenda.
00:30:02.000Abortion has been a losing issue for Republicans since the Dobbs decision.
00:30:08.000In six state referendums, all have upheld abortion rights in this country.
00:30:14.000And even in red states, there are more swing state referendums that are coming up as we head into the elections as well on this.
00:30:22.000So, Governor Haley, what do you say to your party and to your state, which today confirmed a six-week abortion law as well, especially the impact on women suburban voters across this country?
00:30:40.000Not because the Republican Party tells me to be, but because my husband was adopted and I had trouble having both of my children, so I'm surrounded by blessings.
00:30:49.000Having said that, we need to stop demonizing this issue.
00:30:53.000This is talking about the fact that unelected justices didn't need to decide something this personal, because it's personal for every woman and man.
00:31:01.000Now it's been put in the hands of the people.
00:31:04.000When it comes to a federal ban, let's be honest with the American people and say it will take 60 Senate votes, it will take a majority of the House.
00:31:12.000So in order to do that, let's find consensus.
00:31:16.000Can't we all agree that we should ban late-term abortions?
00:31:19.000Can't we all agree that we should encourage adoptions?
00:31:23.000Can't we all agree that doctors and nurses who don't believe in abortion shouldn't have to perform them?
00:31:28.000Can't we all agree that contraception should be available?
00:31:31.000And can't we all agree that we are not going to put a woman in jail or give her the death penalty?
00:34:51.000First of all, I will say it is in the hands of the people and that's where it should be.
00:34:54.000But when you're talking about a federal ban, be honest with the American people.
00:34:59.000We haven't had 45 pro-life senators in over 100 years, so no Republican president can ban abortions any more than a Democrat president can ban all those state laws.
00:35:10.000Don't make women feel like they have to decide on this issue when you know we don't have 60 Senate votes
00:40:08.000They did accelerate during the pandemic and are still rising actually.
00:40:12.000Murders in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, all up 30% between 2019 and 2022.
00:40:19.000Homelessness is up 11%, the largest jump in recorded history.
00:40:24.000Vice President Pence, a lot of this began in the COVID era.
00:40:29.000How much of what we're seeing happening around this country is a result of those COVID lockdowns, and is your administration in part to blame for how we got here?
00:40:41.000Well, I think what's in part to blame is that Democrats have been talking about defunding the police for the last five years.
00:40:47.000And we ought to be funding law enforcement, particularly in our major cities, at unprecedented levels.
00:40:53.000I mean, it's extraordinary to think about the violence that's claiming innocent lives literally every week in every major city in this country.
00:42:21.000You know, I'm proud of the fact, Brett, that I'm the only person along with Governor Hutchinson up on this stage who's actually running United States Attorney's Office.
00:42:29.000I ran the fifth largest office in America in a state where there is significant urban crime.
00:42:36.000The problem is not going to be solved by more money.
00:42:40.000The problem is that these prosecutors in these localities in the states are refusing to do their job and to arrest violent criminals.
00:42:49.000So what President Christie would do is appoint an attorney general who would instruct each of the 93 U.S.
00:44:29.000And I say this as a member of my generation.
00:44:31.000The problem in our country right now, the reason we have that mental health epidemic, is that people are so hungry for purpose and meaning at a time when family, faith, patriotism, hard work have all disappeared.
00:44:45.000What we really need is a tonal reset from the top, saying that this is what it means to be an American.
00:44:50.000Yes, we will stand for the rule of law.
00:44:52.000Yes, we will close the southern border where criminals are coming in every day.
00:44:56.000And yes, we will back law enforcement because we remember who we really are.
00:45:00.000And that's also how we address that mental health epidemic in the next generation that is directly leading to violent crime across this country.
00:46:42.000And as president, as president, we are going to go after all of these people because they are hurting the quality of life and they are victimizing innocent people in every corner of this country and it will stop when I get into office.
00:48:45.000So, speaking of that, right now you are looking live at Fulton County Jail, where former President Donald Trump will be processed tomorrow.
00:48:54.000So next the candidates will have an opportunity to talk about the coming trials of Donald Trump.
00:52:58.000I don't like that he's not a Christian, but otherwise he's good.
00:53:02.000And addressing the identity, that was the first time I've ever heard that in a presidential debate, to say American identity, and say we have an identity crisis, faith, family, hard work are going down the tubes.
00:57:41.000I read it, and I know— Because there's a difference between bad behavior and illegal behavior, Chris, and you as a prosecutor should know better.
00:57:52.000You've never done it like you've never done anything to try to advance the interests of this government, except to put yourself forward as a candidate tonight.
00:59:48.000We keep seeing not only the weaponization of the Department of Justice against political opponents, but also against parents who show up at school board meetings.
01:02:41.000I thought he was going to say the dinner.
01:02:42.000I thought he was going to say because of the lapel pin.
01:02:44.000I thought he was going to say because he met with anti-Semites.
01:02:58.000Under our rules and under the Constitution.
01:03:02.000And so, obviously, I'm not going to support somebody who's been convicted of a serious felony or who is disqualified under our Constitution.
01:03:22.000I'd like to answer the question you asked and not give a pre-canned speech.
01:03:25.000Mike Pence stood for the Constitution.
01:03:35.000And he deserves, not grudging credit, he deserves our thanks as Americans for putting his oath of office and the Constitution of the United States before personal, political, and unfair pressure.
01:03:51.000And the argument that we need to have in this party, before we can move on to the issues that Ron talked about, is we have to dispense with the person who said that we need to suspend the Constitution to put forward his political career.
01:04:08.000Mike Pence said no, and he deserves credit for it.
01:05:15.000China is the number one threat to our country, and every minute that these eight candidates spend talking about the past instead of the future is time that is just... You know who loves it?
01:05:24.000Biden loves it, but China loves it when we're talking about the past.
01:05:28.000Okay, as promised, we were gonna spend a few questions on it, let people say what they wanted to say, and now, indeed, we are moving on to the subject of- The U.S.
01:05:35.000has committed nearly 77- Can I speak on this issue?
01:06:35.000I put my left hand on Ronald Reagan's Bible, I raised my right hand, and I took an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, and it ended with a prayer, so help me God.
01:06:48.000It was a promise that I made to the American people, but I also made it
01:06:59.000And everyone on this stage needs to make it clear whether or not they'll do the same if they earn this job and the confidence of the American people.
01:07:09.000I had hoped that the issues surrounding the 2020 election and the controversies around January 6th had not come to this, had not come to criminal proceedings.
01:07:20.000I would rather they had been resolved by the American people
01:09:41.000I think that we have to put the interests of Americans first.
01:09:45.000Secure our own border instead of somebody else's.
01:09:47.000And the reality is, this is also how we project strength by making America strong at home.
01:10:11.000And imagine that every one of these seats was filled.
01:10:15.000And if every one of them was filled, there would still be 2,500 more children outside to make over 20,000 who have been abducted, stolen, ripped from their mothers and fathers, and brought back to Russia to be programmed to fight their own families.
01:10:33.000They have gouged out people's eyes, cut off their ears, and
01:10:37.000Shot people in the back of the head, men, and then gone into those homes and raped the daughters and the wives who were left as widows and orphans.
01:11:39.000We'll give you the means to fight him there so our troops don't have to fight him.
01:11:42.000Vivek, if we do the giveaway that you want to give to Putin to give him his land, it's not going to be too long before he rolls across a NATO border and frankly our men and women of our armed forces are going to have to go and fight him.
01:11:55.000I want to let the Ukrainians fight and drive Putin and the Russians back out into Russia.
01:12:02.000So our troops aren't going to have to make that fight.
01:13:44.000And I think that the same people who took us into the Iraq war, the same people who took us into the Vietnam war, you cannot end it, you cannot start another no-win war.
01:13:52.000And I do not want to get to the point where we're sending our military resources abroad when we could be better using them here at home to protect our own borders, protect the homeland.
01:14:02.000That will be my top priority in foreign policy.
01:14:04.000I think we gave you more than the 30 seconds in the rebuttal.
01:14:06.000So I do want to get to some other people because we respect everybody's time here.
01:14:12.000That's the thing with these guys they're like smart and they're quick and clever, but they're not fighters Initially called it a territorial dispute it was a good answer, but he got steamrolled
01:14:29.000First of all, the American president needs to have moral clarity.
01:14:32.000They need to know the difference between right and wrong.
01:14:35.000They need to know the difference between good and evil.
01:14:38.000When you look at the situation with Russia and Ukraine, here you have a pro-American country that was invaded by a thug.
01:14:45.000So when you want to talk about what has been given to Ukraine, less than 3.5% of our defense budget has been given to Ukraine.
01:14:54.000If you look at the percentages per GDP, 11 of the European countries have given more than the U.S.
01:15:00.000But what's really important is go back to when China and Russia held hands, shook hands before the Olympics and named themselves unlimited partners.
01:18:30.000just arrested two sailors accused of spying for China within our military.
01:18:36.000So the question is, how would you deter China as a president?
01:18:41.000Well, this is the number one issue we're facing, and of course we haven't been talking about it, and we act like that letting Russia win in the Ukraine is like a gimme as opposed to a gift to China.
01:18:51.000Russia has become China's gas station, but how would we do it?
01:18:55.000The Biden administration is a complete fail.
01:18:57.000China imports 10 million barrels of oil a day more than any other country in the world.
01:19:03.000They do not even have all the food they need to feed everybody in that country, so they don't have energy security or food security.
01:19:08.000But the Biden administration sends Blinken, Yellen over there.
01:19:14.000They don't even bring up energy because they're too busy trying to kill the U.S.
01:19:19.000And what we need to do is not meetings, not press releases, because something that would send a lot more than a press release is actually harpoon missiles.
01:19:30.000The way that you have a war never start, which is the goal, the way you have peace through strength,
01:19:36.000Is that you actually have strength you actually have deterrence and what we have in in in what we've got going on in Ukraine is an example of when deterrence fail what we what is an example there of Biden's disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan the fact that he green-lighted Putin moving into Ukraine and then now they see weakness and when they see weakness they make a move and we have to be strong and we have to be strong both in Ukraine and we can solve the southern border absolutely we can do that
01:20:02.000There's only 19,855 authorized people for the Border Patrol.
01:20:06.000But they're not all staff, because the Biden administration doesn't enforce law enforcement.
01:20:10.000But Biden administration wanted to put 87,000 people in the IRS, as opposed to giving the money in this fort we need to our own Border Patrol.
01:20:55.000And 200 people on our national security watch list have been caught at our border.
01:21:01.000How many have not been caught at our southern border?
01:21:05.000If we just spend $10 billion, we could finish the wall.
01:21:10.000For five billion more, we could have the military-grade technology to surveil our southern border to stop the flow of fentanyl and save 70,000 Americans a year.
01:21:24.000That should be the priority of this government, and as the next president of the United States, I will make that border wall
01:21:46.000We're taking mass casualties and those aren't, that's a statistic, but these are sons and daughters, nieces and nephews that we're losing.
01:21:53.000We've got North Dakota troops down there flying night helicopter missions from San Diego to the Gulf Coast trying to stop these transnational
01:22:02.000Speaking of which, Governor Hutchinson, speaking of which, images from earlier this month, Governor Hutchinson and Vice President Pence, images from earlier this month, Vice President Pence, it really doesn't help.
01:22:52.000Whenever I was in the Bush administration, we went down there and met with President Vincente Fox of Mexico and asked his help in going after the cartels.
01:23:03.000And he looked at me and said, they're a problem to us as well.
01:23:06.000And so we joined together and we took down the Ariana Felix brothers leading the Tijuana cartel.
01:24:23.000The cartels are killing tens of thousands of our fellow citizens.
01:24:28.000You want to talk about a country in decline?
01:24:30.000You have the cartels controlling a lot of part of your southern border.
01:24:34.000We have to reestablish the rule of law, and we have to defend our people.
01:24:40.000The President of the United States has got to use all available powers as Commander-in-Chief to protect our country and to protect the people.
01:24:49.000So when they're coming across, yes, we're going to use lethal force.
01:26:29.000It's because we used economic pressure to bring the Mexicans to the table, and they allowed us to have people wait in Mexico while they applied for asylum and ended asylum abuse overnight.
01:26:41.000We got the Mexicans to deploy their National Guard to their southern border and our southern border as never before.
01:26:49.000And I want to promise you, as President of the United States of America, I will engage Mexico the exact same way, and we will partner with the Mexican military, and we will hunt down and destroy the cartels that are claiming lives in the United States of America.
01:27:06.000Another issue that is related to this is that almost 7 million migrants have crossed this border, our southern border, during the Biden administration.
01:27:17.000So, Governor Christie, what would you do about the 7 million who are here?
01:27:30.000Then, the next thing we need to do with the folks that are here is to, again, as we've talked about all night tonight, we have to have law and order in this country.
01:28:25.000But China is sending these chemicals to these drug cartels for them to create the fentanyl that is killing hundreds of thousands of our citizens.
01:28:35.000The Chinese are engaging in an act of war against us, killing our citizens.
01:28:40.000We better make that priority one in our conversations with China and to try to straighten that relationship out, because if we don't, we're going to lose more and more of our citizens.
01:30:25.000And so even though he had the right take on Ukraine, he just got dominated by Pence, and then he got dominated by Haley.
01:30:31.000And they totally talked over him, and she tore him a new asshole, and then the crowd was screaming, and he was talking, but the crowd was yelling over him.
01:30:52.000I mean, you know You can be a good talker.
01:30:55.000You could be eloquent in those things, but it's a different environment when you introduce a hostile Person hostile Situation That said I mean he's doing the best out of anybody he's got the best his his his
01:33:13.000Your report card was the weakest ever for American school children, exposing chronic absenteeism, deep declines for reading and math for 15-year-olds and 13-year-olds.
01:33:25.000Governor DeSantis, you would eliminate, you said, the Department of Education.
01:33:30.000But as president, would you still have a responsibility to fix this crisis as we see it?
01:33:49.000Florida, we stood up for what was right.
01:33:51.000First, we had schools open during COVID, and a lot of the problems that we've seen are because these lockdown states lock their kids out of school for a year, year and a half.
01:34:02.000I was pilloried by the media, but I stood for our kids.
01:34:05.000And as president, I'll stand for you and your kids as well.
01:34:08.000But we have to make sure that what our schools are doing is focusing on solid academics.
01:34:15.000In Florida, we eliminated critical race theory from our K-12 schools.
01:34:19.000We eliminated gender ideology from our K-12 schools, and we have elevated the importance of American civics in teaching our kids about the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
01:34:31.000As president, I'm going to lead an effort to increase civic understanding and knowledge of our Constitution.
01:34:38.000We cannot be graduating students that don't have any foundation in what it means to be an American.
01:34:48.000Mr. Ramaswamy, hold on, Senator Scott.
01:34:50.000You've said that the Department of Education, the FBI, the ATF, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the IRS, the Department of Commerce, many of these should not exist.
01:35:01.000So, to the education question, how would you deal with the crisis?
01:35:05.000So look, we have a crisis of achievement.
01:35:07.000Let's shut down the head of the snake, the Department of Education.
01:35:10.000Take that $80 billion, put it in the hands of parents across this country.
01:35:15.000This is the civil rights issue of our time.
01:35:17.000Allow any parent to choose where they send their kids to school.
01:35:21.000End the teachers unions at the local level to allow public schools to compete.
01:35:26.000And then revive our national identity where every high school senior should have to pass the same civics test that frankly every immigrant, including my mother, had to pass in order to become a citizen of this country.
01:35:39.000And the fact of the matter is, look, there's a part of education policy that also rests with the family.
01:35:57.000So part of the problem is we also have a federal government that pays single women more not to have a man in the house than to have a man in the house, contributing to an epidemic of fatherlessness.
01:36:08.000And I think that goes hand-in-glove with the education crisis as well, because we have to remember, education starts with the family, and the nuclear family is the greatest form of governance known to mankind.
01:36:52.000But I do think when we start talking about education, and we think that we're going to have a federal government, one size fits all, we're just completely losing track of the fact that education differs by state.
01:37:03.000Some school districts are doing a fantastic job, some less so.
01:37:06.000But the idea that every school district in the state and every teacher is somehow indoctrinating people is just false.
01:38:08.000Teachers in this country, the vast majority of them care about those kids.
01:38:12.000They're working in low-paying jobs, and they're fighting, fighting for those kids and their families.
01:38:16.000Governor Haley, you said that this is the women's issue of our time.
01:38:20.000First, I'll tell you, as, you know, as a parent, the one thing you want is for your child to have a better life than you did.
01:38:27.000And we can talk about all of these things, and there's a lot of crazy woke things happening in schools, but we've got to get these kids reading.
01:38:34.000If a child can't read by third grade, they're four times less likely to graduate high school.
01:38:40.000We need to teach these black kids to read.
01:39:01.000When we do that and we allow that innovation, that's when it'll get back.
01:39:05.000And yes, I will always say I'm gonna fight for girls all day long because strong girls become strong women, strong women become strong leaders, and biological boys don't belong in the locker rooms of any of our girls.
01:39:57.000No, the American people can make those judgments.
01:39:59.000But let me say, I'm running for president of the United States because we don't need a president who's too old, and we don't need a president who's too young.
01:40:11.000We need a president who knows how Congress works, how the White House works, how states work.
01:40:16.000And on this education issue, Martha, I was fighting against No Child Left Behind when Republicans were doubling the Department of Education.
01:40:23.000I'll also shut down the Federal Department of Education.
01:40:26.000And when I was governor, we doubled the size of the largest school choice program in America, and we'll give school choice to every family in America when I'm in the White House.
01:40:37.000This is a lightning round, Mr. Ramaswamy.
01:40:43.000You've said, and you just said, you want a civics test or public service for those under 25 to be able to vote.
01:40:48.000So the question is, do you want a mental acuity test for presidents over 75?
01:40:54.000I believe in the people of this country to tell the difference between somebody who's an automaton and somebody who's actually a thinking agent in the White House, which we don't have in there today.
01:41:02.000And I will tell you, I want to address Vice President Pence's comment.
01:41:05.000I think we do need somebody of a different generation to lead this nation forward.
01:41:10.000Look at the way I've run this campaign.
01:41:12.000Going to the south side of Chicago, to Kensington, in the middle of Philadelphia, where traditional Republican candidates don't go.
01:41:18.000We have an opportunity to build a multi-ethnic, working class majority to deliver a landslide.
01:41:24.000And I think I'm the only candidate in this race, young or old, black or white, to bring all of those voters along to deliver a Reagan 1980 revolution.
01:43:05.000On education, the only way we change education in this nation is to break the backs of the teachers' unions.
01:43:13.000They are standing in the doorhouse of our kids, locking them into failing schools and locking them out of the greatest future they could have.
01:43:25.000As president, Governor DeSantis, would you support some mandatory military service for all Americans?
01:43:31.000I'm somebody that volunteered to serve, inspired by September 11th, and I deployed to Iraq alongside U.S.
01:43:38.000Navy SEALs in places like Fallujah, Ramadi, and it's something that I think has taught me, you know, when you go in that type of environment, anything you have, your personal agenda, you check it at the door.
01:43:51.000You go there and it's about focusing on the mission above all else.
01:43:55.000And guys come together and they get it done.
01:43:58.000And that's how I would view being the President of the United States.
01:44:27.000Okay, we've been hearing a lot of testimony in Congress, and people are taking this a lot more seriously, and we're hearing that, you know, there are things going on that people aren't aware of.
01:44:37.000So, if you were president, Governor Christie, would you level with the American people about what the government knows about these possible
01:44:48.000Look, Martha, and especially coming from a woman from New Jersey, I think it's horrible that just because I'm from New Jersey you asked me about unidentified flying objects and Martians.
01:45:00.000We're different, but we're not that different.
01:45:03.000Look, of course, the job of the President of the United States is to level with the American people about everything.
01:45:11.000The job of the President of the United States is to stand for truth.
01:45:16.000The job of the President of the United States is to be a role model for our children and our grandchildren.
01:45:22.000And so whether it was UFOs or this problem of education, and Tim's right by the way, and I started this in 2010 by going right after the teachers unions in New Jersey and drove them down to an all-time low popularity rating because they were putting themselves before our kids.
01:45:38.000That is the biggest threat to our country, not UFOs.
01:46:47.000I'm just telling you while you're all still here, follow me on all platforms and I'll be back tomorrow live streaming the arraignment and I will be doing the Trump-Tucker interview as well.
01:47:58.000This, like, constant, we're the greatest country, we could do both, we're the best, you have a pretty small opinion of America.
01:48:05.000That was the worst moment, is when Mike Pence said, if you think we can't defend our border and fight in Ukraine, you have a pretty small opinion of America.
01:48:13.000It's like, that kind of bravado is just, it's just ignorant now.
01:51:46.000My dad died when I was a freshman in high school.
01:51:49.000My mom, widow of three, went back to work.
01:51:51.000Every job I had growing up was one where I took a shower at the end of the day, not at the beginning of the day.
01:51:59.000Our cities are less safe because of the fentanyl pouring into this country.
01:52:02.000Our economy is being crushed by Biden's energy policies, which are raising the cost of every product you buy, not just the gasoline at the pump.
01:52:10.000One thing that I'll do as president, I'll secure the border.
01:52:14.000I'll get this economy sprinting, not crawling like it is right now.
01:52:19.000And I would say that other thing is for sure, when I'm on a horseback in the Badlands of North Dakota, it looks like the horizon is just limitless.
01:53:32.000As President, I'll bring out the best of America in terms of individual responsibility, building our economy, in terms of securing our border, enforcing the rule of law.
01:53:44.000I'll bring out the best of America in terms of our national character, our faith, and our hope for the future.
01:56:01.000I watched him and 230 soldiers pick up their two duffel bags of belongings to go to a country they had never been, all in the name of protecting America.
01:56:12.000If they are willing to protect us from there, we should be willing to fight for America here.
01:56:19.000I will beat Joe Biden, and he knows that.
01:56:22.000I will strengthen our economy, and we'll bring this inflation down.
01:56:25.000We will put transparency in the classroom.
01:57:36.000Because I have faith in the American people.
01:57:39.000Good, decent, hard-working, faith-filled, idealistic people in this country.
01:57:42.000And I have faith that God is not done with America yet.
01:57:46.000And if we will renew our faith in one another and renew our faith in Him who has ever guided this nation since we arrived on these wilderness shores, I know the best days for the greatest nation on earth are yet to come.
01:58:02.000I was born in 1985, and I grew up into a generation where we were taught to celebrate our diversity and our differences so much that we forgot all of the ways we are really just the same as Americans, bound by a common set of ideals that set this nation into motion in 1776.
01:58:22.000And this is our moment to revive those common ideals.
02:05:34.000He didn't, I don't think he walked it back, but he did say, well, when I'm out of office, our relationship with Israel will be stronger than ever.
02:05:42.000That was cringe, but he didn't really walk it back.
02:05:44.000He just said that, like, we want them to stand on their own feet.
02:05:48.000So it wasn't, it was kind of hard to hear because the crowd was screaming over him, but it wasn't a full capitulation.
02:05:56.000With that being said, it's not that he's not red-pilled, it's just that he's like, he's a shill for Israel.
02:06:03.000I love when people assume that if someone's pro-Israel, it's like they just don't know.
02:09:21.000Yeah, well, you know, it's kind of a double... If they're gonna say no violent event denial, then they should have to ban white genocide denial.
02:13:30.000All right, and we got... let me see... Okay, I think that's our last one.
02:13:37.000Okay, all right, that's our last super chat that's gonna do it for me I'll be back here tomorrow if there's anything to stream with the Trump Surrender I'll stream that I'm not sure if there's gonna be anything we could watch But if there is I'll stream that otherwise tomorrow, I'll be I'll probably be live reacting to the Trump interview I think I'll do that tomorrow night Depending though.
02:14:01.000I might do a show about the courthouse
02:14:05.000I might do a reaction to the interview.