00:00:48.000So, we have a couple of questions for you tonight.
00:00:51.000The first thing I want to ask you, most importantly, because me and James, when you started this company, were, I think, people like you and myself, are pioneers out here on the forefront of this new conservatism with Trump in the country.
00:01:06.000And I guess my first question is how do you defend?
00:01:08.000Find yourself in terms of the right wing?
00:01:54.000I started out in a factory at 18, worked my way through engineering school at night, eventually ran that factory, and I've run factories all around the United States and all around the globe.
00:02:04.000And I've had tens of thousands of employees and realized what that trade deal was going to do.
00:02:12.000So I said, you know, I'm going to support whoever runs against Paul Ryan.
00:02:21.000So it kind of came down to I've got to do that.
00:02:27.000And kind of at the same time, I saw this guy, Donald Trump, running.
00:02:33.000And what he was talking about was hand in glove, just absolutely the same thing that I was talking about.
00:02:42.000And in fact, I met Steve Bannon back when Breitbart was still supporting Cruz.
00:02:49.000Back in late January, early February of 2016, before I had even announced that I was going to run, I was figuring out if I could build a coalition.
00:02:58.000And Bannon was doing his normal interview style, which is machine gun questions.
00:03:05.000And he asked me, Who are you supporting for president?
00:03:14.000And I said, I'm pulling for Trump because that man's talking about the only two things that I care about right now trade deals and illegal immigration.
00:03:23.000Only guy out of 17 people talking about it.
00:03:26.000Plus, I guess you add Hillary Clinton to that mix.
00:03:30.000But Paul Ryan is on the wrong side of the football every time they're on the field.
00:03:38.000You look at President Trump's positions, and Ryan finds a way to be on the other side of those every time he finds a way.
00:03:47.000So I am absolutely for the rule of law, and you may know, you may not know.
00:03:54.000I was working behind the scenes recently for Judge Moore's campaign.
00:03:58.000What a fabulous, fantastic guy Judge Moore is.
00:04:02.000And he said in his acceptance speech, he's going to support President Trump as long as President Trump is supporting the Constitution.
00:04:17.000Because if you're not supporting the Constitution, if you're not willing to take your oath of office seriously, then you have no business being in office.
00:04:26.000Then you're doing it for selfish purposes.
00:04:28.000If you're willing to support the Constitution, you're willing to do it for somebody else.
00:04:32.000And that really is the essence of representative democracy.
00:04:39.000So much of what you just said, I think, like everybody in the country, or at least people on the Republican side, have been feeling for so long.
00:04:47.000So it really makes me feel good that you are America First for the rule of law, for the Trump MAGA agenda.
00:05:02.000So that's perfect, beautiful, your ideology in terms of trade and immigration.
00:05:07.000And I guess my follow up question to that, because, you know, obviously I think you and what President Trump ran on during the campaign were very similar in terms of the TPP, illegal immigration, and what many people in the country were feeling.
00:05:21.000Now, having seen what President Trump has done when he's in office on trade and immigration, do you think so far he's been successful?
00:05:29.000Is there more you'd like to see from him?
00:05:45.000You know, a few days before my election, Paul Ryan went on CNN with correspondent Manu Raju.
00:05:53.000And he essentially lied to Manu Raju to our advantage.
00:05:59.000He said, well, you know, that trade deal, Trans Pacific Partnership, it was poorly negotiated and they need to go back to the drawing board.
00:06:07.000Well, He was essentially saying he wasn't going to support it right then, right before my election, which was the major issue I ran on, which was great because it gave us all an opportunity to say, hey, we're going to claim victory until Trump is elected, right?
00:06:24.000However, Paul Ryan whipped the votes for Fast Track Trade Promotion Authority, which means that gives Congress the ability to vote up or vote down on Trans Pacific Partnership.
00:06:38.000It takes them completely out of the negotiation.
00:06:41.000In fact, I'm going to shamelessly shill this new book, Wage the Battle.
00:06:45.000I tell the story about running against Paul Ryan and about that trade deal.
00:06:50.000There are several chapters that tell you what's in that trade deal in that book because nobody wants to read a 5,500 page trade deal.
00:06:58.000I didn't want to read it, but I had to read it because I knew if I'm going to run against Paul Ryan, I've got to be able to quote this thing chapter and verse.
00:07:06.000And so what we were able to do was translate that into something that people would understand with enough real verbiage out of that trade deal that you would go, oh my God.
00:07:15.000Free trade isn't what it's all cracked up to be.
00:07:18.000And in fact, it isn't even what the GOP, the Republican Party, has been about.
00:07:39.000If we agree or disagree, if we disagree with Israel, we can agree to disagree.
00:07:44.000Fast forward a decade, NAFTA, 1700 pages, mid 90s.
00:07:51.000If we disagree, if there's a disagreement in NAFTA, it goes to a special court, adjudication, all the rest.
00:07:57.000Fast forward two more decades, Trans Pacific Partnership, 5,500 pages.
00:08:02.000Article 28 sets up for secret tribunals.
00:08:07.000So if your jurisdiction doesn't want to have shrimp that was fed pig manure and they try to stop it, well, your jurisdiction is going to get sued.
00:08:18.000And that lawsuit is not going to be in local court or state court or federal court.
00:08:22.000It's going to be in a separate tribunal.
00:08:25.000It could be in Brunei, a nation of 400,000.
00:08:29.000Mainly Muslims who don't like America, who will have exactly one vote equal to the vote of the United States.
00:09:02.000To repeal Obamacare, yet he won't bring the same bill that they passed in 2015 to fully repeal it because, lo and behold, he didn't really want to repeal it.
00:09:17.000And finally, somebody with the courage to say it.
00:09:19.000Because, you know, even President Trump, as much as we agree with him, as much as we like him, he has been a little bit close to McConnell and Ryan.
00:09:27.000So it's good to see that we have grassroots people like yourself that are putting the message out there on Paul Ryan and these people in the GOP establishment.
00:09:35.000And, uh, A lot of good points that you bring up on the TPP.
00:09:38.000You know, while we may disagree that President Trump, you know, on immigration, for example, he cozied up a little bit to the Democrats.
00:09:47.000He had his press conference with Mitch McConnell today.
00:09:49.000I think you're right that one of the few things that he did do, or not one of the few things, but one of the things that he doesn't get enough credit for, that's what I mean, was repealing the Trans Pacific Partnership on the first week of his presidency.
00:11:14.000Keys to unlock a certain constituency that he needs access to.
00:11:19.000And at the same time, they might have fundamentally different belief systems than you and I.
00:11:25.000And they might not believe that it's that important that we keep our culture or our heroes or our holidays the way that we firmly believe that they ought to be set up.
00:11:37.000They might not even believe in the same Christianity that I believe in.
00:11:55.000And so I am going to work hard to see that this Constitution that we love is maintained and it's adhered to.
00:12:07.000Speaker Ryan, for his part, he has the ability to remove these federal judges that are causing problems with President Trump's travel bans.
00:13:09.000And it really has been a travesty, I think, that we've had such poor leadership from the Congress because the men and women of the country that believe in the Constitution, like yourself, the fathers, the husbands, the engineers, like yourself, the good people that pay taxes,
00:13:23.000that have built the country, to see all of it squandered after such an incredible victory that we came out and made happen, that we, when we voted on 2016 to put this president in office, And now to see so much of the potential for this administration squandered by people like Paul Ryan, by people like Mitch McConnell, people in the congressional leadership, it really is a sad thing.
00:13:45.000And you made a really good point earlier when you said that, you know, Paul Ryan, he may be a good father, he may be a good husband, but when it comes to his leadership, or rather lack thereof in the Congress, it's his job.
00:13:57.000We pay him to put us first, to put America first.
00:13:59.000So, really great stuff to hear you say that.
00:14:02.000So, we covered trade, we covered immigration, but.
00:14:05.000I want to get into immigration a little bit more on the travel ban in particular.
00:14:10.000When President Trump came out a couple of years ago and he said that he wanted a Muslim ban, a lot of outcry from people like Paul Ryan and others.
00:14:18.000What do you think about the travel ban?
00:14:19.000Do you think the current travel restrictions go far enough, or do you think there should be an all out ban on Muslims?
00:14:30.000I think that it ought to be a full out ban until we get a handle on how do we vet these people.
00:14:57.000I can't remember the other subtitle now, but regardless, the point of it is Muslims believe, and this is fundamental to their text, it doesn't matter whether you're Sunni or Shia.
00:15:12.000Fundamental to their text, they believe that if they leave their homelands where Sharia law is the law of the land and they go to another land, that in heaven they will get that amount of land equal to the distance that they traveled.
00:15:34.000I've met a lot of very learned scholars in the United States who have written extensively on Islam and their.
00:15:44.000Their teachings, whether it's in the Quran or in the Hadiths or in the Surah, it tells them go to other lands and establish Islam as the law of the land, establish Sharia.
00:15:59.000Now, there's a phrase that they use, and it is called the Munafakeen.
00:16:05.000So, let's say you and I are Muslims, right?
00:16:09.000And I don't know if you're a Muslim that believes that in the Hijrah and that you need to go supplant Islam.
00:16:16.000Whatever laws of the land are in the land that you're going to with Sharia or not.
00:16:20.000I have no idea if you are, and you have no idea if I am.
00:16:26.000In my documentary, I showed a lecture by an imam, a respected imam, that talks about that, that talks about these unbelievers and others who say, Look, if you don't believe in this, you're fake Muslim and you're worse than a Christian or a Jew.
00:16:47.000And they call us dogs and pigs, right?
00:16:52.000And so they're saying those Muslims that won't do that, well, if we're both Muslims and I can't tell if you're one and you can't tell if I'm one, well, how are the Christians to know?
00:17:28.000And even if they did assimilate, their children use the same Quran and Hadith and Surah.
00:17:35.000And if they fundamentally believe exactly what's written in the text, then they will reject their parents.
00:17:41.000We've seen this time and again where the children reject the parents and they accept the dogma.
00:17:48.000They accept what is really written in the text.
00:17:51.000And you're not going to have a reformation of.
00:17:55.000Of Islam, the way you had of, say, Catholicism and Lutheranism branched out, right?
00:18:02.000In Lutheranism, you didn't end up with, Martin Luther didn't say, ah, you know, the Ten Commandments, ah, heck with that, we're getting rid of it.
00:18:36.000So, consequently, all these folks, all these fake hucksters that are out there suggesting, well, you know, here's a Muslim over here that's reforming Islam and here's a Muslim over here who's reforming, not going to happen.
00:19:00.000And To the point that Muslims have been described as an empty shell.
00:19:05.000And they believe that they can earn their way into heaven, where Christians don't.
00:19:08.000We believe that we can't earn our way, and it's only by the grace of God we get into heaven.
00:19:14.000So here you have a religion that believes they can earn their way into heaven, and they have to.
00:19:20.000So when you see a Muslim who, you know, it's a wonder that I've almost done enough, you know, I can certainly be a martyr, I can blow myself up, I can die in a hail of gunfire, and I'll get into heaven, right?
00:19:33.000I'll get my 72 virgins or I'll get my lands, right?
00:19:37.000I mean, it's a conundrum for the rest of us.
00:20:16.000I mean, to have somebody that has, I really think it is a matter of courage.
00:20:20.000It is a matter of having the moral convictions, to an extent, the religious convictions or the patriotic convictions to say that this is a hostile foreign ideology that cannot be fixed.
00:20:34.000And it's so great to hear you talk about the second generation, which really gets to be problematic for these people.
00:20:40.000Number one, because when you look at North Africa or the Middle East, they have these insane high birth rates.
00:20:46.000And then, number two, you look at any of the terror attacks in Europe, and it's often perpetrated by the second generation immigrants because they tend to be more radical.
00:20:55.000They look at the Quran, and you're right, the words don't change.
00:20:58.000Even if you get a couple of good ones in this year, there's no guarantee that in 10 years you don't have 10 more that are more radical.
00:22:13.000Because if you say, we're going to tax you more because we've got to pay for these wars, we're going to get involved in every Islamic civil war there is around the globe.
00:22:56.000We hold our NATO partners accountable, as President Trump is, make them pay their way.
00:23:01.000And we make the rest of those guys pay their way because we've been defending a lot of people for a long time at our expense.
00:23:09.000And so I think we can keep our military industrial complex going to the extent that we're building up an arsenal that if anybody messes with us, we absolutely annihilate them, let them rebuild themselves, and let them be an example to any other group.
00:23:28.000That will mess with the United States, that we are a nation of good.
00:23:32.000I firmly believe that the only effective force against a bad nation is a good nation.
00:25:48.000Because if you look at other countries, if we went to 15%, and I argued for 12%, we would have the most unbelievable revolution of companies relocating to the United States to build factories and work here.
00:26:04.000And we don't need to populate all those factories with new humans.
00:26:08.000Some can be robotics, some should be humans.
00:26:40.000I think it's well said because a lot of people, I think, they think about the wars, they think about the stuff that goes on over there, and they think it doesn't affect us.
00:27:02.000I guess the final policy point that we didn't quite touch, we talked about trade, but I want to pick your brain on economics.
00:27:10.000So President Trump, he proposed a new tax plan a couple of weeks ago, and you started to get into this with the corporate tax rate, and that's what reminded me of it.
00:27:19.000What do you think would be the right course for this president, for this Congress, to get our economy back on track?
00:27:26.000You said you've created jobs, and God bless you for that.
00:27:29.000That we have people running for Congress that have actually done things, that have actually created jobs.
00:27:34.000As a business owner, as somebody that's been in the workforce, what do you think is the prescription to get America's economy back on track?
00:27:41.000Well, President Trump's already doing part of it, which is killing regulations.
00:27:45.000He said in his campaign he would kill two regulations for every new regulation that was written.
00:27:52.000And he's up to eight to one now in killing regulations.
00:28:02.000He's killing more regulations than are coming through.
00:28:06.000Speaker Ryan's trying to take credit for that, by the way.
00:28:09.000It's amazing the things that this guy does.
00:28:11.000I think he's doing the right thing around tax policy.
00:28:14.000I think it's an innovative move to suggest that we're not going to claim the state and local exemptions and pass those through for federal because it hurts the blue states.
00:28:27.000And why should we subsidize the blue states?
00:28:29.000We shouldn't subsidize the blue states.
00:28:31.000Under no circumstances should we be doing that.
00:28:34.000You know, whether it's Putin's Russia who's subsidizing Hillary Clinton's Clinton initiative through the Uranium deals, or it's George Soros subsidizing these special interest groups with his $18 billion cash injection, or any of the subsidies that go on, or the special gifts, or backroom deals.
00:29:00.000I think the American people deserve to have a program that validates their work, right?
00:29:09.000So if I'm working hard here in Wisconsin and we elected a Republican governor and he's been cutting taxes and he's been Making things better here in Wisconsin, they shouldn't get to take my money in Washington and redistribute it to Illinois, the Venezuela of the Midwest, and give them a subsidy for poor performance.
00:29:31.000They're suggesting through the Obamacare deal that they were going to block grant money to other states.
00:29:37.000And I'm tearing my hair out here going, wait a minute, why would I agree to a program that suggests I'm going to send money to Washington and they're going to send it to Illinois?
00:29:47.000Or to New Jersey, or to any state who can't manage their physical crisis.
00:29:55.000And you know darn well, as soon as they run out of their money, they're going to be out hat in hand asking for more.
00:31:36.000Yeah, no, and thanks for letting everybody know they could get involved.
00:31:40.000And I want to move into we got some questions sent in on Twitter, and that was it's right about you're right on the money about the economy in terms of because this is something that I don't hear about on the right wing, like the new right at all.
00:31:55.000They don't really get into the tax policy because, you know, admittedly for us Midwestern guys, I'm from Chicago, so when you call Illinois the Venezuela, the Midwest, you know, so true.
00:33:44.000It's actually refreshing to have questions asked and then react to those.
00:33:54.000One of the best pieces of advice that I ever got when I was coming up, and I was an early supervisor, had some folks working for me, and I had an old Westinghouse HR guy who came in.
00:34:07.000He came in to help out at this facility that I was at.
00:34:12.000It wasn't Westinghouse, it was another facility, but He said to me, Neil, you are doing this all wrong.
00:34:18.000And I've told this story thousands of times.
00:34:20.000I've told it that because it's this important of a story.
00:34:47.000He said, one of two things will happen.
00:34:50.000Either those knuckleheads will turn and they will start working hard and being those ones that you really want on their own, or you will fire them.
00:35:43.000I had found some tools and I was taking a toaster apart.
00:35:47.000And that's just how my whole thing works, you know, I take everything apart and figure out how it works, put it all back together.
00:35:54.000So I would say to all you young folks who are coming up now, don't be afraid to have two or three jobs that, you know, catch particular interests or just because it's socking money away, it's helping you get.
00:36:07.000You don't want to come out of college in mountains of debt.
00:36:10.000If you can offset that debt, it doesn't matter how you offset it.
00:36:14.000If you can offset it, it's important that you do it.
00:36:17.000And so I would suggest to anybody who's watching this, work hard.
00:36:24.000You know, you only got that old story about the guy who, the two guys out in the woods and the bear comes and he says, Why are you putting your shoes on?
00:36:31.000He says, Because I only have to outrun you, right?
00:36:34.000That's the same thing in the job market.
00:36:36.000You know, when I'm hiring people, if I look at two people who are pretty much the same on paper when I meet them, if Somebody's really go get them and they rub off on me, that leaves an impression.
00:36:46.000They're there early for the interview.
00:36:48.000They're jazzed up and ready to go and they're listening to me and validating what I'm saying.
00:36:53.000And when I ask them a question, you don't have to jump at the answer.
00:36:57.000You can think about it for a minute and say, that's a great question and give it a moment to percolate in your brain and then come out with a good answer.
00:37:06.000Those kind of two second, three second things that it shows you've got some poise and you.
00:37:14.000Want to succeed and you don't want to come off like you're going to jump somebody the minute they ask you a question.
00:39:40.000So the guy was willing to risk his own job, like Sheriff Joe, willing to stand up for the Constitution, willing to stand up for Christ, stand up for what he believes in.
00:40:12.000Because, you know, and especially I love your background as a blue collar guy who worked your way up because you are the image of what the country's supposed to look like.
00:40:22.000Common sense guy, worked his way up, God fearing.
00:40:28.000So that's really, really good to hear.
00:40:29.000I think that'll be really helpful for the young people because all we hear is, You know, go to college, incur a quarter of a million dollars in debt, and all that.
00:41:29.000You want to have a, you know, if you could have a fundraiser, I'll come speak at your fundraiser.
00:41:37.000If you happen to belong to a large congregation of people and you want me to come speak to your men's group at church, I'm happy to do that.
00:41:44.000I can Skype in like we're doing right now.
00:41:48.000And I'm happy to do that because that gets my message out.
00:41:52.000Maybe it encourages you and gives you something to think about that, hey, wait a minute.
00:41:57.000This guy's out here talking about he's a Christian and he's not afraid to say it and he's willing to defend the realm of God and the realm of government.
00:42:06.000You take an oath of office and you are essentially ordained to have that position.
00:42:11.000You've got to answer to your constituents.
00:42:31.000I'm going to tell you from my experience had I been living right my whole life, I would be even further ahead than I am.
00:42:42.000But God puts us all on our own path, gives us our own trials, and when the time is right and He springs it on you that you're going to be, hey, you're going to run for Congress.
00:42:52.000I'd never thought about I was going to run for Congress.
00:43:58.000I use all those methods to get that message out there because the mainstream media is never going to report on me the way they report on Paul Ryan.
00:45:20.000It seems redundant to suggest that the Constitutional Carry Amendment, that we ought to have national reciprocity everywhere.
00:45:32.000You know, I don't support abortion, so, you know, it seems like an amendment to protect life ought to be the right move.
00:45:41.000I don't have the lapel pin on right now of the heart with the two little feet, which represents the heartbeat bill that's out there right now.
00:45:51.000It's co sponsored by 168 people, and it would save 99% of the babies being aborted right now.
00:45:58.000But Speaker Ryan chose to push through a bill that will save 1% of the fetuses.
00:46:05.000You know, as I said before, it's our responsibility to protect life as a Christian.
00:48:07.000Somebody tweeted at him, make a tweet about anime, and he said, no way.
00:48:13.000Well, then there was another, he made a tweet, something about the Japanese such and such, or somebody did, made a specific anime for anime.
00:48:22.000To promote this thing, they had them juxtaposed next to each other.
00:49:14.000I was on some poll stuff the other night.
00:49:17.000Somebody shot me a link to some things that was just outrageously funny.
00:49:22.000And, you know, I spent a good hour laughing, just laughing at some of the ridiculous stuff that's out there.
00:49:31.000And, You know, I think it's healthy for people to have that opportunity to express themselves in a way that it's not dangerous.
00:49:44.000It's not, you know, memeing is, and it's powerful.
00:49:48.000It really is powerful because, you know, with a very few words and a picture, or just a picture, or with a juxtaposed picture, you can get a whole lot of information across.
00:51:58.000He represents it, in my opinion, like the optimal place where our people should be in terms of where they are in their lives, when they're running for a campaign, their rhetoric.
00:52:10.000Imagine if we had Paul Nealance to challenge everybody in the House.
00:52:13.000Imagine if we had Paul Nealance to challenge everybody in the Senate.
00:55:04.000Already with the horrible sunburn to go and stand outside of the polling places with these signs.
00:55:09.000And I remember, if we're going to get a little wistful about it, me and my buddy Steve, we were tasked in the morning of the election, the morning that the vote was taking place, to go out and put these signs around some of the polling places.
00:55:23.000And there was a rule in the state where you couldn't be, I think it was less than 50 yards from a polling place.
00:55:30.000So we went to this one, I think it was at like a hotel, and we were out in the parkway, like far away from where it was happening, putting our signs down.
00:55:39.000And there were people, Paul Ryan supporters, driving through.
00:55:43.000Yelling, F you, you suck, you know, and we were getting killed.
00:55:46.000And then on top of that, not only were people like all pissed off at us because we were rocking our kneeling shirts, we had our kneeling signs, but then the people from the polling place came outside and they were like, We just called the county commissioner or we just called the village commissioner.
00:56:04.000It's illegal for you to put your signs out here.
00:56:06.000So they're going to be here in 10 minutes and we're going to wait over here.
00:56:09.000And so me and my buddy Steve are like, You're just scared.
00:56:42.000Great times were had up on the campaign.
00:56:44.000And I encourage everybody, if you're interested in this stuff, If you're in the Midwest, if you're like in, I don't know, Minnesota or Illinois or Michigan or whatever, go to electnealin.com so you can find out how you can join up.
00:56:58.000I understand that they subsidize people to go there.
00:57:01.000When me and my buddy Steve went, they reimbursed us for the hotel, they reimbursed us for our meals and everything.
00:57:06.000So it's a fun time if you could take a couple of days off of work or off of school or whatever.
00:57:13.000I'm not sure when the primary is this year.
01:00:04.000I was being very earnest when I said that it's about the thought that counts.
01:00:08.000But he made a very good point in the comments on that video because he was like, I don't know if Nick's making fun of me or not, but if everybody donated a dollar.