Former Vice President Joe Biden joins CNN's Jake Tapper Lester Holt to debate the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, J.J. Abramoff, who is running for president in 2020 against former Massachusetts Governor Chris Christie and former Rhode Island Governor Rick Scott. Biden and Christie are joined by CNN's own Jake Taffanen and CNN's Lester Holt and former DNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel to make their case for why former President Donald Trump should not be the Democratic presidential nominee. They also debate whether or not the former president should be the next president and why he should be replaced by someone other than the current president, Donald Trump, who has been in office for over 30 years and served as the president of the United States for the past 15 years. The debate was moderated by CNN Senior Political Commentator John Berman and CNN Senior Congressional Correspondent Jake Taffer to discuss the candidates and the underlying issues at stake in the Democratic primary. The 2020 Democratic primary election is now officially in the hands of the candidates. Candidates: Hillary Clinton, Tim Kaine, Joe Crowley, Tulsi Gabbard, Angus King, and Amycrane, Jill Biden, Elizabeth Elizabeth Warren, and Rick Perry, the other two major candidates in the race for the Democratic nomination, and former Vice Presidential candidate, Jill Harasym Towey, to name a third candidate, to make his case for the nod to the Republican nomination. to the primary voters on Tuesday, August 15th. The Democratic primary race is now inching closer and closer than it has ever been in a presidential election before the past two presidential debates in the last two presidential primary debates in our nation has ever seen. and the results are being released so far, and it s starting to become clearer and clearer than they have ever been. Who s going to be the nominee? and who s the most likely to win the race to find out who will be the Republican choice? Who will win the nomination and who will come in second and who is the choice for the other side of the primary? What s the favorite to win in 2020? and who will win it? in the next round of the 2020 election and who wins the nomination? And who s gonna be the most presidential candidate? is the most electable candidate in the primary and who has the most conservative and who comes in first place? Is it the most authentic and who loses the most realistic chance of winning it all?
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00:00:02.000You know, everybody wants to talk about President Trump.
00:00:04.000Well, I can talk about President Trump.
00:00:06.000I can tell you that I think he was the right president at the right time.
00:00:09.000I don't think he's the right president now.
00:00:12.000I think that he put us $8 trillion in debt, and our kids are never going to forgive us for that.
00:00:17.000I think the fact that he used to be right on Ukraine and foreign issues, now he's getting weak in the knees and trying to be friendly again.
00:00:24.000I think that we've got to go back to the fact that we can't live in the past.
00:00:45.000Let's make sure we secure our borders so that our families are safe.
00:00:49.000Let's get crime down because our families want to know that they can be safe no matter where they go.
00:00:53.000And as the wife of a combat veteran, I will tell you, the military needs to know we have our back and we need to make sure that America is strong.
00:02:28.000And so the fact of the matter is, I mean, Chris, I'm going to use this time because this is actually about you in the media and the corrupt media establishment.
00:02:35.000Ask you the Trump-Russia collusion hoax that you pushed on this network for years.
00:02:39.000Was that real or was that Hillary Clinton made up disinformation?
00:03:11.000Governor Christie, why you and not former President Trump?
00:03:14.000Well, Lester, look, you said it at the beginning of the debate.
00:03:20.000We are dealing with extraordinarily important issues facing this country right now.
00:03:26.000We have our greatest ally in the Middle East under fire from a terrorist group that has committed to wiping them and every Jewish person in this world off the map.
00:03:38.000We have Ukraine with Vladimir Putin, a communist KGB dictator who wants to put the old band back together.
00:03:48.000He's starting in Ukraine and he's going to move to the Baltics and Poland after that.
00:03:53.000We have inflation in this country that is choking, choking every American family that wants to try to rise up and give their children a better life.
00:05:48.000Take another shot at McDonnell Taffanat!
00:06:06.000I would be the president that helps us restore faith in God, faith in each other, and faith in our future.
00:06:13.000Without that focus, none of the issues, the policies, matter.
00:06:19.000We have to get back to being a nation that is, in fact, the city on the hill that believes in each other enough for us to fight for that future.
00:06:30.000We're going to turn now to the challenges facing
00:06:34.000The next Commander-in-Chief, you'll all be fielding questions first from me, and the Republican Jewish Coalition, and then from Kristen and Hugh.
00:06:42.000So as we continue forward, the Israel-Hamas war is barely a month old.
00:06:47.000Tonight, Israeli troops are fighting inside Gaza City with over 200 hostages who remain captive there, and civilian casualties mount inside Gaza.
00:06:57.000As President of the United States, what would you be urging Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to do at this moment?
00:07:59.000Had we not acted, and I'll tell you this, I met the first plane load when they came to Florida, and one of the mothers pointed to a six-year-old daughter, and she said, my daughter had been saying the last two nights, Mommy, I don't want to hear any more bombs, no more rockets, I just want to get back to Florida.
00:08:15.000So there's a difference between words and deeds.
00:09:49.000The founding vision of Israel was based on the idea that they don't want to depend on anybody else's sympathy or direction in defending themselves.
00:09:57.000So what I would tell Bibi is that Israel has the right and the responsibility to
00:10:21.000Corrupt politicians in both parties spent trillions, killed millions, made billions for themselves in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, fighting wars that sent thousands of our sons and daughters, people my age, to die in wars that did not advance anyone's interests, adding $7 trillion to our national debt.
00:10:39.000And Joe Biden sold off our foreign policy.
00:10:42.000Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, got a $5 million bribe from Ukraine.
00:10:45.000That's why we're sending $200 billion back to that same country.
00:10:49.000The fact of the matter is the Republican Party is not that much better.
00:10:52.000You have the likes of Nikki Haley who stepped down from her time at the UN.
00:12:58.000Governor Christie, I want to get you to weigh in here.
00:13:01.000Look, Lester, these problems are so big and serious that the first thing I would say to Prime Minister Netanyahu is pretty simple.
00:13:10.000America is here no matter what it is you need at any time to preserve the State of Israel.
00:13:17.000Remember that Hamas's main goal is to get rid of Israel.
00:13:22.000Is to get Israel absolutely off the map.
00:13:24.000Now, there are three things I think I would say to him when he asked for advice.
00:13:29.000The first I would say is that it is absolutely your obligation to protect the territorial integrity of Israel.
00:13:36.000Secondly, to make sure you protect the security and the safety of your people.
00:13:40.000Every time something happens to compromise either one of those things, it creates greater unrest in the entire region.
00:13:47.000Second, you must go in and make sure that Hamas can never do this again.
00:13:52.000The fact is that Israel and their intelligence community failed.
00:13:57.000They failed here, and they failed the people of the state of Israel.
00:14:00.000And so we need to work closely and better together to make sure, one, that they're degraded, and two, that we know everything that's going on inside the Gaza Strip, when it's going on, so that something like this can't happen to kill 1,400 individuals again.
00:14:14.000And the third thing is to keep your eye on the ball.
00:14:17.000Make sure that we continue to isolate Iran.
00:14:20.000Work with the reasonable nations in the Middle East, the other Arab nations who want to partner with you.
00:14:26.000And make sure that we continue to isolate Iran so that their only friends in the world are the part of the evil foursome.
00:14:34.000Governor Christie, thank you very much.
00:14:35.000We're going to continue in this vein right now with a question from Matthew Brooks, the CEO of the Republican Jewish Coalition, a partner of the Republican National Committee in this debate.
00:14:48.000Given attacks by Iranian-backed proxy groups on U.S.
00:14:51.000military bases in Syria and Iraq, attacks that have wounded approximately two dozen of our U.S.
00:14:59.000servicemen, do you support the use of military force by the United States against Iran?
00:15:05.000Do you support the use of military force against Iran?
00:15:08.000Yes, I'd first like to say they're five-inch heels and I don't wear them unless you can run in them.
00:15:15.000The second thing that I will say is I wear heels they're not for a fashion statement they're for ammunition.
00:15:23.000What we need to be doing for Iraq and Syria is first of all the idea that our men and women could be targeted and that we've allowed almost a hundred hits to happen
00:15:36.000We need to understand this is Iran giving the green light, telling them what to do, and we shouldn't be doing the tit-for-tat like what Joe Biden has done.
00:15:45.000We need to go and take out their infrastructure that they are using to make those strikes with so they can never do it again.
00:17:51.000Jewish students across the country are threatened and under attack.
00:17:55.000What do you say to Jewish students on college campuses who feel unsafe given the dramatic rise in anti-Semitism?
00:18:03.000And what do you say to university presidents and college presidents who have not met the moral clarity moment to forcefully condemn Hamas terrorism?
00:18:13.000Mr. Ramaswamy, would you like to take that one?
00:18:16.000I think the scourge of anti-Semitism across this country, including at places like my alma mater's and places like Brooklyn Bridge in New York, it's sad to see, but here's what history teaches us.
00:18:34.000Several years ago when I wrote my first book, Woke Inc., I was talking about they were chanting death to America, death to white people, death to Christians.
00:19:08.000But I also want to caution here, if we go the direction of Ron DeSantis or Nikki Haley, with whom I respectfully disagree on this issue, pro-censorship, telling student groups to disband, mark my words, soon they will say if you question a vaccine and its side effects, you're a bioterrorist.
00:19:23.000Soon they will say that if you show up at a school board meeting, you're a domestic terrorist.
00:19:27.000Soon if they say that J6 prisoners should be released, you're an insurrectionist terrorist.
00:19:33.000We don't quash this with censorship because that creates a worse underbelly.
00:19:38.000We quell it through leadership by calling it out.
00:19:40.000These university administrators have lost their way and we need leadership at the top in the United States of America that restores our founding values and that has no place for this kind of anti-Semitic hate.
00:19:52.000That's where I stand while respecting our Constitution.
00:20:00.000Let me just say to every single university president in America, federal funding is a privilege, not a right.
00:20:24.000Any campus that allows for anti-Semitism and hate, to allow students to encourage terrorism, mass murder, mass murder and genocide, you should lose your federal funding today.
00:21:52.000Second, I have friends here in Florida who, their kids do not feel safe even going to university campus at all outside of the state of Florida.
00:22:02.000You have Jewish students fleeing for their lives at Cooper Union.
00:22:06.000Joe Biden should have the Department of Justice on these college campuses and holding the universities accountable for civil rights violations.
00:22:14.000When you have, you should not have money going to these places.
00:23:53.000We made sure that we sent federal agents to those synagogues and we protected them.
00:23:57.000The same thing should be being done now.
00:23:59.000At the very same time, I personally went from mosque to mosque in New Jersey and met with the leaders of those mosques and with the members of the mosques.
00:24:11.000And I said to them, law enforcement is on your side to protect you regardless of your religion.
00:24:17.000If you are going to comply with the law.
00:24:20.000And we developed fabulous relationships with Muslim Americans all across the state of New Jersey.
00:24:26.000And we stopped any hate crimes that were going on either against Jewish Americans in New Jersey or Muslim Americans in New Jersey.
00:24:34.000It takes leadership, Lester, to know how to do this.
00:25:00.000I think, you know, you look at the country and the country is all out of sorts.
00:25:04.000I think, look at what these kids are dealing with on college campuses.
00:25:08.000What makes me so angry is, not only do you have the kids barricaded in the library, they've said they were going to shoot up the kosher dining hall.
00:25:16.000You've got kids' dorm rooms who are being set on fire because they have something related to Israel on their doors.
00:25:23.000No person should ever feel in danger like this.
00:25:26.000And this is what I would say about our college presidents.
00:25:29.000Is if the KKK were doing this, every college president would be up in arms.
00:27:55.000We need to focus specifically on providing Israel with the $14 billion that they need so that we show the world that we are 100% undeniably standing shoulder to shoulder with Israel.
00:28:09.000And then as we turn away from that direct support for Israel, we should go to our southern border and close our southern border with the resources necessary.
00:28:19.000I believe that we have sleeper terrorist cells in America.
00:28:23.000Thousands of people have come from Yemen, Iran, Syria, and Iraq.
00:28:28.000If we're going to deal with a national security emergency at our border, we have to do it now.
00:28:34.000Senator Scott, thank you, but just to be very clear, if you were president, if you were in the Oval Office today, would you sign off on more military funding for Ukraine or would you discontinue it?
00:28:45.000Bottom line is we have to first have the level of accountability that allows the American people to understand where the resources have gone.
00:28:53.000Number two, after we have that responsibility taken care of and accountability, then we have an opportunity to look at the overall strategy that helps us degrade the Russian military while we use our resources and frankly keeping
00:29:41.000I'm actually enjoying watching the Ukraine hawks quietly, delicately tiptoe back from their position as this thing has unwound into a disaster.
00:29:50.000The first half of this race, I was the only person standing for it.
00:29:52.000Now they're actually quietly coming around to being more cautious as they should.
00:30:22.000More facts for you that you won't hear from the mainstream in either party or the mainstream media.
00:30:27.000The regions of Ukraine that are occupied by Russia right now, in the Donbas, Luhansk, Donetsk, these are Russian-speaking regions that have not even been part of Ukraine since 2014, that other people probably couldn't name those provinces for you.
00:32:15.000When you left Afghanistan in shambles and left them with a ton of weapons and money, it's not that we left, it's how we left.
00:32:23.000When you look at Ukraine, don't think for a second, now everybody wants to move away from Ukraine, they'll want to move away from Israel a year from now.
00:32:31.000America can never be so arrogant to think we don't need friends.
00:32:35.000After 9-11, we needed a lot of friends.
00:35:03.000I'm going to have the military, and I'm going to deport the people who've come, particularly under Biden, who've come from the Middle East, come from all these places.
00:35:30.000In fact, we are going to go from the hot wars in
00:35:59.000Ukraine and Gaza and Israel to what many people are calling the new Cold War with China and I remind the audience that it's important for our visitors at home to be able to hear you and especially for the people in Beijing to hear you.
00:36:11.000Many Republicans believe that the Chinese Communist Party and General Secretary Xi is an existential threat to the United States.
00:36:20.000For decades and decades, the American military, but primarily the United States Navy, has deterred an attack from China to the island state of Taiwan.
00:36:29.000But Ronald Reagan's Navy of 600 ships is gone.
00:36:32.000Now, the question to you is, and I'll start with you, Ambassador Haley, because you were in President Trump's cabinet.
00:37:50.000When we modernize it with the focus of cyber, artificial intelligence, and space, when we make sure that we have the backs of our friends, whether it's in Israel, whether it's in Ukraine, and we should be arming Taiwan.
00:38:03.000Make sure they have the equipment they need.
00:38:05.000Make sure they have the training they need now.
00:38:07.000There's nothing China fears more than knowing that America will have Taiwan's back.
00:38:11.000Let's make sure that we show it by making sure they have the equipment they need.
00:38:15.000Governor DeSantis, my question is specifically about the Navy.
00:38:18.000It's at 291, it's going to go down perhaps as low as 280.
00:39:15.000She welcomed them into South Carolina, gave them land near a military base, wrote the Chinese ambassador a love letter saying what a great friend they were.
00:39:24.000That was like their number one way to do economic development.
00:39:27.000In Florida, I banned China from buying land in this state, and we kicked out.
00:39:56.000Number one, we do not have currently a defense industrial bank to allow us to have the kind of production that we need in order to keep America safe.
00:40:06.000Frankly, if we are not prepared to fight and engage in three continents at the same time,
00:40:35.000To fight three different continents at the exact same time.
00:40:39.000We're going to have to invest heavily in our military, but we're also going to have to invest heavily in an industrial base so that we can hit our objectives from a military perspective.
00:40:51.000Not only with our ships, but also with our planes.
00:40:55.000We are so old as a military that in order for us to recalibrate, we're going to have to invest.
00:42:02.000Just like we depend on them for pharmaceuticals.
00:42:04.000Just like we depend on them for semiconductors.
00:42:07.000So here's why we can't get tough with China.
00:42:09.000It's because we depend on them for our modern way of life.
00:42:13.000And we have to declare economic independence from our enemy.
00:42:17.000That's the Declaration of Independence that Thomas Jefferson, at the age of 33, would have signed.
00:42:21.000And today, if you were alive, that's the Declaration of Independence that I will sign as the next president.
00:42:26.000I do have to recognize that Rhonda Sanders was correct about acknowledging Nikki Haley's tough talk when she was ambassador to the UN, calling China our great friend, bringing the CCP to South Carolina.
00:43:02.000businesses won't expand into the Chinese market until you play by the same set of rules.
00:43:05.000You're kicked out of the WTO, and you actually have to have accountability for the COVID-19 pandemic financially, which unleashed hell on the world.
00:43:57.000The nuclear submarines in this United States Navy is the greatest deterrent to Chinese aggression, and that is the first place I would go to increase American naval power.
00:44:08.000Our nuclear submarines are able to move stealthily, quietly, and effectively, and if we are going to deter China from invading Taiwan, the only way we're going to do it is to make sure that they don't know.
00:44:20.000Whether how many nuclear submarines from the United States of America are in the South China Sea and in that area and ready to strike on them if they decide to move on Taiwan.
00:44:30.000And so we, as our first priority, need to go directly to our nuclear sub-program queue and we need to increase it drastically.
00:44:39.000Ships would come next, but to me, the ships are secondary choice here.
00:44:44.000The submarines are the single most important thing that we could be deterring, that we could be using to deter China.
00:44:50.000But the other thing we could do to deter China is to let them know that the blood money they're spending for Russia in Ukraine right now will not be effective.
00:44:58.000That we send Putin home with his tail between his legs and make them understand that the same fate waits for them if they decide to move towards Taiwan with a more aggressive nuclear sub-program.
00:45:09.000We'll be able to make that threat real.
00:46:49.000You know how I choose to talk on these issues, but running for national office at a time like this, it's suicide to be anything but completely supportive, more or less.
00:47:01.000And so I thought Vivek, he navigated in sort of a clever way, like he was asked about the colleges.
00:47:07.000And he said, he sort of did a direct pivot and said, well anti-Semitism is one thing, but they were anti-white and anti-Christian first.
00:47:16.000I don't think I've ever heard anti-white on the debate stage, ever.
00:47:20.000From either side, Republicans or Democrats.
00:47:38.000And that's really critical because that is what DeSantis has done and that's what they would like to implement at the national level.
00:47:44.000So protecting the First Amendment on this is protecting criticism of Israel and independence to some extent of action from Israel in American life.
00:48:31.000I think that she's competing for this spot to take on Trump on behalf of the establishment.
00:48:37.000She's competing with DeSantis for this.
00:48:40.000And DeSantis has very cautiously avoided attacking Trump too directly because he recognizes that
00:48:49.000It would be very difficult for him to win the nomination if he goes all in on Trump.
00:48:52.000But Haley went in on Trump in a unique way, where she sort of recognized Trump's success in the beginning and his popularity, but criticized him for his record.
00:49:01.000But what she represents is the backsliding towards the establishment, where she said he's getting weak in the knees on foreign policy.
00:49:09.000And what that means is, like, he's too anti-war to be a Republican.
00:49:13.000And the Republican Party, as evidenced by this debate, is going to be the pro-war party again.
00:50:07.000It is polluting the minds of American young people all throughout this country, and they're doing it intentionally.
00:50:15.000And when you saw what happened in the last few weeks with all of this anti-Semitic, horrible stuff that their algorithms were pushing out at a gargantuan rate,
00:50:28.000This is China trying to further divide the United States of America.
00:50:33.000And this is one of the big failings among many of the Trump administration.
00:51:19.000They're not permitting a free flow of information to the Chinese people from our social media companies, yet we just open the door and let them do what they're doing.
00:51:28.000TikTok should be banned because they are poisoning American minds, and I would do it week one.
00:51:56.000And in order to do that, it's not just military, it's economic and it's cultural.
00:52:01.000And as the dad of a 6'5 and a 3-year-old, I'm concerned about the data that they're getting from our young people and what they're doing to pollute the minds.
00:53:57.000How do you get TikTok banned if you use it?
00:54:00.000Well, I want to laugh at why Nikki Haley didn't answer your question, which is about looking at families in the eye.
00:54:05.000In the last debate, she made fun of me for actually joining TikTok while her own daughter was actually using the app for a long time, so you might want to take care of your family first.
00:54:16.000The next generation of Americans will use it.
00:54:44.000So this is the problem when you have Republicans that temporarily go the way the winds blow and now it's popular to talk tough on China when she was U.N.
00:54:51.000ambassador, called them literally her words, not mine, our great friend.
00:54:55.000You can't be fair weather fans of the right policy.
00:55:05.000The fact of the matter is Democrats are on TikTok today.
00:55:08.000The only person, one of the few people, who is putting up content the way the actual algorithms work, speaking for pro-Israel views or others, is me.
00:55:27.000You know, when he talks about me praising China, he doesn't know the fact that the reason China was praised was because I negotiated with China and Russia the largest set of sanctions against North Korea in a generation.
00:55:38.000We are the—that is literally the reason North Korea stopped testing ballistic missiles.
00:55:43.000So I said China did good on their part.
00:55:45.000That was a negotiation— You said they were our great friend, is what you said, Nikki.
00:55:48.000Those are your words, not mine, and so just own up to it.
00:56:53.000We also should provide, in my parents' Bill of Rights, we give parents the opportunity to give their kids permission under 14 to be on those apps.
00:57:03.000I think it's incredibly important for us as Americans to take back control of the information, especially of our kids.
00:59:33.000Ambassador Haley, what would your approach be?
00:59:36.000You know, I stood on the Simon Boulevard Bridge and watched thousands of Venezuelans cross for hours in the hot sun, holding their babies to get the one meal they might get that day, going from Venezuela to Colombia.
00:59:48.000They were fleeing socialism and begging for freedom.
00:59:51.000We need to make sure that we do everything we can to sanction Maduro.
01:00:18.000He was praised by the Sierra Club, and you're trying to make up for it and act like you weren't a liberal when it comes to the environment.
01:01:14.000What would you do the moment you take office to help Americans manage the cost of living?
01:01:19.000So we're talking about short term here.
01:01:21.000My mother was a single mother who raised me and my brother in a very challenging economic situation.
01:01:27.000The first thing I can tell you is that when your gas prices are 40% higher right now than they were just a little over two years ago, that's not a problem for my mama.
01:02:39.000We have an opportunity as Americans to actually export the surplus energy that we create in our nation and disconnect from China and from murderous dictators and tyrants around the world.
01:02:53.000Your time is up, but let me just follow up.
01:02:54.000The idea of pumping gas, of turning on pipelines, that doesn't make gas cheaper that day.
01:03:00.000I'm talking about you become president.
01:03:03.000What can you do specifically to help people feel better about their situation or be better with their situation?
01:03:08.000Well actually it does, to be honest with you.
01:03:10.000The way that the economy works is it works on the ability to anticipate excess supply versus the demand.
01:03:18.000Confidence drives our prices down because we know there's going to be a greater surplus.
01:03:23.000When you allow for those who have leases to actually start drilling, to start using those leases for more energy excavation, you put our economy in the strongest position.
01:03:34.000And as a result of that, prices start going down.
01:03:37.000That is the kind of economy that, as President of the United States, I would lead this nation to making sure that we first use the resources in our own country and not going outside of our country in order to achieve our objective.
01:03:53.000You know, Proverbs 22, 7 reminds us that the borrower is slave to the lender.
01:04:00.000We have become an indentured servant too often to countries like China.
01:04:04.000By having an energy economy, we start allowing this nation to once again return as a city on the hill.
01:06:58.000The reason my generation has lost our sense of national pride, in part, is because people in my generation feel like the American Dream isn't available to them.
01:07:06.000And part of the reason why is we burdened them with four-year college degrees that did not serve their head start on the American Dream.
01:07:13.000People will be more proud of a country if we're all making more money in that country.
01:07:18.000This is how we revive national pride in our identity, and it will take a CEO in the White House with zero-based budgeting, by the way, to take on the federal debt to get this job done.
01:07:27.000Let me turn to Governor Christie on that.
01:07:30.000Lester, part of the entire premise of the question, and I agree with Tim on this, is absolutely energy is the key to this because it drives every one of those other prices.
01:07:40.000Energy is key because you're all getting paid by energy.
01:07:45.000And those truckers have to pay for fuel, for the higher fuel prices.
01:07:48.000And when you go ahead and you tell people, we are going to unleash every bit of American energy,
01:08:09.000And so if you don't believe that making sure that Israel and that Israel situation that's going on right now...
01:08:16.000Isn't resolved and resolved quickly as President of the United States and brings stability back that will also not permit countries like Saudi Arabia and others to be able to jack their prices as well in what they say is in response to a crisis when it's really what it's in response to is putting more money in their pockets.
01:08:33.000When they have an American president who knows that Israel must be defended not with humanitarian pauses and not with suggestions for ceasefire but with letting them know we will supply them with everything they need
01:09:40.000But we have to stop this spending binge that's happening by Republicans and Democrats in Congress.
01:09:46.000I will make sure, one, we claw back the $500 billion of unspent COVID dollars that are out there.
01:09:51.000Instead of 87,000 IRS agents going after middle America, we'll go after the hundreds of billions of dollars of COVID fraud that exist, one out of every $7.
01:10:58.000Americans could see their Social Security benefits drastically cut in the next decade because the program is running out of money.
01:11:06.000Former President Trump has said, quote, under no circumstances should Republicans cut entitlements.
01:11:11.000Governor Christie, first to you, you have proposed raising the retirement age for younger Americans.
01:11:16.000What would that age be specifically and would you consider making any other reforms to Social Security?
01:11:22.000Sure, and we have to deal with this problem.
01:11:24.000Now look, if we raise the retirement age a few years for folks that are in their 30s and 40s, I have a son who's in the audience tonight that's 30 years old.
01:11:32.000If he can't adjust to a few year increase in social security retirement age over the next 40 years, I've got bigger problems with him than his social security payments.
01:11:41.000And the fact is, we need to be realistic about this.
01:13:59.000Again, you have to work with... Chris, what I can tell you is it's going to be those in their 20s just coming into the system and it should reflect more of life expectancy.
01:14:08.000Alright, Mr. Ramaswamy, have you determined if you would touch entitlements and Social Security?
01:14:14.000What, if any, reforms are you looking at?
01:14:16.000So this is really important right now.
01:14:17.000We're working within the last window, I believe, we will have to actually fix this problem while still leaving Social Security and Medicare benefits for current seniors intact.
01:15:07.000Shut down redundant agencies that should not exist.
01:15:11.000Deliver economic growth as a positive tailwind.
01:15:13.000I think we can get to three, four, maybe even
01:15:16.000Five percent GDP growth if we really take the regulatory shackles off of our economy.
01:15:21.000And against that backdrop, I believe this is our last best window to be able to take care of our national debt problem through those severe measures, including sacrificing the foreign wars that many bloodthirsty members of both parties have a hunger for.
01:15:35.000That's the one secret for how we're going to be able to do this, and that requires discipline.
01:15:39.000So we can't have the first conversation we were having sending foreign aid willy-nilly to countries whose national debt per capita is less than ours.
01:15:48.000But if we do this correctly, I think this is our last window and it'll take a CEO from the next generation to do it.
01:16:00.000We have to grow our economy and cut our spending.
01:16:03.000Let me just say to my mama and every other mama or grandfather receiving Social Security, as President of the United States, I will protect your Social Security.
01:16:13.000The fact is that we're spending today about 1.1 trillion dollars on Social Security, about 750 billion dollars on Medicare, about 300 billion dollars on Medicaid, about 400 billion dollars on veterans benefits, 1.7 trillion dollars on annual appropriations,
01:16:28.000If we're going to actually tame this tiger, the way you do it is not by picking on seniors who have paid into a program that deserve their money coming back out to them.
01:16:39.000The way you deal with it is, number one, you have to grow your economy.
01:16:43.000My plan, Made in America, creates 10 million new jobs, grows our economy at 5%.
01:16:48.000By doing so, you add trillions of dollars of economic activity and billions of dollars to your treasury.
01:18:12.000Would you be open to raising the retirement age and how would you keep Social Security sustainable?
01:18:17.000Well look, as Governor of Florida, I know a few people on Social Security and I know it's important.
01:18:23.000My grandmother lived till 91 and Social Security was her sole source of income and that's true for a lot of seniors throughout this country.
01:18:31.000So what I'd say to seniors in America, promise made, promise kept.
01:18:35.000I understand what you're going through with the rising prices, and you need that Social Security check.
01:18:50.000When you have higher inflation, the seniors get a cost of living adjustment, which means the program's spending more, but it doesn't cover the increase in the actual inflation rate.
01:20:47.000China has the largest fleet because it builds ships at a much higher rate.
01:20:53.000And same is true with Russia building ammunition.
01:20:58.000We can't build like that because we don't have industry and Vivek is also right that our supply chains run through China.
01:21:05.000So theoretically if we wanted to Confront China ever be a major problem because we get radar and sensors and all kinds of things through China even down to the raw materials that they have so I Agree with all that stuff and I agree on the entitlements.
01:22:37.000NAFTA was signed and when America began to de-industrialize.
01:22:41.000It's actually a relatively recent phenomenon that we've lost a manufacturing base.
01:22:46.000So that was a big part of the election with Ross Perot and others.
01:22:51.000And Trump put that issue back on the map with the discussion about tariffs and said, if you bring factories overseas, we will put a tariff on the goods that you export.
01:23:00.000And so there's been no discussion about trade, which is interesting, but that's a huge part of this supply-side conversation.
01:23:09.000So anyway, so I agree with them mostly.
01:23:11.000The thing that pissed me off the most, though, is about TikTok.
01:23:15.000They say that the TikTok is national security, but it's also culture.
01:23:19.000They say that TikTok is polluting the minds of the youth.
01:23:23.000You know this is coming from the national security state because all the social media companies are doing that.
01:24:39.000Number one, we should close our southern border.
01:24:41.000For $10 billion, we could close our southern border.
01:24:44.000For an additional $5 billion, we could use the currently available military technology to surveil our southern border, to stop fentanyl from crossing our border.
01:24:55.000I've already led on legislation that would sanction the Mexican cartels, if you remember the path,
01:25:02.000The precursors come from China, then they are manufactured in Mexican labs, and then the Mexican cartels bring them across our border.
01:25:11.000By sanctioning their accounts and eliminating their cash, we starve them of what they need, number one.
01:25:16.000Closing our southern border makes it nearly impossible to get in.
01:25:19.000The military-grade technology is a backup, making sure that we not only stop 70,000 deaths
01:25:30.000In the last 12 months because of fentanyl, it also allows us to deal with the human trafficking travesty that is entering in our country in the same path.
01:25:40.000If we are going to deal effectively with 100,000 overdose deaths in our country and the 70,000 that is directly linked to fentanyl, we have to deal with our ports of entry and deal with our southern border.
01:25:57.000If we do that effectively, we have started reducing the challenge from the outside, and then we have to deal with the challenge on the inside, which seems to be connected to a mental health crisis that is spreading throughout our nation.
01:26:11.000Governor Christie, Senator Scott just mentioned ports of entry.
01:26:14.00090% of the fentanyl that is seized in the United States is seized at ports of entry.
01:26:18.000We don't know what's coming in across the open southern border.
01:26:42.000We need to make sure that law enforcement has every tool at its disposal to do it.
01:26:46.000Secondly, on day one, I would sign an executive order that would send the National Guard to partner with Customs and Border Patrol, both at ports of entry and at the open ports of our border.
01:26:56.000Customs and Border Patrol agents are overwhelmed.
01:27:02.000Over the last 11 months, we simply do not have the man and woman power at the border to be able to deal with it.
01:27:09.000And so, dealing with both law enforcement, and you're right, we have done this, we can do this, but we've got to give them the tools to do it, and technology is one of the biggest tools that we don't have enough of at the ports of entry.
01:27:21.000Now, we also need to lower demand, Hugh, in this country.
01:27:25.000And the way to lower demand is to start treating people again.
01:27:28.000You know, we started to do this before COVID, and we haven't done enough of it.
01:27:33.000And for every family out there tonight who has lost a loved one.
01:29:31.000Ambassador Haley, if the United States uses special forces in Mexico without prior notice to the Mexican allies to our south, what would your colleagues at the United Nations think about that?
01:29:47.000I don't care what my colleagues at the United Nations think.
01:30:34.000We will go back to the remain-in-Mexico policy so that everybody stays in Mexico and they never get here in the first place.
01:30:40.000And instead of catch-and-deport, we'll go to catch-and-release.
01:30:43.000I'm sorry, instead of catch-and-release, we'll go to catch-and-deport.
01:30:46.000That is the way we'll deal with the border.
01:30:48.000Those are the things that we have to do going forward, but I do agree with Chris.
01:30:52.000One of the first things that we have to do is really focus on mental health and addiction centers.
01:30:58.000It is something that is needed in our country terribly, because we don't deal with mental health, and someone who doesn't get care for mental health falls into addiction, and we owe it to them to treat it like the cancer that it is.
01:31:09.000Why don't we have a society where people are mentally ill?
01:31:12.000Special Forces in Mexico shoot them a stone cold dead at the border?
01:31:16.000One thing I just want to say in how we're talking about this issue is, you know, like Ron, I've actually met many parents across this country who have lost their kids to laced pharmaceuticals that have fentanyl in them.
01:31:26.000The only thing I would ask, Ron, I think you'd be on the same page with me on this.
01:32:05.000There's going to be someone else in charge.
01:32:07.000I hope to have built a good relationship with that next president of Mexico.
01:32:11.000We'll use our own military to seal our own southern border.
01:32:15.000What we need to do is stop using our military to protect somebody else's border halfway around the world when we're short right here at home.
01:32:21.000Get serious about protecting this border.
01:32:23.000And then the other thing that hasn't been discussed is the northern border.
01:32:26.000I'm the only candidate on the stage, as far as I'm aware, who has actually visited the northern border.
01:32:31.000There was enough fentanyl that was captured just on the northern border last year to kill 3 million Americans.
01:32:37.000So we gotta just skate to where the puck is going, not just where the puck is.
01:32:41.000Don't just build the wall, build both walls.
01:32:43.000Can't just complete the wall, use the military to seal the Swiss cheese for the tunnels that they're actually building underneath that wall.
01:34:06.000Uh, you gotta do a better job on these referenda.
01:34:09.000I think of all the stuff that's happened to the pro-life cause, uh, they have been caught flat-footed on these referenda, and they have been losing the referenda.
01:34:17.000A lot of the people who are voting for the referenda are Republicans who would vote for a Republican candidate.
01:34:22.000So you gotta understand how to do that.
01:34:37.000Ambassador Haley, let me have you weigh in.
01:34:38.000Former President Trump has consistently blamed the abortion issue and how Republican candidates have talked about it for their electoral losses.
01:34:48.000I've said it before, I think you have to be honest with the American people.
01:34:51.000This is a personal issue for every woman and every man.
01:34:55.000I am unapologetically pro-life, not because the Republican Party tells me to be, but because my husband Michael was adopted and I had trouble having both of my children, so I'm surrounded by blessings.
01:35:06.000Having said that, when you look post-Roe, a wrong was made right.
01:35:10.000They took it out of the hands of unelected justices, and they put it in the hands of the people.
01:35:16.000And what I'll tell you is, as much as I'm pro-life, I don't judge anyone for being pro-choice, and I don't want them to judge me for being pro-life.
01:35:23.000So when we're looking at this, there are some states that are going more on the pro-life side.
01:38:09.000Ambassador Haley, your name was invoked.
01:38:11.000Would you support a 15-week federal limit?
01:38:13.000I would support anything that would pass because that's what would save more babies and support more moms.
01:38:18.000But you have to be honest with the American people, and I appreciate that Tim keeps calling me out for this, but Tim, there was a bill last year.
01:38:28.000You didn't even co-sponsor the bill, and then when you first were interviewed on this, when you ran, you wouldn't even say you were for 15 weeks.
01:38:35.000What I am saying to the American people is, let's see what we can agree on.
01:38:40.000Let's bring people together and decide what we can agree on.
01:38:43.000I will sign anything where we can get 60 Senate votes, but don't make the American people think that you're going to push something on them when we don't even have the votes in the Senate.
01:38:52.000It's important that we're honest about that.
01:39:20.000That passed a constitutional amendment that now effectively codifies a right to abortion all the way up to the time of birth without parental consent.
01:40:26.000That says we share the same instincts on this issue, but we require, I believe, a different generation of leadership to actually lead us forward and unite the country on this with honesty.
01:40:36.000Governor Christie, as you know, federal limits are important to a lot of Republicans.
01:40:41.000Where do you stand on this issue, and what is the path forward for Republicans?
01:40:45.000For 50 years, conservative lawyers have been arguing that the federal government should have absolutely nothing to do with this issue constitutionally because it's nowhere in the Constitution.
01:40:56.000And then Dobbs comes and we finally gain that victory.
01:41:00.000Which was the creation of a constitutional right out of thin air that didn't exist.
01:41:05.000And now we have people running to say, let's short circuit the states from doing what they need to do.
01:41:11.000And let's go right to some type of federal ban at a certain number of weeks.
01:41:15.000And people on the stage have been all over the place.
01:42:02.000To be pro-life for the whole life means that the life of a 16-year-old drug addict on the floor of the county lockup is precious, and we should get treatment for her to restore her life.
01:42:11.000The 52-year-old who's drug addicted should make sure that any of his children who he's passed that addiction on to are treated well, too.
01:42:18.000Pro-life's not just in the womb, Kirsten.
01:42:24.000We're going to take a final break, and when we come back, we'll hear from all of you with your closing statements.
01:42:28.000All right, yeah, the abortion thing is like, it just doesn't interest me because they're all lying.
01:42:35.000You know, and I, at least Trump came out and said, oh well, like, you guys are gonna vote for me if I talk about it.
01:42:42.000So that's why I love, that's why I love Trump.
01:42:44.000Trump is like fighting the pro-lifers.
01:42:46.000He's like, you pussies don't win elections, I do.
01:42:49.000You don't win elections, shut the fuck up.
01:42:51.000I deliver daubs, so shut the fuck up and let me, let me, uh, not, you know, talk about it because it'll lose me the election.
01:42:59.000But these guys, they have to stretch out this long thing about... And basically what they're saying is, well, I'm pro-life, but if I come across as too pro-life, like, all the women will vote for the Democrats.
01:43:47.000And so Republicans recognize that they can't push for any kind of federal ban
01:43:53.000With any teeth or even some say at all.
01:43:57.000That's why Nikki Haley says, well, let's just work on it when I'm president.
01:44:01.000That's because she doesn't want to risk alienating.
01:44:04.000There can't even be a whiff that she's going to ban abortion federally because she'll get murdered by women.
01:44:13.000So, that's why I can't stand that issue when people, when you hear about it on the debate stage, because they're all just making shit up, you know?
01:44:23.000And the thing is, what's funny when they say, well, think about it this way.
01:44:31.000When they talk about drugs and abortion and stuff, they're like, we need more treatment centers, and we need more Social Security, and we need more adoption centers, and it's like, what if we had a country where nobody wanted to abort babies so it wasn't an issue?
01:44:46.000What if we had a country where nobody was on drugs because they didn't want to commit suicide?
01:44:51.000What if we had a country where people were wealthy enough that they didn't need Social Security, they had a private retirement plan because they made money?
01:45:02.000And the point is, is like, we have to restructure the society.
01:45:06.000If you have a society where everyone's on drugs or doing abortions on a large scale, something has gone wrong.
01:45:14.000And like Vivek said, it's one thing if somebody, I don't know, gets poisoned with fentanyl, but addiction is a major problem in the country.
01:45:22.000And addiction is a symptom of a deeper problem.
01:45:25.000People don't get addicted to drugs for no reason.
01:45:40.000Nobody's talking about how the society has gotten to the point where everybody wants to be addicted, why there's a suicide epidemic, why there's abortion.
01:45:49.000Like, they're talking about access to contraceptives.
01:45:52.000What if we had a country where marriage was a sacred institution?
01:45:54.000And listen, I know it's a presidential debate, so they are talking about policies, and policies are reactive as opposed to proactive, but it would be good to have some vision
01:46:43.000They've been to focus on any topic you didn't have time to address and why you and not former President Trump would be the party's best choice to tackle these important issues.
01:49:21.000We've talked a lot about foreign wars tonight, but we're in the middle of a war right here at home.
01:49:26.000It's a war not between black and white or Democrat and Republican.
01:49:29.000It's between those of us who believe in our founding ideals and love this country, and a fringe minority who hates the United States of America.
01:49:36.000And I think it's going to take a commander-in-chief to lead us to victory in that war, who first of all knows that we're in a war.
01:49:43.000Second of all, can't be captured by the special interests along the way.
01:49:47.000But third is from the next generation, somebody with fresh legs to lead us to victory.
01:49:52.000I'll shut down the deep state, I'll declare economic independence from China, I'll keep us out of World War III, and then revive national pride in this country.
01:50:01.000I also want to close with one message to the Democrat Party.
01:50:04.000End this farce that Joe Biden is going to be your nominee.
01:50:07.000We know he's not even the President of the United States.
01:50:09.000He's a puppet for the managerial class.
01:50:12.000So have the guts to step up and be honest about who you're actually going to put up, so we can have an honest debate.
01:50:17.000Biden should step aside, end his candidacy now, so we can see whether it's Newsom or Michelle Obama or whoever else.
01:50:23.000Just tell us the truth, so we can have an honest debate.
01:50:32.000Ambassador Haley, you have one minute for your closing.
01:51:57.000I am going to win for you and your family, and I am going to lead this country's revival.
01:52:03.000As a veteran of the Iraq War and in the Navy, I will always put service above self as president.
01:52:10.000As the father of three young kids, I'm going to ensure that this country is left to the next generation in better shape than we found it.
01:52:17.000And as the governor of Florida, I delivered on all my promises, and you can trust me to deliver for you as the president of the United States.
01:53:58.000When Trump arrived in 2016, there was this idea that he would realign the Republican Party or realign American politics with a new contour and that the Republican Party would be anti-war and against free trade.
01:54:45.000And so without Vivek, who is really an exception to the rule, seven years, eight years really, because it's 24, after Trump ran, the Republican Party is just as bad as it was before.
01:54:56.000If you don't have Trump, and if this Vivek phenomenon isn't happening, DeSantis, Haley, Scott, Christie, they're the same as the GOP before Trump.
01:55:06.000And what that shows is that he didn't institutionally change the GOP.
01:55:11.000They're not talking about... Immigration was not discussed.
01:55:15.000In this debate, it was hardly discussed.
01:55:17.000Trade, somehow, was not discussed, other than outside the context of a war with China.
01:55:24.000Even the foreign wars, they're in favor of foreign wars.
01:55:27.000They want to double down and recommit.
01:55:29.000They're saying, if you touch a hair on the head of our soldiers in Iraq, we're gonna bomb you.
01:55:33.000So we're gonna go to war with the whole Middle East now?
01:55:35.000We're gonna fight Iran in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen?
01:56:08.000And you also need a successor, which means a
01:56:13.000Another guy who could be the president, another guy who could be the nominee or lead the party, who can maintain those changes, who can oversee that and make sure that MAGA and America First has staying power.
01:56:26.000And neither of those things have been accomplished.
01:56:32.000So, it's a big problem that the GOP is just as bad, because it means that there's effectively no opposition.
01:56:39.000There's a left-wing Democrat Party, and then the Republican Party is captured by foreign lobbyists.
01:56:45.000The Republican Party is basically just as bad.
01:56:48.000They're really hardly any different than the Democrats.
01:56:50.000Nothing that they said tonight was very radical.
01:56:54.000But the country needs radical change, like that Trump promised.
01:56:58.000So, if the Republican Party does not institutionally reflect the changes that Trump made, if there's no successor to oversee that, then we're back to where we started.
01:57:06.000It's like the Trump Revolution never happened.
01:57:09.000So, we're in real trouble politically.
01:57:14.000The good news is that the technology is changing the game.
01:57:18.000Internet, social media, and the acquisition of X by Elon Musk.
01:57:23.000The technology is going to exert pressure on the government in a way that is greater than politics.
01:57:30.000What I mean by that is, you know, just the force of the interconnectivity of mobile phones, smartphones, social media, and, you know, Elon Musk is just downstream from that.
01:57:44.000The acquisition of Twitter and the opening up of the conversation has shown how public opinion can change, how rapidly public opinion can change, and
01:57:53.000How power can be decentralized or at least information opinion making can be decentralized.
01:58:02.000And so that is going to have a huge pressure that's even greater than what's happening with political actors in the political process.
01:59:04.000So, um... At the same time, it also goes hand-in-hand with, like, foreign intelligence and this question over national sovereignty.
01:59:11.000You know, it's no coincidence that Arab Spring happens in 2011, along with the color revolutions, and they talk about the role of, like, Facebook, and then five years later you get Trump.
02:00:44.000I don't think anybody's even watching them anymore, and people have decided already.
02:00:48.000It's just really a vehicle for, really, Haley to springboard.
02:00:52.000The race is Trump versus non-Trump with DeSantis leading the pack, and the debates are really a vehicle for Haley potentially to overtake DeSantis as number two, but I don't even think that's gonna happen.
02:01:03.000She had a very bad performance tonight.
02:05:19.000That just goes to show, I am playing on Deity mode.
02:05:23.000Like, my life is on Deity, like, impossible.
02:05:27.000I'm on Iron Man, Deity, impossible mode.
02:05:32.000I was just talking to Veda the other day, a friend of mine, and he's telling me, oh, you know, he's into numerology because he watches Zirka and he's like, you need a 33, you need a Spellcaster Handler because, you know, you gotta hang out with Aiden Ross.
02:05:49.000I'm like, bro, Aiden Ross literally got a call and they said if you keep calling Nick Fuentes, rappers won't go on your stream, you'll get cancelled.
02:05:59.000It's like I'm on deity level difficulty and I'm still crushing it.
02:08:17.000But Ruben's on there with his poultry 3K.
02:08:22.000And this guy's putting phone calls out there to get people banned.
02:08:26.000Dave Rubin, his entire shtick is, well, I'm a liberal, but we should be able to have a conversation to disagree.
02:08:34.000Not only does Dave Rubin block me on Twitter and never talk to me, but he also picks up the phone and calls and tries to get people fired if they're not pro-Israel.
02:08:46.000I have multiple sources that have all confirmed firsthand that since the Gaza War started, Dave Rubin is calling people and saying, oh, so-and-so should be fired because they're not pro-Israel enough.
02:08:58.000And this guy's whole shtick is free speech, free speech.
02:09:02.000You should be able to have the conversation, but not when it comes to Israel.
02:09:58.000Okay okay okay enough enough complaining it's been a good night and hey let's be positive let's be positive good night good viewership and uh and Rumble has not banned me which is I appreciate that so kudos to them but I'd like to be on the front page next time please please and thank you okay but let's take a look at our super chats I'll put something on I'll put Fresh and Fit on and I'll read super chats
02:12:17.000Vivek is not gonna win the nomination, so...
02:12:37.000Seriously, yeah, and you might as well just take your vote and rip it up and throw it in the air and say, well, I can't... Donald Trump is not pro-choice.
02:12:45.000We have... Abortion was overturned in America because of Trump.
02:12:49.000Because Trump forced through three judges.
02:12:52.000Forced through... I mean, Gorsuch was a given.
02:16:56.000Doesn't mean you gotta wear a suit and a necktie and everything, but I really think the standards are declining and we're at the point now where the only way that older guys can dress cool, they wear like a leather jacket and like sneakers and jeans.
02:17:08.000It's like once you're past the age of like 35, 40, you gotta get rid of the jeans, man.
02:17:15.000Outside of a jeans specific occasion, like if you're at a, if you're at a football game or whatever, I mean even then,
02:17:24.000I feel like we gotta raise the standards.
02:17:27.000If you're past 40, you're wearing jeans and a t-shirt, making like a public appearance, what are we doing?
02:17:35.000And I know I don't always take my own advice, but that's just how I feel about it.
02:17:39.000I know that they're in Miami, it's a vibe, you know, it's a certain thing, but... In my opinion, I feel like we should be... That's just my belief, I don't really practice it, but... When I get older, when I'm like 40 and up, I feel like I... You gotta bully me into wearing slacks and like a jacket, because we just totally gotten away from any kind of...
02:19:16.000I, you know, I'm not trying to rain on... I love Fresh and Fit but Rolo I have a little beef with and just when I see the t-shirts I'm like, bro.
02:19:24.000But I love, you know I love Myron, you know I love Fresh.
02:20:10.000I'm trying to focus and people text me and I just forget and... So I was supposed to do an interview with them and I just completely slipped my mind so... I gotta hit him up.
02:22:20.000The RNC was like, that was probably in the contract.
02:22:23.000They're like, okay, we're gonna give you exclusive rights to our stream, but Nick Fuentes can't be anywhere fucking near the website when that happens.
02:23:08.000Well, I'll do gay jokes with people I know, but if you're just a stranger, I don't know if you're coming on to me if you're actually gay.
02:23:15.000If you know your friends aren't gay, you can make gay jokes, but if you're just being gay towards me and I don't even know who you are, how do I know you're not actually gay?
02:23:23.000How do I know you're not actually hitting on me?
02:23:26.000So, yeah, I don't know you like that, bro.
02:26:10.000You know, it's good to read wide and read deep.
02:26:12.000You know, you gotta read a lot of stuff and... and the things that are really gonna be critical, you gotta read very deeply into them, you know?
02:26:21.000So... I don't really... research to me is kind of a no-brainer, like...
02:26:27.000You have to ask the right questions and then find the answers.
02:26:29.000You need to find good sources that are credible and have the right information but you also have to consider the sources because when you do research it's like who's putting this information in front of me that you have to consider the the funding the bias the expertise so but it's kind of I mean it's not complicated like I don't think that's the hard part at all actually.
02:26:53.000Like.1 sent $20, do you think someday young people will hear you talking about Trump and they'll feel the same way you do when you hear boomers talking about Reagan?
02:27:02.000Uh, I don't know, because I don't have a crystal ball, so who knows.
02:27:10.000The random guy at the bookstore that approached you from a month ago must have just finished reading The Globalization of Addiction, and felt the urge to strike up a conversation with a stranger.
02:27:19.000It was unfortunate that he had zero riz and happened to face you of all people.
02:28:24.000And listen, I'm like a friendly guy, but subconsciously, when you see a same-aged peer, I think from like adolescence onward, you're like, I'll kill this guy.
02:30:37.000Convert me to some religion Jehovah's Witness or give me to buy something give me to buy a water filter Turmeric But it was bizarre and I eat this guy was not trying to be my friend this guy was weird So yeah, I didn't like it.
02:31:01.000But yeah, he kind of rizzed me a little bit.
02:31:04.000You know, because he was walking me through the steps, and he's like, he's like, so, first, you have to literally get in front of the woman.
02:31:10.000You have to literally, like, surprise her.
02:31:12.000And he jumped in front of me, and I was like, whoa!
02:31:49.000The first step is you have to jump in front of the woman and physically block her path.
02:31:54.000You have to physically get in her in her way and stop her in her tracks and like prevent her you have to create like a funnel and prevent her from moving like in basketball you have to jump in front of her and you know but he did that and I was like whoa hey
02:32:11.000And, um, and I said that that's why it works.
02:32:14.000Because if you just start talking to a woman, she's gonna be like, nope.
02:32:19.000Unless you're a 10 out of 10, you know.
02:33:15.000So I was like, hmm, that must be why it works.
02:33:19.000At least the initial, because he said, he said it's very important that you literally stop, like you can't, you can't, if she's walking and you start walking next to her, it doesn't work.
02:33:30.000Okay, so but that's part of the psychology clearly is that She's she's like being confronted.
02:33:38.000She has to be confronted Anyway, so I'm just letting you in on a little tip I'm kidding Keith woods didn't teach me that I saw that in a video but Anyway, so what was the question so the Barnes and Noble guy
02:35:02.000And then I was gonna drag him over to the bookshelf, and then I was gonna press triangle, and then initiate an interaction with the environment.
02:35:08.000And then with the right joystick, moving across, smash his head into the books.
02:35:16.000And then he'd be like, whoa, you know?
02:37:49.000I need, like, a North Korea public apology.
02:37:52.000Like, she's crying, reading from a piece of paper with, like, a bad webcam, and she's like, I can't believe I insulted our only hope to save America.
02:40:30.000You know, I never just got to be a normal person.
02:40:32.000I'm like Michael Jackson going to the supermarket where no one was there.
02:40:37.000I never got to be a normal person my entire adult life.
02:40:39.000I've been the, uh, I've been the pariah.
02:40:42.000I've been the most, everyone hates me, everyone wants to kill me, uh, you know, everyone has to push me away because, like, the Jews will try and destroy their life if they know me.
02:40:55.000I wish I could just be in someone else's TikTok.
02:40:57.000I wish I could be an unpaid extra in someone else's TikTok.
02:41:53.000Well, and Trump... Trump doesn't care anymore, okay?
02:42:16.000I'm going to let you in on a dirty little secret.
02:42:19.000Over the next year, we are actually going to have to kind of pressure Trump to do the right thing on stuff, just like we did in the first term, because Trump is setting us up for a lot of issues, just like the first time around.
02:42:33.000So, it's going to be all hands on deck.
02:42:36.000It's not just about getting Trump elected.
02:42:39.000There's sort of a shadow war going on that I'm going to clue you into more and more, and we're going to play a big part in it, okay?