Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida) joins Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) on CNN's "State of the Union" to talk about the need for a border patrol helicopter to patrol the southern border and the need to protect our borders.
00:03:05.000Working Americans, after inflation and taxes, have gotten a pay cut.
00:03:10.000And eggs, a staple of America's breakfast, have gone from a cheap source of protein to a luxury good.
00:03:19.000A responsible debt limit increase that begins to eliminate wasteful Washington spending and puts us on a path towards a balanced budget is not only the right place to start, it's the only place to start.
00:03:35.000My fellow Americans, I cannot stand still in the face of a growing national debt and diminishing economic opportunities.
00:03:44.000My colleagues and I in Congress were elected at this moment in time to restore your voice in Washington.
00:03:53.000And to deliver the bright future you want, need and deserve.
00:03:58.000Not only for you, but for your children and their children.
00:05:18.000Like this, these cosmopolitan elites like Steve Bannon, these cosmopolitan elites who play populist.
00:05:28.000They're going up against a guy born in Scranton that went to University of Delaware.
00:05:35.000I think he's the last state school guy or the last guy not to go to an Ivy League college since Ronald Reagan.
00:05:43.000Yeah. The lefty elitist label has never fit tightly with Joe, with Joe Biden.
00:05:48.000Also, Joe, I love, by the way, the ones who put on the corn pone accent that they must have picked up at one of the eating clubs at Oxford when they go on TV.
00:05:56.000Well, you know, you got to talk about John Kennedy.
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00:17:16.000All the people driving the MAGA agenda, including President Trump, is going to speak there also.
00:17:21.000Dr. Navarro, tonight he's going to take a victory lap on his great economy, sir, this economy that's just driven by fiat, burning of fiat money.
00:17:32.000Give us the doctrine of our assessment of this, particularly he's touting the greatest economic numbers on labor, on employment, sir, since before man walked on the moon.
00:17:44.000Of course, he doesn't talk about the 22 months in a row of declining wages.
00:30:12.000Luckily, Americans elected a Republican House majority to stop this madness.
00:30:17.000House Republicans are laser focused on delivering results, if you've heard from these members today.
00:30:23.000And we're bringing Joe Biden and Senate Democrats, if they choose, along with us as we put an end to radical policies that govern and as we govern for, as Chairman Smith said, as we govern for the American people.
00:30:38.000And with that, I turn it over to our majority leader, Steve Scalise from Louisiana.
00:30:47.000The state of our union is struggling under the weight of President Biden's far left extremist agenda that is hurting families across this country.
00:30:57.000You can see it when people go to the gas station and pay 40 percent more to fill up their cars.
00:31:14.000You've got the Weaponization Committee, you've got all the committees.
00:31:17.000By the way, we have our own Natalie Winters is all over this.
00:31:20.000We've got a schedule, maybe a little bit this afternoon, the afternoon shows, but then tomorrow, as we do these shows now, as all these hearings start to take place, we're going to be dipping in and out of all of them so you can get the best coverage.
00:31:40.000By the way, Mike has been going around to different places, giving talks, and he gave a talk the other day down in North Carolina, and I heard nothing but rave reviews about that, Mike.
00:31:49.000So your roadshow, make sure Dr. Kevin Roberts knows your roadshow is working.
00:31:54.000You're showing the flag for heritage very strongly.
00:31:58.000Give us your assessment over at the Oversight Project of Biden's State of the Union, what's going to be said tonight, and what you guys would do in a pre-bottle, sir.
00:32:08.000I think the key point to stress here is we're living in a period of peak American corruption, and I mean that in multiple ways, both quantifiable and quantifiable.
00:32:17.000We have three massive legislative packages that passed the American Rescue Plan, the transportation boondoggle for infrastructure, and then the Inflation Reduction Act, which obviously had nothing to do with inflation.
00:32:30.000We're talking trillions and trillions and trillions of dollars that are basically robbed from the middle class and handed out to coastal elites and special interests on the left.
00:32:39.000This is the largest scale of money that's ever been transferred in our country, and frankly, it goes from red states into blue interest.
00:32:45.000And they're doing it and saying it's major legislative packages.
00:32:49.000It's not. It's just moving money around.
00:32:51.000And so this is a Congress that should be an oversight Congress.
00:32:54.000It should be focused on tracking that massive amount of money.
00:32:57.000And then also on the qualifiable end, we have the president who is dead to rights in a corrupt pay-to-play scheme and compromised beyond all measure.
00:33:06.000And you have it just sitting so obviously for the American people to see through the hideous behavior of Hunter Biden and trading on political favors in his corrupt interests that are around the world.
00:33:16.000Primarily, we're seeing a lot of it in the Ukraine context, which obviously connects to this whole classified document scandal we're in right now.
00:33:22.000So this Congress should be day in, day out fighting all this corruption to be speaking of it in such terms.
00:33:28.000Mike, if you just do the back of the envelope, and I love the way that you've racked up the billiard balls right there.
00:33:38.000You've got the American Recovery Act. You've got the infrastructure booned out.
00:33:42.000You've got the American Recovery Act that we said on the show was going to be inflationary.
00:33:44.000It was turbocharged inflationary because you didn't need it at the time.
00:34:48.000And I'll add on that last one, the omnibus.
00:34:50.000That was 18 Republicans in the Senate joining with the left to fund this government for another nine months.
00:34:56.000The amounts we're mentioning are absolutely staggering.
00:34:59.000It's a problem for the capacity of the House of Representatives and its staff to even begin to get their hands around where all this money went and who it went to.
00:35:07.000And then you have to balance that against the other acts of corruption that are happening apart from this, namely the overrunning of our border on purpose by completely ripping out all border security policies from the Trump administration, inviting the world to rush the border, and making an absolute joke of our asylum laws, which are the laughing stock of the country.
00:35:27.000And I'll say in the clip you played before I came on, I liked what leadership was saying about being laser focused.
00:35:33.000But what I would like instead of hearing is to see some things happen.
00:35:37.000And what I'm talking about particularly is the immediate impeachment of Alejandro Mayorkas.
00:35:42.000If opening up the border on purpose to five million plus legal aliens and the death, drugs and crime that come along with it, is it an impeachable offense?
00:35:51.000And then we got to talk about the legislative front.
00:35:53.000I'm really frustrated to report that today a coalition of the entire Trump border security and immigration former officials and the strongest immigration groups that are out there sent this letter I have to Congress basically saying, hey, now's the time to act on the legislative front.
00:36:08.000We all went out and talked about the border crisis ending if the majority shifted.
00:36:15.000And instead, there are a handful of members that are running to the Washington Post to say they oppose common sense border security measures and will be roadblocks.
00:36:24.000And on the same time, you have the Border Patrol Union, who regularly appears on conservative shows and media who are pushing amnesty trades in the lame duck session of last year.
00:36:35.000And so I want to hear less talking and more action.
00:36:39.000We could do this today if we wanted to in terms of legislative packages and starting the impeachment process.
00:36:55.000So how they're going to bring down inflation is flood the zone with the illegal alien labor and bring it down that way.
00:37:01.000That way he found out in this latest report, they're talking about a million, one million of the illegals come across are now in the labor force.
00:37:08.000And that's one of the reasons of putting pressure on wages.
00:37:10.000How and as far as priorities go, do you think it takes the eye off the ball of what we have to do with passing legislation, getting on top of this, fighting these guys tooth and nail?
00:37:21.000Is the impeachment of Mayorkas absolutely central to the argument we're making because it puts it forward to the American people?
00:37:28.000Or do you think that's a distraction as a lot of the immigration doves and weaklings on the Republican side are saying, sir?
00:37:38.000Yeah, I don't think it's a distraction at all.
00:37:40.000In fact, I think the American people and the voters deserve to know if those who use the rhetoric on the campaign trail that they will end the border crisis actually mean it.
00:37:49.000And so if it takes an impeachment process or legislation getting to the floor where people actually have to vote yes or no, the American people deserve to know who they're saying to Congress and what they're actually for.
00:37:59.000And so that would be a great service to the country.
00:38:02.000The impeachment of Alejandro Mayorkas would make our border crisis a kitchen table issue, which it already is, but in the living rooms and TV sets across the country so people can really understand why the left is so committed to the mass importation of illegal aliens into this country.
00:38:18.000And it's not that complicated, Steve, you know this very well.
00:38:21.000Yesterday, the House voted on a resolution about illegal aliens and the ability to vote in our elections.
00:38:27.000And this is something that the White House came out in favor of.
00:39:28.000Because you brought up in that first incredible report you did here about all these NGOs that are exacerbating the invasion of the southern border.
00:39:36.000I think you identified 35, but you said, hey, it's a lot more than that in the federal budget.
00:39:40.000Are people getting in and working with the appropriators to make sure that we got all of this money going to NGOs, all this money going to left wing groups that are that is just replete in the federal budget that taxpayers that Mag is paying for?
00:39:54.000Are you guys having your voice heard or you have a plan to make sure you assist the staffs of the committees and the congressional staffs to make sure it's everything's identified and it's all gotten out?
00:40:07.000In fact, I'm coming directly from Capitol Hill for such meetings with members.
00:40:11.000We're zeroing in on specific items that they can cut on these.
00:40:15.000And my colleague, Richard Stern, who will be on later, has done a lot of work in packaging up all these line items that can be cut and snipped away.
00:40:22.000And particularly with regards to waste in the defense budget, Dr. Kevin Roberts wrote a big op ed on this last week where he basically said conservatives, if we're going to be serious about waste and the growth of government spending, we've got to look at the defense budget.
00:40:34.000But the answer to your question is, yes, there's going to be no excuse for the House not to make these cuts because we're going to put it out there and we're going to pinpoint them right to it.
00:40:44.000No, we had Kevin on Dr. Roberts last week on that, and the audience loved it.
00:40:49.000We're going to – you can't have these radical Marxists sit there and go, we can't cut social plans because you want 10 percent increases in the defense budget.
00:40:56.860We're saying, hey, there's logical ways to cut the defense budget and actually be stronger because you're taking out commitments.
00:41:02.800And some of these technologies are not working out, some old technologies.
00:41:07.680Mike, how do they get to your oversight project?
00:41:09.920Because now, obviously, with all the committee hearings starting, everything going on, and people should know there's tons and tons of work going on in the background right now, doing depositions on these committees, getting ready for these committees.
00:41:21.600The appropriators are all working on these – on the appropriations and the budget for this year.
00:41:26.400So the House right now are chopping wood, but you've always got to keep them focused.
00:41:30.960And, Mike, what I like is the time for talk is over.
00:41:33.040I'm glad they're doing the pre-bottal, but you've got to get into action.
00:41:35.820The action is legislating or gutting these programs right now as we get into the appropriations process.
00:41:41.300So how do people keep up with everything you guys are doing over Heritage?
00:41:47.840And then on Twitter, at Heritage, same for Getter, and I'm at mhowtweets.
00:41:52.000Please stay tuned because my team is filing complaints right now, lawsuits to be filed against the FBI.
00:41:57.640We're going to unleash a flurry of those and get ahead of this work and see them in court for a lot of the issues we've been talking about over the previous few months.
00:42:54.980We're going to do breakouts, just like we did in Phoenix and like we did at CPAC Dallas.
00:42:59.940Make sure everybody, we get to know everybody, hear your questions, your observations, your thoughts about the show, what you want to see more of.
00:43:07.700So we look forward to seeing you at CPAC.org slash War Room.
00:46:03.260Let me give you the buried lead on what we just now know.
00:46:07.200And ladies and gentlemen, I do, you know, I don't call it bragging, but I told you that one of the most important things was to get back here and have briefings on the day.
00:46:19.740Remember, forget everything else about the Chinese spy airship, our new official term, and weapons platform.
00:46:32.900And they're going to want to avoid this.
00:46:34.420They're going to want to avoid getting into a room and talking about the 28th and off the Aleutian Islands and even monitoring from mainland China.
00:46:41.640And they don't want to talk about those, the 28th, the 29th, the 30th, the 31st, the first, those five days up until they got to the second.
00:46:52.820Now, in this presser, and Natalie Winters has been watching it.
00:46:56.060She's going to join us top of the hour.
00:46:57.460She says that Scalise just said they have not briefed the gang of eight.
00:47:02.180Remember, the gang of eight are the heads of intel, the minority majority leaders, the eight senior people in the House and Senate that have the highest security clearances.
00:47:10.380They have not, Scalise said they have still waiting to, you got to brief those guys before then you brief the general house.
00:48:36.560Unfortunately, associated with the compromise scumbag owned by the CCP, fake, illegitimate guy hanging out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, head of the Biden crime family.
00:49:16.580But a buried lead coming out of Italy, Zelensky, the poison dwarf who comes in and lies about everything and misleads about everything and is all bombast, right, and is leading his people down a path of total destruction.
00:49:32.800All the sites that follow this, the 12 points of attack by the Russian army outside of Bakhmut is absolutely horrible, and the photos are incredible.
00:49:45.900You know, we were told they were close to defeat where they got a 200,000-man new army that's just pounding, quite frankly, the poor Ukrainians back to the Stone Age.
00:49:56.000The people – it's just unbelievable.
00:50:19.980Well, basically, for the American audience, the festival we're talking about is the Sanremo Musical Festival, which is the oldest national festival.
00:50:28.760annual music, televised music competition in the world.
00:50:32.080This year, they're celebrating their 73rd run.
00:50:35.540And to put it into context, it's like the Oscars for the U.S. audience, but probably even more present.
00:50:43.600I'd say 90% of domestic Italian households will have the TV on Sanremo throughout the week.
00:50:52.700It starts today and it will finish on Saturday, on the 11th.
00:50:57.720So it's a big, it's the most important cultural event in television in Italy by a long way.
00:51:04.660If folks have heard of the European, the Eurovision Song Contest, that's modelled on Sanremo.
00:51:09.600So what has happened over recent weeks, Steve, is that one of Italy's most famous television presenters, Bruno Vespa, was pushing out that, you know, they've got the big star of the moment.
00:51:23.060He'll be beaming in, Vladimir Zelensky, hushed tones at the mention of his name.
00:51:28.040And there was all this momentum behind it.
00:51:30.880And then, of course, really interesting, considering the political situation of Italy, which is you can't really put a cigarette paper between Georgia Maloney and Boris Johnson on the absolute gung-ho pro-Ukraine at all costs.
00:51:48.120But the Italian people aren't really there behind that position.
00:51:52.900And I don't think that was visible until what we saw, because even if Rai, which is basically the Italian equivalent of the BBC, had been saying, oh, we're in daily contact with Zelensky's office to negotiate the details.
00:52:41.220We're going to get Natalie out of hair and makeup.
00:52:43.180She's going to come and give us an update.
00:52:44.420She's been following all this, and she'll be the quarterback for all of our coverage on the investigations going forward, as she knows all this material in depth.
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