Episode 3905: Rise Of The Debt Spiral
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Sophia Georgias of Real Estate Real Estate joins me to talk about the housing affordability crisis in the six key swing states and why it could be a key factor in the upcoming election. We discuss the impact of rising housing prices, rising rents and falling home prices, and the impact on the economy and the economy as a whole.
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this is the primal scream of a dying regime pray for our enemies because we're going to
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medieval on these people here's not got a free shot all these networks lying about the people
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the people have had a belly full of it i know you don't like hearing that i know you try to do
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everything in the world to stop that but you're not going to stop it it's going to happen and
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where do people like that go to share the big line mega media i wish in my soul i wish that any of
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these people had a conscience ask yourself what is my task and what is my purpose if that answer
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is to save my country this country will be saved war room here's your host stephen k band
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welcome back sophia george's um before the break you're just telling me about um the the increase
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of house prices in the battleground states that's obviously going to hit uh in these six key six
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swing states that's obviously um uh going to hit people and leave them less disposable income and
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the figures that you're you're cycling through are horrific but that's not the only way people are
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being hit because what money is left in their pocket is increasingly worth less because of
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inflation consumer price inflation tell me a bit about if you will um about this nationally
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sure the consumer price index number came out last wednesday and it showed the smallest increase and uh
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since january of uh 2021 which was um it only went up 0.2 percent and overall through the year 2.5
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but it's not a sigh of relief because um the measure of consumer price index is a measure of
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the cost of goods and services that households use and 70 percent of this overall number is attributed
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to the housing market and what we're seeing in the housing market are these soaring home prices and we
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actually saw the largest increase this past month of 0.5 percent and that was for rent and for purchase
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of a home so we're not seeing any end in sight to this housing affordability problem so this consumer
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price index number that we're seeing although on the surface they may try to say that this is a
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positive number it's an indicator that inflation is under control uh but really when you break it down
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and you see that 70 percent of that number is attributed to housing it's still a source of um to be
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cautious um to to see that inflation is really not um under control until we get the housing affordability
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under control um like we were saying in the battleground states um we also see you know in
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in atlanta in particular in georgia i mean home price is going up 65 percent over the last couple years
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and rents 38 percent um arizona being one of the least affordable states for homebuyers um affordability
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has dropped by 29 percent almost just in the past couple of years so um throwing money at a situation
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with this uh you know giving people money for down payments um lowering the interest rates is really
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not going to cut it um if people cannot afford to live unto in a home giving them money to be able
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to afford a down payment is not going to help them it's just going to cause an increase in foreclosures
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an increase in a rent arrears because they're not going to be able to afford to be in that home
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um it's important to look at it that it's multifaceted um looking at it through a wide lens
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and not through a myopic view it's not one solution it's going to take fiscal responsibility
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uh with government spending with revenue coming in with increase in wages um so it's going to need a
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complete overhaul to really show a um an improvement in the satisfaction of consumers in the housing market
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um i pushed out on getter uh i think it was last week about 10 days ago perhaps uh an article in the
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wall street journal um with the headline that americans are working two jobs and they're still
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not able to make it to the um to the end of the month uh there aren't enough hours in the day i think
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and i think your your your breakdown here that's almost word for word something i've said actually
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by the way sort of repeatedly on on this show over a number of years um but i think your analysis here
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um is a good um explorer for people to you know from a technical point of view of why they had so
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little money in their pockets sophia georgias thanks for coming on the show briefly before you go where do
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people go if they want to um keep up to date with your analysis sure they can go to my website
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real sophia realestate.com i have all my handles there if you go under media you'll see i have links
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to my podcast i'm on rumble now uh you can find me if you go to real sophia i've got the podcast there
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i break down these um numbers but um thank you very much for having me today i think it's a super
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important issue and it's really become a huge factor in the upcoming election so i hope people
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take note of it and make the best informed decisions absolutely is sophia many thanks
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indeed god bless thank you well thank you well um something that i think steve bannon uh was
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mentioning so many times now uh that every hundred or so days a trillion dollars is being added on to
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the national debt well folks your national debt now stands at i think 35.3 trillion dollars
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um and as we all know anyone who's ever had a personal overdraft with the bank you have the
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debt you have the principal but then you've also got to pay it off right um that's just the same as
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for for nations as it is for individuals um so how much americans are you paying to service
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your national debt which then my next guest is going to break down
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these figures that when i saw them this morning i thought someone somewhere is having a joke
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here rich good morning what's the headline figure here how much are you i i gather new record
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has been made um tell me about it yeah no good good morning thanks for having me on no it's horrific
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so i mean the national debt itself is about 265 000 per american household i often refer to it as
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america's second mortgage it's a it's about the size of a mortgage and it's on a house that not
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only do you not own do you not have equity in but the government built and lit a match to and that
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represents stolen work out of the economy stolen investment that can't go to more economic growth
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but you know what you were just talking about there we've now paid as americans over a trillion
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dollars this year so far in interest payments on that debt so you know we're looking at by the end of
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the year per american household having spent something close to a thousand dollars just on
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interest payments just on the federal debt per household i mean it's horrific this is already the
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debt spiral rich rich i i've got to do a steve banner here whoa whoa whoa um let's have that figure
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again right this is their figures out for august this is how much america has paid signal paying off
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its debt this is simply to service the debt interest repayments for for for for tell me what is the
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the annual this is like uh annualized right um what is the the figure now on the current trend
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of of of where you are according to august i think that the fiscal year is like from from september to
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what is it uh september to september or something so you've got another two months uh tell me
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what's that what's that headline figure once again one trillion yeah end of september the end of
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september we're over a trillion dollars right now but we are headed to on an annualized basis
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about 1.2 almost 1.3 trillion so that's a thousand dollars a year per american household just on interest
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payments just to rent the money we've already borrowed can i um can i break that down right uh
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that is to say on current trends on current trends by the end of the the the fiscal year by the end of
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september you're um it's going to be like 1.3 trillion dollars on interest
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repayments not paying down the debt just just servicing like having a credit card right just
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servicing the debt is uh over over over the course of the year it will come out about 1.3 trillion
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dollars how much money is how much money is that well here's the thing here's the breakdown that would
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be more than the united states spends on defense more than you spend on income security health
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veterans benefits medicare it will be the second biggest outlay for the u.s government right that is
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that is how much money we're talking about um and on current trends if you actually make if actually
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hit that sort of um 1.6 trillion by the end of the year that new record it will be your the largest
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outlet you outlet you will you america will be spending more money on servicing the national debt
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than you will be spending on any other single budget item wow that is what you get folks i'm going
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to pick up the themes when i said it in the last segment that is what you get when you have the
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adults in the room the normalcy that's what they promised you this is what you've got right this is
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what you've got um it's a project of the democrats isn't it it's a turn north america into south
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america and it is um it seems to be accelerating tell me something um what i haven't read rich in in
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the the the background of all this is the d word is anyone talking about a potential default
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well i think what you're already looking at is we're already in the death debt spiral right
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to your point when you're looking at a budget where the second largest line item perhaps the largest line
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item in a minute here is going to be just interest on the debt you're already in a debt spiral right
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the the congressional budget office's estimates are that over the next generation by far the leading
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contributor to new debts is going to be interest on the debt so now here's the rub on this so and i
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think this is the crucial part of this why are mortgage rates so high why have they been so high
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because of the deficit because of the interest payments from the government there's a finite amount
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of money in money markets and so the government is quite literally eating everybody else's lunch in
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those markets so it means that if you're a small business wanting to get your hands on money you
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can't if you're a prospective homeowner wanting to get a mortgage you can't because it's going to the
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federal debt and deficit so that question of default gets to this heart of this matter that i think is
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very important for everyone to realize here there's no physical way for the u.s government to default
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on dollars the dollar the government has the absolute constitutional right to shoot whoever
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wants to get tax money or to print as much money as it wants at the federal reserve so it is actually
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a constitutional requirement of the government to either jack up taxes or inflation taxes on whomever
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it needs to to satisfy its debts now will the dollar lose all value in markets will people stop using
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the dollar that's what we're risking here maybe not tomorrow but somewhere over the next decade
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because of just how large the deficits are how bad the trajectory is and so keep in mind you know
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gold prices are setting records and this is why because what people are anticipating is wanton reckless
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increases in taxes and money printing to satisfy this unworkable situation we have to cut the government
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spending we have to do it now rich dan can you um if you can't had uh respond to this before the break
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we've got two minutes coming up if you can't just we'll just hold hold on and finish this on after the
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break but just can you give the war in posse an idea of something here so you said that the average
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household is spending the average household or the average individual is spending a thousand dollars per
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year simply on servicing the interest on the national debt right where does that money go to whom right
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if american taxpayers and um the austrian economists often like to to say not entirely erroneously that
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the federal government is really basically a glorified tax collection agency um for private interests
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but just to put that to the side for this discussion if individuals are spending a thousand dollars
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a year on tax servicing that debt who gets that money so a good chunk of it goes overseas right
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there's a large chunk of u.s debt that is held in china japan places like that so some of that money
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is going abroad that way but the other place that money is going is frankly to other americans but then
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if you think of it like this it's a wealth redistribution program from people who are working
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in wage earners now to people who are older who have savings who worked in the past right it's a
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wealth transfer from those that are young without money to those that are old with money but you know
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more than that right most of the time when you make investments you pay interest off of that it's a real
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investment in productive assets there's a company that's built a new factory there's a builder that's
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building new homes and the debt represents their business activity here you're just feeding the
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beast that money is being used to hire di agents to shut down churches and raid small businesses
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and then it's a wealth transfer on top of that so it's just bad money chasing more bad money again
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harming the american middle class that's perfect rich thanks very much listen uh where do folks go
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you're doing excellent work at the heritage foundation well where do folks go in 10 seconds
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to just keep up with your analysis well thank you so much you can find me at rich a stern on twitter
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you can of course also look up my bio on heritage.org and that of all my colleagues and see all the
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pieces we've written and thank you again always a pleasure to be on rich thanks very much we'll be back
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welcome back hornwell here at the helm filling in for steve bannon um brian costello good morning to you
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i note that there has been somewhat of a kerfuffle between two individuals neither of whom
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are particularly esteemed on the war room um and this is with china right uh and the the appropriate
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containment strategy to follow on the one hand if you imagine this like a wrestling ring or a boxing ring
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on the one corner you've got foreign affairs uh chairman michael mccall whom we don't like on the
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war room uh but on the other hand we've got financial services chairman uh patrick mchenry um who
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between the two of them is probably the more loathsome um and they and their respective committees have
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different approaches to how to handle china um tell me a bit this week's been a special week for china
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tell me a bit about the difference in policy between these two committees because whilst i think
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it's fair to say on behalf of the war room posse a pox on both their houses um it doesn't necessarily
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indicate that we don't have a dog in this particular fight of the two positions yeah let's let's talk
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about i mean in this particular case we're not on the side of the little bow tie wearing treasonous man
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that last i use that last word man lightly um patrick mchenry who's house financial services
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company or committee has been uh trying to hold up successfully i might add and he's been doing this
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for almost two years now since he's been chair of the house financial services committee restricting
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investment into china um so what they want to do is they want to create a new organization
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and he fought this back they were trying to put this back last year in the national defense
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authorization act and there were 91 senators and he single-handedly pulled it out of the bill so what
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he's trying to do is basically keep open investment into china and not have it run through a process and
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he's been battling with mccall who's on the house foreign affairs committee who they've been supposed to
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kind of put this bill through and it was china week in washington this week and there it was one of the
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things suspiciously absent they weren't able to get anything done and i and i know the posse knows
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we've we've done a lot of mchenry he's a lame duck so here you have a guy leaving washington
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91 senators are on board with this and he single-handedly is keeping the investment door
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open for wall street into china because i guess that's the strategy about the revolving door
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between the lobbyists and congress he's going to leave congress and he's going to straight in
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um on on the other side of the pig trough get his snout in there um so so basically you're saying
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on on this particular issue the war in policy might more want to support the the position of mccall
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um on the foreign affairs committee tell me about how that difference breaks down because my understanding
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of this and also could you say a bit about the china week and what it is and why it's useful
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for the ccp and what it tries to um to get out of that but my understanding of this difference in
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policy is that uh mchenry is is hiding behind the argument that he wants more targeted um sanctions
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being applied because uh companies don't necessarily know whether you know what their position is whether
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they're able to to trade with china or not uh whereas mccall wants a more a more is is in favor of more
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blanket tariffs more blanket yeah yeah is that about right yeah the different so the difference is
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what today the burden is on the u.s government to find a company and restrict it and mchenry is saying
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that's working just fine he wants to keep that and what the new legislation does is the new legislation
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puts the burden on the companies to the companies and the investors this is mostly you know private
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equity hedge fund public investors who are uh to report to the government when they're actually
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making an investment in china uh and it kind of reverses the game and then they would put an
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organization in place and what they call an outbound syfias that kind of looks you know and as we get into
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these strategic areas like artificial intelligence semiconductors autonomous technologies and these
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things had broad use across both the private sector and the military sector and in the lines blur this
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becomes much much much more important and what i would also add ben to what the viewers need to
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understand is this vehicle which is u.s elite investing in china is one of the vehicles that's used
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to buy off politicians in washington so you have people like michael moritz a big democratic donor for
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biden harris who has made substantial china investments through his venture fund and that money flows back
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into a non-profit called crankstart out of san francisco and that supports a bunch of democratic uh
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slush fund initiatives including immigration voting through different groups uh and so this is a vehicle
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used to buy off dc so it's very concerning that here's mchenry basically fighting putting some
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restrictions on the vehicle the chinese government uses to buy off washington
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mchenry's um kevin mccarthy's poodle right um tell me has a what what how useful in this debate has
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mike no johnson johnson been uh has he taken a public position between his two lieutenants
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listen you know this there's only certain times they get uh you know legislation pushed through right
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it seems like there's a big push here because they're all trying to win elections to show i did
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this and that and to have a lame duck head of the house financial services committee which is an
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important committee who's looking at important things like this i think is you know outrageous
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this was a mccarthy appointed person it's something speaker johnson could pull him aside and say you're
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gonna do this or we're gonna we're gonna remove you right like and actually put somebody in place to do
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it to let somebody single-handedly and this is this is no like this isn't new right like
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casey and cornyn put this in the national the senators put this in the national defense authorization
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act back last year and mchenry stripped it out so everybody knows for a year he's been basically
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trying to keep the china investment door open and that he also at the time he stripped it out ben
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a year ago that was at the same time he announced he was stepping down huh yeah um because you want
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to go a good years running uh to appropriately feather your nest tell me something figure out
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what your quid pro quo is to you know protecting wall street in china and then you know the question
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is like you know who who is he doing it for i mean listen he's not representing the interest of
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his constituents he's not even representing the interest of his colleagues he's single-handedly
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kind of holding this thing up and you know speaker johnson perfect okay let's talk about
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speaker johnson um the great testicle-less wonder what is he doing here publicly what what what's he
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doing here to support the america first position you know listen i mean he's got chairs of the
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committee like you know somebody sent me a text last night you know we've got mike turner his chair
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of house intel that he didn't swap out mccarthy first of all he's actually the congressman for
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springfield ohio so why isn't he out why doesn't he have his chair of his house intel out in springfield
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ohio on the streets with the people you know supporting trump in terms of what's going on there
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with the immigration right why doesn't he uh you know why isn't he holding mc henry's feet to the fire
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to actually do this this is what his constituents want right this stuff's very clear and you know
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it's just it's not a priority for him to uh win the election uh it seems like so you know there's the
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you know i have some i have some serious questions there in terms of what he's doing
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so so let's just get this let's just synthesize this correctly in the the final minute brian um on this
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issue to do with trade with america's number one existential enemy on the geopolitical stage right
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now mike no johnson johnson who has all the cards and all the power necessary in his hand hasn't done
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anything to rein in one of his own congressmen who is leaving congress anyway and is by all accounts
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by all by all judgment is simply preparing his post congressional career is that is that how
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weak this gentleman is is that what you're telling me 30 seconds yeah i mean listen these these aren't
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even ambiguous positions ben for the constituents right like i mean you have everybody on board with
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this china thing you have you know turner coming out saying he wants to approve as chair of the house
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intel against the party uh you know he came out the day of the election launching yes
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so you you know speaker johnson step up on this hold on hold on brian did you know there is nearly
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one trillion dollars of infrastructure and pandemic funds yet to be spent that's right there's a massive
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welcome back um brian costello i remember when president trump was in the white house and he was
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announcing his slew of china tariff policies that he was attacked across the board for this um
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and yet not only has the biden administration um not particularly reigned back on them it's actually
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sort of strengthened them in some cases the new york times of all newspapers um never once having
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put aside editorial space to say anything nice about president trump it's not complimentary towards
00:30:08.600
the biden administration um it was on friday yesterday the administration had announced measures
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that's going to add tariffs to chinese products worth tens of billions of dollars um
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um these tariffs will range from seven and a half percent to a hundred percent and applying clothing
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so the solar panels electric vehicles syringes steel and other goods what um tell me something
00:30:36.760
about this please um because i don't understand how donald trump could be pillared
00:30:43.100
by the globalists one moment and then those same people will pivot that goes down the memory hole and
00:30:51.380
they're now praising the biden administration for doing the very things that they criticized
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the trump administration for doing how does that work you know uh biden in my eyes had a pretty good
00:31:03.620
week actually he did two things he put on a maga hat first off and then the second thing he did is he
00:31:09.000
signed an executive order to close what's called the de minimis loophole related to the china tariff so
00:31:14.620
when when president trump put the china tariffs in place goods under 800 dollars were immune and this
00:31:21.640
allowed and and china saw this in this directly mapped to the ramp up of two companies right there's a
00:31:27.480
company called sheen which is a discount retailer which is you know one of the top retailers in the u.s
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now and there's a company called timu and so these companies are able to avoid the tariffs because
00:31:38.700
their shipments are under 800 dollars and the way they bring things into the country so what they
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did is they closed that loophole so what china's done is they've taken our manufacturing industry
00:31:48.160
with cheap labor right with cheap labor with uh protectionary measures domestically with predatory
00:31:55.100
practices with intellectual property theft you know some of these companies are being sued for
00:31:59.380
stealing designs from u.s and european retailers and then they dump these goods into the u.s
00:32:05.680
at cheap prices and you could say the u.s consumer it is advantageous from this but about china it's
00:32:11.680
always gaining a foothold right so you started to see these companies like timu and maybe this is why
00:32:17.240
the times wrote the article i don't have insight into that but timu bought seven super bowl commercials
00:32:22.800
right so what happens is these chinese discount retailers then buy off like the pharmaceutical industry
00:32:29.020
buy off big media um you know using this to not say anything bad about china or confront uh uh certain
00:32:37.460
folks um so i think it was a really really good move that they actually put this in place and and you
00:32:44.600
know close the close this loophole last week you know it's it's obviously a talking point to say
00:32:50.060
they're tough on china going into the election and something that uh vice president harris can
00:32:55.300
will probably start to use is maybe she does an interview or two if if that that ever if that
00:33:02.960
ever happens uh a one-on-one tough um interview um i think it's you know it's it's only fair to take a
00:33:12.260
moment aside uh to compliment president trump on this because he had you know he
00:33:17.700
had the courage to go against basically the whole of the professional class um all the vested interests
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and say no no we need to touch on um china this this move because you can see now not only biden but
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also the the um the campaign around cackling carmala um are imitating donald trump right they're giving
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donald trump light now um that's really that's i think as a testament i think to donald trump's
00:33:54.560
judgment right and the courage uh that the pioneering courage that he had to go ahead and
00:34:01.540
and do these things that that the democrats now feel they um the electoral obligation to imitate him
00:34:10.060
obviously they're not going to do a good enough job as him obviously there's some elements of this
00:34:14.040
that are simply going to be performative because they've they've cottoned on to the anger of the
00:34:18.260
american people but it is a testament to to donald trump i think uh and his uh his capacity to to
00:34:25.700
steer the ship of state in such a direction that even those who claim to be so uh the seriously
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opposed to him can't help but but copy him and follow him yeah and i think what we've seen i think
00:34:40.120
you know one of the reasons you've probably seen the biden you know trump uh president trump again
00:34:44.400
was ahead of the curve on this right one of the reasons you've seen the biden administration continue
00:34:48.420
these things as we've actually seen a strong china is not helpful for the u.s we know that china is buying
00:34:55.340
80 85 percent of iran's oil uh you know which then goes to fund these various terrorist organization
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we know that uh china is supporting russia uh and and so a strong economic china ends up supporting
00:35:10.460
oh everybody's like this will balance out the relationship and it'll be just like us but what
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we've seen is strong economic china provides financial support to our other enemies so as trump
00:35:20.380
put tariffs and shut off access to certain things in the market and did this it it was helpful
00:35:26.360
and the financial times reported something last week ben which was really interesting
00:35:30.140
which is in 2018 there were 52 000 approximately startups in china and 2020 created new companies
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created this year there were 1200 created right and this is really policies from two or three years ago
00:35:44.940
that start to kind of kick in and hit investment flows and things like that the one thing i have
00:35:50.060
questions about is some of these companies being moved to singapore and position is global that are
00:35:54.560
really chinese companies or are we really we're doing you know some of these policies started to
00:36:00.120
kick in and really hit china economically that were put in place under the trump administration
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um did you see talking about springfield earlier did you see um trump has pledged to deport the
00:36:14.400
haitians um in ohio city if he's elected um that i think would be uh an interesting um and i thought
00:36:25.720
that was a particularly yeah that's a typical trump move don't you think a boss move uh he's had a lot
00:36:31.220
of kickback against his cats and dogs um intervention and i don't know any folks you know you'll be seeing
00:36:38.580
social media as much as i will and you'll see the clips i mean i i sent something out i i posted on
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getty yesterday the most disgusting thing i've ever seen i've ever posted on social media certainly it was a
00:36:50.560
guy of someone um chewing basically the throat out of a live cat um being recorded um i don't advise
00:37:00.660
you to see because it's literally one of the things that once seen you can't unsee it uh and i'm a
00:37:06.580
cat lover i've got three cats so the dog here um but i put that out because you know people need to
00:37:11.420
see that you know that they're focusing brian on on the wrong issue here right because you talked you
00:37:16.420
spoke about mike turner um earlier um people are focusing on the wrong issue on on this cats and
00:37:24.440
dogs thing it's really important i'm so happy um that that trump hasn't backed down on this uh they're
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saying oh you know they're not you know they said that no no no haitian no haitians have been involved
00:37:38.840
there are no pets going missing in springfield but if you look at the the very pedantic way they're
00:37:44.220
responding you know these things are taking place across america um if it's not one group of third
00:37:51.260
world illegal invaders in one town they're in the other town right if they're not eating cats they're
00:37:57.460
eating geese there but you try and pin democrats down or even a lot of uh rhinos down and they they
00:38:04.240
just um they smash it and i'm so happy that trump has um took pride in him actually that you know as
00:38:11.900
always um he's not backing down tell me what you were saying just a few moments ago uh that you
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thought mike turner ought to be slightly more um supportive shall we say of of the of the republican
00:38:26.100
nominee on this issue you have you know as as as steve used to call him the doofus from dayton or the
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dunce from dayton in his district you have you know has become a national spotlight you know and this
00:38:40.620
is a guy he's a member of the gang of eight right the inside of the intelligence committee
00:38:44.140
so on the you know on the debate the day of the debate he's pushing out a letter saying we need
00:38:49.180
to approve shooting one ridge missiles into uh russia from ukraine basically you know escalating a
00:38:56.860
potential world war three and he has 22 000 illegal immigrants in his district and he's not you know i i
00:39:03.620
my first phone call if i was representing springfield ohio would be to call speaker johnson and say
00:39:08.340
we're going to go do a press conference right in the district uh then i would do a press conference
00:39:13.220
and i would talk about this issue and i would talk about how it's impacting my constituents and i would
00:39:18.420
one i would support president trump but i would also support the people of my district uh and and not the
00:39:24.980
illegal immigrants so this guy's off trying to create world war three and completely ignoring that
00:39:30.840
his district has become you know part of the national spotlight my last reading brian costello on the
00:39:38.100
um my last update on this is that actually after this meeting um between um between the us and the uk
00:39:47.300
in ukraine um lincoln and um lammy david lammy is our british foreign secretary uh they've actually
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decided not um to advise biden um not to authorize
00:40:03.940
ukraine to use non-us supplied long-range missiles in russia they've backed down from that very sensibly
00:40:13.140
um given that president putin has said uh that had biden authorized that that would mean nato and um
00:40:20.100
um and russia would be at war um um so uh with regards to uh just to uh to to that ukrainian point i
00:40:31.300
think i think that the crazes have been uh walked down off the ledge could you tell me just um moving
00:40:40.340
back to uh i i want to stay on this point just for a moment um and it is important right um we spoke uh
00:40:51.620
in the previous segment and with sophia georgis about the the accelerating exploding house prices across um
00:41:01.220
um the battlefield states the six swing states of which ohio isn't considered not conventionally
00:41:10.500
considered to to be to be one of them um people americans as we head towards the final lesson two
00:41:21.060
months before the election americans haven't felt so poor uh in decades and the only thing the democrats want
00:41:29.940
to talk about they don't want to talk about the exploding price uh value in houses they don't
00:41:34.740
want to talk about um when they want to talk about laura laura luma and they want to talk about cats and
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dogs brian costello stand by please uh i'll just take your final concluding thoughts in a couple of
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welcome back we'll be um hearing from the legendary mike lindon in just a couple of minutes
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time but brian costello um before you bounce you said something i think which is pretty important
00:44:41.220
and i want to underline that for the woman posse um earlier on in the show you mentioned uh the
00:44:46.180
house intelligence committee uh mike turner right missing in action in ohio nowhere to be seen on perhaps
00:44:53.860
the most visible election point this far in the campaign arising out of the uh the debate uh presidential
00:45:02.820
debate the only thing that democrats want to talk about right now is laura loomer and to suggest
00:45:12.820
that the haytians have nothing to do with the disappearance of pets in springfield um you have
00:45:20.420
a point i think to make uh before you go about just the total abdication of of leadership
00:45:27.940
uh and responsibility on behalf of of these people on the on the gop side yeah i think listen you know
00:45:37.780
we can talk about china we can talk about um we can talk about the immigration issue we can talk about
00:45:44.420
all this stuff we can talk about uh laura who i quite enjoy and uh but the reality is we have an
00:45:50.580
election that's going to shape the country coming up here and i don't know why every single congressional
00:45:55.940
representative isn't in its district making sure that we have election integrity i don't know why
00:46:02.340
speaker johnson isn't having a hearing and calling up as we come up on october and we usually have the
00:46:08.580
october surprises knowing the pattern of conduct in terms of suppressing information and misinformation
00:46:16.260
all the heads of the social media companies and have them testify in front of congress they're
00:46:21.460
going to make sure people in their organizations don't interfere and make sure that none of the
00:46:26.420
agencies are working with these social media platforms call the social the agencies and you know there's a lot
00:46:33.460
when you have the gavel there's a lot you can do to put attention on issues and you can be proactive
00:46:40.020
right you know one of the jobs of congress is to shape future policy so you don't just have to be reactionary and do investigations
00:46:47.460
you can be proactive and a leader a speaker of the house people with gavel and the committees
00:46:54.660
they would step up turner should call you know the intelligence community in and have a
00:46:59.940
public hearing that they're not gonna do anything people that oversee homeland security and some of
00:47:04.740
these organizations are accused congress needs to step up right now over the next 50 days and make
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sure that we have integrity in our election uh perfect point to close on brian costello um you know
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it reminds me something i said before uh certainly in america that the presidential election or election
00:47:27.860
to congress or to senate aren't the most important part of an election for americans because of the way
00:47:33.700
your system works it's this it's the primaries that are the most important point these people shouldn't
00:47:40.260
even be on the ticket uh they shouldn't even be on the ballot they should have been primered some
00:47:44.900
of them decades ago um that really has to be after this election after the just conversations about
00:47:51.300
election integrity we've got them all out of the way that i think has to be the number one priority for
00:47:55.860
this movement um in terms of its party machinery primering the people who cut the you know most of the gop
00:48:04.660
they're performative on this occasion they're not even going through the motions of pretending
00:48:08.900
brian costello where do folk uh go to keep up with your analysis uh pretty pretty simple just on uh
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x uh bp costello is is my twitter account you know and there's ben i would just add there's a pattern
00:48:23.620
of conduct here that's egregious by agencies by uh media companies and we need to get in front of it
00:48:30.660
you know we we need to make sure this this country's about fair elections is the most important part
00:48:35.380
fair elections and free speech are the two things that make us work fine christella thank you very
00:48:41.060
much thanks ben take care god bless um fair elections and free speech my next guest my final guest today
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mike lindell i'm sure those are two words that you've um spent basically this is your life's ambition
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what do you think what do you think when you hear a man who claims to be pope um say that oh which he
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right now and i've told everyone you know when i spoke at the white house a couple three four years
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