Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) joins us to discuss the need for a recess for appointments, confirmations, and other items that have been put on hold due to the ongoing protests in the streets of Washington, D.C.
00:06:16.000They do make money, and so that's not a problem.
00:06:20.000But again, I wish we would address the situation at hand.
00:06:25.000Schumer should step up and say, okay, we're going to let you voice vote 60, 70, 80.
00:06:30.000But we have zero voice votes for nominees when, at this time during the Biden administration, he had 50 that we allowed them to voice vote.
00:06:38.000Again, they're not playing ball with us.
00:07:03.000We all got offices in the Capitol where we can sleep on a couch, get up and go vote.
00:07:08.000Well, I hope that kicks in right away.
00:07:11.000Senator, I want to talk about this new law that you're talking about putting forward about students and Chinese nationals and Iranians also.
00:07:47.000If you took away their capital, their technology, the expertise and the training we do for their young engineers in our colleges, they ain't competitive.
00:07:55.000They have to have every resource from us to be competitive.
00:07:59.000Now, your bill right now, I take it you said, hey, we can't continue to do this.
00:08:04.000I think there's 350,000 Chinese national students who no matter how good or nice these people are, they basically have to sign an agreement with the Chinese Communist Party that they're going to report back on everything they learn.
00:08:16.000I mean, they're essentially quasi-intelligence agents, but also, more importantly, we're training up our enemy with our most vital technology, sir.
00:08:26.0001.5 million foreign nationals that we educate in this country every year, Steve, it's embarrassing.
00:08:33.000And the East Coast and all these Ivy League schools, 60 to 70 percent of their students are foreign nationals.
00:09:40.000And AI, Chinese are so far ahead of us in AI right now.
00:09:44.000If we don't do something immediately with its education process, we're going to continue to fall behind.
00:09:50.000And we're not going to be an adversary anymore.
00:09:52.000We're going to be kneeling down to China.
00:09:54.000So the universities are going to come to you, Senator Tuberville, all their lobbyists are going to come to you and say, hey, look, if we don't get this cash because all the American kids, right, pay state tuition at the state universities, even they pay local tuition.
00:10:11.000And the foreigners pay top dollar paid for by the government.
00:10:15.000That spread is what allows us to keep tenured professors around.
00:11:12.000But we don't need to be egging that on.
00:11:15.000For instance, in this big, beautiful bill, Steve, there's a part that we got in there that any student, any student could borrow $65,000 for graduate student.
00:11:41.000And who you think they're going to vote for in the next election when now we're making them pay their their bills and their interest back and pay off their loan.
00:11:50.000They're looking for somebody that's not going to make them pay that loan back.
00:13:35.000Do you trust the guy or don't in opposition?
00:13:38.000I have no problem with Democrats not giving a recess or Republicans not giving a recess to Biden or not going on recess, but having this kind of pro forma recess where you stay in so they can't do recess appointments.
00:13:50.000I have no problem with Republicans doing that when Biden's around or Obama's around.
00:15:15.000It just cannot keep up with that demand.
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00:18:48.000And Naomi last night, I appreciate Naomi and her optimism about you got the Brooklyn Republican Club.
00:18:53.000And we've known what, you know, Gavin Wax and and and Vish Burra and all the great guys at the New York Young Republicans Club turn around.
00:19:23.000That might be true on a national basis.
00:19:25.000But once they get control of these cities, they got control of the cities.
00:19:28.000We have three of the greatest cities, not just in the country, in the world, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York that are not controlled by people in the United States.
00:19:56.000They're not going to self deport out of those places.
00:19:59.000They made those strongholds and they're going to be in your grill.
00:20:02.000And, folks, until you get them out of here, until you do the mass deportations, you're not going to they're not going to sort this mass out.
00:20:08.000And they're trying to just tap President Trump along.
00:20:11.000They're going to they're going to try to wait him out.
00:21:22.000And he's been replaced by someone who, frankly, I think is incompetent.
00:21:26.000And that shows with the fact that the problems in the statistics that first became evident all the way back in the spring of 2022, those problems are still there.
00:21:35.000And if we can go to the first chart here, I think really helps illustrate that, where essentially what you can see is the fact that the disparity between the number of people who are saying they have a job, who are employed, that's in brown there, versus the line in gray is the number of nonfarm payrolls we have.
00:21:57.000As you can see, before the pandemic, they tracked very, very well together.
00:22:01.000But since then, they've really started to spread apart.
00:22:05.000And that problem has never actually been fixed.
00:22:08.000In other words, we're not correctly estimating either the number of people with jobs or the number of actual jobs in the country or both.
00:22:17.000And if we go to the next chart here, you know, we can get a better sense of some of the problem.
00:22:22.000What continuously keeps happening is that we get an initial estimate for the number of jobs, and then that figure has to get revised down and pretty dramatically.
00:23:12.000In fact, earlier this week, the BLS announced with their latest round of quarterly data that 2024 is going to see another major downward revision in coming reports.
00:23:24.000We're just not going to get that report, unfortunately, until the start of next year.
00:23:38.000And these data problems go a lot deeper, frankly, in the report.
00:23:42.000So if we flip to the next chart, another thing that we can see is how the disparity between full-time and part-time work isn't showing up in some of the other numbers.
00:23:53.000So, for example, in this last report, the number of full-time jobs actually declined and the number of part-time jobs went up.
00:24:00.000So all of the net job growth, it looks like, was part-time.
00:24:04.000But as we flip to the next chart, we start to see more disparities here.
00:24:10.000Usually what happens as we lose full-time jobs and we add all these part-time jobs, it's because people are taking on multiple part-time jobs to make ends meet.
00:24:20.000That's the opposite of what we're seeing here.
00:24:22.000This is pointing to a problem in the data.
00:24:24.000And then, finally, the next chart shows us hours.
00:24:27.000And what's happening here, again, if all of these people are losing their full-time jobs and only getting part-time work to replace them, the average weekly hours should be going down.
00:24:40.000Because you're working fewer hours at a part-time job than you were at your full-time job.
00:24:44.000But that's not what happened last month.
00:24:46.000In July, the number actually ticked up.
00:24:48.000So all of this to say, Steve, there is a lot of conflicting evidence in this July jobs report.
00:24:55.000And so we have to take it with a grain of salt.
00:24:58.000I'm not trying to excuse away the fact that it wasn't a great headline number or the fact that we had big downward revisions.
00:25:04.000But it speaks to all of the problems in the data.
00:25:08.000Now, there was some good news in the report, too, that we should definitely highlight.
00:25:11.000We can see that in the next chart where the annual change in jobs among native-born Americans has exploded.
00:25:19.000It is up 2 million from July of 24 to July of 25.
00:25:24.000Meanwhile, employment among foreign-born workers is actually down.
00:25:31.000Now, look, it's not that I'm rooting for anybody to be losing their jobs.
00:25:35.000But what I'm pointing out in this chart is simply the fact that all of the net job growth over the last 12 months has gone to native-born Americans.
00:25:44.000That is a stark change to what we saw under the Biden administration, where all of the net job growth from pre-pandemic until Biden left office, all of that net job growth went to foreign-born workers and native-born Americans actually lost employment.
00:26:01.000We can see that in the next chart where you're going to see trend lines for both of these categories.
00:26:06.000So in blue there, you can see foreign-born workers.
00:26:09.000And in orange, you can see native-born Americans.
00:26:12.000It's clear that during the Biden years, the level of foreign-born employment returned to its pre-pandemic trend, the dotted line, and stayed there.
00:26:22.000However, for native-born Americans, employment never actually returned to that trend.
00:26:27.000But what we saw in the last couple months of jobs reports in the June report and in the July report that we got today, these were the best June and the best July ever for native-born employment.
00:26:40.000Now, the reason I'm saying best June, best July, these are not seasonally-adjusted data sets, which is just a fancy way of saying you can't compare month-over-month changes.
00:26:50.000In other words, June to July is not a fair comparison.
00:26:54.000January to July is not a fair comparison because there are things that typically happen with seasonality here.
00:27:00.000For example, every July, you see a surge in native-born American employment because you have a lot of high school and college kids who are home from school and they're out getting part-time jobs, right?
00:27:11.000And then in August and September, that number plummets as those people go back to school.
00:27:16.000So you want to look at one July to the next, and then that doesn't include all of that seasonality in between.
00:27:23.000And sure enough, again, this is the best June and the best July ever for native-born Americans.
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00:29:22.000Okay, on Twitter right now there's reports that Thune and Schumer are sitting down and talking about some path out of here on these appointments.
00:29:33.000Finding something to either push a bunch of them or even do a recess.
00:29:38.000These conversations started last night.
00:29:40.000You know where these conversations started?
00:29:41.000Because this audience put pressure on Thune in his office and these other senators saying you got to knock this off.
00:29:48.000President Trump needs his nominations, needs his nominees.
00:29:51.000We got to stop this crap and get on with it.
00:30:10.000Now they're in a negotiation about what to do to move President Trump's nominees quickly before they get the hell out of town.
00:30:16.000Now our recommendation here at the war room is Thune should just say screw it and call a real recess and let President Trump do what he wants to do as recess appointments.
00:31:02.000President Bolsonaro, who you know is revered by this audience, is on trial for his life.
00:31:07.000They got him on trial for saying his election was rigged, which was totally rigged.
00:31:12.000Lula's in there because of the rigged election.
00:31:14.000They've also got him some plot to assassinate Lula.
00:31:17.000So they want to put him in prison for life.
00:31:20.000That's just up for life and then assassinate him when he's in prison.
00:31:22.000And the people in Brazil are very worked up about it.
00:31:24.000President Trump the other day, the OFAC, the OFAC sanctions against the Judge Morris finally.
00:31:32.000And that guy's been just as crude as he could possibly be afterwards.
00:31:35.000And Lula smack talking the president of the United States in the New York Times.
00:31:39.000They're just digging themselves into a deeper hole.
00:31:41.000I want to bring in Ana Paula Henkel, a major podcaster in Brazil.
00:31:46.000Can you just give us the current state of the situation with the country?
00:31:49.000How have people responded and particularly Lula's government responded to what President Trump did the other day, both against the judge and also with the tariffs against Lula?
00:32:06.000I think it's crucial that we start to show what's happening in Brazil, show to the world.
00:32:13.000As we are speaking, Justice Marais just went back to the Supreme Court because they were in recess this week.
00:32:21.000And he just announced that he will ignore completely the Magnitsky Act and its sentience.
00:32:30.000Brazilians, since Wednesday, when President Trump signed the Magnitsky Act together with the Department of Treasury and Department of State, we were thrilled because our Senate is composed by cowards.
00:32:48.000For instance, I don't have any other words because our Senate could easily bring an impeachment process to the floor.
00:32:54.000And we've been watching for years Supreme Court justices, especially Marais, just doing whatever they want, not following due process, political persecutions, political imprisonment.
00:33:10.000We have the case of Felipe Martins, who was a former aide for President Bolsonaro Foreign Affairs.
00:33:19.000And he was in prison for six months without due process, without being convicted, without anything.
00:33:26.000And, of course, they were doing that to force a plea deal so Felipe could feed the narrative.
00:33:34.000Oh, President Bolsonaro did this or was planning a coup, etc.
00:33:39.000But Felipe stayed strong and did not sign any plea deal.
00:33:46.000And last week, Felipe finally had the chance to speak in a public audience after two years of being kept in silence.
00:33:59.000And the atrocities committed against Felipe in prison are absolutely shocking, Mr. Bannon.
00:35:20.000I saw you talking about Los Angeles, and I don't think there's much hope for Los Angeles exactly because of that.
00:35:30.000We have full Marxists here administrating the city.
00:35:35.000But what happened in Brazil, Mr. Bannon, is pretty much what happened here in the United States when President Trump won his first election in 2016.
00:35:46.000It was the very same with President Bolsonaro in Brazil.
00:35:51.000It was somebody out of the establishment, out of the deep state realm, and then President Bolsonaro couldn't govern Brazil for four years in peace.
00:36:04.000The Supreme Court would constantly say, you can't do this, you can't do that, putting their fingers in their pants on executive premises.
00:36:15.000And the Senate, who was the House that could do something to stop these interferences, they just said, now we're not going to do anything because we don't like this new president-elect.
00:37:00.000The Supreme Court justices, especially Alexandre de Moraes, he would just shut every possible avenue for freedom of speech or anything that will question the election or their interference in other branches.
00:37:17.000If it was the executive or the legislative, we just couldn't say anything until it reached American soil.
00:37:26.000And that's why President Trump, Secretary Marco Rubio and Scott Bassett worked so hard because we, I'm an American citizen, we started to get our speech censored in our accounts from United States.
00:37:41.000Alexandre de Moraes would simply go out there and say, ex-getter, Instagram, you have to shut down these accounts because I want that, because I want that and that's it.
00:37:59.000And then there was one time during a very important local elections that he decided to shut down X entirely.
00:38:07.000So X was off the air for, if I'm not mistaken, two or three days.
00:38:13.000So I think it reached the point that our First Amendment was being really threatened, not only in the United States as, because I'm Brazilian and American, but as an American in American soil.
00:38:28.000And the sad part, Mr. Bannon, is that it took another president in another country, you know, the land of the free because of the brave, to start to shift things back to where we're supposed to be in our democracy in Brazil.
00:38:45.000Anna, the people in Brazil, I know people here that are following it are now fully aware because they were not for a long time that President Bolsonaro is on trial essentially for his life because they want to give him a life sentence in this trial.
00:39:02.000Is that is Brazil awakened to that fact, too, that this is about a life sentence for President Bolsonaro and they could well be assassinated in prison?
00:39:14.140And in fact, we are we as a country, Brazil is planning to have massive protests and people are going to the streets this Sunday in all over Brazil, all big cities to demand respect for our Constitution, because this is the thing.
00:39:36.300When the left, when the left, when the Marxists, they they try to portray like, oh, you're one side wants to protect a politician.
00:39:46.300It's not that we want to protect our Constitution and President Bolsonaro, the our Constitution was completely ripped apart when it comes to both to both to President Bolsonaro.
00:39:58.300He is not he doesn't have a fair trial or a due process.
00:40:03.300He's not supposed to be judged by press by more eyes or any of the Supreme Court justices because he's not even our president anymore.
00:40:13.300And the persecution is absolutely amazing.
00:40:17.300The other day they send the federal police, which is the FBI in Brazil, to a raid in his house.
00:40:25.300And then you see these things only in the movies.
00:40:30.300And then an officer asked President Bolsonaro to use the bathroom.
00:40:35.300And then all of a sudden, Mr. Bannon, this officer comes up, comes out with a pen drive like, oh, look what I found in the bathroom.
00:40:45.300And then immediately President Bolsonaro said, this this is not my pen drive.
00:40:53.300So my point is there there has been so much fishing expedition in every page of this so-called coup d'etat process.
00:41:05.300They they they they already convicted President Bolsonaro and his sentence is already written down and signed by Alexandre de Moraes that now is doubled down after the Magnitsky Act being signed.
00:41:38.300So where do people in the interim get you, find you?
00:41:41.300Oh, we can find me on X Getter Instagram, Anna Paula Henkel.
00:41:47.300And I look forward to coming back, Mr.
00:41:51.300Bannon and I have to thank you for having me and putting some light on what's happening in Brazil, because we need to shine light to the world what's happening because because our democracy is gone.
00:42:04.300And Lula is in bed with Iranians, with with with Marxists like the Cubans, Nicaragua and African dictators.
00:42:13.300So we're very grateful to have you on our side, sir.