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00:00:49.780 Deliver us from evil.

00:00:51.460 American infrastructure plan used to, you know, we used to be the best in the world in infrastructure.

00:00:57.260 Literally, we were ranked number one in the world.

00:01:00.000 The majority of Americans think President Biden is simply too old to run again.

00:01:03.960 How does the White House combat that?

00:01:05.680 Again, it's just one of those difficult things where he was more or less exonerated on the legal side, but kneecapped politically.

00:01:13.800 Former President Trump's challenging week ahead.

00:01:16.340 He has a hearing this week in the federal classified documents case against him in Florida.

00:01:20.840 Now, if he appears, it would be his first court appearance in that case since he was arraigned.

00:01:25.300 This morning, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, in critical care, hospitalized at Walter Reed again yesterday, this time for symptoms of a bladder issue, according to the Pentagon.

00:01:35.060 I think that any civilian loss, any civilian casualty is a tragedy, and it's a tragedy that is forced upon us by Hamas. 0.94

00:01:42.240 If America's not strong, we can't help any of our allies.

00:01:45.360 And I'll have to explain to them why the Senate is going to work all through Super Bowl weekend, which is fine with me.

00:01:50.820 We're going to make a big priority, except on something that's critical to this country, which is the invasion that's going on on our own border.

00:01:56.920 Clearly, Donald Trump, what he says goes these days.

00:02:00.020 I mean, in reality, McConnell can't be removed as leader, but he's effectively not the leader.

00:02:05.860 Yeah, I think the past few days have really shown that he used to be a leader sort of known for being able to control, not control his conference, but he had a lot of influence on them.

00:02:13.700 He could sort of shepherd them to go in a direction of his choosing.

00:02:16.840 And clearly, we're seeing that fade.

00:02:19.020 That fade. And not only that, but his critics, people like Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, who are calling for him to step aside, they're becoming even more vocal and increasingly is becoming clear that if Trump is elected to the White House, there's no place for McConnell in terms of leadership.

00:02:33.980 Three years ago, we had the most secure border in the history of our country.

00:02:39.780 We ended catch and release in our country.

00:02:42.380 We had catch and release, but it was in Mexico.

00:02:44.460 We released him in Mexico.

00:02:47.180 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard.

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00:02:54.460 Today is February 12th, 2024.

00:02:56.680 I know, Dominique.

00:03:01.480 Genesee Yvonne Moreno.

00:03:05.120 Genesee Yvonne Moreno.

00:03:09.360 This is the name of a 36-year-old individual.

00:03:16.700 We don't have all of the data quite out yet on this, who brought a long rifle into Lakewood Church, Houston.

00:03:30.520 This is yesterday, along with a young boy.

00:03:34.200 There's some reports that the boy was in her care, but that the boy was not actually directly related to her.

00:03:45.520 It may have been the child of former relation.

00:03:52.580 We're also told that this individual was, at one point, identified as Jeffrey.

00:04:01.160 So, now goes by Genesee, previously went by Jeffrey.

00:04:08.080 We're told that he had a string of arrests, including assault, drugs, and weapons charges.

00:04:16.360 Have no idea how this person was able to have the custody of a five-year-old little boy, but apparently did somehow in Texas.

00:04:27.860 That's going to be a huge question for the government of Texas, as this investigation continues.

00:04:34.860 We're now told, according to a representative from the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office,

00:04:41.860 tells the Houston Chronicle that the child is not expected to survive.

00:04:45.920 This five-year-old little boy, clinging to life, not expected to make it right now, in Houston.

00:04:55.060 Was in Lakewood Church, Joel Osteen's Church, down there, in Houston.

00:05:01.280 Was involved in this shooting.

00:05:03.600 Not sure, again, all the details yet, but if you can, say a prayer for that little boy.

00:05:09.680 Because this situation, Genesee Moreno, or Jeffrey Escalante, however they described themselves,

00:05:21.380 had the words, free Palestine, written on the gun.

00:05:25.660 This is a tragedy.

00:05:27.840 This is a horror, beyond all horrors, and a nightmare.

00:05:31.380 And to speak from the heart, that, you know, for me, I believe that when an innocent child dies,

00:05:42.880 that, especially if they're baptized, that they go straight to God.

00:05:49.260 And when something like that happens, something as horrible as that, we don't know yet,

00:05:55.760 we don't know right now whether or not this five-year-old little boy has been killed.

00:06:00.140 And I say, I have a five-year-old little boy, but I dropped off at school this morning.

00:06:05.400 And my thoughts are right.

00:06:08.640 We've got a lot going on with the Senate, and Senator Ron Johnson is going to join us here.

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00:08:03.760 The new governing coalition.

00:08:06.840 What is this new governing coalition?

00:08:09.120 Well, the Senate held a Super Bowl struggle session yesterday in Washington, D.C.

00:08:16.300 And Senator Ron Johnson joins us now.

00:08:19.040 Senator, I know that Senate leadership is on their way to Kiev right now.

00:08:23.660 Are you currently in Kiev or are you in the United States?

00:08:27.740 Well, I think we're all here in Washington, D.C.

00:08:30.380 And certainly those of us who want to secure border have been doing everything we can to

00:08:35.680 make that point over the course of the last couple of days, both in media and on the floor

00:08:40.840 of the Senate.

00:08:41.280 But it's an extremely important point to make.

00:08:45.060 I think most Americans do believe that the president's job and members of Congress' job

00:08:51.560 is to keep Americans safe and secure.

00:08:53.960 And that includes securing our own border.

00:08:56.420 So it is beyond comprehension that a group of people have just completely abandoned that

00:09:02.680 imperative and now are just doing everything they can to quick pass 90 to $100 billion aid

00:09:11.560 package for primarily Ukraine, some for Israel, some for Taiwan, without doing anything on

00:09:16.700 the border.

00:09:17.340 And by the way, the bipartisan border bill was a bipartisan immigration bill that would have

00:09:23.480 done far more harm than good by literally limiting a president's authority to secure the

00:09:29.100 border.

00:09:29.340 So there's no way you can look at that as a border security bill.

00:09:33.480 And there's no way that the Democrats should be able to point at that and say, oh, I want

00:09:36.740 to secure the border.

00:09:37.960 No, they're looking for a political cover.

00:09:39.380 And unfortunately, Leader McConnell gave them that political cover.

00:09:45.020 And so walk us through, when they're talking about this new governing coalition, the number,

00:09:48.820 I think it's about 18 or so, of Senate Republicans, your colleagues, on this side of the aisle,

00:09:55.100 including leadership, that are essentially saying, if there's an issue where we're in agreement

00:10:00.300 with Schumer and the Democrats, we're just going to cut deals with them and not listen

00:10:04.380 to anybody else in the other parts of the conference.

00:10:07.920 Well, I first asked, how many times have Democrats joined with the majority or the unanimous

00:10:13.380 Republican conference and helped us pass what the American people want?

00:10:17.980 It's never happened.

00:10:18.880 What Leader McConnell has been quite good at, I would say it's not a particularly heavy

00:10:22.820 lift, is getting just enough Republicans to join with a unified Democrat caucus to pass

00:10:30.020 Democrat priorities.

00:10:32.840 That's not conservative governance.

00:10:35.080 It's not even center-right governance.

00:10:36.780 That's caving in, capitulating to the radical left.

00:10:39.680 And in this case, you know, there always may be different members that join that governing

00:10:45.660 coalition, but there's generally a core group that is happy to do that.

00:10:50.180 What I think we ought to do is try and find issues that unite Republicans in the House, in

00:10:56.620 the Senate, and then take it to the public and have the American public pressure on Democrats

00:11:01.280 to do what the American people want.

00:11:03.360 The classic example of that was border security.

00:11:05.900 Again, this is, since I've been a U.S. senator now for going on 13 years, there has never

00:11:11.920 been an issue in which the vast majority of the American public so strongly agrees with

00:11:16.020 Republicans.

00:11:17.220 So how could it be that McConnell set up a process where he's negotiating in secret with Democrats

00:11:22.940 who want an open border, who caused this problem, that are just looking for political

00:11:27.060 cover, and then he gave them that political cover by producing an awful bill. 0.87

00:11:32.020 Listen, I didn't tank that bill.

00:11:33.540 Well, the public tanked that bill in less than 24 hours once they actually saw what was in

00:11:37.740 it.

00:11:37.920 They realized this isn't border security.

00:11:40.240 This is, you know, a Democrat wish list in terms of immigration reform.

00:11:43.860 And so they rejected it.

00:11:45.480 But unfortunately, McConnell led us down into that box canyon.

00:11:49.400 And now the media and Democrats are blaming Republicans for not securing the border.

00:11:55.820 I mean, how can you do that?

00:11:57.320 How can you take such a politically popular issue that people agree with Republicans on

00:12:02.640 and turn the tables on Republicans and all of a sudden have President Trump and House

00:12:07.680 Republicans and conservative Republicans in the Senate be blamed for the problem that

00:12:12.220 President Biden caused and that his Democratic colleagues in the Senate and the House support?

00:12:17.940 It's beyond belief.

00:12:19.360 You know, what genius political acumen, huh?

00:12:21.580 Well, Senator, I mean, the math works both ways, right?

00:12:25.880 Because there's no way that any of these other bills would have been able to be passed

00:12:30.460 had it not been for this coalition.

00:12:33.320 And so they easily could have just said, we are going to get a clean border bill passed

00:12:38.060 and then we can have some discussions about any of this other stuff, couldn't they?

00:12:43.340 Well, that's what we were asking for within our conference.

00:12:46.020 Now, we all knew that Leader McConnell's primary priority was Ukraine funding.

00:12:51.920 But as weeks were building up toward the tail end of last year, even Leader McConnell realized

00:12:57.380 this is going to be heavy lifting unless we do something on the border.

00:13:01.300 And so all of a sudden he's switching his position saying, well, colleagues, we're going

00:13:04.560 to have to feed cloture on this supplemental until we get border security.

00:13:08.720 We've got to show Democrats we're serious about it.

00:13:10.900 I kind of rolled my eyes at the time because I kind of realized he must have had some play

00:13:14.760 up his sleeve and the play up his sleeve was secret negotiations that resulted in a bill

00:13:20.060 that was so awful.

00:13:21.540 Even he voted against it.

00:13:23.580 And I think only four Republicans in the end voted against this bipartisan bill, which shows

00:13:27.280 you just how awful it was.

00:13:29.520 And then they immediately turned to this supplemental, this, you know, the Ukraine funding, even though

00:13:36.940 we were begging fellow senators in conference, guys, give us a couple of weeks.

00:13:41.520 Well, let's work with the House and let's actually produce a bill or proposal that would actually

00:13:47.240 secure the border.

00:13:47.980 Give us a couple of weeks.

00:13:49.040 You guys have had months of secret negotiations.

00:13:51.980 You drop this thing.

00:13:53.480 It got destroyed by the public in less than 24 hours.

00:13:57.220 Give us the opportunity.

00:13:58.820 But they wouldn't give us that opportunity.

00:14:00.260 They're, you know, pretty smug about their governing coalition, aren't they?

00:14:04.120 The new governing coalition.

00:14:07.560 I mean, it just sounds so ominous, especially when, as you say, now you're, as Speaker Johnson,

00:14:13.860 no relation, of course, you're saying that he's essentially been iced out of these negotiations

00:14:18.880 as well?

00:14:20.840 Yeah, he wasn't part of this at all.

00:14:22.400 This was just McConnell was the Republican negotiator.

00:14:25.740 I know he had James Langford, who's knowledgeable about the border, gets along well, Democrats.

00:14:30.340 Okay, I can certainly see putting him in the room there, but Senator Chris Murphy pretty

00:14:34.860 well told the truth, said, well, McConnell's staff was in the room the entire time.

00:14:39.260 McConnell wrote the bill.

00:14:40.960 There's the reality.

00:14:42.060 So, Speaker Johnson had nothing to do with this thing whatsoever.

00:14:44.740 So, we are certainly hoping on the House to abide by that commitment we, as Republicans,

00:14:50.780 made to our supporters, to the American people, that before we send money to help Ukraine secure

00:14:56.000 its border, and, you know, we've got differences in our conference in terms of to what extent

00:14:59.660 people want to do that.

00:15:00.800 I think we all want to help the Ukrainian people.

00:15:03.080 But before we send money to Ukraine to secure their border, we better secure ours first. 0.94

00:15:07.400 That is the pledge Republicans made.

00:15:09.840 That is the pledge that Mitch McConnell completely violated in his grand strategy that now has put

00:15:16.920 the Republicans in a really awkward position.

00:15:18.880 Well, that's exactly right, because, of course, now you're in a position where it's all this

00:15:26.060 stuff is tied in together.

00:15:27.720 And as you say, the media narrative, of course, is going to be that it's Republicans that are

00:15:33.960 holding this all up.

00:15:34.880 And it almost seems like it's a freebie to the mainstream media to give them the narrative,

00:15:39.940 of course, in an election year that's going to be very close, that suddenly it's the Republicans

00:15:44.260 holding up all of these things.

00:15:45.420 You know, we only had leverage to the extent that Democrats wanted funding for Ukraine.

00:15:51.980 And we only had that leverage as long as we never gave Democrats political cover.

00:15:57.120 Well, McConnell gave Democrats political cover.

00:15:59.440 So now they can sit back and they, you know, tell the cows to come home, sit there and say,

00:16:04.540 wait, I was for border security.

00:16:06.820 I was for the bipartisan bill.

00:16:10.100 It's just the knuckle-dragging Republicans that just refuse to cooperate with, I guess,

00:16:14.500 that governing coalition to deliver border security.

00:16:17.540 I mean, I'm happy to talk about how awful the bill was, but that's right now the media,

00:16:22.200 and it'll be a powerful media.

00:16:23.320 I mean, the media is not on our side.

00:16:25.020 They're all for an open border like Democrats are.

00:16:27.880 But McConnell gave the media and Democrats that political cover, and they're going to use

00:16:32.960 it very effectively.

00:16:34.840 Well, and to your point, not only did they give up the cover, and it also gives up the

00:16:40.420 leverage in general.

00:16:41.880 And, of course, the last time you were here on the program, you basically telegraphed

00:16:46.080 for us how bad this bill was going to be.

00:16:48.760 And I remember I was thinking at the time that some of our staff said, look, Senator Johnson's

00:16:52.800 lighting this thing up.

00:16:53.480 It can't possibly be that bad.

00:16:56.020 Turns out it was actually worse.

00:16:57.320 It was worse.

00:16:57.800 It was worse.

00:16:59.240 You know, we spent billions of dollars building up the Customs Border Patrol to handle thousands

00:17:04.620 of immigrants a day when what we should be doing is, you know, let's secure the border 1.00

00:17:08.280 and bring that to a trickle of individuals per day.

00:17:12.360 There were so many elements that just didn't make sense.

00:17:15.040 You know, all kinds of work permits and, you know, visa and not even reforming the parole

00:17:20.500 process, which has completely been abused.

00:17:22.640 Prior to Biden, on average, maybe there were 5,000 people granted parole a year.

00:17:30.240 Biden has granted that to hundreds of thousands of people, just like President Obama completely

00:17:36.200 abused prosecutorial discretion under DACA, which sparked this entire border crisis that's

00:17:41.640 now been ongoing since about 2012, 2013.

00:17:46.240 Senator, we're coming up on a quick break, but I do want to get in deeper into this bill

00:17:50.360 specifically what was passed and then what, of course, was the bill that came out of this

00:17:55.320 negotiation.

00:17:56.580 You were right on the money all along.

00:17:58.580 People were saying that, oh, this thing was going to be good.

00:18:01.000 This thing was an absolute nightmare.

00:18:03.560 I want to also, for our audience, give them a look ahead.

00:18:06.820 What's going to come next?

00:18:08.240 The new governing coalition.

00:18:09.960 We're here at Human Events Daily.

00:18:11.520 Senator Ron Johnson showing us how the sausage is made.

00:18:15.360 Stay tuned.

00:18:15.700 Be right back.

00:18:16.100 You know, you talk about influences.

00:18:21.420 These are influences.

00:18:23.280 And they're friends of mine.

00:18:25.660 Jack Posovic.

00:18:27.160 Where's Jack?

00:18:28.120 Jack.

00:18:29.120 He's got a great job.

00:18:33.240 All right, Jack Posovic back live here.

00:18:35.440 Human Events Daily.

00:18:36.640 Washington, D.C.

00:18:37.960 Senator Ron Johnson is on with us.

00:18:39.900 Senator Johnson, so this bill that we know, of course, you would presage it for us.

00:18:44.900 And just how bad it was.

00:18:46.880 Now, we know the bill was dead, but I think that it has been killed.

00:18:49.560 But I think that we haven't given quite enough time to just what was in this bill.

00:18:53.860 And I have a suspicion that we might be seeing some of these elements again.

00:18:59.540 Well, first of all, Democrats, again, they're very open in terms of what they eventually want.

00:19:04.220 They want to pass a citizenship to all these people that they let into this country. 0.95

00:19:08.460 Because they realize these folks can be very appreciative of President Biden and Democrats.

00:19:12.340 So this is about changing our election system here and really putting in a one-party system

00:19:20.000 in this country if they can possibly do it.

00:19:22.300 So this is about getting votes for Democrats.

00:19:24.840 But I do want to concentrate a little bit on what I thought was by far the worst part of

00:19:30.040 this bill, which just made it obviously worse than not passing anything, because there were

00:19:35.280 elements that we could use.

00:19:37.020 But let's start by saying that the Supreme Court ruled on existing law, said that it exudes

00:19:43.420 deference to the president when it comes to securing the border.

00:19:45.720 I mean, that's basically existing law.

00:19:47.940 It's that presidential authority using existing law that President Trump used to secure the border

00:19:53.940 by himself.

00:19:55.900 Now, he certainly met resistance from radical left open border groups time and time again.

00:20:03.680 You know, courts oftentimes weren't helpful.

00:20:06.280 And so the courts have certainly undermined that authority.

00:20:08.860 But still, President Trump used that authority and over a 12-month period pretty well secured

00:20:13.900 the border.

00:20:14.300 We stopped the flow of unaccompanied children, family units, and single adults were way down.

00:20:18.420 Now, President Biden then used that exact same executive authority and opened the border

00:20:23.820 up.

00:20:24.840 So just those two facts imply the fact that President Biden would have the executive authority

00:20:30.860 to secure the border.

00:20:32.300 Now, there are certainly things that could be helpful.

00:20:34.560 And honestly, in the Langford bill, there were things that would help a president secure the

00:20:38.740 border.

00:20:39.760 The problem is, is the 5,000-person threshold, listen, I think it's an issue.

00:20:46.880 You're basically normalizing thousands of people a day.

00:20:50.420 The really troubling aspect of that is the 4,000 discretionary threshold.

00:20:56.580 Yeah, I'm not opposed to a threshold that would force President Biden to stop processing

00:21:01.200 asylum claims and secure the border.

00:21:04.440 I'm not opposed to a threshold.

00:21:06.160 5,000 is way too high.

00:21:07.360 But the really terrible aspect of the bill is the 4,000 discretionary threshold.

00:21:12.180 So what that implies is that a president really doesn't have the authority a president does

00:21:18.180 have in existing law.

00:21:20.680 And then to compound matters, that discretionary authority and even the mandatory authority

00:21:27.320 only lasted for three years, and it went away.

00:21:31.000 So you can envision radical left open border groups in the future going to a court and saying,

00:21:37.360 this president can't stop processing asylum claims, this president can't send people back

00:21:42.780 to Mexico to wait to have their asylum claim adjudicated.

00:21:46.340 You know, Congress already spoke.

00:21:48.200 The president doesn't have that authority.

00:21:49.640 That's why they gave him that authority in that bill.

00:21:52.380 It was discretionary after 4,000.

00:21:54.940 And that authority only lasted three years.

00:21:56.880 That authority is gone now.

00:21:58.500 So that, to me, was by far the worst aspect of that bill.

00:22:01.860 It's not talked about enough because I think it takes a little while to explain exactly what

00:22:05.280 the concern is, and you can say it's somewhat speculative, but I think it's 100% certain

00:22:10.220 that liberal groups, open border groups, will do everything they can to prevent a president

00:22:16.480 that wants to secure the border from actually doing so.

00:22:19.820 And the last thing we ought to be doing is passing a bill that strengthens their hand at frustrating

00:22:25.280 a serious president's attempt to secure the border.

00:22:28.260 And so this essentially, as you say, would kind of hamper that direct presidential authority

00:22:35.680 that already exists because the president, of course, has to operate within this existing,

00:22:40.760 this new, which would be a new, essentially, framework of legislation.

00:22:46.720 Yes.

00:22:47.160 And again, by telling the president, now we're going to make you, first of all,

00:22:51.960 stop processing asylum claims, but at 4,000, make it discretionary for him to do so, it

00:22:59.520 makes it seem like he doesn't have that authority.

00:23:01.800 Where he does, I know it's been challenged to the courts, but he basically has that authority.

00:23:06.960 And so by Congress weighing in, you've taken away ambiguity in the law and said, no, even

00:23:12.360 Congress didn't think the president had that authority because they granted it to him above

00:23:17.180 4,000 a day, but they only granted it to him for three years, and then that went away.

00:23:22.500 So again, you can understand how open border groups would use that law against a president

00:23:27.980 who wants to secure the border.

00:23:29.020 Let's say, oh, I don't know, when it exceeded like 1,000, the level that Obama's DHS secretary

00:23:34.240 said overwhelmed the system, that President Obama himself said at 1,000, 2,000 a day was

00:23:40.780 a humanitarian crisis.

00:23:42.120 Again, we've normalized 7,000, 8,000 people a day, but under Biden, it's average over 7,000

00:23:49.260 people a day since he took office.

00:23:50.840 Obviously, in December, it was a disaster.

00:23:52.960 Now, Anthony Blinken, Mayocas went down to Mexico. 0.99

00:23:55.640 Mexico's kind of throttling back right now, which just proves if you want to secure the

00:23:59.660 border, there are things you can do to make it better than it certainly was in December.

00:24:06.400 Right.

00:24:06.760 I mean, they act as if they have no authority whatsoever without this legislation, and all

00:24:12.240 of a sudden, the minute that they're able to find another way to cash through the legislation

00:24:15.960 the Democrats wanted on all of these other topics, then suddenly the State Department

00:24:20.780 magically, you know, gets whipped into existence, and Blinken runs down and finds all sorts of

00:24:26.600 ways they can put leverage.

00:24:27.640 And by the way, to your point, this is exactly the same thing that Trump used to do when he

00:24:31.860 was in office.

00:24:32.540 He would go to the Mexicans, and he would have the Mexicans put their National Guard down 0.98

00:24:36.220 on the Mexican southern border with Guatemala and a few other areas and fight against these

00:24:42.960 caravans that were coming up across.

00:24:44.620 That's easily capable to do this.

00:24:47.300 And at the same time, we're also told that down in our own southern border, Eagle Pass,

00:24:51.360 Texas, that when Governor Abbott was able to get his, I don't want to say troops, but

00:24:57.920 his National Guard there, that they've reduced the crossings at Eagle Pass now to about three.

00:25:03.500 And all the Biden administration really had to do was let them do their job.

00:25:07.080 It's kind of as simple as that, isn't it?

00:25:09.320 Well, just to show how absurd this process has been is, at the same time they're supposed

00:25:13.560 to be negotiating a bipartisan deal to secure the border, President Biden is doing everything

00:25:18.180 he could to frustrate Governor Abbott's attempt to actually do so.

00:25:21.940 And by the way, don't be fooled by Blinken-Mayorkas.

00:25:24.540 They still want an open border.

00:25:27.080 They just realize right now they're in political peril.

00:25:30.120 The American public wants the border secured.

00:25:32.220 So they're just down there trying to throttle it back to get some measure of political covering.

00:25:37.180 And trust me, when you're already at 10,000 a day, knocking it down to 7,000 a day, you

00:25:44.120 say, well, we reduced it by 30 percent.

00:25:46.520 And that's kind of metric will be used by the media to, oh, they're really taking action

00:25:51.540 now.

00:25:51.820 Now they're getting tough.

00:25:53.060 No, it's still over 7,000 people a day, which remember these caravans would be a few

00:25:58.720 thousand.

00:25:59.680 That would be news.

00:26:01.480 Now it's not even news because it's become normalized.

00:26:03.500 The American public is really getting numb to this assault, this invasion at our southern

00:26:08.660 border.

00:26:10.060 Senator, that's the exact same game with the numbers that they play when it comes to the

00:26:15.120 inflation rate.

00:26:16.080 They'll say, oh, well, inflation's down.

00:26:18.220 I said, no, the rate of inflation has come down.

00:26:20.500 Inflation itself is still up quite substantially from 2021 when the president took office.

00:26:26.500 But they'll play this game to say that it's not going up as much as it used to go up and

00:26:30.420 therefore it is down.

00:26:31.780 I think you're right.

00:26:32.300 That's exactly what they want to do with our border.

00:26:34.860 10,000 a day reduced to 7,000 a day.

00:26:37.020 Oh, it's down 30 percent.

00:26:38.100 Oh, it's down 40 percent.

00:26:39.560 We've done more.

00:26:40.380 But this is what the same game they always play.

00:26:43.000 They normalize these things and then they say they're taking action.

00:26:46.780 But of course, the new normal, as we're told, is always higher than what the baseline was.

00:26:52.800 It is.

00:26:54.760 And we just can't let them get away with it on inflation real quick.

00:26:58.180 The best metric there is, well, how much is a dollar you held to start the Biden administration

00:27:01.540 worth today?

00:27:02.860 It's 85 cents is the answer.

00:27:04.500 That's not going away.

00:27:05.620 So maybe the inflation rate is down, but the damage has already been done and it's devastating.

00:27:09.840 It's devastating to every American, particularly people at the low end of the income spectrum,

00:27:13.240 the very same people the Democrats purport to want to help out all the time.

00:27:17.940 They are devastated by this massive deficit spending, so much for going toward green energy

00:27:22.860 boondoggles that are going to be just that.

00:27:26.540 They're going to be a colossal waste of money and have zero impact on climate change, whether

00:27:31.660 you believe in it or not.

00:27:32.680 Well, and of course, Biden himself in his own sort of, I don't know if it was actually aired

00:27:39.060 on TV or not, but he put out this sort of quasi Super Bowl ad where he was blaming what

00:27:44.320 he called, he was the shrinkflation aspect of this and saying it's companies, companies

00:27:49.060 are doing this all on their own, making their package sizes smaller and acting as if it's

00:27:53.980 the same amount.

00:27:55.220 But he was sort of expressing this as if it was happening completely in a vacuum and that

00:27:59.900 nothing that was going on outside of this other than, you know, corporate greed.

00:28:03.820 You know, that's the that's the tired old, you know, scapegoat for all of this.

00:28:08.980 It's just corporate greed.

00:28:10.060 They just hate their customers.

00:28:11.540 They don't want to put anything else out there.

00:28:12.960 They're tricking you.

00:28:13.960 And, you know, he's sitting there eating popcorn.

00:28:16.400 Do we have that clip? 0.97

00:28:17.520 I don't know if you saw it, it's ridiculous. 0.86

00:28:20.640 Well, listen, Democrats will always blame somebody else for the disaster that their policy 0.92

00:28:25.440 recommendations created.

00:28:27.160 McConnell learned from them.

00:28:28.020 You know, so he's the guy, he's the mastermind.

00:28:30.840 He wrote the bill, this disaster of a bill.

00:28:33.400 Once he realized how bad it was being taken by the public, first thing he did was shift

00:28:38.500 to, well, the political winds have changed.

00:28:40.320 We have a nominee.

00:28:41.480 Trump's opposed to this, so we can't pass it.

00:28:43.680 So now he's blaming Trump when he's not blaming conservatives in the House and in the Senate.

00:28:49.540 So he's doing everything he can to shift the blame to somebody else for the problem he

00:28:54.720 created.

00:28:55.020 We had an opportunity using Ukraine as leverage to actually force Biden to secure the border.

00:29:02.180 McConnell completely blew that opportunity, and I fear we're not going to get that opportunity

00:29:06.540 back.

00:29:07.480 Other than in November of 2024, we need to elect a president who wants to secure the border.

00:29:12.600 That means make sure that we don't have a Democrat president, whether it's Biden or somebody else

00:29:17.440 they substitute for him.

00:29:18.500 It really is as simple as that, and I think that the Democrats, and we've looked at some

00:29:24.340 of the opinion polling here, this is an issue that's just absolute disaster for them.

00:29:30.860 When you look at Biden, people are asking about his mental competency.

00:29:34.420 Of course, we saw this report that came out last week that questioned it from his own

00:29:37.700 Justice Department.

00:29:38.560 Then we see these questions of the border.

00:29:41.860 People can see the images on their screens.

00:29:43.560 And the fact that you actually have some of the mainstream media beginning to admit this,

00:29:48.080 I think they're absolutely desperate to change the conversation and talk about anything else.

00:29:52.320 They want to go to the Super Bowl.

00:29:53.400 They want to talk about Travis Kelsey, Taylor Swift, whatever.

00:29:55.740 They'll do anything to change the conversation from what's happening down at our southern border

00:30:01.420 because they know that we are in an election year and they know that we're in a year that

00:30:05.760 this is an issue that they have absolutely no credibility with, with the American people.

00:30:11.280 Senator Ron Johnson, we're going to stick with you one more segment coming back after the

00:30:15.100 break here, because I do want to get into how all of this plays out.

00:30:18.260 You say that we have to wait until November, but we know that they're going to try to push

00:30:21.100 as much as they can over the next nine months.

00:30:24.180 Stay tuned.

00:30:24.540 Human Events Daily continued.

00:30:28.700 Where is Jack?

00:30:29.720 Where is Jack?

00:30:33.340 Where is he?

00:30:34.620 Jack, I want to see you.

00:30:38.280 Great job, Jack.

00:30:39.680 Thank you.

00:30:40.460 What a job you do.

00:30:41.860 You know, we have an incredible thing.

00:30:43.240 We're always talking about the fake news and the bad, but we have guys, and these are the

00:30:47.700 guys who should be getting Pulisic.

00:30:52.480 All right, Jack, we're back live.

00:30:53.980 Washington, D.C.

00:30:55.200 Human Events Daily.

00:30:56.020 We're on with Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin.

00:30:58.080 Now, Senator, $60 billion is the price tag that we were told on the current tranche of

00:31:04.460 spending that looks like it's, it seems like it's going to be finding its way through the

00:31:08.540 U.S. Senate.

00:31:09.560 We'll see what happens in the House, and they're pushing for this to get to Ukraine.

00:31:13.000 So, all right, let's put that number aside.

00:31:15.240 What is it going to be spent on?

00:31:18.740 What is so much money?

00:31:20.200 And I think the American people, they look at our border, they can see, as you say, 10,000

00:31:23.980 coming across, 7,000 to 8,000 might be what their number is, quote, unquote, reduced to.

00:31:28.200 That still sounds like an invasion in my textbook.

00:31:31.560 If I think if the Ukrainians were seeing 7,000 to 8,000 Russian troops storm across their borders

00:31:36.740 every single day, they would probably call that an invasion, yet we're not supposed to.

00:31:41.360 So, what is this $60 billion going towards?

00:31:44.180 Because over in Ukraine, we reported over the weekend that they just fired their head of the

00:31:49.100 military.

00:31:49.860 They put up this other guy who doesn't have a great record.

00:31:52.840 Where is all this going to?

00:31:55.040 Well, it would be spent on sustaining a bloody stalemate.

00:31:58.700 Let's get a couple of things out, you know, on top.

00:32:02.160 First of all, I think most Americans want to help the freedom-loving people in Ukraine.

00:32:07.460 I think that's true.

00:32:08.960 I think most people think that Vladimir Putin is a evil war criminal.

00:32:12.880 That's also true.

00:32:14.300 But the fact of the matter is that the only way this ends, because Vladimir Putin will

00:32:18.360 not lose this war.

00:32:20.100 Russia has four times the population, a much larger industrial base in Ukraine.

00:32:24.460 Right now, they can produce 4.5 million 522 millimeter shells, which allow them to fire

00:32:30.240 10,000 a day.

00:32:32.040 The West, collectively, can't produce 2 million of these things.

00:32:35.660 So, we're outgunned.

00:32:37.460 There are people inside Zelensky's inner circle saying, you can give us more weapons.

00:32:42.840 We don't have the people to fire them.

00:32:44.880 The average age of a Ukrainian soldier right now is 43 years.

00:32:48.700 So, I mean, these are grim statistics.

00:32:50.160 I don't like that reality.

00:32:51.820 But the reality is the only way this ends is in a negotiated settlement.

00:32:56.020 And every day that goes by, where this war goes on, this bloody stalemate continues, more

00:33:01.880 Ukrainians die, more Russian conscripts die.

00:33:04.920 I take no joy in that. 0.98

00:33:06.000 These are kids ripped out of their villages by the evil war criminal Putin.

00:33:09.740 More of Ukraine gets destroyed, which will then, there'll be a lot of pressure to rebuild

00:33:13.760 it.

00:33:14.020 So, our policy should be focused on how do we bring Vladimir Putin to the table.

00:33:20.480 I think the Tucker interview was very interesting.

00:33:22.620 Again, Putin's a war criminal.

00:33:24.480 He's obviously not telling you the whole truth.

00:33:26.420 He's certainly not talking about his atrocities in Ukraine.

00:33:29.320 But an awful lot of what Vladimir Putin said was right.

00:33:33.440 I mean, we're cutting off our nose to spite our face in some of these sanctions.

00:33:37.160 The greatest threat to America in terms of debt and deficit is no longer being the world's

00:33:41.020 reserve currency.

00:33:41.680 Well, these sanctions are making that day come even sooner as Russia is beginning to figure

00:33:47.800 out how to trade in things other than dollars, starting to trade in the Chinese currency.

00:33:53.360 So, listen very carefully to that Tucker interview.

00:33:55.980 I mean, understand, take things with a grain of salt.

00:33:59.200 But a lot of the points that Vladimir Putin made are accurate.

00:34:03.020 They're obvious.

00:34:03.780 And so many of our people here in Washington, D.C. are just ignoring that, making people

00:34:09.660 believe, like, Ukraine can win.

00:34:12.460 Ukraine can't.

00:34:13.620 Putin won't lose.

00:34:14.760 Putin will not lose.

00:34:16.040 He's not going to lose.

00:34:17.460 You have to factor that into the reality if you're going to deal with this thing effectively

00:34:20.740 to bring this war to an end.

00:34:22.360 So, I think at this point, the last thing we ought to be doing is just willy-nilly throw

00:34:26.220 another $60 billion to fuel the flames of this bloody stalemate.

00:34:30.260 He mentioned repeatedly in that interview that he would be open to negotiations.

00:34:38.340 He specifically mentioned back-channel negotiations regarding this Wall Street Journal reporter.

00:34:43.520 Do you believe that he would negotiate if the United States came in good faith?

00:34:49.460 Well, you know, he laid out conditions, the Minsk agreement.

00:34:52.700 You know, certainly I think everybody understood that threatening NATO into Ukraine could spark

00:34:58.520 something.

00:34:58.900 So, you know, he's late.

00:35:01.240 Again, I'm not saying he's reasonable.

00:35:02.420 I'm not saying I support his position.

00:35:03.980 But you have to understand the other person's perspective on here.

00:35:07.580 And, you know, let's face it.

00:35:08.740 If the Warsaw Pact, which no longer exists, but let's say the Warsaw Pact was incringing

00:35:14.260 and all of a sudden trying to sign up Canada or Mexico.

00:35:18.080 And, of course, we saw what the Cuban Missile Crisis was about.

00:35:21.340 We didn't tolerate that.

00:35:23.460 And Russia, if we weren't threats, well, that's not the way we view it.

00:35:26.840 So it is important to understand the perspective of your adversary.

00:35:31.500 Respect that perspective.

00:35:33.360 Certainly take into account in terms of your own actions.

00:35:35.900 And then take a look at the results of your actions.

00:35:38.540 I mean, using Ukraine as a proxy war, again, I think Americans support the freedom-loving

00:35:43.400 people of Ukraine.

00:35:44.340 Well, how is the revolution of dignity now?

00:35:48.680 What have been the results of that?

00:35:50.480 As much as we support people standing up wanting to be more Western-leaning and fight for their

00:35:55.900 freedom, now we've got the invasion of Ukraine, the destruction of Ukraine, over 100,000 Ukrainian

00:36:01.480 soldiers dead, 40,000 civilian casualties, 100,000 Russian killed, you know, 100,000 more

00:36:09.520 wounded.

00:36:10.060 I mean, this is an absolute disaster.

00:36:13.100 Is there anything we could have done to prevent it?

00:36:15.840 I think there probably was.

00:36:17.700 But, you know, American weakness certainly encouraged Putin to do this.

00:36:23.260 And at this point in time, we've got to figure out how to end this bloody stalemate.

00:36:27.460 I think you make a lot of sense.

00:36:31.400 And even the New York Times, of course, put out a statement, they had the headline where

00:36:35.120 they were saying that even the White House has already said they're rejecting a negotiated

00:36:41.340 settlement as of now.

00:36:43.480 So there's Blinken, again, at the head of the State Department, and then Victoria Nuland,

00:36:48.460 we know who is just there.

00:36:49.540 Essentially, she's sort of operating as the deputy sec state right now.

00:36:52.800 I kind of wonder how much control she has over there when it comes to these negotiations 1.00

00:36:56.840 or lack thereof negotiations.

00:36:59.800 And again, Kamala Harris, not someone I usually look to for military strategy, but she had 1.00

00:37:05.940 sort of an infamous comment that she made right at the beginning of this.

00:37:09.700 She said, Russia's a big country and Ukraine's a small country.

00:37:12.220 And you know something?

00:37:13.320 I agree with her.

00:37:14.240 I think she's right.

00:37:15.060 And I don't think that anything that the United States can do can actually change the

00:37:18.560 reality on the ground there.

00:37:20.700 No, it was wishful thinking that to support a summer offensive like that was going to

00:37:25.200 bust through and weaken Putin's position, bring him to his knees.

00:37:29.140 It's just not going to happen.

00:37:30.300 And we've seen history.

00:37:31.840 Now, I think one of the interesting parts in that interview, it seemed like Tucker was

00:37:34.780 annoyed by this.

00:37:35.720 I thought the opening half hour where Putin was just laying out the long history of Russia.

00:37:43.080 You know, I've sat and had a lot of time with President Vucic of Serbia.

00:37:47.920 I hear similar types of history lessons.

00:37:52.040 You have to understand, this is something they take seriously.

00:37:55.480 This impacts, this speaks the very soul of who Russians are, which is why they sacrifice 1.00

00:38:01.580 a million or more people, for example, in Stalingrad.

00:38:05.900 Russians do not give up.

00:38:07.380 They turn back Napoleon. 0.60

00:38:09.020 They turn back Hitler. 0.88

00:38:09.880 They're going to turn back any kind of assault from Ukraine in the West.

00:38:15.100 Now, again, we need to do everything we can to deter them.

00:38:18.040 But at this point in time, I think Putin's learned his lesson.

00:38:21.600 He couldn't invade Ukraine.

00:38:23.720 I mean, these people say it's going to be a domino effect.

00:38:26.480 I don't know.

00:38:26.880 I don't think Putin thought he could roll up Ukraine pretty easily.

00:38:30.520 He's got to understand.

00:38:31.400 He attacks the NATO country.

00:38:33.860 Article 5 kicks in.

00:38:35.340 He's going to be facing all the weaponry of NATO. 1.00

00:38:38.360 So I just don't view him as that stupid person. 1.00

00:38:41.860 I just don't. 0.99

00:38:42.380 I mean, he seemed pretty intelligent, pretty knowledgeable to me. 0.90

00:38:45.120 Again, an evil war criminal.

00:38:46.980 But I think we ignore what he's saying at our own peril.

00:38:51.760 Well, no, and I agree with all the points that you're making.

00:38:54.380 I say as a guy with a Polish background, the Slavs are indelibly wedded to their history.

00:39:01.100 And if you're asking anybody from that part of Eastern Europe about why things are the way they are, you better you better be prepared for at least 30 minute discussion of of how things got there, because that's just what can I say?

00:39:13.720 That's how they think.

00:39:14.560 And when it comes to these situations, and again, attacking NATO, attacking, going up against Article 5, risking nuclear war, that's not something that's in the cards for them as well.

00:39:26.020 That's actually what the whole thing is about, because they didn't want a NATO country to have NATO bases that's directly on or really within their sphere of influence, which Ukraine was all the way up to essentially just a couple of years ago from their perspective.

00:39:41.260 And really, we're coming up on this 10 year anniversary, you mentioned the Revolution of Dignity, that's a 10 years, 10 years next week, I believe will be the anniversary of that.

00:39:50.780 And I think you're right.

00:39:51.500 And I think we do need to kind of look at how the US policy in this region has fared for this region.

00:39:57.480 Senator Johnson, I know you got a lot of work to do.

00:39:59.820 We're going to let you go.

00:40:00.860 Where can people go to follow you and follow what's next with your office?

00:40:05.680 I'm awful at having all the Twitter feeds, but I'm easily found on Twitter just, you know, Ron Johnson.

00:40:11.260 Send Ron Johnson, whatever that is, and we're easily found on the internet.

00:40:16.260 We don't hide.

00:40:17.440 We're out there.

00:40:19.320 All right, Senator Ron Johnson, we appreciate the time as always.

00:40:23.460 Okay, take care.

00:40:24.820 And we'll have to have you back because we know there's going to be a lot more sausage coming down from the McConnell, Schumer, and this new governing coalition.

00:40:34.020 New governing coalition.

00:40:35.040 Sounds so ominous.

00:40:35.920 Sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie.

00:40:38.060 Thank you, Senator Johnson.

00:40:39.360 God bless.

00:40:41.260 Long hours.

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00:42:11.000 Now, folks, this was a huge part, and Senator Johnson just mentioned it there, but this was a huge, huge issue that Putin just mentioned.

00:42:20.140 He just kind of dropped it with Tucker when he was in that interview there.

00:42:23.600 And said, this was a strategic mistake on behalf of the United States, a strategic mistake that will become a grave mistake.

00:42:34.200 I watched that part multiple times over.

00:42:36.020 We've talked already about the rise of BRICS here on this show, and we've been talking about it for a long time.

00:42:41.900 Plus the fact that essentially all of OPEC, or like all the major players in OPEC, have now joined with the BRICS nations.

00:42:49.660 Iran just got in.

00:42:50.840 The Saudis just got in. 1.00

00:42:52.180 UAE, Dubai.

00:42:53.020 Qatar is talking about getting in.

00:42:55.380 Understand the players.

00:42:57.300 Understand the game.

00:42:59.480 We're in a situation where the U.S. dollar and the de-dollarization movement has already begun around the world.

00:43:06.980 Now, does this mean that the U.S. dollar is going to fall as the world reserve currency?

00:43:12.280 Not necessarily, but what it looks like is likely to take place, because remember, China still has their massive trade deficit with the United States, much of which is in U.S. dollar, U.S. dollar back transactions, as well as the petrodollar around the world.

00:43:28.460 Remember, the petrodollar is used because OPEC conducts their financial transactions when they sell oil, oil and natural gas around the world.

00:43:38.840 It's done in dollar denomination.

00:43:43.120 This is the real U.S. power around the world.

00:43:45.720 That's what Putin was talking about.

00:43:47.340 He said, you guys run the system.

00:43:50.080 You guys run the casino.

00:43:52.500 Anytime anybody wants oil or gas, it's got to be done in U.S. dollar.

00:43:58.440 But then you went and weaponized the dollar.

00:44:03.140 And you went and tried to turn your dollar into an act of strategic punishment for countries to do what you want, essentially as a sanction.

00:44:15.200 And so what does this make countries do?

00:44:16.520 They realize, hey, maybe we don't want to work within the U.S. confines anymore.

00:44:20.700 Or maybe we want to do something that's going to be better for us down the road if we don't decide that we want to do what the United States tells us to do.

00:44:29.560 And guess what?

00:44:30.840 That's led to this effort.

00:44:32.180 That's led to the rise of BRICS.

00:44:33.960 And at the same time, what are we doing in the United States?

00:44:36.640 We continue printing.

00:44:37.740 We continue spending the $60 billion for Ukraine.

00:44:40.540 All of this money that's going on, which I believe it's something like $74 billion, if you put the bill together for all the wars, Israel as well, around the world, that we're funding.

00:44:51.520 Plus, I think about another $100 billion that we spent.

00:44:54.060 Where do you think that money comes from?

00:44:56.280 This is how inflation works.

00:44:58.600 It is a silent tax.

00:45:00.760 A silent tax that eats away at your spending power.

00:45:03.460 And Senator Johnson just said it.

00:45:04.660 $1 at the beginning of the Biden administration is now worth $0.85 today.

00:45:12.000 $1 at the beginning of the Biden administration is now worth $0.85 today.

00:45:17.780 That's incredibly rapid.

00:45:19.860 How does it happen?

00:45:22.280 It's called the Kittian effect.

00:45:24.400 And the Kittian effect, it goes all the way back to the kingdom of France.

00:45:29.100 When a new gold mine was found in France, this is during the time of coinage, right?

00:45:35.880 And we actually had a gold standard.

00:45:37.300 They actually had a gold standard.

00:45:39.040 So during the time of coinage, when a new gold mine was found, you might think that the people who work at the gold mine benefit the most.

00:45:46.120 Or the people who live near where the gold mine exists would benefit the most.

00:45:50.300 But no.

00:45:51.360 No, no, no, no.

00:45:51.940 When a new gold mine was found, the gold was put into the system.

00:45:57.120 And who benefited the most?

00:45:58.820 Those who were closest to the throne.

00:46:02.260 Those who were closest to the throne benefited from the new gold at the expense of those furthest away.

00:46:10.300 And you got other people saying, oh, well, you know, this is spending in the U.S.

00:46:16.240 You know, this is U.S. defense contractors.

00:46:18.100 It's going to jobs.

00:46:18.960 It's going to help people.

00:46:19.820 It's going to do all this stuff.

00:46:20.780 And I say, do you understand that that's money that we can't get back?

00:46:26.900 Whether it's through inflation, borrowing, or spending, that's money that you're taking out of the U.S. economy and sending elsewhere.

00:46:34.320 If you're blowing up things, this is referred to, by the way, as the broken glass fallacy.

00:46:40.900 You can go look this up.

00:46:43.540 This is Heinrich wrote about this.

00:46:45.360 That it's, or excuse me, Henry Hazlitt.

00:46:48.600 Henry Hazlitt wrote about it.

00:46:50.120 That just because you are spending money on something, that doesn't mean it's economic productivity.

00:46:59.060 It's just economic spending.

00:47:00.280 If the government hires people to dig ditches and then go back the next day and refill in the ditches, this is what the New Deal was, by the way, that doesn't mean you're producing anything in your country.

00:47:11.880 That just gives the illusion of productivity because you have false employment that's backed by U.S. government and U.S. dollars.

00:47:20.180 It's all funny money.

00:47:21.820 This is what FDR did. 0.69

00:47:23.340 This is what World War II did. 0.84

00:47:25.080 World War II didn't end the Great Depression.

00:47:27.080 The New Deal didn't end the Great Depression.

00:47:30.280 Do people actually still believe these myths?

00:47:32.700 Do people actually still believe these liberal monomyths that get thrown at us when we're, you know, kids in the textbooks?

00:47:40.480 No, it's a joke.

00:47:41.660 It's an absolute joke.

00:47:44.420 FDR's policies made the Great Depression worse.

00:47:48.740 And it was because of inflation.

00:47:50.540 It was because of government programs.

00:47:52.200 It was because of the New Deal and so many others.

00:47:55.080 This is what's screwing up our economy now because you still see people who have this ridiculous notion, these ridiculous notions that economic spending is always going to increase productivity even when you realize that you're taking money away from people that are furthest away from you because of higher prices.

00:48:15.760 This is what inflation does to our nation.

00:48:18.520 This is why the nation is in dire straits.

00:48:21.740 This is why we need somebody back who can shut this down within 24 hours.

00:48:27.520 His name begins with a T.

00:48:29.380 Ladies and gentlemen, as always, you have my permission to lay a short.

00:48:31.920 veut, let's go.

00:48:33.360 Let's get started.

00:48:33.660 Wait a minute.

00:48:34.600 I'll wait.

00:48:34.780 Let's get started.

00:48:35.600 Just here.

00:48:36.200 Please.

00:48:36.640 The random did.

00:48:36.860 forgiveness grow.

00:48:37.120 Look at all of your actions.

00:48:37.600 For the businesss.

00:48:39.400 You know, truly, it won't be innocent.

00:48:40.040 You have power.

00:48:41.240 All weekend.

00:48:42.200 You'll fall.

00:48:42.660 You know, let's get up at all.

00:48:43.840 Man.

00:48:44.840 You'll be aware till no.

00:48:45.760 Nice.

00:48:46.420 Go.

00:48:47.780 A tree.

00:48:48.880 And this is when you're a pitiful.

00:48:50.900 You decide.

00:48:52.740 You.

00:48:54.800 Go.

00:48:55.900 To be easier.

00:48:56.920 The keep.

00:48:57.500 Go.

00:48:58.400 Go.

00:48:58.800 Rodan.

00:48:59.000 Go.

00:48:59.560 On and you.

00:48:59.700 An inch.

00:49:00.780 Well, go.

00:49:00.840 Go.

Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - February 12, 2024

EPISODE 669： THE NEW GOVERNING COALITION, GOP MODERATES JOIN SCHUMER AND MCCONNELL

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