EPISODE 669： THE NEW GOVERNING COALITION, GOP MODERATES JOIN SCHUMER AND MCCONNELL
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Former Vice President Joe Biden announces his retirement from the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination race. Former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is in critical care again, this time with a bladder issue, and a woman who was in charge of a 5-year-old boy who was shot and killed at a church in Houston.
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This is Human Events with your host, Jack Posobiec.
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American infrastructure plan used to, you know, we used to be the best in the world in infrastructure.
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Literally, we were ranked number one in the world.
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The majority of Americans think President Biden is simply too old to run again.
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Again, it's just one of those difficult things where he was more or less exonerated on the legal side, but kneecapped politically.
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Former President Trump's challenging week ahead.
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He has a hearing this week in the federal classified documents case against him in Florida.
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Now, if he appears, it would be his first court appearance in that case since he was arraigned.
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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.
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I think that any civilian loss, any civilian casualty is a tragedy, and it's a tragedy that is forced upon us by Hamas.
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If America's not strong, we can't help any of our allies.
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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.
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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.
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Clearly, Donald Trump, what he says goes these days.
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I mean, in reality, McConnell can't be removed as leader, but he's effectively not the leader.
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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.
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He could sort of shepherd them to go in a direction of his choosing.
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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.
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Three years ago, we had the most secure border in the history of our country.
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We had catch and release, but it was in Mexico.
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Today's edition of Human Events Daily, live from Washington, D.C.
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We don't have all of the data quite out yet on this, who brought a long rifle into Lakewood Church, Houston.
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There's some reports that the boy was in her care, but that the boy was not actually directly related to her.
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We're also told that this individual was, at one point, identified as Jeffrey.
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So, now goes by Genesee, previously went by Jeffrey.
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We're told that he had a string of arrests, including assault, drugs, and weapons charges.
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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.
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That's going to be a huge question for the government of Texas, as this investigation continues.
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We're now told, according to a representative from the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office,
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tells the Houston Chronicle that the child is not expected to survive.
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This five-year-old little boy, clinging to life, not expected to make it right now, in Houston.
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Was in Lakewood Church, Joel Osteen's Church, down there, in Houston.
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Not sure, again, all the details yet, but if you can, say a prayer for that little boy.
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Because this situation, Genesee Moreno, or Jeffrey Escalante, however they described themselves,
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had the words, free Palestine, written on the gun.
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This is a horror, beyond all horrors, and a nightmare.
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And to speak from the heart, that, you know, for me, I believe that when an innocent child dies,
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that, especially if they're baptized, that they go straight to God.
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And when something like that happens, something as horrible as that, we don't know yet,
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we don't know right now whether or not this five-year-old little boy has been killed.
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And I say, I have a five-year-old little boy, but I dropped off at school this morning.
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We've got a lot going on with the Senate, and Senator Ron Johnson is going to join us here.
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Well, the Senate held a Super Bowl struggle session yesterday in Washington, D.C.
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Senator, I know that Senate leadership is on their way to Kiev right now.
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Are you currently in Kiev or are you in the United States?
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Well, I think we're all here in Washington, D.C.
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And certainly those of us who want to secure border have been doing everything we can to
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make that point over the course of the last couple of days, both in media and on the floor
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I think most Americans do believe that the president's job and members of Congress' job
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So it is beyond comprehension that a group of people have just completely abandoned that
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imperative and now are just doing everything they can to quick pass 90 to $100 billion aid
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package for primarily Ukraine, some for Israel, some for Taiwan, without doing anything on
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And by the way, the bipartisan border bill was a bipartisan immigration bill that would have
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done far more harm than good by literally limiting a president's authority to secure the
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So there's no way you can look at that as a border security bill.
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And there's no way that the Democrats should be able to point at that and say, oh, I want
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And unfortunately, Leader McConnell gave them that political cover.
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And so walk us through, when they're talking about this new governing coalition, the number,
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I think it's about 18 or so, of Senate Republicans, your colleagues, on this side of the aisle,
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including leadership, that are essentially saying, if there's an issue where we're in agreement
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with Schumer and the Democrats, we're just going to cut deals with them and not listen
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to anybody else in the other parts of the conference.
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Well, I first asked, how many times have Democrats joined with the majority or the unanimous
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Republican conference and helped us pass what the American people want?
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What Leader McConnell has been quite good at, I would say it's not a particularly heavy
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lift, is getting just enough Republicans to join with a unified Democrat caucus to pass
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That's caving in, capitulating to the radical left.
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And in this case, you know, there always may be different members that join that governing
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coalition, but there's generally a core group that is happy to do that.
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What I think we ought to do is try and find issues that unite Republicans in the House, in
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the Senate, and then take it to the public and have the American public pressure on Democrats
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The classic example of that was border security.
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Again, this is, since I've been a U.S. senator now for going on 13 years, there has never
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been an issue in which the vast majority of the American public so strongly agrees with
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So how could it be that McConnell set up a process where he's negotiating in secret with Democrats
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who want an open border, who caused this problem, that are just looking for political
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cover, and then he gave them that political cover by producing an awful bill.
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Well, the public tanked that bill in less than 24 hours once they actually saw what was in
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This is, you know, a Democrat wish list in terms of immigration reform.
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But unfortunately, McConnell led us down into that box canyon.
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And now the media and Democrats are blaming Republicans for not securing the border.
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How can you take such a politically popular issue that people agree with Republicans on
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and turn the tables on Republicans and all of a sudden have President Trump and House
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Republicans and conservative Republicans in the Senate be blamed for the problem that
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President Biden caused and that his Democratic colleagues in the Senate and the House support?
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Well, Senator, I mean, the math works both ways, right?
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Because there's no way that any of these other bills would have been able to be passed
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And so they easily could have just said, we are going to get a clean border bill passed
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and then we can have some discussions about any of this other stuff, couldn't they?
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Well, that's what we were asking for within our conference.
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Now, we all knew that Leader McConnell's primary priority was Ukraine funding.
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But as weeks were building up toward the tail end of last year, even Leader McConnell realized
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this is going to be heavy lifting unless we do something on the border.
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And so all of a sudden he's switching his position saying, well, colleagues, we're going
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to have to feed cloture on this supplemental until we get border security.
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We've got to show Democrats we're serious about it.
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I kind of rolled my eyes at the time because I kind of realized he must have had some play
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up his sleeve and the play up his sleeve was secret negotiations that resulted in a bill
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And I think only four Republicans in the end voted against this bipartisan bill, which shows
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And then they immediately turned to this supplemental, this, you know, the Ukraine funding, even though
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we were begging fellow senators in conference, guys, give us a couple of weeks.
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Well, let's work with the House and let's actually produce a bill or proposal that would actually
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You guys have had months of secret negotiations.
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It got destroyed by the public in less than 24 hours.
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They're, you know, pretty smug about their governing coalition, aren't they?
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I mean, it just sounds so ominous, especially when, as you say, now you're, as Speaker Johnson,
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no relation, of course, you're saying that he's essentially been iced out of these negotiations
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This was just McConnell was the Republican negotiator.
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I know he had James Langford, who's knowledgeable about the border, gets along well, Democrats.
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Okay, I can certainly see putting him in the room there, but Senator Chris Murphy pretty
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well told the truth, said, well, McConnell's staff was in the room the entire time.
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So, Speaker Johnson had nothing to do with this thing whatsoever.
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So, we are certainly hoping on the House to abide by that commitment we, as Republicans,
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made to our supporters, to the American people, that before we send money to help Ukraine secure
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its border, and, you know, we've got differences in our conference in terms of to what extent
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I think we all want to help the Ukrainian people.
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But before we send money to Ukraine to secure their border, we better secure ours first.
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That is the pledge that Mitch McConnell completely violated in his grand strategy that now has put
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Well, that's exactly right, because, of course, now you're in a position where it's all this
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And as you say, the media narrative, of course, is going to be that it's Republicans that are
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And it almost seems like it's a freebie to the mainstream media to give them the narrative,
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of course, in an election year that's going to be very close, that suddenly it's the Republicans
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You know, we only had leverage to the extent that Democrats wanted funding for Ukraine.
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And we only had that leverage as long as we never gave Democrats political cover.
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Well, McConnell gave Democrats political cover.
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So now they can sit back and they, you know, tell the cows to come home, sit there and say,
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It's just the knuckle-dragging Republicans that just refuse to cooperate with, I guess,
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that governing coalition to deliver border security.
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I mean, I'm happy to talk about how awful the bill was, but that's right now the media,
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They're all for an open border like Democrats are.
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But McConnell gave the media and Democrats that political cover, and they're going to use
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Well, and to your point, not only did they give up the cover, and it also gives up the
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And, of course, the last time you were here on the program, you basically telegraphed
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And I remember I was thinking at the time that some of our staff said, look, Senator Johnson's
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You know, we spent billions of dollars building up the Customs Border Patrol to handle thousands
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of immigrants a day when what we should be doing is, you know, let's secure the border
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and bring that to a trickle of individuals per day.
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There were so many elements that just didn't make sense.
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You know, all kinds of work permits and, you know, visa and not even reforming the parole
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Prior to Biden, on average, maybe there were 5,000 people granted parole a year.
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Biden has granted that to hundreds of thousands of people, just like President Obama completely
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abused prosecutorial discretion under DACA, which sparked this entire border crisis that's
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Senator, we're coming up on a quick break, but I do want to get in deeper into this bill
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specifically what was passed and then what, of course, was the bill that came out of this
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People were saying that, oh, this thing was going to be good.
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I want to also, for our audience, give them a look ahead.
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Senator Ron Johnson showing us how the sausage is made.
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Senator Johnson, so this bill that we know, of course, you would presage it for us.
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Now, we know the bill was dead, but I think that it has been killed.
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But I think that we haven't given quite enough time to just what was in this bill.
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And I have a suspicion that we might be seeing some of these elements again.
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Well, first of all, Democrats, again, they're very open in terms of what they eventually want.
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They want to pass a citizenship to all these people that they let into this country.
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Because they realize these folks can be very appreciative of President Biden and Democrats.
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So this is about changing our election system here and really putting in a one-party system
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But I do want to concentrate a little bit on what I thought was by far the worst part of
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this bill, which just made it obviously worse than not passing anything, because there were
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But let's start by saying that the Supreme Court ruled on existing law, said that it exudes
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deference to the president when it comes to securing the border.
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It's that presidential authority using existing law that President Trump used to secure the border
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Now, he certainly met resistance from radical left open border groups time and time again.
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And so the courts have certainly undermined that authority.
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But still, President Trump used that authority and over a 12-month period pretty well secured
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We stopped the flow of unaccompanied children, family units, and single adults were way down.
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Now, President Biden then used that exact same executive authority and opened the border
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So just those two facts imply the fact that President Biden would have the executive authority
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Now, there are certainly things that could be helpful.
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And honestly, in the Langford bill, there were things that would help a president secure the
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The problem is, is the 5,000-person threshold, listen, I think it's an issue.
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You're basically normalizing thousands of people a day.
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The really troubling aspect of that is the 4,000 discretionary threshold.
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Yeah, I'm not opposed to a threshold that would force President Biden to stop processing
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But the really terrible aspect of the bill is the 4,000 discretionary threshold.
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So what that implies is that a president really doesn't have the authority a president does
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And then to compound matters, that discretionary authority and even the mandatory authority
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So you can envision radical left open border groups in the future going to a court and saying,
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this president can't stop processing asylum claims, this president can't send people back
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to Mexico to wait to have their asylum claim adjudicated.
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That's why they gave him that authority in that bill.
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So that, to me, was by far the worst aspect of that bill.
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It's not talked about enough because I think it takes a little while to explain exactly what
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the concern is, and you can say it's somewhat speculative, but I think it's 100% certain
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that liberal groups, open border groups, will do everything they can to prevent a president
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that wants to secure the border from actually doing so.
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And the last thing we ought to be doing is passing a bill that strengthens their hand at frustrating
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a serious president's attempt to secure the border.
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And so this essentially, as you say, would kind of hamper that direct presidential authority
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that already exists because the president, of course, has to operate within this existing,
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this new, which would be a new, essentially, framework of legislation.
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And again, by telling the president, now we're going to make you, first of all,
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stop processing asylum claims, but at 4,000, make it discretionary for him to do so, it
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makes it seem like he doesn't have that authority.
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Where he does, I know it's been challenged to the courts, but he basically has that authority.
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And so by Congress weighing in, you've taken away ambiguity in the law and said, no, even
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Congress didn't think the president had that authority because they granted it to him above
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4,000 a day, but they only granted it to him for three years, and then that went away.
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So again, you can understand how open border groups would use that law against a president
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Let's say, oh, I don't know, when it exceeded like 1,000, the level that Obama's DHS secretary
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said overwhelmed the system, that President Obama himself said at 1,000, 2,000 a day was
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Again, we've normalized 7,000, 8,000 people a day, but under Biden, it's average over 7,000
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Now, Anthony Blinken, Mayocas went down to Mexico.
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Mexico's kind of throttling back right now, which just proves if you want to secure the
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border, there are things you can do to make it better than it certainly was in December.
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I mean, they act as if they have no authority whatsoever without this legislation, and all
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of a sudden, the minute that they're able to find another way to cash through the legislation
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the Democrats wanted on all of these other topics, then suddenly the State Department
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magically, you know, gets whipped into existence, and Blinken runs down and finds all sorts of
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And by the way, to your point, this is exactly the same thing that Trump used to do when he
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He would go to the Mexicans, and he would have the Mexicans put their National Guard down
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on the Mexican southern border with Guatemala and a few other areas and fight against these
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And at the same time, we're also told that down in our own southern border, Eagle Pass,
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Texas, that when Governor Abbott was able to get his, I don't want to say troops, but
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his National Guard there, that they've reduced the crossings at Eagle Pass now to about three.
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And all the Biden administration really had to do was let them do their job.
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Well, just to show how absurd this process has been is, at the same time they're supposed
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to be negotiating a bipartisan deal to secure the border, President Biden is doing everything
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he could to frustrate Governor Abbott's attempt to actually do so.
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And by the way, don't be fooled by Blinken-Mayorkas.
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They just realize right now they're in political peril.
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So they're just down there trying to throttle it back to get some measure of political covering.
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And trust me, when you're already at 10,000 a day, knocking it down to 7,000 a day, you
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And that's kind of metric will be used by the media to, oh, they're really taking action
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No, it's still over 7,000 people a day, which remember these caravans would be a few
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Now it's not even news because it's become normalized.
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The American public is really getting numb to this assault, this invasion at our southern
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Senator, that's the exact same game with the numbers that they play when it comes to the
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I said, no, the rate of inflation has come down.
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Inflation itself is still up quite substantially from 2021 when the president took office.
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But they'll play this game to say that it's not going up as much as it used to go up and
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That's exactly what they want to do with our border.
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But this is what the same game they always play.
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They normalize these things and then they say they're taking action.
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But of course, the new normal, as we're told, is always higher than what the baseline was.
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And we just can't let them get away with it on inflation real quick.
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The best metric there is, well, how much is a dollar you held to start the Biden administration
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So maybe the inflation rate is down, but the damage has already been done and it's devastating.
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It's devastating to every American, particularly people at the low end of the income spectrum,
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the very same people the Democrats purport to want to help out all the time.
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They are devastated by this massive deficit spending, so much for going toward green energy
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They're going to be a colossal waste of money and have zero impact on climate change, whether
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Well, and of course, Biden himself in his own sort of, I don't know if it was actually aired
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on TV or not, but he put out this sort of quasi Super Bowl ad where he was blaming what
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he called, he was the shrinkflation aspect of this and saying it's companies, companies
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are doing this all on their own, making their package sizes smaller and acting as if it's
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But he was sort of expressing this as if it was happening completely in a vacuum and that
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nothing that was going on outside of this other than, you know, corporate greed.
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You know, that's the that's the tired old, you know, scapegoat for all of this.
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They don't want to put anything else out there.
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And, you know, he's sitting there eating popcorn.
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Well, listen, Democrats will always blame somebody else for the disaster that their policy
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You know, so he's the guy, he's the mastermind.
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Once he realized how bad it was being taken by the public, first thing he did was shift
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So now he's blaming Trump when he's not blaming conservatives in the House and in the Senate.
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So he's doing everything he can to shift the blame to somebody else for the problem he
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We had an opportunity using Ukraine as leverage to actually force Biden to secure the border.
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McConnell completely blew that opportunity, and I fear we're not going to get that opportunity
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
00:29:18.500
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
00:29:43.560
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.
00:29:53.400
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
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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
00:30:43.240
We're always talking about the fake news and the bad, but we have guys, and these are the
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
00:31:09.560
We'll see what happens in the House, and they're pushing for this to get to Ukraine.
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.
00:31:44.180
Because over in Ukraine, we reported over the weekend that they just fired their head of the
00:31:49.860
They put up this other guy who doesn't have a great record.
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.
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First of all, I think most Americans want to help the freedom-loving people in Ukraine.
00:32:08.960
I think most people think that Vladimir Putin is a evil war criminal.
00:32:14.300
But the fact of the matter is that the only way this ends, because Vladimir Putin will
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
00:32:32.040
The West, collectively, can't produce 2 million of these things.
00:32:37.460
There are people inside Zelensky's inner circle saying, you can give us more weapons.
00:32:44.880
The average age of a Ukrainian soldier right now is 43 years.
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
00:33:06.000
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
00:33:14.020
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.
00:33:24.480
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
00:33:41.680
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.
00:34:03.780
And so many of our people here in Washington, D.C. are just ignoring that, making people
00:34:17.460
You have to factor that into the reality if you're going to deal with this thing effectively
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
00:35:03.980
But you have to understand the other person's perspective on here.
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.
00:35:23.460
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.
00:35:33.360
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
00:35:50.480
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
00:36:13.100
Is there anything we could have done to prevent it?
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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.
00:36:31.400
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
00:36:43.480
So there's Blinken, again, at the head of the State Department, and then Victoria Nuland,
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
00:36:59.800
And again, Kamala Harris, not someone I usually look to for military strategy, but she had
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.
00:37:15.060
And I don't think that anything that the United States can do can actually change the
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.
00:37:31.840
Now, I think one of the interesting parts in that interview, it seemed like Tucker was
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.
00:37:52.040
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
00:38:01.580
a million or more people, for example, in Stalingrad.
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.
00:38:23.720
I mean, these people say it's going to be a domino effect.
00:38:26.880
I don't think Putin thought he could roll up Ukraine pretty easily.
00:38:35.340
He's going to be facing all the weaponry of NATO.
00:38:38.360
So I just don't view him as that stupid person.
00:38:42.380
I mean, he seemed pretty intelligent, pretty knowledgeable to me.
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?
00:39:14.560
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.
00:39:51.500
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.
00:40:00.860
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.
00:40:19.320
All right, Senator Ron Johnson, we appreciate the time as always.
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.
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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.
00:42:36.020
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.
00:42:59.480
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.
00:43:52.500
Anytime anybody wants oil or gas, it's got to be done in U.S. 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.
00:44:16.520
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.
00:44:33.960
And at the same time, what are we doing in the United States?
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.
00:45:00.760
A silent tax that eats away at your spending power.
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.
00:45:24.400
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?
00:45:39.040
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.
00:45:51.940
When a new gold mine was found, the gold was put into the system.
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.
00:46:20.780
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.
00:46:50.120
That just because you are spending money on something, that doesn't mean it's economic productivity.
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.
00:47:32.700
Do people actually still believe these liberal monomyths that get thrown at us when we're, you know, kids in the textbooks?
00:47:44.420
FDR's policies made the Great Depression worse.
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.
00:48:21.740
This is why we need somebody back who can shut this down within 24 hours.
00:48:29.380
Ladies and gentlemen, as always, you have my permission to lay a short.