A 19-year-old man known as Big Balls who played a key role in the Doge s initiative to shrink the size of government, was assaulted over the weekend in Washington, D.C. by approximately 10 juveniles.
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00:01:56.000According to our left-wing media, the idea that you would have a young man who calls himself with this very online moniker, this Big Balls moniker, looking over the American budgetary system and saying, this doesn't belong and this does belong, that was terrible.
00:02:10.000We couldn't have somebody like that working in our system.
00:02:13.000Well, it turns out that Edward Coristine isn't just a young genius who is capable of looking at budgetary numbers and figuring out where the waste, fraud, and abuse are.
00:02:22.000It turns out that he also is kind of an amazing dude.
00:02:25.000According to Politico, a 19-year-old man known as Big Balls, who played a key role in the Doge initiative to shrink the size of government, was assaulted over the weekend in Washington.
00:02:34.000He was assaulted by approximately 10 juveniles near DuPont Circle about 3 a.m. on Sunday, according to a police report obtained by Politico.
00:02:41.000Police arrested two 15-year-olds as they attempted to flee the scene.
00:02:44.000A black iPhone 16 valued at $1,000 was also reported stolen during the incident, according to the report.
00:02:51.000President Trump posted a photo on his social media platform showing Coristine shirtless with what appeared to be blood spatter on his face, body, and pants.
00:02:59.000And he called for a change in the law so juveniles who attacked him could be charged as adults.
00:03:04.000President Trump said, perhaps it should have been done a long time ago.
00:03:06.000Then this incredible young man and so many others would not have had to go through the horrors of violent crime.
00:03:11.000He said, crime in Washington, D.C. is totally out of control.
00:03:14.000Local youths and gang members, some only 14, 15, and 16 years old, are randomly attacking, mugging, maiming, and shooting innocent citizens.
00:03:20.000At the same time, knowing they will almost immediately be released.
00:03:23.000They are not afraid of law enforcement because they know nothing ever happens to them, but it's going to happen now.
00:03:28.000The law in D.C. must be changed to prosecute these minors as adults and lock them up for a long time, starting at age 14.
00:03:33.000The most recent victim was beaten mercilessly by local thugs.
00:03:35.000Washington, D.C. must be safe, clean, and beautiful for all Americans and importantly, for the world to see.
00:03:41.000If D.C. doesn't get attacked together and quickly, we'll have no choice but to take federal control of the city and run the city how it should be run and put criminals on notice.
00:03:48.000They're not going to get away with it anymore.
00:03:49.000Perhaps it should have been done a long time ago.
00:03:51.000Then this incredible young man and so many others would not have had to go through the horrors of violent crime.
00:03:55.000If this continues, I'm going to exert my powers and federalize the city, make America great again.
00:04:02.000Apparently, Koristine said that the assailants approached him outside his vehicle while he was with a woman, identified in the report as his significant other, and made a comment about taking the vehicle.
00:04:13.000He told officers he got the other person into the vehicle just before he was attacked.
00:04:17.000So he made sure that the woman was not attacked.
00:04:20.000Elon Musk claimed on X, a gang of about a dozen young men tried to assault a woman in her car at night in D.C. A Doge team member saw what was happening, ran to defend her, and was severely beaten to the point of concussion, but he saved her.
00:04:31.000It's time to federalize D.C. So, remember, the media thought that this kid, this young man, was bad.
00:04:38.000He was bad because he was very online and he was young and he was smart and he wanted to go through the governmental records and find ways for this is the kind of person we needed fewer of in America, according to our legacy media.
00:04:49.000Big balls was the problem with America.
00:04:52.000Meanwhile, the media was upholding another young man, claiming that this is the kind of person America needs.
00:04:59.000Mahmoud Khalil, of course, was the import from abroad, an activist who hates America, who hates the West, who hates Israel, who is not only complicit in anti-Semitism, but an anti-Semitic provocateur.
00:05:13.000He was imported to Columbia University to essentially just be an activist against the West, against America, against Israel, and against Jews.
00:05:21.000And when the Trump administration looked at his participation in the violent, yes, violent student protests at Colombia, they decided to deport him.
00:05:31.000And a court stopped that deportation, and the entire left rallied to his cause.
00:05:40.000Well, now Mahmoud Khalil is out there on the talk circuit, and he sat with Ezra Klein over at the New York Times, where he promptly explained to Ezra Klein that essentially October 7th was justified, that Israel had a coming, that there was no actual anti-Semitism at Columbia University or anything of the like.
00:05:57.000This is the person, this Mahmoud Khalil, we need more of him according to the left.
00:06:03.000Fewer of Edward Corsi, fewer of the big balls type young men, and more imports from third world countries who hate America and hate Jews and make our country worse.
00:06:23.000Here is Ezra Klein with Mahmoud Khalil, hero of the left-wing republic.
00:06:29.000You can see that the situation is not sustainable.
00:06:32.000You have an Israeli government that's absolutely ignoring Palestinians.
00:06:39.000They are trying to make that deal with Saudi and just happy about their Apraham Accord without looking at Palestinians as if Palestinians are not part of the equation.
00:06:52.000And they circumvent the Palestinian question.
00:06:58.000And it's clear it's becoming more and more violent.
00:07:03.000Like, you know, by October 6th, over 200 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces and settlers.
00:07:15.000So that's what I mean by like, unfortunately, we couldn't avoid such a moment.
00:07:22.000So he's calling October 7th unavoidable.
00:07:25.000And if you actually watch the entire interview with Ezra Klein, some of the things that he says are absolutely astonishingly pro-terrorism.
00:08:58.000And the left insists that he be allowed Into the country.
00:09:00.000And that not only that, we need more of these people in our country.
00:09:04.000They're aided and abetted here by libertarian groups like the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, which in the past has done good work.
00:09:11.000But this idea that we have an obligation as a country to import students to study here on our dime and give them subsidies when they hate America is an absurdity.
00:09:22.000Why in the world do we need to import people to our country who hate the West?
00:09:27.000Again, the contrast between the media classification of this young white man who is working for the federal government to cut waste fraud and abuse, the kind of person who will rush to a woman's side to save her from being assaulted by thugs.
00:09:43.000That contrast between that and the absolutely kid-glove, glowing treatment given to Mahmoud Khalil by Ezra Klein and the rest of the legacy media is plainly astonishing.
00:10:30.000I've said very openly that I don't, I don't, I've never would be called an expert on New York City politics, but the two messages were like a blinking red light.
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00:13:57.000When Democrats look at looters and rioters during the BLM protests, when Democrats look at left-wing terrorists who commit acts of violence, unfortunately, they don't look at their viewpoints as the problem.
00:14:10.000Instead, what they do is they say those people are just too passionate.
00:14:12.000Their problem is they just took it too far.
00:14:14.000So the best you'll get from a Democrat is that Zora Mamdani's heart is in the right place, but he just took it too far.
00:14:18.000Not that his viewpoint is bad, not that his worldview is corrupt.
00:14:21.000No, it's that he might be a little bit, you know, too fresh.
00:14:25.000He might just be a little bit too green.
00:14:27.000He hasn't really sanded off the edges yet, but that's what makes him so appealing, you see.
00:14:31.000He's the new wave of the Democratic Party, and so we must side behind him.
00:14:34.000And of course, they are doing this oppositionally because they're suggesting that if it were to be Andrew Cuomo, who, by the way, lifelong Democrat, who is not in any way, shape, or form a moderate.
00:14:46.000But Andrew Cuomo is too far to the right for them because they want to move into this new Democratic era.
00:14:59.000Nancy Pelosi, who I spent my entire political life looking at Nancy Pelosi as the left wing of the Democratic Party, she now looks like Scoop Jackson.
00:15:08.000Zora Mamdani, of course, is using the fact that everybody who is not a socialist nut job does not want to see him be mayor as an excuse to say that he should be mayor.
00:15:18.000Because if Donald Trump and people who like Donald Trump are supporting Andrew Cuomo, that means that you have to vote for the communist who hates the country and believes that America is a nefarious force in the world.
00:15:28.000And also that maybe Hamas had a point.
00:15:32.000I would be remiss if I did not directly address some of the news that we saw come out just a few hours ago, which is that the president of this country, Donald Trump, has been coordinating with Andrew Cuomo in direct conversation with the former governor.
00:15:51.000It is Trump billionaires who have been opposing our campaign's vision for a city that New Yorkers can afford.
00:16:41.000Like, for example, this member of the Democratic Socialists of America, a panelist at a recent conference who suggests that her goal is to perform abortions at a church.
00:16:53.000And on that revolutionary horizon, want to perform abortions at a church, you know, voting for it's all said and done.
00:17:01.000The only real difference between marriage and prostitution is the price and the duration of the contract.
00:17:08.000We can imagine family abolition because we have seen black women do it, because we have seen these indigenous communities do it.
00:17:17.000But, you know, it is, to me, it is the institution of marriage can only exist alongside the criminalization of sex workers.
00:17:25.000So just to find out whether this is a good idea or a bad idea, them talking about abolition of the family, how indigenous peoples are abolishing traditional notions of, how that's awesome.
00:17:34.000I asked our sponsors over at Comet, quote, how much more likely are children of single mothers to drop out of school, commit a crime, or end up on welfare?
00:17:41.000Quote, children from single-parent families are significantly more likely to drop out of high school compared to peers from married coupled families.
00:17:47.000Some sources report that as many as 71% of high school dropouts come from fatherless homes.
00:18:08.000Well, children living in single mother homes are 50% more likely to experience official poverty as adults than peers raised in married family homes.
00:18:15.000So great idea, Democratic Socialists of America.
00:18:17.000You're making everybody better off by destroying the best possibility of an upward ladder climb economically, the stable nuclear family.
00:18:31.000The revolution always eats its own and always moves further to the left.
00:18:36.000And this is, again, one of the reasons why you see so much support on the left wing for Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
00:18:42.000As we all knew, as anybody who's ever covered the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians knows, there is a phenomenon that has existed for legitimately decades in this conflict.
00:19:44.000This, apparently, according to Build, and according to another German newspaper called Sudeutsch Zeitung, this is staged, quote, amid Israel's faltering public diplomacy and growing global momentum for recognizing a Palestinian state, Germany's Sudeutsch Zeitung published an investigative report revealing how Hamas manipulates imagery to shape international opinion, successfully so in many cases.
00:20:04.000The report details how the group stages images of hunger and despair in Gaza using professional photographers covering the war.
00:20:10.000While acknowledging the reality of severe food shortages in the Gaza Strip, the paper emphasizes that many widely circulated images of emaciated children do not accurately reflect current conditions.
00:20:19.000Some of the photos are not from Gaza at all.
00:20:21.000Others feature children suffering from chronic illnesses unrelated to the war.
00:20:25.000One image obtained by the paper shows photographers directing Gazans to pose as though they were waiting in line for food.
00:20:32.000That one, by the way, seemed to make the cover of Time magazine.
00:20:35.000Germany's Build newspaper also addressed the issue, reporting that one of the freelance journalists responsible for distributing staged images regularly posts anti-Israel content on social media.
00:20:45.000According to Sudeutsch Zeitung, the photos emerging in recent weeks show precisely what Hamas wants the world to see, a civilian population suffering as a result of Israel's military campaign.
00:20:55.000Germany's Journalist Association issued a warning to local media outlets about manipulation attempts through professionally produced press photography.
00:21:03.000The TJV chair, Mika Boyster, stated, quote, all parties involved in this war are using the power of imagery like never before to shake, but to shape public opinion.
00:21:13.000So, again, historians and photography experts have been looking at these visual documentations.
00:21:20.000One said, quote, many images of starving or sick children are likely staged or taken out of context.
00:21:24.000They're not fake, but the subjects are positioned in a certain way or paired with misleading captions that tap into our visual memory and emotions.
00:21:32.000And this is what Hamas does, of course.
00:21:35.000This has been happening for legitimately decades.
00:21:37.000And this is why it is astonishing to watch pseudo-journalists go out there and claim that whatever Hamas's Gaza Ministry of Health says must be taken at face value.
00:21:49.000Or go out there and show the exact same pictures that are clearly staged and then suggest that this is what life looks like in the Gaza Strip, even as Israel ships literally millions of meals into the Gaza Strip every single day.
00:22:02.000Again, there is nothing new about this.
00:22:05.000Columnist named Mati Friedman, he talked about the fact that if you're working with the Associated Press, the Associated Press had its coverage dictated to it by Hamas.
00:22:13.000You could not work in the Gaza Strip without Hamas dictating your media coverage and censoring it.
00:22:18.000Otherwise, you just would be expelled or harmed.
00:22:24.000As far as I know, I was the first staffer to erase information from the story because we were threatened by Hamas, which happened at the very end of 2008.
00:22:33.000We had a great reporter in Gaza, a Palestinian, who had always been really an excellent reporter.
00:23:22.000You'll see a lot of dead civilians and you won't see dead militants.
00:23:25.000You won't have a clear idea of what the Hamas' military strategy is.
00:23:28.000And this is the kicker, the center of the coverage will be a number, a casualty number that is provided to the press by something called the Gaza Health Ministry, which is Hamas.
00:23:52.000The Associated Press literally yesterday ran a piece by Bassem Maru and Sarah El-Deeb with photos by Hassan Amar about the evils of Israel's pager attack, the most targeted anti-terror attack in literally world history with pictures of people who were hurt by the exploding pagers.
00:24:10.000A sympathetic piece about how Khizbalah was really harmed.
00:24:14.000It was really, really terrible, what Israel did.
00:24:17.000This is, as Rob Henderson, the columnist, has written, this is a luxury belief of the West.
00:24:31.000Hamas started a war and then it lost, but it knew that it could win if it played on the fact that people in the West are too dumb to understand what Hamas actually is and what they want.
00:24:44.000I've spent my entire life growing up in an America in which I'm surrounded by wonderful people who care about their children.
00:24:50.000And that's true whether I was living in a blue area like California or a red area like Florida, people who share a common set of basic values that are either explicitly Christian or Judeo-Christian or are living off the fumes of that heritage.
00:25:02.000And then we in the West, we project that viewpoint onto everyone else on earth.
00:25:07.000Well, they care about their kids the same way that we care about our kids.
00:25:09.000So if kids are getting killed in Gaza, it must be because Israel is being indiscriminate.
00:25:25.000Probably you love life exactly the same way that we do.
00:25:28.000You would never do some of the stuff that you are explicitly admitting that you do.
00:25:32.000And if you are doing that, it must be because we're being so mean to you.
00:25:35.000Because honestly, like every human heart is like mine.
00:25:38.000Every single person wants the same things that I do.
00:25:41.000Now, the ultimate manifestation of that was actually a George W. Bush speech, his second inaugural address, where he said there was a yearning for freedom in every human heart, which is not true.
00:25:52.000There is a yearning in the human heart for many things, but the idea of American style political freedom is not one of them.
00:25:59.000That is a unique thing in world history.
00:26:02.000And projecting that belief system, that moral system on everybody else and saying that it's innate, that it's just something that everybody wants.
00:26:12.000And it means that your enemies are going to exploit it.
00:26:15.000Because the same people who today are shedding salty tears for the presumed end of Hamas, which I hope will happen sometime in the next couple of weeks, the same people who are shedding those salty tears who are welcoming in Mahmoud Khali, oh, come in, Mahmoud.
00:26:30.000Please tell us why we're such a guilty party.
00:26:32.000Tell us why the West stinks as you sit there at Columbia University on a subsidized scholarship in a nicely apportioned New York City apartment.
00:26:42.000Those same people, you know what Hamas would do with you if they actually had control of, say, the U.S. government?
00:26:48.000It would not be what you think it would be.
00:26:52.000But that stupidity is particularly what Hamas counts on.
00:26:55.000Well, thank God President Trump does not suffer from the same delusions.
00:26:58.000President Trump looked at the video, for example, Of Hamas starving an Israeli hostage.
00:27:03.000By the way, the only video that I've seen thus far of an actual starved adult human who was healthy before is the Hamas hostage, Evyatar Tavid, who's being held in captivity, digging his own grave.
00:27:16.000So President Trump looked at that video, and here he was saying, well, you know what?
00:27:20.000It's up to Israel how they deal with Chambers.
00:27:23.000Well, I don't know what the suggestion is.
00:27:25.000I know that we are there now trying to get people fed.
00:27:28.000As you know, $60 million was given by the United States fairly recently to supply food and a lot of food, frankly, for the people of Gaza that are obviously not doing too well with the food.
00:27:42.000And I know Israel is going to help us with that in terms of distribution and also money.
00:27:47.000We also have the Arab states who are going to help us with that in terms of the money and possibly distribution.
00:27:53.000So that's what I'm focused on as far as the rest of it.
00:27:56.000I really, I really can't say that's going to be pretty much up to Israel.
00:28:01.000So, again, President Trump lives in the world of reality.
00:28:04.000Secretary of State Marco Rubio said much the same thing.
00:28:06.000He says, listen, the war needs to end, but it's going to have to end with Hamas not in power.
00:28:10.000And it's up to Israel how that's accomplished while making sure that people get fed.
00:28:15.000Have you spoken to the prime minister?
00:28:18.000And do you think that is a wise decision for Israel to take over Gaza altogether?
00:28:24.000Well, ultimately, the president has said that it's up to Israel to decide what they need to do for their own security.
00:28:29.000I've spoken often, almost daily, to somebody in the Israeli government, often to the prime minister, but many times to many members of his team.
00:28:37.000So good for the Trump administration for recognizing reality.
00:28:40.000Meanwhile, on the foreign policy front, President Trump is now floating the possibility of a meeting with Vladimir Putin.
00:28:46.000He said yesterday there was a good chance he would meet with Putin about the war in Ukraine after an offer Russia made Wednesday during a trip to Moscow by the special envoy Steve Witkoff.
00:28:56.000Here is a video of Steve Witkoff greeting Putin at the Kremlin yesterday.
00:29:14.000Now, what actually happened in that meeting?
00:29:16.000Well, I hope that this time Steve Witkoff did not use Putin's translator, which is what happened last time.
00:29:20.000But Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that Putin had actually provided Witkoff some examples of what Russia wants in order to come to some sort of ceasefire.
00:29:29.000What we have is a better understanding of the conditions under which Russia would be prepared to end the war.
00:29:35.000We now have to compare that to what the Ukrainians and our European allies, but the Ukrainians primarily, of course, are willing to accept.
00:29:41.000And what you try to see is how far can you get these two positions closer?
00:29:45.000How can you get these two positions closer to each other?
00:29:47.000If we can get what the Ukrainians will accept and what the Russians will accept close enough, then I think there's the opportunity for the president to have a meeting that includes both Putin and Zelensky to try to close this thing out.
00:30:00.000President Trump himself said, even though the United States is not directly involved in the conflict, he does feel a moral obligation to try and get to an end to it.
00:30:08.000In terms of soldiers, I think Russia's lost over 20,000 since the beginning of the year.
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00:32:48.000Meanwhile, the president of the United States is trying to come up with a China policy that both boxes them in, but also doesn't harm the American economy too much.
00:32:56.000This is now manifesting itself as multiple deals with various American-based companies, as well as the possibility of tariffing chips that are coming into the United States from abroad.
00:33:07.000According to the Wall Street Journal, President Trump said he would impose roughly 100% tariffs on all chips coming into the United States, but then would exempt tech companies that have promised to manufacture domestically.
00:33:17.000That is presumably why Apple yesterday agreed that it would launch an end-to-end silicon supply chain in the United States.
00:33:26.000First, with today's announcements, I'm proud to say that Apple is leading the creation of an end-to-end silicon supply chain right here in America, from design to equipment to wafer production to fabrication to packaging.
00:33:43.000In Texas, we're working with manufacturers like Texas Instruments, Global Wafers America, and Applied Materials.
00:33:50.000We're working with AMCOR in Arizona and Broadcom and Global Foundries in New York.
00:33:56.000Thanks to President Trump's vision and with his help in his first term, we also led the way to bring TSMC to Arizona by committing to be their first and largest customer.
00:34:08.000Now, again, all of that is fine and good.
00:34:11.000The reality is that that factory in Arizona for TSMC is going to take years to get up and running.
00:34:15.000And so in the meantime, we need to make sure that actually American companies can still access TSMC chips that are produced in Taiwan.
00:34:21.000The same is true of production in India.
00:34:24.000According to the Wall Street Journal, the president's comment that tech companies can avoid new chip tariffs by promising to invest in the United States formalizes an arrangement many executives already understood.
00:34:32.000Nearly every major tech firm has promised to put more into their U.S. operations, resulting in about $2 trillion in new pledges over the past seven months.
00:34:40.000President Trump himself said that if you invest in the United States, there will effectively be no charge.
00:34:46.000So spend more money domestically, and he will free you of the threatened tariffs against your products coming in from abroad.
00:35:28.000Okay, well, again, we will see what the sort of long-term ramifications are that because you can make these commitments.
00:35:34.000And then if the factories in the United States are still not producing at the sort of same cost levels as a factory in India, presumably that peters out over the course of years.
00:35:42.000The biggest thing the United States can do to ensure reshoring of manufacturing, for example, is radical deregulation, radical deregulation, not threats to punish companies that are bringing in products from abroad.
00:35:53.000That may provide a sort of temporary stopgap or a temporary spike in spending.
00:35:57.000But if you want a long-term, better business environment, You need a long-term better business environment.
00:36:01.000That means radical deregulation, bringing down the cost structure in the United States.
00:36:06.000That is the reason, for example, why most high-end products are being innovated in the United States is because our deregulatory structure, our cost structure, and our tax structure are better for that than they are for things like manufacturing.
00:36:19.000Again, for the record, manufacturing is petering out in the United States or has been, not in terms of output.
00:36:25.000It's actually up in terms of output, but manufacturing jobs are down, not really because of outsourcing, but because of technology replacing human beings.
00:36:33.000So chip makers are fighting to ensure that their chips can be imported into the United States.
00:36:39.000Meanwhile, Jen Ten Huang at NVIDIA is trying to ensure that he can export chips to places like China.
00:36:47.000And this is a very hot topic and a big debate, actually, on the political right and the economic right about what sort of chips should be allowed to be outsourced and sent to China, because China obviously is using those chips in order to develop its own AI systems, many of which will be embedded in its military system.
00:37:03.000So if they use our chips to build better military systems than we are building, that is a major world security problem.
00:37:09.000And so there are hawks, like, for example, Mike Gallagher over at Palantir, who has suggested that allowing the shipment of H-20 chips to China is a real problem.
00:37:26.000And then you have people like Aaron Ginn, a columnist for the Wall Street Journal and founder of Hydra Host, which is a venture-backed AI data center, services, and management company.
00:37:34.000He writes for the Wall Street Journal today that actually the best solution would be to allow those chips to flow into China relatively unhindered because then they're at least using American platforms and they won't kind of build their own domestic chip manufacturing industry.
00:37:51.000He says China has racked up more than 1,500 models, many of which are open source.
00:37:55.000Many outperform or match the math and coding benchmarks of Western models.
00:37:58.000Huawei's GPUs are quickly filling the gap left by the Biden administration's adoption of stricter export controls.
00:38:04.000The research from Bernstein projects NVIDIA global AI market share will drop a whopping 12% this year alone if restrictions largely remain in place.
00:38:11.000China's foundry capacity has vastly surpassed Washington's expectations.
00:38:14.000China is shipping chips abroad several years ahead of schedule.
00:38:19.000So he is suggesting that probably the best thing to do would be to allow NVIDIA to essentially out-compete China, including shipping those chips to China and destroying their domestic manufacturing industry in terms of chips.
00:38:32.000Honestly, I'm not sure which side is right.
00:38:34.000I tend toward the more hawkish Mike Gallagher side on this, but I'm open to the argument from the Trump administration on the other side.
00:38:40.000Meanwhile, the fight over redistricting continues.
00:38:44.000It turns out that Beto is trying to get himself back in a presidential conversation by subsidizing the Texas Democrats fleeing from the state to avoid quorum for purposes of redistricting.
00:38:56.000According to the Texas Tribune, powered by people, a Democratic political group started by former U.S. Representative Beto O'Rourke has emerged as a top funder, covering the cost of Texas lawmakers out-of-state decampment to thwart a new GOP proposed congressional map, according to two people involved with the fundraising efforts.
00:39:12.000The expenses are mounting fast for the more than 50 Democrats in the Texas House who left the state on Sunday to prevent the Republican-controlled chamber from having enough members to conduct business.
00:39:43.000If we fail, the consolidation of authoritarian power in America will be nearly unstoppable.
00:39:49.000That means more masked, plainclothes, federal agents without badges or warrants sweeping our fellow Americans up off the streets.
00:39:56.000It means more retribution and persecution and even violence for Trump's political opponents.
00:40:02.000And it also means that a Republican majority Congress with these five stolen seats, if we allow them to succeed, will roll out the royal red carpet for a Trump third term.
00:40:11.000So this is literally for all the marbles.
00:40:27.000Meanwhile, J.B. Pritzker, who must be lowered into the Illinois state capital by Crane, I'm just going to keep using that joke over and over and over.
00:40:33.000He appeared on CBS with Stephen Colbert because there is nothing that is better at TV than a fat Chicagoan who looks like he ought to be in.
00:40:42.000I mean, basically, if Chris Farley were alive, there is no question who plays J.B. Pritzker on SNL.
00:42:05.000Quote, I've instructed our Department of Commerce to immediately begin work on a new and highly accurate census based on modern day facts and figures.
00:42:11.000And importantly, using the results and information gained from the presidential election of 2024.
00:42:15.000People who are in our country illegally will not be counted in the census.
00:42:18.000Thank you for your attention to this matter.
00:42:20.000Now, constitutionally speaking, the census only happens once every 10 years.
00:42:23.000And so basically doing another census, you can do it, but it's not going to be accepted as the basis for congressional or electoral college representation, presumably.
00:42:32.000It would require, I think, a constitutional amendment in order to make sure that that happened.
00:42:35.000However, it would be good to know how far off the numbers were in 2020, accepted in 2021, because it has really led to the end of a sort of one-man, one-vote scenario that the Supreme Court has dictated.
00:42:47.000Joining us on the line is Senator Tim Scott.
00:42:49.000He, of course, is not just the U.S. Senator from South Carolina.
00:42:52.000He's a New York Times best-selling author and a successful small businessman.
00:42:55.000He has a brand new book out titled One Nation Always Under God: Profiles in Christian Courage Center.
00:43:00.000Scott, thanks so much for taking the time.
00:43:10.000Well, I think so, so often in a current society, we're celebrating all the wrong people doing all the wrong things.
00:43:15.000And I wanted to write a book about profiles and courage.
00:43:18.000And frankly, our foundation as a nation is based on a Judeo-Christian foundation.
00:43:23.000And the stronger we adhere to that, the brighter our future will be.
00:43:26.000So I'm looking to the future by focusing on past successful stories of ordinary people who do extraordinary things.
00:43:34.000Some people you've heard of, but others you have not heard of.
00:43:37.000So obviously, you cover a bunch of stories in your book.
00:43:40.000Is there any one that kind of jumps out at you as your favorite, the one that was closest to your heart?
00:43:45.000You know, having been raised in poverty in a single-parent household and just really disillusioned at the beginning of life, I think about the story of Horatio Spafford.
00:43:55.000Here's a guy who loses his family crossing the ocean, and he finds himself disillusioned about life.
00:44:02.000And he pins a very famous Christian hymn, It is well, it is well with my soul.
00:44:08.000And as a result of the loss of his kids, he decides he would invest his life into changing the course of history for other kids.
00:44:17.000And this man spends the rest of his life making thousands upon thousands of children's lives better.
00:44:24.000And it is a testament to standing up in the midst of the storm and believing that God can use a miserable outcome for good.
00:44:34.000Senator, obviously, everybody should go purchase the book.
00:44:37.000And meanwhile, you guys in the Senate are doing amazing work.
00:44:40.000I mean, it's been an incredible first six months of the Trump administration.
00:44:43.000I mean, really, if you had told me at the beginning of this administration that with a really thin majority in the Senate and with a bare, bare majority in the House, the Republicans would be able to get done as much as they've gotten done.
00:45:30.000He decided that the promises he was making on the campaign troll would be the promises he kept as the president of the United States.
00:45:36.000Think about tax on tips, reducing tax on Social Security, reducing tax on overtime, allowing for your interest to be deducted on an American-made car and putting the American worker first.
00:46:03.000Number one, we have the strongest economy and the best workers in the world.
00:46:06.000And number two, we made the world economy what it is.
00:46:10.000And why we have headwinds when our goods and products and services go into their countries and not when they come to our country doesn't work for the president.
00:46:37.000He closed the border, 95%, a precipitous drop in illegal border crossings.
00:46:42.000Number three, he focused on the working class and the economy, passing the first tax cuts from President Trump's first administration and making them permanent, including the business benefits and the tax cuts, tremendous surge of energy in our economy.
00:47:01.000If we can get the Fed to lower the interest rates, our economy will be on fire in a good way.
00:47:07.000So let's talk about what's next for the Senate.
00:47:09.000So obviously everything in the Senate right now rests on the ability to use reconciliation, which means that you really don't have a lot of opportunities to do legislation.
00:47:18.000You essentially have one or two basically a year.
00:47:20.000What is on the agenda for the United States Senate for the rest of this year and then going into next year as we approach the midterms?
00:47:27.000Well, as you know, Ben, we have the HR responsibilities, the human resource responsibilities.
00:47:31.000President Trump during his first administration, think about this, Ben.
00:47:35.000He had almost 100 nominees who never saw the light of day.
00:47:40.000They've never had a chance to do their job.
00:47:41.000He didn't have his full team on the field.
00:47:45.000This time, we are going to commit to getting President Trump's, not only his agenda done, but his team on the field.
00:47:52.000That means we will get these nominees done.
00:47:55.000There are about 1,200 of them that must be done.
00:47:57.000That has got to be a priority because President Trump hand chose the right people to make America great again.
00:48:04.000Number two, we have to continue to focus on getting the regulatory environment right.
00:48:09.000We've seen a lot of information, a lot of news recently as it relates to debanking, this notion of redlining, modern day redlining of partisan conservatives out of our financial institutions and disfavored industries.
00:48:24.000Think oil and gas, think gun manufacturers, think cryptocurrency, and frankly, the Trump family themselves.
00:48:32.000President Trump talked about it earlier this week, debanked.
00:48:34.000As chairman of the banking committee, it's one of the focuses I've had all year.
00:48:38.000I've passed legislation already to take that reputational risk out of our banking system.
00:48:44.000So we're going to focus on those issues that impact everyday Americans, especially those who are being discriminated against because of the partisan label they wear.
00:48:54.000And we have right-sized the government.
00:48:56.000This is absolutely astonishing to see President Trump go to work to whittle away at the swamp, as we call it.
00:49:06.000The smaller the swamp, the better it is for the American people, because you need less money in Washington, more money at home, and that makes America great again as well.
00:49:15.000So a lot of Americans right now are looking at the economy and they see a lot of the energy in the economy.
00:49:20.000They also see some sort of crosswinds, some of those from some of the tariffs that you mentioned.
00:49:24.000I mean, there's concern about obviously the jobs report from last month and then the revisions that the prior months.
00:49:29.000And putting aside what happened to the head of the BLS, these sort of generalized concern about the state of the economy.
00:49:36.000Are the tariffs and the trade barriers that we are now erecting going to undermine the capacity of American business to actually use inputs to trade freely?
00:50:28.000Well, number one, inflation is under 3%, 2.7%.
00:50:33.000Remember, under President Biden, inflation got as high as 9%.
00:50:37.000That's why there are so many people today that cannot become first-time homebuyers because interest rates follow the inflation rate, except for under President Trump when they should be coming down.
00:50:46.000Number two, think about the fact that what businesses need is certainty and predictability in order to be successful in the marketplace.
00:50:53.000The one thing I would encourage is once we get the right philosophy and formula together, let's be clear and certain as it relates to what the tariff percentage will be, period.
00:51:04.000I love the fact that talking to Kevin Hassett over in the administration, the one thing you can see very clearly is that the runway that we've given him is paying dividends for the workers and for our country.
00:52:16.000And we are really looking forward to a great race and a good, solid win and being a great governor for the state of Tennessee.
00:52:25.000So we'll get to what you've been doing in the Senate because it is amazing.
00:52:29.000But I want to start with the question as to why you want to move from the Senate, obviously, which is a very, you're in a great position in the Senate.
00:52:35.000You have a lot of power in the Senate, to the state level and move on over to the governor's house.
00:52:39.000What do you think is important that needs to get done in the state of Tennessee?
00:52:42.000Yes, as you look at what President Trump has delivered for the American people, it truly is a drain the swamp approach.
00:52:52.000And power, authority, control is going back to the states.
00:52:56.000How you deliver education and health care, how you produce energy, how you go about regulations, making certain that they're like touch and delivering benefits.
00:53:08.000So it is going to be up to our nation's governors to put in place those policies that will cement that MAGA agenda, that conservative approach to governance.
00:53:20.000It's going to be a great time to be a governor and to do a reset for the states on how they deliver services and how they conduct governance and the will of the people.
00:53:39.000And you know, Ben, when I look at it, when I was in the States Senate here in Tennessee, I led a four-year fight against imposition of a state income tax.
00:53:51.000And the people joined me and we defeated that proposal.
00:53:56.000Our state had to go through and do a reset at that point in time, reduce the budget, kind of skinny up some of the bureaucracy.
00:54:05.000And because of that, and because we have no state income tax and never will, we became one of the best in class for business, for jobs, for company relocations, best place to live, to work, to rear your family.
00:54:23.000And now is the opportunity to build on that, to reset as power comes back from the federal government.
00:54:31.000It is going to be an exciting time to lead a state.
00:54:39.000We all over the country, moved our company to Tennessee specifically for those reasons.
00:54:43.000So as governor, what are the agenda items?
00:54:45.000What are the things that you'd like to change that you think need to be strengthened?
00:54:49.000Yes, and the top three issues with Tennesseans are the economy and making certain we keep taxes low and government efficient and that we are bringing jobs, next generation jobs, world-class jobs, and having workforce education so that we have the workforce trained for those advanced manufacturing jobs that are coming back to the country.
00:55:16.000That requires the second thing they're talking about, world-class education for our children and making certain that there are opportunities that are opened for our kids so that our kids can dream those big dreams and right here in Tennessee, make those dreams come true.
00:55:36.000And the third thing we hear a lot about is crime and immigration, public safety.
00:55:41.000People are very concerned about crime.
00:55:43.000You look at what has happened in Memphis and the crime rates that are there.
00:55:48.000People want to see the crime under control.
00:55:52.000And this ties into immigration and some of the gangs and traffickers that have entered the country during the Biden administration.
00:56:03.000Another thing we hear about, and the fourth component, is access to affordable health care.
00:56:10.000And Tennessee is truly a health care hub.
00:56:14.000When you look at the innovation that is taking place in the mid-state area, having the ability to change how people access health care because of the way CMS and Dr. Oz and Secretary Kennedy are sending the power back to the states on that delivery.
00:56:37.000So, you know, you've been doing a lot of these things at the federal level, obviously, and clearing the way for, as you say, states to be able to pick up the baton and run with it.
00:56:45.000So let's talk about your record in the Senate because obviously a really good record to run on.
00:56:48.000So you've been in the Senate since 2019, and the last couple of years in particular have been very, very strong.
00:56:55.000President Trump, last six months particularly, have been incredibly strong for the U.S. Senate.
00:57:02.000Actually, we had Senator Scott on earlier and he was pointing out that, you know, you guys have a very slim majority.
00:57:08.000You and I have been talking about this, a very slim majority, and say, yet you've been able to get done some pretty significant work for the American people.
00:57:26.000He made promises, and it's been up to us to help keep those promises.
00:57:32.000We have been in session longer than any Senate in history, 750 hours so far.
00:57:41.000We've taken over 450 votes and we approved President Trump's cabinet in record time.
00:57:50.000We got the big, beautiful bill through.
00:57:52.000And look at everything we got into that, the largest tax cut in U.S. history.
00:57:59.000We also restored R ⁇ D. We restored bonus depreciation and interest expensing, 199A pass-throughs for our small businesses.
00:58:11.000We were able to do no tax on tips or overtime.
00:58:15.000And my provision, removing the income tax off Social Security for a nation seniors, I also had a provision in there that is employer-provided child care tax credit.
00:58:30.000And we have that for small, medium, and large businesses to incentivize employers to provide child care for their workforce.
00:58:40.000The death tax, being able to lift that exemption to $15 million per individual, that allows your farmers and your small business owners to pass on those assets and those businesses to the next generation.
00:59:01.000Yeah, so when you look at all that record and look at what you could do in the state, I mean, I think that what you're talking about, the power reverting back to the states, I think it's not just important now.
00:59:08.000It's important now, but President Trump is president.
00:59:11.000It became really important as we saw during COVID and in the days afterward when Joe Biden became president, that the power reverting back to the states.
00:59:18.000The states are the bulwark against a future that is uncertain.
00:59:22.000I mean, hopefully Republicans retain power, continue to do great things.
00:59:26.000But if a Democrat becomes president of the United States, then having a Republican governor like you in Tennessee obviously is going to make all the difference for the state.
00:59:32.000It will indeed, because you can continue to push those provisions forward that President Trump has returned to the states.
00:59:43.000As we talk about having hyperscalers and energy needs and so many people moving to Tennessee, that increases the need for electric power generation and having that baseload power and being able to innovate in the states and also permitting and regulation.
01:00:04.000As the president pushes for one-stop permitting and simplified regulation, then a state like Tennessee that has Oak Ridge National Labs, that has the TVA, we should be the nation's leader in how you innovate in power generation.
01:00:23.000So while you're running for governor, obviously you're still serving in the Senate.
01:00:27.000So what can we expect from the Senate in the next couple of years?
01:00:30.000Obviously, it's a rough road because you have to use reconciliation in order to get pretty much anything done.
01:00:34.000Well, and what we're doing is moving forward, let me lay out a couple of things that we are hard at work on.
01:00:40.000One is protections for consumers and children in the virtual space.
01:00:45.000We have never passed a federally preemptive online privacy policy.
01:00:53.000That is something that has just not gotten done.
01:00:58.000I'm chairman of privacy, technology, and the law at the Senate Judiciary Committee.
01:01:05.000Amy Klobuchar out of Minnesota is the ranking member there.
01:01:09.000We are working on a broad-based privacy bill.
01:01:14.000We also have AI protections that we are doing for our entertainers and artists and podcasters and people that do training online, being able to protect their name, image, likeness, and voice.
01:01:32.000And we'll get that pushed through the Kids Online Safety Act that Senator Blumenthal and I have done.
01:01:40.000We should be able to get that across the finish line.
01:01:46.000Now, you're also going to see us do a second reconciliation bill in the fall and a third one next year.
01:01:56.000So continuing to do permanence on tax policy is going to be an imperative.
01:02:03.000And we have a lot of ideas for tax credits and deductions that would help in Synth the economy, things that President Trump wants to move forward on.
01:02:15.000We also are looking at some of this waste and fraud in Medicare and Medicaid and continuing to root that out.
01:02:25.000Upcoding is a policy, a provision that people use to charge more for Medicare services.
01:02:34.000You see a lot of this in Medicare Advantage.
01:02:39.000We will go after ways that we're going to deal with strengthening the U.S. economy by getting the cost of living under control.
01:02:50.000And we'll do some of this through taxes, tariffs, trade policy that the president is really leading on.
01:02:58.000And what a difference that Is making for thousands of small business owners in Tennessee.
01:03:05.000Being able to get the taxes lower, being able to have a broader-based and fair tariff policy that is not going to hurt our manufacturers, but is going to help them do manufacturing here in the USA.
01:03:23.000So, are you concerned at all about the tariff policies?
01:03:26.000Obviously, the tariffs are much, much higher than they've been in decades in the United States.
01:03:30.000It's certainly a heterodox move by President Trump to sort of reset the table with regard to tariffs.
01:03:50.000Well, I think you have to look at a couple of things.
01:03:53.000Number one, we had the first budget surplus we've had in over three decades in the month of June.
01:04:01.000And that happened because of the tariff policy.
01:04:06.000And the second thing on the jobs numbers, what you have to look at is the fact that the federal government, your state governments, and your local governments have started to review their bureaucracy and to eliminate positions that are no longer necessary and to utilize technology.
01:04:32.000And President Trump is working us through this transition, freezing federal hiring, making certain that the bureaucracy is skinnying up, closing down the U.S. Department of Education.
01:04:48.000And Secretary McMahon is doing a masterful job there.
01:04:52.000You look at what Secretary Rollins is doing at USDA.
01:04:57.000They've sent about half their employees out of D.C. and into offices across the country.
01:05:06.000So as you do this reset, of course, you're not going to have those government jobs, which look at the Biden years and the reports there.
01:05:16.000They bolstered their employment numbers by hiring, having people hired by government entities.
01:05:25.000So obviously, it's going to be a fascinating race.
01:05:31.000President Trump, obviously, and you get along very, very famously.
01:05:35.000So presumably, President Trump is going to come down and campaign for you, I assume.
01:05:39.000Well, we're working hard every single day to make certain that we earn that support from President Trump.
01:05:47.000Indeed, I have worked very closely with him since that 2016 campaign.
01:05:53.000And as you look at his first administration and now the first six months of this second administration, we have gotten so much done for the American people and will continue to do that.
01:06:09.000And then with our states, being able to scoop up what he is sending back to the states and local governments and make certain we cement that conservative approach, that conservative agenda.
01:06:23.000This is something that is going to get our country back on the right track.
01:06:27.000America first, America prosperous, America safe, America healthy.