Well, it finally happened. Kamala Harris did a sit-down interview for all of, get this, she talked for 16 minutes 16 seconds. It was huge. We ll get into all the details of this massive moment in American political history, and what it means for a vibe shift in the election. But let me remind you, we re giving you like, real-time updates on all this sort of stuff. Last night, put out a video reacting in real time to what was going on with the interview, you ll get those kinds of updates every step of the way through the end of the election and beyond. When you become a DailyWire Plus member, you get 40% off new annual Dailywire Plus memberships during our Labor Day Sale. Use code LABEL40 at checkout. Unlock on-demand access to our uncensored daily shows, groundbreaking documentaries, and groundbreaking election coverage. Join us as we fight the left and build the future. Frankly, your membership allows us to bring you all sorts of updates on the election, and the rest of it, and all the other things we re covering the midterms and beyond! Again, go to Dailywire.co/Dailywire and join us as a DailywirePlus member! Today s episode is a Labor Day sale! Subscribe to our new weekly newsletter! - use code Labor40 to save 40% on your first month's mail-in rate and get 10% off the entire month of your entire month! If you re-up your rate plan, you re getting 40% all month long mail-only deal! Use discount code: WOLAFIVE! at Labor40! Want more than $40? and get 20% off your first-month mailbag discount when you sign up for a maximum of $99 a month, and get an ad-free version of the DailyWirePlus membership? Use the discount of $50 and a FREE VIP membership when you shop at $99 gets you get 4 months get $40% OFF your ad-only offer, plus an additional 3 months get an extra $5,000 in-depth VIP membership offer, and you get 7 months get 3 months of VIP membership and access to VIP access and 2-months get a discount, and they get VIP access, and 5-choice pricing starts starting starting starting at $39,99 a year get $24,49 a month get $4,99
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00:00:55.000Okay, so let me begin with the state of the race.
00:01:02.000I always begin with the state of the race because you can't really gauge a success or failure at any political moment in time unless you know the backdrop.
00:01:25.000However, the margin of error is plus or minus 2.5 percentage points.
00:01:30.000And remember, when they say that the margin of error is 2.5 percentage points, they mean that if Kamala Harris is at 47%, she could be at 49.5 and she could also be at 44.5.
00:01:40.000So in other words, you have no idea who is leading this race.
00:02:13.000See, here's the thing about that interview.
00:02:15.000Deanna Bash, who's the interviewer for CNN, did a horrifyingly bad job.
00:02:19.000She would ask a somewhat difficult question to Kamala Harris, and then Kamala Harris would wriggle her way out of the question, and then Deanna Bash would be one question away from just poking her, and Kamala Harris could have been flying off the cliff, because the thing she was saying made no sense.
00:03:28.000They wanted to do it with people sitting around, but the problem was they had safety protocols, so they couldn't do that.
00:03:33.000So instead, they emptied out the cafe.
00:03:35.000So as my friend Matt Walsh says, They look like they were doing this from the inside of a small town airport waiting because there was a flight delay.
00:03:43.000Not only that, this thing was staged poorly.
00:03:47.000Tim Walz is taller than Kamala Harris.
00:04:33.000And she needs to look taller than she is.
00:04:36.000She requires bright colors around her because that makes her look vibrant and filled with joy.
00:04:42.000You put her in a black and white movie at an abandoned coffee shop in Georgia, and what she looks like is a middle manager at a bank that is never going to make up her management because she's not qualified, and who brought her dad to an interview.
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00:06:09.000The big takeaways from this interview are a few.
00:06:12.000One, Kamala Harris is now attempting to obscure every policy position she ever took.
00:06:17.000She's now attempting to pretend that she didn't believe any of the things she said back in 2019.
00:06:22.000She's running to the middle by lying to you.
00:06:53.000Wandering all over the landscape in search of an idea.
00:06:57.000Filling the time with bromitic platitudes.
00:07:01.000Like, when we think about the significance of.
00:07:04.000She does the same trick that you did when you were in fifth grade and the teacher asked you a prompt on an essay question and you repeated the essay question as the beginning of your essay.
00:07:14.000So, your teacher would ask you about Tom Sawyer.
00:07:18.000Why did Tom Sawyer get his friends to paint the fence?
00:07:21.000The importance of Tom Sawyer getting his friends to paint the fence.
00:07:24.000That's what she does whenever she needs to stall for time.
00:07:46.000She does not look comfortable with Tim Walz.
00:07:47.000They do not look like they have an amazing dual dynamic unless they're actually on the move and bopping about town.
00:07:53.000The minute they sit down and have to talk about policy, she looks like a person who should never be elevated again above middle management.
00:07:59.000She does not have natural leadership quality.
00:08:01.000She's not sitting there confidently telling you her positions.
00:08:05.000She looks as though she's filing through very slowly, because she's not all that bright, the note cards in her head, looking for what she needs to say about a thing, because even she doesn't know what she believes about the thing.
00:08:16.000And Tim Walz doesn't know what she believes about the thing.
00:08:19.000So just the kind of general affect, off-putting, awkward, sort of strange, didn't feel particularly like a joyous inauguration.
00:08:45.000And that's putting aside all the lies, and all the prevarications, and Dana Bash not following up, and Tim Walz doing his best used car salesman routine.
00:08:59.000Because we've set the bar on American politics so low that if she didn't physically crap her pants like Joe Biden had been doing, then this meant that she was some sort of apotheosis of articulateness.
00:09:14.000If Kamala Harris's campaign is all about vibes, if it's all about the dancing, and if it's all about the cooking, and if it's all about her getting Doritos, if it's all about that, then Kamala Harris is in good shape.
00:09:25.000If, for just one single solitary second, the joy is drained, and what you actually feel like is that you're at the DMV with a person who's not particularly good at her job, she has a serious problem on her hands, and that's what it felt like last night.
00:11:11.000And Tim Walz, there is the happy Corgi.
00:11:13.000I see the media got very angry at my Corgi metaphor yesterday.
00:11:17.000Yes, folks, it's a metaphor and a joke.
00:11:19.000I'm sorry that you don't like metaphors and jokes about the Minnesota Corgi, who, by the way, proved that he is an idiot last night, as we will demonstrate.
00:11:27.000Well, while the media get mad because I made a corgi joke about Tim Walz, it turns out serious things are in fact happening in the world.
00:11:32.000The IDF is on high alert in preparation for an Iranian attack right now.
00:11:36.000Hospitals have already prepared themselves to deal with mass casualties.
00:11:39.000Major airlines have halted all flights in Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv.
00:11:42.000Israelis have been told to prepare for at least three days without power and electricity.
00:11:46.000In the event of such an attack, Israelis across the country could be forced to spend days or weeks in bomb shelters.
00:11:51.000While those shelters keep Israelis safe, they do need to be equipped with basic essentials for survival, like food and water.
00:12:41.000Okay, so, Dana Bash, her first question was, what are you gonna do day one?
00:12:45.000Now, this is legitimately the easiest question in American politics.
00:12:49.000If you have spent any amount of time in American politics, and you've ever thought about running for president, or what you would do as president, the first thing you think is, what would I do day one?
00:12:57.000You could have asked Joe Biden this question anytime in 2020, and he would have listed off a bunch of things.
00:13:02.000Donald Trump can tell you today, what would he do on the very first day?
00:13:06.000This is the most predictable, obvious, and easy question.
00:13:09.000And all Kamala Harris has to say about this question is, I would close the border.
00:13:15.000The problem for her is that she's the current vice president of the United States.
00:13:19.000So anything she says that is an executive policy shift is an inherent rebuke of the current president, who is her boss.
00:13:29.000If she says, I'm gonna do all these world-beating changes, day one, the follow-up from Dana could theoretically be, so why don't you do them now?
00:13:35.000As we'll see, she did actually ask that question a little bit later on in the interview.
00:13:39.000So, Kamala Harris, the problem for her is that she actually hasn't thought about these things, like at all.
00:13:43.000Kamala Harris is simply an empty vessel doing whatever the party machine says she ought to do at any given time.
00:13:49.000That means in 2019, she's anti-fracking, and today, she loves fracking.
00:13:53.000It means that in 2019, she was open borders, and today, she's a border hawk.
00:13:57.000Kamala Harris is a fresh coat of paint on a turd.
00:15:06.000I think sadly in the last decade we have had in the former president someone who has really been pushing an agenda and an environment that is about diminishing the character and the strength of who we are as Americans.
00:15:25.000Okay, that is an objectively awful answer.
00:15:28.000That's an objectively terrible answer.
00:15:29.000Let me remind you, the actual question was, if you are elected, what would you do on day one in the White House?
00:15:35.000Now, I'm gonna break this down for a second, because it is everything.
00:15:38.000It is who Kamala Harris is as a human and as a politician.
00:15:41.000She said, well, there are a number of things.
00:15:42.000Hey, now, when you say there are a number of things, what you would expect is now a list of executive actions you would take on the very first day.
00:16:31.000That's not an actual thing you can do on day one because that's nothing, it's nothing.
00:16:35.000She follows up that nothing burger with this nothing burger.
00:16:38.000When I look at the aspirations, the goals, the ambitions of the American people, again, totally meaningless phrase, totally, totally.
00:16:45.000When I look at the goals, aspirations, achievements, wants, needs, desires of the American, it just gets out that Roget's thesaurus and starts going right through it.
00:16:55.000I think people are ready for a new way forward.
00:16:57.000Oh my gosh, as opposed to a new way backward, of course, a new way forward.
00:17:01.000In a way, the generations of Americans have been fueled by hope and by optimism.
00:17:04.000Okay, we are now a full paragraph deep and she has said zero things.
00:17:20.000And then she says, I think sadly, at least in the last decade, we've had in the former president, someone who's really been pushing an agenda and an environment.
00:17:26.000Okay, now I'm just going to point out, the last decade, that's a period of time.
00:17:30.000And as we will know from Kamala Harris, she thinks a lot about the significance of the passage of time.
00:18:49.000Day one, it's going to be about, one, implementing my plan for what I call an opportunity economy.
00:18:53.000Oh, what you call an opportunity economy.
00:18:55.000I've already laid out a number of proposals in that regard, which include what we're going to do to bring down the cost of everyday goods, what we're going to do to invest in America's small businesses, what we're going to do to invest... That's another paragraph of nothing.
00:19:06.000In families, for example, extending the child tax credit to $6,000 for families for the first year of their child's life to help them buy a car seat, to help them buy baby clothes, a crib.
00:19:19.000There's the work that we're gonna do that is about investing in the American family around affordable housing, a big issue in our country right now.
00:19:28.000So there are a number of things on day one.
00:19:30.000So literally the only proposal that's concrete that she makes there is to extend the child tax credit to $6,000.
00:19:35.000Which is effectively a welfare scheme.
00:19:38.000I mean, that is what she wants to do, is give more money to people.
00:19:40.000By the way, it's not earmarked for their spending.
00:20:12.000One of your campaign themes is we're not going back.
00:20:15.000But I wonder what you say to voters who do want to go back when it comes to the economy specifically because their groceries were less expensive, housing was more affordable when Donald Trump was president.
00:20:29.000Well, let's start with the fact that when Joe Biden and I came in office during the height of a pandemic, we saw over 10 million jobs were lost.
00:20:41.000People, I mean, literally, we were all tracking the numbers.
00:20:46.000Hundreds of people a day were dying because of COVID.
00:21:06.000Okay, so I want to point out right here, this is where Dan and Bash should jump in and say, Donald Trump's inflation rate when he left office was 1.4%.
00:21:51.000Which is why my agenda includes what we need to do to bring down the price of groceries.
00:21:55.000For example, dealing with an issue like price gouging.
00:21:57.000What we need to do to extend the child tax credit to help young families be able to take care of their children in their most formative years.
00:22:06.000What we need to do to bring Okay, so this is where Tana Bash theoretically should dig in, right?
00:22:10.000She should say to her, okay, let's talk about price gouging.
00:22:13.000Do you really believe that food is too expensive because the people over at Kroger's and Publix and Ralph's are just really, really great?
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00:24:36.000I maintain that when we do the work of bringing down prescription medication for the American people, including capping the cost of the annual cost of prescription medication for seniors at $2,000, when we do what we did... Okay, and then she just word salads this thing.
00:24:51.000Okay, so, again, do you get the feeling from her this is a woman who is confident in her ability to handle crisis?
00:24:56.000This is a person who is solid in her belief system?
00:25:23.000Now, the real reason that she brought Tim Walz there, not just because he's an emotional support animal and because she was hoping that he would eat up some time if things started to get a little bit dicey, but also because she is hoping that having appeared now with Tim Walz, she can avoid all further interviews until after the debate.
00:25:39.000That's going to be the outcome of this.
00:25:40.000She will not do another major quote-unquote adversarial interview for another two weeks.
00:25:45.000She's gonna wait until the ballots start going out.
00:25:46.000And she's gonna count on the American people being stupid enough to be willing to gamble on her despite the fact that she's a liar about everything and has shifted all of her positions.
00:26:08.000This shiny, brand-new object has been dented.
00:26:11.000Not by Dana Bash, but by Kamala Harris herself, who's not good at this.
00:26:14.000So, perhaps the most damaging segment of this interview is where Dana Bash asked, you know, when you were in Congress, you supported the Green New Deal and you wanted to ban fracking, so what changed for you?
00:26:26.000When you were in Congress, you supported the Green New Deal.
00:26:30.000And in 2019, you said, quote, there is no question I'm in favor of banning fracking.
00:26:35.000Fracking, as you know, is a pretty big issue, particularly in your must-win state of Pennsylvania.
00:26:43.000No, and I made that clear on the debate stage in 2020, that I would not ban fracking.
00:26:49.000As vice president, I did not ban fracking.
00:26:51.000As president, I will not ban fracking.
00:26:55.000In 2019, I believe, at a town hall, you said, you were asked, would you commit to implementing a federal ban on fracking on your first day in office?
00:27:03.000And you said, there's no question I'm in favor of banning fracking.
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00:30:27.000You couldn't for anyone who watches politics.
00:30:30.000If you woke me up at 3 in the morning and asked my position on abortion, I actually could give it to you.
00:30:34.000If you woke Kamala Harris at three in the morning and said, what do you believe about fracking today?
00:30:38.000She would immediately have to fire off an angry letter to her inferiors, trying to have them explain what is the best position she should take at this very moment.
00:32:18.000Joe Biden and I, and our administration, worked with members of the United States Congress on an immigration- Okay, and then she blames Trump.
00:32:26.000Okay, again, there's no answer to this.
00:32:28.000So Bash asks, again, in 2019, you raised your hand when you were asked whether the border should be decriminalized.
00:32:33.000And then Kamala's like, but I was a tough-on-crime prosecutor.
00:34:04.000And the way I can tell she's stupid is because she answers questions the same way a college freshman would in their first Intro to Philosophy class.
00:34:13.000It is total, nonsensical, gobbledygook, jargony trash.
00:34:19.000How should voters look at some of the changes that you've made, that you've explained some of here, in your policy?
00:34:28.000Is it because you have more experience now and you've learned more about the information?
00:34:33.000Because you were running for president in a Democratic primary, and should they feel comfortable and confident that what you're saying now is going to be your policy moving forward?
00:34:43.000Dana, I think the most important and most significant aspect of my policy perspective and decisions is my values have not changed.
00:34:57.000I have always believed, and I have worked on it, that the climate crisis is real, that it is an urgent matter, to which we should apply metrics that include holding ourselves to deadlines around time.
00:35:40.000All she had to say there was, my values have not changed.
00:35:43.000Then she says, you mentioned the Green New Deal.
00:35:45.000I have always believed, and I have worked on it, that the climate crisis is real, that it is an urgent matter to which we should apply metrics that include holding ourselves to deadlines around time.
00:35:55.000Wow, deep thoughts, deadlines around time?
00:35:58.000My God, you mean as opposed to deadlines around space?
00:36:42.000And then it turns out that you found a stupid person and the stupid person that you picked for vice president was the only person you could consolidate around.
00:36:51.000And then she gives stupid answers because she's stupid.
00:37:10.000I know, I hold myself to the standard of, you know, there was a time when Abraham Lincoln was the President of the United States.
00:37:15.000But hell, there was a time when Bill Clinton, who was a pretty smart guy, was president of the United States, even if he was wrong about a lot of things.
00:37:21.000Even Barack Obama was a fairly smart individual.
00:37:24.000This person is stuuupid with eight Os in the middle.
00:37:28.000And they keep trying to pretend that there is something there.
00:37:43.000They have to keep her away from the cameras.
00:37:45.000In a second, we'll get to the person she picked for her second in command, Tim Walls, who just... When I said that he is a stupid corgi, when I said that he's got the dumb sitcom dad energy, He then went out and actually just did it.
00:37:59.000He actually just did it in this interview.
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00:40:14.000Dana Bash was handing her questions on a silver platter, questions for which she should have been amply prepared, and she was incapable of answering any of those questions.
00:40:23.000By the way, one additional answer she should have had prepared here.
00:40:27.000So, um, Dana Bash did ask her about Joe Biden's capacity to do four more years.
00:40:33.000She said, you know, you're a big defender of Joe Biden, saying that Joe Biden was with us.
00:40:38.000And it turns out that Joe Biden wasn't with us.
00:41:03.000Either he's incapable of being president and the candidate, or he's fully capable, in which case, you shouldn't be here, I should be interviewing the old man.
00:41:10.000The Kamala Harris is stuck between a rock and a hard place because Democrats want it both ways.
00:41:32.000Not at all. I have served with President Biden for almost four years now, and I'll tell you,
00:41:40.000it's one of the greatest honors of my career, truly. He cares so deeply about the American
00:41:47.000people. He is so smart and loyal to the American people.
00:41:55.000And I have spent hours upon hours with him, be it in the Oval Office or the Situation Room.
00:42:01.000He has the intelligence, the commitment, and the judgment and disposition that I think the American people rightly deserve in their president.
00:42:13.000By contrast, the former president has none of that.
00:42:16.000Of course, the last three and a half years has been part of your administration.
00:42:23.000ago where there is some suggestion warped I believe it to be that the
00:42:32.000measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down. She's so
00:42:35.000terrible she's so terrible again where's the follow-up why didn't Dan ask
00:42:40.000You keep talking about him in these glowing terms.
00:42:41.000In fact, if I played an interview of you now talking about Joe Biden, an interview before he dropped out, and before the debate, they'd be identical.
00:42:52.000If he's incapable, why don't you use the 25th Amendment to get the man who's had a clear schedule for the last two weeks in the middle of an international crisis in the Middle East, in Ukraine, a lot of bad stuff happening, where is he?
00:44:29.000I speak candidly, I wear my emotions on my sleeves and I speak especially passionately about our children being shot in schools and around guns.
00:44:39.000So I think people know me, they know who I am, they know where my heart is and again my record has been out there for over 40 years to speak for itself.
00:44:49.000The idea that you said that you were in war.
00:47:32.000Honestly, the most amusing part of this interview, was when Kamala Harris started to tell the story of how she found out that Joe Biden had dropped out of the race.
00:47:39.000I do love it when interview subjects will turn to an interviewer and do what Kamala does right here, which is she says to Tana, I'm going to give you a little, you know, I don't want to give too much information.
00:51:21.000I think she did what she needed to do.
00:51:23.000What she needed to do was be the same person that people have seen on the stage for the last month and have seen a new sense of sort of confidence, of calm and comfortable comfort that we haven't seen before.
00:51:40.000I think there's been a consistent story of growth.
00:51:45.000I also think to the question about how policy positions have changed.
00:51:48.000They were clearly ready with an answer about how the values have been consistent.
00:51:52.000It's really interesting because for someone who doesn't want to talk about race and gender, who doesn't want to kind of put that identity forward, it is allowing her to make the case of change without kind of saying those words.
00:52:03.000And so I thought that was really in the air of this speech.
00:52:32.000Meanwhile, the Trump campaign is on the offense as they need to be.
00:52:36.000So yesterday, the Trump campaign released an immediate ad after Kamala Harris said that her values had not changed, putting forward like, yeah, we know her values haven't changed because she's a radical and she always was.
00:52:58.000And you can talk about if you're the wokest or woker, but just stay more woke than less woke.
00:53:04.000The people who are convicted, in prison, like the Boston Marathon bomber, on death row, people who are convicted of sexual assault, they shouldn't be able to vote.
00:53:13.000I think we should have that conversation.
00:53:15.000What would you do about the millions of, specifically, assault weapons that are already in circulation?
00:53:59.000I am opposed to any policy that would deny in our country any human being from access to public safety, public education, or public health.
00:55:30.000She cares about keeping that Democratic Party machine happy.
00:55:33.000Meanwhile, Nicole Shanahan, who was the vice presidential running mate for RFK Jr., who has now dropped out and endorsed Donald Trump, she released a kind of fun ad in which she went after Trump derangement syndrome.
00:55:45.000Are you or your loved ones suffering from illnesses such as TDS, also known as Trump Derangement Syndrome?
00:55:50.000Do you dismiss or deny the current issues facing our country, such as historic inflation, illegal immigration, corporate corruption, World War III escalations, and the chronic disease epidemic?
00:56:02.000Are you willing to elect someone who was the least popular vice president in modern history, and who offers no policy or vision for America, simply because your brain keeps telling you anyone but Trump?
00:56:12.000If so, you might be struggling from TDS.
00:56:37.000With independence, I now realize the media is run by the Democrat elite, who are a corrupt oligarchy that censors free speech, silences political opponents, supports forever wars, and abandons democracy by anointing its candidates.
00:56:52.000If you enjoy being lied to about your president's cognitive abilities, support Orwellian totalitarianism, or are excited about communist fiscal policy, independence may not be right for you.
00:57:03.000Common side effects of independence may include an awakening of rational thought, successfully identifying propaganda, freedom of choice, loss of hatred, anti-narcissistic behavior, and love of democracy.
00:57:16.000I used to blindly hate whoever my party was running against.
00:57:19.000I didn't care about facts or policy because I was hopelessly indoctrinated.
00:57:23.000With independence, I'm much more interested in policies that uphold democracy, and I truly care about the health of our country and its citizens.
00:57:29.000Ask your doctor if independence is right for you, and enjoy your freedoms once again.
00:57:38.000And meanwhile, unfortunately, Donald Trump is not escaping the maw of his own missteps.
00:57:44.000So Donald Trump is running against a very weak Kamala Harris.
00:57:48.000She's made clear she doesn't have any cognitive abilities to put together two sentences without relying on platitudes and bromides and wandering around in rhetorical circles.
00:57:58.000But Trump stepped in it pretty bad yesterday.
00:58:01.000So Donald Trump He was talking about, he was asking about Amendment 4 in Florida.
00:58:05.000So we discussed Amendment 4 in Florida.
00:58:06.000Amendment 4 is a constitutional referendum that would effectively extend abortion to birth.
00:58:13.000So in the state of Florida, the state of Florida has a heartbeat law.
00:58:16.000The heartbeat law says no abortion except under certain mitigating circumstances past fetal heartbeat, which is about six weeks.
00:58:23.000Donald Trump's position on this, supposedly, he wants it always.
00:58:26.000So he has said before that he is, he wants abortion exceptions for life of the mother, but that's about it.
00:58:32.000So then he's asked about voting for Amendment 4.
00:58:35.000Now again, Amendment 4 is an incredibly radical proposition.
00:58:37.000It's worded vaguely, but it's very radical.
00:58:39.000It gets rid of the mandate for parental consent for abortion in the state of Florida.
00:58:45.000It extends the quote-unquote right to abortion all the way up to birth in the state of Florida.
00:58:49.000It's as liberal a policy as New York would push.
00:59:06.000All he has to say is, my position on Amendment 4 as a voter in the state of Florida is irrelevant to what I will do as President of the United States.
00:59:36.000In Florida, the state that you are a resident of, there's an abortion-related amendment on the ballot to overturn the six-week ban in Florida.
00:59:46.000Well, I think the six-week is too short.
00:59:48.000It has to be more time, and so that's... And I've told them that I want more weeks.
00:59:53.000So you'll vote in favor of the amendment?
00:59:54.000I'm voting that... I am going to be voting that we need more than six weeks.
00:59:58.000Okay, but... Okay, that wasn't the question.
01:00:00.000Now, my guess is Trump doesn't know what Amendment 4 actually says or what it does.
01:00:05.000Right, so I think that people are over-reading his comments there, both on the pro-life side and on the pro-choice side.
01:00:09.000So I think on the pro-choice side, they're reading that as, that guy, he just completely broke his pro-life support because he's gonna support an amendment that enshrines abortion as a right till birth.
01:00:17.000And on the pro-life side, there are many people who are panicking and doing the same thing, saying, oh, look at that, he endorsed the radical Soros, it is a Soros-backed proposition on the ballot.
01:00:35.000I mean, literally the same day that he said that, he also said this at his rally about his abortion beliefs on a personal level.
01:00:41.000And I happen to believe in the exceptions Ronald Reagan did for life of the mother.
01:00:47.000The exceptions, probably 90% of the people do.
01:00:51.000Okay, but presumably, in all the other cases, he's pro-life.
01:00:54.000So in other words, he's being inarticulate.
01:00:57.000Now, I have faith, I believe, that Donald Trump will see the error of attempting to give Democrats what they want on Amendment 4.
01:01:03.000It would be a disaster for the state of Florida.
01:01:05.000It would be a disaster federally, because a lot of other states would then enshrine the same sorts of anti-life laws.
01:01:12.000So I think that what he will end up saying is something like what I'm saying right now, which is I'm not in favor of any federal legislation.
01:01:17.000The good thing about getting rid of Roe is that it got kicked back to the states.
01:01:20.000How I vote as a voter in the state of Florida is frankly none of your business because it has nothing to do with how I'm going to govern on the federal level.
01:01:27.000I already told you what I'm going to do on the federal level.
01:01:31.000My guess is that's probably what he will end up doing.
01:01:34.000But it's causing a lot of heartburn at a time when all the focus should be on Kamala Harris' utter incompetence and inability to complete a fully content-filled paragraph when asked a simple question.
01:01:45.000Joining us online is the star of the new film, Reagan, along with Dennis Quaid, Jon Voight.
01:01:50.000Jon plays former KGB agent Viktor Petrovich, whose life becomes inextricably linked with Ronald Reagan's.
01:01:56.000It's basically through his eyes that you see Reagan's story.
01:01:58.000Jon, thanks so much for joining the show.
01:02:03.000So, Jon, why don't you tell me how you first got involved in this project?
01:02:05.000I know this one has been years and years in the making.
01:02:09.000Yeah, well, they came to me a couple of years ago.
01:02:12.000This was supposed to go out a year and a half ago, I guess.
01:02:17.000But the COVID hit, and then there was the strike, and then there was some difficulty with getting the CGI right, because it's tough on a On a certain kind of budget, you have to get everything in place before you go back to the CGI.
01:02:36.000So it was pushed back to this date, and it's a very good thing it was, really, because it's much more relevant at this time.
01:02:44.000Quite amazingly relevant, in a way, because of certain events that happened.
01:02:50.000So why don't we talk about the relevance of the film?
01:02:52.000Obviously, you know, there are people like me.
01:02:54.000I was four years old when Ronald Reagan left office.
01:02:56.000Obviously, I know a fair bit about Reagan because I've read about Reagan.
01:02:58.000But for many voters, they don't know the Ronald Reagan era.
01:03:02.000They don't know Ronald Reagan's story.
01:03:03.000So this may be their first introduction to Ronald Reagan as a man and as a president.
01:03:07.000Why do you think that's so relevant to people today?
01:03:11.000Well, first of all, it's a story of a good president, a fellow who really did things quite well.
01:03:16.000And it shows the The ups and downs, the real weight of the presidency and how you deal with these serious issues on a daily basis.
01:03:29.000How does one keep one's head and make the proper decisions?
01:03:38.000You know you're going to go through a tremendous amount of very serious stuff as a president of the United States.
01:04:20.000The love story is very beautiful and it's a very moving piece.
01:04:25.000But also, it gives people a very good perspective on what must be the kind of character you have to have to be President of the United States.
01:04:35.000John, one of the fascinating things about your character is obviously because the movie is done sort of through your vantage point as a former KGB agent reviewing the story, it's a reminder, I think, to a lot of Americans who really don't remember the Soviet Union, just how evil the Soviet Union was and the size of the enemy that the United States had to take on from the rise of the Russian Revolution all the way until the fall of the Soviet Union.
01:04:56.000Maybe you can talk a little bit about that threat.
01:05:20.000And there's a menu that was explained in a book by Ben Carson recently, and a book that came out in 1958 by a former FBI agent, who put out the menu of the KGB.
01:05:38.000Nobody paid much attention to it, apparently, although it was in the congressional record.
01:05:43.000All these things that they intended, let me give you just a small list.
01:05:48.000They intended to take over the universities.
01:05:51.000Their intention was to take God out of the schools, to create dissension between people based on race, based on gender, based on age, to take over Both parties, both political parties, if possible, to take over the press, to take over Hollywood, and all of this was laid out.
01:06:23.000And if you read some of it, it's awfully clever.
01:06:25.000They know our situation, they know our society very, very well, and they know how to damage it.
01:06:31.000So that's what they set out to do as early, and we were on it, or somebody was on it, this FBI agent who wrote this book, The Naked Communist, in 1958.
01:06:45.000We knew about it, but we didn't find our way to doing too much about it.
01:06:52.000And so we're left, when I look at it, and I did a lot of research, of course, to do this role.
01:06:59.000When I see it now, I say, well, they've pretty much accomplished everything.
01:07:03.000But these were long-term objectives that they had.
01:07:06.000They had a three-tier objective to take over the United States, and we're seeing almost You know, they must be amazed that they accomplished so much.
01:07:20.000But then, of course, Reagan came along and dissolved the Soviet Union.
01:07:26.000So that was put on pause, but they'd already set it in motion.
01:07:31.000And many, many of the villains we see today are standing on that menu right now and delivering.
01:07:40.000And John, one of the fascinating things about your character, obviously, again, you're playing a former KGB agent who's sort of viewing Reagan's life because you're following him throughout his life from his rise as head of the Screen Actors Guild all the way to the presidency.
01:07:51.000But one of the things, I mean, you're an amazing actor, obviously, and what that means is that you have to inhabit the part.
01:07:57.000And so there are very few people in the world on planet Earth who have ever thought of themselves as evil while doing evil.
01:08:03.000What did it mean to actually play a KGB agent?
01:08:06.000How did you get yourself into that role?
01:08:09.000Well, I visited the Soviet Union at the end, in 1991, when it was falling apart, and I had a great A way of connecting with the people because I was working on a film there, the first film that they had allowed in to film.
01:08:31.000And we filmed in Moscow and we filmed in Ukraine, actually, where Chernobyl happened.
01:08:36.000It was part of the Soviet Union at that time.
01:08:40.000And I saw the terrible state of this communist influence on Russia.
01:08:48.000And I met a lot of the people, and the people were really suffering.
01:08:52.000I would say that communism brings misery.
01:09:09.000They were frightened, perhaps, or just sad, and I felt for the people, and I got to know a few people, and I said, you know, this will turn around, I said to this woman, lovely woman, who spoke English, taught English in a Russian school, and she was very unhappy with the state of affairs, and explained, said to me, you know, This is never going to change, John.
01:09:41.000And I said, oh, no, it's going to change.
01:10:09.000He's having to appeal to a lot of people, and whatever he has of questions of what's going on, he has to keep to himself and all of that.
01:10:19.000But this is a young man who is in the Soviet system when he starts, and then he becomes influenced by this person that he's He's focused on that he's been given the responsibility of reporting on the rise of this fellow, because they see he's talented, they see he's against communism, he's very outspoken, and then he shows some leadership ability.
01:10:44.000So he became a future danger, perhaps, and that's why they assigned people like this fellow to gauge his progress and report.
01:10:59.000So my thought was, I think I knew pretty much what was going on in the Soviet Union at that time.
01:11:07.000And I also went to school on a very interesting fellow by the name of Yuri Bezmenov, who was a spy for the Soviet Union and became disturbed by what he saw.
01:11:24.000and left the Soviet Union, became a dissident, and wound up in the United States.
01:11:28.000And then because of some conscience, he felt he had to explain what was really going on and warn people.
01:11:36.000And you can look him up, you know, Yuri Bezmenov, and see what his description of what really the Soviet Union was doing in the United States.
01:11:50.000And so we've had some warnings, but we haven't been able to deal with them as well as we should.