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00:02:44.000So glad to be back with you guys after a long President's Day weekend, and it should be called what it actually is, which is George Washington Day.
00:02:54.000We changed it from George Washington Day to President's Day.
00:02:56.000George Washington, one of my favorite presidents, maybe probably the greatest president of all, the man who transitioned America from potentially being a quasi-dictatorship where we live under a czar or a Caesar to a constitutional republic, George Washington, who voluntarily stepped down to allow the peaceful transition of power.
00:03:19.000That is what we should be celebrating this week.
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00:03:37.000Anyway, it's great to be back with you guys.
00:04:13.000The president still was able to survive impeachment with seven Republicans who voted for impeachment, some of whom include Ben Sass, Lisa Murkowski, Mitt Romney, and many others.
00:04:26.000Richard Burr, Pat Toomey, Susan Collins.
00:04:40.000And what was amazing to me is I was thinking to myself, how many senators, Republican establishment senators, wanted to vote to convict the president, not based on evidence, not based on data or information, but instead on revenge.
00:05:06.000How many senators actually wanted to go alongside these seven other Republican senators?
00:05:11.000And the answer is quite a lot, probably dozens.
00:05:19.000Why didn't these senators, some of the people that have total and complete contempt for President Trump, always did, why didn't they go along?
00:05:31.000The answer is based in how the vote actually occurred.
00:05:37.000About a week and a half before the impeachment vote, Liz Cheney, who wrongly and baselessly said that former President Trump incited a mob against our government, not a mob, an insurrection against our government, she faced a vote to remove her as the leader of the Republican Leadership Conference, effectively third in control of the House of Representatives for the House Republicans.
00:06:05.000She survived that vote because the vote occurred in private.
00:06:12.000She survived that vote because the representatives were able to use what's called a secret ballot.
00:06:19.000They met privately, they met secretly, they met discreetly, and they were able to voice their support of Liz Cheney, even though their constituents would have been very upset if they would have seen themselves voice their support behind a corporate mouthpiece like Liz Cheney.
00:06:39.000Now, Liz Cheney might be a very nice person, but the Cheney family believes in a form of governing that is centered around pandering to corporate interests and corporate donors above the interests of the American people.
00:06:56.000So how did Liz Cheney survive and Donald Trump survive?
00:07:02.000The reason and the answer is how the balloting actually occurred.
00:07:10.000Senator Chris Coons from Delaware admitted this.
00:07:13.000In fact, I told our team as soon as the impeachment vote was announced to be one that was going to be public, which of course it needs to be.
00:07:19.000It's constitutionally required that the impeachment vote be public.
00:07:24.000I said, I believe President Trump will survive this because there will not be the necessary amount of Republican defectors that will go back to their states and be able to justify impeaching a private citizen who did not do what he was accused of doing.
00:07:41.000No way will senators from Missouri or North Dakota or South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Kansas, Arkansas, Alabama go along with us.
00:07:57.000But if that was done in private, in secret, and if there would have been a guarantee to these senators that no one would ever know how you voted, how would they have voted?
00:08:08.000Of course, speculation can only answer that question, but Senator Chris Coons, a Democrat from Delaware, agrees with me.
00:08:15.000He said that if this ballot, if this vote happened in private and in secret, Donald Trump would have been acquitted.
00:08:24.000Democrat Senator Chris Coons makes my point perfectly because he talks to those senators.
00:08:31.000He talks to those Republican senators in private.
00:08:33.000And they confide in him and they say, you know, Senator Coons, you know, Chris, I would remove Donald Trump, but I got a problem.
00:08:42.000My problem is I have to go face my constituents.
00:08:47.000The problem is I have to answer for my actions.
00:08:51.000The problem is I can't do what the Republican leadership did in support of Liz Cheney.
00:09:24.000We use Democratic means to elect our leaders.
00:09:28.000Big difference that we'll build out at another show at another time.
00:09:32.000We've done it extensively on our podcast.
00:09:35.000The issue that is at the forefront of why Liz Cheney survived and Donald Trump survived was simply and solely on whether or not politicians had to face public responsibility for their actions.
00:09:58.000James Madison touched on this in the Federalist Papers.
00:10:02.000James Madison, the father of the United States Constitution, James Madison, the fourth American president, James Madison, one of the most brilliant thinkers and great leaders in American history.
00:10:13.000If you don't know James Madison, you're missing out.
00:10:16.000James Madison talked extensively about the need for the citizenry to know what their representatives were doing.
00:10:25.000When you have a record that is public, that is searchable, that is transparent, that the citizenry can make informed choices about who is representing them.
00:10:57.000Liz Cheney survived because she never had to face the people, and we'll see if she'll be able to politically survive in Wyoming.
00:11:08.000But the people that supported her, if they would have had to go publicly with their vote in support of Liz Cheney, they would have been faced with primary campaigns.
00:11:20.000They would have been faced with millions of dollars of opposition and an angry grassroots response for good reason.
00:11:30.000The Senate acquitted Donald Trump because There is transparency.
00:11:41.000So, what does that teach us about how Washington, D.C., operates?
00:11:52.000But generally, our leaders cannot stand being under a microscope.
00:12:01.000Sunlight is indeed the best disinfectant.
00:12:05.000When the American people can see what their representatives do, they will trust the system more.
00:12:15.000One of the reasons why people's trust in their government has plummeted to all-time lows is because there are so many backroom deals, movement in the shadows, and borderline treachery that occurs.
00:12:30.000Trust is built and strengthened when people's actions, votes, voices, comments occur in public.
00:12:45.000And we saw this incredible juxtaposition all surrounding backlash politically from the January 6th Capitol tragedy from Liz Cheney to former President Trump.
00:12:59.000Liz Cheney would have been removed as Republican Leadership Conference chair if it would have been a public roll call vote, and Donald Trump would have been convicted if it would have been a private vote.
00:13:13.000I can't say that definitively, but Chris Coons does.
00:13:17.000Let's go to Cut 22, Senator Chris Coons, Democrat from Delaware, who actually makes my point, but for a different reason.
00:14:14.000We could have impeached him years ago if we could have done this in darkness.
00:14:19.000We could have done this years ago if we could have operated in the shadows.
00:14:26.000That is the wish of the ruling class in this country.
00:14:30.000The ruling class, from the corporate elite to the senators, to the members of Congress to the financial elite, they detest any attention that they themselves have not asked for.
00:14:48.000They get nervous when pointed questions are presented to them.
00:14:54.000You see, the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives are similar, but they both conducted their business differently, one for a constitutional requirement, the other out of their own choice.
00:15:11.000Republicans could have done the vote against Liz Cheney publicly.
00:15:16.000Because the people that were behind making that a secret ballot knew that they actually wanted Liz Cheney in that position, and they didn't want to see their other members be held accountable for supporting her, and they wanted to give them cover fire.
00:15:34.000This should be unacceptable for those of us that want representative government.
00:15:40.000You see, Chris Coons was laughing because he said, of course, George, could you imagine what we could get done if we could do things in private?
00:15:49.000In fact, Chris Coons is probably saying, you know how many Republicans wish they could act differently if it wasn't for the people they represent.
00:15:58.000It is completely and totally irrelevant what Chris Coons wants for the world.
00:16:04.000What is relevant is what he promised to the people that put him in power to do to the rest of the world and do to our country.
00:16:13.000Representatives are supposed to be a reflection of the citizens of the state they represent, not the other way around.
00:16:21.000The citizens of Wyoming are not supposed to represent Liz Cheney.
00:16:29.000The citizens of Delaware are not supposed to represent Chris Coons.
00:16:33.000They're supposed to represent the people of Delaware or the people of Wyoming.
00:16:39.000I feel as if we have this inverted, as if Mitt Romney is acting as if the people of Utah better sort themselves out and start acting like him, unlike what's supposed to happen is Mitt Romney is supposed to actually act like the people of Utah, or at least act in their best interests.
00:16:55.000And the violation of that very simple compact is one of the reasons we're in the mess that we're in.
00:17:02.000There is a winter storm raging across the country, and I hope everyone listening to this is staying warm and staying safe.
00:17:08.000I know many friends in Dallas and Houston, they do not have homes that are necessarily built for snow or built for 10-degree weather, so I hope everyone stays very safe.
00:17:21.000But a problem that we always pose to the environmentalists and to the advocates of the Green New Deal is what happens in increasingly harsh winters?
00:17:30.000How are you going to power your hospitals, your schools?
00:17:34.000How are you going to keep the lights on?
00:17:36.000They always called that a red herring or a false flag.
00:17:40.000Well, now we see all across the Great Plains the consequence of what happens when you criminalize oil natural gas extraction, coal-powered power plants.
00:17:56.000Let's go to Cut 14, Tucker Carlson reporting on the frozen wind turbines in Texas.
00:18:00.000Aren't you glad you have these bird killers all throughout Texas?
00:18:31.000The bad news is they don't have electricity.
00:18:33.000The windmills froze, so the power grid failed.
00:18:36.000Millions of Texans woke up to spoil their water because with no electricity, it couldn't be purified.
00:18:41.000Tucker Carlson, of course, being appropriately sarcastic towards the idea of transitioning from global warming to climate change.
00:18:52.000And Cut 15 Tucker says, instead of using their state's natural resources, Texas lawmakers implemented wind farms as if it was a good thing.
00:19:01.000Rather than celebrate and benefit from their state's vast natural resources, politicians took the fashionable route and became recklessly reliant on so-called alternative energy, meaning windmills.
00:19:14.00015 years ago, there were virtually no wind farms in Texas.
00:19:17.000Last year, roughly a quarter of all electricity generated in the state came from wind.
00:19:22.000Local politicians were pleased by this.
00:19:24.000They bragged about it like there was something virtuous about destroying the landscape and degrading the power grid.
00:19:31.000Now, we're telling you all of this, not to beat up on the state of Texas.
00:19:36.000But to give you some sense about what's about to happen to you, to every state.
00:19:41.000And so what's the consequence of that?
00:19:42.000When you have a massive winter storm, windmills start to freeze up, and just the energy cost to build a windmill does not even make it necessarily carbon neutral long term, unless you're positioned in one of the windiest parts of the entire world.
00:19:59.000And in Cut 16, Tucker says, everything was going great until it got cold and the windmills failed.
00:20:05.000Just last week, Governor Greg Abbott proudly accepted something called the Wind Leadership Award, given with gratitude by a company getting rich from green energy.
00:20:15.000So it was all working great until the day it got cold outside.
00:20:18.000The windmills failed, like the silly fashion accessories they are, and people in Texas died.
00:20:26.000Millions of people are still without power because instead of using a form of energy that has worked since the Industrial Revolution, the ideologues that run our government that are more concerned with checking the boxes of the wish list of the professors of the University of Texas Austin, they put in windmills and they close down power plants.
00:20:54.000And then people die as a consequence of that.
00:20:56.000And this is only going to repeat itself in many different manifestations.
00:21:00.000We have to ask ourselves the question is, why did they do this?
00:21:03.000Why did they do something so foolish and silly when it comes to energy in America when it's so obvious that this was not the right move?
00:21:13.000Why replace a quarter of all energy in Texas, one-fourth, to be wind?
00:21:22.000It's an eyesore on the entire landscape.
00:21:26.000They're also incredibly expensive to build.
00:21:29.000The main reason is nothing to do with the efficacy of green energy.
00:21:35.000Instead, it's about the ideology behind it.
00:21:38.000And this is a moment where we have to take pause and ask ourselves the question, why are we allowing a small pack of highly activistic ideologues create, steer, and control the public policy of an entire nation?
00:22:03.000Any rational person, an actually rational person approaching the energy conversation will ask some very simple questions, such as, are rising global temperatures tied with an increase in human activity?
00:22:24.000You can try to draw a correlation and a causation, but you can't prove it.
00:22:29.000There are dozens of other factors that could potentially play into it.
00:22:33.000Number two, which is, what have we proven that we can do?
00:22:38.000If the first question is yes, and we take that as a given, what can we do to lessen our carbon emissions to potentially lower global temperatures that might potentially result in a normalization of the climate, which is a false flag anyway, because we have such a short window of measuring global temperatures.
00:23:00.000We've only been doing it for about 100 years, and we've only been doing it super accurately for 30 years, and we've only been doing it at the level we're doing it with satellite reconnaissance in the last 15 or 20 years.
00:23:11.000But let's even take the 100-year window as a given.
00:23:18.000We went from a global ice age fear-mongering narrative in the 1970s and 80s in the front page of Time magazine.
00:23:25.000It said the ice age is near to the global warming fear-mongering in the early 2000s of Al Gore, where I was forced to watch inconvenient truth in sixth grade.
00:23:36.000So now where we are in 2021, where they are now blending together to climate change, calling an existential threat to humanity.
00:23:44.000There is more greenery on the planet than there ever has been in the history of recording such metric.
00:23:55.000The third question we must ask ourselves, which is a rational question because this entire conversation has been hijacked by irrational people, is at what cost?
00:24:33.000And so now we are living to the consequence of that.
00:24:37.000Now, the devil's advocate argument, the socialist activists would say, we are now living through the weather patterns because we didn't make these decisions earlier.
00:24:57.000And that theory very well might be right.
00:24:59.000I'm a skeptic, and we should be, because there's about 582 questions that I could think of the top of my head, such as, is every single region getting warmer?
00:25:11.000Are there any positives to areas getting warmer?
00:25:14.000Are the ice caps really melting at the rate you thought they were?
00:25:18.000Why is the polar bear population increasing?
00:25:20.000There's so many questions that you could be asked.
00:25:23.000And so this goes to a broader and deeper point that we're going to continue to build out, which is, I thought science was all about asking questions.
00:25:32.000I thought science was all about challenging the predominant narrative.
00:25:40.000Isn't that how we discovered germ theory?
00:25:42.000Isn't that how Newtonian physics was proven?
00:25:50.000The idea that we must now unquestionably accept whatever narrative that is being put forth by the ideologues without even asking what the cost might be of that narrative, if that narrative might even be true, is pathological in nature.
00:26:07.000And that's how you get to a set of circumstances where the entire Great Plains is now without power.
00:26:13.000They have to resort to backup generators at hospitals.
00:26:16.000People will die as a consequence of this in hospitals, in nursing home facilities.
00:26:24.000And yet, what is the Democrat answer to this?
00:26:26.000What is the, and I don't even like using the term Democrat because it's beyond that.
00:26:30.000What is the climate change alarmist answer?
00:26:33.000It's not to admit that they might have made some mistakes in energy distribution and consumption.
00:27:38.000We did not get rid of enough different aspects of energy.
00:27:42.000And let me be clear, I'm for free market, entrepreneurial-driven solutions.
00:27:48.000Elon Musk, free of government subsidies, wants to come up with solutions to be able to make energy consumption more efficient, so be it.
00:27:57.000But windmills are typically not built by private industry.
00:28:00.000They are done in public-private partnerships, specifically through government edicts.
00:28:04.000And in the heartland of the country near the Permian Basin, to go build a grid of wind turbines that then need to be de-iced by helicopters that are made possible thanks to fossil fuels of oil and natural gas that was extracted from the Permian Basin.
00:28:21.000The only answer that we can offer to that is that we are allowing ID logs to run the country.
00:28:29.000Where they believe falsely a narrative that the entire world is falling apart and their dramatic action against the capitalist private property Western economy is the only way that we're going to fix that.
00:28:47.000The activist media is spinning this as saying, see, we told you that weather patterns are getting worse.
00:28:56.000You see, we told you that this was going to happen when their coverage should be the opposite, which is, what did we overreact to that makes the reaction to this event even worse?
00:29:14.000We just saw it with Lucasfilm, and we're seeing it all over the place.
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00:30:29.000There have been people this last year, the last 12 months, that had a really difficult year.
00:30:37.000And they still continue to pay their taxes and they continue to still pay for essential government services.
00:30:43.000You see, one of the lies of the left, and this is what happens when you go to college, is they don't teach you economics, they don't teach you supply and demand, they don't teach you what money actually is, what money represents, is they believe that the entire country should basically be connected to a leviathan albatross of a government.
00:31:03.000This is something that AOC and Talib and Elon Omar all believe.
00:31:06.000That if we just expand the civil service, if we expand government payroll, things will get a lot better.
00:31:13.000And the question that I can't stand that is asked all the time is, well, how are you going to pay for that?
00:31:41.000Is it right to expand the government civil service to millions of more people like the Democrats want to do?
00:31:47.000You see, the tension that we see between private industry and government civil service is more dramatic than any other time in my life.
00:31:58.000The muscular class of our country, the entrepreneurs, the people that own their businesses, the people that have to sign the front of a paycheck, not just the back of a paycheck, they are being squeezed.
00:32:11.000And they had a little bit of a reprieve.
00:32:13.000They had a little bit of a time to breathe under President Donald Trump.
00:32:17.000Now Joe Biden is offering a deflated currency, higher taxes, more regulation, and it will be the small business person.
00:32:25.000I don't even like that term small business person.
00:33:09.000Other teachers that are refusing to open up their schools or being part of movements not to open up their schools, they don't deserve that same form of credit.
00:33:22.000Thank you, hardworking business people.
00:33:23.000The muscular class is keeping this whole thing going.
00:33:27.000Two things happened in the last 10 days that would not have happened if Donald Trump was still president.
00:33:35.000A prominent Democrat staffer resigned after yelling at a reporter, TJ Ducklow, who got very angry at, I think her name is Tara Palmieri at Politico, who does a nice job there.
00:33:53.000And she was writing a story about him potentially having a relationship with a former Biden staffer.
00:34:04.000He got very angry and said, quote, I will destroy you.
00:34:08.000Got put on leave, and then he was asked to resign or he resigned himself.
00:34:14.000And Democrats have been rather insistent the last year and a half to never allow some sort of press controversy to impact one of their own being criticized or attacked.
00:34:35.000And then on top of that, you have another story here that we did not cover, but it was a national news story of Mark Cuban, who I've actually debated before.
00:34:45.000You guys should check that out online.
00:34:47.000In fact, I'm going to make a note of myself to make sure that video is uploaded.
00:34:51.000I haven't seen that video in quite some time.
00:34:53.000Mark Cuban and I debated for about an hour and a half.
00:34:56.000It was at our turning point USA high school leadership summit.
00:35:01.000Mark Cuban said he was not going to play the national anthem at the Dallas Mavericks game.
00:35:07.000No one was coming anyway, but standard respect to play the national anthem for the country that you're in, obviously.
00:35:16.000He got overruled by the National Basketball Association, and they said that's a little bit too woke even for us.
00:35:22.000You see, you're starting to see the Democrat coalition, the Democrat Party, the Democrat movement start to splinter a little bit.
00:35:31.000You're starting to see the Democrat ruling class and the Democrats' elites start to get worried that maybe their movement will not be unified.
00:35:44.000Which kind of made me thought for a minute as I was processing this theory.
00:35:49.000Maybe when Joe Biden was talking about unity, he was not talking about national unity.
00:35:54.000Maybe he was talking about Democrat Party unity.
00:35:59.000Maybe he was talking about not allowing the different factions or the different parts of the Democrat Party to splinter.
00:36:09.000I'm starting to see more and more evidence of this.
00:36:11.000The New York Times came out with a piece by Eric Kaufman, who's a professor who studies and writes about demographics, partisanship, and ideology, which says, quote, how stable is the Democratic coalition?
00:36:25.000Quote, the party may control the elected branches in Washington, but it may be facing some slippage in support from minority communities.
00:36:34.000It starts by saying, quote, Democrats are riding high in Washington with control of the White House and Congress.
00:36:40.000They got there with the broad coalition that included suburban white and minority voters.
00:36:43.000I estimate, based on exit poll data, that nearly half of the Democrat Party, roughly 81 million voters, came from the latter group.
00:36:53.000The argument that he makes is that, therefore, all Republicans have to do is increase their number from 18% to 22%, continue to invigorate and expand their base, and you're going to have a pretty sizable and formidable political opposition.
00:37:08.000The article continues by citing many pieces of data by saying, quote, many minorities that no longer identify as Democrats have become independents rather than Republicans, much like their white Catholic predecessors initially did.
00:37:22.000But this means their loyalties are increasingly up for grabs on Election Day.
00:37:27.000Talks about how Hispanics went in the Republican direction historically in the 2020 presidential election.
00:37:36.000You also see this with the strange amount of propaganda that no one asked for, but just seems to be emerging and bubbling to the surface, saying that Republicans want a third party.
00:38:00.000They know it will give totalitarians more power, and they walk away from it.
00:38:05.000And so the question is, who's actually pushing this third-party narrative?
00:38:11.000And the answer is Democrat operatives that are seeing the fault lines within their own party.
00:38:17.000They're starting to see the most ideological members of the Democrat Party starting to create political liabilities for them.
00:38:26.000With no Trump, what is the message of the Democrat Party?
00:38:30.000Certainly not going to be very popular to talk about the Green New Deal as people have to shovel themselves out in Texas where they have no power thanks to the solar panel windmill operation.
00:38:44.000It's certainly not going to be transgender policies that are now being forced in elementary and high schools across the country.
00:39:11.000Instead, it's who's in power, who isn't in power, and we must try to overthrow the quote-unquote oppressor, the fallow, logo-centric Western patriarchy, which is a common talking point of the activist left.
00:39:26.000So, because of this, they are trying to implement a strategy to give themselves more political power.
00:39:36.000That strategy is instead of worrying about the fault lines in our own party, Let's just try to make the Republican Party fracture right now.
00:39:45.000We will elevate any Republicans that oppose the now former President Trump and his coalition, like Adam Kinzinger, like Liz Cheney, like Bill Cassidy, like Susan Collins, like Ben Sasse.
00:39:58.000We will probe articles and stories around the creation of third parties, which is something that is completely out of nowhere.
00:42:01.000So the Democrats' big gamble is that they know the fault lines are happening, that if the rules stayed in place that allow backlash from the people, they will eventually be out of power.
00:42:10.000Their big gamble is not to unify the country, but unify the party and rule with an iron fist and create a one-party state like California.
00:42:17.000That's their definition of unity, the absence of opposition.
00:42:23.000A lot of you guys have had Mike Lindell's back.
00:42:26.000I know a lot of you guys want to continue to have his back.
00:42:29.000And the amazing company that you guys are supporting is MyPillow.
00:42:32.000The inventor and CEO of MyPillow, Mike Lindell, is fighting very, very hard.
00:42:36.000And a lot of you guys say, I want to reward courage.
00:42:39.000If you go to mypillow.com and use the promo code Kirk, you guys can basically get this amazing pillow that they sent me.
00:44:12.000If Iran wants a bomb, we'll give them a bomb.
00:44:14.000If Iran wants $500 million, we'll give it to them too.
00:44:17.000So now Iran is opening with a warning shot saying, if you do not give us the Iranium to enrich, if you do not give us the permission of the international community, Americans will die.
00:44:27.000Now, Iran will deny responsibility for this, but any person in the foreign policy space, and I've been texting with just a couple of them here, will tell you that anyone connected with Shiite militia is in one way or the other funded, supported, trained, or even in direct communication with Iran.
00:44:45.000And one of the problems with this, too, is Joe Biden might react disproportionately.
00:44:51.000Joe Biden might act in a way to prove people that he is not a foreign policy dove, and he might get us entangled in another foreign war.
00:44:59.000You see, the brilliance of the administration that just ended, the Trump administration in their foreign policy approach is they isolated Iran.
00:45:08.000They unified the entire Arab world around Iran because Iran was and is the greatest enemy in the Middle East.
00:45:15.000So as soon as you start to give other Arab allies, like the UAE, confidence that the closer they grow to America, the more support they'll have against Iran, UAE then becomes likely to do things they otherwise would not have done, things that otherwise would have been considered uncharacteristic, such as negotiating a peace deal between the United Arab Emirates and Israel.
00:45:38.000Something that still bothers me how President Trump never got credit for literally brokering and achieving Middle East peace.
00:45:46.000That is now all being put into jeopardy under Joe Biden and his administration.
00:45:51.000And so this rocket attack in Iraq, I'm reading from the New York Times, as it just broke.
00:45:56.000It was aimed at an airport in the northern city of Erbil on Monday, killed a civilian contractor with the American-led military coalition.
00:46:07.000They might claim responsibility and say that this is retaliation for Soleimani, when Qassam Soleimani, who killed hundreds of Americans, was killed by a drone strike right outside of an airport in Baghdad.
00:46:21.000And so Joe Biden's response to this will be very, very interesting.
00:46:25.000Will he react with Tomahawk missiles peppered all throughout Iran?
00:46:29.000Will he support a ground invasion, or will he try to get to a negotiating position with Iran?
00:46:38.000What President Trump realized, and Mike Pompeo and his entire team realized, was that negotiating with Iran was not working.
00:46:47.000The way to prevent war with Iran, the way to put your country first, is actually put crippling sanctions on them, which will destroy their industrial base, their manufacturing ability, and will bring them back to the negotiating table, not with confidence, but in crisis.
00:47:06.000And so now the exact opposite is happening.
00:47:08.000Iran is now bragging that they are close to enriching uranium to get a nuclear weapon.
00:47:13.000They know that the Joe Biden administration will give them a path to do that.
00:47:21.000And this is absolutely a test for the Biden administration.
00:47:25.000How much are they going to involve ourselves in this region?
00:47:27.000One of the things that President Trump also never got credit for is ending the endless wars, is de-escalating conflict in Afghanistan, withdrawing troops.
00:47:37.000He did that all the while of negotiating peace in the region and putting Iran on defense.
00:47:46.000What did the Middle East look like before Donald Trump took office?
00:47:51.000We had the failed military intervention in Libya with Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
00:47:57.000We had the failure in Syria, and Iran was running the entire Middle East, and Israel was on defense.
00:48:03.000Now, I'm of the opinion that we need to get ourselves divested generally from a permanent military occupation in the region.
00:48:09.000The best way to do that, broker peace.
00:48:12.000So, this will be a very, very fascinating first chapter in the Joe Biden foreign policy portfolio.
00:48:21.000As Iran has now killed an American, will Joe Biden, who was known for signing off on the deal that sent hundreds of millions of dollars to Iran, stand up to them?
00:48:33.000Ron DeSantis is getting national headlines, and I'll tell you right now that the difference between Andrew Cuomo and his handling of the nursing home scandal, which is real and it is a major scandal, versus the brilliance of Ron DeSantis handling everything in Florida is dramatic.
00:48:53.000And Ron DeSantis is not stopping there.
00:48:55.000The best governor of America is now stepping up and challenging the big tech companies.
00:49:08.000It's another thing to offer solutions, to start to be a leader with courage.
00:49:15.000You see, leadership requires clarity and requires the capacity to find solutions to entrenched problems.
00:49:28.000One of those problems that we've talked about extensively here on this program is how a small collection of big tech companies worth trillions of dollars control the minds of our young people, control the information flow in our country, the news flow of our country, and they must be challenged and stopped.
00:49:49.000Let's go to cut seven of Ron DeSantis saying Floridians should not have to give up their most intimate information to use a mobile device.
00:49:58.000Now, before we go to cut seven, I have to say this: Donald Trump should have given this speech two years ago, and he should have rallied states to do this two years ago, and he might have gotten re-elected.
00:50:09.000If Donald Trump would have done what Ron DeSantis did in this speech right here, he very well might have been re-elected.
00:50:48.000Floridians should not have to give up their most intimate information to use a mobile device, surf the internet, or connect with friends and families on social media.
00:50:56.000The status quo has all been a one-way street with big tech, where they have all the power, they dictate all the rules, they take whatever data they want, when they want, and consumers get virtually nothing except the, quote, privilege of using their own devices that they've already paid for.
00:51:56.000I like Ted Cruz, you know, Josh Hawley, God bless him.
00:51:59.000But for most of these guys and women, what have they done?
00:52:03.000Meanwhile, Ron DeSantis is giving a long press conference, holding up a mobile phone saying, we in Florida, the fourth largest state in the country, we're not going to allow the citizens of Florida's information to be mined by these big tech companies.
00:52:18.000We're going to pass a law to push back against them.
00:52:34.000And Governor Greg Abbott has signaled other support, but where's also the Republican Party?
00:52:39.000Where's the Republican Party coming up and saying we are now going to organize 20 governors to do the same?
00:52:46.000In fact, we were talking about this at Turning Point Action.
00:52:49.000We very well might go on a roadshow very soon to my friend, Governor Greg Gianforte, to Montana, my friend Governor Christy Noam, and meet with these governors and say, hey, let's do this together.
00:53:40.000And that's where anytime I can, I don't want to just turn our program into just relentlessly talking about how the left is ruining everything.
00:53:46.000I like talking about people that are offering solutions.
00:53:48.000And another solution, which is a crisis in our country, let me be very clear.
00:53:52.000The fact that schools are not open in America is a moral travesty.
00:55:13.000And what you're going to start to see is the greatest exodus from blue states to red states in American history.
00:55:18.000And we already saw that trend pick up in the Obama years.
00:55:22.000But now that you have Illinois that is trying to raise taxes even further, now you have Illinois that has high property tax, high sales tax, broken pensions, and then awful weather.
00:56:24.000Brian Kemp mishandled the entire election integrity conversation.
00:56:29.000Brian Kemp oversaw two senators become Democrats, Raphael Warnock and John Ossif.
00:56:38.000Neither have business becoming U.S. senators.
00:56:40.000Brian Kemp defied the wishes of Donald Trump and instead appointed one of his good friends and campaign donors, Kelly Loffler, to be the U.S. Senator, and she lost to Raphael Warnock dramatically.
00:56:54.000Ron DeSantis delivered his tape for Trump.
00:56:57.000Brian Kemp delivered his state for Biden.
00:57:00.000Ron DeSantis has two Republican senators, and Ron DeSantis increased the Republican delegation to add, I think, two new Republican, maybe even three new Republican congresspeople in Florida, Elvira Salazar, one in downtown Miami.
00:57:15.000This is a lesson for Republicans out there.
00:57:17.000It's also a lesson for Republican voters, for conservatives.
00:57:22.000Just because someone has an R next to their name doesn't mean they're going to do what they say they're going to do.
00:57:28.000And what is Ron DeSantis doing in this next cut?
00:57:43.000And the only reason that that is not happening across this country like it is in Florida, like it is in a handful of other states, it's one reason and one reason only.
00:57:56.000Because the Democratic Party puts the interests of education unions and special interests ahead of the well-being of our children and of our families.
00:58:08.000I have been waiting for a Republican to say this my whole life.
00:58:17.000They put the interest of teacher unions and education unions over the interests of students and families.
00:58:23.000That framing, by the way, wins you every election.
00:58:27.000Blacks, Hispanic, single, white, old, young, they can all agree that the entrenched public sector teacher unions do not put the interests of the students or the families first.
00:58:40.000And so, for some of these other states that remain closed, like Governor DeWine in Ohio, with schools that are still closed, what are you afraid of?
00:58:48.000And the answer is they're afraid of quite a lot.
00:59:44.000We need more leaders like Governor Ron DeSantis.
00:59:50.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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