J.D. Vance is the Vice President of the United States of America. He has been in office for less than 100 days and has already accomplished a lot in that time. In this episode, he talks about his first 100 days in office, what he has learned, and what he is looking forward to in the next 100 days.
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00:02:05.000So just first, how has it been as far as operating at Trump speed and Trump pace?
00:02:13.000And the victories are enormous, and it's easy to forget some of them because there are so many executive orders, so many problems that are now fixed.
00:02:28.000What has now exceeded your expectations, both from working closely with the president and also the portfolio of issues that you and the entire administration have decided to tackle?
00:02:39.000Yeah, well, obviously the president is working at a very fast pace.
00:02:50.000You know, give an objective and accomplish it faster.
00:02:53.000And so I think it's actually liberating in a lot of ways because you know that whatever you do, so long as it is consistent with the president's objective, he's going to empower you to do it.
00:03:03.000And if you're not doing it, he's going to ask, why the hell haven't you got it done?
00:03:07.000And I think that's a very easy way to go about the job of vice president because, you know, I feel like I have pretty broad latitude, right, to accomplish the things that the president wants us to accomplish.
00:03:23.000And I think in particular, there are so many issues where the press said you need a new piece of legislation, you need a grand bipartisan compromise, where actually just having a different president changing the law enforcement apparatus of the country has accomplished so much.
00:03:38.000I think, obviously, the biggest example of that is at the border.
00:03:41.000I think at this point we are down 99% or close to border crossings since the president took office.
00:03:48.000You have this sense of almost, you know, when I visited the border about a month ago, there was a sense of almost boredom among the Border Patrol agents because there were so many people coming across just a few short months ago that they were like, wait, where did everybody go?
00:04:03.000And it turns out if you just send the signal that we're going to do border enforcement, you tell people not to come, most of them don't come.
00:04:10.000And so those who do are easier to process, easier to send back home.
00:04:14.000So I think that's where we've seen the most immediate success.
00:04:17.000I think some issues, obviously, trade, bring back manufacturing, some of the things that we're working on when it comes to foreign policy.
00:04:25.000These things take a little bit longer to bake.
00:04:27.000But I think the border has been, in some ways, the most rewarding because you see the results so quickly.
00:04:32.000Yeah, and the accomplishments are enormous and growing.
00:04:59.000It is one of the greatest, most significant public policy accomplishments and victories without a piece of legislation in American history.
00:05:09.000Brett Stevens went on Bill Maher's show and said, this is one of the worst 100 days, this is the worst 100 days ever in American history.
00:05:14.000And someone should look that guy in the eyes and say, unlike the wars that you wanted to start, Brett Stevens, for years, we actually have a border thanks to President Trump.
00:05:22.000What would you say is the greatest victory, though, Mr. Vice President, that hasn't received much attention, something you've been working on?
00:05:28.000Yeah, I mean, look, I can point to a few things, but just on the border, you're right.
00:05:35.000Obviously, the border has gotten the most attention.
00:05:38.000I think it's the place where you can see the clearest direction and connection between the president's policy and the reduction of border crossings.
00:05:46.000To your point, I think it's a radical improvement in a very short amount of time without a single piece of legislation.
00:05:52.000We had a border invasion, and now we don't.
00:05:54.000And the only thing that changed was Donald Trump's leadership.
00:05:58.000But there are all these subtle ways in which border enforcement, Charlie, it doesn't gather the same headlines.
00:06:04.000It doesn't gather the same focus as the top-line reduction of border crossing.
00:06:10.000But, Charlie, you just have cartels who are not engaging.
00:06:14.000In the same level of activity, you have people who would have crossed, would have been processed and released into the country who just aren't even trying to make the trek.
00:06:22.000That means there are probably thousands of children who otherwise would have been trafficked across the southern border who haven't been.
00:06:28.000So, yeah, it does gather the most headlines, but there are so many parts of a successful border policy that don't gather headlines at all that I think are worth focusing on.
00:06:37.000And Charlie, I mean, if I point to another issue, it would have to be foreign policy because, as you know, this is sort of one of these issues where I think The president is so right.
00:07:00.000And you have even the Ukrainians, the Europeans, the Russians all sort of simultaneously admitting, sometimes begrudgingly, that Donald Trump's diplomacy has advanced the ball there more.
00:07:11.000In a few months than the previous few years, that's a big, big accomplishment.
00:07:15.000The final thing I'd say, Charlie, is while the trade policy is maybe where we get the most criticism from the far-left press, I actually think that what President Trump has done has fundamentally reset things.
00:07:30.000Whether you're an American business, and I talk to a lot of CEOs, whether you're a foreign investor, whether you're somebody who just works and lives in the economy, which is, of course, most of our citizens, I think that people recognize we're not going back.
00:07:43.000Like, we're not going to go back to the same old ways of shipping American jobs overseas, of relying on hostile powers to make the things that we need.
00:07:51.000And there's a lot still to do there, and there's a lot to accomplish.
00:07:55.000Obviously, as the President has said, we're negotiating a lot of these trade deals.
00:07:59.000But man, there's just this sense among the business community that this is a new era in American economic and investment, American economic activity.
00:08:08.000I think that doesn't get the headlines.
00:08:11.000But that may be the enduring change from the second Trump administration is people recognize we're not going back.
00:08:18.000This rebalancing of global trade is here to stay.
00:08:20.000And that's all because of Donald Trump's leadership.
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00:09:25.000I want to now emphasize one point about I want you to talk about that,
00:09:46.000but also connect it to a broader macro point that we expected.
00:09:51.000When I was in some transition meetings, there was an expectation that there would be outrageous nationwide injunctions, that there would be judges trying to step in and stop.
00:10:04.000But it has gone to levels that none of us could have expected, that the unelected judiciary is basically, they're endeavoring on an all-out assault against
00:10:13.000Well, so I might push back slightly on that,
00:10:31.000I think if anybody was aware of what the judicial system is capable of, these unelected bureaucrats, it was Donald J. Trump.
00:10:39.000And I think coming into this, he very much had a general on the battlefield mindset where he said, they're going to try to stop us from doing everything and we have to be prepared.
00:10:48.000And I understand, you know, there are folks in the base, Charlie, who are frustrated with the pace of deportations.
00:10:59.000But that's because we're running against this wall of the unelected bureaucracy.
00:11:03.000But the only way through it, Charlie, is to actually run through it and to fight this stuff out legally, to take this stuff to the Supreme Court where appropriate, to find alternative legal methods when one district court judge stops us.
00:11:16.000You go on to the next thing and you try to ensure that you can accomplish the law and accomplish the will of the people.
00:12:06.000Who was engaged in explicit obstruction of justice.
00:12:10.000We had people who had valid deportation orders and this judge was trying to prevent us from doing the job the American people elected us to do.
00:12:19.000As you heard Democrats say so often, no one is above the law, and that includes judges who are obstructing justice.
00:12:25.000And there's going to be a lot of justice for people who violated the law, Charlie.
00:12:40.000The American system of justice is that rich or poor, Republican or Democrat, if you broke the law, you go through the judicial system.
00:12:49.000And we're committed to bringing that basic principle back to life in the United States of America.
00:12:54.000And I think there's a side benefit to it, Charlie.
00:12:56.000This is not why you do these things, of course.
00:12:58.000But if Democrats know that they are going to be penalized for violating the law, maybe they'll stop violating the law.
00:13:06.000And maybe they'll stop using the Justice Department as a weapon system against their political opponents.
00:13:11.000We want to bring back common sense to this country, but there's no way to do it if Democrats think they can throw their opponents in jail.
00:13:18.000They're now finding out that if they violate the law, they're going to face the consequences, and that is a very important principle to bring back to this country.
00:13:27.000Final point I want to discuss with you, Mr. Vice President, is something that obviously you and I care about.
00:13:32.000You mentioned it previously, which is ending the Russian-Ukrainian war.
00:13:36.000President Trump was sitting next to Zelensky in an epic picture in Italy at the Pope's funeral.
00:13:45.000This was their first meeting since your Oval Office meeting, where you were also in there.
00:13:49.000Talk what you know about this that you could.
00:13:53.000What is the United States' perspective on this seemingly impossible...
00:14:04.000struggle and war that President Trump is leaning in literally with Zelensky to try to get finished.
00:14:12.000Yeah, Charlie, so I obviously don't want to prejudge the negotiations because they're very much, you know, in full swing.
00:14:18.000I actually had a conversation just this morning about this particular issue.
00:14:23.000Here's the way that I put it, Charlie, is, you know, one.
00:14:27.000If I could bring people on the inside, I think what they'd see is that sometimes you're incredibly frustrated with Ukrainians.
00:14:33.000Sometimes you're incredibly frustrated with the Russians.
00:14:36.000You know, that is the nature of the negotiation is you're going back and forth.
00:14:40.000And sometimes you just want to throw your hands up.
00:14:42.000But that's what President Trump doesn't let us do.
00:14:44.000He doesn't let us just throw our hands up and say, you know what, this is ridiculous.
00:14:48.000He forces us to continually go back to the table, continually try to find a solution, bring the sides together.
00:14:54.000And that really is sort of where this thing is right now.
00:14:58.000You have the Russians who have one peace settlement they'd like.
00:15:02.000You'd have the Ukrainians, they have a different peace settlement.
00:15:05.000The biggest breakthrough is that we've got both of them talking about what they would need in order to stop fighting.
00:15:12.000But what one side needs is different from what the other side needs.
00:15:16.000And it's the job of diplomacy to try to bring those two sides together.
00:15:20.000I can't say with 100% certainty, Charlie, we're going to be able to do it.
00:15:23.000But I do think that we're trying very hard, and I feel more optimistic about it today than I did two weeks ago, and I felt more optimistic two weeks ago than I did two months ago.
00:15:45.000It's a nitty-gritty, dirty job, but it's the job the American people elected the Trump administration to do.
00:15:52.000If this doesn't stop, Charlie, one final point on this.
00:15:55.000If this doesn't stop, the Ukrainians aren't winning the war.
00:15:58.000I think there's this weird idea among the mainstream media that if this thing goes on for just another few years, the Russians will collapse, the Ukrainians will take their territory back, and everything will go back to the way that it was before the war.
00:16:12.000That is not the reality that we live in.
00:16:14.000If this thing goes on for another few years, we could have, you know, societies collapsing.
00:16:20.000The demographics of both of these countries are a nightmare.
00:16:23.000You could have millions of more people killed if this thing goes on for another few years, and it can risk escalating into a nuclear war.
00:16:31.000It is the policy of this administration that it stops, and I guarantee you the president is having all of his people, including me, work very hard for that end goal.
00:16:39.000Out of all the things that you guys are working on on a day-to-day basis, this might be one of the highest of moral significance, that and the southern border.
00:16:47.000And you are the southern borders already secured, but brokering peace and making sure we don't get into a thermonuclear war, making sure that another Ukrainian generation is uneliminated is incredibly important.
00:16:59.000Mr. Vice President, congratulations on 100 amazing days.
00:17:02.000May this be a prelude for more accomplishments to come.
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00:19:03.000The first week, you could fit almost an entire presidency into the first week of President Donald Trump.
00:19:09.000And out of all the accomplishments that President Donald Trump is able to celebrate after 100 days, the greatest of which, the public policy accomplishment that gets no credit from the media, that does not even get a noticing from the media,
00:19:25.000is what's happened on the southern border.
00:19:29.000From having 10,000 to 15,000 people a day, let me say that again, 10,000 to 15,000 people a day going across the southern border, to nine in the entire spring.
00:20:05.000President Trump sealing the southern border, if that's all he does in his presidency, buys us so much time to be able to deport people here on the interior, to be able to stop what the Democrats were attempting, which was the great replacement reality.
00:20:22.000Rebalancing the diminishing sovereignty of our great country.
00:21:27.000Tens of thousands of people being reduced from the federal workforce.
00:21:30.000The revocation of over 100 Biden-era executive orders.
00:21:36.000And that is just barely touching the surface.
00:21:41.000He is the people's president, and he was elected to do a job.
00:21:45.000But not everybody in the media agrees.
00:21:47.000Some people in the media, including Brett Stevens, Are doing everything they possibly can to try to live under this cope that, well, Trump voters are regretting their vote.
00:21:55.000Not from the people I talk to and not according to the polls.
00:21:57.000Only 2% of Trump voters say they regret their vote, which is right within the margin of error.
00:22:01.000When I go to these college campuses, our crowds are growing.
00:22:59.000Yeah, I mean, I think that my summary of the first 100 days is that the bad news is it's the worst first 100 days in U.S. presidential history.
00:23:07.000I can't think of a presidency that had it worse.
00:23:11.000But the good news, I think, for the country is it's the worst.
00:23:15.000First 100 days in U.S. presidential history.
00:23:19.000Precisely the reason that you suggest, Bill, which is that a lot of the country that voted for President Trump because they didn't like the course of the country under his predecessor, because they were mad, because they thought stuff needed to be broken up and disrupted,
00:23:37.000are waking up to the reality of just how much worse it can get.
00:24:11.000You're trying to tell me it's worse than Joe Biden during the midst of lockdowns, COVID, mass mandates, and vaccine mandates.
00:24:19.000Not only is it not the worst that I could think of in American history, it's not even the worst of the last three presidents that are not named Donald Trump.
00:24:29.000When George W. Bush was overseeing a debacle of a war in Iraq and a debacle of a boondoggle in Afghanistan.
00:24:37.000Borrowing tons of money that we do not have.
00:25:47.000But the media cannot bring themselves to the conclusion that President Trump's first 100 days, whether it be disrupting the CDC, putting Bobby Kennedy in, putting Kristi Noem in, putting Cash Patel in, putting Dan Bongino in, it is such a threat to their worldview.
00:26:03.000And their new talking point is how many Trump voters regret their vote?
00:26:08.000There is no basis for this in the data or in the ground.
00:26:11.000And by the way, it's completely irrelevant.
00:26:14.000It's irrelevant because we're 100 days into a presidency that's already achieving landmark victories.
00:26:21.000And Bret Stephens should just be shamed for such an idiotic statement saying that, oh, this is the worst 100 days in American history that I can think of.
00:26:32.000And now we are in a place where we can look back and we can say we have a president that is fulfilling the mandate with personnel, with policy, with executive orders, and it's just getting started, everybody.
00:26:46.000That is the first 100 days of what's going to be a long and phenomenal presidency where we will achieve American greatness, fix the problems of Joe Biden, and we are just getting started.
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00:29:05.000They believe the smug class, the we are smarter than you class, should be distilled in the unelected bureaucracy and the unelected judiciary.
00:29:15.000Those two pieces work in tandem against the American people.
00:29:30.000That is one element where thankfully we went through the courts in the first term that we were able to say, you know what, we now know how to close the southern border.
00:29:38.000President Trump deserves the highest possible recognition and achievement prize for closing the southern border from the invasion that was occurring.
00:29:51.000Look, I think we've been very successful, and we got the most secure border in the history of this nation, and President Trump was able to accomplish that in seven weeks.
00:30:00.000That's something that Joe Biden didn't and wouldn't do in four years.
00:30:03.000In fact, it was an intentional decision of Joe Biden to keep the border wide open.
00:30:09.000This idea of our democracy under attack, understand what is really happening here, is the ruling by experts.
00:30:20.000Significantly has their power compromised.
00:30:24.000Plato once dreamed of a society ruled by philosopher kings.
00:30:28.000He believed that they would be wise and virtuous leaders who would govern not for their own personal ambition, but for the good of the people.
00:30:38.000When they say our democracy, that noble vision has been twisted beyond any recognition.
00:30:46.000We are not ruled by philosopher kings, and we're not ruled by the people, but instead by an expert class of unelected bureaucrats, credentialed elites, and self-anointed authorities on issues that matter.
00:31:00.000Their rule is not based on virtue or on truth, but on the arrogant presumption that technical knowledge alone entitles them to power.
00:31:13.000The technocrats and entitled elites that have entrenched themselves into what we call the deep state, the unelected bureaucracy, and the unelected judiciary.
00:31:22.000And the buried lead of the first 100 days is that Donald Trump has done everything the people wanted, and these other institutions are doing everything to thwart the will of the American people.
00:31:34.000At every single corner and every turn.
00:31:38.000The American people want more deportations?
00:31:47.000Every day the American people demand certain accomplishments and victories.
00:31:54.000And they ask the question, what kind of structure of government is this?
00:31:57.000What structure of government allows an unelected bureaucracy to get in the way of we the people?
00:32:07.000And so where is democracy actually getting threatened?
00:32:11.000By unelected federal court judges with nationwide injunctions.
00:32:16.000Not just doing localized injunctions, but nationwide injunctions.
00:32:21.000Where is the will of the people actually getting thwarted?
00:32:23.000By every single day there are people in the Department of Education, Department of Interior, Department of Commerce, and the CIA, and the FBI trying to undercut all of our people.
00:32:32.000Every day there are people that go to work and they think to themselves, how do I make...