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00:01:42.000I want to bring to your attention a very important story here, and we have a great guest to walk us through it.
00:01:48.000So until September, the FCC, the Federal Communications Commission, which we are regulated by here because we are on AM and FM radio, was balanced with two Republicans and two Democrats.
00:02:01.000Now that it has a Democrat majority, it's starting to enact a very radical social agenda, everybody.
00:02:08.000And one such radical step just happened.
00:02:11.000The FCC just recently adopted a quote digital discrimination order on a 3-2 party line vote.
00:02:19.000So here to speak with us today about this is Republican FCC Commissioner Nathan Symington, who was appointed by President Trump back in 2020.
00:02:29.000Mr. Symington, thank you so much for joining us.
00:02:36.000This item takes a short section in the 2021 infrastructure bill and uses it to spin out a sprawling government takeover of the internet.
00:02:44.000Section 6 to 506 did pass with some Republican votes, but its language was not nearly broad enough to support what the Democratic majority just voted to do with it.
00:02:52.000And I'm sure people would not have voted for it if they knew that this was what would follow.
00:02:56.000Well, so look, the government taking over the internet sounds very sinister.
00:03:23.000It's about taking over the physical side, cell towers, fiber optic cables, servers.
00:03:28.000The justification is that some low-income or minority areas have relatively low amounts of high-speed internet.
00:03:35.000So the FCC took just three words from the law preventing digital discrimination and decided that these low levels of internet subscriptions show discrimination by cell phone and internet providers just because they exist.
00:05:35.000And so the real effect is going to be that companies will be terrified because they won't know what they're allowed to do.
00:05:41.000The real question of what they're allowed to do is going to be determined by how much effort they spend sucking up to the government.
00:05:47.000And anytime the government wants them to do something, they'll have no choice but to come running and do it because the penalty for not doing that is potentially an endless legal nightmare.
00:05:56.000So we've introduced this idea of a skeleton key before.
00:06:01.000I think Christopher Caldwell's book, Age of Entitlement, talks about how good intentions and a broadly written law can then be really given all the power to the enforcers or to the bureaucrats.
00:06:13.000And especially for left-wing type priorities, do you think that this fits into the criteria of an idea of a skeleton key law?
00:06:21.000So no one is arguing, certainly, you know, certainly not me.
00:06:25.000No one is arguing for the idea that companies should discriminate in how they lay out broadband.
00:06:30.000But using this idea that any difference in the real world amounts to discrimination is sufficient evidence of discrimination is the way that you turn every three-letter letter agency, whether that's us at the FCC, whether that's the Federal Trade Commission, the FBI, the DOJ, whether you turn it in effect into a DEI agency.
00:06:50.000Every project has to have requirements and preferences.
00:06:54.000Every agency has to be turned into a civil rights agency.
00:06:57.000So housing and urban development, for example, they're trying to make it a legal requirement for cities to build low-income housing projects next to or in the middle of any nice neighborhoods they have.
00:07:06.000There really doesn't seem to be any problem that can't be solved by calling people racist and punishing them for some other unrelated business decision.
00:07:14.000So another example, another one of the federal telecom agencies, NTIA, I'm an alumnus of them.
00:07:19.000They're distributing $40 billion in subsidies to build fiber internet, but they've loaded up the program.
00:07:25.000It's not just a fiber building program.
00:08:01.000Yeah, because you would think that it's in their interest to have as much freedom of operation as possible.
00:08:07.000And to a degree that that's, to a degree, that's true.
00:08:09.000And there will be counter pressure coming from some of the big companies in this area.
00:08:13.000But sometimes they sort of bring it on themselves.
00:08:16.000So if you look at the item that we just did at the FCC yesterday, when the underlying bill was still in Congress, A lot of corporate lobbyists actually said, you know, we're okay with it.
00:08:26.000Congress gave them tens of billions in federal handouts as part of the same thing.
00:08:30.000So despite all those woke strings being attached, overall they decided that it was worth it to be bought off.
00:08:37.000We need them to realize that this is a, in the words of my colleague, Brandon Carr, a Faustian bargain.
00:08:42.000In 10 years, the handouts will be gone, but they'll have this digital equity albatross forever.
00:08:50.000There's no way that you can ever make someone happy if there's no standard for what compliance is.
00:08:55.000On the other hand, by the time this comes along, people who were present at the original decision may well have collected their bonuses, retired.
00:09:06.000This is not a rule that's going to get front page New York Times treatment, but it's an excellent example of the subtle yet significant power of the federal bureaucracy.
00:09:19.000And hundreds of these decisions are made every single year.
00:09:23.000Not all of them get, by the way, the FCC has a board, right?
00:10:23.000And remember, retirement is about more than just investments.
00:10:26.000The Charlie Kirk endorsement of the PAX Financial Group LLC was given for compensation, which creates an incentive to recommend PAX's advisory services.
00:10:35.000Let me make sure that disclaimer is very clear.
00:10:42.000So I guess the immediate question is, will this affect my own internet?
00:10:46.000Well, it definitely will because the federal government is putting out a huge amount of money for this, but all that money is competing with each other.
00:10:53.000You know, you can't just wish resources into being by writing a check.
00:10:57.000Even if you've got the power of the U.S. Treasury behind you, there's just physical limitations on how many workers there are, how long it takes to trench and put in fiber, how long it takes to build the tower and hang radios off it, whatever you might want to ask.
00:11:11.000It's going to make everyone's internet much more over time, more costly.
00:11:16.000And the worst thing is it's going to deflate the value of developing a project.
00:12:00.000That's a recent development because the third Democratic seat was only filled in September.
00:12:08.000So for most of the Biden administration, there hasn't been a third Democrat, and we've been in a 2-2 situation, which may explain why this item didn't come up until now.
00:12:18.000But the most important thing about us is that at the commissioner level, we're independent.
00:12:25.000That means appointed by the president, confirmed by the Senate.
00:12:28.000After that, you can't get fired unless you're committing crimes.
00:12:31.000So that lets me get out here and say what I really think without having to worry that the secretary of something or other is going to fire me over it.
00:12:39.000Regarding the purview, so the FCC kind of got started for two reasons.
00:12:45.000Number one, the old AT ⁇ T phone monopoly, which was a government-backed monopoly, that was the alternative.
00:12:50.000The United States was the only country in the world not to have a socialized national phone system at the time.
00:12:55.000So we said, no, we're going to let a private company run it.
00:12:58.000And the FCC was put in place to do that.
00:13:00.000The other thing was to coordinate radio broadcasting.
00:13:03.000When radio was a young field, no one knew how to coordinate frequencies and people would just run up the power level on transmitters and try to interfere with each other in the best markets.
00:13:41.000And so then what, if there were to be a different winner of the election, like if Trump, for example, were to win next November, what would that mean for vacancies on the board?
00:13:53.000Well, the chairman, or in this case, the chairwoman, it's tradition, the chair resigns on Inauguration Day at 9 a.m.
00:14:01.000So Trump's FCC chair, Ajit Pai, still had time left in his term, but he resigned on Inauguration Day.
00:14:08.000And so the tradition is that every president gets to pick his own chair.
00:14:34.000That is a really unique thing about how our agency works because we have enforcement powers, which is like the executive, but we also have rulemaking powers, which is like the legislative.
00:14:43.000And so they made us independent so that we weren't beholden to either one of those because it would be a stealing of power from the other branch, if you see what I mean.
00:14:50.000Now, in the case of some other agency, at the end of the day, the person on top may be confirmed by the Senate and nominated by the president, but is not politically independent.
00:15:02.000And instead, they might serve at the president's pleasure.
00:15:06.000Well, you want to get on the wrong side of the president.
00:15:08.000That's a very quick way to get transitioned out of your job.
00:17:17.000It was filled with vermin and swine and homeless people and degenerates and drug addicts and raging lunatics come up to your car and start beating.
00:17:38.000I said, well, we had the MLB All-Star game in Seattle this summer and they cleaned everything up.
00:17:44.000I said, well, isn't it really demoralizing that if all the media cameras are coming, they clean everything up and then they don't care afterwards?
00:18:00.000Now, I find it hilarious that of all the things that motivate them to clean up the streets of San Francisco, it's Xi Jiping.
00:18:11.000As many people have been commenting, Gavin Newsom gives a long speech assuring San Francisco homeless they can go back to pooping on the streets once Xi Ji Ping returns back to China.
00:21:46.000We've said for quite some time that the lack of understanding of Maoism will be our downfall.
00:21:56.000We are living through a cultural revolution.
00:21:58.000Xi Jiping runs the Chinese Communist Party.
00:22:02.000The Chinese Communist Party is the same project started by Mao Zedong.
00:22:05.000Mao Zedong launched a cultural revolution.
00:22:09.000He had a moment where people could speak out and there could be free speech until repressive tolerance came.
00:22:17.000Struggle sessions where Maoists, there were 10 different categories that were created in mainland China.
00:22:22.000Five for fascists, five for communists.
00:22:25.000Parents were incentivized to train their kids in the communist way, and the kids were incentivized to turn in their parents if they were not 100% behind the party.
00:22:36.000The American leadership look at Xi Ji Ping and they privately say, man, it must be awesome.
00:22:43.000It must be awesome, Mr. Xi Ji Ping, that you have all this power, that you can do whatever you want whenever you want to do it.
00:22:53.000The American ruling elite, Gavin Newsom and Joe Biden, they want to be more like Xi.
00:22:59.000They don't look at this as a conflict between two countries.
00:23:02.000They look at America hopefully to become closer to the Chinese Communist Party model.
00:23:09.000Cut 108, Winnie the Pooh, says that China wants to be friends with the U.S.
00:23:13.000Yeah, even though they attack us cyber, they send in their kids to our schools to spy on us.
00:23:56.000Whatever stage of development it may reach, China will never pursue hegemony or expansion and will never impose its will on others.
00:24:05.000China does not seek spheres of influence and will not fight a Cold War or a hot war with anyone.
00:24:13.000China will remain committed to dialogue and oppose confrontation and build partnerships instead of alliances.
00:24:19.000It will continue to pursue a mutually beneficial strategy of opening up.
00:24:24.000The modernization we are pursuing is not for China alone.
00:24:28.000We are ready to work with all countries to advance global modernization, featuring peaceful development, mutually beneficial cooperation and common prosperity, and to build a community with a shared future for mankind.
00:24:40.000I mean, everything he's saying is a lie.
00:25:28.000I mean, he's a dictator in the sense that he is the guy who runs a country that is a financial country that basically forms government totally different than ours.
00:25:38.000Are we becoming more like China or is China becoming more like America?
00:25:42.000The promise of free trade and the promise of neoliberalism is that eventually China would become like America.
00:25:48.000They'd become a liberal democracy with private property rights and entrepreneurship and free speech.
00:25:53.000We were sold by the Mitt Romneys of the world and the Paul Ryans of the world and George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.
00:25:58.000We were sold by the Bill Clintons and even to a lesser extent Ronald Reagan that eventually China would liberalize and they would just become an open-minded country because the more we traded them, the more it changes their values and the opposite happened.
00:26:13.000The more that we have traded with China, they have got wealthier, but they've also become less free.
00:26:18.000They've become far more totalitarian, less open to different and new ideas.
00:26:24.000Most Americans never used to worry about the Chinese Communist Party until Trump woke us up.
00:26:29.000And understand the Chinese Communist Party owns Joe Biden, owns many members of the American government.
00:26:37.000Here's a montage of Joe Biden saying the rise of China was good, of course, because he's on the payroll.
00:26:42.000He's a traitor to the United States, the United States, and he's an agent of the Chinese Communist Party.
00:26:51.000I believed in 1979 and said so, and I believe now that a rising China is a positive development, not only for the people of China, but for the United States and the world as a whole.
00:27:06.000We want to see China rise, to continue to rise in response in a way that will benefit you most, China, because you have an important role to play.
00:27:15.000A rising China can be a significant asset for the region and the world, and selfishly for the United States.
00:27:22.000He is an agent of the Chinese Communist Party.
00:28:03.000Having worked with chairwoman Rana over the past two election cycles, I could not have asked for a better partner to help us ensure historic up-and-down Republican victories in Iowa.
00:28:14.000Without her support, Iowa and the Iowa caucus would not be the first in the nation.
00:28:18.000She has my full confidence as we head into the thick of caucus season.
00:29:12.000Quote, Charlie Kirk urged Trump to push for a change in leadership.
00:29:17.000Quote, there's still time to course correct on many of the structural problems of the RNC, Kirk said in a statement, but we need to move fast.
00:29:22.000Kirk and Turning Point have tried to unseat McDaniel in the latest RNC election, but we fell short.
00:30:12.000Well, first, I'm going to continue to focus on Joe Biden and Democrats.
00:30:16.000And I think there was a moment missed during that debate by Vivek to talk about the fact that we still have 13 American hostages in Israel, the fact that for the first time ever in the history of either party, we had a Jewish co-sponsor for a debate, and we are in very perilous times in our country.
00:31:00.000One of the things, though, Rana, that happened was, I think in Virginia, people were wondering where the money was, whether they were going to get some help from the RNC.
00:31:09.000And I know at one point you said that you were not asked for money in Virginia, but a source, a Republican source familiar with the Youngkin team in Virginia, told the Angle late tonight that that is false.
00:31:22.000And there, meaning your story keeps changing.
00:31:24.000Anyone who thinks Virginia Republicans wouldn't want to help when we knew we'd be outspent isn't being serious.
00:31:29.000You know, Rana, they were outspent by $8 million.
00:31:32.000Glenn Youngkin did a phenomenal job and he raised a lot of money.
00:31:36.000A lot of people don't understand fundraising.