00:01:26.840And the co-founder of Moms for Liberty announcing a new project that we're doing together for your kids' school libraries.
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00:01:41.040All of that and so much more on today's podcast.
00:01:44.160First, let me tell you about Patriot Mobile.
00:01:46.020Wouldn't it be great if we, you know, didn't have to deal with this stalled economy and inflation and endless wars and political bickering and now assassination attempts?
00:07:32.060Donald Trump doesn't believe in the global government.
00:07:36.760He doesn't believe in the global economy, the way it's being fashioned now, in much more of a fascistic way, with public-private partnerships.
00:07:50.980You know, you play ball with us, and then you'll be able to take over and crush your competitors and everything else because we'll protect you.
00:08:00.820But you need to play ball the right way.
00:09:24.940Well, the Chinese thought of this new idea of fascism, bringing the state in with business.
00:09:33.680Instead of taking businesses away from people and owning the businesses, they let people own and run the business, as long as you're in line with the state.
00:09:47.980And in fact, the reason why they have to kill him, I believe, is because he's the only one that stands in the way of this new global government and this new global business elite.
00:11:22.400Now, yesterday, there was a really awkward interview with Lester Holt where Joe Biden is just engaging in the same lies.
00:11:36.220And I would really like to make it very apparent by using the audio of both what Biden has been saying over and over again and the audio of what was actually said at the time.
00:11:51.300And then you decide who is telling you the truth.
00:11:55.840Here's Lester Holt and Joe Biden talking about Charlottesville again.
00:12:08.060And until I watched what happened in Charlottesville, Virginia, those folks coming out of the woods with torches, carrying swastikas, singing the same Nazi bio.
00:12:17.660I was accompanied by this Ku Klux Klan and a young woman was killed and I was a bystander.
00:12:25.620And the president, then president, was asked, what do you think?
00:12:29.740He said, they're very fine people on both sides.
00:13:11.700You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of to them a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name.
00:13:22.680And you had people, and I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally.
00:13:29.340But you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists.
00:16:41.420There's so many things that a great real estate agent can help you with, in fact, should take the lead on.
00:16:48.000You need a really competent real estate agent, one you can trust.
00:16:52.060When you trust your agent, you can also trust the people he or she trusts, the inspectors, the appraisers, the home repair contractors, the photographers, the list goes on and on and on.
00:17:29.300There's a new chapter in America being written because of what happened over the weekend.
00:17:34.100However, I would like to remind you that written assassination bump, if you can call it that, lasted only about three months.
00:17:42.480So this will go away, especially in an election season.
00:17:47.980So don't take anything for granted because there's a lot more of the election to go.
00:17:55.180I think it's interesting if they don't replace Joe Biden as the candidate.
00:17:59.240I think it will be very interesting to see because I think to me that says, why waste another candidate, a possible candidate for a losing situation?
00:18:16.180The one thing we have to do is make sure that there's no more violence and nobody tries to kill the president or the former president or anybody else, RFK.
00:19:34.260Because if he had been killed, I cannot imagine the second and third order effects that would be ravaging America right now if that was the case.
00:20:46.720It is, it's mind-boggling how badly they missed.
00:20:50.700You know that 140 yards from that location to the president's podium is effectively point-blank range with a carbine.
00:20:59.360I mean, a 12-year-old first-time hunter could make that shot.
00:21:05.440The fact that there was local law enforcement in the area and they weren't covering is pathetic, so bad on them, but also bad on the Secret Service to not detail one guy to make sure that local law enforcement is doing their job to cover that massive dead space.
00:21:20.420If you stand at the podium for the people that were doing the advance work before Trump arrives, to stand at the podium and look around, it's pretty obvious to see that those industrial buildings is what they call the sniper hotel, the likely place the sniper is going to set up shop if someone's going to do something.
00:21:38.380And apparently, they must have sent some local law enforcement there, and they didn't even thoroughly cover or walk around or patrol.
00:21:48.080It's astounding how bad the bungling was, and we literally dodged a bullet.
00:21:55.680So it's – the infinitesimal variation of aim to miss the president's head, his brain matter, by two inches is – the margin of error is entirely too small, and that must not ever happen again.
00:22:15.460And that's just against a 20-year-old idiot with no real professional training.
00:22:20.920I worry that a professional that sets up at 500 or longer yards with a bigger, proper rifle can also provide serious threat.
00:22:35.820The fact that the Secret Service snipers, counter snipers, were apparently looking at the guy for up to a minute, and no action was taken, to include not even getting Trump behind cover, to at least the threat is – it doesn't have to be neutralized, but at least interdicted so that he can't hurt anybody.
00:22:56.220To even have one of those cops go up the ladder, or multiple cops go up the ladder and stop, it's astounding.
00:23:02.900I mean, I hope there is a proper external investigation.
00:23:07.040We know the federal government is incapable of actually policing itself and of doing an objective, fact-based, non-political, non-ass-covering investigation.
00:23:18.080So there has to be some external look at this because, unfortunately, I've lost confidence in the federal agencies, and I think you have too.
00:24:00.520What should we be as a public seeing today if our Secret Service was competent?
00:24:06.860She should resign, effective immediately.
00:24:10.700And whoever did the advance work for that detail on Saturday should be fired.
00:24:16.560The head of counter-sniping there should be fired.
00:24:21.540And, again, I don't – like the Twitter post I said, I just don't – the way of accountability is not the way of Washington anymore.
00:24:30.900And so I don't think we'll see any changes until there's a new administration, and it speaks to yet another federal agency that is rotted with corruption and incompetence and in social engineering and not focusing on the right things, which is – should be solely focused on mission and execution and excellence.
00:24:53.280That's nothing else, nothing else, nothing to deviate from other than those core missions.
00:24:58.880The most important part of executive protection is really good advance work and mapping all the ways and all your likely vulnerabilities.
00:25:10.720Clearly, that wasn't done because there was so many areas left unwatched, unguarded.
00:25:16.960But even once the bullet started flying, the diamond, right, the immediate close protection team around the president should have got him off the X immediately and not let him stand up, although him standing up was a magnificent moment of bravery, a Teddy Roosevelt-like moment.
00:25:36.600Good on the president for having that composure.
00:26:16.140Eric, if you were in Congress and you were a supporter of Joe Biden, wouldn't you be ringing the bell as hard as you are right now?
00:26:24.780I mean, I'm ringing the bell because I don't want any of these guys shot.
00:26:29.360It's bad for the country. If we don't fix this, we are entering probably the most dangerous time our country has been in, maybe since World War II, where anything could go wrong and could set the entire country on fire.
00:26:50.540Why aren't the Democrats raising this alarm?
00:26:55.000Because they pursue, apparently, a very different paradigm that social engineering and DEI is more important than excellence.
00:27:07.080And I guess that equates to a fundamental paradigm, and maybe that becomes an electoral issue.
00:27:12.060Do you vote for excellence and merit, or do you vote for choosing people for their color, sexual preference, gender, whatever it is?
00:27:25.260And the American people have to choose excellence, or we don't have a country anymore, or a republic at least.
00:27:32.060I found it weird that the head of the Secret Service was in charge of Pepsi security.
00:27:40.240You know, I know how much security Doritos do need, but I found that to be...
00:27:47.300She was a career Secret Service, but that doesn't mean she was an excellent Secret Service officer and the one that should be leading the organization.
00:27:56.180So, again, I don't care who people sleep with or what bathroom they use.
00:28:02.320I just want the hardest, most capable protection officers around the president and other VIPs, because, as you know, you're a student of history.
00:28:15.520World War I started with an assassination of the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and it uncorked untold millions of deaths in World War I, tens of millions of deaths in World War II, and literally rewrote the map of the world from one hit.
00:28:34.640And I fear that if we lose a President Trump like that, again, the second- and third-order effects will be really, really ugly.
00:28:46.900If there is external conspiracy, and it wasn't just some 20-year-old idiot that showed up to do this, they need to be careful, because if they sow the wind, they're going to reap the whirlwind.
00:29:24.000One of, I believe, the real true patriots in America is Kevin Roberts.
00:29:32.400He's the Heritage Foundation president.
00:29:35.420We have gotten to know each other quite well over the last year or so, and I have tremendous respect for him, his courage, and what he is also doing.
00:30:52.120So, Kevin, talk to people who are hearing from the media that this is nothing but a way to carve out special exemptions for the president for fascism.
00:31:07.000The best way to start, and we'll go into detail, I know, is to say it is total projection by the left.
00:31:13.440I mean, you, perhaps more than anyone in our modern age, has shown us how whatever the left is accusing our side of is actually something they themselves are guilty of.
00:31:24.040And so, Project 2025 is actually a corrective to the very thing the left is accusing us of doing.
00:31:31.180That is, they are the ones, particularly since LBJ's presidency in the 60s, who have accrued all of this power in the hands of unelected bureaucrats in D.C.
00:31:41.120We feel that in every respect, every industry, every business, and even most of us in our sort of everyday lives.
00:31:48.640But ultimately, what Project 2025 will do is address the problem of the administrative state in D.C. being weaponized against the everyday American.
00:31:58.580It's the biggest threat, as you know, the administrative state, Glenn, to a republic where citizens vote for a new president and a new direction, and yet nothing changes.
00:32:08.960In fact, what we will see, if any aspects of Project 2025 are implemented, is a diminishing of the scope of Washington, D.C., and an increase in freedoms, and the presidency and the legislative branch and the judicial branch all being returned to proper order.
00:32:27.020In other words, it really is, I think, the single best set of policy ideas about how we go back to the original founding vision, as our founders had it, of this constitutional republic.
00:32:39.060You know, I said to some of my relatives, look, you and I agree on one thing, I think, and they did.
00:32:45.760And that is, no citizen should ever be afraid that the president of the United States is going to get him.
00:32:55.280That this election would put somebody in office where he could take away freedoms of people he didn't like or didn't agree with.
00:33:04.600That's, I am absolutely against that, because I know it always comes around to bite whoever did it in the butt, because they'll eventually get to you.
00:33:17.460This ensures that the president, no matter which side they're on, doesn't have that power to get his enemies or to just rule his way without the consent of Congress and the people.
00:33:35.100That's right. And if if that kind of abuse and weaponization against the American people using the administrative state, we've seen against the right, the political right by President Biden were for some reason to be done by a conservative administration.
00:33:51.060We at Project 2025 and at Heritage, to your point, Glenn, would be just as apoplectic.
00:33:57.200Every one of us from the far left to the far right, wherever someone is on that political spectrum, needs to wake up in this country and believe that of all entities, the federal government is going to be objective
00:34:08.840and neutral and neutral and fair and just and equal and equal and how it treats all of our citizens.
00:34:15.440And so the real problem that we're trying to address isn't just the accrual of power since the 60s in particular.
00:34:23.220It is without getting engaged in hyperbole, which, you know, I detest addressing the weaponization of the federal government against individual citizens.
00:34:32.220I'll give you a quick story that is a personal reference, but it's emblematic of what people feel.
00:34:37.680I, as you know, am a traditional Roman Catholic.
00:34:41.220Doesn't mean that people have to agree with that, but that's my religious liberty and my family's to practice that.
00:34:46.480We have over the last few years, those of us in that category, not just been fearful of, but we know the following has happened.
00:34:54.000We know this from the director of the FBI and the attorney general of Biden's administration.
00:34:59.140They have targeted faithful, traditional Catholics because we like the Latin mass as somehow being domestic terrorists.
00:35:06.600It's that kind of nonsense that Project 2025 would bring to an end if the next administration so desires to implement.
00:35:14.740So has Trump signed on for any of this?
00:35:19.800The president, of course, has distanced himself from this, which is, I think, a smart political move, given how successful the left's mischaracterization of this has been.
00:35:29.560Ultimately, though, to your question, great ideas and great people rise to the top.
00:35:34.640And so without it all being presumptuous, which you know I am not, and Project 2025 is designed to sort of be in the background, those great ideas and those great people, I think, are going to be part of this conversation.
00:35:48.580Once the Trump-Vance administration takes office.
00:35:51.300So I would, for people trying to make sense of President Trump's comments and his campaign's comments and the project, understand that we are in the political season right now, and soon we will move into the transition and policymaking season.
00:36:05.560And I just have great confidence in the policies and people who are part of it and think that we're going to have a great era of good, common sense policy reform that ultimately is sort of neither conservative nor liberal.
00:36:19.820It's just right, and it's just common sense.
00:36:22.380I will tell you that I read the website, and we're doing a show on it tomorrow night, to go through what it is and what it's not.
00:36:31.980And if people will read it, I mean, I think the media is doing a great service in a way.
00:36:39.900If people go to the website and really look up what Project 2025 is and reads it, I think most Americans will agree with a lot of it.
00:36:51.120You know, you're talking about dismantling the, not the DOJ, but the DHS.
00:37:02.560You're returning the component parts to other agencies.
00:37:06.060You're talking about eliminating harmful regulations that have stifled innovation in small businesses, more oil and gas leases, less climate extremism, no more overregulation of dishwashers and gas stoves and everything else that they said they definitely weren't doing.
00:37:23.280You know, I think, Kevin, the idea here is the administrative state has been made into something that can do all the things that they know they can't get passed into laws, and that's what's got to stop.
00:37:39.060These people, these elites are running these organizations, and they decide what's best, and it never comes to us.
00:37:47.180And if we want to change, then we'll change.
00:37:50.280You can't force us to do that, especially as an unelected official.
00:37:56.980That's the key issue is that Congress, of course, is complicit in this by not being forceful enough over the last decades.
00:38:04.740And what it's done, frankly, under both Democrat and Republican administrations, is create this yo-yo effect of the Democrats and the Republicans issuing these executive orders.
00:38:14.780I'm still hopeful enough about this country, Glenn, to believe that maybe a vast majority of us across the political spectrum understand that's not how we ought to make law.
00:38:25.660And so what we're trying to do with the proposals we have in Project 2025, in addition to what you said, is call for an end to DEI and CRT.
00:38:34.860I mean, this is something that's vastly supported.
00:38:38.300Unfortunately, we probably see, in addition to all of the aspects of the failure on Saturday's near assassination, the effects of that.
00:38:46.420That was a higher goal, DEI for the Secret Service director, than real competence.
00:39:02.600We don't have to get into the personal side of this, but they are people who do not want those of us who are regular, normal people to go about our lives.
00:39:11.620It's imperative that people understand that the very reason the left has spent more money demonizing Project 2025 than we've spent putting it together tells you it is a threat to their power.
00:39:25.340And that ought to excite us about the possibilities ahead.
00:39:28.300You know, you talk about in Project 2025 something that I haven't heard for a long time, and that's a flatter and fairer tax code with a 15% bracket and a 30% bracket.
00:39:40.300They, of course, will say this is tax cuts for the rich, etc.
00:39:47.620It has been shown over and over and over again.
00:39:50.240No matter what you do with the tax code, the government brings in about 18% total.
00:39:56.940And if you bring the tax code and bring it up to 95, people find loopholes, don't pay their taxes, etc., etc., and they still get about 17% to 18% going into the Treasury.
00:40:10.500So why not do a flat tax where everybody pays what's appropriate, and you don't have all of these loopholes?
00:40:25.220In fact, in some recent interview in the last couple of weeks, President Trump has even hinted at that.
00:40:31.020Obviously, we're going to have to deal as a country with tax policy because the Trump tax cuts are up for renewal.
00:40:38.340And I think there's an opportunity, depending on what the president, the vice president, of course, want to do, we will be of service to that, is to insert into that a flatter system.
00:40:46.660I mean, I'm old enough to remember when, as a country, 10 or so years ago, we were on the cusp of implementing that kind of thing.
00:40:54.700This is an excellent example of something that is in Project 2025 that is wildly supported by a majority of people.
00:41:02.620And it leads me to the following connected point, Glenn.
00:41:06.320You touched on this just a minute ago.
00:41:08.820Project 2025 covers literally every policy issue known to man.
00:41:16.660I've not met one fellow conservative, whether that's my wife or one of my siblings or my dad, all staunch conservatives who agree with 100% of what's in there.
00:43:40.320We understand it's a pluralistic country.
00:43:42.280We love those schools, but that's up to people to decide.
00:43:45.740End civil rights and DEI protections in government.
00:43:50.580Well, we definitely want to end DEI nonsense, but obviously the great thing about Project 2025 is that we're restoring civil rights, if anything.
00:43:59.500Banned books and curriculum about slavery.
00:44:06.620Ending climate projections or protections.
00:44:08.940Well, the ones that aren't based on science will come to an end, but we certainly understand the value of science and protecting the environment.
00:44:18.220I got to tell you, this is why we're doing a whole show on it.
00:44:20.680What they're saying about this is incredible.