Javier Belay, the Argentine Prime Minister, delivers a speech to the United Nation's General Assembly. He calls for a return to the principles of the founding father and defends the right to life, liberty, and the property of individuals.
00:19:40.540Well, that opens up their mind and then listen to what you have to say next, which is that that may not be a bad thing for humanity.
00:19:46.760In fact, eight times as many people die of cold temperatures rather than warm ones.
00:19:52.480And the truth is, they used to be concerned about an ice age rather than being concerned about global warming as recently as the 1970s.
00:19:59.080So those are the kinds of hard truths on climate religion, on transgender religion, on racial ideology that I speak to the left.
00:20:07.760However, to our own side, here's also a hard truth that I think we need to remember.
00:20:11.900We don't want to replace the left wing nanny state with the right wing nanny state.
00:20:17.140And the truth is, even if Kamala Harris is proposing price controls, we don't like to admit it, Glenn, but there are Republican U.S. senators and congressmen that have proposed price controls in other sectors as well.
00:20:29.860So my answer, the hard medicine for the right in this book is, we don't want to replace that left wing nanny state with the right wing nanny state.
00:20:36.820We want to get in there and shut it down.
00:20:38.780And that's also a court thesis of this book.
00:20:41.360So did you see Javier Malay's speech at the U.N. yesterday, by any chance?
00:21:22.560And in some ways, that's what I try to do also.
00:21:24.640In truth, I talk a lot about parts of American history and our Constitution and our founding culture that I think we need to revive and that young people in particular, Glenn, are hungry for.
00:21:35.900I told you I went to the University of Pittsburgh last week.
00:21:38.360It's supposedly a left-of-center campus.
00:21:40.780But what I actually see is a lot of young people who are just hungry for something new, to be part of something bigger.
00:23:00.700Let it be that branch, that chapter on the administrative state.
00:23:04.760We don't want to use the left-wing regulatory state to achieve conservative goals.
00:23:09.200We want to take agencies from the CFPB to the SEC to the FTC to the FDA and constrain their scope massively, shut down agencies like the U.S. Department of Education, countless others that should not exist, and return that to the states where it belongs.
00:23:28.140So it's not just the concentration of executive power, Glenn, which I agree with you on, but it's the concentration of power in the federal government.
00:23:34.660It wasn't supposed to actually reside in the first place, instead being returned to the states and to the people.
00:23:40.740Now, the publisher and my advisors, I've got to tell you, my political advisors are the same way.
00:23:45.180When I ran for president, they say, don't talk about the stuff that bores people.
00:23:48.640So one of the things I try to do in this chapter in the book is, you know, it's the stuff that's the most boring that's often the most important.
00:23:54.480But I went out of my way in this chapter to try to bring to life how that administrative state, how that bureaucratic deep state actually has an impact on the lives of everyday Americans on the left and on the right.
00:24:07.620And the goal with this book is to equip everyday Americans who agree with you and I to be able to make these points at the dinner table to their friends on the left.
00:24:17.740That was my favorite part of the campaign is, you know, we can dunk on the left, we can defeat the left.
00:24:22.840I did that during the media interactions I had during my campaign.
00:24:26.560But my favorite parts of the presidential campaign were where we were actually able to persuade people on the left and bring them along.
00:24:34.180And I've gotten questions from a lot of Americans, how do I do that at home?
00:24:37.720That's exactly what this book is, a toolkit to arm them to be able to achieve.
00:24:41.540And that's what we need to save the country.
00:24:42.660So give me that argument, you're sitting at, you know, the dinner table with a relative, and you, you know, somehow or another come across the deep state, which is the administrative state.
00:25:00.000You and I may disagree on policy, but let's agree on this, is that the people we elect to run the government ought to be the ones who actually run the government.
00:25:09.860And if it's your side that wins or your policies that win, I agree to abide by them.
00:25:14.260If it's my policies that win, you agree to abide by them.
00:25:16.840But today, 99% of the laws, they call them rules, but 99% of the effective laws in the country are not even passed by Congress.
00:25:25.840They're passed by three-letter agencies.
00:25:27.500And there's a story in the book of a fisherman who was put out of business by cumbersome regulations imposed by the EPA and other agencies and Fish and Wildlife Services that effectively required him to pay money that he didn't have in order to actually just be a fisherman in the country.
00:25:47.660So ordinarily, if that's a bad rule and a fisherman is being put out of business, well, people could vote their congressmen out.
00:25:53.980But this time, you could vote your congressmen out as many times as you want.
00:25:57.300That would still be the law of the land because it was a bureaucrat who could not be fired who wrote that into law.
00:26:02.700So we give countless examples of small business owners, everyday Americans who have been harmed, who have been put out of business by laws that were never passed by Congress.
00:26:11.840And I think that's something that people on the left and the right can both jointly agree on.
00:26:15.920And I've seen that many of our friends on the left, one of the things we can do better, I think, in making the arguments is let's ourselves state the best possible argument they can make.
00:26:25.940Let's state it first and then pick it apart.
00:26:56.420It was his benevolence to say that you, the people, can't be trusted to self-govern.
00:27:00.640I'm going to do it for you for your own good.
00:27:03.520That's the premise behind the administrative stage.
00:27:05.960And so the American bargain is that for better or for worse, and we've got to admit, sometimes we'll get it wrong, but for better or for worse, we the people just create a government that's accountable to us, not the other way around.
00:27:25.060There's one response to that is America in the course of human history is a little weird because most of human history did it the other way.
00:27:31.580But we're proud of that, and that's what made America great the first time, and that's what makes America great again.
00:27:37.340And that's one of the theses of that chapter of the book.
00:27:57.320All right, so make this case to those on the left, I'm sorry, on the right that say, you know, this was, we all know this country was made for immoral and religious people, and our founders said it's wholly inadequate for people who are not.
00:28:14.680We need the big state to force people back into, you know, decency, et cetera, et cetera.
00:28:22.360Yeah, so this is the temptation we face right now.
00:28:26.080Now, first of all, the same shoe will then fit the other foot.
00:28:29.620We've seen that time again that once you create the vectors for government control, we may believe today that we're using the levers of the bureaucracy to advance good conservative goals.
00:28:40.020Well, there will be, like it or not, in the next 20 years, there's going to be another Democrat elected.
00:28:44.340And once that precedent exists, that's how they use that to really advance religion.
00:28:49.040Not the religions that you and I have in mind, Glenn.
00:31:28.580Turns out he's been there on and off for 30 days.
00:31:31.840So, yeah, these continue to be human errors.
00:31:34.240Now, the only success I can tell you is that they have at least now finally acknowledged they're giving the same Secret Service detail to Biden, Harris, and to Trump.
00:31:45.160It doesn't mean that we have good people running the place yet.
00:31:48.120But I've told people I'm not going to rest until there's responsibility taken.
00:31:52.920And whoever was in charge in Butler, and really whoever was in charge in Mar-a-Lago the other day, they are not showing the ability to be in charge, and they need to be replaced.
00:32:02.300I saw a story today that just says they're overworked and stretched thin.
00:32:06.980Since when have we had a problem with budget?
00:32:47.360No one admits it was their job to walk around the grounds and say, wow, look at this roof.
00:32:51.920It's only 100 yards away, pointed right at the stage.
00:32:55.100Why don't we put a counter-sniper up there?
00:32:57.320We also know that the Trump campaign and the Trump Secret Service asked for months for counter-sniperes.
00:33:03.720The first time they finally get counter-sniperes is at Butler.
00:33:07.560And thank God the counter-sniperes were there, because if they had not taken the shooter out as quickly as they did, it obviously was a lot of errors.
00:33:14.740But they still took out the shooter very quickly.
00:33:17.100Had they not, it gets off another 10 rounds.
00:33:19.400He could well have hit and killed Trump with a second shot, or more Secret Service and more spectators.
00:33:58.420If you withhold their money and say, you know, we're going to withhold your salaries, all of a sudden the documents start showing up.
00:34:04.400So have we dismissed the supposed coded, I don't even know what they were, apps that he had between two other, you know, dark kind of countries?
00:34:34.440I think they just don't have the ability to crack them is what they're apparently telling us.
00:34:38.060I think that everything about both the first and the second shooter look like independent shooters, not that sophisticated.
00:34:46.440And that's what makes it more troubling is that an unsophisticated shooter two times in a row was able to get to the point where he could have killed former President Trump and realize there are also credible threats now from Iran saying that they will do it.
00:35:01.360And Iran's a much more sophisticated enemy.
00:35:03.460I mean, if nothing else, the Iranians are pretty good with missiles and with drones and with technology.
00:35:09.020And, you know, we have to have the appropriate defensive wear in place.
00:35:15.600And, you know, we just barely got counter snipers for Trump.
00:35:18.760But I've been pushing and pushing to make sure we have the sophisticated defense equipment that's necessary to stop a state actor from assassinating.
00:35:26.020I mean, this is absolutely insanity that we, you know, the leader of the world is grappling with technology and, you know, we got to get better technology.
00:38:00.700I will tell you the one thing that will be hard to prove, and no one's really ever going to know, is they denied counter-snipers for six months.
00:38:07.960They denied extra security protection that was being recommended by the Trump Secret Service and the Trump campaign.
00:39:56.340The only way it changes and the way historically it worked is we had the power of the purse.
00:40:01.340You have to have people with guts who run the appropriations committees.
00:40:06.540There are some that are favorable, but many people on the appropriations committee are there to be a rubber stamp for more money.
00:40:12.440So they're more used to, in a crisis like the Secret Service, let's give them more money, whereas historically what you did is you withheld their money until they gave you all the documents.
00:40:54.540But I would get them within a week if the appropriators, the spending folks on Republican and Democrat side would, you know, hold their feet to the fire and say no more money, but they haven't done it.
00:41:04.760I'm still hoping with a new presidency I get those documents.
00:41:07.980But with this, with the Secret Service, I can tell you this and tell your listeners this.