Ep 197 ｜ Tim Scott’s Message to ‘Modern Plantation Owners’ ｜ The Glenn Beck Podcast
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Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) joins Glenn Beck on the Glenn Beck Show to discuss his 2020 campaign and why he's running for President in the Democratic primary. Scott is the first black man elected to the U.S. Senate from South Carolina and the first person of color to serve as a senator from that state.
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Well, as we approach the 2024 election, I'm devoting a series of episodes to the Glenn Beck
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program podcast. They're conversations with presidential candidates. My job, so you know,
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is not to help or hurt any candidate. There is no agenda except to ask fair questions that are
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important to the American people. We need candidates to be crystal clear about who they are
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and what they stand for. I've been watching the debates. I get very little out of that.
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These episodes will provide essential conversations you definitely will not hear
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on a debate stage. Now, today's guest is committed and he's committed an unforgivable sin to the far
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left, at least. He's a committed American, even though he's black and he's a Republican.
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He is the Senate's only black Republican. He's been called vile, unrepeatable things. And of
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course, all of these names come from liberals. Turns out the same people who spend their time
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ranting about systemic racism and the evils of whiteness also happen to be incredibly racist
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themselves. He has a. An inspirational and incredible spirit of optimism. He says that
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it's his grandfather who picked cotton and never learned how to read, got to see his family go
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from cotton to Congress. His grandfather used to tell him, you can be bitter or you can be better,
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but you can't be both. He's a huge advocate for people to, quote, be able to agree without disagree
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and without being disagreeable. Today, we're going to sit down and listen to the senator from South
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Senator, good to see you. Glenn, thanks for having me. You bet. Yeah, you look sharp. Thank you.
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I'm not wearing a red power tie. Can I ask you just a frank question? Frank question. I've been
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watching the debates. Yes. What the hell was that last debate? Yes. It was. I mean, did you get
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anything out of it? Well, I think I got a little more of the second one that I got the first one.
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The first one was an absolute food fight. The second one was better, but not much better. The
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truth is we're not learning anything about what separates the candidates and correct. Why one of
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us should become the nominee of the Great Opportunity Party. And frankly, that's disappointing.
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I'd love to spend, and thankfully we will spend some time on not only the underlying issues with
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the 60 second soundbite, but what is the philosophy that undergirds that 60 second soundbite? That's
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where the magic is made. The magic is actually not magic. It's typically hard work, pressed down,
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shaken together, and then it runs over the boundaries according to Luke 638. And then you see the benefits
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of that hard work over time. If we had that opportunity to see the summation of a 60 second
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answer because of the understanding of the underlying principle, then we'd be cooking with oil.
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Yeah. By the way, Grand Opera, no, Great Opportunity Party. Did you make that up?
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I didn't make it up. I'm sure I got it from someone, but at the end of the day.
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It's the most important transition that's happening before our very eyes. So one thing about the Grand
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Old Party is that it does not, the roof is not wide and large enough for the Great Opportunity
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Party to emerge. We have to have the Great Opportunity Party. The Great Opportunity Party
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is a party driven by principles. Its focus is not on populism, it's on principles because those
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principles have undergirded human flourishing for all of human history, and they come from the gospel.
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And so when you understand those basic principles-
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So let's go through them because I think most people don't know what those principles are.
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That's why we're in the trouble. So what are the principles?
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Well, one of those principles for me, it starts with, it's 2 Corinthians 10, 4 or 5 that says
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take these thoughts captive that exalts itself against the Lord, basically is what it says.
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Paraphrasing, paraphrasing. And what that basically means is there's something called absolute truth.
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It is a foundational principle on which this country was born. The idea of America is that
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there is an absolute truth. And absent of absolute truth, you cannot have an objective standard
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because everything is relative. When everything is relative, you get these people in 2023 who say,
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oh, my truth and your truth. There is no truth in my truth and your truth. There are experiences,
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but there isn't a truth. The truth has to be absolute. It has to apply consistently throughout
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all of the universe. And without that simple gospel truth, you cannot have an objective standard.
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So you can say, my truth is America is a great place. And somebody else can say, my truth is that
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America is an oppressed state. But what's the principle truth behind it?
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And those are your experience leads you to the conclusion that America is.
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Well, this is where I'm going to love this part of the conversation. I hope we continue this way.
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Our emotions are real. They're just not real accurate.
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One of the foundations of this truth known as America is that we are the greatest nation on God's
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green earth because we sought to do what no other country's ever done, which is to be born through
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a declaration of independence that says that we have things that don't come from each other
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because there is a higher power that gave us certain inalienable rights, life, liberty,
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and the pursuit of happiness. Pursuit of happiness is in many ways embedded in this notion of the rule
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of law because without the rule of law, the strong take from the weak, period.
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America is unique that we believe something far greater, far more powerful than the strong takes
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from the weak, that there are boundaries. There are legal limits. That is unusual.
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That says that the weak has a right to life, born or unborn. It says that the kid who's living today
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in rural Iowa understands that there is a playing field called America that if you just,
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the mayor said that the mayor of Dallas, the new convert to the Republican Party said it today,
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if you play by the rules, understand the maze, and respect law enforcement, your chances of succeeding
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in America, pretty darn good. That works in rural Iowa or any city Chicago if you have absolute truth
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an objective standard. In these big cities, you don't have them anymore.
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So people would say that I don't have that because I don't have the education. I don't have the family.
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I didn't either. I'm here to celebrate the goodness of America, not because I was born with a silver spoon.
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Mine was plastic. And I grew up with a father in a household who was there to teach me all the things
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that you hoped that your father would teach you. I missed that part of growing up. I did have a
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strong, powerful mother who believed that prayer was the key, that faith would unlock the door.
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And a mentor who came along who really complimented my grandfather's early teachings that,
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you know what? Getting better is a choice. Being better is also a choice. You can only choose one
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route. I chose the route of being better because there was someone there that helped me.
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understand that the harder I worked, the luckier I got. John Moniz, a Chick-fil-A operator,
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Citadel graduate, go to Bulldogs in South Carolina. One of the lessons that John Moniz taught me
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when I was 15 years old. You got to remember, Glenn, I am the opposite of the privileged person
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growing up. I now know we're all privileged. If you're living in America. Oh, yeah.
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I have to tell you, you are, you are, you are amongst the most privileged people on the planet.
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Yeah. It even, I'm sorry. No matter where you're living, you're privileged. But this particular time
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is the reason why we're having so much strife, I think is because we're absolutely ungrateful.
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We don't recognize how great our life is and we're looking for something to bitch about.
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Well, you're not wrong. I think you're right. Here's what I, here's what I, here's how I would
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take what you just said and say it in Timisms. One of the things I'd say is that we are like a group
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of people, not Americans, but those who believe that victimhood is the choice of drugs of today.
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They're like geese lost in a rainstorm. They have a compass. They have a internal guiding system that
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tells them which way to go. And the circumstances around them have short-circuited what is innate
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within them. Americans, we are exceptional because our DNA is different. We've embedded within the
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construct of who we are. It's this true north. We have a compass that works. But when you start
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looking around for feedback, as opposed to looking up for direction, you find yourself like a goose
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lost in a rainstorm. And you start thinking that what you see around you is more important than what
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you have in you. Our founding fathers should be celebrated as geniuses, not canceled. And here's why.
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The resources were not the brilliance of America. It was this notion that you have the right to be
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free, to pursue your definition of the American dream, embedded in the DNA of every human, blessed by
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God to be an American. We not only have that in our DNA, we have the opportunity for full expression
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of that passion to be free. But if you pervert it, you actually see the results in Baltimore,
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D.C. last night with the carjacking of a congressmember, to Los Angeles, Philadelphia,
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50 arrested after a melee of night. Listen, the facts are simple. Truth works. Everything else
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is a con. What's the role of government? Limited. Our founding fathers got that right, too. I mean,
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we have certainly three different forms of government that we could talk about. Article 1,
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Section 8 is a really good place for us to start on the federal level. But then we also have the
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state and the local government. And if you take local, you can break that down into two specific
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areas. Typically, there's a county level, and then there's just a city or municipal level. The truth
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of the matter is that the less intrusive the government, the better off the people seem to be.
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The people who trust the government closest to them more, therefore, why not find ways to shift those
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resources and decisions back to the local levels. Classic example, I created Opportunity Zones as
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part of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. And one of the things I decided in my Opportunity Zones,
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I basically took Jack Kemp's idea of Enterprise Zones, wanted more money for people living in poverty
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or in vulnerable economic situations. Check. Been there, done that, got the t-shirt.
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Two, he wanted the government to provide more assistance. Well, been there, done that,
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got the t-shirt, too. That didn't work out very well for me. Poverty in my neighborhoods were sky
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high. Unemployment for kids like me was over 30%. I knew the government was not the answer.
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Jack really had a good idea, but that one part needed to be shifted. I shifted the focus to the
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private sector. $75 billion from the private sector, not a penny from the federal government,
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coming into the poorest communities, designated by the governors, not by Washington, on where those
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locations should be, has led to an 8% increase in wages, a 20% increase in property values, less than
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5% gentrification, and real opportunity for poor kids who are really smart, really bright, but don't
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have access to the same opportunities as wealthier kids. Why not just level the playing field and bring
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opportunities back to those communities? The government, when creating the right incentives
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and then taking a step out of the way, letting the free market miracle work, you know, the theory
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of the invisible hand, as it works, we get better results for the people who need it the most,
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and the people who have it get the incentive, capital gains reduction, to play where they would not
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play before because the risk was too high and the return was too low. If you can reduce the risk and
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increase the potential return, people will take the calculated risk to do the right thing.
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Americans always do the right thing, sometimes after doing the wrong thing.
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I'm a huge fan of the concept that we should be buying products made here in America, and there's
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a lot, there's a certain level of pride that comes from making things and knowing you're spending
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your money on things that are made here in America, and the money that you spend is going to land
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in the pockets of hardworking fellow Americans, but it's hard. It's really hard. Just about
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So help me out on capitalism, because if I'm listening to you, and I'm 24 years old, I've only seen
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capitalism give it to the government, giving it to the banks, the banks screwing my mom and dad,
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because they lost their house in 08. That's all I know. So why would I want to give any money or
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help have the private industry come in and do anything?
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Well, you know, that's a great question and a fair question. Just think about that 24-year-old
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whose parents lost their house in 2008. I'm going to compare that to the seven-year-old who had no house
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to lose, being me, living in poverty, in an inner-city community, government's always around,
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trying to provide more resources, more help. And what was the result of that? The stagnation.
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Very static. The people in my communities where I grew up most often into generational poverty.
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The result? Well, the Great Society is a big part of that. Part of the Great Society was that we were
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going to bring checks into households if the male, the father, would leave those households. The
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devastations, particularly in black communities, can be measured in unemployment, measured in crime,
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measured in fatherlessness. And from the good book, Hope Deferred Makes the Heart Sick.
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We can now look generations later, decades later, 60 years later, and see that the devastation of the
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first inklings of socialism brought by the government and to the poorest communities, that devastation
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is wreaking havoc all over the country in these big blue cities. That is avoidable for this 24-year-old.
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I've brought this up to a couple of people, and I'd love to hear your opinion on it.
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How did Lyndon Baines Johnson, who was absolutely racist to the day he died, horrible racist,
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the guy who stopped the civil rights program in the Senate in 1959, all of a sudden becomes
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the architect of the Great Society? I am convinced that the people that he worked with that produced
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did not necessarily have African Americans' best interest in mind. I think it was a poison pill.
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African Americans had a higher familiar or marriage rate than white Americans did.
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Absolutely. Going into the, that's one of the things I said that, you know, the founder of 1619
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Project has been just trying to destroy me on the web. Congressman Bowman called me Sambo because of
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my positive comments the other night. Oh my gosh. I mean, this is the kind of disgusting racism that
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I'm hearing and feeling from people who look like me. It would devastate the average person. I've just
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had so much of it over the last several years. When I wrote the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, I was one of the
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three authors of the legislation. They called me a prop. When I decided I wanted to defund, to stop
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the defunding of the police and start refunding the police, they called me a token. When I pushed
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back against Biden's agenda, they called me the N-word. The one thing I see from the radical left
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and frankly, from the power brokers who sometimes look like me is that they are willing to use class
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and race to hold on to their power, even at the expense of the American people. It is disgusting
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what we're seeing there. But I will say that what we've learned over time is that the radical left
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says to people like me, sit down, shut up, but don't forget to vote. And we mean blue.
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The price is too high. And you think about LBJ or Planned Parenthood founded for the termination,
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really the extermination, from her perspective, of black people. And to see where they set up their
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shops, to see what they're selling. They're not in my neighborhood.
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It's devastating. And that's why, that's why I feel like it is my responsibility as a kid who grew
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up in poverty, as a kid who only had a mother in the household, as a kid who had a mother who
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didn't, only had a, barely had a high school education, who worked 16 hours as a nurse's aide
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changing bedpans and rolling patients. As a kid whose grandparents endured racism from the 1920s
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in the Jim Crow South, to pretend that that family history didn't exist would be alive from the pit of
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hell. To pretend that it is exactly that way now would also be alive from the pit of hell. So my
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responsibility is to take the seriousness of who we are as Americans, the seriousness of the issues
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that we face, and take a look back and give people a snapshot of what is possible in this great nation
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coming from tough neighborhoods where my friends were shot, buried, or locked up. When you understand
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that this country works for all of us in the year 2023, we should not be playing games with people's
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emotions. We should not be selling socialism in a radical progressive movement that has been proven
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wrong, not just in Cuba or today in Venezuela, but in the poorest blue cities in our nation.
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We see the results of socialism, and it's devastated poor people.
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How come? I mean, I keep feeling this way about all people with Joe Biden. How bad does it have to get
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before you wake up? And I would say that in Detroit in 1960 was the greatest city in the world. It was
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the iconic city. This is how you do it. Right. Totally agree. How much, how many times do you have to vote
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that way before you go, this is not working out well? Listen, I, my, my answer is stop. Stop. Don't do it
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again. The, the price is too high for your kids. The price is too high for the people that you love the
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most. The price is too high and there is no ROI coming your way. We cannot sell baby Americans.
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It's the path of socialism. When they're born, they owe basically 90 something. I say a hundred,
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right around a hundred thousand dollars per American born in this country. Oh, to the government.
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We can do better. Nobody thinks that we're going to have to pay that off. Please tell me,
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please tell me why this debt has got to be solved. Why we have to stop spending,
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but say it to the average person who's never felt the effects of this debt.
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Well, the short answer is we are a country that brings in $4.8 trillion under Joe Biden. He plans
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to spend $7 trillion, which is 40% overspending that annual deficit. Annual deficit is $2 trillion.
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When you see that as your future, you should ask yourself, do you ever have to pay it back? And do
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you have to service the debt? The answer to both is yes. So the question, immediate question then
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is if I have to pay the debt back, what is that credit card payment today? The credit card payment
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today is an interest only payment that does not include the last 11 rate increases.
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Oh my. The interest only is 572% or over 10% of all of the revenues that we have coming in today.
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We are paying out on interest only. Therefore, the $33 trillion worth of debt keeps going up without
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being touched. Second thing you should ask me is, well, what does that look like in five years or in
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10 years on interest only? Well, if you increase the interest rates to reflect the 11 rate increases
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So this is already, it's just coming. We haven't rolled over all those pieces of debt.
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Be closer between $1.2 and $1.5 trillion. In a nation that only brings in $4.8 trillion,
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said in a way that we understand, one out of every $3 would go to debt service interest only,
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not to our military, which is about $850 billion, not from Medicare, which is about $750 billion,
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not to Social Security, which is $1.1 trillion, not to veteran benefits, which is around $400 billion,
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or Medicaid, which is somewhere around $300 billion, or Obamacare, no one knows what that costs.
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Not to any of those things. Not to the annual expenditures, which we know, we think as far as
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the annual appropriations, about $1.7 trillion. None of that. Just for our debt interest. One out of
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every $3. That's why you run for president, to restore sanity to a country that afforded me
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an opportunity that I could not get anywhere on earth, but here.
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You don't seem to have either party. You know, we're getting to the place to where I think
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Charles Sumner was when he spoke on the floor of the Senate in the 1850s and said,
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neither of you, neither of you parties are serious about anything. You run and you say this,
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and then you don't do it. And that was the beginning of the Republican Party, which was
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all about stopping slavery. Yes. And it was a group of people who actually believed it. Yes.
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Believed it. They weren't running for just an office in power. They wanted to do this. They wanted to
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stop slavery. Set people free. Right. So I keep waiting for that moment because I look at the GOP,
00:27:59.760
honestly, I'm done. I'm done. Never write a check to the GOP ever again. Just look at what they've
00:28:08.460
done with the budget. Yeah. Congress has the purse strings. That's constitutional. Yes. We have
00:28:15.020
had both parties in power. It started in 2008. If Congress doesn't take their power back and say,
00:28:24.720
no, you're not using that money that way. We have the purse strings. The entire balance of the
00:28:31.980
Constitution and the separation of powers is gone. It rests upon getting that power structure back the
00:28:40.280
way. So how are you going to do that? How do you have to do this? Frankly, it takes a chief
00:28:44.340
executive of the United States, also known as a president or commander in chief that says that
00:28:49.600
here are the limits. It's not a phone and a pen. Here's the Constitution. I'm going to abide by it.
00:28:56.760
I'm going to use the power of my veto. I'm going to use the power of my bully pulpit, but I'm not going
00:29:01.440
to pass laws from my desk. That is a problem that we've been facing for, frankly, multiple presidencies.
00:29:09.080
Yes. And that is a problem that can be fixed by a president who says there is a greater good.
00:29:14.220
There is a greater opportunity for me to point the rudder of our ship in the direction we want the
00:29:20.320
So you're saying that you would not be frivolous and write the kind of executive orders that have
00:29:28.980
And you, yes, I'm saying that, but it goes a step further. We also have to have a president who
00:29:36.080
reigns into bureaucracy that creates rulemakings and they decide that those rulemakings are laws.
00:29:42.980
The SEC is a classic example. I'm no fan of Chair Gensler and probably anybody who's been on the
00:29:49.280
Before Banking Committee knows that, including Chair Gensler at the SEC. He's making decisions
00:29:54.580
about environmental policy as the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission. He's making
00:30:00.360
decisions about ESG, DEI, and the future of this country from sitting at his desk. He wants to get
00:30:07.020
everybody's identifiable information who makes a transaction in the stock market. He wants to
00:30:11.140
gather to one location so that it's easier for people to cyber attack us, I guess. I don't know
00:30:16.200
what it is, but there he is there. But it's that kind of rogue behavior that if you appoint the right
00:30:21.680
people who want to actually be textualists, like we want on the Supreme Court, you want people who
00:30:25.700
are going to follow the law in every single cabinet position. Having that would transform this nation
00:30:31.840
and it would restrain the bureaucracy who believes all you have to do is outlive, outlast a member of
00:30:39.620
Congress. And they're not wrong. So getting that right is a job of a president who has a vision
00:30:46.900
for what this nation should be based on what we have been.
00:30:50.620
So that's great. And I agree with you. Everything you just said, Donald Trump came in. Yes. And he came
00:30:58.400
in kind of a lone cowboy, not popular with everybody. You'll know. I mean, you've been a constitutionalist for
00:31:07.940
a long time. You're an extremist, according to a lot of the people in the Republican Party. I agree.
00:31:14.640
You're an extremist. Yes. No, you're a constitutionalist. I'm not an extremist. You're right. Exactly.
00:31:20.520
But that's the way they perceive you. Donald Trump took shots from the inside and the outside,
00:31:26.640
and they are currently trying to show everyone this is what happens to you if you dare cross us. Yes.
00:31:36.080
So how are you going to do it? Yeah. Well, listen, I've been taking shots, as I said, from from the
00:31:40.560
work that I've done on the tax code to work on behalf of police reform to working on behalf of
00:31:45.660
pushing back on the the cancer that grows through this Biden administration. You just have to be
00:31:51.400
willing to take the shots and frankly, push back. I think we said this before we came on air, but
00:31:56.700
the congressman, I think it's Conway from the guy who pulled the alarm in the house just the other day.
00:32:02.320
He referred to some of my comments that I made during the debate and said that I was the being Sambo,
00:32:07.760
which is about radical racist. He's the guy who called you Sambo. Yes. Oh, my gosh.
00:32:13.640
So disgusting. He reminds me of what we would think of as a plantation owner using the whip to
00:32:21.660
suppress the thoughts of people that might stand up and say that's wrong. In modern America,
00:32:29.700
in 2023, those same plantation owners use their words to suppress anyone who looks like me from
00:32:38.840
standing up and speaking conservative truths. This is the part of the battle. When you stand up to
00:32:44.680
that, standing up to what the even our side, the my side, the radical, the radicals in Congress,
00:32:51.720
which would not, of course, be the conservatives, right? The populace.
00:32:54.900
That is a challenge worth having. It's a fight worth having for the soul of this nation.
00:33:04.720
Our soul is good. I think it was Alexis de Tocqueville in the 1830s, French diplomat who came
00:33:11.240
to America looking for the source of our greatness. It was our goodness was the conclusion.
00:33:16.420
Yeah. He said it rang loudly from the pulpits all across America. America is great because she's
00:33:22.440
good. However, let's stop there for just a second. Yeah. I'm looking for the preachers that are
00:33:32.000
ringing the bell from the pulpit. I'm looking for the black peer preachers who will stand up to their
00:33:41.340
own congregation and say, I'm looking at my own church to do the same. You cannot be a member
00:33:48.620
of good standing. You cannot be and call yourself a Christian. If you are associating yourself with
00:33:55.180
people who want to kill children, we could even argue about when that life begins. But this
00:34:01.540
celebration of death is immoral. Absolutely. Where are they? I will tell you that they're harder to find
00:34:11.180
in any pulpit in America, frankly, black or white. Yeah. And that's part of the challenge that we
00:34:15.120
have. We have to get back to fundamental truths. Creating the culture that protects and preserves
00:34:19.060
life is incredibly important. As a guy who has 100% voting record as a conservative, pro-life
00:34:25.280
conservative and 100% pro-life conservative as president of the United States. I just want to
00:34:30.500
shake your hand for that. Thank you. Absolutely. Yeah. Listen, I'm on the campaign trail. I speak in
00:34:37.100
churches across this country. I've had the privilege of sharing the good news of the gospel. But here's
00:34:44.040
why I think this issue is so important. I've taken two young ladies when I was in private business for
00:34:50.660
myself who worked for me, who were both thinking about having an abortion. I took them to the local
00:34:57.920
crisis pregnancy center because I knew they needed advice that they couldn't get from anywhere but people
00:35:04.780
who have been where they are. Yeah. One decided to have an abortion. The other one chose life. And
00:35:10.300
the one that had an abortion, I think she was about 22, 23 years at the time, she started writing poetry
00:35:15.780
about the worst decision she had ever made in her life. I don't come at this purely from a religious
00:35:22.380
standpoint. Sure. I watched two young ladies grapple with the issue. I watched them enter into the
00:35:29.820
doors. One made a decision for life. The other one says it was a worst mistake she's ever made. I will
00:35:37.100
say this. Having the opportunity to win the hearts and minds of the American people on such an important
00:35:43.680
issue is our responsibility. It is. And when you have the second most powerful woman in all of the
00:35:49.160
government, Secretary of the Treasury, Janet Yellen, walk into a banking hearing to talk about labor force
00:35:57.880
participation rates. And she says that poor black women will have a better labor force participation
00:36:05.160
rate if they have an abortion. Oh my gosh. As a kid who was raised in poverty by a single black woman,
00:36:15.000
I ran down to the banking committee and I asked her, I knew I misheard her. And she repeated it.
00:36:25.480
When you have some of the most powerful voices in our country suggesting that abortion isn't even a
00:36:33.720
decision you grapple with, but it's a decision that helps your labor force participation.
00:36:37.800
With tears welling in my eyes and anger in my voice, I said, I thank God almighty that my mother
00:36:49.960
chose life. And how dare you come down here and tell vulnerable women of any color
00:36:59.400
I have to tell you, it is stunning. It's not only stunning. It is the one of the most racist things
00:37:13.000
I can imagine, because if that's the way you think of the labor force, what about the white women?
00:37:19.400
Right. What about white women? Absolutely. All of them.
00:37:22.120
Yeah, that's my whole point. This is this is something and what happens and this goes back to the conversation
00:37:26.760
of eugenics and Planned Parenthood is that wherever you see powerful people willing to take advantage
00:37:34.760
of the vulnerable, just because they don't look like you or live where you live, don't think it stays
00:37:40.040
there. Three out of four African-American kids are growing up in poverty and in a single parent household.
00:37:47.640
Now, 40 percent of white kids growing up in a similar fashion, working class white folks. Why is that the case?
00:37:54.840
Because anytime you introduce socialism somewhere, it's going to spread. Yeah.
00:38:01.400
Our country needs a firewall that stops this damage from spreading. And then we reduce the damage.
00:38:10.440
You know, it seems like there is always a constant battle running between cyber criminals and the United
00:38:17.240
States government who can steal the most from people. Well, I think we're going to learn in the end.
00:38:23.080
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growing crime in America right now. And there's a good reason for it. It is simple to do home title theft.
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You also don't catch the people usually because you don't realize it until it's too late.
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You know, you go to get a loan at the bank and you no longer have your house or you're paying your
00:38:54.520
mortgage and then somebody else comes and tries to kick you out. The sheriff is there because
00:38:59.320
you don't have the deed to your home. You've been making payments. You thought everything was fine.
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It wasn't. Somebody else took it, took your deed and then mortgaged everything against that.
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That's home title lock dot com promo code back. OK, well, I've got to ask a ton of questions here that I have to know that I have to ask.
00:39:43.520
And I know we're limited on time, so I just want to go through some standard questions we ask all. OK, OK, sir.
00:39:51.240
Let's see. Are you for or against the ongoing aid to Ukraine?
00:39:55.280
Well, I am for us understanding what is America's national vital interest in Ukraine.
00:40:03.400
Degrading the Russian military is the answer. Should we continue to provide assistance to Ukraine?
00:40:10.980
Second question is, should we do with accountability? Absolutely.
00:40:14.720
Absolutely. Why? The axis of evil that started in 2014 under President Obama, when he allowed for the incursion into Ukraine that took Crimea, has metastasized.
00:40:28.640
No, no, no, no, no, no. You know this. If you don't, we'll spend some time afterwards.
00:40:40.880
Yes. Yes. Yes. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sorry. My point, though, is Obama years devastated Ukraine 20 years after President Clinton got the Ukrainians with a promise from America to be their their their firewall.
00:40:59.300
Promises made promises unkept. And then you saw the manifestation of that through the Obama years.
00:41:05.080
The point for me is that the China Russia connection started right before 2016.
00:41:18.720
I think they want to. I think they are reticent to do so because they are not militarily prepared as of yet.
00:41:25.260
They will be. They will be. I think they their their stats.
00:41:27.600
I've been reading and watching and talking to my my best my best friends from John Ratcliffe to many others on the topic.
00:41:36.520
Their military capabilities, they hope to hit their apex of 2035.
00:41:41.440
They've suggested that 27, 2027, 2028. They find themselves there.
00:41:45.600
I think that's a premature number, but they're this one that they hope that we can see the point.
00:41:50.520
I think making sure that Taiwan has the military capabilities and missile defense systems you saw recently that they came up with their own sub.
00:41:58.820
They spent nearly a decade saying we can't rely on people who say yes to subs but never deliver them.
00:42:05.220
We can't rely on on allies. We're going to do it ourselves.
00:42:08.160
It's that kind of ingenuity and resourcefulness that you want to reward with the kind of training that you've seen,
00:42:13.960
the joint training exercises that you've seen that we continue to provide that kind of assistance to Taiwan.
00:42:20.520
I haven't seen since we switched to, you know, police actions and and wars.
00:42:28.060
I haven't seen a decisive victory in a long time when that counts.
00:42:33.720
And I think that's because I mean, I think our foreign policy stinks on ice.
00:42:39.820
I think the State Department is wrong almost every single time consistently.
00:42:43.860
Our our presidents just follow the advice and I don't want to go to war with Russia.
00:42:51.500
I don't think anybody wants to go to war with Russia.
00:42:53.720
Yeah, I think we've done a really good job of reducing the likelihood of that by the by the degradation that we've seen in the Russian military.
00:43:03.200
They're doing a nationwide drill for nuclear weapons.
00:43:10.980
Tomorrow, the United States is doing a EAB test for the first time.
00:43:24.000
I mean, I don't I I think we are playing with matches in a gunpowder factory.
00:43:34.220
One of the reasons why I respect Ronald Reagan's peace through strength doctrine is because it was so darn effective.
00:43:45.700
It is the panacea to much that ails us from a military conflict perspective to the extent that we understand and reinvest in that single minded approach of lethality and coming home safe.
00:44:00.300
The less likely we are to have to use the greatest resource we have from a military standpoint and frankly purging our military of all the social experimentation that we've seen in the last few years from the vaccine to gender issues to abortion questions to ESG and DEI.
00:44:17.300
We have to purge all of that out so that our men and women have one single minded focus that they're really good at.
00:44:23.840
And that would, I believe, help reduce the likelihood of threat, not increase the likelihood of threat.
00:44:31.360
But you also have to look at the fact that it's not only Russia.
00:44:35.260
When Jim Mattis was on the Armed Services Committee, when Jim Mattis, the general general, decided that we needed to go from a counterterrorism strategy to a near peer competition.
00:44:47.840
It was because of the threats that he saw rising in China.
00:44:51.680
Listen, they have more warships than we have today, but their warships are not the same quality as ours.
00:44:57.460
They have a couple hundred, which is a significant nuclear arsenal from what I've been listening to and reading and watching.
00:45:05.480
They want to get to 1500 and by the year 2020, 32, 32, 33.
00:45:09.400
So we know that the pressure and if you look at the Russia, Russian military and nuclear arsenal,
00:45:16.720
look at Iran's objectives from a nuclear perspective and add in China's growing arsenal, you have to ask yourself,
00:45:24.680
where is strength that reduces the likelihood of this from becoming one unit focused on us?
00:45:39.760
And that's why when you see this administration talking to Saudi Arabia about a deal with Israel that may include nuclear, a commercial nuclear program,
00:45:49.760
When you think about the JCPOA under President Obama, absolutely not.
00:45:54.580
We have to find a way to reduce the likelihood of nuclear conflict.
00:45:59.600
And one of the ways you do so is by shrinking its footprint outside of our country and making sure that we fortify ours within the walls of our country.
00:46:08.340
So maybe I'm on a different page than you are and many of my friends are.
00:46:16.060
We'll have conversations that I never dreamt that we would ever have before.
00:46:23.020
And their conversation, I had one just yesterday that said, can you tell me how this ends well for America?
00:46:33.720
Can you show me just on the, just on the presidential race?
00:46:40.840
The other side's going to say they didn't, didn't trust it.
00:46:43.600
Um, if the, if, you know, you would win the election, they would say it was stolen or whatever.
00:47:02.360
If the Democrats win, Joe Biden would win there.
00:47:07.120
Our side is going to say, how is that even possible?
00:47:16.060
We have a federal reserve that is completely out of control.
00:47:33.440
I mean, we'd be on the ground if this were Russia or China, because we did it before in Russia.
00:47:41.820
How does this, you know, you're talking about in 2035, I think there's a lot of people that go, how about 2025?
00:47:56.260
The fact that it matters, there's a way for us to rally this country around, frankly, a revival in conviction that we can believe in each other.
00:48:04.540
The greatest threat to our country does not come from China, doesn't come from Russia, doesn't come from Iran, doesn't come from BRICS.
00:48:14.900
One of the things I've been successful at doing in this campaign and campaigns in the past is finding a way to use common sense conservatism to rally people who don't vote for me to the same cause.
00:48:26.580
I'll give you two examples, one on the campaign trail and one in the United States Senate.
00:48:30.180
On the campaign trail, I've been running ads in Iowa that basically says four different things.
00:48:34.720
Number one, if you're able-bodied in America, you work.
00:48:39.340
Number two, you take out a loan, you pay it back.
00:48:43.180
Number three, if you commit a violent crime, you go to jail.
00:49:00.500
65% I think it is of African Americans agree with all four points.
00:49:09.780
We have to give this nation a vision big enough to compel us to action.
00:49:15.860
And one of the ways that we do that I believe is to look at the formation of this nation and say that the idea of America and the American dream is alive.
00:49:24.960
It is well, and let me give you a grand vision of your ability to achieve the American dream.
00:49:30.960
You're a version of it, but you can achieve it.
00:49:33.560
And let me give you some points to think through about what those common core principles are that builds the greatest society we've ever known.
00:50:00.400
When I was small, I remember Nixon being impeached.
00:50:08.280
Now, Mike Lee and I have talked about it before Trump was impeached.
00:50:14.920
And I said, I think she belongs in jail and, you know, with a trial and, you know, an actual, not a kangaroo court, actual facts.
00:50:24.940
And if she's found guilty, she should go to trial.
00:50:29.120
He said, Glenn, that's what banana republics do.
00:50:31.860
And I said, but there's a point to where it gets so bad.
00:50:35.720
People are now they're trying to put Donald Trump in.
00:50:38.260
And I'm actually hearing people on the left say, if he gets in, he'll put people in jail.
00:50:53.860
But if people at the highest levels, if they were lying, obstructing, breaking the Constitution, any of those things.
00:51:07.440
Will you use your bully pulpit to say they need to be tried?
00:51:13.600
We, as a kid who grew up in the 1960s and 70s, the one thing I yearned for was fairness.
00:51:23.720
I wanted lady justice to wear a blindfold and make decisions.
00:51:28.640
To me, as we first started this conversation off of the concept of absolute truth, and then I talked about the objective standard.
00:51:37.060
The objective standard is how you apply fairly the laws of the land equally to everybody in the country.
00:51:44.100
If you depart from that, you put a big question mark.
00:51:51.560
And this Department of Justice under Merrick Garland has been weaponized to hunt Republicans, including the former president.
00:52:02.560
This Department of Justice referred to parents attending school board meetings as domestic terrorists.
00:52:10.840
They show up at a pro-life activist home with a SWAT team.
00:52:17.640
At the exact same time, Burisma sits there in file 13 for four years.
00:52:28.860
Thankfully, Congressman Comer, winning back the majority, elections have consequences and they do matter.
00:52:34.340
And general, as I call them, but his name is Senator Chuck Grassley, working together to bring more and more and more of this information to the surface so that we can restore confidence.
00:52:47.460
I think the last poll I saw said that 17% of Republicans had confidence in our Department of Justice.
00:53:03.100
China is selling that the Western decline is irreversible.
00:53:08.700
And they point to the internal conflict as example number one.
00:53:19.760
On a scale of one to 10, how committed are you to this?
00:53:36.260
Making sure no time, anybody, can vaccine mandate.
00:53:50.200
It's certainly against the whole notion that we're eliminating the dollar.
00:54:03.000
Reinstating the remaining policy, the remaining Mexico policy, the asylum policy that requires
00:54:07.600
you to seek asylum contiguous with the country that's near yours, finishing the wall for $10
00:54:12.820
billion and not selling off the construction material like this president, and using military-grade
00:54:19.300
technology to stop human trafficking and to stop fentanyl from killing another 70,000 Americans
00:54:29.940
Donald Trump just called for the end of debates.
00:54:32.720
He just said there shouldn't be any more debates.
00:54:38.600
How do you see any of you guys breaking through?
00:54:45.320
And is it important to stay, even though at this time, it looks clear he's the front-runner
00:54:58.000
The short answer is absolutely, positively, unequivocally, it matters to stay the course and keep telling
00:55:09.420
We've lost three national elections in a row, and one of those three elections that we lost was January
00:55:15.640
Everyone knows January the 6th, but January the 5th, 2021, losing one out of the two Georgia
00:55:22.360
Senate seats cost the American people $4 trillion in unnecessary spending.
00:55:29.840
That devastation can be reversed by having a red wave winning back the Senate, expanding
00:55:40.380
By doing so, we not only restore hope and create opportunities, we restore faith in America.
00:55:51.260
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