The Great America Show - BIDEN IS HIRING 87,000 IRS AGENTS & TELLS THE MILITARY HE WON’T RAISE THEIR PAY, GO ON FOOD STAMPS

00:00:00.240 Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Great America Show. I'm Lou Dobbs, and it's great to have you with us.

00:00:05.960 Let's begin today with something that's plaguing almost all of us right now, and that is this dismal economy under Joe Biden.

00:00:14.160 Whether you own a house, have a 401k, investments, or go shopping at a grocery store, you're feeling the wrath of this puppet president's policies.

00:00:23.160 The stock market having its worst year in five decades. Inflation hurting Americans of all ages and walks of life.

00:00:33.360 And gas prices are tearing up family budgets. This is Joe Biden's economy.

00:00:40.000 A new survey from the Bank of America finds 71% of workers now say their pay isn't keeping up with inflation.

00:00:47.420 That's 7 in 10 Americans. That number up from 58% just back in February.

00:00:55.460 The same survey found 21% say they're tapping into their emergency savings to pay bills.

00:01:01.560 21% say they're working extra hours. Another 20% say they're looking for higher paying jobs.

00:01:08.420 6% say they've resorted to a 401k hardship withdrawal to make ends meet.

00:01:14.500 And what does Joe Biden do? Well, he hires 87,000 IRS agents at a cost to the taxpayer of $80 billion.

00:01:25.180 And he forgives half a trillion dollars in student loan debt.

00:01:30.640 That's Joe Biden's economy.

00:01:33.540 Biden's Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, Wally Adeyamo, saying yesterday the administration is doing everything it can

00:01:41.980 to combat inflation and a recession.

00:01:46.020 He says that through Biden's Inflation Reduction Act, all three are going to help expand the productive capacity of the U.S. economy,

00:01:54.060 which will mean that while we're bringing down inflation, we're also expanding supply in the economy.

00:01:59.800 That will give us the ability to make sure we have sustainable growth as we come out of this high inflation period.

00:02:07.100 I mean, the man doesn't even know what he's talking about.

00:02:10.920 He's an economist.

00:02:12.500 He has no business being in government or anywhere near policy.

00:02:17.060 What world is he living in?

00:02:19.240 And what has he and the Biden administration been doing these last almost two years to fix anything?

00:02:26.360 And the number two in charge, Vice President Kamala Harris, no better. 0.95

00:02:29.900 She's abroad in Korea this week where she touted the failures of the Biden administration,

00:02:36.100 but stopped just short of taking any blame.

00:02:39.200 Take a listen.

00:02:40.780 So many of these issues were highlighted during the pandemic

00:02:44.740 in terms of what we also know to be the fractures and the fissures in our system,

00:02:51.640 in particular as it relates to the supply chain.

00:02:54.800 Many of us talked about the weakness of the supply chain even before the pandemic.

00:02:59.900 It was almost predictable, but the pandemic brought it to the fore in a very vivid and clear way,

00:03:07.940 which is that we have to diversify our reliance on essential supplies,

00:03:15.380 Japan, the United States, and the world.

00:03:18.400 As I said, holding short of taking the blame for her administration's failures, 0.99

00:03:23.060 it always seems easier blaming it on someone else.

00:03:26.540 And here now is leading GOP pollster and strategist, John McLaughlin.

00:03:32.220 John, great to have you back with us here on The Great America Show.

00:03:35.800 I'm looking now at the direction of the country.

00:03:37.920 In your most recent poll, 62% of the country saying we are headed in the wrong direction.

00:03:44.500 Only 33% say in the right direction.

00:03:47.200 That looks huge to me.

00:03:48.640 Right, it's two to one on our fair.

00:03:51.440 But actually, the wrong track has gone down from July from 73 to August to 67, now 62,

00:03:59.420 because some Democrats are drinking the Kool-Aid and saying that things are improving.

00:04:06.080 But what was interesting, we threw in a new question this month where we asked,

00:04:11.280 did they think this was Joe Biden's fault?

00:04:13.180 If they said wrong track, if they said the country's on the wrong track,

00:04:16.780 and 67% of the voters said it was his fault, only 26% said no.

00:04:22.940 But that was 26% is significant because even though 62% say the country's on the wrong track,

00:04:29.780 among all voters, only 41% blame Biden.

00:04:33.520 And what's relevant to us is that looking forward to the November election,

00:04:39.500 Biden's job approval or disapproval, his disapproval was 60% in our polls in July.

00:04:47.080 And again, these are 1,000 likely voters, people who are telling us that we know they're voters,

00:04:52.280 people who are telling us they're going to vote on November 8th for Congress.

00:04:54.980 And it was 60% disapproved of Biden in July, 55% in August, and now it's down to 50% disapproved and 48% approve.

00:05:06.880 So for us, you know, we were out of the field Thursday, and Friday the market went down over 1,000 points,

00:05:14.240 broke the 30,000 barrier, and went to bear market territory.

00:05:21.160 And what was interesting to us is, even though Biden's job approval was getting better up until that point,

00:05:28.760 and people weren't really blaming him, 61% had told us they thought the country was in recession,

00:05:35.220 and that's the highest it's been since it was shut down during COVID.

00:05:39.400 So that's not good.

00:05:40.860 And then they said the economy was getting worse, not better, 63% to 33%.

00:05:46.020 And the number one issue out there is absolutely the economy.

00:05:49.280 And we had a question in there.

00:05:54.140 My friend Larry Kudlow asked her, should we cut federal spending significantly in order to reduce inflation?

00:06:01.920 And 71 to 13, all voters said yes.

00:06:04.840 So the challenges were coming into September and now October in the final six weeks of the campaign is,

00:06:11.500 are the Republicans going to do something to stop the Democrats from spending?

00:06:16.500 Will they pass the continuing resolution so the Democrats can keep spending?

00:06:23.180 Will they raise the debt ceiling so they can keep adding to the debt and fuel inflation?

00:06:28.080 I mean, are the Republicans going to do something about inflation, which is the top issue in the country?

00:06:33.760 Because I tell you, one of the most significant thing to me is in the United States, you have 81% of the voters telling us they've been significantly impacted by inflation.

00:06:44.220 And 43% of all Americans said they said they're having trouble making basic ends meet.

00:06:50.400 So that's an amazing stat.

00:06:52.960 I poll in European countries.

00:06:54.900 It's not as bad.

00:06:55.720 And they've been hit more by inflation.

00:06:58.820 And now you're seeing their government's changed.

00:07:00.620 Sweden's gone to the right.

00:07:01.720 Italy's gone to the right.

00:07:03.560 They think the sanctions in Europe are backfiring.

00:07:06.880 And in the United States here, we've got six weeks to close this out.

00:07:11.680 When you say sanctions in Europe, what are you talking about?

00:07:15.680 Sanctions.

00:07:16.440 The sanctions on Russia.

00:07:17.920 Oh, sanctions on Russia.

00:07:19.060 Okay.

00:07:19.220 Because their inflation levels are worse.

00:07:22.660 Ours is about 8%, 9%.

00:07:24.100 Theirs is around 14% in a lot of these countries.

00:07:26.880 We're talking about a major issue either way, because our inflation is understated as it's measured in the Consumer Price Index.

00:07:36.800 The Europeans may be slightly overstated as far as I'm concerned.

00:07:40.940 But nonetheless, both the United States and Europe are experiencing unprecedented levels of inflation at this juncture.

00:07:51.760 We've seldom seen global inflation this prevalent, this broad.

00:07:59.340 It's going to be hard to figure.

00:08:00.660 And when we look at the numbers you're showing us here, the fact that they blame Biden for something that they are all saying is impacting them, it seems like the numbers would be reflected in his disapproval ratings as well.

00:08:18.420 Well, the numbers aren't high enough.

00:08:20.760 And when you think about this, the campaigns you're watching were six weeks to go.

00:08:24.820 I'm an old man.

00:08:27.080 I remember the 94 campaigns where we took over Congress.

00:08:31.980 At this point in time, we spent the summer morphing Democrats into Bill Clinton's face, into basically his failures where every Democrat who was on the ballot.

00:08:42.100 How many campaigns have you seen running ads attacking Joe Biden on the Republican side?

00:08:46.980 They're starting to now, but they were giving her a free ride.

00:08:50.760 And if you've got 62 percent, say the country's on the wrong track, and of the 62 percent who say it's on the wrong track, only 67 blame Biden.

00:09:02.220 Something's amiss here.

00:09:03.380 The Republicans are not holding him accountable.

00:09:07.020 They really need to go after him aggressively.

00:09:09.300 And they certainly need, because if the top issue in the country is the economy and inflation, what you want to do, you want to basically at this point say it's his fault, drive up the number of Americans who believe this is his fault, drive up the wrong track.

00:09:26.100 Because the other part is, among the 8 percent who are undecided for Congress, and in this poll, 48 percent were voting Republican, and 44 percent were voting Democrat generically for Congress.

00:09:37.700 So the Republicans are ahead.

00:09:39.220 But there's an 8 percent that's undecided.

00:09:41.680 74 percent say the country's on the wrong track among the undecided.

00:09:45.520 68 percent disapprove of Biden.

00:09:47.560 And the interesting thing is, two-thirds of those voters are pro-choice voters, because the Democrats are playing abortion, and two-thirds are women, 67 percent, and their average age is 44.

00:09:59.960 So they're kind of middle-ager, younger women who are undecided between inflation, you know, they go to the supermarket, they buy gas, they blame Biden.

00:10:09.940 But on the other hand, the Democrats are saying the Republicans want to ban abortion, so they've got to pause here with these voters.

00:10:18.420 And the Republicans need to do something to say, no, inflation, the price of food that you're paying at the groceries, your rent, your health care, utility bills, we can fix that.

00:10:30.140 And we can stop inflation right now if we stop the federal spending and we stop the federal debt from advancing.

00:10:36.340 And they like to fight it as toughly as the Democrats are fighting on abortion.

00:10:42.160 Well, there are perhaps unintended consequences in that direction, though, because if you're watching 71 percent of the population saying that they're having a direct impact, they're not going to be too eager and are having to struggle with the consequences in their household budget.

00:10:59.700 Right. It's not the time, probably, to tell those people the hell with you, we're not going to be spending any more money, any more money on you.

00:11:08.140 I don't think that's an argument the Republicans could win. Do you?

00:11:12.700 I think they can win it because we're not spending this. I'm talking about federal spending.

00:11:19.020 Right. So am I.

00:11:19.660 So so when the federal government spends money, I mean, think about how many people are not going to benefit from the four hundred billion dollars, according to the CBO of loan forgiveness.

00:11:30.760 Think about it. I've seen statistics where it's eighty seven percent are not going to benefit from that.

00:11:35.780 But your taxes are going to go up and your and inflation is going to go up.

00:11:39.920 I mean, you know, Biden has increased in, you know, less than two years.

00:11:45.180 He's increased federal spending four trillion dollars. He's increased the national debt.

00:11:49.520 Ten trillion dollars. You're preaching to the choir, partner.

00:11:53.020 I but my point being that if you have it as a to use your word generic federal spending, it's probably a losing argument.

00:12:03.500 It would seem to me when you have people so uncertain of their futures, uncertain of their presence in point of fact, because of all of the policies that have gone haywire,

00:12:13.420 the prices they have to pay at the grocery store, still at the gasoline pump.

00:12:18.100 Despite what Joe Biden says, there are no no states that have gasoline below three dollars a nation.

00:12:26.420 So, I mean, so I would just caution on on the issue of federal spending generically, perhaps be very specific about just the way you said it.

00:12:37.960 They're spending. Well, they say four hundred.

00:12:40.520 It could be closer to a trillion dollars in student loan forgiveness.

00:12:43.560 And none of that that money goes to the middle class, working men and women.

00:12:48.680 And you'll be paying, by the way, for people who are affluent, making one hundred thousand dollars a year or more or less.

00:12:55.980 Excuse me, just under one hundred thousand.

00:12:58.200 It's not a good argument for them. And I think, as you say, they should hammer it.

00:13:03.440 Let's let's go to. So what do you think of that?

00:13:06.100 That's I think that there's other things, too.

00:13:08.320 Like, for example, the their their inflation, so-called inflation reduction act, which is causing the market to go down and interest rates to go up.

00:13:18.000 You know, the inflation reduction act, you had eighty seven thousand IRS agents.

00:13:22.560 And last month we had the Americans oppose that the eighty seven thousand IRS agents, the twenty billion in increased taxes on the middle class.

00:13:30.400 They oppose that. Fifty percent to thirty seven percent.

00:13:34.580 Good Lord. So why are we, you know, going after that?

00:13:38.800 Why are we allowing them to do that?

00:13:40.860 So what does it say? What does it say about this country, John?

00:13:43.560 When fifty percent of the people say it's OK to go out and double the size of the IRS,

00:13:49.760 give some gun toting accountants a lot of company to go out there and who are they going to go after?

00:13:55.180 I said they're not going to go after the Fortune 500.

00:13:59.320 They're going to go after the the middle class in this country. 1.00

00:14:03.840 You know, I think I think 50 percent disapproves.

00:14:06.320 If I if I said that wrong, you know, that's on me.

00:14:08.980 But the only thirty seven approved, 50 percent disapproved.

00:14:13.260 So, well, that's what I'm saying.

00:14:15.020 Only 50 percent.

00:14:17.040 Oh, I seriously. 0.96

00:14:19.180 Are you crazy? 1.00

00:14:20.060 You know, as a friend of mine said today, you know, part of the problem with these elections is a good number of people are just stupid. 1.00

00:14:29.620 I mean, it's unbelievable. 1.00

00:14:31.720 They vote Democratic, I'm sure.

00:14:34.140 But nonetheless, it is it's just mind boggling that we've got people who think that way.

00:14:40.960 Yeah. Well, let's let's let's have that argument drive the number higher,

00:14:44.040 because when you when you think about it, eighty seven thousand IRS agents at a time when we can't hit military recruitment standards,

00:14:52.220 they won't raise the pay and they're telling active military to go on food stamps.

00:14:56.660 They're not hiring new Border Patrol agents at a time when, you know, we have a crisis at the border.

00:15:01.540 But they're going to hire eighty seven thousand IRS agents who will be extremely well paid with great benefits.

00:15:07.960 And, you know, you'll have one.

00:15:10.360 He'll be assigned to your business.

00:15:11.840 There'll be one assigned to my business and we'll have our own personal IRS agents, you know,

00:15:17.340 shutting down small businesses around the country and mom and pop stores.

00:15:21.480 And it'd just be a total disaster.

00:15:24.500 I mean, you know, I mean, before you start negotiating, the special agent will probably probably put down his thirty eight revolver and say,

00:15:32.520 let's have a discussion about your taxes.

00:15:35.120 Right. And, you know, and first of all, I think we pay enough in taxes that I think my accountant gets a commission from the federal government.

00:15:42.920 But it's it's I mean, I mean, it's it's just crazy that they're going to spend this kind of money, you know, to get blood out of a stone.

00:15:52.800 So, you know, but you're right.

00:15:55.420 We've got to win that argument. We've got to press it.

00:15:57.880 And we could drive, you know, right now in Congress, you have roughly, according to the Real Clear Politics website,

00:16:05.840 you've got one hundred and ten congressional seats in play and sixty eight are Democrat seats and forty two are Republican seats.

00:16:12.720 And if we have a forty four to forty forty eight Republican, forty four Democrat, we can push that over 50 and take 50 or 60 seats.

00:16:22.460 If we have a really good closing six weeks and if we get very aggressive with the issues and and and the most important issue is absolutely inflation cost of living.

00:16:33.100 And we shouldn't let the Democrats, you know, set the table with whatever issues that they but they that that they think they, you know, can win on.

00:16:42.300 It's just following following on what you said earlier in connection to that. 0.99

00:16:47.840 You remember James Carville won the presidency, really, for Bill Clinton when he said it's the economy, stupid. 1.00

00:16:55.920 Right. And in 1994, that was thrown back in their face in that midterm election. 0.99

00:17:02.600 But it is, to me, ridiculous that the Republicans seem to think about what we're really saying.

00:17:12.340 We were asking you and I are asking the Republican Party to relearn a lesson that is three decades old.

00:17:20.100 That when you start there is a problem for the campaign, that makes me worry about that 50, 60 seat margin of votes turning because I don't see them getting aggressive.

00:17:32.080 I don't see them reaching to the middle class, the working man and woman in this country the way we have we saw, for example, in 2010.

00:17:40.820 Yeah, I agree with you. And we need it's there, but we need to be aggressive.

00:17:45.640 And by the way, I had a I have a European client I was talking to yesterday who was saying they had watched the Reagan Carter debate from from 1980 and it was all about inflation.

00:17:56.120 So even you can go farther back and say, remember, there you go again, Mr. President.

00:18:04.000 And it was mostly that debate. Granted, there was, you know, a rain that was the hostages, etc.

00:18:09.900 But but but it was when, you know, when Reagan pressed him on inflation, he was winning. 0.99

00:18:16.540 So you could actually take, you know, Carville's slogan and say it's it's inflation stupid. 0.98

00:18:21.640 I mean, this is we can't afford it. We've got people that, you know, still the price of gas is too high. 0.98

00:18:28.720 As you said, Biden says it's under three. Not yet.

00:18:31.140 But he's releasing the strategic oil reserves, you know, before Election Day, trying to get down artificially.

00:18:38.240 But it's still high. The price of food is going up. Price of rent, health care, utilities in the northern states.

00:18:45.820 You're going to have utility shock with net price of natural gas going up.

00:18:50.820 People trying to refill their oil tanks for their home heating oil.

00:18:54.700 I mean, it's it's something that the Republicans need to be out there and reminding people every day this is Biden's fault and it can be fixed.

00:19:04.120 And and what's odd about this conversation, I think, John, is you and I are talking about politics.

00:19:10.980 But in this case, politics is about governance and it really is policy.

00:19:16.700 It's governance and it is values. And the Republicans don't seem to have the comprehension of what a powerful force that is.

00:19:26.860 If they unite those three elements and make it clear to the American voter what they stand for.

00:19:33.040 And I know they've got this new agenda out and that just gets my heart.

00:19:36.880 I got to tell you, my heart skips a beat every time I think about it.

00:19:40.480 And I see an article saying we've got a nice, aggressive agenda.

00:19:43.880 But nonsense. I'm sorry. Go ahead.

00:19:47.820 You got to pick a fight. They've got the commitment for the policy document.

00:19:52.020 You got the policy document out there. It's the commitment for America.

00:19:55.640 In 1994, the big fight was going to be whether we passed Hillary care or not. 0.98

00:20:01.080 And the Republicans stood up Hillary care and said, no, we're not passing it.

00:20:05.040 And we went after the Democrats for supporting it.

00:20:08.420 And now you need the policy fight.

00:20:10.840 You need, I mean, you need, I once worked for a governor of California who said, you know, you can't have a boring show.

00:20:20.100 There's a hero and there's a villain.

00:20:22.080 And you have to have a battle over what's good and what's right and versus what's wrong.

00:20:28.200 And right now, the Republicans need to decide between now and Election Day when they want to fight.

00:20:35.560 I hear some people in Washington saying it would be better to pass the continuing resolution after the November election.

00:20:45.060 I'm like, well, conservatives are saying let's pass it with a freeze until January, February when we take over the Congress.

00:20:52.860 That makes sense.

00:20:54.000 But to pass it to defer until November, December and allow the Democrats to have, whether it's a lame duck or a full duck Congress, to increase spending again, huge mistake.

00:21:06.940 I mean, we need that fight now so that we tell people we're the serious party, we're the adults in the room.

00:21:13.500 We will stop inflation.

00:21:14.880 We will make prices go down, whether it's oil or gas or food or whatever basic necessities you need.

00:21:23.000 We're going to help you.

00:21:24.480 Well, the problem with that, of course, is you've got Kevin McCarthy as the, I don't know if you would call him the speaker to be the prospective or pretend speaker in the House.

00:21:39.340 And you've got Colonel Foghorn running the Republican Senate.

00:21:43.480 Those are not animated, energetic, original, deep thinkers, are they?

00:21:51.020 No, but you know what the big difference is?

00:21:52.920 Donald Trump.

00:21:54.320 And the insiders, you know, you could go to the Republican National Committee.

00:21:58.480 You won't find pictures of Trump up and down the halls.

00:22:01.000 They've had them all.

00:22:03.260 But Donald Trump out there, he would beat Biden in the same poll.

00:22:09.220 He beats Biden 49-45.

00:22:10.980 The Republicans, 71% of the Republican primary voters want to see him running again.

00:22:16.320 If he does run again, they've got to vote from 86 to 12.

00:22:20.280 And in a field of a dozen candidates, he's up with 55% of the vote.

00:22:26.700 And the next close is DeSantis at 18.

00:22:29.200 So Donald Trump, because in his rally in North Carolina last week, he took on Joe Biden on spending on inflation.

00:22:36.900 Now, he doesn't get much media coverage because they want to black that out.

00:22:39.940 He's going into Michigan this week.

00:22:42.000 He'll talk about it again.

00:22:43.220 He'll talk about inflation, fighting high prices.

00:22:45.600 In a state where they used to be the auto manufacturing capital of the world, but try to get a car now under Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg, they tell you there's a chip shortage.

00:22:55.340 We don't have cars.

00:22:56.660 I mean, and the ones that are out there, it's like Cuba where you're trying to buy an old car that you're paying an exorbitant price for for a used car because we don't have, you know, the cars out there anymore.

00:23:09.340 So inflation is going wild because of, you know, their incompetence on the supply chain.

00:23:15.420 And so Donald Trump will take them on.

00:23:17.660 And it's no wonder that Trump is leading Joe Biden in the polls, or at least in our polls, in the good polls.

00:23:23.160 And, you know, you're looking at the Republicans for Congress and you're saying, well, a lot of these candidates have Trump's endorser and following his lead, and they're willing to take on federal spending and federal debt.

00:23:35.440 Well, as they as they must at some point, I truly believe that whether Democrat or Republican, it's going to happen. 0.79

00:23:43.140 But this president, I think one of the things the Republican Party can't get its head around is that Joe Biden is a puppet.

00:23:52.680 He's not calling these shots.

00:23:54.680 It is a Marxist dim cabal that is running the Democrat Party.

00:23:58.580 It is setting the policy agenda.

00:24:00.960 It is driving this president.

00:24:02.620 He's forsaken, Biden has forsaken every element of his previous career to take on the role of puppet president and enjoy his, what is it, 40% of his time on holiday.

00:24:16.580 This is a moment of madness in our history.

00:24:20.640 It is cognitive dissonance.

00:24:22.980 It is a mass psychosis.

00:24:24.860 It is a national nervous breakdown.

00:24:27.400 And nobody wants to deal with that.

00:24:29.340 And you said, we need an adult.

00:24:32.280 We need adults in the room.

00:24:34.160 We need leaders who actually understand what's happening and what can be done.

00:24:38.520 And honest to gosh, John, you mentioned Trump.

00:24:43.520 There's just no one else out there, not in the Republican Party, certainly not in the Marxist dim party.

00:24:49.340 No, and when you think about the scary part about Joe Biden, we kept on asking over the past year, do you think he needs to take a cognitive test to make it public?

00:24:59.280 And, you know, I was always six out of 10 voters said yes, but it hasn't changed.

00:25:04.700 It's not getting worse.

00:25:05.420 The difference is the corruption, because the corruption of the Biden administration is the real threat.

00:25:12.320 Because when you think about, you know, now as we find out in the right of center media, you're finding out stories that, okay, there was a deal where Hunter Biden was getting, you know, tens of millions from the Chinese.

00:25:25.200 I mean, the Secretary of State, Blinken, was the head of the was the head of the Penn Center, the Biden Center, University of Pennsylvania.

00:25:34.700 Well, the Chinese had given them tens of million dollars.

00:25:36.640 He was on their payroll.

00:25:37.880 So they don't stand up to the Chinese, the oligarchs in Russia.

00:25:42.100 They don't stand up to the ones who had the Biden family on the payroll.

00:25:45.420 And what's scary is our NATO allies are worried that if Russia comes over their borders, does Biden actually back them up?

00:25:53.760 And Putin is not afraid of Joe Biden, because they know more about Joe Biden than we do, and certainly his corruption.

00:26:03.080 And it's like a family enterprise.

00:26:05.280 When you say you go back to Delaware every week, well, you know, they put up a fence around it, you know, for a reason.

00:26:13.500 But, you know, it's just the corruption there and the one-party state in Delaware where no laws are enforced if your name is Biden.

00:26:24.160 And that's the real threat we have right now.

00:26:26.920 And hopefully, you know, that's the real – they'll go all out in the next six weeks to stop us, because if the Republicans get the House and the Republicans get the Senate and they dive into that corruption, what they've done to the FBI, what they've done to, you know, the other parts of law enforcement, our government, the Department of Justice, et cetera.

00:26:46.540 You know, that's what we really need to find out and get things put back on the straight and narrow.

00:26:53.180 You know, it's – I guess what I'm getting at here, John, is why is the Republican leadership unable to coalesce around ubiquitous, toxic corruption within not only the FBI and the Department of Justice,

00:27:10.320 but the Department of Education, political corruption within the Pentagon, they can't coalesce around that and be the party of good.

00:27:20.360 They cannot express noble values and assert it.

00:27:27.520 I want to fight everybody on the Marxist Dems.

00:27:31.380 I want to fight them on economics.

00:27:32.980 I want to fight them on truth, justice, and the American way.

00:27:36.160 Right.

00:27:37.240 But if the American people don't see that in the Republican Party, the candidates they put forward, the leadership they're talking about,

00:27:44.640 if you – if I'm sitting here and I'm 25 years old and I'm watching Kevin McCarthy and I'm watching Mitch McConnell,

00:27:50.980 I say, why the hell should I follow Colonel Foghorn and Mr. Milk Toast?

00:27:56.300 I mean, really?

00:27:57.700 Well, I think it's going to come from the backbenchers.

00:27:59.740 I mean, by the way, one senator who is standing up is Chuck Grassley in Iowa.

00:28:05.720 I mean, he's calling out, you know, Ray and he's calling out Garland on their corruption or they're allowing this corruption of what's going on in the FBI.

00:28:16.680 And they're going – I mean, some courageous FBI whistleblowers are coming forward.

00:28:21.400 The mainstream media is not covering it.

00:28:23.720 But Chuck Grassley is standing up for those whistleblowers and he's going after Ray and Garland.

00:28:29.880 So what would you do if you wanted the American people to see these whistleblowers and hear what they've got to say?

00:28:34.880 How about this, John?

00:28:36.700 We put up Grassley and Ron Johnson and Jim Jordan and James Comer on either side of them.

00:28:46.500 We silhouette all of them and we synthesize their voices and we start talking and we roll it.

00:28:52.800 Yeah.

00:28:53.000 And take them to rallies, take them every – whatever the hell it takes.

00:28:57.000 But don't accept just lying flat on your stomach, trembling in fear of a Marxist-dim takeover of the U.S. government and stripping us of everything that this country has built.

00:29:13.200 I mean, it makes no sense.

00:29:14.420 No, but what you're talking about makes sense because you've got to be that aggressive.

00:29:18.400 I mean, I'm working – it'll be the long-shot candidates that come through or the perceived long-shots that aren't that really – I'm working for Lee Zeldin in New York for governor.

00:29:27.160 And he's within single digits of Kathy Hochul because of her stand on crime and cashless bail.

00:29:31.660 And – but her corruption, it came out – and it's not from – the stories in New York now are not – no longer because she won't debate.

00:29:40.540 They're no longer from just the New York Post and the right of center media.

00:29:44.600 You now have the Albany Times Union.

00:29:47.620 You have other outlets in New York saying she did a deal where she took over $300,000 in campaign contributions and gave out a no-bid contract for COVID tests for $637 million.

00:30:03.020 And it was double the price what California and other states were paying.

00:30:06.860 And it was – and that kind of corruption, whether it's the billion dollars for the Buffalo Bills stadium that the New York taxpayers are going to have to pay that's going to benefit some corrupt donors to her campaign or the Penn Station deal in Lower Manhattan or even the congestion pricing deal where you're going to pay just for the privilege of driving a truck or a car into Manhattan. 0.73

00:30:30.880 And depending on the time of the day, you're going to pay $23 to $34 per trip on a toll that –

00:30:39.560 Can I ask you a question on that?

00:30:41.520 Why don't the Republicans take that angst that is built in there, those price hikes, those raising the cost of living even further?

00:30:51.980 Why don't they take that and say, you know, maybe we ought to rethink – take a look around the country and where the support of the Republican Party is and say,

00:31:00.880 What do you think?

00:31:02.060 Maybe we should be trying to focus on the suburban voter.

00:31:05.640 Maybe we should be talking about reducing the centralized power of the Democrats in all of these urban centers and talking about mobility of people who have been screwed for decades in this country.

00:31:18.700 And I'm talking about intercity minorities. 0.78

00:31:21.020 I'm talking about Hispanics, Blacks, you name it.

00:31:26.240 And let's create a new paradigm here because it's also ecologically nonsensical to have those big urban centers because they generate tons of heat that no one wants to talk about. 0.99

00:31:36.380 They have all of these opportunities in front of them, and they're brain dead. 0.95

00:31:40.900 They're brain dead, John.

00:31:42.040 Well, you're talking about the Zeldin campaign because I'm doing Lee's polling, full disclosure. 0.93

00:31:47.920 But Lee Zeldin is doing exactly what you said where he's getting – since Labor Day, Kathy Hochul's attacked him with $8 million of ads, attacking him as a Trump supporter and to extreme an abortion.

00:31:58.980 But Zeldin is coming back after cashless bail, congestion pricing.

00:32:03.200 And now you have super PACs.

00:32:04.740 People are fed up in New York where they're spending millions of dollars getting our side, our point of view on cashless bail, keeping criminals in jail, getting at our point of view about the economy around the state and the higher taxes, plus going against the congestion pricing.

00:32:20.280 So it's coming from the grassroots, and it's the same in local congressional races around the country and in Senate races where the backbenchers, if this revolution happens on November 8th, where the heartland of the country rises up again and throws the swamp out, it'll be an earthquake that'll make Italy seem like a little tremor compared to what's going to go on in the United States.

00:32:45.120 But we've got six weeks to make it happen.

00:32:47.620 Six weeks to make it happen.

00:32:49.180 Six weeks to make it happen, will it happen?

00:32:52.120 I believe it's going to happen.

00:32:53.760 I believe it's going to happen because the pressure is too extreme right now.

00:32:58.740 It's building up and we're bound.

00:33:01.160 We have to do this right now to save the country, and we have to do this to save our states like New York and other places.

00:33:08.620 We all can't move to Florida or Montana.

00:33:12.760 We've got to keep those states good.

00:33:16.900 God bless the people in Florida right now.

00:33:18.660 They're going to go through another hurricane, but hopefully they'll come through it just fine.

00:33:24.140 By the way, you said I was talking about Lee Zeldin's campaign.

00:33:27.260 I know what you meant metaphorically, but I wasn't speaking of Lee Zeldin.

00:33:31.520 I happen to think highly of him.

00:33:33.020 I respect him greatly.

00:33:34.440 I would pay a couple of dollars to see him slam a desk one time.

00:33:40.660 Just slam a desk, Lee. 1.00

00:33:42.080 Just slam the damn desk when you hear this nonsense. 1.00

00:33:45.220 And here's a man who's had a, you know, he stood on a stage with great courage and calm and handled an attacker and couldn't get a mention in the New York Times for God's sake. 1.00

00:33:56.700 He's the kind of man we want in office, the kind of brave leader we want in office, man or woman.

00:34:04.240 So let me ask you to give us your view on the leadership of the Republican Party and the leadership of the Democratic Party.

00:34:15.680 How important are they to what happens in the next six weeks?

00:34:18.780 Well, I think, by the way, you're seeing like Nancy Pelosi.

00:34:22.760 She spoke at some conference or concert.

00:34:25.360 She appeared at some conference, got booed.

00:34:27.760 Right.

00:34:28.380 Because Pelosi is-

00:34:29.380 The global citizens.

00:34:30.920 Booed her.

00:34:31.860 Right.

00:34:32.340 That's bad.

00:34:33.480 She has, among the voters in the United States, she's a 38 favorable, 55 unfavorable.

00:34:38.940 So she'll be in a lot more Republican ads than she will be in Democrat ads. 1.00

00:34:43.900 But for the, and Chuck Schumer's not popular.

00:34:46.760 And, you know, you just, you know, if he was in more of the Republican ads for the Senate, I think that would be good for our candidates.

00:34:57.140 And so I think that the Democrat leadership is a liability.

00:35:02.340 The Republican leadership, they're going to learn from the grassroots.

00:35:05.380 The grassroots are going to rise up and they're going to make changes.

00:35:08.520 And you mentioned a whole bunch of good Republican leaders that, you know, whether it's Jim Jordan in the House, whether it's a, whether it's a, you know, you took Rick Scott in the Senate, et cetera.

00:35:20.880 You know, they're, they're listening to the grassroots and they're, and they're going to, they're going to press the issues and press the offense against the Democrats.

00:35:28.740 So, and the Democrats will go all out to try to stop us, you know, waiting for the Justice Department to try and try to change election laws again.

00:35:36.760 So we'll, we'll see, but we've got six weeks to fight them.

00:35:40.460 And in that six weeks, we know that the back office in the West Wing will be having a, be doing a lot of work, Susan Rice, and trying to mobilize the get out the vote campaign using federal money, federal resources, federal manpower.

00:35:54.560 Why can't the Republicans stop that?

00:35:58.560 Well, it's, it's, it's, I don't know.

00:36:02.080 I'm not, I'm not, I'm not a lawyer that I can get injunctions and get them to stop it, but we should try.

00:36:08.920 I mean, I, I don't know why they're, you know, the Republican national committee should have filed a complaint against Zuckerberg after the last campaign that he was, you know, using C3s tax exempt money to get out partisan Democrat votes.

00:36:22.300 But that hasn't happened.

00:36:23.220 And there hasn't been an FCC complaint on that.

00:36:25.340 So if you and I were running things, Lou, it'd be a little different.

00:36:28.860 So can we get on the ballot, John?

00:36:32.040 Do you think we got six weeks of enough time?

00:36:34.280 I don't think anybody would vote for me.

00:36:35.760 They might for you.

00:36:36.540 Well, hell, I was counting on you.

00:36:40.520 There's a reason I like doing the polling.

00:36:43.280 And there's a reason I like asking pollsters what's going on.

00:36:46.620 Yeah.

00:36:47.080 Thanks so much, John.

00:36:48.240 I appreciate it.

00:36:49.480 Lou, I appreciate the opportunity.

00:36:51.680 God bless you.

00:36:52.580 Thank you.

00:36:54.280 John McLaughlin, a great pollster, even greater American.

00:36:58.320 Thanks, everybody, for being with us today.

00:37:00.140 Our guest tomorrow will be Congressman Troy Nels.

00:37:03.300 Please join us.

00:37:04.080 Till then, God bless you, and may God bless America.

00:37:08.180 Thank you.

The Great America Show - September 29, 2022

BIDEN IS HIRING 87,000 IRS AGENTS & TELLS THE MILITARY HE WON’T RAISE THEIR PAY, GO ON FOOD STAMPS

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