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00:01:18.340 Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs. Welcome to the Great America Show. Thank you for being

00:01:26.880 with us. Make Argentina great again. Populist libertarian Javier Millet has won the presidency

00:01:34.280 of Argentina in a landslide victory. And I must say, all of the election done by paper ballot,

00:01:41.580 no electronic machines, and then knew the results just hours after the election. Imagine that.

00:01:47.740 You may ask yourself, why should I care about an Argentine election? Well, here's why.

00:01:54.820 Malay will be taking over from socialist Alberto Fernandez, the president of Argentina who managed

00:02:01.960 to put the country in a downward economic spiral, much like socialist Marxist Joe Biden has done

00:02:08.460 to America. Only slightly worse, 200% inflation in Argentina, making people's lives unlivable.

00:02:15.960 Argentina's central bank has raised their estimate for annual inflation this year. That's what socialism

00:02:22.140 and Marxism do to a country. Take a listen to a Tucker Carlson interview with Malay, in which he warned 0.99

00:02:29.280 the rest of the world about socialism.

00:02:32.100 Never embrace the ideas of socialism. Never allow yourself to be seduced by the siren song of social

00:02:39.300 justice. Don't get caught up in that terrible concept that there is a need, there's a right.

00:02:44.920 But that can't happen on its own. We have to be prepared for this and wage a cultural war every

00:02:50.240 single day. And we have to be careful because they have no problem with getting inside the state and

00:02:55.160 employing Gramsci's techniques, seducing the artists, seducing the media, or meddling in educational

00:03:00.980 content. You need to be very careful. Cut off their funding and force them into a fair fight.

00:03:06.800 At the same time, we have to raise awareness among the business sector that the masses are necessary.

00:03:12.520 Milton Friedman used to say that the social role of an entrepreneur is to make money, but that's not

00:03:17.540 enough. Part of their investment must include investing in those who defend the ideals of freedom so

00:03:23.400 the socialists can make no further advances. If they don't do it, they will get into the state and

00:03:28.840 use the state to impose a long-term agenda that will destroy everything it touches. So we need a

00:03:35.160 commitment from all of those to create wealth to fight against socialism, to fight against statism,

00:03:40.460 and to understand if they fail to do so, the socialists will keep coming because that's their point.

00:03:46.980 Since they try to leech off others without working, they are tireless in their pursuit,

00:03:51.320 their leitmotif in life is to live off of others. So they never give up on this mechanism to gain

00:03:57.180 control of others' wealth, money, or income. So this battle must be waged unceasingly.

00:04:03.000 We cannot take a day off because when we rest, socialism creeps in.

00:04:07.760 Brilliantly put by the new Argentinian president-elect. And Malay says not only will he not work with China,

00:04:14.600 but he won't work with any communist nation, any socialist nation.

00:04:19.540 Not only will I not do business with China, I want to do business with any communist. I am a 0.91

00:04:24.360 defender of freedom, peace, and democracy. There's no room for communists there. There's no room for

00:04:30.160 Putin there. There's no room for Lula there. We want to be the moral lighthouse for our continent.

00:04:35.760 We want to be defenders of freedom, democracy, and diversity, of peace. From within the state,

00:04:41.260 we will not pursue any action with communists or socialists. That doesn't mean that Argentinians

00:04:46.700 can't trade. If they want to trade with China or with Russia or with Brazil, that's up to each

00:04:51.140 Argentinian. Argentina is already sounding better. Malay takes office in another 20 days on December 10th.

00:04:59.080 Puppet President Joe Biden turned 81 yesterday and his age and rapid health decline has his fellow

00:05:05.500 Marxist Dems in the party more than a little anxious. They're anxious, it seems, to replace Biden

00:05:11.080 for the 2024 election. Politico reporting even those in Biden's inner circle, including family

00:05:17.280 members, worry about the optics of his advancing age. The president's birthday arrived on the same day

00:05:24.340 that a new NBC poll showed Biden's disapproval rating at an all-time high, 57%. That same NBC poll has

00:05:34.540 Trump beating Biden in a head-to-head for the first time. And among younger voters, ages 18 to 34,

00:05:41.860 Trump emerged on top, 46 to 42% over Biden. For context, younger voters broke for Biden in 2020

00:05:50.260 by about 26%. And former Obama advisor David Axelrod is doubling down on his calls for Biden to step aside

00:05:59.380 and let a younger Marxist Dems take over. Axelrod telling the New York Times this week Biden has

00:06:05.620 only a 50-50 shot at beating Trump. Our guest today is the founder and editor-in-chief of Just

00:06:12.100 the News, John Solomon. John, great to have you back with us. Let's begin with the January 6th tapes

00:06:17.820 as Speaker Mike Johnson is released. 44,000 hours will be released in all the first installment

00:06:24.860 coming out this weekend. Your reaction, John? Yeah, not surprising to me just because

00:06:30.380 Congressman Laudermilk, the subcommittee chairman that's been running the January 6th investigation

00:06:35.060 since Democrats gave up control of the House, he has been saying that this is the direction he

00:06:42.020 wanted to move in. Of course, Speaker McCarthy was not on board with that. His removal, I think,

00:06:47.680 opened a window or opened a door to come back and revisit the idea that maybe everybody should get

00:06:54.040 access to everything. We trust the American people to find their truth on their own, that it doesn't

00:06:58.560 have to be a controlled release. And I think over the last few days, Speaker Johnson and Chairman

00:07:05.800 Laudermilk worked out a scenario where it's easy to get the information up. Here's the path. We're

00:07:10.360 going to do it. Let's let people take a look at things and find what they want and get the highest

00:07:16.700 degree of transparency possible. And I think we're moving in that direction now. Not all the video is up

00:07:22.640 yet. It takes some time to post this because it's massive in size. There'll be dangers, right?

00:07:28.460 There'll be mistakes that people make. They'll see something on the videotape, think it's something

00:07:31.980 other than that. That's always a problem when you release information publicly. But I think

00:07:36.960 the long-term benefit to the American public is huge. And everybody can see for themselves with

00:07:43.900 their own eyes, without having filters and without the media telling them what to believe,

00:07:48.100 what happened that day. And I think it'll benefit defendants. It'll benefit journalists. It'll

00:07:53.000 benefit historians. And it will benefit voters going into the 2024 election.

00:07:58.440 I was very encouraged and thrilled that he did it because he had made a couple of steps,

00:08:04.400 a couple of moves that I didn't think were in the proper direction or at the proper pace.

00:08:09.600 This is good to see because this is a move toward transparency. I just hope the Republican Party

00:08:16.220 understands that you can't go wrong honoring the public's right to know. And if they follow that

00:08:23.040 particular load star, they'll be fine. It is when they get... And there was a slight apology offered

00:08:30.160 up by the Speaker's office because there are some of the videos that will not be available that,

00:08:35.000 as they put it, reveal architectural features that could have security implications. And if it's

00:08:41.120 de minimis, a fraction of a percent of something in these videos, that's fine. It's when it becomes

00:08:47.580 what it did become under Speaker McCarthy, the whole enchilada. He had a reason to do everything

00:08:53.140 slowly, to do everything that frustrated the public's right to know. I think we obviously have a

00:08:58.640 different... We've got a different fellow and a different sort of fellow in Mike Johnson.

00:09:03.600 Yeah. And it's a different mindset. There's no doubt about it. And I think you said it right,

00:09:07.460 Lou. Why should we fear the public's right to know? The public is smart. And only those who want

00:09:13.160 to manipulate the public, try to control the flow of information. Those who trust the public and trust

00:09:17.960 this constitutional republic know that transparency is the best thing. And I think Mike Johnson came

00:09:22.660 down on that side. Chairman Barry Laudermilk has been a champion of this, and he has worked

00:09:27.420 tirelessly for eight months, nine months, 10 months now, actually, to put us in a position to get

00:09:33.240 this data. And I'm really grateful for him as a journalist, because I've been able to access

00:09:37.560 some of this information. I think the public will be grateful for him long-term, seeing the benefit

00:09:42.160 of this.

00:09:43.400 Yeah. Think about it. It's 10 months really wasted, honestly.

00:09:47.060 Yeah. You're right.

00:09:47.820 I mean, if everybody's straight about it, it was wasted.

00:09:50.440 Yeah.

00:09:50.600 There's no reason on earth that these shouldn't have been out the second that McCarthy was sworn

00:09:55.200 in as Speaker of the House.

00:09:56.360 And the fact that that was not the case shows, I think, everybody's part of the problem with

00:10:03.280 Kevin McCarthy and the cross currents that were running through the conference, largely

00:10:08.400 because of the rhinos and divided allegiances, I'll put it that way.

00:10:14.160 Senator Mike Lee coming out and saying the House January 6th panel should be investigated

00:10:18.360 itself after the release of these tapes, because what we've already seen are, I'll say it very

00:10:25.140 nicely, discordant images with the narrative that the Dems were pushing.

00:10:31.160 I mean, these guys were lying through their teeth on that January 6th committee.

00:10:36.300 Pelosi, what they created is just an embarrassment, a shame, and a disgrace to the Marxist-Democrat 0.52

00:10:47.760 party.

00:10:48.780 And we've got to come to terms with it.

00:10:50.640 This is the party.

00:10:51.700 This is who they are. 0.99

00:10:53.180 They are rotten to the core. 0.54

00:10:55.140 And people better understand, this is not just about right and wrong in terms of policy.

00:11:00.560 This is, there is no moral compass on the left at all.

00:11:05.740 None that I can detect.

00:11:07.880 Yeah, listen, in moments like this in the past, you always put your country before your

00:11:12.560 party in your personal interest.

00:11:14.040 But the Democratic Party have constantly, over the last few years, put party ahead of country's

00:11:18.960 interest.

00:11:19.320 And so we weren't given the truth about what really happened on January 6th.

00:11:23.320 We weren't told about the security failures.

00:11:25.580 I believe in the next few days, we'll begin to learn just how many law enforcement undercover

00:11:31.540 or on scene.

00:11:33.020 I think there could be as many as four or five dozen, four or five teams just from Metropolitan

00:11:37.980 Police Department.

00:11:38.740 That's an area where I've been focusing a lot of my reporting.

00:11:41.040 All of that has been deprived the American public for nearly three years now.

00:11:46.220 We're coming up on the third anniversary.

00:11:47.760 We're still only getting snippets of basic truth for the first time.

00:11:52.940 We had a story last week that I think is so important.

00:11:56.180 The gallows, that big image that television played all that day saying, look, the Trump

00:12:01.780 people want to execute people. 0.81

00:12:03.680 Well, we found the video footage of that working with a guy named Ed Martin, working with Chairman

00:12:09.040 Loudermilk.

00:12:09.840 And you see the funniest thing.

00:12:11.040 Those things walk in in the wee hours of the morning.

00:12:13.500 They're sitting on the property for hours without any police trying to take them down,

00:12:20.300 even though it was an illegal structure, wouldn't have met the terms of the permit for that

00:12:26.140 day.

00:12:26.800 You can see the people going in.

00:12:28.740 You can see them talking on the phone.

00:12:30.560 You can see them going for coffee, coming back.

00:12:32.580 You can see the cab that they came in.

00:12:35.400 And somehow the FBI is unable to determine who they are, just like they're unable to

00:12:40.860 determine who dropped those bombs at the RNC and DNC, just like they are unable to explain

00:12:47.480 how the Secret Service didn't sweep the DNC building and allow Vice President-elect Kamala

00:12:53.480 Harris to walk within feet of a bomb.

00:12:55.280 There are so many security failures and security abnormalities that the January 6th committee

00:13:02.380 deprived the American people from learning about.

00:13:05.120 And we're going to get to see them now.

00:13:06.120 We're going to learn about them now.

00:13:06.920 We'll probably get to the bottom of a lot of these lingering and very important issues.

00:13:11.360 You know, you're talking about abnormalities.

00:13:14.740 It's much like the election of 2020.

00:13:17.860 You know, we can talk about abnormalities or we can talk about irregularities.

00:13:22.540 We can talk about anomalies or we can talk about what we're really talking about.

00:13:27.300 That's a rigged election.

00:13:28.740 And this insurrection day on January 6th was an absolute setup on the part of the FBI,

00:13:37.760 the Metro and Capitol Police.

00:13:41.180 I mean, John, this is an outrage staring us in the face and people, I get a kick out of

00:13:47.700 I'm hearing congressmen who are not lawyers talking like they were going to write a constitutional

00:13:53.480 law treatise for their class they're teaching today.

00:13:56.940 I mean, it's staring us in the face.

00:13:59.380 Let's call it what it is.

00:14:00.960 It is a government that is under the control of the Marxist Dems. 0.65

00:14:05.520 It's corrupt from one end to the other.

00:14:09.040 And there to see Christopher Wray say he's not a part of the Department of Homeland Security.

00:14:15.840 Wasn't that a precious moment as he's trying to correct the congressman? 0.98

00:14:20.960 I just we have an arrogant bunch of crooks in these jobs. 0.93

00:14:26.760 And everybody better understand what we're dealing with, because that's who we're dealing 0.98

00:14:31.140 with.

00:14:31.580 Well, listen, our founding fathers feared this very moment that we live in now.

00:14:35.780 That's why they created the Constitutional Republic to avoid a large central government

00:14:39.960 from imposing its own will on the American people.

00:14:44.000 But somehow, particularly in the last 10 to 20 years, instead of a government by for and

00:14:50.740 of the people, it's become a government to control the people and to control the truth,

00:14:55.280 to control what you say, to control what you think, to control what you put in your body.

00:14:59.320 And I think that this is exactly the worst case scenario that our founding fathers did not

00:15:04.540 want to see play out in Washington.

00:15:06.100 And the next election is an opportunity, if Americans are serious about this, if they really

00:15:11.040 are concerned about it, to install into place a mindset and a plan that would substantially

00:15:19.520 shrink the size of government.

00:15:20.820 The only way you can remove power from bureaucrats is to get rid of them. 1.00

00:15:24.900 And Republicans have talked that way for 25 years.

00:15:28.320 They didn't get it done.

00:15:29.720 Donald Trump didn't get it done in his first term.

00:15:31.800 He seems very determined if he gets a second term to do exactly that.

00:15:35.760 And I've seen the plans he's put out there, and they make a big dent in reducing the size

00:15:40.400 and power of Washington.

00:15:41.780 But we live in a period right now where the central government has a say over almost every

00:15:47.060 aspect of our life, including telling us what reality we can believe or what reality we see.

00:15:52.480 And the FBI, particularly in the Russia collusion case, was a big part of that.

00:15:57.060 And also the 51 intelligence analysts who misled us in the 2020 election.

00:16:01.980 Talk about being rigged.

00:16:03.460 The American people were completely denied the truth on something as essential as was

00:16:09.380 the president or the person they were about to elect as president compromise.

00:16:13.820 And the answer is he was.

00:16:14.980 But we were told, don't believe it.

00:16:16.820 So the moment is upon us.

00:16:18.560 This next election is the self-correcting moment.

00:16:21.320 If we're going to have one, if it doesn't happen in 2024, I think you look at many, many

00:16:27.860 years of long centralized control of our lives from government in Washington on the horizon.

00:16:34.780 Now, you just saw what happened in Argentina, right?

00:16:37.380 Argentina made a very drastic change.

00:16:39.560 They decided they don't like big government.

00:16:41.900 They don't like the government economy that was given them.

00:16:44.660 And they went in a very radical direction last night with their election.

00:16:48.360 It'll be interesting to see if Americans choose that same path.

00:16:52.440 And a plain spoken fellow, this populist is.

00:16:56.160 And as you might guess, as a populist myself, I was jumping up and down with joy to see what

00:17:01.480 the people of Argentina did, because they have a plain spoken, straight talking president

00:17:06.280 President Dao, who is opposite everything the Peronistas have been for decades.

00:17:13.080 Argentina has a chance.

00:17:14.600 He understands economics as well.

00:17:16.600 Something that no leader, it seems, of Argentina has understood for a half century.

00:17:21.840 We're talking with John Solomon.

00:17:23.500 We're coming back.

00:17:24.420 We're going to talk about how did it take us so long to get to the point where we can actually 0.97

00:17:29.000 call a congressman or a senator a lying son of a gun. 0.74

00:17:33.700 But we'll be right back with that. 0.99

00:17:36.260 Stay with us.

00:17:42.500 We're back now with John Solomon, Just the News.

00:17:45.400 And John, as I said, going to break.

00:17:48.960 How, why, how in the world did we get to a point where we had to fight to get to where

00:17:56.880 we are today?

00:17:57.940 Talking about the fact that the government is rancid with corruption, that the Biden

00:18:03.500 regime is without any question whatsoever corrupt.

00:18:07.640 We can define it.

00:18:08.860 We can slice and dice it.

00:18:10.680 We can get granular or go to 30,000 feet. 0.99

00:18:13.640 Bottom line is they're a bunch of crooks. 1.00

00:18:15.600 They're corrupt and they're vicious and they are the Marxist left. 1.00

00:18:20.180 And we've been so afraid to say the word Marxist. 0.99

00:18:23.920 They're Marxist.

00:18:24.740 And they are the they are the threat to this country, aren't they?

00:18:28.120 Well, listen, I think anyone who values freedom, anyone who values personal liberty, who values

00:18:35.660 a free market, which is the three primary foundations upon which this country has been

00:18:39.900 so successful and innovative and globally inspiring, has to recognize that we're in a moment where

00:18:47.260 all three of those core principles, core driving forces of the American experience are under

00:18:53.300 great assault from one party.

00:18:55.440 The Democrats don't believe in personal freedom.

00:18:57.560 They try to restrain it.

00:18:59.600 They don't believe in free markets.

00:19:01.400 They try to create manipulated markets.

00:19:03.080 That's what the Green Energy New Deal is about.

00:19:06.120 They don't believe in a personal choice.

00:19:09.040 They try to remove choices.

00:19:10.340 They have become increasingly critical of the first two freedoms granted in the Bill of Rights,

00:19:16.060 the First Amendment and the Second Amendment. 0.74

00:19:17.780 And so you see these efforts through disinformation and censorship, now defunding or debanking gun

00:19:26.260 manufacturers, that the very freedoms that our founding fathers believed were going to

00:19:33.180 be the most important for sustaining the great American experience.

00:19:36.880 There's one party that argues against them on a daily basis.

00:19:40.840 And yes, many of the principles, much of the language they use seems to have its origins in

00:19:46.580 Marxist tradition, critical race theory, DEI, CRT.

00:19:50.600 We can go, you know, we can give you the alphabet soup.

00:19:52.620 But at the end of the day, there is a growing number of people in the Democratic Party who

00:20:00.560 believe that freedom is a threat to the Democrat Party agenda.

00:20:04.500 And that is anathema to the American experience.

00:20:07.600 There is also, beyond the Democratic Party, this massive, well-funded oligarchy in America,

00:20:14.420 particularly those who came out of Silicon Valley, who believe it their job to use their market

00:20:20.840 position to control Americans, control thought, control speech, control convention.

00:20:28.460 And so you have all of these control-a-garchs. 1.00

00:20:31.380 That's the term that my good colleague, Seamus Bruner, who has a brand new book out, talks about.

00:20:36.160 And so when you have a Democratic Party aligned with a-

00:20:40.100 Control-a-garchs. 1.00

00:20:41.020 Control-a-garchs. 1.00

00:20:42.000 That's the term.

00:20:42.940 That's the name of his new book.

00:20:44.400 And he's right.

00:20:45.420 And he chronicles it.

00:20:46.540 So Democrat politicians aligned with big tech oligarchs.

00:20:50.940 The threat to freedom, the threat to the American experience has never been greater.

00:20:55.800 Do you think the Republicans understand that?

00:20:58.140 Do you think Mike Johnson understands it?

00:20:59.960 Do you think that, you know, the Republicans in the Senate understand it?

00:21:05.140 I know, for example, Ted Cruz understands it.

00:21:07.880 I think Mike Lee does a handful, but I don't see this party organizing around the principles

00:21:14.280 that you're describing.

00:21:15.620 We've got a group of people in the House and some to a fewer in the Senate who want to try

00:21:22.900 to make this about government spending.

00:21:25.440 That is madness in and of itself. 0.99

00:21:28.260 That is a loser issue. 0.97

00:21:30.640 It's a loser proposition.

00:21:33.300 And what has to happen is the Republican Party understands they have got to block the Marxists,

00:21:40.240 understand that the Marxists control the Democrat Party, and they have to understand without

00:21:44.800 any equivocation that they're going to have to make sure that the election of 2024 is not

00:21:52.040 rigged and is not controlled by the Marxist Dems.

00:21:55.100 You know, people ask this question often, do Republicans understand the battle they're

00:22:00.920 in?

00:22:01.220 And I can say this.

00:22:02.280 First off, they certainly haven't been fighting with the political armaments that this battle

00:22:08.420 requires.

00:22:09.000 The Democrats have taken every advantage in changing election roles, in pushing the roles

00:22:15.200 of elections and pushing the roles of governance.

00:22:17.920 And the Republicans have been way too courteous, way too deferential.

00:22:21.540 Now, when you look at the rhetoric, when you look at what key Republicans are saying today,

00:22:27.340 take Mitch McConnell out of it, I think his time has passed, and I'm not sure he understands

00:22:31.440 the battle we're in.

00:22:32.680 But many of the next generation Republicans seem to articulate the danger, seem to articulate

00:22:40.040 the fight correctly.

00:22:41.640 But do they have the tactics?

00:22:43.040 Do they have the armaments?

00:22:44.060 Do they have the strategy?

00:22:45.220 Do they have the policies to combat it?

00:22:47.720 Thus far, they haven't shown that they have it.

00:22:49.680 And I think the last 20 years of history is a poignant reminder that many times Republicans

00:22:58.000 have been co-conspirators in the changing of America towards this big government, suffocating

00:23:04.820 spending, suffocating regulation.

00:23:07.800 They've been a big party to it.

00:23:09.240 Obviously, Donald Trump was a little bit of an aberration, though even on his watch, the

00:23:13.340 Republicans in Congress didn't make the sort of change that the American people empowered

00:23:17.920 to give them in 2017.

00:23:20.280 Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell were too tepid.

00:23:23.180 They didn't do what Americans hired them to do. 0.91

00:23:26.440 And as a result, they got kicked out of office two years later, or two and four years later,

00:23:30.800 depending on the election.

00:23:32.820 I do think when you look at what Republicans are saying, those in power today, the chairman,

00:23:37.600 people like Jim Jordan and James Comer and the new speaker, Mike Johnson, they certainly

00:23:43.180 articulate the moment we're in, but they have not been able to produce yet results on the

00:23:50.140 border, on shrinking government.

00:23:52.000 Government hasn't shrunk one penny in the last 25 years when Republicans have been in

00:23:58.000 charge.

00:23:58.320 It's getting bigger on Republican and Democrat watches.

00:24:01.680 The border has gotten more and more open every two years.

00:24:05.280 The cycle gets worse and worse.

00:24:07.140 So Republicans have been aiders and a betters in this process.

00:24:10.200 They're very good at complaining about it.

00:24:13.360 I've yet to see the sort of plan that would combat it.

00:24:16.720 Now, President Trump's plan seems to have, I think, the most clear elements of how to

00:24:23.720 change it.

00:24:24.160 I think the America First Policy Institute and some of its 2025 agenda that people like Lee

00:24:29.960 Zeldin are developing, they seem to have real policy actions that match the rhetoric.

00:24:34.980 And then the final question is, if you have the policy and you got the rhetoric, do you have

00:24:38.560 the will to impose it or the will to achieve it?

00:24:41.420 And I think, well, history will let us know that in the next couple of years.

00:24:45.220 Yeah.

00:24:45.320 The problem with the Lee Zeldins, and who's a great guy, is he's not a fighter and he is

00:24:51.380 not a man with a loud voice and a real strong sense of direction.

00:24:57.800 He is, for all practical purposes, a rhino.

00:25:01.820 And you know me, John, I say it straight.

00:25:04.880 There are just too many of these kinds of cookie cutter candidates out there who would 0.99

00:25:11.220 like to be in some sort of sinecure for life, it seems, rather than actually get something

00:25:18.280 done and then get the heck out of Washington.

00:25:20.400 And I don't mean any offense to Lee Zeldin.

00:25:23.360 Like I said, I like the man.

00:25:24.880 He's a great guy.

00:25:26.800 I think one of the things you have to look at.

00:25:28.620 But the reality, the reality is we've got to take a break and we're going to come right

00:25:32.660 back and then we're going to find out what John Solomon wants to really say to Lou Dobbs.

00:25:38.500 We'll find out right after this.

00:25:40.380 We'll be right back.

00:25:46.840 We're back.

00:25:47.640 We're talking with John Solomon.

00:25:49.040 And John, your thoughts about the rhinos and the folks who will not talk straight in Washington,

00:25:53.920 D.C., irrespective of party.

00:25:55.460 Yeah, listen, it's a huge problem.

00:25:57.740 The American people are keen on it, right?

00:25:59.460 I think when you look at someone like a Lee Zeldin, who I've really studied closely as

00:26:03.700 a journalist, some of the tactical changes that he willed into existence in New York the

00:26:09.680 last election are the sort of things that Republicans should have been doing six years ago, right?

00:26:14.520 Early voting can make a difference.

00:26:17.100 He got early voting into place.

00:26:18.640 But he didn't win, John.

00:26:22.920 He didn't win.

00:26:24.320 Here's the thing.

00:26:25.080 I want to hear about a Republican who actually talks straight, actually wins and does something.

00:26:30.420 I mean, the state of Arizona right now is producing candidate after candidate who knows they got

00:26:34.700 screwed in the elections of 2022 and 2020, but they don't win.

00:26:41.760 It just drives me crazy.

00:26:43.600 Yeah, listen, I completely agree with you that winning is a problem for Republicans.

00:26:48.560 Republicans don't know how to win very well.

00:26:51.340 Part of the reason is they allowed the Democrats to change the rules of the election,

00:26:55.700 and then they disarmed, saying, I want to hold on to the old election.

00:26:59.200 And I think if you're going to win in 2024, all the data that I've seen as a journalist,

00:27:04.680 again, just looking at pure data, is you have to get your base out.

00:27:09.360 That's what Donald Trump does better than any conservative president in American history

00:27:12.740 or any conservative politician.

00:27:14.360 He gets the base out in record numbers.

00:27:16.580 And then you've got to go after low propensity voters, which Democrats have mastered and Republicans

00:27:21.960 have ignored.

00:27:22.880 There are a certain group of people, and it's sad to say, but it is harsh reality, that won't

00:27:28.480 take the time or don't have the time to go vote on Election Day.

00:27:31.400 But if you make it easy for them to vote early, they will vote early.

00:27:35.040 And that's how Democrats have rolled up some really significant numbers.

00:27:38.760 The data is irrefutable on it.

00:27:40.800 Republicans keep spitting into the wind on this.

00:27:43.660 For the first time, I'm seeing evidence that they are starting to engage those voters.

00:27:49.220 There is an opportunity, Hispanic voters, young parents, Black voters, all moving to the 1.00

00:27:55.040 Trump column in 2024.

00:27:56.360 You see it in the polling data, but polling data doesn't equal vote.

00:28:00.660 How you get those people to vote is, I think, the existential question for the Republican

00:28:06.980 Party.

00:28:07.720 Can they muster the sort of votes that win elections?

00:28:11.540 And I do see some encouraging signs.

00:28:14.400 And while Zeldin lost in 2022, and he did lose, he lost by way less than what the polls

00:28:19.640 showed, right?

00:28:20.100 He closed it, but that early voting kicked in three or four wins for Republicans in places

00:28:27.540 like Staten Island and some of the burbs of New York.

00:28:30.360 There are hopeful signs that that strategy could and can be a winning strategy if deployed

00:28:35.660 more widely.

00:28:37.780 The alternative is just to watch the Democrats start every election with 200,000 extra votes

00:28:42.360 on Election Day and then try to make it up on Election Day.

00:28:44.920 It's not a good strategy.

00:28:46.340 Ronald Reagan said, I'm a principled guy, but I'll never unilaterally disarm.

00:28:50.860 Republicans for the last three to four elections have unilaterally disarmed on some of the tactics

00:28:56.400 that could potentially push them over the top. 0.93

00:28:59.460 This is 2024 is the year we're going to find out if Republicans can still win.

00:29:03.520 If not, I think we're destined, Republicans are destined to be a minority party for a very

00:29:08.600 long time.

00:29:09.940 Yeah.

00:29:10.320 I think that the way you construct it, if the only way that Republicans can win is by

00:29:16.820 playing like Mark Elias, and that is cheating, going to early voting, making it early months

00:29:25.380 of voting, going to drop boxes.

00:29:30.680 I mean, that isn't somewhere we should be.

00:29:33.280 Oh, but the problem is they allowed it to get that way, right?

00:29:35.280 Yeah, they did, but they should also reverse it.

00:29:38.100 And the fact is that the Republicans are so lazy and so unsure of their leadership that

00:29:44.000 they won't get rid of drop boxes.

00:29:45.880 They won't roll back early voting.

00:29:48.020 They won't talk about an Election Day, just like the Constitution does, talk about it and

00:29:53.040 insist upon it.

00:29:54.620 This is either the Republican Party is going to be the party of law and order and principle,

00:29:59.080 or it's going to be nothing more than an echo of what is a group of Marxist Dems who mean

00:30:06.780 to unravel this country in every fashion possible.

00:30:10.260 John, I just don't see how that's a winning argument for Republicans.

00:30:13.340 I would like to see Republicans show enough energy to get out there and change those laws

00:30:18.380 to roll back that all that Mark Elias and the Dems did in 2020.

00:30:23.240 Because the other way is an unprincipled nightmare that will mean that there won't be a nickel's

00:30:30.160 worth of difference between the two parties.

00:30:32.040 Well, the problem right now is that they don't have control in the battleground states that

00:30:35.480 win you the electoral votes, right?

00:30:36.900 They don't have control in Pennsylvania.

00:30:38.540 They don't have control in Michigan.

00:30:39.920 In fact, they've lost ground in those states because the Democrats changed the rules and

00:30:44.980 then created a strategy to do that.

00:30:47.560 The only way to impose your will on election law is to have the ability to pass and sign

00:30:53.860 the election law.

00:30:54.520 They don't have it in Michigan.

00:30:56.600 They don't have it in Pennsylvania.

00:30:58.200 They used to have it and they slept through it.

00:31:01.040 They yielded the advantages that they had.

00:31:04.080 Wisconsin, they're hanging on by a thread.

00:31:06.360 The only way for them to get back to imposing an election day in America is to win one of the

00:31:11.980 elections under the current rules and then push it backwards.

00:31:15.440 That's the only way we're going to do it.

00:31:16.480 Right now, they've lost ground in Michigan.

00:31:18.300 They've lost ground in Pennsylvania, despite the fact that Donald Trump's more popular

00:31:21.960 in their states than ever before.

00:31:23.600 His policies are more popular.

00:31:25.620 You've got to seize control in order to impose control.

00:31:29.180 And right now, they're at a disadvantage in many of the battleground states.

00:31:33.260 Now, Georgia is one that they don't.

00:31:35.400 Arizona, they just lost.

00:31:36.540 Let's think about that.

00:31:37.520 Arizona, they had statewide control.

00:31:39.280 Now they don't. 0.98

00:31:40.620 And I think while they had statewide control, while they had those darn investigations into election 0.96

00:31:45.440 integrity, they didn't manage to change the rules to their advantage. 0.87

00:31:49.420 And I think failure to continue to do so will be an existential problem for the Republican

00:31:54.820 Party for a long time to come.

00:31:56.160 This is the election where they have to win by the rules that are currently in place, and

00:32:00.560 then you can go and change it to whatever you think the Constitution and the American

00:32:04.160 public want.

00:32:04.920 But absent that, they're going to be a minority party for a long time.

00:32:08.720 That's what I think the polling data shows, what the trend lines of the last six years

00:32:13.320 are.

00:32:13.940 Mark Elias changed the rules.

00:32:15.620 He did.

00:32:16.460 And we can complain about it, but those are the rules.

00:32:19.860 And so we need to go win by those rules, and then you can change the rules back to the

00:32:23.420 way I think most Americans like, which is voter ID.

00:32:26.540 Day up, put your vote on the day up.

00:32:28.580 The Republican principles of election are very popular.

00:32:31.540 They just aren't the letter of the law in many states right now.

00:32:34.820 And that is a shame.

00:32:35.700 Yeah, I'm not Mark Elias' favorite person, but he did like my proposal for the Republican

00:32:42.220 Party back in 2022, which is that it was 2020, actually, for the Republican Party to just

00:32:52.520 take a breath, put together a few hundred million dollars and buy, pay off Mark Elias to work

00:32:59.940 for them.

00:33:00.640 I'm sure he would like that.

00:33:01.900 That would be blueprint.

00:33:02.340 And Mark Elias quit, you know, he blocked me on Twitter right after that.

00:33:07.640 That's funny.

00:33:08.720 That's very funny.

00:33:10.200 But anyway, it's the truth of the matter is there's not a single person in the Republican

00:33:14.340 Party right now, as far as I know, not a single group, not an organized institution, non-profit,

00:33:20.200 whatever you want to say, that knows a darn thing about what they're doing in terms of early

00:33:25.140 voting. 0.62

00:33:25.540 All they're going to do is end up going to jail because they're going to break a law of

00:33:31.160 some sort.

00:33:31.640 You're very perceptive.

00:33:32.480 You're right.

00:33:32.960 There is a massive lack of knowledge and capability, and we're less than a year away.

00:33:39.000 And so what is the RNC for?

00:33:42.540 What is it?

00:33:43.020 I guess the question becomes, what is it that Republicans do exactly between elections?

00:33:48.580 Because they seem to just sit on their tails and, you know, just sort of slobber waiting

00:33:56.280 for, you know, a handout. 0.98

00:33:58.160 I mean, it's ridiculous to me to see this Republican Party.

00:34:02.420 If they did not have Donald Trump in the Republican Party, this party would already be gone. 0.86

00:34:08.360 It would be in the dustbin of history.

00:34:10.860 A 42 or 40 percent party.

00:34:12.560 You're right.

00:34:12.940 Listen, I think you're exactly right.

00:34:14.260 And I grew up in the era of New York where George Steinbrenner demanded excellence, and

00:34:19.080 he would fire his manager if he didn't get it.

00:34:21.000 Just think about this.

00:34:22.060 The RNC has underperformed in five straight elections, and yet it has the same leadership.

00:34:28.260 If you want to start with, you know, an easy thing, if you keep losing, you have to change

00:34:32.780 the team, right?

00:34:33.560 That's what every great football team learns, every baseball team learns.

00:34:36.820 I've got a great idea for you, John.

00:34:38.340 The Republicans keep doubling down on their failed leadership.

00:34:40.240 I've got a banner for just the news.

00:34:42.440 You want to hear it?

00:34:43.200 Yeah, please.

00:34:45.260 Get rid of Romney McDaniel.

00:34:49.880 Yeah.

00:34:50.680 Period.

00:34:52.140 Well, that'll tell us.

00:34:53.260 Listen, if in the next few weeks that happens, which, by the way, there's some very serious

00:34:56.660 conversations going on in the party.

00:34:58.900 If that happens, then you know that some people have been listening to the wisdom that

00:35:02.300 you and others have been saying.

00:35:04.300 If they don't, if they double down on the same team, then all you can do is expect the

00:35:10.820 same result.

00:35:11.360 If you don't change, you end up in the same destination.

00:35:14.580 And I think right now someone has to change the compass to the Republican Party.

00:35:18.440 It has plenty of money, right?

00:35:19.840 It raised, what, $340 million last election.

00:35:22.340 That's not bad.

00:35:23.480 But if you don't spend it wisely, if you spend it lazily, if you're unimaginative, if you're

00:35:28.260 not fighting your enemy on the battlefield that they're on, you're destined to lose.

00:35:32.740 And I think right now there is a lot of that feeling that the Republicans haven't changed

00:35:40.620 the compass one bit.

00:35:41.600 They haven't reset the GPS and they're headed sleepwalking into another failed election.

00:35:46.720 Now, Donald Trump may have something to say about that.

00:35:48.620 He's pretty determined.

00:35:51.160 He's going to have a lot to say.

00:35:52.920 The question is, from what platform?

00:35:56.060 That's right.

00:35:56.400 And, you know, the RNC, you're talking about raising over $300 million.

00:36:00.620 I mean, that's great if you're a bank.

00:36:02.420 That's right.

00:36:02.860 If you're running a political party, that money should be highly energized with great velocity

00:36:08.540 and trajectory on target.

00:36:12.260 It is none of that.

00:36:13.520 No, it isn't.

00:36:14.520 Listen, history shows that.

00:36:15.820 The facts show that.

00:36:17.080 You talk to voters in the Republican Party.

00:36:19.040 They feel that way.

00:36:20.800 It's not opinion.

00:36:22.020 That is a fact that the Republican National Committee has been underperforming.

00:36:26.220 And somebody has to make a change or they'll wake up on the morning after the 2024 election

00:36:31.200 feeling the way they do right now.

00:36:33.360 John Solomon, it is always great to have you with us here on The Great America Show.

00:36:37.220 Thanks, my friend.

00:36:37.980 Appreciate it.

00:36:38.660 Great to be with you, Lou.

00:36:39.540 Thank you.

00:36:40.440 John Solomon, folks.

00:36:41.780 Thanks, everybody, for being with us today.

00:36:43.660 Our guest here tomorrow on The Great America Show, Congressman Corey Mills from the great

00:36:47.960 state of Florida.

00:36:48.740 We'll be talking about the Republicans need to do to take back this country and our government.

00:36:55.020 Please join us for that tomorrow and each and every day.

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00:37:06.840 Thanks, everybody.

00:37:08.040 God bless you and may God bless America.

The Great America Show - November 21, 2023

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