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00:02:15.000I think it's going to be a really awesome, incredible show.
00:02:17.000The conversation definitely is going to be spicy, I think to say the least, with everyone here, as there's a lot of crazy things to talk about in 2024 that is already shaping up to be one hell of a year.
00:02:28.000And I think it's fair to say it's only going to get crazier from here.
00:02:47.000So, the first thing I'd like to do, because this is a special episode, we're going to be talking about a lot of things pertaining to this election cycle, is, you know, I'm going to call out Vivek Ramaswamy right here in front of all of these big fans of yours, because you said in a CNN town hall that it's beginning to look, I'm paraphrasing, but it's beginning to look like January 6th was an inside job.
00:03:07.000And I must call you out, sir, because I will tell you definitively, it was an inside job.
00:03:11.000And, uh, the media, of course, criticize you for pushing conspiracy theories.
00:03:16.000They, uh, I want to call the media specifically, first and foremost, a handful of media outlets, many of whom may actually be in the room today.
00:03:23.000And so, uh, no disrespect to the individuals.
00:03:25.000I know these people aren't the ones who wrote the stories.
00:04:00.000Let me go through these stories real quick.
00:04:02.000So we have this from CNN, fact-checking Vivek Ramaswamy's CNN town hall, where they say a false claim that police rolled out the red carpet on January 6th.
00:04:11.000They go on to say that you said it was an inside job.
00:04:15.000Ramaswamy's claim that the rioters were invited into the Capitol is false.
00:04:19.000About 140 police officers were assaulted while trying to stop the mob from breaching the Capitol, etc, etc.
00:04:23.000This is a trick that many in media do where they will take a true statement, a fact, then try to apply it to a totally different set of facts.
00:04:32.000Is it true that police officers were injured?
00:04:37.000Here's a story from CNN.com that I will use to debunk CNN.com.
00:04:42.000Man who said January 6th was magical acquitted in U.S.
00:04:45.000Capitol riot case, where they say a federal judge on Wednesday found Matthew Martin not guilty of four federal misdemeanors related to trespassing.
00:04:52.000Martin, who worked for a government contractor before his arrest following the riot, successfully argued that a U.S.
00:04:56.000Capitol police officer waved him into the building.
00:04:59.000At least one video played during the trial appeared to show an officer moving his arm in a waving motion.
00:05:04.000Yes, CNN really doesn't want to admit it, but let's break down the facts here.
00:05:07.000A judge determined a police officer made a waving motion, thus a man who entered the building felt he was invited, and thus there were no criminal charges to be had.
00:05:45.000So I have to just simply say, when we say something like it was an inside job, or it appears to be, they'll immediately respond by saying, what's your proof that the Biden administration did it?
00:06:09.000Vivek Ramaswamy promotes January 6th conspiracy theory by suggesting it was an inside job.
00:06:13.000I think according to CNN's own reporting, as well as the Oxford definition we've here, definitively stated and proven it was an inside job.
00:06:20.000My question is, if the people inside are under duress and they let the people outside in because they're afraid for their lives, is it still technically an inside job, or was it provoked by the crowd's, you know, fear, essence of fear?
00:06:32.000It's a bit, I kind of lie with you that I think it is still technically, you know, neutrally an inside job.
00:06:37.000You're also assuming that that was the case, right?
00:06:39.000I mean, I think that's, even under that most charitable interpretation, Those aren't necessarily the same people.
00:06:44.000You're talking about thousands of people.
00:06:45.000So some people had some violent behavior outside.
00:06:47.000Different people who show up at a door are allowed in in a friendly manner.
00:06:52.000From the standpoint of the person who was allowed in, it doesn't matter what circumstance the police officer was under.
00:06:57.000The question is, what do they believe the government is telling them?
00:07:00.000So from the standpoint of that defendant, I'm a guy who walks up to the house of the people, wants to walk in, take my iPhone around.
00:07:08.000Okay, probably the first time in the Capitol building.
00:07:10.000And they were allowed in by a federal police officer, that of the Capitol Police.
00:07:15.000Now, I find weeks or months or a year and a half later, I'm part of the largest manhunt in modern American history to be put into prison, in many cases charged.
00:07:27.000So I think at the level of the individual, this is what it comes down to.
00:07:31.000It's not about finding what circumstance was or wasn't understandable for the government.
00:07:35.000For somebody who's going to be locked up, we better darn well apply the highest standard of a burden of proof to say that's what we're going to apply before you lock you up.
00:07:43.000And so the Capitol Police initially were sitting on a lot of that footage.
00:07:48.000So many of those defendants were charged.
00:07:51.000Without getting access to that video footage.
00:07:54.000And again, the justification they made was, you know, usually a prosecutor has to turn over exculpatory evidence to a defendant.
00:08:01.000But here they didn't do it because they said Congress technically has the tapes and that's not the prosecutors of the DOJ.
00:08:07.000Again, from the standpoint of an individual defendant, it doesn't matter.
00:08:10.000It's the government that's coming after you to put you in prison.
00:08:14.000And if the government's going to come after you to put you in prison, a couple basic things have to be true.
00:08:18.000That government did not actually cause you or incite you to commit the crime.
00:08:23.000And we're just talking about the Capitol Police dimension of this, let alone the FBI dimension.
00:08:27.000And the other thing that has to be true is you have a chance to defend yourself with full exculpatory evidence, including the video footage of the circumstances of you being allowed into that very building you were allegedly trespassing in.
00:08:39.000If neither of those things were the case, then I think that that's not a crime.
00:08:42.000And anybody who has been convicted or pressured into a false plea deal under those circumstances will, on my watch, get a pardon on day one because that's the right thing to do to stand for the rule of law in this country.
00:08:55.000Would you retry them with the new evidence?
00:08:58.000I think that it would depend on the circumstances, but when you think about somebody who was, first of all, peacefully protesting that day and allowed in in those circumstances, there's something bigger going on here.
00:09:07.000In that same year, we've applied a totally different standard of the rule of law to violent riots.
00:09:12.000I'm not going to call them mostly peaceful protests.
00:09:14.000It's a translation if you're decoding the media lingo on this one.
00:09:17.000Mostly peaceful protest in the year 2020.
00:09:19.000Frantifa or BLM refers to violent riots.
00:09:22.000Against the backdrop of a year where there were all kinds of peaceful to violent riots across this country.
00:09:28.000And so against that backdrop, I believe especially what these people have been put through already.
00:09:34.000This is years of hell that we've put citizens of this country through.
00:09:37.000Anybody who was peaceful and did not physically assault somebody that day will get a day one pardon from me.
00:09:44.000And then I'm going to go down the list, even of the people who allegedly, right, I don't believe anymore the government if they just said you're violent as an allegation.
00:09:51.000Now let's get to the facts and go down the list.
00:09:54.000Anybody else who had their constitutional rights denied during that process will also, in addition, get a pardon.
00:10:00.000I can't commit to that on day one, but on day one I commit to start the process of going case by case.
00:10:06.000And it's not even about those defendants individually, though that matters, of course, to me.
00:10:10.000It's about the future of this country, because if we put ourselves in a position where they can go after political opponents for this reason, they can go after political opponents for any reason.
00:10:20.000You got Julian Assange rotting in a foreign prison, while the person who leaked to Julian Assange is a woman by the name of Chelsea Manning, who effectively got her sentence commuted by President Obama because she's transgender.
00:10:31.000I actually have increasingly concluded she's probably not even transgender, she's probably just smart, knowing that that's how you have to identify to be a member of a politically favorable class.
00:10:40.000And so the two standards of the rule of law are really what irk me the most.
00:10:44.000And so this isn't just for the people who are there on January 6th, it's for the rest of us in this country as well.
00:10:49.000And so I don't think retrial for most of those cases is the right answer.
00:10:52.000If you're a peaceful protester on January 6th, you were truly peaceful and you were convicted or forced to plead or coerced to plead under false pretenses, you will get a pardon on day one when I'm in office.
00:11:02.000I want to bring up real quick just to highlight again what CNN said in their article fact-checking you when they said about 140 police officers were assaulted while trying to stop the mob from breaching the Capitol.
00:11:14.000It's not shocking that almost every single news story that we hear about January 6th involves those who are acting violently.
00:11:22.000But I think perhaps one thing that we can do better, especially, you know, we've got scanner.com, stnr.com, we have a news team, is focus on those who are peaceful, non-violent, and shut up after the fact.
00:11:32.000I met a woman at a restaurant, and this is in the Maryland area.
00:11:40.000She showed up an hour and a half or so after the rioting had already concluded and people were actually leaving.
00:11:46.000She walks up to the Capitol building with open sidewalks, there's people standing on the grass talking, there's people walking around, the doors are wide open.
00:11:53.000Her and her husband walk up, see people and the police standing there, walk on in, she said she was in for a few minutes.
00:12:01.000Asked what was going on, they said nothing much and said okay and she left.
00:12:04.000She was sentenced to 18 months in jail.
00:12:07.000The court did not care that she was nonviolent, that she was just a tourist who went to see Donald Trump speak, was unaware of any barricades.
00:12:15.000I think the issue is, especially for the corporate press, those stories aren't newsworthy for them.
00:12:22.000If you take a look at how CNN reported the acquittal of Matthew Martin, They still just don't want to admit that a police officer waved a man into the building and a judge agreed he was welcomed in.
00:12:34.000They still try and make it seem like it's all a misunderstanding and the cop wasn't waving him in.
00:12:39.000Yeah, and you know what, the corporate press piece is interesting of this because some of the people who are now, they're not going after, there were members of the press that day.
00:12:45.000In the field, covering it as members of the press.
00:12:47.000But if they're part of the corporate press, somehow that was immune from investigation.
00:12:50.000You have independent journalists who are actually documenting what was happening, are the ones that the Justice Department's now going after.
00:12:56.000You've got the likes of Owen Schroer, who was actually yelling, as best I know, didn't even go in the Capitol, was on a megaphone yelling 1776.
00:13:01.000How do you think that was a crime in this country?
00:13:05.000But apparently that was, by definition.
00:13:07.000And he ended up spending time actually, unfortunately, under prosecution and under conviction.
00:13:12.000So I think it's a violation of the rule of law.
00:13:15.000I also think you haven't even gotten to the spicy stuff.
00:13:17.000But first of all, I want to say one thing.
00:13:19.000I'm glad that CNN, you know, at least took the approach they did.
00:13:21.000Otherwise, we wouldn't be here doing this, actually.
00:13:24.000You know, CNN, I did a town hall here in Iowa about About maybe a month and a half ago, where we started to talk to this woman, Abby Phillips, who was moderating the town hall.
00:13:35.000They literally cut it off five minutes early.
00:13:38.000Like it was supposed to be, there was a full time, there was a full run of show.
00:13:41.000By the time I start talking about January 6th, and there's only a few third rails that you really can't touch.
00:13:45.000But for whatever reason, this is one of them.
00:13:47.000They end the whole thing five minutes early, trot out a bunch of different experts explaining to their audience why everything they just heard was misinformation and needed to be debunked as dangerous for the future.
00:13:57.000And then that's when they start calling us and, you know, they actually, on YouTube, funny thing is, they threatened us with a cease and desist for putting up that town hall while Nikki Haley still sat up there for six months.
00:14:08.000I think part of it is, Tim, it's not just that it's less spicy for less clicks.
00:14:13.000I think there's something deeper and more ideological definitely going on here that they believe it is their responsibility to make sure the public does not hear what, in this case, hear the facts of what happened, but even in other cases viewpoints that are alternative to their own.
00:14:26.000I do think that's an important part of what's going on at the highest levels of these organizations.
00:14:29.000Well this is the thing we don't know a lot of the facts.
00:14:32.000How many FBI agents played a role in what happened?
00:14:35.000How many undercover police officers or other federal agencies participated in this event?
00:15:00.000And I think we need a full investigation, not just of that event, but the entire FBI.
00:15:06.000From its inception, they have been doing illegal, horrible things to the American public.
00:15:11.000Lying, spying, destroying people's personal lives.
00:15:14.000Blackmailing individuals including MLK and more importantly when you look at what happened specifically in 2001 in New York City the FBI also played a major role in that incident that they were never held accountable for.
00:15:28.000We need a full investigation into the FBI.
00:15:30.000Would that be something that you would support?
00:15:32.000Yes, but I think I have Gain enough of an understanding of the FBI such that I can confidently say the correct answer is not to give them some new building or anything else.
00:15:42.000It is not to replace Christopher Wray, which is just a fake mirage.
00:15:46.000Get Christopher Wray out, you get James Comey 2.0.
00:15:50.000I'm convinced the right answer is to shut down the failed Bureau of Investigation, the FBI.
00:16:47.000One of them was actually supposedly getting hot water from a Mexican restaurant across the street.
00:16:51.000These are people who are not doing well in their life, who they've put up and cultivated with $5,000 credit cards with $5,000 limits to go buy munitions and otherwise, to initially what began as a plot to storm the Capitol, but eventually ended up being a plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer.
00:17:05.000A good number of the people who were captured here, like we're talking about a high proportion of them, were absolutely federal informants.
00:17:11.000And yet, the Detroit field office head, and they took that all the way to trial, several of the people at trial were acquitted on grounds of entrapment.
00:17:21.000One of the jurors at the end went to one of the defendants, just gave him a hug, and apologized for what he had been through, because the juror actually had to see what the FBI put these people up to.
00:17:47.000So there's a lot here that suggests, I mean, the D.C.
00:17:50.000pipe bomb story at the DNC and the RNC headquarters.
00:17:52.000Why haven't we heard the first thing about what we actually know, despite the existence of video footage about that?
00:17:58.000Careful coincidence of exactly when that pipe bomb at the RNC headquarters happened to have been discovered, with the timer on it down to the time where the actual vote was supposed to be cast for certifying the results of the election.
00:18:19.000I mean if you mean to tell me that I was living in Washington DC at the time a couple of blocks away from the White House when January 6th happened.
00:18:26.000It was a very bizarre day because we had an entire summer of people rioting.
00:18:35.000Every day there was a crazy protest, people storming buildings at all times.
00:18:39.000Suddenly, after the Summer of Love BLM, we were getting phone calls, people asking if we were okay after January 6th, when there wasn't any sounds outside of where I lived.
00:18:48.000If you mean to tell me that in Washington DC, where you can't walk two feet, it is the most surveilled building in the world, okay, that a couple of blocks away from the White House, they can't figure out where their, again, cameras on every single corner, every inch, Who got out of their car, placed pipe bombs at the RNC and the DNC headquarters and went away.
00:19:07.000And let me tell you how extensive their search was.
00:19:09.000This is something that people are not talking about because you're talking about people that stood trial.
00:19:12.000And of course, that's the most important people that are being locked up, people that have committed suicide.
00:19:16.000Let's not forget to talk about people that have killed themselves for fear of being locked up because they showed up to support the sitting president of the United States.
00:19:24.000I have two friends from Stanford, Connecticut, who showed up to hear Donald Trump speak and went home.
00:19:45.000They found a picture of them on Facebook with a MAGA flag.
00:19:49.000They heard Trump speak and they went home.
00:19:51.000And these people were questioned by the feds.
00:19:54.000So they had enough resources, right, to send them out and hunt down people that were posting pictures, but they can't find out who just tried to blow up headquarters in Washington, D.C.
00:20:06.000a couple of blocks away from the White House.
00:20:07.000And you want to know what the weirdest part about this is?
00:20:09.000And I'm just, as I go deeper, learning facts about this.
00:20:12.000Kamala Harris, the number two, for better or worse, to succeed the U.S.
00:20:17.000president, was at the DNC headquarters that morning.
00:20:22.000With all coming level of security there that understand then suddenly the randomly they just see it in a park bench later.
00:20:27.000So I think there's enough facts here to know the government has not been transparent with us.
00:20:32.000But furthermore, we know Capitol Police officer let him in.
00:20:34.000We know that the video footage was success was selectively released such that you did not see shooting rubber bullets and tear gas into the mostly peaceful crowd.
00:21:32.000And my question is, why, where was our commission?
00:21:36.000Where, where was the, I mean, the photos of that day?
00:21:41.000When I, you know, I go to family gatherings over the holidays and I show a photo of an aerial shot of DC, which many of you may have seen, smoke rising out all around the White House and the surrounding areas from fires that were being lit.
00:21:52.000The president was forced into an emergency bunker against his will, and the media made fun of him and called him Bunker Boy for having had to experience this.
00:22:00.000Donald Trump said, I went down, they showed me, and he clearly didn't want to be there.
00:22:04.000When law enforcement then cleared out the extremists who had laid siege to the White House, I'm being purposefully hyperbolic, you understand why.
00:22:12.000Donald Trump came out the next day and took a picture, and they attacked him and insulted him for having defended the White House and a church that was set on fire by an extremist faction.
00:22:22.000A faction so extreme, in fact, that similar groups and cells within the same ideology had seized several blocks in various cities.
00:22:31.000In Atlanta, in Seattle in their Capitol Hill occupation, and in Minnesota with George Floyd Square.
00:22:37.000Videos emerged out of, I believe it was Seattle, of armed groups walking around with AR-15s pointing them at drivers.
00:22:43.000People of a similar or same ideology, in fact many of these people do coordinate, engaged in insurrection.
00:22:48.000Now, of course, we can calm down and say a bunch of extremist activists riding in the streets, no insurrection.
00:23:30.000One thing, because I think there's two strands here.
00:23:32.000I think there's two different points of both that are interesting, but I think it's important not to mix them up because it might risk us missing the real plot here.
00:23:43.000One is, have we applied the different standard of rule of law throughout this country over the course of 2020?
00:23:50.000If you have a left-wing ideology that was mostly peaceful protest, you ignore it.
00:23:55.000glaring point and deserves to be called out.
00:23:58.000And I think that there can be no justice with two standards of the rule of law based on your political ideology.
00:24:04.000I think to be clear, what happened on January 6 was not some small joke.
00:24:08.000This was significant in terms of the number of people in terms of some of the video footage of the mainstream media picked out.
00:24:15.000But I think what's significant about it is we don't know what actually caused those people to act the way they did.
00:24:22.000Was it really the government instigating something that otherwise didn't exist, using it as a deflection to achieve a national security state's revival that had otherwise receded over the course of 20 years since the post 9-11 period?
00:24:34.000And so maybe I've just told you what I actually think is going on here.
00:24:37.000But that's what I think the facts suggest is there was A reason for these people to not only get Donald Trump out of office, but to discredit this, to relegate this line of thinking, the movement behind him, to the dustbins of history.
00:26:07.000So, I want to clarify some things because in the tweet that went, that started getting a lot of play, it's got half a million so far, it says, Chris Christie says Nikki Haley is quote, gonna get smoked and you and I both know it, she's not up to this.
00:26:20.000In regards to Trump, Christie says Ron DeSantis called him up petrified.
00:26:24.000Now what Christie says is, Ron called me petrified that I was gonna, or something like that, and then cuts off.
00:26:30.000Someone else that intervenes and says he's probably getting out after Iowa.
00:26:35.000I personally do not believe Ron drops out after Iowa, but I'm curious.
00:26:40.000Candace, you actually made a really good point about this if you want to.
00:26:43.000So when I was sitting down, and I think I actually said this on my podcast, but during the first Republican debates, the energy going into it was essentially that DeSantis was going to have to come out and say stuff against Vivek, obviously, because Vivek was having a surge in the polls.
00:26:58.000And interestingly enough, he didn't say anything to Vivek, but then suddenly Chris Christie just went like an attack dog.
00:28:07.000I think we're witnessing a deepfake in real time, and the deepfake is this.
00:28:11.000And the people who are the subjects to it, I think every one of the people who is a subject to it, for better or worse, is falling for the deepfake, which is that this system, The system has made a decision, the same one that they thought they were making back when Donald Trump was exiting office.
00:28:27.000OK, they didn't get it right that time around to make a decision that this man shall not be allowed anywhere near the White House again, period.
00:29:15.000The very people who are paying to keep Trump off the ballot in lawsuits, like Reid Hoffman, the founder of LinkedIn, or even Larry Fink, the king of the woke industrial complex, the leader of BlackRock.
00:29:31.000And so what they want to do, to put it in plain sight, is to make this a two-horse race between Donald Trump and a puppet who they can control.
00:29:52.000Every time we look at the polls or the news organizations, they keep telling us Nikki is surging, and it's so obvious if you speak to people that she's not.
00:30:00.000After every single debate, they're like, Nikki won, Nikki won.
00:30:03.000Even when it's so—she's not even third place in terms of who won, and they're trying to convince us.
00:30:08.000a full propaganda effort when it comes to Nikki Haley and you're right.
00:30:11.000I think the part they're falling for...
00:30:12.000It's pretty sinister what they're doing but the people I don't think are falling for it.
00:30:16.000The only part that I'm worried the people are falling for is some idea that this system is
00:30:20.000literally going to somehow stop short of literally stopping at nothing to keep Donald
00:30:26.000You think is it Trump or is it what he represents, the methodologies that he's using, like canceling the Trans-Pacific Partnership kind of isolationist mentality?
00:30:35.000I think the third rails there are definitely foreign policy.
00:30:38.000I think ending the war in Ukraine on the terms that either I or Trump have suggested definitely hits the third rail.
00:30:43.000I think the preservation of the national security state is a third rail.
00:30:56.000It's almost a convenient fact that Nikki Haley occasionally gets to say things that pay homage to the anti-woke movement.
00:31:01.000I don't think she has actual beliefs, but at least it's part of the cover.
00:31:05.000The real third rails are foreign policy.
00:31:07.000Keep the interventionist, neoliberal, neoconservative worldview of the U.S.
00:31:10.000as the hegemon that actually gets people to cut in on the rake here at home, the likes of the John Boltons and the Nikki Haley's.
00:31:16.000And then third rail is the national security state at home.
00:31:19.000But I think in Donald Trump's case, I think that they've convinced themselves that with this man in particular, he is so dangerous to the future, he's demonstrated himself to be, their words, you know, their view, not mine, that they have to and have a moral duty to this country.
00:31:35.000And when you believe you have a moral duty to do something, Then you're bound by your more subordinate moral constraints.
00:31:40.000Because there's the everyday moral norms you operate against.
00:31:42.000But if you think it's about the future existence of humanity or a nation, then those ordinary constraints no longer apply.
00:31:50.000And I think that's the mode this system is now in.
00:31:52.000Ordinary constraints are, okay, you let people on a ballot.
00:32:00.000And if they've ratcheted up each of those times and none of those things work, I just think eventually they're just going to stop at nothing, whatever it takes to take Trump out after they've narrowed it down to a two-horse race between Trump and Haley, which in turn is why I'm in this till the very end.
00:32:13.000And I think that we have a responsibility to this country To make sure that that plot doesn't play out.
00:32:21.000They're selling us the rope today that they'll use to hang us tomorrow.
00:32:26.000And I don't want people in our movement to fall for the other part of this, to somehow think that that actually isn't going to be successfully executed.
00:32:34.000This, uh, this hot mic moment where someone mutters Ron's probably getting out after Iowa.
00:32:40.000Let's imagine the scenario that Ron actually decides, for whatever happens in Iowa, his showing wasn't good enough and it's time to end this race.
00:32:46.000The worst possible thing imaginable would be you then leaving the race as well, because it would by default give us either Trump or Haley.
00:32:53.000And I'm definitely not, exactly, for that reason.
00:33:02.000I think we're going to shock the system, and the vibes on the ground are very good.
00:33:05.000But as part of the 50,000-foot view here, I actually think if you play this out intuitively, it feels like the next step in the game among the corporate candidates is Ron would make a good vice president for Nikki, right?
00:33:17.000Christy, out of the way, is one footnote today.
00:33:19.000All right, eliminate part of the consolidation in New Hampshire.
00:33:22.000Christy is not running for President of the United States ever.
00:33:24.000He was arguably running for, like, Vice President of New Hampshire.
00:33:26.000But anyway, once he exited, we'll actually combine that in to prop up Nikki a little bit more.
00:33:31.000The next thing is you take the Ron DeSantis.
00:33:33.000Ron DeSantis is not in New Hampshire so much, but in certain other states, Florida or otherwise.
00:33:37.000Turn that over, as well, to the anti-Trump movement.
00:34:47.000I'm not somebody who really, you know, rolls over or whatever.
00:34:50.000But what I've said is Donald Trump has my full support if he's the nominee.
00:34:53.000And I expect his full support if I'm the nominee.
00:34:57.000But I don't think we get to that place.
00:34:59.000That's the whole premise of, I mean, when you think it's Gavin Newsom or Joe Biden as the puppet, you think you might get to that place.
00:35:05.000I don't think they want Biden or Newsom.
00:35:07.000I think Nikki is a far more reliable pawn for the system with respect to the two things they care about most, which is keeping the foreign war machine humming far more reliable on places from the Middle East to Ukraine.
00:35:18.000She's far more hawkish than actually anybody in the Democratic side.
00:35:22.000And with respect to the national security state, I don't think Joe Biden could have come up with the idea if he tried to tie every social media account and internet account with a government-issued ID.
00:35:32.000I think where it goes is they want this laid in the primary, and then they get the air cover because the Democratic The party's brand isn't doing too hot.
00:35:39.000The permanent state is fundamentally nonpartisan at its core.
00:35:42.000So they get the air cover of saying, oh yeah, we weren't even doing the Democrat game where most of the Republican base watching cable news thinks it's about beating Biden, they're missing the plot.
00:35:53.000We were talking just the other day, there was a story, a JP Morgan top strategist, I'm sure you heard, said his prediction is that Joe Biden drops out just after Super Tuesday due to a health issue.
00:36:03.000I view that as a very, very good strategy for Democrats.
00:36:06.000I had been saying for some time that I believe Joe Biden will drop out.
00:36:46.000And also, they have this ailing Kamala Harris problem, because if anything other than Kamala Harris is the nominee, then they got the racist, misogynist thing going on, which undermines their own self-stated narrative.
00:36:57.000And I think just the brand of the Democratic Party for the Larry Finkster, the establishment puppet masters of the world, it's a little tarnished right now.
00:37:04.000We're going to do this within the Republican Party with a much more reliable vessel, with a little bit more of a polished exterior, a little bit more committed on the pro-war agenda, and a lot more committed on the censorship and national security agenda here at home.
00:37:16.000I think that actually gets their job done much better without some of the inconveniences that come with Biden.
00:37:21.000So like you, I was initially of the mind that, you know, who are they going to trot out instead of Biden?
00:37:27.000And nothing quite really, the shoe didn't really fit with any of them.
00:38:03.000We're still waiting on vetting and development.
00:38:05.000So by all means, anyone in the press who wants to doubt this story, feel free to do so.
00:38:09.000But I will put my reputation on the line and say I have reviewed the materials.
00:38:12.000It's more than just a boarding pass saying no name given.
00:38:15.000We've had our own employees at Timcast witness on these flights, doing these events, planes full of illegal immigrants carrying these bags with instructions.
00:38:27.000And it may be not just, we know the Biden administration has been facilitating much of this.
00:38:32.000We know this because back in 2021, there was a report about migrant children, illegal immigrant children being smuggled on flights in the late hours or the early hours of the morning into places like Tennessee and Westchester.
00:38:44.000And from those stories, and from the expansion of them, so we know that exists, we also know that yes, Greg Abbott and other governors have been sending illegal immigrants deeper into the country in various places.
00:38:56.000The question is, why is this happening?
00:39:01.000Why is it that when James O'Keefe, and this video, it's crazy, they follow a bus carrying these illegal immigrants, the bus tries to hit them, The bus tries fleeing and swerving through the road, going on and off exits, trying to lose them because journalists are following them, and then actually stops and does not release its passengers and then leaves again.
00:39:24.000Something about what they're doing has them scared.
00:39:27.000Someone will find out they're doing it.
00:39:29.000But I'll give you one quick story that happened to me personally.
00:40:19.000Did they lie to you, claiming it was the Blackhawks, because you would not have served that plane had you known you'd be facilitating illegal immigration?
00:40:29.000So my question now is, with all of this news breaking, and this is a massive story, I'm interested in your view on what's going on.
00:40:35.000I want to know how you plan to handle it, what you would do, and I also want to know your position on how do we handle the fact that there are federal law enforcement officers actually facilitating this?
00:40:45.000Yeah, well, I think it's, again, One of these, when it comes to the media, third rail issues, when you name what's going on, so forget the labels, Great Replacement Theory, whatever, just forget the labels.
00:41:00.000What's going on is, what's the most parsimonious explanation is, there is a facilitation of mass illegal migration into the United States to secure lasting electoral majorities for the Democratic Party.
00:41:13.000And the reason, you know, that's not a conspiracy theory is it is a pre-stated strategy of Democrats dating back to about 10 years ago.
00:41:20.000And it's not a surprise when you got Mallorca sitting by Joe Biden's side about 10 years ago, the guy who's actually running the Department of Homeland Security right now, who is in turn refusing to enforce the Remain in Mexico policies.
00:41:30.000Yes, that's exactly what's going on and hiding in plain sight.
00:41:34.000So now you have AOC coming in for cover in recent days, this was yesterday or the day before, saying that actually the right solution isn't building the wall, but to document the undocumented, which is the next step to them participating in those elections.
00:41:45.000And so it's, if somebody tells you this is what I'd like to do, Then they take actions consistent with achieving what they'd like to do, and then consummate it by actually doing that very thing, in changing the composition of the electorate and translating into who actually ends up voting in elections.
00:42:01.000You tend to believe that that's the most parsimonious explanation, not something else that we're otherwise struggling to figure out how to solve.
00:42:07.000Well, once we figured out how to solve that, we realized it's not a technical problem.
00:42:11.000I think, and sometimes it's what bothers me in a lot of the border discussions, is people get into some sort of, and I've done this too, I'll get into technical details.
00:42:18.000You know, do we need aquatic barriers in the Rio Grande?
00:42:22.000How should they be conforming the standards to the other people at the TSA, the thousands standing around, as I call them at the airport, or what are they doing?
00:42:57.000Most of the people coming through Mexico, 80% of them didn't start in Mexico, require each of those countries to build a border barricade all the way from Venezuela to the southern border of Texas.
00:43:07.000End birthright citizenship for kids of illegals.
00:43:10.000The 14th Amendment does not apply to the kids of illegals.
00:43:13.000I can go to the legal argument on this.
00:43:34.000Now, they say there's only 6,000 ICE agents, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents.
00:43:40.000Well again, if you read the law, there's a section in the law, I think it's 287G, or something like this, that allows ICE agents to serve their warrants via local law enforcement.
00:43:53.000You just need, again, somebody running, ideally the entire executive branch, a president who tells
00:43:57.000the Department of Homeland Security and ICE to use that authority to work with local law
00:44:01.000enforcement. Now you've got a million people, not just 6,000, to get the job done. So I gave you
00:44:06.000all of this as though the technical challenge was really the challenge. It's not. It's a challenge
00:44:10.000of intention. Right now there's been a long-standing intention to fundamentally change the composition
00:44:17.000If you call that a great replacement theory, CNN will have a conniption.
00:44:22.000If you say that, you know what, this is part of an electoral strategy, they would ask you what's so wrong with that.
00:44:27.000But either way, we've got to at least air what it actually is to be able to have a debate whether this is desirable policy or not.
00:44:33.000But if you say if you like it, and if you support people coming in and replacing the local population, you of course get promoted by the corporate media.
00:44:40.000There's crazy stats out there talking about how there's more illegals brought into the United States than actual babies born inside of this country.
00:44:47.000This is, to me, the weaponization of human trafficking, the introduction of the third world into the United States that's going to create a super elitist uber class and a poor poverty everyone else class.
00:44:59.000This is far beyond just even a great replacement.
00:45:01.000This is This is essentially the destruction of this country from within.
00:45:50.000The only thing I would say about that is, one is I do favor in substance, doing this as humanely and respectfully as possible in substance, largely because For many of these people, it's not necessarily their fault, right?
00:46:03.000If you're sitting in Honduras or wherever, and you got a U.S.
00:46:05.000president and an entire apparatus that's giving you a wink and a nod to come on over, who knows?
00:46:09.000Maybe if many of us were in their shoes, we would have done the same thing, especially if we're parents of children who want better lives for our children.
00:46:16.000So I just think it's the right thing to do for this country because we're a nation founded on the rule of law.
00:46:20.000That's not something that's necessarily hostile to... Most of those millions are not otherwise innately bad people, but these are people, regardless of whether they're good people or bad people, we're a nation founded on the rule of law.
00:46:32.000So I can't, with my level of sort of moral clarity on this, I can't be a father of two sons in the White House, tell them they have to follow the rules when I'm leading a U.S.
00:46:42.000government that actively isn't following its own rules.
00:46:44.000And so I think as respectfully and humanely as possible, we have to return them to the country of origin.
00:46:49.000But there's a philosophical point here, too, which is, I think once we fall into the trap as leaders of trying to make decisions based on how we fear they will be portrayed, Then we're done making the right decisions, and we're just down the road of actually dancing to what we think we're going to be portrayed as.
00:47:09.000Whereas I think the job of a good leader is to do what is right, and when the public does not agree with you, to persuade them of the fact that that was still the right thing to do.
00:47:19.000I do think the public are now very aware of the problem that's happening right now.
00:47:24.000I'm totally comfortable with mass deportations.
00:47:26.000I could definitely stomach watching mass deportations happen.
00:47:29.000I mean, we've been forced to stomach watching it happen the other way.
00:47:32.000I don't know if I'm broken on the inside, but I mean, reading these stories about people that can't afford groceries and yet are having to watch buses and schools emailing them saying, hey, don't come in today because we've decided to give the school that you've been funding for years with your tax dollars I feel bad for those people.
00:47:52.000I feel bad for the American people that are suffering at the gas pumps, suffering at the grocery stores and constantly being told by the left that you need to feel bad for someone else somewhere more than you feel bad for yourself.
00:48:05.000I think it's time for Americans to get a little bit more selfish in that regard and stop.
00:48:11.000I think we're suffering enough now that people are going Yeah, you gotta militarize the border.
00:48:14.000There should be, I mean this is, I don't hear this enough in the rhetoric, but there should be machine gun nests pointing outward away from our borders saying, and but then what you need is a leader at the top that's not waving people in because if they're waving people in, no, no, no machine gun nests.
00:48:26.000That's not, we're not going to do that.
00:48:28.000But if, I think that unless you tell them to stop coming, and I mean you do it with more than just your words, that it's not, the problem isn't going to stop.
00:48:36.000Well, I appreciate what I would describe as Ian's big ask.
00:48:39.000And now we're going to walk way back from machine gun nests on the border to, like, maybe a fence.
00:48:44.000It's not even that, you statist authoritarian.
00:48:48.000It's more about not incentivizing this from happening.
00:48:51.000I mean, giving our resource, giving our tax dollars is essentially telling a lot of people
00:48:57.000because I covered this situation on the ground in Mexico, I covered it in Europe, in southern
00:50:03.000They want you to believe nobody wants these jobs as they give them away and drop the prices.
00:50:08.000And I gotta say, it is these large multinational corporations that know they can pay people under the table dirt wages, and this is how they get cheap labor.
00:50:17.000I just want to say one thing to Ian's point from earlier.
00:50:20.000I think it's important to understand what's going on, like, on the ground in Southern Border.
00:50:25.000Have any of you guys been to Southern Border?
00:50:29.000So I think that that probably affects your view, Candice.
00:50:31.000It definitely affects mine, having been there.
00:50:35.000It's not like you have this situation where illegal migrants or whatever are trying to cross the Rio Grande, sneak across, get a sprint, and then do you shoot them or not?
00:51:22.000You know exactly go from point A to point B to point C.
00:51:25.000And so part of militarizing the southern border is the signal that we send, because that's the signal we're sending right now.
00:51:30.000Not only coming in, but then you show up to Sanctuary City, you get baby formula, you get sneakers, $7,000 per migrant per month, converting South Shore High School on the south side of Chicago into an encampment for migrants.
00:51:42.000So I think part of what we're doing is offering a clear statement.
00:51:45.000We end federal funding for sanctuary cities.
00:51:48.000You know in advance that if your child is born in the United States, they're not going to actually enjoy citizenship.
00:51:52.000Oh, there's a wall and a fence and people wearing camo because they serve in the U.S.
00:51:59.000I'll never have the military carrying out domestic law enforcement functions, but facing outward against what currently is an organized invasion into our country.
00:52:23.000If we believe, and we have a national consensus, and I believe we basically do, but the Democratic Party needs to align and admit it openly, that we do not want large numbers of illegal people entering this country, we absolutely and quickly can put an end to it as a technical matter.
00:52:37.000The problem is there's a statement of intention that not only is that not what much of the Democratic Party believes, that same wing actually believes it is inherently a good thing, and the question is how do you adopt policies that facilitating it, while pretending like you actually Wish for the opposite.
00:53:23.000And we need to be diligent or at least judicious about how we implement, I don't know if you want to call it prosecutorial or commandorial, you know.
00:53:31.000expression you get to pick and choose when you enforce when you enforce the
00:53:36.000law so like deportations I I'm still my jury's out on this one right now.
00:53:42.000It was for me for a while too but I think that's only yeah I look let me let me
00:53:47.000stress Getting people to turn on their neighbors and be like, I think he's illegal.
00:53:55.000I actually have a tremendous amount of respect for people who are willing to traverse miles through desert, dozens or hundreds or thousands of miles, because the dream of America is so incredible.
00:54:28.000They're coming in on flights from other countries dumping their IDs because they're being told to.
00:54:32.000She had three bags filled with their IDs.
00:54:35.000And then they handed these pamphlets from the UN, by the way, which was beyond bonkers.
00:54:40.000She showed me this pamphlet that was coming from the UN.
00:54:42.000And they're being told to do this to come into this country because they know that there are politicians that are setting up an entire system for them where their lives will be better.
00:55:22.000I mean, we, we got, I got three things of salami.
00:55:26.000I always love buying salami and cheese dip.
00:55:28.000A couple things of heavy whipping cream with our coffee, four grocery bags, it was 300 bucks.
00:55:32.000To be fair, we got some vitamins and some protein powder.
00:55:34.000I know those are a little more expensive, but I was surprised to see this little bit was so much.
00:55:38.000And I hear people say, why are, in Chicago particularly, when I went and visited home, they're paying these people rent, they're putting them in hotels, they're giving them our schools, they're getting a free pass from our tax dollars and I can't afford to pay rent?
00:56:43.000We don't get to go to Chicago every day, so we pick some on the way out.
00:56:45.000But, you know, it was interesting where it was a room full, you know, maybe like this one.
00:56:51.000A little bit different ethnic composition.
00:56:54.00095% black, 150% democrat, as they told me before you went.
00:56:57.000Maybe that's how they count their votes.
00:56:59.000But anyway, it was interesting, right?
00:57:02.000The first part of the exchange was contentious because some people came with some questions that were I think there were some people who had some real animus to me in that room.
00:57:09.000One woman, she asked me a question, walked straight out because she didn't like my answer on racial reparations.
00:57:14.000But actually, things changed pretty quickly when we got to the question of illegal mass migration, where they're literally converting the local high school into an encampment for migrants at a cost of $7,000 per migrant per month, when the people in that community, Americans, are asking the question, what about me?
00:57:36.000Why are we sending our money to Ukraine?
00:57:39.000Almost challenging me like I was a person who would, presumably because of being a Republican or whatever, believe that this was a good idea.
00:57:45.000And I explained that, no, no, no, this is actually a very bad idea.
00:57:49.000And we actually left with a lot of common ground on both of those issues, which is why I think it's actually very important not to see the America First movement through the prism of even the Republican Party.
00:57:59.000I mean, the Republican Party means Very little.
00:58:01.000It doesn't mean anything to be a Republican.
00:58:03.000It doesn't predict what you mean based on foreign policy.
00:58:06.000It doesn't predict what you think about free speech.
00:58:07.000It doesn't predict what you think about national security, state overreach.
00:58:41.000But I have to imagine if, you know, from where I grew up in Chicago, I've got my relatives talking about they're talking about building physical encampments, taking a whole area in the South Side and building a camp from scratch.
00:58:53.000I remember when I was 16, I got my first paycheck.
00:59:21.000And then at the same time, on the news, your tax dollars, $7,000 per person per month.
00:59:28.000We're talking about $84,000 a year for free to people who are not from this country, who have not worked for this country, and you, hard-working young man, have a third of your income taken by the government to give to them.
00:59:40.000And maybe it's because we have a $34 trillion national surplus to spend on this.
00:59:48.000And so anyway, I do think that the silver lining in this is that the more we kind of talk about this through classical Republican versus Democrat, you know, fire Biden kind of mentality stuff, which is super boring and not the right way to look at this election.
01:00:02.000I think the more we're going to fall into the trap of getting another 50.1 election.
01:00:04.000We're playing tug-of-war and MSNBC's trotting out the winner six days after the ballots are cast.
01:00:10.000That's not the direction we need to go.
01:00:11.000I think there is a movement that transcends partisan and racial boundaries.
01:00:15.000I think it translates, it transcends national boundaries right now, too, in many ways what you see in certain other countries.
01:00:20.000But in this country, I can get 75-80% of this country agreeing on many of the things we're talking about right here.
01:00:27.000Day one, what do you begin doing to help alleviate the stress on the economy and the average person to help them increase their standard of living and better the economy?
01:00:36.000Yeah, look, I think that there's some very basic things to do.
01:00:39.000One is the easiest thing you could do to alleviate both the national debt and the economy at the same time.
01:00:45.000There's a lot behind this, but I'll just get to the punchline.
01:00:48.000Get the oil and natural gas out from underneath our ground.
01:01:22.000That is, of every four people there, three of them will be gone.
01:01:25.000Definitely by the end of the first term, and preferably sooner.
01:01:29.000And problem is, when you've got a bunch of those people showing up to work who should have never had that job in the first place, they start finding new things to do.
01:01:35.000A lot of them is writing regulations that Congress never authorized, which is acting like the wet blanket on the economy.
01:01:41.000And my first action as it relates to the regulatory state is, Any law that Congress didn't actually pass or specifically instruct an agency to write a regulation for, it's my view and the current Supreme Court's view that it's unconstitutional.
01:01:55.000Rescind all of them and state on day one we're stopping enforcement of those regulations and view them as null and void.
01:03:05.000It's like it costs too much money to make the fuel.
01:03:07.000They figured out you take any carbon trash, you hit it with a laser called flash joule heating, 7,000 degrees for 0.1 milliseconds.
01:03:15.000And it turns it into, you can get hydrogen and graphene as a byproduct, which you can use as a building material to build houses, build roads, to enforce your roads by making them three times stronger.
01:03:25.000It's 200 times stronger than steel by weight, this material, pure carbon.
01:03:29.000And for every kilogram of hydrogen you produce with this process, you get about $4.50 of graphene.
01:03:35.000Now, as esoteric as that may be for many people, the core fans of the show have heard it a million times.
01:03:37.000would displace, technically a hydrogen economy might displace the oil, you can
01:03:41.000turn the oil into graphene so we can keep pumping it and we can keep selling
01:03:44.000it. Now as esoteric as that may be for many people, the core fans of the show
01:03:49.000have heard it a million times, I think the actual simple message though is
01:04:56.000No, when Millet was pulling things off the wall yelling afuera.
01:05:02.000I've said this many times, if I have not made Javier Millet look like a moderate, by the end of my first three months I haven't done my job.
01:05:09.000So I like the guy, I've actually been following him for a long time.
01:05:14.000Yeah, I think that's one of the things that got me excited about you, just as a candidate.
01:05:18.000It was just, it's remarkable to me that we have all of these people that are running and they make it seem like being America first is something that's dirty, like it's something that's wrong.
01:05:26.000And I just could not get over all of them parroting this point that we could do both.
01:05:46.000I mean this country has been in a steep decline and a large part of it is because what ends up happening is what we saw on that stage and what we've seen Just throughout this entire election process is just people are bought and paid for Right and and the people that they tend to sell out are always the American people We're told that we have to feel bad.
01:06:03.000We have to put ourselves last it's always an American last perspective And so it's just been exciting to have you get up there on the stage and everywhere that you've been going and you've been doing so many podcasts without question I think Everyone can agree that you have been the hardest working candidate this election cycle.
01:06:20.000Just the work ethic is so impressive and you're young and I'm a mother of three and so it was something that was very important to me and I'm just kind of showering you with the compliments here, obviously, but that is something that's very scary for me because when we talk about even the process of illegal immigration you think about as a parent.
01:06:37.000This is also going to become issues down the line when we talk about the violence that is going to be imparted in inner cities.
01:06:58.000And I just think a lot of the candidates are not willing to talk about these issues in a way that I think most of the candidates are really reading scripts provided to them by their super PACs or the people who fund them.
01:07:15.000I mean, I think that's effectively what American politics has become.
01:07:20.000And I think you've got to be willing to say, I mean, it's sad the system works this way, but we've put, our families put over $25 million, close to $30 million into this campaign.
01:07:31.000That's what it takes to run presidential elections.
01:07:34.000Even still, it's hard to compete against the super PAC industrial complex where the amount of money being spent on television advertisements by the like of Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis, but it's not really them.
01:07:44.000That's the real cancer on American politics.
01:07:47.000And the Super PAC's culture selects for candidates that just make them vessels for advancing what that Super PAC industrial complex wants to advance.
01:07:56.000And so one of the things I think, again, this is an opportunity to go beyond traditional partisan boundaries, building towards a Reagan 1980-style landslide.
01:08:05.000You got the southern border in that category.
01:08:08.000I think we should be favoring ending Super PACs.
01:08:10.000Not by violating any First Amendment rights, but by just saying that You know what?
01:08:14.000If there's a $3,300 maximum that you can give to a campaign, that's what it is in the GOP primary.
01:08:20.000That's a lot of money, but it's not enough to corrupt a politician who's running for president.
01:08:24.000If there's a super PAC that's donating to presidential candidates, if you're donating to that super PAC, you should also be capped out at $3,300 per person.
01:08:33.000I don't think that that's too much to ask.
01:08:36.000This used to be a left-wing idea, actually.
01:08:38.000I think that right now we're at a place where the Republican Party absolutely can and should embrace it.
01:08:43.000I think it'll be wildly popular, and again, part of building towards an 80-plus percent electoral majority, minus some shenanigans, is still a decisive landslide victory.
01:08:53.000But anyway, I think that's what's going on is you kind of have candidates, when you start to think that they're actually advancing their own convictions, we're kind of missing the point.
01:09:02.000They're vessels for advancing what the donors really want to wield them to actually stand for.
01:09:07.000There's this issue in Iowa right now, actually, which is super interesting.
01:09:11.000I was actually at an event at the state capitol earlier today.
01:09:14.000It sounds like an esoteric issue maybe, but it's not really because it affects every American.
01:09:19.000They're building a carbon dioxide capture pipeline across this state that we're in right now.
01:09:24.000They make a lot of ethanol in this state, they say capture carbon dioxide.
01:09:27.000Build a pipeline across the state and then bury it in the ground in North Dakota.
01:09:32.000No one really knows why other than the fact that our federal government's providing subsidies in the name of fighting climate change because carbon dioxide is a bad actor.
01:09:42.000So this idea of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere being some sort of worthy goal, I could go on for a full day about why that's based on a false premise.
01:09:50.000But we're using our own taxpayer money to pay people in the state.
01:09:53.000There's a business, a couple of businesses, that are now using eminent domain to seize the land of farmers here, rights to use their land, when most Iowa farmers who I've met do not like that being built across their backyard.
01:10:07.000So I could go a little bit longer on this, but the point I'm bringing it up is not a single other Republican candidate Not a single one has expressed opposition to this carbon capture pipeline.
01:10:19.000Because the most powerful people, at least in this state, as it relates to the Republican donor establishment, do not permit you to oppose the carbon capture pipeline.
01:10:27.000And so again, it comes back to that mega money in politics.
01:10:30.000Could we go a little bit deeper here, because you mentioned the Federal Reserve just a little bit, and this is an institution created in 1913 that's a quasi-private cartel, parading around like it's some kind of private bank, when it's essentially not.
01:10:43.000Thomas Jefferson said that he believes banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies, with their corporate bailouts, with the inflation, which is essentially a tax on the poor, a theft of resources from the poorest people in this country, and the Fed, yes or no?
01:10:59.000I would like to, but that requires legislation.
01:11:02.000I make promises that I will keep as your next president.
01:11:05.000And here's the promise I'll keep with respect to the Fed is a 90% headcount reduction at the U.S.
01:11:10.000Fed combined with restoring effectively a single mandate, one purpose, peg the dollar to commodities, stabilize the dollar as a unit of measurement.
01:11:20.000It should be just a basic function of arithmetic and nothing more.
01:11:23.000And again, part of the problem is you've got those 23,000 people or so at the U.S.
01:11:26.000Federal Reserve now that we don't need to do that narrow function of pegging the dollar to commodities.
01:11:33.000That's where the central bank digital currency comes from.
01:11:35.000That's where a lot of these other, the CBDC, which is a backdoor way of ensuring a government surveillance system of being able to wipe you out for doing something the government didn't approve of.
01:11:44.000That's how you get to raining money from on high like mana from heaven in the aim of balancing inflation and unemployment.
01:11:49.000It's like the equivalent of hitting two targets with one arrow and missing at both.
01:11:52.000So hopefully that answers your question.
01:11:54.000We'll dive a little bit into that because one of the big stories today is that the SEC has approved Bitcoin ETFs.
01:12:02.000And there's a lot of people who are concerned about a lot of people cheering it on.
01:12:05.000But this brings us to the acceptance of the US government as it pertains to crypto and the fear that they're going to push central bank digital currency, also known as CBDC.
01:12:15.000Could you explain to people what that is and your position on CBDC?
01:12:28.000I think greater decentralization at least as an option that's available to hold the dollar to its feet as an alternative to opt out from that system is a good thing.
01:12:37.000There's probably a lot of people who don't know what central bank digital currency even is.
01:12:41.000So I was going to segregate the issue of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency away from the central bank digital currency, which the easiest way to think about this would be Turning your dollar into effectively a digital asset that's centrally monitorable.
01:12:56.000We could use, you know, talk about which way they would use the blockchain or not.
01:13:00.000The simple way to think about it is take the cash in your pocket and convert that into the equivalent of like tokens you'd get in a digital video game.
01:13:11.000And they can either up or down the number of points you have, which are dollars in your bank account, not based on what you deposit or take in or take out, but based on whatever the government actually decides is the criteria for increasing or decreasing what's in your bank account.
01:13:27.000In fact, that's one of the principal arguments for bringing it to the United States, is that China is adopting a digital yuan, as an equivalent of a central bank digital currency in China.
01:13:37.000Now, we have to ask ourselves, why is China doing it?
01:13:39.000The general argument in the UK, which is moving in this direction, and the US, which is taking the earliest of steps to move in this direction through the so-called FedNow program.
01:13:49.000The argument is we have to keep up technologically with China, keep up with the Joneses or keep up with the Jinping's, as the case may be here, right?
01:13:56.000You have to ask yourself, why is China doing it?
01:13:59.000They want to actually be able to exert monitoring and control and discipline of their own citizens.
01:14:04.000It's the ultimate manifestation of a social credit system.
01:14:08.000So that's what this is about in China.
01:14:11.000It wasn't exactly through a central bank digital currency per se.
01:14:14.000But to at least understand the impact it can have on your life, look at what they did to the Canadian truckers.
01:14:19.000They cut off access to their bank accounts.
01:14:21.000They cut off access to their Canadian dollars when they took a position against vaccine mandates and a position against lockdowns that they couldn't address through any means other than through using the weaponization of the financial system to do it.
01:14:33.000So if we bring that central bank digital currency to the United States, It offers another tool for what would be otherwise a tyrannical permanent government to be able to more effectively implement its will.
01:14:45.000To be clear, and some people fall into this trap of thinking that just because we eliminate the tool, we've eliminated the intention.
01:14:52.000But that doesn't mean that you still give them the same tool that would allow them to more quickly implement what they already are looking to in other ways.
01:14:59.000I'd like to elaborate on why this would be so nightmarish.
01:15:02.000We're talking eight or so years ago, ten years ago, we started seeing the rise of social media censorship.
01:15:10.000If you tweeted something that was against the popular narrative, you'd get suspended.
01:15:14.000Many of us were called conspiracy theorists for arguing what was actually happening.
01:15:19.000In fact, it was reported by, I believe it was Gizmodo first in May of 2016, that Facebook had staff removing conservative news outlets from their trending tab.
01:15:39.000One day you wake up and you go to the grocery store and you're using your app because that's what the central bank digital currency will be forced to be on your phone.
01:15:47.000And you'll walk up, you'll put your milk on the self-checkout because there's no humans anymore.
01:15:51.000You'll scan your phone and it'll say you have been banned from purchasing for 24 hours due to hate speech.
01:15:58.000Or docked a certain number of dollars.
01:15:59.000By the way, just going back to just bringing up COVID and the things that we saw throughout COVID, that was one of my major concerns that I spoke about.
01:16:06.000Just the digitization of everything that was happening at that time.
01:16:09.000Suddenly, like, they were trying to say your menus could have, potentially have COVID.
01:16:13.000They kept saying that dollar bills, this was, do you remember this in the news?
01:16:16.000Dollar bills could spread COVID and suddenly they didn't want any more dollar bills, were no longer accepting cash.
01:16:21.000So many restaurants, grocery stores, no longer accepting cash because it could potentially spread COVID, which was an absurdity in my mind, an absolute absurdity.
01:16:30.000But a lot of these things are now long lasting, right?
01:16:32.000In terms of the fact that there's not that many human beings.
01:16:35.000I don't know if it's the same where you live, but not that many human beings at the grocery store anymore.
01:16:38.000They kept up the things after COVID that they said were just for COVID.
01:16:43.000And I felt that it was very much because they did want us to move in this direction as a society.
01:16:49.000And I just want to play that one step forward to tie earlier to one of an increasingly,
01:16:53.000what looks like a Republican policy of, certainly of a certain candidate, of tying
01:17:00.000your government issued ID to your internet account or your social media account.
01:17:04.000So now combine that with the central bank digital currency.
01:17:06.000Now you don't have to tie it to just milk in the grocery store.
01:17:08.000Every time you hit like on a tweet that does not match the regime's approved narrative, we could dock you 50 cents.
01:17:16.000If you hit retweet, you actually dock you a dollar.
01:17:18.000And so, Jack Smith, I just want to tie this together, right?
01:17:21.000Right now in the subpoena for one of the federal cases against Donald Trump, there's so many of them you lose track, but it's one of the Jack Smith federal prosecutions.
01:17:30.000In that subpoena, I think it's worth people understanding, it certainly affects people who are watching us right now, might affect some of us in this room, maybe some of us at this table, I don't know.
01:17:37.000Not me because I wasn't using Twitter back then, but if you retweeted or liked one of Donald Trump's posts in that year, That's now the subject of Jack Smith's subpoena.
01:18:13.000That would be something, that would be an attempted coup by global enforcement powers that we cannot allow to happen.
01:18:19.000They can already freeze your bank accounts when you're under investigation, say you worked for a company and then all of a sudden one day you can't buy things.
01:18:28.000With the central bank digital currency, it goes so far beyond that.
01:18:34.000It's to where it won't even be a judge saying, I think there's probable cause to freeze his account.
01:18:38.000It's going to be a machine saying, your account is frozen and good luck.
01:18:42.000Imagine having to go to the DMV every time you needed to get your bank unbanned.
01:18:46.000And this is the, tell me if this is like too abstract and we can sort of bring it back, but it's a pattern that repeats itself in so many different places where, right now you're right, they can freeze your bank account even as it exists today.
01:18:59.000But it takes something that requires the government to take a quantum step, right?
01:19:04.000You have to have a preponderance of evidence that's 50.1% chance of actually having done it.
01:19:10.000And then to actually convict somebody, you have to be beyond a reasonable doubt that's 99.999%, 100% certainty.
01:19:13.000So you have to take these quantum steps of certainty.
01:19:18.000What the central bank digital currency does is it takes this system that ties a quantum level of certainty and just makes it continuously varying, right?
01:19:26.000So it's not like Jack Smith is going to say that he's going to wipe out your entire bank account and freeze your entire bank account.
01:19:31.000The way this would work is I'm just going to dock you by 50 cents.
01:19:34.000Like, I think that's actually the thing to see is it wouldn't be, if we're using the analogy, Tim, I think it would be less that we're not going to allow you to buy the milk at all.
01:19:43.000It's going to be that instead of having $100, you now have $99.
01:19:48.000So it's designed to change behaviors at the margin, and that's really where this is different from the current status quo, where they technically could also freeze your bank account entirely, couldn't buy any milk.
01:19:58.000It's that you like to post we didn't quite like.
01:20:00.000We see that because of your government issued ID tied to your social media profile.
01:20:05.000It's not like we need to go to the court system for that.
01:20:07.000It's not like you've done something criminal, but we're just going to dock you a little bit with a little so-called nudge in the right direction.
01:20:13.000That's actually what's actually far more frightening.
01:20:15.000But there's so much more here too, we can't even begin to imagine.
01:20:21.000Meaning, let's say there is a political rally happening in DC, and the president says we're going to have a rally.
01:20:28.000So then anybody who attends that rally, their ability to transact is shut off.
01:20:33.000Within 50 miles, and just these individuals.
01:20:36.000All of a sudden you can't buy train tickets, you can't buy milk, you can't buy pizza, you can't go to the McDonald's to buy food.
01:20:41.000And for anybody who thinks that's a ridiculous example, I believe it's Bank of America that handed over records for anybody who was in Washington D.C.
01:20:46.000on January 6, 2021 to Jack Smith, which is exactly not that far from what you're describing today.
01:20:53.000So, but I think it's worth, I think for the people, there's a lot of people in New Hampshire that fit this category when I'm campaigning there, who come up and ask, like it'll be the first question they ask at a town hall is like, tell me about your position on CBDC.
01:21:04.000I share why I think it's a risk, but I think it's important not to fall in the trap of thinking just because we've stopped that, you still have a government that can do a lot of these things to you.
01:21:12.000It's just that it becomes a lot easier for the government to do these things to you when they can do it in small increments rather than Bank of America having to hand it over to a prosecutor who needed to go through probable cause.
01:21:23.000A lot of this can just be done much more easily.
01:21:25.000So even as we put the kibosh on the CBDC, and I will, and that's easy.
01:22:03.000Ohio House of Representatives overrides veto of bill banning gender-affirming care.
01:22:10.000So one of the big cultural issues, of course, is the issue around transgender youth, transgender ideology, gender ideology as it pertains to sports.
01:22:18.000And of course, one of the truths that you have listed is that there are two genders.
01:22:22.000So, many of us were shocked to see that in Ohio, despite the fact that the House passed this bill saying no to child sex changes, the governor tried to veto that.
01:22:33.000I'm curious your position on this, if you'd like to elaborate and break it down.
01:22:37.000It happens to be my home state, actually.
01:22:39.000Born, raised, and live in Ohio now as well.
01:22:41.000So I was disappointed but not shocked, is how I would characterize it, based on the governor that we now have in Ohio.
01:22:47.000I actually spoke to the Lieutenant Governor, sort of a what-the-heck call, who I actually have a good relationship with, and it turned out that he's also against the position the Governor took.
01:22:57.000And so the Governor of Ohio is, you know, he's like the equivalent of, you know, he's like the Chris Sununu's, the Nikki Haley's, the, you know, Chris Christie's, you could say, of the world.
01:23:07.000DeWine, the governor of Ohio, just falls into that category.
01:23:09.000I mean, there's a brand of people who put a nice little R after their name, but aren't really thinking according to clear principles.
01:23:18.000I think in this case, what my understanding was, and I haven't talked to the governor, but I've talked to a lot of people who are familiar with the situation, is a lot of people are making good money.
01:23:26.000off of some of this gender conversion stuff and sold a myth that somehow this is going to cause suicides amongst kids and you're going to have blood on your hands and so what ended up happening was they just got him to veto it.
01:23:40.000I do want to get into your position but I want to address what you just said about the myth of the suicide and I'll use the numbers that are widely accepted.
01:23:47.000There's something referred to as desistance.
01:24:02.000Who says that they're trans and experiences symptoms of gender dysphoria, but without any transition, eventually grows out of it.
01:24:08.000Typically this happens around puberty.
01:24:10.000The accepted rates are between 65 and 95% of young children who experience gender dysphoria will grow out of it, and they call this desistance.
01:24:19.000That means, if we give the most benefit of the doubt we could to the gender ideology argument, 65, around 65% of children will desist.
01:24:30.000Their argument, however, is it's life-saving to transition these children, but suicide rates could be as high as 48%.
01:24:39.000This means that you are increasing the likelihood of suicide by transitioning a child.
01:24:45.000If there is a 2 to 1 chance the child will desist, do not transition them and then give them a 50% chance of suicide.
01:24:52.000Yes, it is a fact that suicide rates go up after they transition.
01:24:56.000I cover this extensively on my podcast.
01:24:57.000I've had de-transitioners on my podcast, people that have gone through with the procedure.
01:25:02.000You know, got the bottom surgery, as they call it, and then woke up one day and realized their entire lives were a lie.
01:25:07.000And to hear those stories, I mean, it's incredible.
01:25:10.000It's a true evil and it is being backed by Big Pharma.
01:25:13.000There is a lot of money, obviously, with these procedures, the drugs, the puberty blockers that they're putting them on, Lupron.
01:25:18.000And it's a part of a larger problem, something that I'm obviously very passionate about in terms of people not being educated and being sold lies and then going through a very radical route via Big Pharma to earn money.
01:25:31.000I don't know how far you want to go with this because I see a link to transhumanism.
01:25:55.000Fertility is being directly attacked by a lot of forces outside of us.
01:25:59.000How can we address a larger, what I see clearly, a depopulation agenda that has clearly been put in play and being used against us right now?
01:26:09.000To wrap it all together, I suppose, as president, what could you do to address these issues around gender ideology and even a decline in fertility?
01:26:18.000Oh, so those are, I think there's a couple different issues.
01:26:21.000I mean, gender ideology, a lot of this is being foisted through the Department of Education, right?
01:26:24.000So the Department of Education actually uses the federal money as a noose to get local schools to adopt ideologies that the Department of Education decides are the acceptable ones.
01:26:35.000Keep in mind, the origin of the Department of Education, people sometimes forget, was to prevent southern schools in southern states from siphoning money away from predominantly black school districts to white ones, but it's come somehow That institution has taken on its purpose to force these radical gender and in some cases racial ideologies also onto local schools.
01:26:54.000So as it relates to the schools and the ideology piece of it, a lot of this is the head of the snake, the Department of Education.
01:26:58.000A lot of it violates existing civil rights laws and otherwise.
01:27:02.000So enforcing the laws in the books combined with actually shutting down the Department of Education is a pretty good start.
01:27:08.000Now as it relates to what I see as an appropriate place for a federal, you could talk about how Reagan did it using, you could talk about technically using, how do we get set the drinking age at 21?
01:27:19.000It was a 1984 law that effectively says you don't get highway funds unless you adopt this particular set of laws that set the drinking age at 21.
01:27:26.000But forgetting about the legal mechanics and just as a matter of policy what we want in this country.
01:27:32.000If you're not 18 years old, you should not be getting any chemical castration or genital mutilation just as you
01:27:40.000can't get a tattoo just as you can't have an addictive drink of alcohol.
01:27:44.000In some eye views we do live in a free country.
01:27:46.000If you're an adult, a fully grown adult, you're free to dress how you want.
01:27:50.000You're free how to identify how you want as long as you're not harming anybody else.
01:27:54.000Don't expect us to change the way we compete in women's sports.
01:27:56.000Don't expect to change the way we label our bathrooms, to change our language.
01:27:59.000But if you want to live your life the way you want, as long as you're not hurting somebody else with a presumptive expectation that the rest of society bends to your delusion, you're free to do so.
01:28:11.000And so I think protecting children is a policy position we've already well accepted in this country.
01:28:16.000And so the same logic and the same mechanism we use to prevent you from drinking by the age of 21, that we prevent you from getting a tattoo by the age of 18, you should not be undergoing genital mutilation or chemical castration as a minor in this country.
01:28:27.000And I think there's a pretty broad consensus around that.
01:28:29.000And I want to add to this, I think it's interesting because when it comes to the issue of drinking, you can have a drink at the age of 21 and be fine.
01:28:36.000You can have a drink at the age of 31 and be fine.
01:29:11.000So instead of adopting the gender ideology and taking testosterone, when she went to the doctor and got her hormones checked, it turns out that she did have a hormone imbalance, so they prescribed her female hormones.
01:29:23.000She said almost instantly, gender dysphoria disappeared, and she was in alignment with her own body.
01:29:29.000And so my concern is, if someone like that were to undergo a surgery and then regret it later, I'm not going to pretend to know what a doctor- Can I just say one word about this guy?
01:29:38.000I don't know this person or this individual.
01:29:40.000But there is a really small number of... So I say there are two genders, and it's a clear point.
01:29:47.000There is a small number of people in the general population who have chromosomal abnormalities.
01:29:52.000So we have, you know, what, 23 pairs of chromosomes.
01:30:16.000We're talking about one in thousands at a much lower rate.
01:30:20.000So in those particular cases, yes, those are instances of what you will call intersex, which is a different phenomenon than trans.
01:30:29.000But what's happened is, let's take those rare cases to one side, and I don't know if this person you had here had such a thing or not, I would have said, not just go check your hormones, go actually get a genetic test and actually understand.
01:30:41.000Are you one of the rare people with one of these chromosomal abnormalities?
01:30:58.000For the rest of people, transgenderism, the belief that your gender does not match your biological sex, that if you're XX but you believe you're a man, it is a mental health disorder.
01:31:10.000And it needs to be treated as a mental health disorder through mental health care, which often isn't covered by private health insurance.
01:31:15.000A lot of this is through pharmaceutical intervention.
01:31:17.000They prefer pill-pushing behaviors as an alternative.
01:31:20.000Or people who run surgery centers prefer surgery, peddling surgery as an alternative.
01:31:26.000And once we see it that way, we realize the compassionate thing to do is from a standpoint, because I think we've gotten put into this box of being somehow antipathic because of adopting this set of views that I think seems like most of us share.
01:31:39.000I don't think the compassionate thing to do for that kid is to affirm that kid's confusion.
01:32:06.000But there are many people that I speak with who are liberal or Democrat that get offended when I point out the fact that it is listed in the DSM-5 as a mental health disorder.
01:32:14.000And my argument is, there's another mental health disorder called PICA.
01:32:23.000We try to help these people, because I agree with you, as you said, to tell someone eating pennies is something they should do is cruelty to them.
01:32:32.000See, I think that one of the things I would say, if I was talking to someone on the left on this who finds that offensive, is, isn't that really stigmatizing mental health disorder?
01:32:41.000To say that you consider it so offensive to have a mental health disorder, that that should trigger the fact that you have a mental health condition.
01:32:50.000To say that that's in such a category, that it is so offensive that you said such a thing about me, I think the compassionate thing to do is actually recognize that there are many Americans who go through a lot, especially now more than even 30, 40 years ago.
01:33:00.000Social media and otherwise playing the loss of purpose, the loss of faith.
01:33:16.000Bring back mental health institutions.
01:33:17.000Address the violent wave of violent crime across this country.
01:33:21.000But we're not able to talk about that because now what you've actually done is abandon your left-wing, crony, quasi-compassionate instinct or supposedly compassionate instincts to actually just say, we're demonizing you because you have a mental health condition as opposed to saying, that's the truth of what's happening here.
01:33:37.000That's what I find odd about that left-wing reaction.
01:33:39.000The explosion of transgenderism, though, what we've seen over the last ten years, I would say, is definitely—these people are not being born with a mental disorder.
01:33:47.000What's happening is they are being given a mental disorder.
01:33:50.000It's almost like a Munchausen by proxy, societal Munchausen by proxy, where you have teachers that are conditioning them, you have parents on the internet that want to be seen as accepting, and they're training their children.
01:34:02.000And the way you know that's true, Candice, is actually you look at, in COVID-19, they would talk about this coefficient, R-squared, whatever fancy way of saying how fast a virus spreads from person to person.
01:34:17.000And a given school where a kid starts to identify as a gender different than their biological sex is arguably far greater than it was for COVID-19.
01:34:35.000But as we're setting up the event, Of course.
01:34:37.000The events team over at TimCast was like, we're gonna ask people to submit questions, and then we'll get them to ask the questions, and I said, I don't think Vivek wants to do that.
01:34:45.000I think we should just grab random people and let them ask their questions.
01:37:16.000Number two relates specifically, this one doesn't require Congress.
01:37:19.000I'm going to do it in my capacity as Commander-in-Chief for our U.S.
01:37:22.000military, especially for you as someone who served.
01:37:25.000That's why I'm adding this extra element to this.
01:37:27.000Anybody who lost their job in the U.S.
01:37:30.000military for making what for many of those young men is obviously the right choice, young men and women alike, is that you will have your position restored with full back pay times one and a half.
01:37:43.000That's something I'm committed to do as the next president of the United States as well.
01:37:47.000And make sure something like this never happens again.
01:37:50.000So those are two examples of tangible things I'll be able to deliver you.
01:37:52.000And I'd like to give the obligatory for our friends over at YouTube.
01:37:56.000Make sure you talk to a trusted medical health professional and not podcasters about how to take care of your health needs.
01:38:47.000It's the most important work that I do and to know that these injuries, people getting sick, the seizures, the autoimmune diseases that we're seeing today, it is all related to the vaccines that they're giving children and it is directly related to the lobbying.
01:39:00.000We've got more Big Pharma lobbyists than we do Have Congress members in D.C.
01:39:07.000But if you are a parent or if you are just a person that is not educated about vaccines, I created an entire series on it called A Shot in the Dark.
01:39:15.000And as I said, we only use above the board because I am not a doctor.
01:39:22.000I don't vaccinate any of my children, as people know.
01:39:25.000But it's get educated, you know, be informed before you before you jump into getting vaccines.
01:39:31.000You should understand what the risks are.
01:39:32.000Yeah, Bill Gates definitely knows what's right for him.
01:39:34.000Right, and I want to stress this point too, because a lot of people have also responded to us when we've said, you know, find a medical professional you trust.
01:39:39.000Hey, if you go to a doctor, and they're a bad doctor, and they're not giving you good advice, you got a bad doctor.
01:39:43.000Same is true for any plumber or carpenter.
01:39:45.000There are good doctors out there that can tell you what you need to know, and I recommend you find them.
01:39:49.000It's very empowering to question your doctor.
01:39:51.000The first time you do it, you realize they're just people, and they'll answer your question.
01:41:14.000I think technically I have known Vivek longer than anybody here.
01:41:20.000I followed this guy, I saw him on CNBC, and something told me, you know how we used to say back when we were kids, something told me to follow this dude.
01:41:27.000I liked what you said, it wasn't about politics, and ever since then I've been following you, long since you... Woking Book Tour, I think it was.
01:41:36.000Yes, and you signed that Woke When Vivek announced, I want to say March, February, he had a 0.1% name recognition.
01:43:08.000My decision today to endorse Vivek wasn't anything about Governor DeSantis, but rather his message has resonated with me.
01:43:17.000We are having an identity crisis in this country because of the relentless attacks on our national identity by the left and by the mainstream media.
01:43:26.000This is a 1776 moment, and as a United States Marine who fought for this country for 20 years, I'm not going to miss that moment, and I'm proud to be supporting it.
01:43:56.000I'm in my sixth year as a legislature, and it's just very exciting to be a part of the caucus process and influence the national debate here.
01:45:00.000The same is true of the overarching focus on what are called Judeo-Christian values
01:45:04.000time and time again and have me as a traditionalist wondering when the other shoe will drop for
01:45:10.000me and my loved ones who are not religious yet share the same values from a secular viewpoint.
01:45:15.000I know that your first truth is that God is real, and although I respectfully disagree with that solitary point, I would earnestly like to know if you think it's possible for families with a focus in secular humanism to have a similarly positive experience in religious education.
01:45:59.000And I think that there was a lot of thoughtfulness in that question because, yes, I was the lone Hindu student in a Catholic high school in Cincinnati, Ohio, and I did take a lot away from that religious education, despite not converting to Catholicism at the end of it.
01:46:16.000And so, my core belief system is that there's one true God.
01:47:09.000If I, as a Hindu, can certainly find common purpose with those shared values, and I do, and I think those are Judeo-Christian values, I think this nation was, as a historical fact, founded on Judeo-Christian values, then I believe somebody who has a Kantian worldview, or pick your favorite secular ordering, can also find common cause with those values.
01:47:31.000I believe it's easier to arrive at those values just mentally if you anchor yourself grounded in God.
01:47:37.000I think it's actually a lot harder to get there through secular worldviews.
01:47:41.000If you want to follow, you know, Immanuel Kant or whoever else, I think it's a harder path.
01:47:45.000But to answer your question, can somebody who is secular, non-religious, agnostic, or atheist still find common cause with the shared value set that this country was founded on?
01:47:58.000And even more, even if you disagree with some of those values, do you have the right to live in this country?
01:48:03.000And are you still protected by the same constitutional rights?
01:48:06.000The answer to that is also absolutely yes in the United States of America.
01:48:10.000And that's what it means not to run for pastor, and I would be certainly an odd choice to run for pastor of a Christian church, but that's not the job of the U.S.
01:48:56.000I think part of what's happened in this country is we've turned God into a four-letter word, which I don't think should actually—is good for our culture.
01:49:48.000Can we mandate the presence of armed staff members in public and private schools?
01:49:52.000Schools contain America's most valuable resources and should not be soft targets.
01:49:58.000There are many teachers, janitors, counselors, and school administrators that would be more than willing to receive training and obtain a conceal and carry permit to protect our children.
01:50:09.000I want at least one armed staff member in the building before the school's doors open in the morning.
01:50:16.000I mean, it's really a tragedy what happened here in Perry, Iowa.
01:50:22.000And I think the worst tragedy of all was the fact that the reaction to it was... I mean, certainly from a national perspective, it was almost numb, actually.
01:51:00.000I think we need a minimum of three armed security guards in every school across this country.
01:51:06.000Some schools that are really large might benefit from four or five.
01:51:09.000States that lack the funding to do it have a great place to start.
01:51:12.000Shut down the Department of Education, return the money back to states, and for a tiny fraction of that, you could have three to four in every school across this country.
01:51:21.000Steve, you were going to mention something?
01:52:25.000So this is certainly, I think, the most important issue we're facing with.
01:52:29.000And what we're seeing among kids just represents the corruption of our nation and just the decay of where society has gone.
01:52:36.000Because you can predict the future of a country just by looking at the kids.
01:52:41.000This has been a hard issue for me because over two years ago, we had incident in a school district where a teacher was stalked and murdered by students, and the weapon was a baseball bat.
01:52:50.000I think what I want to say is that this is a much larger pattern and the catastrophe in Perry, there's been a long, a very growing pattern of very violent behavior.
01:53:01.000So there's a student in Ames beaten unconscious, a part of some strange race baiting exercise where You know, they wanted the autistic kid to say the N-word, and then they wanted to beat him unconscious.
01:53:13.000And he had to leave the school in an ambulance.
01:53:15.000And I can only imagine the trauma of a student having to witness that, and now the trauma of that student still being in the same building with those kids who perpetrated that horrific act of violence.
01:53:25.000And it's much more severe than just this incident.
01:53:29.000And armed security is a great way to prevent the symptom from manifesting.
01:53:34.000But there's something much, much deeper going on in the hearts and minds of our children
01:53:39.000where they're willing to commit these psychopathic acts.
01:53:57.000And I just wanted to get on my knees and pray because we need as much help as possible
01:54:00.000in navigating these issues and giving our children a life worth living and the meaning and the values.
01:54:07.000So it's horrific, and yeah, armed security is certainly a great step in the right direction, but we need to go as deep as possible to help these kids through whatever they're suffering through.
01:55:15.000And I think that what happened in Perry, Iowa, that's a symptom Of a deeper void in this country, a void of purpose and meaning and identity.
01:55:28.000And I'll be the first to say, I don't think a U.S.
01:55:29.000president can alone fill that full void, but I think we can fill it partially with a national identity that we lack right now.
01:55:37.000We're hungry to be part of something bigger than ourselves, yet we can't even answer what it means to be an American today.
01:55:46.000And I think that's half the job of the next U.S.
01:56:55.000I think that was actually literally a line of one of the other presidential candidates, but it's not.
01:57:00.000It's alive and hanging on for life support is where we are, but I think it can be.
01:57:06.000Well, again, and I think that that's going to take simple economic policies that at least grease the wheels for still filling that deeper hunger.
01:57:14.000We're using our taxpayer money to pay people more to stay at home instead of to go to work.
01:57:18.000Now, I talked earlier, when Tim asked the question about stimulating the economy, that's bad for the economy because that stops businesses from growing and filling open positions, which is this top obstacle to business growing.
01:57:28.000But take the persons receiving the money.
01:57:31.000Do you think it's actually good for them?
01:57:33.000I mean, my generation, how old are you, man, if you don't mind me asking?
01:57:36.000We're in a similar generation with a lot of us here, give or take.
01:57:42.000We're the first generation, ours, that the parents of our generation are actually responsible still for the financial sustenance of people our age and younger.
01:58:24.000Usually around this time is when we wrap, but I think if everyone's cool with it, we'll maybe another half an hour to give you more time to answer some questions.
01:58:31.000I'd love to see unemployment that you get a little, and then it scales down, and after six months it disappears.
01:58:36.000Unless you get a job, and then you actually get paid a little bit more than when you weren't working.
01:58:40.000Because we need to incentivize people to take the job.
01:58:43.000We'll try and get as many questions as we can in, and we'll do something that the cable TV channels can't do, and go long, because we can.
01:59:14.000I feel like you've been grilled for a few hours, so I was going to do a question, but I just want to give the first part, which is a compliment.
01:59:19.000I'm continually impressed with your poison strength as the media seems to attack you.
01:59:24.000I'm a combat veteran of the Marine Corps, and now I do neurosurgery for a living.
02:00:15.000And here's the dirty little secret, it has nothing to do with the climate.
02:00:20.000What it has to do with, I can almost at least prove it to you very quickly, the very people who are most opposed to the use of fossil fuels in the United States are also the ones who are perfectly fine-shifting those same carbon emissions to places like China in the name of stopping global warming.
02:00:36.000You can't believe both those things at the same time.
02:00:39.000Or the very people who are most opposed to fossil fuels are among those who are the most opposed as well to nuclear energy in the United States, which is the greatest form of carbon-free energy production known to mankind.
02:00:50.000Again, you can't believe both those things at the same time if you're applying principles of logic.
02:00:56.000But if you're subscribing to a quasi-religious cult, I won't even call it a religion, because the religion has withstood the test of time.
02:01:07.000And they even have their patron saint, a modern, what they view Joan of Arc figure, a psychologically challenged individual known as Greta Thunberg, who they, you know, view as a modern Joan of Arc patron saint type figure.
02:01:20.000Flogging yourself, gasto, self-punishment, engaging in the equivalent of wearing a hair shirt, and flogging yourself.
02:01:26.000Many religions across cultures, Hinduism has a version of this too, is engaging in sort of bodily discomfort and harm to substitute for this self-punishment.
02:01:35.000That's kind of what the climate religion is.
02:01:37.000It has all of the elements of a religion except not having withstood the test of time, which is why I call it a cult.
02:01:45.000Any mandate from the federal government to even measure carbon emissions is out the door.
02:01:50.000I think we're even measuring the wrong thing.
02:01:51.000We should be measuring human health, economic mobility, prosperity, rather than this one arbitrary measure of carbon emissions.
02:01:58.000And the problem is when you start measuring it, you actually have something that all four of us here are opposed to.
02:02:04.000Is all kinds of strange things the federal government starts doing, like subsidizing people to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, build pipelines, bury it in the ground.
02:02:11.000You have all sorts of strange things like subsidizing electric vehicles.
02:02:15.000I have no problem with somebody choosing to buy an electric vehicle because it looks cool or drives the way you want it to or whatever reason you want to, really.
02:02:22.000Just don't expect me to pay for it, which is exactly what's happening today.
02:02:25.000And by the way, if they can build a pipeline across your backyard without your consent to bury carbon dioxide in the ground, next up is your gas stove.
02:02:33.000They'll come and take it, leave a $50 check in your mailbox.
02:02:42.000I think it's one of the greatest threats that we face in the United States of America to our sovereignty today is the global climate cult.
02:02:49.000And it is shameful that I think it is outside of the Overton window of even the Republican Party to actually talk about it in the terms that I just did.
02:03:06.000I think that was just the practice round for the climate emergency that's coming up.
02:03:11.000And actually, I've supposedly been the most censored presidential candidate according to this non-profit group, but one time when my social media account was outright locked, it's only happened once.
02:03:20.000was when I stated certain hard facts about the climate movement.
02:03:23.000Eight times as many people died last year of cold temperatures rather than warm ones.
02:03:28.000The earth is more covered by green surface area coverage today because carbon dioxide is actually plant food.
02:03:35.000And the reality is 98% reduction in the climate disaster death rate over the last century.
02:03:42.000The number of people who die of climate related disasters, for every hundred who died in 1920, that number is two today.
02:03:48.000That's due to advances powered by fossil fuels.
02:03:52.000And so that's the inconvenient truth for the actual climate movement.
02:03:56.000And it's going to take a leader with the spine at the top in the United States, not to do the waffly thing.
02:04:02.000The Republican thing to do here is, why are we moving so quickly?
02:04:13.000That's the standard Republican line on these matters.
02:04:17.000I think the right answer is actually to start with the truth.
02:04:22.000This is not an existential risk to humanity.
02:04:24.000Climate change has existed as long as the Earth has existed.
02:04:27.000And we should not be focused on one metric of carbon dioxide emissions when people are dying more of bad climate change policies than they are of climate change itself.
02:04:36.000And so the humane thing to do is to say no to this cult and yes to human flourishing and growth regardless of the carbon dioxide emissions that it results in.
02:04:46.000The carbon itself is a very valuable asset, and there's going to be a mad dash on the air when people realize you can take carbon dioxide out of the air, turn it into graphene, you can take the methane out of the air, turn it into carbon dioxide, and then turn it into graphene, and then use it as a building material.
02:05:02.000We need a global coalition so that we don't pull too much of it out of the air, because people are going to start harvesting that carbon dioxide, and I don't want to kill the trees.
02:05:09.000Like you said, it is food for the greenery, so we need to find some sort of mediated stasis.
02:05:21.000But I wanted to say to everyone that is from Iowa, please caucus because it must be exciting to be a part of all of this and have candidates come.
02:05:29.000We don't see anyone in Nebraska unless, you know, they're worried about that one electoral vote that we might give to the Democrats.
02:05:47.000I'm going to use that as an opportunity, Tim.
02:05:49.000I'd be remiss if I didn't say it tonight.
02:05:51.000But but I mean, it is every person's vote in the Iowa caucus.
02:05:55.000You could make the argument that it's like the equivalent of a million people in the impact that it has in actually selecting the next U.S.
02:06:20.000That's more than all of the other candidates combined, I think, by a multiple.
02:06:25.000We're not doing this for any reason other than the fact that I think our country requires, like right now, a leader who's actually able to take our America First movement to the next level, and who is not the subject of elimination, in the subject of an actively playing out plot that we can see in straight eyes.
02:06:43.000And so I'm asking everybody in Iowa who is here to do the right thing for our country on January 15th, and I'm asking you to caucus for me.
02:06:51.000And if you do, I think we're going to have a major surprise on Monday.
02:06:55.000And I think we're going to do everything in our family's part and we're going to succeed at it to make sure that our country's best days are actually, not in some fake politician way, but in a true way actually still ahead of us.
02:07:08.000So thank you everybody who comes out on Monday night to do that as well.
02:07:18.000Candace, gentlemen, I appreciate y'all making it out here, braving the inclement weather.
02:07:23.000So I got out of the Marine Corps about a year ago, largely due to how the current administration handled, as Ian so correctly frames it, our surrender in Afghanistan, as well as the way service members were treated in regards to the COVID vaccine mandate.
02:07:37.000And though I appreciate your answer to the first question, Mr. Raviswamy, As Commander-in-Chief, do you have any plans as it relates to restoring Americans' trust in our military institutions, and do you intend on holding military leadership who implemented these disastrous policies accountable?
02:08:07.000First is generations of foreign wars that have not advanced our interests.
02:08:11.000Seven trillion of our national debt owed to the wars in both Iraq and Afghanistan that palpably could just look at the results.
02:08:17.000Twenty years later, for God's sake, the Taliban is still in charge.
02:08:20.000Twenty years later, Iraq is a more broken country than we showed up, sending tens of thousands, about 15,000 of America's sons and daughters lives, sacrificed in those two wars, adding seven trillion to our national debt.
02:08:31.000So yes, I do hold accountable the bipartisan foreign policy establishment, some of whom are back at it again, available on the Republican ticket to be voted for for U.S.
02:08:40.000President, to be trotted back and to bring back a Dick Cheney vision for our foreign policy that should be relegated to the dustbins of history.
02:09:03.000What happened is that General Mark Milley's of the world wanted to deflect the left-wing criticism.
02:09:10.000Keep in mind, it was generally a Republican idea to favor the Iraq war.
02:09:14.000The left used to hit him for that, to say, okay, well, we'll just say the magic words, systemic racism, white rage, whatever you want us to say, but go away.
02:09:21.000We'll blow the woke smoke to deflect accountability for the institutional failure of the military itself.
02:09:28.000How do we get this right, restore the true purpose of the U.S.
02:09:32.000To win wars, to actually avoid wars through being strong, in protecting our own homeland right here at home, which is more vulnerable than it has ever been.
02:09:42.000So I believe that the top purpose of the U.S.
02:09:44.000military should be to protect Americans against threats, make our national defense spending directed towards our own national defense.
02:09:52.000That includes cyber attacks, super EMP attacks that could take out our electric grid in a matter of days that we're more vulnerable to now than ever.
02:10:01.000I do view it as an invasion on our own southern border, and I believe an outward-facing function for our U.S.
02:10:05.000military at our border, as we talked about earlier, is an appropriate use of our military.
02:10:12.000I think people would be happy to serve this country if they knew it was actually to serve Americans, rather than to fight somebody else's war halfway around the world, so some Ukrainian kleptocrat can buy a bigger house.
02:10:22.000That's not gonna happen on my watch, and I think that's how we restore trust.
02:10:49.000So in primary schools in Russia, they currently teach their students jabbing across before they ever teach a hook for two years.
02:11:00.000In China, they have masculinity training for their young men.
02:11:05.000If you look at the obesity rates in America, we've done a severe disservice to our youth in physical education, where traditionally you look at like the De La Salle program out in California back in the 1930s.
02:11:20.000We were going to go a certain direction and then we flipped to another where kids can just, you know, opt out of PE.
02:11:27.000What can you do to help make America's youth strong as president of the United States?
02:12:06.000Different institutions can put different weight on what they want to weight it in.
02:12:10.000Not all students, not all schools should weigh the math scores the same way as they weigh the reading score, as the same way they weigh the writing scores, the same way they weigh the physical fitness score.
02:12:18.000But I think we should make it something worth aspiring to in this country.
02:12:22.000So that avoids any kind of mandating or anything like that as a basic first step, just signifying.
02:12:27.000We're measuring something because it's worth measuring.
02:12:29.000Carbon emissions, not worth measuring.
02:12:31.000Physical fitness in young people, worth measuring.
02:12:34.000And so the things that you actually measure are the things that actually, presumably, matter.
02:12:39.000We used to have the Presidential Fitness Test.
02:12:40.000It was actually under, I think it was President Obama, and it might have been a little bit of a pet project of Michelle Obama, for whatever reason, to eliminate the Presidential Fitness Test.
02:12:48.000That's not what it sounds like in the context of me saying it, of the U.S.
02:12:51.000President, though we could determine the... I think it doesn't hurt for a president to disclose how many push-ups and pull-ups they could do, too.
02:12:57.000But that's not what I'm talking about.
02:12:59.000It refers to the presidential fitness test in junior high school that refers to a number of attributes of how you're able to perform on basic parameters of physical fitness that allows us to hold our system accountable and teachers accountable and schools accountable for how well we're doing on that metric just as well as how well or these days how poorly we're doing on the metrics of math or reading proficiency.
02:13:20.000So I think that measuring it alone and making that a norm in this country would be a free, non-cost enhancing, non-liberty infringing way of actually doing what I think is good and important for our country.
02:13:33.000And oddly enough, I don't think it's that odd actually, that's going to have a palpable impact, for the better, on the mental health epidemic in this country.
02:13:41.000Actually, a lot of young kids are going to be mentally and psychologically a lot better off if we actually start just measuring and aspiring towards improved levels of physical fitness as well.
02:13:52.000I think most of us know that intuitively.
02:13:55.000It's definitely true from a data perspective as well.
02:13:57.000So, that'd be my answer to your question and I do think, I've already been talking about it, people have asked me, why is this guy running for president?
02:14:04.000Well, what it has to do with it is it still relates to that root cause and that loss of purpose in our country.
02:14:10.000And I do think that measuring physical fitness is strictly a good step for our youth and including integrated into our schools and standardized testing.
02:14:40.000We've seen what they've done going after Donald Trump.
02:14:44.000Indictments, even trying to remove him from the ballot in certain states.
02:14:50.000My question is, how do I vote for Vivek Ramaswamy without sending the message that I am okay with what they are doing to Donald Trump?
02:15:04.000I think your question weighs on the minds of a lot of people I met today.
02:15:09.000What I saw in many of the rooms I was in was a sense of struggle with that question of loyalty.
02:15:15.000And I think our loyalty, my loyalty, and I know Donald Trump's loyalty and the loyalty of the people participating in this caucus process is to this country.
02:15:22.000So the question is what's right for the country.
02:15:24.000Let's just agree that whoever you're going to vote for, that's what matters here.
02:15:28.000Not loyalty to me, not loyalty to Trump.
02:15:30.000It's loyalty to the United States of America.
02:15:35.000I think if you want to, I'm going to be blunt about this.
02:15:38.000I think if you want to save Trump and save this country, a vote for me is actually the way to go.
02:15:45.000What they're doing to Donald Trump is wrong.
02:15:47.000I have stood up against it at every step of this process, to the point of derision.
02:15:51.000To the point of people have, there's, I mean, people have had all kinds of conspiracy theories about me, but one of them, and more popular ones, is that there's some kind of Trump plant.
02:15:59.000That Trump and I had some kind of deal early on in this campaign to somehow eliminate Ron DeSantis, as though this was a worthy goal for a guy who's got other things to do in life than to focus on eliminating Ron DeSantis from contention.
02:16:13.000I'm saying that I've been so strongly supportive of Donald Trump in the face of these prosecutions that even many people circulated nonsense like this.
02:16:23.000I've stood up against, I went to the Miami courthouse, I've stood up against these persecutions.
02:16:26.000For God's sake, I have actually written a FOIA demand and submitted it, Freedom of Information Act request, to know what Biden told Jack Smith, what Merrick Garland told Jack Smith, followed through on that, taken legal steps, and I hope we get accountability.
02:16:40.000I think that we weren't, I wasn't planning on announcing this tonight, but might as well just say it.
02:16:43.000I think tomorrow morning, if not by noon, by tomorrow morning in the next 48 hours, I am submitting an amicus brief to the Supreme Court, arguing for why they need to overturn Colorado's disastrous decision to try to keep Donald Trump off the ballot, because it's the right thing to do for this country.
02:17:04.000As somebody who's been trained in the law, I feel like a sense of obligation to do that if somebody understands the Constitution.
02:17:09.000It's my belief that every other Republican, myself included, needs to withdraw from any ballot that forcibly withdraws Donald Trump from the primary ballot, because that's how you actually stop the brazen election interference in our own primary.
02:17:23.000If every other Republican nullifies Maine, then it has no impact.
02:17:26.000So that's the length to which I've gone, and so people know this about me when I'm saying this.
02:17:31.000At this point, it is my firm conviction that this system, which has ratcheted up the threat level one by one to eliminating Donald Trump from the ballot, will stop at nothing.
02:17:46.000I'm increasingly certain it will stop at nothing to keep this man away from the White House.
02:17:52.000So I think the best way to literally save Trump is to at least have arguably somebody in the system might actually even, some elements of it, prefer less than Donald Trump for what I'm bringing to Washington DC.
02:18:05.000And I think that's also what this country requires.
02:18:24.000So I will honor the man, and I have, and I think it's the right thing to do, and I will do it as the next president, because he kept us out of foreign wars that didn't advance our interests, and he grew this economy.
02:18:33.000Those are no two small accomplishments.
02:18:36.000But our America First agenda does not belong to Donald Trump, just as it doesn't belong to me or anybody else up here.
02:18:46.000And we owe it to this country to make sure that movement does not end with Donald Trump, which is what the system has set up to do.
02:18:53.000I believe we're being led into a trap right now, and it pains me to watch it.
02:18:58.000So I'm asking you to do the right thing for this country, if you want to support Donald Trump even.
02:19:03.000Or what he represents is actually more precise.
02:19:06.000The right way to do that to see this through for the country is a vote for me in this Iowa caucus on Monday.
02:19:13.000And I think people are there's an emotional component to this.
02:19:18.000I actually think we need to vote with our brains.
02:19:20.000There's times when you vote with your heart.
02:19:21.000There's times when you vote with your brain.
02:19:24.000Your heart can get you to the doorstep of why America First matters, but now voting with your brain is asking, are you going to look back?
02:19:30.000Here's the thought experiment that I'd like for every voter in this state to go through.
02:19:34.000And I think a lot of them are considering myself for Trump heading into Monday.
02:19:40.000Do you think you're going to look back a year from now and say, whatever God forbid happens this year, say we were shocked by what happened?
02:19:48.000I mean, last time it was a man-made pandemic and a tech rigged process leading up to an election that We all know it was absolutely an unfair election.
02:20:28.000And I don't think there's a good chance.
02:20:29.000I don't think we have a country left, not the same country that we know and love.
02:20:33.000And so we owe it to this country and to our founding fathers to make sure the 250-year experiment does not end this year and that we have yet another 250 years and then some left to go.
02:20:42.000That's why I'm asking you to vote for me.
02:20:44.000If you want to save Trump and save this country, vote for me.
02:20:47.000And I hope that gets you to the place where you make the right decision for this country.
02:21:59.000But why don't we talk about forgetting the plumbing of how we accomplish it?
02:22:04.000Let's at least see if we agree on the spirit of it, which is that in order to be a full citizen of a country, and citizenship is not about what you get.
02:22:51.000But I think the basic table stakes of your duty to this country should be to know the bare minimums about this country and the Constitution and our history.
02:23:01.000It's mainly just the Constitution and the way the government works.
02:23:04.000And we know that's an intuition we already track, because if you're an immigrant to this country, we say, you can't vote.
02:23:10.000You can have all kinds of other benefits.
02:23:12.000We give all kinds of benefits to illegal immigrants to this country.
02:23:15.000But at least when things have worked the way they're supposed to, you can't vote in this country until you become a naturalized citizen, which requires you to pass a basic civics test.
02:23:27.000And so if we require that of a legal immigrant to this country before they cast a ballot at the ballot box, I think it's reasonable for every high school senior who graduates from high school to at least know the bare minimums about the country that every immigrant has to know as a condition for becoming a voting citizen of this country before the age of 25.
02:23:46.000I think it's a reasonable thing to ask.
02:23:47.000Now, if you've had life experience as an adult, I'm willing to drop it.
02:23:50.000If you say that you've served in the military or first responder role, great.
02:23:53.000That's a different way of having allegiance or service to a country.
02:23:56.000But the bare minimums, so nobody has to take a civics test there, but the bare minimums are to say that you have some knowledge of the country of which you're a citizen.
02:24:06.000I was here in Iowa, and so this actually generated a lot of controversy.
02:24:08.000My campaign staff hated me for rolling out this idea because it didn't poll well.
02:24:14.000I said, well, at least can we poll it?
02:24:18.000I said, yeah, I'd love to see the data.
02:25:59.000Okay, so Vivek, thank you so much for being here.
02:26:01.000I know the weather is not ideal right now, but thank you for being here.
02:26:06.000So your slogan has been truth and it's all over this room.
02:26:10.000Many Americans over the years have felt lied to by our government and that they have pulled the wool over our eyes with so many occurrences in history, especially in the last four years.
02:26:18.000Recently, you have been speaking what recently happened with January 6th, and you're constantly getting attacked.
02:26:23.000So thank you for speaking the truth on that.
02:26:27.000There have been so many whistleblowers, such as Snowden, to expose the truth to the American people about what is going on behind closed doors.
02:26:33.000My question to you is, do you have it on your radar to grant pardons to those who told the truth to the American people, and also to release documents that would uncover a lot of unknowns to the American people, or to provide protections to future whistleblowers?
02:26:48.000Yes, yes, and yes, is the answer to your questions.
02:26:52.000I mean, I think that it's a great resource.
02:26:55.000I pardoned the clemency, but I think that if you swear an oath to the Constitution, your job is to keep it.
02:27:03.000And so you cannot systematically participate in the violation of those constitutional freedoms and constitutional rights without exposing that to the public.
02:27:13.000And I think we, the people, deserve a government that just tells the people the truth again.
02:27:17.000Not just when it's easy, but when it's hard.
02:27:30.000Couldn't say that it came from a lab in China, when it was obvious that it likely came from a lab in China now that we know that it did.
02:27:36.000How our money is being spent in Ukraine right now.
02:27:38.000The truth about what happened on January 6th.
02:27:40.000The truth about the Nashville transgender shooter manifesto.
02:27:44.000We actually went down to Nashville, Candace and I did an event there together, calling on the local police.
02:27:50.000Or the FBI, either one, to just release that manifesto.
02:27:53.000And how we were actually lied to, even in that community, they said there's a lot in there that it's not what you think it is, but it could be dangerous to release.
02:28:00.000Then it gets released, and we see it was just actually a race-baiting, psychologically challenged person.
02:28:07.000A government that has systematically lied to its people.
02:28:10.000The reason people don't trust the government is that the government doesn't trust the people.
02:28:14.000Trust is a two-way relationship, actually.
02:28:17.000And so I think the two ways we rebuild trust in this country... We had the event last night.
02:29:07.000How many times has a government official, we saw the Twitter files, any time a government official has pressured a private actor or a company or a bank or a tech company to do something the government couldn't do directly, just publish it as a first step.
02:29:19.000Was our taxpayer money used to fund the gain-of-function research that resulted in the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic?
02:29:26.000That's the first thing that it's up to a U.S.
02:29:28.000president to do from the standpoint of the government.
02:29:32.000And then if just one person in the media, just one, I don't need NBC and ABC and CBS and CNN and everybody else doing it at the same time, just one of them, look their audience in the eye and tell them when it came to the Hunter Biden laptop story that was suppressed on the eve of the last election, when it came to the Trump-Russia collusion hoax, when it came to the origin of COVID-19, when it came to the truth of the totality, at least even, of what happened on January 6th or the Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot or whatever.
02:30:24.000And we fired the people who were accountable for hiding it from you.
02:30:29.000If you have a president who does that from the White House, and just one, not all of them, just one actor in the mainstream media who does that, looking their audience in the eye on a TV screen and telling them the same thing, we are well on our way to reuniting and reviving this country.
02:30:47.000If I'm your president, that's going to happen from the presidency.
02:30:50.000And I think there's probably at least one good enterprising smart person still left there in the mainstream media that could step up and do the same thing.
02:30:58.000And if those two things happen, I am confident that we don't have to be mired in this divisive decline that we're in, but that we still can be in our ascent.
02:31:26.000Sometimes I think that it's more valuable to lie to the people and it's actually better in that we're talking about like secret weapons programs.
02:31:33.000If we're working on like the atom bomb, they didn't want to come out and be like, by the way, Germany and everyone listening, we're building an atom bomb.
02:31:40.000They were like, are you building an atom bomb?
02:32:22.000The point is, the government just deserves to, at a certain point in time, tell the people the truth again.
02:32:27.000And I disagree with you even in the near term.
02:32:31.000In the short run, it could be a more convenient thing to do to lie to the people.
02:32:36.000But in the long run, I think the answer is always to actually stand for the truth.
02:32:42.000And if you get into the specifics, even of geopolitics, this relates to the historical neocon neoliberal view of strategic ambiguity, right?
02:32:50.000So non-transparency at home goes hand in glove with the foreign policy worldview of strategic ambiguity.
02:32:57.000It's a whole worldview that says you're going to actually be in a stronger position if you don't tell people what you're going to do.
02:33:03.000I think that if we have clear red lines, and actually say that, you know what, we are nuclear equipped, and here's where we are.
02:33:10.000That's actually going to, if we tell a country that if you cross this red line, we're actually going to have major consequences to pay for it.
02:33:18.000That's more likely to actually avoid war than it is to actually engage in strategic ambiguity.
02:33:23.000And so it's just a totally different worldview from the traditional neoconservative neoliberal vision that I'm bringing, which is transparency at home, which actually translates to you don't need the national security charade if your whole foreign policy strategy was also grounded in truth.
02:33:38.000In actually saying that this is what we're okay with, and this is what we are affirmatively not okay with.
02:33:43.000And here are the conditions under which we will blow you to annihilation, because we have to.
02:33:47.000And if you cross that red line, we follow through and do it, but the rest of the time we're not going to pretend like that's a possibility either.
02:33:53.000And so it's a total alternative worldview, all the way up and all the way down.
02:33:58.000But it is grounded in, yes, absolute truth and transparency.
02:34:04.000And so that's what I'm going to bring.
02:34:05.000And if you think that that's dangerous, if you think that that poses risks to the future of our republic, then I'm not your guy.
02:34:12.000But if you believe with me that in the long run, this is the way to respect the founding ideals of this country and to lead a country that is stronger over the long run for relying on truth, both in our foreign policy and our domestic policy, then I don't think there's anybody in this race who comes close to being able to deliver that in the way that I will.
02:34:33.000I want to thank Vivek for having us out, and for everyone else here who's joined and has hung out with us.
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02:34:42.000We're going to be hanging out at this private party, keeping the conversation going for a little bit while longer.
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02:34:50.000And in a few minutes, we will have a live feed, hanging out on the couch, talking a little bit more about what's going on behind the scenes.
02:34:56.000And I want to say thank you to everybody who showed up here physically, everybody who watched the show.
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02:35:08.000But let's... I don't know if you want the last word, so we should go around before coming back to you, Vivek, and we can have... Yeah, let's do that.
02:35:13.000Luke, if you want to shout anything out.
02:35:15.000If you want to support me, you can on thebestpoliticalshirts.com.
02:35:18.000The phrase that I'm wearing right now was actually highlighted by Politico, and they were actually showing a picture of my hat, but they conflated this issue with conspiracy theories.
02:35:28.000And what happened with Jeffrey Epstein is not a conspiracy theory.
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02:36:47.000Also, just want to re-mention the series, A Shot in the Dark, for people that are interested in learning more about vaccines and big pharma.
02:36:53.000I think it's the most important work that I do.
02:36:55.000And I just want to say it's a tremendous honor to be on the road with Vivek this week.
02:36:58.000We're going to be hitting a bunch of campaign stops tomorrow.
02:37:14.000Look, I am guided by my gratitude to this country, actually.
02:37:19.000I don't covet the office of the president, and if there's somebody else who can step up and do this job better than I can, they will have my support and full optimism for the country.
02:37:30.000But I do think we're in the middle of a kind of war in this country right now.
02:37:38.000I don't think it is a war between black and white as the media would have you believe.
02:37:44.000I don't even think it's a war between Democrat and Republican for some of the reasons we've talked about here.
02:37:49.000I think it's a war between those of us who love the United States of America and our founding ideals and a fringe minority who hates this country and what we stand for.
02:38:00.000It's a war between the permanent state and the everyday citizen.
02:38:05.000And I think we need, right now more than ever, a commander-in-chief, a general, who's actually gonna lead us to victory in the war.
02:38:13.000I think you gotta know you're in a war to win one.
02:39:17.000I think we are in a war for the future of our country.
02:39:20.000So despite it being cold, I'm going to ask the people, starting right here in Iowa, And to safely bundle up, be warm, but come out on the night of the Iowa Caucus.