Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Timcast IRL - LIVE GOP DEBATE, Elon FIRES Election Team For Compromising Election w-Michael Knowles

00:00:00.000 Elon Musk has fired his election integrity team for compromising the integrity of the

00:00:19.000 Who would have seen this one coming?

00:00:21.000 It's fantastic. 0.89

00:00:21.000 A lot of people were worried when it was announced that X would be bringing on the same old garbage. 0.89

00:00:26.000 And many of these people, this is really funny because apparently one of these election integrity guys was making fun of me, and people were like, I'm concerned about the bias of this team.

00:00:34.000 When they're engaging in partisan attacks on, you know, social commentators and things like that.

00:00:40.000 But he fired them.

00:00:41.000 That's interesting, and we'll talk about that.

00:00:43.000 We got other big news.

00:00:44.000 This one's fascinating.

00:00:44.000 In the case where the judge summarily ordered Trump to dissolve the Trump organization.

00:00:49.000 Insane, right?

00:00:50.000 He values Mar-a-Lago at about 18 to 20 million dollars.

00:00:54.000 Despite the fact that Mar-a-Lago generates 25 million dollars per year, something's not right.

00:00:58.000 Yet, for whatever reason, reasons you probably understand, Democrats and leftist personalities are agreeing with the judge.

00:01:06.000 This is crazy.

00:01:07.000 The Trump family is saying this property is probably worth close to a billion dollars, and if you look at comparables in the area based on real estate alone and not a business, they are correct.

00:01:16.000 You got a half acre going for 40 million dollars, and Mar-a-Lago is beach-to-beach property, so we'll talk about that, but my friends, it's debate night!

00:01:24.000 So around 9pm, the lesser-known GOP debate will begin, where we will waste our time but make fun of Republicans who aren't going to be the president, and I guess we'll enjoy our time doing so.

00:01:34.000 Before we get started, head over to TimCast.com, click TimCast IRLXMiami, pick up your tickets while you still can.

00:01:40.000 We are going to be in Miami all next week.

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00:02:02.000 And I believe right now, we haven't yet formalized it, but it is looking like that Friday night show will be a TimCast members-only exclusive for a variety of reasons.

00:02:12.000 In fact, I think The Daily Wire, with Michael Knowles here, you know exactly why we're doing it.

00:02:16.000 You did the same thing recently with your backstage.

00:02:19.000 Yeah, I saw your video you put out where you were saying, we're going to take this normally on YouTube, we're going to put it out.

00:02:24.000 So we're doing this event and that whole show, it's going to be a hundred times better for us to be on stage with the audience, everybody watching, participating, and not having to worry about the BS.

00:02:35.000 Plus it's just a way for us to help make more of these events, make it function, make it reasonable.

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00:03:00.000 And as a member, you can submit questions to the Uncensored Show Monday through Thursday and call in and talk to us and the guests.

00:03:07.000 However, I do believe, because of the GOP debate tonight, we likely will not have a members-only show.

00:03:12.000 We'll just do an extended show where we probably just make fun of Republicans who are not going to be president.

00:03:16.000 That being said, joining us tonight to talk about this and so much more is Michael Knowles.

00:03:20.000 Great to be with you, as always.

00:03:21.000 I'm really glad that I could be here, because you get accused of leaning in favor of one candidate or maybe another candidate, and I just think Doug Burgum does not get nearly enough support on this show.

00:03:33.000 So I'm here for the Burgumentum, which starts tonight.

00:03:38.000 Did you coin the Bergamentum?

00:03:39.000 The Bergamentum is the successor movement to the Crissassance, or Crissance for short, for Mr. Christie.

00:03:45.000 That has not really taken off, so now we're on to Bergmentum.

00:03:49.000 Bergamentum.

00:03:51.000 And I think everybody knows who you are, but do you want to give a brief introduction?

00:03:55.000 Yes, I'm the only Republican not running for president this cycle, and I have just as much of a chance as every guy who's on stage.

00:04:03.000 But you won't see me on stage.

00:04:04.000 You can find me at The Michael Knowles Show and elsewhere.

00:04:08.000 Right on.

00:04:09.000 Well, thanks for hanging out.

00:04:09.000 We got Mary Morgan hanging out.

00:04:11.000 Hello everyone, it's been a minute since I've been on IRL and I'm back and I'm happy to be here.

00:04:17.000 I work at TimCast up in the attic on Pop Culture Crisis.

00:04:21.000 We don't really get into politics, we talk about Hollywood, celebrities, that kind of thing.

00:04:27.000 So yeah, I guess I'm gonna have to talk about politicians and Ukraine.

00:04:32.000 Maybe, but we do have a story that overlaps, because Joe Biden called LL Cool J, boy.

00:04:38.000 He did.

00:04:38.000 We did talk about that.

00:04:39.000 They're pissed.

00:04:41.000 He confused him for Corn Pop, in fairness.

00:04:43.000 Had he known what a great guy LL Cool J is?

00:04:45.000 It's not as bad as it sounds.

00:04:46.000 No?

00:04:47.000 It's really not.

00:04:47.000 The headline sounds bad.

00:04:48.000 It sounds like he was talking to LL Cool J, and he goes, hey boy.

00:04:53.000 But that's not really what happened.

00:04:56.000 Either way, I mean, I guess a lot of people, a lot of left-wing people are angry that, in whatever context, but we'll talk about it.

00:05:03.000 So, you know, whatever.

00:05:04.000 We got Ian hanging out.

00:05:05.000 Hi, everybody.

00:05:05.000 Ian Crossland.

00:05:06.000 Happy to be back.

00:05:07.000 Happy to see you guys.

00:05:08.000 Hello, Michael.

00:05:08.000 Those headphones are fire, Mary.

00:05:09.000 Nice work.

00:05:10.000 Thank you.

00:05:10.000 I like them.

00:05:11.000 Can they see that the lights are flashing?

00:05:13.000 Oh, yeah.

00:05:14.000 Those light up?

00:05:15.000 Yeah.

00:05:15.000 It's faint, but you can see it.

00:05:17.000 It's subtle, but tasteful.

00:05:18.000 We'll just have to turn the lights off.

00:05:19.000 Cool.

00:05:21.000 Well, hello.

00:05:22.000 Hi, Serge.

00:05:22.000 How you doing?

00:05:23.000 Hey, I'm doing good.

00:05:24.000 Nice shirt again, man.

00:05:25.000 Thanks, man.

00:05:25.000 It's sick.

00:05:25.000 I'm a fan.

00:05:26.000 Serge.com.

00:05:27.000 Let's get started, Tim.

00:05:28.000 We got this story from the post-millennial breaking Elon Musk fires ex-election integrity team for undermining election integrity.

00:05:36.000 Ah, this was just too good.

00:05:38.000 This is big news considering we're entering the cycle and we've got a debate tonight, so I figured, let's jump into this one.

00:05:43.000 Elon Musk announced on Wednesday that he has cut the electoral integrity team at X in half, including the newly brought on board head of the group, Aaron Rodericks.

00:05:54.000 When the news was reported, Musk replied, oh, you mean the election integrity team that was undermining election integrity?

00:05:59.000 Yeah, they're gone.

00:06:01.000 Is this like, you remember when Trump invited Mitt Romney to have dinner?

00:06:05.000 And he said, hey, Mitt, maybe I'll make you Secretary of State.

00:06:08.000 And he just humiliated Mitt Romney at this dinner.

00:06:10.000 There's that picture of Trump grinning like the Cheshire Cat and Romney kind of, you know, cowered over.

00:06:16.000 Is that just what Elon does to these employees?

00:06:19.000 Oh yeah, I'm gonna hire a bunch of election integrity censors and haha you're fired, boom! 0.98

00:06:25.000 I wonder, I wonder how much of this is 5D chess, or I don't know, 3D, how many dimensions are we getting?

00:06:31.000 It's 3D chess.

00:06:32.000 18, yeah.

00:06:33.000 Right, so Elon Musk goes to war against the ADL because they're trying to get advertisers pulled.

00:06:38.000 Elon knows he's got to push back.

00:06:41.000 How much do you want to bet some of these advertisers or what companies were like, your platform is undermining election integrity?

00:06:47.000 And then he goes, we're actually hiring an election integrity team to make sure that doesn't happen.

00:06:51.000 They went, oh, okay.

00:06:52.000 He brings them in, gets evidence of them screwing with the election, and then says, you're fired.

00:06:57.000 And now he can go, here you go.

00:06:59.000 We actually, we are.

00:07:01.000 So, so now Elon can say, no, no, no, we are actually upholding election integrity.

00:07:04.000 We fired these people that were doing all of these things.

00:07:08.000 Maybe, maybe I'm overestimating Elon.

00:07:10.000 No, no, I think Elon's... If anyone on earth right now is playing 5D chess, as they talk about it, it's Elon.

00:07:15.000 And you can see it in the way he's handled the Alex Jones ban, and he hasn't unbanned Alex Jones' account.

00:07:20.000 Alex actually is the one who's like, he's playing 5D chess.

00:07:23.000 If he unbans me, all the hate of the vehemence of the world will come on to him.

00:07:26.000 Right now it's on me.

00:07:26.000 We want to leave it on me.

00:07:28.000 And Elon knows that.

00:07:29.000 So that's what he's doing.

00:07:30.000 Is Alex in the room right now?

00:07:31.000 Did I... I channeled that beast.

00:07:33.000 Wow.

00:07:33.000 So I think Elon very, I mean you've got to be at that level to be firing rockets up into space and working on national security and stuff.

00:07:40.000 And I mean he's basically, he's veering the momentum of the Ukraine-Russia war in a lot of ways by shutting down Starlink over top of Ukraine last year we found out.

00:07:49.000 He didn't shut it down.

00:07:49.000 He never turned it on. He never turned it on. So he denied service to a military to a country during a war

00:07:55.000 So like this guy's got amazingly powerful influence and I think he's behind the scenes just that they love him

00:08:01.000 I think a lot of like the arms manufacturers love him I think that like, you know, if we need some a corporatist

00:08:05.000 to be running the world at least it's Elon Yeah, I'm now pro-Elon.

00:08:10.000 I was never anti-Elon, but I was sort of Elon-skeptical because I just wondered if he was the monorail salesman from The Simpsons.

00:08:17.000 I didn't know if it was all kind of a con.

00:08:19.000 Well, but it somewhat is.

00:08:22.000 But he just keeps winning.

00:08:26.000 Whenever you think, well, they've got him now, kind of like Trump, they've got him now, and then he just pulls a rabbit out of a hat and lives to see another day.

00:08:34.000 Yeah, I think Elon has his agenda.

00:08:37.000 He's clearly working towards a goal he has in mind.

00:08:39.000 It just happens to overlap greatly with the rest of us.

00:08:42.000 Yeah.

00:08:43.000 And so that works.

00:08:44.000 Then you see some of the stuff that's going on with, you know, China and, you know, Tesla factories there, and you're like, yes, Elon has an Elon agenda, but it benefits us.

00:08:53.000 So it's like, You know, I think I wouldn't describe Elon as evil.

00:08:58.000 I would actually say we're mostly aligned.

00:09:01.000 He cares about free speech.

00:09:02.000 He cares about what's true.

00:09:03.000 He wants a platform where, you know, Community Notes is fact-checking the fake news in the media because he wants truth.

00:09:09.000 But I think his politics very much align with many left-wing people.

00:09:14.000 He talks about it quite a bit.

00:09:16.000 Yeah, that's true.

00:09:16.000 Community Notes has kind of ruined satire on the platform, though.

00:09:20.000 Because it just tells you the joke?

00:09:21.000 Yeah, yeah, it's just a joke explainer at this point.

00:09:24.000 And I actually I'm not a I like community notes a lot, but I got some criticisms because one thing that happened was I

00:09:31.000 put out a tweet criticizing, I guess you can call it criticizing, but pointing out that the Rhonda Sanders

00:09:39.000 campaign had used footage from that we so it's complicated, but a lot of Elihu reports for Tim cast.

00:09:46.000 However, he owns the rights after the fact. So we get first rights on all the content and then he can do whatever

00:09:53.000 selling them outside the company, but we get first rights to distribute them. And so when the Sanders campaign.

00:09:57.000 Put out videos with our video that we had got first rights on and then put paid for by the Tandis campaign.

00:10:05.000 It was literally just this clip, seven seconds long, nothing else.

00:10:08.000 There was nothing in it.

00:10:09.000 It wasn't an ad.

00:10:10.000 It was a video shot by a lot of Eliyahu saying he paid for it.

00:10:13.000 And then I asked him, I was like, hey, did you sell this?

00:10:15.000 And he's like, no.

00:10:16.000 And I'm like, okay, well, like, we didn't sell it to him.

00:10:19.000 So I tweeted, we did not sell this to the DeSantis campaign or whatever.

00:10:22.000 And what they did was, in my tweet, pointing out the clip they sent out to people via text was not paid for by the DeSantis campaign.

00:10:31.000 The DeSantis people used community notes to change the context of what was said to create fake news.

00:10:38.000 The insinuation was that the screenshot I had posted was a full-length advertisement and not a single clip.

00:10:44.000 Right, right, of course.

00:10:45.000 My point being, hey, they're sharing a clip from our news channel and then saying, paid for by DeSantis, on the video, which they did not do.

00:10:54.000 Then they put in community notes.

00:10:56.000 Advertisements in the political space must say that they were... I'm like, it wasn't an ad.

00:10:59.000 So that's my issue with, you know, community notes.

00:11:02.000 Because the community notes are in a way like democracy, which is they're only as good as the community noters. 0.90

00:11:07.000 You know, it's only as good as the people.

00:11:09.000 And so a lot of times it's pretty good.

00:11:10.000 But then, yeah, sometimes people game the system.

00:11:13.000 Like Wikipedia.

00:11:14.000 Yeah, right.

00:11:14.000 Just like Wikipedia.

00:11:16.000 Yeah, I got this one.

00:11:17.000 The best community note I ever saw.

00:11:19.000 It says, Tim Poole is bald.

00:11:21.000 It was in response to Help I Am Being Cyberbullied tweet from last month.

00:11:25.000 Do you remember tweeting that out?

00:11:26.000 It was something funny.

00:11:27.000 The original post was lost.

00:11:28.000 No, I think it's inverted.

00:11:29.000 I think I responded because of it.

00:11:30.000 One of your supporters was saying, like, Tim's not even bald.

00:11:33.000 And then the community note Tim Pool is bald, but it's only half true because like, yes, some, some, you're bald ish.

00:11:41.000 You should have a community note on the community and say, fact check, Tim Pool wears a hoodie, or a beanie rather.

00:11:48.000 This goes full circle though, because the dude, so what happened was, uh, someone pointed out that one of Twitter's election integrity guys was, was insulting me.

00:11:57.000 And it was him saying something like, you know, if Timple had hair, I don't know, I don't remember what he said. 0.98

00:12:01.000 Someone responded with, that's stupid, Timple's not even bald. 0.99

00:12:04.000 Then someone community noted it saying, Timple is bald. 1.00

00:12:07.000 And then I quote tweeted the Twitter guy saying, help, help, I'm being cyber-bullied.

00:12:12.000 That was the best.

00:12:12.000 One of the best days of my life.

00:12:13.000 But this guy got fired.

00:12:14.000 This is the guy, I'm pretty sure this guy, Aaron Roderick, that was him, he got fired, he's gone.

00:12:19.000 But I think, I think he got fired because I mean, dude, you hire a guy who then immediately goes on an activist tirade across the board just insulting people, and your boss is gonna be like, dude, what are you doing?

00:12:32.000 Yeah.

00:12:33.000 Yeah, that's... I favor the 5D chess a little bit here because, I don't know, I just get the sense that Elon knows what's up, and he goes along and he plays games and he manages to survive, but does anyone really believe that Elon Musk thinks Twitter needs an election integrity czar?

00:12:51.000 No way.

00:12:51.000 When you put up that job posting, like, you have complete control over election-related discourse on one of the biggest social media platforms.

00:12:59.000 What kind of person does that attract? 0.80

00:13:01.000 You're sending in their resume.

00:13:03.000 Maybe it was a honeypot, you know?

00:13:05.000 Elon Musk is like, come control elections, and then he sees who comes in and he's like, I got you.

00:13:11.000 There's a big bear trap on the other side of the door.

00:13:14.000 Or, but now, you know, maybe he's like, look, we have all this documentation of firing these people was upholding election integrity.

00:13:20.000 I mean, he still has some people there.

00:13:23.000 I think he only cut half of the team, right?

00:13:25.000 But he fired, he said, the election integrity team that was undermining election integrity.

00:13:29.000 They're gone.

00:13:30.000 What do you guys think?

00:13:31.000 Well, I guess he's saying they're all gone.

00:13:32.000 That's what it sounds like. Yeah. What do you guys think about moving shows over to x? A lot of peep

00:13:37.000 creators have been doing that lately. Does daily wire mess?

00:13:40.000 We've tried it. Walsh did at one point, didn't Walsh had to because he got booted off of YouTube.

00:13:45.000 Whereas he was, I think it was, he was demonetized. Then they shut me down for a week from

00:13:50.000 publishing. Then they shut Candace down for a week. Then they got me. I.

00:13:54.000 I sort of got out of jail a little bit, and then I think Matt got out of jail, too.

00:13:57.000 I don't know about Candace.

00:13:58.000 So they're just playing games.

00:14:00.000 It's always constantly moving, which means even if you're up on YouTube this week, we need an alternative long-term.

00:14:07.000 And so we've tried X, formerly known as Twitter, and it's good.

00:14:11.000 We're putting the shows up there.

00:14:12.000 It's nice to have a spot to do it, but, you know, they just haven't worked out the kinks.

00:14:17.000 Do you guys watch 45-minute shows on...

00:14:20.000 Right, they need a... It's not user-friendly.

00:14:22.000 Yeah, it doesn't have, like, skip to the next video, it doesn't have, like, related videos, do they?

00:14:26.000 Yeah, that rolled out recently, the swipe to the next video.

00:14:29.000 And you can now do 2X, so they're improving it rapidly.

00:14:32.000 Skip ahead, skip back 15 seconds, that's a key part of the player.

00:14:35.000 I think Elon needs to do cash deals.

00:14:38.000 Rumble is doing this.

00:14:39.000 Rumble is teaming up with people and saying, we will pay you up front for you to start building a base on Rumble.

00:14:45.000 And it's, it's, it's, it's masterful.

00:14:47.000 I mean, they've got street league skateboarding.

00:14:49.000 So for me skateboarding, I'm like, they got street.

00:14:51.000 When I found out they got street league, I was like, whoa, that's big mainstream pop culture stuff.

00:14:56.000 Exclusive now on Rumble.

00:14:58.000 That's crazy.

00:14:59.000 And then I watched a skate video with one of the top pros in the world, and this is not political stuff, and they got rumble on their wall in their skate park.

00:15:05.000 And I'm like, this is the move.

00:15:07.000 I think Elon doing the ad sharing, brilliant.

00:15:11.000 Very, very powerful move.

00:15:12.000 I think the verification checks, people don't understand why this is such an important thing that Elon Musk did with Twitter Blue.

00:15:19.000 So 10 years ago, all of these digital websites, we'll leave them nameless,

00:15:24.000 they would do something like ad rights, something called ad rights sales,

00:15:28.000 where a company would go, like a company that does clickbait garbage,

00:15:34.000 you may have seen them where it's like 25 pictures of gross celebrities,

00:15:37.000 and each picture is a new page with 800 ads on it.

00:15:40.000 So what those websites would do is all those ad hits count as ad impressions,

00:15:45.000 and then one click turns into 25 times 10 ads, then with all those ad hits,

00:15:51.000 they sell the rights to a big brand.

00:15:54.000 Let's, you know, call it the Daily Fire or something.

00:15:57.000 Yeah, just to pick one.

00:15:59.000 Random nonsense name.

00:16:00.000 But no, the Daily Wire literally doesn't do this.

00:16:02.000 I'm not trying to... I'm saying like a company would then go to this... Slimcast, something like that.

00:16:06.000 Slimcast goes to this company and says, We want to own the rights to those ads and claim them.

00:16:13.000 And then what happens is, if you get 10 million views, they sell you the rights to those other views, and now Slimcast has 80 million views.

00:16:22.000 You then go to your advertisers and say, the Slimcast network gets 80 million views.

00:16:24.000 It's total BS.

00:16:26.000 What Elon Musk is doing is going to advertisers and saying, when someone sees an ad and there's a checkmark, it is a real human.

00:16:33.000 For a while, the concern has been that advertisers are all being ripped off by foreign farms, bot farms, that will make fake traffic to generate ad sales, and then people are buying ads and they're wondering why they're not working.

00:16:45.000 It's being ripped away, so what this has actually done is it's made ads more valuable, so it's becoming more expensive to advertise, but the ads have bigger returns, so it's actually keeping... Basically what's happening is, when a company would buy ads on these big tech platforms, half of the money is going to India or Turkey, where these farms operate out of.

00:17:05.000 With what Elon is doing is it keeps those ad dollars in country where there's real people who are verified.

00:17:11.000 That's why the ad sharing thing is working.

00:17:13.000 It's a good idea.

00:17:14.000 Long story short, or more to the point, I should say, Elon needs to get to the next phase where he goes to prominent, high-profile individuals and says, how much do you want for your show to be an exclusive X show?

00:17:24.000 We advertise it, Times Square billboards, TV commercials, YouTube ads, you name it.

00:17:29.000 That's the move they got to make now.

00:17:30.000 Is there a way that Elon can fix it?

00:17:32.000 I'm glad that they're doing the payouts.

00:17:34.000 Even though, I mean, I look at some people, they're just like buying cars with their payouts.

00:17:38.000 I'm making pennies over here.

00:17:39.000 I could barely afford a quarter pounder with cheese with my payouts, but it's okay.

00:17:42.000 What are you getting?

00:17:43.000 Have you said publicly?

00:17:44.000 I haven't, but I'll break it here.

00:17:45.000 This is breaking news.

00:17:46.000 I hope all the journalists start writing it up.

00:17:49.000 My first payout Was right when I signed up was like eight or nine hundred bucks.

00:17:55.000 And then it dropped to like two hundred bucks.

00:17:59.000 That's like a hundred bucks.

00:18:00.000 But I'm getting more impressions.

00:18:03.000 It's not impression based.

00:18:04.000 OK.

00:18:05.000 Yeah.

00:18:06.000 The money you get from X is based on how many verified users interact with your posts.

00:18:11.000 This is why you're seeing tons of people ask questions.

00:18:14.000 So this is the thing, because I don't engagement bait.

00:18:20.000 Sometimes I do accidentally because people don't like my opinions.

00:18:22.000 But you're right, the people who are getting zillion dollar payouts, they all post things like, Do you hate peanut butter and jelly?

00:18:31.000 Why?

00:18:33.000 It adds value to the ads, but it has decreased the value of a tweet to the point where my entire timeline is just people reposting a TikTok and being like, what would you do in this situation?

00:18:45.000 Unfollow.

00:18:46.000 I can't.

00:18:48.000 It is.

00:18:48.000 That's wild.

00:18:48.000 You can make more money, but it's decreased the value, the actual human value of the post.

00:18:53.000 I think I'm getting like five grand a month.

00:18:54.000 You're getting fi- man, I gotta get better tweets, what's going on?

00:18:57.000 When the program first rolled out, a lot of the tweets about it were, in the interest of transparency, dot dot dot, I'm disclosing how much I'm making off of Twitter ad revenue.

00:19:11.000 And it was these crazy amounts, like $17,000 a month, whatever.

00:19:13.000 I saw that, that looked insane.

00:19:15.000 And I just thought that those were paid sponsorships for X, right?

00:19:22.000 Just shy of six grand a month.

00:19:23.000 What?

00:19:25.000 I need to get some of the... You gotta teach me how to get those good fire tweets.

00:19:28.000 Well, so... All lowercase.

00:19:30.000 Not a lot of, like, punctuation.

00:19:32.000 You don't need that.

00:19:33.000 Things that people want to correct.

00:19:36.000 Let me try and find... Make an e-course, like a paid e-book about how to make money.

00:19:42.000 How to farm traffic, but there's no A in the word farm.

00:19:45.000 I'm gonna be the new Andrew Tate, I think, you know?

00:19:47.000 I gotta get rich quick.

00:19:48.000 You're on the road.

00:19:49.000 I'm on the road.

00:19:50.000 Yeah, I've got... I need a funnier accent, and I have too much hair, but... We were talking about your journey to becoming a hustler.

00:19:57.000 I'm gonna be a hustler, baby.

00:19:58.000 Michael, this is what you need to do, okay?

00:20:00.000 You see this?

00:20:01.000 This is how you make money on X. Wow.

00:20:05.000 Years and years of this.

00:20:06.000 I went on mid-journey, and I generated Donald Trump whispering sweet nothings to a chicken.

00:20:14.000 And, uh, I posted it.

00:20:15.000 It's got 178,000 views.

00:20:16.000 It's a nice photo.

00:20:17.000 So I, my mid-journey journey was mostly centered around, uh, pictures of Chris Christie as baked goods because I really liked the pun of the croissants.

00:20:29.000 And, uh, so I've got a lot of, of like nice flaky Christie faces that actually get negative engagement.

00:20:35.000 I actually owe Twitter money at the end of the month because of them.

00:20:37.000 In, in, in all reality though, like, uh, I have a tweet.

00:20:41.000 I quote tweeted Libby Emmons.

00:20:43.000 It's a, it's a NYPD.

00:20:45.000 I'll just pull the tweet up so you can see the example.

00:20:47.000 So this is like real engagement, right?

00:20:50.000 Like 2,000 replies and it's the NYPD police bot.

00:20:53.000 So it's like news stuff, but you know, whatever.

00:20:55.000 I don't know.

00:20:55.000 I don't really think about what I tweet.

00:20:56.000 I just kind of tweet stuff.

00:20:57.000 I'm going to just, maybe I'll just copy your tweets.

00:21:00.000 I'm just going to take, you're going to tweet something and then I'll just copy it and post it and then be rich.

00:21:04.000 That's what I want.

00:21:07.000 Uh, well, I, I, so the reason why I quote tweet things a lot is most of my retweets are just so that I put a, I'm bookmarking them basically.

00:21:15.000 I'll see a story and I'll be like, oh, that's, that's, that's big.

00:21:18.000 I want to, I want to keep that in mind.

00:21:19.000 So I'll quote tweet it like, whoa, and then I'll share it.

00:21:22.000 Yeah.

00:21:22.000 But quote tweeting turns a tweet into your tweet.

00:21:25.000 So it's now your engagement.

00:21:26.000 A retweet is their engagement.

00:21:27.000 A quote tweet is your engagement.

00:21:28.000 It seems like he's trying to get rid of quote tweets though, or at least make them less accessible.

00:21:34.000 Every time I click on a tweet now and I try to look at the quote tweets it's just like they're not visible or you have to like press five different buttons to get to like view post engagement.

00:21:44.000 Because he probably wants you to reply, like, you know when you're just trying to completely dunk on someone with facts and logic?

00:21:50.000 Yeah.

00:21:51.000 You don't reply to them, you quote-tweet them.

00:21:53.000 That's right.

00:21:53.000 To send your army of minions to... To mob them.

00:21:55.000 To mob them, yes.

00:21:57.000 Which is much more fun.

00:21:58.000 Well, the next step is, you know, when Tucker Carlson announced he was doing his show on X, everybody assumed it was a cash deal, and then Elon said, no, no, no, we're not doing that.

00:22:06.000 But if Elon came out and said, like, he's wondering why Russell Brand said, all my shows are now on Rumble, and Elon's like, hey, what about us?

00:22:14.000 We're defending you.

00:22:15.000 It's like, Elon, dude, Rumble's probably giving him eight figures or something.

00:22:18.000 I don't know what the deal is, but they're probably paying Russell Brand fat stacks to be on Rumble.

00:22:23.000 Elon, you can't just be like, hey, what about me?

00:22:25.000 Okay, well, how much are we gonna pay him?

00:22:26.000 They don't have an exclusive deal with Russell Brand though, right?

00:22:29.000 Because he still has that, like, six million following on YouTube.

00:22:33.000 It's a big deal to walk away from that.

00:22:35.000 Did you get demonetized?

00:22:36.000 Yeah, did you follow up?

00:22:38.000 I heard that there's advertiser pressure on against rumble.

00:22:40.000 They're like the British Parliament or something.

00:22:42.000 People were trying to aim it.

00:22:43.000 What was that situation?

00:22:44.000 Parliament sent a letter to the rumble executives and was like it was worded like emotional terrorism.

00:22:52.000 Like we would like to know what you're doing.

00:22:55.000 to protect alleged victims and you know we're concerned about protecting the creator environment and we're concerned that russell brand is making money off of his content that has nothing to do with his allegations i've been concerned about like um Advertisers polling and try and manipulating social media markets by being like, you know, if you do, if you have that person on there, we're not going to, we're not going to give our Ford automotive money to YouTube.

00:23:21.000 That's how it's been.

00:23:22.000 So it has been, but Mines is trying to figure out a different way.

00:23:24.000 We have crypto that you can use insight.

00:23:26.000 So you get rewarded for activity.

00:23:28.000 And so you get crypto that you can use in the site to boost your posts.

00:23:30.000 It's kind of like, cause so this outside force, so like, I hope X I hope he's not too reliant on advertisers because, like, he hired Linda Iaccarino and I don't know her, but I've heard that they're more concerned about, like, we don't want crappy posts to be visible, we want the bad things to be hidden and the good stuff to be seen because that's what advertisers want.

00:23:47.000 Let's do a hard segue.

00:23:49.000 I really want to talk about this story.

00:23:50.000 This is Forbes.com.

00:23:51.000 Trump family insists Mar-a-Lago worth over $1 billion after judge calls value wildly inflated.

00:23:58.000 Here's what it might really be worth.

00:24:01.000 I'll give you the gist.

00:24:02.000 The judge says it's worth around $18,000,000.

00:24:03.000 That's the amount you make on Twitter every month.

00:24:07.000 It's crazy, right?

00:24:09.000 A humble $18,000,000.

00:24:11.000 Okay, they say, anger on the judge, determination that Trump inflated the value, blah blah blah, is based on an appraisal from Paul Beach County Assessor, which found the market value of the 17.5 acre property between 2011 and 2021 to be $18,000,000 and $27.6 million.

00:24:24.000 2021 to be 18 million and 27.6 million.

00:24:28.000 Let me first break down what is absolutely insane about this.

00:24:33.000 Okay, anybody who owns property knows the tax assessed value is not what you list the property for when you sell it.

00:24:41.000 Right.

00:24:41.000 So the idea that Trump is being asked, what's it worth?

00:24:44.000 He's like, well, if I was going to sell it, I'd say 400, 500 million.

00:24:48.000 The tax assessor is saying 30 million.

00:24:50.000 That's the tax assessor.

00:24:51.000 That's the government.

00:24:51.000 That's their business.

00:24:53.000 Trump deciding it's worth more is not him inflating it.

00:24:55.000 The government is the arbiter of the value of homes, just the taxation.

00:24:59.000 So, look at, I gotta tell you man, if this is true, this means every single home buyer has been defrauded.

00:25:07.000 Fraud!

00:25:08.000 Of course.

00:25:08.000 So, you know what?

00:25:11.000 This is awesome for me.

00:25:12.000 Because what I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna take this judge's ruling in New York, I'm gonna go look at some New York City real estate, Two to three commercial acres in Brooklyn, with a tax assessed value of $200,000, and I'm gonna go to the person selling it for $5,000,000 and say, if you don't sell this to me for $200,000, I will have you investigated for fraud.

00:25:32.000 Because the value, according to this judge, is what the tax assessor says, not you.

00:25:36.000 Sell it for $200,000 or else.

00:25:37.000 And that strategy is gonna work, just so long as the person you say that to is the leader of the Republican Party in an election year.

00:25:43.000 Then you're good, it's gonna happen.

00:25:44.000 Exactly, exactly.

00:25:46.000 But no, they'd be like, screw off, I'm not selling you my commercial property for $200,000.

00:25:49.000 Okay, then you go and complain, file a suit in this judge's court, go to Letitia James and say, here's your opportunity to get Trump.

00:25:57.000 Prove that you really do think the property value is what the tax assessor says, and sell me this hot $5 million property for $200,000.

00:26:04.000 I mean, to be fair, I wouldn't be able to sell it after that, so I wouldn't want it, right?

00:26:09.000 True.

00:26:10.000 That would destroy the property value of New York.

00:26:12.000 The thing about Mar-a-Lago, first of all, is it's a super nice club.

00:26:15.000 I've only gotten to go once or twice, and I expected it to be kind of cheesy and gold and trumpy.

00:26:20.000 It's just a beautiful, extremely well-established club on beautiful property.

00:26:25.000 But even put that aside for a second.

00:26:29.000 A P.O.

00:26:29.000 box in Palm Beach is $18 million.

00:26:32.000 The notion that this very prominent club in the prime part of the prime beach is $18 million, it's just completely absurd.

00:26:42.000 Yeah, well, I mean, with inflation, in the last three years of inflation, it's like 30% or 20%.

00:26:48.000 Yeah, like if something was $1, it's $1.20 now.

00:26:52.000 I mean, I don't know exactly the numbers, but like four years ago, our national debt was like $27 Trillion?

00:26:58.000 Now it's 34 trillion or something like that?

00:27:00.000 I gotta build up the values.

00:27:03.000 This is Zillow, and this is Mar-a-Lago.

00:27:06.000 Mar-a-Lago goes beach to beach.

00:27:08.000 It's got water on both sides.

00:27:11.000 Oh, that looks so nice.

00:27:13.000 So I want you to understand, this whole plot right here, and I believe it might include this plot, I'm not sure who owns this one, but this one doesn't have a listing on it.

00:27:21.000 And they said it's beach to beach, so I would imagine it's probably Trump's, but I'm not sure.

00:27:26.000 Okay, it says $24.2 million on Zillow.

00:27:28.000 In fact, a few years ago, it said $400.

00:27:31.000 Yeah, Zillow changed it apparently.

00:27:33.000 This is my understanding.

00:27:34.000 I read an article that said that.

00:27:35.000 I could be wrong.

00:27:35.000 I'm going to be careful here.

00:27:36.000 But hold on.

00:27:38.000 You see how big it is?

00:27:39.000 You see this itty bitty thing right here?

00:27:41.000 56.8 million.

00:27:43.000 Wow.

00:27:43.000 Something does not make sense.

00:27:45.000 Why is Zillow showing Mar-a-Lago 17.5 acres as 24 million and then up here, literally next to Mar-a-Lago, a much, much smaller property.

00:27:57.000 And much less valuable because it's obviously not beach to beach.

00:28:00.000 Right.

00:28:01.000 And it's double the price.

00:28:02.000 Wow.

00:28:02.000 So this property, it's off the market, let's pull up the home details, it's 1.76 acres, and it's estimated value, I want to make sure this is clear, this is a Zillow estimate, not a market appraisal value.

00:28:16.000 Zillow is saying this property is 56 million dollars, but Mar-a-Lago is 24.

00:28:19.000 Mar-a-Lago is 24. Mar-a-Lago is 17.51 acres, beach to beach.

00:28:28.000 And it's a prop- a club that generates 25 million dollars per year.

00:28:31.000 Right.

00:28:32.000 This little house right here?

00:28:34.000 Look at this!

00:28:35.000 This little itty bitty house right here!

00:28:37.000 Is worth 2 million more than Mar-a-Lago?

00:28:40.000 In what reality does- look at this one, this tiny one right, 30 million.

00:28:45.000 If you pulled up here and said, oh this house is 30 million dollars, and then you look at Mar-a-Lago, how come I can't get the 17 acres, right?

00:28:53.000 Sell me that one, that's cheaper.

00:28:55.000 That's insane.

00:28:55.000 But of course, look, there's no logic to it.

00:28:58.000 We could- Look at this!

00:28:59.000 about it until we're blue in the face. They don't care whatsoever. The point of

00:29:02.000 this ruling is to say, hey Trump, we took away your election, perhaps, and Trump we

00:29:08.000 took away some of your money, and Trump we're gonna take away your freedom

00:29:11.000 because we're gonna put you in prison, and now we're gonna take away your 0.89

00:29:14.000 business just because, just because we want to. Look at this, look at this right

00:29:16.000 here, just just south of Mar-a-Lago on this other side, a hundred million for

00:29:22.000 for this seven bedroom.

00:29:24.000 $100 million.

00:29:26.000 Yo, three and a half acres.

00:29:28.000 I'm wondering what the ramifications of this ruling is going to be.

00:29:32.000 Because right now, the people who live in Palm Beach, all of them are angry that a judge just ruled Mar-a-Lago's worth $20 million.

00:29:43.000 Because now, Yeah, you invested in property in West Palm Beach thinking your value is going to go up.

00:29:49.000 Someone bought a property for $20 million.

00:29:51.000 Now the judge is saying it's worth less than a million dollars.

00:29:54.000 Forget it.

00:29:54.000 I mean, by the way, West Palm Beach, which is on the mainland, that property is worth a ton of money.

00:30:00.000 We're talking about Palm Beach, not West Palm Beach, actual Palm Beach.

00:30:06.000 The number might make some sense in West Palm Beach, but it's all just a farce.

00:30:09.000 No one takes this seriously, right?

00:30:12.000 No one takes the four indictments seriously.

00:30:14.000 It's just Letitia James, who brought the case, ran for office saying I'm I'm gonna get Trump. 0.97

00:30:22.000 This is all going on in New York, why they're talking about Trump's property

00:30:25.000 in Florida no one even really knows. It's just it's just a joke and the sad part is it might work.

00:30:32.000 Right? I mean... Well it's gonna work if you're in a communist state where the

00:30:36.000 law doesn't matter.

00:30:36.000 And so in the instant... So let me show you this tweet from Kyle Kalinske.

00:30:40.000 Kyle said Mar-a-Lago gets revenue of 25 million a year.

00:30:44.000 It's valued at max $75 million. 1.00

00:30:48.000 You idiots claimed it's worth $739 million. 1.00

00:30:50.000 You did this with virtually all of your properties to inflate net worth and get loans from banks on more favorable terms. 1.00

00:30:55.000 Fraud.

00:30:56.000 Kyle's completely wrong about all of this.

00:30:58.000 And it's shocking, because I like Kyle, but his past few tweets on all of this stuff shows that he didn't actually look into any of it.

00:31:04.000 First of all, the Trump family valued the property between $400,000 and $600,000, not $739,000.

00:31:10.000 Second, why would the value of a 17 acre piece of real estate, a hard asset, only be valued based on the revenue generated by the business?

00:31:19.000 If you were to remove the business outright, we're talking about a piece of property, 17 acres in Palm Beach, the comparables of the acreage, just the acreage with no property, puts this property at a billion dollars with no business on it.

00:31:34.000 You add 25 million dollars a year, we're probably looking at 1.25 to 1.5 billion as a business property.

00:31:42.000 It's just simple.

00:31:43.000 The scary thing about what Kyle is saying is that The point he made was that Letitia James gave a press conference that proves it.

00:31:54.000 The judge then issued a summary judgment with no trial.

00:31:58.000 Sanctioned Trump's lawyers, banged the gavel and said, dissolve the Trump organizations, you committed fraud.

00:32:05.000 No trial, no defense, no evidence.

00:32:08.000 Just a press conference and the judge says yes.

00:32:11.000 And these people are celebrating it.

00:32:13.000 So, you know, I was talking to Andy No, and he was asking if it was wrong, if I thought it was wrong that people on the right keep calling the left communists because they call people on the right fascists, and I'm like, well, the right's not fascist, but the left is communist.

00:32:27.000 And I don't mean literally every single person, but there's the banality of evil and malicious evil.

00:32:31.000 There are people who are working in service to communism while not realizing it, and there are people who are literally doing it.

00:32:36.000 They make the same argument on the right about fascism.

00:32:38.000 The only problem is Dave Smith, who they call a fascist, completely disagrees with everything Trump does, or 99% of it.

00:32:46.000 So you can't say he's in service to something he opposes outright.

00:32:49.000 But this is the narrative they're going with right now.

00:32:52.000 And now they're actually just... I mean, I'm looking at this.

00:32:56.000 I tweeted in response to what Kyle said.

00:32:59.000 Carl Benjamin, who was just here, said, you were right.

00:33:01.000 They eventually all just become communists.

00:33:03.000 They are now basically saying, if the state says so, it is so.

00:33:08.000 If, I mean, one can talk about all the isms all day long, and communism and socialism are a consequence of liberalism, you know, centuries ago.

00:33:17.000 But even just the libs have this problem, which is liberalism boils down to maximizing individual autonomy.

00:33:24.000 And what that boils down to, I mean, we see this in the absurdities of all of the identity ideologies that have proliferated today.

00:33:31.000 But what that boils down to is a diminishing of the importance of objective reality, of

00:33:36.000 things like law, of things like, I don't know, real estate prices relative to Palm

00:33:42.000 Beach.

00:33:43.000 But all of these things, that goes away.

00:33:44.000 I mean, if a man can claim that he is a type of thing that he is not and be granted, you

00:33:50.000 know, that right in society, then we're untethered from reality.

00:33:54.000 And so maximum individual expression makes the law into nothing more than a way to wield

00:34:01.000 a cudgel and beat your enemies.

00:34:03.000 And so we're going to be debating about the law and the objective value of this property, but they don't care. 0.83

00:34:08.000 They're just going to smack Trump.

00:34:09.000 And just to add, West Palm Beach, 0.3 acre lot, 5.5 million dollars.

00:34:11.000 0.3.

00:34:11.000 Wow.

00:34:11.000 West Palm Beach, .3 acre lot, 5.5 million dollars.

00:34:16.000 Point, point three.

00:34:17.000 Wow.

00:34:18.000 So let's do 15 per acre, now do 17 acres, and uh, yeah.

00:34:23.000 But you know, I mean, think about- And that's West Palm Beach.

00:34:26.000 It's kind of like in a war.

00:34:28.000 You know, in a war, when the conqueror conquers the conquered, he can either say, all right, give me tribute payments.

00:34:36.000 I own you now.

00:34:37.000 You're conquered.

00:34:38.000 Give me tribute payments.

00:34:39.000 Or they can come up with some silly fakakta kind of legal document that says, well, actually, in reparation for the war, you need to pay us X amount.

00:34:47.000 But it's just a legal veneer to cover what is just Brutal, basic politics.

00:34:53.000 And that's what's going on right here.

00:34:55.000 So if this decision is thrown out, which it certainly should be, they'll just do some other version of it.

00:35:01.000 Because none of this has anything to do with the value of Mar-a-Lago or Trump's businesses or the bank loans he got or any of it.

00:35:06.000 It obviously only has to do with the 2024 election.

00:35:09.000 It has to do with the fact that they view this man as a danger to their political project. 0.94

00:35:13.000 And so if this stuff doesn't hold up in court, They'll just kill him. 0.99

00:35:18.000 At a certain point, they're just gonna kill him. 0.99

00:35:20.000 That is the end goal of all of this. 0.98

00:35:22.000 That's what Alex Jones was saying, too.

00:35:23.000 Not that that means it's true.

00:35:25.000 I'm just saying, a long time ago, he was like, we're gonna make this plane crash or something.

00:35:29.000 Yeah, let me rephrase it, then. 0.99

00:35:30.000 They will kill him! 0.99

00:35:33.000 I can't do it. 1.00

00:35:33.000 Yours is better than mine. 1.00

00:35:35.000 I disagree.

00:35:36.000 I don't think so.

00:35:36.000 You don't think I got a better Alex Jones than mine?

00:35:38.000 You think mine is better?

00:35:40.000 I don't think Trump's life is in danger.

00:35:43.000 So, this strategy changed a long time ago.

00:35:47.000 Political assassinations immortalize ideologies.

00:35:51.000 You end up with their faces painted.

00:35:52.000 I mean, look, Kurt Cobain dies and they paint his face all over all these buildings in a bunch of different cities.

00:35:57.000 So, what they do now is character assassination, which they do to Trump.

00:36:00.000 The problem is it doesn't work.

00:36:01.000 It just doesn't work with him.

00:36:05.000 I mean, this is why I say civil war. 0.83

00:36:07.000 I don't think that this ends with them being like, okay, we have to stop Trump by any means necessary.

00:36:11.000 It starts with them saying, the system has broke.

00:36:14.000 There's no moving forward.

00:36:15.000 There's no hot conflict.

00:36:17.000 They definitely don't want to make him a martyr, but that's why they invented the heart attack gun and stuff where it doesn't look like an assassination.

00:36:22.000 It's just like, he died in his hotel room.

00:36:25.000 It doesn't matter.

00:36:26.000 Well, I don't want to talk too much about the darkness.

00:36:28.000 John F. Kennedy?

00:36:30.000 gets shot and immediately conspiracy theories the CIA did it and now Ron Paul comes on Tim Kessler Island says

00:36:37.000 comes on IRL saying the CIA did it. It is now basically mainstream. RFK is saying that you can't, your heart attack

00:36:44.000 gun, it's not gonna work.

00:36:44.000 Anything bad happens to Trump, instantly all Trump supporters believe it was malicious, something bad happened.

00:36:52.000 If the Aspertamen Big Macs haven't gotten him already, I don't buy a heart attack, okay?

00:36:57.000 No, they're going for character and they're destroying his net worth now.

00:37:01.000 They are trying to make him a homeless person.

00:37:03.000 That's the only thing they can do.

00:37:06.000 If anything bad happens to Trump, whether it's him being mugged, or his plane crashing, or he just has a heart attack from Big Macs and Diet Coke, he will be immortalized.

00:37:16.000 That's very true, man.

00:37:18.000 You want to strip them of their wealth, you want them to fade into obscurity and be forgotten about, you want their children to have no heirs, no titles, you don't want any of that, because that's just a headache in the future.

00:37:27.000 So they're trying to take it all away from him and his family.

00:37:29.000 Exactly.

00:37:29.000 It's such a digital banishment.

00:37:31.000 So what do they do?

00:37:32.000 So, one, you've got the prosecutions.

00:37:34.000 Put him in prison.

00:37:35.000 Immobilize him, basically.

00:37:37.000 Strip him of his resources.

00:37:38.000 Strain him so he can't run and can't be as influential.

00:37:41.000 They are basically just attaching as many weights as possible to Trump so they make him ineffective.

00:37:47.000 The next thing we just saw them do, a judge summarily ruled, that means there's no trial, a judge just banged a gavel, the Trump Organization is to be dissolved in 10 days.

00:37:56.000 Yeah, so what's that?

00:37:58.000 Some random judge just said, yeah, now do they be like, okay, nah, we're gonna do some real law?

00:38:04.000 Uh, well, they're filing an appeal, but what will happen, because we are in, we are in civil strife territory, civil war territory, this judge says it, you know for a fact New York Democrat government is going to be like, oh well.

00:38:17.000 Right.

00:38:18.000 Canceled.

00:38:18.000 Trump organization dissolved.

00:38:20.000 There's, there's, there's not going to be some principled person in the Democrat trifecta New York state going, well, I mean, this is a little crazy for the judge to rule this.

00:38:30.000 I don't think, no, they're going to be like, okay, Hopefully there's wealthy businessmen in the Democratic Party that are going to be like, this could happen to me.

00:38:37.000 If they can just go bang bang and dissolve people's companies.

00:38:39.000 There's never a selfless thought like that.

00:38:41.000 There are a few.

00:38:44.000 Do we want to live in a world where Trump has nothing left to lose?

00:38:48.000 Isn't that a little bit scarier than what he has now?

00:38:51.000 And also since he's been digitally banished, like you said Ian, why is he still waiting to come back to Twitter?

00:39:01.000 That's the only platform he has left.

00:39:03.000 I mean, he's not really using it.

00:39:04.000 Right.

00:39:05.000 But he did post the mugshot.

00:39:07.000 That's why.

00:39:07.000 That's it, though.

00:39:09.000 Is that saying enough?

00:39:11.000 It's because whatever he posts on Truth is instantly reposted already.

00:39:14.000 Yeah.

00:39:15.000 But when he does post on X, it's major breaking news.

00:39:19.000 Huge.

00:39:19.000 So he's using that, like, bite shot.

00:39:22.000 I do wonder if this goes through, if this ridiculous judge and Letitia James get their way. 0.97

00:39:30.000 Does it really matter? 0.71

00:39:31.000 I mean, one, will it dissolve the Trump Organization?

00:39:34.000 But two, it's not like Donald Trump makes automobiles.

00:39:39.000 It's not like Donald Trump makes widgets.

00:39:41.000 The company is him.

00:39:42.000 It's just him.

00:39:43.000 It's his name.

00:39:43.000 It's his face.

00:39:44.000 It's his lifestyle.

00:39:45.000 It's his imprimatur on various other products.

00:39:49.000 So can't he just start it again?

00:39:51.000 Can't it just be Trump Organization 2, Electric Boogaloo, and this one's going to be registered in Tennessee instead of New York?

00:39:58.000 But I mean, I think they're seizing the properties.

00:40:00.000 I mean, how is this going to operate?

00:40:01.000 Some of the companies that are being dissolved are just holding companies.

00:40:05.000 Right.

00:40:05.000 So for people who aren't familiar, when you're buying a property, you form an LLC, which owns the company.

00:40:11.000 But they're going to take his actual properties?

00:40:15.000 If they're dissolving the company, then who retains ownership of the property?

00:40:18.000 They've dissolved the entity that owns it.

00:40:20.000 Yeah, I don't know, can we start bidding on it?

00:40:23.000 They're calling it the corporate death penalty.

00:40:24.000 If the company owns the property and the company gets dissolved, who owns the property?

00:40:29.000 It goes to auction at that point but and that's crazy if You as a human being in Crossland own property

00:40:35.000 And then you're 80 years old and you pass on and you have no next-of-kin or whatever who gets the property well the

00:40:39.000 state will Probably just take it

00:40:41.000 I think that's what happens if you die and there's no one else or it goes to your next-of-kin or whatever a

00:40:44.000 Corporation doesn't have any of that the corporation is gone. Where does the property go?

00:40:48.000 I imagine it would be the same as if somebody died. I just don't know

00:40:51.000 I mean that's just so that is like Fidel Castro level stuff, and I don't I don't doubt that they want to do it

00:40:58.000 I just can't imagine the American people put up with that.

00:41:02.000 I assume there have got to be some reasonable Democrats.

00:41:05.000 I know that's a bad assumption, but people who don't want the entire system of business law to be totally upended in the United States just because they hate the mean orange man.

00:41:15.000 But maybe not.

00:41:15.000 Maybe they're irrational enough to do something like that.

00:41:18.000 I think you're right.

00:41:19.000 You know, it's just a matter of people being aware of what the hell's happening a lot of times, too. 0.96

00:41:23.000 I just love—this is also another species of one of the dumb anti-Trump attacks, which is, you know, he's not really that rich. 0.94

00:41:30.000 I always loved that in 2016. 0.97

00:41:31.000 Some guy who doesn't have two pennies to rub together.

00:41:34.000 You know, Trump's actually—he's broke.

00:41:36.000 Like, well, he flies around in a 747 for his entire adult life, so I— If he's broke, he's doing a good job fooling all of us.

00:41:43.000 He's living off a debt.

00:41:44.000 He knows how to work the system.

00:41:45.000 You're supposed to have debt and not pay it back if you know if you're a good businessman.

00:41:49.000 It's not that he doesn't.

00:41:49.000 He does pay it back.

00:41:50.000 You pay it back as little as possible just to keep the banks happy.

00:41:52.000 That's right.

00:41:52.000 And then you use all that loan, that investment money to reinvest to make more than the interest that you owe them.

00:41:58.000 You have a billion dollars cash in.

00:42:00.000 a 999 million cash out and then a million in your pocket every month or something like that.

00:42:05.000 So it's a massive rotation.

00:42:07.000 But I loved when they were saying, Donald Trump's a failed businessman,

00:42:10.000 he's had five bankruptcies or whatever.

00:42:12.000 And then I was like- That's success in business,

00:42:14.000 if you can pull off a successful bankruptcy.

00:42:16.000 But it's not that, it's that bankruptcy doesn't mean you've lost,

00:42:19.000 it's bankruptcy protection to preserve the business.

00:42:21.000 Secondly, Trump had over 500 businesses and only a small handful went bankrupt.

00:42:26.000 Then they said, whatever happened to Trump Steaks or Trump Magazine or Trump Water?

00:42:31.000 See, where are those things?

00:42:32.000 And I was like, all of those things are at Trump's golf resorts.

00:42:34.000 Exactly.

00:42:35.000 See, so this- Trump's, go to Trump Doral

00:42:38.000 and you will get a bottle of Trump Water.

00:42:39.000 You will see a Trump magazine.

00:42:40.000 You will be delivered a Trump steak to your room.

00:42:42.000 What they don't understand is these companies Trump started are just Trump supplying his own product to cut costs for his golf resorts.

00:42:49.000 Vertical integration.

00:42:50.000 Yeah, right.

00:42:51.000 McDonald's makes their own mayonnaise.

00:42:52.000 Yes, exactly.

00:42:53.000 But also... McDonald's brand mayonnaise is not in stores.

00:42:55.000 They failed.

00:42:55.000 I mean, he tried, you know, he tried the airlines and now he's just got his plane.

00:42:59.000 Right.

00:42:59.000 But then they say, see, he failed at that airline.

00:43:03.000 I've noticed that every single successful person on planet Earth has failed a lot of times.

00:43:09.000 That is one of the markers of success.

00:43:13.000 Most of them have failed more than anyone has even tried to succeed at anything else.

00:43:17.000 So I just don't see how even that's enough.

00:43:18.000 Well, of the 5,000 things the man's ever done, one of them flopped.

00:43:22.000 Like, okay, that's pretty good.

00:43:24.000 Yeah.

00:43:24.000 Not bad.

00:43:24.000 Was Trump University, like, his biggest flop?

00:43:27.000 Trump University was probably the silliest flop, but it wasn't the biggest property he had, though.

00:43:34.000 And also, I have a PhD from there. 0.96

00:43:36.000 I heard it was a scandal.

00:43:37.000 Is it real?

00:43:38.000 What was the scandal about Trump?

00:43:39.000 Well, it's not like, you know, it's not a school like, you know, Stanford or Harvard or something, meaning if you send your kid to Trump University, the kid won't end up trans, you know, or hating you when they graduate. 0.53

00:43:51.000 Just a hustler?

00:43:54.000 The whole accreditation system, in my opinion, is meaningless.

00:43:56.000 It's just not accredited.

00:43:57.000 Well, I don't know if it was.

00:43:58.000 I don't believe it was.

00:43:59.000 I think it was just like a kind of scammy sounding company, but who, you know, they're like a million of these things.

00:44:03.000 I think it was more so that it just didn't get going.

00:44:06.000 Yeah.

00:44:06.000 Trump tried to start a thing, got a bunch of people in, went nowhere, and then it fell apart, and they were like, yo, what the, you know.

00:44:12.000 Yeah, but does anyone really think Trump University is more of a scam than like half of the actually accredited universities in America today?

00:44:18.000 Less of a scam.

00:44:19.000 It's less of a scam.

00:44:20.000 You're right.

00:44:21.000 Let's jump to this story because last night we had social breakdown in Philadelphia.

00:44:25.000 Philly police arrest 52 people in connection with rioting and looting.

00:44:29.000 So basically, Last night, you had absolute insanity in Philadelphia.

00:44:34.000 Over a hundred people running around, smashing windows, breaking into stores and liquor stores, just stealing whatever they wanted.

00:44:42.000 And they didn't care.

00:44:43.000 They didn't care about the police, they didn't care about what was going on, and the police can't stop it.

00:44:46.000 There was an influencer named Meatball, who got arrested for stealing bread from an Apple store.

00:44:55.000 Bread?

00:44:56.000 Yeah.

00:44:56.000 Wait, what?

00:44:58.000 They're just trying to get by.

00:45:00.000 Just trying to get food to keep surviving.

00:45:04.000 That's what AOC said, right?

00:45:05.000 That they're just struggling to get by.

00:45:06.000 She's feeling bad for meatball right now.

00:45:09.000 I was picturing just meatballs and a nice juicy hoagie roll and I kind of lost track of the story for a second.

00:45:14.000 But yeah, do they feed their families with Dior handbags?

00:45:18.000 I don't know.

00:45:18.000 Well, what they did was, when they stole all the Apple products and went outside, the alarms on the dices went off saying you're being tracked, so they smashed them all.

00:45:25.000 Yeah.

00:45:26.000 But this is my point that I made earlier.

00:45:29.000 When I talk about social breakdown, let me spell it out for you.

00:45:33.000 If police are not held accountable when they commit crimes, then you get this.

00:45:39.000 What do you think the political equivalent of this would be?

00:45:43.000 So I'll give an example.

00:45:46.000 I don't believe that all cops are bad. 0.89

00:45:47.000 I think that's silly. 0.99

00:45:49.000 The ACAB people are nuts. 0.94

00:45:50.000 I think police serve a purpose, but the problem is, when we get instances of police impropriety, we are not likely to get accountability. 0.89

00:45:58.000 I can speak to an example when, the example I often give, of when I filmed the police wrongly arrest a photographer in New York, who then filed a false police report and lied, and additionally lied under oath to try and convict a guy who had done nothing wrong.

00:46:10.000 The police claimed that he was standing in the middle of the street blocking traffic when he was on the sidewalk and I filmed him on the sidewalk and they arrested him.

00:46:17.000 Cops lied.

00:46:18.000 They just didn't want a photographer taking pictures of what they were doing.

00:46:21.000 There was never any accountability for those cops.

00:46:24.000 Now, you get a piece of information like that, it's a problem.

00:46:28.000 How do we fix it?

00:46:29.000 I don't know.

00:46:30.000 There's got to be a solution to it.

00:46:32.000 The leftists propagandize that, amplify it, and then lie about other instances because this seed means you get a George Floyd, you get an Ahmaud Arbery, no one will trust the police.

00:46:42.000 It doesn't matter if you're a fan of the cops or not.

00:46:44.000 The point is this.

00:46:45.000 The more stories you get and the more videos you get of police impropriety going unpunished, you'll end up with people like this saying, the police have no jurisdiction over me.

00:46:56.000 Why would I listen to these gang members?

00:47:00.000 If, and this is what I've explained before, if a gang member steps into your house and says, I'm the boss now, do as I say, you'd be like, get out of here.

00:47:05.000 If a cop shows up, now you're like, okay, I gotta call my lawyer, they have a warrant, now I gotta listen.

00:47:10.000 What's happening now is police are being viewed no different than another gang.

00:47:14.000 Now think about the political equivalent to this.

00:47:17.000 If politicians in Congress can insider trade with no accountability, we know they're corrupt.

00:47:22.000 We know they're taking these dirty deals. 0.91

00:47:23.000 We know they're playing dirty games in politics.

00:47:26.000 We now know that Democrats are going after Trump supporters.

00:47:29.000 They're going after the president himself.

00:47:30.000 They're dissolving his businesses.

00:47:32.000 What's the political equivalent?

00:47:34.000 You're going to get factions of, in combination with this and the politics, what you will see is regular guys in their neighborhoods starting neighborhood watches.

00:47:45.000 Yeah.

00:47:45.000 They're going to say the police won't stop the crime, the police can't be held accountable, the government is going to arrest us, we have to protect ourselves.

00:47:53.000 What happens when you get 56 different factions all throughout the United States in their small town areas asserting their jurisdiction outside of the county, the state, or the federal government?

00:48:06.000 A birth of a nation. Yeah, it's look, it's the way you're describing it is to the extreme extent,

00:48:13.000 but at the smaller level, you know, when people are just starting these community watches and

00:48:18.000 they're maybe just arming themselves and they're just making sure that if you exercise your Second

00:48:23.000 Amendment rights that people are going to be more polite around you. That's all good stuff, you know.

00:48:28.000 I don't want to sound like I'm just trying to make lemonade out of lemons here, and I'd like to avoid civil war if we can do that, but if people have a little bit more situational awareness now, and people don't spend their time hanging around downtown Philly because it's gone up in flames, and people start exercising their rights and working with their neighbors to say, hey, you know, we're not gonna Try that in a small town.

00:48:51.000 Try that in a small town, man.

00:48:53.000 Yeah, I mean, look, these guys could be cancelled, right?

00:48:55.000 But like, I don't know, I like a little accountability.

00:48:58.000 So here's what I imagine.

00:49:02.000 These people are smashing businesses and flash mobbing all over the place.

00:49:05.000 It's been happening non-stop for several years now and it's getting worse.

00:49:07.000 This is the worst we've seen.

00:49:09.000 Not only are they targeting stores, now you have a hundred people running through the shopping district and smashing up a bunch of stores.

00:49:15.000 And the police are only able to stop around half.

00:49:19.000 You're gonna get people who say try that in a small town.

00:49:22.000 Try that in a small town!

00:49:23.000 What's the implication there?

00:49:23.000 The implication is that we in a small town will defend ourselves.

00:49:26.000 We will shoot you. 1.00

00:49:27.000 That is the subtext. 1.00

00:49:29.000 And here's what happens.

00:49:31.000 There will be people in a neighborhood, in a suburb, in a blue state, that will have guns.

00:49:37.000 The police will show up and say, we are coming to take your guns away.

00:49:41.000 And those people are going to be like, F you, no you're not, because you don't protect us from the flash mobs and the roving gangs that are shooting at us and killing people. 0.99

00:49:51.000 And the police are going to say, shut your mouth and get on your knees. 0.97

00:49:54.000 Welcome to a modern Lexington and Concord.

00:49:57.000 I don't think that that'll, it'll come to that though.

00:50:00.000 It seems like maybe, maybe because we got the internet, maybe because we're American, we've got this culture that the cops are kind of like pissed off at this.

00:50:06.000 Like local cops don't want to go harass people and take their weapons.

00:50:10.000 They don't want to create that kind of animosity.

00:50:13.000 I don't agree.

00:50:13.000 I think if a cop gets an order to go take some guy's gun, they're going to be like, no, no, you do it, dude.

00:50:18.000 I'm not going to step in front of that guy's.

00:50:20.000 Okay, I got one for you, Ian.

00:50:23.000 If the police were ordered to arrest local community members in their own city because foreign nationals had entered, do you think the cops would be like, I'm not gonna arrest the guy who lives here because you want me to protect a foreign citizen?

00:50:36.000 Do you think they'd do it?

00:50:37.000 I don't know.

00:50:38.000 They did it already.

00:50:39.000 The police in Staten Island arrested the local residents who were protesting their government shipping in non-citizens and paying them.

00:50:47.000 The police arrested the people who live there.

00:50:50.000 How about the guy who was in his own home when BLM showed up protesting?

00:50:54.000 And the man in his own home, knowing these guys had set fire to another house recently, brandished a weapon.

00:51:00.000 The cops went into his house and arrested him.

00:51:04.000 You know the sad part of all of this?

00:51:06.000 I mean, that's all pretty sad.

00:51:09.000 I think people will just probably go along with it.

00:51:11.000 I like to think they're going to say, no, I'm going to stand up for my rights and my way of life.

00:51:15.000 But man, if even Staten Island can be pushed around, those are like the most obnoxious, you know, sort of stubborn people.

00:51:22.000 We talked about this last night.

00:51:23.000 The American Revolution took 20 years.

00:51:25.000 It started in 1764 and it went until 1783.

00:51:28.000 The revolution started one year and a month before the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

00:51:34.000 And the Battle of Lexington and Concord, which wasn't really a battle, it was a bunch of farmers shooting at, effectively, police.

00:51:40.000 The reason why that marked the start, the shot heard around the world, was because before this, everyone said exactly what you were just saying right now.

00:51:46.000 No one's going to stand up for themselves.

00:51:48.000 No one's ever going to get into conflict with the regulars.

00:51:50.000 No one will stand against the Crown until one day, when the Crown said, we're coming to take your guns, and they went to the militias in the rural parts of Massachusetts, and they said, over our cold dead hands, someone started shooting, we don't know who.

00:52:02.000 I think it's fair to assume it was the Americans who opened fire on the Crown first. 0.93

00:52:06.000 Some drunk, some drunk militia man like, I don't think that was it at all.

00:52:11.000 I think 300 regulars marching down the street pointing muskets at you and one guy, 18 farmers, were just like, I'm done with it.

00:52:18.000 This is my fear.

00:52:19.000 But the problem is, I don't see an offer.

00:52:22.000 As Phil Labonte describes it.

00:52:23.000 Because all we ask for is like, guys, it's really simple.

00:52:26.000 Police, you can't arrest a local resident because they're upset you shipped in non-citizens to their neighborhood and are giving them their tax dollars.

00:52:34.000 Let me make this clear for everybody.

00:52:35.000 Non-citizen illegally enters the country. 0.57

00:52:38.000 gets a free bus ride and or plane ride to your hometown to staten island to where you live Your tax dollars to New York City are now paying these non-citizens who also have police protections from you and special protected status that AOC has fought for.

00:52:56.000 They're working underground jobs and they're not paying taxes.

00:52:58.000 Yo, I'm sorry, man.

00:53:00.000 I'm deeply concerned about things like that.

00:53:02.000 I'm deeply concerned about the fact that Colorado has no abortion restrictions and Oklahoma has total abortion restrictions, hyperpolarization, but most importantly, the immigration thing, I think, is the scariest thing. 1.00

00:53:14.000 But think about how effective it's been.

00:53:17.000 We're paying attention to it now in particular because you see the crazy stuff in Staten Island, or you see Lampedusa gets overrun with more migrants than citizens of the island. 1.00

00:53:26.000 But this has been going on now for about 65 years.

00:53:29.000 The movement of people into the United States over the last 65 years is the largest movement of people ever in recorded history.

00:53:36.000 So, you know, the hour is a bit late on this issue.

00:53:40.000 And there's this bizarre fact that no matter which party you elect, you just get more more migration.

00:53:45.000 The hour is a bit late, but all that means to me is that it'll be worse than it should have been if 50 years ago or whenever it started, people just said, hey, we're stopping this right now.

00:53:56.000 There's no conflict.

00:53:57.000 You just sign the paperwork and things are done.

00:53:59.000 Maybe a little heated arguments in Congress.

00:54:01.000 But now we're talking about a million plus people per year.

00:54:04.000 Now we're at the point where the people who... Hey look man, all that is required for evil to triumph is good men do nothing.

00:54:11.000 Good people do nothing, right?

00:54:13.000 And so the people of Staten Island for too long... But mostly men, I think.

00:54:15.000 Right, sure.

00:54:16.000 But the people of Staten Island did nothing.

00:54:18.000 These are people who pay taxes and support a machine and say, leave me out of it.

00:54:23.000 I don't care about politics.

00:54:24.000 I don't think about that stuff.

00:54:25.000 That's the one Republican borough.

00:54:27.000 There you go.

00:54:28.000 And then one day they wake up and there's a bus being shipped in of non-citizens and they're saying, hey, your tax dollars, everyone's got to pitch in for these guys.

00:54:36.000 And they're like, wait, wait, wait, these 20 year old men from El Salvador and well, sorry, not El Salvador, El Salvador is doing really well and everyone's moving back. 0.62

00:54:41.000 But from Guatemala, seriously though, but from Honduras and Guatemala who are fleeing here, then when they come out and they say, hey, get this bus out of here, the cop looks him straight in the eyes with a joker grin and says, I will crack you over the skull if you stop what we are doing to your home.

00:54:57.000 And then what happens?

00:54:58.000 The cops beat and arrest the people who live there to protect the non-citizens.

00:55:02.000 Yeah.

00:55:02.000 This is unsustainable.

00:55:03.000 No, it's insane.

00:55:04.000 I guess, though, that's my point, is that even the Republican borough with the tough Italians, Staten Islanders, most people haven't even heard this story. 0.70

00:55:13.000 Nothing really happened.

00:55:14.000 And so, look, maybe something... Right, right, but...

00:55:17.000 You're saying just wait, and it'll... Well, so, if the revolutionary period started in 1764, and it took 11 years to get to the point where people were opening fire on regulars, you know, we could be eight years away.

00:55:31.000 Or, if the Strauss House generational theory is correct, then we're looking at maybe four... I think in four years we're in deep trenches of serious conflict in our urban sense.

00:55:41.000 In the United States?

00:55:42.000 What about the world? Do you think I can't imagine that something would happen United States and not the rest of

00:55:46.000 the world?

00:55:47.000 I agree be a global firestorm or something like that. We're like if the if the US destabilizes in this way

00:55:53.000 China immediately takes Taiwan and and try and take the Western United States. It would be like land grab 0.89

00:55:59.000 Central like at the Civil War the the Revolutionary War is a French opportunity to take control of the the Atlantic

00:56:05.000 Ocean By demolishing the British and they did that so when you 1.00

00:56:09.000 make a good point to Ian Which is you've already got this this difficult situation.

00:56:14.000 We're in where the the West, led by America, is decaying and China is largely on the rise. 1.00

00:56:19.000 So you're seeing what people are calling the inevitability of a bipolar world already, so cracking U.S.

00:56:25.000 hegemony for the first time since the Cold War is over, and frankly even a little earlier than that.

00:56:30.000 So when you have a shift in the world order to that degree, it almost always ends in war, in a world war.

00:56:38.000 So is it possible that just as we're on the brink of our civil war and, you know, pulling out our muskets to shoot our cousins, Uh, that we've find ourselves in a global conflict already where the stakes are even higher.

00:56:48.000 Yep.

00:56:49.000 Does Russia advance knowing that the United States is completely destabilized?

00:56:54.000 And if Russia does do a larger push, say with nuclear artillery, and I use that as an example because I'm sure they have other weapons and other techniques that could be divisive and powerful.

00:57:03.000 But a nuclear weapon creates a hyper-polarization in the United States.

00:57:08.000 One side, the left, saying, this is our casus belli.

00:57:12.000 We must stop Vladimir Putin.

00:57:14.000 And the right would say, this is your fault.

00:57:18.000 We should not have been in Ukraine in the first place. 0.89

00:57:21.000 You caused this.

00:57:22.000 We need to extract and remove ourselves now.

00:57:27.000 And then what happens?

00:57:29.000 Do you think, after a nuclear artillery is dropped in Ukraine, that there's... I mean, this would... extreme political instability already in this country.

00:57:38.000 They're not gonna have the public support to warrant sending more troops, more dollars, more resources to Ukraine.

00:57:43.000 We now know, thanks to CBS, surprisingly, that the US is not only funding the war, we're funding the small businesses of Ukraine.

00:57:50.000 Right.

00:57:51.000 When the federal government shuts down, Ukraine will still, the U.S. 0.99

00:57:56.000 will be paying the salaries of Ukrainian citizens while not paying veterans benefits.

00:58:01.000 Now I do think Matt Gaetz said they did get a measure through a single subject spending bill to guarantee veterans benefits.

00:58:07.000 They're duking it out right now.

00:58:08.000 I mean as we're speaking they're on the floor of the house right now duking this out.

00:58:12.000 But the thing I love about this government shutdown, look we now shut down the government every year so I don't even pay attention to it really.

00:58:18.000 This is just this year's shutdown and the thing I love about it Is that it's going to show you who really runs your government.

00:58:25.000 Because just as you say, we're going to shut down all non-essential services, but those paychecks to the shop owner in Ukraine, they're going to keep going.

00:58:33.000 It doesn't matter what the people in Congress say.

00:58:36.000 I think most people in this country don't care.

00:58:40.000 You tell them that textiles are going to Ukraine, they're going to be like, I can't see it, right?

00:58:45.000 I'll tell you something funny.

00:58:48.000 You ever play poker?

00:58:49.000 You play textiles?

00:58:49.000 Yeah.

00:58:50.000 So you're familiar with table rake versus time rake?

00:58:54.000 No. Okay, go to a casino and most of them do what's called a table rake where that's every hand, 0.60

00:59:01.000 everyone gets dealt two cards, everybody puts money in and then you can increase the wager

00:59:06.000 and if you don't want to pay it, you fold. The casinos typically take five to seven dollars

00:59:11.000 out of the pot as what's called a table rake. So every hand that's dealt, they will pull 10%

00:59:17.000 up to six dollars and put it in their bin.

00:59:20.000 That means if they're doing 20 to 30 hands per hour times $6, some card clubs do what's called a table rake, which is, I'm sorry, a time rake.

00:59:31.000 Every half an hour, everyone pays $7.

00:59:34.000 If you do what's called time rake, you physically pick the money up and hand it to the dealer

00:59:41.000 and you're like, that sucked. 0.74

00:59:43.000 If you do a table rake, you never know because the dealer's pushing you your winnings and

00:59:47.000 pulling from it without you realizing.

00:59:49.000 And people beg for table rake, which takes substantially more money away from them.

00:59:54.000 The reason I bring this up is when it comes to us funding Ukraine, so long as the American

00:59:59.000 people can't see the money extracted from their accounts, they won't care.

01:00:03.000 As soon as, if it was, if Joe Biden said, everyone's going to, we're going to debit

01:00:07.000 your bank account $5 to fund the war in Ukraine, there would be a riot.

01:00:12.000 It'd be over in one second.

01:00:13.000 Done.

01:00:13.000 But you know, what they're really gonna do is, it's all funny money, and we're so incredibly in debt at this point that people don't even pay attention to it.

01:00:21.000 And well, even if the Congress doesn't approve more appropriations for Ukraine, which is possible, What's gonna happen is they're gonna just discover another six billion dollars the part of remember this was a few months ago They discovered six billion dollars.

01:00:34.000 They meant to send to Ukraine and that that wasn't really true That's not really what happened What really happened is the political powers who were running our war in Ukraine our side of the war in Ukraine?

01:00:44.000 They decided that Ukraine needed some more stuff so they retroactively changed the price of the weapons that we sent over and It's gonna be interesting to see how people respond to the fact that our government shuts down and we keep paying Ukrainians.

01:00:56.000 It's like, well, your government won't pay you, government employee, but the Ukrainians get their paycheck. 0.99

01:00:59.000 But it's okay, we're not spending any more money because we just retroactively changed the prices.

01:01:03.000 Okay, great.

01:01:04.000 It's going to be interesting to see how people respond to the fact that our government shuts down and we keep paying

01:01:10.000 Ukrainians.

01:01:10.000 It's like, well, your government won't pay you, government employee, but the Ukrainians get their paycheck. Have a

01:01:15.000 nice day.

01:01:16.000 Frankly, I'd rather pay the Ukrainians than the IRS. 0.98

01:01:21.000 I mean, I agree.

01:01:22.000 I got nothing against the Ukrainians.

01:01:24.000 I have a lot against the IRS.

01:01:26.000 Yeah, I think that if we cut, it's like, here's the deal.

01:01:29.000 Actually, you know what?

01:01:31.000 I will completely agree with funding Ukrainian small business and their first responders.

01:01:36.000 That's as far as I go.

01:01:37.000 I don't care for the war stuff.

01:01:38.000 Their first responders saving lives.

01:01:40.000 They're small businesses, but the money needs to come from the IRS, the ATF, the FBI, the CIA and the NSA.

01:01:47.000 FDA, too, because they screw with my cigars.

01:01:49.000 Get rid of them, too.

01:01:49.000 Yeah, none of that.

01:01:51.000 So you shut down the FBI and use the money to fund the war in Ukraine.

01:01:55.000 That way you please everyone.

01:01:58.000 You please everyone.

01:01:59.000 Hear that, Vivek?

01:02:01.000 Yeah, compromise for all the viewers.

01:02:03.000 Would you agree with those terms?

01:02:04.000 We will abolish the ATF, FBI, and CIA, but we do have to use the money that would have gone to those branches and send it to Ukraine. 0.62

01:02:11.000 That's a good pull.

01:02:14.000 You can't speak for Daily Wire, but I kind of ask you just in general, the talk around the office and stuff, we talk a lot about the solutions to the political is like in the private sector.

01:02:22.000 Is that where your head's at?

01:02:25.000 Some of my colleagues think that.

01:02:27.000 They're much more into, you know, doing things through the private sector and culture.

01:02:32.000 I want to use the heavy hand of the law, baby.

01:02:35.000 Look, there's a role for both of these things, but I just fear sometimes when conservatives focus exclusively on politics being downstream of culture, we forget that the law is also a teacher.

01:02:46.000 And I think sometimes what politicians do is they use that phrase, which is true enough in itself, politics is downstream of culture, they use that as an excuse not to do anything and not to pass any laws and not to wield any power.

01:02:58.000 They just say, oh no, we need to make better movies or whatever.

01:03:00.000 Yeah.

01:03:01.000 No, no.

01:03:01.000 The movie makers are better movies.

01:03:02.000 You're in Congress.

01:03:03.000 You need to use your political power, man.

01:03:06.000 Well, the debate's starting.

01:03:06.000 You guys ready?

01:03:07.000 Oh, yeah.

01:03:07.000 Let's do it.

01:03:08.000 Here we go.

01:03:08.000 I can't wait.

01:03:10.000 Burgomentum, baby.

01:03:11.000 Oh, you're all about Burgom.

01:03:13.000 I love it.

01:03:13.000 I'm a big Burgom guy.

01:03:14.000 He's great.

01:03:15.000 And I am thrilled to be sitting alongside my co-moderators, Fox News Channel Dana Perino and Ilya Kolderon.

01:03:23.000 Wow.

01:03:23.000 A very exotic panel.

01:03:24.000 Fix your audio, dudes.

01:03:26.000 Thank you.

01:03:27.000 Thank you, Stuart.

01:03:28.000 President Reagan famously described America as a shining city on a hill.

01:03:32.000 And tonight, seven candidates will make the case they should be the one to lead that city into a brighter tomorrow.

01:03:40.000 But first, they have to convince you.

01:03:45.000 They're not going to, I'm voting for Trump.

01:03:46.000 That was a great pause, wasn't it?

01:03:48.000 Right, it was perfect.

01:03:49.000 Oh, no, that was French. 0.67

01:03:51.000 What the hello is this?

01:03:51.000 I want to say goodnight to everyone, from the presidential library, Ronald Reagan, the first Republican candidates are

01:03:57.000 also looking for their vote.

01:03:58.000 I'm going to be speaking in Spanish. I'm going to be speaking in French. What the hell is this? Why are we

01:04:02.000 speaking a foreign language in an American presidential debate?

01:04:05.000 Oh, it's Spanish in Florida, you know.

01:04:09.000 It's not DeSantis.

01:04:10.000 I guess technically, he'll tell you.

01:04:11.000 The pain in his eyes.

01:04:13.000 No, but what I'm saying, Nikki Haley's beating him in polls.

01:04:15.000 In New Hampshire, she is.

01:04:16.000 That's one of the national issues.

01:04:17.000 Ron DeSantis. I guess technically. The pain in his eyes.

01:04:22.000 No, but what I'm saying, Nikki Haley's beating him in polls.

01:04:24.000 In New Hampshire she is.

01:04:26.000 I thought national issues... yeah, that's right.

01:04:31.000 Wow. A bunch of polls show it had to have matchups with Biden.

01:04:34.000 Nikki Haley is winning.

01:04:37.000 Sanders is losing.

01:04:38.000 I believe it.

01:04:39.000 I believe that.

01:04:40.000 People underestimate Nikki, and she's moderate, so conservatives don't like her sometimes.

01:04:45.000 She's talented, though.

01:04:47.000 She is, but she's too Warhawk-y.

01:04:49.000 You're not going to vote for her, obviously.

01:04:52.000 There he is.

01:04:54.000 The Dark Horse.

01:04:55.000 Questions on a wide variety of issues important to primary voters.

01:04:58.000 Candidates get one minute to answer and 30 seconds to respond if singled out.

01:05:04.000 When their time runs out we'll all hear this.

01:05:08.000 Yeah, that means nothing.

01:05:09.000 We have a lot of ground to cover.

01:05:10.000 Can you please keep it civilized?

01:05:13.000 Dude, this audio is awful.

01:05:14.000 Let's get going.

01:05:15.000 Yeah, it's a hanger.

01:05:16.000 We are in this spacious, sunny place tonight designed to reflect the very nature and character of Ronald Reagan.

01:05:24.000 It's a place that makes you proud to be an American.

01:05:28.000 Yet today our nation is drowning in division and incivility.

01:05:33.000 Voters say they dread the 2024 election and find politics exhausting.

01:05:39.000 Two in three Americans think the country is on the wrong track.

01:05:44.000 And three in four say the economy is not in good shape.

01:05:49.000 Prices are up 18% since 2020.

01:05:53.000 More than half of the US population has little access to childcare.

01:05:58.000 85% of Americans say their personal finances are a source of stress.

01:06:03.000 Americans want to believe a leader who says, you can follow me.

01:06:07.000 I've got you.

01:06:08.000 Don't worry.

01:06:09.000 I know, yeah.

01:06:09.000 I'm like rolling my eyes over here.

01:06:10.000 trying to do that. I'm like rolling my eyes over here.

01:06:13.000 And yesterday he joined the picket lines where auto workers are demanding more wages and job security.

01:06:17.000 Stuart Varney has a great voice.

01:06:19.000 That's an improvement over him.

01:06:22.000 I like that lady's accent. 1.00

01:06:24.000 Yeah, no, I like all of them, including Dana.

01:06:26.000 Dana, the only one speaking English.

01:06:27.000 Dana, the only one speaking English on the stage, as it's meant to be spoken.

01:06:31.000 Would you summarize your visions of striking auto workers today, Senator?

01:06:35.000 Obviously the President of the United States cannot fire anybody in the private sector.

01:06:39.000 However, we should look back at the first bill in Congress under Joe Biden.

01:06:44.000 The first bill had $86 billion for the union pensions because they continue to over-promise, yet under-deliver.

01:06:52.000 One of the challenges that we have in the current negotiations is that they want four-day French work weeks, but more money.

01:07:00.000 They want more benefits, working fewer hours.

01:07:03.000 That is simply not going to stand.

01:07:06.000 I sat in a finance committee hearing when a widow came before the committee who's promised pensions from the unions, $4,000 a month.

01:07:16.000 Unfortunately, it had been cut to $1,000 a month.

01:07:20.000 We must make sure that we honor the commitments that we make, and one of the ways that we do that,

01:07:25.000 do not over-promise and then under-deliver and leave the taxpayers on the hook.

01:07:32.000 I'll say this, Joe Biden should not be on the picket line, he should be on the southern border,

01:07:38.000 working to close our southern border because it is unsafe, wide-open, and insecure.

01:07:45.000 But that was a good one.

01:07:47.000 Well, he realized he was losing it, and that was why he... The border's open!

01:07:50.000 ...last 12 months because of fentanyl.

01:07:52.000 It is devastating.

01:07:54.000 Every county in America is now a border county because fentanyl has devastated Americans in every single state.

01:08:03.000 I will also say, 6 million illegal crossings.

01:08:07.000 Because he started out answering the question, which was a very dumb idea because nobody cares about the autoworkers, right? 0.52

01:08:14.000 Finish the wall, reinstate Title 42, and get the job done.

01:08:19.000 Get it done.

01:08:20.000 Talk like this.

01:08:21.000 Well, I can promise you that we are going to have a lot of questions on the border and

01:08:26.000 In the meantime, we do want to talk about the economy and jobs, and especially we want to talk about this strike for just a moment more.

01:08:32.000 Mr. Anaslami, you said you really empathize with the strike.

01:08:37.000 Do you agree with what he said, or do you think he's wrong?

01:08:40.000 I agree with some of what he said, for sure.

01:08:42.000 I like the spirit of it.

01:08:44.000 I'll say that I don't have a lot of patience for the union bosses.

01:08:46.000 I think that's where he and I actually have a common view.

01:08:49.000 I do have a lot of sympathy for the workers, however.

01:08:52.000 People are going through real hardship in this country.

01:08:55.000 I've been through hardship growing up.

01:08:57.000 My father stared down layoffs at GE under Jack Welch's tenure at the GE plant in Evendale, Ohio.

01:09:04.000 My mom had to work overtime in nursing homes in southwest Ohio to make ends meet and pay off our home loan. 1.00

01:09:11.000 So I understand that hardship is not a choice.

01:09:14.000 But victimhood is a choice.

01:09:17.000 And we choose to be victorious in the United States of America.

01:09:20.000 You know what, if I was giving advice to those workers, I would say go pick it in front of the White House in Washington, D.C.

01:09:27.000 That's really where the protest needs to be.

01:09:29.000 Disastrous economic policies that have driven up prices, that have driven up interest rates and mortgage rates.

01:09:35.000 At the same time, wages remaining stagnant.

01:09:37.000 What we need is to deliver economic growth in this country.

01:09:41.000 Unlock American energy.

01:09:42.000 Drill.

01:09:43.000 Frack.

01:09:44.000 Burn coal.

01:09:45.000 Embrace nuclear energy.

01:09:47.000 Put people back to work by no longer paying them more money to stay at home.

01:09:52.000 Stabilize the US dollar itself and rescind a majority of those unconstitutional federal regulations that are hampering our economy.

01:10:01.000 That is how we unleash American exceptionalism.

01:10:05.000 And that's not a Democratic vision or a Republican vision.

01:10:08.000 That is an American vision that we embrace economic growth and capitalism is still the best system known to man to lift us up from poverty.

01:10:17.000 And we should not apologize for it.

01:10:19.000 That's what it means to be an American.

01:10:20.000 He's too smart.

01:10:22.000 He's a smart guy, man.

01:10:26.000 He needed an answer that was more like, hey, just a simple sweet treat that can easily digest.

01:10:34.000 I like that he corrected this view that he's just a silver spoon kid.

01:10:38.000 I like that he said, I grew up, I had some hardship.

01:10:41.000 Usually I find it cheesy, but it's helpful because no one knows who Vivek is.

01:10:44.000 Is that actually true, though?

01:10:46.000 I don't know.

01:10:48.000 I've been friends with him for a while, but I don't know.

01:10:50.000 His parents were immigrants.

01:10:52.000 But you also support how these companies operate.

01:10:56.000 Which is it?

01:10:58.000 Well, thank you for the question.

01:11:00.000 I want to thank Univision and Fox Business for assembling such a wonderful forum.

01:11:05.000 Look, I do disagree with something Tim Scott just said.

01:11:08.000 Joe Biden doesn't belong on a picket line.

01:11:10.000 He belongs on the unemployment line.

01:11:14.000 I mean, look, I'm from the... Nobody cared!

01:11:17.000 He paused for a clap and nobody gave it to him.

01:11:21.000 We brought 12,000 factories back to America during our administration.

01:11:25.000 I know something about manufacturing.

01:11:27.000 And I gotta tell you, while the union bosses are talking about class warfare and talking about disparity in wages, I have to tell you, I really believe what's driving that is Bidenomics has failed.

01:11:40.000 Wages are not keeping up with inflation.

01:11:42.000 Auto workers and all American workers are feeling it.

01:11:45.000 Families are struggling in this economy.

01:11:47.000 And Joe Biden's Green New Deal agenda is good for Beijing and bad for Detroit.

01:11:54.000 We ought to repeal the Green New Deal, get rid of the mandates and subsidies that are driving American gasoline, automotive manufacturing into the graveyard.

01:12:05.000 And beyond that also, As president of the United States, I'll be standing with workers all across America and I'll be standing for the right to work of every American to join a union or not join a union as they decide.

01:12:19.000 I like that.

01:12:20.000 Senator Scott, you mentioned, will you care to respond?

01:12:24.000 Joe Biden needs to be fired.

01:12:25.000 That's why I'm running for president.

01:12:27.000 I look forward to being the next president of the United States.

01:12:30.000 I will also say I know America can do for Oh, Rumble.

01:12:35.000 It's over.

01:12:35.000 Rumble.

01:12:37.000 The election has been decided.

01:12:38.000 That's it.

01:12:38.000 It's over.

01:12:39.000 Thanks for hanging out.

01:12:40.000 Burgum won, I would say.

01:12:43.000 Have you interviewed Vivek?

01:12:45.000 I have.

01:12:46.000 So Vivek and I go back to college.

01:12:47.000 He was at the law school when I was an undergraduate.

01:12:49.000 Oh, nice.

01:12:50.000 And we didn't really know each other in college, but we were in similar circles and groups.

01:12:54.000 And then we reconnected because he started making waves in politics.

01:12:59.000 And then five seconds later, we was running for president.

01:13:01.000 And I thought, well, that's crazy.

01:13:02.000 And then five seconds later, He was pretty good at it.

01:13:05.000 You know, he's like number two or three.

01:13:06.000 He was a libertarian in college.

01:13:08.000 Were you also libertarian?

01:13:09.000 I hate to confess my sins in public, but I was a bit libertarian.

01:13:13.000 He said he was like pretty libertarian, but then he found the inaction or just the action of the Republican Party aligned more with his...

01:13:20.000 Appetite for politics.

01:13:22.000 Yeah, but he also, you know, he wasn't out doing political activism or anything in school.

01:13:26.000 When he was at the law school, he was preparing this company that made him a bet of a bazillion

01:13:31.000 dollars.

01:13:32.000 He's a sharp guy.

01:13:33.000 Let's get rid of unfair distortions like the state and local tax that they give to wealthy

01:13:38.000 people in blue states and not in paid by red states.

01:13:42.000 And let's make sure we make the small business taxes permanent. 0.97

01:13:45.000 They only made those temporary.

01:13:47.000 They made the corporate taxes permanent.

01:13:49.000 Let's focus on what it takes to get more cash in the pockets of workers.

01:13:53.000 That's when we'll be able to deal with strikes like this.

01:13:55.000 Not sitting on a picket line like Joe Biden is.

01:14:01.000 When their answers are like, let's fix the problem and offer a solution, they're like, yeah, what solution?

01:14:06.000 Put money in their hands, like what?

01:14:08.000 I'm sorry.

01:14:08.000 Go deep.

01:14:09.000 I know they only have 30 seconds.

01:14:10.000 I have to jump in because we're missing the point and every other network is missing the point.

01:14:14.000 The reason why people are striking the Detroit breach is because of Joe Biden's interference with capital markets and with free markets.

01:14:21.000 Yeah.

01:14:22.000 Subsidies.

01:14:22.000 We're subsidizing the automakers, and we're subsidizing the cars, and a particular kind of car.

01:14:28.000 Not every car.

01:14:29.000 Particularly, we're subsidizing electric vehicles.

01:14:31.000 That's actually a good point.

01:14:32.000 And when you decide that we're going to take all of your taxpayer money, take a billion dollars, subsidize a certain type of vehicle, and the batteries come from China.

01:14:40.000 China controls 85% of the rare earth minerals.

01:14:43.000 They're called rare earth because they're- I think I'm becoming an unironic Bergen.

01:14:47.000 This is like one of the best answers I've ever seen.

01:14:49.000 In Indonesia, in Africa, they're literally destroying the planet so that we can make 1.00

01:14:54.000 a battery that's in a car subsidized here.

01:14:57.000 That's why they're striking because they need to.

01:14:58.000 It's the most subsidized part of any of these debates.

01:15:01.000 Joe Biden, this strike is at Joe Biden's feet.

01:15:04.000 I really like that.

01:15:07.000 That was about him.

01:15:10.000 Wow.

01:15:11.000 That's stealth.

01:15:12.000 The follow up question to Governor Christie.

01:15:13.000 The government will shut down if Congress does not reach a deal by the end of this week.

01:15:19.000 Vice President Pence warns that politics of, quote, Trump's populist prodigies, like Mr. Ramaswamy, are a road to ruin for the GOP.

01:15:30.000 If the government shuts down, should voters blame populist Republicans?

01:15:36.000 Voters should blame everybody who's in Washington, D.C.

01:15:39.000 They get sent down there to do the job, and they've been failing at doing the job for a very long time.

01:15:44.000 And let's be honest about this with the voters.

01:15:46.000 You know, during the Trump administration, they added $7 trillion.

01:15:51.000 $7 trillion in national debt.

01:15:53.000 And now the Biden administration has put another $5 trillion on and counting.

01:15:58.000 They have failed and they're in the spot they're in now because none of them are willing to tell the truth.

01:16:02.000 None of them are willing to take on the difficult issues.

01:16:05.000 They just want to keep kicking the can down the road. 0.96

01:16:07.000 And the inflation that Nikki spoke about is absolutely right.

01:16:10.000 And it's caused by government spending.

01:16:13.000 And that's why people all across this country are suffering tonight.

01:16:17.000 And yet we don't get any answers because Joe Biden hides in his basement and won't answer as to why he's raising the debt the way he's done.

01:16:25.000 And Donald Trump, he hides behind the walls of his golf clubs and won't show up here to answer questions like all the rest of us are up here to answer.

01:16:33.000 He put $7 trillion on the debt.

01:16:35.000 He should be in this room to answer those questions.

01:16:39.000 who are suffering. And if the government closes, it's to the blame of everyone in Washington,

01:16:49.000 D.C. who has failed to do their job and just plays to the grandstand.

01:16:53.000 And I would rather be eating Pizza Hut pizza than watching reruns of The Simpsons than

01:16:59.000 listen to Chris Christie.

01:17:02.000 I would rather do that than most things.

01:17:08.000 People in Washington are shutting down the American dream with their reckless behavior.

01:17:13.000 They borrowed, they printed, they spent, and now you're paying more for everything.

01:17:18.000 They are the reason for that.

01:17:20.000 They have shut down our national sovereignty by allowing our border to be wide open.

01:17:26.000 So please spare me.

01:17:28.000 The crocodile tears for these people.

01:17:29.000 They need to change what's going on.

01:17:31.000 And where's Joe Biden?

01:17:32.000 He's completely missing in action from leadership.

01:17:35.000 And you know who else is missing in action?

01:17:37.000 Donald Trump is missing.

01:17:41.000 He owes it to you to defend his record.

01:17:45.000 What if he added $7.8 trillion to the debt?

01:17:47.000 Otherwise he's going to end up at like 9%.

01:17:50.000 Trump's not the president, Ron!

01:17:52.000 Come on! 0.61

01:17:53.000 We cut taxes.

01:17:54.000 We ran surpluses.

01:17:55.000 We paid down over 25% of state debt.

01:17:58.000 And I vetoed wasteful spending when it came to my desk.

01:18:01.000 And as your president, when they send me a bloating spending bill that's going to cause your prices to go up, I'm going to take out this veto pen and I'm going to send it right back to them.

01:18:10.000 That was a really good answer, Ron.

01:18:11.000 I really appreciate it.

01:18:15.000 Some families are spending up to half of their income on childcare, and they're having to decide, is it worth it for me to work, or does it not make sense for me financially?

01:18:20.000 Like it's not gonna, it's almost certainly not gonna work, but he's gotta do it.

01:18:24.000 Some families are spending up to half of their income on childcare and they're having to

01:18:30.000 decide is it worth it for me to work or does it not make sense for me financially?

01:18:35.000 In three days, the billions of dollars in pandemic era funding is going to end and 70,000

01:18:40.000 daycares could close.

01:18:43.000 So you had an effort to broaden eligibility for childcare assistance.

01:18:46.000 That fell apart last year.

01:18:48.000 And for the moms and dads out there who are worried, what can you tell them?

01:18:52.000 If you weren't able to get it through the Congress, how could you do it as president?

01:18:57.000 Certainly one of the things I did as a member of the Congress was to make sure that we protected the Head Start programs around the country, giving people the opportunity to pick and choose the place that they send their children.

01:19:08.000 The challenges that we see today Every time it's him.

01:19:12.000 Yeah.

01:19:13.000 The Biden administration is that the cost for daycare has gone over $15,000 per child.

01:19:21.000 In the Build Back Broker Plan, he called it a Build Back Better Plan, it was going up

01:19:26.000 to $29,000.

01:19:27.000 The way we fixed that problem is to make sure that we actually cut taxes and give more Americans

01:19:35.000 their money back.

01:19:36.000 Isn't that good?

01:19:37.000 Isn't that good?

01:19:38.000 Is he going to win the Virgin Votes?

01:19:39.000 We actually lowered a single mother's taxes by 70% on the federal level. 1.00

01:19:44.000 For dual income households by 60%.

01:19:47.000 Then we went a step further, we doubled the child tax credit and made it refundable.

01:19:52.000 By doing that...

01:19:53.000 More parents had more resources to make the decisions how to take care of their family.

01:19:58.000 The one thing we should do is let the American people keep their money.

01:20:03.000 When that happens, the greatest opportunities rise from the ashes.

01:20:08.000 I heard that he enjoys the company.

01:20:12.000 mischaracterized about that i think it was a big story in the division is

01:20:15.000 unpopular in our part another that's a good advice not between a lot of

01:20:19.000 privately stated that i want to say these are good people i've never seen any proof of it the real i agree i think it's

01:20:25.000 between the majority of us in this country who love the united states

01:20:29.000 of america and share our crazy how he looks like he's 19 free speech

01:20:33.000 Yeah, I know.

01:20:34.000 He's 20 and a half, actually.

01:20:35.000 Yeah, he's been working out a lot.

01:20:37.000 I think he dropped some fat.

01:20:39.000 And the fringe minority in the Democrat party that has a chokehold over that party.

01:20:45.000 That's the real divide.

01:20:46.000 So this populist versus classical debate is artificial.

01:20:49.000 We need to unite this party.

01:20:53.000 I thought they said abortion, not immigration.

01:20:57.000 Yeah, he was doing really well before the first debate.

01:20:59.000 Now he's, I think he's like third or fourth place.

01:21:02.000 His last performance was polarizing.

01:21:05.000 Young people loved it, but older people hated it.

01:21:08.000 So I felt it helped him, but he's gotta ride that line this time.

01:21:12.000 We got Burgum.

01:21:13.000 Oh, let's go.

01:21:14.000 We will get you some questions, but you're gonna have to let us move on.

01:21:19.000 We are going to the boardroom next.

01:21:21.000 We're trying to save the world, bro.

01:21:23.000 They need to shut him up.

01:21:25.000 They can't let him speak.

01:21:27.000 It's too much for them.

01:21:29.000 The idea of amnesty for those who have put down roots and who have lived here, even though 0.93

01:21:36.000 some time back they may have entered illegally.

01:21:42.000 Two years later, President Reagan granted amnesty to nearly three million immigrants,

01:21:47.000 something no Democrat or Republican president has done since.

01:21:52.000 Governor Christie, as governor of a non-border state in 2010, you supported a path to citizenship.

01:21:59.000 But when you ran for president in 2016, you flipped, saying immigrants should be tracked

01:22:06.000 like FedEx packages.

01:22:08.000 Did she say that?

01:22:09.000 And in fact, to citizenship for 11 million of undocumented immigrants.

01:22:14.000 The problem is that since no one has done anything since we first had this discussion

01:22:19.000 13 years ago, we're not in a position to be able to do any of that anymore.

01:22:24.000 What we have to do now is first treat this like the law enforcement problem it is.

01:22:29.000 Our laws are being broken every day at the southern border.

01:22:32.000 Every day.

01:22:33.000 And Joe Biden and his crew is doing nothing about enforcing that law.

01:22:37.000 They are letting it go.

01:22:38.000 And by the way, they announced during the presidential race that we're going to let it go.

01:22:42.000 And we need to have a president who acts like I did as governor enforce the law.

01:22:50.000 First and foremost, and that means what I'll do on day one is sign an executive order to send the National Guard to partner with Customs and Border Patrol to make sure that we stop the flow of fentanyl over the border, but also to make sure that we send a much different message.

01:23:06.000 We want you here in this country to fill the six million vacant jobs we have, but only if you come here to follow the law, and only if you come here legally. 0.74

01:23:15.000 The majority of Americans want to drastically reduce all immigration.

01:23:18.000 We will apprehend you, and we will send you back across the border from which you came. 0.99

01:23:23.000 And the fact is that until we set a law and order agenda in this country, not only now, but in the future, we won't be able to continue this.

01:23:30.000 And I'll tell you this.

01:23:31.000 Donald Trump failed on this as well.

01:23:34.000 He said he was going to build a wall across the whole border.

01:23:37.000 He built 52 miles of wall and said Mexico would pay for it.

01:23:40.000 Guess what?

01:23:41.000 I think if Mexico knew that he was only going to build 52 miles, they might have paid for the 52 miles.

01:23:48.000 Tip your waitress.

01:23:49.000 Most illegal immigrants are coming from countries south of the border.

01:23:52.000 What's your answer to the immigration problem?

01:23:53.000 He's seen the Fox News drone, it's captured on a daily basis.

01:24:14.000 He's seen the Well, what happens is when Joe Biden waved the green flag, it told everybody to come.

01:24:23.000 And now we've seen six million people cross the border.

01:24:26.000 We've had more fentanyl that have killed Americans in the Iraq, Vietnam, or Afghanistan wars combined.

01:24:32.000 We need to make sure that we are a country of laws.

01:24:34.000 The second we stop being a country of laws, we give up everything this country was founded on.

01:24:39.000 So we have to secure the border.

01:24:40.000 The way we do that is, first of all, defund sanctuary cities.

01:24:44.000 You see what's happening in Philadelphia right now?

01:24:46.000 It's got to stop.

01:24:48.000 We need to make sure we put 25,000 more Border Patrol and ICE agents on the ground and let them do their job.

01:24:54.000 I spent 400 miles down that border.

01:24:56.000 What's their job?

01:24:57.000 Just detain them and then arrest them and then release them into the interior of the country?

01:25:03.000 Instead of catch and release, let's go to catch and deport. 0.94

01:25:07.000 What about the aid that federal taxpayers are paying to deal with the root causes?

01:25:10.000 It's not working?

01:25:12.000 The only aid that we should be spending right now is to secure the border, the southern border, the northern border, period.

01:25:19.000 And I like that Dana pushed the, you know, root causes thing, because it's just complete nonsense and we should stop spending it.

01:25:24.000 Only when we fix the immigration system, only when we get the border secure should we ever look at putting any more money into this.

01:25:31.000 Our money should be about keeping Americans safe.

01:25:33.000 We're not doing that.

01:25:34.000 Joe Biden's not doing that.

01:25:35.000 And you mentioned Congress and shutting down government.

01:25:39.000 I'll make it clear.

01:25:39.000 We have to change the budget process.

01:25:42.000 In four years, in 40 years, Congress has only delivered a budget on time four times.

01:25:51.000 Well, that was fun.

01:25:54.000 If they don't keep the government open, they should not get paid.

01:25:57.000 No pay, no budget.

01:25:59.000 That's the way we should have it.

01:26:03.000 Governor DeSantis, China invested $12 billion in Latin America just last year.

01:26:10.000 They signed strategic partnerships with seven countries, including Mexico.

01:26:15.000 And China's military ties to the region now include arms sales and training exercises.

01:26:21.000 Are you comfortable with China deepening ties with our southern neighbors?

01:26:25.000 Of course not.

01:26:26.000 And the reason why we're in this mess is because elites in DC for far too long have chosen surrender over strength when it comes to the CCP.

01:26:35.000 Some people in our country got rich, our industrial base got hollowed out and they have been able to build the second most We need a totally new approach to China.

01:26:46.000 We are going to have real hard power in the Indo-Pacific, like Reagan, to deter their ambitions.

01:26:52.000 We're going to have economic independence from China, where we're decoupling our economy. 0.99

01:26:56.000 And we are going to go after the cultural power they have in this country.

01:27:00.000 As governor of Florida, I ban the CCP from buying land in our state.

01:27:04.000 We should do that all across these United States.

01:27:07.000 We shouldn't have them in our universities.

01:27:10.000 You see a country in decline, our power's in decline, China's going to surpass us this decade, and if they do that, that's going to affect every single American household. 0.98

01:27:22.000 As your president, I am not going to let that happen.

01:27:25.000 I'm going to reverse this country's decline.

01:27:27.000 We are going to choose strength, not surrender when it comes to the CCP.

01:27:31.000 America's not a country in decline.

01:27:34.000 Under Joe Biden, we are a country in retreat.

01:27:37.000 You proposed, quote, universal deportation for all undocumented immigrants and their children, even if the children are citizens of the United States.

01:27:46.000 Under what legal premise will you expel U.S.

01:27:49.000 citizens?

01:27:50.000 So the first thing I want to say is I agree with everything.

01:27:52.000 The Republicans on the stage are on the right side of this issue.

01:27:55.000 Militarize the southern border.

01:27:57.000 Stop funding sanctuary cities.

01:27:59.000 And end foreign aid to Mexico and Central America.

01:28:02.000 To end the incentives to come across.

01:28:04.000 But I do go a step further.

01:28:05.000 You're right about that, Ilya.

01:28:07.000 I favor ending birthright citizenship for the kids of illegal immigrants in this country. 1.00

01:28:13.000 Now the left will howl about the Constitution and the 14th Amendment.

01:28:17.000 The difference between me and them is I've actually read the 14th Amendment.

01:28:20.000 What it says is that all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the laws and jurisdiction thereof are citizens.

01:28:31.000 So nobody believes that the kid of a Mexican diplomat in this country enjoys birthright citizenship.

01:28:37.000 Not a judge or legal scholar in this country will disagree with me on that.

01:28:40.000 Well, if the kid of a Mexican diplomat doesn't enjoy birthright citizenship, then neither does the kid of an illegal migrant who broke the law to come here.

01:28:49.000 And as the father of two sons, it is hard for me to look them in the eye and say, you have to follow the law when our own government fails to follow its own laws.

01:28:58.000 That's how we really go the distance and solve this problem and restore the rule of law in the United States of America, because that is part of what it even means to be an American.

01:29:09.000 Senator Scott, you oppose ending birthright citizenship.

01:29:13.000 You were saying there's some issues with common law?

01:29:15.000 It comes from the Wong-Kim-Arc decision in 1898, but it goes back further into the English common law, centuries and centuries back, that if you're born in one's region, under one's reign, then you are a subject thereof.

01:29:29.000 So it's a tough legal argument to make, but I think as pertains to the 14th, I think he's right.

01:29:36.000 No, surviving a Supreme Court argument is something I can't tell you.

01:29:41.000 But from a perspective of the Constitution, I think it's simple.

01:29:46.000 That clearly it was designed for slavery and not for illegal immigration.

01:29:52.000 I'll go one step further though.

01:29:53.000 We're having a conversation about the things that are happening on this stage.

01:29:56.000 We think about the fact that Vivek just said we were all good people, and I appreciate that, because last debate, he said we were all bought and paid for.

01:30:04.000 And I thought about that for a little while and said, you know, I can't imagine how you could say that, knowing that you were just in business with the Chinese Communist Party.

01:30:15.000 The same people that funded Hunter Biden, millions of dollars, was a partner of yours as well.

01:30:22.000 Whoa.

01:30:22.000 Tim pulling out the shiv.

01:30:23.000 I want to respond. These are good people who are tainted by a broken system.

01:30:28.000 And it's not the fault of anybody who's involved.

01:30:30.000 Some of us are tainted by the bottom line.

01:30:32.000 Excuse me. Thank you for speaking while I'm interrupting.

01:30:35.000 Thank you for speaking while I'm interrupting.

01:30:38.000 You can't be on both sides.

01:30:41.000 gentlemen you'll have your time what one of the challenges that we have a look at

01:30:45.000 how you should have a matter between the big business and shot everybody's leading

01:30:49.000 on the podium state of american democracy accountable that's what we need

01:30:53.000 to be normal dude just talk until everyone else shuts up Exactly.

01:30:57.000 I only want to hear from Virgo.

01:30:58.000 I agree with Ron DeSantis on China.

01:31:00.000 When every other CEO expanded into the Chinese market, you know what I did with my first company?

01:31:05.000 We opened a subsidiary in China.

01:31:07.000 But you know what I did that was different than every other company?

01:31:10.000 We got the hell out of there.

01:31:11.000 And when I started my next company, Strive, right when it opened up years ago.

01:31:16.000 Right when I started my next company, Strive, to compete against BlackRock, excuse me, to compete against BlackRock, I made a commitment that we would never do business in China, and I will say something, yes? 0.99

01:31:29.000 Well, in fact, I was interrupted by a lot of people here, and I want to be respectful, because I believe these are good people, but I do not believe in these, we're sitting here in the Reagan Library, in the honor of Ronald We need to cut the mics of everyone that's not talking and let one at a time.

01:31:43.000 That's what they gotta do.

01:31:43.000 Light up their podium.

01:31:44.000 Let them talk.

01:31:44.000 they got to do, light up their podium, let them talk, shut down the system.

01:31:59.000 Should we order pizza?

01:32:00.000 I'm not even kidding.

01:32:01.000 Thank you very much.

01:32:04.000 Vice President Pence, in 2017, the Trump administration...

01:32:07.000 I learned a lot from that.

01:32:08.000 ...which put the legal status of 600,000 Dreamers in the hands of the courts.

01:32:14.000 Should we order pizza?

01:32:15.000 Dreamers work and they pay taxes. 1.00

01:32:16.000 Seriously, I'm not even kidding.

01:32:17.000 What channel is the Simpsons on?

01:32:18.000 Specifically Pizza Hut.

01:32:19.000 In the Supreme Court in Stockholm, will you work with Congress to reach a permanent solution

01:32:26.000 for Dreamers?

01:32:27.000 Well, first let me say I'm glad Vivek pulled out of his business deal in 2018 in China.

01:32:32.000 That must have been about the time you decided to start voting in presidential elections.

01:32:36.000 That was actually kind of a thing.

01:32:40.000 So let me speak to this.

01:32:44.000 I negotiated the remain in Mexico policy with the Mexican government.

01:32:50.000 We used economic power to bring the Mexican government to the table.

01:32:54.000 We built hundreds of miles of border wall.

01:32:56.000 And despite what's said here today, we reduced illegal immigration and asylum abuse by 90%.

01:33:01.000 And as President of the United States, I can do it again.

01:33:06.000 And the truth is, we need to fix a broken immigration system, and I'll do that as well.

01:33:11.000 But first and foremost, a nation without borders is not a nation.

01:33:16.000 And we have to secure the southern border of the United States of America.

01:33:19.000 I know how to do it, and we will do it again.

01:33:22.000 Let me say one other thing about China.

01:33:25.000 Let me say one other thing about China.

01:33:26.000 Would you negotiate with Congress to give a solution to the problem that dreamers have right now?

01:33:33.000 They are on a limbo.

01:33:34.000 Well, let me tell you, I served in Congress for 12 years, although it seemed longer.

01:33:39.000 But you know, something I've done that's different than everybody in the States is I've actually secured reform in Congress.

01:33:47.000 You know, Ron, you talk a really good game about cutting spending, but you've increased spending in Florida by 30%.

01:33:54.000 When I was a member of Congress in 2006, right after Hurricane Katrina, Dana, you remember it, we stood our ground.

01:34:03.000 I led House Conservatives.

01:34:04.000 We cut $100 billion out of the federal budget.

01:34:08.000 You know, this is the old GOP, right, which is just cut, cut, cut.

01:34:12.000 I don't know that that attack lands on dissenters, because the thing people like about dissenters Is that he just brutally wields the government against our enemies like Disney?

01:34:20.000 So I don't really care if he raises... I don't care what he spends it on, you know?

01:34:23.000 Thank you, I said it all wrong.

01:34:24.000 Yeah, Kellan just said that he's spying.

01:34:26.000 He sounds like 2010 Biden.

01:34:27.000 Yeah, kinda true.

01:34:27.000 Nice going.

01:34:28.000 Chris looks like he's about to fall over.

01:34:29.000 He's like leaning his entire weight on the podium.

01:34:31.000 yeah yeah how do these candidates make america's safer

01:34:36.000 has a lot of people to follow his like leaning into higher weight on the

01:34:41.000 decision is now it's his now it's not the king's disease so they're gonna go take a break and well

01:34:49.000 i just don't trust our government and where the economy is now i have a hard

01:34:54.000 retirement see all right All right.

01:34:57.000 Well, when the commercials are over, we'll come back.

01:35:00.000 Some takeaways.

01:35:00.000 Chris Christie sounds like he's struggling to breathe.

01:35:03.000 It's hard to listen to him, unfortunately.

01:35:05.000 Pence does, too.

01:35:06.000 Bro, he doesn't sound like he's struggling.

01:35:08.000 He doesn't sound like it, he is struggling.

01:35:09.000 He's struggling.

01:35:10.000 And if he was nicer, like more friendly, I think I'd really like him.

01:35:13.000 Chris Christie.

01:35:14.000 I'm sorry, dude. 1.00

01:35:14.000 He seems like such a jerk. 1.00

01:35:15.000 No one should vote for Chris Christie. 1.00

01:35:18.000 No one.

01:35:18.000 You know why?

01:35:19.000 You know why? 1.00

01:35:20.000 Because he's fat and sick. 0.99

01:35:23.000 That's a big part of it.

01:35:25.000 If you can't take care of yourself, how are you going to take care of this country?

01:35:28.000 True.

01:35:28.000 Discipline.

01:35:29.000 And to be fair, the only pass Donald Trump gets is not based on his health, not based on his diet, it's based on the fact that he's the closest person to firing people who need to be fired.

01:35:39.000 That's it.

01:35:40.000 Because otherwise I'd agree and be like, I mean actually Trump did lose a lot of weight.

01:35:43.000 What are you talking about?

01:35:44.000 He's a svelte 215.

01:35:45.000 I read that in the newspaper.

01:35:49.000 I don't know what you're talking about.

01:35:50.000 But what about Taft?

01:35:52.000 It was a great president.

01:35:52.000 He was the biggest, fattest guy ever in the history of the world.

01:35:55.000 Really?

01:35:55.000 It's different when you get fat off of what people ate back then, you know?

01:35:58.000 That's true.

01:35:59.000 Raw milk and bacon and pies.

01:36:02.000 Yes, like prime rib for breakfast, I assume he was eating.

01:36:05.000 I think you're right, because I shouldn't be too hard on Chris Christie's weight, because I think he might actually be a guest in the future.

01:36:10.000 He's gonna be like, Ian, I heard what you said about my weight. 0.93

01:36:14.000 Well, Chris, you were fat.

01:36:17.000 Kind of like in politics I'm finding these people that I think I hate and just from through the media I end up meeting them in person. 0.89

01:36:31.000 I really like them. 0.71

01:36:31.000 Yeah Well, that's a lesson I've talked about before when I was a teenager and I watched a skate video and me and my friends were all just smack-talking these skaters about how cool we thought we were and how they were losers with their goofy clothes. 0.71

01:36:42.000 And then we go to California and end up meeting them and they were super nice to us and gave us free food and gear and they were like, you guys rock, man.

01:36:49.000 I was like, I feel really bad for talking bad about these guys for no reason.

01:36:52.000 The culture war in a nutshell.

01:36:54.000 I think politicians are just as bad as we think they are.

01:36:57.000 Yeah.

01:36:57.000 Or worse.

01:36:58.000 But the ones that come in here, I like... Sean Spicer, for instance, I love him.

01:37:02.000 I got such a horrible view of him through the media.

01:37:05.000 And then I was like, well, I'm gonna meet Sean Spicer.

01:37:07.000 Steve Bannon was another one.

01:37:08.000 I was like, I'm supposed to be afraid of this guy, I guess.

01:37:11.000 Then I meet him and I'm like, oh, these guys are legit.

01:37:13.000 Just smart, straightforward dudes.

01:37:15.000 Then you see, like, AOC.

01:37:16.000 Who is as bad.

01:37:19.000 She tells her constituents, who are yelling at her, no more illegal immigrants.

01:37:24.000 She screams over them, we're going to give them your tax dollars, we're going to give them your homes, and we're going to give them special protected status. 0.99

01:37:31.000 I'm sorry, that's evil.

01:37:33.000 No, some are bad, but I'm with you.

01:37:36.000 Once you meet a lot of politicians, you realize that many of them are kind of boring, and Some of them are, it's not that they're evil, they're just like, they don't care that much about much of anything, but a lot of them actually are like nice, good people who were like a little bit nerdy in school and, you know, they're just, yeah, it's kind of sad because if they were truly just menacing evil monsters, it would explain why the country is so degraded.

01:38:03.000 But, like, a lot of them are just kinda, you know, showing up and doing their job.

01:38:08.000 Yeah, getting a job on the bridge of the Death Star, and like, why does everyone hate me?

01:38:12.000 Here's a question, here's a question.

01:38:13.000 How many members of Congress can you name?

01:38:15.000 Let's just say the House.

01:38:16.000 How many members of the House can you name?

01:38:17.000 Off the top of my head, I don't know.

01:38:19.000 20?

01:38:19.000 10?

01:38:19.000 20?

01:38:19.000 Yo, we do a show.

01:38:21.000 We've probably interviewed more than 20 members of Congress.

01:38:23.000 I can't name any of them.

01:38:24.000 You know, we know the ones we like, we know the ones we don't like, and then- I have had full conversations with members of Congress not recognizing them at all.

01:38:33.000 Yeah.

01:38:33.000 And I work in politics for a living, you know, and I just- a lot of them you just don't- even prominent ones.

01:38:39.000 Yeah.

01:38:40.000 Yeah.

01:38:40.000 Alright, looks like we're back.

01:38:43.000 Oh, that's a cool venue.

01:38:45.000 It's Reagan's library for the second Republican presidential debate.

01:38:49.000 I do want to just remind everyone, there's one minute for questions, 30 seconds for follow-up, and we mentioned each other, that means it's your question.

01:38:56.000 So, we want to talk about crime.

01:38:58.000 This has been a horrendous problem in our country.

01:39:01.000 You want food?

01:39:02.000 Alpha jerky?

01:39:02.000 Meat sticks?

01:39:03.000 You want some?

01:39:03.000 Is that what they're called?

01:39:05.000 Well, no, no, we had a bag of jerky.

01:39:06.000 I'll go grab some, I'll be right back.

01:39:11.000 We should have just wings.

01:39:11.000 You said in the last debate that you would use U.S.

01:39:14.000 attorneys to prosecute crimes.

01:39:16.000 Local prosecutors won't.

01:39:17.000 But they are stretched as well and they could not handle all of the lawlessness, the shoplifting, all the carjackings, the armed robberies.

01:39:24.000 They're all surging.

01:39:26.000 Progressive prosecutors were elected by their constituents and they can't be fired by a president.

01:39:31.000 So what would you do to end the revolving door of criminality?

01:39:34.000 He looks like he's going to collapse.

01:39:36.000 Well look Dana, I'm the only one on this stage who's done it.

01:39:39.000 For seven years I ran the fifth largest office in this country, at the U.S.

01:39:44.000 Attorney's Office in New Jersey, and we set records for the number of prosecutions that we brought that still have not been broken.

01:39:50.000 And the reason was that we went after the crime that was affecting people's lives.

01:39:54.000 And as President, I will appoint an Attorney General and instruct that Attorney General that you are to put all the resources that are necessary to bring our cities back under control.

01:40:04.000 The fact is they will be stretched.

01:40:06.000 There's no doubt about that.

01:40:07.000 But that's what they take the job for.

01:40:09.000 Because they love the idea of enforcing the law.

01:40:12.000 We've got to bring law and order back to this country.

01:40:15.000 And not just in our cities.

01:40:16.000 But we need the law and order back everywhere.

01:40:18.000 We need law and order.

01:40:20.000 We need it in our rural areas.

01:40:22.000 People feel threatened there.

01:40:24.000 And we need it in Washington D.C.

01:40:25.000 also.

01:40:26.000 And Donald Trump should be here to answer for that, but he's not.

01:40:29.000 And I want to look at a camera right now and tell you, Donald, I need to watch it.

01:40:32.000 You can't help yourself.

01:40:33.000 I know you're watching, okay?

01:40:35.000 And you're not here tonight, not because of polls, and not because of your indictments.

01:40:40.000 You're not here tonight because you're afraid of being on this stage and defending your record.

01:40:45.000 No, I'm pretty sure it's the polls, actually.

01:40:48.000 Pretty sure the reason he's not there is because of the polls.

01:40:50.000 Because he's up, like, 50 points, you know?

01:40:52.000 We're gonna call you Donald Duck.

01:40:55.000 Donald Duck. 0.69

01:40:56.000 Donald Duck.

01:40:56.000 You fired a couple of prosecutors in your state, but as governor, I mean, sorry, as

01:41:01.000 president, you would not have the ability to do that.

01:41:03.000 How do you think about dealing with the root causes of crime, especially this revolving

01:41:07.000 door of the criminals, they just get out and come back and commit another crime?

01:41:12.000 Well, the crime in these cities is one of the strongest signs of the decaying of America.

01:41:16.000 We can't be successful as a country if people aren't even safe to live in places like Los Angeles and San Francisco.

01:41:23.000 Just being in Southern California over the last couple days, my wife and I have met three people who have been mugged on the street, and that would have never happened 10 or 20 years ago.

01:41:34.000 In Florida, we back the blue.

01:41:36.000 We support the men and women of law enforcement.

01:41:39.000 He's doing better this debate than the last debate.

01:41:41.000 Bill Clinton's training.

01:41:43.000 Yeah.

01:41:43.000 And yes, when I had two progressive prosecutors that weren't following the law in Florida,

01:41:48.000 I removed them from their posts and the people of Florida are safer as a result of it.

01:41:52.000 As president, I will use the Justice Department to bring civil rights cases against all of

01:41:58.000 those left-wing Soros-funded prosecutors.

01:42:01.000 We're not going to let them get away with it anymore.

01:42:03.000 We'll reverse this country's decline.

01:42:06.000 We need to choose law and order over rioting and disorder.

01:42:10.000 And I will not let you down.

01:42:15.000 I would be like, I will prosecute all of the Democrats who have illegally gone after Donald

01:42:19.000 Trump.

01:42:20.000 Is that a big hit, Matt?

01:42:21.000 Is that a record low?

01:42:22.000 Three years ago, you signed a pledge to support law enforcement.

01:42:25.000 Now, pledges are a nice idea, but what's your actual plan to get more police on our streets?

01:42:31.000 Well, and I actually did it in South Carolina, too.

01:42:34.000 You know, what we knew in South Carolina was you take care of those who take care of you.

01:42:38.000 We have to start taking care of law enforcement.

01:42:40.000 But it's not just taking care of them with words.

01:42:43.000 It's making sure that you also follow through on what they do.

01:42:45.000 Right now, we have a lot of stolen guns on the street.

01:42:49.000 Well, these law enforcement officers, they arrest these people, and then they go and they're let out the very next day.

01:42:54.000 So law enforcement feels like no one has their back.

01:42:57.000 We have to start prosecuting according to the law.

01:43:00.000 We have to make sure we have the backs of law enforcement and we have to make sure that we're a country of law and order.

01:43:05.000 But I want to go back to China because I don't think we spent enough time on that.

01:43:08.000 Right now, we have to look at what government's doing to hurt us against China, too.

01:43:13.000 You have a company, U.S.

01:43:14.000 Antibiotics.

01:43:15.000 That was unexpectedly a good point.

01:43:16.000 I expected it to be some sort of shallow pivot.

01:43:19.000 Thank you, Stuart.

01:43:19.000 And right now there is a company in Bristol, Tennessee that produces that, yet our federal

01:43:25.000 government only gets it from China.

01:43:27.000 We need to be focusing on companies that produce in America and supporting those companies

01:43:32.000 that produce in America, not companies that are helping China.

01:43:35.000 That was unexpectedly a good point.

01:43:37.000 I expected it to be some sort of shallow pivot.

01:43:39.000 Thank you, Stuart.

01:43:41.000 We're going to stay on the topic of crime because it affects all of us.

01:43:46.000 Governor Burgum, for the first time ever, a Univision poll found that mass shootings and gun safety are one of the most important issues for Latino voters.

01:43:57.000 Mental health concerns are not unique to the United States, but gun violence is.

01:44:04.000 What is your specific plan to curb gun violence?

01:44:13.000 Oh no!

01:44:14.000 He looks like Scorsese.

01:44:15.000 Left seems to be just completely bent on prosecuting law-abiding citizens that are gun owners because every solution they have to this is take away the Second Amendment rights of Americans and somehow that's going to solve the problem.

01:44:28.000 But all these cities that we're talking about that you showed the videos of tonight, they have some of the strictest gun laws in the country.

01:44:34.000 So we know that that's not what's working.

01:44:36.000 What we have to do is get back to the core issues about the family.

01:44:40.000 We have to get back to behavioral health and mental health.

01:44:42.000 We've got to get back to actually enforcing the law as these people talked about.

01:44:46.000 And like we've done in North Dakota where we've got the goal and we're on the track

01:44:49.000 to be the most military friendly state in the nation.

01:44:50.000 He legitimately might get a bump out of this.

01:44:51.000 He's not going to go that far.

01:44:52.000 We've got the most military and the most support of what we're doing as a law enforcement because

01:44:57.000 the morale is down because we've been defunding the police because they've been attacked in

01:45:02.000 The police have become the bad guys when they're the one.

01:45:04.000 There's all these jobs available in America.

01:45:06.000 Why would you be a policeman if people don't respect them?

01:45:08.000 Every time I see a policeman, the first thing I say is thank you.

01:45:11.000 And so does everybody else in my family and most of the people in our state because they know we have to respect the people that are out there defending us every single day.

01:45:19.000 Are you a burgomaniac?

01:45:20.000 According to Customs and Border Protection, about 90% of fentanyl is seized at official border crossings and 57% of the smugglers are U.S.

01:45:33.000 citizens.

01:45:34.000 How would you stop fentanyl brought into the country mostly by U.S.

01:45:38.000 citizens through ports of entry?

01:45:41.000 There's two sides to this, and we have to be very honest about it.

01:45:43.000 One is we do have to seal that southern border.

01:45:46.000 Building the wall is not enough.

01:45:48.000 They're building cartel-financed tunnels underneath that wall.

01:45:52.000 Semi-trucks can drive through them.

01:45:54.000 We have to use our own military to seal the Swiss cheese of a southern border. 0.88

01:45:58.000 But we also have to be honest.

01:46:00.000 There's a demand-side problem in this country, too.

01:46:03.000 A mental health epidemic.

01:46:04.000 I met family in Iowa, two parents, Kathy and Derek.

01:46:08.000 They lost their son Sebastian, 17 years old.

01:46:11.000 He bought Percocet on Snapchat, and then he died.

01:46:14.000 Why did he die?

01:46:15.000 Because it was laced with fentanyl.

01:46:17.000 That is closer to bioterrorism, not a drug overdose.

01:46:21.000 That is poisoning.

01:46:22.000 So it is our job to make sure that never happens.

01:46:24.000 But it's also our job to make sure that 17-year-olds don't turn to Percocet via Snapchat.

01:46:30.000 We have to bring back mental health care in this country. 1.00

01:46:33.000 Not with pump and pharmaceuticals, but with faith-based approaches that restore purpose and meaning in the next generation of Americans.

01:46:41.000 Many of them are getting it through social media.

01:46:43.000 And this isn't a Republican point or a Democrat point, but if you're 16 years old or under, you should not be using an addictive social media product.

01:46:51.000 Period.

01:46:52.000 This is something that we can both agree on and we can revive both the mental health of this country while stopping the fentanyl epidemic that will kill more people this year than who died on 9-11 and I refuse to be a passive bystander sitting in the White House like the hollowed out husk of a current president we have.

01:47:09.000 We will step up and address this problem to stand for Americans and our children.

01:47:19.000 Who's encouraging TikTok?

01:47:20.000 Why are they talking about encouraging TikTok?

01:47:22.000 I'm going to use the U.S. 0.99

01:47:23.000 military to go after the Mexican drug cartels. 0.97

01:47:26.000 They are killing our people.

01:47:28.000 And the stories that I've seen in Florida, we had an infant, 18 months, parents rented an Airbnb.

01:47:34.000 And apparently the people that had rented it before were using drugs.

01:47:37.000 The infant was crawling, the toddler was crawling on the carpet and ingested fentanyl residue and died.

01:47:45.000 Are we just going to sit here and let this happen, this carnage happen in our country?

01:47:49.000 I am not going to do that.

01:47:50.000 So I guarantee you on day one, this border is going to be a day one issue for me as president.

01:47:55.000 We're going to declare it a national emergency.

01:47:56.000 Yes, we'll build the wall.

01:47:57.000 We'll do Remain in Mexico. 1.00

01:47:59.000 But those Mexican drug cartels are going to be treated like the foreign terrorist organizations that they are.

01:48:04.000 All right, Vice President Pence, we're going to move on to a different issue.

01:48:09.000 Hold on, sorry.

01:48:10.000 Who's speaking?

01:48:11.000 Scott and Nikki Haley.

01:48:13.000 You said if elected you would repeal all Obamacare mandates.

01:48:17.000 However, you also made that same promise in 2016.

01:48:21.000 And at that time, Trump and Pence had congressional majorities for at least the first two years.

01:48:27.000 And you did not deliver on that promise.

01:48:29.000 So Obamacare, right now, it is more popular than ever.

01:48:33.000 Why should Americans trust you, if you become president, to fix that?

01:48:37.000 Or is Obamacare here to stay?

01:48:40.000 Well, first let me speak to the mass shootings issue, and then I'll answer that question.

01:48:43.000 It's an important one, Dana.

01:48:46.000 Look, I'm someone that believes that justice delayed is justice denied.

01:48:51.000 And as a father of three, as a grandfather of three beautiful little girls, I am sick and tired of these mass shootings happening in the United States of America.

01:49:01.000 And if I'm President of the United States, I'm going to go to the Congress of the United States, and we're going to pass a federal expedited death penalty for anyone involved in a mass shooting so that they will meet their fate in months, not years.

01:49:21.000 The Parkland shooter, Ron, is actually going to spend the rest of his life behind bars in Florida.

01:49:28.000 That's not justice.

01:49:30.000 We have to mete out justice and send a message to these would-be killers that you are not going to live out your days behind bars.

01:49:38.000 You're going to mete justice.

01:49:39.000 Does that mean Obamacare is here to stay?

01:49:41.000 I love Dana.

01:49:47.000 Wow.

01:49:48.000 Well, thank you for reiterating the question, because I'd love to answer it.

01:49:52.000 That was good.

01:49:53.000 That's one of the choices here.

01:49:54.000 You know, my former running mate, Donald Trump, actually has a plan to start to consolidate more power in Washington, D.C., consolidate more power in the executive branch.

01:50:04.000 If I'm president of the United States, it's my intention to make the federal government smaller by returning to the states those resources and programs that are rightfully theirs under the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution.

01:50:17.000 That means all Obamacare funding, all housing funding, all HHS funding, all of it goes back to the states.

01:50:25.000 We'll shut down the Federal Department of Education.

01:50:27.000 We'll allow states to innovate.

01:50:29.000 We're going to revive federalism in America.

01:50:32.000 Democrats are wielding corrupt power against us, and we're going to give all that power up as soon as you vote for me! 0.59

01:50:37.000 No, I'm not interested.

01:50:38.000 Sorry. 0.81

01:50:38.000 Fire all of them first. 0.81

01:50:40.000 I agree, but first fire them, prosecute, then start breaking it down. 0.95

01:50:47.000 Tim is like a fireman.

01:50:48.000 Stop, please.

01:50:49.000 Tim is like a fireman.

01:50:50.000 Two and a half million of them are in your state.

01:50:54.000 That's worse than the national average.

01:50:57.000 Can Americans trust you on this?

01:50:58.000 Well, I think this is a symptom of our overall economic decline.

01:51:03.000 Everything has gotten more expensive.

01:51:05.000 You see insurance rates are going through the roof.

01:51:07.000 People that are going to get groceries.

01:51:09.000 I spoke with a woman in Iowa and she said, you know, for the first time in my life, I'm having to take things out of my grocery cart when I get to the checkout line because the total goes up so quickly.

01:51:20.000 So this is very real and people are hurting out there.

01:51:23.000 So we've got to address the underlying problem with Bidenomics, the overspending, taking all Biden's rules and regulations.

01:51:31.000 I'm going to throw them in the trash can on day one.

01:51:33.000 You're not going to have to worry about that.

01:51:35.000 We're going to open up all of our energy.

01:51:36.000 We will be energy dominant in this country that will lower your gas prices.

01:51:41.000 And what we need to do with health care is recognize our health care is putting patients at the back of the bus.

01:51:47.000 We have big pharma, big insurance, and big government, and we need to tackle that and have more power for the people and the doctor-patient relationship.

01:51:56.000 Why is your record in Florida on insurance worse than the national average?

01:52:01.000 Our state's a dynamic state.

01:52:03.000 We've got a lot of folks that come.

01:52:05.000 Of course, we've had a population boom.

01:52:07.000 We also don't have Uh, a lot of welfare benefits in Florida.

01:52:11.000 You know, we're basically saying, we wanna, this is a field of dreams, you can do well in the state, but we're not gonna be like California and have massive numbers of people, um, on government programs without work requirements.

01:52:21.000 We believe you work, and you gotta do that, and so that goes for all the welfare benefits, and you know what that's done, Stuart?

01:52:27.000 Our unemployment rate is the lowest amongst any big state, we have the highest GDP growth amongst any big state, and even CNBC, no fan of mine, rank for an unexpected question.

01:52:38.000 America.

01:52:39.000 But you have one of the most expensive.

01:52:41.000 It's too bad that nothing that happens at this debate matters.

01:52:43.000 Because the nomination is already locked up.

01:52:45.000 Healthcare is the leading cause of bankruptcy for American families,

01:52:49.000 accounting for two-thirds of all personal bankruptcies.

01:52:53.000 As president, how you protect Americans who get sick from financial ruin?

01:53:00.000 First of all, how can we be the best country in the world and have the most expensive healthcare in the world?

01:53:05.000 We have an issue. My mom was in the hospital.

01:53:07.000 And when she was in the hospital, they tried to bring her a couple of Tylenol.

01:53:11.000 And she said, I don't need it.

01:53:12.000 And they said, honey, go ahead and take it because you're paying for it anyway.

01:53:15.000 Why is it that when we got the bill, the insurance company and the hospital negotiated the bill for her without her having anything to do with it? 0.97

01:53:23.000 When I am president, we will break all of it.

01:53:26.000 From the insurance company, to the hospitals, to the doctor's offices, to the PBMs, to the pharmaceutical companies.

01:53:31.000 We will make it all transparent because when you do that, you will realize that's what the problem is.

01:53:36.000 Second thing is you've got to deal with tort law.

01:53:39.000 The doctors don't give you the 10 tests because they want to, it's because of the 90% chance they'll get sued.

01:53:45.000 And then we need to bring competition back to healthcare, get rid of certificate of need systems, and make sure that they can compete.

01:53:52.000 Is she running for Congress, or is she running for the president? 1.00

01:53:56.000 Right, yeah, you know, this is an issue with both her answers and Ron's last answers.

01:54:02.000 They were actually quite good and substantive and, you know, in the weeds.

01:54:07.000 And that doesn't often serve a presidential campaign.

01:54:11.000 The president can't do it.

01:54:13.000 The president can't do it.

01:54:13.000 I mean, he could lead, he could push around Capitol Hill, but yeah, that's a good point.

01:54:20.000 I will say, excuse me Tim, I have to ask you.

01:54:23.000 It's because the federal government got involved the same way they did with EVs and they said we're gonna subsidize a particular kind of software back in 2008 under Obama and they said hey we're gonna do this it's gonna make everybody more productive.

01:54:37.000 All of you that are watching have been to a doctor's office when the doctors got his back to you and their hands on a keyboard.

01:54:42.000 The only industry in the world that's ever absorbed one trillion dollars of IT and became I'm not kidding.

01:54:47.000 He's good.

01:54:47.000 He's socially liberal.

01:54:47.000 Slave.

01:54:48.000 Slave king. 1.00

01:54:48.000 Right, right. 1.00

01:54:48.000 You know, it's not the craziest idea. 1.00

01:54:50.000 I know.

01:54:50.000 that they were subsidizing a certain kind of technology. It wasn't about improving health

01:54:54.000 care. It was about picking winners and losers. Every time the federal government's involved,

01:54:58.000 whether it's higher education, health care, or now the auto industry, things get more

01:55:02.000 expensive and less competitive. 0.62

01:55:04.000 Slaves. 1.00

01:55:05.000 Slaves.

01:55:06.000 But he could provide that balance to Trump that he thought Ron would.

01:55:09.000 Right, right.

01:55:10.000 It's the government's role.

01:55:11.000 You know, it's not the craziest idea.

01:55:12.000 I know.

01:55:13.000 The second Republican debate rolls on.

01:55:14.000 He's also extremely rich.

01:55:16.000 I gotta say this about health care, man.

01:55:18.000 Bye.

01:55:19.000 People are going to Mexico for healthcare.

01:55:22.000 For real.

01:55:23.000 These people are like, everyone's going to Canada.

01:55:25.000 No, they're going to Mexico, dude.

01:55:28.000 I went to Mexico for my hip problem, and it's because it's cheaper, faster, and better.

01:55:33.000 So my hip screwed up from a repetitive sports injury.

01:55:37.000 I call around these doctors.

01:55:40.000 We don't take your insurance.

01:55:41.000 We don't take your insurance.

01:55:42.000 And I'm just like, this is the craziest thing.

01:55:44.000 Michael, I have to say this.

01:55:46.000 I am rich, and I cannot go to a doctor.

01:55:49.000 And this pissed me off.

01:55:50.000 That's insane.

01:55:52.000 It is.

01:55:52.000 I called.

01:55:53.000 We have insurance.

01:55:54.000 I have insurance.

01:55:55.000 The employees here have insurance.

01:55:56.000 And I called the doctor, and I was like, yeah, I'm having an issue.

01:55:59.000 Sports injury.

01:55:59.000 We don't accept your insurance.

01:56:01.000 And I'm like, I'll just pay you the money.

01:56:03.000 And they're like, no, you can't do that.

01:56:04.000 And I'm like, are you kidding me?

01:56:05.000 I have money in my hand.

01:56:07.000 I want to give it to you.

01:56:08.000 Call around, I find a specialist, they say, can you come in in two weeks?

01:56:12.000 And I'm like, this is nuts, man.

01:56:15.000 I'm like, I want to get back to skating as soon as I can, and I need to make sure, I need to know if this is like, I need surgery, is it a serious injury, is it a tear, or is it like, take aspirin and you're old, right?

01:56:27.000 And a combination of both.

01:56:28.000 It wasn't a tear, but it's a, I skate too much, I've seriously screwed my hip up from falling for 20 years.

01:56:34.000 Slamming it over and over and over again causes fluid to build up.

01:56:37.000 That's why I only, uh, Razorblade.

01:56:40.000 I don't, that's why I don't do... Razorblade?

01:56:41.000 Yeah, Razor, is that what they're called?

01:56:42.000 Rollerblade?

01:56:43.000 Oh, Rollerblade! 0.99

01:56:43.000 Hell yeah, dude! 0.99

01:56:44.000 That's when you mix it up with that scooter, too.

01:56:46.000 So, uh, we have all that stuff.

01:56:47.000 We have, we have BMX, we have bikes, we have scooters, we have blades.

01:56:50.000 But so, uh...

01:56:52.000 I get some advice from a good, a trusted health professional friend who says Cellular Performance Institute, they're in Tijuana.

01:57:00.000 And I hit them up and they're like, we can have you out in two days, immediately get your MRIs done, immediately get a doctor consultation, and give you the general treatments in a matter of days after diagnosis.

01:57:13.000 And so the good news is I did not need a hip injection.

01:57:17.000 I actually just got a generalized treatment and they were like, look, you've got traumatic hip injury.

01:57:22.000 We have no recommendation for you.

01:57:23.000 We're going to give you a general revitalization.

01:57:27.000 I got IV, NAD, stem cells in general.

01:57:31.000 And it took one week.

01:57:32.000 Luke was there.

01:57:32.000 I was there with my girlfriend.

01:57:34.000 And it was day one, MRIs, done.

01:57:38.000 In the United States, it was, can you come in in two weeks for a consultation?

01:57:41.000 After the consultation, we'll schedule your MRIs for a week later.

01:57:44.000 Once your MRIs come back a few days after that, then we'll start discussing treatment plans.

01:57:49.000 All in all, maybe in three or four months, we'll give you a general treatment for, and I'm like... That's crazy.

01:57:54.000 So are we going to start running across the border the other direction?

01:57:57.000 They do.

01:57:58.000 Well, how was that experience for Mexicans?

01:58:01.000 In terms of getting healthcare?

01:58:02.000 Is it actually cheaper, faster, better?

01:58:04.000 I mean, I believe you that it's cheaper and faster, but is it better quality?

01:58:09.000 Yes.

01:58:09.000 So the Cellular Performance Institute is the state-of-the-art, highest-end research, and the issue is that The amount of time and money it takes to go through clinical trials in the United States is prohibitive.

01:58:22.000 And so, you've got research coming out of universities that's been tested, been done, it works, but now we gotta do our multi-layered test in the United States.

01:58:31.000 You've got revolving door policies, you've got whose wheels are getting greased, things like this.

01:58:37.000 But let's not even talk about the experimental medical stuff.

01:58:40.000 Dental care.

01:58:41.000 Yeah.

01:58:42.000 They do platelet-rich plasma, I think it's called?

01:58:46.000 Yeah, PRP.

01:58:47.000 So here's what happens.

01:58:48.000 After you get, say, like a filling or a root canal or whatever it is you've got to do, your gums are all messed up.

01:58:54.000 They're sore.

01:58:55.000 A few days later, you're mostly fine.

01:58:57.000 What they do in Mexico is they extract your blood, take platelet-rich plasma, and inject it around the site, which rapidly increases healing. 0.90

01:59:07.000 They don't, my understanding is typically you don't get that here in the United States.

01:59:11.000 Not only that, it's like a couple hundred bucks, whereas like in the United States, it's like a thousand, two thousand, three thousand dollars.

01:59:16.000 In Mexico, of course, they might also sell your kidney.

01:59:18.000 So that while they're in there, you know, they... But you go to, like, here's the thing, man.

01:59:22.000 That's where my mind goes when I think about how healthcare works in other countries.

01:59:26.000 It's just sketchy.

01:59:27.000 That's not true, though.

01:59:28.000 That's an American sci-fi.

01:59:29.000 It's a bit man-regulated.

01:59:30.000 They want you to think everywhere else is scary.

01:59:32.000 That's fine.

01:59:33.000 Yeah, that's true.

01:59:34.000 Do you know what time I usually go to the dentist?

01:59:37.000 When do you go?

01:59:38.000 2.30 I'm sitting in this in this clinic In a recliner chair, looking at the beach in Tijuana as dolphins are jumping in the air, and there's a seal on the ground, I'm like, this is nuts.

01:59:51.000 That's pretty good.

01:59:52.000 And they bring, so you get breakfast and lunch, as you're getting your IVs, you're getting your blood tests and all that stuff, you're sitting in this chair, and they bring fresh-squeezed organic orange juice.

02:00:03.000 All the food they make is organic, health food.

02:00:06.000 It's insane.

02:00:07.000 I had a salmon with glazed onion, and they're like, oh, it's wild, fresh salmon.

02:00:14.000 I want to go on a teeth-cleaning vacation.

02:00:16.000 Two big problems with our healthcare system is it's so difficult to become a doctor.

02:00:23.000 It's 15 years of net cost, and then the ease of it is to get sick from poisonous food.

02:00:29.000 So you kind of got to not eat the poison is the first step.

02:00:32.000 We're back.

02:00:33.000 This has even been called education homicide.

02:00:37.000 You say school choice is the answer, but South Carolina, your home state, still has not enacted universal school choice, and even the current expansion won't be fully implemented until 2027.

02:00:47.000 Wow.

02:00:48.000 Parents can't wait four years for a fix, so what would you do right now?

02:00:53.000 Well, and school choice isn't the only answer, but I'll tell you it's not out of a lack of trying that we didn't try and get school choice in South Carolina.

02:01:00.000 What I'll tell you, first of all, is we have to acknowledge the fact that 67% of our 8th graders are not proficient in reading or math.

02:01:07.000 Over 80% of our 8th graders aren't proficient in history or civics.

02:01:11.000 And recently they came out and said our 12 and 13 year olds are scoring at the lowest levels they've been scoring in reading and math in decades.

02:01:20.000 So the first thing we've got to do is we've got to make sure we catch our kids back up.

02:01:23.000 We have to make sure they can read.

02:01:25.000 A child that can't read by third grade is four times less likely to graduate high school.

02:01:29.000 We need to do reading remediation.

02:01:31.000 We need complete transparency in the classroom.

02:01:33.000 No parent should ever wonder what's being said or taught to their child in the classroom.

02:01:37.000 We need to make sure that we have school choice so that there's competition.

02:01:41.000 We need to move all the programs in the federal government down to the states and let states

02:01:45.000 decide what education looks like in their states.

02:01:48.000 And we need to start building things in America again. 0.50

02:01:51.000 Let's put vocational classes back in our high schools and let's get our kids building the 0.97

02:01:55.000 things that we know that we can make.

02:01:57.000 When we start to focus on that and really bring in that parental involvement, that's

02:02:01.000 when we'll start to see a difference.

02:02:02.000 But we've got to get parents back included.

02:02:05.000 We've got to quit spending time on this DEI and CRT and instead focus on financial literacy, on digital literacy, and on making sure that our kids know what they need to do to have the jobs of the next generation.

02:02:18.000 On the subject of education, a question for Governor Christie.

02:02:24.000 Students in your state are getting high marks on their report cards.

02:02:29.000 But minorities are not doing well with math and reading. 1.00

02:02:32.000 Black and Hispanic students are averaging 29 points lower than white students in New Jersey.

02:02:38.000 Would you address minorities first?

02:02:41.000 You have to address all students.

02:02:43.000 And look, in our state... I don't want to take the bait, Stuart.

02:02:46.000 Thank you.

02:02:46.000 Before I was governor, that gap was close to 50%.

02:02:48.000 I was waiting for him to put an empanada up on the podium and take a bite.

02:02:50.000 And what we did was institute more charter schools and more renaissance schools and more public school choice.

02:02:57.000 In New Jersey, with innovative solutions in cities like Camden, where now we took what was the worst school district in America during my time, and we have now increased that by nearly 40% in terms of their proficiency.

02:03:11.000 It can be done when you give people choice.

02:03:13.000 But let's tell the truth to everybody about what this is.

02:03:17.000 This public school system is no longer run by the public.

02:03:21.000 It is run by the teachers unions in this country.

02:03:24.000 Randi Weingarten and her crew.

02:03:27.000 are absolutely strangling. They are taking the worst of their members and defending them

02:03:32.000 rather than advocating for our kids. And when you have the President of the United States

02:03:37.000 sleeping with a member of the Teachers Union, there is no chance that you could take the

02:03:41.000 stranglehold away from the Teachers Union every day.

02:03:45.000 They have an advocate inside the White House every day for the worst of their teachers, not for our students to be the best they can be.

02:03:52.000 Oppressing the United States is to take on the teachers union.

02:03:55.000 I did it in New Jersey, and I will do it as President of the United States.

02:04:03.000 They cut his mic?

02:04:04.000 I think they did.

02:04:04.000 They cut it way down.

02:04:05.000 Yeah.

02:04:06.000 It's the ambient mic.

02:04:07.000 Yeah, wow.

02:04:07.000 He won't shut up. Oh my God.

02:04:09.000 Slaves develop skills which in some instances could be applied for their personal benefit. 1.00

02:04:15.000 You have said that slaves develop skills in a five-year period.

02:04:19.000 Not because of it.

02:04:20.000 Or yeah, it might be in one of the other minds.

02:04:21.000 It's the ambient mic.

02:04:22.000 Yeah, wow.

02:04:23.000 For the sentence of slaves, this is personal.

02:04:26.000 What is your message to them?

02:04:28.000 So first of all, that's a hoax that was perpetrated by Kamala Harris.

02:04:32.000 We are not going to be doing that.

02:04:34.000 Second of all, that was written by descendants of slaves.

02:04:37.000 These are great black history scholars, so we need to stop playing these games. 1.00

02:04:40.000 Here's the deal.

02:04:41.000 Our country's education system is in decline because it's focused on indoctrination, denying parents rights, Florida represents the revival of American education.

02:04:50.000 We're ranked number one in the nation in education by U.S.

02:04:53.000 News and World Report.

02:04:54.000 My wife and I, we have a six-, five-, and three-year-old.

02:04:57.000 This is personal to us.

02:04:58.000 We didn't just talk about universal school choice, we enacted universal school choice.

02:05:02.000 We didn't just talk about Parents' Bill of Rights, we enacted the Parents' Bill of Rights.

02:05:06.000 This is his best issue.

02:05:06.000 We eliminated critical race theory, and we now have American civics and the Constitution in our schools in a really big way, just like President Reagan asked for.

02:05:16.000 If he had a better campaign strategy and been in here and interviewed twice on the show, man, he'd be the frontrunner.

02:05:22.000 Maybe not the frontrunner, but he'd be... He'd be doing better than 12%.

02:05:27.000 It's so sad that he's been underutilized.

02:05:29.000 It's not just about if he came on this show, it's that if he was willing to come on shows like this, he'd be doing way better.

02:05:36.000 It's not about us, it's about his long form interviews.

02:05:41.000 The Descendants campaign has forbade their staffers and supporters from coming on this show.

02:05:45.000 Really?

02:05:45.000 It's a mess.

02:05:47.000 Yes, sir.

02:05:47.000 That's crazy.

02:05:47.000 That's insane.

02:05:48.000 It's a huge show.

02:05:49.000 And people who are friends of ours.

02:05:51.000 I've been on the show already.

02:05:53.000 No longer can come up.

02:05:54.000 Wow.

02:05:54.000 So often we think with health issues, you talked about crime and education and healthcare.

02:05:59.000 We always think that those issues go back to slavery.

02:06:02.000 Here's the challenge though.

02:06:04.000 Black families survive slavery.

02:06:07.000 We survived poll taxes and literacy tests.

02:06:10.000 We survived discrimination being woven into the laws of our country.

02:06:15.000 What was hard to survive was Johnson's Great Society, where they decided to put money Where they decided to take the black father out of the household to get a check in the mail, and you can now measure that in unemployment, in crime, in devastation. 0.68

02:06:34.000 If you want to restore hope, you've got to restore the family, restore capitalism, and put Americans back at work together as one American family.

02:06:44.000 Our nation continues to go in the right direction.

02:06:48.000 It's why I can say I have been discriminated against.

02:06:52.000 But America is not a racist country.

02:06:55.000 Never, ever doubt who we are.

02:06:58.000 We are the greatest country on God's green earth.

02:07:01.000 And frankly, the city on the hill needs a brand new leader.

02:07:05.000 And I'm asking for your vote.

02:07:07.000 He's really trying.

02:07:07.000 He's trying.

02:07:08.000 He's not going down without a fight.

02:07:11.000 10.7 million students and 18,000 public schools nationwide have the ability to change their identity without parental notification.

02:07:20.000 Governor Christie told Stewart last week that he would pass a federal law to protect parental rights.

02:07:25.000 Would you try to do the same?

02:07:27.000 He can barely hold himself up. 1.00

02:07:29.000 Transgenderism, especially in kids, is a mental health disorder. 1.00

02:07:34.000 We have to acknowledge the truth of that for what it is. 0.98

02:07:37.000 I met two young women early in this campaign. 0.97

02:07:39.000 Wow.

02:07:39.000 parental rights in schools.

02:07:41.000 Parents have the right to know.

02:07:42.000 And you know what the hypocrisy of this is?

02:07:45.000 Even New Hampshire failed to actually get past a piece of legislation here.

02:07:49.000 The very people who say that this increases the risk of suicide are also the ones saying

02:07:54.000 that parents don't have the right to know about that increased risk of suicide.

02:07:58.000 And I'm sorry, it is not compassionate to affirm a kid's confusion.

02:08:02.000 That's a good point.

02:08:03.000 It's not compassion that is cruelty.

02:08:05.000 I met two young women, Chloe and Katie, early in this campaign who are in their 20s now regret getting double mastectomies and a hysterectomy. 0.93

02:08:13.000 One of them will never have children.

02:08:15.000 And the fact that we allowed that to happen in this country is barbaric.

02:08:19.000 So I will ban genital mutilation or chemical castration under the age of 18 and parents have Yeah, okay. 0.66

02:08:26.000 Look at that hair.

02:08:26.000 We passed a federal law that says parents should have that right.

02:08:30.000 We are going to require, states absolutely have to follow that through.

02:08:33.000 We stand for parental rights.

02:08:35.000 Because in your state, you do not have a law that says parents can't be notified.

02:08:39.000 But you want to be president.

02:08:42.000 Would you try to pass a federal law to say parents have that right?

02:08:45.000 I think this is a state's issue, but I do want to say something.

02:08:48.000 Because all night long we've been talking about issues, about how it's broken in Washington,

02:08:51.000 and I respect all of the people on the stage here for their 100 plus years of public service.

02:08:56.000 Thank you.

02:08:57.000 But the reason why we're not talking about education or healthcare or safety being a

02:09:01.000 problem is because we have a business leader.

02:09:04.000 I've got more experience as a business leader than I think this whole group combined.

02:09:08.000 I know I've created more jobs than everybody else on the stage.

02:09:10.000 Thousands of high-paying jobs that have real meaning.

02:09:13.000 So as a business leader, you come in and you treat the taxpayer like a customer.

02:09:16.000 So in North Dakota, instead of fighting with the teachers unions, we actually created a K-12 coordinating council.

02:09:21.000 Everybody gets in the room and the customer is the student.

02:09:23.000 But you do understand that this is an issue that many people in America really are concerned about, worried about, about parents and notification in schools.

02:09:33.000 Yes, and that's why we have 50 platforms of innovation.

02:09:35.000 That's why we have states. 0.99

02:09:36.000 There are certain things the federal government is supposed to do.

02:09:39.000 It's not the Department of Education that needs to be assembled.

02:09:42.000 We've got to move it back to states.

02:09:43.000 Do what we did in North Dakota.

02:09:44.000 Instead of like, oh, here's a choice school, and here's an old school, the old way with a teacher, and the kids are trapped.

02:09:49.000 We made every school in North Dakota an innovation school.

02:09:52.000 Every school got out from under the red tape.

02:09:54.000 And the things that help teach the values that we're trying to get, like 4-H, like FFA, like Boy Scouts, they can get credit for all of that.

02:10:02.000 miss by Bernie. Let me ask you, do Democrats think gay marriage is a state's issue?

02:10:07.000 Right, exactly. No, sorry. It was like he was fouling it off and then he just struck out.

02:10:12.000 I'm off. He let me down. Dead to me. I'm back to Christie.

02:10:19.000 From every background.

02:10:20.000 We are from time to time more likely to be victims of violence, hate crimes, and dispense

02:10:25.000 of violence.

02:10:26.000 How do we protect this community from violent attacks and discrimination?

02:10:31.000 As President of the United States, I'll stand up for the safety and the civil liberties

02:10:36.000 of every American from every background.

02:10:40.000 And I want the American people to know that.

02:10:42.000 But I want to answer the question as well, Dana, that you just asked Doug Burr.

02:10:45.000 Thank you.

02:10:46.000 Because by way of full disclosure, Chris, you mentioned the President's situation.

02:10:52.000 My wife isn't a member of the teacher's union, but I've got to admit, I've been sleeping with a teacher for 48 years.

02:11:01.000 Full disclosure, education is a state and local function.

02:11:06.000 The state of Indiana had one of the very first school choice programs in the country.

02:11:10.000 And when I was governor, the state of Indiana was done.

02:11:13.000 It's funny that after Mike Pence made that whole big thing about, I don't go on dinner dates with other women.

02:11:18.000 I've been sleeping with every teacher in America.

02:11:22.000 You can't get enough of them.

02:11:23.000 ...mission slip from your parents to get a Tylenol, but you could get a gender transition

02:11:27.000 plan without notifying your parents.

02:11:29.000 I weighed in with a foundation.

02:11:31.000 That's not bad policy.

02:11:33.000 That's crazy.

02:11:34.000 We're going to stand up for the rights of parents and we're going to pass a federal ban on transgender chemical or surgical surgery anywhere in the country. 0.94

02:11:44.000 We've got to protect our kids from this radical gender ideology agenda and we've got to empower parents at the state level With the ability to choose whether kids go to school, whether it's public, private, or open, or homeschooling.

02:11:59.000 Yeah, and he was smart to just redirect and say, I just want to talk about transgenderism.

02:12:03.000 Yeah, that's going to... And reflect our values and focus on the basics faster than you could possibly imagine.

02:12:09.000 Next subject.

02:12:10.000 China is investing... If you talk over everybody, we lose time.

02:12:18.000 China is investing heavily in their tech companies.

02:12:21.000 $280 billion every year on semiconductor research and development.

02:12:28.000 That is one CHIPS Act per year.

02:12:31.000 Governor DeSantis, you say companies like Google and Meta have too much power.

02:12:37.000 Doesn't going after them give China an edge? 0.98

02:12:41.000 No, I think you look at how our societies develop.

02:12:43.000 They have huge amount of power over our society.

02:12:46.000 They've cracked down on free speech.

02:12:48.000 We're not saying you don't want them to do business, but you want it to be a free market.

02:12:51.000 And right now, they're monopolies.

02:12:53.000 But this issue of China, I think, is really going to be fundamental.

02:12:56.000 We have subcontracted out so much of our national needs to the CCP.

02:13:02.000 We rely on them for a whole host of issues.

02:13:04.000 We need to reshore and we need to decouple all those important industries.

02:13:09.000 We need to get that back in the United States. 0.98

02:13:11.000 They are our top geopolitical adversary by a country mile.

02:13:15.000 Xi Jinping's got huge ambitions, not only in the Asia-Pacific, but as you mentioned

02:13:19.000 earlier, in our region.

02:13:21.000 But ultimately, we've got to beat them on the economy.

02:13:24.000 And so that's what we'll do as President of the United States.

02:13:27.000 Governor Christie, I wanted to follow up on this because 22% of American workers fear their jobs will be lost to a robot.

02:13:35.000 And you said in the past that the free market is the way to go.

02:13:40.000 Would you retrain workers who lose a job to artificial intelligence, and to do what?

02:13:46.000 Well, look, what I think artificial intelligence offers us is an extraordinary opportunity to expand well beyond the productivity that we have now, and to have Americans be able to be involved in that revolution, Dana.

02:14:00.000 You know, each time we have shown incredible innovation and progress in this country, what we've done with it is to expand all kinds of new, even unthought of opportunities.

02:14:11.000 Yes, we have to do retraining for folks who lose some of their jobs, and we should be doing that.

02:14:15.000 And we should have more training available both at the county college level and the local level for people to be able to access it.

02:14:21.000 So yes, I would be in favor of that.

02:14:23.000 But this is a much bigger issue than that.

02:14:25.000 We can't be afraid of innovation.

02:14:27.000 America has been the great innovator of this world over the last 250 years.

02:14:32.000 A technological innovator, a manufacturing innovator, and a freedom and governmental innovator.

02:14:38.000 And that's why America has to continue to stand strong in the world, pro-innovation, pro-progress.

02:14:44.000 And I will tell you this, as President of the United States, what I will do is to make

02:14:48.000 sure that every innovator in this country gets the government the hell off its back

02:14:54.000 and out of its pocket so that it can innovate and bring great new inventions to our country

02:15:00.000 that will make everybody's lives better.

02:15:03.000 Elon announced tonight at midnight he's going to stream a tier 99 nightmare dungeon speed

02:15:07.000 run on Diablo.

02:15:08.000 Who's doing it?

02:15:09.000 Elon Musk.

02:15:10.000 I wonder what class he is.

02:15:11.000 Let's take bets on what class.

02:15:12.000 It's a stress test for X Live.

02:15:17.000 My guess is he's a sorcerer.

02:15:18.000 Jake Paul.

02:15:19.000 Should the commander in chief be so easily persuaded by an influencer?

02:15:20.000 So the answer is I have a radical idea for the Republican Party.

02:15:27.000 We need to win elections.

02:15:29.000 And part of how we win elections is reaching the next generation of young people.

02:15:33.000 He's hanging out with Jake Paul.

02:15:34.000 Yes, they are.

02:15:35.000 So when I get into office, I've been very clear.

02:15:37.000 Kids under the age of 16 should not be using addictive social media.

02:15:43.000 We're only going to ever get to declaring independence from China, which I favor. 1.00

02:15:49.000 While the Democrats are running rampant, reaching the next generation 3 to 1, there's exactly one person in the Republican Party which talks a big game about reaching young people, and that's me.

02:15:59.000 And let me level with all of you.

02:16:00.000 I'm the new guy here, and so I know I have to earn your trust.

02:16:04.000 What do you see?

02:16:05.000 You see a young man who's in a bit of a hurry, maybe a little ambitious, bit of a know-it-all, it seems at times.

02:16:11.000 I'm here to tell you, no, I don't know it all.

02:16:13.000 I will listen.

02:16:15.000 I will have the best people, the best and brightest in this country, whatever age they are, advising me.

02:16:21.000 We will be probably many of the people on this stage included.

02:16:24.000 That's how I built my companies.

02:16:26.000 I want to be challenged.

02:16:27.000 I want people who disagree with me.

02:16:29.000 That's what makes America great, because we're not a perfect nation.

02:16:32.000 We're founded on the pursuit of perfection.

02:16:35.000 That is what makes America great.

02:16:38.000 TikTok is the product of the Chinese Communist Party.

02:16:43.000 I have to jump in here.

02:16:44.000 I'm sorry.

02:16:45.000 There's one person on this.

02:16:47.000 This is infuriating because TikTok is one of the most dangerous social media apps that we could have. 0.96

02:16:53.000 And what you've got, I honestly, every time I hear you, I feel a little bit dumber for what you say.

02:17:00.000 We've got a TikTok situation.

02:17:03.000 What they're doing is these 150 million people are on TikTok.

02:17:07.000 That means they can get your contacts, they can get your financial information, they can get your emails, they can get your text messages, they can get all of these things.

02:17:14.000 This is very important for our party.

02:17:16.000 China knows exactly what they're doing. 0.97

02:17:17.000 And what we've seen is you've gone and you've helped China.

02:17:20.000 They'll make medicines in China, not America. 0.69

02:17:22.000 You're now wanting kids to go and get on the social media that's dangerous for No, he never said that.

02:17:27.000 You went and you were in business with the Chinese that gave $125 million? 0.58

02:17:30.000 What?

02:17:31.000 We can't trust you.

02:17:32.000 We can't trust you.

02:17:33.000 We can't have TikTok and we can't live because we need demand.

02:17:37.000 Mr. Rameshwami, you have 15 seconds.

02:17:38.000 You have 15 seconds, Mr. Rameshwami.

02:17:39.000 I think, excuse me, excuse me.

02:17:41.000 You have 15 seconds, Mr. Ramachwali.

02:17:45.000 Thank you.

02:17:46.000 I think we would be better served as a Republican party if we're not sitting here hurling personal

02:17:51.000 insults and actually having a legitimate debate about policy following Reagan's 11th amendment

02:17:57.000 in his honor.

02:17:59.000 And the answer is, that is what actually makes our country strong.

02:18:03.000 And I believe, I believe in these people.

02:18:05.000 These are good people on the stage.

02:18:07.000 Except for Nikki.

02:18:08.000 He clearly hates Nikki.

02:18:11.000 Stuart, can we get back to the question?

02:18:16.000 The fake said he doesn't want teenagers on addicted social media, and she goes, you want kids on kick-kack?

02:18:22.000 Wow, Nikki.

02:18:22.000 President Putin has ordered assassinations across Europe, cheated on arms control treaties with the U.S., and seeks to work with China to force our decline.

02:18:31.000 President Reagan believed that if you want to prevent a war, you better be prepared to fight one.

02:18:38.000 Today, the Republican Party is at odds over aid to Ukraine.

02:18:42.000 The price tag so far is $76 billion.

02:18:45.000 But is it in our best interest to degrade Russia's military for less than 5% of what we pay annually on defense, especially when there are no U.S. 0.51

02:18:54.000 soldiers in the fight?

02:18:56.000 It's in our interest to end this war, and that's what I will do as president.

02:18:59.000 We are not going to have a blank check, we will not have US troops, and we're going to make the Europeans do what they need to do.

02:19:07.000 But they've sent money to pay bureaucrats' pensions and salaries and funding small businesses halfway around the world.

02:19:14.000 Meanwhile, Our own country is being invaded.

02:19:18.000 We don't even have control of our own territory.

02:19:20.000 We have got to defend the American people before we even worry about all these other things.

02:19:25.000 And I watch these guys in Washington, D.C., and they don't care about the American people.

02:19:31.000 They don't care about the fentanyl deaths.

02:19:34.000 They don't care about the communities being overrun because of this border.

02:19:38.000 They don't care about the Mexican drug cartels.

02:19:40.000 So as Commander-in-Chief, I will defend this country's sovereignty.

02:19:45.000 But it's not a territorial dispute.

02:19:48.000 It's never been a territorial dispute.

02:19:51.000 And 90% of the resources that we send over to Ukraine is guaranteed as a loan.

02:19:57.000 90% of the money that we send over there is loan.

02:20:01.000 We can talk about this, but at the end of the day, 90% of the money that we send over there is actually in the form of a loan.

02:20:07.000 We're not getting it back.

02:20:08.000 We're obviously not getting it back.

02:20:09.000 That's an amazing position to stake out there.

02:20:10.000 No, no, no, more funding for Ukraine.

02:20:11.000 Let's debate the fact that our national vital interest is in degrading the Russian military. 0.83

02:20:24.000 We actually keep our homeland safer, we keep our troops at home, and we all understand Article 5 of NATO.

02:20:32.000 of NATO.

02:20:33.000 We have to level with the American people.

02:20:34.000 I thought you said something about waiting until your turn to talk.

02:20:37.000 So at the end of the day, I'm going to finish my...

02:20:40.000 I'll be happy to do this.

02:20:41.000 Go ahead and I'll respond.

02:20:42.000 I'll look forward to this one right now.

02:20:43.000 So at the end of the day, when you think about the fact that if you want to keep American

02:20:47.000 troops at home, the attack on NATO territory would bring us and our troops in.

02:20:54.000 By degrading the Russian military, we reduce if not eliminate an attack on NATO territory. 0.67

02:21:01.000 We have to level with the American people on this issue.

02:21:06.000 The reality is just because Putin is an evil dictator does not mean that Ukraine is good.

02:21:13.000 This is a country that has banned 11 opposition parties.

02:21:15.000 A win for Russia is a win for China. 0.99

02:21:33.000 A win for Russia is He's looking good. 1.00

02:21:35.000 Oh, they won't shut up.

02:21:35.000 They clearly think he's a threat.

02:21:36.000 I just want to eat more Krispy Kreme.

02:21:39.000 Oh, they won't shut up.

02:21:41.000 They clearly think he's a threat.

02:21:43.000 We need a reasonable plan to peace.

02:21:47.000 We need a reasonable plan to peace.

02:21:49.000 The Communist Party of China is the real enemy.

02:21:51.000 Governor Christie.

02:21:53.000 Governor Christie.

02:21:55.000 I just want to eat more Krispy Kreme.

02:21:57.000 I couldn't hear you or the sound of my breathing.

02:21:59.000 Russia and Iran closer together.

02:22:01.000 Are we focused too much on Ukraine and not enough on this threat from the new world order? 1.00

02:22:08.000 No, they're all connected, Stuart.

02:22:10.000 They're all connected.

02:22:11.000 They're based.

02:22:14.000 The Chinese are based.

02:22:17.000 And so are the North Koreans now as well with the encouragement of the Chinese.

02:22:21.000 The naivety on this stage from some of these folks is extraordinary.

02:22:25.000 Look, I understand people want to go and talk to Putin.

02:22:28.000 Guess what?

02:22:29.000 So did George W. Bush.

02:22:31.000 So did Barack Obama.

02:22:33.000 So did Donald Trump.

02:22:34.000 And so did Joe Biden when he said a small invasion wouldn't be so bad.

02:22:38.000 Every one of them has been wrong.

02:22:41.000 And the fact of the matter is, we need to say right now, The Chinese-Russian alliance is something we have to fight against and we are not going to solve it by going over and cuddling up to Vladimir Putin.

02:22:55.000 Donald Trump said Vladimir Putin was brilliant and a great leader.

02:23:02.000 This is a person who is murdering people in his own country and now not having enough blood, he's now going to Ukraine to murder innocent civilians. 1.00

02:23:11.000 You moron. 1.00

02:23:12.000 I'm so glad that Tucker allowed Republicans to say, like, I'm not okay with this. 1.00

02:23:17.000 If we give him any of Ukraine, next will be Poland. 0.99

02:23:19.000 This is a guy who said, wait, this is a guy in 1991 who said that was the darkest moment

02:23:25.000 in world history when the Soviet Union fell.

02:23:27.000 Listen, everybody, he wants to put the old band back together and only America can stop it.

02:23:32.000 And when I'm president, we will.

02:23:34.000 Governor Burgum, I want to get to Governor Burgum. He hasn't had a chance.

02:23:37.000 Me too.

02:23:38.000 Or at least you have experience in it.

02:23:42.000 And we need to talk about America's farmers.

02:23:44.000 Because there is a foreign policy connection here.

02:23:47.000 The U.S.

02:23:47.000 and China are in this fierce economic competition.

02:23:49.000 It's hurting American businesses.

02:23:51.000 And there is blowback against American farmers because China then targets them in retaliation.

02:23:58.000 How would you as president protect American farmers and ranchers from that kind of retaliation from a foreign government?

02:24:03.000 Well, first of all, we've got the best farmers and ranchers in the world right here in America.

02:24:08.000 If they have a level playing field, they can outcompete anyone in the world.

02:24:11.000 But this is part of the larger issue that we're talking about here, which is we're in a Cold War with China.

02:24:15.000 The Biden administration won't admit that.

02:24:17.000 But we're also in a economic war through what we're doing with agriculture and energy.

02:24:21.000 And we're also in a war with them relative to cyber war.

02:24:24.000 We get attacked every day in North Dakota, every state, every school district, our tribes, all being attacked every day by either China, Russia, Iran, or North Korea.

02:24:33.000 And now we've got a Biden administration whose whole policy is appeasement.

02:24:37.000 They're out there, you know, creating the world, making it less safe.

02:24:39.000 Six billion dollars they traded for five people.

02:24:42.000 They've just now set a price on anyone's head who's a tourist from America, who's a student from America, for kidnapping.

02:24:48.000 If you want more kidnapping, put a price on it.

02:24:50.000 And then that's, and they're also helping Iran get to have more closer to nuclear weapon, which pushes all of the Middle 0.97

02:24:57.000 East closer to China and Russia.

02:24:58.000 The whole thing is absurd.

02:25:00.000 And then of course we're going to give Ukraine to Russia, and then we're going to give Taiwan to China, 0.85

02:25:05.000 and think that's a foreign policy?

02:25:06.000 That will make our nation less successful, make us more poor,

02:25:11.000 and at the core of all that is energy policy, because China imports 10 million barrels of oil a day.

02:25:16.000 They're the largest import in the world and we've had four cabinet members from the Biden administration there this summer and none of them talked about U.S.

02:25:22.000 energy.

02:25:23.000 The first one to go to each of those countries was Kerry to talk about the folly of the climate policy which is making the world less stable.

02:25:31.000 It's empowering dictators. 1.00

02:25:32.000 It's not about climate change that we need worried about.

02:25:34.000 It's about the Biden climate policies that are actually the existential threat to America's future.

02:25:42.000 He didn't win me back with that one.

02:25:44.000 We've got Scotch.

02:25:45.000 Yeah, I know.

02:25:46.000 More sophisticated than Lauren was here.

02:25:49.000 sophisticated.

02:25:50.000 Global scoundrels. 0.99

02:25:51.000 Mexico is the United States most important trade partner in border security.

02:25:57.000 You say you will send special operations to attack the cartels in Mexico.

02:26:01.000 So this means boots on the ground, drone strikes.

02:26:07.000 It means special operations.

02:26:09.000 It's how we deal with our terrorists.

02:26:10.000 And what you need to do is understand that Mexico's not being a good partner if we lost 75,000 Americans last year.

02:26:17.000 Mexico's not being a good partner if they're letting the cartels get away with what they're getting away with.

02:26:22.000 What we will do is we will make sure that we send in our special operations and we will take out the cartels, we'll take out their operations, we'll take out anything that's doing it.

02:26:31.000 But we're going to go after China. 0.97

02:26:33.000 because china is the reason he was a military operation and we will end all 1.00

02:26:37.000 normal trade relations until china stop sending i just can't listen and then

02:26:41.000 we'll do this is really just a few just said that you will send special forces

02:26:44.000 into president trump went wrong he's not going to be a time to try to keep it well i gotta

02:26:49.000 be honest that that's more reasonable than you can focus on the fact

02:26:51.000 we're going to bring a man i don't really care what you said that they were

02:26:54.000 still in the mail president dollars now he didn't focus it looks like she's a major based on 0.65

02:27:00.000 constantly with her eyebrows yeah he didn't focus on the fact that all of our

02:27:03.000 law enforcement drones and i really like chinese and we've got all these

02:27:07.000 little surveillance cells we need to start focusing on what's he's a

02:27:11.000 professional walk over that's that has happened in a long time as your president i

02:27:15.000 will make sure every american is safe and we'll do whatever it takes to make

02:27:18.000 that Michael is a man of finer tastes.

02:27:20.000 He went for the LeFroy 27.

02:27:24.000 This is much better than this debate.

02:27:26.000 I know, that's why I offered it.

02:27:28.000 You see, Crowder has taken on kind of like what you guys do backstage, the backstage kind of, they just started one that's very similar to backstage.

02:27:38.000 We got to sue him.

02:27:42.000 Here we go again, naming talent and a couple other people.

02:27:47.000 And the farther we get from September 11th, the closer we are to September 10th.

02:27:53.000 Senator Scott, you have no executive branch experience.

02:27:57.000 What has prepared you to protect the nation from a major man-made national security crisis?

02:28:03.000 I want to remind you that I've had the good fortune of doing a serving on committees in

02:28:08.000 the United States Senate like the Senate Armed Services Committee, I'm on the Senate Foreign

02:28:12.000 Relations Committee, also on the Finance Committee and the Banking Committee. Talk about addressing

02:28:17.000 the issue of fentanyl. I've written the legislation, passed it through the Banking Committee and the

02:28:22.000 Senate that would freeze the assets and sanction the accounts of the Mexican cartels. There are

02:28:28.000 weapons that we have within the arsenal that I was able to get past 23 to 0 in the

02:28:34.000 Polarizing Senate as it is.

02:28:36.000 I've also understood without question the fact that if you look at the details before 9-11, there was information and intelligence that was available that suggested an attack was coming.

02:28:48.000 Having the right intelligence partners with us is key to making sure that we prevent the next 9-11 from ever happening.

02:28:56.000 Having that experience for the last 10 years is really important in getting the job done.

02:29:00.000 You want to increase domestic spying?

02:29:03.000 In response to September 11th.

02:29:05.000 Well, I think you asked a question about executive experience.

02:29:07.000 I think it's vitally important.

02:29:08.000 Increase the security apparatus.

02:29:10.000 More money to you, Frank.

02:29:12.000 And the FBI and the NSA and the CIA.

02:29:15.000 You hear the fire on the stage tonight.

02:29:17.000 You hear the fire in all of our voices.

02:29:19.000 And it's because Joe Biden is weak in this country, at home and abroad.

02:29:23.000 This is a time for those of us that have the experience, the tested experience, and a commitment

02:29:31.000 to the conservative agenda that Ronald Reagan brought forward in this party of a strong

02:29:36.000 national defense, standing with our allies, standing up to our enemies, supporting limited

02:29:40.000 government and traditional values, need to step forward.

02:29:44.000 Because frankly, our party does face a time for choosing.

02:29:48.000 Whether we're going to stand on the foundation of that conservative agenda that Ronald Reagan forged, or whether we're going to follow the siren song of populism on more to conservative principles.

02:30:00.000 I'm the most experienced, most qualified, and most consistent conservative in this field, and I'm ready to lead it.

02:30:06.000 That is Trump's worst mistake right there.

02:30:08.000 Time for choosing to go to a break.

02:30:11.000 Yo, Jack Masobas got a really good tweet.

02:30:14.000 He says, over one hour in and not one candidate has even mentioned the Biden-DOJ weaponizing the power of the state to take down its top opponent.

02:30:22.000 Look, man, I like Vivek, but if I was on that stage, I'm sorry.

02:30:26.000 Anybody who watches this show, like, you know exactly what I'd be talking about.

02:30:30.000 The first thing they'd say, they'd say, we have an immigration crisis at the border.

02:30:34.000 As president, what would you do?

02:30:35.000 Out! 0.58

02:30:36.000 You gotta go!

02:30:36.000 You can't stay!

02:30:37.000 You came here illegally!

02:30:38.000 We're gonna get you on a nice bus. 0.99

02:30:39.000 We're gonna send you back to Mexico. 1.00

02:30:40.000 Mexico can deal with it.

02:30:41.000 They broke into Mexico or they're from Mexico. 0.88

02:30:43.000 They come here while they go back to Mexico. 0.99

02:30:45.000 I don't hate the people.

02:30:46.000 I got no beef.

02:30:47.000 In fact, I respect their drive to come to the greatest country on this planet.

02:30:50.000 Sorry, but you can't stay.

02:30:51.000 Apply legally.

02:30:52.000 We'll welcome you in, in due time, so we can adequately and properly handle the economics.

02:30:57.000 Next point.

02:30:58.000 As president, all prosecution, anybody who engaged in a prosecution or sedition against the previous president will face criminal prosecution.

02:31:10.000 Next question.

02:31:10.000 I'm done.

02:31:12.000 They're up there and they're being like, well, let's have a debate on the merits of China, dude.

02:31:16.000 We get it.

02:31:17.000 They're arresting the opposition leader, man, you know?

02:31:20.000 But we could talk about China.

02:31:21.000 We could talk about China.

02:31:22.000 We'd say, yes, we realize China's a threat. 0.99

02:31:24.000 Next question.

02:31:25.000 Well, what would you do about it? 0.52

02:31:26.000 The first thing I would do is stop the psychopaths who are dissolving Trump's business, falsely accusing him of rape, prosecuting his lawyers.

02:31:34.000 You think anyone in this country right now, look, what they're trying to do is they're trying to This is the problem with conservative voters.

02:31:44.000 It's the right.

02:31:47.000 There's this hope and this belief that if you just do nothing, it goes back to normal.

02:31:53.000 Not the case.

02:31:54.000 Not gonna happen.

02:31:55.000 So what's gonna happen is, after Trump is gone, you've now proven they can wield these tactics against anyone who stands in their way.

02:32:05.000 This is what is so funny about this thing tonight.

02:32:08.000 There were some good answers.

02:32:09.000 I think DeSantis is doing a good job relative to the last one.

02:32:13.000 I think Nikki's relative.

02:32:16.000 Relative is the key word for all of this here.

02:32:19.000 Nikki started out strong against her opponents.

02:32:22.000 She got weaker throughout.

02:32:23.000 Same thing with Tim Scott.

02:32:24.000 Even Burgum lost me.

02:32:25.000 He lost me, even Doug Burgum.

02:32:27.000 But the reason I say relative is Because none of their names is Donald John Trump, who is 50 points ahead of everybody.

02:32:38.000 But they could make it matter.

02:32:40.000 It's just what they're doing is your run-of-the-mill blah blah blah political debate.

02:32:45.000 What did Donald Trump do?

02:32:47.000 I will arrest Hillary Clinton! 0.99

02:32:49.000 He didn't do it, he didn't.

02:32:50.000 And so you go up on that stage and what do people want to hear?

02:32:55.000 Well look, what they're trying to do All of these people, I imagine most of them, don't actually believe a word they say.

02:33:04.000 What actually happens is the consultants come in and say, if you go with these talking points, you'll cast a wider net than Ron DeSantis will.

02:33:12.000 So that's why Nikki Haley was like, you wanna get kids on the TikTok! 0.98

02:33:16.000 He literally said, we should not allow them on TikTok.

02:33:19.000 And then you just said nonsense, because they don't actually believe or care about whatever it is they're talking about.

02:33:25.000 There also appears to be just real personal animosity now, which there wasn't at the last debate, I think.

02:33:31.000 So this is the part that I really like about the campaign season, is when they actually start to just, like, hate each other, and they can't keep it in anymore, because I just want something unexpected.

02:33:40.000 I want some sign of life, and an organic reaction to human beings.

02:33:45.000 And so you're starting to see that a little bit here, but it still seems like play acting to me.

02:33:49.000 Agreed.

02:33:50.000 For someone at 6% to say, when I'm president of the United States, you know, give me a break.

02:33:54.000 You know what answer I would appreciate more than any one of these answers?

02:33:58.000 When asked, right now, Donald Trump, the former president, is facing multiple indictments.

02:34:03.000 There is an investigation into the son of the president, which may involve the president himself.

02:34:08.000 How would you respond?

02:34:09.000 When Ian says, I'd pardon all of them so we can end the animosity in fighting, while I disagree with it, it's a real answer.

02:34:15.000 Yeah, yeah.

02:34:15.000 It's not a, well, you got to understand these investigations need to be played out.

02:34:19.000 And the American people, no, no, no. 0.77

02:34:21.000 Ian will tell you what he wants to do, even if you don't like what he wants to do.

02:34:24.000 These people will tell you wishy-washy BS nonsense and waste our time.

02:34:27.000 They should be talking about hydrogen fuel, the evolution of our fuel system.

02:34:30.000 They should be talking about graphene and the industrialization.

02:34:32.000 They should be talking about solutions.

02:34:33.000 One question about graphene all night.

02:34:34.000 Can you imagine?

02:34:35.000 It's not one.

02:34:36.000 It's sad.

02:34:37.000 We're here in California.

02:34:38.000 Where gas is nearing $6 a gallon, oil is close to $100 a barrel again.

02:34:44.000 You say, drill, baby, drill.

02:34:47.000 That was good timing, actually.

02:34:49.000 Mr. Rameshwami, how would you bring down prices without drilling?

02:34:54.000 Well, look, I think that we do have to run through the courts and get through that administrative state to make sure we're using the natural resources here at home.

02:35:02.000 But here's the other thing that we can do that's easy.

02:35:04.000 It will take forever, Mr. Ramaswamy.

02:35:05.000 And it addresses the national debt as well as brings down prices.

02:35:08.000 Ian, did you point the snake?

02:35:09.000 Put people back to work.

02:35:10.000 It's funny because it gets them to correctly pronounce his name.

02:35:13.000 Yeah.

02:35:13.000 to pay people more to stay at home than to go to work.

02:35:18.000 That is wrong.

02:35:19.000 That contributes to our supply chain crisis.

02:35:21.000 It contributes to inflation.

02:35:23.000 That's the easiest way to unlock this economy.

02:35:25.000 And here's the other thing.

02:35:26.000 We have to put the Federal Reserve back in its place.

02:35:30.000 This is an agency that has gone rogue.

02:35:33.000 So in January 2026, when I have the opportunity as your next commander in chief, we will have

02:35:38.000 a new chairman of the Federal Reserve who places priority on dollar stability and most

02:35:43.000 importantly send packing 75% of the administrative state, reduce the federal employee headcount

02:35:49.000 by 75%, rescind 50% of unconstitutional federal regulations that are shackling businesses

02:35:56.000 both large and small.

02:35:58.000 I've offered a very clear, practical plan to do it.

02:36:01.000 That's how we unleash the economy.

02:36:02.000 See, this is what's refreshing about him, is all these other candidates are just repeating the same old crap from the 80s, and what Trump did in 16 was he had a new plan, and Vivek's got a new plan. 0.99

02:36:14.000 Trump also called people fat pigs. 0.96

02:36:15.000 I think one of the signature accomplishments of our administration was in just a few short years. 0.96

02:36:20.000 Excuse me!

02:36:21.000 Rosie's in a perpetual frown.

02:36:23.000 We became a net exporter of energy for the first time in 75 years.

02:36:29.000 On day one, Joe Biden declared a war on energy, which was no surprise, because when Joe Biden ran for president, he said he was going to end fossil fuels.

02:36:39.000 And they've been working overtime to do that ever since.

02:36:42.000 If I'm president of the United States, we're going to open up federal lands.

02:36:45.000 We're going to unleash American energy.

02:36:48.000 We're going to have an all-of-the-above energy strategy.

02:36:51.000 And I have a plan that actually would not only reclaim energy independence, But in 2006, America lost our position as the leading energy producer on Earth.

02:37:00.000 I believe in the next ten years with the right policies and the right institutions.

02:37:03.000 And I'm the leading energy producer on Earth.

02:37:05.000 Vivek has such model U.N.

02:37:05.000 of the most entertaining model UN debates I've ever seen.

02:37:22.000 Yes, you can, Doug.

02:37:22.000 No!

02:37:23.000 So, you know, the first thing I'll say is, what I saw at the United Nations is energy security is national security.

02:37:30.000 We need a president that understands we have to partner with our producers to make sure that we have their backs.

02:37:36.000 What you don't need is a president who is against energy independence.

02:37:40.000 Rhonda Sanders is against fracking.

02:37:42.000 He's against drilling.

02:37:43.000 She was in the last debate.

02:37:44.000 She was the stable adult.

02:37:46.000 You know what she's going for? 0.96

02:37:47.000 She's going for the, uh, act erratically. 0.91

02:37:48.000 she's really going to have to do with the way you are able to do in florida

02:37:52.000 only there are a few of us are going to get on to the role and going to the uh...

02:37:58.000 subsidies acted radically that way when they criticize you complain their sexist

02:38:03.000 and i just did a plan out west texas for american energy dominance

02:38:08.000 We're going to choose Midland over Moscow, we're going to choose the Marcellus over the Molas, and we're going to choose Bakken over Beijing, and we are going to lower your gas prices.

02:38:17.000 We are going to get that job done because it's important for our national security, it's important for jobs, and that's one of the best ways to drive down inflation.

02:38:25.000 I've written lines that I was waiting because I thought they'd kill, but...

02:38:29.000 So have you noticed that Ron's smiling a bit when he's not talking?

02:38:32.000 You mentioned that?

02:38:33.000 It's because the last debate he did that weird, like, wince.

02:38:36.000 And it went viral.

02:38:38.000 Yeah.

02:38:39.000 But it still looks like that.

02:38:41.000 You're totally wrong.

02:38:42.000 They voted it in.

02:38:43.000 That's what we did.

02:38:45.000 Onshore we do do it in Florida.

02:38:50.000 So that's just wrong.

02:38:51.000 And let's just get real here.

02:38:53.000 My plan will get the job done.

02:38:55.000 We are gonna be energy dominant and that's what's gonna happen.

02:38:58.000 Why are they debating?

02:39:00.000 I don't know.

02:39:01.000 Trump's calling it like 72% so...

02:39:05.000 It's like the vice president of the United States.

02:39:07.000 We can't talk over each other.

02:39:08.000 We must- How does Trump serve indictment?

02:39:10.000 He doesn't have a big any on him.

02:39:11.000 Maybe he could make a resolution on it.

02:39:12.000 Yeah.

02:39:13.000 Governor DeSantis, this is your question.

02:39:16.000 The Biden administration is hell-bent on student loan forgiveness.

02:39:20.000 But you say colleges should be on the hook when graduates cannot pay their debt.

02:39:25.000 How does that address the cost of college- How does that- the cost of college itself?

02:39:30.000 Because the colleges are going to have to make a decision.

02:39:32.000 Do we offer, do we expand the gender studies department?

02:39:35.000 Knowing some of those graduates may not have great learning opportunities.

02:39:38.000 No.

02:39:39.000 They're going to focus on the things that really matter.

02:39:41.000 They're going to make different choices.

02:39:42.000 They're going to try to graduate people in four years.

02:39:44.000 I also just want to come back to something Dana asked last segment about 9-11, because I was just at the 9-11 memorial with the families, my wife and everybody.

02:39:50.000 It was very touching to be there, and it affected my life because I ended up joining the military as a result of that.

02:39:57.000 I had been a blue-collar kid.

02:40:02.000 I can't help but notice his ears.

02:40:04.000 That is interesting.

02:40:04.000 They like stand out.

02:40:05.000 than when I went in and that is not easy to do. Had a lot of opportunities to make money,

02:40:09.000 but I wanted to serve and I'll never forget coming back on a plane from Iraq, landing

02:40:14.000 in Coronado, California, North Island, and feeling that breeze off the Pacific Ocean

02:40:18.000 and saying, you know what, I am lucky to have been born an American and I think being able

02:40:23.000 to serve, and I'll be the first president elected since 1988 who's actually served overseas

02:40:28.000 in a war, I think that's going to help me as commander in chief to know how you see

02:40:33.000 these issues and understand that there are real lives at stake for people that wear the

02:40:37.000 And we know that Governor Haley's husband is serving right now as well, and we thank him for that.

02:40:41.000 Like Dana just preempts the Haley interruption. 0.74

02:40:44.000 That was great.

02:40:44.000 The approval rate for Congress is at a mere 19%.

02:40:48.000 If this were a business, you'd probably all be fired in Washington, but you're here tonight

02:40:53.000 looking for a promotion.

02:40:54.000 In 2013, Governor Haley hired you for the Senate.

02:40:55.000 I'd like you to tell her why you should be promoted to CEO of the nation's largest

02:41:03.000 Oh dude, if I was moderating?

02:41:04.000 Just insult all of them all the time. 0.99

02:41:06.000 One of the things I'd say is if you look at our national debt of $33 trillion... Nikki, you're a shrill awful woman. 1.00

02:41:11.000 What do you think about the water?

02:41:13.000 Pass a balanced budget amendment.

02:41:17.000 That would constrain the spending in Washington in the same fashion that it does in every state in our nation.

02:41:23.000 Number one.

02:41:24.000 Number two, if you want to actually reduce our national debt, you have to grow our economy.

02:41:29.000 In order to grow our economy, you need to create about 10 million jobs to grow our economy at 5%.

02:41:34.000 You can do that in three specific sectors.

02:41:37.000 Number one, the energy sector.

02:41:39.000 We could create between three and three and a half million jobs.

02:41:43.000 Someone's going to do like a song duet with this clip right here. 0.84

02:41:48.000 We're the richest country if you combine coal, gas, and oil.

02:41:52.000 Why not unleash all of our resources?

02:41:55.000 Number two, we've lost 100,000 factories.

02:41:59.000 100,000 factories in the last 25 years.

02:42:02.000 If we continued on my Made in America plan, we could bring jobs back to America in a similar fashion that we did when I wrote the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

02:42:11.000 We actually lowered the corporate tax from 35% to 21%, reshored or repatriated $1.7 trillion.

02:42:18.000 We brought the unemployment rates for African Americans, Hispanics, and Asians to the lowest level in the history of the country and a 70-year low for women.

02:42:28.000 Governor Haley, would you think, you think you would deserve the promotion over him?

02:42:32.000 Well, first of all, I think, look, I appreciate Tim, we've known each other a long time, but he's been there 12 years and he hasn't done any of that.

02:42:39.000 He hasn't, they've only given four budgets on time in 40 years.

02:42:43.000 He increased the national debt, he voted for the spending, he has made sure that the borders are open and they haven't done anything.

02:42:52.000 12 years, where have you been?

02:42:55.000 I'm kind of into it, I'll be real.

02:42:58.000 Yeah, it's gone very WWE.

02:43:00.000 It has.

02:43:00.000 And it's really Nikki who's the agent of chaos.

02:43:04.000 If I was up there at this point, when everyone's yelling, I'd be like, listen here!

02:43:11.000 Just go right into WWE.

02:43:13.000 Big victories for the people of Florida.

02:43:15.000 And that's what it's all about.

02:43:17.000 You can always talk, but when it gets hot in there, when they're shooting arrows at you, are you going to stand up for parents' rights, keep the state free?

02:43:25.000 Are you going to be able to do all those things?

02:43:27.000 And in the state of Florida, because of our success, the Democratic Party lies in ruins.

02:43:32.000 We have won the big fights.

02:43:34.000 We have turned our state into a Republican state.

02:43:36.000 People respond to leadership.

02:43:38.000 Like Biden won the debates in 2020, which is, he didn't win it by being soaring and exceptional and spectacular.

02:43:45.000 He just won it by being the least, like, wacky person up there.

02:43:49.000 That's the way businesses are actually run.

02:43:52.000 Start with zero as the baseline.

02:43:54.000 I want the lighting pictures to start collapsing.

02:43:58.000 There isn't a blue state or a red state in this union that doesn't.

02:44:01.000 The federal government doesn't do it.

02:44:03.000 But successful companies, including the ones that I've built as a CEO... The way he speaks, the way he did his hair, all planned.

02:44:12.000 He's going for a cartoonish personality like Trump, I think. 0.99

02:44:15.000 Not as silly as Trump is, but he's trying to make a character of himself. 0.99

02:44:18.000 That's a good observation. 1.00

02:44:20.000 Look at those strong eyebrows.

02:44:21.000 That's a good observation.

02:44:22.000 We're already doing it in North Dakota.

02:44:25.000 The border plans already talking about we've got troops down at the border flying helicopters

02:44:29.000 down at the border of North Dakota.

02:44:33.000 Transnational organizations from inflicting the invasion and the mass casualties in our 0.98

02:44:39.000 And on the energy policy, we're already doing it.

02:44:41.000 It's not saying nobody else has done the big fights.

02:44:43.000 North Dakota was leading the charge.

02:44:45.000 We won the battle to get the Biden administration, who was ignoring the law.

02:44:49.000 They were the first administration since Truman that wasn't holding the quarterly required lease sales.

02:44:54.000 And we won that in federal court.

02:44:56.000 Vote us.

02:44:56.000 We won that in federal court.

02:44:58.000 We're fighting the Biden administration on 20 fronts.

02:45:00.000 To say that nobody's fighting the big fights, just look at the record of what we're doing right now.

02:45:04.000 Energy, economy, national security have been talking about it since day one, and now finally, good, we're having the conversation about it, but we've got the answer in North Dakota.

02:45:12.000 I've said it for years.

02:45:14.000 North Dakota has the answer.

02:45:19.000 One-fifth of all new jobs this year have been created by the government.

02:45:23.000 Governor Burgum, you say you want to shrink the size of government.

02:45:27.000 But it has been a century since any president has done that.

02:45:30.000 Why would you be any different?

02:45:32.000 Well, because we've done it in North Dakota.

02:45:35.000 When I took office, we shrunk the state budget general fund by 27% in the first four months I was office, and all the trains stopped running on time.

02:45:44.000 Why?

02:45:44.000 Because you had a business leader that was actually there.

02:45:47.000 Inside every government job.

02:45:48.000 There's 10 or 20% of mind-numbing, soul-sucking work that even the state and federal employees don't want to do, and you can engineer that work out of the job, that would free up right there 20% of 2 million civilian employees.

02:46:01.000 And by the way, we've got 10 million jobs open.

02:46:03.000 They'd have plenty to do, and they could be generating taxes instead of being paid by taxes.

02:46:07.000 This is totally possible to do it if you have somebody that understands Because having worked in technology for 30 years, everything we had to do was to be better, faster, and cheaper the next day.

02:46:17.000 That's what we can do in government.

02:46:18.000 That's what we're doing in North Dakota.

02:46:20.000 All right.

02:46:20.000 Governor DeSantis.

02:46:21.000 Michael Malice's porky pig attacks Donald Duck. 0.81

02:46:24.000 I want to ask you about something that's on a lot of Republicans' minds.

02:46:27.000 This election could come down to less than 50,000 votes in three states.

02:46:32.000 That's right.

02:46:32.000 Abortion was on the ballot in six states in 2022.

02:46:36.000 Republicans lost all of them.

02:46:39.000 Next year, abortion will likely be on the ballot in Arizona. 0.61

02:46:42.000 That is a must-win state.

02:46:44.000 Governor DeSantis, how are you going to win over independent, pro-choice voters in Arizona?

02:46:50.000 Same way we did in Florida.

02:46:52.000 We won the greatest Republican victory in a governor's race in the history of the state.

02:46:56.000 Over 1.5 million votes.

02:46:58.000 We were winning places like Miami-Dade County, Palm Beach, that nobody thought was possible because we were leading with purpose and conviction.

02:47:04.000 I reject this idea that pro-lifers are to blame for midterm defeats.

02:47:10.000 I think there's other reasons for that.

02:47:12.000 The former president, he's missing in action tonight.

02:47:15.000 He's had a lot to say about that.

02:47:16.000 He should be here explaining his comments to try to say that pro-life protections are

02:47:21.000 somehow a terrible thing.

02:47:23.000 I want him to look into the eyes and tell people who have been fighting this fight for

02:47:27.000 a long time.

02:47:28.000 I was at, my wife and I earlier today were at the gravesite of President and Mrs. Reagan

02:47:33.000 and I noticed that there was a quote where it says, every single person has purpose and

02:47:40.000 worth.

02:47:41.000 We're better off when everybody counts.

02:47:43.000 And I think we should stand for what we believe in.

02:47:45.000 I think we should hold the Democrats accountable for their extremism, supporting abortion all the way up until the moment of birth.

02:47:54.000 That is infanticide and that is wrong.

02:47:56.000 Let me ask Governor Christie.

02:47:57.000 That was good.

02:47:58.000 That was real good.

02:47:59.000 Good answer.

02:47:59.000 That was the best answer of the night.

02:48:01.000 Governor Christie, do you think that Republicans can do that in Arizona if this referendum is on the ballot there?

02:48:08.000 Yeah, because I did it in New Jersey, Dana.

02:48:10.000 Then why are all these other states losing?

02:48:13.000 Well, because they don't have leaders in those states who are leading the fight the way it should be led.

02:48:17.000 Can you stop shaking his head?

02:48:20.000 Dana, I would object to you waking me up.

02:48:23.000 This is where the fight is really tough for Republicans.

02:48:26.000 And those are the states that we're going to have to try to win if we're going to win the White House back.

02:48:30.000 And what we did is 14 times, Dana, in eight years, I vetoed Planned Parenthood funding.

02:48:35.000 14 times.

02:48:37.000 No one else gets it that much.

02:48:39.000 The Democrats just kept sending it to me, and I kept saying no, because I believe in life.

02:48:43.000 But I also believe in states' rights.

02:48:45.000 And I think we fought hard against Roe vs. Wade for decades to say that states should make these decisions.

02:48:51.000 So we're going to have those fights in the states. 0.98

02:48:52.000 I believe in life, and I believe that California should kill as many babies as they want, because I'm a principled conservative. 0.97

02:48:57.000 You have to be pro-life for the entire life, not just the 9 months in the womb. 0.98

02:49:01.000 And we've talked a lot about fentanyl tonight, and we haven't spoken one moment about treatment.

02:49:06.000 But we need to make sure that for the drug-addicted 16-year-old on the floor of the county lockup, her life is precious, too.

02:49:13.000 And we need to be providing treatment to cure this as a disease that it is.

02:49:17.000 If you're pro-life, you've got to be pro-life for the entire life.

02:49:19.000 We start talking like that, they're going to do what I did in the blue state, which was get re-elected with 61% of the vote and won 70% of independents and 51% of Latinos because I told them the truth from my heart.

02:49:35.000 The latest Univision poll found that 73% of Latino voters think the Republican Party doesn't care about or is being hostile toward them, the Hispanic community.

02:49:46.000 Only Governor DeSantis has translated his campaign into Spanish.

02:49:50.000 How would you reach out to Latino voters?

02:49:54.000 Well, I promise you that we're going to continue to build bridges to every community in this country.

02:49:59.000 I just wish you went out!

02:50:00.000 And I'm incredibly proud of you.

02:50:01.000 All of you, I don't care!

02:50:02.000 Citizens, all of you, go on!

02:50:03.000 Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, Go home!

02:50:19.000 Protestants out!

02:50:20.000 So I think the President of the United States needs to be a champion for the American dream

02:50:25.000 for every American.

02:50:27.000 It begins with the unborn, and the aging, and the infirm.

02:50:31.000 And it begins with every ethnic group in this country.

02:50:34.000 And I promise you, if I'm President of the United States, I'll be a champion.

02:50:38.000 I'll be a champion for the American dream.

02:50:39.000 You won't be, dude.

02:50:40.000 For Hispanic Americans and for every American.

02:50:42.000 How based would it be if he was just like, I'm not going to win.

02:50:45.000 Everybody knows it.

02:50:46.000 We're just up here to sell books.

02:50:48.000 If you lead by example, it's the best way to get the job done.

02:50:52.000 If you look at my office in the Senate, my Chief of Staff is the only Hispanic female Chief of Staff in the Senate. 0.95

02:51:00.000 I don't think Trump would ever hold a pen like this while he's talking.

02:51:05.000 I don't think he would ever do that.

02:51:06.000 I really wish I could be on this stage.

02:51:09.000 I would be up there and be like, guys, no one on this stage is going to beat Trump.

02:51:12.000 Just say it to the people watching at home.

02:51:14.000 Just since everyone's listening to me, let me talk about my opinions.

02:51:17.000 No, I'd be like, I'm voting for Trump.

02:51:19.000 I'm up here to tell you I'm voting for Trump and y'all can't beat him.

02:51:21.000 I'd probably get up there and say, hey, no one up on this stage is going to beat Trump, which is why I'd encourage you to purchase my book.

02:51:27.000 Speechless, controlling words.

02:51:29.000 You got bad information.

02:51:30.000 First of all, I fought the gas tax in South Carolina multiple times against the establishment. 0.99

02:51:35.000 Shut up. 0.95

02:51:35.000 When they wouldn't pass the gas tax, the establishment and the companies wanted me to do it so much. 0.95

02:51:38.000 Next.

02:51:39.000 You got bad information.

02:51:40.000 First of all, I fought the gas tax in South Carolina multiple times against the establishment.

02:51:41.000 Just go to YouTube.

02:51:42.000 Against the establishment.

02:51:43.000 Just go to YouTube.

02:51:44.000 Shut it.

02:51:45.000 And you want to know what that tense was?

02:51:46.000 When they wouldn't pass the gas tax, the establishment and the companies wanted me to do it so much

02:51:47.000 that I said the only way I will pass it is if you will give us three more years.

02:51:48.000 You are the establishment, lady.

02:51:49.000 Here's what you have to do.

02:51:50.000 All you have to do is sign up for the gas tax.

02:51:51.000 You have to sign up for the gas tax.

02:51:57.000 The only way I will pass it is if you don't give us three.

02:52:00.000 All you have to do is go watch Nicky Halliburton.

02:52:04.000 If you won't give me the deduction in income tax, then I will look at your gas tax, which is why it didn't happen.

02:52:12.000 Secondly, on the curtains, do your homework, too, because Obama bought those curtains.

02:52:18.000 Did you send them back?

02:52:19.000 It's in the press.

02:52:20.000 Did you send them back?

02:52:22.000 It's the State Department.

02:52:23.000 Did you send them back?

02:52:27.000 He should tell her to calm down.

02:52:28.000 This is the point where you need Alex Jones to go... He should be like, you sound crazy right now. 0.64

02:52:36.000 This is when Trump would walk in if this was actually a movie.

02:52:39.000 What if all of a sudden the lights go out?

02:52:40.000 Trump walks in.

02:52:45.000 Highest rated show ever.

02:52:47.000 He's gotta make that happen for the third debate.

02:52:55.000 He's just gotta show up.

02:52:57.000 Walks in from the back.

02:52:58.000 The whole stream would freeze and all these people would be clicking in. 0.98

02:53:06.000 Nikki's half right when she said that she was dumber for having listened to Vivek. 0.98

02:53:10.000 The reality is I'm dumber for having listened to all of them. 0.88

02:53:12.000 You know, when she was going after Scott, and it's just the same thing, they're both, they've been sniping at everyone all night, but then when Scott just totally lost even the veneer of civilian, he goes, did you send him back? 0.79

02:53:24.000 What?

02:53:25.000 What's good?

02:53:26.000 What's good?

02:53:26.000 Did you send him back or not?

02:53:28.000 And then she goes, did you send him back?

02:53:29.000 Did you?

02:53:30.000 Wow.

02:53:31.000 That's when I'm like, you need Macho Man to like storm in with a chair and just like...

02:53:35.000 I know you are, but what am I?

02:53:37.000 I know you are!

02:53:38.000 Was it you, Tim, who said that Vivek's too smart?

02:53:40.000 What, you guys said that Vivek is too smart?

02:53:42.000 I said he's too smart. 1.00

02:53:43.000 Do you think it's actually literally, he's literally too smart to represent a stupid populace? 1.00

02:53:47.000 Yes. 1.00

02:53:47.000 You need a stupider person to represent? 1.00

02:53:49.000 We've had smart presidents. 0.99

02:53:50.000 Vivek is doing really, really well, but my advice to him would be, he's trying to target audiences like ours too much.

02:53:59.000 The people who listen to this show are so well-read, they correct us in the comments when we get things wrong.

02:54:05.000 If you're trying to get a general swath of as many people as possible, he needs to tone it down a little bit to where the people who watch a show like this understand what he's saying and like, I totally get it.

02:54:15.000 But it's like cake, something simple and easily digestible, not some complicated dish that's super like, oh, actually oatmeal is a better way to put it.

02:54:22.000 You know, like, with some brown sugar on top.

02:54:24.000 Super easy to make.

02:54:25.000 Everybody gets it.

02:54:26.000 It's oatmeal.

02:54:26.000 Anybody can do it.

02:54:28.000 The thing about... Vivek is an exceptional guy in every way.

02:54:31.000 I mean, this was true when I was in college.

02:54:33.000 He was, like, known as... Even at Yale Law School, best law school in the country, he was, like, a top guy on... He was a big man on campus.

02:54:39.000 And he's always been very impressive and exceptional.

02:54:42.000 And... But everyone knows it.

02:54:45.000 Whereas someone like Trump...

02:54:47.000 Has always been more exceptional than just about any public figure in the United States.

02:54:52.000 I mean, whether you love him or hate him, the guy has been a rock star celebrity for 40 years in what, like five industries?

02:54:58.000 He was in real estate.

02:55:00.000 Then he tries out network TV, becomes the top rated show.

02:55:02.000 Then he runs for president, wins on his first try.

02:55:04.000 I mean, it's totally exceptional.

02:55:05.000 But he doesn't seem that way.

02:55:07.000 He seems like a normal guy who eats Big Macs.

02:55:10.000 He makes it look easy, and Vivek is just, he's very high strung.

02:55:15.000 Yeah, well, yeah, he just reads as the Yale Law School, you know, smart, wealthy guy, which is impressive, but if he could be that guy and eat the Big Macs, that would be diner.

02:55:28.000 Well done steak with ketchup.

02:55:29.000 That's right.

02:55:30.000 That's Trump's thing. 0.98

02:55:31.000 But this is why when Fetterman, I guess someone was over chatting, they got rid of the dress, they reinstated the dress code, like Fetterman, stop wearing shorts, you're a slob. 0.97

02:55:39.000 My attitude when it came to Fetterman was, yeah, I don't think shorts are appropriate, But I certainly think it's silly that everyone has to wear a suit and women have to wear dresses or whatever.

02:55:49.000 And it's the right being like, no, there has to be a dress code, blah, blah, blah.

02:55:54.000 There are some people who I know that are not even super conservative, but they've become tribal.

02:55:57.000 I'll agree with the right on this for no reason.

02:55:59.000 And I'm like, listen.

02:56:02.000 I agree, the shorts and the hoodie, it's a little bit much.

02:56:06.000 But, Donald Trump ate a 30-day dry-aged steak well done with ketchup and was mocked and ridiculed by the press.

02:56:14.000 Why?

02:56:14.000 I love this talking point.

02:56:17.000 Regular people, who aren't Michelin chefs, just want to cook a nice steak for their family, and they buy what they can buy from Walmart, and they like to cook it well done with ketchup.

02:56:27.000 It is.

02:56:28.000 It is a lower-class thing.

02:56:29.000 Not all low-class people eat this way.

02:56:31.000 I know that there are people who work really, really hard, they don't make a lot of money, and they learn how to cook a steak properly.

02:56:36.000 But me growing up, my dad would cook great steaks, and then sometimes we'd get the dollar steaks, and we'd cook them through in slop ketchup.

02:56:44.000 So when Trump does that, and the media insulted Trump, they were insulting all of us.

02:56:48.000 When Federman Dresses down, they're trying to play the same game to get conservatives to appear elitist and hoity-toity, and you have to dress in a suit!

02:56:57.000 Right, right, I agree.

02:56:58.000 Is it true that he was wearing the hoodie to cover up that bulge on the back of his neck?

02:57:02.000 Yes, yes, that's correct.

02:57:03.000 I love the conspiracy theory that it's not really Fetterman anymore.

02:57:05.000 Like, it really obviously is him.

02:57:08.000 The Fettermen.

02:57:09.000 The multiple Fettermen.

02:57:11.000 I've been watching old videos of Donald Trump.

02:57:13.000 Lately, they've just been popping up in my feeds here and there, and he was prolific, and actually very intelligent.

02:57:19.000 Like, I think you make a good point earlier.

02:57:21.000 He comes off as kind of a... I mean, I will say he comes off as a doofus, because that's the way the media's been portraying him. 0.73

02:57:26.000 Look at that idiot that can't tweet properly. 1.00

02:57:28.000 But he's very smart. 1.00

02:57:30.000 Very, very smart guy.

02:57:31.000 Taylor Swift, right?

02:57:33.000 Everybody starts ragging on Taylor Swift all of a sudden because she's dating that football player guy. 0.98

02:57:37.000 And I see people saying, like, her music sucks. 0.81

02:57:38.000 And I'm like, her music does not suck and she works really hard. 0.95

02:57:41.000 And there are people who claim that her music sucks and she doesn't work hard because they want to hate her. 1.00

02:57:45.000 And I'm like, dude, they said Donald Trump was a moron and he's a billionaire. 1.00

02:57:49.000 He's certainly smarter than you. 1.00

02:57:51.000 They say he doesn't work hard.

02:57:52.000 He certainly works harder than you.

02:57:54.000 You don't have to like Taylor Swift or like her music.

02:57:55.000 I don't, but I know that the people who love it, it's because it is good and it's a product being sold.

02:58:01.000 You know, if you said the product is bad, I'm like, well, she just sold a billion of them.

02:58:06.000 Right.

02:58:06.000 Like, certainly people enjoy it.

02:58:07.000 Yeah.

02:58:08.000 Love song.

02:58:08.000 I thought that song was rock star.

02:58:10.000 All right, we're back.

02:58:11.000 That was one of her first songs.

02:58:13.000 Hopefully it's over.

02:58:14.000 15 seconds starting now.

02:58:15.000 Oh, it's the end.

02:58:17.000 Here we go.

02:58:18.000 With all due respect, I mean, we're here, like, you know, we're happy to debate, but I think that that's disrespectful to my fellow competitors.

02:58:25.000 Nobody wants to participate.

02:58:26.000 Let's do some questions.

02:58:29.000 I love it.

02:58:30.000 Take control, guys.

02:58:31.000 You guys are so wild.

02:58:35.000 Turn the tables on the moderators.

02:58:37.000 We'll answer that question.

02:58:38.000 Let me ask you this one.

02:58:39.000 What is your mathematical path, Governor DeSantis?

02:58:44.000 in order to try to beat President Trump, who has a commanding and enduring lead in this race.

02:58:48.000 Thank you.

02:59:05.000 Republicans have lost three straight elections in a row.

02:59:08.000 We were supposed to have a red wave with inflation at 9%.

02:59:11.000 It crashed and burned.

02:59:12.000 Not in Florida, it didn't.

02:59:14.000 We delivered it in Florida.

02:59:15.000 And so we've got to choose right.

02:59:17.000 We've got to win.

02:59:18.000 And we need somebody that's going to be able to serve two terms.

02:59:20.000 So in January of 2023, they'll be able to address the nation saying, we turned the economy around.

02:59:26.000 We secured the border.

02:59:27.000 January of 2023 was seven, it was eight months ago.

02:59:29.000 As your president, I will get that job done.

02:59:32.000 Governor Christie, I believe I did see you write something.

02:59:36.000 Governor Christie, I believe, excuse me.

02:59:38.000 Governor Christie, I believe I did see you write something on the card.

02:59:42.000 Who was it?

02:59:43.000 No, but I'll certainly tell you.

02:59:46.000 Look, I think I've been the only one on this stage who's been clear about this.

02:59:50.000 I vote Donald Trump off the island right now.

02:59:53.000 And the reason I vote him off the aisle... I guess the question was, who would you vote on?

02:59:57.000 You know what?

02:59:58.000 Every person on this stage has shown the respect for Republican voters to come here, to express their views honestly, candidly, and directly, and to take your questions honestly.

03:00:09.000 I have respect for every man and woman on this stage because they've done it.

03:00:12.000 Vivek, put your hand down for a second.

03:00:15.000 You tell that nerd.

03:00:16.000 So we've got time, dude.

03:00:18.000 So chill out.

03:00:20.000 Here, look.

03:00:22.000 This guy has not always divided our party.

03:00:25.000 He's divided families all over this country.

03:00:28.000 He's divided friends all over this country.

03:00:31.000 I've spoken to people, and I know everyone else has, who have sat at Thanksgiving dinner or at a birthday party and can't have a conversation anymore if they disagree with Donald Trump.

03:00:41.000 That's not Trump's fault!

03:00:45.000 Not Trump's fault.

03:00:47.000 It's the Libs' fault.

03:00:48.000 It's the people who have the problem with Trump.

03:00:50.000 It's DTS' fault.

03:00:52.000 Trump was an excellent president, but the America First agenda does not belong to one man.

03:00:58.000 It does not belong to Donald Trump.

03:01:00.000 It doesn't belong to me.

03:01:02.000 It belongs to you, the people of this country.

03:01:06.000 And the question is who's going to unite this country and take the America First agenda to the next level?

03:01:12.000 When we rallied behind the cry to make America great again, we did not just hunger for a single man.

03:01:18.000 We hungered for the unapologetic pursuit of excellence.

03:01:21.000 So yes, I will respect Donald Trump and his legacy because it's the right thing to do.

03:01:26.000 But we will unite this country to take the America First agenda to the next level.

03:01:32.000 The rest are all wearing potatoes.

03:01:34.000 Potato sacks.

03:01:36.000 You can see the light between his arms and his waist.

03:01:40.000 Yeah.

03:01:41.000 Wait, that's it.

03:01:42.000 That's it. 0.99

03:01:45.000 Man, that was so dumb. 1.00

03:01:47.000 Wait, wait, wait, hold on. 1.00

03:01:48.000 No final statements?

03:01:48.000 That was it.

03:01:50.000 They were going to replace it with, lift up the card, who do you vote off?

03:01:54.000 Donald Trump did not cause the division.

03:01:56.000 Donald Trump is an avatar of the rage felt by Americans.

03:02:00.000 Correct.

03:02:00.000 The division had already existed.

03:02:02.000 I just, I would love to, you see, we're working on hosting some kind of debate.

03:02:10.000 The problem is none of them will actually, Vivek will do it, right?

03:02:14.000 I'm not saying we've confirmed with Vivek, I'm saying based on what we know of Vivek's willingness to come on and have these conversations, he is the kind of guy who is willing to be like, let's sit down, let's have this conversation.

03:02:22.000 Totally.

03:02:23.000 But you're not going to get a Democrat, and you're not going to get any of these other Republicans to do it.

03:02:27.000 I wonder if we could get, um, Kennedy, have you talked to Kennedy?

03:02:30.000 Robert Kennedy?

03:02:31.000 Oh, you know, I have, even though he, uh, I grew up in the town that he lived in.

03:02:35.000 I was aware of Bobby Kennedy Jr.

03:02:37.000 for much of my upbringing, and I always thought he was a crazy lib, and he still sort of is a crazy lib, but politics is so nuts now that he's kind of on our side.

03:02:44.000 And he's still polling at like 19%, I think.

03:02:47.000 Have you guys talked to him?

03:02:47.000 Anybody at Daily Wire interviewed him?

03:02:49.000 No chance?

03:02:49.000 I haven't.

03:02:51.000 One of them, maybe Candace, would be likely. 1.00

03:02:54.000 I don't remember, though.

03:02:54.000 I have hopes that he would come on and debate.

03:02:56.000 Yeah, he would.

03:02:56.000 He would.

03:02:58.000 He would.

03:02:58.000 We know he would.

03:02:59.000 We've talked to his people.

03:02:59.000 It's an issue of scheduling.

03:03:01.000 There's a lot of really high-profile people that we're just working scheduling out with because everyone's super busy.

03:03:05.000 Like Doug Burgum.

03:03:06.000 I know, I mean, the Burgumania, man.

03:03:11.000 So the issue I take with this, and the reason why they wouldn't come on this show, Establishment, Uniparty Republicans, and Democrats wouldn't come on a show like this, because they can't stand up to scrutiny.

03:03:22.000 Vivek would come on a show like this, because he can.

03:03:25.000 I say, hey Vivek, when he was accused of the Soros stuff, funding, he made a video immediately posted and said, guys, let me address that for you.

03:03:33.000 Like, I'll talk about it, because this is what you have to do.

03:03:37.000 Trump goes on tons of podcasts, and he just sits there and he talks, he calls into Fox News, he just rambles.

03:03:43.000 That works, that's better. 1.00

03:03:45.000 There's people who can do it better than Trump, for sure, but when Chris Christie's like, Trump divided this country, and there were friends who were fighting with each other, it's just like, shut up, dude, that's not true, and we're tired of listening to the bullshit. 0.99

03:03:58.000 But also, if my crazy, purple-haired third cousin, twice removed, doesn't want to speak to me anymore because I voted for Trump, Then that's her fault. 0.99

03:04:09.000 That's her problem. 0.99

03:04:09.000 Did you see the viral Reddit post where a woman said she broke up with her boyfriend because she found out he listens to Andrew Tate? 0.99

03:04:16.000 And she was like, I couldn't believe he was like that.

03:04:18.000 And it's like, he never argued with you.

03:04:20.000 He never insulted you or fought with you or did anything wrong.

03:04:22.000 He never sold you for sex. 0.89

03:04:25.000 She just found out that because he listened to Andrew Tate, it meant that he was a homophobe and she had to break up with him. 0.90

03:04:29.000 That dude's probably like, oh, wow.

03:04:31.000 Yeah, sure.

03:04:31.000 Okay.

03:04:32.000 I swear that her takeaway was that, oh, he's a homophobe.

03:04:38.000 All these things, yeah.

03:04:39.000 Well, that about wraps up the horrible, lesser-known GOP debate.

03:04:44.000 Thanks for hanging out, everybody.

03:04:45.000 We'll, of course, be back tomorrow with more shows, so smash the like button, subscribe to the channel, share the show with your friends, and become a member at TimCast.com.

03:04:52.000 This Miami event is going to be super epic.

03:04:56.000 I believe it is confirmed we're going to be doing Friday night's show that we normally do, it's gonna be on TimCast.com, members only.

03:05:04.000 That way it can be the most based version of what this show can be with people like James O'Keefe, Patrick Bette David, Matt Gaetz, especially with Matt Gaetz.

03:05:12.000 We're just gonna be alike, have fun, say it all.

03:05:14.000 And I think for the most part, it's just a means of helping support the website.

03:05:18.000 Doing these events is an effective way of just growing the business.

03:05:21.000 So really do appreciate everybody who supports us as members and everybody's gonna be coming.

03:05:26.000 So yeah, Michael, do you wanna shout anything out?

03:05:28.000 You know I do.

03:05:30.000 I've got a secret project I'm working on at The Daily Wire that I can't say anything about.

03:05:35.000 So the shout-out is going to be... No comment.

03:05:39.000 But stay tuned.

03:05:39.000 It's going to be really good.

03:05:40.000 How do you like that?

03:05:41.000 Wow.

03:05:42.000 Was that an effective promotion?

03:05:43.000 That was hardcore.

03:05:43.000 Oh, also, there's one other product.

03:05:46.000 If you're a fan of reading or literature, you can purchase my book, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, available now wherever... You know people still post super chats.

03:05:55.000 Do they?

03:05:57.000 It's like a meme on our show.

03:05:59.000 That is so great.

03:06:01.000 Thank you all for making me a best-selling author.

03:06:05.000 Your first book was a huge hit as well.

03:06:06.000 That also was.

03:06:07.000 Twice now best-selling author, once with words.

03:06:11.000 I like it.

03:06:11.000 What's the name of the first book?

03:06:13.000 Reasons to Vote for Democrats, a comprehensive book.

03:06:15.000 I'm thinking of a sequel now, which is Reasons to Continue Hosting Republican Primary Debates in 2024.

03:06:22.000 Mary!

03:06:22.000 Guys, you can watch Pop Culture Crisis on YouTube at 3 p.m.

03:06:27.000 Eastern, noon Pacific time.

03:06:29.000 Go subscribe to the channel, and if you want to follow me on Twitter or Instagram, it's Mary Archived on both.

03:06:36.000 I will be on Pop Culture Crisis tomorrow.

03:06:37.000 Yeah.

03:06:38.000 We'll see you guys there.

03:06:38.000 I'm excited.

03:06:39.000 Pop Culture Crisis on YouTube.

03:06:40.000 Michael, always a pleasure.

03:06:41.000 Thanks for sitting through that.

03:06:43.000 That was, I feel, bond.

03:06:44.000 It's like we went through combat.

03:06:46.000 Not really.

03:06:46.000 I don't want to make fun of it.

03:06:47.000 But it feels like we experienced some group trauma.

03:06:49.000 Yes.

03:06:50.000 We'll be able to look back on this.

03:06:51.000 Are you going to read superchats?

03:06:52.000 No, no, no.

03:06:53.000 Basically, yeah, that was the super chat.

03:06:56.000 You know my favorite part of the debate?

03:06:58.000 It was the beef sticks and the scotch.

03:07:00.000 I thought that was the highlight of the debate.

03:07:02.000 I call it bison sticks, technically.

03:07:04.000 Meat sticks, meat sticks.

03:07:05.000 Yeah, it's a conundrum when there's big moments like the debates where we would normally do super chats in the numbers only, but the debate ends at 11 and I have to be up at 7 a.m., so it's just like, I have my limits.

03:07:16.000 It was hot, hot heat.

03:07:17.000 Thanks for sitting through it.

03:07:18.000 Having a good time.

03:07:18.000 What's up, Serge?

03:07:19.000 Yeah, wow.

03:07:21.000 That was a lot.

03:07:21.000 I don't want to keep you guys too long.

03:07:23.000 I'm Surge.com.

03:07:24.000 I'm looking forward to Miami.

03:07:26.000 It'll be good.

03:07:27.000 Just so everyone knows, in order to watch that, you do have to become a member on TimCast.com, just so everyone is aware.

03:07:33.000 But we're going to put out a video, like basically... Well, so I was inspired by Michael, because I watched the video of you guys talking about backstage and the issues YouTube was giving you.

03:07:41.000 And then basically what happens for us with the show we're doing is...

03:07:46.000 You know, we were like, yeah, we'll do the show live or whatever.

03:07:48.000 And then there were questions of like, okay, we're gonna have people in the audience.

03:07:51.000 They can yell things.

03:07:52.000 What do we do about that?

03:07:53.000 And I'm like, I don't know.

03:07:54.000 And they're like, okay, well, what subjects, you know, because like YouTube has their rules or whatever.

03:07:58.000 And I'm like, I think we're for the most part fine to debate it.

03:08:00.000 And they're like, What if they're swearing?

03:08:03.000 I'm like, eh.

03:08:04.000 We're gonna be in a room with hundreds of people who can yell whatever they want.

03:08:09.000 Yeah.

03:08:10.000 Yeah, that's way better.

03:08:11.000 Yeah, you prioritize the room, and then the TV show comes.

03:08:13.000 It's not that, it's that you can get a troll, you can get Antifa.

03:08:16.000 Yeah.

03:08:16.000 And then they say they sabotage, and I'm like, well, you know...

03:08:21.000 This probably ends up working out best in terms of helping Timcast grow.

03:08:25.000 I know it would be great if we could give the show away for free, but it was really expensive.

03:08:30.000 And I'm like, well, we'll make it a members-only thing, which makes the show better.

03:08:33.000 But the full podcast will be on all podcast platforms.

03:08:37.000 It's just at the live portion.

03:08:38.000 I understand.

03:08:39.000 Because then we're like, we have more control over if something happens in a live event.

03:08:43.000 Right, right, right.

03:08:43.000 Takes one word and then those masters of the universe zap you down.

03:08:46.000 Well, so the other issue, too, is like Public Square is sponsoring it, and I'm like, you know, if someone sitting in the front row just is trying to screw with us, and then we lose the whole show because of it, is it better to do the live show members only, but then upload it after the fact where we know we're good?

03:09:02.000 Totally.

03:09:03.000 I think this is one of the reasons, Joe, we're going to stop going live.

03:09:05.000 I think it's the only reason.

03:09:07.000 Yeah.

03:09:07.000 But well, yeah, so anyway, everybody did their shoutouts.

03:09:09.000 We're going to go back to bed now.

03:09:11.000 Let's do it, man.

03:09:11.000 I'm gonna have another beef stick.

03:09:13.000 Yeah, grab another one.

03:09:14.000 There's one right there.

03:09:14.000 Thanks for hanging out, everybody.

Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - September 27, 2023

Timcast IRL - LIVE GOP DEBATE, Elon FIRES Election Team For Compromising Election w-Michael Knowles

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