Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - Left-Wing Logic: Plagiarism is OK If You're Woke, Plus 2024 Candidate Spotlight with Bernie Moreno and Patrick Morrisey | TRIGGERED Ep.98

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00:09:29.000 Well, guys, with that, we have my good friend, Bernie Moreno of Ohio.

00:09:34.000 Bernie's running for Senate.

00:09:35.000 Definitely the America first candidate in the race.

00:09:40.000 Incredible real-world experience, the kind of thing we're looking for and actually want in the United States Senate.

00:09:46.000 Not a perpetual bureaucrat, but an incredible businessman.

00:09:50.000 You know, car dealerships, everything.

00:09:52.000 Incredible life story.

00:09:55.000 Really brings something unique to the ticket.

00:09:57.000 So, Bernie, thanks so much for being Well, thank you for having me.

00:10:02.000 I appreciate it. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

00:10:04.000 You too, my friend. You too.

00:10:06.000 So we're seeing the devastating consequences of an open border every day.

00:10:12.000 Every state is now a border state, including your state of Ohio.

00:10:16.000 How is it affecting you guys there?

00:10:19.000 I mean, I feel like people talk about that as like a soundbite.

00:10:23.000 But it's real.

00:10:24.000 Whether it's the human trafficking, whether it's fentanyl, probably the number one cause as it relates to the spread throughout the country.

00:10:31.000 What's going on there? You've been really vocal about it.

00:10:33.000 Do people fully get it, or are they not yet woken up to just how bad this crisis actually is?

00:10:39.000 Oh, no, they absolutely have.

00:10:40.000 You know, 8.5 million people in three years.

00:10:42.000 They're spread all over the country.

00:10:45.000 We have places like Springfield, Ohio, a small little town.

00:10:48.000 Twenty percent of the health care in that little town is devoted to illegal immigrants right now, completely breaking their system. 1.00

00:10:56.000 We had a situation in Greene County, small little rural area of Ohio.

00:11:00.000 Where a bus of kids was driving to school in the morning.

00:11:03.000 You can relate to this having little ones.

00:11:05.000 And a drunk driver hits that school bus, kills a 12-year-old.

00:11:10.000 That drunk driver was an illegal immigrant. 1.00

00:11:12.000 We're seeing communities like in Dublin, Ohio, where we have 400 or 500 illegal immigrants housed in apartment complexes.

00:11:20.000 Filling those school systems.

00:11:22.000 The teachers are having to teach in four or five different languages.

00:11:26.000 The parents are complaining that the female teachers are not allowed to reprimand the male boy students because in the Muslim culture, you're not allowed to do that.

00:11:35.000 This is the impact of a wide open border.

00:11:38.000 As somebody who came here legally to this country with my five brothers, my sister, my mom and dad, it's disgusting to see American leaders allow this to happen.

00:11:47.000 Yeah, I mean, you know, obviously, your friend and colleague in the United States Senate, I think if you get in there, Ohio's going to have clearly the most based Senate team in the world with you and J.D. Vance.

00:12:00.000 But, you know, you talk about it a lot.

00:12:03.000 You see those things. I hear the stories.

00:12:05.000 I mean, you know, friends in New York, they're like, well, my kid has to learn in Spanish two days a week.

00:12:10.000 And I don't mean Spanish class.

00:12:12.000 I mean... History is taught in Spanish two days a week, and the kid doesn't speak Spanish.

00:12:17.000 It shouldn't be a prerequisite to learn in American public schools in Spanish.

00:12:23.000 I mean, if you're bilingual, that's great.

00:12:25.000 I'm bilingual. I believe you're bilingual.

00:12:27.000 I mean, you come from Latin culture.

00:12:31.000 Your family is, and you have a great immigrant story that way as a family.

00:12:34.000 But, you know...

00:12:36.000 How is it that this is going on?

00:12:38.000 Who is saying something about it?

00:12:40.000 I mean, is anyone, because obviously J.D.'s vocal, you're vocal.

00:12:43.000 Why is the rest of the Senate so quiet? 0.99

00:12:46.000 Well, you know, Don, the problem is a lot of these guys are cowards. 0.87

00:12:50.000 They're so afraid of a negative news story. 0.98

00:12:53.000 They're afraid of being called a racist, a xenophobe.

00:12:55.000 That's a requisite of being a conservative Republican in today's environment.

00:13:00.000 No matter what you do, they're going to call you that.

00:13:02.000 In my situation, I came to the US about 52 years ago, just before my fifth birthday.

00:13:08.000 I didn't speak a word of English.

00:13:10.000 Here's the difference. My mom put me in school and said, you better learn the language.

00:13:14.000 You better understand American history.

00:13:16.000 You better master the language.

00:13:18.000 And that's what we did. That's what immigrants do that want to come here and appreciate this country.

00:13:23.000 We want to be a multi-ethnic country, but we're not ever designed to be a multicultural country.

00:13:28.000 There's one culture, which is American culture, and it's on immigrants to assimilate with that culture. 0.76

00:13:34.000 The problem we have is on the Republican side, if you say that, again, you're so afraid of the New York Times or CNN or, heaven forbid, George Stephanopoulos saying something bad about you that you're just silent, and that's the problem.

00:13:48.000 Yeah, I mean, I'm hoping we're at a breakpoint, right, where the insanity of speaking just the truth, that people are fed up of just that.

00:13:56.000 You're right. If you say something that's obvious, it's racist, it's misogynistic, it's the easy button of the political left today just to call everything one of the ists, even if it's just common sense.

00:14:10.000 Which is totally lacking.

00:14:12.000 Do you think we're breaking through with that?

00:14:14.000 I do see more people sort of willing to say these things out loud.

00:14:18.000 You see it on social media, I think, you know, perhaps, you know, on X, some of the stuff being,

00:14:22.000 you know, a little bit lifted.

00:14:23.000 It's not quite as heavily censored.

00:14:25.000 If someone was talking common sense and it was gaining traction,

00:14:27.000 all of a sudden the algorithm shuts it down.

00:14:30.000 Do you think that the regular people are actually seeing that message?

00:14:33.000 Do you think that they are becoming unafraid?

00:14:36.000 Because I think that's what it's gonna take.

00:14:37.000 It's not just you or me and a handful of us who are willing to say these things

00:14:42.000 and they can quietly sort of nod along in the background as long as they're not being recorded or are live.

00:14:47.000 But do you think regular people, understanding there's a consequence, there's much more of a consequence if we don't get more vocal in the future, in my opinion, but do you think that they too are now actually starting to be willing to actually engage in that battle?

00:15:00.000 Oh, absolutely. I think people are definitely opening up to the idea that they have to use their voice.

00:15:05.000 Free speech is obviously the cornerstone of democracy.

00:15:08.000 The challenge we have is who are the leaders?

00:15:11.000 Who are the big company leaders?

00:15:13.000 They're afraid of the marketing department, the HR department.

00:15:16.000 But you're starting to see that change a little bit and too slowly.

00:15:20.000 The people who are on the boards of trustees of colleges and universities need to speak up.

00:15:26.000 For the most part, they've been very silent, allowing these... 0.97

00:15:30.000 College presidents who are complete radical lunatics. 0.83

00:15:33.000 You know, there's an idea that the left has that they've infiltrated from the groundwater, from the bottom up. 0.97

00:15:38.000 As Republicans, we've tried to skim the surface to make change.

00:15:42.000 We've got to go down deep, also make institutional changes by being vocal, by getting involved.

00:15:48.000 It's not the comfortable thing to do.

00:15:50.000 You know that. Oh, yeah. You guys had a great life.

00:15:52.000 Yeah. I assure you, it was much easier being a real estate, you know, the son of a billionaire real estate developer from New York and doing these things.

00:16:00.000 Now you engage in this battle, but that's the point.

00:16:02.000 We don't have a choice, right?

00:16:04.000 You're 100% right.

00:16:05.000 I mean, you saw, I spoke about it a lot on this show, you know, a couple of weeks ago with what was going on at Harvard and all of these things.

00:16:11.000 And, you know, the board, we've unanimously stand beside someone who plagiarized and did all of this stuff.

00:16:17.000 We, you know, we're going to stand, I'm like, wait a minute.

00:16:20.000 So, an issue that would have thrown out any other...

00:16:23.000 No, this, you know, Claudine Gay is a wonderful...

00:16:26.000 She's a scholar's scholar.

00:16:28.000 We're not really sure why or why.

00:16:29.000 You know, it doesn't really matter. It's all bullshit. 1.00

00:16:31.000 But, you know, we're going to say that because we have to because that whole ESG... House of cards. 1.00

00:16:38.000 And that's all it is. I mean, if there's actual accountability and you realize it's all nonsense and you realize that the pillars of that privilege, really, you know, who've, you know, manipulated that system the most are at the top of that food chain.

00:16:52.000 you know once you realize that's all a lie, you realize just how much worse the rest of it is.

00:16:58.000 And so, you know, it is an issue that's on the top of the minds of voters.

00:17:02.000 You see the madness in higher education and even at Ohio State, right,

00:17:06.000 there was apparently a health course which requires students to address

00:17:10.000 their white heterosexual privileges.

00:17:13.000 Now again, if I was applying to college today as a white heterosexual,

00:17:17.000 I think if I had the choice to identify as anything but, it would actually be, that would be true privilege.

00:17:24.000 Applying as a white heterosexual, probably not so much.

00:17:27.000 But what does that even mean?

00:17:29.000 And you know, how do we stop the indoctrination inside the universities, right?

00:17:34.000 You've been able to do that.

00:17:36.000 You see it a little bit on business.

00:17:37.000 You see some of the cancellations that have been effective.

00:17:39.000 They come back around and sponsor Bud Light with the UFC. Not only do they stop the nonsense, but they come back and sponsor a company that's been vocally conservative.

00:17:51.000 How do you do that and accomplish that inside our universities?

00:17:55.000 Well, it's a few things. So number one, we got to abolish the Department of Education.

00:17:58.000 A lot of the core problems, not just in colleges, but K-12 happened there.

00:18:03.000 I'm confident that when we take office in 2025, we can make that happen.

00:18:08.000 That does a twofer.

00:18:09.000 It puts parents back in charge.

00:18:11.000 It also ends the money laundering operation that is these teachers' unions.

00:18:14.000 I think the second thing we got to do is we have to take a really hard look at Pell Grant eligibility.

00:18:20.000 You know, we're paying. Taxpayers are paying for these kids to go to places like Harvard that are indoctrinating them on Haiti, America, being taught that there's something wrong with them if they're white.

00:18:31.000 There's something wrong with them if they're black. 1.00

00:18:33.000 And in my son's case, Don, you won't believe this, three days before school starts for him in college. 0.88

00:18:39.000 He gets a letter saying, hey, we see you're Hispanic.

00:18:41.000 By the way, he's a great student, great student, great kid.

00:18:44.000 We see you're Hispanic, so we have special counseling and tutoring available for you. 1.00

00:18:48.000 So right off the bat, making him think because his dad was born in South America, somehow he must be stupid. 1.00

00:18:56.000 Right? That is the most demeaning thing possible. 1.00

00:18:59.000 So we have to look at their Pell Grant eligibility, their nonprofit status, their federal grant eligibility, because the only thing these colleges and universities will understand is when we hit them in the pocketbook and make them act.

00:19:12.000 It's the only way to fix it.

00:19:13.000 Yeah, and really the value proposition in general, you know, pushing people who couldn't otherwise, you know, not everyone's going to be a physicist, right?

00:19:20.000 But, you know, you're going to get a gender studies degree and you're going to rack up $350,000 in debt.

00:19:25.000 Then you're going to ask the plumber who's making six figures working his ass off, who never took any of those things, did it responsibly, runs a small business.

00:19:33.000 You're going to ask him to then subsidize your worthless education that was never going to pay for itself, ever.

00:19:39.000 Like, it doesn't check out.

00:19:41.000 I mean, that to me seems to be a component of this as well, right?

00:19:44.000 If someone wants to get an education, great, but, you know, if you're going to get an education and rack up those kind of fees for something that literally on paper could never pay back, there's no money in it whatsoever, there's no, I mean, I imagine most of those graduates couldn't even tell you what they actually learned, but, you know, they've got a PhD in gender studies and contribute absolutely nothing to society. 0.51

00:20:05.000 Well, they can tell you that there's 72 genders. 0.99

00:20:07.000 Yes. That's all they're able to do.

00:20:09.000 Bernie, Bernie, Bernie, Bernie. There's 4,976 as of the start of this interview.

00:20:14.000 And we've been going for 15 minutes or so, so there's probably seven or eight more that have manifested itself since then.

00:20:21.000 But yes. They're going to use the whole alphabet soon.

00:20:23.000 The entire alphabet will start wrapping.

00:20:25.000 It'll be double Z at the end. 0.88

00:20:27.000 But the reality is, I think that's part of what's changing is parents are looking at it saying, what's the value proposition to send my kid to college?

00:20:34.000 Like you said, if you want to be a doctor or be a vet like my son is, if you want to be a lawyer, of course, you're going to go to higher ed.

00:20:40.000 But the reality is, what is being a gender studies major, a pottery major, what does that really do for you when you can have a great job with a trade that makes you good money, where you can raise a family, take care of your kids, And not have to have gotten to college.

00:20:56.000 We have to de-stigmatize that.

00:20:57.000 We also have to pour a lot more money and a lot more support towards these trade schools that actually have a much bigger impact in our economy.

00:21:05.000 Yeah. Well, listen, I think that stigmatization, you're 100% right, though.

00:21:08.000 I think people are waking up. They're realizing just how incompetent, you know, these universities are.

00:21:13.000 I mean, you know, as a graduate of Penn, being one of those schools kind of caught up in that scandal.

00:21:17.000 It's like, I think, you know, I speak to people every day, like, hey, man, I would have always hired Harvard people, but now, honestly...

00:21:23.000 It's not worth the added drama of whatever I've got to have HR deal with because they think they're special and they don't have to work the same as everyone else when in fact they're not.

00:21:34.000 But Hopefully that house of cards is coming down.

00:21:38.000 And I think it's so important and people are starting to get it.

00:21:41.000 But talk to me. As a businessman, you have a background in business.

00:21:45.000 You got into the auto industry in America.

00:21:48.000 Sort of a foundational industry in sort of, let's call it American industrialism.

00:21:54.000 What drew you there?

00:21:56.000 But what policies do you think would also help bring back auto manufacturing?

00:22:01.000 I mean, I watch... The Auto Workers Union, and obviously they've been bought and paid for by the Democrat Party for decades, and it doesn't line up with the actual policies, I think, of the actual auto workers.

00:22:15.000 There's a difference between union leadership and the workers, just like there's a difference between FBI leadership and the door kickers, military leadership and the operators.

00:22:26.000 Those things are very different.

00:22:28.000 What can we do to fix auto manufacturing in the United States right now?

00:22:33.000 Well, just to give you a stat to start the conversation, back in the day, General Motors alone was 7% of the gross domestic product of this country, just one company.

00:22:44.000 So the auto industry is huge, amazing here in Ohio, where a lot of our Tier 1 suppliers are based.

00:22:51.000 What we're doing right now is pushing the car business off the cliff.

00:22:55.000 We're handing it over to China. 0.96

00:22:57.000 Previously, because of terrible trade deals, we handed our auto industry over to Mexico.

00:23:02.000 They took about a third of our auto industry there.

00:23:04.000 The way we bring it back here is we get rid of all these EV mandates, all these EV incentives, freeze CAFE, which is the fuel economy standards for a decade, not allow states like California We have to make certain that we have a good workforce, which is really the conversation we just had, that we can have the right worker and When we bring that industry back, have low, expensive energy, abundant energy, reliable energy, that means oil, that means gas, that means coal,

00:23:43.000 because you can't run an auto plant on solar panels and windmills. 0.94

00:23:46.000 It's just stupid. So those are the things we got to do and just have good policies around that. 0.97

00:23:51.000 And we can and have to do that.

00:23:54.000 Because the auto industry is so critical.

00:23:56.000 What's interesting though, Don, is the left wants the exact opposite.

00:24:00.000 They want us to ride our scooter to work, take public transportation.

00:24:05.000 They're trying to get rid of the auto industry generally.

00:24:07.000 They know that electric cars are totally unsustainable.

00:24:12.000 They're happy with that. They want to reduce the amount of private ownership of cars.

00:24:16.000 That would be devastating to our economy and a handover of a critical industry to China. 0.99

00:24:24.000 Yeah, no, I mean, that was interesting, right?

00:24:25.000 I was watching, you know, the president of the autoworker, and they're meeting with Biden, and they're supporting him, and I'm like, wait a minute, like, they're also supporting, literally, and I'm watching some of these autoworkers, some of them look like they're in a hostage video, right?

00:24:36.000 They don't really want to be there, but they're forced to be there, but, you know, that's part of their...

00:24:39.000 But, you know, they're paying dues into a system that is literally...

00:24:45.000 Funding and advocating for EVs that they're not able to actually make there.

00:24:52.000 So I'm like, wait, you're an autoworker who's paying into a system that's basically going to raise money to send to China to have them pursue the lithium-ion batteries to make your job obsolete.

00:25:05.000 I don't understand. And it's like, I don't even know that they understand that this is going on.

00:25:08.000 But, you know, they're literally funding their own demise in this process to me, it seems.

00:25:12.000 I mean, maybe I'm off, but I mean, you know this industry better than anyone.

00:25:16.000 Oh, no, 100%.

00:25:17.000 Because, again, you need 30% less workers to make an electric car.

00:25:21.000 The technology is mostly owned by a company called CATL, C-A-T-L, Corporate Amperex Technologies.

00:25:28.000 That's a Chinese Communist Party-owned company.

00:25:31.000 Today, we're paying for that company to build battery plants here in America at our expense, subsidized massively by the U.S. taxpayer, which is totally and completely insane.

00:25:41.000 They own the lithium supply, the nickel supply.

00:25:44.000 We are the world leaders in internal combustion engines.

00:25:48.000 Here in Ohio, we make more internal combustion engines than any other state in the country.

00:25:52.000 So you can imagine a leadership in D.C. saying, hey, we're not going to make what you make really well anymore.

00:25:59.000 And do it in a very condensed period of time.

00:26:02.000 And by the way, here's the punchline.

00:26:04.000 And have consumers who don't want to do that force them to do it with an electrical grid that can't handle it.

00:26:11.000 So I used to think that COVID shutdowns were the worst public policy in American history, but this move to EV mandates is getting right up there with it.

00:26:20.000 Interesting. So, you know, let's talk a little bit about Ohio, right?

00:26:24.000 I was on the ground earlier this year in East Palestine following the toxic train derailment. 0.99

00:26:30.000 You know, I was there with JD. I know you've been there.

00:26:33.000 You know, what's like What's it like there right now?

00:26:38.000 I think it was a sort of an important moment.

00:26:40.000 I think it was actually, you know, much more so than the indictments and this as a sort of a wake up call to the American people about the Democrats, you know, when, you know, Joe Biden couldn't be bothered to go there, but he'll go for the Zelensky photo op and Pete Buttigieg, you know, reluctantly shows up the day after, you know, he's You know, he's in his work boots, you know, brand new, never been worn, you know, or worked in for sure.

00:27:02.000 But, you know, there for the photo op, like, we're actually doing something.

00:27:06.000 You know, I think it's so important that we don't forget those American communities.

00:27:11.000 And I think that was a big wake-up call to the American public.

00:27:14.000 What's going on there right now?

00:27:17.000 I mean, are they being taken care of?

00:27:19.000 We've got to fight for America, and it feels like everyone's so worried about spending money, whether it's other people's borders or other people's pensions in Ukraine, rather than worrying about the liabilities and the disasters that we face here right at home with our own citizenry.

00:27:36.000 Ultimately, that's the exact question in this campaign is, do we have leaders in Washington, D.C. that are going to put America first?

00:27:43.000 That's really the question, which seems obvious, but if you look back at the last 10, 20, 30 years, the reality is we've had leaders in Washington, D.C. that put America last.

00:27:54.000 And that moment, that rainy day...

00:27:57.000 When President Trump came in, when you came in with JD, and you had virtually the entire town lined up on a cold, rainy day to greet President Trump was a masterclass in what America First really meant.

00:28:12.000 He really delivered to those people an uplifting message that we care about you.

00:28:19.000 Now, what was the President of the United States doing at the time?

00:28:22.000 He's in Ukraine on President's Day and not in East Palestine.

00:28:27.000 It's not a mistake.

00:28:29.000 This is exactly how D.C. thinks. 0.99

00:28:32.000 They don't give any crap about white working class Americans. 1.00

00:28:36.000 In fact, they think they're stupid. 1.00

00:28:38.000 They demean them. 1.00

00:28:39.000 They think they're trash, deplorables, whatever you want to call it. 0.99

00:28:42.000 And there's President Trump buying McDonald's For people in East Palestine, and there's Joe Biden in Ukraine handing over billions and billions of dollars to a corrupt country to fund an endless war. 0.99

00:28:57.000 There could not be a better moment.

00:28:59.000 I think history will take that clip and say this is what the America First movement was all about back in 2023 when it happened.

00:29:07.000 That was a moment. I think it was incredible just watching it and seeing it.

00:29:11.000 And you're right, the whole town turned up.

00:29:12.000 I mean, the mayor then later on, I know I did one of your guys' Reagan Day dinners with you up there in Ohio afterwards.

00:29:18.000 And, you know, the mayor of the town came in and was like, we need Trump back.

00:29:22.000 But yeah, it's one of those, we have to wake up to, you know, when someone tells you who they are, and in this case, really the Democrat Party, when they tell you who they are, believe them.

00:29:33.000 They're telling you. They're showing you each and every day.

00:29:35.000 They want more.

00:29:37.000 And this, by the way, includes many of the rhino Republicans, both in Congress and the Senate, as well as some of your competitors in Ohio for the Republican primary Senate race. 0.99

00:29:50.000 Believe them when they tell you who they are.

00:29:52.000 They say it often. They don't pretend.

00:29:53.000 They get on TV and often say other things.

00:29:56.000 But their actions really tell you exactly where they are and where they stand.

00:30:01.000 Yeah, in the case of Matt Dolan, who, by the way, said he wasn't sure if he would support President Trump if he's the nominee.

00:30:07.000 I wrote an op-ed that said that should be a disqualifying event.

00:30:11.000 Because if you're running for the United States Senate in Ohio, and you're not sure if you're going to support the Republican nominee, don't run as a Republican.

00:30:19.000 But he's a guy that has said, listen to this, Don, he said that if we really want to balance the budget in D.C., the only way to do it is to cut Social Security.

00:30:30.000 The one, let's call it entitlement.

00:30:33.000 I don't even think it's an entitlement because it's not an entitlement if you pay into something for your whole life, right?

00:30:38.000 That's the one we actually have to save.

00:30:41.000 I see it come out of my checks.

00:30:43.000 I see it come out of my employees' checks.

00:30:46.000 I see it's going into a system, and now we want to bring other people into the country. 1.00

00:30:50.000 We'll give them free education, free healthcare, free this, but no, no.

00:30:52.000 The one person...

00:30:55.000 All the people that pay it into a system, those are going to be the ones that are screwed.

00:31:00.000 And that's like the America Last policy that we see every day.

00:31:04.000 I mean, Matt Dolan has other problems.

00:31:06.000 I mean, if you're going to change the name of the Cleveland Indians to capitulate to like, you know, the woke warfare...

00:31:12.000 You know, that just makes you a weakling.

00:31:15.000 You just don't belong on a world stage. 1.00

00:31:16.000 What a weakling. He would have lost me at that, but the rest of the comments only further the point that, yeah, listen, maybe he should run as a Democrat because he's clearly a Democrat, not a Republican.

00:31:30.000 Well, that's the point. So he's willing to cut Social Security, but in the same breath, he says, we've got to give hundreds of billions of dollars to Ukraine to pay for the salaries and pensions of Ukrainians.

00:31:41.000 The pensions! Just so we're clear, because I said it earlier, I didn't even know we were going there with Dolan because I didn't realize he went that far.

00:31:49.000 I mean, that just shows you how insane it is.

00:31:51.000 But like, you know, Zelensky, you must stop funding your roads, your schools, your bridges, and send us missiles and pay for the pensions of our people.

00:31:59.000 I'm like, wait, wait. Like, we can't, like, unfunded pension liability is a trillion-dollar problem America has not even begun to deal with, right?

00:32:07.000 And yet, we're going to fund their pensions, but Republicans running for office want to cut Social Security.

00:32:14.000 I mean, that's how insane we are.

00:32:16.000 That's how backwards this is.

00:32:18.000 We're going to cover their pensions, their, effectively, Social Security, but not our own.

00:32:22.000 It's America last. Well, and of course, we know the answers, by the way. 0.86

00:32:27.000 We're not really covering our pensions.

00:32:28.000 All that money is being laundered.

00:32:30.000 God knows to whom and how.

00:32:31.000 But the mentality, the mentality is what's broken in D.C. This idea that you go to voters and you get their support because you tell them one thing.

00:32:41.000 Knowing that you're going to go to D.C. and do something completely different and screw them over.

00:32:45.000 And you're perfectly happy doing that because, Don, here's the thing.

00:32:49.000 I think they fundamentally hate average Americans.

00:32:54.000 I think they look down on them.

00:32:55.000 I think that's what's different about your family and what I did is in my business, like in yours, you valued that frontline employee because you knew that was the face of your business.

00:33:06.000 So you took really good care of it.

00:33:08.000 I've seen that with your father in Mar-a-Lago.

00:33:10.000 There'll be billionaires having dinner.

00:33:12.000 Who does he talk to? He talks to the waiter, talks to the hostess, greets him by first hand because we really care about working class Americans.

00:33:20.000 These elitist Republicans, obviously Democrats, they look down at them.

00:33:25.000 They look and go, you're just a truck driver.

00:33:27.000 Like in my case, in my race, both of my opponents had said, hey, Bernie's just a used car salesman.

00:33:33.000 Okay. I'll take that, right?

00:33:35.000 Yeah, I built 15 dealerships, called me a used car salesman.

00:33:37.000 But you know what? A used car salesman wakes up every day and knows that if he doesn't perform by the end of the day, he can't feed his family.

00:33:46.000 A career politician doesn't have to do anything, can fail all day, will still get paid by the taxpayer.

00:33:53.000 So yes, I will take the...

00:33:54.000 It's an honor of being called the used car salesman.

00:33:57.000 But it's another way that they look down on working class Americans.

00:34:01.000 That's the problem. We're battling between elites and everybody else.

00:34:05.000 Yeah, and the elites are not that...

00:34:07.000 Honestly, again, the last month has sort of been perfect in cutting down this notion of the elites, you know, the elite scholar.

00:34:14.000 Like, well, what's so elite about them?

00:34:16.000 Or you realize, oh, they got there because they cheated or they checked some boxes or they did whatever.

00:34:19.000 Like... They couldn't take care of themselves.

00:34:23.000 The reality, they're only propped up by an artificial system that's been subsidized to death with this nonsense.

00:34:29.000 It's awesome to see all of that coming down.

00:34:31.000 I love that you're calling it out.

00:34:33.000 I know in the last cycle, it went hard for JD, and he's the guy in the Senate right now doing that.

00:34:39.000 You guys as a team there would be epic because we have way too many weaklings there And some of them, you know, they'll tell me in private they agree with it.

00:34:47.000 We're just not willing to break the rules and the norms of the Senate.

00:34:50.000 I'm like, man, I wish you guys fought once, just once, like a Democrat would.

00:34:53.000 And we'd actually get something done.

00:34:55.000 But, you know, earlier in your campaign, you released a five-point plan to stop the weaponization of justice so we can actually focus on prosecuting, like...

00:35:06.000 Criminals. I know that's shocking.

00:35:07.000 I know that's an incredible outlier in America today.

00:35:11.000 But can you lay out that plan?

00:35:13.000 Because I think it's important for people to understand these details because they see it too.

00:35:16.000 They see what's going on.

00:35:18.000 It's not just censorship on Facebook.

00:35:21.000 They have friends that are getting door-knocked by the FBI because they were within 1,500 miles of Washington, D.C. on the fake insurrection January 6th, the first unarmed insurrection in the history of eternity.

00:35:33.000 Can you lay out that plan a little bit for us?

00:35:36.000 Yeah, absolutely. But before I do, let me just say, I read another article this weekend about the New York case and what that absolute lunatic judge is doing to your family.

00:35:46.000 I'm telling you, for hours I was ranting about that article.

00:35:51.000 The American public needs to wake up and understand what is happening in that particular case with your family and your family business.

00:36:00.000 Because whether you're a fan, not a fan, or Democrat or Republican, it does not matter.

00:36:05.000 What is being allowed to have happen in that case in New York is so insane.

00:36:11.000 It is something that would be outrageous in South American dictatorships, what is happening there.

00:36:18.000 I'm not allowed to talk about it because I'm under gag order, Bernie, which...

00:36:21.000 Which in and of itself tells you probably everything you need to know.

00:36:24.000 Imagine not being able to speak about these things to the extent of it.

00:36:28.000 But as a business guy, you understand it.

00:36:30.000 And they run out there with these things and, you know, the supposed victim is like, no, they were our greatest, like one of our greatest partners.

00:36:37.000 We wanted to do more business with them, not less.

00:36:39.000 We didn't lose a cent. Every payment was made.

00:36:40.000 It doesn't matter. This is what we feel.

00:36:44.000 You were the victim.

00:36:45.000 No, no, but we're not.

00:36:47.000 We're saying we're not. We're on the stand.

00:36:48.000 It doesn't matter. We're ignoring all of that.

00:36:50.000 It doesn't matter what you say under oath on the stand.

00:36:54.000 You're right. It's almost a caricature, like an insane caricature of a Latin American dictatorship.

00:37:05.000 Well, for those of us who own businesses, it is incredibly chilling to know that we have a system of government that would allow a rogue judge, a rogue prosecutor to inflict that kind of pain and punishment on an innocent company, innocent people.

00:37:21.000 Because it's not just, they're not going to stop it just you.

00:37:23.000 The ability that they have this weapon, they can use it against all of us.

00:37:27.000 And so I'm hopeful that the Supreme Court, when they hear that case, has to be a strong rebuttal of what's going on.

00:37:35.000 And we have to figure out how to have a judge like that that is persecuting somebody have some consequences.

00:37:43.000 Because the idea that they're doing is nuts.

00:37:45.000 But back to my plan, I think what we have to do is we have to impeach Joe Biden.

00:37:49.000 I think that's important because we need to know what's out there.

00:37:53.000 We need to understand the communications between him and Merrick Garland and Christopher Wray.

00:37:58.000 So I think those two also should be impeached because we're not going to remove them from office, but we'll find out what really happened so that we can get the receipts, have the transparency so that the American public see what happens.

00:38:11.000 I support what JD's doing, which is no more promotions for these Department of Justice people that are weaponizing the justice system.

00:38:20.000 We have to make certain that we take away the money, taxpayer money that's being used to fund these persecutions.

00:38:28.000 And then finally, I believe we should pause all judges We're good to go.

00:38:51.000 You can see what these judges are able to do.

00:38:53.000 So those five things I think are imperatives.

00:38:56.000 We have to have a blind justice system in America or this country as we know it does not exist.

00:39:03.000 Yeah, no, they always try to do that.

00:39:05.000 Well, you per point conservative justice.

00:39:07.000 I go, but yeah, but when the issue is close or it goes like the conservative justices are the only ones that actually ever give the other side wins, right?

00:39:15.000 There's never been a liberal justice that actually sides with the conservatives on something that's not just, you know, just a flagrant thing when it's when it is an issue that is political.

00:39:24.000 The conservative doesn't know, constitutionally speaking, this is a little bit more right, so they give them the win each and every time.

00:39:29.000 So, you know, we're, as always, we're playing different games.

00:39:33.000 But a big one I see, you know, really with Washington Republicans is they're out there, and you've been very vocal on this, so it's important, I think, people that hear this.

00:39:40.000 You see Washington Republicans holding hearings and paying lip service to the intelligence abuses that, you know, we've witnessed over the last, you know, Five, six, seven years.

00:39:50.000 But then they also vote to fund a new FBI headquarters.

00:39:55.000 They vote to reauthorize FISA. Not just components of it that lets you spy on your enemies abroad, but actually continue the abuse against the American citizens who they've called...

00:40:07.000 You know, domestic terrorists for being Catholic, who they've called domestic terrorists for being, you know, concerned parents at PTA meetings.

00:40:15.000 And I'm sure there's other things that we haven't even been told yet.

00:40:19.000 Who's a domestic terrorist?

00:40:20.000 I know, you know, I'm on that list or all of them.

00:40:23.000 You know, talk about that disconnect and how you'd be voting in the United States Senate.

00:40:28.000 What can you do to change some of that and get the others, you know, hold them to task?

00:40:33.000 Well, Senator Mike Lee has been great on this issue.

00:40:36.000 He has been. He's a brilliant constitutional expert.

00:40:38.000 Proud to have his endorsement.

00:40:40.000 The fact that we reauthorized FISA the way to Bring an election year.

00:40:46.000 Did we not learn anything from 2020 or 2022?

00:40:51.000 My God, it's insane, right?

00:40:53.000 The Russia collusion hoax, right?

00:40:55.000 Why did that happen? Through the FISA courts.

00:40:58.000 You know, the reality is the Patriot Act was something that came out of 9-11, as you know.

00:41:02.000 Certainly seemed like something that was necessary because we were under attack.

00:41:05.000 Here we are 20-plus years later.

00:41:07.000 What could go wrong? Well, we know what could go wrong.

00:41:09.000 When we have bureaucrats, an administrative state, a deep state that has weaponized the power, the awesome power of the federal government against ordinary citizens.

00:41:20.000 We either need to massively restructure that program or completely just repeal it.

00:41:27.000 I think there's been hundreds of thousands of spying incidents on Americans, and yet you never hear it.

00:41:35.000 You never hear a whisper about it.

00:41:37.000 What I get frustrated about, Don, is we have Republicans.

00:41:41.000 They all campaign on the same issues.

00:41:44.000 There's not going to be one Republican that comes on your show or any other conservative show that has a different issue set.

00:41:51.000 Here's the difference. When they get elected, what happens to these guys?

00:41:55.000 Why do they all of a sudden cave?

00:41:57.000 And the answer, in my mind, is because what they care about more than anything else is getting re-elected, being popular with the media, figuring out what's next for them.

00:42:07.000 They've got to be the moderate so they can get that big board of directors seat when they retire.

00:42:13.000 This is what's wrong with this system.

00:42:15.000 We have to change the people we send to D.C. or we'll never, ever fix it.

00:42:20.000 So talk about that a little bit.

00:42:22.000 How's this campaign going?

00:42:24.000 Obviously, you have my father's endorsement.

00:42:26.000 You have our good friend J.D. Vance.

00:42:29.000 And you're running against two Rhinos.

00:42:31.000 We discussed one of them already with Dolan.

00:42:35.000 I mean, that's just absolutely insane.

00:42:38.000 Talk about perhaps the other candidates in there and what makes you the America first choice in that race?

00:42:43.000 What makes you different than the opponent's?

00:42:46.000 Well, Dolan is a hardcore left to center, I would call him super rhino, not even rhino, super rhino.

00:42:52.000 Think Mitt Romney, Liz Cheney had a child, it would be Matt Dolan, right?

00:42:56.000 And then on the other side, you have Frank LaRose.

00:42:59.000 That's a terrible visual.

00:43:00.000 I may not be able to unsee that for a couple of weeks, Bernie, but yes, it's also effective.

00:43:06.000 Yeah. That's how bad it is.

00:43:08.000 On the other side, you have Frank LaRose, who not too long ago described himself as a pragmatic, moderate, was a no-labels guy.

00:43:16.000 Then all of a sudden, he decides he wants to run for Senate.

00:43:20.000 He thinks that DeSantis is the way to go.

00:43:22.000 So early this year, he's playing footsies with DeSantis, introduces him at the Summit

00:43:27.000 County Lincoln Day dinner, I'm sorry, lunch, like you did, saying they have so much in

00:43:33.000 common.

00:43:34.000 All of a sudden, launches his campaign, says, hey, you know, Trump's endorsement doesn't

00:43:38.000 matter at all.

00:43:39.000 It's not what it used to be.

00:43:40.000 People don't really care.

00:43:41.000 Of course, then they show him a poll.

00:43:43.000 And then all of a sudden, wait, what do you mean?

00:43:44.000 I love President Trump. He's my best friend.

00:43:47.000 I've been with him since day one.

00:43:49.000 And says the endorsement is decisive.

00:43:52.000 He doesn't know what he wants to be, but the reality is he knows what he wants to be when he grows up, which is he has this idea probably of being president of the United States, but he doesn't know who he wants to be.

00:44:03.000 He doesn't know what he actually believes because he believes in whatever advances his career.

00:44:08.000 He is the perfect embodiment of what's wrong with D.C. Somebody who only cares about their next election, their next position.

00:44:17.000 They probably played with the White House Lego set too much when they were kids and are convinced that they're going to be a president of the United States someday and so will sell out anyone or anything to get power.

00:44:28.000 That's the last person that should be anywhere near Washington, D.C., That's the contrast that we're drawing in this campaign.

00:44:35.000 And so far, we've racked up the endorsements, not just nationally, of course, President Trump and JD and others, But locally, so we have over 525 local endorsements from people in Ohio, more than the other two combined.

00:44:50.000 We've raised many more times multiples from them fundraising-wise, and we've got the grassroots organization.

00:44:58.000 So what I hear over and over again, it's very simple.

00:45:01.000 No more corporations.

00:45:03.000 We want outsiders to go to D.C. who are actually there.

00:45:06.000 We're going to have to sit down for this one to do the things that we campaign on.

00:45:11.000 Well, you know, I really appreciate that you're doing this, man.

00:45:14.000 I wish you all the luck with it.

00:45:15.000 Let me know what more I can do to help.

00:45:17.000 Look forward to seeing you over there in Ohio.

00:45:19.000 And guys who are watching, you know, check out Bernie.

00:45:22.000 Go check out his campaign website.

00:45:24.000 If you're in Ohio, see what you can do to help.

00:45:26.000 This is going to be one of the big Honestly, there's not that many Senate races that we can move a needle here.

00:45:32.000 This is a really big one.

00:45:34.000 We've got to win it. We need to send someone else like Bernie to the United States Senate to represent us in Washington, D.C. Because God knows the Senate is, let's call it, lacking and maybe lacking at best.

00:45:46.000 So, Bernie, thank you so much for that, man.

00:45:48.000 I really appreciate it. I hope you guys are all doing well and look forward to seeing more soon.

00:45:53.000 Perfect. Absolutely. Whenever you want to come back to Ohio, you know, they love you here.

00:45:56.000 We love you here in Ohio, so I'd love to have you come back up whenever you want.

00:46:00.000 We'll do it, man. Thanks a lot.

00:46:02.000 Thank you. Well, Bernie, thank you so much.

00:46:04.000 And in a few moments, guys, West Virginia gubernatorial candidate, current state attorney general, Patrick Morrissey, will be here.

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00:48:00.000 He's West Virginia gubernatorial candidate, but also current State Attorney General Patrick Morrissey.

00:48:08.000 So, Attorney General Morrissey, first off, Talk a little bit about why you decided to run for governor.

00:48:14.000 I mean, what's interesting is, you know, West Virginia, people, oh, it's a small state, it doesn't do that much.

00:48:20.000 But you are actually out there as AG now, you know, challenging the Biden administration and, you know, the insanity that's going on in the DOJ and all of these things, you know, from the state level.

00:48:34.000 What are the biggest issues that you're facing in West Virginia and what are the top policy priorities that you can do as governor that go beyond what you're doing right now as AG even?

00:48:43.000 Well, absolutely. And first of all, thank you, Don, for joining today.

00:48:47.000 There's so much going on.

00:48:49.000 I joke that I wake up every day with a big smile on my face because I get to sue the Biden administration.

00:48:55.000 And as you know, our batting average in court has been very, very high.

00:48:59.000 I get together with a number of my colleagues and we foul suit as this lawless administration is trying to fundamentally change our country for the worse.

00:49:10.000 And fortunately, as the state AG, we get to bring legal cases together.

00:49:14.000 We go into courts. And as a result of your father's judicial picks, we can get court cases heard in a fair way.

00:49:22.000 And we've been able to score big, big wins.

00:49:25.000 Taking on the Biden administration, stopping their energy agenda, which really puts America last.

00:49:32.000 I mean, that's a big deal out in West Virginia when they're trying to get rid of coal and natural gas, and yet they're also moving to have 67% of the people locked in for mandated electric vehicles.

00:49:45.000 It's lunacy at its worst, and as AGI can do something about it.

00:49:49.000 And Don, one of the reasons I decided to run for governor is I thought we can scale up the work that we're doing in order to really have an incredible impact on our state and our country.

00:50:00.000 So a lot of people know what the AGs do, and they file lawsuits against the Biden administration.

00:50:06.000 But I think when you could bring to bear not only 20, 25 attorneys general, but treasurers, attorneys general, maybe 35 state agencies, Within each state and all the governors, you can actually pull a huge amount of support by bringing to bear your legal firepower, your economic might, your policy prowess, your political and PR edge, and you can stop the federal leviathan.

00:50:32.000 And that's a great thing.

00:50:33.000 I think it's important for our country.

00:50:35.000 And it's especially good when your father gets back in the White House, because you're going to need conservative governors to catch that power that's being devolved back from the federal government to the states.

00:50:46.000 And for those reasons, and to help our state grow, improve our standard of living, drive educational attainment, stop the disaster and the fentanyl crisis at the border, that's why I decided to put my name in the hat for governor.

00:50:58.000 It's going well, but it's been a busy time.

00:51:02.000 It's always a busy time.

00:51:04.000 I think people have to understand, again, as Attorney General, you're fighting the Biden administration on energy, but you've also had major victories in the opioid drug cases that haven't received much media attention.

00:51:19.000 Obviously, there's been some big developments there.

00:51:21.000 You have four or five things just on the federal level that you're challenging in a way that people like me, all of my listeners, would love to see.

00:51:31.000 You'll never get the credit.

00:51:32.000 He's the attorney general from West Virginia, but you're a guy that's actually out there.

00:51:40.000 You know, what can you tell us what's going on there?

00:51:53.000 Absolutely. Well, I'm always fond of saying that in West Virginia, we fight just a little bit heavier than our weight class.

00:51:59.000 And so while we may be the 38th largest state, I think we can still pack a punch.

00:52:04.000 And never was that more evident than when we were tackling the opioid epidemic.

00:52:09.000 I know that when I came in, there was barely anything.

00:52:12.000 My office to deal with that, but we were methodical, and we've actually worked not only in terms of addressing some of the problems from an educational and prevention perspective, but having accountability, Don, within the pharmaceutical supply channel.

00:52:27.000 So we've initiated a lot of suits, and now I'm proud to tell you, West Virginia is number one in the country per capita in settlements in.

00:52:36.000 Actually, if you look at aggregate dollars, I think we're 13th or 14th.

00:52:40.000 And once again, when you're the 38th, 37th largest state.

00:52:44.000 When you can be in that position to overperform, it means a lot.

00:52:48.000 But what's even more important than that is making sure that the dollars are going to be used wisely.

00:52:53.000 So we actually work with our counties and cities to set up a first-of-its-kind private foundation in the country to make sure that the dollars are not going to be wasted the way a lot of what you saw with the tobacco epidemic.

00:53:06.000 And I'm excited. It can fund law enforcement.

00:53:08.000 It can fund treatment options and education.

00:53:11.000 But also, we brought accountability.

00:53:14.000 You can never take back the amount of lives that have been lost, but most certainly, people know that West Virginia was as aggressive or more aggressive than any in the country to make sure that we protected our people.

00:53:26.000 So, you know, and I've seen what you've done, and I've known you for a while now, spent a lot of time with you.

00:53:32.000 Why is it that, you know, you have a lot of We're good to go.

00:53:56.000 What could some of these guys, if they're in even the bigger states or perhaps, let's call it more powerful from an economic standpoint, states accomplish if they were willing to fight the same way as you?

00:54:07.000 Well, look, I think we do have a number of really solid attorneys general, and we work together all the time.

00:54:13.000 I just know that it's been a passion of mine to take on the swamp and the administrative state.

00:54:18.000 And I can come to you today and say that a lot of the cases we've had, we've actually defeated the swamp, the federal leviathan.

00:54:26.000 But we partner with a lot of other states.

00:54:28.000 We work with Texas.

00:54:29.000 We work with Ohio. We work with Jeff Landry.

00:54:31.000 Really good guy down in Louisiana.

00:54:34.000 Just got elected governor. So we have been able to partner with a lot of people.

00:54:38.000 And we do it because, look, we bring unique skills to the table.

00:54:43.000 We have a lot of really good lawyers.

00:54:45.000 We take the issue seriously.

00:54:47.000 I think the courts respect the legal product that we put together.

00:54:51.000 But look, I care. I think that our country is in such a disastrous situation because of the Biden administration.

00:54:57.000 And I could be out doing a lot of different things, but I'm all in to protect our country.

00:55:02.000 So I'm motivated. I wake up every day and I think, who am I going to sue today in terms of these Biden agencies?

00:55:09.000 And it's just a mindset that I have.

00:55:10.000 And I'm not going to let any of the media, the political elites of the left influence what I say.

00:55:15.000 And I think West Virginians love that.

00:55:17.000 And that's why I think our campaign for a governor is going so well.

00:55:21.000 Well, you know, A.G. Morsi, you've also championed in trying to keep my father on the ballot in some of these things.

00:55:28.000 I mean, you know, it's almost shocking, right?

00:55:30.000 We're seeing just out-of-control lawfare from the left, you know, on basically every front at this point.

00:55:36.000 I mean, it's actually crazy.

00:55:37.000 Recently, you had that disgraceful ruling out of Colorado to actually take his name off the ballot, even though they're I guess interjecting into a federal case that he's not even been found guilty of yet.

00:55:52.000 Can you break down some of the legal issues and mental hurdles that are going on here? 0.66

00:55:58.000 How it's so ridiculous?

00:56:01.000 Well, I think the most important observation is that the left is trying to weaponize every form of government and go after anyone who would assert a position that's against the establishment. 0.83

00:56:13.000 And that's what you're seeing. Whether you're talking about bar complaints against state attorneys general, that certainly happened to me back after the 2020 elections.

00:56:21.000 And we had to work for over three years to push back on that.

00:56:25.000 We're talking about political prosecutions.

00:56:27.000 If you dare disagree with the powers that be, And of course, it's outrageous.

00:56:35.000 It's not rooted in law.

00:56:37.000 And so that's one of the reasons why, Don, that we've gotten together.

00:56:40.000 I've been partnering with Indiana.

00:56:42.000 We've been co-leading a lot of the efforts, in fact, across the country to keep your father on the ballot because he deserves to have the right to put his name in the arena like anyone else.

00:56:52.000 And so we've been successful in West Virginia.

00:56:55.000 We've been successful in Michigan.

00:56:57.000 Obviously, Colorado, in a 4-3 decision, that goes up to the Supreme Court.

00:57:02.000 But it's inexplicable to me, because this is something that your father's not even being charged with, right?

00:57:09.000 I mean, let's set the stage right.

00:57:11.000 You have all these nonsense allegations out there.

00:57:14.000 But they're not even going after him for this, and yet somehow they want a state court to interpret a federal law, something that has national implications.

00:57:23.000 That's why we've weighed in.

00:57:24.000 I think the arguments we've brought to bear in these states and what we'll do also at the Supreme Court, we're going to co-lead that effort along with Indiana.

00:57:32.000 The AG, Todd Ricchiti, is another good guy, and he's doing some good work.

00:57:36.000 I think that the Supreme Court, number one, they're going to take it up.

00:57:40.000 Number two, they're going to reverse this.

00:57:43.000 That is my prediction because this is just another way to engage in election interference and politicize the process because they can't win on the merits.

00:57:52.000 Yeah, no, I think that's 100% right.

00:57:55.000 And, you know, I guess, you know, I'd like to ask you, what role do you see for the individual states on major issues like, you know, big tech censorship?

00:58:03.000 I know that's one. And the collusion.

00:58:05.000 I know that's one that Jeff Landry was working on a lot, as well as AG down in Louisiana.

00:58:10.000 If the federal government doesn't act...

00:58:13.000 Can the states step in?

00:58:15.000 Do you have the power to make real headway there?

00:58:17.000 I think we all see what's going on, but honestly, even Republicans in Congress and at the federal level in Washington, D.C., oh yeah, big tech bad, but they're not actually doing anything while getting trampled.

00:58:29.000 These are the same people that talk about FISA abuses, but vote to keep paying for it.

00:58:34.000 What can the states do there?

00:58:36.000 I mean, certainly the states can join together and fight back, and usually in cases like this, there's strength in numbers.

00:58:42.000 So I know, for instance, we do a lot for the size of our office, but we can't take on every fight just resource-wise, right?

00:58:49.000 Because you have a limited number of people to bring to bear and limited resources.

00:58:54.000 So in an ideal world, you partner with other states, and then you share the workload with a lot of folks.

00:59:01.000 So We have been able to take on Facebook and take on Google and take on a lot of the big tech companies because we do think that Twitter and the tech space is the proverbial town square and people should have the ability to participate without being throttled or most certainly without having the government try to censor it.

00:59:23.000 What happened for many years when you have the government reaching in trying to censor folks and taking the recommendations of big tech, that's outrageous.

00:59:32.000 But I think that what the states can do is they can weigh in.

00:59:36.000 Yes, they can file suits, but they can also be a strong voice.

00:59:40.000 If you get 20 states together talking about consistency in the policy, looking for dramatic revisions to Section 230 of the Communications Act from 1996, which I think has caused a lot of these problems, the more the states talk about it, the more you bring to bear what the states can do.

00:59:58.000 States can't do everything.

01:00:00.000 I, for instance, have limited criminal jurisdiction, right?

01:00:03.000 So a lot of times when people say...

01:00:05.000 Hey, there's corruption. You go after the other side.

01:00:07.000 I just am not allowed under the law to do that.

01:00:10.000 But when you get 20, 25 states together on some of these tech issues, I can promise you it gets the tech company's attention.

01:00:18.000 Yeah. So I guess one of the other major issues, again, I mean, you're sort of in there a lot.

01:00:22.000 You're dealing with the tech stuff.

01:00:23.000 You're dealing with the election interference, you know, what I call clearly election interference.

01:00:27.000 You got major stuff and victories towards, you know, the opioid, you know, We're good to go.

01:00:56.000 Yeah, absolutely. So it was really interesting, Don.

01:00:58.000 A couple months ago, I was made aware that one of the athletes who transferred over to West Virginia, that he was applying to the NCAA for a waiver for the transfer eligibility rules.

01:01:11.000 And he was a two-time transfer, and they wanted him to sit for a year.

01:01:16.000 But based upon some of the rules that the NCAA had, the athlete thought that he could play now and that it made a lot of sense.

01:01:23.000 And I looked at it. I agree with him.

01:01:25.000 Raekwon Battle's lawyer looked at it.

01:01:27.000 He agreed with that. And so I wrote a letter into the NCAA and we asked nicely.

01:01:32.000 We said, These are arbitrary rules.

01:01:35.000 Why are you allowing it for a kid that may go to Duke or North Carolina or Kentucky, but you're not going to allow it for someone who goes to WVU? So we thought that there were real problems with that.

01:01:46.000 And so we stepped up and they blew off the letters.

01:01:49.000 And then we had a conversation with the NCAA. And finally, I was able to talk to them.

01:01:54.000 I said, look, I'm going to file a lawsuit against you.

01:01:56.000 And then I worked with Ohio and a seven-state AG coalition, and we sued the NCAA. Quite frankly, they were wildly inconsistent with how they were interpreting these transfer eligibility rules.

01:02:08.000 And we thought that they were violating the antitrust laws, the competition rules.

01:02:13.000 And The NCAA is not immune from the rule of law, and they have to comply with the law.

01:02:18.000 So we were able to file in the Northern District of West Virginia, and there are a couple guys, Rayquan Battle, just a great player, and Noah Farrakhan, as a result of the lawsuit, they're now eligible.

01:02:29.000 And in fact, we got a temporary restraining order against the NCAA, extend to our preliminary injunction.

01:02:35.000 Now for the rest of the winter season, Two of WVU's starters are able to play because we were able to overcome this arbitrary organization that thought it knew better for the student athletes.

01:02:46.000 And now the case will really move forward in an aggressive way.

01:02:50.000 But it just shows you what a good state and an AG can do if you're pushing and you're willing to not just accept what people suggest from on high.

01:03:00.000 Yeah, no, I think that's important.

01:03:01.000 I mean, the NCAA, yeah, another one of those disaster organizations that seems to, you know, they know everything, they tell you everything, but, like, we're not exactly sure exactly what they actually even really do, other than they had a monopoly over, you know, the student athletes for so long.

01:03:15.000 So, you know, the changes are interesting, but you're right.

01:03:17.000 I imagine there are certain athletes that would get a lot of precedent and a lot of attention and a lot of the rules will always bend well for them, but there are others that may be left out in that process, which seems to Go pretty well with all of academia these days.

01:03:31.000 Oh, look, it's a disaster.

01:03:33.000 And you know, Don, you know this better than I do.

01:03:35.000 The left has been spending a tremendous amount of time for decades trying to undercut all the civic institutions that give rise, that serve as the netting that uphold our constitution, our foundation document.

01:03:48.000 They're going after the churches.

01:03:49.000 They're going after civic associations and the schools with their far left, their woke agenda.

01:03:55.000 And it is up to states and AGs to push back aggressively in the arena because you can make a difference, not just through the litigation, but when 20 or 25 states get together and use their economic power against the feds for some of these crazy policies, I can promise you that can carry a mean punch.

01:04:15.000 So talk about some of the skills, the successes you've had as Attorney General in West Virginia and how you think that ultimately translates into being governor and where you can take it from there.

01:04:27.000 Absolutely. Well, I think many people watching may have heard of some of the cases that we've brought and that I've led on.

01:04:33.000 One of the more famous is West Virginia, the EPA, where we led the National Coalition to stop Biden's Green New Deal.

01:04:41.000 And that was a really big issue for West Virginia, because not only are they trying to put coal-fired power plants out of commission, costing us all those jobs, they want to ruin it for natural gas.

01:04:52.000 So there's an obvious jobs perspective that motivated me to go in.

01:04:56.000 But I will tell you, probably the biggest impact of that case is that case was a big one against the swamp.

01:05:03.000 The swamp literally invades every aspect of people's lives and folks don't even know it because you have federal government that's grown larger and larger and larger.

01:05:13.000 In part because courts kept allowing these agencies to have deference, to continually use their regulatory powers in a way that's inconsistent with Congress's direction and the Constitution.

01:05:26.000 So I've been working really hard to push back on all that, thinking that as we start to narrow the swamp and blow it up and reduce it, that provides more powers to the states.

01:05:37.000 And to the people, more freedom, more innovation, more economic opportunity.

01:05:42.000 So that's a big part of what's motivated me.

01:05:45.000 But we've had huge wins, West Virginia EPA, the Waters United States rule.

01:05:49.000 People have heard about that. They try to call your backyard ditch, your ephemeral stream, like a federal navigable waterway.

01:05:55.000 You can't mow your lawn because there's three drops of water under a sprinkler and there's a amoeba that lives there.

01:06:03.000 It's crazy. And then obviously we know that the gender issues that are arising with respect to the efforts that males are putting, I'm sorry, that you have for males trying to play sports with women.

01:06:19.000 We've been out in front defending that.

01:06:22.000 We think that women should have the ability to play sports on their own. 0.99

01:06:25.000 So when you have all these issues, And some of them deal directly with jobs, protecting West Virginia jobs.

01:06:31.000 We've supported educational attainment policy, school choice, a very aggressive school choice policy in West Virginia.

01:06:39.000 So when you put all this together, it shows, hey, These are the kind of skills that you'd like to see in your next governor because you want a governor to stand up to Washington and protect your citizens from what's coming your way.

01:06:52.000 You want a governor to stand up to make sure that the jobs are in place.

01:06:56.000 You want a governor to make sure that we're going to advance educational attainment.

01:06:59.000 And you most certainly want a governor who's going to push back against the wokeism and the crazy agenda on the left. 0.85

01:07:05.000 And there's just no one else running in this campaign who has that kind of background and record.

01:07:11.000 Unlike everyone else, they promise to do different things.

01:07:14.000 You know, we've been there. We've done that.

01:07:16.000 We've led the cases. We build these large...

01:07:20.000 And we go to court and look, 78% of the time we win.

01:07:23.000 So we have a heck of a good batting average.

01:07:25.000 And I think that's great experience to serve as West Virginia's next governor.

01:07:30.000 And that's what helped motivate me to run.

01:07:32.000 So what are the biggest issues that you've been dealing with that make you that better candidate for the West Virginia governor's race?

01:07:41.000 What are the ones that seem to be resonating most with the people?

01:07:45.000 And what are the other ones that you'd be pursuing in the meantime as these things grow and as the playing field changes?

01:07:52.000 What else do you see on the horizon there?

01:07:54.000 Absolutely. One of the biggest issues in West Virginia, it's not going to be a surprise to you, Bidenomics is an unmitigated disaster.

01:08:01.000 And, you know, whenever you have massive inflation, you have a poor state like West Virginia, it really impacts our people negatively.

01:08:09.000 And look, you know this, Don, West Virginians love President Trump, and there's always been a phenomenal relationship.

01:08:15.000 Well, you know, Joe Biden and his policies have really put a hurting to the West Virginia economy and our citizens.

01:08:23.000 And so that's an important goal for anyone who's going to serve as governor.

01:08:27.000 And part of that, of course, is protecting America's energy independence.

01:08:31.000 West Virginia is a strong state in terms of our coal resources, Natural gas.

01:08:37.000 And so when you're the fourth or fifth largest energy producer in the nation, you actually have a big asset.

01:08:43.000 And Biden has gone after our fossil fuels, and it's terribly problematic.

01:08:48.000 That's one thing that we have to make sure that we keep doing.

01:08:51.000 I've done that in the AG spot.

01:08:53.000 We're going to have to do that in the governor's position as well, because West Virginia could build on the leverage of those energy resources to grow.

01:09:00.000 The The other thing which West Virginia really needs to do is we're going to have to grow our workforce.

01:09:06.000 Right now, West Virginia has the lowest workforce participation rates in the nation, but I know that through the right policies, we can grow and fill a lot of the unopened jobs that are out there, talking about the beauty of our state and that we're beginning to change economically, making real progress as a state compared to what you saw 10 or 15 years ago.

01:09:27.000 There's a lot of good stuff that we're doing that translates from the aging world to governor.

01:09:33.000 And I could go on and on. We could talk about the drug fight, not only the fight against opioid abuse, but now the fentanyl menace coming in from China.

01:09:40.000 We've been leading the way, trying to call fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction as governor.

01:09:44.000 My voice is going to be a lot louder on that.

01:09:47.000 And ideally, when President Trump is our next president, we'll have the ability to work together to have the kind of policies that are really going to let West Virginia soar.

01:09:56.000 I'm fond of saying, Don, that West Virginia should be that shining state in the mountains.

01:10:01.000 And under my policies, I think they will.

01:10:04.000 Well, I think so, too, my friend.

01:10:06.000 I think so, too. Patrick, where can people find out about your campaign for governor of West Virginia, read more about what you've done as state AG, attorney general, so that they can check it out and support these things?

01:10:18.000 Again, now it's trying to highlight the two true candidates for this 2024 race that are actually America first fighters.

01:10:25.000 I just want to make sure everyone has the resources to be able to figure that out and find out everything they need to know.

01:10:31.000 Absolutely. So people can go online to PatrickMorrissey.com.

01:10:35.000 That's two R's and one S. And you can look and see all my positions on the issues.

01:10:40.000 And importantly, also know that I was the first and for a long time the only candidate to endorse President Trump.

01:10:47.000 I think there were others that started to look at the polls six months later.

01:10:51.000 I've been there from the very beginning.

01:10:53.000 It's funny how that happens, isn't it?

01:10:55.000 Yeah, you know, look, I know I had developed a good working relationship with you and with President Trump, serving as Attorney General, and you guys came in a lot for me in my race in 18.

01:11:06.000 So I've always been very grateful.

01:11:08.000 President Trump has treated West Virginia well, and I didn't want there to be any hesitation at all.

01:11:13.000 Look, other people, they like to let the political winds go.

01:11:17.000 That's not my style.

01:11:19.000 But people could go to Patrick We're good to go.

01:11:46.000 We need to keep getting stronger because you know these guys can just find millions of dollars underneath the sea cushions.

01:11:53.000 And it ain't going to be from West Virginia, my friend.

01:11:56.000 It's going to be from the opposite of West Virginia, wherever that money comes from.

01:12:00.000 But it's real and it's something we have to contend with.

01:12:02.000 That's right. And look, the good news is I think people know my record.

01:12:06.000 They know that I've stood strong with President Trump.

01:12:09.000 It makes a big difference.

01:12:10.000 And they know what I'm going to do as the state's next governor.

01:12:13.000 So things are going well, but I won't take it for granted because we have a unique opportunity to do incredible things.

01:12:21.000 and when I serve as governor and President Trump is back in the White House because quite frankly,

01:12:26.000 West Virginia is going to be able to lead and catch a lot of those initiatives that

01:12:31.000 President Trump is leading at and we're going to work together as an ally. Can you imagine

01:12:35.000 having coalitions of states and governors supporting what President Trump wants to do?

01:12:40.000 You didn't really see that as much last time. They did a lot without a lot of support,

01:12:44.000 including from the RINOs.

01:12:46.000 Imagine what you had if people actually got it and they were in sync and understood what it meant for everyone.

01:12:51.000 Yeah, no, there's no question you could do a lot more.

01:12:54.000 Absolutely. No, it's going to be a lot of fun, and I'm eager to continue to work.

01:12:59.000 Let's make sure President Trump is on the ballot.

01:13:01.000 We've got a big Supreme Court case coming up that, as I mentioned, the Indiana AG and myself were working on with a lot of the AGs.

01:13:08.000 Most of them joined. I think it's terrific.

01:13:11.000 This shouldn't be a hard call because this is just about basic fairness and getting people on the ballot.

01:13:16.000 Yeah. Well, no, 100%.

01:13:18.000 I appreciate all your help there, Patrick.

01:13:21.000 Thank you, guys. Make sure you check out Patrick Morrissey and what he's done for West Virginia, as well as how he's running for governor there right now.

01:13:28.000 Definitely one of the races we've got to be watching and participating.

01:13:31.000 So, Patrick, thank you so much for everything, as always.

01:13:34.000 Great seeing you. Hope you guys had an amazing Christmas and New Year.

01:13:38.000 We've got a long year ahead of us, but we've got to win.

01:13:40.000 Hey, same to you. And come back out to West Virginia soon.

01:13:44.000 We miss you.

01:13:45.000 We know you love the state and want to see you as much as you can.

01:13:48.000 I'll be there, my friend. Thanks a lot.

01:13:50.000 Hey, thanks so much. Okay, guys, thanks so much for tuning in.

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