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00:06:25.000It's not going to just be one-on-one, but both are incredible America first candidates who are going to be on the ballot in 2024.
00:06:34.000Ohio Senate candidate Bernie Moreno and West Virginia gubernatorial candidate Attorney General Patrick Morrissey will join us to lay out what's at stake in 2024 and why they're on a mission to support my father and this incredible America First MAGA movement.
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00:10:24.000Whether it's the human trafficking, whether it's fentanyl, probably the number one cause as it relates to the spread throughout the country.
00:10:31.000What's going on there? You've been really vocal about it.
00:10:33.000Do people fully get it, or are they not yet woken up to just how bad this crisis actually is?
00:11:22.000The teachers are having to teach in four or five different languages.
00:11:26.000The 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.
00:11:35.000This is the impact of a wide open border.
00:11:38.000As 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.
00:11:47.000Yeah, 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.
00:12:00.000But, you know, you talk about it a lot.
00:12:03.000You see those things. I hear the stories.
00:12:05.000I mean, you know, friends in New York, they're like, well, my kid has to learn in Spanish two days a week.
00:13:18.000And that's what we did. That's what immigrants do that want to come here and appreciate this country.
00:13:23.000We want to be a multi-ethnic country, but we're not ever designed to be a multicultural country.
00:13:28.000There's one culture, which is American culture, and it's on immigrants to assimilate with that culture.
00:13:34.000The 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.
00:13:48.000Yeah, 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.
00:13:56.000You'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.
00:14:25.000If someone was talking common sense and it was gaining traction,
00:14:27.000all of a sudden the algorithm shuts it down.
00:14:30.000Do you think that the regular people are actually seeing that message?
00:14:33.000Do you think that they are becoming unafraid?
00:14:36.000Because I think that's what it's gonna take.
00:14:37.000It's not just you or me and a handful of us who are willing to say these things
00:14:42.000and they can quietly sort of nod along in the background as long as they're not being recorded or are live.
00:14:47.000But 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?
00:15:00.000Oh, absolutely. I think people are definitely opening up to the idea that they have to use their voice.
00:15:05.000Free speech is obviously the cornerstone of democracy.
00:15:08.000The challenge we have is who are the leaders?
00:15:50.000You know that. Oh, yeah. You guys had a great life.
00:15:52.000Yeah. 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.
00:16:00.000Now you engage in this battle, but that's the point.
00:16:05.000I 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.
00:16:11.000And, you know, the board, we've unanimously stand beside someone who plagiarized and did all of this stuff.
00:16:17.000We, you know, we're going to stand, I'm like, wait a minute.
00:16:20.000So, an issue that would have thrown out any other...
00:16:23.000No, this, you know, Claudine Gay is a wonderful...
00:16:29.000You know, it doesn't really matter. It's all bullshit.
00:16:31.000But, you know, we're going to say that because we have to because that whole ESG... House of cards.
00:16:38.000And 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.
00:16:52.000you know once you realize that's all a lie, you realize just how much worse the rest of it is.
00:16:58.000And so, you know, it is an issue that's on the top of the minds of voters.
00:17:02.000You see the madness in higher education and even at Ohio State, right,
00:17:06.000there was apparently a health course which requires students to address
00:17:37.000You see some of the cancellations that have been effective.
00:17:39.000They 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.
00:17:51.000How do you do that and accomplish that inside our universities?
00:17:55.000Well, it's a few things. So number one, we got to abolish the Department of Education.
00:17:58.000A lot of the core problems, not just in colleges, but K-12 happened there.
00:18:03.000I'm confident that when we take office in 2025, we can make that happen.
00:18:11.000It also ends the money laundering operation that is these teachers' unions.
00:18:14.000I think the second thing we got to do is we have to take a really hard look at Pell Grant eligibility.
00:18:20.000You 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.
00:18:31.000There's something wrong with them if they're black.
00:18:33.000And in my son's case, Don, you won't believe this, three days before school starts for him in college.
00:18:39.000He gets a letter saying, hey, we see you're Hispanic.
00:18:41.000By the way, he's a great student, great student, great kid.
00:18:44.000We see you're Hispanic, so we have special counseling and tutoring available for you.
00:18:48.000So right off the bat, making him think because his dad was born in South America, somehow he must be stupid.
00:18:56.000Right? That is the most demeaning thing possible.
00:18:59.000So 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.
00:19:13.000Yeah, 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?
00:19:20.000But, you know, you're going to get a gender studies degree and you're going to rack up $350,000 in debt.
00:19:25.000Then 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.
00:19:33.000You're going to ask him to then subsidize your worthless education that was never going to pay for itself, ever.
00:19:41.000I mean, that to me seems to be a component of this as well, right?
00:19:44.000If 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.
00:20:05.000Well, they can tell you that there's 72 genders.
00:20:27.000But 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?
00:20:34.000Like 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.
00:20:40.000But 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.
00:20:57.000We 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.
00:21:05.000Yeah. Well, listen, I think that stigmatization, you're 100% right, though.
00:21:08.000I think people are waking up. They're realizing just how incompetent, you know, these universities are.
00:21:13.000I mean, you know, as a graduate of Penn, being one of those schools kind of caught up in that scandal.
00:21:17.000It'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...
00:21:23.000It'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.
00:21:34.000But Hopefully that house of cards is coming down.
00:21:38.000And I think it's so important and people are starting to get it.
00:21:41.000But talk to me. As a businessman, you have a background in business.
00:21:45.000You got into the auto industry in America.
00:21:48.000Sort of a foundational industry in sort of, let's call it American industrialism.
00:21:56.000But what policies do you think would also help bring back auto manufacturing?
00:22:01.000I 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.
00:22:15.000There'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.
00:22:28.000What can we do to fix auto manufacturing in the United States right now?
00:22:33.000Well, 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.
00:22:44.000So the auto industry is huge, amazing here in Ohio, where a lot of our Tier 1 suppliers are based.
00:22:51.000What we're doing right now is pushing the car business off the cliff.
00:22:57.000Previously, because of terrible trade deals, we handed our auto industry over to Mexico.
00:23:02.000They took about a third of our auto industry there.
00:23:04.000The 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,
00:23:43.000because you can't run an auto plant on solar panels and windmills.
00:23:46.000It's just stupid. So those are the things we got to do and just have good policies around that.
00:23:54.000Because the auto industry is so critical.
00:23:56.000What's interesting though, Don, is the left wants the exact opposite.
00:24:00.000They want us to ride our scooter to work, take public transportation.
00:24:05.000They're trying to get rid of the auto industry generally.
00:24:07.000They know that electric cars are totally unsustainable.
00:24:12.000They're happy with that. They want to reduce the amount of private ownership of cars.
00:24:16.000That would be devastating to our economy and a handover of a critical industry to China.
00:24:24.000Yeah, no, I mean, that was interesting, right?
00:24:25.000I 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?
00:24:36.000They don't really want to be there, but they're forced to be there, but, you know, that's part of their...
00:24:39.000But, you know, they're paying dues into a system that is literally...
00:24:45.000Funding and advocating for EVs that they're not able to actually make there.
00:24:52.000So 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.
00:25:05.000I don't understand. And it's like, I don't even know that they understand that this is going on.
00:25:08.000But, you know, they're literally funding their own demise in this process to me, it seems.
00:25:12.000I mean, maybe I'm off, but I mean, you know this industry better than anyone.
00:25:17.000Because, again, you need 30% less workers to make an electric car.
00:25:21.000The technology is mostly owned by a company called CATL, C-A-T-L, Corporate Amperex Technologies.
00:25:28.000That's a Chinese Communist Party-owned company.
00:25:31.000Today, 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.
00:25:41.000They own the lithium supply, the nickel supply.
00:25:44.000We are the world leaders in internal combustion engines.
00:25:48.000Here in Ohio, we make more internal combustion engines than any other state in the country.
00:25:52.000So you can imagine a leadership in D.C. saying, hey, we're not going to make what you make really well anymore.
00:25:59.000And do it in a very condensed period of time.
00:26:04.000And have consumers who don't want to do that force them to do it with an electrical grid that can't handle it.
00:26:11.000So 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.
00:26:20.000Interesting. So, you know, let's talk a little bit about Ohio, right?
00:26:24.000I was on the ground earlier this year in East Palestine following the toxic train derailment.
00:26:30.000You know, I was there with JD. I know you've been there.
00:26:33.000You know, what's like What's it like there right now?
00:26:38.000I think it was a sort of an important moment.
00:26:40.000I 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.
00:27:02.000But, you know, there for the photo op, like, we're actually doing something.
00:27:06.000You know, I think it's so important that we don't forget those American communities.
00:27:11.000And I think that was a big wake-up call to the American public.
00:27:19.000We'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.
00:27:36.000Ultimately, that's the exact question in this campaign is, do we have leaders in Washington, D.C. that are going to put America first?
00:27:43.000That'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.
00:27:57.000When 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.
00:28:12.000He really delivered to those people an uplifting message that we care about you.
00:28:19.000Now, what was the President of the United States doing at the time?
00:28:22.000He's in Ukraine on President's Day and not in East Palestine.
00:28:39.000They think they're trash, deplorables, whatever you want to call it.
00:28:42.000And 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.
00:28:59.000I think history will take that clip and say this is what the America First movement was all about back in 2023 when it happened.
00:29:07.000That was a moment. I think it was incredible just watching it and seeing it.
00:29:11.000And you're right, the whole town turned up.
00:29:12.000I mean, the mayor then later on, I know I did one of your guys' Reagan Day dinners with you up there in Ohio afterwards.
00:29:18.000And, you know, the mayor of the town came in and was like, we need Trump back.
00:29:22.000But 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.
00:29:33.000They're telling you. They're showing you each and every day.
00:29:37.000And 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.
00:29:50.000Believe them when they tell you who they are.
00:29:52.000They say it often. They don't pretend.
00:29:53.000They get on TV and often say other things.
00:29:56.000But their actions really tell you exactly where they are and where they stand.
00:30:01.000Yeah, 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.
00:30:07.000I wrote an op-ed that said that should be a disqualifying event.
00:30:11.000Because 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.
00:30:19.000But 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.
00:30:55.000All the people that pay it into a system, those are going to be the ones that are screwed.
00:31:00.000And that's like the America Last policy that we see every day.
00:31:04.000I mean, Matt Dolan has other problems.
00:31:06.000I mean, if you're going to change the name of the Cleveland Indians to capitulate to like, you know, the woke warfare...
00:31:12.000You know, that just makes you a weakling.
00:31:15.000You just don't belong on a world stage.
00:31:16.000What 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.
00:31:30.000Well, 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.
00:31:41.000The 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.
00:31:49.000I mean, that just shows you how insane it is.
00:31:51.000But 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.
00:31:59.000I'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?
00:32:07.000And yet, we're going to fund their pensions, but Republicans running for office want to cut Social Security.
00:32:31.000But 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.
00:32:41.000Knowing that you're going to go to D.C. and do something completely different and screw them over.
00:32:45.000And you're perfectly happy doing that because, Don, here's the thing.
00:32:49.000I think they fundamentally hate average Americans.
00:32:55.000I 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.
00:33:08.000I've seen that with your father in Mar-a-Lago.
00:33:10.000There'll be billionaires having dinner.
00:33:12.000Who 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.
00:33:20.000These elitist Republicans, obviously Democrats, they look down at them.
00:33:25.000They look and go, you're just a truck driver.
00:33:27.000Like in my case, in my race, both of my opponents had said, hey, Bernie's just a used car salesman.
00:33:35.000Yeah, I built 15 dealerships, called me a used car salesman.
00:33:37.000But 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.
00:33:46.000A career politician doesn't have to do anything, can fail all day, will still get paid by the taxpayer.
00:34:33.000I know in the last cycle, it went hard for JD, and he's the guy in the Senate right now doing that.
00:34:39.000You 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.
00:34:47.000We're just not willing to break the rules and the norms of the Senate.
00:34:50.000I'm like, man, I wish you guys fought once, just once, like a Democrat would.
00:34:55.000But, 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...
00:35:21.000They 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.
00:35:33.000Can you lay out that plan a little bit for us?
00:35:36.000Yeah, 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.
00:35:46.000I'm telling you, for hours I was ranting about that article.
00:35:51.000The American public needs to wake up and understand what is happening in that particular case with your family and your family business.
00:36:00.000Because whether you're a fan, not a fan, or Democrat or Republican, it does not matter.
00:36:05.000What is being allowed to have happen in that case in New York is so insane.
00:36:11.000It is something that would be outrageous in South American dictatorships, what is happening there.
00:36:18.000I'm not allowed to talk about it because I'm under gag order, Bernie, which...
00:36:21.000Which in and of itself tells you probably everything you need to know.
00:36:24.000Imagine not being able to speak about these things to the extent of it.
00:36:28.000But as a business guy, you understand it.
00:36:30.000And 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.
00:36:37.000We wanted to do more business with them, not less.
00:36:39.000We didn't lose a cent. Every payment was made.
00:36:40.000It doesn't matter. This is what we feel.
00:36:47.000We're saying we're not. We're on the stand.
00:36:48.000It doesn't matter. We're ignoring all of that.
00:36:50.000It doesn't matter what you say under oath on the stand.
00:36:54.000You're right. It's almost a caricature, like an insane caricature of a Latin American dictatorship.
00:37:05.000Well, 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.
00:37:21.000Because it's not just, they're not going to stop it just you.
00:37:23.000The ability that they have this weapon, they can use it against all of us.
00:37:27.000And so I'm hopeful that the Supreme Court, when they hear that case, has to be a strong rebuttal of what's going on.
00:37:35.000And we have to figure out how to have a judge like that that is persecuting somebody have some consequences.
00:37:43.000Because the idea that they're doing is nuts.
00:37:45.000But back to my plan, I think what we have to do is we have to impeach Joe Biden.
00:37:49.000I think that's important because we need to know what's out there.
00:37:53.000We need to understand the communications between him and Merrick Garland and Christopher Wray.
00:37:58.000So 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.
00:38:11.000I support what JD's doing, which is no more promotions for these Department of Justice people that are weaponizing the justice system.
00:38:20.000We have to make certain that we take away the money, taxpayer money that's being used to fund these persecutions.
00:38:28.000And then finally, I believe we should pause all judges We're good to go.
00:38:51.000You can see what these judges are able to do.
00:38:53.000So those five things I think are imperatives.
00:38:56.000We have to have a blind justice system in America or this country as we know it does not exist.
00:39:05.000Well, you per point conservative justice.
00:39:07.000I 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?
00:39:15.000There'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.
00:39:24.000The conservative doesn't know, constitutionally speaking, this is a little bit more right, so they give them the win each and every time.
00:39:29.000So, you know, we're, as always, we're playing different games.
00:39:33.000But 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.
00:39:40.000You 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.
00:39:50.000But then they also vote to fund a new FBI headquarters.
00:39:55.000They 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...
00:40:07.000You know, domestic terrorists for being Catholic, who they've called domestic terrorists for being, you know, concerned parents at PTA meetings.
00:40:15.000And I'm sure there's other things that we haven't even been told yet.
00:41:07.000What could go wrong? Well, we know what could go wrong.
00:41:09.000When we have bureaucrats, an administrative state, a deep state that has weaponized the power, the awesome power of the federal government against ordinary citizens.
00:41:20.000We either need to massively restructure that program or completely just repeal it.
00:41:27.000I think there's been hundreds of thousands of spying incidents on Americans, and yet you never hear it.
00:41:57.000And 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.
00:42:07.000They've got to be the moderate so they can get that big board of directors seat when they retire.
00:42:13.000This is what's wrong with this system.
00:42:15.000We have to change the people we send to D.C. or we'll never, ever fix it.
00:43:52.000He 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.
00:44:03.000He doesn't know what he actually believes because he believes in whatever advances his career.
00:44:08.000He is the perfect embodiment of what's wrong with D.C. Somebody who only cares about their next election, their next position.
00:44:17.000They 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.
00:44:28.000That's the last person that should be anywhere near Washington, D.C., That's the contrast that we're drawing in this campaign.
00:44:35.000And 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.
00:44:50.000We've raised many more times multiples from them fundraising-wise, and we've got the grassroots organization.
00:44:58.000So what I hear over and over again, it's very simple.
00:45:34.000We'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.
00:45:46.000So, Bernie, thank you so much for that, man.
00:45:48.000I really appreciate it. I hope you guys are all doing well and look forward to seeing more soon.
00:45:53.000Perfect. Absolutely. Whenever you want to come back to Ohio, you know, they love you here.
00:45:56.000We love you here in Ohio, so I'd love to have you come back up whenever you want.
00:47:48.000Have that in the bank so you're not scrambling when your family needs it most.
00:47:53.000Okay, guys, joining me now is an all-star America First fighter who's delivering win after win.
00:48:00.000He's West Virginia gubernatorial candidate, but also current State Attorney General Patrick Morrissey.
00:48:08.000So, Attorney General Morrissey, first off, Talk a little bit about why you decided to run for governor.
00:48:14.000I mean, what's interesting is, you know, West Virginia, people, oh, it's a small state, it doesn't do that much.
00:48:20.000But 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.
00:48:34.000What 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?
00:48:43.000Well, absolutely. And first of all, thank you, Don, for joining today.
00:48:49.000I joke that I wake up every day with a big smile on my face because I get to sue the Biden administration.
00:48:55.000And as you know, our batting average in court has been very, very high.
00:48:59.000I 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.
00:49:10.000And fortunately, as the state AG, we get to bring legal cases together.
00:49:14.000We go into courts. And as a result of your father's judicial picks, we can get court cases heard in a fair way.
00:49:22.000And we've been able to score big, big wins.
00:49:25.000Taking on the Biden administration, stopping their energy agenda, which really puts America last.
00:49:32.000I 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.
00:49:45.000It's lunacy at its worst, and as AGI can do something about it.
00:49:49.000And 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.
00:50:00.000So a lot of people know what the AGs do, and they file lawsuits against the Biden administration.
00:50:06.000But 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.
00:50:33.000I think it's important for our country.
00:50:35.000And 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.
00:50:46.000And 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.
00:50:58.000It's going well, but it's been a busy time.
00:51:04.000I 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.
00:51:19.000Obviously, there's been some big developments there.
00:51:21.000You 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.
00:51:32.000He's the attorney general from West Virginia, but you're a guy that's actually out there.
00:51:40.000You know, what can you tell us what's going on there?
00:51:53.000Absolutely. Well, I'm always fond of saying that in West Virginia, we fight just a little bit heavier than our weight class.
00:51:59.000And so while we may be the 38th largest state, I think we can still pack a punch.
00:52:04.000And never was that more evident than when we were tackling the opioid epidemic.
00:52:09.000I know that when I came in, there was barely anything.
00:52:12.000My 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.
00:52:27.000So 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.
00:52:36.000Actually, if you look at aggregate dollars, I think we're 13th or 14th.
00:52:40.000And once again, when you're the 38th, 37th largest state.
00:52:44.000When you can be in that position to overperform, it means a lot.
00:52:48.000But what's even more important than that is making sure that the dollars are going to be used wisely.
00:52:53.000So 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.
00:53:06.000And I'm excited. It can fund law enforcement.
00:53:08.000It can fund treatment options and education.
00:53:14.000You 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.
00:53:26.000So, 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.
00:53:32.000Why is it that, you know, you have a lot of We're good to go.
00:53:56.000What 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?
00:54:07.000Well, look, I think we do have a number of really solid attorneys general, and we work together all the time.
00:54:13.000I just know that it's been a passion of mine to take on the swamp and the administrative state.
00:54:18.000And 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.
00:54:26.000But we partner with a lot of other states.
00:55:37.000Recently, 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.
00:55:52.000Can you break down some of the legal issues and mental hurdles that are going on here?
00:56:01.000Well, 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.
00:56:13.000And 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.
00:56:21.000And we had to work for over three years to push back on that.
00:56:25.000We're talking about political prosecutions.
00:56:27.000If you dare disagree with the powers that be, And of course, it's outrageous.
00:56:42.000We'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.
00:56:52.000And so we've been successful in West Virginia.
00:57:11.000You have all these nonsense allegations out there.
00:57:14.000But 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.
00:57:24.000I 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.
00:57:32.000The AG, Todd Ricchiti, is another good guy, and he's doing some good work.
00:57:36.000I think that the Supreme Court, number one, they're going to take it up.
00:57:40.000Number two, they're going to reverse this.
00:57:43.000That 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.
00:57:55.000And, 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?
00:58:15.000Do you have the power to make real headway there?
00:58:17.000I 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.
00:58:29.000These are the same people that talk about FISA abuses, but vote to keep paying for it.
00:58:36.000I mean, certainly the states can join together and fight back, and usually in cases like this, there's strength in numbers.
00:58:42.000So 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?
00:58:49.000Because you have a limited number of people to bring to bear and limited resources.
00:58:54.000So in an ideal world, you partner with other states, and then you share the workload with a lot of folks.
00:59:01.000So 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.
00:59:23.000What 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.
00:59:32.000But I think that what the states can do is they can weigh in.
00:59:36.000Yes, they can file suits, but they can also be a strong voice.
00:59:40.000If 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.
01:00:23.000You're dealing with the election interference, you know, what I call clearly election interference.
01:00:27.000You got major stuff and victories towards, you know, the opioid, you know, We're good to go.
01:00:56.000Yeah, absolutely. So it was really interesting, Don.
01:00:58.000A 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.
01:01:11.000And he was a two-time transfer, and they wanted him to sit for a year.
01:01:16.000But 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.
01:01:35.000Why 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.
01:01:46.000And so we stepped up and they blew off the letters.
01:01:49.000And then we had a conversation with the NCAA. And finally, I was able to talk to them.
01:01:54.000I said, look, I'm going to file a lawsuit against you.
01:01:56.000And 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.
01:02:08.000And we thought that they were violating the antitrust laws, the competition rules.
01:02:13.000And The NCAA is not immune from the rule of law, and they have to comply with the law.
01:02:18.000So 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.
01:02:29.000And in fact, we got a temporary restraining order against the NCAA, extend to our preliminary injunction.
01:02:35.000Now 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.
01:02:46.000And now the case will really move forward in an aggressive way.
01:02:50.000But 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.
01:03:01.000I 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.
01:03:15.000So, you know, the changes are interesting, but you're right.
01:03:17.000I 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.
01:03:33.000And you know, Don, you know this better than I do.
01:03:35.000The 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.
01:03:49.000They're going after civic associations and the schools with their far left, their woke agenda.
01:03:55.000And 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.
01:04:15.000So 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.
01:04:27.000Absolutely. Well, I think many people watching may have heard of some of the cases that we've brought and that I've led on.
01:04:33.000One of the more famous is West Virginia, the EPA, where we led the National Coalition to stop Biden's Green New Deal.
01:04:41.000And 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.
01:04:52.000So there's an obvious jobs perspective that motivated me to go in.
01:04:56.000But I will tell you, probably the biggest impact of that case is that case was a big one against the swamp.
01:05:03.000The 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.
01:05:13.000In 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.
01:05:26.000So 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.
01:05:37.000And to the people, more freedom, more innovation, more economic opportunity.
01:05:42.000So that's a big part of what's motivated me.
01:05:45.000But we've had huge wins, West Virginia EPA, the Waters United States rule.
01:05:49.000People have heard about that. They try to call your backyard ditch, your ephemeral stream, like a federal navigable waterway.
01:05:55.000You can't mow your lawn because there's three drops of water under a sprinkler and there's a amoeba that lives there.
01:06:03.000It'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.
01:06:19.000We've been out in front defending that.
01:06:22.000We think that women should have the ability to play sports on their own.
01:06:25.000So when you have all these issues, And some of them deal directly with jobs, protecting West Virginia jobs.
01:06:31.000We've supported educational attainment policy, school choice, a very aggressive school choice policy in West Virginia.
01:06:39.000So 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.
01:06:52.000You want a governor to stand up to make sure that the jobs are in place.
01:06:56.000You want a governor to make sure that we're going to advance educational attainment.
01:06:59.000And you most certainly want a governor who's going to push back against the wokeism and the crazy agenda on the left.
01:07:05.000And there's just no one else running in this campaign who has that kind of background and record.
01:07:11.000Unlike everyone else, they promise to do different things.
01:07:14.000You know, we've been there. We've done that.
01:07:16.000We've led the cases. We build these large...
01:07:20.000And we go to court and look, 78% of the time we win.
01:07:23.000So we have a heck of a good batting average.
01:07:25.000And I think that's great experience to serve as West Virginia's next governor.
01:07:30.000And that's what helped motivate me to run.
01:07:32.000So what are the biggest issues that you've been dealing with that make you that better candidate for the West Virginia governor's race?
01:07:41.000What are the ones that seem to be resonating most with the people?
01:07:45.000And what are the other ones that you'd be pursuing in the meantime as these things grow and as the playing field changes?
01:07:52.000What else do you see on the horizon there?
01:07:54.000Absolutely. One of the biggest issues in West Virginia, it's not going to be a surprise to you, Bidenomics is an unmitigated disaster.
01:08:01.000And, you know, whenever you have massive inflation, you have a poor state like West Virginia, it really impacts our people negatively.
01:08:09.000And look, you know this, Don, West Virginians love President Trump, and there's always been a phenomenal relationship.
01:08:15.000Well, you know, Joe Biden and his policies have really put a hurting to the West Virginia economy and our citizens.
01:08:23.000And so that's an important goal for anyone who's going to serve as governor.
01:08:27.000And part of that, of course, is protecting America's energy independence.
01:08:31.000West Virginia is a strong state in terms of our coal resources, Natural gas.
01:08:37.000And so when you're the fourth or fifth largest energy producer in the nation, you actually have a big asset.
01:08:43.000And Biden has gone after our fossil fuels, and it's terribly problematic.
01:08:48.000That's one thing that we have to make sure that we keep doing.
01:08:53.000We'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.
01:09:00.000The The other thing which West Virginia really needs to do is we're going to have to grow our workforce.
01:09:06.000Right 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.
01:09:27.000There's a lot of good stuff that we're doing that translates from the aging world to governor.
01:09:33.000And 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.
01:09:40.000We've been leading the way, trying to call fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction as governor.
01:09:44.000My voice is going to be a lot louder on that.
01:09:47.000And 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.
01:09:56.000I'm fond of saying, Don, that West Virginia should be that shining state in the mountains.
01:10:01.000And under my policies, I think they will.
01:10:06.000I 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?
01:10:18.000Again, now it's trying to highlight the two true candidates for this 2024 race that are actually America first fighters.
01:10:25.000I just want to make sure everyone has the resources to be able to figure that out and find out everything they need to know.
01:10:31.000Absolutely. So people can go online to PatrickMorrissey.com.
01:10:35.000That's two R's and one S. And you can look and see all my positions on the issues.
01:10:40.000And importantly, also know that I was the first and for a long time the only candidate to endorse President Trump.
01:10:47.000I think there were others that started to look at the polls six months later.
01:10:51.000I've been there from the very beginning.
01:10:53.000It's funny how that happens, isn't it?
01:10:55.000Yeah, 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.
01:13:18.000I appreciate all your help there, Patrick.
01:13:21.000Thank 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.
01:13:28.000Definitely one of the races we've got to be watching and participating.
01:13:31.000So, Patrick, thank you so much for everything, as always.
01:13:34.000Great seeing you. Hope you guys had an amazing Christmas and New Year.
01:13:38.000We've got a long year ahead of us, but we've got to win.
01:13:40.000Hey, same to you. And come back out to West Virginia soon.
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