00:17:41.400The Democrats, in an effort to try to steal this seat, have spent $9.7 million in Florida 6 compared to the $560,000 spent by Randy Fine, who is the Republican candidate.
00:18:07.420You guys, I understand you just voted.
00:18:10.380You need to get back out and vote because they're concerned enough about how tenuous this House majority is that they just pulled Elise Stefanik's UN ambassador role over being concerned about her New York congressional seat.
00:18:28.980And then you've got two different seats that are available for the remainder of the term that are up on April 1st.
00:18:39.080I think a lot of you listening to us in Florida right now may not even be aware this is going on because so many of you right after the election, you're taking a breather.
00:18:49.100You're kicking back, you're enjoying the results of the Trump victory, but you need to turn out again because if Democrats can whittle down and take back the House, they're not passing anything that Trump wants to get done.
00:19:03.660And this is going to be the risk next year in the midterm when all 435 House seats are up for grabs, and we'll have to see how that goes next year.
00:19:12.520But in the meantime, we've got to preserve what we've already won, and so if you're listening to us in Florida right now or you've got friends and family, these are very Trump districts.
00:19:40.420Yeah, I mean, it would be a disastrous state of affairs for the Trump agenda if we were to lose control of the House, even with the very narrow control that we have.
00:21:42.720Yeah, and it is, I think, true, if you look at the data, that the diehard left-wing crazy town base of the Democrats does better at showing up on special elections than the average Republican voter does.
00:21:57.660They're super committed for these things that a lot of people don't pay attention to.
00:22:30.680And, by the way, also, if you're up on the panhandle, get out and vote as well.
00:22:35.940Again, I don't think we're pressing the alarm too soon.
00:22:39.480But if they were super confident about their majority, Elise Stefanik wouldn't be stepping down from the U.N. ambassador position.
00:22:48.220But I will make this – I'll make this prediction right now so we can log this as a prediction.
00:22:53.020Elise Stefanik in the – after this next cycle is going to end up getting something even more exciting in the Trump administration than a U.S. ambassador to the U.N. role.
00:23:05.720Which is high up there, obviously, but I think she could be in line for something even a little more exciting
00:23:11.880because for her to obviously voluntarily say, okay, okay, I'm not going to take that U.S. ambassador to the U.N. role.
00:30:39.480But even worse, about half the Republicans voted against me as well.
00:30:43.980I got a little over half of the Republicans with me, about half the Republicans against me.
00:30:48.340And the reason I put it forward was to show that even low-hanging fruit, even $2 million for sex changes in Guatemala, $300,000 for food justice for queer and trans farmers, crazy stuff like that.
00:31:06.600You can't even get all of the Republicans on board, but you get zero Democrats.
00:31:11.760So we still have a problem, and I'm the lonely voice crying out on this because people are going to be disappointed, and they're going to be upset, and they're going to be saying, what happened?
00:31:24.480What happened to the Republicans when the end of the year rolls around and there's still a $2 trillion deficit this year, and the Republicans are anticipating another $2 trillion the next year?
00:31:34.660It just shows that there is not a true seriousness, even on the Republican side.
00:31:39.860How much of this is the embedded cost of COVID becoming standardized in budgets going forward?
00:31:47.080Because we had Senator Ron Johnson on, and he's talked about this quite a lot, that if we just went back to budget spending 2019, that we would have a balanced budget right now.
00:31:57.740Now, I know inflation has risen since then, and there are other costs that continue to grow.
00:32:02.880But it does seem that the growth of the federal government has now been embedded, which is what Democrats wanted, in all future budget bills, with the idea being anything that doesn't continue to grow those rates is considered to be a massive cut.
00:32:25.840Yes, remember, Biden was bragging, he's bringing the deficit down.
00:32:29.020Yeah, well, from $3.5 trillion to $2 trillion.
00:32:31.400But a lot of that spending got embedded into government and still there.
00:32:35.120But realize that those pandemic programs, all the free money that was passed out, all the checks that were passed out, that was all the Democrats and most of the Republicans.
00:32:46.000That was a bipartisan screw-up, if you will, to lock the economy down and just print out money.
00:32:52.700I opposed every bit of it, every bit of the CARES program, the PPP.
00:33:02.060But part of it is this disconnect that people will say, oh, they love Elon Musk, they love the cuts, and they're not for, you know, transgender surgery in Guatemala.
00:33:11.960They're not for all these crazy trans operas in Colombia.
00:33:15.080But when push comes to shove, there are at least 10 or 15 Republicans in the Senate who love foreign aid.
00:33:21.380They think it's the best thing since sliced bread.
00:33:24.060I think it's one of the worst and most egregious of all the spending we have in Congress.
00:33:28.380And yet, if they won't cut that, you then say, well, will you cut any of the entitlements?
00:33:34.680Will you look at Medicare or Medicaid or Social Security or food stamps or welfare?
00:33:39.280Oh, no, they're not looking at that either.
00:33:40.980And you start to wonder, are these Republicans really conservative at this point?
00:33:45.340And mind you, there are zero Democrats.
00:33:48.720But we're trying to pass something this spring that will be only Republican votes, and yet we can't get Republican votes even to have the states pay more of their fair share.
00:34:05.760But when they expanded Obamacare, they expanded Medicaid, and they made it 90 percent federal government paid for and 10 percent states.
00:34:13.340If we just went back to 50-50, it saves half a trillion dollars for the federal government, and it makes it a more conservative program because the states traditionally have to balance their budgets.
00:34:25.780And yet we've got five or 10 Republicans in the Senate that won't consider any changes to having the states pay more of their fair share for Medicaid.
00:34:34.680We're speaking to Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky.
00:34:37.580Senator, is there anything that the Trump administration you think could do or you'd like to see them do, whether it's leading the charge to try to get something through involving the Congress or just in an executive capacity using executive orders to try to tackle some of these problems?
00:34:55.660Because on the one hand, it's great that we have an administration that's trying, and, you know, you're trying.
00:35:01.860But on the other hand, if this doesn't work with Trump and Elon, people like you in the Senate, what hope is there for it to get better in the future?
00:35:09.520Yeah, so I don't blame the administration at all.
00:35:11.640This is the best administration we've had in a lifetime.
00:35:26.180They are doing what you would do as a CEO to clean house.
00:35:29.300So I don't blame the executive branch at all.
00:35:31.860The one thing they could do, though, is as they're finding savings, Doge says they've saved $140-some-odd billion, they should send that money back to Congress.
00:36:32.320Did you see the New York Times over the weekend and 10 days ago or so, a five-year anniversary of COVID, I know you haven't forgotten about it,
00:36:40.960said that we were misled by where COVID might have come from and in some of our responses.
00:36:53.060I want to give you an opportunity to tee off on that because you were one of the first people to test positive for COVID.
00:36:59.420And the way that you were treated, the way your family was treated, frankly, was unacceptable.
00:37:05.080And now five years later, I do find it very interesting that the New York Times, like you said, comes out and says, oh, you know, we were misled.
00:37:12.740It's like the arsonist saying, boy, somebody's really lighting fires around here.
00:37:16.180Well, the next step, you know, to sort of come in clean would be to say not only were we misled, but we were misled by our government and by media establishment figures who parroted every move and word of Anthony Fauci.
00:37:30.900He was wrong virtually on everything, six foot of distance.
00:37:37.720It was probably bad advice if you were older and overweight or of any kind of sickly nature to be 30 feet from somebody in a closed room during the height of the pandemic.
00:37:47.220You probably should have been told to stay home.
00:37:49.480But six feet of distance, you didn't need that for kids at all.
00:37:53.020You can put them all together because guess what?
00:37:55.380Kids got it very readily, but they got over it very readily.
00:37:58.880So the idea that kids were a danger and somehow shouldn't be in school or should be six feet apart,
00:38:03.340and we should build these monstrous thousand-acre schools so the kids could all be six feet apart.
00:47:24.300That is her that she is mocking him because he's in a wheelchair.
00:47:27.440Now, trying to argue and say, oh, I like this is just a reference to the fact that buses have wheels and we're putting people on buses and say, no, you've been doing this for years.
00:47:40.440You've been making fun of the governor because he's in a wheelchair.
00:47:43.660And maybe this is a term that is used in Democrat circles beyond Jasmine Crockett.
00:47:49.400Maybe it's something that's talked about privately, not usually said publicly.
00:47:53.300But I do think it's important to call people out, not necessarily for what they say, although that's important.
00:48:01.640But when you blatantly lie about what you said and try to gaslight us and convince us that what you said wasn't what you actually said, it actually is worse.
00:48:11.900Like, I think you said this yesterday, doubling down and trying to make up an excuse on this to me is worse than just being like, hey, it's a joke name I have for him.
00:48:20.160I don't like his policies and you could not like it.
00:48:23.660I mean, I could easily come up with a reason why she could why she could explain this.
00:48:28.700This this goes along with a much broader trend in the Democrat Party, which is it's one thing when they lie to us.
00:48:36.520It's another thing when they lie to people that they're trying to fool.
00:48:41.100But when they lie to their own side, like to their base.
00:49:04.240They made their own people look like they're they're easy to to mislead and that they're buffoons, basically, that they will not forgive so easily when you say something like this.
00:49:16.140And it's so easily provable that you are lying.
00:49:19.900It it's it insults the intelligence of your own audience is basically what I'm what I'm getting at.
00:49:25.560It insults the intelligence of the people that you're supposed to be on the team with.
00:49:30.120And so that's why this is not this is not a win for Congresswoman Crockett, other than her name is getting out there a whole lot.
00:49:37.780And her name, unfortunately, conflicts with America's greatest coffee company, which we're going to have to keep on trying to just deal with.
00:50:14.320Let me just implore upon this, because I know there are a lot of congressmen, senators, their staff, the White House people who listen.
00:50:21.560Please don't fall into the trap of trying to be offended by things that people say.
00:50:29.240And I would encourage all of you out there listening to us, too.
00:50:33.120Please do not fall into this circular firing squad.
00:50:37.040I think we're and I think you would agree with me on this, Buck.
00:50:39.560I think we're moving out of the era of somebody sent a tweet or a Facebook post or an Instagram post or whatever it is.
00:50:47.920And they can never be employed ever again because, oh, my goodness.
00:50:52.580Can you believe what that one post said?
00:50:55.100Whether you work at Lowe's department stores or whether you work at McDonald's or whether you work in a congressional office or you're doing something like what Buck and I do.
00:51:05.040The idea of, hey, somebody screwed something up and therefore they should never be able to be employed again because they have an opinion that's considered to be unacceptable.
00:51:15.780I just I fundamentally reject that on all levels.
00:51:18.340So I don't want in this era for Republicans to start to adopt the Democrat policies of, oh, somebody said something mean.
00:51:28.660Mock, ridicule, satirize, use humor to point out how absurd they are and what they said.
00:51:36.840But please do not try and play the victim card.
00:51:40.020I'm so sick of the victim card and I'm afraid because I see it a little bit.
00:51:45.200I see it a little bit now kind of starting to pop up as Republicans have more cultural ascendancy where you're saying, oh, somebody said something mean about me and they should not be able to have a job anymore.
00:51:59.960Like, I'm afraid when you have a little bit more power, you start trying to play it.
00:52:04.400I've seen it start to happen just occasionally on social media with somebody says something and it's like anyway, it's it's it's easy to get that sugar high of, hey, somebody said something mean about me.
00:52:18.720And like, I'm a victim, resist it, attack it, have fun with it, attack the idea.
00:52:24.580But don't I don't want cancel culture to emerge on the Republican side of the equation, if that makes sense.
00:52:58.700I will say that because in media there has been there was a period of time where they were going after people like me, like Clay in a big way.
00:53:34.160Like, that's really kind of when they started to hit their stride and it picked up for years and years and years.
00:53:38.760And they really managed to do a good job of trying to terrify advertisers and make them think that these kind of responses were real.
00:53:47.340Look, there were a number of people on our side of of the political aisle who were big, big names, big voices, and they did not bend the knee.
00:54:00.000Obviously, it was, you know, they wanted to take rush down for so many years.
00:54:03.500And the fact that he just kept on showing up and being the voice and the leader that he was in this country and that they couldn't stop him was so important.
00:54:26.340Remember, they went after Tucker early on when he was at Fox and no, but early on when he was at Fox and a big he had gone on some different radio shows.
00:54:35.960Oh, then I'll never found jokes that he had made years ago.
00:54:39.360He was on kind of a kind of a bawdy radio show, if I may say so.
00:54:44.260It was a bit bawdy and, you know, a little a little bit on the salty side.
00:54:48.420And he he went on and instead of, you know, going on his show on Fox and this was early and they were so they were hoping to just tear him down so quickly.
00:54:58.320He was like, yeah, I see some people found that I said some naughty words a long time ago.
00:55:04.120You know, just totally was like not happening.
00:55:06.520And because he took that position, I actually remember I was texting with him when he did that and I was like, I know that that's who you are.
00:55:13.260And so you didn't do it for this reason, but you actually just did all the rest of us a favor because by you refusing to bend the knee, it means that the rest of us coming up in the ranks behind you can also do the same.
00:55:27.980And I would just point out that I think it actually ties in a bit with the signal controversy that came out this week.
00:55:34.100I think Trump has decided I am not going to give an inch to any of my critics and ever fire anybody by and large because they're coming completely without good faith.
00:55:48.060And they believe that if they can get one scalp that they it's not like they're ever going to be satisfied.
00:56:10.340This is pretty astonishing when I say this out loud.
00:56:13.360I've been doing this now for this will be 15 years, which is which is great, especially for those who think I look like I'm still in college.
00:56:21.220I've been doing this for 15 years and at the beginning, Clay, I remember there was the there was the in this cancel culture world.
00:56:47.780I've learned incredibly just like and then you make the you make the requisite.
00:56:53.340You know, I've become a better person.
00:56:54.660And also I'm making a donation to some foundation that, you know, is is all about whatever the issue, whoever you offended, you made the donation.
00:57:02.640But then it changed and it really changed.
00:57:05.800I would say me like by the end of Obama term one, in my mind, at least.
00:57:11.480And it started it started to turn into you have to apologize.
00:57:24.340You know, and now we finally broken out of that where it's no, don't bend the knee.
00:57:28.500If you bend the knee, they take your head.
00:57:29.920So it's been a it's been a wild ride, like I said.
00:57:33.600But I think we're starting to win and we're starting to win every day in big ways.
00:57:38.440And we want you to get a little smarter.
00:57:40.660In the meantime, I want to get a little smarter, trying to read as much as I can, try to be as formed as I possibly can, try to learn as often as I can.
00:57:48.220And that's what Hillsdale College trying to do from the Civil War.
00:57:52.080You guys know that I am a Civil War history nerd.
00:57:54.460How about how did the American free market economy get started?
00:57:57.940What happened in World War One, World War Two?
00:58:02.580What is the foundational elements of the Constitution?
00:58:04.760You should know about from a historical perspective.
00:58:07.820Professors at Hillsdale College will read the lead these online courses with television production value that will teach you an awful lot.
00:58:15.980Maybe your grandkids might like this, but certainly you and your free time, no schedule, no having to wake up for a particular class, no grades, just learning for learning's sake.