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00:03:25.100All right. So, Senator, on a normal week, it's like you fly up to D.C., you have meetings, you might meet with the president, you might have a meeting, even the Oval Office, you might announce legislation or have a big signing.
00:03:36.760And that's an exciting week. But how different was your schedule this week when you're like, oh, wait, the King of England's coming over.
00:03:43.580And there's a lot of things that Congress was heavily involved in, including him addressing a joint session of Congress.
00:03:49.980And I'll say it again, where Democrats had said no kings and had no kings rallies, had no problem giving him a standing ovation.
00:04:22.960There is almost no invitation at this stage in life that dad can make that my teenage daughter is particularly interested in going to accept this.
00:04:35.300And Caroline, I'm like, hey, do you want to come to a garden party with the King of England?
00:05:20.980All right, I got to say, there are certain things you get to do in your career.
00:05:24.620Taking your daughter to meet the king, you got to use that as a little political capital down the road when she thinks you're not cool again.
00:05:31.120Look, earning dad brownie points is not easy to do, but that was really fun.
00:05:36.720And I enjoyed the chance to have her meet the king.
00:06:04.060And actually, Catherine got the invite, too.
00:06:06.320And Catherine, it's interesting. My 18-year-old thought it was really cool.
00:06:10.620My 15-year-old was like, no, I'm kind of busy. That's all right.
00:06:13.460So Catherine said no. So she didn't come.
00:06:15.840That's amazing. So it was a family affair, and it turned into a daddy-daughter date. I love it.
00:06:20.700It was a daddy-daughter day. It was awesome. It was a lot of fun.
00:06:26.320You know, the King's coming was important and consequential.
00:06:30.120And I actually think President Trump, they had an arrival ceremony at the White House
00:06:35.280where the president greeted the king, and the president laid out a little bit of why it was
00:06:40.360important for the king to be here and how this is really one of the beginning moments of 250,
00:06:45.780of our celebration of our nation's 250th anniversary. Give a listen to President Trump
00:06:50.020explaining why this visit right now is consequential.
00:06:54.580Here in the shadows of monuments to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson honoring the
00:07:01.160british king might seem an ironic beginning to our celebration of 250 years of american
00:07:08.700independence but in fact no tribute could be more appropriate long before americans had a nation or
00:07:17.000a constitution we first had a culture a character and a creed before we ever proclaimed our
00:07:25.200independence, Americans carried within us the rarest of gifts, moral courage, and it came from
00:07:33.000a small but mighty kingdom from across the sea. For nearly two centuries before the revolution,
00:07:40.140this land was settled and forged by men, women who bore in their souls the blood and noble spirit
00:07:47.220of the British. Here on a wild and untamed continent, they set loose the ancient English
00:07:54.520love of liberty and the great britain's distinctive sense of glory destiny and pride and that's what
00:08:01.220it is glory destiny and pride the american patriots who pledged their lives to independence
00:08:09.460in 1776 were the heirs to this majestic inheritance their veins ran with anglo-saxon
00:08:18.500courage, their hearts beat with an English faith and standing firm for what is right, good, and true.
00:08:27.860In recent years, we've often heard it said that America is merely an idea, but the cause of
00:08:35.580freedom did not simply appear as an intellectual invention of 1776. The American founding was the
00:08:45.460culmination of hundreds of years of thought struggle sweat blood and
00:08:50.380sacrifice on both sides of the Atlantic fate drew a long arc from the meadow at
00:08:58.300Runnymede to the streets of Philadelphia that ran through the lives of people
00:09:03.860born and bred on the British code that no man should be denied either justice
00:09:10.340or right American patriots today can sing my country tis of thee sweet land of liberty
00:09:20.200only because our colonial ancestors first sang God save the king you know I gotta say one of
00:09:30.560the things that was really interesting about watching the president and interacting uh with
00:09:34.460the king and the queen is that right now there have been politically tensions have been pretty
00:09:39.720high i think everybody knows that uh with england and and there's been a lot of frustration there
00:09:45.160uh certainly i'm one of those i think they should have stepped up in a different way with what we're
00:09:50.020doing with iran but the president also understood and i thought it was incredibly just not just
00:09:56.600classy but also what leaders do to say hey we don't always agree on everything but we welcome
00:10:02.800you we're going to roll out the red carpet and we're going to have grand conversations that
00:10:07.520hopefully will make things even better moving forward. And just listening to him talk there,
00:10:12.480I think he did a phenomenal job with his speeches. Yeah, look, I agree. I think the president's
00:10:17.800remarks were really well written. They were well delivered. They were important. There is no doubt
00:10:23.180the special relationship, which is the term that has been used for a long, long time to describe
00:10:27.900the relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom. It's strained right now.
00:10:33.200The U.K.'s decision not to help us in Iran and, in fact, to block us from using British military bases, that has put real strain on that relationship, and it's going to be real strain with consequences.
00:10:46.900But at the end of the day, that's a decision from Keir Starmer, the prime minister.
00:10:50.760That's not King Charles who made that decision.
00:10:54.860And I think the king was here to try to remind Americans and maybe remind the British as well of the centuries and not just 250 years, but centuries before that of intertwined history.
00:11:10.360And our rights and liberties, we didn't just invent the concepts of individual liberty and government that are reflected in the Declaration of Independence 250 years ago that are reflected in the Constitution.
00:11:28.660many of those ideas originated in England, originated the Magna Carta was critical,
00:11:35.000the English Bill of Rights was critical, great thinkers like John Locke who laid out
00:11:40.600the reasoning behind the natural rights of life, liberty, and property that became the foundation
00:11:45.860for much of the American experience. And in fact, King Charles, when he was addressing
00:11:52.220addressing congress i think he did did something very eloquent and and elegant in in that he
00:12:00.020talked about he said look there's tension right now between our two nations but he said we've
00:12:05.820always had tension and he said when we started in fact 250 years ago we had tension that that
00:12:11.700resulted in a war but it was interesting tension yeah he made a point he said the the principles
00:12:18.980that animated the American Revolution, and in particular, he singled out taxation without
00:12:24.500representation. He said those were principles that we had developed and that were integral to
00:12:31.040us. Now, we disagreed, meaning we, the British, disagreed on whether they applied to the colonies,
00:12:37.200but literally the grounds upon which we declared independence were grounds that were integral to
00:12:45.620to the british constitutional history and understanding of rights and and in fact when
00:12:51.520the supreme court is interpreting the constitution and our bill of rights and much of our bill of
00:12:55.300rights mirrors at times even word for word uh the english bill of rights uh often the supreme court
00:13:02.860will look to for example blackstone and look to english common law for how these rights were
00:13:07.780understood hundreds of years before america existed so that intertwined history is really
00:13:15.720important and i do like the president trump's pointing out like this is a great way to celebrate
00:13:21.000250 years by reminding us of big things that matter i'm going to say something else that
00:13:27.560surprised me king charles is funny and i was going to say his either he's funny or his speech
00:13:35.460writers are unbelievable it may be a combination of both but but i also think like man after seeing
00:13:43.240him i liked him a lot more after watching this visit than i ever did before just because i always
00:13:49.700thought he was kind of a a stiff you know prim and proper kind of you know awkward guy that is
00:13:57.100not how he came across on this trip at all in fact i remember when he came back when bush was
00:14:01.340office back in 2000 2008 i think it was 2005 maybe when they made their visit if i remember
00:14:06.560correctly in that that year could be wrong but he didn't even have and granted he was not the king
00:14:11.740yet so i think he was playing a role but it's like he's now like i am the guy and he's way more funny
00:14:17.960than he was when he visited back then yeah look i i will say this past weekend i was in scottsdale
00:14:23.680arizona and i was at you know talking about that 2005 visit that this last weekend uh i i was in
00:14:32.060scottsdale arizona the hoover institute had had a gathering of its board of overseers and its top
00:14:36.680supporters and they invited me to come speak saturday night uh to the dinner and and what we
00:14:41.660did at the dinner is we did a fireside chat uh where condi rice uh interviewed me and i've known0.90
00:14:47.020condi for for 25 years and condi's remarkably capable by the way she's so awesome she she's1.00
00:14:53.660She's phenomenal. And we had an hour long discussion that was really deep and nuanced.
00:14:59.300But but beforehand, Connie and I were chatting and I mentioned to her that, you know, on Monday that I was going to go to this garden party and I was excited to meet meet the king and queen.
00:15:08.100And she she referenced that 2005 visit. And she said, oh, yeah, when when he came, she was secretary of state at the time.
00:15:14.620And she said, well, I was the senior woman. So so I was his escort.
00:15:19.140And I'm like, all right, I'm psyched to go to a garden party and like meet him.
00:15:24.360And I'm like, you really big-footed me.
00:28:31.440I have every reason to expect, and indeed I've been told by senior officials
00:28:36.060in the administration, California is even worse than Minneapolis has been.
00:28:41.960And I want you also to give a listen to Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and what she revealed about fraud and abuse concerning SNAP, concerning food stamps.
00:29:08.160We had no idea where the taxpayer dollars were spent.
00:29:10.700Just one red state, the recent dump of data, we found SNAP recipients had more than 2,000 Tesla owners, 200 Alfa Romeo owners, more than 144 that were receiving food stamps were driving Porsches.
00:29:25.500Again, this is the data dumps we're getting because before we had no accountability on any of these programs.
00:30:33.700that is an absolute abuse and if that happened in just one red state that had it over its data
00:30:41.340how much do you think it's happening in minnesota how much you think it's happening in new york
00:30:46.220how much you think it is happening in illinois how much you think it's happening in california
00:30:50.340the numbers are going to be stunning every every time they went after and got somebody there for
00:30:55.100fraud recently what were they doing you saw them putting in a six-figure car that was being seized
00:31:01.740And in some of the cases, there was, like, multiple six-figure cars that were being seized, Senator, and put on flatbeds.
00:31:07.860Like, yeah, they finally raided the house to this fraudster, and look at what they had.
00:31:11.120Like, if you're on food stamps and you're driving a Lambo or a Ferrari or a Maserati, like, you are defrauding the U.S. government full stop.
00:31:43.500What do a university professor, a celebrity barber, and a professional football player have in common?
00:31:48.940All three bought new six-figure luxury sports cars and lived lavish lifestyles while collecting food stamps.
00:31:59.080How on earth can these, quote, welfare recipients purchase high-end vehicles while remaining on the dole?
00:32:05.280Thanks to a federal loophole known as broad-based categorical eligibility.
00:32:10.440The Clinton administration manufactured this loophole, and the Obama administration supercharged it.
00:32:15.760Currently, 43 states and Washington, D.C. use broad based categorical eligibility to bypass federal supplemental nutrition assistant program eligibility limits on income, assets or both.
00:32:31.620The mechanism, based on a federal law that was meant to minimize states' administrative cost, is simple.
00:32:38.380State welfare agencies print up a brochure about welfare programs or set up an informal hotline and deem it a, quote, benefit under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program.
00:32:48.620Anyone who touches that pamphlet, touches, or receives the phone number is then treated as being, quote, categorically eligible for food stamps, even millionaires.
00:33:05.740It's fraud by design that distributes benefits intended for the truly needy to otherwise ineligible individuals under the insidious goal of maximizing enrollment and dependency.
00:33:21.880Researchers from the Foundation for Government Accountability examined de-identified data on food stamp enrollment in a single representative state.
00:33:29.780the data set matched recipients with jobs addresses car registrations and more and then
00:33:37.340then they redacted the personal details before the researchers reviewed that's what produced
00:33:43.520these outcomes and by the way it it also thousands used social security numbers that federal databases
00:33:53.340could not verify that included real numbers with mismatched names and birthdays numbers issued
00:34:00.480years before the applicant's date of birth numbers of people who died years ago and numbers that
00:34:08.120don't even exist all are clear signs that both stolen identities and synthetic identities