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this speaker is not on the program not
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on the program but I did notice there
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was a little bit of security here
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today little extra security this is your
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saxs red meat moment yes all right here
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we go little red meat for Sachs uh
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please welcome me in joining vice
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presidential candidate jie
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Vance let your winners
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ride Rainman
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David and instead we open source it to
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the fans and they've just gone crazy
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with hey
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guys man good to see you man how you
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doing time all right see you hey
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guys welcome so Zach is GNA introduce
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you welcome to the Lions who who's here
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with us Z well do we do we actually need
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a a big introduction here but I'll I'll
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give you I'll give a few um those of you
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who are really bad at context clues I'm
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JD Vance I'm running for vice
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president and normally he's he's beside
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his wife Usha but now you get that's
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right she's at like the tarpits or
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whatever yeah yeah oh yeah we brought a
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three kids out here so she wanted to
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take and see some fossil stuff so
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they'll have fun good I'll say a couple
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of things about JD because um he's a
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friend I think what what I think um
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really made me want to support JD for
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for Senate and also for the VP position
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is that I think he represents two you
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could almost say
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contradictions uh back in 2003 when JD
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graduated from high school uh you know
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this was after the Twin Towers had come
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down and we gotten involved in the Iraq
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War he was gung-ho to go fight America's
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enemies and he enlisted in the Marine
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Corps and went off uh to serve in in the
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Middle East eventually he came to
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realize that that war was a mistake and
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I thought that
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really represents uh one of the traits
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that we really want in in a vice
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president or someone next to the
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president uh which is that he had the
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patriotism and the courage to go serve
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America but also the wisdom to realize
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when America shouldn't get involved in a
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war so I want to
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just the the other uh like I said almost
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contradiction that JD represents is that
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he had worked in the tech industry he
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had been a a venture capitalist he had
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been in rooms like this and he
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understands what it takes to make
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America a more Innovative place at the
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same time he comes from a part of the
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the Midwest Appalachia that's a very
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poor part of the country and did not
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grow up in a privileged uh environment
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at all and he still remembers those
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people and he represents those people
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and I think his ability to understand
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both parts of the country makes him uh
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I'd say a pretty unique political figure
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so with that let me stop and do you want
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to react to any of that uh well you know
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first of all thanks to all for having me
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I've been a big fan of the Pod for a
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while I think my first appearance so
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it's good to be with you you know I the
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only thing I'll say to that David is I I
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do think there is a deep connection
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between the the poverty that I saw
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growing up and the fact that our entire
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economy is just less Innovative than we
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pretend that it is and you know I know
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you know Peter teal and Tyler K other
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folks have talked about this but if you
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look at the real innovation of the
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American economy it's been in the world
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of software if you look at where the
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economy has been most stagnant it's been
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in basically the heavily regulated parts
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of the economy which is where 90% of the
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people that I represent in the Senate
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and 80% of the people that I hope to
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represent as their vice president
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actually make their living run their
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business and go to work every single day
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and I think that you know when I think
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about tech one of the things I'd like us
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to do is broaden the aperture a little
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bit and think about innovation not just
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in software but innovation in
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transportation and Logistics and
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Innovation uh in energy and the whole
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Suite of things because unless our
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economy is actually technologically
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Innovative then the stagnant economy is
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is fundamentally like the worst thing
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and I think a lot of actually America's
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pathologies right now stem from the fact
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that we feel like we live in a very zero
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some country because in some ways we do
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right when when when the econom is
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growing four 5 6% a year then Democrats
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can kind of get what they want
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Republicans kind can kind of get what
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they want and it all makes sense if the
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economy is growing between 0er and 1% a
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year then I think it makes the whole
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society and our political system a much
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much much more insane and I think it's
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kind of a subtext of what's been going
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on in this country for the last 30 years
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um let me start by going back a little
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bit I think three of us um initially
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would have been described sort of like
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you know non-trump people yeah um and in
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different ways and shapes and form we
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were all V about it because of what was
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presented to us through the filter of
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the media and we've all gone through an
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evolution in large part by meeting the
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person and this is the first time
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actually where a presidential candidate
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I've known and I've kind of known a vice
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presidental candidate in this case as
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well get try you know they try to Corner
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you and paint you in a certain way can
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you just talk about what you realized
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and the person that you got to know and
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what it says about what we need to do so
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that we don't get manipulated yeah so
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first of all when Biden was running
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against Trump one of the things the
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media tried to do is to say well you
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know you have these two guys who are a
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little bit older than average and both
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of them clearly aren't fully with it and
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I would hear the media talk about Biden
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like this and then talk about Trump like
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this and it's like guys Donald Trump
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remembers exactly what I said about him
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n and a half years ago to the minute to
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the day to the exact line like trust me
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his memory is 100% there uh even if it
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would be in more more in my interest if
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it wasn't and you know what what what
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changed for me I mean two things I mean
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one Chim you just sort of hit on this is
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a lot of the things the Press said about
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Donald Trump and says about Donald Trump
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are just straight up Fabrications and so
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if you think the Press is like biased
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that's one thing but if you think the
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Press is fundamentally trying to tell
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you the truth even if it's in a bias way
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and then you realize that like Donald
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Trump never called white supremacist
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very fine people after Charlottesville a
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total fabrication of the American Media
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it's like okay what other things am I
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hearing about Donald Trump that are
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actually not true right the second thing
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is you know and we talked about this a
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little bit last night but look if you go
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back to the date of my or the year of my
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birth which is 1984 there's this chart
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that's really interesting and it tracks
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corporate profits the wages of workers
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and the size of government and for
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pretty much my entire life the wages of
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workers were stagnant corporate profits
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were going up and the size of government
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was going up and there was a 4-year
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period where the wages of workers
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outpace the size of government corporate
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profits it's the four years that Trump
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was president and I think that we have
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to like give some credit to where it's
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due the policies actually
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work and if you go into the presidency
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saying I don't think Donald Trump's
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going to be a good president and then lo
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and behold he's the best president at
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least in a generation it's like okay
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time to change my mind admit to myself
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but also to all the people who listen to
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me I was wrong about Donald Trump he was
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a hell of a good president of course I'm
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running as his running mate I think
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he'll do it again let's flip it around
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now what what does it say about him that
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he I mean how's that process of saying
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JD you said this yes I did I changed my
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mind I then but then he has to change
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his mind so that says something so talk
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us about that you know I think the the
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president one thing I'll say about him
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is the again the media perception of
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Donald Trump is that he's like this
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deeply AG grieved guy who holds really
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terrible grudges the actual reality of
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Donald Trump is that yeah he remembers
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what you said about him because it's
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like part of the inputs that he takes as
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he tries to evaluate a human being but
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most most importantly he's asking like
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what what can you do now how can you
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help the country now how can you help me
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as I try to help the country now and I
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think for whatever complicated set of
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factors he decided that I was the guy
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who could help him the most um but no I
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mean it's it's it is interesting the
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perception of him as this guy who holds
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grudges he selected a guy who was very
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much a Critic of his back in 2015 as his
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running mate clearly something doesn't
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make sense and I think that what doesn't
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make sense is this idea that Trump is
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more motivated by grievance than he is
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by the public interest he's actually
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much more motivated by the public
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interest that's the truth that's awesome
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you're um thanks for coming of course um
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you're going to replace um Mike Pence uh
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as I hope so yeah as
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uh GNA be a close election but um if you
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do um Mike Pence um your new boss Trump
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is a little upset at Mike Pence because
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Mike Pence refused to uh overturn in the
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election results and um
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if you were in that same position what
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would you do would you have overturned
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the election results well I think it's
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let me take itue with the premise a
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little bit Jason because I don't think
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the argument was Mike Pence could
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overturn the election results I think
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the argument was that Mike Pence could
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have done more whether you agree or
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disagree Mike Pence could have done more
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to sort of surface some of the problems
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in the election would you have not
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certified the El well I I think that
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what I would have done I mean look I I I
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happen to think that there were issues
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back in 2020 particularly in
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Pennsylvania even you know some of the
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courts that refused to throw out
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certified ballots did say that there
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were ballots that were cast in an
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illegal way they just refused to
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actually decertify the election results
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in Pennsylvania do I think that we could
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have had a much more rational
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conversation about how to ensure that
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only legal ballots are cast yes and do I
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think that Mike Pence could have played
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a better role yes but I again the the
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the two premises that I take issue one
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is one pence was not asked to overturn
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the election he couldn't have
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but two the reason asked to not certify
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it sure so would you have certified it
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last year for the third again I would
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have asked the states to submit
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alternative slates of electors and let
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the country have the debate about what
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actually matters and what kind of an
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election that we have states to be clear
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I would have asked the states to submit
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alternative slate to that's that's what
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I would have done again I've said that
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publicly many times but again Jason the
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important part is we would have had a
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big debate and it doesn't necessarily
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mean the results would have been any
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different different but we at least
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would have had the debate in
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Pennsylvania and Georgia about how to
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better have a rational election system
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where legal ballots are cast and again I
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I you know look I have no personal
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problem with Mike Pence I've never
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really talked to him um but I think that
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the idea that the reason Mike Pence
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isn't on board with Donald Trump is over
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the election of 2020 that's the other
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thing I want to take issue with Jason
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because I think in reality that if
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Donald Trump wanted to start a nuclear
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war with Russia Mike Pence would be at
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the front of the line endorsing him
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right now and fundamentally the reason
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the old guard of the Republican party
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hates Donald Trump it's not because of
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January the 6 2021 whatever your views
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on it it's because Donald Trump doesn't
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think that we should start stupid Wars
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in foreign countries and that's why they
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all hate
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him can I I have a fall on that let me
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continue my line of questioning then
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I'll give it to you because I want to
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hear JD's since he's here I've heard
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yours many times um so uh how many how
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many followups how many follows are you
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going to have about January 6 we 2
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minutes talking about I want to hear
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David especially if he gets me out of
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answering
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so I think we've you've had like three
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follow-ups on on J first of all freeberg
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you never got a chance to ask your
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question I want to talk about let's
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let's talk about January 6 for the next
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45 minutes I'm sure the most important
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thing going on in the country right now
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can we talk about policy for a minute
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that'd be great okay I'd love that I
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I'll just I'll just reflect back on your
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comment about government growth compared
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to wage growth compared to corporate
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profits there's only so much Capital it
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gets sucked up somewhere right there's
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competing interests that suck Su it up
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the government is a competing interest
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that sucks up Capital fundamentally the
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government has been successful in
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sucking up capital and ultimately the
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government has been proven time and
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again to be the least efficient way to
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grow the economy of allocating capital
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allocators or labor and um Trump has
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made this commentary that Elon who's
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going to be here later today should come
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in and help rightsize the government
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you've now you've now spent a few years
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as a senator this is my most distressing
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issue right of all the panic attacks I
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have that Jason teases me about it's
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government spending the debt level and
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ultimately you reach a Tipping Point I
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believe in democracies where the
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government is
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spending uh most more people are
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dependent on the government than are not
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and that ultimately leads to a very bad
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outcome for democracy that's how I feel
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and So based on what you've seen as a
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senator now for the last few years and
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based on the commentary that Elon where
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where would you go in you know cut where
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where's the most kind of efficiency
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gaining opportunity that we can kind of
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execute against without needing to go
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and negotiate with Congress what's the
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opportunity ahead for the executive
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branch to rightsize government to make
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things more efficient to hold things
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accountable to improve the way that the
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government is functioning which I think
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ultimately leads to better economic
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growth and opportunity for Innovation
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because Capital flows to the right
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places so I agree with you and let me
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just say let me say two things and I'll
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try to answer briefly because I know
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there are a lot of topics that we can
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get through so so number one is one of
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the things that our government should do
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obviously I think it should be doing
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less than it currently does but what it
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does I want it to do well
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and most importantly I want the critical
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social welfare functions of our
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government to go to the people who
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actually deserve to be here so as United
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State Senator I have asked multiple
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staff members I've asked officials in
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various government departments if you
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take the give or take 25 million illegal
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aliens that are here in this country
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right now how much money do we spend on
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illegal aliens every single year in this
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country and I've gotten estimates that
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range between a100 billion a year to
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$600 billion a year and where does that
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money come from well it comes from
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Healthcare benefits even though illegal
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aliens aren't entitled to section 8
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housing their children are entitled to
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section 8 housing there's also a lot of
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Social Security fraud a lot of Medicare
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fraud so one thing that we could save a
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lot of money on is actually focusing our
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national interest on American citizens
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people who deserve to be here we'd save
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a lot of money that way that'd be a huge
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7.3 trillion budget what do you estimate
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that impact to be well again and I'm
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trying to do that scene in the movie
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Dave they go in and they just like line
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up like nope no or like no pulled
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everything off the board if you call it
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a $ 1.7 trillion deficit right uh again
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it's between $100 billion to $600
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billion depending on how you cut the
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numbers now the the other thing about
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that just to answer your question about
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efficiency is I think the government
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procurement process especially in
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military equipment is really broken uh
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if you go back to Eisenhower's warning
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about the military industrial complex I
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mean I I was a seed investor in andil I
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imagine you guys have some andil people
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here today um great lucky here great
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yeah great great chat you know one of
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the things that that company as as I as
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you know I haven't talked to to the guys
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about the details of their business in
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the LA in the last few years but one of
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the things that they founded the company
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on was the idea that the procurement
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process was broken and that is
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definitely true in the you know we do
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way too much cost plus procurement and
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way too little actual spurring of
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innovation and what it ends up meaning
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is that our equipment isn't as good as
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it should be and we end up spending a
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lot more money than we should be I
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actually do think you could cut the
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American defense budget and make our
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country stronger but you would have to
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make the procurement process much more
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efficient now that's a big thing to
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tackle but that's what we're in this
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business do you pass legislation to do
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that I don't know that you have to pass
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legislation but you really as a
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president and vice president you have to
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be willing to take on some very powerful
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defense contractors and that's something
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that I know president Trump and I very
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much want to do and how would you like
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your role as vice president to be cast
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differentially from how other vice
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presidents have have operated what would
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your role as an individual be just
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speaking about I want to do all of the
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good things and none of the bad things
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that's my goal as as vice president
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that's so the ribbon cuttings of the new
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federal like I mean look I mean
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obviously joking but the the reality is
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that I I want to be a second set of eyes
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and ears for the president's agenda
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right one of the things that was true
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and he will tell you this the first time
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he was he was President of the United
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States is there were people in
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government there were people in his own
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Administration that he was a newcomer to
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politics he didn't fully trust everybody
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who was around him we want to build a
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team who's actually aligned on the
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agenda because agree or disagree with
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Donald Trump on a specific policy issue
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assuming the American people make him
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the next president pres and I think that
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they will that is the next president and
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his policy determinations should dictate
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the executive administration of
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government if they don't we don't have a
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real democracy and by the way just not
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to weigh back into January 6 territory
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like what is a bigger threat to American
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democracy is it that we had a big fight
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about some of the uh some of the
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certification in January the 6 and of
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course you had some riers at the capital
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or is it that for example The Joint
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Chiefs of Staff didn't obey the
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president of the United States on Troop
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redeployment in Syria which actually
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happened during Trump's Administration
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like if we're going to talk about
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threats to democracy we need the
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government to be responsive to the
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American people's elected president if
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you don't have that you don't have a
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real democracy how
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[Applause]
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much a lot of this if you design it in
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one way has to go through Congress which
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as we know is sclerotic and mayic
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nothing can happen and then the other
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path is for you guys to go ham a little
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bit and say okay what can we do with
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executive order have you had a chance to
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discuss if you
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win repositioning the focus as basically
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that what is the totality of everything
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that we can do from the White House from
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the oval and then getting all of these
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and the other thing that we should talk
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about at some point is like it's like a
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Avengers movie now at this point you
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Bobby Kennedy Elon Trump so
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but I don't the Justice League the
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Justice League I I don't know which
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character in that Justice League I am no
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but but the point is like you know have
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you had that discussion about like all
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right folks let's not wait for Congress
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and get a plan ready starting day one of
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all the stuff that can happen through
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EOS or how are you thinking about this
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well at a high level certainly you know
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I'm I'm one of the co-chairs of the
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transition team there are a few others
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of us who are working on it you to sort
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of think about I mean look the way the
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founders set up our government whether
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you like it or not there are certain
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things especially when it comes to
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budget and Appropriations you just have
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to go through Congress right you
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fundamentally have to now I I do think
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that the Congress is willing to work
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with us at least you know the first
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couple of years of an Administration you
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can largely get the budgetary and
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Appropriations things that you need but
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there's a lot that you can do through EO
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and by the way in a lot of ways I think
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the enlargement of the president at the
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expense of Congress is a bad thing but
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fundamentally there is a lot that
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happens in our government purely through
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executive orders through EOS and yes
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we're thinking very deliberatively about
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all the things that you could do through
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EOS on day one or in the early parts of
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the administration and again not to make
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this too partisan but one of the ways
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that that um that Biden and Harris
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opened up the American southern border
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was through executive orders right it
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was an executive order that suspended
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deportations an executive order that
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ended the remain of Mexico policy so you
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can screw up a lot through EOS you can
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also fix a lot through EOS which is
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certainly Something That We're focused
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on let me um uh go in a different
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direction just in the last couple of
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days um Dick Cheney endorsed KLA Harris
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for president and that endorsement was
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warmly embraced by by KLA Harris and the
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Democrats the same people called him a
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war criminal like three years ago yeah
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well yeah I'm old enough to remember
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back in 2008 uh Obama first beat Hillary
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Clinton in the Democratic primary
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because he had opposed the Iraq War and
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she had supported it and then he got
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elected president the United States and
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the whole country seemed to recognize
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that the Iraq War had been a disaster it
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destabilized Middle East it you know I
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don't need to go through all the
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litanies of of horribles that that
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happened from it but there seems to be a
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widespread recognition and like you're
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saying Di was kind of demonized as this
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um like the Darth Vader Prince of
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Darkness type figure which I think
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basically was right I mean he was the
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principal architect of of the Iraq War
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and now I find myself agreeing with
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everything the Democrats said in 2008
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about right total coincidence on a
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separate track a few weeks ago we had
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Bobby Kennedy endorse uh Donald Trump so
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you now have a dynamic where the bush
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Republicans are now Harris Democrats and
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the Kennedy Democrats are now Trump
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Republicans clearly something big is
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happening in our politics here can you
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explain this realignment how do you see
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it yeah I mean look uh one way think
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about it is that we traded Dick Cheney
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for Bobby Kennedy and that's an upgrade
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I'll take every single
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day
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right look I mean one way of
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understanding is you have to ask
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yourself who is benefited and who is
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harmed from the last 30 years of the
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bipartisan consistence in this country
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right so um you want to talk about a
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manufacturing policy that I think
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promoted the offshoring of millions of
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good American manufacturing jobs and in
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the in the process by the way made made
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us less self-reliant as a country uh
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that really benefited people like Dick
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Cheney and kamla Harris and their donors
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it didn't benefit the people that I
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serve in the state of Ohio okay uh if
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you ask yourself who actually went off
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and fought these ridiculous Wars it was
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very often working in Middle Class kids
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in communities like mine it wasn't the
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family of our current leadership class
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by and large though of course they're
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exception
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and you go through each of these issues
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and what you find is increasingly
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Republicans are the party of working in
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Middle Class people you know Bobby
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Kennedy has talked about this a lot and
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I think he puts it better than I ever
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could but that you know you go back even
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30 years ago and Approximately 80% of
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the counties that represent sorry 80% of
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the wealth in American counties went in
00:21:51
places that voted Republican and about
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20% of the wealth went to places that
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voted Democrat now it's 70% of the
00:21:57
wealth goes for Democrat and about 30%
00:21:59
of the wealth goes for republicans and
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you saw this in a big way I mean just
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one illustration is I believe that in
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2012 Wall Street which I think Wall
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Street fundamentally has been the main
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beneficiary of globalization of of a lot
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of the policies that I I pushed back
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against and criticize over the last 30
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years Wall Street went 3 to one for
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Romney over Obama in 2012 I believe they
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went 4 to one for um for Clinton over
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Trump in 2016 and then like nine to one
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for Biden over Trump in 201 20 so there
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was a massive shift in who makes up
00:22:31
these parties wealthy people direct
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their money to Democrats is what incre
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increasingly wealthy people direct their
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money to Democrats working in Middle
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Class People direct their money to
00:22:40
Republicans why do you think that is j i
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i i again because I think their policies
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have benefited look the the the unip
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party the kamla harrises and Dick Cheney
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their parties have benefited a certain
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group of people those people are
00:22:51
increasingly Democrats uh Donald Trump
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has been pushing back against that
00:22:55
consensus in his party in his policies I
00:22:57
think benefit the majority of the
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country so increasingly I think the
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working middle class heart of the
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country is going for Republicans like
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another another spin on this cuz I know
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we're you know focused on Tech in this
00:23:07
conference is Big Tech has become
00:23:09
increasingly pro-democrat little Tech
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has become increasingly Pro Republican
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right so if you're an upstart if you're
00:23:14
in crypto if you're if you're like a
00:23:16
small AI company I think you're much
00:23:18
more likely to be pro- Republican if
00:23:20
you're a monopolist in big Tech I mean
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look at Facebook Google how they're how
00:23:25
they're how they're putting their
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resources it's much much more Pro
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Democrats so there are a lot of
00:23:30
different spins on it but fundamentally
00:23:31
I think the people who've benefited from
00:23:33
the American decline are becoming
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Democrats the people who have suffered
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from it and are pushing back against it
00:23:39
their Republicans I have a followup
00:23:41
question on that JD which is um you were
00:23:43
a venture capitalist uh for a period and
00:23:46
Lena Khan has essentially taken m&a off
00:23:49
the table um you well know that if we
00:23:52
can't get those singles and doubles in
00:23:53
the industry um it kind of freezes the
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industry and we have a problem with
00:23:58
returns which then is having creating a
00:24:00
a secondary order problem where we can't
00:24:02
get LPS to put more money into funds
00:24:04
because we're not getting those returns
00:24:06
what's the proper way to look at m&a
00:24:08
because you're you want to break up big
00:24:10
Tech from what I understand and you have
00:24:12
a major problem with big Tech you
00:24:14
mentioned little Tech what's the proper
00:24:17
m&a architecture you know to to balance
00:24:21
those two uh goals there yeah so this is
00:24:24
obviously very complicated like Jason
00:24:25
you probably understand this better than
00:24:26
I do but as as Somebody by the way who's
00:24:29
defended Lena Khan against some of her
00:24:31
critics from the right I think what Lena
00:24:33
Khan fundamentally gets correct is that
00:24:35
big Tech really is a threat it's a
00:24:37
threat to free speech it's increasing
00:24:39
oligarchic it controls too much of what
00:24:41
we're allowed to say and also it
00:24:43
controls a lot of the ways in which
00:24:44
capital gets invested in these various
00:24:46
ecosystems but where I think Len lenon
00:24:49
goes wrong is that you're exactly right
00:24:51
like you need the singles and doubles
00:24:53
you need sometimes a medium-sized
00:24:56
company to buy a smaller company for 300
00:24:58
millon
00:24:59
right that liquidates Founders that
00:25:00
gives the Venture fund some money to go
00:25:02
back into the system and I think that
00:25:04
you know not I don't know her super well
00:25:06
but my basic read on Lena is that she is
00:25:09
so anti-monopoly as sort of a baseline
00:25:12
bias and anti that becomes anti-g and
00:25:15
acquisition as a baseline bias that
00:25:17
Google buying YouTube is a much much
00:25:19
different thing from a$2 billion market
00:25:22
cap Healthcare company buying a $500
00:25:23
million Market healthare company and I
00:25:25
think that we have to sort of draw a
00:25:27
very big distinction between little
00:25:28
little Tech and big Tech and look I'm
00:25:30
going to keep on making that argument
00:25:31
both in public and private to Lena and
00:25:33
hopefully she comes around to rvw a
00:25:34
little bit because I do think some of
00:25:36
her ideas on big Tech are right I think
00:25:37
a good place for us to Pivot would be
00:25:39
the border and just talking about this
00:25:41
issue more from first principles when
00:25:43
President Trump came on the podcast we
00:25:45
talked about hey maybe really talented
00:25:48
people we should recruit them to our
00:25:50
country and give them green cards um but
00:25:52
very quickly um your group walked that
00:25:55
back a bit it's such a political hot
00:25:58
potato and it doesn't seem to me that it
00:26:00
needs to be but you spent a lot of time
00:26:01
in government now why can't politicians
00:26:05
just do what 80% of the country wants
00:26:07
which is allow very talented people into
00:26:10
the country close the border and make it
00:26:14
like a a more point-based system like
00:26:16
Canada Australia and everybody else like
00:26:18
why is this so weaponized by both of
00:26:22
your parties well I think the reason why
00:26:24
it's so difficult right now and I mean
00:26:25
look generally I agree that okay we're
00:26:27
going to let some immigrants in we want
00:26:30
them to be high Talent high quality
00:26:31
people you don't want to let a large
00:26:33
number of illegal aliens in obviously
00:26:34
that you know that that is that's
00:26:36
president Trump's view but I I think
00:26:38
that the reason why it's so broken down
00:26:40
right now is because you have 25 million
00:26:41
illegal aliens in this country and you
00:26:43
like you can't fix what I would call the
00:26:46
minor or sort of less important
00:26:48
immigration question until you fix the
00:26:51
real problem and part of that goes back
00:26:53
by the way to the way in which the
00:26:54
system got broken in the first place so
00:26:56
Ronald Reagan of course great governor
00:26:57
of California
00:26:58
a great president but Reagan did in 1986
00:27:02
a massive amnesty program where in some
00:27:04
ways he was trying to do exactly what
00:27:05
you're talking about fix the problem of
00:27:07
people who are already here make sure
00:27:09
that our immigration system is more
00:27:11
proskill but also close down the border
00:27:13
and what happened is we got all the
00:27:15
amnesty but we didn't get the closing
00:27:17
down of the border and so in order to do
00:27:20
anything I think meaningful on
00:27:21
immigration policy meaning legal
00:27:23
immigration policy you've got to close
00:27:25
down the border and establish some basic
00:27:27
order and and we go back to First
00:27:28
principles here I I think that people
00:27:31
who are generally I mean look this is
00:27:32
I'm sure a very diverse crowd and I'm
00:27:34
sure there are a lot of immigrants In
00:27:35
This Crowd legal immigrants uh hopefully
00:27:38
um I'm married to the daughter I'm
00:27:40
married to the daughter of legal
00:27:41
immigrants to this country and I of
00:27:43
course love not just my wife but the
00:27:45
whole extended family I do think they've
00:27:46
they brought a lot areal immigrants yeah
00:27:49
um and but but but here's the thing when
00:27:52
you allow 25 million people into this
00:27:54
country it breaks down the entire social
00:27:57
compact right so think about this okay
00:27:59
you're down on your luck you lost your
00:28:00
job you get unemployment insurance
00:28:02
you're really down on your luck you need
00:28:03
food assistance from the federal
00:28:05
government I believe as a conservative
00:28:08
that part of being in the same American
00:28:10
Family whether your family's been here
00:28:12
for a generation or 10 Generations is
00:28:14
that we support people who are down on
00:28:15
the luck we don't want a cradle to grave
00:28:17
welfare state but we want to support
00:28:19
people we don't want kids who are dying
00:28:21
because of starvation because of no
00:28:23
fault of their own we want to promote
00:28:25
some basic fairness and we want to help
00:28:28
people out when times get tough but you
00:28:30
can't do that if you extend that
00:28:32
generosity to tens of millions of people
00:28:34
who can't even be here in in the first
00:28:36
place and I think that what what kamla
00:28:38
Harris has done at the border it's not
00:28:40
just bad economically it's not just bad
00:28:42
for Public Safety she has eroded the
00:28:44
very foundation of the social contract
00:28:46
in this country and we talk about
00:28:48
division in our politics and kamla has
00:28:50
this ridiculous slogan we're not going
00:28:52
back the reason why politics is so
00:28:54
divided is because she has turned
00:28:56
American citizens against one another
00:28:58
while she's placed theit the the
00:29:00
interest of illegal aliens above
00:29:02
American citizens you want to turn the
00:29:04
page and get back to Common American
00:29:05
citizenship stop putting illegal aliens
00:29:08
to the front of the line of American
00:29:09
citizens is the
00:29:15
motivation do you do you believe the
00:29:17
motivation is endless empathy or is it
00:29:23
as simple as we want new Democratic
00:29:25
voters or is there a kind of not
00:29:29
publicly spoken about economic argument
00:29:31
about bringing wages down having
00:29:33
economic growth having new buyers in the
00:29:35
economy that there's some benefit
00:29:37
despite the1 to 600 billion and I'll add
00:29:39
another one guilt yeah it's the endless
00:29:42
empathy aspect yeah yeah I mean empathy
00:29:44
is different than guilt it's all of
00:29:46
these things right I mean so so let me
00:29:47
tell you a brief story and this goes
00:29:49
back to my my changing my mind on Donald
00:29:51
Trump I was probably it's probably 2017
00:29:53
2018 I was at a business conference and
00:29:55
I happened to be seated next to one of
00:29:57
the largest Hotel chain CEOs in America
00:29:59
and my wife was there and we talk about
00:30:01
this as the Monopoly story because the
00:30:03
guy is just going off maybe it had too
00:30:05
much to drink he's going off about how
00:30:07
Donald Trump's immigration policies have
00:30:09
for had forced him to raise the wages of
00:30:11
his workers and I was like oh that's an
00:30:13
interesting fact like explain more about
00:30:15
this sir please I W understand and he
00:30:17
said well because we can hire a lot of
00:30:20
immigrants and frankly we can hire a lot
00:30:21
of legal immigrants under the table and
00:30:23
we can't do that because there are fewer
00:30:25
legal immigrants so we have to pay our
00:30:26
American citizen workers more money and
00:30:28
I'm like oh that sounds pretty good
00:30:30
actually isn't that like what we want is
00:30:32
for people to be earning higher wages
00:30:34
for doing a good job so there's
00:30:36
definitely an economic piece of it but I
00:30:38
also think I mean look this is this is
00:30:40
chilled out a little bit partially
00:30:42
because we're in election year if KLA
00:30:43
Harris won I think it would come back
00:30:44
with a vengeance but think about all
00:30:46
these like ridiculous land
00:30:47
acknowledgements right where people say
00:30:49
well you know I want to acknowledge that
00:30:51
this be belonged to like this tribe
00:30:54
before I was here and if you genuinely
00:30:56
think that you have to acknowledge a
00:30:59
Native American tribe from 300 years ago
00:31:02
then one attitude that comes along with
00:31:03
this is why can I control it all who
00:31:06
comes into the country right I have no
00:31:07
right there's this basic I think this is
00:31:09
the empathy it's the guilt it's sort of
00:31:11
all these things but all structural
00:31:12
Norms degrade exactly I I have no right
00:31:15
to say who comes into my community and I
00:31:18
think again it's it's deranged but I
00:31:20
think that's part of it I think the
00:31:21
economic piece of it is part of it it's
00:31:23
certainly a vote argument I mean
00:31:24
Democrats will say this of course
00:31:25
Republicans are accused of racism for
00:31:28
just repeating what Democrats have said
00:31:30
when somebody like Chuck Schumer says
00:31:32
well you know we're going to have an
00:31:33
emerging Democratic majority because
00:31:35
we're going to have all these new
00:31:36
immigrants and all the old Americans
00:31:38
well they're going to vote for
00:31:39
Republicans but we're going to replace
00:31:41
them with a bunch of new people who vote
00:31:42
for Democrats it's like that's pretty
00:31:44
sick but again if you call it out you're
00:31:46
somehow a racist even though Chuck
00:31:48
Schumer is himself calling it out as if
00:31:50
it were a good thing so I just want to
00:31:51
ask on a different topic now thank you
00:31:54
for talking about the Border um can I
00:31:56
just have one final on this topic okay
00:31:57
goad is um your plan is to deport tens
00:32:01
of millions of these people tell us how
00:32:03
that will happen practically how are you
00:32:05
going to take million of people put them
00:32:07
in cuffs drag them out while people have
00:32:08
their cell phones out recording this or
00:32:10
is that just Trump being Trump well
00:32:13
Jason
00:32:14
it's I like it you like the balance in
00:32:17
the podcast yeah I do I do
00:32:24
though In fairness JD told me JD told me
00:32:28
ask the hard questions please I want to
00:32:29
address them head on you did say that
00:32:32
nothing's I think Jason should be on the
00:32:33
left and David should be on my right
00:32:35
appropriately where am I he's been
00:32:37
pulling me to the right I'll it's funny
00:32:40
he didn't have any of these hard
00:32:41
questions for Reed Hoffman I don't know
00:32:44
why
00:32:46
SX Jason wait do you want me to leave
00:32:49
the left and go to the
00:32:51
right I'm on the left right now but I
00:32:53
could go right okay yeah I guess it
00:32:55
depends on perspective my perspective
00:32:57
here
00:32:58
but you know Jason if if the if the VC
00:33:00
thing doesn't work out you'd make a
00:33:02
great panelist at CNN so back but I um
00:33:07
no I by the way I love this and I like I
00:33:11
I genuinely think like this is what a
00:33:13
person who wants to be your Vice
00:33:14
President should actually do is answer
00:33:16
some tough question I do give you credit
00:33:17
for that that you will face the hard
00:33:19
question so back to the question tell me
00:33:21
about dragging millions of people out of
00:33:23
the country Jason here here's why I find
00:33:24
this question a little off and I will
00:33:27
answer it but
00:33:28
it's like somebody who comes to me and
00:33:30
I'm like eating my lunch and they say
00:33:31
look that sandwich is 10 times the size
00:33:34
of your mouth how are you possibly going
00:33:35
to eat that whole sandwich and it's like
00:33:37
well I'm going to take a first bite and
00:33:39
then I'm going to take a second bite and
00:33:41
I'm going to take a third bite and
00:33:42
eventually the problem's going to be
00:33:43
look you start out with the million
00:33:45
people who are what we call criminal
00:33:47
migrants people who have committed
00:33:49
violent crimes in some form or another
00:33:50
get them out of our country yes handcuff
00:33:53
those people and force them out of the
00:33:54
country but you also do other things
00:33:56
simultaneously first of all you stop the
00:33:58
bleeding right you undo KLA Harris's
00:34:01
policies that open the southern Border
00:34:02
in the first place I've got a piece of
00:34:04
legislation in the United States Senate
00:34:06
uh that we've got a lot of colleagues
00:34:07
who have signed up for it which would
00:34:09
tax remittances right because we know a
00:34:11
lot of people are earning money and then
00:34:13
sending it back to Central America where
00:34:15
wherever they came from if you end that
00:34:17
practice then you have a lot of people
00:34:18
who go backck willingly I think you
00:34:19
ought to make it harder for people to
00:34:21
hire illegal labor as opposed to
00:34:23
American citizens you tick through these
00:34:25
things and I do think that you know
00:34:27
that's the sandwich approach to this is
00:34:29
you try to take it one step at a time
00:34:31
but the most important thing and I think
00:34:33
the deportation Focus again it is
00:34:35
important because we're eventually we
00:34:37
are going to deport people but the most
00:34:39
important thing is to stop the bleeding
00:34:41
you've got to stop the millions of
00:34:43
people flowing across the southern
00:34:44
border every single year it happened
00:34:46
because of KLA Harris's policies it's
00:34:48
going to stop when Donald Trump is
00:34:50
President let me ask a national security
00:34:52
question
00:34:53
yeah there's a lot of videos elon's gone
00:34:56
down there Bobby Kennedy has gone down
00:34:58
there you've gone down there sure and
00:35:00
the interdictions are not necessarily
00:35:02
coming from countries in Central and
00:35:04
South America anymore they're coming
00:35:05
from places in you know near around near
00:35:08
Asia and a lot of places that you
00:35:10
wouldn't normally think people coming
00:35:11
from Middle East Etc from a national
00:35:14
security perspective what do we think is
00:35:16
happening yeah why is that happening
00:35:18
yeah so well part of the reason it's
00:35:20
happening is it's not Hondurans
00:35:22
necessarily
00:35:23
it's it's Iranians it's it's people from
00:35:25
you know all over Asia Africa
00:35:28
look if if you look at
00:35:30
this that is the open door right so if
00:35:32
you want to come to this country that is
00:35:34
the open door and God knows why some of
00:35:35
them want to be here I mean you know
00:35:37
given what's going on in the Middle East
00:35:38
I do worry about military age males from
00:35:40
Iran coming into this country through
00:35:42
the American southern border um but you
00:35:44
know I actually asked a border patrol
00:35:46
agent about this uh on one of my visits
00:35:49
and you know great guy was actually kind
00:35:52
of heartbroken because he signed up to
00:35:54
protect his country and he's a
00:35:56
relatively recent immigrant I could tell
00:35:57
that that by his accent this guy's like
00:35:59
very nervous and very heartbroken about
00:36:01
the fact that he can't do his job and he
00:36:02
told me this story and I you know I feel
00:36:04
like an idiot in hindsight because he's
00:36:06
like we we have a guy who came in here I
00:36:08
asked the guy like you why do you think
00:36:09
this guy's Iranian and he said well
00:36:12
because he came through and he said that
00:36:13
he was Mexican and I was like well
00:36:15
couldn't he have been Mexican he said
00:36:16
well he didn't speak Spanish like oh
00:36:18
that's a tell you knowy Mexico legal
00:36:20
alien doesn't speak Spanish that's
00:36:22
that's probably a pretty significant
00:36:23
tell but it it's it's happening because
00:36:25
this is what KLA Harris has done she's
00:36:27
created this massive Gap in our national
00:36:30
security and people are taking advantage
00:36:31
of it it's really not that surprising J
00:36:33
let me just ask you um one more foreign
00:36:35
policy question um on China so there's a
00:36:38
balancing act with China but the
00:36:40
rhetoric is that's our enemy there's
00:36:42
going to be a cold war the CH the the
00:36:45
the the structural relationship that the
00:36:47
United States has with China is a very
00:36:50
kind of codependent relationship they
00:36:52
buy our bonds I guess they're selling
00:36:53
them off now uh we we buy a lot of
00:36:55
product from them it allows us to go
00:36:57
into a Walmart and get you know $40
00:37:00
scooters for our kids or $20 scooters
00:37:02
for our kids the technology industry is
00:37:05
deeply dependent on a supply chain
00:37:06
coming from China there's a great
00:37:08
commercial interdependency with China
00:37:10
they have historically been a very
00:37:12
important partner to the United States
00:37:14
in our economic prosperity and I know
00:37:16
the argument about hollowing out the
00:37:17
middle class and so on because of moving
00:37:20
everything offshore to China but you how
00:37:22
do we rip that Band-Aid off and not
00:37:25
cause massive problems with INF
00:37:28
how do we not um you know Drive the cost
00:37:31
of everything up by taring things that
00:37:33
are coming in from China what's the the
00:37:35
way forward with China is it necessarily
00:37:38
A deeply kind of divisive cold war or is
00:37:41
there a path here that allows us to
00:37:43
maintain a balanced trading relationship
00:37:46
and and kind of a peaceful transition
00:37:48
with with China as they continue to to
00:37:51
build up their kind of capabilities
00:37:52
economically and um with energy which I
00:37:54
think is one of the biggest drivers for
00:37:56
their success well so so there's a lot
00:37:57
there and let me try to sort of take a
00:37:59
few pieces of it cuz I know we're
00:38:00
relatively short on time so so number
00:38:02
one is the energy piece of it's is very
00:38:03
important part of the way that you
00:38:04
reshore American manufacturing is that
00:38:06
you open up American Energy it matters
00:38:08
for crypto it matters for AI you've got
00:38:10
to open up American energy or you're
00:38:12
never going to have whether it's the
00:38:14
next generation of manufactured goods or
00:38:16
the past Generations you've got to open
00:38:17
up American Energy okay that's number
00:38:19
one number two is look I I don't want to
00:38:21
go to war with China I think it would be
00:38:22
hugely destructive but I do think that
00:38:24
we have to reshore more American
00:38:26
manufacturing and you one of the weird
00:38:28
things about China if you think about
00:38:30
past eras of developing nations right so
00:38:33
go back to like when the UK was the most
00:38:35
advanced economy in the world and
00:38:36
America was a developing Nation well one
00:38:39
of the things that happened is that like
00:38:40
Capital was flowing from the UK into the
00:38:43
United States right from the developed
00:38:45
into the developing Nation what's really
00:38:47
weird about China is that it's like
00:38:50
Americans borrow money from Chinese
00:38:52
peasants to then buy the things the
00:38:54
Chinese peasants are making for us right
00:38:56
so it's not just the the goods flow
00:38:58
that's jacked up it's the capital flows
00:39:00
that are jacked up and I really think
00:39:02
that the next you know Donald Trump is
00:39:03
going to be the next president of United
00:39:05
States and this is something we're going
00:39:05
to have to figure out is that you need
00:39:07
to balance both the capital and the
00:39:09
goods flows okay I'm not saying we're
00:39:11
going to have absolutely no trade with
00:39:13
China but right now the relationship is
00:39:16
fundamentally that the Chinese have
00:39:17
figured out they can create a massively
00:39:20
powerful producer Society while America
00:39:23
becomes a weaker weaker consumerist
00:39:25
society that is the broken nature of the
00:39:27
relationship and I think rebalancing is
00:39:29
the right way to think about it but we
00:39:30
have got to do it and I think we're way
00:39:32
way behind the you maybe final question
00:39:34
but you said something which I thought
00:39:35
was incredibly well said so I just want
00:39:37
to repeat it when us growth is 1 and 2%
00:39:40
everybody's fighting exactly but when us
00:39:42
growth is 4 to 5% everybody prospers
00:39:45
yeah can you walk us through just how
00:39:46
you think about how we get that extra
00:39:48
two or 300 basis points of growth and
00:39:50
where you need to have less regulation
00:39:52
so that you can have more
00:39:53
entrepreneurship or more regulation to
00:39:55
kind of constrain folks how do you think
00:39:57
for that energy sector yeah I mean I I I
00:40:00
really do think that we have to
00:40:01
recognize that we have massively
00:40:06
overregulation Transportation
00:40:08
over-regulated energy over-regulated
00:40:10
home construction uh I don't know that
00:40:12
it's I don't know how easy it is to get
00:40:14
another 300 bips of growth but I think
00:40:16
you can get a lot more growth whether
00:40:18
it's 300 or 150 just by massively
00:40:21
reducing the amount of regulatory burden
00:40:23
in the real economy and again I I'm an
00:40:25
optimist I'm fundamentally an optimist
00:40:27
on both you know crypto blockchain web 3
00:40:31
stuff but also on AI and you know the
00:40:34
way out of this may very well be to
00:40:37
radically open up the way the
00:40:39
technological innovation drives things
00:40:41
in the United States and and just on
00:40:43
this point about China uh I don't know
00:40:45
how much time we're we have I'll try to
00:40:47
be quick about this one of the things
00:40:48
that Bob lik you need okay more about
00:40:51
you all right well I'm a politician so
00:40:53
uh Buckle in we're going to be here for
00:40:55
three hours L but
00:40:57
um one of the real conceits of the 30
00:41:01
years of globalization that I think was
00:41:03
really really deranged and hindsight
00:41:04
very wrong Bob leiser who is Trump's
00:41:06
trade representative talks a lot about
00:41:08
this is we had this conceit that we
00:41:09
could separate the manufacturer of
00:41:12
things from the design of things right
00:41:13
so if you get an iPhone right now and
00:41:15
you get it out of the box you will see
00:41:17
that it says designed in Cupertino
00:41:19
California of course the implication is
00:41:21
that it's manufactured in chinen or
00:41:23
wherever they're manufacturing iPhones
00:41:24
these days that that the idea that the
00:41:26
iPhone designed in Cupertino is
00:41:29
increasingly no longer even true right
00:41:31
it's something that we lie to ourselves
00:41:32
about because the people who are doing
00:41:34
all the manufacturing of the hardware of
00:41:36
the iPhone are getting much better at
00:41:38
design and Innovation and part of the
00:41:40
reason why I care so much about this
00:41:41
manufacturing thing is whether it's
00:41:42
antibiotics for example why why haven't
00:41:45
why hasn't America invented an
00:41:46
antibiotic in 30 years it probably has
00:41:48
something to do with the manufacturer of
00:41:49
antibiotics has done almost entirely in
00:41:52
very lowcost manufacturing areas you can
00:41:54
go through a whole host of goods like
00:41:56
this but if you want to build a high
00:41:59
tech High Dynamic growth economy you
00:42:02
have to have some native manufacturing
00:42:06
and some self-reliance and so these two
00:42:08
things are very related and I think it's
00:42:10
a big part of getting back to four or 5%
00:42:12
growth is accepting that yes we're going
00:42:14
to have trade but we can't let everybody
00:42:16
make all of our stuff SX yeah let me a
00:42:18
question for you yeah
00:42:20
well I want to I want to wrap this up
00:42:23
because I think we're we're basically at
00:42:24
Time by um by just observing that both
00:42:28
Donald Trump and JD Vance have been on
00:42:30
this podcast and it's not because I'm a
00:42:32
crazy right-winger it's because we
00:42:35
invited them just because not just
00:42:36
because
00:42:39
um it's it's because we invited them and
00:42:42
they accepted we have similarly invited
00:42:45
KLA Harris and Tim Waltz to and before
00:42:48
that but he
00:42:53
forgot so we're We're still wai he said
00:42:56
yes forgot
00:42:58
he lost the he lost the zoom
00:43:00
link so we we want to re to be on this
00:43:03
call yeah we want to re extend the
00:43:05
invitation yes to KLA Harris and Tim
00:43:08
Waltz you're welcome to come on the
00:43:10
podcast at any time and the format will
00:43:12
be similar yeah and I just want to say
00:43:14
JD I think your answers were fantastic
00:43:16
here today and I I really do appreciate
00:43:17
you coming on and answering these
00:43:19
questions very thoughtfully and you know
00:43:22
from my perspective when I heard that
00:43:24
you were announced as the VP I thought
00:43:26
well this is great a young person um
00:43:28
who's got a lot of experience in venture
00:43:30
capital and Building Things in the world
00:43:33
and somebody who comes from humble
00:43:34
beginnings like the four of us um and
00:43:37
believes that a meritocracy where people
00:43:39
work hard and get reward for it so you
00:43:41
check all my boxes in that way and I
00:43:44
really think I feel much better you know
00:43:47
have my issues with your boss but um
00:43:51
when you talk about you know the
00:43:53
bite-size you know steps to it you know
00:43:56
I think one frame work to look at your
00:43:57
relationship with Trump is he says
00:43:59
things you know at the top of the the
00:44:01
highest vibration we're going to deport
00:44:02
20 million people and then you have a
00:44:04
very practical approach 60% tffs makes
00:44:06
no sense but hey we've got to rebalance
00:44:08
this and so I really do like your
00:44:10
measured approach to this and I think
00:44:11
that you're a great counterbalance and I
00:44:13
think we understand why he picked it I I
00:44:14
want to say one thing
00:44:17
um
00:44:22
thanks and this is not really related to
00:44:24
anything except that you are not
00:44:26
supposed to be here that's exactly right
00:44:29
yeah and that is really inspiring to
00:44:31
other people who were not supposed to be
00:44:33
here thank you well yeah I appr and if
00:44:35
you haven't read JD's book I read your
00:44:38
book long before all of this and I just
00:44:40
want to say your book was so inspiring
00:44:42
and I I have recommended it long before
00:44:44
today to you know literally hundreds of
00:44:47
people it's a fantastic read if you
00:44:49
haven't read it well and by the way
00:44:51
available wherever books are
00:44:53
sold you're like Jak out exactly do you
00:44:57
have an affiliate 529 account for the
00:44:59
kids let I just just just two things
00:45:03
first of all Jason I I appreciate what
00:45:06
you said but I also just want to defend
00:45:08
uh my my running mate here because I
00:45:09
think that again the media doesn't often
00:45:12
tell you the truth about Donald Trump
00:45:13
Donald Trump cares more about the
00:45:14
details of public policy than almost
00:45:16
anyone I've ever met in public life
00:45:18
that's actually real he thinks about how
00:45:20
this stuff affects the real economy and
00:45:22
Real Americans so if you're on the fence
00:45:25
whether you like what I said or dislike
00:45:26
what I said I just encourage you listen
00:45:29
to what he actually says because I think
00:45:30
that you'll become a believer that he
00:45:32
can make the country great again as he
00:45:34
promises uh but but but separate from
00:45:36
that I just want to say this is such an
00:45:39
important conversation and you guys hold
00:45:41
and host important conversations every
00:45:43
single day we should do more of it as a
00:45:45
country but I'm glad to participate
00:45:46
today God bless everyone thank you
00:45:47
ladies and gentlemen JD
00:45:50
[Music]
00:45:53
Vince that's great
00:45:55
[Applause]