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out today. Hello,

1:10

America and happy Thursday. We've got a

1:12

great show for you today, but

1:14

first a little breaking news, something that we

1:16

broke here at Just the News a little

1:18

bit ago. Always excited when we

1:20

have stories that others don't have

1:23

that move the ball forward. There's a

1:25

lot of concern, as you know, about

1:27

different people who have stood up to

1:29

tell the truth about the Biden family

1:31

or Biden issues, Biden Justice Department issues.

1:33

There are the FBI agents who were

1:36

punished or had their security clearances

1:38

revoke which meant they couldn't do the job, which means

1:40

the FBI stopped paying them and they're stuck in limbo.

1:42

There's at least four of them, I think, that we've

1:44

talked about on the show. There are

1:46

the IRS agents that we recently reported. There's

1:48

indications that they're being subjected to a criminal investigation,

1:51

though there's no evidence they did anything wrong. They

1:53

follow the law by blowing the whistle, right? Then

1:56

there are other folks that keep cropping up

1:58

and there is a new. example

2:01

again this week. Jim Jordan, chairman of the

2:03

House Judiciary Committee, today

2:05

announced, we broke this story, that

2:08

his committee is moving forward and

2:10

investigating allegations that one of

2:12

the key impeachment witnesses, one of the partners

2:14

of Hunter Biden, who testified if he remembers

2:16

through prison, remember he was in prison, he

2:18

came in via videotape, he gave very damaging

2:21

testimony that Jason Galanis, in fact,

2:23

may have been facing retaliation because

2:25

he was trying to cooperate

2:27

with the impeachment probe and

2:30

the Biden Justice Department apparently didn't like it,

2:32

according to three new letters, not one,

2:34

not two, but three letters that have gone

2:36

back and forth between Jim Jordan

2:38

and the prison system, the federal

2:40

prison system, where Jason Galanis is

2:43

serving time for a tribal bond

2:45

fraud scheme. There is a

2:47

belief that he was cleared to go

2:49

to home release. He had served enough

2:52

time and had gone to home release,

2:54

but then the home release was allegedly

2:56

canceled by the Biden Justice Department, keeping

2:58

him in the federal pen. According

3:01

to this letter, Galanis had been approved for home

3:03

confinement under the CARES Act. A lot of

3:05

prisoners during the time frame had been, but

3:07

now they believe, and Jim Jordan used the

3:10

word along with other folks, that

3:12

this was disturbing in some way. In fact, Mark

3:14

Pailetta, the lawyer for Jason Galanis, who gave us

3:16

an interview, said, it is deserving how Mr. Galanis

3:18

has been treated in both of these matters and

3:20

I hope the committee obtains from the Bureau of

3:22

Prison all the information and answers it

3:24

has requested. Very

3:26

important stuff. We'll keep you posted on that, but

3:29

while keeping an eye on that very, very closely.

3:31

All right, as I said to you, we've got

3:33

a really good show for you today, and I'm

3:36

going to delve into a lot of issues kicking

3:38

our show off today is one of the more

3:40

consequential and influential members of the United States Senate.

3:42

I can't tell you the number of times I'm

3:44

watching the Senate floor and there's a proposal by

3:47

Senator Marsha Blackburn. She's on the front lines

3:49

of so many concepts, so many ideas, so

3:51

many solutions. Not afraid to

3:53

call out wrongdoing, not afraid to

3:56

suggest solutions, not afraid to buck

3:58

the establishment. Senator Marsha Blackburn. from

4:00

the great state of Tennessee is going to join

4:02

us here. She's got a big piece of legislation

4:05

zeroing in on just how to solve this problem

4:07

on college campuses. I think the third of the

4:09

three ideas in this legislation, I'm gonna tell you

4:11

why I think it's gonna work. But one of

4:13

them is if you're a foreign

4:16

student here on a State Department visa and you're

4:18

on these protests, you should be kicked out of

4:20

media. Your visa should be revoked, that's pretty easy.

4:23

If you're an American student and you're

4:25

chanting I am Hamas, death to Israelis,

4:27

death to America, you should lose your

4:30

federal backing for your student loans. This

4:32

is according to Senator Blackburn. And if you're

4:35

an American student and you

4:37

admit the standard for saying I'm a terrorist,

4:39

well take you out your word and put

4:41

you on the no fly list, which means

4:43

you can't fly anymore. Imagine when college students

4:45

find out that yelling I am Hamas might keep

4:47

them from going on spring break to one of

4:49

those crazy places like Miami Beach. I

4:52

bet you that'll cure this more than anything.

4:54

Senator Blackburn at the top of the show

4:56

is gonna give us a good spin on

4:58

what's going on with so many of the

5:00

things she's working on. There's other things related

5:02

to the census and making sure that illegal

5:04

aliens don't benefit the states that take them,

5:06

the sanctuary states, the sanctuary cities. Those are

5:08

all very, very important things. Now it's Thursday,

5:11

normally we do AMAC on Wednesday. We have

5:13

AMAC Wednesdays. Schedules didn't work last day, so

5:15

we're gonna declare today AMAC Thursday, Bobby Charles

5:17

here in the House to talk about all

5:19

that's going on in Congress, all that's going

5:21

on between the United States and Israel. A

5:24

lot of stuff, Joe Biden last night saying

5:26

I'm gonna withhold weapons from

5:28

Israel even though Congress paid for them, I asked for

5:30

them to do it. I got the bipartisan deal, I

5:32

may withhold weapons from Israel if they go attack. Well,

5:35

a lot of people aren't happy with that.

5:37

Bobby Charles, former assistant secretary of state knows

5:39

a lot about diplomacy, about our relationship with

5:41

Israel, he's currently the national spokesman for AMAC.

5:43

He'll join us in the second block. And

5:46

then Patrick Hedger, one of the great

5:48

experts on the IRS and tax code, he has

5:50

a lot to say, man, we all have a

5:52

lot to say about the IRS wanting to spend

5:54

or get another $100 billion of money on

5:57

top of everything else they've gotten from Congress. money

6:00

to pursue little guys in this country. Patrick,

6:02

you're going to break that down for us in the third

6:04

block. We got a really good show for you today. Three

6:06

very important issues, three big newsmakers

6:08

like we often have on this show.

6:11

Really excited for that. Now before we

6:13

go to commercial break, because it is

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6:44

All right. We're going to take a quick commercial

6:46

break. When we come back, Senator Marshall Blackman spent

6:48

some great time with Amanda and I yesterday. We're

6:50

going to play that first in the opening block

6:52

followed by Bobby Charles and a Mac Thursday. And

6:54

we'll finish up with Patrick Kedger. What a great

6:56

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home. Marshall

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Blackburn recently co-authored a letter that was sent

9:21

to the Department of Health and Human Services

9:23

Secretary Xavier Bazziere where they openly rejected the

9:25

Biden administration's new rule allowing illegal immigrants who

9:28

are currently protected by DACA to a health

9:30

cover. So in addition to doing all this

9:32

great work on campus stuff, we're gonna get

9:34

to that in a second. She's also working

9:37

very quickly to address the idea that DACA

9:39

recipients are going to get government health

9:42

care. Just think about that. A lot of people are

9:44

very upset about that. All right, we're gonna bring in

9:46

Senator Blackburn right now. Senator, great to have you back

9:48

on the show as always. Thanks. Good to

9:50

join you. I want to start off with something

9:52

that's getting a lot of buzz today in social

9:54

media. People been looking for solutions. What do we

9:56

do with these violent extremists that have been on

9:58

these campuses? You have... a new legislation that

10:01

would require the State

10:03

Department to revoke the

10:05

visas and get rid of foreign students who might

10:08

be involved in this. Tell us a little bit

10:10

about the No Flights for Terrorists Act. Yes,

10:13

and I have put forward some

10:15

solutions, things that I think would work

10:17

in some of my colleagues, Marco

10:19

Rubio, Roger Marshall, Tim

10:22

Scott, who joined me in these

10:24

efforts. If you are here, if

10:26

you are a foreign student and

10:29

you are on a student visa

10:31

and you are protesting against the

10:33

United States, shouting death

10:35

to Israel, death to America,

10:38

I am Hamas, we are Hamas,

10:41

your student visa should be

10:43

revoked immediately, you should be

10:46

deported and barred from

10:48

reentry into the country. If

10:50

you are an American student and

10:53

you are out there

10:55

protesting in the same manner,

10:58

then you should lose

11:00

access to your federal

11:02

student loans. And no student

11:05

loans to these individuals who

11:07

are protesting against the country

11:09

should be allowed to be

11:11

forgiven as a Biden administration

11:14

is out there trying to

11:16

forgive everybody's loans. And

11:19

then if you are out there

11:22

protesting against the country, you should

11:24

be added to the terrorist watch

11:26

list and the No

11:28

Fly list. You know, John, I believe

11:31

if somebody tells you they are a

11:33

terrorist, we should believe them. And put

11:35

their masks on the terrorist

11:37

watch list, add them to the

11:40

No Fly list so that

11:42

they are grounded, that they are not going to be

11:44

able to move around and spread their hate. Senator,

11:46

I have to tell you, a reader actually texted me

11:48

from Justin Hughes after I saw your legislation to say

11:50

this is going to be the most effective thing the

11:52

second students realize they can't go on spring break. They

11:54

are going to stop protesting right away. So you got

11:56

a lot of fans out there. Parting

12:00

comes first for a lot of these people.

12:03

Senator, you have a lot of

12:05

beats, but one beat that seems to

12:07

be of particular passion and

12:09

interest to you is protecting children,

12:12

particularly within the big tech space.

12:14

And the need for the report act, which is

12:16

already, this is your bill, already passed in the

12:19

House. It requires big tech

12:21

companies to report different types of child

12:23

exploitation. So being trafficked, groomed, enticed by

12:25

predators. I guess that the fact that

12:27

this bill is needed means that they

12:30

are not reporting. Wouldn't they already have at

12:32

least a moral, if not a legal obligation

12:34

to report this? It's a crime, it's a federal

12:36

crime. Yes, it is

12:38

a federal crime. And Amanda, you're pointing up

12:41

something very, very specific. In

12:43

the physical world, pedophiles who

12:46

are transferring

12:48

information, promoting child

12:50

sexual abuse material.

12:53

People that are trying to take kids

12:55

into strip clubs. And

12:59

places like that, there was against that

13:02

in the virtual space. We

13:04

had a law that requires

13:07

reporting the child sexual

13:09

abuse material. Not

13:12

always did these platforms move

13:14

forward with that. So we have

13:17

strengthened that law and expanded it

13:19

so that it now includes

13:22

exploitative material. So

13:24

that you can get these pedophiles

13:27

and these predators that are grooming

13:29

children. And that

13:32

are moving this exploitative

13:34

material around the internet. Trafficking

13:37

children. That all of

13:39

that is a must

13:41

be reported to the NICNIC,

13:45

National Center for Missing and Exported

13:47

Children to their tip line, their cyber

13:49

tip line. So it is a must.

13:53

Then we allow this

13:55

information to be transferred by

13:57

the cloud. So that you. and

14:00

electronically transfer all

14:02

of this information to NITNIC,

14:05

to law enforcement, to prosecutors,

14:07

to judges, so that we

14:09

can get these individuals into

14:11

court, get them convicted, get

14:13

them locked up and make

14:16

certain they never touch our

14:18

computer again. Likewise, we

14:21

allow NITNIC to hold this

14:23

information, not any day, but

14:25

a year. So

14:27

they take time to hold

14:29

this and get these cases

14:31

into court. Amazing.

14:33

Important stuff for generations

14:36

of children to come. So important. Senator,

14:38

I want to talk about a letter you co-authored

14:40

and sent to the Health and Human Services Secretary,

14:42

Visera. Challenging the Biden

14:45

administration as to whether it's going to allow

14:47

taxpayer money to be spent to give health

14:49

coverage to illegal immigrants who came in or

14:51

are protected by DACA. How important is this?

14:53

It seems this is very popular with the

14:55

American people blocking this, correct? Oh,

14:58

indeed. I mean, we have so

15:01

many people. Our veterans can't

15:03

get health care. You have

15:05

100-day wait list. And

15:07

now we find out that Biden

15:09

is going to do an executive

15:11

order, not coming through Congress, by

15:13

the way, but for all

15:16

DACA individuals, he

15:18

is planning to come up

15:20

with some way for them

15:22

to identify themselves and get

15:24

access to free health

15:27

care through Obamacare, which

15:29

means there's going to

15:31

be taxpayer subsidies into

15:33

this job. This is one of those things

15:35

you just go, you've got to be kidding

15:37

me. There's something about bringing

15:40

Palestinian refugees in

15:43

and giving them benefits

15:45

and work permits. And

15:47

they have already abused the parole

15:49

system. As you know, Obama and

15:52

Trump would parole about 5,600 people

15:54

a year in the country. That

15:58

is a niche for the people. people

16:00

that must leave their

16:02

country here, staying. By

16:05

the payroll status to 800,000 in

16:08

2022 and 1.2 million in 2023. And these are people

16:11

that are getting benefits and work

16:18

permits. And it is

16:20

something we're saying, wait

16:22

a minute, you're talking

16:24

about the hard working

16:26

U.S. taxpayer, they're overtaxed,

16:28

they're overworked and they're

16:30

underpaid. And

16:34

now you want them to pay

16:37

for DACA recipients to get free

16:39

health care. And this taxpayer is

16:43

having to pay for their health coverage. And

16:46

now you want them to pay for those

16:48

that are illegally in the country. Yeah.

16:51

Unbelievable. Amazing. I

16:53

know that Biden's chief economist thinks that

16:56

we can just print money, even though

16:58

we are reaching another trillion dollars every

17:00

what, three months. Do

17:02

we know how much this would actually cost

17:04

though? Because I feel like that's something that

17:07

would really make an impression on the American people. Well,

17:11

you know, according to Jared Bernstein,

17:13

who is an economic advisor who

17:15

has no background in

17:18

death, we just, when we need money,

17:20

when we've spent money, we print money

17:23

and then we have people that buy

17:25

our debt. And, you know, because

17:28

of that, he thinks we can

17:30

just go print money and not

17:32

suffer the consequences. This nation is

17:34

pretty... Oh, you know, our

17:37

debt is something that affects our

17:39

national security. You have to look

17:41

at it, who goes to

17:43

the debt market and buys our

17:46

publicly traded debt. China

17:48

is one of the top companies.

17:50

The OPEC nations together, they're

17:52

one of the top countries

17:54

that are buying this debt.

17:57

It is imperative that we start to pay attention.

18:00

to this, we don't have

18:02

money to be giving healthcare

18:04

benefits to people that have illegally

18:06

entered the country. That's

18:09

so true. Senator,

18:11

you are a relentless defender of our

18:13

most important ally in the Middle East,

18:15

Israel. There's been a lot of difficult

18:17

moments in the U.S. relationship with Israel

18:20

because of the Biden administration's policy withholding

18:22

ammunition openly yesterday, threatening to keep

18:24

back some of the money that Congress

18:26

just appropriated. And on Friday, it may

18:28

be possible that the U.N. General Assembly

18:31

gives a Palestinian state the benefits of

18:33

U.N. membership. How damaging are all of

18:35

these moves in the last week? They

18:38

are very damaging. Bob

18:40

Gates said it well. Joe Biden's been

18:43

wrong on every

18:45

major foreign policy issue over the

18:47

last 40 years. We

18:50

all know that. His judgment

18:53

on foreign policy is not there. He

18:55

is an appeaser. He

18:58

does not understand peace through

19:00

strength and he does not

19:02

appreciate the work that the U.S. military

19:05

does in defending our country and

19:07

the importance of our

19:09

allies, knowing they're an ally

19:11

and our enemies fearing us.

19:14

And what we have to do

19:16

is realize, you know, John, I went to

19:19

the floor more than once to the floor more

19:21

than once to try to push for us to

19:23

send Israel their aid

19:25

without any attachments,

19:27

without conditioning that.

19:30

They needed $17.6 billion, give them $17.6 million

19:32

in aid. Democrats

19:37

repeatedly blocked those attempts.

19:41

And then they conditioned the

19:43

aid and then they won't

19:45

send forward what has been voted

19:47

to go to Israel. It is a standing.

19:51

Yeah, it really is remarkable.

19:53

Yeah, but I

19:55

mean, if we've learned anything, it's that even bad foreign

19:58

policy, if your last name is Biden, can prove it.

20:00

to be pretty lucrative. I wanted

20:02

to ask you though about Biden, how he

20:04

toes the line with the people who he

20:06

has to have their support from the young

20:09

community who are protesters within these Palestinian protests.

20:11

How does he toe that line? I

20:14

don't know. You know, it's been so interesting

20:17

to me to see these protests. They are

20:19

not for the president. They are not for

20:22

Israel. And these

20:24

agitators who are

20:27

professionals and we

20:29

find out that Popular

20:31

Front for Liberation of Palestine,

20:34

a terrorist connected organization, groups

20:40

training them on how to

20:42

carry on a protest, how to

20:44

do an encampment and

20:46

how to make demands. This should

20:48

be a plane to every parent who

20:51

has a college student. Of what their

20:53

students must be

20:55

exposed to. Parents, we need to

20:58

be talking to their kids because

21:00

I'm telling you, right? We're interviewing

21:02

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right folks, welcome back to the

24:07

commercial break. An extraordinary week thus

24:09

far, even though we're only into

24:11

Thursday, whether it's the developments on

24:13

the Israel-Gaza War, whether it's the

24:15

developments on the college campuses, whether

24:18

it is the recognition that

24:20

Congress now understands that the

24:23

illegal immigration surge that

24:25

Joe Biden unleashed is actually designed to

24:27

just hijack the census, which yesterday there

24:29

was a major vote in Congress to

24:31

reverse that. The world feels

24:33

a little chaotic. Actually living in America

24:36

feels chaotic. I've had more people come up to me

24:38

in the last year and say, is

24:40

this really the America we want to be? I

24:42

have the perfect person to address that question. Now,

24:44

why we're all feeling that way? Why does it

24:46

feel so visceral to us right now? He

24:49

has been in public service for a very long

24:51

time today. He's the national spokesman for one of

24:53

my favorite groups, AMAC, before that, an

24:55

assistant secretary of state, a chief

24:57

investigator for the House Oversight Committee, a

24:59

clerk for an Federal Appeals Court. He

25:02

is our good friend, Bobby Charles, and it

25:04

is AMAC Thursday. We moved it a day

25:06

this week, but that's because it's always worth having

25:09

Bobby on. Bobby, welcome back to the show. John,

25:11

it's always fun to be on your field. I

25:14

have so much fun. I look forward to this conversation. You

25:16

know that we talk offline and I always get geared up

25:18

when I know you're coming on. I

25:21

want to start with what

25:24

has continued to transpire on

25:26

college campuses. Americans

25:28

are tired of it. They repudiate

25:30

the protesters. They repudiate the

25:33

mindset of the protesters. They repudiate the

25:36

college campuses who failed to get a hold on it.

25:38

They applaud those who did get a hold on it

25:40

quickly, like Emory

25:42

or some of the SEC schools. I

25:46

think we're still reckoning with who are

25:48

these monsters that look like our kids

25:50

but are saying things that are downright

25:52

un-American. Yeah, you know

25:54

you're right. The last thing we need

25:56

in America is the import of Middle

25:58

Eastern violence. There

26:00

are certainly forces behind these students that

26:02

are, you know, these are the students,

26:04

the same students that are waiting for

26:06

their get out of free jail card

26:08

and their loan forgiveness checks. They're

26:11

not bankrupting all these tents and all these

26:13

big powerful flashlights in plywood. And

26:15

by the way, all identical campus to campus.

26:18

Now this is a force of

26:20

chaos at work in the country driven,

26:22

no doubt, with enthusiasm by some forces outside

26:25

the country. But there's, you know, one

26:27

of the most telling signs, and I

26:29

so I went to Columbia Law School

26:31

and I am I am more than

26:33

disappointed. I'm disgraced by the way

26:35

that they have handled their

26:37

operations and how they've both Columbia and

26:40

Columbia Law School, which are co located

26:42

different sides of the of the road.

26:45

But they how they've handled

26:47

this because I mean, when you can allow

26:49

student groups to get up and say openly

26:51

that Jews are not safe on this campus,

26:54

what is going on in your head? Have

26:57

you not understood history? Do you not understand

26:59

the Constitution? Do you not understand case law?

27:01

This is the Columbia Law School. I mean,

27:03

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, then, who taught there one

27:05

just before I was there, wouldn't be safe

27:07

there. That's so true. Yeah, you

27:09

have to take that they're digestive because it's

27:11

so profound, but it's so true. And it's

27:13

and it's so anti American

27:16

to say such a thing. I mean,

27:18

that's it. That's a law school that generated

27:20

three chief justices of the Supreme Court. And

27:22

you have students now trained there and faculty

27:24

who seem to be complicit, who think that

27:26

it's okay to take a group of

27:29

students. And by the way, you know, a

27:31

large chunk of students there, it's right in the middle of New York

27:33

City are Jewish. So you're saying

27:35

you're not welcome here. What are

27:37

you saying? I mean, that that that is

27:39

so anti American. And then yesterday, John, I

27:41

was on Harvard's campus and I walked around

27:43

that campus. And

27:45

they've turned it into a giant homeless shelter.

27:48

I mean, the middle of Harvard Yard looks

27:50

like the kind of thing you'd see in

27:52

downtown San Francisco. And so

27:54

where's the administration there saying, no, we have

27:56

a mission here and our mission is education

27:58

and we don't allow. you want to walk

28:00

around with some signs out on the street there did

28:02

do it but don't that's free speech you know i

28:05

i i'm gonna come back to one last thing here

28:07

john and that is that it

28:09

not only is civil

28:11

disobedience not protected by

28:13

the first amendment you you have consequences because

28:15

you're breaking the law were a place of

28:17

rule of law where land of laws you

28:20

you understand that you will be punished if

28:22

you do that but civil unrest that is

28:25

literally uncivil disobedience is

28:27

even is even more

28:29

unprotected in that if you commit

28:31

crimes and we've had them on the campuses

28:33

now just not just a trespass but a

28:35

threatening of assault you can go

28:37

to prison okay that's the way this country

28:39

is supposed to work and then if you

28:41

back up one more step case

28:44

law like pinca v d'amoy and there's

28:46

several other cases after that nineteen sixty

28:48

nine case say that if there's even

28:50

a forecast of disruption on

28:52

a campus or if there's substantial disruption

28:54

of the educational mission law enforcement absolutely

28:57

can come in and take people out

28:59

so what happened at ucl a what

29:01

happened in new york what happened in

29:03

in in texas what happened at harvard

29:06

you know that the interesting part about this is

29:08

looking at the rest records john of those just

29:10

take new york fifty percent of them it's true

29:12

all over the country by the way are

29:14

not pulled up in l.a. or d.c.

29:16

yeah yeah their professional rabble

29:19

rousers being paid by somebody to go

29:21

stir unrest you got that so

29:23

right so amazing um... i

29:26

want to lean into this idea cuz every so

29:28

often you see a dynamic and you say this

29:30

is a political boomerang it started in one direction

29:32

it's coming back and it's gonna hit the person

29:35

that started it and um...

29:37

joe biden picked a fight two years

29:39

ago with the red wall speech saying

29:41

republicans are the extremist democracy that threat

29:43

because of republicans and now people

29:45

are looking out and saying well it's the liberals

29:47

that forced the cancellation i can't ask i

29:49

spent a hundred and eighty thousand dollars sitting my kid

29:51

to college i can't go to the graduation cuz they

29:54

canceled it uh... i can't go out

29:56

the streets at night because you get assaulted by

29:58

protesters i can't go to class tomorrow because

30:01

the campus went to remote learning because

30:03

of the violence. They look around and

30:05

then now say, hey wait a second,

30:07

the extremists look like the guys

30:09

that Joe Biden's hanging out with. Joe Biden and his team

30:11

are the extremists. Has the extremism

30:14

issue, has the democracy and jeopardy

30:18

dynamic maybe begun

30:20

a boomerang on liberals? I think

30:22

it has and I think that's a through theme, John,

30:24

that any of your listeners and any of us looking

30:26

around at the world are going to see more and

30:28

more. What that crowd

30:30

has self-defined as is

30:33

a group of extremists. They do

30:35

not comport with basic American values,

30:37

whether you're opening up the border,

30:39

whether you're driving debt sky-high and

30:41

causing people to be unable to

30:43

afford housing, unable to afford their

30:45

groceries, whether you're abandoning

30:47

allies abroad, whether you're, and I

30:50

say that with a broad brush, not just Israel

30:53

but Afghanistan. We left a hundred thousand

30:55

allies who had helped us in there

30:57

and the Taliban has been chasing them

31:00

down and killing them ever since. I'm

31:02

in contact with some of those families.

31:04

It is absolutely horrifying. It's anti-American and

31:07

then the extremism of everything

31:09

they've done, whether it's the relationship with

31:11

China, the idea that we're going to

31:13

turn boys into girls, all of this

31:15

stuff is extremist. I want to come

31:17

back to your most important bullet point

31:20

there, if you will, that focal point,

31:22

which is the idea that before Joe

31:24

Biden gave that speech where he

31:26

looked something like Mussolini, in

31:29

red lights, I mean it was the most brown-shirty

31:31

thing I've ever seen out of a president, he

31:34

gives this speech declaring that his political

31:36

opponent is the enemy of democracy and

31:39

is an extremist. Well, before that happened,

31:41

I don't think most Americans in general

31:43

thought that the people who ran for

31:45

office on either side of the aisle

31:47

were extremists. They thought they were just

31:49

different points of view. Now what's happened

31:51

is he sewed the glove that he's wearing

31:54

because most people look at him now and

31:56

I think there's polling that says this and

31:58

they look at him. as the

32:00

guy that is the biggest enemy

32:02

of democracy, he is disenfranchising you

32:05

right down to your refrigerator, your

32:07

lawnmower, your stove, your car, your

32:09

life. He's taking your life away

32:11

from you as an anti-demo, the

32:13

principles he's operating on and the

32:15

Democrats are operating on, including up

32:18

here in Maine. John, the level

32:20

of, state by

32:22

state by state, the level

32:24

of audacity, arrogance, unaccountability, and

32:28

in order to execute things that are anti-democratic is

32:30

stunning. Most of this state deeply, deeply

32:33

opposes the idea of killing a child

32:35

at birth, and yet the Democrats in

32:37

this state, because they're a one-party state,

32:39

rolled right over it. They wanted to

32:42

confiscate guns in this state. The Democrat

32:44

legislature is just out of control. They

32:47

have pushed policies that are damaging some

32:50

of our primary industries in the state, lobstering,

32:53

and that now are probably about a third

32:55

as many lobstermen as there were in my

32:58

youth, because they have had control for so

33:00

long, these Democrats, that they've

33:02

destroyed unaffordable housing. 30%

33:06

of all those under the age of 40 are either

33:08

living with a friend or their parent, because

33:11

they can't afford to rent a house.

33:13

Median income in the state and nationwide

33:15

is about $200 below median rental costs.

33:20

So it's unthinkable, and it is extreme.

33:23

You mentioned the poll, and it's one of my favorite polls.

33:26

I worked at the Associated Press for 20 years.

33:28

I have some legitimate criticism of them today with

33:30

their biases and sort of loaded words, but they

33:33

have a poll two months

33:35

ago, or a month ago. It

33:37

shocked the world when they reported that two-thirds

33:39

of Americans now think that Joe Biden did

33:41

something illegal and unethical in his

33:43

dealings with his son's businesses. That's remarkable since the mainstream

33:45

media hasn't covered any of that. It means that the

33:48

narrative that the House Republicans and people like myself and

33:50

others have been doing that it's cutting through, but there

33:52

was another poll, and this was

33:54

shocking, and this is the boomerang. This is the poll

33:56

I know you're referring to. AP

33:58

North found that... 56%

34:02

of independents now believe democracy will be

34:04

weakened if Joe Biden wins.

34:06

Literally the independents have said that Joe

34:08

Biden is the guy in threat, a

34:11

majority of independents believe Joe Biden is

34:14

the extremist, uh, and in

34:16

danger of weakening democracy. What

34:18

a boomerang. And, uh, it's amazing to, to

34:20

watch it. It's as though the Democrats may

34:22

have overplayed their hand and I want to.

34:25

The best advertisement for Donald Trump is

34:27

Joe Biden. I've heard that

34:29

a lot lately and that wasn't true four years ago,

34:32

but people say that now, like every time I hear

34:34

Joe Biden talk, I, I, I, even people don't like

34:37

Trump say I'm going back to Trump. Wow, it's much better. And

34:40

you see it in the polling data too, who is a

34:42

more successful president? Donald Trump has a 15 point lead over,

34:44

over Biden. Um, if people

34:47

now have made that decision that, well,

34:49

Joe Biden is crooked. Uh,

34:51

that's the first finding of AP North or a

34:53

month ago. And Joe Biden's a threat to

34:55

democracy now, particularly for independents who decide elections,

34:57

the next question that seems to come to

34:59

mind is Bobby, if that sense

35:01

of extreme and extremism is now embedded and it's

35:04

turned on Joe Biden. Is the question that people

35:06

are going to ask themselves when they go to

35:08

the poll or the decision they're going to make

35:10

is I can't afford another four years of Joe

35:13

Biden can afford the gas can afford the groceries,

35:15

can't afford the loss of soldiers at, at a

35:17

gate in Afghanistan unnecessarily. I can't let, I can't

35:19

afford letting our enemies get $80 billion

35:22

of our equipment. Is that a question that

35:24

Joe Biden is no longer affordable? They can't

35:26

tolerate it anymore. You know,

35:28

I think, I think it is, you know, sometimes

35:30

there's a, you look

35:32

at a picture and it's just a bunch

35:35

of dots. And then all of a sudden

35:37

it becomes a picture, you know, a pointillistic

35:39

picture like Sarah, and that's the picture right

35:41

there. I think the picture is people cannot

35:44

afford another four years of this president and

35:47

the people that are around him. And

35:49

yes, it's because of their extremism and

35:51

cultural issues, but it's also in the

35:53

most fundamental way, a national security and

35:55

economic issue. Issue isn't even

35:58

the right word for it. It's a, it's a, it's.

36:00

something that's rattling, it's

36:02

shaking the foundations of every American

36:04

family, every individual in the country.

36:07

It's unsustainable. And

36:09

he's created this unsustainability. I think the

36:11

thing that I

36:13

don't want to cause anything to undermine

36:15

the strength of that

36:17

observation, but I will say that what

36:20

bothers me as I look almost like

36:22

an ink blot, if people can remember

36:24

an ink blot on an ink blotter

36:26

and how it expands outwards or, you

36:28

know, a little bit of water

36:30

on a paper towel, it goes out and out and out.

36:32

Now, one of the things I see happening at the national

36:34

level, at the state level, is this extremism

36:37

is spreading outwards. He

36:39

has promoted or permitted and

36:42

promoted the idea that extreme

36:45

behaviors can be normalized, extreme

36:47

statements can be normalized, extreme lies can be

36:49

normalized. You know, him saying that he never

36:52

had traveled with his son to China, of

36:54

course he did. He'd

36:56

never talked about business with it. Of course he did. He

36:58

met 20 times with his business partners. Well, how can you

37:01

say you never discussed business? And

37:03

so it's normalization of untruth and

37:06

normalization of unaccountability and

37:08

normalization of extremism is

37:10

probably the greatest threat

37:12

to democracy historically and

37:15

globally in any country at any time

37:17

for any reason. And he is personifying

37:19

that. And so I'm worried

37:21

more that he's creating a new

37:24

reality that is an

37:26

unreality and it's infectious. It's creating these

37:28

state legislatures in one party states that

37:30

think they can get away with murder

37:32

and keep walking. It's

37:35

the same thing at the national level. You have

37:37

Democrats. Why isn't there a single Democrat, not

37:39

one, that has come out at

37:41

the national level and say, you know, I

37:43

think these lack of integrity things with China

37:45

and Ukraine and Romania and the way that

37:47

he took money in his head. I think that's

37:49

wrong. I think we had a look at that. Where

37:52

are the Bill Coens of 1972 who

37:54

said about Nixon, you know, I

37:56

don't think this is right. Where

37:58

are those people today? They've all bought. in, they've

38:00

drunk the Kool-Aid. They believe that the

38:02

best thing to do is to just

38:04

keep lying so that you can hold

38:07

power and that is dangerous to democracy.

38:09

Yeah. I think that's exactly the point.

38:11

Politics in tribes before

38:13

country is I think the answer that people see

38:16

now. They're like, when did politicians start putting their

38:18

own political interests ahead of the country? And I

38:20

think that that's why people aren't willing to call

38:22

out what's wrong on their own side right now.

38:24

It's pretty remarkable. All right, folks, I'm going to

38:27

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All right folks. Welcome back. More of our

39:38

exclusive video with Bobby Charles. I

39:40

want to turn to Israel because this is

39:42

going to be a long hot summer for

39:44

liberals. Joe Biden, the Chicago Convention

39:46

has the potential to be very tense and

39:49

potentially even violent. Israel,

39:51

Joe Biden has really major decisions he's

39:54

going to be making. Will he truly

39:56

withhold the

39:58

aid to Congress? was just

40:00

approved for

40:03

Israel, if Israel goes

40:05

into Rafah,

40:08

will he allow the

40:10

United Nations to vote tomorrow and declare a

40:13

Palestine estate? And then if that allows that

40:15

to happen, will he then

40:17

follow the law that says he must

40:19

cut off and defund the United Nations

40:21

immediately? Our greatest

40:23

ally is really uncertain whether Joe

40:25

Biden is going to stand by them in these

40:27

next two weeks. What do you see

40:30

are the stakes and what do you think the likely outcome is

40:32

for the Biden administration? There's

40:35

so many ways to answer that, John, and

40:37

I'm not a guy that has bad answers.

40:39

The Marine Corps motto

40:41

is Semper Fidelis, always faithful.

40:44

We have allies around the world and we

40:46

have had since and before World War II

40:48

because we have always been faithful. When our

40:51

allies are in trouble, we step up for

40:53

them. We are the

40:55

only country in the history

40:57

of mankind, the only country in

40:59

the history of mankind that has

41:01

lost millions

41:04

of their own in order to protect

41:06

the sovereignty of another country, whether that

41:08

was Kuwait or that

41:11

was World War

41:13

II. We have this

41:15

incredible history of being faithful to our allies

41:18

and he has thrown all that in the

41:20

dustbin and in the garbage can and that's

41:22

very disappointing. On a much larger scale,

41:25

however, if

41:27

you feed the beast, which

41:29

is to essentially empower Iran

41:31

by abandoning Israel, never mind

41:33

the constitutional issues involved in

41:35

Congress' appropriated money for a

41:38

specific purpose, expecting and imagining

41:40

that you are executing as

41:42

the executive, that's your job,

41:44

is to execute the appropriation

41:46

and you're not doing it,

41:48

to hear Austin say what he said

41:50

the other day on the Hill was

41:52

stunning. It's audacious. It's arrogant. It's really

41:55

almost a de facto abuse of power no matter

41:57

how you dress it up. at

42:00

it and I say, if I'm Israel, even if

42:02

I feel like, even if people feel that

42:04

Israel overstepped and has done some things that, you

42:07

know, this particular environment was a very difficult

42:09

one and I understand and innocence

42:11

matter, but when you, when, if I'm Israel

42:13

and I'm looking back at this country, that

42:15

I'm the only country in the, I can

42:17

protect the, I protect the Holy Land. I

42:19

am the only country in 22 countries

42:22

of the Middle East that has anything close

42:24

to a democracy and

42:27

you, and my ally has always been there beside

42:29

me and we've done the same thing in

42:31

reverse and now they just walk away from me in

42:33

our time of time of peril. I

42:35

mean, you know, a friend in need is a

42:38

friend indeed, but the corollary for that is a

42:40

friend that walks away from you when you are

42:42

in need is no friend at all. Yeah, that's

42:44

a really great point and it isn't

42:47

just for affecting Israel. I think any other ally looking at

42:49

this is like, hey, they can do this to me someday

42:51

too. What happens if I'm, I

42:53

got to take a military action that's in my country's interest

42:55

and the United States doesn't like it? They're going to abandon

42:57

me. I really do think that that is an extraordinary

43:00

conversation that earlier in my lifetime, I could never

43:02

imagine happened. We never had doubt about where the

43:05

US stood today. We have lots of doubt. Just

43:07

one really quick point on that. A

43:09

lot of, you know, this is again, one

43:11

of those things where be careful the trap

43:13

you lay. They lay a trap for Trump

43:15

saying that he somehow was going to abandon

43:17

NATO. Well, the truth of the matter is

43:19

the behavior of Joe Biden is going to

43:21

cause every single NATO country to

43:23

worry about whether the word of the United

43:25

States is true. In other words, the death

43:27

of NATO will come by the behaviors of,

43:29

if it ever does, by the behaviors of

43:31

someone like Biden, not by someone who seeks

43:33

accountability from allies. It's the

43:35

exact, it's ironic. I mean, what he's

43:37

doing is he's sending a signal to

43:39

everyone from Australia to Great

43:43

Britain that our word

43:45

isn't worth anything. And well, the American

43:47

word is, but his word isn't. Right.

43:50

No, you're exactly right. United Nations

43:53

clearly not in sync with

43:55

the United States anymore. Not even in

43:57

the Biden administration sometimes in on sync with, I'm

43:59

not saying something. they're all globalists. It

44:02

seems to me that if they proceed with

44:04

this vote tomorrow and give the benefits of

44:06

privilege to the Palestine in

44:08

the absence of a true recognition of a state,

44:12

it will put another extraordinary

44:15

wedge here. You've got all

44:18

the evidence that UNRWA was assisting Hamas, including

44:20

on the day of the attacks. You've got

44:23

these votes that are clearly

44:25

anti-American votes. Is there

44:27

a moment after this next election

44:29

where America reevaluates its membership and

44:32

its relationship to

44:34

the United Nations? Well,

44:36

I think the United Nations'

44:38

reputation even before this is

44:40

somewhat in shambles. I mean,

44:42

they've basically, this

44:46

is why the United States didn't join the

44:48

world court. It's also why a bunch of

44:51

other countries didn't join the world court. They've

44:53

become a political force for wealth

44:55

redistribution and for running down

44:57

the people that have historically

45:00

built the world up, and

45:02

not least us. So

45:05

the United Nations, just in and of itself,

45:07

I think has credibility issues, and we are

45:09

constantly evaluating that. I believe if

45:11

you go back in time, even

45:13

the Bush people, but certainly the

45:16

Trump people looked at the

45:18

accountability and multilateral organizations that were

45:20

living by their own drummer and

45:22

just spending our money doing

45:25

things that we didn't want done. But the

45:27

bigger question is really, what do you do

45:29

with this phenomenon and a

45:32

sudden abandonment of Israel and a sort

45:34

of an elevation or

45:36

ignoring certain facts and accepting others? And

45:39

the saddest part to me, John, I've done

45:41

a lot of reading in the Middle East.

45:43

I've been in almost every country of the

45:45

Middle East. I haven't ever been in Iran,

45:47

but most of them. And I've been there

45:49

sometimes more than once and spent time there.

45:51

And the saddest part about this is Trump

45:53

was on his way, Reagan was on his

45:55

way, even Jimmy Carter was on his way

45:57

to getting some of the swords to

46:00

get laid down and some of

46:02

the old, you know,

46:04

millennia old violence

46:08

to be set aside, these

46:10

Abrahamic Accords, they didn't address

46:12

the Palestinians, but that was

46:14

the next step for

46:16

Palestinians in the West Bank and the

46:19

Palestinians in Gaza. That

46:21

was basically the fabric. It was a fascinating

46:23

idea that you change the paradigm, you don't

46:25

try to get all the countries of the

46:28

Middle East to agree on one idea. You

46:30

do bilateral agreements until you have a patchwork

46:32

quilt where everyone understands the value of everyone

46:34

else. And then you go

46:36

to what is the most difficult issue, and

46:39

that was following the

46:41

Balfour Declaration, how you manage this

46:43

area. And, you know, I mean, so

46:45

this has never, this has always been a hard issue,

46:47

but there's two ways to look at it. You either take

46:49

sides in a situation

46:52

which Biden has done here, where

46:54

you blame one party and

46:56

the other party is somehow free of

46:58

guilt, or you say, look, we're all

47:00

in this together. This is a lifeboat.

47:02

If a Middle East is going to

47:04

ever settle down, we've got to all

47:06

be part of this. Well, what he's

47:08

done is he's, and what the UN

47:10

is doing is they're blowing up the

47:12

opportunity for a serious civil trusting relationship.

47:15

At the end of the day, if you

47:18

destroy all trust in the region, no

47:20

one will negotiate with anyone because

47:22

nothing that you ink is worth anything. But if

47:25

you take the approach that Trump took, which some

47:27

people were rightly critical that you could have started

47:29

with a Palestinian issue. But the reality is if

47:31

you take the idea

47:33

that constructive, you

47:36

know, it's biblical. If you take the idea that

47:39

the peacemakers, you know, blessed are the peacemakers,

47:41

and let's just, okay, let's kill the terrorists

47:44

and get them out of the picture, and

47:46

then let's sit down and work through what

47:48

are long standing issues. You can get, James

47:52

Baker got part way there

47:54

under Bush 4043, and Reagan got

47:56

part way there. away

48:00

there. But if you give it up and you just

48:02

decide you're going to give up on Israel, you're going

48:04

to give up on the Holy Land, and you're just

48:06

going to let Hamas

48:09

get away, no, it can't make any sense

48:11

at all. And the UN has to be

48:13

thinking harder. I mean, no one's thinking right

48:15

now. They're all just picking sides like the

48:17

tribalism you described, and they're letting it go.

48:19

This is not the way to look

48:21

forward. To look forward, you have to put

48:24

terrorists out of business, number one. Number two,

48:26

you have to reestablish bases for trust. And

48:28

number three, you have to start envisioning a

48:30

future that isn't based on constant killing. Yeah,

48:32

you got it right. And I think Americans

48:34

know that these are the things they're going

48:36

to be voting for. These are the course

48:38

corrections they're going to try to impose in

48:41

the November election. That's what's at stake there. Bobby,

48:44

I'm my proud card carrying member of AMAC. I

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I get great news. I get a great

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49:23

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we're all independent-minded people. We Republicans. We

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no, that is so well put. And

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also, here's a load of secret, you

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always a blast to have you on. I always

52:25

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52:27

great to be with you. A lot of history is gonna

52:29

play out next week. We're gonna have to catch

52:31

up on a lot of big events. We live in

52:33

consequential times and that's both a curse and a blessing.

52:36

Thank you, John. It's true, it's true. Those are words

52:38

of wisdom. All right, we'll talk to you next week,

52:40

Bobby. Thanks so much. Yep, bye-bye. All right, folks, now

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53:52

back once again today. Too big money headlines

53:54

grabbed my attention quite frankly as a taxpayer,

53:57

they grinded my ears just a little bit.

54:00

Capitol Hill IRS Commissioner Danny Boorfel

54:02

appeared before the House Appropriations Committee

54:04

asking Congress to give his agency,

54:06

the IRS, an additional $100 billion.

54:10

And yes, this comes after the $80

54:12

billion boost that they received last year.

54:15

And the second headline was on how

54:17

trustees are saying that social security benefits

54:19

are going to be cut starting in

54:21

2035 without congressional intervention. Aren't

54:24

these two items just remarkable after being in the

54:26

hole $34 trillion and growing? Your

54:29

good friend Patrick Heger with the Taxpayers Protection

54:31

Alliance joins us to talk about all this

54:33

now. Patrick, welcome back. Thank

54:36

you for having me. Yeah, good to have you. Okay,

54:38

as I think we talked about last time you were on,

54:40

the IRS got an $80 billion bump, must

54:43

be nice. And though

54:45

63% of their new audits were people who

54:47

make $200,000 less after saying that they were

54:50

going to be targeting millionaires and billionaires.

54:52

So maybe this extra $100

54:54

billion is going to be for the millionaires

54:56

and the billionaires. Maybe they just needed this

54:58

to actually do what they said they were

55:00

going to, right? Yeah,

55:03

they'd love for you to believe that. But

55:05

ultimately, we know the incentives that face government

55:07

agencies and the IRS has an incentive

55:10

to go up to the low hanging

55:12

fruit. Prior to the injection of the

55:14

cash into the IRS, the $80 billion,

55:16

which is now about $60 billion after

55:18

$20 billion was rescinded by Congress. If

55:21

you lined up a map of where

55:23

census data on poverty in the

55:25

United States and data from the

55:27

IRS on where audits are happening,

55:30

it looks like the same map.

55:32

The IRS was already disproportionately

55:34

auditing low income and minority

55:37

citizens. The most audited

55:39

county in the United States is actually a

55:41

county in Mississippi, in a

55:43

very poor rural area of Mississippi. And

55:47

we see now that the IRS has a

55:49

little bit of additional resources that they're just

55:51

going after sort of that next level, right?

55:54

A little bit higher up on the tree,

55:56

not necessarily the low hanging fruit, but still

55:58

folks that don't have the necessary resources

56:00

to really fend off an aggressive IRS

56:03

audit. We're talking again individuals and families

56:05

making less than $200,000 and of course

56:07

in an environment

56:09

right now that's not actually a whole lot

56:11

of money anymore. That's

56:13

a great point. Well while the IRS

56:15

continues to go after more and more little

56:18

people, they're also really bad at customer service.

56:20

Everything we know about it has created frustration.

56:22

Congress gave a big bunch of money,

56:24

a 10-year sort of roadmap to fix

56:26

taxpayer services. I don't think it

56:29

was today or recently that they're going to be blown

56:31

through that in two years. They need more money to

56:33

do what they promised. Congress, they're going to get done

56:35

with the last tranche. Why is customer

56:37

service so bad? Why did the IRS can't do

56:39

the basics with customers? Yeah,

56:42

the IRS continues to ignore the S part

56:44

of IRS which it should be a service.

56:47

Unfortunately it operates more like a very

56:49

aggressive law enforcement agency and yes, their

56:51

job is to generate revenue but

56:54

they don't make it easy for folks to

56:56

comply with the tax code. Ultimately all of

56:58

this comes down to the fact that the

57:00

tax code is way too complicated but barring

57:02

major changes to the tax code, looking at

57:04

the IRS, I saw

57:06

that the commissioner today complained that the

57:09

$20 billion that was rescinded

57:11

out of the $80 billion that was

57:13

appropriated to the IRS is going to

57:15

harm customer service but Congress explicitly said

57:17

that that $20 billion was to come

57:19

out of increased enforcement. It was not

57:21

to come out of the money that they

57:23

appropriated for customer service. The

57:26

IRS is really ignoring

57:29

what Congress has asked them to do

57:31

with the money that they've appropriated and

57:33

unfortunately this is the theme that we've

57:36

seen in the Biden administration. They're preying

57:38

on dysfunction at Congress to really spend

57:40

the money how they see fit in

57:42

a lot of different ways and attach a

57:44

lot of extra legislative strings to

57:48

funding and programs that Congress has created.

57:51

It's a Biden administration-wide problem but it

57:53

really impacts the average American citizen given

57:55

sort of the aggressiveness of the IRS.

57:58

That's great. Absolutely. I want

58:01

to ask you about that other headline that's flashed

58:03

across my news desk this morning that Social Security

58:05

benefits are going to be cut starting in 2035,

58:07

just 11 years from now. I

58:11

mean, purely for peace of mind for the American

58:13

people, I think this needs to be handled sooner

58:15

than later, but how and when should Congress act

58:17

on this? They

58:20

can't act too soon on this. I mean,

58:22

something needs to be done. And unfortunately, really,

58:25

you hear it from politicians in both parties

58:27

that I'm not going to touch your Social

58:29

Security and Medicare. Well, the fact of the

58:31

matter is, is that these programs, something doesn't

58:33

change, they're going to cut themselves, and they're

58:35

going to be severe cuts. And

58:38

so something has to be done. There

58:40

need to be new sources of revenue or

58:42

there need to be changes to reduce spending

58:45

or complete restructures of the program to

58:47

begin with. We've seen success of privatized

58:49

systems overseas, even in

58:51

countries that you wouldn't think would implement

58:53

such systems, private retirement accounts. Ultimately, we've

58:56

got to get rid of the Ponzi

58:58

scheme that exists right now, because the

59:00

population level just can't really sustain an

59:02

aging population when we don't

59:04

have high enough levels of immigration or natural

59:06

births to supply

59:09

and replace the existing glut

59:11

of workers as baby boomers continue

59:14

to retire. The structure of the system

59:16

just doesn't work. And we're talking hundreds

59:18

of trillions of dollars, depending on how

59:20

far out that you want to look, that

59:22

we owe into these programs that

59:25

we do not have an existing revenue source for.

59:27

It's not a politically popular thing to say,

59:30

I get it, but it's the level truth

59:32

that if we don't do something, we're all

59:34

in a lot of trouble here within the

59:37

next decade. And I mean, we're talking that

59:39

potentially, not the next president that gets elected,

59:41

but the administration after that is the one

59:43

that's going to be dealing with this. And

59:46

there are senators that are up for reelection right now

59:48

that will be dealing with this. So it's a

59:50

huge problem. It's staring us in the

59:52

face and it's not getting any better. Yeah. And

59:55

inaction is a guaranteed cut, right? You

1:00:00

know, regardless of who's telling you whether on

1:00:02

the left or on the right, if they

1:00:04

say we're not testing social security and Medicare,

1:00:06

by doing nothing, they're the ones that are

1:00:08

actually advocating for a cut. All right,

1:00:10

folks. That wraps up the Thursday edition of John Solomon

1:00:12

Reports. The podcast from Justin Hughes, a big thank you

1:00:15

to all of our guests, starting with Senator Marsha Blackburn

1:00:17

of the great state of Tennessee, Bobby Charles, our good

1:00:19

friend from AMAC, and of course, Patrick Hedger. A lot

1:00:22

of good stuff. Go check out that story we

1:00:24

broke at the top of the show about Jim

1:00:26

Jordan and the potential retaliation against one of the

1:00:28

former Hunter Biden business partners. I think that's got

1:00:31

legs. You're going to see a lot more of

1:00:33

that in the next few weeks. Go check that

1:00:35

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