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Today

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a lot of things going on. I'm just going

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to share with you some quick overviews.

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There is today no natural

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majority in the US House. That's the

0:57

big problem. The Speaker Johnson

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has well, he supposedly has

1:01

a technical majority, which is important

1:04

because it means that the Republicans are

1:06

able to staff the various committees

1:09

and hold the various investigations, and

1:11

that's a big deal in the long run. The

1:13

truth is that on any given day he

1:15

doesn't really have a working majority

1:18

because there are fifteen or twenty

1:21

Republicans who wake up every morning

1:23

saying, I know I'm going to vote no. I just don't

1:25

know what the issue is. So it's very

1:27

hard when you're down to a one or two

1:29

or three vote majority to be able to get

1:31

anything done. And because it's so difficult,

1:35

it's also been hard as members

1:37

decide just to leave. I'm very surprised.

1:39

I don't remember in my own experiences

1:43

members in the majority of resigning

1:45

in the middle of a term. One resigned

1:48

in Ohio to become president of State University

1:51

for some reason. Congressman Buck and Colorado's

1:53

resigning, whether he has a business

1:55

deal or some other reason. And then the

1:57

big surprise to me was the chairman,

2:00

who's doing a great job on China, decided

2:03

to resign and didn't just decide to resign,

2:05

but decided he would resign after

2:08

the date at which there could be

2:10

a special election. And I checked

2:12

with the Congressional Campaign Committee. It's

2:14

a very Republican district. We would

2:16

win the special election. And what

2:19

Congressman Gallagher's scheduling decision

2:21

means is that literally that

2:23

seat will be vacant from the time

2:25

he resigns in late April all the way

2:28

up through the election. So he's depriving

2:30

the Republicans of one of their reliable

2:32

votes in a way that I frankly don't

2:34

understand, because he's a good guy. He's

2:37

been very significant on China,

2:39

and yet all of a sudden he decides to

2:41

go home, and to go home in a way which

2:43

maximizes the disadvantage

2:46

to his party. This gives Speaker

2:48

Johnson an enormous challenge, and I

2:50

have to say I've spent the last five

2:53

or six days just trying to think about

2:55

how you could solve his problems. When

2:58

you have a Democratic sent with

3:00

a weak Republican minority,

3:02

the Republicans have plenty of votes to be effective

3:04

in the Senate, but they're deeply split between

3:07

an anti spending reform faction

3:10

and a go along, get along faction, so

3:12

the Senate's not reliable. Biden

3:14

obviously wants to pay off the left.

3:17

On's the biggest spending possible. I

3:19

did find, to my surprise that there's

3:21

a provision in the bill they just voted

3:24

through that blocks US

3:26

embassies from flying any flag

3:29

other than American flag and the POW

3:31

flag. So it'll be interesting this summer.

3:34

There was a huge fight that was consistent when

3:36

Callisto was the ambassador to the Vatican

3:39

over whether or not to fire the gay

3:41

Pride flag, because obviously, if you're representing

3:44

the Vatican, putting up a gay Pride

3:46

flag doesn't exactly help you. There

3:48

was a very strong feeling in the State Department,

3:51

which has a lot of left wing activists

3:54

inside it. So all

3:56

of a sudden this year it's a little bit of

3:58

a rollback of the wing of the Democratic

4:01

Party in that they're going to be told no,

4:03

you can't fly the gay Pride flag this year.

4:06

It's just an interesting small example of

4:08

how change can occur. On the other

4:10

hand, I'll tell you the scale of

4:12

spending in the kind of pork barrel

4:15

set asides. I think there were twenty

4:18

one pages of specific

4:21

goodies being given out. I'm

4:23

going to do an entire podcast just reading

4:25

various goodies that people would get. It's

4:27

ridiculous. And I think that Senator

4:30

Rick Scott's call for a moratorium

4:32

on earmarks is the right direction

4:35

to go in. We had a moratorium starting

4:37

in twenty eleven and lasted about

4:39

seven or eight years. Members couldn't

4:42

get specific things for their districts. The

4:44

members alimately decided they liked getting things for these

4:46

districts, so they repealed them, and in

4:48

retrospect that was a mistake. I think we

4:51

have a huge problem between

4:54

Biden and baby Net and Yahoo. The

4:57

Biden administration is desperate,

5:00

committed to appeasing the Iranians

5:02

no matter what they do. They've been attacking

5:05

Americans through their proxies, so he gave

5:07

him another ten billion dollars in sanctioned

5:09

relief. He's also shifted

5:12

from total support for Israel after

5:14

the attack last October to putting

5:16

enormous pressure on Israel to not

5:19

go into the last major city

5:21

in Gaza. And here's the problem.

5:24

If you create a sanctuary city for terrorists,

5:27

Hamas is going to make sure that all of its troops

5:29

are in that city. If Israel

5:32

pulls back not having

5:34

completely defeated Hamas, first

5:36

of all, it will be portrayed as a victory

5:38

for Hamas, proof has vindication

5:41

that their strategy of terrorism is working.

5:44

It will lead them to plan another attack on

5:46

Israel. They already said this publicly. They've

5:48

been on television saying this is the first

5:50

of many attacks. So the

5:52

Israeli position, which is that they're

5:54

going to completely destroy Hamas

5:57

I think is the right position, because if

5:59

you have the next that's our neighbor who says every morning, I'm going to

6:01

kill you, you should take them seriously,

6:04

and particularly if they've proven it by having

6:06

killed people in the neighborhood. And so

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I think that this is a deep fight. It

6:11

will be interesting to see how it evolves. Prime Minister

6:13

Natnya, who's a very tough guy, served

6:15

in the equivalent of the commandos in the

6:17

Israeli Army, lost his brother.

6:19

The only Asraeli to die at the raidan

6:22

and Tebby to rescue Israelis

6:24

from terrorists was his

6:26

brother, Sontnia, who has a deep

6:28

firm feeling about this. A

6:31

couple of other quick things. We have

6:33

to find a way to get aid to Ukraine

6:36

to stop Putin. No one should

6:38

kid themselves. If Putin wins

6:41

in Ukraine, he will threaten

6:43

the three Baltic states, Lithuania,

6:46

Estonia and Latvia. He will threaten

6:48

Poland and the world will be

6:50

dramatically more dangerous. The

6:52

Ukrainians are willing to fight, they're prepared

6:55

to fight, but they have to have the ammunition

6:57

and they have to have the equipment to do it. Somehow,

7:00

when the Congress comes back, we have to get

7:03

that done. The war against Trump

7:05

continues, and I think, once again

7:08

he's proven to be amazingly resourceful.

7:10

Imagine this. He had the cash to

7:12

put up one hundred and fifty million dollar bond

7:15

so that he could appeal the totally

7:17

absurd real estate decision.

7:19

Remember in that case where

7:21

the judge is finding him over

7:23

four hundred million dollars. No

7:26

one was hurt, no one lost

7:28

any money, and no one complained.

7:31

This is a totally artificial made

7:33

in the hate Trump factory

7:36

in the New York Democratic Party and

7:38

is a danger to the whole process of the rule

7:40

of law. There are several other fights going

7:42

on like this, and I think that it'll

7:44

continue, and Trump just continues

7:47

to show amazing resilience.

7:49

But we shouldn't kill ourselves. This is a

7:51

narrow race. It's not a decisive

7:53

victory at this stage. It's going to be made more

7:56

complicated both by Robert F. Kennedy

7:58

Junior, who is becoming I think a serious

8:00

candidate capable maybe of getting

8:03

between ten and twenty percent, and

8:05

the possibility of no labels finding

8:08

a ticket that would be on every ballot in

8:10

the country. So you have a lot of

8:12

interesting things going on on that level. That's

8:14

a very sweeping overview.

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Again, I want to thank everybody for belonging

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to the Inner Circle and toss it so all

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of you can ask or give us your comments.

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First, thank you again for having

8:42

us, and thank you for your wisdom.

8:45

The question is, and it's been irritating

8:47

me since this has been going on, is

8:50

how are we going to prevail when

8:52

we have a crew of representatives who

8:54

are basically narcissists, humiliating

8:56

the people they represent, and

8:59

undermining any traction new

9:01

When you were a speaker, you got an amazing

9:04

amount of things done, and the wisdom that

9:06

you imparted to our

9:08

current speakers was incredibly

9:11

helpful. And unfortunately we

9:13

have some little ankle biters that

9:16

are causing trouble.

9:17

You went right to the heart of it. This is part

9:19

of what I've been spending the last week thinking

9:21

about. First of all, I realized when

9:24

Joe Gaylor and I wrote March to the

9:26

Majority, which is the book that came out late

9:28

last year, which outlined a

9:31

sixteen year project

9:33

to create a Republican majority, we

9:35

had three advantages. One,

9:38

we were standing on Ronald Reagan's shoulders. So

9:41

we were able to take ideas. For example,

9:43

welfare reform was first articulated

9:45

by Reagan running for governor of California

9:48

in nineteen sixty five. We

9:50

passed it in nineteen ninety six,

9:53

so it had been maturing for over thirty years.

9:55

We had a base of ideas that

9:58

people agreed to. Two, we had

10:01

a training program called Gopak where

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we sent out fifty five thousand

10:06

audio tapes and tells you how much the world has

10:08

changed. You don't have audio tape players in your car

10:10

anymore, so now we stream everything, but

10:13

literally we sent out fifty five thousand

10:15

audio tapes every month, and

10:18

that was designed to sort of train

10:20

the party, create a culture of positive

10:22

majority orientation. And

10:24

then, Third, because we had spent

10:27

sixteen years doing it, we had

10:29

a team and a network and an understanding

10:31

that enabled us to govern. The

10:33

other big difference was we had a big enough majority.

10:36

We had two hundred and thirty seats in

10:38

nineteen ninety four and two hundred and thirty

10:40

six seats in nineteen ninety six. Well,

10:42

when you have that big a majority, for example,

10:45

two hundred and thirty to two hundred

10:47

and five, you can have five or

10:49

ten people who are nuts, and you can

10:51

still govern. When you're down at

10:53

a majority of one or two or three or four, any

10:56

crazy person can cause hav

10:58

it. And I think that Matt Gates unleashed

11:00

the demons when he decided

11:02

to attack Kevin McCarthy, who had

11:05

worked very hard, had I think earned

11:07

the speakership, actually had a reasonably

11:10

rational strategy for dealing with

11:12

a difficult situation. And ever

11:14

since then, the House Republican Party

11:16

has had a number of people who are noisy,

11:19

and the technology has changed. Nowadays

11:22

you can go on television say

11:24

harsh things, send out an email,

11:27

raise money, and social media

11:29

creates a series of independent little

11:32

princes and princesses who run around

11:35

being noisy and sounding important,

11:37

and when you have a very narrow

11:39

majority two or three or four votes, they are

11:41

important. And mostly have

11:43

concluded that they're totally unreliable,

11:46

that you can't count on passing anything on

11:48

a Republican only basis, and that

11:51

Johnson would be better off to just be honest

11:53

about that and say to people, look, I'd love

11:55

to have a purely Republican House,

11:59

and if you'll help me get thirty or forty more seats,

12:01

we'll do it. But at the current margin,

12:03

we're going to be constantly negotiating with the Democrats

12:06

because the most destructive

12:09

members of the House Revolving Conference don't

12:11

give them any choice. That's sort of my overview.

12:14

Is a great question, and I really appreciate

12:16

your involvement.

12:17

I would like your perspective on the

12:20

problem that seems to exist with the

12:22

immigrants that are coming across the border

12:25

having paid cartels a

12:27

fee or partially paid a fee,

12:30

and then continue to be obligated

12:32

to them by sending

12:35

them more money after they're over here to

12:37

protect themselves and

12:39

their families back in their native country.

12:43

What do you see an

12:45

administration and the.

12:47

Justice Department being able to do to

12:49

solve this problem.

12:52

First of all, I think we have to recognize that

12:54

our current problem with the legal immigration is

12:57

deliberate. This is not an accident,

13:00

not in competence. This is the

13:02

Biden policy of favoring

13:05

mass of illegal immigration, basically an

13:07

invasion, having the maximum

13:09

number of unknown people coming in, and

13:11

then taking care of them. I think

13:13

in New York they asked him that they spend

13:16

three hundred and nineteen dollars a day housing

13:19

illegal immigrants. We don't have enough

13:21

money for veterans. We don't have enough money

13:23

for the American homeless. We don't

13:25

have enough money to make sure our schools succeed,

13:28

but weing find billions to

13:31

take care of people who are breaking the law, coming

13:33

to the US illegally, and a number of them.

13:35

As you point out our criminals, there's

13:37

no question, for example, that there is at

13:39

least one Venezuelan gang. We know

13:41

that there's an El Salvadorian gang. We

13:44

know that the cartel increasingly is

13:46

penetrating the US. We are presently

13:48

going to have as big a problem

13:51

with organized crime in the United

13:53

States as Italy has had for one hundred

13:55

years with the mafia. It's all being

13:57

tolerated and in effect supported

14:00

by the Democrats, who are the

14:02

pro illegal immigration party. And

14:04

you now have the New York City Council

14:07

petitioning the New York Supreme

14:09

Court to allow illegal immigrants to

14:11

vote in washingt d C. They've already

14:14

passed a rule that illegal immigrants can vote in the city

14:16

elections. I think we ought to have a

14:18

congressional law that says one, no

14:21

illegal immigrant can vote anywhere in any

14:23

election in the United States. They are by definition

14:25

illegal and second,

14:27

I think that we have to have a commitment

14:30

to have a ballot where

14:32

you have to prove who you are. A friend

14:35

of mine went to get a book out of the

14:37

library in Alexandria, Virginia, and

14:40

they required him to show a driver's

14:42

license with his picture, and he said, so

14:44

I can vote without reproving who I am,

14:47

but I can't borrow a book. The

14:49

whole thing's absurd. And the Attorney General

14:51

is part of the Biden pro illegal immigration

14:54

program, and I think pro trying

14:56

to steal the election with the votes

14:58

of illegal immigrants. Attorney

15:00

General has been clear that he's against having

15:02

voter ID. Now the American

15:04

people, as we prove, and you can see this

15:07

if you go to America's New Majority

15:09

Project dot com, which is a program

15:12

we run. At America's New Majority

15:14

Project dot com. We have a huge

15:16

amount of polling data. The American people

15:18

get it. The American people want the

15:20

border control. The American people

15:22

want to see who you are

15:25

and believe you should have a voter ID. So

15:27

it's an interesting problem, and you raise

15:29

a really, really good question, but don't kid

15:31

yourself. This is the deliberate policy

15:34

of the left to try to drown the United

15:36

States and people who are here illegally.

15:39

The next question is a write in from

15:41

Shane in Iowa. Shane

15:43

writes RFK Junior

15:46

chose Nicole Shanahan as his vice

15:48

presidential running mate. His announcement

15:50

event opened with a quote land

15:53

acknowledgment of the alone Indian

15:55

tribe. Many theorize that his

15:57

campaign will attract more Democratic

15:59

fees votes than Republican votes due

16:01

to this choice. What are your thoughts.

16:04

I think he will get more Democrats and Republicans.

16:06

I think he's a greater danger to Biden than

16:09

he is the Trump. As you watch the

16:11

campaign unfold, virtually every

16:14

left wing goofy ideal will show up

16:16

on Robert F. Kennedy's agenda.

16:18

The fact is that the logic

16:20

of the left leads you to policies

16:23

that are unsustainable

16:26

for the vast majority of Americans, but

16:28

policies which the left really deeply believes

16:30

in. And Robert F. Kennedy Junior both

16:33

represents a very famous family name,

16:35

but also is unencumbered

16:37

by having to deal with reality. I think

16:40

he'll end up being very appealing to young people,

16:42

and I think he'll be very appealing to left

16:44

wingers who are unhappy with

16:46

Joe Biden. It'll be interesting to see where

16:49

Robert F. Kennedy Junior comes down in the case of Israel

16:52

versus Samas, because he has an opportunity

16:55

to steal much of the Muslim community away

16:57

from Biden if he's willing to take an

16:59

anti Israeli positioned. I just have no idea

17:01

what his views are on that. But overall,

17:04

I thought he did a video

17:06

which I recommend to all of you and go to YouTube,

17:08

and it's Robert F. Kennedy Junior's report

17:11

on the State of the Union. I thought it was one of the best

17:13

political videos I've ever seen. I

17:15

mean, it's really really well done.

17:18

I think that he is formidable and a genuine

17:20

threat.

17:21

The next question is another write in

17:23

from Sean in Nevada. Sean

17:26

writes in just recently, Yale

17:28

Engineering and Yale Law School have

17:30

teamed up to democratize the

17:33

legal system with artificial intelligence

17:35

labots. I believe that getting

17:38

reliable information that isn't cost

17:40

or time prohibitive empowers the average

17:42

person to understand their rights and make

17:45

more informed decisions. Would you

17:47

agree with this use of artificial intelligence?

17:50

Sure? I find myself going

17:53

to Google over and over again. Will be watching

17:55

some movie and try to figure out, you know, when was

17:57

it made? You immediately just pull it up.

18:00

Or we're trying to figure out is there a really

18:02

good restaurant somewhere? You pull it up.

18:05

Most of the law is

18:07

the codified set of rules and experiences

18:09

and precedents that have grown up starting

18:12

with the English common law and with Blackstone's

18:14

great work in the seventeen sixties. Most

18:17

of it's knowable. I wouldn't recommend

18:19

that individuals try their own cases. As

18:21

a famous rule that a lawyer

18:24

who represents himself as a fool for a client,

18:27

you need a person who's not emotional

18:29

and a person who's capable of bringing their

18:31

skills to bear. But I do think that

18:34

you can have in terms of advice,

18:36

in terms of a great deal of everyday non

18:39

conflict law. There's no reason

18:41

that you couldn't have a system

18:43

of artificial intelligence that enabled

18:46

you to learn and to walk through

18:48

it and ask questions and to have a surprising

18:50

level of information of relatively

18:52

high accuracy. And I think that's

18:54

going to be true of everything that's going true of medicine, it's

18:57

going to be true of learning math. I

18:59

mean you name it. We're going to have better and

19:01

better tools to help us, just

19:03

as we have physical tools

19:05

to help us, say the invention of the wheel.

19:08

I think we're going to have mental tools

19:10

to help our brain, and we should think

19:12

of it in that same context.

19:29

Hello, we've spoken before.

19:31

Good to have you with us.

19:32

I asked you got the endgame for the illegal

19:34

immigration, and you shared

19:36

your hopes that these

19:39

X million people anywhere from

19:41

seven to twelve whatever

19:43

the estimate is, ultimately

19:45

become assimilated, productive

19:48

patriotic Americans. I hope for

19:50

all of them when we look at the

19:52

thirty to forty percent of those

19:55

that are a single male, unemployed,

19:57

non English speaking military age,

20:00

if that's a term, males,

20:03

as your hope changed any And the

20:05

specific question is is repatriation

20:08

and option thinking at the end of the Civil War,

20:11

the repatriation of

20:13

the slaves movement, which

20:15

failed, first off because the United States was

20:17

broke and we couldn't afford it, and

20:20

the moral implications of that. And

20:22

so I would ask your opinion

20:24

about the repatriation or

20:27

deportation, whatever word you want to use for

20:30

this many people.

20:31

First of all, if you simply passed an effective

20:34

worker ID program, and made it

20:37

prohibitively expensive for businesses

20:39

to hire anybody who didn't have an

20:41

ID proving they were legally in the United States,

20:43

either an American citizen or a Green card holder.

20:46

You'd have a surprising number start back home.

20:48

If you cut off the various welfare programs,

20:51

you'd have a surprising number going back home.

20:53

If you said, look, we will fly you

20:55

for free one way back to your home

20:57

country, or we will take

21:00

you to the border, or in some cases,

21:02

we'll have a ship that will take people back. I

21:04

think you could probably repatriate the

21:07

vast majority of the people who've

21:09

come here illegally. I think in some

21:11

cases you also have a clear case of

21:13

simply saying, the minute you commit a felony,

21:16

Y're gone. I think you would find

21:18

a significant minority. I wouldn't overstate

21:20

it. You'd find a significant minority

21:23

people like the Venezuelan gang

21:25

members who beat up the policeman in New York, or

21:28

the Venezuelan who killed

21:30

the student at the University of Georgia.

21:33

All of those folks would be out of here. In

21:35

the case, of course, the murderers, they shouldn't

21:37

be out of here. They ought to be in prison or be given

21:39

the death penalty. But I think that overall,

21:43

if you can't earn a living here, and if

21:45

the welfare state won't take care of you, and

21:47

if at the same time there's some kind

21:49

of easy access to repatriation,

21:52

then I think that program could work,

21:55

and you could probably have six or

21:57

seven million out of the eight million decide

21:59

to go home.

22:00

I'm going to read a question that was

22:02

written in from Gordon. Austin. Gordon

22:05

writes the number of abortions

22:07

has increased since the overturning

22:09

of roe versus Wade. This is

22:12

due to a large increase of telemedicine

22:14

use of abortion pills, a rule

22:17

change by the FDA. It is

22:19

now back before the Supreme Court. I

22:21

think the rule should be changed, but I don't

22:23

think the Supreme Court is the right forum.

22:25

This is a legislative issue.

22:27

Your thoughts, I think that's exactly

22:29

right.

22:29

I think it's very interesting that in

22:32

the mid nineteen

22:34

nineties, when she was a judge but not yet

22:36

a justice, Ruth Ginsburg,

22:39

hardly a conservative, gave

22:41

a speech in which she said that

22:44

roe versus Wade was a mistake because

22:47

it took a legitimate political

22:49

question, which is the nature

22:52

of life, how life can be ended,

22:54

and it took it out of the political process

22:56

where people had to argue with each other

22:59

and find some common agreement, and

23:02

instead it turned it into a legal issue

23:04

where nine lawyers were deciding

23:06

for the whole country. I would say the same

23:09

principle applies here that should

23:11

be remanded back to really

23:13

the Congress in this case, because the question

23:15

involves interstate commerce. There's not

23:17

one state, but it's whether or not you can

23:19

in fact send across state

23:22

lines and have postal delivery. But I

23:24

do think there are times when

23:26

a society has

23:28

to slow down and have a debate

23:31

and find a solution. And

23:33

it may not be a solution all of us like, but

23:35

it gets to be a solution that we can live with

23:38

because we've all had an opportunity to

23:40

have our voices heard. And I think this

23:42

is one of those kinds of cases. I think that's exactly

23:44

right.

23:46

And we have another write in question from

23:48

Paul Melvin in Florida. He

23:50

says I was surprised to hear what

23:53

Kevin Warsh of the Hoover Institute

23:55

said about government jobs. He

23:57

stated the government has grown forty percent

23:59

since the first day after the response

24:01

for COVID. I have watched over

24:04

months of employment reports, and government

24:06

jobs were always the second highest

24:08

contributor to job growth in Biden's

24:10

administration. Would you care to comment

24:13

on it? Don't you think Trump should do what

24:15

President Reagan did and put a freeze on all

24:17

government hiring, exception being armed

24:19

forces.

24:20

I just wrote a piece for The New York Sun

24:23

in which I took Lincoln, who,

24:26

when he became president, dismissed

24:29

something like fifteen

24:31

hundred and nineteen out of nineteen hundred

24:34

policymakers understood

24:36

that he could not possibly govern

24:39

in a civil war if

24:41

you had people who were

24:43

opposed to you, the bureaucracy.

24:46

Remember the Republican Party's brand new it's

24:48

really only formed in the eighteen fifties. Lincoln

24:51

is the first Republican president. The

24:53

bureaucracy, even though it was a very tiny

24:55

bureaucracy. The bureaucracy was overwhelmingly

24:58

Southern and Democrat. So

25:00

the northern Democrats who opposed Republicans

25:03

and the Southerners who opposed Lincoln bitterly. If

25:05

he had allowed all of them to stay in office,

25:08

he literally could not have run the government. And

25:11

so in a sweeping effort. In his first

25:13

year, he fundamentally changed

25:16

who was running the government. And I outlined

25:18

that and compared it to the size of the current government

25:21

and made the argument that you're probably

25:23

talking about a minimum of fifty

25:25

five thousand jobs being changed

25:28

to match Lincoln. That's a minimum fifty

25:30

five thousand jobs because the current government's

25:32

so big. I would say that

25:34

that kind of aggressive change. And then frankly,

25:37

not just a job freeze, but a dramatic

25:39

shrinkage. A large part of

25:41

the Biden economy is government

25:43

deficit spending to keep things pumped up,

25:46

which is, by the way, undermined the Federal reserve

25:48

effort to raise interest rates to

25:50

stop inflation, because the government's

25:52

been feeding inflation while the Federal Reserve

25:54

has been trying to stop it. And then second,

25:57

about forty percent of all the new jobs have been

25:59

government and that's not sustainable

26:02

unless you want to live in a totally socialist country.

26:05

The next question comes from d and

26:08

Idaho. Signatures are being collected

26:10

to put an open primary with ranked

26:13

choice voting bill on the November ballot.

26:15

I've noticed this is being implemented

26:18

in other states. Can you share your

26:20

thoughts on this approach? To a primary.

26:22

It's pros and cons Is it giving

26:24

advantages to one party over another?

26:26

Thank you.

26:27

What it primarily does is it weekends

26:30

the strength of the

26:32

stronger wing of each party. If

26:34

you have a ranked choice primary, if

26:37

nobody gets fifty percent in the first round,

26:39

you redistribute the votes, so

26:41

you vote for number one, two, three, four over

26:44

many candidates there are, and the

26:46

bias is away from

26:49

conservatives and liberals towards the

26:51

center. It's being tried in Alaska

26:53

and in Maine. I think it's very

26:55

dangerous, and I think that it, in

26:58

the long run, leads to a

27:01

very complicated voting system. And

27:03

I think that I would personally hope that it

27:05

doesn't become the national model.

27:08

Okay, I have two questions. First

27:10

of all, in reference to your comments earlier,

27:13

the tiered resignations of Republican congressman

27:16

like Ken Buck and Mike Gallagher split. The timing

27:18

of Gallagher's resignation, which

27:21

makes it impossible to get another

27:24

Republican to a seat before January

27:26

two or two five, suggests

27:29

there is a plan a foot to strip the Republicans

27:31

in the House of their majority by way

27:34

of more resignations,

27:36

and in that scenario, HOCKEM. Jefferies

27:38

would then be in a position to not

27:41

certify Trump's elections, which he's already

27:43

promised that he would do. Do you put

27:46

much credence to this.

27:47

Well, not necessarily, because

27:50

it'll be a new Congress, and

27:52

I think if Trump wins the general election, he

27:54

will almost certainly carry in a Republican

27:57

majority because Trump

27:59

turns out a lot of voters who

28:01

don't normally vote. What you're living

28:03

through is a profound political

28:05

revolution in which the Democrats,

28:08

who under Franklin Delano Roosevelt

28:10

in the New Deal, had become the party

28:12

of working Americans versus the

28:15

party of the rich, the Republicans. That's

28:17

actually an enormous transition now

28:20

with people who are high

28:22

school or say one year of college

28:24

education are overwhelmingly

28:26

moving to the Republican Party, and people

28:28

who have graduate degrees are overwhelmingly

28:31

moving to the Democratic Party. So it's a

28:33

very profound realignment, and

28:36

they are actually getting what used to be a Republican

28:38

pattern. In the old days, Republicans

28:40

tended to vote more than Democrats, and

28:43

so in off your elections

28:45

and special elections, the Republicans

28:47

had an advantage which they lost

28:49

in presidential elections, when you get

28:51

really big turnouts, Well, what's happening

28:54

is when Trump's on the ticket, you

28:56

get a much bigger turnout than

28:58

when he's not, and that's because he is

29:00

attracting all of these folks who historically

29:03

were not Republicans. So I start

29:05

with the idea that the next Congress,

29:07

if Trump does win, he will almost

29:10

certainly carry in a Senate and a House that are

29:12

a Republican and so Hakim

29:14

Jeffries would go back to being the minority leader. The

29:16

greater short term danger is that

29:19

if the Republicans lose their majority,

29:21

that Hakim Jeffries will immediately close down

29:24

every investigation, the investigation

29:26

of the border and homeland security,

29:28

the investigation into the

29:30

Biden family corruption, the investigation

29:33

into the FBI. All of these things

29:35

would be stopped if Hakim Jeffries

29:38

became the leader and the Democrats took over.

29:40

So that's the big short term problem. But

29:42

I think in the long run, if Trump wins

29:45

the significant majority, he's

29:47

going to carry in a Republican House and a

29:49

Republican Senate, and that'll set

29:51

the stage. We're a very tumultuous

29:53

twenty twenty five because the left

29:55

isn't just going to roll over and play dead. They're

29:58

not going to say, oh gee, I guess we lost the election. Just

30:00

the opposite. As Scott Rasmussen

30:02

has pointed out, they will bitterly fight

30:05

to stop the Conservatives

30:07

from shaping government. And I think that's

30:09

a much bigger challenge.

30:11

The question I have is why can't we

30:14

pass a constitutional amendment on

30:17

naturalization? So I think that would take

30:20

the wind out of the sales of

30:22

what they're doing with the migrants. So

30:24

that would have three parts. The

30:27

first part would be you have to be naturalized

30:30

or birth citizen in

30:33

the United States. The second

30:35

thing is to limit

30:37

the amount of people who

30:40

are naturalized every year to

30:43

the percentage of what Obama

30:45

had, which is one quarter of one percent. And

30:48

the third thing is to change the census

30:51

so that non citizens

30:53

would not be counted for purpose

30:56

of basically allocation

30:59

of seats and so forth. What do you think about

31:01

that.

31:02

I agree with all three principles. I think

31:04

all three can actually be accomplished by law

31:06

and don't require an amendment unless

31:08

the Supreme Court ruled that the census

31:11

had to include inhabitants and not

31:13

just citizens, in which case you would then have

31:15

to overrule them with a constitutional amendment.

31:17

I agree with the principle. I think one of the reasons

31:20

that the left is so eager to have millions

31:22

of illegal immigrants is that they're going to

31:24

the big cities, and their hope is that in

31:27

the next census that they

31:29

will give these cities more representation. As

31:31

you know, California, Illinois,

31:33

New York are all losing population,

31:36

and that population is migrating towards

31:39

Georgia, North Carolina, Florida, and Texas,

31:42

and so you're seeing a really profound

31:44

shift, all of it to the advantage of

31:46

the Republicans and the disadvantage of

31:48

the Democrats. And I think a lot of Democrats

31:51

see illegal immigration as the counter

31:54

force that will keep them in power. My hunch

31:56

is it won't. And as I've said earlier, I'm

31:58

in favor of finding a way to repatriate.

32:01

I think if you're here illegally, it's illegal,

32:03

and that we have a right to say that we're

32:06

very much for legal immigration, but

32:08

we're very much against illegal immigration.

32:11

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