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Senate & House GOP United-Sen Ted Cruz Lunch w Trump · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Former President Donald Trump meeting with the GOP for a luncheon.
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Speaker 1: In my own mind, does it seem different in twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty four than it did in twenty sixteen. The President
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Speaker 1: coming out to talk to the reporters after meeting with
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Speaker 1: GOP lawmakers, having this lunch, and I want you to
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Speaker 1: hear what he had to say. This is something Joe
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Speaker 1: Biden could not pull off.
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Speaker 2: Great meeting, this tremendous unity in the Republican Party. We
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Speaker 2: want to see borders, we want to see strong military.
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Speaker 2: We want to see money not wasted all over the world.
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Speaker 2: We don't want to see Russian ships right off the
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Speaker 2: coast of Florida, which is what they are right now.
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Speaker 2: That's unthinkable. We want to see just success for our country,
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Speaker 2: and we don't have success right now.
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Speaker 3: We have inflation that's killing everybody.
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Speaker 2: We have levels of inflation that nobody see for They
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Speaker 2: say forty two years, they say fifty three years, and
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Speaker 2: they say seventy five years.
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Speaker 3: I would say probably all of them are wrong.
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Speaker 2: Probably we've never seen levels like this before.
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Speaker 3: And we're going to end that.
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Speaker 2: We're gonna bring back our jobs, We're gonna bring back
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Speaker 2: common sense to government.
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Speaker 3: We're gonna have strong borders, and we're gonna.
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Speaker 2: Have people come into our country, but they're going to
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Speaker 2: come in legally. They're not going to pour in from
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Speaker 2: prisons all over South America and all over the world.
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Speaker 2: And it's not just South America, by the way, it's
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Speaker 2: all over the world. And we're not going to have
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Speaker 2: them pour in from mental institutions, which is where they're
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Speaker 2: coming from. Large numbers, and large numbers are terrorists, and
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Speaker 2: we're not going to have this. So what's happening to
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Speaker 2: our country is of great concern to the group of
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Speaker 2: people standing alongside of me, and I just wanted to
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Speaker 2: say that we have great unity, we have great common sense,
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Speaker 2: a lot of very smart people in this room, and
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Speaker 2: a lot of people that love our country. They love
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Speaker 2: our country beyond just about all else. The only thing
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Speaker 2: that maybe supersedes it is their family and maybe their
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Speaker 2: faith in certain instances, and that's very nice. But they
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Speaker 2: want this country to be great again, and we're going
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Speaker 2: to make it great again. And so I just want
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Speaker 2: to thank the Republican Senate, and I want to thank
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Speaker 2: also the House. We met, as you know, with the
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Speaker 2: full house Republican House today and we had a tremendous
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Speaker 2: meeting with them also, and there's great unity. Very similar
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Speaker 2: different topics actually, but not that different. And there's one
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Speaker 2: thing in common. We want to make America great again.
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Speaker 2: We want to make our country great again. We're a
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Speaker 2: nation that's in decline. We're declining nation. We're a nation
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Speaker 2: that is being left at all over the world. We
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Speaker 2: have a leader that's being left at all over the world,
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Speaker 2: and we're going.
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Speaker 3: To turn it around. We're going to turn it around fast.
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Speaker 2: The polls are looking like they're very strongly for us,
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Speaker 2: and no matter where you look. In fact, a lot
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Speaker 2: of states that people thought weren't in play a very
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Speaker 2: strong in place somewhere actually leading in But we have
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Speaker 2: to get elected.
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Speaker 3: We have to take this.
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Speaker 2: Beautiful place and we have to make it really something
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Speaker 2: very special again. Right now, it's not special right now,
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Speaker 2: it's being scorned and being used as an example of
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Speaker 2: when they look at the crime on the streets, when
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Speaker 2: they look at all of the problems that we have.
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Speaker 2: They're using us as a bad example of democracy and
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Speaker 2: they're getting away with murder, and we're not going to
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Speaker 2: let it happen. So I just want to thank you
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Speaker 2: for coming, and I want to thank everybody here. You're
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Speaker 2: all either elected or you're going to be elected again
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Speaker 2: and re elected, and I'm with every one of you,
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Speaker 2: and you know that I'll be with you always, and
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Speaker 2: thank you very much for inviting me. And we're gonna
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Speaker 2: have great success. I think we're going to have a
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Speaker 2: tremendous election. It's November fifth, is very important, but we
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Speaker 2: really start much earlier than that. You have North Carolina
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Speaker 2: as an example. You have North Carolina or September sixth.
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Speaker 2: You have Pennsylvania starts on September twenty second.
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Speaker 3: These are things different from the old days.
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Speaker 2: We had election day and you had paper ballots and
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Speaker 2: you had voter ID. Unfortunately, maybe someday we'll get back
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Speaker 2: to that, but you don't have that right now. But
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Speaker 2: this is an outstanding group of people. I'm with them
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Speaker 2: a thousand percent. There was me a thousand percent. We
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Speaker 2: agree just about on everything, and if there isn't, we
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Speaker 2: work it out. And I've had a really great relationship
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Speaker 2: with just about everybody here, with everybody here, just about
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Speaker 2: all of the senators, and if it wasn't fantastic, it
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Speaker 2: gets worked out. And we have one thing in mind,
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Speaker 2: and that's making our country great, So.
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Speaker 3: Thank you all very much. We appreciate you being here.
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Speaker 3: Thank you very much.
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Speaker 1: You're going to hear the clapping of the senators who
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Speaker 1: just had lunch for them, and you can hear the
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Speaker 1: reporters losing their minds, the reporters behind them yelling at
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Speaker 1: him questions. He's shaking hands with every senator that's there,
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Speaker 1: Republican they just had lunch with. This was obviously a
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Speaker 1: very very very big moment and a different moment for
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Speaker 1: the Republican Party. I want to make that clear. You
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Speaker 1: look at the President of the United States of America
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Speaker 1: and look, he did not have this type of unity
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Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen. You had a lot of Democrats and
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Speaker 1: you had a lot of Republicans. When he was elected,
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Speaker 1: they didn't like him. They were Republicans that didn't like him.
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Speaker 1: This type of press conference, last statement would have never
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Speaker 1: happened in twenty sixteen. It's happening now. And the reason
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Speaker 1: why is because they're learning, they're understanding, and they're learning
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Speaker 1: that if you're not united and you're not together, you're
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Speaker 1: gonna get beat. And there's a lot of people that
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Speaker 1: are sick and tired of losing. There's a lot of
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Speaker 1: people that are very angry in this country that the
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Speaker 1: Republican Party has not been able traditionally to kind of
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Speaker 1: get it together and unify and work together. Democrats do
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Speaker 1: an excellent job of getting together uniting together when they
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Speaker 1: get power, when they get elected, they work as a
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Speaker 1: team instantly. Republicans we get power, and many times we
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Speaker 1: screw it up. But what I saw from the President
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Speaker 1: of United States of America in this conversation, what I
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Speaker 1: saw also on the faces of the Republican senators that
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Speaker 1: were standing around him after this luncheon, is that there
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Speaker 1: was a clear, I think understanding right now that it
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Speaker 1: is go time that we can't sit here and squander
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Speaker 1: if the president is re elected, we don't have time
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Speaker 1: for two years to kind of halfway do it. We've
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Speaker 1: got to be all in. We've got to be focused.
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Speaker 1: We've got to have our game together, our plan together,
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Speaker 1: the legislative agenda together. We can't have infighting this time.
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Speaker 1: We can't have people that are sitting on the sidelines.
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Speaker 1: We can't have people whose feelings are hurt. And what
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Speaker 1: I witnessed in this was very authentic and real center
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Speaker 1: Ted Cruz. Many of you know a Coast a podcasts
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Speaker 1: Verdict with Ted Cruz. He was at the luncheon. Has
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Speaker 1: he described it, He said, Ben, this is something I've
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Speaker 1: never seen before, watching the way that others were acting
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Speaker 1: towards the president. He said, I've never seen this before
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Speaker 1: watching not just that, but the enthusiasm in the room.
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Speaker 1: Like there's a very very different mentality this time from
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Speaker 1: the room. Right. Like in the past, you've had some
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Speaker 1: that have been very excited and very focused. Right, you
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Speaker 1: have some that are are are working, but you have
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Speaker 1: others that just kind of, you know, they go the
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Speaker 1: other direction. Names I'm sure if you really want to
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Speaker 1: talk about that, I'll give you example. People like Mitt Romney.
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Speaker 1: Mitt Romney was never a team player. Mitt Romney was
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Speaker 1: somebody that was undermining Donald Trump in twenty sixteen after
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Speaker 1: he didn't pick him for a job, a cabinet position,
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Speaker 1: and so then he wanted his revenge. That's the type
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Speaker 1: of Republican infightingments that it terrifies me. And now what
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Speaker 1: we're seeing is it seems that we've gotten rid of
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Speaker 1: the Romneys. Right, he's not running for reelection, He's going
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Speaker 1: to be gone, and those types of people are no
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Speaker 1: longer sitting there trying to screw the President of the
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Speaker 1: United States of America every chance they get. They've lost
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Speaker 1: that power, and that room yesterday was about putting American first,
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Speaker 1: securing our southern border, protecting our kids from this radical
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Speaker 1: leftist agenda that is dealing with grooming and and transgenderism
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Speaker 1: and all of this insanity in our classrooms. They're not
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Speaker 1: afraid to say that, Yes, many of those come across
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Speaker 1: southern border are terrorists. Yes, many of the coming across
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Speaker 1: the southern border are rapists, are murderers. Our drug dealers
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Speaker 1: are killing our kids with fetanol. That's what's changed as well.
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Speaker 1: In fact, I want you to hear just part of
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Speaker 1: what Center Cruz had to say on our podcast. We
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Speaker 1: do vertic with Tech Cruz about this meeting, because he
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Speaker 1: was in there behind closed doors, and I want you
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Speaker 1: to hear what he said about what was actually talked
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Speaker 1: about with the President behind closed door with the Republican
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Speaker 1: senators and Donald Trump before the press commerce that you
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Speaker 1: just heard. Listen, Senator, this was a very interesting moment
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Speaker 1: on Capitol Hill. Donald Trump came and met with a
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Speaker 1: lot of the Republican leadership. A lot of your colleagues
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Speaker 1: were there, and the initial reports that came out were
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Speaker 1: saying it was a lot of enthusiasm and a lot
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Speaker 1: of excitement from the Republican leaders that were there. You
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Speaker 1: were in the room, tell us what was happening. So
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Speaker 1: I was.
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Speaker 3: So.
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Speaker 4: Trump began the day by meeting with the House Republicans.
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Speaker 4: I was not in that meeting. Some of the reports
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Speaker 4: of that as that was a little bit wild and wooly,
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Speaker 4: that got into all sorts of topics. But Trump came
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Speaker 4: by the Senate to have lunch with us, and so
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Speaker 4: we met at the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which is
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Speaker 4: like three blocks away from the Capitol, and Trump joined
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Speaker 4: us for the lunch and it started.
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Speaker 1: We're all sitting in a room.
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Speaker 4: It started with him talking for about oh, twenty twenty
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Speaker 4: five minutes, and then we did a whole series of
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Speaker 4: Q and A where probably about a dozen of us
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Speaker 4: asked him questions and he commented on those. And then
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Speaker 4: we went out and we did a press conference where
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Speaker 4: we stood we all stood behind him, and he stood
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Speaker 4: up and gave the press conference and listen. I gotta say,
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Speaker 4: the biggest thing about the lunch that struck me was
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Speaker 4: the unity in the room. The media likes to talk
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Speaker 4: about divisions and the Republican Party, and there are certainly some,
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Speaker 4: but today I didn't see any of that.
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Speaker 1: Today.
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Speaker 4: Everyone in the room was focused on winning in November
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Speaker 4: and turning the country around. And Trump was in great spirits.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 4: One of the things I asked him after the meeting.
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Speaker 4: I came up and spent a couple of minutes talking
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Speaker 4: with him. I just asked, how are you doing. I mean,
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Speaker 4: it's been this BS you're dealing with with these New
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Speaker 4: York convictions.
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Speaker 1: They're utter garbage.
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Speaker 4: But listen, it's not fun to be convicted of felonies.
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Speaker 4: I mean, it's been He's been through hell. And so
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Speaker 4: just as a personal level, I was asking him how
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Speaker 4: he was doing, and he said he was doing fine,
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Speaker 4: and it seemed real and genuine. I mean, he was
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Speaker 4: not he was not down in the dumps. He was
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Speaker 4: not discouraged. In fact, was he was really in good spirits.
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Speaker 4: He was optimistic, and his message to everyone is listen,
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Speaker 4: let's stand together. And he emphasized several things. Number one,
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Speaker 4: he emphasized the border, that we've got to secure the border.
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Speaker 4: That is insane, that we have open borders, that it's
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Speaker 4: an invitation to terrorists, and he's exactly right. If and
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Speaker 4: when Trump wins, we will secure the border in the
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Speaker 4: first month or two of the next Trump administration. And
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Speaker 4: I can say that because we know how to do it.
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Speaker 4: We did it before, and we'll do it again. He
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Speaker 4: also talked a lot about inflation and energy in particular,
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Speaker 4: and he pointed out quite rightly that energy is foundational
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Speaker 4: to inflation. And one of the reasons that prices have
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Speaker 4: gone up on just about everything is that energy prices
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Speaker 4: of skyrocketed because the Biden administration has been waging war
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Speaker 4: on American energy and we are an energy powerhouse where
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Speaker 4: the number one producer of oil in the world, where
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Speaker 4: the number one producer of natural gas in the world,
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Speaker 4: and the Biden administration is doing everything they can to
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Speaker 4: stifle that. And Trump was very clear that that we're
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Speaker 4: going to reverse that. We will reverse that fast early
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Speaker 4: next year, and that's going to have a real impact
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Speaker 4: on energy prices and inflam should across the board. We
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Speaker 4: also talked about national security and in particular how insane
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Speaker 4: it is that the Biden administration has flowed one hundred
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Speaker 4: billion dollars to Iran, and if and when Trump wins.
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Speaker 4: That's going to end as well.
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Speaker 1: You mentioned a moment ago that there seemed to be
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Speaker 1: unity in the room. That's incredibly important for getting legislation passed. Yes,
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Speaker 1: and you need that, and we didn't have that type
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Speaker 1: of unity, I would argue last time in twenty sixteen,
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Speaker 1: early on, there was some splinters, there were some divide
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Speaker 1: divisiveness in the House that Senate side. What you seem
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Speaker 1: to be describing this time is if Donald Trump is
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Speaker 1: elected and Republicans have control of the House Senate, it's
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Speaker 1: game on from the from January tewod there's not going
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Speaker 1: to be you know, let's get to know each other
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Speaker 1: time and have some meetings and maybe come over the
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Speaker 1: White House like there's an agenda and it's ready to
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Speaker 1: go for the American people.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I think that's exactly right.
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Speaker 4: And let me put it in broader context, which is
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Speaker 4: y yesterday, the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, came
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Speaker 4: and had lunch with all the Republican senators. And by
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Speaker 4: the way, that almost never happens. When Paul Ryan was speaker,
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Speaker 4: he didn't do that. When John Bayner was Speaker, he
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Speaker 4: didn't do that. When Kevin McCarthy was Speaker.
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Speaker 1: He didn't do that.
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Speaker 4: Mike Johnson has done that this multiple times. This is
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Speaker 4: either the third or fourth time he's come and had
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Speaker 4: lunch with all the Senate Republicans. I think that's great.
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Speaker 4: He was talking at lunch yesterday. He said, you know,
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Speaker 4: it's amazing that the media treats it as a news
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Speaker 4: story that the House and Senator talking to each other.
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Speaker 4: And the reason he came over and talked to us
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Speaker 4: is is he said, he's focused on his end, very
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Speaker 4: much on developing the agenda and the plans to hit
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Speaker 4: the ground running if and when we win in November,
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Speaker 4: if we come in to January of next year with
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Speaker 4: a Republican president, a Republican Senate, Republican House, we got
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Speaker 4: an enormous amount to accomplish. And the Speaker, to his credit,
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Speaker 4: is very focused on the first hundred days. What can
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Speaker 4: we pomplish, what can we do to change the path
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Speaker 4: of the country. I encouraged him to dig in on that.
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Speaker 4: In fact, I shared with a speaker and with everyone
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Speaker 4: else in the room.
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Speaker 1: You know a lot of.
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Speaker 4: The senators that are there now were not there back
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Speaker 4: in twenty seventeen when Trump first became president.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 4: The Speaker said, look, when Trump first became president, he
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Speaker 4: was a freshman, he was brand new in the Congress,
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Speaker 4: and he was amazed that the Congress was not prepared
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Speaker 4: with the legislative agenda from day one. And he pointed
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Speaker 4: out that he thought a lot of Republicans were surprised
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Speaker 4: that Trump won. They were expecting Hillary to win, and
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Speaker 4: so when the administration came in, they weren't ready for primetime.
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Speaker 4: They didn't know what to do. In this instance, I'm
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Speaker 4: very glad the Speaker is trying to think proactively. And
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Speaker 4: I described I described something that I did back in
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Speaker 4: the summer of twenty eighteen. So summer of twenty eighteen,
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Speaker 4: we did a lunch with all the Senate Republicans and
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Speaker 4: I prepared a PowerPoint. It was about fifty pages long,
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Speaker 4: and I spoke to my colleagues probably the better part
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Speaker 4: of an hour. And the title of the power point
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Speaker 4: was carpe dim And what I did in the power
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Speaker 4: point is I looked in the past, in previous instances
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Speaker 4: when one party controlled the White House, the House, and
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Speaker 4: the Senate.
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Speaker 1: It happens pretty rarely.
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Speaker 4: When the Democrats do it, they fundamentally transformed the country.
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Speaker 4: So in the last century. The first time they did it,
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Speaker 4: they passed the New Deal. The second time they did it,
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Speaker 4: they passed the Great Society. The third time they did it,
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Speaker 4: they passed Obamacare and Dodd Frank And now for the
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Speaker 4: last two years we've seen they've spent us into an
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Speaker 4: absolute inflation and recession.
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Speaker 1: Home. Former President Trump went and met with Senate Republicans
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Speaker 1: as well as the House Republicans in a really focused,
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Speaker 1: an incredible show of unity. This is something we had
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Speaker 1: not seen before in this scenario where the Republican Party
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Speaker 1: certainly not in twenty sixteen. Why were they meeting not
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Speaker 1: just to show unity, but to get their act together
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Speaker 1: and have an agenda. If Republicans gain control of the Senate,
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Speaker 1: keep the House, and grab the White House, they're ready
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Speaker 1: to go day one, not sitting around like twenty sixteen
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Speaker 1: trying to figure out what to do. The agenda and
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Speaker 1: the unity is about getting stuff done. We should excite
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Speaker 1: every single American listening right now. If you have a
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Speaker 1: Republican government, then you better do something with it. And
17:42
Speaker 1: that's exactly what Senata Cruz said their conversation was about.
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Speaker 1: It was exactly what needed to be talked about. Take
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Speaker 1: a listen.
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Speaker 4: And on the other hand, Republicans, when we have unified control,
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Speaker 4: we tend to do small and piddling things. So what
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Speaker 4: I argue in the PowerPoint is, at the time I
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Speaker 4: presented it was August of twenty eighteen, I said, listen,
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Speaker 4: any rational political observer recognizes that there's a very real
18:13
Speaker 4: chance that we will lose at least one House of
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Speaker 4: Congress in November. And I said to my colleagues, particularly
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Speaker 4: the guys who were the sophomores, who were the people
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Speaker 4: who had been elected two years earlier, and I said,
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Speaker 4: look for you, guys, we have one hundred and eighty
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Speaker 4: three days till the next Congress. For many of you,
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Speaker 4: if we do not pass things now, you will never
18:37
Speaker 4: again have another chance to pass anything into law. And
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Speaker 4: so I put together a spreadsheet. It was about fifty
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Speaker 4: different bills. All of the bills had been written by
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Speaker 4: different Republican senators. Some I had written, but most of
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Speaker 4: them were my colleagues. And all of the bills were
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Speaker 4: bills that had a reasonable prospect of garnering fifty one votes.
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Speaker 4: They were fringe things that would get ten or twelve votes.
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Speaker 4: There were all things that would easily get forty five
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Speaker 4: Republicans and that had a real shot at getting fifty.
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Speaker 4: And what I argued is, I said, listen, this is
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Speaker 4: going to sound radical to you, Ben, we should do something,
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Speaker 4: we should not do nothing. Amazingly enough, that argument proved unpersuasive.
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Speaker 4: Mitch McConnell said, well, so the principal avenue that if
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Speaker 4: you look, the biggest legislative victory of the Trump years
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Speaker 4: was the twenty seventeen tax cuts. We passed that using
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Speaker 4: what's called budget reconciliation. Budget reconciliation is a process under
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Speaker 4: a bill called the Budget acted nineteen seventy five. The
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Speaker 4: budget piece is not terribly consequential. What's consequential is, under
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Speaker 4: the terms of the statute, you have an up down
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Speaker 4: vote at fifty votes and it can't be filibustered. So
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Speaker 4: it's one of the most important exceptions to the filibuster
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Speaker 4: we could have. If you look at the Democrats, they
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Speaker 4: did three budget reconciliations. It's how they passed almost all
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Speaker 4: of their agenda. That put us in this hole. When
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Speaker 4: the Republicans had the majority, we did only one budget reconciliation.
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Speaker 4: We did not do a single one in twenty eighteen,
20:25
Speaker 4: which Frankly, Ben is indefensible, and so I made the
20:28
Speaker 4: case of the speaker and my colleagues, Let's not make
20:30
Speaker 4: that mistake again. Let's hit the ground running.
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Speaker 1: This seems different. And even when I say different, there's
20:38
Speaker 1: also a lot of people behind the scenes that are
20:40
Speaker 1: working on putting together a Trump administration and a government
20:44
Speaker 1: and learning from the mistakes that happened in twenty sixteen.
20:48
Speaker 1: How encouraged are you by that? I mean, I've had
20:51
Speaker 1: quite a few people I know that I've talked to
20:54
Speaker 1: in many different areas of government who are saying, this
20:59
Speaker 1: just feel different. This time. We learned from our mistakes
21:03
Speaker 1: in sixteen. We learn from our inaction and people that
21:07
Speaker 1: we should have replaced and changed with conservative minds, and
21:11
Speaker 1: we've witnessed what happens when you do that. But this
21:13
Speaker 1: time it's going to be different. That may be the
21:15
Speaker 1: thing I'm the most excited about is if we had,
21:18
Speaker 1: like you mentioned, a House and Senate ready to go,
21:21
Speaker 1: but also many of the bureaucrats that have been changed
21:25
Speaker 1: out very quickly this time. That seems to be the plan. Well.
21:28
Speaker 4: In twenty sixteen, I think Trump's winning surprised a lot
21:33
Speaker 4: of people. It surprised a lot of Republicans in the Senate,
21:35
Speaker 4: surprised a lot of Republicans in the House. It frankly
21:39
Speaker 4: surprised the Trump campaign team, and I think it actually
21:41
Speaker 4: surprised Trump himself. On election Day, I think they were
21:45
Speaker 4: all a little bit startled that they had won and suddenly,
21:49
Speaker 4: Holy cow, we're going to go do this now. And
21:53
Speaker 4: so it resulted in when the administration came in in
21:57
Speaker 4: the beginning of twenty seventeen, in cong the risk Republican
22:00
Speaker 4: leadership of the House and Senate was not prepared with
22:03
Speaker 4: an agenda because they had assumed Hillary was going to
22:06
Speaker 4: win and they didn't need one, and and the White
22:08
Speaker 4: House did not have the experience to know how to
22:12
Speaker 4: drive an agenda. There was no first one hundred Days mission.
22:16
Speaker 4: And you're right, there's a whole series of nonprofits that
22:19
Speaker 4: that are engaged in laying out specific plans for executive orders,
22:24
Speaker 4: for regulations, for for legislation uh and and whether it
22:29
Speaker 4: is the America First Policy Institute or the Heritage Foundation
22:32
Speaker 4: or others. I think if and when Trump wins this November,
22:38
Speaker 4: we will hit January with a much much better level
22:42
Speaker 4: of preparation to to to make a lasting difference immediately.
22:47
Speaker 1: This, by the way, should make every conservative excited. You
22:52
Speaker 1: can just tell that there's a difference this time around.
22:56
Speaker 1: You heard him mentioned that, you know AFP and and
22:59
Speaker 1: and Heritage Foundation. They are and have been for quite
23:03
Speaker 1: some time, focused on having a government that is there
23:09
Speaker 1: to support the president if he is re elected, and
23:14
Speaker 1: a government that is ready to go day one. There
23:20
Speaker 1: were a lot of bureaucrats that were not replaced when
23:23
Speaker 1: Trump won in twenty sixteen, and we now know how
23:26
Speaker 1: big of a mistake that was because they were undermining
23:30
Speaker 1: Trump and there were a lot of positions, career positions
23:35
Speaker 1: in DC that were being used to undermine the agenda
23:40
Speaker 1: of the president of the United States of America. And
23:41
Speaker 1: so you heard him mention that twenty twenty four project.
23:45
Speaker 1: Let me just explain, because I know a lot about this.
23:49
Speaker 1: There are people that were in the Trump administration in
23:53
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen that saw how fast the president could be
23:58
Speaker 1: undermined and how many different forces there were in Washington
24:04
Speaker 1: that we're doing everything that could have stopped Trump instead
24:06
Speaker 1: of support him. And what they've understood is, Okay, well,
24:11
Speaker 1: we can't have that mistake again. And so what they're
24:15
Speaker 1: putting together is a government right now. They are looking
24:20
Speaker 1: and doing background checks and interviews and conversations with people
24:26
Speaker 1: in every aspect because when I say there are tens
24:28
Speaker 1: of thousands of jobs that will need to be filled,
24:31
Speaker 1: there are literally tens of thousands of jobs that need
24:35
Speaker 1: to be filled that we did not fill in twenty
24:38
Speaker 1: sixteen by career people, individuals in Washington, d C. That
24:46
Speaker 1: was a mistake. We should have filled them with people
24:49
Speaker 1: that were on our team. Because when you win, you
24:51
Speaker 1: put your team together, and if you don't, then they're
24:55
Speaker 1: going to undermine you. That's what's going to happen. And
24:59
Speaker 1: that's what happened to Trump in sixteen. And so it's
25:03
Speaker 1: not just Trump winning that is big and something that
25:07
Speaker 1: excites me. It's actually knowing that we have taken our
25:11
Speaker 1: time over the last and this has been going on
25:13
Speaker 1: now for since the mid terms, where there are people
25:16
Speaker 1: that are saying, we were going to find the best
25:18
Speaker 1: and the brightest in all of these different areas where
25:21
Speaker 1: we were undermined, whether it's environmental issues, whether it's oil
25:24
Speaker 1: and gas, whether it's parks in services, whether it's national
25:29
Speaker 1: security issues, whether it's border security, whether it's it's it's
25:33
Speaker 1: food stamps and government aid. There are so many different
25:38
Speaker 1: categories and things that are important that we just didn't
25:43
Speaker 1: put our people in there with our ideology in there,
25:46
Speaker 1: and we should have, like, that's what we should have done.
25:51
Speaker 1: And so that mistake we learned a very tough lesson.
25:54
Speaker 1: And if you don't, then then you have basically an
25:57
Speaker 1: entire government that is working again against you. And that's
26:01
Speaker 1: what Donald Trump experience in twenty sixteen. So this level
26:07
Speaker 1: of focus from the Senate Republicans, from the House Republicans,
26:15
Speaker 1: this partnership. I go back to Speaker Johnson, the point
26:18
Speaker 1: that Cruz just made a moment ago about Speaker Johnson
26:21
Speaker 1: coming over multiple times and meeting with the Senate and
26:24
Speaker 1: he said, this tells you what's wrong with Washington. They're
26:28
Speaker 1: treating it like a news story. When the Speaker of
26:30
Speaker 1: the House goes and meets with the Senate leadership in
26:32
Speaker 1: the same party. Well, you have to have one. You
26:36
Speaker 1: can't have one without the other. To get a law pass, right,
26:39
Speaker 1: you have to have the Senate Republicans agree, and you
26:41
Speaker 1: have to have the House Republicans agree. They should be
26:43
Speaker 1: speaking all the time. But there was this divide in
26:45
Speaker 1: our government. All Right, you guys in the Senate, you
26:47
Speaker 1: stay on your side. You guys in the House, you
26:49
Speaker 1: stay on your side. We'll talk and we get you
26:51
Speaker 1: something to look at. That's not how you win. That's
26:55
Speaker 1: not how you run a government successfully. Okay, I like,
27:01
Speaker 1: that's not how this is done successfully. And so you
27:06
Speaker 1: have a Speaker of the House that's meeting with us
27:09
Speaker 1: that the Senate this is a great framework for success. Hey,
27:13
Speaker 1: what do you guys need? Well, you know, tell me
27:14
Speaker 1: what you're looking at. What are you thinking? All right, Well, look,
27:17
Speaker 1: I don't think I got the votes to get that done.
27:19
Speaker 1: So let's not waste their time on that, or let's
27:22
Speaker 1: not do it that way, because then we're gonna have
27:23
Speaker 1: to you know, reconciliation and we're gonna have to change that.
27:25
Speaker 1: It's gonna it's gonna you know, you know, jam up
27:28
Speaker 1: the system and we're gonna not get that done fast.
27:30
Speaker 1: Stuff like these are conversations you'd rather have on the
27:33
Speaker 1: front end than on than after the fact, because how
27:35
Speaker 1: many times have you heard, Well, the House passed this,
27:37
Speaker 1: but the Senate's gonna change it. They're gonna send it
27:38
Speaker 1: back to the House, and it's gonna go back and forth.
27:41
Speaker 1: Why why not talk on the front end and then
27:44
Speaker 1: have a game plan that like for success. You also
27:50
Speaker 1: want to know why Democrats are gonna do every single
27:52
Speaker 1: thing they can to stop Trump from winning this time,
27:54
Speaker 1: and why they're trying to put them in jail, and
27:57
Speaker 1: why they're they they've they've weaponized the legal system against Trump.
28:00
Speaker 1: It's because they understand that everything I just told you
28:03
Speaker 1: is exactly what the Republicans are doing this time. And
28:06
Speaker 1: the Republicans, learning from their past mistakes and being organized
28:10
Speaker 1: day one terrifies the Democrats because they understand their career
28:15
Speaker 1: people in the government in DC that were allowed to
28:18
Speaker 1: keep their jobs last time will not be allowed to
28:20
Speaker 1: keep their jobs this time, and undermine the president at
28:23
Speaker 1: every turn and undermine the Republicans in every turn. And
28:26
Speaker 1: now they understand, Okay, the Republicans have figured it out.
28:29
Speaker 1: This is scary. We can't let them win. So if
28:33
Speaker 1: you want to know how effective this plan could be,
28:36
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28:39
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