WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.560 --> 00:00:04.719 Attention. You're listening to the Todd Huff Radio Show, America's home for conservative 2 00:00:04.919 --> 00:00:09.480 not bitter talk radio. Be advised the content of this program has been documented 3 00:00:09.480 --> 00:00:12.839 to prevents and even cure liberalism, and listening may cause you to lean to 4 00:00:12.839 --> 00:00:36.719 the right. Here's your conservative but not Bitter host, Todd Huff, Conservative 5 00:00:36.759 --> 00:00:40.679 not Bitter Indeed, welcome, my friends to this episode of The Todd Huff 6 00:00:40.679 --> 00:00:45.359 Show. I hope you had a great weekend. Email as always, well, 7 00:00:45.560 --> 00:00:50.880 ever since we changed it, Todd at tod hufshow dot com. Questions, 8 00:00:51.000 --> 00:00:55.759 thoughts, opinions, feedback, always be sure to include that adoration and 9 00:00:55.880 --> 00:01:00.280 praise. You can also text us those things three one zero twenty eight dirty. 10 00:01:00.320 --> 00:01:07.239 Just be advised that texting and messaging rates, data rates, those sorts 11 00:01:07.239 --> 00:01:08.799 of things may apply. It's good to be here, my friends. So 12 00:01:08.840 --> 00:01:18.040 I want to start something that happened on on Friday. Something happened on Friday. 13 00:01:18.200 --> 00:01:25.239 Tucker Carlson sat down with Mike Pence excuse me, and did an interview 14 00:01:25.400 --> 00:01:33.359 with Vice President Pence. And people are saying that this is the end of 15 00:01:33.400 --> 00:01:40.680 the Pence campaign, and well for twenty twenty four, I have to tell 16 00:01:40.719 --> 00:01:45.599 you that if you listen to this program, and I know folks listen, 17 00:01:45.799 --> 00:01:51.879 this is not I think it's popular with most of you. But even if 18 00:01:51.879 --> 00:01:57.760 it wasn't, and I thought it, I would say it. But it's 19 00:01:57.799 --> 00:02:01.200 not popular with some of the folks. You know that that I know here 20 00:02:01.239 --> 00:02:09.879 in Indiana. This is Pence's Pence's home, This is Pence is from Columbus, 21 00:02:09.960 --> 00:02:14.319 which is roughly I don't know, an hour from me. I'm guessing 22 00:02:15.759 --> 00:02:23.479 anyway. But his campaign, as I said, as I said when he 23 00:02:23.000 --> 00:02:27.960 announced his candidacy, I said, he will not be the candidate. This 24 00:02:28.039 --> 00:02:36.000 is this is just maybe maybe one of the I want to be nice here. 25 00:02:36.120 --> 00:02:38.879 This is not personal. I promise it's not something I know for some 26 00:02:38.960 --> 00:02:42.319 of you it is. I know for some of you it is. It's 27 00:02:42.360 --> 00:02:46.080 not for me, and I don't want to make it that way. But 28 00:02:46.319 --> 00:02:51.000 this is one of hundreds of things that would have proved thousands of things that 29 00:02:51.000 --> 00:02:54.560 would have prevented Trump from excuse me, Pence Pence, by the way, 30 00:02:54.599 --> 00:03:01.719 not Trump Pence from winning the nomination. And so he's on with Tucker Carlson, 31 00:03:01.840 --> 00:03:06.560 being asked a lot of things, and he's asked about about Ukraine. 32 00:03:06.560 --> 00:03:14.479 Now I want to say Pence is an old school conservative, and I mean 33 00:03:14.520 --> 00:03:20.759 in many ways I am too. But I think that one of the things 34 00:03:21.639 --> 00:03:30.120 that the conservative movement has become more open to. I suppose that the way 35 00:03:30.319 --> 00:03:39.639 I want to say this is this idea, well, is the is using 36 00:03:39.680 --> 00:03:49.520 the military less. Conservatives traditionally have been quite hawkish on the military, a 37 00:03:49.639 --> 00:03:53.800 strong military as a conservative principle. Now that being said, that being said 38 00:03:53.840 --> 00:04:01.319 that that doesn't mean that we should accept any amount of money, any budget 39 00:04:01.439 --> 00:04:10.120 from any department in our government and just blindly fund it without any sort of 40 00:04:10.599 --> 00:04:17.199 accountability and that sort of thing. In fact, I saw Democrat Representative Row 41 00:04:18.720 --> 00:04:24.439 Kana out there to actually, for the first time maybe in his history, 42 00:04:24.480 --> 00:04:31.600 Representative Kana is out there saying that we're out of bullets and the government's wasting 43 00:04:32.519 --> 00:04:35.439 it's money. By the way, that's in the stack of stuff today on 44 00:04:35.480 --> 00:04:39.839 the website if you want to see that clip. I think he's on with 45 00:04:41.120 --> 00:04:46.000 what's the I'm drawing a blank why he's seeing in I'm drawing a blank on 46 00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:47.480 who the anchor was. I can see his face. It's the one that 47 00:04:47.560 --> 00:04:54.399 Trump Acosta, Jim Accosta, Jim Acosta Jim Acosta, I'm not gonna call 48 00:04:54.439 --> 00:04:57.040 you fake news anymore. Well, thank you, President Trump. I'm you're 49 00:04:57.160 --> 00:05:00.120 very fake news. I'll never forget that exchange they had during the Trump presidency. 50 00:05:00.160 --> 00:05:05.000 But anyway, but the left is even understanding that the government spending is 51 00:05:05.000 --> 00:05:09.680 out of control, even if they only see it on the issue of the 52 00:05:09.720 --> 00:05:13.680 military. The fact of the matter is, the fact of the matter is 53 00:05:13.839 --> 00:05:18.959 the military spending can be cut back. It has to be cut back. 54 00:05:20.040 --> 00:05:25.399 I'm not saying exactly the same percentages, but it needs to be cut across 55 00:05:25.439 --> 00:05:29.600 the board. Now, obviously, we don't want to be in a situation 56 00:05:29.639 --> 00:05:33.160 where we're weakened militarily, and we have to be realistic as to how these 57 00:05:33.199 --> 00:05:40.959 other countries, these other nations, these adversarial nations like China, like Russia, 58 00:05:41.120 --> 00:05:45.399 like Iran, I wouldn't. I mean, you always have to keep 59 00:05:45.439 --> 00:05:47.120 an eye on North Korea, not so much for their military strength, but 60 00:05:47.160 --> 00:05:51.600 just for their craziness. But you know, we have to stay ahead of 61 00:05:51.600 --> 00:05:58.319 them. We have to be able to we have to be able to display 62 00:05:58.959 --> 00:06:03.160 dominance across the world. I get all that, and I'm fine with that, 63 00:06:03.600 --> 00:06:06.680 not to use it as a form of aggression, but to use it 64 00:06:06.720 --> 00:06:11.000 to keep the peace. You know, it just goes back to the schoolyard. 65 00:06:11.079 --> 00:06:15.519 My friends, If if the bully is the toughest person on the block, 66 00:06:15.240 --> 00:06:19.480 a bunch of kids are going to be getting bloody noses and at recess. 67 00:06:20.199 --> 00:06:27.439 But if the toughest kid on the playground is the one that tells the 68 00:06:27.480 --> 00:06:30.800 bully to knock it off, and the bully knows he can't take him, 69 00:06:30.800 --> 00:06:34.240 well, guess what, There's gonna be less bloody noses on the playground. 70 00:06:34.240 --> 00:06:38.560 And that's kind of how I view the US military. Not again were the 71 00:06:38.600 --> 00:06:44.879 world's police, but just the presence and the threat of a powerful military that 72 00:06:44.920 --> 00:06:50.399 can be effectively acting in any theater around the world at a moment's notice is 73 00:06:50.800 --> 00:06:57.000 a good a good thing. But we also don't just want to throw money 74 00:06:57.040 --> 00:07:00.879 at it and not question it. That's not that's not being you know, 75 00:07:01.160 --> 00:07:06.600 inconsiderate for the military or our troops. I mean, there's waste anywhere. 76 00:07:06.959 --> 00:07:11.279 I mean, that's just I guarantee there's waste. And it's not because of 77 00:07:11.279 --> 00:07:15.879 what we're paying the troops. It's because of something that we're mismanaging. I 78 00:07:15.879 --> 00:07:19.639 mean, government is incredibly inefficient, especially when it does not have to be 79 00:07:19.759 --> 00:07:24.360 held accountable, and so there's a balance there, right, That's that's the 80 00:07:24.399 --> 00:07:30.079 bottom line. But I'm Pence is I think an older school conservative, and 81 00:07:30.120 --> 00:07:35.399 I think he's quicker, don't. I don't think he's learned that Many conservatives 82 00:07:35.399 --> 00:07:40.319 today, the Libertarians of course are in this group as well. Limited government 83 00:07:40.319 --> 00:07:46.639 types were tired of wars. Now some of the I'm not saying that we 84 00:07:46.639 --> 00:07:53.879 shouldn't have fought any war or anything like that, but the conservative movement has 85 00:07:53.920 --> 00:07:59.879 become a little less hawkish in recent years, especially when you throw countries into 86 00:07:59.879 --> 00:08:05.040 the like Russia and Ukraine. One of the quickest ways to irritate Odds that 87 00:08:05.160 --> 00:08:11.720 you can possibly come up with is to tell her another five billion, fifty 88 00:08:11.759 --> 00:08:16.800 billion, ten billion is being sent to Ukraine and whatever shape, manner or 89 00:08:16.800 --> 00:08:22.120 form that that may take, cash or tanks or cluster bombs or whatever. 90 00:08:22.399 --> 00:08:26.839 She's not a fan of this, and I'm not either, but it's I 91 00:08:26.879 --> 00:08:33.879 mean, it lights her fuse quicker than just about anything. But that message 92 00:08:33.919 --> 00:08:39.159 does not seem to have gotten to Pence. Now this is interesting to me 93 00:08:39.559 --> 00:08:43.879 from a philosophical perspective, because you know, Pence is a guy that's been 94 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:54.759 around for a while. He's studied politics. He understands even if I mean 95 00:08:54.200 --> 00:08:56.600 some of these things I agree with him on some of them, I don't. 96 00:08:56.720 --> 00:09:03.200 He understands geopolitical relations and some of these adversaries and risks around the world 97 00:09:03.200 --> 00:09:07.879 and so forth. But the you know, back in the back in the 98 00:09:07.960 --> 00:09:13.440 eighties or even back before this, but we were we were engaged in trying 99 00:09:13.480 --> 00:09:18.960 to contain the fact, it was called the Containment policy, contained communism. 100 00:09:18.919 --> 00:09:26.600 After we ended World War Two, the Soviet Union, we knew was communists, 101 00:09:26.600 --> 00:09:28.279 but they helped us. Actually they played a huge role. You can 102 00:09:28.279 --> 00:09:39.879 almost swell us and Great Britain and Russia defeated the Nazis in World War Two, 103 00:09:41.279 --> 00:09:46.399 and at the conclusion of that war, there was a lot of you 104 00:09:46.440 --> 00:09:48.840 know, there was the negotiation, the treaty and all that sort of stuff, 105 00:09:50.480 --> 00:09:54.360 and the Eastern part of Europe kind of fell under the I don't know 106 00:09:54.399 --> 00:09:58.559 the leadership or the I don't want to say authority, although that's what it 107 00:09:58.559 --> 00:10:05.080 became. Quickly fell under the purview of the Soviet Union, and Western Europe 108 00:10:05.720 --> 00:10:11.759 fell under the purview of the UK and the United States, and there was 109 00:10:11.799 --> 00:10:16.759 a stark line drawn. In fact, in one place that line became a 110 00:10:16.799 --> 00:10:24.320 physical barrier separating East and West Berlin with the Berlin Wall, and on one 111 00:10:24.399 --> 00:10:31.720 side in East Berlin they were Communists. The wall was built so that people 112 00:10:31.799 --> 00:10:35.840 could not leave East Berlin and go to West Berlin. That's where everybody wanted 113 00:10:35.879 --> 00:10:39.279 to go. So the wall was built to keep people in. The wall 114 00:10:39.279 --> 00:10:43.799 that was built by the Communists, which of course our kissing cousins to the 115 00:10:43.879 --> 00:10:50.639 socialists. The wall was built to keep people in, to keep people inside. 116 00:10:52.360 --> 00:10:56.320 Wasn't to keep people out or to keep people from crossing willy nilly, 117 00:10:56.399 --> 00:11:01.759 like we've talked about here or Trump has implemented here with his border wall. 118 00:11:01.799 --> 00:11:07.039 The wall was instead designed to keep people in. And so as such we 119 00:11:07.039 --> 00:11:15.279 were very and understandably so the Reagans. Reagan's much of his administration was focused 120 00:11:15.320 --> 00:11:22.759 on talks with Gorbachoff, the Soviet Union, nuclear proliferation, all of these 121 00:11:22.799 --> 00:11:26.879 treaties, trying to keep World War three from happening, and that sort of 122 00:11:26.879 --> 00:11:33.440 thing. And so the way that we looked at the world, or many 123 00:11:33.440 --> 00:11:37.039 Conservatives did back in the eighties, right or wrong, was that we wanted 124 00:11:37.080 --> 00:11:43.840 to get involved if it looked like Soviet Communism was expanding. That's why I 125 00:11:43.879 --> 00:11:50.279 mean things like the Iran Kantra affair pop up. I mean our involvement in 126 00:11:52.480 --> 00:12:01.320 political or military guess she would say military issues became more prevalent. It's why 127 00:12:01.399 --> 00:12:07.480 we helped Afghanistan, who actually helped Osama bin Laden the mujah Hadeen back in 128 00:12:07.480 --> 00:12:13.000 the nineteen what the early eighties, I guess, fight off the Soviet Union 129 00:12:13.240 --> 00:12:18.960 because the theory was, or the concern was that communism spreads, and communism 130 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:24.799 does spread, It spreads by force. No one once they understand the total 131 00:12:26.360 --> 00:12:31.039 totalitarian nature of communism. Really once communism, we're always told that it's going 132 00:12:31.080 --> 00:12:37.159 to be something else, but it takes this brutal form and it crushes the 133 00:12:37.159 --> 00:12:43.720 hearts and souls of the people within its country, and eventually, eventually the 134 00:12:43.759 --> 00:12:50.159 pressures and the weight of the obligation of communism is such that they have to 135 00:12:50.200 --> 00:12:54.399 go get more people. They have to get more people to create an economy 136 00:12:54.440 --> 00:13:00.159 that can produce enough for the people, or they're going to starve or have 137 00:13:00.320 --> 00:13:03.720 extreme poverty, which is what happens every single time, except of course, 138 00:13:03.759 --> 00:13:07.639 for the ruling class and the political elites. They're totally fine. They are 139 00:13:09.639 --> 00:13:13.519 wealthy enrolling in the dough. So that's why we were concerned. We knew 140 00:13:13.559 --> 00:13:18.200 that it was just the nature of communism to spread like this, and anytime 141 00:13:18.240 --> 00:13:24.600 it tried to do it, we at least tried. Now this dates back, 142 00:13:24.919 --> 00:13:28.679 the containment policy dates back way before Reagan. But that's I'm saying that 143 00:13:28.799 --> 00:13:35.720 Pence is from kind of that erast. So whenever he hears Ukraine and Russia, 144 00:13:35.799 --> 00:13:39.759 which is what he was asked about by Tucker Carlson on Friday, which 145 00:13:39.799 --> 00:13:43.639 many people are saying the response to that question ended his campaign, I think 146 00:13:43.679 --> 00:13:46.399 they're dead wrong. I think the campaign ended the second they announced it. 147 00:13:46.440 --> 00:13:50.320 I said that on this program. This was just one of again potentially hundreds, 148 00:13:50.320 --> 00:13:56.200 if not thousands, of ways that their campaign was going to come to 149 00:13:56.320 --> 00:13:58.879 a screeching halt. Now I don't know if they'll survive this phase of that 150 00:14:00.399 --> 00:14:07.399 or not. It's not looking very good. They're fundraising numbers or are absolutely 151 00:14:07.440 --> 00:14:11.600 atrocious. They don't know for certain yet. As the last last time that 152 00:14:11.639 --> 00:14:16.600 I looked at three, I'm gonna make the first debate stage the certain the 153 00:14:16.919 --> 00:14:22.759 criteria that's set forth for that, they may not achieve that, so they're 154 00:14:22.799 --> 00:14:26.399 in a pickle. That's the former vice president of this country should be in 155 00:14:26.559 --> 00:14:31.960 theory, taking away all the January sixth stuff and all that, but just 156 00:14:31.039 --> 00:14:35.200 in theory, if the former vice president of the United States as science to 157 00:14:35.320 --> 00:14:41.399 throw his or her hat into the primary process, they shouldn't be struggling to 158 00:14:41.879 --> 00:14:48.120 fundraise or get on the debate stage meeting certain criteria. But that, of 159 00:14:48.159 --> 00:14:50.919 course, is where we are headed with the Pence campaign. And this, 160 00:14:50.960 --> 00:14:56.600 of course was maybe not specifically predictable, but predictable in the larger since they 161 00:14:56.639 --> 00:15:01.879 have a have an uphill battle. They're entire fire strategy and philosophy. And 162 00:15:03.000 --> 00:15:05.960 the crossing of the fingers is that Trump gets taken out. I mean, 163 00:15:07.399 --> 00:15:09.919 I don't know how else to say it. That's how I see it. 164 00:15:09.919 --> 00:15:15.919 It's the only chance they have is if Trump ends up I mean with these 165 00:15:15.919 --> 00:15:20.960 indictments being taken out, whatever that means. That means I mean, I 166 00:15:20.960 --> 00:15:24.279 don't even want to speak some of these words, but ends up in prison, 167 00:15:24.279 --> 00:15:28.240 which I'm not predicting, but this is what the bet was. Trump 168 00:15:28.320 --> 00:15:33.159 ends up in prison. It's just too much baggage for Republican donors. To 169 00:15:33.240 --> 00:15:39.200 supports he's gonna just give up, and which again that's crazy talk to me, 170 00:15:39.240 --> 00:15:43.720 that Trump's gonna would quit. But that's the thinking his entire campaign, 171 00:15:43.840 --> 00:15:50.240 entire campaign strategy for Pence is predicated upon that. Is there not to be 172 00:15:50.279 --> 00:15:54.360 a Trump. Then and only then does he think he has a shine. 173 00:15:54.360 --> 00:15:56.039 And I still don't think he does at that, as I've made clear before, 174 00:15:56.120 --> 00:16:00.120 So not personal, as kind of setting the stage for what I want 175 00:16:00.120 --> 00:16:03.960 to get to next segment, which is Tucker Cross and asking Mike Pence about 176 00:16:04.120 --> 00:16:11.200 Ukraine, Pence giving an answer, Tucker Cross and pushing back, and then 177 00:16:11.799 --> 00:16:18.039 Pence making a comment which is certainly not good, certainly not good at all 178 00:16:18.120 --> 00:16:22.039 from from what he said, and maybe it was misunderstood. I don't know. 179 00:16:22.080 --> 00:16:23.559 I try to get folks even the benefit of the doubt here, but 180 00:16:25.200 --> 00:16:27.440 if you take the words and think, you know, if he meant those 181 00:16:27.480 --> 00:16:32.399 words, or even if he just let him slip or whatever, it's just 182 00:16:32.480 --> 00:16:38.000 not it's not good at all, objectively not good. So timeouts in order. 183 00:16:38.240 --> 00:16:41.080 When we come back, we will play that clip, talk about that 184 00:16:41.120 --> 00:16:45.720 and get to plenty of other things in today's news. My friends, you're 185 00:16:45.720 --> 00:16:48.759 listening here to conservative, not better talk. It's good to be back here 186 00:16:48.759 --> 00:16:56.240 on this Monday, be back in just about it. Welcome back, my 187 00:16:56.360 --> 00:17:03.879 friends. So with nothing operating us from this Pence sound by many of you 188 00:17:03.919 --> 00:17:08.480 may have seen this, heard this over the weekend. Oz had told me 189 00:17:08.519 --> 00:17:11.359 that she had heard that people are saying it's been clipped. It's not been 190 00:17:11.440 --> 00:17:17.640 clipped it. I do think, I do think, and I know some 191 00:17:17.720 --> 00:17:19.559 of you don't want me to be fair, but I am fair, even 192 00:17:19.599 --> 00:17:26.720 if it's even to a fault. I don't believe he really means what he 193 00:17:26.799 --> 00:17:30.559 says here. I think. I think through they're talking past each other. 194 00:17:30.640 --> 00:17:41.359 He understood there's a misunderstanding because Mike Pence is a he's a he's been a 195 00:17:41.400 --> 00:17:45.279 politician for a while. There's certain things that you know that you never that 196 00:17:45.400 --> 00:17:48.759 you never do. And again, as I've shared before, when you speak 197 00:17:48.759 --> 00:17:53.440 as much as these folks speak, you're bound to make some mistakes. Now, 198 00:17:55.200 --> 00:17:59.400 I did see Biden stumbles going up the stairs. Again, that's something 199 00:17:59.440 --> 00:18:04.880 that doesn't normally happen. President face planning all over the place, but that 200 00:18:06.079 --> 00:18:10.039 is that is a little bit different. But you know, when you speak 201 00:18:10.039 --> 00:18:12.400 as much as these guys do, I give him some I do even Biden, 202 00:18:14.440 --> 00:18:18.039 but again, what Biden says and what Pence says here are nowhere in 203 00:18:18.079 --> 00:18:23.680 the same universe. Like I can, as a reasonable adult human beings say, 204 00:18:23.759 --> 00:18:29.279 I think he was referencing Ukraine instead of the United States in his response, 205 00:18:29.480 --> 00:18:33.319 you know, like that that's a legitimate explanation. It's not the right 206 00:18:33.640 --> 00:18:42.160 words, because when you listen to what Tucker Carlson was asking him, Vice 207 00:18:42.200 --> 00:18:45.319 President Pence did not say the right thing. So, I mean, in 208 00:18:45.400 --> 00:18:48.599 one sense, it's not that big of a deal, but because I don't 209 00:18:48.599 --> 00:18:52.480 believe he meant the way that it came out. But in another sense, 210 00:18:53.079 --> 00:19:00.720 in the sense of the superficiality of politics in the SoundBite culture, I do 211 00:19:00.839 --> 00:19:06.039 think that it is probably a big problem. Now, the truth is the 212 00:19:06.079 --> 00:19:11.319 people that there's actually more did I see this? I think there's more never 213 00:19:11.480 --> 00:19:15.680 Pincers in the Republican Party than there are never Trumpers. A higher percentage of 214 00:19:15.759 --> 00:19:21.240 people said that they will never vote for Pence, and I'm pretty sure I 215 00:19:21.240 --> 00:19:25.079 saw this. I think it was like twenty five percent or some such thing. 216 00:19:25.960 --> 00:19:29.480 It was a couple of weeks ago, probably right after Pence announced his 217 00:19:30.480 --> 00:19:34.279 candidacy, Anyway, all that being said, here's Pence sitting down with Tucker 218 00:19:34.319 --> 00:19:40.200 Crosson. This is about a ninety second clip. He gives an answer on 219 00:19:40.519 --> 00:19:45.480 Ukraine Russia. Tucker Crosson pushes back. Pence responds, and it doesn't sound 220 00:19:47.119 --> 00:19:49.319 good at all. In fact, if you take him at his word, 221 00:19:49.920 --> 00:19:55.920 or take the words literally, and don't think he's making a mistake here he's 222 00:19:56.039 --> 00:19:59.480 basically saying, and I listen, I don't. I think it's just I 223 00:19:59.519 --> 00:20:04.119 think there was misunderstanding as to who they are in this example. But he 224 00:20:04.160 --> 00:20:07.440 says that. I guess he said that's not my problem or something like this, 225 00:20:07.640 --> 00:20:11.039 very similar to that. So I think he was referencing Ukraine, but 226 00:20:11.079 --> 00:20:15.480 it could easily. In fact, it's technically constructed. With his answer, 227 00:20:15.519 --> 00:20:18.960 it sounded like he was talking about American cities. So that being said, 228 00:20:19.200 --> 00:20:25.079 here's a sound Biden along the way. The Biden administration has been slow in 229 00:20:25.200 --> 00:20:29.319 providing military support. Made no mistake about this. We promised them thirty three 230 00:20:29.359 --> 00:20:33.519 Abrams tanks in January. I heard again two weeks ago in Ukraine they still 231 00:20:33.559 --> 00:20:37.200 don't have them. We've been telling them we'll train their F sixteen pilots. 232 00:20:37.200 --> 00:20:41.160 But now they're saying, maybe January, we'll let somebody transfer some jets. 233 00:20:41.200 --> 00:20:44.160 I'm sorry, mister Vice President, have you I know you're running for president, 234 00:20:44.920 --> 00:20:51.480 you aren't distressed that the Ukrainians don't have enough American tanks. Every city 235 00:20:51.480 --> 00:20:56.599 in the United States has become much worse over the past three years. Drive 236 00:20:56.640 --> 00:21:00.799 around. There's not one city that's gotten better in the United States. It's 237 00:21:00.960 --> 00:21:06.359 visible. Our economy has degraded, the suicide rate has jumped, public filth 238 00:21:06.359 --> 00:21:11.960 and disorder and crime have exponentially increased. And yet your concern is at the 239 00:21:12.079 --> 00:21:17.640 Ukrainians, a country most people can't find out a map, who've received tens 240 00:21:17.640 --> 00:21:21.000 of billions of US tax dollars, don't have enough tanks. I think it's 241 00:21:21.000 --> 00:21:23.240 a fair question to ask, like, where's the concern for the United States 242 00:21:23.240 --> 00:21:27.319 in that. Well, it's not my concern, that's Tucker. I've heard 243 00:21:27.319 --> 00:21:32.400 that routine from you before. But that's not my concern. I'm running for 244 00:21:32.440 --> 00:21:34.200 president of the United States because I think this country's in a lot of trouble. 245 00:21:36.160 --> 00:21:41.359 I think, Joe, so that's not my concern, he said. 246 00:21:42.599 --> 00:21:49.960 Now it certainly sounds like, again, what is that right? I mean, 247 00:21:49.960 --> 00:21:56.039 it can certainly be construed to say American cities. That is not my 248 00:21:56.319 --> 00:22:03.279 concern, Tucker. That can certainly sound like what he's referencing here. He 249 00:22:03.319 --> 00:22:07.599 should have done better at explaining that. I don't think that that's what he 250 00:22:07.680 --> 00:22:11.240 meant. As I've said, he's not going to be the Republican nominee for 251 00:22:11.279 --> 00:22:18.920 president, but this may take him out this and the lack of fundraising has 252 00:22:19.000 --> 00:22:23.319 not potentially I don't know if they've gotten met the criteria yet to be on 253 00:22:23.359 --> 00:22:26.880 the debate stage, but all these things are piling up. It's early, 254 00:22:26.960 --> 00:22:32.160 I mean, it is early in the process, and they can't get the 255 00:22:32.200 --> 00:22:36.039 wheels off the ground. And on top of that, I don't want to 256 00:22:37.319 --> 00:22:41.440 completely abandon the pens discussion here, but when you look over at what's happening 257 00:22:41.720 --> 00:22:48.119 with the de Santis campaign, does Santis campaign lays off some laid off some 258 00:22:48.240 --> 00:22:53.759 staff, and they've missed some fundraising goals. Now it also appears that everybody's 259 00:22:53.759 --> 00:23:02.119 fundraising goals maybe aren't as good as they had hoped or intended. But that's 260 00:23:02.519 --> 00:23:07.480 kind of where kind of where we are right now. I mean, as 261 00:23:07.559 --> 00:23:11.480 we all know, as we all know, and as the people who are 262 00:23:11.519 --> 00:23:15.240 giving money to these campaigns. Also know this is still they have to know 263 00:23:15.319 --> 00:23:22.319 this. If they don't, I don't understand the thinking this is still in 264 00:23:22.359 --> 00:23:26.759 spite of everything going on, as we've said, as you know, this 265 00:23:26.839 --> 00:23:33.720 is still Trump's to lose. Now, there are a lot of concerning things 266 00:23:33.759 --> 00:23:40.519 going on out there in a sane world. I'm not saying they're they're concerning, 267 00:23:40.559 --> 00:23:45.400 but in the world that we live in where one side of this, 268 00:23:47.279 --> 00:23:51.440 well, one side of the political debate has weaponized the government against the other 269 00:23:51.480 --> 00:23:55.640 side, I mean, it's a legitimate concern to be to think about what's 270 00:23:55.640 --> 00:24:00.200 going to happen with Trump and these indictments. In a sane world, I 271 00:24:00.200 --> 00:24:03.400 don't think anything would. I don't think we would be here now in a 272 00:24:03.519 --> 00:24:07.279 sane world. But here we are, and so that's what they're betting on. 273 00:24:08.279 --> 00:24:11.839 But they've I mean, they stepped into this and I said it at 274 00:24:11.880 --> 00:24:15.319 the time. I said it about DeSantis, and it's not personal. I 275 00:24:15.359 --> 00:24:19.440 think I think de Santis has done some really good things. I think he's 276 00:24:19.480 --> 00:24:25.839 been strong. I think that's the most important. You want someone who's still 277 00:24:25.839 --> 00:24:30.960 conservative in their principles, someone who still endorses policies that are in line with 278 00:24:32.000 --> 00:24:34.680 the constitution, with limited government. Someone who's gonna cut taxes, roll back 279 00:24:34.720 --> 00:24:41.240 the bureaucratic red tape, all that kind of stuff, find ways to cut 280 00:24:41.359 --> 00:24:45.519 budgets or get us back. Folks. We are borrowing. I saw this 281 00:24:45.559 --> 00:24:49.599 in the stack of stuff too. This is the we're in the third we 282 00:24:49.720 --> 00:24:55.720 finished three quarters. Yeah, we're almost We're in the fourth quarter of the 283 00:24:55.720 --> 00:25:02.599 fiscal year, and we are borrowing right now five point one billion with a 284 00:25:02.720 --> 00:25:07.359 b dollars every day in the federal government, folks. That is, if 285 00:25:07.400 --> 00:25:12.559 anyone doesn't think that's unsustainable, they need to invest in a calculator. Actually, 286 00:25:12.599 --> 00:25:18.000 just a dry race board, a chalkboard, a pencil with a pad 287 00:25:18.039 --> 00:25:23.039 of paper. This is unsustainable. And so of course the candidate needs to 288 00:25:23.039 --> 00:25:30.519 have conservative principles and values, but they have to have a fight. That 289 00:25:30.640 --> 00:25:37.519 is, it's necessary to dismantle as much of this bureaucratic state as possible, 290 00:25:37.519 --> 00:25:40.960 and of course they're gonna make it next to impossible. So that's what I 291 00:25:41.000 --> 00:25:45.079 like about obviously Trump, That's what I like about De Santis, and it's 292 00:25:45.079 --> 00:25:49.680 worth Pence. One of the biggest glaring to me issues that he has is 293 00:25:49.720 --> 00:25:57.839 just that fight that is critically important. It doesn't matter if you have the 294 00:25:57.839 --> 00:26:03.039 best ideas in the world. Old if you're not prepared to go in there 295 00:26:03.400 --> 00:26:08.079 and try to literally dismantle this beast, we will not get anywhere. They 296 00:26:08.119 --> 00:26:11.640 will throw wrenches in the gears. They the deep state, the bureaucratic state, 297 00:26:11.680 --> 00:26:15.000 whatever, the swamp, whatever you want to call it. I don't 298 00:26:15.000 --> 00:26:21.519 even care. The people that are working behind the scenes, that are doing 299 00:26:21.559 --> 00:26:25.920 things that we've seen the FBI do, for example, they throw a wrench 300 00:26:25.960 --> 00:26:32.319 in the gears of everything, any investigation, any pursuit of truth. I 301 00:26:32.359 --> 00:26:36.160 mean, how many things have they gotten right lately? None? Now, 302 00:26:36.200 --> 00:26:40.039 again, these are things that are strategically controlled by the people in these positions 303 00:26:40.039 --> 00:26:44.599 of power, the James Comby's and the Christopher Rays and all that. So, 304 00:26:44.839 --> 00:26:48.160 but this is this needs to be addressed. We need someone that before 305 00:26:48.319 --> 00:26:53.559 day one HITS is chomping at the bit to get in there and to clean 306 00:26:53.599 --> 00:27:00.279 house. And I just I mean, Pence doesn't have that. Pince doesn't 307 00:27:00.319 --> 00:27:03.359 I would obviously if it's Pence or Trump, or excuse me, Pence or 308 00:27:03.559 --> 00:27:10.480 Biden, I would clearly push the button, pulled the lever, check the 309 00:27:10.480 --> 00:27:15.440 box whatever. For Pence but this is not I just think it's living in 310 00:27:15.480 --> 00:27:18.160 a world of naive tay to think that that is going to solve the problem. 311 00:27:18.279 --> 00:27:22.359 I think a lot of people realize this. Couple that with what we've 312 00:27:22.400 --> 00:27:26.000 heard and the fundraising numbers and everything else. Everyone else is in a world 313 00:27:26.000 --> 00:27:30.480 of hurt besides Trump right now, anyway, timeouts in order, So time 314 00:27:30.519 --> 00:27:33.400 about now. There's I do have one semi exception to that, and I'll 315 00:27:33.400 --> 00:27:36.799 talk about that after the break, but I gotta take a time out. 316 00:27:36.839 --> 00:27:48.680 My friends sit tight back in a minute. So who do I make the 317 00:27:48.759 --> 00:27:52.759 minor exception for? In my mind? In my mind as we look at 318 00:27:52.799 --> 00:27:57.359 the current field of Republican candidates, and again this is I don't want to 319 00:27:57.440 --> 00:28:03.400 be misunderstood here. I'm I don't. I think it's a it's a what 320 00:28:03.440 --> 00:28:11.319 I want to say, a miscalculation to jump into this race when Trump had 321 00:28:11.319 --> 00:28:15.359 announced that he's running. I don't think that he's entitled to it. I 322 00:28:15.440 --> 00:28:19.160 just think it's strategically a mistake. I think, you know, and I 323 00:28:19.240 --> 00:28:25.279 understand in a sense where people think you know, who knows, who knows 324 00:28:25.319 --> 00:28:30.920 what will happen the next four years? You know is you don't you don't 325 00:28:30.920 --> 00:28:33.799 get to put these opportunities on pause if you think that you can run. 326 00:28:33.839 --> 00:28:41.039 I get all that I do, but I also think that a huge chunk 327 00:28:41.680 --> 00:28:47.839 of the American electorate falls into one of these categories. First would be someone 328 00:28:47.960 --> 00:28:52.880 like me, and I think many of you who agree with the sentiments that 329 00:28:52.920 --> 00:28:56.279 I articulated at the end of last segment, which is basically, we have 330 00:28:56.519 --> 00:29:03.599 a government that's out of control. We have known this for decades. No 331 00:29:03.680 --> 00:29:10.559 one has decided to try to truly go after it and fix it. And 332 00:29:10.599 --> 00:29:14.480 then suddenly we see this guy named Donald J. Trump jump into the scene 333 00:29:14.519 --> 00:29:18.160 and to go after it, and you've seen what happens as a result. 334 00:29:18.799 --> 00:29:22.839 In fact, I thought about this the other day. Remember when Chuck Schumer, 335 00:29:22.119 --> 00:29:27.200 I think I mentioned this. Chuck Schumer was on one of these political 336 00:29:27.240 --> 00:29:34.160 talk shows in an interview some time ago criticizing Trump back when he was president 337 00:29:34.920 --> 00:29:42.799 for angering or upsetting the intelligence community, and Chuck Schumer, Senator Schumer said, 338 00:29:42.839 --> 00:29:49.759 the intelligence community has what do he say, seven Ways to Sunday or 339 00:29:49.799 --> 00:29:56.000 some such thing to get back at you, which at the time was it's 340 00:29:56.039 --> 00:30:00.519 just crazy to me. It was meant to communicate this idea, like to 341 00:30:00.880 --> 00:30:03.480 say, the president of the United States at the time, Donald Trump had 342 00:30:03.559 --> 00:30:07.200 no idea who he was messing with. And I'm thinking, even back then, 343 00:30:07.279 --> 00:30:11.200 and of course today, in light of everything that we've learned about our 344 00:30:11.240 --> 00:30:15.519 government, why would that be remotely even something a senator would want to utter. 345 00:30:17.640 --> 00:30:22.200 Why wouldn't a senator say, we can't have an intelligence community that we 346 00:30:22.319 --> 00:30:30.200 think that about, my goodness, and we've seen absolute hell unleashed on Trump 347 00:30:30.240 --> 00:30:33.319 in every conceivable way, impeachments, Russian collision. I don't want to go 348 00:30:33.359 --> 00:30:37.480 through all of it. We talk about this, We've talked about it a 349 00:30:37.519 --> 00:30:44.079 lot, right, I mean, it's obvious spying on his campaign January sixth, 350 00:30:44.680 --> 00:30:48.400 Now the indictments, I mean, they are terrified of this guy. 351 00:30:48.119 --> 00:30:51.799 And so someone like me, and I think many of you, would say 352 00:30:52.559 --> 00:30:56.240 the reason he's getting so much flak is because he is over the target. 353 00:30:56.039 --> 00:31:02.440 He is over the target, and they are terrified because if anybody can bring 354 00:31:02.480 --> 00:31:07.799 it down, it's someone well I wouldn't even say someone, I would say 355 00:31:07.119 --> 00:31:11.000 it's it's Donald Trump. And I don't mean in some catastrophic way destroy. 356 00:31:11.079 --> 00:31:15.720 I mean in a way that's actually liberating to the country to bring down the 357 00:31:17.240 --> 00:31:22.960 corruption. I'm not predicting even he can is. This is deep and thick 358 00:31:22.240 --> 00:31:26.799 and problematic. That's why I said in the past I liked I don't know 359 00:31:26.920 --> 00:31:30.559 what I think now, but I liked the idea of having four years of 360 00:31:30.599 --> 00:31:37.440 Trump and then potentially eight years of desantist because DeSantis has demonstrated he's a fighter. 361 00:31:37.480 --> 00:31:41.359 I know some of you have some concerns and so forth. I've got 362 00:31:41.400 --> 00:31:45.839 some questions about some things, but he has demonstrated he's a fighter. But 363 00:31:45.960 --> 00:31:49.400 the person that I've made an exception for in my mind, the person that 364 00:31:49.440 --> 00:31:53.920 I'm kind of glad is in this field, and the person that I get 365 00:31:53.960 --> 00:31:57.640 asked about. I got texted about it over the weekend. Someone asked me, 366 00:31:59.039 --> 00:32:01.240 because no one can spell his name, what do you think about this 367 00:32:01.359 --> 00:32:07.720 vivek Ramaswamy guy. And I like vivek Ramaswamy a lot. I think vivek 368 00:32:07.839 --> 00:32:14.480 Ramaswamy maybe someone who has a future as far as a political future. I 369 00:32:14.480 --> 00:32:17.079 think he's got great ideas. I think he's he's principled. Again, I 370 00:32:17.119 --> 00:32:22.039 can't I don't know everything about him, but what I'm learning and saying I 371 00:32:22.200 --> 00:32:29.440 like. I like a lot. He's not afraid to go into the hornet's 372 00:32:29.519 --> 00:32:31.119 nest, if you will, or the belly of the beast and talk to 373 00:32:31.160 --> 00:32:38.319 some of these jokers at CNN and everywhere else. He's very articulate on conservative 374 00:32:38.359 --> 00:32:45.160 principles. I mean, he's got very good answers, can explain things. 375 00:32:45.319 --> 00:32:49.400 I just I like it. I think it really there's a lot of good 376 00:32:49.440 --> 00:32:52.119 things there. But I think, you know, someone like him, it's 377 00:32:52.160 --> 00:32:55.720 good to be able to get some notoriety and for people to see who he 378 00:32:55.839 --> 00:33:00.799 is and what he believes. And I think that as a second phase or 379 00:33:00.839 --> 00:33:07.279 whatever tertiary phase to this movement of regaining control of our country, dismantling the 380 00:33:07.319 --> 00:33:10.319 political class, which includes both parties. By the way, I got a 381 00:33:10.400 --> 00:33:15.240 message last week. Some guy says I didn't go after the Republican part Give 382 00:33:15.319 --> 00:33:22.480 me a break. I feel like I'm harder on individual Republicans than I know 383 00:33:22.480 --> 00:33:24.519 what I'm getting with the left. I know what I'm getting with the Democrat 384 00:33:24.599 --> 00:33:29.880 Party. I don't like these pretenders I name them on this show on a 385 00:33:29.960 --> 00:33:34.160 regular basis. Tell me you don't listen to the show without telling me you 386 00:33:34.160 --> 00:33:37.279 don't listen about the show. Listen to this show. If you say I 387 00:33:37.359 --> 00:33:40.240 don't say things about Republicans, I say I'm not a Republican. I vote 388 00:33:40.319 --> 00:33:50.119 Republican almost sometimes holding my nose. I'm a conservative, I'm an American. 389 00:33:50.240 --> 00:33:52.880 I'm a constitutionalist. I'm a limited government guy. I'm a guy that believes 390 00:33:52.880 --> 00:34:01.000 in liberty. Voted for libertarians before, not on the national level. I 391 00:34:02.279 --> 00:34:07.599 voted for the libertarian for governor of the state of Indiana. I couldn't vote 392 00:34:07.639 --> 00:34:10.800 for Eric Holcomb, which because of reasons that I'm decided he's to me. 393 00:34:12.679 --> 00:34:17.960 Those guys, those make believe conservatives or people that have I don't know. 394 00:34:19.960 --> 00:34:23.960 They just they do more damage because people assume, well, if I vote 395 00:34:23.960 --> 00:34:29.239 Republican as a conservative and then they don't govern like one, and then someone 396 00:34:29.239 --> 00:34:31.760 says, we'll see, they don't have any different outcome, even when I 397 00:34:31.760 --> 00:34:37.679 do vote for him, but you're not implementing conservative policies. Sure wasn't a 398 00:34:37.760 --> 00:34:44.239 Rhoda Santis here with Governor Holcombe, that's for sure. Sure wasn't a governor 399 00:34:44.920 --> 00:34:47.519 Abbot, I mean none. It wasn't Trump. It was much more closer 400 00:34:47.559 --> 00:34:55.639 to well, he was closer, Oh boy, he was closer to Whitmer. 401 00:34:58.320 --> 00:35:00.880 He was closer to Governor Whitmer than he was to Trump into Santa's Eric 402 00:35:00.960 --> 00:35:05.719 Wilcom anyway. So but Viva Ramaswamy, I like him a lot. I 403 00:35:05.719 --> 00:35:07.880 think he's got potentially a future in the party. I love a lot of 404 00:35:07.920 --> 00:35:13.760 what he's doing. But this, this battle is Trump's. This is Trump's 405 00:35:14.920 --> 00:35:20.119 to lose. It has been, it has been since two thousand and sixteen, 406 00:35:20.199 --> 00:35:25.039 or you could say since two thousand and twenty. And I firmly believe 407 00:35:25.119 --> 00:35:28.639 that, and a lot of people do. There's another group of republic another 408 00:35:28.719 --> 00:35:32.679 vote, a group of voters too that will only vote for Trump and not 409 00:35:32.760 --> 00:35:36.920 anyone else. So that can't be overlooked. Also, I gotta take a 410 00:35:36.920 --> 00:35:52.079 time out there, quick time out my friends back in just a minute. 411 00:35:52.639 --> 00:35:58.320 Welcome back, my friends. So did you see I'm trying to I got 412 00:35:58.360 --> 00:36:00.719 so many things here in the stack of stuff. But did you see that 413 00:36:00.800 --> 00:36:09.119 there has been a report that has been released that contradicts the claim that no 414 00:36:09.360 --> 00:36:15.639 fingerprints were found on the bag of cocaine that was found at the White House. 415 00:36:16.639 --> 00:36:21.639 So there's that was the announcement. The Secret Service can't figure it out. 416 00:36:21.679 --> 00:36:24.280 There's no cameras back there, which, by the way, by the 417 00:36:24.320 --> 00:36:28.159 way, why can I not walk down the street, Why can you not 418 00:36:28.239 --> 00:36:32.360 get to a traffic light in your city, in your state without a camera 419 00:36:32.480 --> 00:36:36.519 staring you in the face. But somehow, some way you can get to 420 00:36:36.559 --> 00:36:39.960 the back door of the White House and there's no cameras. I just I 421 00:36:40.079 --> 00:36:45.119 have a hard time believing this, folks. I have a very hard time 422 00:36:45.119 --> 00:36:49.840 to believe this. And if that is the case, who are they sneaking 423 00:36:49.880 --> 00:36:52.440 in here? I mean, what's going on to where they don't want I 424 00:36:52.440 --> 00:36:55.000 mean, it has to be what it is they don't want people to see. 425 00:36:55.000 --> 00:36:58.800 Of course they would just hide it from us anyway, but they don't 426 00:36:58.800 --> 00:37:06.480 want them to be any existing physical evidence. Whatever's going on at the club 427 00:37:06.480 --> 00:37:10.519 White House snorting cocaine topless, who knows what else. I don't it may 428 00:37:10.519 --> 00:37:15.880 be X rated coming through that camera. But anyway, so we've got a 429 00:37:15.920 --> 00:37:22.239 report that says there was a fingerprint found on the cocaine. So I mean, 430 00:37:24.079 --> 00:37:29.800 they just don't care that. It's Oh, I tell you, when 431 00:37:29.840 --> 00:37:32.840 I when I see this and I love this country, folks, and when 432 00:37:32.880 --> 00:37:38.880 I see the effort that is put into demonizing Trump and You don't have to 433 00:37:38.920 --> 00:37:42.960 like him. You can hate the tweets, you can hate the way he 434 00:37:43.039 --> 00:37:46.159 talks. It doesn't even matter to me. But at least hate him for 435 00:37:46.280 --> 00:37:52.639 accurate reasons. Don't hate him because the media has stirred the rest of America 436 00:37:52.880 --> 00:37:57.159 or people who don't pay attention into a frenzy, people who don't think for 437 00:37:57.199 --> 00:38:01.320 themselves. Meanwhile, we've got a guy running the show now as commander in 438 00:38:01.440 --> 00:38:08.360 chief, face planning, having cocaine at club wide house and everything else, 439 00:38:09.360 --> 00:38:14.239 and no one cares. I mean you care, But it's the thing of 440 00:38:14.280 --> 00:38:17.679 the outrage comparatively to what it was with Trump. It's just, uh, 441 00:38:19.480 --> 00:38:22.000 got an uphill battle as far as that goes. My friends, anyway, 442 00:38:22.159 --> 00:38:37.719 I gotta take a break, quick time out back in a minute. Welcome 443 00:38:37.719 --> 00:38:39.039 back from my friend. There's a whole bunch of other things and the stack 444 00:38:39.079 --> 00:38:42.760 of stuff that I would like to get to, but again including Trump. 445 00:38:42.760 --> 00:38:45.000 I was telling oz this during the break. Trump, during his interview with 446 00:38:45.039 --> 00:38:50.760 Maria Bardaromo, actually said, I said, I love this, well, 447 00:38:50.800 --> 00:38:53.920 this is We're never gonna have another time in politics like this. We're just 448 00:38:54.039 --> 00:38:58.639 not. We're not. And I know it's his decision. To hire Christopher 449 00:38:58.679 --> 00:39:01.519 Ray. But he actually said in the interview to Maria with Maria bard Romo, 450 00:39:02.320 --> 00:39:07.800 Chris Christy's a guy that actually recommended that I hired Christopher Ray. I 451 00:39:07.840 --> 00:39:10.039 just I love it because I'm telling you, I do think in Trump's world, 452 00:39:10.079 --> 00:39:14.880 he's like, well, Chris Christie's a guy that is involved in politics. 453 00:39:14.880 --> 00:39:16.960 He's been on a prosecutor. He knows the stuff. Let me see 454 00:39:16.960 --> 00:39:21.880 what he thinks. Anyway, folks, I've gotta go have a great day. 455 00:39:22.039 --> 00:39:22.960 STG. See them off.