Speaker 1: Billy cunning into Great America. I'm not dead. I'm still alive. Yes,
Speaker 1: Wednesday's coming up tomorrow, Today's Fat Tuesday. Westernhost Country Club
Speaker 1: will be going nuts tonight, big party at Westernhost Country
Speaker 1: Club and all sponsored by Alex Trnciphilou the chair of
Speaker 1: the Republican Party and more on. Alex, welcome again to
Speaker 1: the Bill Cunningham Show. And Alex, how are you Billy up?
Speaker 2: Great? There's not a party at the Western Hills Club,
Speaker 2: So in case you're out there listening, do not show up.
Speaker 2: We're on Tuesdays.
Speaker 1: Well, the parties continue all over town. They're Mardy Girl
Speaker 1: Tonight in Northern Kentucky is going to be big. Scott
Speaker 1: Sloane who had me dead. Scott Sloane is going to
Speaker 1: headquarter that with so many others. But let's talk about
Speaker 1: politics tonight the Joint Session speech. And I know you
Speaker 1: don't monitor everything constantly as I do, but in this
Speaker 1: morning MSNBC had two or three congress persons on, including
Speaker 1: that Crocket woman who's lost her mind completely and what's
Speaker 1: just going to be a protest. In fact, about one
Speaker 1: third is not going to show up, and so Speaker
Speaker 1: of the House Johnson is going to come up with
Speaker 1: those simply to sit there. But the Democrats will out
Speaker 1: let anyone sit in their seat, So I don't know
Speaker 1: what that means. So they're going to be protest of
Speaker 1: a direct and indirect nature. And so this is going
Speaker 1: to be something you have to listen to and watch.
Speaker 1: We have the Reds game on tonight with the Dodgers,
Speaker 1: which might be a little more important. But can you
Speaker 1: tell the American people in your mind is to share
Speaker 1: of the Republican Party the two or three best things
Speaker 1: Donald Trump has done in his first six weeks in office.
Speaker 1: Give me your last one, two and three, Alex.
Speaker 2: Go well, Billy, you know, this is the most dynamic
Speaker 2: presidency of my lifetime. I've not seen somebody come out
Speaker 2: of the gate. You know, we used to talk about
Speaker 2: the first one hundred days in politics, Billy, but that's
Speaker 2: not what we were even talking about anymore. We're talking
Speaker 2: about the first ten days of this presidency. It's been transformative. Bill.
Speaker 2: I mean, let's just start with a border. And most
Speaker 2: people know this, but the mainstream press won't tell you it.
Speaker 2: But the problem, the crisis at the border that Donald
Speaker 2: Trump inherited is over it's over. The crossings are at
Speaker 2: record lows. We've essentially by just pure leadership of the
Speaker 2: President and guys like Tom Homan and the cooperation of
Speaker 2: law enforcement officials who just wanted to enforce existing laws.
Speaker 2: So number one, the border, the border crisis is over.
Speaker 2: We've got to continue to work to deport people that
Speaker 2: don't belong in the United States who have violated our laws,
Speaker 2: but the crisis of the border has been fixed inside
Speaker 2: of thirty days. It's an extraordinary accomplishment. When the mainstream
Speaker 2: press will not tell you anything about then you pivot
Speaker 2: and talk about efficiency in government, doze in Elon musk Will.
Speaker 2: They make a lot of headlines, and it seems, you know,
Speaker 2: it's a little bit of madness if you're just kind
Speaker 2: of watching it. The fact of the matter is it's working.
Speaker 2: We have trillions and trillions and trillions of dollars of
Speaker 2: debt Billy, that we're going to leave to our kids
Speaker 2: and grandkids. It's immoral what's happening with spending in the
Speaker 2: United States. And by the way, it's one of the
Speaker 2: few times Bill I ever criticized Republicans because we as
Speaker 2: Republicans have sometimes been a part of growing these massive
Speaker 2: debt and deficits, and you know it's time to rein
Speaker 2: it in Elon Musk showed up with this history of
Speaker 2: building these extraordinary companies in this incredible record. This guy
Speaker 2: is a historic figure. He's the Thomas Edison and Albert
Speaker 2: Einstein of our generation combined into one human being. So
Speaker 2: he's got dose. We're trimming the size and scope of
Speaker 2: the federal government. Yes, that's going to mean some people
Speaker 2: have to move out of the excuse in the public
Speaker 2: sector and into the private sector. And that's the reality
Speaker 2: of actually cutting the size and scope of the government.
Speaker 2: That's two. If you look at peace across the world again,
Speaker 2: I don't want to take up all your time today
Speaker 2: if you asked me to take off the few big things.
Speaker 2: We have one president, one leader in the world that says,
Speaker 2: let's stop the killing. Over a million people killed or
Speaker 2: maimed or injured in this horrible Russian Ukraine war. These people,
Speaker 2: by the way, the differences between a Ukrainian and a
Speaker 2: Russian aren't all that dramatic. There ought to be a
Speaker 2: way to bridge this divide, and President Tarmp is bringing
Speaker 2: real leadership to it. Of course, the critics say he's
Speaker 2: in bed with Putin. That's false. America for three years
Speaker 2: has sustained Ukraine. Americans have poured our treasure into those countries,
Speaker 2: into the Ukraine, that is, to try to keep peace
Speaker 2: there and to try to fight back against Putin. But look,
Speaker 2: one man is talking about a real plan to stop
Speaker 2: the killing the other side on Ukraine, Bill, they don't
Speaker 2: have any kind of a plan. I have yet to
Speaker 2: hear a coherent plan for ending this war. One person,
Speaker 2: Donald Trump, is trying to do those things. I could
Speaker 2: keep going on and on and on and just talk
Speaker 2: about our national standing, our international standing. And by the way,
Speaker 2: last thing I'll say about the president I promise is
Speaker 2: we have a president fully engaged in the presidency. Bill.
Speaker 2: This is a man with his hands on the levers
Speaker 2: of power. The previous guy, Bill was just not well
Speaker 2: enough to be in that situation. This is the guy.
Speaker 2: He's not running off to the beach every weekend. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's finding some time to go to play golf, but
Speaker 2: that's about it. And otherwise this guy is churning and
Speaker 2: burning every single day and working his tailoff onto half
Speaker 2: the American people. So he's got a lot to talk tonight, though.
Speaker 1: Number one is the border crisis. About a year ago,
Speaker 1: I can recall that your friend Senate to Chuck Schumer,
Speaker 1: the head of the Democrats, along with the King, Jefferies
Speaker 1: and Nancy Pelosi, had put together a brand new bill
Speaker 1: that would stop the border crossing. And the charge was
Speaker 1: against Donald Trump and the new Republicans that you don't
Speaker 1: want to solve the problem. In other words, the present
Speaker 1: laws we have will not get it done. We need
Speaker 1: brand new sets of laws four and a half inches thick,
Speaker 1: in which we were going to hire six to eight
Speaker 1: thousand more administrative judges. We're going to hire ten to
Speaker 1: twenty thousand more border patrol agents. We weren't going to
Speaker 1: complete the wall, but we had drones ready to go.
Speaker 1: So there was a problem on the southern border that
Speaker 1: could not be solved except by spending something in the
Speaker 1: range of three hundred billion dollars more to hire tens
Speaker 1: of thousands of more because the present laws were not
Speaker 1: going to work. Jump ahead one year, the border crossings
Speaker 1: are down ninety five percent. The present laws were sufficient.
Speaker 1: Do you hear that ana analysis from the media at
Speaker 1: all that somehow the Democrats said present laws don't work,
Speaker 1: we need all these sets of laws, when brand new bureaucrats,
Speaker 1: brand new courts, brand new judges, we got to get
Speaker 1: it done. However, Trump and you Republicans said no, the
Speaker 1: president laws work. A year later, they work. Your comments
Speaker 1: of any now you got me pissed.
Speaker 2: Off, Bill, Well, you know it's the difference Bill between
Speaker 2: government and people like Joe Biden, who are career government
Speaker 2: bureaucratic insider people, and a guy from the outside like
Speaker 2: Donald Trump, who's a businessman who knows how to just
Speaker 2: get things done. They never tell you about Donald Trump's history,
Speaker 2: things like swooping in and fixing the ice rink in
Speaker 2: Manhattan when government dragged its feet for three years. I mean,
Speaker 2: Donald Trump has a long history of being a fixer
Speaker 2: and stepping in and just getting it done. I've been
Speaker 2: around government and my whole career. Bill, you know it too.
Speaker 2: You practice law, You've been in and out of this.
Speaker 2: You're connected to a lot of these people government. There's
Speaker 2: a certain inertia to do nothing. People are afraid to
Speaker 2: do things. You see it on the cutting of spending, right.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you start doing and cutting, well, there's
Speaker 2: going to be people sometimes that you don't have to
Speaker 2: move from the public sector to the private sector for
Speaker 2: their employment. People are scared, Politicians are scared. Donald Trump
Speaker 2: isn't scared. So the reason we were able to fix this,
Speaker 2: he said, we're going to be tough, We're going to
Speaker 2: crack down. I got a mandate from the American people,
Speaker 2: And in thirty days, this guy solved the crisis that
Speaker 2: all the Democrats and even a few squishy Republicans said
Speaker 2: required a massive new government spend. You've outlined it way
Speaker 2: better than I can. But the fact of the matter
Speaker 2: is that problem is solved at this juncture for the
Speaker 2: American people, and it's because the leadership of a true
Speaker 2: outsider and somebody like Donald Trump, supported by the way
Speaker 2: by other outsiders like Bernie Marino, supported by another outsider, jd. Vance,
Speaker 2: who came out of the private sector. So you know,
Speaker 2: we've got fresh new ideas in Washington, and it's only
Speaker 2: helping advance the cause of America.
Speaker 1: Well, the thing is, we had sufficient laws. We didn't
Speaker 1: need to spend another three hundred bill. We simply needed
Speaker 1: a president force the president laws. And now the camps
Speaker 1: on Guantanamo may not be built further because the illegals
Speaker 1: are not coming. The traffickers are in difficulty. We had
Speaker 1: sufficient laws if we had a president with a power
Speaker 1: and the will to get it done. Democrats lied, Republicans
Speaker 1: told the truth. Number two, Let's talk about your friend
Speaker 1: Elon Musk, who's, as you call him, the Thomas Alva
Speaker 1: Edison of our time. He's been accused of being an
Speaker 1: unelected bureaucrat. For the last four years under Joe Biden,
Speaker 1: we did not have a president. We had unelected bureaucrats
Speaker 1: running the executive branch of government. And that was who
Speaker 1: picked the judges, who made the decisions, what bills to the
Speaker 1: sign who made the eos executive orders, Who ran the
Speaker 1: executive branch of government. We now know, according to even
Speaker 1: Jake Tapper of CNN, the Clinton News Network, we now know,
Speaker 1: according to Jake Tapper, who attacked Republicans for suggesting somehow
Speaker 1: that Joe Biden was mentally incompetent. Jake Tapper, if CNN
Speaker 1: has now written a book, he wants to come on
Speaker 1: him and put him on about two of three weeks
Speaker 1: and which says he now says it was obvious that
Speaker 1: Joe Biden was not mentally alert. He couldn't run the presidency,
Speaker 1: so on one hand for four years with unelected bureaucrats
Speaker 1: running every part of government. But on the other hand,
Speaker 1: you got Elon Musk who's recommending to department heads what
Speaker 1: to do, what not to do. How come when Biden
Speaker 1: wins an office, unelected bureaucrats ran everything. Now he's out
Speaker 1: of office, Elon Musk is suggesting changes to the bureaucracy.
Speaker 1: And that's evil, aren't They both unelected bureaucrats, But one's
Speaker 1: competent and one incompetent. Please give me a full report.
Speaker 2: Well, I've got more to say on that, and I
Speaker 2: you know, listen, if you're right now and you're driving
Speaker 2: down Glenley Avenue on my beloved west side, or you're
Speaker 2: at work, you know, on Harrison Avenue or some beautiful
Speaker 2: part of Hamilton County or any part really of the
Speaker 2: Tri state area, I'm gonna ask you one big question.
Speaker 2: What unelected bureaucrat affected your life? More Elon Musk or
Speaker 2: Anthony Fauci. Fauci said you have to wear a mask.
Speaker 2: Fauci said, you can't send your kids to school. Fauci
Speaker 2: said you got to stay six feet away. He said,
Speaker 2: you can't. You have to have the mask. Over your nose.
Speaker 2: When you're flying on an airplane, if you pulled it
Speaker 2: down even for a second, you've got threats of being
Speaker 2: thrown off the aircraft. Who affected your life more as
Speaker 2: an unelected bureaucrat. It's outrageous. The way the media is
Speaker 2: calling Elon Musk an unelected bureaucrat is garbage. It's garbage.
Speaker 2: He's part of this administration, brought in to do exactly
Speaker 2: what he's doing. And again, it's okay. I suppose when
Speaker 2: Anthony Fauci makes these life altering decisions on the half
Speaker 2: the American people, as an unelected bureaucrat appointed by the president,
Speaker 2: it's different. I suppose when Elon Musk does it. It's just
Speaker 2: it's a double standard that the Democrats and their friends
Speaker 2: and the press are holding us to. It's just wrong.
Speaker 2: Elon Musk is doing great things for the country. He's
Speaker 2: saving us money, he's potentially saving the country from bankruptcy,
Speaker 2: and he should have the full support of the American people.
Speaker 1: Thirdly, you bring up peace in Ukraine. Who's in favor
Speaker 1: of war? I tell you's in favor of war. Democrats
Speaker 1: and the neoconser in favor of war. That's gone on
Speaker 1: more than three years, there's no possibility. Militarily, the Ukrainians
Speaker 1: and Zelensky can never defeat the Russian bear. The Russian
Speaker 1: army is completely incompetent. However, they have tens of thousands
Speaker 1: of drones. And I had this from over the weekend.
Speaker 1: A general on Fox Weekend said that every month the
Speaker 1: Russians produced two hundred and fifty thousand more artillery shells
Speaker 1: to be fired at the Ukraine, and the Ukrainians have
Speaker 1: about three thousand. So every month that goes by, a
Speaker 1: stalemate happens. Maybe at some point Zelensky will lose completely,
Speaker 1: in which case Ukraine will be taken over, which would
Speaker 1: be disgusting. The way the Ukrainian people have fought has
Speaker 1: been wonderful. It's unbelievable. They're grageous. Reminds me of Brave Heart,
Speaker 1: reminds me of Long Shanks, reminds me of the courage
Speaker 1: of Scottish warriors that fought like hell for their freedom.
Speaker 1: I'd love that stuff. William of Wallace is my hero. However,
Speaker 1: you have to know your limitations. So when the Trumpster says,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, more than three years, a million dead,
Speaker 1: no possibility of Ukraine defeating militarily the Russians back by
Speaker 1: Iran and North Korea. So he says, all I'm saying
Speaker 1: is let's give peace a chance. But it's odd that
Speaker 1: the liberals don't want peace. In fact, Zelenski said last
Speaker 1: night or the night before that this war is far
Speaker 1: from being over. He wants the war to keep on
Speaker 1: going and infinitum, and we're going to supply just enough
Speaker 1: arms to them, supposedly to keep them fighting but not winning.
Speaker 1: Give me a full report what the Trump doing on Ukraine?
Speaker 1: Right or wrong? Then we got tariffs to wrap things up,
Speaker 1: Alex t give me a full report.
Speaker 2: Well, of course I support the president entirely. It'll come
Speaker 2: as no surprises on a lifelong Republican and support of
Speaker 2: the president. That being the case, though, I remember during
Speaker 2: the campaign before President Trump started his second term, he
Speaker 2: was asked in one of these town halls, by the way,
Speaker 2: making himself fully available to the American people and what
Speaker 2: is the most transparent presidency in modern American history? But
Speaker 2: he got asked a question, who do you want to
Speaker 2: win that war? And it was a classic left wing
Speaker 2: media gotcha question, like, oh, we're going to call on
Speaker 2: him out that he does. You know what he said?
Speaker 2: It was? It was I thought it was the best
Speaker 2: answer he's maybe ever given. He said, I want the
Speaker 2: killing to stop. And isn't that ultimately what it's about
Speaker 2: right now? Isn't it about just ending the killing? People
Speaker 2: are dying needlessly? And I mean one of the points
Speaker 2: I tried to make earlier quickly is that you know,
Speaker 2: the these two people, there's not a big religious difference,
Speaker 2: the financial differences aren't that dramatic. This isn't you know, frankly,
Speaker 2: it's not the Palestinians and the Israelis. That's not that
Speaker 2: kind of a long term conflict. This can be resolved,
Speaker 2: is my point in saying that it can be resolved.
Speaker 2: And only one person is now got the ability after
Speaker 2: three years of fighting and best and destruction and this
Speaker 2: horrible war, to say let's find a new pass. And
Speaker 2: of course he's being criticized because the war monitors and
Speaker 2: the people that you know aren't feeding all this cash
Speaker 2: in the Ukraine, wanted to continue the one thing that
Speaker 2: I've never heard of coher and answer and Billy really quickly, Yeah, quession.
Speaker 2: I do sometimes read the New York Times. I sometimes
Speaker 2: do watch those horrible Sunday shows that are so biased.
Speaker 2: Nobody on the left is ever coherently laid out a
Speaker 2: plan for how this thing ends. What's the endgame? I
Speaker 2: heard Vice President Vance saying the same thing. That's my question.
Speaker 2: That's a question every American. I'd asked, what's the endgame
Speaker 2: in Ukraine? That's a victory for us and for the
Speaker 2: Ukrainian people. They can't give you one. So in the
Speaker 2: absence of that, we have one guy saying, let's try
Speaker 2: to bring everybody together and make peace. And that's President Trump.
Speaker 1: Now, lastly, I said chair of the Republican Party. I
Speaker 1: can recall about three years ago we had one of
Speaker 1: our frequent off the air conversations in which I said
Speaker 1: to you something about the future of the Republican Party.
Speaker 1: And about three years ago you mentioned the name but
Speaker 1: veg Ramaswami. I like mentioning his name because I can
Speaker 1: pronounce it. And I said, what did you say, veg
Speaker 1: Rama Swam is going to be a big deal. And
Speaker 1: I said who you said? This guy is fabulous. I
Speaker 1: met with him. He was the commencement speaker at Sandex
Speaker 1: High School and now he lives in Columbus. But this
Speaker 1: guy is rich. He wants to get into politics. Now
Speaker 1: it's metastasized and appears are going to be a fight
Speaker 1: to the finish with David Yost are well competent Attorney
Speaker 1: General versus vivike Ramaswami. One's coming to this office vertically,
Speaker 1: the other coming horizontally. Who do you support Yost? Are
Speaker 1: vivike Ramaswami speak now and forever hold your peace?
Speaker 2: Well, no chance I hold my piece, Billy, And you
Speaker 2: know that, no chance I do that forever. Listen. I mean,
Speaker 2: the High Republican Party is not just one man. We've
Speaker 2: got a primary and you know, one of the things
Speaker 2: I hear consistently from our party faith was the party
Speaker 2: ought to not put its finger on the scale in
Speaker 2: these primary races. That being the case, we may do that.
Speaker 2: That may come later. These guys have just announced. You know,
Speaker 2: I'm close to both of these individuals. I think very
Speaker 2: well of both of them, you know, as it relates
Speaker 2: to vivike Ramaswami. You know, Billy, I've shared this with you.
Speaker 2: I met this young man back when he was in
Speaker 2: high school with san Next High and have kind of
Speaker 2: stayed in touch with him. And it's this this this
Speaker 2: kind of serendipitous moment where he's running for governor and
Speaker 2: I'm chair of the Ohio Republican Party, and you know,
Speaker 2: I think the world of a bake Rama Swami. He's
Speaker 2: a wonderful guy. He's brilliant, and he's and he's you know,
Speaker 2: he's dedicated to the cause and he's a fresh face
Speaker 2: for a lot of us in the Republican Party. Dave
Speaker 2: Ghost has also been an outstanding attorney general, great state
Speaker 2: or auditor, you know, a world class prosecutor. Again, it's
Speaker 2: all good things by me. So you know, who am
Speaker 2: I supporting. I'm going to support the nominee of the
Speaker 2: Republican Party after they come come at it. The last
Speaker 2: thing I want to say, though, I'm just going to
Speaker 2: say this because not enough people say this. In our party.
Speaker 2: We have an embarrassment of riches. We have really great
Speaker 2: candidates like yost In Ramaswami. We have other great candidates emerging,
Speaker 2: and you know, we'll sort through whatever internal problems differences,
Speaker 2: not problems that we're going to have about who ought
Speaker 2: to be the nominee. But one thing I will tell
Speaker 2: you is under my leadership here, we're going to fight
Speaker 2: to the finish and keep beating Democrats in Ohio, just
Speaker 2: like we did in twenty twenty four. We want everything
Speaker 2: in this state and we're going to continue that momentum.
Speaker 2: And we have right now at least two potentially more
Speaker 2: people added to this field. Who knows of people who
Speaker 2: want to be the governor of this state and they're
Speaker 2: so far. The two that are out there publicly fighting
Speaker 2: for this are both wonderful people.
Speaker 1: Whose name is harder to pronounce for veg Ramaswami or
Speaker 1: Alex trying to feel Lou?
Speaker 2: Which are those two that close? Call? I like tree
Speaker 2: on tofty Lou pronounced Alex.
Speaker 1: Alex T. All right, Alex, thank you. We'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: You'll be watching the joint session tonight with your popcorn
Speaker 1: and a beer to see what's going on. But Alex T,
Speaker 1: once again, you're a great American and thanks for coming
Speaker 1: on the Bill Cunningham Show.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Alex A high privilege.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Billy God bless America. Let's continue with more.
Speaker 1: And I should have asked him. My last question was
Speaker 1: the governor was going to fly the flags at half
Speaker 1: staff for three days if Scott Sloane was correct, and
Speaker 1: I was dead, but the reports of my demise are
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