00:00So, first question here, this is more of a House thing, they continue to have these depositions, these closed-door depositions.
00:07Nope. Ohio guy actually is coming in, Steve Reschetti, tomorrow, the Deputy Chief of Staff.
00:11Do you think, based on your observations and what we've gotten from these interviews before, are they getting anywhere?
00:17Is this making any difference in terms of making the Republican case that the former president does not fit, or do we just not know?
00:23Just not know.
00:23Well, look, it's pretty obvious. Anybody had a TV.
00:26We, and people certainly who interacted with him, like my Democrat colleagues, saw a person that was clearly in decline.
00:33We all saw it in public view.
00:35The question is, who was actually in charge of the auto pen?
00:38Who was the one making the decisions?
00:40And that's something we should get to the bottom line.
00:41Has this changed the narrative a little?
00:43Have you gotten some answers to some of these questions yet?
00:46No, not at all.
00:47We really just don't know.
00:48It's a black box.
00:49But what we do know is that, anecdotally, for example, when Speaker Johnson asked him about why President Biden banned LNG exports, he said that he'll do that.
00:59But he had signed a ban on LNG exports, which was a catastrophically bad idea.
01:03So we do have to get to the bottom of who was in charge, who was pulling strings, and who was keeping this information for the American.
01:09Senator, on Russia's sanctions, are you waiting for guidance from President Trump?
01:13I mean, what do you need to support a sanctions bill at this point?
01:16Well, President Trump was clear yesterday.
01:17He said he wants to give Putin another 10 days to do the right thing, which is to end the killing in Eastern Europe, which is what I campaigned on, what President Trump campaigned on.
01:25We don't want a proxy war with Russia.
01:27We want the killing to end.
01:28But Congress is out in 10 days.
01:30You can only pass a sanctions bill in the next week or so.
01:32No, we can come back.
01:33We certainly have the ability to come back and do our work.
01:36By the way, we may still be here.
01:38We have a lot of nominees to confirm, so there's a decent chance we're still here in August.
01:42Wouldn't that be fun for you guys?
01:44So much fun.
01:44No comment.
01:45Senator, you saw the President's comments about the situation in Gaza, the fact that they want the U.S. now to have a role in distributing aid there.
01:53What do you make of your fellow Republican, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene's comments calling this a genocide in Gaza?
02:00Well, I think she should go there and be educated.
02:02I was in Israel.
02:03I've seen firsthand, like literally not thirdhand, not in a press report, firsthand, trucks leaving northern Israel, going into Syria, being attacked and burnt.
02:13By the terrorist rebels in that case, Hezbollah.
02:17Same thing happens in Hamas.
02:19They send these trucks in there and the food trucks are either hijacked, the food is then stolen, sold to their own citizens.
02:25Look, all of this can be over today if Hamas lays down her weapons and releases the hostages.
02:30I think we all have to remember that.
02:32This whole situation of Hamas has one culprit, which is Hamas.
02:37So Gaza could be free.
02:39Gaza could be a thriving place.
02:42The hostages could be released.
02:43And the people there that are suffering are suffering because of Hamas, not because of Israel.
02:48There's no country on earth that spends the kind of time, effort, and money to feed their enemy than Israel does.
02:56And again, if Marjorie has that opinion, then she, again, should go visit, go talk to the people, talk to the families and the soldiers that bend over backwards, bend themselves into a pretzel.
03:06But you're dealing with ruthless terrorists that love the idea of their own citizens being mutilated and killed because it gives them an edge in a propaganda war.
03:15It's sick, it's disturbing, it's disgusting, but that's the reality of who they are.
03:19And I'll tell you why they won't release the hostages, because they'll all be dead.
03:23The minute they release the hostages, that's the only bargaining chip that the leaders of Hamas have, and they know it's a death sentence.
03:28So they're not willing to do that.
03:30But they've held these people in terrible conditions, sometimes cages.
03:34So, look, all this can be over today.
03:36Let's hope that that happens.
03:37President Trump's given them all the time and opportunity to do that.
03:40I think that the Qataris can do more and should do more, because they're playing both sides of this right now.
03:46And they need to be much more aggressive about getting Hamas to the table and getting this time.
03:50Would you support the U.S. setting up food centers, as President Trump has suggested?
03:55Yeah, again, but you've got to look at how this is all going to play out.
03:59We don't want American soldiers in that war zone.
04:01I get an alert every day when Israeli soldiers have been killed.
04:05And I get way too many alerts every single solitary day.
04:08So the idea that we'd have American soldiers at risk, I'm not for that.
04:12Look, at the end of the day, what the world should be united around is that Hamas can end this killing, and they can end this war.
04:20The hostages can be released, and the Palestinians and gods are going to have peace, if the leadership of Hamas wants it to happen.
04:26But when he's marking up a congressional stock, creating Vandal Hars, that's something that you should support.
04:29The Pelosi Act.
04:30You've got to come up with the right name.
04:31Yeah, the Pelosi Act.
04:31The Pelosi Act.
04:32It's an acronym.
04:33I'm not sure what it stands for.
04:33But, look, I think it's great.
04:35Look, before I ran for office, in my primary, I sold all my individual stocks, sold all my operating businesses, because I didn't want any conflicts of interest.
04:44And that should exist for every single elected official, not just here in Washington, D.C., I'd say every elected official.
04:51And that should also be the case for state and local officials.
04:53There should be no conflicts.
04:54Like, when you vote for somebody, you should know, hey, this person's going out there to represent me and not their own personal financial interests.
04:59I find it perplexing.
05:00As a business guy, it took a long time to build up my wealth, how people can come here with no wealth whatsoever, make $4,000 a pay period, and then all of a sudden become multimillionaires.
05:10That is perplexing to me.
05:12I think it's perplexing to me and infuriating to the American public.
05:16In your time here, have you felt a pushback or reluctance to go ahead with that idea?
05:20I mean, recently, as last week, the House Ethics Committee released a report on Congressman Mike Kelly and some questionable traits of his family.
05:27Look, you guys look at the data.
05:29The data is the data.
05:30You get here and you have a net worth of basically zero.
05:33You're here for 12 years and you're a multimillionaire.
05:35How does that work?
05:36So, I think it's in plain sight, and we have to restore confidence in our institutions.
05:42It started with our elected leaders.
05:43That's why I did that.
05:44And by the way, again, I did it in the primary.
05:47I didn't wait.
05:48I didn't put in a blind trust because there didn't be things.
05:50I sold my Bitcoin at $10,000, by the way, because I didn't want to have people say, oh, he's advocating for Bitcoin because he owns it.
05:57Look, you should be able to look at the elected leaders and go, they are completely free of any conflicts.
06:02They're here to serve the American people, and I hope we pass that down.
06:05Senator Marino, Senator Dick Durbin, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, wants to see the video of the interview between Todd Blanch and Glenn Maxwell.
06:13Would you want to see that yourself?
06:15I would want to see it, but if Dick Durbin wants to see it, go ahead.
06:18Why don't you want to see it?
06:19Because there's nothing to see there.
06:20This is a woman who committed heinous crimes.
06:24I don't want that replayed.
06:26Who knows what she says?
06:27Who knows what's true?
06:28She seems to be incredibly unreliable.
06:30And that's somebody I wouldn't believe.
06:31The Democratic National Committee is coming up with a campaign that President Trump is killing the American dream.
06:39Your thoughts on that?
06:39Literally the opposite.
06:40Literally 100.
06:41So take them, what they say is reversed.
06:44Let's walk through it.
06:45Number one, child tax credit, $2,200.
06:47You're talking about, look what we did for low-income housing.
06:50We raised the threshold from 9% to 12%.
06:52We lowered the bond from 50% to 25%.
06:55That's $15 billion more money in low-income tax credits that are out there.
06:59That's huge.
07:00That's a huge impact.
07:02The no tax on tips, no tax on overtime.
07:04The amount of investment we're seeing in this country that's driving up our economy.
07:09By the way, look at the numbers.
07:10Look at real wages.
07:11What are people putting in their pockets?
07:13There's one guy who's crushing the American dream.
07:15One guy who's spending $3.1 billion to renovate three office buildings in D.C.
07:20His name is Jerome Powell.
07:21And he definitely needs to be put out the pasture and retired.
07:24Because he's costing people the American dream.
07:26He's costing every single one of you money.
07:28If you have a credit card, you have a car loan, you have anything where you pay, student loan,
07:33he's costing you money because of his political partisanship.
07:37That guy needs to be fired or, better yet, just resign.
07:41So if there's somebody killing the American dream, I would agree.
07:43It's certainly not President Trump.
07:44President Trump's fighting for the American dream.
07:46He's a trouble for me.
07:47So Senator Josh Hawley introduced a bill to provide tariff rebates for families who...
07:51No, we're going to pay down their debt.
07:52No, we're going to pay down their debt.
07:53We have $37 trillion debt.
07:55Why do you think a Republican would introduce this kind of bill?
07:58Because you're talking about it.
07:59I mean, oh, yeah, okay.
08:00That's a good question.
08:01That's it.
08:02We'll never pass.
08:03We have a $37 trillion debt.
08:05You know, think about how immoral it is for my generation and older boomers to say to your generation, millennials and Gen Z,
08:12hey, man, we had a great time in America.
08:13Here's trillions of dollars that you guys paid off.
08:16We loved it, though.
08:17We enjoyed all this money that we borrowed on your behalf.
08:21It's immoral.
08:22I mean, we need to pay down our debt.
08:24We need to be serious about paying down our debt.
08:26You know, I hear so many of my Republican colleagues say one thing publicly, that they're fiscal conservatives,
08:31and yet I hear, and maybe I'll say who they are later, hear them putting in $100 million earmarks for pet projects.
08:39That's crazy.
08:40Like, you've got to be straight with the American public.
08:43There's not a Republican that doesn't run for office and says, I'm going to pay down this debt.
08:46And by the way, I have to look at all of you and my own kids and my own grandkids and say,
08:51am I being a moral person by saddling the next generation with this kind of debt?
08:56It's totally irresponsible.
08:57So the good news is President Trump's bringing in record amounts of tariffs, record amount of investment.
09:02The one big beautiful bill is going to unleash a private investment in this country, which is going to grow our GDP.
09:08That's what's going to allow us to pay down our debt.
09:09I think the one beautiful bill, if it's executed the way I think it will be executed,
09:15will probably pay down our debt $4 trillion, first time ever.
09:18But something is also causing that snowball debt to continue to snowball.
09:21The appropriations process is broken.
09:23No, the appropriations process is not broken.
09:25The people who put out appropriations for hundreds of millions of dollars
09:29and to pretend they're not somebody who asked for earmarks is what's broken.
09:33I think we need to have much more daylight so that people can see, okay, what did Marino advocate for?
09:38How much was it?
09:39Is he putting his money where his mouth is?
09:40Is he vetting these projects?
09:43Or is he trying to get a lot of money for his own state because that's going to help him politically?
