35 Burst results for "Tom Cotton"
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Israel Doesn't Need America's Help With Domestic Affairs
"Center cotton in terms of your lawyer and you're on the judiciary committee. When you see Americans lecturing Israelis on what to do with their court system, do you respond as I do, which is it's none of our business. That's a domestic issue we should not be hectoring them on either way, but if you're going to hack or at least be consistent with your position taken in the United States and the left is not doing that. I was in Israel last month. I was very clear about this at the time. I'm entirely confident that Israelis of all political persuasions can manage their own domestic affairs. They don't need the help of America to manage their own domestic affairs. They do need the help of America, however, to help broker peace agreements with their neighbors as we saw with Abraham accords under president Trump. They do need help to counteract the common terrorist threat that threatens both our nations and they certainly need help to counteract the Iranian nuclear threat. That's what Israel needs America's helps do. They don't need American politicians meddling in their own domestic affairs. I will
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Blame Biden for the Putin-Xi Partnership
"Contin, I want to start with the biggest story of the week, the month and the year. Xi and Putin together again in Moscow. Now, the pact of steel didn't come around until 1938, Mussolini and Hitler started getting around and together in the mid 30s. How ominous is that gathering in the cementing of that alliance in your eyes? Well, it's very worrisome to you. I want to be clear, Joe Biden didn't bring these two together. They are anti American dictators who want to overturn an American led global order of security and stability that serves our interests and replace it with one that serves their interests. However, Joe Biden's weakness in his first two years in office have created what they see as new opportunities for advancing their shared interests, whether it was the appeasement of China and Russia both early in the administration, the fiasco in Afghanistan or now Joe Biden's halting half measures in Ukraine. Time and again, Joe Biden has encouraged these two anti American dictators to act on their long shared interest in undermining America's national security and the global world. The global order that advances America's interest as opposed to the anti American interest of countries like China and Russia and others.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
TikTok CEO Shou Chew Is Set to Testify Before House Committee
"All right, so we've got shoes echo is going to testify today on why TikTok isn't a menace. Well, TikTok is a menace. And we know it's a menace. And The Wall Street Journal reports that TikTok reassures advertisers over the ban that is threatened. You can't reassure advertisers because TikTok is an engine of the Chinese Communist Party. It's that simple. And the dossier they are collecting on you and your children, if you use it. And what the malware, they may have inserted into your system, they may be listening to you right now. Do not underestimate what the Chinese communists do, and they're doing it through TikTok. But The New York Times cautions pulling the plug on TikTok will be a lot harder than it looks.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Xi and Putin Pledge to Shape New World Order
"Xi and Putin bind China and Russia's economic economies further, despite war in Ukraine. Nothing major came out of the public announcements of the Xi Putin summit, but the body language and everything else is ominous for the west. That is an alliance. It is all the harm hallmarks of an alliance. There's a little debate online last night. Well, this is just another meeting between world leaders. No, no, no, no. It is an alliance between the ruthless man in the world, Xi Jinping, and the most brutal man in the world Putin. And they are aligned with a religious fanatic Khamenei in Iran, and that's the new axis of evil. That's the two version and it's the one yard. And they got a proxy state in North Korea as well. But those three are the big deals, and they are like the pact of steel from the 30s. That happened. They've left, they've gone back to their countries, be aware. Just
The Charlie Kirk Show
Biden DNI Pick Avril Haines Raises Eyebrows
"Doing some research on this Avril Haines person. Who apparently is the one that had the back and forth with Tom cotton. And The Guardian, The Guardian, averill Haines is unusual backstory makes her an unlikely chief for U.S. intelligence. Oh, really? And so then somebody sends this to me. The former plane enthusiast lawyer at judo belt owned a cafe that staged erotica nights and worked for president Obama, what you're trying to say the erotica knights ended up working for Obama. I think this is grammatically a little bit too close. So I don't know what the hell it erotica night is. I Googled it. And it said you need to turn your safe search off in order to do that. I'm not doing that. I don't even know what it is. And so then apparently in the article it explains it that this woman who's now running DNI bought brothels, though she bought she opened a cafe in a formal brothel and then returned and then returned it to a brothel. She's running the head of the DNI. She says, quote, erotica has become more prevalent because people are trying to have sex without having sex. Others are trying to find new fantasies to make their monogamous relationships more satisfying with the erotic offers is spontaneity twists and turns and it affects everybody. This woman is a freak. She should not be in our government. So when I say the Biden administration has a team of freaks I mean it is really strange.
The Charlie Kirk Show
How Do We Solve the Fentanyl Crisis?
"What do you think about the fentanyl crisis in America and what can be done to solve it this really concerns me fentanyl is a real lethal drug. It is terrible. And our government is more concerned with violent extremists. Tom cotton, who's a good senator from Arkansas. He doesn't always vote the way I'd like him to, especially with that omnibus bill back in December. I didn't like that. But he's a good man. And he's a strong fighter and he's a true conservative. He had an opportunity to cross examine Avril Haines who is a member of the Biden regime, she serves as the senior director of national intelligence for the Biden administration, that's her job. So she's the director of national intelligence DNI. She's the first woman to serve in the role, and so she's the 7th director of the DNI. Okay. So Tom cotton had an opportunity to ask her some questions. And I love these questions. In Aristotle's ethics, the entire book of the ethics is built on this premise, which is that there is a hierarchy of the good. There's a hierarchy of some things matter more than others and in life a mature citizen and a mature society goes to the process of talking about what matters more and what matters less, not everything can matter. The same. Food, shelter, medicine matters more than entertainment. It's pretty obvious, right? Entertainment comes second to those things. But since we no longer live in a mature society and we live in a society run by narcissistic infants, we no longer even have those conversations.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
How Will Nikki Haley Handle Our National Security?
"Battery, there's been some differentiation among the Republican candidates, both declared an imminent, on weapons for Ukraine. Governor desantis is warned against a blank check. Former president Trump has denounced warmongers. Mike Pompeo and Tom cotton are sort on the other end. Send everything they need to win right now. Where's ambassador Haley on that spectrum of Republican support for the people of Ukraine and president zelensky. Don't send money. Don't send troops send all the equipment and ammunition they need with our allies and make sure that they have everything they need to win. We can do it by way of equipment and ammunition and working with our allies. We don't have to do it with checks and troops. Would you send F-16s and a tens? Yes, everything they need to win. Right. Nina, Iran is close to breakout. They're at 86% of what they need to have a nuclear weapon. Would you support U.S. acting with or without Israel against Iran to destroy that program? Well, I think we need to work with Israel. Israel is already onto it. Israel's already looking to move in that direction. I think we need to work with them. But we also need to work with our Arab allies. Saudi Arabia very much doesn't want Iran to get the bomb either. We need to work with them the emiratis, the qataris we've got to make sure we work with more countries to stop Iran and we have to call out China for helping them. But matter ambassador, they're less than a month away. They can have a nuclear weapon within a month. If you were president, would you have already ordered a military strike on Iran to destroy that capacity? If I was president, I would be having a meeting right now with Israel and the Arab countries saying, what are we going to do to stop it? This isn't just our fight alone. This is all of their fights. They are destruction to all terrorism. They are the number one state sponsor of terrorism. And we have to make sure we do everything to stop them. You don't just quickly say, oh, we're going to go to war. What you do is you get with your allies and see what that force is going to look like. And you get strategic in how you're going to do it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Covid-19 Was a Lab Leak, But Is It a Bioweapon?
"Play cut 36. Listen carefully. This was back in 2020. Listen to operation mockingbird. If you do not know about operation mockingbird, it was uncovered by the church and pike committee back in the 70s. Which was a CIA operation to get all the different media in harmony, singing and harmony. This is not some sort of theory that is unfounded. Listen to yourself about how the media covered this, play cut 36. Tom cotton a couple of days ago. Spout they could conspiracy theory to the Chinese, made this virus up. We know that it's been debunked that this virus was man-made or modified or anything like that. Both scientists and the U.S. intelligence community agree that this coronavirus was not man-made. That is not a possibility. Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh with zero proof suggesting a Chinese bioweapon lab is to blame. And yet this week, Donald Trump is still pushing the debunked bunkum. The virus was not, not not man-made. And these are awful people. I'm going to be honest. There's not good people. Doctor Fleming is the media going to ever backtrack on this because thanks to your efforts, your uncovering this, you're keeping the pressure on, what's the path forward here? Well, I think eventually the media is going to have to uncover it because with ten letters debt or once we get criminal indictments filed by the state attorney generals, that's going to change the entire environment in the United States and on the planet where the media is going to have to pay attention to the fact that Fauci and Gates and Collins and these other people will be charged with actual criminal crimes for making biological viral weapons that there's no excuse for it. There's no pretend that there should be a reason for this. They intentionally altered the coronaviruses to make them infect people and to cause harm in people.
AP News Radio
Latest downed objects could well be 'benign,' US says
"The Biden administration says the latest three objects down by the U.S. Military may have been benign. I Norman hall. White House national security spokesman John Kirby says the three objects down in the past week could be tied to some commercial or benign purpose, press secretary, karine Jean Pierre. The objects were indeed flying at lower elevation, and they were in civilian airspace. And we wanted to make sure that we protected that airspace. Pentagon officials gave some lawmakers a private briefing, Senate Republican Tom cotton of Missouri says the administration is sending Nick's signals about the objects, but Senate leader Chuck Schumer disagrees. I think some of our Republican colleagues are being at the very minimum premature and often just very political. Weather challenges and the remote locations of where the three objects were shot down have impeded recovery efforts so far. Norman hall, Washington
The Dan Bongino Show
Rep. Lauren Boebert: The Double Standards on Biden's Documents Scandal
"Last question for you I always appreciate your time These documents Tom cotton was on I saw him on Fox this morning senator from Arkansas On our side of the aisle And what I believe to be a really solid move on his part He's threatening to basically uphold the confirmation process if we don't get a look at what is in the classified documents that were held By both allegedly Donald Trump because he's the spirit in the classification of course but that's another story And Joe Biden who no one's disputing the classification Now I find it off the odd congresswoman that they don't want you to see what's in these documents Now my next segment when you're gone I'm going to play a cut here for Miranda divine Would it be awfully interesting if some of the information in those classified documents that they won't let the Senate look at Was in fact in some emails Hunter Biden was exchanging with foreign countries Now we don't know that but there's an easy way to clear it up right To get a look at the documents Your thoughts on that Absolutely Well first of all go senator cotton We deserve to have answers on this And I'm really proud of him for taking the lead in this And making sure that we know exactly what's there But with these classified documents the real concern to me is the double standard Democrats are searched in Republicans are rated The White House is dodging questions on this They really seem to be hiding something One question I want to answer is why did the DoJ wait until after the midterms to bring this forward Why do all of these people who don't have the authority to have classified documents in their possession have them and could we have stopped this if we would have actually prosecuted Hillary Clinton whenever she was found with classified documents and deleted 33,000 emails and probably the biggest regret that any Democrat has right now is Joe Biden himself in the fact that he didn't use bleach bit or a hammer
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Biden Pushed to Provide Tanks for Ukraine
"Biden came out yesterday and we'll go into this in a little bit deeper dive a little bit later on. But Joe Biden came out in a press conference and announced that he is going to give these tanks to Ukraine. And that's fine, but this is exactly the opposite of what their policy was even a week ago. We weren't going to do that, said this administration. And all of a sudden, Germany, France, Edward NATO countries decided they were going to send tanks because they didn't think we were going to keep it up. And it kind of shamed this administration into going ahead and doing the right thing. Tom cotton reflected on it to trace Gallagher and Sandra Smith over at Fox News. Here is what Tom cotton said cut 6. It's a welcome decision that president Biden and Germany have decided to finally provide these tanks to Ukraine, but it's long overdue. It also continues the pattern since before the war started, a President Biden being scared of his own shadow of declining the military support that the Ukrainian army needs first to deter the war from starting in the first place and then second to defend Ukrainian territory and to fight back against Russia's unprovoked war of aggression. And it's really an admission of their own mistakes, not providing these tanks months ago. As you've seen time and time again for the last year, when the administration explains that some kind of weapon system or a certain kind of intelligence would be dangerously escalatory or provocative, only to provide it months later, too late for it to be used to stop further advances or to facilitate further Ukrainian advances. So what we need to do to end this war to stop it from being more protracted or bloodier is to back Ukraine's army to the hilt so they can defend their own territory.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Paying the Bills in the Republican House
"Mister vice president in so help me God, we spent a lot of time talking about this when we first interviewed you, you were not only a member of the House. You were the chairman of the conference, like at least a thousand years now. And you invited me and you're very kind to come address. I need the conference. I think the conference has got together and figure out what the message is on the debt limit. Because we can't ask for the world, we can ask for 6 or 7 things we being Republicans, we've got to focus on what is the ask. I think it ought to be, we're not going to open up the debt limit until you close down the border, but Tom cotton said no, it's normally debt. What do you think the message should be and how ought it to be formed so that it's effective messaging into a hostile media? Well, look, I mean, the Congress has an obligation to ensure the full faith and credit of the United States, right? Nobody understands that articulates it quite as well as you do. So we've got to pay our bills. Right. But I do think that the new Republican majority, which is a conservative majority, I'm proud to say. Ought to seize this opportunity to secure a significant step whether it be on the economy, whether it be I know they took action against these 87,000 IRS agents last night, but whether it be on the economy undoing this gusher of spending that's driving inflation, whether it be demanding action on the border. I mean, I love what Greg Abbott said when Biden lands for his one and only border visit in the last two years. And he told the press afterwards he said, remember, this crisis at the border millions of people coming across the southern border is not is nothing short of a result of what Joe Biden has done. It's because he undid the winning successful policies of the Trump Pence administration that secured the border and reduced illegal immigration by 90%. So I think you use it as leverage to drive and outcome. But the backdrop is we do have to pay our bills. We do have to we do have to ensure the full faith and credit of the United States. I'm confident that they will do that. The one thing they should not do and I'm confident they won't is set into motion the kind of defense cuts that would send precisely the wrong signal to the world at a time when the world is becoming more dangerous, virtually by the hour.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Why Has the Military Failed to Reach Projections?
"Now Sarah, I want to start the new year by talking about the problem at the bottom of the military and at the top. At the bottom, we're not hitting our recruitment goals. Some people blame Wilkins. What does senator Tom cotton think? I think that's one of the main reasons that the army in particular, but all the services then meet the recruiting goals and project bell this year as well. America's young men and women don't join the army because they want to learn how to use the right pronouns. They join it because they want to stand up to the enemies of freedom and defend our land in our country. So that's not the only reason, but it's one of the central reasons. And here, when you look at it too, and you think about who is joining our military, who's enlisting and our armed forces, it's not gender studies majors at liberal arts colleges for the most part. It is 18 year old Alan high school oftentime raised in military families who have a deep and abiding patriotism for this country. They don't join the military so they can learn about all the country's laws. They join the military so they can defend it.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Breaking Down the Battle for House Speaker
"Was on with Brett bear on Friday night and summed up the house speakership battle cut number 9. Hugh, they've got a bold agenda. They campaigned on it in this contract with the American people. But first they have to get a leader. And that's up first on Tuesday, whether Kevin McCarthy has the votes or not. And I don't think anything has changed since last week, Brett. The knucklehead caucus that I like to call it, I've got 5 members, none of them have moved. None of the scalise agenda that the future majority leader laid out today can move forward, nor can oversight for as long as Matt Gaetz and his four buddies hold up the election of Kevin McCarthy as speaker. And so while there's a lot of oversight to be done and a lot of stuff to be covered, none of it gets started until one of those 5, at least sit down and shut up and hopefully all 5 of them get in the game and help the Republicans roll out their agenda. That's the bottom line. Are they going to actually help assess with everything that is going on or are they going to attempt to monetize a brief moment of fame? Like I think the stank ever gets off of them. I think it gets off their staff either. And I don't want to name people beyond Matt Gaetz. He is so insistent on being the public face of being stupid that I will name Matt Gaetz. There are four others who are along with him, but maybe they'll peel off and at least one of them has always been a responsible kind of legislative or I don't know what's going on there. But
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Kevin McCarthy Gains Support for Speaker Position
"This morning on Fox and Friends two new congressman Derrick van orden and Brandon Williams felt that it would come out of the navy. That ordinary seal, Williams of submarine man, they got together. They talked on Fox and Friends. This isn't a cut number 12. This is Derek van orden who you heard on this show last week. Well, I don't think I know. The reason that we flipped the house and fired Nancy Pelosi, we're going to take that gavel out of her hand this morning, is because of the hard work of Kevin McCarthy. So Kevin McCarthy assembled a team and he led that team that flipped the house. And that deserves some respect, and that deserves that he has earned a chance to be the next Speaker of the House and I'll be strongly supporting him. And I encourage my fellow conservatives to do so also. So Derek with what you're saying, I assume you believe that we will have a Speaker of the House today. And it'd be McCarthy. It will be Kevin McCarthy. Listen, if it takes one ballot or a hundred ballots, it doesn't matter. We're in it to win it. Kevin McCarthy will be the next Speaker of the House. You see, I love hearing that. Because that's what the rump Republicans have to do, especially those who are truly out of their minds, cut number 13 Brandon Williams or submariner. I agree. Kevin's earned the right to do this. I'm not here for personal grievances and we've got a job to do. And I'm eager to get to work and get started. And the sooner we have a speaker, the sooner that we can start doing the things that the American people sent us here to do. Derek and I are both former navy. And it's really all about the mission. And let's not forget about the mission. It's beyond Kevin. It's really about turning our country around and it's about standing up to Joe Biden.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
An Update on Damar Hamlin of the Buffalo Bills
"Let me start with an update on the condition of the Buffalo Bill safety demar Hamlin. According to the bills, he is still under sedation and critical condition, his heart stopped after a hit last night, and they revived him on the field, but he is sedated in a Cincinnati hospital forget the anti vaxxers who flooded the web last night and blamed really not a REIT. It's finest. Commodity Cordis is likely, according to medical experts, it's a blow to the heart. In 58% of patients, they recover, will pray for young mister Hamlin. No, the update on marble actor, Jeremy Renner, who was hurt when his snow machine tipped on him, his Reno, Nevada, retreat, no word beyond he is also in critical condition.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
TikTok, It Must Be Stopped
"I just want to say one great thing happened in 2022. It's hard to find great news in 2022. The Ukrainian resistance that they did not fold up is great but the cost of Ukraine has been so high. And it's been such a savage war, it's hard to say great, though it's been inspiring else zelensky and his people have fought back against the Russian bear. But apparently after two years and actually two and a half years of relentless campaigning by people like me, but mostly secretary of former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, senator Tom cotton, congressman Mike Gallagher, and a few others, TikTok has become radioactive in the United States. Parents get it off of your kids phone as soon as you can. Here's Mike Pompeo in November talking to Brian kilmeade on Fox about TikTok, cutting them rate. A 100%. And if the government won't do it, parents should. We've been talking about this for a long time, Brian. I think now three, three and a half years ago, this is a powerful tool with deeply embedded AI, and it is an element of the Chinese security apparatus. So think about your kids, facial recognition features, who their friends are, everybody they're talking to, this information is all available to the Chinese Communist Party. The FTC chair has it right. The Trump administration had it right, although we didn't get it done. We need to prevent this tool. And all the others like it from impacting American security. But yet
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Matt Gates Opposes Omnibus Bill
"Yes, David, I actually think the okay button is one of the shrewd at the only Kevin button, the okay button. And the okay caucus has a majority of the House. So there isn't going to be an alternative speaker. There might not be an assembly of the house for a long time. This might become, that's why I tell everyone. If you're mad at the omnibus, blame Matt Gaetz, because they would not. They might have pointed the omnibus into next year if there had been a House majority guarantee but they could not run the risk of the government shutting down. And I've been defending the conservative vote for it. You can not have the defense industry. You can't have the Department of Defense running on a CR. You just can't. No, no. I mean, you look bad. That's certainly a viable explanation. You have Republican senators looking at their inability to unify, knowing the past history of larger majorities to govern. And they're saying to themselves, we're going to give you a mandate that the voters didn't give you to do something you couldn't even do when you had a mandate. No, granted, this goes back some years, but it's the same sort of behavior. And there's just no confidence that they can get it done. When you can't agree to organize and leave with the majority you have and at least get things started, that's why you had a lot of Senate Republicans. At least almost half of them say, we're not going to do this and look secretly, I'm sure lots of House Republicans are very happy about the Senate Republicans did. I know they are. Of course, and all of that. But you need to be able to move the ball down the field, not constantly throw hand pale marries that have no chance of getting caught and getting into the end zone.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"tom cotton" Discussed on The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"Now, senator, I want to record it somewhere on the day that we're talking about this. I hope someone at the conference this week said, you know, she is getting ready to invade Taiwan and TikTok is sweeping the country and they're collecting data on us. And we can't screw around. We really can not screw around. Does the conference understand that China is the number one priority for the country? Does the conference get that? Yeah, I think most of our senators do. And frankly, some of the democratic senators do as well. But we still need more action. So I hope President Biden, when he sat down with Xi Jinping this morning, was very clear and firm. Made it clear that we are going to accelerate our arms delivery to Taiwan. So Taiwan can defend itself from invasion by communist China. That we will come to Taiwan's aid militarily if Chinese communists go for the jugular there. That the rule that the Biden administration announced last month about semiconductor technology going to China is only the first step that we're going to take many more steps, both by the administration and by Congress to stop China's unfair predatory trade practices that are stealing our jobs and our technology and using them to get to us. I hope the president was very clear and firm on all those things. It's more Xi Jinping. But one thing that would help him going forward for next two years to be stiff and resolved towards China is a strong tough congressional agenda and I expect to be a leader in crafting that agenda. Last quick question, senator FTX stole billions from people. It's collapsed. 39 million of those billions went to democratic candidates in this cycle. Do those democratic candidates owe the folks who have been defrauded by FTX or refund. Would you the FTX collapse appears more and more not just bad fortune, but potential criminal wrongdoing. And the Democrats didn't just benefit from Sam bankman freed, the CEO of FDX is large S to the tune of $40 million. They also date in a coveted seat at the table to craft crystal policies. So I think they have a lot of questions to answer in addition to accounting for that money and probably returning it. I think let's start with just getting it back for the benefit of the small investors who got screwed because once again, the small investor got screwed by fraud. Tom cotton, thank you, senator. As you said that for the quarter of the weekend, my regard to all your colleagues because they're all doing the lord's work. I'll be back tomorrow, America. We'll get a firmer read on the house and pretty optimistic at this point, but I was optimistic last week. Take my optimism with a grain of salt. That's just who I am and I'll be back tomorrow the same as I always ask you to do it. Honestly, I'm radio network. Thank you. I'm your then I'm. Sure doctor trudy flare here, let's discuss a very real existential threat to Internet speed. T mobile home Internet. It lags. Now what is leg? Like is a delay in data being transmitted across the Internet, switch to Xfinity for a strong, reliable connection. Learn more at Xfinity dot com slash Timo facts..
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"tom cotton" Discussed on The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"Happens. And then they can change it up if they don't after two years. Joshua and axios follow him at Josh cross ara follow me to the next hour. Tom cotton. Showtime. Whoo. Whoo. Whoo. Welcome back. America, that's Rick flair, referenced by my next guest senator Tom cotton on faith the nation yesterday. I do not believe senator cotton is actually old enough to have watched Rick flair wrestle. Am I wrong about that senator cotton? Oh, you are very wrong about that. You view it. Ric Flair was an icon growing up. As was a Hulk Hogan and André the Giant and Randy macho man savage and a different wrestling league. But yeah, the nature boy. Well, that was. You know, he's retweeted that this morning. Ric Flair, I didn't even know Rick flair was on Twitter. He came out and he retweeted that with a whoo. Let's get to the lies in politics and wrestling in fort and pretty much every other waffle I for you. Since you declared that no one had declared to run against Mitch McConnell, has anyone declared to run against Mitch McConnell? Not to knowledge you. And remember, it's not just senator McConnell. There are 5 maybe 6 leadership elections in total for people like Joni Ernst and John barrasso, John thune and to my knowledge, no one is contesting those positions to include the positions that are currently being vacated because Lori blind is departing from our one of our positions and joanie is running for that vacating her own position. So I don't really understand what we're talking about in terms of delaying an election that is uncontested when we have a runoff in Georgia where all of our focus should be placed. And to those who want to have what they call a debate about what happened in the election and where we're going, I agree, we should have such a conversation. But we're back in session a day and we have our weekly conference lunch meeting tomorrow and these conference meetings that are scheduled on Wednesday, typically run for several hours before we have vote. So there's plenty of time to discuss that, especially for uncontested elections. But I really think that all of our focus needs to be on Georgia. And once again, reiterating just how badly Rafael Warnock has failed. The people of Georgia, when it comes to massive inflation, rising crime, open border, a weakened belt area. It makes that contract clear with Herschel Walker to go up reverse all of those if he is elected as the 50th senator. And the 50 50 matters a lot, senator cotton, does it not? It does matter. Obviously, it keeps the pressure on the democratic caucus to hold all of their members together. And they have a lot of vulnerable members up for reelection in 2024 who might like to take a walk on legislation to prove their quote unquote independence when we all know there's really a rubber stamp for the radical left wing agenda they pursued over the last two years. Also matters and things like committee organization, the committees will be evenly divided and we've had effective and successful efforts to block for instance the far left wing chair or nominated chair of the Federal Communications Commission. So it certainly does matter a lot that we pick up this state. But even more than that, it matters for the people of Georgia. This is a 6 year position. And the people of Georgia deserve better than the results Rafael Warnock has delivered them. They gave him a test run two years ago and he spelled battling those two years. And Herschel Walker will help stop the runaway spending. It will help rebuild our military, get American energy production back on your way. And make sure that we're locking up my life criminals as opposed to coddling them. So even more so than it being 50 50 in Washington or 51 49, the people of Georgia deserve someone representing them for 6 years who will protect their interests and promote their deepest aspirations..
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"tom cotton" Discussed on The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"Well, that's question for this segment on China, senator people have to read only the strong if they want to get the full scope of it. There will be a next president. That next president will be dealing with president Xi, who was dictator for life. There will be a first conversation between our next president and president Xi. What do you want our next president to say in that first conversation machine? Well, he needs to make clear that there's going to be a major correction from the Biden era and the Obama era that we're no longer going to allow China to exploit our workers and our businesses. We're not going to allow them to threaten our friends in the western Pacific like Japan and South Korea and Taiwan and that under no circumstances will we stand by if Xi Jinping tries to go for the jugular in Taiwan. That should be said publicly, unlike Joe Biden, it shouldn't be walked back by anonymous aides afterwards. But then action speak louder than words. That next president has to take emergency action to ensure that Taiwan can fortify self and it can do to China what Ukraine with American and western health has been able to do to Russia, which is defend its own territory and fight its own war against a large dangerous neighbor. We'll come back one more conversation with senator cotton about only the strong, don't miss it next hour. Back, I'm with senator Tom cotton his book only the strong I hope you've enjoyed it. I know you've enjoyed the conversations with him, but you really I've only skimmed along the surface of only the strong. You have to read only the strong if you're going to enjoy only the strong. Senator, I left at the end one question. Do you think a serious argument will work? Abraham Lincoln went to Cooper union and he tried to make a serious argument about why slavery was never the intention of the framers, but it could not be extended to the territory. It was a long speech. It was electrified. It made his presidency viable. It made him a candidate. It was a serious argument, but it was a serious time, and people used to read. Do you think serious arguments work in an era of Twitter and MSNBC? Yeah, I do you. For the record, I think Abraham Lincoln would also have been great on Twitter. And on social media. So he was so pithy and witty. I mean, remember the Gettysburg address can probably fit in a few tweets. But we've been down this road before. And the years after Vietnam and the Jimmy Carter presidency, many of the fears that Americans have today, they had been as well. Not all of this history gets into only the strong, but I read deeply about that era and about Ronald Reagan and how rapidly he turned America around. So by winning this election on Tuesday and then by winning again in 2024 and having a new president with new Secretary of Defense in the new Secretary of State, committed leaders who believe in America who are proud of our country and its heritage and hopeful and optimistic about our future and we can turn it around as I explain and only the strong and that's what the American people want. It's what they expect and they deserve. They deserve leaders who attend to their interests to ensure their safety and their freedom and their prosperity who don't apologize for America who don't undermine the sources of American power. If one makes that argument, I think the American people will receive it very well. Senator continent Alexander Solzhenitsyn's memoir, the oak and the cap. He said, what if it's only paper mache? He was referring to the then Soviet Union. He was referring to the superpower that no one thought would ever fall when it came out probably in the early 80s. Open the cap. What if it's all paper mache? What if it will melt in The Rain? Do you think we can actually pull this off again? I know we hope I know you hope we can, but do you really think a second Reagan could arrive and a second renewal following catastrophic foreign policy failure can occur? I absolutely do you. I mean, I draw upon Reagan's wisdom a lot and only the strong because he drew upon the founders wisdom. They're foreign policy looks different because of different circumstances and ages. But at root, it still was based in pride about our nation and understanding the way the world works and a dedication to our safety and our freedom and our prosperity. The American people still want that. I also draw a lot upon Winston Churchill as well. And he had a nice line. I said about the character of our people. We did not journey all this way. We did not come across the ages across the oceans and cross the mountains in the plane because we're made of sugar candy. The American people are not made of sugar candy. They are not paper mache. Many people, many people have met their demise over the last 250 years by underestimating the American people. And I would caution any of our adversaries. Joe Biden's weakness or Barack Obama's ideological weakness is not the weakness of the American people. Senator Tom cotton, thank you. Congratulations on only the strong available at Amazon, bookstores everywhere, make sure you get into the hands of everyone and vote like your life depended on it next Tuesday because the senator cotton explains in only the strong, indeed it does. Thank you, Sutter. Thank you. This time of year, you double down on cheer, so does Duncan, that's why they have twice the signature lattes with minty peppermint mocha and creamy toasted white chocolate. Both hand crafted with rich espresso, grab one today, America runs on Dunkin. Price and participation may vary limited time offer terms apply..
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"I want to move very quickly to president Trump. There's a lot of interesting stuff about president Trump's foreign policy. When he decided to kill Soleimani, did he do the right thing? No question here. We should have done it long before. I mean, just to give you a contrast between the perception of American power during the Trump era versus the Obama era, in the Obama era, has some Soleimani had long since abandoned the operational security measures he took during the Bush era. He was a social media phenomenon when Barack Obama's president posting selfies and videos of himself across the Middle East. He did that because he was confident that he would never be killed by death from the sky. Donald Trump corrected that misimpression if he is. He was a terrorist mastermind. It's hard to overstate his influence inside Iran, probably second only to the supreme leader. He was in charge of an organization that would be akin to combining our Delta force and our navy seals and our CIA and our NSA. It made Americans a lot safer. And they were cries from both the left and even some on the right that this was going to lead to another endless war. We're going to invade Iran that we're at war with Iran. It didn't lead to that. It increased our safety because Iran was not foolish enough to go to war with America when we were led by a president who had a clear eyed view of our interests. As I explained, I was strong at the same thing happened under Ronald Reagan. When Iran was mining the Persian Gulf and shooting missiles at oil tankers during the Iran Iraq War in the 1980s, the first message that president Reagan sent to them was blowing up one of their platforms that had been used for intelligence collection on a missile that had struck a U.S. flagship. As Oregon and administration alum, I was over at OPM at the time, I'd left The White House, but you really gave Reagan his credit for taking out the order. I mean, it was beautifully done. Praying mantis is that the name of the operation, it just was. And a reporter asked Ronald Reagan after that first strike, or we at war with Iran now and he chuckled and had in his way and said, no, we're not at war with Iran. They're not that stupid. When we come back with senator cotton, we're going to turn to the immediate needs of the country. There's a long argument and only the strong about how we rebuild what we were built by the American military. Can we do Reagan a second time? I think so. Senator cotton has a blueprint. You want to read it in detail. I can't summarize it on a radio show. Go get only the strong. Back America senator Tom cotton is back with me throughout this week of election coverage. I've been weaving in my interview with senator cotton about his brand new book, only the strong and urging you to go out and get it because when we win the majority and we meaning the Republican Party, we got to use it. And senator, you spend a lot of time talking about military readiness. Is it, is it possible to undo the damage of Obama and Biden? And by that, I mean, bob Gates got fooled. Bob Gates is not easily fooled. Bob Gates is one of the smartest scans in America. He got fooled by Obama's promise. We are left with a hollowed out military, Ronald Reagan inherited the same thing. Can a Republican Congress repair this? Yeah, there's no question here that we can begin the repair work. Now, ultimate is going to take a new president and new Secretary of Defense dedicated to rebuilding our military. We had a small temporary blip in military spending increase in the Trump era, but that was largely just to fill the holes under the Obama era, which had brought our military down the dangerously low levels of readiness. So the first thing we need to do is simply increase our defense budget substantially. Increases substantially over the high rate of inflation we have now. We are getting closer to where we were spending our defense budgets where we were in the Carter era than we have been at any other time. The second thing we have to do is make sure that we're investing in the right things. I've seen too many politicians in Congress and frankly, too many admirals and generals who are convinced in the latest kind of whiz bang technology and suddenly war is going to be one with hashtags and keystrokes. Don't get me wrong. Technology is very important, but it's battlefield technology that makes the difference. Battlefield technology in the hands of soldiers or that sailors can take across the seas or that airmen can fly into battle. So we have to invest in the right things. One thing we really have to invest on that we've talked about a few times this week is increasing the rate of reductions for our munitions. These are not still aircraft. They're not aircraft carriers. They can be built in relatively short time frames if we give our defense industry the certainty and the funding it needs to increase its production rates. These are all steps that we need to take to give a military the resources it needs. But we also have to focus on the training. Democrats are deeply ambivalent about American power, which means they're mistrustful as I explained in only the strong about the American military. Because the military is American power at its hardest edge. It's not the only kind of power. It's not the kind of power we prefer to use if we can help it, but it's the hardest form of American power. And that's why Democrats are making our troops go through these Maoist struggle sessions, about critical race theory or transgender ideology while they have so many politically correct pursuits that they impose on our troops. They engage in social engineering throughout the ranks, all that can be turned around though with a new president and a new secretary of the defense. You know, senator, you're always more clear eyed than I am, and a little hard edged than I am. I always put it down to Democrats doing the easy thing. You know, they'd rather not kill people so that let's train them on gender diversity. They'd rather not get into an argument. But there's also the Roman Catholic doctrine of invincible ignorance, which is you can't condemn people because they're too stupid about something. When I see Ben Rhodes show up at Fidel Castro's funeral. I realize he really doesn't have any idea what Castro did to people or he's indifferent to human pain and suffering when I see Joe Biden talking about the evils around the world that can be overcome by cheerleading. I just don't think they understand, am I being too generous?.
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"Senator, I want to pause for a moment on Iran. You were the first to step up against the Iran deal and send a letter which just sent The New York Times into rage and the left and array saying, hey, I told you to sign whatever you want. It doesn't count. If you were ever to become president or adviser present on what to do about the Iran deal, I hope you will submit it to the Senate so it can be protected. And restore American constitutionalism to international order because it was the abandonment of the treaty making power with the Iran JCPOA, which underscored how corrupt the left has become in the refusal to follow the rules, those rules were designed by the framers to protect us from idiocy in the Oval Office. I applaud wholeheartedly and only the strong your diversion into. This is what the JCPOA did. Do you think we can ever get back to the constitutional norm? I do. There's a lot of play in the joint center constitution. It's not illegitimate to have executive agreements between our president and head of state of another country. But those are almost always on minor administrative matters, things like delivery of the U.S. males with the status of U.S. forces in a friendly nation. No president until Bill Clinton had ever thought you could have a major nuclear arms control agreement with a hostile country without Senate ratification. And that's what he did with North Korea and 1994. It didn't solve the threat of North Korea's nuclear program. 12 years later, they detonated their first weapon. But it gave a template for Barack Obama's even more reckless nuclear deal with Iran, which again didn't solve or end Iran's nuclear program. It's now much farther advanced than it was when Joe Biden took office, but it did allow him to pursue his ideological ambition to enter a kind of grand raw approach with Iran to apologize and atone for America's sins against the ayatollahs and hopefully to withdraw entirely from the Middle East by elevating Iran and weakening countries like Israel and Saudi Arabia. My apology to bob corker, he's listening. But he was a useful idiot in this process. Because some Republicans don't understand why this matters. Does our party now understand? I'm an out people know I'm a Republican. Does your Senate colleague understand? We have to stop exceeding to the abuse of executive power and national security. I believe so Hugh and as I explain it only the strongest in it has been one of the great bulwarks for American sovereignty over the years. If it wasn't for the Senate and our power to ratify treaties, we would have had Woodrow Wilson's League of Nations, which would have committed us to an insane global network of alliances, forcing us to go to war in places where we had no vital interest whatsoever. You would have had international treaties to ban the trade in arms infringing upon Second Amendment rights. The Paris climate accords would have been a binding treaty that would have devastated America's energy jobs and driven up the price of gas and electricity even higher than they already are. So the United States Senate has always been a bulwark of common sense reflecting the common sense of the American people against the ideological ambitions of democratic presidents. When we come back tomorrow, the red line, in the meantime, go and get only the strong, you will be happy you did, send it to everyone and remember when you vote this week and next week, if you're voting early, vote Republican, we can not, we're in a dangerous time. And we have to get the Republican majorities back. Thank you, senator. We'll talk again. Back America, Hugh Hewitt, back with senator Tom cotton. We have been talking all week about only the strong and I'm doing that in the course of an election week and people are writing the email. Why are you spending so much time? He's not on the ballot..
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"And last question for this segment, the left is getting further to the left. I mean, they're becoming more entrenched. If you look at the candidates on the ballot next week, Mandela bonds in Wisconsin, John fetterman in Pennsylvania, Rafael warnick, your colleague in the Senate. And Georgia, these are hard left. I mean, they are Elizabeth Warren was out there already. They are not liberal. They are not liberal leftists. They are hard left. Is that is there a party capable of stopping that tumble off of the wilsonian edge? Well, they're not capable of that. The defeat they're going to receive next week is just a small foretaste of what's to come in 2024 and beyond. And you see some of the Schroeder minds in the Democratic Party recognizing this, trying to get out in front of it to avoid blame. Like Barack Obama in the same interview where he claimed to regret that he didn't, that he wished he had supported the green movement in 2009 Iran when in reality he failed to support it on purpose because he didn't want to deny tell us he also said that, you know, we can sometimes be buzzkills and skulls that we get upset if people don't use exactly the right language. Now, again, Barack Obama is a deep and committed ideologue, but he's also a shrewd politician. What you see with a lot of the people you named is that their deep audio logs, they're simply not true politicians. They don't have the good sense, the mask those sentiments during the election season. And when we come back in the next segment we're going to talk about emotional leftism, the deep sense of shame, motivating a lot of the left and do not miss that. Go get only the strong during this break and come back, we'll continue talking with senator cotton throughout the show throughout the week national security matters vote Republican. America, senator Tom cotton is back. His brand new book only the strong has been featured all week and will be featured all week as we run up to the election because it's an argument for America's national security and begging people to read it and to believe it because we've got to rebuild American defenses. Senator, I want to fast forward from Wilson, not yet to Obama and posit Jimmy Carter. You write on page 33 of only the strong about the deep sense of shame James fallows talked about for evading the draft. I've long thought that my generation was conflicted over Vietnam. I came in after Vietnam, but the people who skipped out on Vietnam versus my brother in law who fought it had a deep emotional divide. They were never going to be able to overcome. And that it manifested itself in politics in an unspoken way. You articulate that. So obviously you've thought about what Carter and the Vietnam era did to us, how did that play into the wilsonian hostility towards American exceptionalism? Well, Wilson openly repudiated the American founding and the moral basis of our country. Once you lose that moral foundation here, as Abraham Lincoln warned about and his great speeches and letters and 1850s and 1860s, it's not a very far slide into repudiating America itself. And that's what the new left did in the 1960s, especially leading up to Vietnam. I think it's very important for everyone to understand that in the moment Vietnam was not that different, not viewed that differently than our ancestors had viewed any other war. There's a sense promoted by aging boomer left these, probably out of shame that Vietnam was fought by a bunch of miserable constructs. That is simply not the case. More than two thirds of the soldiers fighting in Vietnam were volunteers. People like my dad, he was in college at a deferment. He became a school teacher. He had a department from that as well. But he decided that wasn't for him. There was a war going on that he was going to volunteer to do his time rather than wait around and worry about the draft. And he did. He served for a year in Vietnam. He's proud of his service. He should be, as all Vietnam veterans did, Ronald Reagan said it was a noble cause, and he was right. But you have young liberals like Jim fallows, who was considered as Kennedy put it the best and the brightest. Do you at Harvard? He was a Rhodes scholar, and he wrote as a young man about his efforts to evade the draft. It's astonishing, starving themselves, working with liberal law students from Harvard Medical liberal medical students from Harvard Medical School, scouring regulations, trying to find ways out of the draft, chanting for Ho Chi Minh and on the way to the draft site where they were going to go through their medical testing all celebrating when they all got registered medically disqualified, even as the doctors knew what they were under. And then about another bus that came up from places like south Boston. And as he calls them the white proles of Boston, who had to him look like lambs being led off to the slaughter. Another word for them might just be patriotic Americans who maybe didn't want to go fight in Vietnam, maybe didn't even support the aims of the Vietnam War, but understood their country is at war, and they were fulfilling their duty. And I don't think the I don't think that all those aging boom are lefties have ever gotten over the shame they fail for being draft Dodgers or draft debaters. And it's colored their views. It certainly has an impaired their prospects. I mean, Bill Clinton became president Jim ballo is just a year after he wrote those words, became Jimmy Carter's chief speech writer, but it is colored their views about America and American power ever since..
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"Stay tuned for more of senator cotton. The United States senator Tom cotton is brand new bestseller only the strong and bookstores everywhere. Amazon.com and I set aside a longer segment right here because the ideological roots of the book is about well, there's a lot of Hegel and history. There's a lot of Lincoln in the founders. There's a lot of Woodrow Wilson and finally someone is explained it. Now, Jonah Goldberg has tried a few times. Fine writer under the show, no he's a friend of yours. He's tried a few times in big books that only people like me read to explain where this came from. You went back and tried to do it again, would you explain to people why you think it's important that get what Wilson was and why it matters and why the framers Lincoln and Reagan are different from that. I think it's important to understand the ideological roots of the decline American sea all around them. As I said, Barack Obama is the most ideological president since Wilson. Now, Barack Obama is very careful though to mask his ideology. Sometimes he let the mask slip like for instance when he was attending Jeremiah Wright's church for all those years. Jeremiah Wright remember that infamous pastor who said 9 11 was America's chickens coming home to roost. That God wouldn't bless America but rather damn America. This is not some passing relationship. I mean, Barack Obama saw down his church, sat in his pews for years, even had him officiate his wedding, Michelle Obama. Or when Barack Obama said that America wasn't an exceptional nation. What he wanted to say, we're going to fundamentally transform America you now, I don't know about you, but I don't know many people who think that if you love something, you should want to fundamentally transform it. I can't imagine the fetching misses Hewitt would take too well. If you said honey, I love you, but I want to fundamentally transform you. With Obama, though, it's somewhat rare that that ideological mess flips. With Wilson, you see it out in the open. The first openly, the first president who was openly hostile and opposed to our Declaration of Independence and our constitution. He said they were outdated. They were obsolete. They belonged to a Newtonian age of checks and balances, not a Darwinian age of evolution. He said that the moral basis of our nation, the natural equality of mankind, that none of us as Jefferson said are born with saddles on our backs to be written or spurs on our heels to ride. Was outdated as well. He had this conception of history with a capital H that it was evolving and therefore mankind could be respectable, that we could have heaven on earth that we could achieve utopia. The founders knew that this was all nonsense. They understood as Madison said in the federalist papers that government is the greatest of all reflections on human nature. And our nature, nature is that we're falling creatures. We are the creatures that are between the animals and between God. We're capable of self government, we're capable of reason, but there are also parts of our nature that require more circumspection. That's why we have law enforcement and prosecutors in prisons. That's why we have a military. That's why you have a lock on your front door. They understood that you couldn't build America's foreign policy on utopian foundations. And moreover, what you see as time evolves after Woodrow Wilson and the progressives had repudiated the moral basis of our founding and our nation, it wasn't a very far step to the 60s and 70s when the new left repudiated America itself..
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"Thank you, senator. We'll talk to you tomorrow. For part three of my long series of interviews with senator Tom cotton about his brand new book only the strong, putting national security on the table in the week before the election in a way that I have not seen anyone do since Richard Nixon in 1980 put out the real war to buttress Ronald Reagan's campaign against Jimmy Carter in that way, senator cotton has put out only the strong de buttress every Republican out there because we need to focus on national security even as inflation is crushing us education is collapsing around us. The border is open. We'll come to the border. Senator is painful to talk about, but we have to talk about the collapse in Afghanistan a year ago because no one in the mainstream media is legacy media is abandoned the issue. We've condemned a country to darkness. We didn't have to do so. Mike Pompeo has told me you've confirmed we were planning to leave 2500 troops there. It didn't have to happen. Was that incompetence? Was that design? Was that Joe Biden just living off the fumes of the Obama presidency? Well, I think the way Afghanistan collapsed last summer was a combination of Joe Biden's rank and competence and his deep insecurity. As I explained in only the strong drawing upon some memoirs at the time by people like Secretary of Defense bob Gates, Joe Biden, in 2009, subjected Barack Obama to what bob dates called Chinese water torture over Afghanistan. And he poisoned the well between Obama and our military leaders constantly accusing them of being misleading, of leaking to the press of undermining president Obama in a way that Joe bob Gates said he never saw under George W. Bush. May have disagreed, I may have seen disagreements between senior military leaders and president Bush, but no mistrust. That's pretty common for Democrats and the military though. But for 13 years, Joe Biden believed that he was right about Afghanistan. And everyone, including Barack Obama was wrong, and he had a chip on his shoulder. And he wanted to show everyone in 2021 that he had been right all along. And that's why he disregarded the best military advice of our commander in Afghanistan, our commander in the Middle East, our chairman of the joint chiefs, his own Secretary of Defense, frankly, most of his own civilian advisers in The White House and the State Department. He wanted to show that he was right and had been all along and he wouldn't listen to the obvious facts about what led to the collapse in Afghanistan. So precipitously. I mean, just 5 weeks before cowboy fail, he was saying there'd be no Saigon like collapse. And this is now as explained only strong the Afghan effect is going to be as bad as the Vietnam effect was, for at least as long as Joe Biden is president. Let's stay there for a moment. The Afghan effect has a knock on effect which we've seen in Ukraine. Are we going to see it in Taiwan? How do we arrest the dictators of the world from concluding that President Biden is simply incompetent and infirm and unable to stop their every move? Well, I explain it only as strong. It was just a few weeks after we left Afghanistan that Vladimir Putin began to Marshall forces on Ukraine's border. I think that President Biden weakness in Afghanistan combined with his appeasement all last year of Vladimir Putin on various matters like nuclear arms control treaty and the Nord stream two pipeline, the Colonial Pipeline hack enticed Putin, if you will, attempted him. What Churchill called temptations to a trial of strength. Now the warhead and Ukraine has a turn out the way he expected, but it should have never been tempted in the first place. I hope that won't be the case with Taiwan. But frankly, now that Xi Jinping has achieved an unprecedented third term, he stacked the Politburo with his own allies. I worry very much that he may Vladimir Putin did with Ukraine see it closing window of opportunity while Joe Biden is president to go for the jugular in Taiwan. The best thing we can do and what a new Republican Congress will do, I hope, is increase our defense budget, invest particularly in the kinds of weapons, especially missiles and munitions, submarines, drums that we need to support Taiwan and we get Taiwan to weapons. It needs right now that we don't wait until a war begins the way Joe Biden did in Ukraine. Senator, you serve on armed services. You serve on Intel, you're on judiciary. Do we have enough time? The sleepwalking into this crisis is so far advanced. And we saw how long it took to get a high margin Ukraine. I mean, this was not even the commitment of American troops much less a direct confrontation with a superpower, though, of course, Putin has nuclear weapon. It took forever to get that. And now we're out of ammunition. Do we have enough time even if the landslide comes and you lead an American strength movement in the Senate and you have counterparts in the house? Do we have enough time? Well, in Taiwan is explaining all these only the strong that the hour is late. But it's not yet expired. Most of what Taiwan needs, it's not stealth fighters. It's not aircraft carriers. It's relatively straightforward missiles and munitions or sea mines for the Taiwan strait. Leader things that take way too long to build right now. But again, they're not on the scale of an aircraft or a ship. And if we invest the money now to increase the rates of production for the missiles that and other weapons that we sell to Taiwan, I think we can get into their hands what they need to defend themselves. We also have to be more straightforward and clear that we will come to Taiwan's defense. Unfortunately, as I explained in only the strong, Joe Biden, three times in 9 months, said we would come to Taiwan's defense, only to have his White House an aide to anonymously walk it back and say he didn't mean to change our policy. That gets the worst of all worlds you. You get provocation without deterrence. Now one of the challenges of writing a book that partly about current events is that it can be overtaken by the strong I said he did it three times in 9 months. He has since done it again. So now it's four times in 13 months. What do you need? Your book is not been overtaken by that. I want everyone to understand though. Only the strong is about as timely a warning on national security as I have ever read from an elected official. When we come back, we're going to get into the deep ideological problem here because the most important part about only the strong is not our crisis. We can talk about our crisis every day. It's where did it come from? And we'll talk about that in the next segment later in the show today..
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"It is a terrific way to begin the book. And then it's like a rocket to the right job when you say, quote, in Barack Obama the second term, when this occurred, American power crumble. And it did, and it did for reasons that are lasting and to our detriment. Does anyone honestly assess how bad president Obama until only the strong? How bad? Maybe Robert Gates, but anyone honestly stepped up and said how bad he was for the country. Bob Gates is pretty tough and his memoir about it. But remember that memoir has written in 2013 published in 2014. You really have to look back on Obama's tenure to see how ruinous it was for our nation. But I have to tell you, I don't think you would get that assessment from Barack Obama or John Kerry or any of the aids in his White House who helped design his foreign policy. In fact, I think he would like American Ozzy mandis tell Americans to look upon his works in despair. One point I make and only the strong is Barack Obama's failures are not incompetence. They're not naivete, they're not inexperienced. They are exactly what he intended. He came into office as the most ideological presence in Woodrow Wilson. He wanted to lay American power low and at every turn he was ruthless about doing that. And. Very effective in pursuing this ideological agenda. You know, recently, because of the protests in Iran, he reflected on his failure to step forward and support the green revolution protest movement in the summer of 2009. He said that he regretted that. A few I don't believe it for a moment. As I explained not only the strong, he had a very careful, thoroughly worked out plot to achieve a nuclear deal with Iran that was about much more than just their nuclear program. It was about atoning what he viewed as our sins against Iran going back to the 1950s when he falsely wrongly believed that we somehow overthrew a democratically elected government. And the reason he stood by in 2009 when he had the largest uprising Iran since the revolution itself in 1979. Again, he wasn't caught flat footed. He wasn't naive. He wasn't inexperienced. He wasn't new to the job. He was ruthless in pursuing his raw approach with the I tell it was. You know, I was late to this recognition. I was one of the people who thought he was just an incompetent person who had Peter principal that up to the presidency by mistake. You're persuaded me. Quote, I'm quoting from Tom cotton's new book. The senator's written only the strong. America's recent decline isn't an accident. It's declined by design. I want to very quickly say, senator cotton is not accusing anyone of treason. He's not accusing anyone of trying to destroy America from within. There's no 5th column. It's an ideological view of the world that views American power as bad for the world. And senator, I want to just give you two minutes before we move on to the next slide. Explain to people this ideological view, they don't hate America. They hate American power if they're very different things. As a right not only is strong, they don't necessarily hate America. They aren't necessarily un American. Though a lot of them are, frankly, one thing, though, that is true of the Democratic Party, almost uniformly going back to the 60s and the 70s is that they are at best at best ambivalent about America and certainly hostile to American power. And they think not only the world but America itself would be a better place if we would atone for our sins if we would pull in our horns if we'd become something more like a normal nation. As opposed to the exceptional nation that most Americans grew up believing in and still want America to be. Not only for the world, but first and foremost for ourselves for our own safety for our own freedom for our own prosperity. And that is just alien to the way Democrats think. I mean, I defy you to name a single Democrat over the last 50 years who has been unabashedly unashamedly proud of America in the way that Ronald Reagan was in his rhetoric of that our country and our history and our future. Anyone who takes up that challenge will not be able to meet it. Tomorrow we will continue with our conversation with senator cotton about his brand new book only the strong as we get into the heart of it and the ideological soul of the left when it comes to American power. Go to Amazon.com right now. Get only the strong buy a bunch of copies, give them to your friends, get smart national security matters to the specialty matters next Tuesday..
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"President Obama is off on the apology tour. How did that feel? Because you know that that's an ideologue. That's not a commander in chief that's an ideologue spouting Ben Rhodes written nonsense. The metternich MSNBC is out there feeding him lines, which just doesn't match up with your reality walking point. Yeah, well, as I say in only a strong Barack Obama was the most ideological president since Woodrow Wilson, he's an example of what gene kirkpatrick famously said about the Democrats blame America first Democrat and we took that tour in the spring of 2000 winter in spring of 2009. He continued to apologize for he viewed as America sand. Remember, it was on the apology tour when he denigrated American exceptionalism, which most Americans hold dear saying it was no different from Greeks thinking Greece's exceptional or the British thinking Great Britain is exceptional, which is really Obama's way of saying that it's just kind of an outdated and obsolete chauvinism for one zone that we should really all trans in our petty patriotism. And become an Obama declared himself in the 2008 campaign, a citizen of the world. So it makes a certain sense that he would go on that kind of apology tour, because he is deeply hostile to American power and America's unique leadership role in the world. In fact, he said, as I explained in only the strong, that no world order should elevate one nation above the other. Most Americans, again, are not ideological, and they believe that it's been a very good thing to have a United States led order that does indeed elevate the United States above all other nations. That's why we used to take pride in the term leader of the free world for the American president. When we come back and continue our conversation with senator Tom cotton about his brand new bestseller, only the strong, we will talk about the consequences of that apology toward stay tuned to this show. You'll hear the next part of my conversation with senator cotton. He's doing my long conversation about only the strong. I sat down last week with senator cotton and did something I haven't done in 23 years of radio show. Ten segments on one book. Why? The national security matters more than anything else. It's hard to get people to pay attention, especially in a week before an election. But we've got to and I want to pay attention to a concert and made a lot. You know, I'll remember a lot about only the strong. But that's a great anecdote. And what I was touched by is your remark that these are the greatest patriots we have. The men and women who go abroad that don't get much in the way of entertainment, I thought a Gary Sinise and John andras and the great men and women who go and show up for a day or two days and provide a little, these people are everywhere around the country in the world and we forget about them, senator and you wanted to make sure in only the strong that we don't forget that at this moment under the sea in the skies around the world, American patriots are serving in uniform. I start on a strong with a short story about my time in Afghanistan. We were out in a very small patrol base in meadowland and logging province in eastern Afghanistan. Typically when you have USO tours, they stick to the big bases that are easier to secure places like Bagram and Kandahar. But we had a band from Illinois called the Matt pass van come in and join us in May of 2009. It's pretty hot when they were playing out on our outdoor basketball court. But you could tell the troops, even though necessarily, their music taste didn't run to that style, they really appreciated the musicians who came out to honor our troops. Just like we appreciate people like Gary Sinise and John andras, when we have almost 200,000 of our fellow Americans spread all around the world Manning the distant ramparts to keep the ravages of war away from our shores, we should always remember them, hold them fast, keep them in our prayers and most importantly provide them with the support and the resources and the weapons and the training they need to defend ourselves to defend our nation and keep themselves safe..
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"tom cotton" Discussed on The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"You could save big when you bundle your home and auto with progressive, but when we just come out and say it, it feels like it falls a bit flat. So we're going to tap into human emotion. First with some music. Then in a serious toenail say, safe big when you bundle your home and auto with progressive, and even though it was about saving money with progressive will fade out the music so you know it was poignant. Well, powerful stuff. Progressive casualty insurance company and affiliates discount not available in all states or situations. Welcome back America Hugh Hewitt. I promised you all morning that I would begin a ten part series in the week before an election with a sitting United States senator who's not up for election. And the reason is because this book, only the strong is probably the most important national security book put out by sitting elected official. Since I have been doing this show and senator Tom cotton joins me, he's the author of only the strong good morning senator. Thank you for this. Congratulations on the launch of a book. People have asked me why I'm doing ten parts on one book in the week before an election. And it is my obvious attempt to put national security on the table. Is that why you released only the strong during an election week? Well, thank you for having me on and talking about only the strong. Yeah, I did want to release my new book. I'm only the strong before the election. In part to outline the stakes of the election, as I describe in the book, many Americans feel like America has been in decline that her Joe Biden and before him, Barack Obama. And I tell the inside story about why this isn't an accident. Why it's not just Joe Biden's bad luck. This is declined by design that Democrats going back a hundred years have been undermining the sources of American power, not only our military, but also energy production, our southern border and the sovereignty of our nation, they've been coddling our adversaries like China and Russia and they're doing these things on purpose as I explained in only the strong. And the stakes of this election is that if you think America has been in decline, if you want to reverse it, if you want to restore American power, I have a road map here that we can once we take back the Congress in this election and hopefully The White House and the next election. Now, senator, you've got two small children. You married up. You got two small children. I have 5 grandchildren. We are sleepwalking towards a catastrophe. And I say that having lived through the Carter years and watching that catastrophic sequence of events beginning with the Iranian revolution. But I've also been listening to Churchill's the world crisis and Great Britain sleepwalked into World War I, ignoring what was going on in the world. That was not driven by an ideological blindness, but by arrogance, we're being driven by ideology. That's the catastrophic moment we're in. We are trapped by an ideology of the left into ignoring what is going on in the world. Do you think we can break out of this in time? I do think we can't hear because the American people are not really ideological. Even though it's kind of center left American to normally vote democratic are not ideologues in the way that Barack Obama was not a log and that his understudy, Joe Biden has followed in his footsteps or ideologues going back to Woodrow Wilson as I explained in only the strong really the fountainhead of American leftist thinking, especially in the Democratic Party, and in particular when it comes to our safety in the world, the American people are the opposite of ideologues. They are usually queer eyed, hard nosed about America's interest and they want leaders to do the same to put them and their interest first..
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"tom cotton" Discussed on The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"Sarah continent and Alexander Solzhenitsyn's memoir, the oak and the cafe. He said, what if it's only paper mache? He was referring to the then Soviet Union. He was referring to the superpower that no one thought would ever fall when it came out probably in the early 80s. Oak in the cap. What if it's all paper mache? What if it will melt The Rain? Do you think we can actually pull this off again? I know we hope I know you hope we can, but do you really think a second Reagan could arrive and a second renewal following catastrophic foreign policy failure can occur? I absolutely do you. I mean, I draw upon Reagan's wisdom a lot and only the strong because he drew upon the founders wisdom. They're foreign policy looks different because of different circumstances and ages. But at root, it still was based in pride about our nation and understanding the way the world works in a dedication to our safety and our freedom in our prosperity. The American people still want that. I also draw a lot of on Winston Churchill as well. Yes. He had a nice line. I said about the character of our people. We did not journey all this way. We did not come across the ages across the oceans across the mountains in the plane because we're made of sugar candy. The American people are not made of sugar candy. They are not paper mache. Many people, many people have met their demise over the last 250 years by underestimating the American people. And I would caution any of our adversaries. Joe Biden's weakness or Barack Obama's ideological weakness is not the weakness of the American people. Senator Tom cotton, thank you. Congratulations on only the strong available at Amazon, bookstores everywhere, make sure you get into the hands of everyone and vote like your life depended on it next Tuesday because the center of cotton explains in only the strong, indeed it does. Thank you, Sutter. Thank you..
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"tom cotton" Discussed on The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"Back now. For part three of my long series of interviews with senator Tom cotton about his brand new book, only the strong, putting national security on the table in the week before the election in a way that I have not seen anyone do since Richard Nixon in 1980 put out the real war to buttress Ronald Reagan's campaign against Jimmy Carter in that way, senator cotton has put out only the strong the buttress every Republican out there because we need to focus on national security even as inflation is crushing us education is collapsing around us. The border is open. We'll come to the border. Senator is painful to talk about, but we have to talk about the collapse in Afghanistan a year ago because no one in the mainstream media is legacy media is abandoned the issue. We've condemned a country to darkness. We didn't have to do so. Mike Pompeo has told me you've confirmed we were planning to leave 2500 troops there. It didn't have to happen. With that incompetence, was that design? Was that Joe Biden just living off the fumes of the Obama presidency? Well, I think that the way Afghanistan collapsed last summer was the combination of Joe Biden's rank and competence and his deep insecurity. As I explained in only the strong drawing upon some memoirs at the time, by people like Secretary of Defense bob dates, Joe Biden, in 2009, subjected Barack Obama to what bob dates called Chinese water torture over Afghanistan. And he poisoned the well between Obama and our military leaders. Constantly accusing them of being misleading, of leaking to the press of undermining president Obama in a way that Joe bob dates had he never saw under George W. Bush. May have disagreed. I've seen disagreements between senior military leaders and president Bush. But no mistrust. That's pretty common for Democrats and the military though. But for 13 years, Joe Biden believed that he would write about Afghanistan and everyone, including Barack Obama was wrong. And he had to chip on his shoulder. And he wanted to show everyone in 2021 that he had been right all along. And that's why he disregarded the best military advice of our commander in Afghanistan, our commander in the Middle East, our chairman of the joint chiefs, his own Secretary of Defense, frankly, most of his own civilian advisers in The White House and the State Department. He wanted to show that he was right and had been all along, and he wouldn't listen to the obvious facts about what led to the collapse in Afghanistan. So precipitously, I mean, just 5 weeks before Kabul fail, he was saying there'd be no Saigon like collapse. And this is now as I explained really strong the Afghan effect is going to be as bad as the Vietnam effect was, or at least as long as Joe Biden is president. Let's stay there for a moment. The Afghan effect has a knock on effect which we've seen in Ukraine. Are we going to see it in Taiwan? How do we arrest the dictators of the world from concluding that President Biden is simply incompetent and infirm and unable to stop their every move? Well, I explained all these strong. It was just a few weeks after we left Afghanistan that Vladimir Putin began to Marshall forces on Ukraine's border. I think that President Biden weakness in Afghanistan combined with his appeasement all last year of Vladimir Putin on various matters like nuclear arms control 3D and the Nord stream two pipeline, the Colonial Pipeline hack enticed poop, if you will, attempted him. What Churchill called temptations to a trial of strength. Now, the warhead and Ukraine hasn't turned out the way he expected. But it should have never been tempted in the first place. I hope that won't be the case with Taiwan. But frankly, now that Xi Jinping has achieved an unprecedented third term, he stacked the Politburo with his own allies. I worry very much that he may Vladimir Putin did with Ukraine so he had closing window of opportunity while Joe Biden is president to go for the jugular in Taiwan. The best thing we can do and what a new Republican Congress will do, I hope, is increase our defense budget, invest particularly in the kinds of weapons, especially missiles and munitions, submarines, drums that we need to support Taiwan and that we get Taiwan to weapon. It needs right now that we don't wait until a war begins the way Joe Biden did in Ukraine. Senator, you serve on armed services. You serve on Intel. You're on judiciary. Do we have enough time? The sleepwalking into this crisis is so far advanced. We saw how long it took to get a high margin Ukraine. I mean, this was not even the commitment of American troops much less a direct confrontation with a superpower, though, of course, Putin has nuclear weapon. It took forever to get that. And now we're out of ammunition. Do we have enough time, even if the landslide comes and you lead an American strength movement in the Senate and you have counterparts in the house? Do we have enough time? Well, in Taiwan is I explain it only the strong, but the hour is late, but it's not yet expired. Most of what Taiwan needs, it's not stealth fighters. It's not aircraft carriers. It's relatively straightforward missiles and munitions or sea mines for the Taiwan strait. These are things that take way too long to build right now. But again, they're not on the scale of an aircraft or a ship. And if we invest the money now to increase the rate to production for the missiles that and other weapons that we sell to Taiwan, I think we can get into their hands what they need to defend themselves. We also have to be Greek or straightforward and clear that we will come to Taiwan's defense. Unfortunately, as I explained in only the strong, Joe Biden, three times in 9 months, said we would come to Taiwan's defense. Only to have his White House an a to notably walk it back and say he didn't mean to change our policy. That gets the worst of all worlds. You get provocation without deterrence. Now, one of the challenges of writing a book that partly about current events is that it can be overtaken by the overly strong I said he did it three times in 9 months. He hasn't done it again. So now it's four times in 13 months. What he needs to do is in your book is not been overtaken by that. I want everyone to understand though. Only the strong is about as timely a warning on national security as I have ever read from an elected official. When we come back, we're going to get into the deep ideological problem here because the most important part about only the strong is not our crisis. We can talk about our crisis every day. It's where did it come from? And we'll talk about that in the next segment later in the show today. Stay tuned for more of senator cotton. Back now with the United States senator Tom cotton and brand new bestseller only the strong and bookstores everywhere..
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"tom cotton" Discussed on The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"Will it be specific, Joe Biden's not doing anything about it. And I think what Americans are about to do about it is repudiate the Democrats at the election. Again, I hear about this chain lay across Arkansas. We're not too far from that border. But when you have 2 million illegal aliens crossing border every year here, when you have more than a 100,000 overdose deaths every year, every state's border state and every town is a border town. And I hear it whether I'm in Arkansas, whether I'm in Minnesota, whether I'm in Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, everywhere I go, people are appalled, but the Democrats have basically stopped enforcing and protecting our border. In fact, as you say, they are rewarding and encouraging people to cross the border. I remember going to the border last year at the beginning of this surge. And speaking to a lot of the migrants and asking them why they were here and they're often portrayed as people fleeing persecution and violence, not a single one of them said they had been persecuted because of their religious beliefs or their political views, not a single one saying anything about violence. They also had something like a better job, I can get in or just simply Biden. That's why we have this border crisis. So senator, let me turn to the attempt by the blue bubble to persuade blue bubble people, not just that student loan forgiveness was a good idea. It wasn't a horrible idea, but also that they are not going to get wiped out. They grabbed hold of a special election in New York that they barely won. They tried to turn it into momentum. I saw a raft of stories about how the Democrats are coming back. I don't believe it. I don't believe in for a second. You're out there and all the, you know, you're working for her show, JD Vance, Blake masters, you're working for Tiffany smiley and Joe O'Day. I know you're making all over the country. What do you feel about the election in November? I think we're going to win Hugh, but we should not be complacent. The Democrats do have advantages. They have vast, vast drove of money. And they're not spending a lot of our candidates. As you say, they have the liberal media behind them, running interference for them like a flying wedge on a kick-off in football. What they don't have are results that can take to the American people. The Democrats and the Democrats are alone responsible for Americans struggling to make ends meet when they fill up at the pump or buy groceries at the grocery store. They are responsible for this crisis at the border that has led to more crime and more drugs in our communities. They're responsible for the surge in crime that you see all across America. Each and each case, they are making life less rewarding, less safe, less prosperous for normal hardworking Americans. We can't take that for granted though, we have to press those points in our campaigns and we have to explain exactly how the Democrats are responsible and what we'll do to turn things around. Last question, I think the most easy to understand thing for a voter is that their grocery Bill has gone through the ceiling. 13% year over year. What they just did with the student loan forgiveness is going to increase the cost of everything. But it's groceries where the rubber meets the road. Not just gas. That's come down a little bit, but groceries have skyrocketed senator cotton. What do you think candidates ought to lead with? Well, I think they ought to lead just a complete breakdown of order and normality in the lives of Americans. And they see it everywhere. They say that the grocery store every week when they go to the grocery store. They see it when they fill up the gas pump. They see it when they try to take their kids to a local park and they can't do so because there's drug paraphernalia or homeless vagrants there. They read reports on neighborhood social media and see it in local news of carjackings and home break ins and broaden daylight. All of these things are sad reminders of the total breakdown of the order and normality that normal Americans should be able to expect from their government, but they haven't received it now for a year and a half from the Biden Democrats. Senator Tom cotton, thank you for joining me. Follow him on Twitter at San at the end, Tom cotton, even the steeler fans can remember that send Tom cotton. Thank you, senator. Thank you. I will be when you shop at a Walmart vision center. You get it. You know that you'll spend a little less on stylish glasses for the whole family. Welcome to the vision center. Let me know if you need help finding the perfect frames. Hey, mom, you were right. These glasses are cool. Ton. They take our insurance. That means papa's getting a new pair too. Wow. Classes started just $39. Next up, groceries. So you can get a little more of what you need. Find a vision center near you. Save money, live better. Walmart.
The Glenn Beck Program
"tom cotton" Discussed on The Glenn Beck Program
"Which won't happen well. And i think he out there. Nearly as much. I think even the by administration is beginning to recognize and he's become a liability and the american people have lost. Faith in are you sensing at all in the senate. The there is A healthy respected. All that is starting to be gained because the amount of the american people as they are starting to stand up and speak out about things like critical race and some of these extremists. Is there any awakening that you're seeing on the other side. That makes you believe that these we we might have been reaching too far here. Well not so much from the democrats glenn. Republicans have long held held The american people and their Good opinions respect. I think some democrats may be waking up Growing fearful of that opinion then what it means for the democrats in the midterm elections next year last are still find pulled over the eyes of the american people for a little bit longer. The last question. I have is on this this new task. Force that the white house's announced announcing and getting into bed with high tech to to try to weed out these domestic terrorists things that every democrat pushed against when you were even talking about the extremists overseas. They're now spying on us. The american people. They've got a new whistle blower line where you can turn in your neighbors or your own family if you think that they are extremists you concerned about this and his anybody on the hill talking about it. I mean we couldn't have big tech engage in this kind of censorship or surveillance especially surveillance for the biden administration. I mean their opinion of a domestic extremist is probably any of the seventy four million people that voted for donald trump or another republican candidate for office last year But i think we've seen the consequences over the last year of these big tech companies thinking they know better just like tony south and they're going to suppress information and it turns out the information they suppress is often correct. What's best and this is something that good old fashioned liberals once believed you know back in the nineteen fifties and nineteen sixties is to have a robust and vigorous debate. And if you think someone is spreading lies or has weak arguments the way you prevail is trying to silence them using the power of the state or these giant monopoly companies but present better evidence and make more compelling arguments senator. Tom cotton thank you so much. Thanks for your service sir. And it's always great to have you on. Thanks tom thanks. Glenn going to be back on with you all right so summer has arrived hand with it comes all of those amazing summer holidays and with things finally starting to return to normal in this country. I'll bet you're looking to spend those holidays with.
CATS Roundtable
"tom cotton" Discussed on CATS Roundtable
"Supporting america. this is the table here sunday morning. We gotta sells a big mess in worcester and nobody knows which waves going. We've have one smart guy with this We have saved trump patent. And he's in the middle of it and then good morning senator. How are you morning john. Good to be on with you. I'm doing well. I was down at cpac last week with a lot of great conservatives from all across the country. I'm glad that these speaking to you. Mail and tell us is the situation in washington. Well things are not good right now in washington john Because you have a biden agenda. That is extremely unpopular that they're trying to run through. I mean especially when you look at the immigration agenda I mean we have record numbers of unaccompanied migrant children showing up our border area right after a freezing winter storm. Well imagine it's going to be sixty days from now If the biden administration doesn't reverse course does it reimpose some of the trump era an immigration policies This is an urgent priority for our country. And if joe biden doesn't but i think the democrats are gonna pay the price of the ballot box. There's so many people The borders and i believe in immigration. My family was immigrants. i believe in relation. but if you can't have checks and balances who's tummy and that just have anybody me through john. That's try. i mean. The biden administration is literally tracking down illegal immigrants in mexico. The trump administration turned around and bringing them back to the border and letting them go. I mean that's not catch and release that's recruit and release likewise if you wanna fly into jfk or newark airport. You got from overseas. You gotta have current of our staff but not if you want to crossing our southern border What we need is an immigration system that has orders under control that make sure that people leave when their visas expire. That turn on the mac jobs the workplace for illegal immigrants and then we can address some of the other parts of our immigration problems. I think everybody does agree with you. We want immigrants. We want to have a immigration policy. But we can't be on the blind where people just coming. We don't know who's coming you. Don't yeah that's totally right john Especially when you're in the middle of the global pandemic and when we saw Terribly tragically Drug overdose deaths last year. Reach a new high With many of those drugs coming across our southern border the item in iran cities countries is the new Minimum rate Where do believe because the minimum wage has to come out but we have fifty saints off fifty. Six different cost of living in arkansas. Alabama is different living in new york city. So what are you guys doing. Yeah that's right john. You know a lot of states have increased their minimum wage in recent years that that'll reflect the regionality of our economy. Obviously the cost of living in new york city is a lot higher than it is in say rural idaho But one that one. Bill introduced with mitt romney and rob portman and Shelley moore capito susan collins. I think we're more republican. Senators is a bill that would link a higher minimum wage. Ten dollars That goes into effect after the pandemic is over and over a number of years with the e-verify system which is the way We verify workers are hiring legal workers jobs so we call it a higher wages for american workers act..
AM 970 The Answer
"tom cotton" Discussed on AM 970 The Answer
"Were over. And in the primary, I voted for Ted Cruz. And I did that, despite the fact that I thought that Trump is going to win. And and I and the reason I thought he was gonna win because I just look in the enthusiasm for him. But then I didn't think it would be bad might be even good. I voted for cruising. You know, I know Ted Cruz and I like him. On. I think he's ill advised and what he did in the last 10 days. But you know, God bless him. He didn't remember his resolution, by the way. Basically ends up in the right place. It was a political misjudgment. I think, because what he says is we should find evidence and presented to the state legislatures. Has Cruz is no dummy. And so anyway, but I don't think he should have done that. I'm with Tom Cotton on that. On that point. Uh, so anyway, there you are, right. In other words, it's a great struggle for representative government. Could be effective and work and the forces that you know, I've said it before on the show. The media. What that means is Somebody in between something and something. So the media is between us and the fax. And they increasingly understand themselves to be in a position of power. Our position of reporting that is to say. Servants of the fax and of us They define the facts, and it's just It's just obvious that all the time now Yeah, they do. And next week, we may have to talk about that, because that did not exist except in a hydra headed form that was equaled, basically and understood to be partisan at.