00:00Okay.
00:01Are you going to retaliate?
00:02Are you going to retaliate?
00:03Sir, would you describe for us, is this meeting your vision by cutting about half the workforce?
00:04And what responsibility do you feel to the civil servants who have now lost their jobs?
00:05Many of them worked at the Department of Education during their first term.
00:06Sure, I do.
00:07I feel very badly.
00:18But many of them don't work at all.
00:20Many of them never showed up to work.
00:22Many of them, many of them never showed up to work, Kelly.
00:26And unfortunately, and that's not good.
00:30And when we cut, you know, we go, and that's what I had a number of meetings with a lot
00:35of people over the last couple of months.
00:37When we cut, we want to cut, but we want to cut the people that aren't working or not
00:41doing a good job.
00:43We're keeping the best people.
00:44And Linda McMahon is a real professional, actually a very sophisticated business person.
00:51And she cut a large number, but she kept the best people.
00:56And we'll see how it all works out.
00:57But our country was run very badly, whether it was that or contracts that were signed
01:02that was so bad, so obviously bad.
01:04And I go through them in speeches.
01:06I could go through them all day long.
01:07I could read for billions and hundreds of billions of dollars.
01:12And all of that fat and waste and fraud and abuse is being taken out.
01:17But it's it's incredible what's happened now.
01:20Department of Education's maybe more so than any any other place has a lot of people that
01:26can be cut.
01:27They're number one, not showing up to work.
01:30Number two, they're not doing a good job.
01:32And if you take a look at take a look at our education process.
01:37And if you look at the charts, because they have numerous charts where they do the top
01:4140, we're at number 37, 38, 39 and 40.
01:45And recently they hit during Biden's last few days.
01:48They hit last.
01:50So they were number 40.
01:52And yet we're number one in cost per pupil.
01:55So it's pretty bad.
01:56But we have a we have a dream.
01:58And you know, the dream is we're going to move the Department of Education.
02:01We're going to move education into the states so that the states instead of bureaucrats
02:06working in Washington, so that the states can run education.
02:10And you have Norway, you have Denmark, you have Sweden, you have various Finland, you
02:16have various countries that do very well.
02:19But you also have China that does very well in education, which is a pretty big tribute
02:22to China.
02:23I must say, one point four billion.
02:26And they're in the top 10.
02:28And it's pretty amazing.
02:30So we can't blame size anymore.
02:32You know, normally you'd blame size.
02:34It's too big.
02:35How can you do it?
02:36But China does it.
02:37So we think when you move it back to Iowa and Indiana and all the states that run so
02:44well, there's so many I could name 30, maybe almost 40.
02:49Those will be as good as Denmark.
02:51Those will be as good as Norway.
02:53And they'll be as good as any of these.
02:55I believe they'll be as good as any.
02:57Now, then you're going to have 10 that won't be so great.
02:59You're going to have five that will not be good at all, but will work with them and we'll
03:03get them to be good.
03:04But what we want to do is always school choice.
03:08But we're going to do school choice and we're doing it.
03:10But we want education to be moved back where the states run education, where the parents
03:16of the children will be running education, where governors that are doing a very good
03:21job will be running education, not run.
03:24I drive through the city and I see like so many buildings, Department of Education, Department
03:31of big buildings, the department.
03:32And by the way, they're empty.
03:33Nobody shows up to work.
03:35So I think Linda did a very good job.
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