00:00So, as you know, we are in the midst of a disastrous Democrat-created government shutdown.
00:09And it is Democrat-created, but I don't think they're getting really the blame that they should.
00:13That's now officially the longest shutdown in American history.
00:17The Democrat radicals in the Senate have shown zero interest in reopening the government.
00:23And I don't think they'll act so soon. A lot of people disagree.
00:27I've been saying for the last 30 days, we've had four or five different points.
00:32Yes, sir, they're going to get it right now. We should have it done in a day.
00:35I've heard that about four times. I heard it after King's. You know, they said I was a king.
00:40And I heard it after King's. I heard it after a couple of other moments in time.
00:45And I said, no, I don't believe so. And now I heard it's after the election. I don't believe so.
00:50I think they will. I think they're kamikaze pilots. I just got back from Japan.
00:53I talked about the kamikaze pilots. I think these guys are kamikaze.
00:57They'll take down the country if they have to. So I don't think so.
01:00Millions of Americans are going to be without SNAP benefits.
01:04And I will say about SNAP benefits. So when I was president, we had $7 billion worth.
01:10And now they have many times that because these benefits were given to anybody that asked.
01:14And they're up to, I hear, just many times, $47 billion.
01:21So it wasn't the purpose of SNAP. It was for people that really had problems, down and out, people that really had problems.
01:29But during Biden, they gave it to anybody that wanted it.
01:32I think it's something you have to talk about because the numbers are incredible.
01:36But countless public servants are now not being paid, and the air traffic control system is under increasing strain.
01:44We must get the government back open soon and really immediately.
01:48We have to get it open. We have the hottest economy we've ever had.
01:52And it's affecting the stock market now a little bit.
01:55But the stock market, as of Friday, has hit many record highs during the last nine months.
02:01Many. And it will, again, this is just the beginning, because when these plants that are being built right now start opening up,
02:09we've never had anything like this as a boom.
02:11There's a construction boom right now, but that's going to be bigger than that.
02:14That's going to be an economic boom as soon as they open up.
02:18And it's going to be something special.
02:20We have car companies coming in.
02:22When I was in Japan, Toyota, Mr. Toyota, I said, what's your name?
02:26Toyota. I said, oh, you're rich.
02:28I said, how much of the company do you own?
02:3392.1%.
02:35I said, I'm glad you said the one he wants to be.
02:38I said, you're a rich guy.
02:40And he said, I'm investing $10 billion in the U.S.
02:44And you know who I'm talking about, right?
02:46You introduced me, Mr. Senator.
02:49You introduced me originally when you were the ambassador to Japan.
02:53He's still good. He's still strong.
02:54But he had no interest in investing in this country.
02:57Now he's investing $10 billion as of one week ago in building new plants.
03:02We have auto plants coming in incredibly.
03:04But we have AI and all of them.
03:06And we can't be extorted to give $1.5 trillion to people that came into the country illegally,
03:14many from prisons, many drug dealers.
03:17A lot of people came in from mental institutions.
03:20They want to give a lot of money to the people that came in illegally.
03:24We have to get them out.
03:25We can't.
03:25No country can sustain that.
03:27That's not like an attack on our country.
03:29In no country, these are not going to be productive people.
03:31These are going to be anti-productive people.
03:34And we can all have big hearts.
03:36They have a bigger heart than anybody.
03:37But we can't let that happen.
03:38And it's time for Republicans to do what they have to do, and that's terminate the filibuster.
03:43It's the only way you can do it.
03:45And if you don't terminate the filibuster, you'll be in bad shape.
03:49We won't pass any legislation.
03:51There'll be no legislation passed for three and a quarter.
03:53We have three and a quarter years.
03:54That's a long time.
03:55But when they can't do an extension, and John, I think they've done an extension every single
04:00time they've ever been asked forever.
04:03This is the first time they haven't done an extension.
04:05Extensions are supposed to be easy.
04:06But if they won't do an extension, they won't do any bill, even a simple bill.
04:10And we should do our own bills.
04:11We should get out.
04:12We should do our own bills.
04:14We should open up.
04:15We should start tonight with the country's open.
04:19Congratulations.
04:19Then we should pass voter ID.
04:23We should pass no mail-in voting.
04:25We should pass all the things that we want to pass, make our election secure and safe,
04:28because California is a disaster.
04:31Many of the states are disasters.
04:33But can you imagine when they vote almost unanimously against voter ID?
04:37All we want is voter ID.
04:39You go to a grocery store, you have to give ID.
04:42You go to a gas station, you give ID.
04:44But for voting, they want no voter ID.
04:46It's only for one reason, because they cheat.
04:48We would pass that in 15 minutes.
04:51If you don't get it, you'll never pass that.
04:53You'll never talk about mail-in ballots.
04:56Mail-in ballots make it automatically corrupt.
04:58If you have mail-in ballots, automatically it's correct.
05:01Even Jimmy Carter.
05:02They had the Carter Commission after he got out of office.
05:05And he had a group of very distinguished people, Democrats and Republicans.
05:08And they passed.
05:09They recommended things take place.
05:11It was a long time ago.
05:12And they said about mail-in ballots, if there is mail-in ballots, there will definitely be corruption.
05:18Because, you know, they passed through too many hands.
05:21I mean, you go in to vote, and they want your card.
05:23Even me, I went into Palm Beach.
05:25You go in to vote, they want your card.
05:27You're this, you're that.
05:28They said, I'm sorry to do this, sir, but I have to look at your identification.
05:32I said, that's all right.
05:33I love that.
05:35But, you know, you're really not going to get away with much.
05:37It was very, very professional and very good in the way it's supposed to be.
05:41But these people don't want that.
05:43They have legislation in California where it's illegal to ask somebody for voter ID.
05:50If you ask somebody for voter ID, if you're an official, and you say, I'd like to see your voter ID, they can arrest you.
05:58Okay?
05:59They can arrest you.
06:00Because they want to cheat.
06:02And they get away with it.
06:03And the Republicans let them get away with it.
06:05And we won't do that if we have the filibuster.
06:08So I'm just going to, we're going to talk about that a little bit.
06:10And we're going to see if we can sway.
06:13Because I know we have a lot of, not a lot, I'd say half feel this way.
06:17Maybe a little bit less than half.
06:18And it's time to have a really good talk.
06:21If I thought that they weren't going to pass the filibuster, I wouldn't even bring it up.
06:26They're going to pass it within the first hour.
06:28If they take power, and it's more likely that they take power if we don't do it.
06:33Because we're not going to be passing any legislation.
06:35They're not going to approve anything.
06:36We're going to go three and a quarter years.
06:37There won't be one bill that we're going to pass.
06:40Because the easiest thing to pass is exactly right now what they won't pass.
06:44And they'll do that.
06:45And they'll wreak havoc.
06:47But let's assume they get in.
06:48They're doing it anyway.
06:49So it wouldn't matter.
06:51They're doing it anyway.
06:52And, you know, I have a case where I have great U.S. attorneys that can't be approved because of the blue slips.
06:57The blue slips, I think you should terminate blue slips, too.
07:00It's a mental termination because it's really a custom.
07:02But if you have a Democrat senator or two, two is bad, but it doesn't make any difference.
07:09If you have one senator who writes a negative letter on some great U.S. attorney, we had it in Manhattan, Southern District.
07:16Jay Clayton, one of the most respected lawyers in the whole country, by far one of the most respected.
07:21And he couldn't get approved.
07:25The courts approved him.
07:26The courts couldn't believe it.
07:27They did it, like, instantly.
07:29He went to the best schools, got the best marks, top of his class.
07:33Everything was perfect.
07:34I mean, he was, like, led the perfect life.
07:36Went to Sullivan and Cromwell.
07:37Almost immediately became the head of Sullivan and Cromwell, you know, the most prestigious law firm, I would say, in the country, just about.
07:47Whether it's Sullivan or two or three, I could name.
07:49But Sullivan, I would say, really, maybe number one.
07:52He was the head of Sullivan and Cromwell for, like, 20 years.
07:55He went to the SEC, was flawless.
07:57He did it for me.
07:58He was the SEC chairman.
08:01He was flawless.
08:01Then he went to Apollo, where he was the chairman of Apollo, and was flawless.
08:09Everything went good.
08:10The stock went through the roof and everything.
08:11I asked him to go to the Southern District, and he said, I'll do what you'd like to do, sir.
08:16He's a very high-quality person.
08:18But he couldn't get approval.
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