00:00Americans, according to recent polling, are increasingly describing the president as corrupt.
00:08And trading stocks...
00:10This is a hell of a question.
00:11Thank you, sir.
00:12Trading individual stocks is something that you said that public officials should not be able to do when you ran
00:19for Senate all those years ago.
00:21And yet the president, who arguably has access to more non-public information than your average senator, is not only
00:31buying and selling individual stocks, either through his trust...
00:35Okay. What's the question?
00:36The question, sir, is how can you and your administration argue to Americans that you're cleaning up corruption, you're preventing
00:48fraud, you're fighting the sorts of things that harm people and people's financial situations, when the president seems to be
00:56talking up stocks that he owns, selling them, and enriching himself?
01:00Okay. So let me answer your question here. That was a doozy.
01:03Before I answer your question, I want to just observe. There are different ways to ask a question, okay?
01:09You can just ask a question, try to get your answer, or you could do like a speech where you
01:14say, you know, Mr. Vice President, you're a terrible human being, and so is the president, so is the entire
01:21cabinet.
01:21And then I'm like, what's your question? And then your question is, how dare you?
01:25Come on, man. Have a little bit of objectivity in the way that you ask these questions, because there were
01:30a lot of things in that speech masquerading as a question.
01:33That didn't actually get asked, okay? Number one, the president doesn't sit at the Oval Office on his computer, on
01:41his like Robinhood account, buying and selling stocks.
01:43That's absurd. He has independent wealth advisors who manage his money. He is a wealthy person. He has had success
01:50in business.
01:51He's not making these stock trades himself, and your question imputes that. It doesn't say it exactly, but a reasonable
01:59person listening to that question would assume the president is sitting around and doing that. He's not.
02:04Second of all, you're right. I am a big fan of banning members of Congress from trading stocks. So is
02:09the president of the United States.
02:11All of us believe that nobody should be taking proprietary information gained from public service and buying and selling stocks.
02:19We want to ban that process. And I think the way to lead by example is banning that process, banning
02:26that approach, and making it illegal, which is exactly what the president has proposed to it.
02:31So is the president of the United States.
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