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Why We See Pandering00:10:02
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people that are making decisions on the efficacy of vaccines for our children, for ourselves, and to protect us against smallpox, polio, COVID, based upon political decisions or a political agenda.
That's just wrong.
And it goes to the heart of the credibility of the Center for Disease Control, the CDC, that has had respect throughout the world.
And I am very dismayed and frustrated, I think as many of my colleagues are, to see the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Secretary Kennedy, go as a lone cowboy promoting his own political agendas that are well known.
Now, Democrats are asking for an extension to the ACA enhanced premium tax credits.
They are saying that people will, if we lose that, which expires at the end of the year, then health care will become too expensive and people will lose their health care.
President Trump has said that he will investigate, and he's promising retribution to critics of Charlie Kirk and left-wing groups.
And Attorney General Pam Bondi has said, had made remarks about hate speech being prosecuted.
She has since walked that back.
What are your thoughts on retribution investigations of groups that have speech that and I understand crossing the line into inciting violence and calling for violence is something different.
And so this is not a Republican or Democrat issue.
This is an American issue that we should be unified on.
And well, it's really easy to try to point fingers and say, okay, this is all the Democrats' fault or this is all the Republicans' fault.
And you see it.
And I think some of the speeches over the top, when the Democrats are calling us Nazis and fascists, I think most people see through that and say, okay, that's just political talk.
But there's like that one fraction of our society that incites them and gets them radicalized.
Now, ultimately, I blame the person who does the murders.
I don't want to blame, you know, the, I don't blame Nancy Pelosi for, you know, for what this guy did to Charlie Kirk.
I mean, in the end, it was the murderer's fault.
We should ultimately hold that person accountable.
He will be held accountable.
He'll be open to the death penalty, you know, potentially here.
But I think we could be more unifying and quit blaming each other.
And then you heard what happened with Kimmel.
I think it would have been better just to shame him because he was trying to say he was a MAGA guy, this color.
Well, you know, he had Republican parents, but he was actually radicalized on the left.
So what he said was not true.
But just to cancel a whole show over that, I don't know.
People have a right to listen to what they want if they don't like it, but listen to them, right?
But I get a little worried about the cancel culture that we have.
It used to be on the right, now we're seeing it, the right doing to the left.
We've been on the receiving end of this a lot in the past.
They're trying to drive up advertising and things like that.
But it's actually very toxic.
I mean, I find myself, last night when I got back from a dinner I was at, an interview I did, I'm reading on there, and it's just ugly stuff that's on there.
And it's people pointing their fingers at, okay, all the Democrats are bad and all the Republicans are bad.
I think independent, free Ukraine is our national security interest.
It's very clear that Russia is the invader.
They're trying to make Ukraine a vassal state or a slave state, and the Ukrainian people don't want it.
They've lived for centuries under Russian dominance, and millions were murdered by the Russians.
And so they want their independence.
And it's clear to me that if Ukraine falls, Moldova will be next, probably Georgia.
True Petraeus recently said that Putin will invade the Baltics, even though they're NATO countries, and he's going to test our resolve.
This is what we're looking at.
And it's very important that we stand by Ukraine with the weapons they need and sanctions against Russia to maintain their independence.
And we got to remember they're a democracy.
They want free markets.
They want rule of law.
They want to be part of the EU.
They would love to be part of NATO.
And so I find the president's antics on this wrong.
He has failed in this area.
I support him on Iran.
There's other things I think he's done well.
When it comes to Ukraine, he's been a failure thus far.
And my job is to push him to do the right thing.
And so I want him to do sanctions, secondary sanctions on Russia.
And we should be sending high-end weapons to Ukraine.
And right now we're putting rules of engagement on them, just like Joe Biden did, making it very hard for them to use our weapons to target Russian military targets in Russia that are being used to attack Ukraine.
We criticize Biden for doing it.
Actually, President Trump criticized Biden for doing this.
But what's not being sanctioned is China and India that's propping up their economy.
So I just had a briefing yesterday.
China economically is propping up Putin in a significant way and also giving him a lot of the military technology that he's using to bomb Ukraine with.
And so China should pay for that.
And also, India is a huge middleman in their oil and gas industry, sending Russian gas and helping further prop up the Russia's war economy.
So what we're looking at here is secondary sanctions on people who are doing business with Russia.
But no, he has a view that we should withdraw out of NATO or at least really minimize our involvement in NATO.
So pulling out of Europe.
He's communicated to the Baltics that he would like to pull our financial support, our training, our presence in the Baltics, which is a no-go in Congress.
We just voted on it, was 100% support of the Baltics.
So he is way out of step with Congress on this.
He's also talking about minimizing our involvement in Asia with China and Taiwan.
And so he's talking about his whole goal is homeland security.
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