WEBVTT NOTE recognizability 0.861 NOTE language en-us 00:00:00.070 --> 00:00:03.490 Welcome back. The Senate approved a temporary government funding bill 00:00:03.490 --> 00:00:07.252 to avert a weekend shutdown. Lawmakers now have until December 23rd 00:00:07.252 --> 00:00:11.356 to craft a full year omnibus deal. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi also 00:00:11.356 --> 00:00:15.460 planning to include Senator Josh Hawley's bill to Ban Tik T.O.K on 00:00:15.460 --> 00:00:19.564 all government devices in that omnibus bill. Joining us right now is 00:00:19.564 --> 00:00:22.300 Tennessee Senator, Senate Foreign Relations Committee member, and 00:00:22.300 --> 00:00:25.378 Senate ranking Banking Committee member Bill Haggerty. Senator, it's 00:00:25.378 --> 00:00:30.166 great to see you this morning. Good morning to you. Can you tell us? 00:00:30.290 --> 00:00:34.800 About the approval here on this Senate bill, it's obviously funding 00:00:34.800 --> 00:00:37.670 the government, but just through the weekend. 00:00:39.370 --> 00:00:42.659 Maria, it's a short term, short, short term bridge, but it's 00:00:42.659 --> 00:00:46.546 something I'm not supportive of. We need to move this into the next 00:00:46.546 --> 00:00:50.433 calendar year. We need to move it into a point where Republicans have 00:00:50.433 --> 00:00:53.423 an advantage. I'm a business person. I've negotiated my entire 00:00:53.423 --> 00:00:56.712 career. You wanted to negotiate from position of advantage. We don't 00:00:56.712 --> 00:01:00.300 have an advantage right now. We shouldn't be closing this at this 00:01:00.300 --> 00:01:03.888 point in time. We should wait until Republicans have control of the 00:01:03.888 --> 00:01:06.579 House of Representatives. I'm quite disappointed that we're moving 00:01:06.579 --> 00:01:08.373 the direction we are, but that's. 00:01:08.540 --> 00:01:12.440 That's where we find ourselves right now. And at least at least I'm 00:01:12.440 --> 00:01:16.040 glad that Josh Hawley's bill has been introduced, that we'll take Tik 00:01:16.040 --> 00:01:19.340 T.O.K off of all government phones. I would encourage everybody in 00:01:19.340 --> 00:01:22.940 America to take it off of their children's phones. This is quite 00:01:22.940 --> 00:01:26.240 dangerous to the Chinese Communist Party, you know, is looking at 00:01:26.240 --> 00:01:30.140 every Ave they can to invade our privacy and to gain advantage. This 00:01:30.140 --> 00:01:34.040 is, this is at least one positive note in something that is very, 00:01:34.040 --> 00:01:37.640 very disturbing to me in terms of our continuing to fund Biden's 00:01:37.640 --> 00:01:39.140 reckless spending and the Democrats. 00:01:39.430 --> 00:01:42.972 You know, willing, willing, disregard for the real crises that face 00:01:42.972 --> 00:01:46.836 that center southern border. Yeah, I'm gonna I wanna talk about the 00:01:46.836 --> 00:01:51.022 border as well as China with you. But on this spending bill, senator 00:01:51.022 --> 00:01:55.530 do your colleagues on the left not understand what took us to 40 year 00:01:55.530 --> 00:01:59.072 high inflation? It seems like we're going to get another boondoggle 00:01:59.072 --> 00:02:01.004 at year end with more spending. 00:02:02.660 --> 00:02:07.460 I I think they don't care. The 40 year high inflation of course is a 00:02:07.460 --> 00:02:10.980 direct result of this reckless spending spree that the Democrats have 00:02:10.980 --> 00:02:14.500 precipitated. They they put roughly $3 trillion into an economy that 00:02:14.500 --> 00:02:18.340 was already moving forward. They've set it on fire. And the inflation 00:02:18.340 --> 00:02:22.820 that we felt is due not only to their reckless spending but also to 00:02:22.820 --> 00:02:26.020 Biden's you know very reckless policies regarding energy in America. 00:02:26.020 --> 00:02:30.500 He's waged war on oil and gas here, driven energy prices to the roof 00:02:30.500 --> 00:02:33.060 at the same time from a physical standpoint. 00:02:33.220 --> 00:02:36.762 We've had, without a single Republican vote, we've had Democrats push 00:02:36.762 --> 00:02:40.304 forward stimulus spending and green New Deal spending that has driven 00:02:40.304 --> 00:02:44.168 inflation through the roof here in America. It's not going to stop 00:02:44.168 --> 00:02:48.032 until we stop this spending. And it is just incredibly reckless. And 00:02:48.032 --> 00:02:51.252 I think you're responsible to continue moving in this direction. 00:02:51.252 --> 00:02:55.116 Well, I mean, wouldn't it have been better for Republicans to say 00:02:55.116 --> 00:02:58.980 we're not agreeing to a dime of more spending until there's money 00:02:58.980 --> 00:03:03.488 going to the border? I mean, look, Joe Biden wants to hire. He wants. 00:03:03.570 --> 00:03:08.202 166,000 IRS agents after he hires 87,000 IRS agents and there are 00:03:08.202 --> 00:03:12.062 only 15,000 border agents. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean 00:03:12.062 --> 00:03:15.536 Pierre yesterday claimed that the administration is preparing for 00:03:15.536 --> 00:03:20.554 Title 42, and she says that they've done, quote the work, watch this, 00:03:20.554 --> 00:03:25.958 we're doing the work, we're going to do this in a safe and humane 00:03:25.958 --> 00:03:30.976 way, and we will have more to share on the proposed preparedness next 00:03:30.976 --> 00:03:33.678 week before the December 21st date. But. 00:03:33.990 --> 00:03:38.082 Look, we also need Congress to act. It is important that they 00:03:38.082 --> 00:03:41.151 deliver the resources we requested for the border security 00:03:41.151 --> 00:03:43.879 and management they need to pass the comprehensive 00:03:43.879 --> 00:03:46.266 immigration reform that we have put forth. 00:03:47.390 --> 00:03:50.370 So I've been asking all morning, Senator, what is this 00:03:50.370 --> 00:03:52.754 immigration plan that the Biden administration has put 00:03:52.754 --> 00:03:54.542 forth? Are you aware of it? 00:03:55.930 --> 00:03:59.417 And whatever their immigration plan is, it's basically a plan to 00:03:59.417 --> 00:04:03.221 flood our border, to destroy America, to bring in more and more 00:04:03.221 --> 00:04:06.708 illegal immigration. And if you think about it, Maria, we've talked 00:04:06.708 --> 00:04:10.195 about this before, this is about power for the Democrats. They're 00:04:10.195 --> 00:04:13.682 trying to shift and transform America in a direction that is 00:04:13.682 --> 00:04:16.218 uncontrollable. What they've done is they've situated sanctuary 00:04:16.218 --> 00:04:20.022 cities in blue States and they're flooding the border. You know, 160 00:04:20.022 --> 00:04:22.875 different nationalities have been apprehended at that border. They 00:04:22.875 --> 00:04:25.411 don't know who's coming across. They don't care. 00:04:25.650 --> 00:04:29.630 That could come across, you know, major drug traffickers. Terrorists 00:04:29.630 --> 00:04:34.406 can come across. They don't care. It's just about getting the numbers 00:04:34.406 --> 00:04:39.182 in a way that favor them. When it comes to apportioning new 00:04:39.182 --> 00:04:42.764 congressional districts and getting more electoral votes, it's a 00:04:42.764 --> 00:04:46.744 shameful it's about power. It's not about maintaining America's, you 00:04:46.744 --> 00:04:50.724 know, America. America as a nation, they're violating everything that 00:04:50.724 --> 00:04:55.102 any normal nation would, would consider in terms of maintaining our 00:04:55.102 --> 00:04:59.980 border. Yeah, I mean, look at these pictures. We're looking at 00:04:59.980 --> 00:05:04.252 senator from Sunday, 1000 people in El Paso, an explosion of illegal 00:05:04.252 --> 00:05:08.524 migrant encounters. And this is not even after Title 42. Well, this 00:05:08.524 --> 00:05:12.796 is a 255% increase just since October 1st, a federal judge also 00:05:12.796 --> 00:05:16.356 blocking the administration's bid to end the remaining Mexico policy. 00:05:16.356 --> 00:05:21.340 So in the face of all these people coming across, they want to end 00:05:21.340 --> 00:05:25.612 the remaining Mexico policy. What do you think happens once Title 42 00:05:25.612 --> 00:05:26.910 goes away? Next week. 00:05:28.210 --> 00:05:31.810 You know, President Trump's remain in Mexico policy was the one thing 00:05:31.810 --> 00:05:35.110 that actually worked in terms of making people that were seeking 00:05:35.110 --> 00:05:39.010 asylum here in America stay in the country that they were from. What 00:05:39.010 --> 00:05:42.610 it demonstrated was that most people coming here are really not here 00:05:42.610 --> 00:05:45.910 to seek asylum here for economic reasons. That's not a legitimate 00:05:45.910 --> 00:05:49.510 reason to come here. The the remain in Mexico policy was actually 00:05:49.510 --> 00:05:52.810 working. It worked in a tremendous way under President Trump. Now 00:05:52.810 --> 00:05:56.710 with Title 42 falling there, there needs to be something to take its 00:05:56.710 --> 00:05:57.910 place. I've tried now. 00:05:58.070 --> 00:06:02.308 Twice Democrats have blocked it both times to modify Title 42 to to 00:06:02.308 --> 00:06:05.568 focus on the most existential crisis, the most existential health 00:06:05.568 --> 00:06:09.154 crisis that's facing us as Americans. The number one killer of 00:06:09.154 --> 00:06:13.392 Americans between the ages of 18 and 45 is death by drug overdose. 00:06:13.392 --> 00:06:16.978 Where does the drug overdose come from? That southern border, the 00:06:16.978 --> 00:06:20.564 majority of it fentanyl. What I've done is put forward legislation 00:06:20.564 --> 00:06:24.476 that would stop and allow border agents to use the threat of 00:06:24.476 --> 00:06:28.062 fentanyl, fentanyl crossing that border as a reason to turn people 00:06:28.062 --> 00:06:31.673 back. To stop and block this. And they have blocked the Democrats 00:06:31.673 --> 00:06:35.635 have blocked it twice now I'm gonna bring it back to the floor again. 00:06:35.635 --> 00:06:38.465 I'm gonna continue this fight because fentanyl is an existential 00:06:38.465 --> 00:06:41.861 threat to the health of America, and that's what's happening in our 00:06:41.861 --> 00:06:44.974 southern border. They are bringing this poison across our border with 00:06:44.974 --> 00:06:48.370 no checks or balances. And we are seeing Americans die in over 00:06:48.370 --> 00:06:49.502 100,000 last year alone. 00:06:50.200 --> 00:06:53.540 Yeah, it's pretty incredible, Senator, we're gonna be watching this 00:06:53.540 --> 00:06:57.882 story, obviously on the China story. The house is going to have a 00:06:57.882 --> 00:07:01.890 China Select Committee. Senator, what can you do to push back on 00:07:01.890 --> 00:07:05.564 Communist China? We know all the surveillance tools around even tick 00:07:05.564 --> 00:07:09.572 Tock now being banned on government devices. What is the what? What 00:07:09.572 --> 00:07:14.582 is the way to push back on all of this bad behavior from the CCP? 00:07:15.890 --> 00:07:20.306 Maria, we need to do far more than we have. Again I I served as just 00:07:20.306 --> 00:07:23.894 ambassador to Japan when we were pushing back in the Indo Pacific. We 00:07:23.894 --> 00:07:27.758 need to use tariffs, we need to use economic measures, we need to use 00:07:27.758 --> 00:07:31.346 military measures. We need to do everything that we can to push back 00:07:31.346 --> 00:07:34.382 against the predatory nature of the Chinese Communist Party. They are 00:07:34.382 --> 00:07:37.418 here in America. They're even establishing police stations here to to 00:07:37.418 --> 00:07:40.730 basically pursue and observe their own people that are happened to be 00:07:40.730 --> 00:07:44.318 resident here in America. We've got to push back at every turn. Their 00:07:44.318 --> 00:07:45.422 predatory practices are just. 00:07:45.590 --> 00:07:48.505 Unconscionable. And I think that Josh Hawley's bill, at least that 00:07:48.505 --> 00:07:52.215 gets tick tock off of government phones, is a good step in the right 00:07:52.215 --> 00:07:55.660 direction. But it sends a message to America to wake up and realize 00:07:55.660 --> 00:07:58.840 that we've got a huge problem with the Chinese Communist Party. Yeah, 00:07:58.840 --> 00:08:02.020 apparently. And we still don't have any attention on it from this 00:08:02.020 --> 00:08:04.935 administration, senator. We'll keep a spotlight on it as we have 00:08:04.935 --> 00:08:08.115 been. Great to see you, Sir. Thanks very much. Bill Haggerty joining 00:08:08.115 --> 00:08:11.030 us this morning in Tennessee. Thank you. Have a good weekend.