Congressman Schweikert on Economic Opportunity and Dr. Everett Piper Discusses Biden's Moral Projections
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Are you doing good? It's always safe to bring your eight-year-old behind the microphone. It is very, very safe. So feel free to chirp in today. So Sam Stone's out today on assignment. Like Biden has his big boy press conferences. I am in the big boy chair today running the equipment here, which we don't know how that will turn out. But...

Good to have you with us, Congressman Schweikert. You look like you're doing fine. I see you poking things. And please, it's David. I actually despise being called Congressman. Well, David Schweikert is in Arizona's first congressional district, and you have a primary on June 30th. How's that coming along? It's fine. It's...

This is actually one of the most difficult districts in America. I mean, what is it? One of the nine. Was it plus two, plus three Republican? Yeah. But the underlying math on that, actually, if you do the update, is actually almost flipped. And if you look at like last campaign, I think I might have been the only Republican to actually have won within the district.

And a lot of that, it's what makes it unique, unique also for Republican representatives, one of the best educated districts in America. It's urban suburban. Yes. It's prosperous. It's very aspirational. And so often Republicans have lost their roots of talking about the morality of economic opportunity.

The morality of that growth is actually a really good thing. And because we've liked to pander to the dopamine hits, you know, say things that may be a little extreme, but darn it, it gets us followers on, you know, clickbait. Well, it's a perfect example. Let's talk Social Security. I mean, look, we all want our grandparents, our elder relatives to have their Social Security.

But then you have President Trump, President Biden, just like I'm not going to touch this. We know there's going to be changes. But one way to help foster more revenue is more growth in this country. It solves deficit problems. It solves Social Security problems. It solves a lot of problems. We have more growth and a vibrant workforce. Look, the baseline math is the baseline math. Math is math. And the math will always win.

Congressional Budget Office, OMB, CB, I mean, all the, even the outside groups basically will tell you from today through the next 30 years, every dime of U.S. debt is generated by interest. Interest now is the second biggest expenditure in the United States.

It's like $800 billion a year? If you do gross interest, because remember, we pay to borrow the money out of the trust funds. So if you add it all in, it'll be a little under $1.2 trillion. 100% of the growth of debt over the next 30 years, interest, health care, almost all Medicare. And then in nine years, 10 years, when the Social Security trust fund is consumed, what do you do there? Right.

And it was one of the reasons I just was bouncing off the walls angry during that, let's call it a debate, when...

Biden looks into the camera and says, if we just tax rich people 1% more, we'd be fine. And instantly my phone lights up with reporters from The Washington Post, NPR, all these ones who know that we have, because I'm the senior Republican over the Joint Economic Committee, so I have like five PhD economists. We've been modeling how do you save, keep our word, keep our promises. And 1%...

It's tiny. Give you an idea. If you did 12.4%, you only cover 38% of the shortfall. Right. Yeah. So you raise the cap on every rich person. And that's only, it's almost 40, almost 40%. Yeah. Okay. Let's call it 40. You only cover 40%. It's actually 38 point something. 40% of the shortfall is covered by raising the cap. And they don't want to admit that. But here's your problem. How do you deal with reality?

When you even have the president of the United States, the supposedly leader of the free world, say things that are absolutely crazy. And then you have the flip side. It will be weaponized. I promise you there'll be a clip from 100 percent. There'll be a clip from this that will go up, say Schweiker talked about Social Security and Medicare. Dear heaven, I'm the only idiot who's been actually trying to save it, but save it with a calculator, not my feelings.

My mom always said, my parents had a small business growing up, still do. And my mom always said, you can tell the health of a business if I can just get into the books.

Oh, yeah. You know, and it's the same thing for country. It's the same thing for Social Security. And, you know, I'm going to make a point on Social Security. I could see we have to get rid of the one sixty eight thousand cap. I can see that to a degree to help where I'm going to disagree with you. You're going to play with. But you have almost I think we came up with almost like twenty four.

moving parts. And that's the reality. Most people... 24 moving parts in Social Security. Yeah. So most people have never sat in a room with Republicans and Democrats. The door is locked. And then a dozen economists and actuaries. So it was like geek town. And God, I love that. And we worked our hineys off for almost a year. We spent a bunch of money with actuaries.

We came up with a plan where you had a whole series. You raise this, lower this, because there's also things within the formula. There's progressivity. We have a screw up in the formula where a high income immigrant actually gets the same benefit as someone's worked their hiney off for 40 quarters. There's all sorts of other distortions in there. But.

The average American on Social Security gets every dime they put in back and that average couple then gets about a $72,000 spiff over what they put in. It is a crap rate of return. It is a horrible, horrible, horrible rate of return. Social Security actually isn't my big math problem.

It's Medicare. Right. The health issues are the problem. Our current math problem is for every dollar you put into Medicare, you get five, and it looks like the future may be $6 back. Now multiply that times, what, 67 million baby boomers, another 10 million. So you're looking at populations of 76 million folks who will be receiving these earned benefits. They earned it.

We just never set aside the resources and were prepared that government's intrusion, the way we've screwed up the delivery of health care and education, we've exploded the price. And our joint economic report that we just put out, and these people are freaky smart. This isn't politics. This isn't feelings. We're coming up with real solutions, showed you could do a series of things in health and technology differently.

and willingness to adopt AI and other things to crash the price of health care. Because Obamacare is a finance bill. Right. Who pays and gets the Republican terms was a finance bill. It's who pays and who gets subsidized. Medicare for all is a finance. None of those are about what we pay. And here's where I've gotten the most crap kicked out of me and, weirdly enough, the most praise in that report. What's the single biggest thing you could do to lower the price of health care in America?

It's a trick question because it's not a way we all think. Well, it's probably people not being obese. You got it. You are the very first person I've ever had get it. We calculate it could be an additional $9.1 trillion.

Well, spend in the 10 year additional. That's on top. We calculate almost 47 percent of all health care spend. Right. Because the multiple chronic conditions is obesity. But we do it ourselves. It's in many ways. It's the way we do the farm bills. We you know, when we give someone nutrition support and say, go buy onion rings.

This is the fifth year in a row Americans, prime age males, die younger. We're dying. In 15 years, the United States has more deaths than births. You're getting more colon cancer because of health concerns. I was yesterday, I was reading, and they said 45% of all cancer can be attributed to obesity, smoking, and drinking. Yep. And just those. Just those three.

Just those three. And people think about what, you know, and when they created Medicare, Medicaid in 1965, they had no idea then all the advances in medicine. They had no idea the life expectancy would grow. And, you know, we go and spend a fortune on as we should because we're a humane country. We want to keep our loved ones around as long as possible. That's actually that's actually not actually the argument used to fall into. Well, we're going to spend the health care because we're extending longevity.

Once again, we're about to have our fifth year in a row where longevity, particularly working age males, is getting life expectancies are going down. It was starting to decline before COVID. Oh, yeah. No, no, no. This curve actually goes back well over a decade. And the only correlation is obesity. Look, fentanyl and things like that are miserable, horrible, evil in our society. But when you look at the abstracts and there may be my problem of being in Congress, but

I'm pretty good at math, right? And I give a damn about actual solutions. And we have a society, and let's be honest, those who's on the right,

We have a base of our brothers and sisters who just need someone to sound angry. They don't actually want the problems fixed. They want to burn the place down. And the very people who want to burn it down are the ones who are making it expensive. If bond markets – remember, the bond market pretty much runs your country now. Correct. If you've got a – this year we will borrow –

are refinanced $10 trillion. Correct. Tiny moves in those interest rates cost hundreds of billions of dollars. United States is now number 14 on the world credit stack, meaning 13 other countries sell their bonds cheap. Greece sells its bonds cheaper than the United States. And you read the notes from the bond markets around the world, it's they don't trust that we're serious about keeping our promise on the debt. Yeah.

And so you get these idiots that go, you know, like one year ago, we put together a debt ceiling deal. But with it was the largest cut in spending in modern history. Even when you remove all the gimmicks, it's over a trillion dollars over the tens. The biggest cut. And you get people saying, well, you should have just not voted.

for the debt ceiling. And you go, okay, so you understand every dime of the military is borrowed, every dime of government and about a quarter of your Medicare is borrowed. I had this conversation all the time. We have a minute and a half here for this segment.

You're running for reelection. What still motivates you to get up and do the job? Because it's not a pleasant job. I talk more friends out of running than I ever talked into running. With a minute left, tell us, why are you doing it? Look, what I know today, if I'd known a decade ago, I wouldn't have done the job. It's not fair. I will leave office poorer than the day I got elected.

I have a two-year-old and eight-year-old. I'd like to see them more. But one of the things that happens is you move up in seniority. I'm now number four in the Ways and Means. I now chair my side of the Joint Economic Committee. All of a sudden now I can actually have influence to save the country.

And is that a message you're getting out to your voters out there? Oddly enough, when you have a really smart district, most of my voters get it. That's fantastic. So where can people follow you for the campaign? DavidSchweiker.com. And it feels like almost everyone in the district has my personal cell phone. Yeah.

That's fantastic. Folks, this is Breaking Battlegrounds. We're here with Congressman David Schweiker from CD1 in Arizona, a true plus red swing district. And we'll be back here to talk more about President Biden and immigration. This is Breaking Battlegrounds. We'll be back with you in a minute.

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Folks, welcome back to Breaking Battlegrounds. I'm your host, Chuck Warren. In studio with us today is Congressman David Schweikert of Arizona's CD1. Folks, today's

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All right, David, so 18 of your House colleagues, Democrats, are now asking President Biden to resign.

I always tell people when they go to parties and we're coming up to Labor Day and all the holiday season that the person you want to sit next to at a party if you don't know many people is someone who runs HR because they have the best stories. I have found in legislatures and Congress the best people to talk to are the numbers guys because they're not in the ideological fights per se. So people are probably a little more inclined to share their heartfelt feelings about it because they know you're not going to run out to the Washington Post.

Do you feel there's momentum where you're going to end up with 50, 60 Democrat members saying President Biden needs to resign? I think they're slowing down the hemorrhaging, but I was surprised a couple of the names that popped up yesterday. Like Stanton? Were you surprised by Stanton? I was actually a little surprised by Stanton. But you actually remember part of this is.

Are these people want to win the presidency? Correct. Or they worried about the big contributors cutting back their money to the DNC and therefore hurting their own personal elections? You remember the rule is money, power, vanity. But most of the time it's about the money. Right. And as those was on the right. In some ways, I wish we would shut up.

Because 100 percent, you want to run against the candidate that's already defined. Correct. Biden could not get more defined. The number of chaos.

whether you go from Afghanistan to the border to the tax policy to inflation. I mean, where we're sitting right now, unless you make over 26 percent more than the day Biden got elected, you're poor. One hundred percent. And I think that's actually why you see so many. Is it is eleven hundred dollars more a month for the average family to have the same standard of living in our area? It's more than double that. We know. Right. And what's.

A little disingenuous in that number is that number actually isn't ugly enough because you take someone like someone who's young and much of that inflation was in their housing, in the very things they consume. Those of us who already have assets, I already have my house. You know, my house can go up and down in price. I don't feel it.

But the part of the society that was coming in, and that's, I think, one of the reasons you saw this White House so desperately try to give away student loan money and those things. They had to buy the very people they had screwed over with their economic policies. Well, and enough people are not talking about his other by-vote gambit last night when he said the 5% cap on rent control. Has rent control ever worked? No. As a matter of fact, in most markets, what it does is if...

And OK, and I'm going to tie this into immigration. So it all makes sense because this is one of my projects. I'm trying to get folks to understand that do not get caught when the left goes, well, opening up the border is more we're helping poor people.

Darn it. What about the working poor in this country? So if you're poor in this country, let's say you didn't finish high school, but you're out there busting your hump, you and your loved one, you know, you hang drywall, you drive a truck, you're working to try to chase that American dream. And what they did with the border is when you pump in millions of folks with a similar skill set to our working poor.

What happened to the value of your labor? But also what happened to rent prices on the C-type rents, the lower level rents? All of a sudden, all across the country where we saw the undocumented population, the illegals, the amnesty seekers pop in, all of a sudden rents for the working poor skyrocketed.

And many of these people are getting government subsidies. Biden's border policy has been one of the cruelest to the working poor in this country because now you actually also have millions of folks with similar skill sets. There's a model out there that says it could be a decade for the lower quartiles of income in this country to see their wages go up. And how often do you get those who are on the right that actually make the moral argument of locking down the border

It's a way you stop hurting poor people in your own country. So again, it goes back to messaging. We just can't shut up and let Biden continue to bury himself. I truly believe if Republicans shut up for five months, Biden will give them four opportunities a week. And now they just ticked off all the press on him. Right. So.

You know, we look like when we push immigration, because there's a segment in our conservative base who is a bit probably racist. And the problem is we don't focus on the working poor. This is hurting working poor people. And we don't push that enough. You're like one of the only members that talks about that. They don't talk about it. Because all they talk about is like they act like every immigrant that comes in is raping and murdering someone. We know that's not true. But I also am trying to find the – trying to help folks understand –

Instead of just living in rage, we actually have morality. Correct. You know, the moral of our vision of policy. And look, you're going to have to and you actually have now President Trump talking about maybe we should stop educating people in our universities and sending them home to compete with us. You know, that's that's a Trumpism now. But it's also really good economics because those people pay a lot of taxes. And I agree.

Your country, your future, health care, retirement. We need a hell of a lot more people because, remember, the United States birth rates have collapsed. We're down to 1.62. We have fewer babies now than much of Western Europe. Yes.

We have a data point that says in like 15 years, there are more deaths than births in the United States. So stop making crap up. And I'm mad at my side and I'm really mad at their side because their side just lie. My side missed the point. We could win every argument if you just read the

Big boy facts. Correct. We have two minutes left here. Let's talk about something that's just infuriating. So Republicans – and explain this to our audience, so pretend like it's Dummies Guide to Immigration. The Democrats voted, except for five members, voted against a bill that would require non-citizens not to be able to vote. Yeah. And they voted against it. What was the reasoning? The Democrats are brilliant at playing lawyer games in their head, saying, OK –

Here's how we're eventually if we get squeezed, we're going to scam the election system. Look, look, is there election fraud out there? It absolutely. But it's often not what you think it is. Exactly. There's a group out of Tempe that function created fake petitions for libertarian Canada to put my race and a couple other Republicans race. The every every single signature was a fraud.

Why the hell isn't the county attorney prosecuting? Because that's not wasn't an individual. That was a conspiracy. A whole group did it. If you want to understand election fraud, don't read the clickbait. Understand either how they're using the law or scam artists to stick it to us. It's the old dirty Harry line. If you can play the game, love, you better know the rules. And they just simply have to have more lawyers attending and understanding the rules. But what they did in putting the fake libertarian candidates. Yeah.

That was a conspiracy. No, 100%. And yet it got one article, one of the television stations caught. No, quickly dismissed. But it complete because it didn't have the dopamine hit of crazy with. Well, look what they're doing, keeping the Green Party and RFK off the ballot in Nevada. Oh, yeah. I mean, they'll do anything to hold office, but it's not what people think it is. And there's the point is that.

And too many of the political class care so much more about either hitting you with text messages that are not true so you give them money because, remember our rule, much of these campaigns now become about the money. Right. Well, thank you, David Schweik, for coming in today and his lovely assistant, Olivia. Say goodbye, Olivia.

Oh, he's been great. We'll hope you'll come back again soon, and let's do a much longer format and just get into everything. That would be a blast. All right. This is Breaking Battlegrounds with David Schweikert, Congressman for 1st Congressional District. We'll be right back. Welcome back to Breaking Battlegrounds. I'm very excited for this next segment here with Maureen Tusty. Her recent project is a documentary called...

She rises up. It follows a remarkable journey of three women who are building small businesses. Maureen, thank you for joining our show. Hey, thank you for having me. I remember years ago, a good friend of mine who was chairman of Overstock.com, they created a group called World Stock. And he said what he realized is that you need to make the entrepreneurs women because women devote the money to their children and family. Men drink it all away. That was his comment to me. And so he was pretty...

pretty excited about what they did at WorldStock and they employed hundreds if not thousands of female small business owners as vendors and so forth. So what gave you the vision, the idea to do this movie?

Well, you know, that comment that your friend made was not, it's not off the mark. There's actually been research studies that support that theory, and they can't say exactly why, but when women are empowered with the finances in a community and a family, it actually has been shown to have more impact on poverty. So we don't talk about that specifically in the film, but what really got us into this

was how all of the headlines today, there's so much. It's so volatile right now. Intense war, intense politics, climate change. These things are really dominating the headlines. And it's easy for the extremists

poverty that still exists in our world to just kind of stagnate and slip into the background. So we just wanted to bring some of the dialogue around this back to the forefront. And in particular, this intersection of entrepreneurship and women and the impact that can have on poverty and community. So that's really what inspired us to the film.

And then we found these incredible women doing work through their businesses and just decided, let them tell us and show us how it really works. What is the bureaucracy these women face in other countries versus the United States? I know I read somewhere like 40 countries that don't allow women to own businesses. Is that true?

Yeah, it's actually it's there's almost one third of all countries today that still have laws that stifle a woman's access to work, whether that's a bank account, property inheritance, the type of job you can do or limits on the hours you can work. And, you know, a lot of these are to protect women, but they really are just holding people back. And a lot. And then.

It's no coincidence, I feel, that these are also countries that have some of the highest poverty rates in the world. So there is this connection of the barriers, but it's also the business environment of just the lack of jobs.

And, you know, it connects to so much. It connects to the immigration and why people flee their countries. They're desperate for work. You know, you don't get on a boat and take that risk to go to a country where you don't speak the language and you have no idea what's ahead of you and leave your family behind.

if you had a good solid job. So it really comes down to access to work and removing the barriers and creating these healthy business environments that can allow the entrepreneurs that are already there to thrive. And then when women aren't competing for the few jobs there, there's even more access for women, more access for financing, for them to start their own businesses and really gain financial independence.

We're with Maureen Tusty. She is the director and creative director for the film She Rises Up. It's a documentary. We will be announcing here next week our showing of it for her. We have two minutes left. You went and did these three different women. How have these women inspired you?

Their endurance. Magatse Wade, who is in Senegal, she started a cosmetics factory in a very remote region to try and bring jobs to this community. And once she is up again, so in the film you follow her through these incredible bureaucratic paths

meetings and barriers. And you had asked about comparing it to the U.S. And in some ways, what the film looks at, there's no comparison to the U.S. I mean, no matter how much a business owner, and I'm a small business owner, a small production company, my husband and I, it's like no matter how much frustration we can have, it does not compare. The

someone used this phrase for me, the presumption of liberty we have here. We know we can start a business. We know we can do it if we can get ahead or get the finance and get a loan. There is so much opportunity here. And in these regions, the barriers that hold entrepreneurs down, male and female, it's just exponential compared to what we're up against here. And I think the

Most shocking thing for me that these women taught me is that a few changes in regulation really can have an impact. Because sometimes you look at it and you say there's so much corruption at the highest level. There's corruption on the ground. How do you break through that? But a few regulation changes, women being able to access bank loans on their own without having to have their husband co-sign. Well, that is what allowed Gladys in Peru to start a mini market chain.

She has broken out of poverty on her own because of just that one law change. So you really can have impact. Maureen, we thank you for your time. Kylie and Jenna will be in touch with you for do our showing here. And hopefully maybe you can come out and join us. This is Breaking Battlegrounds. You can find Maureen and look up the movie. She rises up film dot com.

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Welcome back to Breaking Battlegrounds. On this segment, we are honored to have with us Dr. Everett Piper. He is a columnist at the Washington Times, and he's a former university president and radio host. Folks, before we get started, grab a pen and paper now and write down 877-80-INVEST.

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Honored to be on your show. Thanks for having me. All right. So you wrote, as soon as I read it, I contacted Kyle and said, you got to get him on. You wrote a great column called Biden's Moral Deflections, Projections of a Liar-in-Chief. The thing I have found amazing about Joe Biden is he has everything he says Donald Trump is. And for some reason, for decades, he's gotten away with it. Can you go a little bit more into your column and why that's?

Talk about the theory of projection and how Joe Biden does it. Well, this is a psychological reality. It goes back to Sigmund Freud in the 19th century. He he coined the theory of projection, if you will. And essentially, the theory of projection is very simple. We deflect our ethical failures onto other human beings.

In layman's terms, it's the pot calling the kettle black. We all do it. M. Scott Peck talks about the people of the lie. My former provost, consummate scholar Graham Walker, talks about the pathology of the intellect. In biblical terms, the apostle Paul says that we're given over to a reprobate mind when we start believing our own deceptions.

C.S. Lewis covers it in The Great Divorce when he talks about the dangers of becoming essentially the personification of your own most cherished sins. In fact, in that, there's the analogy or the example of a woman who actually becomes an incessant grumble. She actually is a grumble. That's her identity, is a grumble, because she's constantly grumbling about everyone else. And she goes into eternity and eternal hell being a grumble.

So with that as context, I think we all need to be aware of the fact that when we point one finger of accusation outward, that we've got three pointed back at ourselves. And Joe Biden is the poster child of this. Unless anybody say, yeah, but Trump, I don't want to hear that. I don't have to defend Trump or even acknowledge Donald Trump to critique Joe Biden's

decades old deceptions and moral deflections where he's calling everyone else a liar when in fact his own track record is that he is a consummate liar. And in fact, in the 1980s, in his first presidential campaign, he actually withdrew because Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts caught him in his incessant lying. What it just it goes on and on. What else? What else has he done that people don't realize that just does not get covered?

The track record is obvious. Joe Biden, he he he lied in. He plagiarized speeches. So let's start with that. He's a plagiarizer. He plagiarized John F. Kennedy. He plagiarized Robert Kennedy. He plagiarized Hubert Humphrey.

He plagiarized many people and just stole the material for his own political speeches. Some may think that's not a big deal. I do. I'm an academic. If you steal somebody else's language, that's theft. That's lying. You're pretending you're something that you're not. That's an irrefutable fact. That is what he's done. He's talked about being one of the top scholars in law school when, in fact, he graduated 76 out of 85 students. That's not a top level grad.

You're lying when you say that. He talks about being an activist for racial justice. Well, Sean King actually covers this and says that his prevarications go all the way back to the 70s and that he's lying. He was never involved in these protests.

marches for civil rights and other activities that he claims he was a part of. Jeff Childester summarizes it this way, where he says that Biden claims that he was an activist and an organizer for civil rights, for the civil rights movement. And then

He says none of this is true, not even a little bit. It's all a complete fabrication. He summarizes and says a decent man does not do this. A deceitful man does. So this track record of lying is pervasive. And I think one of the most repugnant lies that Joe Biden has told, it's about his own wife's death. His first wife back in 1972 died in a car accident.

crash with his young daughter. That's very sad. But what kind of a man lies about that and claims that the driver, Curtis Dunn, of that tractor trailer rig was responsible when the courts found that he wasn't? Joe Biden makes the claim that Dunn was driving drunk. Even the Supreme Court justice, well, he wasn't the Supreme Court justice at the time. At the time, he was an investigator. But as a Supreme Court justice, he later came out and said, that's not true. Dunn

was not drunk. The cause of the accident was that Mrs. Biden ran a stop sign. Now, that's sad. I don't want to take advantage of Mrs. Biden's accident, her death and her daughter to make my political point. But Joe Biden actually did that to accentuate and further his political ambitions back in the 70s.

Unbelievable. What do you take? What is your view of what's happened the last two weeks since the debate, including the press conference last night? What do you think happens with him?

Well, I've said all along, I don't think Joe Biden is going to be the nominee of the Democrat Party. I've been having that argument with my wife for months. Does she have good points, though? Does she have good points, though? She may be proven right more than me. I've thought all along they're going to helicopter in Michelle Obama at the last minute to save the day. I'm still going to hold to that because if it happens, I'll prove to be a prophet. If it doesn't, what do I have to lose?

I just think the man is a corrupt individual. I think his flaws are evident. And now his dementia, which is, again, isn't his fault. I have a father in law that died of Alzheimer's. I don't want to make fun of elderly people. Right. We want to honor the wisdom of the ages and the wisdom of gray hair, if you will. But Joe Biden's deceptions and his his life of deceit is coming home to roost right now in his demented senior years.

I don't know if he even knows what the truth is any longer because he's lied to himself so persistently over time. Well, can this man actually be a winning candidate in the Democrat as the Democrat nominee? I highly question. Well, you know, God bless the Republicans. Who knows what the hell happened? I'm going to agree with your wife for one simple reason. I did not think Bill Clinton was a horrible human being. I think he's a tomcat. I did not think.

President Obama was a horrible human being. I think Joe Biden is an egotist. I think he's arrogant. I think he's selfish. I think he has illusions of grandeur. I think he's a horrible man. And I think the only way he gets taken out of office is in a casket.

I just – I don't see it with this guy. And I believe that more and more every time I see him, all the comments I hear, reading great columns like yours about his moral deflections, I don't think this is a good guy. I think he's thinking about one person himself. And it's also the point if Donald Trump, which is the biggest lie produced by Democrats, is such a threat to the future of our country, our republic, our democracy –

Then you would step out. He doesn't care. It's just a line. And you're seeing it now with various columnists saying, well, you know, this whole thing about Trump being a threat to democracy is just a lie. You know, it's just it's just it's a talking point. That's why I think he stays in. I just can't see it.

I think you're probably right. All joking aside, I'm going to stick to my guns on my prophecy here on Obama just because I want to prove I'm right. But hey, logically, logically, I think you probably and my wife are probably more right than I am.

I think Joe Biden is an egotistic extreme. He's a classic narcissist, and he doesn't want to relinquish power. Even in his state of dementia, he's going to retreat into those only things that he knows to be his barometer in his soul. And unfortunately, that barometer is not a positive one. It leads to hell rather than heaven, if you want to argue in great divorce terms or biblical terms. I would argue you're right there.

That said, I think Jill Biden is guilty of elder abuse. There's a lot of power going on in that particular relationship, too. Well, absolutely. I mean, I mean, think about this for a minute.

I have a friend that had an elderly relative who had become friends with a young woman. He was just giving her money all the time. I don't want to cast aspersions on the relationship. But obviously she was taking advantage of the situation, and so the state got involved with it because it's basically coercing an elderly person who was old and probably didn't have all its facilities together. What is different about that versus what she's doing? Nothing. Nothing.

You've seen it. I'm not the only one who said it. You're not the only one who has said it. Jill Biden is guilty of elder abuse. A lot of people are asking the question, who would let an old man embarrass himself like this? Nancy Reagan was the exact opposite. She protected Reagan's image. You and I don't remember ever seeing Reagan at a state of dementia. Why?

because of Nancy Reagan. We will always remember Joe Biden at the state of great decline and total confusion because of who? His wife. And that is very sad.

Dr. Piper, how do you think what's happened the past two weeks has really sort of nullified in people's minds what the press tells them now? I mean, we know they've been unpopular for a long time, but has this really been a setback for the national media, just that they feel like they've been covered up here? There's a cover up?

I would like to think so. I'm a conservative. I believe in conserving the truth. OK, that's what conservatives should do. So I'm answering with that bias or that or that predisposition. I don't apologize for it. But I think a lot of us have been recognizing even middle of the road. Independents have been recognizing we're being lied to a great deal right now, whether it's COVID, whether it's climate change, whether it's denying that a woman is a female and pretending that a dysphoric male can.

become a woman just because he wants to dress up and make believe. We're being lied to. We're being accused. Again, back to the point of my article. It's psychological deflection. It is casting your sins upon the people that you oppose. The Democrat Party is

is an expert at doing this they accuse you of being a science denier when they're the ones that are denying the biological fact of a female they accuse you of being uh anti-science when it comes to covid when they deny the reality that the vaccine is not as effective as natural immunity the list goes on and on and on and i think in this case of this election the record we are recognizing a lot of people are recognizing we're not being told the truth if you if if trump

gets elected and he has, let's say, Republican Senate and Republican House, what do you think the most important issue, policy issue, is they need to work on and get a plan and solve for this country? I know my time's short. I'm going to tell you. Don't panic. This is very brief. I once met with Donald Trump in 2016. I was one of a small group of conservative evangelicals and Catholics that were invited to Trump Tower, about 30 of us. Not the big group, the small group that you haven't heard much about.

I was one of five that was given the responsibility of asking him a question. I was president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University at the time. When my turn came, I looked Mr. Trump in the eye and I said, "Mr. Trump, I'm the president of a small evangelical Christian college that just received a letter from the Obama administration Department of Education and Office of Civil Rights demanding that I immediately start providing transgender accommodations on my campus." I said, "Mr. Trump, I will not do that."

should you become president of the United States, I have one request of you and one only. And I paused. There was silence in the room. And I said, leave me alone. If you are the president, all I ask is leave me alone. Let me be what my charter as a Christian college calls for me to be. Let us be Christian. Just leave us alone. And I'll be doggone

Isn't that what he did? He left us alone when he became president, and I'm thankful for that. So what does he need to do? Leave us alone. Let us do what we're supposed to do. Give our freedom back. George Washington said, this was his famous Bible verse. He said, every man shall sit under his own fig tree.

and his own vine and shall not be afraid. What's his point? Leave us alone. It's our fig tree. It's our vine. Leave us alone. We do not want to be afraid of the government or the king.

It would be a good policy for the next president of Congress to say, we're not going to pass any new laws for the next four years. We're just going to get the budget. We're going to balance it. And that's it. No new regulations, no new laws. Let's just leave everybody alone for four years. Exactly. Leave us alone. Every man under your own vine and your own fig tree. And you shall not be afraid. George Washington cited that over 50 times to the fellow founding fathers. Why?

because he recognized the ancient wisdom in that Old Testament passage. It's your ranch. It's your gate. It's your house. It's your farm. They're your kids. Leave us alone. Dr. Everett Piper, Washington Times columnist, thank you so much for joining us today. Folks, we'll be putting up on our social media his great article column, Biden's Moral Deflections, Projections of a Liar-in-Chief. Dr. Piper, thanks so much for joining us, and I hate to break it to you, but your wife and I are right.

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Welcome back to Breaking Battlegrounds, the bonus section, the podcast episode. I'm with Jenna in studio, and we have Kylie online from Boston. Kylie, hello. Hi. So Kylie's cornered today. What do we have? Well, I am going to discuss the Alec Baldwin case today because that did start on Tuesday of this week. And so for those that don't know which case this is, he's being accused of –

killing Helena Hutchinson, an involuntary manslaughter on the set of Rust. Sorry, that was hard to get out. Hannah Gutierrez, she was already found guilty. She was the weapons supervisor on the set of Rust. She is the last person that the gun comes from before handing it to an actor. That was her role. Also charged was David Halls. He took a plea deal. He's the first assistant director. He didn't even have a trial. So now we're on the final person being charged. No one else is being charged except these three people. And now we're on Alec Baldwin.

His case started on Tuesday. He is standing firm that he has had no idea that there was live rounds on set. He's claiming that they told him there was no live rounds in the gun, which I find odd that he asked that question. Yeah, that is an odd thing to add. That seems like something you're asking to support your defense because I doubt he asked that question.

Yeah, and he's also claiming right away, as soon as this incident happened, he said, I never pulled the trigger, which prosecution is saying they have evidence that the trigger was pulled on the gun. The prosecution is saying that Baldwin requested to be assigned the biggest gun available on the set. They're also claiming that they found live rounds in Baldwin's holster, which was on his body.

Um, it's also a rule on a movie set that the safety safety rules require that an actor can never point any prop gun or gun of any kind at an, at another person, which he obviously did. And then, um, also the last thing is the Russ script never, um, called for the gun to be fired in that incident in that scene. Oh, really? Yes. Okay.

But so that was but but but also known for going off script. Apparently in a lot of other movies, he's known for, you know, embellishing or doing things off script. So that's and he was one of the producers. So it's not that that's not unusual. That's really not unusual, especially for an actor like Alec Baldwin. I mean, Jim Carrey all the time. You hear from Mrs. Doubtfire that they had after filming with Robin Williams. They had a PG, a PG 13, a rated R and a rated X version.

Because he did so many ad lib. And so, you know, actors, real creative types like that will do that. Yes. So this was just all in their opening statements. And so there hasn't been much that that's been going on, but there has been a big win for the defense. And this is something that I also find odd that they're not charging or looking into the ammo supplier. So the ammo supplier in the Hannah Gutierrez, again, she was the she's the weapon supervisor. They testified that.

that they did deliver all the dummy rounds to the set, but that they did not deliver any live rounds, but that they did at that same time, they were handling live rounds from another production at that time. So it's not, so they could have accidentally delivered the incorrect ammo or whatnot, but

So this is where the win for the defense comes from. When they're being questioned, there's footage of the crime scene expert checking all of the bullets that were found on the scene. And there's some video footage of him not checking all the rounds. So some of them, he's just shaking the full box. So, you know, there could be a live round in one of the boxes. But he's just shaking the boxes to see, you know, if they're live or if they're dummies. So he did not thoroughly check every bullet that was on that came from the ammo supplier.

So everyone's claiming that that's a big win for the defense. And then they also said the search warrant required them to find the surveillance footage of the ammo room, which is where all the dummy ammo was being found. And that surveillance footage was never pulled. It's not in evidence. They don't have it. So basically they don't know who was going in and out of the room, which had the ammo supplied in it. But that is basically all we know right now. Well, but is anybody accusing him of doing this on purpose? Like he actually was trying to kill this woman.

Yes. They are they? Not on. No. So there's the Internet. Reddit doesn't count. But is the prosecution. No, no. The prosecution is just saying it was involuntary. Yeah. I still don't understand why they're prosecuting him. So they're saying he broke the number one cardinal rule of gun safety, which is always handle a gun as if there's a life round in it. And he did not do that. So it is involuntary. Yeah. I don't know. Is it not? Yeah. I mean, I mean.

This seems like a very lawyerly thing to try to find a way to do a prosecution, if you ask me. I mean, look, a woman lost her life and it's horrible. I hope the family, if they have not, have they sued him civilly yet? Has he settled with them civilly? That I don't know. I mean, I'm sure they're suing. I'm sure he would sue. I mean, I can't, I mean, everything I've read, he, you know, he was, I mean, look, he took in this really hard, but.

Adding prison time. He's also an actor. Yeah. Yeah, but still killing somebody, if you have any conscience, you know, is a pretty high road, right? It's a tall mountain. And I still just don't understand the need for the prosecution. Again, I understand civilly and, you know, and they can't bring back the mom. But I don't know. This just seems like a lawyer trying to get some press to me.

So do you believe Hannah Gutierrez should have been? She was the last person that handled the gun. She supposedly is the one that put the ammo in the gun. Do you believe she should be charged or should anyone? You know, this isn't drunk driving. This isn't reckless driving. This is an accident. No, I don't think it is. So you think this was done purposefully? Well, I just don't know why there's live rounds on any movie set when that should be. There shouldn't be anyways.

What live movie set requires live rounds of ammo? Well, I agree. I mean, so but but but he doesn't know that he's not responsible for that. Right. Don't trust Hollywood. Yeah. But well, I understand what you're saying. I mean, you know, trust, trust, but verify, you know, but he wasn't responsible for the ammo. It sounds like he was doing something as an actor. He was ad libbing on something. There seems to be other processes for this to penalize him, including civil. I don't understand the criminal one.

That's all I'm saying. So, you know, it's anything else besides this sad, tragic tale that's been going on for two years, hasn't it? This has been going on two years. Yeah. Yeah. But, you know, from one of from all these cases, basically, I'm seeing that they all take this long. Yeah, they really do, don't they? They really do. I want to clarify the Brian Koberger case really quick because there's speculation on Twitter and such that his lawyer is leaving him on July 15th. And that is a lie.

She is not. So she's actually leaving the public defender's office in her county. And she's moving to the state. So people are speculating she's doing this because they want to change a venue and they've been pushing for this since the very beginning. So they think that this is her preparing to get that change of venue, which would further push back the trial day. And they just want and Koberger's goal is just to keep pushing back that trial day. Do you still believe he did it?

There's a lot of theories out there. Do you think he had accomplice? Yes. He's involved. Whether he actually did the stabbing, I don't know. Because I think – so Koberger was studying, getting his PhD in criminology at the University of Washington. And for those that don't know, I was just putting that in there. And so I think he is doing this as an experiment. I think he is mentally not all there, and he thinks that this is a game. I do. Yeah.

Wow. Okay. Well, we'll find that out. Well, you've, um, anything else? This is just allegedly alleged in America. You're still innocent. You're presumed innocent until you face a jury of your peers. Yep. We learned this with the Karen Reed case. Yes. We learned Karen Reed case. All right. But court TV does not believe in innocent until proven guilty. Oh, well, I want to, before we turn time over to sunshine moment, this week has just been rich with some beautiful memes. Yeah.

And I want to read a couple that just brought me great joy. So there's this one that says, I hope you're all proud of yourselves. You're harassing a senior citizen out of his part-time job. The other one, which –

The other one, which was really quite funny, was it's a new Twitter account I found and I'm scrolling through. Well, one is the Babylon Bee. Kanye West starting to think Candace Owens might be a little crazy.

And then there's this one called Alfred the Great on Twitter, or X. I came across him yesterday. So it got a lot of news. It probably would be bigger news if it wasn't for Biden's press conference, where the Italian Prime Minister Maloney rolls her eyes, checks imaginary watch, waiting for Biden to arrive at the NATO summit. And she has all these amazing facial expressions. And if you know Italians, they're not great poker players. They have great facial expressions, right? Yeah.

And Alfred the Great, after this article which he attached, said, the Italians are mocking us. The Italians, my God. I felt that same way. And then finally, it's a scene from Spider-Man when Kristen Dunst is in it with not Tobey Maguire. I don't know who he is. One of the old ones. And she's holding his Spider-Man's face saying, tell me the truth. I'm ready to hear it. His response was,

Kamala Harris has the lowest approval rating of any vice president since polls began, and that's after Dick Cheney shot a guy in the face and it shows her crying. So keep up the creative work, people. We love it very, very much, and we'll do this weekly. But I just – the Italian one, though, I don't know. I just laughed about that all night. My God, the Italians. Janet, what do you have for a sunshine moment for us today? Okay.

You are my sunshine. Yeah, so for the sunshine moment this week, I've had so much fun doing the sunshine moment because like every time I go to look for more articles, there are so many good stories that I keep running into. So it's hard to pick every single week.

But, yeah, I told this story about someone who like really turned their life around and then kind of took it to a new level. So Russ Cook is a 27 year old guy from England who had struggled a lot with mental health growing up through his late teens and early 20s.

actually struggled with gambling addiction and kind of falling from what we talked about with Schweikert, just that alcohol and obesity can really, really harm your lifespan. It can also really harm your mental health. And so he talks a lot about how gambling and drinking were really taking him down a dark path.

But he said that one night he was out with his friends and he decided to make a change. He left the club at about 2 a.m. in the morning and ran 12 miles back to his house. I'm assuming he was a little bit under the influence at this point. And he decided that he was going to stop going out and stop doing all this and make a change in his life. Very shortly after that, his good friend told him, hey, I'm signing up for a half marathon. Like, what?

Let's get going. Let's do this. And he said in an interview, I'm sort of out of ideas at this point. So he decided he'd just try this and try to do one good thing to bring himself up. He ran a half marathon. Then he ran a marathon. And then he became the first person to run from Istanbul to London. Oh, my goodness. He did this unassisted by himself. Wow.

with no crew. And he has these stories where his phone was dying and he's in the middle of Serbia or whatever and trying to find his way through. And then he came back to London, went back to his normal life and decided he wanted to get back out again and make it a career and try to help other people with this process or with his running. And so he, for 300 and I think 352 days, he ran from

Cape Town, South Africa to Tunisia. 352 straight days. Straight days. I think he took two days off because he had blood. Had a sickness or something, right? Yeah. And in this duration, you know, a lot of high points, but, you know, he was kidnapped and he like ran away from his kidnappers and just continued his run after he'd gotten separated from his people and ran and found them and like...

And the way he describes this, he takes everything in stride, the way that he's described everything.

And he's also, you know, they were held at gunpoint. A lot of adventures, but he also managed to help a lot of people. He got this huge social media following. A lot of people have, you know, praised him. He went on a run with the prime minister recently of the United Kingdom. And he ended up raising $1 million for a charity to help kids get into sports. Wow.

And so at the end of his run, he was joined by his good friend who had gotten him into running the day or the few days after he made his run home from the nightclub. And they finished up the trip together. He enjoyed a strawberry daiquiri and was able to celebrate. But I'm excited to see what he does next and learn a little bit more about him. So you're a Hollywood producer. Yes.

You're making this a movie. Who plays him? Who plays him? I feel like a young Matt Damon. A young Matt Damon? Yeah. Or a Matt Damon now. I don't know. I'm a big Matt Damon fan. How old is this gentleman? He's 27 now. Okay. And he started his running journey in his early 20s. I think around 22. That's fascinating. Yeah. But I think we have another story about kind of a sports-related, kind of UK-related story that we have. We do, folks. We're going to close here. As you know, this week...

Last night, Prince Harry was presented the Pat Tillman Award for service at the ESPYs. Sadly, the ESPYs has become what ESPN has become, just a total woke mess. They need to focus more on sports. But the ESPYs, the Pat Tillman Award is for service, for courage. Prince Harry, because he's Prince Harry, got a lot of pushback, including Pat Tillman's mom came out and said, I don't understand why. There's other people more deserving of it.

I'm not a big defender of Prince Harry and his wife, but I think this is a little unfair. This is a man who served in the military 10 years, two years combat duty. He has led a game called Invictus, which is for disabled veterans. And so we're going to close. Let you judge for yourself. I think he handled last night's award and his acceptance speech with grace, with humility.

And I just think it's worth you listening to. And he also talks about the everlasting bond of a son and mother. And obviously that point means a lot to him since he lost his beloved mother years ago. So give it a lesson. And on behalf of Sam Stone.

Jenna, Kylie, we thank you for joining us this week. Please share wherever you get your podcasts with your friends and family. If you have suggestions for the show, email us. We'd love to hear them. And again, on behalf of all of us, have a fantastic weekend. We'll be with you next week. Come back. Come back. You guys got to stay here for me. Thank you, Elizabeth, Israel, and Kirstie. Stay here. You need to be with me.

I'd like to begin by expressing my deepest gratitude to everyone at the Pat Tillman Foundation, led by Marie Tillman-Shenton, who I'm so honoured is here tonight. I'd also like to acknowledge the Tillman family, especially Mrs. Mary Tillman, Pat's mother. Her advocacy for Pat's legacy is deeply personal and one that I respect. The bond between a mother and son is eternal and transcends even the greatest losses.

The truth is, I stand here not as Prince Harry Pat Tillman Award recipient, but rather a voice on behalf of the Invictus Games Foundation and the thousands of veterans and service personnel from over 20 nations who have made the Invictus Games a reality. This award belongs to them, not to me. That said, it is of great importance to me to highlight these allies, athletes and their amazing families

for their achievements, their spirit and their courage at every opportunity, especially on nights like this in front of people like you. Moments like these help us reach those that need Invictus most and reduce more than 20 veterans a day taking their own lives in this country alone. For those who may not know, Invictus comes from Latin, meaning undefeated or unconquerable.

Nelson Mandela credited the poem of the same name, written by the poet William Ernest Henley, for giving him the strength to endure nearly 30 years of imprisonment. Like that poem, the spirit of the Invictus Games transcends race, time and borders. It is born from unity and exudes purpose. This year, we're celebrating 10 years of witnessing life-changing impact and healing through sport.

And while so much progress has been made since those first games, the world outside seems to be in an even more precarious state. We live in an age marked by polarisation and division. Conflicts rage around the globe. Anger and resentment towards those who are different seem to pervade societies everywhere. Our community challenges that. Our community proves that unity is not just possible, but formidable.

The beauty of the Invictus Games lies in how it brings people together, no matter one's nationality, background or personal struggles. It is a collective built from courage and mutual respect, where athletes discover time and time again the common denominator of their humanity. Having survived the crucible of armed combat and forged through the challenge to rebuild bodies and minds impacted by conflict, they form a family.

They exemplify the very best in all of us. There is a military expression that dates back to Roman times. I'll spare you another Latin lesson. But the phrase, the phrases translates or the phrases translates roughly to leave no one behind. And they hold particular significance for the US Army's Rangers. And I have no doubt Pat Tillman and his comrades lived by those words. So it is fitting that I end with them.

and make a promise on behalf of all of us at the Invictus Games Foundation. No matter the road ahead, we are here for you. We will leave no one behind. Thank you.