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January 28, 2025 • 12 mins
Say it with me, it's been 1 week. But an intrepid CBS reporter sat down with VP Vance to figure out why the economy wasn't fixed yet. Things got got slightly warmer than Luke, and now the internet is overreacting. In other words, just another Monday.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Do you like fighting with people? Like verbally not not
like throwing haymakers? Like just like sometimes does it feel
good to just kind of like get into a quabble
with somebody? No, I am the opposite of that. I
go out of my way to keep that from happening.
Give me an example what the opposite of quabbling would be.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
I don't know. I'm I'm a you know the have
you ever taken the enneagram?

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Is that, like the not the nine different personality types or.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
I'm a nine wing one man peacemaker. Oh yeah, I
go out of my way to, uh to avoid conflict.
Which there's a lot of downfalls to that life strategy.
But like what I'm I'm not quite where you're at.
I welcome a good debate and I kind of like
being angry every once in a while and taking it
out on a video game or a boxing heavy bag

(00:47):
or something. But uh, what what downfalls to being anti
confrontational are there?

Speaker 3 (00:53):
Well?

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Sometimes keeping the peace is not the best thing. Is
if if things that are happening around you are are
not good, hard.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
To fix things when you don't want to, you know,
kind of stand up Like this is Ralphie in a
Christmas story, right. It wasn't until he finally decided to
you know, wail on farcas that he was actually left
alone by those bullies he had he had to stand
up for himself at some point.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah, I ultimately, if you ask me, I don't think
that was the right decision there. I don't think physical
violence is ever the right decision. But I think that
there are ways to be assertive without you know, being malicious.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
That's fair, that's fair. What about in a professional sense,
like you know, we're here, we're professional people, but you know,
in a professional sense, like I think a lot of
people want to see this out of me when I'm
talking to some dignitary that they want to get like
hard answers on I don't go hard enough. I don't
lean hard enough into uh really like pulling that out.

(01:47):
I don't like I am accused of asking weak questions,
even though I think I ask good questions. I'm just
not generally asking questions that I know I'm not going
to get a good answer for, and I'm going to
be potentially souring that relationship. And the people who combat
you for not doing what they want you to do,
they don't have that on the line. They're just some

(02:08):
person writing an email, calling in, calling in, acting tough
telephone tough guys, do your thing, but they don't have
what's on the line that you do. And you know,
just the axis right Like, at the same time, if
you're an important enough person, it behooves you in some
ways to do difficult interviews anyway, knowing, hey, you know,
this may not be easy, this might be a little

(02:28):
bit of a hornet's nest, but you know, we got
to do what we gotta do to let people know
that we're doing a good job. There are some people
that don't see it that way, but thankfully it seems
like Donald Trump and JD Vance do see that as
being the case. That makes sense, right, Like we see
them jumping on networks and all that stuff all the time, right,
that makes sense. Yeah, I'm not making that up. You

(02:50):
see them on different things. Very accessible, very accessible, even
if they don't like you. Well, Jade Vance, whom I've
been coming around to, I think he's actually growing into
a very very solid number two guy, and he kind
of is behaving with his like the uh interviews that
he's done to this point, he kind of behaves like

(03:11):
a buffer to kind of the erratic, loose cannon nature
of Donald Trump. And here's an example. He was on
Face the Nation CBS talking to Margaret Brennan, who's she's
She likes to kind of mix it up a little bit.
She likes to start the pot. She likes to try
to get like say, got like a you know kind
of I got him there right with with people, especially

(03:32):
conservative people. And Jade Vance knows this. He goes on
her show where he goes on Face the Nation and
talks to her. Anyway, couple of moments that I really
liked out of this I watched this. I like, is
it bad that I like watching this kind of thing, like,
you know, professional yet kind of venomous style journalism, like

(03:53):
trying to catch me in a thing, and the subject
the interview, weeek, kind of has to think on their feet,
kind of wriggle out of these little traps that are
being set by the journalist. Is it bad of me
to like that style of journalism even if it does
kind of go against the general consensus of the people
I like to agree with and support.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
It's got gotcha journalism? Is that why people call it?

Speaker 1 (04:16):
They kind of do? I don't think it's gotcha as
much as just like I'm gonna make this more of
a labyrinth for you to navigate, incent of kind of
a straight line road.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
Yeah, which is you know, and she feels she must
feel like she's in a distinct position of power to
be able to put the interviewee in that position. Yeah,
you know. I mean, because if that's your strategy, writ large,
how are you going to keep getting interviews? You know,
if people walk into your interviewing room and and you know,
and they know it's a trap.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
You know two things on this front. Number One, she
works for a major news network, which you want to
have access to if you're an interviewee of any kind, right,
you're in at powerful enough position. Number Two, I would
bet when the cameras go off, they shake hands and
have a smile and maybe go off coffee. I don't
want anybody to like quote me on that, but I'm
not like, like again, I go back to the hikem

(05:06):
Jeffreyes Mike Johnson hugging each other at the time, like
when Mike Johnson was introduced as and he Speaker of
the House. It's like these people still in a lot
of ways, probably hang out and talk to each other
just about random stuff, more than we think they do.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
I don't know if they go out for coffee.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
Yeah, let's see you. And I don't want to say anyway.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
Jd.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
Vance get a load of this when he's talking about
safety in America, safety with trying to detain people who
are in this country illegally.

Speaker 4 (05:35):
When you talk to us in August, you said, I
don't think we should abandon anybody who's been properly vetted
and helped us. Do you stand by that, well.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
Morhard, I don't agree that all these immigrants or all
these refugees have been properly vetted. In fact, we know
that there are cases of people who allegedly were properly vetted,
and then we're literally planning terrorist attacks in our country
that happened during the campaign, if you may remember. So clearly,
not all of these foreignats, no, but there are thirty.

Speaker 4 (06:00):
In the pipeline Afghan refuge But my primary comment as
the vice president, Margaret, is to look after the American people.

Speaker 3 (06:07):
And now that we know that we have vetting problems
with a lot of these refugee programs, we absolutely cannot
unleash thousands of unvetted people into our countries.

Speaker 4 (06:17):
People are These people are vetted.

Speaker 3 (06:19):
Just like the guy who planned a terrorist attack at
Oklahoma a few months ago. He was allegedly properly vetted,
and many people in the media and the Democratic Party
said that he was properly vetted. Clearly he was it.
I don't want my children to share a neighborhood with
people who are not properly vetted. And because I don't
want it for my kids, I'm not going to force
any other American citizens kids to do that either.

Speaker 4 (06:39):
No, and that was a very particular case. It wasn't
clear if he was radicalized when he got here or
while he was living.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
I don't really care, Margaret.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
I don't want that person in my country, and I
think most Americans agree with me.

Speaker 4 (06:49):
We'll be back in one minute with more of our
interview with Vice President Banks.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
Yeah, we will, because I got more coming up on that.
But you want to know something else, Bud. She's just
the right amount of combat there to get him to
say the line that everybody took from this new meme disdropped.
I don't really care, Margaret, apply that to anything you want,
ladies and gentlemen, because it's there, and he's right. If
you're in that scenario where we I go back to

(07:16):
the snakes in the bag, you know, there are a
lot of snakes that aren't gonna do a whole lot.
I could give you a bag and there'll be a
bunch of you know, just simple corn snakes and maybe
even little silk snakes and milk snakes and rat snakes
that aren't generally going to try to bite your hand off.

(07:36):
And even if they did, yeah, my sting, but you're
not gonna die. But I'm gonna put one cobra in there.
I'm gonna put one cobra in there that with one
bite you could be to the hospital or maybe dead.
Put in your hand in the bag.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
No, why would I what's the incentive? You're gonna give
us the money?

Speaker 1 (07:52):
Yeah, there's money involved, sure, Yeah, yeah, yeah, Like, but
I'll just present you the bag. It's just like, hey,
I got fifty fifteen stakes in the bag. Fourteen of
them are non venomous, one of them is venomous, And
if you put your hand in the bag and pull
out a snake, then I'll give you a thousand bucks.
Are you pulling out like you're probably under no circumstance

(08:13):
reaching your hand in that bag.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
I would think so.

Speaker 1 (08:15):
And that's kind of the analogy that I use here
when you have people in the country that we just
don't know who their background is or what they're capable of,
and you don't want to have people roaming the streets
completely undocumented, already having violated the law by coming in
here illegally and having the incentive or also the thought

(08:35):
process to perpetrate other crimes, which we know there are
people that have done. This isn't a blanket statement on
all immigrants or all illegal immigrants, but it is a
thing that is happening in the United States, which is
why the Lake and Ridley Act needed to be a
thing in the first place. How that wasn't a rule already.
I just can't understand. I got more Jada Vance and
Margaret Brennan from Face the Nation over the weekend coming

(08:57):
up on news Radio eleven ten kfab Matt. If you
ever get radicalized and want to you know, uh uh
usurp this radio show somehow, like I would one do that,
you would just like mess up on purpose. I guess, oh,
you know what, I you know what I saw at
a hardware store this weekend. It's a little portable thing
that you can turn any door into a locked door,

(09:19):
even if it doesn't lock. Is that right? Yeah, well,
I would want you out of this room if you
were going to try to lock us in here.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
Well, if I was.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
You just asked me what I would do if I
became radicalized. I don't know something like that. You would
just lock a door and nobody could get into it.
I guess I don't know. That'd be so evil, especially
this room.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
I wouldn't do it, though I'm a nice guy.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
Yeah. Well, what I'm saying is if you did that,
I would want you out of this building. That's the
analogy that I'm using that if we know that you're radicalized,
whether it was here or somewhere else, I don't really care, Margaret.
I don't want that person in my country if they
propose a threat to the citizens of the United States
of America. Now this one about how about the economy,
Because of course people are wondering about prices going down,

(09:58):
So Margaret had to ask about the prices going down
for our groceries.

Speaker 4 (10:05):
You campaign on lowering prices for consumers. We've seen all
of these executive orders, which one lowers prices.

Speaker 3 (10:12):
We have done a lot and there have been a
number of executive orders that have caused already jobs to
start coming back into our country, which is a core
part of lowering prices. More capital investment, more job creation
in our economy is one of the things that's going
to drive down prices for all consumers, but also raise
wages so that people can afford to buy the things

(10:32):
that they need. If you look at our of executive orders,
no Margaret prices are going to come down, but it's
going to take a little bit of time. Right, the
president has been president for all of five days. I
think that in those five days he's accomplished more than
Joe Biden did in four years. It's been an incredible
breakneck pace of activity.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
We're going to work with Congress.

Speaker 3 (10:53):
We're of course going to have more executive orders, and
we're going to try the way that your lower prices
is the you and courage more capital investment into our country.

Speaker 1 (11:03):
All right, So that's a JD and makes sense to me.
I don't know how fast anybody thinks this is, but
we knew when he got elected. The first thing that
we're gonna do is say, well, why is gas still
this expensive? Why is egg still this expensive? Why does
milk still cost this much? I feel like this is

(11:23):
something that should take a little bit of time to
you know, correct over time. If it does get corrected. Now,
if we've revised this conversation in six months and we're
not noticing much of a difference, and we have all
this tariff talk and we'll get to Colombia and all
the stuff that happened over the weekend with Columbia here
momentarily like to me, in a perfect world, you're gonna

(11:46):
be staring at noticeably lower prices across the board. If
in six months that's not happening, then yeah, let's ask
some questions. How do we get there? Look, what is
it going to take for us to get there? And
I think that's important for us. I don't really know
how much groceries cost all that much? You know why,
because I don't buy groceries all the time.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
You know.

Speaker 1 (12:08):
It's just like, I'm have you ever been that guy?
You're you're that guy in your house where you know
his wife's like about to cook something that's like, hey,
we need this, this and this, and then you run
at the grocery store and grab this, this, and this.
I'm not like actively paying for the same things over
and over again. My wife generally does a lot of
grocery shopping where we just get them delivered. I don't
even know what's going on, but what I do know

(12:30):
is it takes time to adjust the prices for anything
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