Inside Scoop with Breitbart News - Joel Pollak

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And TATO five Here at fifty fiveKRC Detalk station State in the obvious,

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it's Tuesday. Ryan Thomas is tothe fifty five Karrasee Morning Show. Always
looking forward to this time because weget to talk with breit Bart, We
get the insights goop with breit BartNews, b r E I, t
BA, art dot com, bookmarket. You'll be glad you did because
you get to read things like JoelPollock, Senior editor at Large and in
house counsel at Breitbart. He hasgot a storied career as a lawyer.
He was a research FELLO at theHudson Institute focusing on human rights and international

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law. I just done all kindsof things throughout his career. Does have
a law degree, bachelor's degree fromHarvard University and a master's from University of
Cape Down. And he is anauthor. Book going to be released August
twentieth least according to Amazon. Welcomeback to the fifty five KRSEE Morning Show.
Joel Paullock, author of agenda WhatTrump Should Do in his First one

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hundred Days. Good to have youback on the show, Joe Show,
Joe, thanks for having me.Optimism expressed in the title of your book,
Well, you know it can't froma place of frustration. When Trump
was convicted in New York unjustly forthe supposed falsification of business records, it

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was a bocus charge that should neverhave been brought. I sat there in
frustration, and you know, it'snot a place I like to be in.
I don't like to feel frustrated.I don't like to feel depressed or
dark about anything. And I thought, well, let's just look forward into
the future, and let's think positive. Let's put one foot in front of

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the other. And let's presume thatTrump is going to be president because of
this and because of other things,but because the American people won't tolerate this
abuse of the justice system. Andlet's imagine what it is going to be
like when President Trump takes office onJanuary twentieth. And I wrote the agenda

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because I wanted to come up withthings that Trump could do in a variety
of policy areas, that he coulddo on his own that he would not
need Congress to do. Number one, because the Democrats might control the House
of Representatives. Although it's less likelytoday than it was six weeks ago when
I got helped with the idea forthis book. But if the Democrats control

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part or all of Congress, they'renot going to help him. And if
the Republicans control part or all ofCongress, they're not going to help him
either. I mean, what happened, what happened in twenty seventeen when Paul
Ryan, who I admired, actuallyran the House of Represents. They weren't
Trump, They didn't have plans torepeal and replacement care in an effective way.

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They didn't really expect him to becomepresidents so they had nothing ready.
And there were people within the RepublicanCaucus, never Trumpers and so forth,
who weren't going to help him.So I sat down to write the agenda
to say, what can Trump dowithin the Constitution, within his existing executive
powers to set the country on theright path. And I came up with
about two and twenty four executive ordersand actions that President Donald Trump could do

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literally on his first day in officehe gets there, he can do these
things. And that's what the agendais about. And I set out all
kinds of different areas, from theborder to foreign policy, even to managing
the country's debt, tackling the debt. You know, that's not something anyone
wants to talk about. I sawthe GOP platform came out and yeah,

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Trump summarized it on social media.You don't really hear about the debt,
no, yeah, sadly. Andyou saw, I'm sure the CBO report
which showed that we are on ahighway to hell in terms of our spending,
with two trillion plus every single yearinto the foreseeable future. I mean,
I mean, the term existential threathas been thrown around so many times
it seems meaningless now. But ifwe are really to have any existential threat

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to our country, it's our spendingproblem. It's just gone off the rails
Joel, It really has, andit's a slow rolling disaster. I don't
think people realize how bad it isto have high interest rates for so long
because people, businesses, and thegovernment have to refinance the debt, and

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we're having to do so at higherand higher rates. That means we're having
to pay more and more and it'sgoing to eat into household budgets, business
budgets. That's why you're seeing peopletell pollsters that the economy is bad.
The Biden people and the media peoplesay, well, unemployment is low.
How can they be so pessimistic aboutthe economy. It must be because the
Biden people aren't communicating, or maybethere's media bias against Joe Biden, which

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is laughable. But the reality isthat these high interest rates over a long
period of time, which are theindirect results of Joe Biden's spending as soon
as he came into office, becauseof course, he kicked off the inflation.
Donald Trump left office with less thantwo percent inflation. Biden immediately jack
up inflation by spending. Those highinterest rates are killing American prosperity, and

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they're hurting optimist and they may resultin Biden losing the election. Trump can't
raise or lower the interest rate,but he can do a lot just as
the chief executive of the country totackle the debt. Now, whether Republicans
adopt these ideas or not, youknow, this is not an agenda that
I coordinated with the Trump campaign inany way. I didn't check to see

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what Trump was saying. I knowgenerally and in quite great depth actually about
Trump's own policies and priorities. Ididn't propose things in the agenda that I
knew Trump would oppose, but Idid propose some things that I haven't seen
Republicans oppose or proposed yet, excuseme. So I've got some ideas in

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here I think people will find veryinteresting. And it comes out in the
midst of the Democratic National Convention inChicago. By the way, it's hilarious
to me still that they're holding itin Chicago with I know, such a
great example of failed governance by theDemocratic Party. Bad karma is still looming
from nineteen sixty eight then Chicago,and they just had a banner weekend in

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terms of murders. The number keepsgoing up, but as of this morning,
I think it was one hundred andnine or one hundred and ten people
that were shot between the fourth andSunday Long holiday weekend. There so not
exactly a mile of success of Democratpolicies, right, But the agenda basically
takes you out of it every dayof politics and takes you forward to January

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twentieth, twenty twenty five, andit says, what does a Trump administration
look like on day one? Nowyou know that Democrats are going to challenge
anything Trump does in court. Andwhat I've done here is I've said,
look, there are two hundred andtwenty four actions you can take on day
one. They can challenge some ofthese, but to challenge over two hundred
actions is really going to be beyondthe scope of even the most deep pocketed

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Democratic lobbyists and interest groups. Youreally have to overwhelm the quote unquote resistance,
and you're going to have to doit early because Trump, if he
takes office on January twenty if,it's going to be a lame duck president,
so they say you can only serveone term, so he's got to
make an impact very quickly, andhe can't wait for permission from Congress and

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so forth. The other thing Iwould just note is Steve and Then,
my former boss at Breitbart, haswritten the foreword to this book. In
fact, it was the last thinghe wrote before he reported to prison a
week ago. So people who feeljust as outraged by that as I do
will also be interested to read thisbook, oh without question. And the
obviously you have sent advanced copies outwidely received by some of the more prominent

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conservative thinkers and praise, which isa wonderful thing, and I'm certain it's
a great read, which again isgoing to come out hardcover August twenty.
If you can get an advanced copy, go to fifty five carsee dot com.
Make sure you sign up get acopy of Joe Pollock's book, The
Agenda, What Trump should do inhis first one hundred days, going back
to the deficit, the debt,and the spending problem. I'm hearing a

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lot when maybe my listeners are screamingimperial presidency. Of course, we screamed
about Barack Obama wielding his executive pen, much to the chagrin of folks who
look at Congress and say, waita second, aren't these decisions supposed to
be made by Congress. Well,and we're all looking for expediency, and
sometimes we default with expediency when itmay be outside of the executive branches ability
to actually do something, but trythey will anyway, which goes back to

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your lawsuit comment. But power ofthe purse is Congress, and we have
a problem with a lot of people, even on the conservative side of the
ledger, that aren't willing to sayno when it comes to spending. Major
problems socis, security, medicare,Medicaid, all the biggest expenses in government,
and those are all scheduled to gounderwater within my lifetime, not that

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far down the road. No oneis willing to utter a syllable about pairing
back those programs, are reforming themin any way, Joel, how do
we respond to that? Well,in the agenda, I do actually talk
about things that can be done tohelp the entitlement programs survive and to deal
with the budgetary problems they correct.Only Congress can enact the necessary reforms.

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And Donald Trump has been adamant thathe's not going to mess with entitlements.
He's not going to cut Social Securityand so forth, and that's been a
very important part of his commitment tothe American people. He feels that those
who paid into the system should getexactly what they were promised, and that's

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an ironcloud promise from him. ButI do suggest some options that he can
enact. Just as the executive andyou talk about the imperial presidency, I
also care about keeping executive authority withinlimits. Nothing in the agenda that I
propose goes outside of those limits.I'm not telling the president to behave like

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Barack Obama did or like Joe Bidendid, But for example, the president
can tell the Department of Justice withinhis executive powers that for example, we
need an investigation of the January sixthCommittee. We need to have that investigated.
They destroyed evidence we know that theydid, and that's within the purview

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of the president. There are thingsthat can be done up to the boundaries
of executive power that are required bythe desperate times that we're in, and
that you need in that case,for example, to restore faith in the
rule of law. So I've gota lot of suggestions in here. You
mentioned entitlements, the debt, We'vegot the border, foreign policy, everything

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you can think of, and allof this can be done on day one
or in the first hundred days.And I think, you know, I
felt greatly unburdened by writing this book. I felt like I had done something
positive, and I think that's beenthe reaction of people who read it.
As you mentioned some of the peoplewho have seen advanced copies of it,
they felt excited by it because theyfelt like they were getting out of the

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daily grind of politics and they werelooking at it and think, there's a
lot that can be done. Rightif you elect Trump. You know,
we don't have to wait for thewheels of legislation to turn and that sort
of thing. We don't really havemuch faith in that anymore, but we
do have faith in the ability ofa well organized, focused executive to get
certain things done. So that's whatI'm trying to do. And I think

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people who have been in this bookalready understand and feel that the agenda they
actually look great. There even thingsthere about face how do you or faith?
How do you throw religious You know, you don't need Conger do that.
You can do a lot of thatexecutive well. And we have a
lot more optimism now given Biden's injust implosion during the debate and the aftermath,

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are still reeling from that, tryingto decide whether they're even going to
have Biden as the nominee. Ihonestly and just sort of interested in your
reaction on that, since this doesgive a lot of win to the Trump
sales down ballot races now may beimpacted by this for the better, much
more enthusiasm for Trump than than forBiden. And obviously that's not going to
that ship is not going to writeon the Biden side of the camp because

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he can't change his cognitive state.So with that in mind, what's your
take on the Democrats and what they'regoing to do on their side of the
legists. They're pulling their hair outright now, not knowing what to do.
It sounds to me like as ofyesterday, Biden's in it for the
long haul and Dan the torpedoes.I would not count Joe Biden out at

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all. In fact that in manyways, Donald Trump is still the underdog
because he's still up against media,still up against the new voting system that
the Democrats have put into place,by the way, our recommends in the
agenda about things that Trump can doabout that to restore integrity and public trust
in our election system. But fornow, the Democrats have the advantage within

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that system. The vote by mailmethod favors the Democratic Party's turnout and registration
model. So the reason there didlike this is that they don't feel the
same pressure that the Republicans might inthe same situation. Democrats have such an
advantage in how votes are cast andcounted that they feel they have some leeway.

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And I think they're still pretty thatthey can put the machinery together to
win in November. And I thinkthat they're going to find way deal by
problem, whether it's to say totheir voters. This is a team effort.
We have Biden on the ballot,but it's really about electing the team
behind them who shares your priority.You know, people will go for that,

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people who go for it, andthey're going to demonize Trump. Remember
he still has to be sentenced.It was supposed to be this week.
It's going to be next season.Really it's going to be in September,
but inver election. And they haveso many tricks still up their sleeve,
so we're going to see all ofthose things pulled out. The Democrats believe

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in power, that's what they believe. They are determined to hold onto it,
going to take this lying down andyou're seeing some disunity and so forth,
but as you pointed out, they'recoming together around Biden and they're going
to find a way to win.Democrats thought the excess Hollywood tape in October
twenty sixteen would destroy Trump, andit didn't because Republicans simply wanted to win.

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There's a chance that the Democratic Partybase watching all these pundits on television
may get so disgusted with the Washingtonjust as disgusted as Republicans have been for
quite some time, that they mayturn out to support Biden as a kind
of anti elitist vote. There's notelling what might happen. So I don't
think Republicans can get confident or cockyabout this. Focus people's minds and people

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something to fight for exactly, Remindpeople what the stakes are. Well,
I appreciate your tempering. What isa tremendous amount of enthusiasm on the Republican
side of the Ledger after the Bidenimplosion. So yeah, don't count your
chickens before their hatch. And Isuspect. Let me go out on a
limb here you got. You sentan a advance copy of the agenda What

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Trump Should Do in his First onehundred Days to Donald Trump. I hope
so anyway, Joel, Well,he will see it one way or the
other. Yeah, and people willbe quoting it to him. Joe Pallack,
we're out of time. Keep upthe great work. Get an advanced
copy. Go if you bi haveCassey dot com by blog page the Agenda

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What Trump Should Do in his Firstone hundred Days by my guest today,
Senior editor at Large from Breitbart,Joel Pollock. Joel, it's always a
pleasure. Keep up the great work, my friend. We'll talk again real
soon, I owe