FOR A WHOLE LOT OF AMERICANS. THANK YOU SO MUCH. >> John: FOR MORE ON THIS, LET’S BRING IN FORMER WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF MARK MEADOWS. WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE AMOUNT OF
SPENDING IN "THE FIRST 100 DAYS" SPENDING IN "THE FIRST 100 DAYS" AS WE ARE AT THE 100 RIGHT NOW, $6 TRILLION, THERE IS A NEW METRIC THAT EVERY SPENDING HAS TO BE $2 TRILLION BUT THE BIG QUESTION IS DO WE NEED ALL THIS SPENDING RIGHT NOW? THE ECONOMY SEEMS POSED FOR A HUGE UPTICK WHICH PRESIDENT TRUMP PREDICTED, THERE’S ALL THE SPENDING RISK THE ECONOMIC RECOVERY? >> OF COURSE IT DOES. WHEN YOU LOOK AT THIS, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE AMOUNT OF SPENDING THAT JOE BIDEN AND HIS DEMOCRAT LEFTIST AGENDA COLLEAGUES ARE PROPOSING, THIS IS ABOUT BUYING VOTES IN CERTAIN CITIES, THIS IS ABOUT $80 BILLION FOR AMTRAK AND OVER 50 YEARS HAS NEVER FIGURED OUT HOW TO ACTUALLY MAKE MONEY ON THE CONCESSION WHEN YOU HAVE A MONOPOLY WITH YOUR WRITERS. THEY CAN OPERATE EFFICIENTLY AND WE ARE GOING TO GIVE THEM THE HARDWORKING AMERICAN TAXPAYER DOLLARS? I DON’T THINK SO. WHEN YOU THINK THAT THEIR PLAN, THIS IS ALL ABOUT GETTING MAJOR DOLLARS TO A FEW CITIES AND THEIR TRANSPORTATION. I WAS ON THE TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE WHEN I WAS A MEMBER IN CONGRESS AND STARTING TO SEE A LEVEL OF SPENDING AND DRUNKEN SAILORS, OBVIOUSLY ARE MORE RESPONSIBLE THAN JOE BIDEN. >> John: USED TO SAY THAT WAS AN INSULT TO DRUNKEN SAILORS. THE STEPS THERE OF AIR FORCE ONE HEADED TO PHILADELPHIA, AMTRAK. THE PRESIDENT WAS ASKED ON NBC ABOUT THIS VERY TOPIC, WHETHER OR NOT THIS SPENDING WAS NEEDED OR IF IT WOULD ENDANGER IT AND HERE’S WHAT THE PRESIDENT SAID. >> THAT’S THE REASON WHY IT’S RECOVERING, BECAUSE WE ARE INVESTING. LOOK AT HOW RAPIDLY IT’S RECOVERED SINCE WE PAST THE LAST PIECE OF LEGISLATION, AND THAT LEGISLATION WAS $1.9 TRILLION IF WE DON’T INVEST IN THIS COUNTRY, WE ARE GOING TO ACTUALLY FALL BEHIND EVEN FURTHER. >> John: CONTRAST THAT WITH WHAT "THE WALL STREET JOURNAL" SAID IN AN EDITORIAL AND SAID "MR. BIDEN WANTS TO TAKE CREDIT FOR RESCUING AN ECONOMY INFLAMES. THE DEMOCRATS IN WASHINGTON HAVE BEEN DOUSING DEAD EMBERS FOR THE ECONOMY WAS POISED TO ACCELERATE AS VACCINES ROLLED OUT NO MATTER WHO WAS PRESIDENT." YOUR THOUGHTS. >> THIS IS ALL ABOUT JOE BIDEN TAKING CREDIT FOR A NUMBER OF THINGS THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP DID AND PUT IN PLACE BEFORE HE LEFT OFFICE GRADE IT’S AMAZING THAT JOE BIDEN CAN SOMEHOW TRY TO CONVINCE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HE’S DONE SOMETHING IN 100 DAYS WHEN 48 YEARS IN THE SENATE OBVIOUSLY DIDN’T RESULT IN WHAT WOULD BE ON A RESUME TO APPLAUD SO WHEN YOU LOOK AT THAT, WE DO KNOW THAT IT WILL HAVE A CHILLING EFFECT, THE MASSIVE SPENDING THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT WILL HAVE A CHILLING EFFECT. WHY? IT WILL GO TO PET PROJECTS, IT WILL CREATE INFLATIONARY RISK MY WHAT WE WILL SEE IS NOT JUST A ROBUST ECONOMY, BUT WE WILL SEE ONE THAT’S RETREATING THE OTHER WAY. LET US HAVE FISCAL RESTRAINT, LET US LET THE ECONOMY CONTINUE TO GROW JOBS LIKE IT WAS IN THE LAST QUARTER OF 2020 AND THE FIRST QUARTER OF 2021. >> John: CRITICS OF THIS SAY IT’S NOT JUST ABOUT SPENDING, IT’S ABOUT GROWING GOVERNMENT AND GROWING DEPENDENCE ON GOVERNMENT, THAT THIS IS SORT OF A CRADLE TO GRAVE APPROACH OF BIG GOVERNMENT AND BRIT HUME ARE SAYING THE OTHER NIGHT THAT EVEN IF REPUBLICANS WERE TO TAKE CONTROL OF ONE OR BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS THAT THE SPENDING ISN’T LIKELY TO GO AWAY ANYTIME SOON BECAUSE OF THIS REASON. LISTEN TO HIM HERE. >> REPUBLICANS CAN GET CONTROL OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE AND PASS BILLS TO REPEAL ALL THAT STUFF BUT THE PRESIDENT WILL BE ABLE TO PROTECT HIM WITH THE VETO SO IF YOU CAN PASS THEM, THOSE THINGS WILL BE WITH US A WHILE. >> John: HE DOES HAVE THE POWER OF THE VETO PEN. >> YOU WOULDN’T BE ABLE TO OVERRIDE IT AND THAT’S WHY THE CRITICAL DEFENSE IS REALLY WITH A FEW MODERATE DEMOCRATS IN THE HOUSE AND MORE BLUNTLY IN THE SENATE, THAT’S WHERE THE FIGHT HAS TO HAPPEN, HE’S EXACTLY RIGHT BUT HERE’S THE OTHER INTERESTING FACT IS IF YOU CONTINUE TO LOOK AT WHAT THEY ARE DOING WITH THEIR LEFTIST AGENDA, THIS IS NOT ABOUT JOBS IN AMERICA, JOE BIDEN DID MORE TO HURT JOBS WITH AN EXECUTIVE ORDER ON THE KEYSTONE PIPELINE THEN HE DID TO CREATE JOBS SO WHEN WE LOOK AT THIS MASSIVE SPENDING PROGRAM THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT, IT IS REALLY ABOUT TAKING MONEY FROM THE POCKETS OF HARDWORKING AMERICANS AND ALLOWING JOE BIDEN IN HIS ADMINISTRATION TO DOLE IT OUT TO THOSE THAT ARE WELL-CONNECTED. NEWS FLASH, JOE BIDEN HAS TAKEN HIS MASK OFF AND WILL NO LONGER WEAR IT. WHAT MASK? THE MODERATE MASK. HE IS NO LONGER MODERATE JOE, HE IS LEFT IS JOE AND HE HAS BOUGHT INTO THEIR PARTICULAR WAY OF DOING THINGS. >> John: KEEPS THE OTHER MASK ON AND EVEN THOUGH HE TOLD THEM THEY DON’T NEED TO WEAR IT. CHANGE TOPICS, RUDY GIULIANI WAS ON WITH TUCKER CARLSON LAST NIGHT, HIS FIRST INTERVIEW SINCE THE FBI RAIDED HIS HOME THE OTHER MORNING TO TAKE SOME ELECTRONIC DEVICES, THEY DIDN’T WANT ALL OF THE ELECTRONIC DEVICES ACCORDING TO HIM, LISTEN TO WHAT HE TOLD TUCKER. >> THE ONLY TIME THEY GOT DETERRED IS AT THE END OF THE SEARCH WHEN THEY HAD TAKEN SEVEN OR EIGHT ELECTRONIC ITEMS OF MINE, I SAID DON’T YOU WANT THESE? AND THEY SAID WHAT ARE THEY? I SAID THOSE ARE HUNTER BIDEN’S HARD DRIVE AND THEY SAID NO. >> John: I KNOW OVER THE COURSE OF THE LAST YEAR AT THE WHITE HOUSE, YOU AND RUDY GIULIANI PARTED WAYS IN A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT ISSUES BUT DO YOU THINK THIS IS POLITICALLY MOTIVATED AND THE FACT THAT THEY WANT TO LOOK AT RUDY GIULIANI AND NOT HUNTER BIDEN IS CURIOUS? >> OF COURSE IT IS. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HATE TO STANDARDS AND IF WE ARE GOING TO GO IN AND DO A SEARCH ON RUDY GIULIANI AND WILL WAIT TO SEE WHAT THE FACTS SAY THERE BUT I CAN TELL YOU I’M NOT AWARE OF ANY INAPPROPRIATE BEHAVIORS THAT HE CONDUCTED WHILE I WAS CHIEF OF STAFF AND YET WHAT WE ALSO SEE IS THEY WANT TO TURN A BLIND EYE TO WHAT WE KNOW IS OBVIOUSLY AT LEAST SOMETHING THAT SHOULD BE INVESTIGATED AS IT RELATES TO HUNTER BIDEN. IT’S KIND OF LIKE THE MOVIE CASABLANCA. YOU MEAN THERE’S GAMBLING GOING ON HERE? WHEN WE START TO SEE THIS, WE HAVE TO ACTUALLY MAKE SURE THERE IS ONE STANDARD, LADY JUSTICE SHOULD HAVE A BLINDFOLD ON AND SHE SHOULDN’T BE PEEKING OUT TO JUST GO AFTER REPUBLICANS, SHE SHOULD LOOK AT EVERYBODY EQUALLY. >> John: IT’S GOOD TO HAVE YOU ON THE SHOW TODAY FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE WE STARTED AMERICA REPORTS AND I MISS OUR OFF THE RECORD SESSIONS IN THE WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF’S OFFICE. >> LIKEWISE, GREAT TO BE WITH
