Passed the foreign aid bill.

0:01 Speaker 1 What is today Senator Ted abudd He is the Senator from North Carolina and he won Great American and wants America to survive A senator, good morning, how are you today?

0:15 Speaker 2 Good morning, great to be with you. Thanks for having me in.

0:17 Speaker 1 John tell Us, what do you think the biggest threats are to the United States right now? And you know, I’m worried. I’m sure you’re worried.

0:27 Speaker 3 Yeah, I’d say, you know, one of our greatest threats is actually our national debt and our spinning patterns. So that’s huge, but people don’t focus on that. But the main debt that people are worried about right now is our southern border and the threats that have come across.

0:42 Almost ten million people have come across undocumented. It’s an awful challenge. You’re feeling it here in the city, You’re feeling it in North Carolina. We have one hundred counties in North Carolina. I’ve talked with sheriffs all across the state and they said, every single county in North Carolina is now a border county because of Joe Biden’s policies.

0:59 I mean, you’re seeing in one rural county in North Carolina a sheriff doing a traffic stop finding enough fentanyl to kill everyone in the state of North Carolina.

1:09 Speaker 2 It’s it’s absolutely heartbreaking.

1:11 Speaker 1 I’ve heard that from Governor Youngkin’s wife, and it’s just it’s spread all over the place. You know, the fentanyl out of Chinese getting even for US for the opium wars from yesteryear.

1:30 Speaker 3 It would seem that if you open the aperture of history and you look back, you would think that they were doing that. But simply it’s an opportunity. I mean, they’re shipping the precursor ingredients to Mexico. It either gets then shipped into the US and as symboled or assembled to Mexico and managed by the cartels and trafficked by

1:46 the cartels, along with human trafficking, which was another huge business boon for the cartels. And about a third of the females that are being trafficked into the US have been sexually abused, and it’s just absolutely horrific. It’s ay, border in crime is kind of one package people are concerned about. The other would be inflation and prices and

2:05 a lot of that’s it’s regulatory. It’s international unrest that Joe Biden’s allowed to happen. It’s American weakness. These are all fixable things. We still have, We still have the guts of greatness to be an amazing country. But Joe Biden’s allowed tremendous weakness, which was really first seen in August of twenty twenty one with the failure in Afghanistan and.

2:26 Speaker 2 The precipitous withdrawal.

2:27 Speaker 3 That really opened the doors for all these international chaos incidents that we’re seeing right now, whether it’s October seven in Israel, whether it is Ukraine being invaded and justly by Russia, or whether it’s China saber rattling at Taiwan.

2:40 Speaker 2 All that is from Joe Biden’s weakness.

2:43 Speaker 1 And I guess it all started with even Saudi Arabia or ally forever had no zero respect for the White House or President Biden.

2:54 Speaker 2 No I’ve been over there.

2:55 Speaker 3 His strength is appreciated, particularly in the Middle East, and when you’re weak like this, it allows you to be run over. It allows them to look for other partners, whether it’s even having discussions with Iran, Russia and other potential partners.

3:09 Speaker 2 It’s absolutely horrific.

3:11 Speaker 1 Now, the big three things that I look at in the United States is the fetanoyl problem, the border control problem. And our schools, our schools and are under attack, our universities are under attack, and it’s horrible. I mean, where is the rule of law?

3:33 Speaker 3 Well, this is really part of the long March, it’s one hundred year march, starting with our educational institutions, and it really kind of operates on the spectrum of Marxism. So it’s a social Marxism now, but it’s about oppressor versus oppressed, and I think that’s a false economy. I think as America we’re very unique. We’re all in this together.

3:52 But once you start dividing people, whether it’s along racial lines or economic lines, you begin creating vulnerabilities that you can exploit.

4:00 Speaker 2 And that’s what the left’s doing right now.

4:03 Speaker 1 And we are shipping over a lot of money now to and it was say almost a bipartisan situation to the Ukraine to Israel. Uh, my personal feelings are, look, Putin is a bad guy or whatever, and we have to support Ukraine. But any is there any checks and balances under Ukraine? I mean, I hear so many bad

4:31 rumors about what the heck is going on there.

4:34 Speaker 3 One of the you know, the people in support of Ukraine will say, well, there’s sixty five or so in inspectors general over there that are tracking the money. But if you got sixty five, that’s you might as well have none. What you need is one inspector general. There’s been legislation that I supported, unfortunately didn’t pass, have one

4:49 inspector general that over saw anything going into Ukraine, which really would give confidence for the American people. I did a telephone town hall across North Carolina a few months back, and I said, if you we knew that our southern border was secure, would you be willing to support Ukraine.

5:03 Two thirds of the people said yes, And so I was not supportive of this recent package. I’m supportive of many of the elements in it. I’m not an isolationist. I think we need to be engaged on.

5:12 Speaker 2 All these fronts.

5:13 Speaker 3 But you got a deal right here at home first, and then out of that you deal with the rest of the world, and you need to have accountability when you do it.

5:20 Speaker 1 Senator, I agree with you one hundred percent. They should have taken here of our own borders at the same time. I mean, we’re worried about the Ukraine border. We’re worried about the Israeli border. Shouldn’t we worry about the United States.

5:32 Speaker 3 Border well in China against saber rattling, against Taiwan as well. There’s three border crisis internationally in one right here at home. If you think about it as four border crises together, then you have to start here at home.

5:44 Speaker 1 We got a minute left. Tell me, Senator, what would you like to get off your chest?

5:49 Speaker 3 Well, first of all, thank you again for having me. It’s great to be in the great city of New York. And I just want to tell you from as a North Carolinian, our concerns there are the concerns here, and that is about a and strength. It’s about the southern border, and it’s about the economy. We need a president, we

6:05 need a Senate, we need a House. And we got to get not only win, we got to win for a long time and we got to do what we said were going to do when we get there. And that’s what that’s the mission for Republicans. I think we’re gonna win the Senate. We got a lot of work

6:18 to do. I believe we can win the House. Mike Johnson was here recently. Glad to have him up here. He’s a great colleague of mine when I was in the House, but we got to win to save our country.

6:27 Speaker 1 Well, Senator Ted Budd, thank you so much for telling the American people and how you really feel. And I just hope there’s a change. November fifth, thanks for having me on Godless