. >>> let's turn to the markets and wring in mike lee -- bring in mike lee watching the markets for uske, just forget the fed meeting for a second, forget the fed meeting and interest rates. we've got a looming government shutdown, the united auto union workers strike, the hollywood strike, can does all these strikes and setbacks, does it have any impact on the markets overall at all? >> so the government shutdown, like, that affects a lot of donors, and, you know, the politicians getting their paychecks and paying back favorses, so they make a big deal about a it. not a huge deal for the economy. the most recent one was in 2019, merely a blip on the radar. hollywood's been on strike for a while now and no one's really noticed, but you can't understate the significance of this autoworkers' strike. the, throughout covid the lack of production of cars and the subsequent demand for cars was a key inflationary factor, and all of this has to do with the biden administration and their green nonsense. jeff flock just talked about ford losing $4.5 billion on electric vehicles. i've got an idea

"yes, it is you bald [ bleep ]." [ laughter ] in mike lee's case, it would be true because he campaignedating medicare and social security when he first ran for senate back in 2010. >> i'm here right now to tell you one thing. that you probably haven't ever heard from a politician. it will be my objective to phase out social security, to pull it up by the roots and get rid of it >> hear, hear. [ scattered applause ] >> people who advise me politically always tell me that's dangerous and i tell them, in that case, it's not worth my running. that's why i'm doing this, to get rid of that. medicare and medicaid are of the same sort. they need to be pulled up. >> seth: i mean, that's an insane thing to admit on camera in american politics have you ever been to a polling place? half the people in there on their way to cash a social security check [ light laughter ] "have i two errands. i guess it's going to be a nap day. it's almost as bad as complaining about the price of salsa for your crudite here's my reaction to finding out that mike lee caught on camera for eliminating social security [

senator mike lee on what happens to the funding bills once they reach the senate.the disrupter trying to blow up the gop unity the, take down the speaker and shut down government. florida congressman matt gaetz on his motives to disrupt the republican wins including investigating potential bribery from joe biden and a cover-up underway at the department of justice. >> have you had personal contact with anyone at fbi headquarters about the hunter biden investigation? >> uh, i don't recollect the answer to that question with, but fbi works for the justice department. >> i'm sorry, i'm sorry, you don't recollect, you don't recollect whether you've talked with anybody at fbi headquarters about an investigation of the president's son? >> i don't believe that i did. maria: no recollection from the attorney general. then, just three days away from the second gop debate and a new poll finds president trump leading president biden by a full 10 percentage points. will any of the candidates cut into president trump's faraway lead? republican presidentialing candidate lahr ily

[man] we also had mike lee objecting. this is how we make government programs work.on the bill and that was a real problem for responders, because, you know, in five, or six, or seven years, they'd be doing the whole thing all over again. so, they really didn't wanna have those amendments passed. [john] i think, uh, rand paul and mike lee are opportunists. they're bottom-feeders. this is the lower rung of senate leadership. um... on this vote, the yeas are 32, the nays are 66. the amendment is not agreed to. we beat rand paul and mike lee, and not only did we beat them, we bitch-slapped them. madam president, after this vote, the people in the gallery above us will not have to come here again. it should never have taken this long to pass this bill and make it permanent. but now, finally, we have the chance to get this job done for our 9/11 heroes once and for all. the question occurs on passage of the bill. [john] let the 9/11 community celebrate the work that they did. we used to be that little engine that could with that big engine that did. and you're going to see

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last cycle up mike lee strong conservative from utah had a tough race in utah. much mitch is super pack spent on that race? zero. and so there is a very direct retribution terms of stripping people from committees and in terms of money. that is one of the things that leads to so many senators being afraid of leadership. mark: and we come back cruz, is this the way to fight the democrat party? which is so off the rails, so rogue, so in my view on american in so many respects. is this the way to fight and win against the democrat party when the republican party in the ande senate conducts itself this way? we will be right back. the day you get your clearchoice dental implants makes every day... a "let's dig in" day... mm. ...a "chow down" day... a "take a big bite" day... a "perfectly delicious" day... - mm. [ chuckles ] - ...a "love my new teeth" day. because your clearchoice day is the day everything is back on the menu. a clearchoice day changes every day. schedule a free consultation. wolf: don't mind me. i'm just the flu. (coughing, sneezing) i'm quite harmle

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he did well as did my other gets, jim jordan, mike levine, mike lee and larry elder.em to care if the government shut down or not. this is the government who gave the irs bullets and the government which has been weaponized against american citizens. governments shut down all the time. in fact, mark levine told me in the eight years he worked for the reagan administration, the government shut down six times. so what. >> i think we ought to fight on all fronts. i think the border is very important. the best way to advance republican border policies is to pass the homeland security appropriations bills, along with veterans, defense, we'll have 73% of the discretionary budget funded. if the department of labor and education has to shut down as we get appropriations in line that's not something that is optimal but i think it's better than continuing on the current path we are to america's financial ruin. maria: yes, it may seem like chaos at the end of the day but lawmakers are trying to stop the democrats' wild spending which caused massive inflation. some have specific

last cycle up mike lee strong conservative from utah had a tough race in utah.h mitch is super pack spent on that race? zero. and so there is a very direct retribution terms of stripping people from committees and in terms of money. that is one of the things that leads to so many senators being afraid of leadership. mark: and we come back cruz, is this the way to fight the democrat party? which is so off the rails, so rogue, so in my view on american in so many respects. is this the way to fight and win against the democrat party when the republican party in the ande senate conducts itself this way? we will be right back. liberty mutual customized my car insurance and i saved hundreds. with the money i saved, i started a dog walking business. oh. [dog barks] no it's just a bunny! only pay for what you need. ♪liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty.♪ a man, his family, and his tractor, penny. these are the upshaws. and this is their playground. there's a story in every piece of land, run with us on a john deere tractor and start telling yours. ♪ the thought of getting

this is senator mike lee. listen. >> what happens is almost every member of congress is cut out of that process. the hundreds of millions of people and -- this process will continue. it's deadly deficit and debt ushering consequences. it will continue to devastate america until it no longer works. it will work as long as members vote for this. it's time for the american people to expect more. it's time to expect an actual process and for members of congress to have a say. it's not -- now my privilege to turn it over to kevin roberts, the president of the heritage foundation. >> we'll keep a close eye on that and let you know if there's further developments as they talk about funding the government and fiscal responsibility talk coming from senator mike lee there. we want to take you to this now. there's a live look over the search for this convicted killer now on the run for almost two weeks. police say that danilo calvavante says he stole a vehicle from a garage. they have no reason to believe that calvavante

exclusive interviews with chairman jim jordan, senator mike lee from utah, congressman matt gaetz of florida and 2024 presidential candidate larry elder all live sunday at 10 a.m. on fox. thank you so much for being with me. have a great rest of the weekend, and i'll see you again next time. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ jack: welcome to "barron's roundtable" where we get behind the headlines and prepare you for the week ahead. i'm jack otter. coming up, higher rates for longer, that's what the federal reserve signaled this week. i'll ask jack ablin what stocks investors ought to own. then, new obesity drugs have the numbers going down on the scale, but it could be making health insurance more expensive for all americans. and later, the sphere is here. we'll take a look at how you can make money off a brand new entertainment venue in las vegas. we begin, as always, with three things investors ought to be thinking about right now. stocks down sharply for the week on the latest news of the fed. investors are now looking ahead to next week's key economic data. then the housing market urn pressure. mortgage r

i would actually agree with mike lee, but see one thing is it shows the works of renewable energy has to happen. the energy requirements have through nbc energy required for the whole of which is back. these gall everything. so right now, due to government has between beast. so fossil fuels have to play a role. but i think the balancing we've got one thing we have to be very sure we have to protect our lives on c drive. it's going to global warming. we have to take care because the most, what i said before know is human body item deactivate balancing shift would be the chip is not going to be. that was not to wrap this out for myself. and the team who are busy, part old account residence facing out to buy instances the one of the most difficult things to do when you're consider and becoming a whistle blower is taking on a giant international conglomerate. they have armies of lawyers, they often times have infiltrated government. they can afford to ignore local laws and just pay fines on the rare occasions that they're caught violating the law or somebody's rights. and if an employee d

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and mike lee will do that from time to time until we get really those fires put out. right now, most areas in the green outside right now, we've got some good air quality up in saint rose in the north bay, the east bay. so that one area in the yellow there in oakland, we're looking at our center picking up some moderate amounts of fluid right now. but the south rpbay looking good. all the eas bay looking good, of course, along the coastline. you're looking good out there as well for tomorrow. the forecast to looking even better. i think we'll see more of that onshore push more that westerly component win and that will bring some nice fresh air off the ocean water. so good conditions expected from the north bay, the coast, the east bay and also the south bay. a pretty breezy out there right now. you can see the winds blowing over 20 miles an hour in spots. so you've got breezy conditions out there that helps to freshen up the atmosphere, too. as we see that breeze continue off the coastline. so we'll see more of that on the way and more fog and low clouds on the way to

i would actually agree with mike lee, but see one thing is yeah, sure, with the works of renewable energy has to have the energy to god must have between these, you know, due to the applied for a home of which is back these gall everything. so i know, due to government has between beast, so fossil fuels have to play a role. but i think the balancing because one thing we have to be very sure we have to protect our lives, all cheap. i may have gone to global warming. we have to take care of the most what i said before though is human body so i can get i get balancing shift would be the ship is not going to be in that box time for another visit to the direct impact studios with rick sanchez. next, the dark family history of some past u. s. presidents is the focus that day as an intriguing one. on it all begins across the take a fresh look around his life. kaleidoscopic isn't just a shifted reality distortion by power to division with no real opinions. fixtures designed to simplify will confuse who really wants a better wills, and is it just as a chosen few fractured images presented as 1st?

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are ready for in america first candidate, and a true conservative back in the senate, someone like mike leee of utah. rachel: i'm thinking about how mitt romney got elected, he's upstanding, nice family guy, but very obvious to me before he was elected that he was going to go this route. how did he get elected? just his name recognition? how do you plan to overcome that in order to win your self? >> he swooped in, he was not from utah, running 5 years ago, they were not familiar with the name. some hand in the 2002 picks out here, he relied on the name id but as we travel the state so many folks said fool me once, shame on you -- people were not -- we had polling data that reflected his navy at 30%, and we were able to meet that down. giving that alternative, talking about his record, reminding folks and the trillions more in spending, this inflation was crushing utah families so the message of america first for me, coming out, supporting a smaller government, stronger economy which has typified my career. folks have noticed that. they know me and we are excited to be the next senator from

i'm going to yield to the senator from utah, mike lee. sen. lee: we're $33 trillion in debt for one reason. we're doing it wrong. this is how we do it. this is how we spend in washington. we tie every single spending item to every other spending item and then members of congress are told, you've got to pass all of it in order to get any of it. you want to fund the troops, you want to fund social security, you want to fund this, that or the other, you have to fund everything else in between. with no opportunity for individual input. so, this comes about usually as we approach the end of a spending period, as we now are, on september 30 we'll run out of money at midnight. at some point in the days leading up to that, typically what will happen is this. small handful of appropriators will write something up with a push from the law firm of schumer, mcconnell, mccarthy and jeffries, and it will materialize. just, shazam, here you go, from out of nowhere. here it is. usually there's a few hours to go. you've got to pass this thing. and if you don't

utah senator mike lee praising that plan posting on x, the american people hate it when the firm tiesy we're 33 trillion dollars in debt i agree with rand paul funding for u.s. government should not be held hostage by efforts to send more money to ukraine. , however, lindsey graham slams the idea. >>s no who suggest we should pull the plug on ukraine, i will make sure to my dying day you own that decision, don't talk about ukraine in washington. go. if you're not willing to go, make your claims i don't understand that you need to go over there you need to sit down, go to poland talk to military commanders spend sometime on the ground in ukraine listen to their side of the story. >> kentucky senator rand paul ranking member senate homeland security committee, senator, i just heard what lindsey graham said, how much money totally has gone to ukraine, being so far? what has been the impact? have you been to ukraine? >> somebody needs to remind the senator that we don't have any money we are about 1.5 trillion dollars in debt for this year, over the last three months we've accumulated alm

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mike lee wouldn't have loved him too much, because he didn't endorse him in the last race. i think he's tired. again, saw him at the liz cheney event we did for her in northern virginia, and you can see it. he's tire ofd of fighting. he's a good man. good human being. i hate to see him leave the stage, but i get it. >> this conversation often centers around, sit trump? but it's a chicken and egg thing. is it trump or trump voter? >> it's both. it's a nasty cycle. >> he talked today about what else. is there a third party candidate? no label situation? he has saiding i lobby continuously that it would only elect trump. he's talk about no labels there. and part of it is because the trump voters, the people willing to vote for trump are not necessarily moveable in the way that you would expect. >> they're not persuadable by reason. they're not persuadable by facts. they try to exclude facts and evidence from their own mind. they turn off what they don't want to hear. the man stole classified documents. they don't want to believe that. so they just ignore it. they -- they -- it

basically, republicans like mike lee and ted cruz, and a bunch of other ones were angry about providing health care to more people. they were so intense on defunding obamacare that they shut the government down. at that, time i was working in the obama administration and i, thought we were dealing with the most unreasonable obstructionist bad faith actors that i would ever encounter in my career in washington. i've got to, say this fight right now about whether or not tough on the government has made 2013 seem kind of like the good old days. at least that 2013 shutdown was about something. it was a ridiculous policy -- and they were definitely, wrong but at least it was not policy disagreement, the hidden obamacare, and they wanted to and. it today, the most powerful members of this house republican congress, who are determining the agenda of that conference don't have any agenda at all. they literally cannot articulate what this is all about. their agenda is to seize the role of government altogether. their agenda is to burn it all down. that is the entire guiding principle of the most

the pentagon policy is a violation of the hide amendment senator mike lee pointed i see out saying congress makes laws not the department of defense. that's number one. number two we have a lot of generals and admirals in our military these days. it takes about a little more than four admirals and generals today to do what admirals and generals did in world war ii. that's how many people we have. so we have a bunch of pencil pushing people posing as admirals and generals who do nothing to add to combat readiness. that's the problem they have the time to talk about climate change and radical social policies. that's what's going on right now. >> trace: amazing i want to use your kind of legal expertise to get some clarity because biden changes the pentagon policy, right, to pay for abortion, and now it's suddenly critical to national security? >> right. they can't even give the number of service members who have sought to get an abortion under this policy. so they say that it's somehow critical for them, and yet they don't even know who's using it. this is a complete lack of respect for the c

senator mike lee, ron johnson, an effort to pass a two-week sea are without disaster relief, ukraine aid, and border security provisions. will that even fly for a full senate? i don't think so. that got struck down yesterday by democrats. now we're back to square is zero, essentially. that bill that the senate will take up today as a bipartisan one with ukraine. senate majority leader mcconnell had pushed for very much. we'll see if they can get it done ahead of the deadline, but you're right, it'll go nowhere in the. house it'll be dead on arrival. it's not palatable to house republicans. >> quickly, julie, before have to let you go, what kilometers tell you about this inevitable shutdown? i'm sure they're hearing from their constituents that it will have a direct impact on them as well. >> absolutely, and just a couple hours, republicans are going to come together. they're going to have a, median and they're going to see if they can pull another plan out of their back pocket to try to keep the government open. here's what speaker mccarthy had to say yesterday about yet another plan

mike lee probably would not have loved him too much, he didn't endorse him in the last race.tired, again, liz cheney event that we did for her in northern virginia. you know, you could see it. he's tired of fighting. and he's a good man. like you said, he's a good human being. i like him a lot, i hate to see him leave the stage. but i get it. >> this conversation often centers around is a trump? but it's kind of a chicken and egg thing. is it, trumpers it trump voters. or is it both. >> it's a nasty cycle. >> can i add one other factor this, he talked a little bit today about what else? what another option, a third party candidate? is it the kind of know label situation? he has said, i love you continuously, it would only elect trump. he's talking about no labels there. part of that is because the trump voters, people willing to vote for trump, are not necessarily movable in the way that you would expect. >> they're not persuadable by reason. don't persuadable by facts. they try to exclude facts and evidence from their own mind. they turn off what they don't want to hear. the

mike lee was the only one to chain himself in voting against him.cking his promotion for absolutely no reason at all. general smith wasn't worried about himself in this delay. he actually said last week, quote, i make plenty of money. now, as marine corps commandant, general smith is going to make $212,000 a year. there is no member of the united states senate who thinks that that's a lot of money. almost all of them are much, much richer than that level of income. general eric smith has skills that could earn him millions of dollars in corporate america. but he's happy with his paycheck as a general. a paycheck that was, in effect, cut by tommy tuberville's nonsense and cruelty in delaying the pay raise that general smith will now get. towson's of people continue to be financially hurt by tommy tuberville every day, right now, tonight. over 300 officers and their families, including their children and their spouses, are all living on lower paychecks then they would be if tommy tuberville were still a football coach instead of the most disgraceful s

briefing on the american airstrike that started this whole thing, and one prominent republican, senator mike leerom utah did not like the explanation he was given. he said it was the worst military briefing he's ever been a part of. that's not exactly what fox news wanted to hear from him. >> i find this insulting and demeaning. not personally, but to the office that each of the 100 senators in this building happens to hold. i find it insulting, and i find it demeaning to the constitution of the united states to which we've all sworn an oath. when we send our brave soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines -- >> we're continuing to monitor this. every senator is coming out now and giving their take on all of this. >> jimmy: la, la, la, la, we'll be back with someone who agrees with everything the president does. [ laughter ] today was a special day for celebrity birthdays, and to ring them in, i'm going to turn you over to a special guest. the gang from abc's "good morning east texas." >> time for birthday club. in celebrity birthdays, bob ewe ranks is 82. noah cyrus is turning 20. and north korean

10 people changes to 2 people in washington when we go out there and behalf of the city go this mike leeemember he's a member. the board of supervisors. i was a member of the board of supervisors to 2 very important job. and whether that's true or not, she make you feel warm and very welcome and it was it was great to talk with her. but, you know, and there's a lot of trust there remember that there's one time when we're working on the restoration of city hall after the loma prieta earthquake and our going to talk to diane, who was also in the appropriations committee and i got a call from a friend of mine and also who said they're going to go to her and they're going to lowball city hall and they're going to go around your boss and trying die. so i really got on the we called diana. we got her in her car. we told it was going to happen. and she said nobody, low are turning the and so, you know, she later few a few months later on june 20 million dollars came to restore city alverson the couple million that was a reason. operate. but under forget they come and the best woman. >> you also

mike lee, what effect has the auto workers ' strike had on investments?on, it's going to be a drag on the entire economy x. if not only is it going to be a drag on the entire economy, it's going to raise the prices of cars which will reaffect the -- affect the inflation numbers. david: and oil. a lot of concern about oil, but it seems to have lost its that trajectory to the upside recently, now trading below $90 a barrel. is it going to stay there? >> look, i'd say the path of least resistance for oil is much higher, and as -- if the price were to drop, you'd expect the saudis and the russians to continue cutting production so that we have inflated oil prices. i think the story with oil is that that hasn't really been felt in the inflation data yet, and it soon will be. david: now, rates, you don't think rates are going to start going down at all until we have an economic downturn, and you think that might be coming sooner rath rather than later, right? >> yeah, look, i think, you know, the notion of a soft landing is about as real riskic -- realistic abo

marjorie taylor greene, mike lee, ron johnson, speaker mccarthy.t trump had back in the scheme in 2019. resulting in the first impeachment. but they are carrying water. they are the ones playing towards some sort of miraculous negotiation with russia. handing russia a win. trying to, frankly, undermine u.s. security by undermining one of our closest allies. an ally that is carrying the war and destroying a military that would threaten to destroy us if they had the capacity to do so. so what's amazing is that there's just an enormous amount of continuity between those historical moments, resulting in the first impeachment, and now the capture of the republican party, that is doing the same work for donald trump. >> i was in kyiv with your brother on the anniversary of the war. you and i were in kyiv shortly thereafter. i don't think any of us knew or thought that this war would be going on at this point. certainly not expecting it to go to two years. remember, this was a war that russia experts and western experts thought would be over in a matter o