And id like to see the president address anything related to gaza and palestine. Its very important right now. It just is ignorance of people not talking about it and choosing to look at it in one way. Watch the sta of the ■union address live thursday at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan, cspan now, our free mobile video app, or online at cspan. Org. Host welcome back to washingto by jenny best martin of the tea party. Guest thank for you having me. Host tell us about your organization and how youre funded. Guest we are Tea Party Patriots action and we have a super p. A. C. , tea Party Citizens superfund and in our p. A. C. We endorsed donald trump asded, wee funded by mostly small donors but we also have a few larger donors now. When we first started we were exclusively funded by small donors. We are 15 years old. ■ our tea party in 2009. Host why did you start the organization . Guest had the stimulus bill passing. In january the end of january and february of 2009 on top of tarp and the fannie mae bailout that happened in 2008. And if you recall, during the president ial election in 2008, john mccain suspended his campaign to go the exact same way that then senator obama did on the tarp bill and people were very frustrated by that. Where i live, i actually at the time was the Campaign Chairman for mccain in my area and people would cut the bumper stickers off and just put palin on their car and it moved after President Trump became president. And from the there was a rant and said our family fathers would be turning over in their graves and we needed a Tea Party Like our Founding Fathers did and it wasl spending. And we decided and heard that rant and we decided we were going to have a Tea Party Like our Founding Fathers did. Ke ours did. Lahey who now has a star on the Star News Network organized a conference ca organized a Conference Call. About 24 of us were sober on that first Conference Call on that first Conference Call on hookily Patrick Leahy michael Patrick Leahy had a Conference Call and we had 48 tea parties with 38,000 people in attendance and six weeks later on tax day we had over 850 tax day tea parties with more than a Million People in attendance across the country. Te country. Host its talk about the election, today is super tuesday. I know your organization has endorsed donald trump. Do you want nikki haley to drop out of the race at this point . Guest yeah, i think it is cleag to be the nominee and this time for us to focus on the differences between what trump things are u the vs. What biden thinks are the solutions to the go ahead and begin having that larger debate which we will be having throughout the year heading into the general election and it is time for us to focus on that. Host what to do not like about nikki haleys platform . Guest it was much less about what i did not like about nikki haley and much more about what our supporters like about what President Trump proved that he was president. We had an amazing economy, the standard of living was better for everyone across the country. We were in energy exporter, we were not dependent on foreign energy, the border was secure, and crime was under control across the country. And that is not what is happening right now. And whate face, in most elections what you normally face is either to people whhave office or an incumbent president running against someone who has never been president , so you have a proven trac vs. , in theory, what the other person can do. What we are actually going to have this year is the proven track record of two people who have been president. Its not theoretical, we know what america look likele presidw what we are experiencing as bidens president and our organization we endorsed based on whaou supporters want, and they wanted trump and they know what he is able to deliver and they want those kind of results again for america. Host if you like to join the conversation, ask a question, make a comment for our guest, you n on our lines by party. Democrats, 202 7488000. Republicans, 202 7488001. Independents, 202 7488002. Thehill. Com has the article of your organization endorsing with the headline conservative Group Endorses trump. You are quoted in that article by saying this our grassroots understanding that the american experiment is at risk and the man most able to save it is donald trump. Can you elaborate on why you believe that the american experiment is at risk . Hen we look at what is happening with the open border, when we look at what is happening with a government that sensors so many people, when we look at how we have had a twotiered system of government where one set of rules seems to apply to trump and his supporters and a different set of rules supporters, theres jua lot at risk. Then you add onto that the National Debt, we are almost 35 trillion in debt, and there is just so much at ste right now for erica. I think that when you talk to people across the entire country, they feel like america is on the wrong track. The real clear politics average for right trackwrong track has it at 23. 6 . It is almost 24 to 66. 7 were 66. 8 , 24 for the country is on the right track, 67 think the country is on the wrong track. Americans said something is wrong, something is not working with the country, and we have to get it right because if we dont get it right, the future of andn experiment is at stake itself. Host you mentioned the National Debt. One of your organizations is a debtfree future. Nikki haley points out as she has pointed out many times that former President Trump added 8 trillion to the National Debt. Guest he did add to the National Debt and some of that was due to covid spending. I think that america never sh the first place, we were one of the first organizations calling for the country to be open, calling for schools to reopen and helping organize doctors who were trying to reduce fear and help alleviate the fear that was paralyzing the country because of covid. What we also saw under President Trump is that the economy actually grew. And it is something that, as an adult, iid live through president reagan being president as an adult. I was a kid and a teenager when he was president , so i never really understood what happens when the economy really grows. But when the economy really grows than the pie is much bigger so you get a slice of the pie. Even if youre getting the same percentage, it is a much bigger slice because the pie is so much rigor. The econso if youre going to he government spending, and it seems that what weve got in the country right now in both parties, the Republican Party and Democrat Party desire to spend a lot of money, youve got to have the economy that is big enough that it actually can pay down the debt and grow the economy and address the problem. So we can address the problems by reducing spending, which is what our organization typically calls for. We think that spending needs to be cut. The other way to handle it is to grow the economy so that you have more money to be able to apply to pay down the debt. Either way, we do have to g to t where weve got a balanced budget again. The debt is out of control, we are about to have another spending bill that is going to spend more and more money. Republicans and democrats both vote for this. I just know that that is not the right thing for the country and we have to be responsible. Host in addition to cutting spending and growing the economy there is also growing revenue which is increasing taxes. Guest decreasg taxes and growing revenue. So you decrease taxes, you still have more revenue because you have increased economy. When you have people making more ney, even if they are paying a slightly smaller percentage in taxes, they may wind up paying use they have actually increased their own wealth. Host got it. Russell is up first on the line for democrats in south carolina. Caller it seems like if you were really interested in the economy because biden actually f revenue that the government is putting in. You also stated that the economy is not doing well. Not only is america pumping more gas than theyve ever done in the history of america, but the economy is at an alltime high. It is amazing how republicans continue to paint in america that is so downtrodden. Republican states lead america when it comes to climate change. He would never hear that from the president , you would never hear that from the Tea Party Patriots. And the economy that trump inherited from obama is why the economy was doing great. It didnt have anything to do with trump and it is amazing that you guys continue to support someone who has sexual assault, someone who almost destroyed america and someone who was inviting next week to a conference who is a dictator and actually destroys his government and he wants us to do the same to america. Comments . Host a lot there, what would you like to pick up . Guest thank you for calling in. I think that it is very important to understand that one of the biggest things that we are concerned about right now is the border. The border is wide open. It is creating a situation where there is more crime in the country and it is harming americans. And we can take a look a chicchicago is certainly not a conservative area of the country, and yet voters in chicago and people in chicago understand their Government Services are being impacted, their schools are being impacted, the quality of education that kids are getting is being negatively impacted, and in some cases they closed schools and told kids to go back to being do not think needs to happen and we are again one of the first organizations calling for schools to reopen while they use the School Buildings to accommodate the people who are here in this country illegally. So that is one of the big things that we are focused on. And you mentioned several Different Things on. Host he also mentioned the argument that trump just inherited a really good economy from obama. Guest if we look at what happened after the trump tax cuts passed, the economy grew, unemployment was at historic lows across every single demographic including for africanamericans, for women, every single demographic. It was at historic lows. People have the ability to go and get jobs that they wanted and if they werent getting the kind of jobs they wanted, they were able to go and negotiate either a better salary or get another job, so it works very well for americans across the country. The economy grew and flourished under trump until the world stopped with covid. One of the other things that you said■ is that things were workig under the biden economy. I hear democrats who say that and yet the fact of the matter is americans aren this economically in their own personal situations that they are better off right■wears ago. So while you can look at statistics, you also have to look at is it better for the average American Family . And right now americans simply dont think that it is. And we know that because we can go back and look at the polls and 67 of americans think that america is on the wrong track. Host publican line, colorado, good morning. Caller yes, my comment is really toward the issue that isnt it true and i ask all of my fellow republicans to recognize that the money that has been put on the table by this organization regarding the ira is in fact stimulating the economy to the point where we have historic low unemployment . And also, isnt it true that if we go back and look at the 21st century, the Clinton Administration h which the Bush Administration turned into a 4 trillion deficit and obama came in with two had to move to printing money at the fed. That and added 16 trillion to the deficit, trump piled on another a trillion dollars to that and then biden in four years has brought it to a total of 34 trillion deficit. I point out at the end of last century we had a surplus. So i know it is the tean is cane recognize that right now, the stimulus is g provided, 2. 5 trillion is actually putting the majority of the country back to work. I think we have historic lows of about 2. 3 unemployment. Thank you. Guest the problem right now with the stimulus is it is causing inflation. So the cost of everything that we purchased is more now than it should be. That goes for whether we are buying groceries, something that costs the same amount as the amount that youre getting the package as a smaller package. You can look at the price of cars, you can look at home prices right now, and also the Interest Rate with home prices. The economy is sluggish, people feel lik they are rather stuck with ar right now and they want to have a change in that. I think that is one of the big problems with printing so much money. You are right that at the turnofthecentury, while Newt Gingrich was speaker and clinton was president , we got to a balanced budget, we had a surplus and we havn through tha. The debt is completely out of control and that is the fault of both republicans and democrats. Host lets go to george on the independent line. Caller border. Trump congress with the border bill . He immunity decision. And then three, inflation in my view is not being caused by the administration, it is being caused by corporations who are price gouging americans. At one point they were saying supply and demand was baed up because of covid that has long since been over. They havent brought their prices down. Thank you. Guest hello fellow georgian, thanks for calling in. As far as what you call price prices have gone up. I think that covid still plays into it. Places across the country, for instance, hotels that were completely empty for months and i notice when i am booking hotels i have to travel a lot for work, the cost of hotels right now is just out of control. It is so expensive. Think part of that is because they are trying to go back and make up for lost revenue from the time the world shut down and they did have at all coming and or very little revenue coming in. I still traveled when covid was happening and sometimes i would be one of the only customers in the entire hotel and the cost of the room for nice hotels was very, very low. Now it is way higher and i think some of that is because his nieces right now are trying e tt and get leveled back out. And also when you print money and there is more money in the pply and more money is going around, supply and demand makes it where prices wind up going up, and that is one of the laws of economics. You asked about immunity with the Supreme Court. Im not an attorney, it will be very interesting to see what happens with that case. What i do know is that president s have to be able to act and to know that they are able to act as president s and make decisions as president s without fear of being sued when they get out of office or fear of being arrested when they get out of office. We are very close in this country right now to being at a point where president s are afraid to make any kind of decision because they are going to be afraid postpresidency they could be sued, arrested, the next administration could target them, there could be a twotiered system of government. Weve never had that before now in america. It is a very dangerous precedent that we are setting, that the Biden Administration is setting and it will be very harmful if it continues for future president s. Justyc think about a future president whether it is a republican or democrat, liberal or conservative, it is not good no matter who that president the happening right now to happen to a future president who is acting in his capacity as president. I forgot the first thing. 0 host they were talking about the bipartisan border bill that was killed in the senate. Guest e the border, and it wouldve codified a lot of the things that are happening in the water right now that are part of the problem. Hr2 from the house would have solve problems but senator schumer has not brought hr2 up whether we passed a new law or not, President Biden has the ability right now to secure the border. He inherited a secure border and through executive action he changed several things that he could change back through executive action. 42, not tearing down the wall. Reinstating remain in mexico and also ending catch and release so if somebody comes into the country claiming asylum, rather than releasing them further into the country, you could keep them and detain them which is what should be happening. I am in cherokee county, geora. Lake and rileys funeral s here in cherokee different highl and my children and i dont know her, i dont know her family, i did not know her, but she is a year older than my twins, she went to the same Elementary School as my twins and have the same first grade teachs her deas horrific murder committed illegally and also committed other crimes while he was in this country. Country in the first place. Unfortunately, her family now is what is known as an angel family. These are families who are impacted by the death of a loved one due to crime from Illegal Immigrants and every single one of those least in the manner in which they died it cant be that every person who died would still be alive, but what i can say is the manner in which they died, encountering death from a person who never should have an in this country if our laws have been upheld was a preventable death. And our government is failing all of those families and failing americans by not securing the border. Host you did mention title 42, which was the Public Health provision for covid. Do you believe that president lhtrump can reinstate that, givn that covid guest you are right, because covid is over, he cannot reinstate that, but they could look at other mechanisms that they use through that to see if there is anything else that could be done. Once title 42 ended, along with changing catch and release, ending remain in mexico and cutting holes in the wall, the surge was already bad and it skyrocketed after that. Host got it. Larry, new jersey, line for democrats. Caller good morning. Whom do you believe legitimately won the last president ial election . Guest thanks for the question. But im 2020 what i believe in 2020 is there were irregularities at the very least. Caller yes or no . Guest im going to answer the question. There were irregularities in the election that cast doubt on the election. That is a huge problem in the state of georgia. If irregularities cast doubt on the election, and it has other provisions as well caller so no. Guest but even with irregularity, if there are enough irregularities that cast doubt it is enough to overturn the election. There were enough irregularities and other problems in the swing states in questio that according to the laws in those states that had the evidence ever been adjudicated in a court of law, which it was not, i think that we would have a better answer to that question. What i can tell you is that biden was sworn in as president and biden is the president of the United States of america. Host you saieirregularities wet adjudicated in court . Guest the evidence was never adjudicated. In georgia, President Trumps case related to the election, the court date, the hearing for the court date was set for friday, january 5. On january 4, he wound up withdrawing the case im sorry, the fourth with the election i guess it was the ei the eighth. It was friday after congress voted on wednesday. And then we had an election the day before that in georgia. So on january 4 on monday, the judge set the date of the case for friday, january 8. Then congress voted on january 6 and once that happened they did not send any of the electors back to georgia for any other reconsiderations, trump went through withdrew his case. So thatase never was adjudicated in georgia. The evidence was never adjudicated. Host james in mt. Juliet tennessee. Republican, good morning. Caller i have a question. Hello host, i forgot your name. But my question is do you think that now after the events of january 6, covid, people are beginning to see trump iaan thew him up against the conventional establishment of hillary clinton, which you canestablish . Guest i think that people are seeing trump differently for several Different Reasons first, the more that the lawsuits and the indictment happen against trump, the more people are looking in a sense that something is not right, but there are political motivations that are happening with these cases. We just had Supreme Court announced a zero decision. In a 90 decision, they ruled that colorado did not have the right to remove trump on the ballot and they saw that what was happening in colorado was politically motivated. In georgia right now, in fulton eeing again that it was a political motivation happening in the case there and we are hearing that the hearing is ongoing at the moment and the decision will be coming out in the next week and a half or so as to whether the prosecutor and the District Attorney had misconduct involved in the case. s a lot of political motivation from people sensing that that is unfair. On top of that, they understand that the border was secure under trp. The border wall now has majority approval from americans around the country. When trump came down that escalator people werenexcept af people. We did a documentary on our border in 2014 but most people werent even talking about the border in that manner. Now we have the majority of americans who think that the border should be secure. The death of lake and riley ive heard from moms in my area who t is a sanctuary city . I never even knew one existed. You mean College Towns have sanctuary cities . They are looking at things differently than they did before. And a lot of that is because there is a huge, striking contrast between how biden rules and how trump ruled as president or governor as president , we are not supposed to have rulers, we are supposed to have people who are more a governing capacity, but there is a striking contrast in the two. And now those two are going