examining spending cuts needed to. balance america s budget. west virginia senator joe manchin on what he s willing to support to unleash america s energy assets. plus, the people of east palestine, ohio, are still reeling after pete buttigieg showed up three weeks after the train derailment. and then claimed to be on private time as president biden jetted off to ukraine and poland. are you going down will? what s that? are you going down there at all? yes, i am. when are you going? i ll share that when i m ready. can i get a photo with you? maria: all of this as president trump headed to east palestine with water and supplies for the region. we have told you loud and clear you are not forgotten. you are not forgotten. we stand with you, we pray for you, and we ll stay with you in your night to help answer your fight to help answer and the accountability that you deserve. the community has shown the tough and resilient heart of america, and that s what it is.
manufacturer, supplier in china and replace it with paddle, this chinese manufacturer. we just need to have everybody wake up and understand that economic, economic security for the united states is critical. and in these most important industries like semiconductors, like evs, like solar panel manufacturers, like all of the technologies that drive them, we must own that supply chain in addition to to our pharmaceutical supply chain. it must be american-owned, american-domiciled, otherwise we will continue to watch the biden administration in pursuit of their green agenda sell out to the communist chinese party, and we can t let it happen. maria: well, it s unbelievable to me that we ve had such a soft response. they obviously have a plan, and it s meticulous. they had that balloon fly over our installations, our military installations, nuclear installations, and you re telling me about paddle wanting to set up shop right near the
maria: will revenue come from higher taxes? is that what you re seeing in. you don t have to do anything. the efficiencies of what we re doing and how we re doing it. can t you look and see basically let s say that in the last five years that nondiscretionary funding and discretion their funding has raised a trillion dollars. how did we do that? where kid it come from? why do the we put things that we can t negotiate on? why are bedisbursing money we knew during the pandemic we had to, but with that being said, that s going to come down. are we going to the keep that spending when we don t need to right now? continue to send checks that we shouldn t be spending? maria: senator, do you regret voting for that massive spending bill last summer? you were given a promise that your permitting would be in the bill. chuck schumer did not keep that promise. do you regret it in retrospect? well, no, not at all. as far as the inflation reduction act will be the most transformative bill we ve
beyond just stability which means they won t have to worry too much about a military presence anymore, but it also means economic opportunities that the u.s. could be enjoying in a completely different set of circumstances. and the demeanor of our country which, of course, will be welcoming those kinds of developments because we need foreign technology, we need new industries, and we need to refurbish our existing infrastructure for all of this is a big play for american companies, obviously. maria: your highness, i m glad you mentioned the military, because the irgc, the military, pretty much controls the economy. if you get rid of the mullahs, doesn t that lead to a military-led machine? well, actually, the military let s separate the military from the irgc. in fact, the reason the irgc was created in the first place was to make sure that the regime will be somehow protected from a potential military coup against the current regime starting with
we re doing that and interest will eat us up. mike mullen said to me one time in the armed services committee that the debt of the nation is greatest threat we face. not another country, but the weight of our own debt in our nation. maria: yeah. we ve got to get this under control. we ve got to speak about it intelligently. the bottom line is, maria with, everyone s trying to blame each other. we ve got to work together. maria: the cbo says we re going to talk about $10 trillion in interest payments in the next decade as interest rates go higher. so just to be clear, you don t want a clean debt ceiling, you want to have a discussion and identify areas to cut with the agreement that you ll raise the debt ceiling, is that what i m hearing? you don t want a clean well, you ll have, you re going to have you have to vote for this. we have to pay our bills. the full faith and credit of the u.s. currency. we re the superpower of the world. we have the reserve currency of the world, th