capabilities, in our technology capabilities to counter what china is doing. china s investing in its military, trying to exceed the united states and our military capabilities so that they can hold us at bay in technology, they re investing in technology in part to advance their surveillance society by which they use their authoritarian powers to repress their people. but also to reach outside of china and to affect those who, democracies like ourselves, that they see as a threat. this president has an opportunity to hold them at bay and make america strong, and he needs to commit himself to that now. jason: president biden hasn t been able to protect our own borders. we ve got people streaming across by the hundreds of thousands. what makes the world think that president biden is tough enough to actually help protect taiwan if china moves after the olympics to some sort of plan for reunification with taiwan i?
so-called liberals are so adamant that they have to do this that the government is going to take control of their a bodies. all right. let me go ahead and segway into something else. the reason the democrats can run the table on many of these things is because they control the house, the senate and the presidency. but there are a number of retiring senators out there, most of which are republicans. as we pull up the graphic here, we ve got a number of people that are retiring. only senator leahy on the democratic side of the aisle. what s the strategy in the senate to actually wrangle back control and give that gavel back to mitch mcconnell? yeah, jason. well, i m very bullish that we ll get the majority back in the senate, and i think we start by just giving the democrats more rope, right? just america s looking at their policies, so i m very, very optimistic. and i m optimistic at the polls i m seeing. you look at generic ballots right now, and what we re seeing is in purple states
the united states, whose side are you on? are you on the side of the drug cartels, or are you on the side of the american people? when you see those numbers out of 18 to 45-year-old withs that the leading cause of death is fentanyl, you know it s streaming over the border, you have a responsibility to do something. jason: yeah. and the fact that they go out of their way to continue to allow this illegal migration which, by the way, this year will total more than the population of the president s home state of delaware and the vice president s home city of san francisco combined. so we have legislation that would permanently put remain in mexico into law, but we need to take back the house in order to do it because nancy pelosi will never allow it to the floor under this congress. jason: yeah. there are 23 retiring democrats on slate here, and republicans better come up with a way to not just be the party of no, but just and say, hey, this is our agenda, this is what we would do, th
so those would be two simple solutions. let s get back to energy independence, let s turn american innovation loose again. jason: yeah. things were actually going well. the border was locked down, the economy was zooming, and we didn t have these inflationary, you know, numbers coming at us. but i want to segway here and talk a little bit about the mandates that you mentioned, because you ve authored a bill to try to get rid of the mandates that are being imposed on our military. tell us about that. but i ve got to tell you, as i go and talk to people across america some vaccinated, some not i think they re fed up with these mandates. they just don t think that the federal government should be telling them to get an injection, and if they do or they don t and they can or cannot go into a restaurant, they think that s a bridge too far. yeah. we know that mandates have not worked and just look at the past several weeks. we had over 500,000 people with positive tests two days ago an
the liquor business. and here s the big problem. to produce, let s say, a whiskey, well, you need the grain. there s an issue getting certain grains now. then you have to distill it. then you have to have a label. the label has to be approved by the federal government. that s taking longer than ever before. then you ve got to find somebody to produce the label, and if you get that done, good luck getting glass. most bottles come from china. there s now factories being built and starting to produce in mexico. but, jason, you ll wait a year for glass. now that you ve got the label, you ve got the glass, now you ve got whiskey, whiskey has to age typically for five years or longer. so this reductioning in our supply, many of these spirits is not short term, it s longer term. but think of that restauranteur who comes in on a monday morning, i can t get this, i gotta get that. this won t fit on my plate, this won t fit on my bun, this