independents think in the middle. if you read the article that came with this, it said democrats were almost split on whether they think that the state of the union and the state of the country is in really a good solid ground right now. when you see 60% of people agree that the country is not doing well, that is bad, dangerous. the people that did respond pointed to extremism on both ends, democrat and republican. that is where the independent number is so high and that will be tricky for democrats and republicans, really. todd: i take a look from the 30,000 foot view and ask the question, what about our union is strong right now? our enemies don t fear us. our allies don t know if they can can t on us. when it comes to money, we are all worried about inflation and day-to-day paying bills, we are digging ourselves a debt hole on the global future. on the future of our country. that will take years, if not decades and centuries to get out of and that falls on our kids and g
adversaries. todd: dr. roberts, a watch dog group found 5.4 billion in covid dollars may have gone to firms using suspect social security numbers. do you worry that the amount of covid money stolen by fraudsters is higher? it is probably many multiples of that 5.4, todd. it is always great to be with you and on your show. i will say, there is hope ahead. one reason i m cautiously optimistic about taking this country back, the chairman and james comer are ready to go to work. what they will find, to the point of your question, the problem or extent of the covid abuse is probably in the tens of billions of dollars, not just five billion. this is a reason a lot of right of center groups when giving away money and know ares were responsible, too, were saying this is going to cause great
fraud. now we have the double whammy of the fraud and inflation that all of that extra spending caused. todd: where was curiosity on part of the democrats when in charge of all of government to find out how the money was wasted and where it went and try to get it back. we are now a couple years in, it will be tough to get the money back. the democrats had no curiosity about that todd, and frankly, they were happy with that amount of covid spending. covid was opportunity to expand big government socialism. that is not hyperbole, it is true. if the house majority accomplishes one thing in the next two years, it will be stopping that rate of spending and articulating clawing out of that mess. it is really important for americans who are upset, as they should be, about the $5 billion of waste, to connect the dots to
independents think in the middle. if you read the article that came with this, it said democrats were almost split on whether they think that the state of the union and the state of the country is in really a good solid ground right now. when you see 60% of people agree that the country is not doing well, that is bad, dangerous. the people that did respond pointed to extremism on both ends, democrat and republican. that is where the independent number is so high and that will be tricky for democrats and republicans, really. todd: i take a look from the 30,000 foot view and ask the question, what about our union is strong right now? our enemies don t fear us. our allies don t know if they can can t on us. when it comes to money, we are all worried about inflation and day-to-day paying bills, we are digging ourselves a debt hole on the global future.
tactical nuclear weapon in ukraine. that s bad enough. but china and the chinese communist party are tripling the size of their nuclear arsenal. they are developing hypersonic nuclear capable missiles that we can t defend against. and we have the commander-in-chief saying climate is more dangerous than nuclear weapons. the thing that s so scary chinese listen to this. they hear it. and they know this administration and biden will make concession after concession to the chinese in order to achieve their climate goals while china has the most rapid military buildup in modern american history and the irony on top of it is that the chinese are then dominating the global battery market so they re making money off of it in addition to us being distracted while they triple their nuclear arsenal. my question for president biden is if xi of china realizes his dream of becoming the dominant