laura: shouldn t it be the president of the united states paula? the president of the united states is the commander in chief. he said the buck stops here. that s what he said. but then he said trump did various things and kind of said it was complicated, it was going to be complicated. listen, the president of the united states has the ability to help our troops, have enough men and women to stay safe. in all of our history, in all of the time that we have been fighting, where did you leave these men and women at one airport, one location, one gate to funnel thousands through? and who did you trust? you trusted our enemy to allow who would come through. what does anyone nthis great
i am responsible? who will do that? laura: shouldn t it be the president of the united states? he is the commander-in-chief, he says the buck stops here, that is what he said but then he said trumpeted various things and said was complicated is going to be complicated. the president of the united states had the ability to help our troops, have a to and women to say thanks. in all of our history, all time that we have been fighting, within one airport, one gate to fill thousands through and who did you trust? you trust our enemies who would come through.
they can t give us the data. julie: good point. today new jersey governor murphy will announce his state will be joining others in mandating masks for students returning to school as education secretary cordona hit states like texas and florida that already have bans. watch. your message to governor desantis in florida and governor abbott of texas who banned mask mandates. don t be the reason why schools are interrupted. our kids have suffered enough. let s do what we know works. we shouldn t get politics doesn t have a role in this. educators know what to do. we did it last year. i have calls out to those states but at the end day i want to work with florida. julie: shouldn t it be the decision of a parent whether or not their child gets sent to school with masks? so i have two children in new jersey and i m eagerly
country. this is not about an economic emergency. it s using the remnants to remake who we are as a nation and it s a dangerous slope we re going down. we re going to pay for it in more ways than one. here s an example. it would be japan. anyone you you talked about how old you are. anybody old enough to remember when japan was thought to be within months, maybe a year or so of overtaking america. they went down this path of printing money, printing money, printing money. debt, 250% of gdp. now they had two lost decades. they ve been sideways for 20 years, neil and there s no sign that they will get back to the greatness that they had. neil: very good point. thanks for mentioning what is going on? japan here. you re right. they are clear ties there.
the nation s capitol? we will be here as long as we need to be here. i think it s safe to say the full 25 days. thank you for having me on. i appreciate it. neil: good to have you. let me ask you about that. a lot of people hearing this and understand your passion over this issue, but this has happened before, representative. i don t know if you specifically, where democrats were outnumbered on something and they shut things down or left or quit. it sort of gives the impression to some that you don t get the result you want, you take your marbles and go home. how do you disavow americans of that view? first of all, i want to go to the reporter that was on before. i refused my per diem. some of us are refusing the per diem. we re not here on the taxpayer dime. i am representing my constituents the best way that i see fit as an elected official