we are now only one week away from that
all-important georgia senate runoff
elections that will determine control of
the
upper chamber already over 25 percent of
registered voters
have cast their ballots and president
trump is set to rally for georgia's
republican senators david perdue and
kelly lefler
on the eve of the election one of those
senators defending his seat
joins us now david perdue senator great
to have you here this morning
here we are on a tuesday right in
between christmas and new year's
in this very important election we are
one week out now where do you see things
stand in this race good morning
well we're winning uh sandra uh we won
in november by two points the
libertarian got two points so 52 and a
half percent of georgians rejected this
liberal democratic offering
that has so many social uh socialistic
pieces to it and they
they rejected my opponent so we feel
good about it we're out doing 125
stop bus tour around the state kelly is
out as well so we're
we're driving the idea that we've got to
get our vote if we get our vote out we
win this thing
senator what's at stake here when you
look at control of the senate
if if you don't win and this and it
becomes
democratic controlled you've got
democrats in control the house the
senate and
an incoming democratic president what
does that mean for the future of the
country
sandra you just have to listen to chuck
schumer take georgia change america what
he means by that
is he wants to change the filibuster
rule add two states
two democratic states that'd be four
democratic seats he wants to stack the
supreme court and eventually
change the way the electoral college
operates that would allow them to
perpetrate
the agenda that's in the democratic
platform that was
displayed during the presidential
election they want open borders they
want to defund the police they want
illegal immigrants to vote they want to
defund
our military as well and give us the
green new deal in addition to
to socializing our our medical system so
this is a
an aggressive aggressive liberal plan
that's so dangerous
that's what we're fighting against here
this is the last line of defense
sandra as you guys have called out kelly
and i know what's at stake the people in
georgia know what's at stake
and they're going to turn out the vote
but we've got to get our vote out to
make sure we hold the line here
i'll ask you what you're going to do to
do just that senator in a moment
but first mark thiessen joined us top of
the last hour
and he brought into play the
negotiations that are happening right
now with this latest
round of stimulus and he suggested that
potentially
the president's late stage negotiations
are taking away from you and kelly
lefler's ability
to heavily campaign and get your message
out
with days to go to election day having
this negotiation
happen right now here's mark thiessen
i'll get you to respond
he's put republicans on the in the
senate in a horrible position where they
may have to buck their president
and he's handed pelosi and schumer a
cudgel with which to beat up republicans
and call them scrooges for not being
willing to
uh to give two thousand dollar checks
and that's particularly a problem for
for senators purdue and leffler who are
now spending
this week instead of campaigning in
georgia are spending this week deciding
whether or not to buck the president on
this
uh on this bill so you know he could
call this could cost
republicans control of the senate
similar reporting
is out there on the part of bloomberg a
concern on the part of republicans
where do you stand on that issue first
of all sandra i'm really delighted that
the president signed the covet bill into
law
uh sunday night i spoke with him many
times over the weekend over the holiday
he was very concerned about getting this
help to the american people
the other thing i'm very pleased with is
that the coveted bill we just passed
almost 60 percent of that sander was
reprogrammed money from the first cares
act so
when the president looks at this he's
very concerned that we didn't go far
enough to bring enough help to help
people
uh in the back end of this coveted
crisis look this should have been done
four months ago and that's what the
president's been saying for the last
four months but we were obstructed in
the senate by the democrats
who were playing presidential politics
the first time uh in november and now
they're playing senatorial politics
before the january 5th election so i'm
delighted to support the president in
this 2000
it's really a 1400 increment over what
we've already done
and i think with the vaccine coming i
think this is absolutely appropriate so
i fully support what the president is
doing right now
and i know you said you spoke with him
it's been reported you spoke to larry
kudlow ivanka trump and others
uh pressuring the president to do just
that is there republican support
for that mitch mcconnell obviously has
the ball in his court next with that two
thousand dollars
well first of all it's the right thing
to do for people in georgia i mean we
we brought 47 billion dollars to georgia
in the first round of cares that saved a
million and a half jobs these
this appropriation we're talking about
right now brings money for distribution
for
vaccine uh for our hospitals our schools
it helps us get our lives back to normal
so what the president's trying to do is
to make sure
that we get this done he doesn't trust
that there might be another step
in another couple of months he wants to
get this done now got it
i want to move on to a story we're
closely following i know you
and your republican colleague kelly
leffler are are pushing for leniency
in the case of skyler mack her
grandmother has spoken out for
help she of course got in trouble with
violating covert restrictions in the
cayman islands
and i i know you're pushing for for help
for her here's her grandmother
we weren't happy that she did this this
is not
like schuyler to make that kind of a bad
judgment
call she did she's jailed for violating
covid restrictions not quarantining when
she got there going to see her boyfriend
in a competition
what do you want to see happen here well
i want to see a common sense solution
my office is involved kelly kelly
leftler's office is involved the white
house is involved i spoke to
the white house just last night about
this very thing so
i think there's a common sense solution
coming i don't want to speak to the
details of it right now sander but i
think we will have
all parties involved happy with the
outcome but let me remind the viewers
that
this is exactly what we don't want to
happen in the united states with
mandatory
lockdowns and so forth that some
democrats are talking about right now my
opponent talks about it openly that we
should go to a lockdown
so this is a very concerning issue with
regard to a change
potential change in the white house and
a change in direction look we
we're moving to have this vaccine fully
employed hopefully by
late spring it sounds like right now so
i think that uh
we need to be very mindful of the fact
that we don't want to have that kind of
draconian enforcement of a mandatory
lockdown here in the united states
senator i finally want to ask you about
this veto override on the 740 billion
dollar defense spending bill the
president just tweeted about this this
morning i'll put it up on the screen get
your reaction to it
he says weak and tired republican
leadership will allow the bad defense
bill to pass say goodbye to vital
section 230 termination
your national monuments for its names
and treasures inserted
by elizabeth pocahontas warren he
tweeted
that tweet goes on but he's calling out
weak
and tired republican leadership
for allowing that that what how do you
respond to the president on that
sandra i'm an outsider of this political
process so is the president as far as
that goes
look what i'm concerned about is i'm
chairman of the subcommittee on sea
power in the armed services committee
and we've been working for the last
three years
to rebuild our military to stand up to
this china threat that we now see so
vividly
and what we can't do is go back to the
period of time that was under obama and
biden when they cut our military 25
percent again and that's what the
president's trying to make sure of here
and also we need to get at big tech i
mean this this
230 bill is very important the
difficulty is when you put them together
and that's what is at issue right now
but i'm hopeful that we'll get to a real
solution the main thing is i know the
president is still committed to the
strong military that we've rebuilt
senator i've got to leave it there but
what's your plan when the president
arrives eve of the election
get the vote out that's why he's coming
we're going to drive the vote on
tuesday it's very important for america
the eyes of the world are on us right
now we know what's at stake here we're
going to hold this line against this
radical socialist agenda and make sure
that the road to socialism does not come
through the state of georgia sandra
thank you i want to make sure i tell our
viewers we equally invited your opponent
on to join us as well this morning and
they declined so appreciate your time
this morning senator thank you
thank you