joining me now to discuss is tennessee
republican senator marcia blackburn um
great to see you senator and i think a
lot of people expected
a little bit more of a moderate democrat
administration
but you know the president and his folks
in his cabinet are bowing to pressure
from the left and there were many who
said that this was bound to happen
yes indeed and when you look at the fact
that a lot of the obama administration
who are there on the left who are
that progressive socialist leftist
agenda
they're the ones that are running the
show and it is
definitely being made apparent i talk to
individuals
every week when i'm at home in tennessee
who will say well
you know i ended up voting for joe biden
but i didn't vote for this
because they cannot believe what the
administration is pushing forward the
number of executive orders
the way that they are going about this
leftist
type agenda with packing the courts
trying to make dc estate
h.r 1 and s1 the green new deal
i you know it's like the hits keep
coming and people
are astounded with the way they are
conducting themselves it's not a for the
people agenda
it's all about we're going to punish you
because you elected and voted for donald
trump
and we never accepted the outcome of the
2016
election and while elections have
consequences
this is punishment it's it's a really
good point let's talk about what we're
seeing in biden's first hundred days
he's going to
hit that milestone shortly of his
promises
he has completed 25 out of 61.
it's roughly a little bit more than a
third um but there's a lot left
you know that we could talk about
specifically one of his biggest
failings right now would be immigration
your thoughts
yes well what has happened and when you
go to the border and i've been to the
border been on the arizona border
if you're talking to sheriffs and border
patrol agents
who cannot speak publicly but talk to
sheriffs talk to
people that live on the border ranchers
that own property
county officials they will tell you this
is the biden immigration policy they
will talk to you about their concerns
that we have a
homeland security secretary who does not
believe
in secure borders imagine that
and they will say this all kicked up in
january that basically biden says as
we say in tennessee y'all come and
they've come
and they heard him and they have shown
up
in droves and this has become
a sanctuary for drug traffickers
for child predators they're on the
southern border it is a humanitarian
crisis
it's a border security and a national
security crisis
and i will tell you also that many
people down there will say this is an
environmental crisis they are ruining
the ecosystems that are there because of
the trampling
and the way they're coming across this
property the way they're digging roads
into the sides of these mountains the
surveillance
the way they put scouts and spies
up on top of the mountains to look down
over our bench and this is all happening
and they won't give us
access to actually be able to see it i
mean our reporters have gone down to the
border and have
told some of these stories but nobody
nobody else is really doing it
i'm senator while i have you i just want
to have you react quickly to this
proposal about
virtually doubling the capital gains tax
it would be over 40 percent we've never
seen that before in history
you know economists are saying it really
uh will hold us back the governing
government will actually be hurt by it
because people won't realize the gains
and it will create a whole kind of uh
domino effect when it comes to
what we're dealing with in terms of tax
and spend in this country
you're right and this weekend in
tennessee this was one of the most
talked about
components when i would see people
because they're small business
owners they're entrepreneurs tennessee
is helping
lead the comeback from covet and
people are are planning to invest and
grow
businesses they're desperately in need
of workers
and now they're going hey wait a minute
you mean doubling
the cap gains tax just as we're putting
together
expansion plans so talk about a wet
blanket
this is going to be a wet blanket thrown
on the economy
it is something that is going to hurt
the markets it's going to hurt equities
it's going to hurt small business
expansion i think that
uh there is no doubt this would
the comeback from coven wow senator
marsha blackburn thank you so much for
your time today
good to be with you thank you