now joining us to discuss this
former senior white house advisor and
america first legal founder steve miller
steve miller great to see you just
seeing you calms me but
i'm not sure where to start with climate
change on the executive order
or this infrastructure stuff that's not
happening i'll i'll let you choose okay
your smartphone
i'll let you choose is it the green
energy
executive order or the infrastructure or
what choose your poison
well i'll take the last point first the
reason that you know
the reason that we all know that this
so-called green
agenda has nothing to do with the
climate and everything to do with
socialism
is the fact that all the pollution in
the world is coming from china
and it's also coming from a lot of
developing countries china of course is
a fully developed country that just
doesn't care about the environment
but it's also coming from a lot of
developing countries like india as an
example
in parts of latin america as an example
and so if you're really serious about
reducing pollution
that would be your focus the united
states is one of the cleanest countries
in the world
from an environmental standpoint right
so it's it's
nothing to do with with energy so that's
an important point with respect to
infrastructure
you know we touched on this earlier and
i think it's a really important point
when the federal government spends one
trillion two trillion dollars on
infrastructure
without any underlying reforms you don't
actually
end up with more infrastructure in
america this is a very important point
and that's an astonishing statement to
make because you're talking about
spending
trillions of dollars but what happens is
is that cities and states that control
over 90 percent of all infrastructure
projects in america in other words roads
and bridges are overwhelmingly
local projects state and local projects
they take money
that was going to be spent on that local
project they shift it somewhere else
and they put the federal dollars in its
place furthermore
even if you were to start a new project
because of permitting rules
that project far from being shovel ready
could be 10 years away because of the
permitting process
so there's not going to be some economic
stimulus even if you subscribe to that
theory
because you're not going to get shovel
ready projects
so again it's about what's coming along
with it it's about the new social
programs they're trying to drag across
the finish line
with it if you really wanted more
infrastructure in america i've said it
before
just pass a bill that streamlines the
way that we improve
infrastructure in this country and
without one extra penny of spending
you'll have twice as many roads and
bridges coming online in the years to
come
permitting nepa permitting we did
several
executive orders on this with mr trump's
business sense
in mind several okay let me go back to
the
infrastructure bill or the foe
infrastructure bill
because last night mitch mcconnell was
pretty straight with us
i mean he basically says if they're
willing to sell for a targeted bill
without revisiting the 2017 tax bill we
will work with them
now they came back uh team biden came
back with a counter offer
that leaves all the tax increases in
place these are
recovery-destroying job-killing tax
increases
and the expense was lowered a slight bit
and i'm told only because a few things
were moved around
and some were put into what might be the
family bill
later on but it is far from a
traditional infrastructure bill
now mitch mcconnell was very strong in
his language last night steve miller
and i watched his body language i've
known the guy 40 years and he was very
strong on this
um you believe it the red pencil is in
the red line is in
not going to be a deal no big tax hikes
what's your take
i believe he's serious you know i worked
in the senate for a long time i think
that
a lot of senate republicans are going to
oppose anything
that tries to undo the trump tax cuts
which if you
which as you've talked about created a
blue collar jobs and a blue collar wages
boom
that's a very important point and when
you talk about raising
corporate taxes this is something i feel
especially strong about
because we are in a global competition
so this is an america first issue i want
america to win
i want the factories here i want the
jobs here i want the products here
i want the innovation here in america
it is totally self-defeating to announce
to the world
that we are increasing the cost of doing
business in america
what kind of advertisement is that for
your own country
governors understand this at least
successful ones look at ron desantis
governors that want jobs in their state
don't say hey come to our state
effective immediately we're going to
make everything more expensive yeah
good point so it's going to hurt the
country
well i think uh mitch is going to hang
out by the way there's another theory
around
it won't even get through the house the
democratic thing won't get through the
house
because you've got a lot of house
democrats a lot of moderates legitimate
moderates you know some of the names as
i do
once they they're not going to get their
salt deduction restored
and after that they don't want to raise
taxes across the board because their
uh districts don't stephen let me go by
there's a third issue here now
we've talked a lot this week about the
israeli hamas
conflict and all of that and we've been
very very critical of mr biden
unfortunately
but there's new stuff developing that i
want your comment on i'm looking at a
story in the daily mail but you can find
this in any leading newspaper
anti-semitic attacks anti-semitic
attacks up 40
in one week across the united states uh
los angeles miami new york
skokie illinois uh 40 increase
a lot of these are palestinians versus
jews here in the country
um this is a very demoralizing story
but one that i fear is going to continue
uh what's your thinking on this
well first of all let me say that you
and i larry had the privilege
of working for what i would argue was
the most pro-jewish
american president in history donald
trump
i mean his speeches that he gave
whether you're talking about his speech
his several speeches when he was in
israel
whether you're talking about his
speeches condemning anti-semitism here
at home
he was so forceful both in defense of
the jewish people
and against anti-semitism and that's
something we should all be grateful for
and i hope
that president biden will speak with the
same degree of force and clarity as
president trump
as to these attacks they are absolutely
harrowing what we are seeing it looks
like something that you never thought
could happen in america
and we need to be very strong
in condemning this new left-wing
vilification of israel
that i think is is leading to and
sparking a lot of this
anti-semitism and i understand that
there's of course a very big difference
between
you know having legitimate disagreements
which people are entitled to
about decisions that a nation-state
israel makes
and then the broader issue of
anti-semitism but let's not be naive
here
let's not be let's not let's not put our
heads in the sand
there's a huge amount of anti-semitism
driving attacks on israel
and a lot of the anti-israel rhetoric
that you've been hearing recently
calling it an apartheid state
i mean for shame calling israeli jews
racist
for shame but yes that's going to lead
to more anti-semitic attacks and it's
time that we said
no these attacks on israel must end it
is a tiny democratic jewish state
in the heart of the middle east that
respects the rights of
all of its citizens arab and jew
and the vilification and demonization of
israel has got to stop
if i paraphrase mitch mcconnell steve
he said last night basically because i
think the
tide has turned now there's been
realignment he said half the democratic
senators
are no longer supporting israel and the
other half
are afraid to support israel because of
what the far left is doing
the democrats used to be the party of
israel they are
no longer the party of israel it is the
republicans now
frankly the trump republicans who have
made it the party of israel
as you note and i don't hear yet the
condemnation of these anti-semitic
attacks
i'm waiting to hear it and i hope you
hear it so far i'm not hearing it
especially from these big city mayors
because their hands are tied to the left
again
this is the worst trend one can imagine
uh steve miller i'd love to spend more
time but
it's been grand we will see you soon
thank you very much larry
stay optimistic life's still good i will
we're going to win the battle
all right