and that was senator lindsey graham on
this program last week explaining why
republicans must maintain their senate
majority in a tooth and nail battle
that will be decided by two georgia
runoff races on january 5th
senator david perdue is one of the gop
incumbents running for re-election there
along with senator kelly lefler who will
join us exclusively on this program
next sunday but right now we are joined
by senator perdue he sits on the senate
armed services budget and foreign
relations committees and senator it's
always a pleasure thanks very much for
being here
in your first interview on this contest
morning maria
tell me what's at stake senator well
these two seats as lindsey
well noted are the last line of defense
against this liberal socialist agenda
the democrats will
perpetrate we heard schumer just last
week say that if we take georgia we
change america we heard aoc
say we have they have to have these two
seats because they don't want to
negotiate they want
total control and so what's at stake is
this is that schumer will change the
rules in the senate so they can do
anything they want with 50 votes plus
the vice president's vote is a
tiebreaker
they'll pack the court they want to add
four new democrat seats by adding two
new states
and they eventually want to do away with
the electoral college and that will
allow them maria
to perpetrate this agenda that they've
been espousing now through the
presidential primary all year and that
is
the green new deal they want to defund
the police open borders they want to
have sanctuary cities they want to cut
the military spending after we've just
begun rebuilding it after obama's
decimation of it
and then they want to take our private
health insurance away 180 million people
they want to take their private health
insurance away
and again the green new deal which is
the most exasperating part of this
agenda they are dead serious about it so
that's what's at stake here is that
we're the last line of defense maria
there are so many things that a
republican
senate controlled senate
can do to stop some of the programs
we're talking about alexandria
ocasio-cortez
had a line and i saw it the other day
she said we need the two seats so that
we do not have to negotiate
she doesn't want any negotiating on
things like for example
uh should joe biden become president his
cabinet
you know we could very well see people
like bernie sanders or elizabeth warren
want to be in that cabinet is that right
well of course i think you can imagine
that elizabeth warren wants to be
secretary of treasury
it's already given that bernie sanders
will be chairman of the budget committee
sherry brown will be chairman of the
banking committee
and ron wyden will be chairman of
finance committee these are people who
really do not believe in our free market
system they want to change how we form
capital
in america but again this is something
that they really have
avoided dealing with in any of these
senate races they've tried to hide it
now lately
and if you look at what they really are
espousing this this would never be done
their agenda could never be done with a
bipartisan
congress and so what we can do in the
senate is this we can actually protect
the gains and the accomplishments of the
last four years i mean president trump
gave us an agenda
they gave us the best economic
turnaround in u.s history
six and a half million americans have
pulled themselves out of poverty that
will all get undone
if we lose both of these seats in
georgia so that's why we know we're the
last line of defense and we're fighting
hard here to make sure
that it's done legally and we get this
done appropriately
the the other policy that has been
talked about on the left is the green
new deal but you said something to me
this weekend when i spoke with you said
only 20 of that package has anything to
do with climate change
can you walk us through what is the
green new deal then it's a hundred
trillion dollars
well actually yeah it is over ten years
and what the way i look at this let me
give you a caveat first
it's nine trillion dollars per year they
can't
finance that with income tax there's no
way the adjusted gross income in
aggregate for all the working people in
america is about nine trillion dollars
and so what they've done is they've
hidden inside this the medicare for all
costs the
the stipend for the 30 000 a year
stipend for people who are unable or
unwilling to work free college education
all of these things
have nothing to do with climate change
but they're hiding it in there
to make sure that we don't get a chance
to debate it and so only about 20
percent of the green new deal has
anything to do with climate change
unbelievable look i want to ask you
about uh your opponents
and how they are trying to mobilize
georgians
to get out and vote democrat andrew yang
tom friedman from the new york times
have all called on friends supporters
to go move to georgia the other day
andrew yang said that he and his wife
are moving to georgia because he wants
to help
joe biden and kamala harris is that even
legal
to to go and move somewhere just to vote
i mean
how does that happen no it's illegal and
it shows how desperate they are they
know they can't win straight up we
proved that
in our election in my seat i won by two
points the libertarian got over two
points and so we have
proven to the democrats that georgia is
not a blue state
we beat their agenda by four points in
total and so they know to win in this
runoff
they've got to do something illegal
immoral and we're not going to let it
happen i mean
what they're encouraging people to do is
to use artificial addresses or move in
temporarily our law says they have to be
here permanently
but it just shows they're willing to do
anything lie still
cheat to win this election because it
goes back to what they want what aoc has
said
they do not want to negotiate they want
total power to
to perpetrate this agenda because they
know in a by in a split
government there's no way that they can
get this implemented
senator i want to get your take on what
your opponent jon ossoff is saying this
morning he is on another sunday morning
program and he says this
what we are feeling for the first time
in four years is hope it's the
recognition that we trumped
the party we have the opportunity to
define
the next chapter in american history
to lead out of this crisis but also win
the senate seats
he told this morning another interviewer
there's also a china connection with
john ossoff
tell me about your opponent and uh your
reaction to what he said this morning
well first of all he has no real world
experience and what he says are just
really idle words he's not talking about
defending their agenda they can't do
that
they're not willing to do that they know
they can't finance their agenda they
know their agenda has already been
proven under the obama administration to
give us eight years of the lowest
economic output in u.s history
they caused 800 000 people to fall into
poverty they can't defend
their economic policy or their political
policy or their foreign policy
his china connection is very real it's
documented that he worked for a
communist chinese news agency that's
owned by the communist chinese
government
he denied it twice in public and yet
there's an official
document filed with a government that
says yes he indeed did work with them
and so that in combination with the fact
that he worked with al jazeera for over
nine years just tells us that he'll
never hold china accountable
or deal with our foreign policy with a
straight up perspective
so so he worked for media company china
unicom
when it was based in hong kong the
chinese communist party continues to
overreach in hong kong with new rules
that they just
unveiled to put anybody in prison who
says anything
bad about the communist party and he
worked for china unicom
well he worked for pccw which is a a
media a news media company that actually
perpetrates chinese communist
propaganda about the freedom fighters in
hong kong
and so how objective could john ossoff
ever be about defending democracy in
hong kong he can't
and pccw isn't it's owned by china
unicom which is a state-owned enterprise
maria
and we know how they are they're
integrated over there vertically
we know they control that and so he lied
about that
public documents and that's what we
called out
right we will follow that we certainly
have done a lot on china and
its ambitions senator will be watching
the race please come back soon thank you
sir
thanks maria