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Q the election as Russian disinformation. We want you to be ready to censor that and don't let the Russian disinformation interfere with the election. So they did this knowing that this was real and knowing that it would come out in order to try to prepare them to help the Biden regime censor for the election. I mean, this is actually insane stuff that you, you have crazy here, right?

A Yeah. It's like, it's, it's like you would, you would imagine the Soviet union, right? Or something. And And you had, again, this is kind of the legacy of the original sin of the Russiagate stuff, right, which was they concocted this nonsense, um, and then everything they didn't like later on, whether it's about President Trump or other things, became Russian disinformation or Russian misinformation, Russian malinformation, all this stuff. So yeah, you're right. So the, basically, the FBI authenticated and knew the laptop for Hunter Biden with all the crazy stuff in it, It could have, by the way, implicated Joe Biden in some bad stuff. They knew it was real in 2019, in November of 2019. The FBI starts having monthly, then weekly meetings with big tech platforms about this topic in particular, which is look out for this Russian hack and leak operation. Yoel Roth, who was the former like integrity guy at Twitter in an affidavit said, yes, he specifically mentioned Hunter Biden laptop. And by the way, it's also worth noting when you start connecting some of these dots, which is kind of crazy. There's a guy by the name of James Baker, who was the general counsel at the FBI in During the Russiagate stuff, who's now been implicated in leaking classified information in In 2020, he's the general counsel for Twitter.

AI assessment note: “Yeah. It's like, it's, it's like you would, you would imagine the Soviet union”

Q I'm a more minor player in this whole thing, but I was, I was, I was honored to be throttled by the same people as well. So this is totally, totally crazy stuff. What ended up happening with the lawsuits? You uncovered all these amazing things. We all can kind of see that there's more conspiracies going on, but then what did the courts do? Like where did it go?

A We wanted the district court level. We wanted the appellate court level, the fifth circuit, and then the Supreme court took the case up and then essentially punted based on standing. They said, well, we need to send it back down to the lower court to further establish whether or not Missouri and the other plaintiffs have standing. One interesting side. So as far as I'm concerned, Exposing all of it was the big win. It's still kind of rattling around, but the, the government never wanted that stuff exposed. One interesting sort of side note from it. We can talk about Fauci's depot too, but one of the plaintiffs is a guy by the name of, I'm sure, you know, is Dr. Jay Bhattacharya was a Stanford guy.

AI assessment note: “Supreme court took the case up and then essentially punted based on standing.”

Q that. So I hope, I hope you can get your colleagues to be more aggressive. I know you're very aggressive and I, I feel like the party needs to be aggressive at these things. I want to, speaking of aggression, I want to ask, I think you were the first to sue China after the COVID thing. How much money, how much money, what was the judgment for their coverup?

A Missouri has currently a twenty four billion dollar judgment against communist China that is, you know, can, you can seize assets. So it'll, it's up to my successor now to go do that. Um, I hope they do. Um, cause yeah, but we like early on and what's Joe, that's, I talk about that in the book too. Last line of defense is, um, what was really interesting about that was, is We were able to, I mean, we put together this compendium, all the things that communist China did, like they stopped flights in and out of Wuhan domestically, but not in and out internationally. They became the net, they were the largest net exporter of PPE. They became the largest net importer of PPE.

AI assessment note: “Missouri has currently a twenty four billion dollar judgment against communist China”

Q So we're going to talk about that today too. But I want, I want to start with the personal side of your story. I understand your father actually, he worked the night shift at Anheuser-Busch seven days a week, and you got one family vacation per year. So you started off working class in Missouri. So what about how you grew up, inspired you to want to run for office?

A Well, yeah, I mean, I think that absolutely shaped, uh, who I am. I saw how hard my, my dad worked and, um, Yeah, he worked, uh, the midnight shift seven days a week. I tell him the story how we got, um, he had one week of vacation a year, and we would go, you know, we'd drive somewhere, but we'd go down to Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri, and you'd see these blacksmiths, you know, forging something out of, out of heat and pressure and create something, and, and I feel like my time as AG, I felt like there was a forging process there, but, but no, I'm very blessed to have had, um, Two great parents, my mom and my dad, and, uh, and I was the first person in my family to go to college out of high school, let alone law school, um, became a lawyer, was practicing law, and became a partner, and all those things were great, and then I became a dad for the first time, and Stephen, my son, is, was born with a rare genetic condition, has something called tuberous sclerosis, he's nonverbal, has epilepsy on the autism spectrum, and then that, of course, seeing him go through all those challenges, including a four-hour seizure one time, kind of

AI assessment note: “I think that absolutely shaped, uh, who I am.”

Q Fortunately, the Supreme court's pretty sane right now, and it's a lot of Trump appointees overall. It's good, but there's a lot of judges. We're not going to be able to remove. We're not going to be able to impeach. So, so given that there's all these Corruption going on, all this broken stuff. Like how do we actually beat them? How do, how do we make this stuff work?

A Well, I think, you know, I got asked this a lot in the first, especially the first couple of months of the Trump administration, you'd have some, some random district court judge make some ruling here or there, but ultimately on the programming side, think of what the does stuff was all about on the personnel side, also on the illegal immigration front, as those cases have made their way through the courts, by and large, president Trump has been Successful because what he's trying to do are clear article two authorities, right? Of course, the chief executive can make these kinds of decisions. The left is trying to, you know, constrain his ability to do it, but you might have a district court judge there that was, you know, a radical appointed by Joe Biden, but as they make their way through, especially at the Supreme court, he's been vindicated. I mean, one of the best examples so far is on this universal injunction, this nationwide injunction issue where you saw like some Random judge in some district somewhere trying to direct the foreign policy of the United States of America. It's crazy. And so the separation of powers works that way too, right? It's a lot of times the courts are the arbiter between this, you know, the branches of government here, their power isn't limitless either. And so the Supreme Court, I think, has kind of checked a lot of the abuses that we saw at th…

AI assessment note: “as those cases have made their way through the courts... president Trump has been Successful”

Q think earlier in the news, you know, uh, Marc Andreessen and others like putting a hundred million dollars towards that same way they were for crypto. And they, I'm against like big tax values, but I'm for building and I'm for productivity. I'm for wealth for the American worker. This is going to be a big fight in our party. How do you, how do you see this playing out?

A Yeah, I think that we probably have to make sure people are really aware of the real dangers of what blue states, Could do if they inhibit all this. And, and I, again, I go back, I think the best example here is, um, is on the censorship piece, the, the regimes that could be put in place. And look, and I guess look at it like this too. Um, look at when California does a crazy emissions, um, uh, rule that effectively were to, was to box out the, uh, in, um, Like normal cars, like the internal combustion engine by, and it was like, what was like, 20, 35, or maybe it was twenty-thirty even. Um, like that has an impact across the country, especially when California does it. Right. And so I just think that we've got to probably do a much better job, um, of talking about what the opportunities that exist and how AI can sort of enhance the American worker. Um, and you're starting to see some people talk about this. I know you talk about it. Uh, Vice President Vance has been talking about some of this stuff and, and I probably need to be more active in that front too, because this I think is the future for the country and we better understand the competition that we're in because China is coming for our lunch on so many different fronts. That if we don't get this right, like, look, civilizations come and go based on who kind of develops and, and utilizes technology.

AI assessment note: “we've got to probably do a much better job, um, of talking about what the opportunities”