Harmeet Dhillon

Some of them are intelligent. I'm going to be prejudiced and say some of the lawyers were able to string sentences together on both sides.

They do have a lot of power. The staff has, and that goes back to our problem. The sheer volume of legislation that comes before the Senate and the size of the bills is anti-democratic. It's physically impossible for any, I mean, Rand Paul talks about this. It's physically impossible for anyone to actually read that stuff and digest it.

They do have a lot of power. The staff has, and that goes back to our problem. The sheer volume of legislation that comes before the Senate and the size of the bills is anti-democratic. It's physically impossible for any, I mean, Rand Paul talks about this. It's physically impossible for anyone to actually read that stuff and digest it.

So you have to rely on young staffers or even worse, lobbyists to tell you what's going on in these bills.

So you have to rely on young staffers or even worse, lobbyists to tell you what's going on in these bills.

Yeah, it's not a good system. It's a system that has become bogged down by special interests and so-called specialists. And that isn't, I think, what the founders envisioned, this encroaching bureaucracy and all this. I mean, and so many of these people now live in D.C., the lawmakers. They don't really live... where they came from. So they've lost touch with the people who elected them.

Yeah, it's not a good system. It's a system that has become bogged down by special interests and so-called specialists. And that isn't, I think, what the founders envisioned, this encroaching bureaucracy and all this. I mean, and so many of these people now live in D.C., the lawmakers. They don't really live... where they came from. So they've lost touch with the people who elected them.

That's another problem.

That's another problem.

Yeah, absolutely.

Yeah, absolutely.

And it's not just the government. It's all the NGOs that do the fundraising inside and feed on that. All parties, by the way. So this is a problem. It is divorced from reality. When I was running for chair of the Republican National Committee, I had this idea that maybe we should break it up and put sections of it back in America so we keep in touch. And that was like such a...

And it's not just the government. It's all the NGOs that do the fundraising inside and feed on that. All parties, by the way. So this is a problem. It is divorced from reality. When I was running for chair of the Republican National Committee, I had this idea that maybe we should break it up and put sections of it back in America so we keep in touch. And that was like such a...

earth-shattering, everyone united to shut that down because there's so many interested in being able to wine and dine and do all of that conveniently inside the Beltway, not where Americans live.

earth-shattering, everyone united to shut that down because there's so many interested in being able to wine and dine and do all of that conveniently inside the Beltway, not where Americans live.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He's got the surfboard on his office wall.

He's got the surfboard on his office wall.

We don't have the surf here.