J.D. Vance

By the way, you won Georgia three times.

It's kids in a chat room by focusing on what kids are saying in a group chat.

Grow up.

I'm sorry.

Focus on the real issues.

Don't focus on what kids say in group chats.

But

There's another angle to this that I just have to be honest about.

I'm like an old guy at this point.

I'm 41 years old.

I have three kids.

I grew up in a different world where most of the stupid things that I did when I was a teenager and a young adult, they're not on the Internet.

I'm going to tell my kids, especially my boys, don't put things on the Internet.

Be careful with what you post.

If you put something in a group chat, assume that some scumbag is going to leak it in an effort to try to cause you harm or cause your family harm.

But the reality is that kids do stupid things, especially young boys.

They tell edgy, young boys, kids of jokes like that's what kids do.

And I really don't want us to grow up in a country where a kid telling a stupid joke, telling a very offensive, stupid joke is caused to ruin their lives.

And at some point, we're all going to have to say enough of this B.S.,

That real unity comes from acknowledging the reality of the situation that we're in.

Right.

Unity requires everybody being on the same page, having some common commonality of values

And real unity requires us to acknowledge the fact that while yes, there are crazies on both sides, we have a country of 330 million people, you're gonna be able to find crazies on either side, political violence is just a statistical fact, it's a bigger problem on the left.

And if you had, God forbid, somebody on the left who was assassinated,

Yeah, I'm sure that you could find one person who would maybe celebrate it or one person who would be offensive.

But the fact that it became mainstream to celebrate Charlie's death, to talk about the fact that he maybe deserved to die because he had said hateful things like that just wasn't happening.

George, you've covered the story ad nauseum.

Tom Homan did not take a bribe.

A ridiculous smear, and the reason you guys are going after Tom Homan so aggressively is because he's doing the job of enforcing the law.

I think it's really preposterous.

I know Tom.

I think that he's a good man.

He gets death threats.

He gets attacked.

He gets constantly threatened by people because he has the audacity to want to enforce the country's immigration law.

I think that it would be a much more interesting story about why is it that Tom Homan, who is simply enforcing Americans' immigration laws, is getting constantly harassed and threatened to the point of death threats.

That's a much more interesting question that I think journalists should focus on.

We can agree to disagree on that question.

George, this story has been covered ad nauseum.

He did not take a bribe.

Did he accept fifty thousand dollars?

I'm sure that in the course of Tom Homan's life, he has been paid more than fifty thousand dollars for services.

The question is, did he do something illegal?

And there's absolutely no evidence that Tom Holman has ever taken a bribe with anything illegal, which is why he's working in the administration.

George, I don't know what you're talking about.

Did he accept $50,000 for what?

Accepting $50,000 for doing what, George?

I'm not even sure I understand the question.

Is it a crime, even the far left media like yourself?

So I'm actually not.

Not sure what the precise question is.

Did he accept $50,000?

Honestly, George, I don't know the answer to that question.

What I do know is that he didn't violate a crime.

I don't know what tape you're referring to, George.

I saw media reports that Tom Homan accepted a bribe.

There's no evidence of that.

And here's, George, why fewer and fewer people watch your program and why you're losing credibility, because you're talking for now five minutes with the vice president, United States

About this story regarding Tom Homan, a story that I've read about, but I don't even know the video that you're talking about.

Meanwhile, low income women can't get food because the Democrats and Chuck Schumer have shut down the government.

Right now, we're trying to figure out how to pay our troops because Chuck Schumer has shut down the government.

You are focused on a bogus story.

You're insinuating criminal wrongdoing against a guy who has done nothing wrong.

Instead of focusing on the fact that our country is struggling because our government's shut down.

Let's talk about the real issues, George.

I think the American people would benefit much more from that than from you going down some weird left-wing rabbit hole where the facts clearly show that Tom Homan didn't engage in any criminal wrongdoing.

So you ask, how does this mistake happen?

It happened because Chuck Schumer shut down the government and we're trying to make sure that essential services still function in the face of that shutdown.

But my point is, Margaret, that we have to do layoffs because we have to preserve necessary resources to do the most critical things that the government does.

And in that phase, you're going to have some chaos.

You're going to lay off people, frankly, Margaret, that the White House doesn't want to lay off.

We would like to reopen the government and ensure these central essential services stayed on.

stay on.

But unfortunately, in an environment where we're dealing with limited resources, where the government is shut down, we've got to move some things around.

And in that moving things around, there is some chaos, there is some unpredictability, but we're trying to do everything that we can with the hand of cards that Chuck Schumer and the Democrats have dealt us.

Well, Kristen, I wouldn't focus on the political pressure to get a deal.

We really don't care what the poll numbers say.

But what about what President Trump said?

What's good for the American people?

Well, Kristen, the president was talking back then when Barack Obama was president about the political realities.

We are focused now on the governing realities because we're in power and we're trying to make the American people's government work for the American people, despite the fact that Chuck Schumer, the Democrats, have shut down the government.

Well, as Chuck Schumer said, it's not all lawmakers.

It's the Senate leadership that really is driving this shutdown.

The House has already passed a bill to reopen the government.

It's the Senate.

And again, it's a far left sort of contingent of Senate Democrats who are keeping the government shut down.

But the president says he's a dealmaker.

Margaret, it's a totally fair question, and the answer is because this isn't a deal-making, this isn't a negotiation, this is hostage-shaking.

Chuck Schumer has not said to us, this is what we need.

He said that unless you give us what we need, we're gonna shut down the government.

That is a totally different thing.

If Chuck Schumer wants to come into the Oval Office or come to my house, he is welcome to talk about how to fix healthcare policy for Americans.

Well, so two responses to that, Margaret.

First of all, I want to assure the American people that the frontline health care workers, the people who monitor measles, Ebola, and other infectious diseases, those people are still on the job.

And we're trying very hard to figure out how to ensure those people get a paycheck, of course, because we want them to be happy and healthy.

We want them to be able to do their jobs well.

But the second point, Margaret, is the government shutdown inevitably leads to some chaos.

We are figuring out how to take money from some areas and give it to other areas.

That chaos is because Schumer and the far left Democrats shut down the government.

We have to remember, Margaret, that the vast majority of Republicans and to their great credit, a number of moderate Democrats have consistently voted to reopen the government.

But if Chuck Schumer and the far left Senate Democrats are going to shut down the government, that is going to lead to some chaos.