WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:02.790 News Anchor: For more, let's bring in Virginia Congressman 00:00:02.790 --> 00:00:04.620 Ben Klein, Congressman Klein. 00:00:04.620 --> 00:00:07.650 So good to have you, uh, with us this evening. 00:00:07.770 --> 00:00:11.550 I wanna pick it up right there about kind of this return to manufacturing 00:00:11.550 --> 00:00:13.830 because this is manufacturing in America. 00:00:13.830 --> 00:00:18.720 Such a big component of President Trump's agenda, and we are seeing this investment 00:00:18.720 --> 00:00:23.970 by numerous companies, uh, here in the United States, seemingly in response to 00:00:23.970 --> 00:00:29.130 President Trump's tariff policy, upwards of $2 trillion worth of investment. 00:00:29.645 --> 00:00:33.965 Um, how long do you think it will be until the American people see 00:00:33.965 --> 00:00:37.805 and kind of feel the rewards, reap the rewards of those investments? 00:00:39.555 --> 00:00:42.495 Ben Klein: Well, the American people voted for Donald Trump because they 00:00:42.495 --> 00:00:43.965 wanted to see action right away. 00:00:44.145 --> 00:00:48.255 Uh, the Trump administration is changing its policies from the, uh, bankrupt 00:00:48.255 --> 00:00:50.085 Biden administration immediately. 00:00:50.295 --> 00:00:52.965 And so what you're seeing is a, a shift. 00:00:53.205 --> 00:00:57.345 Congress is gonna be playing catch up, but we need to pass the continuing resolution 00:00:57.345 --> 00:01:00.225 next week to keep the government running so that the administration 00:01:00.225 --> 00:01:05.055 can continue to pivot toward restoring manufacturing back to the United States. 00:01:05.055 --> 00:01:06.375 It's a great time. 00:01:06.430 --> 00:01:09.550 For American manufacturing and, uh, this administration 00:01:09.550 --> 00:01:11.860 is doing all it can to bring 00:01:11.860 --> 00:01:13.630 Interviewer: those jobs back to America. 00:01:14.110 --> 00:01:17.170 And, you know, congressman, people need to see results right 00:01:17.170 --> 00:01:20.560 away in America and to the TCJA. 00:01:20.865 --> 00:01:22.635 That one big, beautiful bill. 00:01:22.635 --> 00:01:26.745 The idea that people will see the benefits across America no matter what, 00:01:26.745 --> 00:01:28.455 not just millionaires and billionaires. 00:01:28.455 --> 00:01:32.535 That's the Democrat talking point, but people saw the benefits of it. 00:01:32.715 --> 00:01:35.955 They would also see the negatives with a 22% tax hike. 00:01:36.134 --> 00:01:39.884 If you guys in Congress don't get the TCJA passed. 00:01:43.304 --> 00:01:44.235 Ben Klein: That's exactly right. 00:01:44.235 --> 00:01:46.845 If the president wants to pass this one big, beautiful bill as soon as 00:01:46.845 --> 00:01:50.235 possible so Americans can start to feel the effects as soon as possible. 00:01:50.475 --> 00:01:52.125 And we have passed this budget. 00:01:52.155 --> 00:01:53.235 We did it last week. 00:01:53.414 --> 00:01:54.975 The Senate passed a skinny budget. 00:01:54.975 --> 00:01:56.445 We have to reconcile the two. 00:01:56.625 --> 00:02:00.164 It would be great if the Senate would just take up our one big beautiful bill. 00:02:00.164 --> 00:02:01.994 We passed by one vote in the house. 00:02:01.994 --> 00:02:05.384 We don't have much margin to, uh, really stray from that. 00:02:05.595 --> 00:02:07.005 And so if this 00:02:09.704 --> 00:02:10.514 our bill. 00:02:10.919 --> 00:02:14.940 And often and running towards extending those tax cuts and sending the signal to 00:02:14.940 --> 00:02:19.079 the market that the golden age is returned and that Trump is often running toward 00:02:19.079 --> 00:02:20.970 bringing those manufacturing jobs back. 00:02:21.029 --> 00:02:23.700 News Anchor: It's such a great point that you make David, because if you make 00:02:23.700 --> 00:02:26.489 those tax cuts permanent, that really signals to the companies that they can 00:02:26.489 --> 00:02:28.260 really trust that they're gonna get that. 00:02:28.285 --> 00:02:30.775 That treatment under tax policy for the long term. 00:02:30.775 --> 00:02:33.265 They don't have to worry about the change of administration being any, 00:02:33.265 --> 00:02:36.984 a change in ta uh, tax or tariff policy, rather, uh, you know, 00:02:36.984 --> 00:02:38.454 Congressman, I do wanna get to this. 00:02:38.454 --> 00:02:42.295 The House judiciary committee that you sit on, uh, issued a subpoena 00:02:42.325 --> 00:02:46.734 to Alphabet, which is the parent company of Google, uh, and YouTube. 00:02:47.020 --> 00:02:50.860 To find out more information about content moderation policies 00:02:51.190 --> 00:02:53.470 under the Biden administration. 00:02:53.680 --> 00:02:56.980 I think the concern here is that they were, you know, kind of working 00:02:56.980 --> 00:03:01.570 with the Biden administration to take down so-called alleged misinformation 00:03:01.600 --> 00:03:03.790 to censor, uh, certain voices. 00:03:03.790 --> 00:03:05.710 What are you hoping to learn from a subpoena? 00:03:08.530 --> 00:03:11.680 Ben Klein: We've heard from testimony from others in the private 00:03:11.680 --> 00:03:13.600 sector is that they were forced. 00:03:14.535 --> 00:03:18.495 To collude with the Biden administration to censor conservative viewpoints. 00:03:18.644 --> 00:03:23.054 Uh, and Google and, uh, and YouTube are two of the companies through Alphabet, 00:03:23.054 --> 00:03:28.454 their parent company, uh, that it's, it's becoming, uh, clear that they were being 00:03:28.454 --> 00:03:33.195 pressured by the Biden administration to censor conservative content. 00:03:33.195 --> 00:03:37.605 Whether it was about, um, COVID or whether it was about the reelection, uh, it 00:03:37.605 --> 00:03:39.614 was clear that it was across the board. 00:03:39.614 --> 00:03:42.734 And we wanna get to the bottom of just how involved. 00:03:43.015 --> 00:03:43.675 Alphabet. 00:03:43.675 --> 00:03:46.465 The parent company was in censoring that content. 00:03:46.735 --> 00:03:49.285 Interviewer: Well, Congressman, we appreciate it and I know 00:03:49.285 --> 00:03:50.905 you won't censor the truth. 00:03:51.145 --> 00:03:52.525 That's called transparency. 00:03:52.525 --> 00:03:53.035 Thank you. 00:03:54.565 --> 00:03:55.135 Ben Klein: Absolutely. 00:03:55.135 --> 00:03:55.165 I.