Guests: Ted Budd, Robert Cahaly, Mike Lee, Herschel Walker, Yesli Vega, Monica De La Cru
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, discusses his re-election bid for Senate against Evan McMullin , inflation, the Republicans' agenda following the 2022 midterms, and the politicization of the FBI on 'Sunday Morning Futures.'
Coming up, leading pollster Robert Cahaly from the Trafalgar Group with the very latest polling numbers, with now 48 hours until Election Day. HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON , FORMER U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE: They don't care about keeping you safe. They want to keep you scared. In Utah, Republican Senator Mike Lee is defending his seat against independent challenger Evan McMullin, who claims that, if he wins, he won't caucus with either party. But according to a recent article from The Wall Street Journal, McMullin has -- quote --"raised money from Democrats" and the state party declined to run its own candidate.Senator, good to see you this morning. Thanks so much for being here.
And make no mistake, Maria, if we as Republicans are given another chance to control both houses of Congress, we understand that we will be on a short leash. We understand that things can't be business as usual. We have got to undertake this effort to combat inflation seriously, aggressively, and by reining in federal spending and reining in excesses and abuses of government that have been going on for far too long.
They need to be on the floor longer, subject to debate, discussion and amendment. Step three, we need to undertake a massive review and overhaul of the federal regulatory system that imposes $2 trillion to $3 trillion of regulatory compliance costs on the economy. So, if there is a Republican victory of any significant scope on Tuesday, I think what we need to do is pass a continuing resolution to keep the government funded through perhaps the end of January, allowing Republicans to move in and pass their own spending bill without all the Democratic pork added into it.
We have got to get questions in those hearings. Once we have answers to those questions, we move to the next phase. And that next phase perhaps ought to involve some type of restructuring. Look, most FBI agents are still good and decent and not politically motivated. At headquarters, we have got problems.
I think it's imperative that Republicans come together around spending reform, around regulatory reform, and on aggressive oversight for the next two years.And here are the top five GOP senators that typically vote for Biden's agenda, Susan Collins leading with 69.6 percent. But what's happened with Masters is so important. With the libertarian dropping out of that race, I mean, he's still on the ballot, so there are still going to be a few people who voted him for early, who will vote for him on Election Day. But the fact is, this thing is tied now.
But, frankly, to have an advantage at all against Hochul is significant. And we also see a lot of people who -- a lot of Democrats who wish Cuomo was still there backing Lee Zeldin. That's an important part of the coalition that's backing Zeldin. But he's got a lot of strength. CAHALY: Well, if it's a red wave, and you see virtually every candidate Donald Trump has endorsed win, then it's hard to make the argument that Donald Trump won't be a viable candidate.
Nearly 2.4 million migrants were encountered by border agents. At least 599,000 migrants evaded apprehension. That's part of the one million who got away that we know of in the last year-and-a-half. The trek is a dangerous one, through the Rio Grande. And some 856 migrants are dead. They died while making the dangerous trek crossing the border, while more than 14,000 pounds of fentanyl have been seized in the last fiscal year.
Moms, suburban moms are -- will vote Republican, because when you get a mama bear upset, she's going to go all in and protect her children. And I think that's what we will see in the polls on November 8.
And that's why it's so important for people to get out and vote or this coming Tuesday, so that we can take our country back, so that we can protect our children from the madness that we're seeing coming from today's Democrat Party.One of my border sources in El Paso sent me a shot of one of the Border Patrol agents actually having his arm impacted because the migrants from Venezuela were throwing rocks at them. And he's going to be OK. He's fine. But a rock hit him.
And it is dangerous. There are several stories where not just do they have a rock hit on their arm, but have actually died. In the last year, we had a Border Patrol agent who actually drowned in the Rio Grande River saving an illegal immigrant. It is a dangerous job. Our -- my socialist opponent worships big government. We in South Texas worship God. She should not be running here. That's for sure.VEGA: Oh, it is possible, because she's done everything in her power to ignore it.
BARTIROMO: That was President Biden speaking on Wednesday night in his last-ditch effort to convince voters that Republicans are a threat to democracy, despite Democrats in Washington, D.C., right now on the verge of giving noncitizens the right to vote in local elections, and President Biden using his FBI and DOJ as weapons against his political enemies, while the Democrats say they want to pack the Supreme Court, among other moves against the U.S. Constitution and U.S. democracy.
The biggest threat to democracy is have the people that -- the Democrats right now leading this country, because they seem to be taking this country in the wrong direction. And I think America sees that and they know that. The biggest threat, to me, is to have someone like that representing Georgia. And I say, I'm not going to stand for it. Right now, he's called our men and women in blue thugs and bullies. They are bringing pronouns into our military, but yet they're saying it's the Republicans' fault.
He said, he was a great running back, he was the best on the field, but he shouldn't be the guy to represent you.WALKER: Well, my answer to Obama is, he got it wrong when he told us to vote for Joe Biden. He got that wrong, didn't he? BARTIROMO: So, you're talking about the apartment that Raphael Warnock owns and the conditions in that apartment?And that's what he continues to say. And I -- I told people this. I put my business experience against his business experience any day, because it's built my business. Oh, yes, he don't have a business. All he ever done is lived off of his parishioners, and he lived off the federal government. He lived off the government. He's never built anything.
BARTIROMO: Herschel, what will be your priority should you win this race? Tell me where your interests are in terms of what you think you can take on. And then we're putting ourself in a national security problem. They have given up a lot our Strategic Reserve. That is a -- national security problems. And we got to continue to protect this country. That is the biggest threat to democracy is to have people that don't protect America.
It was the fourth straight 75-basis-point hike. That rate hike will also mean taxpayers will be paying more on the $31 trillion debt that the federal government has accumulated, including the $5 trillion of borrowing on Joe Biden's watch. For the last fiscal year, taxpayers paid almost half- a-trillion dollars just on the interest alone. That is a 35 percent increase from 2021.
It's made it hard on small businesses trying to meet the demand of the consumers out there. And even -- we don't even have enough truck drivers to get groceries to the grocery store, nor enough diesel to get it there. So these are all self-inflicted problems by Joe Biden. So what we have to do in the next few years is press the brakes on his agenda and get this country back on the right track.
You have got to stop pumping trillions of dollars in there, essentially to buy votes, which is what Joe Biden has done and what Cheri Beasley would do. So, let's stop all this excess money, starting, what, back in April of 2021, when Joe Biden pumped trillions more dollars into the economy.
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