All-In Podcast: AI, entitlement fraud, Iran, Israel, H-1B and the midterms

Uh, well, it's great it's great to have you back. We always appreciate that you take the time to join the besties and have a very candid, honest discussion. This is your, I think, third or fourth time on the program. Uh, and it's a great time to be on the program because you're halfway through uh your term approximately and the midterms are coming up. maybe you could assess what's went really well for and what you're proud of with this uh first two years and then let's get into some things that maybe your own constituents um are not happy with and uh let's start with the positive. What do you think you've accomplished in these first two years?

I think we we all agree with those two and just absolute congratulations on that. Uh you guys have crushed it. I think we all concur. um your constituents, the people who voted for you are extremely frustrated about two issues. Let's just tackle them head-on. The first is you promised us you wouldn't start a foreign war. You promised us you wouldn't start a foreign war in the Middle East specifically. And then you promised you would get inflation under control. You haven't been able to get inflation under control. Still 3 or 4% this year. It's not looking good. And Americans, specifically the people who voted for you, Mr. vice president are very upset about starting this war. What is your message to them? How do these two issues get resolved? Because people are very unhappy about it.

Mr. Mr. Vice President, the um one of the other things many of us were excited about with this incoming administration was addressing the fiscal deficit. Uh it seems to become more apparent to markets that this is potentially a risk to the to the the US um dollar over time. The the 30-year I think is around 5.2% now. What's your view? And you know, when the administration came in, there was an effort with Doge. Uh, but it's been very hard to get congressional action to take the steps necessary to reduce the deficit. Maybe you can share the administration's view, your view on what can we do to write the fiscal course for the federal government now and over time.

Let's, um, let's maybe double click on that, Mr. Vice President. There's one one of the ways that we can get out of this is through growth and productivity growth. But there is this crazy dynamic where it just seems like there are forces many inside the United States um that try to slow us down whether it's data centers and you may have heard yesterday but the president called in and tried to help debunk it with Jensen Meta uh was here debunking uh Microsoft was here but it just seems like a whack-a-mole problem of trying to actually get the truth out. just talk to us about how we've ended up in this situation where there are these forces that are trying to effectively lie or fear-monger to try to take power.

Mr. Vice President, great to see you. Um you know, the president called in yesterday. He's on top of the AI issue. you you're working for somebody who's the most incredibly entrepreneurial and risk-taking president perhaps in the last 50 years. I just had a at a you know personal level how is it working with somebody who is willing to take the risk that you know some people you know Jason criticized some of the things that haven't happened in the first 20 months but the fact of the matter is unlike a lot of people who occupy that office who are just looking to stay the course and take the safe path he's taking a lot of risks and then you have to help explain some of those I would I would put Trump accounts in that category the main street agenda But, you know, just talk to us a little bit at a personal level how working with him, how hard it is to keep up with his energy, his enthusiasm, his entrepreneurialism.

Uh Mr. Vice President, uh Jake forgot to ask uh his normal gotcha question on H1Bs. So, um, well, that's because they took my advice and they raised the price. You were in sync on that one. Um, it, you know, it's an issue that the tech community cares about. At the same time, we have learned that the program was riddled with fraud. I'm curious what can you give us an update on, you know, where do those efforts stand? What, you know, what's happening with that the H-1Bs?

Mr. Vice President, can I can I ask um you're you're I I think you're you're titled the frauds are now. And just going back to the the um the deficit question, every week we're seeing these videos. You know, we've got Nick Shirley here this afternoon. I think he really started this trend of some of the citizen journalists going out and trying to find the fraud in the system themselves. And every week there's a new story that's being uncovered that's just mind-blowing. tens of billions of dollars over and over again. How much fraud do you think there? And and you know this California highspeed rail, there was a guy that got paid half a billion dollars for not working. Some billionaire in Italy who owns a football team. I couldn't believe it. I I tracked all this stuff and I'm like it just your head starts to spin. How much of our $7 trillion federal spending do you think is tied up in fraud, in this kind of system of waste and this corruption? And what's your sense of the scale of the the problem?

Uh JD, before we wrap here, I want to ask you another hard question. Um this one about our relationship with the state of Israel and the president's relationship with BB Netanyahu. Um many people in the Republican party, MAGA are now moving to a new party, America first, America only. There's a rise in anti-semitism and there's a persistent belief amongst a lot of the people on the right that maybe our foreign policy is too influenced by the state of Israel or BB Netanyahu. Can you take us into the relationship right now where it stands uh and and and the you know the administration's position on collaborating with Israel on a lot of these military activities?

I know Trum wants to get one last question in here. Um, just before he does, uh, tell us, how's Marco Rubio doing in his job so far? Can you rate his performance in the first two years?

So maybe maybe as we wrap, um there's a very consequential midterm coming up. I think uh a poll on one day will say that the Republicans are going to keep, you know, everything as is. the poll on the other day say it's going to be a socialist sweep of America. It's very complicated, but can you just give us some insight into what's actually happening on the ground and what is the message that needs to be delivered so that folks can uh come to the right conclusion November?