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A crushing week for computer chip maker Intel. House Republicans roll out their proposed changes to Ohio's law on recreational weed. And a conversation with Republican candidate for governor Dave Yost.

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00:00:38	A crushing week for computer
00:00:38	chipmaker Intel.
00:00:42	House Republicans
00:00:43	roll out their proposed
00:00:43	changes
00:00:44	to Ohio's law
00:00:44	on recreational weed.
00:00:47	And a conversation
00:00:47	with Republican candidate
00:00:49	for governor, David Frost.
00:00:50	That's this
00:00:50	week in the state of Ohio.
00:01:09	Just.
00:01:11	Welcome to the state of Ohio.
00:01:12	I'm Karen, counselor.
00:01:14	It's been a bad week
00:01:14	for Intel.
00:01:16	The computer chip maker
00:01:16	announced
00:01:17	another delay on its central
00:01:17	Ohio manufacturing plant,
00:01:21	the largest private
00:01:21	investment ever in Ohio,
00:01:24	and then found out
00:01:24	it might have to fight
00:01:26	President Trump
00:01:27	for federal funds
00:01:28	that were approved during
00:01:28	the Biden administration.
00:01:30	With the intention of bringing
00:01:31	semiconductor manufacturing
00:01:31	back to the US from overseas.
00:01:35	State House correspondent
00:01:35	Sarah Donaldson reports.
00:01:38	It was only a little more
00:01:38	than a half a minute
00:01:41	out of Trump's
00:01:42	first speech to Congress
00:01:42	of his second administration,
00:01:45	the longest
00:01:45	such address in U.S. history.
00:01:47	But it had a big impact.
00:01:49	And we're not giving them
00:01:49	any money.
00:01:51	Your Chips act is a horrible,
00:01:51	horrible thing.
00:01:54	We give hundreds
00:01:54	of billions of dollars
00:01:57	and it doesn't mean a thing.
00:01:58	They take our money
00:01:58	and they don't spend it.
00:02:01	All that meant to them,
00:02:01	we're giving them no money.
00:02:05	All that was important to them
00:02:06	was they didn't
00:02:06	want to pay the tariffs.
00:02:08	So they came in that building.
00:02:09	And many other
00:02:09	companies are coming.
00:02:11	We don't have to give them
00:02:11	money.
00:02:13	We just want to protect
00:02:13	our businesses and our people.
00:02:16	And they will come
00:02:16	because they won't have to
00:02:17	pay tariffs
00:02:17	if they build in America.
00:02:20	So it's very amazing.
00:02:21	You should get rid
00:02:22	of the chip back
00:02:22	and whatever's left over.
00:02:26	Mr. speaker, you
00:02:26	should use it to reduce debt
00:02:29	or any
00:02:29	other reason you want to.
00:02:32	Intel is among the companies
00:02:32	that benefited the most
00:02:34	from the Chips
00:02:34	and Science Act,
00:02:36	signed by President Biden
00:02:36	in August 2022, a few months
00:02:40	after Intel officially
00:02:40	broke ground in central Ohio.
00:02:43	Intel is set to get
00:02:44	nearly $8 billion for projects
00:02:44	in Ohio and elsewhere,
00:02:48	and the U.S.
00:02:49	Department of Commerce
00:02:50	says $2.2 billion
00:02:50	have already been disbursed.
00:02:53	Republican state Senator Tim
00:02:55	Schaefer's district
00:02:55	includes the Intel site.
00:02:58	He said he believes
00:02:58	those written agreements
00:03:00	between Intel
00:03:01	and the federal government
00:03:01	preclude its central
00:03:03	Ohio project
00:03:03	from being affected
00:03:05	by Trump's call
00:03:05	for crushing the Chips act.
00:03:08	I don't know if he came out
00:03:08	against the Chips act
00:03:10	so much as he is coming out
00:03:10	against any future or future,
00:03:15	future, legislation
00:03:15	along the line
00:03:19	that may not be in his vision
00:03:19	of making
00:03:21	sure we're making product here
00:03:21	in America
00:03:23	with American workers,
00:03:23	especially in Ohio.
00:03:26	My angle is Ohio.
00:03:27	Since
00:03:27	the Intel is in my district,
00:03:28	I do want to protect that,
00:03:28	project.
00:03:32	It's going to provide
00:03:32	is providing,
00:03:33	but it's going to provide more
00:03:34	and more jobs in our district
00:03:36	and all of central
00:03:36	Ohio, really, all of Ohio.
00:03:38	And that's very,
00:03:38	very important
00:03:40	for our economic development.
00:03:41	So I have no concerns about,
00:03:44	what's coming
00:03:44	out of Washington.
00:03:47	Everybody's
00:03:48	everybody's fully committed
00:03:48	to making sure
00:03:51	we're
00:03:51	making these chips in America,
00:03:53	and that is our goal.
00:03:54	I think that's everybody's
00:03:54	goal.
00:03:55	Governor Mike DeWine spokesman
00:03:55	Dan Tierney said
00:03:58	in a text when Intel announced
00:03:58	the New Albany Project.
00:04:02	They committed to it.
00:04:03	Whether the Chips act
00:04:03	was passed or not.
00:04:05	The company remains
00:04:05	committed to
00:04:07	ensuring its manufacturing,
00:04:07	which aligns with President
00:04:09	Trump's semiconductor strategy
00:04:09	and on shoring strategy
00:04:13	until a firm proposal moves
00:04:13	through Congress,
00:04:16	it is prudent
00:04:16	to reserve comment
00:04:16	until more details are known.
00:04:20	Trump's comments and reactions
00:04:20	to them have frustrated
00:04:22	minority Democrats,
00:04:22	who say they'll push DeWine
00:04:25	to fight for the Chips
00:04:25	act funds.
00:04:27	We have put a lot on the line
00:04:29	in the state of Ohio
00:04:29	to move that project forward.
00:04:32	Look, we're building housing.
00:04:34	We're paving roads.
00:04:35	We are getting ready for
00:04:35	a massive development project
00:04:40	that will make a difference
00:04:40	for not just
00:04:43	the state of Ohio,
00:04:43	but the entire country
00:04:45	producing these chips
00:04:45	as it is, the president said.
00:04:48	It's a
00:04:49	point of national security
00:04:49	as well
00:04:51	to produce these chips
00:04:51	in the United States,
00:04:54	and especially
00:04:54	in the state of Ohio.
00:04:56	It was promised,
00:04:56	by the federal government.
00:04:59	We need to
00:05:01	I absolutely believe
00:05:01	we should follow through
00:05:03	the increased Chips Act.
00:05:05	A tangent comes at
00:05:05	a critical juncture for Intel.
00:05:08	The computer chip maker
00:05:08	outlined another timeline
00:05:10	delay on its central
00:05:10	Ohio project last Friday,
00:05:14	punting the date to finish
00:05:15	one fabrication plant to 2030
00:05:15	and the 2nd to 2031.
00:05:19	Neither will come online
00:05:19	until at least 2031.
00:05:23	If it's delayed at all,
00:05:23	then it's delayed
00:05:25	simply
00:05:25	because of how they manage
00:05:26	their capital,
00:05:26	how they manage their assets,
00:05:28	and their customer
00:05:28	expectations.
00:05:30	What the federal government is
00:05:31	doing is they are committing,
00:05:33	and we have written agreements
00:05:33	to this already in place
00:05:36	between Intel
00:05:36	and the federal government,
00:05:37	written contracts
00:05:37	to help support that effort.
00:05:40	And, you know, otherwise
00:05:40	known as the Chips act,
00:05:43	the state has already
00:05:43	disbursed $600 million in on
00:05:46	shoring grants
00:05:46	for its venture.
00:05:48	The Ohio Department
00:05:48	of Development
00:05:49	awarded Intel those on shoring
00:05:49	grants and set 2028
00:05:53	as the deadline
00:05:54	for when it needs
00:05:54	to meet its job and investment
00:05:54	commitments to the state,
00:05:58	according to department
00:05:58	contract documents.
00:06:00	A department spokesperson
00:06:00	wrote in an email last week
00:06:03	that expectation
00:06:03	remains unchanged.
00:06:06	Sarah Donaldson,
00:06:06	Statehouse News Bureau.
00:06:09	House Republicans
00:06:09	have put forward their changes
00:06:12	to the state's
00:06:12	voter approved cannabis law,
00:06:14	a week after a party line vote
00:06:16	in the Senate on its overhaul
00:06:17	of the recreational
00:06:17	marijuana program.
00:06:20	Unlike the Senate bill,
00:06:21	the House would require
00:06:21	Delta eight
00:06:23	THC and other similar products
00:06:23	be sold at dispensaries.
00:06:27	That's largely
00:06:27	unregulated now,
00:06:29	which governor Mike DeWine
00:06:29	has been pushing to change.
00:06:32	The House bill also restores
00:06:32	home grow to 12 plants
00:06:35	for households from a maximum
00:06:35	of six per household.
00:06:39	In the Senate proposal.
00:06:39	And both bills
00:06:41	cap the THC content
00:06:41	for dispensary products.
00:06:45	The 2026 primary is May 5th.
00:06:47	That's 14 months away.
00:06:50	And on the Republican side,
00:06:50	there are three candidates
00:06:52	already the long shot
00:06:52	former Morgan
00:06:54	County Board of Education
00:06:54	president Heather Hill,
00:06:57	the new entrant, tech
00:06:57	billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy,
00:07:00	and the one he'd been
00:07:00	planning his run for a while.
00:07:03	Attorney General Dave Yost.
00:07:04	Over the course
00:07:04	of the next year
00:07:06	and two months,
00:07:06	we'll be covering this
00:07:06	campaign by the Republicans
00:07:09	and the Democrats.
00:07:10	Right now,
00:07:10	the only one from that side
00:07:12	running for governor
00:07:12	is former Ohio
00:07:14	Department of Health
00:07:14	director Doctor Amy Acton.
00:07:17	I'll feature
00:07:17	my interview with her soon.
00:07:19	But this week, my conversation
00:07:19	with Dave Yost.
00:07:22	You've been in public office
00:07:22	for a while now.
00:07:24	Your term limited
00:07:24	as attorney general.
00:07:26	You were state auditor
00:07:26	and term limited before that.
00:07:28	You announced your campaign
00:07:28	in January,
00:07:30	after John Houston's
00:07:30	appointment to the U.S.
00:07:32	Senate.
00:07:32	Shook up that whole race.
00:07:34	Since then, Vikram Swamy
00:07:34	has launched his campaign.
00:07:36	He's gotten endorsements
00:07:36	from some sheriffs,
00:07:38	though
00:07:38	you have more endorsements
00:07:39	from sheriffs,
00:07:39	as I understand,
00:07:41	some statewide executive
00:07:41	officeholders, candidates
00:07:43	and of course, President
00:07:43	Trump.
00:07:45	He's running
00:07:45	in this outsider lane
00:07:47	here, which has benefited
00:07:50	JD Vance, Bernie Marino,
00:07:50	and arguably President Trump.
00:07:53	Where where
00:07:53	is the path for you to win?
00:07:57	Well, I'm
00:07:57	running because of my record.
00:08:00	I've got results,
00:08:00	not just rhetoric.
00:08:03	I've won elections.
00:08:05	My opponent has never won
00:08:05	an election.
00:08:07	And, you know, candidly,
00:08:07	I think
00:08:10	probably the outsider
00:08:11	candidate in this race,
00:08:12	because if you look around
00:08:12	cap square,
00:08:15	these are the same people
00:08:15	that have fought with me
00:08:18	during my time as auditor.
00:08:20	Sometimes when I've been
00:08:20	attorney general
00:08:23	and now they're all lining
00:08:23	up, behind my opponent.
00:08:27	I don't think that they like
00:08:27	that.
00:08:29	I call balls and strikes.
00:08:31	Is that at all
00:08:32	frustrating to have
00:08:32	so many years in public office
00:08:34	and to see people
00:08:34	lining up behind
00:08:36	someone who's new
00:08:36	to this whole situation?
00:08:39	Look, I,
00:08:40	I the
00:08:40	the endorsement that I seek
00:08:40	the most and I'm very proud
00:08:43	of the endorsements
00:08:43	that we have.
00:08:45	And honored to have them.
00:08:47	But the ultimate endorsement
00:08:49	is the endorsement
00:08:49	of the people of Ohio,
00:08:51	and they've given it to me
00:08:51	four times.
00:08:53	Now, there was a memo from
00:08:55	your campaign team
00:08:55	that came out before Rama
00:08:57	Swamy launched
00:08:59	that said his early advantage
00:08:59	was a sugar high, driven
00:09:02	by media
00:09:02	and perceived association
00:09:04	with President Trump,
00:09:05	that the Trump endorsement
00:09:05	was the key factor.
00:09:07	So the Trump endorsements out
00:09:07	there, you're still firmly
00:09:10	in this race. Yeah.
00:09:12	And look, wrote President
00:09:12	Trump, endorsed me in 2022.
00:09:17	He has endorsed
00:09:19	multiple candidates
00:09:19	in the same race in the past.
00:09:22	I, I would like
00:09:22	to have his support.
00:09:26	No question about it.
00:09:27	But, at the end of the day,
00:09:27	it's the people of Ohio
00:09:31	that will make this decision.
00:09:33	You talked about
00:09:33	several issues here.
00:09:34	Like,
00:09:34	for example, immigration.
00:09:36	You said you'd sign
00:09:37	an executive order on day
00:09:37	one to mandate
00:09:39	local law enforcement
00:09:39	work with Ice.
00:09:41	Though there are some cities
00:09:42	that have pushed back on that.
00:09:44	You've battled against
00:09:44	pharmacy benefit
00:09:45	managers, PBMs,
00:09:45	calling them modern gangsters.
00:09:49	You sued the Biden
00:09:49	administration
00:09:50	repeatedly over issues
00:09:51	you felt
00:09:51	were federal overreach,
00:09:53	like the Covid
00:09:53	19 vaccine mandate,
00:09:55	and also a provision
00:09:55	in federal funding
00:09:57	that prevented states
00:09:57	from issuing tax cuts.
00:10:00	What would
00:10:00	be your top priority?
00:10:03	My top priority
00:10:05	is to set goals
00:10:05	for the state of Ohio.
00:10:09	Oh, every politician comes
00:10:09	in talking about problems,
00:10:11	stacking them
00:10:11	one on top of the other
00:10:13	and pledging that
00:10:14	there would be the finally,
00:10:16	the person that's
00:10:16	going to solve the problems.
00:10:18	I don't think
00:10:18	we live our lives that way.
00:10:21	We live our lives
00:10:22	by figuring out
00:10:22	where we want to go
00:10:24	and how we're
00:10:24	going to get there.
00:10:26	And that's
00:10:26	what we ought to do for Ohio.
00:10:29	Is set goals.
00:10:31	How about universal literacy
00:10:31	when we've got kids that
00:10:35	get out of school
00:10:35	and can't functionally read,
00:10:38	can't learn a new job
00:10:38	from them?
00:10:41	Operating manual.
00:10:42	How about we talk about Ohio
00:10:42	Energy
00:10:46	produced in Ohio
00:10:46	from Ohio, resources
00:10:49	for Ohioans and Ohio
00:10:49	businesses and manufacturers.
00:10:53	Forget about the intrastate
00:10:53	interstate commerce
00:10:58	and having to give federal
00:10:58	permits.
00:11:00	Let's focus on Ohio
00:11:00	and not worry about the other
00:11:03	states in the market.
00:11:05	How about we set a goal
00:11:05	of being younger and growing?
00:11:11	Instead of shrinking
00:11:11	more vibrant?
00:11:13	These are the kinds of goals
00:11:15	that our government
00:11:15	ought to be setting.
00:11:17	And then we can talk about
00:11:18	how to get there
00:11:18	collaboratively.
00:11:21	What strength do you feel you
00:11:21	bring that, say the Ramaswamy
00:11:24	or say,
00:11:25	Lieutenant Governor
00:11:25	Jim Tressel, who has not said
00:11:28	he's going to run
00:11:28	but has not ruled it out.
00:11:30	What's your advantage
00:11:31	compared
00:11:31	to those two candidates
00:11:33	who would be leading
00:11:33	candidates in this race?
00:11:36	Proven results.
00:11:37	When, I was auditor state,
00:11:40	I found $260
00:11:40	million worth of cuts
00:11:44	and efficiency savings,
00:11:44	through my work.
00:11:48	With our performance audit,
00:11:48	I was,
00:11:51	Dodge before Dodge was cool.
00:11:54	And when I was,
00:11:56	the promise that I was going
00:11:56	to go after public corruption,
00:11:59	we, our work
00:11:59	led to more than 170
00:12:04	criminal convictions
00:12:04	for public corruption.
00:12:08	You know, as attorney general,
00:12:08	I said I was going to fight
00:12:11	for Ohioans on free speech
00:12:11	and federal overreach
00:12:15	and religious freedom.
00:12:16	And we've done
00:12:16	all of those things.
00:12:19	Everybody else can talk about
00:12:19	what they'd like to do,
00:12:23	but I can talk about
00:12:23	what I've already done.
00:12:26	So I used to tell juries
00:12:26	when I was prosecuting
00:12:28	attorney in Delaware County,
00:12:30	don't just listen
00:12:30	to what they say
00:12:32	because people will say
00:12:32	the truth.
00:12:34	They'll say
00:12:35	anything to try to get you
00:12:35	to go along with them.
00:12:38	Look at what
00:12:38	they actually did.
00:12:39	Because when you see
00:12:39	what they do, what they did,
00:12:43	you're going to begin to see
00:12:43	the truth of the matter.
00:12:46	When you talk about
00:12:46	public corruption, there are
00:12:47	those who would criticize
00:12:49	you saying on the House Bill
00:12:49	six case, you didn't do it
00:12:52	quickly enough.
00:12:53	You didn't go far enough
00:12:53	in trying
00:12:55	to figure out exactly the role
00:12:57	that FirstEnergy was playing
00:12:57	and the House speaker,
00:13:00	former House Speaker Larry
00:13:00	Householder and everything,
00:13:02	that you could have gone
00:13:02	further.
00:13:04	Well,
00:13:04	that's simply not the fact.
00:13:07	Those aren't the that's not
00:13:07	the evidence of the record.
00:13:11	Dave Yost went out and sued
00:13:11	First Energy and all those,
00:13:16	perpetrators, and we stopped
00:13:16	the nuclear subsidy
00:13:21	through our court action.
00:13:22	That's $1 billion that didn't
00:13:24	get taken out of ratepayers
00:13:24	pockets.
00:13:27	We also stopped decoupling,
00:13:27	which you understand
00:13:30	because you were there.
00:13:31	But I'm not going to try
00:13:31	to explain it to you.
00:13:33	Yeah,
00:13:33	that's a whole other show.
00:13:34	But but basically
00:13:34	it was a guaranteed profit
00:13:38	provision for FirstEnergy.
00:13:40	That could have been
00:13:40	another billion dollars.
00:13:42	Who did that?
00:13:43	Not the federal government,
00:13:45	not the Franklin
00:13:45	County prosecutor, Dave Yost.
00:13:48	The attorney general was
00:13:49	the one that went to court
00:13:49	and won those victories
00:13:52	for Ohioans.
00:13:53	So I just categorically reject
00:13:56	anybody
00:13:56	that wants to criticize
00:13:57	and say that we didn't do
00:13:57	enough.
00:13:59	We did more than anybody,
00:14:00	and we have all, on
00:14:00	top of that,
00:14:02	we have cases pending
00:14:02	against the private sector,
00:14:06	guys that wrote the checks
00:14:06	that provided the oxygen for,
00:14:10	the public corruption
00:14:10	that occurred.
00:14:13	We're going to hold them
00:14:13	accountable to, nobody's
00:14:13	done more to bring justice on.
00:14:18	And House Bill
00:14:18	six and Dave Yost, including
00:14:18	my friends in the legislature.
00:14:22	Are you satisfied
00:14:22	with the settlement
00:14:24	you got with FirstEnergy?
00:14:25	Because there were critics,
00:14:25	including many Democrats,
00:14:28	most Democrats,
00:14:28	who said it was too low.
00:14:30	Yeah. And I have to be
00:14:30	candid with you.
00:14:32	I it was by that point
00:14:32	screened off from the,
00:14:37	those negotiations
00:14:37	because of,
00:14:40	the political posture
00:14:40	of the of the situation
00:14:44	at that point.
00:14:45	And I didn't
00:14:45	want to taint the prosecution,
00:14:47	so I wasn't involved
00:14:47	with that.
00:14:50	I might have negotiated
00:14:50	a different, outcome.
00:14:54	But we'll never know
00:14:54	because I wasn't at the table.
00:14:57	I hadn't trust my staff on it.
00:14:59	I, brought up, Lieutenant
00:14:59	Governor Jim Tressel,
00:15:02	who, again, has not said he's
00:15:02	going to run.
00:15:03	It's not ruled out
00:15:03	that he's going to run.
00:15:05	If he does get into this race,
00:15:05	does that change
00:15:07	what you'll do?
00:15:09	No. Look,
00:15:09	competition is good.
00:15:13	The competition
00:15:13	between my friend Vivek and I,
00:15:17	we've known each other
00:15:17	for a number of years.
00:15:19	It's going to make both of us
00:15:19	better.
00:15:21	If Jim gets into.
00:15:22	I've known him for 15 years.
00:15:24	I have the highest respect
00:15:24	for him.
00:15:26	He'll improve the debate,
00:15:26	heal him, and make all of us
00:15:29	better as well.
00:15:30	And ultimately,
00:15:30	it's the people of Ohio
00:15:32	that are going to be
00:15:32	the winners there.
00:15:34	You talk about the
00:15:34	the voters of Ohio
00:15:36	that you're seeking here.
00:15:37	There certainly are a lot of
00:15:37	pro-Trump Republicans in Ohio.
00:15:40	But there have been some
00:15:40	things have been happening
00:15:42	recently that are frustrated,
00:15:42	even some Republicans.
00:15:44	The DOJ's job cuts.
00:15:46	You've got the Oval Office
00:15:46	blowup between President
00:15:49	Trump, Vice
00:15:50	President Vance and President
00:15:50	Zelensky from Ukraine.
00:15:53	Ohio has 45,000 people
00:15:53	with Ukrainian roots.
00:15:56	So I'm wondering
00:15:56	what kind of Republican
00:15:58	are you hoping to reach?
00:16:00	Who are you hoping
00:16:00	will hear your message and
00:16:02	embrace it over
00:16:02	anybody else's?
00:16:05	I'm hoping to reach
00:16:05	all Republicans.
00:16:07	I think every Republican,
00:16:07	regardless of your worldview,
00:16:11	values
00:16:11	proven results with values.
00:16:14	A conservative,
00:16:14	that acts on principle.
00:16:18	Who is fiscal conservative
00:16:18	and fights for the people?
00:16:22	So there isn't anybody
00:16:22	I'm not trying to reach.
00:16:26	You are a social conservative,
00:16:26	though
00:16:27	it should be said
00:16:27	you identify as pro-life.
00:16:29	You've done a lot in the,
00:16:29	space about LGBTQ rights
00:16:34	and specifically trans
00:16:36	athletes in sports
00:16:36	and that sort of thing.
00:16:38	You've written on X that
00:16:38	the left is incapable
00:16:42	of coherence or governance.
00:16:43	You've posted about the elites
00:16:45	and blue states
00:16:45	and the lunatic left.
00:16:47	So it sounds like
00:16:47	you're not trying to appeal
00:16:48	to Democrats at all.
00:16:50	Well, certainly
00:16:50	not the progressive left.
00:16:52	Because they are incoherent.
00:16:55	The thing that you just cited
00:16:55	was about a specific argument
00:16:59	that they're making,
00:16:59	which is that
00:17:02	one of these people
00:17:02	that are being deported
00:17:04	who are here
00:17:04	illegally might cure cancer
00:17:04	or do some great thing.
00:17:08	Well,
00:17:08	that is true of any human
00:17:10	being anywhere on the planet.
00:17:11	So, that argument
00:17:11	falls of its own weight
00:17:16	because we clearly can't
00:17:16	bring the entire
00:17:18	globe under the thought
00:17:18	that maybe one of them
00:17:21	is going to cure cancer.
00:17:22	Everybody come to the United
00:17:22	States. That's that's silly.
00:17:25	It doesn't.
00:17:26	It collapses
00:17:26	when you even think about it.
00:17:29	That's what I was about
00:17:29	when I talked about
00:17:32	the our friends on the left
00:17:32	being incoherent.
00:17:35	They really need to go back
00:17:35	to the drawing board
00:17:38	and figure out what it is
00:17:38	they believe in.
00:17:40	Because they have twisted
00:17:40	themselves into such pretzels
00:17:44	that ordinary Americans
00:17:46	don't even understand
00:17:46	what they're saying anymore.
00:17:48	We got to talk about money
00:17:48	here.
00:17:50	Both you and Ramaswamy
00:17:50	have high name recognition,
00:17:52	according to some polling
00:17:52	that's been out there.
00:17:55	But Rama Swamy comes in
00:17:55	with a lot of money.
00:17:56	He raised a lot of money
00:17:56	over the last weekend.
00:17:58	With the help of Don
00:17:58	Donald Trump Jr.
00:18:01	Raised a lot of money.
00:18:02	Has a lot of people in that
00:18:02	space that can donate money.
00:18:05	How do you how do you battle
00:18:05	against that?
00:18:07	Well, we raise money to look,
00:18:07	if all it took was money,
00:18:12	you'd be talking about
00:18:13	President Michael Bloomberg
00:18:13	or Senator Matt Dolan.
00:18:17	The money.
00:18:18	What you need is enough money,
00:18:18	and we're confident
00:18:22	we're going to have enough.
00:18:24	I want to ask you about
00:18:25	the questions
00:18:25	you raised about jobs.
00:18:26	Ohio, asking for a delay
00:18:26	in consideration
00:18:28	of extending the state's
00:18:28	funding contract
00:18:31	from it's
00:18:31	supposed to end in 2038.
00:18:33	It got extended to 2053.
00:18:35	You said you wanted higher
00:18:35	stakes attached to that.
00:18:37	You said it wasn't
00:18:37	the same terms, essentially.
00:18:40	State budget Director Kim
00:18:40	Morgan said, because, well,
00:18:44	she basically told you
00:18:44	to back off
00:18:45	saying
00:18:45	that you weren't involved
00:18:47	in this
00:18:47	and that your considerations
00:18:49	were not
00:18:49	part of the agenda there.
00:18:51	Why did you raise
00:18:52	these concerns about jobs Ohio
00:18:53	now instead
00:18:53	of a couple of years ago?
00:18:56	Well, I didn't realize
00:18:56	candidly that this simply
00:18:59	wasn't on my agenda.
00:19:01	I saw it for the first time.
00:19:03	It wasn't on my radar.
00:19:05	I mean,
00:19:05	I saw for the first time
00:19:05	when it came up
00:19:07	on a controlling board agenda.
00:19:09	So I just missed,
00:19:09	that discussion last fall,
00:19:14	when I might have said
00:19:14	something about it.
00:19:16	But just because I failed
00:19:16	to bring it up back then
00:19:19	doesn't mean that it's wrong
00:19:19	to bring it up now.
00:19:22	But you know,
00:19:22	I don't work
00:19:22	for director mechanics,
00:19:24	so she might be confused
00:19:24	about that.
00:19:26	But at the end of the day,
00:19:29	the original 25 year
00:19:29	lease on those liquor profits
00:19:32	included $1.4 billion
00:19:32	that went back to the state.
00:19:38	The the proportion of about
00:19:41	for another 15 years
00:19:41	would be 840 million.
00:19:45	That's
00:19:45	not included in the deal.
00:19:47	And I said it ought to be
00:19:47	not to come back to the state.
00:19:51	What I would like to see
00:19:51	is that money being spent
00:19:55	for the workforce,
00:19:55	for the workers in our state
00:19:59	to do things like this,
00:20:01	provide retraining for people
00:20:01	that are in an industry
00:20:05	that maybe is going away for
00:20:05	industries that are coming,
00:20:08	to Ohio,
00:20:08	to provide subsidized
00:20:13	onsite daycare,
00:20:15	to encourage people to come
00:20:15	back into the workforce.
00:20:19	Here's the fundamental problem
00:20:19	that we have current jobs.
00:20:22	Ohio's
00:20:22	bringing all these
00:20:23	new projects,
00:20:24	all these new companies
00:20:24	in, but we're
00:20:25	not expanding our workforce.
00:20:27	That means that the people
00:20:27	that are already here
00:20:30	are competing
00:20:30	with these newcomers
00:20:30	for the same pool of workers.
00:20:34	And I have talked with people
00:20:34	all over this state
00:20:37	who are hurting for employees.
00:20:39	They can't hire enough people
00:20:41	to take advantage
00:20:42	of all the opportunities
00:20:42	in the marketplace.
00:20:45	So instead of giving all
00:20:45	the money to the corporations
00:20:48	to come here,
00:20:49	how about
00:20:49	we give them some money
00:20:51	to come here
00:20:51	and we give the workers
00:20:53	some money
00:20:53	to come into the workforce
00:20:57	that people that have been,
00:20:57	outside the workforce
00:21:01	is, that's something
00:21:01	that you would be looking at
00:21:04	if you are elected governor.
00:21:05	Is that that whole jobs
00:21:05	Ohio deal?
00:21:07	Is that something that you'd
00:21:07	want to renegotiate
00:21:07	or look at again?
00:21:09	Well, I'm meeting with Jobs
00:21:09	Ohio at the end of this month,
00:21:14	to talk about this.
00:21:16	Certainly
00:21:16	something I would pursue
00:21:17	or I would pursue as governor,
00:21:20	but I'm pursuing it right now
00:21:21	because it's
00:21:21	the right thing to do,
00:21:22	and it doesn't require
00:21:22	a renegotiation.
00:21:25	It requires a commitment
00:21:27	that they're going to use
00:21:27	some of that
00:21:29	very large pool of money
00:21:29	to do things that are going
00:21:32	to bring people back
00:21:32	into the workforce.
00:21:34	It's good for workers.
00:21:35	It's good for the economy.
00:21:35	It's good for the companies.
00:21:38	It's right
00:21:38	in the middle of jobs. Ohio.
00:21:40	We ought to do it.
00:21:41	I the state,
00:21:43	the state has been run by
00:21:43	Republicans for decades now.
00:21:46	Essentially,
00:21:46	the Republicans have dominated
00:21:47	in statewide elections.
00:21:49	Do you think
00:21:49	the state has been well run?
00:21:51	Is the state
00:21:51	headed in the right direction?
00:21:55	This well,
00:21:56	way better
00:21:56	the state has been, run
00:21:59	than places like California,
00:21:59	or New York.
00:22:03	Could it be run better?
00:22:05	Yes, it can.
00:22:06	And I think that we need to be
00:22:06	asking serious questions.
00:22:11	You know,
00:22:12	why are we spending what we
00:22:12	spend, on what we spend it?
00:22:16	Are we getting the benefit
00:22:16	of our bargain?
00:22:19	Let's talk about
00:22:19	one of your favorite topics.
00:22:21	School fund.
00:22:22	I knew
00:22:22	that was going to come off.
00:22:24	Well, here's the thing.
00:22:26	We've been talking
00:22:26	about funding schools,
00:22:29	for as long as I've been,
00:22:29	an adult.
00:22:33	I'll be going back
00:22:33	to, the last administration.
00:22:37	And the challenge is
00:22:41	the problems
00:22:41	don't ever seem to change,
00:22:43	and they get a little bit
00:22:43	worse as we go on.
00:22:46	Maybe it's time
00:22:47	we stop funding schools
00:22:47	and start funding.
00:22:49	Students stop paying
00:22:49	for a certain number of seats
00:22:54	in a building and start
00:22:54	paying for kids that can read,
00:22:58	the kids that can do,
00:22:58	some kids that understand,
00:23:02	how to balance checkbook
00:23:02	and those kind of basic skills
00:23:07	we expect our schools to do,
00:23:09	are what
00:23:09	we should be paying for.
00:23:11	It's what people think
00:23:12	they are paying for
00:23:12	with their taxes.
00:23:14	This argument
00:23:14	about which school building
00:23:18	and which school district gets
00:23:18	how much money
00:23:21	is really beside the point.
00:23:22	We should be asking
00:23:23	whether we're getting
00:23:23	what we're paying for
00:23:26	as an outcome of a student
00:23:26	who graduates from school
00:23:30	literate, numerate, and ready
00:23:30	to be a productive citizen.
00:23:34	So vouchers
00:23:34	have been a good idea
00:23:35	as far as you're concerned?
00:23:38	Yes. Short answer.
00:23:41	Well, let me let me end
00:23:41	with a final question.
00:23:43	That maybe a short
00:23:43	answer here.
00:23:44	Would you accept
00:23:44	the federal appointment?
00:23:48	Well, that's pretty open
00:23:48	ended, I suppose if,
00:23:52	you know,
00:23:53	they wanted to make me speaker
00:23:53	of the House,
00:23:55	I would have to seriously
00:23:55	consider.
00:23:56	Well, how about let's
00:23:56	keep it in the judicial area?
00:23:58	Here you are a lawyer.
00:23:58	You've been a prosecutor.
00:24:01	What about a federal
00:24:01	appointment, U.S.
00:24:02	attorney, something like that.
00:24:04	Look, I'm
00:24:04	too passionate to be a judge.
00:24:08	And, Yeah,
00:24:08	I'm already attorney general
00:24:11	of the, of a great state.
00:24:13	Why would I want to be,
00:24:16	United States attorney?
00:24:19	I I'm pursuing the
00:24:19	the direction that,
00:24:21	is on my heart.
00:24:23	I care about
00:24:24	the people of this state,
00:24:24	and I'm going to keep going.
00:24:28	And as long as they'll have me
00:24:28	as their servant.
00:24:31	After our interview,
00:24:31	the leader of the influential
00:24:34	center
00:24:34	for Christian Virtue delivered
00:24:36	what could be seen
00:24:36	as a snub to Yost,
00:24:39	who has talked
00:24:39	about his Christian faith
00:24:40	and advocated for positions
00:24:40	and laws
00:24:42	that conservatives
00:24:42	have backed, including
00:24:45	opposing the Reproductive
00:24:45	Rights Amendment
00:24:47	that voters approved in 2023.
00:24:49	CCD President Aaron Bear
00:24:51	wrote in a national
00:24:51	conservative publication
00:24:53	that he is endorsing Maverick
00:24:53	Ramaswamy, who is Hindu.
00:24:57	Mayor said it wasn't
00:24:58	an easy decision and that it's
00:24:58	his only not for CVS,
00:25:02	and he said he loves
00:25:02	and respects
00:25:04	Yost and the work he's done
00:25:04	as attorney general.
00:25:06	But, quote,
00:25:07	I believe in the vague so much
00:25:09	and I believe
00:25:09	in the opportunity
00:25:11	that is ahead of us that
00:25:11	I felt like I had to do this
00:25:14	and quote, there's
00:25:14	been no comment from Yost,
00:25:17	and that is it for this week
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