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Ron Paul and Rand Paul were interviewed by Eric King on King World News, addressing questions about the Audit the Fed bill, the economic crisis, the exploding U.S. debt, and the coming economic collapse.

Ron Paul and Rand Paul Interview
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Show: King World News
Host: Eric King
Date: 06/24/2010

Transcript

Eric King: Joining us now is the future senator of Kentucky, Dr. Rand Paul, and Congressman Ron Paul from Texas. So much is happening right now. You have the money bomb coming up, Rand, on Monday of next week, and for Ron, we have the Audit the Fed bill, and more. But let’s start off with Rand, I want to ask you about the media attacking you, sort of the dirty side of politics, right Rand? How has that been for, were you surprised and has the energized your base? What’s happened there?

Rand Paul: Well, I kind of laughingly said it’s kind of like the Dickens novel: these were the best of times and the worst of times. We won by 24 points in the primary, we had a big victory. But within 12 hours, the media that didn’t really support me, but at least had been somewhat fair to me in the state, completely pivoted and began attacking me, really almost as if they were a part of the Democrat campaign. But I think we’re ready for it. They always try to do things like paint the Tea Party or paint me as extreme. And the way we respond is that having a 2 trillion dollar deficit, like we do now, that’s rally extreme. Having 400 billion dollars in interest in one year, that’s an extreme. So I think we can turn these arguments right around, and a lot of the things we’ve run on are very popular.

Eric King: Congressman Paul, I have some other questions for you, but I just can’t resist here: what has it been like for you, as the father, watching your son. You know, he blew out his opponent in the primary, he’s leading his opponent now in Kentucky. What’s that been like for you, watching your son’s very quick rise in politics?

Ron Paul: Actually you get more emotionally involved than you do for your own. I mean, you’re responsible for your own. I’ve always been pretty stoic about politics and even when I first started, I never really expected too much, so I just did what I thought was true and went about my way and let the chips fall where they may. But I think when anybody close to you, or when your kids get involved, all of a sudden you sort of feel for them. So it’s a little bit frustrating, but basically I’ve stayed out of it. I think Rand had me up there one time, and he knew and I knew that he had to do it on his own. He’s got a base of his own, I’ve tried to help a little bit, but I wasn’t out there campaigning.

Eric King: Rand, before I move on, I have a question for Congressman Paul and some others for you. But do you call dad for advice sometimes?

Rand Paul: Yes, we talk about politics, philosophy, all kinds of things. And not so much on the nitty-gritty of the day to day campaign, but what’s been an enormous help is that a lot of people who like my father nationally, have contributed and they’ve come to us through the money bombs, and through the Internet. And we couldn’t just have done it without that, so getting started and presenting the message are two different things. But really getting started, I owe a lot of that to people who discovered my dad through his presidential run.

Eric King: Congressman Paul, your base is really so massive and sort of unprecedented, I think, in a lot of ways in politics. That unbelievable one-day total raising of funds that you had the last time you were running for president. But can you give the listeners an update on the Audit the Fed bill? You’ve worked on this for decades, and I hate to ask this question in a negative way, but are you disappointed at how this has unfolded, or has it been a great success in the end because it is now in front of the American people and an active topic of discussion?

Ron Paul: I think it’s both. Of course, there is a little disappointment because you expect to, or at least you want to accomplish more. But when you think about what has been accomplished, I would say that the supporters have done amazingly well. I’m not one that claims I can go around and pressure my colleagues or beg my colleagues to sign on to a bill and yet we ended up with 320 co-sponsors. And they mainly came from the grassroots pressure on the members of Congress, because we’ve taken this issue and we’ve nationalized the issue and because of the financial crisis people have been very interested. I think the Federal Reserve is going to be an issue for a long time to come until they clean up their act and we have a new monetary system until we’re past all these crises that we’re involved in right now.

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