So I appreciate you taking a time out there in Nebraska.

We're talking to you early in the morning, but you look good.

All right, I'm a mess, but you look, you look good, Senator,

but thank you for taking a time.

This is a policy interview, but before I get to that, six months ago, your life was fairly organized as far as the senator of the United States is concerned. Now it's 180

degrees different. Since you got the nod for VP, give me two things that have surprised you about the whole process.

Well, the first thing that I have to point to, Bill, is having a secret service detail is just a wildly different thing I think for my kids in particular bill we have a seven year old boy four year old boy and a two year old girl

You know that they can't just like walk out the front door and go to their friends houses anymore.

It's just a different, a slightly different world, right?

So I think that has been the biggest just adjustment for the family.

I think the really big positive surprise is just you see the country in a totally

different light as a VP nominee and what I mean is you know I've run for Senate

before two years ago you drive around the state of Ohio which is of course my favorite state in the back of a U. Subaru, you know, now I'm flying around in a plane going to every corner of the country and you just, you know, whenever we're on the ground I try to drop into some place that's local a chocolate shop an ice cream shop a deli just to sort of talk to people and see what it's like on the ground and it's just a totally different way of looking at our country.

Makes you realize, Bill, we have the most beautiful country in the world.

And I always try to remind, you know, my fellow conservatives, my fellow Republicans,

there is a lot for us to be grateful for and a lot for us to be

hopeful about the problem with this country. It's not our workers, it's not our

natural resources, our incredible beauty. The problem is leadership and that's why

we're doing what we do.

All right, so let's get into the policy stuff.

One of the big issues is everybody knows is the open border, which has caused

an amazing amount of pain for the United States of America and we're talking about drugs

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