Top 5 of 2021 Day 5: Roberts Explains His Top Priorities as Heritage Foundation’s Next President (Repeat)

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🗓️ 31 December 2021

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Top 5 of 2021 Day 5: During this Christmas season, we're sharing some of our favorite interviews of the year to allow our team to take time off for the holidays.

Kevin Roberts is the new president of The Heritage Foundation.

Roberts says he is eager to advance the conservative movement and address some of the most pressing issues facing our nation today.

“The top three [critical issues that we are facing right now] are education, education, and education,” Roberts says, adding that conservatives will miss an “opportunity of a lifetime” if we cannot come together and address what is “broken about the education system.”

The immigration crisis at America’s southern border and the “administrative state, the power of the executive branch to do the legislating rather than the legislative branch [doing it]” are also critical issues Roberts says he looks forward to working to fix.

Roberts is coming to the Washington, D.C.-based think tank after serving as president and CEO of the Texas Public Policy Foundation in Austin, Texas. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.)

He joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss his vision for the future of The Heritage Foundation and the conservative movement.

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Friday, December 31st.
0:09.8	I'm Doug Blair.
0:10.8	And I'm Virginia Allen.
0:12.6	Happy New Year's Eve.
0:13.8	Wow, it is hard to believe that we are already at the end of 2021.
0:19.4	But we are finishing the year strong today with a conversation with Heritage Foundation's
0:24.5	new president, Dr. Kevin Roberts.
0:27.4	I had the opportunity to sit down with Dr. Kevin Roberts earlier this year shortly after
0:32.5	it was announced that he was taking on the role of president of the conservative think tank.
0:37.7	He shared about the fight ahead for American freedom, which I think is very, very timely
0:43.2	to be discussing right now as we look ahead to the new year.
0:47.1	I hope you enjoy our conversation.
0:48.8	And we hope that you have enjoyed this walk-down memory lane through the best of the Daily
0:52.7	Signal Podcast of 2021.
0:55.2	Now let's get to Virginia's conversation with Dr. Kevin Roberts.
1:03.3	It is my distinct honor to welcome to the Daily Signal Podcast for the first time.
1:08.6	Hopefully, first of many, Dr. Kevin Roberts, the newly announced president of the Heritage
1:15.0	Foundation.
1:16.0	Dr. Roberts, thank you for being here.
1:18.1	Thank you so much.
1:19.1	And you know, this is an opportunity for me to ask you to call me Kevin.
1:23.1	Thank you so much.
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