Sacks's Critique of Regulation Capture

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Sacks: I think we did hold him and force him on certain issues more than you would normally get in an interview without being sensational. He has a very sophisticated critique of regulatory capture that goes beyond just The environmental area it goes also to big pharma and it goes to the military industrial complex. There's enough right about his critique that I think you can't dismiss it, Sacks says. But he will say is this is exactly how Trump got elected and there was a great piece in the Atlantic when he was running first time around That he comes from wealth. He comes from the system but he said this entire system needs to be torn down.

(0:00) Bestie intros!

(0:49) Jason and Sacks intro Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

(3:46) Foreign policy: Ukraine / Russia

(17:17) Foreign policy: Taiwan / China

(18:57) Government spending: Fiscal responsibility, where to cut budget, debt ceiling

(33:22) US Govt Intelligence Agencies: "Deep State," increasing accountability, "agency capture"

(46:04) COVID: mishandling, more "agency capture," vaccine policy

(55:10) Broader thoughts on vaccines in general

(1:05:54) Energy policy: thoughts on nuclear

(1:15:29) Culture wars: trans issues, CRT in schools, public vs charter schools

(1:23:09) Media: declining trust, misaligned incentives, conflict of interest with large advertisers

(1:30:07) Mainstream media coverage, ABC News debacle, evolving with new information, money in politics