Governor Glenn yunan Helms the Commonwealth of Virginia he is my governor and he joins me good morning Governor welcome back always a pleasure to talk to you you great to be with you beautiful day in Virginia great day to be a Virginia and boy we got a big night ahead of us with this debate I think all America's got their eyes on seeing kamla Harris so clearly because they understand where she really stands on things versus what she's been recently saying and president Trump has clear answers on how to deal with the biggest issues America's faced in the economy the Border foreign policy Public Safety so this should be a good night for him and I'm looking forward to it I am going to get back to the debate and and and I want to begin though by asking how did you prepare you had two debates with Terry mlli in your successful gubinatorial campaign they were both in September you won both of them how did you Glenn yunan prepare to meet Terry Mccalla who is a very good debater yeah well I had never uh really debated before you know coming from the private sector not something that we did every day when I was leading Carl uh although we did have lots of arguments and and and lots of and lots of debates around Investments but I uh had a debate team I had a debate partner who stood in and played Terri mcauliff and uh and we rehearsed and we talked about answers uh we kind of guessed at what all the questions and topics would be and uh we rehearsed and we rehearsed and and uh you know I'm uh that's one of the things being a basketball player you warm up 20 minutes before every game and so we warmed up very very smart now Governor I want to ask you about President Trump's proposal of a sovereign wealth fund for the United States some people don't like it I'm sort of intrigued if it was run by serious VCS like yourself or others who know and spot like Peter teal and make a lot of money it might be one of the ways we address our debt not our deficit but our debt by investing in America's best startups what do you think about that yeah well I I do think that uh a sovereign wealth fund can play an incredibly impactful role in fostering investment um it is not a spending pool and the the places that have done it well have used it as an investment pool that drives very important uh nationally changing Investments uh that have great returns and ones that have done it poorly have just wasted money and turned it into a spending pool and you're 100% right it needs to be managed by real professionals not political hacks and uh that's the places where it is done really really well um I do think that there's a risk here listen um there's a risk that it becomes a toy that a misguided presidential leader could use and that's what I worry about listen the Democrats have demonstrated one clear priority spending spending and spending and on top of that they have Dem demonstrated a second clear priority which is is tax everything and and I think in this case we've got you know a real challenge that if there was a big pocket I I would be concerned unless it had really tight constraints around it about how yeah I would want it run by Pros with a record of success now I got to ask you before you run out of time K Harris wants a tax on unearned unrealized capital gains what do you think of that proposal yeah I I I think it's crazy um and and if she wants to really put uh drop the bottom out of the economy um first Force everyone to pay taxes when they don't have the cash to do so force uh middle class America to pay taxes on their investment funds um that they are saving for their retirement or anything else and you will you will literally watch the the economy spiral down it's unprecedented for a reason because it makes no sense so she she said anything that cut your eye I mean she's walked back a lot of her positions from 2019 but I don't think she's had one good idea price controls a nightmare uh $25,000 for new home buyers is a nightmare and uh tax on unearned income is a nightmare anything at all from comml Harris that makes sense Governor yunan yeah well I I just think the three the three topics you just raised Hugh uh exhibit the fact that her policy team and her don't really understand how this stuff works I mean let's put communist style price controls on um as opposed oos to driving competition let's raise taxes on on unrealized investment gains as opposed to building a vibrant economy that people want to invest in and and let's give people money to buy homes that don't exist that will do nothing other than drive up prices as opposed to Foster more Supply um it is I'm so glad you economic theory last question Governor you proposed that cell phones be banned from public schools how is that going I applaud you but I don't know if it's up to you to do that I mean don't you recommend in the local school districts implement or not Implement yes so we we have we will have a standard guideline across the Commonwealth that uh will require uh all the school districts to to meet at least that guideline they can go they can go to more extensive ban or and faster and what's been great you is that when we when we put forth our our draft policy uh and said we're going to finalize it in mid-september and I'm asking everybody to fully Implement by January 1st 113 out of 131 school districts went ahead and went ahead and moved forward with their own policy this year in September listen this is universally supported it Fosters healthier students Better Learning and we're hearing back every day how everyone's supporting it it's a really good Virginia kids it's a good thing for kids everywhere in America they ought to read Jonathan Heights the anxious generation