March 11, 2025 • 29 mins
Sean recounts the many ways in which the threats of tariffs are bringing common sense spending to attention and reinforcing an American-first economy.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, thank you Scott Schannan, and thanks to all
of you for being with us. Here is our toll
free telephone number. It is eight hundred and nine four
one Sean if you want to be a part of
the program. We start today with some huge, big, massive
breaking news. I think it's great news and I hope
it is the beginning of maybe the end of the
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war in Europe between Ukraine and Vladimir Putin and Russia.
We now have Ukraine saying that they will accept a
thirty day ceasefire beginning immediately with Russia. The US. Ukraine
said Kiev would accept a thirty day ceasefire after talks
in Saudi Arabia earlier today, Washington pledging immediately to lift
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a freeze on intelligence sharing and military aid to Ukraine.
Ukraine expressed, well, let me play Mark or Rubio Mike Walls.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Today we've made an offer that the Ukrainians have accepted,
which is to enter into a ceasefire and to immediate
negotiations to end this conflict in a way that's enduring
and sustainable and accounts for their interests, their security, their
ability to prosper as a nation. I want to personally
think we both want to thank the Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia's majesty for hosting us, for making this possible. They
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have been instrumental in this process and we're very grateful
to them for hosting us here today. And hopefully we'll
take this offer and out of the Russians, and we
hope that they'll say yes, that they'll say yes to peace.
The ball is now in their court. But again, the
President's objective here is number one above everything else. He
wants the war to end. And I think today Ukraine
has taken a concrete step in that regard. We hope
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the Russians will reciprocate.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Just think about it. We've gone from if the war's
going to end to now how the war's going to end?
And this was an important first step, and that was
under President Trump's leadership. He has literally moved the entire
global conversation to where we had a very senior Ukrainian
delegation with US. Today we've had engagements with our Russian counterparts.
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Now it's how the war's going to end, and that's
under President Trump's.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Leadership, how the war is going to end. And I
you know, I thought liberals, all we are saying, give
peace a change. Whatever happened to those liberals, aren't they?
Weren't they the big John Lennon sit in Vietnam opposers?
And here you have a president trying to negotiate a peace.
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Now let us go back. It was what ten eleven
days ago, whatever it was, President Zelensky at the White House.
It didn't go very well. And then I kept saying
at the time, he'll be back, and Donald Trump is
negotiating that. There was a three phase process to this.
One would be the rare earth mineral deal. Two would
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be the ceasefire. It looks like we got one side
on board. Hopefully Russia Putin will get on board as well,
and that could be extended by mutual agreement of the parties.
This was after an eight hour negotiation that went on
earlier today in Saudi Arabia, and which by the way,
would be subject to the concurrent implementation of the Russian
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Federation and eight hours of negotiation, and this is where
we are, and the statement said the US will immediately
lift the pause on intelligence sharing and resume security assistance
to Ukraine. Both were frozen in the wake of this
explosive meeting between President Zelenski and President Trump. But if
you go back, let's remind you about the media and
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the Democrats freak out and melt.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Down becoming the air hours after an oval office ambush
of an American ally that will reverberate all around the
world and stay in America's image for years to come.
It revealed instead of Donald Trump and A JD. Vance
clearly on an erin for Vladimir Putin.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
They are popping the champagne in Moscow. They've got their
best vodka out and they're doing shots as we speak.
I question, that's exactly the same thought that went through
my head.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
The propaganda is what's coming out of Jadie Vance's mouth,
and it's Russian propaganda.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
Caitlin, I want to start with, look at her face.
I mean, Christian, hold that thought for once. Okay, actually, Christian,
please take it away.
Speaker 7 (04:15):
Never in the history of modern diaplomacy, war, peace, whatever,
have I ever ever ever seen in.
Speaker 8 (04:23):
The thing Donald Trump has said everything nice about Russia.
I can't think of a single time he said something
bad about Vladimir Putin, and it's very rare. We were
so shocked yesterday when he said that, Oh, did I
really say Zelensky was a dictator. This is the moment
we're in and this should be an embarrassment to all Americans.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Of the United States is a coward? Who is Vladimir
Putin's puppet?
Speaker 9 (04:46):
What we just witnessed between Donald Trump, Jady Vance, and
Presidents Lensky inside the White House was an ambush. It
was a planned ambush designed to embarrass Presidents Lensky in
order to benefit Vladimir Putin. That was an embarrassment. That
was an abomination. What you watched was American power being
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destroyed in the world. As everybody watches President Trump become
a lapdog for a brutal dictator in Moscow.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
How many lives if Donald Trump can pull this off,
will be saved. The country of Ukraine can be saved
before it is completely destroyed. Lives can be saved, the
destruction can come to an end. This would be a
good thing for the entire world, one that I hope
is achievable under President Trump. This is the embodiment of
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the art of the deal negotiation. And I said at
the time, I mean, and it's very as an analogy
with what's happening now and how people are reacting to
Donald Trump saying, because we're living under the Biden Harris economy,
and this is a disaster for the economy. This is
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a disaster, disaster. This guy is falling. This guy is falling.
This guy is falling. No, it's not falling. It's not.
But what did I say at the time, Let's go back.
I think we have a tape of that. At some point,
reality is going to kick in. It clearly didn't kick
in by the time he went on Brett Bear Show
on Friday night. We have Brettbear on Friday night. It
didn't kick in any point over the weekend. Although I
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do have sources, I have very good sources, better sources
than the state run legacy medium momb which is dead.
Zelensky has been reaching out repeatedly to President Trump directly
and his team directly, asking to come back and make
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this right. So hence my knowledgeable prediction, putting two and
two together A squared B squared equals C squared. I
believe that Zelensky will be back. He's going to be back.
He's back. He was back within hours. He wanted to
come back. He didn't want to leave the White House
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that day. I've got more details since that day, and
you know, we see now you know, there's been some
fluctuations as it relates to the stock market, for example,
and a little bit of well, first of all, the
stock market is always skittish. I've always said for years
and years that the stock market is not my biggest
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indicator of the state of the economy. And I think
it's very important for people who clearly understand where we
are with the economy and where we are with this
budget process, and the first and foremost, I really believe
most people do not understand that we are living and
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under the inflationary policies and current budget for fiscal year
twenty four. We are living under the Biden Harris economy,
Democrats economy, the inflationary economy. This is the economy of
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. This is the economy that
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Donald Trump inherited that every American is still living under.
He's not, but it takes more than a day to
get his economic policies in place. Usually the fiscal year
begins October first, so the fiscal year will end September thirtieth.
But with that said, what the President has started to
do is eliminate now Doze is officially over one hundred
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and five billion dollars in identified waste, fraud, abuse, and corruption,
and so we are eliminating what will be hundreds of
billions of dollars of Biden Harris waste, fraud, abuse, corruption,
money that never should have been wasted, but was wasted.
We expect sometime this week hopefully Republicans will need help
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with Democrats in the Senate. They will pass a continuing
resolution to fund the govern or. Democrats will shut the
government down. That will be on them. That will be
their choice, that will be their decision, especially if the
House is able to get it passed with the slim
majority of Republicans that we have and Tom Massey just
being a resistant Republican to pretty much everything, which frankly,
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if he wants to be an independent, he should just
be an independent because it's just not fair to everyone
else in the Republican Party that he not every Republicans
getting what they want, and know, generally speaking, you know,
I don't like continuing resolutions that we don't have a
choice here, and then once that happens, with likely without
any Democratic help at least in the House, in spite
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of past proclamations that this is the worst and most
dangerous thing as a matter of fact, Speaker Johnson. But
this montage, it's like he's doing his own version of
Hannity out today, and we'll show it to you tonight
on TV, showing Democrats repeatedly talking about the and I
don't think it's so dangerous, to be honest, to have
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a government shutdown. You have non essential services, people will
get usually end up getting laid off for a short
period of time and they get a free vacation because
they usually get back pay. That's what usually happens. But
the military keeps, it keeps protecting our country around the world.
It is inconvenient for some people. But then at the
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end of it all, you know, essential services will continue,
social Security checks, Medicaid, all of this will be handled.
But this is the Democrats in past years. Now they're
the ones that are going to be responsible for a shutdown.
And this is what they have said over the years
about shutdowns.
Speaker 7 (10:40):
We believe in governments. We want to keep governments open.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
A shutdown is very serious.
Speaker 7 (10:46):
They are real consequences. When the government shuts down, it
harms our national security, it harms our economy, and it
harms service members, veterans, retirees, and vulnerable communities.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
We all know a shutdown is unnecessary and completely avoidable.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
The tragedy here is all the civilian employees. It is
the American people who are going to suffer.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Order patrol agents will not be paid, TSA agents will
not be paid.
Speaker 9 (11:16):
Small businesses will be hurt.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Not only is it irresponsible and purposely misleading, it is
dangerous precedent to be threatening a shutdown.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
I'm worried about our air controllers, those in the military.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
We have over almost forty thousand in the military, as
well as personnel who work in the military, and they
won't have checks.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
I mean, this is this is real, the.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Real people's lives at stake.
Speaker 8 (11:43):
It is not normal to hold eight hundred thousand workers
paychecks hostage.
Speaker 7 (11:47):
It is not normal to shut down the government when
we don't get what we want.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Our troops deserve better, our children deserve better, and the
American people deserve better.
Speaker 9 (11:58):
These chaos agents, they don't have a plan beat They
just want to see everything burning.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Shutdown is really is an extremist policy designed to appeal
to an extremist base and hold the whole country.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
Hospital so keep this shutdown.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
You know who's gonna feel the pain.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
You know who it hurts you.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
And guess who will be responsible if we have a
shutdown The very people you just heard from. So we
will watch and wait and see this week. My guess
is that they will pass the continuing Resolution in the end,
because this will backfire on them and they already have
a twenty percent approval rating that they want to go
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into the single digits because that's where they're headed next.
In spite of that, I think Donald Trump will get
the CR and then the reconciliation process will begin in
the House and the Senate to jumpstart the economy with
the Trump tax plan, which would be permanent tax cuts,
no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax
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on Social Security. Will also unleash what is a massive
increase in energy production to make America the most energy
rich nation on Earth and create high paying jobs for
the American people. It will also continue to incentivize more
and more businesses, manufacturing, facilities, industry to move and invest
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in America to work in the most business friendly country
on the planet. That's why you see Apple investing five
hundred billion dollars in Texas. That's why Nissan and Honda
decided not to build their plants in Mexico. Now they're
building them in America. That's why you see this one
hundred billion dollar investment by this Taiwanese chip company. The
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days of the disastrous Biden Harris economy are numbered. We
still live under it now and it will be replaced
with pro economic growth policies. And the skiddishness that you
might see on Wall Street is because of tariff fear
and of course the government shutdown fear and the unknown.
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But if you look in the past, if passed indications
or any indicator you see, SMP inflation adjusted returns during
the Trump presidency was fifty four percent under Biden, fifteen
percent in case you're interested, NASDAK returns under Trump or
whopping one hundred and sixteen percent only seven point three
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percent in the end under Biden. So you know, with
all this talk and all the indications about this, let
US policies get get in place first. And that's what
the President has been doing while trying to negotiate peace
on two continents. At the same time that President Zelensky,
in spite of a corrupt state run legacy media mob
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that doesn't know they're dead yet, and Democrats freaking out
over the fact that the meeting at the in the
Oval Office broke down in large part because the presidents Lelensky.
That was supposed to be ceremonial. The idea that this
was a setup was just the kroc. It was supposed
to be a rah rah yay yay. Jake cans sign
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the rare earth mineral deal, then move on to phase two,
which is where we got to today, and that is Ukraine.
At least they did agree to a thirty day ceasefire
that can be extended after eight hours of negotiation. Mike
Walls Marco Rubio leading the delegation in Saudi Arabia on
behalf of President Trump today. Now, the President has responded
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to the Ukrainian acceptance of the ceasefire.
Speaker 6 (15:32):
But very importantly, and I said it, Ukraine ceasefire. Ukraine
ceasefire just agreed to a little while ago. Now we
have to go to Russia and hopefully President Putin will
agree to that also, and we can get this show
on the road. We get we can get this horrible
war where two three thousand soldiers a week every week two, three,
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four thousand. Sometimes I get the reports and they're not
American soldiers, they're Ukrainian and Russian.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
But people are being killed outside of that.
Speaker 6 (16:03):
People are being killed in the cities as things explode
throughout the cities.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
And we want to get that war over with.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
So I think I think it's a very big I
think it's a big difference between the last visit you
saw at the Oval Office and this soap that's a
total ceasefire. Ukraine has agreed to it, and hopefully Russia
will agree to it. We're going to meet with him
later on today and tomorrow and hopefully we'll be able
to wipe out a deal. But I think the ceasefire
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is very important. If we can get Russian to do it,
that'll be great. If we can't, we just keep going
on and people are gonna get killed, lots of people.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
I mean, at least it's hope. And everybody was predicting
after the White House Oval Office meeting fell apart. Oh
that's the this is this is going to be felt
the reverberations for years and years to come. No, they
just don't like Donald Trump. How great would it be
if we did get piece in Europe. It's not going
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to be a perfect piece. Let me let me just
manage your expectations a little bit here. It's it's going
to be a negotiated peace settlement. And whether you like
whatever side, it just isn't good for anybody for this
thing to continue. And I think what's going to happen
is there will be security assurances. I think the Rarer
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Mineral deal guarantees that on the American side, because we're
going to be heavily invested in partners with Ukraine that
also will give them money to rebuild their country which
has been devastated, and hopefully we'll bring back a large
part of their population that have exited the country and
sought refuge in other countries in Europe, and the same
with Russia. I mean, now they're feeling the impact of
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this in ways large and small, and it's just not
good for anybody. And you know how ironic the guy
that you know gets called every name in the book
is being attacked, probably Gasparino, and which the same thing unfold.
You see nothing but panic out of you know, the prognosticators,
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the pundits, the legacy state run medium mob bake news everywhere.
Oh look at the stock market, the stock market, the
stock market. By the way, there's protests after the FEDS
arrest Palestinian activist. I mean, it's it really is unbelievable
to me as I watched these these kids on these
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college campuses. What part of murder and torture and kidnapping
and beheading did they not understand? Well? Who were they
sympathizing with here? Who was the victim that lost the
equivalent of forty thousand Americans in a single day. That
would be the Israelis. But anyway, back to Charlie Gasperno
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writing in the New York Post. Today, Wall Street is
puking big time, and the sell buttons are working overtime.
Whenever the word tariff passes through Donald Trump's lip. If
you listen to the fat cat community long enough, you'd
think that Trump has been in office four years rather
than four weeks, and that a small trade surcharge on
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a car from Mexico is leading into economic armageddon. He said,
I'm no fan of terriffs for lots of reasons, including
I hate paying too much for stuff. But I've also
taken enough economic classes and studied markets long enough to
know that They're not the end of the world as
we know it. I know that the Trump economic plan
is much more than the tariff plan, and it's about
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tax cuts, deleveraging the federal government's involvement in the private sector,
allowing the private sector to thrive. And that is the
track record that is Donald Trump. We now live, as
I said earlier in the under the Biden Harris economy,
this is their economy, this is their budget, and now
it's going to take the first step will be a
continuing resolution to continue to fund the government. Democrats say
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it's a disaster if you don't fund the government. I
don't agree with that, but that's These are them and
their own words over the years, and what they're not
factoring in is Donald Trump's economic plan to jumpstart the economy.
Permanent tax cuts, no tax on tips, no tax on overtime,
no tax on social security, a massive increase increase in
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energy production, helping to make America the most energy dominant
rich country on the face of the earth, creating high
paying career jobs for the American people. We also see
the benefits of his tariff policies because now companies that
were planning to build in Mexico, like Nissan and Honda
are now going to build their plans in America. Apple's
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investing five hundred billion dollars in America in Texas. That's
going to create tens of thousands of jobs. The Taiwanese
chip company is going to be spending one hundred billion dollars.
I don't I guess Wall Street just hasn't noticed these things.
But the days of the Biden Harris inflationary economy, you know,
that has of waste, fraud, abuse and corruption is now
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coming to an end and the America First Growth economic
agenda will will now take its place. And that's good
for the American people, you know, and you know as
it relates to And we'll get into more of elon
Musk and we'll update you on the contest that we're
putting together and our lawyers are putting together now as
we even speak. But you know, all of this is about,
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if we don't stop this reckless waste, fraud, abuse, and corruption,
we are stealing from our children and grandchildren. We are
stealing from hard working Americans that on average make sixty
six thousand dollars a year. There's no other way to
put it. This is this is the right policy for
our country, for our future, for our children and grandchildren's future.
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Average Americans understand this as as Lincoln once admonished with
popular sentiment, there's nothing that can fail. He's right, And
if you look at the numbers, the American people strongly
support eliminating waste, fraud, abuse, and corruption. And then the Democrats,
you know, and a lot of these programs, but Americans
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support draining the swamp. They don't want their money spent
on the radical Green New Deal DEI programs, wokeism, transgenderism,
and LGBTQ plus policies abroad America. Once Washington cleaned up,
they want an end to wasteful spending and Democrats are desperate,
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so they're out there doing what they always do. It
came Jefferies lying saying we've got them on the run
in the economy and saying that the House GOP budget
is going to cut Medicaid and Social Security. Nothing is
further from the truth. As a matter of fact, the
GOP budget has a minimum increase in Medicaid of one
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hundred and sixty eight billion dollars. That could go significantly
higher because under the Republican Plan Medicaid spending will go
up every year. They play this game. When Newt was
Speaker and Bill Clinton was the president, you know, if
you reduce the rate of increase, they said it was
a cut. And Newt's plan was to increase spending seven
percent a year every year for seven years. That is
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not by any definition of cut. That is raining in
baseline budgeting, you know, radical increases in spending that you
cannot afford. The House Republican budget increases spending on Medicare
from six hundred and ninety five billion to eight hundred
and sixty three billion over a decade. That is one
hundred and sixty eight billion dollar increase in spending. And
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it's likely that it'll probably go higher based on need.
That is just a fact. And then at that point,
you know, you've got to look where the American people are,
because American sentiment is with Donald Trump, you know, and
it is if you look at it. That's why many
polls have him ahead. This is what this is why
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these companies are investing here. They see the handwriting is
on the wall. What you have, what Wall Street doesn't understand,
and what they don't want to understand. They don't want
to understand is that the President is in a perpetual
state of negotiation. When the President says tariffs, he wants changes.
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He wants our friends to the north that I consider
the Canadians our friends. He wants them to do a
better job securing our border, pay their fair share for
NATO and their own national defense, and he wants more
cooperation on the border, especially as it relates to last
year alone, we had more illegals coming from the northern
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border from over one hundred countries than we've had in
the past seventeen years combined. They need to do They
need to be good neighbors too, and they need to
stop putting tariffs on our products. We're actually going to
debate the Ontario premiere that is threatened to cut off
power to Michigan and New York and some other places tonight.
But I want to have a conversation with the guy.
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I believe in free and fair tri trade, but it's
got to be reciprocal. That's why the President says reciprocal.
You know, reciprocal, you know trade agreements, reciprocal tariffs. If
they're going to put a tariff on us, we'll be
forced to put one on them. I'd rather not do that,
but that's what it's going to take. And if you
look at right track, wrong track, most Americans see that
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on the economy and every other issue. In spite of
Wall Street hysteria that President Trump is outperforming Biden on
key issues, look at what he's been able to accomplish,
a fifteen year low in terms of illegal immigrants coming
into this country. When he gets his economic plan in place,
I would expect the same results we got in his
first term. I believe that inflation can be brought under control.
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I believe we can accomplish peace in Europe and peace
in the Middle East. It's not it's a heavy lift
in each case. But if you look at dose, for example,
seventy seven percent of Americans think that we are in
a full need of an examination of every government expenditure.
And it's not just the Harvard Harris poll. It's pretty
much every pole, rasmuseen RMG. It is also the CBS poll.
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It's also trafalgar. It's also insider advantage. You know, CBS
for example, not exactly you know, Trump's approval rating was
fifty three percent. Eighty percent support supporting criminal illegals seventy
six percent support of full scale effort to eliminate waste,
broad and abuse. Seventy six percent support closing the border.
Seventy percent support keeping men out of women's sports and
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declaring that there are only two genders. Sixty five percent
support ending race based hiring in the government DEI, sixty
three percent support of freeze and a reevaluation of foreign eight.
Sixty one percent support reciprocal tariffs. Sixty percent support direct
negotiations with Russia to end the war in Ukraine. Sixty
percent support cutting government spending and ending the ban on
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new off offshore drilling, which is a big part of
his economic plan. And it's it's not that they don't
know or they don't want want to know what Donald
Trump has planned. And in the end, you've got to
at some point you need an adult that is gonna
think long term. It's like just thenews dot com they
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had a pull out today. Fifty five percent of registered
voters support the latest r because they understand we got
to fund the government. Democrats who have screened bloody murder
about possible government shutdowns and years gone by, you know,
now are pushing ahead with it. And it is all
of this is predictable, all this hysteria. That's why I'm
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not phased at all by any of this. Now, as
soon as Wall Street started to tumble yesterday, the media
is pro recession cheerleading, you know, squad, the same people
that freaked out when Zelensky left the Oval office.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
You know.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Oh well, here's the headline. They don't want to talk
about job openings rise as the labor market shows strength
and stability. US job openings rose in January, underscoring a
resilient labor market that continues to defy pessimistic forecasts about
the impact of Donald Trump's you know, expected economic policies.
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Job openings climbed to seven point seven to four million,
up from January. Way we unleash energy production in this country,
it's going to be higher. This was by way higher
than expectations of Wall Street and the experts. The increase
in openings driven by primarily by gains in real estate, construction, retail, manufacturing,
and the financial sectors, suggesting continued strengthen very key areas
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of the economy. Job openings and manufacturing, of politically and
economically sensitive sector climbed by thirty thousand. There are jobs
in America, Wall Street is suffering withdrawal pains, as Gasparino said,
as President Trump moves to wean the economy off of
trillions of dollars of government deficit spending. This is this
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is this is hard work, but it's worth doing because
if we don't get a hold of it now, will
I'll never get a hold of it, just like if
we don't stop this war in Europe and the war
in the Middle East, We're never going to get a
hold of it. And if you allow the Mullas in
Iran to get a nuclear weapon, as my mother used
to say, we will rue the day
All right, thank you Scott Schannan, and thanks to all
of you for being with us. Here is our toll
free telephone number. It is eight hundred and nine four
one Sean if you want to be a part of
the program. We start today with some huge, big, massive
breaking news. I think it's great news and I hope
it is the beginning of maybe the end of the
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war in Europe between Ukraine and Vladimir Putin and Russia.
We now have Ukraine saying that they will accept a
thirty day ceasefire beginning immediately with Russia. The US. Ukraine
said Kiev would accept a thirty day ceasefire after talks
in Saudi Arabia earlier today, Washington pledging immediately to lift
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a freeze on intelligence sharing and military aid to Ukraine.
Ukraine expressed, well, let me play Mark or Rubio Mike Walls.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Today we've made an offer that the Ukrainians have accepted,
which is to enter into a ceasefire and to immediate
negotiations to end this conflict in a way that's enduring
and sustainable and accounts for their interests, their security, their
ability to prosper as a nation. I want to personally
think we both want to thank the Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia's majesty for hosting us, for making this possible. They
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have been instrumental in this process and we're very grateful
to them for hosting us here today. And hopefully we'll
take this offer and out of the Russians, and we
hope that they'll say yes, that they'll say yes to peace.
The ball is now in their court. But again, the
President's objective here is number one above everything else. He
wants the war to end. And I think today Ukraine
has taken a concrete step in that regard. We hope
(01:36):
the Russians will reciprocate.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Just think about it. We've gone from if the war's
going to end to now how the war's going to end?
And this was an important first step, and that was
under President Trump's leadership. He has literally moved the entire
global conversation to where we had a very senior Ukrainian
delegation with US. Today we've had engagements with our Russian counterparts.
(02:00):
Now it's how the war's going to end, and that's
under President Trump's.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Leadership, how the war is going to end. And I
you know, I thought liberals, all we are saying, give
peace a change. Whatever happened to those liberals, aren't they?
Weren't they the big John Lennon sit in Vietnam opposers?
And here you have a president trying to negotiate a peace.
(02:26):
Now let us go back. It was what ten eleven
days ago, whatever it was, President Zelensky at the White House.
It didn't go very well. And then I kept saying
at the time, he'll be back, and Donald Trump is
negotiating that. There was a three phase process to this.
One would be the rare earth mineral deal. Two would
(02:48):
be the ceasefire. It looks like we got one side
on board. Hopefully Russia Putin will get on board as well,
and that could be extended by mutual agreement of the parties.
This was after an eight hour negotiation that went on
earlier today in Saudi Arabia, and which by the way,
would be subject to the concurrent implementation of the Russian
(03:09):
Federation and eight hours of negotiation, and this is where
we are, and the statement said the US will immediately
lift the pause on intelligence sharing and resume security assistance
to Ukraine. Both were frozen in the wake of this
explosive meeting between President Zelenski and President Trump. But if
you go back, let's remind you about the media and
(03:32):
the Democrats freak out and melt.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Down becoming the air hours after an oval office ambush
of an American ally that will reverberate all around the
world and stay in America's image for years to come.
It revealed instead of Donald Trump and A JD. Vance
clearly on an erin for Vladimir Putin.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
They are popping the champagne in Moscow. They've got their
best vodka out and they're doing shots as we speak.
I question, that's exactly the same thought that went through
my head.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
The propaganda is what's coming out of Jadie Vance's mouth,
and it's Russian propaganda.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
Caitlin, I want to start with, look at her face.
I mean, Christian, hold that thought for once. Okay, actually, Christian,
please take it away.
Speaker 7 (04:15):
Never in the history of modern diaplomacy, war, peace, whatever,
have I ever ever ever seen in.
Speaker 8 (04:23):
The thing Donald Trump has said everything nice about Russia.
I can't think of a single time he said something
bad about Vladimir Putin, and it's very rare. We were
so shocked yesterday when he said that, Oh, did I
really say Zelensky was a dictator. This is the moment
we're in and this should be an embarrassment to all Americans.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Of the United States is a coward? Who is Vladimir
Putin's puppet?
Speaker 9 (04:46):
What we just witnessed between Donald Trump, Jady Vance, and
Presidents Lensky inside the White House was an ambush. It
was a planned ambush designed to embarrass Presidents Lensky in
order to benefit Vladimir Putin. That was an embarrassment. That
was an abomination. What you watched was American power being
(05:07):
destroyed in the world. As everybody watches President Trump become
a lapdog for a brutal dictator in Moscow.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
How many lives if Donald Trump can pull this off,
will be saved. The country of Ukraine can be saved
before it is completely destroyed. Lives can be saved, the
destruction can come to an end. This would be a
good thing for the entire world, one that I hope
is achievable under President Trump. This is the embodiment of
(05:41):
the art of the deal negotiation. And I said at
the time, I mean, and it's very as an analogy
with what's happening now and how people are reacting to
Donald Trump saying, because we're living under the Biden Harris economy,
and this is a disaster for the economy. This is
(06:01):
a disaster, disaster. This guy is falling. This guy is falling.
This guy is falling. No, it's not falling. It's not.
But what did I say at the time, Let's go back.
I think we have a tape of that. At some point,
reality is going to kick in. It clearly didn't kick
in by the time he went on Brett Bear Show
on Friday night. We have Brettbear on Friday night. It
didn't kick in any point over the weekend. Although I
(06:26):
do have sources, I have very good sources, better sources
than the state run legacy medium momb which is dead.
Zelensky has been reaching out repeatedly to President Trump directly
and his team directly, asking to come back and make
(06:46):
this right. So hence my knowledgeable prediction, putting two and
two together A squared B squared equals C squared. I
believe that Zelensky will be back. He's going to be back.
He's back. He was back within hours. He wanted to
come back. He didn't want to leave the White House
(07:07):
that day. I've got more details since that day, and
you know, we see now you know, there's been some
fluctuations as it relates to the stock market, for example,
and a little bit of well, first of all, the
stock market is always skittish. I've always said for years
and years that the stock market is not my biggest
(07:28):
indicator of the state of the economy. And I think
it's very important for people who clearly understand where we
are with the economy and where we are with this
budget process, and the first and foremost, I really believe
most people do not understand that we are living and
(07:49):
under the inflationary policies and current budget for fiscal year
twenty four. We are living under the Biden Harris economy,
Democrats economy, the inflationary economy. This is the economy of
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. This is the economy that
(08:10):
Donald Trump inherited that every American is still living under.
He's not, but it takes more than a day to
get his economic policies in place. Usually the fiscal year
begins October first, so the fiscal year will end September thirtieth.
But with that said, what the President has started to
do is eliminate now Doze is officially over one hundred
(08:34):
and five billion dollars in identified waste, fraud, abuse, and corruption,
and so we are eliminating what will be hundreds of
billions of dollars of Biden Harris waste, fraud, abuse, corruption,
money that never should have been wasted, but was wasted.
We expect sometime this week hopefully Republicans will need help
(08:55):
with Democrats in the Senate. They will pass a continuing
resolution to fund the govern or. Democrats will shut the
government down. That will be on them. That will be
their choice, that will be their decision, especially if the
House is able to get it passed with the slim
majority of Republicans that we have and Tom Massey just
being a resistant Republican to pretty much everything, which frankly,
(09:18):
if he wants to be an independent, he should just
be an independent because it's just not fair to everyone
else in the Republican Party that he not every Republicans
getting what they want, and know, generally speaking, you know,
I don't like continuing resolutions that we don't have a
choice here, and then once that happens, with likely without
any Democratic help at least in the House, in spite
(09:41):
of past proclamations that this is the worst and most
dangerous thing as a matter of fact, Speaker Johnson. But
this montage, it's like he's doing his own version of
Hannity out today, and we'll show it to you tonight
on TV, showing Democrats repeatedly talking about the and I
don't think it's so dangerous, to be honest, to have
(10:02):
a government shutdown. You have non essential services, people will
get usually end up getting laid off for a short
period of time and they get a free vacation because
they usually get back pay. That's what usually happens. But
the military keeps, it keeps protecting our country around the world.
It is inconvenient for some people. But then at the
(10:25):
end of it all, you know, essential services will continue,
social Security checks, Medicaid, all of this will be handled.
But this is the Democrats in past years. Now they're
the ones that are going to be responsible for a shutdown.
And this is what they have said over the years
about shutdowns.
Speaker 7 (10:40):
We believe in governments. We want to keep governments open.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
A shutdown is very serious.
Speaker 7 (10:46):
They are real consequences. When the government shuts down, it
harms our national security, it harms our economy, and it
harms service members, veterans, retirees, and vulnerable communities.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
We all know a shutdown is unnecessary and completely avoidable.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
The tragedy here is all the civilian employees. It is
the American people who are going to suffer.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Order patrol agents will not be paid, TSA agents will
not be paid.
Speaker 9 (11:16):
Small businesses will be hurt.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Not only is it irresponsible and purposely misleading, it is
dangerous precedent to be threatening a shutdown.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
I'm worried about our air controllers, those in the military.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
We have over almost forty thousand in the military, as
well as personnel who work in the military, and they
won't have checks.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
I mean, this is this is real, the.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Real people's lives at stake.
Speaker 8 (11:43):
It is not normal to hold eight hundred thousand workers
paychecks hostage.
Speaker 7 (11:47):
It is not normal to shut down the government when
we don't get what we want.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Our troops deserve better, our children deserve better, and the
American people deserve better.
Speaker 9 (11:58):
These chaos agents, they don't have a plan beat They
just want to see everything burning.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Shutdown is really is an extremist policy designed to appeal
to an extremist base and hold the whole country.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
Hospital so keep this shutdown.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
You know who's gonna feel the pain.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
You know who it hurts you.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
And guess who will be responsible if we have a
shutdown The very people you just heard from. So we
will watch and wait and see this week. My guess
is that they will pass the continuing Resolution in the end,
because this will backfire on them and they already have
a twenty percent approval rating that they want to go
(12:37):
into the single digits because that's where they're headed next.
In spite of that, I think Donald Trump will get
the CR and then the reconciliation process will begin in
the House and the Senate to jumpstart the economy with
the Trump tax plan, which would be permanent tax cuts,
no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax
(12:58):
on Social Security. Will also unleash what is a massive
increase in energy production to make America the most energy
rich nation on Earth and create high paying jobs for
the American people. It will also continue to incentivize more
and more businesses, manufacturing, facilities, industry to move and invest
(13:18):
in America to work in the most business friendly country
on the planet. That's why you see Apple investing five
hundred billion dollars in Texas. That's why Nissan and Honda
decided not to build their plants in Mexico. Now they're
building them in America. That's why you see this one
hundred billion dollar investment by this Taiwanese chip company. The
(13:39):
days of the disastrous Biden Harris economy are numbered. We
still live under it now and it will be replaced
with pro economic growth policies. And the skiddishness that you
might see on Wall Street is because of tariff fear
and of course the government shutdown fear and the unknown.
(14:00):
But if you look in the past, if passed indications
or any indicator you see, SMP inflation adjusted returns during
the Trump presidency was fifty four percent under Biden, fifteen
percent in case you're interested, NASDAK returns under Trump or
whopping one hundred and sixteen percent only seven point three
(14:20):
percent in the end under Biden. So you know, with
all this talk and all the indications about this, let
US policies get get in place first. And that's what
the President has been doing while trying to negotiate peace
on two continents. At the same time that President Zelensky,
in spite of a corrupt state run legacy media mob
(14:43):
that doesn't know they're dead yet, and Democrats freaking out
over the fact that the meeting at the in the
Oval Office broke down in large part because the presidents Lelensky.
That was supposed to be ceremonial. The idea that this
was a setup was just the kroc. It was supposed
to be a rah rah yay yay. Jake cans sign
(15:05):
the rare earth mineral deal, then move on to phase two,
which is where we got to today, and that is Ukraine.
At least they did agree to a thirty day ceasefire
that can be extended after eight hours of negotiation. Mike
Walls Marco Rubio leading the delegation in Saudi Arabia on
behalf of President Trump today. Now, the President has responded
(15:27):
to the Ukrainian acceptance of the ceasefire.
Speaker 6 (15:32):
But very importantly, and I said it, Ukraine ceasefire. Ukraine
ceasefire just agreed to a little while ago. Now we
have to go to Russia and hopefully President Putin will
agree to that also, and we can get this show
on the road. We get we can get this horrible
war where two three thousand soldiers a week every week two, three,
(15:54):
four thousand. Sometimes I get the reports and they're not
American soldiers, they're Ukrainian and Russian.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
But people are being killed outside of that.
Speaker 6 (16:03):
People are being killed in the cities as things explode
throughout the cities.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
And we want to get that war over with.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
So I think I think it's a very big I
think it's a big difference between the last visit you
saw at the Oval Office and this soap that's a
total ceasefire. Ukraine has agreed to it, and hopefully Russia
will agree to it. We're going to meet with him
later on today and tomorrow and hopefully we'll be able
to wipe out a deal. But I think the ceasefire
(16:32):
is very important. If we can get Russian to do it,
that'll be great. If we can't, we just keep going
on and people are gonna get killed, lots of people.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
I mean, at least it's hope. And everybody was predicting
after the White House Oval Office meeting fell apart. Oh
that's the this is this is going to be felt
the reverberations for years and years to come. No, they
just don't like Donald Trump. How great would it be
if we did get piece in Europe. It's not going
(17:02):
to be a perfect piece. Let me let me just
manage your expectations a little bit here. It's it's going
to be a negotiated peace settlement. And whether you like
whatever side, it just isn't good for anybody for this
thing to continue. And I think what's going to happen
is there will be security assurances. I think the Rarer
(17:23):
Mineral deal guarantees that on the American side, because we're
going to be heavily invested in partners with Ukraine that
also will give them money to rebuild their country which
has been devastated, and hopefully we'll bring back a large
part of their population that have exited the country and
sought refuge in other countries in Europe, and the same
with Russia. I mean, now they're feeling the impact of
(17:45):
this in ways large and small, and it's just not
good for anybody. And you know how ironic the guy
that you know gets called every name in the book
is being attacked, probably Gasparino, and which the same thing unfold.
You see nothing but panic out of you know, the prognosticators,
(18:06):
the pundits, the legacy state run medium mob bake news everywhere.
Oh look at the stock market, the stock market, the
stock market. By the way, there's protests after the FEDS
arrest Palestinian activist. I mean, it's it really is unbelievable
to me as I watched these these kids on these
(18:26):
college campuses. What part of murder and torture and kidnapping
and beheading did they not understand? Well? Who were they
sympathizing with here? Who was the victim that lost the
equivalent of forty thousand Americans in a single day. That
would be the Israelis. But anyway, back to Charlie Gasperno
(18:47):
writing in the New York Post. Today, Wall Street is
puking big time, and the sell buttons are working overtime.
Whenever the word tariff passes through Donald Trump's lip. If
you listen to the fat cat community long enough, you'd
think that Trump has been in office four years rather
than four weeks, and that a small trade surcharge on
(19:08):
a car from Mexico is leading into economic armageddon. He said,
I'm no fan of terriffs for lots of reasons, including
I hate paying too much for stuff. But I've also
taken enough economic classes and studied markets long enough to
know that They're not the end of the world as
we know it. I know that the Trump economic plan
is much more than the tariff plan, and it's about
(19:31):
tax cuts, deleveraging the federal government's involvement in the private sector,
allowing the private sector to thrive. And that is the
track record that is Donald Trump. We now live, as
I said earlier in the under the Biden Harris economy,
this is their economy, this is their budget, and now
it's going to take the first step will be a
continuing resolution to continue to fund the government. Democrats say
(19:55):
it's a disaster if you don't fund the government. I
don't agree with that, but that's These are them and
their own words over the years, and what they're not
factoring in is Donald Trump's economic plan to jumpstart the economy.
Permanent tax cuts, no tax on tips, no tax on overtime,
no tax on social security, a massive increase increase in
(20:17):
energy production, helping to make America the most energy dominant
rich country on the face of the earth, creating high
paying career jobs for the American people. We also see
the benefits of his tariff policies because now companies that
were planning to build in Mexico, like Nissan and Honda
are now going to build their plans in America. Apple's
(20:39):
investing five hundred billion dollars in America in Texas. That's
going to create tens of thousands of jobs. The Taiwanese
chip company is going to be spending one hundred billion dollars.
I don't I guess Wall Street just hasn't noticed these things.
But the days of the Biden Harris inflationary economy, you know,
that has of waste, fraud, abuse and corruption is now
(21:02):
coming to an end and the America First Growth economic
agenda will will now take its place. And that's good
for the American people, you know, and you know as
it relates to And we'll get into more of elon
Musk and we'll update you on the contest that we're
putting together and our lawyers are putting together now as
we even speak. But you know, all of this is about,
(21:26):
if we don't stop this reckless waste, fraud, abuse, and corruption,
we are stealing from our children and grandchildren. We are
stealing from hard working Americans that on average make sixty
six thousand dollars a year. There's no other way to
put it. This is this is the right policy for
our country, for our future, for our children and grandchildren's future.
(21:49):
Average Americans understand this as as Lincoln once admonished with
popular sentiment, there's nothing that can fail. He's right, And
if you look at the numbers, the American people strongly
support eliminating waste, fraud, abuse, and corruption. And then the Democrats,
you know, and a lot of these programs, but Americans
(22:09):
support draining the swamp. They don't want their money spent
on the radical Green New Deal DEI programs, wokeism, transgenderism,
and LGBTQ plus policies abroad America. Once Washington cleaned up,
they want an end to wasteful spending and Democrats are desperate,
(22:30):
so they're out there doing what they always do. It
came Jefferies lying saying we've got them on the run
in the economy and saying that the House GOP budget
is going to cut Medicaid and Social Security. Nothing is
further from the truth. As a matter of fact, the
GOP budget has a minimum increase in Medicaid of one
(22:51):
hundred and sixty eight billion dollars. That could go significantly
higher because under the Republican Plan Medicaid spending will go
up every year. They play this game. When Newt was
Speaker and Bill Clinton was the president, you know, if
you reduce the rate of increase, they said it was
a cut. And Newt's plan was to increase spending seven
percent a year every year for seven years. That is
(23:13):
not by any definition of cut. That is raining in
baseline budgeting, you know, radical increases in spending that you
cannot afford. The House Republican budget increases spending on Medicare
from six hundred and ninety five billion to eight hundred
and sixty three billion over a decade. That is one
hundred and sixty eight billion dollar increase in spending. And
(23:33):
it's likely that it'll probably go higher based on need.
That is just a fact. And then at that point,
you know, you've got to look where the American people are,
because American sentiment is with Donald Trump, you know, and
it is if you look at it. That's why many
polls have him ahead. This is what this is why
(23:55):
these companies are investing here. They see the handwriting is
on the wall. What you have, what Wall Street doesn't understand,
and what they don't want to understand. They don't want
to understand is that the President is in a perpetual
state of negotiation. When the President says tariffs, he wants changes.
(24:16):
He wants our friends to the north that I consider
the Canadians our friends. He wants them to do a
better job securing our border, pay their fair share for
NATO and their own national defense, and he wants more
cooperation on the border, especially as it relates to last
year alone, we had more illegals coming from the northern
(24:36):
border from over one hundred countries than we've had in
the past seventeen years combined. They need to do They
need to be good neighbors too, and they need to
stop putting tariffs on our products. We're actually going to
debate the Ontario premiere that is threatened to cut off
power to Michigan and New York and some other places tonight.
But I want to have a conversation with the guy.
(24:58):
I believe in free and fair tri trade, but it's
got to be reciprocal. That's why the President says reciprocal.
You know, reciprocal, you know trade agreements, reciprocal tariffs. If
they're going to put a tariff on us, we'll be
forced to put one on them. I'd rather not do that,
but that's what it's going to take. And if you
look at right track, wrong track, most Americans see that
(25:21):
on the economy and every other issue. In spite of
Wall Street hysteria that President Trump is outperforming Biden on
key issues, look at what he's been able to accomplish,
a fifteen year low in terms of illegal immigrants coming
into this country. When he gets his economic plan in place,
I would expect the same results we got in his
first term. I believe that inflation can be brought under control.
(25:43):
I believe we can accomplish peace in Europe and peace
in the Middle East. It's not it's a heavy lift
in each case. But if you look at dose, for example,
seventy seven percent of Americans think that we are in
a full need of an examination of every government expenditure.
And it's not just the Harvard Harris poll. It's pretty
much every pole, rasmuseen RMG. It is also the CBS poll.
(26:06):
It's also trafalgar. It's also insider advantage. You know, CBS
for example, not exactly you know, Trump's approval rating was
fifty three percent. Eighty percent support supporting criminal illegals seventy
six percent support of full scale effort to eliminate waste,
broad and abuse. Seventy six percent support closing the border.
Seventy percent support keeping men out of women's sports and
(26:30):
declaring that there are only two genders. Sixty five percent
support ending race based hiring in the government DEI, sixty
three percent support of freeze and a reevaluation of foreign eight.
Sixty one percent support reciprocal tariffs. Sixty percent support direct
negotiations with Russia to end the war in Ukraine. Sixty
percent support cutting government spending and ending the ban on
(26:51):
new off offshore drilling, which is a big part of
his economic plan. And it's it's not that they don't
know or they don't want want to know what Donald
Trump has planned. And in the end, you've got to
at some point you need an adult that is gonna
think long term. It's like just thenews dot com they
(27:12):
had a pull out today. Fifty five percent of registered
voters support the latest r because they understand we got
to fund the government. Democrats who have screened bloody murder
about possible government shutdowns and years gone by, you know,
now are pushing ahead with it. And it is all
of this is predictable, all this hysteria. That's why I'm
(27:36):
not phased at all by any of this. Now, as
soon as Wall Street started to tumble yesterday, the media
is pro recession cheerleading, you know, squad, the same people
that freaked out when Zelensky left the Oval office.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
You know.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Oh well, here's the headline. They don't want to talk
about job openings rise as the labor market shows strength
and stability. US job openings rose in January, underscoring a
resilient labor market that continues to defy pessimistic forecasts about
the impact of Donald Trump's you know, expected economic policies.
(28:09):
Job openings climbed to seven point seven to four million,
up from January. Way we unleash energy production in this country,
it's going to be higher. This was by way higher
than expectations of Wall Street and the experts. The increase
in openings driven by primarily by gains in real estate, construction, retail, manufacturing,
and the financial sectors, suggesting continued strengthen very key areas
(28:33):
of the economy. Job openings and manufacturing, of politically and
economically sensitive sector climbed by thirty thousand. There are jobs
in America, Wall Street is suffering withdrawal pains, as Gasparino said,
as President Trump moves to wean the economy off of
trillions of dollars of government deficit spending. This is this
(28:54):
is this is hard work, but it's worth doing because
if we don't get a hold of it now, will
I'll never get a hold of it, just like if
we don't stop this war in Europe and the war
in the Middle East, We're never going to get a
hold of it. And if you allow the Mullas in
Iran to get a nuclear weapon, as my mother used
to say, we will rue the day
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