Episode 4312: Time To Make Things Right; US Gov. To Settle Lawsuit With Babbitts
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Summary
Stephen K. Vance and Spencer Van Zandt discuss the impact of President Trump's latest trade war with China, Canada, Mexico, the EU, and the other major trading partners, and how it will impact the economy and the middle class.
Transcript
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Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people.
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I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.
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I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that,
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And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
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I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
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Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
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If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
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Tuesday, 4 March, here of our Lord 2025, State of the Union Day,
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or joint address to Congress, we'll be covering it all day and into the evening
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with the entire tremendous reportage we have here at Real America's Voice,
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Spencer, and I think I've got a, do I have a Howard Lutnick clip?
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Let me play, I want to play this Howard Lutnick clip,
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and then Spencer, I want to bring you in for your comments.
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It's about the tariffs, the economic warfare that kicked off last night,
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although I want people to know, and Spencer will talk about this when he comes back,
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Canada, Mexico, EU, and China, along with Japan and South Korea,
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have been at this against us for decade after decade after decade.
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Let's play Howard Lutnick, the Secretary of Commerce this morning.
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Remember, the process in America for tariffs is that the president launched a study,
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So on April 2nd, the president will have all the tools in his arsenal
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So he will be addressing all of those products in Canada.
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The fact that, you know, Canada has a national sales tax,
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another way to say it is a national tariff on our products.
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And we sell, you know, they import from us very little,
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and we export, and they export to us huge amounts.
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So the idea is that's going to be reset, but that starts April 2nd.
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Now we just, you know, people say, oh, it's only a small amount of opioids.
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You know, they're only killing 75,000 Americans.
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This is a major reset and a rethinking of the business model of this country.
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And as Spencer said, why we've been getting raped and pillaged by the world since the 1970s.
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Spencer, I want to put a lie to all, they're just, they're running around,
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that the American working man and woman are going to pay for this.
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And second, the economic logic makes it pretty clear.
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President Trump imposed tariffs during his first term.
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We actually had deflationary pressure on consumer goods in this country.
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The reality is, is that when the economy grows, prices are going to go down
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because your average person is making more money, right?
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I mean, we can't just consider prices in a vacuum.
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when America started running this massive chronic trade deficit,
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we've shed so many good-paying manufacturing jobs.
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The purchasing power for your average person hasn't actually increased.
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In fact, your average household in 1974 was able to spend more on their wants
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So your average American is actually worse off now than back in the 1970s.
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And this is directly caused by the trade deficit.
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And we financed it on top of the – we financed it.
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I need you around because we're going to get back to this.
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It's called Reshore, How Tariffs Will Bring Our Jobs Home and Revive the American Dream.
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We've lost 7 million manufacturing jobs and at least 7 million more service industry jobs.
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Tariffs and President Trump are going to bring those back home.
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You can also get it directly from Calamo Press.
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This is why it's so exquisite it's coming together
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and coming together on President Trump's Day of the State of the Union.
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This is why we're having wall-to-wall coverage here on Real America's Voice Day.
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We will be back at 8 o'clock all the way to 11 to cover it with the tremendous team of Real America's Voice.
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All the voices of Real America's Voice are going to be pitching in tonight
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And President Trump has thought about this a long time.
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It's why it's providential that we had that little break of four years
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so we could see the demonic nature of the enemies of our country and our Constitution.
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But there's been a lot of activity the last couple of days in Europe, Ben.
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Your beat, and particularly the New York Post, just breaking a story about Zelensky.
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our take on this, as it was sort of a week ago,
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even more than a week ago, eight, nine days ago,
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was that there was one card that Zelensky could play.
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And that was that he could pivot to China and basically say,
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look, I'll give you guys the right to the minerals.
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And Ukraine will be a protectorate of China rather than the United States.
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Andrei Yermak, the chief of staff, Zelensky's chief of staff,
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and this has been circulating on social media and what have you,
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basically said that they are now looking and talking to China.
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that this pivot to China on behalf of the Ukrainians
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What it is, is a potential negotiating tool to,
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It's a negotiating tool for Zelensky to signal to Trump,
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look, it's not true that we don't have any cards.
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and that is prostitute ourselves to your mortal enemies.
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But hang on, but hang on, but hang on, but hang on.
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A Ukraine situation is a subset of the rapprochement with Russia.
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The rapprochement with Russia means, by definition,
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for the family that Judicial Watch brought, sir?
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because by now, previously, the Biden administration
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wanted to shut down a large part of Ashley's lawsuit.
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And now, as we detail in the report to the court,
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we're looking to try to resolve some or all of the issues.
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And, you know, we obviously want justice for Ashley,
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over whether Ashley's shooting death was justified.
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and we're not going to get a chance for you guys
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Because people obviously consider you guys heroes