Dow Jones and S&P 500 hit new records and hit new all-time lows. President Trump delivers a speech on the stock market and the impact of the Dow hitting new records. He also speaks on the potential for a recession.
00:00:00.000Today, I think people at Capitol Hill feel the same way that finance ministers all around the world feel.
00:00:07.200It's a it's a Pepto-Bismol moment in the marketplace.
00:00:12.920And finance ministers around the world are now holding on to their stomachs.
00:00:16.600People at kitchen tables and at workplaces all across our country are holding on to their stomachs.
00:00:21.440We're in one of the greatest wealth destruction days in the history of the world.
00:00:26.220And up here on Capitol Hill, I think Republicans right now are thinking about popping bottles of champagne,
00:00:32.980but maybe popping bottles of Pepto-Bismol over the next few days to really determine what is going to be the impact on our economy
00:00:40.300when when J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs are both saying there's a doubling of the chance we're going to have a recession this year because of Trump's actions like this.
00:00:51.200I wouldn't go diving in and buying stocks tomorrow.
00:00:53.940A bottoming in the stock market is a process, not a point in time.
00:00:59.080So you have to be really, really careful if you're a trader about when to get in and when to get out.
00:01:04.500All right. That is down nearly four percent for the Dow.
00:01:09.320For investors, what is your advice today?
00:01:12.040OK, whatever money you may need for the next five years, please take it out of the stock market right now this week.
00:01:20.020I do not believe that you should risk those assets in the stock market.
00:01:24.720Even if you would take a tremendous loss in selling your stocks at this decline, you say take it out.
00:01:29.160I don't care. I do not care where stocks have been.
00:01:31.300I do not care where stocks have been. I care where they're going.
00:01:34.000And I don't want people to get hurt in this market.
00:01:36.200But if you need it after five years, then don't touch it.
00:01:39.520Well, yes. If you have that much flexibility, I'm worried about unemployment.
00:01:44.980I'm worried about your purchases that you may need.
00:01:47.360I can't have you risk that in the stock market for the next five years.
00:01:50.300Very dramatic statement, Jim. Very dramatic statement.
00:01:51.900I thought about this all weekend. I did not want to say these things on TV.
00:07:05.940And I want to go back, and I thank Alex Brusilowicz for this.
00:07:09.220It's his great tweet that our own Elizabeth picked up.
00:07:12.440Alex put that up on New Year's Eve, I think, at 24, going down memory lane.
00:07:16.620But that gets back to the core of what President Trump ran for, why he won in 16, what he's trying to accomplish.
00:07:22.680This is what he's done over the last 24 hours is the core of the man, to restore the strength to America of becoming a manufacturing superpower.
00:07:33.740Again, Steve Cortez, give me some analytics.
00:09:43.320You'll never see this kind of context, by the way, from the corporate media, even from the financial press, places like CNBC.
00:09:49.700But more importantly than what the market did today, Steve, is what Donald Trump is doing in terms of trying to re-industrialize this country and in doing so to reinvigorate the great American working class, to rebuild a great American middle class that has been absolutely hollowed out by the globalists.
00:10:09.040We have, unfortunately, Steve, an economy in this country that has really been built on two premises, two false foundations.
00:10:16.520The first is offshoring, and the second is gargantuan, unsustainable debt.
00:10:22.500Now, tariffs, by the way, addresses both of those problems concurrently, right, because it compels onshoring back to the United States.
00:10:30.300If you don't want to pay these onerous tariffs, the best way around them, you set up shop right here in the United States of America.
00:10:35.880Whether you're an American company or foreign company, doesn't matter once you set up here in the United States, onshoring, to reinvigorate Main Street small businesses in this country, not the globalist multinationals.
00:10:47.840And then on the debt front, we know that most of this $36 trillion of debt that we have incurred, absolutely recklessly exorbitant borrowing and spending, most of that we racked up at interest rates, which were far preferential to what we have now because of Biden's inflation explosion, which means that from here forward, the situation gets much more dire and much more serious.
00:11:09.380So what's the best way for us to raise revenue? We also need to cut spending, of course, but what's the best way for us to raise revenue? It's to raise it from foreigners.
00:11:18.240And why can we get away with that, Steve? Because we are the United States of America, and because of centuries of entrepreneurs and hardworking men and women, we have built the crown jewel consumer market, the envy of the world that every country and every company on earth is pining for access to.
00:11:36.680And because of that reality, we may not always have that, right, if we don't institute these reforms, but because we have earned that status and that premier elevation among consumer markets in the world, we can charge a premium.
00:11:50.400You've said this many times, it's a good analogy to theater or a sporting event, we have the box seats, you charge the most for the best seats.
00:11:57.620So it just simply makes sense. It alleviates these twin problems of offshoring, which has crushed American communities, led to deaths of despair, led to millions of men, working age men in this country who have simply dropped out of productive life.
00:12:11.300It solves that problem. It's probably the most significant reform to solve the problem of offshoring.
00:12:17.080And then it also, on the other hand, this unsustainable debt problem, it vastly improves our debt situation and our debt ratio.
00:12:24.980So to me, this transformation, it can be painful, absolutely, because the country had become addicted to offshoring and to constant public financing, OK?
00:12:33.800Not a healthy addiction. Breaking addictions at times can be painful.
00:12:38.440So we're seeing some of that consternation right now.
00:12:40.700Now, let's not exaggerate the pain, but the point is, there is a place of prosperity, there's a place of societal cohesion, of patriotism, of shared and dispersed prosperity throughout this country.
00:12:53.120That place lies on the other side of this process, and we must go through it.
00:12:58.040And I so commend President Trump for doing this. He's talked about it for decades.
00:13:02.340He was talking about it as a private citizen for decades before he got into public life.
00:13:06.560These are some of the most consequential economic reforms in American history, in all of American history.
00:13:11.920And I would argue they're probably the most consequential economic reforms since FDR.
00:13:17.000His were toxic for the country. These are going to be wonderful and prosperous for our country.
00:13:22.920So, bad day. The worst was overnight when they first heard it, because people didn't believe he was going to do it.
00:13:29.160They actually didn't believe it. You see the market yesterday.
00:13:31.320President Trump did it overnight. Response today, not too shabby.
00:13:36.560Right? We're going to be a couple days to get through here.
00:13:38.780The one thing that's going to drive any kind of, I'm not saying panic selling, but dumping of stocks, is the left media is all over.
00:13:46.420They think this is what takes President Trump down.
00:13:49.000This is how much they hate this country. You haven't heard them once say anything about working men and women.
00:13:53.720This is the credentialed class. You saw Katie Turr.
00:13:56.040Is there a bigger joke than Katie Turr being on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange?
00:14:01.260I mean, that's laughable. That is laughable.
00:14:04.060That is, they're there, and all her questions, oh, isn't this terrible? How bad is this?
00:14:07.520And they have people like, well, come back, Cortez. I know you work with Steve Leisman.
00:14:11.860What a beauty that is. You know, a left-wing hack that all he's doing is dumping on President Trump all day.
00:14:17.260We're going to take a short commercial break.
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00:31:32.420Because, remember, there are a lot of people still – the way that the National Security Council is constituted, there are still people who were either holdovers from –
00:31:43.280Well, folks, you know, so two-thirds of the – two-thirds of 75 percent of the staff is detailed from the Pentagon, from the CIA, from DHS, from Justice Department, state, and one-third are the political appointees, people that the president can bring in.
00:31:58.720So it's basically 30 to 50 political – but the Seb Gorkas, the –
00:32:05.400The vast majority are detailees from various –
00:32:08.120And you manage those detailees, and they bring the resources of those departments.
00:32:11.820The people that are getting rid of, though, were, I believe, political appointees, not detailees that were not – well, I'll have to find out.
00:32:19.160I know there's a list of detailees, too.
00:32:20.920We had a list of – you know, put together by Sergeant Higgins, I think it was like 150 people should go back because the detailees were all Obama and Bush.
00:32:30.040And Sergeant Higgins, of course, McMasters did not implement that.
00:32:35.520Let's play the clip, and Steve will bring you back in any other thoughts you've got today because those are the questions that are bombarding the president.
00:32:42.320He's saying, hey, I'm talking to executives, talking to automotive executives, everything I'm hearing is going to – everything is going to work out.
00:32:48.820Steve Cortez, let's go ahead and play the clip.
00:32:50.860Patriots, do you think that we should be a country that makes things again?
00:32:55.860Should we be a society where a family can thrive on a single income?
00:33:02.060Well, we can never reach those goals unless we get trade policy correct.
00:33:09.160And tariffs are a huge part of that new agenda of patriotic populist nationalism.
00:33:25.860Because, again, too much of the economy for decades has been predicated upon offshoring and massive, exorbitant, unsustainable debt.
00:33:34.760And what I promoted there and communicated in that video in an article I wrote on it as well is that President Trump is doing something daring here, right?
00:33:44.000And he is challenging America to dream about something big.
00:33:47.680For example, let's reclaim a prosperity that we used to have in this country where a family could thrive on one single middle class income.
00:33:56.940We've completely left that economic realm.
00:34:01.220But President Trump is saying, here's how we get back there, by reindustrializing the United States, by making sure that we make things in this country again, and by making sure that we are not abused by predatory trade practices from any other country, particularly China, but even from our supposed friends, that we are not going to be abused again.
00:34:19.940And, by the way, I think President Trump, you made this point earlier, Steve, it's so important.
00:34:24.540President Trump's whole life, really, if you look at it, has been leading to this moment.
00:34:29.780Because you're right, he's done some incredible things on the border, some incredible things on the culture, on pro-life, a huge list of material accomplishments.
00:34:37.800But his signature issue, if you go back all the way to when he first became a public figure, all the way back to the 1980s, his signature issue has been trade and has been the way America has been abused in trade.
00:34:51.620And, by the way, Steve, I will, you know, public confession here, I speak about this with the zeal of a convert because I used to be a Wall Street Republican.
00:34:57.580I used to believe in that nonsense of so-called free trade until Donald Trump came along in 2015 and opened my eyes, and I think opened a lot of people's eyes and said, wait a second, we don't have free trade.
00:35:08.500It's been managed trade and mostly managed against the interests of working class Americans and in favor of the Chinese Communist Party and in favor of American plutocrats and American oligarchs for their self-aggrandizement.
00:35:22.400And they simply don't care what happens to entire communities, entire regions, entire industries in the United States.
00:35:29.260So he has been working toward this in many ways his entire life.
00:35:33.660This is a culmination of a life's work.
00:35:35.680And, again, this kind of a grand strategy and this kind of a momentous policy shift, it's not easy.
00:35:53.820Harken back to Alexander Hamilton, to Abraham Lincoln, some of the great champions of tariffs in American history.
00:35:59.680So looking back at our history and then looking forward at what we can and will become if we insist that we prioritize American workers in all of our trading relationships.
00:36:10.240And, again, we have an advantage that no other country in the world has.
00:36:51.020And if you want access to this market, the best way to do it is employ Americans, invest here, buy American real estate, American CapEx, make your products here.
00:36:59.160And then the tariffs are irrelevant to you.
00:37:02.220A couple of days, at least, of choppiness, and particularly as the left.
00:37:06.180The left is trying to spur a panic here.
00:37:09.180A couple of days of Steve Leesman and these guys on CNBC trying to goad on people dumping their stocks.
00:37:16.700You expect that the next couple of days?
00:37:18.720You know, let me give you a word about Steve Leesman.
00:37:20.200Since I mentioned before, you know, I worked at CNBC for a long time and had great years there.
00:37:24.600Steve Leesman has worked his entire career in journalism.
00:37:27.660Okay, went to Columbia Journalist School, then took his Ivy League journalism degree and worked in journalism as a dutiful stenographer and PR agent for the American establishment.
00:37:38.300So when he talks about financial markets, he's not somebody, you know, who, like me, traded in the Chicago options markets, dealt with the Chicago pits with some of the wildest forms of capitalism possible.
00:38:27.420It was absolutely a bad day in the market.
00:38:29.760I'm saying keep perspective, put things in context, in broader context, and then also focus on where we are headed.
00:38:37.600Now, because we painted ourselves into an awful economic corner, it doesn't mean that getting to that place of reindustrialized America and mainstream prosperity, it's not easy, but it is worth doing.
00:38:49.580And if any country on earth can do it, it's the United States.
00:38:52.480And if any leader and team can do it, it's President Trump with lieutenants like Scott Besant.
00:38:58.680Talk about somebody who has managed money, who knows about interest rates, who knows about bonds.
00:39:02.820He's one of the most successful bond traders in the world, now managing the bond portfolio of the United States.
00:39:08.320And President Trump mentioned this as well in the plane.
00:39:09.960One of the few silver linings of this market volatility lately is that money has come into bonds.
00:39:15.260And when money comes in and buys bonds, it means interest rates go down.
00:39:18.480So our debt obligations, while still ridiculous, have gotten a bit more manageable in recent days.
00:41:04.080This is what he's believed when he first started thinking about public office and started thinking about something bigger than New York City real estate,
00:41:32.360This guy understands what America was at the top of its game when it was a manufacturing superpower and how those workers,
00:41:41.040how New York City was a manufacturing superpower back in those days, back after the war, 50s and 60s, before the jobs left.
00:41:47.420This is to the core of him, is it not?
00:41:49.440Well, and even before that, New York City was the focal point from the Erie Canal where all the Erie cities would come down through the Erie Canal.
00:43:38.520They're the ones that bled in World War II.
00:43:41.420Ourselves and the British produced the arms and came in from the perimeter in a very bloody and gallant way, but to free the Eurasian landmass from the fascist powers that were trying to control it.
00:43:51.900And in a way, we sort of inherited the British Empire, and we've sort of been attempting to maintain this.
00:44:12.140That's why all the rest of it is there.
00:44:13.320So the Commonwealth countries, former Commonwealth countries, President Trump actually has an interesting correspondence with King George about the Commonwealth countries.
00:44:33.520But America was never designed to be – our whole independence, go back to 1776, the founding fathers, did not set us up to be part of the British system nor set us up to be the inheritors of the British system.
00:44:46.300We were set up to be a separate nation state that was wholly independent, that was economically independent, that was energy independent, that would be energy dominant.
00:44:58.320Whoever controls the Mississippi and the Mississippi River Delta will have the power in this hemisphere.
00:45:04.880He was very clear about this, and it's still true today.
00:45:07.600So when you look at everything that we've done is we've attempted to overextend ourselves to become this sort of New Britain, a new Rome, whatever you want to call it, and it just doesn't work.
00:45:18.260Somebody else knew about the Mississippi were Generals Grant and Sherman who tried to convince Lincoln, we can end this war by taking the Mississippi.
00:45:25.520Once you take the Mississippi, you cut off Texas, and then we'll figure it out from there.
00:45:29.140We're going to take a short commercial break.
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