WarRoom Battleground EP 704： Trump Seizes Control Of The Kennedy Center
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Roger Kimball joins me to talk about his new book, "The Long March Through the Institutions: How To Take Over America's Most Powerful Cultural Institutions" and to discuss the impact of the Trump administration on the world economy.
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Why do you want to be chairman of the Kennedy Center board?
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They were a disgrace that they were even put on.
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So I'll be there until such time as it gets to be running right.
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No, I got reports that were so bad I didn't want to...
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I cut out a traditional open because we've got to get to it.
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I've got Shali Kumar is going to join us here shortly to talk about Modi.
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And a guy that tremendously admires President Trump and they work together as a team.
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I think it was down in Houston a couple of years ago.
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Biggest event President Trump had been to except when he went to India.
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We're going to cover it kind of wall to wall because just the nation of India, the people
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Modi's an example for everybody throughout the world.
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News coming out of the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing, the Financial Times, trade war.
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They're coming out with retaliatory terrorists, but they got a little bad news and it's becoming
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And their soft economy is an implosion, a demographic implosion among the Chinese people.
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Roger, in a minute I'm going to have – there's two things I want to go through.
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One, you are the author in the – on the conservative side of taking – I think it's Gramsci's,
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And you laid out in this magnificent book how the left went through the institutions of
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We're seeing it today and I think people are shocked.
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Trump's doing a forced march through the institutions with Doge, Elon Musk and himself
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First off, let's go to the thesis of your book.
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What was the long march through the institutions originally that got us in this shape?
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And then I want you to comment and make observations on what do you think about Doge, Elon Musk
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So the long march – and you're right, Antonio Gramsci popularized that phrase.
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The long march was poached upon Mao Zedong's phrase, the long march.
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But the idea was that if you really want to get the revolution going, what you need to
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do is occupy the commanding heights of the culture.
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So this long march through the institutions that people like Herbert Marcuse, the Frankfurt
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School Marxist and others popularized was the idea that if we're going to foment revolution
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in America, what we need to do is, first of all, take over the cultural institutions, the educational
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institutions, the churches, the whole potpourri of cultural institutions like museums, like
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And once we occupy those, then we have control of the young people and we can do with them
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And of course, the educational institutions were perhaps the most potent form of sabotage
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So it's very important that in this forced march, as you put it, we don't neglect the high
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schools, even the primary schools and the university systems because that is the crucible whereby
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these horrible ideas are allowed to germinate and take over our society.
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But I did not think low enough, as it turns out, what has been going on in this country,
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as we've discovered over the last, well, the last three weeks, today is the anniversary
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of the third week anniversary of Trump's inauguration.
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It's things are always worse than you think, as they say.
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And I mean, I knew about, you know, that there was corruption and abuse, but the what has
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been uncovered at USAID, for example, the Treasury Department, it's absolutely breathtaking.
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And this is just the proverbial tip of the iceberg.
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I mean, USAID, why did they spend $14 million handing out cash payments to illegal migrants
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Why did they spend $15 million sending condoms to the Taliban?
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Why did they spend $7 million to fund a series of, a speaker series in Canada of BIPOC people?
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Why did the Treasury Department have all these Social Security numbers that were not deduplicated?
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What that means is that you could have hundreds, thousands of people with the same Social Security
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Well, because you'd hand them out to favored people, for example, illegal migrants, and then
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they would be able to cross the border, get various privileges in this country.
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The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, pointed out that what these illegal migrants are getting
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far exceeds what is available to our own citizens.
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So I expect this process to be rapid and regime changing.
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By regime changing, I mean the woke regime of the administrative state.
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And the little twitterings of district judges like the Obama-appointed Paul Engelmeyer are going to signify for nothing.
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Whether you have Pam Bondi in as the Attorney General, this is not going anywhere.
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Basically, I believe what Trump is probably going to do is a variation on what Andrew Jackson is said to have done in his dispute with Chief Justice Marshall back in, I think it was 1834.
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Have you seen the news from economists forecasting a depression?
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He was in charge of the fake impeachment hearings.
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The federal executive institute is a program that was set up during the Johnson administration to train senior-level government bureaucrats.
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As you've identified repeatedly in the last few years, the senior levels of our federal government are not adequately serving as stewards of taxpayer dollars.
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So we're recommending zeroing out that program effectively.
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We're actually getting rid of a few programs that are just a waste.
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Next, we have an executive order relating to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
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As you've repeatedly identified, the way that this act has been enforced over the years has been devastating to American business opportunities and business competitiveness abroad.
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We are essentially ordering the Department of Justice to use its prosecutorial discretion in a way to ameliorate the negative effects of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act to allow Americans to do business abroad and to allow our foreign partners to do business with Americans without fearing unjust prosecution.
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And for those of you that know this, it turned out to be, it sounds good on paper, but in practicality, it's a disaster.
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It means that if an American goes over to a foreign country and starts doing business over there legally, legitimately or otherwise, it's almost a guaranteed investigation, indictment.
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And nobody wants to do business with the Americans because of it.
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They don't investigate death and murders on the street in New York and Los Angeles.
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They go over and investigate a business guy trying to do business.
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So it made it very, very hard from a practical standpoint to make deals.
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They want to deal with the Americans, but they don't want to be under investigation every time they speak to an American, every time an American makes a phone call to somebody in a different country.
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And many, many deals are unable to be made because of it.
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Nobody wants to do business because they don't want to feel like every time they pick up a phone, they're going to jail.
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So we'll sign this and it takes courage to sign it because you only get bad publicity when you sign it.
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The title is so lovely, but it's an absolutely horror show for America.
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So we're signing it because that's what we have to do to make it good.
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It's going to mean a lot more business for America.
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Next, this is an executive order relating to the use of paper straws.
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As you've consistently identified, nobody really likes paper straws.
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A paper show is number one trending for three days or something.
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The environmental impact of plastic straws versus paper straws is entirely unclear.
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But the most important thing is to make things, it impacts, and it really is something that
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affects ordinary Americans in their everyday lives.
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they explode if something's hot they don't last very long like a matter of minutes
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sometimes a matter of seconds it's a ridiculous situation so
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we're going back to plastic straws i think it's okay
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and i don't think that plastic's going to affect a shark very much as they're eating
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as they're munching their way through the ocean okay thank you sir next we have uh a full and
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unconditional pardon for former governor rob blagojevich of the state of illinois good it's
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my honor to do it i've watched him he was set up by a lot of bad people some of the same people that
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i had to deal with he wasn't quite as successful but he had somebody that saw what was going on i
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didn't know him other than i believe he was on the apprentice for a little while he was a just a
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very nice person he had a fantastic wife she fought like hell to get him out he was given a sentence of
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like 18 years and uh it was a sort of a terrible injustice they just were after him they go after
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a lot of people these are bad people on the other side so i think he's a just a very fine person
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and this shouldn't have happened and it shouldn't have happened to him and
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let him have a normal life and let him go out and do what he has to do
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so uh i'm signing this is a full pardon rod blagojevich mr president are you considering him for
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ambassador to serbia uh no but i would i mean he's now cleaner than anybody in this room
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you got a pardon he's cleaner than anybody in the room okay thank you sir uh next in 2018
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you imposed uh odd valorem uh duties tariffs on imports of steel at a 25 percent rate since that
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time a large number of exclusions and exceptions uh to that uh tariff rule have have been implemented
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uh because of the the damage to the united states steel industry that those exceptions and exclusions
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have imposed uh we're now uh this order would reimpose that 25 percent odd valorem tariff rate
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on imports of steel uh and it's presented for your signature now okay do you understand what that
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means um it's a big deal it's a big deal this is the beginning of making america rich again
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mr secretary do you have anything to say just as you know howard is uh secretary of commerce doing
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a fantastic job and what do you have to say about it so when you imposed uh the tariffs the first time
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you added 120 000 jobs and since that time it's been picked away and nicked away and excluded away
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and we've lost 107 000 jobs and remember these aren't just general jobs these are steel workers
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in america and now you're going to bring them back you're going to bring those 120 000 jobs back to
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america you are the president who's standing up for the american steel worker and i am just tremendously
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impressed and delighted to stand next year mr president president so let me just uh make a
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statement and essentially we're this is another way of saying we're doing a 25 tariff on steel and
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aluminum so the failed american trade policies have led our once incredible united states steel and
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aluminum industries once incredible that's once incredible not now but they're they're not bad i saved
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them because of my first term totally saved them if i didn't do what i did i put massive
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tariffs not the highest level but pretty pretty massive tariffs we got uh we took in a lot of money
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and we took in a lot of jobs but uh we were being pummeled by both friend and foe alike our nation
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requires steel and aluminum to be made in america not in foreign lands we need to create in order to
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protect our country's future resurgence of u.s manufacturing and production the likes of which
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has not been seen for many decades it's time for our great industries to come back to america i want
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to back to america this is the first of many and you know what i mean by that we're going to be doing
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others on other subjects topics protecting our steel and aluminum industries is a must and today i'm
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simplifying our tariffs and steel and aluminum so that everyone can understand exactly what it means
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it's 25 percent without exceptions or exemptions and that's all countries no matter where it comes from
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all countries if made in the united states however united states of america there is no tariff zero
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so if it's made in the united states there is no tariff all you have to do is make it in the united
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states we don't need it from another country as an example canada uh if we make it in the united states
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we don't need it to be made in canada we'll have the jobs that's why canada should be our 51st state
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we'll bring back industries and we'll bring back our jobs and we'll make america industry great again
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so essentially we're putting on a 25 tariff without exception on all uh aluminum and all steel
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and uh it's going to mean a lot of businesses are going to be opening in the united states now we're
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going to be meeting over the next four week period maybe on a weekly basis and maybe we'll do a couple
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of them uh at different times and maybe together but we'll be talking about other subjects like cars
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we'll be talking about uh drugs and pharmaceuticals we'll be discussing chips
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and uh we're going to be uh doing some other things in addition to that all which will bring
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in a lot of jobs into our country cars is going to be a very big one and a very important one and america
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is going to be stronger than it ever was before okay so uh are you finished with everything i think
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we have aluminum still okay let's go so with respect to aluminum similarly to steel since 2018 a large
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number of exceptions and exemptions have been added into the law this eliminates all of those and
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also increases the odd valorem tariff rate uh from 10 to 25 percent mostly the last part is the most
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important uh right would you say totally so basically this is aluminum the same thing no exceptions no
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nothing and uh it's going to bring our aluminum business back and may go higher i mean frankly it may
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go higher and we're going to also be talking about uh we're going to be talking about things over the
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next three weeks that i think will be uh amazing for our country amazing for our jobs and will bring us
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to a new level of prosperity and i think frankly our uh allies and our enemies all over the world expected
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this they really expected it for years they really expected it sometime during the biden administration
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but they didn't do anything as you know i put i put tariffs on china we took in hundreds of billions
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of dollars with those tariffs and biden wasn't able to get them out he tried to but it was too much money
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he couldn't do it and uh we're going to be doing a very concise and you know very uh very it's going to
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be good and i don't think if if done properly and we're going to try and do that uh we don't want
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it to hurt other countries but they've been taking advantage of us for years and years and years
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and they've charged us terrorists most of them have charged us almost everyone i would say almost
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without exception definitely they've charged us we haven't charged them and uh it's time to be
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reciprocal so very very you'll be hearing that word a lot reciprocal if they charge us we
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charge them if they're at 25 we're at 25 if they're at 10 we're at 10 and if they're much higher
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than 25 that's what we are too so uh that's having to do with everything that's not just steel and aluminum
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but we'll be discussing that over the next couple of weeks but we will be looking at uh chips and we
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will be looking at cars and we're going to be looking at pharmaceuticals and there'll be a couple of
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other things also in addition that'll be the president uh steel workers have said that they
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support this move what would you say to american consumers who are worried that prices that they
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do support this move i love the steel makers that's good of course they because they want to save their
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businesses u.s steel will now be a very valuable company anybody that makes steel is going to be great
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anybody that works in big steel is going to be very happy what do you say to consumers who are
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worried about prices oh i don't think you're going to know you're going to ultimately have a price
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reduction because they're going to make their steel here there's not going to be any tariff
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these foreign companies will move to the united states will make their steel and aluminum in the
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united states ultimately it'll be cheaper but we'll also have jobs many many more jobs
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sir what are you looking at in terms of tariffs on cars and chips well we're looking at numbers and
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we'll be coming up with a number but uh we have we make some of the finest cars in the world and
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some companies prohibit us from selling those cars in their countries but they sell
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us cars they send cars to us and we don't do that we charge nothing or two and a half percent
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and they'll be charging a hundred percent they'll be charging much more than that if you look at some of
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them so um i think those days are over but we'll be announcing on other things such as cars uh we
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got some other things we'll be doing but the biggest thing is reciprocal we want tariffs to be fair
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if they charge if they charge us we charge them uh we'll be doing uh reciprocal over the next
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i would say two days don't you think two days yeah maybe mr president the australian prime minister has
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said that you are considering an exemption from australia on steel is that correct uh i just spoke to
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him a very fine man and he uh has a surplus i mean we have a surplus with australia one of the few
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and the reason is they buy a lot of airplanes they are rather far away and they need lots of airplanes and
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we actually have a surplus it's one of the only countries which we do and i told him that uh that's
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something that we will give great consideration to and would you consider one for the uk as well
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well we have a huge deficit with the uk big difference you don't have a deficit with argentina
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is that country also we have a uh a deficit with a little deficit with argentina almost with every
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country but australia because of the airplanes they buy a lot of airplanes uh there's a little bit of a
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surplus if other countries retaliate i don't mind what is your plan for for example farmers last term
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you well the farmers are going to be helped greatly yeah the farmers are going to be helped greatly
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because um when they're not going to be dumping everything into our country this would be a great
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bill for farmers and in terms of retaliation if they retaliate it's as i said uh it's reciprocal
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so if they raise it a little bit then we raise it automatically so i don't think it helps for
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them to retaliate but also remember this they can't really retaliate because we're the piggy bank
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we're the piggy bank but if we don't do this we won't be the piggy bank for long we won't be
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much of a country i think it's terrible look i looked at the hostages that came in
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and they're emaciated it looked like uh something out of the 1930s it's an absolute disgrace and i
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think they saw the way the world viewed it and they're looking for a reason not to send more because
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they're all you take a look at that it looks like it was looked like it was a concentration camp which
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essentially it was uh it looks like they came out of the holocaust and uh what a sad thing one of them
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was uh a young man good-looking guy a little bit a little bit heavier than perhaps he could have been
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and now he looks like he's uh not even recognizable not even recognized look uh i can tell you that
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those people have been badly hurt both mentally and physically i'm talking about the young women
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that came out also previously and i think one of the reasons they're doing this is because they're
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probably sending the best what you see is probably the best because they want to uh send people that
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look at least healthy and that's not healthy these people have been badly hurt they've been interviewed
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by our representatives they've been interviewed by israeli representatives and uh they're really
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hurting they are really hurting mentally and physically and i think hamas is looking at that and
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say well it's not going to get much better than that because they probably send out their best as
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a representative and they've got more to send out and they probably feel that they can't do that
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because it's not going to make them look very good is the delay that sir should the ceasefire then be off
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well i would say this and i'm going to let that because that's israel's decision but uh as far as i'm
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concerned if all of the hostages aren't returned by saturday at 12 o'clock i think it's an appropriate
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time i would say cancel it and all bets are off and uh let hell break out i'd say they ought to be
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returned by 12 o'clock on saturday and if they're not returned all of them not in drips and drabs not two
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and one and three and four and two uh saturday at 12 o'clock and after that i would say uh
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all hell is going to break out and i don't think they're going to do it i think a lot of them are
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dead i think a lot of the hostages are dead i think uh it's a great it's a great human tragedy what's
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what's happened how people can be uh that mean to do i mean the one guy was laughing when uh when a
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hostage he thought his his uh family was alive found out the family was dead and the his captor so to
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speak his captor started laughing because he thought it was so funny you know this is this is a different
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group of people no i would say saturday at 12 we want them all back i'm speaking for myself israel can
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override it but from myself saturday at 12 o'clock and if they're not if they're not here all hell
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is going to break out mr president this weekend you said that palestinians would not be guaranteed
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the right to return to gaza if the u.s were to develop it what did you mean by that we've spoken
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to a lot of palestinians they would love to leave gaza if they could find a place to be and i've spoken to
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various leaders of various countries in the not so you know distant area from where we're talking about
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the gaza strip and i think they were very positive about providing land what we need is land and if we
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could build a nice place for people to live safely everybody in gaza would do it they've been persecuted
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they've been they've been spit on they've been treated like trash and they would love to get out
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of gaza but until now they never had an alternative now they have an alternative and as far as hamas is
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concerned you're seeing the real hamas now with the hostages
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who are you from where the walsh journal sir yeah the jordanian leader is coming in to see you
00:32:42.280
yeah uh folks in jordan have expressed tomorrow taking in more uh gazas more palestinians how do you
00:32:49.080
how do you want to convince him to do otherwise i think he'll take i mean i do think he'll take and
00:32:53.240
i think other countries will take also they have good hearts i think they'll take but what about the
00:32:58.200
palestinians who just won't leave we've spoken our team has spoken they're all going to leave
00:33:03.000
when they have a place that's a better alternative when they have a nice place that's safe they're all
00:33:07.640
going to leave it's a hellhole right now but how are you so sure will the u.s force them to leave
00:33:14.120
you're going to see that they're all going to want to leave
00:33:16.120
look you know who knows are they alive are they not alive but i saw the condition when i saw the
00:33:30.040
condition of the last ones that came out and the women too everybody the one woman had her hand blown
00:33:35.880
off because she was trying to stop a bullet being fired at her okay what kind of a situation is that
00:33:42.840
you saw her um i just think it's time to either you release everybody they're not going to be alive
00:33:50.840
right now based on what i saw over the last two days they're not going to be alive for long saturday
00:33:58.760
at 12 o'clock and after that it's uh going to be a different ball game mr president when you say all
00:34:05.960
hell is going to break loose are you speaking about retaliation from you'll find out and they'll find out too
00:34:12.600
hamas will find out what i mean mr president they're going to find out what i mean these are
00:34:17.720
sick people and they'll find out what i mean saturday at 12 but no involvement from the west bank
00:34:24.680
are they going to be relocated to right now no right now they're there and i assume they want to remain
00:34:31.320
there it's different they're there it's never been like what we're talking about with the gaza strip
00:34:36.440
so you're going to continue you have no no no no plans sir mr president regarding the consumer
00:34:41.880
financial protection bureau democrats including elizabeth morin have said that by freezing it it's
00:34:46.920
getting big banks and giant corporations the green light yeah pocahontas pocahontas is the fake
00:34:54.040
the faker uh you know that was set up to destroy people she used that as her little uh personal
00:35:01.480
agency to go around and destroy people and she's a fake just like she said she was an indian and
00:35:08.840
she wasn't an indian you have more indian blood in you than she has uh she went to college based on
00:35:15.720
the fact that she was an indian she got jobs based on the fact that she was an indian she's a fake
00:35:21.800
that was that was set up to destroy some very good people
00:35:25.480
and uh and it worked i mean it worked a lot of a lot of great people i'll tell you before i ever
00:35:32.520
heard the term people would come up to me in the midwest and areas that say sir i'm being destroyed
00:35:38.520
by them they they use that to destroy people she's a nasty woman she's a really nasty woman
00:35:45.320
despite her phony beer commercial um now uh we did the right things that was a very important thing to
00:35:52.680
get rid of and it was also a waste i mean number one it was a bad group of people running it but
00:35:58.760
it was also a waste if you looked at when she really ran it wow that was a vicious group of
00:36:04.760
people they really destroyed a lot of people can you confirm it's uh your goal is to have it totally
00:36:08.920
eliminated yeah because we're trying to get rid of waste fraud and abuse what's next and and didn't
00:36:15.960
i hear that somebody made like 38 million dollars or something running uh a little agency what was
00:36:22.200
her name what was her name and what did she do and what was what was that all about all the money that
00:36:27.800
she made does anybody know okay yeah brian go ahead good to see you uh the latest cbs poll has your
00:36:34.520
approval ratings at an all-time high despite all these controversial subjects and executive orders that
00:36:41.080
you're doing want to get your thoughts on that how you've really connected to mainstream america
00:36:46.280
yeah i have high approval ratings because i'm you know i'm using common sense whether it's uh getting
00:36:53.400
men out of women's sports i mean have you seen what goes on with the boxers and with the weightlifters
00:36:59.960
and with the swimmers and everything that's so ridiculous and i think it's a 90 issue and you know
00:37:06.840
the amazing thing the democrats are still fighting for it it's crazy it's crazy i think we should go
00:37:11.400
to congress also have that cemented and you know make it indelible uh but we you know it's uh to me
00:37:19.480
it's all common sense who wants an open border where where prisons are dumped into our country where
00:37:24.760
prisoners are led into our country many of whom are murderers like many of whom murdered far more than
00:37:30.360
one person and they're now roaming our country who wants that i mean it's uh it's terrible
00:37:36.680
steve i'd like you to say a couple of words about it yes well as you know mr president since you
00:37:41.720
issued your day one executive orders border crossings are down approximately 95 percent you talk to
00:37:48.120
agents on the line in their entire careers they've never seen crossing days as low as what they're
00:37:53.000
experiencing right now the cartels in fact are enormously frustrated because they've never seen a
00:37:58.600
clampdown like this before in american history there are people who working at border patrol back when it was
00:38:02.920
in the 80s and 90s in the 80s and 90s they've never seen a date like this that's because you've mobilized
00:38:07.880
the 10th mounted division the marines the entire u.s military they're erecting physical miles of barrier
00:38:13.880
temporary and ultimately permanent every single day you have all of your border agents pushed at the front
00:38:18.760
line they're not doing the humanitarian processing quote unquote that biden was doing they're doing
00:38:23.720
law enforcement and national security they're interdicting weapons and drugs they're interdicting violent high-threat
00:38:29.720
criminals and the u.s military is repatriating illegal immigrants at a pace and a skill that has never
00:38:35.560
occurred before in american history and those who are committing human trafficking and child
00:38:39.480
trafficking are being prosecuted for felony offenses and they'll be doing hard time in jail there's
00:38:44.520
never been a lockdown like what you have implemented through your orders and vision since you took the
00:38:48.600
oath of office what's what's your thoughts on doge wednesday at 10 a.m we're having our first subcommittee
00:38:53.160
yeah yeah before i discuss that i just want to add to what steve said and we want people to come
00:38:59.800
into our country but we want them to come in legally they have to go through a process
00:39:04.520
and we have to know that they haven't killed nine people or they haven't killed like in one case five
00:39:10.440
five people uh and they're out on the loose and we're all looking for that particular individual this
00:39:15.960
was all led in by biden and the group of uh stupid people bad people and stupid people
00:39:24.120
some are bad some are stupid some are both but i'll tell you what what they've done to this country
00:39:29.320
but we're cleaning it up and uh hard to believe i can say it it'll be better than ever before but we
00:39:35.160
have a lot of bad people we have to get at we're searching out for a lot of them i think tom holman and
00:39:40.680
christy are doing an unbelievable job christy no they're doing an unbelievable job and taking out
00:39:47.400
massive numbers of people and you notice every country is accepting those people back remember
00:39:52.760
everyone said oh they'll never accept them they're all taking them back they have to they're all taking
00:39:57.480
them back every single country is taking them back i don't know if they want them or not i don't
00:40:01.880
imagine they do but they're taking them back are you in fact on gaza he talked uh with fox news about
00:40:09.640
the billions of dollars we uh pay for jordan and egypt every year would you withhold aid to these
00:40:15.560
countries if they don't agree to take in the palestinians yeah maybe sure why not you mean if
00:40:21.560
they don't agree you mentioned if they don't agree i would i would conceivably withhold aid you
00:40:28.440
are you going to talk to a prime minister about the sanity deadline sure i mean it's just my deadline but
00:40:34.680
they may change it but i think it's uh i've seen too many people come out they look like holocaust
00:40:43.800
victims from from many years ago i've never seen anything like it i didn't think this could happen
00:40:50.760
in this world today you know we think we have a civilized world it's not civil these are these are bad
00:40:57.000
people we're dealing with so i would that would be my suggestion and he can open it up or not open it up
00:41:02.920
but that would be my do you have anything to say about that your commerce but you have a lot to say
00:41:06.840
from the standpoint of your faith and your religion go ahead so it's amazing that four years
00:41:14.440
of nothing and then you come in and you immediately start to move the needle you have hostages coming
00:41:22.440
out you send steve witkoff who's done an amazing job for you you're changing the middle east you're
00:41:28.200
supporting your ally israel and i for one can't be more impressed with the outcomes that you have
00:41:34.120
driven and choosing this saturday to save people's lives or just be done with it seems like just the
00:41:39.560
right choice but i think it's time to come up with a date it's totally we're going to do keep every every
00:41:45.480
week two people three people uh no i don't think you can do that anymore these are very seriously
00:41:53.320
endangered people these are endangered people i don't i don't think they're going to last very
00:41:59.480
long you know the people that came out yesterday they they wouldn't last very long were you rooting
00:42:05.800
out any u.s involvement in whatever happens after this deadline we'll see what happens we'll just see
00:42:11.320
what happens will you talk with zaleski this week sir yeah probably by telephone he wants to make a deal
00:42:17.240
let's see let's see uh we're dealing with them and i think they both want to make a deal but
00:42:24.520
we'll have to see it's got to be done what is zelinski would have never happened if i were
00:42:28.200
president this would never have happened millions of people are dead what will zelinski have to give
00:42:32.920
up if anything we'll talk about that later because your reaction to a judge today continuing a pause on
00:42:38.920
the buyout program for federal workers well i don't know how you can lose a case like that we're talking
00:42:45.080
about people you know everybody i got elected on making government better more efficient and smaller
00:42:53.480
and that's what we're doing and i think it was a very generous buyout actually uh also if people
00:42:59.160
don't show up to work we have a right to fire them and they have an option they can show up to work or not
00:43:04.840
if they don't want to show up to work then let them work because then the next step is have you worked
00:43:09.400
before have you worked during this time that you're supposed to be working you'll find many of those people
00:43:13.960
in my opinion have had other jobs even though they're collecting money from the federal government
00:43:19.000
many have had in my opinion other jobs if they did if they did that's a big problem if the violence
00:43:25.960
are blocked in court will you instead pursue layoffs in federal departments i don't know how they can
00:43:32.360
do this is free will this is a buyout where people you know they were offered a good deal many
00:43:39.240
people have taken that as you know but you know many of those people and we talk about uh reporting
00:43:45.480
to work right i happen to be a believer that you have to go to work i don't think you can work from
00:43:49.640
a home i don't i don't know it's like there's a whole big oh you can work from nobody's going to
00:43:54.440
work from home they're going to be going out they're going to play tennis they're going to play golf they're
00:43:59.240
going to do a lot of things they're not working it's a rare person that's going to work you might work
00:44:03.800
10 of the time maybe 20 i don't think you're going to work a lot more than that and i think we they
00:44:09.720
have an obligation to work and they have an obligation not to have a second job when they're
00:44:14.120
supposed to be working for the federal government you're going to find that a lot of these people
00:44:17.960
have second jobs instead of working for they'll be collecting a federal government check and they'll
00:44:23.400
be working two jobs and that's that's big trouble for them you've said a lot about south africa in
00:44:30.760
the last two weeks yeah it's hosting the g20 summit this year are you planning to attend this or are
00:44:35.560
you skipping it and telling your cabinet to not well we'll see what happens but the south african
00:44:40.200
situation is very very dangerous and very bad for a lot of people uh there's tremendously bad things
00:44:47.560
going on and including the confiscation of property and worse much worse than that you
00:44:53.480
know what i'm talking about and we're not making any payment until we find out what's going on in
00:44:58.760
south africa yes what's next for going to ukraine this week sir soon yeah he is keith kellogg general
00:45:06.040
kellogg is an excellent guy and uh he's spending time doing various things we have numerous people
00:45:13.720
working on numerous different uh problems you know when i left office uh wasn't long ago a little
00:45:21.160
more than four years ago we had no wars we had no we didn't have problems now we got the whole world
00:45:26.200
is blowing up but we'll put out the fires you've been talking to a planner are you trying to set up a
00:45:32.200
meeting with him well i can't tell you what i'm talking about but we are talking uh as a group also
00:45:39.960
i think you'd like to make a deal but it takes two to tango and so i mean you can't give us any more
00:45:47.000
clarity when whether you personally have spoken i don't want to talk about it no i don't want to
00:45:51.480
talk about it it's not going to help you to know but we would like to get a deal done if possible only
00:45:56.680
because in my case save lives you know we're much further away remember uh we have an ocean separating
00:46:05.480
they don't europe should be paying what we're paying and europe has done it more in the form
00:46:10.920
of a loan than with us we just give it you know biden gives it because he's not a smart individual
00:46:16.200
not a very smart individual uh we have people over there today who are making a deal that as we give
00:46:23.000
money we get minerals and we get oil and we get all sorts of things because why are we doing this and
00:46:27.720
uh all this money we're in for maybe 350 billion and europe's in for 100 billion and europe's in
00:46:35.480
really as a form of a loan in theory they get that money back in theory they get interest on their money
00:46:41.400
it's a whole different ball game and biden is the one that started doing this every time zelinski
00:46:47.240
came here he walked away with 60 to 100 billion dollars i think he's one of the greatest salesmen
00:46:52.360
who ever who have ever lived by the way can you discuss your uh intentions with the kennedy center
00:46:57.720
which you're now the board chair so we took over the kennedy center we didn't like what they were
00:47:02.120
showing and various other things and and uh i had a lot of the board members already as you know and
00:47:08.200
we have uh some that will be replaced uh but we have um i guess a whole new group of people going in
00:47:17.160
i have rick grinnell who's got some experience in that world he's going to be he's very good
00:47:21.960
going to be handling it on a temporary basis i think he'll do a great job but
00:47:26.200
we're going to get some great professionals i'm going to be chairman of it and we're going to make
00:47:30.840
sure that it's good and it's not going to be woke there's no more woke in this country this woke has
00:47:36.840
cost us a fortune and cost us our reputation but the reputation is coming back very very rapidly thank
00:47:44.120
you very much everybody thank you the penny is gone is the nickel next what about what about anything
00:47:55.720
good luck the penny is the penny is gone the penny cost this government thank you guys thank you
00:48:05.720
thank you wow unbelievable days of thunder right there one executive order after the other foreign
00:48:22.760
corrupt practices act uh answered questions on um on um kennedy center president trump right now is a man
00:48:34.200
in full is that is that far still up yes let's go to far forest real quickly we only got a couple
00:48:39.640
minutes but part of what he talked about he signed tariffs for 25 on steel and aluminum but he also
00:48:47.560
alluded to this headline in the financial times u.s and china said for trade war beijing launches
00:48:53.640
retaliatory tariffs are also coming after companies from the ccp's point of view given where the economy
00:49:00.200
is how tough is how tough is this trade war going to be forest zoo hi uh thank you steve for having
00:49:06.840
me here first of all uh happy chinese new year this is our chinese new year uh it's not good for chinese
00:49:13.480
communist party that's for sure because the economy is in decline and uh the raising unemployment
00:49:20.680
and the living cost is so high so that's why a lot of young people we saw the number we saw the
00:49:26.520
report that the the marriage rate drop significantly and i don't think this uh this trade war uh they
00:49:34.280
will last long for chinese communist party because uh right now uh chinese young people cannot afford
00:49:43.720
the marriage the chinese entered into this arrow that people has no no desire or no desire they choose
00:49:52.280
not to marry not to have children not to have a house and not to uh you know work because it's so
00:50:00.920
hard to find a job the official number for chinese uh from the chinese official for an employee rate is 20
00:50:08.520
but the real number actually is more than 50 percent that tells you how bad the economy is so that's why
00:50:15.160
i don't think the chinese communist party will last long with this trade war or with this tariff because
00:50:22.920
the tariff the add-on will make it harder for the chinese people for the chinese business
00:50:28.120
so they won't last long and also i think mr trump's tariff and on the chinese communist party is going
00:50:35.160
to be in long term is good for the u.s people for the lobbying here because they will bring the
00:50:40.200
manufacturing back and also cut the tie with chinese communist party because chinese communist party
00:50:47.160
using their uh supply chain using their so-called marketing to corrupt to blackmail all the ceos and
00:50:56.600
companies here in the u.s they use all the capitals they gain from the u.s capital market to corrupt
00:51:04.280
officials ceos in this country they also do the propaganda in this country so that's why i think this action the tariff
00:51:12.040
of adding on to the chinese communist party is going to be good for for both of chinese people and and
00:51:18.040
the u.s people because the chinese people already suffered for 70 years now the young generation cannot
00:51:25.880
even afford house in china let me give you uh things in perspective imagine you making 100 000 in u.s
00:51:33.720
dollars but you have to purchase a 3 million to 4 million for 600 square feet apartment in china
00:51:43.960
that's how much cost for people it's not sustainable people already aware of that there is a thing in
00:51:51.320
china about six wallet because in order to afford one apartment you have to pay from your own pocket
00:51:58.600
your wife's pocket your wife's appearance and your parents that six pocket has to pull in for the
00:52:06.760
down payment in order for you to purchase apartment so uh right now i think this tariff in long term
00:52:13.880
is good for chinese people because we want to take him down the chinese communist party i think
00:52:19.960
to overthrow the chinese communist party we have to let the cut all the ties we we talked about this
00:52:26.280
long time ago decouple economically technology technologically with chinese communist party that
00:52:33.960
will bring down the chinese communist party eventually that's good for the chinese people and the u.s
00:52:40.600
lao bai xin uh this this i think president trump was talking yeah yes president trump was talking
00:52:47.320
about the retaliatory tariffs uh we've got to go i'm gonna have you back on tomorrow because i want
00:52:51.000
to talk about the demographic explosion that's tied to this but an outright trade war starting between
00:52:56.600
beijing and washington dc as memorialized in the financial times forrest where do people go to find
00:53:02.920
out more about the new federal state of china those brave uh lao bai xin that stand in opposition to
00:53:08.440
this murderous dictatorship sir yes you can find us on gather and uh which is nfsc tv and nfsc speaks
00:53:22.600
thank you brother see you in the mar we'll talk we'll go another step on this tariff the trade war
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