On today's show, President Trump is joined by former Vice President Joe Biden to discuss his VP pick, his thoughts on the Pennsylvania primary, and much, much more. Plus, we have a special guest on the show to talk about his time as a federal prosecutor in Portland, Oregon.
00:00:00.000They could have potentially won having picked Shapiro.
00:00:02.000I mean, there was a lot of people saying that that may have swung Pennsylvania, and that would have made it really hard for President Trump to win, and they won't make the obvious good decision, but they'll make the...
00:00:10.000Well, I know that this will buy me some votes in a community that I want to vote for me.
00:00:59.000When people say, you know, we're remember when the left was trying to sell us that we're respected on the world stage again with Joe Biden.
00:02:52.000If you look at DC, you would right now, Mark, you could go out, take your family out to dinner, you could walk right down the middle of the street.
00:03:45.000And we're removing many people in uh DC.
00:03:48.000We we took out seventeen one thousand seven hundred career criminals and sent them back to the countries from which they came, mostly led out by Biden and his people that had open border and open border policy.
00:04:02.000And you know, Canada suffered because of that too, because they'd come here and they'd go into Canada also.
00:04:09.000So we're like a buffer for that in terms of they it's Canada suffered greatly by Biden and the open border, the policy of open border, totally unchecked, totally unvetted.
00:04:20.000And these people were someone bring up that clip where Carney said he was gonna go and deal with Trump the way you deal with bullies, I think was something that he said.
00:04:27.000Yeah, he's really dealing with the city.
00:05:50.000This country is becoming very we're a very strong country.
00:05:54.000Look, financially speaking, I would say that because of the tariffs, because of the election, because of the policy, because of the great big beautiful deal.
00:06:32.000One night under the moonlight in a full cornfield, your mom and I look, I probably shouldn't be saying this, but we're allowed our passion to get the better of us that night on Iowa.
00:06:44.000I'll tell her you said hi, but uh I gotta go.
00:07:34.000I think Donald Trump feels he has license to do this because Joe Biden didn't answer questions, and he would hand out the questions pre- Okay, let's hear.
00:07:41.000A question, a question, a question for the president.
00:07:47.000I'd like to know how come the UK and the European Union succeeded to sign deals and bring the tax down, and Canada still hasn't been able to do the same.
00:07:56.000Yeah, because they're not located right next to each other.
00:07:59.000You know, it makes it uh in many cases it's much better and easier.
00:09:12.000The uh you know, Ronald Reagan wanted to have it, and at that time they didn't have the technology, it even close to the technology, but he was he was advanced uh and we'll be working together on a golden dome for the two countries, and uh it's something that I think is going to be very important.
00:09:28.000Especially when you look at the world, you look at what's happening.
00:09:31.000We want to have we want to have that protection.
00:09:51.000Mr. President, just to follow up there.
00:09:53.000I mean, the law says that when the government is reopens that workers will receive their their backpaper law there, or what do you think?
00:10:00.000I follow the law, and I what the law says is correct, and I follow the law.
00:10:08.000Mr. President, will Canada be leaving empty-handed, or will Canada be leaving or will Mr. Carney be leaving Washington with a deal on terror?
00:10:38.000You see him take a sigh of relief, Carney's like minimum tariff that countries have got.
00:10:44.000When U.S. MCA gets renegotiated, you want a minimum tariff on goods between Canada and the U.S. Well, we're gonna have tariffs, Mr. Carney.
00:10:54.000Uh I will say with our farmers, as you know, they they went up to as much as 400 percent, 250, 300, and even one at 401, we found one having to do with a very small product.
00:11:11.000Actually, uh Canada was charging us very high tariffs on our agricultural things, a lot of our agricultural product.
00:11:18.000And that's one of the things that we talk about for bringing that down.
00:11:21.000So, you know, this is a mutual thing, but uh we've been charged uh tariffs.
00:11:25.000Look, we're the king of being screwed by tariffs, just say you understand.
00:11:29.000And I'm not talking about with Canada, I'm talking about with countries all over the world.
00:11:33.000When you look at Europe, when you look at China, when you look at uh all of the uh uh any almost every country charge the U.S., we didn't charge them.
00:11:44.000Because we were led by stupid people in many cases.
00:11:47.000Stupid people that took advantage of our country.
00:11:50.000They're not taking advantage of us anymore.
00:11:52.000You know, if you looked at European Union, they're all my friends.
00:11:55.000I don't blame them, I blame our presidents.
00:11:57.000I b blame our past presidents and you know business leaders.
00:12:02.000But uh we are the the the uh king of countries that have been taken advantage of for many, many years.
00:12:11.000I do really appreciate that he's drawn attention to the fact that the United States has, in the name of diplomacy, put our interests on the back burner.
00:12:18.000And he is less interested in going to cocktail parties, probably because he doesn't drink uh with these other world leaders than he is in getting a good deal for Americans.
00:12:26.000And the truth is this is all it's it's it's all a mirage.
00:12:28.000If we want Canada, we could take Canada.
00:12:30.000But this idea of international governing bodies and globalism, it's like, well, okay, well it's better.
00:12:35.000Well, let's just let's just all hold hands and we are the world.
00:12:38.000But the truth is if we decided to use our leverage, Canada as part of the United States.
00:12:43.000The European Union really wouldn't be able to sustain themselves.
00:12:45.000And we're just saying, hey, all right, if you want to be our allies and actually be our allies.
00:12:49.000Otherwise, we can be entirely nationalistic and keep it within our borders.
00:12:53.000Or if you want to take part, if you want to engage in trade, do it fairly.
00:12:57.000We've allowed ourselves to be fleeced.
00:12:58.000And real reason for that, if you just look at the tariffs, for example, with Canada and dairy, it would render their dairy industry irrelevant.
00:13:06.000I I think it's really interesting, too.
00:13:08.000And I all the people who are anti-war and anti-what America maybe has done meddling-wise around the world over the last 50, 60, 70 years.
00:13:15.000They should love this, because essentially what he's doing is saying, you know, instead of using the CIA and that money to kind of influence these other countries over here, and instead of using our military to go to war in all these different places, I'm just gonna use our economy.
00:13:26.000And I'm gonna I'm gonna end all the foreign war stuff that I can.
00:13:28.000We're gonna go after cartels because they're hurting American citizens.
00:13:31.000We're gonna close our border, take care of American citizens.
00:13:33.000And we're gonna make sure that American businesses are not getting screwed and consumers not getting screwed by people overseas.
00:13:38.000I'm like, I think that that is much preferable to the wars that Dave Smith rails about and also the CIA involvement in just about every corner of the globe.
00:14:45.000Do you think the elevated expectations of some Americans have tarnished their view of Trump because he hasn't delivered on those excessively heightened expectations?
00:14:54.000I think that a lot again of the of the Johnny come lately is because they haven't paid attention and they haven't thought of the world at all.
00:15:20.000And they haven't paid attention to elections.
00:15:22.000I think this this is the first time they sort of toss their hat in the ring.
00:15:25.000And it's kind of a teenager's point of view, where it's like, well, I didn't get every single thing that was on the on the wish list, so oh uh undelivered promises.
00:15:32.000Whereas if you compare it to even Barack Obama to the left, if you compare it to George W. Bush to the right, if you compare it to Joe Biden to the left, like he's delivered in a way that no other modern president has.
00:15:42.000So I think Yeah, it's uh it's it's a little of that, but I also think that the people you're hearing from with these platforms are people who decided to kind of get in on a trend that was worth quite a few clicks during the election, and they don't really know how these things work.
00:15:54.000And that's not to let someone off the hook if they uh deliver nothing but empty promises, but I would say that that is l that is least descriptive of the Trump administration uh in comparison to any other administration in my recent memory.
00:16:08.000It is funny to see some people, you know, uh give the criticisms of he doesn't promise on everything, uh, because Russia-Ukraine is still happening and Israel-Gaza is still happening.
00:16:16.000And it's like, yeah, uh that he did promise that within a hundred days or whatever it was.
00:16:21.000And we all kind of thought that was unrealistic.
00:16:24.000If he had done it, wow, what an amazing thing.
00:16:28.000It's still in his first year, and they're they're taking these these couple things and making it a big deal, which is funny to me because in their mind they're saying he is capable of it.
00:16:57.000It probably would have been the same thing.
00:16:58.000They just would have been delivering a little bit different rhetoric, and you would have a record number of illegal immigrants still pouring into this nation.
00:17:04.000You would still have uh, you know, Coca-Cola on snap, and you would still have USAID and you would still have NGOs, and you would still have Antifa and you would still have mass illegal immigrants causing chaos in these sanctuary cities.
00:17:16.000So again, you have to compare it to the alternative and go, okay, are the results better?
00:17:52.000Whether he can wave a magic wand and end all conflicts, no one has ever been able to do that.
00:17:56.000But I I I've been uh I've I've been really pretty uh pretty happy with what we've gotten, and I I expect a lot more to come in the next three years.
00:18:07.000I'm pretty anti-government on most things.
00:18:09.000How would you square being anti-government but also supporting the feds with all the attacks from the left towards ICE and reporters slash MAGA?
00:18:47.000We believe in a in a legitimate purview of government that is limited.
00:18:52.000And I've said this going back to 2008, 2009, I've used the analogy of a hockey referee.
00:18:57.000And I use it just because, you know, okay, Canadian, but it's also the only sport where this is the case.
00:19:00.000A hockey referee, their job is to keep the pace, the flow of the game, make sure that the players are safe, meaning us as citizens.
00:19:06.000Uh, and outside of that, keep their whistle in their pocket.
00:19:09.000So national defense, safety, right, borders would fall under the legitimate purview of government.
00:19:14.000That's one of the few legitimate roles of government.
00:19:16.000A military, some kind of enforcement arm to make sure that the lawless don't basically exploit the lawful.
00:19:23.000And uh in that case, when you're dealing with sanctuary cities, and having dealt with Antifa and these people and these left-wing radical groups.
00:19:32.000And I don't even mean radical in their viewpoint, I mean radical in their execution because they're they're simply mirroring the viewpoints of the mainstream left.
00:19:38.000They're just more violent than those who would, you know, get up on a dais.
00:19:41.000Uh they're also funded in a lot of ways.
00:19:45.000They're also funded by a lot of government wings.
00:19:46.000So at that point, uh what do you want?
00:19:48.000Do you want the lawless and the people who advocate for open borders?
00:19:51.000You want them to have uh them to enjoy an open season on people who are here to enforce the law so they protect you?
00:19:57.000I don't think there's anything that's uh inconsistent with conservatism and supporting ICE deporting people who shouldn't be here to begin with.
00:20:06.000They already broke the law, they have no business being here.
00:20:08.000That is a legitimate role of government to deport people who have no business being here.
00:20:23.000They are targeting people that are not supposed to be here and getting them out.
00:20:25.000That's a completely different purview from what the other three letter agencies are doing and the criticism that we give to them.
00:20:31.000Now, the left understands that completely, and that's why the left will go out and say a Maryland man or a father from Illinois or an innocent student from Georgia.
00:20:40.000Like they they'll try to pull at that heart.
00:20:42.000They're not they're not doing that for themselves and for their people on the left.
00:20:45.000They're doing that for us, they're doing that for you, because they know that you have this distrust in your institutions in the three-letter agencies, and they think that's gonna bleed into the uh to the immigration sector because they're saying, oh, they're coming after Americans, or they're coming after innocent people, and that's not what they're doing.
00:21:33.000Um but I think there's a very big difference between targeting American citizens of a political persuasion and targeting terrorists or illegal aliens.
00:21:52.000No, it's gonna follow a cycle of whitewashing, and that's what I think you're starting to see with like I said, some of these Johnny come lately is they're gonna go back to oh actually, yeah, but I don't really like Donald Trump and conservatives are dumb and redneck.
00:22:03.000You'll see that again, and they'll try and make it seem like the left is the party of intelligentsia, and they'll go back to you know the kind of George W. Bush mode of attack where oh they're stupid.
00:22:14.000I do think that the left has a problem, a demographic problem, which is good.
00:22:17.000She's on the other foot for the first time with Gen Z men, and and that swung really hard and really fast.
00:22:24.000I don't know how principled it is, so it remains to be seen.
00:22:26.000Uh but uh yeah, I think I think it'll kind of go back and forth.
00:22:29.000I think the the left will kind of course correct and they'll present themselves as more moderate, which is what they've done in the past, too.
00:23:17.000I mean, honestly, when people try and say January 6th was an insurrection, uh okay, if you're gonna use that standard, how about an entire city?
00:23:27.000That was the actual definition of an insurrection, not allowing local police force, let alone some kind of National Guard to go in.
00:23:34.000Not allow and and basically subjecting citizens who did not elect these people in Chaz, CHOP, Seattle, to the rule of their self created mob.
00:23:45.000Yeah, I think a lot of these would meet the criteria for it.
00:23:48.000I and I think specifically there's a difference between not going in for Chopper Chaz if you do the the calculation and say, okay, we need to like we need to handle this a different way because if we go in now they have somebody to fight and it's gonna make the situation even worse, even though I probably would have said go in.
00:24:01.000When it's a city doing it, when it's a state doing it, no, I'm sorry.
00:24:13.000They can't do that to the citizens of the United States.
00:24:16.000That's the reason that the government can say, listen, we have these rules federally.
00:24:20.000Again, you're the person earlier, you're you're not a anti-government because anti-government, if you take that to the extreme, there is no government, and somebody else just kind of steps up and rules and and it whatever it happens anyway.
00:25:02.000We we want our nation set apart from other nations.
00:25:04.000And how do we well the first step in doing that is making sure that we have borders where we know who is in our nation who subscribes to the beliefs of this nation.
00:25:12.000And that doesn't mean that we have to all follow lockstep, but yeah, no, we have a nation.
00:25:17.000You have that everywhere else in a functioning society.
00:25:20.000You have borders in your house by having a house.
00:25:23.000You have borders with cities, you have borders with states, you have border you used to have borders with countries.
00:25:27.000In this case, the only exception should be the wealthiest country in the world who's cre by the way, created the wealthiest country in the world where more people want to come than anywhere else on planet Earth, and we're not supposed to protect it.
00:25:39.000The only reason we wouldn't protect it is because we're being brow beaten into it by some other international governing body because they want to get in on that action.
00:25:47.000We created this shining city on a hill, and it's our job to protect it and certainly to preserve it for the American citizens who helped build it into what it is.
00:26:13.000But but uh but I have my issues with that.
00:26:15.000I have a quick answer for it because it listen, I I understand that a lot of Americans will lose their job through tech technological shifts that have occurred historically.
00:26:23.000It's it's happened before in very similar ways.
00:26:26.000Obviously, AI seems to be one of those ways that could like drastically change versus some of the other ways that maybe like all right, horse and buggy to cars.
00:26:33.000That changes things a little bit, right?
00:26:35.000Um tellers and you know, uh instead of ATMs.
00:26:38.000There's a lot of stuff that is gonna change the market if we don't try to lead in this market or at least as much as we possibly can, somebody else will.
00:26:47.000So you the the outcome will not be changed by our participation or not.
00:27:29.000And so the regulations should exist to enhance the power uh of a tool like this that could it could either greatly enhance the quality of life for a lot of Americans or it could be incredibly detriment detrimental.
00:28:00.000Um that being said, I I always hear this about AI, and AI can help with a lot of things, but uh AI is often, in my experience, more often wrong than not when I ask it a question.
00:28:10.000And that's often because of the programming, right?
00:28:22.000We do we don't want to be left behind, but I also think that if we want to be the leaders of this, if we want to be spearheading this, then we need to definitely think we need to we need to recenter our focus and go, okay.
00:28:33.000Everything that comes in that we're looking at as far as some form of economic development or technological development.
00:28:38.000How does this benefit the citizens of this country?
00:28:53.000How does it improve our lives and the regulations should be married to it accordingly?
00:28:58.000I don't think I and I do think when people say there's been rampant capitalism that's left uh unfettered, there have been problems with that.
00:29:07.000The solution is to go, okay, how does this serve the best interests of the American people?
00:29:11.000And I also think individually we need to marry these improvements and we need to marry these freedoms with our duties and responsibilities.
00:29:17.000Cause I think something that's really kind of, kind of, kind of presented, um, not kind of a lot of problems as people going, Hey, I'm free.
00:29:26.000But a free society can really only work for a a just and moral people.
00:29:30.000We know that from the founding fathers.
00:29:32.000And I think considering the godlessness the godlessness, not only that we have now, but how how touched we are by the godlessness of the world in comparison through social media and being able to communicate with anyone in the world at any given time.
00:29:45.000We need to recenter ourselves a little bit and go, okay, who what is it what is it that we're looking to achieve and who are we as a nation?
00:29:54.000And that'll determine how we chart a course for it.
00:29:56.000I don't have all of the answers on AI because frankly I don't understand it, and it's usually wrong and it just pisses me off.
00:30:02.000But we do need to marry our freedom here with responsibilities and with duties.
00:30:08.000And as far as culturally, I hope to see a little bit more of that messaging coming forward because otherwise you just end up with a bunch of people who have an extra couple of Lambos and servants going, Hey, I made it, go get yours, and that doesn't benefit anyone.
00:30:20.000I don't know if any of that made sense, but I have a fever right now, I'm gonna go purge.