On this week's show, we discuss the departure of CNN's Jim Acosta, deep-seeker AI, and why the Chinese have out-innovated us before, but never in the way we thought they would.
00:00:36.000Because getting them to go back is as easy as it seems.
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00:03:48.000Light the Brain gave me a note before I came in, and he's like, hey, make sure you say it's in AI, because they have done some things before.
00:05:47.000I knew it was illegal and I knew that it was wrong.
00:05:50.000Her attorneys, John Marco and Zach Runyon, say Woody is a protected characteristic in Michigan by law.
00:05:56.000It would be no different than a driver pulling up and saying, you know, I don't want to have black people in my car or I don't want to have Christians in my car or Muslims in my car.
00:11:11.000So some people say that he was fired and some people believe that he quit because his ego, which is, by the way, taken an absolute piping these last few years.
00:12:41.000I'm answering your question right now from the White House podium.
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00:16:59.000But that's in a traditional free enterprise sense.
00:17:02.000You really are kind of looking at a tech oligarchy to some extent now, especially when they receive favors or favorable treatment from the government.
00:17:09.000So the companies include Alphabet, which is Google, YouTube, Amazon, Meta, Apple, NVIDIA. $10 trillion.
00:17:18.000Now there's a new Chinese company, DeepSeek, and they're what they used to call a disruptor.
00:17:24.000Remember when that used to be the tech pitch?
00:17:25.000Well, we're going to disrupt toothbrushes.
00:17:33.000Either they are telling the truth, and they have just incredibly, at a rapid pace, surpassed what these giant companies have been able to do.
00:17:42.000In which case, it's the first time, certainly in the technological arms race, that the Chinese have out-innovated the Western world.
00:17:49.000Which is concerning, especially considering their alliances and, of course, their never-ending allegiance to communism.
00:17:56.000Or, if they're being dishonest, which some suspect, and they've pulled the wool over our eyes, and that means that the Chinese have been powerful enough to crash the markets, and again, all paths lead to, we have to be concerned with An adversarial government like the Chinese.
00:18:15.000And which one do you think is more concerning?
00:18:17.000That they have actually developed this technology or that they have been misleading and it's affected markets and had this kind of a ripple?
00:18:26.000I'll give you mine at the end of this.
00:18:27.000So here is President Donald Trump addressing DeepSeek just last night.
00:18:32.000The release of DeepSeek AI from a Chinese company should be a wake-up call for our industries that we need to be laser-focused on competing to win, because we have the greatest scientists in the world, even...
00:19:18.000I do think, look, if this is the truth, if they have developed this at a much lower expense, then you'll have the competitors here in the States or, you know, Western world.
00:19:28.000They'll be able to do that relatively soon because people are able to catch up with each other in this sector.
00:19:32.000And that would be a net positive for the consumer if that's the case.
00:22:45.000Yeah, this is, I think, the biggest question right now in the markets.
00:22:48.000It's why NVIDIA is up a little bit today and people are like, wait a minute, hold on.
00:22:51.000Yes, and did they violate export controls?
00:22:53.000And again, a consequence here is if They did actually do this.
00:22:58.000If they did violate export controls, that means it's not working.
00:23:01.000That means the United States, the rules that we have in place aren't working.
00:23:04.000So there needs to be a change either way.
00:23:06.000So this weekend, actually, the Scale AI founder, Alexander Wang, told CNBC that DeepSeek actually did use 50,000 NVIDIA, which would violate our export controls, H100 CPUs.
00:23:19.000You know, the Chinese labs, they have more H100s than people think.
00:23:25.000And these are the highest-powered NVIDIA chips that they were not supposed to have.
00:23:30.000Is that DeepSeek has about 50,000 H100s, which they can't talk about, obviously, because it is against the export controls that the United States has put in place.
00:23:39.000And I think it is true that, you know, I think they have more chips than other people expect, but also, on a go-forward basis, they are going to be limited by the chip controls and the export controls that we have in place.
00:23:49.000And Elon Musk, obviously, in this space, in the know, he responded to that video on X saying, obviously.
00:24:18.000They used about 100,000 of those H-100s.
00:24:20.000And we know for sure that this company has used and has NVIDIA chips, there's just other chips that they're able to use that aren't quite as prolific speed-wise.
00:24:32.000So they're not supposed to have the H100s.
00:24:34.000That's a major, major problem if they do.
00:24:36.000Well, NVIDIA actually made a statement yesterday, and they said that the chips DeepSeq were using, that they were actually fully export compliant.
00:24:42.000Well, that's the chips that they know about them using.
00:24:45.000So we know that NVIDIA has sold them chips that are export compliant, the H100s.
00:24:49.000Do not fit in that category, and certainly NVIDIA's not going to come out and be like, yeah, we did it!
00:24:54.000So it seems that there could be quite a few people who have maybe ulterior motives here, which again is very scary when you understand a $10 trillion, sorry, $7 trillion?
00:25:24.000And there's another reason that people think maybe DeepSeek is not telling the truth.
00:25:28.000Huawei came out at one point and said, I think last year they lied about developing their own chips that were better than the other chips in Taiwan, and it turns out they just used the...
00:26:25.000And I know, look, people separate themselves from the stock market quite a bit, and I do believe that income, obviously, and cash is king for most of you.
00:26:31.000But if you have 401ks, if you have investment portfolios, this does have an impact not only on you, but the economy at large.
00:26:37.000So to give you an idea, Nvidia, their market cap dropped by $600 billion.
00:27:12.000And maybe give you a bit of an advantage, at least perceived advantage to the world.
00:27:16.000And I think, look, the reason this is pretty important is because in my lifetime, I was always told, comment below if you remember this, everyone before Donald Trump would talk about how the next great superpower is going to be China.
00:27:25.000Donald Trump, he was the first president to ever point out that they were a paper tiger.
00:27:32.000It seemed like it was inevitable before Donald Trump.
00:27:37.000He was the first person to point out the threat that is China.
00:27:42.000And in this case, whoever wins in this AI battle between the USA, China, they're going to have a huge advantage as it relates to military power, controlling information, economic growth.
00:27:53.000Really, at that point, the only question is, how much should it all cost?
00:29:44.000But you've got to bring quite a bit more to the table than that.
00:29:47.000And you've heard things like the flat tax, you've heard of the fair tax, right?
00:29:51.000There were different approaches, but certainly there have been proposed solutions in the face of this, what I would argue historically is a radical progressive tax.
00:30:00.000And there's a reason that we have a radical progressive tax.
00:30:02.000And that, of course, comes from the left, and it really goes back to something that Karl Marx supported.
00:30:07.000So I want to be really clear about the fact that historically, and we'll get into the history, we haven't always had an income tax.
00:30:14.000And where we are right now is actually more unprecedented than what we had historically.
00:30:22.000Like, this is actually sort of the outlier right now.
00:30:25.000So practically, you think we can get rid of it?
00:30:27.000For a period of time, I thought, no, politically, you're not going to necessarily be doing that.
00:30:32.000And here's something I really want to point out.
00:30:35.000This conversation has been going on for a long time.
00:30:37.000This proposal, talking about this publicly, is the kind of proposal that could only happen in a Trump second term.
00:31:56.000Again, you may not like it, but I don't know that I ever thought we'd see a president say this in our lifetime.
00:32:03.000It's time for the United States to return to the system that made us richer and more powerful than ever before.
00:32:09.000Do you know, the United States in 1870 to 1913, all tariffs, and that was the richest period in the history of the United States, relatively speaking.
00:32:19.000Teddy Roosevelt was a beneficiary because when McKinley was killed, he took over this vast sum of money and he did all of those national parks and all of the other things.
00:32:37.000The income tax came in in 1913. As I said in my speech last week, instead of taxing our citizens to enrich foreign nations, we should be tariffing and taxing foreign nations to enrich our citizens.
00:34:52.000And I would also argue that taking money from someone else, especially income that they have worked to earn, that can arguably be a form of indentured servitude.
00:35:03.000So let's go to this people start off with, well, this is just, come on, you'd be changing.
00:36:21.000It's ratified to overcome that Supreme Court decision.
00:36:24.000So then, Congress, they immediately passed the Revenue Act of 1913, and it basically established a permanent federal income tax.
00:36:34.000The rates were anywhere from 1% to 7%.
00:36:36.000So in other words, even when they're going, okay, we're going to do this to try and bypass and basically render the Supreme Court moot on this point.
00:36:45.000All right, guys, we're all on board with the federal income tax, and that means they had a meeting.
00:37:04.000let's say 1 to 7 percent i'll have to find the quote for this but that was an argument used they said at some point maybe they're saying that he would be even possibly 10 percent of your income and that is a lie to get you not to vote for this right exactly it's way higher i don't know who said it but it was a quote that i came across i was like holy crap just like there was the same argument when uh you know women got the right to vote and there was some guy like you know if you will give them the right to vote i guarantee you their first act will be to ban liquor they were like shut up reginald then four months later
00:39:23.000The annual federal income tax, it amounts to, when you take all of it collected, to $2.2 trillion.
00:39:30.000That is half of all the annual revenue collected by the federal government, meaning half of all the money, and it's not nearly enough because, of course, we have an incredible deficit, is your income tax.
00:39:43.000So, this brings us to, okay, do you guys feel like you have a briefer there?
00:39:47.000How Could we potentially abolish the income tax?
00:41:35.000You'd have a better economy because there'd be more money to go around and you would have more jobs, which...
00:41:40.000By the way, could reduce our deficit naturally, because we could actually, there's actually a point where you could increase revenue by allowing people to keep more of their own money, and at the same time, that revenue isn't being taken by force, but being used when you spend your money.
00:43:03.000That moment came here when I covered former President Barack Obama's trip to Cuba in 2016 and had the chance to question the dictator there, Raul Castro, about the island's political prisoners.
00:43:16.000As the son of a Cuban refugee, I took home this lesson.
00:43:20.000It is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant.
00:43:24.000I have always believed it's the job of the press to hold power to account.
00:43:28.000Barack Obama literally stood in front of a portrait of Che.
00:43:31.000Mission Control, bring that up, who was a tyrant.
00:44:44.000Jim Acosta, one of the worst and most dishonest reporters in journalistic history, folks, a major sleazebag, has been relegated by CNN fake news to the midnight hour, Death Valley, because of extraordinarily bad ratings and no talent.
00:45:32.000You see all these actors and celebrities, they have podcasts, and some of them will get a viewership or a A listenership for, you know, a few weeks, and then people realize they're just not that interesting.
00:45:41.000Like, people sort of realize, oh, wait a second, when they're not on corporate news with a prompter, they don't really have a lot of opinions by themselves.
00:47:55.000They know what a dictator looks like because if they're here, they likely fled.
00:47:59.000You know, the one on that mural, the one Barack Obama stood in front of with a hand over his heart, the one that Rage Against the Machine puts on their shirt.
00:48:05.000You know, the guy who killed without trial and bragged about it before the UN, whether it was black, whether it was handicapped, whether it was gay, right?
00:48:40.000He's like, how about you show a little bit of disrespect?
00:48:42.000How about you just go, now, now, now, look, I get it, you put me in front of Che Guevara, but now when you're goose-stepping, I'm just gonna, I gotta take a lean, something, to let people know I don't support this.
00:49:54.000Kids won't be able to have food, and parents won't be able to go to the store with SNAP. If you read the order specifically, and we'll get into some details on it, it said...
00:50:02.000President Trump has issued these executive orders targeting these areas.
00:50:05.000If one of your areas is affected by this, then it's paused until we review it.
00:50:10.000You have to review these and make sure that it doesn't go against the executive orders.
00:50:13.000And what the media is running with right now, CNN has learned zero lessons.
00:50:18.000Deportation stuff, making it seem like, oh my gosh, we're deporting just random U.S. citizens that happen to be caught up in these sweeps, and now this.
00:50:24.000Donald Trump is pausing off at a rate.
00:51:45.000You have people on the left who'll say, actually, that tax disproportionately harms the poorest among us because, you know, they're basically only purchasing the daily consumables, the necessities, whereas wealthy people, you know, they have some luxury purchases, but it disproportionately affects those who are poor because it's a higher percentage of their income.
00:52:20.000I don't care what communists or socialists tell you.
00:52:22.000It is not fair for a family making $60,000 a year.
00:52:28.000To pay thousands of dollars in taxes and someone who doesn't work or contribute paying nothing while receiving benefits at the cost of said family.
00:52:38.000We often act like it's just Jeff Bezos and someone working in the factory.
00:52:41.000Well, newsflash, the person working in the factory is paying income tax.
00:52:45.000But there are a lot of people in this country who don't pay any income tax.
00:53:25.000It could theoretically be done, George, as a lawyer, he was talking about it under Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution, which is also, if you read that, consumption-based.
00:53:34.000Something else you could do, you could lease more federal lands for energy.
00:53:38.000Energy companies pay the federal government to drill for resources, right?
00:53:42.000You could work within those taxes if you want to talk about people who can spare it while not hurting American worker, American middle class, even small American business owners, oil, coal, natural gas, renewables.
00:53:54.000Of course, we get to the idea of tariffs.
00:53:56.000Again, this is about how could you replace the income tax?
00:54:00.000Trillions of dollars can be cut if we reduce spending.
00:54:03.000That's a thing no one wants to talk about, and there are other ways to increase revenue.
00:54:37.000They don't accept your farm products, but they send their farm products here and they send their cars here by the millions and millions.
00:54:44.000So if China or any other country charges 100% or 200% tax, then we will charge them 100% or 200% tax.
00:54:52.000My message to every business in the world is very simple.
00:54:56.000Come make your product in America and we will give you among the lowest taxes of any nation on earth.
00:55:03.000But if you don't make your product in America, which is your prerogative...
00:55:07.000Then very simply, you will have to pay a tariff, differing amounts, but a tariff which will direct hundreds of billions of dollars and even trillions of dollars into our treasury.
00:55:18.000You could use those to punish countries that undercut the United States or competitiveness in the international stage.
00:55:25.000You could use it to even the playing field because other countries put tariffs on our goods.
00:55:29.000You also have to deal with the fact that places like China are basically using de facto slave labor.
00:55:34.000Basically, you can use this to keep other countries and companies honest and keep ours competitive.
00:56:18.000It needs to be a multi-pronged approach.
00:56:20.000And I don't know that we would ever have another opportunity outside of Donald Trump in this second term.
00:56:26.000Again, he would need to take an axe to this.
00:56:29.000And I also want to leave you with this.
00:56:31.000If you wonder, well, hold on a second.
00:56:33.000If we didn't have income tax and it was ruled unconstitutional, and at first it was a really basic rate, like 3%, how do we get to this point where we have these complicated brackets and 37% income tax?
00:56:43.000I've done a lot of videos on this, gentlemen.
00:56:45.000Karl Marx believed that a progressive tax system...
00:56:49.000Would not only redistribute wealth, but it would destroy, and when we say the bourgeoisie, he would definitely be referring to middle class Americans, just to be clear.