Louder with Crowder - What Trump’s Massive Auto Tariffs Are Really About | Guest: Bill Richmond

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00:00:11.000 Lock. When I have plucked the rose, Gino Greyheart. 1.00

00:00:17.000 Longing still for that which longer nurseth the deceit.

00:00:22.000 In faith, I do not love thee.

00:00:25.000 Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

00:00:29.000 When I have plucked the rose, Plucked the rose.

00:00:33.000 Longing still for that which longer nurseth the deceit.

00:00:37.000 In faith, I do not love thee.

00:00:41.000 Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

00:00:44.000 It's better to have loved and lost Than ever to have loved and all hope.

00:00:53.000 Come cheer up my lands.

00:00:55.000 Come cheer up my lands.

00:00:58.000 It's better to have loved and lost.

00:01:00.000 Incredibly unbroken sentence Moving from topic to topic No one had a chance to interrupt It was quite hypnotic Incredibly unbroken sentence Moving from topic to topic No one had a chance to interrupt It was quite hypnotic Hello.

00:01:34.000 Exclusive on Rumble.

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00:01:40.000 More to come, and thank you so much for welcoming the Bongino Army and Vince, which of course is short for, in its original tongue, Vincente, which means mostly shops at J.Crew, but it works for them.

00:01:53.000 Today, we're going to be talking about NPR.

00:01:57.000 PBS, defunding.

00:01:58.000 If you can't defund drag shows for children to the tune of $530-something million or soda from Snap, you can't defund anything.

00:02:06.000 And the big topic of today, the tariffs, the auto manufacturing tariffs from Donald Trump.

00:02:12.000 Is this a good thing?

00:02:14.000 Is it going to harm American consumers?

00:02:15.000 Is it a kickback to the UAW?

00:02:17.000 Those who follow me for a long time know where I line up with the UAW because I'm from Detroit.

00:02:21.000 Hint, I'm anti.

00:02:22.000 But a few layers here that actually...

00:02:25.000 Kind of look out for the consumer in a way that may surprise you.

00:02:28.000 We'll get into that.

00:02:29.000 And, you know, at some point, those filthy Jeps have to pay. 1.00

00:02:32.000 Also, my lawyer is here for a Hardly Legal segment as we go through the signal mishap, the ins and outs.

00:02:38.000 You know, he's smart.

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00:03:57.000 They heard it, right?

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00:04:05.000 Glad to be with you.

00:04:07.000 A lot to get to today, by the way.

00:04:09.000 My first question to you.

00:04:10.000 What's your favorite car brand?

00:04:12.000 I have to adjust my headphones here.

00:04:13.000 I don't know what's going on. 1.00

00:04:15.000 If you say Saturn, you deserve to be executed. 0.98

00:04:19.000 They still exist? 0.99

00:04:20.000 No, they don't.

00:04:21.000 But there's someone out there who's still hanging on who's actually good cars.

00:04:24.000 No. No, stop justifying your poor decision.

00:04:27.000 There's a lot of people that do that with Saab.

00:04:30.000 No, Saab's gone.

00:04:32.000 Saab's gone, and Volvo is basically Ford at this point.

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00:04:46.000 Favorite car.

00:04:47.000 You let me know.

00:04:47.000 Favorite car brand.

00:04:48.000 If it's American, you're probably wrong. 1.00

00:04:50.000 Captain Morgan, CEO.

00:04:52.000 Welcome. Glad you're here.

00:04:53.000 Josh Firestein, not underscore Firestein on X. And my half-Asian lawyer, who, by the way, tonight and tomorrow is going to be at TK's Comedy Club in Addison, Texas.

00:05:03.000 Half-Asian, Bill Richmond.

00:05:04.000 How are you, sir?

00:05:05.000 Yo, great.

00:05:06.000 Glad to be here.

00:05:07.000 Is this why our suit has been dragging?

00:05:10.000 You've been doing so much of the comedies?

00:05:12.000 You know, there's just a lot to laugh about in the legal world, so we've got to blend them together.

00:05:16.000 Yeah, but not our lawsuit.

00:05:17.000 No, no, no, not that one.

00:05:18.000 Don't laugh at us.

00:05:19.000 Laugh at the other side.

00:05:20.000 I have an anonymous client who...

00:05:23.000 You've got to do a lawsuit with Google YouTube. 1.00

00:05:27.000 His HR guy is fucking ugly and dumb. 1.00

00:05:30.000 Oh, wow. 1.00

00:05:31.000 Geez. Well, you know, he could have been a lawyer, too.

00:05:34.000 But he chose not to.

00:05:35.000 He's a disappointment to his mother.

00:05:37.000 Before I move up, we're going to talk auto tariffs.

00:05:39.000 We're going to talk NPR, PBS.

00:05:41.000 And we are going to be discussing, of course, they're discussing on CNN nonstop, the signal mishap.

00:05:46.000 And you know what?

00:05:47.000 I understand where people are coming from.

00:05:48.000 You don't want to give the left an inch ever.

00:05:50.000 But I also understand this idea of not making it a bigger deal than it needs to be.

00:05:53.000 There's how to handle a PR scandal and how not to.

00:05:56.000 I don't necessarily know that it's a scandal, but it's a problem.

00:05:58.000 It's not.

00:05:58.000 I'm just saying we're trying to make it one.

00:05:59.000 Yes. How do you handle it?

00:06:00.000 And today now, of course, the tariffs on auto manufacturing, they're talking about it nonstop.

00:06:04.000 I listen to NPR every morning.

00:06:05.000 But before that, speaking of pedophiles, I said NPR.

00:06:09.000 It's an implication. 0.83

00:06:10.000 There are a lot of pedophiles on NPR.

00:06:12.000 National Pedophile Radio? 0.84

00:06:14.000 Yep. Yep.

00:06:15.000 Yep. It's covert.

00:06:17.000 It's covert.

00:06:17.000 Don't get me started on their pizza.

00:06:19.000 So Alex Rosen from Predator Poachers, you know him.

00:06:22.000 He's been a friend of this show where he tracks down.

00:06:24.000 Sex offenders, and he confronts them, often gets them arrested.

00:06:28.000 He actually, in this latest clip, was arrested himself for tracking down a verified, allegedly self-admitted pedophile at a steak and shake, and he's the one who gets carried out in cuffs.

00:06:42.000 I'm not going to read out loud. 0.99

00:06:45.000 This is a pedophile who works here, and this lady's defending him because she cares more about paying him his s**t. 1.00

00:06:51.000 $10 an hour than she does about justice. 1.00

00:06:54.000 I'm waiting for the cops.

00:06:59.000 Steak and shake in Branson, Missouri, employs pedophiles so she knows he's been caught before and arrested for trying to meet a little kid.

00:07:08.000 And she still defends him and still employs him and said it was slander even though he admitted to everything and got arrested for it.

00:07:14.000 Yeah, if all that is true, that's a real problem because some fast facts, the recidivism rate for pedophiles is 35%.

00:07:20.000 After 15 years.

00:07:22.000 Enablers are just as bad. 1.00

00:07:24.000 I understand you've got a lot going on.

00:07:25.000 Do we really think the best way to go about it is causing a disturbance?

00:07:28.000 Yeah, actually, well, it's not a disturbance.

00:07:30.000 It's just a worry of the public.

00:07:31.000 Wouldn't the best way to go about it be you doing your job, police officer?

00:07:36.000 The best thing is to do nothing.

00:07:39.000 Child sex offenders or pedophiles make up 1-4% of the population by estimates from psychology journals.

00:07:47.000 So that's about 13 million people, but only 140,000 of them are in jail as of 2021.

00:07:52.000 So around 10%.

00:07:53.000 Hey, something should be done.

00:07:54.000 She said she, you know, he was relieved for a while.

00:07:57.000 After the incident, kind of calmed down and it, Calm down.

00:08:01.000 I think that's 1%.

00:08:03.000 Am I wrong on my math?

00:08:07.000 I said 10%.

00:08:09.000 Oh, sorry.

00:08:11.000 As far as the rest of it, yeah.

00:08:15.000 Well, he did the same thing he was doing in October.

00:08:18.000 And obviously, whoever looked into that, well, it'll be proven.

00:08:22.000 Okay. So that being said, I'm going to document...

00:08:27.000 No problem.

00:08:33.000 Ah, the humanity. 0.99

00:08:36.000 Hey, how about the pedophile? 0.85

00:08:37.000 We're gonna do anything with that? 0.82

00:08:38.000 Doesn't seem so.

00:08:40.000 Ah, he was peacefully pedophiling.

00:08:42.000 Yeah. Can I get my wallet?

00:08:45.000 You want this mic off?

00:08:47.000 Oh, yeah.

00:08:47.000 May I get it?

00:08:48.000 Yeah, we're gonna get it.

00:08:49.000 As far as your actions today, I understand, I'm gonna be straight up honest with you guys, Straight up.

00:08:57.000 How about you don't have the right to employ a pedophile if the customers, every single one, doesn't know about it?

00:09:14.000 Because they have to notify their neighbors, but not the children at the Steak and Shake?

00:09:18.000 You also don't have a right to molest children.

00:09:21.000 In general.

00:09:22.000 I think that's a superseding.

00:09:26.000 So I do believe he's doing the Lord's work.

00:09:28.000 And let me explain something to you.

00:09:29.000 Again, the recidivism rate is 35% for pedophiles.

00:09:31.000 That's just what we know of.

00:09:32.000 1% to 4% of the population.

00:09:33.000 That makes up about 13 to 14 million people.

00:09:36.000 Only 140,000 in jail.

00:09:38.000 Like Gerald said, closer to 1%.

00:09:40.000 Hey, what we're doing isn't working.

00:09:42.000 And these people have advocacy groups. 0.90

00:09:45.000 I know you know about NAMBLA because it's silly and it's funny, but it's also evil.

00:09:48.000 Then you also have the IPCE, the International Pedophile and Child Emancipation Organization.

00:09:53.000 Here's the deal.

00:09:55.000 If you keep living in this society where people are arrested for trespassing because they're confronting not only potentially an active pedophile, but someone who knows about it in the name of empathy, in the name of tolerance, is employing them, which, by the way, is putting people at risk, this is how you end up with Dirty Harrys.

00:10:13.000 This is how you end up with Charles Bronson, Death Wish.

00:10:15.000 It will lead to vigilantism.

00:10:18.000 Do you guys understand this?

00:10:20.000 Yeah, but he makes some amazing shakes!

00:10:23.000 Maybe he does.

00:10:24.000 And his steak's not bad.

00:10:25.000 His steak's not bad.

00:10:26.000 It's irreplaceable.

00:10:27.000 Do they serve steak at Steak and Shake?

00:10:29.000 Steak and Shake.

00:10:30.000 Look, I think there's very little steak.

00:10:32.000 Much more shake.

00:10:33.000 Yeah. But you're totally right.

00:10:34.000 I mean, look, the breakdown of society is what leads people to think they have to do something.

00:10:39.000 And when you let rioters destroy cities year after year after year when they get butthurt over something, and then you go, ah, the peaceful protests with fire in the background, and then you've got a guy being like, hey, FYI, people.

00:10:52.000 Yeah. Registered.

00:10:59.000 You know, already in the system, already known, right?

00:11:02.000 You're not exercising your discretion as a law enforcement officer to not just walk that guy out and go, look, you're not doing it the right way.

00:11:10.000 Technically, this could be a problem. 1.00

00:11:12.000 Fuck out of here. 1.00

00:11:13.000 Yeah, exactly. 1.00

00:11:13.000 As opposed to what happened here. 1.00

00:11:15.000 No, exactly.

00:11:16.000 And here's the thing.

00:11:16.000 I have to say allegedly, because my lawyer is here, but the person in question working at Steak and Shake was trying to actively hook up with a minor, that employee, okay?

00:11:25.000 This person has already been arrested and was caught by Alex.

00:11:28.000 Already. Before.

00:11:29.000 The restaurant owner admitted that she, keyword being she here, was aware of the arrest but refused to believe that this person is the monster that he actually is and decided to employ him anyway.

00:11:42.000 This is the issue of empathy and tolerance over judgment.

00:11:47.000 And I'm sorry, that's a problem of a feminized society through feminism. 1.00

00:11:50.000 Well, what about rehabilitation?

00:11:52.000 Sorry, it doesn't happen with pedophiles.

00:11:53.000 Yeah, but what about this person needs to make a living?

00:11:55.000 I'm sorry, destroyed lives of children.

00:11:57.000 We don't know how many.

00:11:58.000 And this is the thing with pedophiles, because they don't get better, statistically.

00:12:03.000 This, I wouldn't be able to say this on you. 0.88

00:12:05.000 You gotta put them down.

00:12:07.000 That's the only way.

00:12:08.000 You've got to put, like, a wild...

00:12:09.000 I'm sorry.

00:12:10.000 I get that maybe you're perpetual.

00:12:11.000 You're continuing the cycle.

00:12:12.000 You were abused.

00:12:13.000 I don't care.

00:12:14.000 It's chilling.

00:12:14.000 If you've already been arrested, if you've already molested a child, and now you're back in the public sphere where you could even potentially ruin another child's life, no, sorry, you're out.

00:12:26.000 You've got to leave the village. 0.56

00:12:27.000 If you come back in, there's an arrow or a bullet, depending on the arrow, waiting for you. 0.67

00:12:32.000 Or, if we want to do this more humanely... 0.50

00:12:35.000 Right? So they feel like they have a fighting chance.

00:12:37.000 Might I propose a new national game show, The Running Pedophile?

00:12:41.000 Only one makes it out.

00:12:45.000 You put that up in every city.

00:12:47.000 I love it.

00:12:48.000 By the way, the IPCE, do they have like a corporate headquarters or maybe, you know, like a convention that the Houthis could bomb every year?

00:12:56.000 It's a Chuck E. Cheese.

00:12:57.000 I mean, I wouldn't encourage that, but I'm like, it's just...

00:13:01.000 It's kind of like you're telling us where to go.

00:13:03.000 Let me know.

00:13:04.000 Comment below.

00:13:04.000 Do you think that's an extreme statement?

00:13:06.000 If you are a pedophile who has been convicted, who has been, in other words, beyond all shadow of a doubt, you can't be in society, period, anymore. 0.65

00:13:15.000 And if you do it again, put down. 0.99

00:13:19.000 Euthanasia. You've got to treat it like chickens with bird flu.

00:13:21.000 Yes. Call it culling if it's more humane.

00:13:23.000 Exactly. Whatever you need to do.

00:13:24.000 But do me a favor, and if you have a problem with what we're saying right now, and I understand there's compassion and there's blah, blah, I get it.

00:13:29.000 I don't.

00:13:30.000 Do me a favor. 0.70

00:13:31.000 Try and imagine that your son or daughter is molested by a pedophile who got released in the hopes that they would be... 0.86

00:13:40.000 Redeemed. Also, some lady can go, well, come on, have a heart. 1.00

00:13:43.000 We've all made mistakes.

00:13:45.000 Not that one.

00:13:46.000 Nope! Not even close.

00:13:48.000 Not that one.

00:13:50.000 There's got to be mistakes that cross the line, right?

00:13:53.000 I mean, if you just consistently say, well, we're just going to compassion our ways into what?

00:13:58.000 Into letting anyone do anything, right?

00:14:00.000 I mean, there has to be a line, and the society has to enforce that line, and the government that the society has created needs to be the first.

00:14:09.000 And if you don't do that...

00:14:12.000 Yeah. There's a huge difference between molesting a child and taking mushrooms on my birthday.

00:14:16.000 Yes. Exactly.

00:14:18.000 Both mistakes?

00:14:19.000 Especially if those mushrooms were from steak and shake.

00:14:22.000 I think your symptoms were psychosomatic.

00:14:24.000 That's true.

00:14:24.000 They're portobello, wrong ones.

00:14:26.000 Steak and mushrooms, delicious.

00:14:28.000 Look, that's where I line up when we're at this point where everything is so warped.

00:14:31.000 I will say this, the church, Gerald Albert Thomas, in many ways, the modern, non-denominational evangelical church has failed people in a lot of ways.

00:14:37.000 They go, sin is sin!

00:14:39.000 In the sense that it separates you from God, sure. 0.99

00:14:41.000 But lying about doing your homework is not the same as raping a child. 0.98

00:14:44.000 I'm sorry. 0.90

00:14:46.000 That is not the case in my house.

00:14:47.000 When I grew up, if I didn't do my homework...

00:14:49.000 That's true.

00:14:50.000 Yeah. My mom was like, you gotta go steak and shake.

00:14:52.000 You gotta go work at steak and shake.

00:14:54.000 I was like, what?

00:14:55.000 I like steak and shake.

00:14:56.000 She's like, you're not allowed to eat there. 0.81

00:14:57.000 You just gotta work there. 0.96

00:14:59.000 Go down the street to pedophile gyms right now. 0.98

00:15:00.000 Your mom was very strict. 0.99

00:15:01.000 I wondered about the meat hook in the basement.

00:15:03.000 I was like, oh, that was where Bill used to hang from when he did it.

00:15:05.000 That was only for misdemeanors.

00:15:08.000 Which, by the way, speaking of societies that are broken, and I'm not a fan of, and on YouTube this would be considered racist.

00:15:14.000 And on Rumble, it might be considered a little bit racist.

00:15:18.000 If you're feeling down about how bad it is in the United States, just remember, thank your lucky stars or the Lord above, because you could have been born in India.

00:15:30.000 What's that smell?

00:15:37.000 Ha ha ha ha!

00:15:39.000 Now, I know what you're saying.

00:15:41.000 That's updated, yeah.

00:15:43.000 Do you mean to imply that India is an inferior...

00:15:46.000 Yeah, you don't even need a phrase.

00:15:49.000 It is an inferior country with a culture that is reviled by Western societies and Asians, all non-Indian Asian societies alike. 1.00

00:15:57.000 So it's a great unifier.

00:15:59.000 I get that there are good people in India, but not enough.

00:16:02.000 So, this weekend, I present to you Exhibit A, and then I'll present to you Exhibit B, and it's very similar.

00:16:09.000 To exhibit A. This was the Matarama Temple Festival in Bengaluru, India.

00:16:18.000 Things went a little...

00:16:19.000 Mistakes happen everywhere.

00:16:21.000 Believe me, I get that, okay?

00:16:22.000 I don't want to be ethnocentric.

00:16:23.000 However, I do judge a society differently if it is a mistake that everyone could have seen coming and you made it anyway.

00:16:35.000 That's pretty.

00:16:36.000 Look at all the people.

00:16:38.000 All the people.

00:16:41.000 Now, that doesn't seem that severe.

00:16:44.000 Until you see the long shot.

00:16:47.000 People all the way up.

00:16:50.000 Like a Dr. Seuss pictorial.

00:16:56.000 Hit the water tower!

00:16:59.000 Now, that looks really bad.

00:17:03.000 I mean, it was a slow crash.

00:17:05.000 It looks bad as a one-off.

00:17:08.000 Right. It looks worse when you realize the exact same thing happened at the exact same festival last year.

00:17:16.000 Oh. Oh.

00:17:19.000 Oh.

00:17:21.000 This is last year.

00:17:27.000 Somehow all those people are cleaner now.

00:17:32.000 You know.

00:17:33.000 Fool me once.

00:17:34.000 That means they had an entire year and there wasn't even just like a board meeting.

00:17:38.000 Like, hey, maybe we need to widen the base or not do this.

00:17:42.000 I think it was even taller this year.

00:17:44.000 Yeah, I think it was even more.

00:17:46.000 The center of gravity was even higher.

00:17:48.000 What we do is we make it taller and then it'll stay more erect.

00:17:51.000 Maybe if we put more people at the top and go up, no problem.

00:17:56.000 It will be safer.

00:17:57.000 We'll have more weight.

00:17:58.000 More weight at the top will make it safe.

00:18:01.000 Better for you.

00:18:02.000 Oh, they died.

00:18:04.000 I forgot to mention it was a sacrifice.

00:18:08.000 What is this thing?

00:18:10.000 It said 100-foot chariot.

00:18:11.000 I've never seen a chariot that's taller than it is wide.

00:18:16.000 Bill, it's India.

00:18:17.000 Were there people in it?

00:18:19.000 It's 2025 there, too.

00:18:21.000 And if you could transport the Mayans, if you had a DeLorean, you could take the Mayans.

00:18:26.000 You saw Apocalypto?

00:18:27.000 Take them to this area of India. 0.99

00:18:29.000 They would immediately go, that's going to... 1.00

00:18:32.000 That's going to fall, you dumbass. 1.00

00:18:35.000 It's 2025 there, too! 1.00

00:18:37.000 They're like, let it fall.

00:18:38.000 There's less of them to kill afterwards.

00:18:41.000 That's exactly what it is.

00:18:42.000 The problem is they're using square wheels.

00:18:44.000 And think about this.

00:18:44.000 And then we're told, hey, we need to uncap H-1Bs.

00:18:47.000 Bring in more.

00:18:48.000 Bring in more.

00:18:48.000 The best and the brightest are coming from these countries.

00:18:50.000 Well, then why does it still look like that, Doug?

00:18:53.000 Okay. Also, CrowderShop.com, Socialism is for Fig's shirt.

00:18:58.000 You can get it because we're no longer on YouTube and it is now permitted.

00:19:01.000 Look, Gerald's wearing it.

00:19:02.000 Yeah, we can show it.

00:19:03.000 Don't put the graphic up!

00:19:04.000 Fine, I won't sell any shirts.

00:19:05.000 Hey, you know that they don't like it when you bring the Socialism is for Fig's onesie into the neonatal units.

00:19:14.000 I can imagine.

00:19:15.000 That's actually awesome.

00:19:16.000 I didn't even think about that.

00:19:17.000 Guys, get on it.

00:19:18.000 Legal opinion.

00:19:18.000 They don't like it.

00:19:19.000 But guess what?

00:19:20.000 The customer is always right.

00:19:22.000 And this little baby customer says socialism is for fakes.

00:19:26.000 What are you going to do?

00:19:27.000 100%. Yeah.

00:19:27.000 Go ahead.

00:19:29.000 Come at me, Big Pharma.

00:19:30.000 Let's go to...

00:19:30.000 That's not us.

00:19:31.000 That's a quote from Che Guevara.

00:19:33.000 Yep. It is.

00:19:33.000 That's exactly right.

00:19:34.000 What do you want us to do?

00:19:35.000 NPR and PBS.

00:19:37.000 Spoiler, I'm not a fan.

00:19:41.000 Aww. And I'll explain to you why, largely because I don't find dueling lesbian folk piano hour-long programming to be that enthralling.

00:19:51.000 And I wonder, hey, who's listening to this?

00:19:54.000 Who's paying for this?

00:19:55.000 Well, it turns out it's you and me.

00:19:57.000 The American worker.

00:19:59.000 People say taxpayer.

00:20:00.000 The American worker. 0.99

00:20:01.000 Whether you're an employee or you're a business owner, you are the one who funds the kind of crap that we see on PBS and NPR. 0.93

00:20:07.000 And you can let me... 0.93

00:20:08.000 We went through this with Snap and Soda.

00:20:11.000 If you can't stop funding to NPR and PBS, dead shows on a dead medium that would never exist otherwise, then you don't believe that there's any opportunity or any justification for trimming government.

00:20:27.000 When you look up bloat...

00:20:29.000 You see NPR in the dictionary, and certainly PBS.

00:20:33.000 So yesterday, this came to a head.

00:20:35.000 We've been talking about this for a long time.

00:20:37.000 But the House Doge subcommittee specifically had a hearing on PBS and NPR, and they grilled some folks from those corporations.

00:20:47.000 Mr. Berliner, in his story last year, wrote, I've, in the D.C. area, editorial positions at NPR.

00:20:58.000 He said he found 87 registered Democrats, zero Republicans.

00:21:03.000 Is that accurate?

00:21:04.000 Yes. We do not track the numbers or the voter registration.

00:21:08.000 I mean, it wasn't 44, 43. It wasn't 60, 27. It wasn't 70, 17. It wasn't even 80 to 7. It was 87 Democrats, zero Republicans.

00:21:19.000 And you say NPR is not biased.

00:21:23.000 Do you think that...

00:21:25.000 A few years ago NPR educated America about, quote, the whole community of genderqueer dinosaur enthusiasts.

00:21:32.000 Do you think that that's an inappropriate use of tax dollars? 0.99

00:21:35.000 This is garbage. 0.79

00:21:36.000 I'll spend all of my time doing everything I can to ensure you guys never get another dollar of taxpayer funding. 1.00

00:21:43.000 This is complete garbage. 0.96

00:21:44.000 I feel like there's disinformation every time I listen to NPR. 1.00

00:21:50.000 And, you know, a media...

00:21:52.000 Entity like MSNBC or Huffington Post that, in my opinion, consistently spews disinformation.

00:21:58.000 They can do that.

00:21:59.000 They're a private company.

00:22:01.000 And it's still less left than NPR, according to metrics.

00:22:04.000 How about the big stories over the last few years?

00:22:05.000 But then he said when the Mueller report came out and they said, Mueller said, Robert Mueller said he found no evidence of collusion.

00:22:11.000 He said Russiagate faded from our programming.

00:22:14.000 Is that accurate?

00:22:15.000 October 2020, the New York Post had the Hunter Biden laptop story.

00:22:19.000 And one of those editors, I guess one of those 87 Democrat editors, said this.

00:22:25.000 We don't want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories.

00:22:28.000 Mr. Berliner said, we became fervent members of the team Natural Origin, even declaring that the lab leak was debunked by scientists.

00:22:36.000 Turns out, though, the lab leak is what most people think actually caused the COVID virus.

00:22:41.000 Sorry, sir.

00:22:42.000 Is there a question there?

00:22:42.000 There is.

00:22:43.000 You guys were 0 for 3. On the three of the biggest stories in the last five years, you guys were 0 for 3, and yet you maintain that NPR is not biased?

00:22:53.000 Wow. By the way, fact check, everything that you just heard there is accurate.

00:22:57.000 We actually had this framed out for the segment.

00:22:59.000 You know what?

00:23:00.000 Jim Jordan did it.

00:23:01.000 He already did it.

00:23:02.000 He did it very well.

00:23:02.000 So just point it out.

00:23:03.000 Yeah, that's accurate.

00:23:04.000 Let's think of this racket.

00:23:06.000 You think about money laundering.

00:23:09.000 Washing, cleaning money, where you put it through different entities and sources so that people don't really know where it's coming from.

00:23:14.000 Okay? You have the government, and the money goes to NPR, PBS, where they claim that they are actually funded by viewers like you, and then they affect the outcome of elections so that they continue the cycle of government funding.

00:23:29.000 Think about that.

00:23:29.000 Just the Hunter Biden laptop story affected the election.

00:23:32.000 Russiagate probably affected midterms.

00:23:36.000 Lab leak!

00:23:38.000 That's why we were suspended.

00:23:39.000 That's the big reason Donald Trump was deplatformed.

00:23:42.000 Remember that?

00:23:42.000 Do you remember that?

00:23:42.000 I know he's back now, but do you remember that?

00:23:44.000 The President of the United States was deplatformed because of COVID and because of January 6th, which was also lied about by NPR.

00:23:51.000 And you paid to undo your own vote in the election because of misinformation.

00:23:59.000 You won't see it on CNN.

00:24:01.000 You won't see it on any of the legacy media.

00:24:03.000 They'll go, oh, they want to...

00:24:05.000 They want to defund Big Bird.

00:24:07.000 Remember that one?

00:24:07.000 Even Mitt Romney, one of the few things he did right, said, yeah, I think we're going to stop PBS funding.

00:24:12.000 People go, why do you want to defund Big Bird?

00:24:14.000 Well, hold a second.

00:24:15.000 Talk about the news and talk about their relationship with the government.

00:24:20.000 It's a government-funded entity.

00:24:21.000 By the way, let me give you the number.

00:24:23.000 $535 million from the federal government alone for their 2025 budget.

00:24:30.000 $535 million.

00:24:31.000 They've come out and said less than 10% of our funding comes from the government.

00:24:34.000 It's a lie!

00:24:35.000 So, of course, the left, who wants this propaganda to continue, and Pravda R., they came to the defense of NPR, because you can't trim anything from the government.

00:24:47.000 Like a representative Greg Caesar played, by the way, by Keegan-Michael Key.

00:24:51.000 Here they go. 0.98

00:24:54.000 Holy shit, is that a real photo? 0.99

00:24:55.000 Yeah, bring it back up. 0.99

00:24:57.000 That guy's everywhere.

00:25:00.000 Holy cow! 0.96

00:25:01.000 That's the same guy.

00:25:03.000 It looks like Keiko Mikey Key's on the left because of Elmo.

00:25:06.000 Yes! It looks sillier. 0.84

00:25:08.000 It looks like a sketch. 0.91

00:25:09.000 Yeah. The real person looks sillier than the comedic actor. 0.94

00:25:12.000 Let's hear their defense of NPR, including, by the way, Crockett the racist. 0.98

00:25:16.000 So once again, my Republican colleagues are dragging in a skip goat. 0.89

00:25:20.000 It sounds like them too.

00:25:20.000 This time PBS and NPR to try to distract from the fact that Trump and Musk...

00:25:30.000 It's the $535 million.

00:25:35.000 Mr. Rogers is on the air.

00:25:36.000 So I'm sad to see that this once proud committee, the principal investigative committee in the House of Representatives, has now stooped to the lowest levels of partisanship and political theater to hold a hearing to go after the likes of Elmo and Cookie Monster and after the ARGARC, all for the... 0.84

00:25:56.000 Unforgivable sin of teaching the alphabet to low-income families' children.

00:26:00.000 All it is is strumming.

00:26:03.000 Free speech is not about whatever it is that y'all want somebody to say. 0.98

00:26:07.000 And the idea that you want to shut down everybody that is not Fox News is bullsh**. 0.93

00:26:13.000 We need to stop playing. 1.00

00:26:15.000 These people are fundamentally stupid and dishonest. 1.00

00:26:18.000 You want to shut down everybody that isn't Fox News? 1.00

00:26:22.000 And if you're more offended that you think that's racist, get out.

00:26:27.000 I'm not seeing them want to shut down anybody.

00:26:30.000 MSNBC? No, no one's trying to shut it down.

00:26:32.000 CNN? No one's trying to shut it down.

00:26:33.000 No, no, I'm trying to shut it down.

00:26:35.000 We would like to see it fail of its own accord.

00:26:39.000 No one's trying to shut it down.

00:26:40.000 It's $535 million.

00:26:42.000 And I say, who cares?

00:26:42.000 Hold on a second.

00:26:43.000 We went through the billions of dollars going to junk food in SNAP.

00:26:45.000 Remember the billions of dollars with USAID?

00:26:48.000 $500 billion a year in annual fraud.

00:26:52.000 Fraud. Not misappropriation, not overspending, right?

00:26:56.000 Not inefficiencies, not fraud.

00:26:58.000 We don't know where it goes.

00:26:59.000 Can we not all start with, yeah, trans dinosaur enthusiasts at NPR?

00:27:04.000 You know, I don't know, maybe you get a few bucks, maybe a million, but by the time we reach 534 million per annum, I think the taxpayer deserves a little bit better for their money.

00:27:17.000 I mean, I know we're so...

00:27:19.000 We've lost context, scope so much that we think that's not a lot of money.

00:27:23.000 How much do you think that could contribute to, I don't know, military readiness, $535 million?

00:27:28.000 How much do you think it could contribute to improving education if we want to do that, if we're talking about school?

00:27:33.000 Hey, what about just not spending it?

00:27:37.000 How about that?

00:27:38.000 The left starts with status quo, status quo, status quo, status quo, more money.

00:27:42.000 That's the solution to everything.

00:27:43.000 By the way...

00:27:44.000 When they're talking about freedom of speech, it's funny.

00:27:46.000 Whenever the left talks about freedom of speech like Jasmine Crockett, it's not being able to tell them what to say.

00:27:51.000 Well, hold on a second.

00:27:52.000 Why do you say if it's a company, it's their choice, even though they benefit from Section 230?

00:27:56.000 And in this case, wouldn't the same rule apply that the company is funded by the government?

00:28:02.000 So they would have a vested interest, logically, in speaking well of large government.

00:28:08.000 I was raised in Canada.

00:28:10.000 I apologize.

00:28:13.000 In the last election, you wonder how someone like Trudeau gets elected? 0.98

00:28:16.000 You wonder how a closeted homosexual who's the love child of Castro gets elected? 0.99

00:28:20.000 He promised more money to the CBC, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, than anyone. 0.98

00:28:24.000 Literally part of the election.

00:28:26.000 One of the candidates said, I will give, I believe it was $100 million extra per year to the CBC.

00:28:31.000 And Trudeau said, I'll give $150.

00:28:33.000 Guess who got the positive coverage?

00:28:34.000 You want that here in this country?

00:28:38.000 $535 million from the federal government.

00:28:42.000 For NPR, PBS, to fund projects like Woke Word of the Day.

00:28:48.000 With Louder with Crowder, learning is fun.

00:28:51.000 Hi, I'm Josh Feierstein.

00:28:54.000 And I'm PJ!

00:28:56.000 And we're here to tell you about today's Woke Word of the Day, which is...

00:29:01.000 Let the logo...

00:29:03.000 Today's word is...

00:29:08.000 Marginalization! That's right.

00:29:10.000 Marginalization. Marginalization is like a more spreadable substitute for butter that some people have argued is a more healthy replacement.

00:29:20.000 What? Learning is fun.

00:29:23.000 That cost 12 million.

00:29:28.000 Gotta pay those guys.

00:29:29.000 Gotta pay them well.

00:29:30.000 Let me give you some history and some interesting information, too, that you guys may...

00:29:32.000 It kind of gets glossed over.

00:29:34.000 All references, links available in the description.

00:29:37.000 PBS NPR, they have a very long history of being far left in their bias.

00:29:42.000 A 2014 Pew study showed that NPR was more left-leaning than MSNBC, CNN, BuzzFeed, and HuffPo.

00:29:47.000 And they were significantly more left-wing than Fox News was right-wing.

00:29:51.000 Here's another crystal clear example.

00:29:53.000 There's an Easter egg.

00:29:54.000 In here, 2023, there's this show on PBS, Washington Week with The Atlantic, and they had a roundtable attacking Republicans for questioning what we then found out to be true, only a very short period later, Biden's mental acuity.

00:30:12.000 It's not just making an issue of Biden's age.

00:30:14.000 It's lying. 0.72

00:30:15.000 It's saying he's senile, saying he's demented, saying he's out of it.

00:30:18.000 I mean, I think it's important to sort of state for a fact that a lot of these are just...

00:30:21.000 Right. Mentally, he's quite acute.

00:30:24.000 That was Jeffrey Goldberg.

00:30:26.000 How's that guy?

00:30:27.000 Sounds familiar.

00:30:27.000 Mentally, he's quite acute.

00:30:29.000 Yeah. That was September of 23, you morons. 1.00

00:30:31.000 That was Jeffrey Goldberg, the guy at the center of this signal scandal right now. 0.99

00:30:35.000 So just in case you wondered how incestuous it was.

00:30:38.000 And even after that, from 23 to 24, the PBS NewsHour used the term far right 27 times more than the term far left.

00:30:47.000 Here's something interesting, too, and this comes down to the pathology of the left.

00:30:52.000 Okay. The average PBS viewer, right?

00:30:56.000 It's a middle-aged woman who owns a home, has at least one child, a pet, postgraduate degree, right? 0.98

00:31:02.000 They're 44% more likely, the average PBS viewer, to hold a doctoral degree than the general public.

00:31:08.000 In general, they have a $250,000 portfolio, and less than 10% of them give.

00:31:15.000 To PBS or NPR.

00:31:16.000 In other words, these people are wealthy.

00:31:18.000 These people are the example of white privilege.

00:31:20.000 Generally, the average PBS viewer or NPR listener, we don't have the numbers on NPR.

00:31:25.000 I bet you they're even worse because it's radio, so it's likely even older and more privileged.

00:31:30.000 Go look at that.

00:31:31.000 And they don't.

00:31:33.000 Why do we allow this to be said as a narrative that the left is somehow more empathetic or compassionate?

00:31:39.000 This is the perfect example.

00:31:40.000 You want it?

00:31:41.000 Just pay for it. 1.00

00:31:43.000 You can't even get 10% of privileged, white, wealthy, doctorate-holding viewers to give to this shit. 1.00

00:31:51.000 But they think it's compassionate to take from you, who makes less, you, who likely has invested less, to pay for the crap that they want to watch. 1.00

00:32:00.000 It's a wealth transfer. 1.00

00:32:02.000 You are some wealthy, privileged, white bitches plaything! 1.00

00:32:09.000 And I love it when Jasmine Crockett and others go out there and say, you're trying to take away public programming from poor kids. 1.00

00:32:15.000 Poor black kids, typically, is what she says. 0.79

00:32:18.000 I just did this thing. 0.71

00:32:19.000 PBS, primetime viewership, 80% plus white.

00:32:22.000 So they're not even reaching the target audience very well.

00:32:25.000 And by the way, if you like Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers, they can stand on their own.

00:32:28.000 They can go out there.

00:32:28.000 And by the way, these women, these white women, 126% chance they're more likely that they're going to have a $250,000 portfolio.

00:32:35.000 Do you also know that that probably means they have internet?

00:32:38.000 Which means they probably have more access to all of human history or than all of human history to content for kids that's free for them on YouTube and other platforms.

00:32:46.000 It's not like this is the only place they can go.

00:32:48.000 Right. Get our money back.

00:32:49.000 Yeah, but we have Daniel Tiger.

00:32:51.000 I mean, you know what the test is?

00:32:53.000 Here's the test.

00:32:54.000 You go back to that stat that Jordan was saying where he said, you know, what was it, 88?

00:32:58.000 Folks who were Democrats were 87. 87-0.

00:33:02.000 And this is the argument you use when someone goes, oh, this is terrible.

00:33:05.000 No, there's no bias.

00:33:06.000 Be like, okay, great.

00:33:07.000 So during the next four years, we're just going to switch it.

00:33:09.000 It's going to be 87 Republicans and zero Democrats. 0.96

00:33:13.000 And if they even twitch just a little bit, and their eye, of course, will blow out of their brains, their skulls will collapse.

00:33:21.000 That's how you know it's a problem.

00:33:22.000 So if you're like, hey, if the other side was doing the exact same thing.

00:33:26.000 What if we just did 60-20, right?

00:33:29.000 60-20, would you be okay, Republicans versus Democrats?

00:33:31.000 They would say, absolutely not.

00:33:33.000 This is state-sponsored communication.

00:33:35.000 This is propaganda, blah, blah, blah.

00:33:37.000 And you're like, all right, great, let's just turn it around.

00:33:39.000 It is state-sponsored propaganda, just to be clear.

00:33:42.000 To give you an idea, to put it in 87-0.

00:33:44.000 87-0.

00:33:45.000 And they say, that's not biased.

00:33:46.000 They want you to believe that their journalism is necessary.

00:33:48.000 Shows like this are more extremist, even though we make our references available.

00:33:52.000 87-0.

00:33:53.000 Do you realize that if you grabbed 87 people in downtown San Francisco or Oakland or Detroit, you would have registered Republicans?

00:34:04.000 It would be a statistical impossibility.

00:34:06.000 I guarantee you it would probably be at least seven.

00:34:09.000 And she claims that she didn't know.

00:34:11.000 Yeah. Oh, we don't keep a record of people's political affiliations.

00:34:14.000 Oh, okay.

00:34:14.000 Oh, you just accidentally.

00:34:16.000 You just accidentally got 87. And zero.

00:34:19.000 And zero.

00:34:20.000 Yeah. That just happened.

00:34:22.000 That's like getting a zero in the SAT.

00:34:23.000 You're right.

00:34:24.000 They're like, you literally get 1,200 points just getting your name right.

00:34:27.000 For Christ's sake, I think Mr. Rogers is Republican.

00:34:30.000 It's just, yeah.

00:34:31.000 Everything is a lie from the left.

00:34:34.000 And I mean that.

00:34:35.000 They go, oh, I don't think there's any bias.

00:34:37.000 Just say that there is.

00:34:38.000 Look, go ahead.

00:34:38.000 Let's play this game.

00:34:39.000 Ask me if there's some bias here.

00:34:40.000 Is there any bias?

00:34:41.000 Yes. Oh, okay.

00:34:43.000 Yes, and I'll let you know.

00:34:44.000 And I ask you to fact check me.

00:34:45.000 I just, and I've been saying this for, I came under, I came up under the tutelage of that guy, Andrew Breitbart.

00:34:50.000 I don't believe there's such a thing as unbiased journalism.

00:34:52.000 I don't think that it's a thing.

00:34:53.000 I don't think it was ever a thing.

00:34:54.000 If you go back to Walter Cronkite, Brian, anyone, take your pick.

00:34:58.000 It's not a thing.

00:34:59.000 Human beings have their own biases, period.

00:35:01.000 I'm honest about it.

00:35:03.000 NPR is still trying to keep the charade alive.

00:35:05.000 No, no, no, no, no.

00:35:06.000 We're just objective.

00:35:07.000 You're 0 for 3 on the biggest stories that would affect the outcome of the election and always making the error to favor one side, the Democrats, and 87 and 0. If we can't cut the 530-something million dollars to NPR or soda from Snap...

00:35:28.000 It's very clear.

00:35:28.000 The left just believes that you can't cut anything from government, and if you try, they'll call you racist, homophobic, trans.

00:35:34.000 And I know it sounds crazy.

00:35:35.000 Like, these two things aren't related.

00:35:36.000 Correct. They're not.

00:35:37.000 That's just what they do because they have to keep the lie alive.

00:35:39.000 Let me ask you this.

00:35:39.000 What was your favorite PBS program when you were growing up?

00:35:42.000 I didn't like any of them.

00:35:44.000 I watched Ghostbusters, Ninja Turtles, and He-Man because I'm not a homosexual.

00:35:48.000 Let's go back to...

00:35:48.000 You ever watch Sesame Street?

00:35:50.000 My favorite was Tyrannosaurus Sex. 0.99

00:35:52.000 Yes, Tyrannosaurus Sex. 0.99

00:35:54.000 It was a genderqueer dinosaur show. 0.81

00:35:56.000 He said as a child, not as an adult.

00:35:58.000 Mine was...

00:35:59.000 Oh, sorry.

00:35:59.000 Mine was Tricerabottom.

00:36:04.000 Let's go on to... 0.98

00:36:06.000 They do gay. 1.00

00:36:11.000 Do they have sex comics? 1.00

00:36:12.000 Oh, man. 0.99

00:36:13.000 They really do have sex comics. 0.98

00:36:14.000 So exciting. 0.90

00:36:17.000 turns me into a fapter is The Bongino army is like, what does that mean?

00:36:26.000 Sorry. You do it too much.

00:36:28.000 You do it too much afterwards, you'll be Brachiosaurus.

00:36:31.000 These are dad dinosaur jokes, and we feel bad about it.

00:36:34.000 We feel just as bad doing it as you do watching it.

00:36:36.000 Let's move on to the tariffs.

00:36:38.000 This is what everyone is talking about.

00:36:39.000 Full disclosure, you know, I'm not a fan of the UAW and how they have played the largest role in destroying the American auto industry.

00:36:46.000 So my first reaction was, ooh, looking at these tariffs on auto imports and seeing that the UAW is supportive of this, that is probably going to be bad for American consumers.

00:36:58.000 But then I thought about it, and I did a little more, not a little more digging, but kind of did a refresher course on the tariffs that we see in other countries.

00:37:08.000 And I actually think that this policy, if implemented correctly, could favor you, the consumer, and by the way, makers of cars, and not just the union, and certainly not just the big three.

00:37:21.000 If you actually get into the rules, you realize this is designed to specifically kind of cut China, Mexico off at the knees, who are often one and the same, and to empower even... 0.97

00:37:31.000 Japanese car manufacturers, Korean or American car manufacturers, who try and bring some jobs here onshore rather than simply seeing you as a consumer market.

00:37:39.000 So it could be a pretty good thing, but we'll give you the information.

00:37:43.000 First off, let him set it up.

00:37:45.000 25% new tariff on all auto imports in the United States.

00:37:50.000 Donald Trump announced it yesterday.

00:37:51.000 What we're going to be doing is a 25% tariff on all cars that are not made in the United States.

00:37:57.000 If they're made in the United States, there's absolutely no tariff.

00:38:01.000 We started off with a 2.5% base, which is what we were at, and we go to 25%.

00:38:07.000 And basically, as you know, and as you've been seeing, not reporting as accurately as it should be reported, because it's a massive story.

00:38:16.000 Businesses coming back to the United States so that they don't have to pay tariffs, and I think also because of November 5th, the election.

00:38:22.000 They're very happy.

00:38:23.000 So we'll effectively be charging a 25% tariff.

00:38:27.000 But if you build your car in the United States, there is no tariff.

00:38:30.000 And what that means is a lot of foreign car companies, a lot of companies are going to be in great shape because they've already built their plant, but their plants are underutilized, so they'll be able to expand them inexpensively and quickly.

00:38:41.000 And you all know he has been on a tear lately as it relates to tariffs, which earned him the nickname the Terrifier.

00:38:47.000 And honestly, I think it works.

00:38:50.000 Oh, creepy.

00:38:51.000 It does.

00:38:53.000 What he just said there.

00:38:55.000 How do Democrats expect?

00:38:56.000 They have been championing the cause of the middle class and bringing back manufacturing jobs to the United States.

00:39:01.000 Why do you think they left?

00:39:02.000 Do you think you can just turn this back on and make a product that's more expensive and inferior and people will buy it and that industry will thrive and all of a sudden the middle class will be booming again like you think it needs to be because of manufacturing jobs?

00:39:13.000 Do you think that's going to happen without any kind of incentive for manufacturing jobs to come back to the United States?

00:39:19.000 Yeah. The problem now is with...

00:39:24.000 Capitalism, and again, I'm a free enterpriser, so I don't agree at all with Bernie and the socialist pricks out there.

00:39:28.000 But the issue that we've run into is now you have to compete with slave labor because of the internationalization of markets.

00:39:35.000 They should be championing this on the left.

00:39:36.000 They should be like, you know what?

00:39:36.000 This is going to cost a little bit, but at least you're not going to have slave labor doing this, and at least these are going to be American manufacturing jobs.

00:39:42.000 We've been championing the cause of the middle class.

00:39:44.000 This is what they say, forever.

00:39:45.000 And this would be a win for them.

00:39:47.000 And by the way, there hasn't been free trade.

00:39:49.000 No. So let me go through a few key facts here.

00:39:52.000 Key fact number one.

00:39:54.000 So, you do have major trading partners, for example, like Korea, Japan, you're talking about Kia, Hyundai, right, and Honda, Toyota.

00:40:02.000 They don't have tariffs, to be clear, on American cars coming in.

00:40:06.000 That being said, they already have plants here in the United States, and like he said, they have the ability to ramp up capacity quite a bit.

00:40:12.000 So, they are allies.

00:40:14.000 They won't be affected as negatively as people think, but we do need to be careful about that.

00:40:18.000 I believe that this is aimed at two key...

00:40:21.000 Bad actors.

00:40:23.000 And we can kind of toss Canada in, but that's sort of an aside.

00:40:25.000 So Mexico and China. 0.76

00:40:28.000 Let's start with them.

00:40:29.000 So the share of auto imports in the United States, what we import coming from Mexico, is about 22% of the market.

00:40:34.000 So $49 billion, approximately, I believe.

00:40:39.000 I believe this is an annual basis.

00:40:40.000 I don't know what we have there, if it's a specific spread.

00:40:43.000 As far as China, here's the thing.

00:40:45.000 We don't bring in a lot of cars from China, but there's a reason for that. 1.00

00:40:48.000 We bring in a lot of Chinese So only about $3.8 billion as far as auto manufacturers as a whole.

00:40:55.000 But the parts, $15 billion, 9.5%.

00:40:58.000 Here's the other thing.

00:40:59.000 That number's really low because what China does goes back to Mexico.

00:41:02.000 They export a lot of their parts to Mexico where plants move from the United States to assemble them.

00:41:08.000 So now you have an American car from, let's say, Ford that is made from Chinese parts and assembled in Mexico. 0.87

00:41:17.000 So it's very important for you to realize that the UAW and American-made is bullshit in a lot of cases, just to be clear.

00:41:25.000 As far as Canada, too, it's important, but they don't make up a ton of imports, but about $28 billion, 12.9%. 0.92

00:41:31.000 But here's the point.

00:41:33.000 We're their biggest mark.

00:41:35.000 Far more cars are sold in the States than in Canada.

00:41:37.000 So Lexus has a plant there, Toyota.

00:41:40.000 Why wouldn't we want that in the States?

00:41:42.000 Why should anything be given to Canada at that point? 0.99

00:41:44.000 By the way, the cars that come out of Canada suck. 0.93

00:41:47.000 I had a Toyota that was made in Canada and the guy said, oh wait, look at the VIN number. 1.00

00:41:51.000 He said, yeah, you're really screwed.

00:41:52.000 We've had problems with all of these circuit boards because it's made in Canada. 0.97

00:41:55.000 You want to make sure you get the right VIN number.

00:41:56.000 So why is the United States importing any cars assembled in Canada?

00:42:00.000 In that case, the labor isn't even necessarily cheaper.

00:42:03.000 That's just one of those things, a greasing of the palms, a favor for a favor.

00:42:06.000 So yeah, let's bring that here to the United States.

00:42:09.000 And certainly, you were about to say something.

00:42:11.000 Yeah, well, so the production of cars, obviously, that matters a lot.

00:42:13.000 We talked about it.

00:42:14.000 They're circumventing this process.

00:42:15.000 Just so you know, according to our good friends here at CNN, 50% of the parts used to make cars in America are foreign parts.

00:42:24.000 50%. Yeah.

00:42:25.000 That's half of it.

00:42:25.000 And you think most of that's coming from, you know, Canada or Mexico, that they're producing those things?

00:42:29.000 No. Most likely those things are coming from China.

00:42:31.000 And you do a couple assembly steps in Canada.

00:42:33.000 You do a couple in Mexico.

00:42:35.000 That's happened.

00:42:35.000 We talked about that.

00:42:36.000 Right. Then it gets in the United States.

00:42:38.000 This is a major trade war that people probably didn't even know was going on.

00:42:42.000 But car manufacturers did, for sure.

00:42:43.000 They're taking advantage of it.

00:42:44.000 Yeah, they definitely are.

00:42:45.000 And the UAW is taking advantage of it.

00:42:46.000 In other words, the UAW...

00:42:47.000 Look, they're doing it right now on there.

00:42:49.000 50% foreign parts.

00:42:50.000 It's exactly right.

00:42:51.000 Yeah, 50% foreign parts. 0.99

00:42:52.000 Like, 12 new plants were built in Mexico just since 2019.

00:42:56.000 Hold on a second.

00:42:56.000 How does that help American-made for a plant to go to Mexico and parts from China?

00:43:01.000 And I get that you'll say the UAW has wanted to bring them back, but there's a reason that it's had to leave.

00:43:04.000 And by the way, you look at these American plants for Hyundai, Kia, Toyota.

00:43:10.000 They employ more than quote-unquote American cars.

00:43:14.000 So here's something, too, to keep in mind, is that it's been very hard for the United States to export cars, for example, to Europe.

00:43:21.000 And to China, it's non-existent.

00:43:23.000 We'll get into why that's the case.

00:43:25.000 And why that's so...

00:43:26.000 You don't think that an American car manufacturer would like to open up the second biggest market in the world in China and can make a very inexpensive car?

00:43:34.000 They're not allowed to do so unless they hand over all of their IP.

00:43:38.000 Effectively, there's one exception, Tesla, which is weird.

00:43:40.000 But let me go to Germany really fast.

00:43:42.000 We don't like it.

00:43:43.000 Share of U.S. auto imports from Germany, $25 billion, so 11%.

00:43:48.000 And then Germany and the EU, they have a tariff on the United States, any of our cars, 10%.

00:43:55.000 But that's actually not the whole story.

00:43:57.000 And we'll get into some of the unfair market practices.

00:44:00.000 But it stings.

00:44:01.000 It stings really badly.

00:44:04.000 Almost as bad.

00:44:05.000 If you want to know what it feels like, you know how badly it kind of stings when you're in tax season?

00:44:10.000 It's like that, except it's worse in Canada.

00:44:15.000 What does overpaying on your taxes feel like?

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00:45:09.000 So, uh... 0.99

00:45:10.000 That sucks. 0.98

00:45:11.000 Yeah. Go to tnusa.com slash Crowder or you call that 800 number on the screen. 0.98

00:45:15.000 Do not overpay in Texas.

00:45:17.000 These guys have helped some folks out here quite a bit.

00:45:19.000 And I hate Texas.

00:45:20.000 It could go to supporting NPR and PBS.

00:45:22.000 Absolutely. Let's not do that.

00:45:24.000 Here's key fact number two.

00:45:26.000 Let's go through some basic math here.

00:45:28.000 This is the second point that I want to make.

00:45:29.000 The unfair market practices that you have.

00:45:32.000 So I just gave you the example for example.

00:45:36.000 Germany. Their tariff. 0.60

00:45:37.000 10%. Okay, so in the United States, you can get Mercedes, you can get BMW, you can get all these cars, and I think there's about a 2.5% tariff as baseline.

00:45:44.000 Okay, you have a 10% one in Germany, but that's not all.

00:45:47.000 Let me take an example.

00:45:48.000 Let's say a $30,000 car from the United States is being exported to Germany, okay?

00:45:53.000 So, you have $30,000, okay?

00:45:55.000 You add $2,000 in shipping, we're now at $32,000.

00:45:58.000 Let's add the EU car tariff, 10%, that gets us to $35,000, $35,200.

00:46:04.000 Then there's a German VAT tax, it's about 19%.

00:46:07.000 You get it to $41,000, plus a registration fee on top of that.

00:46:11.000 This $30,000 car now costs over $42,000 in Germany.

00:46:17.000 It makes it impossible to compete.

00:46:20.000 So they bring their cars over here, and most American cars, they haven't been great.

00:46:24.000 Some are good.

00:46:25.000 But I guarantee you there are cars that Germans would like to have available, especially in that lower-priced sector of the market.

00:46:32.000 It's not something where the United States can compete honestly.

00:46:35.000 And we see that.

00:46:36.000 Across other countries.

00:46:37.000 Let's take a more extreme example.

00:46:39.000 China. With tariffs, don't look at how the world, how it just is.

00:46:43.000 Look at how this really should be if it were fair.

00:46:47.000 Right? Okay, it's true.

00:46:48.000 We don't actually export cars to China.

00:46:50.000 Yeah. But there's a reason for it.

00:46:53.000 It's kind of like when we talked about the tariffs in Canada.

00:46:55.000 They go, well, you know, the 250% tariff on dairy, I mean, it doesn't matter because we don't sell any milk to Canada.

00:46:59.000 Yes! Because of the 250% tariff on dairy.

00:47:03.000 That's the point that you're not taking into account.

00:47:05.000 So in China, take the same $30,000 US car, right?

00:47:08.000 If we wanted to sell cars in China, and I'm sure that we would, you know what it becomes?

00:47:13.000 It becomes $56,000 because you have a 15% tariff off the top.

00:47:19.000 Which is funny because then you have another 10% retaliatory tariff.

00:47:22.000 Do you guys know this?

00:47:23.000 Do you guys know this?

00:47:24.000 China has a 10% tariff, right?

00:47:26.000 They already had a tariff.

00:47:26.000 So Donald Trump said, hey, we're going to institute retaliatory tariffs.

00:47:29.000 And they're like, oh, now we do another one.

00:47:30.000 More retaliation.

00:47:31.000 No, no, no.

00:47:32.000 That's not how it works.

00:47:32.000 You threw a punch.

00:47:33.000 We threw one punch.

00:47:34.000 Now you're throwing two punches.

00:47:36.000 What? So you did 15. We mirrored it. 0.63

00:47:39.000 And now they go, we're going to have another 10%.

00:47:42.000 So you have a 15% initial tariff.

00:47:44.000 Then you have up to a 40% consumption tax.

00:47:47.000 A 13% VAT tax and a 10% additional retaliatory tariff because we met their tariffs with an equal tariff.

00:47:55.000 $30,000 car is now $56,000.

00:48:00.000 Think about that for a second.

00:48:03.000 Now, let's contrast that.

00:48:05.000 Let's just take German, for example, for bringing it to the United States. 0.96

00:48:09.000 You tell me this is fair.

00:48:10.000 Car costs $30,000, $2,000 shipping.

00:48:13.000 2.5% tariff gets us to $32,800.

00:48:16.000 You add some specific states, right?

00:48:18.000 Sales tax might be 5%.

00:48:20.000 Basically, a $30,000 car is $34,000 to $36,000.

00:48:25.000 They can bring their stuff in here.

00:48:27.000 We don't punish them.

00:48:29.000 Americans get more choice, but Germans get less choice. 1.00

00:48:32.000 Not to mention China, not to mention all these other countries in the EU.

00:48:35.000 Think about it.

00:48:36.000 They literally have an entire global supply of consumers.

00:48:40.000 We pretty much just have the United States.

00:48:42.000 If you're a business, that's a big deal.

00:48:45.000 We'd have to run this entire company differently if we were only allowed to be viewed in the United States.

00:48:53.000 That's where these tariffs come in, and they're pretty important.

00:48:55.000 This is actually a pretty effective strategy.

00:48:56.000 Here's key fact number three.

00:48:58.000 I know I'm being a little nerdy today, but I'm from Detroit, and so this is something I was thinking about quite a bit.

00:49:03.000 Honda, for example, they can build their Civics, and I think they will, in Indiana instead of Mexico.

00:49:08.000 Think about that.

00:49:09.000 That's 210,000 cars per year now going to be built in the U.S. Hyundai.

00:49:13.000 They're going to locate a new steel mill in Louisiana.

00:49:16.000 Think about that, because now that allows us to have some raw materials, not Chinese parts.

00:49:20.000 That's a $5.8 billion plant.

00:49:22.000 1,300 jobs.

00:49:24.000 Toyota's going to be producing electric vehicle and hybrid batteries at a North Carolina plant.

00:49:30.000 Honda's going to be buying those batteries from Toyota to avoid tariffs.

00:49:33.000 Hey, there you go.

00:49:34.000 Think about the plus side of this.

00:49:37.000 I'm not saying that this won't increase costs, but you do have to look at both sides of this, and you have to start with how the world is.

00:49:42.000 NAFTA sounds great.

00:49:44.000 Free trade is great.

00:49:46.000 It doesn't exist.

00:49:47.000 I was a libertarian.

00:49:49.000 I think there are few people more brilliant than Thomas Sowell.

00:49:52.000 I read Friedman growing up.

00:49:54.000 I had a subscription to Reason magazine, and at a certain point, I said, oh, wait, there is no free trade, though.

00:50:00.000 So we do have to live in the real world.

00:50:02.000 And right now it's completely unfair.

00:50:03.000 This is a way of addressing it, by the way, that isn't just a kickback to UAW.

00:50:08.000 Yes. Because you can work for Honda or Toyota and be American.

00:50:13.000 And actually, if anything, it might kind of kneecap them a little bit.

00:50:16.000 A little bit.

00:50:16.000 So especially if you're putting these places in right-to-work states so they can avoid the unions, which you know these foreign car companies are not going to go and build in Detroit and Cleveland and Chicago areas.

00:50:26.000 There's no reason to, right?

00:50:27.000 You think the Japanese are going to understand? 1.00

00:50:30.000 No, no, no, no.

00:50:31.000 You do not get four months of three LASIK dental.

00:50:34.000 No, no, no, no.

00:50:36.000 We have to be profitable.

00:50:38.000 They think it's going to increase the price of the average car.

00:50:40.000 Again, this is kind of the fear-mongering.

00:50:41.000 $3,500 to $12,000 per year.

00:50:44.000 Okay, that was according to CNN.

00:50:45.000 Again, I get a lot of these facts because that's what they're trying to tell people out there.

00:50:48.000 Okay, fine.

00:50:49.000 Congratulations to every car in America that's made here in America.

00:50:53.000 You're now on sale.

00:50:54.000 $3,500 to $12,000 cheaper than the cars coming from overseas.

00:50:58.000 You're welcome.

00:50:59.000 We just helped the American workers sell more cars.

00:51:03.000 And now, since there's more demand for your cars, you're going to produce more cars and ramp up production at the already existing facilities that can handle more production.

00:51:10.000 You're welcome.

00:51:11.000 Well, here's the good news.

00:51:12.000 The most American cars are on the road right now.

00:51:14.000 Number one is Tesla.

00:51:16.000 Yeah. 80% to 87% as far as both manufacturing and parts.

00:51:21.000 Ford Mustang is there.

00:51:22.000 That's as good as 80%.

00:51:22.000 Then you've got the Honda Passport at 76%.

00:51:26.000 So Tesla, Honda, these aren't necessarily UAW jobs.

00:51:30.000 There can be more good-paying manufacturing jobs across this country, not just in Detroit.

00:51:36.000 And here's the issue, too.

00:51:37.000 There's nothing you can do federally.

00:51:39.000 about the UAW and their stranglehold on Detroit.

00:51:41.000 No. They own the state.

00:51:43.000 It's a problem.

00:51:43.000 And if they have their way, American cars are just going to continually get more expensive and become crappier.

00:51:49.000 This is a way to favor, to at least allow a possibility for the American consumer to have more choice if they want to employ Americans and not have to be beholden to the UAW, who, by the way, largely create cars with Chinese parts in Mexico anyway.

00:52:03.000 So this whole be American, buy American, I understand.

00:52:07.000 But learn what that really means.

00:52:09.000 Learn what that really means, because it's not a Ford that's assembled with Chinese parts in Mexico.

00:52:14.000 This is actually about putting America first, regardless of the origin of company, and making us an actual manufacturing hub.

00:52:23.000 And also, by the way, more than just, the world has been seeing us as a pool of consumers, and that's it.

00:52:28.000 Just, okay, we can use them as consumers, but we won't consume their product.

00:52:35.000 We're a country too.

00:52:36.000 China, you have consumers, but you're also really, you guys are protectionists as far as your businesses, your industry, making sure your people have jobs.

00:52:44.000 Same thing with Japan in a lot of ways, certainly with the EU.

00:52:47.000 Okay, but we're a country too.

00:52:49.000 I know that you think the American worker can afford it and we can subsidize the whole world, but at a certain point, we're not just people.

00:52:55.000 Who hand over our money, you do have to start playing fairly, and that's what...

00:53:00.000 And by the way, it's leverage, it's negotiation.

00:53:02.000 I'm sure when people say, hey, we will move some plants over, Donald Trump will ease up on it.

00:53:06.000 Except for China.

00:53:07.000 Screw those guys. 0.76

00:53:08.000 Yeah, absolutely. 0.93

00:53:08.000 Sorry, half of you, Bill. 0.93

00:53:10.000 It's okay.

00:53:11.000 It's okay.

00:53:11.000 I get it.

00:53:12.000 I could have.

00:53:13.000 But I like the Chinese rules.

00:53:15.000 They're really good.

00:53:15.000 My mom loves them.

00:53:16.000 No, they're not.

00:53:17.000 They're not at all.

00:53:18.000 They're really good.

00:53:18.000 I get seven wontons for every car that's sold.

00:53:21.000 Nice! I'm a hungry guy.

00:53:23.000 I'm a hungry guy.

00:53:24.000 It's down from eight.

00:53:25.000 It's down from eight.

00:53:26.000 So the tariffs are working.

00:53:27.000 They're working.

00:53:28.000 But I don't understand why these things existed in the first place.

00:53:30.000 We had a position of strength.

00:53:32.000 We negotiated from a position of strength and we did it in the weakest possible way.

00:53:35.000 Do not in any way, shape, or form protect our consumers, our workers, our economy, and...

00:53:42.000 Just let them protect theirs.

00:53:43.000 Now, I understand we want to sell stuff over there in different ways, but we have done this in every industry, it seems, where we have screwed the American worker over, and we never had to.

00:53:52.000 That was the thing.

00:53:53.000 We never had to do it.

00:53:54.000 Let me ask you this.

00:53:55.000 It's a loss of values.

00:53:56.000 Yeah. What's what matters?

00:53:58.000 And are we paying the lowest price for something versus the short-term benefit versus the long-term benefit of making sure that we have capacity?

00:54:08.000 Right. I mean, we talk about cars, but I'll tell you, if you look at the pharmaceutical side, the number of drugs that come here or the key ingredients that only come from China or something like 80 or 90 percent, right?

00:54:20.000 We want to talk about a trade war.

00:54:21.000 All right, we can walk, but you're not going to use your blood pressure meds.

00:54:24.000 You're not going to be able to get all these.

00:54:26.000 And if we don't do something about it now, it will be too late.

00:54:38.000 And it might already be.

00:54:39.000 It might already be.

00:54:40.000 And think about this in another world, right?

00:54:42.000 Let's say Ford, GM, Dodge.

00:54:45.000 What do you think would happen if they weren't facing 20, 30, 40 percent?

00:54:50.000 Taxes and tariffs, for example, in China or 15-20% when you add it up in Europe.

00:54:55.000 If they were able to sell that much more product from which they've been boxed out, you think that might reduce costs?

00:55:03.000 You think that if they had a bigger market, a bigger buying pool, you think they might be able to make more cars, right?

00:55:09.000 Because as capacity goes up, often costs can go down.

00:55:12.000 Do you think that they could be a more profitable company?

00:55:14.000 Do you think they could make cars that are cheaper, more effective for people who are in that lower end of the market?

00:55:19.000 We don't really have a market, American cars, as far as Europe, as far as China.

00:55:24.000 And China, by the way, is a big problem because if you look at EVs, guess what?

00:55:27.000 They're all too happy to supply Europe with cheap EVs provided they steal intellectual property from other companies and Europe's happy to take it.

00:55:36.000 But God, no, no, no.

00:55:37.000 Let's make sure that we punish the American cars coming in. 1.00

00:55:40.000 This is a rigged game.

00:55:42.000 It really is.

00:55:43.000 And unfortunately, it is largely, they sit at the table, they go, okay, all right.

00:55:47.000 Let's just assume the United States, right?

00:55:49.000 We don't need to do anything to help them because how can they help us?

00:55:52.000 How can we use the United States to help us?

00:55:55.000 Because they have the most buying power.

00:55:57.000 They have the most people who consume these products.

00:56:00.000 How can we use them to advance ourselves?

00:56:03.000 And then how do we box them out?

00:56:04.000 That's what you see with the EU.

00:56:05.000 It's certainly what you see with China.

00:56:07.000 And it's often what you see with Canada.

00:56:09.000 It's not right.

00:56:10.000 It's not fair.

00:56:11.000 And I'm glad that people are waking up to it.

00:56:13.000 And I'm glad that people are waking up, by the way, to the fact that YouTube and Google is run by angry, tranny overlords at big tech. 1.00

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00:56:40.000 Look, he just saw him walk It's too short of a stinger.

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00:56:50.000 All right, and we wanted to have you on because, and by the way, you're going to be, what's the comedy clip?

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00:56:58.000 The signal controversy, it's still going on.

00:57:01.000 It's what they're talking about on media because it's the one thing they think is close to a win, and even Dave Portnoy, let's run this clip, decided to weigh in.

00:57:10.000 Jeffrey Goldberg comes out after. 0.97

00:57:12.000 He's like, hey, morons, you guys included me on a single group chat with sensitive classified information discussing the Houthis attack before it happened. 0.98

00:57:24.000 Pete Heskiff's immediate reaction is like, no, that never happened. 0.99

00:57:27.000 We didn't leak any classified information.

00:57:29.000 Oh, classified information in there.

00:57:32.000 And Jeffrey Goldberg released all the text in the single group chat.

00:57:38.000 And guess what?

00:57:39.000 It's super sensitive.

00:57:41.000 It's super classified.

00:57:42.000 It's surreal.

00:57:44.000 You can't have the top of the top security people in the United States with the most sensitive information in the world adding random editors of a magazine that hates Trump's guts to a group chat talking about an attack before it happens on a terrorist group.

00:58:05.000 Update here, and this is why yesterday a lawsuit was filed against the Trump administration over this whole Signal App story, alleging, quote, unauthorized use of Signal App for official business, violating the Federal Records Act, and the lawsuit is looking to get a declaration that failing to preserve Signal messages is also a violation of the FRA.

00:58:27.000 A lot of people are sounding off on it.

00:58:29.000 Now, I understand two minds about it.

00:58:31.000 Half Asian Bill is... 0.92

00:58:32.000 You don't want to give the left an inch because they smell a little blood in the water and general mindset is screw you. 1.00

00:58:37.000 I'm Mr. Screw you. 0.99

00:58:38.000 Yes. But there also is something to be said for not allowing this to snowball into a bigger issue than it needs to be if someone made a mistake.

00:58:47.000 The right thing...

00:58:48.000 I don't want Donald Trump to have to fire anybody.

00:58:50.000 No. I want somebody to recuse themselves.

00:58:52.000 That would be the right thing for someone to do.

00:58:55.000 Explain to us this a little bit.

00:58:57.000 I guess the first legal point you have is about setting up of...

00:59:00.000 I mean, look, there's a complicated answer here.

00:59:03.000 The first one is we've got to get this right out, and I agree with you.

00:59:06.000 We've got to acknowledge mistakes, right?

00:59:08.000 No one is perfect when they're doing things. 0.93

00:59:09.000 And this was a fuck-up, right? 0.96

00:59:11.000 The National Security Advisor adding an editor-in-chief of anything, any magazine. 0.98

00:59:16.000 It doesn't matter what it is or any publication, right?

00:59:18.000 Not good.

00:59:20.000 Not a good look.

00:59:20.000 But it is odd that it is the...

00:59:22.000 De facto, I hate Trump journalist at the Atlantic.

00:59:25.000 Like, that just happens to be...

00:59:27.000 That's a weird one!

00:59:28.000 Of all the ones you're going to add, right?

00:59:30.000 And what we haven't heard yet, and there's actually going to be a filing today, there's a deadline for a response to the motion for temporary injunction is at 1 o'clock today, and then there's a hearing at 4 o'clock.

00:59:41.000 Now, it might get pushed back, so we'll see exactly what the government's position is outside of some of the public statements or some of the interviews that have gone on, but...

00:59:49.000 You know, why Jeffrey Goldberg?

00:59:50.000 This is such a very odd, and who were you trying to add?

00:59:54.000 Right? Was there another Jeff Goldberg that needed to be on there?

00:59:57.000 Right. Was that like the deputy national security advisor?

01:00:00.000 Is James Goldberg?

01:00:02.000 I don't know.

01:00:02.000 That's a crazy part about it.

01:00:03.000 But, you know, there's some misinformation going around around the story, especially from the left and what they're trying to push, right?

01:00:09.000 Which is to say, like, look, this was incredibly, this is the most sensitive, most classified information possible.

01:00:16.000 One, there are many, many layers above.

01:00:19.000 That's not to say this wasn't sensitive information.

01:00:21.000 It's not to say that some of this couldn't have been detrimental had it gotten out.

01:00:25.000 But people are saying, oh, no one in the government's ever allowed to use Signal.

01:00:29.000 Incorrect. That's not correct.

01:00:30.000 There are many different ways to be able to use certain apps.

01:00:33.000 And the biggest issue...

01:00:34.000 The biggest issue here is not the communicating on signal.

01:00:37.000 It's that you added someone who shouldn't have been on it.

01:00:39.000 That's the first issue.

01:00:40.000 The second is the self-deleting messages.

01:00:43.000 Because the Federal Records Act is very, very clear about government officials having to retain their records.

01:00:50.000 And we might find out that this was a default setting on that particular thing, right?

01:00:55.000 But either way, they have to be aware of it.

01:00:57.000 And you'll notice in the lawsuit...

01:00:59.000 Marco Rubio is named.

01:01:00.000 Seems odd, right?

01:01:01.000 He wasn't a part of that thread, but it's his duty as part of the archival regulations.

01:01:06.000 I think he might have been a part of the thread, but didn't say anything.

01:01:09.000 Oh, okay.

01:01:09.000 That's what I was hearing today.

01:01:11.000 They were saying, turns out he was in the thread, but he wasn't actually involved in conversation.

01:01:14.000 Right, right.

01:01:15.000 And this is the problem, too, with the waters being muddy.

01:01:16.000 We're saying, well, hold on.

01:01:17.000 Was he in the thread?

01:01:17.000 Was he not in the thread?

01:01:18.000 And why are they going after him?

01:01:19.000 And like I said, the fact is, if people don't just admit you're going to see this investigation, hey, hand over your texts.

01:01:25.000 You know, President Trump, hey, hand over your text, Tulsi Gabbard, hey, Marco Rubio, and you end up bogging all of them down.

01:01:31.000 Yep, that's what I'm concerned with.

01:01:32.000 Right, right.

01:01:33.000 I mean, and look, people will say, again, oh, signal messages.

01:01:36.000 No one should ever have signal messages.

01:01:38.000 This group that filed the lawsuit, actually one of their bases for filing the lawsuit is that they already have federal records requests, federal open records requests for signal messages that pre-existed this whole dispute, right?

01:01:51.000 Because governments are already using it.

01:01:54.000 Of course.

01:01:54.000 In times when it's been an issue.

01:01:55.000 There was one about something related to the Ukraine war where some of the staff were using Signal and they said, look, your issue, this may or may not be the best way depending on the level of sensitivity of the information, right?

01:02:06.000 And there are certain systems for classified information.

01:02:08.000 But here, it's really about are you retaining the records in the right way?

01:02:12.000 And that's where someone's going to have to step up and go, these should not have been set to delete.

01:02:16.000 And regardless of whether it's classified or not, that was kind of a...

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