A black man kills a white woman, and of course the media are totally uninterested. Plus, war in Ukraine continues, what is the Trump administration going to do about it? The left is very upset with the blowing up of a drug boat, and we ll get to the Democrats who will their 2028 nominee.
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00:01:00.000Well, folks, it's become perfectly predictable at this point.
00:01:02.000Let's say that there's a violent incident.
00:01:04.000An incident in which a black person and a white person get into conflict.
00:01:08.000Let's say it's the white person who ends up killing the black person, even in a situation where the black person was actually performing an aggressive act and the white person was acting in defense of self or others.
00:01:18.000Say the Daniel Penny situation, we get months of talk about white on black violence.
00:01:23.000If it's Michael Brown, months, years of talk about white on black policing crime.
00:01:34.000If, however, the crime is in reverse, if it is a black perpetrator and a white victim, then of course it just disappears into the ether, and we never hear about it again.
00:01:42.000The latest case of this happens to be this horrifying video out of North Carolina.
00:01:47.000According to the New York Post, haunting new video revealed the terrifying moment a homeless ex-con fate allegedly fatally stabbed a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee in what police said was a random attack on a Charlotte light rail train.
00:01:59.000And the video is available, it's horrifying.
00:02:47.000She fled Ukraine for a safer life in America.
00:02:49.000She was on the Link's blue line just before 10 p.m.
00:02:51.000August 22nd when she was ambushed, according to the Charlotte Mecklenburg police department.
00:02:55.000The surveillance footage shows Zarutska boarding the train in her pizzeria uniform at 9.46 p.m. and sitting looking at her phone, unaware of the danger behind her.
00:03:04.000Just four minutes later, 34-year-old DeCarlos Brown Jr. allegedly whipped out a folding knife and lunged forward, stabbing her three times, at least once in the neck, according to the police.
00:03:13.000Apparently, he then walks through the rail car, stripping off his sweatshirt and waiting by the doors, and then the passengers begin to notice the blood that is dripping from him.
00:03:21.000Sarutzka, who grabs her neck as blood spilled onto the train floor, collapsed in her seat, was pronounced dead on the light rail.
00:03:28.000He apparently got off at the next stop.
00:03:29.000A folding knife was later recovered near the platform.
00:03:32.000Now, there are a bunch of issues here.
00:03:35.000The first issue has nothing to do with race.
00:03:37.000It has to do with the fact that our criminal justice system does not keep criminals in prison for long enough.
00:03:42.000I know this cuts very much against the left-wing view that we are an over-incarcerated society.
00:03:48.000We are a radically under-incarcerated society.
00:03:51.000By this I do not need mean that we need more random misdemeanor offendants in jail.
00:03:56.000I mean that if you are arrested for armed robbery, you should be in jail for the rest of your life.
00:04:02.000You should not be let back out on the streets.
00:04:04.000This idea that you stick somebody in jail for three, four years, especially if they are a homeless mentally ill person, which is what this person was, and there's no involuntary incarceration available with regard to mental illness, no involuntary commitment available.
00:04:20.000Well, what you end up with is crime on the streets, this idiocy where we arrest career criminals, we take them off the streets for five minutes and we put them back onto the streets is insane.
00:04:30.000It's totally ridiculous and insane at every possible level, and it gets human beings murdered.
00:04:36.000And the judges who do this sort of stuff, who give light sentences, the systems that allow for this sort of stuff, this catch and release nonsense, they need to be ended and they need to be ended immediately because they are horrifying.
00:04:50.000So that is issue number one, because as it turns out, totally unsurprisingly, this particular perpetrator has multiple arrests dating back to 2011.
00:04:59.000His record includes larceny, robbery with a dangerous weapon, and communicating threats, according to court records obtained by the New York Post.
00:05:06.000He won served five years in prison for robbery with a deadly weapon charge.
00:05:11.000In January, he was arrested and charged with misusing 911 after a police welfare check.
00:05:16.000During that incident, officer said he bizarrely claimed a man-made material inside his body was controlling him as he ate, walked, and talked, according to an affidavit cited by the outlet.
00:05:28.000He was not put in a mental health facility, no jail, nothing to keep this person away from innocent civilians just walking around and trying to take the train.
00:06:00.000And we see cases like this, by the way, on a frequent basis.
00:06:05.000There's another case that was reported by the New York Post just recently pointing out that a Georgia daycare worker who allegedly beat a one-year-old boy black and blue was released on bail.
00:06:20.000According to the New York Post, a daycare worker in Georgia who was charged last month for allegedly beating a one-year-old until his face was black and blue, was released after posting bail.
00:06:29.000The offender, 54, was let go on a 44,000 dollar bond on August 16th after she was charged with three counts of first degree child abuse and one of first degree aggravated battery.
00:06:48.000I mean, the kid, they she beat the living hell out of this kid.
00:06:50.000You're looking at cuts on his face, black eyes, and everything.
00:06:54.000The offender was arrested August 11th after a family at the Little Blessings Childcare in Bainbridge, close to the Florida border reported their one-year-old's grisly injury suffered at daycare one day.
00:07:04.000The type looked into the camera lens the best he could, as one black and eye was nearly swollen shot.
00:07:09.000He had a litany of bloodied scrapes along his cheeks and around his mouth as well.
00:07:12.000I mean, it looks like she beat the living hell out of him.
00:07:15.000The offender said that he was that originally this kid had been beaten by another kid with a plastic toy, but then surveillance video showed an adult, a 54-year-old adult walloping the sun, let out on bail.
00:07:34.000The racial angle is less about race and more about media coverage of race.
00:07:38.000When I say it's less about race, the reason I say that is because there are some people who attempt to turn this into some sort of salient point about the difference between races.
00:08:22.000And by the way, I should point out here that virtually all crime is intra-racial rather than interracial, meaning that, yes, there's far more by proportion black on white crime than white on black crime, but the vast majority of crime is white on white and black on black.
00:08:35.000Okay, with that said, the media coverage is always radically disparate.
00:08:40.000If a white person commits a crime against a black person, it is a national news story.
00:08:43.000If a black person murders a white Ukrainian girl on the train in Charlotte, it gets zero mainstream media coverage.
00:08:57.000Liz Wheeler points out that the New York Times dedicated Some 6,000 articles to George Floyd, some 1,200 articles to Trayvon Martin, some 56 to Kilmar Abrego Garcia, some 100 to Daniel Penny, and zero to Arena Zarutska.
00:09:13.000And it is not out of line to point out the radical disparity in attention that is paid with regard to these headlines.
00:09:19.000I mean, you can tell this with the legacy media all the time.
00:09:22.000Whenever there's a white on black crime, the race of both the suspect and the perpetrator is mentioned.
00:09:26.000Whenever it is a black on white crime, neither race is mentioned.
00:09:30.000That's extraordinarily typical in the legacy media.
00:09:32.000And the reason, if you ask people who work in legacy media, is they say they don't want to quote unquote reinforced stereotypes.
00:09:38.000Well, actually, the only stereotype that's being reinforced when you don't report the news is that the legacy media are trash and they are not giving you the full information.
00:09:48.000Donald Trump Jr. points out, quote, strangely, all the clowns with Ukraine flags in their bio are also all silent on this one.
00:09:55.000And what he means by that is that many of the people who have the Ukraine flags in their bio are people who are very liberal.
00:10:01.000People who are very much oriented against the Trump administration.
00:10:04.000But when a Ukrainian woman gets killed on a subway by a black man, well, then it turns out that the intersectional hierarchy has been upended, and so they have to ignore.
00:10:16.000As always, legacy media are perfectly willing to overlook stories that do not match their narrative.
00:10:21.000It is narrative uber alice, it is the narrative above all.
00:10:24.000And the death of this young woman will not become a national issue.
00:10:27.000It will not spur a national conversation about crime rates or about policing, or about people getting out too early on bail.
00:10:38.000It won't do any of those things because it doesn't match up with too many in the legacy media and what they wish the world were really all about.
00:10:45.000Already coming up, the president of the United States authorizes blowing up a Venezuelan drug cartel boat, and a bunch of people, including Rand Paul, are very upset about it.
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00:13:02.000All right, meanwhile, the other controversy that broke out over the weekend concerned the United States destroying this speedboat filled with drugs that was coming from Venezuela.
00:13:14.000So, as we talked about last week on the show, the United States military blew out of the water.
00:13:26.000And a lot of people are upset about this, apparently.
00:13:28.000And by a lot of people, I mean every Democrat in Rand Paul, which again, not super shocking.
00:13:33.000The subject of this dispute, of course, was the Navy sinking a Venezuelan boat in the Caribbean September 2nd.
00:13:38.000The military said it carried 11 members of the crime gang Trendaraguas, smuggling drugs.
00:13:43.000President Trump said on social media, he ordered the strike to prevent drugs from reaching the United States.
00:13:48.000The vice president J.D. Vance, he tweeted out, killing cartel members who poison our fellow citizens is the highest and best use of our military.
00:13:56.000I feel like it's a pretty good use of our military.
00:13:58.000I think the vice president is right on that.
00:14:00.000The question a lot of people are asking is whether we should have simply sent the Coast Guard to board them, as we very frequently do with drug traffickers, as opposed to simply blowing up the boat.
00:14:09.000And the administration, all they really have to do at this point is provide some defense suggesting these folks were armed or they suspected they were armed, they didn't want to risk the lives of American Coast Guard members.
00:14:21.000Rand Paul, who, again, is quite isolationist on foreign policy, And you'll recall from making a gigantic speech during the Obama administration about the droning of terrorist Anwar al-Aliki, because Alaki happened to be an American citizen who is an actual terrorist abroad and Obama droned him.
00:14:39.000So Rand Paul says, JD, I don't give a bleep, Vance, says killing people he accuses of a crime is the highest and best use of the military.
00:17:23.000Probably we should find out from the administration whether they actually thought that there was a threat to the national security sufficient to justify violent action as opposed to an attempt to stop and board the boat.
00:19:09.000But it's um, but yeah, it's uh it's a look.
00:19:12.000Anyway, so Corey Booker is very upset, also because if he pops in his angry eyes, he thinks, then the more he pops I call him Mr. Potato Head, because he kind of goes from normal to then his eyes pop out of his head and uh and then he puts on his angry eyes and uh and starts ranting about so he's ranting about the president blowing up a cartel boat.
00:19:34.000Do you think that the president has the authority to unilaterally strike uh a boat carrying alleged drug smugglers?
00:19:45.000It is a massive expansion of presidential authority against uh the rules uh that uh abide by the use of military force, and it's another example of Donald Trump breaking laws within the United States, giving no justification for his action.
00:20:04.000All that we've heard so far is that he might be relying on the 9-11 authorization for the use of military force, and that is outrageous.
00:21:21.000Now, with that said, one of the questions that I have about the blowing up of the Trendaragua boat, which I am totally fine with in every possible way that it is possible to be fine with this, I'm fine with this, is whether it is actually a sort of kinetic action designed in the absence of a national strategy.
00:21:40.000One of the things I've been watching with the foreign policy of the Trump administration so far, which in some areas has been really good.
00:21:46.000I think in the Middle East, obviously Trump has been the best president in the Middle East in my lifetime, bar none, easy to see, from his Saudi forays to his attempts to draw common cause with Bahrain and UAE to his attempts to broker peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan, to obviously his support for Israel and its war against its terrorist neighbors.
00:22:06.000When it comes to Ukraine and Russia, I think the president has come around more and more to the correct position on that.
00:22:12.000When it comes to global orientation, however, it seems that the Trump administration is ceding more and more ground because of these tariff wars to China and Russia.
00:22:22.000I was looking at a global map recently, and what you see is that China and Russia actually are spreading their influence Operations all the way from China in the East, all the way across to Turkey in the West.
00:22:35.000Their ally Russia has been attempting to make moves on its own borders, obviously not just in Ukraine, but also in Georgia, in Kazakhstan, they're trying to make some moves now in Moldova.
00:22:44.000You are seeing that Russia, China are trying to make inroads with India.
00:22:48.000They're trying to make common cause with many, many countries in Africa.
00:22:51.000And of course, they have solid ties with regimes like Brazil, like Lula in Brazil.
00:22:56.000And so, whether the United States likes it or not, we are involved in a geopolitical competition with China and Russia.
00:23:03.000And if we decide to withdraw from the world and simply blow up cartel boats as sort of our defense mechanism, that is not going to be enough.
00:23:11.000It is not going to be enough because it turns out that geopolitics is about the entire geo.
00:23:15.000It's about like the entire world, is not just about the Caribbean Sea and small drug boats that are traveling.
00:23:20.000And so if blowing up a drug boat is sort of the muscular look at us, we're tough response to greater and greater Chinese encroachments against Taiwan, greater and greater Chinese encroachments in the Philippines.
00:23:35.000If that's our response, that is not sufficient.
00:23:37.000It's a point that's been being made by the Wall Street Journal that I think is correct.
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00:26:02.000The United States spent 16.9% of its economy on defense in 1952 during the Korean War, north of 8% during Vietnam.
00:26:09.000After the explosion of government domestic spending on healthcare retirement, education, and much more, the Pentagon gets 3% of GDP.
00:26:16.000The bipartisan commission on national defense strategy said last year, the United States last fought a global conflict during World War II, which ended nearly 80 years ago.
00:26:24.000The nation was last prepared for such a fight during the Cold War, which ended 35 years ago today.
00:26:30.000The Commission said the U.S. needs a military that's capable of fighting in more than one theater at once, not because we want to fight, but because if you want to drive other people off the ball and ensure that they don't start a fight, you have to make sure that they understand they will lose.
00:26:43.000According to the Wall Street Journal, leaks to the press suggest that President Trump's not so new war department, because they're renaming the Department of Defense, the Department of War, which by the way I like, is about to roll out a strategy that won't come close to that standard.
00:26:54.000It might put controlling the southern border ahead of deterring China, which again, we should close the southern border.
00:27:00.000But that is a domestic law enforcement priority in many ways, as opposed to, for example, the Department of Defense, right?
00:27:08.000The Department of Homeland Security is where much of our border control resides.
00:27:14.000Whether President Trump truly believes in a broad American retreat from the world isn't clear, but his Pentagon is presiding over one.
00:27:24.000It seems like the Elbridge Colby wing of the Defense Department and some allies in the White House are pushing an American withdrawal from the globe.
00:27:33.000And what that means is a stronger Russia and a stronger China.
00:27:51.000Again, that means making sure that everyone knows that we will use methods at our disposal ranging from technological dissemination to economic power to the threat, the credible threat of military force to prevent our adversaries from gaining global control.
00:28:09.000Russia certainly has not been deterred at this point.
00:28:11.000Over the weekend, Russia struck Ukraine with the largest aerial bombardment of the three and a half year war, hitting a government building in the heart of the Capitol for the first time.
00:28:19.000Russia fired 13 missiles and launched more than 800 attack drones, according to the Wall Street Journal, according to Ukraine's Air Force.
00:28:24.000A record for the number of drones it has directed at Ukraine in a single night.
00:28:28.000Air defense has intercepted four of the missiles and nearly 500 of the drones.
00:28:32.000The attack, targeting cities and towns across the country, killed a young woman and her two-month-old child in the Capitol, according to Kiev's mayor.
00:28:38.000It also struck the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers, a government building located in an area of the Capitol that is one of the most protected by air defenses.
00:28:46.000So apparently, photos posted by the Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Triodenko showed a damaged roof and the top two floors of the Hulking half crescent build building located not far from the presidential offices.
00:28:58.000Vladimir Zelensky keeps pointing out that survival is basically the goal for Ukraine at this point.
00:29:43.000And this is why the United States should in fact be facilitating the shipment of armaments to Ukrainians, capable of allowing them to make sufficient pushback to get Putin to the table.
00:29:52.000Putin obviously believes that if he pushes hard enough, he is going to be able to get the kind of settlement that he wants that leaves Ukraine vulnerable to further invasions or to the possibility of a sort of Russian pushover election in Ukraine that ends with a Russia-friendly Ukraine, as opposed to a Western-friendly Ukraine.
00:30:10.000And the West should know that, just as the West should understand that China's goal in its entire geopolitical strategy is to gain more power at the expense of the United States, very clearly.
00:30:20.000Now, what that means, first and foremost, is that President Trump should be focusing on the economy.
00:30:26.000Because if the economy goes south, then forget about everything else, the economic power of the United States, which backs the military wherewithal of the United States and also prevents Democrats who would love to surrender the globe to the Chinese and the Russians from taking over.
00:30:42.000Well, at the end of last week, there was a jobs report that was quite weak.
00:30:48.000That jobs report suggested that there had been essentially a small increase in the unemployment rate, but basically no job growth for the last several months because there was a revision downward.
00:31:00.000That job report, again, underscores the idea that there should be interest rate drops, but it does not mean the economy is booming for sure, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
00:31:10.000And remember, this is Trump's new Bureau of Labor statistics.
00:31:14.000The economy added only 22,000 jobs in August.
00:31:17.000The unemployment rate rose slightly to 4.3%.
00:31:20.000The revised data showed employment actually fell by 13,000 in June.
00:31:23.000That is the first net loss of jobs since the end of 2020 when the pandemic was raging.
00:31:29.000Some of that is undoubtedly the terraforce.
00:31:31.000Some of that is just generalized uncertainty about the direction of the economy.
00:31:36.000And certainly the idea the economy is booming right now is not true.
00:31:40.000The PE ratios in the stock market are incredibly high, meaning the price to earnings ratios.
00:31:44.000That means that people are essentially overpaying for stocks.
00:31:47.000That is particularly true at the top end of the tech market.
00:31:50.000I speak with many of the tech leaders in this space.
00:31:53.000Even they believe that a lot of these stock prices are inflated.
00:31:57.000Well, Kristen Walker had on Scott Bessent, the Treasury Secretary, who may be the man standing between America and economic downturn, and confronted him over the poor jobs report.
00:32:08.000Let me drill down a little bit more on these numbers, Mr. Secretary.
00:32:12.000The President said that these tariffs are going to spark a manufacturing renaissance, he called it.
00:32:17.000But since he announced them in April, the U.S. has actually lost 42,000 manufacturing jobs.
00:32:23.000Are these numbers proof that the tariffs are failing to produce the manufacturing jobs that President Trump promised?
00:32:32.000Again, Kristen, it it's been a couple of months, and with the manufacturing sector, as you know, you know, we we can't snap our fingers and have factories built.
00:32:41.000So what we are seeing is a record amount of investment intentions.
00:32:47.000We've seen a CapEx boom in the first half of the year, and I think that was actually held back.
00:32:52.000The one big beautiful bill, which has full expensing for factories and equipment was passed on July 4th.
00:32:59.000Many companies were holding back then.
00:33:03.000So we are going to see construction jobs and we're going to see manufacturing jobs.
00:33:09.000Okay, so he says there's going to be a manufacturing uptick.
00:33:11.000There has not been a manufacturing uptick, largely because many of the manufacturing centers in the United States, guess what they use to make their products?
00:33:19.000A good case in point of this, by the way, is what just happened over at Hyundai.
00:33:23.000So the United States had made a deal with South Korea on trade, and Hyundai had announced that they were going to be building new factories in the United States.
00:33:31.000And this was touted by the administration as a giant win.
00:33:34.000Well, it turns out that Hyundai went to a subcontractor, that subcontractor found illegal South Korean labor and was using illegal South Korean labor to lower the labor costs.
00:33:42.000Because when you artificially boost the prices in one area, i.e.
00:33:46.000labor, then either the company has to raise prices, making it less competitive, or they are going to seek another way out.
00:33:51.000That is not trying to get Hyundai off the hook.
00:33:53.000If they violated the law, then they should pay for it.
00:33:55.000And people who are here illegally should in fact be deported.
00:33:57.000It is to point out there are downstream ramifications of economic policies like trade restrictionism.
00:34:04.000This has also created a bit of a political crisis between the United States and South Korea.
00:34:09.000According to the Wall Street Journal, South Korea and the U.S. have reached a deal to release Korean citizens who were detained last week in a large-scale immigration raid at a Hyundai motor plant in Georgia, according to the Office of the South Korean president.
00:34:21.000Apparently, it's unclear whether the detained South Koreans are allowed to leave voluntarily or if they're going to be deported.
00:34:27.000If you're deported, then that means that you're banned from re-entering the United States for many years.
00:34:32.000No criminal charges have been filed at this point.
00:34:35.000Apparently, most of these people were visa holders who overstayed their visas.
00:34:39.000That makes you an illegal immigrant, obviously.
00:34:41.000None of the detainees were directly employed by Hyundai, according to the company.
00:34:44.000LG Energy, which is the subcontractor, said 47 of its employees had been arrested, as well as 250 workers at subcontracted companies.
00:34:52.000It also said it was halting most business trips to the United States and directing employees on assignment to the U.S. to return home immediately or remain in their accommodations because they're afraid that the their employees presumably are going to get caught up in some sort of drag net here.
00:35:04.000But these are the unintended consequences of tariff policies and immigration policies, what you end up with.
00:35:09.000I mean, the goal of them is to artificially increase the price of labor above what it normally would be in a free-flowing market.
00:35:17.000And when that happens, people might try to escape the rules, which is what happened with Hyundai.
00:35:23.000They should face whatever punishment they're supposed to face.
00:35:25.000But just be aware, there's going to be a an inefficiency in the market, which means higher prices for your cars.
00:35:31.000And then, because it costs more, there'll be a slump in demand.
00:35:34.000That is typically what happens with the tariffs, is there is an adjustment up in price followed by a slump in demand because the prices are too high.
00:35:41.000Scott Bessens is maintaining that companies are saying the tariffs are helping their business.
00:35:48.000By the data, most companies, particularly the manufacturing sector, have been saying actually it's it's harming their business.
00:35:56.000At Treasury, we have about two management teams come through a day, And overwhelmingly, we are hearing from companies they plan to increase CapEx, they plan to increase employment.
00:36:08.000We are seeing a record amount, what's going to be a record amount of foreign direct investment.
00:36:13.000And for every John Deere, we have companies who are telling us the tariffs have helped our business.
00:36:19.000We're increasing CapEx and we're going to increase employment.
00:36:24.000Okay, so uh again, it may be helping particularly this is what happens.
00:36:28.000Tariffs have specific benefits at the expense of broad costs.
00:36:32.000There may be a couple of companies that benefit.
00:36:34.000There can be a lot of companies that do not, and consumers broadly are going to have to pay the price for that.
00:36:38.000In fact, there is a survey done just a couple of weeks ago by Industry Week that was pointing out that nearly 70% of business leaders who responded to Endeavor Business Intelligence early this month said the trade measures imposed by the Trump administration, as well as some retaliatory actions by trading partners are significantly affecting their operations.
00:36:57.000Another eight percent say the impact is starting to be felt now.
00:37:00.000Only 19% of executives say they don't expect any sort of significant impact here.
00:37:04.000And again, manufacturing has not increased because of this.
00:37:06.000The truth is, once again, manufacturing has declined in the United States as a result of labor costs being too high and technology replacing many of these jobs.
00:37:16.000The reality is that it's not that we shipped all the jobs to China, it's the technology took a huge swath of manufacturing jobs, which is why manufacturing output in the United States is basically increased.
00:37:25.000It's been on the increase for the last 20 years.
00:37:27.000Manufacturing employment has been going down because machines are doing more than human beings used to do.
00:37:33.000Well, Scott Besson is very worried, apparently, about the idea that the Supreme Court may strike down the tariffs.
00:37:38.000Remember, a federal appellate court has held that Trump's tariffs are actually unconstitutional, which, by the way, they are.
00:37:59.000In terms of its legality, my guess that the Supreme Court will strike down the tariffs on the basis of a violation of the Article One powers granted to Congress and not to the President.
00:38:09.000Scott Besson points out that this would have some pretty negative ramifications for the economy because many of the billions of dollars that have been taken in through tariffs would then have to be refunded to the companies that were paying the tariffs.
00:38:20.000Okay, but you know what else it would do?
00:38:22.000It would ensure that manufacturers aren't paying inflated prices, that consumers aren't paying inflated prices, that efficiencies go back on the table, and maybe Congress should get back involved.
00:38:30.000Again, if Congress wants to tariff the living hell out of China, or if the President wants to do so, using national security rationales, that's fine.
00:38:37.000Tariffing India and Vietnam for the same rationales makes no sense at all.
00:38:41.000I am confident that we will win at the Supreme Court, but there are numerous other avenues that we can take.
00:38:48.000They diminish President Trump's negotiating uh position, but there are numerous in terms of and remember this isn't about the dollars.
00:39:05.000So uh we would have to give a refund on about half the uh the tariffs, which which would be terrible for the Treasury.
00:39:12.000And you're prepared to give those refunds.
00:39:14.000Well, I mean, there's no be prepared if the court says it, we'd have to do it.
00:39:20.000Okay, so you know it'll be interesting to see what happens.
00:39:22.000Honestly, the best thing that could happen for the Trump economy right now is a lower interest rate by the Federal Reserve and the tariffs going away.
00:39:29.000That'd be the best thing for the economy.
00:39:31.000If both those things happen, then what you'll end up with is actually a consumer and investment boom.
00:39:36.000So maybe that's gonna happen in quarter four.
00:39:48.000You're taking these from earnings calls, and on earnings calls, they have to give the Braconian scenario.
00:39:55.000There aren't companies coming out and saying, oh, because of the tariffs, we're doing this, but I can tell you that whether it's Micron or Apple, they are upping their investments in the United States.
00:40:07.000And you know, Kristen, if things are so bad, why was the GDP 3.3%?
00:40:12.000Why is the stock market at a new high?
00:40:14.000Because you know, with President Trump, we care both about big companies and small companies, and you're you're quoting big companies, but the big company index, the SP is at a new high.
00:40:26.000So the real question to be asked here is whether President Trump is sort of outperforming What otherwise would have been.
00:40:31.000And the answer is not really at this point.
00:40:33.000And that's largely again because of the tariffs and the roiling in the economy.
00:40:37.000So I asked our friends and sponsors over a comment.
00:40:39.000What was the SP 500 on January 21st, 2025?
00:40:43.000If we use the rate of increase in the SP 500 between January 21st, 2021, when Joe Biden took office, and January 21st, 2025, how high would the SP 500 have been if it had continued growing at that rate?
00:40:56.000So in other words, is President Trump's rate of growth in the S P 500 higher or less high, or the same as it was when Joe Biden was president of the United States?
00:41:06.000And the answer is on January 21st, 2025, the SP 500 closed at 6,049.24.
00:41:17.000If the index had continued growing at the same annual rate observed from January 21st, 2021 to January 21st, 2025, it would now be approximately 6,495.41.
00:41:33.000If the SP 500 had continued at this compound annual growth rate, the expected value for September 8th, 2025 would be, again, that's 6,495 as opposed to 6,481.
00:41:47.000So the actual index is very close to the projected value, indicating similar growth behavior over the analyzed period.
00:41:53.000Trump is better for the economy than Joe Biden.
00:41:55.000So the only thing that's been holding this back is the roiling economic turmoil because of things like tariffs.
00:42:00.000All right, coming up, Democrats are still trying to figure out what to do about Trump and they're looking forward to 2028 Is that why Bernie Sanders is campaigning with AOC and Zoran Mamdani?
00:42:09.000Plus, we will be joined by Isabel Brown, our brand new host here at Daily Wire First.
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00:43:22.000Well, meanwhile, the situation in Chicago continues to percolate.
00:43:26.000The president of the United States sent a meme over the weekend that got people very upset.
00:43:30.000If you keep falling for his memes, I'm sorry, but like I don't know what to tell you.
00:44:13.000Wes Moore, the governor of Maryland, who, by the way, over the weekend announced he's not going to run for president in 2028.
00:44:17.000We'll get to that in a minute because it's kind of fascinating.
00:44:19.000Here he was, not running for president, but still being on the national news show, saying it's embarrassing that Trump would send such a thing.
00:44:31.000And and and I do want to be clear about some of the stats when people talk about how you know we've watched a decrease because of the National Guard.
00:44:38.000Let's be clear about some of the stats that the National Guard are responsible during this occupation for 744 cubic yards of mulch spread, eight hundred and eighty-six bags of trash collected, two hundred and seventy feet of fence painted.
00:44:54.000How many illegal guns has the National Guard seized?
00:44:57.000How many drug busts has the National Guard done?
00:45:02.000Okay, well, what we do know is that the crime rates have declined markedly in Washington, D.C. because the National Guard is on the street.
00:45:09.000President Trump was asked about whether he's going to actually go to war with Chicago.
00:45:12.000This is like red meat to President Trump.
00:45:51.000He says what we actually are going to be doing is we're going to be going into sanctuary cities with ice and you know, actually policing the law.
00:45:57.000Here was Tom Homan on with Jake Tapper at CNN explaining ICE agents will be flooding the zone.
00:46:03.000Governor Priscrew's been notified from day one.
00:46:05.000Again, I went there and started an operation right after uh the inauguration.
00:46:10.000Uh ICE agents have been uh flooding the zone in Chicago for a while now.
00:47:21.000So he calls it the Rose Garden Club, is I guess what it is now called over there.
00:47:25.000He says it's turning into a mar a wago over at the White House, and the economy is going down.
00:47:30.000Wes Moore, again, I think that Westmore is one of the better candidates in the Democratic pantheon.
00:47:35.000As I mean he's like an amazing, amazing candidate.
00:47:37.000But if you take a look at the Democratic primaries and the black population in South Carolina, which is extraordinarily important in a Democratic primary, Wes Moore had an upper hand there, and he says he's not running in 2028.
00:48:56.000But if the economy starts to go into serious recession, and if the only people who have made money over the course of the past couple of years are people in the tech bubble, that's gonna be a real problem for Republicans, like a serious problem.
00:49:09.000So, Alexander Ocasio-Cortez, Zaran Mamdanni, and Bernie Sanders all went to a story on Saturday, and then they took a picture in a cafe.
00:49:39.000A leech sucking the blood out of the ass of society.
00:49:42.000It's just amazing that this person is considered a useful person when he is legitimately one of the most counterproductive Americans ever born.
00:49:50.000Here he is explaining he's not going to allow Musk to become the first trillionaire as though he has some sort of magical ability to downgrade the stock value of Tesla.
00:50:05.000Millions of people struggling to put food on the table and making one guy a trillionaire is insane.
00:50:13.000not about it this country is supposed to be about and we are not going to allow that to happen we're not going to allow anybody to be so rich because we need more poor people we're talking That's what we need.
00:51:04.000I find it hard to understand how the major Democratic leaders in New York State are not supporting the Democratic candidate.
00:51:15.000One might think, one might think that if a candidate starting at 2% in the polls gets 50,000 volunteers, creates enormous excitement, gets young people involved in the political process, gets non-traditional voters to vote.
00:51:35.000Democratic leaders will be jumping up and down.
00:51:39.000Well, so what does Zorma and Donnie have to say that is so valuable?
00:51:47.000Well, I mean, he says that he's still in favor of government run grocery stores because while they've never worked anywhere this time, they definitely will.
00:51:52.000You know, I say to that example, as well as the examples of our own failures of city government right here in New York City, that we have to prove not only the efficacy, but the excellence of this idea.
00:52:04.000Because for every one example that you can point to, there's another of another municipality today considering opening a city-run grocery store.
00:52:11.000But to me, the most important thing is the outcome.
00:52:13.000This is something I believe will work.
00:52:15.000We will bring the best and the brightest to deliver it, and it will be five stores at the cost of 60 million dollars, which is less than half the city is already spending on subsidizing corporate supermarkets.
00:52:31.000Also, he says, well, how are you gonna get he's asked, how are you gonna get you know rich people on board so that they don't leave the city?
00:52:36.000And he's like, because they will recognize that when we seize all their wealth and execute them, their lives too have become better.
00:52:43.000We have a number of New Yorkers who are doing quite well.
00:52:47.000The top one percent of New York City earns a million dollars or more a year.
00:52:51.000And my vision is not one where they leave, it is one where they stay.
00:52:56.000In part by showing them that asking them to pay more in taxes would increase even their quality of life.
00:53:02.000Because when you ask New Yorkers, what is it that is making them feel uneasy in this city?
00:53:07.000You often hear from them about the cleanliness of our city, the safety of our city, the affordability of our city.
00:53:12.000We are not asking to raise these taxes for the sake of it.
00:53:15.000We're asking so that we can actually make the slowest buses in the country fast and free, so that we can actually create a department of community safety that would deploy dedicated teams of mental health outreach workers to the top hundred stations of the highest levels of mental health crises and homelessness.
00:53:31.000That relationship proving that that tax dollar leads to that investment.
00:53:37.000Yes, I'm sure that's going to prevent people from leaving your city as you completely destroy their businesses.
00:53:43.000Your magical capacity to run the largest city on planet Earth in terms of commerce is going to be so great that all the rich people are going to just allow you to suck money out of their bank account, destroy their incomes, and also rent control everything inside.
00:53:57.000Yes, I'm sure it'll all work out great.
00:53:59.000Maybe this time when you try socialism, it will it will totally work.
00:54:02.000Well, as you know, we here at Daily Wire, we are celebrating our 10th anniversary, and we figured there is no better way for us to celebrate our 10th anniversary than bringing aboard somebody who is already a star but is gonna be a gigantic star in the media landscape.
00:54:15.000And that person, of course, is Isabel Brown.
00:54:30.000We've been incredibly hard at work with all the bells and whistles, and we're so excited for the day to finally be here.
00:54:38.000So why don't we start by introducing you to the audience?
00:54:40.000Like, who are you and why should people listen to the show?
00:54:45.000I'm so excited to get to know the Daily Wire community a little bit better over the next few months and to bring my existing following as well to our amazing family across the network.
00:54:54.000I've been working in political commentary and social media and the heart of the culture movement, really by happenstance, since I was a college student on my campus at Colorado State University.
00:55:05.000I set out to do my career as a surgeon hopeful, studying biomedical sciences, and found very quickly that even my classes like human gross anatomy and physiology and organic chemistry really weren't about what I thought science had a foundation in, that pursuit of objective truth, but instead was a lot more political propaganda than anything else.
00:55:26.000I became a student activist on my college campus, hosting speaking events with conservative speakers and handing out socialism sucks buttons as a turning point USA chapter president from 2015 to 2019.
00:55:38.000And just as COVID started to hit and thrust our entire generation into the digital space, started experimentally posting as a social media content creator, and a few years later, God has just totally transformed my life.
00:55:50.000I obviously didn't end up going to medical school.
00:55:52.000I have the chance to do media every day as a career.
00:55:55.000But I like to think that it's still based in that pursuit of objective truth and sharing it with others the same way I loved as a scientist.
00:56:04.000Well, again, we are we are so excited to be launching this show with you, especially because again, we're bringing new things in the second decade of Daily Wire.
00:56:11.000Why don't you introduce people to what the first episode is going to be?
00:56:14.000What kind of stuff are people going to be getting from the show?
00:56:17.000And it's something that's been sitting with me for a long time.
00:56:20.000How do we want to launch this show appropriately?
00:56:22.000I don't know about you, Ben, but as a creator and as a commentator myself, I have felt incredibly burnt out over the last few years of the constant cycle we often see in the conservative movement's media of just picking from obscurity the most random, insane left-wing video we see on TikTok or Instagram or Twitter and reacting to it and saying, hey, this thing over here is really, really bad and just continuing to manufacture outrage.
00:56:46.000I don't like looking at those views anymore.
00:56:49.000I don't like enjoying that part of the commentary anymore.
00:56:51.000And I'm just finding that even in the wake of the 2024 election last November, and we have a small victory in front of us, we still haven't won the culture war, but we're acting like the battle is over.
00:57:03.000So what we really need more than anything else is an optimistic view forward.
00:57:07.000Now that we have this chance right in front of us to transform society for the better forever, to embrace what is good and true and beautiful.
00:57:16.000What is a new blueprint for the next generation?
00:57:19.000And how can we build a new American dream?
00:57:21.000So we cover how the heck did we get here with the very strategic playbook of the left that's been operational, largely driven by the communist party for the last 60 plus years.
00:57:31.000And now what the heck do we do with it and take that first step forward together in our first episode today.
00:57:38.000So Isabel, unlike me, you are a big advocate for Generation Z. You say that Generation Z could be the most conservative generation that we've seen.
00:57:45.000Uh as you know, I've become a crotchie old as a crotchy old man when I was 20, and I'm a crotchy old man when I'm 40.
00:57:50.000And I hate to think what it'll be like when I'm 80 when I'm actually old.
00:57:53.000But, you know, let's talk about your view of Generation Z because it is different, and you're seeing changes in the culture for young people that are hopeful, actually.
00:58:03.000I see it every single day, Ben, starting when I was just a college student as a Gen Zier on my own campus and now interacting with millions of Gen Z eers, not just in America, but across Western civilization in the digital space today.
00:58:15.000Uh, I didn't get a lot of love for being the Gen Z apologist over the last few years that in fact have been laughed offset at Fox News and Newsmax and just about everywhere else with this rose-colored glasses idea that this next generation really is going to save our country.
00:58:31.000You're watching Gen Z not just become overwhelmingly culturally conservative, uh, but also politically conservative, as we know from this last election cycle.
00:58:39.000It was Gen Z decisively that delivered the victory for President Donald Trump thanks to mostly TikTok trends and Instagram videos.
00:58:46.000Uh, but I think that cultural piece is really the most fascinating concept of all of this.
00:58:51.00093%, according to Newsweek of Gen Zers want to get married.
00:58:56.000We're embracing religion when no one expected us ever to, in a very traditional sense, uh rooted in traditional Christianity and other religious traditions across our country.
00:59:06.000There's a resurgence of free speech, as we even talk about on the show today.
00:59:10.000Look at what's happening in Temecula Valley School District in California when grown adults are trying to say that you are mentally unstable as a child.
00:59:18.000Girl, if you don't want boys in your locker room, middle school girls are walking out of their classroom this week with big giant signs that say no boys in girls' spaces.
00:59:28.000There really does seem to be a sense of moral clarity and a hunger, not just for conservative ideas, but objective truth in this next generation and wanting to build a future that we can be proud to call home again and share with every generation that comes after us.
00:59:44.000Now, folks, you can see why Isabel Brown is going to be the newest star with Daily Wire Plus.
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