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00:00:40.000A couple days before President Trump's quasi-State of the Union address, we were invited by Speaker of the House Mike Johnson to join him in the Speaker's box at this address to a joint session of Congress.
00:01:18.000Before the actual address to the joint session of Congress, there was sort of a big...
00:01:22.000Meet and greet inside the speaker's office and in the hallways surrounding.
00:01:26.000A lot of cabinet secretaries stopped by, so I got a chance to say hello to many of the cabinet secretaries we've had on the show, many of whom you know and I know.
00:01:34.000I mean, this administration is just filled with terrific people.
00:01:36.000Everybody from the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, to the treasury secretary, Scott Besson, to the commerce secretary, Howard Blutnick, was there.
00:01:49.000Of the Congress for the speech was definitely an interesting experience.
00:01:53.000And I say interesting because the contrast could not be starker between the enthusiasm on the Republican side of the aisle, the excitement, the feeling that America is on the upsurge on the Republican side of the aisle, and the absolute murderous depression in which Democrats have now sunk themselves.
00:02:25.000And it was just dead on one side of the aisle.
00:02:27.000Not just because they've lost the election and now they no longer control Congress or the Senate or the White House, but also because they cannot find the thing to attack President Trump over.
00:02:36.000And so what they decided to bring were campus tactics.
00:02:39.000It was like a Columbia University tentafada, but on the floor of Congress.
00:02:45.000Members of the squad who showed up wearing pink, supposedly to protest the idea that Trump hates women or something.
00:02:50.000Well, by the way, they refused, as we will see, to applaud for a woman who was brutally injured by a man spiking a volleyball at her.
00:02:58.000And the Democrats refused to applaud, but they were wearing pink for women.
00:03:02.000Some of them had on kind of hideous jackets that had Black Lives Matter regalia upon them.
00:03:07.000You had a bunch of Democrats who showed up with little placards and signs, which was sort of a leftover from a Rashida Tlaib thing that she did.
00:03:14.000The congresswoman from Michigan, the pro-terror congresswoman from Michigan, who herself showed up a couple of years ago at a speech, or a year ago at a speech, holding one of those little placards.
00:03:43.000It wasn't even an organized opposition.
00:03:45.000This is a party that is out of control on the Democratic side of the aisle.
00:03:48.000The Republicans are in lockstep with regard to the Trump agenda.
00:03:51.000The Democrats have no capacity whatsoever to even get together in opposition.
00:03:56.000You have Nancy Pelosi, who is down there, looking fairly sober, and she was not one of the people screaming at President Trump, for example.
00:04:03.000And she herself has been demonstrative in the past.
00:04:05.000I mean, you remember when President Trump was president the first time, and he gave a State of the Union address, and she literally tore it up on camera.
00:04:12.000In performative fashion, she was actually the adult in the room on the Democratic side of the aisle last night.
00:04:16.000Hakeem Jeffries was basically a non-entity on the floor.
00:04:19.000The people who were getting all the attention were members of the squad.
00:04:22.000Some members of the Senate, Bernie Sanders, performatively kind of walked out, looking real old, walked out about 15 minutes before the end of the speech.
00:04:30.000And meanwhile, President Trump was taking the 80% side of every 80-20 issue it was possible to take in this speech, and Democrats were wrong-footed the entire speech.
00:04:40.000Which is the reason, by the way, that by every available poll statistic, a large majority of people who watched the speech liked what President Trump had to say.
00:04:49.000According to CBS News, the party identification of speech watchers who were polled, 51% were Republican, 27% were Independent, and 20% were Democrat.
00:04:59.000Among speech watchers, the approval rating was 76%, which means pretty much all the Republicans and pretty much all the Independents approved of the speech.
00:05:08.000One of the things President Trump did during the speech that I think was quite clever, and again, we're going to go through it in detail.
00:05:13.000So if you missed it last night, we'll go through the highlights.
00:05:15.000We'll go through the bizarre Democratic opposition.
00:05:18.000In some ways, my guess is it was better to watch it on TV. So some of this I'll be watching for the first time with you on TV because I got to see it live.
00:05:25.000But the truth is that some of it probably played even better on TV than it did in the room because Democrats were so loud and obnoxious.
00:05:32.000In many cases, it was very difficult to hear actually what President Trump was saying on the microphone, the sound system.
00:05:39.000But what President Trump did, just in terms of content, is he spent nearly the entire speech on domestic policy, which is smart.
00:05:46.000The American people care much more about domestic policy than they do about foreign policy.
00:05:49.000Now listen, I care deeply about foreign policy because I think that foreign policy affects Americans.
00:05:54.000We spoke about this just a couple of days ago with regard to, for example, the use of the United States dollar as the world's reserve currency.
00:06:00.000It has a massive impact on how Americans live, even if we don't think about it a lot.
00:06:04.000But what President Trump understands, Unnate, kind of gut level, is that Americans care.
00:06:10.000When he says America first, what most Americans hear is not 1930s isolationism.
00:06:14.000What most Americans hear is not some sort of racist buzzword.
00:06:18.000What they hear is that American citizens should be taken care of first, as a first priority.
00:06:27.000And so the entire speech last night was directed at this thing.
00:06:29.000And President Trump kept picking, again, the issues where he is clearly the winner.
00:06:34.000The two biggest issues that he mentioned over and over last night, illegal immigration and boys are not girls.
00:06:38.000These are 80-20 issues in the American public mind.
00:06:41.000Even Democrats understand that the Joe Biden open border was totally unworkable and, in fact, was a deliberately evil attempt to open America's southern border and endanger America's economy and endanger her citizens.
00:06:53.000There is literally no excuse you can think of that is good enough to explain why he opened the border, a non-nefarious excuse for why he opened the border.
00:07:00.000And Americans know that, so President Trump spent an awful lot of time on that.
00:07:03.000Last night, President Trump also spent an awful lot of time on the basic proposition that boys are not girls.
00:07:08.000And I have to say, I have a lot of friends who are Democrats, and I keep asking them the same question.
00:07:12.000You know, you guys, you lost the last election.
00:07:39.000When you pick an issue and say a totally loony thing about that issue, it implicates your views on all the other issues.
00:07:46.000If I am interviewing to be your accountant, and we have a great interview, and all of it is going just fine, and then I drop the idea very seriously that birds are not real, that birds are a mythical creature, and actually all birds are robots.
00:08:00.000Even if I mention that for 30 seconds out of our two-hour interview, are you hiring me?
00:08:04.000The answer, of course, is no, because you now know that I'm insane.
00:08:07.000So if Democrats choose to take the insane side of what is a clear issue, then they are going to lose.
00:08:11.000And President Trump knows that, and he hammered it home time and time again last night.
00:08:15.000By the way, again, kudos to the people who are sitting next to me in the speaker's box, Matt Walsh and Riley Gaines, two people who have fought endlessly on this particular issue.
00:08:22.000So many of us fought for freedom on the issue of men are not women.
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00:10:39.000Here is the opening of President Trump's very optimistic speech about the future of the country.
00:10:43.000Members of the United States Congress, thank you very much.
00:10:49.000And to my fellow citizens, America is back.
00:10:58.000Six weeks ago, I stood beneath the dome of this Capitol and proclaimed the dawn of the golden age of America.
00:11:09.000From that moment on, it has been nothing but swift and unrelenting action to usher in the greatest and most successful era in the history of our country.
00:11:21.000We have accomplished more in 43 days than most administrations accomplished in four years or eight years.
00:11:29.000And we are just getting started. - Yeah!
00:11:34.000And again, you can see President Trump is in such a great mood.
00:11:48.000Your hands get a little tired from all of the applauding.
00:11:50.000I've done more applauding last night than I think I've done probably in my entire life combined, mainly because I don't applaud for things all that often.
00:12:32.000And he decided that it would be a wise move to get up at the beginning of the speech and start yelling at the President of the United States and never stop yelling at the President of the United States.
00:12:41.000Now, we'd spoken with Speaker Johnson before.
00:12:43.000He had expected all sorts of antics from the Democrats.
00:12:47.000There were rumors Democrats were going to bring empty egg cartons and wave them at President Trump because the price of the eggs is too high.
00:12:52.000A phenomenon that started, of course, under Joe Biden.
00:13:02.000He did say that he thought there was a very good shot.
00:13:05.000He was going to have to pound the gavel on the table and then invoke congressional rules of order to bring some sort of order back to the situation.
00:13:13.000Well, Al Green decided that he was going to be the man who stood up.
00:13:16.000He was going to be the guy who stood up in the breach.
00:13:18.000Now, Al Green is also one of the people who, as we'll see, has been calling for president's impeachment from literally the first day that President Trump became president again.
00:13:27.000He is a leader of the resistance, but like the old guard of the resistance.
00:13:32.000And he started shouting at President Trump, bizarrely enough, about a topic that is really stupid.
00:13:39.000One of the things about Trump that befuddles Democrats is that many of the key issues that they have yelled at Republicans about are not Trump's issues.
00:13:44.000So, for example, last night, Democrats were holding up these little signs that saved Medicaid.
00:13:49.000President Trump said he's not going to cut Medicaid.
00:14:06.000Democrats have been rejected across the board.
00:14:08.000And Al Green starts yelling at him that he does not have a mandate to change the entitlement programs, a thing that Trump himself has said he does not want to do.
00:14:18.000I mean, if that is your resistance playbook, I just don't understand.
00:14:23.000And, by the way, the optic of the man who's going to lead the resistance is a 77-year-old man waving his cane at the president of the United States.
00:15:06.000Finding that members continue to engage in willful and concerted disruption of proper decorum, the chair now directs the sergeant-at-arms to restore order.
00:15:16.000Remove this gentleman from the chamber.
00:15:28.000The Democrats are sitting there, and even they are like, there's nothing we can do about this.
00:15:32.000Now, you can imagine a scenario where Democrats had actually planned a quote-unquote act of resistance, where Trump said something, and they knew he was going to say it.
00:15:39.000And then one of them got up and shouted at the president, had to be removed, and the rest of the Democrats walked out as a show of solidarity.
00:15:45.000That at least would be an interesting optical move.
00:15:47.000But Democrats' move was, Al Green was going to yell at the president from the outset about a dumb topic that President Trump is not even taking on.
00:15:54.000And then they were all going to sit there looking half-depressed.
00:16:32.000President Trump announces, correctly, that he has been the most active president in the first month of his administration of any president in modern history.
00:16:41.000Over the past six weeks, I have signed nearly 100 executive orders and taken more than 400 executive actions, a record.
00:16:51.000To restore common sense, safety, optimism, and wealth all across our wonderful land.
00:16:57.000The people elected me to do the job, and I'm doing it.
00:17:01.000In fact, it has been stated by many that the first month of our presidency, it's our presidency, is the most successful in the history of our nation.
00:17:14.000And what makes it even more impressive is that, do you know who number two is?
00:17:40.000So, President Trump then did something incredibly smart.
00:17:43.000So again, the entire speech, I think, was great.
00:17:46.000It's fascinating how the State of the Union has evolved over the course of time.
00:17:50.000So I'm old enough to remember when it was a big deal in 2009, when President Obama was trying to push Obamacare, and a representative named Joe Wilson from South Carolina got up and shouted at the president and said, you lie.
00:18:15.000And then in 2010, there was another controversy because President Obama said something overtly false about the Supreme Court, and Justice Samuel Alito, who's in the audience, was caught on tape kind of shaking his head.
00:18:28.000The media apparently have no such qualms about Democrats acting like complete jackass, yelling, screaming, acting like just spoiled brat kids on a college campus in the middle of a Tuesday, blocking classes for the other students.
00:18:42.000I mean, the entire time, Democrats are just heckling Trump.
00:18:45.000What Trump did, very smart, right off the top, President Trump says, listen, I'm not going to play this game where the cameras cut back and you see one side of the chamber standing and one side of the chamber sitting and you figure the president is just too divisive.
00:18:58.000I'm just going to point out right now, nothing I do or say or can do or can say will ever get these people clapping.
00:19:06.000It's actually a tactic that I frequently use in debate, which is you call out the favorite tactic of the opposition and it takes the bat right out of their hands.
00:19:13.000We'll get to more of President Trump's blockbuster speech in a moment.
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00:21:56.000Very smart move from the President of the United States right here.
00:21:59.000This is my fifth such speech to Congress.
00:22:03.000And once again, I look at the Democrats in front of me and I realize there is absolutely nothing I can say to make them happy or to make them stand or smile or applaud.
00:22:16.000I could find a cure to the most devastating disease, a disease that would wipe out entire nations or announce the answers to the greatest economy in history or the stoppage of crime to the lowest levels ever recorded.
00:22:33.000And these people sitting right here will not clap, will not stand and certainly will not cheer for these astronomical achievements.
00:22:52.000So Democrats sitting before me for just this one night, why not join us in celebrating so many incredible wins for America? - Monica.
00:23:05.000For the good of our nation, let's work together and let's truly make America great again.
00:23:12.000And he was doing this all night, by the way, this sort of hand motion where he points out at the Democrats, he's like, you guys, you're not even, I see you, I see you not, you know, clapping for the obvious, obvious things.
00:23:21.000And then he says a bunch of obvious things.
00:23:25.000And so this was sort of a combination of Trump saying obvious, excellent things, and also the Oprah Winfrey show, because he did something different, President Trump did, as we'll see, during this address, than what other presidents do when they pick people out of the audience.
00:23:38.000So that's a mainstay of State of the Union address, really since Ronald Reagan, who was also a performer, obviously.
00:23:44.000Reagan pioneered the use of people in the audience, where he would say, and there's Barbara, and Barbara's a hairdresser who's had to overcome.
00:23:50.000The problems of licensing in her state.
00:24:02.000There really was a sort of presenter vibe.
00:24:05.000He held up an executive order in the middle of the speech, handed him by the vice president, establishing and renaming a park in honor of a young girl who was killed by illegal immigrants.
00:24:16.000Or he called out somebody in the audience.
00:24:20.000Who had just received an acceptance to West Point.
00:24:23.000And all of these are sort of like nice, warm moments.
00:24:26.000It's President Trump taking it to the next level, which of course is what he's good at.
00:24:28.000President Trump originally was an extraordinarily successful TV personality.
00:24:32.000That's one of the big reasons he's President of the United States today.
00:24:35.000And Democrats couldn't even clap for stuff like that.
00:24:38.000So yesterday, President Trump says there are only two genders.
00:24:41.000And this, of course, is an issue near and dear to our heart here at The Daily Wire.
00:24:45.000I'm not sure there's any company on Earth that has fought harder on this particular issue.
00:24:48.000As I told you, We fought that every step of the way.
00:25:14.000So obviously, Matt Walsh has been a lion on this issue.
00:25:16.000We're also sitting next to Riley Gaines.
00:25:19.000Worked with Riley in the past on this, and Riley herself has done amazing work on this.
00:25:22.000The three of us were sitting together, and so we were out of our seats for a huge amount of this.
00:25:26.000There was a point in the speech where President Trump was talking about two genders, men being banned from women's sports, and then he paid tribute to a young woman named Peyton McNabb.
00:25:38.000Now, I don't care where you are on this particular issue.
00:25:41.000Peyton McNabb is a young woman, as we will see.
00:25:44.000President Trump's going to talk about it.
00:25:45.000Who got hit in the face with a volleyball, hit by a very large male.
00:25:49.000And sustained actual serious brain damage because of it.
00:25:53.000And Democrats could not clap in support of her.
00:25:56.000Because it was attached to the baseline logical motion that men should not hit volleyballs in the faces of women.
00:26:02.000Democrats could not get on board for that.
00:26:22.000I also signed an executive order to ban men from playing in women's sports.
00:26:31.000Three years ago, Peyton McNabb was an all-star high school athlete, one of the best, preparing for a future in college sports.
00:26:40.000But when her girls' volleyball match was invaded by a male, he smashed the ball so hard in Peyton's face, causing traumatic brain injury, partially paralyzing her right side and ending her athletic career.
00:26:56.000It was a shot like she's never seen before.
00:27:26.000Because they want men to play in women's sports.
00:27:28.000These are 80-20 issues Trump takes the right side of, and then Democrats don't know what to do with it.
00:27:32.000President Trump also bragged on Doge, Talked about the creation of Doge.
00:27:36.000Doge is highly popular with the American people.
00:27:38.000Despite all attempts to turn Doge into some sort of wedge issue for Americans, Americans want an investigation into waste, fraud, and abuse at the governmental level.
00:27:47.000Democrats have focused their ire on Elon, but the brilliance of what Trump has done with Elon is that Elon can take it.
00:28:04.000There's a point here where Trump was saying, we are putting the power back in the hands of the people, taking it away from the unelected bureaucracy.
00:28:09.000And Democrats started pointing up at Musk.
00:31:49.000And he did this for a long time in the speech, and it was really funny.
00:31:52.000And what's smart about this is that the total sort of bottom line cuts that he's talking about are not a gigantic percentage of the American budget.
00:32:59.000Basically, we have an incredibly stupid system for processing Social Security payments.
00:33:05.000In which all the listings are really, really old, and there's a default date that you list somebody's age at if you don't actually know their age that goes back to 1875 or something.
00:33:14.000There's actually been an audit of Social Security.
00:33:16.000There are people who are fraudulently obtaining Social Security, but it is not tens of millions of people who are obtaining fraudulent Social Security.
00:33:22.000It was, however, a reminder that America's government is filled with kind of inanities and stupidities.
00:33:27.000So here was President Trump talking about waste and fraud in Social Security.
00:34:09.000So, as I've been saying for a while, I am concerned that the stock market right now is overvalued.
00:34:14.000The stock market is currently running at an outrageous P.E. ratio.
00:34:16.000It's the price-to-earnings ratio, typically when you're valuating a company, when you're trying to determine how valuable a company is.
00:34:23.000The earnings, unless it has some sort of tremendous growth potential.
00:34:27.000Has to be demonstrated in the stock price.
00:34:29.000And a sort of typical metric that's been used for decades is a metric first put forth by Benjamin Graham, who was a sort of mentor to Warren Buffett, that suggested that the price-to-earnings ratio on a company should be somewhere at the upper end in the 16 to 18 ratio.
00:34:45.000Right now, the entire Dow Jones Industrial Average is trading at a 28 ratio.
00:34:51.000The so-called Magnificent 7 stocks, that'd be stocks like NVIDIA and Amazon and Apple.
00:34:56.000They are trading at a PE ratio that exceeds 55. Certain stocks like Tesla are trading at a PE ratio that is almost 200. Now, it may be that Tesla justifies that stock valuation by suddenly leaping forward in AI in new and unbelievable ways and totally revolutionizing the way, for example, shipping is done in the United States.
00:35:14.000I think that's one of the promises that Elon is trying to make with Tesla.
00:35:16.000However, it seems that the stock market is currently inflated.
00:35:55.000President Trump has talked a lot about tariffs.
00:35:57.000And last night he talked a lot about tariffs.
00:36:00.000And he's using the phrase retaliatory tariffs.
00:36:02.000And there's sort of two sets of tariffs that he's talked about.
00:36:04.000One is the set of tariffs that went into place this week on Canada and Mexico.
00:36:08.000And already there is some sound that those tariffs are going to be revised pretty quickly because Canada and Mexico are going to make concessions with regard to, say, fentanyl or with regard to border security that will allow the United States to then lower our tariffs.
00:36:21.000The other thing that President Trump has talked about are reciprocal tariffs.
00:36:24.000Reciprocal tariffs are the idea, as President Trump explained last night, that if a country is tariffing our goods at 20%, we should retaliate by tariffing their goods at 20%.
00:36:32.000We are a far larger market than they are.
00:36:35.000Now, if the goal of that is to leverage their tariffs down, totally in favor.
00:37:07.000We signed incredibly lucrative union contracts within our auto companies.
00:37:11.000Our cars became too expensive and not good enough.
00:37:14.000And then, when we opened up any of those tariffs, And we allowed, for example, Japanese cars like Toyota into the market.
00:37:20.000Suddenly, the American auto manufacturing sector just took a nosedive.
00:37:24.000Tariffs tend to protect bloated industries.
00:37:27.000And so the only purpose for tariffs that I think is legitimate is in order to get other people to lower their tariffs or as a matter of national security.
00:37:35.000You're trying to protect industries that even if they're bloated, you need them shored in the United States.
00:37:40.000President Trump has sort of a different take on tariffs.
00:37:43.000He seems to suggest over and over and over that tariffs are actually a net benefit to the American economy overall.
00:37:49.000It's just good for the American economy, tariffs.
00:37:52.000The evidence suggests that that is not in fact the case because Americans are both producers and consumers.
00:37:56.000So again, what that means is that if you're in an industry protected by a tariff because other countries now have to, the American consumer now has to pay an inflated rate for, say, a Japanese car as opposed to an American car, that's good for an American car manufacturer for the domestic market.
00:38:10.000It is very bad for the American consumer who now has to pay a higher price.
00:38:13.000And every American is both a producer and a consumer.
00:38:16.000And so if you're not in the industry that is positively affected by the tariff, then you're just getting hurt as a consumer.
00:38:23.000And overall, if there are lots of tariffs, then everybody gets hurt more as a consumer.
00:38:27.000You end up with a restricted supply of a product while the demand remains similar.
00:38:31.000And that is a recipe for actual inflation.
00:38:33.000Now, President Trump was talking about tariffs last night.
00:38:35.000He laid out a very commonsensical case.
00:38:38.000For reciprocal tariffs, again, the question for me on a going-forward basis, and we'll get more into this, is whether the emphasis in the phrase reciprocal tariffs is on the word reciprocal, meaning you lower yours and we'll lower ours, you raise yours and we'll raise ours, which again, that's a great way to leverage other countries, or if the emphasis is on tariffs, like tariffs are in and of themselves a positive, beneficial good.
00:38:57.000As I've said before, I think President Trump likes to make the case that tariffs are a positive, beneficial good, but he also could be doing that as leverage.
00:39:36.000So, again, that may be true in the short term.
00:39:39.000I don't think that's true in the long term.
00:39:41.000In the short term, it's good politics.
00:39:43.000Most presidents do engage in some sort of protective trade barriers around key industries in which they are seeking to win votes.
00:39:49.000That's a long-standing policy going all the way back to Ronald Reagan and before.
00:39:52.000However, it remains to be seen whether that is going to have a large negative impact on the economy if, in fact, a durable set of high tariffs are to become a regular part of the American political landscape.
00:40:07.000President Trump requires a strong economy.
00:40:08.000Now, the thing I know about President Trump also is he doesn't like a weak economy.
00:40:11.000So if it turns out that the stock market takes a dump, I don't think he's going to keep sticking with the thing that is negatively affecting his presidency.
00:40:17.000He's not stubborn when it comes to actual results.
00:40:21.000So he is not the kind of person who just keeps banging his head against a wall, seeking to achieve a different result from the same action over and over and over.
00:40:28.000Okay, back to the other portions of the speech.
00:40:30.000And one of the key messages of the speech is Democrats...
00:40:35.000So, for example, President Trump announced that we had captured an ISIS terrorist who was responsible for the Abbey Gate massacre.
00:40:42.000It is worth noting at this point that Joe Biden's complete unwillingness to even reach out to and meet the families of those murdered at Abbey Gate is one of the signal blots on a not only unremarkable but insultingly terrible political career for the former president of the United States.
00:40:57.000President Trump announced at the State of the Union.
00:41:01.000The capture of one of the terrorists responsible.
00:41:06.000America is once again standing strong against the forces of radical Islamic terrorism.
00:41:12.000Three and a half years ago, ISIS terrorists killed 13 American service members and countless others in the Abbey Gate bombing during the disastrous and incompetent withdrawal from Afghanistan.
00:41:30.000Perhaps the most embarrassing moment in the history of our country.
00:41:34.000Tonight I am pleased to announce that we have just apprehended the top terrorist responsible for that atrocity, and he is right now on his way here to face the swift sword of American justice.
00:42:13.000If a terrorist gets captured, that is good for America, is it not?
00:42:16.000Or how about if I were to tell you that President Trump brought home a man who was essentially held hostage by the Russians for 14 years and that he was in attendance?
00:42:25.000If you want to end wars, you have to talk to both sides.
00:42:30.000Nearly four years ago, amid rising tensions, a history teacher named Mark Fogel was detained in Russia and sentenced to 14 years in a penal colony.
00:44:31.000And then he has a high five from this next person.
00:44:34.000It was actually a little bit earlier in the speech that the moment of the night came.
00:44:38.000So President Trump called out a young 13-year-old boy.
00:44:43.000And this 13-year-old boy had brain cancer several years ago.
00:44:46.000He had scars on his head from where he had surgery.
00:44:48.000And this boy has wanted to join NYPD, so they made him sort of an honorary member of NYPD. And then President Trump called in the new head of the Secret Service.
00:44:58.000And Curran, of course, is one of the agents who was protecting Trump on a terrible day in Butler, Pennsylvania last year when the president nearly had his head blown off on live television.
00:45:06.000And the president makes this kid an honorary member of Secret Service.
00:45:35.000Do you like the split screen of you guys sitting on your hands?
00:45:38.000Well, a young black kid who has survived brain cancer is given a Secret Service membership and gives a hug to the head of the Secret Service.
00:45:47.000I'm sorry, this is like American as apple pie.
00:45:50.000It's like one of the most American things I've ever seen in my life.
00:45:52.000All it required was a yellow glow put on by a sepia light and an upswelling of music and a giant American flag unfurled in the background.
00:46:01.000It's like all that all that it needed.
00:48:12.000Lakin was stolen from us by a savage illegal alien gang member who was arrested while trespassing across Biden's open southern border.
00:48:23.000And then set loose into the United States under the heartless policies of that failed administration.
00:48:29.000It was indeed a failed administration.
00:48:32.000He had then been arrested and released in a Democrat-run sanctuary city, a disaster, before ending the life of this beautiful young angel.
00:48:44.000With us this evening are Laken's beloved mother, Allison, and her sister, Lauren.
00:48:50.000Last year, I told Laken's grieving parents that we would ensure their daughter would not have died in vain.
00:48:58.000That's why the very first bill I signed into law as your 47th president mandates the detention of all dangerous criminal aliens who threaten public safety.
00:50:02.000There are several problems with the Panama Canal.
00:50:04.000The biggest problem is that you have two Chinese-owned companies that basically...
00:50:08.000Have stations at the end of each side of the Panama Canal?
00:50:12.000And should they decide to, for example, just obstruct the canal in either direction, that is a massive threat to America's naval might on both sides of the North and South American continent.
00:50:25.000And so Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, had already negotiated an end to that.
00:50:29.000He also already negotiated a win for the United States in lowering fees for the transit of American naval military ships through the Panama Canal.
00:50:37.000President Trump then says, in front of Rubio and the entire crowd, we're taking the entire canal.
00:50:41.000And you can see that, shall I say, the Secretary of State seems a little surprised.
00:50:46.000He too had a surprise under his seat, as it turned out.
00:50:49.000The Panama Canal was built by Americans for Americans, not for others.
00:51:46.000At one point, he says, they'll have the ability to join us if they want, become a state, but we'll get it one way or another.
00:51:54.000The invasion of Greenland is imminent.
00:51:57.000There were two really actually important moments last night, two quite important moments, I think.
00:52:02.000That the single most important moment came when he was talking about illegal immigration.
00:52:05.000Because this is where President Trump, I talked about this yesterday on the show, this is where President Trump has experienced his biggest success.
00:52:11.000He has lowered the illegal immigration rates of the United States by 97%.
00:53:01.000Joe Biden didn't just open our borders.
00:53:04.000He flew illegal aliens over them to overwhelm our schools, hospitals and communities throughout the country.
00:53:11.000Entire towns like Aurora, Colorado and Springfield, Ohio, buckled under the weight of the migrant occupation and corruption like nobody's ever seen before.
00:54:30.000When Trump talked about how the United States has spent the last few years funding Ukraine in its war with Russia to defend against Russian predation.
00:54:38.000Now, I will say, I think it was very smart of Vladimir Zelensky to finally back off the idiotic line that he took on Friday trying to force President Trump to say things he didn't want to say.
00:54:47.000Zelensky issued a letter yesterday before the State of the Union address in which he essentially said, thanks to the United States for all of the aid.
00:54:55.000That he wanted to sign the Red Earth Minerals deal, that he's looking forward to moving toward peace.
00:54:59.000These are all things Zelensky could have said on Friday and should have said on Friday, but I'm glad that he said them yesterday.
00:55:03.000Because again, the off-ramp is clear here.
00:55:06.000The question is not really whether Ukraine will get there.
00:55:08.000It's really whether Russia will get there.
00:55:10.000President Trump is trying his hardest to get Russia there.
00:55:13.000President Trump talked about funding Ukraine.
00:55:15.000And the Democrats, the only time they applauded all night, not for the cancer kid, not for the young woman with...
00:55:22.000Brain injury, traumatic brain injury from being pulverized by a volleyball hit by a man.
00:55:26.000Not for the man who got into West Point.
00:55:29.000Not for the family of the 12-year-old girl who was murdered by illegal immigrants and now a national park is going to be named after.
00:55:44.000Because I'm old enough to remember in 2012, when one Mitt Romney was running against Barack Obama and said that our largest geopolitical opponent was Russia, And Barack Obama said to him in open debate, the 1980s called and they want their foreign policy back.
00:57:06.000Do you want to keep it going for another five years?
00:57:22.000Yeah, you would say Pocahontas says yes.
00:57:26.000Oh my gosh, just wrong footing them just wrong footing them from beginning to end an amazing performance by the president of the United States last night.
00:58:59.000And the entire night was just Trump wrong-fitting Democrats.
00:59:01.000And even Democrats kind of recognized this.
00:59:03.000So in the aftermath, not only was there great polling data suggesting that the American people really liked the speech overall, but even Democrats on the cable news channels were freaking out about the lackluster Democratic So Jake Tapper properly pointed out the Democrats just seemed to absolutely demoralize the whole night.
01:00:25.000And maybe when you have childhood cancer, that crystallizes for you.
01:00:29.000And I hope he has a long life as a law enforcement officer.
01:00:33.000But I hope he never has to defend the United States Capitol against Donald Trump's supporters.
01:00:37.000And if he does, I hope he isn't one of the six who loses his life to suicide.
01:00:42.000And I hope he isn't one who has to testify against the people who carried out acts of seditious conspiracy and then lived to see Donald Trump pardon those people.
01:03:04.000To join our campaign to get a federal pardon for Derek Chauvin, the man who is clearly railroaded in the George Floyd death.
01:03:11.000A federal pardon won't free him from jail, but it will reset the table on his conviction in state court.
01:03:16.000And of course, it will rectify a grievous judicial wrong.
01:03:19.000Whether you believe that he was responsible for George Floyd's death or not, there's no question he did not get a fair trial.
01:03:24.000There's just no question about any of this.
01:03:26.000By the way, he is not responsible for George Floyd's death, in my opinion.
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