It has been 10 years since President Trump went down that golden escalator. We talk about that, and then we have Eric Trump and Rick Scott to react. Charlie and I remember where we were 10 years ago, and how far we have come since then.
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00:02:14.000But before we do, we need to take a step back and realize how far we have come and how what happened 10 years ago today is dictating and is determinative to all the news that we are watching.
00:03:19.000Was this an actual political campaign?
00:03:21.000You see, we knew enough about Donald Trump.
00:03:24.000But what Donald Trump decided to do when he went down the elevator, then down the escalator, is he basically put his entire life on full-time colonoscopy.
00:03:37.000When he went down the escalator, America changed profoundly.
00:04:47.000He just celebrated his 79th birthday on Saturday.
00:04:52.000And you look at that announcement video, he is one of the few people in politics that quite honestly doesn't age into a decrepit old ball after being around for four years.
00:05:03.000And there's something real special there about President Donald Trump.
00:05:07.000The journey that he started on that day 10 years ago today was the birth of many things.
00:05:42.000There was some ups and there were some downs.
00:05:44.000But make no mistake, what President Trump said back 10 years ago, you would not know that if what President Trump was announcing for the presidency or if he was just giving another campaign rally today.
00:07:15.000He has remade the entire Republican Party.
00:07:18.000He revived a dead and dying GOP that was spending its time and resources with post-mortems from losing repeatedly and whose best ideas were to embrace amnesty and Democrat-like policies.
00:08:16.000President Trump was the first Republican candidate to criticize the entrenched bureaucracy.
00:08:25.000Department of Justice, Internal Revenue Service, otherwise known as the Deep State.
00:08:30.000And look at all the different chapters we've been through, from 10 years ago going down that golden escalator, to the shock victory versus Hillary Clinton, to Russiagate, to James Comey, to him being spied on, to the 2020 election, to COVID, to exile, Donald Trump plots his comeback, to the indictments facing 700 years in federal prison.
00:08:54.000To picking J.D. Vance as vice president, to getting shot in the ear, nearly dying, almost getting shot again, defeating Kamala Harris after they switched the candidate in a popular vote victory and an electoral vote landslide.
00:09:08.000To now, it leads all the way back to today.
00:09:11.000And you look, it is without a doubt, for all of you that have always had President Trump's back these last 10 years, for all of you that have never wavered, for all of you that have stood firm, for all of you that have continued to donate and pray and knock on doors and get friends out, you are part of, without a doubt, the most breathtaking political journey in American history.
00:09:32.000From a businessman that people watched on TV.
00:09:36.000From you're fired on The Apprentice, to Trump Wine, to Trump University, to all the different labeling, whether they're controversial or mainline or mainstream, it doesn't matter.
00:09:48.000From Trump Airlines, to him trying to start his own football program, football league, to the art of the deal, to him going on Oprah.
00:09:57.000We thought we knew Donald Trump, and he remade the American body politic, and dare I say he's being used as a vessel to save Western civilization.
00:10:06.000From being loved by liberals to hated by liberals.
00:10:09.000But ten years later, we can say he did not just run, he rewrote the rules.
00:12:45.000What got people so upset, what made Donald Trump the recipient of theory, of anger was when Donald Trump dared to openly criticize the war in Iraq.
00:13:01.000When Donald Trump dared to say that the Iraq war was a major mistake.
00:13:07.000Donald Trump took out a sword and stabbed neoconservative in the face and said, this is no longer going to be the ethos of this Republican Party.
00:14:25.000Donald Trump, his perspective when it comes to foreign policy is not about winning and turning over the hearts of minds of the people of Iraq and making them into Westerners.
00:14:38.000It's about we're going to use force if necessary.
00:14:41.000We're going to knock you out and then we're going to get out.
00:14:44.000You have to be philosophically consistent.
00:14:47.000As I was re-watching Donald Trump's announcement address 10 years ago today, this is not one that you are going to see very often on TV.
00:14:55.000Donald Trump for a decade has been very worried about Iran getting a nuclear weapon.
00:15:02.000So he simultaneously is worried about a permanent Middle East quagmire, but a lesser reported and lesser remembered part of his historic announcement.
00:15:32.000And in 19, and I will tell you this, and I said it very strongly, years ago, I said, But I said, don't hit Iraq, because you're going to totally destabilize the Middle East.
00:15:54.000Iran is going to take over the Middle East.
00:15:57.000Iran and somebody else will get the oil.
00:16:00.000And it turned out that Iran is now taking over Iraq.
00:16:04.000He was very worried about Iranian expansion throughout the Middle East, and he was right about all of that.
00:16:10.000You see, where we are today, by the way, just to be clear, Donald Trump got rid of ISIS.
00:16:16.000ISIS has destroyed something he does not get credit for.
00:16:19.000He was solving the problems of neoconservatives' past.
00:16:22.000He was remedying the problems of George W. Bush.
00:16:26.000And that's a very important philosophical baseline for what we're now seeing between Israel and Iran, and we're going to go into all of it.
00:16:33.000We're going to go through the best possible outcomes and the worst possible outcomes and maybe some of the outcomes right in the middle.
00:16:42.000Between regime change, is that a good thing?
00:16:53.000We're going to examine that all throughout the next couple of hours.
00:16:57.000But the baseline for all of that we must never forget is the way we are even viewing These issues, the way that we are asking questions, the way that we are processing this information is fundamentally different because a billionaire decided to go down an escalator and change politics for good.
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00:18:25.000I know you have a major announcement about Trump Mobile, but first, I want you to recollect, it's been a decade, my friend, what a 10 years it has been.
00:18:34.000Hey, Charlie, listen, you sit in the same seat as I do in many regards, and sometimes you need to pitch yourself, right?
00:18:39.00010 years ago, to this day, he went down that escalator.
00:18:42.000I've stood on the stage with him every single day since then.
00:18:44.000There's probably been no bigger defender of his, more loyal surrogate than I was during that period of time.
00:19:28.000I became the most subpoenaed person probably in American history based on the fact that they couldn't get to my father through the executive branch, so they just absolutely came after us, our companies, our wealth, our employees.
00:20:52.000I didn't know what a caucus was in Iowa.
00:20:55.000Listen, I was a master at concrete and building.
00:20:59.000I didn't know a damn thing about, you know, the American political system, at least, you know, kind of the intricacies of running for.
00:21:06.000I remember going to Iowa, and I'm standing on tables in the middle of pizza ranches and other places, giving stump speech, and it was so awkward when you first got into it.
00:21:16.000My mom would kill me for having my shoes on a table, and yet I'm sitting here doing a stump speech to a bunch of people at lunchtime who probably didn't even want to hear a stump speech, because that's just what you did in the state of Iowa.
00:21:26.000There were times where it was uncomfortable.
00:21:31.000But man, has he changed the country in so many great ways.
00:21:33.000He taught Republicans how to fight again.
00:21:36.000He taught people that you could be unapologetic, that you could focus on your core beliefs, and they could actually bring you to kind of the promised land, get you a victory.
00:21:44.000He was the greatest rhino hunter in the history of politics in that he knocked out every, I won't use a word on TV, just to try and be a little bit respectful, but every Mitt Romney, every Sass, all these guys who were the worst of the worst.
00:21:58.000He created a Republican Party that wanted to fight for core principles that they actually agreed upon.
00:22:04.000They weren't just kind of rollover stiffs that were unrelatable to the entire country.
00:22:18.000You take 10,000 billionaires in his same spot, not a single person could have lasted that fight.
00:22:23.000Not a single person would have weathered that storm.
00:22:27.000And he keeps on fighting every single day when what everybody else would have done would have been just revert to comfort, revert to Mar-a-Lago, revert to the beautiful plains, revert to playing golf and hanging out with the grandkids every single day.
00:22:38.000I mean, he has blood flowing down his face, and he stands up fight by fight, and he doesn't stop.
00:23:39.000As many days as I sat in those courtrooms with my father and as many uncomfortable depositions and subpoenas as I got, they couldn't break me and they didn't break Don and they didn't break anybody else in the family.
00:23:49.000He did a great job raising us, there's no question about it.
00:23:51.000So, what is your announcement here today?
00:24:22.000They started writing me letters in the middle of the night saying we're We're closing the accounts of Trump Tower and 40 Wall Street and all your buildings all around the world.
00:24:30.000We're closing the accounts, and we don't give a damn because you wear that red hat that says Make America Great Again.
00:24:33.000And so we started World Liberty Financial, which is kind of our way to fight back against the big banks and kind of remove the power from the big banks, no different than Truth did with Freedom of Speech.
00:24:43.000And today we're launching Trump Mobile, and this is phones that will be made in the United States.
00:24:48.000These are phones that have customer service in the United States, all based out of St. Louis.
00:24:53.000These are phones made by Americans, for Americans, you know, with international calling.
00:24:59.000Over 100 countries around the world, totally free, unlimited text, you know, $47 a month.
00:25:05.000We are going to go in, no different than we did in the crypto world, no different than, obviously, we did, you know, in the social media world.
00:26:33.000Now to the race for the White House, and after decades of very publicly flirting with the idea, billionaire Donald Trump says he really is running for president this time around.
00:26:43.000His announcement was vintage Trump talking up his vast wealth and combining his first campaign speech with his first campaign controversy when he said this.
00:26:52.000When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best.
00:26:57.000They're sending people that have lots of problems.
00:27:01.000And they're bringing those problems with us.
00:27:30.000And I just want you to look at L.A. right now as they burn cop cars, and so many people are holding Mexican flags and walking around those, and by the way, many other nationalities, and walking around those cars as they're on fire.
00:27:42.000And so, you know, that's exactly right.
00:27:45.000My father was willing to say what everybody was thinking, but everybody was too afraid to say.
00:27:49.000And from that moment, from that speech, his polls spiked.
00:27:52.000And then he would come out and be slightly controversial again, but exactly what people were thinking, and his polls would spike again.
00:27:58.000And honestly, it's that kind of un-PC, unscripted toughness that you see right there, which is what won my father the presidency in 2016, and certainly what won him the presidency again in 2024.
00:28:10.000And you just needed a person who had the courage and the backbone to say it, and that's Donald Trump.
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00:30:40.000So, Senator, the question that a lot of our audience has still here more domestically is, and this all kind of intersects with the Big Beautiful Bill, which is because we're getting our own golden dome in the Big Beautiful Bill.
00:31:04.000So let's just say right now, if the Chinese Communist Party, God forbid, sent a ballistic missile to America right now today, who would intercept it?
00:31:15.000Do we have the technology to do that right now?
00:31:18.000We have the technology to intercept it, but we've got to improve our technology.
00:31:53.000It's going to take a lot more money to do it here.
00:31:56.000Just right now as we are live on air, this is why it all connects together, a ballistic missile launch detected from Iran as we're here live on air.
00:32:05.000So it's just kind of very chilling to think that, God forbid this happens, but it might, that someone who's alive right now might not be alive in about six minutes.
00:33:35.000And by the way, what you said about Donald Trump, about what he talked about when he first came down the escalator, is exactly how we ought to think about this.
00:33:43.000We don't want to get into these forever wars.
00:33:45.000And we want to have such a strong military, nobody wants to play with us.
00:33:49.000Now, on top of that, we all have to understand, we have $37 trillion worth of debt.
00:35:13.000So these are things we can fix, we should fix, we must fix.
00:35:16.000And we've got to figure out how to get more savings to get close and hopefully to a balanced budget within a very short period of time to get interest rates down and get inflation under control.
00:35:26.000So, Senator, what then is the barrier to getting this done and what is the process?
00:35:32.000To get senators aligned and agreed with that.
00:35:35.000And are you saying that the original draft did not remove all of the Biden Green New Deal components?
00:36:03.000Number two, we've got to fix the Medicaid program to cover the people that should be covered.
00:36:10.000Poor kids, like my little brother, when I was growing up before Medicaid, couldn't get health care when he had a significant disease in his hip.
00:36:16.000I remember my mom's face when she heard about it, found out about it, and then couldn't get a doc.
00:36:23.000But the Democratic governors, they're spending money on people that don't want to work.
00:36:27.000They're spending money on illegals in this country.
00:36:32.000So on top of that, we got to take care of the people that have a chronic illness.
00:36:36.000OK, so what's happened, though, is that blue state governors have taken the Medicaid dollars and spent on other things like health care for illegals, free health care for people that don't want to work.
00:36:48.000So, Senator, there were some reports this weekend that Senator Lindsey Graham said that no tax on tips and no tax on overtime might not make the final draft.
00:39:14.000So although I don't think there's any question, all the border funding will be in there.
00:39:17.000I think I think the real conversation is really about are we going to make this You know, are we going to stop a lot of the wasteful spending?