On today's show, we have the latest on the latest in the Iran strikes, and the reaction from President Trump and the fake news media. We also hear about Ford's new Ford Fusion, and more! Don't miss it!
00:09:50.520He gave them numerous chances to say, look, put down your nuclear program and we can find peace.
00:09:56.720And I think that one of the biggest moments in all of this that all of us should really remember outside of President Trump being willing to drop the bunker busters and take out the threat is when he pulls, you know, Iran and Israel leadership together and says and gets the ceasefire.
00:10:15.220Well, the ceasefire didn't, it didn't sound like it was going to hold long.
00:10:17.980And, you know, who does he call first when it looked like both sides were going to continue shooting at each other?
00:10:24.840He calls Prime Minister Netanyahu and says, turn the planes around.
00:10:28.620I just think that's a very historic moment.
00:10:31.380And Prime Minister Netanyahu's respect for President Trump is so great that he turns the planes around, brings them back home, because in that moment it would have been easy to kind of say, we're going to go bomb them one more time.
00:20:22.420I think part of it goes back to, you know, even Senator Lindsey Graham posted, you know, game on when there was an attack from Israel to Iran.
00:20:34.340And I think to him, that's something, I mean, something very different than probably what you and I believe it is.
00:20:46.500We should actually be cheering for peace.
00:20:48.300And that's where I think the old neocon school of thought is peace through strength.
00:20:55.420What President Trump has done is he's added something to that.
00:20:58.940It's peace through strength and prosperity.
00:21:01.380And that's where I believe people, if they have the opportunity to, you know, and again, this isn't going to be everybody, but in general, most civilizations, if you watch, look at the UAE.
00:21:16.500Look at these countries that were undeveloped, you know, 50 years ago that have come a long way because of oil and other opportunities that they have, you know, shipping.
00:21:27.100When there's commerce, there's not chaos, like President Trump said.
00:21:32.280And when there's technology and there's a way to build, I think there's a part of all of us as human beings that we like to build.
00:21:39.600Now, if there's an enemy and people, you know, they killed your father or they killed your family, there's always this back and forth and it's got to stop.
00:21:49.380At some point, you've got to say, put it behind you.
00:21:51.940I mean, you've just got to forgive the sins of the past if people can agree to that and start building, even if you don't have to be the best of friends, but you don't have to go attack one another.
00:22:00.280One of the things that I think was really interesting, I was talking with the president of Kosovo a couple of weeks ago, and she's a young 40-something president of Kosovo.
00:22:11.140And she said, and this goes all the way back to our U.S. policy under President Clinton, but it does kind of give us an idea, an example of what American policy can be and should be, is that, you know, Kosovo has been a war-torn country for years and years.
00:22:27.680And she told me, she's very Trumpy, she said that she wants to join the European Union in Kosovo, but she has to dial the Trump talk down a little bit because, of course, Europe is not where they used to be.
00:22:40.720And, you know, they're always looking to us to lead anyway, outside of Churchill, of course.
00:22:45.620But she said that because of the United States, her young children are the first generation of Kosovoans in a thousand years who have not seen war.
00:22:55.600And I think that's what shows all of us here in America, where we haven't, we don't see war on our streets like other countries do.
00:23:02.960We have our issues, but we don't see what they see in Kosovo for thousands of years of just war and constantly.
00:23:09.640They're now experiencing peace and people like it.
00:23:12.780I even sense that in Syria with folks that they're so tired of war.
00:23:27.220We want to live together in just peace and respect for one another.
00:23:32.260You know, that's what that's what grownups do.
00:23:34.040We find a way, you know, we can agree to disagree, but we're not we don't have to shoot each other over it.
00:23:39.460I'm excited to hear about the potential for the expansion of the Abraham Accords.
00:23:43.520Now, taking it back home, many people who are just upset over the whole scenario with war are saying we need to get back to our domestic agenda and Trump should be focused on the big, beautiful bill migration.
00:23:56.860I'm curious your thoughts on the current state of Trump's, you know, big, beautiful bill, as he's calling it, and what you think we should be focusing on here at home.
00:24:06.720I mean, the big, beautiful bill is really important to keep, you know, taxes from going up and grow this economy.
00:24:14.520One of the things, you know, I come from the business world and I come from family business, farm, family, manufacturing, logistics.
00:24:22.880We were in the restaurant business, so our family's covered a variety of sectors.
00:24:27.860And I know how hard it is, especially going through COVID, what government did to small businesses and businesses across the country was devastating to people.
00:24:38.740People lost their livelihoods because the government shut down the economy and then tried to pay them back some other way with, you know, government, with taxpayer money through the government, which wasn't the solution at all.
00:24:50.540But this big, beautiful bill is going to extend the Trump tax cuts from 2018, make them permanent.
00:24:56.400It's going to really focus on growth, and that's how we're going to get out of our debt and our deficits.
00:25:02.380I'm a budget hawk, and one thing that I believe, the greatest threat to the United States is our debt and deficits.
00:25:08.700$36 trillion of debt, you throw interest on top of that, we're paying about a trillion dollars a year in debt service on our debt.
00:25:17.380That's equal to our military, and we're spending more on our military than we ever have.
00:25:21.640But Washington just doesn't seem to have any appetite to cut spending.
00:25:26.900And that's where President Trump, Elon Musk, the Doge team did a huge service to not only the American people, but actually did a huge service to Congress.
00:25:36.040I was actually in a meeting yesterday with Speaker Mike Johnson, and he was saying the same thing that we've all, a lot of us have experienced.
00:25:43.700We're trying to find out where is the money going, and when you write these agencies and ask where is the money going, they tell you what they want you to hear.
00:25:54.540And what the Doge team has done and what the Trump administration has done is actually going right to the Treasury.
00:26:00.680A billion dollars an hour is what leaves the Treasury.
00:26:04.100And that's a number that we can't even imagine.
00:26:08.160But if you think about it, a billion dollars an hour, if somebody figured out a way to get into the Treasury to get payments for some sort of contract in the past, and the Treasury keeps making payments on it, do you think they call them up and say, hey, you don't have to send us that money anymore?
00:26:26.660And I think that that's what the Doge team and what the Trump team are doing to focus on getting spending under control.
00:26:33.540But we've got to grow this economy as well.
00:26:35.700There was one of the stories during the Doge arc, I'd call it, when Elon was in there, where it was like a single page demanding the Treasury pay like a billion dollars.
00:27:28.180I think the big concern Rhett Massey as well as Senator Rand Paul have is that the big, beautiful bill still does add to the deficit, at least on the surface.
00:27:37.960There's an argument that if we actually deal with the issues of immigration and implement some of what's in the bill, our costs will go down in other areas.
00:27:47.060I'm curious if you think that's correct or how you view it.
00:28:10.420They call that even spending, which, you know, we've even fallen into that narrative and said, oh, if you cut taxes, you're spending money.
00:28:18.480Well, no, the government is losing that money.
00:28:21.260The government's not going to get that revenue from those taxes.
00:28:24.320But because of the way Congressional Budget Office scores our bills, you know, keeping the tax cuts in place, they're calling that like a trillion-dollar spend.
00:28:37.620Here's an interesting, important fact as well.
00:28:42.020Because we have hovered around 2.5% GDP growth, even down, we're pushing down towards the 2% mark during the Obama years.
00:28:51.220For every percent GDP that we lose, that's a trillion dollars in revenue.
00:28:55.760So because we have fallen away from the 3% GDP growth that we've been used to for so long as a country, that's where a lot of the revenue has been lost.
00:29:06.780You know, spending is still out of control.
00:29:08.360There's still spending to cut and reforms to be made.
00:29:11.480But that's why it's important to have a growing economy so that way there is tax revenue.
00:29:16.640But at the same time, in the big, beautiful bill, the only spending that's in there that is like cash going out from the Treasury is for defense and for the border.
00:29:28.940All of the others is basically just eliminating, you know, keeping the tax cuts low and then also the EV tax credits.
00:30:55.760There's a lot of sense of optimism because the Democrat Party hasn't necessarily learned from their losses and why President Trump won.
00:31:03.500And I think that, you know, they've been doubling down on the policies that they were telling the American people are so great.
00:31:10.260I mean, I was chairing the floor earlier today and I couldn't believe, again, how many Democrats were coming to the floor talking about defending illegal immigrants.
00:31:19.640I mean, this is one that us as American people, we're like, you know what, why don't you start defending the legal people that are here rather than defending the illegals that came over here illegally.
00:31:31.040And so I think that the Democrats continue to double down on these very unpopular positions.
00:31:37.560They have taught socialism to a lot of their children over time.
00:31:43.020And it's scary to think that that's where New York City's at.
00:31:45.960I mean, how many years ago was it that, you know, we had even Bloomberg was at least somewhat of a free market sort of a, you know, person with ideas.
00:31:56.360But, you know, since Rudy Giuliani, we've gone far, far left.
00:32:00.740And I think that's where our big cities, Nate, I really truly believe that New York, the state of New York and the state of California and the state of Illinois are the biggest, you know, hurt to the federal government because they continue to take and take.
00:32:14.980California's reimbursements just on Medicaid alone is about one hundred and sixty billion dollars a year.
00:32:21.760That's larger than the entire state budget of Florida.
00:32:25.140These states continue to take more and more and give to illegals.
00:32:28.020And I think it's going to come back to haunt them in the primary or in the next election.
00:32:31.240And that was that was the big thing with the salt deductions.
00:32:33.140Basically, these blue states get it free because they pay less in federal taxes.
00:32:37.600But there is still some speculation that this Mamdani guy might lose because you'll get a moderate and Republican coalition against them.
00:32:47.040I'm not entirely sure, but I think the takeaway from it is the younger generation of left leaning Americans are socialists or communists.
00:32:55.440And that's going to have an effect across the country.
00:32:57.980Now, with the issue of the midterms, I'm wondering if, you know, you mentioned correctly, historically, the president's party loses the midterms.
00:33:06.220But, man, if they keep taking these 80-20 issues and going on the wrong side, like defending illegal immigrants, they might break the trend.
00:33:22.020And, you know, I'll say this one other thing.
00:33:23.860You know, we talked about this a little earlier with the Middle East and the curriculum that's taught in the Middle East.
00:33:29.000It's the same fight that we have here at home.
00:33:31.520We need to make sure that our curriculum across the country and across the schools, school districts in the United States, is teaching curriculum that teaches American values rather than teaching socialism, that socialism is somehow a good form of government.
00:33:45.560AOC, if she becomes the face of the Democrat Party, I think they'll be in the wilderness for the next 40 years.
00:34:26.640And, you know, when we're doing the preps for interviews and we're trying to figure out who the guest for the morning show is going to be, they came and they said he's working on the Abraham Accords, which I think is one of the most exciting, tremendous successes of Trump's first term and history.
00:34:44.200Trump set himself up with this insane task of bringing peace to the Middle East, which is considered to be a meme.
00:34:54.000And Trump was like, I'm going to do it.
00:35:19.160They were started before him and technically in between.
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00:36:17.060Trump's working as hard as he can to solve this.
00:36:23.780I'm not a fan of how Syria fell apart.
00:36:26.540U.S. propaganda efforts, Qatar Turkey Pipeline and all that.
00:36:29.580But what matters right now is are we going to get peace?
00:36:31.680And if they've got a new government and that new government wants normalization, commerce, train, you know, train, railroads and all that stuff, man, we really have an opportunity for this generation to bring about something awesome.
00:36:45.980And think about how they insulted and demean and lie about Trump every single day.
00:36:51.600Remarkably, Donald Trump does something that I don't like with this strike on Iran.
00:36:56.480But afterwards, he stabilizes a ceasefire, at least so far.
00:37:03.420And the remarkable thing is, if Trump is able to pull that off, denuclearizing Iran, at least for a few years, without creating a war, even with my concerns and criticism, it is the best foreign policy ever performed in my lifetime.
00:37:20.220No new exacerbated conflict in the Middle East.