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00:00:30.000 Mitch McConnell wants more spending, not less.

00:00:33.360 I got a message for Mitch.

00:00:35.660 Also, Carol Roth is here to talk about the economy.

00:00:38.220 And what do you want to hear from President Trump in tonight's speech in front of Congress?

00:00:42.460 Oh, we have some opinions on that all in today's podcast.

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00:01:40.820 I have to start here because this is the thing that is our biggest problem, and it is—I was going to say this, but I want to be very careful.

00:02:04.680 It's old people, but it's old people that will not leave Congress or the Senate. 1.00

00:02:13.460 It's not all old people.

00:02:15.140 Donald Trump is an old guy, but he's not acting like it, and he's not thinking like it.

00:02:20.380 Mitch McConnell is an old guy who has old think, if he can't even think.

00:02:25.200 Somebody in his office is thinking old.

00:02:27.140 Let's put it that way.

00:02:28.560 So he represents Kentucky, obviously.

00:02:31.540 Mitch McConnell wrote in the Washington Post, every time Congress faces a government funding deadline, Washington reminds itself that shutdowns are worth avoiding.

00:02:41.500 This is familiar in an all-too-frequent conversation.

00:02:45.160 He goes on to say, today we're closer than ever on making ignoble history on the front of budgets, tomorrow's challenges,

00:02:55.360 and we owe it to our men in uniform and our taxpayers to be honest about the consequences.

00:03:00.600 Consumer goods aren't the only things that have grown more expensive in recent years.

00:03:04.260 In times of high inflation, governance without updated appropriation means diminished Pentagon buying power,

00:03:10.040 forcing the U.S. military to equip itself for the next year's threat at this year's prices.

00:03:14.400 Even as fresh eyes comb the Pentagon for new efficiencies and cost savings, effective military acquisitions continue to require multi-year runways.

00:03:24.380 A truly clean full-year continuing resolution would, at the level set for 2024, would mean no new starts on critical programs that the military needs.

00:03:34.440 Okay.

00:03:35.020 He goes on and on and on about how the Pentagon just needs more money.

00:03:38.320 We just have to spend more, more, more on more, more, more for the Pentagon.

00:03:42.460 So, I would like to respond with my own op-ed.

00:03:47.820 Dear Senator McConnell, your call for more Pentagon spending is as tone-deaf as it is reckless.

00:03:57.700 The United States, I don't know if you know this, already spends more on its military than the next nine countries combined.

00:04:05.120 We spend $877 billion last year alone, dwarfing China, Russia, and the entire EU's collective defense budgets.

00:04:18.520 All of those, nine countries, and they're the big nine.

00:04:23.640 And then us.

00:04:24.880 And we still dwarf them.

00:04:27.080 I don't know.

00:04:28.080 You need more money?

00:04:29.100 Why are you so worried about China if they don't have all this money?

00:04:34.940 And yet, here you are, clamoring for more, as if throwing cash at an outdated war machine is somehow or another going to secure our future.

00:04:42.280 The world has changed, Senator.

00:04:45.520 And your priorities are stuck in your time, country time era.

00:04:50.620 Aircraft carriers, those floating behemoths that you and the Pentagon so dearly love, are relics of the past.

00:05:01.540 In the next real conflict, they'll be as useless as horses were in World War I.

00:05:08.020 Speaking of which, let me just give you the stats on the horses, because it's going to be applicable to the aircraft carriers the next time we really go to war.

00:05:16.160 When Europe entered World War I, they had 25 million horses.

00:05:22.460 By 1918, 15 million of them were dead.

00:05:28.400 Why?

00:05:29.300 Because they were mowed down and slaughtered by machine guns and tanks that ran over them because they couldn't outrun them.

00:05:38.580 That's the fate awaiting, Mr. McConnell.

00:05:42.200 Oh, boy, I would love to start calling you Mr. and, uh...

00:05:45.520 That is the fate awaiting your aircraft carriers.

00:05:50.860 Sunk by hypersonic missiles or swarms of really cheap, $500, AI-driven drones.

00:06:00.060 That'll happen before they can even launch a jet. 0.61

00:06:03.680 The 1950s called Senator, and they want their war plans back.

00:06:08.020 The future isn't in steel and jet fuel.

00:06:12.900 It's in artificial intelligence and, unfortunately, artificial superintelligence.

00:06:18.920 Every dollar spent on yesterday's hardware today is a dollar wasted in three years when AGI upends everything we know about warfare.

00:06:30.300 Worse, with the Pentagon's track record, every dollar spent today will balloon into $2 or $3 of inflation tomorrow,

00:06:39.640 thanks to the House and the Senate's obscene spending spree. 1.00

00:06:44.140 We're drowning in $34 trillion of national debt.

00:06:49.100 That's 128% of GDP, a level unseen since World War II.

00:06:54.880 A level unseen since World War II.

00:06:58.360 Annual deficits are now $1.7 trillion.

00:07:03.380 That's what they were in 23.

00:07:05.440 Interest payments alone are projected to go over $1 trillion this year or early next.

00:07:13.640 I don't know about anybody else, but those numbers aren't sustainable.

00:07:18.500 It's a fiscal time bomb.

00:07:20.960 And yet, you want to shovel more taxpayer money into the Pentagon that hasn't passed a single audit in its history?

00:07:31.040 Six attempts since 2018.

00:07:34.000 Six failures.

00:07:36.120 Trillions of dollars unaccounted for.

00:07:39.380 Waste so rampant it defies comprehension.

00:07:41.980 I'm sorry, Senator, it's irresponsible bordering on criminal to suggest more spending when they can't even count the cash they have.

00:07:52.780 When will you people in Washington wake up?

00:07:59.360 The real threat isn't just from abroad, although those dangers are profound.

00:08:04.980 It's from within.

00:08:07.660 The call is coming from inside the House.

00:08:10.500 In fact, it's not just the House.

00:08:12.880 It's also coming from the Senate, Senator.

00:08:16.820 Your refusal to adapt is jeopardizing our security more than any foreign adversary could.

00:08:24.460 I don't know.

00:08:25.200 Has anybody seen the drone shows that China does, you know, on their whatever, 4th of July? 0.85

00:08:29.020 They seem to do it like 700 times a day or a week.

00:08:32.200 I don't know why they do.

00:08:33.400 But they have these drone shows, thousands of synchronized lights that are just painting the sky, making things move.

00:08:41.120 Have you seen them land ever on these giant open fields and they just keep coming down like an invasion?

00:08:50.680 Thousands of these drones.

00:08:54.220 Now, Senator, I want you to listen carefully.

00:08:57.040 I'll speak slowly so you and, well, you won't hear it, but your staff will hear it.

00:09:02.560 Imagine those aren't fireworks or for a show, but weaponized drones, each one really cheap, precise, and networked by AI.

00:09:18.140 A single network with AI, a single swarm could cripple our planes, ships, tanks, and troops before we ever load a gun.

00:09:28.860 Ukraine, Ukraine's drone wars have already shown the reality.

00:09:33.480 $500 drones taking out $10 million tanks.

00:09:38.260 Senator, that is the future that we're staring down right now, okay?

00:09:42.660 And you're still polishing Cold War relics?

00:09:46.300 Here's what I want the president to say today.

00:09:50.500 Freeze every bloated project.

00:09:53.380 And I'm talking specifically about the Pentagon.

00:09:58.560 Redirect everything, every dime, every mind toward winning the AI-ASI race.

00:10:05.560 You know how I feel about that.

00:10:07.720 It scares the living bat crap out of me.

00:10:10.480 But you know what's worse?

00:10:12.500 Us not leading.

00:10:14.960 This is the only battlefield that matters now.

00:10:18.520 We've got enough stockpiles of dusty old stuff to handle any foreseeable war in the next two to three years.

00:10:27.280 We also have a president, if you people in Congress would understand what he's doing,

00:10:32.940 fighting to end the conflicts, not start more of them.

00:10:37.160 Your plea for more spending isn't just misguided.

00:10:41.540 It is an absolute betrayal of the American people who are sinking under debt and inflation while you chase ghosts of wars past.

00:10:52.120 Or is that what you're doing?

00:10:55.340 I mean, I might have buried the lead here, Senator.

00:10:58.780 But, well, let's see if anyone else listens to the following stats and they think maybe this op-ed was being written not for the American people.

00:11:13.740 And probably not by you, but probably by somebody who hasn't lost their mind to dementia yet who works in your office.

00:11:23.460 Listen to these stats.

00:11:24.760 Your state, Senator, Kentucky, it's 45th in GDP per capita.

00:11:31.080 It's 44th in employment.

00:11:33.980 It's 42nd in high school diplomas.

00:11:38.200 And yet it's 11th in defense-related contract spending.

00:11:45.020 Hmm.

00:11:46.640 So, Senator, may I just ask you, who are you really concerned about?

00:11:54.760 The safety of the American people?

00:11:57.740 Or the people you funneled millions, if not billions of dollars to over the years?

00:12:04.960 Haven't you done them enough favors?

00:12:08.020 What do you say you give it a rest?

00:12:11.180 Because thanks, but no thanks, on spending more money with the Pentagon.

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00:13:26.780 All right, let me go to Carol Roth.

00:13:28.160 Hello, Carol.

00:13:28.680 How are you?

00:13:29.900 You know, Glenn, I just found out that we've only been in this administration for a month and a half-ish.

00:13:36.180 Yeah.

00:13:36.400 And I feel like it's been 16 years.

00:13:39.160 I know.

00:13:39.480 So there's been so much going on that I'm just trying to process it out.

00:13:42.780 When someone said, oh, it's only been a month and a half, I went, yeah, my mind was blown.

00:13:46.640 Yeah, we're 40 days into, around 40 days into this administration, and you're looking at this, and I'm, it's breathtaking at what has been done.

00:13:57.340 Last month, we had, I think, 1,800 encounters at the borders.

00:14:03.020 A year ago, last February, it was 109,000 encounters.

00:14:09.420 That's how much of an impact he's made on that.

00:14:12.120 We have all these things that he's done, but when it comes to the economy, Congress has to move on some of his things.

00:14:19.660 He hasn't really done anything with the economy except, perhaps, for Doge, which you've been warning about on this program for a while now.

00:14:32.420 What's happening?

00:14:33.460 Yes, so, you know, we've talked about before that the economic situation is not really what it was presented to be.

00:14:43.800 You know, we heard under Biden and certainly during election season, what a wonderful economy we had.

00:14:51.340 All of these really great statistics on employment and growth.

00:14:55.140 And it's become very clear, well, it was very clear to all of us before we've talked about it, something that Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Besant, talked about in a speech a couple weeks ago, is that really the economic foundation is incredibly fragile.

00:15:10.600 And what we've had the Biden administration do, which was exceptionally nefarious, is that they decided that they were going to spend to paper over the weakness of the economy.

00:15:22.220 So if you remember, I think it was back in 2022, we had those two down quarters of GDP, which is a technical recession, which for some reason, by the way, they said was not a recession.

00:15:32.540 I'm sure if Trump had two down quarters, they would say it was.

00:15:35.760 Depression.

00:15:36.040 You know, it had a D in front of it, but it wasn't.

00:15:39.180 And then, you know, we came out of it and then it was pretty clear that we were going to go into this double dip recession.

00:15:45.220 And so what did they do?

00:15:46.500 They decided to increase government spending, which is very inefficient spending.

00:15:51.260 And we've been running deficits as a percentage of GDP that are at wartime levels.

00:15:57.500 We're talking six to seven percent of GDP.

00:16:00.840 The historical average is somewhere around three or three and a half percent.

00:16:04.820 So about double, you know, what you might see on average.

00:16:08.860 Not, you know, when you have a good economy, you would actually expect that to be much lower because you're getting more receipts.

00:16:15.040 And that's what happened.

00:16:16.100 We had more receipts.

00:16:17.240 We were taking in almost five trillion dollars.

00:16:19.700 We were spending the U.S. government and they're spending even more.

00:16:22.340 They're spending almost seven trillion dollars.

00:16:24.320 So that was done to mask the weakness and the economy now that we don't have the ability to continue to kick up even more and more to show growth.

00:16:35.480 Both the consumer continues to be tapped out from all the Biden era policies and the fact that we have Doge, which is trying to cut down government spending.

00:16:46.580 We're at a situation where things could get uglier before they get better or they could get uglier and they could take away the political will to make them better.

00:16:57.440 And that's, you know, this delicate dance that we've been talking about, why we need this careful choreography.

00:17:02.640 The craziest thing that's happened over the past several days is that the Atlanta Fed, you know, one of the branches of the Federal Reserve that has a tool that predicts GDP for each quarter.

00:17:15.620 They went in the last four weeks, OK, four weeks time from predicting that we were going to have almost four percent GDP growth in the first quarter to now negative three percent in the first quarter.

00:17:32.940 That is a seven percentage point difference in four weeks, which, A, just goes to show what a joke, you know, any of this reporting and these tools and this data are.

00:17:44.700 But I think also shows, hey, we've got somebody else at the helm here.

00:17:50.680 So now we don't need to doctor these numbers in a way that seem a bit more friendly.

00:17:56.240 And so where we potentially could be seeing something ugly, which is something that we've talked about many, many times.

00:18:03.920 And this has been a setup that they knew was coming.

00:18:07.900 If you if you go back to the middle of last year, you had a bunch of, quote, unquote, Nobel economists that put out a piece that said that, you know, Trump was going to create inflation.

00:18:17.640 He was going to do all these bad things to the economy.

00:18:19.420 And I called it out right then and there and said, this is a setup.

00:18:22.580 They know this is coming no matter what.

00:18:24.820 And so they are setting the groundwork to blame this on Trump.

00:18:28.820 And so, you know, get ready for the talking points.

00:18:31.700 You know, Trump's been, as we said, only in there for six weeks.

00:18:34.680 He hasn't even really had a chance to do anything about the economy.

00:18:38.200 Congress certainly isn't helping.

00:18:39.760 And yet we're already getting the rhetoric that, oh, you know, look what he did to our really great economy.

00:18:45.820 Correct me if I'm wrong here, Carol, but the Biden administration, while they spent a lot of money, they did it in ways to cover things up, et cetera, et cetera.

00:18:58.640 But that big 2021, you know, $1.2 trillion bill and then the $836 billion for roads and bridges and broadband and then the $144 billion in the Inflation Reduction Act, it's well over a trillion dollars.

00:19:17.140 And it's my understanding that only 17% of that money has been spent.

00:19:21.840 So what happens if we don't stop the spending of just the stuff that is already on the books from Biden?

00:19:33.400 Wouldn't that cause our inflation to go through the roof? 0.56

00:19:37.000 Yeah, it absolutely would cause our inflation to go through the roof because, you know, even with the cash in and cash out that we have, as we said, we're running these wartime level deficits.

00:19:46.500 And by the way, we're financing those at high interest rates, not necessarily in the historical context, but in the context of the last 15 years.

00:19:55.140 And in a way that we have now made the interest expense on our debt, you know, what we're paying for stuff we've already bought, exceed the financing charges, exceed what we're spending on defense.

00:20:07.060 Niall Ferguson has a great sort of maxim, if you will, that basically I'm paraphrasing here, but, you know, nations that spend more on interest versus debt don't, you know, remain great nations for very long.

00:20:21.860 That seems to be pretty obvious, something that everybody can wrap their heads around, that we don't want to be spending all of our money, you know, paying for stuff that we've quote unquote already bought.

00:20:33.420 And we certainly, at these levels, cannot afford to do that.

00:20:38.420 If we continue to do that, and, you know, this kind of goes into another conversation that we've had before, Glenn, too, is that, you know, central banks around the world, who used to be our friends in support of the U.S. being the world's reserve currency, used to just buy treasuries, you know, as kind of part of the deal here on an ongoing basis.

00:20:57.400 Over the past, you know, 11 or so years, they have been net sellers of treasuries.

00:21:03.440 They've actually replaced that with gold on their balance sheet.

00:21:06.020 So if we don't have central banks that will just buy treasuries whenever, because that's part of the geopolitical deal, that means you have to find people who are, you know, are looking at the price.

00:21:17.100 They're looking at the price of the treasuries.

00:21:19.460 And basically, you know, at this at these levels, even though they've come off a little bit and we can talk about that, too, but they're saying they're overall saying, yeah, we're not going to do that.

00:21:30.800 You know, we we need, you know, to have a reprice here.

00:21:34.020 And, you know, when you don't have enough demand, you end up seeing our yields go higher.

00:21:39.900 And to the extent they add up too high, which we were dangerously close to a few weeks ago, that has come off now.

00:21:46.140 You know, but if you hit that, that could end up causing a debt spiral.

00:21:51.580 It could end up causing a mismanagement or excuse me, not a mismanagement, but basically a throwing up, if you will, of the treasury market and have global implications.

00:22:00.760 So let me just explain this so the average person can understand what you just said.

00:22:04.940 You are you're wanting to buy a new house and the interest rates are up at eight percent.

00:22:14.320 You say, honey, I don't think we should buy a new house.

00:22:17.020 The interest rate is way too high.

00:22:18.820 And and somebody says, well, historically not.

00:22:21.660 Well, historically, yeah, you might be right.

00:22:24.180 But we're not buying in the 1980s right now.

00:22:28.440 We're buying today with our financial situation.

00:22:32.960 So I don't think we're going to buy the house.

00:22:36.640 That's what a normal person would do.

00:22:38.780 And you'd start saving money to buy a house later.

00:22:42.460 That's not what the government is doing.

00:22:43.780 They're saying, let's buy the house at these high interest rates anyway.

00:22:47.660 But when you have poor credit, really good banks are going to say, no, I'm not going to take your loan.

00:22:55.820 That's what she's talking about with the central banks.

00:22:57.960 They're like, I don't want it.

00:22:59.280 I'd rather buy gold because I don't trust that you guys are ever going to get out of debt.

00:23:05.300 And so what happens?

00:23:07.100 Loan sharks step in.

00:23:09.320 This is what she's saying about the yield going up.

00:23:11.700 The loan sharks step in and they say, I can make this deal for you.

00:23:15.280 I'm going to cost you 12 percent.

00:23:17.160 And you're like 12 percent.

00:23:19.000 That's outrageous.

00:23:19.900 You're going to do it.

00:23:20.700 You're not going to do it.

00:23:21.560 What do you want?

00:23:22.060 So we're we're burying ourselves with loan sharks.

00:23:28.080 That's why I believe the president needs to say tonight, Congress must pass a budget.

00:23:37.120 It must have cuts.

00:23:39.080 I'd love him to say it must have a trillion dollars, bare minimum of cuts to show the rest of the world that we're serious.

00:23:50.220 I don't know why Javier Malay can do these things, but we can't. 0.98

00:23:56.340 However, however, Glenn, if we cut, as we talked about, we cut a trillion dollars and we just cut it off very carefully and we don't choreograph it like Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

00:24:08.300 And then we don't have that in our GDP.

00:24:12.060 Then we have a shrunken economy.

00:24:14.240 We're taking in less receipts and we actually explode the deficit, which could end up in a debt spiral.

00:24:22.460 So, yes, Congress needs to do their part, but it needs to be done very surgically.

00:24:28.160 And that is the ultimate challenge.

00:24:29.900 That is the mess that the Biden administration left for Trump.

00:24:33.380 If I were king of the world today and I could go in and say, Congress, this is what you're going to do.

00:24:40.160 I would say to them, you're going to cut a trillion dollars.

00:24:43.120 Plus, you're going to pass either a flat tax or 15-15-15, what the president has talked about.

00:24:49.540 And you're going to cut 50 percent of all regulations.

00:24:55.120 Just cut them right now.

00:24:56.220 And you're going to pass the RAINS Act.

00:24:58.540 That would change the dynamics of the economy.

00:25:02.020 Yes, we would have all of that spending going away from our GDP, from the government.

00:25:08.440 Good.

00:25:09.700 But money would flow into our country and jobs would be created and we'd ignite the engine at the same time.

00:25:18.120 That's what has to happen.

00:25:19.380 But that's not going to be the president's fault if it doesn't happen.

00:25:22.340 What a surprise. 0.81

00:25:23.480 It's going to be the lame-ass GOP that will screw this up. 0.89

00:25:27.440 He's got to get them on path. 0.90

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00:25:47.540 Let's go to North Carolina and Brandon.

00:25:50.000 Hello, Brandon.

00:25:51.820 Hey, Glenn.

00:25:52.460 How you doing?

00:25:53.140 I'm great.

00:25:53.640 How are you?

00:25:54.920 I'm good.

00:25:55.740 First time caller.

00:25:56.960 First time getting through.

00:25:58.360 Good.

00:25:58.680 Thank you.

00:25:59.860 So you just touched on it.

00:26:02.720 I definitely want to hear Trump talk about the bill that was just proposed that every Democrat voted no on.

00:26:10.800 I have a nine-year-old daughter who plays soccer.

00:26:16.400 And the last thing I want is for, you know, the puberty-age boys to start integrating.

00:26:25.980 I mean, what could possibly go wrong, Brandon?

00:26:28.440 Right. 0.99

00:26:29.040 They could just run her over, kick her in the face, which could happen with girls. 1.00

00:26:33.700 But it's a little different when there's a boy running down the field. 0.98

00:26:38.060 It is.

00:26:38.580 I am shocked that the Democrats are still holding on to this.

00:26:43.400 But they did.

00:26:44.040 And he is going to talk about it tonight.

00:26:46.420 And I hope he is hard on Congress, not just on the Democrats, but on the Republicans. 0.98

00:26:51.100 They have got to get their crap together and start moving. 0.97

00:26:54.480 It's 40 days in. 0.99

00:26:56.400 He has moved mountains.

00:26:59.400 He's done stuff in 40 days that I haven't seen presidents do in an entire term.

00:27:04.260 But he has to have Congress. 0.99

00:27:06.420 And the Republicans better get their crap together. 0.99

00:27:10.280 Thanks for your call, Ron in Missouri. 0.99

00:27:12.260 Hello, Ron.

00:27:13.960 Hey, Glenn.

00:27:15.360 I would really like to hear less of the always overconfident Donald Trump as the entertainer

00:27:24.000 and the politician and the campaigner and more of a humble leader in the echo of Winston Churchill.

00:27:33.100 I think this moment in our country needs the speech that all he's got to offer us is blood, sweat, toil, and tears.

00:27:43.960 And I think that has the real potential to unite people behind him.

00:27:47.540 Yeah.

00:27:47.900 If he's frank that, you know, both parties for really all my lifetime have been digging this hole.

00:27:55.640 And it's going to take a lot of work and a lot of sacrifice on all of our parts to get out of this.

00:28:00.840 Not this, you know, pie in the sky.

00:28:04.500 I'm going to fix everything my first day.

00:28:06.760 Golden age of everything talk.

00:28:10.200 I think frank reality and humble call to action would be really helpful.

00:28:16.000 So can I compromise with you here, Ron?

00:28:17.900 Because I don't mind the president coming in and saying, you hired me to stop illegal immigration.

00:28:25.140 We're down to the lowest illegal immigration since, I think, 1968.

00:28:31.280 We have done that and we're still doing more and we're deporting them.

00:28:35.800 I have made great progress on many things and lined them out.

00:28:40.520 But then come to the economy.

00:28:43.340 I got to be straight with you on the economy.

00:28:45.740 This is going to be tough.

00:28:47.600 And I will work my butt off.

00:28:50.140 I will be there every second of the day.

00:28:52.900 You've seen me.

00:28:53.800 I sleep three hours a day.

00:28:55.340 I will give you everything.

00:28:57.000 But I need Congress to do their part on this.

00:29:01.460 But we're in this together.

00:29:03.940 Would you be okay with that compromise where he, because he's going to be Donald Trump?

00:29:10.100 Yeah, no, I don't disagree with what you're saying there.

00:29:15.000 And more than just on the economy, I think he needs to have a call to action for rooting out corruption.

00:29:20.360 Yes.

00:29:21.660 But I agree.

00:29:22.440 He's got to tout what he has done and the steps he is taking.

00:29:25.760 I've got no problem with that.

00:29:27.320 Just people need a realistic view that this isn't going to happen without pain.

00:29:31.960 Correct.

00:29:32.580 Correct.

00:29:32.920 Ron, thank you very much.

00:29:33.860 I'm glad to know you know that.

00:29:35.460 Philip, Minnesota.

00:29:36.720 Hello, Philip.

00:29:38.920 Hey, Glenn.

00:29:39.460 And I'd like to see Trump go old school.

00:29:42.260 Glenn Beck from the Fox days and just do some straightforward PowerPoints.

00:29:47.380 Here's everything the Democrat Party and the Biden regime did to get us to this situation.

00:29:54.940 Here's everything I plan to do to counter that.

00:29:57.760 Call Congress out.

00:29:58.960 Say, look, I can't make Congress act.

00:30:01.900 But if they fail to act for the American people come midterms, you can ensure that they do by voting them out.

00:30:08.160 Simple as that.

00:30:08.960 That's very good.

00:30:09.640 Thank you very much, Philip.

00:30:10.760 Carl, North Carolina.

00:30:13.680 Hi.

00:30:14.340 I'd love to hear Donald Trump say something that no president or congressman has ever said, and that is that the people, with a capital P, highest office in the land, beautiful remnant, has the responsibility and the duty that's mentioned in the Constitution to enforce our Constitution.

00:30:32.140 And that will accomplish at least as much as Donald Trump and any other politicians have accomplished.

00:30:40.060 I agree.

00:30:40.680 I agree.

00:30:40.740 I agree.

00:30:40.760 I agree.

00:30:41.760 That would be great for him to say.

00:30:43.660 I could see him saying that.

00:30:45.120 Maybe not tonight, but I could see him saying that.

00:30:46.900 I've heard him say it is up to the people.

00:30:50.400 You know, he can only do so much constitutionally.

00:30:52.760 It is really up to us.

00:30:55.480 You know, that was one of the things I hated on Joe Biden's first speech that he gave eight years ago, the same night he gave it.

00:31:06.160 And remember, everybody was sitting like six feet apart and there were very few people there and they were all wearing masks.

00:31:12.320 And he looked right at Schumer and all the others and said, we've come through this because of you.

00:31:19.100 And he wasn't talking to the American people.

00:31:21.500 He was talking about the people in the room.

00:31:25.120 He was talking about the politicians.

00:31:27.000 And he did that several times.

00:31:28.840 And it it made I mean, it made the hair stand up on my my neck because I I'd never heard a president say it that way before where, you know, it's up to you.

00:31:39.860 I've heard that a million times when he's talking about the people.

00:31:43.220 But I'd like to hear a president.

00:31:46.000 And I know Donald Trump does believe this, that it is up to you.

00:31:49.860 And and really everything that's been done is in spite of the people, for the most part, that are sitting there in Congress or the Senate.

00:32:01.580 Thanks for your call.

00:32:02.760 Let me take one more here.

00:32:03.960 It's Jake in Iowa.

00:32:05.420 Actually, I have more time.

00:32:06.580 I'll take a couple.

00:32:07.240 Go ahead, Jake.

00:32:08.400 Greetings from Iowa, Glenn.

00:32:09.720 Two things I'd like to see Mr. President say tonight is as far as Doge uncovering this fraud and misuse of funds, I would love for him to say that they're going to prosecute to the fullest extent possible anybody who is caught funneling money.

00:32:26.220 And I'm talking like Elliot Ness, where we use some some obscure laws and just punish them because this is the taxpayers money in it.

00:32:35.860 We have to discourage this terrible behavior of the nonprofits and what have you.

00:32:41.580 That's number one.

00:32:42.380 Number two, I would like to hear him say that he's going to lift the Social Security cap.

00:32:48.000 Right now, it's like at one hundred sixty eight thousand or whatever.

00:32:50.580 Once you earn more money than that year, they don't collect.

00:32:54.300 So they don't withhold Social Security from your check.

00:32:56.620 And I don't know why that limit was put in there.

00:32:59.240 Maybe maybe you have a reason for that.

00:33:01.240 Yeah, because you're not getting more than that out.

00:33:03.460 Everybody pays their fair share if you have to pay up to that.

00:33:07.240 If you make more, why are you taxed so much more?

00:33:13.440 Because this was supposed to be an insurance policy for people just like you.

00:33:18.820 And so, you know, it's no, it wasn't.

00:33:22.160 But I know what you're saying.

00:33:23.020 Yeah, I know that.

00:33:23.960 I know that's the outward theory.

00:33:25.360 That was the outward theory.

00:33:26.580 And quite honestly, as somebody who does hit that cap, yeah, I don't like it.

00:33:32.740 I mean, I don't.

00:33:34.780 I don't mind paying my fair share, but you know what?

00:33:38.320 I pay a lot in taxes and I pay a lot more than, you know, most people.

00:33:46.400 And I don't bitch and complain about it. 1.00

00:33:48.460 It is something that is necessary. 0.99

00:33:51.520 I bitch and complain that they have wasted my money. 0.95

00:33:55.540 And quite honestly, I am at the point when I see Doge, it makes me want to say, F you to the IRS. 1.00

00:34:06.040 You're not getting another damn dime from me. 0.99

00:34:08.140 You're stealing this money, okay? 0.99

00:34:11.180 Because I don't want to contribute to almost anything that you're spending it on.

00:34:16.380 And no, that's the way I really feel.

00:34:19.600 So, you know, I'm not for higher taxes on anybody.

00:34:24.020 I would say, too, I would love to hear him say, we're repealing the payroll tax.

00:34:30.100 Full-fledged, gone.

00:34:31.700 I would love that.

00:34:32.620 That would be a great tax.

00:34:34.200 Because to your point, first of all, everybody feels that tax if you have a job.

00:34:38.920 Secondly, it's regressive.

00:34:41.120 The only time you ever feel it is when you first start working.

00:34:44.720 Every kid says the same thing.

00:34:46.920 They're taking what?

00:34:48.140 Yeah.

00:34:48.860 Okay.

00:34:49.600 You lose that because you just get used to it.

00:34:52.840 That's why you should repeal the payroll tax. 0.73

00:34:55.300 Yep.

00:34:55.660 Because, no, you should feel it.

00:34:57.460 Because there would be a revolution in this country.

00:35:00.580 Absolute revolution.

00:35:02.360 Let me go to Mike.

00:35:04.240 Hello, Mike.

00:35:06.200 Hey, how you doing, Glenn?

00:35:07.660 I'm great.

00:35:09.040 I would love to hear Donald Trump say,

00:35:12.360 Russia and the United States are going to engage in another round of nuclear disarmament.

00:35:18.000 We're going to use some of that savings from the deep state to rebuild our highways, our bridges, our electric grid system, and do what Eisenhower did.

00:35:29.160 So, I think you're going to actually get some of that.

00:35:33.760 I think Donald Trump does want to have that conversation with China and Russia and the rest of the world about reduction of our nukes.

00:35:42.340 He really does not like them.

00:35:44.400 He knows what they really are.

00:35:46.500 And we are going to get our grid rebuilt.

00:35:49.880 It has to happen because of AI.

00:35:52.180 We have to have a new grid. 0.81

00:35:54.840 How long will that take?

00:35:56.160 I don't know, but I think that will begin under Donald Trump.

00:36:01.420 One more thing on the last call when he says, you know, the last call said, I really want to hear the president say, I'm going after these people.

00:36:09.440 The problem with that is there's been two, I think, missteps, and they've happened in the last week.

00:36:16.400 There's been two missteps, and only two by this presidency.

00:36:21.100 The first one was last week, and I don't believe it was Zelensky.

00:36:24.920 The first one was with the DOJ, with Pam Bondi, and the release or the non-release of Epstein.

00:36:32.660 That was the first time I thought, oh, wow, maybe they're not serious.

00:36:35.820 Then they came out last night and said, there's a truckload of files that were on its way by that deadline Friday.

00:36:47.520 Okay, well, is that a truckload like you ever see, you know, you watch some, you know, law show, and they're like, yeah, they just filled the conference room with boxes of papers just to stall and keep you busy looking in a needle in a haystack.

00:37:01.360 Is that what that is?

00:37:02.540 So, because of that misstep last week, they have hurt themselves on being able to say, and we're going to punish the bad guys.

00:37:14.320 The other misstep is what's happening right now with the tariffs.

00:37:20.260 The economy is going down, and we've got real problems, and it's not because of Donald Trump.

00:37:26.660 He's got to focus not on Canada and responding to Canada on tariffs.

00:37:32.940 He should be saying tonight, and that should be the only thing that he has to worry about, Congress, stop spending.

00:37:42.000 Give me, pass the first budget.

00:37:45.300 This is so amazing.

00:37:46.300 I have to say this, and I can't believe it's true every time you do say this.

00:37:49.740 Pass the first federal budget since 2008. 0.99

00:37:56.460 Pass a budget that I can sign and cut your damn spending, period. 0.99

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