On today's show, Glenn Beck is joined by Lee Zeldin to talk about the Supreme Court's ruling on the rollback of Obama's regulations on the EPA. Also, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and a history of streetcars and cool cars.
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00:19:46.000Thank you, thank you, thank you for everything that you and Donald Trump have done and announced yesterday.
00:19:52.000Well, listen, it was a big deal, and we're excited to be there in the Roosevelt Room to announce it.
00:19:59.000As you pointed out, the largest act of deregulation in the history of the United States, $1.3 trillion.
00:20:06.000And a smart guy like you who's been following Supreme Court cases, and you know the timeline, this has been a long time coming.
00:20:15.000The left, they created this endangerment finding to hoard power in a very unique interpretation of the Clean Air Act that is not allowed under any best reading of it.
00:20:28.000And they did trillions of dollars of regulation on mobile sources, airplanes, stationary sources, oil and gas.
00:20:35.000There's so much control that they hoarded, and we just went out, went right for the root.
00:20:40.000The endangerment finding, the best reading of the Clean Air Act, we know that this is a durable decision that I signed yesterday after Loper Bright and West Virginia versus EPA and Michigan versus EPA.
00:20:53.000If you want the law to say that EPA should be regulating the heck out of greenhouse gas emissions, that is a topic for a debate and a vote in Congress, not a rogue, unelected bureaucrat at a federal agency.
00:21:10.000I mean, I was just talking to the insiders, you know, during the break, and I said, you know, one reason why a Kia looks like a Genesis and a Genesis looks like a Bentley and the Bentley looks like the Mercedes is that cars can't design, you can't design cars to look any different because the regulations are so heavy.
00:21:29.000You can't add any drag to any cars, you know, so everything starts to look meh, and that's just, that's one of the things that I don't think even people even think about, let alone, you know, your lighting, your shower head, your water pressure, the money that you're going to save just because trucks are not going to have to spend as much money.
00:21:50.340So trucking goes down. Any idea how much money we're looking at possible savings for the American people?
00:21:56.780Yes, a new vehicle is going to cost over $2,400 less on average now that this decision has been signed.
00:22:07.640And on top of it all, as an added bonus, we got rid of the Obama switch, the climate participation trophy for manufacturers of adding that annoying start-stop feature in vehicles that make your car die at red light and stop sign.
00:22:22.200That off-cycle credit, all off-cycle credits are gone.
00:23:06.700We followed all of the rules of the Administrative Procedures Act.
00:23:09.760I read the final decision before signing it yesterday, and this thing is airtight.
00:23:17.900I referenced Loper Bright a second ago, the Supreme Court case overturning the Chevron Doctrine.
00:23:24.180When the 2009 endangerment finding was done, the Obama administration, the EPA administrator, was creatively interpreting the Clean Air Act to say, well, if it doesn't say I can't, I guess that means we can.
00:23:37.540Well, the Supreme Court said in Loper Bright, that's not how it works.
00:23:41.700You have to follow the best reading of the law.
00:23:44.260And then I also referenced West Virginia versus EPA as an example, the major policies doctrine.
00:23:49.860If you're going to do trillions of dollars of regulation, that is something that is for Congress.
00:23:57.220And as far as this decision itself, it was loaded with so many mental leaps.
00:24:02.840They said that when carbon dioxide was mixed with five other well-mixed gases, some of them not even emitted from vehicles, that it contributes, not causes, contributes to global climate change, that you won't find that in Section 202 of the Clean Air Act.
00:24:18.560And they say global climate change endangers public health and welfare without analyzing the local and regional impacts, which is the way that it was always done for decades.
00:24:29.620You know, when you actually dig into what the law says, the Obama administration decided, well, I guess we have to change the law.
00:24:37.780They tried to get the votes in Congress.
00:24:39.360And then when they couldn't get the votes, they said, well, I guess we're just going to have to do it anyway.
00:24:43.340Well, fast forward to 2026, game over, endangerment finding is gone.
00:24:49.960So with a lot of the stuff that Trump has done, because we can't seem to get Congress to really do anything, he's had to do it through executive order, et cetera, et cetera.
00:25:00.480And then I worry about codifying things.
00:25:02.960But this one is different because this one's all based on the Supreme Court wins, right?
00:25:07.480Right, and it's also based off of what the law doesn't allow.
00:25:14.060You know, this is a best reading of the Clean Air Act, which does not say that we should be regulating an emission to combat global climate change.
00:25:27.440And, you know, you could ignore all of the bad guesses of Al Gore and John Kerry and others.
00:25:36.640You can replace all of the bad, flawed assumptions on science that were made in 2009 with the most pessimistic predictions that didn't bear out as we look at facts in 2026.
00:25:49.440Regardless of where anyone is on their opinion or the fact on the science debate, the reality is the Clean Air Act does not authorize this, that Congress would have to pass a new law in order to have trillions of dollars of regulation.
00:26:08.080So, yeah, no, it doesn't have to be codified.
00:26:11.340And quite frankly, because of the Supreme Court precedent, if the pendulum swung one day down the road that some far left Democrat gets elected president and they have, you know, somebody running the EPA and they're trying to go back to it.
00:26:28.080The problem is, is that the Clean Air Act is still going to give them the same problem.
00:26:31.500And Loper Bright is on the books and it says you can't just make it up.
00:26:36.700And now manufacturers can make vehicles that consumers actually want rather than what politicians demand.
00:26:43.660And when you combine this decision with the resetting of the CAFE standards with Secretary Duffy and DOT and the president, when you combine it with getting rid of the electric vehicle mandate with the three Congressional Review Act bills that Congress passed and President Trump signed,
00:27:01.940you add the new investments that have been announced, billions of these different manufacturers, and the jobs that come with it, it all adds up for a very positive one year for the U.S. auto industry.
00:27:13.140So is it going to make the U.S. auto harder to sell in places like the EU because they've gone full-fledged insane?
00:27:26.040Right now, I mean, Ford F-150s, I don't think a single Ford F-150, best-selling car in America, has been sold in Europe.
00:27:34.000And it's not just the size of it, it's all of the regulations and the tariffs that hopefully Donald Trump is, you know, really making a real dent in.
00:27:44.500But if we relax our regulations, will it be harder for us to sell something in Europe?
00:27:52.340Well, I'm confident that there's going to be more F-150s that are going to get built and less electric vehicles that sit on dealership lots and remaining unsold.
00:28:03.420Now, it was a couple months ago, I was at the G7 Energy and Environment Minister's meeting that was in Toronto, Canada.
00:28:11.180And I could tell that these European countries are really feeling the strain of how they have chosen to protect the environment over growing the economy.
00:28:25.380See, the Trump administration believes that you could protect the environment and grow the economy.
00:28:30.000The economic cost of the climate goals that they were set, you know, it's coming home to roost right now.
00:28:39.680And these European countries are facing a reality where, you know, they'll make their decisions in the months and the years to come.
00:28:47.420But they clearly are in a really bad place right now.
00:28:50.340And they're rethinking certain policies.
00:28:53.080Now, how much of that they say publicly versus privately, I don't know.
00:28:57.160We'll see. But when I was in that meeting and we were having these conversations, clearly they are feeling the economic pressure of their environmental policies.
00:29:05.620I have to tell you, I think when America becomes more than competitive, I mean, when we're going in a different direction and it's cheaper and it's better.
00:29:15.380I just think the, you know, the world needed leadership and the world now has leadership.
00:29:21.560And I think these countries are going to, they're just going to collapse on their own weight on things like this.
00:29:27.760One last thing, Lee, I mean, you kind of addressed it, but I want to make sure, because I mean, this is conservative heaven right now.
00:29:34.620But for middle class, lower class Democrats, this is really good for them as well.
00:29:44.960Can you speak to somebody who didn't vote for Donald Trump and, you know, thinks that, oh, this is, this is, this is going to, you know, you're not listening to science.
00:29:58.420This is about having more affordable vehicles.
00:30:00.640And by the way, when you make the trucks more affordable, that deliver all of those consumer goods that you purchase in your daily lives, the cost of living across the board is able to go down 1.3 trillion dollars.
00:30:15.100Now, too often when you start talking millions and billions and trillions, you know, a lot of people just kind of view it all as the same.
00:30:23.800I mean, these are, these are big numbers, 1.3 trillion dollars is one massive number when you're talking about $2,400 to purchase a new vehicle, $2,400 less.
00:30:37.240It's more mobility, more economic mobility.
00:30:39.780It's the ability to be able to get to work, to get to church.
00:30:42.340It's the, it's the ability to have more money available for health care, for education and the other costs of life.
00:30:50.060And, you know, I was, I was just asked about fossil fuels and, and, you know, the question was asked in a way as if, you know, we, we should be getting rid of it.
00:31:00.740And, I mean, just look back at the last few weeks, the temperatures across this entire country.
00:31:06.220Thank God, President Trump has been unleashing energy dominance.
00:31:09.320Thank God we have baseload power, reliable coal and natural gas and, and oil that's kept our country warm.
00:31:16.460And for the person that you're talking about, that low-income, that middle-income family, that person who's been struggling, imagine going through the last few weeks without heat.
00:31:25.500The president's policies, especially when you add them all up, and it's only been one year, we still have three more years of this.
00:31:34.760And I'm just really honored to have a part of it.
00:31:37.620Well, I tell you, Lee, you were on the show, I don't know, about a year ago.
00:31:40.880And you said you were going to do this, and you said that, you know, the president was on it, and the president had told me he was going to do this.
00:31:46.320And it is nice to see politicians and people in government actually do what they say they're going to do.
00:32:08.960We just asked the Torch insiders to decide and, you know, rank what they wanted to talk about this hour, what they wanted me to start with.
00:33:34.280Reports based on Russian internal proposals suggest Moscow is floating a broader economic cooperation with Washington if a Ukraine settlement emerges.