DEAL OR NO DEAL： WHO WANTS TO PLAY 'TOUGH GUY' AND WHO WANTS TO PLAY BALL？
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Jim Cramer has been wrong about literally everything, and it's surprising that he still has a job. The only people who get away with things like that are weathermen, and every now and then they are right about something.
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If the president doesn't try to reach out and reward these countries and companies that play
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by the rules in the 1987 scenario, the one where we went down three days and then down 22% on
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Monday has the most cogency. We will not have to wait out too long, will we? We'll know by Monday.
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Fortunately, we had an excellent set of employment numbers today. At least it makes it less likely a
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crash will necessarily lead to a recession. But if President Trump stays in transit and does nothing
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to ameliorate the damage that I saw these last two days, I'm not going to be constructive here.
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I will contain my anger, but only because I lived through 87. And in the end, I came out okay. I
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was in cash for the crash. I know what this feels like. Oh, and if Europe moves against our fabulous
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tech companies next week, then I will be furious. That I promise you, because it should not happen.
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Hello, everybody, and welcome to The Great America Show. It's great to have you with us.
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Happy Monday. For context, that was the brilliant, and I put in air quotes, brilliant Jim Cramer on
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Friday, telling us how bad of a Monday it was going to be. It was going to be historic. Things were
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going to be terrible, like they couldn't get any worse than they were last week. Obviously, this is
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still the terror fight that's going on. The reason I wanted to start out with that clip today to bring
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it for you guys was to show you guys and to tell you guys that 90% of this is media panic.
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Jim Cramer's been wrong about virtually everything. Take a listen to Jim Cramer in 2023 talking about
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Bitcoin at $16,000. Why do you think it's been so resilient here in the high 16s?
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Well, I'll tell you what Stark says, because it's phony and a scam being propped up by people who need
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propped up. And that's all there is. Very harsh. Now, I'm not for or against Bitcoin in any sense.
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I own some Bitcoin myself. But that was Jim Cramer in 2023, calling it a scam at $16,000. Bitcoin has
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since then crossed over $100,000. It now sits in the area of about $80,000. Jim Cramer has been wrong
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about literally everything. There's actually an app called Autopilot. And you can inverse everything
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that Jim Cramer tells you to do. Every stock that he tells you to buy, you can inverse it.
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And this app will do it for you. Now, this is no promotion for the app. But just to tell you how
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bad and how wrong this man has been over the course of history, it's surprising that he still has a job.
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Usually, the only people who get away with things like that are weathermen.
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And every now and then, they're right. Jim Cramer, however, is never right and has done nothing but
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instill fear into the American people. Now, luckily, not a lot of people watch him.
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Not a lot of people tune into him. But with his crazy sayings and the crazy things he does,
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he makes news headlines and it scares people like you and I. Now, you guys are probably a lot smarter
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now than Jim Cramer. So you don't fall for his nonsense. But nonetheless, there are people who have
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and there are people who do fall for his nonsense. The whole thing is to scare people,
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to terrify people about what's really going on in this country right now. It's very simple.
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Donald Trump has been very honest about what he was going to do when he took office. The tariffs
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were always on the table. The way he's using them right now, in my opinion, is to get this economy
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under control. We're coming off inflation that was through the roof. We're coming off home prices
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that are completely unaffordable. We're coming off interest rates totally unaffordable, whether
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you're buying a house or a car for the average hardworking American. Rates, wages, pretty stagnant
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over the last few years for people who are in blue-collar industries. In other words, the rich are
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getting richer, and the poor are staying where they're at, and the middle class are completely
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flat. Donald Trump, I think, doesn't sit well with him. The end goal for Donald Trump is to get
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interest rates down so people could afford to buy homes again, to get this market under control,
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and to get people who are making $150,000. Now, this has been floated before, and I believe we'll see it
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over the next few months, but people who are making under $150,000 a year to pay no federal
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income tax. Now, think about how massive that will be for the average hardworking middle-class
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American to pay zero income tax, especially if you're living in a state that has no state income
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tax. You're looking at zeros across the board. Of course, you'll still pay FICA, and you'll still
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pay Social Security. It may even go up a tiny bit to subsidize it, but think about a world where you live
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in, where like 90% of the population in this country can make more money, can put more money
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into their own pockets, can put more money into an economy. That's Donald Trump's ultimate goal. So
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with these tariffs, it will, of course, bring jobs back to America slowly, but surely it'll force
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American companies to start using Americans' labor. It'll force American companies to start using
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American produce and cattle so we don't have to compete against Asian nations or European nations
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against our own people. That's just the brunt of it, and that's what I believe Donald Trump is
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working towards. Now, Donald Trump was on Air Force One last night flying back from Florida,
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and he was asked about the stock market. He was asked how much he's willing to tolerate
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before he says enough is enough. Now, the markets opened this morning a little rough. Dow futures were
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down about 2,000 points last night, but throughout the day, from market open to market close, the damn
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thing rallied. From down 2,000 points, the Dow only closed down about 350 points, the S&P was only down
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about 12 points, and the Nasdaq actually gained 15 points. So people are starting to read between the
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lines. But anyway, President Trump last night aboard Air Force One was asked, how much are you willing
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to tolerate when it comes to the stock market? How much are you willing to lose? Take a listen to
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his response, because I think it goes to exactly what I had just intimated to you all about his end
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Is there pain in the market at some point or unwilling to tolerate this idea of a Trump
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would? Is there a threshold? I think your question is so stupid. I mean, I think it's a,
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I don't want anything to go down. But sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something.
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And we have such a horrible, we have been treated so badly by other countries, because we had stupid
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leadership that allowed this to happen. They took our businesses, they took our money, they took our
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jobs, they moved it to Mexico, they moved it to Canada, they moved a lot of it to China. And it's
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not sustainable, we're not going to do it. Now we have hundreds of billions of dollars is pouring
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into our country. On a monthly basis, it's pouring, it's already started, because they put tariffs on.
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And eventually, it's going to straighten out and our country will be solid and strong again.
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Intimating exactly what I had just relayed. Now, Scott Bassin, the Treasury Secretary recently sat
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down for an interview with Tucker Carlson. Now, you'll hear from the left, from the elites on the
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left, and from the mainstream media as well, that Trump is doing this for his buddies. He's doing this
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for his buddies, his billionaire friends, for them to get richer and the poor to get poorer. But let's
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take a look at just who has taken a hit over the last week or so. Elon Musk has lost over $100 billion.
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Jeff Bezos has lost over $50 billion. Mark Zuckerberg has lost over $28 billion. Bernard Arnold from LVMA,
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Louis Vuitton has lost nearly $20 billion. Bill Gates has lost about $4 billion. Larry Ellison from Oracle
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lost about $42 billion. The list goes on and on and on and on. So the notion that Donald Trump is
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doing this for his elites, it's quite the opposite. Anyway, Scott Bassin, who I think is totally
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brilliant, sat down with Tucker Carlson, a good man, to fill us in on just what the numbers are
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and what they look like and who is benefiting from this and who's hurting from this. Take a listen
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and listen very carefully because I think it's very telling.
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The distribution of equities across households, the top 10% of Americans own 88% of equities,
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88% of the stock market. The next 40% owns 12% of the stock market. The bottom 50 has debt.
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They have credit card bills, they rent their homes, they have auto loans, and we've got to give them
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some relief. I was struck by the statistic from last year. That's the message right there. Just
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as a bystander, I'm like, wow, okay. All right. I like the examples and I was really struck by two
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different statistics last year. Summer of 2024, Americans took more European vacations than they
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had in history. Summer of 2024, more Americans were using food banks than they ever have in history.
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I went into two food banks near my hometown to ask, what's the story? And they said, you know,
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it really takes, for a lot of people, it's a loss of dignity to walk in a food bank course.
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And, but they were seeing something, a new phenomenon that it wasn't their traditional
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clientele. It wasn't people who'd lost their homes. It wasn't people out on the street.
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These were working families who could no longer, you know, $100 at the grocery store,
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that basket of groceries every week, they were missing five, six, seven things,
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and they were coming to the food bank to top up. So that's not a great America. Record European
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vacation, record food banks. Hmm. So who's Donald Trump really working for? Is it the billionaire
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working class, the billionaire working class, we'll call it? Is that who he's working for? Like the
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mainstream media on the left tells us he's working for? Or is it the hardworking average American like
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you and I, the blue collar worker who are working in factories, the farmers out in the
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Midwest? Those people who aren't making a six figures a year. That's who Donald Trump is,
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is fighting for folks. I want to take a quick break here. We'll return. I want to go a little
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bit deeper into this because nations are reaching out and they're trembling and they're terrified
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and they want to make a deal. Imagine that it's only been a few days since these tariffs went to
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effect and they want a deal. We're going to tell you who wants a deal. And is Donald Trump game?
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Does he want to make a deal? Is he ready to make a deal right now? We're coming right back,
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folks. Let's pick this up, Rob. Sorry. We're coming right back, folks. Stay with us. More to come
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So right before we went to break, I had mentioned to you that there are some countries who want to
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make a deal. Zero tariffs. Now, many nations have reached out. In fact, 50. Some of the bigger ones
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have reached out. Israel, President Trump met with Benjamin Netanyahu today. Japan, the United
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Kingdom, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Mexico, Canada, Argentina, Australia, South Korea, India,
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Switzerland, Malaysia, the European Union, Indonesia. Just some of the biggest offenders
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we'll name for them. Now, there's one particular nation that is not game. And they're the ones who
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are becoming, I guess you can call them the first offenders.
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And that is the CCP, the nation of China. Now, China is playing the long game, I guess. They're
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playing the tough guy game. Coming out, 34% tariffs on America starting in just a few weeks. So Donald
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Trump says, that's fine. You can withdraw those or we're going to put an extra 50% on top of you folks.
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So now the ball is in China's court. 50% will ultimately, in my opinion, totally cripple
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China. China's Ministry of Finance whining about it, saying that Donald Trump is using tariffs to
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unilaterally bully them. Well, never mind that China has spent decades engaging in currency
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manipulation, slave labor with the Uyghurs. I mean, that's part of the reason we're in this
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situation in the first place. Corporate espionage, stealing our secrets, stealing our trade secrets,
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and systematically destroying the American industrials, our manufacturing sector.
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So Donald Trump now says he's giving them until tomorrow morning, April 8th. Otherwise, a fresh
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50% tariff will go on to China. April 9th, no negotiations, no second chances, quote unquote,
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from President Donald J. Trump. He's done playing the games with China. And I'm finally happy to see
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him doing just that. They've never paid the price for unleashing the China virus on the world.
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They've gotten away with it. Nobody's ever held them accountable. It's time for these people to feel
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the pain, whether it's economically or physically, to what America felt, what the millions of Americans
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felt, the over 1 million Americans who have lost their lives from COVID, and the millions worldwide.
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China has never paid the price. They've never answered a question as to what exactly happened
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and how that China virus was unleashed on the world. I think we all know what exactly happened.
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So back to the zero tariff situation that European Union now all of a sudden wants to do.
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Sounds nice, right? Zero for zero. But not so fast. Peter Navarro was on CNBC this morning and
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explained it, I think, very eloquently. Take a listen to Peter Navarro.
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What is enough? OK, you take any given country, they're like fingerprints. They all cheat us
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in a different way. So here are the things they cheat us on. Some of them engage in currency
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manipulation. Some of them have a hefty VAT tax. All of them dump into our markets. All
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of them engage in heavy export subsidies and government subsidies. All of them put up these
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phony technical and phytosanitary barriers to our ag products and our autos and everything
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in between. Many of them steal our intellectual property. A lot of them run sweatshop labor,
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including forced child labor. They have pollution havens. So when you say to me, what do we want
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from them? We want fairness. We don't want them to kill American workers by inundated with this
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non-tariff cheating. And it would be really refreshing to have the media talk more about
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that. This zero tariff thing, it's a misdirection. No, it's a misdirection. It's the non-tariff
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barriers. So like I said, it sounds good on paper, but is it really best for America? Now,
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Peter goes a little bit further to explain just how we can make it work and what makes sense and
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how China may be trying to scheme once again. Take a listen.
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With the president willing to negotiate, what we have here is a national emergency based on massive
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chronic trade deficits caused by systematically higher tariffs and non-tariff barriers. So when
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you ask if we're willing to negotiate, the president will always listen. But let's understand
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what the problem is. When you have a country like Vietnam, let's take Vietnam. When they come to us
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and say, we'll go to zero tariffs, that means nothing to us because it's the non-tariff cheating that
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matters. Let's do Vietnam, Joe. They sell us $15 for every $1 we sell them. About $5 of that $15
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is China transshipping to Vietnam to evade their tariffs. What does Vietnam do? They dump into our
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markets, killing our shrimpers, our people who make metal brackets, kitchen cabinets, agricultural
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products. They engage in the intellectual property theft. They have the biggest number of cases aside
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from China at the Department of Commerce on the dumping. So the point is, the point is anybody
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who wants to come to talk to us, talk to us about lowering your non-tariff barriers. Vietnam has a 10%
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VAT. Europe has a 19% VAT. We can't compete against that. We have tried at the World Trade Organization
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to get, Andrew, let me just make this point. We have tried at the World Trade Organization since
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the 1970s to get VAT tax relief. And they've told us no every single time. We've won case after case
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at the World Trade Organization on things like our agricultural products, pork, beef, and corn.
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So Peter Navarro, I think in those two clips lays it out perfectly for everyone to understand just
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exactly what is going on. China is the mass manipulator as they've been for the last 20 years,
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started with the Bell and Road Initiative, which of course was brought to you in part by the Democrats,
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Bill Clinton and company. And who doesn't want to play nice? Now, one of the nations who sort of
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wants to play nice but doesn't want to play nice is Japan. Japan now, after announcing that they may
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want to add some more tariffs on America, saying that they're sending negotiators. Now, this is just
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this tonight, breaking tonight. They're going to be sending their negotiators to discuss tariffs on how
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they can lift tariffs and maybe work something out. Now, this includes a 24% tariff on Japanese
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import. Japanese prime ministers coming to the table to give the U.S. a better deal at their current
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46% ripoff. Now, the other day, Howard Lutnick was on with Margaret Brennan. We'll see if we can get
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you the clip with Margaret Brennan. And he was asked about how the tariff policy was laid out when Donald
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Trump went out there last week and put the tariff board up. You know, there was a different percentage
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of tariffs. Now, none of the tariffs were, for the most part, equal. So in other words, if we have a, you know,
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if Canada has a 50% tariff on us, we didn't necessarily hit them back with the 50% tariff. And I'm going to tell you
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why in just a second, what the meaning of it behind it is. While we wait to get this clip for you, Howard Lutnick
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on with Margaret Brennan of CBS's, I believe it's To Face the Nation, is what I like to call it.
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I told you we got the clip for you. We're going to roll it. Take a listen.
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When we saw the president stand in the Rose Garden holding up that chart that you helped make,
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that wasn't actually tariffs. That was actually confusing to investors because it was some kind
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of other formula. And the countries themselves seemed kind of random. Like, why are the herd in
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McDonald's islands, which don't export to the United States and are quite literally inhabited
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by penguins? Why do they face a 10% tariffs? Did you use AI to generate this?
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Left off. Because the idea, what happens is if you leave anything off the list,
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the countries that try to basically arbitrage America go through those countries to us.
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Any country, like we had tariffs, the president put tariffs on China, right, in 2018. And then
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what China started doing is they started going through other countries to America.
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They just built through other countries through America. And so the president knows that he's
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tired of it and he's going to fix that. So basically he said, look, I can't let any part
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of the world be a place where China or other countries can ship through them.
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So he ended those loopholes, these ridiculous loopholes. And now what he's trying to say is,
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I'm going to fix the trade deficit of the United States of America. It's a national security issue.
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We need to make medicine. We need to make semiconductors. We need to make ships. We
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need to have steel and aluminum. Come on. We need the greatness of America to actually be built in
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America. And he's tired of getting ripped off by the rest of the world.
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So you hear Margaret Brennan there agreeing. Yeah, right. I understand. I understand. After
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asking the ridiculously stupid question, but then sits there and agrees like she already knew the
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answer to the question. Pretty pathetic. But I guess, what do you expect from these people?
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All they'd want to do wasn't still fear in us. That's what they've done from the beginning.
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That's exactly what they want to know since November 5th. They've obviously been cheering for a market
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collapse and they're getting a little bit of that, but I don't think it's going to last very long.
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You saw today a 1500 point rally out of the Dow. Nothing has changed. No deals have been made to
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take any tariffs off of anybody. So what's the reason for the market rally? People are buying
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these guys on wall street. I mean, are just terrible people. And let's not forget they make money on the
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way up and they make money on the way down. But as you heard, Scott Besson, 10%
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of the population owns 80% of the stock market. Like I said, it's not folks like you and I,
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it's these wall street Hawks, the billionaires in the ruling class who couldn't care less about the
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average hardworking middle-class Americans. Just the truth. Folks, we're going to take a quick break.
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When we return, we've got some news, continued news to go over. We've got some rhinos in the Senate.
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I want to rein in some power on Donald Trump. It's starting already. I wish I could have told
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you I didn't say so. Also, Donald Trump breaking tonight that he's going to be meeting with
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some folks that I ran. Maybe we have a deal there. Justice, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court,
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John Roberts, issuing a massive victory for America first and for the Trump administration
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just hours ago. We're going to take that up on the other side of this quick break.
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And the Los Angeles Dodgers making the trek to the White House. We're going to tell you all about
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it when we return. Stay with us, folks. We're coming right back. The Great America Show continues
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America Show. President Trump meeting in the Oval Office with Benjamin Netanyahu today. Very optimistic
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from President Trump. Let's roll a clip of the meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu.
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I will say this. Virtually every country wants to negotiate. If I didn't do what I did over the
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last couple of weeks, you wouldn't have anybody wants to negotiate. We would have gone to these
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countries. You want to talk? And they were, well, we don't want to talk. Now they're coming to us.
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They're offering things like even Bibi. This is unrelated because it's a different kind of a
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relationship. But he started off our conversation today that he's cutting all of the tariffs. He's
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cutting everything. He's going to get down to a free base. He's going to do things that,
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in all fairness, other countries, if they said that, would have never even thought about doing it.
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Now they're offering things to us that we would have never even thought of asking them for.
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Because they're experiencing a lot of hurt. And the hurt is that they've taken advantage of us,
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and we finally fought back. Tariffs will make this country very rich. We're rich anyway,
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but we're rich in a certain way. We have $36 trillion in debt. I want to get rid of it.
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And we can do it quickly with proper deals. So when countries don't allow us to sell our product,
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but we allow them to sell their product, when they charge us massive amounts of money for the
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privilege of going into their country, those days are over.
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God bless Donald J. Trump, folks. I don't know where we'd be without him,
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the first administration, now the second administration. I assure you, everything is
00:26:41.220
going to be, excuse me, everything is going to be A-OK in the end. This has only been going on for a
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few weeks now. Give the man some time, and everything is going to be OK. America seemingly is like the kid
00:26:53.320
on the playground who gets bullied and bullied and bullied and never fights back for themselves.
00:27:00.420
Economically, of course, because when it comes to wars, we're everywhere. But it's like the kid
00:27:05.740
on the playground who gets bullied and bullied and bullied and one day just has enough and looks
00:27:10.880
that bully right in the eyes and punches him square between those eyes. And that's Donald Trump right now.
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I mean, we've been taking advantage of, folks, for years. And I keep repeating myself, and I sound like
00:27:21.040
a broken record, but I still think there's people out there who don't realize what's gone on.
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I was talking with Jerry Storch the other day here on The Great America Show,
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former CEO of Toys R Us, and he said it perfectly. Everyone thinks America's rich. America can afford
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to be taking advantage of. But we can't. I mean, I think we are the poorest nation when it comes to debt,
00:27:43.420
to GDP. I mean, the debt continues to rise with no end in sight. The percentage of money we pay on
00:27:53.620
the debt is through the roof. And that's another thing that President Trump, I believe, is part of
00:27:56.820
his calculation is he wants to refinance that debt at near zero percent, which would absolutely drill
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inflation into the ground. Don't listen to Jamie Dimon or Larry Kudlow. Neither of them know what
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they're talking about. I saw a clip of Larry Kudlow, who I worked for the other day, talking about how
00:28:16.140
tariffs are going to drive inflation through the roof. First of all, Larry Kudlow cheered and begged
00:28:21.700
for free trade for years, for years. And it wasn't until Donald Trump came in and the great Lou Dobbs
00:28:28.780
had to teach Larry Kudlow what fair trade was, which is what we're witnessing right now.
00:28:35.600
This is a man who's advocated for free trade. Just so you know, free trade is what got us into
00:28:41.560
the situation in the first place, Larry Kudlow. So don't be listening to folks like him and Jamie
00:28:46.140
Dimon. What President Trump is ultimately going to do is absolutely crush inflation,
00:28:50.860
have it back down to near zero where it was when he left office. But these brilliant economists
00:28:56.860
say otherwise. But these are the same economists who told us Donald Trump was going to crash the
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economy the first time. We're still waiting for that to happen. This is just a little bump in the
00:29:06.540
road, folks. Nothing is ever smooth, as it seems. And we'll get to smooth sailings, I believe, in the
00:29:15.160
next few months here. I think this is only, excuse me, a momentary setback. And we'll get to better
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grounds. Now, rhinos. We talk about them each and every day here on this show. They're acting up again.
00:29:30.240
Seven of them in the Senate, along with Don Bacon in the House. Chuck Grassley, Mitch McConnell,
00:29:37.160
joining on with five other Republicans. Senator Jerry Moran of Kansas. Lisa Murkowski, of course,
00:29:42.140
of Alaska. Tom Tillis of North Carolina. That name should be of no surprise. Todd Young of Indiana,
00:29:48.380
another one. Susan Collins of Maine, an absolute, another rhino who are up for re-election 2026.
00:29:54.240
They're supporting something called the Trade Review Act. These folks, these seven senators,
00:30:00.300
want to put a check and balance system on President Trump's tariff use. Like they know anything about
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tariffs, like they know what they're talking about. Some of these senators have been there since the
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very beginning of this mess that we're in in the first place. Yet they want to be the ones to reel
00:30:17.160
in power. Those these are the ones who want to reign in power. So they say, yet they're the ones
00:30:22.760
who have gotten us into this situation in the first place. I say no dice enough. So now we've
00:30:30.060
given power to the politicians for far too long. And you know what? That's why we're in this situation
00:30:33.820
in the first place. We've got to give Donald Trump some time to fix this thing on his own
00:30:38.740
with this brilliant administration. Scott Bessett and Howard Lutnick,
00:30:42.580
two of the smartest people he could have surrounded himself with when it comes to economics,
00:30:47.320
when it comes to policy. So we're going to give them some time to fix this thing.
00:30:51.240
Nothing happens overnight. As I keep repeating myself, as I say, I can continue to sound like
00:30:57.020
a broken record, but it's the point that I believe that we have to get across.
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All right, let's get through some news now, some fun stuff now that we'll wrap up on the tariffs.
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Sorry for boring you guys, but I think it's important for all of us to know what's going on.
00:31:12.300
And I think it's my responsibility to fill you all in on what I believe is going on,
00:31:17.040
give you my opinion on what's going on and tell you what's going on to allow you to form your own
00:31:21.340
opinion on what's going on. So let's turn to some news. Everyone's favorite witch doctor,
00:31:28.300
Dr. Anthony Fauci is back. He's been in hiding after getting his preemptive pardon.
00:31:35.020
I want you all to guess what he's talking about. He's giving everyone a warning.
00:31:39.940
What could Fauci be possibly warning about? If you're thinking what I'm thinking,
00:31:46.340
he's warming of another pandemic or is he? Take a listen.
00:31:51.420
What is likely to happen? I don't know if it's going to be next year or 10 years or 15 or 20 years
00:31:57.040
from now is the emergence of another respiratory disease. It may be another coronavirus because we
00:32:03.740
know that coronaviruses really mostly in bats have the capability of binding to receptors that are
00:32:10.880
in humans. It could be another flu. We're dealing with age 5 and 1 now, which is bird flu, which has
00:32:17.960
taken the somewhat disturbing step of infecting mammals, namely cows and cats and other mammals,
00:32:28.460
which means it's adapting itself more to a human. So my concern, Walter, is that whenever that
00:32:35.580
happens, the next outbreak will be of a respiratory disease that's easily transmissible, that has a
00:32:42.000
significant degree of morbidity. And we are making this a little bit more dangerous with the cuts and
00:32:49.560
That man did not learn his lesson. Dr. Anthony Fauci, you are our numbskull of the day here on the
00:32:57.440
Great America Show. I mean, this is a man who should have never surfaced his face and shown face again
00:33:03.160
here on this planet. A man who we know has lied and lied and lied and lied and lied and lied and lied
00:33:09.940
some more about everything. Masks, social distancing. Oh, we found out it was all lie. He was just doing
00:33:17.240
some good old trolling. And now he's out to warn us once again that another pandemic is coming.
00:33:22.960
Well, we're going to keep an eye on that pandemic that he's talking about, and we'll keep you posted
00:33:27.760
on that. Turn to some foreign policy. Donald Trump confirming tonight that they are in direct talks
00:33:36.580
with Iran right now. President Trump says they are holding talks and they're going to hold direct
00:33:41.360
talks in person over the nuclear problem, saying the meeting is set for this coming Saturday. Quote,
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we're having direct talks with Iran and they've already started. It will go on Saturday, a very
00:33:52.020
big meeting. We will see what happens. We're going to keep you posted on that. President Trump says
00:33:59.580
everyone agrees doing a deal would be preferable to doing it. The obvious, Trump says, referring to the
00:34:04.760
threats of military force against Iran's nuclear facilities. Now, Iran, of course, has been getting hit a
00:34:10.780
little bit hard lately as it pertains to the Houthis. President Trump bombing the heck out of them,
00:34:15.800
letting them know that we're not going to play their games. They want to mess around. They're going
00:34:20.960
to find out the hard way. Some news back here at home. Chief Justice John Roberts. I mean, he's like
00:34:27.720
a daffodil. Some days he's up straight. Some days he's flopping to the left. Some days he's flopping to the
00:34:33.480
right. Today, we get a pretty honorable Chief Justice John Roberts. Earlier today, President Trump asked the
00:34:40.380
Supreme Court to intervene and grant an emergency stay of a judge's order to return an MS-13 gang
00:34:48.240
member to the United States. Last Friday, U.S. District Judge for the U.S. District Court of
00:34:53.700
District of Maryland ordered President Trump's administration to return this MS-13 gang member
00:34:59.800
back to the United States after he was deported to El Salvador in that notorious Seacott prison.
00:35:07.020
This judge ordered that that gang member be returned by tonight. Chief Justice John Roberts doing the
00:35:12.540
right thing, granting a temporary stay, giving the administration to respond until tomorrow.
00:35:20.520
It's not every day that we get a good ruling from Chief Justice John Roberts out of the Supreme
00:35:26.720
Court. So anytime we get one, we feel it's incumbent on us to bring it to you guys and let you guys know
00:35:32.640
about the good news. But that's a good sign, in my opinion. If John Roberts is allowing things like
00:35:40.540
that to happen, some of these other fights that we're having in the Supreme Court and these lower courts
00:35:45.600
fights about deporting illegals. Imagine that. Imagine we have to go to any courts to have a fight
00:35:50.280
about deporting illegal aliens. People came here illegally, committed crimes here illegally,
00:35:56.040
did all types of illegal acts, and we have to fight to deport them? I mean, it really is insane to
00:36:03.740
think that this is what this nation has come to, folks. It's quite, quite sad. But there's no one else
00:36:09.000
to thank but the mainstream media, the Marxist leftists, the Democrats in Congress. Speaking of some of those
00:36:15.000
Marxist Dems in Congress, some were at the White House today, namely two senators from the great
00:36:21.680
state of California. Why were they there? Well, President Trump invited the Los Angeles Dodgers,
00:36:27.440
the 2024 World Series champions, beating my New York Yankees, to the White House for their celebration.
00:36:35.000
Take a listen before we wrap up today's show. President Trump having some fun with those two folks.
00:36:40.500
Congratulations, Brian. And others, we have a couple of senators here. I just don't particularly like
00:36:47.680
them. So I won't introduce. Over the course of this amazing season, the members of this team.
00:36:54.860
I didn't think it was that big a deal, actually. Washington. Over the course of this amazing season.
00:37:12.200
President Trump and his brilliant, brilliant sense of humor. Now, of course, those two senators
00:37:16.460
she's talking about, Alex Padilla of California and pencil neck, watermelon head, lion Adam Schiff.
00:37:24.920
President Trump has every right to hate that man's guts after everything he's done to him,
00:37:29.480
everything he's done to this country. That man is a born bred liar, deserves no recognition.
00:37:36.840
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00:37:50.720
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00:37:54.840
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00:38:16.380
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00:38:21.400
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