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Sen. Rand Paul goes on a mini meltdown at the White House and President Donald Trump declares war on his family and says they can't attend a White House picnic because they are not allowed to attend the event because they're not invited by the President.
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hello everybody welcome to the great america show it's great to have you with us on this beautiful
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thursday night in america last night the marxist dems faced off against the republicans the party
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of truth justice and the american way in the congressional softball game the marxist dems
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getting absolutely annihilated 13 to 2 top of the first inning i'm sorry bottom of the first inning
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marxist dems up at bat bases loaded two outs august pfluger at third base take a watch what
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happened the democratic shortstop pretty much played everywhere last year catcher known for
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making great contact oh robbed at third what a play
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great defense there by august pfluger diving stop goes to the bag gets the runner ends the inning
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gets out of the jam absolutely awesome baseball i told you we'd have some fun tonight and how
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about augie what a move there stab dive done we're back with the bottom growing up in new york i was
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always a big alex rodriguez fan and august pfluger made that play look far too easy as i said the
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marxist dems losing 13 to 2 their star dan goldman let's take a look and see what he did last night
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one ball and two strikes here on dan goldman from new york and a swing and a miss that will end the
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inning the democrats threaten but do not score seven to five the republicans
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greg stewby there hitting them with that uh 25 mile an hour change up uh not able to handle the heat
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uh you know i always learned in my years of playing sports especially baseball the trust fund babies who
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had the nicest bats and gloves were never usually the good ones hence mr dan goldman but after
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watching that 13 to 2 defeat it made all the more sense to me why the marxist dems want men in women's
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sports uh 13 to 2 i guess it speaks for itself also happening this afternoon at the white house earlier
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this afternoon the white house picnic president trump invites the marxist dems and the republicans to
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all congregate bring their family their friends everyone gets a few tickets uh ran paul having a
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little bit of a mini meltdown yesterday because he says he was uninvited to the picnic let's take a
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listen to ran paul from my office and um you know it's kind of a great time of the year in the summer
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my family comes up uh my son and daughter-in-law and grandson are coming up because we were going to
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the white house picnic but i've just been told that i've been uninvited from the picnic i think i'm the
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first senator in the history of the united states to be uninvited to the white house picnic uh the
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white house is owned by the taxpayers we all are members of it uh every democrat will be invited
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every republican will be invited but i will be the only one disallowed to come on the grounds of the
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white house i just find this incredibly petty i mean i have been i think nothing but polite to
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the president i have been a intellectual opponent a public policy opponent and he's chosen now to
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uninvite me from the picnic and to say my grandson can't come to the picnic i just just the level of
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immaturity is beyond words i just i you know i've been here long enough that if anybody has ever
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followed me i've been a critic of obama i've been in a critical biden i've been in a critic of the
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previous trump but always in a i think a reasonable fashion along policy and so they've decided they
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they want to declare war on my family and exclude us from the white house and i just think it's
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incredibly petty so it turns out rand paul comes out does that whole little song and a dance
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and donald trump says that's not even true rand paul reportedly heard it through a streamline
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somewhere hearsay that he was uninvited president trump tweeting out before the picnic this afternoon
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that he's happy to have rand paul there because it'll give him some time to speak with the senator
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about getting him on board with the bbb the big beautiful bill so uh these nonsense from these
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republican senators it's just so unnecessary the crying the nonsense you know i get a lot of crap
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on this show when i go after thomas massey or or rand paul but the truth of the matter is i'm just
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reporting the news and that's the news there was really no reason for rand paul to come out there
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and do that whole song and a dance he mentions he's a trumper he's not really a trumper he waited
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till the last minute till donald trump had secured every single vote that he knew donald trump was
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going to win and then came out and said he endorsed him i mean that's that's not a supporter and his big
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critical issue by the way is on tariffs he doesn't agree with donald trump on tariffs in april he went on
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fox news with tim kane yes the same tim kane uh senator from virginia that ran for president with
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hillary clinton take a listen but on the tariffs in particular on the idea of trade trade is proportional
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to wealth the last 70 years of international trade has been an exponential curve upwards and the last
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70 years of prosperity has been upwards also we are richer because of trade with canada and so is
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canada whenever you trade with somebody when an individual buys somebody else's product it's
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mutually beneficial or you wouldn't buy it if the trade is voluntary it's always beneficial there is
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no canada versus the u.s the consumer wins when the price is the lowest price okay so his problem
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main problem with president trump is on tariffs right but the numbers came out just yesterday for may
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inflation is at its lowest point since 2020 now ran paul for the last few months has run around saying
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that donald trump is going to drive inflation through the roof and that consumers in america
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would be paying 125 percent more on certain products that never happened here's some of the
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numbers that came out for the month of may gas year over year is down 12 and a half percent
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smartphones are down 14 percent uh fuel oil is down eight percent airfare is down seven percent public
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transportation is down five percent leased vehicles is down four percent energy is down three and a
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half percent vegetables down two percent hotels down one percent price of eggs goes on and on and on
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so if ran paul is a man of principle come out and say you were wrong because you were wrong
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if you're a man of principle and you you you are what you say you are and that you just oppose
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donald trump because you're practicing what you preach then come out and admit that you were wrong
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that's all you have to do to be a man there's no need for passive aggressiveness going out there
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and doing all that nonsense it's so necessary so ran paul i think is the lone gop standout
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on the big beautiful bill scott bessen was on capitol hill yesterday discussing the big beautiful bill
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take a listen the one big beautiful bill will make the 2017 tax cuts permanent this will provide
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individuals and businesses with certainty and build economic momentum the legislation is clearly
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clearly and squarely aimed at boosting the working and middle class and reinvigorating american
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manufacturing according to the council of economic advisors the one big beautiful bill will raise
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take-home pay between seventy eight hundred and thirteen thousand three hundred for the average family
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of four it will increase wages between six thousand one hundred dollars to eleven thousand six hundred for
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the average worker and it will cement no tax on tips no tax on overtime and tax cuts for seniors
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the one big beautiful bill will also incentivize unprecedented unprecedented investment in u.s manufacturing
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the legislation will provide a hundred percent expensing for new factories as well as existing
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factories that expand operations and support made in america and it will streamline burdensome
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permitting processes that often stand in the way of new manufacturing products it's time for this country to
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start building things again and the one big beautiful bill makes this possible the administration is
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grateful for the house's efforts to advance the one big beautiful bill we now look forward to working
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closely with this committee and other members of the senate to get this legislation to the president's desk
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simple why would ran paul be against that now i'll agree it's not everything that we wanted it's not
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the tax it's not the cuts that we want not tax cuts but it's not the cuts and spending that we wanted but
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nothing is ever going to be perfect especially in this uh congress that we have congressman green
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announcing uh mark green announcing he's going to be leaving congress in the next two weeks
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brings the majority down even more because these people are so selfish he probably got himself a
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nice high-paying lobbyist job so i guess we can't blame him right truly truly ridiculous president trump
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was at the kennedy center last night for a play a broadway play he was asked about some of these
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actors and boycotting him brilliant response as usual mr president it's been reported that some actors
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may be boycotting i couldn't tell us honestly all i do is run the country well the economic numbers
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you saw them today they're setting records we took 88 million dollars in tariffs in two months
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far beyond what anybody expected there's no inflation people are happy people are wealthy
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the country is getting back to strength again that's what i care about and we're going to have a
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safe country we're not going to have what would have happened in los angeles remember
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if i wasn't there if i didn't act quickly on that los angeles would be burning to the ground right
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now he's absolutely right los angeles would look right now like minneapolis looked in the summer of
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love if you don't believe me watch what happens to some of these insurrectionists who think that
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they're going to go after police officers and ice agents
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that's what the kevlar is for i have kevlar tights on under my pants
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it's a news reporter there you hear us yelling stop stop stop we'll get out of the line of fire
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you just watch this insurrectionist throw a bottle at the at the police officer you should
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be yelling at him and great on that that american citizen who spearheaded that guy and absolutely
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t-boned and laid him out we're gonna take a quick break here folks when we return ronda santis has an
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idea on what we should be doing with these protesters also elon musk says he's sorry but is it too late
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now to say sorry we're gonna be joined by my good friend and radio legend rich valdez on the other
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thanks for staying with us folks so ronda santis down in florida and i'm very critical of ronda santis
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very often because of how he opposes donald trump and behind the scenes opposes donald trump
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but he's got a very good idea i must say and i've got to give credit where credit is due
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let's take a listen on what government santis has for these insurrectionists and we also have a policy
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that if you're driving on one of those streets and a mob comes and surrounds your vehicle and
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threatens you you have a right to flee for your safety and so if you drive off and you hit one of
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these people that's their fault for impinging on you uh you don't have to sit there and just be a
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sitting duck and let the mob grab you out of your car and drag you through the streets you have a right
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to defend yourself in florida sounds like everyone in florida needs to do exactly what i did go out and
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buy yourself a jeep wrangler put some big tires on it and a uh one of those cattle herders on it
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just in case people decide to get out of control uh great on governor de santis no american should
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live in fear because of these insurrectionists who want to destroy our country folks as promised
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our guest today is my good friend and new york city radio host syndicated radio host i should say
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not just new york city rich valdez with an s what's up john rich there's so much to talk about and we're
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going to get to it all today but i got to start with first the summer of love it's happening all over
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again but it seems that it's going to be cut just a little bit short because of what do you call
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donald trump el trumpito donaldus magnus so what what say you uh rich uh listen i'm hoping that
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the summer of love is cut short i can't believe that there are people out there i've had so many
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messages and texts from our friends from folks on the right uh hitting me up saying i can't believe
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trump's being such an a-hole he's crazy i can't believe he's sending the marines and i thought to
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myself man i don't i don't see it that way at all uh i mean you know i interviewed um somebody on my
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show a couple of days ago he was in the rodney king riots back in the 90s and he was explaining how
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back then they were saying the same exact thing president uh then president uh hw bush had used the
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insurrection act to bring in uh the the national guard and sent in i think it was something like a
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thousand marines and uh not a word of that in the media so i think the media like always they're full
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of it they're fake they're phony they're fraud um i i think they're not doing enough i think we need
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to get them a little more power and and get a little more aggressive and really put this thing
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down i don't understand why we're not using water cannons why we're not you know macing uh en masse
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you know we need to get this thing wrapped up and wrapped up quick and and the idea that you're
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stifling somebody's free speech when they're pelting people with frozen projectiles rocks bricks
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whatever i mean that's an all-out war and that can't be tolerated yeah how many people should die
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how many innocent americans should die because of these illegals that come here they're rich it's it's
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so black and white at the end of the day you're here illegally it doesn't matter what you're here
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to do if you're one of these people who's a gangbanger or you're you broke the law you came to this
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country i understand that that all of us have a heart right but at the end of the day we're a
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nation of law order and borders if we don't abide by that then really what is america rich what what
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difference is america from uh venezuela or or cuba or columbia or you know one of these other nations
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i was reading something today rich in london uh more than 50 percent of their public housing
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is occupied by illegal migrants is that what we're supposed to be listen john the reality is this
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isn't about logic and it never was uh the left will find any think just think about past arguments
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summer of love they were breaking and killing people and burning things and looting all in the
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name of what honoring the the martyrdom of george floyd it didn't make sense then it never makes sense
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the reality is this is the marxist left looking to divide and conquer looking to create an oppressor
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an oppressed uh scenario every step of the way so they can continue to build uh a movement for
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themselves that if without the emotion and without uh a a presumed bad guy they don't have a movement
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so they need to constantly keep making things up yeah you're absolutely right but the difference is
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this time rich is i'm not going to say the media is fair because they'll never be fair towards
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donald trump but the media this time around i think learned some of them learned their lesson
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we watched terry get fired the other day for his comments that's what it should be you're supposed
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to be in now if you're on fox news and you're an opinionated host after the hours of 6 p.m or
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whatever okay if you're on cnn and you're rachel maddow that's fine you run opinion-based shows
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you have your audience that tune in they're either marxist dems or they're republicans okay yeah but
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when you're terry moran you're supposed to be a cbs journalist you're not opinionated on air
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off air you're allowed to believe whatever you want you're not supposed to come out here and
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and and lay out your opinion on the american people you're supposed to be a news reporter
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and that's what you are that's the difference between cbs and fox news and cbs and abc this time
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around donald trump i think is getting a little bit more of a fair shake from uh the mainstream media
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i'm not going to say it's 100 turnaround but i think he's getting a little bit more of a fair shake
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what do you think you know i mean that's probably a true statement but i don't think it's because of
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anything that they're doing i think it's twofold one one side of it is trump holds their feet to
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the fire he literally has the masses and the ability to reach the masses through true social
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through multiple media outlets so i think they've realized wow um he can get the message out irrespective
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of our lies and then b the other side of that coin is they've realized well you know uh part of it is
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if you can't beat him join him right you know it's like we need this guy we need to talk about
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orange man bad because he's good for our ratings and without us talking about him they would love
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to ignore him i think they just can't afford to ignore him the crazy thing rich is how accessible
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of a person he is i saw uh the other day he called gavin newsom at two o'clock in the morning hour time
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so now you rewind back three hours for the west coast time change called gavin newsom once he
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enhanced the phone called him again spoke to him for 16 minutes whatever he said to him we don't know
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but he gavin newsom says he that i never spoke to donald trump it was all a lie john robertson fox
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news texts donald trump on his cell phone hey did you speak to gavin newsom donald trump texts him
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back a screenshot of the conversation i've never seen in my life rich a politician let alone a president
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of the united states so transparent and so easily accessible to the american media as donald trump
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well you know i mean again you know you and me are both new yorkers when i was a kid in brooklyn
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i remember you know i love trump i thought trump was terrific way before any politics i was just he's
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he's a pimp he's a playboy he's the man he's in every rap video he was just a cool dude i love the
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apprentice and he was always that guy and he understood the media he understood what it was to
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be famous he gets that and he's really good at it he's good at managing the media like a famous
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person that's something i think that the uh the others don't have that luxury no politician they
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work hard and hire pr firms and say crazy things just to get a little ink in the press so trump gets
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it for breathing and and i think he uses that to his advantage every single day and he's a master at it
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so i think that's a big part of it the other part of it is that he truly is entertaining and and and
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why wouldn't you want to hear that and i think the last part is he's a businessman and those that's
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how those guys work you know they're like oh i'm building this the guy says that the the quotes
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coming in higher he's like no hold on that's bs i got the screenshot right here on my phone
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right that's how regular people in the private sector work and he's never abandoned that to
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to cross his legs and take a deep breath and act like a real stuff suit politician say well you know
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let's see maybe we can figure a way around this what's the most diplomatic solution he cuts out all
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the bs and gets straight to the point which is why i'm a huge fan he's just a normal dude rich
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i've been around him i had the the honor and pleasure to be around him a lot over the last
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uh eight years nine years i mean on the golf course with him i've watched him in locker rooms in golf club
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locker rooms in his golf clubs just strike up conversations i'll never forget i'm in trump
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jupiter in in florida and there's a guy sitting down on the couch watching television locker room
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and trump goes up to him and like starts strikes a conversation with this guy like he's just a man's
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man a down-to-earth guy and which is why like it annoys me so much that the mainstream media just
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doesn't give this guy a fair shake he's a normal dude a fast food eating diet coke drink new yorker
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and they do not give this guy if they gave this guy a fair shake rich i think things can be so much
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different in this country there can be so much more unity but you know what we're what's the saying
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we're delta we play with the hand that we're dealt not the one we choose is what it is now there's
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some marxist damn governors which of course this is not making the news because it doesn't benefit
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them uh um waltz pritzker and newscom they're in the process right now rich of removing illegals now
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i'm all for this i think that it's a great job but it should be broadcast they're in the process of
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getting rid of uh state-funded health care for illegals why is there no riots about that right right
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where's the riot on these guys well again i think they're just they're they realize we're losing
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federal funding we can't really continue uh these games that we're playing through our the s chip
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program right the state child health insurance program and other similar programs that come from
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federal block grants and and largely from from other grants that come from the feds so they've got to
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figure something out and again what do they do what did newsom do right he said oh my gosh there's
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chaos in the streets this is trump's fault uh cameron bass uh this is trump's fault
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they're blaming trump for the chaos in their streets even um again it's sad to say but i i get
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these pitches for guests on my show uh that i know are conservative that i know are uh you know
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republican leaning at at worst and the things that are in the pitch the things that say like you know
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given that things have gotten worse since donald trump sent the marines i'm thinking i don't think
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they're getting worse i think that they're being judicious and they're not using a very heavy hand
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to make sure things don't get worse but it's just amazing to see how many people are are really uh
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i'm gonna say deep state right you know closetedly against um doing the right thing when it's trump's
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idea if it was somebody else's idea i think they'd be all for it yeah my favorite thing is is watching
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these riots and these loots and of course they go looting they go shopping i i mean i guess you
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really can't blame them at the end of the day they're criminals for looting but why wouldn't you go
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shopping for free if you can if nothing's going to happen to you rich and someone tells you you can
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go to the apple store and take as much as you want to go to the adidas store and you go to they always
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this is the best one to me is they always go to cvs what are you stealing from cvs deodorant
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dirt bags really you're going to cvs like what the hell are you stealing from cvs so that's always my
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the funniest one to see um but you know what if he didn't send in the marines rich i think that city
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would have been burnt to the ground if he didn't send in the national guard i think they would have
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started to burn that city to the ground just as they've done sure minneapolis just as they've
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tried to do in new york city and to eric adams's credit uh new york has not i have a lot of friends
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who are police officers here new york has not seen anywhere near as bad as what california is seeing
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right now because of uh eric adams and him allowing ice to come in here and start detaining some of these
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people i've got to say hats off to the marches dems in new york well listen i mean eric adams
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overstate is welcome with the marxist dems his friends don't like him anymore so i think you
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know he realizes that his only shot is is um trying to ingratiate himself with trump and to have trump
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say hey you know i'm not going to say to vote for you but i won't say not to and um you know and just
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on that election i was looking at some numbers curtis lee was doing great he's above 30 percent it's a
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four or five way race uh it looks really good for him i mean brian lair ero lewis these are big time
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lefties uh saying sliwa has a solid shot to getting into gracie mansion so uh it seems like the tide is
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turning in new york and thank god for it you know one thing i can say and you know this as good as
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anybody uh new yorkers can be all sorts of political uh stripes but most of them don't take bs from a lot
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of people and this stuff i don't care what side of the fence you're on you see that and you're like
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bro you don't do that and and that's that crazy california marxist stuff that's pouring over into
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the city and it's got to be rejected yeah i i have to assume a lot of people who don't like being
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what for doing this show is is probably because of my brashness of being in new york and it's not
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something we can really control rich it's like right and you can't even explain what it is it's just the
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way you're born the way you're brought up and the way you're raised you're raised to be street smart
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you're raised to be street tough uh because of you know what new york is it's not exactly the easiest
00:24:35.280
place to live there's parts of new york that are probably worse than some of the worst parts of
00:24:39.260
haiti or dominican republic or or cuba or or venezuela you know it's just the way it is so
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you know i think we're brought up a different way than you know most people uh throughout the country
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are and now is it a good thing i'd say it's probably good in some senses and it's probably
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better because we're more brash uh i first talk later exactly and we're more really honest than
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we probably should be uh so you know that's what we get for being new york but like i said
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hats off to um to eric adams for allowing this to go on uh biden's border patrol chief uh raul ortiz
00:25:15.380
was on fox news the other day and he says that there's more than 20 million illegals in this
00:25:19.460
country right now this is something we've all known it's probably close didn't hear it while he was in
00:25:24.640
office no why is it now this is like the same thing rich we're hearing from jake tapper now that he's
00:25:30.180
got a book out that biden was uh not mentally fit well no shit sherlock we all do that you know john
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a lot of people i've learned when i worked in government are willing to trade a lot for a pension
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and a paycheck yep and some will and some won't and i'm not going to criticize those that do but i
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think that's usually the answer you know they look at their wife they look at their kids and they say
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ah i can't let these people down um i couldn't ever do it i mean i spent uh two years maybe a
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little more in in um in the state house in trenton new jersey and in a republican administration but the
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democrats the deep state there is so powerful i mean they're everywhere for every one republican
00:26:09.380
there's like 10 democrats and it's hard to do anything and if they don't want you they get rid of
00:26:14.280
you they'll figure out a way and and you realize you're totally outnumbered and in many ways it's why i do
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what i do where i can reach more people on the outside than i could ever reach on the
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inside of government but it it's a sad truth that pension and a paycheck hold a lot of people
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hostage yeah it's uh speaking of paychecks the houses have voted to advance some doge cuts for
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npr pbs and usa id expected to go to the house floor later today or tomorrow it's about time this
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is we're going to get to elon musk right after this but it's about time that these these republicans i
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mean they've sit there i was in dc last week rich and i had some meetings with some members of
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congress and you know i brought mark mitchell of rasmussen you know mark uh down with me and
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mark's not a stupid guy he's probably one of the people i know yeah extremely high iqed individual
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and i'm just watching mark's reaction to him sitting in these meetings with me and uh he was
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just aggravated and annoyed and he's not an easy person to aggravate he's just a very easy dude to hang
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out with and that's the general sentiment in dc and i asked these people these members of congress
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some of them very very very high up do you guys want to lose 2026 like what are you guys doing
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to advance winning in 2026 and rich i can't think of one of them that had a straight answer for me that
00:27:39.640
this is what we're doing the truth is hard to tell sometimes john but i think of it like you know
00:27:46.400
it's your first day of school and new school big tallest kid in the school yard comes up to you
00:27:51.540
starts bullying you and you think to yourself this guy's gonna wipe the floor with me what do you do
00:27:56.480
you swing as hard as you can for his jaw you know to prove your own to say look i took him on
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maybe he wins maybe right i think that's what they're doing they're like we can't beat these guys
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people want their paychecks to to look bigger people want no tax on tips people want this stuff
00:28:10.900
they're crazy but they want it so now their only job let's continue burning stuff down let's do as
00:28:16.600
much damage as we can on the way out they're getting evicted from their home and they're like
00:28:20.700
you know what sure let's uh go ahead and pour cement into the drain and steal the copper pipes and ruin
00:28:27.140
this thing for the next guy and i think that's what the democrats are doing it's complete sabotage
00:28:30.880
only new yorkers know about the copper pipes rich we're gonna lose a lot of the audience on that one
00:28:36.220
sorry guys the copper pipe thing is uh is a big new york thing that uh back in the day and i think
00:28:42.620
it probably still happens today is people steal copper pipe uh and they sell it because it's worth
00:28:48.480
a shit ton of money i have a buddy rich who owns a uh sell site tower upgrading service and he stores
00:28:54.580
all the copper pipe in his garage till it gets like two hundred thousand dollars and then he goes and
00:28:58.860
sells it he buys himself a new car there was one problem is he told too many people that he was doing
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this he robbed him one day he got in there and his g-wagon wasn't in there and neither was the
00:29:08.340
copper piping so it's a it's a big big big uh new york thing
00:29:13.520
rich we're gonna get to elon musk because there's so much to talk to about there and
00:29:22.460
the fallout he had with donald trump but now he's sorry all of a sudden best inflation numbers since
00:29:27.960
2020 rand paul in my monologue i pointed out you know always crying about these numbers thomas
00:29:34.060
massey another one thomas massey by the way voted to raise the debt ceiling for joe biden back in
00:29:38.960
2023 for him to go on and keep spending spending spending under kevin mccarthy kevin mccarthy was
00:29:44.580
ultimately ousted for it um so these people claim to be fiscal conservatives but they're not always the
00:29:50.380
case but rand paul nonetheless says that donald trump was going to kill this economy things were going to
00:29:55.740
go down the drain because of tariffs some of the numbers gas prices down 12 and a half percent year
00:30:00.520
over year smart fuel oil airfare uh eggs democrats wanted to talk about eggs for some reason right
00:30:06.020
everything is down under donald trump and we have the highest tariffs rich that we've had in my
00:30:12.480
lifetime at least on these nations so which one is it is donald trump driving this economy into the
00:30:18.360
ground or is he have does he have it prospering and and rip roaring yeah well look i think the last
00:30:23.660
tariff number i saw is 88 billion dollars um nothing to sneeze at the um the the last four
00:30:30.480
months have shown pretty steady um uh growth on everything right on on 4.6 growth on the economy
00:30:38.040
the um the cost of goods has not gone up at all pretty much stayed flat the last four months which
00:30:44.060
everybody thought they're going to pass on the price of tariffs to the consumer that also did not uh pan
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out to be the case and you look at that gas continues to be consistently low uh inflation numbers
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consistently low and i think sometimes you got to take a gamble to see the result and i would put my
00:31:01.300
money on trump not because i like trump but because trump was president already and did this already and
00:31:06.000
he he knows what's going on and if you look last night they announced the uh the framework for the china
00:31:10.520
deal uh 55 is going to be what china's paying i think we're at 10 uh that sounds like a really good
00:31:17.880
deal to me it sounds like they negotiated it really well and great bringing china i'm going to say
00:31:23.660
bringing china to their knees because as much as we need cheap chinese plastic and dollar store items
00:31:28.640
and whatever do we really need all that i think we could live without it if we're faced with knowing
00:31:32.900
that we're funding one of our biggest enemies so i think uh trump has been right across the board
00:31:38.060
um certain things maybe he wasn't right on uh like how quickly he could end the ukraine war and i think
00:31:43.420
that was a little bit outside of his purview these guys are adamant about killing each other and i think
00:31:47.560
they're more adamant about staying in war because the war machine makes the money so with that being the
00:31:54.360
case for both of them they don't care about the the lives they're losing they care about all the
00:31:58.780
investment they're getting in in defense and they're going to keep killing yeah two numbskulls putin and
00:32:06.100
and zelinski both i don't know what the heck is wrong with those people but there's something
00:32:10.120
seriously wrong with both of them enough is enough get this thing over with man there's really no sense
00:32:15.380
in in this war to be fought over absolutely nonsense get it over with be done with it and move on
00:32:21.540
and uh nato's got to cut out their nonsense let's talk about elan musk is it too late to say sorry
00:32:27.760
i'm gonna test my spanish out here es tarde para pedir pardon yeah that was really good uh yeah i
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don't i don't know if it's too late or not i think there was a lot of people on the strength of trump
00:32:40.580
out of love for trump that were like i don't like elan musk he's a silicon valley weirdo but we'll get
00:32:46.220
on board i wasn't necessarily one of those um wasn't a fan but i wasn't a hater um i tried to invite
00:32:53.620
him on my show a few times never responded so i'm less of a fan now but i think you want to give us
00:32:59.380
his phone number we can have the audience reach out yeah yeah give him a call guys text him for me
00:33:04.020
but ultimately i think uh elan musk i think maybe believed that because he has a lot of money and a
00:33:11.040
lot of you know twitter followers or whatever the case is that he was somehow more popular more
00:33:17.440
powerful than trump and i don't think that's the case at all and i think his um apology um is is
00:33:24.800
proof of it i also think president trump's reaction people like to say trump is this and trump is that
00:33:29.180
trump took it like a champ and just said oh it's too bad you know whatever made a couple of matter
00:33:33.480
of fact statements but they weren't childish i thought they were presidential and um and i was i was
00:33:39.380
proud of it honestly to tell you the truth and and i think uh elan musk for whatever the case was
00:33:44.520
why he did what he did i have no idea but i don't think it was a good move i think you're you're
00:33:49.120
better off having an ally in the white house than not and i think he blew it yeah donald trump this is
00:33:54.960
one of the the few times where we saw donald trump take the high road he usually will hit back but i
00:34:00.980
think he actually does truly feel bad for elan musk donald trump was his only friend you don't see
00:34:06.380
elan musk out here he's an oligarch for sure but usually the oligarchs hang together he's the outsider
00:34:10.920
they don't like him for whatever reason it's weird or whatever but they didn't like him before
00:34:15.080
donald trump either so it's not just because he's friends with donald trump that that they don't like
00:34:19.400
him it's something probably deeper than that um but the guy's got no friends donald trump was his
00:34:25.940
only friend and donald trump time and time again this is what annoys me so much rich is he gets
00:34:30.520
backstabbed he does all this stuff for these people he does all this good for these people
00:34:34.320
and they stab him in the back it's like enough's enough and and you can't even tell him like did you
00:34:40.060
learn your lesson now because you can't you know why it's because no risk no reward yeah i think
00:34:47.320
trump understands that i'm gonna take a risk on these people each and every time because there's
00:34:51.900
too much upside to be afraid of the downside i don't think you're as successful a man as he is
00:34:56.620
uh unless you really put that aside and say let's do it and the reality is most of us aren't
00:35:02.120
that uh risky right most of us go nah too much downside i'm not involved i think trump is that guy
00:35:07.480
let's give it a shot see what happens yeah it's risky there's nothing more risky than opening a
00:35:13.560
casino in atlantic city donald trump did it and that's what you often hear about when the on the
00:35:17.860
left rich yeah he's a failure he failed at uh uh opening a casino in atlantic city okay well you
00:35:24.340
show me a casino that hasn't failed yet in atlantic city and i'll tell you you're copernicus because
00:35:29.280
atlantic city is a dying place rich valdez the host of america at night rich you get the last word here
00:35:35.280
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00:35:39.180
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00:35:45.120
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00:36:05.320
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