Trump's tariffs are now in effect, and the media is seizing the moment to fan the flames of doom and gloom. Trump says countries are calling him up and kissing his ass, trying to make a deal. Also, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem finds another chance for a bizarre photo op.
00:33:05.360Couldn't give a shit if you wind up in that El Salvadorian prison.
00:33:08.620I mean, the American public is like really clear, like, get out.
00:33:11.320But the one thing they don't want to see, Carl, is immigrant, illegal immigrants who have lived here for 10 years or more who pay taxes on their earnings and have no criminal record.
00:33:33.480If they let him alone for another six months, he'd have been he'd have been safe in the poll.
00:33:37.320Well, I haven't seen an individual poll on him, but I bet you they want him gone, too, because when they find out that two not one, but two judges, two courts have said we find the gang evidence credible and you're getting deported.
00:34:05.860But well, I was just going to say and look, a lot of this is we are have arrived at this place where Trump has the support to do this.
00:34:15.600The majority support across the board, even in cases where, you know, we're not holding hearings or whatever because of what Biden did.
00:34:22.040I mean, this is a this is a clear reaction to four years of Joe Biden just throwing open the borders and, you know, denying it to the American people saying, oh, the border's safe.
00:34:31.600And then also once the folks are here, you know, denying that actual crimes were, you know, Lake and Riley and what was going on in Aurora, Colorado with the with the gangs and the like.
00:34:41.300And so the American people just completely fed up with it and they wanted action taken.
00:38:43.260And ironically, she's, you know, Trump hires or hired a lot of his people.
00:38:48.180He likes people who have media experience, who can go on TV and handle, you know, questions from from the mainstream media folks and the like.
00:38:56.220And so I think maybe she thinks that this is this is what Trump wants to see her and for her to be out front and making headlines and being in the newspapers.
00:39:06.080But to your point, I think it's I think it's a bit over the top and not doing her or the administration any favors with these the way that they're just sort of sort of comically staged.
00:39:21.400Well, not this one, I think, but earlier ones multiple times, Christian Navy SEAL, FBI agent, Air Marshal, among the his other accomplishments.
00:39:30.220These social media posts devalue everything you are doing right.
00:39:34.280Secretary Noem, are you the secretary of Homeland Security or are you a social media influencer?
00:39:38.360Because if you are the boss, you wouldn't be slinging a weapon and kicking in doors.
00:39:43.700So unless you you are issued that weapon, you should not be holding it for posts and pics.
00:39:49.520Screwing around with guns for social media would get anyone that works under you fired.
00:39:54.380I can't understand why you and others in the administration continue to parade yourselves in such an unprofessional, juvenile, self-serving way.
00:40:58.520It is not helpful to Team Trump in these courts every day to have the DHS secretary being like,
00:41:05.500I think—I think he did human trafficking.
00:41:08.500And next thing you know, that guy's in El Salvador in prison.
00:41:10.520Well, that's what—I hate to keep harping on poor Abrego Garcia, but that's—the White House press secretary accused him of engaging in human trafficking.
00:41:21.040He was never—that just came out of nowhere.
00:41:23.680This seems to be a go-to phrase for them because they think people will hear it and go, well, gosh, yeah, shoot him.
00:41:29.980Don't even send him—don't even send him to El Salvador.
00:41:32.760You know, human trafficking, murderers.
00:41:34.420But I—to your point, in all seriousness, she should use very precise language.
00:41:40.000They should be careful about the law, and she—she shouldn't even be standing over the gun.
00:41:44.460She should—she should be doing—she's been doing what you said.
00:41:48.100Megan, I—I guess I'd nominate you for the job right now.
00:41:53.000I would do it the way a prosecutor does it.
00:41:56.280It's fine for a prosecutor to go to the scene as the cops are collecting evidence and doing the jobs that they are experts at.
00:42:03.340But I—you don't see prosecutors trying to act like they're the forensic expert on the scene and dissecting the body or making sure that nobody gets near the scene.
00:42:16.060They're there because they're the ones who are going to have to argue it in court, and they just want to make sure they can say they were there, that there's nothing really abnormal happening.
00:44:22.740They're in a plane flying, lots of them, all tough negotiators.
00:44:26.080But things that people wouldn't have given us two years ago, wouldn't have even thought of it two years ago, three years ago, five years ago, seven.
00:45:19.720But, you know, the terms like war on the world and then he undid it.
00:45:24.300And then it's our turn to do the rip in like we're ripping we're ripping people off.
00:45:27.400That plays into the messaging that's coming from even his right wing detractors and people, even Maria Bartiromo, who actually is one person I really trust on this.
00:45:37.260She it's hard to find somebody really trust on that because she's definitely not afflicted by TDS, but she totally understands the markets and has got a lot of, you know, presumably billionaire friends who are melting down over it.
00:45:49.860So I found her reporting to be very steady on it.
00:45:55.000Politically, though, I haven't seen a recent poll, but I do wonder how this is going to affect him.
00:46:01.180Yeah, I mean, it's it's definitely the way that this has gone, the hysteria that's gone surrounded this over the last week or so with the market, you know, the way it's gone down can't be positive for Trump.
00:46:16.420I mean, it just I'm sure his supporters are going to be, you know, when you look at the internals of these polls, most Republicans are going to stick with him on this and give him at least the benefit of the doubt and see how this plays out over the coming weeks and months.
00:46:30.580But in Democrats, you know, they hate him.
00:47:02.900And so he's he needs to, you know, I think this is another thing about the administration.
00:47:07.940When you talk about Doge, you talk about this.
00:47:09.820I think the administration, you know, they could have benefited from prepping the public for what, you know, and saying, look, here's the problem.
00:47:54.820We saw Elon Musk does not seem to be a fan of the tariffs, but there are a lot of defenders now.
00:48:01.340We have we'll talk about this in a minute, but we have Kevin O'Leary out there defending it.
00:48:04.580Of course, Scott Besson, Howard Lutnick and so on.
00:48:08.160Well, he had the president hasn't made it very clear on what a country would have to do to avoid tariffs.
00:48:15.120And I think this is picking up on what Tom was saying.
00:48:18.660You know, he he said he seems to think that if there's a trade imbalance with the United States, that's de facto evidence that they've been cheating.
00:48:26.120And it might be that or it might be that they just make a product we want or we don't export to that particular country.
00:48:33.520He I think he should give an Oval Office address to explain his rationale, walk through what he hopes to gain by this, what countries can do to avoid tariffs and what his philosophy is on, you know, free trade versus fair trade.
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00:51:31.180It's time to squeeze Chinese heads into the wall now.
00:51:35.020So, on the front of the politics of the tariffs, this is the way to go.
00:51:43.220Like, there's not a lot of Americans who are going to be crying in their soup over the loss of our relationship with China.
00:51:51.120I think most Americans at this point would like far less of a relationship with China.
00:51:55.180We would like China to stop owning our agricultural fields, our movie industry, our sports industries, produce every single toy that our children play with.
00:52:06.780And we have no idea with what standards.
00:52:08.800So, now they want to play hardball with Donald Trump and they think somehow that's going to work to their benefit.
00:53:21.720No, it's much harder to sell the, to Carl's example earlier, Tom, like, I don't know, somebody's importing like dragon fruit here, like some sort of weird papayas that we don't grow domestically.
00:53:35.000And so there's a trade imbalance because we just don't export that much to them and we need their, you know, tropical fruits.
00:53:41.160That's a little tougher to sell than, look at these guys.
00:53:44.160Everybody knows the Chinese have been taking advantage of us for a long time.
00:53:47.560And now they decided to play hardball.
00:53:49.560They actually came out because Trump raised the tariffs on China.
00:53:54.140And then they decided to raise a reciprocal 34% on us.
00:53:58.600And Trump said, all right, I'll do you one better.
00:54:50.740And that's, that's obviously a good message for the administration.
00:54:53.080But he also said in another clip, I think it was this morning, it might have been on Maria's show.
00:54:58.440When he was talking about tariffs with the Chinese, he was like, listen, you know, we import five times more, right, than China imports of our goods.
00:55:07.760So they're the surplus country, so they can raise their tariffs all they want.
00:55:29.320And perhaps, I mean, the other concern that people are talking about is, is this going to, you know, if we're, you know, if we're getting after Vietnam and some of these other countries, is that going to drive them into the arms of the Chinese and away from us?
00:55:42.220Those, I think, are legitimate questions.
00:55:43.960But at the end of the day, I mean, I think Kevin O'Leary is right.
00:55:47.120We have been, and this is what Trump has been saying for a long time.
00:55:49.980We've been taken advantage of by the Chinese in particular for so long, we've just come to accept that that's the sort of normal course of things.
00:55:58.980And so finally, we're saying, even as they have cheated and stolen, not just IP, but the way they dump products, they manipulate their currency, I mean, they do a whole host of things which are really underhanded and not what you want in a, you know, a legitimate trading partner.
00:56:16.180So we're trying to reset this, and I think if we can do it, if the Trump administration can do it, it'll be a huge win for the country in the medium and long term.
00:56:25.600I don't think the Chinese understand the American sentiment toward China right now, right?
00:56:30.080After the balloon gate over the United States, about which we did absolutely nothing, and Americans are still wondering about that.
00:56:37.840Frankly, I'm still wondering about all the drones over New Jersey.
00:56:40.320I don't believe any of the explanations we've gotten so far.
00:56:42.320I don't think they're particularly popular as a country in America, and I think it actually is going to really work well for President Trump to take them on.
00:56:53.580As far as if we zoom out, we read the polls on immigration.
00:56:58.640The polls on tariffs, I haven't seen them lately, but you're telling me less well, which dovetails with what I would have expected, because the American populace is told over and over and over, they're bad.
00:57:41.760That is the most at this point in a presidency in at least 100 years.
00:57:47.220In fact, it's the most in any single year, and we're only in April, since Harry S. Truman in the early 1950s.
00:57:53.44086% of the American public believes that Trump's approach to presidential power is completely different from past presidents compared to only 14% who believe it is in line with precedent.
00:58:05.260And we're talking about at least 79% of Democrats, independents, and Republicans.
00:58:10.140So Trump's presidential power is too much, the right amount, too little.
00:58:14.940Well, 47% say too much, but then you get 36% who say the right amount.
00:58:21.840So you're essentially dealing with a majority of the American public, 53%, who do not say that Trump has too much power.
00:58:28.280They either say he has too little power or the right amount of power.
00:58:32.380So the idea, that argument that Donald Trump is, quote, unquote, a king, that I don't think holds with the American people.
00:58:38.780That's really remarkable, Tom Bevin, if you think about the number of outlets continuing to use words like fascist, authoritarian, right, dictator, some of which we heard in these non-organic hands-off rallies over the weekend, right?
00:58:56.780They're doing all they can through lawfare, through media, through protests to get the message out there that he's acting like a dictator.
00:59:05.300The majority of the populace still thinks he's using presidential power appropriately, and of a hefty amount of them, nearly 20% thinks he hasn't gone far enough.
00:59:14.980Right, and there is this disconnect between folks in the media and certainly the Democrats when they say, well, you know, I don't think that this is what Trump voters voted for.
00:59:24.200You know, they're having buyer's remorse than that he talked to a Trump voter.
00:59:26.540They're like, this is exactly what I voted for, and I would vote for it again, you know, twice if I could.
00:59:31.500I mean, they love what he's doing, and that number about – he has taken a completely different approach.
00:59:37.280It is a different political environment than he was in, obviously, in 2016.
01:00:27.600He tweeted this out just today, yesterday, saying, this is what I voted for, this and tariffs.
01:00:34.300And the tweet was from Trump's Truth Social that reads as follows.
01:00:38.920Sloppy J.B. Pritzker, the rotund governor from the once great state of Illinois, who makes Chris Christie look like a male model, and whose family wanted him out of the business because he was so pathetic at helping them run it, has presided over the destruction and disintegration of Illinois at every level, never before seen in any state.
01:01:44.180And it just hasn't been a great situation for the state of Illinois.
01:01:49.240But nevertheless, I mean, to me, Pritzker is one of those guys that is sort of a classic example of a guy who was born on third base and thought he hit a triple.
01:01:58.060He really hasn't distinguished himself, if you look at the statistics in the state.
01:02:03.340And yet, he is constantly mentioned as one of the top-tier candidates for the Democrats in 2028.
01:17:50.660And all those plants that have been closed are going to be opened if they're modern enough or they'll be ripped down and brand new ones will be built.
01:18:00.560And we're going to put the miners back to work.
01:18:11.400It's quite an image, Lee, of those guys in the hard hats who have been kicked around for far too long standing behind the president.
01:18:18.220So what does this mean as a practical matter?
01:18:19.960And you can feel it being in the room there with these workers.
01:18:24.700They've been waiting a long time to have people out there like President Trump defending, sticking up for their livelihood, for their family, for their community.
01:18:36.060And if you're sitting around a candidate and it's a campaign team, you're looking at the latest poll and you're trying to figure out the right message,
01:18:43.980strangulating the economy is never a good idea for anyone around that table.
01:18:48.460And if someone is naive, dumb enough to talk about it, you would expect the rest of them to try to stop them.
01:18:56.620And in this case, President Trump gets elected.
01:19:08.340He declares an emergency, an energy emergency, signs an executive order, creates a National Energy Dominance Council
01:19:15.640with also Doug Burgum from Secretary from the Department of Interior, Chris Wright from the Department of Energy, myself and other agencies.
01:19:23.820And we're working together to unleash energy dominance and permitting reform, making America the AI capital of the world, all of these priorities and working together.
01:19:33.320Four weeks ago today, EPA announced what amounts to the largest deregulatory action in the history of the country.
01:19:40.740One agency, largest deregulatory action ever, trillions of dollars of regulatory relief coming over the course of 2025.
01:20:36.000You can use it to substitute, I'm sorry, to supplement your baseload power, but it's not a substitute for it.
01:20:42.600So these deregulatory actions that we announced are with regards to a number of Biden-era regulations from the last year or two of his time in office
01:20:53.820that didn't just accidentally result in these companies needing to go out of business.
01:21:01.220It was intentionally drafted to destroy these coal plants.
01:21:05.720Yes, you heard it in the Hillary soundbite.
01:21:08.640The Democrats, Obama, Hillary, and Biden, and I'm sure Kamala, too, have made it a mission to ruin coal.
01:22:06.280Like, people just naturally moved away from it.
01:22:07.940They say as utilities have switched to cheaper and cheaper electricity sources like natural gas, wind, and solar power.
01:22:16.480That transition has been the biggest reason for the drop in U.S. emissions since 2005.
01:22:21.360Now, you tell me you know much more about this than I do, but my understanding is the reason that there has been a lot of switching to wind and solar
01:22:29.520is because the government has been propping up those industries, notwithstanding the fact that almost nobody wants them.
01:22:38.860And during the Obama administration, he was putting out regulations out of the Biden EPA that were intentionally trying to get rid of coal.
01:22:51.060Supreme Court weighs in in West Virginia versus EPA.
01:22:54.020They say that what the President Obama, EPA, did was unconstitutional.
01:22:59.660President Biden comes in, and then he goes back to what Obama was trying to do by design, getting rid of these sources of energy to force America to move towards wind power.
01:23:11.840Now, what that does is it harms the economy, the people who can least afford it, Americans who are faced with the decision of whether or not to heat their home,
01:23:20.180fill up their fridge with groceries, get prescription drugs that they need.
01:23:24.440Instead of saying all of the above, they have to pick and choose.
01:23:27.380If you want to get an electric vehicle, go get an electric vehicle.
01:23:30.680But maybe for your neighbor, they don't want an electric vehicle.
01:23:59.060President Trump comes in, and when he talks about a solution for energy, we're talking about national security, the environment, the economy, considering it all.
01:24:09.680We need to protect the environment and grow the economy.
01:24:14.340All of the above also means choosing both protecting the environment and protecting the economy, protecting opportunity with a golden age for all of America.
01:24:24.500This is the path, I believe strongly, not the one that seeks to suffocate the economy, cutting out all these sources of energy with no substitute.
01:24:32.080The last thing I would say is that some of these Democrats are now talking about how they agree with President Trump that we should make America the AI capital of the world.
01:24:39.820Well, how the heck do you think that's possible if you keep getting rid of all of these baseload power?
01:24:48.580We've got to spend a minute on it because this is the bane of my existence.
01:24:52.440We spend our summers at the Jersey Shore, and there has been a massive dispute there.
01:24:58.100You cannot go two feet without seeing a sign about the windmills that are coming, the wind turbines on the wind farm that are coming to South Jersey.
01:25:06.600Unfortunately, I don't think this particular group of wind turbines is going to be stopped by President Trump's executive order, which he issued right upon taking office, saying anything that's not yet been permitted and that's still in process of being permitted is halted on wind turbines.
01:25:24.220He's the offshore ones in particular are stopping because for, among other reasons, they're apparently killing a bunch of whales and they're toxic.
01:25:32.040Last summer in Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, one fell.
01:25:35.240The blades of these things are the size of a 747.
01:25:48.620That's just one, one windmill, one turbine.
01:25:52.800So how are we going to stop more of these things from polluting our land because they take up so much land, polluting our waters, killing our animal, our sea life like our whales, because it's full steam ahead for the ones that weren't swept up in the EO.
01:26:08.520Right. And at these different agencies, we're implementing President Trump's guidance to us that he doesn't want any more permits for any of these windmills.
01:26:19.120Now, there have been a lot of windmills over the course of not just months and years, but even decades that have gone up around America.
01:26:27.180And I think that there's somewhat of a difference in the way that some Democratic governors talk about this versus others.
01:26:35.660We've spent a lot of time talking about how this is not a substitute for baseload power.
01:26:42.080Some Democratic governors agree with that, and they say that out loud.
01:26:46.180Well, they need to get the memo to the rest of the people out there who are articulating this as if it's a substitute because it's not.
01:26:52.760As far as some of those windmills that are already up or they're much further along with approvals already secured, that's not something that I received any guidance from President Trump that's different from what he's already put out.
01:27:08.140We stand by ready to implement his agenda.
01:27:11.060That's our job is to implement the Trump mandate, and that's why there haven't been any new approvals since he put that EO out.
01:27:17.200Good. Let's stop it. I don't care if they got the permit right in this case.
01:27:21.400They got it right before Trump took office, but it's not yet built, and it shouldn't be.
01:27:25.200It's such a pollutant. It's a disgusting eyesore.
01:27:28.140It's one thing you've put these off where nobody can see them.
01:27:30.440But I mean, the East Coast is it's absolutely gorgeous.
01:27:34.820It's the Gold Coast of America. It's spectacular.
01:27:37.300Why would we litter it with these ugly, disgusting windmills that if they fall, because there will be accidents, ruin the swimming, endanger the sea life?
01:27:45.720You heard Trump talking about how they kill the whales on Joe Rogan.
01:27:48.480He's right. They mocked him. He was totally right about it.
01:27:51.320It's torture for these poor whales who are underwater as they can hear the click, click, click, click, click, click, click of hundreds or thousands of these things.
01:27:59.800It's just one of Trump's many right headed priorities.
01:28:02.300Priorities. Let's talk about the Doge efforts at EPA, because it seems like EPA is a big area for Doge and that Elon and team have found over $20 billion in waste, fraud and abuse so far at EPA, Lee.
01:28:17.320I've canceled now $22 billion worth of grants.
01:28:20.600And to give you an idea of how that compares to the agency's budget, our operating budget is about $10 billion a year.
01:28:27.340Yet somehow, through Congressional Democrats and their Inflation Reduction Act and some of their other appropriations through Congress, over $60 billion was obligated and spent through EPA in 2024.
01:28:41.780And that number is going to go down by over 65 percent in 2025.
01:28:50.040Now, you'll hear terms from Democrats like environmental justice or climate change, and they'll define it in a way that there might be Republicans and independents that would agree with.
01:29:02.440You say environmental justice, a great argument to be made in support of it is that there are communities that have been left behind and they need funding and support, attention in order to deal with it.
01:29:18.060In the name of environmental justice, they will get a dollar appropriated, and instead of spending that dollar to actually remediate that environmental concern, they will spend the money to some left-wing activist group to tell us that we need to spend a dollar remediating an environmental issue.
01:29:36.620So we have been canceling all of these grants.
01:29:40.500$50 million went to the Climate Justice Alliance.
01:29:44.040They say that climate justice runs through a free Palestine.
01:29:48.060I come in office, I cancel that grant.
01:29:50.440Yes, Climate Justice Alliance said that through $50 million, we're not even talking about spending $100,000, which that would be too much.
01:29:59.480They say that climate justice runs through a free Palestine.
01:30:01.700I say that if you're going to spend $50 million in the name of environmental justice, the $50 million should be spent remediating environmental issues in communities, again, not sending it to left-wing organizations.
01:30:14.580I'll tell you one of the other issues that we've seen in the bigger picture is with $20 billion through the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund created in the Inflation Reduction Act, Democrats parked $20 billion at an outside bank to give to eight pass-through NGOs.
01:30:31.540Many of them were brand-new, the $2 billion NGO that is connected to Stacey Abrams, President Trump talks about a lot.
01:30:44.600Self-dealing, conflicts of interest, unqualified recipients, and less EPA oversight than what we need for the taxpayer with all sorts of different facts and evidence to back it up.
01:30:55.740And yet congressional Democrats in the media, others in the media, want to make believe, like, there are no problems with any of that.
01:31:05.600Okay, let me ask you about this, because Stacey Abrams responded to this on MSNBC on March 6th.
01:31:10.020And this soundbite's going to begin with her discussing a program to replace energy-inefficient devices in Georgia, a program that was run by Rewiring America.
01:31:21.000One of the groups, including hers, was another one, who got this huge grant, this $2 billion EPA grant.
01:31:32.800What is your relationship to it, and what does it do?
01:31:34.980In 2023 and 2024, I led a program called Vitalizing DeSoto.
01:31:43.060We worked in a tiny town in South Georgia to demonstrate that by replacing energy-inefficient appliances with efficient appliances, you can lower your cost.
01:32:08.980And based on that program, a coalition of organizations, famous organizations, came together and said to the EPA, if we can do this here, we can do this for millions more Americans.
01:32:23.780Let us invest the money of America in lowering the cost for Americans.
01:32:28.200And the EPA said, okay, great, go for it.
01:32:31.600So her explanation, in part, is that it wasn't just her little group, but it was groups like the United Way and Habitat for Humanity, and that's why this $2 billion grant made sense.
01:32:44.760Her organization received $500 million of the $2 billion.
01:32:50.200What qualifies this NGO to receive $2 billion?
01:32:54.660It didn't exist before this Inflation Reduction Act.
01:33:00.680They only received $100, and then they get $2 billion?
01:33:06.160Now, when the grant agreement was drafted by EPA, they put a provision on page 7 that says that they had 90 days to complete training called how to develop a budget.
01:33:17.360This isn't some standard requirement that went to every contract all of the time.
01:33:23.360This was a decision by the EPA that this organization needed to complete a training called how to develop a budget.
01:33:30.040If they need to still complete that training to learn how to develop a budget, how do you give them $2 billion?
01:33:48.840You have 21 days to start spending $2 billion, but then you're given an additional 69 days to complete your how to develop a budget training.
01:34:02.120So, EPA knew that this was something that we should have a problem with, that these folks had qualification challenges.
01:34:10.540The EPA said they couldn't spend the money themselves, so they had to park it at this outside bank.
01:34:16.760And the problem is, once the $2 billion goes through the NGO, EPA isn't even a party to the account control agreements after that.
01:34:25.880EPA loses all sorts of oversight where I can't sit before you and answer all sorts of basic questions about what happens to the money.
01:34:35.100Stacey Abrams just wants us to take her word for it.
01:34:37.460But I don't know what in her qualification says that we should just be, you know, sending over $2 billion to her and her friends to let them spend as they wish with reduced oversight.
01:34:48.820One other example was $5 billion went to another organization that was the former employer of the director of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund for the Biden-EPA.
01:35:00.820The self-dealing and conflicts of interest included Democratic donors, former Biden and Obama officials.
01:35:06.240And as you pointed out here at the top of the segment, playing that clip of a Biden-EPA official, it was in their words that they were throwing gold bars off the Titanic.
01:35:39.520It's a green slush fund to their friends, getting out the door as part of their agenda before President Trump gets sworn into office.
01:35:46.680And that's why I am so upset and concerned and frustrated and motivated to do something about the abuse of these terms, climate change and environmental justice.
01:35:59.140Don't tell me that you're advocating for some community that needs to have clean air, land and water.
01:36:05.640And in order to get there, you need to remediate environmental concern and then spend a dollar not on fixing that, but instead give it to your friends.
01:36:12.860You know, there are people who are talking about climate change in a way that is trying to justify what is, you know, tens of billions of dollars or into the trillions of dollars, if you want to talk about the Green New Deal.
01:36:27.080And they don't care about the fact that the people who can least afford it are the ones who get harmed the most.
01:36:31.960They're not respecting choice and the ability of the American consumer to decide what kind of a vehicle to have, how they want to heat their home or to be even able to afford to be able to pay the bills for this stuff.
01:36:43.460So this is about getting back to common sense.
01:36:47.020And I don't want I don't think that the wool should be pulled over the eyes of Americans, Americans across the spectrum, conservatives, moderates, liberals, Republicans, Democrats, independents.
01:36:59.600We all want clean air, land and water.
01:37:01.920Stop trying to turn it into a wedge issue where you have to choose to either go with whatever Bernie Sanders is proposing or you're an outcast who wants to change the air back to the way it was a half a century ago.
01:37:29.260Based on lack of respect that China has shown to the world markets, I'm hereby raising the tariff charge to China by the U.S. to 125 percent, 125, effective immediately.
01:37:39.100At some point, hopefully in the near future, China will realize that the days of ripping off the U.S. and other countries is no longer sustainable or acceptable.
01:37:45.220Conversely, and based on the fact that more than 75 countries have called representatives of the U.S., including the Departments of Commerce, Treasury and the USTR, to negotiate a solution to the subjects being discussed relative to trade, trade barriers, tariffs, currency manipulation and non-monetary tariffs,
01:38:00.720and that these countries have not, at my strong suggestion, retaliated in any way, shape or form against us.
01:38:05.880I have authorized a 90-day pause and a substantially lowered reciprocal tariff during this period of 10 percent, also effective immediately.
01:38:13.440Thank you for your attention to this matter.
01:38:15.020And the markets, of course, have just jumped up by thousands of points.
01:39:42.620I have one more question for you on media bias, which I know you've been experiencing since taking this job a couple of weeks ago as part of your deregulation effort at the EPA,
01:39:54.660trying to roll back these incredible saddles and bridles that were put all over our energy industry.
01:40:00.660Bill Weir, a guy who admits that he's reading little letters to his infant child, who's now a couple of years old,
01:40:08.920and he renewed his terrible letter about how on your birthday you'll be breathing dirty air and drinking dirty water.
01:41:51.080And this is what we're going back and looking at.
01:41:54.140So for him, you know, he decided that, you know, this was going to be an easy fact check
01:41:59.400because he didn't know what he was talking about.
01:42:01.220And there was a whole lot of arrogance here.
01:42:03.000It's important for people to do their homework.
01:42:04.500We have been attacked with this deregulatory announcement and in a way where people will post pictures, videos of, you know, land, water from the 60s or 70s.
01:42:19.620And they'll claim that this is what we're going to go back to.
01:42:22.220We're talking about regulation from, you know, the last year or two.
01:42:26.560If the Biden EPA puts a new regulation in in 2023 and 2024, and we're talking about going back and revisiting it,
01:42:35.520if you want to be accurate, post pictures and video from a year or two ago.
01:42:39.660You can't go back to showing us water quality from the 70s and say that's what's going to happen if we change some regulation from 2024.
01:42:48.300So before I let you go, what's been the biggest surprise to you?
01:42:51.980You have been in New York state politics and then, of course, we're a New York state congressman.
01:42:57.640I mean, a federal congressman from the east end of Long Island, I believe.
01:43:01.840Right. And you go you do that for many, many years.
01:43:05.340And then you get tapped for this job, which is a very, very important job.
01:43:08.940And you get in there, you start kicking the tires of the agency.
01:43:11.380You got those. You got a bunch of stuff you got to help President Trump do to roll back the regulations.
01:43:16.700So between all of that, the spending and the regulatory, you know, approach and so on, what's been like the biggest surprise?
01:43:25.560The biggest surprise is how much we can do at once.
01:43:30.360I knew that there was a lot of work that we were going to have to tackle.
01:43:32.980We have a four year term to get it done.
01:43:35.420And you wonder how much can you get done in the first 100 days in the first year?
01:43:41.360And everything that we're talking about here, whether it's canceling twenty two billion dollars worth of grants, it's the deregulatory actions that were discussed.
01:43:50.500There's a whole lot of different actions that we are undertaking to to better protect the environment that we're proud of.
01:43:56.620The hazardous material removal response in Los Angeles after the wildfires is a perfect example of that.
01:44:03.160The super fun cleanup that cleanups that were involved in across the country, the good work to protect human health and the environment and power the great American comeback.
01:44:12.260We're not picking and choosing what to tackle first.
01:44:15.220We want to fix everything and we want to do it right now.
01:44:18.720It's been a surprise just how much we're able to do it once.