In this episode of Triggered, host Jake Tapper talks with EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin and Federalist CEO Sean Davis about their latest wins for the Trump administration and how they plan for the future of the country.
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00:08:11.000Hey guys, welcome to another huge episode of Triggered, and it's another day with another round of big wins for the Trump administration.
00:08:20.000This week we found out inflation is down, gas prices are down, while the future of America is looking way, way up.
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00:11:41.000You're getting rid of so much of the nonsense just exposing it.
00:11:44.000I mean, every day I look at Twitter, Zeldin's doing this.
00:11:46.000You're going to live up to your nickname amongst some of our little group chats over the years, the legend of Zeldin.
00:11:53.000I think you're going to go down as a huge part of this administration, as a huge part of getting rid of some of this nonsense.
00:12:01.000You made a lot of Americans happy this week, Lee, with your announcement on start-stop technology, literally the dumbest feature in the history of automobiles.
00:12:20.000It might be the single dumbest feature in the history of putting features in our motor vehicles.
00:12:27.000And the hatred out there from across this country comes in hot.
00:12:32.000It's certainly quite frustrating when you experience it yourself.
00:12:36.000You're sitting at an intersection and it stops, but imagine you have one of these vehicles where as soon as your vehicle turns on, you have to turn it off.
00:12:43.000Every single time, you start scratching your head and that's government working for you.
00:12:48.000And you start asking, well, what's the impact on my battery, on my starter, on the quality of other parts?
00:13:42.000Like, we live in this republic, we have elections, people demand representation, and too often these people go to Washington, and whether you're serving in Congress or you're some bureaucrat at an agency, and you start acting like you know best, well, the American public doesn't like it.
00:14:09.000And you might see a figure for one type of driving, say, inside of a city.
00:14:17.000And then there are other people who are wondering, well, okay, what do the numbers mean when it relates to the way that I drive it?
00:14:24.000Because, you know, I might be driving...
00:14:28.000I live in a rural community, so your minimal savings would be even less where they live.
00:14:35.000The fact is, whatever type of stats have come out, the numbers are minimal, and they're often not looking at the other impacts.
00:14:45.000The Biden EPA didn't even want Americans to be able to buy gas cars.
00:14:49.000So it actually goes all the way back to Obama and this idea that greenhouse gases and fossil fuels were some sort of threat to our national security.
00:15:00.000What are you doing to right some of those wrongs over at the EPA?
00:15:03.000Because that seems to be the place that they used.
00:15:06.000To really block anything that was common sense about not just our own energy and fossil fuels, but I look at that stuff as national security, and they did everything they could to diminish that.
00:15:18.000President Trump campaigned against having EV mandates.
00:15:22.000We see a standard that's come out of the state of California that other states have adopted to go to all electric vehicles.
00:15:30.000The president didn't just campaign on it.
00:15:32.000He's followed through on it once he was sworn in.
00:15:35.000One of the first actions that I took was that I sent The California waivers from the Biden EPA to Congress.
00:15:42.000The House passed three bills through the Congressional Review Act to overturn those waivers.
00:15:49.000If the Senate passes it, then it goes to the president for a signature.
00:15:53.000And those waivers to California where they have, for example, that EV mandate, it's all going to be eliminated.
00:16:01.000There's also other rules that we are reconsidering right now as it relates to vehicles.
00:16:06.000You mentioned one action that was announced yesterday as it relates to one feature, which is actually a decision from the Obama administration.
00:16:14.000This off cycle credit for the start stop, which ended up resulting in car manufacturers putting it in many of our cars.
00:16:23.000Most actually now that the status over half.
00:16:27.000So there's actions that we're able to take through regulation.
00:16:30.000The president has been setting the pace.
00:16:37.000Since he came in fulfilling his campaign promises, there's a lot to do.
00:16:41.000And fortunately, a lot of progress has already been made in the first 100 days.
00:16:44.000So, you know, California is a great example, obviously.
00:16:46.000You know, I imagine they're going to fight all of this tooth and nail.
00:16:50.000They're going to totally disregard the federal laws.
00:16:54.000You know, they're running their own, you know, I guess, dystopian society over there.
00:16:59.000What do you foresee happening there and how do you combat that?
00:17:03.000If Congress ends up passing these Congressional Review Acts, again, the House already passed the three California waivers.
00:17:11.000If the Senate passes it, not only do those waivers go away, but when the pendulum, if the pendulum swings at some point far into the future, you can't bring those waivers back.
00:17:23.000When Congress passes something with the Congressional Review Act, you can't do something that is substantially similar in the future.
00:17:32.000And the other thing to point out is that in the Senate, this doesn't require 60 votes.
00:17:35.000With the Congressional Review Act, it only requires 51 votes.
00:17:40.000Now, lastly, I'd point out that this is a really short timeline.
00:17:43.000With the Congressional Review Act, the Senate needs to act over the course of these next few weeks where the deadline passes for them.
00:17:51.000So hopefully we get Senate action here this month.
00:17:53.000Do you see any holdouts on the Republican side trying to slow roll that or prevent it from going through?
00:17:58.000I'm not aware of any on the House side.
00:18:02.000It was actually a bipartisan vote where there was 10 Democrats who voted for one.
00:18:08.000There was 12 or 13 Democrats that voted for another bill.
00:18:11.000And then there were over 30 Democrats that voted for the third bill.
00:18:15.000So this isn't even something that was along party lines in the House.
00:18:27.000Can you talk about sort of the overall, you know, insanity of, you know, all this being symbolic of the larger agenda that we'd seen over the years at the EPA?
00:18:37.000I mean, when you got into this role, what exactly did you find?
00:18:41.000And perhaps, I guess, what shocked you the most?
00:18:45.000So I gotta tell you, the thing that shocked me the most is how much we're able to do at once.
00:19:11.000Doing more deregulation than entire federal governments have done across all agencies, across entire presidencies.
00:19:17.000That's how much of a mess it was that we inherited.
00:19:20.000We announced that action on March 12th.
00:19:22.000Now, I'll tell you what's shocking from a different standpoint when I came in was just how little we had people actually showing up in the office.
00:19:32.000The president ended COVID-era remote work.
00:19:35.000One of the questions I asked was how many people are coming into the office here in D.C.?
00:19:40.000We have five buildings across two square city blocks.
00:19:43.000I already announced we're pulling out of one of the buildings.
00:19:45.000We're looking to do real estate consolidations to save taxpayer money.
00:19:49.000Well, last year, the average attendance on Mondays and Fridays was 5% to 8%.
00:20:58.000Can you talk about some of the things that you guys got rid of that would just be sort of striking to the American people, the things that would surprise people most about just how insane some of those things got and just how detrimental they would be to business, to the economy, to people's actual use of the environment and being in the environment?
00:21:20.000Because I imagine there's some things in there that are pretty shocking and probably not at all on mission.
00:21:29.000It's trillions of dollars of regulation.
00:21:32.000We're going to be reducing the cost of living.
00:21:35.000We're going to make it easier to be able to purchase a car, make it easier to heat your home.
00:21:44.000We don't have to choose between the two anymore.
00:21:46.000What was most outrageous to many Americans out there, seeing tens of billions of dollars of their money get wasted with little accountability, with self-dealing and conflicts of interest, with unqualified recipients.
00:22:00.000So we instantly got a handle over that.
00:22:02.000I've canceled $22 billion worth of grants.
00:22:05.000Our annual budget is only about $10 billion.
00:22:11.000That's how much money was going out through EPA.
00:22:13.000On the regulatory front, entire industries were getting targeted.
00:22:17.000About a month ago, the president at the White House signed a coal executive order and other executive orders where he is reversing attacks on entire industries.
00:22:28.000And there are states, many states in the country, that were begging for this kind of leadership out of Washington and the president's addressing it.
00:22:37.000Now, when you start looking at the individual regulations, there are particular terms, there are acronyms that they get referenced as.
00:22:46.000So, listen, some people might not be familiar with it, but it's called Clean Power Plan 2.0 or MATS, Mercury and Air Toxic Standards, or PM 2.5.
00:22:55.000Actually, one example, which I know that you're aware of, on Caitlin Collins' show a few weeks ago, the chief climate...
00:23:03.000A correspondent goes on air and he was criticizing our March 12th announcement and he says that we were putting out press releases so quickly we didn't even proofread it.
00:23:11.000And he puts up as an example our change to Quad OBC with regards to oil and methane regulations.
00:23:17.000And he says, look at this press release.
00:23:20.000It says 0000B slash C. This is their chief climate correspondent.
00:23:27.000No, actually, this is a regulation, and it's called QuadOBC, and this is why it's important.
00:23:34.000So there's a lot of acronyms out there.
00:23:39.000They can read each of these press releases.
00:23:41.000They all amount to what were trillions of dollars of regulations, all done.
00:23:48.000You know, 2023, 2024, towards the end of the Biden administration, not all of them, some are from the Obama administration, but almost all these actions are from that last year or two before President Biden left office.
00:24:02.000Yeah, I mean, I remember that one with the quad zero.
00:24:18.000Like, when I read it, I was like, oh, that seems like a basic thing.
00:24:22.000Like, this wasn't like, you know, he just didn't understand the nuance of something incredibly, you know, complex and whatever it was.
00:24:29.000Like, he didn't understand the basics.
00:24:31.000So it feels like these guys like to screech about stuff that they don't even understand.
00:24:34.000It's sort of like what I've, you know, certainly bitched even to you about in private.
00:24:39.000Like, people making decisions, whether it's in Congress or in government, who...
00:24:43.000Don't have a basic understanding of what's even going on, but, you know, hey, it's a convenient soundbite against Trump, so we'll get out there and say that they didn't proofread their press release.
00:24:51.000Yeah, and then, you know, as soon as he says it, Caitlin Collins says, whoops, you know, like trying to, as if we're the target of the joke.
00:24:59.000Well, the whoops is your own chief climate correspondent who is supposed to be that expert.
00:25:04.000For the audience watching, they might say, oh man, you just owned the EPA administrator.
00:25:10.000You know, like, oh, they didn't fix that proofreading mistake.
00:25:14.000So you end up dumbing down your own audience.
00:25:16.000So it's important that these people who are the experts on TV, that they know what they're talking about, because folks are tuning in, actually looking to get caught up on what's going on.
00:25:26.000They're not tuning in to get dumbed down, but that's what happened that day.
00:25:29.000Yeah, well, you know, the problem is, like, and we talked about it on this show and others, that's why I tell people, hey, get this message out there, you know, like, share, subscribe, push it out, because the reality is the average person watching CNN that day actually thought they notched a win.
00:25:43.000They'll probably never know that the CNN climatologist or environmental expert, whatever the hell he is, had no idea what he was talking about.
00:25:52.000And that's the problem with all of these things.
00:25:56.000If they ever even bother to correct it, even once they know they're wrong, it's on page 37 of a webpage that no one will ever read.
00:26:03.000You know, there's never been any accountability.
00:26:05.000How do we get that out there so that people understand that the people complaining about this may not actually know what they're talking about, may not know the downstream consequences of some of the insanity that's out there, what it does to people, their families, their energy bills, whatever it may be.
00:26:23.000How do we get that out there so people fully understand it?
00:26:27.000Well, honestly, they should be following the playbook of how President Trump Punches back.
00:26:35.000It's important that when you see something that needs to be exposed, that you don't allow it to be out.
00:26:42.000Something that is untrue, if you just let it sit out there and there's no pushback, well then people may think it's true.
00:26:50.000And in the case of what we just referenced with the CNN chief climate correspondent, we pushed back.
00:26:55.000And that actually got more traction on social media.
00:26:59.000Then the original comment, and hopefully it ends up resulting in these people going back on air, which ended up happening, it was like the next day, this chief climate correspondent goes back on Caitlin Collins' show or someone else's show on CNN and walked back his statement from the day prior.
00:27:16.000That wouldn't have happened if we didn't push back.
00:27:19.000Over the course of the last week or two, we had a media availability here in D.C. Where I was pushing back on the claims from the media that there's no evidence of anything that is wrong with the $20 billion that went out through the Biden EPA, which a Biden EPA political official towards the end of last year referred to as tossing gold bars off the Titanic.
00:27:44.000And New York Times, Washington Post, Politico, they've been saying that there's no evidence of any wrongdoing.
00:27:51.000So some New York Times reporter ends up volunteering herself.
00:27:55.000And she says it's not true that the New York Times has been saying that there's no evidence.
00:28:01.000I instantly start reading back her words from her story.
00:28:07.000You just, you gotta push back, because if you don't, then it's just gonna stay out there, and folks are just gonna assume it's true.
00:28:14.000So you mentioned sort of earlier, you know, some of the, you know, whether it's the self-dealing, you know, let's call it sort of kickbacks.
00:28:21.000We've read about that all over the place.
00:28:27.000I imagine at the EPA, some of these things were just as bad, if not worse, in terms of dedicating a lot of money to a cause, most of which gets kicked back to some NGO, which probably ends up back in the bank account of the Democrats.
00:28:42.000In the end, what have you found there?
00:28:44.000$20 billion went through just eight NGOs as pass-throughs.
00:28:49.000And as that money goes through those pass-through entities, we start losing all sorts of levels of oversight and control that we would want and should want.
00:29:00.000The American taxpayers would want EPA to have.
00:29:04.000So there are basic questions you could ask me of what happens to all of this money that I don't know the answers to.
00:29:11.000Now, as far as those eight NGOs, many of them are brand new.
00:29:14.000President Trump talks about this one NGO.
00:29:17.000That is connected to Stacey Abrams that received $2 billion in 2024.
00:29:28.000They received $100 in 2023 and they get $2 billion.
00:29:33.000That's a pretty good return on investment.
00:29:35.000I need one or two of those deals in my life.
00:29:38.000Yeah, and I've got to tell you, one other important point.
00:29:40.000As we're here talking about oversight over taxpayer dollars, we're talking about regulations and making sure that we're not suffocating the economy.
00:29:50.000What should not get lost is that, and you pointed it earlier, and I know that you're someone who is an environmentalist.
00:30:19.000It's the Trump administration all in tackling the raw sewage coming across the border in Tijuana from Mexico into the United States.
00:30:29.000We have all across the map have been focusing on these environmental wins.
00:30:34.000So the morning of the 100th day of the Trump presidency, as we're all inside of the White House for that cabinet meeting, I was able to talk about 100 environmental actions.
00:30:46.000Big environmental actions that we took in the first 100 days for clean air, land, and water for all Americans.
00:30:52.000The Trump administration, the Trump EPA chooses both protecting the environment and growing the economy.
00:30:58.000We're going to be more responsible taxpayer dollars.
00:31:01.000And we're going to make sure that we're heeding the demands of the American public.
00:31:04.000The Trump mandate that was earned last November to make sure that we're fulfilling both.
00:31:09.000Both of these priorities, we're not turning a blind eye to economic pain that Americans are concerned about or their environmental demands that they're talking about as well.
00:31:20.000That's what we're pursuing, common sense and choosing both.
00:31:23.000Yeah, you know, obviously I sort of said in the intro, you've been, you know, leading the charge in terms of, you know, the attacks from the Democrats on the things that you're doing.
00:31:33.000I think that's because you've been very effective, you've been very assertive, you've been aggressive, you have pushed back, you've functioned unafraid.
00:31:39.000I noticed this week the media was melting down over something called Energy Star.
00:31:45.000That was their, that's their latest outrage cycle, you know, the Energy Star program.
00:31:49.000What exactly is it and what are you doing with it?
00:31:52.000It's a government program that's been around for a long time that is well-known enough where the government doesn't need to prop it up anymore.
00:32:04.000We have all sorts of credible programs outside of government.
00:32:25.000This has essentially become the Energy Star is like an advertisement for these companies that ends up requiring many dozens of federal officials to run.
00:32:40.000You know, tens of millions of dollars of tax dollars in order to prop up.
00:32:46.000And if the federal government stopped running ENERGY STAR today, there would be so much competition to be able to credibly and legitimately run this out of government tomorrow.
00:33:00.000And this isn't like a statutory obligation either.
00:33:03.000It's not like something EPA was required to do because of some law that passed saying that this...
00:33:10.000Why would EPA be the agency that would run it instead of the Department of Energy?
00:33:16.000If you were to apply common sense looking backwards, there would be some changes made.
00:33:22.000But if you look forward, there is a way to be able to run a program like Energy Star without it requiring the federal government propping it up.
00:33:31.000You mentioned building, something I'm pretty familiar with before I got on this journey.
00:33:38.000What role can the EPA have in places like California, where there's just so many roadblocks to building, and particularly after the wildfires there, rebuilding?
00:33:47.000I'm already seeing the celebrities, probably not on our side, talking about, hey, I just want to build back what I had, and they're making it impossible.
00:33:53.000What have you seen on the ground, and what can the EPA do to help the victims of those devastating fires?
00:34:00.000Well, when President Trump gave us 30 days, the response that we were getting initially was that it was impossible.
00:34:36.000I get asked often, what can the EPA do as it relates to permitting reform?
00:34:41.000What can the federal government do as it relates to permitting reform?
00:34:44.000The most durable long-term action would be for Congress to pass a permitting reform bill.
00:34:51.000You're actually changing statute to speed up the process.
00:34:54.000The president created the National Energy Dominance Council.
00:34:57.000He wants these agencies to work together collaboratively, as opposed to having all these different processes.
00:35:04.000So a builder has to go through 12 months of one process, and then some other agency is saying, oh, by the way, you have to start all over.
00:35:11.000And the builder is wondering, well, why didn't you tell me that 12 months ago?
00:35:15.000There needs to be more certainty in the process, less time, less cost.
00:35:20.000But I'll tell you what, while legislation would be the most durable long-term action, EPA has been able to help speed up permitting processes since we got in by getting out of the way, all over the place.
00:35:33.000There were things that EPA was getting itself involved in, slowing stuff down that it didn't have to be involved in.
00:35:39.000It shouldn't have been involved with in slowing down.
00:35:42.000The president, when he called me up, it was Sunday morning, November 11th, asked me to do his position.
00:35:49.000He was so motivated to tackle permitting reform.
00:35:53.000He was talking about unleashing energy dominance on that call.
00:35:56.000He was talking about making America the AI capital of the world.
00:35:59.000But there was no topic that he was more pumped up about than permitting reform.
00:36:06.000But it really does require some of these other states and local governments to get out of their own way.
00:36:12.000California certainly knows what it's like to gum up works.
00:36:18.000They're trying to make it impossible for people to build back so they can either build, I guess, waterfront government housing or whatever it may be.
00:36:25.000It's probably some sort of equity play in the end.
00:36:29.000Is there a way for the federal government to step in to push this stuff?
00:36:33.000Because it feels like they're going to put up whatever roadblocks they can.
00:36:40.000It feels like the process is the punishment.
00:36:44.000The process is what's going to drive those people away and prevent them from rebuilding in their own communities.
00:36:49.000Yeah, you just said something incredibly important.
00:36:52.000When you said it's not just incompetence, I'm glad that you recognize that it is incompetence to a certain level, but then it's also deliberate.
00:37:01.000So you have this recipe that includes both incompetence, but also these other deliberate actions that make it harder for people to be able to build.
00:37:13.000The fact that a project that might take nine months in another country, or maybe nine months in another state...
00:37:20.000Might take seven years in California isn't just incompetence, as you point out.
00:37:26.000So when California wants to come to the federal government and they're asking for funding to be able to rebuild, say, after what was this horrible, what seemed to be apocalyptic site that we don't want to ever see happen again anywhere else in America, we need to make sure that we are resolving issues as it relates to access to water.
00:37:49.000This is President Trump's demand of Austin to different agencies.
00:37:53.000It's certainly in demand in California.
00:37:56.000Forest management to make sure that you're building back smart.
00:38:00.000That's something that's been an important priority of the president's.
00:38:03.000And these other individual aspects of rebuilding, where it might be something in the control of a state or local government, but if they're coming to the federal government and asking for a whole lot of money to help...
00:38:16.000Well, it shouldn't go back there with no strings attached where we aren't having a conversation about these other needs because the residents of California are begging for the federal government to use the leverage to fix these problems at the local level.
00:38:31.000Well, Lee, thank you for all that you're doing, guys.
00:38:34.000Make sure to check out Lee Zeldin and the EPA to stay in touch with what's actually happening.
00:38:41.000Don't listen to CNN's climatologists because they clearly don't know what they're talking about.
00:40:09.000So I want to start with a story I covered earlier this week on these woke refugee resettlement groups who seem to want to, you know, they want to resettle MS-13, they want to really resettle, you know, Trendelaragua, maybe the worst human beings in the history of the world, but they refuse to resettle, like, South African farmers, families, kids who are victims of discrimination and, you know...
00:43:12.000You know, just like we saw with the...
00:43:15.000You know, judicial sabotage and the Democrats trying to break into ICE facilities and wanting to meet with Trendelaragua and MS-13 gang members in El Salvador.
00:43:23.000I mean, they're all in, you know, protecting these people, but not like children who are being murdered or would be if they stayed.
00:43:39.000The hills they choose to die on are sort of amazing to me, but what's driving the left to embrace literally enemies of America, of democracy, of freedom, safety, sanity?
00:43:55.000How is that their primary demographic focus these days?
00:44:37.000Like, when you came here, like, there wasn't a safety net, and you didn't get your Obama phone, and money, and guaranteed healthcare, and housing, and everything else that Americans actually have to work for.
00:45:49.000So if it looks like they're trying to destroy the country through this nonsense, it's because they are trying to destroy the country through this nonsense.
00:45:55.000Yeah, I mean, a lot of people, I guess, have referred to that sort of like the great replacement theory.
00:45:59.000And for a while, two, two and a half, I mean, it was verboten to even say, like, hey, I mean, your actions clearly show that this is what you're doing.
00:46:11.000You know, and since then, we've seen the emails and we've seen the letters, and they've given up on even pretending that that's not their plan.
00:46:18.000They're just saying it out loud at this point.
00:46:20.000It's just like, okay, well, you know, now that it's out there.
00:46:22.000But before, if you said that you were a racist, you were a misogynist, you were homophobic somehow, you know, it doesn't matter.
00:46:27.000You're one of the ists, because they don't have actual answers, so they just try to...
00:46:31.000They try to label you and brand you, and luckily people don't care that much anymore because if that's the cause of and solution for every issue in the world, it loses its effect, even if it's a real issue in certain instances, just not everything.
00:46:46.000Yeah, they did like the old canard of that's not happening and it's good that it is.
00:46:51.000No, no, no, we're not trying to replace you, but it's good that we're trying to replace you.
00:46:54.000And again, they want to make it about skin color or nationality or something like that.
00:47:10.000What it means is, like, being an American, because America is a country and a culture, it's not an idea, it's not an economic zone.
00:47:17.000Being an American means subscribing to our ideals and our culture, and you can come and do that, but it's more than just having a piece of paper or a thing that says, oh, I'm a citizen, you know, I'm equal under the law.
00:47:29.000Being an American is like a big, important thing, and it's something people used to aspire to.
00:47:34.000You know, the world over, they wanted to come here.
00:47:37.000They saw what we had built, and they wanted to be a part of it.
00:47:40.000Now they just kind of want to come here and get the money and do whatever, and they have no interest in being an American, and it's why we're in the position we are now culturally.
00:47:48.000Yeah, no, I know this will be incredibly controversial, but I'm going to go on the record here and say, like, if it was white people coming over and murdering people, I don't want them either.
00:47:57.000It doesn't matter if you're white, blue, green, purple.
00:48:54.000It's like, if there's people who are white and they're from somewhere overseas and they reject our culture and they reject our faith and they don't like our system of laws, for example, like Soviet communists in the 1980s.
00:49:59.000But at this point, you know, the world has gone so insane, I guess nothing surprises them anymore.
00:50:06.000But, I mean, their entire tenant was resettlement of refugees who are in threat.
00:50:11.000So, like, why would these people be any different?
00:50:13.000And we all know the answer, unfortunately.
00:50:15.000Yeah, and it just exposes the lie of the multicultural idea.
00:50:20.000And what I find really interesting is I think it was 59 people from South Africa who were brought in compared to like the 20 million that have legally or illegally immigrated in the U.S. in the last couple of years.
00:50:35.000Be like, yeah, you know, obviously, you know, we'll spot them a tenth of a percent of what we brought in.
00:50:40.000But they couldn't do it because it's actually fatal to their entire conceit.
00:50:46.000Yeah, I guess the other issue where we've seen that, where Democrats used to at least pretend to be on the side of working class people, was lowering drug prices.
00:50:57.000But now that my father, now that Trump is for it...
00:51:21.000What's your read on how that one plays out?
00:51:23.000Because, man, that seems to really hit people hard to the point where so many prescriptions just go unfilled for things that people actually need to survive or to live.
00:51:58.000America pays all of these massive R&D costs, and they are massive.
00:52:03.000You know, for every one drug or pill that works, there's probably 10 that failed, and so they're having to spread the success out over a bunch of failures.
00:52:12.000But basically, America was having to pay all these fixed costs, and what everyone else on Earth was paying was just the marginal cost of what it cost to just, like, produce the pill.
00:52:31.000They start with exactly what we have for zero basis.
00:52:34.000Doesn't seem like a recipe for success, but the fact that they're doing that to Americans, that it didn't matter, is shocking to me.
00:52:43.000But I guess there's never been a consequence, and I'm sure there's plenty of lobbyists, whatever it may be, fighting to keep the people in Congress.
00:52:52.000Yeah, I'm really looking forward to all the arguments from like the pharma funded libertarian dorks in D.C. where they'll be like, well, this is communism.
00:53:02.000And it's absurd because the way drugs are priced now in America is you have the federal government through Medicare and pharma get together and the two of them decide together what the price of something is going to be.
00:53:14.000And we're supposed to believe that that's like free market capitalism?
00:53:19.000But watch, a bunch of pharma-funded dorks in D.C. are going to publish a bunch of white papers claiming that that is like the true essence of capitalism.
00:53:28.000It's the federal government and a monopolist industry colluding to set prices.
00:53:32.000Yeah, why don't we let those countries in Europe pay the prices that Americans are currently paying and give it to us for next to nothing?
00:54:42.000Speaking of Wild, the knives do seem to be out amongst Democrats as the media finally wants to report some of the truth about the Biden decline that they clearly covered up, that guys like you and I have probably talked about directly, but certainly have in our individual capacities online, in our respective publications, etc.
00:55:05.000They didn't want to cover the story when it mattered.
00:56:12.000Number two, they know that they're in a bit of trouble because everyone knew his brain of putting, like, the guy was probably sitting in the Oval Office, like, trying to answer a banana whenever he heard a ding on someone else's phone.
00:56:22.000And so they're like, crap, we've got a problem now.
00:56:25.000Everyone thinks we're a bunch of lying, corrupt idiots.
00:56:27.000So what we're going to do is we're going to throw Biden overboard because he's useless now.
00:56:31.000And we're going to pretend that we're actually the ones revealing all these previously unknown facts about how his brain was tapioca pudding.
00:56:40.000Previously unknown, other than we all saw it on TV every day for four years.
00:56:56.000Not only did we not cover it up, we were actually the ones who wrote the book on it.
00:57:00.000Like, we did the reporting that they were going to have to put Grandpa Joe in a wheelchair.
00:57:03.000And they're going to hope that we all forget about how when Biden ran a basement campaign in 2020 and we said, hey, maybe the guy's brain is fried.
00:57:12.000They all screamed at us as being liars and disinformation artists.
00:57:17.000I feel like every time we talk about the media, I say the same thing.
00:57:20.000It's one of the most dishonest things I've ever seen.
00:57:22.000And we'll say it next week when they have a new op, but it's true.
00:57:25.000Watching Jake Tapper writing a book about Biden's decline, I'm like, I'm pretty sure I saw the clip where you basically tried to accost my sister-in-law, who's pointing out very obvious things.
00:57:35.000And he tried to just wheel it away as though we're not to believe our lying eyes.
00:57:45.000And the thing is, They know they're lying, and we know they're lying, and they know that we know they're lying, and they just don't care.
00:57:52.000They don't care because they have the memory of goldfish.
00:57:55.000All they care about is, what do I have to say right now to get to the next news cycle so people will believe the lies I'm going to peddle at that point?
00:58:41.000I know my father is, but is he getting enough cooperation from the GOP Congress?
00:58:47.000Obviously tight margins, but we do have a long and strong history of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
00:58:55.000What are the key benchmarks in your mind for Capitol Hill right now?
00:59:00.000Well, I think Republicans, they actually have a really easy job.
00:59:04.000And the question is, why won't they do it?
00:59:06.000All they have to do is what they said they were going to do.
00:59:10.000And instead, I can't tell you a single thing they've done.
00:59:13.000I think they've maybe passed five bills that Trump has signed.
00:59:16.000But it seems like they're just trying, like Homer Simpson style, to just fall and disappear into the bushes and hope that nobody notices them.
00:59:25.000It's one of the most bizarre things I've ever seen.
00:59:27.000And if there's a cardinal rule of politics, it's that you have to give people a reason to vote for you.
00:59:32.000You can't just have them vote against the other guys.
00:59:34.000I honestly don't know what any of the Republicans in Congress believe.
01:00:07.000They're a good catalyst to get things started.
01:00:09.000It's a fast way to get everything rolling.
01:00:11.000But you do need to codify these things into law so they just can't disappear with another stroke of the pen if a Democrat wins in three and a half years.
01:00:22.000Yeah, and I think unfortunately, like on the House side, I think they want to do the right thing.
01:00:26.000But a lot of them, especially in leadership, they're afraid of their own shadows.
01:00:31.000And then the problem in the Senate is a little different.
01:00:33.000I think you just have a bunch of saboteurs over there.
01:00:39.000In reality, we might have 48 because you've got this little band of saboteurs who seem to be trying to do everything they can to disrupt and block Trump's agenda.
01:00:49.000I feel like this is just our life as Republican voters is constantly being disappointed in in leadership in Congress.
01:00:57.000And I think one thing that makes the saboteur so mad about Trump is he goes in and he actually does the things that Republicans have promised but failed to do for like 30 years.
01:01:05.000And it drives them nuts because it creates an expectation among their voters that they should be doing the same thing.
01:01:11.000Yeah, I mean, you know, who wants to take the risk?
01:01:13.000Who wants to not be liked in Washington, D.C., if you're one of these sort of weak Republicans?
01:01:17.000But I guess speaking of which, I have to ask, I know since you're in Tennessee.
01:01:22.000What's up with all these mayors in Nashville, the ones that have been elected there?
01:01:27.000I mean, you know, obviously Tennessee, incredibly strong conservative state, but, you know, what's happening in Nashville?
01:01:32.000It feels like it's turned into one of these sort of, you know, super liberal, you know, California, New York style cities.
01:02:20.000I think the mayor right now might actually be a literal communist.
01:02:24.000And before him, we had like this three-foot-tall Oompa Loompa mayor who's a total left-wing loony.
01:02:30.000Before that, we had this crazy woman, Megan Barry, who got busted, like banging her bodyguard outside of cemeteries on work hours, which I'm not making up at all.
01:02:46.000And it's just, they're insane left-wingers, but because the city demographically is blue, they can do whatever they want.
01:02:54.000So, I mean, it's really just a matter of time before it becomes another Chicago or Detroit or New Orleans or Philadelphia, because they're all a bunch of incompetent left wing kooks.
01:03:04.000So, Sean, as we wrap up, we're through the first hundred days.
01:03:07.000What do you think's in store for the next 100 days?
01:03:09.000Oh man, well, I'm deeply concerned about the ongoing judicial tyranny and judicial insurrection and resistance.
01:03:17.000You have a bunch of unelected oligarchs in robes who've decided that the powers of the presidency actually belong to them.
01:03:25.000I don't think we have a Supreme Court that's really going to be willing to do what's necessary because, unfortunately, I think there may be five people on it, led by John Roberts himself, who are more interested in their own power than they are in their actual limited authority under the Constitution.
01:03:41.000And then I think we're just going to see freak out after fake freak out from left-wing nutjobs and their enablers and co-conspirators in the media.
01:03:51.000It seems like they're doing those usual tactics.
01:03:54.000It's why the legislation is so important, because it's like they'll do whatever they can to slow roll it, try to prevent Trump from getting a full four years.
01:04:03.000Let's make sure these things lapse into another administration when, you know, maybe they get their wish and they get a Democrat in there, because it seems like there's certainly a lot of people, even allegedly on our side, working against us.
01:04:15.000Sean Davis, Federalist CEO, thank you so much.