00:01:17.760The economy, the Trump agenda, America, the restoration, all those good things.
00:01:23.500And then Senator Marsha Blackburn, third hour, will speak with her about immigration and the deportation flights and also the economy,
00:01:33.260because I know a lot of people are focused in on that.
00:01:35.500And remember, it was just yesterday, Trump tweeted out, or I guess it's truthed out, that it is Liberation Day, and that refers to the tariffs.
00:01:48.880Now, there's a whole bunch of tariffs.
00:01:51.460The White House has put out a lot of information about this.
00:01:53.880There's a whole bunch of tariffs that are taking effect.
00:01:58.880President Trump, this is from the White House, President Trump invoking his authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977
00:02:08.760to address the emergency posed by the large and persistent trade deficit that is driven by the absence of reciprocity in our trade relationships
00:02:18.480and other harmful policies like currency manipulation and exorbitant value-added taxes, VAT tax, perpetuated by other countries.
00:02:28.880Under this IEPA authority, President Trump will impose a 10% tariff on all countries, going into effect April 5th.
00:02:37.380And then President Trump will impose an additional reciprocal tariff on countries with which the United States has the largest trade deficits.
00:02:44.860All other countries will continue to be subject to the original 10%.
00:03:14.100And I think that, first off, the best way to do this is to allow President Trump to make the case to you, based on what he said yesterday, about why this is necessary.
00:03:28.820I think it's unrealistic that there are people out there, well, first of all, there are people who all they want to do is complain about Trump.
00:03:36.620Not just Democrats, there's some Republicans, too, who seem like they only want to complain about, find something, even no matter how minute.
00:03:43.700Remember Signalgate a week ago, oh my gosh, there was a journalist, the strikes all happened, but a journalist found out, but he didn't say anything.
00:03:50.840You know, come on, here's what's going on right now.
00:03:55.520Trump is trying to reorient a substantial component of our economy to create long-term benefit for the American people.
00:04:08.120Now, here is President Trump yesterday.
00:05:46.640You know, it's like I say to the leaders, look, you've got to take care of your country, but we have to start taking care of our country now.
00:05:53.440We can't do what we've been doing for the last 50 years.
00:05:58.360Now let's take this apart a little bit and get into what he's saying.
00:06:02.680And notice I've been saying it to you for a long time, but just in advance of those remarks, what I had made the same case to you,
00:06:10.740which is that Trump has been right when it comes to big issues of trade, commerce, big issues of commerce, where the consensus, such as that exists,
00:06:22.980you know, you can always argue what is the consensus and why do we think there is even such a thing, but such as it exists, was wrong.
00:06:31.080Here, here's, you know, Trump came into office in 2016 and on China, China, he was taking positions that they said, oh, it's going to lead to a trade war.
00:06:41.560But we can even take it further back than that.
00:06:44.640It had been for decades before Trump even thought about or was really considering seriously running for president.
00:06:52.760I mean, going back, you go back to the 80s, go back to the 90s.
00:06:56.460It had been the international elite consensus that if we just give China what it wants when it comes to trade,
00:07:05.960it will liberalize and democratize over time and everybody will win.
00:07:13.300And they let it in the WTO, World Trade Organization.
00:07:19.040There are a lot of different experts and think tanks and everything who for a long time were taking the position that all you have to do is just open up your markets to China.
00:07:34.240And as China buys our Coca-Cola and as China starts importing all of our cheap stuff made in huge factories here,
00:07:41.540they're going to be all about human rights and democracy and freedom.
00:07:46.820So there's been no real evidence of that whatsoever.
00:07:49.840In fact, the opposite, you could argue, has occurred.
00:07:52.420And China has become more belligerent, more bellicose, more difficult to deal with as it has become wealthier.
00:07:58.180So we made China rich under the auspices of this is going to help us and it's going to help national security.
00:08:06.100And, oh, that means that we're aware that trade and national security are things that intersect
00:08:12.540and that some things that are in your national security interests are not necessarily completely in your immediate trade interests,
00:08:20.800like being able to make your own antibiotics, being able to produce enough of your own microchips, you know, go down the line, a whole range of things.
00:08:32.580Trump, though, sees this and he it takes somebody like him who is willing to put this kind of political capital on the line to take this kind of a risk.
00:08:45.320And I will I'll be clear to you about this.
00:09:55.220I mean, he actually might be, but I don't think he is.
00:09:57.420I'm like, is he is Clay in his foursome?
00:09:59.400But I'm but I mean, he could be hanging on the golf course forever.
00:10:02.860He could just be he's got billions of dollars, got grandkids and family.
00:10:06.840And, you know, he he could just sail off into the sunset and enjoy himself at Mar-a-Lago.
00:10:13.380But instead, he has taken it upon himself to try to do something incredibly important for the future of the country because he truly believes in it.
00:10:23.200And he has I have to look at the record here.
00:10:27.200He has been right on areas where the economic consensus has been against him.
00:10:34.640And so on this one, again, there are a lot of people and there are some people that I respect a lot and like a lot on the right who are very concerned about this.
00:10:43.000And to them, I just say, I think Trump has made a strong enough case and is in a strong enough position politically where let the man cook.
00:10:55.960Even Bill Ackman, right, who's a kind of a recent convert to the center, I would say, he used to be a Democrat, Hillary supporter, et cetera.
00:11:05.800Bill Ackman is a multi-billionaire hedge fund guy, investor guy.
00:11:12.780And he's along with Elon and some of these other very wealthy, very high IQ individuals have realized Democrat Party is insane.
00:11:20.080They're a bunch of lunatic gender identity obsessed communists.
00:11:22.680So he says, if you're going to be common sense or he's seen, if you're going to be common sense, you have to be a Republican.
00:11:28.520There's no other major political party for you to support right now.
00:11:31.840Maybe he calls himself an independent.
00:11:55.360Obviously, he's crazy like a fox in this context, meaning he's a guy who.
00:12:02.020Needs the other side to believe that he's willing to do things that were impossible for American leadership to consider before that there could be consequences.
00:13:25.060You want to deal with the reciprocal tariffs.
00:13:26.840You know, for a guy who has survived two assassination attempts, two impeachments, you know, for baloney criminal trials, beat the Hillary machine, beat the Biden, you know, Kamala machine.
00:13:43.220I think he's earned the right to try this his way.
00:13:46.820And at least have those of us who have believed in him all along look at this and say, let's see what he can do.
00:13:52.160And just remember this catastrophism and and selling panic.
00:13:58.240Like, it's just such a cheap way of getting attention for so many people.
00:14:02.320Oh, you know, the sky is falling stuff.
00:14:12.860It hasn't gone down in any meaningful way, really, since 2008, other than the pandemic drop.
00:14:18.620And the pandemic drop was completely a self-inflicted wound.
00:14:21.620And anybody like me who was paying attention was like, well, this is going to be great because people are going to realize this is like a cold and we should just go back about our lives.
00:14:28.920And there's no, you know, the economy isn't destroyed by the pandemic.
00:14:31.880That was just lunatics who made it anyway.
00:14:33.340So, yeah, there may be there may be something of a of a drop in in the stock market for a bit.
00:14:41.280Look, if it's not temporary, then the American people can go and vote and they can hold Trump and the Republicans accountable for this decision the next time around.
00:14:49.340I think they're going to say when it comes time for that.
00:15:00.240When you have what you believe truly, you based on all your wisdom and all of your life experience and all of your expertise, this is the right thing to do.
00:15:08.900It's in the best interest of the people I lead.
00:15:11.760And I'm going to do it because of that.
00:15:13.720I'm not going to sit around and, you know, oh, which way is the wind blowing?
00:15:16.500So this is what Liberation Day is about.
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00:17:22.740My fellow Americans, this is Liberation Day.
00:18:03.260President Trump there speaking on Liberation Day, which was yesterday, which who knows, could be a day that we all remember for a long time to come.
00:18:11.620Probably more so in retrospect, right?
00:18:14.180Otherwise, yesterday seemed like a pretty normal day.
00:18:16.080But President Trump is very committed to this idea of rebalancing the unbalanced playing field of global trade.
00:18:27.800And again, the fundamental questions that I continue to pose, and I never get a good answer for this.
00:18:32.920If it's so bad to have tariffs, why do other countries have tariffs?
00:18:36.720Keep in mind, it's not even just tariffs.
00:18:46.880The numbers are massive, thankfully, right?
00:18:49.400The world is so much, the world overall is so much wealthier in real terms today than it was 100 years ago or 100 years before that.
00:19:01.120The system that we have, for all of its imperfections, capitalism and markets, has created incredible human prosperity and flourishing, which is a great thing.
00:19:12.980And we shouldn't lose sight of that, right?
00:19:23.900I think I've shared with you before this anecdote that one of my favorite authors, Michael Crichton, I know he's like a sci-fi pop writer guy, but I think he's brilliant.
00:19:37.000But he said that he had the experience he had learned over many years of running in circles among the elites.
00:19:43.460Because remember, the 90s, if you were a best-selling, if you were a Michael Crichton or a Tom Clancy or, you know, I'm trying to, who's the guy who does all the, and Grisham, you know, I mean, Stephen King.
00:19:53.480I know Stephen King is like a lunatic communist, but he sold a lot of books.
00:19:57.040If you were one of these guys, you were in elite society and invited to a lot of parties and stuff so people could be like, oh, I saw so-and-so, the famous author.
00:20:04.620And he said that if you try to tell people that the world is actually good and getting better, they want to fight you because they think that that's a more sophisticated position to take.
00:20:16.020It's more sophisticated always in the eyes of people who generally aren't as smart as they think they are to say everything is crap, everything is going to hell, and they know that that gets attention, too.
00:20:27.960And it's a very simple position to take.
00:20:33.500You don't want to be on the other side, either, where everything is amazing, but he just, he warned against using catastrophism as a fallback and a means of getting attention for yourself.
00:20:43.200And I think that there's a lot of, and he actually said that people would get mad at him when he would explain to them that scientifically the advances that are going on in the world, and this came up in the context of climate change.
00:20:54.220He'd tell people, no, no, you don't have to worry.
00:21:04.720And they would get very angry about that, right?
00:21:06.800You were telling them that their climate change false god was not real.
00:21:10.200Well, with this, what I see is a lot of people who know that if they tell you that the world is falling apart right now because of Trump, and they tell you that, oh, the markets, look at what the markets are doing and all this stuff.
00:21:23.220Then even if they're wrong in six months or a year, things will be so much better that nobody will really take the time to go back and say, hey, why were you so wrong about this, but also so negative and really undermining the necessary resetting of some of these global relationships?
00:21:42.700Because that's really what we're talking about here, you know, international trade relationships.
00:21:47.820And then there's the Stephen Miller approach, which is Stephen Miller is he takes the intellectual approach, but he also applies a little bit of the Conan, the barbarian ethic to it, where he is just like, I'm going to drive my enemy from their villages and hear the lamentations of their women.
00:22:05.620And, like, Stephen Miller does not hold back.
00:22:08.580My man has showed up ready to throw down from day one of the first Trump term, and now, as you know, he's a White House Deputy Chief of Staff.
00:22:33.940This is probably the biggest event that's happened on global trade since the very ill-fated decision that we are now reversing of knocking down all of America's trade tariffs and revenue policies that led to the offshoring and outsourcing of all for industry.
00:22:48.820So this is the great reversal of that great portrayal is how I look at it.
00:22:51.780So in the 20th century, successive American presidents knocked down all of the policies that we had to protect American industry, and they did insane things like letting China into the World Trade Organization, as an example.
00:23:02.860And we watched all of our factories go overseas.
00:23:05.760This is the complete reversal of that.
00:23:08.240This is the great onshoring, the great reshoring of American jobs and wealth.
00:23:12.220So if you look at America today, we're totally dependent on foreign countries for the supplies that make this country run, for all of the essential goods, materials, manufactured products that make it possible for us to live our lives.
00:23:23.840Our cars, our electronics, all the materials that go into our homes, our buildings, our medical supplies, our entire supply chains are completely embedded in foreign countries.
00:23:34.900So if there's a national emergency of any kind in a country shuts off an import or a foreign power embargoes a sea lane, we are then left defenseless, helpless because of the decisions that prior leaders made that President Trump is now reversing to let all of these industries leave our country.
00:24:50.960And all the different things and rules.
00:24:53.140But it was an infantry, largely infantry operations we're talking about here, right?
00:24:58.560The war of the future that we're looking at, especially if we avoid getting into these entanglements of nation building and trying to separate warring parties.
00:25:11.260You know, I'm weaving here, so I'm sorry, I've got to go into this for a second.
00:25:14.780I watched on Netflix recently, this was worth it, this is actually worth watching, Surviving Black Hawk Down.
00:25:22.860And Surviving Black Hawk Down is a very good, very well done series.
00:25:26.000I read the Mark Bowden book when it came out.
00:25:31.300Actually, initially it was a series of articles and then it came out as a book, but I read it a long time ago and then I saw the movie.
00:25:37.820I think the movie is one of the best war movies I've ever seen.
00:25:40.600One of the most realistic modern war movies ever made.
00:25:43.660And, you know, it's just, it's an incredible story.
00:25:47.060It's an incredible story and it shows the bravery, the challenges, the risks that our infantry, our soldiers take in these kind of third world hell holes.
00:25:58.500But also, what the Surviving Black Hawk Down, to me at least, series adds to this, is you get a little more of the context of, what the heck were we doing there?
00:26:12.380Bill Clinton, of course, running the show.
00:26:16.300And we're there, there's a civil war going on, you know, all over Somalia, but mostly we're based in Mogadishu.
00:26:23.380You got warring factions and we're, we're trying to do a humanitarian mission, but then we've got Apaches doing strike missions and then we want to do more human.
00:26:32.460I mean, it was the, the strategic, the policy level was a disaster.
00:26:38.140And I'm just going to say that Bill Clinton, the most overrated intellect, maybe in the history of American politics.
00:27:38.060That's something that, you know, you look at the Democrats.
00:27:41.280If Democrats see an opportunity to send other people's sons and daughters to die for a war that they themselves would not fight in, but makes them feel good about themselves at Georgetown cocktail parties.
00:27:50.960Hey, that's the kind of war they want other people fighting.
00:27:54.480So we have to remember, that's not what we want.
00:27:59.200But the war of the future is going to be based on technology, material, machinery, and robotics, and AI, and satellite connectivity, and drones.
00:28:19.920Because that really turns into a, who can make more of the best stuff the fastest at the highest level wins.
00:28:29.540So it's not just a, oh, China has cheaper labor costs and less environmental regulation, so we should just let them make all of our stuff.
00:28:39.360Well, if things continue to heat up, remember, this is not stuff you can switch on overnight.
00:28:43.940If China has all the factories to give us all the stuff for different sectors that are national security dependent, they can turn that spigot off when they want to.
00:28:54.200And yeah, maybe in a couple of years we could start to catch up, but if we go into a hot war with China in 20 years, or 10 years, or who knows, we're not going to have a few years to play catch up.
00:29:06.140And that's what Trump and his team are taking into account now as well.
00:29:12.320I understand there's also the short-term financial impacts, and we'll talk more about this, but there's a clear national security component to the degree, the amount of offshoring that we have for our industrial base.
00:29:24.560And that's an additional conversation to what do we do for the American middle class, just working Americans trying to pay their bills.
00:30:11.980And so what he's doing today is, for the first time ever, he's saying that if you have stolen our jobs and therefore threatened our national security, we will apply a reciprocal tariff based on the degree of your misconduct.
00:30:23.440So for countries like China, for example, they will see a very high tariff rate because they've engaged in the most egregious conduct that threatens our national security.
00:30:31.260For countries that have severe but not as severe misconduct, they'll see a moderate but not as high tariff rate.
00:30:38.200The effect, though, of those global tariffs will be that companies will have to move their production back into the United States.
00:30:45.520So factories will leave, whether it be Mexico or Canada or Vietnam or Cambodia or China or the European Union.
00:30:52.520They will come back to the United States to produce their products to make their goods.
00:30:56.700And in so doing, yes, it will create jobs.
00:31:01.100But most importantly, it will restore our national security so that we will not be dependent on anyone else to survive and thrive as a nation.
00:31:08.840All of these pieces together, they all tie in together.
00:31:15.620And there, yes, there are competing interests.
00:31:17.600And yes, this isn't going to be easy from the get go.
00:31:21.480There's going to be an adjustment period.
00:31:43.240But once some of this stuff gets cleared out of the system and once they start bringing rates down and there's all these things that can happen, you are going to see.
00:31:53.320Remember the first Trump economy before covid and before the Democrats because they're psychos use the whole thing or lock everything down and shut down the economy artificially.
00:32:00.780Economy from 2016 to 2017, when Trump took office to 2019, was kicking butt, kicking butt and all all the way through.
00:32:30.560I wasn't I'm not counting, you know, where Clay and I throwing up four or five hundred pounds on the bench can neither confirm nor deny.
00:32:37.540But what I can confirm for you is we had a steak night with Good Ranchers.
00:32:43.720So we're sponsors of sponsored, of course, here on the show by Good Ranchers, but they kind of sponsored our steak night because Carrie and I have a have a freezer full of Good Rancher stuff.
00:32:51.760We even had the chicken nuggets during the show.
00:35:46.540And you know the thing I keep coming up with, all these foreign countries saying they're going to do this, and talking about how bad it is that President Trump does this, if tariffs are so bad, why don't they just get rid of the tariffs they have on all our products?
00:35:58.440I mean, that's pretty basic, and frankly, that's the president's argument.
00:36:02.900Why don't you show us the respect we've shown you?
00:36:33.080Let's tell them to quit sticking it to us, and let's look out for the interests of the American family, the American worker, and the American economy.
00:36:39.680So you have faith that this should play out and that the president – I mean, how much of this, in your mind, do you think is just the ongoing negotiation of it before we can even know what it is that's going to be the final dispensation?
00:36:54.280Of where these different tariff numbers are.
00:37:08.500I know he used it on steel, and it benefited manufacturing in our great state, particularly the Whirlpool facility, one of the many Whirlpool facilities in our state.
00:37:23.400But, like, anything worth accomplishing, anything worth really achieving, there's always some effort and some discipline and some toughness involved with getting there.
00:37:34.960But I think the American people see where the president wants to go.
00:37:37.880Certainly working-class people see where he wants to go.
00:37:40.320They know what's happened to manufacturing.
00:37:41.780And I think there's a trust level there with the president.
00:37:45.100It'll be maybe some difficult times here for a while, but I think we get through it and we come out better on the other side, and that's the whole point.
00:37:51.640Something else that caught my attention, Congressman, you are the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, and you can speak to this.
00:38:00.660It's internal FBI chat logs showing that the FBI imposed a gag order about the New York Post story on the Hunter Biden laptop the day it came out.
00:38:22.740This is the night and day difference between what we had before and what we have under Cash Patel and Pam Bondi at the Justice Department.
00:38:28.220But we had Mr. Brady Olson, one of the guys mentioned in his chat that you can see it.
00:38:32.280But he told us, he said, yeah, in a meeting that these regular meetings that took place where the FBI would go talk to big tech in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election,
00:39:00.420They quickly get together, get their story straight, and from that point on they say no comment.
00:39:05.120And then they even have in the chat, the one that stuck out with me was where they said, Twitter is treating this story as disinformation.
00:39:11.900They treat it as disinformation because you prepped them for that, and you knew it was real.
00:39:17.520This just demonstrates what we knew all along, that the FBI wasn't being square with the American people.
00:39:23.420Now, how confident are you in the ability for that entity to be reformed?
00:39:28.840I know you have a lot of faith in Director Patel and Deputy Director Bongino, but they're taking a – it's an unwieldy and problematic operation they're taking over.
00:39:40.260What are some of the things that you think need to get done over there, not only to clean house internally, but to help restore faith for the American people in a federal law enforcement institution that we need to function at the highest level and without partisan agenda?
00:39:55.300Yeah, already two things have happened.
00:39:57.880One, they're beginning to move people out of – a third of the FBI agents were in the D.C. area.
00:40:01.520Well, that's not where all the crime takes place.
00:40:03.020I mean, enough takes place in this area, but – so they're moving them out and focusing more on traditional – going after traditional bad guys versus this surveillance on American citizens.
00:40:11.520So that's one huge step in the right direction that Director Patel and Dana put into place.
00:40:16.840Second, I just know what we've gotten in the first few weeks that he's been running the FBI.
00:40:21.840We sent seven subpoenas over there five weeks ago.
00:40:25.040The response, the documents we're getting is – like I said, it's night and day compared to what we got under Chris Wray, what we got under Merrick Garland at the Justice Department.
00:40:33.340So there's just two examples of where they're already changing how that place operates, saying we're going to get the truth and we're going to get the facts of the American people, answer the questions that they have, and we're going to put our agents on actually stopping the crime activity that we traditionally associate with the FBI, mafia, organized crime, money laundering, all those things, versus, again, spying on the American people.
00:40:56.920We're talking to Congressman Jim Jordan from Ohio, and one thing that I think, Congressman, that is interesting to see how President Trump is staying on this and not moving the agenda very much from what he said it would be, the freeze on funding to Maine.
00:41:15.780Remember there was that little back and forth with the governor of Maine and the president where she was talking tough about, you know, I'll see you in court, and he was like, let's do it.
00:41:25.920And now the Trump administration has freeze funding to Maine for letting trans athletes compete against girls, you know, men, biological men or teenagers competing against girls.
00:41:38.480It feels like promise made, promise kept on this one.
00:41:53.860It's not like he told us there wasn't going to be a doge effort.
00:41:55.920It's not like he told us he wasn't going to run that.
00:41:57.880It's not like he told us he wasn't for tariffs and he was tired of being taken advantage by other countries.
00:42:02.020And it's not like he told us that, you know, he thinks like the vast majority of Americans that, you know, guys shouldn't be competing against girls in sports.
00:42:09.560I mean, so he's doing what he said, and I think so many Americans just appreciate that.
00:42:15.580And he says this all the time, and we've talked about this, Buck, but we're the party of common sense.
00:42:25.300It's crazy to say boys should compete against girls in sports.
00:42:28.160It's crazy to take a plane and a judge say, turn the plane around, bring the bad guys back here who were illegal, part of an organized terrorist organization, the most dangerous gang on the planet.
00:42:41.940Turn that plane around and bring it back.
00:43:21.100And God bless Riley Gaines and what she's done, the president's executive order that he signed about five, six weeks ago.
00:43:28.200But you need people who are courageous like this young lady who stood up, or I guess in this situation, she knelt down and said, no, we're not going there.
00:43:37.180And Riley Gaines, who started this, and others, everyone instinctively knows this is wrong,
00:43:42.940particularly parents of young ladies who are competing in sports, who are working hard.
00:43:50.980I mean, it's just ridiculous, and everyone gets it.
00:43:54.440But if the left wants to defend it from a political standpoint, I don't think it helps them.
00:43:59.180Just one more example of the crazy positions the left now takes.
00:44:02.200Do you think that, and I'm just asking for your sense of it, right?
00:44:06.800I know that you can't really know, but I'm curious what your perception is of it.
00:44:11.600Among Democrat House colleagues, you know, when you see how they have to take, what positions they take on this issue of the transgender sports stuff,
00:44:20.960is it more that they actually believe this, or more that they're just afraid of the crazies within their party who think that this is the new civil rights crusade?
00:45:12.560It is a non-sane, insane thing to believe.
00:45:18.160And the fact that this continues on is just, I think, the Democrat Party has to carry this around, and they're not going to be able to win this issue because they're wrong and because they're lying.
00:45:27.160Well, you know, usually now we'd get to, like, Clay's out today.
00:45:29.920He's playing golf, you know, as one does.
00:45:59.600You know, my primary school in New York, I actually wrote about this on X, used to require everybody in the winter season for sports to do wrestling.
00:46:07.960And I thought it was a great, it was great.
00:46:35.320How much of this is Trump can cut as executive chief and how much of it is Doge identifying where there should be cuts that you and your colleagues in Congress are going to have to figure out in the budget so the money actually gets taken out?
00:47:39.380She said it was 87 to 0, 87 Democrat editors at NPR in the D.C. area, zero Republicans, according to one of their journalists who worked there 25 years, who was an award-winning journalist.
00:47:50.680She did that research and gave that data.
00:53:32.840Well, thoughts and prayers go to everybody in your state affected by this.
00:53:35.640And we know that you and President Trump and also Tennessee Emergency Services are on it.
00:53:40.980I had a friend who just moved to Nashville and was surprised at how these tornadoes rolled in.
00:53:46.860And it really rattled a lot of people.
00:53:48.720So, anyway, thoughts and prayers go to them.
00:53:51.080And we'll be thinking about the folks at Tennessee.
00:53:54.120Tell us about this judiciary hearing on universal injunctions.
00:53:57.940This seems to be clearly the universal injunctions, one of the primary obstruction tools that have been used against the Trump agenda so far.
00:54:08.640What came out of these hearings and what do you think comes next on this issue?
00:54:12.920One of the things that really was so apparent on this is how the Democrats have not been able to get what they want in the ballot box.
00:54:22.760They've not been able to get what they want legislatively.
00:54:26.840And they really were sent a message on November 5th that they did not like.
00:54:32.720So now they have turned to the judiciary.
00:54:35.220And time and again, as we heard from the witnesses, there is absolutely no constitutional or statutory authority for a district judge to issue a nationwide injunction.
00:54:52.540And a district judge is constrained by the case in front of him and the district in which he is seated.
00:55:04.860And so it just showed up, showed how the Democrats are trying to politicize the courts, this time to get their way, which is to stop President Trump's agenda.
00:55:16.960And in the month of February, these activist judges issued 15 universal injunctions against Trump.
00:55:28.580And during Biden's entire administration for years, there were only 14 against Biden in total.
00:55:37.140Now, what do you think should happen or what are you hoping will happen next on this?
00:55:42.940The Supreme Court, I would assume, has to has to weigh in.
00:55:46.380So it feels like for a lot of us, are we just in a in a wait and see mode for there to be some sanity restored to this process?
00:55:54.540Well, we do have legislation and having the bill that would clarify that the judge cannot go outside of his district in in making a ruling that helps to elevate this issue, because Justice Roberts, Chief Justice Roberts is going to have to weigh in on this.
00:56:16.380And the Supreme Court is going to have to weigh in on this issue.
00:56:21.700But we think it is a valid point and something that is necessary to point out that this authority does not exist with these federal district judges.
00:56:36.820And again, it points out the importance of having good constitutional jurists on the bench.
00:56:44.120Also yesterday, Senator, there was a hearing, Senate hearing with the CEO, the current CEO of Boeing.
00:56:53.960You know, a lot of people are much more attuned to air safety than they have been in a while, given some of the very unfortunate situations, both including some fatal accidents, but also some near misses that have been happening.
00:57:06.880I know this specifically was focused on the 737 MAX 9 jet incident and some other very high profile aviation aviation issues.
00:57:34.380What do people need to know about how how this company and just airline safety in general is getting the focus that it needs?
00:57:41.180Well, and on airline safety, we have all been very concerned about that and are pushing the FAA to make certain that they are hiring people that are qualified to be or be air traffic controllers.
00:57:57.380And last year, because of DEI requirements, they had a thousand people that were qualified, but they did not take them because they didn't meet certain DEI requirements.
00:58:10.820Now, on Boeing, I think that many of us have just been disappointed with how they've taken their eye off the ball, seemingly, when it comes to safety.
00:58:23.940And they I talked to with the CEO yesterday in my time of questioning about how their culture at the company just seemed to have eroded.
00:58:36.980And there was not that trust among the employees and the leadership.
00:58:42.400And then also the lack of protection that was given to whistleblowers because whistleblowers had been fired.
00:58:53.480And what we need if they had been heeding what these whistleblowers were saying, maybe that would have helped with not having this diminished work culture.
00:59:07.660And maybe they would not have taken their eye off the safety provisions that they should be meeting every single day as a guarantee to the flying public.
00:59:18.640We're speaking to Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee and Senator the one of the areas where the Trump administration right out of the gate has shown just incredible results is the reduction in illegal entries in the United States.
00:59:34.540There's also been a substantial reduction in the illegal importation of drugs like fentanyl, methamphetamine, cocaine, all the rest of it.
00:59:42.540But you have raised you and along with your colleague, Senator Ted Cruz, have raised that there was an effort that previously existed to add to the current, you know, the current efforts to stop the drugs from flowing into the country that involve interdiction at transit hubs and that Biden, the Biden administration turned this off.
01:00:04.880Can you tell us about what this program was and and what would it take to get it going again?
01:00:08.940Yes. And this was a program that was suspended.
01:00:14.800It was a DEA program and it is called consensual encounters and it allowed DEA agents to inspect and conduct interdiction efforts in transit hubs.
01:00:30.540And we're trying to restore that. Now, let me just give you the Nashville airport as an example.
01:00:36.720If you take the period of time from 2022 to 24, then they apprehended 33 kilograms of fentanyl pills, 16 kilograms of fentanyl powder and over 1500 kilograms of marijuana as they were conducting these interdictions.
01:00:58.860And the DOJ's inspector general had concluded that the Biden administration DEA was not following these policies that are put in place.
01:01:14.740And we should be using every federal agency and everything that we have in order to conduct these searches and to keep these drugs from coming into the country.
01:01:30.000Is there anything else that you would like to see on the congressional, specifically Senate side, the congressional side to help with border related efforts?
01:01:39.140Is there anything else that as a member of Congress, you could help get done?
01:01:43.980Because it's great what Trump has done so far, but feels like legislation could always help or maybe in this case it could help.
01:01:50.720Well, we do need legislation because we need to codify the actions of the president and we need to make certain that we go back to building the wall so that we deter that entry on the southern border.
01:02:05.880And we have to turn our attention to the northern border with Canada.
01:02:10.380When you look at the amount of fentanyl that was apprehended, not by Canadian mounted police, but by the U.S. Border Patrol up there on that northern border, it was enough to kill nearly 50 million people.
01:02:27.780And we know that the drug traffickers are now changing their route and they're going up to the Canadian border and then coming back down into the U.S.
01:02:41.320So it is imperative that we look at what is going to happen there with securing that border.
01:02:48.580And I think that you will see us push more for these programs that will help us to secure this country.
01:02:59.760And bear in mind, when we secure the border and you curb illegal entry, and thank goodness we are now at the lowest levels it's been in two decades,
01:03:10.380then Border Patrol has the opportunity to do more work at the ports of entry and to stop the transit of some of these drugs that have been making their way into the country.
01:03:25.360Senator Blackburn, always appreciate you making time for us here on Clay and Buck. Thank you so much.
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