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Letting Americans Keep Their Money — One Reason Why Liberals Hate the Trump Tax Agenda · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: There is a story that is really interesting that's developing
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Speaker 1: right now, and that is how the economy is actually
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Speaker 1: staying resilient even though we have gas prices that have
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Speaker 1: obviously gone up because of the war and Iran. Now
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Speaker 1: the media is trying to capitalize on this and saying
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Speaker 1: that Donald Trump is destroying this country, destroying the middle class,
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Speaker 1: and therefore you should immediately think that Democrats are going
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Speaker 1: to help you. Now, let's also just deal with the
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Speaker 1: reality that Democrats have made it very clear that if
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Speaker 1: they have it their way, they would actually like to
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Speaker 1: keep gas prices where they are right now. They want
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Speaker 1: to force you into their Green New Deal, They want
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Speaker 1: to force you into an electric vehicle. But because Republicans
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Speaker 1: are in charge the House, Senate, in the White House,
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Speaker 1: they're now saying that these gas prices are horrific, the
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Speaker 1: same exact gas prices, by the way, that they gave
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Speaker 1: you for years on end when Barack Obama was president
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Speaker 1: and also when Joe Biden was president. In fact, it
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Speaker 1: was the official a policy of the Democratic Party to
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Speaker 1: make gas prices go as high as they were in Europe,
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Speaker 1: which translated into six seven, eight nine dollars a gallon
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Speaker 1: in the United States of America. You also look at
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Speaker 1: where gas prices are the highest and where if they
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Speaker 1: really wanted to lower gas prices they could do it.
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Speaker 1: That's California. Why is California's gas price so much higher
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Speaker 1: than the rest of the country. It is because of
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Speaker 1: the massive amounts of taxes they put on gasoline, trying
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Speaker 1: to force people in California to basically bow down to
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Speaker 1: the Green New Deal and to buy an electric vehicle
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Speaker 1: or to ride share or to do kumbayas stuff. That
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Speaker 1: is their ultimate goal and their mission. Now, while all
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Speaker 1: that is happening, there's another part of this story, and
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Speaker 1: that is why is our economy still holding up under
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Speaker 1: this new pressure. It's actually very simple, and it's a
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Speaker 1: story that the media is not touching at all. What
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump has been able to do and you have
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Speaker 1: to go back to twenty seventeen to understand this, is
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Speaker 1: he has transformed the backbone of this country. How did
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Speaker 1: he do it by protecting, aiding and supporting small businesses
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Speaker 1: in America. That's how Donald Trump changed the game with
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Speaker 1: his historic tax cuts. I want you to make no
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Speaker 1: mistake about it. When Donald Trump talks about his economic agenda,
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Speaker 1: and he did. Today, you're talking literally about the most
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Speaker 1: aggressive pro small business tax revolution that we've seen in
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Speaker 1: modern American history period. All this started with the Tax
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Speaker 1: Cuts and Jobs Acts of twenty seventeen. It was a
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Speaker 1: sweeping overhaul of the tax code that slash taxes across
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Speaker 1: the board and fundamentally changed how businesses, large and especially
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Speaker 1: small businesses operated. Now, before those cuts, small businesses especially
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Speaker 1: passed through entities like LLCs and s corps. We're getting crushed.
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Speaker 1: They had high tax rates, they had complex regulations, and
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Speaker 1: very little incentive to expand their businesses. Then Trump came
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Speaker 1: in and he said, hey, I want to give you
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Speaker 1: a better chance to make it. I want more businesses
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Speaker 1: to succeed than to fail, and we're going to let
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Speaker 1: you keep more of your money so that you can
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Speaker 1: make it through tough times when you're starting a business
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Speaker 1: and flourish when you actually start making money. What happened boom.
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Speaker 1: The tax rates then dropped, deductions expanded, the incentives to
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Speaker 1: invest skyrocketed. Now we're talking about lower marginal rates, we're
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Speaker 1: talking about immediate expenses for equipment, and massive incentives to
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Speaker 1: hire and grow your company. The results are clear, not
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Speaker 1: only are economists saying that not only did GDP show
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Speaker 1: increase and employment rose significantly because you had stronger incentives
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Speaker 1: for business to invest and expand that was the real
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Speaker 1: world impact. Small business owners suddenly had more cash flow,
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Speaker 1: that meant more hiring, that meant better wages, I mean
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Speaker 1: expansion and taking bigger risks instead of just being in
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Speaker 1: survival mode, which we witnessed during the Obama years. And
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Speaker 1: then Trump doubled down in his second term on what
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Speaker 1: he laid that groundwork for in twenty seventeen. He had
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Speaker 1: more political power, he believed coming in, and he said
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Speaker 1: tax relief was a mandate for working Americans and small
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Speaker 1: businesses alike. He did things that no one thought about.
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Speaker 1: One of those that now were seeing the real world
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Speaker 1: effects of it was this no tax on tips. Now,
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Speaker 1: when you think about who that hits waiters, bartenders, service workers,
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Speaker 1: hotel staff, dealers at a casino, Millions of Americans, valet drivers,
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Speaker 1: for example, they rely uber drivers, lyft drivers actually rely
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Speaker 1: on tips to survive. And what Donald Trump said is
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Speaker 1: these people were working hard. We need to give them
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Speaker 1: a chance to succeed and to grow and to maybe
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Speaker 1: move away from those jobs down the road and start
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Speaker 1: their own businesses. Many of those workers can deduct tens
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Speaker 1: of thousands of dollars in tip income from federal taxes.
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Speaker 1: That's incredible. We've already seen an instant impact. Again, the
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Speaker 1: media doesn't want you to know this. We're talking millions
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Speaker 1: of workers that are benefiting, some already getting refunds of
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Speaker 1: up to eight thousand dollars. Let's be clear. That's an
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Speaker 1: eight thousand dollar rays for Americans that need it the most.
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Speaker 1: the service industry retain employees, it helps them fill jobs.
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Speaker 1: It helps them also stay competitive. Now you layer in
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Speaker 1: the next thing that the president did no taxes on
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Speaker 1: overtime or at least major deductions. Under the current law,
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Speaker 1: workers can deduct up to twelve thousand, five hundred in
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Speaker 1: overtime income or twenty five thousand for families. What does
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Speaker 1: that mean Instead of being punished for working even harder,
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Speaker 1: Americans are now being rewarded for it. And again, this
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Speaker 1: directly benefited small businesses. Because employees are now more willing
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Speaker 1: to take up extra hours, businesses can scale up production
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Speaker 1: without the same labor resistance. And during holiday and special season,
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Speaker 1: it's because other people that work for the company are saying, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I want the extra hours because I don't have to
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Speaker 1: pay tax on that overtime in September, October, November, or
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Speaker 1: whatever time of year when that business gets busy. It's
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Speaker 1: a win win for the small business. It's a win
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Speaker 1: win for the employee. And here's the stat that should
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Speaker 1: blow everyone away. Nearly thirty million Americans, we now understand,
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Speaker 1: have already taken advantage of these tip and overtime tax breaks.
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Speaker 1: Thirty million. That's not some small, little policy, it's a
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Speaker 1: nationwide economic shift because of Donald Trump. Now, if you
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Speaker 1: zoom out and you look at the bigger picture, as
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Speaker 1: Democrats are still trying to convince you that everything's terrible
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Speaker 1: and it's all doom and gloom, Trump's strategy has been really simple,
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Speaker 1: but extremely effective and powerful. You cut taxes, you literally
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Speaker 1: just say, I'm going to let people keep their harder
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Speaker 1: money that they're working hard for. I'm going to make
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Speaker 1: it easier to hire, I'm going to make it easier
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Speaker 1: for businesses to grow, and I'm going to let the
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Speaker 1: economy do what it does best. And small businesses, they're
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Speaker 1: the biggest winners in all this, not corporate America, not
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Speaker 1: the billionaires, as Democrats and want to DEMONI. By by
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Speaker 1: the way, billionaire are the ones that employ the most
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Speaker 1: people in this country. We shouldn't demonize successful big businesses.
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Speaker 1: They give amazing jobs and usually amazing benefits. But small
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Speaker 1: businesses employ people everywhere in anybody towns, moms and pops.
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Speaker 1: This is what you need because look, small businesses, they
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Speaker 1: don't have an army of accountants like the big boys
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Speaker 1: do to get the best tax benefits. They don't have
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Speaker 1: massive corporate buffers. When taxes go down, they feel it immediately,
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Speaker 1: and by the way, when tax go up, they feel
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Speaker 1: it immediately. And when taxes go down, that's more inventory.
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Speaker 1: That's the idea of even a new location or expanding
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Speaker 1: their hours. That's the difference between firing a worker, laying
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Speaker 1: off a worker, staying stagnant or hiring a new world.
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Speaker 1: You go from survival into turning it into success. Now
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Speaker 1: Democrats are saying they don't like this. Why because it's
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Speaker 1: igniting the economic activity from the ground up, not from
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Speaker 1: the top down. This isn't government bureaucratic spending. This is
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Speaker 1: literally outside the government, bottom up growth. It's been driven
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Speaker 1: by real small businesses and real hard working Americans. And
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Speaker 1: that's exactly why now you're seeing the media refused to
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Speaker 1: cover this. You look at the economy right now, there's
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Speaker 1: no doubt that the higher gas prices are a real thing,
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Speaker 1: and it's certainly not what we all want, but it's
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Speaker 1: an important thing because of national security. But small businesses,
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Speaker 1: because of what President Trump has already done, they're able
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Speaker 1: to handle this right now because of the Trump tax cuts. Now,
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Speaker 1: the president also understands something else small businesses, and I'm
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Speaker 1: a small business owner. We invest when we know that
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Speaker 1: the environment is stable, when it's pro growth, when it's real.
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Speaker 1: So when you hear Donald Trump come out talking about
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Speaker 1: these tax cuts, the Trump tax cuts, they don't just
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Speaker 1: think about Wall Street at the White House. They're thinking
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Speaker 1: about the small restaurant owner to think about that contractor
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Speaker 1: they're thinking about that single mom working overtime shifts to
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Speaker 1: make ends meet, to think about that single dad who's
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Speaker 1: doing everything you can to give us kids a better life.
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Speaker 1: They're thinking literally about millions of Americans who are finally
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Speaker 1: being told from our government, you earned it, guess what
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Speaker 1: you get to keep it. And that's why this tax
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Speaker 1: agenda is such a deadly policy to the Democratic Party.
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Speaker 1: The Democratic Party is filled now with Communists, Socialists, and
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Speaker 1: Marxist This is a fundamental shift that destroys what they're
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Speaker 1: selling when you say to Americans, hey, we want to
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Speaker 1: reward work. We want you to be rewarded with success.
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Speaker 1: We want people who power this economy every single day
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Speaker 1: to wake up the next day excite and hungry to
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Speaker 1: do it again. Now, the President hosted a really cool event,
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Speaker 1: small Business Summit, at the White House. You're going to
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Speaker 1: remember this voice. Have you ever watched the show Pond Stars.
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Speaker 1: Rick Harrison's a guy that is actually really cool. He's
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Speaker 1: a guy that is in the embodiment of I call
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Speaker 1: it the success story of a small business owner in Vegas.
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Speaker 1: He has become a reality TV star with that show
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Speaker 1: Pond Stars, and he was speaking at the Small Business summit,
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Speaker 1: and I want you to hear part of what he
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Speaker 1: had to say.
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Speaker 2: I just want to say he's amazing. He's done so much,
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Speaker 2: I mean so much for all of us. I mean,
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Speaker 2: the backbone of this country is small business, plain and simple.
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Speaker 2: And the last guy at office, you know, all we
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Speaker 2: heard was is that we were the evil people, We
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Speaker 2: were the bad people. Everything else like that, we don't
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Speaker 2: pay our fair share whatever that's supposed to be.
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Speaker 1: And he made it tough.
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Speaker 2: And this guy, the big beautiful bill absolutely amazing, you know. So,
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Speaker 2: I mean, God, bless you for letting me get one
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Speaker 2: hundred percent appreciation. It really helps out. And all I
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Speaker 2: can say is this is literally, I mean, I'm a
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Speaker 2: history buff and I know a lot about this White
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Speaker 2: House thing and everything. Literally, he's going to go down
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Speaker 2: as maybe the best president ever. I love this guy.
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Speaker 1: Short, sweets and to the point. Wow, you hear the
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Speaker 1: present there and he smiles. He says, pretty good, pretty good. Wow.
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Speaker 1: Why is the president doing this moment? Because he wants
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Speaker 1: people to remember exactly what's happening. The President also was
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Speaker 1: reminding and of course the media is not going to
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Speaker 1: cover this. That's why I hope you'll share this show,
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Speaker 1: the podcast wherever you can, but the President detailed how
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Speaker 1: his historic tax cuts have helped American small businesses in
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Speaker 1: his own words, Listen to this.
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Speaker 3: Last summer, I proudly signed the great, big, beautiful bill,
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Speaker 3: the largest tax cuts in the history of our country
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Speaker 3: and boosting millions of small.
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Speaker 4: Business Boosting millions of small businesses.
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Speaker 3: We passed no tax on tips, no tax on overtime,
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Speaker 3: and no tax on social security for our seniors. That's
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Speaker 3: big stuff. And we add that to the package that
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Speaker 3: we approved in my first term. We had the best
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Speaker 3: financial years and the history of our country my first term,
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Speaker 3: and I think we're going to blow them away this term.
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Speaker 3: You know, in this term, we have eighteen trillion dollars
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Speaker 3: being invested in our country. And if you look at
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Speaker 3: the last administration, they had less than one trillion dollars
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Speaker 3: for four years. We have eighteen trillion during eleven month.
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Speaker 3: The twelve month hasn't come in yet in terms of
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Speaker 3: the numbers, but in eleven months, eighteen trillion dollars investments.
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Speaker 3: We have auto plants being built all over the country.
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Speaker 3: AI plans we're doing and we're leading China in AI.
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Speaker 3: And I'm going to go see presidency in two weeks.
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Speaker 3: I look forward to that, but I'll say I'm leading
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Speaker 3: we go. We have we have very friendly competition, but
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Speaker 3: it'll be actually it'll be a very important trip. We
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Speaker 3: provided one hundred percent expensing and bonus appreciation, which is tremendous,
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Speaker 3: one of the biggest things that you have. I mean,
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Speaker 3: people have no idea how big that is. The businesses
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Speaker 3: do so that businesses can deduct one hundred percent of
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Speaker 3: the cost of new facilities, equipment and capital investment in
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Speaker 3: the first year. It used to take thirty eight years
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Speaker 3: of deduction. Now you get it done in one. You
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Speaker 3: can take one so you can expand I think that's
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Speaker 3: what made us so successful in the first term. And
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Speaker 3: now we have it for a ten year period, so
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Speaker 3: you have it for a while. It really was going
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Speaker 3: to make it for one year period. That would mean
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Speaker 3: you spend all your money immediately. Now, unfortunately I gave
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Speaker 3: you too much time. I was sort of against that.
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Speaker 3: I said, let's do it for a short period of time.
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Speaker 3: But we did it. It's the right thing. And this way,
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Speaker 3: when I get out of office in let's say eight
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Speaker 3: or nine years from that, I'll be able to use it,
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Speaker 3: I'll be able to use it.
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Speaker 1: You're gonna hear the president there obviously trolling the media
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Speaker 1: with his when he leaves office seven eight years ago.
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Speaker 1: That's all they'll hear. That's all they'll lose their minds about.
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Speaker 1: That's all they'll report on. So let's be clear what
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Speaker 1: President Trump is doing these tax cuts. It isn't just policy.
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Speaker 1: It's a direct investment in the American worker and the
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Speaker 1: small businesses that keep this country alive. Goes back to
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Speaker 1: what the Pawn Star show star Lily was saying, he's
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Speaker 1: helping small businesses survive. Washington, by the way, is the
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Speaker 1: one that's been punishing small business success. They taxed over time,
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Speaker 1: they tax tips. They made it harder to grow, they
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Speaker 1: made it harder to hire and harder to get ahead.
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Speaker 1: And Trump said, hey, I've owned businesses, a lot of them,
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Speaker 1: and I'm going to flip the script. And now if
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Speaker 1: you work hard, you're rewarded for it. You keep more,
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Speaker 1: you earn tips, you do great in service industry, you
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Speaker 1: keep them, you put in over time, you're rewarded, not penalized.
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Speaker 1: That's not just tax reform, that's respect for the worker
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Speaker 1: in this country. And guess what the result is more hiring,
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Speaker 1: bigger paychecks, stronger small business success instead of them failing
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Speaker 1: their succeeding, and an economy that actually works for the people,
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Speaker 1: not washing DC and the bureaucrats that want to take more.
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Speaker 1: This is why the media won't cover the story. This
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Speaker 1: is what pro growth leadership looks like in real time.
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Speaker 1: This is what putting Americans first actually looks like when
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Speaker 1: it becomes a policy, and for millions of Americans. I
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Speaker 1: mentioned the number earlier. Thirty million Americans have already taken
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Speaker 1: advantage of the no tax on tips and no tax
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Speaker 1: on overtime, and that number will grow. These Americans are
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Speaker 1: feeling the difference in their paychecks. They're also feeling the
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Speaker 1: difference in their future, which means they have more confidence
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Speaker 1: in this country, more confident in the ability to say
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Speaker 1: these small boats to actually hide. All right, So, when
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Speaker 1: we're talking about the strad of Her Moves and it's important,
21:38
Speaker 1: saying it that way is honestly a massive understatement. This
21:42
Speaker 1: is one of the most critical choke points on planet Earth.
21:45
Speaker 1: You have more than twenty percent of the world's oil
21:48
Speaker 1: supply coming through here, and that doesn't count all the
21:51
Speaker 1: other vessels from around the world that use the strad
21:53
Speaker 1: of hor Moves to get things from point A to
21:55
Speaker 1: point B. Now, to put it in perspective, at its
21:59
Speaker 1: narrow point, the strait is about twenty one miles wide
22:05
Speaker 1: at its narrowest point. That's insane. Now, that is something
22:11
Speaker 1: that if you think about, it's really hard to be
22:13
Speaker 1: looking out and watching for all these small boats all
22:17
Speaker 1: the time. Now, the shipping lanes of the massive oil
22:19
Speaker 1: tankers and cargo ships are allowed to use is actually
22:22
Speaker 1: only about two miles wide in each direction. That's it.
22:26
Speaker 1: It's easy to control that. What's hard to control is
22:29
Speaker 1: the other nineteen miles that you have on the left
22:32
Speaker 1: of the right side, or you can divide it up
22:33
Speaker 1: depending on where these ships are. It is massive. So
22:37
Speaker 1: imagine this. You've got a gigantic oil tanker, then you've
22:40
Speaker 1: got some of the largest objects on Earth moving them.
22:43
Speaker 1: They're forced into an essentially a narrow highway on the water,
22:46
Speaker 1: making them very easy targets. And then there are multiple
22:50
Speaker 1: layers of threads that can come after them because they
22:53
Speaker 1: are in this two mile wide area, all right, So
22:56
Speaker 1: it makes them sitting ducks. Now you're also going to
22:58
Speaker 1: ask a question why the shipping lanes there that's the
23:01
Speaker 1: deepest points and these ships are huge and they're way
23:03
Speaker 1: below the water line right because of how much cargo.
23:06
Speaker 1: So that's part of the reason why you have these
23:09
Speaker 1: narrow basically highway going through the strait for these massive tankers.
23:14
Speaker 1: All right. Now, Iran strategy is one that is really
23:19
Speaker 1: tough to deal with. It's not a go head to
23:21
Speaker 1: head with the US Navy in a traditional fight. We
23:24
Speaker 1: already did that. They lost. We completely took out their
23:28
Speaker 1: entire navy of their large ships. We know that all right. Now.
23:31
Speaker 1: They're basically using runabouts like the average boat you would
23:34
Speaker 1: be using if you're going out there to go sight
23:38
Speaker 1: seeing on a lake, or if you're buying a boat
23:41
Speaker 1: to go wait, to go skiing behind. That is what
23:45
Speaker 1: they're using now, that size boat to go after these
23:49
Speaker 1: tankers and these container ships. All right, So this is
23:53
Speaker 1: a lot like just terror, isn't that we see around
23:55
Speaker 1: the world. It's really hard to find a lone wolf.
23:57
Speaker 1: It's really hard to find one individual that wants to
23:59
Speaker 1: blow up you know, a car, or to blow up
24:02
Speaker 1: a bus, or to blow up something in you know,
24:05
Speaker 1: next to a hotel like a restaurant. You understand, that's
24:08
Speaker 1: what they're doing now in the Strait of Horn moves
24:11
Speaker 1: they deploy these small, fast attack boats. All right. They
24:15
Speaker 1: are operated by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard. They're not stupid, Okay,
24:19
Speaker 1: they're pretty smart. These boats are designed to be low profile,
24:23
Speaker 1: they're designed to be extremely fast, and they're designed to
24:26
Speaker 1: be highly maneuverable. You could say that these boats are
24:31
Speaker 1: faster and smaller than even the boats that you see
24:34
Speaker 1: that pirates have used to go after ships around the
24:37
Speaker 1: Horn of Africa, for example. They also are armed with
24:42
Speaker 1: heavy machine guns, rocket launchers, and even anti ship missiles.
24:47
Speaker 1: So this is well executed, well thought out, and they
24:51
Speaker 1: hide well on the sea. All right. So all of
24:54
Speaker 1: that is against Basically the odds are stacked against us
24:58
Speaker 1: in that way. Now here's the other thing. It's interesting.
25:00
Speaker 1: These boats can run skinny. What does that mean. It
25:03
Speaker 1: means in very little water, they can hug the coastline,
25:06
Speaker 1: they can blend in with normal fishing traffic. They can
25:10
Speaker 1: hide along and among the commercial vessels as well. The
25:14
Speaker 1: Persian Gulf, by the way, is very busy. There's constant movement,
25:18
Speaker 1: there's legitimate traffic everywhere, and that cluster makes it actually
25:23
Speaker 1: easier for these boats to hide among other boats and
25:26
Speaker 1: look like it's one thing on the water, when actually
25:28
Speaker 1: it's two things, a large boat and a small boat.
25:30
Speaker 1: So by the time one of these boats breaks away
25:33
Speaker 1: and then starts accelerating towards a tanker or a navy ship,
25:37
Speaker 1: you may have like minutes or even seconds to react
25:42
Speaker 1: because you don't have the radar system that many of
25:46
Speaker 1: us would imagine to see all of these little boats
25:49
Speaker 1: coming at you. Now, just think about the logistics the
25:52
Speaker 1: physics here. You've got a massive, old tanker that can't
25:55
Speaker 1: swerve or stop. These ships take miles to change core. Literally,
26:01
Speaker 1: they're very slow, they're very predictable, and they're very vulnerable,
26:05
Speaker 1: and these narrow highway lanes that are two miles wide,
26:09
Speaker 1: the Iranian boats can swarm, meaning you're not dealing with
26:13
Speaker 1: one threat, You're dealing with five, or ten or even
26:15
Speaker 1: a dozen of them, coming from multiple directions at once
26:18
Speaker 1: at one of these takers. They practice this, they're pretty
26:21
Speaker 1: good at it, and it's like trying to defend a
26:24
Speaker 1: convoy of semi trucks on a two lane road, all right,
26:28
Speaker 1: while motorcycles are flying at them in every angle of
26:31
Speaker 1: direction at high speed. That is the best analogy that
26:34
Speaker 1: I can give you. Now, you've got roughly twenty percent
26:37
Speaker 1: of the world's all supply that's passing through the Strait.
26:40
Speaker 1: Any disruption, even a temporary one, sends the energy prices
26:44
Speaker 1: skyrocketing overnight. We've witnessed that. So now that you understand this,
26:50
Speaker 1: I want to go back to what America did do,
26:52
Speaker 1: and it's pretty impressive. In the last twenty four hours,
26:55
Speaker 1: the US has sunk six of these small uranium boat
27:00
Speaker 1: I would refer them as mosquitoes, and Trump is also
27:04
Speaker 1: now warning the regime that they could be blown off
27:06
Speaker 1: the face of the earth if they don't stop this. Now,
27:10
Speaker 1: we sent these six small Iranian boats that were deployed
27:13
Speaker 1: to harassed vessels that were stuck in the Straight of
27:15
Speaker 1: Horn moves shortly before Trump warn the Islamic Republic that look,
27:21
Speaker 1: you guys, keep this up, I'm going to blow you
27:23
Speaker 1: off the face of the earth, and I'm sick and
27:25
Speaker 1: tired of dealing with you, and you guys better reopen
27:27
Speaker 1: the critical waterway and we're going to do everything we
27:29
Speaker 1: can now. Admiral Bradcooper, who's head of the US Central
27:33
Speaker 1: Command known as SYNCOME, he told reporters Monday afternoon in
27:36
Speaker 1: a press call that while Iran historically has deployed between
27:41
Speaker 1: twenty and forty small boats to threaten commercial shipping in
27:44
Speaker 1: the Strait, he said today we saw it just six
27:47
Speaker 1: and we were able to eliminate all of them. He said,
27:50
Speaker 1: we have an enormous amount of capacity, capability, and firepower
27:55
Speaker 1: that's now concentrated in and around the Strait, including Apache helicopter,
28:00
Speaker 1: Seahawk helicopters, and he also emacides that Iran's military capability
28:05
Speaker 1: has been dramatically degraded, which means we've got an upper
28:09
Speaker 1: hand right now on this again. That is great news
28:13
Speaker 1: when you look at the Straight of Horn moves. Not
28:15
Speaker 1: only does it connect the Persian Gulf to the Gulf
28:17
Speaker 1: of Aman, it connects one part of the world to
28:20
Speaker 1: the other. And it's massive. It's not small. And I
28:24
Speaker 1: say that so that you understand just how big this is. Now.
28:27
Speaker 1: Monday Strike occurred after Trump and own Sunday evening of
28:32
Speaker 1: this new Project Freedom. It's this initiative to move maritime
28:36
Speaker 1: traffic through the strait since it's been backed up for
28:40
Speaker 1: months from the start of Operation Epic Fury on February
28:43
Speaker 1: the twenty eighth. Iran then came out and warned that
28:46
Speaker 1: it would resist any effort to force open the strait
28:49
Speaker 1: and insisted that any ships attempting to move through the
28:52
Speaker 1: waterway must coordinate with Tehran first, prompting Trump to tell
28:57
Speaker 1: Fox News that the Middle Eastern regime would be blown
29:00
Speaker 1: off the face of the earth again if it attacks
29:03
Speaker 1: US flagged vessels, saying, quote, we have more weapons and
29:08
Speaker 1: ammunition at a much higher grade than we had before,
29:11
Speaker 1: is what Trump said. We have the best equipment, We
29:14
Speaker 1: have staff all over the world. We have these bases
29:18
Speaker 1: all over the world. They're all stucked up with equipment,
29:20
Speaker 1: and we can use all of that stuff and we
29:22
Speaker 1: will if we need it. Now, the President claimed that
29:26
Speaker 1: Iran has become much softer. In other words, you can
29:29
Speaker 1: you can mold them more regarding the peace talks that
29:32
Speaker 1: have stagnated since mid April. Now, let me also go
29:36
Speaker 1: back to what Sincom said. All right, Cooper did not
29:40
Speaker 1: say whether America's strikes on Iran's fast attack boats and
29:46
Speaker 1: Turan's claims that it fired at US warships constituted a
29:49
Speaker 1: collapse of the fragile ceasefire secured last month, So that
29:54
Speaker 1: is again up in the air at this point on
29:56
Speaker 1: what's really happening. What Cooper did say was this, I
30:00
Speaker 1: think the key thing here for US is we're merely
30:04
Speaker 1: there as a defensive force to give a very thick
30:08
Speaker 1: layer of defense to commercial ships and commercial shipping to
30:13
Speaker 1: allow them to proceed out of the Persian Gulf. Now
30:17
Speaker 1: right now, there are literally hundreds and hundreds of ships
30:22
Speaker 1: that are anchored. You have about eighty seven different countries
30:27
Speaker 1: now that have ships that are flagged to them that
30:31
Speaker 1: are sitting in the Persian Gulf. Syncom said, our job
30:36
Speaker 1: is to give them safe passage. Now here's what we
30:40
Speaker 1: also know. At least two US ships crossed the straight
30:43
Speaker 1: up from moves on Monday. According to Syncome, a claim
30:46
Speaker 1: that a ram slammed is quote unquote baseless, and again
30:49
Speaker 1: that's nothing but propaganda. I also want you to understand
30:52
Speaker 1: something else about these fast boats that are very sophisticated.
30:56
Speaker 1: All right, they're small, they can hide. It's a very
30:59
Speaker 1: large body water. They can hide behind other vessels in
31:01
Speaker 1: an attack, and you have virtually no warning. These boats.
31:06
Speaker 1: Some of them are smaller than twenty feet long. Now,
31:10
Speaker 1: a typical boat that you would go skiing behind for
31:13
Speaker 1: your family is usually twenty two to twenty five feet,
31:17
Speaker 1: so a lot of these are smaller than that. Some
31:20
Speaker 1: of them even have just one engine but still are
31:22
Speaker 1: able to haul it. Many of them have two and
31:25
Speaker 1: three engines on a very tiny boat. And these are
31:28
Speaker 1: calm waters in the straight of four moves, so they're
31:30
Speaker 1: able to just haul it almost like a jet ski.
31:33
Speaker 1: I would describe it with just just on top of
31:35
Speaker 1: the water and flooring it. Now, it also remains to
31:39
Speaker 1: be seen how many foreign ships are going to take up,
31:41
Speaker 1: saycomes offer to move through the Strait after a South
31:45
Speaker 1: Korean used carrier report an explosion and fire on board
31:51
Speaker 1: when it attempts to cross the waterway. So that's new
31:53
Speaker 1: news there. I guess self, create didn't want our help.
31:56
Speaker 1: They decided to go to loan That didn't work very
31:58
Speaker 1: well for them. So what does this mean? Now, it's
32:02
Speaker 1: pretty clear that the President saying, I'll give you a
32:05
Speaker 1: safe passage if you want it. You have another boat,
32:07
Speaker 1: by the way, that suffered a blast early Monday while
32:10
Speaker 1: fire broke out in the engine room of a Panama
32:12
Speaker 1: flag cargo ship. South Korea's foreign minister has also confirmed. Now,
32:17
Speaker 1: Trump said that that attack on the Namu should push Soul,
32:21
Speaker 1: South Korea, which has twenty six ships trapped in the Golf,
32:25
Speaker 1: to join US and military operations to secure the strait.
32:28
Speaker 1: We'll see if they actually do it, the President, saying
32:31
Speaker 1: this on true Social quote, perhaps ite time for South
32:33
Speaker 1: Korea to come and join the mission. Other than the
32:36
Speaker 1: South Korean ship, there has been at this moment no
32:39
Speaker 1: damage to ships going through the strait, the President wrote,
32:42
Speaker 1: noting that military commanders will speak to reporters on Tuesday
32:46
Speaker 1: about all of these operations. Now, along with the South
32:49
Speaker 1: Korean ship, you had a UAE oil tanker that was
32:52
Speaker 1: targeted by an Iranian drone as it tried to cross
32:55
Speaker 1: the trade and caught fire as well. So Iran is
32:58
Speaker 1: doing everything they can to try to hurt the US
33:01
Speaker 1: and to try to shut down the straight That is obvious,
33:05
Speaker 1: the President saying We're not going to have it. And
33:06
Speaker 1: then the question becomes what is next. Is the present
33:10
Speaker 1: going to go back and start hitting targets and individuals
33:14
Speaker 1: in Iran? That is what is really going to be
33:19
Speaker 1: the big question that so many are going to be
33:21
Speaker 1: looking at next. What's very clear is the President has
33:24
Speaker 1: made it clear he's not going to be screwed with
33:26
Speaker 1: or held hostage, and America is there to win, and
33:29
Speaker 1: America is there also to give safe passage. That is
33:34
Speaker 1: very clear. So now we wait and we see what
33:37
Speaker 1: the President does next. But I have a feeling it's
33:39
Speaker 1: going to be pretty darn aggressive. Quick Break, Ben Ferguson Show,
33:43
Speaker 1: More coming up. So I hope you'll take this data,
33:46
Speaker 1: the stats, the good news. I hope you'll share it
33:50
Speaker 1: with everyone you know, because this is the story that
33:53
Speaker 1: has to be told, because if it isn't, there's no
33:56
Speaker 1: doubt the Democrats will win an election day