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WH and Mamdani Set for High-Stakes Meeting plus Trump Economy Defies Critics · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: So there is a meeting that the media is completely
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Speaker 1: obsessed with. It is a meeting that's scheduled in the
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Speaker 1: Oval Office. Today. Trump publicly confirming on a social media
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Speaker 1: platform True Social that the communist mayor of New York City, Mondani,
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Speaker 1: has asked for a meeting, and the President said, We've
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Speaker 1: agreed to this meeting and it will take place at
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Speaker 1: the Oval Office on Friday. Mondani, as you know, is
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Speaker 1: the incoming mayor elect of New York City. He won
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Speaker 1: that November fourth election. Despite deep ideological rivalries, both sides
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Speaker 1: have signaled a willingness, at least in rhetoric, to engage
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Speaker 1: on issues affecting New York. Now here's what President Trump
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Speaker 1: has said. He's repeatedly labeled Mondannie one hundred percent communist, lunatic,
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Speaker 1: and a total nut job. On the November twenty first announcement,
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Speaker 1: he flagged that he may withhold or reduce federal funding
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Speaker 1: if he deems Mendanni's leadership problematic. The White House pres
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Speaker 1: Secretary Caroline Levitt ahead of the meeting said this communists
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Speaker 1: coming to the White House because that is who the
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Speaker 1: Democratic Party elected as the mayor of the largest city
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Speaker 1: in the country. Now It's very clear that the President
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Speaker 1: cares deeply about New York City. That may be one
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Speaker 1: of the reasons why he's willing to have this meeting
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Speaker 1: with Mandanni. It's a place where he created his empire,
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Speaker 1: where he hosted The Apprentice, where he announced his run
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Speaker 1: to become president of the United States of America. He
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Speaker 1: obviously is concerned about the greatest city in America and
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Speaker 1: doesn't want it to become a massive disaster. But he
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Speaker 1: also understands what he's dealing with Mondani, and the fact
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Speaker 1: is he's dealing with a socialists. This is, by the way,
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Speaker 1: the Democratic Party. This is exactly who they are. They
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Speaker 1: are no longer a party that loves this country. They're
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Speaker 1: a party that believes this country is evil. They believe
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Speaker 1: this country should be destroyed and remade as a socialist country,
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Speaker 1: a communist country, a Marxist country. This is now the
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Speaker 1: real Democratic Party. So why have this meeting? Well, maybe
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Speaker 1: the President's actually trying to save New York And why
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Speaker 1: is Mandanni having the meeting. Well, here's what Mendannia has said.
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Speaker 1: He described himself as a democratic socialist, not a communist,
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Speaker 1: and has rejected the communist label, even though that's exactly
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Speaker 1: what he's been the majority of his life. His agenda
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Speaker 1: is emphasizing what he describes as affordability in New York City.
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Speaker 1: In reality, it's full government control and handouts things like
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Speaker 1: rent freezes, free buses, city owned grocery stores, and expanding
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Speaker 1: free childcare. The question is who's going to pay for it.
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Speaker 1: On the meeting, he said, I just want to speak
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Speaker 1: plainly to the President about what it means to actually
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Speaker 1: stand up for New Yorkers and the way in which
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Speaker 1: the New Yorkers are struggling to afford this city. He
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Speaker 1: confirmed this team reached out to the White House to
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Speaker 1: request the meeting. So here's my prediction. I think it's
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Speaker 1: pretty clear that Mandannie is already thinking about what is
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Speaker 1: next job is going to be. It's very obvious that
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Speaker 1: he's turning into a star of the Democratic Party that
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Speaker 1: is an essence dead and now a socialist party. He
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Speaker 1: clearly wants to meet with Donald Trump for the reason
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Speaker 1: of raising his own stature or even to maybe have
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Speaker 1: a spectacle come out of it to say I stood
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Speaker 1: up to Orange Man Donald Trump, who's bad. But is
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Speaker 1: it really gonna do anything good for New York City? Well,
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Speaker 1: look at New York City and what's going on right now.
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Speaker 1: You literally have pro Palacidian activists that have besieged New
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Speaker 1: York City and the synagogues there. Moundani error has already
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Speaker 1: begun as hundreds of pro Palasidian activists, pro terrorist activists
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Speaker 1: went to Manhattan's prestigious Party Synagogue on Wednesday night, chanting
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Speaker 1: globalize the Infantada, death to the IDF, and take another
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Speaker 1: settler out, and what critics warrant is just the beginning
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Speaker 1: of a radical climate under the Socialist mayor elect Mandani.
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Speaker 1: The nighttime demonstration targeted at an event about Jewish immigration
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Speaker 1: to Israel hosted inside the synagogue, which has stood on
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Speaker 1: East sixty seventh Street since eighteen ninety and also houses
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Speaker 1: a prominent Jewish day school. Now, you would think that
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Speaker 1: the radical left would keep the school a school and
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Speaker 1: not radicalize people to go there and then to put
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Speaker 1: people's lives at risk or to harass students at a
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Speaker 1: Jewish school, But that is exactly what they did. Radical
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Speaker 1: pro Palacadian activists pounded drums and unleashed a barrage of
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Speaker 1: in semiary chants, including resistance is glorious, Infantada Revolution no
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Speaker 1: peace on stolen land, referring to Israel and saying we
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Speaker 1: don't want no two states, we want forty eight and
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Speaker 1: from New York to Gaza, globalize the Infatada with signs
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Speaker 1: declaring Zionism is a death and no settlers on stolen land.
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Speaker 1: This is literally who Mindani is deciding is important to him.
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Speaker 1: Attendees entered an exit the building were jeered at close range.
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Speaker 1: As one protest leader told the crowd, it is our
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Speaker 1: duty to make them think twice before holding these events.
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Speaker 1: We need to make them scared, prompting activists to repeat
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Speaker 1: the line, now, let's be clear. These individuals say it's
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Speaker 1: their job to scare people who are Jewish. The New
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Speaker 1: York Police Department deployed officers and metal barricades that separate
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Speaker 1: the demonstrators from a smaller group of Jewish counter protesters
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Speaker 1: who blew schaffars and whistles, shown flashlights of the crowd
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Speaker 1: and shout it back, you were cowards, and stopped protesting
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Speaker 1: at a synagogue. Police said the protests were permitted and
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Speaker 1: reported no arrests. Ken Or Benny, who serves as both
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Speaker 1: the canter of Parky Synagogue and the director of the
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Speaker 1: Rabbi Arthur Parkise Day School described the scene as a
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Speaker 1: very disturbing scene, noting the demonstrators shouted phrases such as
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Speaker 1: kill the Jews, destroy Israel, and no Jews in America.
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Speaker 1: He said many members of the community were very, very
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Speaker 1: concerned by the language and by the decision to target
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Speaker 1: a synagogue. All of this coming from the New York
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Speaker 1: Post and the scenes outside the Parkis also triggered a
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Speaker 1: wave of shocking reaction on x from rabbis, clergy, commentators, activists,
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Speaker 1: and even elected officials. He framed the protests as a
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Speaker 1: chilling echo of the nineteen thirties and a warning of
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Speaker 1: what they will call the new Mundani era in New York.
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Speaker 1: One of the rabbis there, who first posted the video
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Speaker 1: of the protests, wrote that anti Semite showed up outside
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Speaker 1: the Parkis Synagogue and are chanting for the Infantada, stressing
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Speaker 1: that the synagogue senior rabbi is a Holocaust survivor who
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Speaker 1: vividly rem what happened during the Holocaust and now sees
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Speaker 1: the same human material outside his own synagogue. He insisted
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Speaker 1: that this is not about Gaza and has never been
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Speaker 1: about Gaza, and that the demonstration is an attack on
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Speaker 1: the Jewish people. I couldn't agree more. And this goes
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Speaker 1: back to the meeting with Mundani. Mundani is supported by
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Speaker 1: these radicals, and Mundani has made it clear he's no
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Speaker 1: fan of Israel, even saying that he would have his
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Speaker 1: New York Police Department arrest Benjaminette Yahoo if he came
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Speaker 1: to New York City. So here we are. The President
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Speaker 1: has an opportunity to meet with Mndanni and to talk
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Speaker 1: to him, and there's a very good chanceman Mondonnie's just
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Speaker 1: using this meeting to say I stood up to Donald Trump.
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Speaker 1: So what's going to happen moving forward? Well, who knows.
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Speaker 1: What I do know is the President is smart and
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Speaker 1: is willing to meet with virtually anyone to have a dialogue.
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Speaker 1: I hope that Mandonni comes in the meeting and maybe
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Speaker 1: decides to listen instead of just say that everyone that
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Speaker 1: against him is evil or to somehow claim that Jews
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Speaker 1: don't belong in New York City. What is also shocking
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Speaker 1: is how quickly New York is changing and how fast
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Speaker 1: radicals on the left are saying, we now have an
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Speaker 1: nice to have you with us. There's an old saying
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Speaker 1: in politics, it's the economy stupid. It's an important one
10:26
Speaker 1: because if Americans feel like the economy is not going
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Speaker 1: in the right direction, they almost always blame whoever is
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Speaker 1: in charge of the country, the president of the United
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Speaker 1: States of America. Well, there are a lot of Americans
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Speaker 1: right now that are not happy where pricing is and
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Speaker 1: where the economy is. It's part of the reason why
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Speaker 1: President Donald Trump was elected president. But Democrats are seizing
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Speaker 1: this moment to now say that Donald Trump's economy is
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Speaker 1: a disaster. The Trump White House they're fighting back and
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Speaker 1: working to fix what they describe as the affordability crisis
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Speaker 1: and proving that they're making significant progress in this area
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Speaker 1: after Americans suffered under Biden inflation for years. The White
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Speaker 1: House Press Secretary of Caroline Levitt pointing out during Thursday's
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Speaker 1: press briefing just how bad things were, saying, quote, these
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Speaker 1: gains came after the summer passage of President Trump's historic
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Speaker 1: tax cuts and multiple big trade deals with countries around
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Speaker 1: the world. In particular, construction jobs is served by nineteen
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Speaker 1: thousand September, the largest monthly game in a year. She
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Speaker 1: also pointed out that most of this growth came from
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Speaker 1: private sector, and native born citizens are getting these jobs
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Speaker 1: rather than foreign born workers. This, Levitt pointed out as
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Speaker 1: the opposite of what we saw under the Biden administration.
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Speaker 1: She also reminded Americans of this that inflation also remains
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Speaker 1: under control and wages are up three point eight percent
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Speaker 1: over the year for American workers because of President Trump's
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Speaker 1: pro growth policies. In fact, oral wages are at a
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Speaker 1: pace to increase roughly one thousand, two hundred dollars for
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Speaker 1: the average worker this year alone under President Donald Trump. Now,
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Speaker 1: if the economy is in such bad shape, how is
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Speaker 1: it that wages are going up like this? Now, There's
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Speaker 1: no doubt that a lot of the money we're making
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Speaker 1: now is going to goods and services that are high price.
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Speaker 1: The President also working on that, saying, quote, what we're
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Speaker 1: doing this is a complete reversal when we saw inflation
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Speaker 1: skyrocket to nine percent, causing private sector workers to see
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Speaker 1: their wages decline by approximately three thousand dollars. While Americans
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Speaker 1: are still suffering the consequences of the four years of
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Speaker 1: economic disaster the Biden administration. The White House Press Secretary
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Speaker 1: said Donald Trump is making significant progress to fix this
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Speaker 1: and he will not stop working until he solves it.
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Speaker 1: As the President recently stated, he is never satisfied.
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Speaker 2: In economic news. This September jobs report showed the American
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Speaker 2: economy remains strong, with one hundred and nineteen thousand new
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Speaker 2: jobs added, more than double expectations. These gains came after
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Speaker 2: the summer passage of President Trump's historic tax cuts and
13:25
Speaker 2: multiple big trade deals with countries around the world. In particular,
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Speaker 2: construction jobs surged by nineteen thousand in September, the largest
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Speaker 2: monthly gain in a year. Nearly all of this solid
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Speaker 2: monthly job growth came from the private sector and went
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Speaker 2: to Americans rather than foreign born workers, the opposite of
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Speaker 2: what we saw under the previous administration. Inflation also remains
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Speaker 2: under control and wages are up by three point eight
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Speaker 2: percent over the year for American workers because of President
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Speaker 2: Trump's pro growth policies. In fact, real wages are on
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Speaker 2: pace to increase roughly twelve hundred dollars for the average
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Speaker 2: worker this year under President Trump. This is a complete
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Speaker 2: reversal of the failed Biden era, when we saw inflation's
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Speaker 2: skyrocket to nine percent, causing private sector workers to see
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Speaker 2: their wages decline by approximately three thousand dollars. We know
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Speaker 2: that Americans are still hurting from the four decade high
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Speaker 2: inflation caused by Joe Biden and the Democrats, but President
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Speaker 2: Trump is making significant progress to fix this and he
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Speaker 2: will not stop working until he solves it. As the
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Speaker 2: President recently stated, he is never satisfied.
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Speaker 1: The White House Press Secretary wasn't the only one talking
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Speaker 1: about the positives and the economy. Vice President j. D
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Speaker 1: Vance also pointing to the economic realities of Yes, things
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Speaker 1: are bad in some categories because of what happened over
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Speaker 1: the last four years, but the Biden administration didn't ruin America,
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Speaker 1: and Donald Trump is fixing it as fast as he
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Speaker 1: possible we can. Here's what the Vice president had to
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Speaker 1: say in a Breitbart News event on Thursday.
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Speaker 3: As president, the big news this morning is new jobs
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Speaker 3: numbers blew away expectation huge from the September numbers, so
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Speaker 3: these were delayed because of the government shutdown. More than
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Speaker 3: double one hundred nineteen thousand new jobs. And then also
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Speaker 3: there's some interesting stuff in the wag wages numbers there
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Speaker 3: as well. This shows wages on the rise. Your thoughts
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Speaker 3: on the jobs numbers.
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Speaker 4: Okay, so a huge jobs report and I assume the
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Speaker 4: market is going crazy right now, probably just opened. Because
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Speaker 4: what this shows is that the Trump economic policies are
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Speaker 4: actually working, and you've got one hundred nineteen thousand new jobs.
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Speaker 4: Economists thought that we would have about fifty thousand new jobs,
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Speaker 4: but that's actually just the headline number. If you look
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Speaker 4: below the surface, I think the numbers are actually better.
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Speaker 4: So Number one, wages continue to weigh out pace inflation.
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Speaker 4: If you go back to the three years of the
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Speaker 4: Biden administration, the average American worker actually lost about three
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Speaker 4: thousand dollars of take home pay. In the first ten
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Speaker 4: months of the Trump economy, we've increased take home pay
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Speaker 4: by about twelve hundred dollars, adjusting for inflation. And so
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Speaker 4: that's a huge, huge thing. And this Job's report confirms that.
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Speaker 1: So if you go back to the lie being told
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Speaker 1: by the media that things are terrible, they weren't freaking
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Speaker 1: out when that workers lost about three thousand dollars of
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Speaker 1: take home pay under the Biden administration. In the first
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Speaker 1: ten months of the Trump economy, you've got wage increases,
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Speaker 1: a take home pay of about one two hundred dollars.
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Speaker 1: That is a massive forty two one hundred dollars swing. Now,
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Speaker 1: he also highlighted the private sectors driving this economy growth
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Speaker 1: and the jobs are going to native born citizens rather
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Speaker 1: than foreign workers. It's a drastic change from the reality
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Speaker 1: under the Biden administration. And what happened under the Biden
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Speaker 1: administration is to the extent that there was any job
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Speaker 1: growth at all. If you look at the data, JD.
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Speaker 1: Van said, almost all of the net job creation in
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Speaker 1: the United States under the Biden administration went to foreign
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Speaker 1: foreign workers. Now, of course, some of those people are
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Speaker 1: illegal immigrants in the United States of America, he continued,
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Speaker 1: but that meant a lot of the job creation was
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Speaker 1: actually going to legal aliens who shouldn't have been in
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Speaker 1: our country. Senator Bernie Marino, Republican from Ohio, also pointed
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Speaker 1: out the fact that the influx of foreign workers imported
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Speaker 1: by the Biden administration really hurt American workers, and Americans
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Speaker 1: are remember the damage that was inflicted upon the country
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Speaker 1: under the Biden administration, and it cannot be undone what
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Speaker 1: they did to this country in a matter of months,
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Speaker 1: surging this country with up to twenty million illegal immigrants.
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Speaker 1: He also urged Republicans to respond with urgency, saying these
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Speaker 1: realities coincide with the Trump administration celebrating the strides made
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Speaker 1: in the affordability crisis since Donald Trump took office in January.
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Speaker 1: That includes falling gas prices which reached record highs under
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Speaker 1: Joe Biden, as well as dipping mortgage rates, falling inflation,
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Speaker 1: and boost and take home pay. Those victories do not
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Speaker 1: even include what the Trump administration has achieved through trade
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Speaker 1: deals and historic investments secured by the president, all of
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Speaker 1: which the President has been talking about is steps in
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Speaker 1: the right direction. What the media should be calling this
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Speaker 1: is the Trump Effect. Since President Donald Trump returned to office,
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Speaker 1: it's very clear that his America First economic policies have
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Speaker 1: sparked trillions of dollars in new investments in US manufacturing, technology,
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Speaker 1: and infrastructure. Total US and foreign investment is now at
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Speaker 1: nine trillion dollars. Where's the money coming from? The UAE
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Speaker 1: putting in foreign investments of one point four trillion into
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Speaker 1: manufacturing and industry, technology, aerospace as well. Qatar putting one
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Speaker 1: point two trillion into America again in manufacturing, an industry
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Speaker 1: sector with technology and manufacturing being the main point. Japan
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Speaker 1: one trillion into auto plants in US steel, Apple six
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Speaker 1: hundred billion into technology and manufacturing as well. EU firms
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Speaker 1: putting in general investment of six hundred billion, Saudi Arabia
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Speaker 1: putting in six hundred billion and now saying it's going
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Speaker 1: to go to one trillion dollars again in technology and manufacturing,
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Speaker 1: Soft Bank, Open AI and Oracle five hundred billion all
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Speaker 1: AI infrastructure projects, Navidia a half a trillion dollars into
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Speaker 1: AI infrastructure and supercomputers, India investing a half a billion
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Speaker 1: and mutual trade expansion South Korea four hundred and fifty
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Speaker 1: billion US energy products, Micron two hundred billion semiconductor manufacturing
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Speaker 1: and research and development, IBM one hundred and fifty billion
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Speaker 1: of growth and manufacturing operations in the US. Pfizer seventy
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Speaker 1: billion into research, development and capital projects, and Google sixty
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Speaker 1: eight billion for AI infrastructure, electrician grants, hydro power facilities,
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Speaker 1: just to name a few. There are countless investments. I
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Speaker 1: could go on and on with Johnson, Johnson, Astrozenka, Bristol, Meyers, Squibb, Amazon, Hondai, Eli, Lilly.
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Speaker 1: The list is long. But what did the President do here?
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Speaker 1: He made it clear if you want to do business
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Speaker 1: in America, you need to invest in America. You can't
20:36
Speaker 1: just export or import. You must be a real player
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Speaker 1: in this country. And that is exactly why the President
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Speaker 1: has made it possible through his leadership for the USC
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Speaker 1: a surge of private and foreign investments that are fueling
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Speaker 1: job growth, innovation, and opportunity across every corner of the country. So,
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Speaker 1: yet again, the President making good on a promise. Even
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Speaker 1: the media is trying to tell you that everything's terrible
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Speaker 1: in America, when the reality is we're moving in the
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Speaker 1: right direction. With the government shut down finally over. We're
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Speaker 1: now seeing the carnage of what happened in this country
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Speaker 1: during the longest government shut down in history. And there's
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Speaker 1: a very good chance there could be another shutdown coming
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Speaker 1: in early next year. Why because the radical left has
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Speaker 1: taken over the Democratic Party, which brings us to a
21:33
Speaker 1: big takeaway of the government shutdown. And that is the
21:36
Speaker 1: civil war that is taking place right now. AOC and
21:41
Speaker 1: the Progressives are now turning on Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi.
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Speaker 1: It is an unprecedented moment of civil war for the
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Speaker 1: Democratic Party.
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Speaker 5: Now.
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Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer has been an establishment elitist liberal from New
21:57
Speaker 1: York for decades. He is now coming under growing fire
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Speaker 1: after his handling of the recent governments shut down negotiations,
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Speaker 1: even though he voted against opening the government back up. Now,
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Speaker 1: in particular, the fact that a bipartison group of eight
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Speaker 1: Senate Democrats voted to reopen the government without securing key
22:18
Speaker 1: Democrat demands healthcare substies for Obamacare that's out of control
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Speaker 1: and unaffordable. That is now the flashpoint for the radical left. Now,
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Speaker 1: the vote is seen by many progressive Democrats, you know,
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Speaker 1: the socialists, Communists and Marxists of the Democratic Party and
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Speaker 1: grassroots groups as capitulation to Republicans and Donald Trump. Many
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Speaker 1: now say they phil Schumer did not use the leverage
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Speaker 1: his caucus had, and then his signals are signals of weakness.
22:53
Speaker 1: AOC publicly now questioning whether Schumer should remain in his
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Speaker 1: role as leader of the Senate, pointing to broader structural
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Speaker 1: issues in the Democratic Party. Other House Democrats Rocanna or
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Speaker 1: she Talib and even state leaders like Gavin Newsom and
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Speaker 1: Governor of New York Kathyochel have also now voiced discontent
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Speaker 1: with the extreme leftist Chuck Schumer. You can't make it
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Speaker 1: up now. Despite the pressure, Schumer has refused to step down,
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Speaker 1: insisting he made the tough call for the country and
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Speaker 1: the party.
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Speaker 5: Now.
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Speaker 1: Several currents are driving this internal revolt. Perceived lack of
23:36
Speaker 1: a fight is number one. For many Democratic donors and
23:40
Speaker 1: many younger and more progressive Democrats. The movement demands what well,
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Speaker 1: aggressive opposition, including violence against Donald Trump and any Republican
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Speaker 1: that gets in their way. The same people that celebrated
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Speaker 1: the assassination attempt on Donald Trump and celebrate the literal
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Speaker 1: assassination of Charlie. Schumer's strategy is being viewed as quote
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Speaker 1: too cautious or deferential by many of the radical leftists.
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Speaker 1: Organizational fatigue is another thing that's been quoted by Democratic insiders,
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Speaker 1: saying the Democratic base is just well frustrated with the
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Speaker 1: messaging that emphasizes tradition, processing, bipartisanship over radical bold wins.
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Speaker 1: Schumer's leadership style, they say, is well long overdue, long
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Speaker 1: tenure institutional relationships, and just not a good framework for
24:34
Speaker 1: the Marxists and socialists that have taken over the party.
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Speaker 6: Now.
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Speaker 1: The shutdown fight was a leverage movement, they say, and
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Speaker 1: many believe that Chuck Schumer and his caucus could have
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Speaker 1: extracted more from Republicans but quote did not, which means
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Speaker 1: it's time for him to go. So what is the
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Speaker 1: status and what is the challenge to Chuck Schumer? Well,
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Speaker 1: at present, there's no formal motion in the Senate Caucus
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Speaker 1: to force Schumer to be out. Leadership changes typically come
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Speaker 1: via internal elections or a caucus vote, and we haven't
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Speaker 1: seen that yet. Now the pressure is clearly more public
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Speaker 1: and more signaling of what can come in the days
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Speaker 1: and weeks ahead. Progressive groups are going to war, and
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Speaker 1: even some members of Congress are now calling openly for
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Speaker 1: total new leadership. This as Nancy Pelosi has announced that
25:31
Speaker 1: she will not seek reelection as well. Schumer's refusal, they
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Speaker 1: say to step down means well, the default remains him
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Speaker 1: in the role as leader of the Democratic Party unless
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Speaker 1: the size of a block of Senate Democrats move to
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Speaker 1: replace him. The coming months are gonna matter, and the
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Speaker 1: big question is will Chuck Schumer force a government shutdown
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Speaker 1: yet again come January. There are many Democrats that are saying,
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Speaker 1: we're willing to let you go to January, but if
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Speaker 1: you don't do it again and do a better job,
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Speaker 1: then we're done with you. And that may be one
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Speaker 1: of the silver linings of this government shutdown is we
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Speaker 1: are now witnessing a full blown civil war within the
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Speaker 1: Democratic Party. AOC by the way, may have been the
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Speaker 1: only Democratic winner from the government shutdown, raising her name
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Speaker 1: recognition and making it clear there's a very good chance
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Speaker 1: she could be the next Senator from New York, going
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Speaker 1: after Chuck Schumer's seat as well as his leadership role.
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Speaker 1: And that is what you can take away from the
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Speaker 1: government shutdown. I also want you to take a listen
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Speaker 1: to this conversation on Fox and Friends. It goes back
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Speaker 1: to the point I was making a moment ago, and
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Speaker 1: that is right now, the Democratic.
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Speaker 5: Party is in a civil war.
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Speaker 1: And they also didn't get what they claimed they actually
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Speaker 1: wanted from the government shutdown. Take a listen to how
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Speaker 1: they described it on Fox.
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Speaker 7: One point four million federal workers and we lost fourteen
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Speaker 7: billion out the economy. One point four million federal workers
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Speaker 7: going without pay. Besides that, what did the Democrats get
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Speaker 7: out of it?
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Speaker 5: If that was they knew that was going to happen,
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Speaker 5: and they wanted to do this longer. So I mean,
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Speaker 5: when you just said King Jeffery is going it's not over.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, it's over, but he's doing it for the progressive base.
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Speaker 8: But my thing is all these federal workers, they're unions
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Speaker 8: buying large, they support the Democrats, and they're still cheering
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Speaker 8: for the government to be shut down. At what point
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Speaker 8: do you pick your family over the party and say
27:37
Speaker 8: I can't support these guys if they're going to keep
27:39
Speaker 8: the government shut down. Just to get back at Trump
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Speaker 8: and say it's causing maximum pain this is the only
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Speaker 8: leverage that they have. You gotta stop supporting these people AFC.
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Speaker 9: She said that this is a coordinated effort between the
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Speaker 9: Democrats and the Republicans. The ones who voted with the Republicans.
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Speaker 9: There were eight in the Senate to vote with Republicans,
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Speaker 9: six in the House that voted with Publicans. And no,
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Speaker 9: it's just common sense. We want snap benefits to go
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Speaker 9: to the families that need it. We want you to
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Speaker 9: get your paycheck if you work for the federal government.
28:08
Speaker 9: Here's a here are some reactions from AOC and some
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Speaker 9: of the progressive House members.
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Speaker 6: There's no one vote that ended this shutdown. We are
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Speaker 6: talking about a coordinated effort of eight senators with the
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Speaker 6: knowledge of Leader Schumer, voting to break with the entire
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Speaker 6: Democratic Party in exchange for nothing.
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Speaker 4: I think we're in an unprecedented moment that you know,
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Speaker 4: demands that we consider whether or not it's the time
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Speaker 4: for new leadership.
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Speaker 3: Do you think the Senate Democrats need a new leader?
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Speaker 5: Yes, there to do, but that's not in my hands.
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Speaker 5: I mean, they've got to have a lot of primaries.
28:47
Speaker 5: I mean, you have.
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Speaker 7: With the Senator the Center from Massachusetts going to be challenged.
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Speaker 7: We know that for sure, looks like Chuck Schumer is
28:54
Speaker 7: going to get a challenge. The whole push from these
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Speaker 7: angry left wing activists is to challenging these guys and
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Speaker 7: these women. In the primaries, they were somewhat moderate, and
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Speaker 7: I think that's why maybe Jeene Cheen retired, Gary Peters
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Speaker 7: is retiring, Dick Durbin's getting older, but he was retiring.
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Speaker 7: They know they're going to be challenged for more left wing,
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Speaker 7: more progressive candidates.
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Speaker 5: I think it's just bad for the country.
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Speaker 8: It was bad for the country, but I think it's
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Speaker 8: time to finally have this fight of the socialism versus
29:23
Speaker 8: capitalism fight. I think if we really want to just
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Speaker 8: put it in his grave on a national level, we
29:30
Speaker 8: need a strong candidate. Maybe it's JD. Vans and Marco
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Speaker 8: Rubill being together, whoever decides to win in the primary,
29:37
Speaker 8: and we need strong Senate candidates to say this is
29:39
Speaker 8: not American. This is where Seth Moulton, who used to
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Speaker 8: be considered a modern all because he wants the senencee
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Speaker 8: and Massachusetts, has turned into this radical lunatic now. And
29:49
Speaker 8: it's I think it's a temporary solution to get to
29:52
Speaker 8: the base. But when you run in the general election,
29:55
Speaker 8: people are going to reject this.
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Speaker 9: Well, everyone's wondering what direction does the Democratic Party go.
30:00
Speaker 9: They're divided who will be their new leader If Chuck Schumer,
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Speaker 9: if AOC primaries, so will it be AOC.
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Speaker 5: She was asked on.
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Speaker 9: Whether or not Chuck Schumer should remain the minority leader.
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Speaker 9: Listen as minority leader.
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Speaker 6: I think what is so important for folks to understand
30:18
Speaker 6: is that this problem is bigger than one person, and
30:23
Speaker 6: it actually is bigger than the minority leader in the Senate.
30:26
Speaker 6: And Senate Democrats have selected their leadership to represent them,
30:31
Speaker 6: and so the question needs to be bigger than just
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Speaker 6: one person. We have several Senate primaries this cycle. I
30:39
Speaker 6: know I'm being asked about New York that is years
30:41
Speaker 6: from now, after mind my own constituents, because they think
30:44
Speaker 6: that this election is this year. We actually do have
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Speaker 6: Senate elections this year, and my hope is that people
30:49
Speaker 6: across this country actually participate in their primary elections in
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Speaker 6: selecting their leadership. Thank you, really, thank you.
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Speaker 8: She's running. No comment is running, No commonis in Okay.
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Speaker 8: You know, I don't want to say just yet, but
31:04
Speaker 8: I'm not saying that I'm not wrong.
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Speaker 7: It could be the Kamala Harris thing where Kamala Harris says, yea,
31:08
Speaker 7: I'm not going to run for governor. Off to think
31:10
Speaker 7: about it, because she wants to run for president. She
31:12
Speaker 7: might be hedging because she might think that she has
31:14
Speaker 7: the support to run for president, especially with the Seattle,
31:17
Speaker 7: you know, the radical Seattle, the whole Enchilada. Yeah, I
31:20
Speaker 7: think she might see a window. You know, ever since
31:23
Speaker 7: Chris Christie waited and then missed the window, I think
31:27
Speaker 7: all these politicians are afraid of missing their window.
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Speaker 5: If she sees that window, I think she runs.
31:32
Speaker 7: And I think most likely what's gonna happen is it's
31:34
Speaker 7: going to be a midterm election. Chuck Schrumeroll announced he's
31:37
Speaker 7: not running for reelection, and I think that would open the.
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Speaker 5: Door for she can't.
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Speaker 1: This is the civil war happening within the Democratic Party.
31:45
Speaker 1: And it's not just in New York, it's all over
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Speaker 1: the country. The Democratic Party is dead. I've been saying
31:53
Speaker 1: this for a long time on this show. It is
31:55
Speaker 1: the Marxists, the Socialists and the communists that have taken
31:59
Speaker 1: over are now calling the shots and they're forcing out
32:03
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32:08
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