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Deal or No Deal-Trump Turns up the Heat on Tariffs & Judges · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: And I know people have talked to you about whether
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  Speaker 1: or not you want to run.
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  Speaker 2: Would you ever Probably wouldn't, But I do get tired
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  Speaker 2: of seeing what's happening with this country, and if it
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  Speaker 2: got so bad, I would never want to rule it
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  Speaker 2: out totally, because I really am tired of seeing what's
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  Speaker 2: happening with this country, how we're really making other people
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  Speaker 2: look like him and we not.
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  Speaker 3: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
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  Speaker 4: Good Monday morning, Ben Ferguson with you. It's nice to
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  Speaker 4: have you on the forty seven Morning Update. And here
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  Speaker 4: are the three big stories we're covering. You may not
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  Speaker 4: hear this from the media, but countries around the world
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  Speaker 4: are lining up to do a deal with Donald Trump
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  Speaker 4: over tariffs. Now more than fifty nations have reached out
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  Speaker 4: to the White House saying we want to get a
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  Speaker 4: deal done. I'll have the latest on that in just
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  Speaker 4: a moment. Also, you may have noticed the media is
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  Speaker 4: trying to say the President is acting erradically on tariffs. Well,
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  Speaker 4: that's just not true. In fact, we've got the audio
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  Speaker 4: from all the way back in nineteen eighty eight where
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  Speaker 4: Donald Trump said exactly what he's saying and doing today.
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  Speaker 4: There is a constitutional crisis happening in this country as
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  Speaker 4: district judges are doing nationwide injunctions to stop Donald Trump's
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  Speaker 4: executive actions. Well, now Senate Republicans are saying uh huh,
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  Speaker 4: and they're getting involved to take away power from some
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  Speaker 4: of these activist judges. It's the forty seven Morning Update
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  Speaker 4: and it starts right now.
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  Speaker 1: Story number one, Hang tough.
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  Speaker 4: That is the message from President Donald Trump calling on
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  Speaker 4: Americans to ride out the tariff storm. Trump's job approval
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  Speaker 4: didn't go down, didn't even stay even. In fact, it
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  Speaker 4: rose during the tariff week. Another media fail. Trump's job
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  Speaker 4: approval rises four points as he puts Americans first, to
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  Speaker 4: fifty three percent. If you were watching the mainstream media,
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  Speaker 4: it was armageddon. As Donald Trump said, I'm gonna stand
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  Speaker 4: up for American workers, bring back American jobs, and I'm
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  Speaker 4: not flinching on tariffs with other countries that are taking
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  Speaker 4: advantage of the US. This poll that was taken with
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  Speaker 4: over one thousand registered voters between March the thirty first
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  Speaker 4: and April the third show that Donald Trump's four point
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  Speaker 4: jump in job approval was not the only rise since
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  Speaker 4: March seven Trump's job approval from young voters between the
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  Speaker 4: ages of eighteen and twenty nine has jumped a staggering
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  Speaker 4: thirteen points, as many of them are looking at jobs
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  Speaker 4: and manufacturing is a great opportunity for them. Among independent
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  Speaker 4: and Democrats, Trump enjoyed a six point increase, meaning that
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  Speaker 4: the Democratic talking points aren't even working on their own
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  Speaker 4: party most tellings, support from black voters jumped a whopping
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  Speaker 4: seventeen points in a single week. Why because they feel
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  Speaker 4: like the president is actually trying to get them a
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  Speaker 4: great job. Finally, more people's support that oppose Donald Trump's
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  Speaker 4: tariffs on foreign countries by a margin of thirty nine
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  Speaker 4: percent support to thirty seven percent. That a posed the
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  Speaker 4: complete opposite of the story that was being told by
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  Speaker 4: those on the left and in the media. Now with
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  Speaker 4: all of that, you now knowing that the media is
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  Speaker 4: lying to you, here's something else that they're not telling you,
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  Speaker 4: and that is that the tariffs are actually working, bringing
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  Speaker 4: people to the table outside the White House. Giving an
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  Speaker 4: update on ABC this week, here is what they said.
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  Speaker 5: I got a report from the USDR last night that
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  Speaker 5: more than fifty countries have reached out to the president
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  Speaker 5: to begin the negotiation. But they're doing that because they
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  Speaker 5: understand that they bear a lot of the tariff, and
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  Speaker 5: so I don't think that you're going to see a
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  Speaker 5: big effect on the consumer in the US, because I
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  Speaker 5: do think that the reason why we have a persistent
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  Speaker 5: long run trade deficit is these people have very inelastic supply.
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  Speaker 5: They've been dumping goods into the country in order to
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  Speaker 5: create job, say in China.
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  Speaker 4: That coming from one of Trump's top economic advisors. So
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  Speaker 4: what is actually happening with different countries and Vietnam, for example,
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  Speaker 4: are making major moves and negotiations, in other words, buckling
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  Speaker 4: and seeking a deal with President Trump on tariffs. As
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  Speaker 4: you heard there from the White House, more than fifty
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  Speaker 4: countries have reached out to the White House to begin
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  Speaker 4: those negotiations. And as President Trump and his team said
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  Speaker 4: early on, those that show up first will probably get
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  Speaker 4: the best deal, and those that hold out, it's gonna
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  Speaker 4: hurt your economy more than ours. Now, let's talk about
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  Speaker 4: what happened with Vietnam. In a major victory that could
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  Speaker 4: even be announced sometime this week, Trump saying that Vietnam
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  Speaker 4: is now offering to cut tariffs on America to the
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  Speaker 4: number of zero, President Donald Trump announcing that Vietnam wants
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  Speaker 4: to drop the tariff on US goods entirely if a
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  Speaker 4: deal can be struck between the two countries. Trump revealed
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  Speaker 4: the major development following a phone call with the General
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  Speaker 4: secretary of Vietnam's Communist Party Tolm.
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  Speaker 1: I just had a very.
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  Speaker 4: Productive call with the General Secretary of the Communist Party
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  Speaker 4: of Vietnam, Trump announced, who told me that Vietnam wants
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  Speaker 4: to cut their tariffs down to zero if they're able
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  Speaker 4: to make an agreement with the US. We also know
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  Speaker 4: the Vietnam flew with an emergency delegation to Washington, d C.
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  Speaker 4: And arrived on Friday and are staying for fourteen days
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  Speaker 4: to get the deal done now. The call comes days
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  Speaker 4: after Trump announces sweeping worldwide reciprocal in baseline tariffs, which
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  Speaker 4: included a hefty forty six percent discounted reciprocal tariff on
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  Speaker 4: Vietnamese goods and poured it into America, the President saying quote,
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  Speaker 4: I thanked him on behalf of our country, and I
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  Speaker 4: said I look forward to.
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  Speaker 1: A meeting in the near future.
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  Speaker 4: The reciprocal tariffs Trump imposed on many countries will take
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  Speaker 4: effect after midnight on April the ninth this coming week,
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  Speaker 4: while the ten percent baseline tariffs on other nations are
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  Speaker 4: set to take effect on Saturday. Nike stock, for example,
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  Speaker 4: will plunge on Wednesday and into Thursday following Trump's tariff announcement.
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  Speaker 4: The company has one hundred and thirty factories in Vietnam
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  Speaker 4: and some four hundred and sixty thousand workers. This is
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  Speaker 4: just one example of exactly why Donald Trump is winning
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  Speaker 4: on the issue of tariffs. And it's not just Vietnam.
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  Speaker 4: There are also other countries that are running to sit
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  Speaker 4: down with the President, including India. More than the fifty
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  Speaker 4: countries that have reached out the White House to begin
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  Speaker 4: their trade talks, and top economic advisors saying this on
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  Speaker 4: Sunday that we believe this will be quote a sweeping
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  Speaker 4: new set of tariffs that will be announced at new
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  Speaker 4: and different levels because the companies that have come forward.
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  Speaker 4: You look at places like India and they are eager
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  Speaker 4: to sit down and work with the American people and
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  Speaker 4: this government. Now, yes, the US stock market is tumbled
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  Speaker 4: by around ten percent of the two days since Trump's
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  Speaker 4: announced a new global tariff around the world. But we
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  Speaker 4: also know is that the President told the American people
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  Speaker 4: hang tough, and based on the poll numbers, the American
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  Speaker 4: people understand what Donald Trump is trying to do. They
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  Speaker 4: have faith in what he's doing, and they believe that
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  Speaker 4: the President has leverage to get it done for the
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  Speaker 4: American worker and so that we're not being taken advantage
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  Speaker 4: of any longer.
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  Speaker 1: Next story number two, there are a lot.
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  Speaker 4: Of people that have said, how did Donald Trump get
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  Speaker 4: the idea to do what he's doing with tariffs and
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  Speaker 4: the American First policy. There are many that are acting
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  Speaker 4: like this is a chaotic plan, a dysfunctional plan, a
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  Speaker 4: plan that is radical or extreme that should never have happened,
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  Speaker 4: and it happened on a whim from Donald Trump. There
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  Speaker 4: isn't a bigger lie than that coming out of the
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  Speaker 4: conversation with tariffs. How do we know that this is
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  Speaker 4: a belief that Donald Trump has had for quite some time. Well,
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  Speaker 4: you can look back to nineteen eighty eight. President Donald
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  Speaker 4: Trump was on the Oprah Winfrey Show talking about countries
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  Speaker 4: ripping America off in the trade war. She also asked
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  Speaker 4: him about running for office, and he said something else
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  Speaker 4: that was obviously very clear. He said he didn't think
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  Speaker 4: he was going to run for office unless things got really, really,
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  Speaker 4: really bad. Those two things came to fruition. And this
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  Speaker 4: is all the way back in nineteen eighty eight. So
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  Speaker 4: if you think Donald Trump is messing around, he's not.
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  Speaker 4: He's believed it and been planning it for more than
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  Speaker 4: thirty years.
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  Speaker 3: Last year criticizing US foreign policy, what would you do differently, Donald.
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  Speaker 2: I'd make our allies forgetting about the enemies, the enemies
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  Speaker 2: you can't talk to so easily. I'd make our allies
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  Speaker 2: pay their fair share. We're a debtor nation. Something's going
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  Speaker 2: to happen over the next number of years with this
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  Speaker 2: country because you can't keep going on losing two hundred billion.
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  Speaker 2: And yet we let Japan come in and dump everything
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  Speaker 2: right into our markets and everything. It's not free trade.
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  Speaker 2: If you ever go to Japan right now and try
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  Speaker 2: to sell something, forget about it. Open, just forget about
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  Speaker 2: it. It's almost impossible. They don't have laws against it. They
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  Speaker 2: just make it impossible. They come over here, they sell
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  Speaker 2: their cars, they're VCRs. They knock the hell out of
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  Speaker 2: our companies. And hey, I have tremendous respect for the
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  Speaker 2: Japanese people. I mean, you can respect somebody that's beating
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  Speaker 2: the hell out of you. But they are beating the
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  Speaker 2: hell out of this country Kuwait. They live like kings.
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  Speaker 2: The poorest person in Kuwait they live like kings, and
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  Speaker 2: yet they're not paying We make it possible for them
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  Speaker 2: to sell their oil. Why aren't they paying us twenty
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  Speaker 2: five percent of what they're making. It's a joke.
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  Speaker 1: This This sounds like political presidential talk to me. And
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  Speaker 1: I know people have talked to you about whether or
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  Speaker 1: not you want to run. Would you d would you ever?
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  Speaker 2: Probably not? But I do get tired of seeing the
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  Speaker 2: country rep Why would you not? I just don't think
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  Speaker 2: I really have the inclination to do it. I love
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  Speaker 2: what I'm doing. I really like it.
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  Speaker 1: Also doesn't pay as well.
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  Speaker 2: No, but you know, I just probably wouldn't do it over.
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  Speaker 2: I probably wouldn't. But I do get tired of seeing
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  Speaker 2: what's happening with this country. And if it got so bad,
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  Speaker 2: I would never want to rule it out totally, because
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  Speaker 2: I really am tired of seeing what's happening with this country,
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  Speaker 2: how we're how we're really making other people live vikings
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  Speaker 2: and we're not.
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  Speaker 4: You listen to Donald Trump then, and there's a couple
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  Speaker 4: of things there that are very consistent. He said, our
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  Speaker 4: allies are ripping us off. They're ripping Americans off in trade,
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  Speaker 4: and we start there. He also said it's a little
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  Speaker 4: bit tougher with our adversaries. A great example of that
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  Speaker 4: is what he's dealing with with Russia right now. There
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  Speaker 4: are many in the press trying to attack Donald Trump
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  Speaker 4: for not putting major sanctions on Russia. Well, he says,
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  Speaker 4: he's trying to stop a war between Russia and Ukraine.
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  Speaker 4: Why complicate things and make things worse by throwing tariffs
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  Speaker 4: on them? But there's also a second point that the
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  Speaker 4: media is omitting from the facts. There's not a lot
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  Speaker 4: to put tariffs on because we have so many sanctions
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  Speaker 4: right now on Russia already. So it's almost like there
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  Speaker 4: is in fact. They said of tariffs, they are tariffs
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  Speaker 4: of we're not doing anything with you. And yet the
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  Speaker 4: media is trying to act like there's some sort of
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  Speaker 4: Russia collusion. Three point zero are four point zero or
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  Speaker 4: five point zero when it comes to Russia. This is
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  Speaker 4: how they're going to continue to attack Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 1: At the end of the day.
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  Speaker 4: This is a plan that Donald Trump made clear back
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  Speaker 4: in nineteen eighty eight. Is something he believed in. He
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  Speaker 4: understands leverage, and that's why there's fifty plus countries waiting
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  Speaker 4: in line to work a deal with Donald J. Trump,
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  Speaker 4: the President of the United States of America.
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  Speaker 1: And finally, story number three.
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  Speaker 4: There is a real constitutional crisis happening in America right now,
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  Speaker 4: nationwide injunctions coming from many different judges purposely to hamstring
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  Speaker 4: President Trump's agenda. Pambonni, the Attorney General of the United States,
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  Speaker 4: saying this about what is happening with these activist judges
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  Speaker 4: and these injunctions.
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  Speaker 6: The President is going to comply with the law. He
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  Speaker 6: was overwhelmingly elected by an overwhelming majority of the United
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  Speaker 6: States citizens to be our commander in chief, and that's
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  Speaker 6: what he's been doing. Just since January twentieth, we've had
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  Speaker 6: over one hundred and seventy lawsuits filed against us. That
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  Speaker 6: should be the constitutional crisis right there. Fifty injunctions they're
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  Speaker 6: popping up every single day, trying to control his executive power,
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  Speaker 6: trying to control where he believes our tax dollars should
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  Speaker 6: be allocated. And saying he won by an overwhelming majority
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  Speaker 6: is so important because that's what the American people want.
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  Speaker 6: What President Trump campaigned on and what he won on,
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  Speaker 6: and he's implementing that agenda at a rapid speed. None
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  Speaker 6: of us can keep up with them every single day.
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  Speaker 6: And so it's just we're going after all of these lawsuits.
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  Speaker 6: We're defending them all. We just got a great win,
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  Speaker 6: and we'll continue to.
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  Speaker 1: Fight, will continue to fight.
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  Speaker 4: Well, now there are people in Congress that are standing
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  Speaker 4: with the president over this constitutional crisis. We now know
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  Speaker 4: that Senator Grassley is unveiling a bill to boost Donald
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  Speaker 4: Trump in court and most importantly, limit the powers of
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  Speaker 4: these radical activist judges. Congressional Republicans are now hoping to
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  Speaker 4: turn the tide on the legal setbacks of President Trump's
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  Speaker 4: executive actions with a bill to weaken the federal judiciary.
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  Speaker 4: The Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley introducing a measure
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  Speaker 4: to prohibit district court judges from issuing nationwide injunctions, rulings
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  Speaker 4: he believes are unconstitutional and should apply only to a
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  Speaker 4: lawsuit's individual parties involved, and not an injunction on the
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  Speaker 4: entire country. Grassley said the wave of anti democratic injunctions
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  Speaker 4: against actions taken by the president. Said that these federal
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  Speaker 4: judges have become the favorite tool of those seeking to
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  Speaker 4: obstruct President Trump's agenda. Individual district judges who don't even
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  Speaker 4: have authority over any of the other ninety two district
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  Speaker 4: courts are single handedly vetoing policies the American people elected
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  Speaker 4: President Trump to implement. Grassli said in a statement from
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  Speaker 4: the four of the Senate in short, I'm trying to
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  Speaker 4: fix a bipartisan problem that has been plaguing both Democratic
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  Speaker 4: and Republican administrations alike. Senator Cruz also sounding of the
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  Speaker 4: alarm at a Judiciary committee hearing about these activist judges.
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  Speaker 4: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 7: It's long been said that hypocrisy is the tribute that
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  Speaker 7: vice pays to virtue. I have to admit I'm enjoying
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  Speaker 7: listening to my Democrat colleagues suddenly discover the virtues of
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  Speaker 7: the rule of law after four years where they brazenly
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  Speaker 7: supported the most lawless Department of Justice and the most
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  Speaker 7: politically weaponized department of justice our nation has ever seen.
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  Speaker 7: We just heard the Senator from Rhye Island talk about
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  Speaker 7: the imperative of protecting judges, and yet not a single
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  Speaker 7: Democrat senator cared about the violent protesters that showed up
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  Speaker 7: outside Supreme Court justices homes, including I might note female
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  Speaker 7: justices like Justice Amy Coney Barrett threatening their family. And
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  Speaker 7: Joe Biden's attorney general did and do a damn thing
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  Speaker 7: and refuse to enforce the law to protect those judges.
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  Speaker 7: Why because he agreed with the violent protesters and he
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  Speaker 7: wanted to intimidate and threaten those judges.
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  Speaker 1: Center Cruz is absolutely right.
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  Speaker 4: The left has gone totally rogue, do not care what
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  Speaker 4: the law actually says, and it's now time for the
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  Speaker 4: Republicans in Congress to rein them in.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for listening to the forty seven Morning Update
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