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Mexico & Canada CAVE, Trump Stands up to Iran & DOGE Halts Shocking Government Waste · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Well, welcome. It is verdict with Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson
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  Speaker 1: with you and Senator I got to say you were right,
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  Speaker 1: but you were kind of like a really long, you know,
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  Speaker 1: big cast that you said of a net over the timeframe.
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  Speaker 1: You said that Canada and Mexico would cave in thirty
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  Speaker 1: six days and it was only thirty six hours. Like,
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  Speaker 1: I need you to narrow that window down next time.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it was a stunning victory, a victory for the
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  Speaker 2: United States, a victory for President Trump. We predicted on
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  Speaker 2: Monday's podcast that the tariffs that have been announced against
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  Speaker 2: Mexico and against Canada that they would be lifted, and
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  Speaker 2: we predicted the reason they would be lifted is that
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  Speaker 2: both Mexico and Canada would cave to President Trump's demands
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  Speaker 2: and would lean in vigorously to help us secure our borders.
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  Speaker 2: You're right, we got the timeframe wrong. I said that
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  Speaker 2: within thirty six days the tariffs would be lifted. It was,
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  Speaker 2: as you noted, thirty six hours. They immediately said, no,
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  Speaker 2: we can't take these tariffs, will do whatever you want
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  Speaker 2: to secure the border. It is a huge victory for
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  Speaker 2: keeping America safe. Secondly, this week we had Prime Minister
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  Speaker 2: net Yahoo from Israel in the United States meeting with
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  Speaker 2: President Trump. President Trump directly made major news on multiple fronts,
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  Speaker 2: including announcing that he was the United States is withdrawing
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  Speaker 2: from the UN Human Rights Council, is cutting off funding
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  Speaker 1: talked about this, and you said it spot on. Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump knew what he was doing with the tariffs. He
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  Speaker 1: knew not a five percent or ten percent or twelve
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  Speaker 1: percent tariff was probably not going to get it done.
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  Speaker 1: He needed to go heavy handed. He went twenty five
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  Speaker 1: percent on Mexico, twenty five percent on Canada, and he
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  Speaker 1: didn't flinch. He signed the executive order and said, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you remove Canada, you remove Mexico, and both countries not
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  Speaker 1: only do they flinch, but they said, let us help
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  Speaker 1: you secure the border and stop the flow of fetnah
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  Speaker 1: at the same time.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and one of the things to understand, we talked
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  Speaker 2: about this at length and Monday's podcast. I think there's
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  Speaker 2: a real difference between the tariffs President Trump announced on
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  Speaker 2: Mexico and Canada and the tariffs he announced on China.
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  Speaker 2: The tariffs on Mexico and Canada President Trump uses tariffs
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  Speaker 2: as leverage to get concessions on other issues that matter
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  Speaker 2: to America, and I think with Mexico and Canada, that's
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  Speaker 2: what he was doing. Separately, President Trump also believes in tariffs.
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  Speaker 2: He believes in them as a source of revenue for
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  Speaker 2: the federal government, and he believes in them in terms
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  Speaker 2: of supporting US manufactury and production. And what we said
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  Speaker 2: on Monday's podcast is the Chinese tariffs, the ten percent
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  Speaker 2: tariffs I believe will continue the entire Trump presidency. They
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  Speaker 2: may even go higher. That's an additional ten percent on
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  Speaker 2: Chinese goods, above and beyond the existing tariffs that I
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  Speaker 2: expect to be long standing Trump policy. The Mexican and
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  Speaker 2: Canadian tariffs, and it was twenty five percent on all
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  Speaker 2: Mexican goods, twenty five percent on all Canadian goods except
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  Speaker 2: for energy exports and energy exports from Canada, it was
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  Speaker 2: just ten percent. That was designed, as I said on Monday,
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  Speaker 2: to bring Canada and Mexico to the bargaining table and
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  Speaker 2: to force them to make real concessions. And what I
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  Speaker 2: predicted is they would do that, and in particular that
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  Speaker 2: Mexico would deploy thousands of troops to the border to
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  Speaker 2: help us secure the border. Well within hours on Monday,
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  Speaker 2: President Claudia Shinbaum, the president of mexicounce that she'd struck
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  Speaker 2: a deal with Trump to pause the tariffs only for
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  Speaker 2: a month, so he hasn't eliminated them from a possibility,
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  Speaker 2: but he's paused them for a month in exchange for
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  Speaker 2: her promise to number one, deploy ten thousand Mexican troops
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  Speaker 2: to secure the border, and number two to tighten cooperation
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  Speaker 2: on drugs and weapony trafficking, and number three to further
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  Speaker 2: negotiations on border security and trade. And so that was
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  Speaker 2: the concession that Mexico made. Canada made similar concessions. Canada
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  Speaker 2: said likewise that they were going to lean in and
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  Speaker 2: assist on stopping illegal immigration across our northern border. They
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  Speaker 2: were going to lean in and join us in fighting
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  Speaker 2: against fentanyl trafficking. And Canada did the same thing. Canada
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  Speaker 2: put out an announcement that they were implementing a one
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  Speaker 2: point three billion dollar border plan with new choppers, technology, personnel,
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  Speaker 2: and they said that they're also deploying ten thousand frontline
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  Speaker 2: personnels working on protecting the border and beyond that, Canada's
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  Speaker 2: prime Minister said that he's going to appoint a feentanyl
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  Speaker 2: czar to lead the fight against vtanyl, and Canada also
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  Speaker 2: designated the Mexican drug cartels as terrorists, and a Canada
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  Speaker 2: US joint strike force was launched a fight organized crime
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  Speaker 2: and fentanyl and Monday laundering. What happened with both Mexico
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  Speaker 2: and Canada is exactly what the President anticipated.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 2: To be clear, the President delayed these tariffs only for
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  Speaker 2: a month. I think that is very much embodying Reagan's
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  Speaker 2: old adage of trust but verify. Okay, they've committed to
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  Speaker 2: lean in and help. Now they need to do it
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  Speaker 2: if they don't want these tariffs to go into effect.
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  Speaker 2: And look, the tariffs, if they went into effect, they
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  Speaker 2: would hurt US consumers, but they'd hurt Canada and Mexico
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  Speaker 2: much more because their trade with US US is a
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  Speaker 2: much much bigger percentage of their economy than it is
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  Speaker 2: the other way around. And that's why Trump's threat produced
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  Speaker 2: such rapid action.
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  Speaker 1: You talk about a trend, and in government we see
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  Speaker 1: a lot of what I refer to as kind of
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  Speaker 1: BS fluff press releases of bipartisan this or we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: get this done and we see a lot of that happen,
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  Speaker 1: certainly for the last four years in the Biden Harris administration,
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  Speaker 1: where you name things like you know that you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: do and fix and everything's gonna be amazing, and nothing
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  Speaker 1: comes of it. These announcements that are happening. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you want to talk about significant, real change is happening
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  Speaker 1: with with these countries and what we're doing. Just looking
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  Speaker 1: at the aspect of hey, we're gonna help you stop
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  Speaker 1: fetnyl coming into your country, and we're gonna work with you,
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  Speaker 1: and we're gonna do all of these things, and we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna put money in resources. This is a significant win
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  Speaker 1: for keeping people safe in this country from the drugs
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  Speaker 1: as well.
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  Speaker 2: It is and you know today in the said Judiciary Committee,
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  Speaker 2: we had a hearing on the fetanyhl crisis, and over
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  Speaker 2: one hundred thousand Americans died last year of drug overdoses.
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  Speaker 2: It is an enormous crisis and we've got to stop it.
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  Speaker 2: The vast majority of it is coming across our southern border.
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  Speaker 2: It's coming from China, it's coming from Mexican drug cartels.
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  Speaker 2: A significant part of it is coming from Canada as well,
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  Speaker 2: and so I think what the President is do doing
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  Speaker 2: is he's acting on the mandate from the voters. The
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  Speaker 2: voters want a secure border, and he's acting on it.
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  Speaker 2: And I got to say a lot of the pundits
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  Speaker 2: that they got very upset at these threatened tariffs. I'll
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  Speaker 2: note this is exactly the strategy President Trump employed in
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  Speaker 2: his first term and his first term when he threatened
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  Speaker 2: twenty five percent tariffs against Mexico. I expressed real concerns
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  Speaker 2: that if he implemented those tariffs, it would hurt Texas
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  Speaker 2: and hurt America. It would, but what we saw is
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  Speaker 2: that Mexico blinked that in the face of the threat,
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  Speaker 2: it proved to be leveraged. So this time around, I
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  Speaker 2: was not dismayed by the threat because we'd seen that
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  Speaker 2: it produced success, and it produced success again, although this
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  Speaker 2: time it produced success even faster than you and I
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  Speaker 2: had predicted.
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  Speaker 1: One other question on this, and that is moving forward,
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  Speaker 1: what message does this send to other countries that we
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  Speaker 1: may be going into negotiations with Things are changing quickly.
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  Speaker 1: This isn't just a success on the standpoint of our
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  Speaker 1: northern southern border. This is going to have huge ramifications
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  Speaker 1: for other countries. The thing they can mess with us.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Look, there is a credibility of deterrence. One of
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  Speaker 2: the real differences. When Joe Biden was president. Our enemies
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  Speaker 2: were not afraid of him. They didn't fear him, Our
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  Speaker 2: allies didn't trust him. Nobody thought he was a credible threat.
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  Speaker 2: And that's one of the reasons why our enemies walked
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  Speaker 2: all over us all over the country. That when you
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  Speaker 2: have weakness in the commander in chief, it makes America
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  Speaker 2: at much greater peril. With Donald Trump, our enemies are
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  Speaker 2: terrified of and even our friends and allies they understand
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  Speaker 2: that when he makes a threat, he'll follow through on
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  Speaker 2: that threat.
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  Speaker 4: And that.
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  Speaker 2: Credibility is incredibly valuable. If America is going to be
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  Speaker 2: fighting and negotiating to advance American interest, it is important
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  Speaker 2: for other countries to understand that the president will follow
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  Speaker 2: through on what he says he will. And I think
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  Speaker 2: this past week really underscores it. And you put it
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  Speaker 2: on top of what happened last week with Columbia, where
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  Speaker 2: Columbia said we're not going to take illegal aliens that
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  Speaker 2: are coming back to Columbia from America, and Trump immediately
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  Speaker 2: did the same thing. He announced twenty five percent tariffs.
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  Speaker 2: He said he'd ratchet it up to fifty percent shortly thereafter,
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  Speaker 2: and Columbia caved within eight hours. That credibility. The next
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  Speaker 2: time we're in a showdown with a foreign country, they're
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  Speaker 2: going to understand that President Trump is not bluffing.
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  Speaker 1: And this brings us back to national security and an
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  Speaker 1: international issue, and it deals with Iran. And I want
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  Speaker 1: to move to that because Donald Trump says that he
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  Speaker 1: was asked in the Oval office. In fact, I just
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  Speaker 1: want to play it about these real threats from Iran
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  Speaker 1: on his life. And this is what he said in response.
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  Speaker 5: Why so, if you're I'm happy to sign it. If
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  Speaker 5: it's Iran and their proseeas who threaten to retaliate against
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  Speaker 5: you and your team, like killing you guys or taking out.
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  Speaker 6: A fall, well they haven't done that, and that would
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  Speaker 6: be a terrible thing for them to do, not because
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  Speaker 6: of me. If they did that, they would be obliterated.
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  Speaker 6: That would be the end. I've left instructions. If they
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  Speaker 6: do it, they get obliterated, there won't be anything left
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  Speaker 6: and they shouldn't be able to do it. And Biden
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  Speaker 6: should have said that, but he never did. I don't
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  Speaker 6: know what lack of intelligence perhaps, but he never said it.
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  Speaker 6: If that happens to a leader or close to a leader, Frankly,
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  Speaker 6: if you had other people involved also, you would call
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  Speaker 6: for total obliteration of a state that data. That would
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  Speaker 6: include Iran. So I'm signing this and it's a very
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  Speaker 6: powerful document, but hopefully we're not going to have to
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  Speaker 6: use it.
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  Speaker 1: That was a pretty interesting and I would also say
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  Speaker 1: historic moment in this presidency the second term. He's making
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  Speaker 1: it very clear not only can we block i Ranian
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  Speaker 1: oil sales as he was talking about and ratching that up,
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  Speaker 1: but if they come after me or my people like it,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, they take me out, their whole country's gone.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Look, and I think that was exactly the right thing
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  Speaker 2: to say. But I think it's also important to understand,
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  Speaker 2: you know, as we start this second Trump term, there
• 13:42
  Speaker 2: are a lot of people that are trying to read
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  Speaker 2: their own policy agendas onto the Trump administration. When it
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: comes to foreign policy, You and I on this podcast
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  Speaker 2: have talked a lot about how Republican foreign policy is
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  Speaker 2: divided really into two camps. You have the isolationists who
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  Speaker 2: want to withdraw back behind our borders and ignore the
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  Speaker 2: rest of the world. And you have the interventionists, who
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  Speaker 2: I think have never seen a country they didn't want
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  Speaker 2: to invade, and a lot of people when they think
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  Speaker 2: of Republican foreign policy, they think in a very binary term,
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  Speaker 2: you're either an isolationist or you're an interventionist. Now, I've
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  Speaker 2: long rejected both of those camps. I think both of
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  Speaker 2: them are wrong. I describe myself as a non interventionist hawk.
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  Speaker 2: What that means is I think we should be exceptionally
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: reluctant to use US military force. I don't want to
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  Speaker 2: send our sons and daughters into combat unless absolutely necessary.
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  Speaker 2: The only reason to do so should be to protect
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  Speaker 2: the vital national security interests of the United States, to
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  Speaker 2: keep American safe. That means we should be incredibly reluctant
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  Speaker 2: to invade other countries. It's worth noting in eight years,
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  Speaker 2: the biggest country Ronald Reagan ever invaded was Grenada. But
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  Speaker 2: there are some people who have been saying in this
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  Speaker 2: second Trump term that trumpup's foreign policy is isolationist, that
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  Speaker 2: he's just withdrawing from everything, And it's worth noting that
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  Speaker 2: was not Trump's policy the first term. He killed General Solomony,
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  Speaker 2: the leader in Iran, who was responsible for murdering over
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  Speaker 2: six hundred American servicemen and women. Killing General Solomony was
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  Speaker 2: exactly the right thing to do. And I got to
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  Speaker 2: say President Trump's foreign policy the first term very much
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  Speaker 2: was the coterminous with my philosophy of being a non
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  Speaker 2: interventionist talk and that's not entirely an accident. I spent
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  Speaker 2: thousands of hours talking with President Trump and urging him
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  Speaker 2: to make the foreign policy decisions that he did. This
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  Speaker 2: is exactly right when it comes to Iran. A nuclear
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  Speaker 2: Iran I think is an existential threat to Israel. I
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  Speaker 2: think it is a enormous threat to America. And an
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  Speaker 2: Iran threatening to murder the president of the United States
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  Speaker 2: Trump is right. The way you respond to that is
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  Speaker 2: with absolute credit deterrence that they will be obliterated. And
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  Speaker 2: for everyone that wants to read isolationism onto President Trump,
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  Speaker 2: I think today illustrates that is not where he is.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a great point. And we talked about this,
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  Speaker 1: and let's go back to this kind of American first
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  Speaker 1: policy and looking at where our dollars are going. If
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: there's anything that we're seeing a trend and a theme
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: coming out of the first two weeks of the of
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  Speaker 1: the Trump administration is that they're saying, we're going to
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: stand up for your tax dollars. We're going to make
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: sure they're not being abused or send to people that
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: are actively working against the United States of America. If
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: you're new to this show, we really did a lot
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: on deep dives on the money that goes to UNRA
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  Speaker 1: and where this money was going not just against our interests,
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  Speaker 1: but we're going towards people that were clearly terrorists. We
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  Speaker 1: talked about it, we exposed it on this show. I
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• 16:59
  Speaker 1: is something we talk about Wayne advance, and now months
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  Speaker 1: after we talked about it, President Trump has signed an
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  Speaker 1: executive order withdrawing from anti American UN organizations. This is incredible.
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  Speaker 2: Well, this is a president and a commander in chief
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  Speaker 2: who is standing up for America and standing up to
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  Speaker 2: anti American institutions. The UN Human Rights Council has been
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  Speaker 2: viciously anti American, viciously anti Israel. UNRA look was complicit
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  Speaker 2: in funding Hamas terrorist. In fact, they had actual Hamas
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  Speaker 2: terrorists on their payroll. And so the President rightly withdrew
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  Speaker 2: America from the UN Human Rights Council, but also cut
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  Speaker 2: off funding American funding for UNRA. That was exactly the
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  Speaker 2: right thing to do. He was asked about that today
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  Speaker 2: at the White House, and listen to what President Trump
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  Speaker 2: said on this.
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  Speaker 5: In light of numerous actions taken by a number of
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  Speaker 5: bodies of the United Nations which exhibit a deep anti
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  Speaker 5: American bias, we have an executive order prepared for your
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  Speaker 5: attention that would withdraw the United States from the UN
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  Speaker 5: Human Rights Council, would withdraw the United States from the UNRWA,
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  Speaker 5: which is a refugee organization, and would also review American
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  Speaker 5: involvement in UNESCO, which has also exhibited anti American bias.
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  Speaker 4: More generally, the executive order calls for a review of
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  Speaker 4: American involvement and funding in the UN in light of
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  Speaker 4: the wild disparities and levels of funding among different countries that,
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  Speaker 4: as you've expressed previously, as deeply unfair to the United States.
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  Speaker 1: So I've always.
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  Speaker 6: Felt that the UN has tremendous potential. It's not living
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  Speaker 6: up to that potential right now. It really isn't hasn't
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  Speaker 6: for a long time. There are great hopes for it,
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  Speaker 6: but it's not being well run, to be honest, and
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  Speaker 6: they're not doing the job. A lot of these conflicts
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  Speaker 6: that we're work in on should be settled, or at
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: least we should have some help in settling, and we
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  Speaker 6: never seem to get help. That should be the primary
• 19:01
  Speaker 6: purpose of the UN, the United Nations, and again it's
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: got great potential and based on the potential, will continue
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  Speaker 6: to go along with it. But they've got to get
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  Speaker 6: their act together.
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  Speaker 3: What would they need to be prey good.
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  Speaker 6: That well, they've got to be fair to countries that
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  Speaker 6: preserve fairness. They have some countries as you know.
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  Speaker 7: That are outliers that are very bad and they're being
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  Speaker 7: almost preferred as countries to those that do their job
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  Speaker 7: and doing a good job, and they have to really,
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  Speaker 7: they're going to end up losing a lot of countries.
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  Speaker 6: They're going to end up losing their credibility like other organizations,
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  Speaker 6: and then they're going to be nothing. The potential of
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  Speaker 6: the United Nations, and not everybody is with man is
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  Speaker 6: the potential of the United Nations is fantastic if properly run.
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  Speaker 6: So we'll see what happens.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you hear him. He's telling the world, you
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  Speaker 1: mess with with us, you screw with us, and you
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Look, we're not going to foot the bill. We're not
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  Speaker 2: actively undermining Americans, that are undermining our allies. And this
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  Speaker 2: And that's what a president should do. And I got
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  Speaker 2: Joe Biden did. Joe Biden undermined our allies and showed
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  Speaker 2: foreign policy and national security scene became such an utter mess,
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  Speaker 2: utter chaos, wars across the globe because weakness doesn't work,
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  Speaker 2: and this is President Trump demonstrating strength. That's what we
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  Speaker 2: want and expect in our president.
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• 22:50
  Speaker 1: to the show, and conservatives out there said, okay, let's
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: let everybody know where your tax dours is going. After
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Elon Mussin doge yet again blowing the whistle they're gonna,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: I mean, they got to be exhausted because they're finding
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: so much waste, fraud, in abuse in our government. And
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: a perfect example of this is US A I D.
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  Speaker 1: And some of the abuse that they found walk us
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: through it.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: Well, I gotta say Elon Musk is doing a fantastic job.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: He is working around the clock at at DOGE and
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: and really focused on on reining in government spending and
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: reining in the absolute abuse, the abuse that you would
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: never see in a private company, but but yet in
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: government is is commonplace. And it is a result of
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: politicians funding their their their own political hobbyhorse, their own
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: political pet project. And and so I got to say,
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: what one of the areas that that that Doge in
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: the new White House has done is freeze funding at
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: us A I D. And And Democrats in the media
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: have been losing their minds over this, have been lighting
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: their hair on fire. In fact, a bunch of Democrats
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: went to the USA I D offices to storm the
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: offices this week, which was really pretty ridiculous. But but
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: but they're really they're very very upset about it.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: They're now set, by the way about the abuse of
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: the money in the fraud. Then they're just they're just
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: upset that they've lost their power. Right, Well, they're upset
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: that the abuse is stopping. But you know, when reporters
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: have asked me about it, I've said, listen, uh, the
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: president got a mandate from the American people. And part
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: of the mandate is to stop the out of control
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: spending in debt and usai D engages in all sorts
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: of abuse.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Let me give you some of the examples. USI ai
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: D spent one point five million dollars for advancing DEI
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: in Serbia's workplaces. They spent two million dollars for sex
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: changes in Guatemala. They spent six million dollars for tourism
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: in Egypt. They paid for quote hundreds of thousands of
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: meals that went to al Qaeda affiliated fighters in They
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: gave funding for the production of opium, the primary ingredient
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: in heroin in Afghanistan, which benefited the Taliban. Yeah, they
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: spent one million dollars to help disabled people in Tajikistan
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: become quote climate leaders. They spent one million dollars for
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: Hamas linked charity. And they spent fifteen million dollars for
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: contraceptives and condoms in Taliban controlled Afghanistan. This is all nonsense.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: This is a waste, and there's a reason Elon Musk
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: is going after it. There's a reason President Trump is
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: going after it, and there's a reason Democrats in the
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: press are horrified that this gravy train is stopping.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: It is a gravy train, and it's a very very
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: big one that's costing taxpayers massive amounts of money. Elon
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Musk said early on that he thought there was probably
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: like ten percent waste in our government. He's now changing
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: those numbers. I want to get your reaction. He's saying
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: it could be well above twenty percent.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's massive waste, and it is by design. Understand,
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: it's not just that they picked things out of a hat.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: These are all ideological. This is the agenda of the
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: radical left. They're funding the agenda of the radical left.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: But it shouldn't be the taxpayers paying for this nonsense.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: And let me give you an example of one of
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: the ones that I found frankly funniest. AOC Alexandria Keja
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: Cortez went off on Elon Musk this week, and listen
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: to what she says. Her argument is that Elon Musk
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: is a dummy. Give a listen, This dude.
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: Is probably one of the most unintelligent billionaires I have
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: ever met or seen are witnessed, which you know, you
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: can probably even glean that from watching these people on TV. Anyways,
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: all of that is to say is that they don't
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: do their homework. Clearly like they're putting nineteen year olds
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: in at the Treasury. This dude is not smart, and
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: the danger in not in the lack of intelligence and
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: the lack of expertise that Elon has. I mean, this
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: guy is one of the most morally vacant but also
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: just least knowledgeable about these systems that we really know of.
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: But the point is is that what that means is
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: that they're going to hit a button. Inevitably, they are
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: going to hit a button and things can go silent.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: I mean, this is one of those moments where you
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: actually get to watch that, you know what, the sausage
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: being made in her brain's making it up and pausing
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: as she goes to try to figure out a way
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: to hit a guy that's having massive success at saving
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: taxpayers dollars.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: Look, I gotta say I laughed out loud when I
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: listened to that and watch that. It should be a
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: Saturday Night Live skit. Of course, Saturdayight Live wouldn't actually
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: make fun of liberals, so they wouldn't show it. But listen,
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: you can criticize Elon Musk on all sorts of fronts
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: but the one front you can't criticize him on is
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: being a dummy. I've spent a ton of time with Elon. Listen,
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: I've been blessed, Ben. I have known a lot of
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: brilliant people. I've known antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas and
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: Chief Justice William Renquist. I have known brilliant, brilliant scientists
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: and world leaders. And I believe Elon Musk, this is,
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: without exaggeration, is the most brilliant man I've ever met.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: And I've spent a lot of time with Elon. If
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: you think about the distribution of intelligence, you assume roughly
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: eight billion people on planet Earth. Intelligence is distributed along
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: a bell curve. Someone is at the bleeding edge of
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: that bell curve, and I think Elon Musk is that person.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: And I mean I've sat with him for two three,
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: three and a half hours talking with him, and it's
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: fascinating watching his brain work. Because the guy, it's not
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: even that he thinks outside the box. He doesn't know
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: there is a box. And and so listening to AOC
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: say he's unintelligent, I got to say, it reminded me
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: of a scene from from my favorite movie with this
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: one and so give a listen to what AOC was saying.
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: And she was really she was channeling Vissini. Give a listen.
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's smart. Let me put it this way.
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: Have you ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates? Yes, morons really,
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: so that's AOC. Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Elon Musk morons, AOC.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: She knows what's right.
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