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Eliminating FEMA, the Media's Coordinated Elon Attack & Trump's Tariff Triumph · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Iran is very high on my list of things to watch.
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  Speaker 1: Sent them a letter just recently and I said, you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna have to make a decision one way or the other,
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  Speaker 1: and we're gonna either have to talk and talk it
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  Speaker 1: out or very bad things are going to happen to Iran,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't want that to happen. My big preferences
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  Speaker 1: we work it out with a rent. But if we
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  Speaker 1: don't work it out, bad bad things are going to
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  Speaker 1: happen to a Ran.
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  Speaker 2: If you're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with
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  Speaker 2: Ben Ferguson.
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  Speaker 3: Good Saturday morning to you. Ben Ferguson with you, and
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  Speaker 3: these are some of the stories that you may have
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  Speaker 3: missed that we talked about this week on the forty
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  Speaker 3: seven Morning Update. First up, the Department of Homeland Security
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  Speaker 3: Secretary Christy no coming out saying we are preparing to
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  Speaker 3: eliminate FEMA. Could it be because of all the waste,
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  Speaker 3: fraud and abuse. Also, you may have noticed that the
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  Speaker 3: media is all using the same words as Democratic lawmakers
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  Speaker 3: to attack Elon Musk over the last week. We have
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  Speaker 3: a montage on that to show you just how corrupt
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  Speaker 3: the Democratic leadership is and working with the media, and finally,
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump says I'm not messing around yet again, announcing
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  Speaker 3: twenty five percent tariff on cars not made in the US.
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  Speaker 3: This is the beginning, he says, of Liberation Day in America.
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  Speaker 3: It's the forty seven morning update, and it starts right now.
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  Speaker 2: Story number one.
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  Speaker 3: We all know that a core mission of the Trump
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  Speaker 3: administration is to truly get rid of waste, fraud, and abuse.
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  Speaker 3: But just how bad is that fraud and abuse, especially
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  Speaker 3: when it comes to agencies like FEMA. Well, apparently it
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  Speaker 3: may be so bad now that the Department of Homeland
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  Speaker 3: Security Secretary Christy Nome under Donald Trump is saying, quote,
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  Speaker 3: we are preparing to eliminate FEMA altogether. We also know
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  Speaker 3: that FEMA has picked winners and losers, helping some Americans
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  Speaker 3: when they need the emergency help and well forgetting others
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  Speaker 3: depending on where you live in the country. With the
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  Speaker 3: Homeland Security Secretary Christi nom has told the Trump administration
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  Speaker 3: that preparations are underway quote unquote to eliminate the Federal
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  Speaker 3: Emergency Management Agency. It was a quick comment, by the way,
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  Speaker 3: on Monday, with no related lead in that, according to
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  Speaker 3: The Hill, that got this scoop President Donald Trump responded
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  Speaker 3: with quote that's great, great job, in what seemed to
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  Speaker 3: be a reaction to her preceding comments on border security.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 3: Trump said previously that he does not have a favorable
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  Speaker 3: view of FEMA and has considered its elimination. Sener Peter Welch,
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  Speaker 3: a Democrat from Vermont, posted on x his response to
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  Speaker 3: Gnoam's statement on eliminating FEMA by saying this, Vermont has
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  Speaker 3: been hit hard by flooding the last two years, and
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  Speaker 3: I'm the first person to say that we need to
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  Speaker 3: make improvements to FEMA, but eliminating it altogether would make
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  Speaker 3: disasters more deadly and destructive and make it much harder
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  Speaker 3: for communities to recover. Trump, by the way, signed an
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  Speaker 3: executive order last week sitting the stage for a major
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  Speaker 3: overhaul of federal disaster relief programs. And let's be clear,
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  Speaker 3: the President is not trying to eliminate disaster relief help
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  Speaker 3: from the federal government. He is, however, clearly trying to
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  Speaker 3: get rid of some of the waste and abuse of
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  Speaker 3: programs under FEMA's directive. It read, in part, this executive
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  Speaker 3: order delivers on President Trump's commitment to shift power from
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  Speaker 3: Washington to the American people. The order laid the foundation
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  Speaker 3: for quote greater state and local control of emergencies and funding.
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  Speaker 3: The order enables states and local governments to better understand,
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  Speaker 3: plan for, and address the needs of their citizens by
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  Speaker 3: reducing the complexity of federal preparedness and response policies. In
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  Speaker 3: other words, Donald Trump is saying states know what they
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  Speaker 3: need and local communities know what they need in a
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  Speaker 3: disaster more than bureaucrats in Washington, d C. Now, there
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  Speaker 3: is no official closing or in dat announced for FEMA
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  Speaker 3: or any other federal office or department that responds to disasters. Clearly,
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  Speaker 3: the President wants to make sure that this is done
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  Speaker 3: in a very responsible away, and most importantly, that emergency
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  Speaker 3: management response from the government is much better than it
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  Speaker 3: is right now. You don't have to look very far
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  Speaker 3: back in history to see also that FEMA may have
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  Speaker 3: been involved in significant political actions, picking winners and losers
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  Speaker 3: in the United States, depending on if you're in a
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  Speaker 3: liberal state or a liberal city, or a conservative state
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  Speaker 3: or a conservative city. Presence made it clear that politics
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  Speaker 3: shouldn't matter when you're dealing with emergencies, especially when you're
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  Speaker 3: someone that may have lost everything your home, your cars,
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  Speaker 3: and even had a job that disappeared because of a disaster.
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  Speaker 3: And this is exactly why the President has the backing
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  Speaker 3: of the American people on this issue.
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  Speaker 2: Next story number two, I want to take.
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  Speaker 3: A moment and talk to you about Elon Musk. The
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  Speaker 3: corporate media, spontaneously over the past couple weeks, has come
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  Speaker 3: up with the same exact talking points to undermine and
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  Speaker 3: attack Elon must over and over again. The media seems
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  Speaker 3: to be saying the same exact thing in a very
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  Speaker 3: clear coordinated attempt to undermine and to hope that Elon
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  Speaker 3: Musk will somehow get fired from his job with DOGE
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  Speaker 3: or quit. The media has tried to put a wedge
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  Speaker 3: between Elon Musk and the President on countless occasions now,
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  Speaker 3: trying to get them into some sort of spat. They've
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  Speaker 3: also tried to say that Elon Musk is actually bigger
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  Speaker 3: than Donald Trump, trying to play into the ego game
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  Speaker 3: so that Donald Trump will kick him out of the
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  Speaker 3: Oval office or maybe take him out of his administration. Altogether.
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  Speaker 3: None of it has worked. In fact, I actually think
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  Speaker 3: that Elon Musk and Donald Trump are laughing at the
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  Speaker 3: fact that this is what they're trying to do so.
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  Speaker 3: Now we've seen orchestrated attacks, clearly orchestrated attacks against Tesla,
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  Speaker 3: Tesla owners, car dealerships, the threat that if you buy
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  Speaker 3: a Tesla, your car is going to be burned or
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  Speaker 3: certainly damaged, that people are going to surround your car
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  Speaker 3: and hit you or attack you because you own a Tesla.
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  Speaker 3: We witness that over the weekend in New York City.
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  Speaker 3: We've seen dealerships that have been firebombed. We've seen dealerships
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  Speaker 3: that have literally been shot up. I thought Democrats were
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  Speaker 3: against guns, but apparently not now if it means shooting
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  Speaker 3: at a Tesla. So just how coordinated is the media
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  Speaker 3: and trying to destroy Elon Musk because of what he's
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  Speaker 3: doing to destroy our government, to get rid of the waste, fraud, abuse,
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  Speaker 3: the corruption of the Democratic Party, to undo all of that. Well,
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  Speaker 3: it looks like now they're going into full court press
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  Speaker 3: where they're colluding with one another doing everything they can
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  Speaker 3: to get rid of Elon Musk. If you don't believe me,
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  Speaker 3: we put together a montage. Take a listen.
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  Speaker 2: Elon Musk's so called Department of Government Efficiency is taking
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  Speaker 2: a chainsaw to the federal workforce. Elon Musk continues his
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  Speaker 2: chainsaw attack in Washington. So taking a chainsaw, if you will,
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  Speaker 2: to the federal government, that's you know, decapitating a lot,
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  Speaker 2: a lot they slashed and hacked with the chainsaw.
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  Speaker 1: The slashing and the burning the chainsaw.
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  Speaker 3: Elon Musk with that chainsaw, I mean he's walking around
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  Speaker 3: acting like he's ahead of Doughe he's, you know, brandishing
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  Speaker 3: the chainsaw. Nine months pregnant with Elon Musk chainsaw, marauding
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  Speaker 3: with a chainsaw. Wait a second, buster, put your chainsaw away.
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  Speaker 2: They cannot attack federal agencies with a chainsaw.
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  Speaker 3: He's doing it in a way with a chainsaw that
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  Speaker 3: alienates people.
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  Speaker 1: Right man, right hand chainsaw man.
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  Speaker 3: But it has a chainsaw.
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  Speaker 1: That's chainsaw stuff. Who used the chainsaw? Elon Musk is
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  Speaker 1: an unelected man child running around the country with a
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  Speaker 1: pretend chainsaw.
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  Speaker 3: That is your media, that is your Democratic Party. That
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  Speaker 3: is them colluding together in a quote spontaneous moment that
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  Speaker 3: happened time and time and time and time again, all
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  Speaker 3: because they don't know how to stop Doge or Elon
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  Speaker 3: Musk or Donald Trump. Let me just say, the majority
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  Speaker 3: of the American people are behind Elon Musk in his chainsaw.
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  Speaker 3: No matter what the corporate media tries.
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  Speaker 2: To tell you, and here is story number three.
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  Speaker 3: President Donald Trump has made good on a promise as
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  Speaker 3: he announced a twenty five percent tariff on all automobiles
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  Speaker 3: not manufactured in the United States, a move aim to
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  Speaker 3: revitalize domestic car production and protect American jobs. He is
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  Speaker 3: framing the decision as a key step towards economic independence
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  Speaker 3: and national strength. Trump emphasizing the importance of bringing automotive
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  Speaker 3: manufacturing back to American soil. Supporters of the tariff are
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  Speaker 3: making it clear this could lead to major resurgences in
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  Speaker 3: US auto jobs, spur investment in American factories, and level
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  Speaker 3: the playing field with foreign competitors who have long benefited
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  Speaker 3: from low production costs and trade advantages. Industry insiders are
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  Speaker 3: already reporting interests from automakers and expanding US based operations
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  Speaker 3: to avoid the new quote. This is about putting America first,
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  Speaker 3: Trump set here's more of the present in his own words.
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  Speaker 1: So this is the beginning of liberation Day in America.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to take back just some of the money
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  Speaker 1: that has been taken from us by people sitting behind
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  Speaker 1: this desk. Or another desk that's not quite as nice,
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  Speaker 1: but they have their choice of seven, as you know,
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  Speaker 1: And we're going to charge countries for doing business in
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  Speaker 1: our country and taking our jobs, taking our wealth, taking
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  Speaker 1: a lot of things that they've been taken over the years.
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  Speaker 1: They've taken so much out of our country. Friend and foe,
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  Speaker 1: and frankly, Friend has been oftentimes much worse than FAE.
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  Speaker 1: And this is very modest. What we're going to be
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  Speaker 1: doing is a twenty five percent tariff on all cars
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  Speaker 1: that are not made in the United States. If they're
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  Speaker 1: made in the United States, is absolutely not terror. We
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  Speaker 1: start off with a two and adred percent base, which
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  Speaker 1: is what we were at, and we go to twenty
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  Speaker 1: five percent. And basically, as you know, and as you've
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  Speaker 1: been saying, not reporting as accurately as it should be reported,
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  Speaker 1: because it's a massive story, business is coming back to
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  Speaker 1: the United States so that they don't have to pay tariffs.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 3: Economists are very excited about the president's new policy, suggesting
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  Speaker 3: by the way that tariffs could reduce the trade deficit
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  Speaker 3: in bolster related sectors such as steel, glass, and electronics
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  Speaker 3: for many in manufacturing hubs. They also say, like Michigan
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  Speaker 3: and Ohio. The move represents hope for the return to
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  Speaker 3: prosperity and industrial pride. Now, the clear point the President
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  Speaker 3: is sending is that we are open for business and
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  Speaker 3: he is putting American workers ahead of foreign cheap labor,
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  Speaker 3: and that's good for all Americans in this country.
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