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Coal Comeback as Trump says Green New Deal is Over · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: We've got a lot to talk about, including China tariffs
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Speaker 1: going to one hundred and four percent. At midnight was
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Speaker 1: the announcement from the White House not messing around, making
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Speaker 1: it clear they're ready to make a deal with China,
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Speaker 1: but they're not going to allow China take advantage of
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Speaker 1: the US. In other words, we're willing to go back
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Speaker 1: and forth as long as you want to. After China
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Speaker 1: retaliated with extreme tariffs on the US. Now the White
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Speaker 1: House is doing much more than just dealing with China.
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Speaker 1: There's also some really exciting news coming out of the
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Speaker 1: White House, and I want.
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Speaker 2: To get to that first.
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Speaker 1: Because the President of the United States of America standing
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Speaker 1: with American workers, with the coal miners, their families and
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Speaker 1: talking about energy independence, talking about putting miners back to
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Speaker 1: work at the White House, explaining that it's time for
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Speaker 1: us to be careful that we're not relying on others,
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Speaker 1: and it's an issue also of national security.
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Speaker 2: Here's part of what the presidents at the White House.
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Speaker 2: Take a listen.
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Speaker 3: Today, we're taking historic action to help American workers, miners, families,
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Speaker 3: and consumers. We're ending Joe Biden's war on beautiful clean
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Speaker 3: call once and for all, and it wasn't just Biden,
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Speaker 3: it was Obama and there were others. But we're doing
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Speaker 3: the exact opposite. And all those plants that have been
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Speaker 3: closed are going to be opened if they're modern enough,
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Speaker 3: or they'll be ripped down and brand new ones will
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Speaker 3: be built.
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Speaker 4: We're going to put the miners back to work.
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Speaker 3: And I said I was going to do this, and
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Speaker 3: I've said it loud and clear, and it's time to
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Speaker 3: do it.
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Speaker 4: Then we need it now.
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Speaker 1: The President mentioned their historic action. This is because he's
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Speaker 1: no longer going to war with coal miners. He's saying,
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Speaker 1: I'm here to help you. I'm here to help Americans.
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Speaker 1: I'm here to help your families. I'm here to help
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Speaker 1: consumers as we are continuing to see the prices of
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Speaker 1: oil and gas prices go down all over the country.
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Speaker 1: The President making it clear this is the Democrat Party's fault,
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Speaker 1: and that's why I said We're ending Joe Biden war
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Speaker 1: on beautiful, clean coal once and for all. The President
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Speaker 1: also talked about these important energy workers and coal miners,
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Speaker 1: saying it's time for us to treat them like the
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Speaker 1: American patriots that they are. They have been demonized by
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Speaker 1: the left, and he said not in my administration.
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Speaker 3: The energy workers and the coal miners in the area
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Speaker 3: that I'm standing on, and there's a lot of weight
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Speaker 3: on this platform. So I don't know what's going to happen.
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Speaker 3: I hope it's structurally designed for you guys. I don't know,
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Speaker 3: but we have just really well deserving, great American patriots,
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Speaker 3: and it's such an honor to be here and making
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Speaker 3: such a big move, such a bold move and energy
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Speaker 3: because you know, for years people were just bemoan.
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Speaker 4: This industry and.
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Speaker 3: Decimate the industry for absolutely no reason. Because with modern
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Speaker 3: technology and all of the other things that.
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Speaker 4: We do, it's one of the great great forms of energy.
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Speaker 3: That's why other countries, leading countries are using it, some exclusively.
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Speaker 1: Some exclusively, also reminding that the Green New Deal is
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Speaker 1: over and that there's other countries are using this exclusively
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Speaker 1: to explain that hey, we're not going to have all
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Speaker 1: these initiatives around a Green New Deal. We're not going
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Speaker 1: to push everything into all this alternative energy. We must
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Speaker 1: have energy independance. It is part of our national security
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Speaker 1: and that's vitally important. The President also talking about the
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Speaker 1: policy differences here and explain that Biden's energy policy was
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Speaker 1: really one simple thing, put Americans last, make you pay
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Speaker 1: way more than you should for energy, and hurt the
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Speaker 1: American family, And he says that stops today.
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Speaker 3: The Democrats Green new scam killed jobs and sent prices
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Speaker 3: soaring here in America. But meanwhile, China opened two coal
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Speaker 3: plants every single week, and other countries likewise went very
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Speaker 3: strongly back into coal. Some of them never got off.
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Speaker 3: Those are the ones that didn't have the problems. The
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Speaker 3: Biden energy policy was to put America last.
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Speaker 4: We want to be least. We got to be lest,
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Speaker 4: not a good policy.
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Speaker 3: Under my administration, we're putting America first.
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Speaker 4: It's very simple. America is always going to be first.
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Speaker 3: On my first day in office, I terminated the Green
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Speaker 3: new scam, I declared the National Energy Emergency and withdrew
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Speaker 3: from the unfair one side and extremely costly to the
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Speaker 3: United States.
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Speaker 4: Only Paris climate accurt.
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Speaker 1: And that wasn't all that the President had to say
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Speaker 1: when it comes to our policy. The President also said
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Speaker 1: we're going to get rid of regulations at this White
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Speaker 1: House event with coal miners behind him, saying that that's
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Speaker 1: one of the biggest problems is we've used the government
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Speaker 1: to decide and choose winners and losers. This is part
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Speaker 1: of that green new scam, as he mentioned, where you
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Speaker 1: have a government that says we will subsidize certain things
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Speaker 1: that we like and we will destroy us things that
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Speaker 1: we don't like. That is the Democratic Party and what
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Speaker 1: they believe in. The President said, also, those days are
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Speaker 1: over as well.
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Speaker 3: Now under the executive order that I will sign in
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Speaker 3: a few moments, we're slashing unnecessary regulations that targeted.
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Speaker 4: The beautiful clean Call.
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Speaker 3: We will rapidly expedite leases for coal mining on federal lands,
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Speaker 3: and these two gentlemen are going to do a real
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Speaker 3: job of it.
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Speaker 4: You've already started, and we'll.
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Speaker 3: Streamline permitting, we will end the government bias against call,
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Speaker 3: and we're going to unlock the sweeping authorities of Defense
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Speaker 3: Production Act, the Defense Production Act.
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Speaker 1: So this is clearly going to have an instant impact
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Speaker 1: on the pricing when it comes to what it's going
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Speaker 1: to cost you this winter, in this summer, whether it's gas,
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Speaker 1: or whether it's heating your home, whether it is buying
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Speaker 1: certain goods that use a lot of energy.
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Speaker 2: What the President said there was.
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Speaker 1: We're slashing these unnecessary regulations and why because we need
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Speaker 1: to expand rapidly coal mining in federal lands is a yes,
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Speaker 1: well streamline permitting. Yes, we're going to end the government
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Speaker 1: bias against coal. Yes, and we're going to unlock all
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Speaker 1: of this so the American people get a better deal
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Speaker 1: and also so we are not giving money to our
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Speaker 1: adversaries or we are at a disadvantage with the rest
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Speaker 1: of the world. The President saying this is the plan
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Speaker 1: moving forward. He also said this, We're going to guarantee
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Speaker 1: that this country for many years to come, has what
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Speaker 1: it needs to succeed, specifically when it comes to businesses,
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Speaker 1: because this is what this is all about.
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Speaker 3: Get a guarantee that we have a strong business for
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Speaker 3: many years to come, that your coal companies and your
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Speaker 3: miners don't get all excited about their jobs. And then
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Speaker 3: should a radical left liberal become president, they end the
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Speaker 3: business right And somebody's built a plant and spent hundreds
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Speaker 3: of millions of dollars in building a plant, and the
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Speaker 3: plant is going to be closed because a Democrat got
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Speaker 3: in or a liberal got in. They're opposed to call
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Speaker 3: and Republicans are very much for it, clean call, and
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Speaker 3: we're we're going to give a guarantee that the business
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Speaker 3: will not be terminated by the ups and downs of
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Speaker 3: the world of politics. So should somebody come in to
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Speaker 3: this very important office and say, oh, well, you spend
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Speaker 3: hundreds of millions of dollars and you guys have given
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Speaker 3: up your life because you want to be in call,
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Speaker 3: and then all of a sudden you don't have a
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Speaker 3: life anymore because it's what you know the best.
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Speaker 4: That's not going to happen.
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Speaker 3: We're going to give a guarantee that's not going to happen,
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Speaker 3: so that if somebody comes in they cannot change it
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Speaker 3: at a whim. They cannot just to go. They're going
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Speaker 3: to have to go through hell to close you up,
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Speaker 3: all right, So that's pretty good. We're going to give
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Speaker 3: that in the form of a guarantee that we're writing
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Speaker 3: on right now structurally and from a legal standpoint, so
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Speaker 3: you Spencer could also be protected.
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Speaker 1: The president again putting American workers first. This is a
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Speaker 1: big guarantee from this president, and it's not just a
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Speaker 1: promise that he man in the campaign trail, but he's
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Speaker 1: actually paying off on it right now.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: All this is happening while we're also dealing with everything
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Speaker 1: with the tariffs. The President also giving some good news
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Speaker 1: on tariffs as well. Take a listen to what President
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Speaker 1: Trump had to say about how much money we're bringing
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Speaker 1: in already from what he has done.
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Speaker 3: And for those of you that want to know the tariffs,
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Speaker 3: you've been hearing about tariffs with taking in almost two
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Speaker 3: billion dollars a day in tariffs, two billion a day,
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Speaker 3: and we're doing very well.
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Speaker 4: And we're doing very well.
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Speaker 3: And making I call them tailor deals, not off the rack.
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Speaker 3: These are tailored, highly tailored deals. Right now, Japan is
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Speaker 3: flying here to make a deal. South Korea is flying.
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Speaker 4: Here to make a deal, and others are flying here.
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Speaker 4: I mean, our my only problem is I'm not sure
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Speaker 4: I have enough.
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Speaker 3: We're gonna have to use those those great law firms
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Speaker 3: I think to help us with that.
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Speaker 4: But we're gonna probably do that.
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Speaker 3: Actually, we're gonna use them, and we're getting them for
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Speaker 3: the right price because we have to.
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Speaker 4: We need a lot of talent.
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Speaker 1: We have a lot of two billion a day while
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Speaker 1: you're getting a better deal for Americans, American workers, American manufacturing.
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Speaker 2: I mean, this is pretty impressive, he says.
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Speaker 1: We're doing all of these deals, and as he said,
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Speaker 1: right now Japan is flying.
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Speaker 2: Here to make a deal.
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Speaker 1: South Korea is flying here to make a deal, and
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Speaker 1: others are flying here. They understand this presence not messing around,
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Speaker 1: and they realize they're going to have to make a
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Speaker 1: better deal with America so that America is in the
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Speaker 1: all of these other countries around the world. At the
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Speaker 1: end of the day, what Donald Trump said is true.
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Speaker 1: I'm not backing down. I'm gonna fix the problems we
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Speaker 1: have with our trade deficits, and I'm gonna make sure
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Speaker 1: to seven to two Patriot. This it's been described by
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Speaker 1: the White House as fafo. It's the policy of Donald
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Speaker 1: Trump when it comes to tariffs and other nations. Well,
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Speaker 1: you want to know what happens when you screw around
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Speaker 1: with Donald Trump and the White House. President Trump has
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Speaker 1: announced the United States will in pose a one hundred
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Speaker 1: and four percent tariff on Chinese imports, effective at two
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Speaker 1: oh one a m.
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Speaker 2: On April the ninth. This decision follows.
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Speaker 1: China imposing a retaliatory tariff of thirty four percent on
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Speaker 1: US goods, which the Trump administration deemed a quote big mistake.
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Speaker 1: The escalating trade tensions have led to significant market volatility,
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Speaker 1: which all the media has been covering. On Tuesday, the
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Speaker 1: SMP initially surged by four point one percent, but reverse
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Speaker 1: course to close down one point six percent, placing it
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Speaker 1: nearly nineteen percent below it's February peak. The Dow Industrial
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Speaker 1: Average fell three hundred and twenty points after earlier getting
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Speaker 1: one thousand, four hundred and sixty points. Why did that
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Speaker 1: happen because of a fake news story. I'll tell you
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Speaker 1: about that coming up in a moment. Major companies that
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Speaker 1: are well going after China and cheap labor, they're having problems.
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Speaker 1: Now Apple, that's another stock that they are expected to
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Speaker 1: be significantly affected by what's happening here. In fact, Apple
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Speaker 1: stock has declined more than thirty percent this year, dropping
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Speaker 1: five percent on the latest tariff news. Then you've got
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Speaker 1: another issue. China has vowed to quote fight till the
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Speaker 1: end of the new tariff that is put on their country,
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Speaker 1: criticizing the US measures as quote blackmail. The Chinese communist
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Speaker 1: government has indicated it will take necessary countermeasures to protect
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Speaker 1: its interest quote unquote. Now, the situation clearly remains fluid,
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Speaker 1: and the President has made it clear he'd love to
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Speaker 1: sit down with China and get a deal done, but
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Speaker 1: until they come to the.
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Speaker 2: Table, this is where we're starting.
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Speaker 1: The White House Press Secretary making it very clear the
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Speaker 1: President is not afraid of China, and he's willing to
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Speaker 1: do the hard work to get this done.
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Speaker 2: You mentioned this seventy countries or so. I'm curious, though,
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Speaker 2: under what conditions at this point?
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Speaker 4: When President Trump talked to President She, how about tariffs.
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Speaker 5: Look, I just spoke to the President about this, and
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Speaker 5: he believes that China wants to make a deal with
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Speaker 5: the United States. He believes China has to make a
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Speaker 5: deal with the United States. It was a mistake for
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Speaker 5: China to retaliate. The President. When America is punched, he
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Speaker 5: punches back harder. That's why there will be one hundred
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Speaker 5: and four percent tariff's going into effect on China tonight
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Speaker 5: at midnight. But the President believes that she and China
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Speaker 5: want to make a deal. They just don't know how
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Speaker 5: to get that started. And the President also wanted me
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Speaker 5: to tell all of you that if China reaches out
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Speaker 5: to make a deal, he'll be incredibly gracious, but he's
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Speaker 5: going to do what's best for the American people.
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Speaker 1: Sure, now you notice the number has jumped from forty
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Speaker 1: countries that want to work with the US to seventy
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Speaker 1: countries that want to work with the United st States
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Speaker 1: of America to get their trade deal done.
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Speaker 2: What does that mean for you?
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Speaker 1: It means there's going to be seventy different countries that
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Speaker 1: are no longer going to be taking advantage of the
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Speaker 1: United States of America. If you want to put it
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Speaker 1: in simple terms, that is exactly what this means.
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Speaker 2: The White House.
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Speaker 1: Has said they're ready to make deals, and we are
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Speaker 1: expecting that there are many countries that are coming to say, hey,
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Speaker 1: you tell us.
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Speaker 2: What you want and we will make it happen.
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Speaker 1: Now, as all of this is happening, the President is
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Speaker 1: working on a lot of different things. The President also
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Speaker 1: saying virtually every country wants to negotiate a reciprocal tariff
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Speaker 1: now to get this taken care of, saying this is
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Speaker 1: how you do a worldwide change, and this is how
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Speaker 1: the American President is saying it's going to get done.
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Speaker 1: In fact, the president's saying this at the White House
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Speaker 1: with Benjamin Ettia who by his side.
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Speaker 3: I will say this, virtually every country wants to negotiate.
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Speaker 3: If I didn't do what I did over the last
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Speaker 3: couple of weeks, you wouldn't have anybody want to negotiate.
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Speaker 3: We would have gone to these countries you want to talk,
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Speaker 3: and they were well, we don't want to talk. Now
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Speaker 3: they're coming to us. They're offering things like even BB
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Speaker 3: and this is unrelated because it's a different kind of
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Speaker 3: a relationship. But he started off our conversation today that
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Speaker 3: he's cutting all of the tariffs, he's cutting everything.
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Speaker 4: He's going to get down to a free base.
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Speaker 2: He's going to do things that, in all fairness.
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Speaker 3: Other countries, if they said that, would have never even
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Speaker 3: thought about doing it.
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Speaker 4: Now they're offering things to us.
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Speaker 3: That we would have never even thought of asking them
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Speaker 3: for because they're experiencing a lot of hurt. And the
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Speaker 3: hurt is that they've taken advantage of us and we
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Speaker 3: finally fought back. Tariffs will make this country very rich.
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Speaker 3: We're rich anyway, but we're rich in a certain way.
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Speaker 3: We have thirty six trillion dollars in debt. I want
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Speaker 3: to get rid of it, and we can do it
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Speaker 3: quickly with proper deals.
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Speaker 4: So when countries.
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Speaker 3: Don't allow us to sell our product, but we allow
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Speaker 3: them to sell their product, when they charge us massive
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Speaker 3: amounts of money for the privilege of going into that country,
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Speaker 3: those days are over.
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Speaker 1: So if you want to know what the White House's
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Speaker 1: messaging is, It's actually very simple. The message is this,
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Speaker 1: for those who are ready to take a seat at
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Speaker 1: the negotiating table and recognize that they're no longer going
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Speaker 1: to be able to mistreat America, then come join us.
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Speaker 1: For those who want to retaliate after years are ripping
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Speaker 1: this country off like China, we will not bend and
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Speaker 1: we will not break, and we are going to stand firm.
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Speaker 1: Countries across the globe have been ripping America off.
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Speaker 2: That's the presence point. And what has it done.
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Speaker 1: It's resulted in a national security crisis. The White House
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Speaker 1: talking about that. Media not when to talk about that.
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Speaker 1: And President Trump says, look, i am I'm also going
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Speaker 1: to solve this national security issue by also making Americans wealthy.
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Speaker 2: Again, you heard him mention there.
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Speaker 1: He's like, look, we're very rich country, but in different ways,
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Speaker 1: we are also incredibly vulnerable. So here's how the President
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Speaker 1: says this will work to your advantage. Number One, jobs, jobs,
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Speaker 1: and more jobs. The President says, I'm supercharging the on
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Speaker 1: shoring of an American manufacturing and that is something that's
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Speaker 1: really important. Number Two, the March jobs reports show that
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Speaker 1: the President's economic agenda is already having its intended effect.
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Speaker 1: The economy added two hundred and twenty eight thousand jobs
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Speaker 1: in March. The economists predicted one hundred and forty thousand
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Speaker 1: jobs would be added, So.
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Speaker 2: This is a huge explosion of job growth.
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Speaker 1: He also says the aggressive onshooring appears to be a
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Speaker 1: foot on the sectors where you would first expect to
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Speaker 1: see a major response, all right, and so that's something
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Speaker 1: that we should all be really excited about. The President
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Speaker 1: also said that they allowed unfair and hustle trade at
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Speaker 1: the sacrifice of the American worker, referring to the government.
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Speaker 2: Refer to the Biden administration.
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Speaker 1: From ninety seven to twenty twenty four, the US lost
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Speaker 1: around five million manufacturing jobs, and some Republicans are also
19:12
Speaker 1: to blame for this. I want to be clear, five
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Speaker 1: million manufacturing jobs, and we experienced one of the largest
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Speaker 1: drops in manufacturing employment in history.
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Speaker 2: So go back again.
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Speaker 1: Ninety seven of twenty twenty four, five million Americans lost
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Speaker 1: their jobs because of this. This goes back to what
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Speaker 1: the President said about Liberation Day. He said, it's the
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Speaker 1: first step to restoring the American workforce and rebuilding the
19:36
Speaker 1: American economy. President Trump also said, look stand with me.
19:40
Speaker 1: I got your back. I have your back. I've had
19:43
Speaker 1: your back for a long time. He said, if it
19:45
Speaker 1: were up to the financial elites, there would be no
19:49
Speaker 1: American manufacturing and our nation will continue to slide towards
19:53
Speaker 1: a bankruptcy and ruin. He's right, if you look at
19:55
Speaker 1: our national debt, look at what Doe is doing right now,
19:58
Speaker 1: is a perfect example of this. And the President said, look,
20:01
Speaker 1: I'm fighting not just for jobs. I'm fighting for good jobs.
20:06
Speaker 1: I'm fighting for great paying jobs for American workers. I'm
20:10
Speaker 1: also fighting for affordable prices so that when you go
20:13
Speaker 1: out and spend your money, you have more money to
20:15
Speaker 1: buy more things, or to save, or to have a
20:18
Speaker 1: better life for your family. He also said fair trade
20:21
Speaker 1: policy is a critical step to making all this possible.
20:25
Speaker 2: So it isn't just tariffs.
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Speaker 1: It's fighting for good jobs, it's fighting for affordable pricing,
20:31
Speaker 1: and it is a.
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Speaker 2: National security issue.
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Speaker 1: Now, let's also be clear about the American people being
20:36
Speaker 1: behind President Trump. The President campaigned on this agenda. He said,
20:41
Speaker 1: I'm going to help working class Americans check not on
20:44
Speaker 1: short term stock market fluctuation. So I don't want this
20:48
Speaker 1: to be a fake influx of security for Americans. He said,
20:52
Speaker 1: what's destroyed American cities and towns across the country is
20:55
Speaker 1: the haling out of American manufacturing, saying, these tariffs are
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Speaker 1: part of a long term vision.
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Speaker 2: To restore American wealth.
21:04
Speaker 1: So when you bring in good jobs into these cities,
21:07
Speaker 1: it brings instability. You start having less crime, you have
21:11
Speaker 1: people that are more involved in their cities, You get
21:13
Speaker 1: better schools, you get more people that are running for office.
21:16
Speaker 1: Like all the tide rises all ships. Right, So if
21:20
Speaker 1: you do this, this is what he's expecting, and this
21:23
Speaker 1: was part of his promise. The other thing is he
21:26
Speaker 1: says tariffs work. That's the end of the end of
21:29
Speaker 1: the day. The takeaway. There was a two thousand and
21:32
Speaker 1: four study on the effects of President Trump's tariffs in
21:34
Speaker 1: his first administration, and then they found that they quote
21:37
Speaker 1: strengthened the US economy. It led to significant restoring in
21:42
Speaker 1: industries like manufacturing and still production. This is something the
21:46
Speaker 1: President has already done before and now he's doing it again.
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Speaker 2: And that's why it's working.
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Speaker 1: As we continue talking about tariffs in this country, joining
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Speaker 1: me now Center from Tennessee, Marshall Blackburn Center. I got
21:59
Speaker 1: to say it's very interesting now to see how the
22:03
Speaker 1: negotiations have already begun.
22:05
Speaker 2: The media is not willing to cover this.
22:07
Speaker 1: There's more than fifty countries that have lined up, and
22:09
Speaker 1: we're starting to see leaks from other countries. They're saying, hey,
22:12
Speaker 1: we're willing to put our tariffs at zero on American
22:14
Speaker 1: goods coming into our countries Taiwan, for example, Vietnam.
22:18
Speaker 2: They seem to be wanting to get a deal done. Now,
22:21
Speaker 2: is this the.
22:22
Speaker 1: Domino effect that you're expecting where we're seeing one country
22:26
Speaker 1: and then the next one in the next one, and
22:27
Speaker 1: then this is a success path for the White House
22:30
Speaker 1: and also for every American, especially American workers.
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Speaker 6: Yes. Indeed, President Trump had said he was going to
22:37
Speaker 6: deal with these trade and balances and deal with China
22:42
Speaker 6: and getting people to the table to negotiate is what
22:47
Speaker 6: he wanted to do. And as you can see, the
22:49
Speaker 6: market is back up. You see people coming to the table.
22:55
Speaker 6: Right now, I'm in the middle of a hearing with
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Speaker 6: Jamison Greer Trade rep and we know that seventy countries
23:03
Speaker 6: have already asked to negotiate their teriffs and also their
23:10
Speaker 6: non terraff barriers, which many times this is what blocks
23:15
Speaker 6: us from having access to the market in certain countries.
23:20
Speaker 6: Everyone wants to access to the US market and to
23:25
Speaker 6: get people to the table to lower these tariffs is
23:28
Speaker 6: going to help lower inflation. And then look at the
23:32
Speaker 6: things we've already gotten done. The budget document is passed,
23:36
Speaker 6: we are working on reconciliation. The price of a gallon
23:40
Speaker 6: of gas is down under three dollars. I know in
23:43
Speaker 6: Tennessee it's about to seventy a gallon. You've got the
23:47
Speaker 6: price of a dozen eggs that have gone down. You
23:50
Speaker 6: have people that are returning to work, Labor force participation
23:56
Speaker 6: is up, and a part of this is dealing with
24:00
Speaker 6: tariffs and trade. We are doing that and we are
24:04
Speaker 6: getting ready to make the twenty seventeen tax cuts permanent.
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Speaker 6: I think that's pretty good work for the first hundred
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Speaker 6: days of a president.
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Speaker 1: You heard the secretary but said go on CNBC and
24:19
Speaker 1: he said something very interesting. I want to play this
24:21
Speaker 1: for you and get your reaction. He said, these negotiations
24:25
Speaker 1: are not a result of mass.
24:26
Speaker 2: Of the markets.
24:27
Speaker 1: It's because these countries realize the presence not going to
24:31
Speaker 1: hit pause.
24:31
Speaker 2: Here's what he said.
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Speaker 7: Market is trading higher today, and we did see what
24:38
Speaker 7: was welcomed yesterday and that has a bounce from some
24:40
Speaker 7: of the lows and even a higher close on the NASDAC.
24:44
Speaker 7: One of our guests, the Secretary earlier mentioned the resumption
24:48
Speaker 7: of the trade put and not coincidentally, it coincided with
24:56
Speaker 7: your trip to Florida over the weekend, where reportedly you
24:58
Speaker 7: were stressing the market needed to hear that negotiations about
25:04
Speaker 7: these tariffs were in play. Lo and behold, we did
25:07
Speaker 7: see a bounce. Is that a fair assessment? Do you
25:10
Speaker 7: think that's what happened?
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Speaker 4: Well, it's not.
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Speaker 8: A fair assessment of what happened over the weekend. I
25:16
Speaker 8: went down to see President Trump, as I do many weekends,
25:21
Speaker 8: and you know, I can tell you it's all President
25:23
Speaker 8: Trump's decision, and he had a view on after Liberation
25:29
Speaker 8: Day that we should go into quiet mode and let
25:33
Speaker 8: our partners think about the kind of the shock and
25:36
Speaker 8: awe that he presented.
25:37
Speaker 2: And over those.
25:41
Speaker 8: Following few days from April second, we had the I
25:45
Speaker 8: think we're up to seventy countries contact the White House
25:49
Speaker 8: for how to come and negotiate. So, you know, I
25:52
Speaker 8: would say that the negotiations are the result of the
25:56
Speaker 8: massive inflow of inbound calls to come and negotiate had
26:00
Speaker 8: nothing to do with the market.
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Speaker 1: I love how he's just calling out CNBC. You guys
26:04
Speaker 1: are trying to make this about the markets. No, this
26:06
Speaker 1: is about leadership.
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Speaker 6: Well, you're right about that, and Ben, there is a concept,
26:13
Speaker 6: as I always say, you lead people and you manage assets.
26:18
Speaker 6: Donald Trump knows how to lead an organization, how to
26:23
Speaker 6: lead people, how to test that vision and getting the
26:28
Speaker 6: cost of goods and services down is a big portion
26:32
Speaker 6: of that. And the way you do that is get
26:35
Speaker 6: people to the table, get them talking with you, and
26:39
Speaker 6: then move forward with what you're going to do with
26:44
Speaker 6: the tariffs. Ultimately, there's a great article in the Wall
26:48
Speaker 6: Street Journal today by Art Laffer and Steven Moore, and
26:52
Speaker 6: it's talking about Trump's goal of zero tariffs and removing
26:58
Speaker 6: these obstruction on tariff barriers and knowing that that is
27:04
Speaker 6: where he wants to go. That whatever tariff we had,
27:07
Speaker 6: it's going to be reciprocal. But the actions we take
27:11
Speaker 6: should be enriching and enhancing the jobs of the American people,
27:18
Speaker 6: increasing our export, increasing our domestic production, and that is
27:24
Speaker 6: indeed his focus.
27:26
Speaker 1: Let's move also to something else that is a really
27:28
Speaker 1: important issue that's been really put on the back burner
27:31
Speaker 1: I think in the media, and that is the issue
27:33
Speaker 1: of activist judges who are doing these nationwide injunctions.
27:38
Speaker 2: I know you guys in the Senator working on reigning these.
27:41
Speaker 1: Judges in because they actually represent an area of the
27:45
Speaker 1: country and they're doing these injunctions in an activist way,
27:49
Speaker 1: which is trying to it's lawfare. It's another way of
27:51
Speaker 1: lawfair on President Trump's agenda. He was duly elected. He
27:55
Speaker 1: shouldn't have to deal with this. Unfortunately he's having to.
27:59
Speaker 1: And thank goodness, we had a very big victory for
28:01
Speaker 1: the president, especially when it comes to getting rid of
28:05
Speaker 1: gang members who are in this country and deporting them
28:08
Speaker 1: as well.
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Speaker 6: Yes, indeed, and what you are going to see is
28:15
Speaker 6: more activity on the congressional side, the House and the
28:20
Speaker 6: Senate to call this out. There is no constitutional and
28:27
Speaker 6: there is no statutorial authority for a federal district judge
28:33
Speaker 6: to enact a nationwide injunction. It does not exist. And
28:40
Speaker 6: a federal district judge is constrained to the case before
28:46
Speaker 6: him and also to the district in which he is seeded.
28:50
Speaker 6: That is his purview, and these judges are completely out
28:56
Speaker 6: of their jurisdiction.
28:58
Speaker 3: So yes.
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Speaker 6: We have a bill in the Senate that would address this,
29:02
Speaker 6: would clarify the constitutional intent for a federal district judge.
29:08
Speaker 6: We also did a hearing on this last week. This week,
29:11
Speaker 6: the House is taking up a measure that would address it.
29:15
Speaker 6: And I have no doubt that the Supreme Court is
29:19
Speaker 6: going to have to appin on this.
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Speaker 1: You look at this and at these fifty injunctions have
29:25
Speaker 1: been filed against President Trump. It's the agenda in its
29:28
Speaker 1: attack on the American people. Is this a real constitutional crisis?
29:32
Speaker 2: In your opinion?
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Speaker 6: This is not a constitutional crisis. This is something that
29:39
Speaker 6: we are going to be able to address. We have
29:42
Speaker 6: to realize that there were fifteen injunctions placed against President
29:47
Speaker 6: Trump in the month of February alone, and Joe Biden's
29:52
Speaker 6: entire four years there were fourteen that were placed against him.
29:57
Speaker 6: So we have I think we're going to be able
30:02
Speaker 6: to work our way through this to deal with this.
30:05
Speaker 6: The Court will opine on this, but what we do
30:08
Speaker 6: know is they are completely out of control on this.
30:13
Speaker 6: The Prump administration got a favorable reading last night opinion
30:22
Speaker 6: last night dealing with deportation, and we have no doubt
30:26
Speaker 6: there will be more of.
30:27
Speaker 1: Those to come you, obviously being the center for Tennessee.
30:31
Speaker 1: I want to ask you about another big issue and
30:33
Speaker 1: this is one happening apparently at Vanderbilt University the medical
30:38
Speaker 1: center there. Last month, it was reported that Vanderbilt Medical
30:41
Speaker 1: Center was quote hiding Diversity, Equity and Inclusion DEI resources
30:46
Speaker 1: behind a password protected web pages. And the question is
30:51
Speaker 1: how do they get away with this, especially when it's
30:53
Speaker 1: going against what the rules are now and cantendency do
30:57
Speaker 1: anything or can you do anything to help advocate to
31:00
Speaker 1: stop we're the best hospitals in the country from being
31:03
Speaker 1: so woken going against what the rules now state is appropriate.
31:08
Speaker 6: And this is something we've requested information on. We are aware.
31:13
Speaker 6: We heard from the news reports like everyone else did.
31:17
Speaker 6: We are aware. I do know that the Tennessee General
31:20
Speaker 6: Assembly has requested information. We have also requested information on
31:26
Speaker 6: this issue.
31:27
Speaker 1: Let me ask you another question, and it deals with
31:30
Speaker 1: some of the storm damage. You were at the TEAMA
31:33
Speaker 1: this weekend. Tell us what's going on with storm assistance
31:36
Speaker 1: and what's happening also on the ground from that.
31:39
Speaker 6: Yes, Indeed, when we after we finished voting at three
31:43
Speaker 6: o'clock Saturday morning, I was on a plane and by
31:48
Speaker 6: eight point thirty, I was at SATIMA headquarters in Nashville.
31:52
Speaker 6: I was able to meet with FEMA because of the
31:55
Speaker 6: floods that took place in Upper East Tennessee. The FEMA
31:59
Speaker 6: rep already there at the Teama headquarters and we know
32:05
Speaker 6: that FEMA is getting resources into these communities. Yesterday they
32:11
Speaker 6: were able to start some of the damage assessments on
32:14
Speaker 6: this The flooding is what we are dealing with now,
32:19
Speaker 6: and we have teams that are out even today doing
32:25
Speaker 6: these damage assessments. We did get the emergency declaration on
32:31
Speaker 6: Wednesday night from President Trump as the storm was hitting
32:35
Speaker 6: the state, and then we will get these disaster relief
32:39
Speaker 6: declarations done this week. McNairy County was particularly a hard hit.
32:46
Speaker 6: There are five deaths that are there. There are ten
32:50
Speaker 6: in the state, and we grieve with these families in
32:54
Speaker 6: these communities the loss of life, the loss of property,
32:59
Speaker 6: and the damage that has occurred from this storm.
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