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Historic Victories: ALL the Major WINS in the First Six Months of the Trump Presidency · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Welcome in as Verdict with Center Ted Cruz. We're in
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Speaker 1: that people are gonna want to share with their family
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Speaker 1: and their friends because we're gonna talk about how just
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Speaker 1: six months in to this presidency, the winds are incredible,
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Speaker 1: even comparing it to twenty sixteen, this is moving at
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Speaker 1: such an incredible pace for the president's agenda items. Having
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Speaker 1: the sen in the House on your side and working
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Speaker 1: with you is amazing, and there's been some celebration on that,
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Speaker 1: but the media is not covering much of the success.
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Speaker 2: Well, that's exactly right.
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Speaker 3: And this is one of those episodes where the value
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Speaker 3: of a podcast becomes clear because the corporate media does
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Speaker 3: not want the American people to know the size the
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Speaker 3: scope of President Trump's success, and so the only way
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Speaker 3: up on Truth Social Wow Time flies. Today is the
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Speaker 3: six month anniversary of my second term. Importantly, it's being
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Speaker 3: hailed as one of the most consequential periods of any president.
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Speaker 3: In other words, we got a lot of good and
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Speaker 3: great things done, including ending numerous wars of countries not
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Speaker 3: related to US other than through trade and or in
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Speaker 3: certain cases friendship. Six months is not a long time
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Speaker 3: to have totally revived a major country. Quote, one year ago,
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Speaker 3: our country was dead with almost no hope of revival. Today,
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Speaker 3: the USA is the quote hottest and most respected country
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Speaker 3: anywhere in the world. Happy anniversary it I got to
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Speaker 3: say that is not hyperbole.
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Speaker 2: YEA.
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Speaker 3: The six months that we have seen in twenty twenty
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Speaker 3: five under President Trump's second term, I believe have been
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Speaker 3: the most consequential six months of any president of our lifetime.
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Speaker 3: We are going to break down the victories, the major
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Speaker 1: a celebratory dinner at the White House. Not a bad
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Speaker 1: place to hang out. The President decided, let's celebrate the
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Speaker 1: Accomplishment's the big beautiful Bill. I actually think this speaks
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Speaker 1: to him understanding politics so much more now than he
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Speaker 1: did in twenty sixteen. When you win, celebrate with your team.
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Speaker 1: There does seem to be a team mentality with his
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Speaker 1: president now in Congress. I don't know if we had
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Speaker 1: that in twenty sixteen, that's paying dividends. And you guys
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Speaker 1: got together for a dinner to celebrate the hard work.
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Speaker 3: So it was a fantastic celebration dinner. It was Friday night.
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Speaker 3: The President invited Republican senators to come join us. About
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Speaker 3: thirty Republican senators came with our spouses. So Heidi was there,
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Speaker 3: and it was great fun. We were celebrating the victories
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Speaker 3: of the first six months, but in particular the one big,
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Speaker 3: beautiful Bill. And I'll tell you you can see some
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Speaker 3: of the images from that night. Heidi and I were
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Speaker 3: with the President. He was in as good a mood
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Speaker 3: as I have ever seen him. He was jubilant. Look,
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Speaker 3: we were celebrating. We were lebrating that night. We were
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Speaker 3: feeling fantastic. It turns out winning is a good thing.
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Speaker 3: I'm not tired of winning yet. Yeah, and none of
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Speaker 3: the rest of us are either. And it was the
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Speaker 3: entire atmosphere the President said, but the rest of us
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Speaker 3: agreed with what he said in that truth, these have
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Speaker 3: been the most consequential six months of any president of
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Speaker 3: our lifetime, and also we have seen the most conservative
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Speaker 3: victories in any six months period in our lifetime, and
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Speaker 3: I want in this podcast, I want to highlight five
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Speaker 3: of those victories. But the fifth one is the One
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Speaker 3: Big Beautiful Bill. And one of the things we're going
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Speaker 3: to do in this podcast is we're going to break
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Speaker 3: down some of the major elements of that One Big
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Speaker 3: Beautiful Bill because the press has demonized it. And it
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Speaker 3: is extraordinary how many wins were in the One Big
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Speaker 3: Beautiful Bill. But if you're looking at President Trump's first
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Speaker 3: six months, the number one victory is obvious and it
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Speaker 3: has to be the border, because doubt this election was
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Speaker 3: a referendum on Joe Biden, the Democrats open borders on
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Speaker 3: four years of twelve million illegals flooding into this country.
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Speaker 3: The American people said enough is enough. And the results
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Speaker 3: President Trump has produced are utterly unprecedented. And by the way,
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Speaker 3: if you don't want to believe Ben well, that's usually
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Speaker 3: a good instinct.
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Speaker 2: Even if you.
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Speaker 3: Don't want to believe me, believe ABC News and God
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Speaker 3: helped me that. I just uttered that sentence. But give
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Speaker 3: a listen to what ABC News says about what President
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Speaker 3: Trump is accomplished on the border.
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Speaker 5: Today mark six months since President Trump returned to office.
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Speaker 5: For his second term. It has been a head spinning
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Speaker 5: half year, from sweeping changes in the federal government to
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Speaker 5: mass deportations and bombs dropped on Iran. The President promise changes,
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Speaker 5: and there is no question he has made them. President
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Speaker 5: Trump won the twenty twenty four election based largely on
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Speaker 5: his vow to improve the economy and crack down on
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Speaker 5: illegal immigration. He has declared success on both.
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Speaker 1: I mean, that's coming from ABC News. It was also
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Speaker 1: interesting this week. I was up in New York for
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Speaker 1: a couple of days, and I love green room conversations
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Speaker 1: because you get you're hanging out with usually someone from
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Speaker 1: the opposite party, and I won't say their name. It
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Speaker 1: was a Democrat operative high up in the Democratic Party,
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Speaker 1: and what was said to me was, you guys screwed up.
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Speaker 4: Y'all secured the border too quick.
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Speaker 1: I would have slow played it longer to get more
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Speaker 1: of a victory lap out of it because it was
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Speaker 1: shut down so fast. They said to me, They're like,
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Speaker 1: we can't believe how fast you guys had the success
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Speaker 1: of closing the southern border.
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Speaker 4: And they said, politically, you should have played it out
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Speaker 4: a little longer.
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Speaker 3: You know what, that doesn't shock me a Democrat says
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Speaker 3: that because to Democrats everything is political. Yeah, it's all
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Speaker 3: about political battles. Never mind what that Democrat is saying.
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Speaker 3: You should have let more Americans be murdered for longer.
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Speaker 3: You should have let more women be raped by illegals
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Speaker 3: for longer, you should have let more children be brutalized
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Speaker 3: by child molesters. I mean, what a revealing comment. And
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Speaker 3: I got to say, I disagree even as just a
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Speaker 3: matter of political strategy with whatever that unnamed operative named
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Speaker 3: David Axelrod said. But and here's why I disagree, because
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Speaker 3: the fact that it was done so quickly demonstrates for
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Speaker 3: all times that what the Democrats did was deliberate. Yep,
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Speaker 3: that they could have fixed it at any time, and
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Speaker 3: they didn't because they wanted the border open. And they
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Speaker 3: were perfectly fine everyone who died the last four years,
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Speaker 3: every single Democrat said, Hey, if it benefits me politically,
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Speaker 3: I will let your family die. That level of cynicism,
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Speaker 3: I think it's very hard to come back from. And
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Speaker 3: even now they're telling you, gosh, you should let more
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Speaker 3: people die because you'd get some political advantage from it.
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Speaker 2: That's just wrong.
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Speaker 1: It's also interesting in the conversation that we had, and
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Speaker 1: I think this is a bigger point the America view
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Speaker 1: needed saying about the win and how big of a
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Speaker 1: deal this is. They were even talking about how flooding
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Speaker 1: the border and illegal immigrants really helped shape the map
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Speaker 1: for Democrats. We're able to give them more votes in
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Speaker 1: Congress because of population, and we were counting illegal immigrants
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Speaker 1: is a part of the population. They were saying, that's
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Speaker 1: one of the things that because the border was open.
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Speaker 1: I mean, this was an open conversation.
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Speaker 2: They were completely open about it.
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Speaker 3: But in terms of the successes on this, let's go
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Speaker 3: back to ABC News because again, and what's very funny
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Speaker 3: is you can tell Martha hates this.
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Speaker 2: She yeah, miserable.
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Speaker 4: You know.
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Speaker 3: In that last segment we played, she describes it as
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Speaker 3: head spinning. I gotta say, I am glad the corporate
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Speaker 3: media's heads are spinning. I want them to spin a
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Speaker 3: whole lot more. But listen to ABC describing the president's
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Speaker 3: success on Secure in the Border.
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Speaker 5: You will hit the border with Mexico where there is
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Speaker 5: little question that Trump is fulfilling a campaign promise.
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Speaker 6: All illegal entry will immediately be halted.
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Speaker 5: In a matter of months. Migrant crossings have hit record lows.
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Speaker 5: Apprehensions that the southern border dropped to six thousand and
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Speaker 5: seventy two in the month of June, a massive reduction
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Speaker 5: from the eighty three thousand, five hundred and thirty two
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Speaker 5: apprehensions recorded in June of last year.
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Speaker 6: Over twenty five miles of Concertino our US marines put up.
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Speaker 5: For US Acting Patrol Chief Jeffrey Stollnucker tells US the
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Speaker 5: San Diego sector has seen a significant drop in illegal entries.
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Speaker 6: And what that has done, it's allowed us to get
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Speaker 6: our agents back on the border to do their traditional work.
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Speaker 6: In addition to that, we have maximized consequences. It can
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Speaker 6: be an immigration consequence or a consequence because of a
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Speaker 6: criminal history something they've done in the past.
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Speaker 5: So in other words, if they come across, you find
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Speaker 5: out they have criminal history, they go to jail and
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Speaker 5: probably be kicked out later, or if they don't, they're
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Speaker 5: just immediately.
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Speaker 1: So criminal history and immigration, you go back to one
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Speaker 1: thing he said there, he said, we've been able to
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Speaker 1: now get our officers to be able to go back
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Speaker 1: to the border and do their job. One of the
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Speaker 1: things as that happened was there was so much taking
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Speaker 1: care of all these legal immigrants were coming across on
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Speaker 1: purpose that you pulled them away from their jobs of
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Speaker 1: the border, which allowed more people to come across the
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Speaker 1: border and allowed the cycle to continue to grow.
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Speaker 3: The patrol agents were processing that, they were changing diapers,
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Speaker 3: they were administering baby food. Look, one of the things
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Speaker 3: we covered at a previous pod talking about the flooding
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Speaker 3: in the Texas Hill Country, Texas DPS said, we were
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Speaker 3: able to be here rescuing people from drowning. Why because
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Speaker 3: we're not on the southern border anymore. Because finally the
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Speaker 3: federal government is doing its job. So DPS was able
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Speaker 3: to be in Texas saving Texans and so that consequence
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Speaker 3: is massive. All right, that's victory number one the border.
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Speaker 3: In the first six months, we have secured the border
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Speaker 3: and we're going to lock that in and make it permanent.
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Speaker 3: Victory number two. President Trump won a war with Iran.
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Speaker 3: Yes period the end Iran, the Iatola channing death to America,
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Speaker 3: Death to Israel. Israel defeated Hamas, Israel defeated Hesbela with
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Speaker 3: our support YEP, and Israel defeated Iran, took out their
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Speaker 3: nuclear capabilities in one of the most amazing successful military
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Speaker 3: strikes of our lifetimes. And President Trump ordered a targeted
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Speaker 3: bombing strike B twos flew all the way around the world,
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Speaker 3: took out Iran's nuclear facilities, not a single US casualty,
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Speaker 3: utterly decimated and destroyed Iran's nuclear capability, secured the border,
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Speaker 3: and won a war and we're just six months into it.
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Speaker 1: Hold on, Democrats said he's gonna start War three if
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Speaker 1: he did this.
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Speaker 4: What happened to that.
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Speaker 2: Narrative by Democrats? Do you mean Tucker Carlson.
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Speaker 4: Let's be clear that's true. He didn't say that as well.
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Speaker 3: So let's be clear that Tucker and others said if
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Speaker 3: Donald Trump bombs Iran, he said it will start World
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Speaker 3: War three yep. He said thousands of Americans will die, yep.
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Speaker 3: And he said it's a world war that America will lose.
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Speaker 3: So that was his prediction. Iran will beat US in
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Speaker 3: World War three. Now that wasn't just a teeny weeny
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Speaker 3: bit wrong. Yeah, it was totally one hundred percent absolutely false.
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Speaker 3: And all of the Democrats who agreed with Tucker Carlson,
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Speaker 3: all of the aocs and left wing nuts who agreed
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Speaker 3: with Tucker Carlson, all of the corporate media hacks who
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Speaker 3: agreed with Tuck Tucker Carlson, all of them were wrong,
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Speaker 3: and President Trump was how.
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Speaker 1: Much safer are we now that we actually much not
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Speaker 1: just took out their nuclear facilities and pushed them way back.
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Speaker 1: But also I do think it also sends a very
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Speaker 1: big message to other terrorists around the world and to
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Speaker 1: other bad actors around the world. If you push America,
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Speaker 1: we will defend ourselves.
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Speaker 3: Under this administration, the enemies of America are terrified of
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Speaker 3: Donald Trump. That is a very good thing. Look, I
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Speaker 3: believe in peace through strength. I want our commander in
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Speaker 3: chief to be strong. Now that doesn't mean that we
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Speaker 3: engage in forever wars. Look, it's important to understand Donald
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Speaker 3: Trump didn't invade Iran. He didn't send boots on the grid.
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Speaker 3: He's not trying to turn or Ran into Switzerland. But
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Speaker 3: what he did do is acted decisively to take out
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Speaker 3: nuclear weapons being developed to potentially be used against the
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Speaker 3: United States of America. That is a strong commander chief.
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Speaker 3: By the way, he is also acting to take out
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Speaker 3: the Huthis who are bombing American ships and harassing American commerce.
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Speaker 3: And the message the message to Iran, the message to
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Speaker 3: North Korea, the message of Venezuela, the message to Cuba,
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Speaker 3: the message to Russia, the message to China. If you
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Speaker 3: are an enemy of America, you are dealing with a
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Speaker 3: commander in chief who will stand up and defend America.
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Speaker 3: And here's what the isolationists never understand. Weakness produces more
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Speaker 3: military conflict. Because our enemies are afraid of President Trump,
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Speaker 3: we are much much less likely to go to war.
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Speaker 3: I want our enemies afraid of the American president.
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Speaker 1: This again, I think you said it's victory number two.
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Speaker 1: I think it's so understated by the media mass just
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Speaker 1: how big of a victory this was. And the fact
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Speaker 1: that there was no loss of American lives and World
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Speaker 1: War three wasn't started, and now the rest of the world.
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Speaker 2: It wasn't guaranteed.
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Speaker 3: I mean, when Trump gave that order, it could have
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Speaker 3: gone very very differently. Imagine if those B two's had
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Speaker 3: dropped a bunker buster and had missed its target and
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Speaker 3: hit a civilian target instead, and there had been hundreds
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Speaker 3: or thousands of casualties. That would have been a dramatically
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Speaker 3: different event. Imagine if those American planes had been shot down.
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Speaker 3: Remember Jimmy Carter. When Iran took Americans hostage, he launched
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Speaker 3: a military strike to try to get them down, and
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Speaker 3: our helicopters crossed, crashed in the desert with no opposing fire.
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Speaker 3: The entire dynamic would have been very different if we
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Speaker 3: had lost American servicemen and women on that on that attack. Instead,
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Speaker 3: it was delivered with incredible precision and total success. That's
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Speaker 3: valuable not only for defeating Iran, but for every one
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Speaker 3: of our enemies, and by the way, every one of
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Speaker 3: our friends to sit back and say, holy cow, don't
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Speaker 3: mess with it.
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Speaker 4: Don't mess with them, all right? Big victory number two?
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Speaker 4: What's three?
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Speaker 2: Victory number three?
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Speaker 3: It's one that I care particularly about, to Take It
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Speaker 3: Down Act, And I'll tell you Friday at the White House,
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Speaker 3: the President brought the Take It Down Act as one
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Speaker 3: of the major victories of his first six months. He
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Speaker 3: brought up Malania Trump.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, she was all involved in that.
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Speaker 3: She leaned in hard. I wrote the Take It Down Act.
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Speaker 3: It is the first bill in years restricting big tech.
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Speaker 3: It is protecting children, women, and teenage girls from non
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Speaker 3: consensual intimate imagery, either real intimate intimate images or deep
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Speaker 3: fakes made using AI we passed it through the Senate,
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Speaker 3: we passed it through the House.
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Speaker 2: We had a great bill.
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Speaker 3: Signing at the on the South Lawn And in fact,
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Speaker 3: when you walk into the White House and you can
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Speaker 3: see this is framed. This is the first picture that's
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Speaker 3: framed as you come into the White House. I'm standing
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Speaker 3: directly behind the President and this is the signing of
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Speaker 3: the Take It Down Act. And what was interesting is
16:54
Speaker 3: after President Trump signed it, he handed it to the
16:57
Speaker 3: First Lady and he said, here, Milania, you want to
16:59
Speaker 3: sign it. So the picture is actually of her signing it.
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Speaker 3: Remember we talked on this podcast, I'm willing to bed
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Speaker 3: I'm virtually certain this is the first and only law
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Speaker 3: on American history that's been signed by the first Lady.
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Speaker 3: And so the bill has two signatures, Donald Trump and
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Speaker 3: then Milania Trump under it. And one of the questions
17:15
Speaker 3: you asked as you said, well, does that create a
17:17
Speaker 3: legal problem that Milania sign its lept No. Once the
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Speaker 3: president signs it, Mickey Mouse can sign it and it
17:22
Speaker 3: doesn't undo it. But it's still very cool that the
17:25
Speaker 3: First Lady signed it. It was a great victory for kids,
17:27
Speaker 3: and what an idea right It was not autopen we
17:31
Speaker 3: were standing there, and I just love that that's the
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Speaker 3: first picture when you come into the White House.
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Speaker 1: And I also think it talks about how important this
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Speaker 1: is to the White House and to the First Lady.
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Speaker 1: And and Milania Trump has made it pretty clear she says,
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Speaker 1: out of the political stuff, this was a moral issue
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Speaker 1: for her.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, this was a ting kids and protecting women.
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Speaker 1: And that to her was a non political issue, which
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Speaker 1: is I think why she's there and signing it.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely Yes. So fourth big victory decisions. This past week
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Speaker 3: we past the first recisions recisions.
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Speaker 2: It is an.
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Speaker 3: Expedited process to cut spending. We cut nine billion dollars
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Speaker 3: in spending. We cut a bunch of foreign aid spending,
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Speaker 3: which was a good thing. We codified some of the
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Speaker 3: Doze cuts on foreign affairs. But most notably, we cut
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Speaker 3: the federal funding for PBS and for NPR. Now, that
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Speaker 3: is something conservatives have been fighting to do for fifty years,
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Speaker 3: as long as you and I have been alive. Conservatives
18:27
Speaker 3: have been fighting to cut the funding of PBS and NPR.
18:31
Speaker 3: We talked about the President talked at dinner when we
18:33
Speaker 3: were at the White House. He said, you know what
18:34
Speaker 3: Reagan couldn't do it Bush couldn't do it.
18:36
Speaker 4: And they've tried, and they tried, they did.
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Speaker 1: When people understand the history of this, this is something
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Speaker 1: they tried to do, couldn't get it done.
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Speaker 3: And just a week ago we were on the Senate
18:44
Speaker 3: floor till two thirty in the morning. I'll tell you
18:47
Speaker 3: the reason we were there at two thirty in the morning.
18:49
Speaker 3: The last four hours there was a real chance we
18:52
Speaker 3: were not going to get the votes. It looked like
18:54
Speaker 3: the votes it was going to go down, and we
18:56
Speaker 3: were spending four hours. It wasn't that we wanted to
18:58
Speaker 3: vote at two thirty in the morning, It's that at
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Speaker 3: ten pm we didn't have the votes, and so we
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Speaker 3: spent four hours trying to get the votes.
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Speaker 2: We got them.
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Speaker 4: How hard is that?
19:07
Speaker 1: I just got to ask, like, when you're and you're
19:09
Speaker 1: one or two votes, I'm assuming at that point, right
19:12
Speaker 1: we were one?
19:13
Speaker 2: Who they are?
19:14
Speaker 3: There were four no votes. We could only afford to
19:16
Speaker 3: lose three, and so we had to work and talk
19:19
Speaker 3: to the folks and strategize and go back and forth.
19:23
Speaker 3: And we got it done. But it was four hours
19:25
Speaker 3: of major uncertainty because if it had been voted down,
19:30
Speaker 3: it would have been catastrophic and so we avoided that.
19:33
Speaker 3: And I just want to say, and look, there's going
19:34
Speaker 3: to be more recisions that come over. Heidi and I
19:38
Speaker 3: were sitting, we were sitting with Russ Vote, who's the
19:40
Speaker 3: head of omb great conservative, great friend. We were telling
19:43
Speaker 3: Russ send more and he's like, look, this was a
19:46
Speaker 3: test case that will Republicans in Congress stand up and
19:49
Speaker 3: actually cut spending? And we did, and for it to
19:52
Speaker 3: be PBS and NPR. You know, I spoke on the
19:55
Speaker 3: Senate floor. We talked about this in the last podcast
19:58
Speaker 3: and I said, listen, if if you want to listen
20:00
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20:04
Speaker 4: Yep, but they do a great job.
20:06
Speaker 3: There's no reason I wouldn't know, but there's no reason
20:11
Speaker 3: the taxpayer should subsidize it. And we actually got that done.
20:16
Speaker 3: I will confess I did somewhat somewhat tongue in cheek
20:18
Speaker 3: ask the President if the dinner menu Friday night if
20:22
Speaker 3: they were serving big burg for dinner, with which some
20:25
Speaker 3: of my colleagues have grown a bit at, But look
20:27
Speaker 3: it was. That is a massive conservative victory. That's victory
20:31
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Speaker 3: Number five is the one, big beautiful bill. And you
22:41
Speaker 3: know it's interesting. We have seen for months Democrats in
22:43
Speaker 3: the media trying to demagogue this bill, trying to spread
22:46
Speaker 3: lies about this bill, trying to fear monger about this bill.
22:50
Speaker 3: I will tell you something. The President said Friday night,
22:52
Speaker 3: and multiple of us, including me, said Friday night, this
22:56
Speaker 3: bill has the most conservative victories in it of any
23:00
Speaker 3: piece of legislation I think that has ever passed into law.
23:04
Speaker 3: I don't like it as hyperbole. There is no other
23:06
Speaker 3: bill that has as many major conservative victories. I'm gonna
23:10
Speaker 3: walk through quickly, twelve of them. We're gonna do this fast.
23:13
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Speaker 3: getting right now on Verdict. Twelve victories that are in
23:42
Speaker 3: the One Big Beautiful Bill. Victory number one, we have
23:46
Speaker 3: stopped a four trillion dollar tax increase. If we did
23:50
Speaker 3: nothing on December thirty first, the Trump tax cuts would disappear,
23:54
Speaker 3: and every American taxpayer, your taxes would go up significantly
23:58
Speaker 3: trillion dollars every time taxpayer. And by the way, the
24:01
Speaker 3: Democrats wanted your taxes to go up. To stop a
24:05
Speaker 3: four trillion dollar tax increase is a massive victory. That's
24:09
Speaker 3: victory one and the one big beautiful bill. Victory two.
24:13
Speaker 3: We enacted new tax cuts. No tax on tips. Yep,
24:17
Speaker 3: that's my legislation. I drafted it. It is in this bill.
24:20
Speaker 3: That means if you're a waiter or waitress, if you're
24:23
Speaker 3: a bartender, if you're a barber or a hairstylist, if
24:26
Speaker 3: you work in a nail salon, if you're a taxicab
24:28
Speaker 3: driver or an uber driver. Millions of Americans rely on tips.
24:32
Speaker 3: We're providing real and meaningful tax relief to working Americans.
24:36
Speaker 3: That's in there. No tax on overtime is in there,
24:39
Speaker 3: No tax on Social Security is in there. All three
24:41
Speaker 3: of those were President Trump's campaign promises. We delivered on
24:45
Speaker 3: all three of those, and working Americans all across Texas
24:48
Speaker 3: and all across this country will see the benefits of
24:52
Speaker 3: those major tax cuts.
24:55
Speaker 4: That's huge. I mean, it's just huge.
24:56
Speaker 1: When you think about that and you think about the
24:58
Speaker 1: promise and how it was, you know, you look at
25:01
Speaker 1: the President I go back to the campaign. Yeah, and
25:03
Speaker 1: he came out he was in Vegas, and he was like, Hey,
25:06
Speaker 1: we shouldn't be taxing people that are working their tails
25:08
Speaker 1: off and the tips and everything else. And then the
25:10
Speaker 1: left actually came out immediately started attacking him for the
25:13
Speaker 1: say it will never happen. This is not a good idea.
25:15
Speaker 1: This is they did say it will never happen. He said,
25:17
Speaker 1: it's an empty promise.
25:18
Speaker 4: Yep.
25:18
Speaker 3: By the way, I've told the story of where he
25:20
Speaker 3: came up with the idea of no tax on tips.
25:22
Speaker 3: He was the day of his Vegas rally. He was
25:24
Speaker 3: having lunch in Vegas. He said, there was a waitress
25:26
Speaker 3: who came up to him. I was serving him lunch,
25:28
Speaker 3: and Trump being Trump, he told us he said she
25:31
Speaker 3: was beautiful.
25:32
Speaker 2: I'm telling you.
25:33
Speaker 3: She was beautiful. And she he said, she was saying
25:36
Speaker 3: how stressful it was to pay taxes on tips and
25:39
Speaker 3: how complicated it was. And he said, he just put
25:41
Speaker 3: out a piece of paper and he wrote on the
25:42
Speaker 3: piece of paper, no tax on tips. He said, what
25:44
Speaker 3: do you think she says that sounds great? And he said,
25:47
Speaker 3: I had a rally that afternoon, so I went out
25:49
Speaker 3: to the rally and I said, all right, let's try
25:50
Speaker 3: it out. And he said, no tax on tips.
25:52
Speaker 4: Place went nuts.
25:53
Speaker 3: It went nuts, and town I mean it. Yes, people
25:57
Speaker 3: will make five percent of the workers in Nevada are
25:59
Speaker 3: tipped and so rely on it as their im guests.
26:03
Speaker 3: And so I saw it, and I said, this is
26:05
Speaker 3: political genius, and I immediately drafted the legislation to make
26:09
Speaker 3: it happen. That is part of One Big Beautiful Bill
26:11
Speaker 3: Victory three Securing the Border. We mentioned what the President
26:16
Speaker 3: has done by enforcing the law. What we put in
26:19
Speaker 3: One Big Beautiful Bill is one hundred and fifty billion
26:22
Speaker 3: dollars to secure the border. It is the largest investment
26:26
Speaker 3: in border security in the history of America. It will
26:29
Speaker 3: build the wall, it will complete the wall. We will
26:32
Speaker 3: hire more border patrol agents, we will hire more ice agents.
26:35
Speaker 3: We will build more detention facilities, we will have more
26:38
Speaker 3: detention beds, and we will employ technology, infrared, drones, helicopters.
26:44
Speaker 3: It is, as I said, the biggest investment ever to
26:46
Speaker 3: secure the border that is in the bill.
26:49
Speaker 4: One of the things that you mentioned there was technology.
26:51
Speaker 1: It is amazing to see how far behind we've been
26:53
Speaker 1: on technology and how we didn't have the funding for
26:57
Speaker 1: the technology that we knew we needed. That was done
27:00
Speaker 1: on purpose by the prior administration, because if you don't
27:02
Speaker 1: have the technology, then you're behind. The cartails are ahead,
27:05
Speaker 1: the human traffickers are ahead, the people are ahead of you.
27:08
Speaker 1: They held us back on purpose to again open the border.
27:12
Speaker 2: Yes, so we've been.
27:13
Speaker 1: Playing catch up, and that's why this money was so
27:15
Speaker 1: important this bill.
27:16
Speaker 3: There's another strategic victory, which is every spending bill the
27:19
Speaker 3: Democrats hold border spending and military spending hostage.
27:22
Speaker 4: Yep.
27:23
Speaker 3: What we've done is funded the things that are critical
27:25
Speaker 3: to keeping this country safe, which means the Democrats can't
27:28
Speaker 3: hold it hostage anymore. So it has there's a tactical
27:31
Speaker 3: advantage going forward on the next budget battle because this
27:34
Speaker 3: one hundred and fifty billion dollars we have appropriated it.
27:37
Speaker 3: It is going out the door and there's not a
27:39
Speaker 3: damn thing Chuck Schumer or AOC can do to stop it.
27:42
Speaker 1: That is valuable on the psyche aspect of it, because
27:46
Speaker 1: I do think this is one of the things that
27:48
Speaker 1: is I'm witnessing a change our border patrol agents, whether
27:51
Speaker 1: it's Department Home Security ICE. Yes, their mentality right now
27:55
Speaker 1: has got to be on a high.
27:58
Speaker 3: It is like a drowning man about to die given
28:02
Speaker 3: a life preserver, lifted out, saved, they were able to
28:06
Speaker 3: do their jobs. They're locked, they're fired up, they're ready
28:09
Speaker 3: to go to war. The traffickers, they're stopping drug traffickers.
28:12
Speaker 3: Every time I see a border patrol agents are an
28:14
Speaker 3: ice agent. To be honest, half the time we just hug.
28:17
Speaker 3: I mean the level of their just like, thank god,
28:20
Speaker 3: we got your job. Victory number four repaying the States
28:25
Speaker 3: for border security thirteen and a half billion dollars over
28:29
Speaker 3: ten billion dollars going to Texas. Texas taxpayers spent over
28:32
Speaker 3: ten billion dollars to secure the border because Joe Biden
28:35
Speaker 3: and the Democrats refused to do so. I help lead
28:39
Speaker 3: the charge to repay the States. That is in there.
28:42
Speaker 3: That means Texas is getting over ten billion dollars paid back.
28:46
Speaker 3: That's a huge victory. Victory number four. Victory number five
28:51
Speaker 3: rebuilding the military over one hundred and fifty billion dollars
28:57
Speaker 3: to support our soldiers, our sailors, our airmens, our marines,
29:01
Speaker 3: to build new submarines, to build build new next generation
29:04
Speaker 3: fighter jets, to improve our ability to stand up to China,
29:09
Speaker 3: to stand up to our enemies to combat hypersonics, the
29:13
Speaker 3: next generation of warfare. Look, with the military often you're
29:16
Speaker 3: fighting the last war. We're going forward. We're going to
29:20
Speaker 3: face ten thousand drone swarms using AI. Investing one hundred
29:26
Speaker 3: and fifty billion dollars to make sure we can defend
29:29
Speaker 3: this nation. There's no responsibility the federal government has that
29:33
Speaker 3: is more important. And by the way, this is the money.
29:35
Speaker 3: The Democrats always hold hostage, so we funded it. Right
29:39
Speaker 3: now they can't. They can no longer touch this hostage
29:42
Speaker 3: because this is done.
29:44
Speaker 2: Huge victory number six. The Coastguard.
29:48
Speaker 3: Now, this is something I'm particularly proud of because, as
29:51
Speaker 3: you know, I'm the chairman of the Committee on Commerce, Science,
29:54
Speaker 3: and Transportation. Yep, the Coastguard is in our jurisdiction. So
29:57
Speaker 3: I wrote the Coastguard Provision twenty four billion dollars for
30:02
Speaker 3: the Coast Guard. This is the single largest investment in
30:06
Speaker 3: the Coast Guard in the history of the United States
30:08
Speaker 3: of America. To give you a sense of the scope
30:11
Speaker 3: of the order of magnitude, the annual budget of the
30:14
Speaker 3: Coast Guard is about twelve million dollars. We are spending
30:18
Speaker 3: about two hundred percent of the annual budget on the
30:22
Speaker 3: Coast Guard in investments, and what are we doing. We're
30:25
Speaker 3: buying new ships, We're buying new helicopters, We're buying new
30:28
Speaker 3: physical infrastructure, and critically, we are investing in ice cutters,
30:32
Speaker 3: in polar ice cutters and Arctic ice cutters. Right now,
30:36
Speaker 3: China is kicking our ass in the Arctic, and the
30:39
Speaker 3: Arctic is critical for national security. Any war ICBMs are
30:44
Speaker 3: going to come over the Arctic. The Arctic is now
30:46
Speaker 3: You've got the United States on the Arctic. You've got
30:48
Speaker 3: China playing on the Arctic, You've got Russia playing on
30:51
Speaker 3: the Arctic, and we are losing. This funding will enable
30:55
Speaker 3: us not only to compete, to win. And by the way,
30:58
Speaker 3: a huge theme of every everything I do in Congress
31:01
Speaker 3: is beat China, Beat China, Beat China. This investment in
31:04
Speaker 3: the Coastguard is to beat China and the Arctic. But
31:07
Speaker 3: let me tell you a huge America first benefit for this,
31:10
Speaker 3: which is shipbuilding in America has almost entirely disappeared.
31:14
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's scary from national security symbol.
31:17
Speaker 3: It is very scary. But this Coastguard bill will bring
31:21
Speaker 3: ship building back to America. You look at Galveston, Texas.
31:25
Speaker 3: There's a huge, multi billion dollar shipyard that is being
31:29
Speaker 3: built and expanded right now to build these ice cutters.
31:32
Speaker 3: And the problem previously is if you're a private company,
31:36
Speaker 3: you couldn't make the multi billion dollar investment because you
31:39
Speaker 3: didn't know where demand was going to come from. Because
31:42
Speaker 3: we have twenty four billion dollars appropriated, there is a
31:45
Speaker 3: multi year stream of buy orders coming from the Coastguard
31:49
Speaker 3: for these ice cutters. That is going to bring back
31:52
Speaker 3: thousands of jobs, good American jobs right here building ships
31:57
Speaker 3: to keep America safe. That is in the bill out
31:59
Speaker 3: Tik tell you when I was in the Hill Country,
32:01
Speaker 3: when I was with the Coast guardsmen who were rescuing
32:04
Speaker 3: Texans from the floods, every single coasting every one of them,
32:09
Speaker 3: every man and woman, knew exactly about this investment in
32:14
Speaker 3: the Coast Guard. They knew it was the biggest in history,
32:16
Speaker 3: and every one of them said, thank you, this will
32:19
Speaker 3: make a massive difference in our ability.
32:21
Speaker 2: To do it.
32:21
Speaker 1: I've got a good friend the Coast Guard, and he
32:23
Speaker 1: said to me the other day about this. He said,
32:24
Speaker 1: you know the Coast Guard, and he's been in for
32:26
Speaker 1: twenty plus years. He said, we've always gotten the hand
32:29
Speaker 1: me downs, we get the leftover equipment and the old equipment.
32:33
Speaker 1: That's a lot of their equipment literally come from surplus
32:35
Speaker 1: from military and other things. He said, this is the
32:38
Speaker 1: first time that we are now like on the cutting
32:40
Speaker 1: edge on our own because of what you just described.
32:44
Speaker 1: He said, not only has morale gone through the roof,
32:46
Speaker 1: we're no longer like the forgotten agency, like we're kind
32:48
Speaker 1: of like, oh, the fifth wheel of military and government.
32:52
Speaker 1: He's like, now we matter, and it matters for national security,
32:54
Speaker 1: as he described it. And I think that's a great point.
32:56
Speaker 3: That is absolutely right. And by the way, the Coast
32:58
Speaker 3: Guard also does drug interdiction, it does border security. The
33:02
Speaker 3: Coastguard is critical for securing our border. And so this
33:05
Speaker 3: investment having those Coastguard cutters to stop drug traffickers, stop
33:09
Speaker 3: human traffickers, and also to engage in search and rescue,
33:12
Speaker 3: which is hugely important. That investment something I care deeply about.
33:17
Speaker 3: And by the way, we're at number six. I told
33:21
Speaker 3: you I'm going to give you twelve major conservative victories
33:25
Speaker 3: in the one big beautiful Bill. We're at six. I
33:26
Speaker 3: actually want listeners to pause for a second. How many
33:30
Speaker 3: of you could list the first six before this podcast,
33:33
Speaker 3: and I just want to make the point, what kind
33:36
Speaker 3: of job does the corporate media do. I'm willing to
33:38
Speaker 3: bet virtually none of our listeners could have listed those
33:41
Speaker 3: first six because the news hasn't covered. And it's why
33:44
Speaker 3: we do this podcast to give you information so that
33:48
Speaker 3: when you're talking to your friends and your colleagues, you
33:51
Speaker 3: will know what's being accomplished. There's a reason President Trump
33:54
Speaker 3: is so excited about this one big, beautiful bill because
33:57
Speaker 3: it is massive, massive.
33:59
Speaker 2: Victories for a America.
34:01
Speaker 3: Number seven, Number seven spectrum now spectrum. What is spectrum?
34:07
Speaker 3: Electromagnetic spectrum. It is how we communicate. It's how our
34:10
Speaker 3: cell phones work, it's how Wi Fi works, it's how
34:12
Speaker 3: satellites work, it's how streaming works. It's all of electronics spectrum.
34:18
Speaker 3: The largest holder of spectrum is the United States government.
34:21
Speaker 3: The United States government has vast swaths of spectrum, and
34:24
Speaker 3: under Joe Biden, the United States Government stop making new
34:29
Speaker 3: spectrum available to the private sector. They ended auction authority.
34:32
Speaker 3: It was grotesquely irresponsible. It did massive damage to America,
34:37
Speaker 3: It destroyed jobs in America, and it let China get
34:40
Speaker 3: ahead of America in this Bill. I wrote the legislation
34:46
Speaker 3: that directs the federal government to auction to the private
34:49
Speaker 3: sector eight hundred megahertz of spectrum for private sector investment.
34:54
Speaker 2: What does that mean?
34:56
Speaker 3: Number One, that will generate in excess of one hundred
35:01
Speaker 3: billion dollars of revenue to the federal government.
35:04
Speaker 4: Wow.
35:05
Speaker 3: Real money. Now, even in government terms, one hundred billion
35:09
Speaker 3: dollars is real money. And listen, you and I are
35:11
Speaker 3: deeply concerned about the deficit and the debt. The entire
35:15
Speaker 3: commerce title that I wrote that had historic investments in
35:18
Speaker 3: coast Guard and a bunch of other things, I ended
35:21
Speaker 3: up saving over forty billion dollars, reducing the deficit and
35:25
Speaker 3: the debt by over forty billion dollars. And the driver
35:28
Speaker 3: was because of spectrum auction authority we brought in. We
35:32
Speaker 3: will bring in one hundred billion dollars to pay down
35:34
Speaker 3: the debt. Credible, that's real money. But it's not the
35:37
Speaker 3: biggest piece of this. The biggest piece of this is
35:40
Speaker 3: by auctioning the spectrum off, we will open up billions
35:45
Speaker 3: and billions of dollars of private sector investment. The companies
35:48
Speaker 3: that buy this spectrum are going to invest. It is
35:51
Speaker 3: going to create hundreds of thousands of jobs. That is
35:55
Speaker 3: not an exaggeration. Hundreds of thousands of jobs. And you
35:58
Speaker 3: know what spectrum is all about, beating China to six G.
36:02
Speaker 3: I mentioned my consistent theme, beat China, Beat China in
36:06
Speaker 3: the Arctic with the Coastguard, beat China to six g
36:09
Speaker 3: h with Spectrum. And I gotta tell you, three months ago,
36:14
Speaker 3: there was nobody in Washington who thought we could get
36:18
Speaker 3: this done. I sat in the office of the Speaker
36:20
Speaker 3: of the House, Mike Johnson, a good friend of mine.
36:23
Speaker 3: I said, Mike, We're gonna do Spectrum on the one big,
36:26
Speaker 3: beautiful bill. And Mike laughed in my face. He's a
36:28
Speaker 3: good friend. But yeah, there's no way, he said, there's
36:30
Speaker 3: no chance because the Department of Defense and the CIA
36:35
Speaker 3: will fight you. They will stop you. You cannot get
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Speaker 3: it done. We not only got it done when I
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Speaker 3: cut the deal and got it in the bill. President
36:42
Speaker 3: Trump called me the next morning. He said, Ted, this
36:45
Speaker 3: is incredible. This is like, how did you get such
36:49
Speaker 3: an incredible deal? Historic spectrum auction authority producing hundreds of
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Speaker 3: thousands of jobs and beating China to six G that's
36:59
Speaker 3: in the bill number eight air Traffic Control. This bill
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Speaker 3: invests twelve and a half billion dollars modernizing our air
37:08
Speaker 3: traffic control. To keep your family safer when you fly,
37:12
Speaker 3: to keep my family safer when we fly. To stop
37:15
Speaker 3: using outdated radars, to stop using computers that have floppy discs,
37:19
Speaker 3: and a little copper wire copper wire, to modernize our
37:22
Speaker 3: air traffic control. A massive investment in keeping the American
37:26
Speaker 3: public safe. This bill, I wrote that portion that is
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Speaker 3: also in the Commerce title. So I wrote that portion
37:32
Speaker 3: that will fund and improve air traffic control. A huge
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Speaker 3: victory Number nine space YEP. This bill has ten billion
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Speaker 3: dollars for NASA to go to the Moon, for the
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Speaker 3: Artemis program, for the Gateway program, to beat China to
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Speaker 3: the moon. China has said they intend to return to
37:52
Speaker 3: the Moon by twenty thirty. In my view, if we
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Speaker 3: lose the Moon to China, it would be a catastrophic loss.
38:00
Speaker 3: It would be a loss if we woke up in
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Speaker 3: a few years and China was on the Moon and
38:04
Speaker 3: China established a base on the Moon, which is what
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Speaker 3: they said they intend to do with the Russians, and.
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Speaker 4: They made that very clear. That is the sole intent
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Speaker 4: of going. It's not just to go to the moon.
38:12
Speaker 4: It's to have a base on the Moon.
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Speaker 3: Yes, if they did that and we lost, I think
38:18
Speaker 3: it would be worse than Sputnik that it would be
38:21
Speaker 3: a national body blow that would crush this country. And look,
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Speaker 3: the Moon is critical number one for national security. The
38:29
Speaker 3: Moon is the high ground you look at. So much
38:31
Speaker 3: of our national security and so much of our commerce
38:33
Speaker 3: depends on satellites in orbit around the Earth. The Moon
38:37
Speaker 3: gives you the high ground. It is very dangerous for
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Speaker 3: us to see that to China. It is unacceptable for
38:43
Speaker 3: us to see that to China. But number two, there
38:46
Speaker 3: are massive rare minerals on the Moon. There are enormous
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Speaker 3: economic advantages. It is current US law that it is
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Speaker 3: the policy of the American government to have a sustained
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Speaker 3: human habitation either on the lunar surface or in cis
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Speaker 3: lunar orbit. This investment in beating China to the Moon.
39:05
Speaker 3: And by the way, the Moon is a stepping stone
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Speaker 3: to Mars. We will go to Mars, but we haven't
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Speaker 3: landed on a celestial body in over fifty years. So
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Speaker 3: we're gonna land on the Moon first to make sure
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Speaker 3: we know how to do it, and then we're gonna
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Speaker 3: go to Mars, this investment. I wrote this investment in there,
39:21
Speaker 3: I will say there was significant resistance, and without getting
39:26
Speaker 3: too much into the sausage making, we won against the resistance.
39:31
Speaker 3: This is in there. It is a massive investment. Well, yeah,
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Speaker 3: that is exactly right.
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Speaker 2: That's number nine. Number ten.
39:41
Speaker 3: Cafe standards, the standards that mandate you keep having to
39:45
Speaker 3: have higher and higher fuel efficiency on your cars. That's
39:48
Speaker 3: what the Biden administration has used as its tool, as
39:52
Speaker 3: one of its tools to wage the war on the
39:55
Speaker 3: internal combustion engine, to try to force every car to
39:57
Speaker 3: be electric. Is they keep jacking up cafe standards higher
40:00
Speaker 3: and higher and hire. What does that mean? Number on,
40:03
Speaker 3: It drives up the cost of your cars. You notice
40:05
Speaker 3: cars have gotten a lot more expensive. Trucks have gotten
40:07
Speaker 3: a lot more expensive. Number two, it makes cars less
40:09
Speaker 3: safe because one of the ways you get the gas
40:11
Speaker 3: efficiency hire is you replace metal with plastics. You che
40:16
Speaker 3: cheap plastic that crumbles it in a crash and more
40:18
Speaker 3: people die. In the commerce section of the one beful,
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Speaker 3: big beautiful bill, you know what we did to cafe standards?
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Speaker 4: What was that?
40:26
Speaker 2: Zeroed them out? Really they're gone.
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Speaker 1: So it's actually in this so you're telling me that
40:31
Speaker 1: my car, instead of being all plastic, we have a
40:33
Speaker 1: little finder burt and everything breaks. They can actually go
40:35
Speaker 1: back and say, hey, we're not trying to save weight here,
40:37
Speaker 1: we're trying to actually make safe cars.
40:39
Speaker 3: It can be a great American car again, made a
40:42
Speaker 3: steel tough as hell. And by the way, you want
40:44
Speaker 3: to buy electric car, great, that's your choice. You want
40:47
Speaker 3: to hire a hybrid, great, you want to buy a
40:49
Speaker 3: gas car.
40:49
Speaker 2: Great.
40:50
Speaker 3: It ought to be consumers choosing. And actually the way
40:52
Speaker 3: we did this we very much modeled how in twenty
40:56
Speaker 3: seventeen we repealed the individual mandate on Obamacare, So that
40:59
Speaker 3: was fight I led in twenty seventeen. The individual mandate.
41:03
Speaker 3: The way we eliminated it is under the rules of reconciliation,
41:09
Speaker 3: we could not eliminate the legal mandate to buy health insurance,
41:14
Speaker 3: which was the individual mandator under Obamacare. So you know
41:16
Speaker 3: what we did. We made the penalty zero. So you
41:20
Speaker 3: used to be the IRS finds you. If you didn't
41:22
Speaker 3: buy health insurance, the IRS would find you. It is
41:24
Speaker 3: still the law. You're required to buy health insuran. Don't,
41:28
Speaker 3: you will be fined zero dollars and zero cents. We
41:30
Speaker 3: did the same thing to Cafe standards, so they can
41:32
Speaker 3: put their standards out, but the penalty for violating it
41:36
Speaker 3: is zero. And I want to mention, look, this is
41:39
Speaker 3: again like PBS and NPR, this has been a conservative
41:43
Speaker 3: battle for fifty years.
41:46
Speaker 4: And Democrats have been winning for fifty years, unfortunately.
41:49
Speaker 3: And we got this done. I wrote this portion, it
41:51
Speaker 3: is in the bill, it is zeroed out, and we
41:54
Speaker 3: got this done. And I'm willing to bet fewer than
41:57
Speaker 3: one percent of our listeners even knew we had done it,
42:01
Speaker 3: because we won so many victories that this falls all
42:04
Speaker 3: the way down to number ten on the list.
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Speaker 4: Incredible, well done.
42:08
Speaker 3: The final two, yep, the final two, as you know,
42:10
Speaker 3: are very near and dear to my heart. Number eleven
42:13
Speaker 3: is school choice. In this bill, we pass the single
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Speaker 3: largest and most consequential federal school choice bill in the
42:22
Speaker 3: history of our country. I wrote this provision. Every single
42:25
Speaker 3: American taxpayer can now contribute up to seventeen hundred dollars
42:30
Speaker 3: a year to a scholarship granting organization in the States
42:33
Speaker 3: and get a dollar for dollar credit on their taxes.
42:37
Speaker 3: It means the money is free. The effect of this
42:40
Speaker 3: is going to be tens of billions of new scholarship
42:43
Speaker 3: money in the States for school choice, for K through
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Speaker 3: twelve school choice. We're going to do a subsequent pod
42:51
Speaker 3: that does a really deep die because this.
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Speaker 1: Is part of your legacy. By the way, this is
42:55
Speaker 1: going to be part of your This.
42:57
Speaker 3: Is the issue I care more about than anything else else.
43:00
Speaker 3: I have spent thirty years fighting for it, and we're
43:02
Speaker 3: gonna do another pod where we do a very deep
43:04
Speaker 3: die because there's some aspects of this that I want
43:07
Speaker 3: the listeners to appreciate that are both incredible policy victories
43:11
Speaker 3: but also massive political victories. We are creating incentives to
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Speaker 3: turn blue states red, to build constituencies of parents and
43:20
Speaker 3: kids who want fantastic educations. This is I told the President.
43:25
Speaker 3: If and when we get this done, you will go
43:27
Speaker 3: down in history as one of the greatest civil rights
43:29
Speaker 3: presidents in our nation's history. Your critics will never acknowledge that.
43:33
Speaker 1: Yeah, but the reality will be you're going to change
43:35
Speaker 1: poor communities.
43:36
Speaker 3: The reality is the school choice provision is massive, and
43:40
Speaker 3: it's in the bill. And then the final number twelve
43:43
Speaker 3: are the Trump accounts, the invest America accounts. Again, I
43:46
Speaker 3: wrote this provision.
43:47
Speaker 4: This could fundamentally change this country bay the way.
43:50
Speaker 3: Starting next year July fourth of next year, the two
43:53
Speaker 3: hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the United States of America,
43:57
Speaker 3: every child in America will have a personal and vement account.
44:01
Speaker 3: Every newborn child will have it seated with one thousand dollars. Parents,
44:05
Speaker 3: family employers can contribute up to five thousand dollars a
44:10
Speaker 3: year in a tax advantage account. All of that money
44:13
Speaker 3: is invested in the S and P. Five hundred is
44:15
Speaker 3: invested in the stock market. That enables every kid to
44:18
Speaker 3: enjoy the incredible benefits of compound growth, which will transform
44:24
Speaker 3: our kids. The wealth creation for the next generation of
44:28
Speaker 3: Americans will be utterly transformative. And not only that, this
44:32
Speaker 3: creates a new generation of capitalists, as our kids will
44:35
Speaker 3: all be owners of the largest employers in America. These
44:40
Speaker 3: two victories school choice and personal investment accounts for kids
44:46
Speaker 3: without exaggeration, Ben and I've told the President this. I
44:50
Speaker 3: think ten years, twenty years, thirty years from now, these
44:54
Speaker 3: will be the two things everyone remembers from this bill.
44:56
Speaker 3: Everything else. I listed one through ten, which are massive,
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Speaker 3: Yeah that they are conservative victories for the generations. I
45:04
Speaker 3: think eleven and twelve will dwarf one and ten because
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Speaker 3: the difference, we will see trillions of dollars invested in
45:12
Speaker 3: four oh one case for kids in these Trump accounts.
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Speaker 3: That will change the future of every one of our
45:17
Speaker 3: kids and make them all have skin in the game
45:20
Speaker 3: in our capitalist society. And school choice is going to
45:23
Speaker 3: literally provide hope and opportunity to millions of kids. We
45:27
Speaker 3: got both of them done. Those are victories, generational victories,
45:32
Speaker 3: and when the President signed it on July fourth, they
45:34
Speaker 3: were victories for all of America.
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