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Speaker 1: Hey everybody, welcome to Vince on a Tuesday, the very
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Speaker 1: first State of the Union address for President Trump's second
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Speaker 1: term in office. It's going to be great. We'll have
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Speaker 1: a preview coming up for you of what we might
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Speaker 1: expect from the President of the United States tonight. And remember,
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Speaker 1: as always, it's a Trump State of the Union, so
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Speaker 1: AmericanFinancing.net slash Vince. Well, the state of our union is strong.
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Speaker 1: That's what every president says when they stand up there
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Speaker 1: in front of Congress for their state of the union address.
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Speaker 1: But this year, it's true. I mean, just think about
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Speaker 1: how far we've come. We had a world where the
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Speaker 1: border was wide open, where the economy was in a
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Speaker 1: free fall. where foreign policy was out of control, new
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Speaker 1: wars were being started with each passing day. Even our
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Speaker 1: attempts to get out of a war in Afghanistan led
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Speaker 1: to suffering for both Americans and the people in the region.
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Speaker 1: That was an awful, awful period in our history to
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Speaker 1: live under President Autopen. What a difference a president has made.
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Speaker 1: Suddenly our borders are secure. Suddenly our economy is on
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Speaker 1: the way back. And suddenly we have peace deals breaking
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Speaker 1: out all around the planet. How does that happen? Well,
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Speaker 1: because of you. You made the last election too big
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Speaker 1: to rig. You put Donald Trump in a position where
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Speaker 1: he could do something about all of this. He's having success.
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Speaker 1: Does it mean the work is over?
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Speaker 2: Hardly.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot more to do. And the president is
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Speaker 1: probably the most keenly aware of that out of anybody
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Speaker 1: on the planet. But tonight, he's got a great opportunity
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Speaker 1: to present a very positive message about the direction our
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Speaker 1: country's heading in, thanks to his leadership. And it's also, obviously,
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Speaker 1: a rationale tonight for why voters should continue to back
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Speaker 1: him and his agenda going into the midterms. I want
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Speaker 1: to start with the border today. the border is as
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Speaker 1: sealed up as it's ever been in the course of
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Speaker 1: our lives. Nobody's getting across it. In fact, very little
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Speaker 1: is getting across it at all. Drugs aren't, people aren't.
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Speaker 1: And as a result, fewer Americans are dying and our
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Speaker 1: border is restored. So in other words, our sovereignty has
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Speaker 1: been restored. That's a really positive thing. And yesterday, the
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Speaker 1: president was able to dwell on that a bit because
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Speaker 1: He welcomed some of the angel families to the White House.
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Speaker 1: The president honored angel families yesterday, as the White House describes,
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Speaker 1: remembering American lives lost to illegal immigration. And that ceremony
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Speaker 1: was dedicated to not only honor them, but to proclaim
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Speaker 1: that February 22nd of each year will now be considered
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Speaker 1: National Angel Week. Family Day, a day of remembrance for
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Speaker 1: victims and their grieving loved ones devastated by the consequences
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Speaker 1: of open border policies. The border, the White House says,
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Speaker 1: is now the most secure in history. And that's obviously
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Speaker 1: borne out by reality. The Trump administration remains unwavering in
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Speaker 1: its commitment to remove dangerous criminal illegals from our communities,
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Speaker 1: ensure accountability, and make sure not one American family has
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Speaker 1: to endure this pain. Nobody knows that pain better than
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Speaker 1: those angel families. And those angel families are very grateful
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Speaker 1: that President Trump has taken the lesson from their devastating
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Speaker 1: loss and has turned around to prevent that same fate
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Speaker 1: from befalling any other American families. Here, for example, is
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Speaker 1: Lakin Riley's mother, Allison, yesterday praising President Trump for his
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Speaker 1: support for our country. Take a look.
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Speaker 2: I just can't thank you enough. You have... said from
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Speaker 2: the beginning, literally the day after this happened, that you
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Speaker 2: would not forget about Lakin. You weren't president at that time,
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Speaker 2: and you have not forgotten.
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Speaker 3: You have.
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Speaker 2: Fought a fight that most people would not want to
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Speaker 2: have to fight. Most people wouldn't. They would just say
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Speaker 2: it's just easier not to do this, and President Trump
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Speaker 2: has You are doing a thankless job that most people
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Speaker 2: just wouldn't do. And I just can't thank you enough.
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Speaker 2: There are just not enough words to say. Because if
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Speaker 2: you've lived the nightmare that we have lived, you understand
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Speaker 2: the importance of the job that he's doing and securing
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Speaker 2: our nation and fighting for our families. Because this could
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Speaker 2: be any family. This happened to my family. This could
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Speaker 2: be any one of your families.
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Speaker 1: Could be any one of yours. She lost Lakin, that
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Speaker 1: horrific attack by an illegal alien. And she's staying in
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Speaker 1: the fight on behalf of her daughter and her legacy.
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Speaker 1: And to make sure that that fate doesn't befall anybody else.
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Speaker 1: Another angel mother by the name of Laura Wilkerson talked
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Speaker 1: about how she met President Trump now 11 years years ago,
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Speaker 1: 11 years ago. And he made a promise to her.
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Speaker 1: And she says he kept it. Listen, cut to.
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Speaker 4: I met a man about 11 years ago who was
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Speaker 4: running for office. And he sat with us a couple
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Speaker 4: of days. And he watched as the tears rolled down
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Speaker 4: my face as I told him the story of how
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Speaker 4: our youngest son, Joshua, was brutally beaten, tortured. strangled to
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Speaker 4: death and his body set on fire. The man next
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Speaker 4: to me was President Trump. He never, ever looked away
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Speaker 4: from my pain. He looked me straight in the eye
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Speaker 4: and he said, I will never forget the story of
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Speaker 4: your sweet son and I will never give up fighting
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Speaker 4: for the American family. I looked at him and I
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Speaker 4: believed him. And here we are these years later and
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Speaker 4: you can tell all of the work he's done. He's
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Speaker 4: never missed a day of fighting for the American family.
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Speaker 4: I don't know if I've ever met a man who
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Speaker 4: is more interested in this country and running his country
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Speaker 4: and getting it back in shape. And I'm so grateful
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Speaker 4: for what he does every single day.
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Speaker 1: The president does deserve a lot of credit here. Credit
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Speaker 1: that will not be rapidly coming from the American news
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Speaker 1: media who could practically care less about this subject. I'll
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Speaker 1: get to that in a moment. But hear what she
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Speaker 1: said there. I don't know if I've ever met a
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Speaker 1: man who is more interested in this country and running
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Speaker 1: this country and getting it back in shape.
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Speaker 2: Ever.
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Speaker 1: He's never stopped working on this from the moment that
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Speaker 1: I met him. And the evidence for that is crystal clear.
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Speaker 1: I mean, there's a lot of politicians who will pay
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Speaker 1: lip service to an issue and then move on the
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Speaker 1: second the news cycle does. But has President Trump ever
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Speaker 1: moved on from this? No. He's made it mission one.
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Speaker 1: for his administration. Secure that border, protect American families, and
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Speaker 1: don't let there be more Lake and Riley's in our country.
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Speaker 1: By the way, remember, it was like pulling teeth to
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Speaker 1: get Democrats to even say her name. Remember that? That
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Speaker 1: ended up being a big dramatic moment at a State
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Speaker 1: of the Union just to get Joe Biden to say
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Speaker 1: Lake and Riley's name. And remember what the fallout from
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Speaker 1: that was? that Biden apologized for using the word illegal
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Speaker 1: to describe her killer. We've lived through some garbage. It's
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Speaker 1: good to see a restoration now with President Trump. Very good. Also,
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Speaker 1: it was a touching event yesterday for a bunch of reasons,
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Speaker 1: not just hearing from the Angel families, but boy, if
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Speaker 1: anybody knows how to put an event on, it is
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Speaker 1: President Trump, which is why I'm actually very excited for
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Speaker 1: the State of the Union for a million different reasons.
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Speaker 1: But for instance, this moment occurred yesterday when the U.S.
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Speaker 1: Army chorus sang Amazing Grace. I would recommend you maybe
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Speaker 1: keep a box of tissues nearby. It might behoove you
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Speaker 1: for this particular bit of audio. Take a listen.
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Speaker 3: Amazing grace, how sweet the sound. that Satan set me free.
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Speaker 3: I once was lost but now am found Was blind
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Speaker 3: but now I see.
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Speaker 5: Through many dangers, wars, and sins.
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Speaker 3: I have all I need, all I need. His praise,
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Speaker 3: praise God, he saved us far. And praise to thee,
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Speaker 3: O Lord.
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Speaker 1: Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Beautiful.
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Speaker 2: Beautiful.
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Speaker 1: What a beautiful gesture to those families. Impressive singers. I
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Speaker 1: noticed somebody, some people in the chat noticed.
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Speaker 3: I agree.
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Speaker 6: I agree.
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Speaker 1: Bad dad asked about this. Wait, they didn't say save
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Speaker 1: a wretch like me. They changed the word. I totally agree.
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Speaker 1: Somebody at the White House needs to intervene. Secretary Hegseth,
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Speaker 1: please intervene on that particular thing. Can we get the
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Speaker 1: lyrics changed back to it? I don't know what the
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Speaker 1: deal is with trying to woke-ify hymns and all these
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Speaker 1: other things. Just preserve it. in the beautiful way that
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Speaker 1: it was delivered in the first place, but I, I bought,
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Speaker 1: God bless them. Holy cow. They have talent. Holy cow.
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Speaker 1: What a nice, what a nice thing. So yeah, there
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Speaker 1: you go. There's the, the president of the United States
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Speaker 1: honoring the angel families. Now I mentioned that the media
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Speaker 1: really don't care about this subject. They are not at
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Speaker 1: all interested in it. And in fact, they're a little
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Speaker 1: grumpy that president Trump did this.
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Speaker 6: Look at this.
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Speaker 1: This is the New York Times headline from after the
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Speaker 1: event yesterday, that beautiful event. Angel family returned to Washington
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Speaker 1: to back up Trump ahead of the State of the Union.
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Speaker 1: To back him up for backup, it's backup for Trump.
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Speaker 1: And in case you're wondering if I'm being overly judgmental
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Speaker 1: about this, like, oh, well, they do back up.
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Speaker 2: No, no, no.
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Speaker 1: What the New York Times is framing this as is
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Speaker 1: President Trump is awful and he's exploiting these families and
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Speaker 1: these families are awful for supporting him. That's the presentation
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Speaker 1: here by the New York Times. Because if you go
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Speaker 1: deeper in the piece, they say for over a decade,
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Speaker 1: for over a decade, those families have provided powerful political
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Speaker 1: cover for some of Mr. Trump's most aggressive policies. which
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Speaker 1: are predicated on the idea that... I'm sorry, I'm going
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Speaker 1: to take you through this, but it is so painful
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Speaker 1: to read this horse crap from the New York Times.
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Speaker 1: Predicated on the idea that undocumented immigrants are responsible for violence.
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Speaker 1: What are you... So, what of Rachel Morin? Was she
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Speaker 1: not brutalized and murdered? What of Jocelyn Nungere? Was she
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Speaker 1: not brutalized and murdered? What of Lakin Riley? Was she not...
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Speaker 1: brutalized and murdered by illegal aliens. So the New York
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Speaker 1: Times is saying it's predicated on the idea, the notion
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Speaker 1: that undocumented immigrants are responsible for, they are responsible for
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Speaker 1: that violence. And the Times goes on, this is, and
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Speaker 1: they're misleading their idiotic readers.
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Speaker 2: Mr.
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Speaker 1: Trump and his supporters often point to high profile crimes
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Speaker 1: as evidence. But data, I hate this lie, but data
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Speaker 1: shows that immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than
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Speaker 1: people who are born in the United States. You dishonest,
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Speaker 1: heaping pile of bullshit. Data shows that immigrants are less,
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Speaker 1: we're not talking about immigrants. You buffoons. We're talking about
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Speaker 1: illegal aliens. This whole move, this has been the same
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Speaker 1: way for years, to lump together people who arrive legally,
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Speaker 1: in other words, follow our nation's laws, versus those who
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Speaker 1: arrive illegally who have a crime rate, to be clear,
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Speaker 1: of 100%. If you break our laws to get into
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Speaker 1: our country, you have committed a crime. I know Don
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Speaker 1: Lemon has trouble understanding this. If you come in illegally...
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Speaker 1: Why is it illegal? Because you broke the law. You
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Speaker 1: committed a crime. It's a 100% crime rate. There's no
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Speaker 1: statistical analysis that will ever conclude that natural born Americans
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Speaker 1: are somehow committing crimes at a higher rate than illegal
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Speaker 1: aliens because the illegals are committing it at 100%. 100%.
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Speaker 1: Just how disgraceful can you possibly, who is the moron?
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Speaker 1: Katie Rogers, Katie Rogers, the author on this piece, and
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Speaker 1: the New York Times publishes this to look down upon
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Speaker 1: the Angel families, to act as if they're just being
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Speaker 1: used and they're providing cover and Trump is awful and
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Speaker 1: he's going after immigrants who don't commit all that many
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Speaker 1: crimes to begin with. What are you saying to me?
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Speaker 1: What do you say? These types of attacks on Americans really,
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Speaker 1: really sicken me. I'm so fed up with this garbage.
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Speaker 1: So have you noticed that the left does this? This
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Speaker 1: is the posture they take. First of all, they lie
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Speaker 1: to you about the data. Illegal aliens commit 100 percent,
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Speaker 1: 100 percent crime rate among illegal aliens. But but they
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Speaker 1: lie to you about the data. And then they always
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Speaker 1: back up into this position. Americans are worse. Whatever you
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Speaker 1: think of any of this, of this kind of law enforcement,
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Speaker 1: Americans are worse. You're worse. You're actually worse. That's their excuse?
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Speaker 1: Let's pretend for a moment it was true that Americans
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Speaker 1: are worse. Let's just pretend for a moment that it
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Speaker 1: was true. In other words, we've got our own problems
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Speaker 1: to deal with. Why are we going to import more?
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Speaker 1: This is nonsensical. I'm sorry. I'm getting too animated about
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Speaker 1: a New York Times piece because this is... predictable as
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Speaker 1: the sunrise, but it is their behavior. And this is
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Speaker 1: why so many of our elites in particular are totally
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Speaker 1: misled and they buy into these ridiculous talking points. What
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Speaker 1: does this idiot know? She knows nothing. She's regurgitating some
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Speaker 1: press release that was sent to her by Adam Schiff
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Speaker 1: or whatever. The whole thing is crazy. As Americans remain
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Speaker 1: torn over the administration's aggressive and sometimes violent methods of
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Speaker 1: immigration enforcement, These families are continuing to back up Mr.
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Speaker 2: Trump.
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Speaker 1: On Monday, they stepped up to the microphone to praise
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Speaker 1: the president, elevate his unfounded claims, or serve as character witnesses. Oh, man,
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Speaker 1: my heart breaks for these angel families. I mean, chances
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Speaker 1: are they're so used to it, though. They're like, you know,
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Speaker 1: the second you put your head up, including somebody like
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Speaker 1: Alison Phillips, Lake and Riley's mother. Here's a picture of her.
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Speaker 1: There she is standing alongside the president supporting him. Imagine,
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Speaker 1: she loses her daughter, killed. She was jogging, University of
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Speaker 1: Georgia nursing student, killed by an illegal alien, 2024. Didn't
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Speaker 1: have to happen that way. You know, the guy was
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Speaker 1: in custody in New York. Remember that? And then, you know, released,
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Speaker 1: flown at taxpayer expense to Georgia. And there he is, brutalizing,
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Speaker 1: killing Lake and Riley. And now she decides, you know what?
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Speaker 1: I'm going to support the guy who's going to fix
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Speaker 1: this problem in the United States of America. That's what
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Speaker 1: she decided. Because I'm going to honor my daughter. I
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Speaker 1: have to fight for her and her memory. She does that.
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Speaker 1: And President Trump works very hard to remember Lake and
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Speaker 1: Riley and to honor her and to seal our borders.
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Speaker 1: And what thanks does she get from the media? Does
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Speaker 1: she get sympathy from the press? Is she getting honest coverage?
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Speaker 1: Is it maybe she has a point? No, nothing. They're
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Speaker 1: just crapping all over her. They're treating her like garbage.
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Speaker 1: They're treating her like garbage. And all these angel families,
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Speaker 1: you're suckers. All you're doing is playing up, playing into
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Speaker 1: Trump's lies. You're, what is it? Elevating his unfounded claims.
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Speaker 7: Screw all of you.
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Speaker 1: Just screw all of you. There's a reason you have
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Speaker 1: less trust than, what's the phrase this week? Gas station sushi.
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Speaker 1: That's why. Because of horse crap like that. It's absolutely disgraceful.
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Speaker 1: The state of our union, when it comes to our border,
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Speaker 1: is strong. You can thank President Trump for that. That's
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Speaker 1: what the Angel families are doing. And those Angel families,
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Speaker 1: we're hearing, are going to be present tonight at the
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Speaker 1: State of the Union, which is great news. I like
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Speaker 1: that they were invited. I like that they'll be there.
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Speaker 1: And I like that they're there to support the President
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Speaker 1: of the United States and the agenda that he's on.
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Speaker 1: It tells me he's doing the right thing. You think
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Speaker 1: an angel family would lie about that? You think they
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Speaker 1: would just like pretend like President Trump was succeeding? No, no,
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Speaker 1: they know in their heart of hearts that President Trump
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Speaker 1: is working for them. They lost loved ones. They don't
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Speaker 1: have any reason to pretend. No, they're authentic, unlike the
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Speaker 1: New York Times. All right, in a moment, I want
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Speaker 1: to talk about the economy with you. We've got a
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Speaker 1: lot to get to in terms of the state of
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Speaker 1: our union because there's a lot going on in the world.
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Speaker 1: Let's talk about the economy in just a moment. And
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Speaker 1: All right. Also amazing, my next guest, the in-house economist
22:14
Speaker 1: for The Vince Show, for Vince, E.J. Antoni, also the
22:17
Speaker 1: chief economist at the Heritage Foundation. E.J., it is great
22:20
Speaker 1: to see you, sir. Thanks for being here this morning.
22:22
Speaker 7: Vince, pleasure is mine as always. Thanks for having me.
22:25
Speaker 1: Okay. So look, anybody, if you're not following EJ and
22:28
Speaker 1: Tony right now, go find his ex-account and start following
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Speaker 1: second smartest, right behind EJ. So EJ, let's talk about
22:41
Speaker 1: the state of this economy. When President Trump gets up
22:43
Speaker 1: there tonight, of course, every president has a positive spin
22:47
Speaker 1: on how things are going. But Does the president have
22:50
Speaker 1: a good case to make tonight that the economy is strong?
22:54
Speaker 7: I think so, Vince. Absolutely. Especially when you consider where
22:57
Speaker 7: we're coming from right now. It is the case. I
23:00
Speaker 7: think he's going to have to probably try to thread
23:02
Speaker 7: the needle a little bit here. What I mean by
23:04
Speaker 7: that is he needs to acknowledge two things that some
23:07
Speaker 7: people think are contradictory, but they're really not. And here's
23:10
Speaker 7: what they are. Number one, we have course corrected under Biden.
23:14
Speaker 7: You were heading in the wrong direction. Now we're heading
23:16
Speaker 7: in the right direction. In other words, things are getting better.
23:19
Speaker 7: But on the other hand, I think it's worthwhile acknowledging
23:23
Speaker 7: the fact that we're not, quote unquote, there yet. In
23:26
Speaker 7: other words, we still have not yet undone all of
23:29
Speaker 7: the damage from the Biden years. A couple of stats,
23:32
Speaker 7: I think, make that very clear. First is that if
23:35
Speaker 7: you look at what the average American can actually buy
23:38
Speaker 7: with his or her weekly paycheck, that shrunk about 4%
23:42
Speaker 7: under Biden over four years. Now, under Trump, in just
23:45
Speaker 7: one year, it's grown about 2%. Quick math tells you
23:48
Speaker 7: you've only regained half of the lost ground. Now, it's
23:51
Speaker 7: great that you've made so much progress in just a year.
23:54
Speaker 7: But again, it's also, I think, worth acknowledging the fact
23:58
Speaker 7: that people are still hurting. People are still suffering. Even
24:01
Speaker 7: though you have course corrected, you were getting worse. Now
24:05
Speaker 7: you're getting better.
24:07
Speaker 1: Okay, that's a positive indicator for sure. Definitely. When it
24:13
Speaker 1: comes to the state of jobs and the economy, how
24:16
Speaker 1: are we looking right now?
24:18
Speaker 7: Very, very good. And again, this is where it's such
24:20
Speaker 7: a stark contrast, Vince, from Biden. Job growth coming out
24:25
Speaker 7: of the pandemic in the private sector peaks. in the
24:29
Speaker 7: summer of 2021 and then begins trending down if you
24:32
Speaker 7: look at the monthly change from one month to the
24:35
Speaker 7: next on a seasonally adjusted basis. And by the time
24:38
Speaker 7: you get to January 2025, that kind of handoff month
24:42
Speaker 7: between the Biden and the Trump administrations, private sector job
24:46
Speaker 7: growth on a monthly basis, the trend had actually gone
24:49
Speaker 7: below zero. In other words, you were losing jobs from
24:52
Speaker 7: month to month within the private sector. So what was
24:55
Speaker 7: growing in January of 2025? Just the government. The government,
24:59
Speaker 7: the public sector was adding jobs. The private sector was
25:02
Speaker 7: losing them. Now, fast forward a year to today. What's
25:05
Speaker 7: going on in the labor market? Exactly the opposite. In short,
25:09
Speaker 7: the government is losing jobs. Trump has succeeded in axing
25:13
Speaker 7: something like 10% of the federal workforce. Over 300,000 bureaucrats
25:19
Speaker 7: are gone. You have to go all the way back, Vince,
25:22
Speaker 7: to 1966, a full six decades ago, to find a
25:25
Speaker 7: time when there were fewer federal bureaucrats than we have today.
25:28
Speaker 1: Today.
25:28
Speaker 7: So phenomenal progress there. That means all the net job
25:31
Speaker 7: growth we have had over the last year is in
25:34
Speaker 7: the productive private sector, not the unproductive public sector. And
25:38
Speaker 7: on top of not only where the job's being created,
25:40
Speaker 7: but who are getting the jobs, in Biden's last year
25:44
Speaker 7: in office, which I think is very telling because at
25:46
Speaker 7: that point, all of his policies were really having a
25:49
Speaker 7: strong effect. The annual change in job growth was going
25:53
Speaker 7: almost exclusively, no matter which month you look at, to
25:56
Speaker 7: foreign-born workers, not native-born Americans. Again, fast forward one year,
26:02
Speaker 7: and Trump has flipped the script, and now the annual
26:06
Speaker 7: change in terms of employment among foreign-born workers is actually negative,
26:11
Speaker 7: and it is exclusively on net Americans, native-born Americans, who
26:16
Speaker 7: are getting jobs. Their employment level has gone up over 800,000
26:19
Speaker 7: since Trump took office.
26:23
Speaker 1: There's an effect to government workers that people don't appreciate,
26:27
Speaker 1: but that you drilled home for me many years ago
26:29
Speaker 1: that I constantly dwell upon, which is in order to
26:33
Speaker 1: afford a single government worker, it takes a lot of
26:37
Speaker 1: Americans to pay for their salary benefits and retirement. Can
26:42
Speaker 1: you walk us through that? So when we lose, when
26:44
Speaker 1: we lose, when we get rid of 300,000 federal workers,
26:49
Speaker 1: that actually relieves the American taxpayer a massive burden, doesn't it?
26:53
Speaker 7: Absolutely, Vince. You're 100% right. And the dynamic here is
26:57
Speaker 7: essentially that if you have a private sector worker paying taxes,
27:02
Speaker 7: they're not paying taxes on their full salary, right? It's
27:05
Speaker 7: only a portion, although sometimes it feels like a lot more.
27:09
Speaker 7: It's a portion of their salary that goes to the
27:11
Speaker 7: federal government in taxes. But of that portion, there are
27:15
Speaker 7: a lot of other demands on the taxpayer dollar. And
27:18
Speaker 7: so only a small sliver is of the portion of
27:21
Speaker 7: federal dollars is actually going to federal employment. What I'm
27:24
Speaker 7: getting at here, Vince, is that you're going to need
27:26
Speaker 7: about 80 or so private sector employees, on average at least,
27:30
Speaker 7: in order to finance a single worker in the federal bureaucracy.
27:35
Speaker 7: And so again, as you said, every time you get
27:38
Speaker 7: rid of one of these federal bureaucrats, there's a tremendous
27:41
Speaker 7: relief in terms of the strain that you have on
27:45
Speaker 7: the private sector to support all of those public sector workers.
27:49
Speaker 1: That's a really big deal. Let me do my quick
27:52
Speaker 1: math here.
27:52
Speaker 7: Ready?
27:53
Speaker 1: I'm going to put this. 300,000, let's say, 300,000 workers
27:58
Speaker 1: times 80 private sector workers. We just relieved 24 million
28:04
Speaker 1: Americans of the burden of paying for federal workers. It
28:09
Speaker 1: just seems like a massive victory.
28:11
Speaker 7: To me, E.J., A hundred percent, it absolutely is. And Vince,
28:15
Speaker 7: this is part of the reason why when we look
28:18
Speaker 7: at trends in government spending, or if we look at
28:21
Speaker 7: government purchases, as it's called within the GDP report, we've
28:25
Speaker 7: seen really, really good progress in Trump's first term, because
28:29
Speaker 7: you are reducing the overall amount of expenditure by the
28:33
Speaker 7: federal government simply by reducing the size of of that
28:37
Speaker 7: federal bureaucracy. So again, it's great, great progress. In fact,
28:42
Speaker 7: if you look at in this last GDP report that
28:44
Speaker 7: we just got, I know people were disappointed by the
28:46
Speaker 7: headline number, but I actually wasn't. Part of the reason
28:50
Speaker 7: for that is if you look at how GDP is calculated,
28:53
Speaker 7: it includes government purchases, and that's going to include all
28:57
Speaker 7: of this spending at the federal level. Well, what happened
29:02
Speaker 7: at the federal level, if you just look at non-defense
29:05
Speaker 7: spending specifically, it fell by the fastest pace since 1972. Now,
29:12
Speaker 7: some of that was because of the shutdown. So there
29:14
Speaker 7: were certain purchases that are going to get pushed forward.
29:17
Speaker 7: into the first quarter of this year. But it's also
29:19
Speaker 7: because this administration has made such great progress in terms
29:24
Speaker 7: of reducing federal expenditure.
29:27
Speaker 1: I do think it's interesting that the only thing that
29:29
Speaker 1: really got in the way of nonstop GDP success was
29:32
Speaker 1: the Schumer shutdown. I mean, so President Trump has us
29:35
Speaker 1: on this course of success after success after success. Then
29:39
Speaker 1: you look at core four and that data that just
29:41
Speaker 1: came out Friday. You're like, well, what got in the
29:43
Speaker 1: way there? Chuck Schumer. Chuck Schumer got in the way there,
29:46
Speaker 1: which goes to show that everything Democrats touch turns to crap. OK,
29:49
Speaker 1: so let me talk to you about tariffs. So a big,
29:54
Speaker 1: big fight in the Supreme Court comes out. Decision comes
29:56
Speaker 1: out Friday.
29:56
Speaker 2: OK.
29:57
Speaker 1: And says the president can't use IEPA, this emergency power,
30:01
Speaker 1: in order to apply tariffs. But the president says, no problem.
30:04
Speaker 1: I'll do what Brett Kavanaugh recommended. I'll just apply tariffs
30:07
Speaker 1: under other means. What is the report card on tariffs?
30:11
Speaker 1: Did tariffs destroy the economy, EJ? Are we all suffering
30:15
Speaker 1: now and, you know, struggling, killing for our next meals?
30:19
Speaker 1: What's happening?
30:21
Speaker 7: No, I'm happy to report, Vince, that the Hunger Games
30:24
Speaker 7: have not yet started in the United States of America. No, look,
30:28
Speaker 7: all of the doom and gloom, it turns out, of course,
30:31
Speaker 7: it was all wrong. If you look at inflation, it
30:35
Speaker 7: has not been exploding as the Democrats all said it would.
30:38
Speaker 7: In fact, even though a lot of our headline inflation indicators,
30:43
Speaker 7: like the PCE price index, as it's called, that ticked
30:47
Speaker 7: up in the month of January. But interestingly, if you
30:51
Speaker 7: look at the versions of that that remove outliers, like
30:55
Speaker 7: trimmed mean and median PCE, and same thing when you
30:58
Speaker 7: look at the consumer price index, you look at the
31:00
Speaker 7: trimmed mean and the median. Again, these are ways of
31:03
Speaker 7: removing the fastest and the slowest growing or decreasing parts
31:07
Speaker 7: of the index. And what we find there is that
31:10
Speaker 7: inflation is actually falling to the lowest level in about
31:13
Speaker 7: five years. So really, really good news there. Good progress
31:17
Speaker 7: on the inflation front. In other words, it's one or
31:20
Speaker 7: two outliers that are causing the big increases. And that's
31:23
Speaker 7: driven by things like what's happening with the beef supply
31:26
Speaker 7: right now in terms of the overall size of the
31:29
Speaker 7: cattle herd in the United States. So again, getting rid
31:32
Speaker 7: of the extreme shows that inflation is actually doing better,
31:36
Speaker 7: not worse. It's still not where we want it to be,
31:39
Speaker 7: but again, doing better, not worse. And same thing when
31:41
Speaker 7: we look at the labor market, When you look at
31:44
Speaker 7: manufacturing specifically, all of the things that we were told
31:48
Speaker 7: are going to fall off a cliff because of Trump's
31:50
Speaker 7: tariff policies. None of that came to pass.
31:53
Speaker 1: And also, you know, people like, I know you are
31:55
Speaker 1: into the dollars and cents of it. Just look at,
31:57
Speaker 1: you kind of, you just, you look at all this
31:59
Speaker 1: and say, okay, you know, this is going to make
32:01
Speaker 1: sense for us. But there's also a, there's a negotiating
32:05
Speaker 1: element to tariffs, which is Trump uses them as leverage.
32:08
Speaker 1: Trump applies tariffs to countries. and the expectation that they're
32:11
Speaker 1: going to come to the table and promise to invest
32:13
Speaker 1: in the United States. And invariably, he's right. I mean,
32:16
Speaker 1: it just keeps happening. We have more and more countries.
32:18
Speaker 1: So that's the final piece for you today, EJ, which
32:21
Speaker 1: is how meaningful is it that the president, he keeps
32:23
Speaker 1: telling us that he's secured tens of trillions of dollars
32:26
Speaker 1: of new investment in the United States. How big of
32:29
Speaker 1: a deal is that for the state of our economy?
32:32
Speaker 7: I think it's huge, Vince. It's a great point. I'm
32:34
Speaker 7: glad you raised it because if we look at the
32:36
Speaker 7: GDP reports that we were just talking about earlier, we
32:39
Speaker 7: are seeing that investment boost, which is lifting overall economic growth.
32:43
Speaker 7: And then if you want to talk about individual sectors
32:46
Speaker 7: of the economy, in this last jobs report, we saw
32:49
Speaker 7: a surge in construction jobs of 30,000. And if you
32:53
Speaker 7: drill down within construction, where are the jobs being created?
32:57
Speaker 7: It's in factory construction. So even though those factories aren't
33:01
Speaker 7: yet employing, let's say, manufacturing workers, just their construction is
33:05
Speaker 7: employing workers already. So you're creating high quality, high paying
33:10
Speaker 7: blue collar jobs in areas of the countries that desperately
33:14
Speaker 7: need that relief on the labor market. So yes, the
33:17
Speaker 7: investment numbers are already paying dividends and it's giving us
33:21
Speaker 7: a strategic advantage that a lot of people aren't talking about. AI,
33:25
Speaker 7: as much as we talk about it as it's a
33:27
Speaker 7: new productivity boom, it's gonna increase wages, and provide more jobs,
33:31
Speaker 7: et cetera. That's all true. But I think there are
33:34
Speaker 7: also strategic implications here. To a certain extent, it might
33:37
Speaker 7: be the new arms race. And so it's imperative that
33:41
Speaker 7: we get ahead of hostile nations of bad actors like China.
33:45
Speaker 7: And this is helping us to do exactly that.
33:48
Speaker 1: All right. I saw somebody in the chat say that
33:51
Speaker 1: you should debate AOC. And given that AOC is also
33:54
Speaker 1: an economist, people might not realize she's an undergraduate degree
33:58
Speaker 1: in in the economy. Are you prepared to debate AOC?
34:02
Speaker 1: Would you need some prep time? And can we host
34:04
Speaker 1: a debate between you and the Congresswoman?
34:07
Speaker 7: Not only are we both economists, Vince, we were both bartenders.
34:11
Speaker 7: So I'd be happy to debate a fellow bartender.
34:16
Speaker 1: I can't wait for that debate. I volunteer as moderator. Hey,
34:20
Speaker 1: thank you, EJ and Tony. Good to have you with
34:22
Speaker 1: us today, brother.
34:23
Speaker 7: Thank you, Vince. Always a pleasure.
34:25
Speaker 1: There he is, EJ and Tony. And like I said,
34:27
Speaker 1: he's the in-house economist. He's at times the in-house bartender,
34:32
Speaker 1: of course. And the other thing is some people in
34:34
Speaker 1: the chat know this. This guy's also my first cousin.
34:37
Speaker 1: People don't realize that I just have, yeah, no, it's genetic.
34:41
Speaker 1: It's genetic. You're like, wow, how did you get such
34:43
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34:46
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34:47
Speaker 2: That's why.
34:47
Speaker 1: It's the greatest. Anyway, there's EJ. Thanks, EJ. Good to
34:51
Speaker 1: have you on the show. And I really do. You know,
34:54
Speaker 1: the great thing about having EJ as my economist, I'm
34:56
Speaker 1: constantly texting and calling him. What do I make of this?
34:58
Speaker 1: What do you think about this? In fact, Friday, when
35:00
Speaker 1: the tariff decision came down, the first guy I called
35:02
Speaker 1: was EJ. I was like, hey, what do you make
35:04
Speaker 1: of this? And he walked me through it. It was great.
35:06
Speaker 1: It was really great. It's always nice to have somebody
35:08
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35:10
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35:13
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35:19
Speaker 1: Trump just took that burden off of 24 million Americans.
35:24
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35:27
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Speaker 1: I've got one more thing for you on the economy.
38:32
Speaker 1: Peter Navarro, remember Peter Navarro? He's a great American. Last
38:37
Speaker 1: year in April, he made a prediction. He went on television.
38:40
Speaker 1: He made a prediction about how the economy we would
38:43
Speaker 1: be doing by the end of this Trump term, the
38:46
Speaker 1: end of the Trump term. He said, by the end
38:48
Speaker 1: of the Trump term, the Dow is going to hit 50,000.
38:55
Speaker 1: By the end of the term, here's what Peter Navarro said.
38:57
Speaker 1: Come forward, watch. Let's talk about the markets, the uncertainty
39:00
Speaker 1: out there, and the volatility. Do you expect it to continue?
39:03
Speaker 7: Because everybody keeps asking me where I think the market's
39:05
Speaker 7: going to open on Monday.
39:08
Speaker 2: Sure.
39:09
Speaker 8: The first rule, particularly for the smaller investors out there,
39:12
Speaker 8: you can't lose money unless you sell. And right now,
39:15
Speaker 8: the smart strategy is not to panic, just stay in,
39:19
Speaker 8: because we are going to have the biggest boom in
39:21
Speaker 8: the stock market we've ever seen under the Trump policies.
39:25
Speaker 8: We will find a bottom in this market quickly. We
39:28
Speaker 8: will hit 50,000 on the Dow easily by the end
39:32
Speaker 8: of this term.
39:34
Speaker 1: By the end of this term, that's a heck of
39:36
Speaker 1: a prediction. Now, just to be clear, so you have
39:40
Speaker 1: some sense of where things were, when he said this
39:42
Speaker 1: in April of last year, the Dow was at 38,000.
39:44
Speaker 1: We just hit 50K. About a week or so ago,
39:50
Speaker 1: we hit 50,000 on the Dow. It hasn't even been
39:54
Speaker 1: a year. We hit 50,000. Now, today, it's down a
39:57
Speaker 1: little bit. It's down to 49,000. But we're now playing
40:00
Speaker 1: in the 50,000 territory. Peter Navarro said this wasn't going
40:03
Speaker 1: to happen. But, well, he said it was going to
40:06
Speaker 1: happen at some point before the end of the term.
40:08
Speaker 1: That prediction came true even quicker than he could have
40:10
Speaker 1: possibly anticipated. And that's what, you know, that example leads
40:16
Speaker 1: a fascinating piece that was published this week. out of
40:19
Speaker 1: all places in USA Today, where they say that Trump's
40:22
Speaker 1: economy is resilient and he deserves more credit for it.
40:26
Speaker 1: Why doesn't he get more credit? Tim Swerin's writing at
40:30
Speaker 1: USA Today saying that he heard Peter Navarro make that
40:33
Speaker 1: prediction on television. He goes, I resisted the urge to
40:37
Speaker 1: roll my eyes like a 12-year-old. Instead, I muttered, yeah, right.
40:41
Speaker 1: It turns out I was happily wrong and Navarro was right,
40:45
Speaker 1: much to the relief of the 62% of American adults
40:48
Speaker 1: who own stocks, 62%. Lots of people have, whether it's
40:53
Speaker 1: a 401k, a little bit of money in the market,
40:55
Speaker 1: a lot of people have exposure to the stock market.
40:58
Speaker 1: They're the beneficiaries of President Trump's work. And even if
41:02
Speaker 1: you don't have exposure to the stock market, the fact
41:06
Speaker 1: is when American companies have more capital, they can spend
41:10
Speaker 1: it and that energizes the American economy. They can hire
41:12
Speaker 1: more people. They can do more things. It's a very
41:14
Speaker 1: good thing. So they say he says in this piece
41:20
Speaker 1: that for the companies in our economy, the S &
41:22
Speaker 1: P 500 companies, more than 75 percent of them recorded
41:27
Speaker 1: year over year earnings growth in the fourth quarter of
41:30
Speaker 1: last year. More than 75 percent had earnings growth. That's
41:33
Speaker 1: the highest percentage in over four years. Let me put
41:37
Speaker 1: that differently. That's the highest percentage since the last time
41:42
Speaker 1: Donald Trump was president of the United States. Joe Biden
41:46
Speaker 1: didn't have ears like this. Trump does, just to be clear.
41:50
Speaker 1: That's a reflection of strength and resiliency, not only in
41:52
Speaker 1: those companies, but also in the broader economy. Recession fears?
41:56
Speaker 1: Be damned.
41:57
Speaker 6: All right.
41:58
Speaker 1: So we'll keep focusing on how the economy is doing.
42:02
Speaker 1: Every time Paul Krugman and all these other idiots tell
42:04
Speaker 1: us that Trump's going to collapse it, I mean, they're
42:06
Speaker 1: really wish-casting. They really want you to suffer economically. How
42:11
Speaker 1: often have you heard that? People who hate Trump, who
42:13
Speaker 1: want the economy to suffer, just so Donald Trump somehow
42:17
Speaker 1: loses politically. It's gross stuff, super gross. All right, one
42:23
Speaker 1: more thing for you today on the state of the union.
42:28
Speaker 1: So we talked about the border. We talked about the economy. Let's,
42:33
Speaker 1: for a quick moment, talk about foreign policy. Earlier this year,
42:38
Speaker 1: we saw something really big. The president of the United
42:41
Speaker 1: States ordered a mission to take out Nicolas Maduro the
42:45
Speaker 1: phony leader of Venezuela. And man, that thing was a
42:49
Speaker 1: huge success. They go in there, they grab Maduro and
42:52
Speaker 1: his wife, they pull him out of the country, now
42:55
Speaker 1: in the United States facing prosecution. And the United States
42:59
Speaker 1: has successfully kept Venezuela running and is now moving oil
43:03
Speaker 1: revenue there so that the people can benefit from it.
43:06
Speaker 1: That's not a situation that was happening before. So what
43:10
Speaker 1: has that mission shown to the rest of the world? Well,
43:14
Speaker 1: it's definitely proven that President Trump, once again, is serious
43:18
Speaker 1: when he says that he wants to deal with these
43:21
Speaker 1: problems all around the planet. And he's not just paying
43:23
Speaker 1: lip service to it. He'll take action when necessary, whether
43:26
Speaker 1: that's going in and grabbing Maduro or whether it's Operation
43:29
Speaker 1: Midnight Hammer, blowing up the Iranian nuclear regime's capabilities.
43:35
Speaker 3: It's pretty.
43:36
Speaker 1: amazing what he's been able to do. And everybody else
43:40
Speaker 1: is getting the message, which led to a gigantic event
43:43
Speaker 1: that took place this weekend in Mexico. That event was
43:48
Speaker 1: Mexican special forces killing a cartel leader called El Mencho,
43:53
Speaker 1: the leader of the Jalisco New Generation cartel. When we
43:58
Speaker 1: think of the cartels, we often think of the Sinaloa
44:01
Speaker 1: cartel and the Jalisco cartel. And in this case, this
44:04
Speaker 1: is the head of the Jalisco cartel who was killed off.
44:06
Speaker 1: I had an extensive conversation on the radio show yesterday
44:09
Speaker 1: with Brandon Darby. He's a cartel expert reporter who works
44:13
Speaker 1: for Breitbart. And he said, Vince, this is just the
44:16
Speaker 1: biggest possible guy you could take down ever. It's the
44:20
Speaker 1: most powerful drug kingpin in Mexico. And the Mexican special
44:27
Speaker 1: forces finally took him out. Now, That was a very
44:32
Speaker 1: challenging task for a number of reasons, and not just
44:35
Speaker 1: because this El Mencho character was very well protected by
44:39
Speaker 1: his own cartel military forces. It's also because the Mexican
44:44
Speaker 1: government itself is deeply corrupt, that efforts to go after
44:48
Speaker 1: El Mencho in the past would have constantly been suffocated
44:51
Speaker 1: by corrupt officials within the government. In fact, so far
44:56
Speaker 1: this year and during this Trump presidency, Claudia Scheinbaum, the
45:01
Speaker 1: president of Mexico, has been sending a lot of cartel members,
45:05
Speaker 1: drug traffickers, to the United States because President Trump has
45:09
Speaker 1: demanded to take them into custody. But the reality of
45:12
Speaker 1: that is... Most of those people have been Sinaloa. They
45:15
Speaker 1: have not been from the Jalisco cartel. They've been Sinaloa.
45:20
Speaker 1: And that's for a reason, as Brandon described to me yesterday.
45:23
Speaker 1: The reason is because Claudia Scheinbaum's administration is corrupt and
45:29
Speaker 1: in bed with Jalisco. And as a result... Taking Sinaloa
45:34
Speaker 1: cartel members off the board benefited the Jalisco cartel. So
45:39
Speaker 1: they took advantage of President Trump's efforts to crack down
45:42
Speaker 1: on the flow of drugs into the United States. By
45:45
Speaker 1: the way, that fentanyl killing over 100,000 Americans a year.
45:49
Speaker 1: Both of those cartels responsible for sending that deadly poison
45:53
Speaker 1: into the United States. Well, that's not good enough for
45:57
Speaker 1: President Trump. It can't just be Sinaloa. And so what
46:00
Speaker 1: has happened is... Finally, they took out Almencho. Now, it's
46:04
Speaker 1: led to dramatic chaos in the streets of Mexico, warnings
46:08
Speaker 1: for Americans who are traveling within the country. It's a
46:11
Speaker 1: chaotic moment right now, but this is only the kind
46:15
Speaker 1: of progress that can be made with President Trump as
46:17
Speaker 1: President of the United States, not with a Joe Biden,
46:19
Speaker 1: not with anybody else. It's with President Trump. In fact,
46:23
Speaker 1: it's not a secret at this point that American intelligence
46:26
Speaker 1: and advice was essential to the role here. Caroline Leavitt
46:30
Speaker 1: at the White House said, the United States did provide
46:32
Speaker 1: intelligence to the Mexican government in order to assist with
46:36
Speaker 1: the operation in Talpalpa, Jalisco, Mexico. Talpalpa is kind of
46:41
Speaker 1: a getaway town in the mountains where, think of it
46:45
Speaker 1: almost like an Airbnb cabin area, where El Mencho decided
46:49
Speaker 1: to go meet one of his girlfriends for a romantic
46:53
Speaker 1: cabin getaway that proved to be ill-fated because Mexican special
46:57
Speaker 1: forces tracked the girlfriend. going into the building, and then
47:00
Speaker 1: they knew where Almencia would be. They chased him down
47:04
Speaker 1: through the woods, eventually killing him, which is a kind
47:08
Speaker 1: of a wild story, which I imagine at some point
47:09
Speaker 1: will be made into a movie. Now, how did Mexican
47:12
Speaker 1: special forces get ready for this? Interesting. There are reports
47:17
Speaker 1: that it was the Navy SEALs who prepared them. In fact,
47:21
Speaker 1: there's a website here called Border Report, Border Report, that
47:25
Speaker 1: reported back on February 12th, this year, February 12th, about
47:31
Speaker 1: two weeks ago, that Mexican lawmakers, excuse me, yes, Mexican
47:36
Speaker 1: lawmakers approved the arrival of SEAL Team 2 in Mexico
47:41
Speaker 1: on a training mission. So this is not a secret.
47:43
Speaker 1: This was done by the Mexican legislature, this approval. Lawmakers
47:48
Speaker 1: in Mexico have authorized the entry into their country of
47:50
Speaker 1: 19 members of U.S. Navy SEAL Team 2 to for
47:54
Speaker 1: the purpose of training Mexican special forces. Then they go
47:58
Speaker 1: on to say that they're authorized to be there through
48:00
Speaker 1: April 16th. They're coming at the invitation of President Claudia Scheinbaum,
48:04
Speaker 1: who has publicly expressed desire to better prepare her military
48:07
Speaker 1: and law enforcement to stop drug cartel violence. Well, not
48:12
Speaker 1: really sure, not really sure what, uh, you know, what
48:17
Speaker 1: role they played in particular. But I can't believe that
48:20
Speaker 1: it's some sort of massive coincidence that SEAL Team 2
48:23
Speaker 1: arrived just in time to work with Mexican special forces
48:28
Speaker 1: before Mexican special forces took down one of the biggest
48:32
Speaker 1: cartel leaders on the planet. Doesn't exactly seem like a coincidence,
48:36
Speaker 1: but I just tell you what the breadcrumbs tell me.
48:39
Speaker 1: And it sure looks like the president of the United
48:41
Speaker 1: States has done something really big here. Now, finally, I
48:45
Speaker 1: mentioned to you that that decision to go after Maduro
48:49
Speaker 1: has paid off internationally. That's just the reality of the situation.
48:57
Speaker 1: In this, in fact, this piece, let me see if
49:00
Speaker 1: it's in this piece. Yes, here it is. Check this out.
49:05
Speaker 1: This is in the piece, the border report piece. They write,
49:09
Speaker 1: Wednesday's Senate vote to allow CLTM2 into the country was
49:13
Speaker 1: nearly unanimous, but not without debate. Many, including Scheinbaum, are
49:17
Speaker 1: still reeling from the lightning fast American incursion into Caracas
49:23
Speaker 1: to arrest former Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro on drug and
49:27
Speaker 1: other charges. It's another way of saying, holy shit, he's serious.
49:33
Speaker 1: We've seen this before. Trump's not playing. Trump's not playing.
49:40
Speaker 1: That's the conclusion in Mexico, which is why a major
49:43
Speaker 1: cartel leader was just taken out. Very, very big deal.
49:49
Speaker 1: Very big deal. Remarkable. Tonight, in attendance at that State
49:54
Speaker 1: of the Union, the men's hockey team, the Team USA
49:58
Speaker 1: men's hockey team has just arrived back in America. They
50:01
Speaker 1: spent the day yesterday. They arrived in Miami yesterday, and
50:04
Speaker 1: then they were partying last night at a Miami club
50:07
Speaker 1: en route to the Capitol today. to join the president
50:11
Speaker 1: at the State of the Union. I have seen some
50:15
Speaker 1: things about Speaker Johnson's trying to figure out a way
50:17
Speaker 1: to accommodate the team. There's limited seating in the room.
50:20
Speaker 1: Here's the thing. I don't know why you can't just
50:24
Speaker 1: make a special rule to let these guys sit on
50:25
Speaker 1: the floor. If Democrats are all going to be boycotting
50:29
Speaker 1: the State of the Union, a lot of them are.
50:30
Speaker 1: They've all announced, I'm not going, I'm not going, I'm
50:32
Speaker 1: not going to dignify this. Okay, good. Get the hell out.
50:35
Speaker 1: Leave your empty seat available. And then let's put members
50:38
Speaker 1: of Team USA inside of those seats. I know Speaker
50:41
Speaker 1: Johnson said something yesterday to the press, like, well, there
50:43
Speaker 1: are rules. These are only for members. You know, this
50:46
Speaker 1: is an official congressional event. Well, then change the rules.
50:49
Speaker 1: You're the Speaker of the House. Just put forward a
50:51
Speaker 1: rule change for today, a temporary rule change that allows
50:54
Speaker 1: those seats to be used in this way. You know,
50:59
Speaker 1: it'd be great. Let the gold medalists who actually love
51:04
Speaker 1: our country, who... Tell me something. Don't you think Jack
51:08
Speaker 1: Hughes represents our country better than Ilhan Omar? Speaking of
51:14
Speaker 1: a representative, why don't we put Jack Hughes in one
51:17
Speaker 1: of the seats on the floor, put him near the
51:20
Speaker 1: Supreme Court justices, and let's have a great State of
51:22
Speaker 1: the Union. I think it'll be phenomenal. Anyway, something to
51:25
Speaker 1: think about. But those guys came back yesterday to Miami,
51:29
Speaker 1: and they were super happy. They were super happy to
51:31
Speaker 1: be home. And they were super happy that President Trump
51:33
Speaker 1: asked them to come and called them to congratulate them.
51:36
Speaker 1: Here's a Team USA hockey player, Matthew Kachuk. Great name.
51:40
Speaker 1: He says he loves that President Trump called. Watch, cut five.
51:45
Speaker 1: It was super cool.
51:47
Speaker 9: It was an honor. It really is, hearing from the
51:49
Speaker 9: President of the United States, hearing that he was supporting
51:53
Speaker 9: us and supporting us and all the other athletes and
51:58
Speaker 9: wanting us all to bring home as many gold medals
51:59
Speaker 9: as we can. So we're definitely honored to represent him
52:03
Speaker 9: and the millions, hundreds of millions across the country in
52:05
Speaker 9: bringing the gold medal back.
52:08
Speaker 1: You know, what an appropriate and upstanding way to handle
52:12
Speaker 1: a question like that. Now, I don't know if this
52:13
Speaker 1: guy is a big Trump supporter or not, but he
52:15
Speaker 1: just did the mature thing, which is like it's a
52:17
Speaker 1: total honor for the president of the United States to
52:19
Speaker 1: call and to congratulate the team on behalf of the
52:23
Speaker 1: United States and then extend an invitation for us to
52:25
Speaker 1: come to the State of the Union. It's a total
52:27
Speaker 1: honor for that to happen. And that's just true. That's
52:29
Speaker 1: just flatly true. It is an honor. And good for
52:33
Speaker 1: him for saying it out loud. Why does that have
52:35
Speaker 1: to be a courageous thing? in 2026. And yet it
52:38
Speaker 1: is because, you know, the left has so demonized Donald Trump,
52:40
Speaker 1: they make it seem ridiculous that you would appreciate presidential
52:45
Speaker 1: generosity in that way. Here's another one. Here's Jack Hughes,
52:49
Speaker 1: toothless Jack. Jack's great. He says he's going to get
52:52
Speaker 1: the teeth fixed because he's got to get that great
52:54
Speaker 1: smile back. But here he is saying that, look, we
52:56
Speaker 1: won this gold for all the guys that came before
52:58
Speaker 1: us and all the young kids that are coming next.
53:00
Speaker 2: Watch.
53:02
Speaker 6: The best part is, I was saying this, the day
53:05
Speaker 6: of the gold medal, it's for all the guys that
53:06
Speaker 6: have come before us and all the young kids that
53:09
Speaker 6: are going to come after us. Just like when I
53:14
Speaker 6: was a kid, I was growing up dreaming of being
53:16
Speaker 6: where I'm at now, and in 10 years there's going
53:19
Speaker 6: to be another Austin Matthews, there's going to be another
53:22
Speaker 6: Matthew Kachuk, and another Quinn Hughes. That's why we play,
53:25
Speaker 6: and we want to.
53:27
Speaker 6: Leave USA Hockey in a better place than it was
53:30
Speaker 6: when we first got there.
53:32
Speaker 1: You know, I saw online some lefties sharing a video
53:36
Speaker 1: of him, I think from 2024, I believe, where he
53:42
Speaker 1: paid lip service to some stupid question the interviewer was
53:45
Speaker 1: asking about pride flags or whatever. And he gave like
53:49
Speaker 1: some sort of, you know, reflexive, like, I'm going to
53:53
Speaker 1: survive the interview answer. to it that sort of genuflected
53:57
Speaker 1: to whatever the left-wing talking point was at the time.
53:59
Speaker 1: Can I just remind everybody of something before you try
54:01
Speaker 1: and use that as some big-owned lefties? That guy's 24
54:06
Speaker 1: years old, Jack Hughes. He's 24. He's a kid. He's
54:10
Speaker 1: a kid, with all due respect to those of you
54:12
Speaker 1: in your 20s, but he's 24. He was 22, 21
54:15
Speaker 1: years old? When he did an interview where some lefty
54:20
Speaker 1: psychopath was like, what do you think of the pride flag?
54:23
Speaker 1: And he's just trying to figure out how to keep
54:24
Speaker 1: his career alive at the time. I'm not going to
54:28
Speaker 1: harshly judge him for saying stupid things. And guess what?
54:32
Speaker 1: We all say stupid things when we're young. We tend
54:35
Speaker 1: to learn through the passage of time and hopefully we
54:36
Speaker 1: get better. I can't say the same for Democrats, but
54:39
Speaker 1: hopefully the rest of us, we've learned from our mistakes.
54:42
Speaker 1: But man, that guy has just been phenomenal. I just love,
54:44
Speaker 1: I love every word that's come out of his toothless
54:46
Speaker 1: mouth ever since that victory. It's been great. Just loves
54:49
Speaker 1: our country, really appreciates it, and is super proud that
54:51
Speaker 1: he can represent it. And on his way, on his
54:55
Speaker 1: way to the State of the Union tonight. I can't
54:58
Speaker 1: wait for that. I love how angry, I love how
55:01
Speaker 1: angry the left is about it. It only adds to
55:04
Speaker 1: the joy. Speaking of videos that are getting a lot
55:08
Speaker 1: of attention right now, let me move to a Well, actually,
55:12
Speaker 1: before I do that, before I do that, sorry, a
55:14
Speaker 1: broken segue. One more thing on attendees tonight.
55:19
Speaker 3: The U.S.
55:20
Speaker 1: Women's team has declined to go to the State of
55:23
Speaker 1: the Union despite the fact that President Trump sent them
55:26
Speaker 1: an invitation. Now, this right now is being used as
55:31
Speaker 1: some sort of dunk by the left. See, the women
55:34
Speaker 1: don't want to go and see that psycho Trump and
55:37
Speaker 1: all this nonsense. If that is what you conclude from this,
55:41
Speaker 1: you didn't actually read the statements from the women's team.
55:46
Speaker 1: The women's hockey team declined the State of the Union invitation,
55:51
Speaker 1: but they said they were very grateful that President Trump
55:55
Speaker 1: extended it. They said, quote, we are sincerely grateful for
55:59
Speaker 1: the invitation extended to our gold medal winning U.S. women's
56:02
Speaker 1: hockey team and deeply appreciate the recognition of their extraordinary achievement.
56:07
Speaker 1: Due to the timing and previously scheduled academic and professional
56:10
Speaker 1: commitments following the games, the athletes are unable to participate.
56:14
Speaker 1: They were honored to be included and grateful for the acknowledgement.
56:21
Speaker 1: This is a perfectly fine statement. It's not cause for
56:29
Speaker 1: negative judgment towards anybody. Look, if they've got a conflict,
56:32
Speaker 1: they've got a conflict. It is too bad. I agree,
56:34
Speaker 1: Cowboy Mama. I really wanted them to be there. And
56:37
Speaker 1: actually the one caveat I'll add is like, I do
56:40
Speaker 1: think it's, it's a little odd for some team representative
56:43
Speaker 1: for like a USA hockey person to represent all of
56:45
Speaker 1: the women. Are there any of the women who might
56:47
Speaker 1: want to go? I kind of feel like they could
56:49
Speaker 1: do that on an individual basis if they wanted to.
56:52
Speaker 1: But the answer right now out of the team USA
56:54
Speaker 1: women is that they're not going to be there, but
56:56
Speaker 1: they're very grateful to the president for extending the invitation.
56:59
Speaker 1: And they're very appreciative of the recognition. Fair enough. Fair enough.
57:02
Speaker 1: That's a perfectly nice statement. and not cause for lefty
57:07
Speaker 1: dunking or whatever. So there you go. Finally today, finally
57:12
Speaker 1: today with you, I wanted to give you an update
57:15
Speaker 1: on Gavin Newsom's horse crap. President Trump posted to Truth
57:19
Speaker 1: Social that his presidential run is over. Hilarious. The reason
57:23
Speaker 1: for that is because everybody's paying attention to the fact
57:25
Speaker 1: that Gavin Newsom, speaking in Georgia this past weekend, told
57:30
Speaker 1: an audience that the original reports is that they were
57:34
Speaker 1: an all black crowd. It turns out it's a racially
57:36
Speaker 1: diverse crowd with a black moderator, but that doesn't really
57:41
Speaker 1: improve the situation. He told this entire crowd to include
57:45
Speaker 1: the black moderator that he's as stupid as they are,
57:49
Speaker 1: he can't read. Remember this? Watch this, cut seven.
57:54
Speaker 10: I'm not trying to impress you. I'm just trying to
57:57
Speaker 10: impress upon you.
57:58
Speaker 1: I'm like you.
58:00
Speaker 10: I'm no better than you. You know, I'm a 960
58:04
Speaker 10: SAT guy. And, you know, and I'm not trying to
58:09
Speaker 10: offend anyone, you know, trying to act all there if
58:12
Speaker 10: you got 940. But literally a 960 SAT guy. I cannot,
58:19
Speaker 10: you've never seen me read a speech because I cannot
58:24
Speaker 10: read a speech. This may be the wrong business to
58:28
Speaker 10: be in.
58:35
Speaker 3: Yeah.
58:36
Speaker 1: Nicki Minaj reacted to this. Did you see Nicki's reaction?
58:39
Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
58:40
Speaker 1: Craig did. Craig saw it. Nicki Minaj said this. His
58:43
Speaker 1: way of bonding with black people is to tell them
58:45
Speaker 1: how stupid he is and that he can't read. This
58:47
Speaker 1: means my first read on him was correct. He's been
58:51
Speaker 1: handed so many things and put in high positions he
58:53
Speaker 1: never earned or deserved. You want to know the craziest
58:55
Speaker 1: part of this footage that will haunt him forever? He's
58:57
Speaker 1: literally slowing his speech down. and talking in a sporadic cadence.
59:02
Speaker 1: He's not just telling them that they're all probably stupid
59:04
Speaker 1: and probably can't read. He's literally slowing down his speech
59:08
Speaker 1: to make them understand the words that are coming out
59:10
Speaker 1: of his mouth as if they're children. That means he
59:12
Speaker 1: really believes they're slow. He's not just saying it. He
59:15
Speaker 1: didn't misspeak. He believes it. Do you love it? Do
59:18
Speaker 1: you just love it, black people? You know, this reminds me,
59:21
Speaker 1: the Washington Post had a piece a in order to
59:31
Speaker 1: speak to black people. Do you guys remember this? This
59:34
Speaker 1: is a Washington Post piece. White liberals dumb themselves down
59:37
Speaker 1: when they speak to black people, a new study contends.
59:42
Speaker 1: They talk about, they start with like a book club
59:45
Speaker 1: or something. They said that when it comes to white libs,
59:51
Speaker 1: they will dumb down their language, which if they're talking
59:54
Speaker 1: to a black person, so they might not use words
59:56
Speaker 1: like melancholy and euphoric if they're talking to a black person,
59:59
Speaker 1: they might use sad or happy with a woman, a
1:00:03
Speaker 1: fictional woman called Lakeisha. But if you're a white conservative,
1:00:07
Speaker 1: your diction won't depend on the presumed race of your interlocutor.
1:00:13
Speaker 1: In other words, you're not going to change your language
1:00:16
Speaker 1: based on somebody's skin color. It's a racial and political
1:00:20
Speaker 1: disparity that was discovered by social psychologists. Yeah, I don't know.
1:00:24
Speaker 1: I don't really know how much scientific research you needed
1:00:27
Speaker 1: to conclude that. I think I could have told you
1:00:29
Speaker 1: that's the way it happens. But isn't that wild? That was, yeah,
1:00:31
Speaker 1: that Washington Post piece. When was that published? That was
1:00:33
Speaker 1: years ago.
1:00:33
Speaker 3: 2018.
1:00:34
Speaker 1: That was 2018. Very long time ago. Still true today.
1:00:39
Speaker 1: But here's the update on this story. Gavin Newsom, it
1:00:42
Speaker 1: turns out, we just got a flashback of Gavin Newsom.
1:00:44
Speaker 1: Just a couple months ago, he was sitting down with
1:00:47
Speaker 1: a couple of white authors, and he told them not
1:00:50
Speaker 1: only that he could read, but that he sprinted through
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Speaker 1: their excellent new book, Cut Eight.
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Speaker 3: Watch.
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Speaker 10: You've written a hell of a book, and I don't
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Speaker 10: say that lightly. I went through it in a quick
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Speaker 10: hour and a half, almost two hours. And trust me,
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Speaker 10: I don't read very fast, but it reads at an
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Speaker 10: unbelievable pace. It's so well written. And of course, it's
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Speaker 10: so familiar because I felt a little bit adjacent to
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Speaker 10: so much of the subject matter. But it's 18 chapters.
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Speaker 10: It's an impressive piece of work. 263 or so pages to.
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Speaker 1: I sprinted through it. It was one of the fastest
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Speaker 1: reads of my life. I was like, you know, not
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Speaker 1: a super fast reader, but man, I flew through that book.
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Speaker 1: That's wild. That guy lies like he breathes easily, very easily.
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Speaker 11: I think a lot of people are underestimating the Trump
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