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Prices & Paychecks, President's rally, Prof. Nick Giordano · Rich Valdés: This is America!

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  Speaker 1: This is America with Rich Valdez, powered by politweek dot Com.
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  Speaker 2: Rich Valdes is with US former Christian Administration.
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  Speaker 3: Official you worked for, Chris Christie.
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  Speaker 4: Have been follows each on a lot of public service stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Rich Valdez calumnist now with the Washington Times.
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  Speaker 3: This is America, Richiev.
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  Speaker 5: You're on the air with a Nation.
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  Speaker 4: With America with.
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  Speaker 1: Your host, Rich Valdez.
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  Speaker 4: What's up, America. I am Rich Valdes Valdest with an
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  Speaker 4: s at Rich Valdest on all of the social media.
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  Speaker 4: You're liberty loving Latino amigo, seventeen miles away from Madison
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  Speaker 4: Square Garden here in New York City. Blessed to be
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  Speaker 4: on this microphone with each and every one of you.
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  Speaker 4: And listen, Familia. It's December ninth, twenty twenty five. I'm
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  Speaker 4: channeling some of that Puerto Rican sunshine that I wish
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  Speaker 4: I was feeling today, even though on a freezing day
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  Speaker 4: like today, it was fourteen degrees last night. But whether
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  Speaker 4: we're you know, putting on that skull cap or putting
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  Speaker 4: on a beautiful Hawaiian shirt because you're having fun in
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  Speaker 4: the sun, whatever it is you're doing tonight in America,
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  Speaker 4: I want you to pull up a chair or turn
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  Speaker 4: the volume up in your car. And I want to
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  Speaker 4: get into a bunch of things because we're hitting the
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  Speaker 4: headlines with you know, a little energy, not as much
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  Speaker 4: energy as usual because I went for a blood test today.
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  Speaker 4: I actually donated blood, and man, I am so exhausted.
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  Speaker 4: That stuff wipes you out. When they told me you're
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  Speaker 4: gonna feel tired, I didn't believe him, but now I
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  Speaker 4: feel it.
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  Speaker 6: I do.
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  Speaker 4: Anyway, bumble, let's get into this. I want to kick
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  Speaker 4: off with some politics. L Trompito den Aldis Magnus, the
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  Speaker 4: forty fifth and forty seventh President of these United States.
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  Speaker 4: ED PRESIDENTE is firing on all cylinders today. He's in Pennsylvania,
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  Speaker 4: Scranton area, Mount Pocono kicking off an affordability messaging tour
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  Speaker 4: at a rally in the Mount Pocono area, defending his
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  Speaker 4: rock solid economic plan and tackling those voter concerns head on.
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  Speaker 4: And that's what he's got to do. We need to
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  Speaker 4: turn this messaging thing around. He's reassuring everybody that the
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  Speaker 4: economy is very healthy and we're well on our way
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  Speaker 4: to the comeback that he's been talking about, pushing back
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  Speaker 4: on what critics are saying has been this and that
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  Speaker 4: and whatever. You know, with classic e Trompito fire. So
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  Speaker 4: good for him, and you know how it is. He's
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  Speaker 4: got the crowd roaring, going louder and louder and louder.
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  Speaker 4: It's like a Phillies game over there anyway. And you
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  Speaker 4: know me, I'm not a big fan of the Phillies.
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  Speaker 4: But President Trump was warning that overturning his tariffs would
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  Speaker 4: be America's biggest detriment. And you know he put he
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  Speaker 4: put forward a pretty tough litmus test for the next
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  Speaker 4: FED chair to keep things strong.
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  Speaker 5: Now.
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  Speaker 4: He also talked about energy, He talked about the economy, jobs, incomes,
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  Speaker 4: and he also talked about ill han Omar. But the
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  Speaker 4: big takeaway that I wanted to start with from President
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  Speaker 4: Trump to was what he had to say about Christmas.
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  Speaker 4: It was one of his opening lines saying, hey, look,
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  Speaker 4: we get to celebrate Christmas in America again.
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  Speaker 7: Listen to this, but let me begin by wishing each
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  Speaker 7: and every one of you are very merry Christmas, Happy
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  Speaker 7: New Year, all of that stuff. Remember when I started
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  Speaker 7: in twenty fifteen, I made my first speech and I said,
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  Speaker 7: we're going to bring back Christmas.
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  Speaker 3: Remember, they wanted to the.
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  Speaker 7: Radical left wanted to get word of them. They wanted
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  Speaker 7: to get rid of the word Christmas. I said, I
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  Speaker 7: don't think that's going to work out, And we did it,
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  Speaker 7: and now everybody's saying Merry Christmas again.
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  Speaker 4: President Trump trying to bring it back, keeping it patriotic
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  Speaker 4: and all that fun stuff. But at the same time,
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  Speaker 4: there's other breaking news going on in America. He talks
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  Speaker 4: about il han Omar, her brother potentially marrying her brother.
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  Speaker 7: Do we have any individuals from Somalia in the girl,
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  Speaker 7: please raise your hand. That's for Minnesota. You know, that's
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  Speaker 7: called the Great Big Minnesota Scam with one of the
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  Speaker 7: dumbest governors ever in history. I love this elin Omar,
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  Speaker 7: whatever the hell her there is, with the little shoe,
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  Speaker 7: the little turban, I love her. She comes in there's
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  Speaker 7: nothing but bitch. She's always complained. She comes from her
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  Speaker 7: country where I mean, it's considered about the worst country
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  Speaker 7: in the world.
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  Speaker 8: Right.
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  Speaker 7: They have no military, they have no nothing, They have
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  Speaker 7: no parliament. They don't know what they hell the word
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  Speaker 7: parliament means. They have nothing. They have no police.
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  Speaker 3: They police themselves.
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  Speaker 7: They kill each other all the time.
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  Speaker 8: I love it.
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  Speaker 7: She comes to our country and she's always complaining about
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  Speaker 7: the constitution allows me to do this. The concert, we
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  Speaker 7: would to get her to hell out. She married her
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  Speaker 7: brother in order to get in, right, she married her brother.
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  Speaker 7: Can you imagine if Donald Trump married a sister, beautiful
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  Speaker 7: She's a beautiful person. If I married my sister to
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  Speaker 7: get my citizenship, do you think I'd last for about
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  Speaker 7: two hours? Or it would be something less than that.
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  Speaker 7: She married her brother to get in. Therefore she's here illegally.
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  Speaker 7: She should get the hell out, Throw the hell out.
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  Speaker 4: She does nothing but complain, as well as the economy,
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  Speaker 4: how people are earning a living, taking some shots at
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  Speaker 4: Joe L. Baboso Biden and talking about how positive the
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  Speaker 4: future looks for America over the next couple of years.
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  Speaker 7: Together, we're repairing four years of disaster by the radical
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  Speaker 7: left Democrats in Congress and by the worst president.
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  Speaker 3: In the history of our country. He is, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it's not a question about that.
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  Speaker 7: It's just the worst president in the history of our country.
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  Speaker 7: The damage he thank you very much so, damage he's
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  Speaker 7: done to our.
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  Speaker 4: Country is something we can never forget.
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  Speaker 7: After just ten months, our border is secure, our spirit
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  Speaker 7: is restored. Inflation is stopped, wages or prices are down.
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  Speaker 7: Our nation is strong, America is respected again, and the
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  Speaker 7: United States is.
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  Speaker 4: Backed now keeping things moving. I want to go over
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  Speaker 4: to Miami. You know, I like miamibm man e the Iamiami.
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  Speaker 4: Remember that Will Smith song? I love that one. Anyway,
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  Speaker 4: Welcome to Miami. Miami has now seen the first Democrat
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  Speaker 4: mayor it's seen since nineteen ninety eight. Yep, who saw
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  Speaker 4: that one coming? I certainly did not. I guess I
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  Speaker 4: wasn't paying enough attention. But another Democrat wins and another
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  Speaker 4: big city taking it from Republican control. Francis Suarez being
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  Speaker 4: the previous mayor of Miami. Here's what it sounded like
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  Speaker 4: in the room for the mayor elect, Eileen Higgins. Well,
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  Speaker 4: you get the point. Eileen, Eileen, Eileen. They love Eileen,
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  Speaker 4: and this Democrat is now the first winner of a
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  Speaker 4: mayoral race in nearly thirty years. Not only is this
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  Speaker 4: a pretty big loss for Republicans, I would say because
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  Speaker 4: President Trump flipped Miami from being relatively blue, I mean
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  Speaker 4: red leaning, but blue, to being red in particular Miami
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  Speaker 4: and Dade County. Anyway, this woman, she's now in control.
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  Speaker 4: She was the candidate, and now she is the mayor.
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  Speaker 4: Eileen Higgins, the city's first woman mayor. Higgins, who was
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  Speaker 4: sixty one years old, beat out the Trump backed Republican
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  Speaker 4: candidate Emilio Gonzales in the city's runoff election tonight Tuesday night,
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  Speaker 4: and will now become the city's first Democrat mayor since
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  Speaker 4: nineteen ninety eight, as well as the city's first ever
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  Speaker 4: woman mayor, saying, quote, tonight, the people of Miami made history,
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  Speaker 4: she said in a statement that that was released by
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  Speaker 4: her campaign shortly after the results were announced. And this
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  Speaker 4: victory again big upset for the GOP got lawmakers across
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  Speaker 4: the country who rallied behind Gonzales, as the election became
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  Speaker 4: seen as a test of voter reaction for President Trump,
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  Speaker 4: a litmus test, if you will, a bell Weather and
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  Speaker 4: this is the result. I think we're going to see
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  Speaker 4: a little bit more of this. There's going to be people,
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  Speaker 4: you know, wanting to counter balance what's going on in
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  Speaker 4: the White House by going in the other direction. I
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  Speaker 4: think we're going to see that up until people are
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  Speaker 4: so comfortable and please making money, putting money in their
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  Speaker 4: pockets and being in a better financial situation that they're
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  Speaker 4: gonna be forced to sat right, let's make a deal.
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  Speaker 4: But in the meantime, Miami's got a new mayor. Unbelievable anyway, folks,
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  Speaker 4: thanks for putting up with me. I know I'm a
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  Speaker 4: little sluggish today because I donated blood, but I've got
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  Speaker 4: more to come. Straight ahead. Professor Nick Giordano, you know
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  Speaker 4: him from the Fox News channel and from his courses. Right,
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  Speaker 4: he's an actual tenured professor at stuff a Community College.
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  Speaker 4: He's going to be joining me straight ahead as well.
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  Speaker 4: So keep it locked right here. I'm Rich Valdez. This
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  Speaker 4: is America, all right, America. Welcome back Rich Valdesk. Valdesk
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  Speaker 4: with ansk at Rich Valdesk, keeping your company tonight, and
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  Speaker 4: I want to direct your attention to some of the
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  Speaker 4: conversation that's going on regarding immigration as well as the economy, because, man,
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  Speaker 4: even CNN is admitting that we've got a lot of
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  Speaker 4: progress being made in the area of gas prices. Gas
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  Speaker 4: prices going down, even CNN saying that these are some
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  Speaker 4: of the lowest prices we've seen in I think the
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  Speaker 4: last four years. Check this out.
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  Speaker 1: Some states seeing gas prices below three dollars for the
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  Speaker 1: first time in years.
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  Speaker 8: Let's get the CNAs.
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  Speaker 4: Matt Egan for the good news.
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  Speaker 1: For the first time in four and a half years,
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  Speaker 1: gas prices are averaging three dollars a gallon national in
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  Speaker 1: Court in TRIPLEA, down by seventh cents in just the
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  Speaker 1: past week. Gas prises were low a year ago as well,
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  Speaker 1: but they're even cheaper now. This is encouraging to see
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  Speaker 1: because late last month there was a period where gas
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  Speaker 1: prices were actually higher this year than last year, but
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  Speaker 1: that has reversed again and now we've just fractions of
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  Speaker 1: a penny away from breaking below.
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  Speaker 3: Three dollars a gallon.
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  Speaker 1: Now, as you mentioned, we've got twenty states across the
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  Speaker 1: country where the average is actually less than two seventy
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  Speaker 1: five a gallon, including North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Iowa, Wisconsin,
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  Speaker 1: and Colorado as well. Certainly nice to see this.
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  Speaker 4: Now he's about to explain exactly why this is happening,
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  Speaker 4: and it's exactly what I call the America First El
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  Speaker 4: Trompito policies. Check this out.
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  Speaker 1: It all comes down, of course, to oil prices.
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Oil prices are about fifty nine dollars a barrel this morning,
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  Speaker 1: you look back in history on December one, three years ago,
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  Speaker 1: we're looking at eighty one dollars a barrel for oil,
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  Speaker 1: sixty seven dollars even last year, so significantly cheaper. And
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  Speaker 1: that's because right now, supply of oil continues to outpace demand.
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  Speaker 1: It's US supply. Production of the US is at all
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  Speaker 1: time highs. It's higher than last year, but only a
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  Speaker 1: little bit higher. OPEK is the big story though, right
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  Speaker 1: so Saudi read o OPEC. They are ramping up production
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  Speaker 1: substantially this year. They've signaled that they plan to pause
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  Speaker 1: those output hikes next year, but for now, look, this
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  Speaker 1: is a good story. When it comes to the affordability crisis. Gasoline,
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  Speaker 1: it's relatively cheap.
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  Speaker 4: So that's again CNN admitting exactly what El Trumpito was saying.
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  Speaker 4: And it's not just me saying it, it's also Americans
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  Speaker 4: all across the country. Newsmax national correspondent Mike Carter was
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  Speaker 4: out and about in the middle of the country and
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  Speaker 4: he spoke with a few voters about their thoughts on
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  Speaker 4: Trump's economy, gas prices, and energy overall.
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  Speaker 5: Listen to this, President Trump has addressed a lot of
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  Speaker 5: my concerns. Brought the price of gas down, No two
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  Speaker 5: ways about it.
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  Speaker 7: When it comes to the economy, how would your greatest
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  Speaker 7: job performance?
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  Speaker 5: Fantastic? Confident that the.
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  Speaker 7: Tariff policies are working. Yes, how's the troup economy treating you?
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  Speaker 4: It's doing fine. It's been rough under Biden.
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  Speaker 9: Things don't happen overnight.
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  Speaker 3: I mean it takes time.
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  Speaker 4: It took time to bring it down, It's going to
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  Speaker 4: take time to bring.
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  Speaker 3: It back up again.
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  Speaker 9: I think the terriff policies will come into effect and
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  Speaker 9: start to work because it's going to bring manufacturing jobs
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  Speaker 9: back to the US. It's going to help stable the
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  Speaker 9: middle class and rebuild the middle class.
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  Speaker 5: Tourism is very important here and there's a lot of
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  Speaker 5: people that work in the service industry. I am the
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  Speaker 5: owner of an Italian restaurant, and I'm glad that my
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  Speaker 5: employees will have the benefit of no tax on tips.
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  Speaker 4: And Treasury Secretary Scott bess And speaking at the rally
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  Speaker 4: last night as well, informing all of the attendees on
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  Speaker 4: exactly why he expects incomes to go up. Listen to this.
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  Speaker 10: Thanks to President Trump's efforts on deregulation, America's businesses are
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  Speaker 10: able to build and innovate, innovate again. Thanks to his
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  Speaker 10: one Big, Beautiful Bill, Americans are taking home more of
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  Speaker 10: their hard earned income as a result of no tax
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  Speaker 10: and tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on social Security,
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  Speaker 10: and deductibility of auto loans for American made cars American
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  Speaker 10: made cars.
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  Speaker 5: And thanks to his.
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  Speaker 10: Heroic efforts and trade, trillions of dollars in new investment
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  Speaker 10: have flowed into the United States and our workers are
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  Speaker 10: finally able to compete on an even playing field. These
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  Speaker 10: these policies, in combination, are driving a boost in production
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  Speaker 10: that will lower the prices of goods for all American
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  Speaker 10: in twenty twenty six, while also creating jobs and increasing incomes.
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  Speaker 10: This is the formula for prosperity, Lowering prices, raising incomes,
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  Speaker 10: and every component of the Trump economic agenda is in
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  Speaker 10: pursuit of these twin goals. Under President Trump, scarcity is
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  Speaker 10: giving way to prosperity. The benefits of his agenda are
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  Speaker 10: now rippling through the economy, and those ripples will become
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  Speaker 10: waves as his agenda gathers force. In twenty twenty six,
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  Speaker 10: President Trump has put a decisive end to the three eyes.
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  Speaker 10: I would add a fourth one, insanity. Under Joe Biden insanity.
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  Speaker 10: Our great president is ushering in a golden age economy
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  Speaker 10: by making America affordable again.
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  Speaker 4: That is Secretary Scott Besson saying, lowering prices and keeping
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  Speaker 4: more of your paycheck. I think it's a great message.
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  Speaker 4: The question is our American's going to believe it. I
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  Speaker 4: think it's on the way. I do believe the steps
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  Speaker 4: are in place. We're going to see things begin to
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  Speaker 4: happen in i'd say close to the summertime. We're going
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  Speaker 4: to see a lot more economic activity. You're just still
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  Speaker 4: digging out of a hole, and it takes a while
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  Speaker 4: to dig out of holes. But that's what was going
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  Speaker 4: on in that. I don't know it was like a rally,
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  Speaker 4: but it was, you know, the comeback tour for the
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  Speaker 4: president's economic policies. And excellent to see Ed Trompito back
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  Speaker 4: on the stage the way he was.
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  Speaker 8: Now.
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  Speaker 4: Something else I wanted to say was I'm going to
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  Speaker 4: get into this a little bit more with Professor Nick
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  Speaker 4: Jordana when he joins us in a little bit, he's
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  Speaker 4: calling into the show. So keep it luck right here.
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  Speaker 4: I'm rich Aldesesk.
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  Speaker 3: This is America.
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  Speaker 11: This is America, but grace or primal norods Bara Rich
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  Speaker 11: Valdez e s os America Awara.
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  Speaker 4: All right, and he goes welcome back Rich Valdez at
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  Speaker 4: Rich Valdez with an s on all of the social media.
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  Speaker 4: And I want to get into a number of things here.
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  Speaker 4: One of the things I want to get into is immigration. Right,
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  Speaker 4: we're going to talk about immigration a little bit. I
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  Speaker 4: want to talk about how jas mc crockett says that
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  Speaker 4: committing crimes doesn't make you a criminal. Committing crimes just
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  Speaker 4: means that you committed a crime. You're just doing crime, right,
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  Speaker 4: Does it make you a criminal? I think that's pretty crazy.
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  Speaker 4: But this is what the congresswoman was saying when she
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  Speaker 4: was on on Uh let me see where was she? Well,
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna call it TV for now, but looks like
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  Speaker 4: a press conference, all right, stand by, all right, queue
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  Speaker 4: up that crocket and let her rip when you got
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  Speaker 4: it ready? All right, go ahead. It looks like it
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  Speaker 4: was on the Getting Better podcast. Thank you.
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  Speaker 12: I understood what was kind kind of pushing them there,
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  Speaker 12: And so I do want people to know that just
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  Speaker 12: because someone has committed a crime, it doesn't make them
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  Speaker 12: a criminal. That is completely different being a criminal.
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  Speaker 4: The host is so profoundly moved by this statement. M
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  Speaker 4: I understand you. You're interviewing somebody and you want to
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  Speaker 4: give them a lot of leash, right, a lot of opportunity,
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  Speaker 4: a lot of leeway to speak. This was not very profound.
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  Speaker 4: This was kind of silly, very surface level thinking.
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  Speaker 12: No, it's more so about your mindset. Committing a crime
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  Speaker 12: can come for a lot of different reasons.
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  Speaker 4: Now, of course, Jasmine Crockett is part of an entire
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  Speaker 4: group of people that just believes that this is how
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  Speaker 4: things are supposed to work. But somebody that's torching il
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  Speaker 4: han Omar and illegal immigration is the president himself, and
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  Speaker 4: not too far behind him Steven Miller Stephen Miller was
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  Speaker 4: on the Fox News channel and saying, look, we have
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  Speaker 4: some problems in our country that are directly related to immigration,
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  Speaker 4: and we blame it on so many other things. This
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  Speaker 4: is pretty profound. Listen to this.
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  Speaker 2: Conditions that they left over and over and over again,
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  Speaker 2: and we mask the impact of immigration every public policy
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  Speaker 2: issue we discuss. We talk about test scores, will if
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  Speaker 2: you subtract immigration out of test scores, all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 2: our test scores skyrocket if you subtract immigration out of healthcare,
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  Speaker 2: all of a sudden, we don't have nearly the size
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  Speaker 2: of the healthcare challenges our country faces. If you subtract
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  Speaker 2: immigration out of public safety, all of a sudden, we
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  Speaker 2: don't have violent crime in so many of our cities.
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  Speaker 2: Issue after issue, we talk about these things that just
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  Speaker 2: they just happened to us. The schools just suddenly fail
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  Speaker 2: by the crime just suddenly explodes, the deficit just suddenly skyrockets.
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  Speaker 2: These are a result of social policy choices that we
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  Speaker 2: made through immigration.
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  Speaker 4: Really well put, and he nailed it right there, but
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: he was speaking specifically in the context of Somalian immigration,
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: and I think we have a broader clip of that.
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: If we could find that, that would be great, because
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: that's a clip within a clip. But I thought it
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: was really important to play the full context of the
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: clip because for me, it gives I guess, just an
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: added layer of context that I think is necessary to
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: fully grasp this point. You got it, all right, go ahead,
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: play to take So you.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: See with a lot of these immigrant groups, not only
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: is the first generation unsuccessful against Somaldia as a clear
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: example here, not only is the first generation unsuccessful, but
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: you see persistent issues in every subsequent generation. So you
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: see consistent high rates of welfare use, consistent high rates
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: of criminal activity, consistent failures to assimilate. But this shouldn't
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: be a surprise, Will It's just common sense. If Somaldians
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: cannot make Somalia successful, why would we think that the
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: track will be any different in the United States? Go
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: third world country by third world country. No one's saying, Look,
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: there are people all over the world that are great people.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: But you look at the society. If Libya keeps failing,
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: if the Central African Republic keeps failing, if Samalia keeps failing. Right,
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: if these societies all over the world continue to fail,
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: you have to ask yourself. If you bring those societies
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: into our country and then give them unlimited, free welfare,
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: what do we think is going to happen. You're going
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: to replicate the conditions that they left over and over
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: and over again. And we mask the impact of immigration
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: every public policy issue we discuss, we talk about test scores.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: Will if you subtract immigration out of test scores, all
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: of a sudden, our test scores skyrocket. If you subtract
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: immigration out of healthcare, all of a sudden, we don't
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: have nearly the science of the healthcare challenges our country faces.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: If you subtract immigration out of public say, all of
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: a sudden, we don't have violent crime in so many
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: of our cities. Issue after issue, we talk about these
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: things that just they just happened to us. The schools
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: just suddenly fail VI, the crime just suddenly explodes, the
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: deficit just suddenly skyrockets. These are a result of social
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: policy choices that we made through immigration.
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: Now, as you heard the larger point here, I agree
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: with the statement that he's saying right, that these are
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: directly related to what's going on. Yes, the social policy
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: decisions that have been made through immigration are impacting. This
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: the part that I guess I'll call into question, not
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: saying I disagree, because I think there's a point there.
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: I just don't know if it's an absolute point in
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: saying that if they failed in X, Y and Z country,
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: what makes you think that they're not going to fail here.
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: There's countless stories of that people that fled Mussolini from
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: Italy and came to the United States because they don't
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: want to have fascism. These people came to America and
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: they flourished. Many of them, right, they didn't come here
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: and become a drag on society. There are a number
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: of people groups that I could think of over the
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: years that just think of Asians, right, think of so
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: many Asians Koreans in particular. Do you does anybody here
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: consider Asians a drag on our society that they don't contribute?
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: Of course not right. I can't say I've ever seen
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: a even a homeless Asian person, Right. They take care
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: of their own They have their entire neighborhoods. They have
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: very nice homes, at least where I live. That's how
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: it is. So my point here, I don't know if
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: that is something that I can get behind, right, that
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: part of it saying if they couldn't make it in
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: their own country, how could they make it here? And
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: if we keep allowing that to happen. I think the
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: United States has the choice that it's going to make
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: whether we allow immigration or not. And I agree with
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: the point that if we're going to allow immigration, it
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: should be people that are going to help America be better. Right,
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: If we don't have the best doctors, lawyers, engineers, coders, whatever,
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: and we can get one from another part of the world,
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: then we should get them and it should be based
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: on this merit. But of course there is the evalence
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: part of this, where people say, I'm trying to escape
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: a country that is trying to kill me, and for
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: years and years and years, we have allowed these people
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: into our country for whatever reason. Now I think most
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: people are in agreement that we can do that, but
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: it can't exceed x amount, right, So it's always like
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: a million people a year that we allowed into the
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: country legal immigration. I think that's a fair number, and
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: I would even vote for cutting it in half or
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: even three quarters. My point is, I don't know that
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: we can just throw the baby out with the bathwater.
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: I don't know that we can get rid of benevolence.
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: Maybe we can pause it and say I'm sorry, if
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: they're killing you in your country, try Canada, try here,
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: try there. We can do that because we're at capacity,
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: because we can't help. But to make the case one
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: way or the other that if you come from a
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: bad country, if you were unsuccessful there, you'll be unsuccessful here,
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: I think is an argument that's going to be tough
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: to make personally. I just think it's going to be
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: a tough one. If people could do well in their
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: home country, then they wouldn't leave, they wouldn't come to America.
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: They would be experiencing the American dream wherever they are,
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: and we all know that's not the case. There are
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: certain opportunities that exist in America that don't exist anywhere else.
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: Free speech among them, right, and the ability to really
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: engage in the free market. So that alone, I think
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: undercuts that first part of the argument. But I understand it.
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: I understand that you're not going to go and bring
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: the worst of the worst, the poorest people, the least literate.
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: You don't want to bring those people here and expect
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: that that's not going to become a drag on your
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: educational system and overall lower all of the gains that
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: you're trying to make as a society. That makes perfect
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: sense as well. Anyway, I just wanted to share that
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: with you. Chew on that for a minute. We're coming
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: back continuing the conversation. More to come straight ahead. I'm
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: rich Valdes.
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: This is America, this is America.
• 25:51
  Speaker 11: He's brown, he's bald, and he's.
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: Breaking it down. Oh he still has some what's his pay?
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: Rich Veldes?
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: All right?
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: I mean he goes, welcome back. It's Rich Valdez southest
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: with an at Rich Valdez on all of the social media,
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: happy to be here with you. And I want to
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: get into this with a clip of El Trumpito and
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: all this. Magnus the forty fifth president of these United States.
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: He's also the forty seventh president, in case anybody missed it,
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: and he is in Scranton, Pennsylvania, home of Joe El
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: Baboso Biden, and he had this to say about the
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: Biden economy versus the current state of affairs in the
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: Trump economy. Check this out.
• 26:33
  Speaker 7: But under Biden, real wages plummeted by three thousand dollars
• 26:39
  Speaker 7: a year. Under Trump, the typical factory worker has already
• 26:43
  Speaker 7: seen their wages increased by more than thirteen hundred dollars.
• 26:47
  Speaker 7: And that's in just a few months. And for construction workers,
• 26:52
  Speaker 7: this one eight hundred dollars up versus three thousand, five
• 26:57
  Speaker 7: hundred dollars down. And I think their number is wrong.
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: It's much than that.
• 27:01
  Speaker 7: For miners. Do we love miners?
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: I love miners.
• 27:04
  Speaker 7: I don't know how they do it going ten thousand
• 27:07
  Speaker 7: feet under the ground.
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: And they wouldn't trade jobs with me.
• 27:11
  Speaker 7: If I gave them a beautiful, magnificent penthouse in the
• 27:14
  Speaker 7: middle of Manhattan where I used to live. If I
• 27:19
  Speaker 7: gave them the most beautiful penthouse, they wouldn't take it.
• 27:22
  Speaker 7: That'd rather go ten thousand feet underground and Dick, that's
• 27:25
  Speaker 7: what they want for miners their wages one up, three thousand,
• 27:30
  Speaker 7: three hundred dollars.
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: We know what happened under Biden, and Professor Nick Jordano
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: is our guest. Professor Nick Gjordano's professor of political science
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: at Suffolk Community College. I appreciate it, and Professor I'm
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: laughing because the video is going to replay and Trump
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: make some of the funniest faces. It caught me off guard.
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: But uh, Professor Nick Jordano, I know that you know.
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: While you're there teaching your students about political science at
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: Suffolk County Community College, where you are a tenured professor
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: and the host of the PAS Report, one of the
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: things that I'm sure you guys get into is what
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: President Trump is talking about right now, which is the
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: differences in how the economy is being handled now versus Biden.
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna make an observation and then you chime in
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: and you know, take it where you want to take it.
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: But I feel like I remember Trump one point zero,
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: and when he came in, he made some changes, a
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: lot of regulation, red tape cutting, a lot of you know,
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: let's lower these tax rates, and that stuff had a
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: pretty dramatic and immediate impact. Now he's back in office
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: and he's making a lot of the same moves, but
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: the impact has not been as dramatic or as immediate
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: in my estimation. But I think that's because of the
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: dire state of affairs that we were in right prior
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: to Trump coming into office. We didn't have the inflation
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: problem that we had during the Biden years, and I
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: think that's what they're reporting. So what's being reported, in
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: my opinion, is never as bad as it actually is.
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: Nick Jordana, Well, there's a few things going on.
• 28:59
  Speaker 8: So when President Trump first came into office after President Obama,
• 29:04
  Speaker 8: the economy was improving from the two thousand and eight
• 29:07
  Speaker 8: two thousand and nine recession in the housing market crash,
• 29:10
  Speaker 8: and President Trump there was a rule that he implemented
• 29:13
  Speaker 8: for every one new regulation, three regulations had to be eliminated,
• 29:17
  Speaker 8: and that did a dramatic impact to really skyrocket the economy,
• 29:22
  Speaker 8: but more important to skyrock rocket people's incomes. Income levels
• 29:27
  Speaker 8: went from on average to fifty six thousand dollars up
• 29:31
  Speaker 8: to sixty four thousand dollars, and that's a big increase.
• 29:35
  Speaker 8: In fact, what we saw during the first Trump administration
• 29:39
  Speaker 8: was the largest increase in middle class wages over executive pay,
• 29:45
  Speaker 8: and that was the first time that happened in a
• 29:47
  Speaker 8: long time. And so he had a really successful economy
• 29:50
  Speaker 8: than COVID comes. Then President Biden incomes and everything gets destroyed.
• 29:56
  Speaker 8: But the narrative is what's so powerful. Because President Biden,
• 30:01
  Speaker 8: the media would not report how bad inflation was. People
• 30:05
  Speaker 8: were feeling it. They were feeling it when they were
• 30:06
  Speaker 8: going to the grocery stores, when they were filling up
• 30:08
  Speaker 8: their gas tanks, but the media was Inflation's not a problem,
• 30:12
  Speaker 8: everything's fine. You had the Treasury Secretary talking about how
• 30:16
  Speaker 8: inflation was transitory, it was only going to be for
• 30:18
  Speaker 8: a little while, but it ended up being all four years.
• 30:22
  Speaker 8: President Trump comes into office and literally within about three
• 30:26
  Speaker 8: weeks of him being in office, the media is going
• 30:29
  Speaker 8: on about egg prices and the price of milk. And
• 30:33
  Speaker 8: that shows you, though, how powerful the narrative is because
• 30:37
  Speaker 8: now that the media is reporting it, people are saying, yeah,
• 30:39
  Speaker 8: the economy is terrible and things are getting worse and
• 30:43
  Speaker 8: we are struggling. Now, is it really that bad? Well,
• 30:47
  Speaker 8: the numbers yes and no. It's a mixed bag. People
• 30:51
  Speaker 8: are spending more. This Black Friday was historic record levels
• 30:55
  Speaker 8: of spending. People are a little sour on the economy,
• 30:59
  Speaker 8: but we do see gas price is falling. However, people's
• 31:02
  Speaker 8: incomes are not going up and that's a big part
• 31:05
  Speaker 8: of a problem. And the messaging from the Trump team
• 31:08
  Speaker 8: they fell victim to the same what Biden did. You
• 31:12
  Speaker 8: can't tell people the economy is great, everything's working, it's
• 31:16
  Speaker 8: the strongest economy ever if people don't feel that way
• 31:19
  Speaker 8: when they go to the grocery stores. So in the
• 31:22
  Speaker 8: last week you've seen President Trump and his team make
• 31:25
  Speaker 8: the decision that they have to change the messaging. They
• 31:28
  Speaker 8: have to start talking about the economy and how the
• 31:32
  Speaker 8: economy is improving, but how they still feel that the
• 31:36
  Speaker 8: people are in pain, but things are going to improve
• 31:39
  Speaker 8: that we're going to start seeing a rapid improvement beginning
• 31:42
  Speaker 8: January first, as the tax cuts become permanent. No tax
• 31:46
  Speaker 8: on tips, no tax on overtime, we're seeing more investments
• 31:51
  Speaker 8: coming into the United States, so they're hoping to break
• 31:54
  Speaker 8: round on a lot of projects at the beginning of
• 31:56
  Speaker 8: next year that creates more jobs. These are higher paying jobs,
• 32:01
  Speaker 8: and that's the messaging because let's face it, at the
• 32:04
  Speaker 8: end of the day, when it comes to elections, a
• 32:06
  Speaker 8: lot of times it comes down to the economy. When
• 32:09
  Speaker 8: you look at Mayer Mundani, his message was all about
• 32:12
  Speaker 8: the economy. He wants to implement socialist policies to fix it.
• 32:17
  Speaker 8: But he was speaking to people and how people feel,
• 32:20
  Speaker 8: and that's why people voted for him. The Republicans need
• 32:24
  Speaker 8: to take the page from President Trump and start speaking
• 32:27
  Speaker 8: about how we feel your pain. But here is what
• 32:30
  Speaker 8: we're doing to fix this economy, to make the economy
• 32:34
  Speaker 8: work for all Americans. And I think that's what they're
• 32:38
  Speaker 8: starting to do.
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree, And I think that's why Susie Wiles today,
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: White House Chief of Staff, saying President Trump is going
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: to be out there in twenty twenty six campaigning just
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: like he did in twenty twenty four. And I think
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: that's the only way you hold this thing together.
• 32:52
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: We saw President Trump campaigning from Afar. You know, saying
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: things like, well, I'd rather have a bad Democrat than
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: than a communist and things like that. With the New
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: York election, look at how that went. He gave a
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: video endorsement to a Jack Chidarelli in New Jersey. Look
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: at how that went right. So I feel like these endorsements,
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: when he does them and he's there and he shows
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: up and he campaigns with them, they do phenomenally well.
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: But when he says, yeah, yeah, that's my guy, and
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: he does it from afar and he doesn't show up,
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: it doesn't have the same gravitas. So I think that's
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: part of the issue. And the other part of the issues.
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: I think you're right with the messaging. It's difficult to
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: tell people things you're going good when they're saying, hold
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: on a second. You know, I just had to cut
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: back on this. I just had to cut back on that.
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: Today I saw while scream screaming, streaming television is growing
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: by leaves and bounds. All types of streaming services are growing, However,
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: some of them. Most people in a recent survey said
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: that they're cutting back on some of their streaming TV
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: expenses because they need to cut back on a monthly basis.
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: Now I did just go and get some gas, and
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: it is cheap, even premium is cheap. Not cheap, but
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: cheaper than it's been. Right, It used to cost me
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: one hundred bucks to fill up. Now I think I'm
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: filling up at like seventy, so a big difference. And
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: I feel that in my pocket and that's great. But
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: is it enough yet? And I feel like the answer
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: to that is no, it's not enough yet. I think
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: more people need to feel that trickled down effect, if
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: you will now. And I don't like the term trickle down,
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: but I wanted to throw it in there. I want
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: to play another.
• 34:26
  Speaker 8: Game, But you're right, I mean people need to feel
• 34:29
  Speaker 8: it more. I think that's pretty much the main thing. Yes,
• 34:33
  Speaker 8: gas prices are going down, but they need to feel
• 34:35
  Speaker 8: their incomes going up as well. And once that happens,
• 34:40
  Speaker 8: I do believe that Republicans will have a chance in
• 34:43
  Speaker 8: the midterm elections. If it doesn't happen, they're not gonna
• 34:46
  Speaker 8: have a chance. But you said something that's critical. You said,
• 34:49
  Speaker 8: you know, Trump's got to be out there, and that's true.
• 34:51
  Speaker 8: The only thing that would concern me if I'm Republicans
• 34:55
  Speaker 8: is people come out and they vote for Trump. And
• 34:58
  Speaker 8: we know that there is is a whole bunch of
• 35:01
  Speaker 8: Trump supporters in the United States, but that doesn't necessarily
• 35:04
  Speaker 8: translate into Republican votes. And the Republican members in the
• 35:08
  Speaker 8: House and the Senate need to wake up because they
• 35:11
  Speaker 8: need to start pushing through legislation to cut back on regulations,
• 35:16
  Speaker 8: to help retool this economy, to make the economy work
• 35:20
  Speaker 8: for the middle class, to make it more enticing for
• 35:23
  Speaker 8: businesses to invest. If Republicans aren't doing those things, it's
• 35:28
  Speaker 8: not really going to be helpful in the midterm elections
• 35:31
  Speaker 8: because historically, whatever party is in power normally loses the
• 35:36
  Speaker 8: midterm elections. That the only two exceptions to the rule
• 35:39
  Speaker 8: was Franklin Delano Roosevelt and George W. Bush after nine
• 35:43
  Speaker 8: to eleven.
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: So how does that stand for you now? And I
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: agree that that's what history has shown us. We also
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: have forty members of Congress that are not coming back.
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: They've announced they're retiring, not just MTG but another thirty
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: nine of them. With numbers like that going on, it
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: makes me wonder how much campaigning can Trump do and
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: can he carry all of this with a bunch of
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: new people Most of these Republican seats are pretty safe,
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: but there's a handful that aren't, and I think we're
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: probably going to lose one or two. From the way
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: it looks right now. It could be drastically wrong on that,
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: and it could be more, and I hope it's not.
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: But something that you said I thought made a lot
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: of sense, and I guess more of an economics question
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: is what do you think is slowing down the investment
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: that we're seeing in AI, the investment that's being made,
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: the leaps and bounds of growth that we're seeing with cryptocurrency.
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: What's it going to take for all of these things
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: that Trump is laying the groundwork on to actually materialize
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: and become real wages for more Americans so that people
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: don't feel the way they do well.
• 36:57
  Speaker 8: It's going to take a little time, because it's not
• 37:01
  Speaker 8: like just taking one of the factories that exists in
• 37:04
  Speaker 8: Orbany that's been closed down for fifty years and now
• 37:07
  Speaker 8: we're just going to fire it up again. A lot
• 37:09
  Speaker 8: of the factories that we're talking about are technologically dependent.
• 37:14
  Speaker 8: These are factories that are rebuilding microchips, and so there's
• 37:17
  Speaker 8: certain specifications that need to be built it gets very complicated.
• 37:21
  Speaker 8: There are rules that are regulations that you have to follow. Now,
• 37:25
  Speaker 8: President Trump, what I think he's going to do and
• 37:27
  Speaker 8: what I think he has done. He cut through a
• 37:29
  Speaker 8: lot of the red tape with Lee Zelden as the
• 37:32
  Speaker 8: EPA director, waiving certain rules that exist. But he still
• 37:36
  Speaker 8: has to deal with local governments and state government regulations
• 37:39
  Speaker 8: that he doesn't have the authority to override, and that's
• 37:42
  Speaker 8: where you can see slowdowns. At the same time, it
• 37:46
  Speaker 8: takes time to build these facilities, So a lot of
• 37:49
  Speaker 8: times when presidents put in policies, they may not see
• 37:52
  Speaker 8: the benefits during their administration, or they may seem towards
• 37:55
  Speaker 8: detail end of their administration. President Trump only has four years.
• 38:00
  Speaker 8: He can't run again, and so it creates a situation
• 38:05
  Speaker 8: where he wants to get this done as quickly as possible.
• 38:08
  Speaker 8: Let's let's face it, President Trump loves to pray he
• 38:12
  Speaker 8: is the president wants. If anyone could speed this process up,
• 38:18
  Speaker 8: it's certainly him. But I do believe that you will
• 38:23
  Speaker 8: start seeing wage increases next year, and if people do
• 38:26
  Speaker 8: feel wage increases. The way I look at it, I
• 38:29
  Speaker 8: can't predict who's going to win the House and the
• 38:31
  Speaker 8: Senate next year. It's too far out. What I think
• 38:34
  Speaker 8: is that the President of the United States and the
• 38:36
  Speaker 8: Republican Party has eight months. Eight months. If people don't
• 38:42
  Speaker 8: become more optimistic towards the economy, if people don't feel
• 38:45
  Speaker 8: that their personal economies are improving, Republicans will be toast
• 38:49
  Speaker 8: in the midterm elections. If people feel that the economy
• 38:52
  Speaker 8: is getting better, Republicans will likely keep the House and
• 38:56
  Speaker 8: the Senate. But they have eight months to get start
• 38:58
  Speaker 8: getting movement on this stuff.
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: Now, we talked about the technological stuff, and it makes
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: a lot of sense, and I agree with you. I
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: think a lot of that stuff is going to come
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: home to roost now in twenty twenty six. I think
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: we're going to see a lot of growth there. The
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: other part of the growth I think we're going to
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: see is the drilling.
• 39:15
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: We've been drilling. We've been rolling back the blocks on
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: leases on federal land. A lot of that's been happening,
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: and I think we're going to see the outcomes of that.
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: But President Trump spoke about that today in Scranton, Pennsylvania,
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: and Professor Nick Jordan, I want you to listen to
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: this and then tell me what you think. Stand by,
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: we're right.
• 39:32
  Speaker 7: Now drilling more oil that we've ever done ever before.
• 39:37
  Speaker 7: Prices are way down. We just had four states who
• 39:40
  Speaker 7: was just reported that force States had one dollar and
• 39:43
  Speaker 7: ninety nine cents a gall first saw moving.
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: We're right now drilling more.
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: Now we're drilling, thank you for the repeat, sir, thank you,
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: and drilling energy. That's I guess it's the second phase
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: or an additional phase of what our economy looks like.
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: What's your take? Are you bullish on the energy outcomes
• 40:08
  Speaker 4: for America? I certainly am. I think especially with the
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: geopolitical stuff that President Trump has been doing, or I
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: should stay geopolitical groundwork. President Trump's been laying with trying
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: to isolate Russia, trying to steal some of their business
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: from the Europeans, saying hey buy some LNG from US,
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: et cetera, et cetera, as well as the isolation of Venezuela.
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: I think these are all critical moves both for our economy,
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: both for our foreign policy, and ultimately for the future
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: of wage growth for our country.
• 40:37
  Speaker 8: Professor Well, I think you're right. And when you look
• 40:42
  Speaker 8: at the secondary sanctions he threw on Russia, so any
• 40:45
  Speaker 8: country caught buying black market Russian oil could get hit
• 40:49
  Speaker 8: with sanctions, and so countries like India started pulling back
• 40:53
  Speaker 8: on purchasing Russian oil to hurt them. And I think
• 40:56
  Speaker 8: that President Trump is looking to flood the markets with oil.
• 40:59
  Speaker 8: As he said, if you bring down energy prices, the
• 41:02
  Speaker 8: cost of everything else also begins to come down, albeit slowly,
• 41:07
  Speaker 8: but the cost will begin to come down as well.
• 41:09
  Speaker 8: Because oil and gas are the fuel that transports everything,
• 41:14
  Speaker 8: you know, the clothes that get into the clothing store,
• 41:16
  Speaker 8: the food that gets on the grocery store shelves. So
• 41:19
  Speaker 8: it's so important to bring those costs down. I think
• 41:22
  Speaker 8: he wants to crash the price of oil and natural
• 41:25
  Speaker 8: gas for a little bit to make sure that that
• 41:27
  Speaker 8: could spare the economy. But also something that didn't focused
• 41:30
  Speaker 8: on as much and you should have is power plants.
• 41:34
  Speaker 8: We in the United States have not had a major
• 41:37
  Speaker 8: new power plant in quite some time. He's talking about
• 41:41
  Speaker 8: these new AI centers. They're going to have their own
• 41:43
  Speaker 8: nuclear reactors. He's waving all regulations so that they can
• 41:47
  Speaker 8: build nuclear reactors on site, provide energy, be independent. That
• 41:51
  Speaker 8: to bring the cost of electricity bills down. Dramatically. Americans
• 41:56
  Speaker 8: shied away from nuclear power after a couple of incidents,
• 42:00
  Speaker 8: but nuclear power is the way to go if we
• 42:02
  Speaker 8: want to bring down energy costs around the country. And
• 42:05
  Speaker 8: let's face it, if you're in the Northeast, you're paying
• 42:08
  Speaker 8: some of the highest electricity bills in the country.
• 42:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's killing me, not only electricity, gas to me both. Yeah. Listen,
• 42:17
  Speaker 4: just I mean quick aside for everybody who's listening. Yesterday
• 42:20
  Speaker 4: it was so cold. It was fourteen degrees last night.
• 42:22
  Speaker 4: I live in a hundred and something year old house,
• 42:25
  Speaker 4: and I could tell you every time I had the
• 42:28
  Speaker 4: heat on seventy seventy two, it was freezing. The wind
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: was just cutting right through. And I've got new windows,
• 42:35
  Speaker 4: but it's an old house. It gets in here, and
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: I had to crank it up to some ungodly number
• 42:40
  Speaker 4: like seventy six to actually like not walk around with
• 42:43
  Speaker 4: a hat on.
• 42:43
  Speaker 8: My goodness.
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, And then I brought it down, but I
• 42:46
  Speaker 4: needed it to get warm, and I was thinking, who
• 42:48
  Speaker 4: could afford seventy six degrees? Like making your house Miami,
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: it's not economically efficient.
• 42:56
  Speaker 8: Well, I could tell you right now. And the reason
• 42:58
  Speaker 8: that I see some improved in the economy. Is last year,
• 43:03
  Speaker 8: I was paying an all time high for home eating
• 43:05
  Speaker 8: heating oil about four dollars and nineteen cents for a
• 43:09
  Speaker 8: fixed contract. This year, I'm paying about three dollars and
• 43:13
  Speaker 8: twenty five cents for a fixed contract. Now, when you
• 43:16
  Speaker 8: got an oil tank that holds three hundred gallons of oil,
• 43:20
  Speaker 8: that's a huge shavings. When I get my oil tank
• 43:23
  Speaker 8: filled up, and so we are seeing results. It's how
• 43:28
  Speaker 8: people feel.
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah, right, yeah, we want to be able to spend
• 43:32
  Speaker 4: frivolously again. At least that's where I want to be.
• 43:35
  Speaker 4: I want to go, say I'm buying a condo in
• 43:37
  Speaker 4: Puerto Rico and Miami.
• 43:38
  Speaker 8: How about that exactly? Well that's listen, Americans are spenders,
• 43:44
  Speaker 8: and when they can't spend, they get angry. And you know,
• 43:47
  Speaker 8: when too many Americans are maxing out on their credit cards,
• 43:50
  Speaker 8: that's when you know things are getting tight. We track
• 43:54
  Speaker 8: the amount of credit card defaults, and credit card defaults
• 43:56
  Speaker 8: have been increasing, so it is a problem. But if
• 44:00
  Speaker 8: people's incomes go up and the court start going down,
• 44:03
  Speaker 8: you'll see Trump Trump's approval numbers flip dramatically.
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: I'm expecting to see that happen. I mean, he goes.
• 44:09
  Speaker 4: We're on with Professor Nick Giordano. You've seen him time
• 44:12
  Speaker 4: and again on the Fox News Channel. He's been a
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: guest of mine plenty of times. Make sure you check
• 44:17
  Speaker 4: out his podcast, The Pas Report, and we'll get a
• 44:21
  Speaker 4: plug on that. Before we let him go, I want
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: to get his analysis on a couple more issues, not
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: the least of which is the drug boat drama continues.
• 44:30
  Speaker 4: So let's see if we can turn the drug boat
• 44:32
  Speaker 4: drama into the love boat. I don't know if we can,
• 44:34
  Speaker 4: but stick with me. We're coming right back with Professor
• 44:36
  Speaker 4: Nick Jordano.
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: This is America, This is America, President Donald J. Trump,
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: mister President, welcome to the program.
• 44:58
  Speaker 7: Circle. Well, thank thank you, Rich, and thank you for everything.
• 45:01
  Speaker 7: I know you very well, and I have I listen,
• 45:04
  Speaker 7: but I have a lot of people that listen and
• 45:06
  Speaker 7: they love your show, and I appreciate it very much.
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: All right, I mean, he goes. Welcome back, as Rich Valdez.
• 45:11
  Speaker 4: We continue with Professor Nick Giordano. Professor Nick Giordano's professor
• 45:16
  Speaker 4: of political science at Suffolk Community College in New York.
• 45:19
  Speaker 4: It's out on Long Island, and he's the host of
• 45:22
  Speaker 4: the Pas Report podcast, which is really a great show.
• 45:25
  Speaker 4: You got to check it out. He breaks it down
• 45:27
  Speaker 4: very differently than me, because he's a lot smarter than
• 45:29
  Speaker 4: I am. He's the professor, and I always enjoy being
• 45:33
  Speaker 4: on his show, and I enjoy I think you're gonna
• 45:36
  Speaker 4: enjoy listening to his show. But I want to switch
• 45:38
  Speaker 4: gears a little bit and go over here to the
• 45:40
  Speaker 4: drug boats because you have a Congressman, Adam Smith, a
• 45:45
  Speaker 4: Democrat from Washington. He's got his panties in a bunch,
• 45:48
  Speaker 4: a very big bunch, like an atomic wedgie. Why Because
• 45:52
  Speaker 4: he says by not releasing the boat strike videos, they're
• 45:55
  Speaker 4: making it clear that they can't defend what's on the tape. Now,
• 45:58
  Speaker 4: there's been many of video released of these boat strikes.
• 46:02
  Speaker 4: If they're not releasing one in particular, I would suspect
• 46:05
  Speaker 4: that it's a timing issue or some other you know,
• 46:08
  Speaker 4: classified issue. But it's not like they've been keeping them secret.
• 46:12
  Speaker 4: But I want you to listen to this clip because
• 46:14
  Speaker 4: it is truly fascinating to me, Professor Nick Jordano, that
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: the Democrats will go after anything. And I don't know,
• 46:20
  Speaker 4: maybe it's me, maybe it's my own naivete. You tell
• 46:23
  Speaker 4: me if I'm wrong, but I feel like there's not
• 46:25
  Speaker 4: an issue here, and I understand I'm biased, but I
• 46:29
  Speaker 4: think most Americans are going to agree that they just
• 46:33
  Speaker 4: really they don't care about this issue. And I'm told
• 46:38
  Speaker 4: we don't have the clip just yet, so as we
• 46:41
  Speaker 4: work on getting the clip of the congressman, my question
• 46:45
  Speaker 4: to you, Nick Jordana, is your thoughts on this very
• 46:50
  Speaker 4: coordinated effort from the left right that they are not
• 46:57
  Speaker 4: only let's see, making the seditious six video and trying
• 47:03
  Speaker 4: to undermine the Commander in chief's authority, but they're constantly
• 47:06
  Speaker 4: beating up on the drug boats. Do you think that
• 47:10
  Speaker 4: level of intensity is eventually gonna work and some people
• 47:12
  Speaker 4: are gonna buy it? Or are they wasting their time?
• 47:16
  Speaker 8: I think it's the most bizarre thing I've ever seen.
• 47:18
  Speaker 8: Leave it to Trump to make Democrats support gang members
• 47:21
  Speaker 8: and cartels and the drug traffickers. It really is insane
• 47:26
  Speaker 8: when you look at what they were arguing. And here's
• 47:28
  Speaker 8: the bizarre aspect to it. So when it comes to
• 47:31
  Speaker 8: striking these boats and the second strike that took place
• 47:34
  Speaker 8: that they're all complaining about, I never once in my
• 47:38
  Speaker 8: life and I've been in politics a long time. I've
• 47:40
  Speaker 8: been studying politics. I never once in my life heard
• 47:44
  Speaker 8: that if we launch a missile to shoot and kill
• 47:47
  Speaker 8: drug traffickers or anyone and with any type of hostile
• 47:51
  Speaker 8: in tent, that if they survive it, we have to
• 47:54
  Speaker 8: go rescue them.
• 47:55
  Speaker 4: So if what we.
• 47:56
  Speaker 8: Rated the been lotten compound, if we injured bin Laden,
• 48:00
  Speaker 8: would we then have to provide aid? No, the military
• 48:03
  Speaker 8: was ordered you shoot to kill, and if he's injured,
• 48:07
  Speaker 8: you fire several more times to make sure he's dead.
• 48:09
  Speaker 8: When we drop bombs on amwar Awawaki, who was a
• 48:12
  Speaker 8: US citizen, he didn't have his due process, he didn't
• 48:15
  Speaker 8: have the trial. We droned him. The Obama administration droned
• 48:19
  Speaker 8: him and his child. Okay, And if he were have survived,
• 48:24
  Speaker 8: would we have had to send and heal TEA six
• 48:26
  Speaker 8: to rescue him. It's just so stupid what they were arguing.
• 48:29
  Speaker 8: If you want to have an argument, there is an
• 48:31
  Speaker 8: argument to be made that President John declaring the drug
• 48:35
  Speaker 8: traffickers as a terrorist organization, that cartel says a terrorist organization.
• 48:40
  Speaker 8: He's operating under the two thousand and one authorization to
• 48:43
  Speaker 8: use force against these terrorist organizations. So if Democrats want
• 48:47
  Speaker 8: to have a constitutional argument, they should be arguing, well,
• 48:51
  Speaker 8: if that was twenty four years ago, and should the
• 48:53
  Speaker 8: president have the authority to just declare any organization a
• 48:57
  Speaker 8: terrorist organization? And what is the role of com and
• 49:00
  Speaker 8: authorizing the president to use force like that would be
• 49:03
  Speaker 8: the smarter argument for Democrats have, because there's good arguments
• 49:07
  Speaker 8: that could be made on both sides of the issue.
• 49:09
  Speaker 8: As the President as commander achieved Congress on the Article one,
• 49:12
  Speaker 8: section eight at a constitution and declaration of war and
• 49:15
  Speaker 8: authorization to use force, that may be an angle they
• 49:18
  Speaker 8: could attack, but the fact that they're attacking, that they're
• 49:23
  Speaker 8: launching mikeels on drug boats and killing cartel traffickers, drug traffickers,
• 49:28
  Speaker 8: to me, no American cares. They're fine with it. Why
• 49:32
  Speaker 8: wouldn't they want to see drug traffickers? Every single American
• 49:36
  Speaker 8: has either directly been impacted by someone that was addicted
• 49:41
  Speaker 8: to drugs and ended up dying from drugs or they
• 49:44
  Speaker 8: know someone that has. So this is an issue that
• 49:47
  Speaker 8: impacts every single American. And I don't think Americans have
• 49:50
  Speaker 8: much sympathy for drug traffickers. And I think by Democrats
• 49:54
  Speaker 8: saying well, these are people that are just fishermen that
• 49:59
  Speaker 8: you know, the they're transporting drugs, but they're not drug traffickers.
• 50:05
  Speaker 8: They're fishermen. It's a bizarre argument to make. I don't
• 50:09
  Speaker 8: know what they're the center of read. I mean, he
• 50:11
  Speaker 8: was hysterical. He was on CNN and he was talking
• 50:14
  Speaker 8: about how drug traffickers pay money to transport drugs to people,
• 50:19
  Speaker 8: and that these were fishermen. And I'm just sitting there, like,
• 50:22
  Speaker 8: no on the US Code, transportation of drugs makes you
• 50:25
  Speaker 8: a drug trafficker.
• 50:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, And obviously if you are a professor of political
• 50:29
  Speaker 4: science or me as a broadcaster where trafficking drugs, would
• 50:33
  Speaker 4: they call us anything other than drug traffickers? Of course
• 50:36
  Speaker 4: not the cops. Aren't you going to give you a pass?
• 50:38
  Speaker 4: And neither is the military, whose job typically is to
• 50:41
  Speaker 4: kill people. I've got that clip, and I want you
• 50:43
  Speaker 4: to hear what Congressman Adam Smith said, because, like you,
• 50:45
  Speaker 4: I found it not only funny, but someone incredulous. Check
• 50:50
  Speaker 4: this out.
• 50:52
  Speaker 6: By not releasing it, they are making it clear that
• 50:55
  Speaker 6: they can't defend what's on that tape. I think we
• 50:58
  Speaker 6: have to keep that public pressure up. I would hope
• 51:00
  Speaker 6: that at some point Congress would be willing to subpoena
• 51:03
  Speaker 6: head to basically force them to release it, but that's
• 51:06
  Speaker 6: going to be difficult with the Republicans and the majority
• 51:09
  Speaker 6: in the House in the Senate. But we are going
• 51:11
  Speaker 6: to keep pressing this very, very important issue.
• 51:15
  Speaker 4: Do you think that this is going to get them somewhere?
• 51:18
  Speaker 4: Are they going to be able to turn public opinion,
• 51:20
  Speaker 4: because just yesterday I saw that there was a poll
• 51:22
  Speaker 4: that came out that said the majority of Americans support
• 51:24
  Speaker 4: the strikes on drug votes.
• 51:27
  Speaker 8: And I think the majority of Americans will continue to
• 51:30
  Speaker 8: support the strikes on drug votes. And when Democrats are
• 51:33
  Speaker 8: bringing up international law, it's clear they lost the argument
• 51:37
  Speaker 8: international law does not have jurisdiction in the United States.
• 51:40
  Speaker 8: In fact, the United States Constitution makes it clear on
• 51:43
  Speaker 8: the Article one, Section six, on the Article six that
• 51:46
  Speaker 8: the United States Constitution is the supreme law of the land.
• 51:50
  Speaker 8: It's the supremacy clause. So Democrats are taking the wrong fight,
• 51:55
  Speaker 8: but it doesn't surprise me. I mean, look at the
• 51:57
  Speaker 8: whole of Brago Garcia. Chris van Holland traveling to El
• 52:02
  Speaker 8: Salvador to meet with someone who is a wife beater,
• 52:05
  Speaker 8: who is suspected of being an MS thirteen who is
• 52:09
  Speaker 8: trafficking human beings here within the United States. The idea
• 52:14
  Speaker 8: that the American people are going to be sympathetic, I
• 52:17
  Speaker 8: don't see it happening. I think that the American people
• 52:20
  Speaker 8: are finally happy that someone's doing something. And again, there's
• 52:24
  Speaker 8: constitutional arguments to be made whether the president should have
• 52:27
  Speaker 8: this authority. That's fine if you want to argue a constitutionalist,
• 52:31
  Speaker 8: But from an optics perspective, Americans are not going to
• 52:34
  Speaker 8: shed a tear for those that are looking to transport
• 52:37
  Speaker 8: drugs into the United States to harm and kill Americans.
• 52:41
  Speaker 8: We went to war with al Qaeda because they killed
• 52:44
  Speaker 8: three thousand Americans on nine to eleven. Five thousand have
• 52:47
  Speaker 8: died since with nine to eleven related injuries. We are
• 52:51
  Speaker 8: losing over one hundred thousand Americans per year. It's actually
• 52:55
  Speaker 8: dropped the core of the life expectancy here in the
• 52:58
  Speaker 8: United States. Don't think the American people are going to
• 53:01
  Speaker 8: sit there. Those poor drug traffickers before Fisher viewed them
• 53:06
  Speaker 8: as they were floating on their bills of cocaine.
• 53:09
  Speaker 4: Unbelievable. Now, Nick Jordano, if everybody's listening, saying, hey, I
• 53:12
  Speaker 4: like this guy. This guy is terrific. I want to
• 53:14
  Speaker 4: listen to his show. I want to take a class
• 53:16
  Speaker 4: with him. How do they tune into your show? And
• 53:18
  Speaker 4: before you tell us that, talk to me about what's
• 53:20
  Speaker 4: on the current episode. What are you talking about? What's
• 53:23
  Speaker 4: on your desk?
• 53:26
  Speaker 8: Well? I just released three part series, so the first
• 53:30
  Speaker 8: two parts are out, the third part's coming out on Monday,
• 53:33
  Speaker 8: The New Contract with America, and I lay out ten
• 53:38
  Speaker 8: issues that Republicans need to focus on and just explain
• 53:41
  Speaker 8: to the American people what they want to do how
• 53:43
  Speaker 8: to fix the problems that the United States is facing.
• 53:46
  Speaker 8: We're talking about immigration, social security, reaponization of government waste,
• 53:53
  Speaker 8: fraud and abuse, government dependency and welfare reform, education reform,
• 53:58
  Speaker 8: lowering the cost of healthcare. You know, real issues, real solutions,
• 54:02
  Speaker 8: in a simple and easy way to understand and how
• 54:06
  Speaker 8: to fix the problems. This isn't like the plan McCarthy
• 54:09
  Speaker 8: laid out a few years ago and nobody remembers. So
• 54:13
  Speaker 8: on the podcast, that's what we do. We focus on
• 54:15
  Speaker 8: the real issues. I talk about the issues impacting ordinary Americans.
• 54:19
  Speaker 8: I interview people like the great Rich Valdez and speak
• 54:23
  Speaker 8: to everyday people about the issues that are going on.
• 54:27
  Speaker 8: And then I also released the America's Founding series, where
• 54:29
  Speaker 8: I talk about forgotten patriots, patriots that people never heard of.
• 54:34
  Speaker 8: This week, I'm talking about Trench Cox, who was essential.
• 54:38
  Speaker 8: He fought for limited government and economic independence. And so
• 54:43
  Speaker 8: it's an interesting time in America because so many Americans
• 54:46
  Speaker 8: have forgotten what we stand for. They've forgotten the American
• 54:50
  Speaker 8: identity and why America is such an exceptional nation. And
• 54:53
  Speaker 8: if we could get back to our founding ideals, the
• 54:56
  Speaker 8: country can go in a completely different direction. But we're
• 55:01
  Speaker 8: climbing up a hill right now. It's not easy to
• 55:03
  Speaker 8: do with a failed education system that we had.
• 55:07
  Speaker 4: Professor Nick Giordano, you know, I listened to you, and
• 55:09
  Speaker 4: I say, man, this guy is not only smart and eloquent,
• 55:12
  Speaker 4: but really well read. How does this happen to a
• 55:15
  Speaker 4: guy like you, a good kid from Long Island? How
• 55:17
  Speaker 4: did you end up becoming a conservative and a professor
• 55:20
  Speaker 4: of political science and staying in New York.
• 55:23
  Speaker 8: Well, I mean, listen, you never know the collud's life
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