July 15, 2025 • 54 mins
SEGMENT 1: WILL THE EPSTEIN FILES BE RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC?
SEGMENT 2: DISMANTLING THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
SEGMENT 3: A LOOK AT THE 2025 PENNSYLVANIA ENERGY AND INNOVATION SUMMIT
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:41):
Welcome to America's Voice Live. I'm Terrence bades In for
Steve Gruber. It is Tuesday, July fifteenth. We have a
whole lot to get to today, so let's just dive
right in. President Trump currently heading over to Pennsylvania to
attend an energy and innovation summit in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
He's scheduled to speak at any moment.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Real America's Voice correspondent Michelle Bachus standing by on the
ground there with the very latest. Michelle, we were expecting
the President to speak about two thirty local time. We're
now hearing that that's going to be just a little
bit later. But the President arrives. When he arrives, he
is the president. Everybody waits for him.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Yeah, and if you've been following social media today, you
know it was a busy day for the president and
it's not like he's dilly dolling trying to get here. Nonetheless,
though this room, Terrence, has been packed out, I would
say for the past hour standing room only.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
I actually want to step outside so you can take
a look.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Here. You see tons of people all along the sides
of this building waiting for this to start, the Energy
and Innovation Summit here at Carnegie Mellon University. And this
is a massive deal, especially for Pennsylvania. Just this morning
when we were speaking, Terrence, I think you remember the
initial number was seventy billion dollars worth of investment here
in Pennsylvania. Senator McCormick coming out just a little bit
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ago and announcing that number now at ninety billion dollar.
There's worth of energy and innovation investments here in the
Keystone State, which is massive news, especially for a lot
of Pennsylvanians, and especially here in Pittsburgh, my hometown.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
You know, the issue that's probably going to get all
the headlines during today's summit is the AI focus and
the technology focus, But the reality is energy, AI and
technology go hand in hand.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Yeah, that's a great point, Terrence.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
If you think about it, we're in the middle of
another industrial revolution.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
What is that focused on.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
It's focused on AI, and so often people say either
get with it or get out, and that's essentially what's
happening here. AI isn't going anywhere, so it's time, especially
if you want to be a main economic driver, to
adapt to it.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
I know people hate hearing that, but it is what
it is.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
And when you think about the massive use of AI
and how it's infiltrating ultimately every sector of business.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
You look at the.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Data centers that are needed in order to house all
of that AI power, that's ultimately what's going to be
happening here in Pennsylvania. As there was even a Senate
nine thirty nine in which Senate Republicans have introduced new
legislation to help FastTrack the ability of AI development here
in the state. That would include those massive data centers
that are used to help power all of the AI
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that is used on a daily basis.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Talk about how this ninety billion dollars investment would ultimately
flesh out there in the state of Pennsylvania. How does
that look any idea?
Speaker 5 (03:25):
That's a good question, Terrence.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
We're about to have more insight into that investment when
President Trump hits the stage right behind me. But that's
ultimately going to break down into data development, AI generation
bringing companies here investing in the people.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
But also you look at the energy as well. The
energy component. Were the second.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Largest natural producer of natural gas outside of Texas. I
believe we do have the national anthemym happening right behind me.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
If you take a look.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
Right now, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage
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vocal artist from that faithful day in Butler Katrina Tedder
to sing our national anthem.
Speaker 7 (04:30):
Oh say, can you see by the johnsirly light? What's
so proudly we had.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
At the twilight last.
Speaker 8 (04:49):
Cleaning whose broadstripes and bride storess through the pace love
spot or the rim parts wee wall, We're so galant.
Speaker 7 (05:11):
Please tree main and rockets, raglan.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
That BOMs busting in.
Speaker 9 (05:25):
Gay proof through th.
Speaker 7 (05:31):
Than our flag basted, Oh saystar Spain called.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Banna w.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Or the limp and the face.
Speaker 7 (05:53):
And the bread.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
You just heard.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
You just heard the national anthem being performed here at
the Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit. We of course, will
have more live coverage from there here in short order,
But now I want to quickly bring in John Solomon.
Ar Michelle backus again. We'll remain on site there and
we'll check in with her momentarily. John Solomon here now, John,
good to see you, my friend. You also can't get
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away from me. I talked to you earlier this morning,
and here we are again having a conversation.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Yeah, you and me, both, you and me, both, my friend.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
I want to talk about the Department of Education and
some things happening there. Also other things happening on Capitol Hill,
but let's start with what we just witnessed there, the
Energy and Innovation Summit happening in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Ultimately, for
President Trump, this is another opportunity to fulfill a promise
that he made during his campaign in terms of making
the United States energy independent.
Speaker 10 (07:03):
Yeah, and ready for an era of the most intensive
energy consumption that America will ever have experienced in its
entire two hundred and forty nine years artificial intelligence consumes
more energy than any other technology that we've ever seen.
It is energy hungry to keep those super computers rolling.
If we're going to stay competitive with China, we not
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only need to have the computer chips, which he secured
recently with the deal to bring the Taiwan Semiconductor a
factory to Arizona. We're not only going to need the
great technology and the great minds the Elon Musk and
Google and others to keep developing the software and the
code for this. We're going to need one of the
most bontiful supplies of energy that we've ever provided this
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country to keep our grid rocking. With all that extra demand.
On the path that Joe Biden and Democratic governors were
giving us, we were in danger of the grid falling behind,
not having enough energy because we were shutting down nuclear plants,
shutting down cold on new gas plants in the name
of clean energy or green energy. Solar and wind didn't
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fill the gap, and we were starting to sit behind China.
Donald Trump has already adjusted those dials very quickly in
the first six months of his presidency, and today it's
about making sure the grid is resilient, the energy supplies
air and that will fuel all that innovation that AI
and American technology has the capability to give the world.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Absolutely, John I suspect that the President is very happy
to get out of Washington, DC and head up the
road to Pennsylvania. Given all the focus that has been
on the Epstein files and the lack of information that's
been released on that, it has been to some degree
of black eye on the administration. Just overnight, House Republicans
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reportedly voted against a measure that would have been added
on to a cryptocurrency bill that would have forced the
release of all that information. What is the talk happening
around Washington, DC right now? Because there is really a
calling even among MAGA for more transparency as it relates
to this Epstein.
Speaker 10 (09:03):
Case, oh specifically from MAGA, and I think that that
is the disconnect here. That the MAGA world wanted this,
President Trump promised it, Pam Bondi over promised what she
was going to deliver early on, and that created an
era of distrust. I think this will get worked out
just fine. By the way, lots of information has been released,
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going all the way back to twenty twenty three, when
the judges in the case started releasing the address book,
which kind of gave us a sense of who Jeffrey
Epstein was consorting with.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
On a daily basis.
Speaker 10 (09:34):
I think the big mistake was that everybody thought Pam
Bondi had the client list.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
She did it, she said it, but she didn't have it.
Speaker 10 (09:43):
And then that took a second wave when Alan Dershowitz,
former Jeffrey Epstein layers and oh there was a client list,
I know about it. In the last twenty four hours,
Dershowitz has walked that back, and he's walked it back
to where I told everybody a couple of weeks ago,
and even last Friday. Again, isn't a ledger that says
I Jeffrey Epstein on this date took ten thousand dollars
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from this politician so he could have sex with his
fourteen year old girl, just like the mob. Jeffrey Epstein
didn't write it down that way. You can deduct from
the visitor logs, from the address book, from the flight logs,
and from some of the financial transactions, who was doing
business with his CD prostitution ring that. But it's not
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one document. It isn't what everybody thought. It's a compilation
of documents, and you got to overlay them to get
where what a client would look like. By the way,
the Wall Street Journal did some really good work on
the twenty three, and so did Just the News. You
can go back and look at those stories. So that
over promise and miscommunication created distrust. There are still some
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things that can be done real quickly. Can Pam Bondi
can go to the judge overseeing the case, who oversaw
the case in New York and ask him to unseal
the grand jury materials. She can't do it herself. She
can make the request, the judge has to release it,
and then too. There is a small, not too extravagant
file on Jeffrey Epstein. My sources tell me the CIA
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some interactions they had. He wasn't a knock, he wasn't
a controlled asset. But it's worth getting those out. He's dead.
Let the public see everything. I think, Pam Bondi, President Trump,
John Ratcliffe will get everybody on of course, to see
those in the next couple of weeks, without any more
drama and without any more under or over promising.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Unfortunately, I would think to some degree the damage has
already been done though, and it's going to be there
will be a challenge if you will reversing that. But
to your point, Attorney General Bondi could go to a
judge in New York and say, okay, unseal these documents.
It seems to me that even politically, that would be
a smart thing to do, to kind of get ahead
of it and say, yeah, we want more information. We're
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trying to get these documents unsealed. We've made the request.
Now it's on the judge. You know, it's sleight of hand,
but at least it gets in front of the narrative.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Now, yeah listen.
Speaker 10 (12:00):
And so beyond the politics of it, which is important
in Washington, it's just the right thing to do. President
Trump said be transparent. The Justice Department under Pam Bondi
has it. By the way, the FBI has turned over
every document that he can find anywhere in its system.
So the documents are sitting at DJ. The miss messaging
occurred at DOJ. It's something that can be cleaned up.
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They need a client clean up on Aisle seven, and
I think that will come. The way to do it
is to be overly transparent, ask the judge, put everything
out in public, create a log of every document you
found in the status of where it is. That would
make all of this go away very very quickly, and
I think that that's what they're working on behind the scenes.
I think people will be satisfied with the outcome, probably
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in a few weeks. But transparency is the perfect answer
to what the failures were early on in the Pambondi
communication on this.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
And the coorus of people calling for that sort of
transparency that you described seems to be growing louder and louder.
I just heard and I have not been able to
firm this. Maybe you can help confirm this that House
Speaker Mike Johnson is even coming out come out recently
and said, hey, look, we need to get this information
in the public light.
Speaker 10 (13:09):
Yeah, that's exactly right. Listen, Tom fitting Over at Judicial
Watch has an ongoing lawsuit. It is the perfect vehicle.
Let a third party watchdog that has great credibility in
getting the American public truth. Let them bandage the list,
send the list to them, let them get the documents
out one by one. I think that's a better way.
The more PAM bonding, let someone else take the lead
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on this going forward, the more credibility gets restored. She
made a mistake. It happens in governments, not the end
of the world, but it needs to be fixed. And
I think that case, that FOIA case, that Freedom of
Information Act requests case in a district courdire in New
York could be a big win. Judicial Watch has a
lot of credibility on this. They've been among the critics.
I think that becomes one of the vehicles by which
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that happens. By the way, you could send the same
documents at the same time to Congress like Congress put
them out, and everybody would start to feel okay. I
feel like we're getting the truth now.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
John, You are such a gentleman and so forgiving. You
are much more forgiving about the mistake than I would
have been. But that's why you were who you are,
my friend. Goodnes See, thanks so much for joining us.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Great to be with. Thanks so much, always a pleasure.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Coming up after the break, the Supreme Court recently handed
a major victory to President Trump and the American people,
specifically parents, as the justices are allowing the administration to
continue to dismantle the Department of Education. We'll take a
deeper dive right after this break.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Welcome back everyone.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Terrence Bates here, We appreciate you being along for the ride.
This afternoon. The Supreme Court is giving President Trump the
green light to continue efforts to dismantle the Department of Education.
The decision came after a US District judge in Boston
issued a preliminary injunction reversing nearly fourteen hundred layoffs at
the DOE at the direction of the President, while the
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judge also questioned the Commander in chiefs broad a plan
to shutter the agency. In a post on True Social
following the decision from the Supreme Court, President Trump writing
that the High Court quote has handed a major victory
to parents and students across the country. He says the
decision will allow his administration to begin the very important
process of returning many of the Department's functions back to
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the States. Here with me now to discuss is the
senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, Jonathan Butcher. Jonathan,
Good to.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
See you, Thank you, great to be with you. So
what do you make of.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
The Supreme Court's ruling? It really seems to give President
Trump and his administration lots of win behind their sales
as they continue to move forward with shuttering the Department
of Education.
Speaker 11 (15:39):
Well, what the decision means is that the President's reduction
in force at the US Department of Education actually remains
in force even as the lawsuit is ongoing. Crucially, this
will allow the agency to continue to streamline its operations,
which means reducing some of the bureaucratic bloat that has
plagued the agency and thereby state departments of education for decades.
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So this is an important step for families and students,
as the President said in his tweet.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
And it seems to me that will ultimately give the
state and families more specifically, even more of a say
in their children's education because it's closer to home, if
you will, they don't have to deal with DC. They
can go right to their state capitals.
Speaker 11 (16:22):
Well that's exactly right, and I think that parents and teachers,
hopefully they won't notice that much is change, because they
should be able to do their jobs and make decisions
for young people without looking for the administrative bureaucracy that
normally gets in the way at the district level and
at the school level. I think many of the administrative
burdens that are put on schools that they're not seen
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by parents and teachers. They're seen by principals and school
district leaders and school boards and attorneys that work for
school boards and at state boards of education. This is
a crucial cost saving measure that the Supreme Court has
allowed to continue, and ultimately it's going to allow states
to make policies that are in the best interests of
their children, regardless of what sort of federal prerogative may
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be implemented in terms of studying gender ideology or by
pushing the bounds of how we understand civil rights, both
of which were things that were done by the prior administrations,
in the Obama administration as well as in the Biden administration.
So the effort here is to allow states to do
what is best for the students within their borders.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
You mentioned that this is a crucial cost cutting measure,
So let's talk a little bit about money, because there
are concerns around some states that they will lose federal
funding for their schools based on some of these decisions
that are coming down. Can you explain that well?
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Sure.
Speaker 11 (17:43):
An important detail to note is that the White House
has submitted a budget request for next year for the agency,
so the administration understands that they will need legislative work.
That means Congress is going to have to consider proposals
about how to change federal education law in order for
the US Department of Education to ultimately close. So this
will have to be done between Congress and the administration.
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So that's the first thing. But on the question of
how much the US Department of Education contributes per child,
it's remarkably small. It is somewhere between eight and a
half percent maybe ten percent for every per child amount
that taxpayers spend on children in the US K twelve schools,
ninety percent or more of the money spent on each
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child comes from state and local taxpayers. So this is
a very small amount. And importantly for the money that
does come from Washington. Okay, this money will continue through
say Title one, which is money for children in low
income areas. That is part that is still in law,
and so I think that what state officials need to
be ready to do is for Washington to phase that
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money out over time, and states will need to assume
the cost of paying for the children again within their boundaries,
with the purpose being that they'll be able to adopt
policies without the Washington looking over their shoulders and implying
administrative burdens to how they carry out education law.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
But that also means that many of these states will
have to be fiscally better stewards of your money, taxpayer money,
in order to make that happen. And maybe that's where
we're getting some of the gripe from well.
Speaker 11 (19:21):
I think that means that voters have to pay attention
to their local elections. They'll have to be interested in
who their local representative is, who their state senator is,
And this does mean that state elections will matter. Right,
These are important. This is an effort at federalism right
about restoring power to state and to local taxpayers, to
local voters, right as they consider what they want to
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be the priorities for education in their states, and look
their state superintendents across the country who are looking forward
to a smaller federal footprint in education, and they're looking
for the priorities that they can enact things like prioritizing
reading and looking at how to implement phonics better into
schools without having to comply with some sort of federal
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mandate that would otherwise get in the way.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Jonathan Butcher, we appreciate you cutting up this issue into
bite sized pieces so we can better digest it. Thanks
so much, my friend.
Speaker 11 (20:15):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
All right, we'll talk soon. Coming up after the break,
President Trump set to join Pennsylvania Senator Dave McCormick to
unveil a multi billion dollar AI and energy initiative in
the Keystone State. We'll take you there live as President
Trump is expected to arrive quite literally at any moment.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Stick around, and you're allowed to do it.
Speaker 9 (20:40):
And this time we're including structure so you're able to
deduct those big structures that you're building. So nobody thought
that was even possible. But I want to introduce the
people that did it. Dan Muser is here. Where's Dan? Dan?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
You in Washington?
Speaker 9 (20:56):
Oh, they're in Washington working on our next bill.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Good shouldn't be here now, I.
Speaker 9 (21:01):
Don't have to mention the name shit, although they're watching
on television.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
I guarantee you. Oh, that's right.
Speaker 9 (21:07):
They're working on our next one, which is coming for
a vote.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
I think on Friday. Well, I'm impressed.
Speaker 8 (21:13):
But J. T. G. T.
Speaker 9 (21:14):
Thompson, Lloyd Schmucker, John Joyce, Mike Kelly, Scott Perry, Rob Bres,
the hand all terrific. People, and Guy Rush and Thaller.
These are great people. They're warriors. They fought with us,
they voted with us. We only had two degative votes.
I didn't invite those two guys to anything. We had
a gun named Ran Paul Jr. He's known as Rand
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Paul Jr.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
In the House.
Speaker 9 (21:37):
He always votes. No, we had somebody else. They did
him a big favor, and I said, well, he's not gonna, sir.
I don't think So and So is going to vote.
I won't mention his name. And I said, no, he's
going to vote because I did him a very big,
big favor, very personal favor, as big as you can get,
having to do with death and life, but.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Having to do now. He's going to vote.
Speaker 9 (21:59):
Don't worry about it, Okay, sir, if you tell me.
But I don't think we're going to get his don't
worry about it. I said, I know what I'm talking about.
Don't worry about it. And sure as helly voted against us.
And I said, another one down. Another great move by Trump. Anyway,
So much for favors. You know, it's welcome to the
world of politics, right right, David. We know about that,
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but we're here today because we believe that America's destiny
is to dominate every industry and be the first in
every technology, and that includes being the world's number one
superpowered artificial intelligence. And we are way ahead of China.
I have to say, we're way ahead of China. And
the plants are starting up, the construction starting up. And
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did you notice that two days ago they just announced
that they had a budget surplus of twenty five billion
in this country, right, Howard, he never saw anything like that.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
I would say that's.
Speaker 9 (22:52):
Been like decades, twenty five billion, and that's peanuts compared
to what it's and it's good business practices. The tariffs
are coming in by the hundreds of billions of dollars
and they haven't they're really at the infant stage right now.
It's only on cars and steal mostly and the rest
is starting to kick in. We just made a deal today,
a big one with Indonesia, a great deal, and we
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they've opened up Indonesia fully. You know, Indonesia really has
great copper, very very powerful copper. But they have a
lot of things and we have full access to Indonesia.
Will soon be announcing probably, I don't you know, if.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
We do we do. If we don't, that's okay too.
Speaker 9 (23:31):
I don't mind because I'm very happy with the letters
that we send out that you'll be paying x percent.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
I almost like it better if you want to know.
Speaker 9 (23:38):
The true But Scott and Howard, you know, they like
to go the old fashioned where let's work hard to
make a deal.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
I don't know. There's something about.
Speaker 9 (23:45):
Pay us thirty five percent of everything that we're very happy.
But I think India is going to open up, and
a lot of countries are going to open up, and
some that don't, they'll just be paying a very substantial tariff,
but peanuts compared to what.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
They should be paying. So we have some amazing things.
Speaker 9 (24:02):
China and other countries are racing to catch up to
America having to do with AI, and we're not going
to let them do it. We have the great chips,
we have the great everything, and we're going to be
fighting them in a very friendly fashion. I have a
great relationship with Presidency and.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
We smile at the at the back and forth.
Speaker 9 (24:23):
But we are leading. I heard somebody say before that
we're going to try and catch China. We're not catching them.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
We're leading.
Speaker 9 (24:30):
And one of the advantages they have is they show
the electric that they have it. They're opening up coal
fired plants all over the place, and we're entitled and
allowed now to do that too.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
We took coal that it was taken out of.
Speaker 9 (24:43):
The chain, and coal is actually a very very powerful
I say, you're not allowed.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
To call it coal. You have to call it clean,
beautiful coal.
Speaker 9 (24:51):
You're not allowed john to call it just coal because
people don't understand.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
We call it clean, beautiful coal.
Speaker 9 (24:57):
But China is I think they're going to be very
far behind.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
They mark my words.
Speaker 9 (25:04):
I think they're going to be very far because these
are we have a lot of places going up right
now and they're all going to be great, and they
actually feed off each other. But remaining the world's leader
in AI will require an enormous increase in the energy production,
and that's taking place, and you're doing it yourself, and
a massive build out a physical infrastructure, and the tremendous
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technology skill that Pennsylvania has.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
I mean, you have tremendous skill in this state.
Speaker 9 (25:29):
Today, the Commonwealth is reclaiming its industrial heritage and taking
its place at the forefront of the AI technological revolution.
And as I said before, It's an expression I used
all during the all during the campaign and screamed it out.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
We'll drill, baby, drill, and people went crazy.
Speaker 9 (25:50):
We had big crowds, as you probably heard, biggest ever,
biggest in history. The investments being announced this afternoon include
more than fifty six billion dollars in new energy infrastructure
and more than thirty six billion dollars in new data
center projects. And a lot more than that are going
to be announced in the coming weeks, not even months,
I think we could say weeks.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Right, Howard.
Speaker 9 (26:12):
In the campaign, I promised that I would save the
Homer City power plant fifty miles east of here, that
Joe Biden's green new scam.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Forced to shut down.
Speaker 9 (26:21):
It's a green new scam, greatest scam in history, the
greatest in history.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Well, the auto pen, I think is a bigger scam
if you want to Actually, I do believe that.
Speaker 9 (26:32):
Today we're pleased to report that a fifteen billion dollar
investment from Nighthead Capital Management. Who's here from Knighthead. Well,
I'm very impressed with that fifteen billion.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 9 (26:45):
It's a great location too. Wow, that's very impressive. Thank
you very much. That's a big number.
Speaker 8 (26:53):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
It's a big number and yet it's peanuts relative to water.
That's a good job.
Speaker 9 (26:58):
But the homer the city side is being resurrected as
the largest natural gas fired power plant ever to be
built in North America.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Is that right? That's fantastic.
Speaker 9 (27:12):
As another example, Google will be investing billions and billions
of dollars to revitalize two major hydro power facilities in Pennsylvania. Congratulations,
salotis Sergey and Sunder.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
They've done a pretty good job at.
Speaker 9 (27:27):
Google, I'll tell you. And they have their star right here.
So congratulations. That's really fantastic.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
And under the.
Speaker 9 (27:34):
Last year of Biden, China added eleven times as much
power generation capacity as did the United States.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
That's under Biden.
Speaker 9 (27:43):
That's not under Trump, that's under Sleepy Joe. Under the
Trump administration, America is getting back in the game.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
And there's a lot happening here in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. President
Trump and Senator Dave McCormick of Pennsylvania set to unveil
a multi bill billion dollar plan to boost American AI
and energy investment. We're hearing that it's going to be
about ninety billion dollars. All of this set to happen
at the inaugural Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit, which is
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happening right now. You can see a roundtable getting underway.
So I'm going to be quiet and let's listen into
the various speakers. All right, So as we wait for
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this roundtable to get UNDERWAG just want to fill you
in about some of the details here. The plan that's
going to be discussed includes new data centers, power infrastructure,
also expansion, and thousands of jobs there in Pennsylvania specifically.
We're also hearing that about six thousand construction jobs in
three thousand permanent positions will be created as part of
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this initiative. Again, President Trump is in root here. He
will be taking the podium and speaking at this Pennsylvania
Energy and Innovation Summit in short order. We're hearing that
more than sixty CEOs and investors from companies like Exon Mobile, Amazon,
as well as Blackrock are here in attendance. Many of
those leaders are here at this roundtable. They will be
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speaking here in short order, and of course I will
be quiet the moment they really start speaking and the
moment all of this gets underway. Reports also show that
Blackstone is committing some twenty five billion dollars to this project,
so that is major investment. President Trump and Senator McCormick
say that they want to make Pennsylvania a national leader
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in artificial intelligence as well as energy development. Our Michelle
backers also there at the scene. We'll see if we
can't pipe her in here momentarily as we wait for
these leaders to speak. Michelle, this is really a huge
deal for the state of Pennsylvania, and there's the potential
for really a rejuvenation, if you will, or a renaissance
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in Pennsylvania as it relates to energy and artificial intelligence
and technology in general.
Speaker 5 (30:58):
There's your exactly right. That's why the antiaticipation is really
building here.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
I want to step out the sean just so you
can see what's going on behind me, because you can
see all of everyone has taken their seats. We're anxiously
awaiting for President Trump, who is said to be here
at any moment.
Speaker 5 (31:14):
You already mentioned it.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
A lot of investment coming here into the Keystone State.
And look, there's been a lot of talk about the
fear of AI, but let's be clear, we are in
the middle of another industrial revolution, and what's happening here
with AI. It's a great opportunity for states, especially states
like Pennsylvania, to seize the opportunity and build that economic advancement.
You think about that, this is America First economics. You're
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seeing that money coming back into our country rather than
being shipped off overseas to frankly, countries that hate us.
Speaker 5 (31:43):
There's so much opportunity here.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
You can see some of those CEOs on stage as
we speak right now.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
And to your point, Michelle, yes, this is all about
America First, making sure that we're bringing more money, more
investment back here to the United States. But it's also
putting the United States on a path that makes it
more competitive globally.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
You're exactly right. Think about it.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
We are in the AI race with China, and unless
we start investing in our own people, in our own resources,
there will be no way to compete. I see the
music winding down here, so I would assumed that the
President is set to walk out any moment.
Speaker 5 (32:22):
And there it is, Terence.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
You're just seeing.
Speaker 6 (32:56):
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome United States Senator David McCormick
and Missus Dina Powell McCormick.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
He's got the Red Fight. Simper finds out too on
the sam clown's been a little more in the store
for a time, and the beacon says he miss.
Speaker 5 (33:15):
He won't find them in any game.
Speaker 9 (33:17):
Fixed would any party, And the cassman read team and
he's just feed in America.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
His Pop's that all right.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
We're going to continue to watch all of this unfold.
You can see a number of movers and shakers in
the business world as well as in government already on
site there. Senator Dave McCormick just making his way to
the podium there or to this roundtable that will be
getting underway. We're now waiting for President Trump to arrive.
We're hearing that his arrival will be imminent and so
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we of course will have his remarks live there. But
really a who's who of business leaders at this summit.
It is the Energy and Innovation Summit, and one of
the major focuses will be artificial intelligence and how Pennsylvania
as a state can play a role in creating US
energy dominance and US dominance when it comes to energy
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and artificial intelligence. Again, we're hearing that more than sixty
CEOs and investors from companies like Exon Mobile, Amazon, Blackrock
are in attendance there. You can see some of them
right here on your screen, and even to the left
and right of this main table, there are more leaders
sitting there ready for this round table once President Trump arrives.
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The plan in general for today's summit and overall for
the state of Pennsylvania is to build some new data centers,
also to create power infrastructure expansion within the state. And
that means that thousands of jobs ultimately will come to
the state of Pennsylvania. Six thousand construction jobs. We're hearing
about three thousand permanent positions, and these of course will
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be high quality positions because they are pretty specific and
innovative positions within the technology sector. And one of the
things we heard the governor there as well as the
senator's tout, is the fact that Pennsylvania already has a
ready workforce to be able to fill some of these positions. Currently,
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this summit is being held at Carnegie Mellon University there
in Pittsburgh, and one of the things that Senator McCormick
pointed out, let's.
Speaker 6 (36:33):
Listen, President of the United States, President Donald J.
Speaker 5 (36:40):
Trump, Thank you, John.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
Well, Good afternoon, mister President welcome back to Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
We're so glad to have you here.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
A year ago, almost to the day, I was with
you at Butler and I witnessed your strength and your
courage on that day, and Diana and I are beyond
grateful at the town we're proud to call home. At
session a story time for our great Commonwealth and for
our nation. In your first term, you famously promised you
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were elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris,
and today you're once again making good in that promise.
And what's happening here today is absolutely historic. Your visit
and your leadership has catalyzed ninety billion dollars of investment
in energy and AI revolution in Pennsylvania. Ninety billion dollars.
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Your presence and those commitments showcase Pennsylvania's story to the world,
and today's summit begins to deliver on the promises that
you and I made to the working families of Pennsylvania
by creating many thousands of new jobs. Mister President, you
and I campaigned on an agenda to make American energy dominant,
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to secure our nation's AI leadership, to create jobs and
opportunity for working families in Pennsylvania and across America, and
your policies are working. You're making our country energy dominant
once again. You're supporting workers at every level. You've embraced
foreign investment and created good paying jobs right here in
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the United States of America. And you have been an
unwavering in your commitment to rebuilding America's industrial capacity and
securing long term AI leadership. Those policies are not only
crucial to our economic well being, to the people here
in Pennsylvania, but to our national security. And this agenda
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has galvanized private capital. It's unleashing a new wave of
industrial development and job creation across America and in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
And I just want to say.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
I'm so thankful to you, but also to your incredible team,
Secretary Lutinex, Secretary Vessine, Secretary Burgham, Secretary right, David Sachs.
We have had such incredible leadership and support from your
team before we talk about those commitments here. And so
I'd like to say, ladies and gentlemen, it's my honor
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to introduce the forty fifth and the forty seventh President
of the United States of America, Donald J.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
Trump. Thank you very well, well thank you very much.
And it's a real honor to be here.
Speaker 9 (40:30):
And this is a place that warms my heart's We
did very well in this state, as you know, three
times actually, and it's been a tremendous experience. I went
to school here, I went to college here, and I
got to know it very well. And the people are
the greatest people on earth. So it's a real honor
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to be here. And I have to say about David
and Dina, they had the toughest race.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
It was.
Speaker 9 (40:57):
I said, this is going to be a tough one.
Campaign staff that I made, We had lots of people,
tens of thousands would be a small crowd, and I'd
invite David it, get up and do a fantastic job.
And it all worked out. But he won a race
that was really not doable. I think was his opponent
was here for a long time and his father was
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there for it's about fifty years at least total, and
those people aren't instead of.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
Beat but you beat him. So I just want to
congratulate you. That's amazing.
Speaker 9 (41:32):
And he wouldn't have done it without Dina that I
can tell you with no denas anybody that knows Dina
knows exactly what I'm saying. And you know, he mentioned Butler,
but what nobody really talks too much about because they
didn't see the order. But I actually looked down to
the right before the that thing.
Speaker 1 (41:51):
Happened, and I said, oh, there's David McCormick. He's running
for the Senate. David, come on up. And I was
a little there were so many people.
Speaker 9 (42:02):
There was a little problem he had coming up because
I said, look, just do it later.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
And then about a minute later.
Speaker 9 (42:08):
So you know, if you would have come up, I
don't know what the hell would have happened.
Speaker 1 (42:11):
Right, It worked out better this way, right, I don't
know if you would have been around.
Speaker 9 (42:17):
But other, let's take I want to take full credit
for that.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
I said, no, no, bother, We'll do it later. So
I I didn't say that who knows, but really, great job.
Speaker 9 (42:28):
Exactly one year ago this week, David was at that
rally in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1 (42:32):
And twelve months later, look at what we have. We
have a president.
Speaker 9 (42:37):
We have really, I mean, if you think about it,
we had a country and I just left the NATO leaders.
I left the Middle East, the king of Saudi Arabia Qatar.
As you know, Mir so great and UAE. These are
three great leaders. And then we just.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
Made a deal with NATO where they pay for everything.
Speaker 9 (42:59):
And we give them the ammunition and the missiles, and
we give them whatever they want. We got to get
that war stopped. It's so bad. But every leader said
no matter where, they all said the same thing to me,
some of them separately, but in the same words.
Speaker 1 (43:14):
Just about he said, it's amazing. One year ago you
had a dead country. We were dead. We didn't think
you could ever come back.
Speaker 9 (43:22):
And now today you have the hottest country anywhere in
the world. It's true, it's true. So we're back in
Pittsburgh to announce the largest package of investments in the
history of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. And it's not even close.
I don't imagine it's too close. I don't think second.
(43:43):
I don't think second is too close. That's a big statement.
This afternoon, twenty leading technology and energy companies are announcing
more than ninety two billion dollars of investments in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1 (43:55):
And if you want, we could probably get them up.
Let's stalk to him right now.
Speaker 9 (44:03):
But this is a really triumphant day for the people
of the Commonwealth and for the United States of America.
Speaker 1 (44:10):
We're doing things that nobody ever thought possible. As of
about a month and a half ago. Well, we came
back from the Middle East.
Speaker 9 (44:17):
We came back with five point one trillion dollars of
investments from the three countries that I mentioned, and they're
great people, great leaders of those countries. But we came
back with many, many planes that they are going to
build through Boeing. They came back with a package of
goods that were you know, nobody's seen. I don't think
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anybody's seeing five point one trillion dollars.
Speaker 1 (44:42):
And we are now.
Speaker 9 (44:44):
At about sixteen think of this, sixteen trillion dollars, and
we're at a little bit less than six months, but
really we're probably at three months because it took me
a little time to get started, right, So in three
and a half four months, let's say we have about
sixteen trillion dollars. Has never been anything like that in history.
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You can go for years and they didn't have numbers
like that. And if you look at the last administration,
you had negative numbers. You didn't have positive numbers. You're
going in the wrong direction. But we have the hottest
country and we we're going to keep it that way.
Today's commitments are ensuring that the future is going to
be designed, built and made right here in Pennsylvania and
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right here in Pittsburg. And I have to say, right
here in the United States of America, I want to
thank we have some great talent and the administration. I
want to thank and say hello to few people that
are with US. Secretaries Scott Bessant, Howard Lutnik, Doug Bergham,
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Chris Wright.
Speaker 1 (45:55):
You know, Chris writes very friendly with the people up here. Doug.
Speaker 9 (45:59):
I wanted Doug for energy. I didn't know about Chris,
and Doug said, no, I have somebody that's much better
than me. Doug never said that in his life.
Speaker 1 (46:06):
You have to know. I said, this guy must be
very good. But what a team they are.
Speaker 9 (46:11):
You know. We we have one controls the land and
one controls the energy.
Speaker 1 (46:16):
But it was sort of intertwined. So we put them together.
Speaker 3 (46:20):
Right.
Speaker 1 (46:21):
We never even discussed who's supposed to be the leader
of the pack. But boy, you are it was one instruction.
Speaker 9 (46:27):
Drill, baby, drill, right, and they are drilling, they are drilling.
Speaker 1 (46:35):
We have the EPA administrator. Probably I must say this, Doug.
Speaker 9 (46:39):
I hate to say it, Chris said, Doug and all
of you guys, the most important man on the day
is today is Lee Zelden. It's called environmental protection because
he's going to be the one that gets you a permit.
He's going to get you a permit for the largest
electric producing plant in the world.
Speaker 1 (46:58):
In about a week.
Speaker 9 (47:00):
You say, now, if you if you go nuclear, I
promised him I'd give him two weeks. Okay, nuclear will
give him a little more time. But you know, the
biggest problem we've had is takes years and years to
get permits.
Speaker 1 (47:12):
And he really is.
Speaker 9 (47:13):
He's a phenomenal guy, and you know his history.
Speaker 1 (47:18):
He is a great lawyer, great congressman. In a race
that was, according to.
Speaker 9 (47:22):
Most unwinnable, almost one for governor just missed it by
a few points.
Speaker 1 (47:27):
And he's really fantastic.
Speaker 9 (47:29):
But he's essentially the Environmental Protection Agency, the top man,
and he's got things rocking and already they're building plants
and they have their permits. These are pertments that would
have taken you literally ten years to get or I
would really say ten years before they voted against you,
because that's really what was happening.
Speaker 1 (47:49):
And it's crazy all over the country.
Speaker 9 (47:50):
But we're freeing it up and he really is going
to be able to produce. And I'm looking at the
numbers of China where they're producing a lot of electric. Well,
they only have one man. They have to worry about
our friend, right President. She he can do that by himself.
I don't know if I can do I have the
right to overrule you, maybe I don't know. Probably I do,
but I won't have to. But so he has one
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man and we have one man. The one man is
sitting right there. We appreciate you doing an amazing job.
They're building plants already, and they're building plants, and they
have already their their permits, and I have to take it.
I have to brag just for a second, because when
I first heard about AI.
Speaker 1 (48:32):
You know, it's not my thing. Although my uncle was.
Speaker 9 (48:35):
An MIT, one of the great professors fifty one years whatever,
longest serving professor in the history of MIT, three degrees
in nuclear, chemical and math. That's a Sportman Kazinski was
one of his students.
Speaker 1 (48:51):
Do you know who Kazinsky was?
Speaker 9 (48:53):
There's very little difference between a madman and a genius.
But Kazinska said, what kind of a student was he?
Uncle John, doctor John Trump? He said, what kind of
a student?
Speaker 1 (49:03):
Man?
Speaker 9 (49:03):
He said, seriously good? He said he'd correct. You go
around correcting everybody. But it didn't work out too well
for him. Didn't work out too well.
Speaker 1 (49:12):
But it's interesting in life.
Speaker 9 (49:14):
But I will say this that we have the greatest brains,
we have the greatest power, and we are going to
have more electric. I said to some of the guys
coming in. They wanted to hook up to the grid.
I spoke to Mark and Jeff and a lot of people,
and they said, well, we want to know about the
electric because I was told we'll need from David, the
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first one. You're the first one that told me. That's
why I hired him, because I said, he told me something.
Speaker 1 (49:40):
I didn't know.
Speaker 9 (49:41):
He said, you need double the electric of what we
have right now, and maybe even more than that.
Speaker 1 (49:45):
Remember that, And.
Speaker 9 (49:46):
I said, what are you kidding? And that's double the
electric that we have. Take everything we have and double it,
and actually the number.
Speaker 1 (49:53):
That was even low. You need more than that, and
to do.
Speaker 9 (49:57):
That you'd have to hook up to an old grid
in many cases broken and certainly very much open to
destruction from bombs and planes and from frankly storms.
Speaker 1 (50:11):
You see what happened that horrible.
Speaker 9 (50:13):
Situation in Texas, and you'd be subject to that. Then
it's fragile, but it is old and it can't have
the capacity unless you totally rebuild it.
Speaker 1 (50:22):
That would take decades. And I said, well, why do
we do this? Why don't we.
Speaker 9 (50:27):
When you build your plant wherever you may build it,
you build your own electric plant.
Speaker 1 (50:32):
And nobody took it seriously. They sort of looked.
Speaker 9 (50:34):
Like, I can't really take that seriously because they didn't
believe it was happening. So the smartest people, some of
them on stage right now, were saying huh. And then
they say, well, how do we hook up to the grid.
We want to hook up to it. They didn't believe
what I was saying. And I said, no, no, I'm
really serious. I'm going to let you build rightly, and
to let you build with your plant you're going to
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build will make you like a public utility. You're going
to build your own content in New York. You're going
to build your own electric factory, and you're going to
make your own electricity. So this way you can have
a great plant, and what you'll do is, if you
have access, you can sell it back into the grid.
You'll even make money from the electric business, because these
guys do know how to make money. They'll end up
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doing things that will be shocking. And you're going to
make your own plants. So when I looked at the
numbers before, I saw a board outside and it's shood
how much electricity China is making.
Speaker 1 (51:26):
Well, we just started, but we're going to actually end
up doing more than them.
Speaker 9 (51:29):
And it's going to be done privately, and you can
own your own electric plants and they'll be powered by
maybe nuclear, maybe gas, maybe cold. You know, we brought
coal back in. They won't be powered by wind because
it doesn't work. I hate to say, it just doesn't work.
It's rather intermittent. You don't want it CAUs there's a
lot of problems. But we have every form of a
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fuel that you want to use for your plant, and
you'll build a plant, you'll build your electric and this
way you have no excuses. Because I didn't want to
be the one that said, listen, who were trying to
build that grid in ten years from now, and you
wouldn't be able to open You're going to build it
with your own plants, and so people heard that, they
couldn't believe it. And finally now they believe it because
we have a couple that are already started and they're
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building their electric plants along with their separate plant, and
in fact, some of them building the electric plant inside
of their main building. So it's really exciting to see.
But I was very very proud of that. Actually, White
House ais are David Sachs.
Speaker 1 (52:31):
David, thank you very much. Great job. David interviewed me on.
Speaker 9 (52:37):
His podcast about What's that Now two years ago or
something in San Francisco, and.
Speaker 1 (52:43):
I said, this guy's very smart.
Speaker 9 (52:46):
If I pulled this sucker off, I'm going to probably
hire him in some form.
Speaker 1 (52:49):
I got to get him in. But you've been doing great.
Thank you, David very much.
Speaker 9 (52:53):
Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, Michael
Kratzios Michael, thank you, Thank you. Michael Wismuth, Thank you, Michael.
Speaker 1 (53:02):
Good job. They tell me you're doing great.
Speaker 9 (53:05):
Thank you very much, as well as State Senate President
pro Tem Kim Ward Kim, Thank you, Kim.
Speaker 1 (53:14):
Good job. Kim's very happy right now.
Speaker 9 (53:17):
State Center majority leader Joe Pittman, Joe, thank you and
State Senator Greg Rothman.
Speaker 1 (53:25):
Thank you very much. Gret thank you.
Speaker 9 (53:29):
I also want to recognize your great Congressman.
Speaker 1 (53:32):
These are frenzies of warriors. They just passed the great
big beautiful.
Speaker 9 (53:37):
I had the word great, I like to say, because
there really was really supposed to be great, big beautiful.
They got the big beautiful, but I had great. They
took their word great out. I was on a show
called to Face the Nation or something like that, Ladies
and Gentlemen, to Face the Nation, and I said, I
want a great, big beautiful bill, and they named it that,
and it really is. It was supposed to be seven bills,
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could have been two or three, but it was supposed
to be originally seven. I said, let's put them all together,
and if you put them all together, there's going to
be something for everybody. And that's what happened, and we
got it pass and Republicans that we didn't get one
Democrat vote think of it the biggest tax cut in history,
and we didn't get a Democrat vote, and so many
other things, no tax on tips, no tax on social security,
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no tax on overtime, but the biggest tax cut in
the history of our country. You got that also the
biggest deduction. You know, you have a ten year period.
Last time, we had a one year period. Now you
have a ten year period.
Speaker 1 (54:34):
And that's what.
Speaker 9 (54:35):
Made the first one. We had the most successful economy
in the history of our country during my first term.
And we had the we passed the bill, but that bill, honestly,
as good as it was, was nothing compared to this one.
And the biggest thing and the biggest reason for the
success was the
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whole lot to get to today, so let's just dive
right in. President Trump currently heading over to Pennsylvania to
attend an energy and innovation summit in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
He's scheduled to speak at any moment.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Real America's Voice correspondent Michelle Bachus standing by on the
ground there with the very latest. Michelle, we were expecting
the President to speak about two thirty local time. We're
now hearing that that's going to be just a little
bit later. But the President arrives. When he arrives, he
is the president. Everybody waits for him.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Yeah, and if you've been following social media today, you
know it was a busy day for the president and
it's not like he's dilly dolling trying to get here. Nonetheless,
though this room, Terrence, has been packed out, I would
say for the past hour standing room only.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
I actually want to step outside so you can take
a look.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Here. You see tons of people all along the sides
of this building waiting for this to start, the Energy
and Innovation Summit here at Carnegie Mellon University. And this
is a massive deal, especially for Pennsylvania. Just this morning
when we were speaking, Terrence, I think you remember the
initial number was seventy billion dollars worth of investment here
in Pennsylvania. Senator McCormick coming out just a little bit
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ago and announcing that number now at ninety billion dollar.
There's worth of energy and innovation investments here in the
Keystone State, which is massive news, especially for a lot
of Pennsylvanians, and especially here in Pittsburgh, my hometown.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
You know, the issue that's probably going to get all
the headlines during today's summit is the AI focus and
the technology focus, But the reality is energy, AI and
technology go hand in hand.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Yeah, that's a great point, Terrence.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
If you think about it, we're in the middle of
another industrial revolution.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
What is that focused on.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
It's focused on AI, and so often people say either
get with it or get out, and that's essentially what's
happening here. AI isn't going anywhere, so it's time, especially
if you want to be a main economic driver, to
adapt to it.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
I know people hate hearing that, but it is what
it is.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
And when you think about the massive use of AI
and how it's infiltrating ultimately every sector of business.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
You look at the.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Data centers that are needed in order to house all
of that AI power, that's ultimately what's going to be
happening here in Pennsylvania. As there was even a Senate
nine thirty nine in which Senate Republicans have introduced new
legislation to help FastTrack the ability of AI development here
in the state. That would include those massive data centers
that are used to help power all of the AI
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that is used on a daily basis.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Talk about how this ninety billion dollars investment would ultimately
flesh out there in the state of Pennsylvania. How does
that look any idea?
Speaker 5 (03:25):
That's a good question, Terrence.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
We're about to have more insight into that investment when
President Trump hits the stage right behind me. But that's
ultimately going to break down into data development, AI generation
bringing companies here investing in the people.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
But also you look at the energy as well. The
energy component. Were the second.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Largest natural producer of natural gas outside of Texas. I
believe we do have the national anthemym happening right behind me.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
If you take a look.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
Right now, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage
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vocal artist from that faithful day in Butler Katrina Tedder
to sing our national anthem.
Speaker 7 (04:30):
Oh say, can you see by the johnsirly light? What's
so proudly we had.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
At the twilight last.
Speaker 8 (04:49):
Cleaning whose broadstripes and bride storess through the pace love
spot or the rim parts wee wall, We're so galant.
Speaker 7 (05:11):
Please tree main and rockets, raglan.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
That BOMs busting in.
Speaker 9 (05:25):
Gay proof through th.
Speaker 7 (05:31):
Than our flag basted, Oh saystar Spain called.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Banna w.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Or the limp and the face.
Speaker 7 (05:53):
And the bread.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
You just heard.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
You just heard the national anthem being performed here at
the Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit. We of course, will
have more live coverage from there here in short order,
But now I want to quickly bring in John Solomon.
Ar Michelle backus again. We'll remain on site there and
we'll check in with her momentarily. John Solomon here now, John,
good to see you, my friend. You also can't get
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away from me. I talked to you earlier this morning,
and here we are again having a conversation.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Yeah, you and me, both, you and me, both, my friend.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
I want to talk about the Department of Education and
some things happening there. Also other things happening on Capitol Hill,
but let's start with what we just witnessed there, the
Energy and Innovation Summit happening in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Ultimately, for
President Trump, this is another opportunity to fulfill a promise
that he made during his campaign in terms of making
the United States energy independent.
Speaker 10 (07:03):
Yeah, and ready for an era of the most intensive
energy consumption that America will ever have experienced in its
entire two hundred and forty nine years artificial intelligence consumes
more energy than any other technology that we've ever seen.
It is energy hungry to keep those super computers rolling.
If we're going to stay competitive with China, we not
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only need to have the computer chips, which he secured
recently with the deal to bring the Taiwan Semiconductor a
factory to Arizona. We're not only going to need the
great technology and the great minds the Elon Musk and
Google and others to keep developing the software and the
code for this. We're going to need one of the
most bontiful supplies of energy that we've ever provided this
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country to keep our grid rocking. With all that extra demand.
On the path that Joe Biden and Democratic governors were
giving us, we were in danger of the grid falling behind,
not having enough energy because we were shutting down nuclear plants,
shutting down cold on new gas plants in the name
of clean energy or green energy. Solar and wind didn't
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fill the gap, and we were starting to sit behind China.
Donald Trump has already adjusted those dials very quickly in
the first six months of his presidency, and today it's
about making sure the grid is resilient, the energy supplies
air and that will fuel all that innovation that AI
and American technology has the capability to give the world.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Absolutely, John I suspect that the President is very happy
to get out of Washington, DC and head up the
road to Pennsylvania. Given all the focus that has been
on the Epstein files and the lack of information that's
been released on that, it has been to some degree
of black eye on the administration. Just overnight, House Republicans
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reportedly voted against a measure that would have been added
on to a cryptocurrency bill that would have forced the
release of all that information. What is the talk happening
around Washington, DC right now? Because there is really a
calling even among MAGA for more transparency as it relates
to this Epstein.
Speaker 10 (09:03):
Case, oh specifically from MAGA, and I think that that
is the disconnect here. That the MAGA world wanted this,
President Trump promised it, Pam Bondi over promised what she
was going to deliver early on, and that created an
era of distrust. I think this will get worked out
just fine. By the way, lots of information has been released,
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going all the way back to twenty twenty three, when
the judges in the case started releasing the address book,
which kind of gave us a sense of who Jeffrey
Epstein was consorting with.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
On a daily basis.
Speaker 10 (09:34):
I think the big mistake was that everybody thought Pam
Bondi had the client list.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
She did it, she said it, but she didn't have it.
Speaker 10 (09:43):
And then that took a second wave when Alan Dershowitz,
former Jeffrey Epstein layers and oh there was a client list,
I know about it. In the last twenty four hours,
Dershowitz has walked that back, and he's walked it back
to where I told everybody a couple of weeks ago,
and even last Friday. Again, isn't a ledger that says
I Jeffrey Epstein on this date took ten thousand dollars
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from this politician so he could have sex with his
fourteen year old girl, just like the mob. Jeffrey Epstein
didn't write it down that way. You can deduct from
the visitor logs, from the address book, from the flight logs,
and from some of the financial transactions, who was doing
business with his CD prostitution ring that. But it's not
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one document. It isn't what everybody thought. It's a compilation
of documents, and you got to overlay them to get
where what a client would look like. By the way,
the Wall Street Journal did some really good work on
the twenty three, and so did Just the News. You
can go back and look at those stories. So that
over promise and miscommunication created distrust. There are still some
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things that can be done real quickly. Can Pam Bondi
can go to the judge overseeing the case, who oversaw
the case in New York and ask him to unseal
the grand jury materials. She can't do it herself. She
can make the request, the judge has to release it,
and then too. There is a small, not too extravagant
file on Jeffrey Epstein. My sources tell me the CIA
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some interactions they had. He wasn't a knock, he wasn't
a controlled asset. But it's worth getting those out. He's dead.
Let the public see everything. I think, Pam Bondi, President Trump,
John Ratcliffe will get everybody on of course, to see
those in the next couple of weeks, without any more
drama and without any more under or over promising.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Unfortunately, I would think to some degree the damage has
already been done though, and it's going to be there
will be a challenge if you will reversing that. But
to your point, Attorney General Bondi could go to a
judge in New York and say, okay, unseal these documents.
It seems to me that even politically, that would be
a smart thing to do, to kind of get ahead
of it and say, yeah, we want more information. We're
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trying to get these documents unsealed. We've made the request.
Now it's on the judge. You know, it's sleight of hand,
but at least it gets in front of the narrative.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Now, yeah listen.
Speaker 10 (12:00):
And so beyond the politics of it, which is important
in Washington, it's just the right thing to do. President
Trump said be transparent. The Justice Department under Pam Bondi
has it. By the way, the FBI has turned over
every document that he can find anywhere in its system.
So the documents are sitting at DJ. The miss messaging
occurred at DOJ. It's something that can be cleaned up.
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They need a client clean up on Aisle seven, and
I think that will come. The way to do it
is to be overly transparent, ask the judge, put everything
out in public, create a log of every document you
found in the status of where it is. That would
make all of this go away very very quickly, and
I think that that's what they're working on behind the scenes.
I think people will be satisfied with the outcome, probably
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in a few weeks. But transparency is the perfect answer
to what the failures were early on in the Pambondi
communication on this.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
And the coorus of people calling for that sort of
transparency that you described seems to be growing louder and louder.
I just heard and I have not been able to
firm this. Maybe you can help confirm this that House
Speaker Mike Johnson is even coming out come out recently
and said, hey, look, we need to get this information
in the public light.
Speaker 10 (13:09):
Yeah, that's exactly right. Listen, Tom fitting Over at Judicial
Watch has an ongoing lawsuit. It is the perfect vehicle.
Let a third party watchdog that has great credibility in
getting the American public truth. Let them bandage the list,
send the list to them, let them get the documents
out one by one. I think that's a better way.
The more PAM bonding, let someone else take the lead
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on this going forward, the more credibility gets restored. She
made a mistake. It happens in governments, not the end
of the world, but it needs to be fixed. And
I think that case, that FOIA case, that Freedom of
Information Act requests case in a district courdire in New
York could be a big win. Judicial Watch has a
lot of credibility on this. They've been among the critics.
I think that becomes one of the vehicles by which
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that happens. By the way, you could send the same
documents at the same time to Congress like Congress put
them out, and everybody would start to feel okay. I
feel like we're getting the truth now.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
John, You are such a gentleman and so forgiving. You
are much more forgiving about the mistake than I would
have been. But that's why you were who you are,
my friend. Goodnes See, thanks so much for joining us.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Great to be with. Thanks so much, always a pleasure.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Coming up after the break, the Supreme Court recently handed
a major victory to President Trump and the American people,
specifically parents, as the justices are allowing the administration to
continue to dismantle the Department of Education. We'll take a
deeper dive right after this break.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Welcome back everyone.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Terrence Bates here, We appreciate you being along for the ride.
This afternoon. The Supreme Court is giving President Trump the
green light to continue efforts to dismantle the Department of Education.
The decision came after a US District judge in Boston
issued a preliminary injunction reversing nearly fourteen hundred layoffs at
the DOE at the direction of the President, while the
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judge also questioned the Commander in chiefs broad a plan
to shutter the agency. In a post on True Social
following the decision from the Supreme Court, President Trump writing
that the High Court quote has handed a major victory
to parents and students across the country. He says the
decision will allow his administration to begin the very important
process of returning many of the Department's functions back to
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the States. Here with me now to discuss is the
senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, Jonathan Butcher. Jonathan,
Good to.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
See you, Thank you, great to be with you. So
what do you make of.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
The Supreme Court's ruling? It really seems to give President
Trump and his administration lots of win behind their sales
as they continue to move forward with shuttering the Department
of Education.
Speaker 11 (15:39):
Well, what the decision means is that the President's reduction
in force at the US Department of Education actually remains
in force even as the lawsuit is ongoing. Crucially, this
will allow the agency to continue to streamline its operations,
which means reducing some of the bureaucratic bloat that has
plagued the agency and thereby state departments of education for decades.
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So this is an important step for families and students,
as the President said in his tweet.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
And it seems to me that will ultimately give the
state and families more specifically, even more of a say
in their children's education because it's closer to home, if
you will, they don't have to deal with DC. They
can go right to their state capitals.
Speaker 11 (16:22):
Well that's exactly right, and I think that parents and teachers,
hopefully they won't notice that much is change, because they
should be able to do their jobs and make decisions
for young people without looking for the administrative bureaucracy that
normally gets in the way at the district level and
at the school level. I think many of the administrative
burdens that are put on schools that they're not seen
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by parents and teachers. They're seen by principals and school
district leaders and school boards and attorneys that work for
school boards and at state boards of education. This is
a crucial cost saving measure that the Supreme Court has
allowed to continue, and ultimately it's going to allow states
to make policies that are in the best interests of
their children, regardless of what sort of federal prerogative may
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be implemented in terms of studying gender ideology or by
pushing the bounds of how we understand civil rights, both
of which were things that were done by the prior administrations,
in the Obama administration as well as in the Biden administration.
So the effort here is to allow states to do
what is best for the students within their borders.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
You mentioned that this is a crucial cost cutting measure,
So let's talk a little bit about money, because there
are concerns around some states that they will lose federal
funding for their schools based on some of these decisions
that are coming down. Can you explain that well?
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Sure.
Speaker 11 (17:43):
An important detail to note is that the White House
has submitted a budget request for next year for the agency,
so the administration understands that they will need legislative work.
That means Congress is going to have to consider proposals
about how to change federal education law in order for
the US Department of Education to ultimately close. So this
will have to be done between Congress and the administration.
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So that's the first thing. But on the question of
how much the US Department of Education contributes per child,
it's remarkably small. It is somewhere between eight and a
half percent maybe ten percent for every per child amount
that taxpayers spend on children in the US K twelve schools,
ninety percent or more of the money spent on each
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child comes from state and local taxpayers. So this is
a very small amount. And importantly for the money that
does come from Washington. Okay, this money will continue through
say Title one, which is money for children in low
income areas. That is part that is still in law,
and so I think that what state officials need to
be ready to do is for Washington to phase that
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money out over time, and states will need to assume
the cost of paying for the children again within their boundaries,
with the purpose being that they'll be able to adopt
policies without the Washington looking over their shoulders and implying
administrative burdens to how they carry out education law.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
But that also means that many of these states will
have to be fiscally better stewards of your money, taxpayer money,
in order to make that happen. And maybe that's where
we're getting some of the gripe from well.
Speaker 11 (19:21):
I think that means that voters have to pay attention
to their local elections. They'll have to be interested in
who their local representative is, who their state senator is,
And this does mean that state elections will matter. Right,
These are important. This is an effort at federalism right
about restoring power to state and to local taxpayers, to
local voters, right as they consider what they want to
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be the priorities for education in their states, and look
their state superintendents across the country who are looking forward
to a smaller federal footprint in education, and they're looking
for the priorities that they can enact things like prioritizing
reading and looking at how to implement phonics better into
schools without having to comply with some sort of federal
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mandate that would otherwise get in the way.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Jonathan Butcher, we appreciate you cutting up this issue into
bite sized pieces so we can better digest it. Thanks
so much, my friend.
Speaker 11 (20:15):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
All right, we'll talk soon. Coming up after the break,
President Trump set to join Pennsylvania Senator Dave McCormick to
unveil a multi billion dollar AI and energy initiative in
the Keystone State. We'll take you there live as President
Trump is expected to arrive quite literally at any moment.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Stick around, and you're allowed to do it.
Speaker 9 (20:40):
And this time we're including structure so you're able to
deduct those big structures that you're building. So nobody thought
that was even possible. But I want to introduce the
people that did it. Dan Muser is here. Where's Dan? Dan?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
You in Washington?
Speaker 9 (20:56):
Oh, they're in Washington working on our next bill.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Good shouldn't be here now, I.
Speaker 9 (21:01):
Don't have to mention the name shit, although they're watching
on television.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
I guarantee you. Oh, that's right.
Speaker 9 (21:07):
They're working on our next one, which is coming for
a vote.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
I think on Friday. Well, I'm impressed.
Speaker 8 (21:13):
But J. T. G. T.
Speaker 9 (21:14):
Thompson, Lloyd Schmucker, John Joyce, Mike Kelly, Scott Perry, Rob Bres,
the hand all terrific. People, and Guy Rush and Thaller.
These are great people. They're warriors. They fought with us,
they voted with us. We only had two degative votes.
I didn't invite those two guys to anything. We had
a gun named Ran Paul Jr. He's known as Rand
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Paul Jr.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
In the House.
Speaker 9 (21:37):
He always votes. No, we had somebody else. They did
him a big favor, and I said, well, he's not gonna, sir.
I don't think So and So is going to vote.
I won't mention his name. And I said, no, he's
going to vote because I did him a very big,
big favor, very personal favor, as big as you can get,
having to do with death and life, but.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Having to do now. He's going to vote.
Speaker 9 (21:59):
Don't worry about it, Okay, sir, if you tell me.
But I don't think we're going to get his don't
worry about it. I said, I know what I'm talking about.
Don't worry about it. And sure as helly voted against us.
And I said, another one down. Another great move by Trump. Anyway,
So much for favors. You know, it's welcome to the
world of politics, right right, David. We know about that,
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but we're here today because we believe that America's destiny
is to dominate every industry and be the first in
every technology, and that includes being the world's number one
superpowered artificial intelligence. And we are way ahead of China.
I have to say, we're way ahead of China. And
the plants are starting up, the construction starting up. And
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did you notice that two days ago they just announced
that they had a budget surplus of twenty five billion
in this country, right, Howard, he never saw anything like that.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
I would say that's.
Speaker 9 (22:52):
Been like decades, twenty five billion, and that's peanuts compared
to what it's and it's good business practices. The tariffs
are coming in by the hundreds of billions of dollars
and they haven't they're really at the infant stage right now.
It's only on cars and steal mostly and the rest
is starting to kick in. We just made a deal today,
a big one with Indonesia, a great deal, and we
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they've opened up Indonesia fully. You know, Indonesia really has
great copper, very very powerful copper. But they have a
lot of things and we have full access to Indonesia.
Will soon be announcing probably, I don't you know, if.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
We do we do. If we don't, that's okay too.
Speaker 9 (23:31):
I don't mind because I'm very happy with the letters
that we send out that you'll be paying x percent.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
I almost like it better if you want to know.
Speaker 9 (23:38):
The true But Scott and Howard, you know, they like
to go the old fashioned where let's work hard to
make a deal.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
I don't know. There's something about.
Speaker 9 (23:45):
Pay us thirty five percent of everything that we're very happy.
But I think India is going to open up, and
a lot of countries are going to open up, and
some that don't, they'll just be paying a very substantial tariff,
but peanuts compared to what.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
They should be paying. So we have some amazing things.
Speaker 9 (24:02):
China and other countries are racing to catch up to
America having to do with AI, and we're not going
to let them do it. We have the great chips,
we have the great everything, and we're going to be
fighting them in a very friendly fashion. I have a
great relationship with Presidency and.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
We smile at the at the back and forth.
Speaker 9 (24:23):
But we are leading. I heard somebody say before that
we're going to try and catch China. We're not catching them.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
We're leading.
Speaker 9 (24:30):
And one of the advantages they have is they show
the electric that they have it. They're opening up coal
fired plants all over the place, and we're entitled and
allowed now to do that too.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
We took coal that it was taken out of.
Speaker 9 (24:43):
The chain, and coal is actually a very very powerful
I say, you're not allowed.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
To call it coal. You have to call it clean,
beautiful coal.
Speaker 9 (24:51):
You're not allowed john to call it just coal because
people don't understand.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
We call it clean, beautiful coal.
Speaker 9 (24:57):
But China is I think they're going to be very
far behind.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
They mark my words.
Speaker 9 (25:04):
I think they're going to be very far because these
are we have a lot of places going up right
now and they're all going to be great, and they
actually feed off each other. But remaining the world's leader
in AI will require an enormous increase in the energy production,
and that's taking place, and you're doing it yourself, and
a massive build out a physical infrastructure, and the tremendous
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technology skill that Pennsylvania has.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
I mean, you have tremendous skill in this state.
Speaker 9 (25:29):
Today, the Commonwealth is reclaiming its industrial heritage and taking
its place at the forefront of the AI technological revolution.
And as I said before, It's an expression I used
all during the all during the campaign and screamed it out.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
We'll drill, baby, drill, and people went crazy.
Speaker 9 (25:50):
We had big crowds, as you probably heard, biggest ever,
biggest in history. The investments being announced this afternoon include
more than fifty six billion dollars in new energy infrastructure
and more than thirty six billion dollars in new data
center projects. And a lot more than that are going
to be announced in the coming weeks, not even months,
I think we could say weeks.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Right, Howard.
Speaker 9 (26:12):
In the campaign, I promised that I would save the
Homer City power plant fifty miles east of here, that
Joe Biden's green new scam.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Forced to shut down.
Speaker 9 (26:21):
It's a green new scam, greatest scam in history, the
greatest in history.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Well, the auto pen, I think is a bigger scam
if you want to Actually, I do believe that.
Speaker 9 (26:32):
Today we're pleased to report that a fifteen billion dollar
investment from Nighthead Capital Management. Who's here from Knighthead. Well,
I'm very impressed with that fifteen billion.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 9 (26:45):
It's a great location too. Wow, that's very impressive. Thank
you very much. That's a big number.
Speaker 8 (26:53):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
It's a big number and yet it's peanuts relative to water.
That's a good job.
Speaker 9 (26:58):
But the homer the city side is being resurrected as
the largest natural gas fired power plant ever to be
built in North America.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Is that right? That's fantastic.
Speaker 9 (27:12):
As another example, Google will be investing billions and billions
of dollars to revitalize two major hydro power facilities in Pennsylvania. Congratulations,
salotis Sergey and Sunder.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
They've done a pretty good job at.
Speaker 9 (27:27):
Google, I'll tell you. And they have their star right here.
So congratulations. That's really fantastic.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
And under the.
Speaker 9 (27:34):
Last year of Biden, China added eleven times as much
power generation capacity as did the United States.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
That's under Biden.
Speaker 9 (27:43):
That's not under Trump, that's under Sleepy Joe. Under the
Trump administration, America is getting back in the game.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
And there's a lot happening here in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. President
Trump and Senator Dave McCormick of Pennsylvania set to unveil
a multi bill billion dollar plan to boost American AI
and energy investment. We're hearing that it's going to be
about ninety billion dollars. All of this set to happen
at the inaugural Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit, which is
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happening right now. You can see a roundtable getting underway.
So I'm going to be quiet and let's listen into
the various speakers. All right, So as we wait for
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this roundtable to get UNDERWAG just want to fill you
in about some of the details here. The plan that's
going to be discussed includes new data centers, power infrastructure,
also expansion, and thousands of jobs there in Pennsylvania specifically.
We're also hearing that about six thousand construction jobs in
three thousand permanent positions will be created as part of
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this initiative. Again, President Trump is in root here. He
will be taking the podium and speaking at this Pennsylvania
Energy and Innovation Summit in short order. We're hearing that
more than sixty CEOs and investors from companies like Exon Mobile, Amazon,
as well as Blackrock are here in attendance. Many of
those leaders are here at this roundtable. They will be
(30:06):
speaking here in short order, and of course I will
be quiet the moment they really start speaking and the
moment all of this gets underway. Reports also show that
Blackstone is committing some twenty five billion dollars to this project,
so that is major investment. President Trump and Senator McCormick
say that they want to make Pennsylvania a national leader
(30:28):
in artificial intelligence as well as energy development. Our Michelle
backers also there at the scene. We'll see if we
can't pipe her in here momentarily as we wait for
these leaders to speak. Michelle, this is really a huge
deal for the state of Pennsylvania, and there's the potential
for really a rejuvenation, if you will, or a renaissance
(30:50):
in Pennsylvania as it relates to energy and artificial intelligence
and technology in general.
Speaker 5 (30:58):
There's your exactly right. That's why the antiaticipation is really
building here.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
I want to step out the sean just so you
can see what's going on behind me, because you can
see all of everyone has taken their seats. We're anxiously
awaiting for President Trump, who is said to be here
at any moment.
Speaker 5 (31:14):
You already mentioned it.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
A lot of investment coming here into the Keystone State.
And look, there's been a lot of talk about the
fear of AI, but let's be clear, we are in
the middle of another industrial revolution, and what's happening here
with AI. It's a great opportunity for states, especially states
like Pennsylvania, to seize the opportunity and build that economic advancement.
You think about that, this is America First economics. You're
(31:37):
seeing that money coming back into our country rather than
being shipped off overseas to frankly, countries that hate us.
Speaker 5 (31:43):
There's so much opportunity here.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
You can see some of those CEOs on stage as
we speak right now.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
And to your point, Michelle, yes, this is all about
America First, making sure that we're bringing more money, more
investment back here to the United States. But it's also
putting the United States on a path that makes it
more competitive globally.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
You're exactly right. Think about it.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
We are in the AI race with China, and unless
we start investing in our own people, in our own resources,
there will be no way to compete. I see the
music winding down here, so I would assumed that the
President is set to walk out any moment.
Speaker 5 (32:22):
And there it is, Terence.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
You're just seeing.
Speaker 6 (32:56):
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome United States Senator David McCormick
and Missus Dina Powell McCormick.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
He's got the Red Fight. Simper finds out too on
the sam clown's been a little more in the store
for a time, and the beacon says he miss.
Speaker 5 (33:15):
He won't find them in any game.
Speaker 9 (33:17):
Fixed would any party, And the cassman read team and
he's just feed in America.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
His Pop's that all right.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
We're going to continue to watch all of this unfold.
You can see a number of movers and shakers in
the business world as well as in government already on
site there. Senator Dave McCormick just making his way to
the podium there or to this roundtable that will be
getting underway. We're now waiting for President Trump to arrive.
We're hearing that his arrival will be imminent and so
(34:53):
we of course will have his remarks live there. But
really a who's who of business leaders at this summit.
It is the Energy and Innovation Summit, and one of
the major focuses will be artificial intelligence and how Pennsylvania
as a state can play a role in creating US
energy dominance and US dominance when it comes to energy
(35:17):
and artificial intelligence. Again, we're hearing that more than sixty
CEOs and investors from companies like Exon Mobile, Amazon, Blackrock
are in attendance there. You can see some of them
right here on your screen, and even to the left
and right of this main table, there are more leaders
sitting there ready for this round table once President Trump arrives.
(35:39):
The plan in general for today's summit and overall for
the state of Pennsylvania is to build some new data centers,
also to create power infrastructure expansion within the state. And
that means that thousands of jobs ultimately will come to
the state of Pennsylvania. Six thousand construction jobs. We're hearing
about three thousand permanent positions, and these of course will
(36:02):
be high quality positions because they are pretty specific and
innovative positions within the technology sector. And one of the
things we heard the governor there as well as the
senator's tout, is the fact that Pennsylvania already has a
ready workforce to be able to fill some of these positions. Currently,
(36:24):
this summit is being held at Carnegie Mellon University there
in Pittsburgh, and one of the things that Senator McCormick
pointed out, let's.
Speaker 6 (36:33):
Listen, President of the United States, President Donald J.
Speaker 5 (36:40):
Trump, Thank you, John.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
Well, Good afternoon, mister President welcome back to Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
We're so glad to have you here.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
A year ago, almost to the day, I was with
you at Butler and I witnessed your strength and your
courage on that day, and Diana and I are beyond
grateful at the town we're proud to call home. At
session a story time for our great Commonwealth and for
our nation. In your first term, you famously promised you
(38:00):
were elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris,
and today you're once again making good in that promise.
And what's happening here today is absolutely historic. Your visit
and your leadership has catalyzed ninety billion dollars of investment
in energy and AI revolution in Pennsylvania. Ninety billion dollars.
(38:32):
Your presence and those commitments showcase Pennsylvania's story to the world,
and today's summit begins to deliver on the promises that
you and I made to the working families of Pennsylvania
by creating many thousands of new jobs. Mister President, you
and I campaigned on an agenda to make American energy dominant,
(38:54):
to secure our nation's AI leadership, to create jobs and
opportunity for working families in Pennsylvania and across America, and
your policies are working. You're making our country energy dominant
once again. You're supporting workers at every level. You've embraced
foreign investment and created good paying jobs right here in
(39:15):
the United States of America. And you have been an
unwavering in your commitment to rebuilding America's industrial capacity and
securing long term AI leadership. Those policies are not only
crucial to our economic well being, to the people here
in Pennsylvania, but to our national security. And this agenda
(39:36):
has galvanized private capital. It's unleashing a new wave of
industrial development and job creation across America and in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
And I just want to say.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
I'm so thankful to you, but also to your incredible team,
Secretary Lutinex, Secretary Vessine, Secretary Burgham, Secretary right, David Sachs.
We have had such incredible leadership and support from your
team before we talk about those commitments here. And so
I'd like to say, ladies and gentlemen, it's my honor
(40:09):
to introduce the forty fifth and the forty seventh President
of the United States of America, Donald J.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
Trump. Thank you very well, well thank you very much.
And it's a real honor to be here.
Speaker 9 (40:30):
And this is a place that warms my heart's We
did very well in this state, as you know, three
times actually, and it's been a tremendous experience. I went
to school here, I went to college here, and I
got to know it very well. And the people are
the greatest people on earth. So it's a real honor
(40:50):
to be here. And I have to say about David
and Dina, they had the toughest race.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
It was.
Speaker 9 (40:57):
I said, this is going to be a tough one.
Campaign staff that I made, We had lots of people,
tens of thousands would be a small crowd, and I'd
invite David it, get up and do a fantastic job.
And it all worked out. But he won a race
that was really not doable. I think was his opponent
was here for a long time and his father was
(41:19):
there for it's about fifty years at least total, and
those people aren't instead of.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
Beat but you beat him. So I just want to
congratulate you. That's amazing.
Speaker 9 (41:32):
And he wouldn't have done it without Dina that I
can tell you with no denas anybody that knows Dina
knows exactly what I'm saying. And you know, he mentioned Butler,
but what nobody really talks too much about because they
didn't see the order. But I actually looked down to
the right before the that thing.
Speaker 1 (41:51):
Happened, and I said, oh, there's David McCormick. He's running
for the Senate. David, come on up. And I was
a little there were so many people.
Speaker 9 (42:02):
There was a little problem he had coming up because
I said, look, just do it later.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
And then about a minute later.
Speaker 9 (42:08):
So you know, if you would have come up, I
don't know what the hell would have happened.
Speaker 1 (42:11):
Right, It worked out better this way, right, I don't
know if you would have been around.
Speaker 9 (42:17):
But other, let's take I want to take full credit
for that.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
I said, no, no, bother, We'll do it later. So
I I didn't say that who knows, but really, great job.
Speaker 9 (42:28):
Exactly one year ago this week, David was at that
rally in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1 (42:32):
And twelve months later, look at what we have. We
have a president.
Speaker 9 (42:37):
We have really, I mean, if you think about it,
we had a country and I just left the NATO leaders.
I left the Middle East, the king of Saudi Arabia Qatar.
As you know, Mir so great and UAE. These are
three great leaders. And then we just.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
Made a deal with NATO where they pay for everything.
Speaker 9 (42:59):
And we give them the ammunition and the missiles, and
we give them whatever they want. We got to get
that war stopped. It's so bad. But every leader said
no matter where, they all said the same thing to me,
some of them separately, but in the same words.
Speaker 1 (43:14):
Just about he said, it's amazing. One year ago you
had a dead country. We were dead. We didn't think
you could ever come back.
Speaker 9 (43:22):
And now today you have the hottest country anywhere in
the world. It's true, it's true. So we're back in
Pittsburgh to announce the largest package of investments in the
history of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. And it's not even close.
I don't imagine it's too close. I don't think second.
(43:43):
I don't think second is too close. That's a big statement.
This afternoon, twenty leading technology and energy companies are announcing
more than ninety two billion dollars of investments in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1 (43:55):
And if you want, we could probably get them up.
Let's stalk to him right now.
Speaker 9 (44:03):
But this is a really triumphant day for the people
of the Commonwealth and for the United States of America.
Speaker 1 (44:10):
We're doing things that nobody ever thought possible. As of
about a month and a half ago. Well, we came
back from the Middle East.
Speaker 9 (44:17):
We came back with five point one trillion dollars of
investments from the three countries that I mentioned, and they're
great people, great leaders of those countries. But we came
back with many, many planes that they are going to
build through Boeing. They came back with a package of
goods that were you know, nobody's seen. I don't think
(44:38):
anybody's seeing five point one trillion dollars.
Speaker 1 (44:42):
And we are now.
Speaker 9 (44:44):
At about sixteen think of this, sixteen trillion dollars, and
we're at a little bit less than six months, but
really we're probably at three months because it took me
a little time to get started, right, So in three
and a half four months, let's say we have about
sixteen trillion dollars. Has never been anything like that in history.
(45:05):
You can go for years and they didn't have numbers
like that. And if you look at the last administration,
you had negative numbers. You didn't have positive numbers. You're
going in the wrong direction. But we have the hottest
country and we we're going to keep it that way.
Today's commitments are ensuring that the future is going to
be designed, built and made right here in Pennsylvania and
(45:27):
right here in Pittsburg. And I have to say, right
here in the United States of America, I want to
thank we have some great talent and the administration. I
want to thank and say hello to few people that
are with US. Secretaries Scott Bessant, Howard Lutnik, Doug Bergham,
(45:54):
Chris Wright.
Speaker 1 (45:55):
You know, Chris writes very friendly with the people up here. Doug.
Speaker 9 (45:59):
I wanted Doug for energy. I didn't know about Chris,
and Doug said, no, I have somebody that's much better
than me. Doug never said that in his life.
Speaker 1 (46:06):
You have to know. I said, this guy must be
very good. But what a team they are.
Speaker 9 (46:11):
You know. We we have one controls the land and
one controls the energy.
Speaker 1 (46:16):
But it was sort of intertwined. So we put them together.
Speaker 3 (46:20):
Right.
Speaker 1 (46:21):
We never even discussed who's supposed to be the leader
of the pack. But boy, you are it was one instruction.
Speaker 9 (46:27):
Drill, baby, drill, right, and they are drilling, they are drilling.
Speaker 1 (46:35):
We have the EPA administrator. Probably I must say this, Doug.
Speaker 9 (46:39):
I hate to say it, Chris said, Doug and all
of you guys, the most important man on the day
is today is Lee Zelden. It's called environmental protection because
he's going to be the one that gets you a permit.
He's going to get you a permit for the largest
electric producing plant in the world.
Speaker 1 (46:58):
In about a week.
Speaker 9 (47:00):
You say, now, if you if you go nuclear, I
promised him I'd give him two weeks. Okay, nuclear will
give him a little more time. But you know, the
biggest problem we've had is takes years and years to
get permits.
Speaker 1 (47:12):
And he really is.
Speaker 9 (47:13):
He's a phenomenal guy, and you know his history.
Speaker 1 (47:18):
He is a great lawyer, great congressman. In a race
that was, according to.
Speaker 9 (47:22):
Most unwinnable, almost one for governor just missed it by
a few points.
Speaker 1 (47:27):
And he's really fantastic.
Speaker 9 (47:29):
But he's essentially the Environmental Protection Agency, the top man,
and he's got things rocking and already they're building plants
and they have their permits. These are pertments that would
have taken you literally ten years to get or I
would really say ten years before they voted against you,
because that's really what was happening.
Speaker 1 (47:49):
And it's crazy all over the country.
Speaker 9 (47:50):
But we're freeing it up and he really is going
to be able to produce. And I'm looking at the
numbers of China where they're producing a lot of electric. Well,
they only have one man. They have to worry about
our friend, right President. She he can do that by himself.
I don't know if I can do I have the
right to overrule you, maybe I don't know. Probably I do,
but I won't have to. But so he has one
(48:14):
man and we have one man. The one man is
sitting right there. We appreciate you doing an amazing job.
They're building plants already, and they're building plants, and they
have already their their permits, and I have to take it.
I have to brag just for a second, because when
I first heard about AI.
Speaker 1 (48:32):
You know, it's not my thing. Although my uncle was.
Speaker 9 (48:35):
An MIT, one of the great professors fifty one years whatever,
longest serving professor in the history of MIT, three degrees
in nuclear, chemical and math. That's a Sportman Kazinski was
one of his students.
Speaker 1 (48:51):
Do you know who Kazinsky was?
Speaker 9 (48:53):
There's very little difference between a madman and a genius.
But Kazinska said, what kind of a student was he?
Uncle John, doctor John Trump? He said, what kind of
a student?
Speaker 1 (49:03):
Man?
Speaker 9 (49:03):
He said, seriously good? He said he'd correct. You go
around correcting everybody. But it didn't work out too well
for him. Didn't work out too well.
Speaker 1 (49:12):
But it's interesting in life.
Speaker 9 (49:14):
But I will say this that we have the greatest brains,
we have the greatest power, and we are going to
have more electric. I said to some of the guys
coming in. They wanted to hook up to the grid.
I spoke to Mark and Jeff and a lot of people,
and they said, well, we want to know about the
electric because I was told we'll need from David, the
(49:36):
first one. You're the first one that told me. That's
why I hired him, because I said, he told me something.
Speaker 1 (49:40):
I didn't know.
Speaker 9 (49:41):
He said, you need double the electric of what we
have right now, and maybe even more than that.
Speaker 1 (49:45):
Remember that, And.
Speaker 9 (49:46):
I said, what are you kidding? And that's double the
electric that we have. Take everything we have and double it,
and actually the number.
Speaker 1 (49:53):
That was even low. You need more than that, and
to do.
Speaker 9 (49:57):
That you'd have to hook up to an old grid
in many cases broken and certainly very much open to
destruction from bombs and planes and from frankly storms.
Speaker 1 (50:11):
You see what happened that horrible.
Speaker 9 (50:13):
Situation in Texas, and you'd be subject to that. Then
it's fragile, but it is old and it can't have
the capacity unless you totally rebuild it.
Speaker 1 (50:22):
That would take decades. And I said, well, why do
we do this? Why don't we.
Speaker 9 (50:27):
When you build your plant wherever you may build it,
you build your own electric plant.
Speaker 1 (50:32):
And nobody took it seriously. They sort of looked.
Speaker 9 (50:34):
Like, I can't really take that seriously because they didn't
believe it was happening. So the smartest people, some of
them on stage right now, were saying huh. And then
they say, well, how do we hook up to the grid.
We want to hook up to it. They didn't believe
what I was saying. And I said, no, no, I'm
really serious. I'm going to let you build rightly, and
to let you build with your plant you're going to
(50:55):
build will make you like a public utility. You're going
to build your own content in New York. You're going
to build your own electric factory, and you're going to
make your own electricity. So this way you can have
a great plant, and what you'll do is, if you
have access, you can sell it back into the grid.
You'll even make money from the electric business, because these
guys do know how to make money. They'll end up
(51:15):
doing things that will be shocking. And you're going to
make your own plants. So when I looked at the
numbers before, I saw a board outside and it's shood
how much electricity China is making.
Speaker 1 (51:26):
Well, we just started, but we're going to actually end
up doing more than them.
Speaker 9 (51:29):
And it's going to be done privately, and you can
own your own electric plants and they'll be powered by
maybe nuclear, maybe gas, maybe cold. You know, we brought
coal back in. They won't be powered by wind because
it doesn't work. I hate to say, it just doesn't work.
It's rather intermittent. You don't want it CAUs there's a
lot of problems. But we have every form of a
(51:52):
fuel that you want to use for your plant, and
you'll build a plant, you'll build your electric and this
way you have no excuses. Because I didn't want to
be the one that said, listen, who were trying to
build that grid in ten years from now, and you
wouldn't be able to open You're going to build it
with your own plants, and so people heard that, they
couldn't believe it. And finally now they believe it because
we have a couple that are already started and they're
(52:13):
building their electric plants along with their separate plant, and
in fact, some of them building the electric plant inside
of their main building. So it's really exciting to see.
But I was very very proud of that. Actually, White
House ais are David Sachs.
Speaker 1 (52:31):
David, thank you very much. Great job. David interviewed me on.
Speaker 9 (52:37):
His podcast about What's that Now two years ago or
something in San Francisco, and.
Speaker 1 (52:43):
I said, this guy's very smart.
Speaker 9 (52:46):
If I pulled this sucker off, I'm going to probably
hire him in some form.
Speaker 1 (52:49):
I got to get him in. But you've been doing great.
Thank you, David very much.
Speaker 9 (52:53):
Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, Michael
Kratzios Michael, thank you, Thank you. Michael Wismuth, Thank you, Michael.
Speaker 1 (53:02):
Good job. They tell me you're doing great.
Speaker 9 (53:05):
Thank you very much, as well as State Senate President
pro Tem Kim Ward Kim, Thank you, Kim.
Speaker 1 (53:14):
Good job. Kim's very happy right now.
Speaker 9 (53:17):
State Center majority leader Joe Pittman, Joe, thank you and
State Senator Greg Rothman.
Speaker 1 (53:25):
Thank you very much. Gret thank you.
Speaker 9 (53:29):
I also want to recognize your great Congressman.
Speaker 1 (53:32):
These are frenzies of warriors. They just passed the great
big beautiful.
Speaker 9 (53:37):
I had the word great, I like to say, because
there really was really supposed to be great, big beautiful.
They got the big beautiful, but I had great. They
took their word great out. I was on a show
called to Face the Nation or something like that, Ladies
and Gentlemen, to Face the Nation, and I said, I
want a great, big beautiful bill, and they named it that,
and it really is. It was supposed to be seven bills,
(53:59):
could have been two or three, but it was supposed
to be originally seven. I said, let's put them all together,
and if you put them all together, there's going to
be something for everybody. And that's what happened, and we
got it pass and Republicans that we didn't get one
Democrat vote think of it the biggest tax cut in history,
and we didn't get a Democrat vote, and so many
other things, no tax on tips, no tax on social security,
(54:23):
no tax on overtime, but the biggest tax cut in
the history of our country. You got that also the
biggest deduction. You know, you have a ten year period.
Last time, we had a one year period. Now you
have a ten year period.
Speaker 1 (54:34):
And that's what.
Speaker 9 (54:35):
Made the first one. We had the most successful economy
in the history of our country during my first term.
And we had the we passed the bill, but that bill, honestly,
as good as it was, was nothing compared to this one.
And the biggest thing and the biggest reason for the
success was the
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