April 8, 2025 • 32 mins
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Supreme Court Ruling:
- The Supreme Court lifted a block imposed by US District Judge James Boseburg, allowing the Trump administration to deport suspected illegal alien gang members.
- The ruling was described as narrow, focusing on the proper venue for the cases rather than the administration's use of the Alien Enemies Act.
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Media Coverage:
- Media outlets, particularly The New York Times, allegedly misrepresent the ruling and its implications.
- We emphasize the importance of the ruling for the rule of law and the administration's ability to perform its duties.
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Political Reactions:
- Attorney General Pam Bondi and Senator Ted Cruz are quoted, highlighting the victory for the rule of law and criticizing activist judges for undermining Trump's authority.
- We discuss the broader issue of judicial activism and its impact on Trump's policies.
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Economic and Foreign Policy:
- Trump's tariff policies and their implications for international trade, particularly with China and Japan.
- We mention Trump's direct talks with Iran over their nuclear weapons program, emphasizing the administration's strong stance on national security.
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Gas Prices and Economic Impact:
- We note a significant decrease in gas prices across the US, attributing it to Trump's policies on energy independence and tariffs.
- Discuss the economic relief provided by lower gas prices and the broader implications for the US economy.
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International Relations:
- We highlight Trump's meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the ongoing talks with Iran.
- Also the potential disarmament of Iranian-backed militias in Iraq to avoid conflict with the US.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It is a major victory for law and order when
it comes to the President Donald Trump having power to
do his job. The Supreme Court of the United States
lifted a block from the US District Judge James Boseburg,
which was law fair preventing the Trump administration from deporting
suspected illegal alien gang members. They were doing this under
(00:23):
the seventeen ninety eight Alien Enemies Act. Now, this ruling
from the Supreme Court is a massive win for President
Donald Trump and most importantly for the rule of law
in this country. It's also a massive win for his
administration because now they can actually do their jobs. It
was described quote as a narrow and focused on the
(00:44):
proper venue for the cases, rather than on the administration's
use of a century's old law to justify his decision
to deport suspected illegal alien gang members. That according to
The New York Times. So even when the President it's
a huge victory from the Supreme Court, just know the
hacks of the New York Times are still going to
(01:06):
lie to you about the premise of the ruling. Per
the New York Times, it was a five to four decision.
Happens all the time, by the way, and the Supreme
Court justice found that the migrants had improperly challenged their
deportations in Washington.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
D C.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
When they should have challenged him in Texas, where they
were being held quote unquote from the Times. Now, the
real headline should have been this, the Supreme Court sides
with the Trump administration and will allow them to continue
removing Venezuela and Transda Ragua gang members from the country
under the Alien's Enemies Act. But no, the media couldn't
(01:44):
actually tell you the story the honest way. In a
post on x the Attorney General Pam Bondi responded to
the Supreme Court decision and described it as a landmark
victory for.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Quote the rule of law.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Bondi continued saying that an activist judge in Washington, DC
does not have the jurisdiction to seize control of President
Trump's authority to conduct foreign policy and keep the American
people safe. The Department of Justice will continue fighting in
court to make Americas safe again. Trump also asked the
(02:19):
Supreme Court to allow the federal government to deport suspected
illegal alien gang members under the Alien Enemies Act, and
in March, Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act to allow
for the expedited removal of illegal Venezuelan migrants who were
suspected of being members of that dangerous gang, the transda
Agua gang also that has been designated as a terrorist organization.
(02:43):
These are terrorists at the President's trying to get rid of.
This was a massive victory for the President, and it's
one that the media will not tell you the truth
on because they know just how damning it is to
their lawfare. At the end of the day, this means
that Donald try Trump is going to be able to
do what he needs to do to keep all of
(03:04):
us safe from these gang members. Now, this really broadens
out into also another bigger issue, and that issue deals
with just these judges who are doing everything they can
to undermine Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
It is a form of law fare.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
I want you to hear what Senator Schmid had to
say on Fox News Channel when he was talking about
just how bad it's gotten.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
And so I think a lot of these judges are
taking it upon themselves to usurp really important power. For example,
when President Trump declared a predatory incursion of these criminal,
violent gangs, he's well within his Article two executive power
to deport them he can do that. The judge by
stepping in there, Judge Bosberg, by stepping in in the
case that we're talking about, he somehow got said.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
You can't do that.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
That is like that judge dictating missile strikes or deciding
troop movements. Those are national security issues, those are foreign
those are powers of the commander in chief. The judge
doesn't get to do so. The separation of powers works
both ways. You don't get to kind of jump into
the Article two branches authority on commander in chief power.
So I think you're about to see all these cases
(04:10):
make their way to Supreme Court, and I think President
Trump's on very firm ground, but we should address these
abuses that are happening now every day.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Pam Bonnie, the Attorney General of the United States of America,
also talking about just how radical these judges have become
and what they are doing.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
The president is going to comply with the law. He
was overwhelmingly elected by an overwhelming majority of the United
States citizens to be our commander in chief, and that's
what he's been doing. Shannon. Just since January twentieth, we've
had over one hundred and seventy lawsuits filed against us.
That should be the constitutional crisis right there. Fifty injunctions
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they're popping up every single day, trying to control his
executive power, trying to control where he believes our tax
dollars should be allocated. And saying he won by an
overwhelming majority is so important because that's what the American
people want, what President Trump campaign on and what he
want on, and he's implementing that agenda at a rapid speed.
(05:11):
None of us can keep up with them every single day,
and so it's just we're going after all of these lawsuits.
We're defending them all. We just got a great win
and will continue.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
To fight, will continue to fight, and it looks like
now they're going to continue to also win. Senator Ted
Cruz also signed the alarm on these injunctions nationwide, injunctions
by these activist judges. And here is what he said
at a testimony hearing on the issue in front of
his committee in the Senate.
Speaker 7 (05:40):
It's long been said that hypocrisy is the tribute that
vice pays to virtue. I have to admit I'm enjoying
listening to my Democrat colleagues suddenly discover the virtues of
the rule of law after four years where they brazenly
supported the most lawless Department of Justice and the most
politically weaponized department of justice our nation has ever. We
(06:01):
just heard the Senator from Rhye Island talk about the
imperative of protecting judges, and yet not a single Democrat
senator cared about the violent protesters that showed up outside
Supreme Court justices homes, including I might note female justices
like Justice Amy Coney Barrett threatening their family. And Joe
Biden's Attorney General didn't do a damn thing and refused
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to enforce the law to protect those judges. Why because
he agreed with the violent protesters and he wanted to
intimidate and threaten those judges, Professor Bray. Under our constitution,
who should decide elections the voters or on elected judges.
Speaker 8 (06:39):
The voters are the ones who should vote in the
election according to the laws, and the laws sometimes have
to be applied by the judges if they're aise.
Speaker 7 (06:46):
And under our constitution, who is charged with making policy decisions?
Elected representatives elected by the people or unelected federal judges.
Speaker 8 (06:57):
I think the question of policy, Senator, is a little
broader than a particular case, So the.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Basic laws should be enacted by Congress. That's where the
fountain of.
Speaker 7 (07:07):
Polacy decisions are the elected branch. Right law is the
province of the court. Policy is the province of the
elected branches. These are not complicated, Professor Bray, Let me
ask you this, do the federal courts have power to
issue remedies for people who are not parties to a case?
Speaker 8 (07:22):
That's the question, I agree is not complicated. They do
not have that power.
Speaker 7 (07:26):
Is the phrase nationwide injunction or universal injunction found anywhere
in the Constitution?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
It is not first chart the.
Speaker 7 (07:34):
First one hundred and fifty years of our republic. How
many nationwide injunctions were issued?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
My view is that there were not any until nineteen
sixty three.
Speaker 9 (07:42):
Zero.
Speaker 7 (07:43):
Now fast forward, how many nationwide injunctions were issued in
the entire twentieth century.
Speaker 8 (07:50):
It's a small number, I would I would think it
would be a dozen.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Giver take it's not large.
Speaker 7 (07:56):
Twenty seven actually, including Trump's first term. How many nationwide
injunctions were issued in the last twenty years?
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Far more than that, thirty two.
Speaker 7 (08:09):
From twenty twenty and one to twenty twenty four against Biden, Obama,
and Bush thirty two, and how many nationwide injunctions have
been issued in the last two months alone.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
There have been quite a few thirty seven.
Speaker 7 (08:24):
Let that sink in there have been more nationwide injunctions
in the past two months against President Trump than in
the entire twentieth century. There have been more nationwide injunction
against President Trump in the last two months than both
terms of George W. Bush, both terms of Barack Obama,
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and Joe Biden's term. We saw during the Biden presidency
law Fair indicting President Trump four times, using the machinery
of justice to attack him, and that was an attack
on democracy because democrats today hate democracy. Democrats today are
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angry at the voters for re electing Donald Trump and
electing a Republican Senate in a Republican House, and they
engage in Lawfair to stop democracy from operating.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Senator Cruz is absolutely right, and this is exactly why
it's so important that we fight back the way that
Pamboni said it wherever we have to when democrats abuse
their power, especially sitting on the bench. There has been
a story that has been circulating, and it's one that
we're going to debunk right now. It's that Republicans are
(09:38):
going to break with the president and destroy what he's
doing on tariffs. Well, Senator James Langford set the record
straight saying he doesn't think that's going to happen on
Capitol Hill at all. He said, if anything is stopping
the president will be lawfair in the court system. You're
noticing a trend with lawfair, right, take a list in
(09:59):
to in his own words from Oklahoma.
Speaker 10 (10:03):
So, I think the president's challenge is not going to
be Congress. There'll be members of Congress saying, hey, this
needs to be able to come back to Congress as
it typically does. I think it's gonna be challenging the courts,
quite frankly, because it's novel, is new, it's a different
way to actually take on the tariffs, and so I
think the courts are going to jump in and say
we want to be able to take a look at this.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
So there is a center saying, guess what, what you're
being told by the media is yet again another lie
to undermine President Trump and his job as the commander
in chief. Now, the Center also said, yes, there is
an attempt in Congress to quote rein in the president's
capability to manage tariffs, but quote, I don't think this
(10:41):
bill will have an impact on it at all. Now,
the Senate narrowly approved a tariff control bill which could
not have won approval if it was not for the
support of four Republicans. There's a little chance the bill
will get majority support in the House. Trump also still
has veto control of the bills should it win full approval.
(11:02):
You can't make this up, Langford said. The big pictures
that Trump is on the right course, and he believes
his constituents will see the benefits as well, saying, quote,
He's not wrong definitely that China is ripping us off
and that we've got bad trade issues all over the world.
And I'm looking forward to lots of new negotiated trade
agreements all around the world because my farmers and ranchers
(11:24):
are folks that do production of lots of different equipment here.
They want to be able to sell all over the world.
They want to be able to have fair markets.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Now.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
President Trump also getting in on the action at the
White House today. He was taking questions with net and Yahoo,
and he was asked by the media about the tariffs.
There was a story that started to circulate that Donald
Trump was quote looking at pausing at the tariffs. Well,
Donald Trump said, guess what, that's not true. And here's
the present in his own words, any questions mister.
Speaker 7 (12:00):
To the markets today and would you be open to
a pause in tariffs to allow for negotiation.
Speaker 11 (12:05):
Well, we're to look into that. We have many, many
countries that are coming to negotiate deals with us, and
they're going to be fair deals, and certain cases they're
going to be paying substantial tariffs, they'll be fair deals.
You know, I spoke this morning with the Prime Minister
of Japan and we had a very good conversation. They're
(12:27):
coming and I said, one thing, you're going to have
to open up your country because we sold no cars,
like zero cars in Japan, and they sold millions of
cars into our country. They don't really take our agriculture,
a little bit of it just to keep us slightly happy,
but they don't take what they have us to be taking.
So we have a great relationship with Japan. We're going
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to keep it that way. But they're coming in to
meet and other countries are coming in with China, as
you know, against my statement, they put a thirty four
percent tariff on above what their ridiculous tariffs were already,
and I said, if that tariff isn't removed by tomorrow
at twelve o'clock, we're putting a fifty percent tariff on
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above the tariffs that we put on. So they've gone
for years, they've become a rich country because of people,
again that we're in the White House that allowed this
to happen, hundreds of billions of dollars a year, that'd
maken us on trade, and it shouldn't be that way.
And I have a great relationship with presidency. I hope
it's going to stay that way. I have great respect
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for China, but they can't do this. We're just we're
going to have one shot at this, and no other
president's going to do this what I'm doing. And I'll
tell you what, it's an honor to do it because
we have been just just destroyed what they've done to
our system. You know, we have thirty six trillion dollars
of debt for a reason, and the reason is that
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people allowed it to get that way. So we'll be
talking to China, we'll be talking to a lot of
different countries, and I think, you know, if if we
can make a really fair deal and a good deal
for the United States, not a good deal for other
This is America first. It's now America first. And we
(14:14):
didn't put America first. We put America last. The people
that were in the Oval Office put America list, and
we're not going to stand for So.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
If you want to know who's on your side, it's
clearly the President of the United States of America. Yes,
the media is having to lie, manipulate and change the
headlines and tell you it's all doom and gloom, and
then line say the President's going to stop the tariffs,
pause the teriffs, back down from the tariff, show weakness. Well,
I think it's pretty clear now from what the President
said in the White House none of that is actually
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going to happen.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Now.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
The tariff guru at the White House is a guy
by the name of Peter Navarro. He went out on
the ingram Angle Show on Fox News Channel to talk
to average investors, many people like you and I that
invest for our retirement. And yes, it is a little
bit scary right now. It's concerning to see what's happening
on Wall Street. Well, here is the message from Pier
(15:07):
Navarro to all of us.
Speaker 9 (15:09):
You heard the billionaire class.
Speaker 12 (15:12):
Many of these people did in the end support President Trump,
but you might as well have thought we were on
the verge of breadlines in the United States today.
Speaker 13 (15:20):
Well, I think in the end they supported Trump. I mean,
they're just like trying to put their bets whatever. Look,
here's the thing I want to say to small investors.
Don't panic. They want you to sell. You can't take
a loss until you sell. And what I see is
fifty thousand on the Dow. I predicted in twenty sixteen
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the day after President got elected. Back then, when the
dead futures were dead read down, I said we're going
to go to twenty five thousand. I got that exactly right.
We're going to fifty. But more importantly, with the S
and P five hundred, the games we've had over the
last couple of years have been basically seven stocks the
magnific since seventy AIS, most of the stocks in the
(16:03):
S and P five hundred have gone nowhere. Now they're
going to go crazy. They're going to go so bullish
because we're bringing our investment home. The other thing I
want to say is we've got countries coming to us
or with these zero zero. It's like, well, we'll put
our terriffs down. Finally, if you'll put yours down, that's
not the big problem.
Speaker 12 (16:21):
Why did that romer get going today that that Kevin Hasset,
who's been regular on the show, had floated that, well
zero's I watched Kevin.
Speaker 9 (16:32):
Why did that? That sent the market back up?
Speaker 13 (16:35):
Because what they're trying to do they're out in globalism
Land is shake bene of the American people and the
president trying.
Speaker 9 (16:44):
To shake President Trump's confidence.
Speaker 13 (16:46):
Exactly right, but but it's not working. It's not working,
as the president knows that we've been getting ripped off
for years.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
If you go back to I love Navarro because it's
not working, right, it's not working on the president, it's
not working.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
This is dumb.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
It is not working because he understands his job. There's
also another question that he was asked about a recession.
Does he believe that a recession is coming? That's one
of the big plays we're hearing now from Democrats. Oh,
the presence running us into a recession. Well, Navarro had
this to say, the American voters as well.
Speaker 13 (17:20):
And we get stuck with a hindsight. It's just doesn't.
Speaker 9 (17:23):
This, Why do you think the market might turn around?
Speaker 13 (17:26):
It's finding a bottom now, it's finding a bottom now.
But look, here's the thing.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
It's going to shift.
Speaker 13 (17:33):
Over, and it's gonna be companies in the S and
P five hundred who are the first to produce here.
Those are the ones going to lead to recovery. And
it's gonna happen Dow fifty thousand. I guarantee that, and
I guarantee no recession. Okay, Why because when we pass
the biggest broadest tax cut in history within a matter
of months, that's gonna be a great stimus. There's not
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gonna be any inflation. We've already had a significant drop,
a huge drop in oil prices war that's like a
point off the CPI. We're going to have lower yields
and mortgage Now.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
One of the things that Peter talked about there is
this recent development that has led to a significant decrease
in gas prices across the United States of America. As
of April to seventh, the nationwide average for a gallon
of regular gasoline stands at three dollars and twenty five cents.
That is a massive drop from previous weeks. Now, why
(18:27):
is this happening. There's a couple of key factors to
the decline. Number one, tariffs induced economic uncertainty, and so
what did that mean. Well, the present made it very
clear that for him to be able to do what
he's doing on tariffs, he need to make sure the
price of oil drop, the price of gas would drop.
He's done this by opening up and allowing for America
(18:48):
to become energy independent.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Yet again that's been a huge factor in this.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
We've also had seen an increase because of that in
oil production, and so you're looking at the organization of
patrolling exporting countries and it's Allies OPEK. Plus they've also
decided to accelerate the restoration of oil production cuts, leading
to an oversupply in the market and further driving down
oil price as well. And then you've got the issues
(19:14):
with seasonal demand fluctuations where we're past spring break, we're
not to summer yet that's also a big deal. You
combine all of this together and what it means is
from a major economic implication, lower gas prices are offering
immediate relief to consumers, they may also signal underlying economic
(19:35):
challenges as well. For many Americans who are now looking
at cheaper things like gas is a way to breathe
a little bit of relief. So this is part of
why Navar said, Look, we're not going into a recession.
So you can believe the media who keeps lying to you,
or you can listen to President United States of America
and his team. We know what we're doing and we
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know how to win on these issues. In some very
important international news, the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanya,
who met with Donald Trump at the White House.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
But one of the.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Biggest things that came out of the conversation was some
breaking news that Donald Trump announced about having direct talks
with Iran over their nuclear weapons program. The present saying
this at the White House, sitting next to bb.
Speaker 11 (20:26):
We're having direct talks with Iran and they've started. It'll
go on Saturday. We have a very big meeting and
we'll see what can happen. And I think everybody agrees
that doing a deal would be preferable to doing the obvious,
and the obvious is not something that I want to
(20:47):
be involved with, or frankly, that Israel wants to be
involved with if they can avoid it. So we're going
to see if we can avoid it, but it's getting
to be very dangerous territory. And hopefully the talks will
be successful, and I think it would be intern's best
interests if they are successful. We hope that's going to happen.
(21:09):
And we had just a lot of good talks on
a lot of things.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Now, as President Trump was saying this in the Oval Office,
Reuters came out with an exclusive report saying that Iran
back militias in Iraq are ready to disarm to avert
what they describe as a Trump wrath. That's right coming
out of Baghdad. Several powerful Iranian backed militia groups in
Iraq are prepared to disarm for the first time to
(21:35):
avert the threat of an escalating conflict with the US
Trump administration. That is what ten senior commanders and Iraqi
officials said to Reuters. The move to diffuse tensions follows
repeated warnings issued privately by US officials to the Iraqi
government since Trump took power in January. According to sources
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who include six local commanders of four major militias, the
officials told Baghdad that unless it acted to disband the
militias operating on its soil, America could target the groups
with air strikes. A senior Muslim politician close to Iraq's
government's alliance also towed Reuters that discussions between the Prime
(22:20):
Minister and several militia leaders were quote very advanced, and
the groups were inclined to comply with US calls for disarmament.
The factions are not acting stubbornly or insisting on continuing
in their current form, he said, adding that the groups
were fully aware they could be targeted by US air strikes.
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The six militia commanders interviewed in Baghdad by Reuters at
a southern province, who requested obviously eminemity to discuss the
sense of situation are from multiple different groups, many of
them also a ties to Iran. Trump is ready to
take the war with us to worse levels. We know that,
one of the commanders said, and we want to avoid
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such a bad scenario. The most powerful Sheite militia also
saying that it's time for us to find a way
to work together.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
You cannot make this up.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Why are they doing this now because they've witnessed what
the president's doing with other leaders that he decides to
take out ISIS leaders and the President making it clear
that if you don't get a deal now, well you're
probably going to end up dead. The commander said, their
main ally and patron, Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards military force,
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has given them its blessing to take whatever decisions they
deem necessary to avoid being drawn into a potentially ruinous
conflict with the United States and Israel. So the moral
of the story is even Iran's military understands that right
now is not a time to mess with the Trump administration,
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and this may be exactly why they're willing to talk
directly with the Trump administration to avert military strikes from
a president that says he's not bluffing.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Now, even CNN is reporting.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
About the fact that the US is having these nuclear
talks with Iran. Mike Ran appeared on CNN's The Source
with Caitlin Collins to discuss the talks, and here's what
he said about the reporting.
Speaker 14 (24:26):
My source tonight is the former Israeli ambassador to the US,
Michael Orrin, Ambassador. Thank you for being with US and
President Trump. He wasn't willing to say right that the
US would strike Iran's nuclear facilities. That is, of course
what Israel has long push for What do you expect
the US to do if discussions fail.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
Well, one thing that President Trump has done, to be honest,
he put the military option back on the table a
President Biden had taken it off the table. So it's
clearly on the table with the audience understand it's on
the table. But also, according to the reports tonight, for
the first time, as you said, in a decade, direct
talks between the United States and Iran, because during the
Biden administration the talks were indirect. So that is already
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a step well from the Iranian perspective, a step forward.
Though we should say that the Iranans are kind of
denying that the distrect.
Speaker 14 (25:12):
The Iranian Foreign Minister is saying that these are indirect.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
High level talks.
Speaker 14 (25:17):
So that's a different story.
Speaker 9 (25:18):
What do you make of that.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
It's a different story. But the essence is that there's talks,
and the talks then are going to raise some very
serious questions on the Israeli side. My gut feeling tells
me that what brought Prime Misi nesan Nowity to Washington
on such short notice wasn't just the tiriffs, and the
tariffs were serious it's about two and a half billion
dollars worth of trade from Israel's side at a time
when the Israeli economy is very vulnerable because of the war.
But what really brought him here was the Iranian the
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notion that the understanding that these talks are about to
take place apparently on next Saturday. And there are three
major questions that Israel's going to be asking how long
the talks are going on for? You know, the Iranians
are really good negotiators. They'll drag it out at a
time when the Russians are rebuilding the ear defenses in
Iran that were knocked out by the Israeli Air Force.
Big question. Second one is what's the goal of the talks?
(26:05):
Is the goal of a talks an agreement similar to
the twenty fifteen Obama Iran agreement which basically froze the
Iranian program for about a decade, but didn't dismantle the program.
And the third question is, as the President says, what
if the talks don't work, what is the next step?
Will the United States then support is really military action
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against Iran to stop that program? Will the United States
join in that military action? As the President seems to
intimate that would be the case. But these are crucial
questions that Israelis will look to get answers from from
the White House.
Speaker 14 (26:37):
Why do you think the Trump administration could strike a
better deal than the Obama administration.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
Well, first of all, because of the credible military threat.
Obama had all options on the table, you remember, but
I don't think people actually believed it. I think that
now with the United States bombing the hoodies the way
they have, that's sending a message to Iran, a rather
unclitical message that this administration is willing to use four
to a degree that previous administrations. I certainly some previous
democratic administrations were unwilling to use that type of force.
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And the Ruddians are aware, how should we say this?
This is president is not predictable in that way, and
that Iranians like predictability. They don't like dealing with the
uncertainty that President Trump could turn around and give that
order to those B two and B one and B
fifty two bombers to go into Iranian skies.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
By the way, I love how they act like Donald
Trump being strong against Iran getting a nuclear weapon in
the Middle East is somehow like impredictability from Donald Trump, Like,
isn't this exactly what you want a president to do?
Because Iran knew that the military option had been taken
off the table.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
You just heard that from the former Israeli ambassador of
the US.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
He said in the last administration, Iran was one hundred
percent sure that military use was not going to be
done against them. In other words, you can do what
you want to do, and yeah, there may be some
sanctions against you and some other stuff, but you don't
have to worry about actual military action. So that's number
one here. That is a I think a really really
really important point to make. The second important point that
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also needs to be made here is this. You have
a president now that is saying all options are on
the table. If you choose to go in a different
direction than what we're telling you you need to do,
this is up to Iran if they want to be
in that situation, if they want to be in that scenario.
And I think that is the point that's clearly being
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made by this administration is the days of you getting
to dictate, they are over, the days of you getting
closer to a nuclear weapon, they're over. If you want
to play this game of chicken with the United States
of America, with the Trump administration, it's a very deadly game.
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I actually go back to what was said earlier, you know,
when the President said we're having these direct talks. That
a good thing, right, He's saying, we're talking directly, We
are sitting down and we are talking directly. Donald Trump
is dead serious about this was another way that it
was described earlier today on Fox News Channel. They're saying
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he's not joking and everyone in the Middle East knows it.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 15 (29:18):
Absolutely, you can penetrate an iPhone.
Speaker 16 (29:20):
Let's talk about Iran. The President clearly changing strategy from
the Biden administration and even you know, making a very
forceful declaration in his letter that you're going to get
We're open to talks Iran, but you're gonna have to
dismantle your nuclear program and you have two months to
agree to the talks. This is a big change in policy.
And how do you read it? Is he President really
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serious about this?
Speaker 15 (29:45):
I think he's dead serious about this, and no doubt
in my mind whatsoever. He's issued an ultimatum and he's
very clear about it. He wants voluntarily dismantling the program
verified by outside inspectors, and he wants it done by
date certain and that is the right approach to this.
And then he's told them very clearly that there will
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be grave consequences if you don't do it. They know
what that means. It's likely and it has rarely led
US supported air strike to forciully dismantle that program. And
that's the path we are on. And I absolutely think
that the President coming in, even though it's early in
his administration, sending this unequivocal message to Iran, that's your
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day of being the Malian aggressor in the Middle East
and also funding all your proxies to destabilize the Middle East.
It's over and Iran is back on its heels, Paul
and the way they haven't been in forty four years.
The President's team knows it, and they're in pursuit of
stopping what Iran has been doing all of these years,
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and a nuclear enterprise will be a significant blow to them.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
This is why I love having a commander in chief
that just isn't screwing around on national security, on tariffs,
on foreign policy.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
He's just not going to screw around. And you can
hear it in.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
The way that the White House talks about this. We're
willing to speak to you directly. We're willing to talk directly,
We're willing to negotiate directly. But to be clear, we're
not going to allow you to get a nuclear weapon.
We're not going to allow you to continue to send
massive amounts of funds to these terrorists organizations, whether they
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are in Iraq or in Syria or Hamas or hesblat
and undermine and kill innocent men, women, children in Israel.
I also think it's very important that a lot of
this conversation took place side by side with NET and
Yahoo in the Oval Office, with the President making it
clear we are unified together. He's also said over again
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he believes that they have the right, Okay, they have
the right to defend themselves. In translation, would allow Israel
to defend itself and protect itself at all costs, meaning
America would support you, we would give you what you need.
We would probably be involved in some capacity, maybe even
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in the attack, to make sure that Iran is kept
in check. What's also shocking to me is just how
close Iran got and is right now to a nuclear weapon,
because the last administration allowed them to get that close
because they took the military option off the table. Make
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sure you take this podcast and share it wherever you can.
We're going to keep breaking this type of news for
you guys, so share it wherever you can, and I
will see you back here tomorrow
It is a major victory for law and order when
it comes to the President Donald Trump having power to
do his job. The Supreme Court of the United States
lifted a block from the US District Judge James Boseburg,
which was law fair preventing the Trump administration from deporting
suspected illegal alien gang members. They were doing this under
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the seventeen ninety eight Alien Enemies Act. Now, this ruling
from the Supreme Court is a massive win for President
Donald Trump and most importantly for the rule of law
in this country. It's also a massive win for his
administration because now they can actually do their jobs. It
was described quote as a narrow and focused on the
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proper venue for the cases, rather than on the administration's
use of a century's old law to justify his decision
to deport suspected illegal alien gang members. That according to
The New York Times. So even when the President it's
a huge victory from the Supreme Court, just know the
hacks of the New York Times are still going to
(01:06):
lie to you about the premise of the ruling. Per
the New York Times, it was a five to four decision.
Happens all the time, by the way, and the Supreme
Court justice found that the migrants had improperly challenged their
deportations in Washington.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
D C.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
When they should have challenged him in Texas, where they
were being held quote unquote from the Times. Now, the
real headline should have been this, the Supreme Court sides
with the Trump administration and will allow them to continue
removing Venezuela and Transda Ragua gang members from the country
under the Alien's Enemies Act. But no, the media couldn't
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actually tell you the story the honest way. In a
post on x the Attorney General Pam Bondi responded to
the Supreme Court decision and described it as a landmark
victory for.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Quote the rule of law.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Bondi continued saying that an activist judge in Washington, DC
does not have the jurisdiction to seize control of President
Trump's authority to conduct foreign policy and keep the American
people safe. The Department of Justice will continue fighting in
court to make Americas safe again. Trump also asked the
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Supreme Court to allow the federal government to deport suspected
illegal alien gang members under the Alien Enemies Act, and
in March, Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act to allow
for the expedited removal of illegal Venezuelan migrants who were
suspected of being members of that dangerous gang, the transda
Agua gang also that has been designated as a terrorist organization.
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These are terrorists at the President's trying to get rid of.
This was a massive victory for the President, and it's
one that the media will not tell you the truth
on because they know just how damning it is to
their lawfare. At the end of the day, this means
that Donald try Trump is going to be able to
do what he needs to do to keep all of
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us safe from these gang members. Now, this really broadens
out into also another bigger issue, and that issue deals
with just these judges who are doing everything they can
to undermine Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
It is a form of law fare.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
I want you to hear what Senator Schmid had to
say on Fox News Channel when he was talking about
just how bad it's gotten.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
And so I think a lot of these judges are
taking it upon themselves to usurp really important power. For example,
when President Trump declared a predatory incursion of these criminal,
violent gangs, he's well within his Article two executive power
to deport them he can do that. The judge by
stepping in there, Judge Bosberg, by stepping in in the
case that we're talking about, he somehow got said.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
You can't do that.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
That is like that judge dictating missile strikes or deciding
troop movements. Those are national security issues, those are foreign
those are powers of the commander in chief. The judge
doesn't get to do so. The separation of powers works
both ways. You don't get to kind of jump into
the Article two branches authority on commander in chief power.
So I think you're about to see all these cases
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make their way to Supreme Court, and I think President
Trump's on very firm ground, but we should address these
abuses that are happening now every day.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Pam Bonnie, the Attorney General of the United States of America,
also talking about just how radical these judges have become
and what they are doing.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
The president is going to comply with the law. He
was overwhelmingly elected by an overwhelming majority of the United
States citizens to be our commander in chief, and that's
what he's been doing. Shannon. Just since January twentieth, we've
had over one hundred and seventy lawsuits filed against us.
That should be the constitutional crisis right there. Fifty injunctions
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they're popping up every single day, trying to control his
executive power, trying to control where he believes our tax
dollars should be allocated. And saying he won by an
overwhelming majority is so important because that's what the American
people want, what President Trump campaign on and what he
want on, and he's implementing that agenda at a rapid speed.
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None of us can keep up with them every single day,
and so it's just we're going after all of these lawsuits.
We're defending them all. We just got a great win
and will continue.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
To fight, will continue to fight, and it looks like
now they're going to continue to also win. Senator Ted
Cruz also signed the alarm on these injunctions nationwide, injunctions
by these activist judges. And here is what he said
at a testimony hearing on the issue in front of
his committee in the Senate.
Speaker 7 (05:40):
It's long been said that hypocrisy is the tribute that
vice pays to virtue. I have to admit I'm enjoying
listening to my Democrat colleagues suddenly discover the virtues of
the rule of law after four years where they brazenly
supported the most lawless Department of Justice and the most
politically weaponized department of justice our nation has ever. We
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just heard the Senator from Rhye Island talk about the
imperative of protecting judges, and yet not a single Democrat
senator cared about the violent protesters that showed up outside
Supreme Court justices homes, including I might note female justices
like Justice Amy Coney Barrett threatening their family. And Joe
Biden's Attorney General didn't do a damn thing and refused
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to enforce the law to protect those judges. Why because
he agreed with the violent protesters and he wanted to
intimidate and threaten those judges, Professor Bray. Under our constitution,
who should decide elections the voters or on elected judges.
Speaker 8 (06:39):
The voters are the ones who should vote in the
election according to the laws, and the laws sometimes have
to be applied by the judges if they're aise.
Speaker 7 (06:46):
And under our constitution, who is charged with making policy decisions?
Elected representatives elected by the people or unelected federal judges.
Speaker 8 (06:57):
I think the question of policy, Senator, is a little
broader than a particular case, So the.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Basic laws should be enacted by Congress. That's where the
fountain of.
Speaker 7 (07:07):
Polacy decisions are the elected branch. Right law is the
province of the court. Policy is the province of the
elected branches. These are not complicated, Professor Bray, Let me
ask you this, do the federal courts have power to
issue remedies for people who are not parties to a case?
Speaker 8 (07:22):
That's the question, I agree is not complicated. They do
not have that power.
Speaker 7 (07:26):
Is the phrase nationwide injunction or universal injunction found anywhere
in the Constitution?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
It is not first chart the.
Speaker 7 (07:34):
First one hundred and fifty years of our republic. How
many nationwide injunctions were issued?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
My view is that there were not any until nineteen
sixty three.
Speaker 9 (07:42):
Zero.
Speaker 7 (07:43):
Now fast forward, how many nationwide injunctions were issued in
the entire twentieth century.
Speaker 8 (07:50):
It's a small number, I would I would think it
would be a dozen.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Giver take it's not large.
Speaker 7 (07:56):
Twenty seven actually, including Trump's first term. How many nationwide
injunctions were issued in the last twenty years?
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Far more than that, thirty two.
Speaker 7 (08:09):
From twenty twenty and one to twenty twenty four against Biden, Obama,
and Bush thirty two, and how many nationwide injunctions have
been issued in the last two months alone.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
There have been quite a few thirty seven.
Speaker 7 (08:24):
Let that sink in there have been more nationwide injunctions
in the past two months against President Trump than in
the entire twentieth century. There have been more nationwide injunction
against President Trump in the last two months than both
terms of George W. Bush, both terms of Barack Obama,
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and Joe Biden's term. We saw during the Biden presidency
law Fair indicting President Trump four times, using the machinery
of justice to attack him, and that was an attack
on democracy because democrats today hate democracy. Democrats today are
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angry at the voters for re electing Donald Trump and
electing a Republican Senate in a Republican House, and they
engage in Lawfair to stop democracy from operating.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Senator Cruz is absolutely right, and this is exactly why
it's so important that we fight back the way that
Pamboni said it wherever we have to when democrats abuse
their power, especially sitting on the bench. There has been
a story that has been circulating, and it's one that
we're going to debunk right now. It's that Republicans are
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going to break with the president and destroy what he's
doing on tariffs. Well, Senator James Langford set the record
straight saying he doesn't think that's going to happen on
Capitol Hill at all. He said, if anything is stopping
the president will be lawfair in the court system. You're
noticing a trend with lawfair, right, take a list in
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to in his own words from Oklahoma.
Speaker 10 (10:03):
So, I think the president's challenge is not going to
be Congress. There'll be members of Congress saying, hey, this
needs to be able to come back to Congress as
it typically does. I think it's gonna be challenging the courts,
quite frankly, because it's novel, is new, it's a different
way to actually take on the tariffs, and so I
think the courts are going to jump in and say
we want to be able to take a look at this.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
So there is a center saying, guess what, what you're
being told by the media is yet again another lie
to undermine President Trump and his job as the commander
in chief. Now, the Center also said, yes, there is
an attempt in Congress to quote rein in the president's
capability to manage tariffs, but quote, I don't think this
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bill will have an impact on it at all. Now,
the Senate narrowly approved a tariff control bill which could
not have won approval if it was not for the
support of four Republicans. There's a little chance the bill
will get majority support in the House. Trump also still
has veto control of the bills should it win full approval.
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You can't make this up, Langford said. The big pictures
that Trump is on the right course, and he believes
his constituents will see the benefits as well, saying, quote,
He's not wrong definitely that China is ripping us off
and that we've got bad trade issues all over the world.
And I'm looking forward to lots of new negotiated trade
agreements all around the world because my farmers and ranchers
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are folks that do production of lots of different equipment here.
They want to be able to sell all over the world.
They want to be able to have fair markets.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Now.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
President Trump also getting in on the action at the
White House today. He was taking questions with net and Yahoo,
and he was asked by the media about the tariffs.
There was a story that started to circulate that Donald
Trump was quote looking at pausing at the tariffs. Well,
Donald Trump said, guess what, that's not true. And here's
the present in his own words, any questions mister.
Speaker 7 (12:00):
To the markets today and would you be open to
a pause in tariffs to allow for negotiation.
Speaker 11 (12:05):
Well, we're to look into that. We have many, many
countries that are coming to negotiate deals with us, and
they're going to be fair deals, and certain cases they're
going to be paying substantial tariffs, they'll be fair deals.
You know, I spoke this morning with the Prime Minister
of Japan and we had a very good conversation. They're
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coming and I said, one thing, you're going to have
to open up your country because we sold no cars,
like zero cars in Japan, and they sold millions of
cars into our country. They don't really take our agriculture,
a little bit of it just to keep us slightly happy,
but they don't take what they have us to be taking.
So we have a great relationship with Japan. We're going
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to keep it that way. But they're coming in to
meet and other countries are coming in with China, as
you know, against my statement, they put a thirty four
percent tariff on above what their ridiculous tariffs were already,
and I said, if that tariff isn't removed by tomorrow
at twelve o'clock, we're putting a fifty percent tariff on
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above the tariffs that we put on. So they've gone
for years, they've become a rich country because of people,
again that we're in the White House that allowed this
to happen, hundreds of billions of dollars a year, that'd
maken us on trade, and it shouldn't be that way.
And I have a great relationship with presidency. I hope
it's going to stay that way. I have great respect
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for China, but they can't do this. We're just we're
going to have one shot at this, and no other
president's going to do this what I'm doing. And I'll
tell you what, it's an honor to do it because
we have been just just destroyed what they've done to
our system. You know, we have thirty six trillion dollars
of debt for a reason, and the reason is that
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people allowed it to get that way. So we'll be
talking to China, we'll be talking to a lot of
different countries, and I think, you know, if if we
can make a really fair deal and a good deal
for the United States, not a good deal for other
This is America first. It's now America first. And we
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didn't put America first. We put America last. The people
that were in the Oval Office put America list, and
we're not going to stand for So.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
If you want to know who's on your side, it's
clearly the President of the United States of America. Yes,
the media is having to lie, manipulate and change the
headlines and tell you it's all doom and gloom, and
then line say the President's going to stop the tariffs,
pause the teriffs, back down from the tariff, show weakness. Well,
I think it's pretty clear now from what the President
said in the White House none of that is actually
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going to happen.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Now.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
The tariff guru at the White House is a guy
by the name of Peter Navarro. He went out on
the ingram Angle Show on Fox News Channel to talk
to average investors, many people like you and I that
invest for our retirement. And yes, it is a little
bit scary right now. It's concerning to see what's happening
on Wall Street. Well, here is the message from Pier
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Navarro to all of us.
Speaker 9 (15:09):
You heard the billionaire class.
Speaker 12 (15:12):
Many of these people did in the end support President Trump,
but you might as well have thought we were on
the verge of breadlines in the United States today.
Speaker 13 (15:20):
Well, I think in the end they supported Trump. I mean,
they're just like trying to put their bets whatever. Look,
here's the thing I want to say to small investors.
Don't panic. They want you to sell. You can't take
a loss until you sell. And what I see is
fifty thousand on the Dow. I predicted in twenty sixteen
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the day after President got elected. Back then, when the
dead futures were dead read down, I said we're going
to go to twenty five thousand. I got that exactly right.
We're going to fifty. But more importantly, with the S
and P five hundred, the games we've had over the
last couple of years have been basically seven stocks the
magnific since seventy AIS, most of the stocks in the
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S and P five hundred have gone nowhere. Now they're
going to go crazy. They're going to go so bullish
because we're bringing our investment home. The other thing I
want to say is we've got countries coming to us
or with these zero zero. It's like, well, we'll put
our terriffs down. Finally, if you'll put yours down, that's
not the big problem.
Speaker 12 (16:21):
Why did that romer get going today that that Kevin Hasset,
who's been regular on the show, had floated that, well
zero's I watched Kevin.
Speaker 9 (16:32):
Why did that? That sent the market back up?
Speaker 13 (16:35):
Because what they're trying to do they're out in globalism
Land is shake bene of the American people and the
president trying.
Speaker 9 (16:44):
To shake President Trump's confidence.
Speaker 13 (16:46):
Exactly right, but but it's not working. It's not working,
as the president knows that we've been getting ripped off
for years.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
If you go back to I love Navarro because it's
not working, right, it's not working on the president, it's
not working.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
This is dumb.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
It is not working because he understands his job. There's
also another question that he was asked about a recession.
Does he believe that a recession is coming? That's one
of the big plays we're hearing now from Democrats. Oh,
the presence running us into a recession. Well, Navarro had
this to say, the American voters as well.
Speaker 13 (17:20):
And we get stuck with a hindsight. It's just doesn't.
Speaker 9 (17:23):
This, Why do you think the market might turn around?
Speaker 13 (17:26):
It's finding a bottom now, it's finding a bottom now.
But look, here's the thing.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
It's going to shift.
Speaker 13 (17:33):
Over, and it's gonna be companies in the S and
P five hundred who are the first to produce here.
Those are the ones going to lead to recovery. And
it's gonna happen Dow fifty thousand. I guarantee that, and
I guarantee no recession. Okay, Why because when we pass
the biggest broadest tax cut in history within a matter
of months, that's gonna be a great stimus. There's not
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gonna be any inflation. We've already had a significant drop,
a huge drop in oil prices war that's like a
point off the CPI. We're going to have lower yields
and mortgage Now.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
One of the things that Peter talked about there is
this recent development that has led to a significant decrease
in gas prices across the United States of America. As
of April to seventh, the nationwide average for a gallon
of regular gasoline stands at three dollars and twenty five cents.
That is a massive drop from previous weeks. Now, why
(18:27):
is this happening. There's a couple of key factors to
the decline. Number one, tariffs induced economic uncertainty, and so
what did that mean. Well, the present made it very
clear that for him to be able to do what
he's doing on tariffs, he need to make sure the
price of oil drop, the price of gas would drop.
He's done this by opening up and allowing for America
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to become energy independent.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Yet again that's been a huge factor in this.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
We've also had seen an increase because of that in
oil production, and so you're looking at the organization of
patrolling exporting countries and it's Allies OPEK. Plus they've also
decided to accelerate the restoration of oil production cuts, leading
to an oversupply in the market and further driving down
oil price as well. And then you've got the issues
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with seasonal demand fluctuations where we're past spring break, we're
not to summer yet that's also a big deal. You
combine all of this together and what it means is
from a major economic implication, lower gas prices are offering
immediate relief to consumers, they may also signal underlying economic
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challenges as well. For many Americans who are now looking
at cheaper things like gas is a way to breathe
a little bit of relief. So this is part of
why Navar said, Look, we're not going into a recession.
So you can believe the media who keeps lying to you,
or you can listen to President United States of America
and his team. We know what we're doing and we
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know how to win on these issues. In some very
important international news, the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanya,
who met with Donald Trump at the White House.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
But one of the.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Biggest things that came out of the conversation was some
breaking news that Donald Trump announced about having direct talks
with Iran over their nuclear weapons program. The present saying
this at the White House, sitting next to bb.
Speaker 11 (20:26):
We're having direct talks with Iran and they've started. It'll
go on Saturday. We have a very big meeting and
we'll see what can happen. And I think everybody agrees
that doing a deal would be preferable to doing the obvious,
and the obvious is not something that I want to
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be involved with, or frankly, that Israel wants to be
involved with if they can avoid it. So we're going
to see if we can avoid it, but it's getting
to be very dangerous territory. And hopefully the talks will
be successful, and I think it would be intern's best
interests if they are successful. We hope that's going to happen.
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And we had just a lot of good talks on
a lot of things.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Now, as President Trump was saying this in the Oval Office,
Reuters came out with an exclusive report saying that Iran
back militias in Iraq are ready to disarm to avert
what they describe as a Trump wrath. That's right coming
out of Baghdad. Several powerful Iranian backed militia groups in
Iraq are prepared to disarm for the first time to
(21:35):
avert the threat of an escalating conflict with the US
Trump administration. That is what ten senior commanders and Iraqi
officials said to Reuters. The move to diffuse tensions follows
repeated warnings issued privately by US officials to the Iraqi
government since Trump took power in January. According to sources
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who include six local commanders of four major militias, the
officials told Baghdad that unless it acted to disband the
militias operating on its soil, America could target the groups
with air strikes. A senior Muslim politician close to Iraq's
government's alliance also towed Reuters that discussions between the Prime
(22:20):
Minister and several militia leaders were quote very advanced, and
the groups were inclined to comply with US calls for disarmament.
The factions are not acting stubbornly or insisting on continuing
in their current form, he said, adding that the groups
were fully aware they could be targeted by US air strikes.
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The six militia commanders interviewed in Baghdad by Reuters at
a southern province, who requested obviously eminemity to discuss the
sense of situation are from multiple different groups, many of
them also a ties to Iran. Trump is ready to
take the war with us to worse levels. We know that,
one of the commanders said, and we want to avoid
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such a bad scenario. The most powerful Sheite militia also
saying that it's time for us to find a way
to work together.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
You cannot make this up.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Why are they doing this now because they've witnessed what
the president's doing with other leaders that he decides to
take out ISIS leaders and the President making it clear
that if you don't get a deal now, well you're
probably going to end up dead. The commander said, their
main ally and patron, Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards military force,
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has given them its blessing to take whatever decisions they
deem necessary to avoid being drawn into a potentially ruinous
conflict with the United States and Israel. So the moral
of the story is even Iran's military understands that right
now is not a time to mess with the Trump administration,
(24:00):
and this may be exactly why they're willing to talk
directly with the Trump administration to avert military strikes from
a president that says he's not bluffing.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Now, even CNN is reporting.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
About the fact that the US is having these nuclear
talks with Iran. Mike Ran appeared on CNN's The Source
with Caitlin Collins to discuss the talks, and here's what
he said about the reporting.
Speaker 14 (24:26):
My source tonight is the former Israeli ambassador to the US,
Michael Orrin, Ambassador. Thank you for being with US and
President Trump. He wasn't willing to say right that the
US would strike Iran's nuclear facilities. That is, of course
what Israel has long push for What do you expect
the US to do if discussions fail.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
Well, one thing that President Trump has done, to be honest,
he put the military option back on the table a
President Biden had taken it off the table. So it's
clearly on the table with the audience understand it's on
the table. But also, according to the reports tonight, for
the first time, as you said, in a decade, direct
talks between the United States and Iran, because during the
Biden administration the talks were indirect. So that is already
(25:06):
a step well from the Iranian perspective, a step forward.
Though we should say that the Iranans are kind of
denying that the distrect.
Speaker 14 (25:12):
The Iranian Foreign Minister is saying that these are indirect.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
High level talks.
Speaker 14 (25:17):
So that's a different story.
Speaker 9 (25:18):
What do you make of that.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
It's a different story. But the essence is that there's talks,
and the talks then are going to raise some very
serious questions on the Israeli side. My gut feeling tells
me that what brought Prime Misi nesan Nowity to Washington
on such short notice wasn't just the tiriffs, and the
tariffs were serious it's about two and a half billion
dollars worth of trade from Israel's side at a time
when the Israeli economy is very vulnerable because of the war.
But what really brought him here was the Iranian the
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notion that the understanding that these talks are about to
take place apparently on next Saturday. And there are three
major questions that Israel's going to be asking how long
the talks are going on for? You know, the Iranians
are really good negotiators. They'll drag it out at a
time when the Russians are rebuilding the ear defenses in
Iran that were knocked out by the Israeli Air Force.
Big question. Second one is what's the goal of the talks?
(26:05):
Is the goal of a talks an agreement similar to
the twenty fifteen Obama Iran agreement which basically froze the
Iranian program for about a decade, but didn't dismantle the program.
And the third question is, as the President says, what
if the talks don't work, what is the next step?
Will the United States then support is really military action
(26:25):
against Iran to stop that program? Will the United States
join in that military action? As the President seems to
intimate that would be the case. But these are crucial
questions that Israelis will look to get answers from from
the White House.
Speaker 14 (26:37):
Why do you think the Trump administration could strike a
better deal than the Obama administration.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
Well, first of all, because of the credible military threat.
Obama had all options on the table, you remember, but
I don't think people actually believed it. I think that
now with the United States bombing the hoodies the way
they have, that's sending a message to Iran, a rather
unclitical message that this administration is willing to use four
to a degree that previous administrations. I certainly some previous
democratic administrations were unwilling to use that type of force.
(27:06):
And the Ruddians are aware, how should we say this?
This is president is not predictable in that way, and
that Iranians like predictability. They don't like dealing with the
uncertainty that President Trump could turn around and give that
order to those B two and B one and B
fifty two bombers to go into Iranian skies.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
By the way, I love how they act like Donald
Trump being strong against Iran getting a nuclear weapon in
the Middle East is somehow like impredictability from Donald Trump, Like,
isn't this exactly what you want a president to do?
Because Iran knew that the military option had been taken
off the table.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
You just heard that from the former Israeli ambassador of
the US.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
He said in the last administration, Iran was one hundred
percent sure that military use was not going to be
done against them. In other words, you can do what
you want to do, and yeah, there may be some
sanctions against you and some other stuff, but you don't
have to worry about actual military action. So that's number
one here. That is a I think a really really
really important point to make. The second important point that
(28:11):
also needs to be made here is this. You have
a president now that is saying all options are on
the table. If you choose to go in a different
direction than what we're telling you you need to do,
this is up to Iran if they want to be
in that situation, if they want to be in that scenario.
And I think that is the point that's clearly being
(28:32):
made by this administration is the days of you getting
to dictate, they are over, the days of you getting
closer to a nuclear weapon, they're over. If you want
to play this game of chicken with the United States
of America, with the Trump administration, it's a very deadly game.
(28:52):
I actually go back to what was said earlier, you know,
when the President said we're having these direct talks. That
a good thing, right, He's saying, we're talking directly, We
are sitting down and we are talking directly. Donald Trump
is dead serious about this was another way that it
was described earlier today on Fox News Channel. They're saying
(29:14):
he's not joking and everyone in the Middle East knows it.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 15 (29:18):
Absolutely, you can penetrate an iPhone.
Speaker 16 (29:20):
Let's talk about Iran. The President clearly changing strategy from
the Biden administration and even you know, making a very
forceful declaration in his letter that you're going to get
We're open to talks Iran, but you're gonna have to
dismantle your nuclear program and you have two months to
agree to the talks. This is a big change in policy.
And how do you read it? Is he President really
(29:42):
serious about this?
Speaker 15 (29:45):
I think he's dead serious about this, and no doubt
in my mind whatsoever. He's issued an ultimatum and he's
very clear about it. He wants voluntarily dismantling the program
verified by outside inspectors, and he wants it done by
date certain and that is the right approach to this.
And then he's told them very clearly that there will
(30:07):
be grave consequences if you don't do it. They know
what that means. It's likely and it has rarely led
US supported air strike to forciully dismantle that program. And
that's the path we are on. And I absolutely think
that the President coming in, even though it's early in
his administration, sending this unequivocal message to Iran, that's your
(30:30):
day of being the Malian aggressor in the Middle East
and also funding all your proxies to destabilize the Middle East.
It's over and Iran is back on its heels, Paul
and the way they haven't been in forty four years.
The President's team knows it, and they're in pursuit of
stopping what Iran has been doing all of these years,
(30:51):
and a nuclear enterprise will be a significant blow to them.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
This is why I love having a commander in chief
that just isn't screwing around on national security, on tariffs,
on foreign policy.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
He's just not going to screw around. And you can
hear it in.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
The way that the White House talks about this. We're
willing to speak to you directly. We're willing to talk directly,
We're willing to negotiate directly. But to be clear, we're
not going to allow you to get a nuclear weapon.
We're not going to allow you to continue to send
massive amounts of funds to these terrorists organizations, whether they
(31:37):
are in Iraq or in Syria or Hamas or hesblat
and undermine and kill innocent men, women, children in Israel.
I also think it's very important that a lot of
this conversation took place side by side with NET and
Yahoo in the Oval Office, with the President making it
clear we are unified together. He's also said over again
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he believes that they have the right, Okay, they have
the right to defend themselves. In translation, would allow Israel
to defend itself and protect itself at all costs, meaning
America would support you, we would give you what you need.
We would probably be involved in some capacity, maybe even
(32:23):
in the attack, to make sure that Iran is kept
in check. What's also shocking to me is just how
close Iran got and is right now to a nuclear weapon,
because the last administration allowed them to get that close
because they took the military option off the table. Make
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