February 25, 2025 • 29 mins
1. Elon Musk's Email to Government Employees
- Elon Musk sent an email to all government employees asking them to report what they have done in their jobs over the past five days.
- The email aimed to identify employees who are not actively working, as many have not checked their emails or updated their login credentials for months or even years.
- The email caused controversy, with some viewing it as harassment and others seeing it as a necessary step to ensure accountability in the government.
2. Donald Trump's Support for Musk's Initiative
- Donald Trump supported Musk's email, stating that it was a way to identify non-performing employees in the federal government.
- Trump emphasized the need for government employees to be accountable and responsive.
3. United Nations Vote on Condemning Russia
- We discuss a United Nations vote to condemn Russia for invading Ukraine.
- Trump and his administration opposed the vote, arguing that it would not help bring Russia to the negotiating table and end the war.
- The administration's focus is on ending the war and reducing human suffering rather than prolonging the conflict.
4. Trump's Efforts to End the War in Ukraine
- Trump is portrayed as a "peace president" who wants to end the war in Ukraine quickly.
- The administration is working on diplomatic efforts to bring both Russia and Ukraine to the negotiating table.
5. Keystone XL Pipeline
- We touch on Trump's support for reviving the Keystone XL pipeline project.
- The pipeline is seen as a way to achieve energy independence, reduce inflation, and enhance national security.
6. Public Opinion and Polls
- We reference a Harvard Harris poll showing Trump's approval rating and public support for his policies.
- It highlights bipartisan support for various initiatives, including deporting criminal aliens, eliminating fraud and waste, and merit-based hiring.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
All right, so there's a fake civil war that you
need to know about that's happening right now, but actually
isn't happening at all. Elon Musk, as you know, sent
out this email over the weekend, and it was an
email to all government employees saying, Hey, tell me exactly
what you do. What have you been doing in your
job in the last five days. I have been told
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by sources at the White House that the reason why
this email was sent out in the first place is
because there is data that they have at the government
now that shows that there is a significant portion of
governm employees that never checked their emails. In fact, many
of them haven't even changed their for their log in credentials,
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which they have to change every sixty ninety days depending
on what their job is, and change their password hasn't
been done in months and months, and some it hasn't
even been done in years, meaning that there are people
that have not checked their email in our federal government
that we are employing that has not read a EE
because they don't have access to their email because they
haven't updated their credentials like many of you have to
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do in the private sector for months and even years.
Now you want to know why Elon Musk sent this
email out. It was to see how many people don't
even check their emails. Now, if you're not checking your
emails in the federal government, it means you're probably not
doing your job at all. Now there's been a riff
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because they say, oh, this is chaotic, right, And then
there was the left and union members that said this
was harassment, this is low morale, this is calling causing
anxiety because he said if you don't respond by midnight
on Monday night, that you know will take it as
you're resigning from your job. Welcome to the real world
of being an adult. If you're not checking your email,
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if you don't know how to log into your email,
then you're not doing your job within our government. If
this triggered you and you think that you need a
quote safe space, I'm sorry, sorry. I don't want you
employed either at the federal government because it means you're
probably not doing your job. And there are so many
people that have been coming into offices. It reminds me
of that movie Office Space where there's that random guy
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who has been like fire, but he keeps showing it
for work and keeps getting a paycheck and they just
keep moving him around. Apparently that's what our federal government's
been doing for decades. So emailing your boss and or
I should say, responding back to Doe saying hey, what
do you do in your job? What did you do
in the last week in your job? Five things you
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did we want to know. This should be nothing that
would scare or should scare any employee unless you literally
do not know what you're doing or you do not work.
Now the media has come in. They've tried to say
that Elon muskuin rogue because there are some agencies that
have said, hey, you don't have to email back. Why well,
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I mean some of them are undercover people, for example
the FBI or Department of Homeland Security. Maybe you work
with spies. In that scenario, we don't want you emailing back.
So they did say, hey, go to your boss and
tell him or her what you are doing. The point
is this was not a crazy idea. There's no war
between Donald Trump and Elon Musk over this. They're trying
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to drive a wedge between Elon Musk and Donald Trump,
and they're trying to say, oh, Donald Trump, he went
rogue and he's overshadowing you, or he's bigger than you,
or he's going crazy over here. You still want to
endorse Elon Muskin. Doge, I want you to hear what
the President had to say at the White House, because
he's not taking the bait either. He said, we decided
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to send at this email. I told him that something
I wanted to do. He's not taking the bait from
the left. Listen a Doge soon.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Do you think that Doge could benefit from more streamline communications.
There was that email telling employees to do five things
that they've.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Done last week.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Agency heads then told people to ignore it.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
But you learn about the last email that was sent
where he wanted to know what you did this week?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
You know why he wanted that.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
By the way, I thought it was great because we
have people that don't show up to work and nobody
even knows if they work for the government. So by
asking the question tell us what you did this week,
what he's doing is saying are you actually working? And
then if you don't answer, like you're sort of semi
fired or you're fired because a lot of people are
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not answering because they don't even exist. They're trying to
find that's how badly various parts of our government were
run by it, especially by this last group. So what
they're doing is they're trying to find out who's working
for the government. Are we paying other people that aren't working?
And you know, where's all that?
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Where's the money guns?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
So I think it was actually there was a lot
of genius in sending it. We're trying to find out
if people are working, and so we're sending a letter
to people, please tell us what you did last week.
If people don't respond, it's very possible that there is
no such person or.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
They're not working.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Some of the agency heads instructed their employees not to
respond because they were waiting on further guidance. But Elon
Musk's tweet said a failure to respond would be taken
as a resignation. So there's been a disconnect in communications.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Are you concerned all about oh wait, no, no, no,
that was done in a friendly manner. Only things such
as perhaps Marco at State Department where they have very
confidential things, or the FBI where they're working on confidential things.
And they don't mean that in any way combatively with Elon.
They're just saying there are some people that you don't
want to really have them tell you what they're working on.
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But other than that, I think everyone thought it was
a pretty ingenious said we have to find out where
these people are, who are they? And we said if
you don't respond, we assume you're not around.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
And that holds.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
That stands, and you're not getting paid anymore too. So
you know, we're doing a real job. And we just
had a poll come out, I guess the Harvard poll
saying that it's this massively popular, what would do it now?
Speaker 1 (06:02):
To be clear, the president also understands he has a
mandate here and the poll he mentioned, the new Harvard
Harris poll is significant. Trump's approval rating is at fifty
two percent, disapproval at forty three percent. Forty three percent
of Americans that identify as hardcore liberal Democrats they don't
like him. But here's what's interesting. When you take Trump's
name out of the poll question and you ask them
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about policies, overwhelming the American people are in favor of
what Donald Trump and Elon Musk are doing, including this email,
fifty eight percent of Americans say that Donald Trump is
doing better than Joe Biden. That is bipartisan support eighty
one percent of Americans again clearly bipartisan support. Eighty one
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percent support deporting criminal aliens. There is a massive mandate
for that. Seventy six percent, again is bipartisan support. Say
that they are in favor of eliminating fraud, waste, and
abuse aka seventy six percent of Americans are supporting the
work of DOGE. We also know that seventy six percent,
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also a super majority right biparson support support closing the
US border seventy percent. Again, this is bipartisan of American
voters support merit based hiring, meaning they do not believe
that the US government's job should be to just hire
everybody based on their you know, DEI practices, the color
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of their skin, their ethnicity, are their race, or their sexuality,
however you want to put it. They think it should
be merit base. And if you're just showing up for
a job because you've had a job forever and you
don't do anything and you can't check your email, well
guess what the American people are fine with Elon Muskin,
Donald Trump cutting bad employees. We also know that sixty
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percent of Americans, that is a major majority, think that
dough is helping this country get back physcal responsibility, and
that dog is helping protect their tax dollars. You look
at this Harvard Harris Pole, and it's exactly what Donald
Trump said there. This is an email I was in
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favor of. This is an email that we clearly wanted
to get out there and see what the response was. Now,
are there caveats to this email in some parts of
the government, at the FBI or the CIA, Sure, are
we okay at the directive change? Yes, But in general,
the largest employer in the US is the US government.
We want to see who's even checking their emails. Now
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for the left that think that this is a terrible idea,
or that's inhumane, or this is some sort of harassment,
let me also remind you that the Trump administration and
Elon Musk send out an email to every government employee
recently offering them one of the most i mean historic
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buyouts to quit your job at the federal government. There
are many people in our government that took the deal.
It's something far greater than you could have ever imagined
ever being offered in your entire life from the private sector.
So if you don't like the fact that now the
same government that said please quit and here's a huge
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paycheck to do it, is now saying, okay, you didn't quit.
We now want to know if you're doing your job,
and now you want to cry about it. I'm sorry.
Welcome to being an adult and living in the real world.
And Donald Trump is right. He is doing what the
American people have told him that they want him to do.
I want to move on now to a vote that
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took place in the United Nations. And there are certain
days where the level of propaganda that is coming out
against the Trump administration is going to be on a
different level. And this United Nations vote to quote condemn
Russia for invading Ukraine is a perfect example of the
(10:04):
United Nations going into propaganda mode to make you hate
Donald Trump, to make the world hate Donald Trump. Now,
let me explain to you the details on this so
that you understand the true story here. Number one, if
you want to condemn Russia for invading Ukraine, this could
have been done three years ago. Why is the United
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Nations doing it right now? Why did they wait till
literally February the twenty fourth to have a United Nations
quote General Assembly adopted this resolution condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Now,
why didn't they do it six months ago, year ago,
two years ago, three yars ago. Because now it's about
the propaganda. Many of these countries want this war to continue.
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There are many people involved that love the amount of
money that is coming into this war, that's funneling through
the war to their pockets. There are ninety three countries
voted in favor of condemning Russia, eighteen against, including the
United States and Russia. Now that's where the propaganda hits, Like,
how could America stand there and vote with Russia and
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not condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Well, the simple answer
is this, Donald Trump wants a deal done and wants
to actually stop the war and stop the killing of
hundreds of thousands of people. We are witnessing right now
some of the most barbaric actions on the Ukraine and
Russia side that are happening. A great example are many
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Russian soldiers that are being recycled or reused where they
have had horrific war injuries and they're send them back
to the front lines with limbs blown off, walking on crutches,
with staples in their stomach, this is now what is happening.
So it's pretty clear when you look at the scenario
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that there's no reason for us to antagonize Russia when
we're trying to get them to the table. That's the
President's clear message. It's also what Marco Rubio said an
exclusive interview with Breitbart Take a listen.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Well on the broader resolution, we think the UN needs
to get if it's going to be useful in the
twenty first century. The UN needs to get back to
its charter mission, which is the prevention in the ending
of war in conflict. And so we felt everyone knows,
you know, you can go back and read the newspaper
articles over the last three years and figure out what
happened in Ukraine. But now, as the President's made very clear,
President Trump wants to end this war. He thinks far
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too many people have died, and he wants to bring
it to an end. So we didn't feel it was conducive, frankly,
to have something out there at the UN that's antagonistic
against either side. We're trying to get these guys to
the table, and unfortunately Ukraine didn't agree. They wanted to
move forward on theirs. We then went to the Security
Council with our compromise, which I think is a very
fair language, and it basically says war is a terrible thing.
(12:56):
I mean, I'm paraphrasing and I'm being simplistic, but it says.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
War is a terrible way.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Too many people have died. This war needs to end
in a way that's enduring, an essence echoing President Trump's
view of what this conflict needs to be and reminding
the United Nations at the purpose of the United Nations
was the prevention of war and the ending of conflicts,
not making it harder to end conflicts. So I thought
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it was good that we got it done at the
Security Council. The Russians didn't veto it, which is a
good sign. I'm not telling you that that is going
to end this conflict. And I can't wait till a
least the Phonic is there, because it'd be great to
have her leadership. But I certainly think our language is
better language and hopefully further is the cause of peace.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
President Trump, today alongside French President Emmanuel Macron, said that
he hopes that this can be resolved in a matter
of weeks, not months. Weeks. What are some of the
major steps that we need to take to get to
that point.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
Well, I think the President would want it to end yesterday, right.
He thinks already too many people have died, There's been
too much destruction. By the way, I think everybody should
be very happy that President Trump as a peace president.
We have a president that wants to end wars, not
start new ones. He wants to end human suffering, not
exacerbated or extended. Now that said, it's a conflict, it's
a war, and it's going back and forth. We got
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to get them both to the table, starting with the Russians.
So we met with him last week and the basic
question of that meeting was are you interested in ending
this conflict or not? A lot of people don't know
the answer to that. If you talk to some in Europe,
they'll tell you that Putin is not interested in ending
the war. They said they would be under the right conditions.
We didn't discuss what those conditions were. So the next
step now is to meet with them again at some point,
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with the right group of people in the room and
begin to outline what would it take for Russia to
stop a war. And obviously we got to ask Ukraine
the same question, because you can't stop a war unless
both sides agree to it. So whether it takes days
or weeks or what have you, we're going to begin
that process. It may not work out, But why would
anybody criticize President Trump for wanting to end a war
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that's cost billions of dollars, hundreds of thousands of lives,
and tremendous and ongoing human suffering.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
It is very clear that if we would have voted
in the UN resolution to condemn Russia, that it's not
going to bring Russia the table, and that means that
the war's going to drag on for months, if not
years longer, with massive casualties in human suffering. The President
wants the war to end. Now. There is also a
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big fake outrage over something else that happened over the weekend,
and that was when Donald Trump said that he believes
that Ukraine is actually partly responsible for the Russian invasion.
The White House, of course, had their press briefing and
this was part of the back and forth on that story.
Speaker 6 (15:41):
And the president's post on truth Social yesterday.
Speaker 7 (15:44):
Need to know who does he think it's more responsible
for the Russian invasion of Ukraine putin ort Zelensky.
Speaker 8 (15:52):
Well, look, his goal, Peter, is to bring this war
to an end period, and there has been ongoing fighting
on both sides. It is World War One style trench warfare.
His frustration with President Zelenski is that you've heard is
multifold one. There needs to be a deep appreciation for
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what the American people, what the American taxpayer, what President
Trump did in his first term, and what we've done since.
So some of the rhetoric coming out of Kiev, frankly
and insults to President Trump were unacceptable. Number one. Number two,
our own Secretary of Treasury personally made the trip to
offer the Ukrainians what can only be described as a
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historic opportunity. That is for America to co invest with
Ukraine in their minerals, in their resources to truly grow
the pie. So case in point, there's a foundry that
processes aluminum in Ukraine. It's been damaged, it's not at
its current capacity. If that is restored, it would account
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for America's entire imports of aluminum for an entire year
that one foundry. There are tremendous resources there. Not only
is that long term security for Ukraine. Not only do
we help them grow the pie with investments, but you know,
we do have an obligation to the American taxpayer and
helping them recoup the hundreds of billions that have occurred. So,
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you know, rather than enter into some constructive conversations about
what that deal should be going forward, we got a
lot of rhetoric in the media that was incredibly unfortunate.
And I could just tell you, Peter, you know, as
a veteran, as somebody who's been in combat, this war
is horrific, and I think we've lost sight of that,
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of the literally thousands of people that are dying a day,
families that are going without the next generation. And I
find it kind of, you know, frankly ridiculous. So many
people in Washington, we're just demanding, pounding the table for
a ceasefire, and Gaza are suddenly aghast that the President
would demand one, and both sides come to the table
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when it talks to when it comes to Ukraine, a
war that has been arguably far greater in scope and
scale and far more dangerous in terms of global escalation
to US security.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
You listen to that, and you hear the White House
talking they're not taking this bait, and they're saying to
the American people and to the world, we are trying
to get a deal done. Other countries are trying to
keep this war going. Many in the media are obsessed
with keeping this war going. That is not something we're
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going to do. We're not going to poke the bear.
We're not going to sit here and try to make
things worse or extend this war. And the majority of Americans,
by the way, are in favor of their tax hours
not going to continue on this path of war indefinitely.
So I gotta tell you, understanding the context of what's
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happening here is just so important. Understanding why the President didn't,
you know, jump in at the United Nations and Rubio
with this, with this, you know, oh, we've got to
condemn now and keep things going. Understand the art of
the deal here is incredibly important so that we don't
get bamboozled into a longer war and more of our money.
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And by the way, fifty percent of all the money
sent to Ukraine, in Zelensky's words, has quote disappeared. Think
about that, sor right. I want to give you some
news that deals with energy independence and the Keystone XL pipeline.
I'm going to play for you something from seven years ago.
This was a report on CNBC again from seven years ago.
Speaker 7 (19:58):
Following up on an executive order that the presidents signed
back on January the twenty fourth, setting in motion the
process to approve the Keystone Excel pipeline. Today will be
the official go ahead from the White House. We're expecting
a number of executives, including those from Trans Canada, which
put out a statement this morning on this. Here's what
they have said, and we'll hear from their CEO we
expect at the event here at the White House today.
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They say this is a significant milestone for Keystone XL project.
We greatly appreciate President Trump's administration for reviewing and approving
this important initiative, and we look forward to working with
them as we continue to invest in and strengthen North
America's energy infrastructure. Now, take a look at some of
the oil and gas executives who we expect will be
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in the room with the President for this event today.
It's a long list of folks from Quantum Services, Well Spun,
Global Trade, trans Canada, and others, all of whom are
in the oil and gas business. In one way or
the other, all of whom expect to benefit from the
Keystone pipeline. This is simply this White House guy's enacting
a campaign promise. They ran on it, and they're doing
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it today.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Carl, Now that was seven years ago. I want to
go back and play that for you, because there are
certain policies that are just good policies that should be
re enacted. A great example is securing the southern border.
Another example is building the wall. Well, building the Keystone
pipeline is another part of this. The President of the
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United States of America coming out yesterday and making it
clear that he wants the Keystone Pipeline to be built.
The President said on Monday that the Keystone Exo pipeline,
which was opposed for years by activists fighting against climate change,
it's time to get it done. The pipeline, which was
proposed back in eight to bring oil from Kenna's Western
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Tar Sans to US refiners, was halted in twenty twenty
one by the owner TC Energy Court. Why well, the President,
Joe Biden at the time revoked a key permit needed
for a US stretch of the project. Quote, our country's
doing really well, and today I was just thinking that
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the company building the Keystone XL pipeline that was viciously
jettisoned by the incombinant Biden administration should come back to America,
Trump said, and get it built now. I know they
were treated very badly by Joe Biden, but the Trump
administration is very different. Easy approvals, almost an immediate start.
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If not them, perhaps another pipeline company. We want the
Keystone XL pipeline built. Exclamation point, Trump said on True
Social there's also Kevin O'Leary. You may know him from
Shark Tank. He was asked about the idea of reviving
the Keystone pipeline and this is what he said for
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about energy independence and also the American people on Fox
Business take a listen.
Speaker 9 (22:58):
He's been given this mandate. I don't think he has
any choice. I mean, he campaigned on it. He won,
as many are calling a landslide, and it was so
he's got to do this stuff. They're expecting him, the constituency,
the voterform is expecting it. The Keystone pipeline is a
very interesting development because that thing was scrapped. But now
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he's got a movement up in Canada with Premier Smith
of Alberta all the way down through the governors in Oklahoma.
They're going to bypass Montana on this thing, which was
so contentious. I think you'll see that thing revived. I
think it's actually going to happen. I think it's going
to be great for energy independence. They're not going to
call it Keystone Xcel. I can guarantee you that. I
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think it'll be something like the Freedom line or the
independence line.
Speaker 7 (23:44):
That was a bad name.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
They'll fix that.
Speaker 9 (23:46):
But I love it when the policy's getting aligned up
in the Canadian energy sector. They got the new Prime minister,
probably their full of view loves he's going to lift
the ban on pipelines and Smith, Premiere Smith. She's a
rock star up there and she's meeting with all the governors.
Speaker 6 (24:03):
This thing's gonna happen really interesting. So increased domestic energy supply,
maybe take crew to fifty dollars a barrel. That's deflationary
to lower inflation at least US energy, lower all the
input costs and utility bills, lower interest rates and mortgage rates.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
You listen to what the president has done in the
last six weeks. He went after Canada with twenty five
percent tariffs because they were having an open border and
not stopping enough of the fentanyl coming across our northern border.
He then, in essence, got rid of Trudeau and was
able to get him out of hour because of what
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a socialist he was. And there were people saying, wow,
the president's acting reckless when it comes to Canada. No,
he was trying to get a better deal for Americans.
And notice how fast they're pivoting. We don't have the
twenty five percent tariffs on Canada. We're figuring bring out
a deal, certainly with a trade deficit. And many think
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that Canada was taking advantage of America. That's now being corrected.
But now the President's like, all right, well, let's move
on to the Keystone Pipeline, which is something that Canada
would desperately want based on the pass, something that Kevin
O'Leary there, mister wonderful explained, not only does just lower
the price of oil and gas, but it also gives
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us energy into penance. It also is going to help
with inflation, and that's something that the President has been
so focused on, which is the American people are hurting.
I mean, the American people are really struggling. And this
keystone pipeline would have a huge impact to make a
lot of the problems that we have disappear. It also
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is a national security issue, which this was part of
the grand debate that was had over this was look,
is this not a national security issue? When you have
oil prices and you don't have the oil coming in
from Canada, you're helping Russia, you're helping the Middle East
countries like Iran, and that's not good for our national security.
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And so the president here, this isn't just about the
issue of costs. And that's good, right for the American people,
There's no doubt about it. Okay, Like that is very
very good for the American people, and they are hurting
and they're suffering, and they need inflation to come down.
But what you're also doing is this is a two
part thing. It's that and it's the issue of national
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security and national security when there's not many things you
can do that at the same time that can help
the economy and help national security by doing something as
simplistic as what was just described, like this is really
amazing that the President is like, hey, two three weeks ago, Canada,
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you're on my list and I'm sick and tired of
you taking advantage of us. And then all of a sudden,
the President's like, all right, now that we're figuring that out,
let's go back to building that pipeline that you guys
really really wanted and we're excited about that, and let's
get it done. And if the first company that was
doing it doesn't want to take that risk, well then
let's find another company to take that risk. Like this,
(27:18):
This is the brilliance of the tariffs negotiations that the
President had did day one. Now, remember the left and
the media, we're freaking out saying that you know, this
is going to hurt Americans and going to crush Americans
with these tariffs. Memory, it was Canada and Mexico twenty
five percent. We have a ten percent tariff already right now.
That is not going to go away anytime soon. On China,
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but Russia is actually making a lot of money right
now because of our lack of energy independence. It has
made their oil go up, It's allowed for their war
to be financed, it has given them great leverage. Iran
has been able to make themselves an incredible amount of
money in the middle. That's also a major problem. I
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think we can all agree with that. We don't want
to ran to be flourishing with their oil, and they
are flourishing with their oil right now in a way
that we need to get the price of oil down
and it's an issue of inflation. So you combine these
two and the President comes out as like, yeah, let's
get a deal done. I think we are going to
get a deal done. I think Kevin O'Leary is saying
he's got a mandate, and Trump reviving the Keystone Pipeline
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would be great for energy independence. That translates into national
security implications that are positive for the American people, and
not just positive, but they're also about the inflation issues.
When you can combine all of this this way, like
we should all be cheering this on now. The media
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is not going to do it. We know that the
media is not going to tell you all that I
just explained to you because they don't want him to
have success. But every single one of you we should
be in favor of this. Make sure you share this
podcast please wherever you are and so social media, and
I'll see you back here tomorrow.
All right, so there's a fake civil war that you
need to know about that's happening right now, but actually
isn't happening at all. Elon Musk, as you know, sent
out this email over the weekend, and it was an
email to all government employees saying, Hey, tell me exactly
what you do. What have you been doing in your
job in the last five days. I have been told
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by sources at the White House that the reason why
this email was sent out in the first place is
because there is data that they have at the government
now that shows that there is a significant portion of
governm employees that never checked their emails. In fact, many
of them haven't even changed their for their log in credentials,
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which they have to change every sixty ninety days depending
on what their job is, and change their password hasn't
been done in months and months, and some it hasn't
even been done in years, meaning that there are people
that have not checked their email in our federal government
that we are employing that has not read a EE
because they don't have access to their email because they
haven't updated their credentials like many of you have to
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do in the private sector for months and even years.
Now you want to know why Elon Musk sent this
email out. It was to see how many people don't
even check their emails. Now, if you're not checking your
emails in the federal government, it means you're probably not
doing your job at all. Now there's been a riff
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because they say, oh, this is chaotic, right, And then
there was the left and union members that said this
was harassment, this is low morale, this is calling causing
anxiety because he said if you don't respond by midnight
on Monday night, that you know will take it as
you're resigning from your job. Welcome to the real world
of being an adult. If you're not checking your email,
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if you don't know how to log into your email,
then you're not doing your job within our government. If
this triggered you and you think that you need a
quote safe space, I'm sorry, sorry. I don't want you
employed either at the federal government because it means you're
probably not doing your job. And there are so many
people that have been coming into offices. It reminds me
of that movie Office Space where there's that random guy
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who has been like fire, but he keeps showing it
for work and keeps getting a paycheck and they just
keep moving him around. Apparently that's what our federal government's
been doing for decades. So emailing your boss and or
I should say, responding back to Doe saying hey, what
do you do in your job? What did you do
in the last week in your job? Five things you
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did we want to know. This should be nothing that
would scare or should scare any employee unless you literally
do not know what you're doing or you do not work.
Now the media has come in. They've tried to say
that Elon muskuin rogue because there are some agencies that
have said, hey, you don't have to email back. Why well,
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I mean some of them are undercover people, for example
the FBI or Department of Homeland Security. Maybe you work
with spies. In that scenario, we don't want you emailing back.
So they did say, hey, go to your boss and
tell him or her what you are doing. The point
is this was not a crazy idea. There's no war
between Donald Trump and Elon Musk over this. They're trying
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to drive a wedge between Elon Musk and Donald Trump,
and they're trying to say, oh, Donald Trump, he went
rogue and he's overshadowing you, or he's bigger than you,
or he's going crazy over here. You still want to
endorse Elon Muskin. Doge, I want you to hear what
the President had to say at the White House, because
he's not taking the bait either. He said, we decided
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to send at this email. I told him that something
I wanted to do. He's not taking the bait from
the left. Listen a Doge soon.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Do you think that Doge could benefit from more streamline communications.
There was that email telling employees to do five things
that they've.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Done last week.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Agency heads then told people to ignore it.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
But you learn about the last email that was sent
where he wanted to know what you did this week?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
You know why he wanted that.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
By the way, I thought it was great because we
have people that don't show up to work and nobody
even knows if they work for the government. So by
asking the question tell us what you did this week,
what he's doing is saying are you actually working? And
then if you don't answer, like you're sort of semi
fired or you're fired because a lot of people are
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not answering because they don't even exist. They're trying to
find that's how badly various parts of our government were
run by it, especially by this last group. So what
they're doing is they're trying to find out who's working
for the government. Are we paying other people that aren't working?
And you know, where's all that?
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Where's the money guns?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
So I think it was actually there was a lot
of genius in sending it. We're trying to find out
if people are working, and so we're sending a letter
to people, please tell us what you did last week.
If people don't respond, it's very possible that there is
no such person or.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
They're not working.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Some of the agency heads instructed their employees not to
respond because they were waiting on further guidance. But Elon
Musk's tweet said a failure to respond would be taken
as a resignation. So there's been a disconnect in communications.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Are you concerned all about oh wait, no, no, no,
that was done in a friendly manner. Only things such
as perhaps Marco at State Department where they have very
confidential things, or the FBI where they're working on confidential things.
And they don't mean that in any way combatively with Elon.
They're just saying there are some people that you don't
want to really have them tell you what they're working on.
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But other than that, I think everyone thought it was
a pretty ingenious said we have to find out where
these people are, who are they? And we said if
you don't respond, we assume you're not around.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
And that holds.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
That stands, and you're not getting paid anymore too. So
you know, we're doing a real job. And we just
had a poll come out, I guess the Harvard poll
saying that it's this massively popular, what would do it now?
Speaker 1 (06:02):
To be clear, the president also understands he has a
mandate here and the poll he mentioned, the new Harvard
Harris poll is significant. Trump's approval rating is at fifty
two percent, disapproval at forty three percent. Forty three percent
of Americans that identify as hardcore liberal Democrats they don't
like him. But here's what's interesting. When you take Trump's
name out of the poll question and you ask them
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about policies, overwhelming the American people are in favor of
what Donald Trump and Elon Musk are doing, including this email,
fifty eight percent of Americans say that Donald Trump is
doing better than Joe Biden. That is bipartisan support eighty
one percent of Americans again clearly bipartisan support. Eighty one
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percent support deporting criminal aliens. There is a massive mandate
for that. Seventy six percent, again is bipartisan support. Say
that they are in favor of eliminating fraud, waste, and
abuse aka seventy six percent of Americans are supporting the
work of DOGE. We also know that seventy six percent,
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also a super majority right biparson support support closing the
US border seventy percent. Again, this is bipartisan of American
voters support merit based hiring, meaning they do not believe
that the US government's job should be to just hire
everybody based on their you know, DEI practices, the color
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of their skin, their ethnicity, are their race, or their sexuality,
however you want to put it. They think it should
be merit base. And if you're just showing up for
a job because you've had a job forever and you
don't do anything and you can't check your email, well
guess what the American people are fine with Elon Muskin,
Donald Trump cutting bad employees. We also know that sixty
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percent of Americans, that is a major majority, think that
dough is helping this country get back physcal responsibility, and
that dog is helping protect their tax dollars. You look
at this Harvard Harris Pole, and it's exactly what Donald
Trump said there. This is an email I was in
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favor of. This is an email that we clearly wanted
to get out there and see what the response was. Now,
are there caveats to this email in some parts of
the government, at the FBI or the CIA, Sure, are
we okay at the directive change? Yes, But in general,
the largest employer in the US is the US government.
We want to see who's even checking their emails. Now
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for the left that think that this is a terrible idea,
or that's inhumane, or this is some sort of harassment,
let me also remind you that the Trump administration and
Elon Musk send out an email to every government employee
recently offering them one of the most i mean historic
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buyouts to quit your job at the federal government. There
are many people in our government that took the deal.
It's something far greater than you could have ever imagined
ever being offered in your entire life from the private sector.
So if you don't like the fact that now the
same government that said please quit and here's a huge
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paycheck to do it, is now saying, okay, you didn't quit.
We now want to know if you're doing your job,
and now you want to cry about it. I'm sorry.
Welcome to being an adult and living in the real world.
And Donald Trump is right. He is doing what the
American people have told him that they want him to do.
I want to move on now to a vote that
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took place in the United Nations. And there are certain
days where the level of propaganda that is coming out
against the Trump administration is going to be on a
different level. And this United Nations vote to quote condemn
Russia for invading Ukraine is a perfect example of the
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United Nations going into propaganda mode to make you hate
Donald Trump, to make the world hate Donald Trump. Now,
let me explain to you the details on this so
that you understand the true story here. Number one, if
you want to condemn Russia for invading Ukraine, this could
have been done three years ago. Why is the United
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Nations doing it right now? Why did they wait till
literally February the twenty fourth to have a United Nations
quote General Assembly adopted this resolution condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Now,
why didn't they do it six months ago, year ago,
two years ago, three yars ago. Because now it's about
the propaganda. Many of these countries want this war to continue.
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There are many people involved that love the amount of
money that is coming into this war, that's funneling through
the war to their pockets. There are ninety three countries
voted in favor of condemning Russia, eighteen against, including the
United States and Russia. Now that's where the propaganda hits, Like,
how could America stand there and vote with Russia and
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not condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Well, the simple answer
is this, Donald Trump wants a deal done and wants
to actually stop the war and stop the killing of
hundreds of thousands of people. We are witnessing right now
some of the most barbaric actions on the Ukraine and
Russia side that are happening. A great example are many
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Russian soldiers that are being recycled or reused where they
have had horrific war injuries and they're send them back
to the front lines with limbs blown off, walking on crutches,
with staples in their stomach, this is now what is happening.
So it's pretty clear when you look at the scenario
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that there's no reason for us to antagonize Russia when
we're trying to get them to the table. That's the
President's clear message. It's also what Marco Rubio said an
exclusive interview with Breitbart Take a listen.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Well on the broader resolution, we think the UN needs
to get if it's going to be useful in the
twenty first century. The UN needs to get back to
its charter mission, which is the prevention in the ending
of war in conflict. And so we felt everyone knows,
you know, you can go back and read the newspaper
articles over the last three years and figure out what
happened in Ukraine. But now, as the President's made very clear,
President Trump wants to end this war. He thinks far
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too many people have died, and he wants to bring
it to an end. So we didn't feel it was conducive, frankly,
to have something out there at the UN that's antagonistic
against either side. We're trying to get these guys to
the table, and unfortunately Ukraine didn't agree. They wanted to
move forward on theirs. We then went to the Security
Council with our compromise, which I think is a very
fair language, and it basically says war is a terrible thing.
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I mean, I'm paraphrasing and I'm being simplistic, but it says.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
War is a terrible way.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Too many people have died. This war needs to end
in a way that's enduring, an essence echoing President Trump's
view of what this conflict needs to be and reminding
the United Nations at the purpose of the United Nations
was the prevention of war and the ending of conflicts,
not making it harder to end conflicts. So I thought
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it was good that we got it done at the
Security Council. The Russians didn't veto it, which is a
good sign. I'm not telling you that that is going
to end this conflict. And I can't wait till a
least the Phonic is there, because it'd be great to
have her leadership. But I certainly think our language is
better language and hopefully further is the cause of peace.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
President Trump, today alongside French President Emmanuel Macron, said that
he hopes that this can be resolved in a matter
of weeks, not months. Weeks. What are some of the
major steps that we need to take to get to
that point.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
Well, I think the President would want it to end yesterday, right.
He thinks already too many people have died, There's been
too much destruction. By the way, I think everybody should
be very happy that President Trump as a peace president.
We have a president that wants to end wars, not
start new ones. He wants to end human suffering, not
exacerbated or extended. Now that said, it's a conflict, it's
a war, and it's going back and forth. We got
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to get them both to the table, starting with the Russians.
So we met with him last week and the basic
question of that meeting was are you interested in ending
this conflict or not? A lot of people don't know
the answer to that. If you talk to some in Europe,
they'll tell you that Putin is not interested in ending
the war. They said they would be under the right conditions.
We didn't discuss what those conditions were. So the next
step now is to meet with them again at some point,
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with the right group of people in the room and
begin to outline what would it take for Russia to
stop a war. And obviously we got to ask Ukraine
the same question, because you can't stop a war unless
both sides agree to it. So whether it takes days
or weeks or what have you, we're going to begin
that process. It may not work out, But why would
anybody criticize President Trump for wanting to end a war
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that's cost billions of dollars, hundreds of thousands of lives,
and tremendous and ongoing human suffering.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
It is very clear that if we would have voted
in the UN resolution to condemn Russia, that it's not
going to bring Russia the table, and that means that
the war's going to drag on for months, if not
years longer, with massive casualties in human suffering. The President
wants the war to end. Now. There is also a
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big fake outrage over something else that happened over the weekend,
and that was when Donald Trump said that he believes
that Ukraine is actually partly responsible for the Russian invasion.
The White House, of course, had their press briefing and
this was part of the back and forth on that story.
Speaker 6 (15:41):
And the president's post on truth Social yesterday.
Speaker 7 (15:44):
Need to know who does he think it's more responsible
for the Russian invasion of Ukraine putin ort Zelensky.
Speaker 8 (15:52):
Well, look, his goal, Peter, is to bring this war
to an end period, and there has been ongoing fighting
on both sides. It is World War One style trench warfare.
His frustration with President Zelenski is that you've heard is
multifold one. There needs to be a deep appreciation for
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what the American people, what the American taxpayer, what President
Trump did in his first term, and what we've done since.
So some of the rhetoric coming out of Kiev, frankly
and insults to President Trump were unacceptable. Number one. Number two,
our own Secretary of Treasury personally made the trip to
offer the Ukrainians what can only be described as a
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historic opportunity. That is for America to co invest with
Ukraine in their minerals, in their resources to truly grow
the pie. So case in point, there's a foundry that
processes aluminum in Ukraine. It's been damaged, it's not at
its current capacity. If that is restored, it would account
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for America's entire imports of aluminum for an entire year
that one foundry. There are tremendous resources there. Not only
is that long term security for Ukraine. Not only do
we help them grow the pie with investments, but you know,
we do have an obligation to the American taxpayer and
helping them recoup the hundreds of billions that have occurred. So,
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you know, rather than enter into some constructive conversations about
what that deal should be going forward, we got a
lot of rhetoric in the media that was incredibly unfortunate.
And I could just tell you, Peter, you know, as
a veteran, as somebody who's been in combat, this war
is horrific, and I think we've lost sight of that,
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of the literally thousands of people that are dying a day,
families that are going without the next generation. And I
find it kind of, you know, frankly ridiculous. So many
people in Washington, we're just demanding, pounding the table for
a ceasefire, and Gaza are suddenly aghast that the President
would demand one, and both sides come to the table
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when it talks to when it comes to Ukraine, a
war that has been arguably far greater in scope and
scale and far more dangerous in terms of global escalation
to US security.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
You listen to that, and you hear the White House
talking they're not taking this bait, and they're saying to
the American people and to the world, we are trying
to get a deal done. Other countries are trying to
keep this war going. Many in the media are obsessed
with keeping this war going. That is not something we're
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going to do. We're not going to poke the bear.
We're not going to sit here and try to make
things worse or extend this war. And the majority of Americans,
by the way, are in favor of their tax hours
not going to continue on this path of war indefinitely.
So I gotta tell you, understanding the context of what's
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happening here is just so important. Understanding why the President didn't,
you know, jump in at the United Nations and Rubio
with this, with this, you know, oh, we've got to
condemn now and keep things going. Understand the art of
the deal here is incredibly important so that we don't
get bamboozled into a longer war and more of our money.
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And by the way, fifty percent of all the money
sent to Ukraine, in Zelensky's words, has quote disappeared. Think
about that, sor right. I want to give you some
news that deals with energy independence and the Keystone XL pipeline.
I'm going to play for you something from seven years ago.
This was a report on CNBC again from seven years ago.
Speaker 7 (19:58):
Following up on an executive order that the presidents signed
back on January the twenty fourth, setting in motion the
process to approve the Keystone Excel pipeline. Today will be
the official go ahead from the White House. We're expecting
a number of executives, including those from Trans Canada, which
put out a statement this morning on this. Here's what
they have said, and we'll hear from their CEO we
expect at the event here at the White House today.
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They say this is a significant milestone for Keystone XL project.
We greatly appreciate President Trump's administration for reviewing and approving
this important initiative, and we look forward to working with
them as we continue to invest in and strengthen North
America's energy infrastructure. Now, take a look at some of
the oil and gas executives who we expect will be
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in the room with the President for this event today.
It's a long list of folks from Quantum Services, Well Spun,
Global Trade, trans Canada, and others, all of whom are
in the oil and gas business. In one way or
the other, all of whom expect to benefit from the
Keystone pipeline. This is simply this White House guy's enacting
a campaign promise. They ran on it, and they're doing
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it today.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Carl, Now that was seven years ago. I want to
go back and play that for you, because there are
certain policies that are just good policies that should be
re enacted. A great example is securing the southern border.
Another example is building the wall. Well, building the Keystone
pipeline is another part of this. The President of the
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United States of America coming out yesterday and making it
clear that he wants the Keystone Pipeline to be built.
The President said on Monday that the Keystone Exo pipeline,
which was opposed for years by activists fighting against climate change,
it's time to get it done. The pipeline, which was
proposed back in eight to bring oil from Kenna's Western
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Tar Sans to US refiners, was halted in twenty twenty
one by the owner TC Energy Court. Why well, the President,
Joe Biden at the time revoked a key permit needed
for a US stretch of the project. Quote, our country's
doing really well, and today I was just thinking that
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the company building the Keystone XL pipeline that was viciously
jettisoned by the incombinant Biden administration should come back to America,
Trump said, and get it built now. I know they
were treated very badly by Joe Biden, but the Trump
administration is very different. Easy approvals, almost an immediate start.
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If not them, perhaps another pipeline company. We want the
Keystone XL pipeline built. Exclamation point, Trump said on True
Social there's also Kevin O'Leary. You may know him from
Shark Tank. He was asked about the idea of reviving
the Keystone pipeline and this is what he said for
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about energy independence and also the American people on Fox
Business take a listen.
Speaker 9 (22:58):
He's been given this mandate. I don't think he has
any choice. I mean, he campaigned on it. He won,
as many are calling a landslide, and it was so
he's got to do this stuff. They're expecting him, the constituency,
the voterform is expecting it. The Keystone pipeline is a
very interesting development because that thing was scrapped. But now
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he's got a movement up in Canada with Premier Smith
of Alberta all the way down through the governors in Oklahoma.
They're going to bypass Montana on this thing, which was
so contentious. I think you'll see that thing revived. I
think it's actually going to happen. I think it's going
to be great for energy independence. They're not going to
call it Keystone Xcel. I can guarantee you that. I
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think it'll be something like the Freedom line or the
independence line.
Speaker 7 (23:44):
That was a bad name.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
They'll fix that.
Speaker 9 (23:46):
But I love it when the policy's getting aligned up
in the Canadian energy sector. They got the new Prime minister,
probably their full of view loves he's going to lift
the ban on pipelines and Smith, Premiere Smith. She's a
rock star up there and she's meeting with all the governors.
Speaker 6 (24:03):
This thing's gonna happen really interesting. So increased domestic energy supply,
maybe take crew to fifty dollars a barrel. That's deflationary
to lower inflation at least US energy, lower all the
input costs and utility bills, lower interest rates and mortgage rates.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
You listen to what the president has done in the
last six weeks. He went after Canada with twenty five
percent tariffs because they were having an open border and
not stopping enough of the fentanyl coming across our northern border.
He then, in essence, got rid of Trudeau and was
able to get him out of hour because of what
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a socialist he was. And there were people saying, wow,
the president's acting reckless when it comes to Canada. No,
he was trying to get a better deal for Americans.
And notice how fast they're pivoting. We don't have the
twenty five percent tariffs on Canada. We're figuring bring out
a deal, certainly with a trade deficit. And many think
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that Canada was taking advantage of America. That's now being corrected.
But now the President's like, all right, well, let's move
on to the Keystone Pipeline, which is something that Canada
would desperately want based on the pass, something that Kevin
O'Leary there, mister wonderful explained, not only does just lower
the price of oil and gas, but it also gives
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us energy into penance. It also is going to help
with inflation, and that's something that the President has been
so focused on, which is the American people are hurting.
I mean, the American people are really struggling. And this
keystone pipeline would have a huge impact to make a
lot of the problems that we have disappear. It also
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is a national security issue, which this was part of
the grand debate that was had over this was look,
is this not a national security issue? When you have
oil prices and you don't have the oil coming in
from Canada, you're helping Russia, you're helping the Middle East
countries like Iran, and that's not good for our national security.
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And so the president here, this isn't just about the
issue of costs. And that's good, right for the American people,
There's no doubt about it. Okay, Like that is very
very good for the American people, and they are hurting
and they're suffering, and they need inflation to come down.
But what you're also doing is this is a two
part thing. It's that and it's the issue of national
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security and national security when there's not many things you
can do that at the same time that can help
the economy and help national security by doing something as
simplistic as what was just described, like this is really
amazing that the President is like, hey, two three weeks ago, Canada,
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you're on my list and I'm sick and tired of
you taking advantage of us. And then all of a sudden,
the President's like, all right, now that we're figuring that out,
let's go back to building that pipeline that you guys
really really wanted and we're excited about that, and let's
get it done. And if the first company that was
doing it doesn't want to take that risk, well then
let's find another company to take that risk. Like this,
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This is the brilliance of the tariffs negotiations that the
President had did day one. Now, remember the left and
the media, we're freaking out saying that you know, this
is going to hurt Americans and going to crush Americans
with these tariffs. Memory, it was Canada and Mexico twenty
five percent. We have a ten percent tariff already right now.
That is not going to go away anytime soon. On China,
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but Russia is actually making a lot of money right
now because of our lack of energy independence. It has
made their oil go up, It's allowed for their war
to be financed, it has given them great leverage. Iran
has been able to make themselves an incredible amount of
money in the middle. That's also a major problem. I
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think we can all agree with that. We don't want
to ran to be flourishing with their oil, and they
are flourishing with their oil right now in a way
that we need to get the price of oil down
and it's an issue of inflation. So you combine these
two and the President comes out as like, yeah, let's
get a deal done. I think we are going to
get a deal done. I think Kevin O'Leary is saying
he's got a mandate, and Trump reviving the Keystone Pipeline
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would be great for energy independence. That translates into national
security implications that are positive for the American people, and
not just positive, but they're also about the inflation issues.
When you can combine all of this this way, like
we should all be cheering this on now. The media
(28:46):
is not going to do it. We know that the
media is not going to tell you all that I
just explained to you because they don't want him to
have success. But every single one of you we should
be in favor of this. Make sure you share this
podcast please wherever you are and so social media, and
I'll see you back here tomorrow.
Host
Ben Ferguson
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