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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Truth with Lisa Booth, where we tried
to get to the heart of the issues that matter
to you. We've got Senator Marshall Blackburn from Tennessee on
the show today to talk about that monumental deal with
the European Union and include six hundred billion dollars in
new investments in the United States. Also a historic seven
hundred and fifty billion in American energy purchase, which is
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really important because that positions in the United States as
the key energy supplier to Europe, which counters Russia, counters China.
So I'm going to ask send her Blackburn about that. Also,
do you think the media and the left will finally
admit that maybe President Trump knows what he's doing. Also,
we're going to ask her about some of these recent
revelations about the Russia hoax. I know, you guys at
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home probably feel how I feel. You know, it's like
all these bad actors in Washington, DC. We call them out,
we expose them, and then nothing gets done. Will anything
ever get done on this? Will there be any retribution,
will be there be any punishment, any accountability? And then
finally Trump's been trying to eliminate DEI programs from universities. Well,
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there's some universities in Tennessee some undercover video showing that
they may be trying to do some workarounds on that.
Senator Marshall Blackburn sent them letter. She's calling them out,
so we'll have her break that down for us as well.
Stay tuned for Senator Marshall Blackburn from Tennessee. Well, Senator
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Marshall Blackburn, it's always an honor to have you on
the show.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
It's got some big news today. You know, it feels
like America's back.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Remember you know President Trump said at least about immigration,
that all we needed was a new president. But now
we're seeing these trade deals, like with the one with
the EU. They're going to invest six hundred billion in
the US, purchase seven hundred and fifty billion in American energy,
and open their markets to the United States.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
How big of a deal is this.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
It is such a significant deal, Lisa, and I'm so
thrilled that you were covering this. I find it so interesting.
Stream media now really doesn't want to talk about tariffs
and trade, do they of that? Now that people are
coming to the table. And of course the Japan deal
was announced last week, and it's a five hundred and
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fifty billion dollar deal. Then you have the EU deal,
which is so incredibly significant.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
And for.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
The EU to come together and for this to be
negotiated and to give this consistency of markets for US agriculture,
for US producers for a digital trade, this really is
a firm foundation. And we're hearing that China is in
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the queue. They're asking to negotiate a deal, and there
are many others that they are currently working on trying
to finalize before the August first deadline.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
You know, Senator, it's almost as if he knows what
he's doing.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
You know, listen, as you are so right about that.
And I find it so absolutely amusing that having the
tariffs in place and pushing the trade that is worked,
making the Big Beautiful Bill come to pass, working with
the House and the Senate and those of us that
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have worked hard to get that big beautiful bill through
the Senate, and now to know that it is signed
into law. What an exciting time for us and for
the American people. And the more people know about the Big.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Beautiful Bill, you know, they like it and they're realizing
no tax on tips and over time and my provision.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Of removing it from Social Security, increasing the child tax credit,
a lot of the ARM and AD provisions that are there,
with increasing based acres, dealing with crop insurance. Those are
all things that needed to be done and now they
are being done. And how important it is to make
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certain that we get out there and we talk about
the good things that are in this bill.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Do you think the bill as a whole will be
a tough sell because if you look at pulling the
overall bill is not popular with the public. It's unpopular
with the public. Now if you dig into the elements
like you're talking about, like the no tax and tips
very very popular, Like it's highest seventy percent of Americans
approved that. So it's like, how do you rectify that
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when the bill itself is not popular but elements are,
So it's like, how do you sell that to the public.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Yeah, And indeed, what I have found is I've talked
to Tennesseeans, is when they know what is in the bill,
like a tax credit for employer provided childcare for our
businesses whether they're small or large, people go, oh, that
is great. Rooting out waste, fraud and abuse from Medicare
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and Social Security, and making certain those programs are there
for the people that have paid into those programs, getting
illegal aliens and freeloaders and fraudsters off of Medicaid, and
making certain that we get rid of all the improper payments.
You know, when people here, twenty five percent of medicaid
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payments are improper payments and it's a part of waste
and fraud. And they're saying, well, this should have been
done years ago. The largest tax cut in history, and
people are going to begin to see that in their paychecks.
And this is a good thing, and we want to
continue that. It's a great piece of legislation to be
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talking about. Most of the Farm Bill provisions got into
this bill, and the you know, things like raising the
death tax so that small business owners and farmers can
pass on farms and small businesses to the next generation.
Moving that to fifteen million dollars for an individual, thirty
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million married filing jointly. What a way to energize the
US economy.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
We're seeing a lot of you know, new documents and
records be released by the Trump administration regarding the Russia hoax.
You know, I think a lot of people they get
a little frustrated because you know, even like with Epstein stuff,
it's like there's a lot of promising and maybe over
promising and and under delivering, And so I think a
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lot of people are wondering, you know, Okay, it's great
to have what we've always known and known to believe confirmed,
you know, with this evidence that's surfacing, Well, like, what
is going to be done about it? Like will there
ever be any accountability? And if there is, like, what
will that look like?
Speaker 2 (07:05):
You're going to see?
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Doj determine what that is going to look like. I
do believe there's going to be accountability. D and I
Gabbard did a service to the American people by releasing
two hundred pages of documents and it truly is irrefutable
evidence that there was involvement Obama's office and also coming
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Clapper Brennan, and no doubt these are individuals that are
going to be held to account. This is one of
the biggest conspiracies. I mean, this is the kind of
thing people would say, you can't make this up. And
to know this they did this, to know that they
knowingly pushed forward this. Hillary Clinton funded Dossy Gay and
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that was a supposed entail, and it's like they were
all in on the joke. And Lisa, as I've said,
these reporters that won Pulitzers and prizes and recognition for
their reporting, the hopes that it all needs to go
back and they should be forced to wear a T
shirt that has the word gullible because they are gullible.
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And they bought hooked line and sinker everything that Brennan
and Cony and Klepper were telling them. They never double
checked sources, they never confirmed, They just printed what they
were told. And you know, those guys had to be
laughing every single day about how stupid these reporters were.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
You know what's.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Interesting about that is even now sort of like the
defense of the Obama administration and you know, sort of
trying to downplay the significance of what's been released, But like,
if you really think about it, all Pulsy Gabbard and
the Trump administration are asking people to do is believe
that people who have previously lied to us and previously
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abused government lied and abused government in the sense of
like even if you look beyond the Russia stuff, like
if you, I mean, you remember this Obama spied on
the Associated Press, like they spied on reporters while he
was president. Or you look at John Brennan when he
was CIA director, they spied on the Senate Intelligence Committee
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and he lied to the public about it. Or you
look at James Comey admitted to leaking FBI documents to
a professor buddy of his so that he could get
it to the press and it would for a special right.
So it's like all these actors bad actors. Like all
the Trump administration is asking people to believe is these
individuals who have done all these bad things just did
more bad things.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Well, and now they're rolling out the documents and the
emails and the evidence as proof that they did these
bad things. And when you have an outlet likes the
New York Times that comes out and says, well, obama
participation in the Russia hoax is not substantiated, you just
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want to say you people have learned nothing. But Lisa,
I will tell you this, As you said at the beginning,
things we were hearing anecdotally and that we thought were
probably happening. Now here is the evidence that they were happening.
Now Likewise, the American people know that the media lied
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to them about the clintondossier. They lied about the Russia hoax.
They have lied about numerous things, and the big beautiful
bill they're lying about that. That is why it's so
important that we talk about the things that are in
the bill, because the media is not reporting it, just
like the media is not going to report on the
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Russia hoax because then they have to admit that they
were wrong and that they were out here us printing
everything they were sent and it was their opinion. It
was not journalistic work.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Well, it's also kind of funny on the Russia stuff
because if Trump was so close with Putin, he would
not have done this EU deal, which has the Uropean
Union purchasing seven hundred and fifty billion dollars worth of
energy from the United States and will shift Europe's dependence
on Russia to a dependence on the United States.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Like this is a.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Big geopolitical blow to Russia and to China as well.
So it's like, if you were still of the dank
with Putin, so to speak, then you know he would
not be dealing them this kind of blow.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
But I want it, Yeah, go ahead, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
That is very true. And there is some of these
people in the mainstream media. They are so consumed with
Trump derangement syndrome, and they cannot believe that somebody from
outside the swamp came into the swamp and is draining
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the swamp and is every day working over time to
send power and authority back to the states into the people.
And he is doing that. It doesn't matter if it's
energy or education, or healthcare or regulation. You are seeing
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him repeatedly skinning up the federal government and send things back.
The Department of Agriculture last week, they're sending half their
staff into their regional offices. They're relocating jobs and getting
them out of Washington, d C. The US Department of Education,
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Linda McMahon doing a phenomenal job. She's already cut it
in half and she's on her way to closing down
the US Department of Education. People who are who are
for a centralized government, people who are power hungry, absolutely
cannot stand that this is reshaping their world and they
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don't like that. They want it all in Washington, d C.
They want to be able to control it, and under
President Donald Trump, they cannot control it.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
We've got to take a quick commercial break. More Center
of Blackburn on the either side. You said, I wanted
to ask you because I went to the University of
Tennessee and I know you've sent a letter to the
heads of Belmont University, University of Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Knoxville, and Vanderbilt University.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
There were some undercover video showing employees at these universities
basically saying how they're still pushing DEI despite President Trump's
executive orders, but they're just doing it in sort of
like an undercover way. You know, walk us through that,
like what your letter says, and we'll kind answers are
hoping to get.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Yes, there were the videos that came out, and you know,
we've got great universities in Tennessee, whether it is Vanderbilt, Belmont,
ut and this was a concern. So we did send
letters to each of the universities asking them for clarification
of what they are doing to comply with not only
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federal but state law also and making certain that these
universities have ended their DEI programs. Now, I fully appreciate
that a chancellor of a university cannot control everything a
low level employee says or does, and I appreciate that,
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but at least so what we want to make certain
is that these programs are not continuing to exist just
going by a different thing. We want to make certain
that indeed these DII programs are ended and that the
university to are in full compliance.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
I agree, and you know, I think it's important. You know,
the whole DEI direction just leads us into a place
where we're not seeking excellence as a country, and I
know that President Trump's trying to get us away from that.
Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, appreciate you so much for
joining the show.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Always happy to join you. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
That was Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee. Appreciate her for
making the time to join the show. Appreciate you guys
at home for listening every Tuesday and Thursday, but you
can listen throughout the week until next time.