August 4, 2025 • 8 mins
Reagan joins Mendte In The Morning to discuss how Dems are still thinking there will be major downfall with Trump's Tariffs. The Rates are set as of today for the countries that didn't make it to the negotiation table.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, let's get right to Reagan. Reece, White House correspondent
for the Daily Call or an Independent Women's Forum, visiting fellow.
She's with us every Monday at this time. Good morning
to your Reagan. As always a whole lot going on
in Washington right now. I mean, it's I'm almost picked
(00:20):
your topic. But let's start with the tariffs. Because the
Democrats have tried to sow fear from the beginning, and
so many people like John Fetterman and Bill Maher who
are died in the world, Democrats have come to the position, well,
I guess we've been lied to that. We've kept being
told the tariffs were going to be awful and they
(00:41):
were going to raise prices and the economy was going
to tank, and that's never happened. And I think with
all of the deals that were signed at the end, Reagan,
I'm not sure that's ever going to happen.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yeah, it's been very interesting. I think the White House
is definitely taking a victory laugh right now and is
breaking in some success and wins with the tariff deals.
I read a pretty interesting analysis of this in Politico
that made the case that, you know, the markets were
not expecting Liberation Day. That was an April when President
(01:18):
Trump announced that he was going to be putting reciprocal
tariffs on every country that imposes the tariff on the
United States. But now that they kind of know to
expect tariffs from the President, that there's less of a
freak out, and that's creating less of the spike. It's
creating less anxiety around the tariffs, and I think generally
(01:40):
that's a pretty good analysis of the situation. I do
think with Donald Trump, sometimes he does things and people
just freak out. I mean, I'm seeing people freak out
to the fact that he changed the Rose Garden and
the ball burns the White House. But if you give
him a chance and you start to think, let the
idea kind of think in and learn more about it,
(02:04):
it typically seems to be working out for the White House.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I think the reason for that is because right now
the Democrats don't have an issue, and so they grab
on to everything that happens, hoping that's going to be
the issue, to find something that resonates with the American people.
And it must be so frustrating for them because so
far everything they've gone after has worked out the other way.
(02:30):
It's been a plus for Donald Trump. I just think
that the whole party Reagan right now seems lost. You're there,
do you see the same thing?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Yeah. I mean there's definitely this conundrum right now with
saying Trump is bad, Trump is bad, that messaging isn't
really resonating with the Democratic Party. And I think when
Kamala Harris came out last week and said she wasn't
running for California governor and then was asked on Stephen
co Colbert's show whether who the leader of the Democratic
(03:04):
Party was and she couldn't answer that, I think that was,
you know, in a nutshell, what it feels like to
be a Democrat right now. They don't have a leader.
And then here is the woman who was the last
leader of the Democratic Party at you know, ran for president,
ran for the White House, and she cannot even answer
(03:26):
who is the leader. She can't really give a direction,
a sense of hope. And so I think right now
they're in this, you know, holding pattern of trying to
find who is going to lead the party, and I
think that they have time to do so. I don't
think that there's much of a rush, to be honest,
but I do think it's something that Republicans should capitalize
(03:47):
on while they had the chance, because come to twenty
twenty six midterms or come the twenty twenty eight presidential election,
they might have figured it out. And so now it's
the time to kind of game ground if you're in
the GP.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Yeah, they have they certainly have time. But poor Corey Booker.
You know, he is the Senator from New Jersey. He's
in our listening area, and he's been trying so hard.
He wants attention so badly. He wants to be the
leader of the party. I don't believe Reagan it's going
to be anybody from Washington, because I think people are
(04:20):
so furious with Democrats in Washington over the last four
years that it's like a pox on all your houses.
It's going to be some governor. It's going to be
someone from the outside that's going to step up. But
I just don't see it for Corey Booker or anybody
that you're dealing with in that city.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I think you're right. I actually thought Stephen A. Smith
had a great analysis of kind of the difference between
the two parties and how the GP has almost been
forcing trying to force voters to choose anyone but Trump
or for the last four years, and the voter said, no,
we're going with this guy. We're going with Donald Trump.
We're not going with Nikki Hilley, We're not going with
(05:02):
Ron DeSantis. Where the Democratic Party, it's kind of like, Okay,
it's Obama's turn. Now, Okay, at Hillary Clinton's turn. Now,
now it's Joe Biden's turn. Now it's Kamala Harris's turn.
And it's almost like the elites in DC and the
Democratic Party choose who is going to run for president
and that's who they install. And I think what the
(05:24):
twenty twenty four election illustrated exactly what you said. I
think Americans are sick of just typical politicians. They want
an outsider, and they want someone who is more relatable
to them, who doesn't see maybe being a politician as
a career. And that's why you see these names like
Stephen A. Smith, Mark Cuban, etc. Come up as potential
(05:46):
contenders to run for the White House in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Yeah, that's really interesting. I want to get back to
the tariffs for one second, because Donald Trump brought up
the possibility of paying dividends from the tariff profits to
the American people. Is that going to happen?
Speaker 2 (06:03):
That's a great question. I mean with President Trump, who
knows it could happen, It could not happen. I wish
I had insider information on that, but I don't, and
so yeah, I really have no idea. And it's almost
you know, as a journalist, you always hope to have
the inside information and know what's going to happen next.
(06:25):
But with Donald Trump, there's a lot of figuring out
what he says in real time and reacting to it.
It's almost the opposite of what I was doing the
past year covering the White House. And so we'll see.
I have no idea, Larry.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Yeah, because every day he seems to wake up and
he has a new idea, and who knows if it's
actually going to happen. That's why the Rose Guards get
getting changed real quickly. And I know it's an important story,
but it's not getting a lot of coverage or as
much as it should. The nuclear submarines that we sent
off the coast of Russia. That's something to be isn't it.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Yeah, I mean it's it's definitely. Does it make me
feel great? I think that President Trump has shown that
he's getting pretty frustrated with Russia and Putin over the
last couple of weeks, and I think that's a really
significant shift in the president. It's posture towards the Russia
Ukraine war and so this by the nuclear Sumburine is
(07:26):
moving towards Russia. I think that is also another really
notable shift in the United States policy and how the
United States is treating this conflict. And so, you know,
Caroline Levitt said it from the podium last week, the
President is averaging a cease fire per month since taking office,
(07:46):
and so I imagine he wants to reach peace in
both Russia and Ukraine and also in the Middle East.
And so it's definitely something to keep your eyes on
what the President is putting out on truth social he's
saying about both these conflicts, because we're starting to see
him get frustrated and lose his patience, and I think
(08:08):
that's definitely notable in the final months of his first
year in office.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
All Right, Reagan rees daily Cora White House Correspondent, Independent
Woman's Foreign Visiting Fellow with Us every Monday at eight
thirty five. Talktee you next week, Reagan, Thank you yep,
Yeah, let's get right to Reagan. Reece, White House correspondent
for the Daily Call or an Independent Women's Forum, visiting fellow.
She's with us every Monday at this time. Good morning
to your Reagan. As always a whole lot going on
in Washington right now. I mean, it's I'm almost picked
(00:20):
your topic. But let's start with the tariffs. Because the
Democrats have tried to sow fear from the beginning, and
so many people like John Fetterman and Bill Maher who
are died in the world, Democrats have come to the position, well,
I guess we've been lied to that. We've kept being
told the tariffs were going to be awful and they
(00:41):
were going to raise prices and the economy was going
to tank, and that's never happened. And I think with
all of the deals that were signed at the end, Reagan,
I'm not sure that's ever going to happen.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yeah, it's been very interesting. I think the White House
is definitely taking a victory laugh right now and is
breaking in some success and wins with the tariff deals.
I read a pretty interesting analysis of this in Politico
that made the case that, you know, the markets were
not expecting Liberation Day. That was an April when President
(01:18):
Trump announced that he was going to be putting reciprocal
tariffs on every country that imposes the tariff on the
United States. But now that they kind of know to
expect tariffs from the President, that there's less of a
freak out, and that's creating less of the spike. It's
creating less anxiety around the tariffs, and I think generally
(01:40):
that's a pretty good analysis of the situation. I do
think with Donald Trump, sometimes he does things and people
just freak out. I mean, I'm seeing people freak out
to the fact that he changed the Rose Garden and
the ball burns the White House. But if you give
him a chance and you start to think, let the
idea kind of think in and learn more about it,
(02:04):
it typically seems to be working out for the White House.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I think the reason for that is because right now
the Democrats don't have an issue, and so they grab
on to everything that happens, hoping that's going to be
the issue, to find something that resonates with the American people.
And it must be so frustrating for them because so
far everything they've gone after has worked out the other way.
(02:30):
It's been a plus for Donald Trump. I just think
that the whole party Reagan right now seems lost. You're there,
do you see the same thing?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Yeah. I mean there's definitely this conundrum right now with
saying Trump is bad, Trump is bad, that messaging isn't
really resonating with the Democratic Party. And I think when
Kamala Harris came out last week and said she wasn't
running for California governor and then was asked on Stephen
co Colbert's show whether who the leader of the Democratic
(03:04):
Party was and she couldn't answer that, I think that was,
you know, in a nutshell, what it feels like to
be a Democrat right now. They don't have a leader.
And then here is the woman who was the last
leader of the Democratic Party at you know, ran for president,
ran for the White House, and she cannot even answer
(03:26):
who is the leader. She can't really give a direction,
a sense of hope. And so I think right now
they're in this, you know, holding pattern of trying to
find who is going to lead the party, and I
think that they have time to do so. I don't
think that there's much of a rush, to be honest,
but I do think it's something that Republicans should capitalize
(03:47):
on while they had the chance, because come to twenty
twenty six midterms or come the twenty twenty eight presidential election,
they might have figured it out. And so now it's
the time to kind of game ground if you're in
the GP.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Yeah, they have they certainly have time. But poor Corey Booker.
You know, he is the Senator from New Jersey. He's
in our listening area, and he's been trying so hard.
He wants attention so badly. He wants to be the
leader of the party. I don't believe Reagan it's going
to be anybody from Washington, because I think people are
(04:20):
so furious with Democrats in Washington over the last four
years that it's like a pox on all your houses.
It's going to be some governor. It's going to be
someone from the outside that's going to step up. But
I just don't see it for Corey Booker or anybody
that you're dealing with in that city.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I think you're right. I actually thought Stephen A. Smith
had a great analysis of kind of the difference between
the two parties and how the GP has almost been
forcing trying to force voters to choose anyone but Trump
or for the last four years, and the voter said, no,
we're going with this guy. We're going with Donald Trump.
We're not going with Nikki Hilley, We're not going with
(05:02):
Ron DeSantis. Where the Democratic Party, it's kind of like, Okay,
it's Obama's turn. Now, Okay, at Hillary Clinton's turn. Now,
now it's Joe Biden's turn. Now it's Kamala Harris's turn.
And it's almost like the elites in DC and the
Democratic Party choose who is going to run for president
and that's who they install. And I think what the
(05:24):
twenty twenty four election illustrated exactly what you said. I
think Americans are sick of just typical politicians. They want
an outsider, and they want someone who is more relatable
to them, who doesn't see maybe being a politician as
a career. And that's why you see these names like
Stephen A. Smith, Mark Cuban, etc. Come up as potential
(05:46):
contenders to run for the White House in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Yeah, that's really interesting. I want to get back to
the tariffs for one second, because Donald Trump brought up
the possibility of paying dividends from the tariff profits to
the American people. Is that going to happen?
Speaker 2 (06:03):
That's a great question. I mean with President Trump, who
knows it could happen, It could not happen. I wish
I had insider information on that, but I don't, and
so yeah, I really have no idea. And it's almost
you know, as a journalist, you always hope to have
the inside information and know what's going to happen next.
(06:25):
But with Donald Trump, there's a lot of figuring out
what he says in real time and reacting to it.
It's almost the opposite of what I was doing the
past year covering the White House. And so we'll see.
I have no idea, Larry.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Yeah, because every day he seems to wake up and
he has a new idea, and who knows if it's
actually going to happen. That's why the Rose Guards get
getting changed real quickly. And I know it's an important story,
but it's not getting a lot of coverage or as
much as it should. The nuclear submarines that we sent
off the coast of Russia. That's something to be isn't it.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Yeah, I mean it's it's definitely. Does it make me
feel great? I think that President Trump has shown that
he's getting pretty frustrated with Russia and Putin over the
last couple of weeks, and I think that's a really
significant shift in the president. It's posture towards the Russia
Ukraine war and so this by the nuclear Sumburine is
(07:26):
moving towards Russia. I think that is also another really
notable shift in the United States policy and how the
United States is treating this conflict. And so, you know,
Caroline Levitt said it from the podium last week, the
President is averaging a cease fire per month since taking office,
(07:46):
and so I imagine he wants to reach peace in
both Russia and Ukraine and also in the Middle East.
And so it's definitely something to keep your eyes on
what the President is putting out on truth social he's
saying about both these conflicts, because we're starting to see
him get frustrated and lose his patience, and I think
(08:08):
that's definitely notable in the final months of his first
year in office.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
All Right, Reagan rees daily Cora White House Correspondent, Independent
Woman's Foreign Visiting Fellow with Us every Monday at eight
thirty five. Talktee you next week, Reagan, Thank you yep,
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