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Speaker 1 (00:01):
There are a lot of people that have said, how
did Donald Trump get the idea to do what he's
doing with tariffs and the American First policy? There are
many that are acting like this as a chaotic plan,
a dysfunctional plan, a plan that is radical or extreme
that should never have happened, and it happened on a
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whim from Donald Trump. There isn't a bigger lie than
that coming out of the conversation with tariffs. How do
we know that this is a belief that Donald Trump
has had for quite some time. Well, you can look
back to nineteen eighty eight and President Donald Trump was
on the Oprah Winfrey Show talking about countries ripping America
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off in the trade war. She also asked him about
running for office, and he said something else that was
obviously very clear. He said he didn't think he was
going to run for office, and US things got really,
really really bad. Those two things came to fruition. And
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this is all the way back in nineteen eighty eight.
So if you think Donald Trump is messing around, he's not.
He's believed it and been planning it for more than
thirty years.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Last year, criticizing US foreign policy, what would you do differently. Donald,
I'd make our allies forgetting about the enemies, the enemies
you can't talk to so easily. I'd make our allies
pay their fair share. We're a debtor nation. Something's going
to happen over the next number of years with this
country because you can't keep going on losing two hundred billion.
And yet we let Japan come in and dump everything
right into our markets and everything. It's not free trade.
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If you ever go to Japan right now and try
to sell something, forget about it. Open, just forget about it.
It's almost impossible. They don't have laws against it. They
just make it impossible. They come over here, they sell
their cars, their VCRs. They knock the hell out of
our companies. And hey, I have tremendous respect for the
Japanese people. I mean, you can respect somebody that's beating
the hell out of you, But they are beating the
hell out of this country Kuwait. They live like kings.
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The poorest person in Kuwait they live like kings. And
yet they're not paying. We make it possible for them
to sell their oil. Why aren't they paying us twenty
five percent of what they're making.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
It's a joke this. This sounds like political presidential talk
to me.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
And I know people have talked to you about whether
or not you want to run.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Would you d Would you ever? Probably not?
Speaker 2 (02:20):
But I do get tired of seeing the country rip.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Why would you not?
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I just don't think I really have the inclination to
do it. I love what I'm doing.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
I really like it. Also doesn't pay as well, No, don't.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
But you know, I just probably wouldn't do it over
I probably wouldn't, But I do get tired of seeing
what's happening with this country, and if it got so bad,
I would never want to rule it out totally because
I really am tired of seeing what's happening with this country,
how we're how we're really making other people live like
kings and we're not.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
What do you think of this year's presidential race the
way it's shaping up, Well, it's going to be very interesting.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I think I think that probably George Bush has an
advantage in terms of the election. I think that probably
people would say that he's got like that little edge
in terms of the incumbency, et cetera, et cetera. But
I think Jesse Jackson's done himself very proud. I think
Michael Dukakis has done one hell of a job, and
George Bush has done a hell of a job. You know,
they all went in there sort of a semi underdogs,
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including George Bush, and.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
They've all come out.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
I think people that are around all three of those
candidates can be very proud of the jobs they've done.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
You listen to Donald Trump then, and there's a couple
of things there that are very consistent. He said, our
allies are ripping us off. They're ripping Americans off in trade,
and we start there. He also said it's a little
bit tougher with our adversaries. A great example of that
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is what he's dealing with with Russia right now. There
are many in the press trying to attack Donald Trump
for not putting major sanctions on Russia. Well, he says
he's trying to stop a war between Russia and Ukraine.
Why complicate things and make things worse by throwing tariffs
on them?
Speaker 4 (04:00):
But there's also a second.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Point that the media is omitting from the facts. There's
not a lot to put tariffs on because we have
so many sanctions right now on Russia already, so it's
almost like there is. In fact, they said of tariffs,
there are tariffs of we're not doing anything with you,
and yet the media is trying to act like there's
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some sort of Russia collusion three point zero or four
point zero or five point zero when it comes to Russia.
This is how they're going to continue to attack Donald Trump.
At the end of the day, this is a plan
that Donald Trump made clear back in nineteen eighty eight,
is something he believed in. He understands leverage, and that's
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why there's fifty plus countries waiting in line to work
a deal with Donald J. Trump, the president of the
United States of America. I also want to go back
to something else that I mentioned earlier, and that is
when Donald Trump was talking about tariffs, he also said
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this is a way for America to get out of debt.
Donald Trump on Air Force one saying this about tariffs
and how much money the US will make off of
these tariffs.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Listen, I've been proven it this run.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Will you talk to a lot of leaders this weekend?
Can you tell us their were there any deals made?
Speaker 3 (05:23):
I spoke to a lot of leaders.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
European agent from all over the world, did die to
make a deal. But I said, We're not gonna have
deficits with your country. We're not gonna do that because
to me, a deficit is a loss. We're gonna have
surpluses or were at worst gonna be breaking even. But
the China would be the worst in the group because
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the deficit is so big and it's not sustainable.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
And you know, I was elected on this.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
This was one of the biggest reasons I got elected
was exactly because of this. And we're gonna put tariffs.
We've already put them on. It's not a question that
we will. We're going to put them on. And those
tariffs next year will make US one trillion dollars. In
addition to the one trillion dollars, thousands of companies are
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going to relocate back into the United States and North
Carolina already. Furniture people are starting to move back in
in Detroit and Michigan, which I won because of what
I said. What I'm telling you, car companies are starting.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
To open up in Indiana.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
A big one is under construction as an example, Honda.
But they're moving in like nobody has ever seen this before.
So it's unsustainable for us to allow China to have
surpluses of a trillion dollars. We will be taking in
over a trillion dollars over the next short period of
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time with the tariffs that I've already instituted. They're already
a place. Now, what's gonna happen with the market?
Speaker 4 (07:01):
I can't tell you.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
What. I can tell you how our country has gotten
a lot stronger, and eventually it'll be a country like
no other. It'll be the most dominant country economically in
the world.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
That's just what it should be there in the market.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
There, you listen to the media and you hear how
they're talking, and you hear the president. He's very calm.
He has a plan. Trump was asked about the tech leaders,
for example, are they freaking out? What do they say
to you? Like they're trying to find some sort of
war somewhere. It's not happening.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
There is no war.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Donald Trump's communicating with everybody openly. I want to ask
you about this other I would just say insane news,
because I can't believe they've been allowed to do it
for so long. And that is that is Mexico stealing water,
which is suffocating farmers.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
YEP.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Specifically, it's happening in Texas and it's making farming industry
collapse and farmers disappearing from areas because there is no water.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
So let me give you the background, because this is
a really important issue. It's important in Texas, but it's
important to the country, which is there's a water treaty
that we signed with Mexico in nineteen forty four, the
Mexican Water Treaty of nineteen forty four. It obligates Mexico
to provide three hundred and fifty thousand acre feet of
water a year to South Texas. That's over a five
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year period. Okay, for the last five years, Mexico has
been openly and brazenly violating the treaty. They've not been
providing the water. They are right now in this five
year period, one point three million acre feet in arrears
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water they have not provided that they've committed by treaty
to provide. Now, what are they doing. They're diverting that
water that should go to South Texas farmers under the
treaty to Mexican farmers. And a couple of things are happening.
So in South Texas there is a massive drought going on.
It is doing enormous damage to farmers. And when I
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spent a lot of time in South Texas and the
damage to farmers, We're seeing a lot of South Texas
farmers that are taking half of their acreage out of production.
They're shutting down half of their.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Farms just because they don't have the water to do
it right.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
They're laying off thousands of workers. So there was one
sugar mill in all of Texas last year. It shut
down because of water, and it shut down because the
sugar farmers did not have the water to raise the
sugar wow And it's gone.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
And Mexico on the other side of green as can be.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
It is green as can be. The Mexican farmers are prospering.
They're literally stealing our water. And by the way, like
President Trump talks a lot about foreign countries taking advantage
of America, this is this is literally the Mexican government
stealing our water.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
And did Joe Biden do anything to stop this? Zero?
Speaker 6 (10:09):
And he knew about it, So he knew about it.
So I've engaged this issue. I engaged. I started engaging
about two years ago, and I started engaging when I
was down in South Texas and I did a Roundtaal
with farmers and they raised this issue to me. And
two years ago, I didn't know what the Water treat
of nineteen forty four was, and they explained it to me.
And at the time they were really worried, we're going
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to lose our sugar mill if this doesn't change. And
I said, look, I think I can help. I'm going
to lean in. And I began leaning in aggressively. I
forced a vote on the Senate floor on an amendment
to direct the State Department to use every lever point
we have to force Mexico to comply with a water treaty.
I got a majority of the senator, bipartisan majority. And
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then there's a water commissioner for the United States. I
like leaned in with the water commissioner said, look, the
Senate has spoken a by part of majority. And here's
the fundamental problem. Joe Biden didn't give a damn about this.
So I desperately tried to get the Biden administration to
exert leverage. Yeah, and they just didn't care.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Now, by the way, leverage for Donald Trump at this
point was him saying, hey, I'm coming after you with
with tariffs or sanctions, So do the right thing now
before I have to do that, and they know he
means it. Unlike even if you had that same statement
from Joe Biden, he ain't gonna do anything.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
So in South Texas, cities are also facing massive drought.
You're literally facing the cities not having enough water for
their citizens because Mexico's stealing the water. And so I
leaned in. I could not get the Biden's administration do
a damn thing. In December, as part of the Continuing Resolution,
I authored legislation that got adopted that provided two hundred
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and eighty million dollars in emergency relief for Texas farmers
because they're they're going broke. And we're talking about generational farms,
farms that have been three or four generations who were
being bankrupted because their government is not enforcing the treaty
and they're being starved of water.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
And so.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
Several weeks ago I went down to South Texas with
Brook Rawlins. Brook Rollins is the Secretary of Agriculture. Brook
has been a good friend of mine for twenty five years.
She's a Texan. She's the first Texan in the history
of the country to be the Secretary of agriculture. She's
also the first Secretary of Agriculture ever to go to
the Rio Grande Valley. Wow, and she came to the
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valley at my request. I asked her come down with me,
and we did. We did a press conference number one
where she announced I've got two hundred and eighty million
dollars I'm giving the South Texas farmers because your federal
government has been screwing you by not getting the water
back and Mexico is starving you. But we also did
a roundtable. We did a round table with farmers where
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Brook and I talked with the farmers and the Rio
Grande Valley has been bright blue for one hundred years.
In twenty twenty four, the Rio Grande Valley flipped red.
I won the valley and Donald Trump won the valley.
That has never happened. I won Hispanic statewide in Texas
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by six points. That's never happened. I have spent an
enormous amount of time and millions of dollars in the
valley trying to flip the valley red because I saw
the potential there, and so I think I've invested more
than any elected official in Texas in terms of turning
the valley red. Well, I got to say, sitting there
at that roundtable, you got farmers and ranchers and you're
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just asking them, look over the last four years, did
Joe Biden do a damn thing for you?
Speaker 3 (13:36):
No?
Speaker 4 (13:37):
And that's how that's how you turn this.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
And what I told them as I said, listen, if
there's one thing you know about Donald Trump, he will
stand up to foreign countries and fight for you. And
I made that commitment. And frankly, look, these are voters
who their entire lives have voted Democrats. Their parents voted Democrats,
their grandparents voted Democrat, they're great grandparents voted Democrat. And
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this last election, for the first time, they pulled the
lever for Republican going down there and saying, look, we're
fighting for you, We're going to get you. The damn
water is one of the ways you lock those votes.
And it's a generational shift for Texas.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
By the way, this is the first time for Verdict.
They've just opened the vote. They're only keeping it open
for fifteen minutes.
Speaker 6 (14:24):
So I'm gonna go momentario.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
You're gonna go momentarily, which means actually it's about twelve
minutes because I'm a couple minutes behind. Just this is
this is why I love doing verdict, because this is
how it really works. And its sandy in the Senate.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
So I will say this. I called President Trump a
week ago and I said, Miss President, would make a
huge difference if you leaned in personally with the President
of Mexico and said.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Provide us the water. Yeah, knock it off.
Speaker 6 (14:50):
And he said, I'll tell you what. I'll send a
truth social post. And so I worked with them on
the wording of it, and tonight, when I was in
the old I said, miss President, can you send that
truth post?
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (15:04):
He sent it tonight. I'm going to read it to you.
Here's what President Trump sent this evening. Mexico owes Texas
one point three million acre feet of water under the
nineteen forty four Water Treaty, but Mexico is unfortunately violating
their treaty obligation. This is very unfair and it is
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hurting South Texas farmers very badly. Last year, the only
sugar mill in Texas closed because Mexico has been stealing
the water from Texas farmers. Ted Cruz has been leading
the fight to get South Texas the water it is owed,
but Sleepy Joe refused to lift a finger to help
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the farmers. This ends now. I will make sure that
Mexico doesn't violate our treaties and doesn't hurt our Texas farmers.
Just last month, I halted water shipments to Tijuana until
Mexico complies with the nineteen forty four Water Treaty. My
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Agriculture Secretary Brook Rawlins is standing up for Texas farmers,
and we will keep escalating consequences, including tariffs and maybe
even sanctions, until Mexico honors the treaty and gives Texas
the water they are owed and gives Texas the water
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they are owed. Is an all caps there you go.
That tweet got sent out tonight. I'll tell you in
just within an hour of that tweet going out, the
President of Mexico is sent out of tweet saying we're
gonna fix this. We're going to fix this, and the
Mexican government is freaking out. That's what it looks like.
Later president who is fighting for America. Joe Biden could
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have done that for four years, but he didn't give
a flip about farmers in South Texas going out of
business the President's tweet, and I can tell you Mexic
Mexico is in the process now negotiating with the state
department to provide for the water. We're gonna get the water.
And that's a great that's a great, great thing for
Texas in America.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Go vote. You're on the clock now. I love it.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Don't forget me to show Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Sometimes it's
like one in the morning. You're gonna run and vote
right now. We'll see you back here on what is today? Thursday, Wednesday?
Speaker 4 (17:23):
What is today? It's just they're all running together now.
Today's Thursday, Thursday. So this is fright.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
So the bet that the weekend review will be on Saturday.
So there you go, which isn't like a day. If
you're looking at when we're recording.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
This, we'll see you.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Then share this wherever you are on social media, and
we'll see you back here on Saturday. The President the
United States of America standing with American workers, with the
coal miners their families and talking about energy independence, talking
about putting miners back to work at the White House,
explaining that it's time for us to be careful that
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we're not relying on others, and it's an issue also
of national security.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Here's part of what the president. It's at the White House.
Take a listen.
Speaker 7 (18:01):
Today, we're taking historic action to help American workers, miners, families,
and consumers. We're ending Joe Biden's war on beautiful clean
call once and for all. And it wasn't just Biden,
it was Obama and there were others. But we're doing
the exact opposite. And all those plants that have been
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closed are going to be opened if they're modern enough,
or they'll be ripped down and brand new ones will
be built.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
We're going to put the miners back to work.
Speaker 7 (18:32):
And I said I was going to do this, and
I've said it loud and clear, and it's time to
do it.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Then we need it now.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
The President mentioned there historic action. This is because he's
no longer going to war with coal miners. He's saying,
I'm here to help you, I'm here to help Americans,
I'm here to help your families. I'm here to help consumers.
As we are continuing to see the prices of oil
and gas prices go down all over the country, the
President making it clear this is the Democrat Party's fault
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and that's why I said We're ending Joe Biden's war
on beautiful, clean coal once and for all. The President
also talked about these important energy workers and coal miners,
saying it's time for us to treat them like the
American patriots that they are. They have been demonized by
the left, and he said not in my administration.
Speaker 7 (19:22):
The energy workers and the coal miners in the area
that I'm standing on. And there's a lot of weight
on this platform, So I don't know what's going to happen.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
I hope it's structurally designed for you guys.
Speaker 7 (19:34):
I don't know, but we have just really well deserving,
great American patriots, and it's such an honor to be
here and making such a big move, such a bold
move and energy because you know, for years people would
just bemoan this industry and decimate the industry for absolutely
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no reason. Because with modern technology and all of the
other things that we do, it's one of the great
great forms of energy. That's why other countries, leading countries
are using it, some exclusively.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Some exclusively, also reminding that the Green New Deal is
over and that there's other countries are using this exclusively
to explain that hey, We're not going to have all
these initiatives around a Green New Deal. We're not going
to push everything into all this alternative energy. We must
have energy independance. It is part of our national security
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and that's vitally important. The President also talking about the
policy differences here and explain that Biden's energy policy was
really one simple thing. Put Americans last, make you pay
way more than you should for energy, and hurt the
American family, and he says that stops today.
Speaker 7 (20:53):
The Democrats Green New Scam killed jobs and sent prices
soaring here in America. But meanwhile, check opened two coal
plants every single week, and other countries likewise went very
strongly back into coal. Some of them never got off.
Those are the ones that didn't have the problems. The
Biden energy policy was to put America last. We want
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to be least. We got to be lest. Not a
good policy. Under my administration, we're putting America first. It's
very simple. America is always going to be first. On
my first day in office, I terminated the Green new Scam.
I declared the National Energy Emergency, and withdrew from the
unfair one side and extremely costly to the United States
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only Paris Climate a.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Court, and that wasn't all that the President had to
say when it comes to our policy. The President also
said we're going to get rid of regulations at this
White House event with coal miners behind him, saying that
that's one of the biggest problems is we've used the
government to decide and choose winners and losers. This is
part of that green new scam, as he mentioned, where
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you have a government that says we will subsidize certain
things that we like and we will destroy other things
that we don't like. That is the Democratic Party and
what they believe in. The President said also those days
are over as well.
Speaker 7 (22:13):
Now under the executive order that I will sign in
a few moments, we're slashing unnecessary regulations that targeted.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
The beautiful clean coal.
Speaker 7 (22:23):
We will rapidly expedite leases for coal mining on federal lands.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
And these two gentlemen are going to do a real
job of it. You've already started and will streamline permitting.
We will end the government.
Speaker 7 (22:35):
Bias against call, and we're going to unlock the sweeping
authorities of Defense Production Act, the Defense Production Act.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
So this is clearly going to have an instant impact
on the pricing when it comes to what it's going
to cost you this winter, in this summer, whether it's gas,
or whether it's heating your home, whether it is buying
certain goods that use a lot of the energy. The
the President said there was we're slashing these unnecessary regulations
and why because we need to expand rapidly coal mining
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in federal lands is a yes, well streamline permitting. Yes,
we're going to end the government bias against coal. Yes,
and we're going to unlock all of this so the
American people get a better deal and also so we
are not giving money to our adversaries or we are
at a disadvantage with the rest of the world. The
President saying this is the plan moving forward. He also
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said this, We're going to guarantee that this country, for
many years to come, has what it needs to succeed,
specifically when it comes to businesses, because this is what
this is all about.
Speaker 7 (23:45):
Get a guarantee that we have a strong business for
many years to come, that your coal companies and your
miners don't get all excited about their jobs. And then
should a radical left liberal become president, they end the
business right away. And somebody's built a plant and spent
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hundreds of millions of dollars in building a plant, and
the plant is going to be closed because a Democrat
got in or a liberal got in. They're opposed to Call,
and Republicans are very much for it clean Call, and
we're going to give a guarantee that the business will
not be terminated by the ups and downs of the
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world of politics. So should somebody come in to this
very important office and say, oh, well, you spend hundreds
of millions of dollars and you guys have given up
your life because you want to be in Call, and
then all of a sudden you don't have a life
anymore because it's what you know the best.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
That's not going to happen.
Speaker 7 (24:47):
We're going to give a guarantee that it is not
going to happen, so that if somebody comes in, they
cannot change it at a whim.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
They cannot just go. They're going to have to go
through hell to close you up, all right, So that's
pretty good. We're going to give that in the form
of a guarantee.
Speaker 7 (24:59):
That we're writing on right now structurally and from a
legal standpoint, so your investments are going to also be protected.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
The President again putting American workers first. This is a
big guarantee from this president and it's not just a
promise that he mad in the campaign trail, but he's
actually paying off on it right now.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Now.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
All this is happening while we're also dealing with everything
with the tariffs. The President also giving some good news
on tariffs as well. Take a listen to what President
Trump had to say about how much money we're bringing
in already from what he has done.
Speaker 7 (25:42):
And for those of you that want to know the tariffs,
you've been hearing about tariffs with taking in almost two
billion dollars a day in tariffs, two billion a day,
and we're doing very well, and we're doing very well
and making I call them tailor deals, not off the rack.
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These are tailored, highly tailored deals. Right now, Japan is
flying here to make a deal. South Korea is flying
here to make a deal, and others are flying here.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
I mean, my only problem is I'm not sure I
have enough.
Speaker 7 (26:17):
We're gonna have to use those those great law firms
I think to help us with that.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
But we're going to probably do that.
Speaker 7 (26:24):
Actually, we're going to use them, and we're getting them
for the right price because we have to.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
We need a lot of talent. We have a lot
of two.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Billion a day while you're getting a better deal for Americans,
American workers, American manufacturing.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
I mean, this is pretty impressive, he says. We're doing
all of these deals. And as he said, right now,
Japan is flying here to make a deal.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
South Korea is flying here to make a deal, and
others are flying here. They understand this presence not messing around,
and they realize they're going to have to make a
better deal with America so that America is in last
place anymore, and you can get in the chin from
all of these other countries around the world.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
At the end of the day, what Donald Trump said
is true. I'm not backing down.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
I'm going to fix the problems we have with our
trade deficits, and I'm going to make sure that people
are investing in the US and American workers are winning,
whether it's the coal miners or those in the tech industry.
It's clear the presidents saying American workers are going to
come first in my administration, and this could last for
at least three or four more years. We're going to
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