April 9, 2025 • 30 mins
Elaine Dezenski, senior director and head of the Center on Economic and Financial Power at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Previously, Elaine served on the newly formed Chairman’s Council on China Competition at the Export-Import Bank of the United States.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Right hour two Shawn Kennedy Show, eight hundred and nine
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now ramping up what is critical for the President's agenda,
and that obviously would include getting the economy on track
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so that means that we can hopefully return to a
better economy. One of the main topics of discussion and
obsession has been the issue of tariffs. We do have
a number of updates as we've gone through today, Scott
Bessent saying now seventy nations won't negotiate over Donald Trump's tariffs.
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European Union they're ready to negotiate with Trump for zero
for zero tariffs. Volkswagen has suspended car sales in the US,
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Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Today's word of the day is water. We need water
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Speaker 3 (01:50):
That's great swamp. That's what today's word of the day is.
What your host exactly? Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
The President, given that big presser with Prime Minister net
and Yahoo yesterday, talked about the EU's offer for zero
tariffs now is not enough.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Do I think all of this is one big negotiation that,
of course the media will never understand about Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Yes, I do. Here's the President.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
There been some mixed messages from your administration.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
You're talking about negotiations, and yet others in your administration
are saying that these.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
Tariffs are actually permanent?
Speaker 7 (02:24):
What is that?
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Actually?
Speaker 5 (02:25):
What?
Speaker 8 (02:25):
Well?
Speaker 9 (02:25):
It could be taken both people.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
True, they can be permanent tariffs and they can also
be negotiations because there are things.
Speaker 9 (02:33):
That we need beyond tariffs.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
We need open borders. You know, we almost had a
deal with China where we're going to open up China.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
It was almost done.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Some of you remember it during my first time, and
it was very disappointing. We ended up making a great
deal of fifty billion dollars worth of product. Was so
fifty billion you'd like that in Israel and I made
that deal, but it wasn't the deal that I wanted.
Speaker 9 (02:58):
They have your chairs, Well, the EU, no, it's not.
The EU has been very tough over the years. It
was I always say it.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Was formed to really do damage to the United States
and trade.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
That's the reason it was formed.
Speaker 8 (03:18):
It was formed with all of the countries from Europe,
I guess most of them, not all of them, but
most of them, and they formed together to create a
little bit of a monopoly situation, to create a unified
force against the United States betraye. We have a deficit
with the European Union of three hundred and fifty billion
dollars and it's going to disappear fast. And one of
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the reasons, and one of the ways that that can
disappear easily and quickly is they're going to have to
buy our energy from us because they need it. They're
going to have to buy it from us.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
They can buy it.
Speaker 8 (03:50):
We can knock go up three hundred and fifty billion
dollars in one week. They have to buy and commit
to buy a like amount of energy, and.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
We have that.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
So the President, as you can hear, is in a
perpetual state of negotiations. Something in the media does not
want to ever understand about him anyway. Elaine Dozinski is
with US, senior director, head of the Center on Economic
and Financial Power at the Foundation for Defensive Democracies. Elaine,
welcome to the program. Look, the state run legacy media
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mob as I call them, and Democrats, they don't want
to understand Donald Trump because they're in a perpetual state
of rage against him, and they bubble in fizz like
alca celter and water at the very sound of his voice. However,
the Donald Trump that I've known for thirty years is
a guy that is he negotiates everything is a negotiation
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with him, And what he's saying to Europe is, hold
on a second, you all united, you created the European Union,
you all agreed on these massive tariffs against the US. Okay, Well,
he's willing to have the discussion about free and fair
trade with all of these countries, and he's willing to
have you know, if they want terris, it's going to
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be reciprocal. But he's also saying there are other issues
that need to be negotiated financially.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
That's what I hear.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Yeah, so I think I think that's I think that's
more or less correct. What we have is a large
and persistent trade deficit with a number of countries. These
are countries like Germany, South Korea, and most importantly China,
where we're in something like an untenable situation and the
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bill is coming due. And what I mean by that
is that we've become the consumer of last resort within
the global economy, which means we're absorbing a lot of
cheap imports, we're absorbing a lot of surplus savings, and
this dynamic has to shift. Okay, this is part of
the trade deficit surplus challenge that we face. Tariffs in
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terms of where we are in this conversation, I agree
with you, we're in the first round, and I don't
know why people wouldn't understand that we're not in the
first round of a very detailed discussion about how to
reorient our engagement with countries around the world. And I
think what Donald Trump is saying is we're redefining the
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concept of economic ally and part of the way that
we're doing that is by addressing UH tariffs and other
types of barriers. Right He's talking about non market barriers,
particularly with China, that also have an influence on the
competitiveness of the US. And the idea at the end
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of the day is really to bring manufacturing home, particularly
for exquisite manufacturing, meaning high tech and fansteck, the thing
that we need for the economy now and in the future,
and do it with more of domestic labor and make
deals countries that make more sense for the US. So
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there's lots of different aspects to the reorientation happening right now,
and the opening shot is tariffs.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Okay, So when the Treasury Secretary Scott Bissen confirms that
leaders from over seventy countries have approached the administration about
the tariff announcement. When you read the European Union now
all of a sudden is willing to talk about free
and fair trade and no tariffs at all whatsoever. This
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is where I knew we'd always kind of land in
terms of there's no way that these countries are going
to put the tariffs that will impact their economies their
workers at risk because they want the right to rip
off America anymore. Because at the end of the day,
the citizens of their countries are going to be the
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ones that are angry. They're the ones whose factories are
going to shut They're the ones who are going to
be losing jobs, and they're the ones that are going
to be negatively impacted. In other words, they need access
to our markets, period, end of sentence, and they're going
to have to make a deal to do it. That's
why this Wall Street freak out that we've been witnessing
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has been meaningless to me, because I know how this
story's going to eventually end.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Yeah, So countries that run big surpluses again, Germany is
a good example of that. China a little bit different
story because their citizens have no say in anything. The
government just decides these are countries that can't respond to tariffs,
are tarifs with a reciprocal tariff why for exactly the
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reasons you're saying, the costs are very difficult to bear.
They're trying to make up for the fact that they
have a lot of production, excess production that they're not
absorbing in their domestic economies. The better thing for them
to do, and I think this is ultimately where we
need to get with China because they're the biggest problem
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in all of this, is to push them to make
more domestic investments, to push their own consumption levels up,
to fix the problem in the economy in China in particular,
so that they've become a domestic market that has real
consumption and where Chinese workers are making more. That's actually
good for America because we're having a hard time competing
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against their non market practices, their surplus trade. It's actually
killing competitiveness and it has been for a while. So
this system has to be reoriented, it has to shift.
And what we've seen so far coming from this administration
is the shock that now gives us this opportunity to reorient.
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The question now is how do we take this opportunity
and turn it into the right system, the right frame
for ensuring that we have even security economic prosperity in
this country.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Okay, so let's use Germany as an example. They have
a ten percent tariff on automobiles for against us. We
only have two and a half percent against them. But
then they got something called the value added TACKS of
that tax. That tax is a national sales tax, so
that's twenty percent. So for an American car to be
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sold in Germany, that's a thirty percent rise in sticker price,
which makes it cost prohibitive for the people of Germany
if they even wanted to buy an American car, And
that's why they sell nearly ten German cars in America
to our one car that we sell there. That's not
fair to American auto manufacturers, it's not fair to UAW workers,
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it's not fair to anybody. And the fact that this
is even complicated or controversial to some people is mind
numbing to me.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
Yeah. So these costs are different forms within the system,
and the VAT tax is certainly one of them. I
remember when I lived in Europe, I bought a car
and I paid thirty percent more than I would have
I had bought it in the US, but I didn't
have a choice because I had to buy a car.
So yes, these are barriers, and they make certain products
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much more expensive, well all products in the case of
the VAT tax in the EU. So I think it's
right to look at these as barriers to what we
want to move towards, which is a freer ultimately a
freer trade environment where we can correct some of these
deficiencies in the system. But it's very difficult to get
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countries to move off things like the vattas. These are
sources of revenue that are pretty serious, particularly for the EU,
so that's not going to be an easy shift. On
the other hand, the fact that there's a conversation happening
or about to happen with the Europeans it's a really
good sign because if we can get a line with
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Europe and come to an agreement that is better for
us and certainly acceptable to them ultimately, and that includes
a formalizing a position against China, which again is the
biggest problem that we face right now, that would be
very powerful. So we might actually have a shot at
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creating the kinds of alliances, economic alliances that are necessary
to push back against what should be a common enemy,
which is the crazy system of the Chinese Communist Party.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
All right, quick break, we'll come right back. We are
with Elaine Dozinski and we'll get to more with her
on the other side. We'll also get your calls coming
up this hour eight hundred and nine to four one
sean as we continue from the Swamp DC. Straight ahead,
we continue now with Elaine Dozinski, and we're talking about
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the tariff situation. Do you remember when Angela Merkel was
lead Germany and Donald Trump handed her a white flag
and she's like, well, what is this. He goes, well,
you just surrendered. It's the white flag a surrender. This
actually happened. And she goes, what are you talking about?
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And he goes, well, you just did a multi multi
billion dollar energy deal with Vladimir Putin.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
You surrendered.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
You know, the whole NATO alliance in large part was created,
as you know, a military alliance against the threat of Russia.
And now he's also saying, no, no, no, we want to
have part of this deal that you purchase American energy
because of the President's energy dominance goal and selling our
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energy to Europe would certainly be good. It would be
in their best national interest in country by country, I
think they'd be better off because they have a better
ally in the United States than Russia.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
Yeah. Absolutely, So that was a really a strategic mistake
on the part of Germany. Well, two things. Number one
that they shut down their nuclear facilities. I think they're
really regretting that. And number two that they have what
I call a dual pronged autocratic challenge. They've relied on
Russia for chief gas, and they relied on China as
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a primary export market, and in both instances they're running
into big, big challenges. So yeah, it would.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Be I think it compromises them, it makes them beholden to,
you know, our top geopolitical foes. That's why when the
Chancellor did this, I thought it was a huge mistake.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Yeah, it's a real problem, particularly for German industry, right
because they have geared their supply chains in that way.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
All right, Elaine, we really appreciate it, Elaine Dozinski. Thank
you so much for joining us. Eight hundred ninefol one,
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You can't confuse people with that.
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It was too long ago that I have no idea
what it is. Oh my gosh, Vincent Michigan.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Vince, you're on the Sean Hannity Show.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
What's up, Vince Hey, Good afternoon, mister Hannity. It's a pleasure, sir.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
The pleasure is all mine. Glad you called.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
The reason for my call is I'm watching what's happening
to Elon Musk and I'm here for Michigan. And I
have a doge hat and I wear it everywhere I go.
I get dirty looks. People should be grateful for what
this guy is doing for our country and what he's
putting himself through. A guy that self made worth over
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three hundred billion dollars. He doesn't need to do this.
He's doing it because of his love for the country,
and he's done.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
So many good things for the country, including rescuing astronauts,
helping people that don't have communications after hurricanes and wildfires.
You know, he provides starlink to hundreds of countries around
the world. I mean, what this guy is offering this
country by cutting out waste, broad and abuse. Well, what
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has he done to engender this hatred, this rage? It's terrible,
you know. Now the threats against his life are absolutely
skyrocketed through the roof.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
It's insane, it's insane, It's not fair, And I think
that every single American should take a look at Will already. Well,
what does he saved us one hundred and forty billion dollars?
He's uncovered waste, fraud and abuse.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
You know what? And how lucky your weed that he
found it? You know you think about it.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Let me let me just tell you this because I
did this last night on TV and we talked about
it earlier in the show. There's a survey that just
came out. Fifty percent of leftists said that they could
somewhat justify an Elon Musk assassination. Fifty percent of leftists
know what's higher for Trump, It's fifty five percent said
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that they could somewhat justify an assassination against Donald Trump.
Fifty eight percent of these lunatics on the left said
destroying a Tesla dealership is partially acceptable. I mean, this
is madness. That's why I did a whole special last
night on the rise of the radical Left.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
But here's what's crazy, right, You've got these people at
the protests and if you got like I had one
in my neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Just on Saturday, Oh boy, yeah, it was not a
good time. Did you show up?
Speaker 10 (18:57):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (18:57):
I was going food shopping, you know, and they parked
in the food shopping place, and you know, they're absurd.
But what's more absurd when you see them and people
come up to you and they're like, oh, are you
here for the Are here for the rally? No, I'm
not here for the rally. I'm here to buy eggs.
I'm like, like a normal person. Oh, there's a rally
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around the corner. So I'm in the store and this
woman says to me, oh, did you see did you see?
I said, yeah, a bunch of libtards. It's the worst.
I'm like, and she's like, oh my god, I was
just there. I'm like, oh, so there you go. So
you know, I was like, you know, good luck with that.
They're more man at him than what he found out.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
I don't it does.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
It defies all common sense and logic. It is what
we went through and what they put Donald Trump through
for four years. The good news is this, and I
said this last night. If you look at politics, it's
usually about addition. Donald Trump brought people a new coalition together,
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hard working men and women, more young people, more African Americans,
more Hispanic Americans, more women. It's about addition. Your ideas
bring people to the table. Listening to these idiots, you
know that wouldn't stand for the mothers of slain children
and holding up bingo cards and won't stand for a
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young man with cancer, and you know, stand up for
the right of men to play women's sports and the
rights of trendy Aragua gang members over the safety of
Americans and you know, scream constitutional crisis. If God forbid,
you find hundreds of billions of dollars and ways for
auden abuse. They're not adding anybody with their slogans, their
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bingo cards. They're singing and they're chanting, and you know,
dragging out of the grave. Neil Young and Joan baiez
I mean, it's just insane what they're doing.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Are you happy now?
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Yes, back to our busy phones. Appreciate Evince, thank you.
Let us say hi.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Will.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
On the same topic, John is in my free state
of Florida. I missed my free state. Hope you're holding
down the Ford today.
Speaker 11 (21:07):
Good afternoon, sir. First of all, make sure you wipe
your feet on the way out of that swamp.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Oh I'm doing more than wiping my feet, trust me.
Speaker 11 (21:18):
I was. You know. It goes back to you know,
George Floyd and all that stuff, all these quote unquote
free or peaceful protests like burning car dealerships and burning
cars and charging stations. Somebody's paying for this, and why
can't Pam Bondy get to the bottom of who's behind this,
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like maybe George and Alex Soros and these other lefty
billionaires and put them in prison for insurrection, for causing
an insurrection.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
They are going to where the money is coming from.
They have said up publicly, if you're funding this, we
will hold you account. They've been very very clear.
Speaker 11 (22:02):
Why can't they make it public? Why can't they say
who's funding it?
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Because it's an investigation. You don't give away where you
are in the middle of an investigation. Oh, that wouldn't
make sense, right.
Speaker 11 (22:13):
I thought it was easy. I thought, you know, they
are these are the guys causing the chaos, causing the insurrection.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
They're going to deny it and say no, no, we
were just giving money for peaceful protest.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
They'll deny it.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
So it's probably going to be hard to tie them
to the actual violence, and they'll say, well, we're not
responsible with people that are violent or people that are
domestic terrorism, even though our money is facilitating it. But
you know, I could see a case being brought about
aiding in a betting, couldn't you.
Speaker 11 (22:45):
Oh? Absolutely, I'd like to see him all in jail,
including the Democrats.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Well, anyway, I will tell you it is sick, but
it shows the state of the sad state of the
Democratic Party. Anyway, John, thanks for holding down the fort.
I will be back in the free state of Florida tomorrow.
Can't wait to get that freezing here today in the swamp.
Kevin is in the swamp, Kevin, how are you glad
you called Sart? Glad you're with us?
Speaker 7 (23:10):
Hey, Sean, always a pleasure to talk to you, my friend.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (23:14):
Huh if people do not understand terras and the word
this being left out of here is reciprocal. Okay, China
has still not intellectual property. Then they tear iff what
they can't steal to me, Sean, it's like working all
week long and when you walk out with your paycheck,
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when when you've had those you and I when we
were growing up, it's like given thirty percent to somebody
because you make a product that their people want. And
as the Democrats always say, well, terrorists don't work. If
terrorists don't work, Sean, then why doever countries have them
against aronums?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
You know, I wish I'd thought of that. It's so
it's so obvious what you just said. It's not an
argument I made up to this point. Yeah, why if
tariffs are so horrible, why are they putting them on us?
It's such a good point. And what and why do
people if we demand, why are people so willing to
accept for decade after decade after decade, the idea that
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they rip us off?
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Why are they willing to accept that? I'm not willing
to accept that.
Speaker 7 (24:23):
Okay, didn't George hw Bush give Chyna favorite Nate trade
nation back in nineteen eighty nine, and they have been
ripping us off every since. Take Japan. To even sell
a Haley Davison in Japan and I will station over there,
you pay a thirty to thirty five tariff.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
You pay over two hundred percent if we want to
American farmers want to sell their rice in Japan. Again,
these are supposed to be allied nations. You know, why
does Germany slap a thirty percent tax when you include
the ten percent tariff and the twenty percent fat tax
on us and and they get to sell almost ten
ten German cars in America versus our one car in Germany.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
You know what I know?
Speaker 1 (25:07):
With friends like these, who needs enemies? They're not being
friendly towards the US. And then to whine and bitch
and moan and complain the way they are as if
it's the worst thing that's ever happened in the world.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Just it's just blogoney.
Speaker 7 (25:20):
Not only that, Sean, Okay, take a take something like spam.
Spam cost three twenty seven cents in your average dollar
store to sell it in Asia. Guess what, it's eight
nine dollars over there because of the terriffs. Why are
we funding other people's economic prosperity. They list themselves as
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developing economies and then basically care if everything that we
send to them. They have appetite for American products, but
then they care if a sport. And this is called free,
free and fair trade. Come on, man, please.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
And everyone whinds, bitches, moans, complains. I'm so sick of it.
And in the stock market Wall streeters, let me tell
you something about Wall Street. These guys on Wall Street,
and I've known a lot of them all those years
I wasted in New York, and I can tell you
that they make money when stocks go up, and they
make money when stocks go down. How many of them
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might have shorted the market knowing the date that the
tariffs were going to be announced. It just it makes
you wonder. Do I know for sure? No, I don't,
but I will tell you I just don't put my
faith in Wall Street. I have said it during Democratic administrations.
I've set it during Republican administrations. Anyway, good call, Kevin,
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appreciate it from our nation's capital.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
All right, quick break right back to our phones.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Eight hundred ninety four one, Shawn, if you want to
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back to our busy phones as we continue from the
DC Swamp, Greg in Arizona Next Sean Hannity Show, Greg,
how are you glad you called?
Speaker 11 (27:19):
I'm glad to be talking to you.
Speaker 10 (27:21):
And you may remember Jim Bohannon. He was my first
national video appearance a long time ago on the topic.
And I figure you might know that name because he
was an early version of you.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Shall we say, I call oh wow? An early version
of me? Was it?
Speaker 6 (27:37):
Like?
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Am I cloned? And I don't know it?
Speaker 10 (27:39):
Well? He was somebody who took on the tough stuff
and let people voice. And I feel you let people
do that. But I'm calling about urgency, and the urgency
is the bumper music you played was blinded by the light.
And the reason that the public doesn't understand what's going
on is the haters and those who want to hurt
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America and profiteer in America are better liars and better
haters at messaging. We have before now who knew what
a tariff was. We are not a linguistic nation. No
one knows what a tariff is. It's taxes and the
taxes that preclude us selling in another country. Mean we
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don't get jobs. I mean we don't get raises, and
so we become stagnant while others get rich. So part one,
people don't understand in simple personal terms how it's going
to hurt me. I might lose a job, my son
can't get a job, my daughter won't get a raise
because the money is going somewhere else. And then as
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we touch on besides the taxation, we talked about the
taxation and saving of money, we're not putting it in
consumer terms. We're not saying, missus Jones or mister Wilson,
you have to work ten days this year to pay
for research studies on garbage in Botswana. So how do
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And there's a whole laundry list of people that I
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obsession has been the issue of tariffs. We do have
a number of updates as we've gone through today, Scott
Bessent saying now seventy nations won't negotiate over Donald Trump's tariffs.
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European Union they're ready to negotiate with Trump for zero
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Uh.
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Today's word of the day is water. We need water
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Speaker 3 (01:50):
That's great swamp. That's what today's word of the day is.
What your host exactly? Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
The President, given that big presser with Prime Minister net
and Yahoo yesterday, talked about the EU's offer for zero
tariffs now is not enough.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Do I think all of this is one big negotiation that,
of course the media will never understand about Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Yes, I do. Here's the President.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
There been some mixed messages from your administration.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
You're talking about negotiations, and yet others in your administration
are saying that these.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
Tariffs are actually permanent?
Speaker 7 (02:24):
What is that?
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Actually?
Speaker 5 (02:25):
What?
Speaker 8 (02:25):
Well?
Speaker 9 (02:25):
It could be taken both people.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
True, they can be permanent tariffs and they can also
be negotiations because there are things.
Speaker 9 (02:33):
That we need beyond tariffs.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
We need open borders. You know, we almost had a
deal with China where we're going to open up China.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
It was almost done.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Some of you remember it during my first time, and
it was very disappointing. We ended up making a great
deal of fifty billion dollars worth of product. Was so
fifty billion you'd like that in Israel and I made
that deal, but it wasn't the deal that I wanted.
Speaker 9 (02:58):
They have your chairs, Well, the EU, no, it's not.
The EU has been very tough over the years. It
was I always say it.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Was formed to really do damage to the United States
and trade.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
That's the reason it was formed.
Speaker 8 (03:18):
It was formed with all of the countries from Europe,
I guess most of them, not all of them, but
most of them, and they formed together to create a
little bit of a monopoly situation, to create a unified
force against the United States betraye. We have a deficit
with the European Union of three hundred and fifty billion
dollars and it's going to disappear fast. And one of
(03:41):
the reasons, and one of the ways that that can
disappear easily and quickly is they're going to have to
buy our energy from us because they need it. They're
going to have to buy it from us.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
They can buy it.
Speaker 8 (03:50):
We can knock go up three hundred and fifty billion
dollars in one week. They have to buy and commit
to buy a like amount of energy, and.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
We have that.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
So the President, as you can hear, is in a
perpetual state of negotiations. Something in the media does not
want to ever understand about him anyway. Elaine Dozinski is
with US, senior director, head of the Center on Economic
and Financial Power at the Foundation for Defensive Democracies. Elaine,
welcome to the program. Look, the state run legacy media
(04:24):
mob as I call them, and Democrats, they don't want
to understand Donald Trump because they're in a perpetual state
of rage against him, and they bubble in fizz like
alca celter and water at the very sound of his voice. However,
the Donald Trump that I've known for thirty years is
a guy that is he negotiates everything is a negotiation
(04:45):
with him, And what he's saying to Europe is, hold
on a second, you all united, you created the European Union,
you all agreed on these massive tariffs against the US. Okay, Well,
he's willing to have the discussion about free and fair
trade with all of these countries, and he's willing to
have you know, if they want terris, it's going to
(05:06):
be reciprocal. But he's also saying there are other issues
that need to be negotiated financially.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
That's what I hear.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Yeah, so I think I think that's I think that's
more or less correct. What we have is a large
and persistent trade deficit with a number of countries. These
are countries like Germany, South Korea, and most importantly China,
where we're in something like an untenable situation and the
(05:33):
bill is coming due. And what I mean by that
is that we've become the consumer of last resort within
the global economy, which means we're absorbing a lot of
cheap imports, we're absorbing a lot of surplus savings, and
this dynamic has to shift. Okay, this is part of
the trade deficit surplus challenge that we face. Tariffs in
(05:56):
terms of where we are in this conversation, I agree
with you, we're in the first round, and I don't
know why people wouldn't understand that we're not in the
first round of a very detailed discussion about how to
reorient our engagement with countries around the world. And I
think what Donald Trump is saying is we're redefining the
(06:19):
concept of economic ally and part of the way that
we're doing that is by addressing UH tariffs and other
types of barriers. Right He's talking about non market barriers,
particularly with China, that also have an influence on the
competitiveness of the US. And the idea at the end
(06:40):
of the day is really to bring manufacturing home, particularly
for exquisite manufacturing, meaning high tech and fansteck, the thing
that we need for the economy now and in the future,
and do it with more of domestic labor and make
deals countries that make more sense for the US. So
(07:02):
there's lots of different aspects to the reorientation happening right now,
and the opening shot is tariffs.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Okay, So when the Treasury Secretary Scott Bissen confirms that
leaders from over seventy countries have approached the administration about
the tariff announcement. When you read the European Union now
all of a sudden is willing to talk about free
and fair trade and no tariffs at all whatsoever. This
(07:35):
is where I knew we'd always kind of land in
terms of there's no way that these countries are going
to put the tariffs that will impact their economies their
workers at risk because they want the right to rip
off America anymore. Because at the end of the day,
the citizens of their countries are going to be the
(07:56):
ones that are angry. They're the ones whose factories are
going to shut They're the ones who are going to
be losing jobs, and they're the ones that are going
to be negatively impacted. In other words, they need access
to our markets, period, end of sentence, and they're going
to have to make a deal to do it. That's
why this Wall Street freak out that we've been witnessing
(08:17):
has been meaningless to me, because I know how this
story's going to eventually end.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Yeah, So countries that run big surpluses again, Germany is
a good example of that. China a little bit different
story because their citizens have no say in anything. The
government just decides these are countries that can't respond to tariffs,
are tarifs with a reciprocal tariff why for exactly the
(08:43):
reasons you're saying, the costs are very difficult to bear.
They're trying to make up for the fact that they
have a lot of production, excess production that they're not
absorbing in their domestic economies. The better thing for them
to do, and I think this is ultimately where we
need to get with China because they're the biggest problem
(09:04):
in all of this, is to push them to make
more domestic investments, to push their own consumption levels up,
to fix the problem in the economy in China in particular,
so that they've become a domestic market that has real
consumption and where Chinese workers are making more. That's actually
good for America because we're having a hard time competing
(09:28):
against their non market practices, their surplus trade. It's actually
killing competitiveness and it has been for a while. So
this system has to be reoriented, it has to shift.
And what we've seen so far coming from this administration
is the shock that now gives us this opportunity to reorient.
(09:51):
The question now is how do we take this opportunity
and turn it into the right system, the right frame
for ensuring that we have even security economic prosperity in
this country.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Okay, so let's use Germany as an example. They have
a ten percent tariff on automobiles for against us. We
only have two and a half percent against them. But
then they got something called the value added TACKS of
that tax. That tax is a national sales tax, so
that's twenty percent. So for an American car to be
(10:25):
sold in Germany, that's a thirty percent rise in sticker price,
which makes it cost prohibitive for the people of Germany
if they even wanted to buy an American car, And
that's why they sell nearly ten German cars in America
to our one car that we sell there. That's not
fair to American auto manufacturers, it's not fair to UAW workers,
(10:48):
it's not fair to anybody. And the fact that this
is even complicated or controversial to some people is mind
numbing to me.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
Yeah. So these costs are different forms within the system,
and the VAT tax is certainly one of them. I
remember when I lived in Europe, I bought a car
and I paid thirty percent more than I would have
I had bought it in the US, but I didn't
have a choice because I had to buy a car.
So yes, these are barriers, and they make certain products
(11:17):
much more expensive, well all products in the case of
the VAT tax in the EU. So I think it's
right to look at these as barriers to what we
want to move towards, which is a freer ultimately a
freer trade environment where we can correct some of these
deficiencies in the system. But it's very difficult to get
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countries to move off things like the vattas. These are
sources of revenue that are pretty serious, particularly for the EU,
so that's not going to be an easy shift. On
the other hand, the fact that there's a conversation happening
or about to happen with the Europeans it's a really
good sign because if we can get a line with
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Europe and come to an agreement that is better for
us and certainly acceptable to them ultimately, and that includes
a formalizing a position against China, which again is the
biggest problem that we face right now, that would be
very powerful. So we might actually have a shot at
(12:21):
creating the kinds of alliances, economic alliances that are necessary
to push back against what should be a common enemy,
which is the crazy system of the Chinese Communist Party.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
All right, quick break, we'll come right back. We are
with Elaine Dozinski and we'll get to more with her
on the other side. We'll also get your calls coming
up this hour eight hundred and nine to four one
sean as we continue from the Swamp DC. Straight ahead,
we continue now with Elaine Dozinski, and we're talking about
(12:53):
the tariff situation. Do you remember when Angela Merkel was
lead Germany and Donald Trump handed her a white flag
and she's like, well, what is this. He goes, well,
you just surrendered. It's the white flag a surrender. This
actually happened. And she goes, what are you talking about?
(13:14):
And he goes, well, you just did a multi multi
billion dollar energy deal with Vladimir Putin.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
You surrendered.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
You know, the whole NATO alliance in large part was created,
as you know, a military alliance against the threat of Russia.
And now he's also saying, no, no, no, we want to
have part of this deal that you purchase American energy
because of the President's energy dominance goal and selling our
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energy to Europe would certainly be good. It would be
in their best national interest in country by country, I
think they'd be better off because they have a better
ally in the United States than Russia.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
Yeah. Absolutely, So that was a really a strategic mistake
on the part of Germany. Well, two things. Number one
that they shut down their nuclear facilities. I think they're
really regretting that. And number two that they have what
I call a dual pronged autocratic challenge. They've relied on
Russia for chief gas, and they relied on China as
(14:20):
a primary export market, and in both instances they're running
into big, big challenges. So yeah, it would.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Be I think it compromises them, it makes them beholden to,
you know, our top geopolitical foes. That's why when the
Chancellor did this, I thought it was a huge mistake.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Yeah, it's a real problem, particularly for German industry, right
because they have geared their supply chains in that way.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
All right, Elaine, we really appreciate it, Elaine Dozinski. Thank
you so much for joining us. Eight hundred ninefol one,
Shawn our number. As we continue, we're in DC, we're
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Speaker 3 (15:37):
You can't confuse people with that.
Speaker 10 (15:39):
You know.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
The best part when Linda shows up and I actually
see her face to face is and James can confirm this,
you know when she's at a distance. You know, there's
normal Linda, fun Linda, you know, witty Linda.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
I am always a good time.
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And then there's Linda Blair Linda when she's but it's
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You know what I did today? What did you did today?
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I have been on my hands and knees in this
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Work very hard. I never if I have a questioned
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That would be weird. No, that's not what I want.
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Okay, everybody shows you know the love languages you ever do.
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The yes minus service.
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I'm not here.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
I forget what mine is.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
It was too long ago that I have no idea
what it is. Oh my gosh, Vincent Michigan.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Vince, you're on the Sean Hannity Show.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
What's up, Vince Hey, Good afternoon, mister Hannity. It's a pleasure, sir.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
The pleasure is all mine. Glad you called.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
The reason for my call is I'm watching what's happening
to Elon Musk and I'm here for Michigan. And I
have a doge hat and I wear it everywhere I go.
I get dirty looks. People should be grateful for what
this guy is doing for our country and what he's
putting himself through. A guy that self made worth over
(17:06):
three hundred billion dollars. He doesn't need to do this.
He's doing it because of his love for the country,
and he's done.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
So many good things for the country, including rescuing astronauts,
helping people that don't have communications after hurricanes and wildfires.
You know, he provides starlink to hundreds of countries around
the world. I mean, what this guy is offering this
country by cutting out waste, broad and abuse. Well, what
(17:37):
has he done to engender this hatred, this rage? It's terrible,
you know. Now the threats against his life are absolutely
skyrocketed through the roof.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
It's insane, it's insane, It's not fair, And I think
that every single American should take a look at Will already. Well,
what does he saved us one hundred and forty billion dollars?
He's uncovered waste, fraud and abuse.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
You know what? And how lucky your weed that he
found it? You know you think about it.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Let me let me just tell you this because I
did this last night on TV and we talked about
it earlier in the show. There's a survey that just
came out. Fifty percent of leftists said that they could
somewhat justify an Elon Musk assassination. Fifty percent of leftists
know what's higher for Trump, It's fifty five percent said
(18:29):
that they could somewhat justify an assassination against Donald Trump.
Fifty eight percent of these lunatics on the left said
destroying a Tesla dealership is partially acceptable. I mean, this
is madness. That's why I did a whole special last
night on the rise of the radical Left.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
But here's what's crazy, right, You've got these people at
the protests and if you got like I had one
in my neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Just on Saturday, Oh boy, yeah, it was not a
good time. Did you show up?
Speaker 10 (18:57):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (18:57):
I was going food shopping, you know, and they parked
in the food shopping place, and you know, they're absurd.
But what's more absurd when you see them and people
come up to you and they're like, oh, are you
here for the Are here for the rally? No, I'm
not here for the rally. I'm here to buy eggs.
I'm like, like a normal person. Oh, there's a rally
(19:17):
around the corner. So I'm in the store and this
woman says to me, oh, did you see did you see?
I said, yeah, a bunch of libtards. It's the worst.
I'm like, and she's like, oh my god, I was
just there. I'm like, oh, so there you go. So
you know, I was like, you know, good luck with that.
They're more man at him than what he found out.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
I don't it does.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
It defies all common sense and logic. It is what
we went through and what they put Donald Trump through
for four years. The good news is this, and I
said this last night. If you look at politics, it's
usually about addition. Donald Trump brought people a new coalition together,
(19:59):
hard working men and women, more young people, more African Americans,
more Hispanic Americans, more women. It's about addition. Your ideas
bring people to the table. Listening to these idiots, you
know that wouldn't stand for the mothers of slain children
and holding up bingo cards and won't stand for a
(20:20):
young man with cancer, and you know, stand up for
the right of men to play women's sports and the
rights of trendy Aragua gang members over the safety of
Americans and you know, scream constitutional crisis. If God forbid,
you find hundreds of billions of dollars and ways for
auden abuse. They're not adding anybody with their slogans, their
(20:41):
bingo cards. They're singing and they're chanting, and you know,
dragging out of the grave. Neil Young and Joan baiez
I mean, it's just insane what they're doing.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Are you happy now?
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Yes, back to our busy phones. Appreciate Evince, thank you.
Let us say hi.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Will.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
On the same topic, John is in my free state
of Florida. I missed my free state. Hope you're holding
down the Ford today.
Speaker 11 (21:07):
Good afternoon, sir. First of all, make sure you wipe
your feet on the way out of that swamp.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Oh I'm doing more than wiping my feet, trust me.
Speaker 11 (21:18):
I was. You know. It goes back to you know,
George Floyd and all that stuff, all these quote unquote
free or peaceful protests like burning car dealerships and burning
cars and charging stations. Somebody's paying for this, and why
can't Pam Bondy get to the bottom of who's behind this,
(21:41):
like maybe George and Alex Soros and these other lefty
billionaires and put them in prison for insurrection, for causing
an insurrection.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
They are going to where the money is coming from.
They have said up publicly, if you're funding this, we
will hold you account. They've been very very clear.
Speaker 11 (22:02):
Why can't they make it public? Why can't they say
who's funding it?
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Because it's an investigation. You don't give away where you
are in the middle of an investigation. Oh, that wouldn't
make sense, right.
Speaker 11 (22:13):
I thought it was easy. I thought, you know, they
are these are the guys causing the chaos, causing the insurrection.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
They're going to deny it and say no, no, we
were just giving money for peaceful protest.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
They'll deny it.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
So it's probably going to be hard to tie them
to the actual violence, and they'll say, well, we're not
responsible with people that are violent or people that are
domestic terrorism, even though our money is facilitating it. But
you know, I could see a case being brought about
aiding in a betting, couldn't you.
Speaker 11 (22:45):
Oh? Absolutely, I'd like to see him all in jail,
including the Democrats.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Well, anyway, I will tell you it is sick, but
it shows the state of the sad state of the
Democratic Party. Anyway, John, thanks for holding down the fort.
I will be back in the free state of Florida tomorrow.
Can't wait to get that freezing here today in the swamp.
Kevin is in the swamp, Kevin, how are you glad
you called Sart? Glad you're with us?
Speaker 7 (23:10):
Hey, Sean, always a pleasure to talk to you, my friend.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (23:14):
Huh if people do not understand terras and the word
this being left out of here is reciprocal. Okay, China
has still not intellectual property. Then they tear iff what
they can't steal to me, Sean, it's like working all
week long and when you walk out with your paycheck,
(23:36):
when when you've had those you and I when we
were growing up, it's like given thirty percent to somebody
because you make a product that their people want. And
as the Democrats always say, well, terrorists don't work. If
terrorists don't work, Sean, then why doever countries have them
against aronums?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
You know, I wish I'd thought of that. It's so
it's so obvious what you just said. It's not an
argument I made up to this point. Yeah, why if
tariffs are so horrible, why are they putting them on us?
It's such a good point. And what and why do
people if we demand, why are people so willing to
accept for decade after decade after decade, the idea that
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they rip us off?
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Why are they willing to accept that? I'm not willing
to accept that.
Speaker 7 (24:23):
Okay, didn't George hw Bush give Chyna favorite Nate trade
nation back in nineteen eighty nine, and they have been
ripping us off every since. Take Japan. To even sell
a Haley Davison in Japan and I will station over there,
you pay a thirty to thirty five tariff.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
You pay over two hundred percent if we want to
American farmers want to sell their rice in Japan. Again,
these are supposed to be allied nations. You know, why
does Germany slap a thirty percent tax when you include
the ten percent tariff and the twenty percent fat tax
on us and and they get to sell almost ten
ten German cars in America versus our one car in Germany.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
You know what I know?
Speaker 1 (25:07):
With friends like these, who needs enemies? They're not being
friendly towards the US. And then to whine and bitch
and moan and complain the way they are as if
it's the worst thing that's ever happened in the world.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Just it's just blogoney.
Speaker 7 (25:20):
Not only that, Sean, Okay, take a take something like spam.
Spam cost three twenty seven cents in your average dollar
store to sell it in Asia. Guess what, it's eight
nine dollars over there because of the terriffs. Why are
we funding other people's economic prosperity. They list themselves as
(25:41):
developing economies and then basically care if everything that we
send to them. They have appetite for American products, but
then they care if a sport. And this is called free,
free and fair trade. Come on, man, please.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
And everyone whinds, bitches, moans, complains. I'm so sick of it.
And in the stock market Wall streeters, let me tell
you something about Wall Street. These guys on Wall Street,
and I've known a lot of them all those years
I wasted in New York, and I can tell you
that they make money when stocks go up, and they
make money when stocks go down. How many of them
(26:19):
might have shorted the market knowing the date that the
tariffs were going to be announced. It just it makes
you wonder. Do I know for sure? No, I don't,
but I will tell you I just don't put my
faith in Wall Street. I have said it during Democratic administrations.
I've set it during Republican administrations. Anyway, good call, Kevin,
(26:39):
appreciate it from our nation's capital.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
All right, quick break right back to our phones.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Eight hundred ninety four one, Shawn, if you want to
be a part of the program, as we continue up
next our final roundup and information overload hours. Let's get
(27:11):
back to our busy phones as we continue from the
DC Swamp, Greg in Arizona Next Sean Hannity Show, Greg,
how are you glad you called?
Speaker 11 (27:19):
I'm glad to be talking to you.
Speaker 10 (27:21):
And you may remember Jim Bohannon. He was my first
national video appearance a long time ago on the topic.
And I figure you might know that name because he
was an early version of you.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Shall we say, I call oh wow? An early version
of me? Was it?
Speaker 6 (27:37):
Like?
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Am I cloned? And I don't know it?
Speaker 10 (27:39):
Well? He was somebody who took on the tough stuff
and let people voice. And I feel you let people
do that. But I'm calling about urgency, and the urgency
is the bumper music you played was blinded by the light.
And the reason that the public doesn't understand what's going
on is the haters and those who want to hurt
(28:00):
America and profiteer in America are better liars and better
haters at messaging. We have before now who knew what
a tariff was. We are not a linguistic nation. No
one knows what a tariff is. It's taxes and the
taxes that preclude us selling in another country. Mean we
(28:24):
don't get jobs. I mean we don't get raises, and
so we become stagnant while others get rich. So part one,
people don't understand in simple personal terms how it's going
to hurt me. I might lose a job, my son
can't get a job, my daughter won't get a raise
because the money is going somewhere else. And then as
(28:44):
we touch on besides the taxation, we talked about the
taxation and saving of money, we're not putting it in
consumer terms. We're not saying, missus Jones or mister Wilson,
you have to work ten days this year to pay
for research studies on garbage in Botswana. So how do
we make this? And you're beautiful when you talk about
(29:07):
the things you endorse, which I know you believe in
your integrity. You help me see it, feel it, taste it,
and touch it.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
I appreciate it. And by the way, I don't endorse
products I don't believe in.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
I don't do it.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
And there's a whole laundry list of people that I
you know, that have wanted to advertise and I'm like,
it's not something I believe in.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
And I just won't do it.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
And thankfully I work and partner with a company that
respects my decision. Because if you don't have integrity at
the end of the day, what do you have left?
I mean, when you're on your death ped you know,
what are you going to be thinking about? Are you
going to be thinking about, Oh, I wish I lived
a more immoral life, or are you going to be
wishing maybe you are a better person. I think it's
(29:48):
pretty obvious. I'll give you the well, we got to run.
We're up on a heart break here. Eight hundred and
ninety four one shown is a number. If you want
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Is Washington now, our poor friends in Israel. And by
the way, isn't it strange that the first foreign leader
to visit Donald Trump was Prime Minister net And Yaho,
and Prime Minister net And Yaho was back at the
White House yesterday, And isn't it interesting that our biggest
and best bombers happened to be very close to Iran
(30:33):
right now and the President is given a small window
for Iran to negotiate
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