Prices & Paychecks, President's rally, Prof. Nick Giordano

On Tuesday, Rich discusses President Trump's rally in Pennsylvania regarding the economy. Then, unchecked immigration causes more problems than meets the eye. Plus, reaction from Prof. Nick Giordano.

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Your host, Rich Valdez.

Speaker 4 (00:26):
What's up, America. I am Rich Valdes Valdest with an
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You're liberty loving Latino amigo, seventeen miles away from Madison
Square Garden here in New York City. Blessed to be
on this microphone with each and every one of you.
And listen, Familia. It's December ninth, twenty twenty five. I'm
channeling some of that Puerto Rican sunshine that I wish

(00:49):
I was feeling today, even though on a freezing day
like today, it was fourteen degrees last night. But whether
we're you know, putting on that skull cap or putting
on a beautiful Hawaiian shirt because you're having fun in
the sun, whatever it is you're doing tonight in America,
I want you to pull up a chair or turn
the volume up in your car. And I want to

(01:10):
get into a bunch of things because we're hitting the
headlines with you know, a little energy, not as much
energy as usual because I went for a blood test today.
I actually donated blood, and man, I am so exhausted.
That stuff wipes you out. When they told me you're
gonna feel tired, I didn't believe him, but now I
feel it.

Speaker 6 (01:26):
I do.

Speaker 4 (01:27):
Anyway, bumble, let's get into this. I want to kick
off with some politics. L Trompito den Aldis Magnus, the
forty fifth and forty seventh President of these United States.
ED PRESIDENTE is firing on all cylinders today. He's in Pennsylvania,
Scranton area, Mount Pocono kicking off an affordability messaging tour
at a rally in the Mount Pocono area, defending his

(01:51):
rock solid economic plan and tackling those voter concerns head on.
And that's what he's got to do. We need to
turn this messaging thing around. He's reassuring everybody that the
economy is very healthy and we're well on our way
to the comeback that he's been talking about, pushing back
on what critics are saying has been this and that
and whatever. You know, with classic e Trompito fire. So

(02:14):
good for him, and you know how it is. He's
got the crowd roaring, going louder and louder and louder.
It's like a Phillies game over there anyway. And you
know me, I'm not a big fan of the Phillies.
But President Trump was warning that overturning his tariffs would
be America's biggest detriment. And you know he put he

(02:36):
put forward a pretty tough litmus test for the next
FED chair to keep things strong.

Speaker 5 (02:42):
Now.

Speaker 4 (02:43):
He also talked about energy, He talked about the economy, jobs, incomes,
and he also talked about ill han Omar. But the
big takeaway that I wanted to start with from President
Trump to was what he had to say about Christmas.

(03:03):
It was one of his opening lines saying, hey, look,
we get to celebrate Christmas in America again.

Speaker 7 (03:10):
Listen to this, but let me begin by wishing each
and every one of you are very merry Christmas, Happy
New Year, all of that stuff. Remember when I started
in twenty fifteen, I made my first speech and I said,
we're going to bring back Christmas.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
Remember, they wanted to the.

Speaker 7 (03:31):
Radical left wanted to get word of them. They wanted
to get rid of the word Christmas. I said, I
don't think that's going to work out, And we did it,
and now everybody's saying Merry Christmas again.

Speaker 4 (03:43):
President Trump trying to bring it back, keeping it patriotic
and all that fun stuff. But at the same time,
there's other breaking news going on in America. He talks
about il han Omar, her brother potentially marrying her brother.

Speaker 7 (03:56):
Do we have any individuals from Somalia in the girl,
please raise your hand. That's for Minnesota. You know, that's
called the Great Big Minnesota Scam with one of the
dumbest governors ever in history. I love this elin Omar,
whatever the hell her there is, with the little shoe,
the little turban, I love her. She comes in there's

(04:19):
nothing but bitch. She's always complained. She comes from her
country where I mean, it's considered about the worst country
in the world.

Speaker 8 (04:29):
Right.

Speaker 7 (04:30):
They have no military, they have no nothing, They have
no parliament. They don't know what they hell the word
parliament means. They have nothing. They have no police.

Speaker 3 (04:38):
They police themselves.

Speaker 7 (04:40):
They kill each other all the time.

Speaker 8 (04:42):
I love it.

Speaker 7 (04:42):
She comes to our country and she's always complaining about
the constitution allows me to do this. The concert, we
would to get her to hell out. She married her
brother in order to get in, right, she married her brother.
Can you imagine if Donald Trump married a sister, beautiful
She's a beautiful person. If I married my sister to

(05:06):
get my citizenship, do you think I'd last for about
two hours? Or it would be something less than that.
She married her brother to get in. Therefore she's here illegally.
She should get the hell out, Throw the hell out.

Speaker 4 (05:19):
She does nothing but complain, as well as the economy,
how people are earning a living, taking some shots at
Joe L. Baboso Biden and talking about how positive the

(05:42):
future looks for America over the next couple of years.

Speaker 7 (05:46):
Together, we're repairing four years of disaster by the radical
left Democrats in Congress and by the worst president.

Speaker 3 (05:53):
In the history of our country. He is, I mean,
it's not a question about that.

Speaker 7 (05:57):
It's just the worst president in the history of our country.
The damage he thank you very much so, damage he's
done to our.

Speaker 4 (06:04):
Country is something we can never forget.

Speaker 7 (06:08):
After just ten months, our border is secure, our spirit
is restored. Inflation is stopped, wages or prices are down.
Our nation is strong, America is respected again, and the
United States is.

Speaker 4 (06:23):
Backed now keeping things moving. I want to go over
to Miami. You know, I like miamibm man e the Iamiami.
Remember that Will Smith song? I love that one. Anyway,

(06:46):
Welcome to Miami. Miami has now seen the first Democrat
mayor it's seen since nineteen ninety eight. Yep, who saw
that one coming? I certainly did not. I guess I
wasn't paying enough attention. But another Democrat wins and another
big city taking it from Republican control. Francis Suarez being

(07:09):
the previous mayor of Miami. Here's what it sounded like
in the room for the mayor elect, Eileen Higgins. Well,
you get the point. Eileen, Eileen, Eileen. They love Eileen,

(07:30):
and this Democrat is now the first winner of a
mayoral race in nearly thirty years. Not only is this
a pretty big loss for Republicans, I would say because
President Trump flipped Miami from being relatively blue, I mean
red leaning, but blue, to being red in particular Miami
and Dade County. Anyway, this woman, she's now in control.

(07:52):
She was the candidate, and now she is the mayor.
Eileen Higgins, the city's first woman mayor. Higgins, who was
sixty one years old, beat out the Trump backed Republican
candidate Emilio Gonzales in the city's runoff election tonight Tuesday night,
and will now become the city's first Democrat mayor since

(08:12):
nineteen ninety eight, as well as the city's first ever
woman mayor, saying, quote, tonight, the people of Miami made history,
she said in a statement that that was released by
her campaign shortly after the results were announced. And this

(08:36):
victory again big upset for the GOP got lawmakers across
the country who rallied behind Gonzales, as the election became
seen as a test of voter reaction for President Trump,
a litmus test, if you will, a bell Weather and
this is the result. I think we're going to see
a little bit more of this. There's going to be people,
you know, wanting to counter balance what's going on in

(08:57):
the White House by going in the other direction. I
think we're going to see that up until people are
so comfortable and please making money, putting money in their
pockets and being in a better financial situation that they're
gonna be forced to sat right, let's make a deal.
But in the meantime, Miami's got a new mayor. Unbelievable anyway, folks,

(09:24):
thanks for putting up with me. I know I'm a
little sluggish today because I donated blood, but I've got
more to come. Straight ahead. Professor Nick Giordano, you know
him from the Fox News channel and from his courses. Right,
he's an actual tenured professor at stuff a Community College.
He's going to be joining me straight ahead as well.
So keep it locked right here. I'm Rich Valdez. This

(09:45):
is America, all right, America. Welcome back Rich Valdesk. Valdesk

(10:19):
with ansk at Rich Valdesk, keeping your company tonight, and
I want to direct your attention to some of the
conversation that's going on regarding immigration as well as the economy, because, man,
even CNN is admitting that we've got a lot of
progress being made in the area of gas prices. Gas
prices going down, even CNN saying that these are some

(10:39):
of the lowest prices we've seen in I think the
last four years. Check this out.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
Some states seeing gas prices below three dollars for the
first time in years.

Speaker 8 (10:48):
Let's get the CNAs.

Speaker 4 (10:49):
Matt Egan for the good news.

Speaker 1 (10:51):
For the first time in four and a half years,
gas prices are averaging three dollars a gallon national in
Court in TRIPLEA, down by seventh cents in just the
past week. Gas prises were low a year ago as well,
but they're even cheaper now. This is encouraging to see
because late last month there was a period where gas

(11:12):
prices were actually higher this year than last year, but
that has reversed again and now we've just fractions of
a penny away from breaking below.

Speaker 3 (11:20):
Three dollars a gallon.

Speaker 1 (11:21):
Now, as you mentioned, we've got twenty states across the
country where the average is actually less than two seventy
five a gallon, including North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Iowa, Wisconsin,
and Colorado as well. Certainly nice to see this.

Speaker 4 (11:37):
Now he's about to explain exactly why this is happening,
and it's exactly what I call the America First El
Trompito policies. Check this out.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
It all comes down, of course, to oil prices.

Speaker 7 (11:49):
Right.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
Oil prices are about fifty nine dollars a barrel this morning,
you look back in history on December one, three years ago,
we're looking at eighty one dollars a barrel for oil,
sixty seven dollars even last year, so significantly cheaper. And
that's because right now, supply of oil continues to outpace demand.

(12:12):
It's US supply. Production of the US is at all
time highs. It's higher than last year, but only a
little bit higher. OPEK is the big story though, right
so Saudi read o OPEC. They are ramping up production
substantially this year. They've signaled that they plan to pause
those output hikes next year, but for now, look, this
is a good story. When it comes to the affordability crisis. Gasoline,

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it's relatively cheap.

Speaker 4 (12:36):
So that's again CNN admitting exactly what El Trumpito was saying.
And it's not just me saying it, it's also Americans
all across the country. Newsmax national correspondent Mike Carter was
out and about in the middle of the country and
he spoke with a few voters about their thoughts on
Trump's economy, gas prices, and energy overall.

Speaker 5 (12:57):
Listen to this, President Trump has addressed a lot of
my concerns. Brought the price of gas down, No two
ways about it.

Speaker 7 (13:07):
When it comes to the economy, how would your greatest
job performance?

Speaker 5 (13:10):
Fantastic? Confident that the.

Speaker 7 (13:12):
Tariff policies are working. Yes, how's the troup economy treating you?

Speaker 4 (13:17):
It's doing fine. It's been rough under Biden.

Speaker 9 (13:20):
Things don't happen overnight.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
I mean it takes time.

Speaker 4 (13:23):
It took time to bring it down, It's going to
take time to bring.

Speaker 3 (13:25):
It back up again.

Speaker 9 (13:26):
I think the terriff policies will come into effect and
start to work because it's going to bring manufacturing jobs
back to the US. It's going to help stable the
middle class and rebuild the middle class.

Speaker 5 (13:37):
Tourism is very important here and there's a lot of
people that work in the service industry. I am the
owner of an Italian restaurant, and I'm glad that my
employees will have the benefit of no tax on tips.

Speaker 4 (13:56):
And Treasury Secretary Scott bess And speaking at the rally
last night as well, informing all of the attendees on
exactly why he expects incomes to go up. Listen to this.

Speaker 10 (14:08):
Thanks to President Trump's efforts on deregulation, America's businesses are
able to build and innovate, innovate again. Thanks to his
one Big, Beautiful Bill, Americans are taking home more of
their hard earned income as a result of no tax
and tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on social Security,

(14:30):
and deductibility of auto loans for American made cars American
made cars.

Speaker 5 (14:39):
And thanks to his.

Speaker 10 (14:42):
Heroic efforts and trade, trillions of dollars in new investment
have flowed into the United States and our workers are
finally able to compete on an even playing field. These
these policies, in combination, are driving a boost in production

(15:03):
that will lower the prices of goods for all American
in twenty twenty six, while also creating jobs and increasing incomes.
This is the formula for prosperity, Lowering prices, raising incomes,
and every component of the Trump economic agenda is in

(15:27):
pursuit of these twin goals. Under President Trump, scarcity is
giving way to prosperity. The benefits of his agenda are
now rippling through the economy, and those ripples will become
waves as his agenda gathers force. In twenty twenty six,
President Trump has put a decisive end to the three eyes.

(15:51):
I would add a fourth one, insanity. Under Joe Biden insanity.
Our great president is ushering in a golden age economy
by making America affordable again.

Speaker 4 (16:10):
That is Secretary Scott Besson saying, lowering prices and keeping
more of your paycheck. I think it's a great message.
The question is our American's going to believe it. I
think it's on the way. I do believe the steps
are in place. We're going to see things begin to
happen in i'd say close to the summertime. We're going
to see a lot more economic activity. You're just still
digging out of a hole, and it takes a while

(16:31):
to dig out of holes. But that's what was going
on in that. I don't know it was like a rally,
but it was, you know, the comeback tour for the
president's economic policies. And excellent to see Ed Trompito back
on the stage the way he was.

Speaker 8 (16:45):
Now.

Speaker 4 (16:45):
Something else I wanted to say was I'm going to
get into this a little bit more with Professor Nick
Jordana when he joins us in a little bit, he's
calling into the show. So keep it luck right here.
I'm rich Aldesesk.

Speaker 3 (16:54):
This is America.

Speaker 11 (16:58):
This is America, but grace or primal norods Bara Rich
Valdez e s os America Awara.

Speaker 4 (17:12):
All right, and he goes welcome back Rich Valdez at
Rich Valdez with an s on all of the social media.
And I want to get into a number of things here.
One of the things I want to get into is immigration. Right,
we're going to talk about immigration a little bit. I
want to talk about how jas mc crockett says that
committing crimes doesn't make you a criminal. Committing crimes just

(17:33):
means that you committed a crime. You're just doing crime, right,
Does it make you a criminal? I think that's pretty crazy.
But this is what the congresswoman was saying when she
was on on Uh let me see where was she? Well,
I'm gonna call it TV for now, but looks like
a press conference, all right, stand by, all right, queue
up that crocket and let her rip when you got
it ready? All right, go ahead. It looks like it

(17:55):
was on the Getting Better podcast. Thank you.

Speaker 12 (17:57):
I understood what was kind kind of pushing them there,
And so I do want people to know that just
because someone has committed a crime, it doesn't make them
a criminal. That is completely different being a criminal.

Speaker 4 (18:12):
The host is so profoundly moved by this statement. M
I understand you. You're interviewing somebody and you want to
give them a lot of leash, right, a lot of opportunity,
a lot of leeway to speak. This was not very profound.
This was kind of silly, very surface level thinking.

Speaker 12 (18:27):
No, it's more so about your mindset. Committing a crime
can come for a lot of different reasons.

Speaker 4 (18:38):
Now, of course, Jasmine Crockett is part of an entire
group of people that just believes that this is how
things are supposed to work. But somebody that's torching il
han Omar and illegal immigration is the president himself, and
not too far behind him Steven Miller Stephen Miller was
on the Fox News channel and saying, look, we have

(19:00):
some problems in our country that are directly related to immigration,
and we blame it on so many other things. This
is pretty profound. Listen to this.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
Conditions that they left over and over and over again,
and we mask the impact of immigration every public policy
issue we discuss. We talk about test scores, will if
you subtract immigration out of test scores, all of a sudden,
our test scores skyrocket if you subtract immigration out of healthcare,
all of a sudden, we don't have nearly the size

(19:33):
of the healthcare challenges our country faces. If you subtract
immigration out of public safety, all of a sudden, we
don't have violent crime in so many of our cities.
Issue after issue, we talk about these things that just
they just happened to us. The schools just suddenly fail
by the crime just suddenly explodes, the deficit just suddenly skyrockets.
These are a result of social policy choices that we

(19:54):
made through immigration.

Speaker 4 (19:57):
Really well put, and he nailed it right there, but
he was speaking specifically in the context of Somalian immigration,
and I think we have a broader clip of that.
If we could find that, that would be great, because
that's a clip within a clip. But I thought it
was really important to play the full context of the
clip because for me, it gives I guess, just an

(20:19):
added layer of context that I think is necessary to
fully grasp this point. You got it, all right, go ahead,
play to take So you.

Speaker 2 (20:29):
See with a lot of these immigrant groups, not only
is the first generation unsuccessful against Somaldia as a clear
example here, not only is the first generation unsuccessful, but
you see persistent issues in every subsequent generation. So you
see consistent high rates of welfare use, consistent high rates
of criminal activity, consistent failures to assimilate. But this shouldn't

(20:51):
be a surprise, Will It's just common sense. If Somaldians
cannot make Somalia successful, why would we think that the
track will be any different in the United States? Go
third world country by third world country. No one's saying, Look,
there are people all over the world that are great people.
But you look at the society. If Libya keeps failing,

(21:13):
if the Central African Republic keeps failing, if Samalia keeps failing. Right,
if these societies all over the world continue to fail,
you have to ask yourself. If you bring those societies
into our country and then give them unlimited, free welfare,
what do we think is going to happen. You're going
to replicate the conditions that they left over and over

(21:35):
and over again. And we mask the impact of immigration
every public policy issue we discuss, we talk about test scores.
Will if you subtract immigration out of test scores, all
of a sudden, our test scores skyrocket. If you subtract
immigration out of healthcare, all of a sudden, we don't
have nearly the science of the healthcare challenges our country faces.

(21:57):
If you subtract immigration out of public say, all of
a sudden, we don't have violent crime in so many
of our cities. Issue after issue, we talk about these
things that just they just happened to us. The schools
just suddenly fail VI, the crime just suddenly explodes, the
deficit just suddenly skyrockets. These are a result of social
policy choices that we made through immigration.

Speaker 4 (22:19):
Now, as you heard the larger point here, I agree
with the statement that he's saying right, that these are
directly related to what's going on. Yes, the social policy
decisions that have been made through immigration are impacting. This
the part that I guess I'll call into question, not
saying I disagree, because I think there's a point there.
I just don't know if it's an absolute point in

(22:41):
saying that if they failed in X, Y and Z country,
what makes you think that they're not going to fail here.
There's countless stories of that people that fled Mussolini from
Italy and came to the United States because they don't
want to have fascism. These people came to America and
they flourished. Many of them, right, they didn't come here
and become a drag on society. There are a number
of people groups that I could think of over the

(23:01):
years that just think of Asians, right, think of so
many Asians Koreans in particular. Do you does anybody here
consider Asians a drag on our society that they don't contribute?
Of course not right. I can't say I've ever seen
a even a homeless Asian person, Right. They take care
of their own They have their entire neighborhoods. They have

(23:22):
very nice homes, at least where I live. That's how
it is. So my point here, I don't know if
that is something that I can get behind, right, that
part of it saying if they couldn't make it in
their own country, how could they make it here? And
if we keep allowing that to happen. I think the
United States has the choice that it's going to make
whether we allow immigration or not. And I agree with

(23:43):
the point that if we're going to allow immigration, it
should be people that are going to help America be better. Right,
If we don't have the best doctors, lawyers, engineers, coders, whatever,
and we can get one from another part of the world,
then we should get them and it should be based
on this merit. But of course there is the evalence
part of this, where people say, I'm trying to escape
a country that is trying to kill me, and for

(24:05):
years and years and years, we have allowed these people
into our country for whatever reason. Now I think most
people are in agreement that we can do that, but
it can't exceed x amount, right, So it's always like
a million people a year that we allowed into the
country legal immigration. I think that's a fair number, and
I would even vote for cutting it in half or

(24:26):
even three quarters. My point is, I don't know that
we can just throw the baby out with the bathwater.
I don't know that we can get rid of benevolence.
Maybe we can pause it and say I'm sorry, if
they're killing you in your country, try Canada, try here,
try there. We can do that because we're at capacity,
because we can't help. But to make the case one
way or the other that if you come from a

(24:48):
bad country, if you were unsuccessful there, you'll be unsuccessful here,
I think is an argument that's going to be tough
to make personally. I just think it's going to be
a tough one. If people could do well in their
home country, then they wouldn't leave, they wouldn't come to America.
They would be experiencing the American dream wherever they are,
and we all know that's not the case. There are
certain opportunities that exist in America that don't exist anywhere else.

(25:09):
Free speech among them, right, and the ability to really
engage in the free market. So that alone, I think
undercuts that first part of the argument. But I understand it.
I understand that you're not going to go and bring
the worst of the worst, the poorest people, the least literate.
You don't want to bring those people here and expect
that that's not going to become a drag on your
educational system and overall lower all of the gains that

(25:32):
you're trying to make as a society. That makes perfect
sense as well. Anyway, I just wanted to share that
with you. Chew on that for a minute. We're coming
back continuing the conversation. More to come straight ahead. I'm
rich Valdes.

Speaker 3 (25:43):
This is America, this is America.

Speaker 11 (25:51):
He's brown, he's bald, and he's.

Speaker 4 (25:53):
Breaking it down. Oh he still has some what's his pay?
Rich Veldes?

Speaker 1 (25:59):
All right?

Speaker 4 (25:59):
I mean he goes, welcome back. It's Rich Valdez southest
with an at Rich Valdez on all of the social media,
happy to be here with you. And I want to
get into this with a clip of El Trumpito and
all this. Magnus the forty fifth president of these United States.
He's also the forty seventh president, in case anybody missed it,
and he is in Scranton, Pennsylvania, home of Joe El

(26:22):
Baboso Biden, and he had this to say about the
Biden economy versus the current state of affairs in the
Trump economy. Check this out.

Speaker 7 (26:33):
But under Biden, real wages plummeted by three thousand dollars
a year. Under Trump, the typical factory worker has already
seen their wages increased by more than thirteen hundred dollars.
And that's in just a few months. And for construction workers,
this one eight hundred dollars up versus three thousand, five

(26:57):
hundred dollars down. And I think their number is wrong.

Speaker 3 (26:59):
It's much than that.

Speaker 7 (27:01):
For miners. Do we love miners?

Speaker 3 (27:02):
I love miners.

Speaker 7 (27:04):
I don't know how they do it going ten thousand
feet under the ground.

Speaker 3 (27:08):
And they wouldn't trade jobs with me.

Speaker 7 (27:11):
If I gave them a beautiful, magnificent penthouse in the
middle of Manhattan where I used to live. If I
gave them the most beautiful penthouse, they wouldn't take it.
That'd rather go ten thousand feet underground and Dick, that's
what they want for miners their wages one up, three thousand,
three hundred dollars.

Speaker 4 (27:32):
We know what happened under Biden, and Professor Nick Jordano
is our guest. Professor Nick Gjordano's professor of political science
at Suffolk Community College. I appreciate it, and Professor I'm
laughing because the video is going to replay and Trump
make some of the funniest faces. It caught me off guard.
But uh, Professor Nick Jordano, I know that you know.
While you're there teaching your students about political science at

(27:54):
Suffolk County Community College, where you are a tenured professor
and the host of the PAS Report, one of the
things that I'm sure you guys get into is what
President Trump is talking about right now, which is the
differences in how the economy is being handled now versus Biden.
I'm gonna make an observation and then you chime in
and you know, take it where you want to take it.
But I feel like I remember Trump one point zero,

(28:17):
and when he came in, he made some changes, a
lot of regulation, red tape cutting, a lot of you know,
let's lower these tax rates, and that stuff had a
pretty dramatic and immediate impact. Now he's back in office
and he's making a lot of the same moves, but
the impact has not been as dramatic or as immediate

(28:39):
in my estimation. But I think that's because of the
dire state of affairs that we were in right prior
to Trump coming into office. We didn't have the inflation
problem that we had during the Biden years, and I
think that's what they're reporting. So what's being reported, in
my opinion, is never as bad as it actually is.
Nick Jordana, Well, there's a few things going on.

Speaker 8 (28:59):
So when President Trump first came into office after President Obama,
the economy was improving from the two thousand and eight
two thousand and nine recession in the housing market crash,
and President Trump there was a rule that he implemented
for every one new regulation, three regulations had to be eliminated,
and that did a dramatic impact to really skyrocket the economy,

(29:22):
but more important to skyrock rocket people's incomes. Income levels
went from on average to fifty six thousand dollars up
to sixty four thousand dollars, and that's a big increase.
In fact, what we saw during the first Trump administration
was the largest increase in middle class wages over executive pay,

(29:45):
and that was the first time that happened in a
long time. And so he had a really successful economy
than COVID comes. Then President Biden incomes and everything gets destroyed.
But the narrative is what's so powerful. Because President Biden,
the media would not report how bad inflation was. People
were feeling it. They were feeling it when they were

(30:06):
going to the grocery stores, when they were filling up
their gas tanks, but the media was Inflation's not a problem,
everything's fine. You had the Treasury Secretary talking about how
inflation was transitory, it was only going to be for
a little while, but it ended up being all four years.
President Trump comes into office and literally within about three
weeks of him being in office, the media is going

(30:29):
on about egg prices and the price of milk. And
that shows you, though, how powerful the narrative is because
now that the media is reporting it, people are saying, yeah,
the economy is terrible and things are getting worse and
we are struggling. Now, is it really that bad? Well,
the numbers yes and no. It's a mixed bag. People

(30:51):
are spending more. This Black Friday was historic record levels
of spending. People are a little sour on the economy,
but we do see gas price is falling. However, people's
incomes are not going up and that's a big part
of a problem. And the messaging from the Trump team
they fell victim to the same what Biden did. You

(31:12):
can't tell people the economy is great, everything's working, it's
the strongest economy ever if people don't feel that way
when they go to the grocery stores. So in the
last week you've seen President Trump and his team make
the decision that they have to change the messaging. They
have to start talking about the economy and how the
economy is improving, but how they still feel that the

(31:36):
people are in pain, but things are going to improve
that we're going to start seeing a rapid improvement beginning
January first, as the tax cuts become permanent. No tax
on tips, no tax on overtime, we're seeing more investments
coming into the United States, so they're hoping to break
round on a lot of projects at the beginning of

(31:56):
next year that creates more jobs. These are higher paying jobs,
and that's the messaging because let's face it, at the
end of the day, when it comes to elections, a
lot of times it comes down to the economy. When
you look at Mayer Mundani, his message was all about
the economy. He wants to implement socialist policies to fix it.

(32:17):
But he was speaking to people and how people feel,
and that's why people voted for him. The Republicans need
to take the page from President Trump and start speaking
about how we feel your pain. But here is what
we're doing to fix this economy, to make the economy
work for all Americans. And I think that's what they're

(32:38):
starting to do.

Speaker 4 (32:40):
Yeah, I agree, And I think that's why Susie Wiles today,
White House Chief of Staff, saying President Trump is going
to be out there in twenty twenty six campaigning just
like he did in twenty twenty four. And I think
that's the only way you hold this thing together.

Speaker 8 (32:52):
Right.

Speaker 4 (32:53):
We saw President Trump campaigning from Afar. You know, saying
things like, well, I'd rather have a bad Democrat than
than a communist and things like that. With the New
York election, look at how that went. He gave a
video endorsement to a Jack Chidarelli in New Jersey. Look
at how that went right. So I feel like these endorsements,

(33:13):
when he does them and he's there and he shows
up and he campaigns with them, they do phenomenally well.
But when he says, yeah, yeah, that's my guy, and
he does it from afar and he doesn't show up,
it doesn't have the same gravitas. So I think that's
part of the issue. And the other part of the issues.
I think you're right with the messaging. It's difficult to
tell people things you're going good when they're saying, hold
on a second. You know, I just had to cut

(33:34):
back on this. I just had to cut back on that.
Today I saw while scream screaming, streaming television is growing
by leaves and bounds. All types of streaming services are growing, However,
some of them. Most people in a recent survey said
that they're cutting back on some of their streaming TV
expenses because they need to cut back on a monthly basis.

(33:56):
Now I did just go and get some gas, and
it is cheap, even premium is cheap. Not cheap, but
cheaper than it's been. Right, It used to cost me
one hundred bucks to fill up. Now I think I'm
filling up at like seventy, so a big difference. And
I feel that in my pocket and that's great. But
is it enough yet? And I feel like the answer

(34:16):
to that is no, it's not enough yet. I think
more people need to feel that trickled down effect, if
you will now. And I don't like the term trickle down,
but I wanted to throw it in there. I want
to play another.

Speaker 8 (34:26):
Game, But you're right, I mean people need to feel
it more. I think that's pretty much the main thing. Yes,
gas prices are going down, but they need to feel
their incomes going up as well. And once that happens,
I do believe that Republicans will have a chance in
the midterm elections. If it doesn't happen, they're not gonna
have a chance. But you said something that's critical. You said,

(34:49):
you know, Trump's got to be out there, and that's true.
The only thing that would concern me if I'm Republicans
is people come out and they vote for Trump. And
we know that there is is a whole bunch of
Trump supporters in the United States, but that doesn't necessarily
translate into Republican votes. And the Republican members in the
House and the Senate need to wake up because they

(35:11):
need to start pushing through legislation to cut back on regulations,
to help retool this economy, to make the economy work
for the middle class, to make it more enticing for
businesses to invest. If Republicans aren't doing those things, it's
not really going to be helpful in the midterm elections

(35:31):
because historically, whatever party is in power normally loses the
midterm elections. That the only two exceptions to the rule
was Franklin Delano Roosevelt and George W. Bush after nine
to eleven.

Speaker 4 (35:44):
So how does that stand for you now? And I
agree that that's what history has shown us. We also
have forty members of Congress that are not coming back.
They've announced they're retiring, not just MTG but another thirty
nine of them. With numbers like that going on, it
makes me wonder how much campaigning can Trump do and

(36:06):
can he carry all of this with a bunch of
new people Most of these Republican seats are pretty safe,
but there's a handful that aren't, and I think we're
probably going to lose one or two. From the way
it looks right now. It could be drastically wrong on that,
and it could be more, and I hope it's not.
But something that you said I thought made a lot
of sense, and I guess more of an economics question

(36:29):
is what do you think is slowing down the investment
that we're seeing in AI, the investment that's being made,
the leaps and bounds of growth that we're seeing with cryptocurrency.
What's it going to take for all of these things
that Trump is laying the groundwork on to actually materialize

(36:51):
and become real wages for more Americans so that people
don't feel the way they do well.

Speaker 8 (36:57):
It's going to take a little time, because it's not
like just taking one of the factories that exists in
Orbany that's been closed down for fifty years and now
we're just going to fire it up again. A lot
of the factories that we're talking about are technologically dependent.
These are factories that are rebuilding microchips, and so there's

(37:17):
certain specifications that need to be built it gets very complicated.
There are rules that are regulations that you have to follow. Now,
President Trump, what I think he's going to do and
what I think he has done. He cut through a
lot of the red tape with Lee Zelden as the
EPA director, waiving certain rules that exist. But he still
has to deal with local governments and state government regulations

(37:39):
that he doesn't have the authority to override, and that's
where you can see slowdowns. At the same time, it
takes time to build these facilities, So a lot of
times when presidents put in policies, they may not see
the benefits during their administration, or they may seem towards
detail end of their administration. President Trump only has four years.

(38:00):
He can't run again, and so it creates a situation
where he wants to get this done as quickly as possible.
Let's let's face it, President Trump loves to pray he
is the president wants. If anyone could speed this process up,
it's certainly him. But I do believe that you will

(38:23):
start seeing wage increases next year, and if people do
feel wage increases. The way I look at it, I
can't predict who's going to win the House and the
Senate next year. It's too far out. What I think
is that the President of the United States and the
Republican Party has eight months. Eight months. If people don't
become more optimistic towards the economy, if people don't feel

(38:45):
that their personal economies are improving, Republicans will be toast
in the midterm elections. If people feel that the economy
is getting better, Republicans will likely keep the House and
the Senate. But they have eight months to get start
getting movement on this stuff.

Speaker 4 (39:01):
Now, we talked about the technological stuff, and it makes
a lot of sense, and I agree with you. I
think a lot of that stuff is going to come
home to roost now in twenty twenty six. I think
we're going to see a lot of growth there. The
other part of the growth I think we're going to
see is the drilling.

Speaker 8 (39:15):
Right.

Speaker 4 (39:15):
We've been drilling. We've been rolling back the blocks on
leases on federal land. A lot of that's been happening,
and I think we're going to see the outcomes of that.
But President Trump spoke about that today in Scranton, Pennsylvania,
and Professor Nick Jordan, I want you to listen to
this and then tell me what you think. Stand by,
we're right.

Speaker 7 (39:32):
Now drilling more oil that we've ever done ever before.
Prices are way down. We just had four states who
was just reported that force States had one dollar and
ninety nine cents a gall first saw moving.

Speaker 3 (39:51):
We're right now drilling more.

Speaker 4 (39:53):
Now we're drilling, thank you for the repeat, sir, thank you,
and drilling energy. That's I guess it's the second phase
or an additional phase of what our economy looks like.
What's your take? Are you bullish on the energy outcomes
for America? I certainly am. I think especially with the
geopolitical stuff that President Trump has been doing, or I

(40:14):
should stay geopolitical groundwork. President Trump's been laying with trying
to isolate Russia, trying to steal some of their business
from the Europeans, saying hey buy some LNG from US,
et cetera, et cetera, as well as the isolation of Venezuela.
I think these are all critical moves both for our economy,
both for our foreign policy, and ultimately for the future

(40:36):
of wage growth for our country.

Speaker 8 (40:37):
Professor Well, I think you're right. And when you look
at the secondary sanctions he threw on Russia, so any
country caught buying black market Russian oil could get hit
with sanctions, and so countries like India started pulling back
on purchasing Russian oil to hurt them. And I think
that President Trump is looking to flood the markets with oil.

(40:59):
As he said, if you bring down energy prices, the
cost of everything else also begins to come down, albeit slowly,
but the cost will begin to come down as well.
Because oil and gas are the fuel that transports everything,
you know, the clothes that get into the clothing store,
the food that gets on the grocery store shelves. So
it's so important to bring those costs down. I think

(41:22):
he wants to crash the price of oil and natural
gas for a little bit to make sure that that
could spare the economy. But also something that didn't focused
on as much and you should have is power plants.
We in the United States have not had a major
new power plant in quite some time. He's talking about
these new AI centers. They're going to have their own

(41:43):
nuclear reactors. He's waving all regulations so that they can
build nuclear reactors on site, provide energy, be independent. That
to bring the cost of electricity bills down. Dramatically. Americans
shied away from nuclear power after a couple of incidents,
but nuclear power is the way to go if we
want to bring down energy costs around the country. And

(42:05):
let's face it, if you're in the Northeast, you're paying
some of the highest electricity bills in the country.

Speaker 4 (42:12):
Yeah, it's killing me, not only electricity, gas to me both. Yeah. Listen,
just I mean quick aside for everybody who's listening. Yesterday
it was so cold. It was fourteen degrees last night.
I live in a hundred and something year old house,
and I could tell you every time I had the
heat on seventy seventy two, it was freezing. The wind

(42:33):
was just cutting right through. And I've got new windows,
but it's an old house. It gets in here, and
I had to crank it up to some ungodly number
like seventy six to actually like not walk around with
a hat on.

Speaker 8 (42:43):
My goodness.

Speaker 4 (42:44):
Yeah yeah, And then I brought it down, but I
needed it to get warm, and I was thinking, who
could afford seventy six degrees? Like making your house Miami,
it's not economically efficient.

Speaker 8 (42:56):
Well, I could tell you right now. And the reason
that I see some improved in the economy. Is last year,
I was paying an all time high for home eating
heating oil about four dollars and nineteen cents for a
fixed contract. This year, I'm paying about three dollars and
twenty five cents for a fixed contract. Now, when you
got an oil tank that holds three hundred gallons of oil,

(43:20):
that's a huge shavings. When I get my oil tank
filled up, and so we are seeing results. It's how
people feel.

Speaker 4 (43:30):
Yeah, right, yeah, we want to be able to spend
frivolously again. At least that's where I want to be.
I want to go, say I'm buying a condo in
Puerto Rico and Miami.

Speaker 8 (43:38):
How about that exactly? Well that's listen, Americans are spenders,
and when they can't spend, they get angry. And you know,
when too many Americans are maxing out on their credit cards,
that's when you know things are getting tight. We track
the amount of credit card defaults, and credit card defaults
have been increasing, so it is a problem. But if

(44:00):
people's incomes go up and the court start going down,
you'll see Trump Trump's approval numbers flip dramatically.

Speaker 4 (44:07):
I'm expecting to see that happen. I mean, he goes.
We're on with Professor Nick Giordano. You've seen him time
and again on the Fox News Channel. He's been a
guest of mine plenty of times. Make sure you check
out his podcast, The Pas Report, and we'll get a
plug on that. Before we let him go, I want
to get his analysis on a couple more issues, not
the least of which is the drug boat drama continues.

(44:30):
So let's see if we can turn the drug boat
drama into the love boat. I don't know if we can,
but stick with me. We're coming right back with Professor
Nick Jordano.

Speaker 3 (44:38):
This is America, This is America, President Donald J. Trump,
mister President, welcome to the program.

Speaker 7 (44:58):
Circle. Well, thank thank you, Rich, and thank you for everything.
I know you very well, and I have I listen,
but I have a lot of people that listen and
they love your show, and I appreciate it very much.

Speaker 4 (45:09):
All right, I mean, he goes. Welcome back, as Rich Valdez.
We continue with Professor Nick Giordano. Professor Nick Giordano's professor
of political science at Suffolk Community College in New York.
It's out on Long Island, and he's the host of
the Pas Report podcast, which is really a great show.
You got to check it out. He breaks it down
very differently than me, because he's a lot smarter than

(45:29):
I am. He's the professor, and I always enjoy being
on his show, and I enjoy I think you're gonna
enjoy listening to his show. But I want to switch
gears a little bit and go over here to the
drug boats because you have a Congressman, Adam Smith, a
Democrat from Washington. He's got his panties in a bunch,
a very big bunch, like an atomic wedgie. Why Because

(45:52):
he says by not releasing the boat strike videos, they're
making it clear that they can't defend what's on the tape. Now,
there's been many of video released of these boat strikes.
If they're not releasing one in particular, I would suspect
that it's a timing issue or some other you know,
classified issue. But it's not like they've been keeping them secret.
But I want you to listen to this clip because

(46:14):
it is truly fascinating to me, Professor Nick Jordano, that
the Democrats will go after anything. And I don't know,
maybe it's me, maybe it's my own naivete. You tell
me if I'm wrong, but I feel like there's not
an issue here, and I understand I'm biased, but I
think most Americans are going to agree that they just
really they don't care about this issue. And I'm told

(46:38):
we don't have the clip just yet, so as we
work on getting the clip of the congressman, my question
to you, Nick Jordana, is your thoughts on this very
coordinated effort from the left right that they are not
only let's see, making the seditious six video and trying

(47:03):
to undermine the Commander in chief's authority, but they're constantly
beating up on the drug boats. Do you think that
level of intensity is eventually gonna work and some people
are gonna buy it? Or are they wasting their time?

Speaker 8 (47:16):
I think it's the most bizarre thing I've ever seen.
Leave it to Trump to make Democrats support gang members
and cartels and the drug traffickers. It really is insane
when you look at what they were arguing. And here's
the bizarre aspect to it. So when it comes to
striking these boats and the second strike that took place
that they're all complaining about, I never once in my

(47:38):
life and I've been in politics a long time. I've
been studying politics. I never once in my life heard
that if we launch a missile to shoot and kill
drug traffickers or anyone and with any type of hostile
in tent, that if they survive it, we have to
go rescue them.

Speaker 4 (47:55):
So if what we.

Speaker 8 (47:56):
Rated the been lotten compound, if we injured bin Laden,
would we then have to provide aid? No, the military
was ordered you shoot to kill, and if he's injured,
you fire several more times to make sure he's dead.
When we drop bombs on amwar Awawaki, who was a
US citizen, he didn't have his due process, he didn't
have the trial. We droned him. The Obama administration droned

(48:19):
him and his child. Okay, And if he were have survived,
would we have had to send and heal TEA six
to rescue him. It's just so stupid what they were arguing.
If you want to have an argument, there is an
argument to be made that President John declaring the drug
traffickers as a terrorist organization, that cartel says a terrorist organization.

(48:40):
He's operating under the two thousand and one authorization to
use force against these terrorist organizations. So if Democrats want
to have a constitutional argument, they should be arguing, well,
if that was twenty four years ago, and should the
president have the authority to just declare any organization a
terrorist organization? And what is the role of com and

(49:00):
authorizing the president to use force like that would be
the smarter argument for Democrats have, because there's good arguments
that could be made on both sides of the issue.
As the President as commander achieved Congress on the Article one,
section eight at a constitution and declaration of war and
authorization to use force, that may be an angle they
could attack, but the fact that they're attacking, that they're

(49:23):
launching mikeels on drug boats and killing cartel traffickers, drug traffickers,
to me, no American cares. They're fine with it. Why
wouldn't they want to see drug traffickers? Every single American
has either directly been impacted by someone that was addicted
to drugs and ended up dying from drugs or they

(49:44):
know someone that has. So this is an issue that
impacts every single American. And I don't think Americans have
much sympathy for drug traffickers. And I think by Democrats
saying well, these are people that are just fishermen that
you know, the they're transporting drugs, but they're not drug traffickers.

(50:05):
They're fishermen. It's a bizarre argument to make. I don't
know what they're the center of read. I mean, he
was hysterical. He was on CNN and he was talking
about how drug traffickers pay money to transport drugs to people,
and that these were fishermen. And I'm just sitting there, like,
no on the US Code, transportation of drugs makes you
a drug trafficker.

Speaker 4 (50:26):
Yeah, And obviously if you are a professor of political
science or me as a broadcaster where trafficking drugs, would
they call us anything other than drug traffickers? Of course
not the cops. Aren't you going to give you a pass?
And neither is the military, whose job typically is to
kill people. I've got that clip, and I want you
to hear what Congressman Adam Smith said, because, like you,
I found it not only funny, but someone incredulous. Check

(50:50):
this out.

Speaker 6 (50:52):
By not releasing it, they are making it clear that
they can't defend what's on that tape. I think we
have to keep that public pressure up. I would hope
that at some point Congress would be willing to subpoena
head to basically force them to release it, but that's
going to be difficult with the Republicans and the majority
in the House in the Senate. But we are going
to keep pressing this very, very important issue.

Speaker 4 (51:15):
Do you think that this is going to get them somewhere?
Are they going to be able to turn public opinion,
because just yesterday I saw that there was a poll
that came out that said the majority of Americans support
the strikes on drug votes.

Speaker 8 (51:27):
And I think the majority of Americans will continue to
support the strikes on drug votes. And when Democrats are
bringing up international law, it's clear they lost the argument
international law does not have jurisdiction in the United States.
In fact, the United States Constitution makes it clear on
the Article one, Section six, on the Article six that
the United States Constitution is the supreme law of the land.

(51:50):
It's the supremacy clause. So Democrats are taking the wrong fight,
but it doesn't surprise me. I mean, look at the
whole of Brago Garcia. Chris van Holland traveling to El
Salvador to meet with someone who is a wife beater,
who is suspected of being an MS thirteen who is
trafficking human beings here within the United States. The idea

(52:14):
that the American people are going to be sympathetic, I
don't see it happening. I think that the American people
are finally happy that someone's doing something. And again, there's
constitutional arguments to be made whether the president should have
this authority. That's fine if you want to argue a constitutionalist,
But from an optics perspective, Americans are not going to

(52:34):
shed a tear for those that are looking to transport
drugs into the United States to harm and kill Americans.
We went to war with al Qaeda because they killed
three thousand Americans on nine to eleven. Five thousand have
died since with nine to eleven related injuries. We are
losing over one hundred thousand Americans per year. It's actually

(52:55):
dropped the core of the life expectancy here in the
United States. Don't think the American people are going to
sit there. Those poor drug traffickers before Fisher viewed them
as they were floating on their bills of cocaine.

Speaker 4 (53:09):
Unbelievable. Now, Nick Jordano, if everybody's listening, saying, hey, I
like this guy. This guy is terrific. I want to
listen to his show. I want to take a class
with him. How do they tune into your show? And
before you tell us that, talk to me about what's
on the current episode. What are you talking about? What's
on your desk?

Speaker 8 (53:26):
Well? I just released three part series, so the first
two parts are out, the third part's coming out on Monday,
The New Contract with America, and I lay out ten
issues that Republicans need to focus on and just explain
to the American people what they want to do how
to fix the problems that the United States is facing.

(53:46):
We're talking about immigration, social security, reaponization of government waste,
fraud and abuse, government dependency and welfare reform, education reform,
lowering the cost of healthcare. You know, real issues, real solutions,
in a simple and easy way to understand and how
to fix the problems. This isn't like the plan McCarthy

(54:09):
laid out a few years ago and nobody remembers. So
on the podcast, that's what we do. We focus on
the real issues. I talk about the issues impacting ordinary Americans.
I interview people like the great Rich Valdez and speak
to everyday people about the issues that are going on.
And then I also released the America's Founding series, where
I talk about forgotten patriots, patriots that people never heard of.

(54:34):
This week, I'm talking about Trench Cox, who was essential.
He fought for limited government and economic independence. And so
it's an interesting time in America because so many Americans
have forgotten what we stand for. They've forgotten the American
identity and why America is such an exceptional nation. And
if we could get back to our founding ideals, the

(54:56):
country can go in a completely different direction. But we're
climbing up a hill right now. It's not easy to
do with a failed education system that we had.

Speaker 4 (55:07):
Professor Nick Giordano, you know, I listened to you, and
I say, man, this guy is not only smart and eloquent,
but really well read. How does this happen to a
guy like you, a good kid from Long Island? How
did you end up becoming a conservative and a professor
of political science and staying in New York.

Speaker 8 (55:23):
Well, I mean, listen, you never know the collud's life
throws at you right especially I can tell you right
now there's not a single person that I went to
high school with that could imagine me being a college professor.
Yet here I am. It's almost like I'm a fraud
out there. But when we you know, it's listen. I
enjoyed my life. I had fun, but from a very

(55:44):
early age I grew up in a household where the
six thirty news was on every single night, local news
at six, nightly news at six thirty, and I remember
watching Ronald Raygan. This was a time where people didn't
have cable TV and a thousand channels to go to,
and I would listen to Reagan. And that's how I
became conservative as a child, watching Ronald Reagan saying, this

(56:06):
guy is a leader too love. It's always been my passion.
So that's what drove me to politics, and that's why
I've been conservative of my whole life, because I believe
in conserving the principles of limited government, fiscal responsibility, and
this idea of liberty that we seem to be throwing
away because more and more people just want to hand

(56:27):
more and more power to the government that has shown
it can't be trusted with the power It's already been granted,
so why are we going to grant them more?

Speaker 4 (56:35):
Nick Jordano Pasreport dot Com. I want to thank you
for being here. You're a gentleman, a scholar, and a patriot.
Godspeed to you, my man, and I'll see at the
Christmas party.

Speaker 8 (56:46):
Thanks having me rich always a pleasure.

Speaker 4 (56:48):
You bet, and he goes. We continue with your thoughts,
your comments, everything that's coming off of the off the
transom over here, as well as a couple of other
things I'm going to get into. Keep your life right here,
don't go anywhere. I'm rich, Chaldees.

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