April 10, 2025 • 47 mins
President Trump and his administration have taken various successful actions on the border, coupled with tough rhetoric. Still, Jesse Kelly is wondering if those who allowed this situation to unfold will be held accountable. He discusses that with Julio Rosas. This comes as China and the United States are locked in a tariff battle. Dave Brat joins the show to unpack that situation from a big picture, while Salena Zito gives Jesse the on-the-ground perspective. Plus, Jesse reads off some of your YouTube comments.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Oh, we have a primary challenger for one of our
worst senators.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
We'll talk about that tonight.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
We got a little update on the old tariff war.
Sucks to be China right now. Our Democrats could be
charged with treason.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
All that and more coming up.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
And I'm right, okay, I have huge news that is
going to apply to everybody, not just people who live
in Texas. I'm sure you've heard, but last night Texas
(00:38):
Attorney General Ken Paxton formally announced that he is charging charging.
That's not what he's doing. He's challenging that guess his
ag he could be charging. He's challenging useless Texas Senator
John corn And here's the announcement.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I'm announcing that I'm running for US Senate against John Corner,
who apparently is running again for his fifth term, which
we put in their decades. It's definitely time for a
change in Texas. We have another great US Centator, Ted Cruz,
and it's time we have another great centator that will
actually stand up and fight for Republican values, fight for
the values of the people of Texas. Look, he said
(01:13):
twenty four years of this, which I think has plenty
given his lack of production it's hard to think of
the things that he's done good for Texas or for
the country. I can certainly point to many things like
his gun restrictions, his lack of wanting to fund a
border wall and disagree with President Trump on that, and
even opposing President Trump's election in twenty sixteen and the
(01:34):
most recent elections. So there's certainly many things to focus
on that he has not done, and I think it's
time that somebody held him account for that.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Okay, first, this is majorly, majorly, majorly important for every
single person watching, and I'm going to explain why. Here
is how it has worked for the longest time. You
see right now, maybe you're frustrated with the lack of
action from Congress. Why can't we get something good out
(02:04):
of the House. Why can't we get something good out
of the Senate? Trump's been there, it's been three months.
Where are the good bills? Why are we not Where
are we not codifying this into law? Why is it
the House? Why is it the Senate doing anything? Why
don't they do anything? Okay, well, allow me to explain
why they don't do anything. They don't do anything because
the long serving establishment Republicans they're the ones that hold
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the bulk of the power and the House and the Senate.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
You see, if you've been there for.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
A really long time, what you've done with that length
of time is you have managed to buy influence.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
You have managed to.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Figure out the ways to suck up to the DC swamp.
And when you suck up to the DC swamp, what
happens is money comes pouring into your campaign will use.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Actually a perfect example of.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
This would be the defense industry in this country, the
military industrial complex.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
It's a perfect example of this.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
If you're a Republican senator, you can look and find
all the waste and fraud in our defense sector, and
it's staggering, and you would think tackling that kind of
theft from the taxpayer would be a priority. But you
know what actually fills the campaign coffers. Sucking up to
the defense contractors. You pass another ridiculous trillion dollar defense
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bill full of waste lo and behold Boeing raytheon. All
the defense contractors will write you large checks to keep
you in power. With those checks, your campaign coffers fill up.
You get to run for reelection every two years or
six years, depending on if you're the House in the
House of the Senate, and what you do is you
take that large quantity of money that you've hoovered up
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from the DC swamp and you flood the airwaves. Today
it would be more social media because that's where a
lot of the campaign advertising's done. But you turn on
the news at night and you see commercials about how conservative,
how right wing you are, all close up, I'll fight
for you. They're flooding YouTube everything with that. Now, they
don't do anything. In fact, they harm the country until
(04:07):
it's time to get re elected, where they spend millions
and millions and millions of dollars telling the brain dead
GOP primary voter how far to the right they are
and how much there's report President Trump. And that is
exactly how we haven't gotten anything done because we can't
get these people out of Washington, because the GOP primary
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voter continues to elect the same losers over and over
and over again. We elect them, they go back to Washington.
They are the heads of these really important committees and
they stop any and all reform. They are there, John
Cornyn and his types, they are there to protect the swamp.
They wear a Republican label but that is their central role,
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and they know that's their central role. They are the
ultimate in controlled opposition. Are you angry about the communism
that has flooded the United States of America. One of
the main reasons communism has flooded this country and more importantly,
this government, is because people like John Cornyn will stick
their foot in the door to keep it open enough
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so the communists can get in. He is there to
ensure the enemy has access to destroy you, and he's
been successful at it for twenty four years now. That's
why we don't get anything done in the House. That's
why we don't get anything done in the Senate.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
And so.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
The reason they keep screwing us over we just kind
of talked about it. The reason Republicans like James Langford
will try to pass an amnesty bill, which he did
last year. The reason John Cornyan will pass a gun
control bill. He worked with Democrats to pass a gun
control bill after Uvalde. The reason he does that is
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John Cornyn. Honestly, if you have to defend him, John
Cornyn gets it. He understands the game. He understands that
he can do these things, especially when it's not an
election year. It can screw you, screw me, screw over
the entire country.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Over and over and over again.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
He'll raise enough money to lie about it when election
season rolls around.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
That's how the game has worked.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
John Cornyn has simply been playing the game that works
for a very long time. Screw over the voter for
five years. In year six, take your millions, Tell the
voter you're conservative.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
The voter reelection. Now, how do we change that system?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Because I think you would agree no matter where you are,
we have to change that system. We have to change
the way things are done in order to save the country.
We can't stop communism if John Cornyn is still there
holding the door open for them, if Mitch McConnell was there,
if James Langford is there, if Tom Tillis is there,
if Bill Landry is there, if Mike Grounds is there,
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If you get the idea, we can't stop the communists.
If these losers are still there, aiding and abetting them.
We have to start taking them out in primaries. You're
not going to take out John or in a general election,
and you wouldn't want a Democrat in there any way.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
The only way is to.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Replace these people in primaries and if we want the
others to straighten up, If we want John Thune to
stop being useless, cassidy. If we want him to stop
being useless, did I call him Landry whatever?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Cassidy. If we want him to stop being useless, Mike
rounds till us all of them.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
If we want them to take their Red State Senate
seats and actually do Red State things with them, then
we have to make an example of somebody.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Do you know what decimation is? You ever heard that
term decimation?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
A lot of people falsely believe that decimation means.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Everybody is wiped out. That's not true.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Actually, the term decimation comes from Latin, and the term
came from the Roman Army. You see, and when a
Roman Army unit showed cowardice or failed terribly on the
field of battle, they would draw straws, for lack of
a better way to put it, And what would happened
was they would take ten men, and one of them
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only one, the guy who got the short straw, he
would be beaten to death by the other nine men
in his unit. Why that's awful, isn't it. Why though, Well,
you only got to make an example of one or
two guys and the rest of them realize, you're dead,
(08:31):
dead serious.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
If Texas, if the.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
GOP primary voter of Texas, and yes there will be
ways nationally you can contribute, But if the GOP primary
voter of Texas is successful in taking out a useless
loser like John Cornyn in a primary, it will send
a message to the Mike Rounds of the world, hey,
be really, really, really careful, because we'll come for you next.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
John coynn responded, Here's what he said.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Do you have any level of concern about Paxton running
to the right of you in his primary?
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Well, the biggest potential loser is President Trump's agenda. I've
been a supporter of the President during his first term
of office and that's continued during his current term. Mister
Paxton has a checkered background. He is a con man
and a fraud and I think the people of Texas.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
Know that.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
What you just heard was a poll tested response from
John Cornyn and get ready for a lot of it.
Right now, Ken Paxton is pulling comfortably ahead of John
Cornyn in a primary.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
That's good news.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
The bad news is this, John Cornyn has a strategy here,
a strategy that it might work The strategy is this
Operation Trump Suck Up. That's what it is. He's already
running ads out there. Look at what a big supporter
of Trump is. Me and Trump, Trump and me, Me
(10:09):
and Trump, Trump and me. That'll be the theme of
the corning campaign. I love Trump, Trump's my best friend.
I love Trump Trump this and Trump that, and that
brings us to our risk here. You've heard me rant
about it before. Donald Trump is very good at a
lot of things. In fact, we're going to talk about
the tariff stuff from China today.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
We'll talk about the good for sure.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
But if you had to point out a flaw, Donald
Trump is the worst selector of who to endorse in
a primary I think I've ever seen in my entire life.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
It's just terrible at it.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
When it comes to internal GOP politics, he will try
to primary Chip Roy and Thomas Massey and the next
day he will endorse Lindsey Graham. He's just really, really
bad at GOP politics. And as we speak the rumor
Mill in DC, he says that Senate Leader John Thune
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is working very very hard lobbying Donald Trump to endorse
John Cornyn. We have an opportunity here to take out
a rhino to do something really important for the entire
United States of America. Let's cross our fingers. Trump doesn't
torpedo our efforts. All that may have made you uncomfortable,
(11:29):
but I am right. We have a huge show for
you here. We'll talk to Julio Ross about the border
and other things. Before we get to Julio, I'm going
to talk to you about national crisis that doesn't involve
John Cornyan but clearly has affected him.
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Speaker 2 (12:27):
We'll be back.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
Media.
Speaker 7 (12:41):
I just wanted to ask you how it feels to
see that the United States has a secure border now
that President Trump is an office as opposed to when
you were Secretary of Homeland Security.
Speaker 8 (12:54):
Do you have any regret facilitating and open border, sir?
Water crossings are down? Do you regret allowing the nanda
and I'll go into gang a football in the United States, Sir.
You don't have anything to say, sir by your time
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as Homeland Security secretary facilitating an open border.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
You know what makes me so angry about that clip?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Honestly, it's just I could feel my blood pressure rising
as we bring in Julio Rossaus, national correspondent with the Blaze.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
What drives me crazy is.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
They were walking by yet another restaurant that was being
built in the airport. Are there any of these restaurants
that are actually open or is every single airport in
the country building a good restaurant that you.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Can't eat and drink at yet? Juli'll talk about that.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
Well, thankfully, because since I travel so much, I use
the Centurion Lounge or whenever that's available to me.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
So I'll let you.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
I'll let you deal with those restaurants.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Okay, Tommy Topper, I didn't realize that's what we were
going to do today, Julio. Some of us don't have
access to the Centurion Lounge. Okay, I don't even know
what that is, but it sounds Roman. What was it like, though,
speaking to the former head of DAHS, the man who
facilitated the barbarian invasion of the country that you and
I love so much.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
I mean, it was weird just because obviously this is
a man that I had paid a lot of attention into. Obviously,
you know, during the entire Biden Harris administration. The last
time I was able to ask him a question was
during the Haitian Bridge crisis in Del Rio, Texas, and that.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
Was all the way back in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
He obviously, he as you imagine, he wasn't too happy
with my question even back then, and so it was
it was it was just weird just because I wasn't
expecting to see him when I was traveling to Washington, DC,
and once I realized that, oh he's here and I
can actually, finally, after all this time, ask him stuff.
So I I obviously wanted to say a lot of things,
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but to remain professional, I wanted to, you know, make
sure I asked the right questions.
Speaker 6 (15:09):
I understand there's a lot of things that I, you know,
thinking back on.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
It, which I wish I could have also asked, although
obviously I'm sure that his answer would have remained the same,
which is which was obviously nothing.
Speaker 6 (15:20):
But it's it's it's just another reminder that, yeah, this
guy did this for four years. He stayed the entire time.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
You know, people could say, well, maybe he was trying
to fight it on the inside and you know, maybe
not have just disagree with it.
Speaker 6 (15:34):
He's like, well, okay, that's fine. But then he could
have left.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
He could have quit, He could have said that this
isn't working, but he but he didn't. He made his
choice to stay and continue to follow the orders from
the White House to open our borders, allow this invasion,
and you'll come hell or high water.
Speaker 6 (15:51):
And so I understand people have a lot of questions
as to why he's not in jail. That's another that's.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Another fair question, and that's something that I hope the
Trump administration at least addresses at some point in the
near future, because the damage that this man did to
our country is profound, it's long lasting, and it's creating
all these problems right now that the trumpministration is having
to clean up.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
And as we can.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Probably guess, it's probably all not going to be entirely
solved at the end of President Trump's second term.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
No, of course it won't.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
You're not removing twenty million people in four years. It's
easier to bring them in and get them out. It's
just not possible. And I honestly, I'm glad you brought
up the evil the trees and this nature of it, Julio,
because I just can't get it out of my mind
how inherently evil all this was. These people created an
app to facilitate, not to allow, to facilitate the invasion
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of our country. People forget our taxpayer dollars, created an
app for foreigners to come into the country.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
It's just so bonkers, it doesn't seem real.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
And the whole reason why they did that is because
the optics of thousands of people crossing the border every
illegally was tanking the numbers, and so they said, well,
we have to do something.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
It's like, well, if we abuse the parole authority that
we have, and we can, and we'll let this let
them in.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
You know, day by day through this app that that
will make things better for us politically, and of course
that's not Thankfully people didn't buy that lie, right, people
didn't buy this. Well, everything's fine now because there's CVP one,
because then we got cases. In some ways, it's even
worse because now we got cases of where they're supposedly
being you know, checked out with their background and criminal history,
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and okay, they're good to go, and they just purposefully
released these people who want on to commit perfect crimes.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
So and it's all through the APP, right, And so
I it's it is very angry.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
I mean, it's I've been feeling better about it. I
mean I just come back from all pass so recently.
Obviously nothing is happening there these days compared to four
years ago or you know, during those four years, but
just because that it's finally over and things are now
going in the.
Speaker 6 (18:02):
Right direction, Like I said, people need to be held
accountable for it.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
And I it's unfortunate that the default, the expected response
is like, well, they're probably not going to get away,
you know, they're probably probably nothing's going to happen to them.
And and yeah, I mean he's just walking freely through
the airport with what I presume to be his wife,
and and they're just going about their day as if
nothing happened.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
And so even though yes, I.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Know, I I guess that he wasn't going to answer
my questions, he wasn't going to like my.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
Questions, it's just to at least it was to.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Tell him, hey, people don't forget you know, there's still
there's still people out here that still you know, want
answers from you because you were a big part of this.
And uh, you know, if if another opportunity arises to
question him again, obviously I'm more than happy to do that.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
But it's just it's just it was. It was.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
It was a very profound moment, just for me personally,
just because I spent so much time at the border.
I've seen I've been tracking it and seen it, and
so to finally you have two minutes, right to to
to just hit him with questions and and to you know,
have his non response sink in.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
It was I mean, admittedly it was satisfying.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
It was really satisfying for me, even though it wasn't
obviously well we want it necessarily.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Yeah, Wellio, how were things in old Passo at the border.
A lot of people don't know what l Passo means,
the pass in Mexican.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
What was it like down there?
Speaker 4 (19:31):
The Border Patrol agent that I was with, we were
the it was early morning, the sun was rising, and
he said something that I I hadn't.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
Thought of in a while, which was it was very peaceful.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
It was actually peaceful, right, and you just had you
just had the chickens in the neighboring Mexican border town
that we were just just you know, they're they're, they're.
Speaker 6 (19:51):
They're the only noise being made.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
But it was crazy, right, I mean, that was the
first time I was able to actually do anything with
Border Patrol October of twenty twenty Ina in the old
Passo sector.
Speaker 6 (20:03):
That's all.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
That was the last time I was able to do
anything with them in any official capacity because obviously, once
things got out of control, the Biden DHS didn't want
media to be with the Border Patrol to actually see
the first time what was happening. So we had to
go through Texas DPS, we had to go through the
Border Patrol Union, we had to find all these different
we had to go into Mexico, uh.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
To to to see things front from that side, right,
and that obviously has.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Its own dangers, but but we did it because we
couldn't go through the official United States Border patrol. So
I'm thankful that the Trump administration has opened access back
up again to that. But of course now now things
are over and the store, the story itself isn't over right,
and there there there there is always going to be problems.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
At our border.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
But it is just I mean, it's it's a night
and day difference, right and and and we know that.
But to see that finally, when you know Al Passo,
you know they had the bum.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
Rush at one of the bridges.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
That was where Venezuelan's uh stormed and and attacked that
you the National guardsmen, it's where they had those street
releases in the middle of winter because they couldn't Borderchol
couldn't hold anybody, so they had to release them out
into the street.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
And they're homeless.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
So the El Passo has been through a lot, along
with obviously the rest of the rest of the border.
So to see just things actually normal and things how
they are actually supposed to be with a secure border. Again,
it was weird. It was it was weird, but it
was good to know that at least for now. This
is this is how things are going to be. And
I can tell you that the majority Latino residents along
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the border are very very happy that things are finally
you know, there's not a border crisis on their backyard anymore.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
But they are Oh they are seper five. Brother, Thank you.
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Speaker 9 (22:57):
I think that's unfortunate that the ch actually don't want
to come and negotiate because they are the worst defenders
in the international trading system. They have the most imbalanced
economy in the history of the modern world. And I
can tell you that this escalation is a loser for them.
That they have some very smart the economists, the academicians,
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technocrats within their bureaucracy, and they would be telling the
leadership that we do not have the edge here. They
are the surplus country that they're exports to the US
are five times our exports to China, so they can
raise their terrorists.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
But so what, Well, it looks.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Like the Trump administration was dead serious about China.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
I don't know. I can't help but wonder if.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
This wasn't all about China all the time. Given the
new announcement today joining me now to talk about it.
Former Congressmen and currently Senior Vice President of Business Engagement.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
At Liberty University, Dave Brett.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Dave Trump administration just slapped a big one twenty five
percent on China and told everyone else, Ah, you're getting
ninety days off.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
What's going on here?
Speaker 10 (24:16):
Well, I think, seriously, what's going on is he's trying
to bring the era of globalism to an end. That's
seriously what I think is going on. Tariffs is part
of that story. This was an ingenious move, right, you know,
who knows what's pre planned, But the rest of the
world does appear willing to negotiate. And it's not just
on tariff's right. Tariff's probably about one third of the story,
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and two thirds is non tariff barriers, and the American
people have not been educated on that. On the dumping
and the federal government subsidies, in the stealing and cheating
on intellectual property and manipulating the currency, all of those
pieces are used, and they have been ripping us off
for the past forty years.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Right.
Speaker 10 (24:59):
For a while, we were willing to let that go. Right,
We set up the Bretton Woods Liberal Order after World
War Two, and we encourage that because we wanted everybody
to be on our side against Russia. But now China
is posing a serious existential threat, and so I this
latest news, right, now is just cornered. China isolated them.
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We're decoupling from them. It's hurt the hedge funds more.
My only concern is for the you know, the grandparents
out there and the senior folks. I hope they're not
selling off right. Just just get with a financial advisor
and make sure you're doing something that's stable over the
long term.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Okay, that actually brings me perfectly to something. Kevin O'Leary,
This clip's making arounds. Here's what he said on the news.
Speaker 11 (25:45):
One hundred and four percent tariffs and China are not enough.
I'm advocating four hundred percent. I do business in China.
They don't play by the rules. They've been in the
WHO for decades. They have never abided by any of
the rules they agreed to when they came in for decades.
They cheat, they steal, they steal ip I can't litigate
in their courts. They take product, technology, they steal it,
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they manufacture.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
It and sell it back.
Speaker 11 (26:09):
Here never has an administraty. I want she on an
airplane to Washington to level the playing field. It is
not about tariffs anymore. Four hundred percent tariffs. Tomorrow morning,
he'll tell you why she can only stay the supreme
leader if people are employed, if we wipe out any
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business there. Because we are still thirty nine percent of
all consumables on Earth and twenty five percent of the
world's GDP. America is the number one economy on Earth.
With all the cards, we will not have that forever.
It's time to squeeze Chinese heads into the wall now.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Dave, do we have all the cards? That seems like
an over sell.
Speaker 10 (26:56):
No, I not by much. With China, we hold all
of cards. As Besent said, right their trade, you know,
it's half their GDP. Our imports as a percentage of
GDP in the US are only fourteen percent. So we
can afford to play cards with China. Maybe not the
whole world immediate. But what's striking as no one else
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is saying this right the Wall Street Journal, the Economist magazine,
JP Morgan, Jamie Diamond, Where are they? Where's the house?
Where's the Senate? On these issues? They're all trading quarterly
profits up to the last minute. China is doing five
trillion dollars worth of manufacturing a year. The US is
doing half of that two and a half trillion. China
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has one hundred trillion dollar capital stock to work with.
We only have seventy trillion. Productivity in this country has
been falling for seventy years in a row, according to
the world expert at Northwestern University Bob Gordon. That's why
CBO and the Federal Reserve has growing at two percent
for the next thirty years. Where's the plan. Who's got
an alternative plan? So Trump's got a plan. It looks
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like it's starting to work. We got, you know, one
hundred billion coming in from Taiwan chips, five hundred billion
from Apple, reshoring from other Asian supply chains, and example
after example already right before things have even kicked in.
And so I think it's the right move. Any move
doing anything gets you know, all the status quo and
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all the money makers upset. But this is the right
thing for the American people. We've forgotten about Detroit and
all the cities that have been gutted. People are talking
about higher import prices. I'm more concerned about the people.
Five million manufacturing jobs that have been lost. Where we've
lost the families have lost their income, the surrounding service
jobs have lost their core industries. It's in Lynchburg Virginia.
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It's in Detroit where I was born. You don't need
to go far. And that's my main concern is we
got to get America working with capital again. China's been
working with capital. They somehow grew at ten percent GDP
for a decade with a huge tariff and cheating regime. Right,
where are the experts on that? Where are free trade buddies?
Speaker 6 (29:06):
Right?
Speaker 10 (29:06):
They've all been so wrong and no analysis on this,
And it's time for us to get a fair level
playing field. And Trump's doing it. He's the only one
that's doing.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
It, Dave.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
He announced that there's a ninety day pause on all
the other countries. Hey, China's the one that wanted to escalate,
then we're going to escalate everyone else. You get three
months off. So what is his goal for those countries?
I know Donald Trump is a fair trader, protectionist, whatever
label we want to put on it. He's been that
way for decades. So obviously he believes in tariffs. He
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believes in them outright. Is this ninety day pause just
a ninety day pause or is he going to maybe
maybe sweeten the pot for them to go after China?
Speaker 2 (29:50):
What do you think?
Speaker 10 (29:53):
My guess that's ninety days for the rest of the
countries to sharpen their pencils and come back with that
whole host of responses, not just on tariffs. Right Europe,
vander Ursula, vander Leyden came back, So we're going to
zero tariffs on manufacture. No, no, no, no, they got
the bat They got all sorts of import controls. The
car flows from Germany and the US are bizarre, the
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flows on agriculture of bizarre. Trump's giving them, you know,
a little pause, go do your homework, come back with
fair proposal for US where you get rid of the
cheating and the government subsidies, the low cost prior to this.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Right.
Speaker 10 (30:31):
The Also, the important point is the economic experts, supposedly
we're saying the only response to this is we have
to just grow our monopolies in our oligarchs. Right. The
only way is to grow massive firms so that we
can generate low costs to compete with China.
Speaker 6 (30:47):
No.
Speaker 10 (30:48):
I don't want that world either. That is not the
world of Adam Smith and James Madison. We want a
lot of small firms duking it out. Small factions from
Madison in the constitutionals rock these were geniuses that we're
looking out for America. For this country. The CEOs or
the Fortune five hundred unfortunately have not been looking out
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for the country's best interest. And so this is a
classic fight between Main Street and Wall Street. And Trump's
the only person in recent history that's really put up
a fight for the American people. So I'm I couldn't
be more thankful.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
What's going on with the Panama Canal, Dave, Pete Hagsath
was down there with some strong words who he was.
Speaker 10 (31:32):
I want to be very clear.
Speaker 12 (31:35):
China did not build this canal. China does not operate
this canal, and China will not weaponize this canal.
Speaker 10 (31:45):
Together, with Panama.
Speaker 12 (31:47):
In the lead, we will keep the canal secure and
available for all nations through the deterrent power of the strongest,
most effective, and most lethal fighting force in the world.
Speaker 6 (32:01):
We will do this in.
Speaker 12 (32:03):
Partnership with Panama. Together, we will take back the Panama
Canal from China's influence.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Dave, take it back from what did China do with
the canal?
Speaker 10 (32:18):
Well, they're encroaching everywhere, right on every island chain there
is all around the world. They're building up artificial islands there.
They've been gently taking control of land and territory and
property rights claims around the canal. We our original contract
with what was with Panama had certain conditions attached to
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Some of those conditions have been violated, and so I
think Hegsath is just laying down the law. Our national
security and our economic security will not be compromised by China. Right,
And you know, so everyone's you know, the left, it's
just astounding of the moral equivalency. So they'll say, well,
then you've got to give Taiwan to China along the
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same lines. No, the moral equivalence he has to do
with freedom and liberty. Right, the Chinese are oppressing their people,
they have slave labor, so they're not entitled to the
same rights of taking over Taiwan. For hemispheric reasons. We
are not attacking any Asian country up there. We in fact,
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we've paid the entire bill for the post World War
II liberal Bretonwood's Order. It was called we provided our defense.
We're in the Red Sea of protecting European trading lanes.
I think we only do four or five percent of
the trade through the Red Sea and through the ports
up there. We're paying the entire bill for Europe, and
so Trump's sick of it and same here. Right, we
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put this thing into place and it's a US asset
and he wants to keep it that way.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Dave, my brother, come back soon. I appreciate you as always.
All right, Selena Zito wants to talk about the russ belt.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Talk to her.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Before we talked to Selena, let me talk to you
about all this hire American, American first stuff. A lot
of companies, a lot they licked their finger and they
stuck it in the air, and now there are a
lot of companies.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Talking about that. Now, Hey, we're going to make our
chips here.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Pure Talk didn't need Donald Trump to get elected to
hire Americans. They didn't need public sentiment to change. Pure
Talk's been hiring Americans for a long long time. Pure
Talks CEO walked the jungles of Vietnam, two tours for
this country. They're customer service people. It was the most
amazing thing when we switched from T Mobile to Pure Talk.
(34:42):
Not only did our bill get cut in half. I
remember it like yesterday. Talking to customer service people sounded
like Americans who spoke English. Pure Talk hires Americans so
pleasant to deal with you want to switch your cell
phone service to a company like that, Pure talk dot
com slash jessetv.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
We'll be back.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Well, we talk about the economies, economics, tariffs, taxes, that
we talk about all these things, and I've always tried
to be wary of talking about them from just the
thirty thousand foot view. What this means for macroeconomics, not
that that's not unimportant, but what does it mean on
the ground for people. Somebody who's really, really, really good
(35:33):
at this is probably the best in the country at
this is Selena Zito selenazito dot com. By the way,
she has a free newsletter. I should point out wonderful
author writers, Selena Zito. She's always talking about these things. Selena,
I have in my possession. You and I have talked
about this before. From my childhood in Ohio a little
penknife my father gave me God rest his soul, and
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on that pen knife it says weird and steel. That
was the kind of family we were. We're in steel today.
Speaker 6 (36:02):
Let's go.
Speaker 13 (36:03):
I mean, actually, what makes it so sad is it's
still standing there. It's just and if you have any
images left in your memory, it is this big as
President Trumble. It's in this big, beautiful plant. It's massive,
it's miles along the river, and it fed and made
lives prosper for one hundred years in that valley, in
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the Ohio Valley, and it's now as of last week,
as of last year, it's gone. There was an economic
trade agreement in the Biden administration that killed them on tariffs,
and so you know, that was the end of it.
And just for perspective, it wasn't just the largest employer
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in the region, it was the largest private employer in
the entire state of West Virginia.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
Selena.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
People don't really take that into account, and it's understandable.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
Everyone has a different lot in life, a different perspective.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
But when I was a child, everybody I lived in Toronto, Ohio,
everybody worked for the plant or something plant adjacent. If
you didn't work at the plant, you worked in a
diner that served breakfast to the guys who worked at
the plant.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
The plant was the town.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
What did people like Joe Biden do to destroy the plant?
Speaker 13 (37:30):
Well, it's been years and years of bad economic decisions,
bad trade deals, lots of tariffs that have made the
industry in our country non competitive. Even though we make
the best deal in the country, it is as cheap,
it is not as cheap as what you get from
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other countries, in particular China. China is basically the bad
guy in this, and their steel is also inferior. People
read the story that I wrote. There is, as you said,
an adjacent industry that uses US steel. But if US
steel goes away, he is left with very few options
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to purchase steel for the military vehicles that he makes.
And because the Chinese steal is just bad, it's just
not good, and he's not going to put our military
and inferior products.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
Why is Chinese steel bad?
Speaker 13 (38:33):
It's just made cheaply, it's not made well. They don't
have the same work ethos there that they have here.
They don't you have the same access to the kinds
of minerals, I mean very mineral mineral rich in West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana,
the place in Michigan, places where steel thrived. It's the
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best of the best in terms of making the product,
but also the workers are the best of the best.
I mean, read that story. Those guys take this incredibly seriously.
It's not a job. There are artisans, and it is
a calling, and they don't think they're doing something that's
good for them. They think they're doing something they believe
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they're doing something that makes all American lives better, safer,
and it is part of being something bigger than self.
They almost look at it as very patriotic.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
You're, of course referencing wonderful article you wrote. Sent it
to me from West Mifflin, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
Tell me about it.
Speaker 13 (39:38):
West Mifflin, Pennsylvania is in the Man Valley. There are
three US Steel plants there. There is the Urban Works
which that I was in with the You see the
beautiful photos of the rolling mill. There's although so that
Edgar Thompson works in Braddock and the Clareton Works. Only
only coke coke makers in the entire country. You neat
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coke to make steel, and they are all in jeopardy
with the sale of new US Steel to Nipon. Now,
initially these workers didn't really care for the idea of
being sold to a Japanese company. You have to remember,
US Steel is the first billion dollar company in the world.
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It was the largest company in the country when it
was founded in nineteen oh two. And so the idea
of US Steel being Nipon Steels, Like, wait a minute, right, Japan,
those are the guys that were dumping steel in the
seventies and so but after talking to the executives at Nipon,
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after meeting with them, you know, hundreds and hundreds of
times since December or twenty twenty three, the local steel
Workers Local two two two seven are on board with
this sale. There is because they're going to invest in
the rolling mill that you're showing. It's eighty six years old.
It was so awesome to be there and see it
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and see it function and work, to watch these guys work.
But it needs billion dollar refitting to be redone, and
Nippon has has offered i think up to seven billion dollars.
They have offered to keep the name US Steel and
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the headquarters still in Pittsburgh. Now, the only two people
that were against it last year was the head of
their union, the United steel Workers International, which is based
in Cleveland, and Joe Biden. Donald Trump was not as
sort of vocal about not doing the deal. You know,
(41:51):
with him, there's always sort of a nuance. And he
has been meeting since February with the Prime Minister of Japan,
the head of Nippon the ahead of US Steel and
the local steel workers to get a deal done. I
expect we will see one not too distant future.
Speaker 1 (42:10):
Parther and Trump also talked yesterday about coal.
Speaker 14 (42:13):
Here he was for four long years, Joe Biden and
Congressional Democrats tried to abolish the American coal industry. They
did everything in their power while he was awake, which
wasn't much, shutting down dozens of coal plants, banning call
leases on federal lands, and putting thousands and thousands of
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coal miners out of work.
Speaker 15 (42:36):
The first of these executive orders is it may be
one of the most significant executive orders of your administration
thus far. This directs all departments and agencies of the
federal government to end all discriminatory, discriminatory policies against the
coal industry. This ends the leasing moratorium that prevents new
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coal projects on federal land, and it's going to clerate
all permitting and funding for new coal projects to allow
the coal industry to flourish under your leadership.
Speaker 5 (43:06):
Sir, that's great, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (43:12):
So, Lena. That probably matters for the rustbelt a little bit.
Speaker 13 (43:16):
It matters a lot. I've been in a couple dozen
coal mines. Coal mine is not what you think it is.
It's not a guy with a pick, you know, crawling underground.
It's a very technology driven industry. It's a very clean industry.
The industry has changed dramatically in the past fifteen years.
That was another one of my great thrills as a reporter,
(43:38):
to be able to go down into the coal mine,
ride the man car out the to the coal wall.
It only takes a couple hours to go from that
coal wall up to processing, onto a short line railroad,
onto a barge, into a coal fired power plant and
lighting up your house. And we need an abundance of
(44:01):
energy we are now. You know, it was the arms
race when we were when I was young. Today it's
the race for AI dominance. Those AI powered data centers
desperately need electricity, and a lot of it. They're not
going to be able to get it from solar or wind.
(44:21):
They're going to get it from three entities, natural gas, coal,
and nuclear. They just announced a natural power plant in
western Pennsylvania. The shovel ready, it's ready to start next week.
Ten thousand jobs, ten billion dollars invested in this power plant.
(44:42):
That doesn't even include the jobs and the buildout for
the AI Power data center. Look for a lot of
that across the rust Belt because the infrastructure is already there.
Speaker 2 (44:56):
She is Selena Zito.
Speaker 1 (44:58):
By the way, I want to encourage you to go
by her book, Butler. She was there when they shot
Donald Trump in the head, so go pick that up.
Speaker 2 (45:05):
It's of course wonderful. Like everything she writes is Selina.
Thank you, ma'am.
Speaker 1 (45:09):
I appreciate you very very much. All Right, we have
light in the mood. We're gonna hear from you next.
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Speaker 2 (47:06):
Drift over to the.
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YouTube channel YouTube dot com slash at Jesse kellydc One
final little one quote, garlic bread rules the world, and
all others are pretenders to the throne. As I've said
many many times before, once garlicbread was invented, is.
Speaker 2 (47:24):
There a purpose to other bread.
Speaker 1 (47:26):
It's like gravy once somebody figured out that we can
put sausage in it. Once we got sausage gravy, why
would I ever have regular gravy, same type of thing anyway,
I'll see it all
Oh, we have a primary challenger for one of our
worst senators.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
We'll talk about that tonight.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
We got a little update on the old tariff war.
Sucks to be China right now. Our Democrats could be
charged with treason.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
All that and more coming up.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
And I'm right, okay, I have huge news that is
going to apply to everybody, not just people who live
in Texas. I'm sure you've heard, but last night Texas
(00:38):
Attorney General Ken Paxton formally announced that he is charging charging.
That's not what he's doing. He's challenging that guess his
ag he could be charging. He's challenging useless Texas Senator
John corn And here's the announcement.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I'm announcing that I'm running for US Senate against John Corner,
who apparently is running again for his fifth term, which
we put in their decades. It's definitely time for a
change in Texas. We have another great US Centator, Ted Cruz,
and it's time we have another great centator that will
actually stand up and fight for Republican values, fight for
the values of the people of Texas. Look, he said
(01:13):
twenty four years of this, which I think has plenty
given his lack of production it's hard to think of
the things that he's done good for Texas or for
the country. I can certainly point to many things like
his gun restrictions, his lack of wanting to fund a
border wall and disagree with President Trump on that, and
even opposing President Trump's election in twenty sixteen and the
(01:34):
most recent elections. So there's certainly many things to focus
on that he has not done, and I think it's
time that somebody held him account for that.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Okay, first, this is majorly, majorly, majorly important for every
single person watching, and I'm going to explain why. Here
is how it has worked for the longest time. You
see right now, maybe you're frustrated with the lack of
action from Congress. Why can't we get something good out
(02:04):
of the House. Why can't we get something good out
of the Senate? Trump's been there, it's been three months.
Where are the good bills? Why are we not Where
are we not codifying this into law? Why is it
the House? Why is it the Senate doing anything? Why
don't they do anything? Okay, well, allow me to explain
why they don't do anything. They don't do anything because
the long serving establishment Republicans they're the ones that hold
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the bulk of the power and the House and the Senate.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
You see, if you've been there for.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
A really long time, what you've done with that length
of time is you have managed to buy influence.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
You have managed to.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Figure out the ways to suck up to the DC swamp.
And when you suck up to the DC swamp, what
happens is money comes pouring into your campaign will use.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Actually a perfect example of.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
This would be the defense industry in this country, the
military industrial complex.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
It's a perfect example of this.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
If you're a Republican senator, you can look and find
all the waste and fraud in our defense sector, and
it's staggering, and you would think tackling that kind of
theft from the taxpayer would be a priority. But you
know what actually fills the campaign coffers. Sucking up to
the defense contractors. You pass another ridiculous trillion dollar defense
(03:24):
bill full of waste lo and behold Boeing raytheon. All
the defense contractors will write you large checks to keep
you in power. With those checks, your campaign coffers fill up.
You get to run for reelection every two years or
six years, depending on if you're the House in the
House of the Senate, and what you do is you
take that large quantity of money that you've hoovered up
(03:47):
from the DC swamp and you flood the airwaves. Today
it would be more social media because that's where a
lot of the campaign advertising's done. But you turn on
the news at night and you see commercials about how conservative,
how right wing you are, all close up, I'll fight
for you. They're flooding YouTube everything with that. Now, they
don't do anything. In fact, they harm the country until
(04:07):
it's time to get re elected, where they spend millions
and millions and millions of dollars telling the brain dead
GOP primary voter how far to the right they are
and how much there's report President Trump. And that is
exactly how we haven't gotten anything done because we can't
get these people out of Washington, because the GOP primary
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voter continues to elect the same losers over and over
and over again. We elect them, they go back to Washington.
They are the heads of these really important committees and
they stop any and all reform. They are there, John
Cornyn and his types, they are there to protect the swamp.
They wear a Republican label but that is their central role,
(04:49):
and they know that's their central role. They are the
ultimate in controlled opposition. Are you angry about the communism
that has flooded the United States of America. One of
the main reasons communism has flooded this country and more importantly,
this government, is because people like John Cornyn will stick
their foot in the door to keep it open enough
(05:09):
so the communists can get in. He is there to
ensure the enemy has access to destroy you, and he's
been successful at it for twenty four years now. That's
why we don't get anything done in the House. That's
why we don't get anything done in the Senate.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
And so.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
The reason they keep screwing us over we just kind
of talked about it. The reason Republicans like James Langford
will try to pass an amnesty bill, which he did
last year. The reason John Cornyan will pass a gun
control bill. He worked with Democrats to pass a gun
control bill after Uvalde. The reason he does that is
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John Cornyn. Honestly, if you have to defend him, John
Cornyn gets it. He understands the game. He understands that
he can do these things, especially when it's not an
election year. It can screw you, screw me, screw over
the entire country.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Over and over and over again.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
He'll raise enough money to lie about it when election
season rolls around.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
That's how the game has worked.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
John Cornyn has simply been playing the game that works
for a very long time. Screw over the voter for
five years. In year six, take your millions, Tell the
voter you're conservative.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
The voter reelection. Now, how do we change that system?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Because I think you would agree no matter where you are,
we have to change that system. We have to change
the way things are done in order to save the country.
We can't stop communism if John Cornyn is still there
holding the door open for them, if Mitch McConnell was there,
if James Langford is there, if Tom Tillis is there,
if Bill Landry is there, if Mike Grounds is there,
(06:49):
If you get the idea, we can't stop the communists.
If these losers are still there, aiding and abetting them.
We have to start taking them out in primaries. You're
not going to take out John or in a general election,
and you wouldn't want a Democrat in there any way.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
The only way is to.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Replace these people in primaries and if we want the
others to straighten up, If we want John Thune to
stop being useless, cassidy. If we want him to stop
being useless, did I call him Landry whatever?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Cassidy. If we want him to stop being useless, Mike
rounds till us all of them.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
If we want them to take their Red State Senate
seats and actually do Red State things with them, then
we have to make an example of somebody.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Do you know what decimation is? You ever heard that
term decimation?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
A lot of people falsely believe that decimation means.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Everybody is wiped out. That's not true.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Actually, the term decimation comes from Latin, and the term
came from the Roman Army. You see, and when a
Roman Army unit showed cowardice or failed terribly on the
field of battle, they would draw straws, for lack of
a better way to put it, And what would happened
was they would take ten men, and one of them
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only one, the guy who got the short straw, he
would be beaten to death by the other nine men
in his unit. Why that's awful, isn't it. Why though, Well,
you only got to make an example of one or
two guys and the rest of them realize, you're dead,
(08:31):
dead serious.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
If Texas, if the.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
GOP primary voter of Texas, and yes there will be
ways nationally you can contribute, But if the GOP primary
voter of Texas is successful in taking out a useless
loser like John Cornyn in a primary, it will send
a message to the Mike Rounds of the world, hey,
be really, really, really careful, because we'll come for you next.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
John coynn responded, Here's what he said.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Do you have any level of concern about Paxton running
to the right of you in his primary?
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Well, the biggest potential loser is President Trump's agenda. I've
been a supporter of the President during his first term
of office and that's continued during his current term. Mister
Paxton has a checkered background. He is a con man
and a fraud and I think the people of Texas.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
Know that.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
What you just heard was a poll tested response from
John Cornyn and get ready for a lot of it.
Right now, Ken Paxton is pulling comfortably ahead of John
Cornyn in a primary.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
That's good news.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
The bad news is this, John Cornyn has a strategy here,
a strategy that it might work The strategy is this
Operation Trump Suck Up. That's what it is. He's already
running ads out there. Look at what a big supporter
of Trump is. Me and Trump, Trump and me, Me
(10:09):
and Trump, Trump and me. That'll be the theme of
the corning campaign. I love Trump, Trump's my best friend.
I love Trump Trump this and Trump that, and that
brings us to our risk here. You've heard me rant
about it before. Donald Trump is very good at a
lot of things. In fact, we're going to talk about
the tariff stuff from China today.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
We'll talk about the good for sure.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
But if you had to point out a flaw, Donald
Trump is the worst selector of who to endorse in
a primary I think I've ever seen in my entire life.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
It's just terrible at it.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
When it comes to internal GOP politics, he will try
to primary Chip Roy and Thomas Massey and the next
day he will endorse Lindsey Graham. He's just really, really
bad at GOP politics. And as we speak the rumor
Mill in DC, he says that Senate Leader John Thune
(11:05):
is working very very hard lobbying Donald Trump to endorse
John Cornyn. We have an opportunity here to take out
a rhino to do something really important for the entire
United States of America. Let's cross our fingers. Trump doesn't
torpedo our efforts. All that may have made you uncomfortable,
(11:29):
but I am right. We have a huge show for
you here. We'll talk to Julio Ross about the border
and other things. Before we get to Julio, I'm going
to talk to you about national crisis that doesn't involve
John Cornyan but clearly has affected him.
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Speaker 6 (12:38):
Media.
Speaker 7 (12:41):
I just wanted to ask you how it feels to
see that the United States has a secure border now
that President Trump is an office as opposed to when
you were Secretary of Homeland Security.
Speaker 8 (12:54):
Do you have any regret facilitating and open border, sir?
Water crossings are down? Do you regret allowing the nanda
and I'll go into gang a football in the United States, Sir.
You don't have anything to say, sir by your time
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as Homeland Security secretary facilitating an open border.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
You know what makes me so angry about that clip?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Honestly, it's just I could feel my blood pressure rising
as we bring in Julio Rossaus, national correspondent with the Blaze.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
What drives me crazy is.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
They were walking by yet another restaurant that was being
built in the airport. Are there any of these restaurants
that are actually open or is every single airport in
the country building a good restaurant that you.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Can't eat and drink at yet? Juli'll talk about that.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
Well, thankfully, because since I travel so much, I use
the Centurion Lounge or whenever that's available to me.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
So I'll let you.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
I'll let you deal with those restaurants.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Okay, Tommy Topper, I didn't realize that's what we were
going to do today, Julio. Some of us don't have
access to the Centurion Lounge. Okay, I don't even know
what that is, but it sounds Roman. What was it like, though,
speaking to the former head of DAHS, the man who
facilitated the barbarian invasion of the country that you and
I love so much.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
I mean, it was weird just because obviously this is
a man that I had paid a lot of attention into. Obviously,
you know, during the entire Biden Harris administration. The last
time I was able to ask him a question was
during the Haitian Bridge crisis in Del Rio, Texas, and that.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
Was all the way back in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
He obviously, he as you imagine, he wasn't too happy
with my question even back then, and so it was
it was it was just weird just because I wasn't
expecting to see him when I was traveling to Washington, DC,
and once I realized that, oh he's here and I
can actually, finally, after all this time, ask him stuff.
So I I obviously wanted to say a lot of things,
(15:04):
but to remain professional, I wanted to, you know, make
sure I asked the right questions.
Speaker 6 (15:09):
I understand there's a lot of things that I, you know,
thinking back on.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
It, which I wish I could have also asked, although
obviously I'm sure that his answer would have remained the same,
which is which was obviously nothing.
Speaker 6 (15:20):
But it's it's it's just another reminder that, yeah, this
guy did this for four years. He stayed the entire time.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
You know, people could say, well, maybe he was trying
to fight it on the inside and you know, maybe
not have just disagree with it.
Speaker 6 (15:34):
He's like, well, okay, that's fine. But then he could
have left.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
He could have quit, He could have said that this
isn't working, but he but he didn't. He made his
choice to stay and continue to follow the orders from
the White House to open our borders, allow this invasion,
and you'll come hell or high water.
Speaker 6 (15:51):
And so I understand people have a lot of questions
as to why he's not in jail. That's another that's.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Another fair question, and that's something that I hope the
Trump administration at least addresses at some point in the
near future, because the damage that this man did to
our country is profound, it's long lasting, and it's creating
all these problems right now that the trumpministration is having
to clean up.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
And as we can.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Probably guess, it's probably all not going to be entirely
solved at the end of President Trump's second term.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
No, of course it won't.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
You're not removing twenty million people in four years. It's
easier to bring them in and get them out. It's
just not possible. And I honestly, I'm glad you brought
up the evil the trees and this nature of it, Julio,
because I just can't get it out of my mind
how inherently evil all this was. These people created an
app to facilitate, not to allow, to facilitate the invasion
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of our country. People forget our taxpayer dollars, created an
app for foreigners to come into the country.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
It's just so bonkers, it doesn't seem real.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
And the whole reason why they did that is because
the optics of thousands of people crossing the border every
illegally was tanking the numbers, and so they said, well,
we have to do something.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
It's like, well, if we abuse the parole authority that
we have, and we can, and we'll let this let
them in.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
You know, day by day through this app that that
will make things better for us politically, and of course
that's not Thankfully people didn't buy that lie, right, people
didn't buy this. Well, everything's fine now because there's CVP one,
because then we got cases. In some ways, it's even
worse because now we got cases of where they're supposedly
being you know, checked out with their background and criminal history,
(17:34):
and okay, they're good to go, and they just purposefully
released these people who want on to commit perfect crimes.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
So and it's all through the APP, right, And so
I it's it is very angry.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
I mean, it's I've been feeling better about it. I
mean I just come back from all pass so recently.
Obviously nothing is happening there these days compared to four
years ago or you know, during those four years, but
just because that it's finally over and things are now
going in the.
Speaker 6 (18:02):
Right direction, Like I said, people need to be held
accountable for it.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
And I it's unfortunate that the default, the expected response
is like, well, they're probably not going to get away,
you know, they're probably probably nothing's going to happen to them.
And and yeah, I mean he's just walking freely through
the airport with what I presume to be his wife,
and and they're just going about their day as if
nothing happened.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
And so even though yes, I.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Know, I I guess that he wasn't going to answer
my questions, he wasn't going to like my.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
Questions, it's just to at least it was to.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Tell him, hey, people don't forget you know, there's still
there's still people out here that still you know, want
answers from you because you were a big part of this.
And uh, you know, if if another opportunity arises to
question him again, obviously I'm more than happy to do that.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
But it's just it's just it was. It was.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
It was a very profound moment, just for me personally,
just because I spent so much time at the border.
I've seen I've been tracking it and seen it, and
so to finally you have two minutes, right to to
to just hit him with questions and and to you know,
have his non response sink in.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
It was I mean, admittedly it was satisfying.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
It was really satisfying for me, even though it wasn't
obviously well we want it necessarily.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Yeah, Wellio, how were things in old Passo at the border.
A lot of people don't know what l Passo means,
the pass in Mexican.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
What was it like down there?
Speaker 4 (19:31):
The Border Patrol agent that I was with, we were
the it was early morning, the sun was rising, and
he said something that I I hadn't.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
Thought of in a while, which was it was very peaceful.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
It was actually peaceful, right, and you just had you
just had the chickens in the neighboring Mexican border town
that we were just just you know, they're they're, they're.
Speaker 6 (19:51):
They're the only noise being made.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
But it was crazy, right, I mean, that was the
first time I was able to actually do anything with
Border Patrol October of twenty twenty Ina in the old
Passo sector.
Speaker 6 (20:03):
That's all.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
That was the last time I was able to do
anything with them in any official capacity because obviously, once
things got out of control, the Biden DHS didn't want
media to be with the Border Patrol to actually see
the first time what was happening. So we had to
go through Texas DPS, we had to go through the
Border Patrol Union, we had to find all these different
we had to go into Mexico, uh.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
To to to see things front from that side, right,
and that obviously has.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Its own dangers, but but we did it because we
couldn't go through the official United States Border patrol. So
I'm thankful that the Trump administration has opened access back
up again to that. But of course now now things
are over and the store, the story itself isn't over right,
and there there there there is always going to be problems.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
At our border.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
But it is just I mean, it's it's a night
and day difference, right and and and we know that.
But to see that finally, when you know Al Passo,
you know they had the bum.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
Rush at one of the bridges.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
That was where Venezuelan's uh stormed and and attacked that
you the National guardsmen, it's where they had those street
releases in the middle of winter because they couldn't Borderchol
couldn't hold anybody, so they had to release them out
into the street.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
And they're homeless.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
So the El Passo has been through a lot, along
with obviously the rest of the rest of the border.
So to see just things actually normal and things how
they are actually supposed to be with a secure border. Again,
it was weird. It was it was weird, but it
was good to know that at least for now. This
is this is how things are going to be. And
I can tell you that the majority Latino residents along
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the border are very very happy that things are finally
you know, there's not a border crisis on their backyard anymore.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
But they are Oh they are seper five. Brother, Thank you.
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Speaker 9 (22:57):
I think that's unfortunate that the ch actually don't want
to come and negotiate because they are the worst defenders
in the international trading system. They have the most imbalanced
economy in the history of the modern world. And I
can tell you that this escalation is a loser for them.
That they have some very smart the economists, the academicians,
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technocrats within their bureaucracy, and they would be telling the
leadership that we do not have the edge here. They
are the surplus country that they're exports to the US
are five times our exports to China, so they can
raise their terrorists.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
But so what, Well, it looks.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Like the Trump administration was dead serious about China.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
I don't know. I can't help but wonder if.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
This wasn't all about China all the time. Given the
new announcement today joining me now to talk about it.
Former Congressmen and currently Senior Vice President of Business Engagement.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
At Liberty University, Dave Brett.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Dave Trump administration just slapped a big one twenty five
percent on China and told everyone else, Ah, you're getting
ninety days off.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
What's going on here?
Speaker 10 (24:16):
Well, I think, seriously, what's going on is he's trying
to bring the era of globalism to an end. That's
seriously what I think is going on. Tariffs is part
of that story. This was an ingenious move, right, you know,
who knows what's pre planned, But the rest of the
world does appear willing to negotiate. And it's not just
on tariff's right. Tariff's probably about one third of the story,
(24:38):
and two thirds is non tariff barriers, and the American
people have not been educated on that. On the dumping
and the federal government subsidies, in the stealing and cheating
on intellectual property and manipulating the currency, all of those
pieces are used, and they have been ripping us off
for the past forty years.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Right.
Speaker 10 (24:59):
For a while, we were willing to let that go. Right,
We set up the Bretton Woods Liberal Order after World
War Two, and we encourage that because we wanted everybody
to be on our side against Russia. But now China
is posing a serious existential threat, and so I this
latest news, right, now is just cornered. China isolated them.
(25:20):
We're decoupling from them. It's hurt the hedge funds more.
My only concern is for the you know, the grandparents
out there and the senior folks. I hope they're not
selling off right. Just just get with a financial advisor
and make sure you're doing something that's stable over the
long term.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Okay, that actually brings me perfectly to something. Kevin O'Leary,
This clip's making arounds. Here's what he said on the news.
Speaker 11 (25:45):
One hundred and four percent tariffs and China are not enough.
I'm advocating four hundred percent. I do business in China.
They don't play by the rules. They've been in the
WHO for decades. They have never abided by any of
the rules they agreed to when they came in for decades.
They cheat, they steal, they steal ip I can't litigate
in their courts. They take product, technology, they steal it,
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they manufacture.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
It and sell it back.
Speaker 11 (26:09):
Here never has an administraty. I want she on an
airplane to Washington to level the playing field. It is
not about tariffs anymore. Four hundred percent tariffs. Tomorrow morning,
he'll tell you why she can only stay the supreme
leader if people are employed, if we wipe out any
(26:32):
business there. Because we are still thirty nine percent of
all consumables on Earth and twenty five percent of the
world's GDP. America is the number one economy on Earth.
With all the cards, we will not have that forever.
It's time to squeeze Chinese heads into the wall now.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Dave, do we have all the cards? That seems like
an over sell.
Speaker 10 (26:56):
No, I not by much. With China, we hold all
of cards. As Besent said, right their trade, you know,
it's half their GDP. Our imports as a percentage of
GDP in the US are only fourteen percent. So we
can afford to play cards with China. Maybe not the
whole world immediate. But what's striking as no one else
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is saying this right the Wall Street Journal, the Economist magazine,
JP Morgan, Jamie Diamond, Where are they? Where's the house?
Where's the Senate? On these issues? They're all trading quarterly
profits up to the last minute. China is doing five
trillion dollars worth of manufacturing a year. The US is
doing half of that two and a half trillion. China
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has one hundred trillion dollar capital stock to work with.
We only have seventy trillion. Productivity in this country has
been falling for seventy years in a row, according to
the world expert at Northwestern University Bob Gordon. That's why
CBO and the Federal Reserve has growing at two percent
for the next thirty years. Where's the plan. Who's got
an alternative plan? So Trump's got a plan. It looks
(28:00):
like it's starting to work. We got, you know, one
hundred billion coming in from Taiwan chips, five hundred billion
from Apple, reshoring from other Asian supply chains, and example
after example already right before things have even kicked in.
And so I think it's the right move. Any move
doing anything gets you know, all the status quo and
(28:24):
all the money makers upset. But this is the right
thing for the American people. We've forgotten about Detroit and
all the cities that have been gutted. People are talking
about higher import prices. I'm more concerned about the people.
Five million manufacturing jobs that have been lost. Where we've
lost the families have lost their income, the surrounding service
jobs have lost their core industries. It's in Lynchburg Virginia.
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It's in Detroit where I was born. You don't need
to go far. And that's my main concern is we
got to get America working with capital again. China's been
working with capital. They somehow grew at ten percent GDP
for a decade with a huge tariff and cheating regime. Right,
where are the experts on that? Where are free trade buddies?
Speaker 6 (29:06):
Right?
Speaker 10 (29:06):
They've all been so wrong and no analysis on this,
And it's time for us to get a fair level
playing field. And Trump's doing it. He's the only one
that's doing.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
It, Dave.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
He announced that there's a ninety day pause on all
the other countries. Hey, China's the one that wanted to escalate,
then we're going to escalate everyone else. You get three
months off. So what is his goal for those countries?
I know Donald Trump is a fair trader, protectionist, whatever
label we want to put on it. He's been that
way for decades. So obviously he believes in tariffs. He
(29:40):
believes in them outright. Is this ninety day pause just
a ninety day pause or is he going to maybe
maybe sweeten the pot for them to go after China?
Speaker 2 (29:50):
What do you think?
Speaker 10 (29:53):
My guess that's ninety days for the rest of the
countries to sharpen their pencils and come back with that
whole host of responses, not just on tariffs. Right Europe,
vander Ursula, vander Leyden came back, So we're going to
zero tariffs on manufacture. No, no, no, no, they got
the bat They got all sorts of import controls. The
car flows from Germany and the US are bizarre, the
(30:16):
flows on agriculture of bizarre. Trump's giving them, you know,
a little pause, go do your homework, come back with
fair proposal for US where you get rid of the
cheating and the government subsidies, the low cost prior to this.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Right.
Speaker 10 (30:31):
The Also, the important point is the economic experts, supposedly
we're saying the only response to this is we have
to just grow our monopolies in our oligarchs. Right. The
only way is to grow massive firms so that we
can generate low costs to compete with China.
Speaker 6 (30:47):
No.
Speaker 10 (30:48):
I don't want that world either. That is not the
world of Adam Smith and James Madison. We want a
lot of small firms duking it out. Small factions from
Madison in the constitutionals rock these were geniuses that we're
looking out for America. For this country. The CEOs or
the Fortune five hundred unfortunately have not been looking out
(31:08):
for the country's best interest. And so this is a
classic fight between Main Street and Wall Street. And Trump's
the only person in recent history that's really put up
a fight for the American people. So I'm I couldn't
be more thankful.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
What's going on with the Panama Canal, Dave, Pete Hagsath
was down there with some strong words who he was.
Speaker 10 (31:32):
I want to be very clear.
Speaker 12 (31:35):
China did not build this canal. China does not operate
this canal, and China will not weaponize this canal.
Speaker 10 (31:45):
Together, with Panama.
Speaker 12 (31:47):
In the lead, we will keep the canal secure and
available for all nations through the deterrent power of the strongest,
most effective, and most lethal fighting force in the world.
Speaker 6 (32:01):
We will do this in.
Speaker 12 (32:03):
Partnership with Panama. Together, we will take back the Panama
Canal from China's influence.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Dave, take it back from what did China do with
the canal?
Speaker 10 (32:18):
Well, they're encroaching everywhere, right on every island chain there
is all around the world. They're building up artificial islands there.
They've been gently taking control of land and territory and
property rights claims around the canal. We our original contract
with what was with Panama had certain conditions attached to
(32:38):
Some of those conditions have been violated, and so I
think Hegsath is just laying down the law. Our national
security and our economic security will not be compromised by China. Right,
And you know, so everyone's you know, the left, it's
just astounding of the moral equivalency. So they'll say, well,
then you've got to give Taiwan to China along the
(32:59):
same lines. No, the moral equivalence he has to do
with freedom and liberty. Right, the Chinese are oppressing their people,
they have slave labor, so they're not entitled to the
same rights of taking over Taiwan. For hemispheric reasons. We
are not attacking any Asian country up there. We in fact,
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we've paid the entire bill for the post World War
II liberal Bretonwood's Order. It was called we provided our defense.
We're in the Red Sea of protecting European trading lanes.
I think we only do four or five percent of
the trade through the Red Sea and through the ports
up there. We're paying the entire bill for Europe, and
so Trump's sick of it and same here. Right, we
(33:45):
put this thing into place and it's a US asset
and he wants to keep it that way.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Dave, my brother, come back soon. I appreciate you as always.
All right, Selena Zito wants to talk about the russ belt.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Talk to her.
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Before we talked to Selena, let me talk to you
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of companies, a lot they licked their finger and they
stuck it in the air, and now there are a
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com slash jessetv.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
We'll be back.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Well, we talk about the economies, economics, tariffs, taxes, that
we talk about all these things, and I've always tried
to be wary of talking about them from just the
thirty thousand foot view. What this means for macroeconomics, not
that that's not unimportant, but what does it mean on
the ground for people. Somebody who's really, really, really good
(35:33):
at this is probably the best in the country at
this is Selena Zito selenazito dot com. By the way,
she has a free newsletter. I should point out wonderful
author writers, Selena Zito. She's always talking about these things. Selena,
I have in my possession. You and I have talked
about this before. From my childhood in Ohio a little
penknife my father gave me God rest his soul, and
(35:54):
on that pen knife it says weird and steel. That
was the kind of family we were. We're in steel today.
Speaker 6 (36:02):
Let's go.
Speaker 13 (36:03):
I mean, actually, what makes it so sad is it's
still standing there. It's just and if you have any
images left in your memory, it is this big as
President Trumble. It's in this big, beautiful plant. It's massive,
it's miles along the river, and it fed and made
lives prosper for one hundred years in that valley, in
(36:28):
the Ohio Valley, and it's now as of last week,
as of last year, it's gone. There was an economic
trade agreement in the Biden administration that killed them on tariffs,
and so you know, that was the end of it.
And just for perspective, it wasn't just the largest employer
(36:48):
in the region, it was the largest private employer in
the entire state of West Virginia.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
Selena.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
People don't really take that into account, and it's understandable.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
Everyone has a different lot in life, a different perspective.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
But when I was a child, everybody I lived in Toronto, Ohio,
everybody worked for the plant or something plant adjacent. If
you didn't work at the plant, you worked in a
diner that served breakfast to the guys who worked at
the plant.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
The plant was the town.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
What did people like Joe Biden do to destroy the plant?
Speaker 13 (37:30):
Well, it's been years and years of bad economic decisions,
bad trade deals, lots of tariffs that have made the
industry in our country non competitive. Even though we make
the best deal in the country, it is as cheap,
it is not as cheap as what you get from
(37:50):
other countries, in particular China. China is basically the bad
guy in this, and their steel is also inferior. People
read the story that I wrote. There is, as you said,
an adjacent industry that uses US steel. But if US
steel goes away, he is left with very few options
(38:15):
to purchase steel for the military vehicles that he makes.
And because the Chinese steal is just bad, it's just
not good, and he's not going to put our military
and inferior products.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
Why is Chinese steel bad?
Speaker 13 (38:33):
It's just made cheaply, it's not made well. They don't
have the same work ethos there that they have here.
They don't you have the same access to the kinds
of minerals, I mean very mineral mineral rich in West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana,
the place in Michigan, places where steel thrived. It's the
(38:54):
best of the best in terms of making the product,
but also the workers are the best of the best.
I mean, read that story. Those guys take this incredibly seriously.
It's not a job. There are artisans, and it is
a calling, and they don't think they're doing something that's
good for them. They think they're doing something they believe
(39:16):
they're doing something that makes all American lives better, safer,
and it is part of being something bigger than self.
They almost look at it as very patriotic.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
You're, of course referencing wonderful article you wrote. Sent it
to me from West Mifflin, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
Tell me about it.
Speaker 13 (39:38):
West Mifflin, Pennsylvania is in the Man Valley. There are
three US Steel plants there. There is the Urban Works
which that I was in with the You see the
beautiful photos of the rolling mill. There's although so that
Edgar Thompson works in Braddock and the Clareton Works. Only
only coke coke makers in the entire country. You neat
(40:00):
coke to make steel, and they are all in jeopardy
with the sale of new US Steel to Nipon. Now,
initially these workers didn't really care for the idea of
being sold to a Japanese company. You have to remember,
US Steel is the first billion dollar company in the world.
(40:22):
It was the largest company in the country when it
was founded in nineteen oh two. And so the idea
of US Steel being Nipon Steels, Like, wait a minute, right, Japan,
those are the guys that were dumping steel in the
seventies and so but after talking to the executives at Nipon,
(40:45):
after meeting with them, you know, hundreds and hundreds of
times since December or twenty twenty three, the local steel
Workers Local two two two seven are on board with
this sale. There is because they're going to invest in
the rolling mill that you're showing. It's eighty six years old.
It was so awesome to be there and see it
(41:07):
and see it function and work, to watch these guys work.
But it needs billion dollar refitting to be redone, and
Nippon has has offered i think up to seven billion dollars.
They have offered to keep the name US Steel and
(41:27):
the headquarters still in Pittsburgh. Now, the only two people
that were against it last year was the head of
their union, the United steel Workers International, which is based
in Cleveland, and Joe Biden. Donald Trump was not as
sort of vocal about not doing the deal. You know,
(41:51):
with him, there's always sort of a nuance. And he
has been meeting since February with the Prime Minister of Japan,
the head of Nippon the ahead of US Steel and
the local steel workers to get a deal done. I
expect we will see one not too distant future.
Speaker 1 (42:10):
Parther and Trump also talked yesterday about coal.
Speaker 14 (42:13):
Here he was for four long years, Joe Biden and
Congressional Democrats tried to abolish the American coal industry. They
did everything in their power while he was awake, which
wasn't much, shutting down dozens of coal plants, banning call
leases on federal lands, and putting thousands and thousands of
(42:35):
coal miners out of work.
Speaker 15 (42:36):
The first of these executive orders is it may be
one of the most significant executive orders of your administration
thus far. This directs all departments and agencies of the
federal government to end all discriminatory, discriminatory policies against the
coal industry. This ends the leasing moratorium that prevents new
(42:57):
coal projects on federal land, and it's going to clerate
all permitting and funding for new coal projects to allow
the coal industry to flourish under your leadership.
Speaker 5 (43:06):
Sir, that's great, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (43:12):
So, Lena. That probably matters for the rustbelt a little bit.
Speaker 13 (43:16):
It matters a lot. I've been in a couple dozen
coal mines. Coal mine is not what you think it is.
It's not a guy with a pick, you know, crawling underground.
It's a very technology driven industry. It's a very clean industry.
The industry has changed dramatically in the past fifteen years.
That was another one of my great thrills as a reporter,
(43:38):
to be able to go down into the coal mine,
ride the man car out the to the coal wall.
It only takes a couple hours to go from that
coal wall up to processing, onto a short line railroad,
onto a barge, into a coal fired power plant and
lighting up your house. And we need an abundance of
(44:01):
energy we are now. You know, it was the arms
race when we were when I was young. Today it's
the race for AI dominance. Those AI powered data centers
desperately need electricity, and a lot of it. They're not
going to be able to get it from solar or wind.
(44:21):
They're going to get it from three entities, natural gas, coal,
and nuclear. They just announced a natural power plant in
western Pennsylvania. The shovel ready, it's ready to start next week.
Ten thousand jobs, ten billion dollars invested in this power plant.
(44:42):
That doesn't even include the jobs and the buildout for
the AI Power data center. Look for a lot of
that across the rust Belt because the infrastructure is already there.
Speaker 2 (44:56):
She is Selena Zito.
Speaker 1 (44:58):
By the way, I want to encourage you to go
by her book, Butler. She was there when they shot
Donald Trump in the head, so go pick that up.
Speaker 2 (45:05):
It's of course wonderful. Like everything she writes is Selina.
Thank you, ma'am.
Speaker 1 (45:09):
I appreciate you very very much. All Right, we have
light in the mood. We're gonna hear from you next.
All right, it is time to lighten the mood. And
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(45:52):
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your thoughts on Easter in ham My thoughts on it
are this. I'm very very pro Easter because I believe
in Jesus. I despise him because I believe in taste.
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hundred percent correct. I like Jose a lot here and
I should be friends. Ken Bright accused me of quote
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YouTube channel YouTube dot com slash at Jesse kellydc One
final little one quote, garlic bread rules the world, and
all others are pretenders to the throne. As I've said
many many times before, once garlicbread was invented, is.
Speaker 2 (47:24):
There a purpose to other bread.
Speaker 1 (47:26):
It's like gravy once somebody figured out that we can
put sausage in it. Once we got sausage gravy, why
would I ever have regular gravy, same type of thing anyway,
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