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April 7, 2025 • 14 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Brippart News International editor Francis Martel me you and our
liaison Elizabeth, who's just fantastic over at Breitbart. I had
to give my cell number for whatever, for whatever reason,
and I was like, and love you guys, ladies, just
hang out to no reply, just just no re When

(00:20):
when I heard the crickets, I was like, well, all
right then, okay, let's keep this professional here and I'm.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Right on the broadcast. Thousands of people can listen in.
You know, we love you and we're so grateful to
be part of this, and we have so much fun.
That part's really important too. It is really fun what
we do here.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Well, you know, I love you here. This is this
might be my favorite Francis story ever. And it just
happened because I don't I kind of don't know how
you still have the gig. Here's how. Here's how I
found out about what I do about Corey Booker last
week because I didn't you know, I didn't know he
was in the midst of that nonsense or what he

(00:59):
was even saying. But all of a sudden, in my feed,
I got a notification when you you tweet and you
tweeted him in the midst of his breakdown, I don't
know what that was his record breaking not a filibuster
but really a filibuster and your commentary on it as
breit Bart News International editor Francis Martel reposts it and writes, Bro,

(01:25):
what the.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
I didn't even know what.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
I didn't know what to do with that. I'm like,
what is? What?

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Did?

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Bro? What the?

Speaker 2 (01:34):
So?

Speaker 1 (01:34):
I had to play it and you it is true,
you do emerge from that like that. You're not really
saying anything. But I mean, I guess that wasn't his goal.
His goal is to just speak for twenty five hours
and yet not call it a filibuster. I don't really
get why.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Well, I mean, you can't call it a filibuster if
it's not about a bill or anything. That's the issue.
So I you know, the time that I spent trying
to sayigure this out, that was actually the most informative
commentary I could share on this road. Why Row, what
is even happening? It even happening? Because I spent a

(02:13):
lot of that day asking my colleagues, asking people that
I know are intelligent, why is this going on? And
I kept naively asking is there a bill? Is he
protesting a bill is their legislation? Is there any concrete
reason for any of this, because you would, you know,
you'd go about your day, you'd come back to the desk,
and then he would be yelling about something totally incoherent.

(02:36):
And you know, this is, as a Jersey girl, a
tremendous embarrassment. And you know, I may get a lot
of heat for this, but when I said Bob Menendez
was our goods senator, this is what I mean. This
was the other guy. So you know, it was a
political stump, but it was also a tremendous waste of time.
And the thing that bothers me about it is that
these people are paid to do their jobs. If I

(02:58):
spent twenty five hours of my job yelling about nothing
instead of and not even you know, it's taking up
space in the office, like just yelling instead of doing
anything productive, the least I would get is a suspension,
right yeah, And my job is nowhere near as important
as a senator's job. And yet you see, these people

(03:19):
waste everybody's time. And they also want you to believe,
by the way that because of Trump, America is in
a huge make or break crisis. The country's crumbling, it's
in shambles. You know, we're the Roman Empire. They're constantly
going on about how terrible things are are. But then
they still have time for this. If the situation were
what they say it is, then get to work. You

(03:41):
have a job to this country. So either things aren't
as bad as they want us to believe, or they
really just don't care and are happiness. See the country
just drown.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
It's so funny to hear you go to that place
of how's this guy? That's all I said last week
with regard to our own senator Connecticut's on Chris Murphy,
who just seems to be on some sort of a
tour that I think we're underwriting. I don't get how
his day isn't comprised of more than him shooting videos

(04:14):
to post from his kitchen table. Where Trump this Trump
that Trump, get on planes, go to Michigan and you know,
be in a small little auditorium with a room full
of old people and fear monger and get little I
don't know if you saw one little girl's like, I'm
afraid my kid, my friends in school won't have free

(04:37):
lunch anymore. He's come up here come and instead of
making her feel better, he's like, now, maybe we'll do
even more because you care. He just didn't make the
kid feel any better about something that's not even gonna happen.
But I don't know how they're getting away with it.
So it's so funny to hear you ask the same question.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
Yeah, things are so bad, what are you doing about it?
And the free launch thing triggering for me as someone
who had high cholesterol and first grade. I feel like
I think it's used a lot of less free lunch
when I was a kid and four, so the idea
that you know, free lunch has just been an unadulterated
good when when our schools are handing out you know,
giant the cheese pizzas at at eleven am. The small

(05:20):
kiss is incredible. That's sort of a side point, but
just to get at you know, even their solutions are
just creating more problems. You know, if our healthcare system
is so bad, which I don't disagree, it's you know,
we have to do something to fix our healthcare system.
But if it's so terrible, why are we feeding children
seven pounds of cheese at eleven am and for free?

(05:42):
You know, the poor kids. Not some wealthy kids obviously
that go to nice school, but the kids like me
who grew up, you know, sharing a bedroom with mom
and dads who were teenagers. Those kids get the five
pounds of cheese as lunch and the sloppy Joe's that
we don't even know what they're made out of, and
that you know, you know, that creates a bigger problem,
and then they can complain that we need socialized healthcare

(06:04):
because all the kids are overweight.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
You know, I don't even mean to do this, but
this is the nature of our relationship. And it's like
you said at the outset here, it's kind of a
one of the good things about this segment that we do.
But a more professional broadcaster probably would steer clear of
all these digressions. But you bring that up, and Francis
all last year, if not the year before, my son's

(06:26):
last two years in high school, he would empty out
his book bag and it would be full of food
from school. And finally, at one point I said to him, like,
what are you doing. He's like, this is the the
hot the free hot lunch, Like nobody was there's there
was such an excess of it that kids like him

(06:50):
who's in a fine position, were being told it's just
all going to go to waste, Like, guys, take it,
bring it home. We're so overrun with our free hot
lunch program, we're throwing most of it away. So, uh,
that's another problem. Another PA, You've got to.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
Ask what's the who's the company, what's the catering company
that's making all this food, who owns it, and what's
their relationship to whatever government officials said that we need
this much free foods because that's that's where the corruption is.
Right So, you know, because this is important, right because
we talk about that, you know, the Democrats will come
out and say things that are true, like we need

(07:29):
to fix our healthcare system. You know, we have to
have better health options, better nutrition, education, we need to
help children, especially in poor neighborhoods. They go on about
food desert all the time. All of that is true,
But then if you look at the root causes of
a lot of the problems that they accurately highlight, the

(07:50):
government is exacerbating all of these problems. And I think
it's a really important point, even if it's you know,
it is kind of funny that I get to vent
my grievances against you know, my public school for making
fa But you know, having experienced that personally, I know
it's real and it's scary. And as a parent, you know,
like I'm in a previous position where I can homeschool,
but if you can't, is you know, in this horrible economy,

(08:13):
you have to deal with the fact that, yeah, your
kid's maybe gonna come home with a bunch of food.
If you were a kid like me, I would go
behind the cafeteria and ask to the nice lunch ladies
for an extra pizza every Wednesday because I knew there
was an extra pizza. And then you go to the
doctor and the doctor's school to the parent like, what
are you doing This kid is wildly overweight. Yeah, and
it's not you, it's the school.

Speaker 1 (08:33):
Yeah. But it also flies in face in the face
of the narrative of you know, there are kids who
are going home hungry. Nah. At the very least my experience,
my personal experience is at my son's school, they were
throwing away so much of the food because there weren't
that many hungry kids, or there was so much food,

(08:53):
like nobody was, you know, doing a proper inventory. Perhaps
whatever it was the picture. Your painting is an inaccurate one,
But I do want to get to tariffs with you too.
We've got Breipart News International editor Francis Martell on right now.
The international reaction to the Trump tariffs I saw last night,
and you know, I never know anymore. There's so much

(09:14):
nonsense on social media, but a breaking story. It was
late last night that Taiwan agreed to drop all tariffs
on the United States, joining India, Israel, Vietnam, Cambodia. Over
fifty countries have called to negotiate with Trump so far.
Is that accurate?

Speaker 2 (09:33):
Yeah, that's that's accurate. And that excludes countries that have
publicly made positive comments about the tariffs, which is kind
of incredible when you think about what the media is
saying about them.

Speaker 1 (09:43):
Right, which is why I was skeptical, like, Wow, I
gotta vet this guy. He's got a blue check Sadly,
the blue check mark just doesn't carry that that way anymore.
Because I wonder, you know, before I share this, I
knew I was going to have you, and I wanted
to bounce it off you because it's where to be
found in the mainstream media outside of Breitbart. I don't

(10:04):
even know is Breipart considered mainstream media like you can't
find you can'tnot wait, yeah right, I mean you can't
find anywhere. No, it's just chill, breathe, it's working, which
seems to be the case.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
Yeah. Well, the sort of Canarian the coal mine example
for me of like how bad is this is? So
there's only one libertarian president in the world. In modern history,
only one libertarian party has won the head of state
position in a country. And that's how the Emile in Argentina.
He was in Florida last week. He was saying that

(10:39):
he has not panicked. He has not said a single
ill word about the tariffs. All he has said is
I want free trade with America and I want to
negotiate and this opens the door to me for me
to negotiate more with Trump. And I love Trump. I
have a good relationship with him. So for you to
look at, you know, the mainstream media reaction and the
left wing reaction, which is very strange because government intervention

(11:01):
in the economy is traditionally a left wing thing. They're panicking.
The libertarians are more consistently panicking because they don't like
it when the government acts in any way. But then
you have the most libertarian president in the world, the
only one completely calm about this and saying, you know,
all we have to do is negotiate out. And that's
kind of what Trump has said. You know. Trump likes

(11:22):
to up the drama on things and make them sound
as you know, as critical as possible, makes people sweat
as much as possible. So maybe this got lost somewhere
in mainstream media reporting, but he said, basically, this is
going to be the baseline of the terroriffs that I
am imposing. If you don't like it, come talk to
me and we'll fix it. And so countries have done that.

(11:44):
There was a delegation from Vietnam here. LESUSU, which is
the country that that Trump made fun of at the
State of the Union, said that you know, no one
knows what that is. He imposed a fifty percent tariff
on LSUSU and they're sending a delegation over. I know
the Cambodians want to talk. The only countries that are
really just going full on hysterical rhetoric are Canada because

(12:07):
they have an election this month. Yeah, China because they're
communists and they hate us, yeah, and the EU because
the EU itself is a cartel and economic cartel that
it's protectionists and they don't like it when other people
do that kind of thing. Everybody else India, India's on board.

Speaker 1 (12:23):
Well, I wanted to ask you about India too, Francis,
if you could sum it up, you know, kind of succinctly.
You know, I'm with you on Canada, I mean, and
I'm a knucklehead, and Canada just it's just all chest
puffing nonsense. China, I think, is a very real threat
in so many ways. Trump knew that going in ten

(12:43):
years ago in the eighties. He was saying, we got
to get right with Channa, we got to balance things
out with China, or we're going to be heading towards
disaster with them. So I see them coming from a
mile away. I don't know what to make of India
right now.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
Well, India's in a very interesting position because India has
one of the most protectionist economic structures in the world.
They go out of their way to tariff everybody in
order to protect Indian factories. And the reason they're doing
that is because they want to replace China as the
manufacturing capital of the world.

Speaker 1 (13:15):
And we outsource a lot to India too. America outsources
tons to India.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
Yeah, and things that I don't think make any sense,
like the asset of minifit and the ibuprofen that you
get to chiep the off brand stuff. A lot of
that stuff is Indian. No reason for us to you know,
pollute the world by having a shipping chipping containers full
of that stuff going around the planet. But we do
get a lot from India, and companies like Apple, the
big tech companies started moving out of China into India

(13:46):
after the pandemic because of the lockdowns, and there were
riots that like the Fox con factory in China had
a massive riot because they lost all the workers in
So that was embarrassing to China and India capitalized on that.
And so now with the you know, India obviously doesn't
want their good tariffs. They want to flood our market
as much as possible, but they are very happy to

(14:08):
see China getting a massive tariff on they're good. So
they basically said, we want to negotiate with the United States.
We have a great relationship with them, and we see
this as an opportunity. And their foreign minister gave this
incredible speech last week where he basically said the era
where big countries are basically underwriting the economies of little countries,

(14:30):
that's over. Everybody's got to work for their own stuff now,
where there's no freebies anymore. And I thought that was
very telling because there was a very trumpy and thing
to say the day after Liberation Day, the tariff day.
So that's kind of where India stands, and I think
it's a smart place to be. I think they know
that if they flatter public there, you know, and if

(14:52):
they could benefit from this, and they know that China
is the big target here and that's absolutely to their
benefit
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