April 9, 2025 • 30 mins
Sean sits down with a contingent of Senate leaders to talk about the session to-date and their efforts to push the Trump agenda.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
I went to d C yesterday and this is very rare.
This is an opportunity that does not come along very often.
But we had the Majority Leader, John Thune, and we
had Senator Ted Cruz and Senator John Kennedy and Senator
Tom Cotton and Senator Tim Scott and Senator Lindsay Graham
and Senator Katie Britt and Mark Wayde Mullins was there,
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and we had a Senate town hall. I don't know
if there's ever been one before, Linda, can you think
of one?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I can't.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
And anyway, it's such an important time with the issue
of reconciliation and making sure that the Trump tax cuts
don't expire. That would be a four trillion dollar tax
increase on the American people. And to make sure that
reconciliation gets pass is a very very critical time. I
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urge everybody to get in touch with their senators, their
their congressmen as well. There are some members in the
House that seem reluctant and resistant. They need to they
need to change, because all this would do if they've
passed this in the Senate is open up the door
to negotiation and then they can get final passage, hopefully
down the road. So we got to get the ball
rolling because we're living under the Biden Harris economy. We
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talked about that. Interestingly, even though there was some critics
of the president's strategy on tariffs, none of them were panicked,
none of them. And we talked all about that too. Anyway,
here's part of that discussion from last night.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
We'll start tonight with Senate Majority Leader John Thune. Senator,
go to see it. You were able to get everyone
united to get the president's cabinet through, not a small task.
You didn't shut the Senate down. You kept it open
for hour after hour after hour. Senator Kennedy wanted to
go home and have a beer, but.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Two, what's that? R?
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Two?
Speaker 4 (01:58):
More?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Two or three? So kudos to you for that. Senator
Lindsey Graham was on my show the other night said
something that's really profound in my view. In the last
hundred years, there's only been four times that Republicans have
had control of the White House, the House, and the Senate.
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This is such a historic opportunity, and maybe it only
lasts two years.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
Tell us what the next steps are.
Speaker 7 (02:27):
Okay, Well, first off, thanks Sean, and thanks to this
team and our vebel Senate Republicans. We did get the
president's cabinet in place the fastest rate in twenty years.
We were in session for ten consecutive weeks for the
first time in fifteen years, and today we have cast
more votes than any Senate going back to the Reagan administration.
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So people are showing up, they're doing the work, and
we have a lot more work ahead of us. But
if you look at what's at stake, the stakes are high.
As you pointed out, we don't get this opportunity very often,
and when it comes along sometimes it doesn't last for
a long So we've got to make the most of
these two years where we got President Trump's leadership in
the White House, and boy, isn't that a welcome relief
from the past four years, working with Republican Senate and
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Republican House to do the things the President campaigned on,
and that's to secure the border, make a generational investment
in doing that, make sure that we're investing in our
national security. So we're prepared for whatever threats exist around
the world, avoiding a four trillion dollar tax increase at
the end of this year, preventing that from happening, and
then restoring American energy dominance. Those are all priorities the
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President campaigned on, and I would add deficit reduction. We
have got to cut spending and that's a priority for
this Senate.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
I'd add too, the next generation and weaponry. We live
in a dangerous world, we do indeed, all right.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
So Senator Graham is the head of the Budget Committee,
and Senator Graham also sat on that show that he
was on that as the head of the Budget Committee,
he can bypass the Senate parliamentarian look to explain reconciliation
to hard working Americans. They get up every day, work hard,
play by the rules. Gets a little bit complicated, but
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the reality is in your body. In the Senate where
you're the majority leader, it gets complicated, and it's not
as complicated in the House. It's a procedure by which
you have very strict rules and regulations. Then you've got
to come together with the House. You guys got to
strike a deal. Explain it in maybe layman's term. So
people that are busy providing for their families every day,
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can really understand why this is important.
Speaker 7 (04:30):
Well, and you're right, it is the quintessential, if you will,
Washington inside baseball game, and even the language around it
is complicated. But the short of it is, we believe,
and in the Senate, at least when you have unified
control of the government House, Senate, White House, which as
you pointed out, we've had a half a dozen less
than that times in the last century, you can do
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things at fifty one votes in the Senate that would
otherwise require sixty. But you got to have maximum cooperation.
You got to have fifty one Senate Republicans to hang together,
you got to have two hundred men team.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
Members of the House, and you've.
Speaker 7 (05:01):
Got to have a president who's willingly sign a bill
into law. We have all those things in place, and
Lindsay has done a great job as the chairman of
the Budget Committee, and we believe the law is very
clear that he has the authority to set what that
baseline is. And there's a lot of conversation around which
baseline you use, but the simple fact of the matter
is we believe that extending the tax relief that was
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passed in twenty seventeen under President Trump ought to be
able to be continued.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
And that isn't something we ought to have to offset
or pay for.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
It is.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
These are policies that are in place. Tax rates should.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
Stay the same on January first of next year as
they are on December thirty first, And as you pointed
out in your lead off to this, some of the
other things that the President's trying to achieve to provide
the American people with tax relief so they can keep
more of their hard earned dollars and spend them the
way they want to spend them, and send us instead
of sending it in to Washington, d C.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
So, if you're not able, and you have a three
vote majority in the Senate and I think we're up
there seven now in the House, and so you have
this our cane maneuver, which for example, was used to
pass Obamacare. I believe it was used to pass the
Inflation Reduction Act, right, Okay, so it's been used in
the past, and the Budget Committee chair pulls that off.
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But you have a very small majority, so you got
to get got to work within the rules, You got
to get it passed in the Senate. And you've got
to get the House to go along with it. They've
got a small majority. I know everybody has whatever their
priorities are. Is everybody fully on board? Do you have
a good feeling that you're going to get the fifty votes,
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hopefully fifty one or two or all fifty three? Do
you believe that the House, having had the conversations with
Speaker Johnson, you'll get it done there too.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
Yeah, Well, shame on us if we don't.
Speaker 7 (06:45):
This is historic in terms of the opportunity, and I
think what's going to motivate all those people, both in
the House and the Senate Republicans? I can't think of
a Republican that would abide a four trillion dollar tax
increase on the American people.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
Let's talk a.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Little bit about you, and then I'll ask the rest
of the group. I just want to know where do
you stand on the issue? And do you think that
the President's obviously seven trillion dollars in committed investments a lot,
obviously seventy plus countries wanted to negotiate, got the world's attention.
How do you think this plays out?
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Well?
Speaker 7 (07:16):
Look, I think the president, there's everybody, we all heard
it he won seventy seven million votes, and there wasn't
a day on the campaign trail where he didn't talk
about terrace.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
It's something he believes in.
Speaker 7 (07:28):
He deserves the opportunity to go get the deals he
can get and to get the reciprocity that we need
with some of these countries that have been taking advantage
of us. And so this is the you know, I
think most most of us up here believe that he
deserves that opportunity. And he and his administration are working
very aggressively, as you know, and have already announced to
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you know, so many countries have come to the table
are looking for deals. So let's give this president some
space to see what he can get done. And obviously
we're all paying close attention to it, but we think
that he campaigned on it. He made it very clear
to the American people what he wanted to achieve in
doing it.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
And I think when it.
Speaker 7 (08:06):
Comes to creating better paying jobs in this country and
growing our economy, making America stronger, and getting investment in
this country, you're already seeing some of that. Some of
these supply chains are coming back home. Let's give this
president an opportunity to see what he can.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
Get done all right.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Joining us now Senators Mark, Wayne Mullen, Katie Britt, John Kennedy,
Lindsey Graham, Tom Cotton, Tim Scott, and Senator Ted Cruz. Again,
thank you all for being Harry. But all of you
are friends of the show, and I thank you for that.
There are some people in your group in the Senate.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
They're not so TV friendly.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Not available ever never, Lindsey, let me go to you
because the Budget Committee, as chair this reconciliation process, really
you're the one that triggered this, which I think is
very important. Otherwise you'd have to get the approval of
the Senate Parliamentary well.
Speaker 8 (08:54):
So it's our belief that elected officials should make big
decisions unelected bureaucrats. I like Deparliamentarian, but it's not her
decision to set the baseline as mine. When Democrats were
in charge, they set the baseline under the Budget Control
out of nineteen seventy four.
Speaker 9 (09:11):
You can spend all the money you want. You don't
have to pay for it. But when you.
Speaker 8 (09:14):
Cut taxes after a period of time, that considers to
be raising the deaf sit. We all know if you
cut taxes, you get more money into the government.
Speaker 9 (09:24):
We all believe that. So by fifty three of us
got together and we change the way the Washington works.
Speaker 8 (09:32):
From here on out, taxes will be treated as spending.
They will be considered not to expire. They don't add
to the debt, they add revenue to the government.
Speaker 9 (09:41):
I made that decision. All these guys back expire.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
The Trump tax cuts are scheduled to expire in December.
Speaker 8 (09:48):
What does it mean nineteen hundred dollars per family. If
you're in business, you're going to lose your deductions expensing.
Child tax credit goes down at ninety We're playing with
real bullets here.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
I just say this.
Speaker 8 (09:58):
The debt selling, the debt extension is President Trump called it.
Speaker 9 (10:03):
We got to pay the credit card bill.
Speaker 8 (10:05):
It comes due if we don't put it in this field,
and we have to get ten Democrats in the Senate
to extend the debt sealing. The price they will want
will be unbelievable.
Speaker 9 (10:16):
They will extort everybody here.
Speaker 8 (10:18):
They will extore President Trump to the people watching tonight.
We got a chance to make the task cuts permanent,
fully fund the border, help the military, get the debt
seling extended without one democratic vote. Only if reconciliation works
four times in one hundred years. If we screw this up,
you should be really pissed. We can't afford to screw
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this up.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Senator Cotton, you'll take and where do you think we
are on the process?
Speaker 10 (10:45):
Well, I think we've taken an important first step last
week in the Senate by passing that budget and sending
to the House. You heard the President just a few
moments ago talking about the need for unity. We obviously
have some differences of opinion here on this or that issue,
along with fifty or two other of my colleagues as well,
but on this we're all unified around the need to
not just extend the twenty seventeen tax cuts, but to
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improve them with some of the ideas that the President
campaigned on that we all campaigned on.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
No time tips.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Exactly, every time, social security, secure our border.
Speaker 10 (11:15):
It's not just a security issue, it's also a quality
of life issue in your communities because the legal migrants
put strain on schools and hospitals and other public services.
Making sure that we're safe abroad as well by funding
our military and getting the price of energy down, whether
it's what you pay for gas at the pump or
your electricity. That's the goals that unite all of us.
That's what we came together around last week with Lindsay
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and John Thune's leadership. And I think that's what Mike
Johnson is going to have in the House later this week.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
Senator Scott to Be. This is the beginning of the
blue collar comeback. Imagine seven trillion is.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
A great line. I wish I'd thought of that.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
We could share it. We could share it.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
I mean, think about it. Though so many Americans feel
invisible in the Biden economy, this is the Trump economy.
Think about seven trillion dollars descending upon the greatest nation
on God's green Earth, creating high paying, high manufacturing jobs.
That means one hundred plus thousand dollars a year coming
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into communities across this country. The first time we did
it to TCJA, we saw more revenue to the Treasury
and we sat four thousand dollars per family in their pockets.
It's the American people's dollars. Let them keep it. This
blue collar come back, it's real because President Trump is
a man we need with a steel spine to get
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the job done.
Speaker 11 (12:35):
Seventy countries It's a good day in America Center Coruse. Look,
failure is not an option. You look at the election
in November. It is as clear a mandate as we've
ever seen from the American people. And I'll tell you
one of the things that I am impressed with in
both the Senate and House is I think Republicans understand
we have a job to do.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
We can't screw this up. Now. What is that job?
Number One?
Speaker 11 (12:58):
The mandates secure the border. That is the single clearest
mandate out of this election. Twelve million people invaded this
country and the American people said enough is enough. And
I got to say, by the way, my favorite line
from the President's State of the Union address is when
he pointed out he said, you know, Joe Biden stood
up here a year ago and said he couldn't secure
the border without new legislation. Well, it turns out we
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didn't need new legislation. We just needed a new president.
We've seen illegal border crossings drop ninety eight percent.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
That's delivering on results.
Speaker 11 (13:29):
But now it's our job to come and provide the
funding to build the wall, to put in technology, to
put in border patrol, to put in ice, to make
sure that we keep our family safe and secure. When
it comes to energy, the American people are fed up
with high energy costs. We want America to lead the
world in energy. When it comes to rebuilding the military,
you're right, it is a dangerous, dangerous world. And when
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it comes to the tax cuts, we're going to extend
the tax cuts.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
It's going to be bumpy. It's always bumpy, and it's.
Speaker 11 (13:58):
Particularly with the House, which has an ex scruciatingly small majority.
But we will get the job done because the alternative
if we do nothing, is an automatic four trillion dollar
tax increase.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
We're not going to let that happen.
Speaker 11 (14:11):
Because if we do, we'll be failing in our jobs.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
That is not acceptable. We'll get the job.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Done, and the President won't let that House doesn't get
it done. They're gonna want They're going to be hurting
themselves again, because as soon as we get away from
the Biden Harris economy, the odds go up exponentially.
Speaker 9 (14:30):
They have a better chance to get it reelected us.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
They're up in two.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Years well, and there are lots of trade offs in it.
Speaker 11 (14:34):
Look, most of us have been part of the process
of tactic a break.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
All right, Well more with our panel.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
We'll get to Senator Kennedy, Mark Wayman. We're just getting started,
as Hannity continues, rely from our nation's capital, straight ahead.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
Thank you for being with us.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
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Speaker 1 (15:22):
So we're in the swamp yesterday. We had a great
group of senators. We continue our discussion talking about reconciliation.
This is a critical critical time for the Senate and
the House it's only the fourth time in one hundred
years that Republicans have had control of the White House,
the House, and the Senate. They've got to get this
reconciliation bill done. I'm playing it because it's complicated. John Thune,
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Senator Katie Britt, Mark Wayde Mullen, Lindsey Graham, Senator Cotton,
Senator Tim Scott, Senator Ted Cruz. They did something that
senators really do. They sat down together with me for
the hour last night. Let's go back to part of
that interview.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
All right, welcome back to Hannity. We live from Capitol
Hill where we continue our town hall with Senate Republicans.
Speaker 9 (16:08):
By the way, a rare event.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
I want to thank all of you for doing this,
A lot of senators won't.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
I appreciate your time.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
A lot of issues facing the country, and I really
do believe that Americans are putting a lot of faith, hope,
and trust in all of you that you can get
President Trump's agenda that they voted for in the mandate
that Senator Cruz was talking about across the finish line,
acrossing the plane. Senator Kennedy, you made my audience laugh
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more than anybody as you examine this issue of reconciliation
and the economy and thirty seven trillion in debt and
then doze finding what nearly one hundred and fifty trillion
I think at this point dollars in waste, fraud, and abuse.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
How will all of you, with.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
The majority get this under control?
Speaker 12 (17:00):
Well, look, reconciliation is not quantum physics, it's about lower prices.
To lower prices, John, You've got to do three things.
You've got to reduce government spending so you have less stimulus.
You've got to deregulate the economy so the price of
goods and services go down, and you have to design
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your tax code that it looks like somebody designed it
on purpose to stimulate growth. Now, reconciliation allows us in
the Senate to do all three of those things with
fifty one votes. And that's really all it is. I
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want to say a word though, about tariffs, because that's
sort of the fourth leg of the stool. I think
most fair minded people would agree with this. Other countries
have used trade barriers to take advance of the American
people and American businesses. Number two, President Trump has said enough,
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we would not be in this situation today.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Had he not been a pit bull.
Speaker 12 (18:15):
By that, I mean there are one hundred and ninety
five countries in the world. Seventy are begging him to
make a deal to more cares. He's like the pitbull, though,
who caught the car. Here's what I don't know what
the President's going to do next.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Here's what I hope he does next. I hope he
takes a deal. I hope he. I hope he goes
to He and.
Speaker 12 (18:38):
Scott Bessett go to every one of those countries and
reduce those tariffs and trade barriers down to zero and
let American businesses compete with those foreign business Competition makes
us better.
Speaker 8 (18:52):
Does everyone agree with that?
Speaker 12 (18:53):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Yes, definitely.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Now seventy countries and the EU is now seemingly.
Speaker 6 (18:59):
Moving in his direction.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
I can just tell you, talking to you know, twenty
five million people on seven hundred and fifty radio stations
every day, when Americans here that our friends and allies
in Europe. I'll give a quick example and I'll stay
with you on this. Okay, Germany they have a ten
percent tariff. We have a two and a half percent tariff.
But they also have a VAT tax with a value
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added tacks. That's a national sales tax, So that raises
the sticker price of an American car to be sold
in Germany by thirty percent. They sell eight to ten
cars German cars in America to our one car sold
in Germany.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Why are they hurting us?
Speaker 3 (19:39):
They look to us for defense, They want us. They'll
be screaming us come to the rescue at a moment's notice.
We pay a bulk of the freight when it comes
to NATO. Why would they treat a friendly nation like that?
Why would other European nations be doing that to us?
Speaker 4 (19:56):
Well, I think that's what the President has talked about.
But you agree would be ripped off?
Speaker 12 (20:00):
Yes, yes, Look, China is probably the worst example, but
not the only one. God created the world. That everything
else is made in China. I mean we know that.
That's just reflects reality today.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
But they're not that gumbo gumbo made in China.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
But they're they're not the only one.
Speaker 12 (20:20):
But because President Trump has done what he's done, and
I'm not saying it hasn't been tough with the market
if it has been, but we would not be in
the situation able to negotiate lower terraces and trade barriers.
If President Trump hadn't done what he has done, I
just wanted to see him turn Scott Bess and loose
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he and Scott take them one at a time. Unless
oder these tarffs and let American businesses compete with the world,
and may the best product and the best price win
and will all be better off.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
I would like to keep it less complicated, because sometimes
there's a few other issues that have been conflated with it.
But if it really comes down by my center, Mark
wa mom, good to see you.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
If it comes.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Down to a simple choice, most Americans agree that we're
being ripped off. Most Americans don't like being ripped off,
especially ripped off by our friends.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
But the President has.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Said that if you want free and fair trade, we'll
go along with that. If you want tariffs, okay, you
tariff us, We'll put reciprocal tariffs on you. If we
keep it and reduce it to that simple formula.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
I believe that's a winning issue.
Speaker 9 (21:34):
My wrong, it is.
Speaker 13 (21:35):
But we also have access to the economies. You use
Japan or Japan Germany as an example. Right, they can
lower it to zero terriffs, but they still charge twenty
percent tax.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Well, that's got a thirty percent tax. That's a tax.
Speaker 13 (21:47):
It is a tax, but you have to you have
to take that in consideration. Japan does the same thing, right,
Japan charges zero terriffs on a US manufactured vehicle to
go in, but you can't sell a vehicle in Japan.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
But Japan puts two two hundred percent on rice imported
from our country into their country. Absolutely, no one's selling
any American rice there and ninety four percent of their
cars have made in their country.
Speaker 13 (22:09):
Which goes to the fact that President Trump has the
backbone at this point to say, hey, it's time to
write to ship. There has been no president that's been
willing to address this, and we've known this has been
an issue sewn for decades and it's only got worse.
What President Trump did is he's finally stepped up and
said something that he started talking about back in nineteen
eighty eight on Oprah Show, saying that they are taking
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advantage of us. We have to stop the bleeding. If
we didn't do it, then what generation.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Was going to happen?
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Because this isn't about just today.
Speaker 13 (22:40):
What President Trump is doing is he's looking at the
economy ten fifteen twenty years down the road, because that's
what a business guide, not a politician.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
That's what a business guy does.
Speaker 13 (22:49):
A politician looks at what's happens to the next election.
President Trump is looking generational down the road, which is
what we should be doing. But at the same time,
let's talk about some of the lies that the Dimmocrats
are showing. Right the Democrats are saying that we're going
to cut Social Security benefits. Do you know we can't
do that through reconciliation, But they don't say that.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
They also say.
Speaker 13 (23:08):
We're going to raise taxes on billionaires, or not raise taxes.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
But taxes billiaus alert. I mean Democrats lie. Yeah, yeah,
I get that.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
I mean when they call it, when they call all
of you Nazis and fascists and Hitler and Mussolini.
Speaker 13 (23:21):
But the American people starting to believe it because they
say it so much when we can't you cannot cut
social security in reconciliation. At the same time, they're saying
we're going to cut taxes for billionaires and millionaires in
present Trump's friends, when all we're doing is extending the
current tax code, the current tax policy that we have
right now, We're simply extending it.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
And so the Democrats they can't.
Speaker 13 (23:44):
Run on any of their policies, but they're running on lies.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Actually, you can add to that, no tax on tips,
no tax on social security, no tax on overtime. Guess
what I used to work in the service industry.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
I would have liked all that.
Speaker 13 (23:56):
Yes, it absolutely and it cuts taxes on the ones
that needed.
Speaker 6 (23:59):
The absolute most.
Speaker 13 (24:01):
But you know, as I've said before, Sean, the Democrats
have nothing to run on policy wise, so they're just
running on fear and lies.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
So I saw you shaking your head Center of Scott,
and I'm getting I think I'm reading the room and
I'm getting consensus that now that we know these countries
have taken note of what the President has laid out,
you want these deals to be done expeditiously.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
One hundred percent sooner than later.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
Like I said, the seven twention dollars that's on the table,
that'll be a fantastic blue collar comback. But more importantly,
it resets America as the economically dominant nation on the
planet for generation. I think we need more than two
years in the majority. However, we need four years in
the majority to make sure we seem in a generation
of change. You don't do that in two.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
Years, You do that over four years.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
I think President Trump has a once in a lifetime
opportunity to reset, recalibrate the entire global economy by bringing
it all home to America. Put a America first, by
putting our paychecks first, by securing this nation first, and
the rest of the world's, including our allies, will take
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advantage of us if.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
We let them.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
We let them do exactly fifty or sixty yees World
War two. To you, it seems that the magic sauce
here would be speed. Now that they're willing to deal,
get the deal done.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Well, and take the deal. Where to fork in the road?
What deal?
Speaker 11 (25:29):
Take the deal, make deals and actually work to lower teriffs.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Look, we're to.
Speaker 11 (25:34):
Fork in the road, and it's a real or reciprocal
lower tariffs on both sides. Reciprocal, I'm saying reciprocal. But
here's the fork in the road. What do you do
once you announce these tariffs last week? One option, and
the option that I hope and pray the President takes,
is you've got countries beating a path to the White
House saying uncle, let us up, will slash our tariffs.
(25:57):
We'll slash our barriers to trade in change for you
doing it.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
If the outcome of these tariffs announced.
Speaker 11 (26:03):
Last week is in thirty days, sixty days, ninety days,
we see tariffs slashed worldwide, We see the barriers to
US farmers and ranchers and manufacturers dropping enormously, and suddenly
we're able to access other markets and these tariffs drop here,
that's a great outcome. President Trump has the opportunity for
the most extraordinary economic win for the American people right
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now by making a deal, by saying, let's cut a deal.
But on the other hand, and I do want to
give it a word of warning, there are voices in
the administration that.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Rather than take a deal, are saying.
Speaker 11 (26:38):
We want to have tariffs as a long term, permanent
feature of the economy.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
I think that'd be a mistake.
Speaker 11 (26:44):
If a year from now our trading partners have all
jacked up tariffs on America and we have high tariffs
on everyone.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
I think that'll hurt this country.
Speaker 11 (26:52):
And so what I'm merging the president is this opportunity
to take the deal, lower tariffs all around. Actually, what
President Trump proposed in Europe in his first term. You guys,
slash your tariffs, will slash ours, and we'll have free
and fair trade for everyone.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
That would be.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Historic if we got them to the point where it
was free and fair or reciprocal. At that point, when't
America be taken in billions? And one other thing that
nobody seems to talk about. I like the idea that
our semiconductors will now be made in this country for
national security reasons. I like the idea that more auto
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manufacturing centers will be built in this country. I like
that our pharmaceuticals too many of our pharmaceuticals are made abroad.
God forbid COVID two point zero comes along. I got
thirty seconds. I got to give it to Senator Kennedy.
What do you think of the new leadership? Jasmine, AOC
and Bernie.
Speaker 12 (27:48):
I consider a Congresswoman Okashia Courtege to be the leader
of the Democratic Party.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
She's entitled to her opinion. I'm entitled to mine.
Speaker 12 (27:58):
As I've said about them before, I think she's the
reason there. Our directions on a sham poop bo.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
Our plan for.
Speaker 9 (28:08):
Dealing that out we got heart.
Speaker 12 (28:10):
Our plan for dealing with her is opera called Operation
Let Her Speak.
Speaker 9 (28:15):
Welcome back, boy, Hannity.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Thank you, Senator Kennedy.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
All right, Senator.
Speaker 9 (28:19):
Kennedy, last word quick.
Speaker 12 (28:21):
If Vietnam, mister President offers you zero tear barriers.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
Pounce on it like a ninsha.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
I went to d C yesterday and this is very rare.
This is an opportunity that does not come along very often.
But we had the Majority Leader, John Thune, and we
had Senator Ted Cruz and Senator John Kennedy and Senator
Tom Cotton and Senator Tim Scott and Senator Lindsay Graham
and Senator Katie Britt and Mark Wayde Mullins was there,
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and we had a Senate town hall. I don't know
if there's ever been one before, Linda, can you think
of one?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I can't.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
And anyway, it's such an important time with the issue
of reconciliation and making sure that the Trump tax cuts
don't expire. That would be a four trillion dollar tax
increase on the American people. And to make sure that
reconciliation gets pass is a very very critical time. I
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urge everybody to get in touch with their senators, their
their congressmen as well. There are some members in the
House that seem reluctant and resistant. They need to they
need to change, because all this would do if they've
passed this in the Senate is open up the door
to negotiation and then they can get final passage, hopefully
down the road. So we got to get the ball
rolling because we're living under the Biden Harris economy. We
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talked about that. Interestingly, even though there was some critics
of the president's strategy on tariffs, none of them were panicked,
none of them. And we talked all about that too. Anyway,
here's part of that discussion from last night.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
We'll start tonight with Senate Majority Leader John Thune. Senator,
go to see it. You were able to get everyone
united to get the president's cabinet through, not a small task.
You didn't shut the Senate down. You kept it open
for hour after hour after hour. Senator Kennedy wanted to
go home and have a beer, but.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Two, what's that? R?
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Two?
Speaker 4 (01:58):
More?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Two or three? So kudos to you for that. Senator
Lindsey Graham was on my show the other night said
something that's really profound in my view. In the last
hundred years, there's only been four times that Republicans have
had control of the White House, the House, and the Senate.
(02:20):
This is such a historic opportunity, and maybe it only
lasts two years.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
Tell us what the next steps are.
Speaker 7 (02:27):
Okay, Well, first off, thanks Sean, and thanks to this
team and our vebel Senate Republicans. We did get the
president's cabinet in place the fastest rate in twenty years.
We were in session for ten consecutive weeks for the
first time in fifteen years, and today we have cast
more votes than any Senate going back to the Reagan administration.
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So people are showing up, they're doing the work, and
we have a lot more work ahead of us. But
if you look at what's at stake, the stakes are high.
As you pointed out, we don't get this opportunity very often,
and when it comes along sometimes it doesn't last for
a long So we've got to make the most of
these two years where we got President Trump's leadership in
the White House, and boy, isn't that a welcome relief
from the past four years, working with Republican Senate and
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Republican House to do the things the President campaigned on,
and that's to secure the border, make a generational investment
in doing that, make sure that we're investing in our
national security. So we're prepared for whatever threats exist around
the world, avoiding a four trillion dollar tax increase at
the end of this year, preventing that from happening, and
then restoring American energy dominance. Those are all priorities the
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President campaigned on, and I would add deficit reduction. We
have got to cut spending and that's a priority for
this Senate.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
I'd add too, the next generation and weaponry. We live
in a dangerous world, we do indeed, all right.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
So Senator Graham is the head of the Budget Committee,
and Senator Graham also sat on that show that he
was on that as the head of the Budget Committee,
he can bypass the Senate parliamentarian look to explain reconciliation
to hard working Americans. They get up every day, work hard,
play by the rules. Gets a little bit complicated, but
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the reality is in your body. In the Senate where
you're the majority leader, it gets complicated, and it's not
as complicated in the House. It's a procedure by which
you have very strict rules and regulations. Then you've got
to come together with the House. You guys got to
strike a deal. Explain it in maybe layman's term. So
people that are busy providing for their families every day,
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can really understand why this is important.
Speaker 7 (04:30):
Well, and you're right, it is the quintessential, if you will,
Washington inside baseball game, and even the language around it
is complicated. But the short of it is, we believe,
and in the Senate, at least when you have unified
control of the government House, Senate, White House, which as
you pointed out, we've had a half a dozen less
than that times in the last century, you can do
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things at fifty one votes in the Senate that would
otherwise require sixty. But you got to have maximum cooperation.
You got to have fifty one Senate Republicans to hang together,
you got to have two hundred men team.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
Members of the House, and you've.
Speaker 7 (05:01):
Got to have a president who's willingly sign a bill
into law. We have all those things in place, and
Lindsay has done a great job as the chairman of
the Budget Committee, and we believe the law is very
clear that he has the authority to set what that
baseline is. And there's a lot of conversation around which
baseline you use, but the simple fact of the matter
is we believe that extending the tax relief that was
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passed in twenty seventeen under President Trump ought to be
able to be continued.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
And that isn't something we ought to have to offset
or pay for.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
It is.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
These are policies that are in place. Tax rates should.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
Stay the same on January first of next year as
they are on December thirty first, And as you pointed
out in your lead off to this, some of the
other things that the President's trying to achieve to provide
the American people with tax relief so they can keep
more of their hard earned dollars and spend them the
way they want to spend them, and send us instead
of sending it in to Washington, d C.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
So, if you're not able, and you have a three
vote majority in the Senate and I think we're up
there seven now in the House, and so you have
this our cane maneuver, which for example, was used to
pass Obamacare. I believe it was used to pass the
Inflation Reduction Act, right, Okay, so it's been used in
the past, and the Budget Committee chair pulls that off.
(06:14):
But you have a very small majority, so you got
to get got to work within the rules, You got
to get it passed in the Senate. And you've got
to get the House to go along with it. They've
got a small majority. I know everybody has whatever their
priorities are. Is everybody fully on board? Do you have
a good feeling that you're going to get the fifty votes,
(06:34):
hopefully fifty one or two or all fifty three? Do
you believe that the House, having had the conversations with
Speaker Johnson, you'll get it done there too.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
Yeah, Well, shame on us if we don't.
Speaker 7 (06:45):
This is historic in terms of the opportunity, and I
think what's going to motivate all those people, both in
the House and the Senate Republicans? I can't think of
a Republican that would abide a four trillion dollar tax
increase on the American people.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
Let's talk a.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Little bit about you, and then I'll ask the rest
of the group. I just want to know where do
you stand on the issue? And do you think that
the President's obviously seven trillion dollars in committed investments a lot,
obviously seventy plus countries wanted to negotiate, got the world's attention.
How do you think this plays out?
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Well?
Speaker 7 (07:16):
Look, I think the president, there's everybody, we all heard
it he won seventy seven million votes, and there wasn't
a day on the campaign trail where he didn't talk
about terrace.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
It's something he believes in.
Speaker 7 (07:28):
He deserves the opportunity to go get the deals he
can get and to get the reciprocity that we need
with some of these countries that have been taking advantage
of us. And so this is the you know, I
think most most of us up here believe that he
deserves that opportunity. And he and his administration are working
very aggressively, as you know, and have already announced to
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you know, so many countries have come to the table
are looking for deals. So let's give this president some
space to see what he can get done. And obviously
we're all paying close attention to it, but we think
that he campaigned on it. He made it very clear
to the American people what he wanted to achieve in
doing it.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
And I think when it.
Speaker 7 (08:06):
Comes to creating better paying jobs in this country and
growing our economy, making America stronger, and getting investment in
this country, you're already seeing some of that. Some of
these supply chains are coming back home. Let's give this
president an opportunity to see what he can.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
Get done all right.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Joining us now Senators Mark, Wayne Mullen, Katie Britt, John Kennedy,
Lindsey Graham, Tom Cotton, Tim Scott, and Senator Ted Cruz. Again,
thank you all for being Harry. But all of you
are friends of the show, and I thank you for that.
There are some people in your group in the Senate.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
They're not so TV friendly.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Not available ever never, Lindsey, let me go to you
because the Budget Committee, as chair this reconciliation process, really
you're the one that triggered this, which I think is
very important. Otherwise you'd have to get the approval of
the Senate Parliamentary well.
Speaker 8 (08:54):
So it's our belief that elected officials should make big
decisions unelected bureaucrats. I like Deparliamentarian, but it's not her
decision to set the baseline as mine. When Democrats were
in charge, they set the baseline under the Budget Control
out of nineteen seventy four.
Speaker 9 (09:11):
You can spend all the money you want. You don't
have to pay for it. But when you.
Speaker 8 (09:14):
Cut taxes after a period of time, that considers to
be raising the deaf sit. We all know if you
cut taxes, you get more money into the government.
Speaker 9 (09:24):
We all believe that. So by fifty three of us
got together and we change the way the Washington works.
Speaker 8 (09:32):
From here on out, taxes will be treated as spending.
They will be considered not to expire. They don't add
to the debt, they add revenue to the government.
Speaker 9 (09:41):
I made that decision. All these guys back expire.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
The Trump tax cuts are scheduled to expire in December.
Speaker 8 (09:48):
What does it mean nineteen hundred dollars per family. If
you're in business, you're going to lose your deductions expensing.
Child tax credit goes down at ninety We're playing with
real bullets here.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
I just say this.
Speaker 8 (09:58):
The debt selling, the debt extension is President Trump called it.
Speaker 9 (10:03):
We got to pay the credit card bill.
Speaker 8 (10:05):
It comes due if we don't put it in this field,
and we have to get ten Democrats in the Senate
to extend the debt sealing. The price they will want
will be unbelievable.
Speaker 9 (10:16):
They will extort everybody here.
Speaker 8 (10:18):
They will extore President Trump to the people watching tonight.
We got a chance to make the task cuts permanent,
fully fund the border, help the military, get the debt
seling extended without one democratic vote. Only if reconciliation works
four times in one hundred years. If we screw this up,
you should be really pissed. We can't afford to screw
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this up.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Senator Cotton, you'll take and where do you think we
are on the process?
Speaker 10 (10:45):
Well, I think we've taken an important first step last
week in the Senate by passing that budget and sending
to the House. You heard the President just a few
moments ago talking about the need for unity. We obviously
have some differences of opinion here on this or that issue,
along with fifty or two other of my colleagues as well,
but on this we're all unified around the need to
not just extend the twenty seventeen tax cuts, but to
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improve them with some of the ideas that the President
campaigned on that we all campaigned on.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
No time tips.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Exactly, every time, social security, secure our border.
Speaker 10 (11:15):
It's not just a security issue, it's also a quality
of life issue in your communities because the legal migrants
put strain on schools and hospitals and other public services.
Making sure that we're safe abroad as well by funding
our military and getting the price of energy down, whether
it's what you pay for gas at the pump or
your electricity. That's the goals that unite all of us.
That's what we came together around last week with Lindsay
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and John Thune's leadership. And I think that's what Mike
Johnson is going to have in the House later this week.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
Senator Scott to Be. This is the beginning of the
blue collar comeback. Imagine seven trillion is.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
A great line. I wish I'd thought of that.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
We could share it. We could share it.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
I mean, think about it. Though so many Americans feel
invisible in the Biden economy, this is the Trump economy.
Think about seven trillion dollars descending upon the greatest nation
on God's green Earth, creating high paying, high manufacturing jobs.
That means one hundred plus thousand dollars a year coming
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into communities across this country. The first time we did
it to TCJA, we saw more revenue to the Treasury
and we sat four thousand dollars per family in their pockets.
It's the American people's dollars. Let them keep it. This
blue collar come back, it's real because President Trump is
a man we need with a steel spine to get
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the job done.
Speaker 11 (12:35):
Seventy countries It's a good day in America Center Coruse. Look,
failure is not an option. You look at the election
in November. It is as clear a mandate as we've
ever seen from the American people. And I'll tell you
one of the things that I am impressed with in
both the Senate and House is I think Republicans understand
we have a job to do.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
We can't screw this up. Now. What is that job?
Number One?
Speaker 11 (12:58):
The mandates secure the border. That is the single clearest
mandate out of this election. Twelve million people invaded this
country and the American people said enough is enough. And
I got to say, by the way, my favorite line
from the President's State of the Union address is when
he pointed out he said, you know, Joe Biden stood
up here a year ago and said he couldn't secure
the border without new legislation. Well, it turns out we
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didn't need new legislation. We just needed a new president.
We've seen illegal border crossings drop ninety eight percent.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
That's delivering on results.
Speaker 11 (13:29):
But now it's our job to come and provide the
funding to build the wall, to put in technology, to
put in border patrol, to put in ice, to make
sure that we keep our family safe and secure. When
it comes to energy, the American people are fed up
with high energy costs. We want America to lead the
world in energy. When it comes to rebuilding the military,
you're right, it is a dangerous, dangerous world. And when
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it comes to the tax cuts, we're going to extend
the tax cuts.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
It's going to be bumpy. It's always bumpy, and it's.
Speaker 11 (13:58):
Particularly with the House, which has an ex scruciatingly small majority.
But we will get the job done because the alternative
if we do nothing, is an automatic four trillion dollar
tax increase.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
We're not going to let that happen.
Speaker 11 (14:11):
Because if we do, we'll be failing in our jobs.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
That is not acceptable. We'll get the job.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Done, and the President won't let that House doesn't get
it done. They're gonna want They're going to be hurting
themselves again, because as soon as we get away from
the Biden Harris economy, the odds go up exponentially.
Speaker 9 (14:30):
They have a better chance to get it reelected us.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
They're up in two.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Years well, and there are lots of trade offs in it.
Speaker 11 (14:34):
Look, most of us have been part of the process
of tactic a break.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
All right, Well more with our panel.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
We'll get to Senator Kennedy, Mark Wayman. We're just getting started,
as Hannity continues, rely from our nation's capital, straight ahead.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
Thank you for being with us.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
All right, So that was part of the town hall
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So we're in the swamp yesterday. We had a great
group of senators. We continue our discussion talking about reconciliation.
This is a critical critical time for the Senate and
the House it's only the fourth time in one hundred
years that Republicans have had control of the White House,
the House, and the Senate. They've got to get this
reconciliation bill done. I'm playing it because it's complicated. John Thune,
(15:48):
Senator Katie Britt, Mark Wayde Mullen, Lindsey Graham, Senator Cotton,
Senator Tim Scott, Senator Ted Cruz. They did something that
senators really do. They sat down together with me for
the hour last night. Let's go back to part of
that interview.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
All right, welcome back to Hannity. We live from Capitol
Hill where we continue our town hall with Senate Republicans.
Speaker 9 (16:08):
By the way, a rare event.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
I want to thank all of you for doing this,
A lot of senators won't.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
I appreciate your time.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
A lot of issues facing the country, and I really
do believe that Americans are putting a lot of faith, hope,
and trust in all of you that you can get
President Trump's agenda that they voted for in the mandate
that Senator Cruz was talking about across the finish line,
acrossing the plane. Senator Kennedy, you made my audience laugh
(16:36):
more than anybody as you examine this issue of reconciliation
and the economy and thirty seven trillion in debt and
then doze finding what nearly one hundred and fifty trillion
I think at this point dollars in waste, fraud, and abuse.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
How will all of you, with.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
The majority get this under control?
Speaker 12 (17:00):
Well, look, reconciliation is not quantum physics, it's about lower prices.
To lower prices, John, You've got to do three things.
You've got to reduce government spending so you have less stimulus.
You've got to deregulate the economy so the price of
goods and services go down, and you have to design
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your tax code that it looks like somebody designed it
on purpose to stimulate growth. Now, reconciliation allows us in
the Senate to do all three of those things with
fifty one votes. And that's really all it is. I
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want to say a word though, about tariffs, because that's
sort of the fourth leg of the stool. I think
most fair minded people would agree with this. Other countries
have used trade barriers to take advance of the American
people and American businesses. Number two, President Trump has said enough,
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we would not be in this situation today.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Had he not been a pit bull.
Speaker 12 (18:15):
By that, I mean there are one hundred and ninety
five countries in the world. Seventy are begging him to
make a deal to more cares. He's like the pitbull, though,
who caught the car. Here's what I don't know what
the President's going to do next.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Here's what I hope he does next. I hope he
takes a deal. I hope he. I hope he goes
to He and.
Speaker 12 (18:38):
Scott Bessett go to every one of those countries and
reduce those tariffs and trade barriers down to zero and
let American businesses compete with those foreign business Competition makes
us better.
Speaker 8 (18:52):
Does everyone agree with that?
Speaker 12 (18:53):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Yes, definitely.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Now seventy countries and the EU is now seemingly.
Speaker 6 (18:59):
Moving in his direction.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
I can just tell you, talking to you know, twenty
five million people on seven hundred and fifty radio stations
every day, when Americans here that our friends and allies
in Europe. I'll give a quick example and I'll stay
with you on this. Okay, Germany they have a ten
percent tariff. We have a two and a half percent tariff.
But they also have a VAT tax with a value
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added tacks. That's a national sales tax, So that raises
the sticker price of an American car to be sold
in Germany by thirty percent. They sell eight to ten
cars German cars in America to our one car sold
in Germany.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Why are they hurting us?
Speaker 3 (19:39):
They look to us for defense, They want us. They'll
be screaming us come to the rescue at a moment's notice.
We pay a bulk of the freight when it comes
to NATO. Why would they treat a friendly nation like that?
Why would other European nations be doing that to us?
Speaker 4 (19:56):
Well, I think that's what the President has talked about.
But you agree would be ripped off?
Speaker 12 (20:00):
Yes, yes, Look, China is probably the worst example, but
not the only one. God created the world. That everything
else is made in China. I mean we know that.
That's just reflects reality today.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
But they're not that gumbo gumbo made in China.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
But they're they're not the only one.
Speaker 12 (20:20):
But because President Trump has done what he's done, and
I'm not saying it hasn't been tough with the market
if it has been, but we would not be in
the situation able to negotiate lower terraces and trade barriers.
If President Trump hadn't done what he has done, I
just wanted to see him turn Scott Bess and loose
(20:42):
he and Scott take them one at a time. Unless
oder these tarffs and let American businesses compete with the world,
and may the best product and the best price win
and will all be better off.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
I would like to keep it less complicated, because sometimes
there's a few other issues that have been conflated with it.
But if it really comes down by my center, Mark
wa mom, good to see you.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
If it comes.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Down to a simple choice, most Americans agree that we're
being ripped off. Most Americans don't like being ripped off,
especially ripped off by our friends.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
But the President has.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Said that if you want free and fair trade, we'll
go along with that. If you want tariffs, okay, you
tariff us, We'll put reciprocal tariffs on you. If we
keep it and reduce it to that simple formula.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
I believe that's a winning issue.
Speaker 9 (21:34):
My wrong, it is.
Speaker 13 (21:35):
But we also have access to the economies. You use
Japan or Japan Germany as an example. Right, they can
lower it to zero terriffs, but they still charge twenty
percent tax.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Well, that's got a thirty percent tax. That's a tax.
Speaker 13 (21:47):
It is a tax, but you have to you have
to take that in consideration. Japan does the same thing, right,
Japan charges zero terriffs on a US manufactured vehicle to
go in, but you can't sell a vehicle in Japan.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
But Japan puts two two hundred percent on rice imported
from our country into their country. Absolutely, no one's selling
any American rice there and ninety four percent of their
cars have made in their country.
Speaker 13 (22:09):
Which goes to the fact that President Trump has the
backbone at this point to say, hey, it's time to
write to ship. There has been no president that's been
willing to address this, and we've known this has been
an issue sewn for decades and it's only got worse.
What President Trump did is he's finally stepped up and
said something that he started talking about back in nineteen
eighty eight on Oprah Show, saying that they are taking
(22:32):
advantage of us. We have to stop the bleeding. If
we didn't do it, then what generation.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Was going to happen?
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Because this isn't about just today.
Speaker 13 (22:40):
What President Trump is doing is he's looking at the
economy ten fifteen twenty years down the road, because that's
what a business guide, not a politician.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
That's what a business guy does.
Speaker 13 (22:49):
A politician looks at what's happens to the next election.
President Trump is looking generational down the road, which is
what we should be doing. But at the same time,
let's talk about some of the lies that the Dimmocrats
are showing. Right the Democrats are saying that we're going
to cut Social Security benefits. Do you know we can't
do that through reconciliation, But they don't say that.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
They also say.
Speaker 13 (23:08):
We're going to raise taxes on billionaires, or not raise taxes.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
But taxes billiaus alert. I mean Democrats lie. Yeah, yeah,
I get that.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
I mean when they call it, when they call all
of you Nazis and fascists and Hitler and Mussolini.
Speaker 13 (23:21):
But the American people starting to believe it because they
say it so much when we can't you cannot cut
social security in reconciliation. At the same time, they're saying
we're going to cut taxes for billionaires and millionaires in
present Trump's friends, when all we're doing is extending the
current tax code, the current tax policy that we have
right now, We're simply extending it.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
And so the Democrats they can't.
Speaker 13 (23:44):
Run on any of their policies, but they're running on lies.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Actually, you can add to that, no tax on tips,
no tax on social security, no tax on overtime. Guess
what I used to work in the service industry.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
I would have liked all that.
Speaker 13 (23:56):
Yes, it absolutely and it cuts taxes on the ones
that needed.
Speaker 6 (23:59):
The absolute most.
Speaker 13 (24:01):
But you know, as I've said before, Sean, the Democrats
have nothing to run on policy wise, so they're just
running on fear and lies.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
So I saw you shaking your head Center of Scott,
and I'm getting I think I'm reading the room and
I'm getting consensus that now that we know these countries
have taken note of what the President has laid out,
you want these deals to be done expeditiously.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
One hundred percent sooner than later.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
Like I said, the seven twention dollars that's on the table,
that'll be a fantastic blue collar comback. But more importantly,
it resets America as the economically dominant nation on the
planet for generation. I think we need more than two
years in the majority. However, we need four years in
the majority to make sure we seem in a generation
of change. You don't do that in two.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
Years, You do that over four years.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
I think President Trump has a once in a lifetime
opportunity to reset, recalibrate the entire global economy by bringing
it all home to America. Put a America first, by
putting our paychecks first, by securing this nation first, and
the rest of the world's, including our allies, will take
(25:09):
advantage of us if.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
We let them.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
We let them do exactly fifty or sixty yees World
War two. To you, it seems that the magic sauce
here would be speed. Now that they're willing to deal,
get the deal done.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Well, and take the deal. Where to fork in the road?
What deal?
Speaker 11 (25:29):
Take the deal, make deals and actually work to lower teriffs.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Look, we're to.
Speaker 11 (25:34):
Fork in the road, and it's a real or reciprocal
lower tariffs on both sides. Reciprocal, I'm saying reciprocal. But
here's the fork in the road. What do you do
once you announce these tariffs last week? One option, and
the option that I hope and pray the President takes,
is you've got countries beating a path to the White
House saying uncle, let us up, will slash our tariffs.
(25:57):
We'll slash our barriers to trade in change for you
doing it.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
If the outcome of these tariffs announced.
Speaker 11 (26:03):
Last week is in thirty days, sixty days, ninety days,
we see tariffs slashed worldwide, We see the barriers to
US farmers and ranchers and manufacturers dropping enormously, and suddenly
we're able to access other markets and these tariffs drop here,
that's a great outcome. President Trump has the opportunity for
the most extraordinary economic win for the American people right
(26:26):
now by making a deal, by saying, let's cut a deal.
But on the other hand, and I do want to
give it a word of warning, there are voices in
the administration that.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Rather than take a deal, are saying.
Speaker 11 (26:38):
We want to have tariffs as a long term, permanent
feature of the economy.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
I think that'd be a mistake.
Speaker 11 (26:44):
If a year from now our trading partners have all
jacked up tariffs on America and we have high tariffs
on everyone.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
I think that'll hurt this country.
Speaker 11 (26:52):
And so what I'm merging the president is this opportunity
to take the deal, lower tariffs all around. Actually, what
President Trump proposed in Europe in his first term. You guys,
slash your tariffs, will slash ours, and we'll have free
and fair trade for everyone.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
That would be.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Historic if we got them to the point where it
was free and fair or reciprocal. At that point, when't
America be taken in billions? And one other thing that
nobody seems to talk about. I like the idea that
our semiconductors will now be made in this country for
national security reasons. I like the idea that more auto
(27:31):
manufacturing centers will be built in this country. I like
that our pharmaceuticals too many of our pharmaceuticals are made abroad.
God forbid COVID two point zero comes along. I got
thirty seconds. I got to give it to Senator Kennedy.
What do you think of the new leadership? Jasmine, AOC
and Bernie.
Speaker 12 (27:48):
I consider a Congresswoman Okashia Courtege to be the leader
of the Democratic Party.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
She's entitled to her opinion. I'm entitled to mine.
Speaker 12 (27:58):
As I've said about them before, I think she's the
reason there. Our directions on a sham poop bo.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
Our plan for.
Speaker 9 (28:08):
Dealing that out we got heart.
Speaker 12 (28:10):
Our plan for dealing with her is opera called Operation
Let Her Speak.
Speaker 9 (28:15):
Welcome back, boy, Hannity.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Thank you, Senator Kennedy.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
All right, Senator.
Speaker 9 (28:19):
Kennedy, last word quick.
Speaker 12 (28:21):
If Vietnam, mister President offers you zero tear barriers.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
Pounce on it like a ninsha.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
All right, that's gonna wrap things up at today we
have a huge Kennedy tonight, nine Eastern on the Fox
News chann I think one of the biggest days in
the Trump presidency.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Now, what up?
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Nearly three thousand, Nasdaq up twelve uh, the SMP up
ten percent. I mean, amazing day and this is quintessential
Trump and the media is too stupid to know it anyway.
Dave Asman, Steve Moore, Senator John Kennedy's back with Us tonight,
Katie Pavlich, Miranda Devine, Tulci Gabber Tonight, Tommy Laron Tonight
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Tonight from the Free State of Florida. We'll see you
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