May 14, 2025 • 29 mins
Steve Moore, economist and author of “Trumponomics: Inside the America First Plan to Revive Our Economy” - his comments on the fair pricing on prescription medicines and the current China trade deal worked out Bessent and his team in Switzerland.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, right here for our final news round up and
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
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you want to be a part of the program. We
continue on this journey to the Gulf States, with the
President leaving Saudi Arabia early this morning.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Now we are in Doha, we are in.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Qatar, and a lot of business is taking place, a
lot of financial commitments are taking place. I mean, we're
now talking about trillions of dollars between Saudi Arabia, UAE
and Katar in investments in America, you know, And I
think one of the un frankly underreported stories of the
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president's even threat of tariffs has been the willingness of
companies and countries to invest in America.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Now, I want to be very very clear here.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
This does not offer or in any way it does
not resolve some underlying issues with some countries. It does
not offer any kind of recognition of anything other than
a business deal. But let me go to the President
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announcing that he is slashing the cost of prescription drugs.
This will impact every single American family in ways that
are dramatic. Keep in mind that America develops and it
costs these pharmaceutical companies billions and billions of dollars to
start with a concept and finally get approval from the
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government to be able to sell a drug. They have
ten years to maximize their profits during that ten year period.
No generic a drug can be made. After the ten
year period, anybody can make that drug. But the hard
part is is countries that have socialized medicine don't want
to pay anything near the value of that drug that
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would reimburse these companies and also give them the profits
so they can continue to develop other medicines that will
hopefully help to save human lives. I know many people
want to demonize the pharmaceutical industry, they do a lot
of good things as well.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Here's what the President said.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
What's been happening is we've been subsidizing other countries throughout
the world, not just in Europe, throughout the world. European
Union was the most difficult from what I understand. So
for the first time in many years, we'll slash the
costs of prescription drugs and we will bring fairness to America.
Drug prices will come down by much more. Really, if
you think fifty nine, if you think of a drug
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that is sometimes ten times more expensive, it's much more
than the fifty nine percent. You know, it depends on
the way you want to analyze it, but in one way,
you could analyze it that way. But between fifty nine
and eighty and I guess even ninety percent. So when
I work so hard in the first term, and if
I got prices down, I remember I was the only
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I want to ever get prices down for a full year.
But I get them down like two percent, and I
thought it was like a big deal. Well we're getting
them down sixty seventy eighty ninety percent, But actually more
than that if you think about it in the way mathematically,
and farmer has to say, we're sorry, but we'll not
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be able to do this any longer. To these comfort,
to these countries that have been so tough, they've been
very tough, nasty.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
It's trade. It's trade.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Why should we be ripped off left, right, and sideways?
I mean, think about this. About eighty percent of the
world's medications and drugs that are developed are developed here
in the US. In a way that's intellectual property theft
that we've again institutionalized a system that abuses Americans. We
end up paying one thousand dollars a month for a drug.
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I have a friend of mine that pays six hundred
dollars for a drug buy the same drug in a
country that has socialized medicine. He's paying under one hundred dollars.
Is it just is morally wrong and Americans should get
more favorable treatment on this.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
I agree with them totally.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Here's what the President said on China trade negotiations as well.
And you know all that's going on here in the
Middle East, it maybe didn't get the attention it really
truly deserves. I did speak with Scott Bessett on this trip.
I asked him, I said, how did you pull this
off so quickly? And I'll tell you his answer. On
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the other side.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
In addition, yesterday we achieved a total reset with China
after productive talks in Geneva. Both sides now agreed to
reduce the tariffs imposed after April second to ten percent
for ninety days as negotiators continue in the largest structural issues.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
And I want to tell you that a couple of things.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
First of all, that doesn't include the tariffs that are
already on that are our tariffs, and it doesn't include
tariffs on cars steal aluminum, things such as that, or
tariffs that may be imposed on pharmaceuticals, because we want
to bring the pharmaceutical businesses back to the United States,
and they're already starting to come back now based on
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tariffs because they don't want to pay twenty five, fifty
or one hundred percent tariffs, so they're moving them back
to the United States.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
The biggest thing.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
That we're discussing is the opening up China, and they've
agreed to do that, but it's going to take a
while to paper it. You know, that's not the easiest
thing to paper. But that's the single I think to me.
Some people would disagree. Some people would say we're getting
a lot of money with tariffs or whatever, but you know,
especially when you add what we already have, because remember
we're already getting the fifty percent on steel and different things.
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That's not included in these numbers, so you can add that.
But but the biggest thing to me is the opening
up would be I think it would be fantastic for
our businesses if we could go in and compete.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Now we have so much happening on the economy notes,
what's Scott Beson told me?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I said, how is it possible? A week ago?
Speaker 2 (06:03):
It wasn't this past Friday, the one before the Communist
Chinese said that they, oh, if Donald Trump, Sirius, we
were opening negotiations the following weekend. Scott best with them
on Saturday and Sunday in Geneva and lo and behold
we have this ninety day deal that he is very
confident will turn into a permanent agreement between the two countries.
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I also spoke with Howard Lutnik, he did the Great
Britain Deal, and explained to me in some specificity, these
countries have known they're ripping us off. They' it's just
been a mad that they wondered when America will wake up,
to be honest. Now, add to that, not billions, but trillions.
I know Americans kind of get confused sometimes millions, billions, trillions,
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but the amount of money from for example, on this
trip that is being committed moneys to be spent in
America for American manufacturing, on top of the eight trillion
the president already has committed in the next four years
is astounding.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
It is absolutely, you know, unprecedented.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
And then then you look at, you know, everything else
that we've been watching economically, and a lot of things
is you know, according to every single solitary indicator, we
see that every prediction on the economy has been dead wrong,
you know, including you know, it's been what since twenty
twenty one. On the economy, We've never had you know,
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lower lower inflation numbers than we have now, we never
had higher tariff income than we have now, We've never
had a greater job growth for Americans than we have now.
The stock market, which is notoriously skittish, that has bounced
back in a dramatic way. And that then leads us
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to our next guest, our friend Steve Moore, economist, author
of Trumpanomics, Inside the American First planned to Revival Economy.
I happened to be on Air Force one. I was
sitting with the President when you did a hit with
David Asman, and it was interesting. He paid very close
attention to you, saying that you were a little skeptical
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on tariffs, but you have become a believer because the
system has been so unfair, and the President knew the
power and the strength of the American economy more than
say many other people did.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
So great to be ak you Shaw. By the way,
was the President watching when I said that?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Or yes he was, he was watching every minute of it.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
That's it's just a little back story on that. You know,
the President was scolding me a few weeks ago, saying,
you're wait, you're too tough on my terrorist Steve, you know,
and so you know, I was a doubting Thomas. And
one of the things that Trump is a master of
is e is proving his critics wrong. And I was
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a critic. I you know, I'd go on your show
and I said, well, I'm uneasy about these terrorists. But
look look at where we are today, Sean versus where
we were just even a month ago. It's extraordinary what
we're seeing. I mean, the market is way way up
by three thousand points. As you mentioned, I thought that
prices would go up because of the teriffs. They didn't.
They didn't. That was wrong. I mean, as you said,
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we got the lowest tariff report in many, many years
in terms of inflation. So this is a very very
rosy picture. I don't think we're completely out of the
rough waters. Entirely because I don't know if these countries
are going to cheatter that. That's the one thing I
hope Trump is going to have strong enforcement on.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Easy Well, I think, well, I think we're How can
you say we're not out of rough water? Is when
inflation is the coolest that's been in four years. You
know the numbers, you've read the it's the lowest CPI
reading since February of twenty twenty one. Now what happened
in January of twenty twenty one, Oh, that's right, January
twenty Joe Biden became president. February number wreck basically was
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a continuation of the Trump economic policies. And this is
before those numbers. Inflation went up over nine percent.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
So my only remaining skepticism is whether these deals will
actually come through, whether these countries will actually honor their agreements.
I hope that on Trump uses the Reagan maxim when
he used to negotiate with Gorbachevit and the Soviet Union,
trust but verify. So I want to make sure these countries,
because you know China cheats, you know that, you know
the president ge We're going to have to make sure
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that they follow through with these deals. If we get
these eight trillion dollars of additional investment capital, I mean,
my god, you're talking about millions and probably over ten
million jobs associated with that kind of capital investment here
in the USA, and those are going to be high
paying jobs. It's good. I wander We're gonna get all
the workers to fill all those jobs.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
That's a great point.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
One of the things I like the most about it
that I don't think enough people talk about, is we
are bringing back manufacturing to this country in very critical industries.
We're going to make our own semiconductor chips, bringing back
pharmaceutical manufacturing so we're not dependent on China. We are
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also dramatically bringing automotive manufacturing again, high paying career jobs
that you're mentioning here back to this country. Add to that,
the President, you know, giving us most Favored nation status
on prescription drugs, which I think is incredible too.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
So, you know, I want to make sure people understand
that this didn't happen by accident. This was the plan.
So when you reduce regulations on American companies by a
trillion dollars in terms of costs, and then when you
lower energy prices, gas prices, and electricity prices by producing
more American energy. And then when you cut taxes, tax
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rates on American businesses small and large, when you do,
and then you get economy out of the doge and
the savings, those things make America a more attractive place
to invest in. This is exactly what we saw in
the last economic boom when Ronald Reagan was president. Reagan
cut taxes, deregulated, we had all this foreign money coming
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in the United States. That's exactly what's happening under Donald Trump,
although probably more so.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
A right quick break will continue. We are in Doha.
We are in.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Katar as we continue our reporting on President Trump's historic
first trip in a second term as president and incredible
news coming out of the Gulf States. More on that
on the other side, we'll get to your calls coming
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Speaker 5 (14:14):
Sor right.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
We continue now with our friend Steve Moore as we
talk about incredible economic news left, right and sideways, especially
coming out of this the president's first trip abroad to
the Golf States. We are in stop number two. We
are in Doha. We are in Qatar after leaving this
morning from Saudi Arabia, and tomorrow we'll be in Abu Dhabi.
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I don't think we've ever seen the level of commitment.
I do believe a lot of it's tied to national
security concerns, especially in the Golf States where I'm reporting from.
I mean, we're in Qatar today, we're in Doha doing
this program. It's late at night, beautiful skyline. Have you
ever been here?
Speaker 5 (14:56):
I did. I was in Dubai just earlier this year.
That's not too far from where you are, and I
was an extraordinary place. So I hope you're having a
great time there. And how cool was I watched your
interviews on the Was that on air first one? You
were doing those interviews with the President?
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Yeah, yes, sir. Part two will air tonight. He gave
me over about fifty minutes worth of material. We'll use
in every bit of it, so we decided to break
it up into two nights. In part two tonight.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
Well, it was incredible. And then I'm jealous that you're
getting to travel all those days with the President. I mean,
this is a guy who puts America first real every
decision he makes, even when I disagree with him. Sometimes,
you know, I disagree with him, Sean, But even when
I disagree with it, I thought, well, he's doing this
because he loves this country. And the other thing is,
if I may, it's a big difference when you have
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somebody in the way just put aside ideology, because you know,
obviously Biden was an ideological liberal and Trump is more
ideologically conservative. But putting ideology aside, it makes a big
difference when you have somebody in the White House who's
a life for lifelong politician like Joe Biden versus a
lifelong businessman like Donald Trump. I mean, don't you think.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
One hundred Steve Moore, we appreciate you. But the President
was paying very close attention. I was in the room
at the time. It's pretty interesting to watch. Thank you, sir.
All right, Part two my interview with President Trump tonight.
Here was part one from yesterday. We covered so much
ground on a wide variety of topics.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Listen, So we're trying to open up China because as
you know, many years ago we opened up the USA.
Now it's time for China to open up, and that's
part of our deal, and we're going to open up China.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
To me, that's the most exciting part. But yeah, we
made a deal. The relationship is very good.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
I've always had a good relationship with President She was
interrupted because of COVID, obviously, but outside of that, I've
always had a great relationship, a lot of respect for him,
and we'll see how.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
That all works out.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
But we have the confines of a very very strong
deal with China. But the most exciting part of the
deal it was mentioned, but we don't talk about it yet,
that's the opening up of China to US business and
that would be like opening up a whole new world,
and I think it would be even better for China.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
So I think we'll be able to make that deal.
I hope.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
At any point, do you foresee yourself dealing directly with
President She on the final details of this deal.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Yeah, I could see that.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
I mean, I'm not sure that it'll be necessary, but
that happened with the UK. We were close to a deal,
but we needed one point or two points one four
and ethanol, Okay, two very different subjects, and I called
up the Prime Minister is an excellent man, kir excellent man.
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And within about three minutes it was over.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
We made the deal. It was a good deal for everybody.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
And we have a lot of deals now, we have
a lot of trade deals that want I'd say virtually
everybody wants to make a deal.
Speaker 6 (17:57):
When I first saw you, I thank you for letting
us cover this to report on this from Air Force one.
When I first saw you, I think you were more excited.
You were excited about the China deal. But prescription drugs,
which has been very, very painful for a lot of Americans.
Eighty percent of medications are created in America, and then
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we end up paying more for those medications. Foreign countries
do not pay as much as we do. You said,
that is over. Can you explain why this is such
a big deal.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Well, for many years we were taking advantage of by
other countries and the drug companies. But I blamed the
other countries in a way more the European Union, et cetera.
They were very nasty and very tough to the drug
companies and they would give them a very low price
for drug costs in the European nations. And when that
price was given, that was it. They wouldn't negotiate. They said,
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let America pay for the difference. And this happened all
over the world with other countries. We had stupid people
leading us, especially over the last four years, and they
wouldn't do anything about it, and it turned out that
we were paying it. Sometimes you saw it ten times
more for the same drug, same drug, same company, same
plant where they make it laboratory. And it got to
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a point where I said, We're not going to do
this anymore. The pharmaceutical industry is very powerful and probably
the most powerful, considered the most powerful lobby, and the
Democrats were making it impossible to lower drug prices.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
They do what they were doing, and I.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Instituted a Most Favored Nations provision or concept, where we're
going to pay whatever the lowest country pays in the world.
So if it's the UK, which pays very low in
any country, it could be any country whatever the lowest prices.
And the drug companies have accepted it.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Everybody accepts it.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
But the Democrats never wanted to play well, they never
wanted to do anything. It's the Democrat's fault that people
were being ripped off for years and years, and now
I hear Democrats saying, oh, well, we're going to now
go for the bill.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
It's going to be very.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Hard for them not to approve the big, beautiful bill
that we're doing. We're doing the biggest tax cuts in
the history of our country because people are going to
be getting a fifty to a ninety percent reduction in drug.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Prices, not a half a percent.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
I remember when I would fight so hard to get
a half a point that I actually had it down
half a point for one year, and I was so
proud of myself because that never happened before.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
It was always going up. Drugs only went in one direction,
that's up.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
And now after studying the industry, it's a very complex industry.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
But I figured it out.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
And I said, it's not going to happen. But the
Democrats fought very hard to keep the prices of drugs very,
very high. They really ought to blame for this because
they should have done something about it. And when the
Republicans went with requests, they said, we're not going to
approve it. And now we have a unified Republican party.
But I think the Democrats are going to improve this
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bill too, because how are they going to reject a
sixty seventy eighty.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Percent drug cut. I don't think they can.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
I think it's going to be huge.
Speaker 6 (21:14):
The fact that these drugs are not the creation of
these drugs, I mean, these companies have to go through
a very arduous process to get approved thread by the government.
They spend billions of dollars. And you can put aside
whether or not quote people demonize big pharma, that's separate
and apart. However, we usually end up creating them and
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then we end up paying ten times more, which is crazy.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Well, they used to use that, if I can interrupt,
they used to use that as a reason.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Why we were paying five and ten times more than
other countries. Is it because of research and development?
Speaker 1 (21:49):
And I'd always say, well, what about you doing research
and development for the rest.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Of the world too, Why are we paying for one
hundred percent?
Speaker 1 (21:56):
So we paid one hundred percent for research and development, which,
along with other things, believe it or not, raise the
price to a point where you were five to ten
times higher than the rest of the world. And I
told the sort today it was well received. A friend
of mine who's slightly overweight, to put it mildly, went
to a drug store in London, and he was able
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to get one of the fat shots.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
I caught the fat shots of Jane. Did you lose weight? Others?
Speaker 6 (22:23):
A lot of people laugh at that. Some people got
offended by I don't get offended by it.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
I'm just glad I didn't use his name. He's actually
a very rich Guy's of her successful.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
He said, he didn't use his name.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
He's very happy. He knows exactly what I was talking about.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
He called.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
He said that was interesting. He said he was very
concerned that I might use his name.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
I might slip.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Now he doesn't have to work. But he went to
London and he bought this, uh, one of those yes, yeah,
I'm not your which one you bought?
Speaker 4 (22:51):
He bought one of them, maybe a Zeppich, and he
bought it and he called me.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
He said, hey, I a strange thing I have and
I just bought a drug, same company, same plant, same everything,
Everything was the same.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
In one case.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
I paid in New York thirteen hundred dollars and in London,
I'm paying eighty eight dollars. He said, what's going on now?
Speaker 4 (23:14):
He knew not.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
He's a very smart guy. He's a very rich guy.
His big problem is he's seriously overweight. But I don't
think the drug worked. Okay, to be honest with you,
but it makes him feel good anyway. But so what happens,
he said, just he said to me, I've had eighty
eight dollars in New York. I get it for thirteen
hundred or something, a massive difference. And I said, that's right.
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The drug wills are very screwed up, and I'm doing
something about it. He said, you're better, because this is crazy.
He didn't understand it, but he didn't understand why. And
now he understands why because he watched our news conference
this morning holding his breath, right, but he watched his
news covers.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
But think of it.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
So he goes to London and a lot of people
go shopping and nearby or even far away countries and
they'll go away once a month and once a week
or something.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
If it's a nearby country, they'll.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Go right across the border and they'll buy the same
drug for one tenth the price as we pay in
the United States.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
And part of is the power of the drug companies,
which is a very big power. But I think a
bigger part is the ruthlessness of other nations.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
To screw the United States of America and the European
Union would be the top because they represent a lot
of countries and they're brutal. According to the drug companies
told me this, they're brutal in negotiations.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
They say this is what we're going to pay. We're
not going to pay any more. And if you need more,
you get it from America. And so they get a
low price, so we get a high price. And I
ended it.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
And this has been going on for many years, but
nobody realized.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
That you could do. I think I figured out the system.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Very complex chain of events take place, and I ended it.
And I have to say that drug companies were great,
and they were great.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
They said, look, it's time. They actually looked. They said,
it's top.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
And here is more, my exclusive interview with President Trump.
A board Air Force one. The UAE has committed one
point five trillion Saudi Arabia one trillion. Apparently you had
ordered a new Air Force one in your first term.
It's they're years behind in terms of its production.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
It's a Boeing.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
And when I came to office, the Obama people had
ordered it, but they didn't sign yet.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
So I was a roused to sign. They were at
about five point seven trillion.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
It's actually, as you know, it's Air Force one is
actually two Voeing seven forty sevens and they had agreed
to a price of five point seven billion, and through
a series of little negotiations, I got it down very
very substantially by a lot with the new design with it, well,
it's pretty much the same plane with the new.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
Paint color, if you want to know the truth. Were
painting it red, white and blue like the American flag.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Which is incredible, much more beautiful and much more representative
of us.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
So anyway, I got the price way down by a
lot and ordered it. And when I came, I said
the plane, where's the plane? And they said it's late,
And I said why would it be late?
Speaker 1 (26:16):
You know, I went through a whole term and well,
we had an electure that was absolutely rigged, and because
of that, this is a much more historic presidency, I
would say. But I said, where's the plane, and they
are having difficulty. I'm not happy with Boeing, but we're
going to work on Boeing. And Boeing's look, Bowey's got
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some unbelievable people working for it. So I'm not going
to do anything bad to Boeing. But they had a
strong contract. I wrote the contract. It was a guaranteed
price contract. And if I wanted to, I could, you know,
hurt Boeing. And I don't want to hurt Boeing. But
they are very late with the plane. And Guitar heard
about it, and he's a great leader, and we were
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talking and he said, if I can help you, let
me do that. And they had a plane, not a
new plane at all, but they had a plane.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
And you know these planes. A plane that.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
You're on right now is almost forty years old. And
when you land and you see Saudi Arabia and you
see UAE, and you see Qatar, and you see all
these and they have these brand new gooing seven forty
sevens mostly and you see ours next to it.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
This is like a totally different plane.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
It's much smaller, it's much less impressive, as impressive as
it is, and you know, with the United States of America,
I believe that we should have the most impressive plane.
So anyway, so they said to me, we would like
to in effect, who would like to make a gift.
You've done so many things, and we'd like to make
a gift to the Defense Department, which is where it's going.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
And they say, well, that's nice.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Now, some people say, oh, you shouldn't accept gifts for
the country. My attitude is, why wouldn't I accept the
gift we're giving to everybody else? Why wouldn't I accept
the gift? Because it's going to be a couple of years.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
I think before the boeings have finished, and they'll be
wonderful when they're finished.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
But that's all right.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
We'll have part two of my interview that was part
one that aired last night on Hannity on the Fox
News Channel. I have part two tonight on Hannity from
Doha from katar Stan, DVR nine Eastern on Fox Quick Break.
Right back, we'll continue on the other side.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Straight ahead.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
But let not your heart be troubled. We are loaded
up Part two of my interview with President Trump on
Air Force One. This interview went on for about fifteen minutes.
I didn't think it would go on that long. I
was grateful for the time. Also, Tammy Bruce, we will
talk about the progress she's working as a spokesperson for
(28:48):
Marco Rubio at the Department of State, the latest with
what's going on here in the Gulf States, the latest
what's going on with Putin and Zelenski and whether this
is all going to go down tomorrow. Aaron Khne on
Iran and the question of how America and Israel will
(29:09):
do with the possibility of them still pursuing nuclear weapons.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Kelly N.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Comway, Tommy Laren, much more. Say DVR nine Eastern if
you're in Doha, it's four am, because that's what time
we'll be doing the show. Anyway, we'll see you tonight.
Thank you for making this show possible. And back here. Well,
we won't be back here tomorrow. We'll actually actually be
in the UAE and Abu Dhabi and we'll broadcast live
(29:35):
as we wrap up our trip. What an incredible week
it's been, I got to tell you, historic in so
many ways and beneficial to our country as well. See
you tonight from Abu Dhabi tomorrow. Thank you for making
this show possible.
Hey, right here for our final news round up and
information overload in the final hour of the Sean Hannity Show.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
All Right, News Roundup and Information Overload hour toll free
on numbers eight hundred and ninety four one Sean if
you want to be a part of the program. We
continue on this journey to the Gulf States, with the
President leaving Saudi Arabia early this morning.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Now we are in Doha, we are in.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Qatar, and a lot of business is taking place, a
lot of financial commitments are taking place. I mean, we're
now talking about trillions of dollars between Saudi Arabia, UAE
and Katar in investments in America, you know, And I
think one of the un frankly underreported stories of the
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president's even threat of tariffs has been the willingness of
companies and countries to invest in America.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Now, I want to be very very clear here.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
This does not offer or in any way it does
not resolve some underlying issues with some countries. It does
not offer any kind of recognition of anything other than
a business deal. But let me go to the President
(01:17):
announcing that he is slashing the cost of prescription drugs.
This will impact every single American family in ways that
are dramatic. Keep in mind that America develops and it
costs these pharmaceutical companies billions and billions of dollars to
start with a concept and finally get approval from the
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government to be able to sell a drug. They have
ten years to maximize their profits during that ten year period.
No generic a drug can be made. After the ten
year period, anybody can make that drug. But the hard
part is is countries that have socialized medicine don't want
to pay anything near the value of that drug that
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would reimburse these companies and also give them the profits
so they can continue to develop other medicines that will
hopefully help to save human lives. I know many people
want to demonize the pharmaceutical industry, they do a lot
of good things as well.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Here's what the President said.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
What's been happening is we've been subsidizing other countries throughout
the world, not just in Europe, throughout the world. European
Union was the most difficult from what I understand. So
for the first time in many years, we'll slash the
costs of prescription drugs and we will bring fairness to America.
Drug prices will come down by much more. Really, if
you think fifty nine, if you think of a drug
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that is sometimes ten times more expensive, it's much more
than the fifty nine percent. You know, it depends on
the way you want to analyze it, but in one way,
you could analyze it that way. But between fifty nine
and eighty and I guess even ninety percent. So when
I work so hard in the first term, and if
I got prices down, I remember I was the only
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I want to ever get prices down for a full year.
But I get them down like two percent, and I
thought it was like a big deal. Well we're getting
them down sixty seventy eighty ninety percent, But actually more
than that if you think about it in the way mathematically,
and farmer has to say, we're sorry, but we'll not
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be able to do this any longer. To these comfort,
to these countries that have been so tough, they've been
very tough, nasty.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
It's trade. It's trade.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Why should we be ripped off left, right, and sideways?
I mean, think about this. About eighty percent of the
world's medications and drugs that are developed are developed here
in the US. In a way that's intellectual property theft
that we've again institutionalized a system that abuses Americans. We
end up paying one thousand dollars a month for a drug.
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I have a friend of mine that pays six hundred
dollars for a drug buy the same drug in a
country that has socialized medicine. He's paying under one hundred dollars.
Is it just is morally wrong and Americans should get
more favorable treatment on this.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
I agree with them totally.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Here's what the President said on China trade negotiations as well.
And you know all that's going on here in the
Middle East, it maybe didn't get the attention it really
truly deserves. I did speak with Scott Bessett on this trip.
I asked him, I said, how did you pull this
off so quickly? And I'll tell you his answer. On
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the other side.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
In addition, yesterday we achieved a total reset with China
after productive talks in Geneva. Both sides now agreed to
reduce the tariffs imposed after April second to ten percent
for ninety days as negotiators continue in the largest structural issues.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
And I want to tell you that a couple of things.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
First of all, that doesn't include the tariffs that are
already on that are our tariffs, and it doesn't include
tariffs on cars steal aluminum, things such as that, or
tariffs that may be imposed on pharmaceuticals, because we want
to bring the pharmaceutical businesses back to the United States,
and they're already starting to come back now based on
(05:12):
tariffs because they don't want to pay twenty five, fifty
or one hundred percent tariffs, so they're moving them back
to the United States.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
The biggest thing.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
That we're discussing is the opening up China, and they've
agreed to do that, but it's going to take a
while to paper it. You know, that's not the easiest
thing to paper. But that's the single I think to me.
Some people would disagree. Some people would say we're getting
a lot of money with tariffs or whatever, but you know,
especially when you add what we already have, because remember
we're already getting the fifty percent on steel and different things.
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That's not included in these numbers, so you can add that.
But but the biggest thing to me is the opening
up would be I think it would be fantastic for
our businesses if we could go in and compete.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Now we have so much happening on the economy notes,
what's Scott Beson told me?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I said, how is it possible? A week ago?
Speaker 2 (06:03):
It wasn't this past Friday, the one before the Communist
Chinese said that they, oh, if Donald Trump, Sirius, we
were opening negotiations the following weekend. Scott best with them
on Saturday and Sunday in Geneva and lo and behold
we have this ninety day deal that he is very
confident will turn into a permanent agreement between the two countries.
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I also spoke with Howard Lutnik, he did the Great
Britain Deal, and explained to me in some specificity, these
countries have known they're ripping us off. They' it's just
been a mad that they wondered when America will wake up,
to be honest. Now, add to that, not billions, but trillions.
I know Americans kind of get confused sometimes millions, billions, trillions,
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but the amount of money from for example, on this
trip that is being committed moneys to be spent in
America for American manufacturing, on top of the eight trillion
the president already has committed in the next four years
is astounding.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
It is absolutely, you know, unprecedented.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
And then then you look at, you know, everything else
that we've been watching economically, and a lot of things
is you know, according to every single solitary indicator, we
see that every prediction on the economy has been dead wrong,
you know, including you know, it's been what since twenty
twenty one. On the economy, We've never had you know,
(07:33):
lower lower inflation numbers than we have now, we never
had higher tariff income than we have now, We've never
had a greater job growth for Americans than we have now.
The stock market, which is notoriously skittish, that has bounced
back in a dramatic way. And that then leads us
(07:54):
to our next guest, our friend Steve Moore, economist, author
of Trumpanomics, Inside the American First planned to Revival Economy.
I happened to be on Air Force one. I was
sitting with the President when you did a hit with
David Asman, and it was interesting. He paid very close
attention to you, saying that you were a little skeptical
(08:14):
on tariffs, but you have become a believer because the
system has been so unfair, and the President knew the
power and the strength of the American economy more than
say many other people did.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
So great to be ak you Shaw. By the way,
was the President watching when I said that?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Or yes he was, he was watching every minute of it.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
That's it's just a little back story on that. You know,
the President was scolding me a few weeks ago, saying,
you're wait, you're too tough on my terrorist Steve, you know,
and so you know, I was a doubting Thomas. And
one of the things that Trump is a master of
is e is proving his critics wrong. And I was
(08:55):
a critic. I you know, I'd go on your show
and I said, well, I'm uneasy about these terrorists. But
look look at where we are today, Sean versus where
we were just even a month ago. It's extraordinary what
we're seeing. I mean, the market is way way up
by three thousand points. As you mentioned, I thought that
prices would go up because of the teriffs. They didn't.
They didn't. That was wrong. I mean, as you said,
(09:16):
we got the lowest tariff report in many, many years
in terms of inflation. So this is a very very
rosy picture. I don't think we're completely out of the
rough waters. Entirely because I don't know if these countries
are going to cheatter that. That's the one thing I
hope Trump is going to have strong enforcement on.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Easy Well, I think, well, I think we're How can
you say we're not out of rough water? Is when
inflation is the coolest that's been in four years. You
know the numbers, you've read the it's the lowest CPI
reading since February of twenty twenty one. Now what happened
in January of twenty twenty one, Oh, that's right, January
twenty Joe Biden became president. February number wreck basically was
(10:01):
a continuation of the Trump economic policies. And this is
before those numbers. Inflation went up over nine percent.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
So my only remaining skepticism is whether these deals will
actually come through, whether these countries will actually honor their agreements.
I hope that on Trump uses the Reagan maxim when
he used to negotiate with Gorbachevit and the Soviet Union,
trust but verify. So I want to make sure these countries,
because you know China cheats, you know that, you know
the president ge We're going to have to make sure
(10:29):
that they follow through with these deals. If we get
these eight trillion dollars of additional investment capital, I mean,
my god, you're talking about millions and probably over ten
million jobs associated with that kind of capital investment here
in the USA, and those are going to be high
paying jobs. It's good. I wander We're gonna get all
the workers to fill all those jobs.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
That's a great point.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
One of the things I like the most about it
that I don't think enough people talk about, is we
are bringing back manufacturing to this country in very critical industries.
We're going to make our own semiconductor chips, bringing back
pharmaceutical manufacturing so we're not dependent on China. We are
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also dramatically bringing automotive manufacturing again, high paying career jobs
that you're mentioning here back to this country. Add to that,
the President, you know, giving us most Favored nation status
on prescription drugs, which I think is incredible too.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
So, you know, I want to make sure people understand
that this didn't happen by accident. This was the plan.
So when you reduce regulations on American companies by a
trillion dollars in terms of costs, and then when you
lower energy prices, gas prices, and electricity prices by producing
more American energy. And then when you cut taxes, tax
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rates on American businesses small and large, when you do,
and then you get economy out of the doge and
the savings, those things make America a more attractive place
to invest in. This is exactly what we saw in
the last economic boom when Ronald Reagan was president. Reagan
cut taxes, deregulated, we had all this foreign money coming
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in the United States. That's exactly what's happening under Donald Trump,
although probably more so.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
A right quick break will continue. We are in Doha.
We are in.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Katar as we continue our reporting on President Trump's historic
first trip in a second term as president and incredible
news coming out of the Gulf States. More on that
on the other side, we'll get to your calls coming
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Speaker 5 (14:14):
Sor right.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
We continue now with our friend Steve Moore as we
talk about incredible economic news left, right and sideways, especially
coming out of this the president's first trip abroad to
the Golf States. We are in stop number two. We
are in Doha. We are in Qatar after leaving this
morning from Saudi Arabia, and tomorrow we'll be in Abu Dhabi.
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I don't think we've ever seen the level of commitment.
I do believe a lot of it's tied to national
security concerns, especially in the Golf States where I'm reporting from.
I mean, we're in Qatar today, we're in Doha doing
this program. It's late at night, beautiful skyline. Have you
ever been here?
Speaker 5 (14:56):
I did. I was in Dubai just earlier this year.
That's not too far from where you are, and I
was an extraordinary place. So I hope you're having a
great time there. And how cool was I watched your
interviews on the Was that on air first one? You
were doing those interviews with the President?
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Yeah, yes, sir. Part two will air tonight. He gave
me over about fifty minutes worth of material. We'll use
in every bit of it, so we decided to break
it up into two nights. In part two tonight.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
Well, it was incredible. And then I'm jealous that you're
getting to travel all those days with the President. I mean,
this is a guy who puts America first real every
decision he makes, even when I disagree with him. Sometimes,
you know, I disagree with him, Sean, But even when
I disagree with it, I thought, well, he's doing this
because he loves this country. And the other thing is,
if I may, it's a big difference when you have
(15:44):
somebody in the way just put aside ideology, because you know,
obviously Biden was an ideological liberal and Trump is more
ideologically conservative. But putting ideology aside, it makes a big
difference when you have somebody in the White House who's
a life for lifelong politician like Joe Biden versus a
lifelong businessman like Donald Trump. I mean, don't you think.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
One hundred Steve Moore, we appreciate you. But the President
was paying very close attention. I was in the room
at the time. It's pretty interesting to watch. Thank you, sir.
All right, Part two my interview with President Trump tonight.
Here was part one from yesterday. We covered so much
ground on a wide variety of topics.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Listen, So we're trying to open up China because as
you know, many years ago we opened up the USA.
Now it's time for China to open up, and that's
part of our deal, and we're going to open up China.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
To me, that's the most exciting part. But yeah, we
made a deal. The relationship is very good.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
I've always had a good relationship with President She was
interrupted because of COVID, obviously, but outside of that, I've
always had a great relationship, a lot of respect for him,
and we'll see how.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
That all works out.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
But we have the confines of a very very strong
deal with China. But the most exciting part of the
deal it was mentioned, but we don't talk about it yet,
that's the opening up of China to US business and
that would be like opening up a whole new world,
and I think it would be even better for China.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
So I think we'll be able to make that deal.
I hope.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
At any point, do you foresee yourself dealing directly with
President She on the final details of this deal.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Yeah, I could see that.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
I mean, I'm not sure that it'll be necessary, but
that happened with the UK. We were close to a deal,
but we needed one point or two points one four
and ethanol, Okay, two very different subjects, and I called
up the Prime Minister is an excellent man, kir excellent man.
(17:43):
And within about three minutes it was over.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
We made the deal. It was a good deal for everybody.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
And we have a lot of deals now, we have
a lot of trade deals that want I'd say virtually
everybody wants to make a deal.
Speaker 6 (17:57):
When I first saw you, I thank you for letting
us cover this to report on this from Air Force one.
When I first saw you, I think you were more excited.
You were excited about the China deal. But prescription drugs,
which has been very, very painful for a lot of Americans.
Eighty percent of medications are created in America, and then
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we end up paying more for those medications. Foreign countries
do not pay as much as we do. You said,
that is over. Can you explain why this is such
a big deal.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Well, for many years we were taking advantage of by
other countries and the drug companies. But I blamed the
other countries in a way more the European Union, et cetera.
They were very nasty and very tough to the drug
companies and they would give them a very low price
for drug costs in the European nations. And when that
price was given, that was it. They wouldn't negotiate. They said,
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let America pay for the difference. And this happened all
over the world with other countries. We had stupid people
leading us, especially over the last four years, and they
wouldn't do anything about it, and it turned out that
we were paying it. Sometimes you saw it ten times
more for the same drug, same drug, same company, same
plant where they make it laboratory. And it got to
(19:19):
a point where I said, We're not going to do
this anymore. The pharmaceutical industry is very powerful and probably
the most powerful, considered the most powerful lobby, and the
Democrats were making it impossible to lower drug prices.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
They do what they were doing, and I.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Instituted a Most Favored Nations provision or concept, where we're
going to pay whatever the lowest country pays in the world.
So if it's the UK, which pays very low in
any country, it could be any country whatever the lowest prices.
And the drug companies have accepted it.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Everybody accepts it.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
But the Democrats never wanted to play well, they never
wanted to do anything. It's the Democrat's fault that people
were being ripped off for years and years, and now
I hear Democrats saying, oh, well, we're going to now
go for the bill.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
It's going to be very.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Hard for them not to approve the big, beautiful bill
that we're doing. We're doing the biggest tax cuts in
the history of our country because people are going to
be getting a fifty to a ninety percent reduction in drug.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Prices, not a half a percent.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
I remember when I would fight so hard to get
a half a point that I actually had it down
half a point for one year, and I was so
proud of myself because that never happened before.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
It was always going up. Drugs only went in one direction,
that's up.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
And now after studying the industry, it's a very complex industry.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
But I figured it out.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
And I said, it's not going to happen. But the
Democrats fought very hard to keep the prices of drugs very,
very high. They really ought to blame for this because
they should have done something about it. And when the
Republicans went with requests, they said, we're not going to
approve it. And now we have a unified Republican party.
But I think the Democrats are going to improve this
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bill too, because how are they going to reject a
sixty seventy eighty.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Percent drug cut. I don't think they can.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
I think it's going to be huge.
Speaker 6 (21:14):
The fact that these drugs are not the creation of
these drugs, I mean, these companies have to go through
a very arduous process to get approved thread by the government.
They spend billions of dollars. And you can put aside
whether or not quote people demonize big pharma, that's separate
and apart. However, we usually end up creating them and
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then we end up paying ten times more, which is crazy.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Well, they used to use that, if I can interrupt,
they used to use that as a reason.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Why we were paying five and ten times more than
other countries. Is it because of research and development?
Speaker 1 (21:49):
And I'd always say, well, what about you doing research
and development for the rest.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Of the world too, Why are we paying for one
hundred percent?
Speaker 1 (21:56):
So we paid one hundred percent for research and development, which,
along with other things, believe it or not, raise the
price to a point where you were five to ten
times higher than the rest of the world. And I
told the sort today it was well received. A friend
of mine who's slightly overweight, to put it mildly, went
to a drug store in London, and he was able
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to get one of the fat shots.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
I caught the fat shots of Jane. Did you lose weight? Others?
Speaker 6 (22:23):
A lot of people laugh at that. Some people got
offended by I don't get offended by it.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
I'm just glad I didn't use his name. He's actually
a very rich Guy's of her successful.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
He said, he didn't use his name.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
He's very happy. He knows exactly what I was talking about.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
He called.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
He said that was interesting. He said he was very
concerned that I might use his name.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
I might slip.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Now he doesn't have to work. But he went to
London and he bought this, uh, one of those yes, yeah,
I'm not your which one you bought?
Speaker 4 (22:51):
He bought one of them, maybe a Zeppich, and he
bought it and he called me.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
He said, hey, I a strange thing I have and
I just bought a drug, same company, same plant, same everything,
Everything was the same.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
In one case.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
I paid in New York thirteen hundred dollars and in London,
I'm paying eighty eight dollars. He said, what's going on now?
Speaker 4 (23:14):
He knew not.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
He's a very smart guy. He's a very rich guy.
His big problem is he's seriously overweight. But I don't
think the drug worked. Okay, to be honest with you,
but it makes him feel good anyway. But so what happens,
he said, just he said to me, I've had eighty
eight dollars in New York. I get it for thirteen
hundred or something, a massive difference. And I said, that's right.
(23:35):
The drug wills are very screwed up, and I'm doing
something about it. He said, you're better, because this is crazy.
He didn't understand it, but he didn't understand why. And
now he understands why because he watched our news conference
this morning holding his breath, right, but he watched his
news covers.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
But think of it.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
So he goes to London and a lot of people
go shopping and nearby or even far away countries and
they'll go away once a month and once a week
or something.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
If it's a nearby country, they'll.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Go right across the border and they'll buy the same
drug for one tenth the price as we pay in
the United States.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
And part of is the power of the drug companies,
which is a very big power. But I think a
bigger part is the ruthlessness of other nations.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
To screw the United States of America and the European
Union would be the top because they represent a lot
of countries and they're brutal. According to the drug companies
told me this, they're brutal in negotiations.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
They say this is what we're going to pay. We're
not going to pay any more. And if you need more,
you get it from America. And so they get a
low price, so we get a high price. And I
ended it.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
And this has been going on for many years, but
nobody realized.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
That you could do. I think I figured out the system.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Very complex chain of events take place, and I ended it.
And I have to say that drug companies were great,
and they were great.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
They said, look, it's time. They actually looked. They said,
it's top.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
And here is more, my exclusive interview with President Trump.
A board Air Force one. The UAE has committed one
point five trillion Saudi Arabia one trillion. Apparently you had
ordered a new Air Force one in your first term.
It's they're years behind in terms of its production.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
It's a Boeing.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
And when I came to office, the Obama people had
ordered it, but they didn't sign yet.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
So I was a roused to sign. They were at
about five point seven trillion.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
It's actually, as you know, it's Air Force one is
actually two Voeing seven forty sevens and they had agreed
to a price of five point seven billion, and through
a series of little negotiations, I got it down very
very substantially by a lot with the new design with it, well,
it's pretty much the same plane with the new.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
Paint color, if you want to know the truth. Were
painting it red, white and blue like the American flag.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Which is incredible, much more beautiful and much more representative
of us.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
So anyway, I got the price way down by a
lot and ordered it. And when I came, I said
the plane, where's the plane? And they said it's late,
And I said why would it be late?
Speaker 1 (26:16):
You know, I went through a whole term and well,
we had an electure that was absolutely rigged, and because
of that, this is a much more historic presidency, I
would say. But I said, where's the plane, and they
are having difficulty. I'm not happy with Boeing, but we're
going to work on Boeing. And Boeing's look, Bowey's got
(26:36):
some unbelievable people working for it. So I'm not going
to do anything bad to Boeing. But they had a
strong contract. I wrote the contract. It was a guaranteed
price contract. And if I wanted to, I could, you know,
hurt Boeing. And I don't want to hurt Boeing. But
they are very late with the plane. And Guitar heard
about it, and he's a great leader, and we were
(26:58):
talking and he said, if I can help you, let
me do that. And they had a plane, not a
new plane at all, but they had a plane.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
And you know these planes. A plane that.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
You're on right now is almost forty years old. And
when you land and you see Saudi Arabia and you
see UAE, and you see Qatar, and you see all
these and they have these brand new gooing seven forty
sevens mostly and you see ours next to it.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
This is like a totally different plane.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
It's much smaller, it's much less impressive, as impressive as
it is, and you know, with the United States of America,
I believe that we should have the most impressive plane.
So anyway, so they said to me, we would like
to in effect, who would like to make a gift.
You've done so many things, and we'd like to make
a gift to the Defense Department, which is where it's going.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
And they say, well, that's nice.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Now, some people say, oh, you shouldn't accept gifts for
the country. My attitude is, why wouldn't I accept the
gift we're giving to everybody else? Why wouldn't I accept
the gift? Because it's going to be a couple of years.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
I think before the boeings have finished, and they'll be
wonderful when they're finished.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
But that's all right.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
We'll have part two of my interview that was part
one that aired last night on Hannity on the Fox
News Channel. I have part two tonight on Hannity from
Doha from katar Stan, DVR nine Eastern on Fox Quick Break.
Right back, we'll continue on the other side.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Straight ahead.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
But let not your heart be troubled. We are loaded
up Part two of my interview with President Trump on
Air Force One. This interview went on for about fifteen minutes.
I didn't think it would go on that long. I
was grateful for the time. Also, Tammy Bruce, we will
talk about the progress she's working as a spokesperson for
(28:48):
Marco Rubio at the Department of State, the latest with
what's going on here in the Gulf States, the latest
what's going on with Putin and Zelenski and whether this
is all going to go down tomorrow. Aaron Khne on
Iran and the question of how America and Israel will
(29:09):
do with the possibility of them still pursuing nuclear weapons.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Kelly N.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Comway, Tommy Laren, much more. Say DVR nine Eastern if
you're in Doha, it's four am, because that's what time
we'll be doing the show. Anyway, we'll see you tonight.
Thank you for making this show possible. And back here. Well,
we won't be back here tomorrow. We'll actually actually be
in the UAE and Abu Dhabi and we'll broadcast live
(29:35):
as we wrap up our trip. What an incredible week
it's been, I got to tell you, historic in so
many ways and beneficial to our country as well. See
you tonight from Abu Dhabi tomorrow. Thank you for making
this show possible.
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