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(02:17):
I'd say even the equipment around here knows it's the
end of the year. Everything's just shutting down on me. Hey,
good morning, Glad to have you folks. Welcome in on
this Friday edition of The stickgall Show and Merry Christmas.
Literally all my equipment every morning I come in, my equipment,
my computer screens, they're all going no new passwords, shutting down, deactivating, relaunching, updating.
They want to quit fascinating with no quit in us,
ladies and gentlemen, we are barreling toward the Christmas season

(02:41):
and we are still here, and we're going to be
here next week too. You know, some shows, lesser shows
might just take all of next week off. Not this one.
This team cannot stop coming to you and broadcasting and
giving you quality entertainment and information that you count on.
We're going to be here even Monday and Tuesday. There's
no quit here. Now there's nothing we can do because
President Trump is officially now made Christmas Eve a national holiday.

(03:04):
So we're going to have to, with respect to the
new orders, fest that he take Christmas Eve off. I
think it's just the right thing to do. Now that
President Trump is declared in a national holiday, we should
take Christmas Eve off and the day after Christmas as well.
So by order of the President, we will have to
be away on Christmas Eve as well as the day
after Christmas. So as a show, I'd like to just

(03:26):
pass on to all of you from the President of
the United States. Enjoy your time away, Chris.

Speaker 7 (03:32):
Yes, we hear for Trump here around here, and we
want to take his orders very seriously, not make his
end of year any more of a hassle than.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
It needs to be out. You know, we will not
as for us as for me and my house, we
will respect an honor the edict from President of the
United States and take the nationally sanctioned holiday of Now
what do you think of that? In all sincerity? I
was in line talking to a small business owner yesterday
and I pop up on my phone that he had

(04:01):
signed the executive order to give everybody. Well, I say,
give everybody. It would be a federal holiday, meaning I
suppose anybody that worked for the federal government. That means
your bank and that sort of thing. Christmas even the
day after Christmas now a sanctioned federal holiday by executive
order from the President. And I said to this person
behind the counter of her small business, I said it

(04:22):
had just popped up. I said, oh, at Christmas, even
the day after. And she said, what doesn't affect me?
She kind of grumbled, because you know, she runs a
small business. I said, well, I guess that's true. It's
for banks and stuff like that. She goes, oh, the bank.
She goes, well, I guess it will affect me. She
got really ticked. She goes, you know what that means.
That means when I make deposits for my business, I'm

(04:43):
not going to see a deposit hit until like Sunday night.
I'm not going to be able to access any money
to Monday now. So she was kind of frosted by it.
Ed she said, I'm not taking the holidays off, but
now the banks are going to be shut.

Speaker 7 (04:53):
That is I don't know, that's a painting, but as
far as you know, twenty twenty six goes we have
the one big, beautiful bill, which means no tax on overtime.
So if you want to volunteer to work, say your
company isn't closed, it's just like, look, we can't close, right,
and they say, hey, but you'll get time and a.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
Half, you'll get overtime whatever. Now it's not going to
be taxed.

Speaker 7 (05:13):
So I actually like this a lot. This is economically sound.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
I think, Look, certainly, there's not a government worker that's
going to complain. We all know that. I'm just having
a little fun with you people I'm having but don't
send me the hate mail. I know you're a hard
working government employee. How there I insult you. Just calm down.
I can already hear people pounding out on the keyboard,
just having a little fun. But that's the government effectively
shuts down for three days Christmas Eve. I mean, not

(05:39):
that anybody was working those days anyway, but you get it.
What do you make of this too? While we're at it, Like,
I know there's some bigger news to get to, but
I just thought it would be fun to start on
a Friday. By the way, it's also open line Friday,
which means if you'd like to get in here at
eight five five s to go, all talk about that
or whatever you want, have at it. Anything goes on
open line Friday. It's the tradition that rush started so

(05:59):
long that we want to keep alive. If there's something
on your mind, today's the day to call in and
do it. At eight five five s to go. You
get right to the top of the line, got a
line open for you. President Trump continues to poke, and
he's trying to poke well into the future, whether he's
going to have a third term or not. This is

(06:19):
this is Trump's way of ensuring they're going to be
talking about him long after he leaves. Every time they
move to slap his name on something, or he puts
up photos, or he puts up new placards, you do
realize he understands. I saw some people on our side,
the you know, the very stuffed shirt Colognan cuffling, very

(06:42):
smart rhino crowd yesterday on X saying this is this
is unseemly changing the name of the Kennedy Center, and
I just I laughed. First of all, Americans don't care.
It's these institutionalists that can you know. Rheas Shreiver was
very upset that they slapped Trump's name in front of

(07:03):
Kennedy and called up the Trump Kennedy Center. Now the
board voted for that. Does that make you mad?

Speaker 4 (07:09):
Ed?

Speaker 2 (07:09):
Do you think average Americans are losing sleep over it
now being called the Trump Kennedy Center, as voted on
by the new board of the Kennedy Center.

Speaker 7 (07:16):
No, And they don't even have the same anger that
I do towards I remember when they got twenty five
million dollars doing the Cares Act the Kennedy Center.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
It's just like, yes, screw them, Like, well, look, yeah,
this is an institution full of a bunch of left
wing loons. Originally they all hated Trump. Trump didn't even
walk into that building his first term. To my knowledge,
I think that's right. It was full of a just
a ton of haters, purple haired, weirdo artsy FARTSI freaks,

(07:48):
you know the type. Yeah, they dressed in goth and
wore eyeliner in high school, long black coats, you know,
potentially packing it's in the schools. It's that type. And
then and they turned into artists, you know, and they
put on stage plays and you know, smeared feces and
called it art and you know, and at all costs whatever.
Whenever a crowd was gathered, they put on a show

(08:10):
and attacked Trump and Republicans. At the close, you know,
the curtain would fall and they'd take a bow, and
then they got Republicans suck good night, everybody. It was that,
and it was taxpayer funded. I assumed I was not
welcome in the Kennedy Center. That's how kind of vile
I always thought the thing was. Anytime I ever saw
it on television, it was on PBS, and it was
a bunch of people like Robert de Niro and other

(08:31):
left wingers patting one another on the back and making
jokes about how rotten Republicans and Trump were. I literally
assumed the Kennedy Center was just a Democrat artsy fartsy club.
I had no idea it was an open to public
space for the taxpayer and the average American citizen. Until
Rick Grennell took it over. The whole board was blown
out or walked. A huge injection of private funds came

(08:56):
into the thing. I just took Christine Beck in what
was it late September to see the sound of music.
We met little Gretel, the real Gretel from the movie
The Sound of Music. We met her. It was great,
a great all American show, patriotism, happiness, people smiling. There's
a whole new board, and so the whole new board voted.
By the way they're polishing the place up, the thing

(09:19):
was dilapidated, it wasn't being well cared for. It was
in the red on top of it all because Democrats
can't manage money. So in came a business person, an
American business person, American loving business person, a patriotic, American
loving business person, Rick Grennell. Backed by the President. They
appoint an all new board. They have an infusion of

(09:39):
millions in cash. They polish the thing up, They bring
in shows the American public wants to see, and woila
all of a sudden, it's a great American institution. And
the board votes yesterday. Let's call this the Trump Kennedy
Center now. And they're mad as hell about it. Ed
they are fury. Maria Shriver said, you know, I try
not to come on these things, but it's getting difficult

(10:02):
to hold my tongue. And I heard more than a
few Republicans, supposedly Republicans who voted for Trump, said, what
it is is just this is unnecessary, This is just
you just this is just provoccate prevarication. And I thought
to me, and they said, and don't be I saw
somebody say don't be mad when in a few years
they take his name off of it again and go

(10:23):
back to calling it the Kennedy Center. He's also put
up a bunch of these pictures, as you know, down
the portico near the Rose Garden, of all the presidents,
and he's just got the photo of the pen for
Joe Biden. And now he's ordered these plaques and they
look like permanent plaques. I mean, like nice you know,
bronze plaques with descriptions of all the presidents that they

(10:44):
have now affixed to the wall underneath the portico of
all the president's pictures. That have you read some of
the descriptions of these I have. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (10:54):
It's like Biden, I think is the worst president in history.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
I think he calls Obama the most divisive. Not he
they're on the plaques. Well I'm certain he wrote it.
They read like a truth social post too. I mean
they're literally you know, strange words capitalized and what not,
the way Trump posts on truth social Mister Trump conceived, built,
and dedicated the Walk of Fame, according to one of
the plaques, as a tribute to past president's good, bad,

(11:17):
and somewhere in the middle who served our country and
gave up so much in doing so. The Walk of
Fame has already received plenty of attention rights the Washington
Times over the picture chosen for Joe Biden, the auto pen.
The plaque underneath mister Biden's photo says, sleepy, Joe Biden
was by far the worst president and American history, taking
office as a result of the most corrupt election ever

(11:38):
seen in the United States. Biden oversaw a series of
unprecedented disasters that brought our nation to the brink of destruction.
So I saw people say, this is just unnecessarily provocative,
and don't get mad, and don't be surprised when the
next guy comes in and rips all this stuff down
and changes it back. Are you going to be mad
or surprised or ticked off when the next guy comes

(12:00):
in and rips it all down and changes it all back?

Speaker 7 (12:03):
Me personally, no, because I've, like you said, going into this,
I don't care about the Kennedy Center. I never did
when I was a little kid. I didn't aspire to
be on the Kennedy Center stage or anything like that.
It's most Americans don't they know what it is. They've
heard it before, but they don't know losing sleep over it.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
No they're not. But I mean when somebody comes in
and takes it all down, when they change it back
to the Kennedy Center, that's not gonna upset you. You're
not gonna get mad. You're not gonna say how dare
they disrespect Trump like that? Because that's what's coming. Of
course that's true. I saw people saying, you do understand
that whenever the next guy comes in that's not a Republican,
they're just gonna rip all this down and change it back,
and you're gonna all scream and yell about it. And

(12:42):
you better not. Said somebody admonishing everyone online last night,
and I thought, I don't think that's where most of
us are now.

Speaker 7 (12:48):
I have enough things to be pissed off about in
the day. When they come and they rip it down,
I'm just gonna laugh and be like, remember when Trump
named the Kennedy Center to Trump Kennedy Center.

Speaker 2 (12:56):
And that's what it is. Do you think he doesn't
know they're gonna come in and rip it all down
and change it back. He just knows he'll be a
news story well into the next presidency if it's not
jd Vance, which is fully their intention. More in a minute.
You a powerball player, fast Eddie? Do you buy one
of these tickets? The jackpot is now one point five
billion dollars. I don't. I stop paying attention, but I

(13:19):
know that every now and again when I walk into
the convenience store, I see that the little sign above
the machine just says nine nine nine nine because it
runs out of room. So I assumed it was in
the billion. Now now, I usually so I actually did.

Speaker 7 (13:32):
I administered lottery the lottery machine when I worked at
a beer distributor through college, and I actually I saw
the lottery is a pretty dangerous thing because people playing
it in the addiction. But I'm starting to warm to it.
I think, if we're talking billion, what the heck?

Speaker 2 (13:48):
You'll try five bucks?

Speaker 8 (13:49):
What the heck?

Speaker 2 (13:50):
So that's tonight, right, don't they do? Is that every Monday, Wednesday,
Friday or something like that. Yeah, it's Saturday.

Speaker 7 (13:57):
Yeah, Megan millions is like Tuesday and something Tuesday Friday
and power balls Wednesday and Saturday like that million yesterday.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
The tragic just awful. I mean, I didn't know much
about this individual, but he and his young family. Greg Biffle,
if you're a NASCAR fan, I did not know. I
know the name, but I don't follow NASCAR. But this
plane crash, a plane crash in North Carolina, the regional
airport there has killed NASCAR driver Greg Biffle, as well

(14:29):
as several others. I guess the pilot and co pilots.
North Carolina Highway Patrol said that Biffle and members of
his immediate family have perished in the crash. The agency
said seven people in total were killed. It was him
and his wife and two very young kids on their
way to Florida for the day. I guess to visit
a friend or something like that, but I just I can't,

(14:51):
I guess. The wife of Greg Biffle texted her mother
just before it happened and said, things are bad or
what have you. But I don't know, I things like that.
You know, here we are, what five days out from Christmas,
and I just that's can you. I don't. I can't
even get my head wrapped around it. And of course
then there's this finally some solution to this shooter at

(15:17):
Brown University who also killed him. Well, I shouldn't say. Also,
have they concluded yet or not? I went to bed
because I couldn't quite I was getting exhausted with trying
to watch the coverage of it. Have they concluded that
this professor at MIT is the same killed by the
same guy or not? Or have they not gone that
far yet?

Speaker 7 (15:32):
I Chris, I'm not being conspiratorial. I don't know that
they've confirmed. They said that they are linked in news stories,
but at least of the stories that I've read, But
as far as confirming it, like I wouldn't be surprised
if if that comes back, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (15:49):
I don't believe. Yeah, the body, the body of a
man suspected, and the killing of two students at Brown
University and an MIT professor again suspected, but it's just
been back and forth as to whether, I mean, so
are they is the suggestion that he opens fire on
the campus of Brown, then drives north almost immediately and
assassinates a professor at MIT, is that what they're saying,

(16:11):
and then he heads to this storage facility where they
ultimately end up cornering him and he kills himself inside
the storage facility as they swatted it in New Hampshire. Salem,
New Hampshire is where they found his dead body in
this storage facility last night. But that's what they're assessing
that he just opened fire at Brown, then drove up
the mit, killed this professor, then went to a storage
facility killed himself.

Speaker 7 (16:32):
Yeap, that pretty much.

Speaker 2 (16:33):
Yeah. Claudio Manuel Nuevas Valente is who he is, forty
eight years old, Peruvian. I believe they say as was
this professor he killed. So there's gonna be a lot
to unpack on that story. Moren a minute open line

(16:56):
Friday today at eight five five Stagall. Let's do it.
Mary is in Florida to kick it off this morning. Mary,
Merry Christmas. Do you welcome in?

Speaker 9 (17:05):
And Merry Christmas to you, mister Stigall. We said hey
on the cruise this summer, and I wish you would
headline one of those as you know if you wanted to.

Speaker 2 (17:17):
Oh well that's very not You went on the Alaska
trip with us.

Speaker 9 (17:20):
Yes, sir, and like I say, I wouldn't name other names,
but I really wish you would take the lead on
one of those wonderful trips one day.

Speaker 2 (17:30):
This isn't my mother, is it. I just want everyone
to know this is not my mother calling.

Speaker 9 (17:34):
Ill right, No, no're not related.

Speaker 2 (17:38):
That's very sweet of you, know, in all sincerity I had.
I had so much fun. And that was a last
minute invitation, you know, because one of the hosts couldn't
even go, and so they called Stigall off the bench
and said, hey, can you come fill in? And so
I was purely just a tag along, fill in stowaway guy,
and I got to I didn't even have to work
that hard. So I had a blast. Frankly, Mary, thank
you so much.

Speaker 9 (17:58):
You're welcome. And we had a bus having you there.
And I am one of those people that can see
the rural route carrier throwing the mail out the window
from his beat up pickets up truck in the Funny Farm.
Every time you say it, I laugh out loud, even
if it's early in the morning. And we used to laugh,

(18:20):
you know, as as a punchline. Sometimes are not so funny.

Speaker 2 (18:25):
You're for people that don't know I'm talking about. Yesterday,
I was referencing the movie Funny Farm, uh, and I
don't remember what context I brought that up twice now
as a reference. But anyway, it's a Chevy Chase film.
I recommend that to you for some Christmas and holiday
viewing if you haven't seen it.

Speaker 9 (18:39):
Absolutely, And I'm just thinking about the Christmas cards being
you know, being delivered that way. Nevertheless, and see there's
the laugh. Nevertheless, in this dark day, there are some
you know, thank God. Oh here's here's what I'll leave
you with. Yesterday, in a National chain store, I walked

(19:04):
in and they had real Christmas christ Christmas music, the
old carols, all of this and Jesus's name and everything.

Speaker 7 (19:15):
Wow.

Speaker 9 (19:15):
And the whole store was kind of like in awe.
And I said to the manager, this music is fabulous
Christmas music. They said, yeah, we don't care. We're not
supposed to be playing it, but we're playing it anyway.
And I said, hello, oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 (19:30):
Oh, so you're saying, yeah, you don't want to get
anybody inny trouble. You're saying, this is like a commercial
chain of stores that typically would not be playing overtly
Christian music, and this particular store in the chain was
playing it anyway.

Speaker 9 (19:43):
Yes, sir, hallelujah.

Speaker 2 (19:45):
I love that A rogue manager out there in one
of these big corporate chains. The only time you'll see
that really at a corporate level is hobby lobby. Now
you walk into the hobby lobby right now, you'll hear
overtly Christian music. But Mary, Hey, Merry Christmas to you.
Glad to meet you on the cruise. Hope we'll see
you again out there on the high seas, and stay
in touch. Eight five fives to gall is how you
get here? On open line Friday, a couple of things

(20:05):
I wanted to bring to your attention President Trump saying
that he is looking into a national housing emergency fast
Eddie at once. We must get the Stagall plan to
the West wing number fifty six. Take a listen.

Speaker 10 (20:24):
Are you still considering a national emergency over housing? I'm
looking at you know I have There's two thoughts on housing.

Speaker 11 (20:32):
You have a lot of people have housing that because
we have such a strong time and such a strong market,
their houses are very valuable.

Speaker 10 (20:40):
It's a big part of their net worth their house.

Speaker 11 (20:45):
I don't want to knock those numbers down because I
want them to continue to have a big value for theirs.
At the same time, I want to make it possible
for young people out there and other people to buy
housing the way they're at conflict.

Speaker 10 (21:01):
In other words, you.

Speaker 11 (21:02):
Create a lot of housing all of a sudden, and
it drives the housing prices down. So I want to
take care of the people that have houses that have
a value to get into the house that they never
thought possible, that have sort of made them wealthy and happy,
and you know, especially in their later years, got to
be careful with that.

Speaker 10 (21:20):
I want to keep them up.

Speaker 11 (21:21):
At the same time, I want to make it possible
for people to go buy houses.

Speaker 2 (21:27):
This is a really interesting thing if you're listening closely
to what he's saying here. We talk a lot about
how the unaffordability issue for housing young people getting into
a house. They say it's something now closer to forty
years old, the average age before somebody can get into
their first home. It used to be thirty maybe, but
ten years ago, so it's taking longer for people to

(21:47):
get into a home. For the very first time. Trump
said something that doesn't get mentioned a lot there. I'm
really intrigued by it, and I'm going to talk with
our friend EJ and Tony coming up about it. Did
you catch this? He said, I want to put existing homeowners. Now,
what about that?

Speaker 10 (22:04):
Ed?

Speaker 2 (22:04):
Have you heard that said much? I'm concerned, he said. Basically,
I'm putting some words in his mouth, but this is
the thrust of it. I'm concerned about your home, fast daddy,
I'm concerned about your HOMESTI gaul. I'm concerned that if
I do something radical to start flooding the market with
a bunch of affordable homes for everybody. Flushing the market

(22:27):
with a bunch of new homes does what we all
know this is a good old fashioned economics supply and demand.
You start to flood the market with a ton of new,
cheaper homes, what does that do to the value of
everyone's home? Yes, it would decrease it, that's right, Yeah,
more available if there's no demand for housing. If the

(22:49):
demand isn't there value for everyone. And the thing that
all of us are counting on his homeowners is cashing
out big time equity down the road. So this is
a very precarious balance, is what he's saying. I could
move having on Earth to flood the market with a
bunch of cheaper homes, little homes for people to buy,
but that would do nothing but attack the equity you're

(23:10):
trying to build, mister Cayaso. So how do you feel
about that? I get it, I understand. So does that
make you hardhearted because you're considering the equity in your
own home instead of making something affordable for that twenty
something down the road.

Speaker 7 (23:25):
It's a delicate balance, No, because I do housing does
need to rebound. Protecting the value of your home is very,
very important. But I also do believe that the left's goal,
their entire existence, is to make you become a renter.
So I feel for that person, and I would not
want to be in this situation. And it took me
a very long time to get into my first home.

Speaker 2 (23:47):
Everyone is counting on cashing out their equity come the
sale of their home. That is what most people are
counting on, save the people that move a lot, but
most people get into a you know, twenty fifteen to
your mortgage, and they count on that being one of
the biggest assets that they'll have come retirement. And Trump says,

(24:08):
if we do anything too radical, we could eat into
your home equity. That just claim. Now again, I'm going
to ask EJ about that. I think it's gonna be
fascinating Also coming up today, we're going to talk with
the Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Eric Schmidt Missouri Senator
Eric Schmitt, United States Senator. First ever lawsuit by a

(24:28):
foreign nation directed at a city, United States Senator. Congratulations
Senator Schmidt. So we'll talk with him about that. Harry
Enton the Vaudevillion over at CNN with new numbers. I
can't believe it. Hot, shut shut, step right up here.
It comes number forty nine. Democrats, despite it all, despite
whatever you're hearing about what the Republicans aren't doing or

(24:49):
Trump's not moving fast enover, Oh, this guy's falling. Democrats
ain't doing so well. Listen.

Speaker 12 (24:57):
Democrats in the minds of the American public are lower
than the dead sea. What are we talking about here, Well,
let's take a look the net approval rating for Democrats
in Congress. You said of Kate Baldwin, the lowest ever.
Look at us overall, they are fifty five points underwater.
They're approval rating is south of twenty percent. It's even
worse when you look at Independence. Look at this negative

(25:19):
sixty one points. That means that their approval rating is
sixty one points lower than their disapproval rating. Quinnipiac has
been pulling this question for the better part of the
twenty first century. They have never found Democrats, at least
those in Congress, in worse shape than they are right now.

Speaker 2 (25:38):
So I don't think it's a fate of complete that
Republicans are going to get shellacked in the midterms. Okay,
there's a lot of ballgame left to play. There's only
five days left till Christmas. Though, thank you, thank you,
thank you for your giving. The angel Tree campaign continues.
Do you know that we have hit three thousand kids
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do it. This is a blessed time of year, and
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for our nation, three critical turning points in our nation
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of the month. All right. Speaking of Phoenix, am Fest
just got underway and our correspondent West Coast Willie we
sent out there. He's on the ground to give us
all the latest what he saw as they fired up
Day number one, Erica Kirk came out to speak. I

(27:26):
think Ben Shapiro was there, Tucker Carlson was there, a
lot of fireworks there too, but a huge packed crowd,
some thirty thousand strong. West Coast Willie, our correspondent, checked
it out on the ground.

Speaker 13 (27:38):
Hey, Willie Nelson here with Salem News Channel. We're here
in Phoenix, Arizona, at Turning Point. Ussay's America Fests, a
conference full of thousands of people. The legacy media claims
doesn't exist with opinions.

Speaker 1 (27:49):
They don't want you to hear.

Speaker 13 (27:50):
Let's go on in there and find out what the
people are saying. Would you rather work for George Soros
or get triple boosted?

Speaker 14 (27:57):
That's a really, really tough question.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
I would say triple boosted.

Speaker 14 (28:01):
And I am not a COVID shot person, so I've
never I don't have one.

Speaker 13 (28:04):
Now, if Jasmine Crockett became president, what would America look
like in the first week.

Speaker 3 (28:09):
They'd be a bunch of jazz queens, all of them.
They'd be all queens, the drag queens, all the queens.
They would all be queens. We wouldn't have any men.
They'd all be queens.

Speaker 13 (28:19):
Can a conservative and a liberal successfully date?

Speaker 15 (28:22):
No, absolutely not absolutely not now flirt to convert maybe maybe,
but uh, but successfully date as they are it's not
gonna happen.

Speaker 1 (28:31):
Can you tell us about the flirt to convert method?
Young man?

Speaker 15 (28:34):
If you're going to try and play the game, you've
got to slowly, you know, sort of inserting drops of
of what you believe and and just kind of showing
the woman, you know that you've kind of chosen to
kind of go after certain different, you know, sides in
the media that she's maybe not seen.

Speaker 13 (28:49):
What is your favorite thing the Trump administration has done
so far?

Speaker 16 (28:52):
Oh, defending common sense, defending that men and women are
different and there's only two genders.

Speaker 1 (29:00):
Wait, you think there's only two genders?

Speaker 16 (29:02):
Women's sports is only for women and not actually for
anyone else with mental health problems.

Speaker 13 (29:10):
If Jasmine Crockett became president, how would the first week look?

Speaker 1 (29:13):
I think I'd avoid the news for that week.

Speaker 3 (29:15):
Yeah, I'd probably stay in my house, try to self
quarantine again.

Speaker 1 (29:19):
Maybe.

Speaker 13 (29:20):
Oh yeah, they'd be able to get everyone back successfully
on lockdown.

Speaker 1 (29:23):
Yeah, no, definitely.

Speaker 2 (29:25):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (29:26):
What's your favorite trolling moment of Trump? I think it
had to be pretty recent.

Speaker 7 (29:30):
Actually, that Keem Jeffries sombrero thing that was hysterical because
Kim Jeffries was so upset about that, Oh, the stupidest thing,
and it was just it was good fun.

Speaker 1 (29:41):
Well for people who can take a joke, which is
not the left. Would you rather work for George Sorows.

Speaker 13 (29:47):
Or have to teach a class on critical race theory?

Speaker 16 (29:50):
I guess I could teach a class on critical race theory,
but I get.

Speaker 4 (29:53):
My own spin on it.

Speaker 1 (29:54):
And what would your first lesson be that it's a lie?

Speaker 13 (29:58):
If Jasmine crock Kid became president, what would America look
like in the first week? Lots of food snamps, lots
of the EVNT.

Speaker 17 (30:05):
Would go crazy, and I know you'd have some interesting
Supreme Court rulings, maybe dismantled, maybe stacked.

Speaker 1 (30:12):
I think she would flood the courts. I think she would.
You just add a bunch of Supreme Court justice. Can
it conservative and a liberal successfully date? I would say
in this day and age.

Speaker 2 (30:20):
No, maybe in years past, but I think just because
they're so extremes on both sides that right.

Speaker 3 (30:25):
Now, I think you have to be aligned politically.

Speaker 1 (30:28):
What do you want to see the Trump administration do.

Speaker 18 (30:30):
More of put people in jail? I want account of
billet that is so important to me. I want call
me fault. She's on the top of my list. Adam Schiff,
he should be in jail. Fanny Willis, Letitia James, all
of knows character.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
What's the wokest thing you've ever heard of? Liberal say?

Speaker 14 (30:47):
I think the most liberal thing woke thing is probably,
you know, just the fact that girls can be boys
and boys and be girls, and that children down to
like four years old are able to decide to go
on pruberty, are like mutally them selves, and I think
that that is probably the most disgusting, crazy wokening I've heard.

Speaker 13 (31:07):
So reporting here from Turning Point USA's America Fess.

Speaker 1 (31:10):
I'm Willie Nelson for Salem News Channel.

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Speaker 19 (32:21):
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Speaker 2 (32:24):
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Speaker 10 (32:25):
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on the Europeans and how they celebrate this. It's a
that's kind of fun, that looks sort of normal, that's
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Relief Factor Studios this morning, We're thrilled to be with you.
The Nativity is now becoming protest art. As you probably know,

(35:42):
some US churches are reimagining Nativity scenes this year, surrounding
the Holy Family with ice agents, or separating Jesus from
Mary and Joseph to protest the Trump administration's intensifying immigration crackdowns.
Of course, the irony about calling the Holy Family immigrants

(36:04):
is that they actually wanted to go back home. I've
always thought that so funny, like you can't you know
they their goal was actually to return back from the
place they fled. They had no desire to make home
where they had ventured when Jesus was born. So the

(36:25):
analogy really doesn't hold. I mean, if people were breaking
in across the southern border, staying here only to with
the desire ultimately return home, maybe that analogy would hold.
But it never made much sense to me to use
the Nativity as a political statement because it doesn't really
hold water. President Trump has paused green card lottery program. Now,

(36:47):
after the Brown University and MIT shootings, Trump ordered the
suspension of the green card lottery program that enabled to
suspect in the Brown University mass shooting and killing of
an MIT professor to live in the United States. Yates
Homeland Security Secretary Christy Nomes announcement marks the latest Trump
administration effort to limit legal immigration amid a wider crackdown

(37:08):
that's triggered a wave of lawsuits. Officials at a Thursday
night briefing announcing the suspect of the shootings has been
here since twenty seventeen. He gained a green card via
the Diversity Immigrant Visa Lottery program. Did you even know
we had such a thing, the Diversity Immigrant Visa lottery

(37:30):
twenty seventeen? The guy, I said earlier Peruvian. I'm sorry,
I misspoke Portuguese. He is from Portugal, and I believe
that was the professor's background as well, that was killed
at MIT. I think also from Portugal, if memory servech
I didn't follow every detail of this, but they finally
did capture that guy. As we talked about earlier, self

(37:51):
inflicted gunshot wound in a storage facility in New Hampshire.
A couple of other really important and signal difficant things
to point out that happened. The anti transing Protect Children's
Innocent Act Innocents Act passed out of the House. The
House of Representatives had passed this bill. Marjorie Taylor Green,

(38:14):
the author of this good for her. Protect Children's Innocent
Act is what it's called. She said that the three
Democrats also voted for the act, Henry Quaar of Texas,
Don Davis of North Carolina, and Vicente Gonzales of Texas.
Four Republicans voted against the legislation, Mike Kennedy of Utah,

(38:37):
Mike Lawler of New York, Gabe Evans of Colorado, and
a very familiar name to this show. Brian Fitzpatrick of
suburban Philadelphia. Brian Fitzpatrick, Pride of Bucks County. Brian Fitzpatrick
the one Republican left in southeastern Pennsylvania who's barely a Republican.
And Eddie and I have had this discussion for years

(38:58):
about a guy like Brian fitzpatt. He's, by the way,
he's engaged to that White House correspondent from Fox, Jackie Heinrich.
And there are a lot of people that are calling
that into question. He's very, very pro Ukraine. Brian Fitzpatrick's
one of these guys is like, give money to Ukraine
as long as you have to forever, without question. He's
one of those guys among other things. But now he's

(39:21):
against protecting children from transing them as miners ed And
this is how he manages to maintain an office as
the one lone Republican in southeastern Pennsylvania. Is it worth it?
Is the question is it worth it to vote against
stuff like this?

Speaker 7 (39:37):
I mean, it is an easy political win in a
place like Bucks County because there are a lot of
affluent people in that county and that's the biggest problem.

Speaker 2 (39:45):
When it comes to issues.

Speaker 7 (39:46):
So he can say, well I stood up for LDLGBTQ
plus rights right, and people are like, well he did.

Speaker 2 (39:51):
He voted against that anti transing bill. I always wonder
is it worth having a Republican in a blue area
or a blue state if they vote basically like Democrats.
Is it worth voting Republican if they often on critical
core issues vote with Democrats anyway? Is it worth it?

(40:11):
Or do you just say let a Democrat win it?

Speaker 21 (40:14):
No?

Speaker 7 (40:14):
Because this if he loses this time around, it's to
Bob Harvey, the former commissioner of Bucks County, who was.

Speaker 2 (40:23):
Any crazy Democrat. But my point is, I mean, we
know that they're crazy Democrats. Who cares about them? My
point is, does a Republican vote like a Democrat sometimes?
And we say better than having a full blown crazy Democrat?
Sixty forty? Is that the position Republicans better sixty foot?

Speaker 7 (40:37):
If you're voting sixty forty, then yes, let's keep the
Republican okay, all right?

Speaker 2 (40:42):
Meanwhile, the Trump administration yesterday moved to cut all federal
funding from hospitals that perform transgender medical procedures on miners.
I would love to see anyone who performs a medical
procedure on a minor trying to quote change their gender.
I would like to see them jailed. I have other thoughts,
but I'll just leave it a jailed for now. That's
what I'd love to see. If a civilized society cannot

(41:05):
get their minds collectively around, let's not pull aside six
year olds and chemically castrate them. If we can't as
a civilized society all agree on that. I don't know
what to tell you, But then again. I mean, Democrats
are a death cult and they're perfectly comfortable with killing
babies after they've survived an abortion on the delivery room table.

(41:27):
Ralph Northam told us that on a radio show. So
if Democrats are willing to terminate life, and oh, while
we're on it, by the way, here's yet another governor.
Remember I told you earlier in the week, the Shawnees
Big Boy signed off on euthanasia in Illinois, making him
the twelfth state. So too did Kathy Hokeel of New York.

(41:48):
This week. The death cult grows, saying this week she
has reached an agreement with the New York State legislature
to sign the quote Medical Aid in Dying Bill known
as MADE. That's cute. They give it a little little name,
the MADE Act, also known as Physician Assisted Suicide. The

(42:08):
measure would give terminally ill adults who've less than six
months to live an option to have a doctor prescribe
them a lethal medication mixture. Now, look, when I talked
about this before, and I'm well aware and I understand
that there are personal stories of many in this audience
who have lost a loved one who's been terminally ill
and miserable and just wanted to end it. And people

(42:29):
will email me and they will say, I saw my
loved one, my dad, my spouse, whomever, in agony, and
they just wanted to end it. And the dignified way
to allow them to do that is to let them die,
let them kill themselves. I don't share that point of view.
We can agree to disagree on that. I have my

(42:50):
reasons for that. I'm really not here to be rate
or belabor the pain or the debate with people that
have suffered loss. It's deeply, deeply personal. And so you
say to me, an adult wants to terminate their life
and we should pass a law to assist that. I mean,

(43:11):
as a Christian, I can't go there. I can't do it.
But again, I'm not here to debate that with you.
My bigger concern though for now, is not really so
much that debate. That's one people of goodwill, as believers,
we can debate. But here's one thing I know for sure.
If it becomes more expedient to take ill people and

(43:35):
off them with drugs, prescribe them something, or say you
know what, I don't really there's a lot of hope
or this is way too expensive to keep you alive.
It's a lot cheaper if we just end this now,
it's not going to cost.

Speaker 8 (43:46):
Her as much.

Speaker 2 (43:47):
It's really the affordable way to go forward is just
to kill your husband now. Well, okay, if you think
it's best, don't tell me that under Obamacare. Don't tell
me that under a nation that will nationalize their health insurance.
It's as Canada is doing now. A number of you
have pointed out this is already happening in Canada. People
are literally told just off them, kill them, let's get

(44:10):
move it out. How is that not going to happen?
How is that not the inevitable conclusion? Treating people in
the hospital who aren't getting well quickly, or maybe aren't
improving much at all, or slowly are improving but not
fast enough. How is it not ultimately? How do you
not reach the conclusion? And this is getting very expensive.
It's a lot cheaper to just end this now. You

(44:31):
know that's where it would go. It's the same argument
for pregnancy, folks, it's no different. It's just end of
life pregnancy. It's the same thing you hear all the
time about abortion. Oh, it's just you know, you won't
know until you're there. It's so expensive to raise a child,
and isn't it better to not bring a child into

(44:52):
the world who won't be cared for? Isn't it better
it's so expensive to raise a child. What a burden
it is on the mother who doesn't want the child.
It's the same argument, what a burden that is on
the family to keep this person alive? How expensive it
is to keep this person alive. Listen. If your position
is people are burdens that sometimes need to be executed,

(45:15):
then just say it so we can at least put
our cards out on the table and we can have
an honest debate. But don't soft sell it. Just say it.
There's a point where people become expendable because they're too
expensive or they're a burden emotionally or physically. So we
need to have the means to execute people that we

(45:37):
deem not really worth our time or energy anymore. Let's
just be honest about what we're saying and transing miners
in hospitals. This butchery, I don't want any part of it, folks, None.

Speaker 1 (45:52):
Of it.

Speaker 2 (45:54):
Liveshot at Martha's Vineyard. This morning on the Salem News Channel, Hey,
good morning to you if you're watching the Salem News Channel,
if you're listening on great radio stations all over the country,
if you listen to the podcast after the fact, by
the way, while away on Christmas vacation, and we're going
to take a little time off now, we'll be here
on Monday Tuesday programming. Note, but because of the now

(46:15):
decreed federal holiday, we think it only right that we
honor the President's wishes and take Christmas Eve off, so
we will. I do have a brand new podcast for you,
and we will have new programming here on Christmas Eve though,
just so you know that, So don't if you're around
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(46:37):
whatever you may be doing, wrapping some last minute presents,
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that you never miss it. We'll have podcasts and programming
throughout the holiday straight into the new year. New stuff too,
not even all repeat stuff, some new stuff too that
you want to hear. And of course the Hrumpf Society
three times a week. Go to Christigall dot com and

(47:00):
you can enjoy the Horme society through the new year
for free. I've got a new post today and a
three part series next week on the Trump economic miracle.
Ej Antni on the Way, Senator Eric Schmidt on the Way,
Energy Secretary Chris Wright on the Way. Open Line Friday continues,
Let's go to Christopher in California. Hey, Christopher, good morning,
welcome in.

Speaker 22 (47:21):
Hey, good morning, Chris. I always enjoy waking up to
your show in the morning. You get my morning.

Speaker 2 (47:30):
Good and started, thank you.

Speaker 22 (47:33):
But anyway, I I was listening to where you were
talking about President Trump possibly renaming the Kennedy Center, and
everybody's going nuts over it, and I mean, it's that's
a small thing, you know.

Speaker 2 (47:54):
I'm Chris. I'm sorry. We've lost a bit of yourself.
I'm sorry. For some reason, it cut out just as
you were starting to make your point. You said, it's
a small thing. Let's see if we can reconnect. There, Christopher,
I don't know if we've got here or not. One
more time you there, No, okay, I'm sorry, Christopher. I

(48:16):
don't know why the phone cut out, but naturally it
will when I take your call. He'll sit there all
hour and it'll be fine. The minute we start talking,
the phone drops fast, Eddie. It's some sort of some
sort of cosmic rule. I'm not really sure why. Sorry
about that, Christopher, but anyway, not alarmed by it is
the point. And to clarify the Kennedy Center, he didn't

(48:37):
rename it. The board. The new board of the Kennedy
Center renamed it. Just to be clear. But Christopher's point
was that he's not that exercised about it. Gosh, I'm
sorry he waited for a while to say that, and
then we had to drop him, all right, I mean
we didn't, but you get it. President Trump has also
ordered medical marijuana reform. The pro pot movement got its

(48:58):
biggest this from the Washington Time's got its biggest federal
policy win yesterday when President Trump removed metijijuana from the
list of the most restricted drugs and rescheduled to allow
for expanded medical research and application. Moved from a Schedule
one drug like heroin to a Schedule three drug like
tailanol with codeine under the Controlled Substances Act. Many people

(49:22):
believe deeply in this as a medical remedy. Others believe
pot has never been more toxic and stronger, and are
deeply concerned about this jury's out. Well, I think he's
made history. I believe it's been a history making week.
You know, President Trump. I told you yesterday President Trump
gave a nineteen minute speech. I think that's history. I
also think it's history that the United States senator being

(49:44):
sued by China. I don't know that it's ever happened before,
but except to our next guest, it is probably the
most significant part of President Trump's plan to make America
great again. When you talk about the economy, you try
to talk about the strengths of standing of the United
States around the world. Energy is the backbone to it all.

(50:06):
It's the lynchpin. It's why when President Trump, when we
covered his visit in Pittsburgh earlier in the year, he
spoke of our next guest as one of the most
important influential members of his cabinet. And I'm talking about
the Energy Secretary Chris Wright, who we were able to
sit down and speak with there in Pittsburgh, and we
have him back this morning. Secretary right, good to see you, sir,

(50:28):
and welcome back.

Speaker 21 (50:29):
Thanks for having me back Chris in the great state
of Pennsylvania, and to talk about my favorite subject, which
is President Trump and also.

Speaker 2 (50:36):
Editor, Well, listen, the thing about it is what we know,
what is obviously true. We were talking about it then
and we're still talking about it, and I know President
Trump touches on it, this race on AI. The fact
of the matter is it's coming like a freight train
and it needs a lot of energy. And so there's

(50:57):
it's kind of a two pronged piece. You're not so
much on the development side of AI as much as
you are on the let's fuel the growth of AI.
And here's something that came up earlier in the week
with a guest of ours named Daniel Turner, who you
may know from Power the Future. He said, what concerns
me is these new facilities, these new kind of warehouses

(51:23):
for AI and these tech plants that are being built
all over the country. They're a tremendous drain on energy
domestically for people in their respective cities and towns. They
really need their own facilities, don't they. I guess the
point is in the race for AI could have a
net negative effect on the consumer at home and their

(51:45):
electric needs. Does that make sense? Long winded question? Sorry
about that now.

Speaker 21 (51:49):
Chris, You're right on They are going to take a
lot of energy in the form of electricity to create intelligence,
which is going to create jobs and opportunities and drive
scientific innovation. Go awesome things are going to come from that.
But you're right, they do require a lot of electricity.
The good news is, the bottom line is they're going
to be a force to drive down electricity prices, not up,

(52:13):
because they're going to put more load. We're going to
be able to sell more electricity with a lot of
our existing assets than we could before. It's like spreading
the costs over a larger number of buyers. So ultimately
they're going to help us drive down electricity prices. But
the Biden administration, you know, had a train wreck policy.
They went around the country trying to close coal plants

(52:35):
and gas plants, even take down hydro electric dams. Everything
they wanted to do was reduce the reliable parts of
our grid and then pay people to put up wind
and solar spread all over the place, which means lots
of transmission lines have to be built and have to
be paid for. That drives up electricity prices. And then
when it's cold and you're peak demand time, well, the

(52:57):
wind's not blowing, the sun's not shining these we'll need
all the other stuff, but they were taking down the
other stuff, and now we inherit this high electricity prices,
a grid that's barreling towards blackouts. And so thank god
President Trump got elected and he has been bold and decisive.
On day one, we got to stop the nonsense. We

(53:18):
got to stop closing coal plants and gas plants and
talking about taking down hydro dams. We got to reverse
all that. But boy, everything in the last four years
that was permitted is wind and solar. You couldn't you
couldn't even think about building new plants that we so
desperately need. So we start in a hole, but we're
swimming fast and we're on the right trajectory. President Trump,

(53:40):
I think, is going to lead us to both win
the AI race and ultimately bring down electricity prices. But
we're starting from a from a deep hole left to
us in the Biden administration. Thank god he's aggressive.

Speaker 2 (53:52):
I have a couple of friends in the energy production business.
They you know, they that is the power. Our company
supplies power to the community, and they've been in this
for a long time. And I talked with them about
this and they said, yes, nuclear is fantastic, but it's
still quite expensive to develop and online and coal. As

(54:12):
you know, there's been this crusade, this political crusade against coal.
What's the truth of the matter, mister secretary, Do you
do you think we go nuclear because it provides the
most the most power at the cleanest possible in the
cleanest possible way. Or do you need coal? Do you
need natural gas because nuclear is still so expensive to develop.

Speaker 21 (54:35):
Oh, we need all of them. We need all of them.
We need to stop closing all our coal plants. This
year already we've stopped the closure of nearly seventeen gigawatts
of coal capacity. That is a huge number that were
slated to close and would have closed if President Trump
lost the election. This earlier this week, I was at

(54:57):
Three Mile Island and that's a nuclear plan that was
shut down. It wasn't expensive to operate, but the electricity
market had been screwed up by these crazy green dream
Democrat policies. It's now going to be restarted. It'll be
online in eighteen months. It'll actually be relatively cheap expenditure
to get nearly a gigawat of electricity back on the

(55:19):
Pennsylvania grid. We have another nuclear restart that actually that
will launch next month. We will turn on the first
ever restarted nuclear power plant. We got other ones behind that,
but nuclear has been smothered by big government marath and
a focus on bureaucracy and over design, not safety. That's

(55:40):
what made nuclear expensive. But of course we're bringing common
sense back nuclear. Ultimately, when we get that machine running,
it's going to be cheap, reliable and affordable. But we
need coal, we need gas, we need nuclear. We need
to keep the hydro assets we have. We're going to
see next generation he A thermal power come on, but

(56:02):
we got to get a lot more power out of
our existing assets. Is demand is rising fast, and the
Biden administration didn't leave us anything productive in the queue.
The President Trump is looking every which way we can
to deliver more electricity so we can lead an AI
and stop the crushing price rises that are opposed on Americans.
Then they're rightfully angry about it.

Speaker 2 (56:25):
The good news is, at least in my neck of
the woods, I just paid an all time low for
a gallon of gas this week. I filled up half
my tank. I took advantage of it. Right then, I
didn't need to fill up, but excuse me, I was
at halfway and I decided I'm going to take advantage
of two dollars and thirty nine cents because I hadn't
seen that in a while. So that's some good news

(56:45):
right now.

Speaker 21 (56:46):
That's something President Trump could have a faster impact on.
End the war on oil and gas right array allow
people to build permits, operate their refineries the way they
want to. He could quickly get the nonsense out of
the way, and you see a rapid impact on oil prices,
on gasoline prices, on diesel prices, home heating oil. So

(57:07):
some things that Trump actions can have quick impacts on
and electricity. Believe me, the actions are quick. They're fast
and furious right now. But it's a little bit bigger
battleship to turn. But yes, President Trump, we're going to
see not just reduced prices of energy that which which
allows people more easily to pay their bills, but it's

(57:29):
also going to allow more businesses to expand in our country,
to reshore from overseas, to hear the lag here is
going to be a lot of highways, job opportunities for
workers across our country. President Trump got elected for the
right reasons, but he's not starting on a mountaintop. He's
starting in a deep hole and trying to bring us
all to the mountaintop together.

Speaker 2 (57:50):
How helpful can Congress be here to codify this stuff?
Because I think a lot of people wonder, you know,
energy developers, energy companies, people that provide power to people's
homes and businesses, people that go out and drill it,
mine for it. They can't just flip switches start stop
with various administrations and various law you know, So how

(58:11):
much of this can you codify? Can President Trump cottify
so that heaven forbid someday we're staring down the barrel
of Joe Biden or an Obama. They can't come in
and just reverse course again. Pre sure, right on.

Speaker 21 (58:23):
You must have an insight into my schedule book. I
was on meeting in the House of Representatives with a
large committee there talking about exactly that. And we do
need to get as much as possible as we can
in law. There is a thing called the Speed Act,
which is a significant permitting reform bill that is being

(58:44):
I think will be voted on we hope before today's over,
before the weekends. But this is to codify some of this,
make it easier to build things in America, give businesses
security so they will invest, believe that they're not going
to start a project and a new administration is going
to come in like the Keystone XL pipeline and shut

(59:06):
down their pipeline or shut down their power plant, so
I say, and we're seeing some bipartisan support for that.
So I am cautiously optimistic we can get some permitting
reform done and that'll be long lasting. As you said,
to codify these common sense changes in the law.

Speaker 2 (59:25):
Well, I got to tell you this, your job is
the one clearly. And I heard it, you know, three
four months into this administration. I heard it in Pittsburgh.
He said that you were I mean, what you and
Lee Zelden are doing over at EPA. You guys are
like the dynamic duo. So much of the Trump agenda
centers around what you're getting done there at Energy. So,
mister Secretary, it is a real thrill to catch up

(59:47):
with you again. Thanks for the work that you're doing
out there. I hope you have a very merry Christmas
and come back and see us in twenty twenty six.

Speaker 21 (59:52):
Sir, Hey, thanks so much, Chris. I appreciate you. I
appreciate the shout out to Lee Zelden, who fully deserves it.
Doug Berger in the Interior Department is seven days a
week on energy access and energy growth as well. So
those are the two amigos that are seven days a
week working with me and President Trump. So it's and
of course others in the government as well, but those

(01:00:13):
are those are the three that are just laser focused
on energy, increasing production and driving cost down. Thank you,
and thank you Edward in Pennsylvania for your hard work.

Speaker 2 (01:00:23):
Thank you, mister secretary. Appreciate the time. Telephone number eighty
five fives to gaul by the way, if you'd like
to get in here today on open line Friday. The
economic numbers continue to improve. Even CNBC had to almost
gasp audibly at the surprising data that came in yesterday.
Give me a number and fifty here, Paulay, listen to this
the number of the morning.

Speaker 23 (01:00:44):
The CPI, oh, maybe coming in a little bit better
than expecting. Two point seven percent. A little light here.
I'm not calling, I'm just reading the headlines here. Year
over year two seven ex Food and Energy Core two six,
so four tenths off. That is a very good number here,
and it really I have not looked at the internals.
I'll look at them now, but it suggests that the

(01:01:05):
internals are good as well. Let's see year over year
over the last twelve months. There is no month to month,
but some guys will be able to calcut it seasonally.
Just index for all items. Let's food, energy rows zero
point two percent over the two months.

Speaker 2 (01:01:20):
So the good news is here. And this was over
at CNN. There was a Harvard economics professor too, who
said he was stunned and surprised. It is undeniably good news,
better number than anybody was expecting on inflation. So he's
doing something right. Turning Point in Phoenix, the big convention started.
We were literally in the show playing you some on

(01:01:40):
the ground reporting from West coast. Willie, our correspondent who
was there. This is they say, the largest attended turning
point so far, obviously since the murder of Charlie Kirk,
his wife Erica taking the stage yesterday. Take a listen
to some of that number forty three.

Speaker 4 (01:01:56):
We're going to ensure that President Trump has Congress for
all four years. We are going to get my husband's
friend JD. Vance elected for forty eight and.

Speaker 2 (01:02:12):
The most resoundingly possible. Yeah, it was pretty cool. And
Erica came out, she said, you know, evil is all around.
There's a lot of darkness surrounding this event and what
she meant and in many ways obviously not just the
Charlie murder, but she was also talking about just something

(01:02:33):
as simple as she took the stage and the iPad
that she was set to use for her speech went black.
You know, I was thinking about that there are just
there are moments, there are kind of almost supernatural moments
in history that also turned out to be remarkable moments
in history. And when I saw that she held up

(01:02:54):
her iPad and it was completely black and she'd lost
her speech. Of course, she does what she does, which
is she goes off on and she articulates. And it's
because she is so centered and so poised, and because
she has a Christ centered heart, she is able to
speak honestly and candidly and off the cuff even if
she doesn't have her script in front of her. It reminds,
you know what it reminded me of. Do you remember

(01:03:16):
the Convention? The Republican Convention in two thousand and eight
in Minneapolis. I was there covering that John McCain and
his vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin. Do you remember, fast Eddie.
I don't know if you recall this or not. You
may not remember all these years ago that Sarah Palin
took to the stage to deliver her speech at that

(01:03:39):
nominating convention for the Republicans in Minneapolis. And what people
didn't notice later she delivered that famous line, what's the
difference between a pitbull and a hockey mom? Lipstick? Was
the line. The place roared. She was a star. Nobody
really knew much about her, and she came on to
the stage and after that speech, she was just electric.

(01:04:00):
Everybody's so excited. And do you know the same thing
happened to her. It was reported that her teleprompter went
out as she was about to deliver that speech, and
apparently she either delivered it by memory or she riffed it.
I don't know which, but it was a lights out speech.
And there's just those moments where kind of there's an
almost supernatural you want to call up the Holy Spirit

(01:04:22):
presence in these people when you step up on a stage,
a grand stage like that, and you're supposed to deliver
an important set of remarks that everybody's tuned in to
listen to, and something like that happens. Don't tell me
there's not darkness in that, but also don't tell me
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(01:10:28):
in this first eleven months and where things are going.
He gave a fiery speech, fastest speech I think he's
ever given. Some clocked it at sixteen seventeen eighteen minutes.
I know it came under twenty minutes, and Donald Trump's
never given a speech under twenty minutes, and it was
aggressive and everybody was not entirely sure what he was

(01:10:48):
going to talk about, and it was all economy. Now
we know he's gone to Pennsylvania and hit the stump
to talk about it once we know.

Speaker 10 (01:10:54):
JD.

Speaker 2 (01:10:54):
Evans then went back to Pennsylvania to talk about it again.
And I am very intrigued with the fact that they
continue to make Pennsylvania stop. We're going to have Pennsylvania
Senator Dave McCormick on the show Monday, a Pennsylvania himself,
and the chief economist at the Heritage Foundation. EJ. And
TONI joins us again and EJ. First of all, Mary Christmas,
glad to have you, sir.

Speaker 8 (01:11:16):
Merry Christmas to you. Chris, thanks for having me back.

Speaker 2 (01:11:19):
What do you think. I know you're more economy guy
than a political guy, but what is the I'm just
always intrigued because you don't do anything by accident. They
don't just kind of spin a wheel and just you know,
throw a dart at the wall. They go to Pennsylvania
on purpose. Why do you think they've made not two
stops inside of a week to talk about the economy
in Pennsylvania.

Speaker 8 (01:11:38):
Good question, Chris.

Speaker 17 (01:11:40):
I have to imagine in some way the Keystone State
is exactly that, the keystone to the movement here. It's
not only the state that obviously put them over the
top in the twenty sixteen election, but it again went
for the president in the most recent election, and I
think they're looking at it as again in the upcoming
In the upcoming election, it'll probably be one of those

(01:12:02):
states that is a formerly part of that blue wall
they used to call it, and is now part of
this new Right, I guess maybe a better way to
put it. So what we're looking at here is a
state with a lot of blue collar workers, people who
were left behind by the Biden administration, also by the
Obama administration back then. These are people who didn't get

(01:12:25):
to participate in the big run up in wealth that
was created in the stock market. These are folks who
lost out on so called free trade by seeing their
jobs evaporate, by seeing entire towns almost evaporate as the
manufacturing base in the state was just washed away and
really sent overseas to places like China. So it's a state,

(01:12:48):
I think, in a very particular way where the President's
policies aimed to make life not only more affordable, but
also aim to do things like bring back jobs and
reshore manufacturing, rebuild that austrial base on which the state
of Pennsylvania had been built for literally decades.

Speaker 2 (01:13:05):
You KNOWJ I got a note from a friend. He's
a Trump voter, but he was really irritated at President
Trump's address, and he said it this way. President Trump
addressed the nation Wednesday night, somehow hoodwinking all the networks
to air something that was nothing more than a political
speech filled with stuff we already knew. He seemed nervous, grumpy,

(01:13:26):
and the teleprompter threw him off several times. It was
not his best night, one week from Christmas. Americans don't
want to be told that money isn't tight. I don't
understand this. Now. That was not my read. Again, that's
from a Trump voter, and he's a passionate Trump voter.
I know that to be true. But that was his
note to me, and I just thought I did not

(01:13:47):
hear Donald Trump telling the American people shut up. You
don't know what you're feeling. That was not my read.
It was his.

Speaker 20 (01:13:54):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:13:54):
I mean, you know, I can't tell somebody how to feel.
But how did you see that speech, Chris.

Speaker 17 (01:14:01):
I can certainly understand why somebody would take it that way.
And I think part of the reason for that is
because for four years we were told by the Biden
administration and all their sicko fants in the media that
everything was fine, that inflation is all in your head.
Remember inflation is transitory, remember that nonsense. Then we were
told inflation was Putin's fault. Then inflation was somehow a

(01:14:23):
sign of a good economy. I mean, they threw every
line in the book. They threw every line in the
book at the wall to try to see what would stick.

Speaker 8 (01:14:31):
Nothing did.

Speaker 17 (01:14:32):
They told the American people for years, it's all in
your head. You're perfectly fine. Stop complaining, shut up, everything's great,
the numbers look good. And people voted for Trump because
they knew all of that was just hot garbage. So
when you start hearing a message again that in any
way resembles that, even if it's not true, I can

(01:14:53):
certainly understand.

Speaker 8 (01:14:54):
Why people would react that way.

Speaker 17 (01:14:56):
And when President Trump, for example, started talking about the
affordability hoax, he was specifically talking about how the Democrats
trying to pin the problem on him was the hoax
as opposed to saying that life is unaffordable, which obviously
it still is.

Speaker 8 (01:15:13):
That's the leftover from the Biden administration.

Speaker 17 (01:15:16):
So again I can understand why people are having the
reaction they are, why they look at the economy so disapprovingly,
it's because life is still unaffordable. And a couple of
stats I think really illustrate that. Under Biden's watch, the
monthly mortgage payment Chris for a median price home, so
we're not talking a mansion here, just the median price home,

(01:15:38):
the one right in the middle. That monthly mortgage payment
literally doubled in four years. It's a little more than
one hundred percent increase. Now what is it done under Trump, Well,
under Trump it's down by roughly five percent, So that
tells you that things are getting better, but we're still
nowhere near undoing all the damage of the Biden administration. Likewise,
if you look at the average Americans weekly paycheck, what

(01:16:01):
it could actually buy, not just how big it is,
but what it could buy. So, in other words, adjusted
for prices, it shrunk about four percent during the Biden administration.
Now under Trump it's up about one point six percent,
so again it Yet this is another thing that demonstrates
the fact that we were moving in the wrong direction.
Now we're moving in the right direction, but we still

(01:16:22):
have not regained all the lost ground from those four
years of Biden. So of course I feel like they've
fallen behind.

Speaker 2 (01:16:30):
I was talking to our mutual friend Steve More this
week and I said, here's the conundrum. And I'm sure
what is frustrating to a guy like Trump. Anybody that's
holding a four oh one K or a ROTH or
some kind of investment vehicle. I don't know the numbers
on that. Maybe you do, like how many Americans hold
something like that some kind of stock or investment fund
and those who don't. But anybody who's holding something like that,

(01:16:51):
they're seeing numbers just skyrocket. And I know, Trump surrounded
by guys that are looking at their four oh one
K in their portfolios that are up fifteen, eighteen to
twenty percent, just boom boom, boom, boom boom. And here
hears that kind of stuff and thinks, how in the
world can you say things suck? You know? But I
understand a lot of people don't hold portfolios and don't
care about four oh one k's, so that's a tough

(01:17:12):
needle to thread, I guess.

Speaker 8 (01:17:14):
So, Chris, very interesting you mentioned this.

Speaker 17 (01:17:19):
You probably didn't know this, but I actually just released
a study this morning and have a piece in town
Hall explaining it. The average four oh one k fell
more than fifteen percent under Biden after you adjust for inflation,
so basically savers just got absolutely crushed. A lot of
that had to do with how dismal the bond market

(01:17:39):
performance was under Trump. That has completely reversed and almost
all of those losses have actually been recouped now, which
is really really great news. And there are tens of
millions of people that have four oh one k's. If
you include all the people who also have pension plans,
which have also done very well this year, it's well
over one hundred million, So there are a lot of
folks to have those different types of retirement vehicles, if

(01:18:04):
you want to call them that, and those folks are
doing much much better. And I'm particularly excited about the
Trump accounts starting next year because that's going to allow
even young children to automatically get enrolled as the Treasury
deposits money into their account. Now you're going to have
literally almost all Americans get to participate.

Speaker 8 (01:18:24):
In those market gains. But to your point, Chris, because
it's a very very good one, all of those folks
who have missed out on those gains, who have been
sitting on the sidelines, who weren't in the market, are
watching what they what they view as you know, only
a very small sliver of the American people accrue all
of these wealth gains while they are just again sitting

(01:18:46):
on the sidelines, and they're missing out on all of
this price appreciation, whether it's in equities, whether it's in housing,
you name it.

Speaker 2 (01:18:54):
This is really interesting because President Trump, and by the way,
do you have time? Can I hold you over for
one more segment? Sure, not that I don't mean to
hold your hostage. If you have to go, you have
to go, I understand. But President Trump, and just briefly,
if I could, he said yesterday on housing, I get
it that it's unaffordable. I would love to see more
people in, but not at the expense of people that
already own homes. Meaning he's concerned that people that own

(01:19:16):
homes their equity might be hurt if we talk about
radically increasing the supply of homes too quickly. I thought
that an interesting concern.

Speaker 17 (01:19:28):
Absolutely, it's a very real concern because there were so
many people in the last two years of the Biden
administration who really seriously overpaid for their homes that they bought,
and now they're in a situation where they have virtually
no equity. In many markets, home prices have actually been
flat year over year. In some markets, especially in Texas

(01:19:49):
and in Florida, because there's been so much construction, you've
actually seen home price declines and now people are sitting
there underwater on their mortgage basically right they have negative
in their homes. And if you were to see home
prices nationally fall even further, you're back in a situation
like two thousand and eight, which could be very, very
serious and very detrimental to the economy next year.

Speaker 2 (01:20:13):
So you're you're generous with your time, and I'm going
to take some advantage of it because I know you're
also a student of history as an economist, and I
want you to compare, if you would please, that first
year or two of Ronald Reagan with this first year
or two of a second term of President Trump. Are
they analogous more with ej Antoni in just a moment
from the Relief Actor studio. Is he good morning, A
live look at Kansas City, Missouri this morning, where interestingly,

(01:20:37):
it sounds like perhaps as soon as today for those
of you who are football fans past today, this is
an unofficial, sort of official news. The Kansas City Chiefs
will be going through a pretty massive transformation in the
coming years, as it sounds like they're about to strike
a deal with the state of Kansas, maybe as soon

(01:20:58):
as today or Monday, and they will build a brand new, big,
beautiful stadium on the Kansas side of the state line
and leave the Missouri side. They becoming years They want
that city thing, so bad city thing. What do you
mean by that?

Speaker 7 (01:21:15):
So the idea is like all these teams are moving
into like city center type places, something that's a little
well no.

Speaker 2 (01:21:21):
In this instance, the Chiefs are leaving sort of the
city of Kansas City and they're moving out to sort
of suburban Kansas where they want to build a whole
big entertainment complex and a rolling roof a La Dallas, Okay,
and JB. Pritzker is now getting animated that the Bears
may flirt with moving over to the Indiana side of

(01:21:43):
the state line. These well, I tell you what, football
big money, and these governors they don't want to lose it.
But that's those are those are fun. Those are fun
business stories to watch if you're you're into sports. Let
me go back to e J Antoni the money Man,
because the conversation we were just having, and thank you
so much for your generosity and time. EJ. The conversation

(01:22:06):
is a fascinating one. You're talking about people that own
homes and have assets, who've just taken it in the
shorts during the Biden era. Now they're starting to recover
assets for homeowners. Their equity is going up, people's stocks
and four to one k's are going up. But you
still have people that feel like I go to the
grocery store and hot dogs are six dollars, and you know,

(01:22:30):
I can't pay my bills. It's too expensive. Although gas
prices are coming down, so it's this mixed bag where
it's good and getting better, but not fast enough for some.
And I can't imagine how frustrating it must be to
message that, EJ. Is my point, and so I asked
you before the break at my understanding is Ronald Reagan.
You know, obviously inherited that Carter malaise, and it took

(01:22:53):
some time, but by year two kabboom. Is this analogous
to that.

Speaker 8 (01:23:00):
Extent? Chris absolutely.

Speaker 17 (01:23:01):
And part of the problem with the first tax bill
that they passed under Reagan was the fact.

Speaker 8 (01:23:07):
That they phased it in.

Speaker 17 (01:23:10):
And so the famous doctor Art Laffer, he uses the analogy.
In fact, he used this analogy with Reagan on the phone.
He said, mister President, if you know a store is
going to have a huge sale next week, how much
shopping are you going to go and do today? And
obviously the answer is none, because you're just going to
wait a week. And so one of the things that

(01:23:31):
happened with Reagan initially was the fact that all of
this business investment that could have happened, even some consumer spending,
some hiring, etc. All this economic activity was delayed, which
made the initial recession actually even worse. And to a
certain extent, you've seen that today, but I think it

(01:23:52):
was more exacerbated back then. Obviously, though you have the
exact same effects with the huge inflation from Carter. Today,
you have a federal reserve that doesn't seem like it's
anywhere near as willing to fight the inflation as the
Paul Vulker FED was. So there's a lot of problems there.
Trump is facing a lot of headwinds. I don't want

(01:24:13):
to sugarcoat this for the audience. He's facing a FED
that does not seem like it really wants to get
prices under control.

Speaker 8 (01:24:19):
It's much more concerned.

Speaker 17 (01:24:21):
With just maintaining the financial plumbing, as it were, maintaining
this very novel monetary framework that they built in the
spring of twenty twenty.

Speaker 8 (01:24:30):
So again, Trump has a lot of headwinds. You mentioned energy.

Speaker 17 (01:24:33):
He's making really really good progress there with energy markets
getting prices down, and that's important because those energy prices
are going to filter out to prices throughout the rest
of the economy. The regulatory agenda that they're pushing, regulatory
reform is also helping to bring down prices already. We'll
see even more progress next year. Obviously, as the effects

(01:24:54):
of the tax.

Speaker 8 (01:24:55):
Bill kick in.

Speaker 17 (01:24:56):
Next year, you're going to see even more progress there
because not only people's paychecks buy more, but the actual
take home pay itself is going to get bigger too.
So again, good progress there to help bring some relief
to consumers.

Speaker 2 (01:25:10):
So just a couple of seconds, will the economy as
they predict, as Bessin is saying, as Trump is saying,
as many people feel. Do you think Q one early
Q two the economy really rockets.

Speaker 8 (01:25:21):
Yeah, Chris, I'm very, very bullish about next year.

Speaker 17 (01:25:23):
I think you're going to see a lot more dials
line up, a lot more things. You know, we already
have a lot headed in the right direction. You will
see more components continue to head in the right direction,
and that's going to have a strong cumulative effect.

Speaker 2 (01:25:36):
We're going to continue to stay close to the chief
economists at the Heritage Foundation, one of the smartest guys
we know on money matters, really lots of things. Our
great friend dj Antony, Merry Christmas, my friend, thanks for
all your time.

Speaker 8 (01:25:48):
Merry Christmas to you. Thank you.

Speaker 10 (01:25:51):
Well.

Speaker 2 (01:25:52):
I think he's made history. I believe it's been a
history making week. You know, President Trump. I told you yesterday,
President Trump gave a nineteen minute speech. I think that's history.
I also think it's history of the United States senator
being sued by China. I don't know that it's ever
happened before, but except to our next guest, a great
friend of the show and an outstanding senator. Before that,
he was an outstanding Attorney General, Eric Schmidt, who we

(01:26:12):
also played a clip of him earlier in the week.
Listen to this number thirty four if you please. Here
he is addressing these drug boat strikes and Admiral Bradley's
leadership during them. Take a listen.

Speaker 10 (01:26:24):
I just was in the skiff.

Speaker 24 (01:26:25):
I saw the video, and I think the Democrats ought
to be ashamed of themselves by trying to slander Admiral Bradley,
who was executing a lawful order. The men on the
boat were trying to continue their mission.

Speaker 10 (01:26:38):
That's the truth.

Speaker 24 (01:26:39):
And you got to remember where this started for the
Democrats and the Washington Posts falsely claiming that there was
a kill everybody order.

Speaker 10 (01:26:46):
That's false, that's.

Speaker 24 (01:26:47):
Been debunked even by the New York Times. And so,
in an effort to protect American citizens from the poisoning
that's happened. One hundred thousand people die every year, we
have a vested interest in making sure the narco terrists
don't kill Americans, and so in this instance.

Speaker 2 (01:27:04):
And so that is the Senator from Missouri, Eric Schmidt,
who is just doing fantastic work there in the United States. Senate. Senator,
it's good to see you. Merry Christmas, sir, thanks for
your time.

Speaker 10 (01:27:14):
Marry Chris. Yeah, great to be with you, Chris. Merry
Christmas to you.

Speaker 2 (01:27:18):
Well you're out there swinging for the fences. First of all, congratulations,
quite a feather in your cap, am. I right, is
this history as a United States senator? Ever been sued
by China?

Speaker 10 (01:27:27):
No? Fifty billion, big ones.

Speaker 24 (01:27:30):
I've been banned from China and I've been sued for
fifty billion in uh, it's a badge of honor.

Speaker 10 (01:27:36):
Were proudly is how like, yeah, look I was. It's
it's insane, but this is who they are.

Speaker 24 (01:27:47):
Like they have concentration camps in their country, right, Like
they're not gonna have a problem, you know, having some
kangaroo court, you know, have some sort of judgment against
me and the State of Missouri for fifty billion, and
it's all just they're embarrassed by the fact that we
exposed their lives and their deception. They unleashed COVID on
the world. They knew exactly what they were doing. They

(01:28:09):
stopped flights in and out of Wuhan domestically, but not internationally.

Speaker 10 (01:28:12):
At that time, they became.

Speaker 24 (01:28:13):
The let went from the largest exporter of PPE to
the largest net importer of PPE while they knew COVID
was deadly but didn't tell the world. So we exposed
all this in that lawsuit. In twenty twenty, Missouri got
a twenty four billion dollar judgment that Missouri can now
seize assets in the like not just in Missouri but
throughout the country, including farmland. And they're upset about that,

(01:28:34):
and so they're lashing out here with this fifty billion
dollars lawsuit. But as you know, Chris, Missourians don't scare easily.
We're not intimidated. So bring it.

Speaker 2 (01:28:44):
That's people need to know this. I'm glad you kind
of re reintroduced the storyline a little bit here. You did.
You guys moved to suit China. You won effectively, and
so no, you're never going to get China to pay directly,
but you could legally start to seize assets assets here domestically,
like Chinese land ownership and whatnot to recoup those losses. True.

Speaker 24 (01:29:08):
Yeah, And I was on your show I think earlier
in the year to talk about my book The Last
Line of Defense, How to Beat the Left in court.
We have a big beautiful chapter dedicated to this lawsuit
because at the time when we filed it, it was
panned by liberal legal experts. This is just a publicity stunt.
We were dead serious. We hadn't seen enough in news reports.

(01:29:29):
Whistle blowers went missing. But it started in the lab.
I mean, all this stuff we brought out in that
original lawsuit that we talk about in the book, the
last line of Defense, and it ultimately got you know,
a court awarded US twenty four billion that Missouri can
now go seize. And so that's the genesis of all
of it. But this is what China does. Really, what
this is meant to do is to seek to intimidate.
It's not going to work. Interestingly, in the lawsuit. In

(01:29:51):
addition to the fifty billion they want, they also want
me to apologize to China by way of the New
York Times YouTube in Chinese state media that ain't gonna happen.

Speaker 2 (01:30:03):
So adorable. Now here's I was literally in a meeting
yesterday talking about this, uh, and I knew we were
going to speak, and I brought you up because I said,
I knew that you were coming on the show. And
somebody said, can you ask him? And it's a great question.
How in the world would this even work, I mean legitimately,
in what court of law would this be heard? China

(01:30:25):
has no can China I don't even understand it. I mean,
can a foreign country sue is sitting United States senator
in the United States.

Speaker 10 (01:30:34):
Well, they're suing in China.

Speaker 24 (01:30:36):
So they filed their lawsuit in Wuhan and the Hobei Province,
and that's where the lawsuit stands. And it's we've you know,
translating the lawsuit because it's written in Chinese, as you
might expect.

Speaker 10 (01:30:50):
But they've sued there.

Speaker 24 (01:30:51):
Presumably shockingly, some fake China court will probably ruin their favor,
as my guess.

Speaker 2 (01:30:59):
And then so you don't go, I mean, just so
I'm clear, I'm sorry to interrupt, but do you have
to You're under no obligation to like go about a year.

Speaker 24 (01:31:06):
They have no they have no personal jurisdiction over Eric
Schmidt and uh and I'm banned, ironically, I'm banned from
China anyway. So even if I wanted to appear, which
I couldn't go to the country, I've already been banned
now soon. So so yeah, they would theoretically have a
judgment there, which if I have no Chinese assets, Uh

(01:31:27):
so I don't own buildings or ports or ships in China,
so presumably that's where it is. Let's they try to
register it in the United States of America, which we
would we would obviously fight back again. So so anyway,
that's kind of where the legal standard of it all is.
But but again, it's pretty wild.

Speaker 10 (01:31:46):
It's pretty wild from a.

Speaker 24 (01:31:49):
Just from an international relations perspective, that China, given everything
that's going on in the world, has decided to sue
a city United States Senator, which, to your point and
your original question, is unprecedented. It's not happened before. So
put it on my tombstone. I guess right.

Speaker 2 (01:32:07):
That's look I'd frame that sucker. That's a badge of honor.
I don't think that's I've never heard of anything. That's
how effective you are. China is so afraid of Eric
Schmidt they're suing him now that I mean that, you know,
if you're running free, I already.

Speaker 24 (01:32:17):
Have the I already have. I think, yeah, I think it.
I have framed my wall. During COVID we talked a
lot about this and also talk about it in my book.

Speaker 10 (01:32:25):
I was not planning to plug the book in that
way last line of minutes.

Speaker 24 (01:32:27):
But there's when I was suing all the school districts
for for mass mandates, the Atlantic tried to do a
hit piece on me, and they had the cover was
this artwork that the unmasked Avenger of Missouri, which they
thought was a hit piece.

Speaker 10 (01:32:38):
I framed ith.

Speaker 24 (01:32:41):
Mother mother Jones did an article on me about being
the most dangerous man in the Senate. They thought that
was a hit piece. We've framed that now in my office.
So so now this, I guess will be the trifecta.

Speaker 2 (01:32:51):
This man that's a Hall of Famer. Rack them up,
all right, I know your time is limited. Could I
ask you quickly about the drug boat commented on that
we played the clip. I mean, it's self explanatory. They're
obviously trying to get rid of Pete Haig Sith. They
just don't like the MAGA agenda and the military industrial complex.
That's pretty clear, right. This is just another another outgrowth
of that.

Speaker 24 (01:33:12):
Yes, So they Pete Hegseth was their numbered democrats number
one target during the confirmation fights. And so if you remember,
President Trump got all of them through, which you know
I don't know what the betting markets would have been
on that, but it was. It was an important feat
and something I think to bring in a band of
disruptors and permanent. Washington doesn't like that, and Pete Hegseth

(01:33:32):
was at the top of the list. They didn't beat
him then, and every you know, every few weeks now
you'll see some sort of fake story to try to
gin up opposition, and Democrats reflexively call for his resignation.

Speaker 10 (01:33:43):
It's kind of a joke. And that's all this is.

Speaker 24 (01:33:46):
Because I've reviewed not only the video, but also the
legal justification, the legal memorandum that's forty plus pages. It's
very clear, Chris, the press, the Congress delegated to the
President the authority to designate rorist organizations.

Speaker 10 (01:34:00):
That's what he's done.

Speaker 24 (01:34:01):
He's designated for a handful of cartels as terrorist organizations
transnational because they're moving people in drugs into the United
States and one hundred thousand people a year dying from
the poison. So he's right to do that. And just
like we've done in other parts of the world. The
Commander in Chief, then the Department now the Department of War,

(01:34:22):
and then of course who he designates. Admiral Bradley has
the ability to take out those terrorists who were on
a mission to poison Americans, and that's what happened, and
so they're mad about it. They it started with, of course,
that there was this was an order to kill everybody.
That was debunked. Then it was this was an illegal
war crime that was debunked. Now they're just left with
they don't like the policy, and look, you can have

(01:34:43):
that debate in this country. But the problem is they
tried to make it something that it wasn't and thoroughly
embarrassed themselves.

Speaker 2 (01:34:50):
The president's address this week nineteen minutes. Never seen the
president speak that concisely, quite frankly, but he had a
lot to say. He delivered it all well, kind of
laid out a record that I don't think has been
very fairly covered, and not just by mainstream media, which
we would expect. I think even some conservative media, podcast
world or whatever has been I think unfairly critical of

(01:35:12):
this president who's been sort of a one man wrecking ball,
and he laid it out I think pretty effectively Wednesday night.

Speaker 24 (01:35:18):
Your reaction, I agree, and I think to what twenty
twenty six is going to be about is making sure
and communicating the successes that we've had in twenty twenty five.

Speaker 10 (01:35:27):
There's still more to do.

Speaker 24 (01:35:28):
I'm not dismissing that, but when you talk about what
real people care about. No tax on tips, he's a
real people, right. No tax on overtime. My dad works
seven days a week and the midnight shift.

Speaker 10 (01:35:38):
Right.

Speaker 24 (01:35:39):
If you're not being taxed on overtime and rewarding that
hard work, that's something that's going to matter to you.
We have a secure border. Literally, we had twenty million
people come here legally in four years. Now, no one's
getting through the southern border. That's a huge accomplishment. You've
got these Trump accounts, they're being seated. When when a
new baby is born now with one thousand dollars, that
can mean hundreds of thousands of dollars by the time

(01:36:00):
they retire, just by way of normal investment. There's a
lot of great things that are happening that we need
to talk about. You've got inflation coming down. He inherited
a mess, a four year train wreck, and so a
lot of that stuff that people feel isn't going to
happen overnight. Although gas prices are down a lot of
the things like remember the whole egg what about egg
prices that came to you know, the Democrats just moved

(01:36:20):
from one thing to another.

Speaker 10 (01:36:22):
But I think the record is pretty incredible.

Speaker 24 (01:36:25):
We did the recisions packages and save ten billion, We eliminated,
finally cut funding for NPR. There's a lot of things
in there that we're going to get a chance to
talk about. And I'm glad President Trump took the time
last night to outline that because I think as him
and JD. Vance get on the road, which you're seeing
them do now, that's the things they're going to talk about.
And if you pull those things individually or collectively, they're

(01:36:46):
incredibly popular. But the mainstream media has just dominated by
this controversy of the day.

Speaker 10 (01:36:51):
And I'll close with this, Chris, that's part of the strategy.

Speaker 24 (01:36:54):
So we're talking about the Venezuela and the boat strikes
and all that. That's part of the Democrats' strategy is
to create k to have a government shutdown, to have
some new controversy so that CNN and MSNBC and NBC,
and that's what they're talking about, and they're not talking
about the real successes.

Speaker 2 (01:37:11):
Senator Schmidt congratulations on being sued by China. Powerful stuff,
and a merry Christmas to you, my friend. I can't
wait to talk to you in twenty six.

Speaker 10 (01:37:20):
Merry Christmas, take care, Thank you you too.

Speaker 2 (01:37:22):
Interesting. Cackle Bridges was invited on The Kimmel Show Give
Me Number forty eight here and Cackle Bridges was asked
about the Epstein files. Fast Eddie, I guess those are
supposed to come out today? Right? Is my understanding? We're
supposed to see information or everything that's supposed to be
with you know, I mean the Department of Justice will
redact names, but apparently everything that we're able to see

(01:37:43):
used to be released today, as my understanding. Okay, today
is all of it?

Speaker 7 (01:37:47):
Because we got that, we got the photos, we got
the Lolita writing. Now everything's going to be today.

Speaker 2 (01:37:53):
Okay, Oh listen, I promise whatever comes out today Monday,
we will hear. And over the weekend what we'll hear
it's not enough or you're protecting so and so. All right,
here's Kimmel asking a profound question for once of Cackle
Bridges and the Biden administration.

Speaker 20 (01:38:08):
Why did the Biden administration release those files? Was that
something that they felt would look bad while with running
against this guy, or why didn't they come out during
your administration to give.

Speaker 5 (01:38:22):
You an answer that will not satisfy your curiosity. I
will tell you we perhaps to our damage, but we
strongly and rightly believed that there should be an absolute
separation between what we wanted as an administration and what
the Department of Justice did. We absolutely adhere to that,

(01:38:43):
and it was right to do that. The Justice Department
would make its decisions independent of any political or personal vendetta.

Speaker 2 (01:38:53):
Or that's enough, So that's amazing. Now. Of course that
answer would not work for Democrats with Donald Trump? Would
would Democrats tolerate Donald Trump saying I don't have anything
to do with it. If Pam BONDI wants to release it, fine,
but I'm out. Has that worked for Donald Trump? Let
the DOJ do what they want to do with it,
but I'm out. They don't hold Trump to the same standard,

(01:39:14):
do they. She's saying it's the DJ's responsibility to release
it. It wasn't ours. It was up to Merrick Garland. Well, Similarly,
it was supposedly up to Merrick Garland as to whether
or not he should raid Donald Trump's house, and he
decided to go forward with that when the FBI said
not to very very interesting how much power and autonomy
Mery Garland had and Democrats seem fine with that. Bobby

(01:39:37):
Kennedy yesterday dropping some truth bombs on the whole transgender
industrial complex. Number fifty three, very important stuff yesterday.

Speaker 25 (01:39:45):
Doctors assume a solemn obligation to protect the children. Yeah,
doctors across the country now provide needless and irreversible sex
rejecting procedures that violate their sacred hypocraticals andjering the very
lives that they are sworn to safeguard. The American Medical Association,
the American Academy of Pediatrics battled the lie that chemical

(01:40:10):
and surgical sex rejecting procedures could be good for children
who suffer from gender ysphoria. They betrayed the estimated three
hundred thousand American youths ages thirteen to seventeen conditioned to
believe that sex can be changed. They betrayed their hippocratic
oaths to do no harm. So called gender affirming care

(01:40:32):
has inflicted lasting physical and psychological damage on vulnerable young people.
This is not medicine, it is malpractice. We're done with
junk science driven by ideological pursuits, not the well being
of children be reviewed.

Speaker 2 (01:40:51):
Amen. Amen. And as such, he said, I signed the
declaration rejecting procedures that are neither safe nor effective treatment
for children with gender dysphoria. Amen. Amen. God bless you,
Bobby Kennedy. God bless the Trump administerstration for calling out
this scourge for what it is. They will should. Hey,
by the way, thank you so much. I have to
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