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Speaker 1 Hello, America. Well, there's a lot to discuss today.
The president's going to speak tonight. I'm going to give you a little preview of what I think he should say.

Speaker 1 Also, Mitch McConnell has come out with an op-ed in the Washington Post saying, we're going to spend more money. Do we, do we, Mitch? We'll get into that.
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Speaker 1 Hello, Stu.

Speaker 4 Glenn, how are you? Good. Big speech tonight.

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Speaker 1 And as usual, everybody is here. We're going to be going back and forth.
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Speaker 1 uninterrupted, give you a little pre-show, and then after show, we'll be talking about the things that he did say and uh and uh what we think of it that's all on blaze tv beginning tonight at 7 30 7 30 p.m eastern yes okay thank you very much right after a brand new studo's american oh my god well it's not exactly after it's a half an hour after it ends but right tune in a little bit early okay watch that and then watch the show all right so uh i just uh i i

Speaker 1 i have to start here because this is the thing that is our biggest problem and it is

Speaker 1 i was going to say this, but I want to be very careful.

Speaker 1 It's old people.

Speaker 1 But it's old people that will not leave Congress or the Senate. It's not all old people.
Donald Trump is an old guy, but he's not acting like it and he's not thinking like it.

Speaker 1 Mitch McConnell is an old guy who has old think, if he can even think. Somebody in his office is thinking old.
Let's put it that way. So

Speaker 1 he represents Kentucky, obviously. Mitch McConnell wrote in the Washington Post,

Speaker 1 every time Congress faces a government funding deadline, Washington reminds itself that shutdowns are worth avoiding. This is familiar in an all-too-frequent conversation.

Speaker 1 He goes on to say, today we're closer than ever on making ignoble history on the front of budgets. tomorrow's challenges.

Speaker 1 And we owe it to our men in uniform and our taxpayers to be honest about the consequences. Consumer goods aren't the only things that have grown more expensive in recent years.

Speaker 1 In times of high inflation, governance without updated appropriation means diminished Pentagon buying power, forcing the U.S. military to equip itself for the next year's threat at this year's prices.

Speaker 1 Even as fresh eyes comb the Pentagon for new efficiencies and cost savings, effective military acquisitions continue to require multi-year runways.

Speaker 1 A truly clean, full-year continuing resolution would, at the level set for 2024, would mean no new starts on critical programs that the military needs.

Speaker 1 Okay, he goes on and on and on about how the Pentagon just needs more money. We just have to spend more, more, more on more, more, more for the Pentagon.
So I would like to respond with my own op-ed.

Speaker 1 Dear Senator McConnell, your call for more Pentagon spending is as tone deaf as it is reckless.

Speaker 1 The United States, I don't know if you know this, already spends more on its military than the next nine countries combined. We spent $877 billion

Speaker 1 last year alone, dwarfing China, Russia, and the entire EU's collective defense budgets. All of those, nine countries, and they're the big nine.

Speaker 1 And then us, and we still dwarf them. I don't know.
You need more money?

Speaker 1 Why are you so worried about China if they don't have all this money?

Speaker 1 And yet here you are clamoring for more as if throwing cash at an outdated war machine is somehow or another going to secure our future.

Speaker 1 The world has changed, Senator, and your priorities are stuck in the old time country time era.

Speaker 1 Aircraft carriers, those floating behemoths that you and the Pentagon so dearly love, are relics of the past. In the next real conflict, they'll be as useless as horses were in World War I.

Speaker 1 Speaking of which, let me just give you the stats on the horses, because it's going to be applicable to the aircraft carriers the next time we really go to war.

Speaker 1 When Europe entered World War I, they had 25 million horses. By 1918, 15 million of them were dead.

Speaker 1 Why?

Speaker 1 Because they were mowed down and slaughtered by machine guns and tanks that ran over them because they couldn't outrun them. That's the fate awaiting, Mr.
McConnell.

Speaker 1 Boy, I would love to start calling you Mr.

Speaker 1 That is the fate awaiting your aircraft carriers. Sunk by hypersonic missiles or swarms of really cheap $500 AI-driven drones.
That'll happen before they can even launch a jet.

Speaker 1 The 1950s called Senator and they want their war plans back. The future isn't in steel and jet fuel.
It's in artificial intelligence and unfortunately artificial superintelligence.

Speaker 1 Every dollar spent on yesterday's hardware today

Speaker 1 is a dollar wasted in three years when AGI upends everything we know about warfare.

Speaker 1 Worse, with the Pentagon's track track record, every dollar spent today will balloon into two or three dollars of inflation tomorrow, thanks to the House and the Senate's obscene spending spree.

Speaker 1 We're drowning in $34 trillion of national debt. That's 128% of GDP, a level unseen since World War II.

Speaker 1 a level unseen since World War II.

Speaker 1 Annual deficits are now $1.7 trillion. dollars that's what they were in 23 interest payments alone are projected to go over 1 trillion dollars this year or early next

Speaker 1 I don't know about anybody else but those numbers aren't sustainable it's a fiscal time bomb

Speaker 1 And yet you want to shovel more taxpayer money into the Pentagon that hasn't passed a single audit in its history?

Speaker 1 Six attempts since 2018, six failures, trillions of dollars unaccounted for, waste so rampant it defies comprehension.

Speaker 1 I'm sorry, Senator, it's irresponsible, bordering on criminal, to suggest more spending when they can't even count the cash they have.

Speaker 1 When will you people in Washington wake up? The real threat isn't just from abroad, although those dangers are profound.

Speaker 1 It's from within.

Speaker 1 The call is coming from inside the house. In fact, it's not just the house.
It's also coming from the Senate, Senator.

Speaker 1 Your refusal to adapt is jeopardizing our security more than any foreign adversary could.

Speaker 1 I don't know. Has anybody seen the drone shows that China does, you know, on their whatever, 4th of July? They seem to do it like 700 times a day or a week.

Speaker 1 I don't know why they do, but they have these drone shows, thousands of synchronized lights that are just painting the sky, making things move.

Speaker 1 Have you seen them land ever on these giant open fields and they just keep coming down like an invasion?

Speaker 1 Thousands of these drones?

Speaker 1 Now, Senator, I want you to listen carefully. I'll speak slowly so you and well, you won't hear it, but your staff will hear it.

Speaker 1 imagine those aren't fireworks or for a show but weaponized drones each one really cheap precise and networked by AI a single network with AI a single swarm could cripple our planes ships tanks and troops before we ever load a gun.

Speaker 1 Ukraine's drone wars have already shown the reality. $500 drones taking out $10 million tanks.

Speaker 1 Senator, that is the future that we're staring down right now. Okay? And you're still polishing Cold War relics?

Speaker 1 Here's what I want the president to say today.

Speaker 1 Freeze every bloated project.

Speaker 1 And I'm talking specifically about the Pentagon. Redirect everything, every dime, every mind toward winning the AI ASI race.
You know how I feel about that.

Speaker 1 It scares the living bat crap out of me, but you know what's worse? Us not leading.

Speaker 1 This is the only battlefield that matters now. We've got enough stockpiles of dusty old stuff to handle any foreseeable war in the next two to three years.

Speaker 1 We also have a president, if you people in Congress, would understand what he's doing, fighting to end the conflicts, not start more of them.

Speaker 1 Your plea for more spending isn't just misguided. It is an absolute betrayal of the American people who are sinking under debt and inflation while you chase ghosts of wars past.

Speaker 1 Or is that what you're doing?

Speaker 1 I mean, I might have buried the lead here, Senator, but,

Speaker 1 well, let's see if anyone else listens to the following stats and they think maybe this op-ed was being written not for the American people.

Speaker 1 And probably not by you, but probably by somebody who hasn't lost their mind to dementia yet, who works in your office. Listen to these stats.

Speaker 1 Your state, Senator, Kentucky, It's 45th in GDP per capita. It's 44th in employment.
It's 42nd in high school diplomas.

Speaker 1 And yet, it's 11th in defense-related contract spending. Hmm.

Speaker 1 So,

Speaker 1 Senator, may I just ask you,

Speaker 1 who are you really concerned about?

Speaker 1 The safety of the American people?

Speaker 1 Or the people you've funneled millions, if not billions, of dollars to over the years haven't you done them enough favors what do you say you give it a rest

Speaker 1 because

Speaker 1 thanks but no thanks on spending more money with the pentagon

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It was a different direction.

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Speaker 4 I do have one question for you.

Speaker 4 Because I, I, with you, want fraud and waste and abuse to go away. I don't, I think we spend a lot of money on our military, and a lot of it's not directed the proper way.

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 4 But with your concern, and I think very valid concern that you've laid out many times

Speaker 4 about AI and drones and all these things, you know,

Speaker 4 is this the time to cut spending to the Pentagon with that type of threat for?

Speaker 1 Let me just say, how many drones, $500 drones, could we buy with a billion dollars?

Speaker 4 I'm not a mathematician, but several.

Speaker 1 Several. Over 10.
Yeah, over 10. Over 10.
Double digits of the drugs. Right.

Speaker 1 I just think that because AI is going to change everything, we're going to hit AGINASI, and we'll hit it. It's

Speaker 1 artificial general intelligence and artificial superintelligence. When we hit super intelligence, we're going to, we're going to say, how do, because we always war, we always war plan, okay? Always.

Speaker 1 We do these these little things.

Speaker 1 It will be able to war plan for us without us doing any exercises. It's just going to say, we're going to say, what's the best, most effective way to

Speaker 1 conquer China is should we go to war? And it will lay it out for you. And I can guarantee you, it's not going to be like, well, what you do is you move your aircraft carriers.

Speaker 1 It's going to think out of the box and it's going to think unlike people have ever thought before.

Speaker 1 So every dollar we're spending right now, it's like it's like, you know, Henry Ford's family

Speaker 1 when you know he was just starting the assembly line going, yeah, I know dad's doing a lot of stuff, but I'm building new buggies.

Speaker 1 I think we should double down on the buggy industry. We don't know what the car of the future is going to be, so to speak, in war.
We have no idea. But we are so close to it.

Speaker 1 Why would we spend any money on anything other than the race to AI AS ASI? Why? Why would we?

Speaker 1 We could get there and we could go, oh, crap, we shouldn't have done any of that.

Speaker 4 So you just stop innovating in the military until ASI is here?

Speaker 1 What's the point of it? I think we can, you just shouldn't spend. a trillion dollars on ideas.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Let's shore ourselves up in the short run, run, but no need to launch that big program on the F-54 or whatever number we're up to.

Speaker 4 No need. Well, how do your friends get their vacation houses?

Speaker 1 That's a problem. That is a problem I haven't been able to solve.
Yeah, you haven't solved that. Right, right.
I do think, like, I,

Speaker 4 because I'm with you, I think there's enough.

Speaker 4 My thought is there's enough in the military that you can

Speaker 4 cut and redirect and still save money. Right.
Like, and I think that I think I'm for. I'm concerned about the military's focus being efficiency, however.

Speaker 4 Like, I don't think that, like, when you're developing some, I mean, Star Wars is the example of that from the Reagan days, right? Like, when you're trying to develop something like that,

Speaker 4 if you're counting every single dollar, your focus is not the lethality, as Pete Hegseth's talked about, of what you're trying to do.

Speaker 1 We should not have the private sector count any dollar right now on AI. Right now, the Pentagon

Speaker 1 should be watching the private sector on AI. DARPA is already involved, okay? So we know the government is already involved in all of this and very, very well aware, and they will adapt quickly.

Speaker 1 But we should not be building old systems. We should be spending our money building server farms, power plants.
That is the future. That's the future.

Speaker 1 Not another aircraft carrier or a newly designed plane. You want to talk about, you know, do you see the big plane that went down? What was it, FedEx or UPS? Big plane that went down over the weekend.

Speaker 1 Birdstrike. Okay.
Gigantic plane. It didn't go down.
It had to land. It had to land, but it was on fire.
Yes.

Speaker 1 So birdstrike.

Speaker 1 Imagine what 500 drones could do.

Speaker 1 You don't even have to put explosives. You just swarm the plane in the sky and it's down.
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Speaker 1 And that should not just go for the Pentagon. That should go for every business in America.
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Speaker 1 We're just talking about spending, and I want to talk about who creates jobs, what's happening with the economy. We're going to get into that here in a second, but

Speaker 1 Stu, when we went off the air here in the commercial break, he was like, I don't know if I agree with you on what I'm saying is

Speaker 1 freeze all of the big spend. Do not start any new airplane design at the Pentagon that is a 10-year contract.
That most likely will be a waste of money because AGI and ASI is coming.

Speaker 1 And that will change everything. It will change warfare.
It just will. Drones, $500 each, have already changed warfare.
We have to be preparing for the future.

Speaker 1 And that future is much more nimble, much smaller, and I have a feeling much cheaper.

Speaker 4 Are you concerned about a bridge here, though? And we don't know when this is coming. We don't know how it's going to develop.
We don't know what it's going to look like. No one does.

Speaker 4 So,

Speaker 4 you know, we still need the best planes.

Speaker 1 Well, planes are important, right?

Speaker 1 But we don't need to start any new. Fix what we have, you know, finish what you've got in production.

Speaker 1 But you don't need to sit down and okay a new design for a new fighter jet.

Speaker 4 It's a big bet, though. I mean, you're making a big bet on ASI and AGI with no backup plan.
I mean, why wouldn't you want to have still the best planes in your arsenal?

Speaker 1 I think, you know, look,

Speaker 1 let's look at it this way. Our generation's Manhattan Project is AIASI.

Speaker 1 Back when FDR was convinced by Einstein, he didn't believe it could happen, okay? And Einstein came in and said,

Speaker 1 I'm from Germany. They'll do it.
And so he convinced him, go ahead, build this bomb. It was magical.
Nobody knew that we could even get there.

Speaker 1 You know, we could split the atom, but what does that mean? Can we actually make a bomb that will work?

Speaker 1 We put everything we had into it and we continue to build planes and everything else because we were currently fighting a war and we didn't know if that would happen up until the very last moment when they said

Speaker 1 dear god

Speaker 1 what have we done okay

Speaker 1 this generation it's going to end the same way in three to five years, except this time,

Speaker 1 we know it's going to happen.

Speaker 1 Almost everybody who is a naysayer on ASI almost all of them are now saying oh dear god yes it's coming and it's coming much faster than we thought it will be here by 2030 most likely it'll be here in the next three years

Speaker 1 now if that time continues to collapse I mean just in the last five years it's gone from 2050 maybe

Speaker 1 To now 2028, 2029.

Speaker 1 If that continues to collapse like that,

Speaker 1 we're at the event horizon of the singularity. So we know it's going to happen.
Our job is to just bridge the gap as much as possible, but don't build things that we don't know are.

Speaker 1 Here's what our Pentagon should be doing right now. Building nuclear power plants.
Our Army Corps of Engineers should be...

Speaker 1 building those little teeny nuclear power plants, build as many as they possibly can. You don't even have to start them up yet.
Just have them ready to to go.

Speaker 1 So when the server farms are ready, when everything, when AI is there, we can power it. We won't have the power to be able to have ASI think and affect.

Speaker 1 We have to start thinking towards the future, not

Speaker 1 what's the next generation of fighter jet look like. There ain't going to be one, dude.
There's just not. At least with a person in it.

Speaker 4 Right, because it's still going to have, I mean, AI is going to probably come up with something that flies that is going to be.

Speaker 1 It's going to be hypersonic. And it is going to be a massive.
I mean, it might even be of a new material.

Speaker 2 Here's what people don't understand.

Speaker 1 ASI is going to look at the periodic table of elements and go, guys,

Speaker 1 shuffle the deck this way, and you have a material that will go 9,000 miles an hour. It will hold up under the heat and the friction.

Speaker 1 It won't bend.

Speaker 1 It's perfect. And it's

Speaker 1 only a quarter of the weight.

Speaker 1 And by the way, here's the formula. And you don't have to go and test it for two years.
It's correct. Do it.

Speaker 1 I mean, that's how fast things are going to happen once they start happening. And Stu, this scares the hell out of me because you know how I feel about AI.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I was going to ask you because

Speaker 4 AI obviously has a lot of negative potential consequences. And if we're putting the government, the military in control of that,

Speaker 1 I'm not saying that we put the government in control of it. Okay.
We have to balance all of this, but the government is already involved in it. I'm saying

Speaker 1 let the government build like power plants. Build the things that we know the country is going to need the infrastructure to be able to handle this.

Speaker 1 Build the things that when they say, we got it, we can turn it on.

Speaker 4 Yeah, get prepared for whatever's coming here. I think too, like,

Speaker 4 I guess I'm concerned, and this is from a guy I've talked to for 20 years who continually repeats the phrase, I'm always wrong about timing.

Speaker 4 I'm concerned about that bridge period because I think you're probably right. It is coming really, really fast.

Speaker 4 But if something happens, if something goes off course, if you don't know, how do we be prepared for that bridge period?

Speaker 1 How do we spend $877 billion

Speaker 1 every single year?

Speaker 1 Every year,

Speaker 1 China spends $200 and some billion dollars every year.

Speaker 1 And it's that close?

Speaker 1 If it's that close, you know, we got other problems.

Speaker 4 You're saying that we should sort of

Speaker 4 rest on our laurels a little bit and just say, hey, we already have the best technology. We already have the best military.
Let's not try to develop new things until this AI fails.

Speaker 1 They're developing new stuff as well. Yeah.
Great. Great.

Speaker 1 Let's give some time to AI. Let's not double our work.
Let's not spend money now on things that most likely are. Don't build another aircraft carrier.
Don't design another F-57. Don't do it.

Speaker 1 It's not going to, you're not, you have no idea what's coming. Fix the stuff we have.

Speaker 1 Make sure we have the ammunition. Make sure we have the latest and the greatest that's already here.

Speaker 1 Don't do R ⁇ D on that stuff. Don't do it.
And by the way, you can't tell me that, again,

Speaker 1 $900 billion over, let's say, $250 or let's say $300 for China.

Speaker 1 We spend three times the amount every year and we're not competitive? I don't believe that. And if it is, everybody in the Pentagon should go to jail.

Speaker 4 I do think we're certainly competitive.

Speaker 4 I will say that, like, to me, I think there's a lot of older projects.

Speaker 4 There's a bunch of crap in our military that that stuff is my higher priority target, let's put it that way, than eliminating potential innovations in these fields.

Speaker 4 Even though I know what you're saying,

Speaker 4 they might be obsolete in a few years.

Speaker 1 Then

Speaker 1 you'll have to come in front of a committee that is like filled with Elon Musk's and say, here's the pitch. I don't want the decisions made by the senators or the generals at this point.

Speaker 1 Here's the pitch. Here's why we think this fits with tomorrow's technology.

Speaker 4 And they're not going to be in an advisory role, but we do have a system of government that we have to figure out.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I I know. But they should be the ones who go, don't do that, Senator.
Don't do that. That's stupid.
Don't do that.

Speaker 1 They want to do that. Then we can vote them out.

Speaker 1 And we'll all know which ones are just doing it because they're funneling money to their friends.

Speaker 4 Part of this comes to the idea that the way I think about government spending, which is government spending is always worse than

Speaker 4 the private sector,

Speaker 4 which is

Speaker 4 a very basic conservative point, right?

Speaker 4 I think, though, the one time that you,

Speaker 4 obviously constitutionally, you have certain powers that the government spends. Defense is one of them that they're going to typically be responsible for.

Speaker 4 The way I look at it is government can do some things relatively well if you don't care about efficiency.

Speaker 4 Businesses do, right? So they will not take certain risks that have a low percentage chance of paying off in the idea that maybe you come up with a nuclear bomb and you're able to

Speaker 1 stop global wars for multiple decades.

Speaker 4 You know, a private company, you know, like very, I mean, certainly they shouldn't be coming up with nuclear bombs, but you know what I'm saying?

Speaker 4 Like that type of risk, that type of expenditure that will likely fail is the type of thing that the government can take on because

Speaker 4 when you don't care about efficiency, when you don't care about, hey, we tried 25 things, 24 of them failed, that's okay.

Speaker 1 Look, private industry should be doing this and leading this, but the government's already in bed with DARPA's already doing this. I mean,

Speaker 1 the CIA was the one who helped fund Silicon Valley in the 1960s. So please, let's get over our little illusion that they're not involved in any of this.

Speaker 1 Let me give you an example on something that I think I hope the president's going to talk about tonight.

Speaker 1 The private sector versus big government and Biden spending spree, what Trump is doing and what Biden did.

Speaker 1 The president's been in for 40 days. I've never seen anything like this in 40 days.
So he's been in

Speaker 1 office for 40 days, and the numbers he's bringing into the economy are staggering.

Speaker 1 Yesterday, Taiwan semiconductors, which is the greatest news you could possibly hear if you understand what this means.

Speaker 1 Taiwan makes all of the best semiconductors and superconductors, and they're dropping $100 billion to build chip factories here in America.

Speaker 1 Apple, $500 billion over four years to crank up its manufacturing. Think Texas server plants, not sweatshops.
SoftBank is in for $100 billion on AI. UAE is tossing $20 billion into data centers.

Speaker 1 That's $700 billion in private sector commitments.

Speaker 1 Now, some people are saying that it's as high as $1.7 trillion, but I can't track those numbers and get, I can get a lot of rumors, I can get a lot of, yeah, maybe, but I don't have, this is real.

Speaker 1 This is almost a trillion dollars. Remember

Speaker 1 the investment for Barack Obama,

Speaker 1 the Reinvestment Act was $787 billion. This is $720 billion, all coming not from tax dollars, not from government IOUs, but real money from companies all around the world that are betting on America.

Speaker 1 This number, like I said, can be verified and they're not handouts. Now,

Speaker 1 just the investment from TCMC could mean 40,000 construction jobs and 6,000 high-tech gigs. Apple, thousands.

Speaker 1 This is the private sector, not because Uncle Sam wrote a check, but because Trump demanded the same rules on tariffs for everyone. We're going to charge you what you charge us.

Speaker 1 That is fair on any playground anywhere in the world.

Speaker 1 And then he sweetened the deal by cutting the red tape and the tax advantages that no other country will offer and said, build it here, bring those jobs here. We're a stable country.
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Speaker 1 I'm going to have to come back to the comparisons because I've only got a couple of minutes here. I ran out of time, but I have to tell you some of the stuff that, I mean,

Speaker 1 what you're going to hear tonight is a long list of what

Speaker 1 Donald Trump has accomplished by bringing in money by cutting red tape and tariffs to get people to move their businesses here in America.

Speaker 1 I just want to remind you of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. That was passed in 2021.

Speaker 1 It cost you $1.20,

Speaker 1 $836 billion in direct spending for roads, bridges, broadband, and the rest.

Speaker 1 Add in the Inflation Reduction Act, the $144 billion, and you have over a trillion dollars of taxpayer cash that they took from you to give to their buddies.

Speaker 1 Now they bragged about 57,000 projects shovel ready.

Speaker 1 554 billion of it was only announced mid-last year.

Speaker 1 Less than 17% of the $454 billion has actually even been spent. Remember, we're talking over a trillion dollars of money.
None of it has hit the markets yet. You think inflation is bad now?

Speaker 1 You let the government spend the rest of that trillion dollars. By the way,

Speaker 1 by November 2024, only $162 billion is actually,

Speaker 1 in last November, was actually in play.

Speaker 1 The rest of it is still obligated on paper, or there's red tape that they have to do, and the waste is unbelievable. You know about the electric vehicle chargers: $7.5 billion.

Speaker 1 We've got eight of them.

Speaker 1 The $42.5 billion for broadband. Zero shovels actually in.
$42.5 billion. No shovels.
So when they said all of this stuff was working, no. And

Speaker 1 why did Glenn Beck tell you all last year it's going to get worse before it gets better? Because all of this money is still in the pipeline. You want inflation?

Speaker 1 You wait. All of these plans, all of the things that they built, they did nothing in the last four years.
Nothing.

Speaker 1 Now all of that money is going to be washing into the system if Donald Trump doesn't stop it. Tonight's a very, very important night.
The president is speaking to Congress at 7.30 Eastern Time.

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Speaker 1 Except perhaps Doge actually cutting. This is something Carol Roth talked about, but we haven't seen anything yet.

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Hello, Carol. How are you?

Speaker 6 You know, Glenn, I just found out that we've only been in this administration for a month and a half-ish. Yeah.
And I feel like it's been 16 years.

Speaker 6 There's been so much going on that I'm just trying to process it out. When someone said, oh, it's only been a month and a half, I went, Yeah, my mind was blown.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we're 40 days into around 40 days into this administration. And you're looking at this, and

Speaker 1 it's breathtaking at what has been done.

Speaker 1 Last month, we had, I think, 1,800 encounters at the borders.

Speaker 1 A year ago, last February, it was 109,000 encounters. That's how much of an impact he's made on that.
We have all these things that he's done.

Speaker 1 But when it comes to the economy, Congress has to move on some of his things.

Speaker 1 He hasn't really done anything with the economy, except perhaps perhaps for Doge, which you've been warning about on this program for a while now. What's happening?

Speaker 6 Yes. So, you know, we've talked about before that the economic situation is not really what it was presented to be.

Speaker 6 You know, we heard under Biden and certainly during election season, what a wonderful economy we had, all of these really great statistics on employment and growth. And it's become very clear.

Speaker 6 Well, it was very clear to all of us before we've talked about it.

Speaker 6 Something that Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessant talked about in a speech a couple of weeks ago is that really the economic foundation is incredibly fragile.

Speaker 6 And what we've had the Biden administration do, which was exceptionally nefarious, is that they decided that they were going to spend to paper over the weakness of the economy.

Speaker 6 So if you remember, I think it was back in 2022, we had those two down quarters of GDP, which is a technical recession, which for some reason, by the way, they said was not a recession.

Speaker 6 I'm sure if Trump had two down quarters, they would say it was, but you know, it was a, it was, it had a D in front of it, it wasn't.

Speaker 6 And then, you know, we came out of it, and then it was pretty clear that we were going to go into this double-dip recession. And so, what did they do?

Speaker 6 They decided to increase government spending, which is very inefficient spending. And we've been running deficits as a percentage of GDP that are at wartime levels.

Speaker 6 We're talking six to seven percent of GDP. The historical average is somewhere around three or three and a half percent.
So about double, you know, what you might see on average.

Speaker 6 Not, you know, when you have a good economy, you would actually expect that to be much lower because you're getting more receipts. And that's what happened.
We had more receipts.

Speaker 6 We were taking in almost $5 trillion

Speaker 6 U.S. government.
And they're spending even more. They're spending almost $7 trillion.

Speaker 6 So that was done to mask the weakness in the economy.

Speaker 6 Now that we don't have the ability to continue to kick up even more and more to show growth, the consumer continues to be tapped out from all the Biden-era policies.

Speaker 6 And the fact that we have Doge, which is trying to cut down government spending, we're at a situation where things could get uglier before they get better, or they could get uglier and they could take away the political political will to make them better.

Speaker 6 And that's this delicate dance that we've been talking about, why we need this careful choreography.

Speaker 6 The craziest thing that's happened over the past several days is that the Atlanta Fed, one of the branches of the Federal Reserve that has a tool that predicts GDP for each quarter, they went in the last four weeks, okay, four weeks' time from predicting that we were going to have almost 4% GDP growth in the first quarter to now negative 3%

Speaker 6 in the first quarter. That is

Speaker 6 a seven percentage point difference in four weeks, which A just goes to show what a joke any of this reporting and these tools and this data are.

Speaker 6 But I think also shows, hey, we've got somebody else at the helm here. So now we don't need to doctor these numbers in a way that seem a bit more more friendly.

Speaker 6 And so we potentially could be seeing something ugly, which is something that we've talked about many, many times. And this has been a setup that they knew was coming.

Speaker 6 If you go back to the middle of last year, you had a bunch of quote-unquote Nobel economists that put out a piece that said that Trump was going to create inflation.

Speaker 6 He was going to do all these bad things to the economy. And I called it out right then and there and said, this is a setup.
They know this is coming no matter what.

Speaker 6 And so they are are setting the groundwork to blame this on Trump. And so, you know, get ready for the talking points.
You know, Trump's been, as we said, only in there for six weeks.

Speaker 6 He hasn't even really had a chance to do anything about the economy. Congress certainly isn't helping.

Speaker 6 And yet we're already getting the rhetoric that, oh, you know, look what he did to our really great economy.

Speaker 1 Correct me if I'm wrong here, Carol, but

Speaker 1 the Biden administration, while they spent a lot of money, they did it in ways to cover things up, et cetera, et cetera.

Speaker 1 But that big 2021, you know, $1.2 trillion bill and then the $836 billion for roads and bridges and broadband and then the $144 in the Inflation Reduction Act, it's well over a trillion dollars.

Speaker 1 And it's my understanding that only 17% of that money has been

Speaker 1 spent.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 what happens if we don't stop the spending of just the stuff that is already on the books from Biden? Wouldn't that cause our inflation to go through the roof?

Speaker 6 Yeah, it absolutely would cause our inflation to go through the roof because, you know, even with the cash in and cash out that we have, as we said, we're running these wartime level deficits.

Speaker 6 And by the way, we're financing those at high interest rates, not necessarily in the historical context, but in the context of the last 15 years, and in a way that we have now made the interest expense on our debt, you know, what we're paying for stuff we've already bought, exceed the financing charges, exceed what we're spending on defense.

Speaker 6 Niall Ferguson has a great sort of maxim, if you will, that basically I'm paraphrasing here, but nations that spend more on interest

Speaker 6 versus debt don't remain great nations for very long.

Speaker 6 That seems to be pretty obvious, something that everybody can wrap their heads around, that we don't want to be spending all of our money, you know, paying for stuff that we've quote unquote already bought.

Speaker 6 And we certainly at these levels cannot afford to do that.

Speaker 6 If we continue to do that, and this kind of goes into another conversation that we've had before, Glenn, too, is that central banks around the world who used to be our friends in support of the U.S.

Speaker 6 being the world's reserve currency used to just buy treasuries. You know, it's kind of part of the deal deal here on an ongoing basis.

Speaker 6 Over the past 11 or so years, they have been net sellers of treasuries. They've actually replaced that with gold on their balance sheet.

Speaker 6 So if we don't have central banks that will just buy treasuries whenever, because that's part of the geopolitical deal, that means you have to find people who are, you know, are looking at the price.

Speaker 6 They're looking at the price of the treasuries. And basically, you know,

Speaker 6 at these levels, even though they've come off a little bit and we can talk about that too. But

Speaker 6 they're overall saying, yeah, we're not going to do that.

Speaker 6 We need

Speaker 6 to have a reprice here. And when you don't have enough demand, you end up seeing our yields go higher.

Speaker 6 And to the extent they add up too high, which we were dangerously close to a few weeks ago, that has come off now.

Speaker 6 But if you hit that, that could end up causing a debt spiral. It could end up causing

Speaker 6 a mismanagement, or excuse me, not a mismanagement, but basically a throwing up, if you will, of the treasury market and have global implications.

Speaker 1 So let me just explain this so the average person can understand what you just said.

Speaker 1 You're wanting to

Speaker 1 buy a new house

Speaker 1 and the interest rates are up at 8%.

Speaker 1 You say, honey, I don't think we should buy a new house. The interest rate is way too high.

Speaker 1 And somebody says, well, historically not. Well, historically, yeah, you might be right.
But we're not not buying in the 1980s right now. We're buying today

Speaker 1 with our financial situation. So I don't think we're going to buy the house.
That's what a normal person would do. And you'd start saving money to buy a house later.

Speaker 1 That's not what the government is doing. They're saying, let's buy the house at these high interest rates anyway.

Speaker 1 But when you have poor credit, really good banks are going to say, no, I'm not going to take your loan. That's what she's talking about with the central banks.
They're like, I don't want it.

Speaker 1 I'd rather buy gold because I don't trust that you guys are ever going to get out of debt. And so what happens? Loan sharks step in.
This is what she's saying about the yield going up.

Speaker 1 The loan sharks step in and they say, I can make this deal for you. I'm going to cost you 12%.

Speaker 1 And you're like, 12%? That's outrageous. You're going to do it or you're not going to do it.
What do you want?

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 we're burying ourselves with loan sharks. That's why I believe the president needs to say tonight, Congress must pass a budget.
It must have cuts.

Speaker 1 I'd love him to say it must have a trillion dollars bare minimum of cuts to show the rest of the world that we're serious.

Speaker 1 I don't know why Javier Malay can do these things, but we can't. However,

Speaker 6 however, Glenn, if we cut, as we've talked about, we cut a trillion dollars and we just cut it off very carefully and we don't choreograph it like Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers,

Speaker 6 and then we don't have that in our GDP, then we have a shrunken economy. We're taking in less receipts and we actually explode the deficit, which could end up in a debt spiral.

Speaker 6 So yes, Congress needs to do their part, but it needs to be done very surgically. And that is the ultimate challenge.
That is the mess that the Biden administration left for Trump.

Speaker 1 If I were king of the world today and I could go in and say, Congress, this is what you're going to do.

Speaker 1 I would say to them, you're going to cut a trillion dollars, plus you're going to pass either a flat tax or 15, 15, 15, what the president has talked about, and you're going to cut

Speaker 1 50% of all regulations. Just cut them right now.
And you're going to pass the Reins Act. That would change the dynamics of the economy.

Speaker 1 Yes, we would have all of that spending going away from our GDP, from the government. Good.

Speaker 1 But money would flow into

Speaker 1 our country and jobs would be created and we'd ignite the engine at the same time. That's what has to happen.
But that's not going to be the president's fault if it doesn't happen.

Speaker 1 What a surprise. It's going to be the lame-ass GOP that will screw this up.
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Speaker 1 Okay, is there anything else that you think we need to hit here on the economy before we get to some good news?

Speaker 6 I mean,

Speaker 6 this is going to be probably a whole other segment, but I'll just throw it there. At some point, we need to have a discussion about these tariffs.

Speaker 6 Now's probably not the time because it's a very large discussion. Okay.
But we need to have a discussion about these tariffs.

Speaker 1 Okay. Let's do that now.
Go ahead. Let's start there.

Speaker 6 All right. So basically, what did the American people hire Trump to do, right? They hired to stabilize prices, to get things more normalized.

Speaker 6 And yes, we have these issues around the world in terms of, you know, where we stand in trade. However, as we have been talking about, we just talked about, this needs to be very surgical.

Speaker 6 We need to have Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers doing the choreography. We don't need to have Bull in a China shop.

Speaker 6 And the tariff situation, given the precarious economic situation that Biden has left us and the fact that the citizens of the United States want price stability is absolutely maddening.

Speaker 6 I understood art of the deal. I understood the first time around that we're trying to put some pressure, show who's the big dog, get people to come to the table.

Speaker 6 But now, you know, we're going after our allies. We're going, you know, we're trying to, you know, kind of separate ourselves from China.
Well, we have

Speaker 6 companies who decided to move manufacturing from China to Mexico so that they could be more aligned with the United States and North America. And now we're putting these crazy tariffs on it.

Speaker 6 This is something that, frankly, nobody in any economic circle that I know understands the strategy.

Speaker 6 It does not seem to be consistent with what it is we've been talking about.

Speaker 1 All right, so may I suggest,

Speaker 1 Donald Trump plays many different games all at once. And the strategy when it comes to Canada and Mexico, I don't think has anything to do really with the economy.

Speaker 1 It has everything to do with the border.

Speaker 1 He's saying, help us with the border. Help stop the flow of illegals.
Stop fentanyl. And recognize that your cartels are terror organizations.
Work with us. If you don't want to, that's fine.

Speaker 1 You'll get a tariff. He's not saying, you know,

Speaker 1 you're charging us too much for our milk and not enough for your milk or whatever. That is part of it, but that's not really what he's after, I believe, on the tariffs with Canada and Mexico.

Speaker 6 I agree. That was the first time we tried this and he got them to the table.
And now we we need to have sort of a different situation because the reality is that, as you said, he's made huge strides.

Speaker 6 We have a tiny fraction of the accounters at the border, so that is moving in the right direction. But things like price stability are not necessarily yet moving in the right direction.

Speaker 6 And to throw this into the mix at a time that is so precarious from an economic situation, even if that is the ultimate outcome, it seems like the the wrong tactic to take because the situation on the economic front is so volatile.

Speaker 6 Find another path to do that. That's all I'll have to say on that.

Speaker 4 Yeah, and just to back up Carol's point on the border, I mean, we're down, this is the lowest month we've had in at least 25 years of border crossings.

Speaker 1 Like 1968 or something crazy like that.

Speaker 4 Yeah. The only other close month was April 2017, right after Trump came in the first time.
But that was much more about just tone and it did slow things down. This seems to be backing up with action.

Speaker 4 And, you know,

Speaker 4 I tend to agree on the tariffs with Carol.

Speaker 1 I don't like, I am against tariffs. I am for even playing field tariffs.

Speaker 4 But again, that's, and that is defensible logically.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Not what's happening.
No, I know. Canada.

Speaker 4 Canada and he signed an agreement that there would be no tariffs between these. It was his agreement.
He designed it.

Speaker 1 I know, I know. And now he's putting these tariffs on.

Speaker 6 And that's going back to the surgical part. If it was something very specific, I could understand.
But across the board at these levels,

Speaker 6 seems really insane at this point.

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Speaker 1 I want to thank Carol Ross for being with us.

Speaker 1 She's always here to set us straight on the economy.

Speaker 1 She just gave me one of the best ideas for a monologue. I'm going to work on it today.
Maybe I'll have it tomorrow, but one of the best ideas. Thank you, Carol.

Speaker 1 To be able to explain

Speaker 1 why government never works. Government spending and all that stuff just doesn't work.
It is part of, it's a natural cycle, and we'll talk about that coming up.

Speaker 1 So, Stu and I are still talking about the tariffs as well. If you want to continue on that a little bit,

Speaker 1 I am against tariffs. I have been for tariffs in the way he has been using them, and that is in two different ways.

Speaker 1 He's been using them as a, I'm going to step on your neck until you say, okay, okay, I give. That's Canada and Mexico.
And they gave, but they didn't do exactly what he wanted.

Speaker 1 And then he stepped on their neck a little harder. I don't know how that's going to work out.
I hope it works out in his favor because I don't want to see him have to have Justin Trudeau going,

Speaker 1 see, we beat him, the big bully. That would be bad for him.

Speaker 1 The second way of doing tariffs is I believe in free trade.

Speaker 1 But if you're not going to play by free trade, then I'm going to play by your rules, which will balance the playing field and give us the next best thing to free trade.

Speaker 1 We're playing free trade on your rules of a level playing field. I think that's all fine.

Speaker 1 I don't know how all of this is going to work out. So far, I have watched it be really, really good, but the stock market dropping, I mean,

Speaker 1 it's not good. It's not good.

Speaker 4 The markets hate New Texas. Yes.
They're always going to hate New Texas.

Speaker 4 I do think there's a chance that he is doing this in an extended way of what he did last time, in which he's saying, instead of saying the threat of tariffs for negotiation, he's thinking they need to feel the pain of the tariffs and then they'll come to the table with whatever he's looking for, which we don't really know what it is.

Speaker 4 But that being said, it's also

Speaker 4 the problem with tariffs is it cause pain on both sides.

Speaker 6 And the strategy of it is i can withstand this pain more than you can withstand this pain but we can't for very long none of us can none of us can it's it's also timing right so we're talking about all of these things as if we were in a normal world and we're not we're on the precipice of economic crisis thanks to the biden administration and so you know the tactics and strategies that we may have been able to employ during a normal time are not what are required right now.

Speaker 6 Like we said, the first time he threatened the tariffs, it worked on the immigration or the migration front, right?

Speaker 6 We stopped the flow of illegals to the point where we haven't seen these numbers in a very long time. So take the win.
But right now, what the American public needs is some certainty and stability.

Speaker 6 And so with this very fragile economic situation, anything that is going to make it worse is not the right tactic to to take right now.

Speaker 6 And we also have to decide, you know, who is going to be on our side and who's not going to be on our side. If China is really the enemy here, then maybe just say, okay, we got.

Speaker 6 is you know a little bit of uh a way down with with china and mexico or excuse me with canada and mexico and what we wanted we're just going to leave that and now we're going to focus on this thing with china and keep our allies intact i just don't think now is the time when we require this very careful choreography to get us out of a crazy economic situation to be throwing around these massive tariffs, to be creating chaos in the stock market, to create uncertainty potential, you know, for a potential for a rising dollar, which would be a major issue.

Speaker 6 I know it's come down a little bit here, but if these go into place, that's going to be the outgrowth.

Speaker 6 I mean, there are a lot of big issues that are all tied up together here, and now is just not the time.

Speaker 1 I would agree with you possibly on, I mean, I want to see this play out for a couple of days on Canada and Mexico, Mexico, but I have, I have no problem with any kind of treaties that he wants to put on Europe and because I think it's free and fair if we play by their rules.

Speaker 1 And I'm not sure that they are our allies anymore. I really don't.

Speaker 1 When they will say in front of people, in front of cameras, America doesn't believe in the same values we believe anymore, after a speech about freedom of speech and not putting political opponents in jail,

Speaker 1 I'm not sure I want to be spending any money defending that because they're not, we're not on the same side if they actually believe that.

Speaker 6 Yeah, I mean, obviously that speaks to bigger geopolitical strategy in terms of do we want them to be aligned with China? You know, the friend of my enemy is my friend. You know, it's kind of...

Speaker 6 We have to be very careful so we can acknowledge that we think that that's horrible. We know that they are paper tigers and very weak,

Speaker 6 but still there's a bigger picture going on.

Speaker 6 And so we don't have to necessarily fund them, but at the same time, too, we also have to be wary of the global economic situation and how that's going to impact American lives.

Speaker 6 And that is the most fragile point. So that needs to be kind of the underpinning of everything else.

Speaker 1 Let me switch gears to this meeting that's happening on Friday with Bitcoin and cryptocurrency. What are we expecting to see out of that?

Speaker 1 And when the government says they're the government, the United States government is the largest holder of Bitcoin in the world. I don't know if anybody knows that, but we're the largest

Speaker 1 Bitcoin holder.

Speaker 1 And the president just signed an executive order saying we're going to hold on to it, which is good,

Speaker 1 at least for Bitcoin and

Speaker 1 I think for the country as well. But the price went up, but it didn't skyrocket.
And everybody's been saying they've been waiting for this.

Speaker 1 Are they waiting to see what it actually means over the weekend, Carol?

Speaker 6 Well, it went up and then it went back down again.

Speaker 6 This has been, so

Speaker 6 the first thing that happened is that we had this announcement of some sort of cryptocurrency strategic reserve. Right.

Speaker 6 And, you know, again, and this is not meant to pick on the Trump administration because obviously we know we're all rooting for Trump to succeed, but there are some sort of question marks here, and this is one of them for me.

Speaker 6 When you think about a strategic reserve, Glenn, you're thinking about things that you need in case of a national emergency, in case of an economic emergency, that you have a stockpile.

Speaker 6 And so it makes sense that we would have oil or ammunition or medicine or things stockpiled. But all of a sudden, we say, well, we need to have a cryptocurrency stockpile, strategic reserve.

Speaker 6 The question, Mark, is why? Why do we need that? Why is that impacting us?

Speaker 1 Because I think it's the same as gold.

Speaker 6 But it's not the same as gold.

Speaker 6 It's not being held by central banks around the world. It's not something that we actually even have in tangible form.
And this kind of goes to the bigger feeling from the crypto community.

Speaker 6 When this was announced, it was not announced as a Bitcoin reserve.

Speaker 6 It was announced as a reserve that included all kinds of things, including things that bordered on meme coins and alternative coins that most people in the cryptocurrency community don't think have any intrinsic value.

Speaker 6 And so that's been part of the frustration that if you want to make the argument for a Bitcoin-only reserve, then we can have a healthy debate and maybe there's a, you know, some sort of reason to find that when they think about it.

Speaker 1 But isn't it XRP that they think that the

Speaker 1 banking system is actually going to be built on? Not necessarily Bitcoin, but XRP because I don't know, it's faster or whatever.

Speaker 1 But some of the coins that he included make sense to me because it is building the future and the highways of our financial system. You disagree with that?

Speaker 6 I think that the feeling from the community is that in terms of anything that looks like hard money, that Bitcoin is the only one that comes close to that, and that there are a lot of people in the administration who frankly have interests in cryptocurrency, and that's why it's getting this level of attention.

Speaker 6 So I think that perhaps maybe there's clarification this week of what this strategic reserve looks like. As you mentioned, the holdings of cryptocurrency by the U.S.

Speaker 6 You know, I believe you're referencing the amount of cryptocurrency that we have seized from criminals and other organizations.

Speaker 1 We have been dumping it out on the market. It's much better for everybody, the market, and to have some stored value for the United States.
I think diversification is really good myself.

Speaker 6 Or we could dump it off and pay down our debt and not have an interest that exceeds our debt.

Speaker 1 If you want to do that and you're not selling it all at once so the price of it doesn't collapse, you know, I don't don't have a problem with that either.

Speaker 1 But,

Speaker 1 you know, anyway,

Speaker 6 look.

Speaker 6 Go ahead.

Speaker 6 I would just say that, you know, based on his announcement, he had said that he wants to elevate the industry, which is, again, a weird thing to say when we're talking about things that should benefit Americans.

Speaker 6 It wasn't sort of clear how that

Speaker 6 ties into the elevating the industry. But I do think what is, if there's any good point

Speaker 6 from a crypto fan standpoint, that they're saying that at least he's going to bring some legitimacy to the industry and not persecute it the way the Biden administration has.

Speaker 6 So maybe there's some clarity on rulemaking and whatnot. And I think that's all positive.

Speaker 6 But when we start getting into strategic reserves, when we're running wartime deficit, you know, again, my head starts to spin a little bit.

Speaker 1 So there's been one thing that we've talked about for several months, and that's FinCEN and this

Speaker 1 criminalization of small-time business owners. And it has been delayed and delayed.
It's a Biden thing. They delayed it under Trump.
It has finally been washed away, Carol?

Speaker 6 Almost. So this is a huge victory.

Speaker 1 Why won't they let go of this thing?

Speaker 6 This is a huge victory. I want to thank you, Glenn, because we've been talking about this for almost a year.
You've led a huge platform and fight for this.

Speaker 6 Your audience has been very active in this fight.

Speaker 6 So this is that, like you said, the CTA BOI rule that was making small businesses have to register as financial criminals or face jail times and massive penalties.

Speaker 6 We've been working so hard to try to get this taken away or at least, you know, put to bed in some manner.

Speaker 6 So last Thursday, the 27th, Treasury came out and said, we are not going to penalize you if you, if we're not going to enforce penalties and we're going to try to narrow the scope because we don't think this is fair for small business.

Speaker 6 And then on Sunday, they put out a press release saying, okay, we are not for anybody who is a U.S. citizen or a domestic reporting entity, so a domestic company, you do not have to do this.

Speaker 6 So this is a huge win now,

Speaker 1 a huge win.

Speaker 6 However, we need this codified still. We need Congress to codify and follow Treasury's lead, or we need the courts to win because we know what happens.

Speaker 6 You know, we have a great Treasury Secretary who wants Main Street to thrive. We have a president who wants Main Street to thrive, and they've done this.

Speaker 6 But if they can do that, then the next administration, you know, that is a Democratic administration could undo that.

Speaker 6 And we need to create that certainty for small businesses, housing association boards, and everyone else who is caught up in this.

Speaker 6 So we need for the Congress to narrow the scope to foreign companies only, foreign reporting entities. So tell Congress they still need to pass that law and codify and take Treasury's lead.

Speaker 6 And, you know, otherwise, you and I are going to be talking about this again at some point in the future. But it's, by the way,

Speaker 6 we can celebrate all the great work. Your audience made calls.
They put in statements for the record that I took to Congress.

Speaker 6 We've been working so, so hard on this.

Speaker 6 All of the groups that filed lawsuits that even gave us the ability to have the delay in time to make this happen, to allow this new treasury to be able to make this rule. So great job, everybody.

Speaker 1 Great job from you, Carol. You've led

Speaker 1 the torch. You've been the torchbearer on this one.
Carol Roth, Carol Roth.com/slash news. You can follow her on X at Carol JS Roth.
Carol JS Roth. Thanks, Carol.
Appreciate it.

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I've been waiting for a while. What are you hoping Trump is going to address tonight?

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Yeah, Stu just brought his home. He's like, I didn't, what? I just.

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Speaker 1 Yeah.

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I don't carry a purse, but that's a pretty great casual purse, don't you think?

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Speaker 1 Let me start with Tammy in Georgia. Hello, Tammy.
Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

Speaker 12 Hi, Glenn.

Speaker 12 What I'd like Donald Trump to address is something that Carol Roth is and you were talking about with inflation.

Speaker 12 There are Americans out out there that they're rich.

Speaker 12 There's Americans out there that are middle class and you've got your poor.

Speaker 7 And somewhere in between the

Speaker 12 gold standard and the dollar going away, there are going to be millions of Americans who are going to drop in the cracks.

Speaker 12 And we're going to be left penniless because there's a lot of us that have no savings because of what Biden did.

Speaker 1 I know.

Speaker 12 And there's no way for us to invest in gold.

Speaker 1 I know. I know.

Speaker 1 So, where do you live, Tammy? Where in Georgia? Describe your town.

Speaker 12 It's a small town.

Speaker 9 It's called Rockmart.

Speaker 12 It's growing, but I'm 59 years old. I'm blind, and I'm a diabetic.

Speaker 13 So all of my money goes to my medical expenses. Right.

Speaker 1 So, Tammy,

Speaker 1 you know, I can't speak to your particular case,

Speaker 1 but

Speaker 1 you need to,

Speaker 1 everybody needs to do this because I think we're all going to be leveled at some point, all of us. I don't care how much money you have.

Speaker 1 When money isn't worth anything, it doesn't matter how much you had. It really doesn't.

Speaker 1 It matters how you prepared. And it doesn't have to be gold.
You know what is

Speaker 1 worth more than gold? A good community of church-going people.

Speaker 1 If you're in a community of church where people will help one another, where they won't allow you to fall through the cracks, that is really valuable because, especially you, you're blind, you are diabetic.

Speaker 1 What are you going to do? You have to have a community around you. For people who aren't blind,

Speaker 1 if you're living in a small town like she is, Tammy is,

Speaker 1 you need to plant a garden. I mean, our parents, sorry, our grandparents, if you're my age, grandparents, they survived the Great Depression because they were independent.
They had a small garden.

Speaker 1 That is the best thing you can do if you're somebody who is all excited about Maha.

Speaker 1 You've got to grow the stuff yourself so you know what's healthy and what's not. Now, you can do that because of health.
You can do that because you should know where your food comes from.

Speaker 1 Just teach your kids how to farm, have little things.

Speaker 1 You know, but if you're not going to do that and you have the money, then you should buy some sort of food storage.

Speaker 1 I know our church charges, they have food storage, you know, capabilities and they charge less than you'd get from anything else. But, you know, you got to make it into something.

Speaker 1 You know, the flour and everything else, and then you make it in to whatever it is you're cooking, but you can find those things that you can prepare. Again, prepare yourself.

Speaker 1 If you have nothing, prepare yourself spiritually and get into a strong faith community, one that understands we're all brothers and sisters and we're not going to leave anyone behind.

Speaker 1 Thanks, Tammy, for your call. Let me go to Matt in Pennsylvania.
Hello, Matt.

Speaker 7 How are you doing today, Glenn?

Speaker 15 Sorry, can you hear me all right?

Speaker 15 I'm a UPS driver.

Speaker 16 I'm like on the road, and I'm the first time I've gotten in. First of all, 2006, I started listening to you.

Speaker 1 Geez, he was going to give me a compliment. Now he's breaking up.
That's not right.

Speaker 4 No, I could have said it. I listened in 2006 and I've hated you ever since.

Speaker 1 Thank you to coming. Are you there, Matt?

Speaker 1 The Eagles suck. I hate you.

Speaker 1 I love you.

Speaker 1 Cut him off.

Speaker 1 Go ahead. I think that

Speaker 16 what we've given Trump as a mandate by the American people, the GOP has been so weak-need on so many things that he needs to lay that out specifically. So we all voted for this.

Speaker 16 We want the cut in the spending.

Speaker 17 I know it's going to hurt.

Speaker 16 I mean, I'm 55 next month. I've been at the same job for 36 years.

Speaker 16 And I mean, my wife and I are, we've paid for our kids. We've done the best we could to pay for our kids to do things.
But there's going to be pain. We have a budget.
We live by a budget.

Speaker 16 We don't buy the things that we can't afford. And I first, and ultimately, I just, God bless you.
I appreciate what you do.

Speaker 9 You get me through the day. You, Pat,

Speaker 16 sometimes, Stu Loves America.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's hard. It's rare.
It's hard to give him that.

Speaker 1 I'm a little nerved out.

Speaker 17 I'm a little nerved out.

Speaker 17 But the Stillers are a better team than the Eagles.

Speaker 4 That's interesting. Oh, you have some information you might want to

Speaker 1 consider over the past couple of years. More Super Bowls.

Speaker 17 More Super Bowls. More Super Bowls, Stu.

Speaker 7 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 You're going back too far.

Speaker 4 It's time to cut this guy off.

Speaker 1 What is he doing? Matt, thank you so much. I appreciate appreciate it.
By the way, he's from Pennsylvania. Okay.
He's from Pennsylvania.

Speaker 1 Can you just give this to me, read this to me? I can't. I don't have my glasses.
He can't read.

Speaker 1 It's a problem. Hand me a little teeny, you know,

Speaker 1 wrap. Go ahead.

Speaker 1 There's breaking news. Jason Bucks.

Speaker 4 Breaking news.

Speaker 4 Yeah, sorry. Zelensky looks like he's doing a major backpedal as far as dealing with Trump and the United States and peace.

Speaker 1 He just tweeted this on X where he's reiterating, quote, Ukraine's commitment to peace.

Speaker 4 One of the most interesting things was, is that he, there's one where it sounds like it's almost like an apology, but not really an apology.

Speaker 4 He wanted the meeting to go better, but he sounds like he's calling for a ceasefire and truce in the skies and in the sea, which is pretty huge

Speaker 4 because I haven't heard him even attempt to do that since, what, 2022 when he actually wanted peace, but then the West stopped him.

Speaker 1 Isn't that what England was saying, that they were going to have peace in the skies and the sea?

Speaker 4 Recently? Yeah.

Speaker 1 I think they said that. I think Starmer said that.
That was their theme of that peace thing. Interesting sea change a little bit.

Speaker 1 Did he apologize at all? Not really. You're not going to get Trump.

Speaker 1 You are going to have to make a public apology, I think.

Speaker 4 He said it was regrettable that it happened this way. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's not an apology.

Speaker 1 That's not an apology. Yeah, it's clear.
It's like, I'm sorry if you took it that way. I'm really sorry you felt that.
It's a bit of a non-apology. Right, right, right, right, right, right.

Speaker 4 It's a bit of a non-apology apology. When he says it happened that way, that could be Trump's fault, right? Like, it's regrettable that Trump did this to me.
Right.

Speaker 4 Like, it could mean a lot of different things.

Speaker 1 By the way, I mean, that is the biggest lie, too. We talked about this yesterday, but I mean, it's worth restating.
This is the guy's MO. He has done this to others.
He did it to Joe Biden.

Speaker 1 Remember when Joe Biden was like, you show some respect, you whipper-snapper? He did the same thing to Joe Biden. So this is his MO.

Speaker 4 And Joe was on his side. Yeah.
So, if you pissed him off on this,

Speaker 4 but let's not downplay, this is significant. This is the largest move towards any kind of peace deal we've had since this started.

Speaker 4 I mean, that's good. That's encouraging.
And it's actually kind of smart because he's saying, and I was thinking this back

Speaker 4 several weeks ago, that the biggest thing he should do to appease Trump is to throw out the idea of a ceasefire and see if Russia reciprocates.

Speaker 4 If Russia is willing to reciprocate, then this goes to the table. And it's revealing if they say that.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I will will bet you that

Speaker 1 Rubio is on the phone with his counterpart in Russia right now. Oh, absolutely.
Because that would be huge for the president to announce tonight. Absolutely.
And I want to announce a ceasefire deal.

Speaker 1 Can you imagine?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's pretty

Speaker 1 huge.

Speaker 1 They're going to be working overtime on that one. Yeah.
I can guarantee it. Let's pray.
All right. Thank you very much for breaking in and just wrecking the flow of the show.

Speaker 4 And just come in with any tweets that you want. Anytime, just walk walk in with you.

Speaker 1 Even if you make him up, it's fine. We have no idea of what he just brought.
Josh, you just tweeted this.

Speaker 1 Trudeau is on saying, you know, America, your government is doing this.

Speaker 1 Donald Trump has decided to risk your jobs and chosen to harm your national security.

Speaker 1 I mean, he's a smart guy, but this is a dumb thing for Donald Trump to do. I mean, it's.

Speaker 1 Trudeau is going to look good in his own country for this. This is not good.

Speaker 4 I will say one of the big errors, I think, of this policy and, you know, of all the anti-Canada stuff, 51st state, tariffs, is it's, you know, Trudeau's party was down by about 20 points going into this election.

Speaker 4 They now lead.

Speaker 1 You've got to be kidding.

Speaker 4 I mean, the Conservatives had basically locked this thing up and had a cakewalk. And because of this sort of nationalist fervor that's been kicked up in Canada in a response to the- the.

Speaker 1 I don't know why he did this other than he

Speaker 1 hates Justin Trudeau.

Speaker 4 Well, and he loves these, you know, luckily, he loves tariffs. He told you that I know.

Speaker 1 I know, but this was just a stupid move politically. No, I don't know.
He should have tariffed everything after they had an election. Yeah.
I mean, it was just let he already hung himself. Trudeau.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And, you know, I wouldn't like it if, well, I don't like it when Trudeau is lecturing us on things.
Don't tell me. Screw you.

Speaker 4 Yeah. This is what I think about that.
You know, I'm not a tariff guy. Even hearing him talk about this makes me like, screw you, screw.

Speaker 4 That's where I eat.

Speaker 1 You could be for him and you're like, oh, yeah?

Speaker 1 Well, we're going to double our double tariffs, I'll tell you that. I mean, you just go nuts.

Speaker 4 Yeah, it doesn't, it's not a good idea.

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Speaker 1 So,

Speaker 1 are the Democrats even going to show up tonight?

Speaker 1 Jeffreys is saying, you know, if you're a Democrat, you really should show up. Are they really thinking that they won't show up to this? That's insane.
I think they probably will.

Speaker 4 I mean, remember, you know, one of his, what's this first one where he was talking and then Pelosi ripped up the speech in the background? Yep.

Speaker 1 Stupid.

Speaker 4 I don't know that they've learned anything, certainly, but I don't know that that worked for them last time. It wasn't a great strategy.

Speaker 1 I don't know.

Speaker 1 I think we have a couple of minutes.

Speaker 1 Let's play cut one. This is from the New York Times, and

Speaker 1 they're terrified of the Democrats. They're like, okay, guys, we're more insane than you are, but...

Speaker 1 You're actually saying these things out loud. We've stopped saying them.
Listen to this. Video from the New York Times.

Speaker 1 Democrats, your party leaders have a foolproof plan to stop Trump by boldly doubling down on everything that has never worked before. We will win.

Speaker 1 We won't rest.

Speaker 1 We won't rest.

Speaker 4 And your fellow Dems on social media are doing their part. Congratulations, MAGA.
You got played by Donald Trump again.

Speaker 1 Welcome to the Resistance.

Speaker 1 Trump is screwing over some of his own supporters.

Speaker 18 I voted for President Trump to make America first again.

Speaker 4 You didn't vote for Trump eliminating federal funds.

Speaker 18 No, I did not vote for that.

Speaker 19 During the campaign, they actually told us that he was not going to touch documented people. They used us.

Speaker 1 These regretful Red Hats

Speaker 1 voted for Trump. Are ripe for the taking.

Speaker 4 They regret to support Trump.

Speaker 1 I'm no longer rocking with Trump. So, Democrats, seize the opportunity.

Speaker 6 You didn't listen.

Speaker 1 Follow these examples. I hope that you get everything that you voted for.

Speaker 1 Stop. So this is the New York Times having to produce something saying,

Speaker 1 shut Schumer up.

Speaker 1 Shut all of you lefties up. Shut up.

Speaker 1 It's not going to work.

Speaker 1 You should say, hey, I used to, I voted for Trump, but I didn't vote for this.

Speaker 1 This is the New York Times trying to teach the Democrats. No, but they don't have any bias.

Speaker 1 Trying to teach the Democrats how to win. Now, I'll do that.
I'll do that. But I'm not claiming to be a journalist.

Speaker 4 To be mildly fair to the New York Times here, that is an opinion piece. I agree.
So it is.

Speaker 4 But still, you know,

Speaker 1 it was probably written by all their news reporters.

Speaker 1 They're all like, yeah,

Speaker 1 another thing.

Speaker 4 It's true, though. I mean, this is what their perspective is, right? How do we heal? How do we fix this?

Speaker 4 And it's amazing that at least somebody over there is aware enough to understand because their news coverage does not echo this approach at all.

Speaker 4 The news coverage looks exactly like all the other news coverage, calling him Hitler 5,000 times a day.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 the Democrats, are they going to show up tonight? I know 45 Senate Democrats killed the legislation aimed at preventing trans-identifying males from competing against female athletes. That's crazy.

Speaker 1 45. Nobody stood up? Nobody.

Speaker 1 Nobody stood up and said, guys,

Speaker 1 guys,

Speaker 1 this is not.

Speaker 1 You say you're for women. How is this? You're taking scholarships away from women who that was what they trained for their whole life to be able to get a scholarship on this.

Speaker 1 And you've just taken that away.

Speaker 1 That's not for women.

Speaker 1 Look at the women who are being hurt because that's a dude.

Speaker 1 Nobody, nobody's willing to really stand up and lead the way on this with any kind of credibility with the Democrats.

Speaker 4 It appears too that Peyton McNabb, she's a 19-year-old who was left with a traumatic brain injury after

Speaker 4 a trans man spiked a volleyball into her head. She's going to be there

Speaker 4 for tonight's speech as a special guest of President Trump.

Speaker 4 So that's a big

Speaker 1 Democrats only seem to care about women if they're killing their baby or they're a sex worker if you're a sex worker

Speaker 4 hey you got it not bodies for sports no i'm not going to protect your body if you want to play sports but if you want to be a sex worker i'm there i'm there to give you legal protection that's insane really revealing moment at the oscars uh the other night oh yeah oh yeah mikey madison who's the actress who won best actress for anora it's a movie about a sex worker and it's i guess i have not seen it, but it's supposed to be like a, you know, sort of like dramedy type of situation, kind of kind of funny or whatever.

Speaker 4 But like, of course, when she makes the speech, she

Speaker 4 comes out and talks about how, like, it can't just be like, hey, we made an entertaining movie with me having sex on screen for 45 consecutive minutes. It can't just be that.

Speaker 4 It has to be, hey, there's a real point behind this. And the real point is that we have to make sex work into real work.

Speaker 1 Let me quote. I also just want to, again, recognize and honor the sex worker community.
I'll continue to support and be an ally all of the incredible people.

Speaker 1 The women that I had the privilege of meeting from that community has been one of the highlights of this entire incredible experience. So you love the sex workers,

Speaker 1 which is so damaging to women. So damaging.
Damaging.

Speaker 4 What's the intersection of this and Me Too Avenue?

Speaker 1 How many cars are piled up there? They never intersect. They never intersect.

Speaker 1 They never intersect.

Speaker 4 I love, too, she said, Glenn, that she had prepared for this role for six months. Are you saying you were a prostitute for six months?

Speaker 1 Is that what you're saying? I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 How? Yeah, and by the way, keep standing up for Lily Phillips, the woman who had sex with a thousand guys. Oh, she's perfectly fine after all of that.

Speaker 4 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 She's pregnant, too, isn't she?

Speaker 1 Good for her.

Speaker 4 Growing families.

Speaker 1 Well, if she has that child, they're going to hate her. She's got to kill it.

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Speaker 1 This is the Glen Beck program. Taking your phone calls today.
Want to know what you want to hear from Donald Trump today? Let's go to North Carolina and Brandon. Hello, Brandon.

Speaker 8 Hey, Glenn, how are you doing?

Speaker 1 I'm great. How are you?

Speaker 9 I'm good. First time caller, first time getting through.

Speaker 1 Good. Thank you.

Speaker 7 So

Speaker 8 you just touched on it. I definitely want to hear Trump talk about the bill that was just proposed proposed that every Democrat voted no on.

Speaker 9 I have a nine-year-old daughter who plays soccer.

Speaker 9 And the last thing I want is for

Speaker 8 the puberty-age boys to start integrating.

Speaker 1 I mean, what could possibly go wrong, Brandon? Right, right.

Speaker 8 They could just run her over, kick her in the face,

Speaker 9 which could happen with girls, but it's a little different than there's a boy running down the field.

Speaker 1 It is.

Speaker 1 I am shocked that the Democrats are still holding on to this, but they did, and he is going to talk about it tonight.

Speaker 1 And I hope he is hard on Congress, not just on the Democrats, but on the Republicans. They have got to get their crap together and start moving.
It's 40 days in. He has moved mountains.

Speaker 1 He's done stuff in 40 days that... I haven't seen presidents do in an entire term, but he has to have Congress.
And the Republicans better get their crap together.

Speaker 1 Thanks for your call, Ron in Missouri. Hello, Ron.

Speaker 10 Hey, Glenn. I would really like to hear less of the always overconfident Donald Trump as the entertainer and the politician and the campaigner and more of a humble leader in the

Speaker 10 echo of Winston Churchill.

Speaker 10 I think this moment in

Speaker 10 our country needs the speech that all he's got to offer us is blood, sweat, toil, and tears. And I think it has the real potential to unite people behind him.

Speaker 10 If he's frank, that both parties for

Speaker 10 really all my lifetime have been digging this hole. And it's going to take a lot of work and a lot of sacrifice on all of our parts to get out of this.

Speaker 10 Not this, you know, pie in the sky. I'm going to fix everything my first day.

Speaker 10 Golden age of everything

Speaker 10 talk. I think frank reality and humble call to action would be really helpful.

Speaker 1 So could I compromise with you here, Ron? Because I don't mind the president coming in and saying, you hired me to stop illegal immigration.

Speaker 1 We're down to the lowest illegal immigration since I think 1968.

Speaker 1 We have done that, and we're still doing more, and we're deporting them. I have made great progress on many things and line them out, but then come to the economy.

Speaker 1 I got to be straight with you on the economy. This is going to be tough and I will work my butt off.
I will be there every second of the day. You've seen me.
I sleep three hours a day.

Speaker 1 I will give you everything, but I need Congress to do their part on this.

Speaker 1 But we're in this together.

Speaker 1 Would you be okay with that compromise where he ⁇ because he's going to be Donald Trump?

Speaker 10 Yeah, no, I don't disagree with what you're saying there. And more than just on the economy, I think he needs to have a call to action for rooting out corruption.
Yes.

Speaker 10 But I agree. He's got to tout what he has done and the steps he is taking.
I've got no problem with that. Just

Speaker 10 people need a realistic view that this isn't going to happen without pain.

Speaker 1 Correct. Correct.
Ron, thank you very much. I'm glad to know you know that.
Philip, Minnesota. Hello, Philip.

Speaker 14 Hey, Glenn, I'd like to see Trump go old school Glenn Beck from the Fox days and just do some straightforward PowerPoints.

Speaker 1 List out here's every

Speaker 14 here is everything the Democrat Party and the Biden regime did to get us to this situation.

Speaker 9 Here's everything I plan to do to counter that.

Speaker 14 Call Congress out, say, look, I can't make Congress act,

Speaker 14 but if they fail to act for the American people come midterms, you can ensure that they do by voting them out.

Speaker 1 Simple as that. That's very good.
Thank you very much, Philip. Carl, North Carolina.

Speaker 7 I'd love to hear Donald Trump say something that no president or congressman has ever said, and that is that the people with a capital P, highest office in the land, dutiful remnant, has the responsibility and the duty that's mentioned in the Constitution to enforce our Constitution.

Speaker 7 And that will accomplish at least as much as Donald Trump and any other politician have accomplished.

Speaker 1 I agree. I agree.
That would be great for him to say. I could see him saying that, maybe not tonight, but I could see him saying that.
I've heard him say it is up to the people.

Speaker 1 You know, he can only do so much constitutionally. It is really up to us.

Speaker 1 You know, that was one of the things I hated on Joe Biden's first speech that he gave eight years ago, the same night.

Speaker 1 He gave it, and remember, everybody was sitting like six feet apart, and there were very few people there, and they were all wearing masks.

Speaker 1 And he looked right at Schumer and all the others and said, We've come through this because of you.

Speaker 1 And he wasn't talking to the American people. He was talking about the people in the room.

Speaker 1 He was talking about the politicians, and he did that several times.

Speaker 1 And it, it made, I mean, it made the hair stand up on my neck because I've never heard a president say it that way before, where, you know, oh, it's up to you.

Speaker 1 I've heard that a million times when he's talking about the people. But I'd like to hear a president, and I know Donald Trump does believe this, that it is up to you.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 really everything that's been done is in spite of the people, for the most part, that are sitting there in Congress or the Senate.

Speaker 1 Thanks for your call. Let me take one more here.
It's Jake in Iowa. Actually, I have more time.
I'll take a couple. Go ahead, Jake.

Speaker 9 Greetings from Iowa, Glenn. Maybe two things I'd like to see Mr.

Speaker 9 President say tonight is as far as Doge uncovering this fraud and misuse of funds, I would love for him to say that they're going to prosecute to the fullest extent possible anybody who is caught funneling money.

Speaker 9 And I'm talking like a la Elliott Ness, where we use repo or some obscure laws and just punish them because this is the taxpayers' money and we have to discourage this terrible behavior of the nonprofits and whatnot.

Speaker 9 That's number one. Number two, I would like to hear him say that he's going to lift the social security cap.

Speaker 9 Right now, it's like at $168,000 or whatever. Once you earn more money than that a year,

Speaker 9 they don't withhold Social Security from your check. And I don't know why that limit was put in there.
Maybe you have a reason for that.

Speaker 1 Yeah, because you're not getting more than that out. Everybody pays their fair share.
If you have to pay up to that, if you make more, more,

Speaker 1 why are you taxed

Speaker 1 so much more? Because this was supposed to be an insurance policy for people just like you. And so,

Speaker 1 you know, it's...

Speaker 4 No, it wasn't, but I know what you're saying. Yeah, I know that.

Speaker 1 I know that.

Speaker 4 That's the outward theory.

Speaker 1 That was the outward theory. And quite honestly, as somebody who does hit that cap,

Speaker 1 I don't like it. I mean,

Speaker 1 I don't mind paying my fair share, but you know what? I pay a lot in taxes and I pay a lot more than

Speaker 1 most people, and I don't bitch and complain about it. It is something that is necessary.
I bitch and complain that they have wasted my money.

Speaker 1 And quite honestly, I am at the point when I see Doge, it makes me want to say F you to

Speaker 1 the IRS. You're not getting another damn dime from me.
You're stealing this money, okay?

Speaker 1 Because I don't want to contribute to almost anything that you're spending it on. And no, that's the way I really feel.
So,

Speaker 1 you know, I'm not for higher taxes on anybody. Yeah, I would say.

Speaker 4 I would love to hear him say we're repealing the payroll tax.

Speaker 4 Full-fledged, gone. I would love that.
That would be a great tax because to

Speaker 4 the point, first of all, everybody feels that tax if you have a job.

Speaker 1 Secondly, you know when you feel it?

Speaker 4 It's regressive. Yeah, God.

Speaker 1 The only time you ever feel it is when you first start working.

Speaker 1 Every kid says the same thing.

Speaker 1 They're taking what? Yeah. Okay.

Speaker 1 You lose that because you just get used to it. That's why you should repeal the payroll tax.
Yep.

Speaker 1 No, you should feel it because there would be a revolution in this country. Absolute revolution.

Speaker 1 Let me go to Mike. Hello, Mike.

Speaker 1 Hey, how are you doing, Glenn? I'm great.

Speaker 15 I would love to hear Donald Trump say Russia and the United States are going to engage in another round of nuclear disarmament.

Speaker 15 And we're going to use some of that savings from the deep state to rebuild our highways, our bridges, our electric grid system, and do what Eisenhower did.

Speaker 1 So I think you're going to actually get some of that. I think Donald Trump does want to have that conversation with

Speaker 1 China and Russia and the rest of the world about reduction of our nukes. He really does not like them.
He knows what they really are.

Speaker 1 And we are going to get our grid rebuilt. It has to happen because of AI.
We have to have a new grid. How long will that take? I don't know, but I think that will begin under Donald Trump.

Speaker 1 One more thing on the last call when he says,

Speaker 1 the last call said, I really want to hear the president say, I'm going after these people.

Speaker 1 The problem with that is there's been two, I think, missteps, and they've happened in the last week. There's been two missteps and only two by this presidency.

Speaker 1 The first one was last week, and I don't believe it was Zelensky. The first one was with the DOJ, with Pam Bondi, and the release or the non-release of Epstein.

Speaker 1 That was the first time I thought, oh, wow, maybe they're not serious.

Speaker 1 Then they came out last night and said, There's a truckload of files that were on its way by that deadline Friday.

Speaker 1 Okay, well, is that a truckload like you ever see?

Speaker 1 You know, on you watch some, you know, law show and they're like, Yeah, they just filled the conference room with boxes of papers just to stall and keep you busy looking in a needle in a haystack.

Speaker 1 Is that what that is? So he's he's because of that misstep last week, they have have hurt themselves on being able to say, and we're going to punish the bad guys.

Speaker 1 The other misstep is what's happening right now with the tariffs. The economy is going down, and we've got real problems, and it's not because of Donald Trump.

Speaker 1 He's got to focus not on Canada and responding to Canada on tariffs. He should be saying tonight, and that should be the only thing that he has to worry about, Congress,

Speaker 1 stop spending. Give me, pass the first budget.
This is so amazing. I have to say this, and I can't believe it's true every time you do say this.
Pass the first federal budget since 2008.

Speaker 1 Pass a budget that I can sign and cut your damn spending, period. All right, back in just a minute.

Speaker 1 So I was watching Victor

Speaker 1 yesterday. He's my German shepherd.

Speaker 1 Sorry, Victor, I was thinking, my last dog,

Speaker 1 because he's so much like Victor Uno.

Speaker 1 Five years ago, I saw Uno

Speaker 1 turn back time.

Speaker 1 He went back to being a puppy again, and he did it,

Speaker 1 I think, because of rough greens. He never ran to his bowl, ever, never.

Speaker 1 And he would, he was like running around the house playing. He was like a puppy again, and he would run.
He still runs to his bowl when I put rough greens in.

Speaker 1 I mean, well, he, maybe a determined shuffle is more what he's got.

Speaker 1 But he's getting to the age now, he's already older than any of my other German shepherds. And I thought I was going to lose him last summer.
And

Speaker 1 I hope I'm wrong like I was last summer, but I might lose him this summer.

Speaker 1 And he'll be the last German Shepherd that we have.

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Speaker 1 They are so loyal. They're so good.

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Speaker 1 I got to read this tweet that just came out from Vladimir Lewinsky. Or Lewinsky, Zelensky.

Speaker 1 Wow. Under the desk with President Trump, I guess.
Anyway, he said, I would like to reiterate Ukraine's commitment to peace. None of us wants an endless war.

Speaker 1 Ukraine is ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible to bring lasting peace closer. Nobody wants peace more than Ukrainians.

Speaker 1 My team and I stand ready to work under President Trump's strong leadership to get that peace that lasts. We're ready to work fast and end the war.

Speaker 1 And the first stages could be the release of prisoners and a truce in the sky and to ban missiles, long-range drones, bombs on energy and other civilian infrastructure, and a truce in the sea immediately if Russia will do the same.

Speaker 1 Then we want to move very fast through all the next stages to work with the U.S. U.S.
to agree to a strong final deal.

Speaker 1 We do really value how much America has done to help Ukraine maintain its sovereignty and independence.

Speaker 1 We do remember the moment when things changed for us when President Trump provided Ukraine with javelins, and we are grateful for this.

Speaker 1 Our meeting in Washington at the White House on Friday did not go the way it was supposed to go. It's regrettable that it happened this way.
It's time to make things right.

Speaker 1 We would like future cooperation and communication to be constructive. Regarding the agreement on minerals and security, Ukraine is ready

Speaker 1 to sign it at any time and in any convenient format. We see this agreement as a step toward greater security and solid security guarantees, and I hope it will work effectively.

Speaker 1 Donald Trump should do this even if Ukraine only has a fax machine.

Speaker 1 Should get that agreement signed before tonight.

Speaker 4 Interesting.

Speaker 4 He still said security guarantees, which was kind of what started the

Speaker 1 agreement as a step towards greater security. It's a step towards, though,

Speaker 4 which is good. I mean, that was what it was supposed to be, just a step toward something potentially in the future.

Speaker 4 And I do think, you know, just having Americans there or American interests in the country does help their guaranteed security.

Speaker 1 That's what Donald Trump has been saying to him. Agreed.
So, anyway, all right. We will see you tonight, 6:30

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