1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:02,480 Speaker 1: It's the Hammer and Nigel Show. My name is Nigel. 2 00:00:02,560 --> 00:00:07,400 Speaker 1: Jason Hammer is here. Also on the hotline, Breitbart's White 3 00:00:07,440 --> 00:00:10,600 Speaker 1: House correspondent Nick gilbertson, it's kind of cool to hear 4 00:00:10,640 --> 00:00:15,680 Speaker 1: the president to call your name during those press conferences sometimes, Nick, 5 00:00:15,760 --> 00:00:17,599 Speaker 1: welcome to the show. How are you. 6 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:20,320 Speaker 2: I'm doing great now. I fel great to be here. 7 00:00:20,360 --> 00:00:24,279 Speaker 2: And yet it's very cool to have my name called 8 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:25,119 Speaker 2: out by the president. 9 00:00:25,239 --> 00:00:29,360 Speaker 1: So people are still talking about his big speech wednesday. 10 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:31,760 Speaker 1: I thought it was clear and concise and quick. It 11 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:35,519 Speaker 1: almost sounded like a twenty twenty six mid term campaign speech. 12 00:00:36,440 --> 00:00:39,040 Speaker 1: Before we get to the speech. What was the median 13 00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:42,680 Speaker 1: narrative coming into that speech versus what we actually heard 14 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:44,240 Speaker 1: the President speak about. 15 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:48,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, I think well the narrative, you know, a lot 16 00:00:48,040 --> 00:00:51,360 Speaker 2: of networks and such were kind of expecting maybe something 17 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:55,279 Speaker 2: regarding Venezuela, and you know, of course that's not at 18 00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:57,480 Speaker 2: all what the President talked about. As the President went 19 00:00:57,520 --> 00:01:00,360 Speaker 2: in and kind of talked about, you know, the that's 20 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:05,400 Speaker 2: he inherited and where you know things are going, whether 21 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:08,120 Speaker 2: it be in terms of immigration or the economy, and 22 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:11,920 Speaker 2: the progress he's kind of made. And I think that 23 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:16,640 Speaker 2: was a you know, quite a solid strategy by the 24 00:01:16,680 --> 00:01:19,119 Speaker 2: president to go in there and kind of make his 25 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:20,120 Speaker 2: his case about all this. 26 00:01:20,360 --> 00:01:23,160 Speaker 1: Well, another host on our station made a great point, 27 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:27,240 Speaker 1: a Donald Trump. It truly is a master manipulator of 28 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:29,959 Speaker 1: the corporate legacy media, is he not? 29 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:33,160 Speaker 2: No, he's a genius when he comes when it comes 30 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:36,560 Speaker 2: to it, he runs circles around all of them. Absolutely, 31 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:40,000 Speaker 2: and he gets it right. He's an entertainer and that's 32 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:42,160 Speaker 2: where he got to start, was on you know, network 33 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:45,600 Speaker 2: television to get the number one rated show and The Apprentice. 34 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:48,960 Speaker 2: So he gets it. He knows how the use executives operate, 35 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:51,920 Speaker 2: he knows, you know, what draws an audience, he knows 36 00:01:51,960 --> 00:01:54,720 Speaker 2: how to how to work them all to So absolutely 37 00:01:54,720 --> 00:01:55,480 Speaker 2: I agree. 38 00:01:55,160 --> 00:01:58,240 Speaker 1: With that, right Bart white House correspondent Nick Gilbertson here 39 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:01,680 Speaker 1: on The Hammer Nigel Show. So you're overall analysis of 40 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:05,840 Speaker 1: his eighteen minute speech on Wednesday. What did we learn 41 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:09,200 Speaker 1: and was there anything that you weren't expecting that happened 42 00:02:09,320 --> 00:02:11,720 Speaker 1: that made you say, oh wow, I didn't see that 43 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:12,160 Speaker 1: one coming. 44 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:16,600 Speaker 2: I think for me, he went in there with the 45 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:21,200 Speaker 2: mission of you know, explaining it and showing that look, 46 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:23,760 Speaker 2: I inherited a mess I think that's the first thing 47 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:27,560 Speaker 2: he said, and I'm fixing it. And I think there 48 00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:30,080 Speaker 2: was a giant focus on the economy. And that's so quick. 49 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:32,080 Speaker 2: You know, we have such a short term memory. We 50 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:36,080 Speaker 2: forget the damage that Biden did to this country and 51 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:39,000 Speaker 2: the policies that Biden and a Democrat House and the 52 00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:42,360 Speaker 2: Democrats Senate at least the first two years imposed on 53 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:45,600 Speaker 2: this country with their masses spending and all these different things, 54 00:02:45,639 --> 00:02:48,840 Speaker 2: and opening the border wide open. So you know, President 55 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:52,399 Speaker 2: Trump he went out and highlighted that through Biden's term, 56 00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:56,720 Speaker 2: the typical worker lost about three thousand dollars in wages, 57 00:02:57,400 --> 00:03:02,120 Speaker 2: and you know, and well, essentially Biden oversaw a wage 58 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:05,639 Speaker 2: decrease and a massive price increase. We're seeing the inverse 59 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:08,960 Speaker 2: of that under President Trump. But I think that there 60 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:12,280 Speaker 2: was so much damage done under Biden, and time takes time. 61 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:15,560 Speaker 2: You know. The president has certainly stopped the bleeding and 62 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:19,280 Speaker 2: is churning things out the other direction. But again it's 63 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:22,440 Speaker 2: taking some time. But so the typical worker under Trump, 64 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:26,040 Speaker 2: whereas they lost three thousand dollars in wages under Biden, 65 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:29,360 Speaker 2: they're up over one thousand dollars in wages, and blue 66 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:32,840 Speaker 2: collar workers specifically. You know, miners are up thirty three 67 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 2: hundred wages, construction workers are up eighteen hundred wages. Factory 68 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:39,880 Speaker 2: workers are up thirteen hundred dollars in wages under Trump. 69 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:44,120 Speaker 2: So that's one thing. And then you know, again Biden 70 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:48,360 Speaker 2: sent up We got you know, inflation unseen since the 71 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:52,000 Speaker 2: harder administration, right, you know, forty five, forty eight years. 72 00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:56,400 Speaker 2: And yeah, so I mean, you know, hotel prices were 73 00:03:56,480 --> 00:04:00,560 Speaker 2: up thirty seven percent under Biden. Under Trump so far, 74 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:03,040 Speaker 2: you know, just in ten months, they're down five point 75 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:05,960 Speaker 2: one percent. New and used cars and part of this 76 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:10,920 Speaker 2: was some of those cafas standards, you know, and admission standards, 77 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:14,640 Speaker 2: and the push to electric vehicles that Biden was literally 78 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:18,279 Speaker 2: forcing on the private sector and these auto companies. We 79 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:22,120 Speaker 2: saw a thirty eight percent increase in car prices. Trump's 80 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:26,279 Speaker 2: over overseen a five percent decreases or rather a twenty 81 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:29,719 Speaker 2: two percent increase in car prices under Biden. Trump's overseeing 82 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:32,880 Speaker 2: a half a percent decrease. You know, Gasoline up big 83 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:38,400 Speaker 2: under Biden, dropping under Trump. Airfare, same story, sports tickets, 84 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:41,760 Speaker 2: drug prices too, and and the thing about drug prices 85 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:44,240 Speaker 2: to Nigel, I would say they're down half a percent 86 00:04:44,279 --> 00:04:47,200 Speaker 2: that Trump's taken office. But in the past couple of 87 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:51,600 Speaker 2: months he's cut deals with five major drug companies here, okay, 88 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:53,520 Speaker 2: and these are all going to go into effect in 89 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:57,120 Speaker 2: January through like the Trump New Trump our X website 90 00:04:57,160 --> 00:05:01,200 Speaker 2: coming out, So you know, whether it be like a 91 00:05:01,279 --> 00:05:04,680 Speaker 2: drug like wago via ozempic, right they're going to drop 92 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:07,640 Speaker 2: down to three hundred and fifty dollars a month, and 93 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:10,400 Speaker 2: I know ozempic right now costs one thousand dollars a month, 94 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:12,520 Speaker 2: and that's going to be across a range of judge. 95 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:15,279 Speaker 2: So I think President Chump went out made his case 96 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:18,839 Speaker 2: about you know, how I didn't essentially wreck the economy 97 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:22,600 Speaker 2: and other staff that's of America and he inherited a 98 00:05:22,640 --> 00:05:24,840 Speaker 2: mess and he's working to straighten it out right now. 99 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:27,320 Speaker 1: And I thought, I mean, I was genius him talking 100 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:31,120 Speaker 1: about how positive the economy is. He knew inflation, he 101 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:34,200 Speaker 1: knew the news about the inflation numbers coming out the 102 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:35,760 Speaker 1: next day was going to happen, didn't he. 103 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:39,760 Speaker 2: Oh? Absolutely, yeah, I think two point seven percent. Yes, 104 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:40,880 Speaker 2: that's great. 105 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:43,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, Hey let me ask you, let me switch gears. 106 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:45,719 Speaker 1: Here is just a little bit we're speaking with brait 107 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:48,520 Speaker 1: Bart's White House correspondent Nick Gilbertson. You spend a lot 108 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:52,039 Speaker 1: of time around the president. I've again, I've heard him 109 00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:55,520 Speaker 1: call on you during press conferences. How is he physically? 110 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:59,120 Speaker 1: Because I was just watching CNN and the same goofy 111 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:03,720 Speaker 1: doctor said Joe Biden was fine, is now saying Trump 112 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:07,120 Speaker 1: is not fit for office? How is he physically? How 113 00:06:07,279 --> 00:06:09,760 Speaker 1: is he mentally? What have you noticed being in the 114 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:10,719 Speaker 1: same room with him? 115 00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:14,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, the President is great physically and mentally every time 116 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:17,120 Speaker 2: I see him. And it's kind of amazing this willful 117 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:21,320 Speaker 2: ignorance that all of the establishment media took up under Biden, 118 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:24,000 Speaker 2: you know, see no eble, hear no evil, kind of 119 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:26,360 Speaker 2: just bury their heads in the sand when the guy's 120 00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:29,560 Speaker 2: falling downstairs. I think there was this New York Times 121 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:33,000 Speaker 2: reporter too that wrote this big article like and the 122 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:37,800 Speaker 2: headline was something like Biden doing great after falling upstairs, 123 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:40,760 Speaker 2: and then she writes this story, you know, I think 124 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:45,560 Speaker 2: Katie Rogers is her name, going after Trump essentially saying 125 00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:48,800 Speaker 2: he's he's not as active as he was in his 126 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:51,960 Speaker 2: first term. And the guy literally is running circles twenty 127 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:54,920 Speaker 2: four to seven, you know, three almost three hundred and 128 00:06:54,960 --> 00:06:58,719 Speaker 2: sixty five days a year at this point, just constantly going. 129 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:03,000 Speaker 2: He talks to the media essentially every day every He's 130 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:07,880 Speaker 2: had nine cabinet meetings. All of them have been fully televised, right, 131 00:07:08,200 --> 00:07:11,040 Speaker 2: and they go about three hours anywhere from two to 132 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:14,680 Speaker 2: four hours. Oh yeah. And you know what's insane is 133 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:17,920 Speaker 2: Biden had nine cabinet meetings in four years. Comes that 134 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:24,080 Speaker 2: nine and ten months, right, So it's really something you 135 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:27,400 Speaker 2: know how the left is just is trying to go 136 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:30,520 Speaker 2: and make this an issue when it's not even close 137 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:32,400 Speaker 2: to it's not an issue at all. 138 00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:35,960 Speaker 1: Well, you know what, the Democrats seem pretty confident in 139 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:38,440 Speaker 1: their success for the twenty six mid terms. Do they 140 00:07:38,520 --> 00:07:41,360 Speaker 1: have reason to be other than the fact that the 141 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:45,720 Speaker 1: seats tend to flip after a new president elected, you 142 00:07:45,760 --> 00:07:49,360 Speaker 1: know this time for the second time. Who do the 143 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:53,720 Speaker 1: Democrats have on their bench for twenty twenty eight. That's 144 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:56,840 Speaker 1: something that Alex Marlow and I talked about a couple 145 00:07:56,880 --> 00:07:59,880 Speaker 1: of weeks ago. I'm just curious, a do they have 146 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:02,720 Speaker 1: reason to be cocky for the twenty six midterms? And 147 00:08:02,760 --> 00:08:04,320 Speaker 1: who is on their bench for twenty eight? 148 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:07,560 Speaker 2: Well, it's funny to me because the two leaders of 149 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:10,840 Speaker 2: the Democrat Party, in my opinion, can't run for president there. 150 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:14,680 Speaker 2: In my opinion, they're Barack Obama, who's turned out, and 151 00:08:14,680 --> 00:08:17,400 Speaker 2: then it's Zorron Mamdani who can't run because he's not 152 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:21,720 Speaker 2: a naturalized citizen, right yeah in New York. Yeah yeah, 153 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:25,040 Speaker 2: So they have that major problem going for themselves. And 154 00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:26,600 Speaker 2: then you look at the rest of the bench. I 155 00:08:26,640 --> 00:08:30,280 Speaker 2: don't know if Middle America wants to vote for California's 156 00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:32,960 Speaker 2: governor and Gavin Newsom and how what you know, the 157 00:08:33,040 --> 00:08:36,200 Speaker 2: track record he has over there in the Golden State 158 00:08:36,640 --> 00:08:40,040 Speaker 2: and kind of nationalize that. I don't think that's you know, 159 00:08:40,080 --> 00:08:42,959 Speaker 2: I don't think America necessarily has an appetite for that. 160 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:45,960 Speaker 2: I don't think I don't know if Gretchen Whitmer has 161 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:49,160 Speaker 2: the chops, and I've seen Tom Harris winning polling, and 162 00:08:49,240 --> 00:08:51,960 Speaker 2: you know, you also have AOC who's like as far 163 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:54,559 Speaker 2: left as you can get. I really don't think they 164 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:57,199 Speaker 2: have a very good bench. And you know, I think 165 00:08:57,240 --> 00:08:59,800 Speaker 2: they're trying so hard to win the messaging war and 166 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:04,920 Speaker 2: saddled these these problems that Biden inflicted on the country 167 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:07,760 Speaker 2: onto Trump and make that part of Trump's record and 168 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:10,560 Speaker 2: I think that's you know, you saw pushback from the 169 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:13,760 Speaker 2: President on that narrative the other night, and you know 170 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:16,720 Speaker 2: Democrats they they did they were up a little bit 171 00:09:16,760 --> 00:09:21,840 Speaker 2: in the overall congressional ballot, you know, the generic congressional ballot, 172 00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:25,480 Speaker 2: and real, real clear politics is like pole polls as 173 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:28,600 Speaker 2: of earlier this month data five point five percent lead. 174 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:31,640 Speaker 2: That's down to two point seven percent as of you 175 00:09:31,679 --> 00:09:34,960 Speaker 2: know yesterday, in two weeks. That's dropped there. And I 176 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:38,120 Speaker 2: think I think the big thing is, you know, the 177 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:41,439 Speaker 2: President and the Treasury Secretary have kind of like talked 178 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:44,600 Speaker 2: about too, and they've kind of laid down, you know, 179 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:48,440 Speaker 2: engineered this framework here in the first year for some 180 00:09:48,559 --> 00:09:51,839 Speaker 2: serious economic relief. And I think first you're going to 181 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:54,280 Speaker 2: see that in some of those drug prices that I 182 00:09:54,320 --> 00:09:57,520 Speaker 2: was just talking about coming in January, and then you're 183 00:09:57,520 --> 00:09:59,800 Speaker 2: going to see it big time in tax season two. 184 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:03,960 Speaker 2: I think you know, there's been estimates. I think the 185 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:07,520 Speaker 2: House Ways and Means Committee posted something almost two hundred 186 00:10:07,640 --> 00:10:11,160 Speaker 2: billion dollars in net new tax relief next year that 187 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:14,719 Speaker 2: could you know, increase tax filers. You know a lot 188 00:10:14,760 --> 00:10:19,080 Speaker 2: of people refunds by one thousand dollars. Secretary besn't said 189 00:10:19,160 --> 00:10:23,240 Speaker 2: on December tenth, you know that it could be anywhere 190 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:26,400 Speaker 2: from one thousand to two thousand dollars a household and refunds. 191 00:10:26,760 --> 00:10:29,400 Speaker 2: So it looks to me that these are going to be, 192 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:32,760 Speaker 2: you know, major factors, and I think, you know, come 193 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:35,480 Speaker 2: that time, we're going to have a good idea of 194 00:10:35,559 --> 00:10:38,400 Speaker 2: where the mid terms are potentially going to go. And 195 00:10:38,440 --> 00:10:43,120 Speaker 2: I think, I think, yeah, so this forthcoming relief here 196 00:10:43,160 --> 00:10:46,839 Speaker 2: for Americans is going to be a big determinant in 197 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:48,439 Speaker 2: how things go in twenty eight. 198 00:10:48,760 --> 00:10:53,400 Speaker 1: Well, Nick, we're speaking with Nick gilbertson Breitbart's White House Correspondent. 199 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:56,640 Speaker 1: This will be the last time we speak to anybody 200 00:10:56,679 --> 00:10:59,920 Speaker 1: from Breitbart this year twenty twenty five. Looking forward to 201 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:03,920 Speaker 1: twenty twenty six and having you and your co workers 202 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:07,760 Speaker 1: back on again for another exciting year. You do amazing work, 203 00:11:07,760 --> 00:11:09,880 Speaker 1: and I do think it's cool when I hear the 204 00:11:09,920 --> 00:11:12,360 Speaker 1: President call your name and some of these press conferences. 205 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:15,280 Speaker 1: I'm going there, Gilbert said, Bredbart befriend of the show, 206 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:19,400 Speaker 1: been on a million times. So Merry Christmas, Happy New 207 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:21,800 Speaker 1: Year to you and your staff, and thank you for 208 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:23,920 Speaker 1: all the hard work that you do over there at 209 00:11:23,920 --> 00:11:24,760 Speaker 1: Breitbart dot. 210 00:11:24,640 --> 00:11:28,160 Speaker 2: Com Nigel, thanks for having us, all of us at Breitbart. 211 00:11:28,160 --> 00:11:31,000 Speaker 2: Love coming on with you guys, and Merry Christmas, Happy 212 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:33,480 Speaker 2: New Year to you Hammer and all of the listeners 213 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:33,840 Speaker 2: as well.