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Speaker 1: Going to be.
Speaker 3: And the big, big interview that I've been promoting or
Speaker 3: teasing all week actually happened. Everything went perfect and it
Speaker 3: could not have been better. Like everything was exactly the
Speaker 3: way I had hoped that it would be, and actually
Speaker 3: even wound up being better because I got way more
Speaker 3: time than I had anticipated. But the interview is with
Speaker 3: what I consider the third most important person in Washington,
Speaker 3: d c. President Trump won, Marco Rubio number two, and
Speaker 3: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant number three. You see him on
Speaker 3: a lot of the Sunday talk shows, you see him
Speaker 3: on a lot of news outlets because he's a very
Speaker 3: important man.
Speaker 1: And I will tell you this.
Speaker 3: He's in Ashville, and that's where I'm coming to you
Speaker 3: from the Growth Park Inn in Asheville, North Carolina. Because
Speaker 3: in three weeks the G twenty Financial Summit, where the
Speaker 3: top twenty economic country from all over the world will
Speaker 3: gather and descend upon Asheville, North Carolina for a four
Speaker 3: day economic summit and it will be done at the
Speaker 3: end of the month. And he was a Scott Bessant
Speaker 3: was in Asheville today and I was able to secure
Speaker 3: an interview with him and we met for about twenty
Speaker 3: five minutes or so today and it was great.
Speaker 1: And so you're gonna hear my interview.
Speaker 3: That exclusive interview with the Treasury Secretary Scott Bessett again,
Speaker 3: who I think is the third most important person in
Speaker 3: all of Washington, DC. So here's how my interview went
Speaker 3: earlier today with the Secretary Scott Bessant.
Speaker 4: Thank you for taking the time to do this. I
Speaker 4: know you're extremely busy man.
Speaker 5: Just a month out from the G twenty summit finance
Speaker 5: summit here in Asheville.
Speaker 4: Why Asheville of all places.
Speaker 2: Look, I have historical roots to the area. I grew
Speaker 2: up as a child coming to Saluta in Flat Rock.
Speaker 2: I actually have a house in Jackson County.
Speaker 6: But when I the first of all, I want.
Speaker 2: To showcase Asheville to the world is good. I love
Speaker 2: the Blue Ridge Mountains and last year the Canadians had
Speaker 2: the G seventh Summit and the Canadian Rockies, so I thought, well,
Speaker 2: we'll see the Rockies raise at the Blue Ridge. And
Speaker 2: also I want to show Ashville the resilience. And you
Speaker 2: know Ashville and the whole area, it's it's the comeback
Speaker 2: city that everybody after the tragedy September twenty four, people
Speaker 2: are resilient. The US government Trump administration, we put over
Speaker 2: five billion dollars into western North Carolina for the recovery.
Speaker 2: And we want to showcase the beauty of the area.
Speaker 2: But the resilience of the people.
Speaker 4: What kind of economic boosts do you do you think
Speaker 4: this will have here?
Speaker 5: Because you just mentioned you will be one month away
Speaker 5: from the two year anniversary when you have the summit here.
Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly. So I think there will be two parts
Speaker 6: of this is one will be.
Speaker 2: The actual under lying benefits, millions of dollars created. We're
Speaker 2: going to have about one hundred and seventy people here
Speaker 2: traveling from all over the world. The G twenty group,
Speaker 2: which is a group of countries to get together at
Speaker 2: the leader level, so the President, Secretary of State, and
Speaker 2: Secretary of the Treasure of Finance minister level three times
Speaker 2: a year. But there are other meetings for working groups,
Speaker 2: and it really convenes. It is a forum to discuss ideas,
Speaker 2: to put forth new ideas, to try to interdict any
Speaker 2: problems before they happen. So there will be the direct
Speaker 2: effect of all those people, whether they're flying.
Speaker 6: Into Charlotte from all over the world.
Speaker 2: And then driving up or coming into Ashville Airport, which
Speaker 2: I landed up last night.
Speaker 6: I hadn't seen it.
Speaker 2: The new improvements look great, they look great, but then
Speaker 2: there's going to be the effect people all around the world.
Speaker 2: I think we have more than three hundred journalists coming,
Speaker 2: so you know, we're here at the historic Grove Park
Speaker 2: inn and a lot of times if there are historic agreements,
Speaker 2: it takes the name of the agreement. You know, we
Speaker 2: talk about the Louis Accord, the Plaza Accord, when we
Speaker 2: think about certain summits, whether they were at Jekyl Island
Speaker 2: that was famous for when the FED was formed. So
Speaker 2: like these things can take on a life of their own.
Speaker 2: But I think as the hundreds of millions of people
Speaker 2: are seeing Asheville around the world, you know, we know
Speaker 2: it locally nationally, and I think it's going to take
Speaker 2: on a bigger international dimension.
Speaker 5: Speaking of obviously we're here talking about economics and everything else.
Speaker 5: One of the things that just randomly had last week
Speaker 5: a conversation with.
Speaker 4: The North Kinta State Legislature.
Speaker 5: And one of the things that he likes to do
Speaker 5: is talk to high school students about what proposed what
Speaker 5: would you like to see, what bills, what would you
Speaker 5: like to see as high school students, And they wrote
Speaker 5: this in depth thing in the form of a bill
Speaker 5: about finance literacy and this we literally had this conversation
Speaker 5: last week. So what is your thoughts about the whole
Speaker 5: finance literacy thing going back to high schools and before
Speaker 5: you get into college in the real world.
Speaker 6: Well, I think it's fantastic.
Speaker 2: My family and I have supported financial literacy efforts for
Speaker 2: more than two decades and it's one of our big
Speaker 2: philanthropic pursuits. We have a program down at the College
Speaker 2: at Charleston, my hometown in South Carolina, for first generation
Speaker 2: students coming in who've never been to college before, on
Speaker 2: how to manage their finances, because we've seen that these kids,
Speaker 2: with the very little financial training they yout on campus,
Speaker 2: their credit card company gives them a credit card, they
Speaker 2: run up the debt, and then their college career is over.
Speaker 2: But more importantly that back in my day, everyone when
Speaker 2: you hear the word home economics, they thought, well, it's
Speaker 2: just cooking class.
Speaker 6: It wasn't cooking class.
Speaker 2: It was how to manage your household finance and economics.
Speaker 2: And I can tell you things are a lot more
Speaker 2: complicated today. This buy now, pay later, digital assets, all
Speaker 2: the choices, and we are really pushing financial literacy through
Speaker 2: the Treasury. We just finished financial literacy a month in May.
Speaker 2: As I go around the country, we are pushing a
Speaker 2: main street agenda for small and community banks, and we
Speaker 2: are pushing them to do more and more in the schools.
Speaker 2: And I think we owe it to our children. I
Speaker 2: think the two biggest areas of neglect in education have
Speaker 2: been civics. No one really understands how our government works anymore,
Speaker 2: and I think that's why we're getting this rankor My
Speaker 2: family and I supported one of the first professorships in
Speaker 2: Chapel Hill at the School of Civic Life, which is
Speaker 2: evidently very popular now. So civics on one side, and
Speaker 2: then we got to do financial literacy in the working
Speaker 2: Family's tax cut, the one big beautiful bill. We have
Speaker 2: Trump Accounts, and I tell all your listeners go Trump
Speaker 2: accounts dot com. If you have a child eighteen or
Speaker 2: under child is born during President Trump's term, Treasury is
Speaker 2: going to see those accounts with one thousand dollars. Families
Speaker 2: can contribute up to five thousand dollars a year. Employers
Speaker 2: can contribute. I'm not sure what the state of North
Speaker 2: Carolina is doing, but many states are going to contribute.
Speaker 2: We've got some great philanthropists, Michael and Susan Dell donating
Speaker 2: six point twenty five billion dollars into the Trump accounts
Speaker 2: for children who are not in the twenty fifth percent
Speaker 2: or in the bottom seventy five percent of income by
Speaker 2: zip code.
Speaker 6: So everybody should open these up.
Speaker 2: But what we've done at Treasury is we have fifteen
Speaker 2: learning modules to educate both the children and the parents,
Speaker 2: because thirty eight percent of families in America have no
Speaker 2: exposures or equity markets, either through direct accounts or through
Speaker 2: four oh one case. So I think these Trump accounts
Speaker 2: are going to be the ultimate real time learning experience.
Speaker 2: It's not going to be I was a little kid
Speaker 2: in a rural town in South Carolina.
Speaker 6: What did I know about stocks?
Speaker 2: Something bad had happened in nineteen twenty nine, and now
Speaker 2: every family is going to have one of these Trump accounts.
Speaker 3: Welcome back to Breaking with Breg Jensen as I continue
Speaker 3: my exclusive one on one sit down an interview with
Speaker 3: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant. He was in Ashville today at
Speaker 3: the Grove Park in That's where I'm coming to you from,
Speaker 3: and we had a very long conversation about all kinds
Speaker 3: of things. You heard him talk about Ashville just a
Speaker 3: minute ago. Now let's start talking about the economy. So
Speaker 3: with that being said, here's more of my interview with
Speaker 3: Scott Bessett.
Speaker 5: You sort of beat me to the poach a little
Speaker 5: bit because I was going to ask you about the
Speaker 5: triple accounts. How successful or how prevalent have people been
Speaker 5: in setting up these accounts? Can you guys track that?
Speaker 6: Oh? Sure?
Speaker 2: So we've got about seven million have been opened out
Speaker 2: of seventy so we got a running start here. One
Speaker 2: point seven million of those have gotten the thousand dollars
Speaker 2: seed investment, and there's lots.
Speaker 6: Of money that's going to be around.
Speaker 2: We've seen other philanthropists Harold Ham, the great oil and
Speaker 2: energy man, who's adopted the state of Oklahoma. Ray Dalyo
Speaker 2: has adopted Connecticut along the same profile for putting money
Speaker 2: in four children. We've got one of the founders of SpaceX.
Speaker 2: She's donated about three hundred million dollars of SpaceX stock.
Speaker 2: And I think we're going to see a lot more
Speaker 2: of these founders donating. So everyone should get the account
Speaker 2: open and again you're going to be able to see
Speaker 2: it on your phone. I think the thirty eight percent
Speaker 2: of families who have no exposure to the equity market,
Speaker 2: it's going to be a game changer. Our goal is
Speaker 2: to give everybody a piece of the action, and President
Speaker 2: Trump wants to have an ownership economy.
Speaker 5: I want to switch gears a little bit in terms
Speaker 5: of finances and people giving money. That leads to my
Speaker 5: questions about fraud that we've seen a lot of, whether
Speaker 5: it's Minnesota, Los Angeles, and probably elsewhere.
Speaker 4: To be honest with you, So.
Speaker 6: How big of.
Speaker 4: A concern has the fraud been.
Speaker 5: I know you've talked to banks about trying to hey,
Speaker 5: if you see anything going on or financial institutions, alert us,
Speaker 5: let us know what's going on, specifically obviously with also
Speaker 5: illegal aliens. So what can you tell us about the
Speaker 5: situation involving fraud.
Speaker 2: Well, it's an all hands on deck, all parts of
Speaker 2: governments being led by Vice President Vance and I am
Speaker 2: honored to be part of his task force. And there
Speaker 2: is a meaningful amount of money to be saved for
Speaker 2: the American people here. It could be four hundred and
Speaker 2: six hundred billion with a B dollars. Put that in perspective,
Speaker 2: that is more than one or two percent of GDP
Speaker 2: that we could be saving.
Speaker 6: That's how we could do that and pay down the debt.
Speaker 2: But like this abuse is just insidious because in the
Speaker 2: US we are a high trust society. We want to
Speaker 2: help the most vulnerable. And I was out in Minneapolis
Speaker 2: during the hottest moments of this fraud network and when
Speaker 2: it was going on, and did a round.
Speaker 6: Table and.
Speaker 2: Some of the centers for autistic children are not getting
Speaker 2: funded because these creeps have stolen the.
Speaker 6: Money and they don't care.
Speaker 2: They don't care, and whether it's leaving the country, whether
Speaker 2: they're driving around in BMW's, And the most important thing
Speaker 2: that we are doing is we are trying to cut
Speaker 2: it off at the source. So Treasury we've finally been
Speaker 2: able to hook into what's called the do not pay system.
Speaker 2: When people are dead, we know people have committed fraud
Speaker 2: because the key to stopping the fraud is keeping it
Speaker 2: from going out the door once it gets out, whether
Speaker 2: it's the Somali fraud, the hospice fraud in Los Angeles,
Speaker 2: these other things. There's a lot of medicaid and insurance
Speaker 2: fraud down in Florida.
Speaker 6: Some of the money is going back to Cuba, if
Speaker 6: you could believe it.
Speaker 2: Once it's out the door, it's difficult to recover. So
Speaker 2: we are cutting it off at the source. At Treasury
Speaker 2: dot gov. We have a whistleblower's website and we can
Speaker 2: pay if you see something just like a bombing in
Speaker 2: the airport or in public transit, if you see something,
Speaker 2: say something, you see a suspicious package, you see suspicious behavior,
Speaker 2: and we can reward the great Americans who come forward.
Speaker 3: All right, some very interesting things there from the US
Speaker 3: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant, and he was in Asheville today
Speaker 3: at the Grove Park Inn. They're in advance of the
Speaker 3: major G's twenty Summit that's going to be taking place
Speaker 3: there in about three weeks or so. And the G
Speaker 3: twenty Summit is where you have the top twenty economic
Speaker 3: developed countries all over the world and they get together
Speaker 3: for an annual summit.
Speaker 1: Well this year in about three weeks.
Speaker 3: It's in Asheville, North Carolina, and it will be taking
Speaker 3: place over the course of four days, almost exactly one
Speaker 3: month to the day prior to the two year anniversary
Speaker 3: of Hurricane Helen. All Right, everyone, welcome back to this
Speaker 3: very special edition of Breaking with Brad Jensen on the
Speaker 3: Friday Night, coming to you from Asheville, North Carolina, the
Speaker 3: Grove Park Inn, to be specific. And earlier today I
Speaker 3: had a one on one sit down interview, a very
Speaker 3: lengthy one on one sit down interview with US Treasury
Speaker 3: Secretary Scott Bessant. And again this is someone that I
Speaker 3: considered to be the third most powerful person in Washington,
Speaker 3: d C. Or at least the third most important person
Speaker 3: in Washington d C. Donald Trump number one, Marco Rubio,
Speaker 3: Secretary of State number two, and Scott Bessant number three.
Speaker 3: And the fact that I was able to get this
Speaker 3: very long interview with him is amazing.
Speaker 1: And he was in.
Speaker 3: Town for a preview, just looking around getting things ready
Speaker 3: for the G twenty summit that takes place in about
Speaker 3: three weeks. And if you're not familiar with what the
Speaker 3: G twenty is, it's where the twenty most developed economic
Speaker 3: countries in the world all get together for an annual summit.
Speaker 3: This year it's in Asheville, North Carolina, because he used
Speaker 3: to visit western North Carolina a lot as a child
Speaker 3: in the Saluta area, in the Cashers area, and by
Speaker 3: the way, way, he wanted to help, you know, with
Speaker 3: the economic recovery, and they expect a lot of money
Speaker 3: to be pumped into the economy over the end of August,
Speaker 3: over the four days that this summit takes place. But again,
Speaker 3: we're now going to continue my exclusive one on one
Speaker 3: sit down interview with US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessett. We're
Speaker 3: over a year since the Trump tax cuts went in
Speaker 3: to affect what tangible return evidence have you seen that
Speaker 3: this has been economically good for America.
Speaker 2: I think I can see or I know I can
Speaker 2: see it on two sides. So one of the best
Speaker 2: parts of my job is getting out and actually seeing
Speaker 2: the businesses and seeing.
Speaker 6: The people it's helped.
Speaker 2: Whether I was a couple of months ago, I was
Speaker 2: in seem Valley, California, home with a Reagan Library, I
Speaker 2: did a small business roundtable. I just came yesterday. I
Speaker 2: was out in Arizona for two days. I was at
Speaker 2: a Freedo lay plant in Casa Grande, and in my mind,
Speaker 2: that plant is like the perfect example of how the
Speaker 2: cuts are tax cuts for working people and tax deductions
Speaker 2: for corporate America or working that it's a barbell. On
Speaker 2: one side, we gave incentives for corporations to invest more,
Speaker 2: and whether it's factories, equipment, farm structures, and they're all expanding.
Speaker 2: So we are seeing a manufacturing renaissance. We're seeing a
Speaker 2: CAPEX boom like we haven't seen in fifteen years. So
Speaker 2: that's on one side, so corporations expanding creating more jobs.
Speaker 6: On the individual side.
Speaker 2: I also, as Treasury Secretary oversee the irs. So forty
Speaker 2: four percent of Americans had one of the presents for
Speaker 2: signature tax cuts, no tax and tips, no tax. In overtime,
Speaker 2: it reduced taxes on Social Security, eighty five percent of
Speaker 2: our seniors.
Speaker 6: Pay zero tax, and the.
Speaker 2: And deductibility of auto loan interest if you buy an
Speaker 2: American made cars. So that's forty four percent of Americans
Speaker 2: got to keep more money. Here in Western North Carolina.
Speaker 2: Western North Carolinians did much better in terms of keeping
Speaker 2: their own money than the national average. The tax refunds
Speaker 2: are big, but what we weren't able to pick up
Speaker 2: were the people who paid taxes last year who actually
Speaker 2: got a refund this year. So I suspect the numbers
Speaker 2: were actually much higher. And I will remind you every
Speaker 2: single Democrat voted against.
Speaker 6: Both sides of the barbell.
Speaker 2: They voted against the full expensing to help our manufacturers,
Speaker 2: and they voted against the tax cuts for working Americans.
Speaker 2: They voted against raising the child tax credit. They voted
Speaker 2: against the family leave option, which we Treasury just this
Speaker 2: week gave guidance on for employers to be able to
Speaker 2: provide a benefit for work to be able to take
Speaker 2: off take care of a loved loved one or for
Speaker 2: a new child.
Speaker 5: In terms of the economy, it seems to me, and
Speaker 5: this is just an extreme novice, that people when looking
Speaker 5: at the economy, tend to focus only in on gas prices.
Speaker 5: But when you look at the economy as a whole,
Speaker 5: where do you see it right now?
Speaker 6: Because like I.
Speaker 5: Said, I think people tend to look at the gas prices,
Speaker 5: but I also know that Lettters is about four dollars
Speaker 5: ahead cheaper than it was a few years ago.
Speaker 4: So what can you tell me about the economy?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you've got to look at all aspects.
Speaker 2: But I can tell you, as we look at the economy,
Speaker 2: the one thing we are not going to do is
Speaker 2: what the Biden administration did and tell Americans that they
Speaker 2: don't know what they're feeling, that they know their lived experience.
Speaker 2: And I'm sixty three years old. This was the Biden administration.
Speaker 2: Was the worst inflation since my childhood in the seventies,
Speaker 2: and Americans deserved to be upset, They deserve to be
Speaker 2: agitated about the price level. Twenty one point five percent inflation,
Speaker 2: probably for working families. In terms of groceries, insurance, the
Speaker 2: energy cost probably in the thirties, so they were torched,
Speaker 2: and we have tried to slow inflation. The Iran conflict
Speaker 2: has caused a temporary upward trend and energy prices, but
Speaker 2: that's going to come back down. We peaked in May
Speaker 2: and energy prices I think, I look today, we're at
Speaker 2: about four dollars a gallon nationally lower if you exclude
Speaker 2: the People's Republic of California.
Speaker 6: I looked at looked like when I was coming in
Speaker 6: from the airport.
Speaker 2: Looks like it's three fifty three sixty five here in
Speaker 2: western North Carolina. And we want to get that back down.
Speaker 2: We are near the end of this conflict. Prices will
Speaker 2: come back down. We are constantly talking to the oil
Speaker 2: companies to make sure that the prices on gasoline come
Speaker 2: down just as fast as they raise them. And there
Speaker 2: are two ways out of the hit that American families took.
Speaker 2: There is getting the inflation under control, and I think
Speaker 2: what's important here is core inflation away from the volatile
Speaker 2: energy series. Is it about two and a half percent,
Speaker 2: not at the FEDS two percent target, but much better
Speaker 2: than the eight point whatever we hit during the Biden years,
Speaker 2: we will get that back down.
Speaker 6: But the other way is through wage growth.
Speaker 2: And we have seen in the past year about five
Speaker 2: point four five point five percent wage growth for the
Speaker 2: bottom twenty five percent of workers, which is exactly what
Speaker 2: happened President.
Speaker 6: Trump's first term.
Speaker 2: We saw a median worker wage increase of four point
Speaker 2: seven and the increase for the bottom twenty five percent
Speaker 2: is three times higher than the top twenty five percent.
Speaker 2: So we are closing that gap, and that is above
Speaker 2: the level of inflation. And I'll tell you that I
Speaker 2: feel like an emergency room doctor on the economy that
Speaker 2: the first thing you got to do when the patient
Speaker 2: comes in and they have a severe trauma is you've
Speaker 2: got to stop the bleeding, and you've got to stabilize
Speaker 2: the patient. So we stabilize the patient, and now they
Speaker 2: are on the road to recovery. We're seeing real wage gains.
Speaker 2: Inflation will come down, and I think that we are
Speaker 2: coming out of this and the Americans, while I think
Speaker 2: we will go from a period where things are uncomfortable
Speaker 2: to they will be able to see change for the better,
Speaker 2: and then in a few quarters then I think we
Speaker 2: can be back to the good numbers we had.
Speaker 3: All right, everyone, Welcome back to Breaking with Brat Jensen
Speaker 3: for a few more minutes.
Speaker 1: Coming to you from the.
Speaker 3: Grove Park End in Asheville, North Carolina, on this Friday evening.
Speaker 1: Earlier today I had a one on one sitting down.
Speaker 3: Interview with US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessett, who I considered
Speaker 3: to be the third most important person in Washington, d C.
Speaker 3: Obviously Donald Trump number one, Marco Rubio, the Secretary of
Speaker 3: State number two, and US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessett number three.
Speaker 3: You see him all the time on the Sunday morning
Speaker 3: talk shows sometimes major news programs during the week. This
Speaker 3: is an extremely important man and way up the food
Speaker 3: chain in terms of the Trump administration. So he is
Speaker 3: by the way, he went to western North Carolina a
Speaker 3: lot as a kid, and by the way, he lives
Speaker 3: in South Carolina down in the Charleston area as well.
Speaker 3: He has also a house in North Carolina, so he's
Speaker 3: very familiar with the surroundings. The G twenty Financial Summit
Speaker 3: is taking place in about three weeks in Ashville, and
Speaker 3: of case you don't know what that is, that is
Speaker 3: where the top twenty most economically developed countries in the
Speaker 3: world they gather and descend and for a four day
Speaker 3: conference to talk about finances in the world's economy and
Speaker 3: everything else. Well, it's taking place in Ashville in about
Speaker 3: three weeks. So Secretary Bessett was in town today to
Speaker 3: take a look around the Grove Park In for logistic
Speaker 3: purposes and whatnot.
Speaker 1: And while he was at the Grove.
Speaker 3: Park In, I was able to secure a very long
Speaker 3: and lengthy exclusive interview with the Treasury Secretary. So here
Speaker 3: is the conclusion of my one on one sed down
Speaker 3: interview earlier today with US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessett.
Speaker 5: One last question for you, MISSUS Secretary, and thank you
Speaker 5: so much for taking the time to talk with me
Speaker 5: today about this G twenty. I'd be remiss if I
Speaker 5: didn't ask one question about the summit coming up.
Speaker 4: Here in a month.
Speaker 5: What do you think is the biggest economic priority for
Speaker 5: the G twenty, Because this is such a global meeting,
Speaker 5: what do you think is the biggest priority?
Speaker 2: We America is the leading economy in the world, We're
Speaker 2: the leading military in the world. We are just the
Speaker 2: leading power across the globe. And now we're the energy
Speaker 2: superpower and AI superpower. We are trying to get everyone
Speaker 2: to follow our lead on growth that across the world,
Speaker 2: countries have run up big amounts of debt, some of
Speaker 2: it due to COVID, some of it wasteful spending. And
Speaker 2: we don't think the way to get out of this
Speaker 2: is to cut your.
Speaker 6: Way out of it.
Speaker 2: Is the way to get out of it is to
Speaker 2: grow your way out of it. So we have very
Speaker 2: strong growth in the US, some of the strongest in
Speaker 2: the world.
Speaker 6: So our message to our G twenty.
Speaker 2: Allies is follow our policies, follow President Trump's policies, energy security, energy,
Speaker 2: common sense, the deregulate, and let the private sector do
Speaker 2: its job.
Speaker 5: Well, MISSUS Secretary, thank you so much for doing this,
Speaker 5: and welcome back to North Carolina, by the way, and
Speaker 5: I know you're going to be here in another month
Speaker 5: or a few weeks.
Speaker 2: Actually, I'm looking forward to spending the weekend in Jackson County.
Speaker 3: So there you have at my exclusive one on one
Speaker 3: sit down interview with US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessett. And
Speaker 3: big thanks to him his team for everyone else setting
Speaker 3: this up. And again, this was something that a ton
Speaker 3: of media members would kill for. And the fact that me,
Speaker 3: little old Brett Jensen was able to get this exclusive
Speaker 3: interview for a very long sit down interview that just
Speaker 3: doesn't happen very often. And so again extremely thankful to
Speaker 3: Secretary Bressett and his team. And again he's spending the
Speaker 3: weekend in the mountains in his house in North Carolina,
Speaker 3: and he'll be back in about three weeks or so
Speaker 3: for the G twenty Summit, the big Finance Summit where
Speaker 3: the top twenty economically developed countries from all over the world,
Speaker 3: they will send their finance ministers and whatnot, and they
Speaker 3: will all come and gather in Ashville. They're expecting somewhere
Speaker 3: around three hundred medium members from around the world to
Speaker 3: also descend upon Ashville. Ashwell's going to get a big
Speaker 3: economic boost. They're also going to get a lot of
Speaker 3: free publicity to try and bring people back to North
Speaker 3: Carolina or at least the mountains of North Carolina.
Speaker 1: So a lot going on.
Speaker 3: In Ashville, North Carolina and at the Growth Park in
Speaker 3: where my interview took place earlier today. All right, real quick,
Speaker 3: before we get down out of here, I tell everyone
Speaker 3: to check my ex account and always check my feed,
Speaker 3: because earlier today I broke news that a second federal
Speaker 3: lawsuit has been filed against the Combarison County school System,
Speaker 3: the superintendent and a couple of principles about allowing boys
Speaker 3: to use girl locker rooms and girl bathrooms in the
Speaker 3: high schools and whatnot. So again, this was a different
Speaker 3: type of lawsuit, but in that same vein, and I
Speaker 3: fully expect a third lawsuit to be filed sometime in
Speaker 3: the very very near future, maybe as early as next week.
Speaker 3: Soeral lawsuits are already been filed against Comparis County schools,
Speaker 3: and I fully expect number three. By the way, this
Speaker 3: lawsuit pertains to Mount Pleasant High School, and this one
Speaker 3: is a parent suing the school, not a lawsuit on behalf.
Speaker 1: Of the students.
Speaker 3: Again, a little bit different of a lawsuit, but basically
Speaker 3: involving the exact same type of situation.
Speaker 1: All right, everyone, that's going to do it for us tonight.
Speaker 3: Again, much much thanks to US Treasury Secretary Scott Besson
Speaker 3: for allowing me to have a very prolonged sit down
Speaker 3: interview with him earlier today at the Growth Park.
Speaker 1: End. That's going to do it for us tonight. Have
Speaker 1: a great weekend, everyone. TJ.
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