WEBVTT - 7-30-26: Ag Sec Rollins & POTUS Asst Join 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:30.040 Hi Oh, Let's go hi Oh, Let's go oh. 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:34.200 Let's go oh, Let's go bom back to Shawl Sames. 0:00:33.920 --> 0:00:37.040 To off one oh seven point nine FM WBT taking 0:00:37.080 --> 0:00:39.319 you up till seven o'clock like we do every single night. 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:42.200 Telephone number seven oh four five one oh seven nine. 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:45.160 That is also the WBT text line driven by Liberty Buick, 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:47.800 GMC and Boys and Girls. You should be following me 0:00:48.080 --> 0:00:51.440 on X at Brent Underscore Jensen for all the lattus 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:53.239 and breaking news in and around the Charlotte area. And 0:00:53.240 --> 0:00:56.200 if you follow me on X like several other thousands do, 0:00:56.680 --> 0:00:59.000 then you would know that I've got a big, big 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:02.000 show for you tonight, and we're just gonna jump straight 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:05.199 into it because straight out of the shoot we're gonna 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:07.640 speak to right now. Joining us is Brooke Rollins, the 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:11.040 Secretary of US Agriculture, or I guess US Agriculture Secretary 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:13.800 of Brooke Rawlins to make it make it sound official. So, 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:16.160 first of all, Madame Secretary, thank you for joining us tonight. 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:18.000 I know this is the second time we've done a 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:21.120 couple of interviews, and so I really appreciate you joining 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:21.600 us tonight. 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:26.280 It's so good to be back on Brett, how are 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:27.640 you just fine? 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:27.959 Again? 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:31.800 I really do appreciate this because North Carolina, Yes, we're 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:34.920 getting bigger with Raleigh and obviously Charlotte and one hundred 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:37.640 and fifty seven people move here every single day, and 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:40.880 Charlotte is the fourteenth biggest city in America right now 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:43.760 in terms of city limits, not metro, which means that. 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:46.440 But even with all that being said, if you go 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:49.440 twenty miles outside of Charlotte, you're in farmland, like it's 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:52.880 literally farms. And North Carolina has been an agg state 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:54.280 since its existence. 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:56.800 So you joining me is very meaningful. 0:01:56.840 --> 0:01:58.800 Even though we're in Charlotte, we covered the entire part 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:00.920 of western North Carolina, which is a big deal. So 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:04.200 I want to start off tonight with a lot of 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:06.440 big news, especially here with you know, with Tom Tillis 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:09.639 being a state senator here from North Carolina, the Reconciliation 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:12.040 Act that has gone through Congress that is now going 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:14.760 to be at the doorstep of the Senate. And there's 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:17.280 a lot of things in there about farmers, which I 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:20.760 know a lot of our listeners would actually be anxious 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:23.000 to hear about. So can you just talk about what's 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:26.799 in the farmer's part of the reconciliation bill. 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:30.800 Yeah, absolutely well, and you're one hundred percent right. And 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:34.519 even for those that are listening to you regularly and 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:38.079 maybe living in Charlotte or in an urban area, I 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:41.840 think everyone has begun to realize that farm security is 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:47.120 national security. That we have basically not only offshore manufacturing, 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:51.040 offshore pharmaceuticals under the Democrats when they're leading, but we've 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:55.040 also offshored our food supply. In twenty twenty three under 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:57.480 Joe Biden, America for the first time in history became 0:02:57.520 --> 0:03:02.120 a net food importer and began to rely on China 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:05.200 and other countries for fertilizer, for seed, and even for 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:08.960 our food. As these foreign countries came in and they've 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:12.160 started buying up our farm land, buying up our agg companies, 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:14.240 and I didn't realize quite how bad it was, so 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:16.480 I took this role a year and a half ago. 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:20.800 So the farmers and protecting our farmers and protecting rural 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:24.560 America is really protecting the very core of our country. 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:26.799 That's why I think this is so important for everyone, 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:29.880 not just our farmers. But to your question, the reconciliation 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:34.880 bill that is currently being considered and we need all 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:39.040 of our Republicans on board, including our North Carolina Senator. First, 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:42.560 it does have a significant chunk in there for our farmers, 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:44.560 which is very important. I just kind of walked through that. 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:48.119 But also it includes the Save America Act, that critical 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:51.920 election integrity measures that we've worked so hard on for 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:56.160 so long. If you don't have fair elections or free elections, 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:58.160 then you don't have a country. And we're right on 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:00.760 the brink of losing America because of that. Of course, 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:03.000 there's a bunch in there for our military, which is 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:06.760 really really important. So it's a it is a from 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:09.320 my perspective, it's a it's a do or die. It's 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:11.320 time to get it done, get it over the finish line, 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:13.680 get it into the end zone, and let's continue to 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:16.200 win for America and putting America first. 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:19.560 And what can you talk about the farmers section of 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:22.120 the bill, Well. 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:25.320 The farmer section is about it's eleven point one billion dollars. 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:28.840 It's a it's the next step in providing relief for 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:32.760 disaster for freezes. There's I think there's probably going to 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:35.680 be even more going in from Congress. That eleven point 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:38.240 one was our request from the White House, but our 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:44.080 farmers are facing unprecedented drought, some precedented weather events like hurricanes, freezes, 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:48.119 et cetera. And then also an additional step in economic aid. 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:51.880 The input costs that were inherited a year and a 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:55.400 half ago up to forty fifty sixty percent increases. Under 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:59.479 the last administration, while we had not one new trade deal, 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:02.160 we went from a egg trade surplus to a fifty 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:05.320 billion dollar agricultural trade deficit. We're making a lot of 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:08.200 progress bread, that's what's exciting. We've cut that in half 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:10.919 in just over a year with twenty new trade deals. 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:14.200 But in twenty twenty three, we saw ninety billion dollar 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:19.600 loss for our farmers, the largest plummet in commodities in history, 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:21.560 and we're just getting back out of that. So this 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:24.120 ten billion will be another bridge. Listen, our farmers don't 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:26.359 want to farm for government checks. They want to farm 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:29.880 in a fare and free market, and that's what we're building. 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:32.360 But we're going to get there soon. But this will 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:33.480 allow us that bridge. 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:33.760 To get there. 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:36.920 Speak with US Secretary of Agriculture, Brook Rowlins. Here, I'm 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:39.560 breaking with Brett Jensen. I don't know if you can 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:43.560 answer this, but is there one particular crop that has 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:47.279 been hit harder than maybe other cops, whether it's soybeans 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:50.800 or corn, or or farming you know, with pigs, cows, whatever. 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:54.360 Is there a particular part that has been hit harder 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:56.120 with these farmers than other areas. 0:05:57.040 --> 0:06:00.200 You know there are and it's so cyclical, and that's 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:03.960 why these farmers just we owe them everything. They only 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:07.200 make money on average every two of ten years. The 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:10.159 last stretch has been tough, as we talked about, but 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:12.440 there are some that are certainly hit harder than others. 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:16.240 You know, our cotton guys have really struggled the last 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:18.920 few years. Now with the Make America Healthy Again movement, 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:21.640 we released a big bring cotton back. It's not just 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:24.479 about what you eat, it's about what you wear as well. 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:27.240 So I'm really looking forward to a renaissance for our 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:31.760 cotton guys. In North Carolina. Bread tobacco has really struggled, 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:35.719 as you know, but that is a cornerstone crop for 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:38.839 the people of North Carolina and certainly important parts of 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:41.560 your state. So we're working really hard on the tobacco 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:44.280 side of this too, to open up markets around the 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:49.040 world for tobacco. Interestingly, you normally think about these guys 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:51.080 as farmers, but I call them farmers of the sea. 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:55.880 Our shrimp farmers have really struggled, and North Carolina is 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:59.479 a coastal community, a coastal state, so your guys know 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:03.560 this is well. We've now begun importing. Ninety percent of 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:07.520 the shrimp that we eat in America is not American shrimpers, 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:09.920 and there's a lot of screwed up reasons for that. 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:12.600 We're really trying to fix right now. As well. The 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:16.920 road propers have struggled, but we're seeing a better path ahead. 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:21.080 We're going to have record ethanol, record corn, perhaps record 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:24.200 sorghum under these new trade deals, especially as we're open 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:27.960 up East Asia for new trade and so we've seen 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:30.400 kind of some good movement there, but we still have 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:32.160 a long way to go. The good news is our 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:35.120 beef guys are doing well. You know a lot of 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:38.200 our protein farmers, if you will, because of Make America 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:41.400 Healthy again. People want protein now more than ever before. 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:44.600 We had a ten percent increase in fresh food purchases 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:48.080 last year and that number is only increasing. So that 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:50.640 the future is brought For a lot of reasons, and 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:53.280 that's one of them, but hopefully again we're going to 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:55.960 get there. We've got to preserve these great American farmers 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:57.840 and what they do to feed and fuel us every 0:07:57.880 --> 0:07:59.480 single day, or we will. 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:00.200 Lose our country. 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:03.040 Speak with US Secretary of Agriculture Brook Rollins for a 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:05.720 couple more minutes here I'm breaking with Brett Jensen, So, 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:08.560 Adam Secretary. One of the big things going on in 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:12.880 North Carolina right now is the situation involving hemp. I know, 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:16.400 right now the hemp industry in North Carolina involves about 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:18.800 twenty five thousand people. It would be you know, it 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:21.360 could be impacted either in a positive way. 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:23.440 Or in a negative way by the production of hemp. 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:27.520 Is there a particular thought about from you or the 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:31.520 President about hemp production and just turning into just regular 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:32.200 hemp in general? 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:35.760 Well, you know, just in all things, I think the 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:41.240 President has been very clear on supporting and working and 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:42.960 you know, it's finding. I was just talking to, in fact, 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:47.600 a Democrat congressman a couple of hours ago from the 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:51.560 Northeast and talking about how we shouldn't just be focusing 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:55.200 on cotton in terms of what we wear, but focusing 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:57.920 on linen and hemp and other natural products as well. 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:01.280 So again, I think there's a potential renaissance here and 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:05.199 a real market opportunity, not just you know, on the 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:09.720 produce side, but also on the clothing side. And yet 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:12.080 North Carolina and once again in the middle and the 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:14.840 crosshairs of all this, having lost so many of our 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:18.040 textile meals and so much of that infrastructure, how do 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:20.920 we bring that back? How do we start the long 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:24.439 process of building it back? And listen, we live in 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:26.360 the greatest country in the history of the world. We 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:29.719 are where freedom lives and breathes and thrives. Right two 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:32.720 hudred and fifty years ago, those founding fathers, many of 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:35.440 them farmers, stood up and said no to tyranny. And 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:37.280 we're willing to give it all for that. And so 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:43.000 as we're looking to revivify and restore and restart liberty 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:47.000 in our country, we go back to those initial founding 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:50.400 fathers and how we built this country. And I'm fighting 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:52.920 so hard for that, as is President Trump. No one's 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:55.920 been stronger for the farmers, all the farmers and the 0:09:56.000 --> 0:09:59.800 ranchers as this president has. But you can't undo deck 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:03.000 aids of bad policy in eighteen months. Hopefully when we 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:05.120 leave in two and a half years, we can look 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:07.080 back and Brett on your show, I can come back 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:10.679 on and say we built the infrastructure, we turned the tide, 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:14.960 we restored prosperity. The Golden Age is coming for rural America, 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:17.840 not just for all America, but for rural America, and 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:20.400 in so doing, we have saved the civilization for the 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:23.160 next two hundred and fifty years. That is the weight 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:25.760 that we feel, not just meet. But I've got a 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:27.760 cabinet meeting in the morning at Camp David. I'll be 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:30.160 with all my brothers and sisters in the cabinet, we'll 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:33.640 be with the President. And these are real issues. We 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:36.280 work twenty hours a day, seven days a week to 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:39.880 work to fix and hopefully we continue to make good progress. 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:44.200 Well, Brooke Ryland's the US Secretary of Agriculture. For the 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:46.040 second time you've been able, You've been kind enough to 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:48.920 come on my show, and I really really do appreciate 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:50.560 you joining us tonight. And like I said, yes, we're 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:53.920 in Charlotte, but our signal is one hundred thousand watts, 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:57.680 and we go tons and tons of farmland here in 0:10:57.720 --> 0:11:00.720 North Carolina that we cover. It included in South Carolina 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:02.480 as well. So again, thank you so much for. 0:11:04.160 --> 0:11:06.200 I love it, Brett, and I've been now, I've been 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:08.800 to your state multiples of times. I'm sure i'll be back. 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:14.400 But love North Carolina obviously you're South Carolinian listeners as well, 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:17.040 and we're just so grateful for all the freedom lovers 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:20.679 and liberty fighters that are in your state. And thanks 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:22.880 for what you do to make sure that we get 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:24.760 the message out. We're just so grateful to you too, 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:26.240 and I'll be back on very soon. 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:29.199 The Madames Secretary, thank you so much. I really appreciate it. 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:34.760 There you go, Secretary of US Agriculture, I should say 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:38.280 US Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rawlins there, tell you what. 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:42.280 Like that's when it comes to farming, and not just 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:45.680 farming but like you know, cattle and pigs and everything 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:50.400 that we eat, shrimp, seafood, whatever. That's the top dog 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:53.360 right there. She's in charge of it all, every single 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:56.199 bit of it. You've heard of the US d A 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:58.800 grade A prime beef that stands for the US Department 0:11:58.800 --> 0:11:59.600 of Agriculture. 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:02.400 So and she's in charge of it. You got a 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:04.640 bad stake. There's the boss. 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:06.720 I'm just kidding, I kidding, but again, thanks to Brooke 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:17.040 Rawls the US Secretary of Agriculture for joining us. Welcome 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:21.360 back to breaking with Brad Jensen again thanks to Madam 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:24.520 Secretary of US Agriculture, the US ACT. I should let 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:27.040 me try this, actually get it right, the US Secretary 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:30.240 of Agriculture, Brooke rawlins. And again, she's been on the 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:33.560 show a couple of times and she's been fantastic. And again, 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:39.600 lots of information, lots and lots of information. So and 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:45.160 then I wanted to use this time to explain who's 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:51.440 coming up next, and it's going to be someone that's 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:54.480 actually it's going to be a pretty big interview. 0:12:55.520 --> 0:13:01.080 It's the Special Assistant to President Trump. He's also the. 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:04.640 Deputy Press Secretary, so everyone knows Caroline Levitt. This is 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:07.240 her right hand man, but he's also a special assistant 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:11.000 to President Trump. And his name is pushed to sigh 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:14.520 and he's going to be joining us, and I want 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:19.600 to talk to him because the new economic numbers came 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:24.440 out today. Some of them are good, some of them 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:31.080 are bad, and some could be misleading. And I know 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:33.520 the old saying, well, stats you can make every you 0:13:33.520 --> 0:13:35.560 can make any stat look the way you want it 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:38.959 to look. I've always found that to be one hundred 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:45.800 percent faults. One hundred percent faults. If a quarterback's completion percentage, 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:49.520 which the NFL averages around sixty five percent or so, 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:53.840 and an NFL quarterbacks completion percentage is forty percent, don't 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:55.600 tell me I can make that turn into anything that 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:59.400 I want. If he's that bad, you can't. Well, you 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:02.000 can make numbers look like anything you want. No, that's 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:06.560 absolutely not true, not if you're being honest, and even 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:11.840 in most cases you can't. So numbers are numbers, just 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:16.840 like facts. Numbers aren't racist, Numbers aren't sexist. Numbers aren't homophobic. 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:22.000 Numbers are numbers. Numbers are facts. I think there was 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:23.960 an ESPN show back in the day that was not 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:26.000 a very good show. I think the name of the 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:31.080 show was Numbers Never Lie. It was a horrible show. 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:32.120 It was a midday show. 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:33.360 It was awful. 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:42.960 But that is true. Numbers don't lie. Numbers are numbers, 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:47.360 plain and simple, and how you perceive them, or how 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:52.040 you take them into your being, that will determine whether 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:53.880 or not. If you think they're bad numbers, then you're 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:56.360 gonna think they're bad numbers. But the very next person 0:14:56.400 --> 0:15:03.480 besides you may think they're good numbers. So it's your 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:06.160 own perception of whether or not something's good or bad. 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:09.320 The numbers are just there for you to interpret as 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:14.040 your own. So I'm looking forward to having a cush 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:16.160 to sigh on because I do want to speak to 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:19.640 him about the Iran war. I want to speak to 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:24.360 him about the economy, because, like, let's be honest, those 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:27.600 are the two biggest things going on right now with 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:31.760 American voters. That's what they're actually concerned about. The economy 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:35.720 and Iran, and I've been screaming from the mountaintops from 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:38.520 day one when this first thing started, what five months 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:39.440 ago or whatever it was. 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:41.360 They're interrelated. 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:48.920 The Joe Biden situation was so bad economically that even 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:52.280 with the high gas prices, they're still now lower than 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:54.840 they were most of the term of Joe Biden. 0:15:56.880 --> 0:16:01.600 So think about that for a second. Guess what that's called. Fact. 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:06.280 It's not right, it's not left, it's fact. That's what 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:06.680 it is. 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:10.480 Deal with what do with it what you will. So, 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:13.760 but I've been saying once, I've I've always been saying 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:19.320 that because this was self induced with the war, that 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:23.480 the numbers immediately shot up in terms of pricing of 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:29.320 products and gas, and that once it stops, all the 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:34.040 prices will plummet immediately. Now, I do want to ask 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:37.080 Becush decide that to see if I am just way 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:40.400 out in left field somewhere or if it's actually any 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:40.920 truth to that. 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:42.640 So we're gonna talk about the Iran war. 0:16:42.680 --> 0:16:44.840 I'm going to ask him about a lot of other 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:52.960 things going on. Joining us now is someone that is 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:56.360 very special to the Trump administration, and that is special 0:16:56.440 --> 0:16:59.400 Assistant to President Trump as well as being the Deputy 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:02.520 Press Secretary. Pushed aside and Cush, I want to say 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:05.120 thanks for joining us here tonight. I'm breaking with Brett Jensen. 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:09.600 So the economic data came out today for the second quarter, some. 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:12.800 Good, some bad. What was your overall impression of it? 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:15.760 Well, thanks for having me on. Look. I think while 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:19.640 the top line number cave in slightly below expectations, when 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:21.840 you kind of open up the hood of this car 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:24.199 and look at the underlying numbers here, I think we 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:28.520 saw an incredibly promise and an incredibly solid GDP growth report. 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:33.399 The consumption remained very solid, actually beat expectations and in 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:37.640 meting spending in particular smash expectations. And what really dragged 0:17:37.680 --> 0:17:42.000 this we're poured down, was that net import searched and 0:17:42.080 --> 0:17:45.320 they surged because catholine goods imports, and that means the 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:48.639 equipment and machinery you need to run a factory to 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:52.080 build a factory as at a record high right now. 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:54.440 So what we're looking at is that the American consumer 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:58.159 remains resilient. Businesses continue to invest thanks to our de 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:02.200 reglatory and task cut agenda, and imports of the goods. 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:04.680 We need to continue billing these factories. If you've see 0:18:04.720 --> 0:18:08.320 these factory construction jobs surgeying, when you're seeing these new 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:11.600 ground breakings happening across the country for the semiconductor of 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:16.080 pharmaceutical or steel or aluminum factories across the United States, 0:18:16.240 --> 0:18:19.640 we're looking at a very strong future growth trajectory here. 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:22.639 So I think this report actually again you've had a 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:25.000 look go beyond that top line number is actually very 0:18:25.000 --> 0:18:28.320 solid and very promising for America's economic future. 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:31.600 Speaking with Kush to side, the Special Assistant to President 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:34.159 Trump and the Deputy Press Secretary, so Cush, one of 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:35.720 the things that stood out to me in all the 0:18:35.800 --> 0:18:39.840 data was the fact that people actually earned more income 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:42.400 in the second quarter than they did in the first quarter. 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:44.359 As a matter of fact, it was up zero point 0:18:44.359 --> 0:18:44.879 two percent. 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:47.280 That may not sound like a lot, but that's over 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:50.399 sixty billion dollars that went into people's checking accounts that 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:53.160 wasn't there the previous quarter, And to me, that actually 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:54.159 says a lot. 0:18:54.680 --> 0:18:56.560 That's exactly right. I mean, I think when you look 0:18:56.600 --> 0:19:00.680 at real wages, the inflation adjusted wages, which which declined 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:05.320 markedly during during Joe Biden's presidency, I think right now 0:19:05.320 --> 0:19:08.240 it's really being being grounded as solely by by gas 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:11.040 energy prices. And I think as we kind of saw 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:13.720 when the when the initial MLU with Durand was solved, 0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:17.800 we was signed, we saw gas or oil prices decline 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:20.479 markedly from about overall over one hundred dollars to hear 0:19:20.520 --> 0:19:23.040 about sixty or so dollars, which is where they were 0:19:23.119 --> 0:19:25.560 roughly before the start of Operation Epic Fury. And so 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:29.040 we're very confident that as the President forces a successful 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:33.600 conclusion to this Iranian situation, and we see oil prices 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:36.040 come down again and overall inflation comes down as well, 0:19:36.080 --> 0:19:38.720 but real wages will actually continue growing at the same 0:19:38.720 --> 0:19:41.680 way they were before. I mean, remember before the start 0:19:41.680 --> 0:19:44.280 of operation at the Fury, real wages were covered almost 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:46.720 half of what they had what they had lost during 0:19:46.800 --> 0:19:48.400 during Joe Biden's four. 0:19:48.280 --> 0:19:51.680 Years speak with Kush to signe the special assistant to 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:55.520 President Trump as well as the Deputy Press Secretary. So, Kush, 0:19:55.760 --> 0:19:58.320 I'm glad you brought that up in the whole Iran situation, 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:01.840 and my whole personal belief on all this has always 0:20:01.840 --> 0:20:05.760 been from day one that this strain has been basically 0:20:05.800 --> 0:20:09.439 self induced, meaning that yes, things are more expensive because 0:20:09.440 --> 0:20:11.760 it costs more to transport things from point A to 0:20:11.760 --> 0:20:14.600 point B, and that once the war with Iran is over, 0:20:15.040 --> 0:20:18.000 gas prices and everything else will immediately start tumbling and 0:20:18.040 --> 0:20:20.480 go back to normal. Am I just being very too 0:20:20.480 --> 0:20:23.359 simplistic about this, that things will actually go back to 0:20:23.400 --> 0:20:25.360 normal as soon as the Ran war stopped. 0:20:25.800 --> 0:20:28.560 No, that's exactly right. The reality is that from day one, 0:20:28.640 --> 0:20:31.919 President Trump has made a focus to unleash American energy 0:20:31.960 --> 0:20:34.240 and that's why oil and gas production the United States 0:20:34.800 --> 0:20:36.879 are at recornized. In fact, we're the largest oil and 0:20:36.880 --> 0:20:38.920 gas produced in the world, one of the largest oil 0:20:38.920 --> 0:20:41.760 and gas exports in the world, and so the fundamentals 0:20:41.800 --> 0:20:43.880 here are very strong. We're looking at some supply chain 0:20:43.920 --> 0:20:45.639 logjams really in the street of our moves in the 0:20:45.640 --> 0:20:48.240 Middle East. But once thing gets resolved, I mean again, 0:20:48.280 --> 0:20:51.560 the fundamentals here are just so strong. And the thing is, 0:20:51.600 --> 0:20:54.480 this isn't even hypothetical. We saw this happen a few 0:20:54.480 --> 0:20:57.920 short weeks ago when that initial MoU was signed, where 0:20:57.960 --> 0:21:00.679 where again oil prices went from well hundred dollars per 0:21:00.720 --> 0:21:03.240 ballot to into the sixty dollars per per ballot range, 0:21:03.280 --> 0:21:06.000 which is what they were, you know, a few months ago. 0:21:06.119 --> 0:21:09.320 So this isn't hypothetical. This is real. It's not over simplistic. 0:21:09.359 --> 0:21:11.800 This is the This is the reality of the market 0:21:11.800 --> 0:21:14.400 that we're living in, and it's precisely because of this 0:21:14.440 --> 0:21:15.680 president's energy policies. 0:21:16.119 --> 0:21:18.280 Speak of a cush to side the Special Assistant to 0:21:18.320 --> 0:21:21.679 President Trump and the Deputy Press Secretary. One of the 0:21:21.680 --> 0:21:24.040 things that came out was that Americans are saving two 0:21:24.080 --> 0:21:26.640 point seven percent of their paycheck. Now, that's a little 0:21:26.680 --> 0:21:29.879 lower than normal. But at the same point, can you 0:21:29.960 --> 0:21:33.360 explain to me why these numbers may not be exactly 0:21:33.400 --> 0:21:33.960 what they see? 0:21:34.960 --> 0:21:37.199 No, And the thing is, the savings rate is actually 0:21:37.480 --> 0:21:41.360 somewhat artificially low. Right now, are mechanically low. And that's 0:21:41.400 --> 0:21:44.040 because the American population has gotten a lot older. And 0:21:44.080 --> 0:21:46.960 so when you're a senior citizen and you're retired, you're 0:21:47.400 --> 0:21:49.200