1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: It's only about three hundred more weeks of him to 2 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:07,000 Speaker 1: get through, and then you'll be fine. Got to keep 3 00:00:07,040 --> 00:00:10,440 Speaker 1: clearing my throat. I'm not sick, I just my nose 4 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:12,000 Speaker 1: has been stuffed up for a week and a half. 5 00:00:12,039 --> 00:00:14,480 Speaker 1: It's just this ridiculously cold weather. It's gonna be in 6 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:21,280 Speaker 1: the forties today, fifties later this week in Alaska. Remember 7 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:22,759 Speaker 1: the Remember a couple weeks ago we had all that 8 00:00:22,840 --> 00:00:28,400 Speaker 1: snow on a Friday. Remember Bridgeport seven inches long, Island 9 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:34,120 Speaker 1: seven inches. It was harm seven inches through this weather Alaska. 10 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:37,760 Speaker 1: This is just the past couple of days. Seven feet 11 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:41,199 Speaker 1: of snow, seven feet of snow. You know here, if 12 00:00:41,240 --> 00:00:44,960 Speaker 1: you get an inch, there's already a school closings immediately Alaska. 13 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:46,519 Speaker 1: You got to get to about ten feet before they 14 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:49,360 Speaker 1: close the schools there. So we'll get to Venezuela, we'll 15 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:52,199 Speaker 1: get to Greenland, we'll get to Tim Waltz, we'll get 16 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:54,680 Speaker 1: to CBS News. They're getting a lot of flat. They've 17 00:00:54,720 --> 00:00:57,360 Speaker 1: been cleaning up the evening News, trying to make it 18 00:00:57,480 --> 00:01:00,520 Speaker 1: less corrupt, and they're getting a lot of fla. Hey, 19 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:03,640 Speaker 1: we'll get to that crazy George Conway who's running for 20 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:06,759 Speaker 1: Congress we'll get to mom. Donnie Hey. Speaking of getting 21 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:09,880 Speaker 1: a lot of flack, this Hilton story did not get 22 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:12,760 Speaker 1: a lot of coverage. But you know, there's Hilton is 23 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:15,319 Speaker 1: a great hotel chain. You got Hilton hotels all over 24 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:20,000 Speaker 1: the place, and there's one in the Minnesota where you know, 25 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:23,000 Speaker 1: ICE when they go into these cities, you don't realize 26 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:25,880 Speaker 1: all the logistics that are required. And I forget arresting 27 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:31,440 Speaker 1: the criminals, the criminal illegals, just the logistics of getting 28 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:33,200 Speaker 1: them all there. If you want to send one hundred 29 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:36,840 Speaker 1: ICE agents there, you got to move them there. All 30 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:40,080 Speaker 1: their equipment, everything, their vehicles, everything has to be moved there. 31 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:41,720 Speaker 1: And then you got to find a hotel for them 32 00:01:41,720 --> 00:01:43,959 Speaker 1: to stay in. So in every city they have to 33 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:48,920 Speaker 1: book one hundred hotel rooms. Although well, government likes to 34 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:51,840 Speaker 1: waste money. But although it might be you know, they 35 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:54,640 Speaker 1: double up, so it's fifty hotel rooms, two in a room, whatever. 36 00:01:55,120 --> 00:02:00,120 Speaker 1: But in Minneapolis they used here it is again in Minneapolis, 37 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:05,680 Speaker 1: they used a Hilton hotel to have the ICE agents stay, well, 38 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:09,920 Speaker 1: the local Hilton hotel employees. You know, it's a Minnesota 39 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:15,359 Speaker 1: and they were crazy left wing, childish democrats, woke democrats, 40 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:17,560 Speaker 1: so they found out these were Ice people coming to 41 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:21,040 Speaker 1: stay in the hotel, so they canceled the reservation and 42 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:23,680 Speaker 1: informed Ice that they were not welcome to stay in 43 00:02:23,720 --> 00:02:29,360 Speaker 1: this Hilton hotel. Well, you can't do that, of course, 44 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:33,840 Speaker 1: that's ridiculous. Now, it's not the fault of Hilton the corporation. 45 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:38,040 Speaker 1: It's these employees in this local hotel, and it turns 46 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:40,160 Speaker 1: out it's not owned by Hilton. You know, many of 47 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:43,120 Speaker 1: these hotels are owned and built by Hilton, but a 48 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:45,880 Speaker 1: lot of these hotels you stay in were just built 49 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:48,000 Speaker 1: by the local guy who built a hotel and then 50 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:49,960 Speaker 1: he makes a deal with Hilton to come in and 51 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:52,000 Speaker 1: run it and put their name on it. It's a 52 00:02:52,040 --> 00:02:55,240 Speaker 1: franchise you can buy, so you can build yourself a 53 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:59,280 Speaker 1: beautiful hotel and then you get Marriott to be the 54 00:02:59,639 --> 00:03:01,919 Speaker 1: name on it and run it. You have to make 55 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:04,400 Speaker 1: a partnership franchise agreement with them. In this case, it 56 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:08,200 Speaker 1: was Hilton. So Hilton looked into this and they immediately 57 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:11,799 Speaker 1: withdrew the franchise. They fired this local owner and hotel. 58 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:14,200 Speaker 1: They took their name off the hotel. They will have 59 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:16,639 Speaker 1: nothing to do with this hotel anymore. It's against their 60 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:20,840 Speaker 1: policy to discriminate against people because of their race, or 61 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:22,400 Speaker 1: because you don't like the way they look, or you 62 00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:26,320 Speaker 1: don't like their politics. You can't discriminate and refuse to 63 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:30,520 Speaker 1: give them a room. So Hilton has withdrawn the franchise. 64 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:32,680 Speaker 1: They will have nothing to do with Hotel anymore. So now, 65 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:35,280 Speaker 1: of course, the left wing cooks are all going after Hilton, 66 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:39,640 Speaker 1: denouncing Hilton, writing about Hilton. Here's one of these left 67 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:44,640 Speaker 1: wing cooks. Hilton was trying to protect people from government 68 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:48,960 Speaker 1: thugs who separate people from their families. They separate families. 69 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:49,680 Speaker 2: Well. 70 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:53,800 Speaker 1: First of all, every law enforcement agency in the world 71 00:03:54,040 --> 00:03:58,160 Speaker 1: separates families. The New York City police separate families. The 72 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:02,360 Speaker 1: Minneapolis police separate whenever anybody's arrested. If they arrest a woman, 73 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:05,400 Speaker 1: say a mother, and they arrest her and have to 74 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:08,280 Speaker 1: arrest her, take her in handcuff her, take her to jail. 75 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:10,920 Speaker 1: That you can't bring your kids with you. You're separated. 76 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:13,600 Speaker 1: The kids have to stay with a relative or something, 77 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:16,960 Speaker 1: or if there's nobody, they go into child services. But 78 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:22,440 Speaker 1: every law enforcement agency separates families. Every arrest, families are separated. 79 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:26,040 Speaker 1: So Hilton getting a lot of flack. Now, you know, 80 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:28,200 Speaker 1: who else is getting a lot of flax. CBS News 81 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:33,280 Speaker 1: because the new woman in charge, Barry Weiss, decided to 82 00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:35,960 Speaker 1: clean up the corruption over there and try to make 83 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:39,279 Speaker 1: it a little more fair and balanced. So normally you 84 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:41,919 Speaker 1: watch the CBS Evening News, all they do is denounce 85 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:45,760 Speaker 1: the President, denounce the administration, call them all kinds of names. 86 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:49,839 Speaker 1: Whatever they do, it's awful. So the new CBS News 87 00:04:50,440 --> 00:04:52,440 Speaker 1: under Berry Weiss, they put in a new anchor. This 88 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:55,559 Speaker 1: guy's pretty good. It's off to a rough, rocky start, 89 00:04:55,640 --> 00:04:58,640 Speaker 1: but he's pretty good. He'll he'll slowly, you know, he 90 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:01,920 Speaker 1: actually get some pretty good ank. This David Muher, you know, 91 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:05,160 Speaker 1: might be a little slanted, but he's a sharp look 92 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:08,200 Speaker 1: and it's a great newscast. The ABC Evening News and 93 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:11,360 Speaker 1: the new NBC News anchor. I can't remember his name, 94 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:15,520 Speaker 1: Tom Yamas. That's his name, Tom Yamas. He's actually I 95 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:17,919 Speaker 1: like Lester Holdy was a nice guy. Totally corrupt on 96 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:20,440 Speaker 1: the air, totally biased, but he's a nice guy. This 97 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:23,719 Speaker 1: guy's sharper, better, quicker, and the same thing with CBS. 98 00:05:23,760 --> 00:05:27,159 Speaker 1: This guy's pretty good. But they've decided to make the 99 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:30,640 Speaker 1: newscast fair. So every night they'll go after the Trump 100 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:33,400 Speaker 1: administration a little with the language because it's still being 101 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:36,720 Speaker 1: written by CBS newswriters. But they'll be fair, they'll put 102 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:40,240 Speaker 1: the other side. On the first night of this new guy, 103 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:43,719 Speaker 1: he gave Pete Hegxith three segments on the New three 104 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:46,919 Speaker 1: segments on the Evening News to respond. And then it 105 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:49,280 Speaker 1: was Marco Rubio one night. They brought him on live 106 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:52,159 Speaker 1: and whatever they said bad about Trump, they put on Rubio, 107 00:05:52,279 --> 00:05:55,919 Speaker 1: let him respond. And then Christy Nome, whatever the attack was, 108 00:05:55,960 --> 00:05:58,520 Speaker 1: they then put went to her, put her on live 109 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:01,120 Speaker 1: on the news and let her respond. That's the fair 110 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:03,960 Speaker 1: thing to do, so you're supposed to do so. CBS 111 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:06,839 Speaker 1: News getting all kinds of flak from left wing critics 112 00:06:06,880 --> 00:06:10,520 Speaker 1: now attacking them like crazy. Here's one the call says it. 113 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:14,560 Speaker 1: Now it's become Fox News light. They're shilling for the administration, 114 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:19,560 Speaker 1: just giving the other the other side of chance to respond. 115 00:06:19,640 --> 00:06:24,880 Speaker 1: That's shilling for the administration. So uh, changes are happening. 116 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:27,080 Speaker 1: And remember this is only the first year of Donald Trump. 117 00:06:27,120 --> 00:06:30,320 Speaker 1: Give them two three years and we'll see what happens. Now, 118 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:34,919 Speaker 1: all this Greenland talk, you know, I feel bad for 119 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:37,359 Speaker 1: the Democrats. This is costing them a fortune. You know, 120 00:06:37,400 --> 00:06:40,160 Speaker 1: they all had to go out and buy Ukrainian flags 121 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:44,200 Speaker 1: to wave around. And then all the trouble in Israel 122 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:46,000 Speaker 1: they had and they had to go out and you know, 123 00:06:46,040 --> 00:06:47,440 Speaker 1: get rid of the flags. They had to go out 124 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:51,599 Speaker 1: and buy a Hamas flags and Palestinian flags to wave around. 125 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:53,680 Speaker 1: I mean every second they got to buy a new flat. 126 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:56,400 Speaker 1: Then ice they had, all these liberals had to go 127 00:06:56,440 --> 00:07:00,359 Speaker 1: buy Mexican flags, and now they all got to go 128 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:03,359 Speaker 1: buy Venezuelan flags. You know, they're spending a fortune on flags. 129 00:07:03,560 --> 00:07:05,360 Speaker 1: Had I known this was going to happen, I would 130 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:09,520 Speaker 1: have bought stock and flag companies a couple of years ago. 131 00:07:09,560 --> 00:07:12,239 Speaker 1: But it just you go into any left wing kook 132 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:16,600 Speaker 1: woke democrats home, there's a closet now filled with different flags. Hey, 133 00:07:16,640 --> 00:07:19,720 Speaker 1: by the way, a lot of this stuff, these protests 134 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:24,720 Speaker 1: are funded organized. They're not organic or natural. Many of 135 00:07:24,760 --> 00:07:28,640 Speaker 1: them paid for by Soros and those other oligarchs. The 136 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:32,440 Speaker 1: Democrat oligarchs like Soros fund them. Nicole what's his name, 137 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:37,680 Speaker 1: Reid Hoffman. Reid Hoffman. So the president and the administration 138 00:07:38,080 --> 00:07:40,560 Speaker 1: for they've hinted at this, but for the first time 139 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:43,840 Speaker 1: ever they said they're looking at going after them harmit. 140 00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:46,160 Speaker 1: Dillon and others in the Department of Justice now talking 141 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:50,680 Speaker 1: about conspiracy charges against them. When you see what looks 142 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:53,760 Speaker 1: supposed to be just an organic protest that happened all 143 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:58,880 Speaker 1: of a sudden over Venezuela, they all two hundred of them, 144 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:01,640 Speaker 1: have all the same equipment. They have the same exact 145 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:05,560 Speaker 1: signs from the same printer, and they're real high quality, 146 00:08:05,640 --> 00:08:09,560 Speaker 1: glossy printed signs, really expensive. Well, so this is all 147 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:12,760 Speaker 1: being funded by these Soros type zillionaires. But now they're 148 00:08:12,760 --> 00:08:18,440 Speaker 1: talking about rico charges, conspiracy charges funding protests, so finally 149 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:22,240 Speaker 1: something may be done about that. So the Venezuela talk. 150 00:08:23,040 --> 00:08:25,840 Speaker 1: Now here's the other thing. The President talking about Greenland 151 00:08:25,880 --> 00:08:28,960 Speaker 1: taking over Greenland, hinting at the military go in there 152 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:31,560 Speaker 1: and sees Greenland. He's not going to do that. It's 153 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:35,040 Speaker 1: not going to be the military. First of all, the 154 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:38,920 Speaker 1: military seizing Greenland. A boy Scout troop could take over 155 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:41,520 Speaker 1: Greenland in about half an hour. I mean, it would 156 00:08:41,559 --> 00:08:44,640 Speaker 1: take twenty minutes to seize Greenland. So what he wants 157 00:08:44,679 --> 00:08:49,560 Speaker 1: is to buy it from Denmark. Denmark owns Greenland. And 158 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:51,559 Speaker 1: there was a time a while back where they were 159 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:54,600 Speaker 1: actually kind of interested in talking about it because the 160 00:08:54,679 --> 00:08:57,559 Speaker 1: price was going to be billions of dollars for Greenland 161 00:08:57,600 --> 00:09:03,200 Speaker 1: and they needed the money. Denmark's economy in trouble, a big, huge, huge, 162 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:06,280 Speaker 1: huge deficit and debt. Well, one of the things that 163 00:09:06,360 --> 00:09:09,720 Speaker 1: saved them was that ozempic because apparently some of the 164 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:15,480 Speaker 1: original whatever it is from ozempic made in Greenland in Denmark, 165 00:09:15,559 --> 00:09:17,400 Speaker 1: and they've made a fortune off it, which made up 166 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:22,120 Speaker 1: a lot of their deficit. But US wants Greenland, they'd 167 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:23,600 Speaker 1: like to buy it. They'd like to work out an 168 00:09:23,640 --> 00:09:25,880 Speaker 1: agreement to buy it and pay for it and then 169 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:28,600 Speaker 1: own it. But that's the reason for all this invasion 170 00:09:28,679 --> 00:09:33,160 Speaker 1: military to it's just negotiating, just negotiating. There's no chance 171 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:37,360 Speaker 1: of actually invading Greenland or taking it over. But it's 172 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:40,280 Speaker 1: a very valuable thing for the US. It's very important, 173 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:44,200 Speaker 1: crucial military base for US, crucial as far as shipping lanes. 174 00:09:44,240 --> 00:09:48,120 Speaker 1: It has all kinds of defense strategic reasons why we 175 00:09:48,160 --> 00:09:52,520 Speaker 1: need to have Greenland. Also, it's filled with valuable minerals 176 00:09:52,559 --> 00:09:55,199 Speaker 1: and stuff. So it's a win win to take Greenland. 177 00:09:55,240 --> 00:09:58,720 Speaker 1: And Denmark really doesn't need it for any defense purposes 178 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:02,640 Speaker 1: or strategic purposes or military base purposes, and then there's 179 00:10:02,640 --> 00:10:05,120 Speaker 1: always the fear for all those same reasons that the 180 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:08,960 Speaker 1: Russia or somebody else could take it over President Trump. 181 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:13,760 Speaker 1: You know, remember Joe Biden, remember him, And maybe once 182 00:10:13,800 --> 00:10:16,840 Speaker 1: a year he tried to do a press conference and 183 00:10:16,880 --> 00:10:20,240 Speaker 1: they'd call on three people where they were already picked beforehand, 184 00:10:20,679 --> 00:10:23,559 Speaker 1: questions and answers written out right in front of Joe. 185 00:10:23,640 --> 00:10:26,880 Speaker 1: And they had to put a big card with the 186 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:29,200 Speaker 1: reporter's name so Joe could call on him, and the 187 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:32,520 Speaker 1: reporter's picture so he'd recognize them. And they used a 188 00:10:32,520 --> 00:10:35,160 Speaker 1: real big font you know, so Joe could see it. 189 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:38,120 Speaker 1: Those are the old days. Now it's President Trump every 190 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:40,760 Speaker 1: two seconds of press conference, anytime he's walking in the hall, 191 00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:45,640 Speaker 1: anytime the reporter's there, he'll answer questions, he'll talk to 192 00:10:45,679 --> 00:10:47,560 Speaker 1: them on They all have a cell number. They can 193 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:50,760 Speaker 1: call him anytime. Hundreds and hundreds of these reporters have 194 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:54,600 Speaker 1: a cell number. Even this crazy Joe Scarborough, right after 195 00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:57,679 Speaker 1: Venezuela or the Greenland stuff started, he said he called 196 00:10:57,720 --> 00:11:01,680 Speaker 1: the President Trump and talked to him for twenty minutes Greenland. 197 00:11:01,760 --> 00:11:04,400 Speaker 1: I mean, that's how open he is. He'll talk to 198 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:07,280 Speaker 1: Joe Scarborough on the phone for twenty minutes. But wherever 199 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:10,880 Speaker 1: he is, you immediately can talk to him. He'll answer questions. 200 00:11:11,440 --> 00:11:13,200 Speaker 1: You see, even when he's on the plane, he'll come 201 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:15,880 Speaker 1: out of the private cabin and answer questions for a 202 00:11:15,920 --> 00:11:19,320 Speaker 1: half hours. So anyway, the whole thing is it's a 203 00:11:19,320 --> 00:11:23,400 Speaker 1: winning situation in Venezuela. And he talked about that, you 204 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:25,840 Speaker 1: got to win the midterms. Oh, okay, the midterms. Now 205 00:11:26,160 --> 00:11:29,560 Speaker 1: this is the other thing. How does this affect the midterms? Well, 206 00:11:31,080 --> 00:11:35,320 Speaker 1: gas prices will come down even more. They've come down dramatically. Hey, 207 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:38,679 Speaker 1: By the way, it's another side issue. Gas has come 208 00:11:38,720 --> 00:11:41,280 Speaker 1: down to two fifty a gallon, two seventy five a gallon. 209 00:11:41,679 --> 00:11:43,679 Speaker 1: It was four dollars under Joe bidden It's now two 210 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:50,520 Speaker 1: fifty everywhere except New York, and except California. It's two 211 00:11:50,559 --> 00:11:53,360 Speaker 1: fifty everywhere you go in the country. Two seventy five. 212 00:11:53,480 --> 00:11:55,640 Speaker 1: In New York it's still four dollars, four to fifty. 213 00:11:55,720 --> 00:11:59,960 Speaker 1: California it's five. Nobody is you have totally corrupt meat. 214 00:12:00,280 --> 00:12:03,319 Speaker 1: Otherwise they'd be all over these two governors at demanding 215 00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:05,920 Speaker 1: to know why they haven't let the gas prices come down. 216 00:12:05,960 --> 00:12:09,040 Speaker 1: The reason hasn't come down here, the state will just 217 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:11,720 Speaker 1: add the taxes to make up for it and keep it. 218 00:12:12,080 --> 00:12:16,520 Speaker 1: So gas prices are way down all over America with Venezuela. 219 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:20,440 Speaker 1: Now we're going to get fifty million gallons immediately of 220 00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:24,000 Speaker 1: their oil. That'll bring down prices even more. A lot 221 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:26,120 Speaker 1: of the drilling that started is starting to kick in. 222 00:12:26,520 --> 00:12:29,880 Speaker 1: So also, you're going to have the tax cuts take 223 00:12:29,920 --> 00:12:33,240 Speaker 1: effect now finally, since New Year's Day, they're now in effect. 224 00:12:33,280 --> 00:12:35,840 Speaker 1: People to get more money in their paychecks. So that's 225 00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:39,040 Speaker 1: going to help Republicans in the midterm, and that's important. 226 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:41,520 Speaker 3: You got to win the midterms because if we don't 227 00:12:41,520 --> 00:12:46,160 Speaker 3: win the midterms, it's just going to be I mean, 228 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:47,800 Speaker 3: they'll find a reason to impeach me. 229 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:51,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, there'll be an impeachment a week. But on the 230 00:12:51,559 --> 00:12:54,319 Speaker 1: other hand, when they do their remember first term was 231 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:57,200 Speaker 1: an impeachment once every year, every spring. This will be 232 00:12:57,240 --> 00:13:00,360 Speaker 1: every month, and then they'll totally devalue the whole idea 233 00:13:00,360 --> 00:13:02,840 Speaker 1: of impeachment will mean nothing after a while. Now, the 234 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:07,040 Speaker 1: only time bomb there is a healthcare costs. Obamacare turns 235 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:11,120 Speaker 1: out to be totally unworkable. In fact, they called it 236 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:13,600 Speaker 1: the Affordable Care Act. All it did was drive prices 237 00:13:13,679 --> 00:13:17,240 Speaker 1: up like crazy, which was to be expected. Anytime you 238 00:13:17,320 --> 00:13:19,200 Speaker 1: take anything out of the private sector and have the 239 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:22,520 Speaker 1: government run it, it gets much more expensive. And it 240 00:13:22,559 --> 00:13:24,480 Speaker 1: got so out of control that they had to start 241 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:28,680 Speaker 1: giving subsidies to pay for it. It's the Affordable Care Act, 242 00:13:28,679 --> 00:13:30,960 Speaker 1: but it's so unaffordable you have to have a government 243 00:13:31,080 --> 00:13:34,199 Speaker 1: subsidy to be able to afford it. So that expired. 244 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:37,320 Speaker 1: Now they're going to have possible you know, one of 245 00:13:37,320 --> 00:13:40,160 Speaker 1: those shutdown talk things again at the end of the month. 246 00:13:42,120 --> 00:13:47,120 Speaker 1: Democrats want to just keep the subsidy going forever, just 247 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:51,120 Speaker 1: subsidize it. President Trump, being a logical businessman types as well, 248 00:13:51,120 --> 00:13:54,600 Speaker 1: why don't we fix it so it actually is affordable, 249 00:13:54,960 --> 00:13:58,080 Speaker 1: privatize a lot of it, make it more efficient, get 250 00:13:58,120 --> 00:14:03,319 Speaker 1: all the crazy, you know, crazy corruption and complication out 251 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:06,920 Speaker 1: of it, and make it simple. And I mean, that's 252 00:14:06,920 --> 00:14:08,960 Speaker 1: the logical thing to do. But Democrats don't want that. 253 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:11,560 Speaker 1: So healthcare will be crucial in the midterms. We could 254 00:14:11,559 --> 00:14:11,960 Speaker 1: have had. 255 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:15,840 Speaker 3: Healthcare good healthcare. Obamacare is bad and the people understand 256 00:14:15,880 --> 00:14:19,120 Speaker 3: it's bad, and the premiums are horrible. But one thing 257 00:14:19,120 --> 00:14:22,440 Speaker 3: I've learned, I've learned a lot about healthcare. I found 258 00:14:22,480 --> 00:14:27,200 Speaker 3: healthcare so sort of like, not of tremendous interest, but 259 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:28,400 Speaker 3: it was very important. 260 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:32,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, so again all day long. You can talk to him. 261 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:36,080 Speaker 1: Reporters can talk to him anytime, ask him anything. Now 262 00:14:36,120 --> 00:14:37,960 Speaker 1: he's a more important issue. You know how he does 263 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:42,440 Speaker 1: that dance and aver there's music, he starts dancing. So 264 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:44,920 Speaker 1: he was asked about that. This is interesting. Now, his wife, 265 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:48,920 Speaker 1: Malania is a very dignified, very elegant woman, and there 266 00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:50,920 Speaker 1: he is dancing, and he was asked about it. 267 00:14:51,040 --> 00:14:55,440 Speaker 3: My wife hates when I do this, she said. You know, 268 00:14:55,560 --> 00:15:01,000 Speaker 3: she's a very classy person. Right, she said, it's so presidential, 269 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:05,680 Speaker 3: he said, but I did become president somebody she hates 270 00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:11,520 Speaker 3: when I dance. I said, everybody wants darling. It's not presidential. 271 00:15:12,160 --> 00:15:15,600 Speaker 1: Well, okay, that's true, but ninety percent of what he 272 00:15:15,640 --> 00:15:18,960 Speaker 1: does isn't presidential. He breaks all the rules and he 273 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:21,320 Speaker 1: knows how to do it and be successful at it. 274 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:23,600 Speaker 1: But I can understand her saying that. 275 00:15:23,640 --> 00:15:26,960 Speaker 3: She said, could you imagine after you are dancing? She 276 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:32,440 Speaker 3: said that to me, and I said, there's a long 277 00:15:32,560 --> 00:15:38,400 Speaker 3: history that perhaps she doesn't know. Because he was an 278 00:15:38,440 --> 00:15:41,040 Speaker 3: elegant fellow, even as a Democrat. 279 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:46,360 Speaker 1: Right, yeah, but again, I've known Donald Trump, I don't know, 280 00:15:46,400 --> 00:15:50,400 Speaker 1: thirty five years and the decades before he was president. 281 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:52,960 Speaker 1: It was all the same thing as a top big 282 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:56,520 Speaker 1: business guy in New York real estate. Everybody in that 283 00:15:56,560 --> 00:15:58,080 Speaker 1: world was why does he have to be Why does 284 00:15:58,120 --> 00:15:59,280 Speaker 1: he have to do that? Why does he have to 285 00:15:59,280 --> 00:16:01,400 Speaker 1: behave like it? You know how to back? Doesn't he know? 286 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:03,560 Speaker 1: So this has been gone on his whole life. He's 287 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:07,200 Speaker 1: perfected this system of breaking all the rules. His instincts 288 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:09,480 Speaker 1: are great. He makes it work. Hey, coming up, we'll 289 00:16:09,480 --> 00:16:14,320 Speaker 1: get to George Conway, this crazy nutjob Democrat wants to 290 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:16,920 Speaker 1: run for Congress here in New York. We'll get to 291 00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:20,440 Speaker 1: that and more. Coming up, we'll take some calls. Next 292 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:23,720 Speaker 1: eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten is 293 00:16:23,760 --> 00:16:28,000 Speaker 1: the number. Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten. 294 00:16:28,360 --> 00:16:34,360 Speaker 1: Go to Adam in New Jersey. Adam, how you doing? Adam? 295 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:34,880 Speaker 4: Hello? 296 00:16:35,240 --> 00:16:36,640 Speaker 1: Yeah? We did wake you did? We? 297 00:16:36,760 --> 00:16:37,080 Speaker 5: Yes? 298 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:37,840 Speaker 1: Yeah? 299 00:16:37,880 --> 00:16:39,680 Speaker 5: No? No, no, no no no how are you? 300 00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:44,960 Speaker 1: Let me check? Not bad anytime? Just jump in whenever 301 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:45,520 Speaker 1: you feel like it. 302 00:16:46,880 --> 00:16:49,680 Speaker 5: Okay, run am I on there ready or. 303 00:16:49,760 --> 00:16:51,080 Speaker 1: It sounds like around something, but. 304 00:16:53,040 --> 00:16:54,640 Speaker 5: All right, So this is Mark. 305 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:56,480 Speaker 1: Let me see Mark. Listen. 306 00:16:56,880 --> 00:17:01,000 Speaker 5: I'm glad you're there. But I heard that China and 307 00:17:01,040 --> 00:17:05,040 Speaker 5: Russia have already pay Venezuela and oil right for the 308 00:17:05,080 --> 00:17:10,639 Speaker 5: fields for oil rights in the fields of Venezuela. Did 309 00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:14,040 Speaker 5: they get their money back or what's your thoughts on that? 310 00:17:14,119 --> 00:17:15,800 Speaker 1: Well, I don't think it's like Amazon where you can 311 00:17:15,880 --> 00:17:18,040 Speaker 1: just send it back and get the refined. 312 00:17:18,080 --> 00:17:18,159 Speaker 5: No. 313 00:17:18,760 --> 00:17:20,840 Speaker 1: Well, there's another reason we went into Venezuela. You have 314 00:17:20,960 --> 00:17:26,600 Speaker 1: all sorts of Russia, China, Iran, Cuba, everybody in there 315 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:28,960 Speaker 1: doing god knows what it was like the axis of 316 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:31,840 Speaker 1: evil all over again. That's another reason to break all 317 00:17:31,880 --> 00:17:34,040 Speaker 1: that up. Let's go to Mike in Florida. Mike, how 318 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:34,480 Speaker 1: you doing. 319 00:17:35,480 --> 00:17:36,240 Speaker 4: Good morning, Mark. 320 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:36,800 Speaker 1: Yes, Mike. 321 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:41,080 Speaker 4: The Democrats are very good at controlling the language. So 322 00:17:41,119 --> 00:17:44,200 Speaker 4: there's always the equal such and such, you know, the 323 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:48,399 Speaker 4: Act and the fair so and so law. And affordability 324 00:17:48,480 --> 00:17:50,520 Speaker 4: is the current one. And the funny thing is, you 325 00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:53,119 Speaker 4: know what's not as affordable as it once was? Everything? 326 00:17:53,560 --> 00:17:56,199 Speaker 4: I mean, you know, you watched Andy Grifford Show, and 327 00:17:56,520 --> 00:17:58,439 Speaker 4: you know a haircut was fifty cents last time I 328 00:17:58,440 --> 00:18:00,960 Speaker 4: went to get a haircut down here far seventeen dollars 329 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:03,000 Speaker 4: and it's a number two once around the head. You know, 330 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:06,399 Speaker 4: it's like, you know, not even any. 331 00:18:05,560 --> 00:18:07,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that's true of old TV. You know, you 332 00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:10,160 Speaker 1: watch a TV show from nineteen sixty and the guy says, 333 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:12,240 Speaker 1: I'll give you a five hundred dollars. You know, you 334 00:18:12,240 --> 00:18:16,080 Speaker 1: don't realize that's like ten thousand today. So but no, 335 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:20,320 Speaker 1: that's a good point. Yeah, this affordability is an interesting thing. Obviously, 336 00:18:20,680 --> 00:18:23,800 Speaker 1: it's always about the economy. You remember when Bill Clinton 337 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:27,119 Speaker 1: ran and carvill famously said, it's the economy, stupid, It's 338 00:18:27,119 --> 00:18:33,080 Speaker 1: always the economy. But Democrats last year did extensive testing 339 00:18:33,119 --> 00:18:37,280 Speaker 1: with focus groups, seriously, and they came on the word 340 00:18:37,280 --> 00:18:41,399 Speaker 1: affordability in the focus groups and it tested through the roof. 341 00:18:42,040 --> 00:18:46,040 Speaker 1: So they zero it in on that word affordability, affordability. 342 00:18:46,359 --> 00:18:48,840 Speaker 1: And it's not that they're so good at messaging. It's 343 00:18:48,880 --> 00:18:53,720 Speaker 1: just the corruption where the every inch of media, anchors, newspaper, 344 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:57,600 Speaker 1: they're all in cahoots with them. And if they drill 345 00:18:57,640 --> 00:18:59,800 Speaker 1: it into your head over and over and over and 346 00:19:00,359 --> 00:19:02,760 Speaker 1: you start to believe it, affordability crisis. If that's all 347 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:06,320 Speaker 1: you see day and night, everywhere you turn, affordability crisis. 348 00:19:06,760 --> 00:19:09,679 Speaker 1: You'll start to think there's an affordability crisis. You know, 349 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:11,200 Speaker 1: they did that with Curtis in the race. 350 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:12,119 Speaker 5: Uh. 351 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:14,160 Speaker 1: You know, Curtis had as good a chance as Mam 352 00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:16,479 Speaker 1: Donnie in the beginning. I mean, if you look at 353 00:19:16,480 --> 00:19:19,320 Speaker 1: these two guys on paper, Mam Donnie never had a 354 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:22,760 Speaker 1: job twelve years old. I mean, on paper, this guy 355 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:25,880 Speaker 1: has no chance. But they kept doing that over and over. 356 00:19:25,920 --> 00:19:27,720 Speaker 1: Twenty four to seven. All you heard was Curtis can't win. 357 00:19:27,760 --> 00:19:29,359 Speaker 1: CURTI Yeah, well Curtis is great, but he can't win. 358 00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:31,160 Speaker 1: He can't win, he can't win. Well, after a while 359 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:34,280 Speaker 1: people start to believe this. Let's go to uh, let's 360 00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:36,440 Speaker 1: go to Vincent and Brooklyn. Vincent, how you doing. 361 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:39,679 Speaker 6: I'm doing good, Mark, Mark. Every time I hear his 362 00:19:39,760 --> 00:19:43,719 Speaker 6: word affordability, I'm going to say, the government is the first, 363 00:19:45,680 --> 00:19:51,160 Speaker 6: the first person that causes uh unaffordability in the City 364 00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:54,680 Speaker 6: of New York. Like this latest bonehead idea that got 365 00:19:55,680 --> 00:19:59,760 Speaker 6: the city Council a couple of months ago pass this law. 366 00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:04,080 Speaker 6: It wasn't veto proof. They passed this law that if 367 00:20:04,119 --> 00:20:06,200 Speaker 6: you're going to sell you if you have a private 368 00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:09,000 Speaker 6: building and you're gonna sell it, you have to offer 369 00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:14,360 Speaker 6: it to one of sixteen nonprofit agencies that the city's 370 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:18,080 Speaker 6: gonna tell you. You have to offer it to them first, 371 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:21,080 Speaker 6: and if den if they don't want it, you could 372 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:25,119 Speaker 6: sell it privately. And even then, if you're in before 373 00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:28,320 Speaker 6: you go into contract, you have to offer it to 374 00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:35,760 Speaker 6: these sixteen probably not nonprofit communist agencies. Well, I spoke 375 00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:40,200 Speaker 6: actually to a lawyer about this, and this is totally unconstitutional. 376 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:43,880 Speaker 6: The problem is is the New York City courts are 377 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:47,160 Speaker 6: all rigged with these left wing nut jobs. So it's 378 00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:48,080 Speaker 6: gonna that's. 379 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:49,320 Speaker 1: What happened to Donald Trump. And let me ask you 380 00:20:49,359 --> 00:20:51,000 Speaker 1: a question. You're a smart guy. You could be in 381 00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:53,920 Speaker 1: any business you want. Why would anybody be a owner 382 00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:56,359 Speaker 1: of an apartment building or a landlord? It's got to 383 00:20:56,400 --> 00:20:59,919 Speaker 1: be the most difficult, troubled, the kind of way, just 384 00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:01,560 Speaker 1: NonStop problems, isn't it? 385 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:01,840 Speaker 2: Mark? 386 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:05,800 Speaker 6: These days? It is especially Mandami the other day appointed 387 00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:10,919 Speaker 6: this so called tenants rights advocate. Her name is CEA Weaver, 388 00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:14,360 Speaker 6: and she actually went on the air in an interview 389 00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:19,600 Speaker 6: and says, we have to rethink private property rights. 390 00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:21,520 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, no, I'll give me a better one. Let 391 00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:25,080 Speaker 1: me see here's an actual quote for her home ownership 392 00:21:25,119 --> 00:21:28,080 Speaker 1: is a weapon of white supremacy exactly. 393 00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:32,040 Speaker 6: And then she goes on to say that we're going 394 00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:38,720 Speaker 6: to attack white neighborhoods more than minority neighborhood so forth 395 00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:42,000 Speaker 6: and so on. I actually spoke to a lawyer about 396 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:46,320 Speaker 6: this and he did tell me this is totally unconsciousness. 397 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:49,040 Speaker 1: It is, but you know, it's New York. But we 398 00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:50,840 Speaker 1: got to go for the news with great call. We'll 399 00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:52,879 Speaker 1: get back to that woman and some of her crazy 400 00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:55,560 Speaker 1: Mondannie just put her in charge of housing. Well, we'll 401 00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:57,280 Speaker 1: get to her in the next hour. But you know, 402 00:21:57,320 --> 00:21:59,760 Speaker 1: we bring you the smartest people on earth will do 403 00:21:59,840 --> 00:22:02,959 Speaker 1: that in the moment. Steve Forbes will be with us. 404 00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:05,560 Speaker 1: He can explain a lot of this stuff in a 405 00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:08,080 Speaker 1: very rational way with the Steve Forbes next on seven 406 00:22:08,040 --> 00:22:11,840 Speaker 1: to ten wo r Steve Forbes, of course, the chairman, 407 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:14,800 Speaker 1: editor in chief Forbes Media. Also, you know he's the 408 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:17,560 Speaker 1: best selling author. You should get his latest book, Inflation. 409 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:20,280 Speaker 1: There is no better book on the subject. Just go 410 00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:23,760 Speaker 1: to Amazon. You can get it there. Inflation, excellent book. 411 00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:25,040 Speaker 1: Steve Forbes, How are you. 412 00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:27,080 Speaker 2: Doing fine? 413 00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:27,399 Speaker 1: Thanks? 414 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:30,440 Speaker 2: How are you in this new year? Lots happening. Seems 415 00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:33,280 Speaker 2: like the year's half over already with everything that's going on. 416 00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:37,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, speaking of hey, we're talking about affordability. Democrats found 417 00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:42,520 Speaker 1: that word through focus groups, affordability. But it has improved 418 00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:45,919 Speaker 1: a lot in the last year, hasn't it. 419 00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:48,520 Speaker 2: The real progress is being made. One of the things 420 00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:52,280 Speaker 2: I think the Trump President Trump and his team underestimated 421 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:54,760 Speaker 2: was how big of a mess they were actually inherited 422 00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:59,480 Speaker 2: from the Biden administration. But when you go down the 423 00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:01,320 Speaker 2: list of what they've done and what I hope they're 424 00:23:01,359 --> 00:23:04,359 Speaker 2: going to be doing this year, it's impressive. One of 425 00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:07,160 Speaker 2: the most boring subjects in the world, of course, is regulation. 426 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:11,280 Speaker 2: It's not the kind of thing that has people really aroused, 427 00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:14,600 Speaker 2: but it's been a huge drain, huge burden on American 428 00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:18,119 Speaker 2: manufacturing and what they've done and things like with evs. 429 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:22,520 Speaker 2: You know, if they make these regulations permanent through legislation, 430 00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:25,200 Speaker 2: the auto industry is going to have a revival and 431 00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:28,119 Speaker 2: renaissance that we haven't seen since the nineteen fifties and 432 00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:31,480 Speaker 2: nineteen sixties in terms of new designs and new ways 433 00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:34,280 Speaker 2: of doing things instead of everything looking like a jelly 434 00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:38,640 Speaker 2: bean because of government regulations. So they're doing really really 435 00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:41,320 Speaker 2: important things. Hundreds of billions of dollars are going to 436 00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:44,399 Speaker 2: be saved through a deregulation. The tax cut is a 437 00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:47,960 Speaker 2: savior of preserving the twenty seventeen tax cuts, but also 438 00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:52,160 Speaker 2: the big write offs for investment in manufacturing and businesses 439 00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:54,639 Speaker 2: today is going to kick in. And one of the 440 00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:56,920 Speaker 2: things they're talking about, which I hope they'll do Mark, 441 00:23:57,240 --> 00:24:00,639 Speaker 2: is have a second reconciliation bill and cut personal income 442 00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:03,560 Speaker 2: tax rates, cut the corporate rate, which President Trump wanted 443 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:06,280 Speaker 2: to do from twenty one to fifteen percent, cut the 444 00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:09,800 Speaker 2: capital gains, which that should be a no brainer. It's 445 00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:14,240 Speaker 2: good for investment but also instantly raises revenue. So some 446 00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:16,040 Speaker 2: things are moving in the right way, and a big 447 00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:20,119 Speaker 2: battle coming up again. Another boring subject monetary policy is 448 00:24:20,119 --> 00:24:24,160 Speaker 2: the Federal Reserve. Getting somebody in there who will fundamentally 449 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:28,159 Speaker 2: re rechange, change the way the Federal Reserve operates on. 450 00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:32,560 Speaker 2: The FED operates on the assumption the prosperity causes inflation. 451 00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:36,240 Speaker 2: They have an allergy to a vigorous, growing economy, and 452 00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:38,440 Speaker 2: that's got to be changed because that's been a dead 453 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:39,440 Speaker 2: weight for decades. 454 00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:43,720 Speaker 1: But how crucial is the Fed nowadays you know, you 455 00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:47,399 Speaker 1: can't rate cut your way to prosperity, can you. 456 00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:50,000 Speaker 2: No, But what you can do is have rates actually 457 00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:52,480 Speaker 2: set by the marketplace. What the FED is doing now 458 00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:54,960 Speaker 2: is a form of rent control. We know what that's 459 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:57,600 Speaker 2: done in New York, and we'll do even more. But 460 00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:00,240 Speaker 2: you know, they used to talk about renting the money. 461 00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:03,040 Speaker 2: So when you're borrowing the money, you're renting it, and 462 00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:05,879 Speaker 2: the Federal Reserve is setting the rental rates instead of 463 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:08,399 Speaker 2: letting the market do it. So the key thing is 464 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:10,960 Speaker 2: not to have the FED come up the financial markets, 465 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:14,639 Speaker 2: which is done with their artificial coming around with interest rates, 466 00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:17,480 Speaker 2: and go for a stable dollar. That's why I hope 467 00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:21,879 Speaker 2: Treasury Secretary Besson and President Trump say they want a strong, 468 00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:24,359 Speaker 2: stable dollar. They want the dollar to remain a reserve 469 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:27,800 Speaker 2: currency where you have to have a stable and trustworthy 470 00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:30,680 Speaker 2: So I hope they get the FED in the right direction. 471 00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:33,320 Speaker 2: And I'll make a prediction even though I'm probably wrong, 472 00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:36,520 Speaker 2: but you never make money going with the crowd. In 473 00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:38,800 Speaker 2: terms of the head of the FED, I think a 474 00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:41,280 Speaker 2: good thing would be to send Scott Besson over to 475 00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:41,640 Speaker 2: the FED. 476 00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:42,280 Speaker 1: He's got the. 477 00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:44,760 Speaker 2: Strength and knows what needs to be done and have 478 00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:48,000 Speaker 2: Kevin Hassett, I'll go to the Treasury Department. 479 00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:51,480 Speaker 1: Oh well, listen, you know more about this than I. 480 00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:55,679 Speaker 1: But Scott Besson's a great Treasury secretary and there's oh 481 00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:58,480 Speaker 1: yes he is. YEA other people could be great FED chairman. 482 00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:01,159 Speaker 1: Look who I'm talking to, Warp, You'd be perfect for it, 483 00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:02,760 Speaker 1: but you. 484 00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:05,800 Speaker 2: Got I'm an agitator now. 485 00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:10,520 Speaker 1: But is it your top guy? If it's Scott Besston, 486 00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:13,480 Speaker 1: wouldn't need be more valuable as a Treasury secretary than 487 00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:14,119 Speaker 1: a FED chairman. 488 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:19,639 Speaker 2: I think he would be. Actually, well, the reason I 489 00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:22,640 Speaker 2: would like him at the FED is that one, he's 490 00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:25,960 Speaker 2: got a fixed term, and he would not. I think 491 00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:29,640 Speaker 2: he's because of his background in finance and the success 492 00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:32,919 Speaker 2: in finance. There's no way they can capture him, no 493 00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:36,560 Speaker 2: way they can buffalo him the way they did Jerome Powell. 494 00:26:37,119 --> 00:26:40,000 Speaker 2: And I think he would also know how to ask 495 00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:44,159 Speaker 2: the right questions, that's key, and have the and not 496 00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:48,320 Speaker 2: be intimidated by PhDs. They're over three hundred there now 497 00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:51,600 Speaker 2: they should be uber drivers, but they're they're at the 498 00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:55,800 Speaker 2: FED right now mucking things up, and and so I 499 00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:59,520 Speaker 2: think Besson would have the strength to really turn things 500 00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:02,199 Speaker 2: over We've already seen what Lee's Eldon's done at the 501 00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:07,679 Speaker 2: EPA in terms of deregulation, and the tread of the 502 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:14,919 Speaker 2: Energy team with this administration's phenomenal, right, and Bergham's that 503 00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:17,439 Speaker 2: that's going to pay real dividends and already is at 504 00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:21,040 Speaker 2: the pump. And by the way, by the way, the 505 00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:23,960 Speaker 2: lower price of gas line somehow doesn't make the headlines 506 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:27,520 Speaker 2: the way it does when the Democrats are in and 507 00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:30,840 Speaker 2: prices are going up and gets ignored. Prices are going 508 00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:35,120 Speaker 2: down and the media ignores it. But with winner right 509 00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:39,240 Speaker 2: with us, boy, people want those low rates, you know. 510 00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:41,200 Speaker 1: Part of the problem though I don't know how they 511 00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:43,679 Speaker 1: managed to do it, but as the price has dropped 512 00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:46,560 Speaker 1: a lot on gas here in New York and in California, 513 00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:48,639 Speaker 1: they kept the price way up there at four dollars 514 00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:50,879 Speaker 1: a gallon, which is where most of the reporters in 515 00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:53,480 Speaker 1: the media live, so they haven't felt the effect yet. 516 00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:59,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good point. And but you know, since 517 00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:02,680 Speaker 2: they pride themselves and being a great journalist, they should 518 00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:07,400 Speaker 2: ask the question why and the answer is thing called tax. 519 00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:12,399 Speaker 1: Steve Forth, let me ask you about Venezuela. It was 520 00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:15,800 Speaker 1: a booming economy for many years, and then Chavez and 521 00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:18,960 Speaker 1: Maduro come in with their socialism and screw it up. 522 00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:22,520 Speaker 1: What's the potential for the economy in Venezuela with the 523 00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:23,440 Speaker 1: right leader. 524 00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:29,320 Speaker 2: The potential is phenomenal. We all know about their oil reserves, 525 00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:31,400 Speaker 2: and it will take time to get the fields back up. 526 00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:34,600 Speaker 2: They've been erecked and that takes time. But one of 527 00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:37,760 Speaker 2: the things I hope we do before we have a 528 00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:42,200 Speaker 2: new democratic elected government. There is a couple of things. 529 00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:45,960 Speaker 2: One is keep out the International Monetary Fund the IMF. 530 00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:51,400 Speaker 2: They always recommend higher taxes and currency devaluations with triggers inflation. 531 00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:54,440 Speaker 2: So keep out the IMF and know what they should 532 00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:57,760 Speaker 2: do do in Venezuela is since nobody pays attention to 533 00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:03,480 Speaker 2: their bullovar currency anymore toilet paper, is it dollarize it? 534 00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:07,040 Speaker 2: Malay should have done that in Argentina, the President of Argentina. 535 00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:11,920 Speaker 2: But dollarize the Venezuelan economy. They're always already using dollars 536 00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:15,000 Speaker 2: informally anyway, so make it formal and then put in 537 00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:18,640 Speaker 2: a low rate tax system and by golly, you'd see 538 00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:22,160 Speaker 2: you've got millions of people who left Venezuela. They would 539 00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:25,720 Speaker 2: bring capital back you'd see domestic capital being created again. 540 00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:29,520 Speaker 2: And there you said, they have an entrepreneurial spirit, and 541 00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:33,200 Speaker 2: you could see that economy not revived just because of oil, 542 00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:37,719 Speaker 2: but doing other things. And you have a success in Venezuela. 543 00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:39,800 Speaker 2: You've got a new president of Chile to get that 544 00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:43,120 Speaker 2: country back on track. Hopefully Malay gets it right with 545 00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:46,600 Speaker 2: the currency. In Argentina. You have those three countries booming. 546 00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:50,080 Speaker 2: By golly, that changes everything, not just in Latin America, 547 00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:52,680 Speaker 2: but as a model for other countries around the world. 548 00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:57,280 Speaker 1: Hey, Steve Forbes, what's your outlook forecast for New Jersey 549 00:29:57,320 --> 00:30:05,560 Speaker 1: with another crazy Democrat governor? Oh man, You. 550 00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:10,840 Speaker 2: Know, whenever you talk, whenever you talk to a financial advisor, 551 00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:14,080 Speaker 2: the first thing they say to me, they're more polite 552 00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:16,000 Speaker 2: than I'm about to be to myself. 553 00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:17,080 Speaker 1: You idiot. 554 00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:20,600 Speaker 2: Why he's saying in the state of New Jersey, that's 555 00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:22,840 Speaker 2: one of the most misgoverned states in the Union. And 556 00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:26,120 Speaker 2: the sad thing is years ago, Larry Cudlow and I 557 00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:30,240 Speaker 2: did a tax program for Christy Whitman when she became governor, 558 00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:33,280 Speaker 2: and we helped get through big cuts in the state 559 00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:35,320 Speaker 2: income tax rate. And one of the things we learned 560 00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:39,040 Speaker 2: back then was New Jersey was once the most prosperous 561 00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:41,400 Speaker 2: state in the country, grew faster than the rest of 562 00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:44,840 Speaker 2: the country, recovered faster than the rest of the country, 563 00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:49,400 Speaker 2: and high taxes and regulation killed what had been a 564 00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:53,400 Speaker 2: booming economy, always doing better than the national average. And 565 00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:56,640 Speaker 2: that can be brought back again. That's why the pharmaceutical 566 00:30:56,640 --> 00:31:00,600 Speaker 2: industry is based in New Jersey and other industries, and. 567 00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:02,800 Speaker 1: The policy wrecked it. 568 00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:06,400 Speaker 2: And that's what is so frustrating as we see real 569 00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:12,680 Speaker 2: life examples of before and after. And yet and yet 570 00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:16,440 Speaker 2: people continue to talk about the need for re education centers. 571 00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:21,400 Speaker 2: Maybe for economics, I don't know, but well, it's sad 572 00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:24,920 Speaker 2: because the potential is enormous, but people and capital are 573 00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:25,760 Speaker 2: moving elsewhere. 574 00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:28,800 Speaker 1: Well I would laugh at you, but we just elected 575 00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:31,080 Speaker 1: Kathy Hokele and Mamdani So I'm who am I to 576 00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:36,320 Speaker 1: But yes, Steve Forbes great to talk to you. Everybody 577 00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:39,040 Speaker 1: should get his book. His latest book is Inflation. No 578 00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:41,960 Speaker 1: better book on the subject inflation. Just go to Amazon 579 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,880 Speaker 1: and get Steve Forbes's book, read his columns, watch them 580 00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:48,080 Speaker 1: on television. Of course, Forbes one of the great media 581 00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:51,920 Speaker 1: companies in America, in the world Steve Forbes, thanks for 582 00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:52,480 Speaker 1: being with us. 583 00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:56,160 Speaker 2: Thank you, and keep up your a great fight, especially 584 00:31:56,200 --> 00:32:00,480 Speaker 2: now that we've got a communist running the great New 585 00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:04,400 Speaker 2: York Venezuela. Throw it gets loss of communist. 586 00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:07,400 Speaker 1: And we gave one. Well. Thanks for reminding us, Steve Forbes, 587 00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:09,240 Speaker 1: have a great new year. Thanks for being with us, 588 00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:12,240 Speaker 1: you too, Thank you. Mark, take care. Hey, don't forget 589 00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:15,160 Speaker 1: Bucking Clay coming up at noon today. They do an 590 00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:17,440 Speaker 1: excellent show every day twelve noon. Then you got the 591 00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:21,880 Speaker 1: most listened to radio show in America, Sean Hannity three o'clock. 592 00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:23,760 Speaker 1: You got Jesse Kelly at six. And if you heard 593 00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:26,640 Speaker 1: the new Jimmy Fayala show every night at nine, it 594 00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:31,640 Speaker 1: is excellent on seven to ten. Wor Hey, the awards 595 00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:34,600 Speaker 1: show for fans is back. You can celebrate right now. 596 00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:38,320 Speaker 1: It's the iHeartRadio Music Awards coming back to Fox March 597 00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:42,480 Speaker 1: twenty sixth. But this Thursday morning, Oh that's tomorrow morning. 598 00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:45,320 Speaker 1: Tomorrow morning at nine am. 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