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Speaker 1: This is a podcast from WR Now the WR Saturday

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Speaker 1: Morning Show. Here's Larry Minty, Good Morning. Coming up this

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Speaker 1: week on Saturday Morning. Amazing employment numbers out this week

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Speaker 1: with one hundred and thirty thousand jobs created in January.

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Speaker 1: All the economic numbers are great, so why do people

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Speaker 1: think it's a bad economy? Now, the predictions were for

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Speaker 1: fifty sixty thousand. It was much bigger than that.

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Speaker 2: There were a lot of Wall Street analysts who are

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Speaker 2: predicting that a reduction of the labor force was going

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Speaker 2: to make a bad number. And in fact, CNBC had

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Speaker 2: a headline saying that the job's number is going to

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Speaker 2: be zero. Bloomberg had a headline saying the job's number

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Speaker 2: is going to be zero. At private sector jobs, which

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Speaker 2: is our main focus right now because we've been reducing

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Speaker 2: government government employment, they went up one hundred and seventy thousand.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely blew out any expectation whatsoever. So it's really a

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Speaker 2: remarkable strong number.

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Speaker 1: It's been a story, hasn't it been blowing out expectations.

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Speaker 1: Maybe the expectations were too low in the first place.

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Speaker 1: Maybe the low expectations were politically motivated. It must get

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Speaker 1: frustrating for the White House. And with that, let's bring

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Speaker 1: in Cush to sigh, White House Deputy Press Secretary, to

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Speaker 1: talk about these new numbers. Cush, the White House must

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Speaker 1: be extremely happy at these numbers.

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Speaker 3: Thanks having me on, and of course we're very happy.

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Speaker 3: We continue to see America's economic resurgen center President Trump

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Speaker 3: come true. And look, you talked about the experts. I mean, look,

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Speaker 3: the experts have improven wrong again and again for the

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Speaker 3: past year. We were supposed to have a record high inflation,

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Speaker 3: we were supposed to have economic catastrophe and mass unemployment,

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Speaker 3: and we've seen the exact opposite transpire over the past year.

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Speaker 3: So it's just a continuing story of President Trump is

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Speaker 3: right about everything and the experts were just wrong about everything.

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Speaker 1: What is the frustration at the White House with this?

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Speaker 1: Because that has an effect everybody's saying that things are

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Speaker 1: going to be bad, as in the fact, I know

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Speaker 1: the Democrats are going to do that, but these are

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Speaker 1: experts that do this. These are media members that are

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Speaker 1: talking about how bad things are going to be, and

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Speaker 1: it shows in the poll numbers. For some reason, people

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Speaker 1: are they don't claim they're feeling this. I think they've

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Speaker 1: been told not to feel it. And in the poll

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Speaker 1: numbers they say the economy is bad. When the economy

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Speaker 1: is booming, how are you dealing with that?

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Speaker 3: Look, it's frustrating, but it just it's a reminder for

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Speaker 3: us to keep working hard. I mean, look, yesterday's job

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Speaker 3: report was fantastic, but nothing's ever good enough for the president.

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Speaker 3: The president wants even more robust job gains, job gains,

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Speaker 3: even more robust real wage gains, even more robust economic growth,

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Speaker 3: and so more folks that continue to deliver for the

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Speaker 3: American people. And I think, just like now, Trussing, the

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Speaker 3: mainstream media is at an all time low because they

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Speaker 3: keep they keep pushing this trumpter range syndrome affected narrative

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Speaker 3: against the president. I think we're going to start seeing

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Speaker 3: the experts lose you Americans to lose confidence in them

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Speaker 3: as well.

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Speaker 1: I've heard the Trump administration officials talk several times about

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Speaker 1: the GDP growth. It's been amazing so far, but they're

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Speaker 1: saying that in the second quarter, third quarter, fourth quarter

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Speaker 1: of this year it could get up to seven percent.

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Speaker 1: Are they still talking about those type of numbers? Because

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Speaker 1: that one set a record, wouldn't it.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely? Look, we just saw this in the third quarter

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Speaker 3: of twenty twenty five, GDP growth was supposed to be

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Speaker 3: around three percent. It came in blazing hot at over

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Speaker 3: four percent, four point four percent. So we continue to

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Speaker 3: smash all expectations. We continue to implement an economic agenda

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Speaker 3: that we know works, that worked during President Trump's first term.

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Speaker 3: So we're very confident about the future of this country

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Speaker 3: and we continue to work every day to make that

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Speaker 3: come into reality.

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Speaker 1: One of the things that the Democrats have tried, and

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Speaker 1: it started here, I believe with Zorimam Donnie, is the

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Speaker 1: affordability crisis. You know, look at things are much more

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Speaker 1: expensive than they used to be. The inflation rate under

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump has been fairly low. I mean it's been

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Speaker 1: in the twos, maybe in the three for maybe one

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Speaker 1: month through something like that, but it's been down in

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Speaker 1: the twos, which is what you want with your inflation rate.

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden had accumulative inflation rate of twenty one point

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Speaker 1: five percent. It just seems so disingenuous to blame high

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Speaker 1: prices on Donald Trump when everybody should realize those prices

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Speaker 1: went up under the previous president. How do you deal

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Speaker 1: with that? How do you deal with that perception?

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Speaker 3: Look, the thing is that we're folks dot continue to

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Speaker 3: deliver how we can to deliver belief for the American people.

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Speaker 3: You mentioned there are Mamdani in New York. And the

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Speaker 3: thing is that so much of blue state woes and

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Speaker 3: an affordability crises in blue states is driven by Democrat

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Speaker 3: politicians and their mediocre policies. I don't have to tell

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Speaker 3: you about how gas prices in California for instances, they're

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Speaker 3: so much higher than the national average because they're just

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Speaker 3: not embracing the common sense energy policies if this president

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Speaker 3: is championing. So we're going to continue focusing on delivering

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Speaker 3: healthcare affordability with Trump rx dot gov and these most

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Speaker 3: favored nation drug pricing deals. We're going to continue pushing

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Speaker 3: housing affordability to continue getting mortgage rates lower. So we're going

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Speaker 3: to keep doing our part, and we hope that Democrats

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Speaker 3: will start doing their jobs and running their states better.

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Speaker 1: Is there a lot of talk at the White House

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Speaker 1: these days about the midterms, and if so, is Donald Trump?

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Speaker 1: I know he's already been out there a couple of

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Speaker 1: times very early. Is he planning on going to districts

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Speaker 1: he thinks he can help in absolutely.

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Speaker 3: Look, I think the President is most of his element

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Speaker 3: not when he's in Washington, DC, but when he's with

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Speaker 3: the everyday Americans who propelled him to office in the

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Speaker 3: first place. And so I think we're going to continue

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Speaker 3: seeing the President cutting out the fake news middleman of

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Speaker 3: the mainstream media and taking his message directly to the

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Speaker 3: people and telling them how he has been delivering on

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Speaker 3: all of his promises to secure the border, to cool inflation,

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Speaker 3: and to deliver real affordability.

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Speaker 1: Now, when Pam Bondi appears before a congressional hearing, does

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Speaker 1: everybody at the White House gather around the TVs to

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Speaker 1: Tier and Man and with popcorn.

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Speaker 3: Look, we're obviously always supporting our cabinet folks when they're

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Speaker 3: when they're up against you know, democrats on the hill.

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Speaker 3: But a lot of us are just focused on continuing

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Speaker 3: to deliver. And I think that's especially on the economic front.

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Speaker 3: You know, we're less focused on the headlines and more

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Speaker 3: focused on continuing to do the work that that delivers

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Speaker 3: will change for American people.

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Speaker 1: Come on, coach, that was so entertaining yesterday. There had

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Speaker 1: to at least be some smiles. There had to be

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Speaker 1: at least be some cheers and how she took on

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Speaker 1: the Democrats during that hearing.

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Speaker 3: We were we were definitely sharing a few clubs out

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Speaker 3: there that much. We were taking breaks from real work. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Well, Kasha was an honored to have you here today,

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Speaker 1: kush Desi, White House Deputy Press Secretary. Hope to talk

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Speaker 1: to you again soon.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for having me on. This has been a podcast

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Speaker 3: from do W O R