1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:03,160 Speaker 1: Explosion. There's just no other way to put it. It's 2 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:07,480 Speaker 1: been about fifteen to twenty minutes now. The text line, 3 00:00:07,880 --> 00:00:10,799 Speaker 1: I think it's just gonna blow. The texts are pouring 4 00:00:10,840 --> 00:00:15,280 Speaker 1: in my inbox is emails are flooding my inbox on 5 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:19,800 Speaker 1: Messenger as well, a ton of messages and it's I 6 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:22,520 Speaker 1: don't want to say one hundred to zero, but it's 7 00:00:22,880 --> 00:00:27,480 Speaker 1: ninety nine to one. It is pouring in where well, 8 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:28,040 Speaker 1: let me just. 9 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:28,400 Speaker 2: Read to you. 10 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:31,000 Speaker 1: This is from Eric, just to give you one example 11 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:37,240 Speaker 1: on Messenger, Jeff, I agree with you. The Trump voters 12 00:00:37,360 --> 00:00:41,920 Speaker 1: are still waiting for relief at home. Many of us 13 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:46,760 Speaker 1: are still on financial survivor mode, going to work day 14 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:51,360 Speaker 1: after day, praying that none of our bills keep going up. 15 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:58,120 Speaker 1: I mean, Dave, our Western Pa constitutionalist correspondent out in 16 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:02,120 Speaker 1: you know, Pittsburgh, you don't get a more diehard Trump 17 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:04,560 Speaker 1: supporter than him. I mean literally, I think you go 18 00:01:04,600 --> 00:01:10,040 Speaker 1: to war for Trump. Seriously, Jeff, Trump does need to 19 00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:12,000 Speaker 1: focus on domestic issues. 20 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:15,640 Speaker 2: So it's like it's just come. 21 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:22,120 Speaker 1: It's like a chorus where Cooner Country anyway is saying, look, 22 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:25,560 Speaker 1: enough with the peace deals, and enough with traveling abroad, 23 00:01:25,720 --> 00:01:31,080 Speaker 1: and just enough with foreign policy in general. You've got 24 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:35,880 Speaker 1: to focus now on inflation, the economy, and bringing the 25 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:43,080 Speaker 1: high cost of living down. Crime, yes, the border, yes, deportations, yes, 26 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:49,440 Speaker 1: but men people are saying we're hurting and it doesn't 27 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:52,760 Speaker 1: seem like things are getting better. So I want to 28 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:56,400 Speaker 1: throw this big log on the fire. Do you believe 29 00:01:56,720 --> 00:02:01,360 Speaker 1: that the message Trump should receive and the Republican from 30 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:07,000 Speaker 1: the Democratic sweep in Tuesday nights off year elections is 31 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:15,040 Speaker 1: that Republicans Trump and the administration overall that they need 32 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:19,280 Speaker 1: to now focus a lot more on bringing down the 33 00:02:19,320 --> 00:02:25,160 Speaker 1: price of groceries, energy utilities, gas rent, in other words, 34 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:31,760 Speaker 1: make America affordable again. In other words, put America first, 35 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:40,600 Speaker 1: focus on the economy. Yes, no, agree, disagree? Meil in 36 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:44,400 Speaker 1: Sarah Toga up in New York. Thanks for holding Mel 37 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:45,200 Speaker 1: and welcome. 38 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:51,600 Speaker 3: Yes, come on, Jeff Mel. Yeah, my answer to the 39 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:54,600 Speaker 3: to your question is yes, you need to focus on 40 00:02:55,240 --> 00:02:58,520 Speaker 3: domestic issues, never mind the rest of the world. Once 41 00:02:58,560 --> 00:03:02,040 Speaker 3: we got our house in order in order, then we 42 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:06,280 Speaker 3: can branch out and you know, help our allies so 43 00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:10,440 Speaker 3: called allies quote unquote allies and uh, you know, just 44 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:14,639 Speaker 3: take care of home first. But what I wanted to ask, well, well, 45 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:18,120 Speaker 3: Mara Heally, heally, she does have the right to remove 46 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:25,400 Speaker 3: Michelle Woo if she is so inclined. I think that, 47 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:30,120 Speaker 3: I mean, correct me if I'm wrong that that is 48 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:32,600 Speaker 3: the case. I guess the governor does have that right 49 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:35,840 Speaker 3: to remove anywhere that they seem fit that is not 50 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:41,560 Speaker 3: doing what they took an oath to do. And I 51 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:45,440 Speaker 3: kind of think that with the I think the whole 52 00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:47,640 Speaker 3: card that President Trump might be might have it in 53 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:52,880 Speaker 3: his hand, is at least the phonic even though I 54 00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:54,920 Speaker 3: I'm kind of I kind of you know, have uh, 55 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:58,040 Speaker 3: you know, some reservation in regards to her, in regards 56 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:02,440 Speaker 3: to her affiliation with Wes. But I think that's the 57 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:05,600 Speaker 3: whole card to if she she runs for governor because 58 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:08,080 Speaker 3: out there and I I mean, uh, I don't know. 59 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:12,080 Speaker 3: I even think that the Democrat Party has has has 60 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:16,640 Speaker 3: reservations for what she's done to the state. So I 61 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:20,080 Speaker 3: I think that at least would probably be a shoe 62 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:23,719 Speaker 3: in a walking and that she would have that right 63 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:29,080 Speaker 3: in regards to man Danny, the stam Danny, I should say, 64 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:33,520 Speaker 3: uh to remove him from office. And anyone who's you know, 65 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:38,240 Speaker 3: like his un well, what is it? Cole mayor attorney 66 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:43,440 Speaker 3: or whatever. But anyhow and replace him probably with this 67 00:04:43,640 --> 00:04:46,920 Speaker 3: New York State attorneys general who would be a part 68 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:48,320 Speaker 3: of her administration. 69 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:50,680 Speaker 2: But uh well, now look. 70 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:53,200 Speaker 1: You put your finger on it. The problem with mom 71 00:04:53,279 --> 00:04:57,760 Speaker 1: Donnie is that he's so wild. Honestly, he's unhinged. You 72 00:04:57,800 --> 00:04:59,640 Speaker 1: can see it on him. He's not right in the 73 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:03,800 Speaker 1: head and you can sense it. And so he's so 74 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:12,320 Speaker 1: he's so mercurial, he's so volatile, he's so unpredictable, and 75 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:17,080 Speaker 1: he's so disrespectful. He really is an insurrectionist, and he 76 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:20,480 Speaker 1: doesn't seem to know his own limits. And he's now 77 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:24,640 Speaker 1: drunk with power. He's drunk with hubris. He cannot believe 78 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:28,839 Speaker 1: what he has pulled off. He can't, the Muslim Brotherhood can't, 79 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:31,680 Speaker 1: his supporters can't. They just can't believe it. And so 80 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:34,440 Speaker 1: Hokel now is underwater. You look at all the poles. 81 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:38,080 Speaker 1: You're completely right. She's deep underwater, and she's got a primary. 82 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:41,600 Speaker 1: People are forgetting this. Her lieutenant governor, who's from the 83 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:47,279 Speaker 1: Mamdanni left, is going to go after Hokel in a primary. 84 00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:51,040 Speaker 1: The left is saying she's too quote unquote moderate. They 85 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:53,279 Speaker 1: want to do to her what mum Donnie did to 86 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:58,040 Speaker 1: Andrew Cuomo, and so Hokel is most likely going to 87 00:05:58,120 --> 00:05:59,520 Speaker 1: go even more left. 88 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:03,960 Speaker 2: Six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty. 89 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:08,359 Speaker 1: Eight is the number. Okay, Tony in Florida. Thanks for 90 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:10,400 Speaker 1: holding Tony, and welcome. 91 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:17,680 Speaker 4: Good morning, Jeff, my fellow patriot. Unbelievable, right, this mom 92 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:20,640 Speaker 4: Donnie here is about to take over New York City. 93 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:24,040 Speaker 4: It's really it's unreal, Jeff, you know what the way 94 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:27,680 Speaker 4: I look at it really is I believe, I mean, 95 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:30,479 Speaker 4: this guy's a hamas lover. All right, let's just let's 96 00:06:30,520 --> 00:06:33,760 Speaker 4: just tell it like it is here, okay. And I 97 00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:36,920 Speaker 4: feel like, you know, seeing I mean, I didn't see 98 00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:39,680 Speaker 4: the whole speech. I heard a few, you know, sentences 99 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:42,960 Speaker 4: or whatever, right, but it almost feels like, you know, 100 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:45,560 Speaker 4: it's a lot of people have a short memory out there, 101 00:06:45,640 --> 00:06:49,200 Speaker 4: I think, and it feels like a continuation of nine 102 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:51,279 Speaker 4: to eleven oh one Jeff's and I don't mean to 103 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:55,440 Speaker 4: be dramatic about it, but I mean, he just he's 104 00:06:55,480 --> 00:06:57,839 Speaker 4: like he's a terrorist. To me, the guy's a terrorist. 105 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:03,080 Speaker 4: And he said in that speech to President Trump turned 106 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:05,480 Speaker 4: the vote, he said, I have four words for President 107 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:09,520 Speaker 4: Trump because I know you're listening, turned up the volume, 108 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:12,040 Speaker 4: and I'm like, you want to challenge that man? To me, 109 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:14,520 Speaker 4: he's the greatest president that ever lived. And I'm never 110 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:17,880 Speaker 4: going to come up with that opinion. Okay, but I'm 111 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:21,320 Speaker 4: going to say this, Jeff that don't worry. He's listening. 112 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:23,440 Speaker 4: And I'm going to tell you something, Jeff. Let him 113 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:25,920 Speaker 4: get in there and be mayor, and he's all going 114 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:27,880 Speaker 4: to be high in his FORRCE over there in New 115 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:31,440 Speaker 4: York City thinking he's, uh, you know, this big shot right, 116 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:35,120 Speaker 4: and he's gonna you know, pre Sharia Lah and Muslim 117 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:38,280 Speaker 4: and radical Islam and terror and continue the nine to 118 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:42,600 Speaker 4: eleven because in his heart, he's dancing on ground zero. 119 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:45,560 Speaker 4: Let me tell you, well, look, this is not. 120 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:48,480 Speaker 5: Only how we stopped Trump, it's how we stop the 121 00:07:48,520 --> 00:07:59,360 Speaker 5: next one. So, Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I. 122 00:07:59,440 --> 00:08:04,920 Speaker 2: Have four words for you. Turn the volume up. 123 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:10,840 Speaker 1: I mean, Tony to your point, he's openly challenging Trump. 124 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:17,560 Speaker 1: He's openly mocking Trump. He's openly taunting Trump. Please continue, Tony, 125 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:22,560 Speaker 1: you were saying that deep down he's celebrating what happened 126 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:25,600 Speaker 1: on nine to eleven. He would love to dance on 127 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:29,240 Speaker 1: Ground Zero and dance on the graves and the bodies 128 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:32,959 Speaker 1: of all those who died on that fateful day. Please 129 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:34,199 Speaker 1: keep going, Tony. 130 00:08:34,559 --> 00:08:37,840 Speaker 4: Yes, Jeff, Oh, he probably already has danced on it, 131 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:41,400 Speaker 4: you know, with his with his Muslim friends or whatever. 132 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:44,520 Speaker 4: He's a lunatic and he's a terrorist. That's we have 133 00:08:44,559 --> 00:08:46,920 Speaker 4: to call it like it is, and you have to 134 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:49,440 Speaker 4: define it to defeat it. Jeff. My feeling is this 135 00:08:49,520 --> 00:08:52,560 Speaker 4: because I know President Trump's people listen to your show 136 00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:55,520 Speaker 4: and I and I just want to say to them, 137 00:08:56,040 --> 00:09:00,720 Speaker 4: you know, and President Trump to hear me now, because 138 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:02,840 Speaker 4: I'm gonna tell you, as a supporter of him, since 139 00:09:02,840 --> 00:09:05,240 Speaker 4: he came down that escalator, I love that man, and 140 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:09,040 Speaker 4: I'm gonna say something, Jeff, as it's very important that 141 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:11,880 Speaker 4: he needs to get together with Pete Hegsett, the Secretary 142 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:15,280 Speaker 4: of War and say here's what we're gonna do. The 143 00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:17,319 Speaker 4: day he gets in office. 144 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:21,240 Speaker 6: And he's in that mansion in New York City, we 145 00:09:21,360 --> 00:09:25,840 Speaker 6: are gonna surround that city. First of all, we're gonna 146 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:28,720 Speaker 6: bring in a nice big aircraft carrier with a few 147 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:32,200 Speaker 6: nice birds sitting on the TOMMAC. We're gonna bring in 148 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:35,559 Speaker 6: special forces to get it and we ice and national God, 149 00:09:36,440 --> 00:09:40,439 Speaker 6: I'm all for it, but let's let's flex our muscles, okay, 150 00:09:40,679 --> 00:09:43,320 Speaker 6: of the country that we are, and we're gonna put 151 00:09:43,320 --> 00:09:46,000 Speaker 6: in an aircraft carrier with some nice shiny birds on 152 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:48,520 Speaker 6: the tom Mac. We're gonna we're gonna. 153 00:09:48,280 --> 00:09:51,720 Speaker 4: Bring in special forces, we're gonna bring in every branch 154 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:54,520 Speaker 4: of the military, and we're gonna surround and corner that 155 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:56,560 Speaker 4: man and we're gonna go right up to his face 156 00:09:56,600 --> 00:09:59,920 Speaker 4: and say you step out the line and you miss 157 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:04,960 Speaker 4: behave one time. This is going to be over in 158 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:08,640 Speaker 4: less than ten minutes and you're done. And that's it. 159 00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:10,800 Speaker 4: That's all you have to do is just steer him 160 00:10:10,880 --> 00:10:12,560 Speaker 4: right in the face and just tell him what fought. 161 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:15,360 Speaker 4: So that's the volume I want him to turn up. 162 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:17,959 Speaker 4: And that's really what I think he needs. 163 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:21,760 Speaker 1: Well, no, Tony, it's not, you're right, but the other 164 00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:24,000 Speaker 1: volume that's going to get turned up, and it's gonna 165 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:27,880 Speaker 1: happen very quick. Remember he's inaugurated, he's sworn into office. 166 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:32,000 Speaker 1: Forgive me, he's sworn into office on January first, Okay, 167 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:35,360 Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, So what is it now, less than 168 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:35,920 Speaker 1: two months? 169 00:10:36,480 --> 00:10:36,800 Speaker 2: Now? 170 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:40,280 Speaker 1: You watch, he's going to have a honeymoon. He'll have 171 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:43,320 Speaker 1: about four months, maybe six months. This will go into 172 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:47,040 Speaker 1: the summer, a fawning media. They're going to love him. 173 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:49,760 Speaker 1: The Democrats are going to praise him. He's going to 174 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:52,760 Speaker 1: become now the face of the Democratic Party. He's going 175 00:10:52,840 --> 00:10:55,000 Speaker 1: to do interview after interview. You're going to see his 176 00:10:55,040 --> 00:10:58,600 Speaker 1: face everywhere. And he's going to attack Trump. He's going 177 00:10:58,679 --> 00:11:02,280 Speaker 1: to insult Trump. AOC will be with him, Bernie will 178 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:05,760 Speaker 1: be with him, Obama will be with him. And they 179 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:09,480 Speaker 1: think that they're building now a new Democratic Party, a 180 00:11:09,559 --> 00:11:13,520 Speaker 1: communist party that can challenge the midterms Republicans in the 181 00:11:13,559 --> 00:11:16,199 Speaker 1: midterms and defeat jad Vance. 182 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:17,560 Speaker 2: Most likely in twenty twenty eight. 183 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:23,400 Speaker 1: You watch about fall of next year and the disillusionment, 184 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:29,439 Speaker 1: because here's the problem. You've already got businesses leaving, and 185 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:31,520 Speaker 1: the guy hasn't even been sworn in yet, hasn't been 186 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:34,920 Speaker 1: what even not even two days since he's won. You've 187 00:11:34,960 --> 00:11:39,160 Speaker 1: got people resigning left, right and center, including the fire chief, 188 00:11:39,559 --> 00:11:42,640 Speaker 1: the commissioner of the New York Fire Department. And that's 189 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:46,120 Speaker 1: just the beginning. So no one's going to want to 190 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:50,400 Speaker 1: work under him. Crime is going to explode because he's 191 00:11:50,400 --> 00:11:54,400 Speaker 1: going to release criminals. Crime is going to explode because 192 00:11:54,400 --> 00:11:58,560 Speaker 1: he's going to defund and ultimately dismantle the police. You're 193 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:01,040 Speaker 1: going to have crime all these sort of free buses 194 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:04,280 Speaker 1: in the winter time. You watch when it starts getting cold. 195 00:12:05,920 --> 00:12:09,960 Speaker 1: They're gonna there's gonna be homeless people living on those buses. 196 00:12:10,240 --> 00:12:13,520 Speaker 1: Criminals are gonna be on those buses, drug addicts, drug 197 00:12:13,559 --> 00:12:15,959 Speaker 1: dealers are gonna be on those buses. It's gonna be 198 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:22,559 Speaker 1: a disaster. And as the Jews flee, as white neighborhoods flee, 199 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:28,720 Speaker 1: as taxpayers flee, as businesses flee, that's gonna be hundreds 200 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:33,000 Speaker 1: and hundreds and hundreds of thousands of jobs. And you're 201 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:36,760 Speaker 1: gonna see shops boarded up, businesses boarded up. You're gonna 202 00:12:36,760 --> 00:12:40,480 Speaker 1: see homeless encampments everywhere. And then they're gonna start asking 203 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:44,160 Speaker 1: where's the free childcare, And he's gonna say there's no money. 204 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:47,360 Speaker 1: And then they're gonna start asking, but where's the thirty 205 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:51,240 Speaker 1: dollars an hour minimum wage? And he's gonna say, well, 206 00:12:51,520 --> 00:12:55,760 Speaker 1: we have no businesses left. And then they're gonna say, well, 207 00:12:55,760 --> 00:12:58,760 Speaker 1: hold on, what about the city run grocery stores? And 208 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:00,840 Speaker 1: he's gonna give it to them, and then there's gonna 209 00:13:00,840 --> 00:13:06,679 Speaker 1: be long food lines and breadlines. And then in other words, 210 00:13:06,679 --> 00:13:09,520 Speaker 1: and when New York starts to go bankrupt and then 211 00:13:09,559 --> 00:13:13,240 Speaker 1: there's no money for any other social services. But he's 212 00:13:13,280 --> 00:13:17,520 Speaker 1: promised illegals they're all going to get welfare. Then they're 213 00:13:17,559 --> 00:13:20,360 Speaker 1: going to start to turn on each other, and then 214 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:24,400 Speaker 1: eventually they're going to turn on him. And this hope 215 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:26,800 Speaker 1: is going to turn into anger. Then it's going to 216 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:29,520 Speaker 1: turn into bitter disillusionment, and then it's going to turn 217 00:13:29,559 --> 00:13:34,280 Speaker 1: into out and out hatred. So yeah, he's going to 218 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:38,320 Speaker 1: be riding high for a while. But I'm telling you, 219 00:13:38,360 --> 00:13:41,720 Speaker 1: no one is more disillusioned than a former Marxist or 220 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:45,640 Speaker 1: a former socialist. And they're gonna find out what the 221 00:13:45,679 --> 00:13:50,040 Speaker 1: people of Cuba found out, or Venezuela, or Russia or 222 00:13:50,200 --> 00:13:57,120 Speaker 1: China or North Korea or Eastern Europe. Socialism, communism leads 223 00:13:57,120 --> 00:14:00,920 Speaker 1: to misery, and that's all this guy's gonna give the 224 00:14:00,960 --> 00:14:06,040 Speaker 1: people of New York. But with one difference, Tony, there's 225 00:14:06,080 --> 00:14:08,400 Speaker 1: gonna I'm telling you, they're not coming back from this. 226 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:13,960 Speaker 1: When you had Wall Street, you gave it away. You 227 00:14:14,040 --> 00:14:18,360 Speaker 1: were the financial center of America. You gave it away, 228 00:14:20,200 --> 00:14:24,680 Speaker 1: and there's gonna be no coming back. New York will 229 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:28,120 Speaker 1: be a shell of its former self again if we're lucky, 230 00:14:29,760 --> 00:14:35,320 Speaker 1: unless other cities fall as well. So, you know, these 231 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:38,080 Speaker 1: New York moonbats now are finally gonna live, you know, 232 00:14:38,160 --> 00:14:41,240 Speaker 1: with the consequences of their actions. And two terms of 233 00:14:41,280 --> 00:14:45,880 Speaker 1: Bill de Blasio wasn't enough. You know, It's not as 234 00:14:45,920 --> 00:14:50,040 Speaker 1: if they had Rudy Giuliani for forty years. They had Giuliani, 235 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:53,280 Speaker 1: then they had Michael Bloomberg. They basically had twenty years 236 00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:59,040 Speaker 1: of good, competent governance. New York was prosperous. Businesses were booming, 237 00:15:00,040 --> 00:15:03,520 Speaker 1: each were safe, There was law and order. You could 238 00:15:03,600 --> 00:15:05,560 Speaker 1: raise your family in New York. It was a hell 239 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:09,480 Speaker 1: of a lot more affordable under Giuliani than it was 240 00:15:09,680 --> 00:15:12,000 Speaker 1: with the when the left took over. And then they 241 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:15,680 Speaker 1: got Big Bird, who was an admirer of the Nicaragua 242 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:20,960 Speaker 1: and Sandinistas, another communist, okay, former communist, and he drove 243 00:15:21,040 --> 00:15:24,520 Speaker 1: New York into the ground. And then Eric Adams picked 244 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:27,520 Speaker 1: up where he left off. And then you had that 245 00:15:27,520 --> 00:15:31,200 Speaker 1: that that that that Cuomo who turned New York into 246 00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:34,160 Speaker 1: a sanctuary state and New York City into a sanctuary 247 00:15:34,160 --> 00:15:38,120 Speaker 1: city and murdered how many homeless, how many elderly and 248 00:15:38,200 --> 00:15:43,080 Speaker 1: senior citizens. So the Democrats have run the entire state 249 00:15:43,160 --> 00:15:46,520 Speaker 1: and the city into the ground. And now you elect 250 00:15:46,560 --> 00:15:51,240 Speaker 1: a commie, and what you think, He's just gonna snap 251 00:15:51,280 --> 00:15:54,840 Speaker 1: his fingers and suddenly your rent is going to be 252 00:15:54,880 --> 00:16:00,400 Speaker 1: frozen and you're gonna have free everything, and all of 253 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:04,200 Speaker 1: a sudden, it's going to be a utopia. Six one 254 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:09,160 Speaker 1: seven two six x sixty eight sixty eight is the number. Okay, 255 00:16:09,560 --> 00:16:13,960 Speaker 1: let me ask all of you. It is the Kooner 256 00:16:14,080 --> 00:16:21,720 Speaker 1: country Pole. Question of the Day sponsored by Marios Marios 257 00:16:22,240 --> 00:16:29,720 Speaker 1: Quality roofing, siding and windows. Is the cost of living 258 00:16:30,360 --> 00:16:31,080 Speaker 1: in America? 259 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:33,080 Speaker 2: You know? For you? 260 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:39,720 Speaker 1: Is the cost of living still too high? In other words, 261 00:16:39,920 --> 00:16:44,560 Speaker 1: when you look at your utility, energy bills, your grocery costs, 262 00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:48,520 Speaker 1: your gas, you know what you pay for gas, whatever rent. 263 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:53,640 Speaker 1: In other words, yes, inflation's coming down, no question, But 264 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:59,440 Speaker 1: is the cost of living still too high? I'm just 265 00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:05,600 Speaker 1: curious because the way Trump is presenting it, And I 266 00:17:05,640 --> 00:17:07,200 Speaker 1: don't know if he's just trying to give his party 267 00:17:07,240 --> 00:17:10,320 Speaker 1: a shot in the arm, but he's presenting it as 268 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:15,080 Speaker 1: we've taken care of inflation, it's now well beneath you know, 269 00:17:15,119 --> 00:17:19,119 Speaker 1: it's well within normal, and the big beautiful bill is 270 00:17:19,160 --> 00:17:21,480 Speaker 1: working and it's going to continue to work even more. 271 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:28,439 Speaker 1: And so the issue of inflation, the economy, jobs, of course, 272 00:17:28,560 --> 00:17:32,760 Speaker 1: the cost of living, that has already been taken care of, 273 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:38,520 Speaker 1: and according to him, the reason why the Democrats won 274 00:17:38,560 --> 00:17:41,760 Speaker 1: the mid the off year elections, the reason why they 275 00:17:41,760 --> 00:17:44,439 Speaker 1: did so well. On Tuesday, he said, Number one, I 276 00:17:44,520 --> 00:17:48,000 Speaker 1: wasn't on the ballot, so my people weren't motivated to 277 00:17:48,040 --> 00:17:50,639 Speaker 1: come out, and the numbers they usually come out, and 278 00:17:50,680 --> 00:17:55,800 Speaker 1: he said the government shutdown, that Republicans were getting killed 279 00:17:55,920 --> 00:18:00,800 Speaker 1: by the politics of the shutdown, especially in places like Virginia. 280 00:18:01,240 --> 00:18:06,480 Speaker 1: Northern Virginia has a huge population of federal government employees, 281 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:08,840 Speaker 1: most of whom hate Trump. 282 00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:09,280 Speaker 2: With a passion. 283 00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:13,800 Speaker 1: So they came out in much bigger numbers than our 284 00:18:13,880 --> 00:18:17,600 Speaker 1: side did. And so, as far as he's concerned, this 285 00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:21,919 Speaker 1: is not a warning sign that costs are too high 286 00:18:22,520 --> 00:18:25,760 Speaker 1: and that the economy is not doing well enough. He 287 00:18:25,920 --> 00:18:29,160 Speaker 1: thinks the economy is doing very well and will only 288 00:18:29,160 --> 00:18:32,960 Speaker 1: get even better, and that essentially he has tamed inflation. 289 00:18:33,640 --> 00:18:38,960 Speaker 1: So my question to you is the cost of living 290 00:18:39,160 --> 00:18:42,879 Speaker 1: for you and your family. Is it still too high? 291 00:18:44,359 --> 00:18:47,560 Speaker 2: A yes, B no. 292 00:18:50,160 --> 00:18:53,840 Speaker 1: You can vote on our web page wrko dot com 293 00:18:53,840 --> 00:18:58,159 Speaker 1: slash cooner wrko dot com slash cooner. 294 00:18:58,640 --> 00:18:59,840 Speaker 2: Kuh And is. 295 00:18:59,840 --> 00:19:03,640 Speaker 1: An national Er. You can also vote the X I'm 296 00:19:03,880 --> 00:19:07,960 Speaker 1: very active on X my handle at the Kooner Report. 297 00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:14,280 Speaker 1: All one word at the Kooner Report. Kuh And as 298 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:17,920 Speaker 1: in national Er. If I was to vote in the poll, 299 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:20,800 Speaker 1: I never do, but if I was, I would be 300 00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:24,439 Speaker 1: an A. I'm telling you for my family, it is 301 00:19:24,520 --> 00:19:28,040 Speaker 1: definitely still too high. The cost of living is still 302 00:19:28,080 --> 00:19:32,520 Speaker 1: too high. Inflation is going down, that is true, but 303 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:35,439 Speaker 1: I still pay way too much. I pay way too 304 00:19:35,520 --> 00:19:39,399 Speaker 1: much for everything. And I know if Grace was voting 305 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:44,159 Speaker 1: in this poll, she would be a hell yes. She 306 00:19:44,359 --> 00:19:47,639 Speaker 1: thinks we still got a long way to go to 307 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:54,520 Speaker 1: really tame inflation. Agree, disagree. Lisa in New Hampshire. Thanks 308 00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:56,720 Speaker 1: for holding Lisa, and welcome. 309 00:19:57,880 --> 00:20:02,439 Speaker 7: Thanks Jeff for taking my well. Yeah, the cost of 310 00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:06,600 Speaker 7: living is too high. But if everybody included country remembers, 311 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:09,280 Speaker 7: you know, we've talked about this over the years. He 312 00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:13,840 Speaker 7: doesn't have a magic wand he can't just say Okay, 313 00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:14,640 Speaker 7: I'm president. 314 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:15,960 Speaker 4: Everybody loves the prices. 315 00:20:16,040 --> 00:20:19,480 Speaker 7: It doesn't work that way. He's been setting the stage 316 00:20:20,080 --> 00:20:23,520 Speaker 7: for a year. It's only nine months. It wasn't going 317 00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:26,440 Speaker 7: to happen overnight. How is it going to happen. He's 318 00:20:26,440 --> 00:20:28,679 Speaker 7: going to get the fuel costs down, which he's working on. 319 00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:31,879 Speaker 7: He's trying to do the thing with tariffs. He's bringing 320 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:36,199 Speaker 7: in trillions of dollars of business into the country for 321 00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:42,840 Speaker 7: people to have jobs. And it doesn't just happen. I mean, unfortunately, 322 00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:47,679 Speaker 7: it's a stepping stone. And the only way he personally 323 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:51,159 Speaker 7: could get caught down is to be a socialist or 324 00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:56,280 Speaker 7: a communist. He doesn't demand food prices. He has to 325 00:20:56,320 --> 00:21:00,160 Speaker 7: set the stage for everybody else to lower the cost 326 00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:04,840 Speaker 7: of business, which will get the cost of food prices down. 327 00:21:05,280 --> 00:21:07,719 Speaker 7: You can't have it both ways. You can't have an 328 00:21:07,760 --> 00:21:11,880 Speaker 7: electrician making sixty five dollars an hour so he can 329 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:15,719 Speaker 7: pay his mortgage and support his family and at the 330 00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:19,639 Speaker 7: same time, you know, think that people aren't going to 331 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:21,680 Speaker 7: want to get a fee wage and the wages aren't 332 00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:23,960 Speaker 7: going to go up for everybody else. It's all a 333 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:28,240 Speaker 7: big basket, right. So the key is is that you've 334 00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:33,320 Speaker 7: got to get business flow in, fuel costs down, and 335 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:36,000 Speaker 7: you have to do something with taxes. And when you 336 00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:39,080 Speaker 7: do all that, which he's been doing since minute one, 337 00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:43,679 Speaker 7: then it's up to the capitalists, to the business people, 338 00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:45,560 Speaker 7: you know as well as I know. 339 00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:46,600 Speaker 4: Once prices go. 340 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:49,679 Speaker 7: Up, they never come down. You remember what two thousand 341 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:54,520 Speaker 7: and eight was like, everything doubled, everything, the package has 342 00:21:54,560 --> 00:21:57,560 Speaker 7: got smaller. You know, the only thing that's going to 343 00:21:57,680 --> 00:22:00,879 Speaker 7: change the rent prices is that people have to stop 344 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:04,800 Speaker 7: renting the houses, right because supply and demand is never 345 00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:07,280 Speaker 7: going to change. If we want to live in a 346 00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:11,840 Speaker 7: capitalist country, we have to figure out how to get 347 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:16,359 Speaker 7: the fuel costs and the cost of doing business down 348 00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:19,960 Speaker 7: in order for it to trickle downhill. And he's doing 349 00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:23,119 Speaker 7: all of that, and he his job is to be 350 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:26,520 Speaker 7: all over the world. His job is to get the 351 00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:30,480 Speaker 7: countries to buy our oil if it means threatening them 352 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:33,960 Speaker 7: with tariffs. His job is to keep the streets safe. 353 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:36,040 Speaker 7: What's he doing? He sends it in the National God, 354 00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:38,920 Speaker 7: he's got all these different tasks for us. I mean, 355 00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:42,800 Speaker 7: he's one man, one man doing a kick ass job 356 00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:47,159 Speaker 7: in nine months. Everybody needs to take a deep breath 357 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:51,560 Speaker 7: and give the guy a break. It's been fifteen minutes. 358 00:22:51,880 --> 00:22:54,040 Speaker 1: Well, Lisa, that's you know, you kind of I think, 359 00:22:54,119 --> 00:22:58,040 Speaker 1: really articulated just the difference that Grayson I have. This 360 00:22:58,080 --> 00:23:02,520 Speaker 1: is often a dinner table discussion that we have. She'll 361 00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:05,080 Speaker 1: go on about the stability of the tariff regime that 362 00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:11,880 Speaker 1: she thinks the tariffs are just being applied to selectively, 363 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:17,200 Speaker 1: to willy nilly, there's no discipline to them, there's no stability. 364 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:21,640 Speaker 1: So she's critical of Trump in certain ways. My argument 365 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:24,400 Speaker 1: to her is Rome wasn't built in a day. I mean, 366 00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:28,959 Speaker 1: I remember as a young kid Reagan, the recession that 367 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:33,800 Speaker 1: Reagan inherited from Jimmy Carter, and really the country really 368 00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:36,080 Speaker 1: only didn't get out of it until nineteen eighty three. 369 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:40,800 Speaker 1: You know, Reagan passes his tax cuts, his deregulation, his 370 00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:44,600 Speaker 1: economic package in nineteen eighty one, and it really took 371 00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:49,440 Speaker 1: about a good eighteen twenty months before the economy really 372 00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:53,760 Speaker 1: started to boom and skyrocket. In fact, Reagan took a 373 00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:57,720 Speaker 1: beating in the eighty two midterm elections because many Americans 374 00:23:57,720 --> 00:23:59,880 Speaker 1: were saying, nah, the economy is just as bad as 375 00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:02,600 Speaker 1: we voted for Reagan to fix things, and we don't 376 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:06,080 Speaker 1: see it getting fixed. And Reagan was just saying be patient. 377 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:09,919 Speaker 1: Be patient, it's gonna work. Be patient. These things take time, 378 00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:12,679 Speaker 1: and so one of the things. Look, it's one of 379 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:15,240 Speaker 1: our great strengths as a people. But you know, the 380 00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:18,119 Speaker 1: Irish have a very famous saying, every strength is a weakness, 381 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:23,240 Speaker 1: every weakness is a strength. We're an impatient people. Now 382 00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:26,200 Speaker 1: that's good in some ways. We want the best service 383 00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:28,480 Speaker 1: we want. You know, we have one of the most 384 00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:32,240 Speaker 1: efficient countries in the world. We always we you know, 385 00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:36,359 Speaker 1: we produce great entrepreneurs. We always want the next new thing. 386 00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:40,160 Speaker 1: So we're dynamic, right, you know, like in America. Boy, 387 00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:43,160 Speaker 1: you know this, We're always on the move. We're always 388 00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:46,640 Speaker 1: on the move. We always want more, better, more modern, newer. 389 00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:51,920 Speaker 1: So in that sense there impatience is like a key 390 00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:54,920 Speaker 1: edge that we have. It motivates us, it propels us, 391 00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:58,640 Speaker 1: it drives us. But the other problem is, like, as 392 00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:00,959 Speaker 1: you put it, it's been fifteen minutes, it's been nine months, 393 00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:06,000 Speaker 1: Like give him a chance, Like, you know, hey, it 394 00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:10,000 Speaker 1: took Biden the Democrats four full years to wreck our country. 395 00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:14,000 Speaker 1: He doesn't he's not a dictator, he's not a king. 396 00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:17,840 Speaker 1: He can't just wave a wand and suddenly everything changes. 397 00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:21,080 Speaker 1: Plus you know, he can only do so much. He's 398 00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:25,680 Speaker 1: blocked by Congress, and the Republicans are blocking him. Not everything, 399 00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:29,720 Speaker 1: but on many things. He's being constantly blocked by Democrats. 400 00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:32,959 Speaker 1: He's being blocked by judges. He's being blocked by the bureaucracy. 401 00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:37,320 Speaker 1: He's being hammered and attacked relentlessly by the media. I mean, 402 00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:42,440 Speaker 1: he's being attacked on all sides. So the tariffs are 403 00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:46,879 Speaker 1: bringing in trillions of dollars in investment. There's no question 404 00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:51,040 Speaker 1: the tariffs are reindustrializing America. 405 00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:54,639 Speaker 2: This takes time. You know. 406 00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:59,199 Speaker 1: Inflation is now under three percent. Gas is continuing to 407 00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:01,520 Speaker 1: go down as much as I would like, but it's 408 00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:07,159 Speaker 1: going down, so I think eventually. Now I will say this, Lisa, 409 00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:09,159 Speaker 1: and I don't know if you agree or disagree, and 410 00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:10,840 Speaker 1: I'd love to ask the whole audience this. 411 00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:13,760 Speaker 2: I don't like. 412 00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:22,240 Speaker 1: Trump's policy of bailing out Argentina. I disagree with that completely, 413 00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:26,520 Speaker 1: sending Malay, one of his allies, who is you know, 414 00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:30,080 Speaker 1: because credit he's an anti communist, he's a libertarian. A 415 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:35,200 Speaker 1: twenty billion dollar bailout. I'm against bailouts of any country, 416 00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:40,800 Speaker 1: and I'm against bringing in Argentinian beef. Trump says we 417 00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:43,920 Speaker 1: need to bring in more beef to drive down prices 418 00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:48,080 Speaker 1: because our domestic cattle producers are having a hard time 419 00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:53,440 Speaker 1: producing enough beef through their cattle. This the cattle producers 420 00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:57,560 Speaker 1: in this country feel betrayed by Trump. They're saying, no, 421 00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:01,200 Speaker 1: you're bringing in Argentinian beef, which is going to undercut 422 00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:05,400 Speaker 1: our cattle. And yeah, it may temporarily bring prices down 423 00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:08,240 Speaker 1: for a while, but you're going to hurt our cattle 424 00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:11,960 Speaker 1: industry in the long run. So there are some things 425 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:15,360 Speaker 1: that Trump is doing, to be honest, that I am against. 426 00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:19,760 Speaker 1: I don't like bailing out Argentina. I'm against it. I 427 00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:23,119 Speaker 1: don't want Argentinian beef. First of all, I don't trust 428 00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:27,399 Speaker 1: Argentinian beef to be honest. Our beef has much higher standards. 429 00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:33,640 Speaker 1: But overall, I want to support domestic beef producers, our 430 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:38,760 Speaker 1: cattle ranchers here, not the cattle ranchers in Argentina and Argentina. 431 00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:43,119 Speaker 1: But you know, okay, that's a policy difference I have 432 00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:48,360 Speaker 1: with him, But on the whole, he's not your own Powell. 433 00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:54,760 Speaker 1: The biggest lag on the economy is Jerome Powell. He's 434 00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:58,280 Speaker 1: refusing to lower the rates deep enough and fast enough, 435 00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:02,080 Speaker 1: and that's that's what's causing the lag in the economy. 436 00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:05,760 Speaker 1: And I think one other thing, Lisa, if you look 437 00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:11,560 Speaker 1: at the companies now, the AI revolution, artificial intelligence, it 438 00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:14,960 Speaker 1: is changing the economy and it happened to happen just 439 00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:21,320 Speaker 1: under Trump. Ups literally just laid off forty three thousand workers. 440 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:25,159 Speaker 1: Amazon is laying off tens of thousands. And I'm not 441 00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:29,200 Speaker 1: talking to people on the floor. I'm talking white collar workers. 442 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:33,760 Speaker 1: They're getting laid off company after company after company. It's 443 00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:38,160 Speaker 1: a blood path out there. Companies are laying off, they're 444 00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:43,320 Speaker 1: shrinking their workforces because all of these companies now are 445 00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:45,440 Speaker 1: investing in artificial intelligence. 446 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:49,880 Speaker 2: I know my sister in law lost a job. 447 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:52,720 Speaker 1: She was a communications director and they said, nah, we're 448 00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:55,240 Speaker 1: not going to pay you your salary. We think we 449 00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:59,520 Speaker 1: can get AI to do your job for you. And 450 00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:03,920 Speaker 1: this is happening across many sectors of the economy. Now, 451 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:07,280 Speaker 1: this is not Trump's fault. This is a technological revolution 452 00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:12,320 Speaker 1: that's taking place. So all these companies are investing what billions, 453 00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:17,400 Speaker 1: hundreds of billions in AI, but it's leading now to 454 00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:22,560 Speaker 1: people losing their jobs. Now down the road, they say 455 00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:26,040 Speaker 1: AI will end up creating even more jobs, but we're 456 00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:30,400 Speaker 1: not seeing that right now. So we're in a kind 457 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:36,640 Speaker 1: of a no higher economy. The investment is there, the 458 00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:42,200 Speaker 1: plants are there, the technology is there, the productivity is there, 459 00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:47,840 Speaker 1: but the hiring is weak. Why because everybody's into this 460 00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:54,160 Speaker 1: freaking AI. Now, that's not Trump's fault. That's the economy, 461 00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:56,720 Speaker 1: the nature of the economy. And look, this is a 462 00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:59,040 Speaker 1: separate issue. I don't want to talk about AI. I 463 00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:01,320 Speaker 1: really think it's a stand the loan topic that you 464 00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:04,000 Speaker 1: deserve to have, that we deserve to discuss, and you 465 00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:07,680 Speaker 1: deserve for us to talk about. I think AI is bad. 466 00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:11,080 Speaker 1: I'm not saying there aren't good things to it. We're 467 00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:14,880 Speaker 1: rushing towards AI and we're not looking at all the consequences, 468 00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:18,440 Speaker 1: and I think it is going to make a lot 469 00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:22,720 Speaker 1: of people's jobs obsolete. And I don't think there's a 470 00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:26,720 Speaker 1: plan B. And I think that's a serious problem that 471 00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:28,880 Speaker 1: we're going to start to run up against. But let 472 00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:34,280 Speaker 1: that go. Okay, that's another debate for another time. My 473 00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:38,959 Speaker 1: point is things are happening structurally in the economy. I'm 474 00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:41,160 Speaker 1: going to talk like an economist for ten seconds and 475 00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:45,400 Speaker 1: be incredibly boring. Things are happening structurally in the economy 476 00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:50,600 Speaker 1: that are leading many employers to lay off a lot 477 00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:55,680 Speaker 1: of workers, which has nothing to do with Trump. It 478 00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:58,640 Speaker 1: would have happened whoever was president of the United States, 479 00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:01,440 Speaker 1: no matter what, that's what it would have happened. 480 00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:04,080 Speaker 2: So there's that as well. 481 00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:09,280 Speaker 1: But overall, look, I believe give it another six months. 482 00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:12,640 Speaker 1: Talk to me in the spring of twenty twenty six, 483 00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:17,000 Speaker 1: and I think you're going to see the economy roaring. 484 00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:21,640 Speaker 1: The fundamentals are there. Trump has done the hard work, 485 00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:24,880 Speaker 1: He's laid the groundwork, and I think, now you know, 486 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:26,320 Speaker 1: these things just take time. 487 00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:33,200 Speaker 2: Am I wrong? Agree? Disagree? But look to me, there's 488 00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:34,240 Speaker 2: no question. 489 00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:40,400 Speaker 1: Inflation is still too high, you know, And now you know, 490 00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:43,440 Speaker 1: Lisa says, well, you know, prices never really go down, 491 00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:49,760 Speaker 1: but wages tend to go up, and the wages are 492 00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:52,800 Speaker 1: still not coming up, so the price is still feel 493 00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:53,360 Speaker 1: too high. 494 00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:55,480 Speaker 2: That's the point. Six months. 495 00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:56,920 Speaker 1: Look, I mean, I don't want to give you the 496 00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:59,360 Speaker 1: story of my life. I haven't had a pay increase 497 00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:01,600 Speaker 1: and I don't know how many years. I mean, I'm 498 00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:05,080 Speaker 1: not complaining because I always fight for editorial independence. I 499 00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:07,120 Speaker 1: don't ask for a pay increase. I asked to keep 500 00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:12,040 Speaker 1: my editorial independence. But I'm telling you that I'm making 501 00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:15,520 Speaker 1: as much now as I did four years ago, and 502 00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:23,440 Speaker 1: everything is much more expensive. We're falling behind where I'm 503 00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:26,120 Speaker 1: still doing fine. I still live well. I still have 504 00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:29,040 Speaker 1: a roof, we have two cars. The kids are you know, 505 00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:31,880 Speaker 1: they got clothes on their back. And we still eat 506 00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:34,320 Speaker 1: out once a week or whatever. I mean, we still 507 00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:36,600 Speaker 1: you know, there's a full fridge. I'm not saying I'm 508 00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:40,000 Speaker 1: not pleting poverty, but I'm just telling you. My wife 509 00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:44,480 Speaker 1: is always telling me, we're it's check to check. We're 510 00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:46,960 Speaker 1: just you know, it's bill to build, check to check. 511 00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:52,520 Speaker 1: It's expensive and the cost of living keeps getting more 512 00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:56,000 Speaker 1: and more expensive. And it's getting to the point now 513 00:32:56,000 --> 00:33:00,360 Speaker 1: where people find cities literally unlivable. I mean, and that's 514 00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:04,360 Speaker 1: really the rebellion that's happening in New York. And I 515 00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:09,800 Speaker 1: said the story, this was two years ago where at 516 00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:13,880 Speaker 1: a popular Manhattan deli, like a sandwich place. This is 517 00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:18,720 Speaker 1: where the Mamdani revolution took off. This was in Manhattan. 518 00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:20,960 Speaker 1: People were off for launch. They went to grab a sandwich. 519 00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:23,560 Speaker 1: It was like a ham and cheese or a turkey 520 00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:26,720 Speaker 1: in cheese. It was a very ordinary sandwich on white bread, 521 00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:31,080 Speaker 1: you know, packaged, and it was thirty two dollars and 522 00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:36,960 Speaker 1: fifty cents. And some woman yelled or screamed or I 523 00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:39,720 Speaker 1: think she threw the package at the owner or the manager. 524 00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:41,960 Speaker 1: It was like a bit of a big deal in 525 00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:45,080 Speaker 1: the local media. But they were like, I can't pay this, 526 00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:48,960 Speaker 1: like this is beyond outrageous, like this no, I mean 527 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:50,400 Speaker 1: a sandwich thirty two dollars? 528 00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:52,760 Speaker 2: Are you insane? 529 00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:56,920 Speaker 1: And mom Donnie jumped on that issue. And by the way, 530 00:33:57,040 --> 00:33:58,920 Speaker 1: that's where he came up with the thirty dollars an 531 00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:01,960 Speaker 1: hour minimum wage. You know, like where do you get 532 00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:04,480 Speaker 1: thirty dollars because it's thirty bucks to get a sandwich 533 00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:07,440 Speaker 1: in Manhattan. So he said, okay, well pay him at 534 00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:09,600 Speaker 1: least thirty bucks an hour so they can afford a 535 00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:15,080 Speaker 1: sandwich when they go for lunch. So the issue of affordability, 536 00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:17,360 Speaker 1: the issue of the cost of living, the issue of inflation, 537 00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:20,920 Speaker 1: that's what Mam Donnie and the left has now seized. 538 00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:26,360 Speaker 1: Now their solutions are all wrong. But how come Republicans 539 00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:30,359 Speaker 1: aren't speaking about these problems? This is what every day 540 00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:33,640 Speaker 1: ordinary Americans, you know, every day ordinary Americans are facing 541 00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:37,399 Speaker 1: living with every single day. Why isn't meager Mike talking 542 00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:41,480 Speaker 1: about that? Why isn't John Thune talking about that? Frankly, 543 00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:46,200 Speaker 1: why isn't President Trump talking about that? I mean, I 544 00:34:46,239 --> 00:34:49,040 Speaker 1: know he's talking about the deals and he's talking about investment, 545 00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:52,040 Speaker 1: but he's got to start talking about I know you're 546 00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:55,960 Speaker 1: still hurting, and my this is how my policies are 547 00:34:55,960 --> 00:35:00,240 Speaker 1: going to help you. It's as if the Republicans are 548 00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:05,280 Speaker 1: seating the affordability issue the ground completely to the left 549 00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:06,359 Speaker 1: and to the Democrats. 550 00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:09,880 Speaker 2: And I don't know why they're doing. 551 00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:12,440 Speaker 1: That, because it's politically it's going to be a disaster 552 00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:13,440 Speaker 1: for the Republicans. 553 00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:16,239 Speaker 2: Agree, disagree. 554 00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:21,640 Speaker 1: Tim in South Carolina, Thanks for holding Tim, and welcome. 555 00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:27,759 Speaker 8: Hi Jeff, good morning, Thanks for having me again. I 556 00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:33,640 Speaker 8: you know what, I'm not sure that the economic policy 557 00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:38,560 Speaker 8: can really be addressed right now on an immediate basis. 558 00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:43,319 Speaker 8: We have an insurrection going on in this country. We're 559 00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:46,480 Speaker 8: in trouble physically. People are being shot, people are threatened 560 00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:47,680 Speaker 8: to be shot. 561 00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:48,279 Speaker 4: You have. 562 00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:52,919 Speaker 8: It looks like the main outpost is in New York 563 00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:58,160 Speaker 8: City now and this is getting dangerous. I don't mean 564 00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:02,920 Speaker 8: to you know, oupoo, inflation and high taxes and all that, 565 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:07,160 Speaker 8: but I think most people don't understand the situation we're 566 00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:12,319 Speaker 8: in right now. We're in a physical war. I you know, 567 00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:17,080 Speaker 8: you talked earlier about possibly sending in the National Guard 568 00:36:17,239 --> 00:36:21,360 Speaker 8: to New York City, and I'm thinking, why don't we 569 00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:24,680 Speaker 8: just lock it down at the borders. Just lock down 570 00:36:24,719 --> 00:36:28,320 Speaker 8: the borders of New York City. This might sound crazy, 571 00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:31,279 Speaker 8: of course, but if people want to leave, let them leave. 572 00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:34,400 Speaker 8: If illegal aliens choose to leave, then they need to 573 00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:42,560 Speaker 8: be immediately deported. Maybe freeze the airports because this can 574 00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:47,799 Speaker 8: only spread and it needs to be contained. Anyway, those 575 00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:51,799 Speaker 8: are my thoughts. They might sound outrageous, but. 576 00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:59,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, well look, Tim, that's I think you're that's Trump's a. 577 00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:05,520 Speaker 1: Trump's argument is I'm fighting on how many fronts? And 578 00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:07,880 Speaker 1: he said, you know, I can't do everything at once. 579 00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:12,040 Speaker 1: And this is all by design, deliberately by design by 580 00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:17,040 Speaker 1: the Democrats to sow as much chaos anarchy and to 581 00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:22,239 Speaker 1: really destroy Trump's presidency. And look, you're right, we have 582 00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:25,680 Speaker 1: an insurrection now. And what's scary about the insurrection in 583 00:37:25,719 --> 00:37:28,560 Speaker 1: New York? And I think that's why it's more dangerous 584 00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:31,759 Speaker 1: than say Chicago or Portland or Boston, or La.