WEBVTT - Governor Ron DeSantis - April 11th, Hour 2 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:01.040 All right, thanks Scott. 0:00:01.120 --> 0:00:03.880 You an hour two Sean Hannity Show this Friday, toll 0:00:03.920 --> 0:00:06.000 free on numbers eight hundred and nine, P FOURT one, Shawn, 0:00:06.120 --> 0:00:09.120 if you want to be a part of the program. 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:15.280 It is amazing that some people get it and then 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:18.919 some people will never get it. And what do I 0:00:18.960 --> 0:00:21.959 mean by that? In my free state of Florida. This 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:27.880 state has been transformed because of conservative policies being implemented 0:00:28.000 --> 0:00:32.680 at the highest level under Governor Ronda Centus and with 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:34.680 the help of President Trump. They've been a great one 0:00:34.720 --> 0:00:40.760 two combination. And for whatever reason, you always have those Republicans, 0:00:40.800 --> 0:00:42.920 I don't want to you can call them a establishment 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:48.720 maybe inclined to being Republicans and name only institutionalists. You 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:52.000 know that even you're making all of this success and 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:57.800 then there becomes a resistance to what is been so 0:00:57.880 --> 0:01:01.520 successful and necessary to change or to take it to 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:05.360 the next level. And it is bizarre. I'm watching in 0:01:05.440 --> 0:01:07.840 my free state of Florida, and I do this as 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:11.200 a cautionary tell for other states that have made so 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:15.280 much progress implementing, for example, either American First or a 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:19.520 state first agenda. And for whatever reason, in recent months, 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:23.200 there has been some kind of I would describe as 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:27.880 more Rhino Republicans in the Florida House, and a bit 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:31.120 of tension has emerged, reflecting a deeper power struggle within 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:34.839 the state's Republican party. And I'm having a hard time 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:38.760 comprehending why. You know, these guys in Tallahassee are pushing 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:42.720 back on very key aspects of the governor's agenda, for example, 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:45.800 stalling his preferred condo reform bill and. 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:46.640 It became a big deal. 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:49.760 You might remember that condo building fell down in Miami, 0:01:50.880 --> 0:01:54.840 and also rejecting his special Session on immigration in favor 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:58.280 of crafting their own which is a far less aggressive bill. 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:01.320 On top of that, the House advancing their own sales 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:04.920 tax cut plan well, while Governor DeSantis is saying no. 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:08.760 The biggest problem in Florida has been, especially in the 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:12.640 coastal areas of Florida, is property values because of the 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:17.240 great migration, have gone up dramatically. And as they have 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:20.840 gone up, so to have property taxes, which is now, 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:25.000 you know, literally threatening future growth in the state of Florida. 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:26.000 And they still have. 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:28.440 We still have at least another ten fifteen years of 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:33.440 significant migration with baby boomers retiring and anyway, so I 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:35.760 thought i'd bring on Governor DeSantis as a sort of 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:38.679 maybe a canary in the coal mine that you've really 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:40.600 got to keep your foot on the gas and keep 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:41.959 people honest at all times. 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:43.480 Governor, A great to have you back. How are you? 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:46.440 Yeah? Good? You know, Sean, I've been on many times 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:48.720 if you talking about how we used to be a 0:02:48.720 --> 0:02:51.679 swing state. Now we have one point two million more 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:54.959 Republicans than Democrats, and so you know, that's a success, 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:57.560 but it also creates its own challenges because I think 0:02:57.560 --> 0:03:00.720 people realize, unless you're in like a really deep blue 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:03.400 part of Florida, you can't get elected with a D 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:05.679 by your name. You've got to run as a Republican. 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:07.840 And so I think what's happened though, even though we 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:11.240 have the largest Republican super majority in the history of 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:13.840 the Florida House, I think we have a far less 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:17.040 conservative agenda. In fact, I would say it hasn't been 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:19.240 conservative at all, because I think you have a lot 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:21.840 of those people who really aren't true believers who are 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:25.040 in positions of power right now. Think about this. One 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:27.079 of the things that we've led on better than any 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:31.320 other state is getting the indoctrination out of our universities, 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:35.119 eliminating DEI, eliminating the woke, making sure that we put 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:39.880 people in positions, both professors and university presidents, who are 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:41.720 going to believe in the classical mission of what a 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:44.160 university should be and not the nonsense we see at 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:46.920 Colombia and all the other places. And the Wall Street 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:49.119 Journal even a month ago was talking about the things 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:52.360 that President Trump is correctly doing to hold the universities 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:54.760 accountable nationwide, and they say, you want to know what 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:56.680 he wants to do, just look at what Florida's done. 0:03:56.720 --> 0:03:59.960 Florida sent the blueprint from that. Every conservative in America 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:04.120 like hallelujah. Yet in the Florida House, they are trying 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:08.480 to advance legislation to roll back the conservative reforms that 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:12.320 we've instituted at universities, and in fact, they want to 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:16.000 totally cut us out of being involved in helping select 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:18.960 university presidents. What you would end up having is that 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:21.360 would be a lifeline to the left and they would 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:24.680 end up going liberal once again. And then, of course, 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:28.359 on property tax, you talk to these people. I talked 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:32.040 to all the folks. They want property tax relief. They're 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:35.359 proposing a plan that is being rejected in the Florida 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:37.760 Senate anyways, But it would grant a lot of relief 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:41.039 to Taurus and non residents and stuffn Why would we 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:44.240 not want to focus relief on Florida residence. You did 0:04:44.279 --> 0:04:47.279 bring up the immigration, you know, I called the special session. 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:49.880 I said we need to have all state and locals 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:54.120 helping President Trump with deportations. They rejected it, fought me 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:56.760 on it, they got big blowback. Finally we got it done. 0:04:56.960 --> 0:04:59.560 But it's done issue after issue, and so basically I 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:03.800 think what their agenda is twofold. One, they have a 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:06.240 whole host of bills they're trying to push through to 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:10.720 enrich liberal trial lawyers, which will increase your costs, increase 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:13.560 cost of businesses, and ultimately mean less jobs and not 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:16.400 good policy. And then two, they just want to oppose me. 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:19.760 So the reason why they did their tourist tax cut 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:22.400 is because I was talking about property taxes and they 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:24.880 don't want to do the things that I'm doing, even 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:26.719 though all I'm doing is governor. 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:29.360 Haven't you ever traveled abroad? Did you ever look at 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:32.599 what they charge you if you rent a hotel room 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:34.320 in another country? 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:39.840 In terms of a visitor tax. It's insane. 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:44.320 But meanwhile, everybody still goes to those places, and everybody's 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:47.560 still going to come from the Northeast and the Midwest 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:49.720 down to Florida in the middle of winter so they 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:50.640 can get some relief. 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:54.240 Not only that, we've had all these liberal groups try 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:57.120 to do travel advisories saying don't go to Florida since 0:05:57.160 --> 0:05:59.960 I've been governor. When I became governor, we were typically 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:02.880 getting about eighty to ninety million visitors a year. We 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:05.400 just set the record last year one hundred and forty 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:09.120 two million visitors to Florida. And so that helps the economy, 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:11.120 and it's also bad for traffic and some other things, 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:13.960 and we're working through that. But we have this golden 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:18.159 opportunity to give people property tax relief and then just 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:20.640 have more of the tax burden going people that aren't 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:23.640 residents of here. They're Taurus foreigners and all this stuff, 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:26.440 and they don't want to do that. So this is 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:28.680 just what it is. But here's what I've learned in 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:31.280 this In this line of work, if you run for office, 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:33.520 you tell people what you're going to do, and you 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:35.880 get in and do it and follow through. Even people 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:39.160 that disagree with you, they do respect that. What voters 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:42.480 really get upset about is when you run saying you're 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:44.640 going to do certain things. And these guys all ran 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:47.800 saying they were going to support the Florida success story, 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:51.480 support the Florida model, support conservative policies. But then when 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:54.200 you get in and you don't follow through, and in 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:56.919 fact you stab your voters in the back, that is 0:06:56.960 --> 0:07:00.240 when we have some serious, serious problems. And so there 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:02.680 is something rotten in the state of Denmark when it 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:05.080 comes to the Florida House of Representatives. This is not 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:09.080 the type of conservative governance that we saw under the 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:12.880 three previous legislatures with the three previous speakers since I've 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:15.560 been governor, and I think this is the least conservative 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:19.840 agenda that the Florida House has pursued since Republicans took 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:23.160 the majority way back in nineteen ninety six, and voters 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:24.920 need to know that that's what's going on. I think 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:27.840 these guys think that they get in the Tallahassee bubble 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:30.000 and they can do whatever the hell they want to 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:33.120 do without any recourse from the voters, and that's just 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:36.440 not true. I think everybody has a real significant voice. 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:38.640 Oh one more thing they're doing, Sean, I think you'll 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:42.520 appreciate this. We all believe in draining the swamp, draining 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:45.880 the swamp in DC, also draining the swamp in Tallahassee, 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:48.680 which we have done. Part of the things President Trump's 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:51.480 trying to do. He's trying to move bureaucrats and agencies 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:54.880 out of Washington rather than have them all there. We've 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:58.040 done that in Florida. They're actually pursuing in the Florida 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:03.119 House a bill that would render our agency heads ineligible 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:06.920 unless they live in Tallahassee. So our Surgeon General, Joseph 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:10.600 latipoau great surgeon General, he doesn't live in Tallahassee. 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:12.480 By the way, he's been a rock star and he's 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:15.600 not afraid to tell it like it is and we 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:17.160 can go back to COVID with him. 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:22.600 So we want people outside of Tallahassee. So they basically 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:26.080 have this bill, it's basically refill the swamp at why 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:29.200 would you want to fire Surgeon General Joseph Latipou And 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:31.280 yet they're doing it, and it's all just to try 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:34.480 to attack the success that we've done. And that's not 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:36.360 what they told the voters that they would do. But 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:38.559 that is how they're choosing to use their power. 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:41.559 Almost every person that you're talking about, I know who 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:43.320 these people are, and i know what they're up to, 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:45.720 and I've been following it closely. But I think it 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:48.320 is a case study that people have to be forever 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:51.640 vigil And I told people after the last election, you know, 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:53.680 don't think you can vote for Donald Trump and walk 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:56.360 away and think you did your job, because there are 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:59.760 going to be moments where your voices are going to need. 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:00.240 To be heard heard. 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:03.920 But what really makes me mad because I followed these races, 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:06.080 and again it's a case study. I think for other 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:10.239 conservative states they've got to be forever vigilant. Is almost 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:15.400 all of them, without fail, ran as Trump, Maga, the 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:22.600 Santis Conservatives. They ran on really being transformational and consequential, 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:25.560 and now all of a sudden, I'm getting report after 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:29.800 report after report that they're abandoning the very things that 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:31.440 brought them to the dance. 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:32.800 And that really makes me mad. 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:34.320 Man. It should, and it should make a lot of 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:36.800 voters mad. I mean, we didn't even have a supermajority 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:39.640 when I first got elected twenty twenty two. We had 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:42.319 the big twenty point tsunami and we swept in a 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:44.480 lot of folks to be able to come in and serve. 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:48.000 And yet they have this super majority and they're not 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:50.600 taking on the left. I mean, my view is no 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:53.839 state has done better at beating the left across all 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:57.000 these different facets of American life than we have in Florida. 0:09:57.679 --> 0:09:59.920 I want to continue to keep the left at bay. 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:01.920 I don't want to give them a lifeline. And yet 0:10:01.960 --> 0:10:05.400 the Florida House of Representatives, these Republicans there, they're given 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:09.160 the left a lifeline. They want to rewokeify the universities. 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:12.240 They're doing things that is not in keeping with what 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:15.600 we promised voters we would do, and that is a huge, 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:19.480 huge mistake that they're doing. So look, you are a 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:22.400 new convert to Florida, Sean, you know how different it 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:22.679 can be. 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:26.320 Well, in fairness to me, I've owned property down here 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:30.120 for almost twenty eight years, so yeah, I mean, and 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:32.280 you gave me a hard time about you keep threatening 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:32.960 when do you move it? 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:33.640 And I moved. 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:36.880 But you dealt with New York as a resident for 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:38.360 how long you've seen? 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:41.079 Oh it was awful. I was kind of trapped there 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:42.800 because of my kids. To be very honest. 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:45.480 Yeah, but when this goes, it goes, and it's tough. 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:48.239 And so I think there's just a lot of Floridians 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:51.560 who who maybe have moved here since I've been governor, 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:55.280 since COVID, probably millions of them who loves the state, 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:57.280 love the way it's governed, and they all, I think 0:10:57.320 --> 0:10:59.000 a lot of them take it for granted because this 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:01.280 is all they know. Well, I think what you're seeing 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:04.200 in the Florida House is no, this is not something 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:07.120 that is set in stone. We have a chance to 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:09.680 solidify and build off the success, which I think what 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:12.520 our voters want us to do. But you absolutely have 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:16.400 the possibility of squandering that success and reverting back to 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:18.600 where we would be a purple state and we want 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:22.160 election away from having a Democrat come in and really 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:23.199 ruin things. 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:27.120 Do you really think, even with the significant advantage that 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:30.319 Republicans have now gotten in terms of voter roles, that 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:32.480 there would even be that possibility not? 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:37.040 I don't think maybe right now, But these things kind 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:39.840 of move, and I think the danger is is when 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:43.720 you have folks pursuing a non conservative agenda, when they're 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:48.280 joining with Democrats to oppose a conservative governor, that causes 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:52.240 enthusiasm amongst the base to really dwindle. That's just the 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:54.839 reality of it. And so if that's the kind of 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:57.720 agenda they're going to pursue, we're going to continue to 0:11:57.760 --> 0:12:01.040 lose enthusiasm. I think the registration would probably start to 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:04.080 go the other way. It doesn't happen overnight, but what 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:07.720 happens is, you know, sometimes you have tough political environments. 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:10.600 If you have lack of enthusiasm and the Dems are 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:12.480 hopped up and they start pouring a lot of money 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:15.160 in here, who knows. I don't think that'll happen today. 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:17.800 But I think we're kind of at a time for 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:21.160 choosing in Florida. Do we double down on the success 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:26.240 or do we kiss it away for pursuing this ridiculous 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:27.719 agenda that nobody voted for. 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:29.120 That really kind of scares me. 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:33.440 I think the greatest compliment that maybe you're getting is 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:37.920 when I watch Vivik Ramaswami. He's running for governor in Ohio. 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:41.440 Remember Ohio and Florida or swing states, they were the 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:44.520 two states to watch. Not any longer, so states can 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:48.840 make swings politically. But he's running on your entire agenda. 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:51.160 He wants to compete with you. He wants to compete 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:53.720 with us, and I'm like, well slow down, mister. 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:56.240 I hope you do well, but not that well. 0:12:56.600 --> 0:12:58.560 Well we've got You could throw a dart at a 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:01.840 map of the state of Florida definitely hit someone from Ohio. 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:05.160 You know, sometimes like the New Yorkers go to pouts Florida, 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:06.680 the mothers oh. 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:08.920 Southwest Florida is all Midwest. 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:12.040 You're right everywhere, but Ohio just seems to be everywhere. 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:14.800 It's really really crazy. Look, my mom's from Ohio and 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:17.200 my wife's from Ohio, so that you have both of those. 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:18.880 But I do think if you look just since I've 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:22.200 been governor, we led on the issues, and then you 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:24.320 did have a lot of other states that stepped up. 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:26.120 We tended to be the one to get out in 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:28.920 front first on a lot of these issues, which is fine, 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:32.720 and we played a really important role in creating I 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:37.079 think a great era of conservative governance, particularly in response 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:39.440 to the Biden administration. And oh, by the way, Shan, 0:13:39.480 --> 0:13:42.319 you and I talked. We rejected a lot of Biden 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:45.800 administration money, almost a billion dollars. They didn't know how 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:47.640 to take it back, and so I went up to 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:50.280 meet with Elon Musk last month. I said, Elon, I've 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:52.560 got almost a billion. We don't want it. Biden wouldn't 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:54.120 take it. You want to, Oh, I take it? So 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:56.840 we sent it and they we returned almost a billion 0:13:56.920 --> 0:14:00.840 dollars to the Doze efforts for federal We're now that's 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:01.319 got to be. 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:04.440 A world record. What other state governor has ever done that. 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:07.520 I've got to run only because of the constraints of time. 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:12.040 But if this problem continues to evolve and get worse, 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:16.680 we'll just name names. And too many people have worked 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:20.120 too hard to make Florida the model state in the 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:22.840 country of freedom and liberty and where woe goes to 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:27.600 die to change to change course. So please, governor, keep 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:29.240 us in the loop, let us know what's going on. 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:30.280 We really appreciate it. 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:32.240 Okay, thanks buddy, SEEA eight. 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:33.360 Nine four one Shawn. 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:36.840 If you want to be a part of the program, 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:39.200 all right, twenty five now till the top of the hour. 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:41.520 Here's our toll free number this Friday. It's eight hundred 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:43.040 and ninety four to one, Shawn. If you want to 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:47.600 join us, listen, uh one way to save money and 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:49.960 everybody needs to save money. Now we're in the process, 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:53.560 thank goodness, the House Reconciliation, the Senate. Hopefully they work 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:56.920 it out and at least we'll get part of the 0:14:57.720 --> 0:15:02.000 Biden Harris economy done with and begin the process of 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:06.120 healing the country. Obviously getting rid of waste, fraud, abuse, corruption. 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:09.720 Anybody with an ounce of common sense knows that's good 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:12.400 for the country. I mean, I can't believe they misuse 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:14.600 so many of our dollars doze now up to one 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:18.720 hundred and fifty billion dollars in savings, It's insane. 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All Right, So we're now in 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:09.439 the midst of and I think you really sum this 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:14.000 up in a way that this week President Trump changed 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:19.119 everything as it relates to trade worldwide. The old way 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:22.640 of doing things is now officially over. In other words, 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:26.840 ripping off America, abusing America, taking advantage of America. 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:28.080 That's it. 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:33.200 And he was able to reverse what is a fifty 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:39.040 sixty year I don't know, institutionalist, you know mindset that 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:42.360 somehow we're going to allow even allied countries to take 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:46.480 advantage of us. And it is now going to result. 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:49.200 And we have seventy five countries that want trade deals. 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:52.679 They want them immediately. He's calling out China in the 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:56.160 biggest way. And China is the worst abuser of them all. 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:58.159 We've gone through the list over and over again on 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:01.679 how bad they are and how they mistreated the American people. 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:06.040 So here's President Trump that we saved us steel. He 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:10.080 also saved the auto industry, the energy sector. Anyway, here's 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:13.440 the President talking about, for example, one industry, the steel industry. 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:16.280 We have steel mills right now that are raging. 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:18.360 The steel industry has gone. 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:21.399 If I didn't put the tariffs on steel because China 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:24.000 was dumping massive amounts of steel in my first term, 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:26.480 and I put tariffs on I saved the steel industry. 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:30.040 But now it's going to thrive maybe like never before. 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:32.160 I mean, if you go back to US Steel from 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:34.439 ninety years ago, was see credible as the number one 0:18:34.480 --> 0:18:36.359 company in the world for. 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:36.560 A long time. 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:38.520 That's why we don't want to see it go to Japan. 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:41.399 And we love Japan, but we you know, US Steel 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:44.720 was a very special company. We don't want it to 0:18:44.760 --> 0:18:47.919 go to Japan or any other place. So we're working 0:18:47.960 --> 0:18:49.920 with them, and you know, I don't know if they 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:52.200 need any money now, I'll be honest with you. There 0:18:52.560 --> 0:18:55.680 they hit gold. They hit gold because if you look 0:18:55.720 --> 0:18:59.359 at it, they have such orders for steel. 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:03.320 Now it's in joining us to discuss this is Selena Gazito, 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:07.200 who's the national political reporter for the Washington Examiner, and 0:19:07.520 --> 0:19:11.320 she has been spending a great deal of time going 0:19:11.359 --> 0:19:14.440 out among the great people in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:16.880 When you think of Pennsylvania, you think of the steel industry. 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:19.120 When you think of Pennsylvania, you think of fracking. When 0:19:19.119 --> 0:19:22.640 you think of Pennsylvania, you think of the hard working 0:19:22.720 --> 0:19:26.760 men and women that make this country great. They get 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:29.080 up every day, work hard, play by the rules, pay 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:32.640 their taxes, put in their twelve fourteen, sixteen hours, they 0:19:32.680 --> 0:19:34.920 take care of their kids, They go to church on Sunday, 0:19:35.240 --> 0:19:38.480 and they grind it out and they make the country 0:19:38.520 --> 0:19:40.520 great and they provide the things that we need. Now 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:44.040 their lives are about to get that much easier, especially 0:19:44.040 --> 0:19:46.200 if you're in the steel industry, or if you're in 0:19:46.640 --> 0:19:50.680 if you're in the energy sector. And Selena, to her credit, 0:19:50.840 --> 0:19:53.320 I can't even tell you how many thousands of mileles 0:19:53.359 --> 0:19:56.240 she's put on her car, has been going all around 0:19:56.240 --> 0:20:01.200 the state, more specifically recently visiting a a steel plant. 0:20:01.480 --> 0:20:03.320 She sent me pictures of it and then she put 0:20:03.359 --> 0:20:07.119 them online on x It's pretty amazing what's happening. But 0:20:07.160 --> 0:20:10.800 she's been talking to all of the American workers who 0:20:10.920 --> 0:20:14.560 now have a president that is championing them, which goes 0:20:14.600 --> 0:20:18.119 to my other point, which is the Republican Party is 0:20:18.160 --> 0:20:20.920 now the party of working men and women in America. 0:20:21.640 --> 0:20:25.520 These are the presidents standing up for high paying career 0:20:25.640 --> 0:20:28.959