WEBVTT - Aging Is A Major Contributor To Death 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:12.080 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty, arm Strong and Getty. 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:12.520 And He. 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:17.840 Armstrong and Yetty. 0:00:26.520 --> 0:00:30.040 So the Grammys were last night and Beyonce one Album 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:33.519 of the Year for her country album. This is the 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:35.919 only song I'd heard from it. We played this back 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:36.600 when it came out. 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:39.680 I spent some time. 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:41.760 Listening to the album last night, way way, way more 0:00:41.840 --> 0:00:46.360 artsy than I was expecting. It's like a what do 0:00:46.400 --> 0:00:48.559 you call it when you got a theme through a 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:49.160 whole album? 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:52.400 Concept album? Concept album? Yeah, concept album with a lot 0:00:52.400 --> 0:00:54.400 of giant, famous country. 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:56.960 Stars and that sort of stuff. I'm and okay, album 0:00:57.000 --> 0:00:58.840 of the year whatever, whatever that means. You know, the 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:03.000 calling something the best art is weird to start with, fine, 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:05.560 but best country album. 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:07.559 I just I find that interesting. Okay. 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:10.480 It was absolutely a clear example the Grammys do this, 0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:13.559 the Oscars do this, that somebody got snubbed or passed 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:15.720 over in the past, and they're a super giant star, 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:18.039 and you think, all right, let's give him a like 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:21.360 a Beck got Album of the Year for an album 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:23.640 I listened to twice and said, I'm never listening to this. 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:24.400 That's interesting. 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:26.240 I listened to it still. I listened to the other day. 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:28.600 I loved that album. Yeah, I just didn't scratch you 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:28.880 were I. 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:31.960 But it's fairly rare that people think that's better than like, 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:34.000 oh Delay or what was the second one that was 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:34.360 so great? 0:01:34.360 --> 0:01:37.080 But anyway, they it's like a career. 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:39.360 We should have given you something before thinks, hey, she's 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:42.160 a great star and singer whatever. I don't know, like 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:45.240 you say words for kind of eh. If Noah what's 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:47.000 his name hadn't been the host, it had been easier 0:01:47.000 --> 0:01:47.640 for me to watch. 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:49.560 God dang it, that guy rubs me the wrong way. 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:51.200 I find him so grating. 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:53.880 Well, he's not funny and then his political jokes. Just 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:57.040 shut up, dude, Why why? 0:01:57.040 --> 0:02:01.360 Who likes him? Right? Like kimmels him? But he's funny. 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:05.120 Taylor chefs I thought Taylor Swift though clinking glasses with 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:09.200 jay Z when Beyonce won Best Album like looking genuinely 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:11.240 happy for her. I think that's part of the hole. 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:13.799 It's like the way Elon Musk's happy. I mean, you're 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:17.080 so rich and so successful, you can't get under my skin. 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:18.799 I didn't want to do something you think I care 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:21.120 whatever good for you, have a good time, have a 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:22.880 nice night, enjoy your life. 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:26.400 I don't care, right, what are you gonna do if 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:28.239 I had her money at burn mine? 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:32.440 Exactly as they say, here's what's going on with the 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:34.600 whole tariff thing. If you haven't been paying attention, This 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:36.160 is at o'keef on CBS News. 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:39.720 So starting Tuesday, there will be twenty five percent tariffs 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:43.440 on all Mexican exports, twenty five percent tariffs on most 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:47.680 Canadian exports, ten percent tariffs on Canadian energy exports, and 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:51.320 ten percent tariffs on all goods from China. This morning, 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:54.200 the President acknowledged this could lead to higher prices, writing 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:57.160 will there be some pain? Yes, maybe and maybe not, 0:02:57.280 --> 0:02:59.519 he wrote on his social media platform, but we will 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:01.480 make America a great again, and it will all be 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:03.640 worth the price that must be paid. 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:05.600 This is not my lane. 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:10.760 Tariff talking economics, but a couple questions I have just 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:13.120 from observing this. First of all, I remember when Trump 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:17.480 put tariffs on China the first time around first term, 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:20.399 and a lot of the hewing and crying of how 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:24.320 dom and awful this was from mainstream media. And then 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:27.079 the Biden administration came in and left them in place, 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:28.560 didn't do anything about it. 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:34.760 Yeah, yeah, I have no problem with with the China tariffs. 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:40.640 It's an untenable, ugly relationship with a bitter adversary. On 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:43.440 the other hand, Mexico and Canada are not our bitter adversaries. 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:46.480 There close allies and huge trading partners. It just I'm 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:48.600 gonna hit you with anvila headlines. Then we'll go from there. 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:52.080 The dumbest Oh wait a minute, there is the dumbest 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:55.920 trade war. Fallout begins the dumbest trade war in history. 0:03:56.480 --> 0:03:59.120 Tump Trump tariff's Americans will pay a severe price if 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:01.800 they remain in effect too long. Trump's move to put 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:05.320 tariff hikes ahead of tax Putts's cuts have spooke to 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:06.160 almost everyone. 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:08.080 Mexico and Canada fireback. 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:10.600 Those are all from conservative media, by the way, business 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:14.000 friendly conservative media. So there's there's a great deal of 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:19.400 angst over these tariffs and whether they're the right move. 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:23.039 I think the if I were to boil down the 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:28.440 main objection among Trump friendly tending to be Trump friendly media, 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:33.159 it's that the tariffs and what they're claiming to be 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:38.000 accomplishing are just disconnected. We're gonna stop the illegal immigration 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:41.560 and drugs by punishing our neighbors with tariffs until they comply. 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:44.680 You know that it might work eventually, I suppose, but 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:50.520 it's gonna just hurt consumers in the meantime. It's gonna 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:53.400 staunch growth and raise inflation almost certainly. 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:56.000 Does this make pretty boy Trudeau unhappy? Because if it 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:58.440 makes him unhappy, it makes me happy. Huh that's a 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:01.200 good standard, right. They find him annoying. 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:10.440 Oh, he's terribly annoying. I had one pushback on that. Yeah. 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:11.840 Absolutely willing to get to Uh. 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:15.279 Robert Leitthheiser, who's been defending Trump policies lately. 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:18.680 Yeah, that's mostly around China, which, as you were saying, 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:22.120 it's a lot more easily defended because we are in 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:25.520 a war for control of the earth with China. Okay, 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:28.120 here's the thing about Trump. Okay, go ahead. CEO of 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:32.760 Canada's second biggest company defends Trump's tariff demands, slams Trudeau 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:35.400 for not stopping the trade war. This is the guy 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:37.800 who runs Shopify, which is a very big company you 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:40.720 might be familiar with. These are things that every Canadian 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:43.279 wants its government to do. These are not crazy demands, 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:46.200 even if they come from an unpopular source, said Toby 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:51.400 lock Letkey, who co founded Shopify. So uh, it's not 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:54.600 all why are you doing this to us. 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:55.840 Up in Canada? Just one point. 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:58.800 I don't I don't understand his point. But when he 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:00.720 gave the guy from Shopify is in favor of it, 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:03.000 What was I going to say? 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:03.160 Oh? 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:05.400 The thing about Trump, the way he's always done business. 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:07.479 When he's in business. 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:10.480 He walks up and grabs you by the pward. Oh boy, 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:11.719 I don't even have one. 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:16.840 No, he will at any point he decides say no, 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:20.200 our deal is no longer on, we need to renegotiate it. 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:24.480 And he constantly beats up his suppliers and his contractors 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:26.680 and business partners and the rest of it. But it's 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:29.560 still profitable enough people do business with him because generally, 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:33.240 you know, with a bad run, as the exception at 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:35.840 Atlantic City, it ends up being profitable for everybody. 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:38.120 But he's a brutal, brutal negotiator. 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:41.599 The problem is doing this with allies and international relations 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:45.200 is it's not like your local plumbers union. 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:47.640 But man if He's got a theme throughout his adult 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:49.920 life whenever he would talk politics, it was about other 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:52.440 countries are taking advantage of us, and why do we 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:54.280 let this happen? I mean, he's been talking about this 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:56.839 for decades before he ever decided to run for president. 0:06:57.440 --> 0:07:00.159 Yeah, yeah, well in a lot of cases. 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:04.719 Yeah, here's this guy, Robert Leethhauser, who's been around Republican 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:07.200 economics politics going way back to Reagan. He was on 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:12.440 Sixty Minutes last night specifically defending well tariffs in general, 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:15.560 but specifically around China. Here's him explaining what a threat 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:17.000 China is to the United States. 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:22.840 China, to me, is an existential threat to the United States. 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:29.480 It is a very, very competent adversary. China views itself 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:31.680 as number one in the world and wants to be 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:34.640 that way. They view us as in the way they 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:36.520 have the biggest army in the world and they're growing it, 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:38.760 the biggest navy in the world, and they're growing it. 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:41.680 They're spying on us, they're taking our technology. They've been 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:45.760 waging an economic war against the United States and winning 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:49.320 that war for at least the last three decades. 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:52.600 And nobody was saying that out loud before Trump came along, 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:55.400 even though it has been going on for a long time. 0:07:55.720 --> 0:07:59.680 So he's in favor of decoupling in every way from China, 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:04.880 and he explains that, So your tariff regime for China 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:05.600 would be what. 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:10.600 I believe in strategic decoupling. I'm not saying no economic 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:13.320 relationship with Sean That's not my position at all. I 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:17.000 think you want balance trade, and how do you get 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:19.320 balance trade. You're going to get balance trade by having 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:22.880 large tariffs on most of what they send us. 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:23.920 What's large? 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:27.080 You know the President has floated numbers fifty sixty percent, 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:28.640 but I think there are big numbers like that. 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:33.199 Wow, those are big numbers. And then one more explanation 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:34.199 of that we can discuss. 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:38.000 Wait a minute, you're talking about decoupling from China, what 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:40.640 would that look like? So it is strategic decoupling, so 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:41.880 we would still have trade. 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:43.760 So I would say, we sell. 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:46.640 You one hundred and fifty billion, we buy one hundred 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:47.560 and fifty billion from you. 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:48.080 No more. 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:52.120 We don't allow investments in China except in circumstances where 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:54.440 we believe that's in the interest of the United States. 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:57.960 We don't allow inbound investments. So we begin to disentangle. 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:01.840 We disentangle our technology. You could ask yourself, what is 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:06.559 China's policy towards us. It is exactly a mere image 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:09.760 of what I just said. So what I'm suggesting we 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:11.000 do to China is what they. 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:14.160 Do to us. That made an impact on me. 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:19.800 They've been doing this forever, but we were, well, we've 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:22.880 talked about this a lot. We had this fanciful belief 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:25.160 going all the way back to Nixon and through every 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:28.640 president up until Trump, that it's okay, we're taking a hit, 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:31.000 but the good thing is they're going to be a 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:33.880 giant economic powerhouse and they're going to be part of 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:37.520 friends with us. And they were, you know, laughing behind 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:39.400 our backs the whole time, saying, yeah, make us powerful, 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:40.640 then we're going to take over the world and do 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:41.480 whatever the hell we want. 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:45.360 And just purely economically speaking, even though the deal was 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:47.839 tilted strongly in their favor, we were still it was 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:50.880 still good for the economy in general, not so much 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:53.320 for manufacturers when we're going to talk about that China 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:56.600 shock a little bit later. But you know, overall, it 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:58.800 was fine to give them a better deal than we 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:02.360 were getting because they're still making more money. But again, 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:05.120 my objection to this, and here it is, it's not 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:09.040 like I walk around, you know, barking at people about 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:10.559 tariff policy all the time. 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:14.520 He got Joe get ready to hear tariff talk. 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:18.760 I mean, yeah, budget, yeah, I'm finishing up a concept 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:24.120 album all about tariffs. I'm working with Beyonce. Anyway, that's 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:27.640 that's not it. I mean, I actually have beliefs about it, 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:31.200 but I don't feel that strongly about it. Here's what 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:36.040 I feel strongly about. I believe, barring some sort of 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:39.040 hard turn, and Trump might make one because he is 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:43.480 a fan of the giant gesture that gets the small concession, 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:46.480 he declares victory and then calls off the dogs. If 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:48.440 that's the plan, Okay, that's Trump being Trump. 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:49.360 Let's see how it goes. 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:52.360 But if he goes ahead with the tariffs, especially with 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:55.280 Canada and Mexico, I think that is going to have 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:59.280 a serious, serious consequence for American consumers. Their lives are 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:02.280 going to get significantly more expensive. They're going to see 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:06.800 industries hurt, American industries hurt. And taking Trump at his 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:10.040 word now on the idea of some sort of long 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:14.400 term on shoring of all sorts of other things like 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:16.960 energy and timber and such, that would take a very 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:17.760 very long time. 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:19.800 And here's my other problem with it. 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:23.680 They would take such massive investments that a company's not 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:25.480 going to make them because Trump's just going to be 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:28.360 in power for another you know, three years and eleven 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:30.880 months or whatever it is. So I just I don't 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:33.240 think that's going to happen in the way he's talking about. 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:37.079 And here's my main objection to it. It's going to 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:43.720 screw American consumers and make people mad, which will undermine 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:47.120 Conservatism's ability to do a bunch of other things that 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:49.640 we could do, especially if we held onto the House 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:50.120 and Senate. 0:11:50.679 --> 0:11:51.679 That's my problem. 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:53.920 I think it's a misstep that could undermine all the 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:54.920 good stuff. 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:57.480 What we'll we'll see. 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:03.000 So Joe's soft on Canada, all right, the Northern Menace. 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:06.880 Have you heard any of the reports where they try 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:10.400 to tie it into Super Bowl weekend? Avocados come from Mexico, 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:13.319 the number one beer in America Medello. People also being 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:15.360 bought to lots of I don't forget what they said 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:18.520 from Canada. People are going to notice it at their 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:24.000 Super Bowl parties. It seems a little fast, but maybe yeah, yeah, 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:27.040 prices have already risen in some sectors. 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:30.240 But that that ship like once a week and that 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:32.200 sort of thing I mean, if you send car parts 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:33.880 ones every six months, you're not going to see it, 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:38.040 but food will immediately. And I do love beer in avocados. 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:39.400 That's hitting me where a hurt. 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:43.199 You Just like the munch on an avocado washing it 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:45.280 out to a beer and I eat the peel because 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:47.280 that's where all the nutrition is. I believe in it. 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:50.200 I have to choke it down. Fantastic. Well, it's going 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:51.199 to be uh. 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:53.880 You know, people been arguing about the whole Tariff's thing 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:58.160 for my whole adult life of watching politics, and I've 0:12:58.160 --> 0:12:59.599 been rolling my eyes and turning the page to the 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:01.800 next door because I wasn't interested. Now we get to 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:03.839 watch it play out and see what happens, and we'll 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:08.240 have some real world data on how it works, like 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:11.080 really really very stark real world data. 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:13.280 I need to find the other thing. And this is 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:16.520 not about Trump, because he's just using a tool everybody 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:18.960 else has been using. 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:21.600 Where is it? I'll find it. 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:25.679 But the United States of America is under I think 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:30.200 the number is currently thirty one different states of emergency 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:33.160 to give the oh no, I'm sorry here it is. 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:38.079 The International Emergency Economics Power Act was passed in nineteen 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:41.400 seventy seven to give the president extraordinarily way to deal 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:44.160 with any unusual and extraordinary threat from a foreign country, 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:48.080 including with tariffs. That's fine and dandy, but the situation 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:49.320 we're in right now is absurd. 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:50.800 We need to take a break. We'll tell you about 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:53.679 it in a minute. 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:57.800 From nineteen seventy seven International Emergency Economic Powers Act. All Right, 0:13:58.480 --> 0:14:01.520 got some tips on blue light keeping you awake at 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:03.760 night looking at your phone that I think will be 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:05.439 news You can use stay tuned. 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:10.199 On the whole sleep thing. 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:12.400 Looking at your devices before you go to bed or 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:15.440 in bed. Some people have had tremendous success with the 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:18.640 blue light glasses. Some people said they did nothing, So 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:20.440 your mileage, Mayberry, I might try it. 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:22.040 Yeah. 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:25.720 So back to the Trump tariffs, just for a moment 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:29.280 or two. The National Review editorial boards making the point 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:30.920 that no president should have the power to make such 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:34.440 a major change to tax and trade law unilaterally. 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:36.560 It does seem like an awful lot of power on 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:39.640 one person's hand, because the tariff is attacks that the 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:43.160 consumer pays almost entirely. There's just no other way to 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:45.960 slice it anyway. China is set out entirely, and Canada 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:47.520 is gonna pay it, and Mexo is gonna pay it. 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:50.560 No, they're not China, and China needs to be set apart. 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:52.880 It's a different case, but it's not entirely clear that 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:56.720 the president does. The International Emergency Economic Powers Act, passed 0:14:56.760 --> 0:15:00.200 in seventy seven, gave the president an extraordinarily way to 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:03.520 deal with any unusual and extraordinary threat from a foreign 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:07.160 country after a national emergency declaration. It's likely why the 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:10.440 President has raised illegal drugs and immigration as justification for 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:14.320 the tariffs. His national emergency declarations on these two subjects 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:16.360 especially helped to unlock the powers of this law, which 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:19.920 are sweeping. But they point out, and this cuts across 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:23.040 many administrations, this is still a preposterous way to govern, 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:26.760 as there are currently over forty national emergencies. In effect, 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:29.200 you feel like now you feel like we have forty 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:32.000 national emergencies going on? It doesn't feel that way. Yeah, 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:34.040 you good people. Do you feel like we're in a 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:36.000 national emergency? Forty topics? 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:36.320 Deep? 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:38.760 I mean, there's some crazy stuff going on immigration for 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:42.040 one thing, but forty and using those emergencies quote unquote 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:44.800 as a fig leaf to impose tariffs on all goods in 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:47.800 contradiction to an existing trade agreement with our allies is 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:52.320 clearly contrary to congressional intent. So there's that question about 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:54.160 and then they go into how it's going to hurt 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:57.680 autoworkers and agriculture and all sorts of sectors that are 0:15:57.760 --> 0:16:00.760 huge in red states. So we don't know how it's 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:02.440 going to play out for the next week, much less 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:05.440 the next couple of months, but whatever happens, it'll be interesting. 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:05.800 Yeah. 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:07.480 Well, we got a couple of texts about this. I 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:11.520 thought we're interesting. Somebody making the point that what Trump's 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:14.680 hoping for is the same result he got. 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:15.480 Well, I'll just read it. 0:16:16.640 --> 0:16:19.880 He's planning on the one hour turnaround like happened with Columbia. 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:22.240 Maybe this will be a week instead of an hour, 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:24.240 but that's what he's hoping for you, and I assume 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:24.880 that is it too. 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:28.040 He's not thinking about by next year gas will be No, 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:29.880 he's thinking this will be over in a couple of weeks. 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:32.160 They'll they'll cave and then we'll get right we want. 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:35.520 Yeah, and he may and that may be successful. I 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:38.240 think he's a little too brutal sometimes with our friends. 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:42.360 I mean, because like Trudeau's a weasel. But Poliev, who 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:44.800 I love, the conservative guy who's probably going to be 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:46.080 the Prime minister in Canada. 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:49.280 He's super pissed off about this too. There's this point 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:51.480 of view, which you already mentioned. I'm afraid that Trump's 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:54.880 trade policies will do to the conservative movement what Dei 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:56.640 and Trans did to the Democrats. 0:16:57.200 --> 0:16:59.120 Yeah, that's what I'm trying to say. I hope not. 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:02.120 I hope we'll see. 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:05.280 I have a feeling it's a big nasty bluff, mostly hope. 0:17:05.320 --> 0:17:08.720 So, but again, not China. China's totally different. If you 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:10.879 miss a segment of the podcast Armstrong and Getty on 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:15.679 demand Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:19.879 In just one week until Super Bowl fifty nine, the 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:23.080 Chiefs and the Eagles headed out to New Orleans. Security 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:26.280 is extra tight there. Hundreds of federal, state and local 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:30.080 officers on duty. Barricades have gone up with drones overhead, 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:33.080 as comes after the New Year's truck attack that killed 0:17:33.119 --> 0:17:34.280 more than a dozen people. 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:37.880 Yeah, I'll bet, but I think security is always pretty 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:43.080 damn high at a Super Bowl. So yeah, New Orleans 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:46.400 belatedly so installing some things they've been told to over 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:48.359 and over again. I'm not saying we shouldn't do this 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:50.439 all the time. But so far, has there ever been 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:54.560 a terrorist attack on a big, well known thing like 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:56.359 that that we see coming. 0:17:57.680 --> 0:17:58.840 No, I don't think so that. 0:17:58.880 --> 0:18:05.800 I can think of inauguration of Super Bowl whatever. No, No, 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:09.240 they shows up randomly out of nowhere at the beginning 0:18:09.280 --> 0:18:12.639 of the Boston Marathon on a Tuesday, or an airline 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:15.600 flight on a regular you know, day of the week 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:17.640 in September, that sort of thing. 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:23.480 So yeah, or Loane more on halfwoot angry jackasses, which 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:26.679 is the fast majority of the attacks, who don't have 0:18:26.720 --> 0:18:29.160 the capacity to pull off something big. Although wasn't there 0:18:29.200 --> 0:18:30.840 There are a couple of guys who got a job 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:32.400 in security. 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:35.440 For the Super Bowl. Yeah, that's right. 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:39.719 Last year they had gotten jobs in security and luckily 0:18:39.720 --> 0:18:43.399 we're caught. Maybe we just catch all of them. Maybe 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:43.720 that's it. 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:46.840 Good thing they're stupid and the FBI is working hard. 0:18:47.119 --> 0:18:52.119 My son is trying out for the volleyball team this evening. Cool, 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:54.639 this is new just a friend of his. 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:56.399 He said, he got peer pressured into it by a 0:18:56.400 --> 0:18:59.359 friend of his. He knows nothing about volleyball. I was 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:03.439 asking my that you need to read or watch YouTube videos. 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:05.479 You're not going to show up to the volleyball tryout 0:19:05.720 --> 0:19:08.640 not having the slightest idea how they score it, or 0:19:08.800 --> 0:19:11.320 you know, just even the most basic parts of the game. 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:14.520 You got to show up with some knowledge because he 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:17.879 had zero, Like, you know, how many points you play too, 0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:19.360 how many people on a team? 0:19:19.800 --> 0:19:23.120 You know, any of the most basic how to do 0:19:24.080 --> 0:19:24.800 any of that stuffing? 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:27.280 Yeah, I mean have just some of the most basic knowledge, 0:19:27.320 --> 0:19:29.600 all right? Have you trying to make a point to 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:32.080 his friend? It is pressuring him. Yeah, I'll show up. 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:35.240 He didn't want me to buy him some special volleyball 0:19:35.320 --> 0:19:37.640 shoes because he's really into shoes. I said, you make 0:19:37.680 --> 0:19:38.200 the team. 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:44.040 I'll buy some special volleyball shoes. Wow, huh, we'll see 0:19:44.040 --> 0:19:46.600