1 00:00:01,320 --> 00:00:06,280 Speaker 1: Democrats have chosen to put more lives at risk. Your 2 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:09,040 Speaker 1: life is one of them with the new moves that 3 00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:12,959 Speaker 1: they're doing to undermine Donald Trump and the laws in 4 00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:18,599 Speaker 1: this nation. The sanctuary state of Illinois has now released 5 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:23,400 Speaker 1: more than one thousand, eight hundred illegal aliens. They've been 6 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:28,920 Speaker 1: charged with crimes such as murder, assault, burglary, robbery, and 7 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:33,280 Speaker 1: sex crimes, including crimes against children, and they've released them 8 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:37,400 Speaker 1: on purpose back in the communities since Donald Trump took 9 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:41,560 Speaker 1: office in late January. The new data is exposing all 10 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:47,000 Speaker 1: of this. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Todd Lyons 11 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:51,879 Speaker 1: released the data on Monday while urging Illinois Attorney General 12 00:00:52,040 --> 00:00:57,680 Speaker 1: to honor more than four thousand active ICE detainers that 13 00:00:57,760 --> 00:01:01,960 Speaker 1: the agency has lodged against criminal illegal aliens in the 14 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:08,160 Speaker 1: sanctuary state of Illinois. In particular, Lions said, Illinois officials 15 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:12,279 Speaker 1: have already failed to honor more than one thousand, seven 16 00:01:12,360 --> 00:01:16,880 Speaker 1: hundred and sixty eight ICE detainers and released the illegal 17 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:20,959 Speaker 1: aliens back into neighborhoods. Among those illegal aliens that have 18 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:26,160 Speaker 1: been released back into America are five charged with murder 19 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:29,559 Speaker 1: who are now walking, among us one hundred and forty 20 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:34,840 Speaker 1: one charged with assault, walking among us, twenty three charge 21 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:39,880 Speaker 1: of burglary, walking among us, ten charged with sex crimes 22 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:44,520 Speaker 1: now walking among us, and four charged with robbery, twenty 23 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:47,840 Speaker 1: four charged with drug crimes, many of them dealing with 24 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:52,800 Speaker 1: fetnol that are killing Americans, and fifteen charged with weapons 25 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:56,880 Speaker 1: offenses as well. Meanwhile, the crimes of more than four 26 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:01,840 Speaker 1: thousand illegal aliens with active ICE detainers in Illinois, including 27 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:06,040 Speaker 1: fifty one charged with murder, one thousand, one hundred and 28 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:09,520 Speaker 1: thirty four charged with assault, one hundred and seven charged 29 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:13,760 Speaker 1: with burglary, thirty six charged with robbery, two hundred and 30 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:17,600 Speaker 1: seventy five charged with drug crimes, and one hundred and 31 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:21,280 Speaker 1: twenty charged with weapons offenses. And this is the one 32 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:26,320 Speaker 1: that is the most shocking, eight hundred and thirteen illegal 33 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:32,160 Speaker 1: aliens charged with sex crimes. Governor Pritzkerb and his fellow 34 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:38,679 Speaker 1: Illinois sanctuary politicians are releasing these murderers, pedophiles, and kidnappers 35 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:42,120 Speaker 1: back into our neighborhoods and putting American lives at risk, 36 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:45,880 Speaker 1: the Department of oland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in 37 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:48,959 Speaker 1: his statement. She then said, we are calling on Governor 38 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:53,760 Speaker 1: Pritskerb and his administration to stop this dangerous arrangement and 39 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:58,040 Speaker 1: commit to honoring the ICE arrest detainers of the more 40 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:03,119 Speaker 1: than four thousand criminal legal aliens in Illinois's custody. It 41 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:07,080 Speaker 1: is common sense criminal legal aliens should not be released 42 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:12,280 Speaker 1: back into our streets to terrorize more innocent Americans. ICE 43 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:16,440 Speaker 1: officials said Illinois has released from custody and failed to 44 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:20,239 Speaker 1: honor detainers for illegal aliens, such as a forty nine 45 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:25,200 Speaker 1: year old Victor Manuel Menendez Garcia of Mexico, who was 46 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:31,240 Speaker 1: convicted of kidnapping for ransom and sentenced to eighteen years 47 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:36,080 Speaker 1: in prison. A new release from ICE detailed other instances 48 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:40,360 Speaker 1: where illegal aliens were released from custody instead of being 49 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:45,200 Speaker 1: turned over to ICE agents. Juan Morales Martinez, an illegal 50 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:48,880 Speaker 1: alien from Guatemala, for example, was arrested after a vehicle 51 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:53,920 Speaker 1: crash near Westfield, Illinois, where he was a passenger. Early 52 00:03:54,040 --> 00:03:58,640 Speaker 1: reports the vehicle crash showed not one, but two fatalities. 53 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:01,640 Speaker 2: It was a county board member and his wife. 54 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:06,760 Speaker 1: Police also found an extended magazine and ammunition in the vehicle. 55 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:10,880 Speaker 1: On October the twenty fifth, ICE lodged a detainer on 56 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:15,760 Speaker 1: Morales Martinez. October the twenty seventh, ICE arrested Morales after 57 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:20,600 Speaker 1: his release from the Clark County Jail. The jail did 58 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:24,480 Speaker 1: not cooperate with ICE, but ICE officers suspected his release 59 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:28,600 Speaker 1: and performed an enforcement action outside of the county jail. 60 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:32,000 Speaker 1: He has now been removed from the United States of America, 61 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:34,400 Speaker 1: but he would be among us if it was left 62 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:38,560 Speaker 1: up to the sanctuary state of Illinois. There was another 63 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:42,279 Speaker 1: man by the name of Gonzales Jimenez, an illegal alien 64 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:45,760 Speaker 1: from Mexico. He was arrested and convicted for one count 65 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:49,320 Speaker 1: of driving under the influence and domestic battery and two 66 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:55,120 Speaker 1: counts of criminal sexual assault. Yet again, Illinois chose deliberately 67 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:59,840 Speaker 1: to refuse the ICE detainer for this individual, again a 68 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:05,599 Speaker 1: accused of two counts of criminal sexual assault. On November 69 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:09,039 Speaker 1: the thirteenth, ICE arrested the man as he was released 70 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:13,880 Speaker 1: from jail. Juan Alberto Carl Morin, an legal alien from Mexico, 71 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:19,640 Speaker 1: was arrested and convicted of aggravated criminal sexual abuse of 72 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:22,560 Speaker 1: a victim and a family and sentenced to six years 73 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:27,200 Speaker 1: in Illinois Department of Corrections. ICE detainer for that man 74 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:31,400 Speaker 1: was also not honored. On November ninth, ICE arrested Carl 75 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:35,880 Speaker 1: Marin where he is currently in ICE custody. Yet again 76 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:39,760 Speaker 1: Illinois saying no, We'd rather play politics than keep our 77 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:44,880 Speaker 1: citizens safe from these dangerous criminals. This is just one 78 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:49,600 Speaker 1: example of what Donald Trump and our government is up against, 79 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:54,520 Speaker 1: as time and time again, these radicals in radical cities 80 00:05:54,520 --> 00:05:58,960 Speaker 1: and states around the country are constantly refusing to work 81 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:02,400 Speaker 1: with ICE to keep American safe, and yet again the 82 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:06,280 Speaker 1: President is not backing down, sending more resources to Illinois 83 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:09,840 Speaker 1: to find and to put into custody these more than 84 00:06:09,880 --> 00:06:14,080 Speaker 1: one thousand, eight hundred legal aliens charged with murder, assault, 85 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:15,080 Speaker 1: sex crimes. 86 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:16,440 Speaker 2: And what has happened? 87 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:20,360 Speaker 1: Illinois chose to put them back into our neighborhoods instead 88 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:21,920 Speaker 1: of hand them over to ICE. 89 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:25,440 Speaker 2: Operation Overlord the D Day Beaches. 90 00:06:25,880 --> 00:06:28,360 Speaker 1: You and I share a passion for history, so I 91 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:31,240 Speaker 1: hope you'll join me next spring on the D Day 92 00:06:31,279 --> 00:06:35,760 Speaker 1: Beaches in Normandy. 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It's not just in Illinois 106 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:28,240 Speaker 1: where the radicals are defying Donald Trump and putting Americans 107 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:31,720 Speaker 1: lives at risk, and many Americans are actually losing their lives. 108 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:35,760 Speaker 1: Another sad and shocking story is now coming out of California, 109 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:39,200 Speaker 1: where an illegal alien is accused of drunk driving and 110 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:41,880 Speaker 1: causing a crash that left an eight year old girl 111 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:47,440 Speaker 1: dead in the sanctuary state of California. Last week, Immigration 112 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:52,040 Speaker 1: and Customs enforcement agents lodged a detainer against a twenty 113 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:56,000 Speaker 1: five year old Guatemala man after he allegedly caused a 114 00:07:56,040 --> 00:07:59,200 Speaker 1: head on collision on a San Diego highway that resulted in. 115 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:01,080 Speaker 2: The death of the eight year old little girl. 116 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:05,880 Speaker 1: According to local police, Alva Rodriguez was driving a two 117 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:09,280 Speaker 1: thousand and five Toyota to Coma truck when he crossed 118 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:13,240 Speaker 1: lanes and hit a Toyota camery head on. The driver 119 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:16,320 Speaker 1: of the camera, a twenty six year old man from you, Arizona, 120 00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:20,720 Speaker 1: suffered major injuries, as did his front passenger, a twenty 121 00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:24,120 Speaker 1: eight year old woman. Three children in the back of 122 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:26,760 Speaker 1: the camera, a five year old boy, a four year 123 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:29,160 Speaker 1: old girl, and an eight year old girl were taken 124 00:08:29,200 --> 00:08:33,240 Speaker 1: to a nearby children's hospital. The girl did not survive 125 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:37,320 Speaker 1: her injuries and died at that hospital. How many deaths 126 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:40,120 Speaker 1: of children at the hands of criminal legal aliens need 127 00:08:40,160 --> 00:08:46,200 Speaker 1: to happen before Governor Knewsom and sanctuary politicians will prioritize 128 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:49,960 Speaker 1: the safety and security of American families. That's what the 129 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:53,800 Speaker 1: Department of Homeland Security said in his statement. ICE officials 130 00:08:53,920 --> 00:08:57,840 Speaker 1: said that Rodriguez had a history of drunk driving, including 131 00:08:57,880 --> 00:09:00,520 Speaker 1: a twenty twenty arrest for driving under the end influence, 132 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:05,240 Speaker 1: and then another arrest in twenty twenty one for driving 133 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:09,679 Speaker 1: under the influence and a hit and run. This serial 134 00:09:09,760 --> 00:09:14,120 Speaker 1: drunk driver should never have been allowed back onto California roads. 135 00:09:14,760 --> 00:09:17,719 Speaker 1: We are praying for the family of this child who 136 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:22,240 Speaker 1: will be grieving this holiday season. Secretary Nome is now 137 00:09:22,280 --> 00:09:25,559 Speaker 1: calling on Governor Newsom to honor this ICE arrest attainer 138 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:30,360 Speaker 1: for this illegal alien. And yet again you have another 139 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:34,760 Speaker 1: elected official in another sanctuary state that is saying I 140 00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:41,680 Speaker 1: will put illegal immigrants ahead of American citizens. And that's 141 00:09:41,679 --> 00:09:44,720 Speaker 1: not the only place that's happening. The New York Mayor 142 00:09:45,040 --> 00:09:49,000 Speaker 1: Mundani now telling illegal aliens in New York City how 143 00:09:49,040 --> 00:09:53,000 Speaker 1: to stand up to ICE agents. The New York City 144 00:09:53,040 --> 00:09:58,400 Speaker 1: Democratic Socialists mayor elect now giving lessons telling illegal immigrants 145 00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:01,760 Speaker 1: in this area that you must stand up to ICE agents. 146 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:05,319 Speaker 1: The news comes as President Trump's administration has been working 147 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:09,400 Speaker 1: as safeguard American communities from illegal alien crime, and as 148 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:12,120 Speaker 1: federal officials have been arresting the worst of the worst 149 00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:17,600 Speaker 1: criminal aliens. In a video posted on Sunday, Mondani talked 150 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:21,760 Speaker 1: about a recent ICE rate in Chinatown, adding when he 151 00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:25,600 Speaker 1: officially becomes a mayor, he will protect all New York 152 00:10:25,679 --> 00:10:29,880 Speaker 1: residents and that means the illegal immigrants. He said, that 153 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:32,720 Speaker 1: includes the more than three million immigrants who call the 154 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:35,760 Speaker 1: city their home. But we can all stand up to 155 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:39,319 Speaker 1: ICE if you know your rights, he said, and then 156 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:43,640 Speaker 1: he gave points about avoiding ICE agents altogether, saying, quote, 157 00:10:44,400 --> 00:10:48,760 Speaker 1: ICE cannot enter into private spaces like your home, school, 158 00:10:49,160 --> 00:10:52,560 Speaker 1: or private area of your workplace without a judicial warrant 159 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:55,480 Speaker 1: signed by a judge. He went on to explain that 160 00:10:55,520 --> 00:10:58,600 Speaker 1: they had a right to keep their door shut, literally 161 00:10:58,640 --> 00:11:03,240 Speaker 1: telling the criminals exactly how to fight back and not 162 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:04,040 Speaker 1: be arrested. 163 00:11:04,559 --> 00:11:07,320 Speaker 3: Last weekend ICE attempted to raid Canal Street and detain 164 00:11:07,360 --> 00:11:11,360 Speaker 3: our impact. As mayor, I'll protect the rights of every 165 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:13,720 Speaker 3: single New Yorker, and that includes the more than three 166 00:11:13,760 --> 00:11:15,680 Speaker 3: million immigrants who call this city in their home. But 167 00:11:15,720 --> 00:11:19,720 Speaker 3: we can all stand up to ICE if you. 168 00:11:18,520 --> 00:11:19,199 Speaker 4: Know your rights. 169 00:11:19,559 --> 00:11:21,960 Speaker 3: If you encounter ICE. These are the things that every 170 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:22,800 Speaker 3: New Yorker should know. 171 00:11:22,960 --> 00:11:23,280 Speaker 2: First. 172 00:11:23,559 --> 00:11:26,840 Speaker 3: ICE cannot enter into private spaces like your home, school, 173 00:11:27,080 --> 00:11:30,280 Speaker 3: or private area of your workplace without a judicial warrant signed. 174 00:11:30,040 --> 00:11:31,679 Speaker 4: By a judge that looks like this. 175 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:39,080 Speaker 3: If ICE does not have a judicial warrant signed by 176 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:41,280 Speaker 3: a judge, you have the right to say I do 177 00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:43,280 Speaker 3: not consent to enter it, and the right to keep 178 00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:46,120 Speaker 3: your door closed. Sometimes ICE will show you paperwork that 179 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:50,000 Speaker 3: looks like this and tell you that they have the 180 00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:50,880 Speaker 3: right to arrest you. 181 00:11:52,679 --> 00:11:53,360 Speaker 4: That is false. 182 00:11:54,360 --> 00:11:56,440 Speaker 3: ICE is legally allowed to lie to you, but you 183 00:11:56,480 --> 00:11:58,920 Speaker 3: have the right to remain silent. If you're being detained, 184 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:01,400 Speaker 3: you may always ask am I free to go repeatedly 185 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:04,200 Speaker 3: until they answer. You are legally allowed to film ICE 186 00:12:04,280 --> 00:12:06,160 Speaker 3: as long as you do not interfere with an arrest. 187 00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:08,839 Speaker 3: It is important to remain calm during any interaction and 188 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:10,400 Speaker 3: ICE for law enforcement, do. 189 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:11,599 Speaker 4: Not impede their investigation. 190 00:12:11,840 --> 00:12:14,600 Speaker 3: Resist arrest to the world. One last thing, New York 191 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:16,520 Speaker 3: has had a constitutional right to protest. 192 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:19,000 Speaker 4: When I'm there, we will protect that right. 193 00:12:19,240 --> 00:12:22,160 Speaker 3: New York will always welcome them, and I will fight 194 00:12:22,280 --> 00:12:26,839 Speaker 3: each and every day to protect, support and celebrate our prossitors. 195 00:12:30,280 --> 00:12:32,760 Speaker 1: That is the mayor elect of New York making it 196 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:35,000 Speaker 1: very clear he doesn't work for the citizens of New 197 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:37,920 Speaker 1: York and said he works for the illegal immigrants and 198 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:41,040 Speaker 1: telling them everything he can to help them continue to 199 00:12:41,160 --> 00:12:44,800 Speaker 1: break the laws. So yet again we are having a 200 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:48,520 Speaker 1: conversation about more Americans who are being killed. 201 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:50,040 Speaker 2: One thing is for sure. 202 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:52,559 Speaker 1: The President of the United States of America has promised, 203 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:55,880 Speaker 1: no matter what, to go wherever these criminals are to 204 00:12:56,040 --> 00:12:58,559 Speaker 1: find them to hunt them down and to bring them 205 00:12:58,559 --> 00:13:01,680 Speaker 1: to justice, even if the radicals on the left like 206 00:13:01,760 --> 00:13:05,840 Speaker 1: Mundani or Newsom or Prinz kerb are doing everything they 207 00:13:05,880 --> 00:13:12,160 Speaker 1: can to stop illegal immigrants from being deported. Affordability it 208 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:15,199 Speaker 1: is going to be the issue of the midterm elections 209 00:13:15,280 --> 00:13:17,800 Speaker 1: if there was an election today. It's the issue that 210 00:13:17,920 --> 00:13:21,600 Speaker 1: Democrats are saying. They believe they have the best footing 211 00:13:21,679 --> 00:13:25,120 Speaker 1: on to go after Donald Trump, saying that it's all 212 00:13:25,360 --> 00:13:28,240 Speaker 1: his fault that affordability is not where you want it. 213 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:31,559 Speaker 1: But then you will get prices. And there are massive 214 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:35,080 Speaker 1: successes that have happened that are the complete opposite of 215 00:13:35,080 --> 00:13:38,880 Speaker 1: what Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were doing. Energy Secretary 216 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:42,600 Speaker 1: Chris Wright, for example, pointing to now what is historic 217 00:13:42,840 --> 00:13:47,320 Speaker 1: gas prices compared to Biden and the Secretary of Energy 218 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:52,000 Speaker 1: Chris Wright saying this about where the gas prices are today, And. 219 00:13:51,960 --> 00:13:54,720 Speaker 5: You know, I don't think there was there definitely wasn't 220 00:13:54,760 --> 00:13:57,840 Speaker 5: a time during the Biden administration when when the gas 221 00:13:57,880 --> 00:13:59,920 Speaker 5: went below the price they came in. Of course, they 222 00:13:59,920 --> 00:14:03,600 Speaker 5: came in during the pandemic when prices were very low 223 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:08,120 Speaker 5: because people weren't traveling as much. But they basically, you 224 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:11,720 Speaker 5: look at a chart and it's pretty amazing the way 225 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:14,160 Speaker 5: it just stayed up there. It did come down for 226 00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:17,200 Speaker 5: the high point of five bucks a gallon, but it 227 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:22,240 Speaker 5: never really came down significantly enough for American car users. 228 00:14:22,680 --> 00:14:26,760 Speaker 6: Imagine if Harris had won the election, where would gasoline 229 00:14:26,760 --> 00:14:30,440 Speaker 6: prices be today? How would American consumers feel? I guess 230 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:33,240 Speaker 6: you could visit California and get a preview of that, 231 00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:38,040 Speaker 6: where gasoline prices are over fifty percent higher than the 232 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:42,520 Speaker 6: national average. Those are political choices. They're not unfortunate facts. 233 00:14:42,560 --> 00:14:44,800 Speaker 6: They're political choices to make energy expensive. 234 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:51,120 Speaker 1: Now, political choices deliberately to make gas prices expensive. You 235 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:54,400 Speaker 1: also go back to the chart that he was referring to, 236 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:58,120 Speaker 1: and that chart is one that truly is incredible. When 237 00:14:58,200 --> 00:15:01,200 Speaker 1: Joe Biden became president of Member of twenty twenty, gas 238 00:15:01,280 --> 00:15:04,160 Speaker 1: prices were about two dollars and twenty cents a gallon. 239 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:08,640 Speaker 1: By June of that of twenty twenty two, the Biden 240 00:15:08,640 --> 00:15:12,120 Speaker 1: administration had gotten gas prices up to five dollars and 241 00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:16,640 Speaker 1: three cents a gallon average. They then tried to artificially 242 00:15:17,120 --> 00:15:22,160 Speaker 1: deflate that price by even releasing all reserves. Why because 243 00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:25,440 Speaker 1: they wanted to win reelection. And in November of twenty 244 00:15:25,480 --> 00:15:28,800 Speaker 1: twenty five, we were at three dollars and seventeen cents 245 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:32,520 Speaker 1: a gallon national average, meaning fifty percent. We're paying more 246 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:36,760 Speaker 1: than that, and in many places much more so. Now 247 00:15:36,920 --> 00:15:39,960 Speaker 1: where are we the President of United States of America saying, 248 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:43,800 Speaker 1: I understand affordability, and I understand there are many Americans 249 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:46,320 Speaker 1: that are concerned about it. And here's part of what 250 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:47,600 Speaker 1: he had to say at the White House. 251 00:15:47,960 --> 00:15:50,600 Speaker 7: We're now at about two dollars and fifty cents a gallon. 252 00:15:51,080 --> 00:15:52,920 Speaker 7: We're going to be I think at two dollars a gallon. 253 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:55,000 Speaker 7: We could even crack that at some point. I'd love 254 00:15:55,040 --> 00:15:58,240 Speaker 7: to do it, and we could do it more easily 255 00:15:58,280 --> 00:16:02,520 Speaker 7: if we weren't building up the rategic national reserves, which 256 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:05,080 Speaker 7: Biden emptied out before the election so that he could 257 00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:08,360 Speaker 7: try and get elected, meaning she he started it, then 258 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:09,600 Speaker 7: he got thrown out of the race. 259 00:16:10,200 --> 00:16:11,800 Speaker 4: Then she took over, and she kept. 260 00:16:11,560 --> 00:16:15,400 Speaker 7: It going, and they emptied out these strategic national reserves, 261 00:16:15,520 --> 00:16:18,640 Speaker 7: which are really meant for something else. They're not meant 262 00:16:18,640 --> 00:16:21,400 Speaker 7: to keep people happy with the gasoline price. They're meant 263 00:16:21,440 --> 00:16:26,600 Speaker 7: for war. They're meant for problems, big problems. He emptied 264 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:30,000 Speaker 7: it out and then she continued it during the process 265 00:16:30,040 --> 00:16:32,400 Speaker 7: of trying to get elected. Didn't work out too well 266 00:16:32,440 --> 00:16:34,800 Speaker 7: for him, and they virtually brought it down to the 267 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:39,560 Speaker 7: lowest level I believe in history, and it didn't have 268 00:16:39,640 --> 00:16:42,280 Speaker 7: much of an impact because the prices were very high. 269 00:16:42,680 --> 00:16:46,520 Speaker 7: But our price is now for energy put for gasoline 270 00:16:46,640 --> 00:16:49,040 Speaker 7: or really low electricities coming down. 271 00:16:49,760 --> 00:16:51,680 Speaker 4: And when that comes down, everything comes down. 272 00:16:53,120 --> 00:16:57,200 Speaker 1: When that comes down, everything comes down. Now the president 273 00:16:57,320 --> 00:16:59,560 Speaker 1: saying that just a few days ago, and now what 274 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:03,080 Speaker 1: we're seeing is we're winning. The US average gas price 275 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:07,639 Speaker 1: has dropped again, now under three dollars a gallon. The 276 00:17:07,680 --> 00:17:10,440 Speaker 1: average price for a gallon of unleaded gasoline the United 277 00:17:10,480 --> 00:17:13,080 Speaker 1: States dipped again this week, now standing at under three 278 00:17:13,080 --> 00:17:17,440 Speaker 1: dollars a gallon, according to gas Buddy the December eighth update, 279 00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:20,679 Speaker 1: gas prices fell five cents over the last week, reaching 280 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:23,920 Speaker 1: two ninety a gallon, and the national average is down 281 00:17:24,119 --> 00:17:28,040 Speaker 1: seventeen point six cents from a month ago, seven point 282 00:17:28,040 --> 00:17:30,760 Speaker 1: three cents per gallon lower than a year ago. And 283 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:33,760 Speaker 1: the national average price of diesel has also fallen five 284 00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:36,400 Speaker 1: point one cents in the last week, standing at three 285 00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:39,919 Speaker 1: dollars and sixty seven cents per gallon average. Now, this 286 00:17:40,119 --> 00:17:43,919 Speaker 1: is also incredible because Americans are now paying less for 287 00:17:44,080 --> 00:17:47,359 Speaker 1: a lot of different things. Because of the price of 288 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:51,080 Speaker 1: a gallon of gas going down, You, depending on where 289 00:17:51,080 --> 00:17:54,160 Speaker 1: you're listening right now, can look at signs that will 290 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:56,560 Speaker 1: make you not be stressed like they were under the 291 00:17:56,600 --> 00:18:01,520 Speaker 1: Biden administration when it was again five dollars a gallon. 292 00:18:02,080 --> 00:18:05,200 Speaker 1: Triple A also reflect the reality of an average under 293 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:09,119 Speaker 1: three dollars. According to its data, the national gas price average, 294 00:18:09,160 --> 00:18:12,399 Speaker 1: they say, stands at two ninety five and for greater perspective, 295 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:14,520 Speaker 1: one week ago, the average stood at three oh one. 296 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:18,840 Speaker 1: One month ago, it stood at three oh seven. States 297 00:18:18,840 --> 00:18:21,360 Speaker 1: across the south in the Midwest are also seeing prices 298 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:26,080 Speaker 1: even lower. In Oklahoma, for example, the average gas price 299 00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:29,520 Speaker 1: rings in at two dollars and thirty six cents a gallon. 300 00:18:30,160 --> 00:18:33,719 Speaker 1: Texas is average now sits below two fifty a gallon, 301 00:18:34,240 --> 00:18:39,959 Speaker 1: Missouri at two sixty a gallon. In other states including Florida, Alabama, Michigan, Ohio, 302 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:44,280 Speaker 1: South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Montana, and others are seeing 303 00:18:44,359 --> 00:18:47,280 Speaker 1: averages now under three dollars a gallon, which they did 304 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:50,800 Speaker 1: not see under the Biden regime. Now, some of the 305 00:18:50,880 --> 00:18:53,760 Speaker 1: highest prices, and this goes back to what was said 306 00:18:53,760 --> 00:18:58,639 Speaker 1: earlier by the Energy Secretary, are in leftist states. California, 307 00:18:58,680 --> 00:19:01,159 Speaker 1: for instance, is seeing an average of four dollars and 308 00:19:01,240 --> 00:19:05,680 Speaker 1: forty six cents per gallon. That is a dollar fifty 309 00:19:05,880 --> 00:19:11,080 Speaker 1: seven a gallon higher than the national average. Others such 310 00:19:11,119 --> 00:19:15,800 Speaker 1: as New York, Washington, Hawaiian, Nevada average above three dollars 311 00:19:15,840 --> 00:19:19,719 Speaker 1: per gallon as well. Still, this is dramatically lower than 312 00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:23,200 Speaker 1: the all time summer high Americans experience in twenty twenty two. 313 00:19:24,080 --> 00:19:26,960 Speaker 1: That summer gas price is sword reaching an all time 314 00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:30,760 Speaker 1: high of five dollars and sixteen cents average for a 315 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:35,000 Speaker 1: gallon of regular unleaded on June the fourteenth, right in 316 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:38,879 Speaker 1: the middle of summer travel of twenty twenty two days later, 317 00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:42,800 Speaker 1: and even a more shocking moment, the diesel prices, which 318 00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:45,800 Speaker 1: are eighteen wheelers use, reach an average high of five 319 00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:50,960 Speaker 1: dollars and eighty one cents a gallon, the White House 320 00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:53,719 Speaker 1: putting it out in a tweet this way, in thirty 321 00:19:53,760 --> 00:19:56,720 Speaker 1: seven states, the average price for gas is blowed three 322 00:19:56,760 --> 00:20:00,200 Speaker 1: dollars a gallon. In twenty two states, it's blowed two 323 00:20:00,240 --> 00:20:03,960 Speaker 1: seventy five gallon in five states, it's below two fifty 324 00:20:04,040 --> 00:20:08,800 Speaker 1: a gallon, and all states are now trending lower now. 325 00:20:08,880 --> 00:20:12,040 Speaker 1: All of this follows an update last week announced that 326 00:20:12,080 --> 00:20:14,560 Speaker 1: gas prices had fallen below the three dollar gallon for 327 00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:20,120 Speaker 1: the first time in four years. Last month, President Trump 328 00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:23,600 Speaker 1: celebrated the strides's administration has made since last year's election, 329 00:20:23,720 --> 00:20:29,080 Speaker 1: making living more affordable for the American people, with gas prices, groceries, 330 00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:33,480 Speaker 1: and rental prices actually falling. So when you hear the 331 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:38,560 Speaker 1: media and Democrats saying that we have a quote affordability crisis, 332 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:42,680 Speaker 1: I agree, it costs too much for a lot of things. 333 00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:48,639 Speaker 1: But are the prices heading in the right direction? The 334 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:53,399 Speaker 1: answer is yes, they are going in the right direction. 335 00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:57,200 Speaker 1: They are not going in the wrong direction. They are 336 00:20:57,240 --> 00:21:00,639 Speaker 1: headed exactly where Donald Trump said they were going to 337 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:03,640 Speaker 1: be headed. And that is part of why so many 338 00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:08,000 Speaker 1: Americans should take a moment pause and look and see 339 00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:11,199 Speaker 1: what the President is actually doing to get all this 340 00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:15,480 Speaker 1: moving the way it needs to. Quick break Ben Ferguson Show, 341 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:18,920 Speaker 1: there is one group of people that I want to 342 00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:22,119 Speaker 1: make sure we hit pause and think and talk about, 343 00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:26,360 Speaker 1: and that is our forgotten farmers in this country. President 344 00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:30,600 Speaker 1: Trump understands that the farming industry, especially in the US, 345 00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:36,000 Speaker 1: has been under siege and undercut by so much foreign influence. 346 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:39,960 Speaker 1: And the President understands, also from a national security and 347 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:43,679 Speaker 1: a food security standpoint, that we need to be allies 348 00:21:43,800 --> 00:21:46,840 Speaker 1: and advocates of our men and women and family farms 349 00:21:46,840 --> 00:21:51,200 Speaker 1: in this country. Secretary Rawlings recently on Fox and Friends 350 00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:53,920 Speaker 1: said this about the farmers in our nation. 351 00:21:54,119 --> 00:21:56,840 Speaker 6: Farmers said, if who have credit problems and are wondering 352 00:21:56,880 --> 00:22:00,320 Speaker 6: they maybe have too many soybeans in stockpiled money coming, 353 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:02,440 Speaker 6: You're going to give them the figure a little bit later, 354 00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:03,879 Speaker 6: even though they prefer to sell. 355 00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:05,520 Speaker 2: This is one way to keep them. 356 00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:07,520 Speaker 8: Yeah, they don't want to farm for government checks, right, 357 00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:10,399 Speaker 8: They want to farm for real, for real pay for 358 00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:12,760 Speaker 8: what they do. But soybeans are looking better. I think 359 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:15,160 Speaker 8: it's the highest price it's been in fifteen months. We've 360 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:17,680 Speaker 8: got some other road crops that we're working on, but yes, 361 00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:20,920 Speaker 8: soon to be announced, likely the week after Thanksgiving. And 362 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:23,120 Speaker 8: we're just so grateful for our farmers and our ranchers, 363 00:22:23,119 --> 00:22:26,440 Speaker 8: and prices are coming down. I think from the affordability perspective, 364 00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:28,840 Speaker 8: we once we sow for these inputs. You're going to 365 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:30,960 Speaker 8: see some incredible, incredible numbers in. 366 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:34,840 Speaker 1: Our Agriculture Secretary rawlings there making it clear that we're 367 00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:38,040 Speaker 1: not going to forget which moves made a Part two. 368 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:42,720 Speaker 1: President Trump has now proposed a twelve billion dollar aid 369 00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:46,800 Speaker 1: package for farmers that have been hit hard by China's 370 00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:51,040 Speaker 1: trade or the President at the White House describing it 371 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:53,560 Speaker 1: this way, delighted. 372 00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:55,760 Speaker 7: To announce this afternoon that the United States will be 373 00:22:55,800 --> 00:22:59,080 Speaker 7: taking a small portion of the hundreds of billions of 374 00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:01,040 Speaker 7: dollars we in tariffs. 375 00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:02,840 Speaker 4: We are making. 376 00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:04,840 Speaker 7: A lot of money from countries that took advantage of 377 00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:07,879 Speaker 7: us for years. They took advantage of us like nobody's 378 00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:12,040 Speaker 7: ever seen. Our deficits are way down because of tariffs. 379 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:15,480 Speaker 7: I guess because of the election, because without the election, 380 00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:18,240 Speaker 7: you wouldn't have tariffs. You'd be sitting here losing your shirt. 381 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:22,960 Speaker 7: But we're taking in billions. We're really taking in trillions 382 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:25,320 Speaker 7: of dollars if you think about it, Scott, because they're 383 00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:26,960 Speaker 7: real numbers, you know, when you think of all the 384 00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:29,240 Speaker 7: money being poured into the country for. 385 00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:33,439 Speaker 4: New auto plants and all of the other things. AI. 386 00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:39,320 Speaker 9: So what we're doing is we're taking a relatively small 387 00:23:39,359 --> 00:23:42,520 Speaker 9: portion of that and we're going to be giving and 388 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:46,280 Speaker 9: providing it to the farmers in economic assistance. 389 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:49,560 Speaker 7: And we love our farmers, and as you know, the 390 00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:54,600 Speaker 7: farmers like me because based on voting trends, you could 391 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:58,159 Speaker 7: call it voting trends or anything else, but they're great people. 392 00:23:58,359 --> 00:23:59,880 Speaker 4: They're the backbone of our country. 393 00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:03,800 Speaker 7: So we're going to use that money to provide twelve 394 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:07,400 Speaker 7: billion dollars in economic assistance to American farmer's. 395 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:10,040 Speaker 4: Twelve billion is a lot of money. Mertal what do 396 00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:11,320 Speaker 4: you think peanuts for you? 397 00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:11,520 Speaker 9: Though? 398 00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:14,680 Speaker 4: Right she's a farmer of rice. 399 00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:21,000 Speaker 7: This release will, this relief will provide much needed certainty 400 00:24:21,119 --> 00:24:24,000 Speaker 7: to farmers as they get this year's harvest to market 401 00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:27,040 Speaker 7: and look ahead to next year's crops, and it'll help 402 00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:29,840 Speaker 7: them continue their efforts to lower food prices. 403 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:35,480 Speaker 1: You hear the present there, and this goes back to affordability. 404 00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:38,880 Speaker 1: He understands that American farmers have been hit, and they've 405 00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:42,159 Speaker 1: been hit hard by China and the trade wars, and 406 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:44,800 Speaker 1: that's why he's taking the tear iff money. And that's 407 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:47,600 Speaker 1: why I announced a twelve billion dollar farm made package. 408 00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:50,280 Speaker 1: It will be a boost to farmers who have struggled 409 00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:53,520 Speaker 1: to sell the crops while getting hit by rising costs 410 00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:56,480 Speaker 1: after the President raised tariffs on China as part of 411 00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:59,760 Speaker 1: that broader trade war. And that's why the President build 412 00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:02,440 Speaker 1: the and Monday afternoon at the White House a round 413 00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:05,800 Speaker 1: table with the Treasury Secretary of Scott descent, the Agricultural 414 00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:09,639 Speaker 1: Secretary Brook Rawlings, lawmakers and farmers who raise cattle and 415 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:15,160 Speaker 1: grow corn, cotton, soybeans, rice, wheat, potatoes, etc. Twelve billions 416 00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:17,200 Speaker 1: a lot of money, Trump said, adding that the additional 417 00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:20,760 Speaker 1: aid will help provide certainty for farmers. The money is 418 00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:24,320 Speaker 1: coming from the tariff revenue, again, not directly from you, 419 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:28,479 Speaker 1: the taxpayer, which is another great thing. Rawlings said, by 420 00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:30,359 Speaker 1: the way, in her own remarks to the White House 421 00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:33,920 Speaker 1: that eleven billion is being announced on Monday, while another 422 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:38,440 Speaker 1: one billion is being held back for specialty crops. Farmers 423 00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:42,040 Speaker 1: have backed Trump politically, but his aggressive trade policies and 424 00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:46,720 Speaker 1: shifts and tariff rates have come under increasing scrutiny because 425 00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:50,000 Speaker 1: of the impact of the agricultural sector and because of 426 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:54,880 Speaker 1: broader consumer worries. The AID is the administration's latest effort 427 00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:59,080 Speaker 1: to defend Trump's economic stewardship and answered voter anks about 428 00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:02,240 Speaker 1: rising costs, even as the president's dismiss concerns about the 429 00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:06,600 Speaker 1: concept of affordability as a straight up democratic hoax because 430 00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:10,840 Speaker 1: prices are in fact coming down now. Upwards of eleven 431 00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:14,520 Speaker 1: billion is set aside for the Department of Agriculture's Farmers 432 00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:18,720 Speaker 1: Bridge Assistance Program, which the White House says will offer 433 00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:24,040 Speaker 1: one time payments to farmers for row crops. That is 434 00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:29,280 Speaker 1: a huge help to so many farmers. Soybeans and sorghum 435 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:32,080 Speaker 1: will hit the hardest by the trade dispute with China 436 00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:35,440 Speaker 1: because more than half of those crops are exported each year, 437 00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:38,639 Speaker 1: with most of the harvest going to China. The eight 438 00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:40,800 Speaker 1: is meant to help those farmers who have suffered from 439 00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:45,560 Speaker 1: trade wars with other nations, inflation, and other market disruptions. 440 00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:48,160 Speaker 1: The rest of money will be for farmers who grow 441 00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:52,520 Speaker 1: crops not covered under the Bridge Assistant's program. That according 442 00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:55,320 Speaker 1: to White House officials, who said it's important that we 443 00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:58,920 Speaker 1: protect all of our farmers. The money is intended, they say, 444 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:02,280 Speaker 1: to offer certain to farmers as they sell their current 445 00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:06,480 Speaker 1: harvests as well as planned for next year's crops. In October, 446 00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:10,919 Speaker 1: after Trump met with Leader j in South Korea. The 447 00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:13,200 Speaker 1: White House said Beijing had promised to buy at least 448 00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:16,960 Speaker 1: twelve million metric tons of US soybeans by the end 449 00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:21,040 Speaker 1: of the calendar year, plus twenty five million metric tons 450 00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:24,520 Speaker 1: a year in each of the next three years. Soybean 451 00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:27,280 Speaker 1: farmers have been hit especially hard by Trump's trade war 452 00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:32,439 Speaker 1: with China, which is the world's largest buyer of soybean. China, 453 00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:34,440 Speaker 1: just so you know, has purchased more than two point 454 00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:37,960 Speaker 1: eight million metric tons of soybeans since Trump announced the 455 00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:40,600 Speaker 1: agreement at the end of October. That's only about one 456 00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:44,480 Speaker 1: quarter of what administration officials said China had promised, But 457 00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:47,639 Speaker 1: Scott Descent, Treasury Secretary, said China is on track to 458 00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:51,000 Speaker 1: meet its goal by the end of February, saying, quote, 459 00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:55,040 Speaker 1: these prices haven't come in because the Chinese actually used 460 00:27:55,080 --> 00:28:00,199 Speaker 1: our soybean farmers as pawns in their trade negotiations, what 461 00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:03,880 Speaker 1: he said on Sundays Face the Nation on CBS. That 462 00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:08,120 Speaker 1: also explains why a bridge payment to farmers is needed now. 463 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:10,560 Speaker 1: The size of the twelve billion dollar aid package is 464 00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:14,840 Speaker 1: roughly the value of total US soybean exports to China 465 00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:18,160 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four. And half of the total exports 466 00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:20,920 Speaker 1: of US farm goods to China in twenty twenty four 467 00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:25,480 Speaker 1: as well. Farmers they're beyond thrilled about the aid package, 468 00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:28,040 Speaker 1: but some of them say it's likely only a down 469 00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:31,720 Speaker 1: payment on what's needed, and government aid doesn't solve the 470 00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:35,560 Speaker 1: fundamental problems that farmers are facing of soaring costs and 471 00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:38,840 Speaker 1: uncertain markets for their crops altogether. 472 00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:39,840 Speaker 7: Now. 473 00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:43,520 Speaker 1: During Trump's first term, he gave farmers more than twenty 474 00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:46,480 Speaker 1: two billion in aid payments in twenty nineteen at the 475 00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:49,320 Speaker 1: start of his trade war with China, and nearly forty 476 00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:52,680 Speaker 1: six billion in twenty twenty, although that year also included 477 00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:55,600 Speaker 1: a that was related to the COVID pandemic as well. 478 00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:58,680 Speaker 1: The farmers want to make a profit off of selling 479 00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:04,560 Speaker 1: their crops rely on government aid to survive, saying quote, 480 00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:06,880 Speaker 1: that's a start, but I think we need to be 481 00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:10,440 Speaker 1: looking for some avenues to find other funding opportunities, and 482 00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:12,240 Speaker 1: we need to get our market going. 483 00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:14,280 Speaker 2: That's where you want to be able to make a 484 00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:15,160 Speaker 2: living from. 485 00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:17,960 Speaker 1: Is where a Kentucky farmer who serves the president of 486 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:21,880 Speaker 1: the American Soybean Association had to say at a conference, 487 00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:25,080 Speaker 1: if farmers can't make ends meet this year, there will 488 00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:29,200 Speaker 1: likely be additional consolidation the industry, with giant industrial farmers 489 00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:32,720 Speaker 1: only getting bigger while the number of smaller family farmers 490 00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:36,680 Speaker 1: continue to shrink. The farmers most at risk are younger 491 00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:40,680 Speaker 1: farmers and those who rent instead of own most of 492 00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:43,640 Speaker 1: the ground they farm, because they don't have much ability 493 00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:47,480 Speaker 1: to borrow against the equity in their land. Most established 494 00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:49,680 Speaker 1: farmers will be able to borrow more to survive the 495 00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:53,200 Speaker 1: trade war, but older farmers who spend their whole lives 496 00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:57,080 Speaker 1: building up equity may decide to retire instead of risk 497 00:29:57,200 --> 00:30:00,240 Speaker 1: everything that they built up, unless they are trying to 498 00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:03,640 Speaker 1: help the next generation of farmers get established on their land, 499 00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:07,240 Speaker 1: which brings us back to what President Trump said, it's 500 00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:10,320 Speaker 1: clearly a broken system. We've got to fix it, and 501 00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:12,400 Speaker 1: we also have to make farmers understand that we're on 502 00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:16,880 Speaker 1: their team and that they can survive and they can 503 00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:22,360 Speaker 1: make a living doing exactly this. 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