1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:05,040 Speaker 1: We've ended the journey of so called diversity, equity, and 2 00:00:05,160 --> 00:00:10,880 Speaker 1: inclusion policies all across the entire federal government, and indeed 3 00:00:10,920 --> 00:00:17,480 Speaker 1: the private sector and our military and our country will 4 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:23,480 Speaker 1: be worked no longer. We believe that whether you are 5 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:27,640 Speaker 1: a doctor, an accountant, a lawyer, or an air traffic 6 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:32,479 Speaker 1: control you should be hired and promoted based on skill 7 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:39,800 Speaker 1: and competence, not race or gender. Very important, based on merit, 8 00:00:40,280 --> 00:00:44,280 Speaker 1: and the Supreme Court, in a brave and very powerful decision, 9 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:46,159 Speaker 1: has allowed us to do so. 10 00:00:46,479 --> 00:00:47,800 Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you, Paman. 11 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:52,520 Speaker 1: We have removed the poison of critical race theory from 12 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:55,800 Speaker 1: our public schools, and I signed in order making it 13 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:59,800 Speaker 1: the official policy of the United States Government that they 14 00:00:59,840 --> 00:01:05,440 Speaker 1: are are only two genders, male and female. Also signed 15 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:11,160 Speaker 1: an executive order to bend men from playing in women's sports. 16 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:15,760 Speaker 1: This will be our greatest era. With God's help, over 17 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:18,800 Speaker 1: the next four years, we are going to lead this 18 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:23,920 Speaker 1: nation even higher, and we are going to forge the freest, 19 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:29,520 Speaker 1: most advanced, most dynamic, and most dominant civilization ever to 20 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:32,960 Speaker 1: exist on the face of this earth. We are going 21 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:36,959 Speaker 1: to create the highest quality of life, build the safest 22 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:42,240 Speaker 1: and wealthiest, and the healthiest and most vital communities anywhere 23 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:45,520 Speaker 1: in the world. We are going to conquer the vast 24 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:50,120 Speaker 1: frontiers of science, and we're going to lead humanity into 25 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:53,800 Speaker 1: space and plant the American flag on the planet Mars 26 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:59,560 Speaker 1: and even far beyond. And through it all, we are 27 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:04,400 Speaker 1: going to rediscover the unstoppable power of the American spirit, 28 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:08,160 Speaker 1: and we are going to renew unlimited promise of the 29 00:02:08,200 --> 00:02:12,520 Speaker 1: American dream. Every single day, we will stand up and 30 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:16,240 Speaker 1: we will fight, fight, fight for the country our citizens. 31 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:18,640 Speaker 3: Believe in, and for the country our people deserve. 32 00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:23,960 Speaker 1: My fellow Americans, get ready for an incredible future, because 33 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:29,480 Speaker 1: the Golden Age of America has only just begun. It 34 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:33,720 Speaker 1: will be like nothing that has ever been seen before. 35 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:39,960 Speaker 1: Thank you, God bless you, and God bless America. 36 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:49,600 Speaker 4: On this episode of News World, Klis and I were 37 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:53,120 Speaker 4: guests a speaker Mike Johnson at President Donald J. Trump's 38 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:56,320 Speaker 4: address to the Joint Session of Congress. Our seats were 39 00:02:56,360 --> 00:03:00,000 Speaker 4: directly above the House Democrats. It was an amazing place 40 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:02,640 Speaker 4: to be. On the one hand, we could see President 41 00:03:02,639 --> 00:03:05,720 Speaker 4: Trump clearly. We were directly across from the First Lady 42 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:09,760 Speaker 4: and her guests, and directly below us were the Democrats. 43 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:12,120 Speaker 4: So I want to share with you what it was 44 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:24,720 Speaker 4: like to be in the House Chamber on Tuesday night. 45 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:29,200 Speaker 4: I want to start by just talking in general about 46 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:31,960 Speaker 4: what a night like that is like. Klista and I 47 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:36,160 Speaker 4: arrived early. We went to Speaker Johnson's office, where there 48 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:39,640 Speaker 4: was a reception, and it was a very efficient way 49 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:41,360 Speaker 4: to see a heck of a lot of congressmen and 50 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:45,360 Speaker 4: their friends. So he chatted with folks, and I dropped 51 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:49,920 Speaker 4: in briefly to discuss with Speaker Johnson the possibility of 52 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:52,840 Speaker 4: the Democrats trying to be disruptive. He was totally prepared. 53 00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:55,360 Speaker 4: He and the Sergeant Arms had been working through it 54 00:03:55,440 --> 00:03:58,320 Speaker 4: for the previous week, and they knew that it was possible, 55 00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:00,320 Speaker 4: and they knew that they were going to handle it 56 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:03,840 Speaker 4: in a very firm and authoritative way. So then we 57 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:07,280 Speaker 4: wandered over to our seats. We've been assigned two seats 58 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:12,880 Speaker 4: in Speaker Johnson's section, which is directly across from the 59 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:17,520 Speaker 4: first Ladies area, and there's a great view of President Trump, 60 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:21,279 Speaker 4: but also put us directly above the Democrats, which was 61 00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:24,400 Speaker 4: kind of fun to watch and see how they were 62 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:27,599 Speaker 4: reacting what they were doing. So you get there early 63 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:31,520 Speaker 4: for good reason, because it's a little bit complicated and confusing, 64 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:34,120 Speaker 4: and there's not much space and people often go to 65 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:36,320 Speaker 4: the wrong place and find they're in the wrong seat 66 00:04:36,360 --> 00:04:37,200 Speaker 4: and they've got to get up. 67 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:37,719 Speaker 3: And move around. 68 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:40,880 Speaker 4: So that went on for a while. Then you gradually 69 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:46,479 Speaker 4: have the build up. The Supreme Court arrives, the diplomats arrive, 70 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:50,800 Speaker 4: the military leadership is already there, and then the final 71 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:52,920 Speaker 4: big build up. Of course, you have the US Senate 72 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:56,159 Speaker 4: come in, and it's all very slow, takes a lot 73 00:04:56,160 --> 00:05:00,480 Speaker 4: of time because they're all politicians and they're all chatting 74 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:03,680 Speaker 4: with each other. So it's a very effective way. Having 75 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:06,320 Speaker 4: done this for many years, I can tell you the 76 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:09,560 Speaker 4: amount of business you can get done before the speech 77 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:13,400 Speaker 4: because everybody's there. There are no constituents, there's no staff, 78 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:16,120 Speaker 4: there's no news media, and you're just talking one on 79 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:17,360 Speaker 4: one with all sorts of folks. 80 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:19,680 Speaker 3: And that was going on now. 81 00:05:20,240 --> 00:05:24,600 Speaker 4: Interesting side note, going back to the French Revolution, which 82 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:27,880 Speaker 4: happened to be very close to the way the US 83 00:05:27,880 --> 00:05:31,719 Speaker 4: House is organized. They had a dividing line down the middle, 84 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:34,000 Speaker 4: and they had a right and a left, which is 85 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:37,200 Speaker 4: based actually on the language of the French Revolution. I 86 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:40,080 Speaker 4: remember at one point we were on the Republican side, 87 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:43,680 Speaker 4: which if you're the president looking out, is ironically on 88 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:46,560 Speaker 4: your left and the Democratic side is on your right. 89 00:05:47,080 --> 00:05:49,200 Speaker 4: And we were there at one point at one of 90 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:52,200 Speaker 4: our first meetings with Ronald Reagan, all the Republicans were 91 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:54,920 Speaker 4: gathered up, we were all sitting over on the left, 92 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:58,320 Speaker 4: exactly where Republicans said today. He came down the middle aisle, 93 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:02,640 Speaker 4: went over to the Democrat microphone and we're all staying. 94 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:03,159 Speaker 3: What is he doing? 95 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:05,920 Speaker 4: And he looked up for me and he said, oh, yeah, 96 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:09,159 Speaker 4: this is where I used to be, walked over and 97 00:06:09,960 --> 00:06:13,040 Speaker 4: talked to us from the Republican microphone. Well, all these 98 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:15,400 Speaker 4: folks are there, and you'll see some of them. For example, 99 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:19,000 Speaker 4: Marcy Captors a great example. She's a Democratic congresswoman who 100 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:23,320 Speaker 4: has survived miraculously in a series of close races in Toledo, Ohio. 101 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:28,120 Speaker 4: She's always sets herself right on the center aisle so 102 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:31,039 Speaker 4: that when the president comes in, she'll be able to 103 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:33,760 Speaker 4: say hi to him and be on camera. And there's 104 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:36,160 Speaker 4: certain people who do this. They'll go in very early 105 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:39,240 Speaker 4: and they'll seize these seats and almost hold them like 106 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:43,720 Speaker 4: personal property. So finally comes to the big moment and 107 00:06:43,839 --> 00:06:47,599 Speaker 4: they send out the committee to escort the president in 108 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:50,760 Speaker 4: I had the strange experience when I first got elected 109 00:06:50,760 --> 00:06:54,479 Speaker 4: in nineteen seventy eight. In January of seventy nine, Jimmy Carter, 110 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:57,560 Speaker 4: President Carter was coming to give his State of the Union. 111 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:00,240 Speaker 4: And back then they don't do it this way now, 112 00:07:00,279 --> 00:07:04,520 Speaker 4: But back then the Home State delegation was the Escort Committee, 113 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:08,680 Speaker 4: and so the ground rule was that the senior Democrat 114 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:12,720 Speaker 4: and the senior Republican came in immediately behind the president. 115 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:17,120 Speaker 4: Now I've been in office about thirty days, and because 116 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:20,760 Speaker 4: I was the only Republican, I was by definition the 117 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:25,080 Speaker 4: senior Republican. So I ended up walking in literally directly 118 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:27,520 Speaker 4: behind the presidented States. A good friend of mine, who 119 00:07:27,520 --> 00:07:30,240 Speaker 4: had supported me, said that he fell off his couch 120 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:33,840 Speaker 4: wondering how I had gotten promoted that rapidly, when of 121 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:36,800 Speaker 4: course the whole thing was just an accident. They now 122 00:07:36,880 --> 00:07:39,760 Speaker 4: appoint the leadership from the House and the Senate, both 123 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:43,240 Speaker 4: Democrat and Republican, and a number of Democrats did not 124 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:47,160 Speaker 4: go to join the escort Committee, which was sort of 125 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:49,680 Speaker 4: in their mind, I guess, a slap at President Trump. 126 00:07:50,160 --> 00:07:53,080 Speaker 4: They announced the President of States, and of course by 127 00:07:53,080 --> 00:07:55,960 Speaker 4: this stage, you have the Speaker of the House, who 128 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:58,680 Speaker 4: is the actual host for the event because it's in 129 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:02,040 Speaker 4: the House chamber. You have the Vice President in his 130 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:05,000 Speaker 4: role as President of the Senate. So that's why those 131 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:08,320 Speaker 4: two sit out behind the President, because the President in 132 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:12,520 Speaker 4: fact is their guest, so he's there in a sense 133 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:15,960 Speaker 4: subordinated to them in terms of procedure, although he's obviously 134 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:19,040 Speaker 4: the President of States. So they announced the president. He 135 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:22,200 Speaker 4: comes in, and of course you now have a ten 136 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:25,360 Speaker 4: minute trying to get to the front because everybody wants 137 00:08:25,400 --> 00:08:28,480 Speaker 4: to shake his hand, everybody wants to say something to him, 138 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:31,600 Speaker 4: and he's a very good at dealing with people, and 139 00:08:31,680 --> 00:08:33,680 Speaker 4: he doesn't mind it being slow. He knows the whole 140 00:08:33,679 --> 00:08:37,480 Speaker 4: country is watching, the cameras are right on him, and 141 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:41,160 Speaker 4: it makes him bigger, more important. This whole time, of course, 142 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:44,200 Speaker 4: we are all standing giving him a standing ovation for 143 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:47,800 Speaker 4: about ten solid minutes. He comes up front, and if 144 00:08:47,840 --> 00:08:51,920 Speaker 4: you'll notice, he always hands a copy of his speech 145 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:54,880 Speaker 4: to the Vice President and a copy of his speech 146 00:08:54,920 --> 00:08:57,719 Speaker 4: to the speaker. This is a ritual that has been 147 00:08:57,760 --> 00:09:02,240 Speaker 4: going on for a very long timeeeen ninety six for 148 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:04,080 Speaker 4: the State of the Union, which is the one where 149 00:09:04,120 --> 00:09:06,240 Speaker 4: Bill Clinton says that the era of big government is 150 00:09:06,280 --> 00:09:09,280 Speaker 4: over and basically he's going to work with the House Republicans. 151 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:12,440 Speaker 4: He comes in Al Gore, who at that time was 152 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:15,200 Speaker 4: the Vice President and therefore President of the Senate. Al 153 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:17,719 Speaker 4: Gore and I are sitting up there. Clinton comes in, 154 00:09:17,960 --> 00:09:21,920 Speaker 4: walks over, hands me an envelope which is not the speech. 155 00:09:22,760 --> 00:09:24,480 Speaker 4: I look at it for a second, I look at Gore. 156 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:27,520 Speaker 4: We both shrug. I open it and it's a letter 157 00:09:27,520 --> 00:09:32,040 Speaker 4: that says to Speaker k Newt Gingrish from President William 158 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:37,560 Speaker 4: Jefferson Clinton, You're right, I resign. We're both broken up, laughing. 159 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:39,400 Speaker 4: It comes to say, oh, I gave you the wrong document. 160 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:40,040 Speaker 4: Can I had that back? 161 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:40,360 Speaker 3: Please? 162 00:09:40,559 --> 00:09:42,720 Speaker 4: Then he gave us the speech, and that's the speech 163 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:45,800 Speaker 4: where he basically sold out the left and basically indicated 164 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:48,359 Speaker 4: that he was going to work with the House Republicans 165 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:51,040 Speaker 4: to reform welfare, balance the budget, and do all the 166 00:09:51,080 --> 00:09:54,280 Speaker 4: things we did. So the president comes in. He's now 167 00:09:54,320 --> 00:09:58,720 Speaker 4: giving both the Vice President and the speaker a copy 168 00:09:58,760 --> 00:10:02,480 Speaker 4: of his speech. He gets another round of applause, and 169 00:10:02,559 --> 00:10:06,000 Speaker 4: he's ready to start talking. And at that point, exactly 170 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:10,520 Speaker 4: what we thought might happen a Democratic Congressman Green from Texas, 171 00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:13,480 Speaker 4: who had earlier filed an impeachment, who's sort of a 172 00:10:13,559 --> 00:10:16,880 Speaker 4: maverick and a wild guy, jumps up and starts yelling 173 00:10:16,880 --> 00:10:21,040 Speaker 4: at the President, and because he had been prepared, Mike 174 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:26,160 Speaker 4: Johnson immediately gavel order and read from the Rules of 175 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:30,720 Speaker 4: the House about the procedure and the requirement to operate 176 00:10:30,760 --> 00:10:32,120 Speaker 4: within the decorum of the House. 177 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:39,880 Speaker 2: Members are directed to uphold and maintain decorum in the 178 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:43,960 Speaker 2: House and to cease any further disruptions that you're warning. 179 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:47,120 Speaker 4: Well, that doesn't affect the congressman. He jumps back up 180 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:47,920 Speaker 4: a second time. 181 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:51,960 Speaker 2: Members are engaging in wilflin continuing breach of decorum, and 182 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:54,520 Speaker 2: the Chair is prepared to direct the Sergeant at Arms 183 00:10:54,520 --> 00:10:56,559 Speaker 2: to restore order to the joint session. 184 00:10:58,960 --> 00:11:02,680 Speaker 4: Then he gets up a third time, and at that 185 00:11:02,760 --> 00:11:04,920 Speaker 4: point the Sergeant Arms comes over. This had all been 186 00:11:04,920 --> 00:11:08,160 Speaker 4: blanned all week. They thought this through very carefully, came over, 187 00:11:08,520 --> 00:11:09,319 Speaker 4: took him out of the. 188 00:11:09,240 --> 00:11:12,400 Speaker 2: House, finding that members continue to engage in willful and 189 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:15,480 Speaker 2: concerted disruption or proper decorum. The Chair now directs the 190 00:11:15,559 --> 00:11:21,480 Speaker 2: Sergeant at Arms to restore order, remove this gentleman from 191 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:21,920 Speaker 2: the table. 192 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:25,560 Speaker 4: Part of What it did is a signal to the 193 00:11:25,559 --> 00:11:29,400 Speaker 4: other Democrats. If you intact, act out, if you try 194 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:32,079 Speaker 4: to do any of this, what you're going to discover 195 00:11:32,280 --> 00:11:34,760 Speaker 4: is that we're going to throw you out. You're not 196 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:37,480 Speaker 4: going to be here very long. And interestingly, the only 197 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:41,080 Speaker 4: other real display I saw, sitting directly above them, was 198 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:44,800 Speaker 4: fairly late in the speech. Three of the women members 199 00:11:44,880 --> 00:11:47,920 Speaker 4: took off their jacket and they had on T shirts 200 00:11:48,360 --> 00:11:51,920 Speaker 4: that said resist, and they stood there for a minute together, 201 00:11:52,040 --> 00:11:54,680 Speaker 4: the three of them in their resist T shirts, and 202 00:11:54,720 --> 00:11:57,600 Speaker 4: then they voluntarily left before the sergeant arms could even 203 00:11:57,640 --> 00:12:01,000 Speaker 4: be called in. But I thought that Johnson, by reacting 204 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:04,800 Speaker 4: so decisively and so quickly, had cut off the opposite 205 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:07,280 Speaker 4: of what, for example, the president of Colemba University did. 206 00:12:07,640 --> 00:12:10,360 Speaker 4: That he had cut off any chance for any kind 207 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:12,200 Speaker 4: of serious thing, which allowed Trump then. 208 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:13,320 Speaker 3: To give his speech. 209 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:32,960 Speaker 4: While some people at the White House have suggested he 210 00:12:32,960 --> 00:12:35,640 Speaker 4: would be about an hour long speech, which I never 211 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:39,160 Speaker 4: thought was possible, partly because you just have applause time, etc. 212 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:42,720 Speaker 4: He actually gave the longest speech to a joint session 213 00:12:42,720 --> 00:12:46,040 Speaker 4: of Congress in modern history. Bill Clinton had that record. 214 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:49,160 Speaker 4: Clinton had spoken for an hour twenty eight minutes and 215 00:12:49,240 --> 00:12:50,240 Speaker 4: forty nine seconds. 216 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:52,240 Speaker 3: In two thousand, Trump. 217 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:56,240 Speaker 4: Spoke for an hour thirty nine minutes in thirty two seconds, 218 00:12:56,600 --> 00:13:00,440 Speaker 4: which was almost up to his first term, when he 219 00:13:00,440 --> 00:13:02,800 Speaker 4: had spoken for an hour twenty two which was slightly 220 00:13:02,840 --> 00:13:06,200 Speaker 4: shorter than Clinton. There was a long speech, but frankly, 221 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:09,559 Speaker 4: it was so well structured that it didn't seem all 222 00:13:09,600 --> 00:13:11,160 Speaker 4: that long. And I want to talk about that in 223 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:15,680 Speaker 4: a minute. The fact is that overall you had this 224 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:22,280 Speaker 4: very amazingly clear the lineage. You had the Republicans who 225 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:26,559 Speaker 4: stood over and over and over, and the House Democrats 226 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:29,920 Speaker 4: who never stood, and the Senate Democrats would stand occasionally 227 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:33,760 Speaker 4: or applaud occasionally. But the rigidity among the House Democrats 228 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:38,600 Speaker 4: was unbelievable. That now they had some people decide not 229 00:13:38,679 --> 00:13:42,920 Speaker 4: to come. I mean Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, for example, 230 00:13:43,160 --> 00:13:46,560 Speaker 4: Senator Patty Murray. But overall most of the Democrats came. 231 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:49,360 Speaker 4: In fact, looking back, I wondered if they wouldn't have 232 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:52,679 Speaker 4: been better off not coming now because some of them 233 00:13:52,679 --> 00:13:55,440 Speaker 4: didn't come. There were some vacancies on the Democratic side, 234 00:13:55,520 --> 00:13:57,960 Speaker 4: and I noticed after a couple of minutes there were 235 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:00,640 Speaker 4: a group of Republicans who had decided they would go 236 00:14:00,760 --> 00:14:03,160 Speaker 4: sit on the Democratic side and fill up the vacancies. 237 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:07,160 Speaker 4: So you would occasionally see people standing and applauding on 238 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:10,720 Speaker 4: the Democratic side. They were always Republicans, they were never Democrats, 239 00:14:11,120 --> 00:14:13,880 Speaker 4: but they were over there having fun and started driving 240 00:14:13,880 --> 00:14:17,920 Speaker 4: the Democrats crazy. What I was struck by. First of all, 241 00:14:17,960 --> 00:14:21,240 Speaker 4: only talk about Trump's speech itself, and then I want 242 00:14:21,240 --> 00:14:23,760 Speaker 4: to talk about the Democrats' reaction, because I think they're 243 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:30,120 Speaker 4: each worthy of considerable focus. This was a classically Trump's speech, 244 00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:33,880 Speaker 4: and I think, maybe because of the contrast with the Democrats, 245 00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:37,720 Speaker 4: the most consequential speech he's given up to now. And 246 00:14:37,760 --> 00:14:40,840 Speaker 4: I say that because I think that in this speech, 247 00:14:41,240 --> 00:14:46,280 Speaker 4: with the active help of the Democrats, Trump delineated two 248 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:51,960 Speaker 4: remarkably different futures and two remarkably different styles. First of all, 249 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:54,160 Speaker 4: if you think back to the speech and you get 250 00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:56,440 Speaker 4: a copy of it and you read through it, just 251 00:14:56,520 --> 00:14:58,960 Speaker 4: the sheer number of things he covered, the number of 252 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:01,880 Speaker 4: things he was doing, the number of things he could report, 253 00:15:02,680 --> 00:15:06,560 Speaker 4: was astonishing. Their entire presidencies, that didn't cover the amount 254 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:09,160 Speaker 4: that he'd covered in the first thirty some days of 255 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:12,520 Speaker 4: his presidency. So that was fascinating, and it reminded you 256 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:15,800 Speaker 4: of the breadth of his concerns, the breadth of his 257 00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:18,680 Speaker 4: willingness to engage, and the way in which on a 258 00:15:18,680 --> 00:15:22,040 Speaker 4: couple occasions, for example and making America healthy again, he 259 00:15:22,160 --> 00:15:23,880 Speaker 4: cited and brought up Robert F. 260 00:15:23,960 --> 00:15:26,040 Speaker 3: Kennedy Junior, and he brought up. 261 00:15:25,960 --> 00:15:29,440 Speaker 4: Pete Hegsath, and he brought up farmers and sectuc agriculture. 262 00:15:29,480 --> 00:15:31,160 Speaker 3: Brook Rowlins jumped up to applaud. 263 00:15:31,520 --> 00:15:34,600 Speaker 4: He was weaving things in in a way that covered 264 00:15:34,640 --> 00:15:38,400 Speaker 4: an immense amount of ground. Second, the speech really has 265 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:46,480 Speaker 4: sort of three major segments. Segment number one was outlining 266 00:15:46,560 --> 00:15:50,000 Speaker 4: what he believed what he'd accomplished, and he began early 267 00:15:50,040 --> 00:15:52,680 Speaker 4: on by looking straight at the Democrats and saying, look, 268 00:15:52,880 --> 00:15:55,600 Speaker 4: I realized that even if I announced I had cured cancer, 269 00:15:55,840 --> 00:15:58,000 Speaker 4: you're not going to applaud. So they clearly at the 270 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:00,800 Speaker 4: White House had thought through that the Democrats were going 271 00:16:00,840 --> 00:16:02,920 Speaker 4: to sulk and they're going to sit in their hands, 272 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:05,320 Speaker 4: and they decided they would turn it into a positive 273 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:07,960 Speaker 4: and make sure that the country understood that this was 274 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:10,960 Speaker 4: an example of how bad the partisan split was. But 275 00:16:11,040 --> 00:16:13,400 Speaker 4: if you go through the things he talked about in 276 00:16:13,440 --> 00:16:16,320 Speaker 4: that opening section, first of all, the scale of it 277 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:20,440 Speaker 4: is amazing, and he talks about an extraordinary range of things. 278 00:16:20,880 --> 00:16:25,640 Speaker 4: But second, the fact is that many of them. For example, 279 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:30,040 Speaker 4: he mentions that we've had a huge surge in volunteering 280 00:16:30,080 --> 00:16:32,120 Speaker 4: for the army. Well, that it would be a good 281 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:35,200 Speaker 4: thing a Democrat or Republican. The fact that young Americans 282 00:16:35,280 --> 00:16:37,400 Speaker 4: willing to go out and risk their lives and join 283 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:41,160 Speaker 4: the military should be a positive thing. Democrats couldn't move. 284 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:45,240 Speaker 4: He talked about the fact that he was in favor 285 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:48,360 Speaker 4: of lowering taxes for middle class Americans. He went through 286 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:52,440 Speaker 4: eliminating the tax on tips, eliminating the tax on interest 287 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:55,480 Speaker 4: for buying a car if it's made in America, eliminating 288 00:16:55,520 --> 00:16:58,320 Speaker 4: the tax on Social Security payments. Now, all of those 289 00:16:58,360 --> 00:17:01,400 Speaker 4: things should have been you would thought, for the Democrats, 290 00:17:01,760 --> 00:17:06,600 Speaker 4: pretty easy things to applaud. Not a single motion. He 291 00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:10,920 Speaker 4: talked about the work that Malania had done focusing on 292 00:17:10,960 --> 00:17:14,280 Speaker 4: the whole problem of a legal revenge porn and the 293 00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:16,639 Speaker 4: kind of things that are done on the Internet. And 294 00:17:16,680 --> 00:17:20,280 Speaker 4: again you'd think for the Democrats, this shouldn't be that hard. Now, 295 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:25,280 Speaker 4: he did get into what are clearly big ideological differences, 296 00:17:25,720 --> 00:17:27,920 Speaker 4: and he went through a litany that was really amazing. 297 00:17:28,320 --> 00:17:32,520 Speaker 4: Where he talked about protecting women's sports, he talked about 298 00:17:32,720 --> 00:17:35,280 Speaker 4: a whole range of things that you would think that 299 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:40,040 Speaker 4: people could have been supportive of, and yet the fact 300 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:43,920 Speaker 4: was that he was just simply not able to get 301 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:48,040 Speaker 4: the Democrats to applaud a single thing. And the gap, frankly, 302 00:17:48,119 --> 00:17:51,680 Speaker 4: was pretty remarkable when you look at it. We're talking here, 303 00:17:52,359 --> 00:17:54,560 Speaker 4: I'm just wanting to give you a couple examples because 304 00:17:54,560 --> 00:17:57,040 Speaker 4: it was so striking to me, and we've done a 305 00:17:57,040 --> 00:17:59,680 Speaker 4: lot of this research at America's New Majority Project, which 306 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:02,159 Speaker 4: you can say if you go to America's New Majority 307 00:18:02,200 --> 00:18:05,119 Speaker 4: Project dot com. So let me give you just a 308 00:18:05,160 --> 00:18:08,240 Speaker 4: couple examples. The President talks about the fact that in 309 00:18:08,280 --> 00:18:11,680 Speaker 4: his judgment, there are two genders, male and female. Well, 310 00:18:12,119 --> 00:18:15,680 Speaker 4: the American people overwhelmingly agree about seventy five percent say yes, 311 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:20,320 Speaker 4: that's exactly right, but not the zombie Democrats question about 312 00:18:20,320 --> 00:18:22,560 Speaker 4: should boys be blocked from playing women's sports? And he 313 00:18:22,600 --> 00:18:25,120 Speaker 4: had a great example of a young woman who had 314 00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:28,320 Speaker 4: been very severely injured playing volleyball where there was a 315 00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:31,520 Speaker 4: male who was on the women's team and who hit 316 00:18:31,560 --> 00:18:34,720 Speaker 4: the ball so hard that it really caused profound damage. 317 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:37,840 Speaker 4: When you talk about stopping men from playing women's sports, 318 00:18:38,240 --> 00:18:40,640 Speaker 4: the American people agree by a large margin. In fact, 319 00:18:40,760 --> 00:18:44,760 Speaker 4: one poll found sixty six percent American people think that 320 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:48,600 Speaker 4: men should not be playing women's sports, but not the 321 00:18:48,680 --> 00:18:51,560 Speaker 4: zombie Democrats. When you ask the question, should English be 322 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:55,920 Speaker 4: the official language United States? This is overwhelming eighty one 323 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:59,399 Speaker 4: percent of Americans think so, but not the zombie Democrats. 324 00:19:00,040 --> 00:19:02,120 Speaker 4: And when you ask the question, which I think maybe 325 00:19:02,560 --> 00:19:07,000 Speaker 4: the most profound contribution that Trump makes to rebuilding American culture, 326 00:19:07,600 --> 00:19:11,800 Speaker 4: should merit and performance be the basis for hiring and promotion? 327 00:19:12,840 --> 00:19:16,760 Speaker 3: Now, this is not a close call. Overwhelmingly eighty one. 328 00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:19,520 Speaker 4: Percent of the American people think so, but not the 329 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:23,679 Speaker 4: zombie Democrats. And I go through this list because I 330 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:26,680 Speaker 4: was sitting there watching and I was thinking, surely at 331 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:28,720 Speaker 4: some point they're going to break and at some point 332 00:19:28,920 --> 00:19:31,960 Speaker 4: they're going to get involved in applauding something. 333 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:33,600 Speaker 3: But they didn't. 334 00:19:34,560 --> 00:19:38,480 Speaker 4: He also, frankly, had a series of kind of current 335 00:19:38,520 --> 00:19:41,520 Speaker 4: events that you don't normally think of. In a speech 336 00:19:41,520 --> 00:19:44,199 Speaker 4: to a joint session, he reported that we'd captured an 337 00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:49,160 Speaker 4: ISIS terrorist that masterminded the Abby Gata kack. Again, why 338 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:52,600 Speaker 4: wouldn't the Democrats applaud the fact that we captured a terrorist. 339 00:19:53,119 --> 00:19:57,880 Speaker 4: He reported that he'd actually gotten a letter from President 340 00:19:57,960 --> 00:20:01,160 Speaker 4: Zelenski of the Ukraine. He read the letter as part 341 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:04,280 Speaker 4: of this The letter had come in yesterday. Again, you'd 342 00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:08,120 Speaker 4: think he's now doing what supposedly the Democrats wanted him 343 00:20:08,119 --> 00:20:10,400 Speaker 4: to do. They're getting back together to try to find 344 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:11,639 Speaker 4: a way to end the war. And it was a 345 00:20:11,760 --> 00:20:14,920 Speaker 4: very funny exchange where Trump was saying that we don't 346 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:18,000 Speaker 4: want the war to go on, and apparently the senator 347 00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:22,560 Speaker 4: from Massachusetts was nodding aggressively that she didn't agree with him, 348 00:20:22,760 --> 00:20:26,359 Speaker 4: and he turnedy called her Pocahontas, which was probably not 349 00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:29,520 Speaker 4: total decorum, but even she laughed about it, and it 350 00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:33,320 Speaker 4: was not seen as overly hostile. But what you have 351 00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:37,240 Speaker 4: here was he's talking about things that are literally happening 352 00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:37,880 Speaker 4: that day. 353 00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:38,760 Speaker 3: Now. 354 00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:42,080 Speaker 4: I don't remember that experience ever in a joint session. 355 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:03,040 Speaker 4: In addition, talking about really dramatic change when you realize 356 00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:07,000 Speaker 4: that literally a month and a half ago our borders 357 00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:11,000 Speaker 4: were basically wide open. We now have in the South 358 00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:16,240 Speaker 4: the lowest rate of illegal immigration crossing the border since 359 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:20,240 Speaker 4: the nineteen sixties. I mean, the numbers have collapsed so decisively. 360 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:23,159 Speaker 4: I would never have predicted that it would happen this quickly, 361 00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:25,680 Speaker 4: but in fact, the word has gone out, don't try 362 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:27,399 Speaker 4: to come to America. They're not going to let you in, 363 00:21:27,840 --> 00:21:31,520 Speaker 4: and you're seeing the entire pipeline dry up of illegal immigration. 364 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:36,280 Speaker 4: He also took some very tough, very bold positions and 365 00:21:36,359 --> 00:21:39,520 Speaker 4: got very strong support from everybody except the zombie Democrats. 366 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:42,879 Speaker 4: When he said that we should punish cop killers with 367 00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:46,320 Speaker 4: the death penalty, there was overwhelming support in the room 368 00:21:46,359 --> 00:21:47,520 Speaker 4: outside of the Democrats. 369 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:49,200 Speaker 3: When he talked about. 370 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:52,040 Speaker 4: The notion that he's declared war on the brutal trend 371 00:21:52,520 --> 00:21:56,119 Speaker 4: Uragua gang, which is the Venezuelan gang, but also on 372 00:21:56,240 --> 00:22:01,719 Speaker 4: gangs from places like Ol Salvador imester and the cartels 373 00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:05,440 Speaker 4: in Mexico. These are big changes moving in the right direction. 374 00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:11,280 Speaker 4: He gave I think the longest, clearest explanation of his 375 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:14,720 Speaker 4: tariff policy. We've really not had a serious debate about 376 00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:18,199 Speaker 4: tariffs since early nineteen thirties, and yet for most of 377 00:22:18,280 --> 00:22:22,760 Speaker 4: American history, tariffs were very important, both in getting businesses 378 00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:27,359 Speaker 4: inside the US and in raising money. In Jefferson's second 379 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:30,199 Speaker 4: inaugural in eighteen oh five, he points out that there 380 00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:34,480 Speaker 4: are no internal revenue agents because we make so much 381 00:22:34,520 --> 00:22:38,320 Speaker 4: money out of the tariffs, and as late as McKinley, 382 00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:42,640 Speaker 4: the whole strategy is raise the cost to coming into 383 00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:46,120 Speaker 4: the US, encourage people to invest in building in the US. 384 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:50,280 Speaker 4: You'll have very very effective industries with very high salaries, 385 00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:54,119 Speaker 4: and that mostly worked. It's shocking nowadays because from the 386 00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:57,159 Speaker 4: mid nineteen thirties on, our elites taught us that you're 387 00:22:57,200 --> 00:22:59,320 Speaker 4: supposed to be for free trade, which by the way, 388 00:22:59,359 --> 00:23:02,240 Speaker 4: doesn't exist anywhere. As Trump pointed out, I mean if 389 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:05,240 Speaker 4: some countries to charge four hundred percent tariffs, if the 390 00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:09,120 Speaker 4: Americans are shipping things in, well, you've already seen even 391 00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:12,280 Speaker 4: in the first weeks the impact of his tariff policy, 392 00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:15,719 Speaker 4: because you had a major auto firm announced that instead 393 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:18,520 Speaker 4: of building their next factory in Mexico, they're now going 394 00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:21,639 Speaker 4: to build it in Indiana, and that's specifically because of 395 00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:25,000 Speaker 4: the tariff prophecy. So you really have a number of 396 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:28,280 Speaker 4: things going on. He made a very important step in 397 00:23:28,359 --> 00:23:29,680 Speaker 4: saying that they're going to have an office in the 398 00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:33,080 Speaker 4: White House dedicated to rebuilding American ship building. This is 399 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:36,719 Speaker 4: an enormous crisis. Both the Coast Guard and the Navy 400 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:41,280 Speaker 4: have been disasters at building ships. We are way behind 401 00:23:41,359 --> 00:23:44,840 Speaker 4: not just China but Korea, and we could not build 402 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:48,720 Speaker 4: ships today in an effective way in order to be 403 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:51,560 Speaker 4: able to defend the country. It's a really big problem, 404 00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:54,400 Speaker 4: and I'm delighted to see that they're taking it very seriously. 405 00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:57,000 Speaker 4: They're working to try to make sure that we get 406 00:23:57,040 --> 00:24:00,040 Speaker 4: back into being capable of producing first rate ships and 407 00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:02,560 Speaker 4: producing large numbers of them, which is what we're going 408 00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:06,919 Speaker 4: to need. All of that was good, solid stuff, and 409 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:09,560 Speaker 4: of course the Democrats sat in their hands, but what 410 00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:15,760 Speaker 4: was to me more intriguing was watching the President building 411 00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:21,080 Speaker 4: on something that Ronald Reagan had really perfected, identifying specific 412 00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:24,159 Speaker 4: people who were guests of he and Milennia sitting in 413 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:29,720 Speaker 4: the audience, and the Democrats couldn't respond. So he identifies 414 00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:33,879 Speaker 4: someone that he had helped free from Russia after Biden 415 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:37,040 Speaker 4: had failed for three and a half years, and he 416 00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:41,160 Speaker 4: has this ninety five year old mother there. Now, how 417 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:44,520 Speaker 4: can you not applaud a ninety five year old mother? 418 00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:45,399 Speaker 3: But they didn't. 419 00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:48,679 Speaker 4: He had a young man who wants to go and 420 00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:52,080 Speaker 4: serve his country by going to West Point, and it 421 00:24:52,119 --> 00:24:56,040 Speaker 4: had been a very striking moment announced that the young 422 00:24:56,080 --> 00:24:58,280 Speaker 4: man had now been accepted. The commander chief has a 423 00:24:58,280 --> 00:24:59,840 Speaker 4: pretty big impact if he wants somebody to go to 424 00:24:59,840 --> 00:25:03,040 Speaker 4: work point. The young guy, of course, was thrilled. There 425 00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:05,800 Speaker 4: was a great moment, a moment of patriotism, but the 426 00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:10,440 Speaker 4: Democrats just couldn't respond. There were specific examples of mothers 427 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:13,520 Speaker 4: of people who'd been killed by illegal immigrants. There was 428 00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:16,520 Speaker 4: the case of the firefighter who had been killed, who'd 429 00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:20,040 Speaker 4: thrown himself to cover his daughters and his wife during 430 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:23,440 Speaker 4: the shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, and had been killed. Each 431 00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:25,960 Speaker 4: of these and the daughters and the wife were there. 432 00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:29,760 Speaker 4: President Trump recognized them. You'd think that'd be pretty emotional, 433 00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:32,760 Speaker 4: and the Democrats sat on their hands. But the one 434 00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:36,760 Speaker 4: that really struck me was there was a young boy 435 00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:43,760 Speaker 4: thirteen years a cancer survivor, very courageous, whose thing which 436 00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:47,280 Speaker 4: has really given him energy and hope and the desire 437 00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:50,760 Speaker 4: to beat cancer was he really wants to become a policeman, 438 00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:54,720 Speaker 4: and apparently has had over five hundred departments that have 439 00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:58,879 Speaker 4: made him an honorary policeman. Well, there, right in front 440 00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:03,960 Speaker 4: of everybody, President Trump announced, and the head of the 441 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:07,280 Speaker 4: Secret Service was right there that he was now going 442 00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:10,280 Speaker 4: to be a special agent in the Secret Service at 443 00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:11,359 Speaker 4: thirteen years of age. 444 00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:13,400 Speaker 3: If you look at the picture. 445 00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:15,520 Speaker 4: Of that boy's face, you look at his eyes, and 446 00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:18,800 Speaker 4: you look at how excited he is. How could you 447 00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:21,199 Speaker 4: not stand up in the PLoud When I saw it 448 00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:23,680 Speaker 4: later on television night, you really see his eyes light 449 00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:28,159 Speaker 4: up and he's so excited. If you can't applaud a 450 00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:30,760 Speaker 4: ninety five year old mother and a thirteen year old 451 00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:34,800 Speaker 4: cancer survivor, there's something really profoundly wrong. 452 00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:36,840 Speaker 3: And I think that was a part of it. 453 00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:41,480 Speaker 4: So you have the current events, this is what we're 454 00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:45,520 Speaker 4: doing now section, you have the human this is how 455 00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:49,359 Speaker 4: we're trying to recognize and encourage people. And then you 456 00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:51,560 Speaker 4: have a closing, which is relatively short but I think 457 00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:54,760 Speaker 4: very important, where Trump goes back to talking about a 458 00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:58,359 Speaker 4: golden age for America, that we have not really seen 459 00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:01,399 Speaker 4: anything yet. There are best years ahead of us that 460 00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:04,679 Speaker 4: we can have through technological advance. Now we can have 461 00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:08,800 Speaker 4: a better economy, better national security, higher incomes, a. 462 00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:09,920 Speaker 3: Better quality of life. 463 00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:14,480 Speaker 4: And he's really painting a remarkably positive picture, which I 464 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:17,040 Speaker 4: happen to believe it of the kind of future that 465 00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:21,080 Speaker 4: is possible with the right policies because of everything that's happening. 466 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:26,600 Speaker 4: Even then, the Democrats couldn't be positive. So you had 467 00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:29,120 Speaker 4: this very interesting dichotomy, and this is why I think 468 00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:32,440 Speaker 4: this is such a consequential speech. On the one hand, 469 00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:37,560 Speaker 4: you have President Trump outlining what he is doing, outlining 470 00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:42,040 Speaker 4: how much he cares about people, and outlining a dramatically better, 471 00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:47,000 Speaker 4: more exciting, more positive future. On the other hand, you 472 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:52,480 Speaker 4: have a Democratic party which can't function. They don't know 473 00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:54,720 Speaker 4: how to oppose him, they don't know how to work 474 00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:57,280 Speaker 4: with him, and in a sense, they really are zombies. 475 00:27:57,320 --> 00:28:00,560 Speaker 4: I mean they're sitting there afraid to break ever to 476 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:03,359 Speaker 4: I'd see one, I'm applaud and then stop and realize 477 00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:06,040 Speaker 4: that they weren't supposed to be doing that, which is crazy. 478 00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:11,119 Speaker 4: The United States does not want to see a party 479 00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:14,520 Speaker 4: which is totally negative, totally out of touch. This is 480 00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:18,679 Speaker 4: what happened with the Republicans under President Franklin Donna Roosevelt. 481 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:22,359 Speaker 4: As Roosevelt rolled out the New Deal, the Republicans became 482 00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:25,879 Speaker 4: negative and bitter and hostile, and they didn't really recover 483 00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:29,800 Speaker 4: from that for a generation. And I think that there's 484 00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:32,880 Speaker 4: a real danger here that the Democrats could suddenly walk 485 00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:36,440 Speaker 4: themselves into sort of a back alley where they can't 486 00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:38,840 Speaker 4: get out. People are not going to want to vote 487 00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:43,600 Speaker 4: for somebody who is always negative, always hostile, who cannot 488 00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:48,080 Speaker 4: share your values, and who has to consistently be with 489 00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:52,760 Speaker 4: the most radical, the largest number of strange people who 490 00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:55,400 Speaker 4: don't fit the rest of the country. And yet that's 491 00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:58,200 Speaker 4: what you're seeing begin to develop. It was a very 492 00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:04,000 Speaker 4: very interesting speech in a fascinating evening, and I think 493 00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:07,560 Speaker 4: the early appolling results seventy six percent of the people 494 00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:11,120 Speaker 4: who watched the speech were totally supportive. The people who 495 00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:13,800 Speaker 4: watched the speech tended to be pro Trump, So in 496 00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:16,440 Speaker 4: that sense, it is a little bit of a skewed number, 497 00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:19,719 Speaker 4: but that's always true whoever is president, whether it's Biden 498 00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:22,480 Speaker 4: and the Democrats or Trump and the Republicans, or Obama 499 00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:25,240 Speaker 4: and the Democrats, you tend to get your own partisans 500 00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:29,760 Speaker 4: to watch more than independence and certainly the opposition party. Nonetheless, 501 00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:33,360 Speaker 4: I don't remember ever seeing a seventy six percent approval 502 00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:36,400 Speaker 4: number for a speech like this, so I think from 503 00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:40,520 Speaker 4: President Trump's standpoint, the speech was extraordinarily well received. It 504 00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:43,200 Speaker 4: laid down a marker of what he wants to accomplish. 505 00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:45,800 Speaker 4: It outlined a set of values he's willing to fight 506 00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:50,760 Speaker 4: for and projected a dramatically better future that should affect 507 00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:53,920 Speaker 4: every American and offer them a better future. So I 508 00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:56,560 Speaker 4: thought it was a remarkable evening Cluston. I just had 509 00:29:56,600 --> 00:29:59,920 Speaker 4: a wonderful time Speaker Johnson's team was very good to us. 510 00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:03,880 Speaker 4: Having once been Speaker and Klister had spent eighteen years 511 00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:05,800 Speaker 4: working on the Hill, it was kind of nice to 512 00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:08,080 Speaker 4: be back in places we've been a lot, and to 513 00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:10,400 Speaker 4: see what was going on. I really if you have 514 00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:13,320 Speaker 4: not looked at the speech, I encourage you either to 515 00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:15,600 Speaker 4: look at a rerun of it on video or to 516 00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:19,040 Speaker 4: read the transcript, although you'll get a much stronger feeling 517 00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:23,320 Speaker 4: if you watch it on video and realize how strange 518 00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:28,040 Speaker 4: the dichotomy was of the Republicans consistently being positive and 519 00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:30,800 Speaker 4: the Democrats sitting on their hands. One final note, and 520 00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:32,959 Speaker 4: I don't know how much this was organized or if 521 00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:36,040 Speaker 4: it was just spontaneous, but early on, when the Democrats 522 00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:39,320 Speaker 4: would start to make noises, the Republicans would just break into. 523 00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:42,080 Speaker 3: USA, USA, USA. 524 00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:44,520 Speaker 4: I know from research we did is always nineteen eighty 525 00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:50,640 Speaker 4: three that the most powerful political words in America are 526 00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:54,760 Speaker 4: American nationalism. People are proud to be American, They're proud 527 00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:58,200 Speaker 4: of the country. And USA is a pretty darn powerful statement. 528 00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:02,120 Speaker 4: And the fact that the Democrats had no countervailing chant, 529 00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:05,400 Speaker 4: but at the same time really couldn't break into saying 530 00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:09,480 Speaker 4: USA USA was fascinating. There was also a moment very 531 00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:12,920 Speaker 4: late in the speech where the Republicans suddenly broke into 532 00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:16,959 Speaker 4: fight fight fight, picking up exactly on what Trump had 533 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:19,560 Speaker 4: said after he was shot at Butler. Those were moments 534 00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:23,000 Speaker 4: where if you were in the room, they were galvanizing, 535 00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:25,920 Speaker 4: and you know, you'll never quite forget them. And I 536 00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:28,440 Speaker 4: think that it was a remarkable speech. I think it 537 00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:32,400 Speaker 4: moved the Trump agenda significantly, and I think has strengthened 538 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:35,600 Speaker 4: dramatically both his base of support in the country at 539 00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:38,560 Speaker 4: large and his base of support in the Republican Party. 540 00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:41,280 Speaker 4: And it left the Democrats, I think, in a pretty 541 00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:44,920 Speaker 4: deep hole. And if they end up truly becoming zombie Democrats, 542 00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:47,840 Speaker 4: I think they could, like the Republicans in the nineteen thirties, 543 00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:51,640 Speaker 4: find themselves really non competitive for a very long time. 544 00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:59,360 Speaker 4: Neutch World is produced by English three sixty and iHeartMedia. 545 00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:04,240 Speaker 4: Executive producer is Guardnsey Sloan. 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