1 00:00:01,520 --> 00:00:06,160 Speaker 1: It is one fifty in the morning. I have just 2 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:11,559 Speaker 1: left the Capital and there is a one am vote 3 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:15,720 Speaker 1: that is happening right now because of Democrats who forced 4 00:00:16,440 --> 00:00:20,880 Speaker 1: one am vote to protest Donald Trump and Elon Musk 5 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:24,400 Speaker 1: and the agenda. This isn't a joke. I put the 6 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:27,840 Speaker 1: video up on social media so you can see it 7 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:30,000 Speaker 1: and welcome. By the way, it is nice to have 8 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:32,600 Speaker 1: you on the Ben Ferguson Podcasts. I can't believe I'm 9 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:36,839 Speaker 1: doing the show right now one fifty one am. I 10 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:39,720 Speaker 1: am going to be joined with Senator Ted Cruz as 11 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:42,440 Speaker 1: we are doing this special pod on an insane night 12 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:45,040 Speaker 1: in Washington. We're also going to talk about the lads 13 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:50,800 Speaker 1: with tariffs as well, and Mexico stealing water from America 14 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:55,280 Speaker 1: that is shutting down farmers, all of that. As again, 15 00:00:55,440 --> 00:00:58,360 Speaker 1: it's one fifty one in the morning, and this is 16 00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:03,800 Speaker 1: while dysfunctional Washington actually is. Here is Senator Cruise and 17 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:06,720 Speaker 1: I chatting about the big news and he's spent over 18 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:09,920 Speaker 1: two hours in the Oval with the President on tariffs, 19 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:12,840 Speaker 1: all of that for you right now. You spent some 20 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:15,520 Speaker 1: time with the President today in the Oval office. Even 21 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:18,960 Speaker 1: got a nice little challenge coin as well. So I did. 22 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:21,440 Speaker 2: I spent about two hours in the Oval with President 23 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:25,840 Speaker 2: Trump today and today was a very significant day. So 24 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:33,160 Speaker 2: let's start. Yesterday was a phenomenal day. Yesterday, President Trump 25 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:37,199 Speaker 2: paused the tariffs that he announced last week on April second, 26 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:41,200 Speaker 2: and at the same time, he jacked up the tariffs 27 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:47,720 Speaker 2: on China. The combination of those activities produced the greatest 28 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:52,240 Speaker 2: single day increase in the stock market in the history 29 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:56,240 Speaker 2: of the United States of America. Now, this week, I've 30 00:01:56,240 --> 00:01:58,360 Speaker 2: spent a lot of time talking to President Trump. We're 31 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:00,560 Speaker 2: gonna break that down. We're gonna talk about the that 32 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:04,320 Speaker 2: We're going to talk about the backstory of why the 33 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:07,840 Speaker 2: President did that and what to expect next. We're also 34 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:10,960 Speaker 2: going to talk about something the President did this evening. 35 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:15,239 Speaker 2: You and I are talking. It is right now twelve 36 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:18,160 Speaker 2: twenty five am, Thursday night. 37 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:20,840 Speaker 1: And we're in the same place. This usually doesn't happen. 38 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:22,760 Speaker 1: We're in the same time zone right now. 39 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:25,160 Speaker 2: We're both in DC. Why are we in DC because 40 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:28,640 Speaker 2: in a half hour I'm going to be on the 41 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:32,240 Speaker 2: Senate floor. We have votes starting at one am. So 42 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:36,240 Speaker 2: the Democrats are so angry, they hate Trump so much 43 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:39,519 Speaker 2: that they are blocking the nomination for the Chairman of 44 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:42,920 Speaker 2: the Joint Chiefs of Staff. And so look, I'm gonna 45 00:02:42,919 --> 00:02:45,880 Speaker 2: commend Republicans of the Senate. We're saying, all right, screw you, 46 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:51,880 Speaker 2: because they are objecting they could delay the vote until tomorrow. 47 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:53,880 Speaker 2: Tomorrow's now today because it's past midnight. 48 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:54,200 Speaker 3: Yep. 49 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:56,600 Speaker 2: So we're like, fine, we'll do it. Hang out tomorrow. 50 00:02:56,639 --> 00:03:00,400 Speaker 2: So hour, let's go. By the way, if the Democrats agreed, 51 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:03,200 Speaker 2: we could have left at like six pm on Thursday. 52 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:06,799 Speaker 2: But no, they're gonna drag all one hundred senators to 53 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:09,480 Speaker 2: the floor at one in the morning. By the way, 54 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:12,040 Speaker 2: we've got senators in their eighties, we've got senators in 55 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:12,920 Speaker 2: their nineties. 56 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:15,639 Speaker 1: I do not envy the guy who has that job 57 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:17,720 Speaker 1: to wake up the center because you know they're asleep. 58 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:20,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, look that this is where it helps being in 59 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:23,360 Speaker 2: night owl. To be honest, I'm much happier doing a 60 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:25,760 Speaker 2: one am vote than if they did a six am vote. 61 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:28,560 Speaker 2: I'd be really pissed because because I, as you. 62 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:31,959 Speaker 1: Know, believe you, I've seen you in the morning. 63 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:33,880 Speaker 2: But by the way, I will say this, so so 64 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:38,200 Speaker 2: you and I record the pod. We record it often 65 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:41,640 Speaker 2: ten pm or eleven pm. 66 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:44,400 Speaker 1: Let's keep going on. There we go. Now we're getting 67 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:45,080 Speaker 1: into reality. 68 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:47,480 Speaker 2: That's much more so the pod two days ago. We 69 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:52,520 Speaker 2: finished at two thirty in the morning. Yes, and I 70 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:55,640 Speaker 2: will say, I'm glad you used to do a morning 71 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:57,560 Speaker 2: radio show. What time do your morning radio. 72 00:03:57,440 --> 00:03:59,120 Speaker 1: Show seven am has? When it started, I had to 73 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:01,880 Speaker 1: be up in like up and adam, Thank the Lord, 74 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:02,400 Speaker 1: I don't. 75 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:04,400 Speaker 2: Do what you had to be awake. 76 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:06,920 Speaker 1: I had to know what was going on, like I 77 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:08,240 Speaker 1: mean it would be educated. 78 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:10,800 Speaker 2: You had to presumably say something like charming and funny 79 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:13,760 Speaker 2: and if someone's going to listen to you for two hours. 80 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:15,480 Speaker 2: And I got to say when I was keeping up 81 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:16,960 Speaker 2: till two and three in the morning and you were 82 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:21,800 Speaker 2: getting up at six six thirty, I actually felt an 83 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:24,240 Speaker 2: enormous degree of guilt. I'm like, I'm killing Ben. 84 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:26,120 Speaker 1: Yes, you were, you were on your way. It was 85 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:27,159 Speaker 1: the easiest way to get rid of me. 86 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:29,800 Speaker 2: I don't want to kill you, Ben, I appreciate it. 87 00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:31,919 Speaker 2: I want to give you a grief and abuse you, 88 00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:34,240 Speaker 2: but I don't want you dead. I just just just 89 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:37,279 Speaker 2: want you being roudly made fun of. 90 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:40,560 Speaker 1: And there's a reason why they took me off that 91 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:41,320 Speaker 1: show one day. 92 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:45,880 Speaker 2: There's a reason, and and your boss in the Iheartworld, Julie. 93 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:48,839 Speaker 2: She said, all right, Ben, I'm sparing you from the 94 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:53,039 Speaker 2: morning show because we've decided that a dead Ben would 95 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:53,680 Speaker 2: be a bad thing. 96 00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:56,800 Speaker 1: That is how I know what my life is valued 97 00:04:56,839 --> 00:04:57,279 Speaker 1: on this earth. 98 00:04:57,360 --> 00:05:01,560 Speaker 2: Right now, there you go, So and night. Also, Donald 99 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:05,560 Speaker 2: Trump leaned in and engaged on an issue that may 100 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:08,680 Speaker 2: sound esoteric, but it's actually a big deal, which is 101 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:15,680 Speaker 2: Mexican water. Mexico has been stealing massive amounts of water 102 00:05:15,760 --> 00:05:17,680 Speaker 2: from Texas. This is an issue I've been leading the 103 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:20,640 Speaker 2: fight on a very long time, and it's had an 104 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:26,080 Speaker 2: enormously harmful impact on Texas farmers. I've been leading the 105 00:05:26,080 --> 00:05:30,040 Speaker 2: fight against it, and tonight the President, at my behest, 106 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:36,040 Speaker 2: leaned in vigorously and said, Mexico, you will provide the 107 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:39,719 Speaker 2: water that you have committed by treaty to provide, or 108 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:43,640 Speaker 2: else they're going to be very serious penalties, tariffs, and sanctions. 109 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:46,160 Speaker 2: It's a big deal. And I will use those two 110 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:49,120 Speaker 2: words he did. As you and I are sitting here 111 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:52,640 Speaker 2: at twelve twenty five am. The Mexican government is freaking out, 112 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:54,360 Speaker 2: and you know what's going to happen. They're going to 113 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:57,560 Speaker 2: provide the farmers of South Texas the water. I'm going 114 00:05:57,640 --> 00:05:59,800 Speaker 2: to walk you through the backstory of that. It is 115 00:05:59,839 --> 00:06:04,200 Speaker 2: a fascinating in terms of how international diplomacy has played 116 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:07,880 Speaker 2: out and the advantage of a strong president who actually 117 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:12,000 Speaker 2: fights for America versus the incredibly weak and an effective 118 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:13,720 Speaker 2: president we had for the last four years. 119 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:16,880 Speaker 1: Yeah. Good, it's a really cool story. We'll talk about that. Plus, 120 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:20,120 Speaker 1: just like what happens in the Oval, the trinkets, the 121 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:22,359 Speaker 1: trinkets are impressive. We'll tell you about that in the moment. 122 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:24,840 Speaker 1: Let me tell you about Patriot Mobile real quick. 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Yes, and the swag that you 160 00:08:31,680 --> 00:08:36,400 Speaker 1: leave with is just the most incredible level of swag. 161 00:08:36,559 --> 00:08:38,560 Speaker 1: And he pays for it out of his own pocket. 162 00:08:38,720 --> 00:08:39,080 Speaker 2: He does. 163 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:41,600 Speaker 1: It's not the taxpayers. So when I went in the 164 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:44,040 Speaker 1: first time, it was in the last and forty five 165 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:46,880 Speaker 1: in those years, and they asked if I would come 166 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:49,480 Speaker 1: up for Stay the Union and prep and that, and 167 00:08:49,520 --> 00:08:51,520 Speaker 1: I was there the day to Stay the Union. And 168 00:08:51,520 --> 00:08:53,199 Speaker 1: at the end he's like Ferguson, He's like, I know, 169 00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:55,280 Speaker 1: you got three boys at home, what do you need? 170 00:08:55,720 --> 00:08:57,920 Speaker 1: And I'm like, miss President whatever, you know, if you'd sign, 171 00:08:58,040 --> 00:08:59,439 Speaker 1: He's in, no, no, come over here, and he walks you 172 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:01,280 Speaker 1: around the corner into the room. He has this like 173 00:09:01,480 --> 00:09:04,839 Speaker 1: full swag room and he's like three different hats with 174 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:06,440 Speaker 1: boys signs him. He's like, now one of your son 175 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:08,920 Speaker 1: plays golf. He signs a pro V one ball from 176 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:10,760 Speaker 1: then he gives me another sleeve. Then he gives me 177 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:13,560 Speaker 1: a golf towel, and then he's like, and you're laughing 178 00:09:13,559 --> 00:09:15,320 Speaker 1: because you're in the oval office, and you're like, I'm 179 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:17,800 Speaker 1: going to walk out of here with all this stuff. 180 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:19,319 Speaker 2: To be fair, you're not in the oval. 181 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:20,960 Speaker 1: Well, no, you're outside of it, but you walk back in. 182 00:09:21,040 --> 00:09:23,000 Speaker 1: You're like holding all this stuff in the olden you're. 183 00:09:22,920 --> 00:09:24,520 Speaker 2: In the little office next to. 184 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:26,680 Speaker 1: The open yes, where the swag room is. 185 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:31,200 Speaker 2: And what happened in that little room, which. 186 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:32,880 Speaker 1: Is one of his favorite stories. He's like, you you 187 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:34,720 Speaker 1: know where you are right now? Twenty five years Yeah, 188 00:09:34,720 --> 00:09:35,920 Speaker 1: He's like, you know where you are right now? And 189 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:36,880 Speaker 1: I'm like, where am I right? 190 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:40,440 Speaker 2: This is where Monica Lewinsky. 191 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:44,560 Speaker 1: Did not have sex with that man? 192 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:53,160 Speaker 2: But but but shall we say? I don't know, I can't. 193 00:09:53,520 --> 00:09:55,560 Speaker 1: Problem is I think I did it perfectly there. 194 00:09:56,040 --> 00:09:58,080 Speaker 2: I'm trying to find a way to say this. 195 00:09:58,280 --> 00:10:01,439 Speaker 1: Yeah, and this is he did not have sexual or 196 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:04,640 Speaker 1: regulations with that woman quote unquote, but may have. 197 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:07,800 Speaker 2: But it's also where the blue dress got sullied. 198 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:09,920 Speaker 1: There you go, that's a great way of putting it. 199 00:10:09,920 --> 00:10:12,319 Speaker 2: And it would be in that room and you kind 200 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:14,080 Speaker 2: of look around and it's sort of little and it's 201 00:10:14,120 --> 00:10:18,680 Speaker 2: now filled with if you can imagine the. 202 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:21,800 Speaker 1: Uh make America great again hats, the forty forty five 203 00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:24,880 Speaker 1: dash forty seven. I mean it's it's it's legit. 204 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:27,400 Speaker 2: And he has all these shells full of swag and 205 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:29,400 Speaker 2: he like says, hey, what do you want? Take whatever 206 00:10:29,440 --> 00:10:29,720 Speaker 2: you want. 207 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:31,480 Speaker 1: And by the way, there's nothing in there that you 208 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:33,880 Speaker 1: can buy, so I it's either from there or you 209 00:10:33,920 --> 00:10:35,120 Speaker 1: don't like it's not it. 210 00:10:35,160 --> 00:10:37,000 Speaker 2: And he just does that and he pays for it 211 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:39,160 Speaker 2: all like he's out of his like he's paying for 212 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:41,240 Speaker 2: it himself. But he's like, what do you want? You want? 213 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:44,160 Speaker 2: Like they had gigantic maga hats that are like twice 214 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:46,359 Speaker 2: the size of the normal head. 215 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:48,440 Speaker 1: The one that Elon Musk wore that kind of made 216 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:50,200 Speaker 1: it famous. A lot of people remember he put it on. 217 00:10:50,280 --> 00:10:52,400 Speaker 2: He was like, so he actually pointed that out, and 218 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:53,560 Speaker 2: so that's the one Elona wears. 219 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:54,120 Speaker 1: Yeah. 220 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:57,440 Speaker 2: So, and it's got all this stuff. He's got it's 221 00:10:57,559 --> 00:10:58,200 Speaker 2: cool stuff. 222 00:10:58,280 --> 00:11:00,680 Speaker 1: So and by the way, the vip geah is what 223 00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:03,520 Speaker 1: I was told, which I think we can confirm is true. 224 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:07,520 Speaker 1: Is the cup links. So he looked at me, He's like, Ferguson, 225 00:11:07,720 --> 00:11:10,520 Speaker 1: you need this, can't buy these anywhere, and he hands 226 00:11:10,520 --> 00:11:13,320 Speaker 1: them to me. It was it's presidential cuplings. They're amazing. 227 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:15,760 Speaker 1: I still have in this day. You've got a pair now. 228 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:18,360 Speaker 2: As well, so I do. And I've had a couple 229 00:11:18,440 --> 00:11:21,240 Speaker 2: of presidential cuflings in the past. Yeah, but these are 230 00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:24,160 Speaker 2: the coolest that. These are really damn cool. And I 231 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:28,000 Speaker 2: will say his challenge coins. So in the military and 232 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:30,840 Speaker 2: in law enforcement, people carry challenge coins, and they're typically 233 00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:33,120 Speaker 2: about the size of a silver dollar. And so if 234 00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:34,840 Speaker 2: you come to my office, you've been to my office. 235 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:38,760 Speaker 2: I have one entire display of military challenge coins and 236 00:11:38,800 --> 00:11:40,440 Speaker 2: I probably got I don't know, two hundred of them. 237 00:11:40,480 --> 00:11:41,199 Speaker 1: That is, I've. 238 00:11:41,040 --> 00:11:41,880 Speaker 2: Traveled the world. 239 00:11:42,559 --> 00:11:43,920 Speaker 1: They give them to you, they get awesome. 240 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:48,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, and then I have another display of law enforcement 241 00:11:48,280 --> 00:11:52,920 Speaker 2: challenge coins, so police officers, law enforcement. And so the 242 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:55,440 Speaker 2: two are ones behind my desk. The military is behind 243 00:11:55,440 --> 00:11:57,400 Speaker 2: my desk, and the other is on the other end 244 00:11:57,440 --> 00:12:00,480 Speaker 2: of my office, like kind of across my desk. So 245 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:04,040 Speaker 2: they're normally about the size of a silver dollar. Trump 246 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:07,960 Speaker 2: this evening gave me two challenge coins, and his challenge 247 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:10,640 Speaker 2: coins are literally three hundred percent the size of it. 248 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:13,120 Speaker 1: Oh, it is like the size of the tariff you 249 00:12:13,160 --> 00:12:14,079 Speaker 1: put on Chinese gun. 250 00:12:14,760 --> 00:12:15,800 Speaker 2: It's the size of a pancy. 251 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:17,959 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a it's a coast. 252 00:12:18,080 --> 00:12:21,280 Speaker 2: It's a coaster that's exactly like And he has one 253 00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:23,839 Speaker 2: that's sort of gold and fancy, and then he's another 254 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:26,480 Speaker 2: that is gun medal, and he said, actually, these are 255 00:12:26,520 --> 00:12:29,599 Speaker 2: more popular because it's like military gun medal and it 256 00:12:30,280 --> 00:12:32,040 Speaker 2: President of the United States and a really cool coin. 257 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:34,120 Speaker 1: I love it. That's the fun part about it. And 258 00:12:34,160 --> 00:12:35,800 Speaker 1: you were there, by the way for something that was 259 00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:37,800 Speaker 1: not making big headlines, but it deals with crypto and 260 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:40,040 Speaker 1: we're going to talk about this in another pot. Yeah. 261 00:12:40,120 --> 00:12:42,440 Speaker 2: No, that's exactly right. I was there for a bill signing, 262 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:47,480 Speaker 2: so legislation that I introduced to repeal an incredibly abusive 263 00:12:47,559 --> 00:12:51,640 Speaker 2: regulation from the Biden administration that harmed the crypto industry, 264 00:12:51,679 --> 00:12:54,880 Speaker 2: and I got it passed through Congress. The President signed 265 00:12:54,880 --> 00:12:56,199 Speaker 2: it into law. And so I've been there for a 266 00:12:56,280 --> 00:12:58,679 Speaker 2: number of bill signings of legislation I passed. But it's 267 00:12:58,679 --> 00:13:01,920 Speaker 2: always cool because you're pass legislation, the President signed it 268 00:13:01,920 --> 00:13:02,880 Speaker 2: and suddenly becomes law. 269 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:04,720 Speaker 1: Did you get to keep the pen he loves giving 270 00:13:04,760 --> 00:13:05,520 Speaker 1: away the sharpie. 271 00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:09,000 Speaker 2: Yes, And it's not a sharpie. It is much like 272 00:13:09,040 --> 00:13:09,920 Speaker 2: the challenge coin. 273 00:13:10,160 --> 00:13:10,679 Speaker 1: It's huge. 274 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:14,120 Speaker 2: It is huge. It is probably three hundred percent the 275 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:14,920 Speaker 2: size of a shark. 276 00:13:15,040 --> 00:13:18,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like oversized. So when he signed my boys hats, 277 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:20,640 Speaker 1: he goes, here's the pin. Take the pen home, and 278 00:13:20,679 --> 00:13:22,480 Speaker 1: I still have the pen at my desk. It's like 279 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:25,160 Speaker 1: it's got the and it's got the Trump gold signature 280 00:13:25,160 --> 00:13:26,280 Speaker 1: on the side. Yeah. 281 00:13:26,520 --> 00:13:29,080 Speaker 2: So so I'll end up in my office framing that 282 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:32,559 Speaker 2: signing pen because it's legislation that I passed. That's really significant. 283 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:34,560 Speaker 2: And in my office, I have a bunch of different 284 00:13:34,559 --> 00:13:37,160 Speaker 2: pieces of legislation signed and a number of them are signed, 285 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:40,080 Speaker 2: are are framed with the signing pin. So I was 286 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:44,079 Speaker 2: there for that. But look a couple of things. One, 287 00:13:44,120 --> 00:13:46,720 Speaker 2: we talked a lot about tariffs, and let's rewind two 288 00:13:46,760 --> 00:13:50,080 Speaker 2: days ago. Yep, so we have talked in this last week. 289 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:54,000 Speaker 2: We've had two podcasts entirely devoted to the Trump tariffs. 290 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:56,920 Speaker 2: We had one our Friday podcast right after the tariffs 291 00:13:56,920 --> 00:13:59,480 Speaker 2: came out, one hundred percent of the podcast was on 292 00:13:59,480 --> 00:14:03,200 Speaker 2: the tariffs, and than our Monday podcast, we talked about 293 00:14:03,880 --> 00:14:07,200 Speaker 2: two competing camps in the Trump administration. We talked about 294 00:14:07,760 --> 00:14:11,760 Speaker 2: angels and devils that were on President Trump's soldiers shoulders. 295 00:14:12,559 --> 00:14:17,280 Speaker 2: The angels were urging the President use the leverage of 296 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:21,200 Speaker 2: the tariffs you've announced to fight for lower tariffs across 297 00:14:21,240 --> 00:14:25,040 Speaker 2: the world to expand market access for America. I emphatically 298 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:28,400 Speaker 2: agree with that side. The devils and there are voices 299 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:32,480 Speaker 2: in the administration they want to see massive tariffs in 300 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:35,560 Speaker 2: perpetuity from America and every other country. I think that's 301 00:14:35,560 --> 00:14:38,040 Speaker 2: a terrible outcome. So we did Monday's podcast. We did 302 00:14:38,040 --> 00:14:40,760 Speaker 2: a deep dive on that. So I will tell you 303 00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:45,640 Speaker 2: and I are sitting here Thursday night. Tuesday night, I 304 00:14:45,800 --> 00:14:49,200 Speaker 2: spent an hour on the phone with President Trump and 305 00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:52,040 Speaker 2: I had several other senators there and we were urging him. 306 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:55,960 Speaker 2: What I was saying is, listen, the market is in 307 00:14:56,120 --> 00:15:01,120 Speaker 2: free fall. That's dangerous. People are freaking out. Sure, And 308 00:15:01,280 --> 00:15:03,640 Speaker 2: my advice to him, and I said, I did Hannity 309 00:15:03,680 --> 00:15:05,720 Speaker 2: Tuesday night, and so I said this on Hannity. So 310 00:15:05,760 --> 00:15:08,360 Speaker 2: this is not secret advice. I said it on Fox 311 00:15:08,400 --> 00:15:10,840 Speaker 2: News to the whole country. I said. My advice is 312 00:15:10,960 --> 00:15:14,680 Speaker 2: cut a deal now, pick one or two countries. Cut 313 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:16,880 Speaker 2: a deal now. I don't care what countries they are 314 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:20,640 Speaker 2: pick one, pick two and cut a deal where they 315 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:24,160 Speaker 2: slash their tariffs massively and we slash our terraffs massively. 316 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:27,120 Speaker 2: I said, I think that will calm the market down enormously. 317 00:15:27,160 --> 00:15:30,360 Speaker 2: That will assuage people that we are headed to a 318 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:33,240 Speaker 2: world which with much lower tariffs, which, by the way, 319 00:15:33,240 --> 00:15:37,480 Speaker 2: as I told him, if thirty days, sixty days, ninety 320 00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:40,720 Speaker 2: days from now, we have a world where every country 321 00:15:40,720 --> 00:15:44,400 Speaker 2: on Earth has massively lower tariffs and American farmers and 322 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:47,360 Speaker 2: ranchers and small businesses and manufacturers are able to export 323 00:15:47,360 --> 00:15:51,080 Speaker 2: all over the world, that will be an historic win, 324 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:55,320 Speaker 2: like an unprecedented win for American workers and American jobs. 325 00:15:56,120 --> 00:15:59,440 Speaker 2: So that's what I'm urging him. We spent an hour 326 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:02,680 Speaker 2: on the phone, and I got to say, look, President Trump, 327 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:04,880 Speaker 2: sometimes when you're urging him to do something, he can 328 00:16:04,920 --> 00:16:06,880 Speaker 2: push back. And in that call, he was kind of 329 00:16:07,160 --> 00:16:10,400 Speaker 2: pushing back and popping back, and he's saying, look, these 330 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:13,200 Speaker 2: tariffs are great, We're raising a ton of money. What's 331 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:19,000 Speaker 2: the problem. Spend an hour. But then on Wednesday, the 332 00:16:19,040 --> 00:16:23,160 Speaker 2: President put out an announcement at lunchtime, and his announcement 333 00:16:23,280 --> 00:16:27,600 Speaker 2: was twofold number one. He said he was pausing all 334 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:30,520 Speaker 2: of the reciprocal tariffs he had announced on April second, 335 00:16:30,680 --> 00:16:32,320 Speaker 2: for ninety days, for ninety. 336 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:35,000 Speaker 1: Days, which is enough time to get deals done. 337 00:16:35,080 --> 00:16:37,880 Speaker 2: And number two, he said he was jacking up the 338 00:16:37,880 --> 00:16:41,040 Speaker 2: tariffs on China even more. He said to one hundred 339 00:16:41,040 --> 00:16:43,560 Speaker 2: and twenty five thousand others, it's actually one hundred and 340 00:16:43,600 --> 00:16:46,280 Speaker 2: twenty five percent, But it's actually one hundred and forty 341 00:16:46,280 --> 00:16:49,760 Speaker 2: five percent because there's an additional twenty percent that he 342 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:52,600 Speaker 2: had announced as a penalty for their role in fentanyl 343 00:16:52,640 --> 00:16:53,760 Speaker 2: smuggling into this country. 344 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:54,080 Speaker 1: Yep. 345 00:16:54,280 --> 00:16:56,600 Speaker 2: So the total tariffs against China are one hundred and 346 00:16:56,640 --> 00:16:59,280 Speaker 2: forty five percent now he announced it. I'll tell you. 347 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:02,120 Speaker 2: On Wednesday, I was in the Senate Republican lunch. All 348 00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:05,560 Speaker 2: the Senate Senate Republican senators we have lunch together every Tuesday, 349 00:17:05,600 --> 00:17:08,760 Speaker 2: Wednesday and Thursday. The middle of the lunch, Rick Scott, 350 00:17:08,760 --> 00:17:11,719 Speaker 2: who hosts the Wednesday lunch, Rick Scott looked at his 351 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:15,000 Speaker 2: phone and announced, Hey, the President's just paused all the 352 00:17:15,080 --> 00:17:21,359 Speaker 2: teriffts and increased the tariffs on China. There wasn't exactly 353 00:17:21,440 --> 00:17:24,359 Speaker 2: a round of applause, but close, pretty damn close. 354 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:27,159 Speaker 1: There was literally there was a relief, and yes. 355 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:32,840 Speaker 2: A palpable sense of relief. And what is striking is 356 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:38,919 Speaker 2: the market within minutes exploded and stocks sored up. So 357 00:17:39,040 --> 00:17:42,200 Speaker 2: tonight when I was in the Oval, I said, miss President, 358 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:47,320 Speaker 2: as a result of your decision yesterday, you produced the 359 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:51,640 Speaker 2: single largest increase in the stock market in one day 360 00:17:51,760 --> 00:17:53,920 Speaker 2: in the history of the United States of America. 361 00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:55,160 Speaker 1: That's a good day. 362 00:17:55,359 --> 00:17:58,359 Speaker 2: That is a massive day. And so I will say 363 00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:01,080 Speaker 2: the pause is import and I hope over these next 364 00:18:01,119 --> 00:18:04,280 Speaker 2: niney days, I hope what we see is, as we 365 00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:08,720 Speaker 2: talked about on Monday's pod, they're two paths, massively reducing 366 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:13,280 Speaker 2: tariffs for everyone or keeping tariff's in perpetuity. Over the 367 00:18:13,320 --> 00:18:16,959 Speaker 2: next ninety days, I hope we see announcement after announcement 368 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:20,080 Speaker 2: after announcement of our trading partners, all of whom would 369 00:18:20,080 --> 00:18:22,720 Speaker 2: come running to President Trump saying we want to cut 370 00:18:22,760 --> 00:18:25,440 Speaker 2: a deal. And to be clear, none of this would 371 00:18:25,480 --> 00:18:28,040 Speaker 2: have happened without the April second announcement. 372 00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:31,199 Speaker 1: None of it. Well, and Scott beset, by the way, 373 00:18:31,240 --> 00:18:33,639 Speaker 1: he said this at the White House when they announced this, 374 00:18:34,160 --> 00:18:36,960 Speaker 1: he walked out and he said, this is all about leverage, 375 00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:39,840 Speaker 1: which is what the President said. Take a listen. President's decision. 376 00:18:40,040 --> 00:18:43,399 Speaker 2: There was a president's decision to wait until today. 377 00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:45,840 Speaker 3: And again I know, as I've said in the past, 378 00:18:46,200 --> 00:18:49,959 Speaker 3: no one creates a leverage for himself like President Trump vision. 379 00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:52,280 Speaker 1: And he said that, by the way, at the point 380 00:18:52,359 --> 00:18:55,240 Speaker 1: when the Dow was up two thousand points, right, So 381 00:18:55,280 --> 00:18:58,680 Speaker 1: he just announced it walks out there. And then Caroline 382 00:18:58,760 --> 00:19:01,879 Speaker 1: Levitt also was a reminder like, hey, we're letting the 383 00:19:01,920 --> 00:19:03,760 Speaker 1: rest of the world off the hook, but when it 384 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:06,760 Speaker 1: comes to China, we're not. She said, this is the 385 00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:07,760 Speaker 1: same press conference. 386 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:09,600 Speaker 3: And as you all know, the President just put out 387 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:13,159 Speaker 3: a statement announcing an additional tariff on China. The tariff 388 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:14,879 Speaker 3: on China will now go up to one hundred and 389 00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:19,119 Speaker 3: twenty five percent because China imprudently decided to retaliate against 390 00:19:19,119 --> 00:19:21,520 Speaker 3: the United States. And as I said at the podium yesterday, 391 00:19:21,840 --> 00:19:24,159 Speaker 3: when you punch at the United States of America, President 392 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:26,880 Speaker 3: Trump is going to punch back harder. In that same vein, 393 00:19:27,160 --> 00:19:29,960 Speaker 3: we have had more than seventy five countries from around 394 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:32,720 Speaker 3: the world reach out to President Trump and his team 395 00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:35,879 Speaker 3: here at the White House to negotiate better trade deals 396 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:39,159 Speaker 3: for the American worker. We have been overwhelmed with the 397 00:19:39,200 --> 00:19:41,280 Speaker 3: amount of requests for countries around the world. I'll let 398 00:19:41,320 --> 00:19:43,800 Speaker 3: the Secretary speak to that. We will continue with the 399 00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:47,080 Speaker 3: tailor made negotiations that I spoke about yesterday. In the meantime, 400 00:19:47,119 --> 00:19:49,080 Speaker 3: there will be a ninety day pause on the reciprocal 401 00:19:49,119 --> 00:19:52,560 Speaker 3: tariffs as these negotiations are ongoing, and the tariff level 402 00:19:52,560 --> 00:19:55,480 Speaker 3: will be brought down to a universal ten percent tariff. 403 00:19:56,680 --> 00:19:59,960 Speaker 1: I mean, you listen to them, and I think it's 404 00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:00,439 Speaker 1: pretty clear. 405 00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:02,840 Speaker 2: By the way, I will say this Caroline Levitt, I 406 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:05,879 Speaker 2: know really well. Yeah, she's a good friend. So Caroline 407 00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:09,600 Speaker 2: ran for Congress in New Hampshire. And she was running 408 00:20:09,640 --> 00:20:12,080 Speaker 2: for Congress, if I remember correctly, she was twenty five 409 00:20:12,160 --> 00:20:12,640 Speaker 2: years old. 410 00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:13,359 Speaker 1: Yeah. 411 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:16,439 Speaker 2: And by the way, the Constitution, the minimum age for 412 00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:18,240 Speaker 2: member of Congress is twenty five years old. 413 00:20:18,320 --> 00:20:20,520 Speaker 1: Yep. So she was on the House side. Yep. Yeah. 414 00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:24,399 Speaker 2: Member Congress is twenty five, a senator is thirty, and 415 00:20:24,440 --> 00:20:26,600 Speaker 2: the President must be thirty five. That's what the Constitution 416 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:31,200 Speaker 2: lays out. So Caroline was running in New Hampshire. As 417 00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:33,960 Speaker 2: you know, I raised a ton of money for Caroline. 418 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:34,280 Speaker 1: Yep. 419 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:37,040 Speaker 2: I believe, if I remember correctly, north of one hundred 420 00:20:37,040 --> 00:20:40,159 Speaker 2: thousand dollars to support her campaign, and I flew to 421 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:42,439 Speaker 2: New Hampshire and campaigned with her. She was a great 422 00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:45,359 Speaker 2: president candidate. And by the way, I told the President 423 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:47,760 Speaker 2: that tonight, I said, look, she's she's kicking ass as 424 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:50,919 Speaker 2: your press secretary. But she was a fabulous and the 425 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:53,160 Speaker 2: coolest part. We did a huge rally and she rocked 426 00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:55,000 Speaker 2: it and it was a lot of energy and excitement. 427 00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:58,920 Speaker 2: And then we went afterwards to a bar I think 428 00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:01,520 Speaker 2: it was a VFW bar if I remember correctly, and 429 00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:05,280 Speaker 2: there were like several hundred, mostly veterans, and we were 430 00:21:05,280 --> 00:21:07,480 Speaker 2: having a beer with them and they loved her. It 431 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:10,080 Speaker 2: was really cool. It was like a fun It was 432 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:13,320 Speaker 2: after the event, hanging out having a beer with a 433 00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:15,399 Speaker 2: bunch of New Hampshire veterans and it was like a 434 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:18,040 Speaker 2: great moment. Now she ended up she won the primary. 435 00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:21,880 Speaker 2: She did not win the general, although I pointed out 436 00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:23,880 Speaker 2: to her tonight I said, look, that didn't work out 437 00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:26,480 Speaker 2: even though you were a great candidate. But I said, 438 00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:29,159 Speaker 2: you know what, you'd rather do the job you have 439 00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:30,400 Speaker 2: now than being a. 440 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:35,560 Speaker 1: Biggest blessing in disguise, because yes, she would have done 441 00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:37,400 Speaker 1: that job. She would be the press secretary right now. 442 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:39,760 Speaker 1: It's amazing how those things happen in your life when 443 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:41,359 Speaker 1: you're like, you want things so bad and then you 444 00:21:41,359 --> 00:21:43,159 Speaker 1: don't get it, and then you're like, man, if I 445 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:45,480 Speaker 1: would have gotten that, where would I look at what 446 00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:46,240 Speaker 1: I would have missed? 447 00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:48,760 Speaker 2: You know the country western songs. Some of God's greatest 448 00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:50,200 Speaker 2: gifts are unanswered prayers. 449 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:51,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah. 450 00:21:51,280 --> 00:21:53,520 Speaker 2: There have been multiple steps in my life where I 451 00:21:53,560 --> 00:21:57,480 Speaker 2: desperately wanted something I didn't get it. I was crestfallen, 452 00:21:57,560 --> 00:22:00,159 Speaker 2: I was frustrated. I used to keep all right, this 453 00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:03,600 Speaker 2: is going to be sort of a weird admission. When 454 00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:06,720 Speaker 2: I was in high school and college, I literally kept 455 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:08,520 Speaker 2: a file folder. And by the way, for all of 456 00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:10,520 Speaker 2: you under thirty, you don't know what a file folder is. 457 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:13,439 Speaker 2: But I had like a file cabinet with a folder. 458 00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:17,200 Speaker 2: You know what it was called what failures? 459 00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:18,760 Speaker 1: How many were in there? 460 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:19,320 Speaker 2: A lot? 461 00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:20,000 Speaker 1: Okay? 462 00:22:20,359 --> 00:22:23,320 Speaker 2: So look, I was someone I tried for things. I 463 00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:25,679 Speaker 2: applied for things. I wanted to be a Rhodes scholar. 464 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:27,760 Speaker 2: I applied for the Rhodes scholarship. I didn't get it. 465 00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:29,639 Speaker 2: I was really I was like, damn, I'd really like 466 00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:31,680 Speaker 2: to be a Rhodes scholar. I'm pissed I didn't get it. Yeah, 467 00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:36,760 Speaker 2: but all right, I think it's tenth grade. Okay, this is. 468 00:22:38,359 --> 00:22:38,639 Speaker 1: Okay. 469 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:42,080 Speaker 2: I'm I'm sort of embarrassed. Like you guys know, Ben's 470 00:22:42,119 --> 00:22:44,760 Speaker 2: a jock. He was like a cool kid, and like 471 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:45,280 Speaker 2: you know. 472 00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:47,359 Speaker 1: Although I tried hard, I tried hard. 473 00:22:47,359 --> 00:22:49,720 Speaker 2: How thought it be fair? Is a tennis player really 474 00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:52,919 Speaker 2: a job? Well, you know it's a sort of sec 475 00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:56,639 Speaker 2: I mean, it's not a sc it like a tennis player. 476 00:22:56,880 --> 00:22:59,840 Speaker 2: You're wearing like a white eyes on. But like it's not. 477 00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:03,560 Speaker 1: Good swag we had. We had some nice Nike swag 478 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:05,080 Speaker 1: like they we did it right. 479 00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:08,000 Speaker 2: I'm just saying you were a ball. 480 00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:11,120 Speaker 1: It's not basketball. It's not baseball. I'll give you that. 481 00:23:11,359 --> 00:23:13,560 Speaker 1: I will get you dunk. No, I cannot dunk. 482 00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:15,440 Speaker 2: I played hoops with you. I knew the answer. 483 00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:19,320 Speaker 1: Yeah I cannot. But I wasn't going for Rhodes scholar. 484 00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:21,200 Speaker 1: I can promise you that. And I didn't have a briefcase. 485 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:22,840 Speaker 1: You had a briefcase. That's what we're really getting in. 486 00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:26,239 Speaker 2: No, I didn't have a briefcase. I'm sorry. I'm not 487 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:28,439 Speaker 2: Alex P. Keaton, which no one knows who that was. 488 00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:29,600 Speaker 2: Michael J. 489 00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:34,000 Speaker 1: Fox and Family ties amazing show. But but all right. 490 00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:38,120 Speaker 2: So in tenth grade, I was sitting there in. 491 00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:39,880 Speaker 1: Class with my classmates and they. 492 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:43,560 Speaker 2: Were talking about, like applying to a scholarship, and several 493 00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:45,800 Speaker 2: of my classmates said, well, no, no, I'm not going to apply. 494 00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:48,360 Speaker 2: And I said, well why not? And they said, well, 495 00:23:48,359 --> 00:23:51,960 Speaker 2: if I apply, I might get rejected and I don't 496 00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:53,360 Speaker 2: want to fail, so I'm not going to do it. 497 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:56,719 Speaker 1: Yeah, and you're like, screw that. I'm going for all 498 00:23:56,760 --> 00:23:57,000 Speaker 1: of it. 499 00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:01,960 Speaker 2: And I wrote a poem in tenth grade which I 500 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:03,840 Speaker 2: don't have, but I'm going to try to remember it. 501 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:06,560 Speaker 2: I don't know that I can remember it exactly. But 502 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:15,560 Speaker 2: imagine a dreamer walking off a cliff with hopes and aspirations. 503 00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:23,680 Speaker 2: Many would say his steps were foolish, and yet all 504 00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:31,560 Speaker 2: the great inventors, discoverers, and achievers would say nothing ventured, 505 00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:38,880 Speaker 2: nothing gained. And here's another element to complicate the matter. 506 00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:46,080 Speaker 2: What if the walker learned to fly? And this is me, 507 00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:49,800 Speaker 2: as a geeky fifteen year old writing a poem. Poe 508 00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:52,200 Speaker 2: inspired me, Like that was. 509 00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:55,160 Speaker 1: Before chat gbts. You didn't even steal it from anybody. 510 00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:57,679 Speaker 2: If you don't have a Cliff, you ain't grown wings. 511 00:24:57,720 --> 00:24:58,760 Speaker 1: Okay, fair point. 512 00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:02,240 Speaker 2: And so my I literally had a whole folder of failures. 513 00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:04,960 Speaker 2: Things I tried to do that that I did not accomplish. 514 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:07,920 Speaker 2: But if you are are to use another great hero 515 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:11,240 Speaker 2: of mine, Teddy Roosevelt, Yeah, you know, t R gave 516 00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:14,560 Speaker 2: a great commencement speech about being in the arena, the 517 00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:19,240 Speaker 2: man who is marred by blood and sweat and mud 518 00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:22,879 Speaker 2: in the arena and not one of those cold and 519 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:29,879 Speaker 2: timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat nor defeat. 520 00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:33,800 Speaker 2: And so I forget where I'm going on this. 521 00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:39,520 Speaker 1: No, you're you're talking about Carol. I love it, failing it, 522 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:42,119 Speaker 1: the going for con a blessing and now it's the 523 00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:44,000 Speaker 1: biggest thing in her life. So you're saying, count your 524 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:46,479 Speaker 1: failures because they can be your blessings later in life. 525 00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:49,200 Speaker 2: If you have no failures, you've done nothing. 526 00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:51,640 Speaker 1: I just want to prove that right now to my wife. 527 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:53,879 Speaker 1: How good of a listener I am, because I just 528 00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:56,639 Speaker 1: saved that whole story right there. I just want credit 529 00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:59,919 Speaker 1: for that moment. Anyway, continue is she gonna buy that? 530 00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:02,440 Speaker 1: I don't know, Well, see if she listens to the show, 531 00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:05,000 Speaker 1: because I just if she if she doesn't listen, we're 532 00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:05,639 Speaker 1: both gonna know. 533 00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:15,440 Speaker 2: Well. Look, I will say what happened on tariffs Wednesday 534 00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:18,240 Speaker 2: was a massive day. Number one for the market and 535 00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:22,359 Speaker 2: for a huge searche but number two, the ninety days. 536 00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:27,160 Speaker 2: We have an opportunity. This is not hyperbole. President Trump 537 00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:33,439 Speaker 2: could achieve the greatest victory for jobs and economic growth, 538 00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:38,080 Speaker 2: certainly in our lifetimes and maybe in the history of America. 539 00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:40,640 Speaker 1: Now well, and you reap between the tea leaves here 540 00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:42,760 Speaker 1: like there does seem to be a strategy here, and 541 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:44,520 Speaker 1: this is some of the genius I do have to 542 00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:46,879 Speaker 1: think of that. I give credit for that. A lot 543 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:51,680 Speaker 1: of people miss on President Trump. It seems like he's saying, hey, 544 00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:54,360 Speaker 1: rest of the world, I want to get along with you. 545 00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:57,760 Speaker 1: I'm gonna bust China. They're taking advantage of us. They're 546 00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:00,760 Speaker 1: still in our anoectual property. It's a national secure issue. 547 00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:03,159 Speaker 1: We witnessed what we witness during COVID with them as 548 00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:05,960 Speaker 1: a nation. I want everybody else to succeed, and we're 549 00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:07,720 Speaker 1: going to make sure they don't have all of this 550 00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:10,639 Speaker 1: leverage over not just us, but other partners in the world. 551 00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:13,719 Speaker 2: Yes, but look, the two things I've been urging President 552 00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:15,919 Speaker 2: Trump for a long time on trade to focus on 553 00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:19,960 Speaker 2: are number one, focus on China. I am all four 554 00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:23,960 Speaker 2: pounding the living daylights out of China. You know, when 555 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:27,080 Speaker 2: I arrived in the Senate thirteen years ago, what I 556 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:33,160 Speaker 2: said then is China poses the single largest geopolitical threat 557 00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:35,840 Speaker 2: to the United States over the next one hundred years. 558 00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:36,240 Speaker 1: Amen. 559 00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:40,560 Speaker 2: Now, Ben, when I arrived, that was a lonely voice. 560 00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:44,479 Speaker 2: Almost nobody agreed with me. Every Democrat had disagreed with me, 561 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:48,160 Speaker 2: and most of the Republicans disagreed with me. They looked 562 00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:50,880 Speaker 2: at China and they saw nothing but dollar signs as 563 00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:53,480 Speaker 2: far as the eye could see. Now the world has changed. 564 00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:55,560 Speaker 2: I think a lot more people have opened their eyes 565 00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:58,840 Speaker 2: to the danger, to the peril. China is fighting a 566 00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:02,680 Speaker 2: thousand year war against the United States, and that's. 567 00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:05,800 Speaker 1: Not hyperbole, and that's really how they look at it. 568 00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:09,480 Speaker 2: And everything we can do to delink our economy from 569 00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:13,399 Speaker 2: China is a good step. So I've urged President Trump, 570 00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:16,960 Speaker 2: you can't focus on China too much. The more you 571 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:19,040 Speaker 2: can bring jobs out of China, the more you can 572 00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:21,280 Speaker 2: bring our critical infrastructure out of China, the more you 573 00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:23,840 Speaker 2: can bring pharmaceuticals out of China, the more you can 574 00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:28,840 Speaker 2: bring semiconductors out of China. Everything we depend upon China 575 00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:30,120 Speaker 2: is coming after us. 576 00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:32,040 Speaker 1: And this is national security. Things we depend on. 577 00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:35,479 Speaker 2: It is national security, is economic security. This is a 578 00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:38,520 Speaker 2: fundamental battle. So I am all for focusing on China, 579 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:43,240 Speaker 2: but the other principal reciprocity. Look, I don't want to 580 00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:46,600 Speaker 2: be overly optimistic. As we mentioned on Monday's podcast, and 581 00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:48,560 Speaker 2: you want to go back and listen to it about 582 00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:55,480 Speaker 2: angels and devils, there are really vocal and outspoken voices 583 00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:59,800 Speaker 2: in the administration who don't want the President to lower 584 00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:02,680 Speaker 2: two tariffs in other countries. They want tariffs to be 585 00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:07,880 Speaker 2: high and there forever, and they want the revenue. Look, 586 00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:10,680 Speaker 2: tariffs are producing about two and a half a billion 587 00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:13,840 Speaker 2: dollars a day in revenues. Now, the point I made 588 00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:17,880 Speaker 2: to the President, where are those revenues coming from tariffs? 589 00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:20,920 Speaker 2: Are taxes? They're coming from American consumers. So yes, it's 590 00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:24,440 Speaker 2: producing a lot of money. But I would much rather 591 00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:27,040 Speaker 2: lower the various to other countries and let our farmers 592 00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:30,800 Speaker 2: and ranchers and small businesses and manufacturers export the hell 593 00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:33,920 Speaker 2: out of it, because I think American businesses can beat 594 00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:38,600 Speaker 2: every company on Earth, if there's a fair playing field, 595 00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:41,640 Speaker 2: if most of the countries we trade with there's not 596 00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:45,800 Speaker 2: a fair playing field, and so this opportunity and listen, 597 00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:52,680 Speaker 2: President Trump's negotiation strategy is in some way simple. He 598 00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:54,800 Speaker 2: walks up to people, he smacks him in the head 599 00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:57,120 Speaker 2: with a two by four. I think he backs up 600 00:29:57,120 --> 00:30:00,400 Speaker 2: and negotiates from that, and it has proved to be 601 00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:04,680 Speaker 2: an incredibly effective negotiation strategy. So I will say, I'm 602 00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:11,040 Speaker 2: really really glad about Wednesday's pause announcement. It produces I noted, 603 00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:13,920 Speaker 2: the biggest single day increase in the stock market in history, 604 00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:17,479 Speaker 2: and I hope the next ninety days we will see 605 00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:22,680 Speaker 2: deal after deal after deal, slashing tariffs and opening markets 606 00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:23,840 Speaker 2: to American producers. 607 00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:26,880 Speaker 1: Secretary of State Marco Rubio saying something like that in 608 00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:29,320 Speaker 1: the cabinet meeting when he said this about the president, 609 00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:33,200 Speaker 1: and also he said which I think was interesting. He said, 610 00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:34,560 Speaker 1: and I'm going to quote him, he said, one of 611 00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:36,920 Speaker 1: the most important things you'll achieve in your presidency is 612 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:39,840 Speaker 1: re ordering the world in a proper way. For more 613 00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:43,200 Speaker 1: than thirty one years, multiple administrations have allowed the Chinese 614 00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:47,000 Speaker 1: to de industrialize this country, to take away jobs and 615 00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:50,800 Speaker 1: factories and pillars of our national strength. Like this is 616 00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:54,560 Speaker 1: from a Secretary of State who's saying this is the ballgame. Yes, 617 00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:57,960 Speaker 1: and then national security is saying this is the ballgame. 618 00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:01,160 Speaker 1: And then producers are saying this is ballgame, and American 619 00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:05,520 Speaker 1: workers are saying, this is the ballgame. I've never seen 620 00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:09,880 Speaker 1: a moment politically where so many different factions are all 621 00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:13,959 Speaker 1: seen to be aligned and understanding this threat, which it's 622 00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:16,520 Speaker 1: in fact is China. And so you look at the 623 00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:19,920 Speaker 1: next ninety days, it's very important and there's got to 624 00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:22,480 Speaker 1: be deals done. When do you think will start to 625 00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:25,360 Speaker 1: see deals and momentum because it's all about momentum, right, 626 00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:27,920 Speaker 1: you get one with Vietnam, or you get one with Taiwan, 627 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:30,440 Speaker 1: or you get one with Malaysia or India wherever it is, right, 628 00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:33,400 Speaker 1: and you start going country by country, when will we 629 00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:35,160 Speaker 1: start to see that because that's what the market's now 630 00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:35,600 Speaker 1: looking for. 631 00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:38,560 Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, so what I urged the president Tuesday night 632 00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:42,720 Speaker 2: is negotiate a deal fast. I said, I don't care 633 00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:45,880 Speaker 2: what country, just get one on the books, get one 634 00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:48,840 Speaker 2: and have it be a massive reduction on both sides 635 00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:52,160 Speaker 2: because that will assuage people. Okay, this is the path 636 00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:54,920 Speaker 2: we're going down. When you have seventy plus countries that 637 00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:57,280 Speaker 2: are seeking negotiate deals, that takes a little bit of time. 638 00:31:57,280 --> 00:32:02,400 Speaker 2: That's complicated, Yes, And so I really like the ninety 639 00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:05,040 Speaker 2: day pause because it gives you ninety days to the 640 00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:08,200 Speaker 2: OSHA deals. And so I hope in the next ninety 641 00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:11,200 Speaker 2: days we see deal after deal after deal, and I 642 00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:12,320 Speaker 2: think it'll build momentum. 643 00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:14,560 Speaker 1: So you think in weeks we'll start seeing the first ones. 644 00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:21,400 Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know if it'll be weeks 645 00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:25,080 Speaker 2: or thirty to sixty days. I don't know how long 646 00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:25,560 Speaker 2: it takes. 647 00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:27,600 Speaker 1: The ninety days gives us time to do it right. 648 00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:31,640 Speaker 2: Ninety days gives us time to do it right. And 649 00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:34,760 Speaker 2: I have a high level of confidence than in the 650 00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:37,200 Speaker 2: next ninety days we will see a bunch of them. 651 00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:41,320 Speaker 2: How quickly given the ninety day pause, there's not the urgency. 652 00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:43,160 Speaker 2: What I was urging, what I said on Hannity is 653 00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:45,959 Speaker 2: do it now, don't wait a week like do it tomorrow, 654 00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:49,160 Speaker 2: because frankly, the market's freaking out and you don't want 655 00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:52,280 Speaker 2: people's four one ks to go to crap. And so 656 00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:56,040 Speaker 2: I think think there was real value to moving quickly. 657 00:32:56,640 --> 00:33:02,320 Speaker 2: The pause essentially buys you time to then negotiate the deals, 658 00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:05,720 Speaker 2: and I hope that's what they're gonna do, all. 659 00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:08,000 Speaker 1: Right, before you go to this vote at one o'clock 660 00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:10,560 Speaker 1: in the morning. Not a joke. I want to ask 661 00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:15,120 Speaker 1: you about this other I would just say insane news 662 00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:17,760 Speaker 1: because I can't believe they've been allowed to do it 663 00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:22,640 Speaker 1: for so long. And that is that is Mexico stealing water, 664 00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:27,840 Speaker 1: which is suffocating farmers. YEA. Specifically it's happening in Texas 665 00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:34,040 Speaker 1: and it's making farming industry collapse and farmers disappearing from 666 00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:35,640 Speaker 1: areas because there is no water. 667 00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:37,720 Speaker 2: So let me give you the background because this is 668 00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:40,600 Speaker 2: a really important issue. It's important in Texas, but it's 669 00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:43,959 Speaker 2: important in the country, which is there's a water treaty 670 00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:46,720 Speaker 2: that we signed with Mexico in nineteen forty four, the 671 00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:51,040 Speaker 2: Mexican Water Treaty of nineteen forty four. It obligates Mexico 672 00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:54,280 Speaker 2: to provide three hundred and fifty thousand acre feet of 673 00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:59,120 Speaker 2: water a year to South Texas. That's over a five 674 00:33:59,200 --> 00:33:59,960 Speaker 2: year period. 675 00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:00,320 Speaker 1: Okay. 676 00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:06,000 Speaker 2: For the last five years, Mexico has been openly and 677 00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:11,520 Speaker 2: brazenly violating the treaty. They've not been providing the water 678 00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:15,760 Speaker 2: they are right now in this five year period, one 679 00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:21,040 Speaker 2: point three million acre feet in arrears water they have 680 00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:24,000 Speaker 2: not provided that they've committed by treaty to provide. Now 681 00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:27,320 Speaker 2: what are they doing. They're diverting that water that should 682 00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:31,799 Speaker 2: go to South Texas farmers under the treaty to Mexican farmers. 683 00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:34,080 Speaker 2: And a couple of things are happening. So in South 684 00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:37,680 Speaker 2: Texas there is a massive drought going on. It is 685 00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:42,000 Speaker 2: doing enormous damage to farmers. And I spent a lot 686 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:46,600 Speaker 2: of time in South Texas and the damage to farmers. 687 00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:50,160 Speaker 2: We're seeing a lot of South Texas farmers that are 688 00:34:50,200 --> 00:34:53,640 Speaker 2: taking half of their acreage out of production. They're shutting 689 00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:55,160 Speaker 2: down half of their. 690 00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:56,560 Speaker 1: Farms just because they don't have the water to do 691 00:34:56,600 --> 00:34:56,960 Speaker 1: it right. 692 00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:02,719 Speaker 2: They're laying off thousands of work. So there was one 693 00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:08,120 Speaker 2: sugar mill in all of Texas last year. It shut 694 00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:11,600 Speaker 2: down because of water, and it shut down because the 695 00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:14,160 Speaker 2: sugar farmers did not have the water to raise the sugar. 696 00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:15,799 Speaker 2: Wow And it's gone. 697 00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:19,319 Speaker 1: And Mexico, on the other side of green as can be. 698 00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:22,400 Speaker 2: It is green as can be. The Mexican farmers are prospering. 699 00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:26,040 Speaker 2: They're literally stealing our water. And by the way, like 700 00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:29,640 Speaker 2: President Trump talks a lot about foreign countries taking advantage 701 00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:32,160 Speaker 2: of America, it's a great example. This is this is 702 00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:34,439 Speaker 2: literally the Mexican government stealing our water. 703 00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:36,680 Speaker 1: And if Joe Biden do anything to stop this, zero 704 00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:37,920 Speaker 1: and he knew about it. 705 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:41,840 Speaker 2: So he knew about it. So I've engaged this issue. 706 00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:44,000 Speaker 2: I engaged. I started engaging about two years ago. And 707 00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:46,040 Speaker 2: I started engaging when I was down in South Texas 708 00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:48,640 Speaker 2: and I did a roundtail with farmers and they raised 709 00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:51,320 Speaker 2: this issue to me. And two years ago, I didn't 710 00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:54,080 Speaker 2: know what the water Tree of nineteen forty four was, 711 00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:57,080 Speaker 2: and they explained it to me. And at the time 712 00:35:57,120 --> 00:35:58,880 Speaker 2: they were really worried. We're going to lose our sugar 713 00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:02,200 Speaker 2: mill if this doesn't change. And I said, look, I 714 00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:04,279 Speaker 2: think I can help. I'm going to lean in. And 715 00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:07,080 Speaker 2: I began leaning in aggressively. I forced a vote on 716 00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:11,440 Speaker 2: the Senate floor on an amendment to direct the state 717 00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:15,760 Speaker 2: Department to use every lever point we have to force 718 00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:18,319 Speaker 2: Mexico to comply with a water treaty. I got a 719 00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:22,279 Speaker 2: majority of the senator, bipartisan majority, and then there's a 720 00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:24,640 Speaker 2: water commissioner for the United States. I like leaned in 721 00:36:24,719 --> 00:36:26,920 Speaker 2: with the water commissioner, said, look, the Senate has spoken 722 00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:31,800 Speaker 2: a bipartisan majority, and here's the fundamental problem. Joe Biden 723 00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:36,359 Speaker 2: didn't give a damn about this. So I desperately tried 724 00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:39,319 Speaker 2: to get the Biden administration to exert leverage. Yeah, and 725 00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:40,439 Speaker 2: they just didn't care. 726 00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:42,960 Speaker 1: Now, by the way, leverage for Donald Trump at this 727 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:45,080 Speaker 1: point was him saying, hey, I'm coming after you with 728 00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:48,320 Speaker 1: tariffs or sanctions, so do the right thing now before 729 00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:50,319 Speaker 1: I have to do that, and they know he means it. 730 00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:53,160 Speaker 1: Unlike even if you had that same statement from Joe Biden, 731 00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:54,080 Speaker 1: he ain't gonna do anything. 732 00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:57,560 Speaker 2: So in South Texas, cities are also facing massive drought. 733 00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:00,520 Speaker 2: You're literally facing the cities not having an enough water 734 00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:03,640 Speaker 2: for their citizens because Mexico's stealing the water. And so 735 00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:07,080 Speaker 2: I leaned in. I could not get the Biden's administration 736 00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:09,640 Speaker 2: do a damn thing. In December, as part of the 737 00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:15,120 Speaker 2: Continuing Resolution, I authored legislation that got adopted that provided 738 00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:18,040 Speaker 2: two hundred and eighty million dollars in emergency relief for 739 00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:22,040 Speaker 2: Texas farmers because they're going broke. And we're talking about 740 00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:25,160 Speaker 2: generational farms. Farms that have been three or four generations 741 00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:29,640 Speaker 2: who were being bankrupted because their government is not enforcing 742 00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:32,200 Speaker 2: the treaty and they're being starved of water. And so 743 00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:36,319 Speaker 2: several weeks ago I went down to South Texas with 744 00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:40,480 Speaker 2: Brook Rawlins. Brook Rollins is the Secretary of Agriculture. Brook 745 00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:42,920 Speaker 2: has been a good friend of mine for twenty five years. 746 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:46,040 Speaker 2: She's a Texan. She's the first Texan in the history 747 00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:49,279 Speaker 2: of the country to be the Secretary of Agriculture. She's 748 00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:52,279 Speaker 2: also the first Secretary of Agriculture ever to go to 749 00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:55,040 Speaker 2: the Rio Grande Valley wow. And she came to the 750 00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:57,360 Speaker 2: valley at my request. I asked her come down with me, 751 00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:01,960 Speaker 2: and we did. We did a press conference number one 752 00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:04,120 Speaker 2: where she announced I've got two hundred eighty million dollars 753 00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:07,400 Speaker 2: I'm giving the South Texas farmers because your federal government 754 00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:09,439 Speaker 2: has been screwing you by not getting the water back 755 00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:13,600 Speaker 2: and Mexico is starving you. But we also did a roundtable. 756 00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:16,120 Speaker 2: We did a roundtable with farmers where Brooke and I 757 00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:21,279 Speaker 2: talked with the farmers and the Rio Grand Valley has 758 00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:26,879 Speaker 2: been bright blue for one hundred years. In twenty twenty four, 759 00:38:27,719 --> 00:38:31,720 Speaker 2: the Rio Grand Valley flipped red. I won the valley, 760 00:38:32,080 --> 00:38:35,400 Speaker 2: and Donald Trump won the valley. That has never happened. 761 00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:38,520 Speaker 2: I won Hispanic statewide in Texas by six points. That's 762 00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:42,680 Speaker 2: never happened. I have spent an enormous amount of time 763 00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:45,080 Speaker 2: and millions of dollars in the valley trying to flip 764 00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:47,640 Speaker 2: the valley red because I saw the potential there. And 765 00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:50,280 Speaker 2: so I think I've invested more than any elected official 766 00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:54,080 Speaker 2: in Texas in terms of turning the valley red. Well, 767 00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:56,120 Speaker 2: I got to say, sitting there at that roundtable, you 768 00:38:56,200 --> 00:38:59,279 Speaker 2: got farmers and ranchers and you're just asking them. Look 769 00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:02,880 Speaker 2: over the last four years, did Joe Biden do a 770 00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:04,720 Speaker 2: damn thing for you? 771 00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:07,000 Speaker 1: No? And that's how you turn this. 772 00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:09,640 Speaker 2: And what I told them as I said, listen, if 773 00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:12,439 Speaker 2: there's one thing you know about Donald Trump, he will 774 00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:16,040 Speaker 2: stand up to foreign countries and fight for you. And 775 00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:21,080 Speaker 2: I made that commitment. And frankly, look, these are voters 776 00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:26,600 Speaker 2: who their entire lives have voted Democrats. Their parents voted Democrat, 777 00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:32,200 Speaker 2: their grandparents voted Democrat, their great grandparents voted Democrat. And 778 00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:34,480 Speaker 2: this last election, for the first time, they pulled the 779 00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:38,200 Speaker 2: lever for Republican going down there and saying, look, we're 780 00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:40,480 Speaker 2: fighting for you. We're gonna get you. The damn water 781 00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:43,360 Speaker 2: is one of the ways you lock those votes. And 782 00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:46,080 Speaker 2: it's a generational shift for Texas. 783 00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:48,080 Speaker 1: By the way, this is the first time for Verdict. 784 00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:51,480 Speaker 1: They've just opened the vote. They're only keeping it open 785 00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:52,360 Speaker 1: for fifteen minutes. 786 00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:53,720 Speaker 2: So I'm gonna go momentary. 787 00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:56,040 Speaker 1: You're gonna go momentarily, which means actually it's about twelve 788 00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:58,160 Speaker 1: minutes because I'm a couple minutes behind. Just this is 789 00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:00,000 Speaker 1: this is why I love doing Verdict, because this is 790 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:01,840 Speaker 1: that's how it really works, and it's sending the Senate. 791 00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:06,799 Speaker 2: So I will say this. I called President Trump a 792 00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:10,239 Speaker 2: week ago and I said, miss President, would make a 793 00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:13,600 Speaker 2: huge difference if you leaned in personally with the president 794 00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:17,440 Speaker 2: of Mexico and said, provide. 795 00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:18,680 Speaker 1: Us the water. Yeah, knock it off. 796 00:40:18,719 --> 00:40:21,000 Speaker 2: And he said, I'll tell you what. I'll send a 797 00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:24,040 Speaker 2: truth social post. And so I worked with him on 798 00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:27,600 Speaker 2: the wording of it, and tonight when I was in 799 00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:30,880 Speaker 2: the Oval, I said, miss President, can you send that 800 00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:31,960 Speaker 2: truth post? 801 00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:32,640 Speaker 1: Yeah? 802 00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:34,400 Speaker 2: He sent it tonight. I'm going to read it to you. 803 00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:40,560 Speaker 2: Here's what President Trump sent this evening. Mexico Owes, Texas 804 00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:43,880 Speaker 2: one point three million acre feet of water under the 805 00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:48,600 Speaker 2: nineteen forty four Water Treaty, but Mexico is unfortunately violating 806 00:40:48,600 --> 00:40:52,719 Speaker 2: their treaty obligation. This is very unfair and it is 807 00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:58,000 Speaker 2: hurting South Texas farmers very badly. Last year, the only 808 00:40:58,160 --> 00:41:03,400 Speaker 2: sugar mill in Texas clothes because Mexico has been stealing 809 00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:07,880 Speaker 2: the water from Texas farmers. Ted Cruz has been leading 810 00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:11,480 Speaker 2: the fight to get South Texas the water it is owed, 811 00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:17,000 Speaker 2: but Sleepy Joe refused to lift a finger to help 812 00:41:17,040 --> 00:41:23,440 Speaker 2: the farmers. This ends now. I will make sure that 813 00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:28,480 Speaker 2: Mexico doesn't violate our treaties and doesn't hurt our Texas farmers. 814 00:41:29,239 --> 00:41:34,040 Speaker 2: Just last month, I halted water shipments to Tijuana until 815 00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:38,640 Speaker 2: Mexico complies with the nineteen forty four Water Treaty. My 816 00:41:38,719 --> 00:41:43,320 Speaker 2: Agriculture Secretary Brook Rollins is standing up for Texas farmers 817 00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:51,120 Speaker 2: and we will keep escalating consequences, including teriffs and maybe 818 00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:57,960 Speaker 2: even sanctions, until Mexico honors the treaty and gives Texas 819 00:41:58,040 --> 00:42:00,560 Speaker 2: the water they are owed and gives Techi the water 820 00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:02,360 Speaker 2: they are owed. Is in all caps. 821 00:42:02,440 --> 00:42:02,920 Speaker 1: There you go. 822 00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:05,759 Speaker 2: That tweet got sent out tonight. I'll tell you in. 823 00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:09,000 Speaker 2: Just within an hour of that tweet going out, the 824 00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:11,440 Speaker 2: President of Mexico is sent out a tweet saying we're 825 00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:13,640 Speaker 2: gonna fix this. We're gonna fix this, and the Mexican 826 00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:18,520 Speaker 2: government is freaking out. That's what it looks like. Later, 827 00:42:18,760 --> 00:42:21,920 Speaker 2: President who is fighting for America. Joe Biden could have 828 00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:24,040 Speaker 2: done that for four years, but he didn't give a 829 00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:27,320 Speaker 2: flip about farmers in South Texas going out of business. 830 00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:31,480 Speaker 2: The President's tweet, and I can tell you Mexico is 831 00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:34,759 Speaker 2: in the process now negotiating with the state Department to 832 00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:37,879 Speaker 2: provide for the water. We're gonna get the water. And 833 00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:38,359 Speaker 2: that's a. 834 00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:41,640 Speaker 1: Great that's a greatreat victory for Texas in America. Go vote. 835 00:42:41,680 --> 00:42:43,279 Speaker 1: You're on the clock now. I love it. 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