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Speaker 1: Good morning, Welcome. It is the Ben Ferguson Podcast. Nice

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Speaker 1: to have you with us. We're live here at the

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Speaker 1: White House, and I guess with me now is May Melman,

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Speaker 1: senior policy strategist at the White House and a unique

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Speaker 1: perspective because she was in forty five in that administration,

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Speaker 1: you're now in forty seven. We were talking before the

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Speaker 1: show and I just let's just start with this because

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Speaker 1: I think it's so cool. This White House is running

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Speaker 1: at a different pace than it did with the first

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Speaker 1: time around.

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Speaker 2: Part of that was learning government.

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Speaker 1: I think part of it's having a team this time

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Speaker 1: that seems to be working as a team and just

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Speaker 1: seems like everyone wants to win and is getting along.

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Speaker 1: The leaks were not seeing like we did last time.

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Speaker 1: It seems like everybody's a team player. This is really

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Speaker 1: fun to watch from the outside. I was in the

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Speaker 1: Bush administration and it was in the second from four

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Speaker 1: to oho eight, and it was just a different type

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Speaker 1: of team than we had in.

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Speaker 2: The first part.

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Speaker 1: You got to enjoy watching the past and now the president.

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Speaker 2: How cool is that for you? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I used to be jealous of what the Bush people

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Speaker 3: had in the sense that they still did reunions, and

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Speaker 3: they all hung out with each other and they you know,

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Speaker 3: we had our criticisms, certainly, but it felt like they

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Speaker 3: were all very unified. And I think during Trump one

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Speaker 3: point zero, people very much got along. It was friendly.

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Speaker 3: But people had come from different places. So you had

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Speaker 3: people who were campaign people, you had people who were

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Speaker 3: RNC people, you had people who were either longtime friends

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Speaker 3: of the family, these sort you know, everyone kind of

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Speaker 3: had their own different background. But now there is such

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Speaker 3: a thing as Trump World, and there are people who

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Speaker 3: have been here and those they've had relationships and they've

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Speaker 3: had ups and downs with each other, and so it

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Speaker 3: is easier to have everybody rowing in the same direction.

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Speaker 3: And I've had strange experiences that I never had during

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Speaker 3: the first time. So during the first time, I was

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Speaker 3: also writing a lot of executive orders, helping push a

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Speaker 3: lot of policies, and I would have to follow up

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Speaker 3: and follow up and follow up, and nothing would happen

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Speaker 3: at the speed and the pace and the level that

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Speaker 3: I wanted it to. Now, if I write something that's

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Speaker 3: very nuanced, I'm careful, Okay, we're not trying to do this.

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Speaker 3: People will just do it at the one hundred out

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Speaker 3: of ten. That's okay. So the excitement people have been planning,

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Speaker 3: people are ready to go, and it does feel very different,

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Speaker 3: even though it is actually a lot of the same people.

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Speaker 3: I'm working with a lot of the same people, but

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Speaker 3: it's just different this time.

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Speaker 1: So let's talk about where we are one hundred days in.

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Speaker 1: You're here, your senior pology strategists. I think one of

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Speaker 1: the big things that people are witnessing right now they're

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Speaker 1: concerned about is the law fair. There is very clear

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Speaker 1: a movement by the left, by the Democrats to use

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Speaker 1: trying to stop the president of a law fair. You

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Speaker 1: we now and how big of a roadblock is this

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Speaker 3: The Democrats have no political strategy, they have no political leader,

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Speaker 3: they have no North Star. So all they have is

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Speaker 3: know and the place you go for no is the courts,

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Speaker 3: and so that's where all the money has been, that's

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Speaker 3: where the excitement is, that's where the investment is. Is

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Speaker 3: just no. There's some protests, there's blowing up tesla's, but

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Speaker 3: so yeah, it is a problem. I'm a lawyer. For

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Speaker 3: with very conservative judges, these were measured approaches. I'll just

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Speaker 3: Compare that to here, where you just have any sort

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Speaker 3: the TRO stage, the temporary restraining order stage, which is

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Speaker 3: You know, Congress should absolutely impeach judges who are not

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Speaker 3: And so I think these judges are really playing with fire.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about trade, and that is a big issue

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Speaker 1: that is I think top of mind for virtually every American.

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Speaker 1: I have dear friends that knew I was going to

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Speaker 1: be here today, and I was like, they're dealing with this,

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Speaker 1: trade war with China. They're very concerned about what they've built.

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Speaker 1: Where are we with this.

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Speaker 2: Master plan from the President?

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Speaker 1: It seems to me saying, hey, I want to get

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Speaker 1: We know the media wants us to be miserable. They

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Speaker 1: want to be fear mongering, They want this inflation issues

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Speaker 1: I don't see it that way though.

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Speaker 3: I think the President's heart is where actually a lot

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Speaker 3: of Americans' hearts are, which is that we want to

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Speaker 3: yet I think the President also is a very practical person.

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Speaker 3: I can't give a timeline for when you would see

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Speaker 1: Test to security, right, this is when I've asked, and

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Speaker 1: I've had leaders call me and like Ben, what is

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Speaker 2: Why is he doing this? And say, look, you've got

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Speaker 2: to look at this from two views.

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Speaker 2: And that's part of what the president I think learn

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and so from a national security standpoint, I think

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Speaker 1: you know, momentums everything, right, people say, when are we

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Speaker 3: Right, so it is about to be high school championship season,

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Speaker 2: Look at what the fight looks like.

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Speaker 3: And so this is not some sort of federal takeover

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Speaker 3: So energy, I think is something that's under talked about

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Speaker 1: It's amazing how it's not talked about. When the price

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Speaker 1: it's come down, and then the is like, great, we

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Speaker 3: Right, Even the cost of eggs is I think, down

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Speaker 3: three dollars from the time.

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Speaker 1: Man, it was a big deal though at the beginning.

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Speaker 1: Remember go back one hundred days ago. Everything's Trump's fault.

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Speaker 1: Now no one's talking about the cost of.

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Speaker 3: Eggs, right, and there are no shortages. And what Biden

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Speaker 3: did is he implemented a kill all the chickens strategy.

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Speaker 3: And so, of course when Biden kills all the chickens,

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Speaker 3: you could do pasteurization, other types of things, you could

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Speaker 3: protect the you know, protect the flocks. Whatever kills all

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Speaker 3: the birds. And so then tries to blame President Trump.

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Speaker 3: But of course these are things that we are working

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Speaker 3: through in order to lower costs our deregulation costs. We

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Speaker 3: have twelve rules that have either been already rescinded or

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Speaker 3: being proposed to rescind that have a savings of fifty

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Speaker 3: billion dollars. So that's just easy deregulatory wins already in

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Speaker 3: the first one hundred days. So these types of things,

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Speaker 3: you know, maybe a deregulatory effort that says you no

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Speaker 3: longer have to purchase an EV won't affect you immediately,

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Speaker 3: but it'll affect you the next time you buy a

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Speaker 3: another ten to fifteen one thousand dollars. I think people

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Speaker 3: can remember how expensive things got, or the California EV

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Speaker 3: mandate where California basically gets to make the car rules

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Speaker 3: for half the country and we're saying no, California doesn't

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Speaker 3: get to do that anymore. So these are the types

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Speaker 3: of things that Americans are going to feel when they

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Speaker 3: may have those big purchases. You know, standards for shower heads,

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Speaker 3: washing machines, gas stoves, these types of things, expanding options furnaces,

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Speaker 3: water furnaces, these types of things that are deregulatory, giving

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Speaker 1: Final question for you looking for the next hundred days,

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Speaker 1: what do you think the biggest win is going to

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Speaker 1: be for the American people. Is that going to be

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Speaker 1: victories with trade?

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Speaker 3: I think we can look forward to victories with trade.

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Speaker 3: I think deregulation is going to really kick in. We

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Speaker 3: have a ten to one deregulation mandate. It's not a goal,

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Speaker 3: it's a mandate in order to for UH to see this.

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Speaker 3: But then I think also we're going to see some

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Speaker 3: action from Congress. So Congress is going to push forward

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Speaker 3: its Reconciliation bill, which is going to have a solidify

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Speaker 3: a lot of our priorities, but some things that we

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Speaker 3: couldn't do administratively, things about you know, benefits that go

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Speaker 3: to illegal aliens that shouldn't these types of things, fixes

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Speaker 3: that we absolutely need. You're going to see that come

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Speaker 3: through Congress. So a lot of our focus right now

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Speaker 3: is shifting away from some of these must have administrative

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Speaker 3: wins to how can we lock those wins in with Congress.

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Speaker 3: It's a little bit difficult working with you know that

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Speaker 3: many people, but that's at least where my attention is

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Speaker 3: going right now.

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Speaker 1: It's awesome. I appreciate your time. May Melman, Senior Policy Strate.

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Speaker 1: I just hear at the White House firste hundred days

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Speaker 1: of successes are big for the American people. You guys

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Speaker 1: are working hard, and there's a lot more to come

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Speaker 1: in and we'll obviously be chatting with you.

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Speaker 2: Again real soon.

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Speaker 3: All right, Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 2: Don't forget.

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Speaker 1: Share this podcast with your family and friends, share it

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Speaker 1: on social media, please, and I'll see you back here tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: No,