WEBVTT - Tariffs Can Work - March 7th, Hour 2 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:03.080 All right, thanks Scott Shannon. Hour two Sean Hannity's show, 0:00:03.120 --> 0:00:05.680 Toll Free. Our number is eight hundred and nine and 0:00:05.680 --> 0:00:08.440 four one Sean, if you want to be a part 0:00:08.520 --> 0:00:14.760 of the program. She is the youngest White House prestery 0:00:14.800 --> 0:00:18.680 in the history of that position. He's doing a phenomenal 0:00:18.800 --> 0:00:24.160 job how she deals with these lunatics and the state 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:30.000 run legacy media mob is an art form because she's 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:32.360 doing such a great job. We welcome back to the 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:34.360 program our friend Caroline Levitt as with us. 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:35.159 Caroline, how are you. 0:00:36.080 --> 0:00:38.839 I'm doing great, Sean, Happy Friday. Thanks for having me. 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:40.800 And you know, I just want to say to you. 0:00:40.880 --> 0:00:43.920 People talk so much about President Trump's energy, but you 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:45.440 have a heck of a lot of energy. You're on 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:47.760 the radio for what three hours a day, and then 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:50.000 you have the number one cable news program at night. 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:51.800 It's pretty impressive what you do. 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:55.720 I have to say, and now we do an audio 0:00:55.760 --> 0:00:58.520 podcast and a video podcast. It's not like I have 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:00.400 much time during my day. I'm not going to a lie, 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:03.800 but I don't get up at four am like you do. 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:05.800 What's how does your day start? What time do you 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:06.600 get up in the morning? 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:10.160 My alarm goes off every morning at five am. 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:13.679 Sharp, and oh man, that's that's that's about what I'm 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:14.240 going to bed. 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:20.080 Okay, Yeah, I don't stop until probably eleven PM. Your phone, 0:01:20.120 --> 0:01:23.040 my phone is ding ding dinging off the hook all 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:26.039 day and all night long. And that's just what you 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:27.960 get when you work for a man who makes news 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:32.200 every second. So I'm on the Trump sleep schedule, and 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:33.080 I'm on Trump. 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:36.280 If you're on the Trump sleep schedule. I've known this 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:38.839 man for thirty years. We've been friends for thirty years, 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:42.279 and I can promise you I've spoken to him every 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:45.840 hour on the twenty four hour clocky and that I promise, 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:48.080 and that he will confirm, and he would confirm it 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:50.919 publicly because it's all true. 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:53.840 Yeah, it doesn't surprise me. You got to keep your 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:55.840 phone on high even when you sleep working for this 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:57.760 man because you never know when he's going to call. 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:01.280 It's truly remarkable and very impressive. And I feel like 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:03.600 I can never complain because I'm like a third his 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:06.680 age and I can't even keep up with him. It's incredible. 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:09.600 But he keeps us all moving very quickly here at 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:10.200 the White House. 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:12.760 You know what's funny about that? I think back to 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:17.519 Joe Biden being president, and I mean we hopely should 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:20.480 be s evident. I mean, the amount of energy that 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:24.200 Donald Trump has on any one given day represents maybe 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:27.760 five months in the in the presidency of Joe Biden. 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:31.399 And I remember early on when I was calling out 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:34.720 his cognitive decline and getting smashed left and right for 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:38.919 doing so and stating the obvious. It was funny people 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:42.360 like circle back Jensakua. He has more energy than people, 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:45.079 you know, our age. We could barely keep up with him. 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:47.799 I'm like, you must be a really bad shape then 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:51.160 if you can't keep up with that guy. In this case, 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:55.080 it just happens to be accurate. And I you know, 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:58.239 we're all watching this. The hardest part of my job 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:00.960 every day is to get out of as much information 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:04.680 as possible because information is coming out of the speed 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:06.920 of light. So if it's hard for me, I've got 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:08.639 to imagine it's that much harder for you. 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:13.160 Yeah, it's amazing how much news President Trump makes on 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:16.160 a daily basis. And we just did a press conference 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:18.880 in the Oval Office earlier today. He made a ton 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:21.600 of news and that's what we do almost every day. 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:23.080 And when he doesn't want to do it. That's my 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:25.000 turn to go out and go to the podium. So 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:28.600 there's breaking news every pretty much every hour out of 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:31.680 this building. But it's because he's doing so much, Sean, 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:34.480 I mean, the man is negotiating an end to the 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:37.720 war in Russia and Ukraine. He's negotiating an end to 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:40.440 the situation in the Middle East. He met with eight 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:44.680 hostages this week who were recently released from Gaza. He 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:48.400 gave a record breaking State of the Union address. You know, 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:52.080 you look at everything he's done this past week alone, 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:55.680 it's more than most administrations do in an entire month. 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:58.600 So it's incredibly impressive. It's a lot to keep up with. 0:03:58.800 --> 0:03:59.360 But as his. 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:01.440 Staff, we're used do it. You know who isn't used 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:03.960 to it is the press. They are not used to 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:06.680 the pace at which President Trump is working. And they 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:08.400 tell me that all the time. They come in my 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:10.600 office and they say, can you guys slow down? Can 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:12.800 you not do a press conference today? We don't have 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:16.040 enough room in our packages or on our shows to 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:19.480 fill up all of this news. But you know, there's 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:22.600 no slow slowing down in fight from President Trump. 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:24.520 Let me go to the State of the Union I 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:26.600 want to get your take. I thought it was one 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:29.760 of the most disgraceful displays I've ever seen in my life. 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:33.320 And as a matter of history, I've been to State 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:36.599 of the Union addresses. I've covered them all of my career. 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:40.200 I was in the you know, I was. I was 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:43.880 in the room when Barack Obama gave one, for example, 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:45.599 and when he came in the room, I stood up 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:49.039 and I clapped. I just sat there and they hold 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:51.559 their bingo cards up and then of course Al Green 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:55.400 acting like a lunatic or just experience censure, and I'm 0:04:55.680 --> 0:04:57.960 I'm I'm kind of stunned. 0:04:57.520 --> 0:04:58.000 By it all. 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:00.680 To be very honest with you, I just think it 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:04.600 is so sad and empathetic and demeaning. But I think 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:06.640 that's the state of the Democratic Party today. What was 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:08.320 your take on it? 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:11.640 It was truly surprising that they did not stand for 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:16.520 their fellow Americans, these everyday American heroes who have lived 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:19.800 through such adversity and who have been uplifted and are 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:23.280 living their American dream thanks to the policies of President Trump. 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:26.479 And you always expect the opposing party not to stand 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:29.560 for policies or not to stand for the agenda, but 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:33.320 to not stand for a thirteen year old boy who's 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:36.919 fighting cancer, or for the Democrats in there to be 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:40.240 wearing pink allegedly in honor of women, but then you 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:45.280 don't stand for two mothers whose children were brutally raped 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:48.000 and slaughtered at the hands of the legal immigrants. Was 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:52.920 appalling in that moment. When President Trump named a wildlife 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:56.039 refuge in Texas in honor of Jocelyn Nungray, you have 0:05:56.160 --> 0:06:00.960 to be a soulless, hateful filled in the visual to 0:06:01.160 --> 0:06:04.400 not be moved to tears or at least show any 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:07.720 sign of empathy for a mother who lost her beautiful 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:11.200 twelve year old child. It's disgraceful that this is what 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:14.120 the modern day Democrat Party has become. And I think 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:17.400 it was a really clarifying moment Sean for Americans in 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:20.800 this country who thought maybe the Democrats would have learned 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:23.600 from the SmackDown that President Trump gave them in the 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:26.840 November fifth election. Nope, they clearly did it. They are 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:30.440 doubling down on their same far left antics and on 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:33.799 their Trump Arrangement syndrome. I mean, these people truly hate 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:37.120 President Trump so much that their hatred for him has 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:42.119 overrided any common sense or human decency, and it's really 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:45.279 sad to see. I think it was quite alarming, actually, 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:48.520 But you know, we're going to continue moving forward at 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:51.640 the White House. The President will continue moving forward implementing 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:55.440 policies that are grounded in common sense and that uplift 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:59.159 all Americans, regardless of their race, or their religion, or 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:02.279 their gender, or where they live in this country, red 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:04.800 state or blue state. President Seump is looking out for you, 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:08.599 and the Democrat Party the same cannot be said for them. 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:11.680 It was a week ago where everybody was flailing and 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:14.480 they couldn't believe in the incident of the White House 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:17.480 with Zelinski, who was being very disrespectful to the President. 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:20.760 And now we see a total capitulation. Everything that the 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:25.920 President had planned for the process of peace with Ukraine 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:29.800 and Russia is now coming to fruition. I said that night, 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:32.440 and I've been saying it every night since. He'll be back. 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:36.000 He's back. He sent the letter to the President, he 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:38.240 posted what he posted on x It seems to be 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:40.720 back on track. It looks like we'll have a rare 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:44.040 earth minerals deal. It looks like we'll have, you know, 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:47.720 a cease fire and then the heart will be the negotiations. 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:50.680 And apparently Latin now the president's putting pressure on Vladimir 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:52.080 Putin to do his part. 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:55.640 Yeah, he's putting pressure on both sides, and he hasn't 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:58.360 been from the very beginning. Sean, let's be clear about that. 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:01.440 You know that. But the fakeies Meetia has lied like 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:06.160 they always have, making false assertions about where President Trump 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:09.000 stands with Russia and how he's used Russia and how 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:12.120 he's used Pouhin. The President believes dialogue is the best 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:15.160 diplomacy and it's something that we had not seen for 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:17.280 the past three years of this war. And that's why 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:20.200 this war was a stalemate. It was, as many people 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:23.160 call it, a meat grinder. I hate to use that 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:26.160 term because we're talking about human lives, but thousands of 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:29.040 lives have been lost in this war that would have 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:32.160 been really endless if not for President Trump. And so 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:35.760 now he is finally putting boat pressure on both sides 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:38.680 of this war to call for a ceasefire and to 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:44.080 come to the negotiating table to end it. And President Zelinsky, unfortunately, 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:46.400 when he came to the Oval Office last week, did 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:50.760 not have a realistic mindset I guess he still thinks 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:54.080 it's three years ago when Joe Biden was in office, 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:56.840 we were just writing blank checks and American taxpayers could 0:08:56.880 --> 0:09:00.079 continue funding this effort. That's no longer the case of 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:02.960 a peacemaker in chief in the Oval Office now who 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:05.920 wants to stop the endless funding of this war and 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:08.400 wants to stop the endless killing of this war. And 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:11.640 that takes negotiating a deal. And sometimes when you negotiate 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:14.480 a good deal, both sides need to leave the table 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:18.199 a little bit unhappy. And so I think President Zelinsky 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:22.320 is open to President Trump's mindset now recognizes that without 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:24.800 the United States there will be no end to this 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:28.560 conflict insight for his country. And President Trump is doing 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:32.360 this to save Ukraine, for the Ukrainian people, and for 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:37.240 democracy as well. And so Secretary Rubio and Mike Waltz 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:41.200 are traveling to Saudi Arabia next week to restart and 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:45.839 kickstart these negotiations with the Ukrainian delegation again. And as 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:48.880 the President has said, we need, we need a ceasefire, 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:52.200 we need an economic partnership between the United States and Ukraine, 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:55.400 which will be a great deterrent to Russian aggression. May 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:58.040 I add it's also a great economic partnership for the 0:09:58.160 --> 0:10:01.520 Ukrainian people. Those are two necessities put on the table 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:04.400 by President Trump, and we hope that President Zelenski and 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:06.760 the Ukrainian people will agree to them so we can 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:10.160 move forward with a true piece agreement that is lasting 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:11.920 under this President Donald Trump. 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:15.840 The other thing that is happening too, and the President 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:19.400 was very clear in a truth post this week about 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:23.240 Hamas and how the killing must stop, and how the 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:26.600 bodies must be returned and hostages must be returned, and 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:29.040 if not, that's going to be held to pay, and 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:32.720 that the weaponry that Israel will need to wipe them 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:36.720 out will be given to them, a pretty stern warning warning. 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:39.160 And I would just say that, knowing Donald Trump as 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:42.040 well as I think that I know him, when he 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:44.880 says something like that, he means it, and that is real. 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:47.960 And I think that that's probably coming to a head 0:10:48.000 --> 0:10:48.720 sooner than later. 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:53.760 He does mean it. And there's a maximum pressure campaign 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:57.120 on Hamas right now, and the President has lost his 0:10:57.240 --> 0:11:00.319 patients and he's been very clear about that. I'd like 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:03.080 to add, Sean that the President put that statement out 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:08.079 moments after leaving a meeting with eight of the hostages 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:10.600 from Gaza, and I had the honor of being president 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:12.920 for that meeting, and it was one of the most 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:16.360 moving things I've ever been a part of. These people 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:20.360 were in dark tunnels in Gaza just weeks ago and 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:23.680 now they were standing in the Oval office before the President, 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:26.359 who they claimed, this is not me as his spokesperson. 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:30.520 They told the President if not for him, they would 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:33.120 be dead, they would not be alive, or they would 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:37.080 still be held hostage. It was incredibly moving, and the 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:41.280 President heard these stories, the atrocities that were committed by 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:45.400 Hamas against these individuals. They are so lucky and blessed 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:48.440 to be alive a standing to tell their stories, and 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:51.880 the President heard them. He took them very seriously, and 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:56.040 then moments later you had his truth go out a 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:58.840 very strong message to Hamas. And so you have the 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:02.200 President working directly, you have Adam Bohler, his special envoy 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:06.960 for hostage negotiations, and then of course Steve Whitcoff, Secretary Rubio, 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:10.280 Mike Waltz. There couldn't be a better or more stronger 0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:13.760 team working on this effort on behalf of the President 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:17.000 to end this conflict in the Middle East and the 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:19.720 President again, he sent a very strong message to Jamas, 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:23.839 and we hope that they will release all of the hostages, 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:28.200 including those who have unfortunately tragically perished, because their families 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:31.480 deserve to have those bodies back so they can have 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:34.040 closure in peace in their lives. And that's what the 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:35.080 President is looking for. 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:37.040 All right, quick break, we'll come back. 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:39.800 We'll continue more with the Assistant to the President, White 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:42.480 House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt. We'll get to your calls 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:44.280 on the other side. Eight hundred and nine to four 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:47.720 one Sean as we continue on this Friday. Now, we 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:51.760 have spoken at length, and I understand the state run 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:55.559 legacy media mob that I have declared dead after this election. 0:12:56.120 --> 0:12:59.520 I understand then never going to get it. I understand 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:02.640 they don't want to understand Donald Trump. They don't want 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:07.560 to know his thinking, his mindset. They don't They don't 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:11.160 want to understand that he is negotiating constantly. 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:12.000 That's fine. 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:17.160 When Donald Trump talks about tariffs, he's really not wanting 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:20.160 to put tariffs on people. That's why he uses the 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:25.360 term reciprocal tariffs. As a result of the President's policies, 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:30.559 we have seen massive movement in terms of now manufacturing. 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:34.000 Moving back to this country, Nissan had planned to build 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:37.679 a plant in Mexico. They're now building that plant in America. 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:40.120 The same with Honda. They're going to build their new 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:43.600 version of the Honda Civic in America where they originally 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:46.880 a planned to build a plant in Mexico. The same 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:49.760 thing with Apple. Apple is now going to invest in 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:53.440 the next four years five hundred billion dollars in a 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:57.320 plant that they're building in Texas that will create tens 0:13:57.360 --> 0:14:00.360 and tens of thousands of jobs. This is all good 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:04.560 for the American people and for those displaced workers that 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:07.439 we're working in jobs that we now know they shouldn't 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:09.839 have been working in in the first place. Considering all 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:14.040 the waste, fraud, abused corruption, and agenda driven spending by 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:18.560 Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and their administration on wokeism, deiism, 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:23.760 New Green dealism, transgenderism. Well, I mean, this is an 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:26.560 insane amount of money and these are going to be 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:31.160 high paying career jobs for Americans. Is it hard to 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:34.080 transition to a new job, Yes, but these opportunities are 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:37.080 going to be huge when the President opens up the 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:40.160 energy sector. So we are on a path to becoming 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:42.600 the most energy dominant country on Earth. Is that going 0:14:42.640 --> 0:14:46.440 to help create high paying career jobs for Americans. Yes, 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:48.920 it will. That will be good for the American people 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:51.720 as well. So all of these policies, they might take 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:53.560 a little bit of time, but a lot of these 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:57.680 government workers are getting payouts until October the first enough 0:14:57.720 --> 0:15:00.880 time to transition to the next career move which has 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:03.600 which happens to most people in this day and age. 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:05.720 It's not like the old days where you work for 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:08.000 one company your entire career and then you move on. 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:13.400 I have, I've been fortunate, but most people that I 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:16.080 know in my industry don't work for just one company. 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:20.240 They move around quite a bit. Now we also have 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:24.080 this semiconductor company out of Taiwan. One of the things 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:27.800 that has concerned me, especially in light of the territorial 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:31.240 ambitions of China, is we are very dependent on Taiwan 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:35.080 to get the chips that are so critical to our 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:40.800 technology infrastructure. Well, now they have committed to investing over 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:43.560 one hundred billion dollars in the US so that we 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:46.880 will make these semiconductors right here in this country. Is 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:49.040 the President talking about it today? 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:53.120 Taiwan Semiconductor is announcing that they all be investing at 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:56.800 least one hundred billion dollars in new capital in the 0:15:56.920 --> 0:16:00.240 United States over the next short period of time to 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:04.200 build state of the art semiconductor manufacturing facilities. I think 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:06.320 mostly it's going to be in Arizona, which is what 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:10.440 I understand, which is at a great state. I like 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:14.160 it because I want it, but I want most of them, actually, 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:17.320 but I did. We want it, and we wanted big. 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:20.280 The most powerful AI chips in the world will be 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:23.640 made right here in America, and it'll be a big 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:26.760 percentage of the chips made by his company. But as 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:31.720 you know, they're based mostly in Taiwan, and they're far 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:33.800 and away the biggest there's nobody e been closed. This 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:37.280 one hundred billion dollars in new investment will go into 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:42.200 building five cutting edge fabrication facilities in the great state 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:47.120 that we just discussed, Arizona, and will create thousands of jobs, 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:51.120 many thousands of jobs, and the high paying jobs. In total, 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:56.320 today's announcement brings Taiwan's semiconductor investments to about one hundred 0:16:56.320 --> 0:16:58.720 and sixty five billion they've started already. 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:03.440 I mean, that's a significant amount of money. It's always 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:07.000 a pleasure to bring back our friend Brian Kanns. He's 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:12.919 the CEO of Burner and anyway, they have their manufacturing 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:16.720 facility in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and he's here to talk 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:19.600 about the benefits of working under President Trump and his 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:23.359 ability now to shore a production of manufacturing of his products, 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:27.960 and unlike others that have been critical as a person 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:30.960 in the business world that has built a huge company 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:35.359 now Berner is now the choice of so many government agencies, 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:38.600 police departments, private security firms, and emerging all of you. 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:41.679 If you don't have your Burner, please get one, because 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:45.240 this is a very dark, dangerous, evil world. Unfortunately, I 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:46.399 wish it wasn't, but it is. 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:46.840 Brian. 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:47.720 Great to have you back. 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:49.960 How are you good, Sean, It's great to be on 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:50.720 your show again. 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:53.639 Okay, So you know you made a decision, and I 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:56.119 remember when you made this decision, because we've been friends 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:58.720 a long time, that you're going to build out your 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:03.960 manufacturing center here in America. The initial costs were higher, 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:07.520 there were no incentives to do it except that you 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:10.760 wanted us to be an American product, and it's paid 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:14.160 off in massive dividends for you. 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:17.199 Tell us about well, you know, what most of your 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:21.120 audience probably doesn't know is you were integral in that decision. 0:18:22.160 --> 0:18:24.800 You know, if you think back to twenty twenty, you 0:18:25.680 --> 0:18:29.040 were one of the early adopters of Burna. You mentioned 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:32.160 it on your show, and at the time, we were 0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:38.280 manufacturing everything in South Africa. Your mentioned drove eighteen thousand orders. 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:41.280 You know, we were I think producing fifty or one 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:45.560 hundred launchers a day and we had a tremendous, tremendous 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:48.280 backlog and you know, you called me up and said 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:50.679 buy And I'm getting a lot of people that I 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:52.960 told them to buy a Burna. You put them on 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:56.600 backlog and I said, Sean, you really overwhelmed us. And 0:18:56.680 --> 0:18:58.959 if you remember what you did is you got me 0:18:59.000 --> 0:19:04.479 the names of you manufacturers of plastic injection molded parts 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:08.800 of machine parts, and with your assistance, we actually moved 0:19:08.880 --> 0:19:13.600 that factory from South Africa to for Wayne, Indiana, and 0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:17.360 we moved a significant portion of our supply chain because 0:19:17.400 --> 0:19:20.520 you know, it was clear to us, number one, we 0:19:20.920 --> 0:19:24.560 wanted to be an American made product, but number two, 0:19:24.960 --> 0:19:28.560 this supply chain spread all over the world really carried 0:19:28.600 --> 0:19:31.199 a lot of risk and nothing brought that home like 0:19:31.320 --> 0:19:35.280 the pandemic. You know, fast forward to four years later. 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:39.440 You know, we're currently probably at fifty percent of our 0:19:40.119 --> 0:19:45.080 supply chain is US based. But with President Trump and 0:19:45.119 --> 0:19:47.600 what he's doing, and I'll tell you, you know, a 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:51.560 lot of people criticize him, he is teaching a masterclass 0:19:51.600 --> 0:19:54.760 in how teriffs should be used, you know, as the 0:19:54.800 --> 0:19:58.760 CEO of Burna, one of the largest and fastest growing 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:01.720 non lethal gun comp and he's in America. I talk 0:20:01.840 --> 0:20:05.120 to a lot of other CEOs, CEOs of the big 0:20:05.160 --> 0:20:11.240 box stores, and CEOs of a lot of manufacturers. Everybody 0:20:11.400 --> 0:20:17.040 is moving their production here because the uncertainty that even 0:20:17.080 --> 0:20:21.160 the thread of tariffs creates, says, you know what, we 0:20:21.240 --> 0:20:23.439 need to have the supply chain in the US. It 0:20:23.520 --> 0:20:28.399 is not just patriotic, it's good business. So we've announced, 0:20:28.440 --> 0:20:31.080 and I'll announce again on your show, we are going 0:20:31.160 --> 0:20:35.080 to be virtually one hundred percent made in the USA 0:20:35.119 --> 0:20:37.840 by the end of this year, you know, And again 0:20:37.920 --> 0:20:42.119 part of it is we want to because we're patriotic Americans. 0:20:42.600 --> 0:20:44.679 But you know, I think you've got to give credit 0:20:44.760 --> 0:20:47.800 to the President, you know, what he's been doing with 0:20:47.920 --> 0:20:50.840 the thread of these terriffs. And as you said, It's 0:20:50.840 --> 0:20:53.639 not just the tariff. It's like when you use a 0:20:53.680 --> 0:20:56.240 gun to stop a crime, or you use a burnet 0:20:56.240 --> 0:20:58.879 to stop a crime. It is the thread of the 0:20:58.920 --> 0:21:02.560 tariff that is bringing production back to the United States. 0:21:03.520 --> 0:21:06.000 I know for a fact the President doesn't want to 0:21:06.040 --> 0:21:11.480 put tariffs on other countries. However, he is right that 0:21:11.720 --> 0:21:16.199 these other countries, the European Union in particular, Canada in particular, 0:21:17.480 --> 0:21:21.320 India in particular, and a lot of other quote allied nations, 0:21:22.280 --> 0:21:25.679 they have not they have not embraced the concept of 0:21:25.720 --> 0:21:30.439 free and fair trade. And America pays these tariffs and 0:21:30.480 --> 0:21:33.920 they put all of these obstacles up for American companies 0:21:33.960 --> 0:21:35.880 to bring our products into their countries. 0:21:36.320 --> 0:21:38.919 And what he's saying is that's not fair. That's not 0:21:39.040 --> 0:21:40.040 free and fair trade. 0:21:40.400 --> 0:21:43.520 And when I listen to the so called experts, economists, 0:21:43.560 --> 0:21:47.320 the punditry class talk about, oh, I'm a free trader. 0:21:47.359 --> 0:21:48.720 Well, if you're a free trader, why aren't you. 0:21:48.760 --> 0:21:51.360