Speaker 1: All right, thank you, Scott Shannon, and thanks to all
Speaker 1: of you for being with us. Write down our toll
Speaker 1: free telephone number if you want to be a part
Speaker 1: of the program. Linda, what did I say when we
Speaker 1: were in the swamp yesterday and what we did last
Speaker 1: night on hannoned? He was very very important. The timing
Speaker 1: was very very critical because if Republicans, we've only had
Speaker 1: four chances in one hundred years where Republicans have had
Speaker 1: the White House, the House, and the Senate. And this
Speaker 1: reconciliation bill that I've been talking a lot about, I
Speaker 1: know it's somewhat how do I say this is it
Speaker 1: is so swampy in nature that most people don't want
Speaker 1: to even hear it, and I have to explain it
Speaker 1: because it's so complicated and it's so significant. Otherwise we're
Speaker 1: stuck with the Biden Harris economy and we have no
Speaker 1: chance to fix it because you're never going to get
Speaker 1: a single Democrat to go along with President Trump's economic priorities,
Speaker 1: his priorities on security in the border, his priorities on
Speaker 1: end energy dominance, his priority on on Doze, his prior
Speaker 1: priorities on the next generation of weaponry, UH and if
Speaker 1: they don't get this done too, we risk a four
Speaker 1: trillion dollar tax increase because the Trump tax cuts expire
Speaker 1: and through reconciliation with its you know arcane, you know archaic,
Speaker 1: you know rules for the US Senate makes it very
Speaker 1: complicated because it's a way to bypass the sixty vote
Speaker 1: uh margin that's needed for cloture to have a vote,
Speaker 1: and it's it's the one way you can thread a
Speaker 1: needle and get stuff done. That's how the Inflation Reduction
Speaker 1: Act got passed and shoved down our throats. That's how
Speaker 1: that's how Obamacare got shoved down our throat, and and
Speaker 1: we we now have to use this process now. It
Speaker 1: makes it complicated because then the sentence involved anyway. So
Speaker 1: this is a very important time, Linda, What did I
Speaker 1: say yesterday when everybody was panicking as a result of
Speaker 1: the stock market. Now, yesterday, for a big part of
Speaker 1: the day, up until like maybe the last hour hour
Speaker 1: and a half, the stock market had been on the
Speaker 1: positive range. Right now it's up about twenty five hundred
Speaker 1: points today. And I'll explain why in a second. What
Speaker 1: did I say, what happened? How did I tell you
Speaker 1: that this is going to end.
Speaker 2: You said that Trump is a very smart businessman and
Speaker 2: that we should pay attention. You've known him a very
Speaker 2: long time, and that there was going to be big
Speaker 2: news today because things were going to start happening and
Speaker 2: we're going to pivot, and that's exactly what happened. You
Speaker 2: also said that you had to get all these senators
Speaker 2: on board because we can't afford to not support the president.
Speaker 1: Okay, one of the reasons. We were in DC yesterday
Speaker 1: and I spent a lot of time doing a lot
Speaker 1: of things that I'm not going to talk about on
Speaker 1: the air. Now. Did I know this because the President
Speaker 1: told me this? No, he never told me never. I
Speaker 1: just know him and have known him long enough to
Speaker 1: know how he works. What am I talking about? If
Speaker 1: you've been busy all day and you're just getting caught
Speaker 1: up on the news, which, by the way, if you're
Speaker 1: busy working all day, that means we're a great American
Speaker 1: and you're serving your community, you're serving your country in
Speaker 1: some capacity, and you're providing for your family. And I know,
Speaker 1: as some of my closest friends, I don't know, my
Speaker 1: whole life doesn't revolve around your four hours a day.
Speaker 1: I tried, but my whole life doesn't revolve around it.
Speaker 1: I'm like, gee, thanks a lot. What kind of friend?
Speaker 1: Are you? Not a good friend? Anyway? So Trump puts
Speaker 1: this out today, and this is what I knew eventually
Speaker 1: would happen. You see what Donald Trump and and remember
Speaker 1: the state run legacy media mob never wants to ever
Speaker 1: understand Donald Trump. They are obsessed with hating Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: You know, if the dog bites the beast things, if
Speaker 1: you're feeling sad, they're still gonna hate Trump and blame Trump.
Speaker 1: If he cured cancer, they would still hate Trump. These
Speaker 1: idiots on that hard hitting ABC Disney show, The View
Speaker 1: where they have that idiot you know, dressed up in
Speaker 1: blackface in the past and a guy that puts cucumbers
Speaker 1: in his or whatever in his pants and has women
Speaker 1: touching it with both hands and feeling it. Jimmy Kimmel.
Speaker 1: By the way, Bob Biger, do you approve that? What's that? Linda? Okay?
Speaker 1: They can get over that. And you know they've got
Speaker 1: the dumbest idiots, no wonder why this network is just
Speaker 1: going down the tubes. And you know, does Bob Biger
Speaker 1: approve that message? You know, these idiot geniuses there's a
Speaker 1: story out today which I've found very interesting before I
Speaker 1: get to the View, is that the Ladies of the
Speaker 1: View had not had a single conservative, not one. I
Speaker 1: wonder why they're asking me to be on. I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess maybe they're just desperate. I'm not sure, but anyway,
Speaker 1: these they didn't have a single let's see, not a
Speaker 1: I'm looking for my media package here, so oh here
Speaker 1: it is the media Matters and I'm sorry, media matters,
Speaker 1: media research they call it. ABC News made a big
Speaker 1: deal this. If you invited zero right leaning guests in
Speaker 1: the first three months of twenty twenty five, that's pretty funny.
Speaker 1: I don't think they can get them. I mean, they
Speaker 1: did reach out to me after I said to Steve
Speaker 1: and a Smith they used to invite me on that show.
Speaker 1: I don't go every inviting me on in years. And
Speaker 1: then I did a poll and thank goodness, I won
Speaker 1: fifty one forty nine. When I put up a poll
Speaker 1: because Linda was pushing me to do the show, I
Speaker 1: didn't want to do it. That is not true.
Speaker 2: I wasn't pushing you to do the show.
Speaker 1: What I said, well pushing me.
Speaker 2: What I said was it would be interesting to have
Speaker 2: a conversation with people and see if there was an
Speaker 2: ability when the cameras are rolling to have a real conversation.
Speaker 2: Of course, I'm not expecting that to actually happen, but
Speaker 2: it would be nice because you're very good at debate,
Speaker 2: you're very calm, and joy and whoopee are losing their
Speaker 2: marbles no matter. I mean, you could say God bless
Speaker 2: you when they're going to get mad.
Speaker 1: So it would have been interesting. But Ka got so
Speaker 1: out of control with Rosy o'donnello mey. The poor Barbara Walters,
Speaker 1: God rest her soul. Well, I actually liked him, was
Speaker 1: always very nice to me. You know, she could not
Speaker 1: do a thing about it. Nothing anyway, Joyless this morning.
Speaker 1: I'll play it later on the program saying, oh, Trump's
Speaker 1: tariff plan has been to intentionally destroy the country so
Speaker 1: his billionaire friends can swoop in and buy everything low
Speaker 1: and he can become a dictator. This is how nuts
Speaker 1: they are, Bob Iger, Mickey Mouse, ABC Disney, do you
Speaker 1: approve this message? Tonny Houston countries are not going to
Speaker 1: be able to depend on a country that every four
Speaker 1: years could elect a dictator. These people are nuts and
Speaker 1: it goes all day long on that network. No nobody
Speaker 1: watches that network. I am telling you I get the
Speaker 1: ratings every day. You know that Hannity is on all
Speaker 1: of television unless there's like a big sporting event like
Speaker 1: Monday night. You know, we're like one in all of television.
Speaker 1: Two not just cable or three. The show hand and
Speaker 1: by the way, thank you to all of you that watch,
Speaker 1: and you've made that possible. Not me. I mean, who
Speaker 1: would have thought when Fox News went on the air
Speaker 1: twenty nine years ago that those would be these networks
Speaker 1: would deteriorate to these levels. Why because they lie. Then
Speaker 1: they put idiots like Jimmy kimmelan in blackface mocking Carl
Speaker 1: Malone or you know in his previous life, you know,
Speaker 1: putting you know, strange items in his pants and having
Speaker 1: unknown women and telling them to come up and touch
Speaker 1: his crotch, you know, for ten seconds with both hands
Speaker 1: and see if they can tell what's in there. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's the guy that you know, bob Byger you hire
Speaker 1: that guy? Did Mickey Mouse hired that guy who hired
Speaker 1: that guy? And his ratings suck and he's officially on
Speaker 1: cancelation watch as is the view. You know, Harris Faulkner
Speaker 1: is beating the view on Fox News. How cool is that?
Speaker 1: I love it? Anyway, A long drawn out way of saying.
Speaker 1: They don't care about knowing understanding Donald Trump, and I
Speaker 1: knowing him. I had no insider information. I'm going to
Speaker 1: be very very clear about this, I said to Linda
Speaker 1: will Mark my words, because the country, the list of
Speaker 1: countries that were on record reaching out wanting trade deals,
Speaker 1: wanting free and fair deals that recognize that we have
Speaker 1: been ripped off, taken advantage of, totally screwed over and
Speaker 1: been abused all these years, and other presidents have allowed
Speaker 1: it to happen for forty or fifty years. Trump is
Speaker 1: the only one to take it on that he's going
Speaker 1: to create an off ramp, which he did twenty six
Speaker 1: hundred on the down. Now he's going to and he's
Speaker 1: going now. He has created an environment which every country
Speaker 1: knows that he meant what he said. Every country knows
Speaker 1: that he's in a position of strength, and if they
Speaker 1: don't deal with him, it's gonna happen again. And then
Speaker 1: because China doubled down on dumb, dumb and stupid, because
Speaker 1: they need access to our markets just like and This
Speaker 1: was what the President was betting on every country, the EU.
Speaker 1: You're you know, all the European Asia, Great Britain, uh India, Japan, Taiwan,
Speaker 1: South Korea, and even China. In the end, I predict
Speaker 1: will come around. They need access to our markets and
Speaker 1: your money, or else they're screwed. Their manufacturing starts to tank,
Speaker 1: their economy start to tank, their workers start rebelling, their
Speaker 1: their their citizens start getting angry. And Trump bet on
Speaker 1: American strength to get this deal done. And now he's
Speaker 1: gonna Now he's free to negotiate. It was as predictable
Speaker 1: if you know and watch this man as the day
Speaker 1: is long. This was not complicated to figure out. I'd
Speaker 1: like to tell you I'm a genius. I'm not. The
Speaker 1: reason I didn't tell this publicly is because I wanted
Speaker 1: it to play out. I didn't want to get in
Speaker 1: the way of of what was a a position of
Speaker 1: strength that the President was taking. Again, no insider knowledge here,
Speaker 1: just knowing, observing this guy, and he sends out this
Speaker 1: truth post today based on the lack of respect that
Speaker 1: China has shown to the world markets. I'm here by
Speaker 1: raising the tariff charged to China by the United States
Speaker 1: to one hundred and twenty five percent, effective immediately. At
Speaker 1: some point, hopefully in the near future, China will realize
Speaker 1: that the days of ripping off the USA and other
Speaker 1: countries is no longer sustainable or acceptable. Conversely, and based
Speaker 1: on the fact that more than seventy five countries have
Speaker 1: called representatives of our country of the United States, including
Speaker 1: the Departments of Commerce, Treasury, the USTR, to negotiate a
Speaker 1: solution to the subjects being discussed relative to trade, trade barriers, tariffs,
Speaker 1: currency manipulation, non monetary tariffs, and that these countries have not,
Speaker 1: at my strong suggestion, retaliated in any way, shape, matter
Speaker 1: of form against the United States. I have authorized a
Speaker 1: ninety day pause and a substantially lowered reciprocal tariff during
Speaker 1: this period of ten percent, also effective immediately. Thank you
Speaker 1: for your attention to this matter. Let the negotiations begin.
Speaker 1: This is what American strength is all about. Why we
Speaker 1: have allowed our country to be a sucker nation. Why
Speaker 1: we have been allowed ourselves to be abused by friend
Speaker 1: and foe alike. Why they have taken advantage of us
Speaker 1: and we've allowed it is unconscionable. You know, why are
Speaker 1: we allowing other countries that desperately depend on us for
Speaker 1: their national security to turn around and then stab us
Speaker 1: in the back with these high tariffs. Example EU. You know,
Speaker 1: all these countries ten percent tariffs on American auto manufacturers. Okay,
Speaker 1: then you add the value add attacks like Germany and
Speaker 1: other countries have and okay, so that's thirty percent above
Speaker 1: sticker price. No wonder. We sell no cars in Germany,
Speaker 1: but they sell you know, ten cars to our one car.
Speaker 1: You know, they sell their cars in the US because
Speaker 1: we only have a two and a half percent tariff
Speaker 1: on them. Okay, that's got to end. There's got to
Speaker 1: be either free and fair trade. There's got to be also.
Speaker 1: If not, you're gonna choose reciprocal tariffs, the choice will
Speaker 1: be yours. But there are other issues that need to
Speaker 1: be dealt with as well. You know, when you talk
Speaker 1: about tariffs of that tax of value add attacks and
Speaker 1: national sales tax, that is a tariff that makes it
Speaker 1: that much harder to sell an American car because you're
Speaker 1: adding twenty percent to the sticker price. We're not doing
Speaker 1: that to them. And these countries are guilty of currency manipulation,
Speaker 1: non monetary tariffs. As I said, and that these countries,
Speaker 1: you know, we're smart enough not to get into a
Speaker 1: fight or pick a fight with Trump. And I agree
Speaker 1: with Kevin O'Leary, the hell with China. If China wants
Speaker 1: this fight, great, he said, clobber than with a four
Speaker 1: one hundred percent tariff. It's time to squeeze, you know,
Speaker 1: Chinese heads into the wall. Now he's not wrong. Heritage
Speaker 1: Foundation released a study over the weekend revealed China's shipbuilders
Speaker 1: were able to produce over a thousand commercial military vessels
Speaker 1: last year. American shipbuilders shipbuilders built ten ships. Let me
Speaker 1: tell you something. You know, all the critics of President
Speaker 1: Trump and his tariffs, how much longer are you going
Speaker 1: to take being abused and taken advantage of and being
Speaker 1: ripped off without being willing to take a little bit
Speaker 1: of pain? And I know everybody was freaking out. I
Speaker 1: was very aware of it. I'm very sympathetic towards it
Speaker 1: because it's people's savings and they don't know the eventual outcome.
Speaker 1: But I was betting on American strength and I was
Speaker 1: betting that the President was right, that they want access
Speaker 1: to our markets. And it's just the beginning of negotiations.
Speaker 1: It was a brilliant strategy on the part of the
Speaker 1: President and a huge win his part, and the stock
Speaker 1: market's nearly up twenty seven one hundred points today, two
Speaker 1: seven hundred points today. It's you know, everybody freaked out
Speaker 1: over nothing. And I was saying that at the time.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to go too deep in the pain.
Speaker 1: I didn't know for sure what he would do. But
Speaker 1: knowing his brain, he's in a never ending, perpetual state
Speaker 1: of negotiation. That's just how he rolls. And he doesn't
Speaker 1: like America getting ripped off, and neither do I, and
Speaker 1: neither should anybody. And the biggest beneficiary in all this
Speaker 1: is going to be American manufacturers, American automakers, American cattle ranchers,
Speaker 1: American produce and dairy farmers. They're going to everyone will benefit,
Speaker 1: working men and women. Now, the people that work on
Speaker 1: Wall Street, they make money when it goes up, they
Speaker 1: make it when it goes down. Don't let him fool
Speaker 1: you now, God forbid of you and your family are
Speaker 1: in a situation. This is a dangerous world. You feel threatened, ideally,
Speaker 1: you talk your way out of it. You back up,
Speaker 1: you walk away, you run away. Whatever you have to do, okay,
Speaker 1: Plan B twenty five Now until the top of the hour,
Speaker 1: eight hundred and nine to FOURT one Sean, you want
Speaker 1: to be a part of the program, don't forget only
Speaker 1: a few more days. What is today's day, the eighth, Linda,
Speaker 1: we have today, tomorrow, Well, today's the ninth, So we
Speaker 1: have today, tomorrow and Friday. Less.
Speaker 2: People have today half of the day today. And let
Speaker 2: me just tell you, people showed up yesterday. We were
Speaker 2: getting crossed yesterday with people entering the contest.
Speaker 1: I wish I could bring people behind the scenes of
Speaker 1: why I went to Washington yesterday. It's just there's certain
Speaker 1: things that you know in my work, in my job,
Speaker 1: and I allude to certain things that I know are
Speaker 1: public information. But more importantly, this is a very critical
Speaker 1: time in Washington, it really is. And anyway for these
Speaker 1: senators to get together. We're going to play some of
Speaker 1: it later in the program. And getting this reconciliation bill
Speaker 1: done is very very important. You're not going to get
Speaker 1: everything you want in part because of reconciliation the process itself.
Speaker 1: Now this is April. We just got to get to
Speaker 1: October and then we have the first Trump budget and
Speaker 1: they'll be able to go line by line through every
Speaker 1: department if it still exists, and get to the budget
Speaker 1: they want. But this will preserve the tax cuts. This
Speaker 1: will bring in no tax on tips, overtime social Security.
Speaker 1: This will also unleash the President's energy dominance program. This
Speaker 1: will help Tom Homan and Christy nom out big time
Speaker 1: in terms of securing the border number one and keeping
Speaker 1: it secure and number two, deporting all these people that
Speaker 1: didn't respect our laws, borders and sovereignty. This is this
Speaker 1: is going to help, you know, the Department of Defense
Speaker 1: and the next generation of weaponry, knowing that the world
Speaker 1: is a very very dangerous place and we can't we
Speaker 1: can't stand idly by, you know, with our hands tied
Speaker 1: behind our back. And it's going to help dosee, you know,
Speaker 1: weed out waste, fraud, abused corruption. That is going to continue,
Speaker 1: whether Elon must stays past one hundred and thirty days
Speaker 1: or not. I mean, as a non government employee, there's
Speaker 1: usually a deadline on that, but there is some ambiguity
Speaker 1: to it, but we'll see. If nothing else, he will
Speaker 1: have set in motion with this process to continue, which
Speaker 1: I'm very happy about. And I guess that's why he's
Speaker 1: hated so much. But anyway, back to the Tesla contest.
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Speaker 1: I'm just loving the reaction of stupid people, all of
Speaker 1: these people that have been trying to create in other
Speaker 1: people's minds that Donald Trump does not know what he's doing.
Speaker 1: He's going to create a world economic crash and Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: you know, it's like whiplash. What are they gonna say tomorrow? Oh,
Speaker 1: he was forced to do this. No. As a matter
Speaker 1: of fact, the Treasury Secretary of descent just confirmed what
Speaker 1: I had pretty much understood because I know the guy
Speaker 1: so well. This was the plan all along. I've been
Speaker 1: saying this. I said it to Linda, sweet Baby James
Speaker 1: yesterday in DC. I said, he's just he's lining up
Speaker 1: all these nations, one after another after another, to the
Speaker 1: point where they're begging to do a deal with us.
Speaker 1: He has laid out the he's laid out the history
Speaker 1: of America being ripped off and taken advantage of. It's
Speaker 1: a compelling case. And we provide for the national defense,
Speaker 1: we pay more for NATO. We don't teriff them the
Speaker 1: way they've been tariffing us. They've been taking advantage of us,
Speaker 1: downright abusing us, meaning America, the American consumer, and American manufacturers.
Speaker 1: They have hurt our ranchers, our farmers, are automakers, They've
Speaker 1: hurt everybody. And now the President said, okay, now that
Speaker 1: you got the message that I'm serious, now we can negotiate,
Speaker 1: and they'll be negotiating from a position of strength. Now.
Speaker 1: The President also wants to talk about other issues, currency manipulation,
Speaker 1: trade barriers, non monetary tariffs. I we got to deal
Speaker 1: with the vattax in the European Union. I mean, he
Speaker 1: was not wrong in saying that the whole European Union
Speaker 1: designed to screw us. And if they think that they're
Speaker 1: going to get by without the US, good luck with them.
Speaker 1: You know, go out on your own. They want access
Speaker 1: to your money, they want access to our markets. They're
Speaker 1: ready to make a deal and the President will be fair.
Speaker 1: But the President is not going to allow this country
Speaker 1: to get ripped off anymore. This is not that complicated.
Speaker 1: This has been you know. I got to give kudos
Speaker 1: to Mark Pennell used to be the poster for Bill Clinton.
Speaker 1: He had an article in Today's New York Post that
Speaker 1: a reactions off the Wall undo market panic, he called it.
Speaker 1: He said, it's time for Wall Street to get a grip.
Speaker 1: This is a Democrat writing noess. The Trump tariff policies
Speaker 1: are a calculated gamble that the threat of tariffs can
Speaker 1: fundamentally remake the global economy and retilt it in the
Speaker 1: direction of the United States and away from China and
Speaker 1: other beggar thy neighbor countries, he calls them. But whether
Speaker 1: or not, whether they work or not. Wall Street elites
Speaker 1: have convinced themselves that tariffs are worse than the pandemic
Speaker 1: that stopped the entire economy, or the two thousand and
Speaker 1: eight economic crisis that put ten million people out of work.
Speaker 1: And so far nothing has even happened. It's all speculation
Speaker 1: about what could happen, and Wall Street regularly overreacts on
Speaker 1: both the upside and the downside. But in judging the
Speaker 1: potential impact of the Trump tariffs, you know, the first
Speaker 1: place to look a basic math, he went on to say.
Speaker 1: And he said, these tariffs, if it acted, would be
Speaker 1: only a small part of the US economy, no more
Speaker 1: than about one percent of our economic activity. And if
Speaker 1: they weren't acted, the money would not go into corporate
Speaker 1: profits put into the US treasury about three hundred billion
Speaker 1: a year. I actually think that number is low. I
Speaker 1: think it would be higher. The United States has an
Speaker 1: annual GDP of twenty eight trillion. We are the world's
Speaker 1: largest importer, but that's because we have the number one
Speaker 1: economy in the world by far relative to our size.
Speaker 1: In part, imports are much smaller percentage than most people think.
Speaker 1: Thank God, we have a few people out there with
Speaker 1: a brain it is so frustrating. The communist Chinese launched,
Speaker 1: you know, this racist, humiliating humiliation campaign mocking Trump tariffs.
Speaker 1: They had an AI generated video believed to have been
Speaker 1: created by some TikToker depicting a depressing, depressing America under
Speaker 1: Donald Trump's tariffs. Yeah, guess who gets the last laugh today?
Speaker 1: And let me tell you where China's gonna head. China,
Speaker 1: I promise you listen closely to me, is freaking out now.
Speaker 1: Why because China needs access to our markets, they want
Speaker 1: your money too, and they're gonna have to come to
Speaker 1: the table. And this is a win win strategy to
Speaker 1: negotiate trade deals. The other person that got it right
Speaker 1: Art Laugher, smart guy who's on Stuart Varney Show anyway.
Speaker 1: He came after Steve Moore wrote an opinion piece, a
Speaker 1: win win exit strategy for Trump on tariffs that was
Speaker 1: published in the Wall Street Journal. There are a few
Speaker 1: people that get it, people that we usually use on
Speaker 1: this program. Is the reason we have certain guests that
Speaker 1: we have. But what he's done now is he's gotten
Speaker 1: them in a position where they're going to lose their
Speaker 1: access to the US market if they don't redress these
Speaker 1: types of inequities that they've done. And Art Laffer worked
Speaker 1: in the Reagan administration as an economic advisor, and he
Speaker 1: said Trump is a master negotiator. And I'm watching these
Speaker 1: people calling into Trump. This is exactly what he does
Speaker 1: beautifully and wonderfully. And I believe he can negotiate freer
Speaker 1: trade deals, get those tariffs way way down, much lower
Speaker 1: than they are now by primarily those people lowering their
Speaker 1: tariffs and US keeping ours low or even going lower.
Speaker 1: It'll be a win win. This is what we've been
Speaker 1: telling you. What happen now. It might be a little
Speaker 1: hiccup in ninety days. I don't know. Some of these
Speaker 1: countries may be stupid, and by being stupid, I would
Speaker 1: define stupid. As you know, they might agree to you
Speaker 1: and think, oh he gave in, Oh he didn't like
Speaker 1: what was happening on the stock market. Okay, if that's
Speaker 1: your bet, don't make the wrong bet. But I'm telling
Speaker 1: you you're betting on a losing horse. Ten year treasury
Speaker 1: yields spiked higher as Trump tariffs continued. Anyway, it jumped
Speaker 1: ten basis points to four point three sixty three percent.
Speaker 1: Now I'm going to say something to you and I
Speaker 1: don't give out economic advice. Talk to your financial advisor
Speaker 1: if you don't have the stomach for the stock market
Speaker 1: and the topsy turvy, frankly inexplicable ups and downs of
Speaker 1: the market. By the way, it's up twenty eight hundred
Speaker 1: points today. Oh what are they going to do on
Speaker 1: fake new CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS and MSDNC. It is unbelievable.
Speaker 1: The only country that was stupid enough to put reciprocal
Speaker 1: tariffs in place was China, and they got whacked. You know.
Speaker 1: JP Morgan's Jamie Diamond over a sessionated it in probably
Speaker 1: the coming inherited a recession, didn't officially get it into
Speaker 1: recession territory. As far as I'm concerned, it was by
Speaker 1: every definition, we're paying everything. It's going to take a
Speaker 1: lot to get this economy. That's why I went to
Speaker 1: Washington yesterday. But this we've got to get this reconciliation
Speaker 1: bill done. You know it's you know, CNBC, by the way,
Speaker 1: that's like the worst network to watch for economic dos
Speaker 1: They have really dumb people. There's a couple of smart people,
Speaker 1: but the rest of them are pretty dumb. Jim Kramer
Speaker 1: is an idiot. I'm just telling you, I would you
Speaker 1: do what you want? You want to take advice from
Speaker 1: Jim Kramer, Good luck with that. He predicted Black Monday
Speaker 1: for this week didn't quite work out the way he predicted.
Speaker 1: He's the one that said, I'm selling all my crypto
Speaker 1: getting out. Now it's going to go in the tank. Okay,
Speaker 1: a genius. I'm really gonna listen to that guy. No,
Speaker 1: thank you. I'd rather go bet my money away than
Speaker 1: listen to these people. By the way, little side note,
Speaker 1: the House Foreign Affairs Committee is set to consider legislation
Speaker 1: that would halt tens of millions of US tax dollars.
Speaker 1: Apparently they've been flowing to the talent ban. This panel
Speaker 1: now slated a hold of a mark up hearing today
Speaker 1: on No Tax Dollars for Terrorists Act because they were
Speaker 1: recently made aware of a weekly forty million dollar cash
Speaker 1: a shipment being made weekly to the Afghanistan Central Bank.
Speaker 1: In other words, Republicans discovered Biden was sending forty million
Speaker 1: dollars a week in cash shipments to the Taliban, the
Speaker 1: people that killed our soldiers and stole our military equipment
Speaker 1: and took our military base. By the way, on now,
Speaker 1: the left is acting crazy. Carvil He's lost his mind.
Speaker 1: Is now warning Trump will rig the midterms and declare
Speaker 1: martial law. He lost his mind. You're not the same
Speaker 1: guy that I once knew. We have some other news
Speaker 1: I want to get to here. New evidence showing that
Speaker 1: the Biden administration conspired with China to keep Beijing's spy
Speaker 1: balloon surveillance mission a secret. Did you see that news today?
Speaker 1: Linda Biden ministration State Department officials held private talks with
Speaker 1: Beijing counterparts about the Chinese spy balloon that was intercepted
Speaker 1: in US airspace in twenty twenty three, and discussed the
Speaker 1: implication the balloon's publicity would have on the relationship between
Speaker 1: the US and China. Biden officials held discussions with Beijing
Speaker 1: February first, twenty twenty three, about the balloon, discussed the
Speaker 1: impact disclosing the balloon to the public and could have
Speaker 1: that disclosure would have on the relationship between the US
Speaker 1: and China, according to internal State Department documents. At Trump
Speaker 1: administration officials told Fox Digital and apparently wink and Tony
Speaker 1: Blinken stated that if the presidence of the balloon were
Speaker 1: revealed publicly, it could have profound implications for our relationship
Speaker 1: with China. So they chose to lie to you, the
Speaker 1: American people, like they lied about the borders being secure
Speaker 1: and inflation being transitory in Joe's cognitive health. They decided
Speaker 1: they would lie to go US as a matter of
Speaker 1: record because they cared more about what China thinks. Now,
Speaker 1: that's called American weakness. That is called appeasement. By the way,
Speaker 1: Tulsea Gabbert, who's on with US tonight, creates a task
Speaker 1: force to probit the intelligence community. Good. It's about time
Speaker 1: Trump cut ford million dollars in Princeton funding. Good. More
Speaker 1: money saved for you, the American people. You realize that
Speaker 1: if we bring back manufacturing of this country and we
Speaker 1: start building you know, one hundred all these companies that
Speaker 1: we have listed, will list them tonight on Hannity. I'm
Speaker 1: also going to scroll a list of all the money
Speaker 1: pledged before the tariff went into place. Then I'm going
Speaker 1: to put a list of countries that are investing in
Speaker 1: America as a result of the tariff threat. Then we're
Speaker 1: going to list the seventy countries that we can get it.
Speaker 1: And then we're going to list all the teriffs. I'm
Speaker 1: going to scroll all the tariffs that China puts on America,
Speaker 1: and you tell me whether or not we should do
Speaker 1: business with China. We'll do that for you tonight. Nobody
Speaker 1: else in the media will do it fine. Eastern Hannity Fox,