1 00:00:01,639 --> 00:00:09,440 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. Michael 2 00:00:09,640 --> 00:00:15,240 Speaker 1: Very Show is on the air. Probably then Jack place 3 00:00:17,040 --> 00:00:22,759 Speaker 1: and I've him back. I hate two. 4 00:00:22,880 --> 00:00:30,800 Speaker 2: The President of Columbia refused to accept a flight of migrants. 5 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:32,000 Speaker 3: He said he wouldn't take them. 6 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:36,320 Speaker 2: Donald Trump said, We're going to enter the f around 7 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:39,320 Speaker 2: and find out portion of this conversation. Within an hour 8 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:42,559 Speaker 2: of making that threat, the President of Columbia said, whoa. 9 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:45,559 Speaker 3: Whoa, I'll send my own plane to pick these people up. 10 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:48,920 Speaker 3: Two zero nin er you are clear for takeoff? Roger, huh, 11 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:51,240 Speaker 3: departure frequently one two three point. 12 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:54,680 Speaker 1: Nine er Roger time request factor over. 13 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:57,920 Speaker 3: But flight two zero niner clear for a victor at 14 00:00:57,960 --> 00:00:58,520 Speaker 3: three two. 15 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:00,680 Speaker 1: Four we have Clarence Clarrence, Roger Roger. 16 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:01,680 Speaker 3: What's our victor victory? 17 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:07,399 Speaker 1: But opening up to anyone who's in the country illegally 18 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:10,640 Speaker 1: and going into schools and grabbing them to that kids. 19 00:01:10,520 --> 00:01:13,080 Speaker 3: Don't message needs to be clear. This consequences enter a 20 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:13,839 Speaker 3: country legally. 21 00:01:14,360 --> 00:01:16,720 Speaker 2: If we don't show those consequences, you never go fick 22 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:17,560 Speaker 2: the border process. 23 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:27,720 Speaker 1: Right. But we are a country of laws. 24 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:30,959 Speaker 4: For our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary 25 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:32,960 Speaker 4: to make distinctions between those. 26 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:35,800 Speaker 1: Who obey the law and those who violate it. Therefore, 27 00:01:35,959 --> 00:01:39,200 Speaker 1: we disagree with those who would label. 28 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:44,240 Speaker 4: Any effort to control illegal immigration as somehow inherently and immigrants. 29 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:47,720 Speaker 1: Unlawful immigration is not excepted. 30 00:01:54,840 --> 00:01:58,840 Speaker 5: They've committed a crime, deport them, no questions asked. They're gone, 31 00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:03,160 Speaker 5: if they if they've been working, and our law abiding 32 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:05,680 Speaker 5: we should say, here are the conditions for you staying. 33 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:07,600 Speaker 5: You have to pay a stiff fine because you came 34 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:11,000 Speaker 5: here illegally. You have to pay back taxes, and you 35 00:02:11,040 --> 00:02:13,480 Speaker 5: have to try to learn English, and you have to 36 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:14,919 Speaker 5: wait in line. 37 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:22,680 Speaker 1: To go in with some mesitation. You know that you. 38 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:26,040 Speaker 4: Probably noticed, but in case you didn't identify every voice there. 39 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:31,880 Speaker 4: That was a montage of some prominent Democrats talking about 40 00:02:31,919 --> 00:02:34,720 Speaker 4: how we have to secure our border, deport the illegals, 41 00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:40,440 Speaker 4: and keep them from coming here, including Barbara Jordan, a 42 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:47,919 Speaker 4: long time, not that long actually, black woman congressman from Houston, Texas. 43 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:53,120 Speaker 1: Sadly she had MS. 44 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:58,600 Speaker 4: She had multiple sclerosis that she contracted or became aware 45 00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:02,040 Speaker 4: of in nineteen seventy three, her first year as a congressman. 46 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:07,959 Speaker 1: And she didn't get to serve very long as a congressman. 47 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:11,120 Speaker 4: And I say that because she was very well respected 48 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:16,359 Speaker 4: as this black woman Democrat in seventy three and through 49 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:18,040 Speaker 4: the seventies, in fact, all the way into the eighties, 50 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:20,960 Speaker 4: she retired and taught at the University of Texas School 51 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:21,440 Speaker 4: of Government. 52 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:24,600 Speaker 1: There because she spoke. 53 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:30,760 Speaker 4: In this very regal manner in which an highly educated 54 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:34,280 Speaker 4: black woman or man of that time would, And part 55 00:03:34,280 --> 00:03:35,000 Speaker 4: of that was. 56 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:38,240 Speaker 1: These were the first This was the first. 57 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:44,320 Speaker 4: Era of the black intellectual on the mass scene. This 58 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:50,160 Speaker 4: wasn't at an HBCU where they're teaching to students. These 59 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:55,840 Speaker 4: were black intellectuals speaking on the national and international stage 60 00:03:56,080 --> 00:04:05,200 Speaker 4: as Americans, and they wanted to a very august appearance. 61 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:09,840 Speaker 4: Clarence Thomas still does that, and they did not relax. 62 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:14,480 Speaker 4: It was always very serious, very image conscious. 63 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:16,640 Speaker 1: And she was so well. 64 00:04:16,400 --> 00:04:22,159 Speaker 4: Respected was Barbara Jordan that in nineteen seventy six she 65 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:25,120 Speaker 4: was chosen to give the keynote address at the convention 66 00:04:26,279 --> 00:04:30,760 Speaker 4: where Jimmy Carter would speak. Now, mind you, Nixon wins 67 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:35,719 Speaker 4: in sixty eight. Nixon wins in seventy two. Democrats haven't 68 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:39,680 Speaker 4: won a presidential election since going back to sixty four, 69 00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:44,159 Speaker 4: which they win twelve years earlier, which they win. Really, 70 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:49,520 Speaker 4: Johnson doesn't win that so much as they guilt the 71 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:54,360 Speaker 4: nation into it. Because JFK has been assassinated. They marginalized 72 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:56,360 Speaker 4: Goldwater as some sort of a nut job. 73 00:04:56,600 --> 00:04:57,159 Speaker 1: He wasn't. 74 00:04:57,480 --> 00:05:03,120 Speaker 4: In fact, Goldwater was a far more moderate Republican by 75 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:06,320 Speaker 4: today's standards than you would believe, especially on social policy. 76 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:08,359 Speaker 4: But they made him out to be a guy that 77 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:10,400 Speaker 4: just wanted to drop bombs, much as they did of 78 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:10,960 Speaker 4: Donald Trump. 79 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:12,760 Speaker 1: Turned out not to be true. 80 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:16,640 Speaker 4: So it's seventy six and the keynote address is delivered 81 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:21,039 Speaker 4: by Barbara Jordan, this black woman from the South who's 82 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:24,640 Speaker 4: relatively conservative for a Democrat, and certainly for a Black 83 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:28,960 Speaker 4: Democrat and a woman. This is the era of the 84 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:32,080 Speaker 4: Shirley Chisholms. A little after Shirley Chisholm, but this is 85 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:35,680 Speaker 4: the era. This is a very different black woman national 86 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:41,960 Speaker 4: stature leader than her later successor, Sheila Jackson Lee, who 87 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:46,400 Speaker 4: tried to constantly cloak herself in the eighteenth Congressional District representative. 88 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:48,080 Speaker 1: But she was no Barbara Jordan. She tried to be. 89 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:54,159 Speaker 4: Maxine Waters, Eddie Bernice Johnson, Jasmine Crockett. 90 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:57,480 Speaker 1: Now, these black women you know today. 91 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:01,560 Speaker 4: Are are the there's a certain category of them there's 92 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:03,680 Speaker 4: certainly not true of all of them, who are just 93 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:05,960 Speaker 4: loud mouthed race baiting. 94 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:09,080 Speaker 1: And they're dumb. They're dumb dumbs. 95 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:11,920 Speaker 4: And I know you're not supposed to say that if 96 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:15,680 Speaker 4: somebody's black, but if it's true, truth is a defense 97 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:19,760 Speaker 4: to libel defamation, and what I say on the air, 98 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:23,719 Speaker 4: they're dumb dumbs. Maxine Waters is a dum dumb. Sheila 99 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:27,160 Speaker 4: Jackson Lee was a dumb dumb Eddie, Bernice Johnson dumb dumb. 100 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:29,920 Speaker 4: Now they are also three of them very corrupt. But 101 00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:34,839 Speaker 4: in any case, Barbara Jordan speaks in seventy six to 102 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:39,919 Speaker 4: represent a new South, a more conservative South. She was 103 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:43,479 Speaker 4: a black woman Democrat who could be presented to white 104 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:48,640 Speaker 4: labor and say, hey, the new Democrats, even the Black Democrats, 105 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:53,919 Speaker 4: are not radical. You can reason with them. They share 106 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:57,560 Speaker 4: your values. So there is Barbara Jordan explaining things like, 107 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:03,680 Speaker 4: you're not a nation unless you enforce your borders. If 108 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:07,400 Speaker 4: you come to this country illegally, you must be removed 109 00:07:07,640 --> 00:07:10,920 Speaker 4: and deported for the good of our people and for 110 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:12,880 Speaker 4: those standing in line. 111 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:15,240 Speaker 1: This was a Democrat saying this. 112 00:07:16,640 --> 00:07:21,320 Speaker 4: Imagine that today Barbara Jordan was so well regarded that 113 00:07:21,520 --> 00:07:22,200 Speaker 4: seventy six. 114 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:24,960 Speaker 1: She's this star congressman. 115 00:07:24,960 --> 00:07:27,280 Speaker 4: Now she's in the throes of multiple scroses at the time, 116 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:34,080 Speaker 4: so her fingers are closing, they're becoming gnarled. Her gait 117 00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:39,840 Speaker 4: was unsteady, starts walking with a cane and she's struggling. 118 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:41,840 Speaker 1: And yet she's still so well respected. 119 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:45,760 Speaker 4: She was so well respected even into in the eighties. 120 00:07:45,760 --> 00:07:48,600 Speaker 4: As she steps down from Congress because her health couldn't 121 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:51,200 Speaker 4: hold up, she goes to the University of Texas, where 122 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:54,480 Speaker 4: she's teaching at the School Government. Nineteen ninety two, sixteen 123 00:07:54,520 --> 00:07:58,160 Speaker 4: years later, she hadn't been a congressman for years. Bill 124 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:01,760 Speaker 4: Clinton has her give the speech there, kind of rekindling 125 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:06,200 Speaker 4: the Carter seventy six of you know, a southern white 126 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:10,200 Speaker 4: male who's a new Democrat and when you and then 127 00:08:10,280 --> 00:08:14,720 Speaker 4: she chaired the committee, the Commission on Immigration. Go look 128 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:16,840 Speaker 4: up what she said about security on a border. She 129 00:08:16,840 --> 00:08:17,880 Speaker 4: sounds like Trump today. 130 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:18,200 Speaker 3: Die. 131 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:22,760 Speaker 1: I will die for disclast Michael Barry, Joe, He's the. 132 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:26,560 Speaker 3: Big honor to be living in the United States. 133 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:30,080 Speaker 4: Scott Jennings has done such a wonderful job at CNN. 134 00:08:30,120 --> 00:08:31,800 Speaker 1: A lot of people want him plucked from CNN. 135 00:08:32,480 --> 00:08:36,000 Speaker 4: Put into the White House Press team, and I think 136 00:08:36,040 --> 00:08:40,240 Speaker 4: when Carolyn Levitt is done, he would be on the 137 00:08:40,240 --> 00:08:42,559 Speaker 4: short list of people. But I have to tell you 138 00:08:43,559 --> 00:08:48,679 Speaker 4: he is so useful in his so influential in his 139 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:54,200 Speaker 4: role at CNN. Now their ratings have absolutely cratered. But 140 00:08:54,360 --> 00:08:58,640 Speaker 4: what Jennings is able to do is be a voice 141 00:08:58,679 --> 00:09:05,080 Speaker 4: of reason in a sea of insanity on CNN and 142 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:08,600 Speaker 4: a lot of people who would never be exposed to 143 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:11,520 Speaker 4: the type of thought that is expressed every day on 144 00:09:11,640 --> 00:09:13,920 Speaker 4: talk radio through some of the guests and hosts on 145 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:18,920 Speaker 4: Fox News, people are exposed to what is what are 146 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:24,600 Speaker 4: very reasoned arguments by someone who's not on the payroll 147 00:09:24,679 --> 00:09:30,720 Speaker 4: of big government, big arms, big Military industrial complex, big pharma, 148 00:09:32,160 --> 00:09:34,679 Speaker 4: big immigration, the way the Catholic Church has been sold 149 00:09:34,720 --> 00:09:35,079 Speaker 4: out to. 150 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:38,160 Speaker 1: Illegal immigration, which we'll get to. 151 00:09:38,480 --> 00:09:40,640 Speaker 4: If you're a Catholic, you don't need to send me 152 00:09:40,679 --> 00:09:42,680 Speaker 4: an email that you're offended because you're a Catholic. And 153 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:46,520 Speaker 4: I called for accountability among the Catholic Church receiving money, 154 00:09:46,559 --> 00:09:49,320 Speaker 4: the Catholic charities receiving money from the government for resettlement, 155 00:09:49,320 --> 00:09:51,080 Speaker 4: which has become a big industry. 156 00:09:51,160 --> 00:09:53,720 Speaker 1: You don't need to do that because all I'm going 157 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:55,680 Speaker 1: to do is tell you. 158 00:09:55,160 --> 00:09:57,200 Speaker 4: Need to be holding the Catholic Church accountable, not me. 159 00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:01,080 Speaker 4: I'm not a parishioner. I'm not paying their bills. But 160 00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:04,200 Speaker 4: I'm going to call it out because guess what, I 161 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:07,520 Speaker 4: love my country more than I love your church, and 162 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:09,200 Speaker 4: I don't believe it's the one true church. Just so 163 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:12,120 Speaker 4: you know, Southern Baptist here. One week into his second term, 164 00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:15,920 Speaker 4: President Trump already achieved legend status. Scott Jennings tells the 165 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:20,320 Speaker 4: CNN Panel how the President of Columbia learned the hard way. 166 00:10:21,280 --> 00:10:21,520 Speaker 3: Well. 167 00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:24,680 Speaker 2: Number one, the reason Donald Trump had to resort to 168 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:28,360 Speaker 2: these tariffs and sanctions and punishments today is because the 169 00:10:28,400 --> 00:10:31,880 Speaker 2: president of Columbia refused to accept a flight of migrants. 170 00:10:31,960 --> 00:10:33,079 Speaker 3: He said he wouldn't take them. 171 00:10:33,280 --> 00:10:35,880 Speaker 2: Donald Trump said, We're going to enter the f around 172 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:38,640 Speaker 2: and find out portion of this conversation, and he hit 173 00:10:38,679 --> 00:10:40,720 Speaker 2: him with sanctions and tariffs. And now tonight the Speaker 174 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:43,080 Speaker 2: of the House, Mike Johnson says Congress is going to 175 00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:43,880 Speaker 2: back him up on that. 176 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:45,679 Speaker 3: He's putting Columbia, He's putting. 177 00:10:45,400 --> 00:10:48,000 Speaker 2: The rest of this hemisphere on notice that you are 178 00:10:48,040 --> 00:10:50,079 Speaker 2: not dealing with the same president that you were. You're 179 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:53,679 Speaker 2: dealing with someone who is taking illegal immigration seriously. Now, 180 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:56,440 Speaker 2: within an hour of making that threat, the president of 181 00:10:56,440 --> 00:10:59,920 Speaker 2: Columbia said, whoaa woa, I'll send my own plane to 182 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:02,800 Speaker 2: pick these people up. So obviously he got their attention. 183 00:11:02,880 --> 00:11:04,520 Speaker 2: I don't think there's actually going to be any terror 184 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:07,559 Speaker 2: for between the United States and Columbia, because as long 185 00:11:07,559 --> 00:11:09,920 Speaker 2: as they come get their people, I doubt Donald Trump's 186 00:11:09,920 --> 00:11:11,959 Speaker 2: can end up tariffing them, and they won't tariff US, 187 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:15,240 Speaker 2: and they'll have learned a valuable lesson that Donald Trump 188 00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:19,840 Speaker 2: is taking immigration illegal immigration seriously. This is real leadership, 189 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:22,319 Speaker 2: but it sends a message to everybody else in the hemisphere, 190 00:11:22,720 --> 00:11:25,920 Speaker 2: do not test us. This is not Biden and Harris. 191 00:11:26,160 --> 00:11:29,000 Speaker 2: This is Trump Advance. We mean business. And you know 192 00:11:29,040 --> 00:11:31,920 Speaker 2: it happened under Barack Obama. Actually he deported millions upon 193 00:11:32,080 --> 00:11:34,120 Speaker 2: millions of people. And I don't have any recollection of 194 00:11:34,120 --> 00:11:37,520 Speaker 2: the US economy collapsing and no Republican and I don't 195 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:40,720 Speaker 2: think most Americans are taking seriously the argument that the 196 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:44,959 Speaker 2: US economy is underpinned by violent, criminal illegal immigrants. I mean, 197 00:11:44,960 --> 00:11:47,360 Speaker 2: if our entire economy is underpinned by people who are 198 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:49,480 Speaker 2: rapists and murders, and commit other violent acts. 199 00:11:49,480 --> 00:11:52,000 Speaker 3: Then you know, we got a whole other set of issues. 200 00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:55,520 Speaker 2: Going on in the economy we ought to talk about today. 201 00:11:55,760 --> 00:11:58,360 Speaker 2: I mean, people people just aren't. People just aren't buying 202 00:11:58,559 --> 00:12:01,480 Speaker 2: that argument. So the populations that they are starting with 203 00:12:01,640 --> 00:12:03,760 Speaker 2: are violent, criminal illegal aliens. 204 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:05,760 Speaker 3: Then they also have a million and a half. 205 00:12:05,559 --> 00:12:11,000 Speaker 2: People who have existing fully adjudicated in orders. And beyond that, 206 00:12:11,040 --> 00:12:12,640 Speaker 2: I would just point out that if you came to 207 00:12:12,679 --> 00:12:16,480 Speaker 2: this country illegally, you're already a criminal illegal immigrant. You've 208 00:12:16,480 --> 00:12:18,960 Speaker 2: already broken our laws, even if you haven't been arrested 209 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:20,160 Speaker 2: yet or charged with it. 210 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:22,760 Speaker 3: If you're here illegally, if you broke our laws, then 211 00:12:22,880 --> 00:12:24,120 Speaker 3: you're going to be targeted. 212 00:12:24,320 --> 00:12:26,080 Speaker 2: Now, maybe you're not going to be a top priority 213 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:29,120 Speaker 2: today because there's other more dangerous people here. But we 214 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:33,760 Speaker 2: cannot send a message that, well, some illegal immigration is okay. 215 00:12:33,880 --> 00:12:36,200 Speaker 2: And that's been the problem of the last four years. 216 00:12:36,559 --> 00:12:39,160 Speaker 2: Basically Biden and Harris were like, Eh, just get here 217 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:41,680 Speaker 2: and it'll probably work out for you. That is no 218 00:12:41,800 --> 00:12:44,200 Speaker 2: longer the communication strategy of the US government. 219 00:12:44,280 --> 00:12:46,320 Speaker 3: The strategy is don't try us. 220 00:12:46,520 --> 00:12:49,080 Speaker 2: Whether you're the president of Columbia or somebody who just. 221 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:52,360 Speaker 3: Walked across the border illegally. Do not try us. It 222 00:12:52,440 --> 00:12:54,360 Speaker 3: is not going to work out for you, period. 223 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:58,840 Speaker 4: And a Navarro is a woman who used her Hispanic 224 00:12:58,920 --> 00:13:05,040 Speaker 4: woman status to climb the social stature social ladder in 225 00:13:05,080 --> 00:13:08,280 Speaker 4: Republican politics, much as Michael Steele. 226 00:13:07,960 --> 00:13:10,800 Speaker 1: Did as a black man in Maryland. 227 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:15,559 Speaker 4: Because if you're a minority and you call yourself a Republican, 228 00:13:16,280 --> 00:13:18,840 Speaker 4: it doesn't matter whether you share the values or aren't. 229 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:19,960 Speaker 1: You just say I'm a. 230 00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:22,920 Speaker 4: Minority, I'm a Republican, I'm real loud, and you'll be elevated. 231 00:13:23,160 --> 00:13:25,680 Speaker 4: It's a problem we have in the Republican Party because 232 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:29,840 Speaker 4: white Republicans are so scared of being called a racist 233 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:33,640 Speaker 4: that if they find a minority who says I'm for 234 00:13:33,679 --> 00:13:37,560 Speaker 4: George H. W. Bush or I'm for George W. Bush, 235 00:13:37,679 --> 00:13:39,400 Speaker 4: then they get so excited. They're like, well, let's put 236 00:13:39,440 --> 00:13:41,559 Speaker 4: you in charge. You should run for president. We did 237 00:13:41,559 --> 00:13:45,280 Speaker 4: this with Colin Powell, remember, and then I had people 238 00:13:45,320 --> 00:13:49,000 Speaker 4: telling me as late as two thousand and six that 239 00:13:49,080 --> 00:13:50,280 Speaker 4: Colin Powell should. 240 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:51,440 Speaker 1: Be our nominee after George W. 241 00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:53,760 Speaker 4: Bush and O eight, and I said, you don't know 242 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:57,360 Speaker 4: what he stands for on anything. He just looks good 243 00:13:57,360 --> 00:14:00,680 Speaker 4: in a uniform, and he's black, and he doesn't spout 244 00:14:00,760 --> 00:14:03,040 Speaker 4: power to the people with a clinched fist, and you think, oh, 245 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:06,040 Speaker 4: let's make him president. And then in two thousand and eight, 246 00:14:06,040 --> 00:14:10,160 Speaker 4: you know who ended up supporting Barack Obama. Now, anybody 247 00:14:10,160 --> 00:14:12,880 Speaker 4: that could support Barack Obama for president wasn't a guy 248 00:14:12,960 --> 00:14:14,960 Speaker 4: you wanted to be president. Can we agree with that? 249 00:14:15,040 --> 00:14:19,720 Speaker 4: Anna Navarro was a was the toast of the town 250 00:14:19,760 --> 00:14:22,280 Speaker 4: or monst Republicans. Now she's on the view and she 251 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:27,120 Speaker 4: made the statement that if we put tariffs on Colombian products, 252 00:14:27,360 --> 00:14:30,360 Speaker 4: our coffee's gonna cost too much. Fine, We'll buy our 253 00:14:30,360 --> 00:14:32,840 Speaker 4: coffee from Indonesia and Ethiopia. There are plenty of places 254 00:14:32,840 --> 00:14:35,000 Speaker 4: to get coffee in the world. And by the way, 255 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:38,440 Speaker 4: they they're more hungry for our coffee. Anyway, we drink 256 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:42,760 Speaker 4: Ethiopian coffee. Ramon likes Indonesian coll It doesn't matter. The 257 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:47,680 Speaker 4: point is we hate illegal immigration and the violence on 258 00:14:47,760 --> 00:14:49,920 Speaker 4: our people more than we love your coffee. 259 00:14:49,960 --> 00:14:51,800 Speaker 1: So whoever wants a Columbian coffee can pay. 260 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:53,880 Speaker 4: More for it because they're going to be subsidizing the 261 00:14:53,880 --> 00:14:55,640 Speaker 4: illegal aliens at Columbia won't take back. 262 00:14:56,880 --> 00:14:57,960 Speaker 1: But Annavarrow made the. 263 00:14:57,960 --> 00:15:01,240 Speaker 4: Point, your coffee's gonna cost and guess what Valentine's Day 264 00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:03,600 Speaker 4: is going to come up, and all your flowers come 265 00:15:03,600 --> 00:15:04,680 Speaker 4: from Columbia. 266 00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:08,840 Speaker 1: You know that's true. And do you know why? Because 267 00:15:08,920 --> 00:15:09,800 Speaker 1: under George H. W. 268 00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:13,240 Speaker 4: Bush, in nineteen ninety one, the Andian. 269 00:15:12,840 --> 00:15:15,760 Speaker 1: Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act. 270 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:23,040 Speaker 4: Eliminated or devastated the cut flower industry in California. Do 271 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:25,040 Speaker 4: you know that over two thirds of the flowers you 272 00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:29,440 Speaker 4: bought for Valentine's Day in this country came from California 273 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:33,040 Speaker 4: until nineteen ninety one when that act was passed. 274 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:33,800 Speaker 1: You know what we did. 275 00:15:34,960 --> 00:15:38,480 Speaker 4: We allowed them to dump their product on our market 276 00:15:39,040 --> 00:15:43,040 Speaker 4: on very favorable terms, and within ten years, our cut 277 00:15:43,040 --> 00:15:49,200 Speaker 4: flower industry, a four billion dollars a year industry, was devastated. 278 00:15:49,920 --> 00:15:54,880 Speaker 4: You take a drive from Pescadero in Monterey, California, and 279 00:15:54,960 --> 00:15:58,960 Speaker 4: you will see what was a once very proud regional 280 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:01,040 Speaker 4: economy that is now dilapidated. 281 00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:04,120 Speaker 1: Greenhouses and and. 282 00:16:03,800 --> 00:16:07,880 Speaker 4: And fields that are now fallow that were once a 283 00:16:08,040 --> 00:16:13,720 Speaker 4: thriving industry, The lands worth less, there's no jobs, all 284 00:16:13,760 --> 00:16:17,000 Speaker 4: of it because Bush's quote unquote free trade gave that 285 00:16:17,040 --> 00:16:18,040 Speaker 4: industry to Columbia. 286 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:23,680 Speaker 1: Let's bring it back. What you say, Maddy Kuris and 287 00:16:23,760 --> 00:16:27,720 Speaker 1: Mamede too, Godmasul. 288 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:29,560 Speaker 3: Main Go, Betty Show, Super. 289 00:16:29,360 --> 00:16:36,160 Speaker 4: Need Well Weather, Lee Majors. Is Heath Barkley to you 290 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:41,480 Speaker 4: from Big Valley? Or Steve Austin from The six Million 291 00:16:41,520 --> 00:16:47,480 Speaker 4: Dollar Man? Or Colt Sievers on The Fall Guy? Depends 292 00:16:47,520 --> 00:16:49,000 Speaker 4: a lot on when you were born and when you 293 00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:51,720 Speaker 4: hit the age where that was. Of course, he was 294 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:57,320 Speaker 4: in a number of other movies as well, and something 295 00:16:57,360 --> 00:16:59,200 Speaker 4: of a legend. Qout some of them. He's a legend, 296 00:16:59,840 --> 00:17:01,760 Speaker 4: and he's also a dear friend of mine. He lives 297 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:04,560 Speaker 4: in Houston. If he doesn't get a dang, I don't 298 00:17:04,600 --> 00:17:08,159 Speaker 4: know who does remote? Oh you doing something else? Oh? 299 00:17:08,640 --> 00:17:13,720 Speaker 4: Ramone got himself carried away watching the opening of six 300 00:17:13,840 --> 00:17:15,480 Speaker 4: Million Dollars Man. Hey, you know what that can happen. 301 00:17:15,520 --> 00:17:17,080 Speaker 4: I'm not mad at you. He got distracted. That's an 302 00:17:17,080 --> 00:17:17,679 Speaker 4: easy thing to do. 303 00:17:18,480 --> 00:17:20,479 Speaker 1: He will be my guest tomorrow morning. 304 00:17:21,560 --> 00:17:23,760 Speaker 4: Most of you know, I do a morning show of 305 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:27,679 Speaker 4: three hours long that is not nationally syndicated. 306 00:17:28,280 --> 00:17:30,160 Speaker 1: It's a Houston show. 307 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:34,640 Speaker 4: That also picks up some South Texas stations Lubbutt and 308 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:38,119 Speaker 4: some other stations. And then this our Evening Show is 309 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:39,440 Speaker 4: a nationally syndicated show. 310 00:17:39,880 --> 00:17:43,679 Speaker 1: They're different shows, and occasionally I do. 311 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:47,159 Speaker 4: Something in the morning that I think I want to 312 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:49,680 Speaker 4: share on the evening show. I don't do it often 313 00:17:50,160 --> 00:17:53,760 Speaker 4: because some folks listen to all five hours Live and 314 00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:56,840 Speaker 4: then our podcast listeners typically listen to Morning and the 315 00:17:56,880 --> 00:17:59,960 Speaker 4: Evening Show and they get aggravated that we've repeated something. 316 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:03,840 Speaker 4: So I'm warning you that tomorrow evening there will be 317 00:18:03,960 --> 00:18:06,159 Speaker 4: a segment or two from the morning show that I 318 00:18:06,160 --> 00:18:08,439 Speaker 4: will play on this the evening Show. And the reason 319 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:12,080 Speaker 4: I'm telling you this is I have a specific reason. 320 00:18:12,119 --> 00:18:14,480 Speaker 4: He's our guest tomorrow. But if there is a question 321 00:18:14,520 --> 00:18:17,080 Speaker 4: you've always wanted me to ask Lee Majors, the six 322 00:18:17,119 --> 00:18:20,119 Speaker 4: million Dollar Man, if you email it to me tonight, 323 00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:22,080 Speaker 4: I will put it in my stack of questions for 324 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:26,840 Speaker 4: him from listeners and he enjoys answering those questions. And remember, 325 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:29,760 Speaker 4: you can always email me through our website, which is 326 00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:32,399 Speaker 4: Michael Berryshow dot com Michael m my C H A 327 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:36,160 Speaker 4: E L B E R R Y Michael Berryshow dot com. 328 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:37,640 Speaker 1: You can email me there. 329 00:18:37,680 --> 00:18:40,800 Speaker 4: I will read those and use them to prep for tomorrow, 330 00:18:40,840 --> 00:18:46,800 Speaker 4: and you'll hear that tomorrow on the Evening Show. So 331 00:18:47,520 --> 00:18:52,760 Speaker 4: you're gonna hear, including from some Republicans, Conservatives, economists, people 332 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:56,040 Speaker 4: that you think are on our side, that we cannot 333 00:18:56,160 --> 00:18:57,200 Speaker 4: use the tariffs. 334 00:18:58,119 --> 00:18:59,480 Speaker 1: Tariffs are gonna hurt us. 335 00:19:00,119 --> 00:19:02,600 Speaker 4: And let me tell you why that is faulty logic 336 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:09,879 Speaker 4: because I am not necessarily a huge fan of governmental 337 00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:16,800 Speaker 4: intervention in trade, but I am also something of a realist. 338 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:20,800 Speaker 4: While I have the idealism of free trade, when you 339 00:19:20,960 --> 00:19:25,720 Speaker 4: understand that you operate in a world where there is 340 00:19:25,800 --> 00:19:32,040 Speaker 4: not free trade and you're engaged in free trade, but 341 00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:37,119 Speaker 4: the other side is not. Once you understand that and 342 00:19:37,160 --> 00:19:40,240 Speaker 4: you're trying to get people to tear down barriers to 343 00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:43,520 Speaker 4: our products, then you have to operate in a different world, 344 00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:49,080 Speaker 4: all the while hoping to achieve the idealism. You can't 345 00:19:49,119 --> 00:19:50,800 Speaker 4: let the grape be the enemy of the good, and 346 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:53,439 Speaker 4: you can't give up hope that you can achieve a 347 00:19:53,480 --> 00:20:00,600 Speaker 4: world where American manufacturing, American industry competes on level playing 348 00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:05,159 Speaker 4: field with other countries. But too often our political leadership 349 00:20:05,359 --> 00:20:10,399 Speaker 4: has allowed our industries. I told you the story about 350 00:20:10,760 --> 00:20:16,560 Speaker 4: the California flower industry. The industry is referred to as 351 00:20:16,560 --> 00:20:19,880 Speaker 4: cut flower because these are flowers that are literally cut 352 00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:22,520 Speaker 4: and presented. So if you go to the flower market 353 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:24,600 Speaker 4: and fellas I know a lot of you are, in 354 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:27,560 Speaker 4: the next couple of weeks, you're going to go to 355 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:31,760 Speaker 4: buy roses or you know whatever, you're my wife's an 356 00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:34,840 Speaker 4: orchid girl. But if whether you're roses or whatever, that 357 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:39,800 Speaker 4: might be ponees or whatever else. All of that over 358 00:20:39,840 --> 00:20:46,639 Speaker 4: two thirds of it was raised in California. Well, probably 359 00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:51,520 Speaker 4: the biggest national florist is a family out of California 360 00:20:51,960 --> 00:20:57,560 Speaker 4: that are very, very politically connected that now they're coming 361 00:20:57,600 --> 00:21:00,640 Speaker 4: under quite a bit of attack because they own Fiji, 362 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:05,080 Speaker 4: They own a number of agricultural interests. They dominate the 363 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:07,160 Speaker 4: pistachio market. 364 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:09,440 Speaker 1: All of which you see. 365 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:14,200 Speaker 4: The reason Californians didn't protest when they lost their competitive 366 00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:19,640 Speaker 4: advantage in agriculture is because the Left was being funded 367 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:24,680 Speaker 4: by foreign interests to push against agriculture. 368 00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:29,520 Speaker 1: Because guess what, it takes one point one gallons. 369 00:21:29,119 --> 00:21:35,120 Speaker 4: Per per day to raise one pistachio, that's what I read. 370 00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:36,400 Speaker 1: I didn't know that for a fact. 371 00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:39,240 Speaker 4: I read that, and it takes even more than that 372 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:41,520 Speaker 4: for a number of other crops that we use. 373 00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:43,440 Speaker 1: And that sounds horrible. 374 00:21:44,119 --> 00:21:49,520 Speaker 4: So what happens is these foreign interests who want our business. 375 00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:52,359 Speaker 4: They want to supply us bananas, or they want to 376 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:57,359 Speaker 4: supply us all these number of different products. They hire 377 00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:02,240 Speaker 4: former congressmen who and they leave office, they got access 378 00:22:02,280 --> 00:22:04,760 Speaker 4: to all their buddies. They chase the same girls, They 379 00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:07,159 Speaker 4: sit in the same hot tubs with the same prostitutes 380 00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:07,600 Speaker 4: every night. 381 00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:09,680 Speaker 1: They fly on the same junkets. 382 00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:12,679 Speaker 4: Now they have a card where they can take them 383 00:22:12,680 --> 00:22:15,399 Speaker 4: to nice steakhouses and sit on the front row of 384 00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:21,760 Speaker 4: the baseball game, and they go, hey, let's shut down 385 00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:26,560 Speaker 4: American ag in California and we'll win you some votes 386 00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:30,560 Speaker 4: from the Liberals, from the greeny whenies well. As a 387 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:33,919 Speaker 4: result of that, that gives a competitive advantage to foreign 388 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:40,640 Speaker 4: interest to supply us things like avocados from Mexico or 389 00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:48,320 Speaker 4: cut flowers from Colombia. America's loss of the ability to manufacture, 390 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:56,280 Speaker 4: to create, to build, it's not entirely because we're lazy 391 00:22:57,160 --> 00:23:00,120 Speaker 4: or our wages are too high. It is in many 392 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:05,879 Speaker 4: cases so convoluted, so complicated. What our government did to 393 00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:10,840 Speaker 4: sell us out, and what all of these nonprofits whose 394 00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:16,320 Speaker 4: CEO is making millions, what they did to create these 395 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:19,800 Speaker 4: distractions so that the people of California would say, yes, 396 00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:24,440 Speaker 4: stop using water for agriculture, you're destroying the earth. They 397 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:29,040 Speaker 4: actually require more water to raise those flowers in Colombia. 398 00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:31,800 Speaker 4: And if you're a citizen of the Earth, which is 399 00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:34,639 Speaker 4: what the global green movement's all about, what do you 400 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:38,920 Speaker 4: care if it's California water or Colombian water that's raising 401 00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:41,800 Speaker 4: the flower. And by the way, what do you think 402 00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:47,199 Speaker 4: is more efficient to have flowers raised in California that 403 00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:47,960 Speaker 4: we use. 404 00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:51,600 Speaker 1: Across the country to present to our girl for Valentine's. 405 00:23:51,119 --> 00:23:55,520 Speaker 4: Day or to have flowers raised in Colombia that then 406 00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:59,800 Speaker 4: have to be shipped, flown trucked here. 407 00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:02,919 Speaker 1: And that's what happened. We are fart hard for the 408 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:11,320 Speaker 1: freedom to vote that Michael varies show what's the point 409 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:15,320 Speaker 1: about the tariffs. We have had. 410 00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:20,960 Speaker 4: Tariff and quota and subsidy discussions throughout the course of 411 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:27,960 Speaker 4: American history, government picking winners and losers, and many times 412 00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:35,240 Speaker 4: government intervention in an industry are related to a country 413 00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:38,760 Speaker 4: and them exporting to us, which they're export is our import. 414 00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:40,800 Speaker 1: I know I'm speaking down to you, but I want 415 00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:41,120 Speaker 1: to make. 416 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:46,040 Speaker 4: Sure we all understand a tariff is the imposition of 417 00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:50,960 Speaker 4: a fine on a product coming in from an industry 418 00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:55,000 Speaker 4: or a country. In this case, it is tariffs on 419 00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:58,879 Speaker 4: Colombian goods coming into the United States as a punishment 420 00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:01,760 Speaker 4: for Columbia REFU using to take back their citizens who 421 00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:04,359 Speaker 4: were here illegally. When we deposit them back to their 422 00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:08,840 Speaker 4: rightful place, which is in Colombia, Well, they don't want 423 00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:11,200 Speaker 4: them because. 424 00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:14,320 Speaker 1: They're murderers and rapists. 425 00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:18,520 Speaker 4: Last thing they need is more murderers and rapists on 426 00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:21,440 Speaker 4: Colombian soil. They were glad to get rid of them. 427 00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:24,440 Speaker 4: They don't want them back. These people cost you a 428 00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:28,080 Speaker 4: lot of money. They cost you crimes, they cost you 429 00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:31,200 Speaker 4: loss of life, and then if you eventually catch them 430 00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:35,080 Speaker 4: and imprison them, they cost you to feed them every day. 431 00:25:35,119 --> 00:25:36,240 Speaker 1: I mean, it's a mess. 432 00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:39,520 Speaker 4: So for Trump to say We're going to impose a 433 00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:46,240 Speaker 4: tariff of twenty five percent on Colombian goods coming here, well, 434 00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:49,439 Speaker 4: the big items coming here are as I told you, 435 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:53,680 Speaker 4: cut flowers, coffee. A big Colombian good to the United 436 00:25:53,720 --> 00:26:00,600 Speaker 4: States is oil. Well, I'll leave that conversation because I'm 437 00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:02,520 Speaker 4: about to go off on a tangent on that, and 438 00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:07,480 Speaker 4: I don't want to do that. People will tell you, well, 439 00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:12,000 Speaker 4: if you impose a tariff of twenty five percent and 440 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:14,200 Speaker 4: then fifty percent after a week, which was a threat, 441 00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:16,200 Speaker 4: he won't have to make good on it now because 442 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:21,320 Speaker 4: the Columbian president saw the light, shall we say? And 443 00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:26,160 Speaker 4: people will say, well, that's just a tax that Americans 444 00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:31,000 Speaker 4: are going to pay. That's inflation twenty five percent. Products 445 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:32,480 Speaker 4: that we were buying are just going to cost twenty 446 00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:33,200 Speaker 4: five percent more. 447 00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:35,160 Speaker 1: It's just going to be passed on to the consumer. 448 00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:37,000 Speaker 1: And that is true. 449 00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:43,960 Speaker 4: However, there isn't what economists will tell you, there is 450 00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:51,760 Speaker 4: an elastic demand for products based on their price. If 451 00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:57,320 Speaker 4: I told you I'll sell you this ribbi for one dollar, 452 00:26:57,560 --> 00:27:02,600 Speaker 4: this twelve ounce beautiful ribbi for cooked for one dollar, 453 00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:06,520 Speaker 4: you'd buy as much as you could get. You might 454 00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:10,760 Speaker 4: buy the whole, your whole neighborhood one of them. If 455 00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:13,040 Speaker 4: I told you I'd sell you the same ribb I cooked, 456 00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:19,960 Speaker 4: delivered onto your plate delicious, for four hundred dollars, I wouldn't. 457 00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:24,600 Speaker 1: Have any takers. Price is how we communicate. 458 00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:27,920 Speaker 4: At one dollar, you tell me I really want it 459 00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:33,040 Speaker 4: at one dollar. The stake doesn't change the price changes. 460 00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:39,399 Speaker 4: We communicate as buyers and sellers as to the price. 461 00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:46,119 Speaker 4: We communicate without vocalizing, based on our behavior. So you 462 00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:47,960 Speaker 4: can go write a Yelp review and all that. The 463 00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:50,840 Speaker 4: greatest thing you can do to help a business is 464 00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:53,720 Speaker 4: buy from them. The best way you can tell a 465 00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:56,679 Speaker 4: business what they're doing is wrong is to refuse to 466 00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:59,480 Speaker 4: go there. That's how the market speaks, That's how the 467 00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:04,160 Speaker 4: buyer com unicates with the seller. So with that twenty 468 00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:09,280 Speaker 4: five percent increase, if you say, well, I don't. 469 00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:11,200 Speaker 1: Know what the cost of cost of coffee beans. 470 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:14,120 Speaker 4: Is right now, I've got a show sponsor in Houston 471 00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:17,960 Speaker 4: called Cat's Coffee Katz Cat's Coffee, Abby catches his name, 472 00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:21,080 Speaker 4: and he gets beans from all over the world and 473 00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:24,360 Speaker 4: he rows them in Houston and he provides these gourmet, 474 00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:31,240 Speaker 4: you know, incredible blends for restaurants, churches, corporations. He does 475 00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:34,000 Speaker 4: one for PTSD Foundation, which is Camp Hope, which is 476 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:36,080 Speaker 4: for veterans with PTSD, and we raise a lot of 477 00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:36,600 Speaker 4: money for them. 478 00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:38,680 Speaker 1: I guess I could call him. 479 00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:40,760 Speaker 4: I should have called him before the show and asked 480 00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:42,040 Speaker 4: him what the price of coffee beans. 481 00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:45,480 Speaker 1: The market for certain beans is and it depends on 482 00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:46,640 Speaker 1: where it's from. You know, the. 483 00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:49,200 Speaker 4: Java that the beans from Indonesia and the beans from 484 00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:51,400 Speaker 4: Ethiopia and the beans from Columbia have different prices and 485 00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:56,120 Speaker 4: different you know, levels of you know, price points and 486 00:28:57,320 --> 00:29:00,640 Speaker 4: brag factor and all that. But if you increase the 487 00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:07,360 Speaker 4: price of Colombian coffee beans twenty five percent, the price 488 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:13,160 Speaker 4: elasticity may be so much that that would cost them 489 00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:14,640 Speaker 4: ninety percent of their business. 490 00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:16,840 Speaker 1: It might. 491 00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:22,640 Speaker 4: Because people might be so price conscious that they would say, 492 00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:25,680 Speaker 4: I'm not going to pay another twenty five percent for 493 00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:28,800 Speaker 4: a cup of coffee. 494 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:33,080 Speaker 1: And in that case, these beans, I don't know how 495 00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:34,720 Speaker 1: long it takes, but. 496 00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:37,440 Speaker 4: If you think about how long it takes to plant 497 00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:46,280 Speaker 4: the crop, harvest it, ship it, that would mean that 498 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:49,840 Speaker 4: in very short order they would be left with a 499 00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:50,520 Speaker 4: lot of beans. 500 00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:54,120 Speaker 1: And I don't know how long out the bean is purchased. 501 00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:55,400 Speaker 4: I don't want to go too deep into this, but 502 00:29:56,520 --> 00:29:58,800 Speaker 4: that would be in pretty short order they'd be stuck 503 00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:01,760 Speaker 4: with a lot of beans in an economy that can't 504 00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:05,360 Speaker 4: afford the loss, and a big portion of their economy 505 00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:09,200 Speaker 4: that would hurt. And if twenty five percent went to 506 00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:13,440 Speaker 4: fifty percent, it wouldn't take long till people would change 507 00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:14,000 Speaker 4: what they eat. 508 00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:16,040 Speaker 1: So whether you. 509 00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:20,360 Speaker 4: Love Waterburger or McDonald's or whatever your fast food restaurant is. 510 00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:24,240 Speaker 4: If you spend eight dollars on your burger, fries and coke, 511 00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:28,440 Speaker 4: and that eight dollars went to ten twenty five percent increase, 512 00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:31,200 Speaker 4: you may say, I'm not gonna do that anymore. 513 00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:33,720 Speaker 1: And that's true of everything. 514 00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:36,800 Speaker 4: There comes a point where the elasticity related to the 515 00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:39,040 Speaker 4: price is so much. 516 00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:42,200 Speaker 1: In luxury goods, you don't see it like that. 517 00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:45,520 Speaker 4: A Rolls Royce that costs three hundred thousand dollars, they 518 00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:48,360 Speaker 4: could go up to three twenty five. That buyer's probably 519 00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:51,400 Speaker 4: not going to flinch because they want the status of 520 00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:53,760 Speaker 4: the Rolls Royce and the fact that it goes higher. 521 00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:54,560 Speaker 1: Gives them more status. 522 00:30:55,840 --> 00:31:04,160 Speaker 4: But in commoditized products, products that can be replaced toilet paper, socks, coffee, 523 00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:10,440 Speaker 4: and Trump understands this. So for the Wall Street Journal 524 00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:14,240 Speaker 4: to be screaming and hollering, oh my god, not terriffs, 525 00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:18,320 Speaker 4: not tariffs. He's never gonna have to impose the tariff. 526 00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:24,240 Speaker 4: For your entire life. You've been told we can't fix 527 00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:27,800 Speaker 4: this problem. We can't fix this problem. They're too entrenched, 528 00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:32,560 Speaker 4: it's too complicated. We can't solve the border crisis. We 529 00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:36,080 Speaker 4: can't fix the legal immigration and whatever you suggest. 530 00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:37,719 Speaker 1: Yeah we can. We'll build a wall. We won't let 531 00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:41,479 Speaker 1: them in. Oh, that won't matter. People need them here 532 00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:42,360 Speaker 1: as laborers. 533 00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:45,920 Speaker 4: Okay, well, we won't allow companies to hire people without 534 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:49,000 Speaker 4: social security. Well that won't matter because there's too many 535 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:51,760 Speaker 4: people here that it becomes a moving target. 536 00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:53,040 Speaker 1: It's too bit. 537 00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:54,880 Speaker 4: We got to have an omnibus bill and then we 538 00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:58,520 Speaker 4: never get approval on that. Trump is showing you don't 539 00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:02,040 Speaker 4: need commissions, you don't need blue ribbon committees, you don't 540 00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:05,440 Speaker 4: need to study it, you don't need the shuttle diplomacy, 541 00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:07,360 Speaker 4: you don't need to go back and forth in the media. 542 00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:09,760 Speaker 1: You punch them in the face and. 543 00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:12,960 Speaker 4: They go, you know what, you're right, we'll solve this problem. 544 00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:15,760 Speaker 4: Bring illegals in here. Yeah, yeah, give us all our 545 00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:19,360 Speaker 4: Columbias back, because otherwise you crush their economy. And Trump 546 00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:22,880 Speaker 4: understands that what you're seeing is a businessman who says 547 00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:26,840 Speaker 4: it can be done in a bureaucracy that says, well, 548 00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:29,760 Speaker 4: if we ever solved the problem, we've got to planned 549 00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:31,880 Speaker 4: obsolescence here. We don't ever want to solve the problem. 550 00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:34,200 Speaker 1: We're the government. We're here for life. 551 00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:35,720 Speaker 4: Why would we want to fix the problem, then what 552 00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:41,760 Speaker 4: would do y'all might ask us to fix another problem. 553 00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:45,920 Speaker 1: Helps has little, Thank you and good night.