1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:01,920 Speaker 1: All we want is the greatest company we can have. 2 00:00:01,960 --> 00:00:03,680 Speaker 1: But we know how we got here, we know how 3 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:05,400 Speaker 1: we are going to stay here and how we're going 4 00:00:05,440 --> 00:00:05,800 Speaker 1: to grow. 5 00:00:05,960 --> 00:00:09,040 Speaker 2: And it isn't running around talking about collectivism and having 6 00:00:09,039 --> 00:00:09,800 Speaker 2: the public at. 7 00:00:09,680 --> 00:00:12,799 Speaker 3: Veto rights over Ceo Pay. I'll tell you what made 8 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:17,200 Speaker 3: the country great. It's the people who make this country work. 9 00:00:17,239 --> 00:00:20,000 Speaker 3: I don't kind of a rich middle class third or 10 00:00:20,040 --> 00:00:20,840 Speaker 3: fourth quintyle. 11 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:23,520 Speaker 2: It's the people that make this country great, not government, 12 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:28,000 Speaker 2: and not government policies and not government regulations. 13 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:31,360 Speaker 1: It is the freedom that we all acknowledge we have. 14 00:00:31,680 --> 00:00:35,040 Speaker 2: That allows us to pursue whatever our dreams and ambitions 15 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:37,480 Speaker 2: are as unfettered. 16 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:41,680 Speaker 1: As any people in the history of civilization have ever been. Amen. 17 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:49,240 Speaker 4: Amen, timeless wisdom from the late great Maha Rushi that 18 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:52,080 Speaker 4: happened to be from May thirty, first of two thousand 19 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:56,920 Speaker 4: and seven and producer Alley. She was going through suffering 20 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:02,520 Speaker 4: through in New York City the Kamei Mamdani speech after 21 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:06,520 Speaker 4: being sworn in. She said, you know what reminded me 22 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:10,520 Speaker 4: of Rush saying that it's true, it is the people 23 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:12,800 Speaker 4: that make this country great. The reason why the eighties 24 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:15,679 Speaker 4: were great because you were allowed to keep more of 25 00:01:15,959 --> 00:01:20,120 Speaker 4: what you earned. You were allowed to be successful. The 26 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:25,480 Speaker 4: reason why things ended up being really great during Trump's 27 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:29,679 Speaker 4: first term, right before the nonsense of the pandemic, was 28 00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:32,320 Speaker 4: because we had great policy being put in place, again, 29 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:37,240 Speaker 4: great policy being We had peace, we had lower taxes, 30 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:39,760 Speaker 4: we had next to no inflation. 31 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:41,559 Speaker 1: Things were great. 32 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:44,440 Speaker 4: The problem that we tend to get ourselves in is 33 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:48,800 Speaker 4: that we take so much of this for granted, and 34 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:51,160 Speaker 4: then we don't do the most basic things that we 35 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:54,320 Speaker 4: can do to make a difference, to permanently make our 36 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:55,080 Speaker 4: lives better. 37 00:01:55,720 --> 00:01:57,240 Speaker 1: Hey, there it is a. 38 00:01:57,200 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 4: Brian Mudd in for Clay and but the guys would 39 00:01:59,920 --> 00:02:04,080 Speaker 4: be back on Monday ready to rip and be looking 40 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:07,280 Speaker 4: forward to them as much as you. And as we're 41 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:11,120 Speaker 4: taking a look at this new year, I was thinking 42 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:14,160 Speaker 4: about all these successes, so many of them that I 43 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:18,880 Speaker 4: broke down in detail on New Year's Eve for you, 44 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:23,440 Speaker 4: and I was thinking about what went into that and 45 00:02:23,639 --> 00:02:26,200 Speaker 4: what we are set up for going forward. 46 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:29,600 Speaker 1: But then you take a look at the political. 47 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:32,560 Speaker 4: Analysis that's out there and everybody Republicans are said to 48 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:36,639 Speaker 4: get waxed, and we had to call her last hours, 49 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:39,880 Speaker 4: like Republicans are going to get waxed. It's going to 50 00:02:39,919 --> 00:02:42,680 Speaker 4: happen if you let it. It'll happen if you let it. 51 00:02:42,720 --> 00:02:45,280 Speaker 4: But it doesn't necessarily have to be that way. And 52 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:48,919 Speaker 4: there's a really instructive point with something that he said, Well, 53 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:54,359 Speaker 4: what have Republicans in Congress done exactly what Donald Trump 54 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:57,919 Speaker 4: wanted them to do? It is so easy to take 55 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:00,840 Speaker 4: things for granted. You know, if they ended up passing 56 00:03:00,919 --> 00:03:04,240 Speaker 4: let's just say, as a matter of exercise, you had 57 00:03:04,639 --> 00:03:07,640 Speaker 4: thirty different bills that the one big, beautiful bill did 58 00:03:07,680 --> 00:03:10,079 Speaker 4: not exist. So it's just thirty different bills to pass 59 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:12,200 Speaker 4: all of the Trump agenda. What do you feel like 60 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:14,880 Speaker 4: a lot more was accomplished because they passed thirty individual 61 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:18,200 Speaker 4: pieces of legislation to get there. That's why it was 62 00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:21,160 Speaker 4: such a big deal. That's why there was so much 63 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:27,840 Speaker 4: that went into that. It was the Trump Agenda. And so, yeah, 64 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:31,680 Speaker 4: you can find things to quibble about. Yeah, there are 65 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:35,800 Speaker 4: plenty of rhinos out there. And the other thing I'll 66 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:40,200 Speaker 4: always remind people is, look, you're never going to agree 67 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:44,520 Speaker 4: with anybody one hundred percent, even if you're the politician. 68 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:50,040 Speaker 4: Something I've always said I today when will probably not 69 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:52,880 Speaker 4: be the exact same person I am in about five years. 70 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:55,280 Speaker 4: I five years so now would probably not agree with 71 00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:59,000 Speaker 4: me today on everything. It's all part of being a learning, thinking, 72 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:03,360 Speaker 4: growing person, and life's irony. The more you know, the 73 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:06,600 Speaker 4: more you realize how little you actually know, and you 74 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:07,720 Speaker 4: go out there and you learn more. 75 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:08,800 Speaker 5: And so. 76 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:14,360 Speaker 4: This is what the left has always had over over 77 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:18,560 Speaker 4: us on the righty. It's that they are not worried 78 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:22,760 Speaker 4: about altruism. It's the means justifying the end. It's the 79 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:26,840 Speaker 4: rules for radicals approach, you know, it's the weather underground, 80 00:04:26,960 --> 00:04:30,800 Speaker 4: it's the airs. It's the Obama that's learning under them 81 00:04:30,839 --> 00:04:33,719 Speaker 4: and playing the long game, getting all of his people 82 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:37,000 Speaker 4: in place, then getting his puppet Biden in place, and 83 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:41,920 Speaker 4: getting Team autopen, and then getting the socialist Obama agenda 84 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:45,480 Speaker 4: in place over the prior four years. That's the kind 85 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:47,920 Speaker 4: of game that the left always plays. Republicans go, yeah, 86 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:53,679 Speaker 4: but yeah, but Pam Bondi and Epstein or something okay, 87 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:58,599 Speaker 4: And so now you're going to let Marxism take control 88 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:01,839 Speaker 4: of the country going forward. Not a good idea, not bright. 89 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:08,719 Speaker 4: So what I am doing going through so many of 90 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:11,240 Speaker 4: these successes from year one, in many cases that have 91 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 4: barely been felt and won't be felt until this year, 92 00:05:15,279 --> 00:05:18,600 Speaker 4: in some cases won't fully be felt until next year, 93 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:22,000 Speaker 4: just like was the case during Trump's first term, as 94 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:25,560 Speaker 4: a means of conditioning not to make the same mistakes 95 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:28,400 Speaker 4: that we did in twenty eighteen, not to let Democrats 96 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:33,120 Speaker 4: end up waxing Republicans in the midterms and having Trump's 97 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:35,240 Speaker 4: final two years been with impeachments and just trying to 98 00:05:35,279 --> 00:05:37,720 Speaker 4: destroy this country. Doesn't need to be that way. We 99 00:05:37,760 --> 00:05:42,159 Speaker 4: are set up for unprecedented success if we appreciate it, if. 100 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:44,440 Speaker 1: We do our part now. 101 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:48,800 Speaker 4: One of the things that was accomplished without one big 102 00:05:48,839 --> 00:05:54,440 Speaker 4: beautiful bill Act the tax cuts. Right, So just kind 103 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:57,640 Speaker 4: of going through the high points and things that are 104 00:05:58,040 --> 00:06:01,320 Speaker 4: better and have yet to be felt for just about anybody, 105 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:02,120 Speaker 4: you know. 106 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:03,839 Speaker 1: The average employee who earns. 107 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:06,679 Speaker 4: Tips going to be saving about two thousand dollars annually 108 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:10,480 Speaker 4: in federal taxes, kind of a big deal. The average 109 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:13,720 Speaker 4: employee who works overtime at any point durny given year 110 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:16,839 Speaker 4: going to be saving about fourteen hundred bucks and federal 111 00:06:16,839 --> 00:06:22,120 Speaker 4: income taxes. Ninety percent of Social Security recipients going to 112 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:25,560 Speaker 4: have no federal income tax liability for Social Security. That'll 113 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:27,920 Speaker 4: save them an average of about fifteen hundred bucks per year. 114 00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:31,160 Speaker 4: I mean, this is huge money, but again hasn't even 115 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:34,480 Speaker 4: been felt by these people for the most part, because 116 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:37,080 Speaker 4: next to nobody took a look at the new law 117 00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:40,839 Speaker 4: having been passed and made adjustments to their withholding. And 118 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:44,000 Speaker 4: so that's why you're going to see the record refunds 119 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:48,480 Speaker 4: once people file their taxes. It's all part of what 120 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:51,560 Speaker 4: is going to be felt down the road, all part 121 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:54,600 Speaker 4: of why we are set for unprecedented success. That much 122 00:06:54,640 --> 00:06:58,279 Speaker 4: more money in people's hands, all the peace that is 123 00:06:58,279 --> 00:07:01,960 Speaker 4: out there, and talked about the negotiated peace that even 124 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:04,760 Speaker 4: a lot of Trump supporters say, we're not familiar with. 125 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:06,839 Speaker 4: You know, here are the eight different wars, and like 126 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:09,960 Speaker 4: azure Band in Armenia, not a lot of people up 127 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:14,640 Speaker 4: on the conflict there. But Trump brought peace and Cambodi 128 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:19,240 Speaker 4: and Thailand, Israel and Iran, massive one, the Gosins in Israel, 129 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:26,760 Speaker 4: in Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Indian, Pakistan, Egypt, Ethiopia, Serbia, Kosovo, 130 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:30,720 Speaker 4: and all of that ends up bringing a benefit along 131 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:35,720 Speaker 4: with it, and it also brings credibility. As President Trump 132 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:38,880 Speaker 4: is looking to put an end to the Russian Ukraine War, 133 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:43,200 Speaker 4: lots of constructive meetings over the past week as he 134 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:46,840 Speaker 4: was working through the holidays on all of that, as 135 00:07:46,840 --> 00:07:51,400 Speaker 4: he continued to apply pressure on Venezuela that is resulting 136 00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:54,119 Speaker 4: in Maduro saying, you know what, I think it's probably 137 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:58,360 Speaker 4: time to go ahead and negotiate. We're ready to talk 138 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:02,320 Speaker 4: to the United States. We would like to we'd like 139 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:03,760 Speaker 4: to come to some kind of an agreement. 140 00:08:05,440 --> 00:08:05,680 Speaker 1: Yeah. 141 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:10,160 Speaker 4: Trump continuing to put policies in place daily that will 142 00:08:10,200 --> 00:08:11,520 Speaker 4: continue to pay a benefit. 143 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:11,760 Speaker 1: Down the road. 144 00:08:13,040 --> 00:08:16,840 Speaker 4: Crime crime was a huge benefit over the past year. 145 00:08:16,960 --> 00:08:20,360 Speaker 4: Homicide seventeen percent lower than a year ago. Today, robberies 146 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:24,120 Speaker 4: twenty five percent lower, thefts twenty five percent lower, overall 147 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:27,800 Speaker 4: violent crimes eleven percent lower, property crimes twelve percent lower. 148 00:08:28,360 --> 00:08:28,920 Speaker 1: Now, that kind of. 149 00:08:28,880 --> 00:08:32,160 Speaker 4: Stuff doesn't just happen, But do we necessarily appreciate it? 150 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:33,200 Speaker 1: Do we take it for granted? 151 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:36,600 Speaker 4: Are we going to put politicians back into place that 152 00:08:36,640 --> 00:08:39,040 Speaker 4: support the higher crime, that supported the buying administration, that 153 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:40,960 Speaker 4: went along with all the nonsense, that are going to 154 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:43,640 Speaker 4: run things like they are set to run New York City? 155 00:08:45,040 --> 00:08:45,720 Speaker 1: Is that the way to go? 156 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:49,360 Speaker 4: Because we're mad that, you know, Republican didn't do what 157 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:51,880 Speaker 4: I wanted to in Congress on this particular thing. 158 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:54,400 Speaker 1: Is that better you want to have more crime. 159 00:08:56,720 --> 00:08:59,280 Speaker 4: One of the other untold things that most people have 160 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:02,120 Speaker 4: not realized benefit of, and it's all part of why, 161 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:05,280 Speaker 4: for example, inflation is coming in lower than the experts, 162 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:07,400 Speaker 4: they so called economic experts thought. 163 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:11,320 Speaker 1: The regulations. 164 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:16,400 Speaker 4: Trump getting rid of over six hundred and forty regulations 165 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:19,680 Speaker 4: over the past year means that life is about six 166 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:22,040 Speaker 4: hundred dollars cheaper this year than it was this time 167 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:25,120 Speaker 4: last year. Heading into this year, just due to not 168 00:09:25,160 --> 00:09:27,959 Speaker 4: having a bunch of regulations that you didn't even really 169 00:09:28,040 --> 00:09:31,120 Speaker 4: know existed, Life's going to be about six hundred dollars 170 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:32,440 Speaker 4: cheaper per household this year. 171 00:09:33,080 --> 00:09:33,559 Speaker 1: Not bad. 172 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:37,800 Speaker 4: All part of how every single household is in a 173 00:09:37,800 --> 00:09:39,959 Speaker 4: better position today, I for or now what the reason 174 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:42,520 Speaker 4: so many of these things. You know, by the time 175 00:09:42,520 --> 00:09:45,000 Speaker 4: you take a look at how many households can benefit 176 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:50,559 Speaker 4: from the tax policies, how many households can benefit from 177 00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:54,480 Speaker 4: reduced consumer expense, that's everybody, by the way, how many 178 00:09:54,520 --> 00:09:57,200 Speaker 4: households can benefit from a lower rate of inflation, which 179 00:09:57,240 --> 00:10:00,200 Speaker 4: is everybody. One of the big reasons why these called 180 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:02,920 Speaker 4: economic experts have been dead wrong about economic growth and 181 00:10:02,960 --> 00:10:06,440 Speaker 4: about inflation coming down over the past year has been 182 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:12,280 Speaker 4: because of the immigration policy that wasn't fully accounted for 183 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:16,400 Speaker 4: and how inflationary that was. But then also all of 184 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:20,360 Speaker 4: the impacts that are associated with better energy policy, and 185 00:10:20,400 --> 00:10:23,160 Speaker 4: all the impacts that are associated with fewer regulations and 186 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:27,000 Speaker 4: all these things. You know, less government equals more money 187 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:30,720 Speaker 4: in your pocket every time, and we are going to 188 00:10:30,760 --> 00:10:34,120 Speaker 4: see the benefit of it now. And one of the 189 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:37,920 Speaker 4: big things, the biggest of all actually, and it was 190 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:42,200 Speaker 4: just a remarkable deal. The total round trip investment that 191 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:45,040 Speaker 4: President Trump secured last year for the United States was 192 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:47,760 Speaker 4: nine point six trillion dollars. And at some point it's 193 00:10:47,760 --> 00:10:50,160 Speaker 4: just numbers, you know, it's like cut trillion dollars. 194 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:53,280 Speaker 1: What is that? To put that in perspective. 195 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:58,199 Speaker 4: For you, total foreign investment into the United States over 196 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:01,760 Speaker 4: the entire prior ten year period, if you take like 197 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:05,000 Speaker 4: twenty fifteen to twenty twenty four, how much new investment 198 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:07,640 Speaker 4: came in from outside the United States into it, it 199 00:11:07,679 --> 00:11:10,559 Speaker 4: was two point two trillion. Okay, So let me put 200 00:11:10,559 --> 00:11:14,880 Speaker 4: this in perspective. What Trump was able to secure in 201 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:19,120 Speaker 4: eleven plus months was the equivalent of what in today's dollars, 202 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:24,199 Speaker 4: we would have secured in about forty four years of policy. Previously, 203 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:28,480 Speaker 4: he did in eleven months what we were pacing forty 204 00:11:28,520 --> 00:11:31,760 Speaker 4: four years to achieve. And again, so much of this 205 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:35,439 Speaker 4: is just going to start to be realized. And so 206 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:41,080 Speaker 4: the short list, the abbreviated list of incredible accomplishments is 207 00:11:41,480 --> 00:11:45,199 Speaker 4: I think taken for granted, but it does equal unprecedented 208 00:11:45,240 --> 00:11:47,480 Speaker 4: success in our lives going forward with a lot of 209 00:11:47,480 --> 00:11:50,559 Speaker 4: the impacts that are going to be felt. It's like 210 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:52,360 Speaker 4: a time release thing, you know. It's like taking that 211 00:11:52,520 --> 00:11:55,280 Speaker 4: time release pill. Not going to feel it two minutes 212 00:11:55,320 --> 00:11:57,280 Speaker 4: after you take it. It's going to take some time. 213 00:11:57,640 --> 00:12:00,000 Speaker 4: But we already have the roadmap. We're not telling you 214 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:03,839 Speaker 4: something that you haven't already lived. Because this is exactly 215 00:12:03,880 --> 00:12:06,480 Speaker 4: what happened during Trump's first term, only it's that on 216 00:12:06,559 --> 00:12:09,120 Speaker 4: steroids because he's been able to accomplish so much more. 217 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:12,120 Speaker 4: And by the way, how to Congress, even with slim 218 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:15,840 Speaker 4: majority's that was far more cooperative than it was during 219 00:12:15,880 --> 00:12:18,600 Speaker 4: Trump's first term as well, when Republicans were not ready 220 00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:21,200 Speaker 4: to govern because the boobs that were leading the party 221 00:12:21,240 --> 00:12:23,440 Speaker 4: at that point in Congress, Oh, it didn't think that 222 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:25,199 Speaker 4: Trump was gonna win either, and so then they kind 223 00:12:25,200 --> 00:12:27,160 Speaker 4: of bumbled their way into it. That was not the 224 00:12:27,160 --> 00:12:30,240 Speaker 4: case this year. So we are set up for a 225 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:34,520 Speaker 4: really good success level of success here. So the question 226 00:12:34,640 --> 00:12:38,320 Speaker 4: comes down to whether we are going to seize the 227 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:40,480 Speaker 4: opportunity we have or are we going to have a 228 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:43,520 Speaker 4: repeat of twenty eighteen. Are we going to get frustrated? 229 00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:46,200 Speaker 4: Are going to stay home when it's time to vote 230 00:12:46,240 --> 00:12:51,000 Speaker 4: because Trump's name is not on the ballot. That is 231 00:12:51,040 --> 00:12:54,400 Speaker 4: really what this gets down to. I'm Brian mudd In 232 00:12:54,720 --> 00:12:55,720 Speaker 4: for Claim, Buck. 233 00:12:56,960 --> 00:13:00,000 Speaker 6: Clay Travis and Buck Sexton telling it like it is. 234 00:13:00,160 --> 00:13:03,520 Speaker 6: Just find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever 235 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:08,400 Speaker 6: you get your podcasts. 236 00:13:12,280 --> 00:13:16,880 Speaker 7: That is that when working people stand together, when we 237 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:18,280 Speaker 7: don't let them. 238 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:20,720 Speaker 1: Divide us up, there is. 239 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:28,480 Speaker 7: Nothing we cannot accomplish. 240 00:13:26,679 --> 00:13:27,640 Speaker 1: The working people. 241 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:29,840 Speaker 4: It's always been one of the things I've tried to 242 00:13:30,040 --> 00:13:33,839 Speaker 4: figure out the working people. I've tried to wonder and 243 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:37,000 Speaker 4: figure out how it is that you become a non 244 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:40,880 Speaker 4: working person, Like if you work more than eight hours 245 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:43,640 Speaker 4: in a day or whatever the union guidelines are, does 246 00:13:43,679 --> 00:13:46,720 Speaker 4: that make you no longer a working person? Or what 247 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:48,800 Speaker 4: level of income is it like you work your butt 248 00:13:48,840 --> 00:13:51,520 Speaker 4: off your entire life, and then you have some success 249 00:13:51,559 --> 00:13:54,600 Speaker 4: and you start making above average income. At what point 250 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:58,720 Speaker 4: of that level of work does it no longer become working? 251 00:13:58,920 --> 00:14:00,000 Speaker 1: Is it a hundred? 252 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:03,360 Speaker 4: One thousand, one fifty? Is a two hundred? Just whatever 253 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:07,199 Speaker 4: point that you go from being a working person to 254 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:12,880 Speaker 4: somebody who's no longer part of the working class. Just 255 00:14:12,960 --> 00:14:16,320 Speaker 4: good times In New York. The burn as part of 256 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:19,960 Speaker 4: his speech along with AOC and Mandani after he was 257 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:24,520 Speaker 4: sworn in, talking about the opportunity we have run precedented 258 00:14:24,560 --> 00:14:27,960 Speaker 4: success this year, perhaps this out of New York City 259 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:30,640 Speaker 4: or maybe California, the way that things are going, and 260 00:14:30,960 --> 00:14:34,120 Speaker 4: there's some other select blue places along the way. By 261 00:14:34,160 --> 00:14:37,000 Speaker 4: the way, we have had breaking news within the past 262 00:14:37,040 --> 00:14:40,240 Speaker 4: hour or so, You've had the Department of Justice, the 263 00:14:40,320 --> 00:14:44,200 Speaker 4: FBI that said they thwarted a potential New Year's Eve 264 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:48,480 Speaker 4: terror attack just outside of Charlotte, in a smaller town 265 00:14:48,560 --> 00:14:53,480 Speaker 4: where you had an eighteen year old who was pledging 266 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:58,320 Speaker 4: allegiance to ISIS and ended up conversing with somebody he 267 00:14:58,480 --> 00:15:01,680 Speaker 4: thought was a terrorist and ended up being a member 268 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:05,600 Speaker 4: of the FBI, and they were able to take him 269 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:09,640 Speaker 4: down before carrying out an attack at a grocery store, 270 00:15:10,040 --> 00:15:13,320 Speaker 4: as we've been told, So great work there by the 271 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:15,160 Speaker 4: folks in law enforcement. 272 00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:16,760 Speaker 1: Good time. 273 00:15:16,880 --> 00:15:21,240 Speaker 4: Still that you have people that are associating with ISIS 274 00:15:21,320 --> 00:15:24,200 Speaker 4: and with Islamic tear, you know, that was all part 275 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:25,800 Speaker 4: of what has to be cleaned up from Biden. 276 00:15:25,960 --> 00:15:27,240 Speaker 1: Remember that we didn't have. 277 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:30,360 Speaker 4: Those issues by the time that Trump was done after 278 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:32,960 Speaker 4: his first term. We went from ISIS and the caliphates 279 00:15:33,240 --> 00:15:35,680 Speaker 4: to Trump bombing the blank out of them in the 280 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:38,120 Speaker 4: early months of his first term, and then that was 281 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:41,600 Speaker 4: the last you heard about all that until well you 282 00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:44,720 Speaker 4: got Biden in there, and then suddenly the weakness around 283 00:15:44,720 --> 00:15:48,680 Speaker 4: the world allowed the proliferation of ISIS and tear once again. 284 00:15:48,840 --> 00:15:52,200 Speaker 4: And yeah, they ended up radicalizing stateside yet again. But 285 00:15:53,040 --> 00:15:55,600 Speaker 4: all part of what is being worked on being cleaned 286 00:15:55,680 --> 00:16:00,600 Speaker 4: up right now. Okay, So talking about everything that has 287 00:16:00,640 --> 00:16:04,000 Speaker 4: been accomplished in the first year and the success that 288 00:16:04,040 --> 00:16:08,640 Speaker 4: we are set up for heading into this year, and 289 00:16:08,760 --> 00:16:10,200 Speaker 4: whether we're going to allow. 290 00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:12,760 Speaker 1: This to be a repeat of twenty eighteen. 291 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:15,680 Speaker 4: Or whether we are going to do what we need 292 00:16:15,760 --> 00:16:18,640 Speaker 4: to do to see to it that we follow through 293 00:16:19,240 --> 00:16:21,440 Speaker 4: and take advantage of the opportunity in front of us. 294 00:16:21,520 --> 00:16:23,720 Speaker 4: I've got the roadmap for that. We're going to talk 295 00:16:23,720 --> 00:16:26,160 Speaker 4: about it in just a bit. On the other side, 296 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:29,320 Speaker 4: we are going to be joined by iHeartRadio's White House 297 00:16:29,360 --> 00:16:33,200 Speaker 4: correspondent John Decker, who has spent his fair share of 298 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:36,640 Speaker 4: time with the President throughout even the holiday season, and 299 00:16:36,680 --> 00:16:38,680 Speaker 4: it's going to have the very latest out of Washington 300 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:41,320 Speaker 4: and also what we're going to be looking at from 301 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:44,480 Speaker 4: a legal perspective as well. He's an attorney and also 302 00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:47,200 Speaker 4: the only member of the Press Corps is an attorney, 303 00:16:47,280 --> 00:16:49,560 Speaker 4: but he can also argue before the Supreme Court, so 304 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:51,280 Speaker 4: he has a lot of good perspective for us on 305 00:16:51,320 --> 00:16:53,080 Speaker 4: the legal side of things as well. 306 00:16:53,280 --> 00:16:56,240 Speaker 1: So all that is coming up next. I'm Brian Mudd 307 00:16:56,360 --> 00:16:57,880 Speaker 1: in for Klaien, Buck. 308 00:17:00,560 --> 00:17:05,159 Speaker 8: Sleeve, Travis and Buck Sexton on the front lines of truth. 309 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:16,240 Speaker 9: Social media is filled with videos of protests across Iran, 310 00:17:16,359 --> 00:17:19,560 Speaker 9: with chants that have moved past anger about the economy 311 00:17:19,560 --> 00:17:22,560 Speaker 9: and a collapsed currency, focused as well on the regime's 312 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:25,280 Speaker 9: leadership and a demand for the return of the Shop 313 00:17:25,520 --> 00:17:29,119 Speaker 9: the King. The US based human rights activist news agency 314 00:17:29,160 --> 00:17:31,000 Speaker 9: has documented seven deaths so far. 315 00:17:31,480 --> 00:17:31,680 Speaker 1: Now. 316 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:34,760 Speaker 9: President Trump's writing on Truth Social that if Ron kills protesters, 317 00:17:34,920 --> 00:17:37,080 Speaker 9: the US will come to their rescue. That we are 318 00:17:37,119 --> 00:17:38,680 Speaker 9: locked and loaded and ready to go. 319 00:17:39,680 --> 00:17:42,760 Speaker 4: Some of the big news today that we are locked 320 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:46,439 Speaker 4: and loaded, the president locked and loaded straight through the 321 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:47,359 Speaker 4: holiday season. 322 00:17:47,680 --> 00:17:50,560 Speaker 1: The spot the White Wall Street Journal reports saying, you. 323 00:17:50,440 --> 00:17:53,480 Speaker 4: Know what, we saw him somewhere and yet is there's 324 00:17:53,560 --> 00:17:55,480 Speaker 4: a meeting and he closed his eyes. 325 00:17:55,520 --> 00:17:57,320 Speaker 1: You know what that means? You know, the guy's old. 326 00:17:57,520 --> 00:18:01,560 Speaker 4: I mean again, I put anybody at the WSJA against 327 00:18:01,560 --> 00:18:03,400 Speaker 4: Trump for a day and see how long you can hang. 328 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:07,320 Speaker 4: The guy really doesn't sleep. It would probably be helpful 329 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:09,000 Speaker 4: if he did a little bit more. But we have 330 00:18:09,160 --> 00:18:11,240 Speaker 4: a lot that has been going on straight through the 331 00:18:11,280 --> 00:18:14,320 Speaker 4: holiday season, including as you hear, the support in Iran 332 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:18,479 Speaker 4: Venezuela looking now to come to the negotiating table, perhaps 333 00:18:18,520 --> 00:18:22,480 Speaker 4: after the President's pressure campaign offshore and the boats that 334 00:18:22,560 --> 00:18:24,959 Speaker 4: go boom with the Narco drug runners that have been 335 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:28,359 Speaker 4: taken out in recent months. Joining us to talk about 336 00:18:28,359 --> 00:18:31,000 Speaker 4: this and much more as we take a look at 337 00:18:31,160 --> 00:18:35,200 Speaker 4: what's on the agenda for twenty twenty six. Iheartradios White 338 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:40,080 Speaker 4: House correspondent and the host of the White House Briefing Room, 339 00:18:40,560 --> 00:18:42,680 Speaker 4: John Decker John, Happy New. 340 00:18:42,640 --> 00:18:46,080 Speaker 5: Year, Happy new year to YouTube, Brian, thanks for having 341 00:18:46,080 --> 00:18:48,639 Speaker 5: me on today. A lot to look forward to in 342 00:18:48,680 --> 00:18:51,840 Speaker 5: twenty twenty six. Happy new year to you, by the way, Brian. 343 00:18:51,920 --> 00:18:55,600 Speaker 4: Good to be with you, absolutely, And yeah, I know 344 00:18:55,680 --> 00:18:59,640 Speaker 4: from your perspective, you've covered every president since Clinton, and 345 00:19:00,600 --> 00:19:03,720 Speaker 4: you have frequently said that Trump keeps you on your 346 00:19:03,760 --> 00:19:08,200 Speaker 4: toes and certainly is as busy and willing to deal 347 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:11,160 Speaker 4: with the press corps as any president you've ever dealt with. 348 00:19:12,680 --> 00:19:16,040 Speaker 5: Well, that's true, you know, and I think that that's 349 00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:19,760 Speaker 5: instructive for anybody that you know is questioning in any 350 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:26,560 Speaker 5: way Donald Trump's ability to sustain himself for twenty four hours. 351 00:19:26,840 --> 00:19:29,600 Speaker 5: I think that I agree with you. He is a 352 00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:33,240 Speaker 5: person who has a tremendous amount of energy. I'm actually 353 00:19:33,280 --> 00:19:36,240 Speaker 5: always amazed. I travel with him, as you know, Brian, 354 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:38,720 Speaker 5: travel with him both domestically and also when he does 355 00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:41,880 Speaker 5: the foreign trips, and I have to say I am 356 00:19:41,960 --> 00:19:46,720 Speaker 5: always impressed by his stamina that he's had, not only 357 00:19:46,720 --> 00:19:48,880 Speaker 5: in his first term, but in the second term as well. 358 00:19:49,720 --> 00:19:53,560 Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, just doing events with the president, I'll 359 00:19:53,560 --> 00:19:55,880 Speaker 4: often wear down to get tired while he's still going. 360 00:19:55,960 --> 00:19:59,080 Speaker 4: So you take a look, let's take that piece with 361 00:19:59,280 --> 00:20:02,439 Speaker 4: Aron here for moment. This is a situation where the 362 00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:07,320 Speaker 4: president is articulating to the people of Iron look, stand 363 00:20:07,440 --> 00:20:10,159 Speaker 4: up and keep doing what you're doing, and if you 364 00:20:10,240 --> 00:20:11,240 Speaker 4: need support, we're here. 365 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:12,280 Speaker 1: What do you make of that? 366 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:15,199 Speaker 4: What are the possibilities here at this point as you 367 00:20:15,280 --> 00:20:17,920 Speaker 4: have the economy collapsing over there on the protest continuing to. 368 00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:21,119 Speaker 1: Grow, Well, anything's possible. You know. 369 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:23,920 Speaker 5: With President Trump, as you know, the first year of 370 00:20:23,960 --> 00:20:27,520 Speaker 5: his second term, he did take this size of military action. 371 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:30,119 Speaker 1: Against Iran, and you know that shows it. 372 00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:33,520 Speaker 5: I think to the leadership of Iran that the president 373 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:38,560 Speaker 5: isn't afraid about repercussions, afraid of pulling the trigger, so 374 00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:39,080 Speaker 5: to speak. 375 00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:40,640 Speaker 1: So I think that, you know. 376 00:20:40,760 --> 00:20:45,199 Speaker 5: They should take his social media posts at face value. 377 00:20:45,359 --> 00:20:48,199 Speaker 5: You know, even though this is a president who not 378 00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:51,080 Speaker 5: only in his first term but also in his second term, 379 00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:54,560 Speaker 5: campaigned on the idea of ending. 380 00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:55,479 Speaker 1: Those forever wars. 381 00:20:55,600 --> 00:20:58,760 Speaker 5: I don't think President Trump necessarily likes to get involved 382 00:20:58,760 --> 00:21:04,399 Speaker 5: militarily and evolving the military and foreign affairs, but you know, 383 00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:06,400 Speaker 5: when the president feels it's necessary. 384 00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:07,679 Speaker 1: We see this in Venezuela. 385 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:12,400 Speaker 5: As you mentioned, Brian, He's not afraid of actually doing 386 00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:17,080 Speaker 5: what's necessary to do what he believes is in America's 387 00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:20,119 Speaker 5: national interest. And on that note, one of the things 388 00:21:20,119 --> 00:21:24,160 Speaker 5: that he's very strategically done through his first eleven plus 389 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:26,560 Speaker 5: months in office, and he started right away in the 390 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:31,520 Speaker 5: Middle East seemingly isolating each of the new access powers, 391 00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:33,440 Speaker 5: if you will, or the new alliance that way. You know, 392 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:37,280 Speaker 5: I'll always say that China isn't just China. China is Russia. 393 00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:41,240 Speaker 5: China's North Korea with a little rocket man. And it's 394 00:21:41,280 --> 00:21:46,199 Speaker 5: also Iran, It's Venezuela, it's Nicaragua, it's Cuba, it's all 395 00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:48,920 Speaker 5: of these countries that are aligned with one another. President 396 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:54,080 Speaker 5: Trump has seemingly done a really good job and isolating 397 00:21:54,119 --> 00:21:56,159 Speaker 5: them to a certain extent from each other, to the 398 00:21:56,200 --> 00:21:58,639 Speaker 5: extent they can One things always look at when you 399 00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:02,920 Speaker 5: have a situation with Iran and the mops that were dropped, 400 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:05,600 Speaker 5: the nuclear program that was devastated. 401 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:08,160 Speaker 4: You didn't see a response from Russia. You didn't see 402 00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:10,199 Speaker 4: a response from China. You take a look at what 403 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:13,560 Speaker 4: we've been doing with the Narco boats from Venezuela. You 404 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:16,480 Speaker 4: haven't seen a response from those countries. And now here 405 00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:20,360 Speaker 4: we are again with Iran setting the stage the way 406 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:23,359 Speaker 4: he has, including getting the support of other Middle Eastern 407 00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:26,960 Speaker 4: countries to the extent he has, does that not lend 408 00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:32,600 Speaker 4: more credibility to the statements than perhaps would otherwise be 409 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:37,840 Speaker 4: there and Iran realizing, hey, maybe we are on our 410 00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:38,280 Speaker 4: own here. 411 00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:42,439 Speaker 5: Well, I think that's right, you know. And presidents, no 412 00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:45,640 Speaker 5: matter who's in the oval office, need to realize that 413 00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:50,200 Speaker 5: their words are paid attention to by not only our allies, 414 00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:51,560 Speaker 5: but also our adversaries. 415 00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:53,960 Speaker 1: And if you make a threat and you. 416 00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:57,520 Speaker 5: Don't follow through with that threat, that threat, Brian, our 417 00:22:57,600 --> 00:23:02,399 Speaker 5: adversaries pay attention to that test us and they test presidents. 418 00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:04,760 Speaker 1: And so the president very much aware of that. You know. 419 00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:07,680 Speaker 5: That's the reason why he has followed through on many 420 00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:11,320 Speaker 5: of the threats that he's made during the course of, 421 00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:14,480 Speaker 5: as you point out, his first eleven plus months in 422 00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:16,359 Speaker 5: office in his second term. 423 00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:18,680 Speaker 1: And you know, I think that, you. 424 00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:22,840 Speaker 5: Know, gives notice to those adversaries around the world that 425 00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:27,640 Speaker 5: the US, when necessary, will defend its national interest. I think, 426 00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:30,160 Speaker 5: all that being said, twenty twenty six is a very 427 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:33,399 Speaker 5: interesting year because the president very much wants to hold 428 00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:36,359 Speaker 5: on to control of both the House and the Senate, 429 00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:39,040 Speaker 5: And you know what I hear from maybe you hear 430 00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:43,000 Speaker 5: the same thing, Brian, from the president's strongest supporters, people 431 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:46,280 Speaker 5: that back everything the president does. They really want the 432 00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:50,000 Speaker 5: president to focus this year, this midterm election year, on 433 00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:53,359 Speaker 5: domestic issues, and presidents like to do that and want 434 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:59,679 Speaker 5: to do that, but sometimes things happen that forces presidents 435 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:02,240 Speaker 5: to focus on foreign affairs. 436 00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:04,200 Speaker 1: And we'll see what happens in twenty twenty six. 437 00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:07,119 Speaker 4: You know so much, and you bring up such a 438 00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:09,199 Speaker 4: good point that it's been a big theme of my 439 00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:13,760 Speaker 4: show today is what had been accomplished in the first 440 00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:16,359 Speaker 4: year in many cases that's not necessarily going to be 441 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:20,119 Speaker 4: felt on the domestic side until later on in this 442 00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:21,960 Speaker 4: year and maybe even in the third year. Kind of 443 00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:25,400 Speaker 4: similar to some of what we saw in his first 444 00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:28,040 Speaker 4: term in office, including tax cuts for example, that a 445 00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:30,000 Speaker 4: lot of people aren't going to realize the benefits of 446 00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:33,879 Speaker 4: until they file taxes because then change withholding and items 447 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:36,679 Speaker 4: along those lines. Some of the you know, affordability matters 448 00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:40,600 Speaker 4: when it comes to fewer regulations, lower interest rates going forward, 449 00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:44,680 Speaker 4: things of that order. So perhaps if there is a 450 00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:49,160 Speaker 4: good job communicating and people are seeing the benefit of it, progressively. 451 00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:51,159 Speaker 4: Things could be a little bit different that way. But 452 00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:54,119 Speaker 4: I think you raise a really instructive point, you know, 453 00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:57,080 Speaker 4: talking about the domestic agenda. Of course, we not so 454 00:24:57,119 --> 00:24:59,639 Speaker 4: long ago went through the longest partial government shutdown, and 455 00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:02,959 Speaker 4: here street and we have another deadline coming up at 456 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:06,080 Speaker 4: the end of this month. What are you hearing at 457 00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:08,760 Speaker 4: this point about what's going to happen? I think what 458 00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:13,600 Speaker 4: Congress has only like eight days in session together during 459 00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:14,840 Speaker 4: the course of January. 460 00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:17,720 Speaker 5: Yeah, that's right, So they've kicked the can down the 461 00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:20,200 Speaker 5: road until the end of this month, keeping the government 462 00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:23,800 Speaker 5: funded through that period of time. But then they have 463 00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:26,479 Speaker 5: to fund the government, you know, going forward. The fiscal 464 00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:30,439 Speaker 5: year begins on October the first every year, and that 465 00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:32,600 Speaker 5: means you have to have a funded government all the 466 00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:36,800 Speaker 5: way through September the thirtieth. And right now, as things stand, 467 00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:41,560 Speaker 5: I don't see any indication that when Congress comes back 468 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:46,400 Speaker 5: to begin the new year, they're ready to negotiate to 469 00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:50,560 Speaker 5: avoid a government shutdown. That being said, Brian, it's in 470 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:54,400 Speaker 5: no one's interest, not in the interest of Republicans or Democrats, 471 00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:58,119 Speaker 5: to have another government shutdown, particularly. 472 00:25:57,920 --> 00:25:59,760 Speaker 1: In a mid term election year. 473 00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:04,800 Speaker 5: And maybe that different dynamic changes things for twenty twenty 474 00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:09,560 Speaker 5: six because the dynamic is so different politically compared with 475 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:10,480 Speaker 5: twenty twenty five. 476 00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:14,560 Speaker 4: One of the hot buttons that has been front center 477 00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:18,560 Speaker 4: and all this the ACA subsidies, the covid era ACA 478 00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:20,600 Speaker 4: subsidies that have now lapsed. 479 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:21,679 Speaker 1: They lapsed on. 480 00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:25,880 Speaker 4: New Year's Day, and so that is something to where 481 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:28,760 Speaker 4: there's a little dissension within Republican ranks as well. You 482 00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:31,800 Speaker 4: have Senator Rick Scott who's proposed a plan that you 483 00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:34,119 Speaker 4: are seeing a lot of Republicans that are kind of 484 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:39,040 Speaker 4: rallying around any idea of the lay of the land 485 00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:40,639 Speaker 4: on that issue in particular. 486 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:44,800 Speaker 1: Can you repeat that question one more time, Brian, I'm 487 00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:46,200 Speaker 1: sorry I miss what you said. 488 00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:50,240 Speaker 4: Sure, So you have the covid era ACA subsidies that 489 00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:53,600 Speaker 4: have now expired that was front and center. There there 490 00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:57,320 Speaker 4: is some dissension within Republican ranks on that issue whether 491 00:26:57,359 --> 00:26:59,879 Speaker 4: it should be extended temporarily or go for something bigger, 492 00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:04,199 Speaker 4: which should be a theoretical permanent fex Senator Rick Scott 493 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:07,440 Speaker 4: has offered up a proposal that you have some Republicans 494 00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:12,159 Speaker 4: rallying around what are you hearing on the healthcare side specifically, Well, 495 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:13,040 Speaker 4: what I'm. 496 00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:16,879 Speaker 5: Hearing politically is that Democrats intend to make this a 497 00:27:17,119 --> 00:27:20,280 Speaker 5: political issue for the midterms. The fact that you know, 498 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:26,000 Speaker 5: there are twenty million plus Americans that, effective January the first, 499 00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:29,800 Speaker 5: are paying more for their healthcare insurance premiums because those 500 00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:35,719 Speaker 5: Obamacare subsidies went away, and you know, obviously it's unfortunate 501 00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:39,399 Speaker 5: for those individuals that you know now have this added cost. 502 00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:44,119 Speaker 5: But those additional subsidies, as you know, Brian, were not 503 00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:50,040 Speaker 5: supposed to last forever. They were applied during the pandemic. 504 00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:52,920 Speaker 5: The pandemic is no longer around, and they were due 505 00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:56,359 Speaker 5: to set to expire. They have expired. I don't see 506 00:27:56,400 --> 00:27:59,800 Speaker 5: anything indicating on the Republican side that the votes are 507 00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:07,480 Speaker 5: there to do something about extending those subsidies and putting 508 00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:10,399 Speaker 5: them back in place. We saw there were not the 509 00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:13,480 Speaker 5: votes in the Senate. That's where the problem was. In 510 00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:15,320 Speaker 5: the Senate in particular, you need. 511 00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:18,320 Speaker 1: To get sixty votes procedurally. 512 00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:20,480 Speaker 5: To move legislation forward on this front, and they don't 513 00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:23,159 Speaker 5: have anywhere near near sixty at this point. And I 514 00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:26,960 Speaker 5: don't see any Republicans changing their minds from the way 515 00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:29,560 Speaker 5: they voted on this issue in twenty twenty five. Even 516 00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:33,600 Speaker 5: though it is an election year in twenty twenty six, and. 517 00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:36,359 Speaker 4: I want to make sure I get some legal perspective 518 00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:39,520 Speaker 4: from you as well. Brian Mudwo John Decker White House Correspondent. 519 00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:41,960 Speaker 4: He also is an attorney and also happens to be 520 00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:44,400 Speaker 4: able to argue cases before the United States Supreme Court. 521 00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:46,360 Speaker 4: You've been there for a lot of the big cases, 522 00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:51,440 Speaker 4: including the Tariffs case, the hearing, and so a couple 523 00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:55,120 Speaker 4: of the big ones. You have the Birthright Citizenship Executive Order, 524 00:28:55,200 --> 00:29:00,200 Speaker 4: You've got Tariffs. Your thoughts about the legal landscape going 525 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:02,360 Speaker 4: to be a very interesting year. I'm going to be 526 00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:03,760 Speaker 4: in the Supreme Court in. 527 00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:06,760 Speaker 5: I believe just a few weeks. I believe the date 528 00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:10,440 Speaker 5: is January the twenty first. That's an important case for 529 00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:14,480 Speaker 5: the administration that involves the President attempting to remove Lisa 530 00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:17,560 Speaker 5: Cook as a member of the Federal Reserve Board. 531 00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:19,400 Speaker 1: And at the end of. 532 00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:22,640 Speaker 5: Twenty twenty five, you had that case before the Supreme 533 00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:27,560 Speaker 5: Court involving Rebecca Slaughter, a member of the FTC who 534 00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:30,640 Speaker 5: was removed from her position on the FDC. So that 535 00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:35,719 Speaker 5: those two particular cases involved an expansion of presidential power, 536 00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:38,600 Speaker 5: and you mentioned that Tariff's case I would have thought 537 00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:41,400 Speaker 5: that by the end of twenty twenty five we would 538 00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:44,920 Speaker 5: have had the Supreme Court weighing in on that particular case. 539 00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:47,680 Speaker 5: I was in the Supreme Court for those oral arguments 540 00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:51,720 Speaker 5: as well. But I would imagine that decision by the 541 00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:55,280 Speaker 5: Supreme Court on that particular issue, which is so critical 542 00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:58,880 Speaker 5: to President Trump and his agenda, will be delivered by 543 00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:01,960 Speaker 5: the Supreme Court within the next few weeks, for sure. 544 00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:04,800 Speaker 4: Okay, so a lot's going to happen here very quickly, 545 00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:10,120 Speaker 4: and your view, oh absolutely, I think that the tariff's 546 00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:12,840 Speaker 4: case a decision by the Supreme Court. 547 00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:16,040 Speaker 5: I do expect relatively quickly. I do not expect the 548 00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:18,560 Speaker 5: Supreme Court's going to wait until the end of their term, 549 00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:21,080 Speaker 5: which is the end of June, to weigh in on that. 550 00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:25,200 Speaker 5: So much depends on the way the Supreme Court rules 551 00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:27,080 Speaker 5: on that issue as it relates to. 552 00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:28,720 Speaker 1: Donald Trump's agenda. 553 00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:33,280 Speaker 5: His agenda for domestic policy is the agenda for foreign 554 00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:36,640 Speaker 5: policy as well. That's the case I asked the President 555 00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:39,520 Speaker 5: this question so often, Brian, that's the case that he 556 00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:43,320 Speaker 5: is paying the most attention to, and obviously he's hoping 557 00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:46,080 Speaker 5: that the super conservative majority sides. 558 00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:47,840 Speaker 1: With him on this particular issue. 559 00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:51,440 Speaker 4: Check out his podcast, The White House Briefing Room with 560 00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:54,840 Speaker 4: John Decker. iHeartRadio's White House corresponded, John Decker, thank you 561 00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:55,760 Speaker 4: so much for joining us. 562 00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:58,560 Speaker 5: Happy New Year, Happy New Year. Thanks so much, Brian, 563 00:30:58,640 --> 00:30:59,400 Speaker 5: talk to you real soon. 564 00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:04,320 Speaker 1: Bye bye. Pria mud In for Clay and Buck, you 565 00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:08,440 Speaker 1: ain't imagining it. The world has gone insane. 566 00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:12,640 Speaker 6: Reclaim your sanity with Clay and Buck. Find them on 567 00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:20,520 Speaker 6: the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. 568 00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:27,640 Speaker 10: Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro suggesting he's open to talks with 569 00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:31,920 Speaker 10: Washington following months of American military pressure. In an interview 570 00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:35,640 Speaker 10: on state Tvmduro said, quote wherever they want and whenever 571 00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:37,920 Speaker 10: they want, in a reference to a dialogue with the 572 00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:41,760 Speaker 10: US on drug trafficking, oil and immigration. To date, Maduro 573 00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:44,880 Speaker 10: has not confirmed a US land attack on a docking 574 00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:48,240 Speaker 10: facility in his country. US forces have also carried out 575 00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:52,240 Speaker 10: numerous strikes on suspected narco boats since September, killing more 576 00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:53,360 Speaker 10: than one hundred people. 577 00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:56,000 Speaker 4: Oh, by the way, in one of the things that 578 00:31:56,080 --> 00:32:00,000 Speaker 4: the boats that go boom, taking those out we've just routed. 579 00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:02,960 Speaker 4: Did the drug flow the illicit drug trade into the 580 00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:05,320 Speaker 4: United States by approximately thirty percent. 581 00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:08,320 Speaker 1: Kind of a big deal. One of the many. 582 00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:12,520 Speaker 4: Things that at this point is underappreciated. You get rid 583 00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:14,680 Speaker 4: of about thirty percent of the ulicited drug trade, and 584 00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:17,760 Speaker 4: now you have Maduro who you can trust as far 585 00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:22,120 Speaker 4: as you throw the buddies. We're ready to talk, We're 586 00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:24,360 Speaker 4: ready to do something differently here. So we'll see where 587 00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:24,760 Speaker 4: that goes. 588 00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:25,040 Speaker 1: Again. 589 00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:30,400 Speaker 4: President Trump's pressure campaign has been effective, same as it was, 590 00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:34,000 Speaker 4: and iron same as as it's been so many times. 591 00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:38,560 Speaker 4: The ultimate piece through strength that continues to be on display. 592 00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:41,920 Speaker 4: We were just talking with White House correspondent John Decker's 593 00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:46,160 Speaker 4: talking about tariffs. Roberts on the line and is interested 594 00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:47,160 Speaker 4: in the topic as well. 595 00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:48,760 Speaker 1: Happy New Year, Robert. 596 00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:52,760 Speaker 7: Happy new Year to you too. I bet a few points, 597 00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:57,080 Speaker 7: even one for your guest. You need to read, and 598 00:32:57,120 --> 00:33:00,720 Speaker 7: this is challenged to you. Pull up the Supreme Court 599 00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:04,200 Speaker 7: ruling Minor versus half Er set. It will tell you 600 00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:08,080 Speaker 7: an excruciating detail what a natural born citizen is and 601 00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:11,160 Speaker 7: it has nothing to do with just happenstance to be 602 00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:14,560 Speaker 7: born in the United States has nothing to do with that. 603 00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:21,120 Speaker 7: As for tariffs, many people don't understand that tariffs are 604 00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:24,480 Speaker 7: not on the retail price of the product. I think 605 00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:27,280 Speaker 7: it's on less than the wholesale price, which is why 606 00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:29,960 Speaker 7: these companies are more than willing to absorb that cost 607 00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:32,840 Speaker 7: because already charging you two hundred percent what they paid for. 608 00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:34,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, Robert, it's a great point. 609 00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:36,680 Speaker 4: We've got to leave it there because we're coming up 610 00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:38,040 Speaker 4: on the top of the hour here. 611 00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:40,040 Speaker 1: But no, you're exactly right. 612 00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:44,560 Speaker 4: It ultimately is paid at the ports, and you have 613 00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:47,400 Speaker 4: had almost af the tarrif expense that has been absorbed. 614 00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:50,520 Speaker 4: You've had the actual impact in the markets as you've 615 00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:52,360 Speaker 4: taken a look at the rate of inflation come down 616 00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:54,240 Speaker 4: here every year, be far less than any of the 617 00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:57,960 Speaker 4: economists we're saying, and what over two hundred billion dollars 618 00:33:57,960 --> 00:33:59,880 Speaker 4: that's come in in the meantime. 619 00:33:59,880 --> 00:34:02,640 Speaker 1: The roadmap for this year next brym in for 620 00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:07,280 Speaker 8: Clay and Buck Cleay, Travis and Buck Sexton on the 621 00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:09,040 Speaker 8: front lines of truth.