1 00:00:01,160 --> 00:00:03,920 Speaker 1: Donald Trump promised that he was going to put America first, 2 00:00:04,040 --> 00:00:06,000 Speaker 1: and he promised that he was going to do it, 3 00:00:06,720 --> 00:00:09,879 Speaker 1: especially when it came to trade deals where America was 4 00:00:09,920 --> 00:00:12,920 Speaker 1: being taken advantage of by countries literally all over the world, 5 00:00:13,160 --> 00:00:15,000 Speaker 1: and he was going to do it by imposing more 6 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:18,360 Speaker 1: tariffs to make it fair trade. He was tired of 7 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:25,120 Speaker 1: American jobs disappearing, American manufacturing disappearing, and again America just 8 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:28,280 Speaker 1: being taken advantage of by countries that had no problem 9 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:31,760 Speaker 1: importing their goods in the US, but weren't even taking 10 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:35,040 Speaker 1: our goods, and even in places like the UK, a 11 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:38,960 Speaker 1: strong ally of ours. Well, now we're hearing that Donald 12 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:44,280 Speaker 1: Trump could impose more tariffs on China over Russian oil. 13 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:47,080 Speaker 1: But here's the point that I want to make before 14 00:00:47,120 --> 00:00:50,720 Speaker 1: we get to that the media was wrong. They claimed 15 00:00:50,760 --> 00:00:53,080 Speaker 1: it was all doom and gloom, that the tariffs weren't 16 00:00:53,080 --> 00:00:54,840 Speaker 1: going to work, that it was going to be bare 17 00:00:54,880 --> 00:00:57,440 Speaker 1: shelves for the Americans as you went to your favorite 18 00:00:57,480 --> 00:01:01,240 Speaker 1: store to get basic necessity, and then it was going 19 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:04,880 Speaker 1: to put us into a recession. None of that happened. 20 00:01:05,080 --> 00:01:07,800 Speaker 1: Larry Kudlow at Fox News Channel saying this. 21 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:11,119 Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, I remember when everyone said the 22 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:15,360 Speaker 2: market would crash, inflation would skyrocket because of these terrorists. 23 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:18,520 Speaker 2: But that's not what's happening. And now you've got billions 24 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:20,760 Speaker 2: of dollars coming in. Larry, I want to go, I 25 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:24,199 Speaker 2: want to pivot in here, because yeah, that's. 26 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:27,240 Speaker 3: An important point though, just to you know, we're thirty 27 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:32,919 Speaker 3: seconds here. All the gloom and doom, tariff inflation, tariff recession, 28 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:37,880 Speaker 3: tariff catastrophe, none of that has happened. Okay. And in fact, 29 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:43,720 Speaker 3: as you noted earlier, the tariff revenues are pouring in. Okay, 30 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:47,000 Speaker 3: he could do as much as four hundred billion this 31 00:01:47,160 --> 00:01:53,360 Speaker 3: year alone in tariff revenues. Imports from China, or let's say, 32 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:57,640 Speaker 3: Chinese exports to the United States, all right, their lowest 33 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:02,640 Speaker 3: point in over twenty years. Our trade deficit through June 34 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:07,120 Speaker 3: is at its lowest point in the last two years. Okay. 35 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:10,799 Speaker 3: These are all positives. And basically what he's saying is 36 00:02:11,040 --> 00:02:13,640 Speaker 3: he wants to level playing field and he wants to 37 00:02:13,639 --> 00:02:16,919 Speaker 3: protect the American economy. People have been taking advantage of 38 00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:20,680 Speaker 3: the United States and that's coming to an end now. 39 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:25,000 Speaker 3: Instead of warfare, you know, set of retaliation or the 40 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:29,400 Speaker 3: so called world tariff war. No, it's deal making, deal 41 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:34,560 Speaker 3: making everywhere the deal maker in chiefe place, Yes, exactly. 42 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:38,360 Speaker 3: And you know a place like Japan which is difficult, 43 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:42,079 Speaker 3: or South Korea which is difficult, or the European Union 44 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:45,160 Speaker 3: which is difficult. So I would say he's gotten off 45 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:47,399 Speaker 3: to a great start on this policy. 46 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:50,160 Speaker 1: Not only has he gotten off to a great start, 47 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:52,360 Speaker 1: but other countries are starting to come to the table 48 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:55,960 Speaker 1: quickly to make sure they get their deal done as 49 00:02:56,120 --> 00:02:57,200 Speaker 1: fast as they can. 50 00:02:57,720 --> 00:02:57,880 Speaker 4: Now. 51 00:02:57,919 --> 00:03:00,360 Speaker 1: The President has also talked about what he's going to 52 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:03,600 Speaker 1: do with pharmaceuticals, making it clear that he is going 53 00:03:03,639 --> 00:03:07,800 Speaker 1: to be putting tariffs on pharmaceuticals. Why because he wants 54 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:10,680 Speaker 1: the maid in our country and not us depending on 55 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:14,519 Speaker 1: other nations like China from a national security standpoint. 56 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:16,919 Speaker 5: Listen to President on CNBC on. 57 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:22,520 Speaker 6: That chips We'll be putting a initially small tariff on pharmaceuticals, 58 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:25,760 Speaker 6: but in one year one and a half year's maximum, 59 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:28,800 Speaker 6: it's going to go to one hundred and fifty percent, 60 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:30,400 Speaker 6: and then it's going to go to two hundred and 61 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 6: fifty percent because we want pharmaceuticals made in our country 62 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:37,360 Speaker 6: and that's not the chipsack like Biden did because he 63 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:39,160 Speaker 6: didn't know what he was doing, where they gave billions 64 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:41,760 Speaker 6: of dollars to companies that had more money than they 65 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:42,560 Speaker 6: knew what to do with. 66 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:46,880 Speaker 1: Which brings me to the new point that Donald Trump 67 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:50,960 Speaker 1: is making the new frontier on tariffs. We're now being 68 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:53,680 Speaker 1: told from the White House the President Trump is now 69 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:57,760 Speaker 1: saying he will announce further tariffs on China, similar to 70 00:03:57,880 --> 00:04:02,600 Speaker 1: the twenty five percent duties announced earlier on India over 71 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:07,839 Speaker 1: its purchases of Russian oil, depending on what happens. He said, 72 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:10,760 Speaker 1: it could happen, Trump told reporters after saying he expected 73 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:15,280 Speaker 1: to announce more secondary sanctions aimed at pressuring Russia to 74 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:19,599 Speaker 1: end its war in Ukraine, he said, quote, it may happen. 75 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:21,320 Speaker 5: I can't tell you yet. 76 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:24,560 Speaker 1: We did it with India, We're doing it probably with 77 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:28,479 Speaker 1: a couple of others. One of them could be China. 78 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:32,520 Speaker 1: Trump on Wednesday imposed an additional twenty five percent tariff 79 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:36,599 Speaker 1: on Indian goods on top of a twenty five percent 80 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:42,120 Speaker 1: tariff announced previously, citing its continued purchases of Russian oil. 81 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:44,640 Speaker 5: Now, the White House order did. 82 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:49,080 Speaker 1: Not mention China, which is another big purchaser of Russian oil. 83 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:54,039 Speaker 1: Last week, the Treasury Secretary Scott Dessent warned China that 84 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:57,480 Speaker 1: it could also face new tariffs if it continued buying 85 00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:01,960 Speaker 1: the Russian oil. So China is also responding to this 86 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:06,000 Speaker 1: as well, and there is escalation between the two countries 87 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:09,760 Speaker 1: as China pushes back at the US with their own 88 00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:11,560 Speaker 1: comments against the president. 89 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:13,520 Speaker 5: Here's what they said. 90 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:18,200 Speaker 1: China quote will always ensure its energy supply in ways 91 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:21,560 Speaker 1: that serves our national interests, is what the Chinese Foreign 92 00:05:21,560 --> 00:05:26,240 Speaker 1: Ministry posted on acts following two days of trade negotiations 93 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:29,880 Speaker 1: in Stockholm. Responding to the US threat of one hundred 94 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:35,400 Speaker 1: percent tariff coercion and pressuring will not achieve anything, China 95 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:40,599 Speaker 1: will firmly defended sovereignty, security and development interest, the ministry went. 96 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:41,000 Speaker 5: On to say. 97 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:44,160 Speaker 1: Now the response is notable at a time when both 98 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:49,839 Speaker 1: Beijing and Washington are signaling optimism and goodwill between the 99 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:53,440 Speaker 1: two countries when it comes to well getting a deal 100 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:57,320 Speaker 1: done after climbing down from sky high tariffs and harsh 101 00:05:57,360 --> 00:06:02,400 Speaker 1: trade restrictions. It also underscores china confidence in playing hardball, 102 00:06:02,520 --> 00:06:06,080 Speaker 1: the country says when dealing with President Trump and his administration, 103 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:10,440 Speaker 1: especially when trade is linked to its energy and foreign policies, 104 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:14,320 Speaker 1: the President saying I'm not afraid and making it clear 105 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:17,840 Speaker 1: that if you're buying from Russia, it's going to be 106 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:21,760 Speaker 1: a problem for the United States of America, which brings 107 00:06:21,839 --> 00:06:24,640 Speaker 1: us to the bigger picture, and the question is what 108 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:28,720 Speaker 1: can you expect from new tariffs on imported goods? Well, 109 00:06:28,760 --> 00:06:32,600 Speaker 1: American businesses and consumers will soon have a better idea 110 00:06:33,080 --> 00:06:36,080 Speaker 1: of how President Donald Trump's foreign trade agenda might actually 111 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:39,599 Speaker 1: affect you directly. What US customers can expect from the 112 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:42,599 Speaker 1: new tariffs on imported goods is also something that the 113 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:47,320 Speaker 1: Associated Press is saying is quote turning real American businesses 114 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:50,239 Speaker 1: and the consumers, they say, will have a better idea 115 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:53,800 Speaker 1: of how President Donald Trump's foreign trade agenda will affect them. 116 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:57,440 Speaker 1: When the imposed higher tariffs on products from dozens of 117 00:06:57,480 --> 00:07:01,119 Speaker 1: countries hit the shelves. It's it's been nearly one hundred 118 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:05,160 Speaker 1: years since the nation had an overall import tax rate 119 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:08,760 Speaker 1: as high as the one set today, but the individual 120 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:13,160 Speaker 1: impact on businesses, costs, and consumer prices could vary as 121 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:17,800 Speaker 1: much as the tariffs applied to goods of nearly seventy 122 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:22,920 Speaker 1: US trading partners from complicated economies like the European Union 123 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:28,000 Speaker 1: to small African nations as well. Experts from a majority 124 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:31,040 Speaker 1: of them are getting tax at fifteen percent. For a 125 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:34,640 Speaker 1: handful of countries in Asia the rate is nineteen percent. 126 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:37,640 Speaker 1: Products from the rest of the world are subjected to 127 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:41,600 Speaker 1: taxes of twenty to fifty percent. Meanwhile, there's still a 128 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:45,000 Speaker 1: fifty five percent tariff on Chinese made goods is scheduled 129 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:48,960 Speaker 1: to take effect next week if a US China trade 130 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:53,120 Speaker 1: deal has not agreed to on or before then. Now, 131 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:55,560 Speaker 1: businesses in the US and abroad have been dealing in 132 00:07:55,760 --> 00:08:00,120 Speaker 1: various ways since February with the tariffs. But what we 133 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:03,120 Speaker 1: found is that many Americans are happy with what they're 134 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:07,760 Speaker 1: seeing in the stores. Why because many companies are actually 135 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:10,920 Speaker 1: absorbing the costs for now. A great example of that 136 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:14,760 Speaker 1: is automakers. They appear to be leading the pack and 137 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:18,560 Speaker 1: have absorbed the costs at this point instead of passing 138 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:21,840 Speaker 1: it on to you the consumer. Now, recent government data 139 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:27,200 Speaker 1: indicated that retail prices for groceries, furniture, and appliances have 140 00:08:27,320 --> 00:08:31,080 Speaker 1: started to creep up minimally in June, far less than 141 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:33,679 Speaker 1: what the experts claimed when they said there was going 142 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:38,119 Speaker 1: to be doom and gloom because tariffs, sorry, tax on imports. 143 00:08:38,160 --> 00:08:41,920 Speaker 1: Economists had expected US customers to foot the bill. And 144 00:08:42,040 --> 00:08:44,960 Speaker 1: guess what that is not what has happened at all. 145 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:49,439 Speaker 1: The projections were all based on analysis of duties implemented 146 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:52,800 Speaker 1: this year through Wednesday, and they said it was going 147 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:56,160 Speaker 1: to be terrible. But the actual price increases a bit 148 00:08:56,200 --> 00:09:00,240 Speaker 1: about one point eight percent in the short term. And 149 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:04,760 Speaker 1: the US government has been collecting billions from the countries 150 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:08,000 Speaker 1: that the present decided to put tariffs on. So at 151 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:10,280 Speaker 1: the end of the day, as President Trump unveiled the 152 00:09:10,320 --> 00:09:13,199 Speaker 1: sweeping import tax on goods coming into the US from 153 00:09:13,320 --> 00:09:18,240 Speaker 1: sixty six countries, the European Union, Taiwan, the Falkland Islands 154 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:21,520 Speaker 1: in April, what did he say? He said, the reciprocal 155 00:09:21,559 --> 00:09:25,400 Speaker 1: tariffs were meant to boost domestic manufacturing. That has happened. 156 00:09:25,760 --> 00:09:29,160 Speaker 1: It's also meant to restore fairness to global trade. That 157 00:09:29,240 --> 00:09:32,880 Speaker 1: has also happened. And here's the point that matters to you. 158 00:09:33,360 --> 00:09:36,640 Speaker 1: The present pause the country specific tariffs a week later, 159 00:09:37,040 --> 00:09:39,960 Speaker 1: but applied to ten percent tax to most imports. In 160 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:44,080 Speaker 1: early July, he began notifying countries that their exports would 161 00:09:44,080 --> 00:09:47,319 Speaker 1: be subject to higher tariffs on August one unless they 162 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:50,480 Speaker 1: reached the trade deals. A week ago, he pushed the 163 00:09:50,520 --> 00:09:55,800 Speaker 1: start date to Thursday. So here we are. It is Thursday, 164 00:09:56,120 --> 00:09:59,680 Speaker 1: and it's real. In the meantime, Trump has also announced 165 00:09:59,679 --> 00:10:02,640 Speaker 1: a third five percent tariff on imports from Canada, but 166 00:10:02,760 --> 00:10:07,680 Speaker 1: delayed action on Mexico while negotiations continue. However, a free 167 00:10:07,679 --> 00:10:11,040 Speaker 1: trade agreement reached with Mexico and Canada during Trump's first 168 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:15,800 Speaker 1: term shields most of those countries' products from punishing duties. 169 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:19,080 Speaker 1: The president also ordered a fifty percent tariffs on goods 170 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:22,280 Speaker 1: from Brazil this week. He also signed executive order to 171 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:25,040 Speaker 1: take India's tarif freight from twenty five to fifty percent, 172 00:10:25,679 --> 00:10:28,679 Speaker 1: all because of, as I mentioned earlier, the purchases of 173 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:32,640 Speaker 1: Russian oil. So the President's not playing, and what we 174 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:35,400 Speaker 1: now know is the present's telling you the truth. 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He may not 219 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:25,120 Speaker 1: describe me as someone he mentors, but I'm just gonna 220 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:26,199 Speaker 1: throw it out there anyway. 221 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:29,240 Speaker 5: He has had an incredible impact on my career. 222 00:13:30,080 --> 00:13:33,120 Speaker 1: A sincere and genuine Uh, someone I look up to 223 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:36,319 Speaker 1: and I'm so thankful to have people like this in 224 00:13:36,360 --> 00:13:37,240 Speaker 1: the radio community. 225 00:13:37,240 --> 00:13:40,679 Speaker 5: But also in this world is Mark Levin. 226 00:13:40,800 --> 00:13:42,680 Speaker 1: I've had the honor of filling in for him for 227 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:45,320 Speaker 1: several years now, and he is a man that writes 228 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:47,440 Speaker 1: books that when he writes them, you need to pause, 229 00:13:47,559 --> 00:13:49,600 Speaker 1: you need to buy them, and you need to read them. 230 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:52,200 Speaker 1: There's a reason why they're always a bestseller. And he's 231 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:55,839 Speaker 1: got a new book out called On Power. It explores 232 00:13:55,880 --> 00:13:59,199 Speaker 1: the nature of power. It's historical uses, good and bad, 233 00:13:59,280 --> 00:14:02,520 Speaker 1: the impact on liberty. Mark, thank you for coming on 234 00:14:02,760 --> 00:14:04,840 Speaker 1: and I'm excited about this book. I got an advanced 235 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:08,360 Speaker 1: copy Reddit cover to cover, and I don't think the 236 00:14:08,559 --> 00:14:11,880 Speaker 1: timing of this book could have been any better, especially 237 00:14:11,920 --> 00:14:14,640 Speaker 1: coming after what we just saw with the Biden regime 238 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:18,160 Speaker 1: and the auto pen and the abuse of power. It 239 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:20,240 Speaker 1: can be used for good and bad, There's no doubt 240 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:20,680 Speaker 1: about it. 241 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:23,840 Speaker 4: First of all, thank you for that intro. You are 242 00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:27,560 Speaker 4: a terrific person and a great radio talent as well, 243 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:30,640 Speaker 4: and I really appreciate it, brother, And it's always a 244 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:35,480 Speaker 4: thrill to be back in your community, Memphis. Yeah. So 245 00:14:35,560 --> 00:14:37,840 Speaker 4: I wrote this book On Power, and I'll tell you why, Ben, 246 00:14:38,040 --> 00:14:40,760 Speaker 4: Because in addition to the point two raise, which I 247 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:43,840 Speaker 4: definitely want to get into, I just started the thinking, 248 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:48,400 Speaker 4: started thinking that I'm not sure we're addressing this issue 249 00:14:48,560 --> 00:14:53,720 Speaker 4: of tyranny in our liberty properly, because when you really 250 00:14:53,720 --> 00:14:57,280 Speaker 4: think about it, the Revolutionary War wasn't photover liberty. This 251 00:14:57,360 --> 00:15:02,120 Speaker 4: photover power in order to acquire or preserve liberty. And 252 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:04,960 Speaker 4: I got to thinking, you know, liberty without rights is 253 00:15:05,160 --> 00:15:09,720 Speaker 4: non existent. Rights without powers non existent. So power is 254 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:12,920 Speaker 4: the bottom line. And you bring up what they've done 255 00:15:12,960 --> 00:15:14,880 Speaker 4: to Trump, but they're trying to do to Trump, the 256 00:15:14,920 --> 00:15:19,240 Speaker 4: Obama Hillary scandal and others. It's all about power. In fact, 257 00:15:19,240 --> 00:15:22,560 Speaker 4: this whole battle over budgets, that's about power. Open borders 258 00:15:22,560 --> 00:15:27,640 Speaker 4: so they can swamp us with new congressional districts for Democrats, 259 00:15:27,680 --> 00:15:32,120 Speaker 4: same thing, trying to control the Supreme Court and potentially 260 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:34,680 Speaker 4: pack it. It's the same thing. You see the Democrats, 261 00:15:34,720 --> 00:15:37,720 Speaker 4: the Marxists, the Islamis, they get it. They're for power 262 00:15:37,920 --> 00:15:40,680 Speaker 4: and they try to do everything they can to acquire it. 263 00:15:41,320 --> 00:15:45,080 Speaker 4: We are on defense. We're trying to defend power versus power, 264 00:15:45,120 --> 00:15:47,800 Speaker 4: that is divided power, separation of power. We're trying to 265 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:52,040 Speaker 4: defend the origins of our founding, which is really not 266 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:56,400 Speaker 4: about powers, about God the sovereign, We the children of 267 00:15:56,480 --> 00:15:59,240 Speaker 4: the sovereign, and on earth where the sovereign, where the 268 00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:02,920 Speaker 4: people is in individuals and as a society. And then 269 00:16:02,920 --> 00:16:06,680 Speaker 4: we fuse that with the enlightenment which we embrace, to 270 00:16:06,760 --> 00:16:10,560 Speaker 4: apply that kind of sovereignty which is is Mondesquez said 271 00:16:10,560 --> 00:16:14,880 Speaker 4: in other's power versus power. So we we don't explain this, 272 00:16:15,040 --> 00:16:17,040 Speaker 4: we don't think it's through in my humble opinion, and 273 00:16:17,160 --> 00:16:21,160 Speaker 4: doing this all these years to just throw out, you know, 274 00:16:21,240 --> 00:16:23,800 Speaker 4: shibbles or something at a surface level, it isn't going 275 00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:28,480 Speaker 4: to do it anymore. So this is why I argue 276 00:16:28,480 --> 00:16:31,960 Speaker 4: that we have got to really understand we are for 277 00:16:32,080 --> 00:16:35,760 Speaker 4: positive power, their negative power. What does that mean? Their 278 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:39,880 Speaker 4: abuse and use of language? What's the purpose thought control? 279 00:16:39,960 --> 00:16:44,760 Speaker 4: And so for coercion, obedience, manipulation. What do we really 280 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:47,400 Speaker 4: mean by liberty in the sense of power? What do 281 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:50,280 Speaker 4: we really mean by rights? And I feel with all 282 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:53,320 Speaker 4: these things going on the rise of Marxism and Islamism, 283 00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:57,000 Speaker 4: including in our own country a far more aggressive Democrat 284 00:16:57,120 --> 00:17:01,360 Speaker 4: party that is unmoored completely really from our found and 285 00:17:02,560 --> 00:17:05,359 Speaker 4: our requirement as citizens now to teach our children and 286 00:17:05,359 --> 00:17:08,240 Speaker 4: grandchildren and other people what it is that we should 287 00:17:08,320 --> 00:17:10,320 Speaker 4: stand for because we don't get it in the schools. 288 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:11,359 Speaker 4: That's the point of the book. 289 00:17:12,359 --> 00:17:15,320 Speaker 1: You mentioned the schools there, and look, I'm getting older 290 00:17:15,359 --> 00:17:17,359 Speaker 1: now I say that, and I'm not joking. 291 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:19,359 Speaker 5: I'm going to hit gosh, was it forty four in 292 00:17:19,359 --> 00:17:20,080 Speaker 5: a couple of weeks. 293 00:17:20,440 --> 00:17:23,399 Speaker 1: I've got three sons, I know, right, I got twins 294 00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:25,560 Speaker 1: or six and a nine year old turned nine couple 295 00:17:25,680 --> 00:17:29,439 Speaker 1: days ago. And what terrifies me the most now is 296 00:17:29,520 --> 00:17:33,199 Speaker 1: the education that they're going to get from someone that 297 00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:36,480 Speaker 1: wants them to have the power over them, to make 298 00:17:36,520 --> 00:17:39,240 Speaker 1: them hate this country. You look at the report that 299 00:17:39,280 --> 00:17:41,560 Speaker 1: came out even last week, Mark, and it talked about 300 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:45,600 Speaker 1: how the Chinese Communist Party has in essence completely infiltrated 301 00:17:45,640 --> 00:17:49,639 Speaker 1: our education system at the highest levels, including the ivy leagues, 302 00:17:49,680 --> 00:17:53,000 Speaker 1: buying access to the minds of our young people. That 303 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:56,480 Speaker 1: is something that concerns me. I know, you don't have 304 00:17:56,560 --> 00:17:58,479 Speaker 1: to do this anymore. You could retire if you wanted to. 305 00:17:58,920 --> 00:18:01,080 Speaker 1: I know why you do it. You love this country. 306 00:18:01,320 --> 00:18:04,080 Speaker 1: It's why you write these books. But how concerned are 307 00:18:04,160 --> 00:18:07,640 Speaker 1: you about the abuse of power coming from other influencers 308 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:10,240 Speaker 1: who are grabbing our kids' minds in the public schools 309 00:18:10,240 --> 00:18:11,480 Speaker 1: and also at our universities. 310 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:16,199 Speaker 4: Very and when you read the chapter on language, the 311 00:18:16,320 --> 00:18:19,520 Speaker 4: nature of the language that's used, what's allowed to be said, 312 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:22,560 Speaker 4: not allowed to be said, new words, new definition of words, 313 00:18:22,600 --> 00:18:26,720 Speaker 4: This whole idea of wokeism and DEI and CRT, it's 314 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:31,440 Speaker 4: all intended to destroy our connection with our founders and 315 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:34,040 Speaker 4: the belief system that brought us to where we are today. 316 00:18:34,640 --> 00:18:37,040 Speaker 4: And that's why I write these books so people have 317 00:18:37,359 --> 00:18:41,440 Speaker 4: relatively easy access to the information, the tools, the arguments. 318 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:44,320 Speaker 4: Because we have to go around the teachers' unions, we've 319 00:18:44,359 --> 00:18:46,399 Speaker 4: got to go around the college faculty, we've got to 320 00:18:46,400 --> 00:18:48,600 Speaker 4: go around the media. We've got to inform ourselves and 321 00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:52,000 Speaker 4: educate ourselves. And we as parents and grandparents, we have 322 00:18:52,040 --> 00:18:56,119 Speaker 4: an obligation. And sometimes you'll succeed and sometimes you'll fail. 323 00:18:56,640 --> 00:18:59,480 Speaker 4: To try and pass this on to our kids and 324 00:18:59,480 --> 00:19:03,720 Speaker 4: our grand it's because they're not getting it from these institutions. Now. 325 00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:06,760 Speaker 4: I'm all for school choice. I think what the President 326 00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:11,480 Speaker 4: Trump's doing with these colleges and universities is absolutely fantastic, 327 00:19:12,840 --> 00:19:15,960 Speaker 4: and those that's a battle that's fought, say over here, 328 00:19:16,119 --> 00:19:19,600 Speaker 4: but the battle that's fought in our private lives needs 329 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:23,040 Speaker 4: to be a different kind of battle. And I mean, 330 00:19:23,080 --> 00:19:25,440 Speaker 4: I hear young people going on about this, mondamie, why 331 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:28,560 Speaker 4: don't we try socialism? What's the problem, what's the you know, 332 00:19:28,600 --> 00:19:32,560 Speaker 4: what's the Because they haven't been told anything, they haven't 333 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:35,480 Speaker 4: experienced anything, they haven't lived in a certain circumstances that 334 00:19:36,040 --> 00:19:38,560 Speaker 4: tell them what's wrong with it. So we have to 335 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:41,800 Speaker 4: do that. And that's what I'm trying to adjust here, 336 00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:44,880 Speaker 4: not just for young people, but for all people among ourselves, 337 00:19:45,680 --> 00:19:48,680 Speaker 4: and in terms of projecting it to other people, we're 338 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:50,240 Speaker 4: going to get down to the crux of the matter. 339 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:53,200 Speaker 4: If somebody says I can't afford food, and we respond 340 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:55,040 Speaker 4: with liberty, it goes in one ear and out the 341 00:19:55,040 --> 00:19:59,240 Speaker 4: other ear. If somebody says, look this guy, mandamie, we're 342 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:02,320 Speaker 4: gonna have public rice stores, and I said, well, that's great. 343 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:04,240 Speaker 4: So now he'll have the power to decide whether you 344 00:20:04,320 --> 00:20:06,880 Speaker 4: eat or you don't eat. And he'll have the power 345 00:20:06,880 --> 00:20:09,080 Speaker 4: to decide what you do eat and what you don't eat. 346 00:20:09,119 --> 00:20:11,840 Speaker 4: Is that okay with you? Or whether your shelves are 347 00:20:11,840 --> 00:20:15,640 Speaker 4: filled or they're not filled, so there are ways to engage. 348 00:20:15,640 --> 00:20:18,200 Speaker 4: And I think when you get down to the core 349 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:21,560 Speaker 4: of it, it is about the distribution of power, a 350 00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:24,639 Speaker 4: positive distribution or a negative distribution of power. 351 00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:27,960 Speaker 1: You mentioned power, and one of the things that I 352 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:29,960 Speaker 1: think is very scary about where we are in twenty 353 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:32,920 Speaker 1: twenty five is going back to the point you made 354 00:20:32,920 --> 00:20:36,000 Speaker 1: a second ago. How easily people are willing to just 355 00:20:36,119 --> 00:20:40,040 Speaker 1: give up their own power and say, here, government make 356 00:20:40,080 --> 00:20:43,159 Speaker 1: all the decisions for me. Did we get to this 357 00:20:43,280 --> 00:20:46,040 Speaker 1: point because we become lazy as society or is it 358 00:20:46,119 --> 00:20:50,000 Speaker 1: because of indoctrination in society or a little bit of both. 359 00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:52,600 Speaker 1: And also there's now a new culture. Let's be clear 360 00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:55,760 Speaker 1: that is hate America. America is evil, America is bad. 361 00:20:55,840 --> 00:20:59,960 Speaker 1: So therefore communism or socialism or Marxism must be tried. 362 00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:03,240 Speaker 4: I think these are two points and they're very good. 363 00:21:03,320 --> 00:21:05,720 Speaker 4: I think that first point, you know, de Tgfolk kind 364 00:21:05,720 --> 00:21:08,520 Speaker 4: of talked about it. When government gets involved in all 365 00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:12,760 Speaker 4: things small and large, you're creating a different kind of people, 366 00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:15,840 Speaker 4: a different kind of mentality, and you are kind of 367 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:19,920 Speaker 4: reverse engineering human nature. Whereas you know you want free will, 368 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:23,200 Speaker 4: certain things motivate you, and so forth. It wears you down. 369 00:21:23,720 --> 00:21:26,080 Speaker 4: It gets you used to subsidies, it gets you used 370 00:21:26,119 --> 00:21:28,960 Speaker 4: to being pounded on about what's wrong with you, what's 371 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:32,840 Speaker 4: wrong with your ancestry, what's wrong with your race, that 372 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:36,160 Speaker 4: sort of thing. I think the second point you raise 373 00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:39,440 Speaker 4: is very it's a very nefarious problem, which is the 374 00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:44,080 Speaker 4: poisonous leakage into our system of these ideologies that have 375 00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:48,000 Speaker 4: as their purpose not to compete, but to destroy not 376 00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:52,080 Speaker 4: even the government, the society and to destroy the culture. 377 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:54,760 Speaker 4: And this is what people need to understand. We are 378 00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:58,280 Speaker 4: trying to defend limited government, which is very important. They're 379 00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:01,920 Speaker 4: destroying everything that undergo it, a civil society which comes 380 00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:06,560 Speaker 4: before government, and they're trying to grab control of it. 381 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:11,200 Speaker 4: So they're about centralization of power, the imposition of their ideology. 382 00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:18,320 Speaker 4: They're about brainwashing, fear mongering, while they promise redistribution, while 383 00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:20,639 Speaker 4: they promise more liberty, while they you know, it's like 384 00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:23,960 Speaker 4: the People's Republic of China. I think they're about the 385 00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:29,200 Speaker 4: people or a republic. They'll take the word democracy democratic socialism. 386 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:33,560 Speaker 4: Those two words are oxymorony. They don't work together. Socialism 387 00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:36,080 Speaker 4: about the government controlling the means of production and the 388 00:22:36,119 --> 00:22:40,119 Speaker 4: distribution of resources and material and wealth that has nothing 389 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:43,119 Speaker 4: to do with democracy in any way. We've got to 390 00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:45,280 Speaker 4: challenge this, We've got to break it down and say, 391 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:50,399 Speaker 4: excuse me. We're the ones who believe in participatory democracy, republicanism. 392 00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:55,440 Speaker 4: We're the ones who believe in the free, voluntary commercial 393 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:59,560 Speaker 4: activity among people. And then we need to explain what 394 00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:03,440 Speaker 4: that creates. What that creates is a massive middle class 395 00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:06,800 Speaker 4: like no other society ever on the planet has experienced, 396 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:10,280 Speaker 4: where we live better than any king or queen one 397 00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:12,399 Speaker 4: hundred and fifty years ago. We have more access to 398 00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:15,919 Speaker 4: more kinds of food. We switch a we hit a switch, 399 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:18,080 Speaker 4: the lights come on, we turn a foscet on. We 400 00:23:18,119 --> 00:23:21,879 Speaker 4: get clean cold water, clean hot water. You have bathrooms 401 00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:25,280 Speaker 4: in your home. You have mobility in cars. You go 402 00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:28,359 Speaker 4: on a plane forty thousand feet in the air. You 403 00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:30,520 Speaker 4: may not like the peanuts you're getting, but think about 404 00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:34,120 Speaker 4: what's actually happening. You compare this. This is a result 405 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:38,560 Speaker 4: of America. This is the result of a society where 406 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:43,160 Speaker 4: power is distributed properly and where the individual, the individual 407 00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:46,480 Speaker 4: is the sovereign and the people of the sovereign. Conversely, 408 00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:49,680 Speaker 4: seventy percent of the world lives in tyranny and poverty, 409 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:54,480 Speaker 4: and what do they have. Are they flourishing republics or democracies? 410 00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:58,199 Speaker 4: Do they believe in consensual government or participatory Of course not, 411 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:03,120 Speaker 4: And so you have to compare something with something, not 412 00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:05,640 Speaker 4: something with their ideology. 413 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:08,040 Speaker 1: When you wrote this book, and it's a book that 414 00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:09,639 Speaker 1: I would encourage you to grab by the way. If 415 00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:12,760 Speaker 1: you haven't read other books by Mark Levin, you should 416 00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:16,720 Speaker 1: grab them. They're incredible, this new one on power, exploring 417 00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:19,359 Speaker 1: the nature of power. It's historical use is its impact 418 00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:25,520 Speaker 1: on liberty and really democracy and authoritarianism and disguised as representation, 419 00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:28,639 Speaker 1: especially what we're witnessing in New York City with this 420 00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:31,960 Speaker 1: mayor Kennet there. When you were writing this book, were 421 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:34,760 Speaker 1: you writing it for a specific person? Were you writing 422 00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:37,560 Speaker 1: it for young and oh what was your mindset when 423 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:38,240 Speaker 1: you were writing it? 424 00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:41,119 Speaker 4: First of all, I wanted to write it differently, in 425 00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:44,080 Speaker 4: a way where I could take some complicated subjects and 426 00:24:44,119 --> 00:24:49,200 Speaker 4: make them very digestible, understandable actually find and enjoyable to read, 427 00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:53,920 Speaker 4: and yet challenge people's thinking or somebody might say, oh, yeah, 428 00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:59,280 Speaker 4: I thought about that. I never really developed my thoughts 429 00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:02,000 Speaker 4: on it though, that sort of thing and yeah, that's 430 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:04,679 Speaker 4: a different way of putting this, and it's an important 431 00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:07,400 Speaker 4: way of putting it. So my view is this book 432 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:11,679 Speaker 4: is written for anybody, particularly people who are trying to 433 00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:16,320 Speaker 4: figure out the swirl of Marxism and Islamism in our country, 434 00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:19,240 Speaker 4: why it's starting to take hold, how we confront it, 435 00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:22,800 Speaker 4: how we address it. But also, as one fellow told me, 436 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:24,800 Speaker 4: it's going to give it to his kid who's going 437 00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:28,080 Speaker 4: into college, so they have something to counter what all 438 00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:31,840 Speaker 4: these professors are going to tell them. And you'll also notice, 439 00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:34,199 Speaker 4: Bend that the book is more compact than most of 440 00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:36,959 Speaker 4: my books. It's two hundred and eight pages long, and 441 00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:41,560 Speaker 4: again I wanted to make it accessible to anybody and everybody. 442 00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:45,280 Speaker 4: And so this book on power, it cuts to the chase, 443 00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:48,960 Speaker 4: and it explains that in fact, when you go to 444 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:52,439 Speaker 4: the ancients or more modern history or today, it is 445 00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:58,520 Speaker 4: a constant struggle over who exercises power, how power is exercised, 446 00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:02,440 Speaker 4: whether power is going to be exercise by you or 447 00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:07,560 Speaker 4: over you. And the term that I use now to 448 00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:13,680 Speaker 4: describe the democrats and these Marxists and Islamis is authoritarian democrats. 449 00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:16,320 Speaker 4: In other words, they'll go through the voting process as 450 00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:19,200 Speaker 4: long as they win. But if they don't win, they'll 451 00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:23,080 Speaker 4: try and sabotage, you know, a Trump or Republican. They 452 00:26:23,119 --> 00:26:27,080 Speaker 4: will use the unelected bodies, the bureaucracy. Mostly, they created 453 00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:30,200 Speaker 4: these lower court federal judges that aren't in the Constitution 454 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:34,600 Speaker 4: to counter or to usurp the electorate. They don't really 455 00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:36,920 Speaker 4: care about the electorate except if it gives them power. 456 00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:39,320 Speaker 4: They don't really care about the well being of the 457 00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:42,480 Speaker 4: average person unless they can persuade them to support them. 458 00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:45,879 Speaker 4: And we know this because Marxism has only killed one 459 00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:49,120 Speaker 4: hundred million people. You know that's pretty bad. In Islamism 460 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:53,920 Speaker 4: today hasn't gone through the Reformation or the Enlightenment. It's 461 00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:57,840 Speaker 4: stuck in the seventh century. It's primitive, and our nation 462 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:02,200 Speaker 4: was founded on Judeo Christian values. And the bottom line 463 00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:06,359 Speaker 4: is is Marxism or what I call American Marxism and 464 00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:11,199 Speaker 4: Islamism are absolutely incompatible with Americanism. And that's what the 465 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:13,400 Speaker 4: other side is peddling. And this is what we need 466 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:14,000 Speaker 4: to confront. 467 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:17,080 Speaker 1: Speaking of power, I want to get your take on 468 00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:20,160 Speaker 1: what Democrats have just decided to do in Texas flee 469 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:23,000 Speaker 1: the state. They have run to other states that are 470 00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:27,520 Speaker 1: basically advocating for socialism and communism and Marxism. You got 471 00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:30,560 Speaker 1: the governor of Illinois saying, come on over, will how's 472 00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:34,600 Speaker 1: you will love on you? YadA, YadA, YadA, And they say, 473 00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:37,000 Speaker 1: this is what power now looks like to the left, 474 00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:38,199 Speaker 1: how dangerous is that? 475 00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:44,360 Speaker 4: Well, this jerrymandering is is you're talking about pretty much. Yeah, yeah, 476 00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:48,320 Speaker 4: it's very dangerous. But let's point out I have a 477 00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:50,919 Speaker 4: whole chapter on language, and they're proving the point in 478 00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:52,960 Speaker 4: the chapter and all that people read it themselves. But 479 00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:56,679 Speaker 4: take a look at this the twenty twenty census. They 480 00:27:56,720 --> 00:28:01,200 Speaker 4: quote unquote mathematical errors which resulted in Democrats having five 481 00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:03,399 Speaker 4: more seats than they should have had, and the sentence 482 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:06,320 Speaker 4: admits it made a mistake. So let's start at that baseline. 483 00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:10,040 Speaker 4: Then you look at Massachusetts. They don't have a single 484 00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:13,120 Speaker 4: Republican member of the House of Representatives. Then you look 485 00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:16,639 Speaker 4: at Maryland, they have one Republican out of eight in 486 00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:19,840 Speaker 4: the state of Maryland. Then you look at California fifty 487 00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:25,159 Speaker 4: two seats, forty three Democrats and nine Republicans. Then you 488 00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:29,439 Speaker 4: look at Illinois fourteen Democrats and three Republicans. And I 489 00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:32,920 Speaker 4: could go on and on and on. So this party, 490 00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:37,720 Speaker 4: the Democrat Party, it embraces Marxism, it embraces the Islamis 491 00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:43,360 Speaker 4: against the Israelis, it embraces propaganda of the worst sort. Again, 492 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:45,640 Speaker 4: I discussed this in the chapter in the book. And 493 00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:50,080 Speaker 4: their purpose is what they corrupt the public debate, so 494 00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:53,680 Speaker 4: people don't even know what to debate. They come up 495 00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:57,240 Speaker 4: with slogans and repetition, which is a big deal for them, 496 00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:00,920 Speaker 4: like any other authoritarians do. So people get in their 497 00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:03,320 Speaker 4: minds that it's the Republicans are trying to steal the 498 00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:07,080 Speaker 4: midterm elections. They have a media behind them, and so 499 00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:09,360 Speaker 4: so many people who don't focus on this day in 500 00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:12,880 Speaker 4: and day out have no idea what's actually going on 501 00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:16,120 Speaker 4: except the drum beat that they hear over and over 502 00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:18,880 Speaker 4: and over again. So it is very dangerous what these 503 00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:21,800 Speaker 4: people are doing, but it has to be countered. We 504 00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:24,680 Speaker 4: can't just wring our hands about it. What was me? 505 00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:25,320 Speaker 5: What was me? 506 00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:28,000 Speaker 4: And the way we counter it is again we go 507 00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:31,440 Speaker 4: to the core of this book and rather than making 508 00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:34,600 Speaker 4: superficial arguments, we say they want to grab power. This 509 00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:36,640 Speaker 4: is why they want to grab it, and the book 510 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:38,600 Speaker 4: explains why and how they do it and how to 511 00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:39,440 Speaker 4: respond to it. 512 00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:44,120 Speaker 1: All Right, I want to get to another important issue. 513 00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:49,160 Speaker 1: It's a big one and it's one that so many 514 00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:56,800 Speaker 1: Americans have, especially the media, have really really, really overlooked 515 00:29:56,800 --> 00:30:01,120 Speaker 1: it completely. That's part what I like to do here 516 00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:05,600 Speaker 1: is bring you different information that others are refusing to cover. 517 00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:10,840 Speaker 1: And this one is one that is really interesting because 518 00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:16,760 Speaker 1: the number of arrests of migrant gotaways continuing now in 519 00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:21,520 Speaker 1: Texas despite record low apprehensions at the border. The media 520 00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:24,160 Speaker 1: doesn't want you to know how many bad own brais 521 00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:27,560 Speaker 1: we have right now in this country. The Texas Department 522 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:30,880 Speaker 1: of Public Safety troopers, the National guardsmen, and the Border 523 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:34,960 Speaker 1: Patrol agents are continuing to arrest migrants to illegally cross 524 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:37,880 Speaker 1: the border between the ports of entry and made their 525 00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:41,000 Speaker 1: way into the US interior. The Trump administration has just 526 00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:47,360 Speaker 1: released more info. Recent arrests include three Chinese nationals who 527 00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:51,400 Speaker 1: got away from the border after crossing near Mission Texas. 528 00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:56,240 Speaker 1: What we now know is that this was an operation 529 00:30:56,400 --> 00:31:00,320 Speaker 1: that Texas DPS did. They posted video to social media 530 00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:03,160 Speaker 1: is showing the continuing activities of the troopers, the garment 531 00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:07,760 Speaker 1: and Border patrol agents who despite these record low apprehensions 532 00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:10,479 Speaker 1: of the border said now their job is to fine 533 00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:14,560 Speaker 1: migrants being smuggled into the interior Texas after not being 534 00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:18,600 Speaker 1: apprehended at the border. Law enforcement teams, they say are 535 00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:23,000 Speaker 1: real problems are having facing real problems because they're going 536 00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:26,240 Speaker 1: after and continue to size drugs that are being smuggled 537 00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:30,360 Speaker 1: into Texas. You have human smuggling arrests that are are 538 00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:34,160 Speaker 1: are still happening each and every day. You have canine 539 00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:36,040 Speaker 1: teams now that are actually being able to do their 540 00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:40,400 Speaker 1: draw jobs by tracking and assisting US Border patrol in 541 00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:44,280 Speaker 1: the tracking of these drugs. We're seeing drug seizures, they said, 542 00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:48,440 Speaker 1: in Brownsville, Texas, stolen vehicles that are being used by 543 00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:50,920 Speaker 1: the cartels, and others that are being that are that 544 00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:55,280 Speaker 1: are grabbed in Laredo, Texas, for example. This is just 545 00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:58,960 Speaker 1: some of what is happening at the border. We also 546 00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:01,840 Speaker 1: know this past week that smugglers were sentenced to ten 547 00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:06,959 Speaker 1: years in prison. You've got pursuits to ranch tracks to 548 00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:10,520 Speaker 1: all these missions that are happening, and they're wanting people 549 00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:13,440 Speaker 1: to understand what's going on here now. One example that 550 00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:17,560 Speaker 1: was reported was on July the thirty first. One of 551 00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:20,600 Speaker 1: the videos they put out show border Patrol mounted patroled 552 00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:24,800 Speaker 1: teams tracking migrants in Duval County, Texas. The team tracked 553 00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:27,200 Speaker 1: the illegal alien to attempt to escape by using thick 554 00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:31,479 Speaker 1: brushes cover. That's where the Texas DPSK nine team managed 555 00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:33,920 Speaker 1: to apprehend the two legal aliens and turn them over 556 00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:35,120 Speaker 1: to Border patrol agents. 557 00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:36,480 Speaker 5: Now, they weren't able. 558 00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:39,440 Speaker 1: To do this type of work before because they were 559 00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:42,480 Speaker 1: babysitting illegal immigrants at the border under the Biden administration. 560 00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:46,800 Speaker 1: Earlier on Thursday, for example, they reported the arrests of 561 00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:50,160 Speaker 1: these three Chinese nationals that were apprehended your Mission Texas 562 00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:53,160 Speaker 1: after clearing the border without encountering a border patrol agent. 563 00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:57,520 Speaker 1: And this is part of the problem. Now the troopers say, 564 00:32:57,560 --> 00:32:59,400 Speaker 1: we're getting to do our jobs. Now they were to 565 00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:03,840 Speaker 1: stop the and smuggling attempts. Last week, also in Dement County, Texas, 566 00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:07,160 Speaker 1: they pulled over a Florida driver. The troopers fround two 567 00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:09,880 Speaker 1: Mexican nationals illegally president in the US, hiding in the 568 00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:13,840 Speaker 1: rear cargo area of the suv. Again, another example of 569 00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:16,960 Speaker 1: the bad own braids that we're talking about. On July third, 570 00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:20,200 Speaker 1: for example, it was reported the arrest of ten illegal 571 00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:25,240 Speaker 1: aliens in near mission. These included four migrants from Uzbekistan. 572 00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:28,200 Speaker 1: Now why does that matter, Well, it's a hotbed for terrorism. 573 00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:31,360 Speaker 1: That's one of the big concerns here is that how 574 00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:34,600 Speaker 1: many people have come in this country illegally that are 575 00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:37,840 Speaker 1: terrorists and wanting to do things and do real harm 576 00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:41,240 Speaker 1: inside the United States of America. Now, in June, to 577 00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:44,000 Speaker 1: put this in perspective of where we are now because 578 00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:49,240 Speaker 1: of a strong border security from this President Donald Trump, 579 00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:53,920 Speaker 1: border patrol agents apprehended three thousand, nine hundred and ninety 580 00:33:53,920 --> 00:34:00,400 Speaker 1: five migrants who illegally crossed the border into five Texas baseds. 581 00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:04,560 Speaker 1: Let me just explain to you the difference between June 582 00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:07,800 Speaker 1: of this year and June of twenty twenty four, when 583 00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:10,400 Speaker 1: Joe Biden was like, everybody, come in, we have an 584 00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:16,120 Speaker 1: open border. They caught thirty thousand, seven hundred and sixty 585 00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:19,759 Speaker 1: six compared to three nine hundred and ninety five one 586 00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:20,440 Speaker 1: year apart. 587 00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:24,160 Speaker 5: What changed? A president that is enforcing the law. 588 00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:30,000 Speaker 1: The Southwest Land border encounters that were reported and published 589 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:32,960 Speaker 1: by the US Customs and Border Protection said, this is 590 00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:35,680 Speaker 1: now going back to a point that we can manage 591 00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:39,520 Speaker 1: and protect the border. Compared to what it was now 592 00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:42,400 Speaker 1: if you do the math on that, this represents a 593 00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:44,680 Speaker 1: drop of now more than eighty seven. 594 00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:46,560 Speaker 5: Percent year over year. 595 00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:51,160 Speaker 1: The June apprehension numbers are also down from five four 596 00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:54,880 Speaker 1: hundred ninety one migrants apprehended in May. So this is 597 00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:57,799 Speaker 1: also sending a message around the world you probably don't 598 00:34:57,800 --> 00:34:59,719 Speaker 1: want to try because you're going to get caught. And 599 00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:02,920 Speaker 1: it's not an open border that we had under the 600 00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:08,840 Speaker 1: radicals in the Biden regime. Border apprehensions in the Texas 601 00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:13,600 Speaker 1: based sectors in June accounted for approximately sixty six percent 602 00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:17,960 Speaker 1: of all migrants apprehended along the southern border with Mexico. 603 00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:23,520 Speaker 1: Nearly four thousand, six hundred migrants were apprehended in all 604 00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:27,440 Speaker 1: nine border patrol sectors along the southwest border in July 605 00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:32,359 Speaker 1: that mark she had another historic low for the Trump administration. 606 00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:35,680 Speaker 1: So Christyome put it out this way, and she said 607 00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:37,960 Speaker 1: in her tweet where she was going through all these 608 00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:40,719 Speaker 1: numbers and again, why is the media not telling you 609 00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:44,000 Speaker 1: how safe the border has become? Because they don't want 610 00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:48,400 Speaker 1: you to know this? Okay, history made again is how 611 00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:51,239 Speaker 1: Christy Nome put it. The numbers don't lie. This the 612 00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:54,880 Speaker 1: most secure the border has ever been. President Donald Trump 613 00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:59,800 Speaker 1: didn't just manage the crisis, he obliterated it. No more excuses, 614 00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:04,759 Speaker 1: Ynomes said, no more releases. We put the cartels on 615 00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:08,799 Speaker 1: defense and taken our border back. She then said, in 616 00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:14,240 Speaker 1: July the lowest nationwide encounter number ever twenty four thousand, 617 00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:17,719 Speaker 1: six hundred and thirty. That is down two point four 618 00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:20,680 Speaker 1: percent from June. But here's the number that you're going 619 00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:24,600 Speaker 1: to care about. It's ninety percent lower than the monthly 620 00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:29,640 Speaker 1: average under the last administration. The lowest border patrol apprehensions 621 00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:35,719 Speaker 1: nationwide also six thousand, one hundred and seventy seven. That shattered, 622 00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:39,560 Speaker 1: by the way, June's all time low as well. She 623 00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:43,120 Speaker 1: went on to say, this the lowest Southwest border apprehensions 624 00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:46,399 Speaker 1: we've ever seen, four thousand, five hundred and ninety eight, 625 00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:50,040 Speaker 1: nearly five hundred fewer than the daily average under the 626 00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:55,120 Speaker 1: last administration, which averaged five thousand, one hundred and ten 627 00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:58,799 Speaker 1: apprehensions per day from February of twenty twenty one to 628 00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:02,120 Speaker 1: December of twenty twenty four. We also have the lowest 629 00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:05,160 Speaker 1: daily apprehension average, just one hundred and forty eight per day. 630 00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:09,160 Speaker 1: That's lower than the average rate of one hundred and 631 00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:14,239 Speaker 1: fifty two apprehensions every two hours under the Biden administration 632 00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:18,120 Speaker 1: last July alone. So we're doing one hundred and forty 633 00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:21,880 Speaker 1: eight a day in apprehensions. They were doing one hundred 634 00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:25,759 Speaker 1: and fifty two every two hours, every hour of the 635 00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:29,239 Speaker 1: day twenty four to seven last July. And then she 636 00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:33,840 Speaker 1: finally says, this the lowest single day apprehensions in history 637 00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:37,480 Speaker 1: eighty eight at the Southwest border, one hundred and sixteen 638 00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:40,360 Speaker 1: nationwide on July the twentieth. Now look at the calendar 639 00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:43,799 Speaker 1: right now and where we are. What you're hearing and 640 00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:47,400 Speaker 1: what we're seeing from border patrol agents and from the 641 00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:51,880 Speaker 1: Trump administration is that the word is getting out. Do 642 00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:54,040 Speaker 1: you really want to go into incredible debt to try 643 00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:56,080 Speaker 1: to come to America to immediately get caught and then 644 00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:59,360 Speaker 1: be sent home? Do you want to pay these smugglers 645 00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:02,080 Speaker 1: to get you in and you're going to get caught? 646 00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:04,720 Speaker 1: You look at the lowest single day apprehension in history 647 00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:06,640 Speaker 1: eighty eighth the Southwest border. 648 00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:08,800 Speaker 5: And one hundred and sixteen nation one on July twentieth. 649 00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:11,359 Speaker 1: Now I say that because you may say, well, okay, 650 00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:13,080 Speaker 1: hold on, maybe there was a bad weather day. No, 651 00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:16,520 Speaker 1: it wasn't It was actually a great weather day. Why 652 00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:20,799 Speaker 1: nay On July twentieth, did you have these numbers drop 653 00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:23,080 Speaker 1: that much? Because that's the last day we have reported 654 00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:26,319 Speaker 1: and public access to. What Donald Trump is doing is 655 00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:28,919 Speaker 1: he's going after and using ICE and they're going after 656 00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:33,960 Speaker 1: the illegal immigrants everywhere they are, including sanctuary cities. Word 657 00:38:34,239 --> 00:38:37,919 Speaker 1: is getting back to the smugglers and the human traffickers 658 00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:40,520 Speaker 1: and those that were paying them that it may not 659 00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:43,680 Speaker 1: be worth you paying them because you're probably not going 660 00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:46,600 Speaker 1: to make it. And that is how Trump is making 661 00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:48,600 Speaker 1: America safe again. 662 00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:50,120 Speaker 5: Don't forget. 663 00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:53,279 Speaker 1: Share this podcast with your family and friends, share it 664 00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:56,680 Speaker 1: on social media, please, and I'll see you back here tomorrow.