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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: December 18, 2024 | Stakelbeck Tonight | December 18, 2024
- Well.
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- Good evening. i'm alan jackson.
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- Welcome to nashville.
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- Reports say americans have been living
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- With the same income they've had since 2020.
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- Give or take a percentage point.
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- Well, if you add in inflation, it's been hard for many people
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- To make ends meet.
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- But as i watched the election results roll in,
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- I saw everyday citizens, the farmers, the businessmen,
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- The people in so many towns across our nation
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- Coming together to say, that's enough.
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- I'm tired of paying higher prices on food and gas.
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- I want leaders with common sense.
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- Well, it fills me with a tremendous sense
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- Of thankfulness.
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- Standing side by side with those americans.
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- The election results have provided
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- A sense of hope for our nation's financial future.
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- And while it'll take a bit for our wallets to feel the changes,
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- Knowing that a new team who understands how to drive
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- The economy is on
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- The way in has already made
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- A big difference in consumer confidence.
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- Listen to this example of what
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- The president elect has accomplished
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- Even before he gets back to the white house.
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- Today, i am
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- Thrilled to announce that softbank will be investing
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- $100 billion in america, creating
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- 100,000 american jobs at a minimum.
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- And he's doing this because he feels very optimistic
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- About our country since the election.
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- And many other people
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- Are also coming in with tremendous amounts of money.
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- A $100 billion investment is huge.
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- But it shouldn't
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- Come as a surprise, given that donald trump
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- Spent his life in the business world.
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- And now he's got two of the most successful entrepreneurs
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- Of this decade at his side.
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- Elon musk and vivek ramaswamy, business owners in the wall
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- Street money managers do best when they see a steady
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- Hand on the wheel
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- And their confidence translates into more jobs,
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- A better income, and a more satisfying standard of living.
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- But what's important to remember in all of this
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- Is that our financial security
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- Ultimately doesn't come from governments
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- Or politicians or the stock market.
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- It may be expressed through those people in places,
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- But ultimately our security comes from god.
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- God has blessed america in so many ways,
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- And our prayer is that he'll continue
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- To have mercy on us and bless us again.
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- The changes we see and the stability we experience
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- Are just because of new policies or leaders.
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- They're expressions of god's grace.
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- Good leaders need wise counsel.
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- And tonight,
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- We're fortunate to have one of the men
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- Who the president elect gets advice from.
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- He's steve moore, the heritage foundation
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- Economist and a long time advisor to mr.
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- Trump.
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- Steve, welcome back to our show.
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- Alan, thanks so much for having me.
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- Merry christmas.
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- Well, merry christmas to you.
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- It's hard to know where to start
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- Since there's so much to tackle.
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- But tell us what has happened already.
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- That's being done simply in anticipation
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- Of donald trump heading back to the white house.
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- Well, alan, i've never seen anything
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- Quite like it in my 40 years of covering
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- Policy and politics in washington,
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- Where a presidential, candidate comes in, wins
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- The election, and it's almost as if he's already president.
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- You know, he won't be president for another 3 or 4 weeks.
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- And yet he's currently taking command of washington.
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- You had this amazing announcement
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- The other day of a
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- $100,000,000,000 billion investment
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- By a major japanese company here in the united states.
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- And trump
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- Was very funny and said, well, can you invest 200 billion?
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- So the guy never quits and he is a walking billboard
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- For america.
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- He did say that there will be many more companies
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- That are going to be following
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- Suit and investing in the united states.
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- You know, you haven't seen joe biden much in the media,
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- Have you?
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- But you see, donald trump every single hour.
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- And he's off to a great start, by the way,
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- There is a new donald trump, by the way.
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- And i've worked with them, you know, for eight years
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- And for him for many of those years.
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- And, you know, when he first came in, you know,
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- There was a kind of rough patch to trump, but now he's
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- There's a good trump.
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- It's a it's a, you know, he's he's confident, he's calm.
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- He's, he's in command without, you know, acting up.
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- And i think that's one of the reasons
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- His approval rating is higher today than it's ever been.
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- But you said something very interesting
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- Recently that caught my attention.
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- You said that voters everywhere
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- Here and abroad are going to demand common sense trump
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- Like policies in their own countries.
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- The next line was even better.
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- You said, and i quote,
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- I wouldn't want to be russian president vladimir putin
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- Or chinese president xi jinping or french president
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- Emmanuel macron or canadian prime minister justin trudeau.
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- Right now, the trump ends are coming for you.
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- Can you explain that a little further?
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- Yeah, well thank you.
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- I had fun with that column and i really meant it.
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- I mean, i think that trump isn't
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- Just popular here in the united states.
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- He's happy.
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- He's popular all over the world, especially with,
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- You know, working class people, who
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- Who want to see hope in their life
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- And want to be listened to when don't want to be ignored
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- By the elite and out of touch and arrogant politicians.
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- And so, what i've said in my that article that you're,
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- Quoting from
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- Is that i think you're going
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- To see a trumpian revolution all over the world, where
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- In, britain and germany and france and russia
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- And many of the south american companies in korea,
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- I think you're going to see people just say,
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- Well, fed up with these people, they they're the governed
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- Are revolting against the governors.
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- And i think you're going to see, trump
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- Type candidates all over the world.
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- You know, it's interesting.
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- I don't know if you've been following it all
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- On what's happening in argentina,
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- But argentina is elected a free market
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- Libertarian as their, president.
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- He's been in charge now for about a year and a half.
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- I'm going to talk about having your malay.
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- And he is so popular and he's turning around the economy.
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- He's taking a hatchet
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- To the to the budget there.
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- And he says that he hates big government.
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- He hates the state.
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- And he's popular in argentina.
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- So the two most popular politicians in the world today
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- Are donald trump and have your malay.
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- Well, and your years in washington
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- Dating back to ronald reagan,
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- The number of pages of regulations in the federal
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- Register has doubled from 50,000 to 100,000.
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- Yeah, i remember when recently, the biden white house said
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- It was considering some regulations on gas stoves
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- That hit a nerve.
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- How much of that nonsense
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- Is going to go away after trump takes office?
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- I think the trump is going to
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- Hit the ground running like he's secretariat out of the gate.
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- I think he is going to
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- At the first few hours when he's president, back in
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- The oval office, is going to start
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- Signing executive orders that reverse a lot of the crazy
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- Things that happened under joe biden.
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- If we're going to produce more energy,
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- We're going to
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- Get rid of a lot of these esg, preferences laws.
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- We're going to, as you just said, repeal
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- The idea that, you know, you have to buy the car
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- The government wants you to buy.
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- So these ev mandates, i think, are going to be eliminated.
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- People are sick of the government
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- Telling them what they can do.
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- Well, let's take a short break.
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- We'll have plenty of more time with steve moore
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- As soon as we come back.
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- You can join this conversation with an email if you like.
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- We read them all and we read many of them on the air.
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- We truly welcome your thoughts.
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- We'll be right back.
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- We'll be right back.
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- We're back now with steve moore.
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- And we're talking about all things economic.
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- Here's something that most people don't understand.
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- How much of the economy can trump actually influence
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- Even with the republican congress.
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- And is it enough to turn things around for the better?
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- Well, that's a good question, alan.
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- And i wish i could tell you
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- That republicans are going to be the savior.
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- But, you know,
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- I've lived through many republican presidential,
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- Republican congresses.
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- And, you know,
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- I hate to tell you this,
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- But republicans sometimes are just as spendthrift
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- And eager to spend your money as the democrats are.
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- So i can't sit here in good conscience and tell you,
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- Oh, everything's going to be fine now
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- That republicans are in charge. i think you need leadership.
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- Trump is going to have to really lead, lead, lead
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- And push these republicans
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- Because, look, politicians love to play santa claus, right?
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- Especially this time of year.
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- They love to pass out the goodies.
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- And it's, of course, our money.
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- You're my money.
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- And all the people watching this show.
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- They spent our money and they're so generous with it out there.
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- And so that's what's caused our $37 trillion national debt.
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- And yes,
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- I think joe biden was incredibly financially responsible.
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- But the republicans love to spend money, too.
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- So, you know, trump's going to have a tough time
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- Convincing people to cut spending.
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- But but, but i think this idea of this, lowes,
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- Those the department of government efficiency
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- That's now being run by, people like vivek ramaswamy
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- And people like, you know, the, founder of,
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- Of, of tesla and, elon musk.
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- It's going to be fantastic.
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- They're going to be able to find hundreds
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- Of billions of dollars of savings.
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- I mean, my god,
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- We have programs
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- That nobody even knows what they do, for goodness sake.
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- Yeah, we got programs that date back to before world war one.
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- We keep spending money on these things nobody wants.
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- Nobody knows what they do, why they're necessary.
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- You got 56 different job training programs.
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- I mean, none of this makes any sense.
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- You've got only 10% of the federal workers
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- Working, 40 hours a week in the office.
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- I mean, there's so much bureaucracy, a blob,
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- And there's so much, fraud in the payments.
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- Hundreds of billions of dollars in fraudulent payments,
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- Hundreds of billions.
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- I said billions, not millions.
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- I mean, we're spending money like it's candy in washington.
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- You know, trump's adversaries
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- Tried to diminish his support by spreading a lot of fear,
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- As far as you know, or social security and medicare safe.
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- Oh, we're not going to cut social security benefits.
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- We're not going to cut medicare benefits. no way.
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- But, you know, the seniors paid into those programs.
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- Now, that's not to say we're going to,
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- But we can't save money from medicare
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- Or social security to get rid of the fraud.
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- You know, a lot of the checks go to people.
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- They don't even
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- Live in the united states, for goodness sakes.
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- They've got a fake social security number
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- Or they've, you know, figured out the system
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- And how to, you know,
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- To get into the computers and have checks sent to them.
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- We've got to track these people down.
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- As i said, it's hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars
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- That is being wasted or fraudulently spent.
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- And we got to chase those people down
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- And put them in jail and get the money back.
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- Well, i think almost everyone agrees that government spending
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- Needs to be cut back
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- And that those who work for the government
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- Need to get back to the office.
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- Now that the days of covid are long, since all right,
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- The speaker of the house is on the case.
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- Listen to some of his reasoning.
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- Someone did a little survey of how many federal employees
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- Are actually working in the office.
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- By one estimate, it may be about 1%.
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- If you don't count the security personnel
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- That are covering these buildings.
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- That is absurd. and it's not something
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- The american people would stand for.
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- Steve, does anyone know
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- How many billions of dollars those empty buildings
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- Have cost to keep it open all these years?
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- Yeah, well, especially since covid,
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- A lot of the workers didn't show up during covid,
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- And they haven't gone back, and yet we're paying them.
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- You know,
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- Those federal employees are very well paid, too,
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- With the benefits, they get $200,000 a year in many cases.
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- And a lot of them,
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- You know,
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- They since they're not showing up for work
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- At the federal government, they're costing that paycheck.
- 00:11:47.342 --> 00:11:49.578
- But then they have a second job, you know,
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- Because they don't have to be at the federal office.
- 00:11:51.680 --> 00:11:53.782
- So it is a great, squandering
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- Of, of the taxpayer money.
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- And we can save a lot of money on that.
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- By the way, if they're not coming into the
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- Office buildings, why don't we sell them?
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- Why don't we sell the office buildings and get some money?
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- That makes too much sense.
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- Mr. trump has talked a lot about creating incentives
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- For american companies to bring their plants back to the u.s..
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- I assume that's a good thing,
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- But how long will it take to make a difference?
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- Can you give us an example if you can.
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- So the government doesn't need to provide incentives?
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- It just has to stop providing disincentives for companies
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- To locate here.
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- In other words, trump
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- Had it exactly right
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- When he gave his press conference last week
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- And he said, look, we're going to cut taxes.
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- That incentives
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- Those companies and factories to move back to the states.
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- We're going to reduce regulations.
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- That helps bring companies back.
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- We're going to reduce our energy costs.
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- That, you know, brings companies back.
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- All of these things have very profound positive incentives
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- For companies to relocate in ohio
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- And pennsylvania and missouri and iowa
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- And california and maine,
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- Not in, you know, mexico and not in, you know,
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- The caribbean islands and not in africa.
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- So we want to have as many jobs produced in the united states
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- As possible that helps build up the wages,
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- And it makes all americans better off.
- 00:13:12.628 --> 00:13:14.596
- Now, trump did say, look, he's
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- Going to give a tax break for companies that,
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- You know, create jobs in the united states.
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- But if it's going to be
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- A product that's imported in the united states,
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- We're going to put a little tax on that.
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- And, you know, i'm not i'm a free trade guy.
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- I believe it's important that we have free trade.
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- But why do we disincentivize our own products?
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- No other country in the world does that.
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- Well, it sounds like common sense. you.
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- I'm not an economist,
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- But you're creating an environment
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- Where it's making much more sense
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- For companies to do business in the states than elsewhere.
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- Yeah.
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- I mean, by the way, donald trump, so interesting.
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- You use the term common sense because that really is
- 00:13:49.331 --> 00:13:52.701
- Is fits, donald trump, to a tee.
- 00:13:52.701 --> 00:13:56.471
- I mean, donald trump is not especially ideological.
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- I mean, i'm,
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- I'm, very fortunate that i've worked
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- For two of our greatest modern day presidents, ronald reagan
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- And donald trump.
- 00:14:05.380 --> 00:14:06.214
- Reagan was ideologically conservative,
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- And i love ronald reagan.
- 00:14:08.083 --> 00:14:09.017
- I think he belongs on mount rushmore
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- For what he did or for our country.
- 00:14:10.452 --> 00:14:12.187
- But trump is not an ideological conservative,
- 00:14:12.187 --> 00:14:15.424
- But he is a common sense businessman,
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- And he knows how to create jobs.
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- He knows how to, made a payroll.
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- He knows how to get rid of waste.
- 00:14:21.263 --> 00:14:23.265
- I mean, if you've got waste
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- In a private business, it goes out of business.
- 00:14:24.266 --> 00:14:26.568
- So he's a no nonsense guy.
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- He's going to do the things that do put america first.
- 00:14:28.971 --> 00:14:32.107
- I think we're going to make america great again.
- 00:14:32.107 --> 00:14:34.009
- I think we're going to,
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- See a draining of the swamp in washington.
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- At least i hope there is,
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- Because we want to send power out to the people.
- 00:14:39.781 --> 00:14:42.351
- You know, that's the point of the
- 00:14:42.351 --> 00:14:43.485
- We started this conversation.
- 00:14:43.485 --> 00:14:45.020
- We were talking about trumpism going national.
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- I mean, international
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- Is a power of the people up to the people.
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- It is a populist movement,
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- To take out politicians
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- Who are not listening to what the people are saying.
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- You see what i'm saying?
- 00:15:00.669 --> 00:15:01.570
- All the politicians become so arrogant
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- That they don't even listen to the voters anymore.
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- Well, before we go,
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- I remember when trump was in office
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- The last time
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- He pushed the europeans to pay their agreed to share for nato.
- 00:15:13.081 --> 00:15:16.685
- You don't seem to miss a trick
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- That he's got jeff bezos and zuckerberg and others
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- Helping to pay for the inauguration
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- $1 million each, which i know it's like me
- 00:15:23.692 --> 00:15:25.761
- Picking up the check for lunch, but it's a good sign.
- 00:15:25.761 --> 00:15:28.897
- What are they up to with this sudden
- 00:15:28.897 --> 00:15:30.365
- Need to fly their jets to mar-a-lago now?
- 00:15:30.365 --> 00:15:32.634
- Does trump see it?
- 00:15:32.634 --> 00:15:34.369
- Yeah, it's an amazing i mean, eight years ago
- 00:15:34.369 --> 00:15:36.538
- A lot of these people hated donald trump.
- 00:15:36.538 --> 00:15:38.573
- And they couldn't believe that he was president.
- 00:15:38.573 --> 00:15:40.342
- And they spent the whole four years
- 00:15:40.342 --> 00:15:41.810
- Trying to get him out of the white house
- 00:15:41.810 --> 00:15:43.078
- On bogus, charges that we know were fraudulent.
- 00:15:43.078 --> 00:15:46.882
- Now they seem to love trump, and they see him
- 00:15:46.882 --> 00:15:50.285
- As a kind of economic savior.
- 00:15:50.285 --> 00:15:51.720
- And maybe it took four years of the economic,
- 00:15:51.720 --> 00:15:54.456
- Craziness of joe biden for people to realize, hey,
- 00:15:54.456 --> 00:15:57.926
- We need somebody like trump back.
- 00:15:57.926 --> 00:15:59.428
- So i never thought i'd see the day where you have,
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- Jeff bezos and zuckerberg
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- Don't each donating $1 million to trump's inauguration.
- 00:16:05.400 --> 00:16:09.004
- I think it's a wonderful thing,
- 00:16:09.004 --> 00:16:10.539
- But it shows that what these businessmen and women
- 00:16:10.539 --> 00:16:13.942
- Are seeing is that trump is pro-business,
- 00:16:13.942 --> 00:16:17.179
- He's pro-american worker, and he's pro-america.
- 00:16:17.179 --> 00:16:19.581
- And that's that's what a president should
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- Do, is trump saying
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- Every country
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- Should put their own, every,
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- Leader should put their own country first.
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- Trump does it. and that's what every leader should do.
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- Well, steve
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- Moore, thank you for your time today.
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- So good to be with you ella.
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- Happy holidays.
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- Merry christmas.
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- Happy new year everyone. thank you.
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- I hope you come back in january
- 00:16:41.837 --> 00:16:43.138
- When the trump white house relaunches.
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- Thank you.
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- Yeah, i'd love to i.
- 00:16:47.642 --> 00:16:48.810
- Would love i'll have some hopeful thoughts of my own.
- 00:16:48.810 --> 00:16:56.012
- Would love i'll have some hopeful thoughts of my own.
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- As the next administration determines
- 00:16:58.921 --> 00:17:00.590
- The best way to get our nation's financial house in order,
- 00:17:00.590 --> 00:17:03.993
- I thought it would be helpful to share with you
- 00:17:03.993 --> 00:17:05.761
- This tip on how to get your financial house in order.
- 00:17:05.761 --> 00:17:09.532
- You need to distinguish between wants and needs.
- 00:17:09.532 --> 00:17:12.768
- Our vocabulary or the concept of need is broken.
- 00:17:12.768 --> 00:17:16.305
- We live in a society
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- Where there are multi-trillion dollar industries
- 00:17:17.340 --> 00:17:19.775
- Whose primary goal is to make you dissatisfied.
- 00:17:19.775 --> 00:17:22.979
- To convince you that the label on your clothing,
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- The label on your car,
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- Or the label on something your children have
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- Is what defines your value or your self-worth.
- 00:17:28.417 --> 00:17:31.687
- Well, i want to share a biblical perspective.
- 00:17:31.687 --> 00:17:33.389
- It's first timothy six six
- 00:17:33.389 --> 00:17:35.124
- Says godliness with contentment is great gain.
- 00:17:35.124 --> 00:17:38.694
- One of the things in my life that helped me
- 00:17:38.694 --> 00:17:40.696
- Get a little bit of handle on this idea of need
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- Was when my brother and i studied at hebrew university
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- In jerusalem.
- 00:17:46.435 --> 00:17:47.703
- We were allowed to bring
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- Two duffel bags that contained
- 00:17:48.771 --> 00:17:50.306
- Everything we needed for that year of school.
- 00:17:50.306 --> 00:17:52.742
- It was our linens, our towels, our clothes, our books, our
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- Cooking utensils, whatever we were going to need.
- 00:17:55.444 --> 00:17:58.481
- It all had to fit into those two duffel bags.
- 00:17:58.481 --> 00:18:01.450
- Well, that exercise reshaped how i understood what was
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- Essential and what wasn't.
- 00:18:04.387 --> 00:18:06.355
- As we head into the new year,
- 00:18:06.989 --> 00:18:08.324
- I want to suggest that
- 00:18:08.324 --> 00:18:09.292
- You simply ask the holy spirit to help you,
- 00:18:09.292 --> 00:18:11.694
- To give you wisdom, to make the right choices
- 00:18:11.694 --> 00:18:13.829
- So that you can get your financial house in order.
- 00:18:13.829 --> 00:18:17.333
- It makes all the difference in the world.
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- Stand in the yard.
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- Declare your neighbors the winner.
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- They win.
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- I'm keeping up with the neighbors game.
- 00:18:22.305 --> 00:18:24.607
- If you do, you'll find a whole lot of new peace.
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- And in that, there's more reasons for hope than despair.
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- I promise.
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- When we return, i'm going to read some of your emails.
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- When we return, i'm going to read some of your emails.
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- Thank you for taking the time to send your emails to us.
- 00:18:43.327 --> 00:18:46.430
- Your thoughts and perspectives matter a great deal.
- 00:18:46.430 --> 00:18:49.866
- Sarah from michigan wrote, merry christmas, where i work.
- 00:18:49.866 --> 00:18:52.769
- They really push,
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- Wanting us to say happy holidays to be more inclusive.
- 00:18:54.037 --> 00:18:57.341
- But i'll continue to say merry christmas.
- 00:18:57.341 --> 00:18:59.076
- He is the reason for the season.
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- Well, sarah, i agree.
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- Whenever i have
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- The opportunity,
- 00:19:03.847 --> 00:19:04.681
- Particularly this time of the year,
- 00:19:04.681 --> 00:19:05.983
- I think merry christmas is a wonderful greeting.
- 00:19:05.983 --> 00:19:08.885
- And finally, david from oregon says,
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- Why is biden selling off all the stored
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- Mexican wall construction materials for on the dollar,
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- Which was purchased in the trump administration?
- 00:19:15.659 --> 00:19:18.495
- Well, that's a good question, but i think we know
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- They've lacked the intent to secure the border.
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- There's a new administration coming,
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- And i pray they have a new intent.
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- It'll be better for all of us.
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- Make sure to send your
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- Emails to comments at alan jackson now.com.
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- From all of us here in nashville.
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- Thank you for joining us tonight.
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