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welcome back America you know Steve Moore it's a pleasure to have you back unleash prosperity co-founder former Trump economic advisor and really one of the best economists out there and Steve Moore I want to discuss this with you because it's not going to be discussed anywhere else right which is part of the problem the media basically have thrown a pillow over the economy and are suffocating the news about it we have an economy that is expanding we've an economy that is expanding for the middle class and for poor people in terms of creation of jobs wealth creation opportunity creation we also have some people Steve Moore who are saying you know just feel the public's pain feel the pain understand the pain be empathetic with the pain I don't have a problem with that but how about we get the facts on the table and talk about what's actually going on in this country you're the man to do it so let's get started what's going on in this country economically well listen this is a blockbuster economy in so many ways now I understand people are upset about paying you know four dollars and twenty nine cents a gallon for gasoline and that is a problem but if you look at so many of these other elements of the economy and just since the last time you and I talked which was a month or two ago the numbers just keep getting better so for example just the other day the energy department reported that we are in the United States producing more oil and gas than any other time in American history mark more own guests were the number one producer of oil and gas that didn't happen by accident it's because Donald Trump put in place drill baby drill whereas you know Joe Biden his predecessor tried to kill the oil and gas industry imagine if we had had Biden for four more years we'd be paying seven eight dollars a gallon for gasoline how about the fact that Trump truly is the blue-collar president you look at what's happening with manufacturing construction virtually all-time highs in terms of job creation in terms of output by our construction and manufacturing industry great news for middle-class workers how about the fact that if you look at people's 401k plans and as you know we've got something like 120 million American families that have 401k plans and other retirement plans those are up just since Trump came into office for a second term of $25,000 in value by the way they fell those plans fell in value under Joe Biden how about this one that they revised upward the GDP both for the previous quarter and this quarter we're running at three and a half to four percent those are blockbuster numbers those are numbers that almost no other country can report on so overall I'm gonna rate this a B+ economy yes inflation is a problem but all these other things that nobody's talking about are so universally positive let's talk about inflation the problem yeah it's a lot lower than it was just two or three years ago is yes yeah now this is a really important point if you take the average inflation rate per year under Biden it was 5% the average inflation rate since Trump has taken office is 3% now it's running at about 3.4% but I'm here to tell you as soon as we bring that oil price down you're gonna see prices fall rather dramatically so that's a big difference 5% inflation under Biden 3% inflation under Trump and yet the Democrats are saying put us back in power we're gonna lower the inflation rate now may make another point about this because it's very important and we chatted about this previously but it's it's more important now than ever where is inflation worse where which states have the highest energy prices gas prices electricity prices housing prices nine of the ten states that are most expensive to live in ready for this mark nine of the ten states with the highest cost of living our blue states California New York New Jersey my home state of Illinois Connecticut Massachusetts now wait a minute we're gonna put these people in power and they're gonna lower your prices I don't think so they can't do it in their own states they never tell us how they're gonna lower prices and I don't think they can't Steve Moore because they they're the ones who kept driving prices up and as a matter of policy they should be thrilled with the price of a gallon of gasoline because as you point out they wanted it at seven or eight dollars a gallon and if they get back in office does anybody actually think they're gonna tolerate us as the number one producer of oil in the world at this record level no they're not gonna tolerate that they're gonna clamp it all right down and I want to pursue that with me when we come back we'll be right back welcome back America Steve Moore I'm trying to figure out exactly how the Democrats are gonna lower the price of anything when you look at these Democrat states you're talking about nine out of ten the prices are higher than anywhere else look at the price of a gallon of gasoline in California premium gasoline diesel gasoline over eight dollars a gallon that is Newsom and the Democrats yeah you know I've been making the case Steve Moore maybe maybe you agree that the main reason the price of gas is high is because of Democrats that's the main reason the price of gas is high anyway tell me how do we reduce the price of gas immediately because you have an idea yeah and have been some of the Republican governors around the country are picking this up why not temporarily suspend the federal gas tax and state gas taxes which can add as much as 75 cents a gallon to to a price tag that you pay at the pump until we get the price back down to below $4 gallon there's also all of these left wing requirements that you put in all these renewable energy stuff like putting corn in your tank with ethanol why not suspend that we estimate if the president would do that tomorrow he'd get a lot of resistance from Democrats we could lower the price of gasoline by 50 cents a gallon and that would provide motorists with a lot of relief why not do that and then when we get the gas price back down then we can reinstate these policies probably get a lot of resistance from farmers - well you know maybe a couple the other Iowa maybe some of the Iowa senators might not like that but it would be temporary and it would basically show Trump is doing all he can now I want to make a related point to this what is the first thing Democrats want to do if they take power they want to repeal the big beautiful bill they call it the big ugly bill they voted against not only did the average family saved $2,500 a year on their taxes but how about the fact that 20 million 20 million small businesses which produced the most jobs in America would face a huge tax increase same with mortgage interest deductions and property tax deductions all were increased for average Americans under the president United States not a single Democrat voted for that to me there's so much good that's been done in the left less than two years by this president and the Republicans in Congress without a single Democrat vote most of the time it's really incredible to me now you also we have discussed off air this change in total wealth by group since 2019 and yeah and what Donald Trump has done about that tell me about that well you know if you count Trump's first term in office and a second term in office the average increase in in 401k plans and retirement plans because remember the stock market's been doing very well has increased by about $50,000 you know what happened under Biden's four years when you come for inflation it lost $24,000 I mean Biden depleted the value of people's retirement funds and incidentally if I may Democrats have a plan they keep talking about how much they love seniors they have a plan in their DSA you know Democrat Socialist of America to to put in place something called Medicare for all so that would bankrupt Medicare seniors should be very afraid of this it will basically run the system will completely run out of money if you do 200 300 million people under Medicare where is the gun money going to come from Medicare will collapse mark if they do this and seniors will lose their health care coverage and seniors who've paid into it for decades yeah American citizens the legal aliens who come across the border don't get Medicare for all people who who've never contributed to Medicare they'll get Medicare for all so in other words they're going to turn it into a massive welfare program that's right and you're right it'll collapse because it's already supposed to collapse and so they'll push this over the cliff even faster seniors should be as you point out very very worried about this plan that the Democrats have Steve Moore final words it's a strong economy Trump is pushing all the right buttons I think in his next two years we're gonna see one of the biggest booms he ever saw hundreds of billions of dollars money coming into the US economy to create jobs every country in the world you may not hear this from the press every country in the world would love to have the American economy that we have under Donald Trump and I believe he's launched the fourth Industrial Revolution I agree I data centers yeah and all these other spectacular things going on the only thing that can kill this is if the Democrats take the house and or the Senate it will kill it Steve Moore great work as always thank you my friend

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all right here with more by the way very proud of this uh i think he's the intellectual thought leader of the conservative movement at this moment he is brilliant he's the author of now the number one new york times best seller the counter revolution the fall and rise of donald trump and the maga movement our friend victor davis hansen first congratulations debut number one new york times um you're you are you're you're brilliant there's no other way to put it you you heard everything i said everything caroline said everything stephen morris said and then you know about the dsa agenda and i can scroll it as you're talking again tell me what what do you see in our future in 47 days well i i think all the economic data that you you describe will help there's going to be some redistricting and red states if they have a three-prong agenda if the republicans can show what they have done and the data that all of your guests showed is pretty convincing and then they say and this is what's going to follow and here's what we're going to do the next two years it's going to get even better and then third they show and you've outlined that what the democratic socialists are like and what they want to do to america then they have a very good chance of breaking the historical precedent because 39 out of 41 of the last midterm elections went to the out party in the white house the party not occupying the white house but we got to remember that the reason that they're so crazy is that don trump is not bob dole he's not john mccain he's not mit romney he is staging a counter revolution he is saying i'm not going to treat just the symptoms of this progressive project i'm going to go to the root causes and it's the media i'm going to go after pbs and nprs demagoguery i'm going to go after the indoctrination of the universities that they graduate the the legions in the left i'm going to look at the civil rights violations i'm going to tax their endowments and i'm not just going to say crime i'll try to help crime i will send the national guard to cities that are out of control and the same thing with the immigrant i'm not just going to build a wall i'm not just going to stop immigration i'm going to actually try to end illegal immigration for good i'm going to deport people so he's looking at all the symptoms of their power that they exercise when they don't have the white house and they don't have the congress and they don't have the supreme court but they have the institution that's why he had doge 400 000 employees are not with us anymore that we're mostly highly politicized so this is we're in the middle of a historic effort within just four years to overturn this march through our institutions that's gone on for 50 and that explains why they're so hysterical and they're so crazy and why the democratic party are socialists and why the socialist are democrats they've merged and there's no difference between them but they do share this frenzy and this paranoia that don't trump is the first president they've seen that could put an end to their dominance of our culture or economy or military and our politics and that's why they're so terrified do you agree with my framing of this as a group of people that want to shred the constitution frankly versus those of us that love our constitution our country liberty and freedom is it does it come down to that basic choice and it has it ever been this starker contrast you were absolutely right but i would say they've already done it i mean they tried to get don't trump off the ballot in 25 states they raided his home they impeached him twice they tried him as a private citizen they dragged him before five civil and criminal courtrooms they tried to destroy him psychologically physically spiritually politically career wise we've never seen the politicization of the fbi the cia the director of national intelligence the steel dossier hoax the laptop folks that could go on forever they really destroyed the confidence of the american people and the american government they want to destroy the electoral college without going through the amendment process so yeah you're absolutely right they're revolutionaries and that's why don't Trump is a counter-revolutionary. He wants to stop that.

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Peace in the Korean Peninsula, which hasn't been achieved since the armistice in the 1950s. President Trump has single-handedly toppled Maduro, freed the people of Venezuela and secured the greatest boon for America's energy and supply chains probably in the history of our country. He's taken the fight to the drug cartels, declared them a foreign terrorist organization, used military power to fight these enemies of human civilization. And as you have mentioned, he stopped Iran, the Islamic theocracy of Iran, from obtaining a nuclear weapon that could destroy an entire city. And now you come at home. He's unleashed American energy. He's building pipelines. He's bringing the price of gas down from the heinous highs of the Biden administration. He's taken inflation from the highest level in American history down to 2 percent, the largest tax cut in American history, no tax on tips, no tax on Social Security, no tax on overtime. And he took the most unsecured, dangerous, violent, hellish border in the history of our republic, and 15 straight months, Sean, of zero releases, zero into the country.

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Here with more former House Speaker Fox News contributor, Newt Gingrich. It really is remarkable and will be in Alaska this week. And when you couple that with 15 trillion in committed investments and the largest tax cut in history and energy dominance policies that I think make economic growth incalculable, if peace and prosperity drive elections, he's looking pretty good early on for 26 in my view. Look, I think he has a great chance. I happened to get a call Sunday night from Cambodian leaders who are nominating President Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, and they are ecstatic at the role he played in stopping a potential war between Thailand and Cambodia. And every time you turn around, he's doing something which is entirely amazing. So I think the stage is being set in 2026 between a very successful, hardworking American president who represents American values, focuses on American interests, and a Democratic party dominated by big government socialism with radical values. And that's a choice, I think, between a Trump boom and Democratic gloom. And my guess is this will be the biggest off-year election since Franklin Roosevelt in 1934. You know, many other politicians, and you tell me if I'm wrong, you're the historian, they will wring their hands, they'll talk to their advisers, they'll vacillate back and forth. You know, how much political capital will I have to expend to get involved in this issue? There's no such calculation as, like, problem, let me fix it. Let me see if I can fix it. Let me give my best shot at fixing it. Dive in, don't jump in. Very different than most politicians. Well, but I think, Sean, you use the key word. Donald Trump is not a politician. Donald Trump is a citizen businessman who left a remarkable career, took an amazing beating, survived a most unbelievable series of circumstances. And walks in every morning believing that God saved him for the purpose of creating a golden age for America. And he does it as a citizen. I don't think there's a politician bone in his body. I think he gets up every day as a citizen and says, what can I do to give my children, my grandchildren, and the American people a better future? And then he doesn't. And I don't think he thinks about second and third order effects. I think he just does what he thinks is right. Okay. So as we watch Donald Trump, what do you expect Friday? I don't know yet. I mean, having watched him on occasion, for example, I can't jump in. He says he'll know in two minutes. Just get up. I think you will. He says he'll know in two minutes. Look, I tweeted today, it was a very bad sign that the Russians launched a big offensive yesterday on the eve of this thing. I think that Putin is probably going to walk in there totally misunderstanding Trump, trying to run a bluff. And my guess is if that was what happens, he's going to get up and walk out. He's just going to say, this is all baloney. You're a liar and I can't trust you and I'm not going to work with you. I think what Putin believes, which is a total misreading of President Trump, is that somehow Trump can be talked into a fantasy. I don't think that's going to happen. But again, I'm an optimist. I'm a big believer in Donald Trump. And I think he's going to walk in there. He's going to look him in the eye and he's going to say, if you continue this, you will be crushed. Now, do you want to continue or should we talk? And if Putin says something baloney, he's going to go up and say, well, I remember President Trump said to me one day in negotiating with the Japanese, they walked out four times and he sat there calmly and they kept coming back. And I have a hunch that's the way he's going to approach Alaska. If Vladimir Putin actually, if he doesn't believe Donald Trump will get up and walk out and tell him to go jump in a lake, then he knows nothing. His intelligence is useless because I can tell him right now with 100 percent certainty, Donald Trump is not going to take any of your crap. That's my advice to Putin going into Friday. We'll see what happens. That's exactly right. All right. I want to watch you in Alaska.

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