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Stakelbeck Tonight | Erick Stakelbeck: April 7, 2025 | Stakelbeck Tonight | April 7, 2025
- Welcome to stakelbeck tonight.
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- I'm erick stakelbeck and the sky is falling or not.
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- The world is in a tizzy over
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- President trump's decision to impose tariffs on countries
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- That have been imposing tariffs on us for decades.
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- That's why these new tariffs that the president
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- Is set to enforce on wednesday are called reciprocal tariffs.
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- Trade with others as they trade with you
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- And put american interests and the american worker first.
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- If you are a nation
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- That wants to tax products that are made in the usa
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- And make it harder for us to break into your markets.
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- Then don't be shocked if we tax your products
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- As they flood into the united states.
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- There's a reason made in china has become
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- Standard here in america over the past 30 plus years.
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- But you won't see many made in the usa stickers in beijing.
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- Here's more from white house
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- Deputy chief of staff stephen miller.
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- We protect and defend south korea.
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- And in exchange, they steal our automobile industry.
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- They steal our electronics industry.
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- We protect and defend japan and exchange.
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- They closed their market to our cars.
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- We protect and defend canada.
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- And they run up a massive trade deficit with us.
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- We protect and defend all of europe
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- At a cost of trillions of dollars over time.
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- And what do they do?
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- They run an over $300 billion trade deficit
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- With the united states.
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- Why should america protect the world?
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- Send foreign aid to the world.
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- Defend the world.
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- Provide for the world in exchange.
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- Get ripped off by every other country in the world.
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- And what do we have to show for it?
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- The deindustrialization of the heartland,
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- The destruction of the american dream,
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- The eradication of our industrial
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- And manufacturing base that we need for our national security.
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- He's right, folks.
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- Look, i'm not an economist, nor do i play one on tv.
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- But it seems to me that we have had a deeply unfair
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- Trade system for years
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- Now that's benefited other countries,
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- Including adversaries like china.
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- But it has destroyed our manufacturing base here at home.
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- Factory after factory and town after town hollowed out
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- And ravaged as american companies moved overseas
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- And the world took advantage.
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- Look, my dad spent his entire working life in a factory
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- As an electrician and a tool cutter.
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- The kind of hardworking people like my dad
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- And the people i grew up with in northeast philadelphia
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- Who helped build this country have been left behind.
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- If we don't stop relying on the likes of communist china
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- And start making things in america,
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- Then we will eventually head off a cliff.
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- Will there be short term pain in the stock market? yes.
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- But president trump is urging patience and says
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- There will be a big payoff for the american people
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- If we hold the line.
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- He ran on this fair trade making american industry
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- Strong again,
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- Bringing jobs back home
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- And looking out for the american worker.
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- And by the way, he's been talking
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- About the wisdom of tariffs for almost 40 years.
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- So this should not be shocking. here's more.
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- I think our markets are going to boom.
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- Got to give it a little chance.
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- But we're taking in jobs and we're taking industry.
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- We're taking in trillions of dollars.
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- I think.
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- I think our markets are going to move.
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- Now despite the panic we're seeing among elites
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- And the short term stock market shakiness, there are signs
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- That president trump's
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- Tariff plan is already having a positive effect.
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- India, vietnam and taiwan are among 50
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- Countries that the white house says have already reached out
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- To revise their tariff policies with the u.s..
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- Israeli prime minister benjamin
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- Netanyahu was at the white house
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- Earlier today partly to discuss tariffs.
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- And here was the president of the european commission.
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- Also today.
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- Nonetheless,
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- We stand ready to negotiate with the united states.
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- Indeed, we have offered 040 tariffs
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- For industrial goods, as we have successfully done
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- With many other trading partners,
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- Because europe is always ready for a good deal.
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- So we keep it on the table.
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- As well she should, because
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- President trump has leverage and he's not afraid to use it.
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- That's one reason why global elites and the left despise him
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- And want him to fail.
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- The same people who screamed about wall street billionaires
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- And taxing the rich for years and who claim to stand up
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- For workers throw a fit when someone actually does
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- Because that someone is donald trump.
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- Here's leading democrats chuck schumer
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- And nancy pelosi from years past sounding a lot like trump.
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- Take a look at these clips.
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- Schumer from 2018 and pelosi from 1996.
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- I'm looking out, number one for jobs.
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- You know, if general electric moves jobs to china,
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- They're not unhappy.
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- But my new york workers in schenectady are unhappy.
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- And so you can't let the international business companies
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- Who don't give a hoot
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- About where their factories are govern this.
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- You have to do what's good for the american worker.
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- In terms of tariffs.
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- It's like it's interesting to note that the average u.s.
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- Mfn tariff on chinese goods coming into the united states
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- Is 2%, whereas the average chinese mfn tariff on u.s.
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- Goods going into china is 35%.
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- Is that reciprocal?
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- Your member of congress could have drawn the line to say
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- To the president of the united states,
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- Do something about this us-china
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- Trade relationship that is a job loser for the united states.
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- I'm glad to see that chuck
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- And nancy are so hawkish on communist china.
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- Coming up, we're joined by top china expert gordon chang,
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- Who breaks down why tariffs on china are necessary
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- To keep the upper hand over america's greatest adversary.
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- And it all starts now.
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- The gloves are off.
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- President trump is threatening
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- A crushing 50% tariff hike on china
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- If beijing doesn't back down from its own economic threats.
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- Critics are screaming trade war.
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- But folks, let's be honest,
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- China's already been waging war on america for years.
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- From deadly fentanyl to cyber attacks
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- To mass intellectual property theft.
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- This isn't just about trade.
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- It's about our national survival.
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- Joining us now to break it down is our good friend, gordon
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- Chang, gates
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- Stone institute senior fellow and author of the must-read book
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- Plan read china's project to destroy america.
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- Gordon, always great to see you.
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- At the end of the day,
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- This seems
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- Like a national security issue, right, to impose tariffs
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- On our greatest adversary
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- Who's been taking advantage of us for years.
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- Absolutely.
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- And china's project to destroy america goes back decades,
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- Or because they've been waging
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- A trade war and cyber war, all the rest of it.
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- And so we shouldn't be surprised.
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- And it's a good thing that president trump
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- Is not allowing all of this to slide, as his predecessors did.
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- So right now,
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- We americans have got to understand that
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- The chinese don't call us competitors.
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- They don't call us adversaries.
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- They call us enemies.
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- And we need to understand the maliciousness
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- And the determination that china's regime
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- Has to take down our country.
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- Yeah, some critics are saying that, look, this will be bad
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- For the american consumer, the tariffs on china.
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- What are your thoughts on that,
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- Given the impact on consumers here in the united states
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- As a result of tariffs?
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- Well, there will be some impact in terms of higher prices.
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- But we got to remember that, for instance,
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- In the case of china in 2018, the first round of president
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- Trump's tariffs on that country, chinese central government
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- And also chinese factories together absorbed somewhere
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- Between 75 to 81% of the cost of those tariffs.
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- American consumers didn't feel it.
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- And right now, china has even greater incentive
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- To pick up the costs of tariffs.
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- And we're already seeing that
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- They're doing that by weakening their currency
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- And also increasing subsidies to exporters.
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- So right now, i don't think the effect
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- Is going to be that great.
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- But in any event,
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- We need to revitalize our manufacturing sector
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- That's going to help consumption
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- When americans become more prosperous.
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- So overall, this is a very important move.
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- Yeah, i mean, china has a $295 billion trade surplus
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- With the united states.
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- So, gordon, for our national survival,
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- It seems, has had to be done.
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- There's no doubt about it.
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- Do you think china and you just laid out a little bit,
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- But do you think china and other nations
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- Could climb down here and get the memo, so to speak,
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- And come to the table and play ball
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- Because president trump has leverage?
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- Yeah, president trump has all the leverage
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- With regard to china
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- Because first of all, as you point out,
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- Where the trade deficit country, they've got the trade surplus,
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- They've got everything to lose.
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- Plus, also, we're the bigger economy.
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- Our economy is at least a third greater than china's.
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- So president trump holds those cards.
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- Now, it would be
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- Economically rational for a jumping to climb down,
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- But i think that he's put himself into a corner.
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- And that means this trade war could go on for quite some time.
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- But it's absolutely necessary
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- Because, you know, we americans, we've got to realize
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- That we could
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- Not have maintained really bad trade policies for decades
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- And think that we can get out of this without some costs.
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- But i believe that those costs will be a lot smaller
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- Than people think.
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- And we're going to usher in a new era of prosperity
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- For american workers and for everybody else as well.
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- Gordon, great point.
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- It should have never gotten to this point.
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- And now president trump's making up for past mistakes
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- And lost time, but thank god he's doing it.
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- Last question about a minute left.
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- You've talked a lot about china's economic weakness.
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- A lot of people think the communist regime in beijing
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- Is this budding economic powerhouse.
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- But you've said their economy at the root of it
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- Is actually quite weak. tell us more about that.
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- Yeah, it's not growing at the
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- 5.0% pace that they reported for last year.
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- Probably about zero when we look at their deflationary spiral
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- That the country is in and other indicators.
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- And that means that china right now is in a dire condition.
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- They need to export more.
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- The only place that they can go to, well,
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- The biggest export market in the world is america's.
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- They can't replace it.
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- And so china absolutely needs greater access
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- To the u.s., just as president trump is putting in tariffs.
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- That's a great thing,
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- Because behind those tariff walls,
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- We can actually grow our factories
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- And make americans prosperous again.
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- Amen.
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- Gordon, great breakdown, as always, my friend.
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- Folks, follow gordon on x and across social media.
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- Gordon, thanks again.
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- We know you keep a close eye on this.
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- We'll see you again soon.
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- God bless.
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- And coming up after
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- The break, we're talking about holding the line.
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- That also means in combating these out of control
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- Runaway left wing judges and election integrity.
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- Much more with a top expert from d.c.
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- After the break. stick around.
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- After the break. stick around.
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- Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight.
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- The left has been
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- Waging a long war on america's foundational freedoms.
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- And our next guest has been fighting back with facts,
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- Lawsuits and fearless truth for over two decades.
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- Tom fitness, the president of judicial watch
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- And author of rights and freedoms in peril,
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- An investigative report on the left's attack on america.
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- He joins us now. tom, great to see you.
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- Great job on the book, number one and number two.
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- Hey, a big victory recently for judicial watch.
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- You led the charge in getting 5 million
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- Dirty names removed from the voter rolls,
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- Including 1 million, tom, in new york city alone.
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- First of all, what are dirty names
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- And why is this so important for election integrity
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- To get them removed?
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- Well, thank you, eric.
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- It's kind of a long ballgame, right?
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- And we were scoring the runs in ways that are truly historic.
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- Now, federal law requires two states
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- To take reasonable steps to clean up the rolls.
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- And if they don't, they can be sued.
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- And that's
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- What judicial watch did
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- In places like new york, california, kentucky,
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- All over the country, really.
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- And in new york, they quickly settled our case.
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- And a few years ago, they removed about 450,000.
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- Another 450 plus thousand.
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- They just confirmed to us recently.
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- And when you look at the numbers,
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- Generally, it's well over a million
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- Names have just been removed in new york city alone
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- And by dirty names.
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- These are people who have moved away, died
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- Or otherwise become ineligible people
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- Or moving out of new york all the time
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- And or or people just even move out
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- Of the specific voting location where they are at.
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- In terms of, you know, let's say from new york city
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- To the suburbs and those names need to be tracked.
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- And that's something that new york wasn't doing
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- Until literally wasn't doing until judicial watch sued.
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- Same in california, 1.2 million names recently confirmed.
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- Just last year has having being removed in l.a.
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- County alone.
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- And we've got litigation ongoing
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- Because there are many millions
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- Name millions of more names that need to be removed,
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- Probably tens of millions at this point.
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- Wow. tom, it's insane.
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- And i mean, thank god it seems a long way off.
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- But look, the midterms,
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- November 20, 26, it's really not that far off.
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- Hey, speaking of which,
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- You mentioned california a minute ago.
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- Look,
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- You have a measure now or judicial watch is going
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- Against the state of california.
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- These attempts
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- In the state of california to to count ballots
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- Up to seven days after an election wraps.
- 00:14:22.585 --> 00:14:26.056
- Tell us more about that.
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- Well, president trump highlighted
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- This issue in a recent executive order.
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- Federal law sets an election day,
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- Not an election week, not an election month.
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- And 1819 states that are counting ballots
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- That arrive for up to i mean, in illinois,
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- 14 days after election day, california at seven days.
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- So we've been suing in these states
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- To try to get to enforce federal law.
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- And we had a big success
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- In the fifth circuit, which oversees mississippi,
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- Where they said, obviously counting ballots
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- After election day, ballots that arrive after election day
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- Is contrary to federal law.
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- We just sued in california to
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- Vindicate the federal law there.
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- They count seven days, as you note, ballot.
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- The ballots can come in up
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- To words of seven days after election day.
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- And our lawsuit notes that there were two republican,
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- Two republican
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- Members of congress who are winning on election day,
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- And they lost as a result of counting ballots
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- That arrived after election day.
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- So this has real consequences, this unlawful ballot counting.
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- A lot of people watching
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- Are probably saying, how did we get to this point
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- Where it is such a train wreck in our electoral system, votes
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- Being counted days and days after the election is wrapped?
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- It's insane.
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- Well, a lot of the worst of it occurred around covid.
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- Covid was that a pretext
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- To change the rules in a way that undermined
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- Election integrity?
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- I mean,
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- If you're going to mail the mail tens of millions of ballots,
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- It becomes pretty easy to justify.
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- Well, letting you get there after election day,
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- You know, they drop them in the mail on election day.
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- It's not good enough.
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- And as the court in the fifth circuit
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- Found or observed.
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- Well, why have any deadline at all?
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- Maybe you can just count ballots for years.
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- So it makes a certain amount of sense.
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- And frankly, if you're opposed to it, in my experience,
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- If you're opposed to cleaning up the voting rolls or voter i.d.
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- Or making sure that we have an election
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- Day as opposed to an election, i guess year,
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- It seems to me
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- You kind of want the system to be set up in a way
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- That allows you to steal elections.
- 00:16:44.494 --> 00:16:46.463
- It's this this extremist wing of the democratic party,
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- The far left, that doesn't like the idea of honest elections.
- 00:16:49.532 --> 00:16:53.169
- I used to say, erick, that,
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- You know, they want to be able to steal elections.
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- I think their goal is to end elections.
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- I really do.
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- Yeah. tom, well-said.
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- And more with tom fitton after the break, folks.
- 00:17:03.113 --> 00:17:05.281
- These runaway left wing judges trying to block
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- President trump's agenda at every turn.
- 00:17:08.418 --> 00:17:11.121
- What can be done about them?
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- More with tom fitton of judicial watch after the break.
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- Don't move.
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- Don't move.
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- Welcome back to stakelbeck.
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- Tonight,
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- We're talking to tom fitton, president
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- Of a great organization called judicial watch.
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- Folks, you can follow tom on x and across social media.
- 00:17:29.272 --> 00:17:32.575
- He's got 3 million followers on x alone.
- 00:17:32.575 --> 00:17:35.712
- And that's for a good reason, because he does
- 00:17:35.712 --> 00:17:37.413
- An incredible job sounding the alarm
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- On issues like these radical left wing runaway
- 00:17:39.415 --> 00:17:43.319
- Judges trying to block the trump administration's agenda
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- In trying to get people or stop deportations of criminal
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- Illegal aliens. tom, the list goes on.
- 00:17:50.727 --> 00:17:53.029
- What can be done to thwart these activist judges?
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- Can anything be done?
- 00:17:56.733 --> 00:17:58.368
- Well, the first thing that needs to be
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- Done is you fight them in court,
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- Which is what the administration's doing.
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- People have a right to sue.
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- Sometimes the lawsuits have no merit.
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- Sometimes they do.
- 00:18:06.609 --> 00:18:07.944
- Rarely do you get a complete victory.
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- As soon as you sue a federal agency or an administration
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- Like the left has been doing.
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- I mean, the problem isn't the lawsuits
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- That that's a problem that
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- Can be managed by judiciary that's doing its job.
- 00:18:20.356 --> 00:18:24.561
- The problem is these judges are
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- Breaking the rules more or less to give
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- Everything these leftists want
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- Within a minute filing the lawsuit.
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- And that's the challenge trump has.
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- He's trying to get this work done,
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- And all it takes is one judge in one jurisdiction
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- To overthrow his power
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- To conduct foreign policy, his power as commander in chief,
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- His power to protect national security.
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- That's that's the crisis that's erupting
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- As a result of these judges
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- Doing things they shouldn't be doing in the ordinary course.
- 00:19:00.930 --> 00:19:04.434
- Now, of course, he's appealing
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- All of these cases, more or less,
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- Some of which have already gone before the supreme court.
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- And and that's changing day by day.
- 00:19:13.176 --> 00:19:15.878
- And, of course, the big controversy is over
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- Whether judges such as these can be impeached.
- 00:19:17.880 --> 00:19:20.617
- Now, there is a power
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- To impeach judges for activism under the constitution.
- 00:19:21.851 --> 00:19:25.888
- The framers specifically put that in there
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- Not only to make sure that
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- Judges are honest and ethical and they're not corrupt
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- And they can be removed if they are.
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- But to protect the public and the constitution
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- Against judges that usurp the powers of the other branches
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- Engaged in judicial activism.
- 00:19:40.603 --> 00:19:42.939
- They said it was the complete security against that.
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- That's a quote from the founders in the federalist papers.
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- And it's rarely been used.
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- It was used only once effectively in 1804.
- 00:19:50.046 --> 00:19:54.117
- But the reason that people are talking about it
- 00:19:54.117 --> 00:19:56.519
- More now is because we've had this unprecedented attack
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- Through judicial abuse or judicial coups
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- Of the powers of the presidency.
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- And relatedly, to congress.
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- Yeah.
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- Tom, speaking of which,
- 00:20:07.730 --> 00:20:08.965
- Tell us about your great book, rights and freedoms in peril,
- 00:20:08.965 --> 00:20:12.101
- An investigative report on the left's attack on
- 00:20:12.101 --> 00:20:15.171
- America used the word crisis a minute ago.
- 00:20:15.171 --> 00:20:18.408
- And tom, you break down the state of play
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- And what we're up against in the book.
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- Tell us more about it.
- 00:20:22.812 --> 00:20:24.480
- You know, it was a close run thing
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- In the last four years for our constitutional republic.
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- They tried to jail a president and republican party
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- Leaders in american citizens for disputing an election.
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- They censored americans.
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- And the greatest attack
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- On free speech rights in the history of our republic.
- 00:20:40.063 --> 00:20:42.999
- And then, of course, we had this terrible corruption
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- At the top with the biden crime family
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- And so much other and so much other misconduct
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- In terms of the government engaging in gain
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- Of function research, funding it in china,
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- And then getting very nervous when americans started
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- Complaining that maybe this resulted in covid happening.
- 00:21:02.085 --> 00:21:07.390
- You know, all of that has been exposed in
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- Large measure thanks to judicial watch.
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- And we go through it.
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- Obviously, i make some comments on it in the book.
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- But what's devastating about the book
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- For the left is it relies on government documents.
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- It relies on what we uncovered from the record.
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- And so you can't you can argue with our conclusions.
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- You can't argue with the documents
- 00:21:29.612 --> 00:21:31.381
- And the documents show our republic was under attack.
- 00:21:31.381 --> 00:21:34.350
- And if there's anything i would advise
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- President trump to do is to make sure
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- Those responsible are held fully accountable.
- 00:21:38.821 --> 00:21:41.324
- It's an emergency, because if they're not
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- The same agencies, for example, we'll just be used again
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- By the next occupants of the oval office
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- To go after not only him, but other americans in a way
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- We've never seen before in american history
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- In terms of the fbi, doj and other agencies being used
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- To to suppress the public as opposed to protect the public.
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- Yeah.
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- Tom, one of the things i love about your work
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- At judicial watch is you have the primary documents.
- 00:22:07.650 --> 00:22:10.420
- It's all there. all the evidence.
- 00:22:10.420 --> 00:22:12.088
- It's in the book rights and freedoms in peril, folks.
- 00:22:12.088 --> 00:22:14.490
- You pick it up, amazon.com, wherever books are sold.
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- Tom, great job, as always.
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- Keep up the great work, my friend. god bless.
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- We'll see you again soon. and coming up after the break.
- 00:22:20.997 --> 00:22:23.633
- My final thoughts on this state of the united states.
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- What can be done? what comes next?
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- Stick around.
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- Stick around.
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- Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight, folk
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- As we wrap up here, i see the world
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- And many in our nation again in a tizzy,
- 00:22:42.517 --> 00:22:44.953
- Having a breakdown over president trump's tariff policy.
- 00:22:44.953 --> 00:22:47.923
- Look, the book of psalms, chapter 33, verse 12, says,
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- Blessed is a nation whose god is the lord.
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- Let's put it before the lord in prayer, number one.
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- Number two, i believe god spared donald trump's life
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- For a reason.
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- And butler,
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- Pennsylvania, back in july to become the leader of this nation
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- Once again. so let's be patient.
- 00:23:04.639 --> 00:23:06.541
- The sky is not falling.
- 00:23:06.541 --> 00:23:07.776
- Let's give it some time, pray and see which way this goes
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- And pray for the best for our nation.
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- Hey, tomorrow, david harris, junior, chad prather are here.
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- You won't want to miss it.
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- Until then, god bless you.
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- We'll see you soon.
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