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Welcome, Welcome, welcome. It’s Ed Martin here on the Pro America Report. It is a. Very interesting program.
Coming up in a few. Moments we’ve got a new commentator, new guest an author Richard C. Lyons, who will join me. And he’s kind of a he’s written 2 volumes of a three volume series on the Democracy in America and history. He’s going to talk about the debate a little bit and otherwise generally we’ll see sort of a new guy. So it’s good.
And then I’ve been waiting for this interview for a while. Chadwick Moore is a youngish journalist who about a year and a half ago was asked by was invited by Tucker Carlson to do a biography of Tucker. And the biography is out in the last few months. Maybe six weeks. It’s called TUCKER by Chadwick Moore, and we’ll finally talk with him. I’ve read that book. It’s very, very interesting. As I’ve said before, Tucker Carlson’s a fascinating character for many reasons. But he’s hitting the scene right when his value is the highest. And by that I mean. He’s an incredible writer, which means he’s an incredibly clear thinker and we’ll talk about Chadwick Moore. He references that in the book, so we will visit that, echoes my experience of the late Phyllis Schlafly, who was a a prolific writer and and very clear thinker.
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My favorite one of my very favorite things is when our listeners folks that listen on the Salem radio network or listen one of the St. Louis stations that picks us up or many, many people who listen to the podcast, the Pro America Report podcast or the standalone links that the people will find a way to send me a message at @EagleEdMartin on Twitter, they’ll direct message me. The DM’s are open. Through Facebook Ed Martin Live all different kinds of places. E-mail ed@phyllisschlafly.com ed@phyllisschlafly.com. So, it’s always a pleasure and I was sent by one of our listeners. A link on YouTube. To an interview. That Donald Trump did with Larry Kudlow about a week ago now. I had not seen this interview. It’s about a little bit less than an hour. I think it took up the whole Kudlow Show was recorded up in New Jersey. August originally aired on August 17th, recorded on the 16th of August, but it’s Trump heavily. Larry Kudlow, of course, being over on Fox Business, heavily interested in the business side of things, the economy. And he’s actually he only a couple of minutes at the very beginning do they talk about the news Few days before, of Trump being indicted yet again, and but the whole thing is about the economy.
And when you listen to Trump talk about the economy and they had a bunch of charts and numbers, it was a well prepared interview. You really got the sense of the difference in leaders. Trump told a story about how he had been told that President Macron of France was going to enact a Kind of a tax, a surcharge on American goods that were entering France. And so Trump called up. This is while he was president, called up Macron and said Macron and said you can’t do that. And Macron said, well, they already passed it through our Parliament and I’ve already signed off on it. And Trump said, no, no, you can’t do that. If you do that, it was the weekend. I will Monday morning by executive order, slap a a surcharge on everything that comes out of France to us. And Macron said oh, no, no, you can’t do that. And he said watch me and Macron. And he said call me back. I think he said 15 Minutes. Call me Back and tell me that you stopped it and. Otherwise, I’m going to do it too. And he said, and if you think I’m gonna have a political problem, you’re wrong, he said. Because people are gonna see what you’re doing and they’re gonna expect me to be fight back and Macron backed down. He backed down. I mean, you talk about strong leaders, you talk about strong leaders and then you say to yourself, well, was he, you know, was he threatening him? But he was directionally threatening him for America’s good.
And I maybe I’m being too Trump friendly when I say this, but to me that’s an example of protecting American interests. You contrast that with the rising number of stories. That really show that Joe Biden, as Vice President was interested in in things he may have believed in the direction of the things I don’t know. But they were helping his son and him make money. Massive amounts of money and his growing evidence. It’s happening like almost every day. It’s how you know that. I think that the Democrats even don’t want Biden to run. Because they’re really the the sharp knives are out. Although, I think they thought that they would bury. It under the so-called plea deal last Month and that fell apart.
But here’s what you need to know. Trump in the same interview, and I’ll put it up on social media, I want you to go look, he talks about the economy and he doesn’t have magic fixes, but he has clear facts. He’s talking about inflation. He’s talking about the cost of gasoline. He’s talking about the the stalled economic growth and and one of his main solutions. And I think it is the main. Solution is to. Lower our energy costs.
Now you can do that. A bunch of ways. ln France. They’re doing it by nuclear. They want to lower their energy costs by nuclear. They don’t want to do it by natural gas or oil. OK, fair enough. It doesn’t matter how it matters that.
And what Trump said was ANWR. The Alaskan Wildlife Preserve, whatever the acronym stands for. Is, he said it could be as big as Saudi Arabia and that’s it for us. Then we’re totally energy independent. And then everything the cost of of. The cost of of oil and gas go down, everything goes down. Everything goes down. It’s not a one and done, meaning just oil or even just gas. Natural gas, it’s. An all of the above. But you watched that interview with Larry Kudlow, and you tell me that you don’t have a president who understands how the economy works and understands how to get things done. I I I mean it’s it’s as much as I like all of the battling and I do I of course enjoy it being sufficiently Irish American. I like to see lots of battling and I like to see when Trump is fighting for our side and and showing them out and making clear that it’s all a fraud and all this is lawfare and all.
What I really like is the idea that someone Could be in charge in this country and get us on the right track. In terms of the economy, in terms of upward mobility opportunity and it certainly isn’t Biden. You know, they spent some time in this interview, and again, it’s worth watching the interview about 40, after the first four or five minutes, which are sort of a warm up. So and it’s about 35 minutes and it’s all Trump and his in his in his, you know, kind of to a full flow about the economy. Not about the legal system, not about the unfairness of it. He covers that in the 1st 4 minutes. This is all about the economy. And he’s talking about how to get out of the way of ingenuity and how to make things work. And when you watch it, you’ll say to yourself this, I mean, this is the kind of leadership we need. There’s other people that do it. I mean, I’m not saying he’s the only one, but it’s so it’s so obvious that he has the the. The the ability. To do it.
And the contrast is stunning. It’s really, really stunning to watch and what you need to know is we’ve got to have something Change we we we have to whether you like Trump or not, it can’t be Biden. And I think at this point people realize that alright, So what else in this interview? Let me look back at my notes Kudlow Kudlow is, of course, you know, he’s a former Trump staffer, so he’s he’s pretty, he’s pretty amenable.
Oh, another aspect of this, Trump says When you have An open border when you have sort of lawlessness, he didn’t use that word. But when he says the cartels are in charge, he said you don’t even know what you’re getting. In other words, you can’t run a business if you don’t know what you’re getting. What the, you know what, what is happening. And so with the border he’s like, we don’t even know what we’re getting. We know that it’s not, you know, it’s not good. It’s not controlled, it’s not managed. It’s said there’s a lot of sadness and a lot of devastation, a lot of trafficking, all that. But he’s basically saying. We don’t know what we’re. And that’s no way to run a country. Trump’s point is yes, build the wall. He brings that up specifically, but also have a sense of what you’re getting and and decide what you want. That’s a different part of governing.
Now, I would argue, and I don’t think that President Trump meant to preclude this, but I would argue that I think that Biden administration, that’s part of their that part of their Plan, the Biden plan is just to take anything, that the chaos is the opportunity for them. I don’t think that they care to, to have it to, to manage it. So in other words, it’s not an oversight, it is a choice, and that the chaos is the choice. They know that what they’re doing, they may not Realize the implications. When? When was, it was. It Robert Kennedy Robert F Kennedy if you watch his interview with Tucker, what you hear him say. Is that along the border, when RFK Junior was there when he was down at the border, what he discovered was it wasn’t Latin American people. It wasn’t South American people. It was people from all over the world that were coming across the border and he was saying Azerbaijan and all, you know, Afghanistan and Pakistan and all these places, all young men coming into the country and again, he said we we, he didn’t know that. RFK junior he said, I didn’t know that when I got down there. I, in other words, we don’t even know what most people assume. Oh well, it’s families of Hispanics that are coming across the border to get away from their poor economy or whatever in their country. By the way. That’s not a reason to come into our country. It that’s not a reason that’s supposed to be used. But what RFK Junior said was no it wasn’t that at all. It was. What did he use? The phrase military age men from nations all across the world, Africa, Asia, Europe. And not friendly, not always friendly nations that’s me, adding that, not him. So extraordinary.
Alright, that’s what you need to know. We got to take a break. We’ll be right Back, it’s Ed Martin here on the Pro America Report, back in a moment.
