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Trump presses forward on trade reset; Democrat leadership vacuum grows dire
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July 10 | Trade Letters, Newsom’s Accent, Biden’s Doctor, FCC’s Big Move & Trump’s Climate Team On today’s episode of The 10 Minute Drill: Tariff Bombshells: The Biden administration quietly notifies Iraq, Libya, the Philippines, and...
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President Trump presses forward on trade. Joe Biden's doctor pleads the fifth in Congress. And Gavin Newsom begins his presidential campaign in South Carolina. All of that and so much more today on 10 Minute Drill. Everybody get up. Get up. The story of America is the story of an adventure.
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I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. We are a nation under God, and, and I believe God intended for us to be free.
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Pressing forward with his trade reset with the entire world, President Trump sent letters today to a number of countries setting their new tariff rates. Those countries include Philippines, Moldova, Iraq, Algeria, Libya, Brunei. Today and over the next few days, we're expecting more announcements, including more letters and potentially some major trade deals. The Trump team is defending the tariff agenda by pointing to the fact that these tariffs have not added to inflation and the stock markets are largely now baking them in. Stepping away from his podcast, his way too close to his face, selfie videos, suntanning, and fancy dinners at French Laundry, Gavin Newsom has kicked off his presidential campaign in South Carolina. Now, he has not announced that it is the kickoff to his presidential campaign, but South Carolina Representative Jim Clyburn is not messing around.
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We got to build a foundation. So as we go around welcoming these candidates who are running for president, new.
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To the south and talking to Americans outside of California, Gavin tried a new accent.
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You're gonna have a cup of coffee, Madam Mayor. That's what you promised. Representative.
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Mr. Senator, it reminds us a little bit of this. You better thank a union member for sick leave. You better thank a union member for paid leave. And not to be laughed out. This.
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I don't feel no ways tired.
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I come too from where I started from. That video is not the first time people suspected Hillary Clinton might be having a stroke. But moving on, here's the message that Gavin Newsom began laying out.
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Who wanted to put America in reverse, wanted to bring us back to a pre1960s world on voting rights, civil rights, LGBTQ rights, on women's rights.
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So when Gavin says voting rights, he's talking about things like voter ID that are overwhelmingly popular. When he talks about LGBTQ rights, the only rights there that are shifting are whether or not the government can trans your kids or indoctrinate them with radical ideology. So once again, Gavin's way out on a limb here. But it's a good preview of what we can expect from him, which is more partisanship and representing that narrow 20% of the electorate who's taking these extreme positions that lost last November. Not everyone, including Democrats, are happy about this very, very early presidential visit when there's lots of other things going on back in California.
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That's a guy who, if he runs, he's got lot to defend in California. If you look at quality of life.
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Issues there, you know, the Democratic donors I'm speaking with who have been supportive of him are pretty irate that he's there. At the same time that over the last six months there's only been 100 permits issued for the areas that were ravaged by the wildfire.
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We can expect a lot of jostling ahead of the 2028 Democrat primary. If it's anything like 2020, when there was 27 Democrat presidential candidates to face President Trump, we can expect a massive food fight. But Gavin Newsom's message make America More like California will meet a lot of resistance. On Wednesday, Joe Biden's former doctor Kevin o' Connor was scheduled to testify before the House Oversight Committee on their investigation into the COVID up of Joe Biden's massive mental and physical decline. O' Connor first attempted to use executive privilege, but but because Joe Biden had waived executive privilege for Trump staffers to aid the January 6 investigation back in 2021, the Trump administration used that same power to waive executive privilege for Dr. O'. Connor. However, when he met with Congress, he pled the fifth and cited Dr. Patient privilege to not answer any questions about Joe Biden and his health. This comes as a new book hits shelves, 2024 how Trump retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America by Josh Dossey, Tyler Pager and Isaac Arnsdorf, with new revelations about Joe Biden, his failing campaign and the COVID up that went into it, with particular revelations about Hunter Biden and his involvement both in the campaign and running the White House as Joe Biden continued to decline. Revelations like that are why we're going to continue to have congressional actions, hearings, investigations and interviews with former Biden aides. And I don't expect that to slow down anytime soon. On Tuesday, we talked about the Axios report about Democrat voters wanting Democrats to get shot for the Trump resistance. In the wake of a violent ambush of ICE agents and law enforcement officers in Texas, there has been a surprising, surprising lack of pushback or condemnation from Democrats. Here's Hakeem Jeffries when he was asked.
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About that there needs to be blood to grab the attention of the press and the public. How do you respond to that? Leader Jeffries well, we are in a more is more environment in terms of the unprecedented assault on the American way.
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Of life so note that Hakeem Jeffries isn't defending law enforcement. He isn't pushing back. He isn't saying let's turn the temperature down. He's justifying it. Now. It is nice of him to take a few minutes off from photoshopping pictures of himself to answer some important questions in the media. But when Democrats are ratcheting up the rhetoric again, calling Trump Hitler, Donald Trump is America's Hitler. If we were expecting this moment and this flashpoint to be an opportunity for new Democrat leaders with cooler heads to rise, we will not find it. From Hakeem Jeffries We've talked a lot about Medicaid and the risk that Republicans face if they don't successfully push back on Democrats and the media as they malign the one big beautiful bill and as they misrepresent the Medicaid reforms in it. Here's the Wall Street Journal editorial board. No one is gutting the safety net. The GOP will have to rebut the Democratic and media distortions about the reforms or lose the 2026 election. So I want to just read a couple points the Wall Street Journal editorial board made that you likely have heard here on 10 Minute Joe before Medicaid spending has risen by roughly 60% since 2019. In a letter penned last month about the House bill, CBO said 4.8 million individuals covered by Medicaid won't comply with the part time work requirement. The work requirement provisions don't apply to anyone who is disabled, pregnant or caring for a child younger than age 14. Don't buy the Democrat talking point that the working poor will be lost in red tape as they try to prove they're on the job. These provisions are intended to protect our most vulnerable Americans since the Biden administration waived millions onto health entitlements. The GOP bill includes sensible measures as asking states to check their Medicaid expansion rules. America's a generous society that cares for the vulnerable, but it should also be a land of opportunity, not a European welfare state. So just to wrap this all up, the reforms to Medicaid in this bill are about making Medicaid work better for the people who actually need it. 70 to 80% of Americans believe believe that there is waste, fraud and abuse in Medicaid. And about 65 to 70% believe that Medicaid should not be paying for able bodied video gamers in their 30s who don't have any disabilities and don't have any dependents to be able to get free healthcare. So the components of this bill are incredibly popular, but Republicans have to be comfortable going on offense to push back on the misrepresentations of this bill. Yesterday, major news out of the Supreme Court.
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Supreme Court with a decision that will allow the Trump administration to move ahead with their plans to cut the federal workforce.
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So while this is critical in again standing for the Article 2 principle that the executive, the president of the United States has the ability to oversee the executive branch, one of the main notes that came out of this, again, which was a disagreement between justices. We talked a lot before about Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, as with last week's major decision on national injunctions, where Justice Amy Coney Barrett had to gently push back on Justice Jackson for not relying on any kind of existing law to argue that the president needs to be checked by judges who constitutionally do not have the power to check the president in that way. From the district court level this time, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the other most liberal member of the court, pushed back on Justice Jackson for focusing her opinion on things that weren't actually at question in this case. Despite a flurry of media praise for Justice Jackson, there seems to be a growing riff on the court, not just between the liberals and the conservatives, but between Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and the rest of the court who want to focus on law and interpreting the law as written, and Justice Jackson believing that her role is far more interpret it. Last week, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr launched his Build America agenda. In short, Americans get better Internet, TV and phone service across America. The Biden administration really prioritized urban areas and places where there are Democrat voters. Chairman Carr's agenda is focused on rural America, poorer areas, getting them better Internet, better cable, better access to communication systems which will help normal people but also small businesses and growth across the country. In short, it's like a tech upgrade for the entire country, particularly those places that need it most, again, like rural America. And one key part of this is something I like to talk about a lot, which is over regulation. The delete, delete, delete component of this plan is about getting rid of all of the complex rules and regulations hurting the growth in communications technology and development around the country. So kudos to Chairman Carr and we're excited to see how this helps America as a whole. A new headline from the New York Times, Trump hires scientists who doubt the consensus on climate change. Over the last four years, President Biden primarily focused the Department of Energy on green energy, which made energy for most Americans more expensive and less reliable in an effort to make energy more affordable and more abundant. President Trump has recentered the Department of Energy on actual energy. But the New York Times is taking issue with some of these recent appointments. Those include, there are Professor Stephen E. Koonin, a physicist and author of a best selling book that calls climate science unsettled. Professor John Christie, an atmospheric scientist who doubts the extent to which human activities cause global warming, and Dr. Roy Spencer, a meteorologist who believes that clouds have had a greater influence on warming than humans have. So as you hear those descriptions, these are all very, very impressive and extensive credentials. But the New York Times does not like the fact that they don't agree on with what they call the consensus on climate change. Now, if you look up what that consensus is, first, climate change is happening. Now, most people generally agree the climate is changing. Sure some have questions about what parts of it are changing, what parts of it are a longer pattern in history with weather and things like that. But the other part of that is that humans are the primary and in some cases exclusive driver of climate change, which I think a lot of people would agree. There's still some debate about what role people are playing, but the New York Times does not like that. The New York Times is defending the consensus, but when you hear the consensus on climate change, to me it sounds a lot like the trust the experts messaging on Covid. Again, we were told six feet will slow the spread. Found out years later that was totally made up on climate change. We've had a number of other similar revelations of things that have been treated as part of the consensus that we later found out when were largely politicized research. For example, we've talked about climate attribution. There is an organization called World Weather Attribution that's quoted in every media article about the role climate change is playing in any kind of storm or natural disaster. But research has shown world Weather attribution has cut corners in their research and most of what they're putting out isn't even peer reviewed because their goal, as they have said publicly to media, is to be fast enough to get included in those stories, whether or not the science and the research and evidence adds up or not. So again, as you hear New York Times pushing back on these incredibly renowned energy experts being unqualified for the Department of Energy because they don't agree with what largely left wing outside groups have decided is the consensus on climate change, you have to remember the political organizations behind this are hyper focused on forcing the changing of behaviors away from appliances. You like cars, you like gas, energy sources that you like, and rely on and into their preferred progressive lifestyle choices that are focused on appealing to absurd things like net zero and the European Union's climate goals, things like that. So kudos to these energy experts who are going to work with President Trump to make energy more abundant and more affordable for all of us. That is all the time we have for today. Thank you so much for joining us on 10 Minute Drill. Please like subscribe, leave us a review. A review. If you leave us a review or a comment, we will engage with that here. Have a nice day.