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David Brody
Welcome to American Sunrise Early Edition. The show where faith, freedom and the values that built this nation take center stage.
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President Trump (soundbite)
You people and others like you built this country.
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David Brody
Join us as we break down the stories that matter. F A F O If you don't know, now you know. American Sunrise Early Edition on Real America's Voice starts now. Breaking news from Real America's Voice. Welcome Good morning. American Sunrise Early Edition. Breaking news. You're looking at the screen right now. President Trump just arriving there in Zurich, awaiting to step off Air Force One and make his way to where I'm at here in Davos. Welcome everybody as we continue our coverage here at the World Economic Forum live in Davos, Switzerland. We'll continue in coverage all day as he speaks a little bit later today. And he's expected to speak here actually in a few hours. Now, he took off last night, slight delay, had to go back to Joint Base. Andrew, from what we are told was a just a slight electronic issue, no description on that and what that actually looked like. But he had to change planes at Joint Base Andrews. And for somebody who has actually flown on Air Force One with the president, I know that when they had to come back to Joint Base Andrews and change planes, I knew that would set us back a couple hours. And from what I've been told, that has set his actual speaking about three hours back from all of this. Joining me now from the RAV newsroom as well is in Denver is Terrence Bates. Terrence, you and I have done this several times before waiting for the president to step off of Air Force One.
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Terrence Bates
Absolutely. And we're looking at this shot here, Brian, or we just saw the shot of the door to Air Force One open. We hear that President Trump should be deboarding here in short order. And then we expect that he'll make his way to the mountains from Zurich. That's where he is right now. It'll make his way into the mountains to Davos. And talking to you, you're saying that it's about a two hour drive. Now, if in fact he does drive, if there is a motorcade that will drive him over, we're expecting that it likely won't take him two hours. They'll shut down the roads and speed. So it may be a shorter drive. But you are also telling me, Brian, that many of the attendees of the World Economic Forum have also shuttled in, say via helicopter or other means through the air. So we're going to see exactly how he decides to get to Davos. But at this point, we do know that he's probably going to be or that he is already behind schedule and that his speech, which I believe was scheduled for about 2 or 2:30 local time there will be pushed back just a little bit. He is President Trump, though. Everyone's going to wait for him, Brian. I don't think it's going to be much of an issue.
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David Brody
It's pretty amazing how this is, this is how you make a grand entrance here. You, you show up a little late to the party and you make everyone wait for you. If I was to guess, I think that he would airlift from here into Davos by Marine. They do transport oftentimes that equipment, motorcade vehicles as well, well in advance to the president's arrival in a country like this. But we'll find out. It looks like the camera starting to pan back just slightly, indicating that they might see something, a little bit of motion in there. But if you take a look at what is at stake here, I mean, he just wrapped up well, here we go. Let's see if we got him walking off. I know we've got a lot of times you'll see some of his inner staff there, Susie Wiles, chief of staff and others will come off with him or prior to his departure on, off this plane. But if you take a look at what, what he just left last night, wrapped up probably an hour and 50 minutes of rallying off just about every accomplishment President Trump has had from the border to domestic policies, obviously to foreign policies, and had some fun with the media in the process. We'll keep an eye on that. Meanwhile, let's get to our Bible verse real quick. We'll, we'll hammer that out and we'll keep an eye on that plane. If he does step out, we will obviously go back into that because I want to make sure we keep an eye on that. As the world watches this moment unfold, here's a passage that kind of fun feels especially relevant to today. Deuteronomy 33. Two, it says, the external God is your refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms. He will drive out your enemies before you saying, quote, destroy them. As President Trump prepares to speak, we wish him strength and covering in all of this. All right, there's a live look, if you're just now joining us. We've been live here in Davos the last couple of days as we build up to President Trump making his speech a little bit later this morning, I want to bring in we have a nice panel guest today that will join us in this coverage. Hilary Fordwich, a global business development leader, will join us as well. Mark Serrano, former senior campaign adviser for President Trump. I'm going to bring them into the mix as we keep an eye on Air Force One there. Mark, I'll start with you. I've been with you on the campaign trail many times before. We've waited for this, for this moment to come with President Trump. And what do you expect his message to be today?
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Mark Serrano
Mark, good morning or good afternoon? Brian, good morning, Terence. Look, this is one of those great days of the year I look forward to because Donald Trump takes the fight directly to the globalists. It's just delightful day. I can't wait to hear what he has to say today. Look, he's going to, number one, tout the great accomplishments of the Trump administration here in the second term, one year after he took office. He's going to use those accomplishments to demonstrate the total, total failures of globalism and these elitists that gather in Davos every year. He's going to talk about the American worker. He's going to talk about how this economy is booming, that if it wasn't in the fourth quarter of 2025, it wasn't for the Chuck Schumer driven shutdown of the government, you know, we would have been right up there at 5%, nearly 5%, at least 4.7% GDP in the fourth quarter. The official number is 4.3%, but that's all private sector GDP. And so Donald Trump's going to talk about the great success of populism and delivering power back to the people, cutting their taxes, dropping regulations, and also his achievements on the world stage and across the globe, from Venezuela to peace in the Middle east that none of these globalists, none of these elitists could ever have accomplished.
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David Brody
Yeah, we just saw.
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Terrence Bates
Go ahead, David. I'm sorry.
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David Brody
Go ahead, Brian, go ahead. I was just going to mention that we just saw Susie Wiles and some of her staff start to get off the plane. Terrence, go ahead, jump in.
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Terrence Bates
All right, thank you. Yeah, we saw those folks. And we're expecting President Trump. There he is. President Trump now deboarding Air Force One. It's got to be cold there, Brian. I'm looking at the breath coming out of his mouth there as he deboards. Probably not as nice as deboarding in West Palm beach, but still he is going to be heading up there to Dallas. Mark, as we watch the president deboard here, one of the things that I noticed earlier is that Scott Bessant, who's already at the World Economic Forum, kind of set the stage for President Trump's remarks today on Greenland, telling many of the European leaders who have been. All right, we thought he was speaking there for a moment. He didn't. So as actually, let's just kind of continue to watch this. Brian, you mentioned that he probably would be taking Marine One, and so it looks like that's where he's headed.
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David Brody
Let's listen in on this. It's interesting. We've got Marine One that he's walking to right now, but often when he walks down, it was, I didn't know if he was going to go towards the traveling press pole that's there with him now. Now they're going to be ushered into another helicopter and they're all going to airlift from that facility there in Zurich over to where I'm at in Davos. I'm thinking that's probably about a 35, 30 to 35 minute airlift, typically in something like this. So I didn't know if he was going to gaggle with the media. Now I didn't get any confirmation if he gaggled actually on the plane. I would imagine considering that he just left the White House last night and had over a two hour engagement with the media, I don't think necessarily he would have gaggled on the plane. And that's a, that's a great look right now. If whoever's shooting this, that is inside baseball right now, what it looks like when you break the camera off the tripod and make your way over into the, into the helicopter to go away. But, but Mark, you know, President Trump is not, he does not shy away from the media at all as he got up there and just went down a laundry list of accomplishments and then took questions after all of that, a.
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Mark Serrano
Classic performance from President Trump where he's got his binder with endless list of accomplishments in this first year of his second term. It was just a, it was a classic moment, classic accomplishment. You know, the, the panty waist and the, the uptight pearl clutchers in the media and the leftists, they just can't stand it. They can't stand the way he commands the media. It's what first drew me to President Trump as the solution for this misbegotten capital of ours back in 2015 is that I knew he could command the media in ways that Republicans just are, are generally incapable, at least at that time. But yeah, logos is a great laundry list of accomplishments. You can't deny that this president has achieved more in the first year that presidents typically achieve in four to eight years. And he's just getting warmed up, Brian.
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David Brody
He is. He is.
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Terrence Bates
All right, Brian, at the top, you mentioned that we have another guest as well.
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David Brody
Yeah, go ahead. I was going to say Hillary Fordwich, we can bring her in real quickly to get her perspective on, on President Trump stepping off Air Force One. Hillary, thoughts as we come to you on this very eventful morning.
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Brian Glenn
Good morning. I was going to say the only thing that I think is probably colder is the reception that he'll get from a lot of those global elites. One thing we definitely know in the all gather in Davos is what they have a massive carbon footprint and then they all sort of waffle normally. I think this year is going to be a year Far more of action. Because President Trump isn't about waffle, he's about action. I think he's coming with a clear message, I do think, from Speaker Johnson's historic address to the Houses of Parliament in the uk, one of the best sound bites and messages that came out of that is, and Scott Besant reiterated this, america first does not mean America alone. And I think that is going to be, hopefully, the big message he's bringing. Come on, west, let's act together. Surely our adversaries, China and Russia, are watching this closely. What we do not need is division amongst allies.
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Terrence Bates
No, absolutely, I agree.
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David Brody
And I. Scott Besson, a little bit earlier today, and he did use that line. I thought that was a very interesting line. It is America first, but it's not America only. And we do want to include everyone on that. Mark. I know you might have had something to say on that. Mark.
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Mark Serrano
Yeah, well, you know, that's. So that's a, I think, a very generous olive branch on the part of Speaker Johnson and Secretary Besant. Because the reality is, if there's division within NATO between the US and our European allies, it's their choice. They have been protected by the American taxpayer for Generations now, since 1945, there is a shield between them and Russian aggression, Soviet aggression in the past, Russian aggression today, and that shield is protected by the American people. And so that if there are divisions, it's because they don't want to adapt to the new realities of this world and Donald Trump's vision of it, particularly protecting our Western hemisphere and the new Arctic region by us gaining control over Greenland.
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Brian Glenn
And on that note, may I add something? I think that's an absolutely apropos point, if I might add. Could you imagine saying to the British taxpayer, the, the German taxpayer, the Swedish taxpayer, the Norwegian taxpayer, the French taxpayer, by the way, we'd like you to spend 2% of your GDP providing for and protecting the US southern border. They'd all say, what are you talking about? Meanwhile, the US taxpayer, every one of us, we have all been paying for the protection of Europe. And absolutely correct. This is a new world order. And President Trump is absolutely correct. Not only should they be paying, they should be paying their 5%. But I do just want to. That just want to just protect the uk. The uk, Poland and Estonia are the only ones that ever did pay their full 2%, but they should all be paying 5%. We have been paying for their protection.
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David Brody
Excellent point, Hillary, Terrence, Mark, standby. We'll take a quick break. We'll come back we are live here in Davos, Switzerland awaiting President Trump about two hours I guess from now where he'll she'll be making an appearance here at the World Economic Forum. A couple minutes, we'll come, come right back. Stick around.
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David Brody
All right, welcome back American Sunrise early edition. We're taking a look at the streets of Davos and exactly what that looks like. And if you've never been to Davos, I would imagine many of our viewers have not been to Davos. Let me compare it to you like this. If you've ever been to a trade show or any type of maybe cpac. If you're a conservative and you've been to cpac, you've got media companies set up with a booth. You've got merch companies, you got, you know, Fortune 500 companies that have a booth. Imagine that type of concept but in a downtown area. So instead of having a booth, they just rent a building and flip the building to their brand. You've got LinkedIn, you've got TikTok, you've got, you know, the House of China, you've got the House of, of India. You're taking a look at what it looks like this morning as I was shooting that, that's the invest in the Philippines. So all these companies and countries literally take over a local business and flip it to their to their brand. If you're a tick tock we went into a colleague of mine. We toured tick tocks set up here, and we talked about what it looks like in terms of their presence in Davos. So just a good look at that. I want to bring in, well, from the Swiss Alps to, I guess, the Rocky Mountains. Terence, if you want to give us a quick check of the headlines, because there is some news outside of Davos and sometimes the news is, well, pretty, pretty disturbing still. We've been talking about a lot of things like Minnesota, but what are we. What's on the headlines for today?
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Terrence Bates
Absolutely, Brian. There is other news happening around the world, but President Trump always trumping any other headlines. He, of course, is now back on the world stage, albeit a little bit later than expected. President Trump headed to Davos, Switzerland, as we speak. We saw him just a little while ago, probably about 15 minutes ago or so, boarding Marine One as he will be choppered or helicoptered into Davos, where he is set to speak here in short order. However, he celebrated his first year back in office on Monday. In fact, during a press briefing at the White House, the commander.
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Terrence Bates
Talked about the fact that he was able to deliver tax cuts for the American people, that he was able to roll back tax policies and woke policies, and that he effectively used tariffs without forcing a spike in inflation. He also touted the fact that peace through strength has really been a hallmark of his administration and something that he very likely will talk about in Davos again today. Plus, he says that America is stronger and safer and more prospero than it had been and that the White House is the best and that at the White House, excuse me, the best is yet to come. These are some of the remarks he'll probably parrot again today during his remarks in Davos.
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President Trump (soundbite)
I think God is very proud of the job I've done, and that includes for religion. You know, we're protecting a lot of people that are being killed, Christians and Jewish people and lots of people are being protected by me that wouldn't be protected by another type of president. No, I think. I think a lot of people are very proud of the job we've done. We've had an incredible year economically. Look at our border. Our border was a disaster. People poured. It was an invasion into our country of a lot of very bad people. Good people, too, but a lot of very bad people from prisons and drug dealers and gangs and horrible people, murderers, thousands and thousands of murderers allowed into our country. And we now have the strongest border of any country.
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Terrence Bates
All right, let's bring back in Brian Brian, I believe we just heard the sound bite of the year. I think God is proud of the job I've done. I truly hope he brings that line back today. I'd like to be in the room as he says that and watch the other world leaders cringe as the president says that. But the president obviously many accomplishments that he's had over the last year and many more to come over the next three years.
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David Brody
Yeah, I agree. He just kept going and going and going and it made you realize just how busy of a year it has been. All right, Terrence, pause right there. It's time to take a quick break. We come back continue coverage right here at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Do not go anywhere. We got the president coming up later. We'll have that live for you as it happens. A few minutes. We'll come right back. All right. Good morning. Welcome back to American Sunrise. You're taking a look at what it is looked like earlier coming in from where we were staying. The traffic is pretty intense and it took us yesterday about 2 hours to go only about 0.6 miles. So you can imagine that's only going to get worse now that President Trump is on the ground. Welcome back. We are live from Davos. I want to bring in my colleagues here, Mark Serrano, Hillary Fordwich and Seth Denson joining us now to kind of roundtable this coverage going into the speech. And Seth, I'll start with you. I had a few minutes this morning to speak with Scott Bessant and it was interesting. He said wherever ICE goes, whatever community around the country, rents there typically drop 10 to 15% lower because you're taking a lot of people decreasing I guess the demand of rents? What's your take on that?
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Seth Denson
Yeah, we already have a house in crisis, Brian. And when you add what is ultimately a huge, what likely will ultimately be an illegal entering of these communities, it's going to be an additional challenge. And you have to also understand that a lot of these rents are being backed by the taxpayers. So it adds to the frustration in these already suppressed markets. So, you know, it is a challenge. My hope is we get a handle on it. Seems like the president going to do just that.
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David Brody
Yeah, I know, I know. That's been one of the things he's wanted to do is fix the affordability crisis of everything. Mark, I'll throw it out to you. Do you think President Trump is doing an adequate messaging on letting the American people know that he inherited double digit inflation on every service product in every industry and he simply have brought that down through his America first policies. But do you think he's done a fair job of getting that message out to the American people?
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Mark Serrano
Yeah. You know, Brian, it's important for people to remember that this so called affordability crisis was created by the Democrats. They opened the border, you know, they shut down our energy production. And so the President, I think, regularly reminds people that just as importantly in his messaging is he's taking action. You know, he's, you know, putting a cap on credit cards for at 10% is something he's talking about right now and talking with the credit card companies. You know, he's with Fannie and Freddie Mac, $200 billion in bonds. I mean, he is, he's taking real action that he knows is going to help the American people. This April 15th, we're going to see working men and women in America with tax returns that they didn't anticipate and maybe better than they've ever seen in their lives. They're literally going to be changing. They're withholding in the future because of the tax returns they're about to get. So look, you ain't seen nothing yet. The president is talking about it every day now. He's going to go on the road for the midterms, I think as early as February. And I think his messaging is spot on right now, Brian.
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David Brody
All right, Hillary, I'll toss this one to you. A lot of the main topic that I've heard here is in Davos is Greenland and what is the future of Greenland and what is the future in Greenland in returns to the US I'll ask you this question. What do you anticipate the message being today in regards to Greenland? But better yet, what do you think the response is going to be from all of those here in the European Union and all the nations around?
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Brian Glenn
Well, what I expect it to be and what I want it to be and what I think President Trump and the American public need and want it to be are different answers. But what I would say is that the Danish aren't able to financially, logistically, they're not able to do with Greenland what needs to be done. The Chinese and the Russians are encroaching. As, as President Trump has said, basically the Danish have two dog sleds to protect it. And that's a little facetious, but it's not inaccurate. Actually, when you look at the amount of icebreakers that the Russians have, over 72, the Danish have not been able to protect those seawaters. Now with the ice melting, what does it mean it means not only will it be tremendous trade routes, routes open for trade, but of course it opens it up to security issues. Greenland is vital in terms of US national security, but the Europeans should remember for Western security for all of Europe. And going back to the point that I made earlier about NATO, the US Basically is NATO. We have subsidized NATO. We have provided for the security of the Europeans. So for security, but also with regard to rare earth minerals for the air race, if we do not have control of Greenland, the Chinese that are extracting rare earth minerals and right now have 83% of all of the world's rare earth minerals. So they are dominating the air race. If we do not have control of Greenland, the Chinese will win the air race, which is I don't really think is good for humanity. So from a technological standpoint, but also with regard to data centers, they need to be called, they could be on Greenland. Now, as to the Greenlanders, my last point here is right now, supposedly polling was 92% of Greenlanders want to remain with Denmark. But what President Trump is basically proposing is that when we extract all those rare earth minerals, what with the jobs the Greenlanders would have, plus with the income going back into bank accounts for Greenlanders, if they were all to have over 100,000 up to maybe it's purported half a million in their bank accounts, I think they might change their minds.
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David Brody
Yeah, I agree. He they might change their mind. Seth, I'll toss this one to you. We've seen a historic stock market this past administration getting all time highs on many of the indexes. And he's saying we're the hottest country on earth right now with all the tariffs coming in there and the investment from infrastructure and businesses coming back to America. What do you see in the future of 401 s going into 2026 and 2027?
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Seth Denson
Yeah, let's take that piece by piece, Brian. So first, as you think about where the market was when the president took in the first quarter, we saw a contraction in the market largely because of what he adopted. He sp that into a 3.5% growth in Q2 and now over 4% in Q3. And we're expecting even more growth going forward. So this is the hottest economy in the world. If you think about our GDP growth versus about 1.8 is what we're seeing across the EU, this is the right place to be. We're seeing foreign investment dollars come in. I oftentimes will say that money is mobile. It's going to go where it's going to have babies. And foreign investors are putting that money here in the US now as it relates to the housing in the first part of that.
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David Brody (casual commentary)
Right.
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Seth Denson
The President is looking out of the box, as he does consistently, at new ways to get Americans access to their Money. Accessing a 401k to get a down payment, excited to see what the details are on that, without penalty, could provide access to what is the fastest and clearest way of wealth creation in the United States, and that is homeownership.
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David Brody
Yeah, I agree. And if you take a look at the Trump accounts, these new accounts that for people wanting to start a family and the fact that they can have people invest and the government, you know, giving you, I think it's $1,000 to start off with. And if you keep that in the market over the long term, and the compound interest that it gets, I mean, you're setting, you're providing generational wealth for a lot of people that might not have had that opportunity before that.
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Seth Denson
No, that's absolutely right. Again, as you think about what the stock market does as the President has come in, combined with what the supermarket has done, let's make sure that we're talking about both of those things because we're not seeing rampant inflation at the rate that it was, it has come back down. So Americans dollars are going further. Energy prices, a barrel of energy is 20% less than it was when this president took office. So when you start to combine all these into an economic stew, it starts to taste pretty good. And we're only one year in. As my friend Mark said earlier, I'm excited to see what the next three years bring.
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David Brody
Yeah, I'm excited as well. Real quick, we've got two minutes left. Hillary, I'll come to you real quickly. I was talking to some locals here and I said, hey, what's some of the biggest challenges that surround not only Switzerland, but some of these other countries in the Netherlands? They said immigration, that their country allowed just millions of people as well to flood into their countries. What are you hearing as far as some of the key concerns of a lot of the European nations right now in terms of immigration?
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Brian Glenn
Well, actually, thank you for asking. I can speak to this very directly. I used to head global Business development for KPMG Worldwide, based in Amsterdam. I lived in Amsterdam for three years, was married to a Dutchman, So I speak some sort of elementary Dutch, but I do really understand the Dutch mentality. And being from England originally, I mean, it is not, not the continent that it used to be. Europe is not England is not the Great British Isles are not the immigration policy. It is absolutely ludicrous. They are not seeking asylum. We don't know some dreadful war absolute anywhere and they are fighting age men. It's very, very similar. And that's why you actually have to look at is this a global movement? It's very similar to what has happened in our southern border here in the US Basically these are migrants in the UK you have these in quote, small boats arriving, they're given free housing, they're given free hotels for six months, free food for six months. And now with regard to your specifically your question with regard to the Dutch, I think that you're seeing European cultures eliminated. And when President Trump said Europe won't be there in over a decade, it is absolutely true culturally. So you're seeing people really resent these migrants coming to the countries for their free benefits, for their free housing. Now the European country that was the most open, that took the most amount of migrants was Sweden. And their crime rate rocketed to over I think it was 403% of rapes, burglaries and now the Swedish have clamped down. And I predict you're going to see that same kind of clamping down in other countries such as as you asked Holland, because the Dutch are being overwhelmed by this due to their very liberal, very generous welfare benefit program.
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David Brody
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Mark Serrano
Brian, there's a striking contrast in policy innovation between Donald Trump and the World Economic Forum. Think about the things that have come out of the WEF in recent years from net carbon zero by 2030, you know, own nothing and be happy about it, where the populations of the world would just rent everything and they won't own anything, eating bugs and crickets for protein sources instead of what can be provided by the American farmer. And then there's Donald Trump on the other side where he has dropped taxes, dropped regulations. He's coming up with innovations like tapping into your 401k as we talked about a moment ago, for the down payment on your first home so we can create accessibility for young homeowners. Policy innovation is striking from Donald Trump like never. We've never seen policy innovation from a president like this. And look at that striking contrast. He's showing up today and he's saying America is the hottest country on earth and all these fools sitting in the audience are going to be sitting there and thinking, I just don't even relate to this guy. And, you know, here's something really funny. He was talking yesterday about how God would be proud of him. You know, there's another great irony. Most of the people in the audience today are godless. They believe government is our God. They don't believe our freedoms come originally from God. So another great irony today. But policy innovation to me is the greatest contrast.
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David Brody
You know, Terrence, he brought up a good point, and I heard your reaction to that. We've often said that sometimes the left is so depressed because they don't really believe in anything. They believe that the government should extend them the rights. They don't have, really a faith in a higher power. And I feel like Republicans, conservatives for the most part, have a little bit more of an optimistic view of the world that we know our rights come from God, not from our government, therefore we're willing to push back on the government rather than giving the government complete control over our lives. Absolutely.
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Terrence Bates
Brian, you may remember at the top of the show, I played that soundbite from President Trump yesterday saying that he thought that God is proud of the work he's done. And I said to you specifically, I hope he parrots that again today, that he says that again today so that I can watch all the people in the audience cringe because of exactly what Mark just said. There are people who think that the government is God and they don't necessarily believe in a higher power. So I'm all in that. Hillary, good morning to you, by the way. We've never met. So to Terrence Bates here, Nice to meet you. I'd like to ask you this question because I was thinking earlier and listening to Scott Besant speaking, saying that on the issue of Greenland, he is encouraging the Europeans to just sit back, relax a little bit and listen to what President Trump has to say on the issue today that he believes they will be convinced. Do you believe that the president will be able to convince Europeans on the issue of Greenland in the US Having control of that? And what might the president need to say to ease some of these European fears, if they, in fact, are fear years?
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Brian Glenn
Well, I certainly hope he can convince them. Thank you for making me so welcome. By the way, today, a few things here. Don't forget there are nations that have not been able to do what they're supposed to do. They have not provided their funding that they're supposed to do for the, for NATO. They did not pay their 2%. And I'll just name a couple like France, like Germany, of course, the UK Estonia, Poland did. So they haven't paid for their own defense. So Donald Trump has. President Trump has a very good point that the US Taxpayer has subsidized and provided for their security. So really, it's almost like a back. Oh, and no one's ever called them over the coals and actually expected them to do what they were supposed to do years ago and they should do now. That's number one. Secondly, don't forget, if Denmark was able to protect Greenland, they would have done so. To date, they haven't been able to. The Chinese are making incursions there. So are the Russians. They don't have the number of icebreakers. They simply don't have the budget to do what is necessary. And Greenland is in our hemisphere. And don't Forget since the 1950s, we have had access to a military base there. So we've already been operating with them. And it's safer for the actual Greenlanders to have our protection, better for jobs, better economically. And last but not least, the rare earth minerals really important. And I so now to answer the second part of your question, the last part of this is I hope that President Trump will emphasize the soundbite that came out of Speaker Johnson, speaker speech to Parliament, which was America first does not mean America alone. What does that mean? If we partner with Europe, we can then ease easily. We can then address our adversaries, China and Russia, that are trying to dominate. We need to be united. It's in the best interest of the entire west for security and for the rare earth minerals, for the AI race, unless we want China to dominate. And I don't think any Western European country could really raise their hand and say, no, we want the Chinese or Russian domination, even though they were silly enough, all the Europeans to keep purchasing all of the Russia obviously subsidizing the war in Ukraine by purchasing Russian oil. They've been silly enough to do that. Let's hope they come to their senses. And President Trump emphasizes safety, security and prosperity.
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David Brody
Mark, let's shift our attention domestically now, if we can, on all the events going on in Minnesota in regards to the ICE and all the protests. How do you think this plays out in the midterms in 2026 this year? Does it play in favor of the Republicans or do Americans sympathize with some of these protesters and perhaps switch their vote to a Democrat vote? I don't think that's possible, but I'm curious to see your take on that. How is all this that's going down in Minnesota affect the midterms?
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Mark Serrano
Brian, I've always said that you can count on the left to do one thing, always, which is to overreach. They always overreach. Look what they did with the Biden administration, opening our borders, basically reducing crime, sentencing so that our, our communities have become less safe. The left is overreaching. They showed it in Minneapolis the other day when they decided to invade this church right in the middle of service and disrupt a church service. We've that's never happened before. We have never seen on video in history leftist protesters invading a church service. That's crazy. And I think the American people look at that and they think, you know, that's not my America. I don't relate to that. I would never do something like that. What are these people thinking? That they would invade someone's church service? That's a. A sacred place. That's a sanctuary that they've just invaded. So, as it relates to what's happening in the streets of Minneapolis and some of these other cities, Brian, I think it favors Republicans in the midterms. People are sick and tired of their communities being unstable, of illegal immigrants coming into their communities. Remember, you go back to Barack Obama and we had this crisis on the border. We had children coming across the border back then in 2014. What did they do? The Obama administration basically reassigned these illegal immigrants into communities across America. In one county in Virginia where I reside, there were 256 children that were put in foster homes in our public schools back in 2014. Where are those people today? This is what the American people are going to reject in the midterms this year. They're going to see their paychecks improving. They're going to see their neighborhood safer. And ultimately, I believe they will agree with the approach of this administration to flushing these illegal immigrants, rapists, murderers, and other criminals out of our communities.
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David Brody
Yeah, Terrence, I'll ask you the same question. Those protesters walked in your church, I would imagine, like my church, we would pray for them, but then we would probably make sure that they were peacefully escorted out of the church. Terrence, your thoughts on people invading and disrupting service there in Minnesota?
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Terrence Bates
Well, my thoughts are that, Brian, you're a much better man than me and that I need some prayer, because would they do that in my church? We would all need Jesus. I'll just put it that way. I'm not quite as diplomatic. I think there's a time and a place for everything. And I've said this before, decorum. I'm all for the First Amendment. And if you decide that you want, as a protester, to demonstrate, fine. Do it outside, not inside a sanctuary. The word sanctuary, like that. That is such a great word, because a sanctuary should be a place of peace and a place of refuge. And to invade, that, to me, speaks to decorum. And it's just something that is out of bounds in my mind. But that's just me. Pray for me. I'm trying to become a better human being. Hillary, I would like to get your perspective, though, on what's happening here in the United States, in Minneapolis, from the point of how does the rest of the world see this. Obviously, social media has exploded, videos of arrests and videos of protests here in the United States. How is the rest of the world, particularly the European world, seeing what's happening here in the United States? And does it diminish, if you will, some of the luster that the United States has?
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Brian Glenn
Well, a great question. I will actually answer that very specifically. I'm actually on GB News regularly. That's Great Britain News. That's not the BBC. The BBC is of course, the Brit bashing corporation that lied about President Trump and, you know, put together some phony footage to make him look worse than he was. So GB News, the Late show live on Saturday nights, every Saturday night I'm on. And we have covered on GB News extensively and it's the number one watch show in the uk we have covered what's going on in Minnesota extensively because of the alignment and how similar it is to the basically small boats invasion with the migrants in the uk. So I, I can't speak for an entire nation of the uk, I can't speak for anybody else. But what I will say is in terms of the media take of it, you're seeing, just like you do in the us you're seeing it down party lines. The world is very polarized. Of course, the left looks at it as, oh dear, you know, oh, this is so terrible to round up these people like this. I need to remind them that Obama was, was referred to as the deporter in chief when President Obama and this was a good thing that he did, and President Clinton when they were rounding up illegals and when they were deporting them. In fact, it was President Obama who actually built those in quotes, cages to retain families. And we didn't hear the left screaming about it then. And last but not least, with regard to Don Lamont, I have my run in with him when he actually ambushed me around the the Queen's funeral. With regard to a specific subject, I don't think that he was randomly. Don Lamont was not randomly in church in Minnesota. This is all very planned, very strategic. And you've heard ICE agents say you see the same people shipped in all across this nation.
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David Brody
There you go, Hillary.
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Terrence Bates
I'm glad you made them sound much nicer than it really is. Don the morning, he's just Don Lemon.
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David Brody
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David Brody (casual commentary)
Hey, Brian, great to see you there. A couple of things. First of all, on a transportation situation here, I would love to take a helicopter from Zurich to Davos. But this just in, I'm not president of the United States, so I'll be taking an Uber, Wamp, wamp. And it'd be a very expensive Uber at that in terms of what I.
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David Brody
Expect to hear today.
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David Brody (casual commentary)
Is that right? 600 francs probably. So, yeah, that's a lot of macarons, if you will. All right, so a couple of things. First of all, what I want to hear from President Trump, I want to hear the word America a lot, and I know he's going to say it, so that's good. I don't really want to hear the phrase world peace. World peace, world peace. Listen, you want to throw one in for the Klaus Schwab crowd, do it for a second and then move on. That's what I hope we hear. How is he going to fuse America first, the MAGA movement into what he's trying to do in the Western Hemisphere? I want to hear that.
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David Brody
Yep. All right, David, thank you. We'll see you on the other side of the show. Coming up, President Trump's address. Stick it right here at Merle America's Voice. Thank you for joining us. We'll see you in a few.
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Mark Serrano
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Brian Glenn
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