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Brian Glenn
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Damon (Real America's Voice Host)
And it is live from Studio 6B, Real America's Voice on a Wednesday night, December 17th, 8pm on the East Coast. Glad you're in, everybody. Real America's Voice all across the country on what's gonna be a jam packed Wednesday night, a big Wednesday night. The boys are all here. Slick's here, Rick Delgado, Paul Nolan, all in the house. Aaron and Fran holding it down as always. President Trump to address the Nation Tonight at 9pm we will take you all the way right up until the beginning, obviously, coverage of the right through the speech from the beginning to the end. Steve Bannon will join us here in hour one. Plus, we have the A team on the ground. Let me welcome them all in. Brian Glenn is at the White House. David Zier is at the Capitol. John Solomon in our D.C. studios. CEO Mark Serrano joins us as well. Gentlemen, welcome in. Great to have you all with us here on what's going to be a very big night. And let me start with Brian Glenn, Brian, live at the White House. Brian, let's start here. Speaking of what a big night this is going to be, let's talk about the timing of this. What is the word that you've been hearing on what, what brought this on so suddenly for a lot of us? We saw the president first talk about this yesterday. What's the word on the timing and why this is happening tonight?
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Brian Glenn
Well, good evening, everybody. I think it's on the heels of the last economic rally he did in the Pocono Valley just last week, talking about the economy, talking about inflation and all the economic numbers and all the good things that President Trump is able to do in this first term. Now, remember, he inherited double digit inflation numbers from Joe Biden. So he's been able to reverse a lot of that. But I think he's feeling a little bit of empathy for many Americans that are still suffering. And I think this message tonight is going to reassure Americans that he has the economic plan going forward in 2026 and also think it's a little bit of positioning for the midterms and maybe set some precedents of what Americans can can look forward to. But I think off the heels of that rally last week, I think this is good timing for that. And then going into the holiday season with, with good economic news, we had amaz sales totals, probably record high totals On Black Friday, we'll see what the holiday sales look like. So I think it's trying to set an economic tone, that things aren't as bad as the media would like you to think and that Trump's policies moving forward are better days ahead for America.
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Damon (Real America's Voice Host)
Yeah. What's interesting when you think about tonight, at least for me, as I started to think about it, is I was wondering today, thinking about, well, first of all, we heard a lot today that this might be about Venezuela tonight, that we might be going to war. There's been a whole lot of speculation on what's going to happen. But if it is, as you say, just a straight here's what we've done and here's yet to come, I'm wondering, do you think the old kind of, hey, we're the best. We've never seen 10 months like this, 18 trillion in investments. Do you think all of that works tonight or does the president have to walk maybe a little finer line and not come across as kind of force feeding the same thing over and over when Americans still see costs too expensive? Still, some of the things you've been talking about, homes, affordability, that stuff does that old kind of like we're the best, look what we've done, all this great stuff and everything is rosy and don't worry about it. Does that work tonight or do you think he takes a different tone?
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Brian Glenn
I think he takes a different tone. At least I hope he takes a different tone because I don't want to hear rally Trump, I don't want to hear campaign rally Trump talking about how great everything, all the trillions of dollars and investments coming in the U.S. that is great. And that will work out maybe a year, two years from now. I want him to really talk to the American people that are sitting around that dinner table right now or sitting on the couch watching that are truly feeling the effects of the Joe Biden economy that they're still that he inherited. So I'm hoping that he's able to show a little bit of emotion and a little bit empathy towards what they're feeling and not just top line it with Wall street, hottest stock market, all of that. That's what I want to hear less of that and real talk to the American people about how he's going to make their life better.
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Damon (Real America's Voice Host)
Coming up next year, Brian's going to stick with us here for a second. Let me bring in David Zier. David Zier is at the Capitol. Mr. Zier, welcome back to the show. And give me, give me some set to Kind of set the table. From what you're hearing there, kind of what we just touched on with Brian, what would you like and what do you expect to hear from the President tonight?
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David Zier
Yeah, it's been a busy few weeks here down at the Pentagon. One thing I'd like him to address is the new attitude in the Pentagon. Getting things done in Trump time. The Navy capabilities office, getting weapons systems to the marketplace in partnership with the private sector like Palantir for ship os shipbuilding. We used to spit out a ship every 42 days. I wish he would touch on that because that's really important, help restore pride in America and address real time war threats. But I think threats, but I think the people are hurting on the ground. I'm in business a long time. Everyone I talk to in small business is hurting. Their overhead, their insurance, their taxes from local and state government, everything. So people aren't going to realize the no tax on tips, the interest on the cars that they're going to save and the child savings account, you know, for another year or so. So he's got to explain that he inherited this mess and he's got to walk that line and not paint. Everything is so rosy yet. But I think it's coming. I think a boom is coming.
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Damon (Real America's Voice Host)
Let me bring in John Solomon and Mark Serrano. And John, welcome back to the show as always, a pleasure to have you on. And obviously you've heard what Brian and a little bit of what David said there. And do you believe this is a straight State of the Union kind of state of the year speech tonight? And getting back to my question to Brian, do you think the president has to walk a little bit of a different line tonight with not only acknowledging the great stuff they've done, which is there, but, but kind of saying, yes, we hear you, I hear you. Affordability, things are gonna, we're gonna get much more aggressive in 26 and here's how we're gonna do it. What do you expect to hear tonight?
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John Solomon
I got a chance to look at the speech a little bit and it's in three blocks. Block one is, hey, let's remember what Joe Biden left us. Block two is, let's go through what we did for you this year. The big beautiful bill, the Trump accounts for children, that are the savings accounts that follow you for life. The eight peace deals, the secure border, the crackdown on crime. So go through all of those extraordinary things and then he'll transition and that third transition will say, listen, sometimes the statistics look better than what it feels like at the dinner table. It takes time for the things that we're doing to trickle down to the dinner table and the water cooler and the small business companies. But that's coming in 26. But I'm not resting. I don't feel like I'm going to be happy until you're happy. So here's what I'm going to do in 2026. And he's going to lay out a very ambitious agenda, how he's going to make a housing boom, an affordable housing boom in America, how he's going to fix health care from Obamacare. And by the way, tonight, just hours before his speech, the House passed it, the first credible Republican alternative to Obamacare in a very long time. That's big on the Senate side. Just an hour before the House passed out, they broke a logjam. They're going to be able to get that second omnibus bill, that second big beautiful bill through pretty soon, either just before or just after Christmas. So the president has some momentum to do big things in 2026. The last part of the speech will be a prescription of what he's going to do next. It'll be informed by the fact that everything he said in 24, he's pretty much done. Check that list. He's going to go down the list, but he'll acknowledge it doesn't feel that way yet on the dining room table. It will come next year. But in the meantime, here's what I'm going to do to make sure that we overachieve for youth so things are more affordable, your business is more stable, the world is more peaceful. And he'll kind of go through those things in a, in a very big way. And I think it'll be an uplifting speech towards the end. It'll start with Joe Biden created a mess. It'll be the middle part. Here's how I fixed it so far. Here's what you're going to get from those fixes next year. And then the back end of the speech will be about the an agenda for 26. And in many ways, that is a State of the Union format.
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Damon (Real America's Voice Host)
Yeah, absolutely. Mark Serrano, let me bring you in here. You hear John talk about it. No one knows the optics of all this more than you. And President Trump obviously likes to speak directly to the American people. He says what he feels, not all about being scripted so much all the time. But what, what do you expect tonight? Do you feel the president will be a little more scripted, a little more direct, a little more reserved than what we normally See, maybe not as he describes what they inherited, but maybe as he looks forward. What do you expect to hear?
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Mark Serrano
Yeah, look, I think the president's going to rightly brag about his accomplishments thus far in record time. And this is going to be a victory lap with a purpose. And believe me, I think it's all about the midterm elections. This speech tonight. Look, he, I think he's going to make the point, as John is indicating, he's going to make the point that opening the border is easy, shutting down energy production in the US Is easy. Turning those things around so they have a positive effect on families and neighborhoods in America. We are making progress and we're going to achieve our goals that the people sent Donald Trump to Washington to achieve. And look, I think the most important thing is this to me is a kickoff for 2026. They have pledged from the White House for the president to hit the road just like he did in the Poconos last week. He has got to hit the road. He's got to deliver economic speeches almost every single week. We have not seen rallies this year. He's got to get out there because ultimately, how do we win the midterms? We've got to motivate MAGA voters to turn out, which they didn't do this this last November, last month. But look, I believe he's going to have a rally cry that says we are achieving our goals. He's going to talk microeconomics, the things that affect Americans, for instance, the relief they're going to feel the around tax return time in April when no tax on tips, no tax on Social Security, no tax and overtime is felt because it applies to 2025 tax year.
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Damon (Real America's Voice Host)
Rick Delgado. Mark, while we have you as a question, and really, all four gentlemen can answer this if you want. Go ahead, Rick.
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Rick Delgado
Yeah, Mark, real quick, because you touched on again, you're touching upon the economy stuff, which again, a lot of people are making, you know, making a point of saying, well, we're not feeling it yet. And I feel like what you just mentioned there, the stuff that is coming up, how does he sell that to say, look, it's only a few months away here when you're going to start seeing the results of some of these policies, some of these things that we put in place and to just kind of, I don't know, lack of a better way, tell them to kind of relax and just let this thing happen because it's not going to happen overnight. We didn't see the inflation spike up overnight. It took about A year for Biden to really kill the economy with 9% inflation. How do you think he sells that and how do you think that's going to be received?
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Mark Serrano
Yeah, great, great question, Rick. I think it's going to just have to be really relatable. I think the President is going to have to remind people that, look, we were all stuck. You brought me back to Washington because it was so damaged and destroyed by Joe Biden and the Democrats and their leftist agenda. And we are absolutely making progress. But I understand the damage they did that I have to fix and clean up. So I think he's going make it very relatable. He's going to talk to them about the things that impact them. He's going to remind them that the jobs that have been created so far have gone to American citizens, whereas before this year they weren't. They were going to illegal aliens and others from outside the country. So those jobs are going to Americans now. Paychecks are gradually improving. And he's just going to have to convince people. And I know he'll be very persuasive. He understands what they're going through and he's already seeing effects and they're gonna feel it very soon.
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Rick Delgado
Yeah. And Mark, I hope he makes the point of presenting it like. Like he did that speech in the South Bronx where he got really relatable with people and kind of did it pop tone message.
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Damon (Real America's Voice Host)
Yeah.
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Mark Serrano
He said, look, he's gonna be able to relate to people on what unites us. What unites us is not only our individual liberties, but economic freedom. He's gonna restore our economic freedom. There's no other alternative. He's doing it now. He's gonna make some points about their paychecks that are coming down. And I think that's going to give everybody a lot of comfort and a good vision.
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Damon (Real America's Voice Host)
Looking ahead. All right, we're just getting started on a Wednesday night real America's Voice, live from Studio 6B coverage of the President's address to the nation. John Solomon, David Zier, Mark Serrano, Ryan Glenn live at the White House. We'll keep them all through the break. We've got a lot more questions as we set up the President live at 9 o' clock as he addresses the nation. Right here. Real American's Voice coverage. Wall to wall. We're back, right?
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Damon (Real America's Voice Host)
All right. 17 Real America's Voice on a Wednesday night, December 17th, as the President of the United States, Donald John Trump will address the nation tonight and we're hearing it will be some sort of a kind of a State of the Year, State of the Union, mini State of the union. Think of it as where he will address obviously what they walked into, what they've done, and maybe most importantly, what's to come and how they see it and maybe some of the big vision ideas that the President wants to tackle. He has talked a lot about a lot of stuff over the last couple months at some of these questions and he, he kind of comes out with things off the cuff about income tax and getting rid of and there's a lot of stuff we've heard. Maybe tonight we'll really nail down some of the big vision things of how he wants to continue to push this economy forward. Obviously we see unemployment on the rise. We see, you know, there's, there are some warning signs out there. So he's got a lot to address. Housing is certainly one of the things he could address. Paul Nolan has a question. Let's go to David Zier who's at the Capitol. Paul, take it away.
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Paul Nolan
What is going on? David, I know you're in the real estate. I'm good, brother. I, I know you're in the real estate world, as am I. You know, buy homes, I flip them, I do construction, you know, with all the removal of these illegal aliens and opening up the low end first time home buyer market. Do you think there's a chance that Trump is aware or is somewhat interested in going after the big monster of blackrock and all of the small single family homes that they're buying up and then playing around with comps and kind of changing the market a little bit? Do you think there's any chance he's aware of it, let alone would address it somewhere along the way?
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David Zier
He may be Paul, but we have bigger problems. I'm in home building for almost four decades, decades. And you know, people can't buy homes, young people can't buy homes. You know, average price of a home here in Long island, you know, back where you guys are 7, $800,000 and it's really tough and interest rate drops have not gone down quick enough. And I know it's out of Trump's hands with the Fed and everything, but you know, a 5% mortgage is still really high. Five and a half is still very high for people. It needs to be at 4% for the economy to grow.
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John Solomon
Right.
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David Zier
And for people to be able to buy houses. Because remember, all these local property taxes are like 10, 20 grand on houses. When you buy a house in that price range, it's very hard. I have two kids in their 30s, can't buy a home yet, stuck in New York City paying four or five thousand dollars a month. And that's what's attracting the Gen Z ers to the DSA and the Mamdani types because they don't understand capitalism and the free market and all the regulation and all the stuff that that's made it like this. But Trump has to talk directly to those DSA candidates, those kids like you spoke to the Turning Point bunch. Because I'm really worried that we're going to lose the midterms.
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Paul Nolan
Yeah, I'm with you on that. I do feel like, you know, this is why the populism of this socialist movement of the kids, because they feel like they're helpless. I believe you're right. I mean, you know, you say that interest rates should be around four and four and a half is the sweet spot for me as well, where money is not completely no value, but it's still much more affordable to get. Buying money right now is just, it's so difficult. I am concerned though about some of the manipulation through the big giant mega corporations like BlackRock. I hope he addresses that. They're buying up a lot of single family homes. I've lost two to these big hedge funds that are essentially owned, you know, by BlackRock.
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Damon (Real America's Voice Host)
All right, David Zier, stay right there. We'll get back. Well, go ahead, David, if you want to answer that.
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David Zier
Sure, but I just wanted to add 5 trillion in debt in the commercial markets. 50% may go belly up in 2026 because they can't refi at 5 and 6% on commercial refi.
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Paul Nolan
Yeah, yeah, yeah, good point.
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Damon (Real America's Voice Host)
All right, David Zier is at the Capitol. We'll get back to him. Let me bring Brian Glenn back in live at the White House and our own John Solomon in our DC Studio. And guys, and Brian, I'll start with you. And I don't know that the president is going to address any of this extracurricular stuff we're talking about. It may just be about affordability and people's pocketbooks and that would not be a terrible idea to just keep it. But when people watch the president and they start to think about what he's done, maybe what he hasn't done, what they're happy with, maybe what they're not happy with. One of the things, obviously the big things that was really promised was reform at the FBI. And you know, you think back on the kind of the accountability agenda, the deconstruction of the deep state parents who were targeted. Covid, all of that you can go back to. We had our guys coming in Here. And today we find out that Dan Bongino is leaving, effective in January and put that out, announcement out today. The broader problem of kind of weaponization and crime and tyranny and the targeting and any payback for any of this. Now with Dan leaving, do you, do you, do you think we hear anything about that tonight?
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Brian Glenn
Is that for me or John?
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Damon (Real America's Voice Host)
I'm sorry, you sorry, yeah, Brian, that's. You could, you can take it first, Brian.
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Brian Glenn
Okay. Okay.
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Damon (Real America's Voice Host)
Yeah, I think I, John says, checking his head. No, John, I don't think so. Yeah, and I can't see John, but.
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Brian Glenn
I agree with John on this. Yeah, go ahead, John.
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John Solomon
Yeah, no, I, listen, Brian's got this right. He's focused on what matters at the dinner table for people who are in the middle and settle elections. The working class, the middle class. And this is an issue that resonates with the base. But most Americans have seen the FBI the last year like, hey, they solved Charlie Kirk's case in 33 hours. They're taking the, the drug gangs off the street, they're solving murders, they're stopping terror attacks, they stopped four or five school shootings. They don't see a problem with the FBI. And I don't think the President will address that tonight. It certainly was in the earlier version of a speech I saw that he's tinkering with it in the last couple hours, so who knows what could come with that. But I do think that what you're going to hear are kitchen table and water cooler issues. And I think that that's going to be important. Everyone was talking about housing. I think he's going to, I think he's going to surprise some people. And I'm going to mention something. It's a very small story, but I think it's a big tip to where the President is going. The President's chief housing economic adviser is leaving the White House. You know where he's going? He's going to Boxable, the young company that's trying to change home building from stick and mortar six, seven month projects to factory built luxury homes that can be set up on your property in a week or two. And I think that that is a clue that President Trump is going to innovate and disrupt the real estate industry and maybe create a World War II like housing housing burn. Remember the GI Bill created one of the greatest housing causing booms in America. I think you might hear things like that tonight. Much more than his normal grievances about a weaponized FBI.
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Damon (Real America's Voice Host)
A couple other things, John and Brian I want to get your take on it, too. Do you does he have to address not that he has to address, but how does he talk about all of this, John, without talking about, does he have to talk about personnel? Does he have to talk about Mike Johnson? Does he have to talk about John Thune who seems to be slow walking a lot of things? And does he have to talk about any personnel tonight when he's talking about maybe things that have not gotten done yet or moving forward? Does he have to talk about his own people at all tonight?
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John Solomon
I think Susie Wiles took care of that firm in the Vanity Fair article. He doesn't have to know that. Anyway. Now I think, listen, at the end of the day, he had a good day with those personnel, right? The House got the Obamacare alternative through. The Senate finally broke, broke its logjam on the minibus, which is going to be the second big beautiful bill. I think, you know, he has a way of prodding when he's frustrated and congratulating when there's some momentum to build momentum. I don't think he'll have a lot of attacks on Congress. I think he's going to be focused more on really big ideas. If you go back to the town halls he did in the last half of 2024, where he laid out his agenda, where he literally out of the blue said no tax on tips and then oh, no tax on Social Security and then oh, no tax on your car interest, his aides didn't even know those things were coming. I actually think tonight he's going to have a bunch of those things in his speech about unexpected agenda items that could make that resonated dinner table and could make America more affordable again.
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Damon (Real America's Voice Host)
Yeah, Brian, go ahead. What did you think about what John just said?
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Brian Glenn
Yeah, I 100% agree. I also think he's going to talk about small business optimism and we've seen what analysts are calling a Santa rally, building up to a potential Santa rally going up to Christmas. And as far as the market and the optimism it has in that as far as any kind of rate cut that could be happening next year. But I do see that he will talk about maybe small business and how he's going to make it a little bit, you know, more advantage for small business owners to make it in this world. And you know, you're going to find the media will pick any small business that's closing up their shop. They're going to blame it on President Trump for whatever reason why they're actually closing. They're going to blame it on President Trump and his policies and down economy and all that stuff. We got to get past that. But I agree with John. I think he's going to really talk to the American family at the kitchen table. Not necessarily the Wall street people, but the people on Main Street.
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Damon (Real America's Voice Host)
All right, very good. And all of that would lead, leads to the idea of whether we hear about, maybe not directly about a new Fed chairman, we know one's coming, whether that's part of the president's speech tonight, maybe a nod towards a new Fed chairman on its way. All right, President Trump will address the nation at 9 o'. Clock. We'll take you right to it. Steve Bannon will join us here in the last half of the hour. We're back on Real America's Voice right.
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Damon (Real America's Voice Host)
All right. 30 minutes past the hour. Live from Studio 6B, Real America's Voice on a Wednesday night. President Trump addresses The Nation at 9pm we're working our way towards that. Steve Bannon will join us in a little bit. We'll get his thoughts on what to expect and he'll take the reins and take us right up to President Trump's speech. John Solomon has been with us, the great Mark Serrano, David Zier, Brian Glenn at the White House. David Zier is at the Capitol. We're going to let David go. But David, I want to just give you a last, a last word here on either president's speech tonight or what you've been working on at the Pentagon and everything that's going on. I'll give you the last word here.
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David Zier
Yeah, really quick, Damon. So much going on at Pentagon. I pressed Under Secretary Anthony Tater a few weeks ago. He's the head of readiness and personnel about restoring the 8,700 troops, you know, reinstatement or back benefits for people who refused the vax. And two nights ago, Sean Parnell, the White House, the Pentagon chief spokesman, released a statement saying they are reviewing every single file. So it's another one of Trump's promises that are being kept. And I think it's important that Trump may just touch on that tonight, you know, to promises made, promises kept type of stuff. But this Navy new rapid capabilities on office will be spitting out ships, defense systems. It goes in line with Trump's executive order for defense acquisitions that was codified. When the NDA goes in and in concert with the Pentagon and the attitude down there is really great. And I just wanted to close by saying, Damon, I'm worried because the Cook political report has plus 4 to the Dems for Congress right now. And I talk to small business owners every day and at restaurants in the New York area, a lot of them are down. Hairstylists are down. They're not getting. But I know next year that Conor is going to take off like a rocket ship with the no tax on tips and these other things. Right. But I think it's really important that Trump doesn't tell people things are great and they're you know, really great right now, you know, because they're not. And it's compounded from 9% to 2% inflation. But price is still going up $4 a half iceberg lettuce in my neighborhood yesterday. That's all I got to say.
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Damon (Real America's Voice Host)
All right. David Zier, great work as always. Enjoy the president's speech and maybe we'll see on the other side of that. David Zier live at the Capitol.
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David Zier
Thank you.
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Damon (Real America's Voice Host)
We'll bring the great John Solomon, of course, from just the news. You see him on Real America's Voice each and every night. Six o', clock, we'll bring him back in. Rick Delgado has a question on security for Mr. Solomon. Rick, take it away. Yeah.
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Rick Delgado
John, again, thank you for joining us tonight. And I know, we know we're going to keep you busy, but let me ask you about security because we know we've seen, you know, just before Thanksgiving, the day before, we saw the two National Guardsmen shot, shot one of them killed. We saw what just happened over the weekend, Brown University, Australia, you know, violence up and down the coast or all over the world, I should say. And you know, is the president going to touch upon this? Because I feel like this is something that, you know, a lot of people are nervous about, especially with the holidays really just almost upon us here. I know a lot of people are kind of, you know, walking around with their heads on a swivel.
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John Solomon
Yeah. Well, listen, just think about the thing we thwarted this week, the FBI thwarting attack by liberal anarchists to bomb several sites in the Los Angeles areas on New Year's Eve. The you have this interesting moment in history where you've got liberal anarchists, Islamists, Palestinian activists and others all kind of trying to foment violence across the world and on our soil. And it does create a higher threat level than we've seen and a different type of enemy than we've seen. We're not talking about al Qaeda as much as we're talking about ISIS inspired homegrown terrorists and liberal anarchists like those who attacked ICE in Dallas. So I think there is an extraordinary sort of moment I think the president will address that he's made the world safer, he's made the US Safer, but that we need to be on our best alert because we're really in a war right now. I expect the president might mention that we ought to consider ourselves in a war, that there's a war against Western civilization and against America and it can rear its head at any moment. So we're always going to be on guard. We're going to try to stop the attacks. But you will hear a little bit of that. And that war was aided, I think he'll argue, by Joe Biden's open borders and the lack of Afghan refugee vetting that brought people who may now be dangerous in our country. We've got an interview tomorrow with Seb Gorka. He's going to make your head swivel when you hear some of the things that he's been dealing with and what he believes got into this country while we were under Joe Biden's authority.
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Damon (Real America's Voice Host)
You know, John, when I listened to you, I don't know, maybe this is making it too simple, but I feel like I'm hearing you say that the president tonight thinking about going into the midterms. His job is to kind of come out and he may break some new ground, like you said. But he's going to really make the case of the kind of us versus them, why what we're doing is a better way. Maybe it's not in full effect yet, but it's going to be next year. We're laying the groundwork. But just remember the us versus them story. Why the Republicans vision for you in your life is a better one. Is that too simple or is that how you see it?
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John Solomon
No, I think you're onto a tagline that he'll probably use in the course of the next weeks and maybe even tonight. You can't afford to put Democrats back in control. You can't afford to put Democrats in control. If you don't believe me, ask the small business owners in New York who live under New York laws. They are suffering just like David Zier just reported. Go down to Texas or Florida or South Carolina or even Wisconsin. Those small business owners are far more optimistic because the thumb of local government isn't as oppressive and they're feeling the true effects of Donald Trump's economy. I think he'll talk about this, if not tonight, over the next few weeks, he'll say, hey, blue states are killing the American housing dream because they have these insane regulations. You got thousands of Californians who can't rebuild their homes after the Palestinians fire on the land they own because of that insanity. So he's going to attack the local regulatory regime, the Democrat mindset. He'll do a little of that tonight. But I think over the next few weeks, going into the beginning of next year, he's going to show how Democrats were the friends of rich insurance executives who are never popular in America, the friends of big developers who like expensive regulations, the friends of big banks who like to keep interest rates high because they make more money. And I think he'll be portraying the Democrats as the corporate welfare party. What a change 20 years has made.
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Damon (Real America's Voice Host)
Let's bring Mark Serrano back in. He's with us as well. And Mark, what I just asked, John, I'd like to hear your comments on the kind of president tonight making the us versus them argument as we head into the midterms. You know, he said something the other day, which of course we all know when Trump's name is not on the ballot, we know we have a problem turning people out. And he said something to the effect in one of these briefings he did that. We're going to try to change that and get his name out there. I mean, we do suspect that he will be probably more involved in the midterms and be obviously a central focus than maybe some other presidents in their final three years going into their last midterm would be. He's going to really have to be, isn't he, Mark?
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Mark Serrano
Yeah, he's going to have to really rally the coalition. Think of the coalition that Donald Trump put together in November of 2024 with Democrats coming on board and a real cross section of Americans. That's what he has to rally again. But he can't wait until primaries in May or June. He's going to have to hit the road running in January and it's going to be to appeal to the MAGA base to turnout and that cross section of Democrats as well. But, you know, the truth is, I think if the president tonight, one way that he could really touch people right in their pocketbook, right at their kitchen table, is to go back to recent history. One of the first things that Joe Biden did when he illicitly entered office was to shut down our energy production in the U.S. remember, the Keystone pipeline eliminated tens of thousands of jobs on day one. Do you remember going to the gas pump in late 21, 2022 and seeing the stickers with Joe Biden's image on it, pointing at the price on the gas pump, saying, I did that because the price of gas went through the roof. Well, now in the end of 2025 and 2026, we're already seeing a reduction. You know, when I was a kid, my dad used to drive 20, 30 miles out of the way just because he saw gas was 10 cents a gallon less at a gas station. And that's where people really feel it. They see it for themselves. They buy gas, they fill up their tank or not, they can't afford to fill up the tank. And they're already seeing a difference. And that's what Donald Trump has to tap into that. We're, we're making progress from a long way away from where Joe Biden took us. But he's got it bringing that message to their neighborhoods starting day one in January. Economic policy speeches every week going to different neighborhoods in America, especially where there are key swing districts in the House and Senate in next year's elections.
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Damon (Real America's Voice Host)
And to that backdrop, John and Mark, both of you, that, and again, it's just one poll, but the idea of what and Paul talked about it before with the mondamis now and the young kids looking at not understanding capitalism, you see a poll today that says AOC in a head up match with JD Vance would actually lead. Of course they get kind of chuckle when you see that. But to the broader issue of that, you know, the, the Republican Party still needs to kind of remake the case to the younger generation of, you know, capitalism, free markets, upward mobility. And that's what the Trump administration has set on their radar here for the next three and a half years. And yeah, it took us a little bit to get into it, but you're going to reap the rewards of this next year as opposed to what we're about to see undertaken in New York City and what we've seen in Californ and Illinois and other places like that. John, it's a message that you would hope the president could make and resonate with some of maybe those younger voters that he needs in the midterms.
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John Solomon
I think you're going to see the president mention Venezuela tonight and say just two decades ago, before socialists took over, it was the second most successful economy in the Western Hemisphere. And today it can barely afford to feed its people. It is in utter tatters. And it sends its criminals to the United States because they can't even afford to have them there anymore. He can use Venezuela, which he currently has a blockade on, that's under the throes of narco terrorists and basically a completely failed socialist. As the learning lesson, which is what Maduro did to Venezuela is what Mandani and the AOCs of this country want to do to you. And I'm not going to let them do that. I think you'll hear him pivot to that sort of language. Maduro and Mandami will become a, almost a hyphenated name, I think in the first year. And I think AOC will have to own a lot of the silly things she says that she gets away saying when she's on Ms. Now or msnbc. But when people in middle America, Iowa, Wisconsin, here, they're going to go, I ain't buying that. I ain't buying that deal tonight.
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Damon (Real America's Voice Host)
Yeah, Mark, how does the Republic. Well, first of all, John, before we move on, I just want to ask you quickly because I think it's worth talking about and it may not. I know you said it's not going to come up in his speech, but Dan Bongino today, obviously leaving. Some will look at it and say Bongino got there and it took 10 months for him to say, you know what? This place is irredeemably broken. There's nothing we can do. Let me go back. Let me go back to what I was doing. And some will say, listen, this guy gave up a lot to serve a president that he loves, a nation that he loves. One of the more selfless acts that we've maybe ever seen in politics, to give up what he gave up to go do this. And he now he wants to go back. What do you make of all of it? Which one is right?
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John Solomon
All I'll tell you is what Dan Bongeno says. So I talked to him at the beginning of the year when he took the job, and he said, at most I'll spend two years. As soon as I'm certain that I've done the precision wrecking ball that I was brought here to do, I'm going to go back because I don't want to lose the franchise I created on radio and podcast and rumble. A month ago, he told me right as they were closing in on the J6 pipe bomber and right after they had solved Charlie Kirk's case in just 30 months and right after they had brought down crime in Washington D.C. and Memphis and many other cities around the country and was prepared to have the lowest murder rate in recent American history. I think I got my job done earlier than I thought. I'm really optimistic. And John, I'm planning to leave. That's what he told me a month ago and he did it today. He's leaving not out of frustration. He's not leaving because he's mad at Pam Bondi. He actually feels like a lot of things are in motion that will be bear fruit next year. Grand jury in Florida, grand conspiracy case. He's leaving because he feels like the job he was brought in to do to be a precision wrecking ball, to get the deep state and the walls of the deep state broken down, throw out some people get everybody rallied around the notion of solving crime. He got it done. And now he wants to go back and protect his family's business. And I think that it's a positive story for him.
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Damon (Real America's Voice Host)
All right. There you go. The great John Solomon, Mark Serrano joining us here on a night where the president will address the Nation in about 15 or so minutes. We will bring it to you wall to wall live. Every single word will be here to react. Live from Studio 6B, Real America's Voice coverage of the president's speech when we get back right after the this.
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