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Charlie Kirk (0:00)
Hey everybody, it's Kirk. Show what is a tariff and where does that power come from? We explain how it's not a trade war, it's a drug war and how President Trump is going to enrich the country with his recent moves with tariffs. Peter Navarro, counselor to the President of the United States on trade and manufacturing, joins us as we dive into this. Email us. As always, freedomarliekirk.com Become a member today. Members.charliekirk.com that is members.charliekirk. com when you become a member, you help our program stay strong and independent. So please consider becoming a member today. Members.charliekirk.com that is members.charliekirkweb get involved with Turning Point USA, the most important organization in the country at tpusa.com that is tpusa.com Buckle up everybody. Here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
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Charlie Kirk (1:48)
Happy Monday. Honored to be with you. This is a very rapid developing news day and we are going to break all of the news down from this last weekend starting on Friday, President Donald Trump brilliantly put forward not a threat, but a tariff promise. Now, President Donald Trump did this in a very thoughtful way he's been talking about for quite some time both on the campaign trail and of course throughout his two week presidency that he was going to use tariffs against countries that have been taking advantage of the United States and also to get them to help the United States. President Donald Trump on Friday afternoon evening said, oh, tariffs will be applied on Saturday morning and they were. This last weekend we saw a 25% tariff applied on all Canadian imports, 10% on energy, 25% tariff on all Mexican imports and a 10% tariff on all Chinese imports. Now, mind you, this is the brilliance of President Donald Trump. President Trump wanted to be able to have a window of negotiation. He knew that markets were going to get a little jittery. He knew that markets might have a sell off. So he did this intentionally on Friday to allow a weekend of some negotiation and dialogue when markets are closed so that the Dow does not go down a couple thousand points, so that he has an ability over a Saturday and a Sunday to accept some calls in between golf rounds at Trump national in Palm beach and to negotiate. Now, the tariff power is a very unique power given to the President of the United States. Unlike most economic measures and treaties, it does not require Congress. The President of the United States has unilateral authority to be able to apply tariffs on imported goods in the United States. So what is a tariff? A tariff is a duty. A tariff could be called a tax. But that is a very shallow way of interpreting it. Basically, if I am going to import a car into the United States and that car is $10,000, well, a 25% tariff would then make that car $12,500 and the tariff gets applied on the imported good. This power is derived from several pieces of legislation, of course. The Tariff act of 1930 and then section 301 of the Trade act of 1974 and section 232 of the Trade Expansion act of 1962. This gives the President the power to impose tariffs if deemed necessary for national security. For example, if the United States believes that the importation of certain products threatens national security, the President can apply immediate tariffs. Also, under the International Emergency Economic Powers act, the President can also declare a national emergency and use tariffs and sanctions as he sees fit. The President ran on an America first industrial policy, rebuilding the heartland of this country, but most critically and importantly, stopping the flow of drugs, illegals, guns and fentanyl into our communities. We've seen the wreckage, the damage that has happened because of the porous southern and northern border. Last week we had Josh Parker on the program who is hoping to eventually maybe run for Elise Stefanik's seat in New York. 21 as he was covering the northern border. The terrorists that are coming across the border and Canada with Trudeau and Steinbaum in Mexico have not cared a scintilla about closing their border or mobilizing the military to help stop it. Tariffs are a long term play. This is not about a week of stock market swerves. This is about three things. First, we are serious about using tariffs to force Mexico and Canada to take our border seriously. They've been happy to do nothing and let the entire world pour into our country illegally for criminal or for welfare reasons. We want them to be serious about helping fix this. And the way to do that is to remind them that we can blow up their economies. Mexico does not exist with a 25% tariff. They are a fake country that exists at the will of the American people and at the pleasure of America. If there is a 25% tariff, they collapse. And I have a lot of respect for the Mexican people, for the Mexican culture, when I say that they are fake. It's the sense of if there is a tariff applied to them, they are brittle and fragile. They are wholly dependent on trade with the United States of America. Wholly. They do not exist with a 25% tariff. Period. The way to do this is to remind them that we don't want to destroy your economies, but we're not going to put up with an invasion. And what we have learned over the last couple of years is that the way to stop such invasion and flow of drugs is you must have the intermediary countries such as Mexico or Canada work in collaboration with the United States of America. The second reason for tariffs is to force other countries to stop taking advantage of us in other ways. We can say stop spying on us, stop stealing our patents, stop flooding our market with drugs. And I must also mention not getting as much attention. There is a 10% import tariff on all goods from China. And we'll get to that in a minute. And finally, tariffs are necessary to revive our own economic production. We have become too reliant, way too reliant on other nations for things such as vitamin C making critical pharmaceutical manufacturing. President Donald Trump using these tariffs has brought them to the table. And the breaking news in last hour. The 25% tariff on all goods coming from Mexico has been suspended for one month. In addition, the Mexican government is putting 10,000 of their own troops on the southern border to repel such invasion into the United States of America. President Donald Trump wants that to be zero. President Donald Trump wants to get to the magic number 0. 0 illegals coming into the United States. And yes, we have mobilized our military. Yes, we are no longer doing catch and release, but still, there's too many people coming across the border. A couple hundred a day. Now, mind you, it's down from like 3,000 a day when Joe Biden was president. But Donald Trump is aiming for Project Zero. And understand, when you view all these tariffs, it's about Project Zero. No more Tariffs. No more drugs, no more fentanyl, no more illegals. And you can only do that if you have a cooperative neighbor, we are told for quite some time. Oh, Mexico and Canada, they're wonderful allies, sort of. But they've taken advantage of us for so long. For so long. 75% of all known terrorist watch list suspects cross through Canada, not through Mexico. Remittances from the United States make up roughly 5% of Mexico's GDP. This is the largest source of foreign income for Mexico, surpassing tourism, foreign direct investment and manufacturing exports. This is President Trump addressing These tariffs play cut 10. Are you planning to complete the tariffs against Canada?
