Clay Travis (9:06)

On the trade balance. And do remember last week's advance only included goods. This one includes goods and services, comes in at minus 61.6 billion. That's about 5 billion lessons than we were expecting in terms of the deficit. But it does follow a revised 138 billion with a minus sign. That was 140 billion. And that of course was an all time record trade balance of goods and services. And as you can see, it has now been cut by more than half. And the big drop in imports seems to be where everyone's pointing. The big news there is how much it bolsters GDP. Just look at Atlanta Fed GDP now which is at 4.64%.

Buck Sexton (9:55)

US trade deficit fell to $61 billion, cut by more than half compared to marches. So this is, you know, month to month. March is $138 billion bolstering GDP, almost. Sorry, I told you, I, I did warn you guys. I had to talk so much yesterday and everything else. This is where the, the extent of my vocal cords. Clay and I are vocal cord athletes, as you know. We've got sexy vocal cords or vocal cords, have six packs, but even that can, can run, we can be run ragged, you know, too much. But here's the, here's the point about where we are in these trade negotiations and what's actually happening. The things that Trump said would happen are happening. And the catastrophists and the people who said they knew better and were smarter were wrong. I think this also ties into the reason to pass the big, beautiful bill, because he's earned. He's earned. When Trump says, this is awesome, it's going to be amazing for the economy, why would I sit there and say, no, it won't. Think about that for a moment. I mean, there would be a degree of hubris that I think would be required of somebody in my position who's trying to inform all of you and have this ongoing conversation with all of you across this nation, to think that I know better in this moment than Trump on this issue, given what is happening now. I will always criticize an administration if I think they're, they err on an issue where I feel passionately that they may be taking us in the wrong direction or, but, you know, it's like the guy, the guy who has the hot hand on the basketball court and just has hit four three pointers in a row. Should I let him take the next shot or do I want to, you know, is it my turn? I mean, if he wants to take the shot, I think he should take the shot. And that's what we see right now with Trump on not just the trade negotiations, talking to China about it, I might add, but also on the direction of the economy right now. And we're just beginning to see it. We're only six months into this administration. They have packed so much into such a short period of time. I, I, and it is way more than what Trump accomplished in the first six months of his first term, which makes sense. He knows more now. He's got the team in place now. And that was, that was really good. But this is a whole other level. They're moving on so many fronts. And, and remember that phrase when he said, you're going to get tired of winning? We're certainly not tired of winning yet, but we could see, I think, how that could be a thing by the end of this administration. Like, oh, my gosh, like, we just need, we need the opposition to get a win. Just so we remember that there is an opposition. I mean, Trump is doing great things. Now. I know about the judicial, the judicial supremacy stuff, seizing executive authority, shutting down Trump. We're going to talk about some more of that. You know, there are certainly pitfalls and challenges and everything. I'm not a, I'm not euphoric right now about everything that's going on with Trump, but I'm trying to look at this with clear eyes, and I'm trying to come away with the best possible assessment of what we should do now and what the country should do now moving forward on this. I think Trump knows what he's doing with this. I think the people that are pushing this bill know what they're doing with it. And there's a lot of reason right now for, you know, you can be optimistic, but stay focused. And that's, that's how I feel for the country right now. I am optimistic, truly, and have been all along since Trump came into office. And I also, though, just want to, just, I want them to keep going. You know, I want them to keep moving the way that they are pushing on all fronts. And we'll get into some of this. We'll get into the travel ban, we'll get into the, from certain countries. We'll get into the next steps here on the big, beautiful bill. 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This is cut 10. Play it, please.

John Thune (15:49)

We had a very positive discussion about the path forward on the big beautiful bill and the reconciliation bill. And I think it was a remind that we are all in this together. This is a team effort and everybody is going to be rolling in the same direction to get this across the finish line. Failure is not an option and we intend to deliver along with the president for the American people on the things that he committed to do and that we committed to do in terms of the agenda. And so the reconciliation bill will be positive for growth, it will be good for the economy, it will create better paying jobs. And we intend on energy, on national security, on spending reductions, on tax policy, on border security, all of those areas to address the issues the American people care about, to make them more safe, more secure and more prosperous.

Buck Sexton (16:40)

Now, I do think it's fair to say this would be the single most important funding mechanism for border security and enforcement and deportations and wall building in the history of the United States. That's, that's a big deal. It is huge. And we've got to get this. If we lose on sovereignty, if we lose on border security, if we lose on the future of controlling who is an American and who is just showing up here, we lose on everything else. You can't lose on this issue. If you lose this, you lose everything. And so getting that funded the way that they are, again, this White House, these people trump those around him. J.D. vance, Stephen Miller. When they say this is what is necessary for our border, they're there. They know. Ok they've, they've, they've been very much focused in on this and this is the team to get it done. The wall construction that's going to happen. 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I'm going to let millions of people from all over the world just come into Germany and they don't even have to speak German. Yeah. Angela Merkel not she was. I remember someone tweeted this. I would give credit a Kim but that Angela Merkel, when she allowed, I think it was a million Syrians and Iraqis to come into her country in one year, legally, by the way, not illegally, legally allowed a million to come in one year. Someone called her like European nationalism's woman of the year or something like that, because there were some problems. It turns out when you take that many people into a country at one time, there were some challenges. So we'll, we'll get into these, some of the key clips here, key moments from that conversation. But speaking of national identity, national borders, Trump put out a video where he's just saying, look, we just can't take people from countries that are effectively failed states, hotbeds of terrorism, radicalism, or just the kind of disorder that we don't want to import into America. But there's nothing wrong with saying we the American people, and we are a country of, you know, people of all different skin colors and all different religions. We're Americans and we have to maintain something about our American ness. And this is where the Democrats fall apart. It can't be that you arrive yesterday and come here illegally and you were as American, not, not you, but this person is as American as you and me, because then that means there's, there's nothing about being an American. Being an American is like buying a ticket to an amusement park or even stealing a ticket to an amusement park. You just gotta show up and then all of a sudden you're all the same. So there have to be borders, there have to be laws, and there has to be shared political and cultural identity for us. And this is also where you look at assimilation and you look at what the numbers are that we can bring in and that we can as a society make sure they are adopting our culture, our ways, our American ness, and not the other way around where there's so many coming in from so many places under illegal pretenses. And what does it even mean to be an American? Well, they want to redefine it. You see this in some European countries now where there are non European minorities who have showed up in such numbers that they're just explicitly saying, yeah, we're, we're forming our own statelets within this place. We don't want to adopt to the majority, we don't want to adopt the majority's ways. We, we want to change this country. And you know, that's what, that's the plan. Too late for you. We're finally able to have adult conversations in America about this issue without people just shouting all the time. Xenophobe you know, racist, Racist. I'm saying we need to secure our border from 180 countries of illegals coming here. So what is the race? That is, that's the problem. It's just the illegalness of it all that is the problem. You can't even identify. You got people from all over the place. You got people from all over coming in illegally. I don't want any illegals coming in. That's, that's of course, what we've seen in recent years. So this is Trump. He released this video. This is cut 6 on the travel, on the new travel. Oh, they're going to get so, so ticked off about this. The new travel ban play six.

Clay Travis (23:18)

Very simply, we cannot have open migration from any country where we cannot safely and reliably vet and screen those who seek to enter the United States. That is why today I am signing a new executive order placing travel restrictions on countries including Yemen, Somalia, Haiti, Libya and numerous others. The strength of the restrictions we're applying depends on the severity of the threat posed. The list is such, subject to revision based on whether material improvements are made. And likewise, new countries can be added as threats emerge around the world. But we will not allow people to enter our country who wish to do us harm.

Buck Sexton (24:06)

Yep. Makes sense, doesn't it? Makes sense. And yet they will, of course, oppose this. They will say, oh, my gosh, why would he ever, why would he ever do this thing? Because you start to feel like not only do they oppose things that are, are just because Trump does them. I increasingly think that there are Democrats who have this innate loathing for the country and want to. They want to see us punished. This was a belief that I saw among even some fellow New Yorkers when I lived in New York City, where the things that. I just had a conversation actually with some of our, some of our friends, producers from the, from the Hannity Hannity radio show. I was talking about this. You know, it's, it's so fun when we all get together because we get to see, you know, we've all known each other now for, for years and years. I know I'm, I'm weaving a little bit here, but some of them are fellow New Yorkers, and I was talking to them about how what happened here in. Or rather, I'm not in New York anymore. What happened in New York was things got so bad in the early 90s under the Dinkins administration. It got so bad that for a second we could all look at each other and say, as New Yorkers, hey. And of course, Rudy Giuliani, and I'm forever grateful to him. I don't, you know, people say, oh, they don't agree with some of the stuff he said or done recently. I don't care. Rudy Giuliani saved New York City. I will always say, thank you, Mr. Mayor, for that and always appreciate the Giuliani name in New York and what they've done, what they did for millions and millions of people. But Giuliani came in, led this miracle. But it was only possible because the people who live there, enough of us in New York, I was a kid, of course, but enough New Yorkers said, you know what? I just. I don't want, you know, I don't want the schizophrenic, homeless drug addicts urinating on my front door and, you know, attacking my grandma on the street anymore. How about that? Can we all agree on that? And there was this, yeah, we decided we're going to agree on that. We're going to stop that from happening. And then what I saw with the de Blasio administration, because the, the brain virus of leftism had spread so far among New York Democrats that, as de Blasio was just. Was just punishing New York City with stupid decisions that were really hurting people. I mean, it was like his mission was, I'm going to ruin America's largest city. And I lived there and I was. I saw it all happening. And what happened was a lot of Democrats turned around and said, you know what? Even if this is bad, we deserve this. This is the price we have to pay. They wanted. They wanted New York to suffer. They thought that New Yorkers deserve. And that was when I said, yeah, I'm out. And I miss all of you, all of you conservative and right thinking New Yorkers. I miss you. Including my own family. But they just said. I said, I can't do this anymore. What we saw with de Blasio and then Covid and then the BLM stuff, I'm like, you people, you just. You just want to watch this city burn because you think that it deserves it or something. It was nuts. A lot of Democrats feel that way about America, about the country that we have to suffer. We have to take in the problems of the world because of all the bad. Think about it. All the stuff they've been taught, especially in colleges, all the things they're seeing on MSNBC and CNN. I remember when I was in China, China in 2019, and the only English language programming I could get on the TVs were Premier League soccer Or you know, like high level European soccer games, which I think were dubbed in Chinese, but whatever, it doesn't matter. I mean, the voiceover. But I can, I could watch the soccer, put that aside. And CNN International and CNN International in Beijing, you might have thought that the CCP was actually putting on an American version because it's all, you know, American warmongering against Iran. America doing this bad thing. America doing that bad thing. And this is the, a lot of the Democrat mentality, especially on the world stage, we are the problem. They really believe that we are the cause of all of these problems. And this, it's, it's a bizarre, you know, really a mental illness. And you have to get into the, the intricacies of how anyone could, why people would be attracted to this, why they would want this ideology. As I've said, there are people who take pride in being Americans, you and me, and we love this country. And just like when you say, when you say I love my any name family member, you're not saying, I think that family member is perfect. Of course not. None of us are perfect. But you love that family member. I love this country. And I don't think we need to do this throat clearing of, for all of its, all of its challenges in the past and present. I love America. But of course, you know, we did bad things to the Native Americans and slavery was evil. Yeah, we know, we know. Okay. But you're still allowed to love your country with Democrats. And you're seeing this more and more. And I really mean, this is at the heart, this is at the heart of Democrat ideology now. And it wasn't the same way 20 years ago, maybe even 10 years ago, but it's the heart of Democrat ideology now. You and I love this country and we take pride from being American. Democrats take pride in thinking they are better than America. That's a very different thing. And you see this in so many of their reactions to a lot of the Trump policies, because the Trump policies are ultimately rooted not just in America first, but in pride in this country, in America and its American ness. And so once you have this framework in place, you can say, hold on now I see why they make these choices or why they push for these things, meaning the left, meaning the Democrats that so clearly are not in the interests of the American people. They, they think we deserve the suffering. Right? They, and this is, you know, there are a lot of, you go back and you get into a lot of cults and there's a lot of punishment involved with these cults. And things you have to do and humiliation rituals you go through as part of your purification. Democrats, to be a really true blue Democrat, you have to constantly want to undermine America historically and the history of this country, but also in present. And this is why there's all this opposition to Trump saying, look, we're not taking in more people from citizens. We're not taking foreigners. Remember, these are foreigners, ok? They're not Americans, not people of this descent who are now Americans. Of course not. These are foreigners. He says, we're not taking people from Afghanistan, Myanmar. Myanmar. I never actually know how to say that one properly. We should call it Burma, right? That's what we, that's what people want to call it. Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen. And citizens of Burundi, Cuba, La, Sierra Leone, Togo, and Turkmenistan and Venezuela are subject to partial restrictions. Okay, so suspending travel to the US for citizens of those 12 countries based on national security concerns. This is in the interest of the American people and to those countries, to anyone who says, but what about the really nice person from Equatorial guinea who wants to come to America? Coming to America is a privilege. It's not a right. Even visiting this country, it's not a privilege. I'm sorry. It's not a right. It's a privilege. 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