Brett Witterbol (25:51)
Okay, I'm back here, connected then. Thank you very much. I had a catastrophic failure here for a moment. So Kevin Hassett talking into this conversation, having this conversation, doing the sort of thing that is. That he's doing is important because what's happening with Kevin Hassett in this regard is the. It's the trap that always happens. It's the trap that always occurs when you go in and you go try to do the things that you need to do to make the case for stronger economies. Now, if you go back to the Biden administration, the biggest problem that they had with that administration was the fact that they spent $7 trillion for nothing, and we got nothing for that. That's like injecting more and more heroin over the course of time than. Than it should. If you, if you decide you're going to put poison into the system, you're going to get a poisonous response. And so when that happens, this is where people like Margaret Brennan and all these other sort of folks are out there and they're sitting back and they're saying, okay, we're going to try to do a trap. Now, Kevin Hassett is an important person. He is potentially going to be, maybe unless it's Mr. Warsh or it's going to be somebody else who's going to come in and be the next Fed chair. What I like about Kevin Hassett is the fact that we have a person who might be able to advocate, not just as one of these elites who are on the, you know, who are on the spectrum and all this sort of stuff. What we have is somebody who understands what people care about, how the economy is supposed to work, how the economy is supposed to function, how the economy affects not just hedge funders, not just the people that are out there doing the things that they're doing. What we have in place in this moment is something that is unbelievable. It is a potential for a guy who's going to come in and advocate for what an economy should look like, for economy should function. And in that part of the. The entire part that's massive when is the last time you saw a Federal Reserve person, potentially, if he gets appointed to that position after Jay Powell goes, when's the last time you saw somebody come in and say, let me talk about the people who are suffering, Let me talk about the people who have small businesses and all those sorts of things? This is unprecedented. It's more than what economics should look like. It's about the notion of people's economics themselves. And so when people are out there and they're suffering, and when you see that they need this or that thing to happen, availability for credit, all of that sort of stuff, what did you see from Jerome Powell? Jerome Powell, consistently, it was playing games with, okay, we'll just go for a quarter point or this or that. It was, it was somebody who was too afraid to make the big decisions. Donald Trump is not going to blow somebody out of the position because they are in a place where, okay, we have to get more money into, into this part of the sector. What do you see? As far as the eye can see, what you see is rents are going way up. Other sort of things like that are becoming more expensive, and that can also be handled by, by the Fed. So when you look at Hassett and when you look at him going around talking to people in a calm way, not in any kind of a panicked way, but in a, in a calm way where he's talking to America, he's not talking necessarily to Wall street, though he does do a really good job when he goes on the CNBCs and those sorts of things like that. But when you look at, and you see his decisions that he's making to try to sell, not, not to sell in a, in a negative way, in a crooked way and any of that sort of stuff, what you've got from him is somebody who's able to look at it through the eyes of not just the consumer, but the heartland. It's interesting to me to see the people who want to run for office on, on the Democratic side of the aisle. And you've got, you've got a very successful governor in Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, you've got Gavin Newsom. And then of course, who else have you got? You've got a couple of people that are, that are running around AOC maybe wants to run, whatever that is. But you also have a billionaire in, in Illinois. But he is not a person who's advocating for, for the common man, for the small guy, for those people. He, he is, he is not advocating for the elites, has, it's not doing that. He's doing it for the people that feel it the most, the people who need to take out a loan, the people who need to take out a loan for their college kids, for, for a housing remodel, for all of that sort of stuff. That's what we've, what we've got this thing set up as now. Unfortunately. Unfortunately, you know, at the beginning of, of of time, you had this notion that whatever we try to force down on people, they'll just have to live with it. That's no longer the case because you have in President Trump and you have in J.D. vance, the vice president, you have people who are actively educating and working for the middle class. It's why you did everything you did with the border. It's why you did everything that could have come that way. And unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, maybe fortunately, we're going to see a completely different picture if you end up with a Democrat House and Senate because they're going to block and they're going to do what needs to be done for the elites and leave the rest far behind. I'm Brett Witterbull in for Clay and Buck. 800-282-2882. We'll be back right after this. You can count on, and some laughs too. Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.
