This show proudly sponsored by Real American Freestyle Wrestling. Let's bring in Carl Rof. Carl, welcome. Thank you for having me. Breaking news was President Guy found out his GDP is at 3 percent.
That's got to be a good feeling, right? Yeah, it is.
Now, that's annualized.
So, you got to, we had not as good a number in the first quarter, better number here in the second quarter. Let's hope it continues. One of the things that will help it continue was the parts of the big, beautiful bill that made permanent The uh provisions that encourage companies to invest in capital investments in plants and equipment because what that means is When they do that, somebody has to make build those buildings and make that equipment, and it makes the employees of that company more productive, and hence Able to strengthen the economy.
So here is the Treasury Secretary talking about two days of talks with China, cut two. We had a very fulsome two days with the Chinese delegation led by Vice Premier Ho Lifeng. It was our third meeting. I'm happy to say that London built on Geneva, Stockholm built on London and Geneva. I think we had great momentum going into the meeting thanks to the President's trade deals.
I think that the Chinese were surprised by the magnitude of the Japan deal, by the magnitude and the terms of the European deal.
So I think that they were. They're never compliant. But I believe that they were and more of a mood for a wide ranging discussion. And they sent seventy five people, Carl. You've been through China personally.
You've analyzed it, written about it in the Wall Street Journal. What do you read between the lines on what Scott was saying? I think the Treasury Secretary, first of all, is this rock star in the cabinet. And what he is doing on these trade negotiations is superb. And I think he put his finger on the right thing, which was to right things actually.
One is this is a process, not an event. He went to Geneva, had discussions. He went to London, had more discussions. He built on the success. that was happening outside the negotiations, showed up in Stockholm, had more discussions.
This will keep going. And better for the US to show progress. I mean, he's right, Japan was a great deal, a big deal. And it built on some others, the Philippines, Vietnam, all of these are in sort of China's arena. China's area of the world.
So the more we get those kind of deals done, you know, I wouldn't rush on China. Let's go get the Philippines. That's now getting done. Vietnam was done. Let's get Korea done.
And all of those will put more pressure on the Chinese to be responsible and reasonable and get a good deal. India, too. And you see. India, too. Yeah, absolutely.
India is more important than, frankly, India is more important than China. India. It will have a Bigger population and a bigger economy in all likelihood than China by the middle of the century. It already has a, I think, it's close to having, if not an actual larger population. And it's an important player in the world scene.
Better to tie them closer to us than than to uh you know, let them float out there and and fog. You know, they're part of bricks, so they've got some instincts that that are not helpful to US uh interests, but nonetheless, getting them you know, we've we've we've been spending the last twenty years building a strong relationship with India, Republican and Democratic presidents alike, let's keep that progress going. Is the deal with India finalised? Uh no it's not.
Okay.
So what rate are you expecting? India's been a good friend, but India has charged basically more tariffs than almost any other country.
So he said I think they're going to just judging by some of the cadence of the other deals and knowing that him and Modi do get along, and rather than take a twenty five percent cross the board tariff and have to unwind it, I think they get something done in the next two days. I hope so. It would be a big stroke. Again, this has implications beyond simply trade. It has implications for the geopolitical balance in the world.
And the more that we tie these people to us by trade deals that both find acceptable, the stronger the U.S. will be on the world stage and the weaker our adversaries are. And let's not kid ourselves. We have adversaries who are more dangerous and more antagonistic to us than at any time since perhaps 1938 or maybe briefly 1962 after the Bay of Pigs and the Missile Crisis. I mean, we've got some important work to do to strengthen America's position in the world.
So I know you saw the horrific shooting that took place at 345 Park Avenue right in New York City. And you see this gunman walk in 27 years old and just randomly kill people and like a coward, chasing down women, including a maid on the 33rd floor. And I talked to a police chief today. He said in his 36 years on the job, the most horrific scene that he has witnessed. And it's the Takeaway for Democrats is blame the gun, blame the rifle.
Time to get assault weapons off. You come from a state that has no problem with guns. Your reaction to the Democratic's predictable reaction.
Well, you know, there's evil in this world, and that man was evil, and he was sick. And rather than saying, you know what, if people who are mentally ill need greater supervision and more help. That's where they ought to be focused. I had a friend in that building. We were texting with him while he was sheltering in place in a locked closet.
I mean, my God. And think about it. This guy really was disturbed. I mean, he was mentally ill, depended upon the medications to keep him centered. And he thought he had a brain disease and blamed it on the NFL.
And yet he never played professional football, and there was no evidence that he had a brain disease. He was just mentally ill. And for the mayor, the governor, others, mayorial candidate, I should say, and the governor to come out and say these things is simply not helpful. It's using it for another purpose. And we ought to stay focused on the purpose, which is how did this guy?
Come to be able to commit this crime, and what could have been done to Keep him from, you know, who was responsible for taking care of him, looking out after him, making certain that he stayed on his meds.
So we're talking to Karl Rov, of course. Karl Zoram Ramdani, they just did a Zenith study. Everyone he matches up with, he beats. They could all drop, you know, they one could, they all drop out and make one-on-one with Eric Adams, he wins by 20. One-on-one with Cuomo wins by 15.
One-on-one with Sleewa wins.
So this guy, Mom Donnie, has got a record of not only defunding the police, but also this bread, the first in there was SRG, first on the scene. They're the SWAT of the city. And he tweeted this out in 24. As mayor, I will disband the SRG, which has cost taxpayers millions in lawsuits and outlets and brutalized countless New Yorkers exercising their First Amendment rights. And he has said this in 2021, cut 20.
When we talk about defund the NYPD, the entirety of the push is defund the NYPD and refund all of these different social services and things that actually create safety. Got 36,000 cops in the city. We need 40. And this guy still is on defund the police. He doesn't walk this stuff back.
No, and he's not the only Democrat in a big city who's talking about this the the candidate senator fatah in minneapolis Has called for replacing armed police response with quote. Crisis behavior teams, crisis behavior response teams. And I mean, do these people not understand what's going on? I mean, do do they understand that, oh, well, let's send it let's send a greeter, you know, with a couch so that the you know, the the the the the the three hundred forty-five Park Avenue shooter has a place to lie down for a moment and and let's get a therapist to talk to him about it and blah, blah, blah. Don't they understand that's not how the world works?
And they're creating a problem for the Democrats. They may be just the mayor of Minneapolis or the mayor of New York City, but I remember when Gene Kirkpatrick stood up at the 1984 Republican Convention and excoriated San Francisco Democrats. And everybody knew what that meant in America. And that's one of the reasons why Ronald Reagan won a 49-state victory because people said the Democratic Party is too far to the left. And these two guys, particularly the mayor of New York, the great shining city, well, actually, think about it, Bass in Los Angeles, while she may have a more moderate demeanor, she's pretty far out there as well.
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I guess so. That person, Omar Fatab, who's leading, I guess, the Democratic race got the primary, is going to win if you get the Democratic nomination to be the mayor of Minneapolis. Let me correct you on that. Jacob Fry, the mayor of Minneapolis. is a is himself a left winger.
And he has he's been elected mayor twice after losing the DFL nomination. You run on it. You run on a nonpartisan ballot there, but the parties get to endorse. The Republican endorsement doesn't mean anything because Minneapolis is a very left wing city. But twice he's gotten elected mayor.
This one is a little bit different because there's one other issue we haven't touched on in Minneapolis, and that is Fry is Jewish. And there is a heavy anti-Semitic attitude being portrayed by Democratic activists in that city, anti-Israel, anti-Jew, anti-you know, pro-Palestine. You know, Palestine will be free from the river to the sea. You know, a refusal to denounce Hamas, refusal to denounce the October invasion. I mean, there's another issue there.
I wouldn't be surprised, incidentally, if Fry ultimately won the race because this guy, Fatah, is so extreme. He's originally from Somalia, but he spent when he came to the United States, he spent a lot more time in Virginia than he has. He'd been in, I think, in Minneapolis and Minnesota for maybe a decade. But my sense is that I would not be surprised to see Fry cobble together a coalition of reasonable Democrats. Sensible independence and what few Republicans there are in the town.
I want you to hear from Omar Fatah on MSNBC Cut 22. Zoran's win was not only making huge waves in New York, but here in Minneapolis and across the country, I think it's important for the Democratic Party. Going forward to make a decision on what kind of party it wants to be, not only in our local mayor elections that we're seeing, but in the midterms and beyond. Yeah, what does the party want to be? He's saying that Mandani is his template, and he's exactly like him.
Yes. Look, I want to put it to rest that right here. I want to be clear about this, and I know this is going to inflame you and it's going to be an it's going to be unpleasant for you, but I just want to be clear. This is not a plot. That has been designed by the host of today's radio program in order to diminish the Democratic Party.
Our host today on the radio program is not the man behind getting these extreme left-wing Democratic socialists in a position to influence the image of the Democratic Party writ large. They're doing it to themselves. It's not requiring our host to mastermind this as he has done in so many of these schemes in the past. Thank you for exonerating me. You must be amazed as a political operative.
I know you do stuff with David Axelrod, and you guys debate things from both sides of the party. You like each other, but you have different perspectives. This is something that he can't back, right? He's got to be James Carville. These Democrats got to be horrified by this.
This doesn't play nasty. I'm not going to presume to speak on behalf of either James or David, but any sensible Democrat, I am confident, is sitting there saying, what are we doing to ourselves by putting up lunatics who are going to not only force independence out of our column, but cause a lot of sensible Democrats to say, what is... is our party going about doing? And the image is going to be hard to erase once the stain is on the Democratic label that they are nominating people like these two gentlemen in Minneapolis and New York. It's going to be hard to wipe that away.
There's going to have to be a battle, a conflict inside the Democratic Party where the Democrats win. You know, it's interesting, not to dwell too much on Minneapolis, but in political history, the Minnesota Democrats were an anti-Semitic party in the late 1940s and early 50s. And a young, crusading liberal Democrat came along and took on the issue of anti-Semitism. His name was Hubert Humphrey, and he created the modern Democratic Farm Labor Party in that state and made it a viable coalition of rural conservatives, conservative Democrats, moderates, and liberals like himself. But he did so by getting involved in a fight, and the fight was with the Democratic Party in Minnesota.
Continue to be anti-Semitic. Wow, great history. Carl Robe, thanks so much, and thanks for exonerating me. I appreciate it.
Well, I paid me. You gave me 20 bucks to say it. We all know you're really behind the whole plot.
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