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See what history looks like before the doors officially open. Melania arrives exclusively in theaters January 30th, 2026. Year one of term two is in the books. What has Trump accomplished, and what do you hope he still has left to do? Chris, you're now Governor Chris Nuno.
So much on tap today, I know. And you had to run for, it seems like you were there for 100 years because you had to run every two. Every two years.
So every time I talk to you, you ran for re-election. There you go. And you kept winning, and you would have won again, and you would have probably been senator. But now your brother has been trying to get the nomination. Scott Brown's also running too.
So a couple of things. Mm-hmm. How's he done year one? Uh the president? It's been an incredible has any president had a first year like this and not just talking about the successes but saying look I don't care what the status quo was I don't care what the issue was what other administrations weren't willing to take on we're going after it and we're gonna go after it hard so they've literally left no stone unturned they've left everybody a bit with their jaws open in terms of what they're willing and trying to do in just a the first year do i love every method and every message that comes out no but what the goals uh in terms of prescription drugs we forget about what he did there with the tax cuts what he did there with energy what what um the the energy secretary and and doug bergham are doing opening up these reserves like never before there's we haven't really felt that yet by the way what they're doing behind the scenes they are literally plowing the ground yeah for a massive we're killing it with ai though right because ai is now making investments because ai's biggest cost is energy knowing that the long-term energy of their uh facilities is secure is allowing ai and all this technology to move forward faster here than anywhere else in the world you can't do that unless you have the power Otherwise China would have been eating our lunch right now.
Data centers have to be built. But with it, you need energy for the data centers. I love what Trump said a few days ago. And he just said: look, if you're going to build the data center, you've got to make the energy, you've got to come up with the energy source. That's right.
And then I asked Doug Bergham this directly, who's as honest as a day is long, and I said, Mr. Secretary or Governor, I just said, wait a second. Are you telling me the utility costs are going up in states with these data centers? Is there anything to be done by it? He goes, that's not true.
Well, clearly it's true because President Trump on Friday said you got to pay for it because, for example, New Jersey and Louisiana is going to get slammed. That's right. Because they're building a huge facility for Meta. Right.
So there are a couple of options there. One is you see some of them going in Texas. They're literally going right over where the oil is, for example. They're going to pull it out. They can literally refine it.
Turn it into the system. They still got to build it. Yeah, the natural gas is right there.
So they have to build it. But again, cutting those transmission costs is huge. But if you're going to invest these hundreds of billions and trillions over the next 10 years in AI, they have to offset those costs. They are going to pull an energy demand like we've never seen before, which is okay if you're going to pay for it and not ask the rest of America to subsidize it for you. Right.
So we want to keep a lot of stuff here.
Now, today is a big day because any moment we could be hearing about the tariffs, whether the President has the constitutional right to implement it. Can you imagine if they overturn it? Yeah. Like that's, I think, I talk to folks in the business. I work for the airlines now, and I talk to these folks in the business community all over the place.
The tariffs are now baked in for the most part. If the Supreme Court were to overturn it, I would argue you're going to see as much chaos in the market as you saw when he first announced this on quote-unquote creation back in April. Because folks have baked it in. It's assumed it's there. But now, to undo all that and reverse it, the uncertainty that would create in the financial markets across the world would be absolutely huge.
Because what's going to happen is people go, Well, does it apply to everything? Is Congress going to act? Can this somehow get undone? No one will know where it's going to end up. They're not just going to overturn it and it's going to sit there.
There's other actions that could be taken that will take more time, will take longer. I think right now, folks have said, Look, we thought tariffs were going to rock the economy. I did. I was like, Holy cow, I'm a free market guy. I said, Boy, these tariffs are going to be really, really tough.
We've all found a stabilization for the most part here. They're baked in to where, again, where America wants to be in terms of balancing. the budget, to undo it now would be really chaotic. And if you remember how John Roberts, Chief Justice, handled Obamacare? Was he going to overturn it?
Right.
And then he knew he wasn't just in a bubble, in a think tank. He knew what happens if I make this ruling constitutional or not.
So he landed the plane, right? He split the difference into the middle of the middle. Yes, and a lot of heat for doing that. Right, because it would have blown up the whole healthcare system when it started. There was no replacement.
So don't you think he's doing the same thing? It's the same guy. Don't you think that's why it's later? Because he understands. Possibly.
And again, at the end of this one, I'm not the macroeconomics guy. But you also have to be a lawyer here. Was using those emergency provisions viable? You know, should he have used a different provision? Is it an emergency?
Is it an emergency? Can he go back to Congress? What justifies an emergency? Can he have all these carve-ups that he's having? But I was on CNN this morning, and they were like, boy, the terrorists have created chaos.
And I said, no, the EU tariff situation has found a nice balance. A lot of it has gone zero for zero. They've carved certain things out. Folks know they've got to put it in the middle of the world. Forcing new trade deals with everyone, allowing America to use leverage in ways we hadn't ever used before.
Because you had a president to stand up and say, we're not just going to take it anymore. We're going to use our leverage.
Some things will be in a positive.
Some things will be in a negative. But overall, we have much more leverage in terms of what's happening across the globe than ever before. And by the way, Chris Anunu was the 82nd governor of New Hampshire. He's currently the president and CEO of Airlines for America. I'm sure you heard.
I'll be flying out a little bit later. Do you have any saying, anything, any advice for me?
Well, I'm waiting for you to fly. I think you should be doing this show live from Greenland. I think that. That would be the Brian Killmeek movie right there. That would be awesome.
I would love it. That would be awesome. But basically, after the show, I'd have nothing to do. I don't like to fish.
So I go to I'll live in a magenta house? You plow roads. You can plow roads. There's lots of roads to be low. I'll teach you how to do it.
I'll get a shovel and look for lithium. Wait, don't you have a place in Jacksonville? You're a Florida guy, right? Yeah. Yeah, we can't let you plow roads.
Right.
You won't know what you're doing. I can't say really. I'm really a Long Island guy. No, I know, but you go down south. Yeah, in Pondavidre area.
Yeah, yeah. That's nice. Thank you. That's nice. Thanks for your approval.
Well, everyone, well, you know what? Everyone else goes to like West Palm and like all down south there. It's so crowded down there. It's a little crazy. You're getting the best of both worlds.
You don't have the traffic and the crowds. I want to be accepted. And I want to stand out. If I go to Palm Beach, I won't get noticed. I'm all about being recognized.
You know that, Governor. I'm a huge ego. For you in particular, how are you liking this job? And of course, I just had Sean Duffy on the television show. He's accomplished so much.
Sean's doing incredible. It's hard for me to remember who the transportation. Ticketories were all here about. We all remember the guy right before Sean. Yeah.
Pothole Pete, right? And Normanetta was Normanetta? Yeah. Was Norm there? I don't even know.
I think so. It was the only one to go from a Democratic administration. I remember way back in the day, LaHood was there. Oh, yeah, Secretary Chow. Yeah.
She was wonderful.
So, look, what Sean has done is said, we're not going to run the Department of Transportation with bureaucrats and lawyers. We're going to bring people in and get stuff done. The FAA Administrator Brian Bedford. And the big thing for me is we've talked about it before, the air traffic control rebuild. It's the most complicated infrastructure project the government's ever taken on.
$30 billion in real time. It has to happen right now while we're landing tens of thousands of planes a day. And there's a lot of issues there. It's basically a giant telecom system.
So planes can talk to each other. The pilots can talk to the ground. The ground can make things more efficient. We're running things on floppy disks and paper strips. We've talked about that before.
Sean and his team are saying no more. And the president, right? No president has taken this on for 40 years. The president says we're going to get it. It's not only costly, but there's such high risk in not getting a big public works project done, right?
So politics. Politicians tend to go, you guys handle that, and when it doesn't go well, I'm going to blame you, right? The president's saying, we're getting this thing done because it's a national security. You only have half the money right now. You need the money.
To all the senators and the congressmen, listen, we need that second round of funding. Because they're moving so fast. And Cruz gets it. I think Congressman Graves really gets it. Got to bring everybody else on board.
But I'm down in Washington reminding Capitol Hill, this president is moving so fast. His administration is moving so fast. Don't do business like you used to do it. Move quickly, get the money, and let the new radar systems are coming. The copper is turning into fiber connections.
They're rebuilding the facilities. They're putting new technology kind of behind the screen, as we say, so you can land more planes safer, have a better customer experience. It's going to be great. And thank God we have, again, an administration that gets how to do public work.
So we've got a year until the midterm elections. And don't you love people, especially if you are so into politics in the grandiose, not just New Hampshire. You always have the big picture in mind. Maybe because how you grew up. I guess so.
It's in the blood a little bit. You know, it's a New Hampshire thing more. Your brother was governor and senator. Congressman and senator. Congressman and Senator.
I was governor. My dad was governor. Governor and chief of staff. And White House Chief of Staff.
So you always have a great perspective, and you also go on CNA and get yelled at all the time, and you yell back. It's always a good thing. Look, if I can handle the view a couple times, I can handle it. Why would you do that? It's the old best.
I loved it. Because to go on there and have them look at you and go, damn, we really like this guy. Because, look, we challenged each other. I didn't agree with them on much of it. Yeah, they'd have to be money.
You know, they're demonizing Republicans all the time, and it's great to go on and where they have to admit to their honesty. Yeah, I guess all Republicans aren't evil, you know? But everything you believe in is.
So when asked, which party in Congress do you trust more on the issues? Fox News did a poll yesterday. Democrats, 32%. Republicans, 38%. And by the way, you know Fox News polls do not go right over the middle.
No, they're right down the middle, actually. I'm actually surprised. And by the way, everyone will tell you that. Border Security, 4820. Sure.
Obviously. Tariffs, 3634 Republicans. Foreign policy, 38.33 Republicans. I can't believe it's a lot of fun.
So, what do the Dems get? What issues do they get? Don't give it away.
Okay. I'm building. Looking out for middle-class families, Democrats, 39%. Republicans, 36%. On health care, it's Democrats by 15%.
So they get that. Looking out for middle-class families, Republicans are only down by three. That's amazing. That's the working class shift you're seeing in this last election, right? You're seeing a lot of working-class Americans coming over to the Republican side.
You saw it with Latinos. You saw it with African Americans. You saw it with voting blocs that traditionally, unions that traditionally don't vote Republican are coming over. I was at the White House for one of the Christmas parties. It was great.
They bring in. You get to see all the decorations and all that sort of thing. And, you know, the head of the team, Sean was there, the head of the Teamsters, a lot of the union heads were there. And I thought, well, this isn't typical. And God bless the president.
He's calling them out, saying, look, these guys typically might not vote all Republican and be with us all the time, but they know hard work that deserves credit. See, for the longest time, you guys didn't care that a lot of your anti-union message was anti-blue collar. You're like, well, what can you do? We don't mean that. But no, now you went out of your way to say there's difference.
That's right. So it's so interesting. Back in a moment, I don't want to cut the second segment. Oh, by the way, are we only one segment, Allison? You were going to say we can't continue?
Because you were going to say if he wasn't good, just to get rid of him early.
So he's okay. Is my haircut good enough? Right, is absolutely. Yeah, he's in the private sector now. He's got it actually.
Do you have a tailored blazer? I do. I actually went to a tailored first time in my life. I went to the top of the city. Did you even tell him what to ask for when you walked into the door?
No, my wife had to write it out. She said, say this and then say this, but don't just walk into Macy's and get something off. I mean, Macy's is great off the rack. It's wonderful. But I actually went to someone who pulled out that measuring thing and put it in places that you're not ready for.
It is amazing. You're like, whoa, you know, I always thought it was amazing that you're asking baseball players to have two skills: use a mitt and a bat. But to work into a dry cleaner and say, clean my stuff, now hem my pants. Yeah. Two totally different skills.
We'll talk about that in a break. Back in a moment. Hey, I got some more time with Governor Smuten, who's got a new job and is demanding I use that title. He's currently the president and CEO of Airlines for America. I love America, like the planes.
So this is a good thing. We love airlines. We love America.
So are you liking the private sector? I love the private sector. I love the airline industry. I think it's a good idea. Because you were in one.
You had your own business, right? Yeah, I was an engineer for a long time, and then I ran a ski resort through a bizarre series of events. Then I became governor.
So to get out and not just into the private sector, but do it back in industry with CEOs you love, you respect. I mean, Robert Isom, who runs American Airlines, and Scott Kirby, who runs United, Ed Bastion, who runs Dell. You can go down the list, just incredible individuals that know how to run. I love that. I love hanging out and being able to kind of glean off people like that.
All right.
So I know you're more governor-based, but how about this in Washington? They're actually getting the appropriations bills done. I know. Can you believe it? They better because we only have two weeks or government's in a shutter.
But this is somewhat regular order. They're doing a mini-bust, but for the most part, they're one by one by one. They need 12, correct? That's the most inefficient thing you've ever seen. All 12 of them need to pass to really avoid the government shutdown.
The big one for us is the transportation. It's called THUD. If that passes, then we can pay our air traffic controllers, right? The one liter, it should pass in a week, but we're not there yet. Like, we're still panicked that something's going to fall apart come January 30th, all of a sudden.
And we saw what happened in the last shutdown. Six weeks later, Democrats are ready to throw Thanksgiving out the window, right, until. Hassan and Shaheen and some very, I think I would call them the wiser of the Democrat senators got together and said, we can't let this happen. And they joined the Republicans and passed the bill and got government back. But a lot of people say Democrats were rewarded by the outcome of those off-year elections because of Virginia and Maryland and other things.
Without a doubt. Without a doubt. And look, could that mindset play into, well, let's stall them again in late January? It could. I think it's 70-30 that we get this thing passed, and therefore, again, as long as air traffic controllers are paid, the planes stay flying and everything stays smooth, there's no real political linchpin, if you will.
Airlines are always the kicking boy for these shutdowns.
So we've got to avoid that. The massive fraud that's being uncovered, now it's exposing in Maine, in California, and most of all in Minnesota, billions of dollars. How is this able to happen year after year? And if you're a governor, how could you not know? If you're a governor, you're an absentee governor, right?
And I'm not saying that Governor Waltz knew or didn't know. I can tell you, let's face it, the guy was on the campaign trail for 18 months, completely ignored his state or whatever he was doing, and he was running around getting all this national. Fraud stuff was up in the middle of the year. It's your job to know. It should have been Eric Holder.
Should have said, hey, come on, 100%. You can't pick this guy. 100%. And now I will say this: I think, especially if you go back during COVID, if you look at unemployment insurance fraud, the level of fraud to the tune of billions. You're barely scratching the surface with Minnesota.
As governors, we used to discuss it all the time. I could, yeah, I mean, I could tell you, California, we exposed it big time. And I think, wasn't it Washington State that was giving hundreds of millions of dollars to folks in Africa at the time? They were paying people in prisons unemployment insurance. California billions of dollars.
Only through corruption. Yeah, right. Billions of dollars of fraud in California, specifically on the unsuspecting. Doesn't this add significantly to the deficit? This is not small money.
Oh, it's huge. It's huge. You're paying for it. Every one of your listeners is paying for this stuff.
So, look, some of us took it real serious.
Some of us were, I think, clamped down hard. Others didn't, and they're paying the price. And hopefully, look, this sets something in motion that everyone is in the middle of the day. At the point that New Hampshire has checks and balances where if Governor Sununa was hands off the wheel and there was corruption, they would have been in the same place. They didn't know it in a second.
And they would get reined in in a second. Other states just let it go. And that's what's happening. And that's part of the reason why I think they're kind of loving the ice distraction. Oh boy.
Yeah, that's a whole nother one. I'm just getting ready for CNN. The most important part is the live-free or die state does it right. Thank you. That's the takeaway.
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