The Charlie James Show Podcast

And welcome back to the program. Let's go to the PhD weight loss talk line. We'll talk to Ponda in Spartanburg. How you doing, Ponda? I'm doing good.

This is my first time calling into your show. Well, then you get the bell. You get the bell. In my personal opinion, if these immigrants do not want ICE to decide what prison they're gonna be taken to, then they need to take the thousand dollars that president Trump is offering them Yep. And get the heck out of Dodge.

I agree. He's given them an out. Yeah. Exactly. So what's the problem?

I don't You know? Well, I don't I don't see a problem with it. Ponda, I appreciate it. Thank you. I mean, it's a brilliant idea.

Take that one app that allowed them to get in under the Biden administration. They flipped it around and said, hey. We're gonna give you a way out. You click that self deport tab on your phone, go to an airport, they will fly you back to your home country, and once it is verified that you have left the country, they're gonna give you a thousand bucks. Now I know a lot of people would do we've had a big discussion about this a few days ago, but it cost an average.

This is just for a basic deportation, like the base model deportation. It costs 17 it costs American taxpayers $17,000 per deportee. That's just a routine one. Let's go to Chuck in Mills River. Chuck, what did you think about my conversation with Mary who is more famous now than she ever thought she would be?

That's why she called, Charlie. She knows, man. You're, like, big time. She she's made the big time. I I hate to jump on this bandwagon like my butt's on fire and my head's catching.

But Yeah. I any anytime anybody tells you that they're a good Christian Yeah. Chances are they're not. No. I'm not I'm not calling into question her faith or anything, but I wonder how she feels about vouchers for kids going to Christian schools that their parents want them to because they were we were instructed to raise our children in the ways of the Lord.

Yeah. I wonder if she believes in selling her cloak to buy a sword. No. No. It's it's just to listen to that, this is what we're up against.

And this is why I think eventually it's gonna come to a fight is because these people just and I'm the same way about how I feel, but I can back my stuff up with with proof. I can back my stuff up with facts. And, again, you know, I've said on your show, there's things I don't like about Trump, and I'll tell you all about him. Yeah. But right now, he is the man for the job.

He's the man we need. And to stick your head in the the sand and pretend that that the Democrats are just being good Christians? Right. Really? Exactly.

Is she is she pro life? Is she, you think? No. No. No.

No. No. No. No. No.

No. I I I checked out her Facebook page, and it is just nothing but liberal propaganda, Chuck. It it really is amazing. Wash your hands. Now wash up, Charlie.

Yeah. I need to. I appreciate it. Get some anti take my dog off. Disinfectant.

I appreciate it. Sean is in '96. Sean, what's going on out there? Hey, Charlie. Hey, bud.

How you doing today? I'm great. What's going on? Hey. Just a little about the the immigrants you're talking about.

When I was at the post courier printing newspapers in '95, I went down to Jacksonville because I thought about relocating. And I got down there, and they left my application. And before I left, the foreman down there, the pressroom supervisor said, your resume looks great. We'd love to have you here, but you'll never be hired. And I said, why not?

He says, you're the wrong nationality. Yeah. Yeah. So I spent the next twenty five years at Post and Courier printing newspapers, listening to you down there. Yep.

I well, I appreciate it, buddy. I thank you very much, but you're right. I mean, it's that's going on all over the place. Let's go to Richard in Dallas. Richard, welcome.

Hey, Charles. Are you doing alright? I'm doing great. What's up, Ben? That girl, Mary, I bet you a hundred ...

I pledge allegiance to the flag of The United States Of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Oh, beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, for purple mountain majesties above the fruit America is back. Yes, sir. Inflation Clemson. Fred, what's on your mind this afternoon?

I think I have an idea why the Democrats want all these organized criminals, in the country. Alright. Okay. In Venezuela, there's the cartel of the sons, and they've been given free reign by the government to do whatever they wanna do. In return, the cartels persuade the citizenry to vote for the incumbency.

Uh-huh. And as far as the opposition is concerned, they either intimidate them or eliminate them. This is long term here. Persuade, and I'm pretty sure they persuade with the threat of violence. Right?

Absolutely. So, I mean, you might be right. You you might be right. So what? Yep.

That's that's my thoughts on it. When they get back in power, they'll want a cartel of their own. Yeah. You're right about that. I appreciate it, Fred.

Yeah. They do, try to employ some cartel tactics. Well, we got some news today about president Joe Biden, former president Joe Biden. He has a small nodule on his prostate that needs further evaluation is according to multiple reports. Of course, Joe Biden, eighty two years old.

We certainly hope it's not cancer. We hope that Biden recovers fully and lives a long, healthy life. Absolutely. But his health has been a big concern and was a concern for a long time in his in his last couple of years of his administration. Now here's the thing, though.

Everybody this was like the worst kept secret in Washington DC. Everybody was telling you, no. Joe Biden is sharp as attack. Joe I I don't even remember Jen Psaki, wasn't it? Or or was it Karim Jean Pierre?

I can't even keep up with the guy. I mean, he's just he's just one big bundle of energy, but now we're finding out that none of that is true. The mainstream media covered up for Joe Biden horribly. Horribly. Remember they always say, oh, he's sharp as a tack sharp as a tack.

Yes, sir. I've never seen him sharper. He is just a he's just amazing. And then the debate happened. And once that debate happened, it was out there.

All of a sudden, the emperor had no clothes. And even CNN had to sit there, and I remember Van Jones are like, this was a disaster. I don't know how you recover from this, but it was something that the mainstream media kept trying to cover up. And now at least one of them is trying to actually capitalize on this, Jake Tapper. Now I'm gonna be taking a couple of days off coming up at the end of the month and, gonna go down to Coco, my wife and I.

Gonna sit on the beach, get a little sun. I'm thinking about getting this book from Jake Tapper. It's called original sin. And the original sin that he talks about in that book is the media's cover up of Joe Biden and just how bad it was. Let's take a listen to Jake Tapper, as he was, being interviewed over on CNN.

I'm curious about what his advisers were saying at the time, as you look at this, as you reported out this book. So the White House physician, doctor Kevin O'Connor, was telling White House aids, that president Biden's deterioration of his spine, the degeneration was so significant that if he fell one more time, that he might have to be in a wheelchair and serve in a wheelchair, for his second term. But everybody pushed off the notion that he used a wheelchair until after the election. This is all part of a larger hole where the Biden White House tried to hide the extent of his deterioration, both physical and cognitive, as much as possible. In fact, as you we all know, we all saw, as his shuffling gait got worse and worse from 02/2003 to 02/2004, they started putting aids around him as he walked to Marine One, the helicopter that was to kind of hide from public view how bad his gait was, how bad his wa ...

I pledge allegiance to the flag of The United States Of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Oh, beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, for purple mountain majesties above the fruit of the plain. America. America is back. Yes, sir.

Inflation rate down over the past three months under president Trump, and things are looking good. Let's go to Fred in Clemson. Fred, what's on your mind this afternoon? I think I have an idea why the Democrats want all these organized criminals, in the country. Alright.

Okay. In Venezuela, there's the cartel of the sons, and they've been given free reign by the government to do whatever they wanna do. In return, the cartels persuade the citizenry to vote for the incumbency. Uh-huh. And as far as the opposition is concerned, they either intimidate them or eliminate them.

This is long term here. Persuade, and I'm pretty sure they persuade with the threat of violence. Right? Absolutely. So, I mean, you might be right.

Yeah. You might be right. So what? Yep. That's that's my thoughts on it.

When they get back in power, they'll want a cartel of their own. Yeah. You're right about that. I appreciate it, Fred. Yeah.

They do, try to employ some cartel tactics. Well, we got some news today about president Joe Biden, former president Joe Biden. He has a small nodule on his prostate that needs further evaluation. It's according to multiple reports. Of course, Joe Biden, eighty two years old.

We certainly hope it's not cancer. We hope that Biden recovers fully and lives a long, healthy life. Absolutely. But his health has been a big concern and was a concern for a long time in his in his last couple of years of his administration. Now here's the thing, though.

Everybody this was like the worst kept secret in Washington DC. Everybody was telling you, no. Joe Biden is sharp as attack. Joe I I don't even remember Jen Psaki, wasn't it? Or or was it Karimjon Piere?

I can't even keep up with the guy. I mean, he's just he's just one big bundle of energy. But now we're finding out that none of that is true. The mainstream media covered up for Joe Biden horribly, horribly. Remember, they always say, oh, he's sharp as a tack sharp as a tack.

Yes, sir. I've never seen him sharper. He is just a he's just amazing. And then the debate happened. And once that debate happened, it was out there.

All of a sudden, the emperor had no clothes. And even CNN had to sit there, and I remember Van Jones are like, this was a disaster. I don't know how you recover from this, but it was something that the mainstream media kept trying to cover up. And now at least one of them is trying to actually capitalize on this, Jake Tapper. Now I'm gonna be taking a couple of days off coming up at the end of the month and, gonna go down to Coco, my wife and I.

Gonna sit on the beach, get a little sun. I'm thinking about getting this book from Jake Tapper. It's called original sin. And the original sin that he talks about in that book is the media's cover up of Joe Biden and just how bad it was. Let's take a listen to Jake Tapper, as he was, being interviewed over on CNN.

I'm curious about what his advisers were saying at the time, as you look at this, as you reported out this book. So the White House physician, doctor Kevin O'Connor, was telling White House aids, that president Biden's deterioration of his spine, the degeneration, was so significant that if he fell one more time, that he might have to be in a wheelchair and serve in a wheelchair, for his second term. But everybody pushed off the notion that he used a wheelchair until after the election. This is all part of a larger hole where the Biden White House tried to hide the extent of his deterioration, both physical and cognitive, as much as possible. In fact, as you we all know, we all saw, as his shuffling gait got worse and worse from 2,003 to 02/2004, they started putting ai ...

And welcome to the program on your Tuesday afternoon. And and look at that. Hey. It's not raining. That's awesome.

I was, out, walking the dogs this morning, and my neighbor walked out of his, his, garage there. And he goes, oh, look. It's sunny. I said, yeah. Right?

I know how you feel, pal. I know how you feel. But don't you worry. We still got that little chance of rain coming in, pretty much for the rest of the week that's gonna be around with us. So there you go.

The dogs are actually loving getting outside again. Well, I was thinking last night. I was standing at the window, my kitchen window, eating my supper because I don't know what it is. But I eat breakfast standing up, and I eat dinner standing up. I don't know why.

Lunch, I sit down with my wife. That's our big meal of the, of the day is lunch. But for my dinner, I was standing there at the window as I'd eaten my salad, and, I got a thought. I got a thought about exactly what they're gonna be doing in Colombia, and it wasn't a good thought either. In fact, I'll tell you, it really is a good thought when I think about Colombia.

I don't I don't remember last time I thought about Columbia fondly. It's been a long time, especially when our where our state legislature is concerned. So we know that governor Henry McMaster is real big for whatever reason. We don't know what the reason is, do we, governor McMaster? That he is all for this doctor Simmer to be the head of public health here in South Carolina.

He's all for this guy. Even though this guy was all for mask mandates, he was all about the vaccines. He was all about vaccinating children, and we're finding out all of this stuff about the, these so called vaccines. More studies coming out every single day. And here we've got Simmer that was just a complete acolyte of doctor Fauci.

He was I mean, in fact, I mean, you might even wanna say that that, Simmer is a Fauci wannabe. So because governor McMaster has somebody to make happy, he appointed doctor Simmer to be the head of public health in South Carolina. Now nobody wants this guy. I haven't talked to a single person. Not one single person said, you know, I think doctor Simmer would be a perfect fit.

No. Everybody goes, lord, no. Keep that guy away from there. Get him out. We don't want him.

So you had the senate bring it up. And we started talking about it on the program, and I I asked you guys to call your your state senator, and, boy, you did. You called your state senator like nobody's business, and they knew better. They knew better than to confirm this guy for the to be the head of the public health. So they they kinda dropped it.

Kinda dropped it. They had a hearing. They had another hearing, and then you heard nothing else about it. Now the word is he never had the votes, so they didn't vote. He didn't have the votes, so they just didn't vote.

And then it struck me last night. It struck me last night. Rather than doing what the people of South Carolina want, the governor is gonna do what he wants. He wants simmer because I don't know what favors he's gotta pay off. I don't know who he's gotta make happy, but he wants simmer in that post.

So my thought was, you know what governor McMaster is gonna do? He's gonna make an off session appointment because you see the house and the senate, they're they're done for the year. They put in their fifty one days. They're done. We'll see you in January.

Governor McMaster is going to appoint doctor Simmer in an off session appointment to be the head of public health here in South Carolina. That is going to happen. Go take that to the bank. That is absolutely gonna happen. And then what's gonna happen once the senate gets back in January?

Well, number one, they're either not gonna bring it up. They're just going to well, that's and, basically, that's what's gonna happen. They're gonna get back in session, and they're just gonna let Simmer stay as the head of public health. That's it. Now I can imagine w ...

And welcome to the program on your Tuesday afternoon. And look at that. Hey. It's not raining. That's awesome.

I was, out walking the dogs this morning, and my neighbor walked out of his, his, garage there. And he goes, oh, look. It's sunny. I said, yeah. Right?

I know how you feel, pal. I know how you feel. But don't you worry. We still got that little chance of rain coming in, pretty much for the rest of the week that's gonna be around with us. So there you go.

The dogs are actually loving getting outside again. Well, I was thinking last night. I was standing at the window, my kitchen window, eating my supper because I don't know what it is. But I eat breakfast standing up, and I eat dinner standing up. I don't know why.

Lunch, I sit down with my wife. That's our big meal of the, of the day is lunch. But for my dinner, I was standing there at the window as I had eaten my salad, and, I got a thought. I got a thought about exactly what they're gonna be doing in Colombia, and it wasn't a good thought either. In fact, I'll tell you, it really is a good thought when I think about Colombia.

I don't I don't remember last time I thought about Colombia fondly. It's been a long time, especially when our where our state legislature is concerned. So we know that governor Henry McMaster is real big for whatever reason. We don't know what the reason is, do we, governor McMaster? That he is all for this doctor Simmer to be the head of public health here in South Carolina.

He's all for this guy. Even though this guy was all for mask mandates, He was all about the vaccines. He was all about vaccinating children, and we're finding out all of this stuff about the, these so called vaccines. More studies coming out every single day. And here we've got Simmer that was just a complete acolyte of doctor Fauci.

He was I mean, in fact, I mean, you might even wanna say that that, Simmer is a Fauci wannabe. So because governor McMaster has somebody to make happy, he appointed doctor Simmer to be the head of public health in South Carolina. Now nobody wants this guy. I haven't talked to a single person. Not one single person said, you know, I think doctor Simmer would be a perfect fit.

No. Everybody goes, lord, no. Keep that guy away from there. Get him out. We don't want him.

So you had the senate bring it up, and we started talking about it on the program. And I I asked you guys to call your your state senator, and, boy, you did. You called your state senator like nobody's business, and they knew better. They knew better than to confirm this guy for the to be the head of the public health. So they they kinda dropped it.

Kinda dropped it. They had a hearing. They had another hearing, and then you heard nothing else about it. Now the word is he never had the votes, so they didn't vote. He didn't have the votes, so they just didn't vote.

And then it struck me last night. It struck me last night. Rather than doing what the people of South Carolina want, the governor is gonna do what he wants. He wants simmer because I don't know what favors he's gotta pay off. I don't know who he's gotta make happy, but he wants simmer in that post.

So my thought was, you know what governor McMaster is gonna do? He's gonna make an off session appointment because you see the house and the senate, they're they're done for the year. They put in their fifty one days. They're done. We'll see you in January.

Governor McMaster is going to appoint doctor Simmer in an off session appointment to be the head of public health here in South Carolina. That is going to happen. Go take that to the bank. That is absolutely gonna happen. And then what's gonna happen once the senate gets back in January?

Well, number one, they're either not gonna bring it up. They're just going to well, that's and, basically, that's what's gonna happen. They're gonna get back in session, and they're just gonna let Simmer stay as the head of public health. That's it. Now I can imagine what ...

And welcome back to the program. Well, president Trump signed an executive order today to lower pharmaceutical prices here in The United States. And, boy, that is welcome news because there's a lot about this that we don't know. Now we pay dramatically more here in this country than they do in other countries for the same pharmaceuticals. In fact, president Trump had an little bit of an anecdote about that today.

I mean, I'll tell you a story. A friend of mine who's a a businessman, very, very, very top guy. Most of you would have heard of him. A highly neurotic, brilliant businessman, seriously overweight, and he takes the fat the fat shot drug. And he called me up, and he said, president.

He calls me he used to call me Donald, now he calls me president. So that's nice respect, but he's a rough guy, smart guy, Very successful, very rich. I wouldn't even know how we would know this, but because he's got comments. So president, could I ask you a question? What?

I'm in London, and I just paid for this damn fat drug I take. I said, it's not working, they said. He said, I just paid $88. And in New York, I paid $1,300. What the hell is going on?

Exactly. I love that. It's not working. That that's great. But we do we pay a lot more here than other countries do.

Because you see and the big thing that they always talk about, oh, you know, we got research and development, and we've got yada yada, and we've gotta pay for this and that, and we've gotta do well, why doesn't anybody else have to pay for it? Why isn't a a drug the same price in London as it is in The United States? Why isn't a a pharmaceutical the same price in Canada as it is here in The United States? Listen to what RFK Junior said. This is this is pretty darned amazing.

It really is. Mister secretary, Trump says some prices will come down almost immediately. What is the timetable for these price cuts? Well, there's a series of escalating steps, but you know what? The that that will bring them down to European levels.

Right now, we spend we provide America provides 75% of the pharmaceutical revenues in the world, and we only have 4.2% of the world's population. Sure. We're paying in, in our country, the list price for Ozempic is $1,300 per dose. In London, it's $88. And Democratic and Republican politicians have been talking about for years, we gotta end these discrepancies.

Nobody has had the courage to do it because of the power of the pharmaceutical lobby on Capitol Hill. K. And and answer your question, how soon will this happen, it it depends on how enthusiastically the drug companies cooperate. There are a series of escalating steps that we will take if they don't cooperate. But we're very you know, we've been meeting with the pharmaceutical companies.

They admit that this is something that is should have ended a long time ago, and I think they're ready to figure out a way to get there. And they have advantages in this executive order, Stuart. K. Because we got rid of the PBMs. We got rid of the middlemen, and that's something that they've wanted themselves.

Now here's the big question. Why aren't the Democrats celebrating this? I mean, after all, hey, then we just go back to Bernie Sanders. Back in 2016, Bernie Sanders ran on big pharma. Let's take a listen to what he said.

Here we go. We pay in this country the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. Maybe, just maybe, it might be time for the United States Senate to stand up to the pharmaceutical industry and all of their lobbyists here and all of their campaign contributions and say we're gonna stand with the American people who are sick and tired of being ripped off by the drug companies. There there are many reasons why we pay such outrageous prices, but one reason is we continue passing laws written by the pharmaceutical industry and their lobbyists year after year after year. I believe that the American people should know that the pharmaceutical industry has spent more than $3,000 ...

And welcome back to the program. Well, president Trump signed an executive order today to lower pharmaceutical prices here in The United States. And, boy, that is welcome news because there's a lot about this that we don't know. Now we pay dramatically more here in this country than they do in other countries for the same pharmaceuticals. In fact, president Trump had an little bit of an anecdote about that today.

I mean, I'll tell you a story. A friend of mine who's a a businessman, very, very, very top guy. Most of you would have heard of him. A highly neurotic, brilliant businessman, seriously overweight, and he takes the fat the fat shot drug. And he called me up, and he said, president.

He calls me he used to call me Donald. Now he calls me president, so that's nice respect. But he's a rough guy, smart guy. Very successful, very rich. I wouldn't even know how we would know this, but because he's got comments.

Said, president, could I ask you a question? What? I'm in London, and I just paid for this damn fat drug I take. I said, it's not working, they said. He said, I just paid $88, and in New York, I paid $1,300.

What the hell is going on? Exactly. I love that. It's not working. That that's great.

But we do we pay a lot more here than other countries do. Because you see and the big thing that they always talk about, oh, y'all, you know, we got research research and development, and we've got yada yada, and we've gotta pay for this and that, and we've gotta do well, why doesn't anybody else have to pay for it? Why isn't a a drug the same price in London as it is in The United States? Why isn't a a pharmaceutical the same price in Canada as it is here in The United States? Listen to what RFK Junior said.

This is this is pretty darned amazing. It really is. Mister secretary, Trump says some prices will come down almost immediately. What is the timetable for these price cuts? Well, there's a series of escalating steps, but you know what?

That that will bring them down to European levels. Right now, we spend we provide America provides 75% of the pharmaceutical revenues in the world, and we only have 4.2% of the world's population. Sure. We're paying in, in our country, the list price for Ozempic is $1,300 per dose. In London, it's $88.

And Democratic and Republican politicians have been talking about for years, we gotta end these discrepancies. Nobody has had the courage to do it because of the power of the pharmaceutical lobby on Capitol Hill. K. The the and and answer your question, how soon will this happen, it it depends on how enthusiastically the drug companies cooperate. There are a series of escalating steps that we will take if they don't cooperate.

But we're very you know, we've been meeting with the pharmaceutical companies. They admit that this is something that is should have ended a long time ago. And I think they're ready to figure out a way to get there. And they have advantages to this executive order, Stewart. Okay.

Because we got rid of the PBMs. We got rid of the middlemen, and that's something that they've wanted themselves. Now here's the big question. Why aren't the Democrats celebrating this? I mean, after all, hey, then we just go back to Bernie Sanders.

Back in 2016, Bernie Sanders ran on big pharma. Let's take a listen to what he said. Here we go. We pay in this country the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. Maybe, just maybe, it might be time for the United States Senate to stand up to the pharmaceutical industry and all of their lobbyists here and all of their campaign contributions and say we're gonna stand with the American people who are sick and tired of being ripped off by the drug companies.

There there are many reasons why we pay such outrageous prices, but one reason is we continue passing laws written by the pharmaceutical industry and their lobbyists year after year after year. I believe that the American people should know that the pharmaceutical industr ...

I, man, might be getting an inch of rain overnight. I tell you what, days like this, my dogs can't stand them. Arty, not as much. Arty's kinda cool. He's kinda laid back and chill.

But Sophie Sophie hates rainy days because we don't let her outside that much because she would spend all day outside if we let her. All day. Now we've got a doggy door. Right? This little girl will walk in, take a lap around the kitchen island, get a drink of water, go right back outside.

If we had to let her out every time that she wanted to go out, we would have a groove worn in the flooring going through the front doors or to the back door rather. So, so, yeah, dogs are hating today, and I'm not all that crazy about it as well. Lots of rain coming. It's been a very, very wet, spring. Coming up in just few minutes, gonna tell you we're gonna talk a little bit about climate and why ABC News is so upset over over something that Noah is not including in their reports.

We'll have that for you coming up. But I don't know if you know this. Did you know that we had a trade deal with China? I I no. I'm not talking about this one.

Not talking about this one. I'm talking about previously under the Trump administration. Did you know we had a trade deal with China? I had no idea. Listen to what Scott Bissent said about it.

What has to happen is it has to be fair for the American people. But in January 2020, president Trump produced a template. We had an excellent trade agreement with China, and the Biden administration chose not to enforce it. The the Chinese delegation basically told us that once president Biden came into office, they just ignored their obligations. So, you know, we all already have a large framework.

The other thing to remember here, Jonathan, is that this is a pause down to 10%. The April 2 level for China is 34%. So, we will be working to see where their final reciprocal number ends up. And the negotiations are a combination of tariffs, non tariff trade barriers, currency manipulation, and subsidies of labor and capital. What has So here's the deal.

Here's the deal here. Everybody over on the left, everybody, all of these peep everyone of them, they all came out and they said there's no way. There is no way that Trump is gonna be able to work out a trade deal with China. This guy is just he's spitting in the wind. I don't know what he's thinking of.

There's no way. He's gonna ruin our economy. And what happened? What happened? We now got a reset.

This and that's exactly what it is. It's a ninety day pause, sort of a pause, between us and China, and we are resetting where we are with our with our tariffs, both sides. That caused the stock market to go absolutely crazy today. It went nuts. It really did.

Had a great day on Wall Street. So this ninety day pause is gonna give us more leverage to do more negotiations with China because, remember, they need us more than we need them. I know a lot of times you think you need the store, but, actually, the store needs you more than you need them. That's a little thing out there called competition. And if you don't like the prices, you don't like the service, you don't like the location of a store, you just go somewhere else.

Same thing with China. We don't like the deal we're getting with China. We don't like how much it cost. We don't like the fact that they're not buying our goods. Now we've got other company or other countries stepping up going, hey.

We'll fill the void. China has been hurting over the past couple of weeks, and I think they have realized just how delicate and fragile their economy actually is. Their warehouses are stocked full of stuff that they just cannot ship. Factories are closing down. The ones that are staying open are experiencing, protests.

They're experiencing, what do you call them there? Strikes. They're striking. China's economy is not doing well right now, and they're feeling the pressure. Now wait a minute.

Hold on. You can just go back a coupl ...

I, man. Might be getting an inch of rain overnight. I tell you what, days like this, my dogs can't stand them. Arty, not as much. Arty's kinda cool.

He's kinda laid back and chill. But Sophie Sophie hates rainy days because we don't let her outside that much because she would spend all day outside if we let her. All day. Now we've got a doggy door. Right?

This little girl will walk in, take a lap around the kitchen island, get a drink of water, go right back outside. If we had to let her out every time that she wanted to go out, we would have a groove worn in the flooring going through the front doors or to the back door rather. So, so, yeah, dogs are hating today, and I'm not all that crazy about it as well. Lots of rain coming. It's been a very, very wet, spring.

Coming up in just few minutes, gonna tell you we're gonna talk a little bit about climate and why ABC News is so upset over over something that Noah is not including in their reports. We'll have that for you coming up. But I don't know if you know this. Did you know that we had a trade deal with China? I I no.

I'm not talking about this one. Not talking about this one. I'm talking about previously under the Trump administration. Did you know we had a trade deal with China? I had no idea.

Listen to what Scott Besant said about it. What has to happen is it has to be fair for the American people. But in January 2020, president Trump produced a template. We had an excellent trade agreement with China and the Biden administration chose not to enforce it. The the Chinese delegation basically told us that once president Biden came into office, they just ignored their obligations.

So, you know, we all already have a large framework. The other thing to remember here, Jonathan, is that this is a pause down to 10%. The April 2 level for China is 34%. So, we will be working to see where their final reciprocal number ends up. And the negotiations are a combination of tariffs, non tariff trade barriers, currency manipulation, and subsidies of labor and capital.

What has So here's the deal. Here's the deal here. Everybody over on the left, everybody, all of these people, everyone of them, they all came out and they said there's no way. There is no way that Trump is gonna be able to work out a trade deal with China. This guy is just he's spitting in the wind.

I don't know what he's thinking of. There's no way. He's gonna ruin our economy. And what happened? What happened?

We now got a reset. This and that's exactly what it is. It's a ninety day pause, sort of a pause, between us and China, and we are resetting where we are with our with our tariffs, both sides. That caused the stock market to go absolutely crazy today. It went nuts.

It really did. Had a great day on Wall Street. So this ninety day pause is gonna give us more leverage to do more negotiations with China because, remember, they need us more than we need them. I know a lot of times you think you need the store, but, actually, the store needs you more than you need them. That's a little thing out there called competition.

And if you don't like the prices, you don't like the service, you don't like the location of a store, you just go somewhere else. Same thing with China. We don't like the deal we're getting with China. We don't like how much it cost. We don't like the fact that they're not buying our goods.

Now we've got other company or other countries stepping up going, hey. We'll fill the void. China has been hurting over the past couple of weeks, and I think they have realized just how delicate and fragile their economy actually is. Their warehouses are stocked full of stuff that they just cannot ship. Factories are closing down.

The ones that are staying open are experiencing, protests. They're experiencing, what do you call them? Their strikes. They're striking. China's economy is not doing well right now, and they're feeling the pressure.

Now wait a minute. Hold on. You can just go back a coup ...

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Let's go to Gene in great court. Gene, what do you think about president Trump? Charlie, I'm gonna ask you to start a movement here on your program with all of Charlie champs. Okay. And that is we need to petition the Norwegian parliament to declare Donald Trump the next Nobel Peace Laureate.

Yeah. He has done much to stabilize the world, to give the world clarity of direction and stability. Yeah. No question about it. And that includes the accomplishments of his, 40, fifth term, Charlie.

Now, on the other hand, if they won't do it, then we have to demand that Barack Obama go on a special Oprah Winfrey show and return the Nobel Prize that they gave to him to say this rightfully belongs to Donald j Trump because I did nothing. You're exactly right. That that guy did nothing, got the Nobel Peace Prize. I appreciate it. Thank you, Jean.

Man, I would kill to get a Nobel Peace Prize. Let's go to Tom in, Anderson and talk to him. Tom, welcome. Hey, Charlie. How are you today?

Doing good. What's up, man? Well, I wanted to comment on the pharmaceutical price reduction. Yeah. It wasn't that many years ago that I recall that you could basically deal with some companies out of Canada.

You could buy a drug manufactured here in The United States that was sold to Canada, and then in turn, somebody in Canada could sell it back to you Yeah. For half the price that you would pay if you bought it here. Yeah. And they're still making money, which you think to yourself so, basically, they're just, like, taking huge advantage of their own countrymen while but somehow, Canada's able to buy it so it's cheaper. Reduce the price in half and still make dollars off of it.

Yeah. The last time I got something, I I think they had sent it to Zimbabwe or something. Right. And so they ship it all around the the world, and somehow it comes back to me at the half the price that I would pay if I went down to my local pharmacy and bought it. Yeah.

And you're going Yep. This is insane. It really is. I'm glad he took care of that. I am too.

I am too, Tom. I appreciate it. In fact, there's so many do you know I mean, like like, ivermectin? You know, in Mexico, that's over the counter. You you can go and get ivermectin like you can get ibuprofen.

Not here. Not here. But thanks to our FDA and the USDA, they got those restrictions on those. Well, we remember last week that a bunch of Democrats showed up at a an ICE detention facility in Newark, New Jersey. Remember that?

And, oh, boy, and they caused a ruckus while they were there. Well, they might actually be paying the price for that ruckus. The Trump administration is warning there could be more arrests after three house Democrats attempted to push through ICE agents and enter a New Jersey immigration detention center on Friday. He just assaulted me. He just told me.

He just told me. Lawmakers have oversight capacity. DHS had said, hey. You know, we would have let them in with proper channels, but instead, you saw that play out. Those Democrats, though, they're insisting they are the victims.

That's right. They're always the victim. Now federal law enforcement exists to uphold the law. That's what they're supposed to do. They're not supposed to be there to be props for political stunts.

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