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48 Hours
False Identity
I've made it clear from the beginning that I believe a term in prison is appropriate in this case. It seems to me this is this man's third felony conviction. For that fact alone, he ought to go to prison.
48 Hours
False Identity
He was just a tenant at my mom's house here, and he worked for my mom at Schlotzky's restaurant.
48 Hours
False Identity
Very much so, because I know his books were all there and he always seemed to be studying very diligently.
48 Hours
The Ivy League Murder
What's up, everyone? Welcome to another episode of Fitness with Kevin. I'm Kevin. It still doesn't feel real. You know, like, it still doesn't feel real.
48 Hours
The Ivy League Murder
US Marshals are leading a nationwide manhunt this morning for the man charged in the murder of a Yale grad student. You give me a real sense of the pressure.
Morning Wire
Jack Smith Report Blocked & Congestion Toll Avoidance | Afternoon Update | 1.7.25
We don't have to shut TikTok down. It just has to change ownership to abide by American laws as deemed by the order of Congress.
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Jack Smith Report Blocked & Congestion Toll Avoidance | Afternoon Update | 1.7.25
This company is living in a dreamland thinking the Supreme Court of the United States is going to uphold spyware against its American people. Ain't going to happen. And then you've got this timing situation.
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Trump’s ‘Golden Age of America’ Begins | 1.21.25
Yeah, I experienced firsthand why they chose to move the ceremony indoors. It was absolutely frigid. I am still thawing out. I met folks from around the country, and world for that matter, who had come to D.C. to celebrate, and they certainly got their chance.
Morning Wire
Trump’s ‘Golden Age of America’ Begins | 1.21.25
The entire city felt like a giant Trump party, and because the ceremony was not on the National Mall, impromptu viewing parties formed all across the city all day long. When Trump gave his inaugural address after taking the oath of office, he struck an optimistic but defiant tone, saying the golden age of America was about to begin.
Morning Wire
Trump’s ‘Golden Age of America’ Begins | 1.21.25
Along with presenting that extremely optimistic view of the country's future under his administration, Trump also did not shy away from a key theme of his campaign, widespread government corruption. He vowed to immediately begin taking action to rip it out root and stem.
Morning Wire
Trump’s ‘Golden Age of America’ Begins | 1.21.25
And we should note that Trump supporters say the timing of that declaration could not be more appropriate, as the now former president, Joe Biden, issued a series of extremely controversial preemptive pardons in his literal final hour in office. Those included open-ended pardons for five members of his immediate family.
Morning Wire
Trump’s ‘Golden Age of America’ Begins | 1.21.25
Also among those pardons before any charges have been brought were Dr. Anthony Fauci, former U.S. Army General Mark Milley, and members of the J6 committee, including Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger. There was a lot of blowback over those, but even more so over Biden's decision to pardon his own brother James and his wife, his sister Valerie and her husband, and his brother Francis.
Morning Wire
Trump’s ‘Golden Age of America’ Begins | 1.21.25
This all comes, of course, amid a number of allegations against the Bidens for corruption, as well as fears on the left that Trump will pursue charges.
Morning Wire
Trump’s ‘Golden Age of America’ Begins | 1.21.25
Right. A lot of anticipation about how he would handle the January 6 pardons. And Trump did not disappoint his base in his first moves on this. He announced to the crowd at the Capital One Arena that he was about to sign some of his initial pardons of what he called the J6 hostages and teased a lot more to come.
Morning Wire
Trump’s ‘Golden Age of America’ Begins | 1.21.25
As we reported, the Biden administration slapped over 1,400 people with charges and convicted more than 900. Trump has so far already signed pardons for all but a handful. He's commuted those final sentences and will do, quote, further research on them. So we'll be tracking how he handles those cases going forward. Right. And one final note before we go.
Morning Wire
Trump’s ‘Golden Age of America’ Begins | 1.21.25
Another memorable moment from the day came during the swearing in when the music in the venue malfunctioned right as Carrie Underwood was supposed to sing America the Beautiful. After a long, awkward moment of confusion, Underwood stepped up with a beautiful acapella rendition and the crowd joined in.
Morning Wire
Pope Francis Tributes & “King of Kings” Box Office | Afternoon Update | 4.21.25
During President Trump's first term, he sat down with the Pope at the Vatican in 2017. Trump responded to the Pope's death early Monday, saying, May God bless him and all who loved him.
Morning Wire
Pope Francis Tributes & “King of Kings” Box Office | Afternoon Update | 4.21.25
Cardinal Kevin Farrell of the Apostolic Chamber announced the Pope's death early Monday, stating that at 7.35 this morning, the Bishop of Rome, Francis, returned to the house of the Father.
Morning Wire
Pope Francis Tributes & “King of Kings” Box Office | Afternoon Update | 4.21.25
Stating that his entire life was dedicated to the service of the Lord and of his church, the Cardinal praised Francis as a man who taught us to live the values of the gospel with fidelity, courage, and universal love, especially in favor of the poorest and most marginalized. Francis, who was born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, was elected in March 2013 after Pope Benedict XVI resigned.
Morning Wire
Pope Francis Tributes & “King of Kings” Box Office | Afternoon Update | 4.21.25
He was the first Latin American pope, and his papacy often adopted progressive tones but also upheld the church's conservative doctrines on abortion, gay marriage, and gender ideology. Despite his criticisms of the Trump administration for its immigration policy, one of the last people the Pope met was Vice President J.D. Vance, who visited him the day before his passing on Easter.
Morning Wire
CA Wildfires Fuel Tensions & DHS Blocks Deportations | 1.13.25
The death toll and property damage continues to rise in Los Angeles as wildfires rage on nearly a week after they started.
Morning Wire
CA Wildfires Fuel Tensions & DHS Blocks Deportations | 1.13.25
How contained are the fires now and why do some fear they may get worse in the coming days?
Morning Wire
CA Wildfires Fuel Tensions & DHS Blocks Deportations | 1.13.25
The Biden administration on Friday shielded hundreds of thousands of immigrants from deportation just days before President Biden will leave office.
Morning Wire
CA Wildfires Fuel Tensions & DHS Blocks Deportations | 1.13.25
And as the Supreme Court considers the issue of so-called gender-affirming care, a new documentary from TPUSA and The Daily Wire exposes its harsh reality.
Morning Wire
CA Wildfires Fuel Tensions & DHS Blocks Deportations | 1.13.25
Here with more is Daily Wire culture reporter, Megan Basham. So Megan, we've seen a rapid sea change when it comes to public opinion about transgenderism, particularly as it relates to children. Only a couple of years ago, it was an expanding field within the medical establishment. But since then, 25 states have moved to outlaw these practices and we're actually well behind Europe in that regard.
Morning Wire
CA Wildfires Fuel Tensions & DHS Blocks Deportations | 1.13.25
Several countries, including the UK most recently, have banned the use of puberty blockers for gender dysphoria. Why is the sentiment shifting now?
Morning Wire
CA Wildfires Fuel Tensions & DHS Blocks Deportations | 1.13.25
Now, 20 years ago, there was virtually no parents transitioning their kids. How did this happen so fast, and what was driving it?
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CA Wildfires Fuel Tensions & DHS Blocks Deportations | 1.13.25
Megan, thanks for reporting. Anytime.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
The FBI is a rotten institution, thankfully, with many great men and women in rank and file roles. But for too long, the FBI has been too independent of any real overview by either the president or the attorney general or Congress, which would be appropriate. Congress has largely just abdicated its responsibility to do so.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
We believe at Heritage that the best way to reform the FBI is to go into the legal code that created it, select all, delete, and start from scratch. We believe there's, to be clear, a very proper role for a federal bureau of investigation. We think that in its current constitution and structure, it is so unreformable that that would be the best way to actually fix it.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
Because of politics, it's most likely that reform will have to come from a very vigorous director, but also real vigor from the president and from the Speaker of the House and the Majority Leader of the Senate. They've got to play ball when it comes to reforming that agency. It's rotten. It is used to persecute Americans.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
There are probably people in our respective organizations, The Daily Wire and Heritage. I happen to know factually that's the case, at least for some of us at Heritage. The FBI was on the brink of persecuting. They've done so with the former president. I wouldn't like that at all if it were someone on the political left. This is something that ought to transcend politics.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
And it's very important to sum up here as the president prosecutes this political case against the FBI, that as much as he could make it personal that he explained as he did during the campaign, the reform is about the ordinary American and making sure the FBI works for us rather than against us.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
I hope to see a real discipline about what the policy priorities are. Obviously, those don't have to run in such a linear fashion, but to some extent, being excellent in communication about what those priorities are and why is the first step. The second step, I would argue, at Heritage is to completely close the border.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
And I think President Trump, keep in mind his first appointment was a border czar, our Heritage fellow, Tom Homan, who taught me several years ago as we started working together on border security, is that it isn't just about closing the border, but about interior enforcement.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
And that's where Americans in the interior of the country, obviously a majority of Americans, believe that their interests have been forgotten on that issue.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
Not only is it important to do that for its inherent purposes, it's also important to do that to prove to the American people that Trump meant it, that he's going to spend political capital to do so, including deportations of millions of people. And then that gives you the political will to move on to point two.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
And I think point two is largely going to be focused on the economy, ranging from very important deregulatory efforts to policies of the Treasury Secretary to re-upping the Trump tax cuts. All of those are very important in step two, and Americans will feel the benefits of that relatively early. And then, as I speculate, John, The third step is sort of up in the air.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
Bottom line is the top lesson Democrats should be talking about right now is that when you govern like radical leftists and attempt to run to the center very late in the campaign, that does not work. Sometimes it works for Democrats to govern on the radical left, but they, over many, a long period of months, will move to the center and it works.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
There are a lot of possibilities, but I think I would recommend, as a friend to the president and vice president-elect, that they pick some example of the reform that they will be doing throughout the government. Maybe it comes from the work at government efficiency that Elon and Vivek will be doing. Maybe they decide they're going to focus on the Department of Education.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
And my point is spend a lot of time, a disproportionate amount of media time, explaining to the American people what this is about. Why they're doing it, how they're going about it, that they're treating federal employees well as they're doing so, sort of the human level that Americans pay attention to, which is good, and then go do it.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
And I actually think that that gives them an expanded popular will to move on to step four, whatever that may be. The pressures in D.C. will be such that they're going to try to push all of those together so that only one of those things can happen.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
It's really important that the president and his team, who thus far just look terrific to us at Heritage, be very disciplined in how they go about that and when.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
In this case, their record prevented that from happening. And the more the vice president tried to present herself as someone in the center, there were two problems that she had. Number one, enough of the American people realized that was a lie.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
And number two, it actually underscored this persistent concern that they had about her and have about a lot of politicians, especially on the left, which is that they're inauthentic. And so they try to run an inauthentic campaign against whatever you think about Donald Trump, the most authentic man in politics. Right.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
And so the lesson that they should be drawing, Democrats should be drawing is either run as radical leftists and convince the American people that they are with you, which they are not.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
or which is what I would recommend they do, be a center left party, be less ridiculous about abortion, be less ridiculous about the power of the state in our lives, be less ridiculous about basically your whole program. But I'm just telling you now, at least spending the daytime many days in Washington, D.C., those aren't the conversations they're having.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
And they've actually pushed out very thoughtful folks like Senator Chris Murphy from Connecticut. I think I disagree with Senator Murphy on everything, but he had this very thoughtful analysis on X several days ago. And those conversations just are not happening. It's bad for the Democrats, but good for those of us who believe that this commences a generation-long era of conservative policy reform.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
I will describe it two ways, and I will, in the second way, acknowledge your point about principles, maybe even versus pragmatism. But the first, and I think arguably more important way, is that the Republican Party is once again a working class, multi-ethnic coalition. And of course, it includes middle class and high net worth people, too.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
But the reason I say once again is not even to harken back to Reagan or sometime 100 years ago, but to its very roots. You know that I'm a historian and the very roots of the Republican Party, particularly when Abraham Lincoln ran in 1860, certainly had something to do in that election with anti-slavery.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
But even more important than that in that election was the sense that the Republican Party stood for the American worker. what Abraham Lincoln termed free labor ideology. It was his way of saying sort of working class, blue collar, middle class, and so on. And that's the most important thing that the Republican Party has become. But it's also important to acknowledge that there is a tension.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
between principles, which we, by definition, don't have the power to change, at least in a social sense, but in a political sense, Trump and his campaign put an emphasis on pragmatism, that we're going to water down, they are going to water down, the party's position on abortion. They have stopped fighting on marriage.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
And there are questions about what Trump will do as president regarding using the federal government and the administrative state for certain aims that may in fact be very good, but those are going to, this is going to be sort of a tense conversation with other conservatives who are very Trump aligned. I'm not saying that all of that is bad. I'm just saying that there's a tension there.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
And I think one of the goals that we have, certainly at Heritage and I think across the movement, is to reconcile those, not just for politics.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
That's almost the least of my concerns, although it's a concern, but more importantly for the long run to make sure that the Republican Party, as it has been my entire lifetime, best represents the principles that Americans believe are upstream of those political considerations.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
That's not only a thoughtful, but a very valid position to have.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
And for example, in the months following the Dobbs decision, as Heritage and other pro-life organizations were trying to figure out what do we do at the federal level regarding further restrictions on abortion, I was surprised, although as a friend, when a couple of members of Congress, I'll leave them anonymous because I don't know if their positions on this were ever stated, but really thoughtful stalwart conservatives, men you would never say are squishes on this issue, said,
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
This is not a federal issue. Heritage's position is that there ought to at least be some mild parameters put on abortion at the federal level. And if you go that step, then it's difficult to say then everything else is for the states. But to the heart of your question, yes, it's a valid and consistent Republican position to say the states are going to handle that.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
The caveat that I would issue on that and that Heritage will be talking about is as it relates to morality, the Republican Party has also always said that that's something that needs to happen at the federal level. Hmm.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
I use second American Revolution for two purposes. The first is I'm a historian of the American Revolution. And while I can tell you a lot about military battles, the most important part of the American Revolution was the building and rebuilding of institutions that put into place American associational life, our daily life, the founding principles.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
And so when I talk about the Second American Revolution in a historic sense, I'm not talking about military battles or violence of any kind. In fact, quite the opposite. The whole point of referencing that is to talk about how peaceful the most important part of the American Revolution was, which went on for many decades. But the second is...
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
And it's fascinating to me, just in the weeks following the election, we have seen President-elect Trump and a lot of his advisors talk about this re-founding of America. And I think what they're getting at is the same thing that I talk about in the book, which is that the worst part of America today, the most challenging part of America today, isn't our political discourse.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
It isn't some terrible policies. It's that for two generations, our institutions have deteriorated. And they've deteriorated because they have stopped cultivating a sense of self-governance in Americans. They've stopped cultivating a sense of truth for that matter. And that goes directly to your point about this presidential campaign being one that I think came down on the issue of common sense.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
In fact, the Trump-Vance campaign could have, as early as August, just run campaign ads that said, just trust what you see with your own eyes. Boys are boys. Girls are girls. And you can go on and on and on. Or the economy. Trust what you're paying at the grocery store as being a problem. But that's connected to the Second American Revolution idea because...
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
Just briefly, permit me to play historian for one moment. In the 1760s and early 1770s, British colonial officials in the then colonies were telling American colonists, oh, no, it's not a problem that you have to go get a stamp which cost you a couple of pence. That's not a problem. That's not the empire imposing our will on you. And they scratched their heads and said, no. The heck it isn't.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
Of course it is. This isn't uniquely American, but that just skepticism we have about elites, whether it's in the 1770s or in the 2020s, is natural to us. And it is glorious to see it being reanimated right now.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
I name names in the book. I talk about the New York Times, which I think is largely a den of liars. But they're really in microcosm, which is a perfect example of the legacy media writ large. And part of a common sense presidential campaign is more Americans realizing they should stop getting their news from places like that. There are many others, especially in Washington.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
but also name an organization that I'm not only fond of, but as I write about in the book, was instrumental in my overcoming some difficulties in my family when I was growing up in Louisiana, and that's the Boy Scouts of America. I'm a very proud Eagle Scout. I would not be the person I am without the leadership and virtue lessons I learned from Boy Scouts of America.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
Therefore, it was one of the great... civic tragedies when the Boy Scouts of America, of all organizations, decided to go down the path of the woke mind virus. And now it's not even called the Boy Scouts of America. Nothing against girls, obviously. I'm a dad of three girls. But this is also a war on men, which is against common sense. So they just need to go away. They're not salvageable.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
The New York Times is not salvageable. But the institutions or the category of institutions I really hone in on are K-12 schools and universities. I love public schools, but the system as it's currently structured and funded must be totally reformed.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
I hope that they're salvageable because this promise that we make to American schoolchildren that regardless of where they come from and how much money their family has or doesn't have, that we're going to give them the opportunity for the best education in the world. The public school system isn't delivering on that. And also universities.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
I was at Ivy League College recently as part of the book tour. I was grateful to be there. It was a mixed audience ideologically of students on the left and the right. By the way, all of them were not only respectful, but just wonderfully engaging intellectually. Good to hear. But I went to the hotel room after that and I called my wife and I told her, she said, this is shocking.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
Do you think there's any hope? And my answer to her question is my answer to your question, which is no. Because the administrators at places like that are cowards. They're not bad people. They just suffer from cowardice.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
So until there is some factor within those institutions or external to those institutions, which might be federal policy, they're just going to wither on the vine, even though they are blessed with very significant endowments.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
There is no policy arena I am more optimistic about than education reform. And almost all of that optimism comes from what states have decided to do. Oklahoma is a great example. The leadership of Governor Stitt there, Superintendent Ryan Walters, Heritage has helped them as we've helped other state officials develop not just an improved vehicle for funding education,
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
universal school choice or close to it, but very importantly, also the content of this. So for a long time, some of your audience may not know this, conservatives only focused on that, the delivery vehicle, the structure of how we do this, vouchers, education savings accounts as they now are.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
But I realized a few years ago, along with many other conservative education reformers, is that we have to also play in the curriculum game. Because if all you're doing is making it easier for children to have access to really bad content, then you're not helping the situation. So I'm hopeful about that. I'm hopeful about what has happened in Florida. And I'm also hopeful that those examples
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
in the aggregate as the new administration comes in and the new secretary of education and her team, which will likely be a very good team come in, will give them wind in their sails to at the very least get the federal government out of the way of those state-based reforms. That's like hitting a single in a baseball game.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
A double or a triple that would score a couple of runs would be eliminating some of the education programs. The Grand Slam would be eliminating the department entirely for the purpose of improving education in this country. We believe at Heritage there is a strong correlation between the 45-year history of the U.S. Department of Education and declining educational attainment.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
That's the kind of thing that would be one of the great policy victories of the Trump administration.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
I think that it's as likely as it's ever been. It is probably a jump ball. And I think if it does happen, obviously it must include legislation. Heritage is very clear about that. And that legislation is likely because of politics, but maybe also because of good old-fashioned prudence.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
to include an incremental approach to this in much the same way that as I was coming of age as a college student conservative during the Clinton presidency, credit to him and the House and Senate conservatives for passing welfare reform. That's the model. The problem was it only went one step. because of politics.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
We need the Secretary of Education and the President and Vice President to articulate what 10 years down the road looks like, and to have benchmarks, and to constantly message to the American people, this reform, this reform of the U.S. Department of Education is the most important thing we're going to do as a people as we celebrate our 250th birthday.
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The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
Yeah, it's great to be here, Charlie. Big fan and also big fan of the Hillsdale courses. I got to tell you, it's really good advice for folks to take those courses. It's way better than just sitting and watching some random TV show at night. The bottom line is that the president has been talking for a long time about
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
about how unjust our trade deals have been and how bad for American ordinary folks, ordinary workers they are. I'll give you an example that there are huge tariffs on Harley-Davidson's like everywhere because it's a famous American product. And the European tariff on Harley-Davidson, they hate American output so much that they actually have a tariff on Harley-Davidson's
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
motorcycles, even if Harley-Davidson makes the motorcycle in Europe. Can you imagine? And so our trade deals are filled with things like this that are just unjust. And what President Trump showed in the last administration, where I was honored to be chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, is that when you make better trade deals, then it helps blue-collar wages skyrocket.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
And so after basically 16 years of the previous four presidential terms, Real wages in the U.S. declined. In the first three years of the Trump administration, real wages went up for the typical family by $6,500. And the reason was that we put America first. We put America workers first. And so what he's doing now is he's doubling down on that strategy, and he's doing it in Trump time.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
And as you've – actually, I have an update, which is today I just – we've just got two more actually written requests for a trade deal with our trading partners that are way better for American workers. So we're up to 20 written requests and I think 36 negotiations. And U.S. Trade Representative Jameson Greer – is meeting with 14 trade ministers between now and tomorrow.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
And so what's happened is that President Trump, with his tariffs, has put everybody on notice that, look, you got to be nice to American workers, respectful of our trade. And if you come to the table and do that, then we'll make a deal with you. And the deals are moving forward at breakneck speed.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
Yeah, LNG is definitely part of the negotiations. It's interesting because I know how studious you are that you picked up on that. But one of the things that we're putting on the table in these negotiations is that we could agree to something called an offtake agreement.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
And so the idea would be that right now, if you're Japan, you're kind of like hostage to whoever's going to sell you LNG and oil. And if we can successfully expand pipelines in Alaska, then we can fund those pipelines basically with commitments to sell the stuff to Japan because we have enough of it in the U.S. And that's really, really good for Japan.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
And it makes them so happy to not have to be dependent on oil and natural gas from other sources or even to have some insurance against the volatility of the price of oil in free markets. That's so valuable to them that they're coming to the table with the best trade deal you ever saw. And I have one other thing to say about the trade deal, which is just – it shows the way President Trump thinks.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
Charlie, which I know you know it very well, is that if you think about it, we just have a sort of an agreement in principle with India that was announced by J.D. Vance, the vice president. Yes, huge. And you would say, why India?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
Well, it turns out that if you look at the history of non-tariff barriers and not letting them – not letting us sell stuff in there and all that, that probably the worst actor on earth was – What was India like historically over the last 30 or 40 years, you could argue that the worst actor on trade was India.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
And and so why did President Trump say, OK, our first agreement on principle has to be with India? Because he wants to show that he can make a deal even with the hardest people to make a deal with. And if he could do that, that all the other deals should just fall into place.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
Oh, yeah, sure. And the thing is, the way I like to think about it is that the mainstream media and then, you know, there are a lot of very partisan Wall Street houses like go read like what Goldman Sachs says about the economy every time Donald Trump is running for office or he is president. And they just downgraded the U.S. growth this year to 0.5 percent.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
which is just impossible to be that low. But the point is that what happens in the mainstream media, and sometimes this moves markets for the short term, is that they seem to always expect the worst of Donald Trump. But from anyone with experience knows that you should expect that he's got a plan and he's going to deliver the best for the American worker.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
And that as that happens, that markets are going to celebrate because it's the golden age in America again. But what happens is that when we're making changes... Then the media is filled with stories that basically characterize him as, you know, not having a plan. And, you know, just whatever the worst thing you could imagine about Donald Trump is what they cover every day.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
But then the best thing you could think happens. And it's over and over again. So why did we get $6,500 increase in wages, real wages, for people right before COVID in the first three years of the Trump administration after 16 years of nothing? under Obama and Bush, well, the answer is he delivered on his promises. He had a plan that was great for the American worker.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
And so people should sooner or later learn that you're not going to get the worst that you could imagine out of Donald Trump. You're going to get the best.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
Yeah, so the big, beautiful bill negotiations are led by Secretary Bessa to myself as part of the big six. The other four are the majority leader, the Speaker of the House, the Chairman of the Finance Committee and Ways and Means Committee. And we've been meeting regularly through all the stuff, all the news that you read about day in and day out.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
We've got a massive amount of staff and leadership meeting all the time to make sure that the big, beautiful bill gets into the end zone by, say, June. And I can tell you that the talks and the writing of the language is so advanced right now. that pretty much the train is leaving the station next week in the house.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
And so there's been historically fast progress on the largest tax bill ever that also has a heck of a lot of smart spending cuts as well. And so if you think about it, trade is about 14% of the economy, not trade or domestic stuff is about 86% of the economy and, And we're about to give like an incredible vitamin shot to 86% of the economy. And nobody's even really talking about it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
Oh, well, I'd say that the language is already being finalized next week. And so the House expects that it's going to have a bill passed maybe the next three or four weeks. But the point is that you're going to see the bill. You're going to actually be able to start to talk about it in the news. You're going to start to see the bills next week, yeah.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
Right. Well, the president has said that he thinks that there might be an argument for a higher marginal tax rate on people who are extraordinarily wealthy, but he doesn't think that now is the right time for that. And I think that it's also the case that if one did try to do that, it might be pretty heavy lift the hill. But the main theme
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
really, is that we're reducing taxes on ordinary Americans, not cutting taxes for the wealthy. That's not the theme of President Trump's tax cuts. And so on the corporate side, he's creating even bigger incentives for people to build factories in the U.S., to create blue-collar jobs in the U.S. That's what he's doing on the corporate side. And on the individual side, he's
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
highlighted things like no taxes on tips, no taxes on Social Security, and so on. And those are his main priorities. I could say that on the individual side, the new tax cuts are going to be, I think, even more impactful than what we saw last time. Again, and those tax cuts were amazing. But if you think about it,
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
Right now, for example, if you're a person who just retired and you're getting your Social Security and you decide your Social Security benefit isn't as high as you would like and you want to go back to work, then when you go back to work and you earn a dollar, they take away 50 cents of your Social Security benefit. Think about it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
So the highest taxed people on earth are the people who decide, hey, I need to get a little more money than my Social Security, so I need to go back to work. And that Social Security taxes 50 cents on the dollar before, and then the other taxes on top of it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
And so President Trump recognizes there are a lot of people out there who would like to participate more in society, would like to work more, but are discouraged from doing so because of the very, very high tax rates. And that's the real main priority of this bill for us.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
Yeah, I could just say that as an individual, I 100% agree with you, although I guess government salaries being what they are, I'm not sure I'll be in the top tax bracket this year now that I'm after the White House. But the bottom line is that there are a lot of people who think that balancing the budget is important, and it really, really is.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
And one of the interesting things is that I know a lot of people are disappointed in the spending cuts that Congress is talking about. They wish that they would be larger. But one of the things that we have a plan for that hasn't, again, been discussed a lot is that, you know, the Doge savings are real. The Doge savings are real.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
And what we could do throughout the year is that when we aggregate the Doge savings into something called a rescission package, that we can send a bill up to Capitol Hill saying, and they can pass it without it being exposed to filibuster.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
So it's the same rules that allow you to pass something with a simple majority apply to the rescissions that we can send back because of all the great work that Elon's doing. And so when you look at the big, beautiful bill and think, well, I really love the tax side. I wish the spending cuts were bigger. Just be aware that for the rest of the year, regularly, we're going to be rescinding
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
the wasteful spending of the past because of all the great work that Elon's been doing.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
Of course. It's a pleasure to be here, John.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Ask Charlie Anything 209: Keeping TikTok Legal? Winning Political Debates? AI Lawyers?
Yeah, it was specifically that TikTok question. I didn't know if this had come up today, but there is a clip that you might want to play, and you probably already know about this. All the terms and conditions that are embedded in the app that we all agree to when we download TikTok are quite concerning. I understand your reasoning behind wanting to keep it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Ask Charlie Anything 209: Keeping TikTok Legal? Winning Political Debates? AI Lawyers?
I think it's a great platform, but there's a lot of privacy concerns. And there's a video... with Joe Rogan, you could probably pull it up on YouTube, where he goes into a rabbit hole of TikTok terms and conditions. A lot of privacy concerns there.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Favorite Word: Tariffs
So, for example, if you ask DeepSeek to tell you what happened at Tiananmen Square or to say something mean about Xi Jinping, the leader of China, it won't do it. And I would not be surprised if in the coming weeks and months, we do see lawmakers in the US saying, wait a minute, we passed a law to ban TikTok. Why are we not also passing a law to ban DeepSeek?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Favorite Word: Tariffs
So I think that's one potential outcome here, but there's a key difference, which is that TikTok is not open source software. You cannot download TikTok and create your own version of it. And so already the DeepSeek platform models have been downloaded and recreated all over the world by lots and lots of different people and companies.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Favorite Word: Tariffs
I think what the DeepSeek story suggests is that it is going to be quite challenging to contain the spread of powerful AI without some big moves.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Favorite Word: Tariffs
So there are people in the American tech scene who are calling this deep-seek moment the Sputnik moment for the AI race, because just as the launch of Sputnik by the Soviet Union kicked off the 20th century space race and created profound fear and anxiety among Western nations about whether they were behind, their biggest political adversary when it came to technology.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Favorite Word: Tariffs
A lot of people are looking at this moment with DeepSeek as kicking off a new era in the AI race where we really want to stay ahead of China. And there are people who say that having a lead in AI, if you are the United States, even if it's just a lead of a couple months or a couple years over your political adversaries is very important. And that may be true.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Favorite Word: Tariffs
But people who study AI, people who look at this industry closely, who are paying attention to the trends in AI, believed that these models would become cheaper and cheaper over time as well as becoming more powerful over time. So this really fits neatly with a lot of what people had been predicting for years.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Favorite Word: Tariffs
Now, they might not have predicted that this sort of moment would happen from a Chinese AI company. They might not have predicted exactly what the breakthroughs would be that allowed for the models to get cheaper. But this is in keeping with the overall trend in AI that we have seen over the past few years, which is that the models keep getting better and they keep getting more efficient.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Favorite Word: Tariffs
Goes to number one on the App Store charts. It vaults ahead of ChatGPT and all these better known apps.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Favorite Word: Tariffs
Yeah, so that is what happened here, but just maybe a little faster than people had expected. But I think the larger point is that these systems are now improving so rapidly and in so many places all at once that I think it is only a matter of time before nearly everyone in the world has access to very powerful AI models.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Favorite Word: Tariffs
And I just think that world looks a lot different than the one we live in today.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Favorite Word: Tariffs
And the more notable thing, the thing that really caused the American AI industry to start to panic was how cheaply this model appeared to have been built.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Favorite Word: Tariffs
So we think that this model cost DeepSeek about $5.5 million to train. Now, that might sound like a lot of money, but it's really not compared to what many of the American AI companies are spending. Meta said that it was spending $65 billion.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Favorite Word: Tariffs
Microsoft says it plans to spend about $80 billion. Microsoft said it was spending $80 billion.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Favorite Word: Tariffs
And OpenAI had just announced this giant partnership where they were planning to spend up to half a trillion over the next four years. As much as half a trillion dollars to build the infrastructure for AI. Whoa. Yeah, it's wild.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Favorite Word: Tariffs
And on top of that, DeepSeek says that they built their model without access to the latest and greatest American AI chips, which up until now were thought to be necessary to build the most powerful models.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Favorite Word: Tariffs
And so investors start saying, wait a minute, if it only costs $5.5 million to train a leading-edge AI model, then... What the heck are all these American companies doing spending hundreds of millions of dollars or even billions of dollars to train roughly equivalent models?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Favorite Word: Tariffs
And so the stocks of many of the American tech companies start to fall.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Favorite Word: Tariffs
And so after all of this, people in the American tech industry start asking questions like, who is DeepSeq? And how are they getting these incredible models with so little money spent on them?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Favorite Word: Tariffs
So it depends who you ask, because there are a couple kind of overlapping panics that are starting to happen around this time. Of course, again, there's the investor panic. I mean, imagine if you had your whole portfolio invested in American AI companies.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Favorite Word: Tariffs
It would be like if you just bought like a very high-end sports car, like a Lamborghini, and you had been driving it around and were so proud of how fast it could accelerate and how well it handled. And then like some random guy shows up with like a soapbox car made of balsa wood, and it can go just as fast as your car. You'd be like, what the heck?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Favorite Word: Tariffs
Why did I just spend all this money on this Lamborghini?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Favorite Word: Tariffs
Yes. And then, of course, there's the geopolitical freakout because DeepSeek is a Chinese AI company. And there has been this race happening between primarily the U.S. and China for years about AI and AI supremacy. Who was going to be able to build the most powerful AI models before the other one? And that is a very important question for things like assessing the future of military conflict.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Favorite Word: Tariffs
If one country's AI is way better than another country's AI, they might have an advantage. In fact, the U.S. has banned the export of the most powerful AI chips to China for exactly this reason, to try to... sort of hobble the Chinese AI companies to keep them from catching up when it comes to building the bleeding edge models that could become very important.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Favorite Word: Tariffs
So instead, DeepSeq had to kind of make do with these like Kirkland signature chips that are, you know, pretty good, but they're not the best. And so that combined with the amount of money spent really made people say, how do they pull this thing off?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Favorite Word: Tariffs
Yeah, so there are a lot of people who are skeptical of what DeepSeek has claimed. In particular, the cost of the model, $5.5 million might not be the real figure. It doesn't include all of the research and the engineer salaries and things that went into that, so that the real cost is probably significantly higher than that.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Favorite Word: Tariffs
But there are questions about, you know, did they smuggle in very powerful chips that would have actually allowed them to build a model this good? Hmm. You know, is there something going on? Is the Chinese government funneling money to them and not telling us about it? So there are lots of theories.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Favorite Word: Tariffs
But then as time wears on and people who are experts in this stuff start digging through the details, they're coming to the conclusion that, well, yeah, Maybe the cost is a little higher than DeepSea claims. Maybe they have a few more chips than they're telling us about. But in general, this seems like they actually just did build a really good model using some very clever engineering techniques.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Favorite Word: Tariffs
So because DeepSeq did not have access, we don't think, to the most powerful chips that American companies are using... they had to kind of get clever about becoming more efficient with their model. I won't bore you with the technical details.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Favorite Word: Tariffs
It includes terms like mixture of experts, architecture, but basically they were able to use some clever tricks to squeeze the most power out of the chips that they did have.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Favorite Word: Tariffs
Yeah, I mean, there's this saying in the tech industry that constraints inspire creativity. And that is definitely true here. DeepSeq did not have access to the best American AI chips. They did not have the largest budget or the most sophisticated team, but they were really scrappy and smart. They had a lot of really good young engineers and they were able to pull this off.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Favorite Word: Tariffs
So what the AI companies in America are saying in response to this market panic is, look, we've still got to build these big, expensive supercomputers to stay at the forefront of AI, to have the best models. And if we take the techniques that DeepSeq has now shown are possible, these efficiency gains, We could have them too.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Favorite Word: Tariffs
Think about how powerful our models would be if we put a billion dollars into the same kind of model that DeepSeek was able to make for much less. So that is what the American AI companies are saying. But I think there are real questions among investors about whether the scale of investment that they have been planning is really necessary.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Favorite Word: Tariffs
I think it threw into question this fundamental assumption that only the big dogs could play in AI. You had to be Microsoft or Amazon or Google if you wanted a chance to build the state-of-the-art AI models.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Favorite Word: Tariffs
And I think what the Deep Seek story suggested is that there may be a whole other world of competitors out there trying to stay close to the frontier and that they might not have to have the resources of one of the world's largest corporations to do it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Favorite Word: Tariffs
So the freakout really started in earnest with a Chinese AI company called DeepSeek. And DeepSeek had released a new AI model. You know, models are released all the time. Generally, they don't make international news. But this model was different in a few ways.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Favorite Word: Tariffs
But there was one other piece of this that I think really suggests that the AI race has entered a new phase, which is that DeepSeek did something that a lot of American companies have been hesitant to do, which is that they released their AI models as open source software, meaning that anyone on the internet can download and use, can make their own versions of, can adapt, can tweak.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Favorite Word: Tariffs
It is software that can be reused and remixed and improved upon. by anyone. And so when DeepSeek released its models this way, they really sent a message to the world that says, we are serious here about competing. And we're so serious that we're going to give away our models for free so that anyone who wants to can make them better.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Favorite Word: Tariffs
And so all of a sudden, it just flipped the entire AI race onto its head and really sent it into a new gear.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Favorite Word: Tariffs
So it's a complicated question to answer because there are ways in which it is probably good and ways in which it is probably bad. The case that this is a good thing is that in general, when you make things cheaper, they can be accessible to more people. I mean, remember, DeepSeek is not just free to use in the app or on the website.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Favorite Word: Tariffs
It was also released as open source software, meaning that anyone with an Internet connection can download it and install it on their own computers or maybe tweak it to serve their own purposes. So if you are a person who wants to use AI, maybe you have a small business or maybe you just want to use this to help you grow. write letters or emails. Maybe you're a student who wants to use this.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Favorite Word: Tariffs
You can now access a very powerful model for free. Maybe you are a developer or a startup who wants to build your own AI tools. Well, now you have this deep seek model that you can kind of take off the shelf as open source software and build your own version of it or run it on your own hardware.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Favorite Word: Tariffs
And so the people that I talk to in the tech industry who are at startups or smaller companies are very excited about this. This is a great development for them. And it also means that if you are a person who worries that all the AI power is going to go to a few huge companies, then the democratization of AI through open source models like DeepSeek probably makes you feel optimistic.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Favorite Word: Tariffs
So that is the positive case for this. But there are also a lot of people who are really worried about what DeepSeek has done. I think the DeepSeek moment has really sparked a lot of new fears about how quickly this whole field of AI is progressing. I mean, just in the last few years,
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Favorite Word: Tariffs
The leading AI models have gone from maybe being as smart as the average high school student to as smart as a college student to now being able to complete a lot of tasks that would have taken a PhD to complete. So these models are just getting much better very quickly. And a lot of folks in the AI community are just nervous about that. They say things like, well, maybe we're going to get...
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Favorite Word: Tariffs
an AI that is as smart as the smartest humans in just a few years. And we don't really have a playbook for dealing with technology that is more intelligent than us. And so there are people who worry about these sort of runaway AI scenarios where you get super intelligent AIs that can sort of take control or maybe even harm humans.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Favorite Word: Tariffs
But even if you're not a believer in that kind of superhuman intelligence risk, There are just a lot of questions about whether we as a society are ready for advanced AI. Are we ready for the possibility that it could eliminate jobs? Are we ready for the possibility that it could really lead to a proliferation of misinformation or propaganda or even automated cyber attacks and things like that?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Favorite Word: Tariffs
One of them was that it just appeared to be a really good model, like better than the leading Chinese models at the time and on par or close to on par with the leading American models.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Favorite Word: Tariffs
So all of that is swirling around the conversation about DeepSeek because we have just accelerated the AI race again. And now it is not just American companies competing with each other over who is in the lead of that race. China has also stepped in. And there's a lot of fear and anxiety about what happens if we fall behind.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Favorite Word: Tariffs
Well, it may well be, because if you're a person who believes that TikTok is a national security threat, there's nothing about DeepSeek that is less of a threat, right? It is a Chinese company. It is subject to all the same laws and censorship guidelines as other Chinese software companies are.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
No, you know, and some of the founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin was probably the first to write about immigration. He does this in 1751 in his observations. His real concern was that he had tried to form, this was an extra legal militia. It was a military association because the Pennsylvania Quakers in the assembly wouldn't raise money for defense.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
And so he appeals to all of these different ethnicities in Pennsylvania to unite for the defense of life, liberty, and property. It was a veritable social contract.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
It was extra legal, and the idea was that they would protect themselves, all these different groups, the middling artisans of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, against threats from the French and pirates in the Delaware as well as on the frontier.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
And what he saw was, is that many of those, the Germans who had come over, they'd migrated en masse to the colonies, had not participated in this effort, even though he tried to woo them into it. And so in 1751, he'd made this effort in 1747. In 1751, he starts railing against the German immigrants. And he says, why are we bringing in all of these German migrants?
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
He says, rather, what's going to happen? They don't learn our language. They don't have our habits. They don't appreciate our laws. and that instead of anglifying them, they're going to Germanize us. And so he stresses this idea of assimilation.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
Now, he would change his views on the Germans and the Scotch-Irish over time, but one thing that he stressed, and this was adopted by the other founders, somebody like Thomas Jefferson as well, was the idea of unity. How is it that affection binds a people together to command the kind of sacrifices that are necessary to preserve a people?
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
So when we talk about a people, we say Americans, it means we're presupposing that that entity exists and that it has something in common. And that meant that the foremost, if you read Franklin or Thomas Jefferson, what they really look to is to try to get your own citizens to have more kids.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
So that was immigration awareness number one, was we actually don't want to bring in lots and lots of immigrants because of certain threats that they pose, although we do admit immigrants. But it wasn't a nation of immigrants. That's a much later teaching that I think you can trace to the 1920s. The idea of a nation of immigrants really takes off in the 1950s.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
Thomas Jefferson and Franklin, they both really questioned whether we should bring over many of the old world European immigrants. And so I think that's a second point. First, you have the idea of a common mind. What binds us together as a people? And the second was the kind of character. What are the manners and the habits of the people that are coming over?
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
And what kind of institutions will they endorse if they're allowed to vote in our political system? Is it the case that they're going to bring over some of the bad policies and habits that they had left and that they had fled from? So that was a second major important point. It's also the case that if we're going to be honest, the founders' warning to us would be that diversity undermines unity.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
And that's why if you get to the first Naturalization Act of 1790, and this is just truth, it may offend us today, but the founders said only free whites could become citizens. And the reason for that wasn't just you have ideas of inequality, natural inequality.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
But even Franklin in the 1760s, he looks, he goes, he visits the Negro school and he says, well, I've changed my mind about these black children. It seems like they can learn just like white children. But even then, he says, I hope that will discourage migration.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
And the reason that Franklin and Jefferson, Jefferson as well, took this position and notes on the state of Virginia was they didn't think you could have Republican freedoms if you had a population that was torn apart by faction. And so this becomes, of course, this guides immigration policy, who can become a citizen all the way until
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
all the way until the 14th Amendment and the New Naturalization Act of 1870. And that's when white Americans say, particularly the radical Republicans, they could see that the attempt on the part of the Southerners was to reintroduce slavery through a loophole in the 13th Amendment.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
And so in the 14th Amendment, they recognized natural-born citizenship for the freedmen, as well as they changed naturalization policy. And so you have whites and blacks can become citizens. This did not include other races. This did not include Asians for purposes of migration, nor did it include Indians for That status would change for Indians under public law in the 1920s. What and why?
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
Why did they do this? Well, I think it was those three basic points. One was how do you have a common mind? The idea of a common citizenry, so you have a country for its citizens. Second, how do we bring over immigrants who are going to share some of our common values? This is one of the reasons why the laborers did not want a large number of Chinese immigrants at the end of the 19th century.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
They were very much afraid that they would bring over a kind of paternalistic view of the ends of government. That's also why many of the Irish posed such a problem. You know, 75% of the Germans, they migrated off to the countryside, but about 75% of the Irish settled down in major cities.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
And the claim was is they brought much of their paternalistic or view of government that focused on patronage. And, of course, every time you have mass migration, it increases crime. It also increases the inflation. entitlements program or the welfare programs of the localities and the states, and of course today, the federal government. And so from 1880 to 1920, we do see a change.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
We see the admittance of new groups. And I think that for us, and we can look at the last two waves of immigration, this poses a kind of challenge. And that is in the founding period, they thought diversity undermined the kind of order necessary for Republican freedoms. We have a diverse regime, right? That's what we know.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
And I think the challenge to us is, is how do we maintain this sense of unity so that we can protect those Republican freedoms and freedom under the law? And so I can go to the last two waves in law. You have 1880 to 1920. These were largely Southeastern Europeans. And that created all kinds of problems, the attempt to assimilate them into the body politic.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
It was also the case that they introduced new institutions to try to manage the migrants. What we look at is the family courts today. If you read Roscoe Pound, this was the dean of Harvard Law, he's writing about the family courts. And he says these are introduced to manage all of these Southeastern Europeans who are coming over here who don't know our ways.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
And so in the family court, you don't have due process rights. You have maxims of equity that guide all the rulings of the judge. If you don't follow them, you're in contempt of court. So what happened after the 1920s was two laws passed, 1921 and 1924, and they introduced a national origins quota, and this would have basically froze out those who could migrate to the United States.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
70% of all migrants would come from just three countries, Northwestern European countries. But the real effect of that immigration law of 1924 was it stopped immigration generally. So the percentage of foreign born in 1920 was about 14%. When you get to 1960, it's about four or 5%.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
And what that meant was all Americans just had more kids, Americans of all different races, because there was a prioritization on those who were natural born citizens. The 1965 Immigration Act, as we all know, changed much of that. And one of the great dangers that it introduced was this.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
At every period of mass migration, whether you talk about the Irish in the 1840s or the migrations from southeastern Europe, 1880 to 1920, that you had a period of assimilation that followed these waves. What's happened since 1965 is an ever increasing number of migrants. And it poses that great threat to us that I think the founders warned about.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
And that is how do we maintain some kind of a unified. Yeah, go ahead.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
No. in the terms that we use it today. What kind of diversity was valuable? Well, if you read Madison in Federalist 10, he talks about diversity of talents and property. Yeah, that's valuable. But if you get to the end of Federalist 10, he warns about a lack of any common sense of the whole. And so there's a mean that has to be achieved.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
And then obviously, again, the founders did not think we could have a racially diverse body politic that would also secure Republican freedoms. And that's why in the Naturalization Act, again, one of the first acts passed by Congress in 1790, only free whites could become citizens. They were afraid. And this is why, you know, James Madison was president of the American Colonization Society.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
So anytime, you know, I have an establishment Republican, they look at me and they say, well, Madison loved diversity. And you say, he was president of an organization whose end was to ship blacks back to Africa. That's the kind of diversity the American founders thought possible with regard to race. Now, again, we don't agree with that anymore, but I think it remains a challenge to us.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
And who was around in 2020 that didn't see this appeal to tribalism flare back up? And I think this is where Trump has been excellent in trying to appeal to the things that unify us as Americans.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
No, I think it's kind of absurd that those who wrote, ratified the 14th Amendment would have thought that it applied to the children of illegals, even when the Supreme Court weighed in to establish those who were born on U.S. soil were U.S. citizens, that it was for a migrant worker who was here legally. So no, I don't think it applies.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
Obviously, in the 14th Amendment, you've got that clause that talks about those who are not subject to a foreign jurisdiction. And all those who are illegal immigrants would apply that they would be classified under that clause. So the Supreme Court's never ruled on that. We can see a case like Plyler v. Doe.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
They've talked about certain rights of the children of illegal immigrants to education in the United States. But Supreme Court's never actually ruled on that question, whether birthright citizenship applies to those who are here illegally. Not legally, those who are here to work, but those who are here illegally.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
Well, you know, Madison, he defines faction in Federalist 10. He says any time that there is an individual or a group whose ends would deprive other citizens of their rights, that's a faction. So he's in favor of interest groups. But the real caution that I think the founders give us with regard to faction of ethnicity, race, those kinds of things,
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
is you begin to see yourself as a member of a certain insular tribe. That's why they were cautious about some of these religious groups. You know, Roman Catholics, Jews, they were less than, you know, maybe a percent of the population. So Federalist II talks about all the things that would unite a people.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
And that would be a common language, common customs, common religion, common ethnicity migrating from the same parts of Europe. So that was their idea as to what would help root a people that would help to maintain the affection that would preserve the common and the common good. I think what we've seen, and this is particularly since, and we see two, really two movements of this.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
The first one begins in the 1920s. That's where you have certain thinkers who begin to argue that they ought to be able to maintain their group identity as well as be citizens of the United States. The argument there is America is nothing but an idea. That really begins, as best as I can tell, in the 1920s.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
And so you have Alain Locke talking about the new Negro and blacks being able to retain their own identity. You have the same thing for Jews in the 1920s, talking about how all these groups, they ought not to have to assimilate, but rather America is just a mere idea. It has no common ethical principles. And of course, they extend that to religion and all these other things.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
The danger with that is, in that kind of mentality, is that once you begin to import more and more groups, they keep their tribal identities, and there's no longer a pressure to assimilate.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
And by the time you get to the late 60s, then the problem is, is that in the interpretation of what, you know, the 64 Civil Rights Act, whether you agree with it in relation to the government, federal government, to private business or not, that what had been a colorblind act, at least in its intentions, was interpreted in a very lawless way to begin to recognize different groups.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
And you have to understand, this is why the founders revolted, that they revolted against the British Empire, because in the British Empire, you were accorded certain privileges and duties, not based upon equal citizenship, but based upon your overlapping assigned group identities.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
And that's what we see beginning to happen in the 1970s through the EEOC, Title VI and Title VII, as well as even in Title IX, that in a very lawless way, we begin to manage and balance these different groups that only have their own interest in mind.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
You can see this, by the way, with some of the insular minorities who, when they talk about Donald Trump, will say something like, well, what have you done for my people? I think that's the dangerous part, is you only think about the good of your people.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
Yeah, so, okay, so I have this dilemma that I have. So my ex-wife, whom I've been estranged for for about four years, Um, she like, um, she has reached out through her cousins that, uh, she's, she has a stage four cancer and she would like to reconnect with me and my son.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
Okay. Um, I have primary custody. In fact, she has, She does have supervised visitation rights, but she hasn't used that in quite a while. In fact, she and I live on the opposite sides of the country. And all of a sudden, I hear from one of her cousins, whom I still talk to to this day, that she's really sick and she would like to reconnect. So you don't believe her, do you?
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
Well, I mean, she said and did a lot of things, like, which made me divorce her.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
Not substance, but she's done a lot of things recently.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
Um, he was about one, he was like physically, physically, uh, speaking like he was only one and a half when he last saw her. Okay. The thing is like after that, like we split off, like she didn't even, she didn't even, um, do the visitations anymore. She moved to another state and we just didn't get in touch ever since. Okay.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
No, like my son doesn't even remember her.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
Like he kind of says like, I mean, there are situations like, I mean, where's my mom? And I'm like, and I, and I tell her, well, she's away or yeah. I mean, that's the rule. I mean, I can't tell her, tell, I can't tell him right now she's dead, you know, because that's not true.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
Yeah. The thing is, she didn't have any drug or substance the last time I met her. The thing is, we had a very acrimonious split. Um, where basically like, and this is back in, this is in California where I got everything.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
Like you mean contact her directly or like, or I don't know because she has, she has, like you said, hit stuff, shades, shady stuff, uh, and, and lied. Sure. Like she has a history of that. So for me, yeah. Go ahead. For you. What? For me, like, I don't know how to like, I don't know how to like validate or verify.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
is there a way that I can, I don't know, like hire a PI to kind of like verify.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
I haven't, man, I haven't seen her. I haven't seen her in, in, in years. And yeah, And like, there's a reason where I, there's a reason why I, like I left her and I ghosted her and I great. And like, I grace, I grace don't or whatever that's called.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
After that, she became very vicious. She became very toxic. She tried to do everything in her power to try to get primary custody. Basically sued me for abuse, both emotional and physical. Was it all lies?
The Glenn Beck Program
Bud Light Insider Reveals What Led to Dylan Mulvaney Controversy | Guest: Anson Frericks | 2/20/25
Hi.
The Glenn Beck Program
Bud Light Insider Reveals What Led to Dylan Mulvaney Controversy | Guest: Anson Frericks | 2/20/25
Thank you for taking my call. A couple of things. First of all, sorry, I've got a hoarse throat here. That's alright. My initial thought on how this has affected me already is with my telephone numbers and directions. I used to know every telephone number, nearly every telephone number off the top of my head.
The Glenn Beck Program
Bud Light Insider Reveals What Led to Dylan Mulvaney Controversy | Guest: Anson Frericks | 2/20/25
When I started using my own business and I just started using the phone all the time, I don't know any numbers anymore. And to get directions, you know, you punch it into your GPS. And now, you know, it's like, well, we go to a place that we've never been before and I can't find my way around. So, those are things that became real for me immediately.
The Glenn Beck Program
Bud Light Insider Reveals What Led to Dylan Mulvaney Controversy | Guest: Anson Frericks | 2/20/25
Yeah, the other thing is I read, after you interviewed Ray Kurzweil years ago, I bought The Singularity is Near. And I got about a third of the way through the book. And I basically got to the point where you're at today in your discussions. And I put it down and I haven't picked it up since because I just couldn't fathom what's coming. I'm 70 years old and it's a different world.
The Glenn Beck Program
Bud Light Insider Reveals What Led to Dylan Mulvaney Controversy | Guest: Anson Frericks | 2/20/25
And I love technology. I use it every day. But that was a little too much for me to try to comprehend.
The Glenn Beck Program
Best of the Program | Guest: Anson Frericks | 2/20/25
Thank you for taking my call. A couple of things. Zuerst einmal, sorry, ich habe hier einen hübschen Hals. Das ist okay. Mein erster Gedanke daran, wie mich das bereits beeinflusst hat, war mit meinen Telefonnummern und Richtungen. Ich wusste alle Telefonnummern, fast alle Telefonnummern, auf der Spitze meines Herzens. Genau.
The Glenn Beck Program
Best of the Program | Guest: Anson Frericks | 2/20/25
Als ich angefangen habe, Telefon zu nutzen, ich habe mein eigenes Geschäft, und ich habe die Telefonnummern immer wieder benutzt, weiß ich keine Nummern mehr. And to get directions, you punch it into your GPS and now it's like, well, we go to a place that we've never been before and I can't find my way around. Das sind Dinge, die für mich sofort real geworden sind.
The Glenn Beck Program
Best of the Program | Guest: Anson Frericks | 2/20/25
Ja, das andere ist, ich habe nachdem du Ray Kurzweil vor Jahren interviewt hast, ich habe die Singularität, die nahe ist, gekauft. Und ich habe etwa ein Drittel des Wegs durch das Buch gegangen. Und ich habe basically to the point where you're at today in your discussion. And I put it down and I haven't picked it up since because I just couldn't fathom what's coming.
The Glenn Beck Program
Best of the Program | Guest: Anson Frericks | 2/20/25
I'm 70 years old and it's a different world. And I love technology. I use it every day. But that was a little too much for me to try to comprehend.
The Ramsey Show
Make Money Choices Today That You Won’t Regret Tomorrow
Kevin, don't fight me on this one. That's a whopping $12,000 a year. Let's up it a little bit.
The Ramsey Show
Make Money Choices Today That You Won’t Regret Tomorrow
They're certainly sentimental value. I mean, if I'm paying $1,700 a month for this house, and just also looking at trends of kids moving back in with their parents and everything, I could probably, in 10 or 15 years, I could probably afford for my son to live here temporarily.
The Ramsey Show
Make Money Choices Today That You Won’t Regret Tomorrow
you know, to get his life set up whenever he graduates from college or my other two kids, you know, and it could just be sort of the house that we have that lets the kids roll through. I also think it's a great investment like this area that we're in now is just exploding and has become very popular.
The Ramsey Show
Make Money Choices Today That You Won’t Regret Tomorrow
And so I feel like if we were to sell right now, we would be leaving money on the table because it's just going up in value so, so, so much.
The Ramsey Show
Make Money Choices Today That You Won’t Regret Tomorrow
She wants to move into this. I mean, our life is in this other neighborhood. All of our friends are in the other neighborhood. It don't matter. All of our kids' friends are in the other neighborhood.
The Ramsey Show
Make Money Choices Today That You Won’t Regret Tomorrow
Hi, guys. Thanks for taking my call. This fall, my wife and I will be coming into a significant amount of money. It'll be like probably a million after taxes.
The Ramsey Show
Make Money Choices Today That You Won’t Regret Tomorrow
What's going on? And so I want to be smart about it. My wife and I kind of disagree about this. So she wants to move. There's an area of our city that She really wants to move into. It's incredibly expensive. I know what you're talking about.
The Ramsey Show
Make Money Choices Today That You Won’t Regret Tomorrow
Yeah, so our neighborhood doesn't have very many kids, and our oldest has no one his age. So that's a big portion of why we want to move. How old is he? We owe about $182,000 on our house.
The Ramsey Show
Make Money Choices Today That You Won’t Regret Tomorrow
My wife, she's a rock star. And so she's moving a book of business to a different institution. And that's one of her, that's one of her incentives. Okay.
The Ramsey Show
Make Money Choices Today That You Won’t Regret Tomorrow
Okay, so we owe about 182 on our house. We bought it for 265. What's it worth? It's now probably worth about 700 on the low end, I would say. It does need a renovation. We bought it when we had nothing. It was kind of an up-and-coming neighborhood, and it has just exploded. So our mortgage right now is about 1,700. I could rent it as is probably for about 2,700. I wouldn't do that. Keep rolling.
The Ramsey Show
Make Money Choices Today That You Won’t Regret Tomorrow
OK, so and basically that's that's kind of what I want to know is, is I kind of want to keep the house because I think it'll be it'd be a great rental. I also just love the house. I love the neighborhood.
The Ramsey Show
Make Money Choices Today That You Won’t Regret Tomorrow
Yeah. So, so then that's, so the next house, the houses in this neighborhood go for like 1.5. Okay. So, so, you know, we could rent it, we could sell it. If we rent it, we could, we would need to do some renovations like kitchen, bathroom, our current house. But, and so. Well, I don't think you can have your. Should we take the million and put it all towards the other home? Should we take.
The Ramsey Show
Make Money Choices Today That You Won’t Regret Tomorrow
$100,000 or $200,000 and put it towards renovations for this property and put $800,000 on the other home?
The Ramsey Show
Make Money Choices Today That You Won’t Regret Tomorrow
Yeah. From a math perspective, it makes sense.
The Ramsey Show
Make Money Choices Today That You Won’t Regret Tomorrow
Okay, so I do have a car. So we have about 20,000 left on a car. I'll pay that tomorrow. I'll pay it off tomorrow. So that's done. After I pay the 20,000 left on my car, our emergency fund will be down to about 27,000. It should be about 115. For six months? For six months, yeah.
The Ramsey Show
Make Money Choices Today That You Won’t Regret Tomorrow
Our income is currently about $350. Let's go.
The Ramsey Show
What Are You Willing To Give Up for Financial Freedom?
Hi, this is Kevin. So I have a question about what to do for the future. I'm 18. I make around an average of $14,000 a month doing home improvement sales. And right now I'm saving about 96% of what I make and putting it between S and P 500 and some other, um, funds just to pull cash out of really easily. I want to retire by the time I'm 26.
The Ramsey Show
What Are You Willing To Give Up for Financial Freedom?
I want to have the ability to retire, maybe not stop working, but I want to have the ability through dividends and rent from, uh, my renters. to retire. How would you best position myself to get to that position by 26?
The Ramsey Show
What Are You Willing To Give Up for Financial Freedom?
I want to make $12,000 a month from properties and dividends. I'm not sure the exact amount I'll need, but I do know that I'll need quite a few properties and quite a bit of cash in my accounts in order to make that income.
The Ramsey Show
What Are You Willing To Give Up for Financial Freedom?
I don't want to pull the money out. I just want to let it sit and give me money.
The Ramsey Show
What Are You Willing To Give Up for Financial Freedom?
Well, when I was 14, I really... I was watching a bunch of financial shows, including yours, and I realized what I really wanted was to have the ability to say F you to anyone when I reach 26, and I want to be able to have a drip. I like that.
The Ramsey Show
If You Want to Build Wealth, Stop Acting Like Everyone Else
Yeah, hey, thank you guys for taking my call. My question is... I pull a large sum of money out of my retirement investments to build a home. I'll give you a little back story. My wife and I are both over 59 1⁄2. She's retired, draws a pension of about $42,000 a year. I make about $142,000 of my salary. And we have got... About $1.85 million in investments.
The Ramsey Show
If You Want to Build Wealth, Stop Acting Like Everyone Else
Some pre-tax, Roth, and then some non-retirement investment accounts. And in that $1.85, there's roughly $200,000 in cash. What I'm hoping to do is try to pull some money out of my retirement investments to fund the house, but not cripple myself in retirement.
The Ramsey Show
If You Want to Build Wealth, Stop Acting Like Everyone Else
I need about $750,000 for the purchase for the construction of the home. So part of that would be funded by the $200,000 in cash, still leaving us with a fully funded emergency fund. And then the balance we would pull out of them, most of it as we could out of the Roth, and then the balance would have to come out of the pre-tax accounts.
The Ramsey Show
If You Want to Build Wealth, Stop Acting Like Everyone Else
We own our current home. We have no debt. We want to tear the house down to the property that we're on because it's the values in the land, not in the dwelling, and sort of build our dream home.
The Ramsey Show
If You Want to Build Wealth, Stop Acting Like Everyone Else
That's correct. Yeah, so we're going to just tear down what we currently reside in, move out, and then build a home here.
The Ramsey Show
If You Want to Build Wealth, Stop Acting Like Everyone Else
Yeah, it'll be $750,000 is what the contract price will be, and we'll figure probably 10% for contingency money. So, you know, somewhere $825,000 to $850,000 we're thinking. Okay.
The Ramsey Show
If You Want to Build Wealth, Stop Acting Like Everyone Else
Yeah, we feel pretty good about that. We figure we'll have somewhere between 850 to 900K left in retirement investments. And then, you know, given the rate of return, you know, banking at 10%, hopefully for averaging the We feel like we'd be very comfortable.
The Ramsey Show
If You Want to Build Wealth, Stop Acting Like Everyone Else
We hadn't anticipated pulling any kind of money towards, pulling Social Security money until we get full retirement age or even 70 if it permits. We don't feel pretty comfortable. Actually, we don't have any debt.
The Ramsey Show
If You Want to Build Wealth, Stop Acting Like Everyone Else
It makes me nervous tapping into retirement funds.
The Ramsey Show
If You Want to Build Wealth, Stop Acting Like Everyone Else
Thank you for taking my call.
The Ramsey Show
If You Want to Build Wealth, Stop Acting Like Everyone Else
So... I'm in $650,000 in debt, and that includes mortgage, personal loans, auto loans.
The Ramsey Show
If You Want to Build Wealth, Stop Acting Like Everyone Else
The mortgage, I owe about $477,000. Okay.
The Ramsey Show
If You Want to Build Wealth, Stop Acting Like Everyone Else
Cars is about $62,000. For two cars? For two cars.
The Ramsey Show
If You Want to Build Wealth, Stop Acting Like Everyone Else
Keep going. Credit cards. Just me. I haven't done... My wife hasn't taken hers or broke hers down yet. But my cards are about... Oh, geez. I would say $25,000. Okay. Personal loans?
The Ramsey Show
If You Want to Build Wealth, Stop Acting Like Everyone Else
Personal loans, small business, I would say $25,000.
The Ramsey Show
If You Want to Build Wealth, Stop Acting Like Everyone Else
And then the rest in small loans like a firm and stuff like that.
The Ramsey Show
If You Want to Build Wealth, Stop Acting Like Everyone Else
I haven't broken that down yet, but it's pretty much the rest of my debt.
The Ramsey Show
If You Want to Build Wealth, Stop Acting Like Everyone Else
I'm guessing about $25,000. Mostly credit cards? Credit cards and personal.
The Ramsey Show
If You Want to Build Wealth, Stop Acting Like Everyone Else
We had a little girl seven months ago. Oh, wow. That'll do it.
The Ramsey Show
If You Want to Build Wealth, Stop Acting Like Everyone Else
She's stressed to the moon and back.
The Ramsey Show
If You Want to Build Wealth, Stop Acting Like Everyone Else
Where are you at emotionally?
The Ramsey Show
If You Want to Build Wealth, Stop Acting Like Everyone Else
I have a hard time connecting emotions to it. That's probably why I'm in this mess.
The Ramsey Show
If You Want to Build Wealth, Stop Acting Like Everyone Else
Well, me and my wife work for my family business, and we work 40 hours a week. Well, I do. She stays at home with our little girl most of the time. But I want to work more, but I feel like I'm— a little selfish for wanting to work a lot more than 40 hours and not being home.
The Ramsey Show
If You Want to Build Wealth, Stop Acting Like Everyone Else
We collect salaries. She works from home on her computer.
The Ramsey Show
If You Want to Build Wealth, Stop Acting Like Everyone Else
There's about $30,000 in the house, which I feel like is all fees for putting it on the market anyways.