2-5-26 Hour 3 - Bessent Deals with Morons on the Hill
The Chris Plante Show
WMAL | Cumulus Media Washington
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🗓️ 5 February 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Trust should be a serious question and a serious issue for the financial services industry, |
| 0:08.5 | especially as the Secretary of the Treasury. |
| 0:11.1 | That's an important, no, this is my time. |
| 0:13.4 | I haven't asked you more questions. |
| 0:15.5 | I haven't asked you many more questions. |
| 0:17.2 | It's the gentleman from Massachusetts. |
| 0:18.6 | I'm trying to get to my next question. |
| 0:20.4 | Could you speak a little louder? I can't hear you. Yeah, okay. Yeah. I might. I might. Yeah, there's a white guy from Massachusetts. I'm not axing you. He says I'm not exing you because as mass. It's not even New York. And he's doing that. These Democrats, the English language is not their strong suit. |
| 0:42.5 | Those rascally Democrats, that was Stephen Lynch. |
| 0:49.9 | It's an old family name. |
| 0:52.1 | They earned it the old-fashioned way. |
| 0:56.4 | Stephen Lynch, Democrat Massachusetts, who says, X, when he means to say ask. |
| 1:04.5 | You know how the Democrats are. |
| 1:07.9 | He's no Maxine Waters, though. |
| 1:09.8 | Maxine Waters, Democrat, California, multi-million dollar houses, the usual Democrat story, corrupt, extremely unintelligent, unsurious. |
| 1:21.9 | Maxine Waters was in on the hearing with the Treasury's Secretary, Scott Bessent, yesterday as well. |
| 1:30.3 | And... the hearing with the Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, yesterday as well. And it's, I don't know what she's trying to say something about the voice of reason. |
| 1:35.9 | I don't think she knows what those words mean, but Maxine Waters with the Treasury Secretary, |
| 1:42.6 | Scott Bessent yesterday on Capitol Hill, |
| 1:45.0 | and it sounded a little bit like this because, you know, Maxine Waters. |
| 1:49.7 | I ask you, Secretary Benson, will you be the voice of reason in the administration? |
| 1:55.5 | Sure. |
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