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🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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-- On the Show:

-- Katherine Stewart, author of the book Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy, joins David to discuss the movement and what's taking place in America today. Get the book: https://amzn.to/3XSWiw2

-- Larry Kudlow explains to Trump Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent that trade deficits aren't necessarily a bad thing

-- Fox news host Maria Bartiromo admits that a Trump-induced recession is now likely

-- Pro-Trump CNBC host Joe Kernen is not buying Peter Navarro's nonsense about the economy

-- Donald Trump's stock market has had the worst first 50 days in decades, and Kamala Harris predicted exactly this

-- A confused Donald Trump says we need "open borders" in a stunning rant

-- Karoline Leavitt, Donald Trump's Press Secretary, tells endless obvious lies on Fox News

-- Donald Trump hosts the World Series winning Los Angeles Dodgers in one of the strangest events in recent memory

-- On the Bonus Show: Justice Department scraps crypto unit, Elon Musk's X will clamp down on parody accounts, growing number of Republicans blaming Trump for stock market fiasco, much more...

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the show.
0:08.6	A growing number of right-wing voices are expressing not only skepticism, but they are straight
0:14.5	up saying this tariff scheme does not make sense.
0:18.7	We are going to hear from a former economic advisor to Trump, now a Fox News host. We are going to hear from a former economic advisor to Trump, now a Fox News host.
0:23.8	We are going to hear from a current Fox news host whose lifelong dream seems to have been
0:29.4	to brown nose and suck up to Donald Trump, who now says it seems like we're heading for
0:33.5	a recession.
0:34.7	We are going to hear so much that is suggesting that this is a bridge too far,
0:41.9	even for many magas. Let's start with Larry Cudlow. Larry Cudlow was a Trump economic advisor
0:48.6	during term number one. Larry Cudlow now hosts a show on Fox Business. And he interviewed Treasury Secretary Scott Besant and he explained that trade deficits
0:59.6	aren't actually a bad thing for wealthy, developed countries.
1:03.6	Something I've been saying for a very long time.
1:05.9	Take a listen to this.
1:06.9	It's heard.
1:08.0	I don't know if you heard our lafferthur in the prior interview but art doesn't believe that
1:12.5	the trade deficit should be a metric i don't really either i mean miss secretary if if you get your
1:19.2	tax cuts and i guess you're well on the way you get your deregulation these are all huge pro-growth
1:24.6	items okay we will grow we the united states will We, the United States, will grow faster than
1:29.4	Japan. We will grow faster than almost
1:31.3	anybody. Therefore, almost
1:33.3	by definition, by growing
1:35.1	faster than the rest of the world, we're always going
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