Defending Tariffs - February 4th, Hour 2
The Sean Hannity Show
Sean Hannity
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🗓️ 5 February 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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House Ways and Committee Chairman Jason Smith of Missouri joins us to discuss the new tariffs, as well as Mexico and Canada backing down and sending 10k troops to the southern border. As chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, Chairman Smith is the top trade person in Congress.
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| 0:00.0 | and thanks scott shannon hour two sean hannity show 800 nine four one shahn a number if you want to be a part of the program |
| 0:08.7 | uh there is some intramural battling over the budget which we expected and and the amount of spending cuts and |
| 0:17.7 | and we're going to have battles over tax law extending the Trump tax cuts and |
| 0:22.1 | making them hopefully permanent on top of you know moving forward with no tax on tip social |
| 0:28.4 | security overtime you know get this economy moving again uh energy is going to be a big factor in |
| 0:35.8 | in all of this. |
| 0:45.0 | And anyway, Democrats, you know, they are just losing it over the cuts to USA. And I spent a lot of time and an inordinate amount of time talking about all the waste, fraud, abuse that went on. |
| 0:52.1 | I'll be honest, after I went through this full list we were lied to I feel |
| 0:57.0 | like we were stolen from and the entire radical left you know green woke agenda was being |
| 1:05.2 | implemented worldwide and nobody had any control or knowledge of it. |
| 1:15.4 | And the leftist furious with Elon Musk for exposing it. |
| 1:19.8 | And then the president, you know, he's now gotten a number of countries to blink, |
| 1:23.6 | Canada, Mexico, Panama, Denmark, Colombia, Venezuela. |
| 1:29.8 | And it's probably only a matter of time until Iran and China will blink as well, |
| 1:34.8 | more complicated, but I think it's coming. Here's the president discussing the issue of tariffs with Mexico and Canada. We had a great talk with Mexico. And we had, President Seinfeldon, |
| 1:44.0 | is a woman. I like her very much. We've had good relationships, |
| 1:47.5 | but we have to stop fentanyl from coming in, whether I like somebody or not, and we have to |
| 1:51.9 | stop the illegal aliens from coming. Canada is very tough. They're very, very tough to do |
| 1:57.5 | business with. And we can't let them take advantage of the U.S. tariffs are |
| 2:02.6 | very powerful, both economically and in getting everything else you want. Tariffs for us, nobody can |
| 2:08.0 | compete with us because we're the pot of gold. But if we don't keep winning and keep doing well, |
| 2:13.3 | we won't be the pot of gold, and then tariffs won't be so good for us. But when you're the pot of gold and then tariffs won't be so good for us but when you're the pot |
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