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No BS Newshour with Charlie LeDuff

Sell Out! Who’s Kids? Ours or the Elected?

No BS Newshour with Charlie LeDuff

Charlie LeDuff

Politics, News

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2023

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

You’re broke. You’re worried, America. They’re not. The officials you elected herd into the barn with big business, milk each other, and settle on a plan sell you out. The...

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0:00.0

Hey, how you doing?

0:03.0

You want to see me school and ambassador?

0:06.0

Watch this.

0:09.0

I want to bring in former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, Earl Anthony Wain, 2011 and 2015,

0:15.0

and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, host of the no BS NewsHour, Charlie Lidouff.

0:20.0

A lot of time at the border knows what's going on.

0:22.0

Thank you both, gentlemen. Mr. Ambassador, the point of going down there,

0:26.0

what do you think the president succeeded in going down there?

0:31.0

Well, I think he hadn't gone there before, so just being there was an important sign.

0:36.0

And this was accompanied by his announcements last week that he wants to move to a new system

0:41.0

for trying to create legal pathways, just as you mentioned, for people to come from

0:46.0

a number of these countries that are big source countries.

0:49.0

And then you have the big positives of the trade growth that's been going on.

0:54.0

A lot of trade is moving across that Mexican border and the border with Canada.

0:58.0

Okay, Charlie, do you see it that way?

1:00.0

I guess, well, it's theater, but what does it accomplish, Ambassador?

1:04.0

I'm up here in Detroit.

1:06.0

The trade we see going down is the good jobs, the factory jobs, the electric vehicle jobs.

1:12.0

What's coming up here is cheap labor, and you know for sure because you're close to these people,

1:17.0

part of the reason for letting the labor in is to suppress wages in the United States

1:23.0

because of the inflationary pressure on wages.

1:26.0

So if you import cheap labor, you lower the wages for what's left in America,

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