Now it's time for the Anchorman podcast with Matt Gates and Dan Ball.

Welcome back to Anchorman.

We are going to do a deep dive episode into some of the issues facing the Trump administration on the economic front and on the cultural front that relate to China and the reckoning the United States is having. I've got a tremendous expert with me who's got a really, really great book out on the subject. But I want to tell you why we're talking about this. We got into this first 100 days of the Trump administration. And the core promise that Trump made

was that he was going to secure the border. This won him, the election. And he doesn't get enough

credit. We don't talk about that enough. But he does the thing on the border. You see a border

that is very well orderly and maintained at the stage of the game.

And then Trump turns his attention to the economy.

And what he's got to do is he's got to get his bill passed.

Now you could quibble with his bill.

You can have issues with the spending level.

But at the end of the day, the bill achieved a number of Herculean successes with

the majorities we have. He gets his tax cuts extended. He fulfills his campaign promises on no

tax on tips, gives seniors a big rebate to offset taxes on social security. And he's able to do

all of this while fighting a multi-dimensional trade war that the United States has

largely surrendered prior to Donald Trump's assent to the presidency.

And so Trump gets that done.

And now with the bill in hand, I think that the relationship between the United States and China is the number one thing

that is going to shape our economic prospects probably over the next five to 10 years, but

maybe even over the next five to 10 months.

And for people looking at the midterm elections, nothing could be more important on how

China is making their moves,

why they're making the moves they're making right now. And that's why I brought on the program,

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