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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Previously on your morning show with Michael dil Choonah, Chris.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Walker is here from the go what more you are?
Speaker 3 (00:08):
But you know, as we talked about with John Decker,
our White House correspondent, this would be an easy thing
to comply with because the president can just choose where
they're held and where this takes place. And if it's
someplace like Texas, for example, he could find a favorable
district in Texas to do this right before they get
(00:28):
on a plane and leave. So this can be much
to do about nothing from a process standpoint. Anyway, Chris
Walker is joining us. He is all things Republican. He's
a GOP consultant and analyst and joins us every Monday.
And you know, one of the things I want to
kick around with you, Chris, how important you know. We
had the nuke talks with Iran that we don't suspect
(00:49):
will go anywhere because Iran is not reasonable. And then
you have the Russian Ukraine peace talks that haven't seemingly
been going very well, and the US signalingly late in
the week that if both sides don't show some interest
in peace, we're about ready to walk away from being
a middleman on this. How important are both of these
I know we're coming up on the one hundred days
(01:10):
and we're going to kind of review the achievements of
the president in the first one hundred days of a
second term. How important are these two pieces to that puzzle?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I think very important? And good morning, Michael.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
You know, I think the fact that it's even happening
is a is a good indicator of a difference of
from the Biden administration, where the weakness and the you know,
the indifference to these issues coming full beear to you know,
an administration coming in and saying, hey, let's find a
solution here. So I mean, the president gets a lot
(01:42):
of credit for initiating these conversations and trying to do
something about it rather than being you know, a distant
player in the process. So, you know, the fact that
this seems to be politically, you know, controversial, is crazy
because here we are the president and his team working
(02:02):
hard to try to bring a ceasefire to a region
that desperately needs it. This is strength versus weakness, and
you know, President Trump is exuding strength and trying to
sell leadership here in a way that I think is
important for the global stability to kind of come back.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
I'm just an American citizen. I'm not a shill for
the Trump administration. But I will tell you I'm thrilled
that my president wants peace. I'm thrilled that my president
sees eighteen, nineteen twenty year olds dying by the thousands,
caught in the middle of all this nonsense, and wanting
to stop death. Those are all things I like. He
has made the bold statements this never would have happened
(02:40):
if I were president, and it may not have quite frankly,
but he also made the statement and once I'm elected,
I will end it. And I think because he made
that promise, and clearly there's no question this president wants peace,
and there's no question he's no fan of Zelenski. But
I think on both sides they're just not seeing the
(03:02):
progress of serious people wanting peace, knowing you can't get
everything you want and make, you know, reasonable compromises. So yeah,
a for trying, that's better than the previous administration. But
hanging out there is you did say you'd end it,
so at some point, you know, I think this is
something they would like to accomplish.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Yeah, absolutely, And you know I think, honest to goodness,
we'll see how this all stakes out. I mean, there
are a lot of things yet to be seen. But
you know, you have two different parties here that have
kind of been at each other's throats for the better
part of four years, and you know, that's it's very
hard to undo some of that pain.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
I mean, you know, the President even talked about.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
It was Lisky was in the Oval office.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
I mean, that was a real rare moment of you know,
kind of international pomacy happening in front of cameras, and
you know, everyone kind of pointed to the uh, you know,
kind of the back and forth of Jade Vance. But
ultimately the real question was was President Trump talking about Look,
I can understand why there's anger here that people have
been being killed, and there's a lot of reasons why
people would say never on my watch.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
But you have to have those conversations if.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
You're going to find some peace, and you know, it
would be very hard for either side to come to
the table, and so initiating them I think as a
good first step. Continuing the process, even though it's frustrating,
is another piece of that That patience and that commitment
to the peace process is exactly what President Trump campaign on.
I think it's something that's continuing to hopefully yield some
(04:29):
fruit over the long haul.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
All Right, So if you don't get a peace deal,
and you don't get an end of the war, but
you still get your mineral rights deal, you still have
American interests and American souls on the ground in Ukraine.
And for Vladimir Putin, you're going to continue to get.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Sanctions and pressure.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
There's not a whole lot you can really do in
terms of whatever would have been your initial view of
victory in this war being possible with US interest there
nothing isn't a win for Russia, that's for sure, Unfortunately,
as somewhat of a win for Ukraine.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Well, and that's you know, let's not forget the Russian
Russia is the aggressor here.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
I mean, I'm a child of the eighties.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
I kind of tend to default to Russia the past ties,
and so I just have that that that intrinsic view
of the nature of it. But they did invade a country,
they did. You know that that Putin is not a
you know, he's been in power longer than anyone.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
In Russian history, and you know there are some.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Negatives there, So from that perspective, you know, again, this
is a very hard person to negotiate with. I mean,
he's outlasted for presidents, and you know on some level
that's that's a that's an indicative of the issues that
we have. President trumpet and his foreign policy team ot
to pace. But Marco Rubio and his team at State,
I think are talented enough to try to figure out
(05:53):
a way through this, and it's going to take some patience.
But I agree with you what your position is on
it too, where you know, we haven't seen the fruit yet,
but I think that's a long way to go to
that process.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Yeah, I don't think this can be achieved.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
This isn't a first one hundred days achievement, but it'd
be nice if you could get it done shortly before
or after the midterm elections, before a twenty twenty eight
presidential race.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
How about taking on how about taking on Brandon's call
purpose of the Federal Reserve.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Conservatives tend to look at this and often go it
really doesn't need to exist. You get into a crisis,
and of course the politicians overspend that drives up inflation.
There's only one way to cool inflation, raise rates. There's
only one way to know when you can lower them again.
(06:41):
Its roots are nineteen thirteen and the Federal Reserve Act
and Woodrow Wilson, perhaps my least favorite president and the
father of progressivism, and the front end of a bookend
with Barack Obama.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
FED. Why do we have it? What good does it do?
Should it go away? The war? What is it good for?
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Absolutely nothing? Right?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
It's because of.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
That's something feels like the fat in a lot of
ways too. You know, Look, I think it's a relic
of a previous time, you know, with the the same
with you know, the overall globalization discussion in terms of
the economy, you know, the FED kind of micromanaging inflation
in of itself is is an antiquated idea, but it
is how our system is functioning right now. And if
(07:29):
you're going to shake it up, you need to have
a multi year, multi you know, multifaceted plan to try
to unwind it. And so just abolishing the FED overnight
would just be an absolute destruction of the markets that
we know today, and it's something we have to be
very cautious of a lot of terrorists as well. But
you know, moving in a direction away from from FED
having unilateral power, I think is a good thing for
(07:52):
our economy. You know, bring back the gold standard as
far as I'm concerned. But again, abolishing the income tax,
abolishing some of those relics of the nineteen thirteen would
be a tremendously positive influence for American growth and innovation. Again,
we live in such a different time. There isn't you
know this this the federal government has outlived its growth
(08:13):
needs and you have, you know, so many of the
states and other things being able to achieve a lot
of things that back in the thirties and forties people
thought the federal government needed to do. So, you know,
a question of that and figure out how to bring
those about is an exciting piece of a Republican platform
that I would love to see happen. The problem what
you see is a lot of times these entrenched lobbyists
(08:34):
and influence kind of get into the ears of members
of Congress and even in the administration and scaring people
out of real reforms that I think would be beneficial.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
But again, I think what you'd have.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
To do is need to bring it in a slow burn,
not necessarily tremendously. Hey, this is going to bosh overnight.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
There was a great song and a terrible movie, country,
strong timings, everything. I mean, this would not I think
the press didn't sent a clear message to the Fed chair.
He'd likes some right cuts, but as far as firing him,
that would be at this moment probably not advisable to
(09:13):
how the market would react to that final minute with
Chris Walker real quickly. Just want to get your take.
So you got Beijing warning its trade partners against their
coming to US pressure to isolate China. So they're making
threats to any of the countries that might cut a
deal with Trump. And then you got the sixth eighth
(09:36):
District I believe of Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin making similar
threats that we're going to get power again and we're
gonna remember everybody that supported the president. What do the
Democrats have in common with China? Well, according to Rasca
and everything, I mean, this is crazy, right, whose side
is everybody?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
It's crazy?
Speaker 4 (09:55):
You know, it reminds me of Tim Wats a few
weeks ago cheering the you know, the client of Tesla
stop just because of political beef. You know, Democrats need
to figure out, you know, are they for country or
are they for partisanship. And you know, look, I mean
there are partisan fights, nobody's naive on that, but the
idea of somehow siding with China, you know, in terms
(10:18):
of a foreign policy issue is just absurd. But you know,
China is doing everything that can. You know, I think
Scott Dessented a smart guy, and you know, I tend
to trust his judgment on this stuff. He said over
and over again to China's playing we can And I
think we're seeing that kind of play out with with
taron Z trying to you know, kind of boast a
(10:40):
little bit when we know that they have a lot
of internal pressures. We know that they have a lot
of reasons. And frankly, you know, we saw during COVID
that he has no problem you know, inflicting pain on
his population. So I mean, you know, they have a
very weekend here. But you know, it's something that choosing freedom,
choosing opportunity, choosing the profit motor for.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Lack of better word, will.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Yield to productivity and peace in a way that you
know China can't offer. And so Japan and all these
other trading partners who know that.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
They have a very We can't in the long run,
but in the short run to drive up bidding. It's
it's it's not as weak as it looks in order
to wreak a little bit of havoc.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
By the way, I'll dismount with this.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Is it any wonder that the latest Gallup poll shows
a Democrat leadership's confidence rating is down to twenty five percent.
And we thought thirty four percent and twenty twenty three
was as low as it could go. And it's nearly
in half from two thousand and one. It's leadership, like
Jamie Raskin, it's driving those numbers.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Miss a little, miss a lot, miss a lot, and
we'll miss you. It's your morning show with Michael del Churno.
Previously on your morning show with Michael dil Choonah, Chris.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Walker is here from the go what more you are?
Speaker 3 (00:08):
But you know, as we talked about with John Decker,
our White House correspondent, this would be an easy thing
to comply with because the president can just choose where
they're held and where this takes place. And if it's
someplace like Texas, for example, he could find a favorable
district in Texas to do this right before they get
(00:28):
on a plane and leave. So this can be much
to do about nothing from a process standpoint. Anyway, Chris
Walker is joining us. He is all things Republican. He's
a GOP consultant and analyst and joins us every Monday.
And you know, one of the things I want to
kick around with you, Chris, how important you know. We
had the nuke talks with Iran that we don't suspect
(00:49):
will go anywhere because Iran is not reasonable. And then
you have the Russian Ukraine peace talks that haven't seemingly
been going very well, and the US signalingly late in
the week that if both sides don't show some interest
in peace, we're about ready to walk away from being
a middleman on this. How important are both of these
I know we're coming up on the one hundred days
(01:10):
and we're going to kind of review the achievements of
the president in the first one hundred days of a
second term. How important are these two pieces to that puzzle?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I think very important? And good morning, Michael.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
You know, I think the fact that it's even happening
is a is a good indicator of a difference of
from the Biden administration, where the weakness and the you know,
the indifference to these issues coming full beear to you know,
an administration coming in and saying, hey, let's find a
solution here. So I mean, the president gets a lot
(01:42):
of credit for initiating these conversations and trying to do
something about it rather than being you know, a distant
player in the process. So, you know, the fact that
this seems to be politically, you know, controversial, is crazy
because here we are the president and his team working
(02:02):
hard to try to bring a ceasefire to a region
that desperately needs it. This is strength versus weakness, and
you know, President Trump is exuding strength and trying to
sell leadership here in a way that I think is
important for the global stability to kind of come back.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
I'm just an American citizen. I'm not a shill for
the Trump administration. But I will tell you I'm thrilled
that my president wants peace. I'm thrilled that my president
sees eighteen, nineteen twenty year olds dying by the thousands,
caught in the middle of all this nonsense, and wanting
to stop death. Those are all things I like. He
has made the bold statements this never would have happened
(02:40):
if I were president, and it may not have quite frankly,
but he also made the statement and once I'm elected,
I will end it. And I think because he made
that promise, and clearly there's no question this president wants peace,
and there's no question he's no fan of Zelenski. But
I think on both sides they're just not seeing the
(03:02):
progress of serious people wanting peace, knowing you can't get
everything you want and make, you know, reasonable compromises. So yeah,
a for trying, that's better than the previous administration. But
hanging out there is you did say you'd end it,
so at some point, you know, I think this is
something they would like to accomplish.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Yeah, absolutely, And you know I think, honest to goodness,
we'll see how this all stakes out. I mean, there
are a lot of things yet to be seen. But
you know, you have two different parties here that have
kind of been at each other's throats for the better
part of four years, and you know, that's it's very
hard to undo some of that pain.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
I mean, you know, the President even talked about.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
It was Lisky was in the Oval office.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
I mean, that was a real rare moment of you know,
kind of international pomacy happening in front of cameras, and
you know, everyone kind of pointed to the uh, you know,
kind of the back and forth of Jade Vance. But
ultimately the real question was was President Trump talking about Look,
I can understand why there's anger here that people have
been being killed, and there's a lot of reasons why
people would say never on my watch.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
But you have to have those conversations if.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
You're going to find some peace, and you know, it
would be very hard for either side to come to
the table, and so initiating them I think as a
good first step. Continuing the process, even though it's frustrating,
is another piece of that That patience and that commitment
to the peace process is exactly what President Trump campaign on.
I think it's something that's continuing to hopefully yield some
(04:29):
fruit over the long haul.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
All Right, So if you don't get a peace deal,
and you don't get an end of the war, but
you still get your mineral rights deal, you still have
American interests and American souls on the ground in Ukraine.
And for Vladimir Putin, you're going to continue to get.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Sanctions and pressure.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
There's not a whole lot you can really do in
terms of whatever would have been your initial view of
victory in this war being possible with US interest there
nothing isn't a win for Russia, that's for sure, Unfortunately,
as somewhat of a win for Ukraine.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Well, and that's you know, let's not forget the Russian
Russia is the aggressor here.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
I mean, I'm a child of the eighties.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
I kind of tend to default to Russia the past ties,
and so I just have that that that intrinsic view
of the nature of it. But they did invade a country,
they did. You know that that Putin is not a
you know, he's been in power longer than anyone.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
In Russian history, and you know there are some.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Negatives there, So from that perspective, you know, again, this
is a very hard person to negotiate with. I mean,
he's outlasted for presidents, and you know on some level
that's that's a that's an indicative of the issues that
we have. President trumpet and his foreign policy team ot
to pace. But Marco Rubio and his team at State,
I think are talented enough to try to figure out
(05:53):
a way through this, and it's going to take some patience.
But I agree with you what your position is on
it too, where you know, we haven't seen the fruit yet,
but I think that's a long way to go to
that process.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Yeah, I don't think this can be achieved.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
This isn't a first one hundred days achievement, but it'd
be nice if you could get it done shortly before
or after the midterm elections, before a twenty twenty eight
presidential race.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
How about taking on how about taking on Brandon's call
purpose of the Federal Reserve.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Conservatives tend to look at this and often go it
really doesn't need to exist. You get into a crisis,
and of course the politicians overspend that drives up inflation.
There's only one way to cool inflation, raise rates. There's
only one way to know when you can lower them again.
(06:41):
Its roots are nineteen thirteen and the Federal Reserve Act
and Woodrow Wilson, perhaps my least favorite president and the
father of progressivism, and the front end of a bookend
with Barack Obama.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
FED. Why do we have it? What good does it do?
Should it go away? The war? What is it good for?
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Absolutely nothing? Right?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
It's because of.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
That's something feels like the fat in a lot of
ways too. You know, Look, I think it's a relic
of a previous time, you know, with the the same
with you know, the overall globalization discussion in terms of
the economy, you know, the FED kind of micromanaging inflation
in of itself is is an antiquated idea, but it
is how our system is functioning right now. And if
(07:29):
you're going to shake it up, you need to have
a multi year, multi you know, multifaceted plan to try
to unwind it. And so just abolishing the FED overnight
would just be an absolute destruction of the markets that
we know today, and it's something we have to be
very cautious of a lot of terrorists as well. But
you know, moving in a direction away from from FED
having unilateral power, I think is a good thing for
(07:52):
our economy. You know, bring back the gold standard as
far as I'm concerned. But again, abolishing the income tax,
abolishing some of those relics of the nineteen thirteen would
be a tremendously positive influence for American growth and innovation. Again,
we live in such a different time. There isn't you
know this this the federal government has outlived its growth
(08:13):
needs and you have, you know, so many of the
states and other things being able to achieve a lot
of things that back in the thirties and forties people
thought the federal government needed to do. So, you know,
a question of that and figure out how to bring
those about is an exciting piece of a Republican platform
that I would love to see happen. The problem what
you see is a lot of times these entrenched lobbyists
(08:34):
and influence kind of get into the ears of members
of Congress and even in the administration and scaring people
out of real reforms that I think would be beneficial.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
But again, I think what you'd have.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
To do is need to bring it in a slow burn,
not necessarily tremendously. Hey, this is going to bosh overnight.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
There was a great song and a terrible movie, country,
strong timings, everything. I mean, this would not I think
the press didn't sent a clear message to the Fed chair.
He'd likes some right cuts, but as far as firing him,
that would be at this moment probably not advisable to
(09:13):
how the market would react to that final minute with
Chris Walker real quickly. Just want to get your take.
So you got Beijing warning its trade partners against their
coming to US pressure to isolate China. So they're making
threats to any of the countries that might cut a
deal with Trump. And then you got the sixth eighth
(09:36):
District I believe of Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin making similar
threats that we're going to get power again and we're
gonna remember everybody that supported the president. What do the
Democrats have in common with China? Well, according to Rasca
and everything, I mean, this is crazy, right, whose side
is everybody?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
It's crazy?
Speaker 4 (09:55):
You know, it reminds me of Tim Wats a few
weeks ago cheering the you know, the client of Tesla
stop just because of political beef. You know, Democrats need
to figure out, you know, are they for country or
are they for partisanship. And you know, look, I mean
there are partisan fights, nobody's naive on that, but the
idea of somehow siding with China, you know, in terms
(10:18):
of a foreign policy issue is just absurd. But you know,
China is doing everything that can. You know, I think
Scott Dessented a smart guy, and you know, I tend
to trust his judgment on this stuff. He said over
and over again to China's playing we can And I
think we're seeing that kind of play out with with
taron Z trying to you know, kind of boast a
(10:40):
little bit when we know that they have a lot
of internal pressures. We know that they have a lot
of reasons. And frankly, you know, we saw during COVID
that he has no problem you know, inflicting pain on
his population. So I mean, you know, they have a
very weekend here. But you know, it's something that choosing freedom,
choosing opportunity, choosing the profit motor for.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Lack of better word, will.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Yield to productivity and peace in a way that you
know China can't offer. And so Japan and all these
other trading partners who know that.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
They have a very We can't in the long run,
but in the short run to drive up bidding. It's
it's it's not as weak as it looks in order
to wreak a little bit of havoc.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
By the way, I'll dismount with this.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Is it any wonder that the latest Gallup poll shows
a Democrat leadership's confidence rating is down to twenty five percent.
And we thought thirty four percent and twenty twenty three
was as low as it could go. And it's nearly
in half from two thousand and one. It's leadership, like
Jamie Raskin, it's driving those numbers.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Miss a little, miss a lot, miss a lot, and
we'll miss you. It's your morning show with Michael del Churno.
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