Speaker 1: Turn we have today.
Speaker 2: You bet builders hanging boy a thread here? Relax, relax,
they still need one more goal. Well if it loses,
nov bets got your Cover. Nov bet is the home
of the bet builder. This World Cup, from goal.
Speaker 3: Scorers to cards, get the best value on every match,
plus get money back as a free bat.
Speaker 4: If your bet builder.
Speaker 3: Loses on the biggest game every single day, join today
and get seventy euros in pre bets. No be bett
or power to You Teason Seas apply eighteen plus bet Responsibly,
Gambling Care dot i em today.
Speaker 5: You bet builders hanging boy a thread here?
Speaker 2: Relax, relax, They still need one more goal. Well if
it loses, nov bets got your cover. Nov bet is
the home of the bet builder.
Speaker 3: This World Cup, from goal scorers to cards, get the
best value on every match, plus get money back as
a free bat.
Speaker 4: If your bet builder.
Speaker 3: Loses on the biggest game every single day, join today
and get seventy euros in pre bets. No be beat
or power to You Season Seas apply eighteen plus bet
responsibly Gambling care.
Speaker 6: Do ie The Rush Hour with James Golden on the
Red Apple Podcast Network.
Speaker 4: Welcome my friends to the Wednesday edition of Boss rush hourway,
if you are joining us today, we have a treat
for you coming up. The chairman of the r n
C will be joining us now. Some of you will
be delighted. Others of you who, let's say this, have
been disappointed rather disappointed, and the R and C over
the years might say, well, why we're gonna see if
today's RNC is the R and C of ole. That's
why I'm gonna ask. One of the things I intend
to ask the chairman, Michael Wattley, who, by the way,
is not one of these never trumpers. He has been
in President Trump's corner for years, so I'm looking forward
to catching up with him. Of course, there is so
much news that continues to happen. I said yesterday that
you would not believe I think, well, you would believe it.
The rhetoric that democrats are using and liberals all over
the country regarding fifty nine people that entered the United
States of America, and that outrage continues. We have the
social media influencers are now getting involved. Also, some commentators
well known. For instance, a man that Donald Trump, well
he had some unflattering titles for in the past, has
weighed in that would be Don Lemon and others. But
before we get to any of that, something I think
unusual happened, very unusual in Congress today. A Democrat, a
member of the Democrat Party stood on the House floor
and said, this cut three.
Speaker 7: It is role Kohana, Mister speaker, I rise today to
introduce as legislation President Trump's Executive Order for the Most
Favored Nation Status on Drug Pricing. My legislation will codify
President Trump's executive order, which basically says that Americans should
not pay more for drugs than people in other other
countries and other parts of the world.
Speaker 1: Right now, we're.
Speaker 7: Paying two to three times more for our drugs than
people in other industrialized nations. Now, this executive order, codified
by the legislation, will allow our cabinet secretaries to put
pressure on big Pharma and make sure that they are
not price gouging, and will allow for the importation of
chief for drugs. So you ask, why do we need
the legislation, Because the reality is that Big Pharma will
sue for the executive order like they did in the
previous Trump administration, and in the previous administration they managed
to kill the executive order The only way we can
stand up to Big Pharma is to codify in legislation
what the President wants to do in an executive order.
So here's the deal. If I can cross the aisle
and support President Trump's executive order in legislation, every Republican
should be willing to cross the aisle and support my legislation.
It's a pretty simple test. Are we going to stand
in this body with the sixteen billion dollars that Big
Pharma spent on lobbying, or are we going to stand
with the American people. We will know that answer based
on how many co sponsors we get for my legislation
that simply codifies Donald Trump's executive order.
Speaker 4: Well, now, I'm sure that there are some political things
happening behind the scenes with this, but this is unusual.
This is the first time, I think in almost two
with all of the years that we have been following
Donald Trump and the TDS. Now, someone correct me if
I'm wrong. Princess Die if you want to, or Lady Benedict,
or you ladies and gentlemen, if correct me. This is
the first time I have heard a Democrat stand up
in the House and just unapologetically without any hesitation say, oh, yep,
something Donald Trump did we need to get behind and
this is a big deal. If this happens. And by
the way, this moves to codify into law the executive orders,
there's something that needs to be part of the entire
Republican agenda. For many of the executive owners that Donald
Trump has given, they need to be codified into law
so that a subsequent election cannot change them, so that
it would take a vote from Congress to change some
of the things that Donald Trump has implemented, for instance,
getting rid of DEI out of the federal government completely,
stopping state sponsored discrimination from the federal government needs to
be codified into law. Some of the changes that Donald
Trump has made to the American military need to be
codified into law. After we get trade deals in and
some of the trade deals are completed, they need to
be codified into law. This is a big deal. I
can't claim to know all of the ramifications. Yet there's
always something I've learned over the years. When things sound
good in Congress, and especially if there's a Democrat in fault,
usually there's a catch somewhere. So I'm going to say, yes,
this is unusual. This sounds good. I will be looking
into it further, but so far it sounds very very good.
Now you have other Democrats that are totally teds. I
mentioned the South African thing. The left is going nuts
on that. Let's check in, for instance, give you an
example of what is taking place on social media, beginning
with the x CNN anchor Don Lemon. Yes, that would
be the one and the one and only Don Lemon.
Speaker 8: This South African farmer bulls, which is the most blatantly
obvious racist ever. It is blatantly obvious the way that
we treat white South Africans, who are, by the way,
for the most part, and I am generalizing here, some
of the wealthiest people are well to do people in
the country. They speak their language, they own most of
the land and the property, and somehow they're being granted
a fast track to become Americans while they're trying to
cut down on immigration from other countries. You know, you
get that from where from the brown people. On March seventh,
Trump to truth social to announces he is offering white
South African farmers quote a rapid pathway to the US citizenship,
pointing out that South Africa's new Land reform push signed
into law last year, which lets the government take land
without compensation if the property is not being used and
there's no intention to either develop or make money from it. Okay,
now I'm going to give you some context here. They're
not just taking a land away from white South African farms.
White South Africans, about nine percent of the population, owned
eighty seven percent of the fertile land. Okay, today, Black
South Africans make up more than ninety percent of the
population and they only hold about four percent of all
privately owned land. So what they're trying to do is say, hey,
we need to fix an historical injustice and figure out
if you're not using that land to farm, then we
need to have some of that land, not taking all
of your entire farm. That's not what's happening, and we
need to what there needs to be equity. And now
people are crying because the playing field is being leveled,
and so therefore it is now discrimination.
Speaker 4: All right. Look, as I said yesterday, I have mixed
I have mixed feelings which are emotional and mixed thoughts
are which are not over policy with South Africa. I
think the regimes of South Africa in the past have
been horrendous. Apartheid's horrendous. I saw some conservatives this week
slamming the ANC as a bunch of commies. They are commies.
They are commies. But the reason they're the A and
C has a history of being a bunch of commis
is because when black civil rights advocates in America and
their counterparts, the people of South Africa re out to
the United States of America during the nineteen sixties, nineteen seventies,
nineteen eighties and asked for help for their quest for freedom,
the United States stuck the middle finger up at them,
and the Ruskies back then the old Soviet Union said hey,
we'll support you. Yeah, they're commedes. The communists came to
the rescue of people who were desperate when the United
States both and this goes beyond to me politics, because
it was Republican administrations and Democrat administrations who totally turned
on the black people of South Africa and just told
them to get lost. I'm sorry, that's the way I
look at history. Again. If I'm wrong, somebody corrected me, please,
I stand to be corrected if I'm wrong. It was
by the way members of the entertainment industry that put
a lot of pressure on South Africa and some of
them refused to perform while Apartheit was going on. So yeah,
there are a lot of ill feelings. But let's be
honest about South Africa. Ever since apartheid was abolished, we
had Nelson Mandela, whorld was so pleased, proud, Yes, Nelson Mandela.
I will not say anything ever negative about Nelson Mandela.
Not gonna do it. But let's be real about South
Africa under black governance. It has been a disaster in
so many ways, not always, not everything, but the crime
problems are there in South Africa. The problem is that
continue to exist for the black majority population of the country.
Are they're having a difficult time. Yes, apartheid is gone
and good, but South Africa is no paradise. And with
these calls right now, and they are calls will play
it as many times as we have to play it
from the leaders that are calling for the death of
white people in South Africa, for the death of the boa,
the farmers in South Africa. And by the way, this
system of apartheid in South Africa was heinous and if
you go back and you look at the connection of
the British and some of the others in the Boa Wars.
Winston Churchill was over there in the Boa Wars. You
look at what it wasn't just America, It wasn't just
a native of black people. They treated the Indian, the
brown skin Indians in South Africa miserably too. This whole
color thing, you're not the same shade of pigmentation me.
This whole evil that has been part of South Africa
and in fact been part of American, European African history.
My god, we have got to get past this if
humanity is ever going to have a chance to raise
itself to the level that it should be. But this
thing in South Africa runs deep, and there are a
lot of things wrong in South Africa. But when you
see fifty nine people coming here and this outrage that
these democrats are having, and you contrast with eleven million
people that came into the United States illegally and Democrats
didn't say a peep, don lemon, the rest of them
never jumped out on social media cursing, spewing mad because
who knows who of those eleven million were coming here
with bad intentions. There's a lot of hypocrisy all the
way around here, James Goland Early here both Nearly's Rush Hour,
Don't you dare Go Away?
Speaker 6: The Rush Hour with James Golden on the Red Apple
Podcast Network The Rush Hour with James Golden on the
Red Apple Podcast Network.
Speaker 4: Princess Diana has weighed in. She said she did a
quick search cannot find another Trump executive order that a
Democrat has supported with legislation. Princess Diana also says she
thinks this is a fantastic thing that Ron Rokahan it did.
It's the best way to shame the recalcitrent GOP. Amen
to that. We keep wondering what are they doing at
the GOP in Congress. What's happening? And Lady Benedict weighs in,
got a hand it to Rocahanna, this was brilliant. When
we get back, we're going to be speaking with the
chairman of the Republican National Committee. I cannot wait to
introduce him to you, to have a chat with him
about some of the things that are happening in this
momentous presidency and what we should expect from Republicans as
a party.
Speaker 6: Stay with us, don't go away The Rush Hour with
James Golden on the Red Apple Podcast Network. The Rush
Hour with James Golden on the Red Apple Podcast Network.
Speaker 9: In two thousand and nine twenty ten, they passed the
stimulus bill under the Obama era, and then you had
one point two trillion in the last Congress.
Speaker 5: And so that's two trillion dollars over ten years.
Speaker 9: And sometimes you look around the country and go, where
did two trillion dollars go?
Speaker 5: Where is all the infrastructure? Why don't we have more?
Speaker 9: And I think it does a lot of this money
gets eaten up again the permitting and the consultants, and
I want to see more of the money go, you know,
to turn dirt. That's what we have to focus on.
And if we do that, I think there should be
money for all of our projects. But if it gets
eaten up just by the consultant class, all of us lose.
All of our communities lose because they don't have the
resources to build your bridge.
Speaker 5: It can't take a busload of kids.
Speaker 4: Yeah that's Sean Duffy. Yeah, where did those trillions of
dollars go? Right now, ladies and gentlemen, we are so
please to have on Bosna Lee's Rush Hour, the chairman
of the RNC, Michael Wiley, And you don't know, you
don't know. I have a smile on my face saying that.
And I'm just gonna be frank with you. Welcome, mister chairman.
How are you.
Speaker 1: I'm doing great. It is great to be on within you, sir.
Speaker 4: You know, I'm just gonna be honest with you. If
this were a few years back, Number one, I would
not have the Chairman of the RNC on because there
was such a visceral, visceral dislike for the RNC for
many quarters of the base, and you and it and
things have changed so welcome. And that visceral dislike came
because people saw the Republican Party, many in the Republican
Party not supporting President Trump during his first term. They
saw what they believed, you can say, rightly or wrongly,
that members of the party, including the former Speaker and others,
had political knives in his back the entire term. And
there was a real schism in this party. That schism,
at least does not exist right now. In part of
your leadership, not only in North Carolina where you served
as the Chairman of Republican Party there, but ever since
the Ronald McDaniel Daser over, now you're at the R
and C. What is it like at the R and
C right now, sir?
Speaker 1: Well, it is a great place to be right now
because we have President Trump. We have a Republican House
and a Republican Senate that are all focused on an
America First agenda, and we are working on the big
beautiful bill, and we are seeing the president's trade policies
that are being enacted from the administration. We are seeing
is regulatory relief of end up being enacted out throughout
the country through the Sabinet with all of the different officers,
the departments of agencies, you know. So what we're seeing
right now is what Donald Trump said we were going
to do when he won. And it's a great thing
to see promises made, promises, keV.
Speaker 4: I want to play two things for you. First cut one, Carlos. Today,
Wolf Blitzer of all people, on CNN, of all places,
had this report on inflation.
Speaker 10: Wallet US and inflation showing slowing, I should say, to
its lowest rate in more than four years. That according
to April's Consumer Price Index report, it's an unexpected and
very welcome development that's defying economist expectations amid President Trump's
ongoing trade war. Let's go live right now to see
it in a business and politics course out of Vanessa Yorkievich,
who's watching all of this in New York. Vanessa walk
us through this morning's report. Where do things stand?
Speaker 9: Encouraging signs woll of inflation continuing to move in the
right direction, cooling on an annual basis to two point
three percent.
Speaker 4: And so you had that report coming in from CNN.
Then you had Hakim Jeffries, the Leader of the House
in the Democrat Party. He was asked about China trade.
This is Hakim Jeffries.
Speaker 8: You are the Chinese.
Speaker 10: What have you learned about the art of the deal?
Speaker 8: China punk the administration and the administration back down.
Speaker 4: That's no surprise because we've seen that happen over and
over and over again. And he went on to say
that the prices everywhere are going up, not down, et cetera,
et cetera. So we've got things happening, We've got the trade,
we've got inflation. What is your view of, first of all,
where we are with the trade deals, not only with China.
I thought it was interesting Jensaki the other day was
mocking Donald Trump for having no deals within hours, we
had to deal with Great Britain, and now, of course
this breakthrough, this happened with China. And then you have
reports of the economy where the media has been trying
to scare everyone to death, the mainstream press saying there's
a recession coming or is basically appearing on the horizon.
Your thoughts, mister chairman, Oh, so is the chairman? So
is the Chairman there or not? We lost the Chairman
on the line. We're looking to get him back, ladies
and gentlemen. But we've heard from as I said, Hot Team,
Jeffries and from Wolf Blitzer on this inflation thing. We'll
let you know when the Chairman rejoins us. We're trying
to reach him right now. In the meantime, I want
to just point out the Chairman mentioned this giant, great, big,
beautiful bill and that's something else that I'm going to
talk with him about. We have headlines today that there
is in fighting with Republicans or on the Medicare part
of it, Medicaid, a GOP civil war breaking out with
medicaid supposedly over supposedly deeper cuts, Fiscal hawks lashing out
at what they say the lack of medicaid reforms in
President Trump's legislative package. The gripes are from conservatives centered
on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, a portion of
the sprawling, big, beautiful bill. They don't go far enough,
says Eric Berlson of Missouri. Hardliners such as Berlison are unconvinced.
They say the CBO scoring is not accurate, that we
need deeper cuts. Another person calling for deeper cuts in Medicaid,
Ralph Norman, South Carolina, says the bill is need some
substantial changes. He's not flexing, he's not The math has
to be right in order to get the country back
on track. And another Republican, Warren Davison, Ohio, disappointed that
he says there are a lot of delays. He's a
hollow promises they'll be cutting things, they say in four years, this,
that and the other, but they're not cut. We don't
have no Okay, well, i'll tell you what we're gonna do.
We're gonna take a quick break so that when we
do get him back, we can't spend as much time
with him as purely possible. James Golden's nearly with you here.
It is both Sally's Rush Hour, Keep It Right Here,
Do Not Go Away, both Snry's Rush Hour.
Speaker 6: The Rush Hour James Golden on the Red Apple Podcast
Network The Rush Hour with James Golden on the Red
Apple Podcast Network.
Speaker 4: Ah, today's the birthday of Vic Flick. What a great name,
the English studio guitarist who's playing this riff and the
James Bond theme. Also another birthday today American singer songwriter
Bobby Darren because his big ones Mack the Knife and
beyond the scene times running short. The Chairman is back
with us, Chairman Whatley, Sorry we lost you there. I'm
glad you're back.
Speaker 1: Yes, is there no worries?
Speaker 4: Let's talk. So we were talking inflation, seeing in reports,
great inflation numbers, Hakim Jeffrey's poop poo's it costed going
up everywhere. And China has punked the United States. China
has punked the Trump administration on trade. I don't see
how that's possible that you could think that, but he does.
Speaker 1: What do you say, Chairman, Well, I would say he's
living in an alternate reality. The fact is that grocery
prices are down, housing prices are down, Gasoline prices are down,
inflation is down. It's really hard to look at that
economic report with all of the jobs that have been
created four hundred thousand plus since President Trump came into
office and say that we're having bad problems. You know
that the Democrats have lied and said that the trade
is going to raise prices. It has not raised prices.
In fact, we were seeing them come down in all
of the major areas that that consumers care about.
Speaker 4: Okay, now let me just ask you a few other things.
The Big Bill. There's a report today in the Hill
that Republicans are having they're not a unified caucus when
it comes to this bill. Some are calling for deeper
cuts in Medicaid than are in there. Of course, the
idea of cutting Medicaid is something that the Democrats are
going to run on without ever mentioning how deeply it
was expanded into areas that it never should have been
under previous administrations. At the same time, Governor Newsom Mountain
in California has done it about face today said that
their medicare their state Medicare bill. They're trying to wheel
it in medical because they were the cost of providing
free healthcare to illegal immigrants is pretty much bankrupting that plan.
So where are we at with this big, beautiful bill
and Republican.
Speaker 1: Support for it completely. Yeah, Republicans are completely unified understanding
that they need to get this bill to the President's desk,
and we are working through the House committee process right
now and then we're going to have it on the
floor and Speaker has committed to getting that bill done
as quickly as possible and over to the Senate. Senator
Thune has said that he's going to get this bill
done as soon as he gets it from the Senate
or from the House. So look, the Republicans are completely
unified and understanding this bill must get done. Right. The
only thing that we're really seeing from the Democrats right
now is one hundred percent certainty that one hundred percent
of the House Democrats and the Senate Democrats are going
to vote for the largest tax increase in American history
because this bill is going to prevent that from going
in and the Democrats are totally opposed to it. So,
you know, we feel very good. Now. There's a lot
of process that we're going to go through, and there's
going to be deals, and there's going to be you know,
pieces that are going to be worked on. But everybody
on the Republican side of the aisle, the House, the Senate,
and President Trump knows we're going to get this bill
done and we're going to bring it to the American people.
Speaker 4: I open today's show with a sound by from a Democrat,
which is unusual, Roe Kahana, who rose to codify President
Trump's executive order concerning most Favored Nation States for dealing
with pharmaceutical drugs. This is the first time I think
we have ever seen in either of the Trump administrations
a Democrat take the lead and say this needs to
become law. Is the party going to focus on some
of the other executive orders that this president has put
his signature on and make sure that they are codified
as well, so that these changes that are happening across
America aren't temporary and dependent on a future election. Yes.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, yes, you know, on the big beautiful bill, we're
going to have provisions in there regarding the southern border.
We know that President Trump was able to close that
border through executive action, but we don't want anybody else
to open it up later. We're all are going to
have the energy provisions that are going to be codified
in there, and the House and the Senate will absolutely
come back and codify others. This is going to be
a high priority, right This is you know, it's the
President's agenda, but it's also the Republican agenda, and it's
an American agenda. You know that we want to see
a strong economy, a strong border. We want to get
you know, woke out of schools. We want boys out
of girls sports and men out of women's locker rooms.
And we want to make sure that we're going to
be strong everywhere in the world.
Speaker 4: All right, we have just time, limited time right now,
and I'm going to invite you back because we need
to talk further. But let me ask you a question.
And look, I hope I'm not putting you on the Spotify.
I am. I'm sorry the I As soon as I
got word that you were coming on and we talked
about it, I started getting text from some of my
dearest friends who are highly involved, and one of them,
many of us left the Republican Party the moment that
Trump's grace, that escalator never look back, and another every
day confirms that decision. There was a rift between the base,
the conservative base, and the rn C. What can you
say to those people who felt very disenfranchised by their
own party apparatus at the R and C.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Donald Trump has completely remade the Republican Party. We
are absolutely the party right now of common sense. We
are the party that is fighting for every family, fighting
for every community. We are a conservative party. This is
Donald Trump's home and this is you know, an America
First party, and you know this movement that he has
unleashed is going to last beyond these next four years.
We're going to need, you know, to make sure that
we have an America first House, an America first Senate,
and we're going to be America first in all fifty
states as well.
Speaker 4: You say we're going to be America first in all
fifty states, let me ask you about that. You look
at states like California and other states, especially Colorado. Some
interesting craziness is happening in Colorado. But you look all
up and down, especially the West coast states from the
California Oregon. Not that many electoral votes there, but still
Washington State. Is the Republican Party going to play dead
there because the numbers are not favorable and the thinking is,
why throw good money after bad and work in those states,
or is there an opportunity in those states to actually
grow the party. A lot of people there are starting
to understand what it means to live under the kind
of oppressive governments that their citizens have been living under.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, look, I think the fact is that we've
got to do better as a party in every state
around the country. You know, it takes three things to
win a close selection, right, you got to have a
great candidate who runs a great race. You got to
get out the vote, you got to protect the ballot.
We at the RNC are going to be very, very
focused on getting out the vote and protecting the ballot
and making sure that we're going to support Republican candidates
all across the country. You know, we've got state parties
in all fifty states plus territories that we're working every
day to make those parties better. We're making investments around
the country. But at the same time, when we have
a presidential race like we did last year, and we
know it's going to come down to seven states, our
investments were made in those seven states and we were
making sure that we were going to win Arizona, Nevada, Georgia,
North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan. And we did not
make investments in those other states at that same level
because we knew if Donald Trump won them, he was
going to win the White House, and if he won
the White House, we'd have a Republican House in Republican Senate.
So there's obviously a lot of work that we're going
to continue to be doing. But the Republican Party is
the American Party, where the American First Party, where the
common sense party, and everybody in this country wants a
strong economy, they want lower gasoline, grocery and housing prices.
They want to make sure that we're going to be
strong around the world. We're going to be respected around
the world. We're going to have trade policies that are
going to be fair to America. And we're seeing shifts
in the black community, the Hispanic community, the Asian American community,
young voters, women voters who all understand. You know that
with Donald Trump and Republicans, we're going to understand their issues,
put solutions on the table and fight for them every day.
Speaker 4: Wow, Okay, you have to come back, please, because I
want to talk to you about those very things, and
especially about what people can do to make sure that
this is a very successful mid term election coming up.
So will you do that? Will you join us again?
Speaker 1: I will absolutely do that. I appreciate it and really
enjoy the opportunity to talk to you.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much. That's Chairman Michael wh the RNC,
James Golden ladies and gentlemen, both nerdly here the fastest
hour in American media. We didn't even get to the
stuff I wanted to get to today with Swafika. We'll
get to that tomorrow. Keep it right here. May God
bless and protected you in every single one of you,
your famili's, your loved ones. Love and gratitude always, my
friends for you of being here with me and allowing
me to be with you. God willing. We are back
tomorrow this very station and look forward to having you along.
Until then, my friends, I bid you, I do bye.
Speaker 6: Thanks for listening to both Sturdley's Rush Hour. You can
hear Bo s Nerdley's Rush Hour weekdays at four on
seventy seven WABC.
Speaker 4: If you liked the.
Speaker 6: Podcast, share it with your friends and listen any time
at wabcradio dot com and download the WABC Radio app.
Speaker 4: Hit that subscribe button on.
Speaker 6: All major podcasts platforms. Plus follow WABC on social on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook,
and X see you next time for a new episode
so you never have to wonder
Speaker 4: What the heck is going on here