Erick Stakelbeck Interviews Scott Jennings on Donald Trump's Revolution of Common Sense and Second Term Leadership

[00:00] He's a trusted voice in conservative

[00:02] politics and one of the rare trutht

[00:03] tellers on CNN where he's a senior

[00:06] political contributor and battles it out

[00:08] nightly with his liberal co-panelist.

[00:10] Scott has written an inside account of

[00:13] President Trump's second term. It's

[00:15] called a revolution of common sense. How

[00:18] Donald Trump stormed Washington and

[00:20] fought for Western civilization. Scott

[00:23] takes you into the room. the Oval Office

[00:25] decisions, the strategy aboard Air Force

[00:27] One, and the mission to restore American

[00:30] strength at home and abroad. I sat down

[00:33] with him at the Republican Jewish

[00:35] Coalition Summit in Las Vegas to hear

[00:37] more. Scott Jennings, great to have you

[00:40] back with us. A Revolution of Common

[00:42] Sense. The book is out now. First of

[00:45] all, congratulations.

[00:47] Secondly,

[00:48] Donald Trump and you open the book with

[00:50] some great anecdotes about your meetings

[00:52] with him in the Oval Office or meeting

[00:54] your first meeting with him in

[00:55] particular. Why is he and we'll unpack

[00:58] all of it. Why is he different than any

[01:01] other leader we see in the world right

[01:02] now? What sets him apart and makes him

[01:05] so successful?

[01:06] >> Well, I think a couple of things. Number

[01:08] one, his willingness to not be hemmed in

[01:11] by the way we've always done it. That's

[01:13] the one thing that kept coming up in my

[01:15] conversations with him, the cabinet,

[01:17] other people that I spoke to, the

[01:19] observations I had with his meetings. He

[01:22] is just not going to be hemmed in by,

[01:24] well, we always did it that way. And so

[01:26] when you're talking about trying to

[01:27] forge peace in the Middle East, or

[01:29] you're talking about economic policy,

[01:30] you know, there's always people in

[01:32] Washington that want to say, well, we

[01:33] can't do that. We've never done that

[01:35] before. That's the last thing you want

[01:37] to tell Donald Trump. He's a he is truly

[01:39] an outside the lines thinker at a time

[01:41] when people want political leaders to

[01:44] think that way. The other thing I

[01:46] learned is writing this book. He picked

[01:48] the team for this administration that's

[01:50] right for his management style. I think

[01:53] the first time around good people but

[01:55] not a match for his leadership style.

[01:57] This time around the team that he picked

[01:59] knows how to work with him and they know

[02:01] how to execute on his leadership style.

[02:04] That is what allowed them to move so

[02:05] quickly and I think they learned a lot

[02:08] the first time around. They picked the

[02:10] team for him this time and you know I

[02:12] don't know a Trump supporter who isn't

[02:13] over the moon happy with the results. I

[02:15] mean they've moved faster and farther

[02:17] than anybody thought possible.

[02:18] >> Yeah. Number one, Scott, great points

[02:19] all around. He is an outsidethebox

[02:21] thinker. Imagine that. We think of the

[02:23] Gaza plan and his suggestions there.

[02:26] That's just one thing and we'll get into

[02:28] that. Uh but number two, what I took

[02:30] away from the book, he is firmly in

[02:32] charge. Yes,

[02:33] >> he is the f he's got a great team, a

[02:35] dream team around him, but he is the

[02:37] decision maker. Talk more about that,

[02:39] his decisiveness.

[02:40] >> So, the first time I went to meet with

[02:41] the president about all this in early

[02:43] February, I thought I was meeting with

[02:44] him alone and I walked into the Oval

[02:46] Office and most of the cabinet was in

[02:48] there and I watched him for a couple of

[02:51] hours conduct about six meetings at the

[02:53] same time and instruct people to do

[02:55] this, go find that out, come back. I I

[02:58] watched this whole orchestration of all

[03:00] this stuff and I was sitting there

[03:02] thinking to myself, I have no idea who

[03:05] was running the country the last four

[03:06] years, but I sure as heck know who's

[03:08] running it right now. And so, love it or

[03:10] hate it, Donald Trump, the elected

[03:12] president of the United States is firmly

[03:15] in charge and the nerve center of this

[03:16] government is the Oval Office behind the

[03:18] Resolute desk. There was nothing he

[03:21] wasn't dealing with that day. And I

[03:23] think the team is great, but he's the

[03:25] decider. He is the decision maker and he

[03:27] is very granular. The other thing I

[03:29] learned about observing him. He's a good

[03:32] listener. He likes to listen to people

[03:34] debate. He will ask questions. But his

[03:36] leadership style is to really pay

[03:39] attention and listen. Yeah. I think the

[03:41] the caricature of him is that he would

[03:43] just have preconceived ideas and

[03:45] wouldn't care what anyone thought.

[03:46] That's not true. He listens to these

[03:48] advisers have conversations and debate

[03:51] and then he makes decisions, but he's

[03:53] decisive. I think one of the problems

[03:55] with Biden, frankly, and this was

[03:57] historically his problem, just

[03:58] indecisiveness, hand ringing. You don't

[04:01] get that with Trump, once he makes a

[04:02] decision, the decision is made, and it's

[04:04] firm and everybody knows to go execute.

[04:06] >> Yeah. Number one, he's built for this.

[04:08] But secondly, I don't think he sleeps.

[04:10] He's a force of nature. He's a machine.

[04:12] Yes.

[04:13] >> And it's the antithesis, of course,

[04:14] Scott, as you mentioned, of Joe Biden

[04:16] and the Biden years.

[04:18] >> Can you talk about And you talked about

[04:20] the accomplishments. Incredible the

[04:21] first 10 months here. I mean, amazing.

[04:23] This is the accomplishments we may see

[04:25] over an eight-year tenure from most

[04:27] presidents. He's done it in just a few

[04:28] months. But can you talk about the mess

[04:30] he was left with that he inherited from

[04:32] the Biden administration on all levels,

[04:34] culturally, socially, foreign policy,

[04:36] economically? It was a disaster.

[04:38] >> Well, go down the list. I mean, number

[04:39] one, our immigration system was a

[04:41] disaster. And I think one of the reasons

[04:43] he was elected in the first place and

[04:44] then reelected is because of the

[04:46] immigration crisis in this country. You

[04:48] know, we haven't passed any new laws on

[04:50] immigration, but the border is somehow

[04:52] closed. We now have internal

[04:53] enforcement. What I have learned is is

[04:55] that the old administration had policies

[04:58] designed to have the border open and not

[05:00] enforce existing federal law. The only

[05:02] thing Donald Trump has done is say,

[05:04] "Let's just enforce the law."

[05:05] >> Right?

[05:06] >> Novel concept for a president, but

[05:08] that's what he's doing. That was a mess,

[05:09] but it is solved. He inherited an

[05:11] economic mess, an inflationary mess

[05:13] caused by Joe Biden's policies, and he's

[05:15] still digging out from that. probably

[05:17] one of the things that's nagging him the

[05:18] most just how deep of a hole Biden had

[05:21] put us in economically. But he passed

[05:23] the big beautiful bill. He kept taxes

[05:25] low. He's deregulating on the energy

[05:27] front. He's rebalancing our trade

[05:29] relationships. But I think it will take

[05:30] time for all these things to to flesh

[05:33] out and pan out. On the world stage, I

[05:35] mean, the the biggest thing he inherited

[05:37] was a weak America. Our president was

[05:41] weak. We had weak leadership. We had

[05:43] feckless leadership. We had indecisive

[05:46] leadership in the Oval Office and now

[05:48] >> Afghanistan withdrawal in 2021 went

[05:50] downhill from there.

[05:51] >> Of course. Of course. And so the world

[05:53] looked at us as a diminishing player.

[05:56] Now they look at us as the world's

[05:59] indispensable superpower once again. And

[06:02] look what happens when the American

[06:03] president is strong. You can solve wars.

[06:06] You can bring people to the table. You

[06:08] can get hostages back, which he's done

[06:09] all over the country, all over the

[06:11] world, I should say. certainly in the

[06:13] Middle East, out of Russia, even strong

[06:15] American leadership matters. And so

[06:17] reversing that trend culturally, you

[06:20] know, another reason he was elected in

[06:22] 2024, the Democrats had gone off into

[06:24] the cultural ditch on transgender

[06:26] ideology and a whole bunch of other

[06:27] things. DEI,

[06:29] um, he's ended all of that. He's

[06:31] reversed that. The pendulum is swinging

[06:33] back. People are grateful that he has

[06:34] made it so that you can just tell the

[06:36] truth again. You can just say what

[06:38] everyone's thinking again. And more than

[06:40] anything, I think he has just instilled

[06:43] a sense of common sense. That's why I

[06:45] called the book a revolution of common

[06:46] sense. He used that phrase in his

[06:48] inaugural address. When he said it, I

[06:50] thought, "That's the book. That's that

[06:53] is the most genius political branding."

[06:56] And on his hundth day in office, I flew

[06:59] with him to Michigan and he said, I'll

[07:01] paraphrase, you know, whether you're

[07:02] right or whether you left, it doesn't

[07:04] matter what you are. It's just common

[07:06] sense. And you talk to people who are

[07:08] not really all that politically engaged.

[07:10] Maybe they've never voted before. They

[07:12] were attracted to the common sense

[07:14] nature of what he's trying to do. So,

[07:17] and and of course, what Biden was doing

[07:18] on so many fronts was outsourcing his

[07:20] agenda to people so far on the radical

[07:23] left that everything they were doing

[07:24] felt like nonsense, uncommon nonsense.

[07:28] But he has to reverse all that. And

[07:30] we're well on our way to doing it. Uh,

[07:31] and you know, I know his advisers are

[07:33] happy with the progress they've made. I

[07:36] did talk to one of them during the uh

[07:38] process of writing the book and I said,

[07:40] you know, he seems to be doing so many

[07:42] things on a daily basis and the adviser

[07:45] said, well, you know, he knows he

[07:46] doesn't have much time to save the

[07:48] country and that's why he's moving so

[07:50] quickly because he knows how close to

[07:52] the brink we really were. Well, there's

[07:55] a sense of urgency and Scott, you've

[07:57] common sense for sure on CNN as you're

[07:59] jousting with leftists every night.

[08:01] You've called these 8020 issues.

[08:03] >> Yeah. Uh 80% of the American people

[08:05] agree on where President Trump stands

[08:07] and the other 20 is on the fringe and

[08:08] it's madness. One of those obviously the

[08:11] gender madness. You referenced it a

[08:13] minute ago, men and women's locker

[08:14] rooms, little children being mutilated.

[08:17] Yeah.

[08:17] >> Um talk more about that because I think

[08:19] on day one, President Trump as he was

[08:21] inaugurated, signed an executive order

[08:23] banning that child sex change

[08:26] mutilations. Talk more about that, how

[08:28] that factors into common sense. This is

[08:31] when we talk about saving

[08:32] Judeo-Christian western civilization. If

[08:34] we can't save our kids, it seems and we

[08:36] can't save the civilization.

[08:38] >> Well, I think if you can erase someone's

[08:39] gender in the way that the left wants to

[08:42] be able to do it, you can erase them

[08:43] from the law. I mean, we have immutable

[08:45] characteristics, God-given immutable

[08:47] traits, and that is connected to the way

[08:50] we do civil rights in this country. But

[08:51] if you can erase those, if you can

[08:53] change those, they're no longer

[08:54] immutable. You can erase people from the

[08:56] law. That's what they're doing to women.

[08:57] I think the Republican party under

[08:59] Donald Trump is fighting for true civil

[09:02] rights, especially the civil rights of

[09:03] women because what the left was doing

[09:06] was effectively saying you they can't

[09:09] define what a woman is. You can become

[09:11] one and that they can't answer it. And

[09:13] and when you start to really go down

[09:15] that rabbit hole, what you start to

[09:16] realize is is well, they're devaluing

[09:19] women in this way. Trump said no more. I

[09:22] think one of the most iconic photos that

[09:24] he took in the first 100 days was having

[09:27] all those female athletes at the White

[09:29] House where he signed the executive

[09:31] order about banning uh men from women's

[09:33] sports. And then what happened? The US

[09:35] Olympic Committee or the International

[09:36] Olympic Committee followed suit and

[09:38] they're not going to allow that in

[09:40] future Olympics. And so leadership on

[09:42] this has consequences and it's also I

[09:45] think given a permission structure for

[09:46] everybody out there just to say finally

[09:48] we don't have to tiptoe around this

[09:50] anymore. There's a heck of a lot of

[09:52] people out there and a bunch of liberal

[09:54] Democrats who don't want their little

[09:55] girls having to swim against or play

[09:57] volleyball against boys. They don't want

[09:59] boys in their girls locker rooms and

[10:01] they felt trapped by their own political

[10:03] party and Donald Trump has come along

[10:05] and put an end to this nonsense.

[10:07] >> Scott, can you talk about that last

[10:09] point? Look, the left now, and again,

[10:11] you're battling every night on CNN, of

[10:13] course, in the lion's den, but where the

[10:15] Democrat party is now, where the left is

[10:17] right now, and what President Trump is

[10:19] up against there, and honestly, what we

[10:22] averted last November with a Harris

[10:25] Waltz administration, God forbid. Um,

[10:27] where are they right now? They're in the

[10:29] political wilderness, it seems, but

[10:30] ideologically, they're way out there on

[10:32] the far left and and the radical left.

[10:34] Well, they're in the thr of a bunch of

[10:37] radical progressive socialists, and they

[10:40] don't even really try to hide it

[10:41] anymore. They're proud to call

[10:42] themselves socialists. The beating heart

[10:45] of the Democratic party right now is

[10:47] this socialist energy, the Mandani

[10:49] energy, the AOC energy. That's where all

[10:53] the energy is in their party. They held

[10:54] it off in 2020 and in 2016. I don't know

[10:58] if they're going to be able to hold it

[10:59] off anymore. And honestly, look, you

[11:02] know, there's part of me that says,

[11:03] "Well, I guess that's good for the

[11:04] Republicans because the more radical

[11:06] they get, the more anti-American they

[11:08] become, the easier it is for Republicans

[11:10] to win." But I don't think it's good for

[11:11] one of our two political parties uh to

[11:14] be going down this very anti-American,

[11:17] anti- capitalist, anti-free market path.

[11:20] It's antithetical to the founding of the

[11:22] country. It's not good for our political

[11:25] culture uh for one of our parties to be

[11:28] captured, I think, by this ideology. And

[11:29] of course, the only way to change it is

[11:31] to keep beating them in elections, they

[11:33] have a very low image right now. Um, but

[11:36] at the same time, a lot of people who

[11:37] used to be Democrats, I think about my

[11:39] father who was a a blueco collar guy

[11:41] from West Kentucky, was the biggest

[11:43] Clinton guy I ever knew. I come from a

[11:44] family of Democrats.

[11:45] >> Yeah.

[11:46] >> He was the first person to tell me that

[11:47] Donald Trump was going to be the

[11:48] president.

[11:49] >> And like a lot of people back then, I

[11:51] thought, "Oh, come on." Yeah.

[11:52] >> But he knew. He knew because all of his

[11:55] uh contemporaries, his peers,

[11:57] working-class guys from middle America,

[11:59] they knew what was happening to their

[12:00] old party. They knew that party didn't

[12:02] represent them anymore. Trump comes

[12:04] along and he speaks in the way that

[12:07] people like my dad would speak if

[12:08] anybody ever bothered to put a

[12:09] microphone in his face.

[12:11] >> Yeah.

[12:11] >> And that's his that's the magic of the

[12:14] political movement. He recognized how

[12:16] far outside the mainstream the Democrats

[12:19] had become. And he said, "Look, I don't

[12:21] want you to, you know, think too deeply

[12:23] about political ideologies. I just want

[12:24] you to think about common sense. You

[12:26] called them 8020 issues. That's what I

[12:27] called them. But I think I was wrong. I

[12:29] think some of them are 9010, 955,

[12:32] >> especially and on these cultural

[12:34] matters." Uh, and Trump knew it. And by

[12:36] the way, he's not afraid. How many of us

[12:39] walk around this world and we know what

[12:41] the truth is, but we're afraid. You know

[12:44] what will happen to us at work? What

[12:45] will happen to us at school? What will

[12:47] happen to us in our social circles? The

[12:49] man fears nothing.

[12:51] >> And when you fear nothing and you show

[12:53] that kind of leadership, it gives

[12:54] confidence to everybody else.

[12:55] >> Yeah. I can so relate to your story

[12:57] about your dad. I grew up in a

[12:58] working-class neighborhood in Northeast

[12:59] Philadelphia. A lot of Democrats all

[13:01] flipped to the Trump column. It was

[13:03] amazing to watch it unfold. And for the

[13:04] reasons you mentioned,

[13:06] >> hey, we can't talk about President

[13:07] Trump's leadership, Scott, without

[13:08] talking about how he uses leverage

[13:11] >> and peace through strength.

[13:13] >> Yes. uh economically and now look we

[13:15] have trillions of dollars of foreign

[13:16] investment coming into the United States

[13:19] and obviously the big foreign policy

[13:20] wins. You were in Israel during the

[13:22] 12-day war as it broke out. Uh talk

[13:25] about his approach to foreign affairs

[13:28] and dealing with other countries.

[13:30] >> Well, a couple things. Number one, he

[13:32] negotiates from a position of strength

[13:33] whereas Biden was always from a position

[13:35] of weakness. So that automatically

[13:37] advantages us when we're talking to

[13:39] countries about anything. Number two,

[13:41] you know, he firmly believes in tariffs.

[13:43] Um, he believes that tariffs are more

[13:45] than just an economic policy. He views

[13:47] them as a tool of national diplomacy and

[13:49] national security. It's one of his

[13:51] longest and most deeply held uh

[13:53] political views.

[13:54] >> Big William McKinley fan.

[13:56] >> Yes. I mean, he he I think in his heart

[13:57] of hearts, if he could go back to a

[13:59] world where our government was just

[14:01] based on tariffs, we didn't have income

[14:02] taxes and everything else, we didn't

[14:04] have an IRS, that's what he would do.

[14:06] But I think he believes that's what the

[14:08] country would best run on. That's his

[14:11] theory. Now, it's interesting, and I

[14:12] write about this in my book. This is not

[14:14] where the Republican party has

[14:16] traditionally been. It's not what

[14:18] Republicans were trained to believe by

[14:19] Ronald Reagan and others. And so, I

[14:21] would say on that issue, that's probably

[14:24] the area of Republican orthodoxy that he

[14:26] has changed the most. And it'll be

[14:29] interesting to see uh after he leaves

[14:31] office whether that policy continues to

[14:33] be a central pillar of the Republican

[14:35] platform or not. And of course, we'll

[14:37] have to see how it it plays out. You

[14:39] know, I I think what he's done

[14:40] economically is put America first and

[14:43] American workers first. And he's using

[14:45] policies to reshore jobs and try to give

[14:49] us greater advantages. And you know,

[14:51] look, the American people will

[14:52] ultimately decide if they want this to

[14:54] continue or not. uh his fervent view is

[14:57] that we will have more jobs. People will

[14:59] have better paying jobs and we're not

[15:01] going to be taken advantage of by other

[15:03] countries. That'll be, you know, the

[15:05] Republican party's um future to continue

[15:08] to carry that forward. Uh and look, I

[15:10] think JD Vance is going to be the next

[15:12] nominee and obviously he believes in it,

[15:14] too. Uh so I think on the world stage

[15:16] it's just position of strength using the

[15:18] tools that are available and not being

[15:20] hemmed in by old ideologies or old you

[15:24] know we can't do it that way. It's made

[15:26] him a really powerful president. Uh and

[15:29] we needed one because what we had before

[15:30] was so weak.

[15:31] >> Yeah. And great point you see him in

[15:33] Egypt recently Scott. After the Gaza

[15:35] ceasefire deal is announced he goes next

[15:37] door to Egypt for meetings there. I

[15:39] mean, world leaders clamoring to have

[15:41] their picture with him, to talk to him,

[15:42] to get a moment with him. One thing that

[15:45] strikes me about him is he'll talk to

[15:46] anyone.

[15:47] >> Yes.

[15:48] >> China, Russia, North Korea. If he could,

[15:50] he would talk to Iran. But, as you said,

[15:52] he always does it from a position of

[15:54] strength.

[15:55] >> And And he does it from a position of

[15:57] what kind of deal can I get for America?

[15:59] I talked to Marco Rubio from my book and

[16:02] it's one of the things he impressed upon

[16:03] me is that the beginning and ending of

[16:06] every strategic conversation they have

[16:07] is what are we trying to get out of this

[16:10] for the United States of America. It's

[16:12] one of the reasons they reorganized the

[16:13] State Department and our foreign aid

[16:14] system. They had determined that it just

[16:17] wasn't being operated in a way that was

[16:19] serving America's best interest on the

[16:21] foreign stage. It doesn't make foreign

[16:23] aid bad. It just means the bureaucracy

[16:25] that had grown up around it wasn't

[16:27] necessarily in service of the foreign

[16:29] policy of the American government. Rubio

[16:31] told me in fact that you there were

[16:33] multiple times where the foreign aid

[16:35] distribution system was doing things at

[16:37] cross purposes with whatever the

[16:39] ambassador in that country thought was

[16:40] the best thing to do for America's

[16:42] relationship with that particular area.

[16:45] Well, they said even though we've always

[16:47] done it this way, we can reorganize it

[16:49] and put it back on a footing of what's

[16:51] best for America. I think that's the

[16:53] question he asks himself. I'm

[16:55] negotiating with a company. I'm

[16:56] negotiating with a foreign government.

[16:58] I'm negotiating with Democrats. Whatever

[17:00] I'm negotiating with, the question is,

[17:03] what's best for America? What's best for

[17:05] the United States? They start there and

[17:07] then he gets as close to that as

[17:09] possible. And I think he's got a pretty

[17:10] darn darn good track record of it.

[17:12] >> It truly is America first. Imagine that.

[17:14] >> Yeah.

[17:15] >> Hey, for the book, you had incredible

[17:16] access, by the way. President Trump, of

[17:18] course, Marco Rubio, various members of

[17:21] the administration. What struck you the

[17:23] most about how this administration

[17:24] operates? Obviously, as you said

[17:26] earlier, he's firmly in charge, but do

[17:28] you get a sense? In the first term,

[17:30] there were some people who weren't on

[17:32] board with the MAGA agenda, I think, who

[17:33] were working in the administration, but

[17:35] now it seems to be a very unified kind

[17:38] of message and worldview coming out of

[17:41] the administration. He's got his people,

[17:43] it seems, now around him.

[17:45] >> Yes. the people that he has hired for

[17:47] this administration at the cabinet level

[17:48] and at the staff level know how to

[17:51] operate under his leadership style. I

[17:53] think that was the difference between

[17:55] Trump 2 and Trump one. Doesn't make

[17:56] those people from the first term bad.

[17:58] They just weren't a fit. Some you ever

[18:00] take a job where you and your boss just

[18:01] weren't a fit for each other. Of course,

[18:02] I mean it happens in this

[18:04] administration. They knew they were

[18:06] going to win. They thought they were

[18:07] going to win. They had a plan. They had

[18:08] the idea of who they wanted to bring in

[18:10] for most of these jobs. They've made

[18:12] inspired picks. Rubio is the best

[18:15] secretary of state we've ever had. Scott

[18:17] Besson is a beast. Okay. Lee Zeldon over

[18:21] at EPA, the the things he's done on the

[18:23] endangerment finding. These are the

[18:25] consequential decisions go down the line

[18:28] and all these people that he chose hit

[18:30] the ground on day one executing on his

[18:33] agenda. They didn't wait. They're not

[18:36] sitting around. They're not over there

[18:38] enjoying the trappings of the offices.

[18:40] They're in and out of the West Wing all

[18:41] day getting instructions from the

[18:43] president about what to do next. They've

[18:44] been told, "Move quickly and they have

[18:47] all followed that instruction and it's

[18:50] working." Um, when you think about what

[18:51] he promised and what they're delivering,

[18:54] he's checked a lot of boxes from the

[18:56] campaign and you know, his voters are

[18:58] happy about it.

[18:59] >> No doubt. It's almost a

[19:00] counterrevolution, I guess you could

[19:02] say, to the madness we saw in the prior

[19:04] four years. Well, I'll tell you

[19:05] something about the prior four years.

[19:07] You had a a president who obviously

[19:09] wasn't fit for office. We're now

[19:10] learning about that. You had an

[19:12] unelected staff that was making all

[19:15] kinds of decisions. And you know, you

[19:17] had a president who had campaigned on

[19:19] being, you know, this moderate dealmaker

[19:21] who then totally outsourced his domestic

[19:23] policy agenda to the radicals in his

[19:26] party. He sold the American people a

[19:28] bill of goods. I'm capable and I'm

[19:30] moderate.

[19:31] >> Yeah.

[19:32] >> None of that was true. what Donald Trump

[19:34] told the American people is exactly what

[19:36] I'm going to do and now he's doing it.

[19:38] >> You can say a lot of things about Donald

[19:40] Trump, but uh A, you can never accuse

[19:41] him of not telling us what's on his

[19:43] mind.

[19:44] >> And B, you can't accuse him of anything

[19:46] other than following the things that he

[19:48] said in the campaign. He is making

[19:51] promises come true. Now, look, the

[19:52] American people will have decisions to

[19:54] make in 26 and 28, but the man keeps his

[19:57] promises. You have to admit.

[19:58] >> Yeah. It's got about a minute left. Last

[20:00] question. in the book chronicles the

[20:02] first months of President Trump's return

[20:04] to office. What do you see coming in the

[20:06] next 3 years? What are some things maybe

[20:09] we can expect? Some big initiatives

[20:11] coming down the pipe perhaps with this

[20:13] administration.

[20:13] >> Well, I think a continued focus on

[20:15] winning the AI race. Um I asked

[20:17] President Trump not too long ago

[20:19] actually, you know, is the fight for

[20:21] control of AI with China, is this your

[20:23] version of the space race or the Cold

[20:24] War? And he said it's all of that

[20:25] wrapped up into one. So, it's making

[20:28] sure that the United States is firmly in

[20:30] control of the parameters of AI in the

[20:33] future and that we make enough energy to

[20:35] win it. To me, when you think about like

[20:38] legacy winning AI battles against China

[20:41] and making enough energy to win the

[20:43] battles, this isn't a short-term issue.

[20:45] This is a long-term national security

[20:47] issue, and I know his commitment to it.

[20:48] >> Wow, Scott. Amazing. There's so much to

[20:50] cover in the book, by the way, Doge. I

[20:52] have a chapter on Doge.

[20:52] >> Interviewed Elon.

[20:54] >> Yes, you did. The most secure border in

[20:55] American history. It it came about a

[20:58] week after he came in office. You

[20:59] chronicle all of them the book. It's a

[21:01] great one, Scott. We're glad you wrote

[21:02] it. Good work, my friend. God bless. We

[21:04] appreciate it. Keep it up.

[21:05] >> Thank you very much, Scott.

[21:05] >> Appreciate it.

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