Steve Pieczenik - OPUS 64 Choices Aired: 2018-07-10 Duration: 06:50 [00:00:00] Hi, this is Dr. this is Dr. Steve Pachanek and this is Steve Talks. [00:00:22] Hi, I'm Dr. Pachanek. [00:00:22] Pichetti. [00:00:22] Today I'd like to talk about Trump and certain things that are happening with Trump and presumably against Trump. [00:00:33] Let me talk about the first thing Trump is going to do tomorrow on July 9th. [00:00:37] he's going to announce who the Supreme Court justice is going to be. [00:00:41] Tonight, it is my honor and privilege to announce that I will nominate Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court. [00:00:56] Thank you. [00:01:18] Judge Kavanaugh has impeccable credentials, unsurpassed qualifications and a proven commitment to equal justice under the law. [00:01:28] A graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School, Judge Kavanaugh currently teaches at Harvard, Yale and Georgetown. [00:01:37] Throughout legal circles, he is considered a judge's judge, a true thought leader among his peers. [00:01:44] He's a brilliant jurist with a clear and effective writing style universally regarded as one of the finest and sharpest legal minds of our time. [00:01:55] And just like Justice Gorsuch, he excelled as a clerk for Justice Kennedy. [00:02:02] That's great. [00:02:04] Thank you. [00:02:04] Thank you. [00:02:22] President, thank you. [00:02:24] Mr. [00:02:25] President, I am grateful to you. [00:02:28] And I'm humbled by your confidence in me. [00:02:31] Thank you. [00:02:33] Thirty years ago, President Reagan nominated Anthony Kennedy to the Supreme Court. [00:02:40] The framers established that the Constitution is designed to secure the blessings of liberty. [00:02:50] Justice Kennedy devoted his career to securing liberty. [00:02:55] I am deeply honored to be nominated to fill his seat on the Supreme Court. [00:03:07] If confirmed by the Senate, I will keep an open mind in every case. [00:03:14] And I will always strive to preserve the Constitution of the United States in the American rule of law. [00:03:23] Thank you, Mr. [00:03:24] President. [00:03:25] Now to a second point. [00:03:36] Trump has said that Harley-Davidson, the famous motorcycle maker, are leaving the United States. [00:03:47] The entire 7 billion corporation wants to leave because of Trump's increase in taxes and tariffs on aluminum and steel. [00:03:57] What Harley-Davidson hasn't said and didn't say anything about in their history is the fact that under the Reagan administration, when I was there, they had pled and begged Reagan to increase the tariff on Japanese motorcycles coming into the United States from 4% to 44%. [00:04:22] Now, that was not just a slight suggestion. [00:04:25] That was a major issue for Harley-Davidson. [00:04:30] At the same time, within a few years, they went into bankruptcy and major economic failure, not because of a tariff, but because they were not competent to handle the financial sheets, the balance sheets and the production capacity for Harley-Davidson. [00:04:49] And what happened? [00:04:50] Over a period between 2000 and 2009, they asked for 33 different federal grants in order to sustain their financial accountability in the markets. [00:05:04] Not only did they have a tariff to protect them, but they also had over $2.2 billion In American funding in order to preserve Harley-Davidson. [00:05:16] As a result of all of this welfare that we, the American taxpayer, paid Harley-Davidson, the present CEO is only making $8.9 million. [00:05:27] The present vice CEO or the vice president there is only making $2.9 million. [00:05:34] As well as the other members of Harley-Davidson. [00:05:37] So we have a welfare company which never paid back the $2 billion as well as all of the 33 grants that we, the United States government, gave them in order to preserve them. [00:05:51] So let them get out and they will go under again. [00:05:55] A third element. [00:05:56] Trump is going to be meeting Putin. [00:05:59] And many people are saying, you know, Putin will take advantage of Trump and this is going to be a giveaway of some sort. [00:06:07] I don't agree. [00:06:09] Again, I go back to a very simple issue that occurred in 2018 in February when under Trump over 500 Russian mercenaries were killed. [00:06:21] Because they were attacking our Delta and our special forces in Syria. [00:06:26] The key issue for Trump now is to allow Putin to solve the problem in Syria with Israel, Iran, and Russia. [00:06:37] And that can be solved very quickly by Putin. [00:06:41] Let me quote Trump. [00:06:43] He says, if you're going to fight, fight tough, fight hard, and fight angry. [00:06:48] And that's what I believe.