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00:00:42the world leader in news.
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00:01:01It's a small price to pay to keep the world safe, to keep our
00:01:04country safe, they can destroy a city, let them destroy Los Angeles, let
00:01:08them destroy San Diego, it's a very small price to pay, this will end soon,
00:01:12it's
00:01:15a small price to pay, Trump said in a speech,
00:01:18then he clarified it during the week, he said it was a small
00:01:22price to pay, if in the middle of the war
00:01:26Iran attacked Los Angeles and San
00:01:28Diego. and the cities disappeared, then he said
00:01:31that what he said was that he was not going to allow it, but that has generated a
00:01:35debate in the middle of this pre-election stage, thank you for
00:01:39joining us, I'm going to introduce our guests for this hour of
00:01:42clash of opinions, here in Washington is María Teresa
00:01:46Cardona, also Israel Ortega, from Los
00:01:50Angeles Octavio Pescador and in Miami is
00:01:53Andrés Flores, thank you all four for joining us, but I'm going to start
00:01:57with Octavio, Octavio, it's been a pleasure. working with you, we don't know the
00:02:01future of Los Angeles, so the idea is
00:02:04first, how do statements like these land? We know that Trump goes off
00:02:08script, sometimes things work out for him, sometimes not, this has been
00:02:12clarifying and those who support him have also been
00:02:15clarifying, but in Los Angeles, in San Diego, in California,
00:02:18especially the situation, the statement was not received very
00:02:21well, no, and it opened an opportunity for
00:02:25Gaven Newsom, the mayor, to come out
00:02:27and guard
00:02:30defending the state, he takes everyone, Juan
00:02:34Carlos, good morning everyone, colleagues, he takes
00:02:38everyone, the righteous and the sinners,
00:02:40country, left at 9:30
00:02:40voting, the cost of because remember that despite Trump, he has a
00:02:43third of the electorate with him, so here
00:02:47also if he decides to sacrifice
00:02:50California, Los Angeles and San Diego, and San Diego is a relatively
00:02:54conservative city
00:02:57here in compared to Los Angeles, that's why it's interesting. the mayor himself, who
00:03:00is a not
00:03:03to say radical mayor, also comes out
00:03:06in San Diego to make
00:03:09this counter-offensive because it's
00:03:11very
00:03:13well, the truth is, I'm going to tell you very
00:03:16and what they will mainly do sincerely, it's demeaning to society because it's saying
00:03:20it's like they can take that, as if to say that's trash, we don't
00:03:24care, we're going to save the rest of the country, but there's the trash,
00:03:28who is the largest population? uh extensive in Los
00:03:31Angeles, I mean, the
00:03:34name itself tells you, so it's very
00:03:38insulting, he now has
00:03:41to in one way or another, he has tried but it's too
00:03:44late to retract
00:03:48and the damage he did, look, everything is
00:03:51really being played for
00:03:53meaning defending against control of the Senate, the lower house has already been decided, but
00:03:57because Republicans and Democrats are there are... variations in the
00:04:00polls, but Texas and the southern part of
00:04:04Texas, the Latinos from
00:04:06won the Nobel Prize, who received the Nobel Peace Prize, there, turned against Trump and were the ones who helped
00:04:09him win, and the redistricting with Latinos
00:04:14this is not a president who is well in the turning against them will turn out worse than they thought, so they can lose the Senate in Texas and
00:04:18that's why it was
00:04:21a, let's say, a blunder, let's call it a
00:04:24discursive error to have singled out a
00:04:28population because it doesn't say. the population of Latinos or
00:04:31Mexicans or it says Los Angeles and San Diego, which in the
00:04:35subtext you understand, well, he's talking about me, so let them
00:04:38take them, those in Texas will also feel it, also in
00:04:42there are few but in Michigan and other places, so that does
00:04:45affect them and especially young men
00:04:49who went because many young Latinos, just like young
00:04:53whites, are the ones who gave him that advantage, who are not in
00:04:56any party but participate and now feel offended. and
00:05:00as he says he's on the ballot, well, obviously it can be very
00:05:03counterproductive for him. Israel, there are so many issues in the
00:05:07campaign and there are so many statements from Trump and there are so many contests at the same
00:05:11time, do you think this will cost him, the other day I
00:05:14reported on how he is upset because many candidates don't want him to campaign
00:05:18with them, how do you see the Trump factor for these elections
00:05:21on November
00:05:30obviously, has to say whether Trump is going to help them or
00:05:34hurt them, I think we are already seeing this in the campaign, it's not a theory
00:05:38no, I think we are seeing that in some cases, some Republicans
00:05:41are going to distance themselves from Trump, but
00:05:45there is no doubt that Republicans have
00:05:48very little time, really, to
00:05:52make their argument for why they need to maintain control of Congress.
00:05:56I think that the central issue for
00:05:59the electorate continues to be the economy,
00:06:02unemployment is falling but to levels that perhaps we would like to see
00:06:06fall even further, and obviously inflation. So, obviously, I think
00:06:10that the president wants to make
00:06:13the argument that by giving the keys to the Democrats, to
00:06:17the socialists, it would not help the economy,
00:06:20instead, it would be even worse. So,
00:06:24obviously, that is the argument that President
00:06:27Trump is making. Sometimes he is careless
00:06:31with how he speaks, and we are having to talk about this, but it's no surprise, I don't
00:06:35think the president has a desire to say things that we then have to
00:06:39talk and discuss about for weeks and months.
00:06:42So, I think the issue for me and for the Republicans on the
00:06:46ballot is how to make the argument that they should
00:07:03moment of distraction for Trump, of discomfort over what his
00:07:07advisors have told him publicly and privately, it's a panorama that
00:07:11doesn't favor the governing party. He insisted on his networks with an offer of
00:07:15$5 for all adults if Republicans win.
00:07:18And he's the one who keeps this topic going, it's not a media
00:07:22topic, yes, look, uh, Trump is
00:07:25entering a stage of complete
00:07:28desperation, because he also sees the polls, although he
00:07:32wants to say that they are false, that the media
00:07:35is false, that they are reporting
00:07:38stories that are not true,
00:07:42he knows that... they are true, his advisors
00:07:45know they are true, we just have to look at where
00:07:49they are investing money to know what
00:07:53the internal polls are showing them, and the fact that they
00:07:56are investing money and traveling to states
00:08:00that historically have been
00:08:02completely led by Republicans,
00:08:06means they are afraid that the Democrats
00:08:08are taking advantage of this. The
00:08:12states, speaking of California, this also
00:08:16gives a lot of momentum to
00:08:19Javier Becerra's campaign for governor,
00:08:23because speaking of Los Angeles and San
00:08:27Diego, I think he meant San Francisco and it didn't
00:08:30come out, but that
00:08:33actually makes more sense, right Octavio?
00:08:37But it's a shame and, as Octavio
00:08:40said, a complete insult. Not only to the people of Los Angeles and San
00:08:44Diego, all of California, to the entire country, the fact
00:08:48that the President of the United States is
00:08:50inviting the terrorists from Iran
00:08:54to come and plant a nuclear bomb
00:08:57in a state like California, a
00:09:01state as economically important as California, imagine
00:09:04if a Democratic president had done
00:09:08that, the Republicans would be
00:09:11pulling their hair out. in
00:09:14flames, already talking about getting
00:09:18him out of the White House, it's just so
00:09:21out of the ordinary, but I think people already understand that
00:09:27head, and Republicans, that's why they are
00:09:30trying to distance themselves from Donald Trump, and it's already
00:09:33too late. Now, I would say this, you talked about distraction, Juan Carlos,
00:09:37I think this is indeed a distraction, an insult and
00:09:40everything, but it is a distraction.
00:09:43Because the main issue for the
00:09:46voters of the United States, whether they are Latinos,
00:09:49African Americans, women, men,
00:09:52independents, young people, and
00:09:55even Maga voters within his own
00:09:59party, are concerned with the economy, and they see that
00:10:02this president and the Republicans have betrayed them on that
00:10:06issue, which was the issue that helped them win in
00:10:092024. The fact that they have invested millions,
00:10:13billions of dollars in the war in Iran that no one wanted, no one
00:10:16needed, and 75% of United
00:10:19States voters are against that war and they continue with that
00:10:23war without any strategy on how to get out,
00:10:27Americans say, well, they're going to put gas in their car,
00:10:30they don't have how to put gas, they don't have how to pay when they go to the
00:10:34supermarket, it's that kind of
00:10:37desperation they won't tolerate,
00:10:41the voters, and that's why they're giving their support to the Democrats
00:10:44and the Republicans also in desperation
00:10:48are trying to paint the Democrats as if we were
00:10:51socialists, communists, radicals, and that's not working
00:10:54either. because people see what they are
00:10:57paying in the supermarkets and they say no,
00:11:01you promised to lower inflation, lower prices,
00:11:05not get into foreign wars,
00:11:08just deport criminals and you're deporting my
00:11:11family, no, not anymore, enough,
00:11:21allow it, but it opens part of the discussion. and we have to take into account,
00:11:24we are less than a month away from these midterm elections, the polls
00:11:28favor the Democrats, but we already have
00:11:31ample precedent, ample precedent that the polls
00:11:34are not always accurate, how do you see the
00:11:38impact or and how do you see this political moment?
00:11:41Well, look, I think those statements are
00:11:45disastrous, I think there is a formal analysis and another
00:11:49substantive one. The formal one seemed absolutely terrifying to me that he would have
00:11:53said that and the people backstage who were listening would have
00:11:57died laughing, it would have seemed hilarious to them, that seems
00:12:00terrible to me, uh, imagine, if
00:12:03you are a Republican and you live in San
00:12:07Diego or Los Angeles and you hear that, what can you
00:12:10think of the President of the United States, who is the first
00:12:14Republican saying that? I think formally
00:12:17terrible, substantively, well, needless to say, I think the initial
00:12:21statement was terrible, to say that destroying that city
00:12:25is a minuscule, minor price, well, very
00:12:28bad, I don't think there's anything to say about that, but the clarification is
00:12:32equally bad when he clarifies what he says, no, I was
00:12:36referring to the price of gasoline, and he forgets
00:12:39that the number one issue today in the
00:12:43midterm elections is the economy, and in the
00:12:46economy, the price of gasoline, it seems incredible to me
00:12:50that he is trying to win votes
00:12:52justifying something like the rise in gasoline due to a
00:12:56war in Iran, one cannot forget how much gasoline has risen
00:12:59since the war began, jet fuel almost
00:13:0395%, gasoline as much as
00:13:0650%, well, trying to say that this is a
00:13:09minor price, etc., that comes across very badly, I think
00:13:12that being Petro, sorry, Trump, seems a
00:13:16bit like Petro, a junk
00:13:20for any party, anything he says will sink anyone
00:13:23when he moves. All he does is affect, he's a
00:13:27small Republican
00:13:30harming the Republican party,
00:13:33and that's the dynamic we enter when we return from the break to talk about the
00:13:37political moment and the question is whether
00:13:41the Democrats' lead in the polls is because Democrats are
00:13:45proposing solutions or because Republicans are not doing it. We'll
00:13:49be back.
00:14:01The fight this time is that the
00:14:05administration wants a sharp cut in interest
00:14:09rates to boost the economy, but
00:14:13the Fed, which has price stability as one of its two mandates,
00:14:18inflation, believes that if it does that, if it makes a
00:14:22sharp cut, it would trigger inflation,
00:14:26and a scenario with growth problems and at the same time
00:14:30inflation, that is, what is called
00:14:31stagflation,
00:14:34that is precisely what Powell's Fed
00:14:36wants to avoid, Jerome Powell.
00:17:26in the midst of an election that has the control of
00:17:29Congress at risk for Republicans, I start with Israel here in Washington.
00:17:33Israel, the polls are a reflection of the moment,
00:17:36and at this moment they speak
00:17:39of a blue wave, the color of the Republican
00:17:42party, but we know that polls are not always
00:17:46accurate. How optimistic or
00:17:49pessimistic are you about the results for Republicans
00:17:52in these elections and how confident do you see the
00:17:56Democrats based on what the polls say? Look,
00:17:59we always know that historically, the
00:18:02party that controls the White House usually loses
00:18:06seats in the elections. So, Republicans were already
00:18:09entering an electoral map that was not favorable
00:18:12to them, and obviously, with the economy and inflation that
00:18:16we have recently discussed, that will also obviously impact
00:18:20the party in control.
00:18:23For the Democrats, obviously, the Democrats feel very confident.
00:18:27If you talk to them, they are not
00:18:30talking about whether they will win a majority, but how big the majority will
00:18:34be. But I think the question I would
00:18:37like to hear from the Democrats is what they will do if
00:18:41they gain control of Congress, and I think that's where there are
00:18:45very few details. If I had to bet on what
00:18:48the Democrats will do if they control Congress, the first thing they will do
00:18:54is investigate Trump, investigate Republicans.
00:18:57Essentially, it will be a Congress that will spend
00:19:01all its time investigating what the American people need, which is how
00:19:05to grow the economy. I think they have very few
00:19:07ideas there, and I think I'm not the one saying
00:19:11that Republicans or that Republicans are saying that
00:19:14Democrats are socialists, they themselves are identifying as
00:19:18socialists, so I think when you see and hear
00:19:21AOC, you hear the socialists who are gaining
00:19:24control of the Democratic party, you see that it's
00:19:28more communist, socialist ideas, and I think we all
00:19:31know how that ends, we can
00:19:38can you respond? Look, Republicans are talking
00:19:42as if everyone in the Democratic Party
00:19:45is a socialist, and that is simply not true.
00:19:49At the end of the day, when the Democrats
00:19:52take control of Congress, there will probably
00:19:56be two or three candidates or members of
00:19:59Congress who are aligned with the party
00:20:02in English called Democratic Socialist, the Democratic Socialists of
00:20:06America. That's all, it won't be
00:20:09a majority, they won't be in leadership, so
00:20:13that's why this issue that Democrats are
00:20:16socialists, etc., radicals, is not
00:20:20working for them as a message, because number one it's not true,
00:20:23and number two it's a distraction about the
00:20:27betrayal of Trump and the Republicans on those
00:20:30economic issues, and I'm going to tell my friend
00:20:33Israel that the Democrats do have plans when they
00:20:37take control of Congress to lower
00:20:40costs, to take power away from Republicans, for
00:20:44example, the law they
00:20:48passed last year
00:20:50that they call the big beautiful bill that snatched
00:20:54healthcare from Medicaid from millions of
00:20:59that back to the American people for those people who
00:21:03currently do not have healthcare, who have gotten sick,
00:21:06many have died because of the Republicans, number one, number
00:21:10two, we are also going to put help for those who
00:21:13need to, who want the Affordable Care
00:21:17Act insurance, who were deprived of the way
00:21:21to help with that insurance, we are also going to give it to them,
00:21:24number two, number three, wait, wait, you asked for
00:21:27plans, I'm giving you the plans,
00:21:31number three, we are going to
00:21:34once again take back for Congress the
00:21:39money, right, the power of the purse, because
00:21:42that under the control of the Republicans was given
00:21:46completely to the White House, so when they want to
00:21:50ask for more billions. billions of dollars
00:21:53to support the war in Iran, the Democrats will say, you know
00:21:56what, absolutely not, we're going to use
00:22:00that money to help the voters who
00:22:04need help here, and those are the Democrats' economic plans.
00:22:07Maria, I think the control of the purse, as you point out, is what the Democrats want,
00:22:11look, if the Democrats win Congress, they will surely
00:22:14raise taxes, you point out that tax cut bill, it helped
00:22:18many Americans too, not just the wealthy
00:22:21around $300 is what all
00:22:25working families in this country saved, so
00:22:29this idea, this idea that
00:22:33no, but what I propose is that if the Democrats win,
00:22:37taxes will go up because for everything that the Democrats promise, there is no
00:22:40way that you can only pay for that with
00:22:44millionaires, eventually the middle class
00:22:47will also have to pay. Of course. There is a way, if
00:22:51you put a tax on the richest, on billionaires,
00:22:55and force corporations to pay the taxes that
00:22:58they should be paying, that can give
00:23:02it the boost that is needed to support the
00:23:05programs that the Republicans have cut, simply, the thing is
00:23:09that the Republicans don't want to do that to
00:23:15vote or not vote, because there are many Republicans, supporters of President
00:23:19Trump who have said: they simply will not vote because they feel that the
00:23:22president has not delivered for many reasons, and it's not just that
00:23:26people vote but also that people stop
00:23:30living, Juan Carlos, is summarized
00:23:33in I have
00:23:36a certain amount of resources to
00:23:39live and I am not living as I used to live,
00:23:42you said it on the previous occasion when I was
00:23:47the elections, in the economy, Clinton said it and
00:23:51others said it, the
00:23:53the secret is the economy
00:23:57and the economy is not good, that's why
00:24:00now, as Maria also said, they are
00:24:03redirecting their resources to states
00:24:07where it was impossible to think that Trump won by more than 20 points in Kansas,
00:24:11for example, that means, hey,
00:24:14that that is the variable and as you rightly say, Juan Carlos, the
00:24:18polls are wrong and those independents can
00:24:22make a difference in some places, but Republicans have already calculated
00:24:26that those independents do not have the
00:24:28incentive to vote for us, one because of the cost of living, which
00:24:32is the most important, and two because some sympathize with Trump's
00:24:36policies a lot, but they no
00:24:39longer have that empathy with him, so they are
00:24:43focusing their resources on getting out the base,
00:24:46because if the base doesn't come out, it will be very difficult for Republicans.
00:24:50Well, let's go to the break, we'll be back, this Friday it was announced who
00:24:56it was not Donald Trump, we'll talk about that and more, we'll be back.
00:25:12But regardless of that, the truth is that everything that happens in the world is
00:25:16somehow stirring things up, and Latin America, with all the
00:25:20aspects that are there, as you said, of elections,
00:25:24of a treaty between Mexico and Canada and the United
00:25:27States, will have the spotlight on it, and it comes at a time when the
00:25:31markets, to continue a bit with our focus today on
00:25:34markets, have also been doing quite
00:25:38well, and there are
00:25:41expectations that, although they are certainly difficult to anticipate,
00:25:44they are
00:25:46moving in a way
00:25:50they haven't in many years.
00:28:05The need to emigrate knows no age. Many
00:28:08say they want to reach Mexico City, but others seek
00:28:12to go further
00:28:13north.
00:28:16The Mexican army's anti-drone battalion consists of
00:28:20these types of jamming elements to bring down drones
00:28:23that have become a threat. The
00:28:27Chiapas authorities have detected a cattle smuggling
00:28:30point. This is one. one of the illegal
00:28:34crossing points for cattle from Central America to
00:28:37Mexico, thousands of protesters, workers from this
00:28:42in the morning from the Angel of Independence. I am in
00:28:46the municipality of Teuchitlán, in the Mexican state of
00:28:49Jalisco. Here the discovery was macabre by collectives
00:28:52of searching people for missing persons. What
00:28:56made you come here with the suspicion that your son might be on this
00:29:00ranch?
00:29:06a moment, the conversation continues on Clash of Opinions, another Nobel
00:29:09Peace Prize not awarded to President Trump.
00:29:24The fight this time is that the
00:29:27administration wants a sharp cut in interest
00:29:31rates to boost the economy, but
00:29:35the Fed, which has one of its mandates his two mandates, price
00:29:39stability, is to defend ourselves from
00:29:41inflation. He believes that if he does that, if he makes a
00:29:45sharp cut, it would trigger inflation,
00:29:49and a scenario with growth problems and at the same time inflation,
00:29:52that is, what is called this
00:29:55stagflation, that is precisely what
00:29:58the Fed of Powell
00:30:01wants to avoid.