cheaper and could give them what the u.s. calls unfair competitive advantage in international trade. why do you care about this? say you are at the store looking to buy air conditioner. the one made in china used to be $200. you are incline to buy the ones that are made in china. the chinese made air conditioner. for argument sake, the american make conditioners for $250 and the chinese make conditioners for $250. now it may makes sense to buy the one made in usa and support american jobs. now, china manipulates its currency to work around its tariffs. they make their currency worth less which means you get more than a dollar. that s now available for $200
that s the salesman in him. that s what i said. build the wall. made in usa. then go sell cheap wine and ties. or steaks. don t be president of the united states because you ve got to make hard decisions. you ve got to tell people it s hard and find a way forward, not just sell them something that s too simple to be true. listen, the shutdown, there wasn t anything good that came out of the shutdown except for something i think that was eye-opening for the rest of the country. many times in the media and politically, we tend to portray the working class as a certain demographic, as people who live in the middle of the country, people who are in coal country. those are the working class people. but working class people are tsa workers, and they re of all eth ni nisities. working class people are air traffic controllers of all different ethnicity. working class people are members of the secret service who weren t getting paid. working class people are members
the means to adjust to the changes in the economy. so they love the idea, and why wouldn t they? they should. but it was a false hope that he s giving them of in any real way taking us back to a place that time has forgotten. right. and that is unfair to them. and the reason he does it that way is the same way he does it with the wall. the border is complicated. the problem is complex. it s multi-layered. he doesn t want to deal with that. he likes the simple. that s the salesman in him. that s what i said. build the wall. made in usa. then go sell cheap wine and ties. or steaks. don t be president of the united states because you ve got to make hard decisions. you ve got to tell people it s hard and find a way forward, not just sell them something that s too simple to be true. listen, the shutdown, there wasn t anything good that came out of the shutdown except for something i think that was eye-opening for the rest of the country. many times in the media and politically
tucker: i probably watch more of your spots than any living human being since i work here. i always wonder what your bed at home looks like? it has a couple of my pillows. everything i invent i do it to help people. i engineer it. it has to work. all the made in usa and the ten-year warranty. those are bonuses. i really, it helps people. people say to me all the time. they go how do you have this much passion 13 years after investing my pillow? it s because i hear stories from people all the time. how it s helped them. 43 million pillows sold. tucker: unbelievable. fascinating, passionate guy. thank you for having me on. i love it. i love watching your show every night. tucker: thank you. hours from the government shutdown that is expected to happen. we ll update you on that as we find more. it all derives from the argument over the border wall. we have the latest when we
same condition. so it began, we call them riveters, they the leather at home during that time whenever it worked best for them, then they shipped those parts to us from carolina and we spend them out to our customers. let me ask you about the made in usa part of this. why was that so important from the get go and how many times did you have to do that? more than handmade is part of our name. we as military spouses took a lot of challenges and turned them into opportunities. i think that s the same to be said for the mid american movement. everything who s struggling to provide that for their families, it was everything for us. ws we make all our products here