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Flying saucers? Adam Curry, John C. Devorah. It's Thursday, May

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21st, 2026. This is your award-winning Get More Nation Media

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Assassination episode 1870. This is No Agenda. ♪ And broadcasting

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live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country right

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here in FEMA region number Good morning, everybody. I'm Adam

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Curry. from Refinery Row where there's no Ebola I'm John

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C. Dvorak When Buzz kills in the morning Yeah, that's

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what you think, but it's coming. Ebola's coming everywhere. It's

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coming, it's coming. I wanted to do something we haven't

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done in a while. If that's okay. Flying saucers? No,

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not flying saucers. No. We used to do this. In

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fact, I think you used to do it. But I

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figured I'd do it now. Let's listen to the headlines

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as brought to us by David Muir. to tease the

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wonderful world we live in and then wonder why people

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don't feel good about themselves. late today police revealing it

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was two heavily armed teenagers in body armor carrying shotguns,

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rifles, and handguns into that Islamic center. Children not far

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away. The security guard who took them on in New

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York City. Wait, stop. Stop it. What? What? I'm playing

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over. He had to start it over. Why? Didn't he

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start off with the Muslim thing and then he... Jump

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to the woman falling in a manhole and goes back

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to the other headline? Hey, man, he's going to make

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you feel like crap. That is his job. But I've

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never heard this before where they've gone from... Topic to

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new topic to old topic. Well, now that you mention

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it- Unless I misheard something- Well, let's listen again. By

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several- breaking stories the two teenagers in body armor allegedly

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charging into that islamic center and in new york city

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tonight the woman who plunged into a searing manhole a

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witness saying she was screaming i'm dying first tonight the

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breaking developments okay so it's like he's teasing the top

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two stories which is teenagers Killing Muslims Then the woman

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falling into a searing manhole, not just a manhole, a

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searing manhole. Unless that's something I'm not aware of. and

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then he goes into the the rundown but the rundown

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includes includes a lot more I think we're spending too

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much time on it. Well, first of all... I think

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that's bad. form, but okay. Just let it play. I'm

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not going to interrupt anymore. I'm not saying I disagree.

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I agree. It's bad form. First tonight, the breaking developments.

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Late today, police revealing it was two heavily armed teenagers

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in body armor carrying shotguns, rifles, and handguns into that

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Islamic center. Children not far away. The security guard who

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took them on. In New York City, the horrific and

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deadly scene in midtown Manhattan. A woman opening her car

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door and disappearing. down an open manhole, falling into the

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intense heat below the street service. How this happened. Tonight,

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the tornadoes touching down, damaging winds and severe storms set

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to hit again this evening. And records broken in Philadelphia.

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Intense heat in New York City and Boston. Ginger Zee

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is here. Alarming news tonight about the deadly Ebola outbreak.

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now raced to another country for emergency help. The case

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is now spiking. Tonight, the extraordinary order from the Justice

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Department barring the IRS from investigating President Trump, his sons,

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and their companies and their taxes. Tonight, the murder case

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in the Northeast. A man convicted of killing his brother

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and his brother's wife. and children setting their home on

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fire, then setting his own home on fire, his family

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inside, to make it look like the whole family had

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been targeted, what the judge has now decided. Tonight, major

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primaries being watched in this country, President Trump taking aim

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at one of his top political targets, Republican Congressman Thomas

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Massey. I'm telling you, they had to dig deep to

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get the guy who burned the family. I mean, hey,

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we need more horrible things for the tease. David wants

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more horrible things. Give him more horrible things to talk

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about. Well, you know, if you're going to play, the

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technique here should be to play, now you should play

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Tom Yamas' version of the same thing. And I think

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that NBC, because I was thinking about this earlier too,

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these openers. And I think NBC does the best job.

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I think NBC is the leader in the news business.

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I think Tom Yamas does a terrific job. And I

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think they're opening teases. superior to ABC's. I will make

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sure I have one on Sunday. I'll make sure that

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we have the superior tease. In fact, from now on,

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it'll be known as the superior tease. From Tom Yamas.

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You're probably right. But this was good. Because for one

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thing, he repeats himself here on two stories. He brings

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in the Muslims, he brings in the woman falling in

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the hole, then he brings back the Muslims and brings

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back the woman falling in the hole. And then he

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goes to tornadoes. Just throws in a tornado. Do you

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think the woman was on her phone? Yeah, probably. Just

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have a thought. But I didn't know there were that

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many manholes that close to the curb. Well, I remember

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living in New York. You'd have these manholes covers that

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were just steaming and, you know, smoke or steam arising.

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we had the exploding manholes. I'm sure we had a

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couple stories. Oh, that was always the best. Yeah, we

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had a couple. Kaboom. Exploding manhole. I thought personally that

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it was interesting the choice of them saying... President Trump,

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remarkable. IRS may never audit President Trump or his children.

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which is not really the headline of the story. Because

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the story is the... um is the slush fund for

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Trump allies. That's the story. Yeah, we've got these clips

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of that. You know, but to me, I just want

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to get a start on this. I thought the biggest

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story to me, which no one played as a story.

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was this. We've been listening to Vice President J.D. Vance

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holding a White House press briefing. filling in for press

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secretary Caroline Leavitt. Vance started with Iran saying the administration

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has the ability to restart a military campaign, but adding

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that's not what President Trump or Iran want, and that

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both sides are attempting to negotiate in good faith. So,

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not the story about Iran, but the fact that... that

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Vance was filling in for Carolyn Levitt and he was

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fantastic. I mean that should be his job. He should

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be talking to the press every single day. Did you

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see any of that? Yeah, I did. I saw the

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whole thing. I thought it was good. It's kind of

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surprising because normally when the press secretary is not there

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to talk. The associate or assistant or whoever it is

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as a secondary person. They get the gig. They get

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the gig. I've never seen the vice president take it

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over. And it was great. He's like, you know, hey,

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I got one or two of these things. Let me

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see. I just got two clips of him expertly, I

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would say, managing the press corps. Okay, Garrett, you have

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your hand up. Garrett, you had your hand up. The

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Vice President of the United States. Hey, who has had

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their hand up? Do you need to go to the

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restroom? Do you need to go potty? Okay, restroom. All

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right, here we go. Okay, Garrett, you have your hand

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up. Garrett, that's right. Thank you, Mr. Vice President. Midterms

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are underway. You've got voters. go to the polls in

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six states today. You and the president ran on a

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platform that included no new wars, cutting gas prices, cutting

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inflation. What do you say to people who are going

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to the polls today and who feel like those promises

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are unkept? Well, I'd say a few things. First of

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all, we've delivered great wins for the American people. We

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ran on delivering. We ran on the promise of bringing

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investment back into the United States of America that rather

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than factory closures, we were going to have factories opening.

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manufacturing jobs have great rebounds under the Trump administration and

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under our leadership. We are very aware that because of

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what's going on in the Middle East gas prices have

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gone up and a lot of Americans are struggling because

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of that. Our view is that it is a temporary

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increase. We're taking a number of steps to try to

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push back against it and try to ensure that Americans

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are paying as little at the pump as possible. But

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I feel quite confident after we've taken care of business

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in the Middle East, those prices are going to come

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down. And there have been a lot of prices, as

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you know, a lot of prices from rent to housing,

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where we still got a lot of work to do,

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but we do see some real progress made across the

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economy. on pricing, but also on people's jobs. I mean,

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expert. Expertly done. I mean, it doesn't matter what he

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says. He's just, he's just, it's so much better than

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having the press secretary. I like Carolyn Leavitt, but who

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cares? She's an in-between person. Vance is the... Well, this

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could be, well, not you brought this in as your

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top story. Well, I will say that it's possible that

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this may be a trend. Why not? It makes so

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much sense. But you have to have a vice president

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that can talk well. For example, Pence couldn't do this.

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Do you think Kamala Harris couldn't? if he was a

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prick. Kamala Harris couldn't do it either. She couldn't do

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it in a million years. No, but now it'll be

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a requirement for vice president. I think the vice president.

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Well, this is where you're jumping the gun here, I

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think. But I'm thinking it's possible. that it could be

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a requirement for vice president. It's possible that this could

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be a trend. One more clip. Because it works. Yes.

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Let's hear one more from him. I'm going to call

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on John. I'm just going to start calling John Ross.

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John. John. I'm going to be calling my favorites. Who's

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the teacher's pet? John. John Ross. Not you. Not that

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John. John Ross. End up John Ross. Yeah, yeah. I'm

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going to call on John. I'm just going to start

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calling John Ross. John Ross. Yes. Yes, yes, you're good.

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So Trump initially said that the war would last six

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weeks. We are now, it's been going on for 11

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weeks and three days. Also, what Carolyn Leavitt always does

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is she always says, the fake news media has, well,

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as many of you have reported in this room, she's

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so adversarial. And here, Van... Yeah, she's kind of like...

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Trump picks these women. Sarah Huckabee was the same way,

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you remember. Yes, yes. She was really mean to everybody.

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J.D. Substitute teacher, J.D. Yeah, that's good. We can ask...

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him anything he doesn't care he's not gonna slam us

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for that what's your message to the american people as

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to why it's gone on so long and it hasn't

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ended yet well first of all the president said it's

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going to be a short-term operation and i think that

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has proven out to be true the active period of

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conflict lasted about five five and a half weeks oh

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and now active conflict hello people get it right we've

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been in this season where we're trying to get a

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negotiated settlement that gets the American people the things that

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we need for our national security. So I've said before

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that we're going to go one of two options here.

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We're going to have a good settlement that actually gets

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the American people what they need, or we're going to

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go back to a kinetic operation. Obviously, the president prefers

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to get that settlement. I think the Iranians prefer to

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get that settlement. But regardless of what direction the president

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ultimately goes down, whatever he ultimately decides, I think it's

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important for the American people to know two things. Number

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one, it will be for their security and their prosperity.

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That's why we're doing this. And number two, it will

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not, this is not going to be the sort of

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thing that lasts forever. I think a lot of Americans,

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especially in my generation. who are worried about forever, endless

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conflicts. We have to remember, I think you said 11

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weeks. A big chunk of that has been a ceasefire.

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This is not a forever war. We're going to take

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care of business and come home. That's what the president's

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promised, and that's exactly what he's going to deliver. I

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mean, outstanding. I mean, remember we had Kareem. Abdul Jabbar

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the worst. Jean-Pierre, we had her, we had, who else

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did we have? She's just a liar. We had Psaki.

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Saki. Well, yeah, but she was with the... Yeah. This

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is so much more entertaining. He is making the press

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briefing exciting again. And I only caught it because all

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four screens on the quad were running it. That never

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happens. They were probably running it because they thought they'd

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screw up. Maybe. I think everyone was just surprised by

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it. And I just thought, yeah, I'll step in. Yeah.

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She just had a baby. He should do it for

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a couple weeks. Give that girl some time off. I'm

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all for it. is much better. Very exciting. I'm very

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excited. Well, my top story is the one I wrote

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up in the newsletter. Yeah. And that is, I have

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one clip, which is Massey, the top story, Massey losing.

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Yeah, Massey's good, yes. And no matter what. Anybody, I

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don't care why I'm asking you. Why there was a

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scandal. We have a letter from one of our boots

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on the ground guys who knows Lauren Bobert. And he

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wrote a very nice note in. You probably have it

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there. I actually don't think I have it handy. I

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had to close my email. Oh, it's familiar. Okay. Yeah.

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I can open it up. Excuse me. Don't die on

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me. Tell me the scandal first. I'm getting there. I

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have, I'll get it. I'll bring it up. But play

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this clip. Because this is, uh... The story, it seems...

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to me that the fact that they refuse, all the

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media, including Fox, refuses to discuss, which I talked about

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in the newsletter in detail. The scandal about Massey, which

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dropped him in May 8th, he was 71% chance, according

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to the betting polls. 71% chance of winning the election.

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Within a week, he dropped to like 34, 31 or

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something really low or 41. That didn't happen because of

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Trump. No. Trump has been against this guy for a

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long time. I don't think, by the way, I don't

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think I got that email that you're referring to. I

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don't see it anywhere. interesting oh yeah it was you

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were on it but i'll get it but meanwhile um

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yes i'm sorry to interrupt So tell us what the

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scandal is. The scandal is... is that mass... Well, let's

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play this clip and I'll tell you what the scandal

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is. Kentucky Congressman Thomas... Massey is the latest Republican lawmaker

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to lose his seat for crossing President Trump. The race

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was another display of the president's hold on Republican voters.

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he'd spoken to Senate leadership on the Republican side. Some

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of them don't know how to win. I know how

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to win. I think I've proven that, haven't I? Massey

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lost his primary to Trump-backed candidate Ed Gowrin by nearly

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10 percentage points last night. That was just one race

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among six states that held elections Tuesday, the busiest primary

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day of the midterms. Democrats in Georgia and other states

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continue to see large voter turnout, which could be a

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good sign for them in November's midterm election. NPR's Stephen

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Fowler stayed up late last night to watch these results

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and joins us here early this morning. Good morning, Stephen.

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Did Massey lose because he went against some of Trump's

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policies? Yes and no. I mean, Thomas Massey clashed with

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Trump over the Epstein files. He actually led to the

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release of the files. He clashed with Trump over the

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Iran war and foreign conflicts. He opposed Trump's one big,

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beautiful bill. So Trump did back a challenger, former Navy

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SEAL officer Ed Gellerin. And what's the latest example of

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Trump taking out anyone who isn't 100% loyal in the

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last year or so? The last time an incumbent lost

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was Saturday with Louisiana Senator Bill Clinton. But Massey kept

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it close. I will also note that yesterday, Trump endorsed

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to oust incumbent Senator John

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Cornyn ahead of next Tuesday's runoff. You're already hearing some

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Republicans there fret if Paxton wins because polls indicate his

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victory would make the general election race more competitive. especially

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in what's shaping up to be a wave year for

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Democrats. Okay. Okay, so what happened was, and this was

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all over the, and I'm getting the impression. It was

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all over X. Everyone was talking about it. It was

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all over X, and I think it was all over,

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I think it was on TikTok. Woo! But I think

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it was algo-driven. And so I'm beginning to think that

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the people who do run NPR, they are getting feeds

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that are different than feeds that you get, I get,

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and people that would be involved with the Massey, people

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in Kentucky that voted against Massey. And it was a

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smear campaign that indicated that once... Massey's wife died. He

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had an affair with at least two women. One of

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them turned on him and said that he was turned

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into a complete horn dog and he was screwing Lauren

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Boebert immediately thinking she's the hottest thing in Congress. Can

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I just... Give you a little different perspective on that.

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So his wife was, wasn't she ill? Did she die

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suddenly? Died suddenly. Yeah, she died suddenly. Hmm. Well, give

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me this perspective. Well, no, I was going to say

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that, you know, a guy who... It's possible that... A

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lot is possible. But when you're released from something that

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you might not have been happy in. That's what you

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do. Yeah, but that's fine and dandy. That's not what

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you do when you're a congressman. What do you mean?

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And you don't let this kind of dirt come out

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because it makes you look like a douchebag dog. He's

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just a man. He's just a man. Yeah. you And

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these are just voters. N. And he supposedly had a

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phone, a special burner phone that he called a boner

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phone. Oh, show title. A boner phone. And there was,

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and so this, because he was calling all these girls.

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And then he got married immediately. She was married within

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a year to this very pretty girl. That was pretty

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quick. I agree. That was fast. And that was not

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good. Hold on. You're steamrolling me. What is the appropriate

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time between the death of just asking for a friend?

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If you're a politician. Yes. It's at least two years.

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It's 24 months. Okay. All right. I think it's reasonable.

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For some jerk on the street who doesn't care one

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way or the other, you can get married the next

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month. Nobody gives a crap about it. But if you're

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a politician, especially if you're running against Trump trying to

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get you out. You don't do any of this stuff.

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You just stay by, you know, you lead a clean

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life. It's not that hard to lead a clean life.

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it's not that hard. And if you're a politician, that's

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what you want to do. So this came out, and

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there were some... AI videos showing the boner phone and

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him talking to it and Boebert on there flirting with

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him. That kind of thing showed up in certain feeds

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and not other feeds, but it showed up in my

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feed. And I think it showed up in the feed

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of the voters. And this was never discussed by anybody.

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Fox didn't discuss it. ABC, NBC, CBS, nobody discussed the

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scandal. And I just played a clip from NPR and

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they're boneheaded about it. Trump didn't like him, so that's

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why he got out. Again, May 8th, it was 71%

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chance of winning. May 8th, that's not that long ago.

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And so next thing, so the... the rugs pulled out

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from under him within a one or two week period.

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That's how it happened. And nobody's discussing it. I find

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it ridiculous that the media is so oblivious to this.

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Well, do you think they're oblivious? That's my point. Do

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you think they're oblivious or do you think that it's

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more important for them to... say Trump did it, which

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he did. I mean, this is the question. This is

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the question I could ask you. Were they oblivious because

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they weren't in the algo? Which I think is possible

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because they're not very aggressive about – some of these

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people won't even watch Fox News. Well, Massey was on

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– He was going on MSNOW and CNN. He was,

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for all intents and purposes, on, quote-unquote, their side of

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the Epstein argument. And I think the Epstein released the

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Epstein files, all files except for the ones that were

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under investigation. That was his. his law, I think it's

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the only bill he's ever gotten passed. I think it's

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the only one. And, you know, his courtship with Tucker

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and Marjorie Taylor Greene, I mean, he put himself in

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the enemy camp. And the way I see it, Trump

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went, we have to prove, we have to send a

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message. Yeah. We have to send a message. May 8th,

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71%. That's what I'm saying. I think he could have

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beaten it because Rand Paul does it all the time.

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Rand Paul's in Kentucky, same state. They're contrarian there. They

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don't care. I don't think Trump's influence had as much

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to do with it as the smear. Hmm. Well, that's

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what I'm thinking because of the nature of Kentucky. Everybody

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was out. Grandpa and this guy's been re-elected over and

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over. Let me read from Mark's note. He thinks the

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whole thing was created. I think it may have been

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a creation too. The story was easy. and it killed

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two birds with one stone. Lauren came out supporting Mousy,

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so they decided to take them both down with one

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shot. It was almost too easy. I know, Lauren. And

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there are positive and negative things about her. The one

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positive thing about her is that she's a fighter and

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the truth. And for truth and common sense, Lauren likes

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to let her hair down. And have fun too, as

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we saw by the video of her in the theater.

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In the theater, yes. The guy's grabbing her breasts. But

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she did not have sexual relations with that man. Yeah,

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it sounds like a smear to me, too, honestly. No,

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I think it was, and I think it was well

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executed. But, you know, it didn't show up in my

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algo, and that was surprising. No one tagged me in

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any of the stories. But it did. Here's where it's

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important. It did. come because tina told me did you

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hear about uh lauren bobert you know tina doesn't watch

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anything anymore but she hears it from the ladies of

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fredericksburg so one of the big maga ladies heard about

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it so it was definitely in the mag in the

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maga in the magal go mag i'll go Yeah. Yeah,

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I believe there's an algo issue here. Anyway, he continues.

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There's a faction of the Colorado GOP. that is following

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Trump's orders. and scrambling to find a candidate to primary

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her, Lauren. I call them the Davidians after Dave Williams,

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the former Colorado GOP chairman that screwed up the party.

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beyond where it was already screwed up. This can lose

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them and the one seat they could hold on to,

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which is Lauren's seat. If they lose it, you can

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thank Trump for that. I honestly believe Trump wants Congress

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to flip for the midterms to show up Johnson and

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Thune. He could care less about the Republican Party. He

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thinks it's his own party and force. Well, that's an

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interesting twist. I like the theory. That's not a bad

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theory at all. Colorado is going, this is actually pretty

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interesting now. Colorado is going to. complete the Californication of

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the state, this midterm election. The Democrats, Socialists of America.

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have taken over the Democrat Party here. and put in

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their own candidates, including a mental patient that wears a

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dress for state treasurer. Colorado, wow. Colorado's office is gone.

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Way to go, way to go. All major state offices

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will have DSA members and Congress will be... A 7

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to 1 Democrat. With almost all, all with DSA allegiance,

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which is. Which is sickening. The one Republican will be

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Boebert, unless the Colorado GOP does the bidding of the

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DSA and primaries her. Colorado's a real shit show all

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across the board. The Democrats have destroyed the state and

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the idiot voters are doubling down on stupid. Legalized marijuana

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did the opposite of how it was supposed to work.

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They deserve their fate. I'm moving to Tampa Bay. If

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I can sell my house, I'm going to live in.

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Annapolina Luna's district. She's smart, a fighter, and a former

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stripper, which is everything I want in my congresswoman. This

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is a true... I'm a citizen of no agenda nation.

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Perfect. Perfect. And it goes on with some other details

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about stuff. going on in Colorado. But I always thought

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Luna was just a bathing suit model. I didn't know

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she was a stripper. So there is one other theory.

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from your boy here we go the most expensive race

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in terms of ad spend in history they say most

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expensive primary it's 32 million dollars in total just in

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ads I think 20 million purely from the Israel lobby

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for Gawrine. And we all know why that is. It's

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because Thomas Massey is the most vocal critic of the

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Israel lobby in Congress and specifically in the Republican conference,

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in the Republican Party, in the House. He voted against

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foreign aid, voted for release of the Epstein files, voted

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in favor of the War Powers Resolution. against the Iran

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war. And he called out AIPAC and their handlers on

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Tucker Carlson's show. What's interesting, though, and I said this

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on my show. Is that they're now all trying to

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make this about Trump. Even if you watch Pete Hegseth's

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speech, he says, well, why is Thomas Massey a problem?

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He is not with the team. He's not supporting Trump

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in a time of war. He's not voting with our

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movement. That's right. They're deflecting to Trump. And does he

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have the power to run the party when in really

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it's all about Israel? Exactly. They're hiding behind him. And

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the press is letting them do that because that line

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is coming from the White House and the Israel lobby.

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Oh, yeah. There you go. And that this is what

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you have to understand. It's all about the Israel lobby.

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00:27:35,131 --> 00:27:37,448
All about that. It's not about anything else but the

466
00:27:37,569 --> 00:27:41,792
Israel lobby and President Trump doubled down on it. I'm

467
00:27:41,832 --> 00:27:45,139
right now at 99% in Israel. I could run for

468
00:27:45,179 --> 00:27:48,527
prime minister, so maybe after I do this, I'll go

469
00:27:48,547 --> 00:27:51,233
to Israel, run for prime minister. I had a poll

470
00:27:51,273 --> 00:27:56,798
this morning. I'm 99%. But, uh... No, he's a wartime

471
00:27:56,838 --> 00:28:01,210
prime minister. I just don't think they treat him well.

472
00:28:01,952 --> 00:28:03,917
I think they have a president over there that treats

473
00:28:03,957 --> 00:28:07,005
him very poorly. There you go, President Trump. He will

474
00:28:07,045 --> 00:28:10,865
be the next prime minister of Israel. It's the shoe-in!

475
00:28:11,087 --> 00:28:13,670
It's the Jews, man! Get it together! It has nothing

476
00:28:13,710 --> 00:28:20,654
to do with Boebert! This is how people think. I

477
00:28:20,674 --> 00:28:23,615
don't think they think that way. What? I think they

478
00:28:23,816 --> 00:28:27,311
think in terms of sex and scandals. No, no, I'm

479
00:28:27,372 --> 00:28:30,813
talking about our own people. Oh, white people, yeah. Well,

480
00:28:30,833 --> 00:28:34,054
that's for sure. Trolls right now. Yeah, they're a bitch.

481
00:28:34,074 --> 00:28:55,500
Jew money was all. Here's Hegseth on the case. political

482
00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:59,929
neutrality, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appeared at a campaign event

483
00:29:00,029 --> 00:29:03,436
for Gal Ryan in Kentucky yesterday and attacked Massey, who

484
00:29:03,476 --> 00:29:08,906
called the appearance desperate. Need reinforcement from Republicans. And that

485
00:29:08,966 --> 00:29:13,736
fight requires a Congress full of warriors, including Ed. This

486
00:29:13,976 --> 00:29:18,445
one, ladies and gentlemen. is a no-brainer. It's kind of

487
00:29:18,745 --> 00:29:22,352
crazy that you would send the Secretary of War. President

488
00:29:22,412 --> 00:29:24,997
Trump would not be doing this if they were confident

489
00:29:25,057 --> 00:29:27,742
that they were winning, and they're worried that I'm going

490
00:29:27,762 --> 00:29:30,708
to win. The Pentagon says Hegseth appeared as a private

491
00:29:30,748 --> 00:29:33,092
citizen and not as the Secretary of War. They say

492
00:29:33,132 --> 00:29:36,719
no taxpayer dollars were used to pay for the visit.

493
00:29:36,855 --> 00:29:42,788
I doubt it. Yeah, here's a MS now. Yeah, I

494
00:29:42,848 --> 00:29:47,919
mean, it's extraordinary, unusual, inappropriate for a defense secretary to

495
00:29:47,979 --> 00:29:50,385
be on the campaign trail to begin with. Let's just

496
00:29:50,425 --> 00:29:54,053
start there to be out campaigning for a candidate. Is

497
00:29:54,133 --> 00:29:57,820
it inappropriate for a defense secretary to do that? Says

498
00:29:57,900 --> 00:30:03,592
who? Well, Willie from MSNOW. Why is it inappropriate? I

499
00:30:03,632 --> 00:30:05,335
don't know. That's why I'm asking you. Or Hatch Act.

500
00:30:05,355 --> 00:30:08,802
Well, why doesn't he explain it? Oh, that's Hatch Act.

501
00:30:08,823 --> 00:30:12,831
Because nobody's done it before? I doubt that nobody's done

502
00:30:12,871 --> 00:30:18,282
it before. It's the Hatch Act, man. There are Hatch

503
00:30:18,302 --> 00:30:24,073
Act considerations potentially here. of a war where just hours

504
00:30:24,153 --> 00:30:26,699
ago the president was on the brink, he said, of

505
00:30:26,859 --> 00:30:29,905
a new round of strikes against Iran before pulling back

506
00:30:30,005 --> 00:30:39,828
again. Why are they fighting against Thomas Massey? Because he

507
00:30:39,888 --> 00:30:43,294
wants all the information out. He wants the truth out

508
00:30:43,815 --> 00:30:46,460
about the Epstein files. This is how hard they're working

509
00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:49,966
to suppress that truth. The president dispatching his secretary of

510
00:30:50,006 --> 00:30:52,791
defense to campaign against the guy who's trying to get

511
00:30:52,831 --> 00:30:54,995
to the bottom of that. Also, Joe, I know this

512
00:30:55,075 --> 00:30:57,219
is something you've talked about for years now, which is.

513
00:30:57,995 --> 00:31:01,343
that Thomas Massey, the argument goes, from his opponents and

514
00:31:01,563 --> 00:31:05,973
yesterday from the head of defense, is not conservative, that

515
00:31:06,013 --> 00:31:09,562
he's anti-Trump, he's not conservative. Look at the voting record

516
00:31:09,622 --> 00:31:12,368
of Thomas Massey. Talk to anybody who's ever spent 10

517
00:31:12,408 --> 00:31:16,457
minutes on Capitol Hill. He is incredibly conservative in all

518
00:31:16,497 --> 00:31:20,547
the ways that... conservatism used to actually hold up. Now

519
00:31:20,607 --> 00:31:23,515
we're talking about Trumpism, which is something very different from

520
00:31:23,615 --> 00:31:27,785
conservatism. But the MAGA folks, Secretary of Defense, trying to

521
00:31:27,825 --> 00:31:31,133
conflate those two things. If you're against Donald Trump, even

522
00:31:31,213 --> 00:31:36,728
on the Epstein files, now you're not conservative. So I,

523
00:31:36,978 --> 00:31:39,348
I. I guess we should still believe that there's Epstein

524
00:31:39,409 --> 00:31:44,700
files we haven't seen. The real ones. I guess. The

525
00:31:44,740 --> 00:31:48,435
pedophiles. It probably is. I'm sure there's something we haven't

526
00:31:48,496 --> 00:31:55,875
seen. But even Massey's own bill called for all files

527
00:31:55,975 --> 00:32:04,021
except... He wasn't really asking for all files. I mean,

528
00:32:04,041 --> 00:32:06,191
I want to see Frazzle drip as much as anybody

529
00:32:06,313 --> 00:32:09,590
else. I don't think the Epstein thing was the key

530
00:32:09,650 --> 00:32:12,943
issue here. He's voted against the big, beautiful bill. He

531
00:32:12,983 --> 00:32:16,216
voted again. He just would not get on board with

532
00:32:16,297 --> 00:32:21,246
a lot of the... from the Trump perspective, ignoring the

533
00:32:21,447 --> 00:32:26,492
real reason that he lost, which was the scandal. Um...

534
00:32:26,911 --> 00:32:29,986
As far as I'm concerned. Well, you'd expect it. Yeah,

535
00:32:30,006 --> 00:32:34,004
I mean, so they must... First, we have to... remind

536
00:32:34,064 --> 00:32:37,574
ourselves that the news media is not here to report

537
00:32:37,634 --> 00:32:39,505
on the news. It is to get us to vote

538
00:32:39,545 --> 00:32:45,104
Democrat. That's what they do. Even Fox is questionable. Yes.

539
00:32:45,459 --> 00:32:51,273
So. um They want to make Trump look bad, you

540
00:32:51,293 --> 00:32:55,329
know, Hegseth, anyone else who is Trump adjacent. That's what

541
00:32:55,369 --> 00:32:58,806
they do. That is, so it wasn't. It wasn't in

542
00:32:58,867 --> 00:33:03,187
their best interest to launch this scandal. Or to report

543
00:33:03,247 --> 00:33:05,756
on the scandal. Report it. Yeah, report it. It wasn't

544
00:33:05,836 --> 00:33:09,851
in their best interest. No, because then it would detract

545
00:33:09,932 --> 00:33:13,489
from the points they're trying to make. So now let's

546
00:33:13,529 --> 00:33:20,821
go to our next president, President Tucker. Uh... who did

547
00:33:20,881 --> 00:33:25,956
an interview with Israel's Channel 13. Did you happen to

548
00:33:25,996 --> 00:33:28,544
see this? No, I did not. I didn't even know

549
00:33:28,584 --> 00:33:34,688
this happened. This is fantastic. So just note. that Tucker

550
00:33:34,729 --> 00:33:39,078
was there. Whenever something happened, Tucker was there. So this

551
00:33:39,119 --> 00:33:42,551
was a very adversarial interview, but I found it fascinating.

552
00:33:43,259 --> 00:33:45,224
Thank you for having me. You were one of Donald

553
00:33:45,244 --> 00:33:48,713
Trump's most consistent and vocal supporters. You called on people

554
00:33:48,793 --> 00:33:52,884
to vote for him. What happened? Yes, what happened was

555
00:33:52,904 --> 00:33:57,309
the war with Iran. which I don't believe serves the

556
00:33:57,349 --> 00:33:59,822
interests of the United States. I think it's destructive to

557
00:33:59,842 --> 00:34:01,966
the United States and to the world, but mostly to

558
00:34:02,006 --> 00:34:04,150
the United States. I'm an American. That's what I care

559
00:34:04,191 --> 00:34:09,100
about. And that's something he promised he wouldn't do. For

560
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:12,367
10 years, he argued against a war like this. And

561
00:34:12,407 --> 00:34:15,213
then for a variety of reasons, not all of which

562
00:34:15,273 --> 00:34:19,632
I understand, he embarked on it. And so I can't

563
00:34:19,652 --> 00:34:22,444
support that. My views did not change. His did. Do

564
00:34:22,484 --> 00:34:25,939
you generally believe Israel would try to harm you because

565
00:34:25,979 --> 00:34:30,583
of your opinion? Do I believe Israel would try to

566
00:34:30,643 --> 00:34:32,794
harm me? Yes. I mean, of course, I don't know.

567
00:34:32,835 --> 00:34:36,774
I hope not. I don't want to be harmed. Yeah.

568
00:34:36,794 --> 00:34:39,517
But my... My main interest is not Israel. I'm not

569
00:34:39,537 --> 00:34:42,673
just asking you. You were implied to that when you

570
00:34:42,714 --> 00:34:45,247
spoke about your coming to Israel. Let's see that for

571
00:34:45,307 --> 00:34:47,814
a second. And I said to them, okay, I want

572
00:34:47,834 --> 00:34:51,774
to send you the flight information, and I want you

573
00:34:51,814 --> 00:34:54,427
to pass that on to the Israeli military, just so.

574
00:34:54,847 --> 00:34:57,436
You know, they don't mistake us for an Iranian drone

575
00:34:57,456 --> 00:35:01,024
or something. paranoid, but again, this is probably the most

576
00:35:01,125 --> 00:35:05,167
violent country in the world, Israel. So Israel is the

577
00:35:05,227 --> 00:35:09,339
most violent state in the world, even more than Iran.

578
00:35:10,143 --> 00:35:13,198
Are you serious? No country, and I say this with

579
00:35:13,459 --> 00:35:18,360
sadness, but no country has boasted more about killing its

580
00:35:18,460 --> 00:35:23,110
political opponents than Israel, of course, about its assassination programs.

581
00:35:23,150 --> 00:35:26,537
The prime minister of Israel gave a golden pager to

582
00:35:26,577 --> 00:35:28,280
the president of the United States. I was there. I

583
00:35:29,142 --> 00:35:33,010
was there. And that golden pager represented the pagers that

584
00:35:33,231 --> 00:35:38,502
Hezbollah leaders were killed by. Sure. I mean. So, yes,

585
00:35:38,623 --> 00:35:41,050
Israel brags about assassinating people, and of course it does

586
00:35:41,110 --> 00:35:45,604
assassinate people. Many countries assassinate people, but Israel makes a

587
00:35:45,824 --> 00:35:51,236
public relations campaign out of boasting about... killing its opponents.

588
00:35:51,759 --> 00:35:55,773
Dude, have you ever heard someone say Allah Akbar? Uh,

589
00:35:56,383 --> 00:36:01,554
I don't... Tucker, he doesn't know what he said in

590
00:36:01,776 --> 00:36:06,748
the past. Yes, this is the most concerning part. He

591
00:36:06,808 --> 00:36:11,966
doesn't remember anything he said in the past. And he's

592
00:36:12,026 --> 00:36:16,775
adamant about it. I never said that. But he also

593
00:36:16,856 --> 00:36:19,966
says... You know, President Trump went to war in Iran,

594
00:36:19,986 --> 00:36:24,159
which he promised he wouldn't do. Totally true. for reasons

595
00:36:24,260 --> 00:36:27,750
I don't understand why, but it's not America first. Well,

596
00:36:27,770 --> 00:36:31,842
maybe you should ask him why. Now, the answer primarily

597
00:36:31,883 --> 00:36:35,032
will be because Iran can't have a nuclear weapon. Okay,

598
00:36:35,092 --> 00:36:37,642
I'm pretty skeptical about that. We've been hearing that. for

599
00:36:37,663 --> 00:36:41,748
10 years or maybe even longer. I think there were

600
00:36:41,788 --> 00:36:46,787
definitely a lot of financial reasons. And, I mean, look

601
00:36:46,827 --> 00:36:52,047
at this. These guys, they control an area that apparently...

602
00:36:52,723 --> 00:36:54,898
can put the whole world in peril just by them

603
00:36:55,583 --> 00:36:59,945
supposedly cutting it off or doing whatever. So it seems

604
00:37:00,026 --> 00:37:02,546
like that is a problem that just no one ever

605
00:37:02,626 --> 00:37:06,907
wanted to address. But let's go on because Trump obviously

606
00:37:07,007 --> 00:37:08,796
did not do this for America. He did it for

607
00:37:08,916 --> 00:37:11,749
Israel. We all know this. I mean, you know, you

608
00:37:11,810 --> 00:37:16,612
accuse Netanyahu. of dragging Trump into an unnecessary war with

609
00:37:16,753 --> 00:37:19,618
Iran. So let's see. think about what it actually means.

610
00:37:19,719 --> 00:37:23,157
Do you really... think that a foreign leader can pull

611
00:37:23,197 --> 00:37:26,692
the president of the United States into a war he

612
00:37:26,732 --> 00:37:31,581
didn't want and what does it tell us? about Trump?

613
00:37:31,926 --> 00:37:35,496
Is he really that weak? Well, I don't think that

614
00:37:35,537 --> 00:37:37,740
that could happen. I saw it happen. I was there.

615
00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:39,644
I was there. And so that happened. I was there.

616
00:37:40,185 --> 00:37:43,050
He was there. This guy's always there, but he seems

617
00:37:43,110 --> 00:37:47,900
to be like in Israel or somebody else's podcast. But

618
00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:51,126
somehow he's always there. He was there when Bibi Netanyahu

619
00:37:51,246 --> 00:37:54,292
forced Donald Trump to go to war with Iran. He

620
00:37:54,332 --> 00:37:57,618
was there. The United States into a war it didn't

621
00:37:57,718 --> 00:38:02,631
want. And what does it tell us? about Trump? Is

622
00:38:02,692 --> 00:38:06,267
he really that weak? Well, I don't think that that

623
00:38:06,307 --> 00:38:08,894
could happen. I saw it happen. I was there. And

624
00:38:08,934 --> 00:38:12,323
so that happened. So the question is why? He says

625
00:38:12,364 --> 00:38:14,670
this a lot, I've noticed. I was there. I was

626
00:38:14,750 --> 00:38:17,519
there. I think he means he saw something on TV.

627
00:38:17,499 --> 00:38:20,725
TV or he read the New York Times article without

628
00:38:20,785 --> 00:38:23,631
pictures or they said that something happened in the war

629
00:38:23,651 --> 00:38:26,216
room, but he was there. And I just want to

630
00:38:26,256 --> 00:38:29,923
be clear, I don't primarily blame the Israeli prime minister,

631
00:38:30,304 --> 00:38:32,689
who I think is wrong. I think he's gravely hurt

632
00:38:32,789 --> 00:38:35,715
Israel. I think he's leading Israel toward destruction. I think

633
00:38:35,735 --> 00:38:37,919
he's a very bad leader and a very unwise leader.

634
00:38:37,899 --> 00:38:42,778
However, I also believe that Prime Minister Netanyahu is acting

635
00:38:42,859 --> 00:38:45,328
in what he thinks is his nation's best interest. So

636
00:38:45,409 --> 00:38:47,756
I give him credit for that and always have. I

637
00:38:47,816 --> 00:38:51,554
don't blame him primarily. I blame Donald Trump for folding

638
00:38:51,574 --> 00:38:55,693
under the pressure from Benjamin Netanyahu and his many allies

639
00:38:55,974 --> 00:38:59,245
in the United States. donors to Donald Trump, people in

640
00:38:59,265 --> 00:39:02,575
the media class here, were effectively working on behalf of

641
00:39:02,595 --> 00:39:05,885
the Israeli government and Donald Trump, whose decision it was,

642
00:39:06,406 --> 00:39:09,916
caved under that pressure. But on February 28th, the United

643
00:39:09,937 --> 00:39:13,851
States followed Israel into this war. And the Secretary of

644
00:39:13,871 --> 00:39:16,119
State of the United States said we had no choice.

645
00:39:16,223 --> 00:39:19,269
They chose the time. He didn't say we had no

646
00:39:19,349 --> 00:39:22,294
choice. The Israeli prime minister decided when this started. Well,

647
00:39:22,314 --> 00:39:25,500
that's the definition of control. He had control of this

648
00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:28,505
war. Hold on a second. What is the definition of

649
00:39:28,546 --> 00:39:30,750
control? Let me just hear that again. Half of the

650
00:39:30,830 --> 00:39:34,797
Israeli government and Donald Trump, whose decision it was, caved

651
00:39:35,218 --> 00:39:37,942
under that pressure. But on February 28th, the United States

652
00:39:38,144 --> 00:39:42,003
followed Israel into this war. And the Secretary of State

653
00:39:42,043 --> 00:39:44,630
of the United States said, we had no choice. They

654
00:39:44,730 --> 00:39:47,297
chose the time. The Israeli Prime Minister decided when this

655
00:39:47,317 --> 00:39:50,705
started. Well, that's the definition of control. He had control

656
00:39:50,746 --> 00:39:53,633
of this war. That's an interesting way of looking at

657
00:39:53,673 --> 00:39:58,757
it. Even if you took Lubio's... a statement at face

658
00:39:58,818 --> 00:40:03,259
value. It wasn't control, he said. because I know because

659
00:40:03,300 --> 00:40:05,460
we played the clip ad nauseum and pulled it apart,

660
00:40:05,904 --> 00:40:09,087
he said, Israel was going to strike, and that would

661
00:40:09,148 --> 00:40:12,205
mean that we would have strikes, so we had to

662
00:40:12,245 --> 00:40:14,739
go. But I don't think that's the definition of control.

663
00:40:15,095 --> 00:40:22,178
Is it? Of course not. This is Tucker's simplification of

664
00:40:22,258 --> 00:40:26,104
things. Well, that's what he does. Well, that's the definition

665
00:40:26,164 --> 00:40:29,048
of control. He had control of this war. And so

666
00:40:29,108 --> 00:40:32,413
my question is, why did Donald Trump allow a nation

667
00:40:32,433 --> 00:40:36,280
of 9 million people to pull the United States? 350

668
00:40:36,582 --> 00:40:43,959
million people. Wait, the logical inconsistency. First, he defines control.

669
00:40:44,283 --> 00:40:47,011
to mean something he wants it to mean so he

670
00:40:47,031 --> 00:40:51,385
can then make the assertion that how does a nation

671
00:40:51,405 --> 00:40:55,820
of nine million people control, I mean, it's... It's a...

672
00:40:55,799 --> 00:41:00,732
trick. Ah! He uses trickery to make his point. Literary

673
00:41:00,752 --> 00:41:05,051
trickery. Yes, literary trickery. Yeah, it's a trick. And it's

674
00:41:05,071 --> 00:41:09,002
like, okay, well, if you didn't push back on the

675
00:41:09,102 --> 00:41:13,193
earlier assertion, now he's got you. This is like how

676
00:41:13,213 --> 00:41:17,745
a pathological liar works. where they get you to agree

677
00:41:17,785 --> 00:41:20,131
to one thing that they know that you're now you're

678
00:41:20,532 --> 00:41:23,579
cooked because you've already agreed to the other thing. So

679
00:41:23,619 --> 00:41:28,491
everything that logically stems from that must be true. Oh,

680
00:41:28,772 --> 00:41:33,178
yeah. Well, Tucker's very good at that. But now he

681
00:41:33,622 --> 00:41:35,980
adds another 50 million people to our... country which I

682
00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:39,267
thought was interesting. When this started well that's the definition

683
00:41:39,327 --> 00:41:42,193
of control he had control of this war and so

684
00:41:42,253 --> 00:41:45,560
my question is why did Donald Trump allow a nation

685
00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:48,906
of nine million people to pull the United States a

686
00:41:48,927 --> 00:41:52,454
nation of 350 million people into a war that will

687
00:41:52,494 --> 00:41:55,872
change it. Are we at 350 now? Yeah, we've always

688
00:41:55,912 --> 00:41:57,674
been. We've been at 350 for a while. No, we

689
00:41:57,695 --> 00:42:00,038
were at 250 for a while. And then we were

690
00:42:00,058 --> 00:42:02,481
at 300. No, no, no. You're listening to an old

691
00:42:02,541 --> 00:42:04,865
show. It's future. And it is bad for the United

692
00:42:04,905 --> 00:42:07,749
States. And I can't answer that question. You can't answer

693
00:42:07,769 --> 00:42:10,432
it. I don't have an answer. Uh-huh. You want to

694
00:42:10,452 --> 00:42:12,495
hear more? You got a couple more. I don't have

695
00:42:12,555 --> 00:42:15,119
an answer. That's good. You want to hear some more?

696
00:42:15,639 --> 00:42:18,445
Yeah, sure. Okay. You're implying that Donald Trump is so

697
00:42:18,525 --> 00:42:21,311
weak that a foreign leader can drag him into a

698
00:42:21,331 --> 00:42:23,816
war he doesn't want. Well, I'm not. First of all,

699
00:42:23,836 --> 00:42:27,423
I never... But you hesitated that maybe... Now he's going

700
00:42:27,463 --> 00:42:29,568
to kind of walk it back. Well, I never said

701
00:42:29,628 --> 00:42:32,734
that. You just said it. You just said it. You're

702
00:42:32,754 --> 00:42:35,901
implying that Donald Trump is so weak... that a foreign

703
00:42:35,921 --> 00:42:38,147
leader can drag him into a war he doesn't want.

704
00:42:38,728 --> 00:42:40,513
Well, I'm not, first of all, I never... But you

705
00:42:41,214 --> 00:42:44,964
hesitated and may be afraid to say clearly that Donald

706
00:42:44,984 --> 00:42:49,287
Trump is weak. Let me say two things. For one,

707
00:42:49,388 --> 00:42:51,358
of course, I'm not afraid or I wouldn't be doing

708
00:42:51,378 --> 00:42:53,529
this interview or talking about this at all. But maybe

709
00:42:53,549 --> 00:42:58,416
you're wrong by not seeing. what is very blunt truth

710
00:42:58,919 --> 00:43:04,581
that if the United States would cave in to Iran

711
00:43:04,862 --> 00:43:10,943
terror regime that controls now also the Hormuz pathway and

712
00:43:10,983 --> 00:43:14,676
the terror ring that it created in the Middle East

713
00:43:15,137 --> 00:43:18,927
may be It would be even worse for any citizens

714
00:43:18,967 --> 00:43:21,253
in the world, not only in Israel, but also in

715
00:43:21,293 --> 00:43:23,659
the United States. And this is exactly what Donald Trump

716
00:43:23,699 --> 00:43:27,288
said. He said that the United States would have been

717
00:43:27,408 --> 00:43:31,184
in danger. So you don't believe Donald Trump? I don't

718
00:43:31,224 --> 00:43:33,851
believe Donald Trump. And I also think as an Israeli,

719
00:43:33,891 --> 00:43:37,446
you should. Pause before using the phrase terror regime, since

720
00:43:37,486 --> 00:43:39,512
you live in a country that just murdered thousands of

721
00:43:39,572 --> 00:43:42,019
children in Gaza. We should all pull back a little

722
00:43:42,079 --> 00:43:47,511
bit on the rhetoric. Yes. Well, that's the rhetoric. We

723
00:43:47,551 --> 00:43:49,404
should all pull back on the rhetoric after I just

724
00:43:49,424 --> 00:43:52,851
threw out some rhetoric. Two more clips. But the behavior

725
00:43:52,912 --> 00:43:56,824
of the Israeli government... in Gaza is disgusting and immoral.

726
00:43:56,844 --> 00:43:59,169
And of course, Israel is not a democracy in any

727
00:43:59,250 --> 00:44:02,638
sense. There are millions of people who live under Israeli

728
00:44:02,698 --> 00:44:06,667
control who cannot vote, right? And so if the West

729
00:44:06,727 --> 00:44:09,233
Bank, Judea and Sumeria and Gaza or whatever are calling

730
00:44:09,294 --> 00:44:14,265
these places, Judea and Sumeria. What? Which Israel has controlled

731
00:44:14,306 --> 00:44:17,158
since 1967 have... people living in them who have no

732
00:44:17,198 --> 00:44:20,967
control over the government that controls their lives, which is

733
00:44:21,047 --> 00:44:22,911
true. It's not a democracy. So let's just drop the

734
00:44:22,951 --> 00:44:25,918
talking points. I agree with you on self-defense. I don't

735
00:44:25,958 --> 00:44:29,306
think killing children is self-defense. It never will be. And

736
00:44:29,326 --> 00:44:33,936
no amount of recounting the legitimate atrocities of October 7th

737
00:44:33,956 --> 00:44:36,662
will ever get me to accept... this behavior from the

738
00:44:36,682 --> 00:44:39,488
Israeli government, from the U.S. government, from the Iranian government,

739
00:44:39,528 --> 00:44:42,874
or any government. It's always wrong. And Israel doesn't like

740
00:44:42,914 --> 00:44:45,720
to acknowledge the existence of universal principles that apply to

741
00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:49,888
everyone equally. That's why they're principles, not preferences. And Israel,

742
00:44:50,209 --> 00:44:52,033
again, which I've always liked as a country, has a

743
00:44:52,053 --> 00:44:55,219
lot of civilized, decent people living there to this day.

744
00:44:55,739 --> 00:44:59,987
has to acknowledge that principles are universal. They apply to

745
00:45:00,127 --> 00:45:04,996
everyone, even you, even me. My government, your government, every

746
00:45:05,056 --> 00:45:07,541
government. But you won't acknowledge that. It's always like, oh,

747
00:45:07,561 --> 00:45:10,326
Iran's bad. Yeah, Iran's bad. But your behavior is bad

748
00:45:10,366 --> 00:45:15,619
too. Okay, I can't counter that. I mean, lots of...

749
00:45:15,723 --> 00:45:18,388
Behavior is bad. I mean, there's stuff going on in

750
00:45:18,408 --> 00:45:22,175
Nigeria. There's stuff going on everywhere. But Israel seems to

751
00:45:22,235 --> 00:45:24,460
be the focus. And then we get the final question,

752
00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:26,684
which we've all been waiting for. Anything? I don't think

753
00:45:26,704 --> 00:45:29,089
the United States should give Israel anything. I think we

754
00:45:29,109 --> 00:45:31,774
should stop all aid to Israel, all special deals for

755
00:45:31,854 --> 00:45:35,631
Israel. tomorrow. Mr. Carson, are you running for office? Do

756
00:45:35,651 --> 00:45:38,735
you consider running for office? I am not running for

757
00:45:38,816 --> 00:45:41,920
office. I have no plans to run for office. I

758
00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:44,744
am starting to believe that the Republican Party does not

759
00:45:44,804 --> 00:45:47,868
serve the United States. And I certainly believe the Democratic

760
00:45:47,928 --> 00:45:49,971
Party does not serve the United States. And so I

761
00:45:50,031 --> 00:45:51,814
hope we have an option. I would like a democracy

762
00:45:51,834 --> 00:45:53,536
in the United States like I'd like one in Israel.

763
00:45:53,736 --> 00:45:55,198
So I'm moving to Qatar. Israel is not a democracy.

764
00:45:55,218 --> 00:45:58,207
The United States... apparently is not a democracy either. Our

765
00:45:58,247 --> 00:46:00,795
government keeps doing things that people don't want. So that's

766
00:46:00,835 --> 00:46:04,006
not democracy. It's the opposite of democracy. And I want

767
00:46:04,046 --> 00:46:08,787
democracy very, very much. I want democracy. Democracy? Democracy. It's

768
00:46:08,807 --> 00:46:11,520
a republic, you dumb shit. He knows that. But he

769
00:46:11,580 --> 00:46:14,735
wants democracy, as you yelled in the background, in Qatar.

770
00:46:15,016 --> 00:46:17,250
In Qatar. Yes, that's where you want to buy a

771
00:46:17,291 --> 00:46:19,627
house because you feel safe there in the democracy of

772
00:46:19,728 --> 00:46:25,351
Qatar. with a king. With the king. With the king.

773
00:46:26,347 --> 00:46:31,386
It's just interesting. It's interesting he's doing this. I think

774
00:46:31,446 --> 00:46:33,374
he is running. I think he does have a plan.

775
00:46:33,956 --> 00:46:37,150
I really do. What do you mean? I think he

776
00:46:37,190 --> 00:46:40,417
really has thoughts, and people are talking to him. We

777
00:46:40,457 --> 00:46:42,521
know people are talking to him. Your boy Kiriakou is

778
00:46:42,582 --> 00:46:44,746
talking to him. Boy, I call him. Yeah, Tucker, you

779
00:46:44,766 --> 00:46:46,329
got to run, man. You can win this thing. You

780
00:46:46,349 --> 00:46:48,814
can win this thing. I am sure he's thinking about

781
00:46:48,895 --> 00:46:52,035
it. Why else do you do these interviews? Do your

782
00:46:52,056 --> 00:46:59,114
podcast. Do your podcast. Who cares? Channel 13 in Israel.

783
00:46:59,175 --> 00:47:01,764
It was a fluke that I got it. Yeah, it's

784
00:47:01,866 --> 00:47:06,116
a fluke. Yeah. Anyway, I just thought that was fun.

785
00:47:06,136 --> 00:47:09,163
Well, let's get the main story that was pushed on

786
00:47:09,323 --> 00:47:11,548
the ABC News out of the way because I have

787
00:47:11,588 --> 00:47:14,555
a three-by-three about the mosque. And now it's time for

788
00:47:14,595 --> 00:47:22,042
three-by-three. Bad J.C. Dean. Comparing stories from ABC, CBS, and

789
00:47:23,191 --> 00:47:29,410
NBC! big ones. John's got them lined up. Let's see

790
00:47:29,470 --> 00:47:32,224
if they are exactly the same or if something is

791
00:47:32,244 --> 00:47:34,375
a little different in one of them. Here we go.

792
00:47:35,691 --> 00:47:39,248
ABC. Tonight, authorities have revealed the two shooters were wearing

793
00:47:39,348 --> 00:47:43,395
body armor and camouflage, armed with shotguns, rifles, and handguns

794
00:47:44,197 --> 00:47:47,162
when they stormed the Islamic Center of San Diego, shooting

795
00:47:47,182 --> 00:47:50,969
and killing three people, including a hero security guard. And

796
00:47:50,989 --> 00:47:53,694
they live-streamed the attack using what appear to be helmet

797
00:47:53,734 --> 00:47:56,499
cameras. The shooters made it inside the front entrance. of

798
00:47:56,540 --> 00:47:59,514
a building just feet away from school children. Police say

799
00:47:59,554 --> 00:48:02,267
the suspects went room by room and found no one.

800
00:48:02,388 --> 00:48:06,172
They headed back outside to the parking lot. Police believe

801
00:48:06,192 --> 00:48:09,255
the suspects heard the sound of rapidly approaching sirens and

802
00:48:09,416 --> 00:48:14,703
fled the scene. This new video from blocks away shows

803
00:48:14,764 --> 00:48:17,679
the suspects then opening fire at a landscape. who wasn't

804
00:48:17,823 --> 00:48:23,310
injured. Bull shooters then later found dead of self-inflicted gunshot

805
00:48:23,350 --> 00:48:27,378
wounds. Tonight, sources say the suspects are 17-year-old Cain Clark,

806
00:48:27,439 --> 00:48:31,587
a high school wrestler, and 18-year-old Caleb Vasquez. The FBI

807
00:48:31,647 --> 00:48:34,773
says they met and were radicalized online and shared a

808
00:48:34,894 --> 00:48:38,324
broad hatred of different races and religions. The live stream

809
00:48:38,384 --> 00:48:41,931
appears to show them wearing neo-Nazi symbols. I can't confirm.

810
00:48:41,971 --> 00:48:44,917
There has been a manifesto that's been recovered. They didn't

811
00:48:44,937 --> 00:48:47,882
discriminate on who they hated. Police say the 17-year-old suspect's

812
00:48:48,022 --> 00:48:51,369
mother had called police two hours before the shooting, fearing

813
00:48:51,429 --> 00:48:54,374
he was suicidal, saying her weapons and vehicle were missing,

814
00:48:54,394 --> 00:48:57,664
setting off a manhunt before the attack. And David, we

815
00:48:57,704 --> 00:49:01,271
have just learned from sources that a person previously reported

816
00:49:01,311 --> 00:49:04,136
the 18-year-old suspect in this case and police made contact

817
00:49:04,176 --> 00:49:06,540
with him. They were reported that he was interested in

818
00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:10,867
extremism and mass casualty attacks. David. So many grateful to

819
00:49:10,908 --> 00:49:14,053
that hero security guard tonight. Trevor, all thank you. You

820
00:49:14,073 --> 00:49:18,080
know, you wake up and you're interested in mass. casualty

821
00:49:18,183 --> 00:49:28,101
events. Okay. They met online and got radicalized. How? Oh,

822
00:49:28,301 --> 00:49:33,732
very easy. By the constant... videos everywhere telling you that

823
00:49:33,894 --> 00:49:38,407
islam is taking over america Throw in some SSRIs, which

824
00:49:38,427 --> 00:49:41,098
you'll never hear about, and you've got yourself a powder

825
00:49:41,138 --> 00:49:44,893
keg. This doesn't surprise me at all. And this, they

826
00:49:44,933 --> 00:49:50,837
didn't care about who they hated, bullshit. Just go online.

827
00:49:50,857 --> 00:49:52,925
It's look at this. Look at this Imam. Look at

828
00:49:52,945 --> 00:49:54,773
this. Look at this guy. Oh, look at this. Oh,

829
00:49:54,933 --> 00:49:58,829
they're taking over 200. Mosques in Texas, they're gonna get

830
00:49:58,890 --> 00:50:04,576
us. Sharia law! Yeah. NBC. Yeah, NBC. You can hear

831
00:50:04,636 --> 00:50:07,842
the gunshots. A person scrambling to push a stroller to

832
00:50:07,923 --> 00:50:11,329
safety as a suspect opens fire in a San Diego

833
00:50:11,389 --> 00:50:15,477
neighborhood. And here, glass breaking as more shots come from

834
00:50:15,517 --> 00:50:18,863
that very vehicle. Police say just minutes before that shooting,

835
00:50:19,124 --> 00:50:22,391
two gunmen unleashed a deadly rampage at a mosque, sending

836
00:50:22,471 --> 00:50:25,818
school kids running for their lives. Two senior law enforcement

837
00:50:25,838 --> 00:50:28,824
officials telling NBC News the gunmen have been identified as

838
00:50:28,844 --> 00:50:33,875
18-year-old Caleb Vasquez and 17-year-old Kane Clark. And three senior

839
00:50:33,895 --> 00:50:37,282
law enforcement officials tell NBC News... They're trying to authenticate

840
00:50:37,302 --> 00:50:41,270
a document purportedly written by the suspects full of anti-Islamic

841
00:50:41,751 --> 00:50:47,242
and anti-Semitic views. Also describing themselves as anti-Trump. Outside the

842
00:50:47,302 --> 00:50:50,329
car where police say they killed themselves. A bottle with

843
00:50:50,409 --> 00:50:53,355
a Nazi SS symbol. They didn't discriminate on who they

844
00:50:53,375 --> 00:50:56,521
hated. And at 9.40 a.m. Monday. Two hours before the

845
00:50:56,601 --> 00:51:00,309
killing spree, police say Clark's mother called police to report

846
00:51:00,349 --> 00:51:04,117
her suicidal son had run away, taking his parents' weapons

847
00:51:04,598 --> 00:51:07,924
and car. Police started a search, including at a mall

848
00:51:08,024 --> 00:51:11,171
and school, when two hours later, the first reports of

849
00:51:11,211 --> 00:51:15,219
gunfire at the mosque. And then that second shooting scene.

850
00:51:15,515 --> 00:51:18,484
just blocks away branches still on the ground after police

851
00:51:18,504 --> 00:51:21,313
say the gunman opened fire on a landscaper. One bullet

852
00:51:21,434 --> 00:51:24,925
grazing off his helmet, another embedded right here in this

853
00:51:25,005 --> 00:51:28,256
very home. As this investigation is still ongoing, Morgan, I

854
00:51:28,297 --> 00:51:30,999
know you have some new reporting in on these suspects.

855
00:51:31,579 --> 00:51:33,622
Yeah, Tom, we do. And in addition to recovering those

856
00:51:33,642 --> 00:51:36,661
30 firearms in cross... Authorities say that they believe these

857
00:51:36,701 --> 00:51:40,046
two teenagers met online where they were later radicalized. And

858
00:51:40,106 --> 00:51:44,052
upon realizing that both lived here in San Diego, that's

859
00:51:44,092 --> 00:51:47,557
when they started meeting in person. And right now they're

860
00:51:47,577 --> 00:51:51,042
doing a deep dive into their electronic devices. Deep dive.

861
00:51:51,443 --> 00:51:57,058
I wonder if there was discord involved. And yeah, well,

862
00:51:57,803 --> 00:52:02,042
none of this should be surprising. They hate Trump, okay?

863
00:52:02,624 --> 00:52:06,160
They probably, did they watch Tucker? Did they watch Fuentes?

864
00:52:07,003 --> 00:52:10,579
The Jews are killing America. The Muslims are killing America.

865
00:52:10,935 --> 00:52:17,069
This is what online narrative is. It's in our own

866
00:52:17,131 --> 00:52:21,262
troll room! I'm not surprised by this. They were probably

867
00:52:21,322 --> 00:52:24,831
radicalized by some trolls here. It doesn't surprise me at

868
00:52:24,992 --> 00:52:28,542
all. It's extremely sad. I think, well, I'll wait until

869
00:52:28,582 --> 00:52:32,192
we play CBS. Did they do something different? CBS or

870
00:52:32,253 --> 00:52:38,795
CIA outlet. The only thing that I find interesting was

871
00:52:38,815 --> 00:52:43,896
that both reports said they didn't discriminate against who they

872
00:52:43,976 --> 00:52:47,805
hated. yeah let's see if cbs does that there's a

873
00:52:47,886 --> 00:52:49,976
reason for this i don't know what it is yet

874
00:52:50,056 --> 00:52:52,246
but we're gonna find out we've seized over 30 guns

875
00:52:52,307 --> 00:52:54,919
and a crossbow san diego police say the two teens

876
00:52:54,899 --> 00:52:58,025
who carried out the mosque shooting and apparently live-streamed their

877
00:52:58,065 --> 00:53:02,353
rampage were likely motivated by hate. We also identified writings

878
00:53:02,794 --> 00:53:06,982
and various ideologies outlining religious and racial beliefs of how

879
00:53:07,022 --> 00:53:10,128
the world they envisioned should look. The two teenagers, 17-year-old

880
00:53:10,208 --> 00:53:14,156
Cain Clark and Caleb Vasquez, 18, met online and connected

881
00:53:14,216 --> 00:53:17,470
over their hate-filled beliefs. They approached the mosque just before

882
00:53:17,550 --> 00:53:20,895
noon on Monday and started shooting. The gunmen came within

883
00:53:20,915 --> 00:53:25,883
15 feet of 140 children inside. Two mosque members, Nadir

884
00:53:25,903 --> 00:53:29,669
Awad and Mansour Kazia, engaged the shooters, moving them outside.

885
00:53:30,090 --> 00:53:33,015
Earlier, Amin Abdullah, a security guard and father of eight,

886
00:53:33,035 --> 00:53:36,641
enacted lockdown protocols and took on the gunmen. I felt

887
00:53:36,761 --> 00:53:41,611
a bit scared. My legs were shaking, my hands, and

888
00:53:42,232 --> 00:53:45,819
my head was hurting me a lot. A landscaper working

889
00:53:45,879 --> 00:53:49,166
nearby was shot at. A bullet deflected off of his

890
00:53:49,246 --> 00:53:53,154
helmet, likely saving his life. Imam Taha Hussain says their

891
00:53:53,174 --> 00:53:56,742
community is shaken, but... I know that my community... We're

892
00:53:57,304 --> 00:54:00,233
just trying our best to show the best of who

893
00:54:00,273 --> 00:54:04,567
we are, to stand in solidarity with one another, especially

894
00:54:04,647 --> 00:54:09,929
with the families of the three victims. Police believe the

895
00:54:09,969 --> 00:54:14,174
shooters died from self-inflicted gunshot wounds, and tonight there is

896
00:54:14,274 --> 00:54:19,580
growing concern. at religious groups and faith institutions are asking

897
00:54:19,640 --> 00:54:23,763
for additional police presence. Yeah. Well, Christians are on deck

898
00:54:23,824 --> 00:54:28,983
next. That'll be next. This has already happened a couple

899
00:54:29,023 --> 00:54:31,095
of times. Are you kidding me? Yeah. No, I know.

900
00:54:31,216 --> 00:54:34,153
These school shootings with the trans shooters. These guys weren't

901
00:54:34,213 --> 00:54:36,417
trans that we know of. And I'd like to know,

902
00:54:36,577 --> 00:54:41,729
ask a question, what brings somebody to kill? They're ideologues.

903
00:54:41,769 --> 00:54:43,794
They're going on and they get bitching and moaning about

904
00:54:43,894 --> 00:54:45,398
one thing or another and they're going to kill a

905
00:54:45,438 --> 00:54:47,061
bunch of Muslims. They want to do this, they want

906
00:54:47,082 --> 00:54:49,828
to do that. Then they shoot themselves? Wouldn't they rather

907
00:54:49,868 --> 00:54:52,895
be like living martyrs so they could go into the

908
00:54:52,955 --> 00:54:56,765
prisons and get... people on their side of things or

909
00:54:57,607 --> 00:55:00,997
try to proselytize or do something other than shoot themselves.

910
00:55:01,037 --> 00:55:05,048
This whole thing stinks. Well, that's the SSRIs talking in

911
00:55:05,068 --> 00:55:09,849
combo with some discord. It's got to be. clearly. But,

912
00:55:09,889 --> 00:55:12,631
you know, I'm looking for this video. Let me see.

913
00:55:12,651 --> 00:55:15,962
It was. I'll look for it in a moment. This

914
00:55:15,982 --> 00:55:19,046
is an example of why people get all spun up

915
00:55:19,107 --> 00:55:23,952
and angry. But first... CBS was the only one who

916
00:55:24,032 --> 00:55:26,302
had a little bit of the audio of the kid,

917
00:55:26,362 --> 00:55:30,582
the nine-year-old. CNN, they, oh, they went to the mat.

918
00:55:30,622 --> 00:55:34,137
They, let's get this nine-year-old kid on camera. Let's do

919
00:55:34,158 --> 00:55:37,065
it. This will be. great it's great television I felt

920
00:55:37,085 --> 00:55:41,956
a bit scared my legs were shaking my hands and

921
00:55:42,677 --> 00:55:45,544
my head was like hurting me a lot I felt

922
00:55:45,624 --> 00:55:50,957
like a rock The teachers and the kids were like

923
00:55:51,057 --> 00:55:53,872
shaking, sad and stuff. And when the guy kicked the

924
00:55:53,892 --> 00:55:56,410
door, all of them were crying. I heard like a

925
00:55:56,511 --> 00:56:01,171
bunch of bad stuff like gunshots. And plus, uh... I

926
00:56:01,191 --> 00:56:04,759
went inside the closet with my whole class. We heard

927
00:56:04,819 --> 00:56:10,550
like 12 or like 16 gunshots. And then the SWAT

928
00:56:10,630 --> 00:56:13,536
team said, FBI, open up. And they opened the door.

929
00:56:13,816 --> 00:56:15,561
And they went inside. They told us. to put our

930
00:56:15,621 --> 00:56:19,114
hands up and form a big line. We were like

931
00:56:19,155 --> 00:56:24,297
walking inside the Mosalla. All of us, we... We saw

932
00:56:24,377 --> 00:56:29,718
the, like, the Sheikh's apartment inside the mosque. And, like,

933
00:56:29,939 --> 00:56:32,609
it was broken down. We went down, and then we

934
00:56:32,710 --> 00:56:35,584
saw a bunch of bad stuff, people laying down. Yeah,

935
00:56:35,724 --> 00:56:41,199
bad stuff. Oh, man. Child abuse. I agree. I was

936
00:56:41,239 --> 00:56:43,605
going to say the same thing. That's child abuse. So

937
00:56:43,665 --> 00:56:46,673
this is a... Poor kid. This is a guy at

938
00:56:46,833 --> 00:56:51,729
a city hall meeting in Frisco, Texas. And he's got,

939
00:56:51,871 --> 00:56:54,919
for some reason, he has body armor on, like military.

940
00:56:54,991 --> 00:56:56,673
you know, plate in the front, plate in the back.

941
00:56:57,194 --> 00:56:59,397
And this is the kind of stuff that gets people

942
00:56:59,477 --> 00:57:02,081
really spun up. And I can see that this gets

943
00:57:02,602 --> 00:57:07,849
kids, you know, into this radicalized state. Frisco with Stan.

944
00:57:08,530 --> 00:57:11,995
What are you guys doing here? Inviting the enemy to

945
00:57:12,436 --> 00:57:14,398
eat at the table with you and they steal all

946
00:57:14,438 --> 00:57:19,308
your food. without a place to be in because every

947
00:57:19,328 --> 00:57:21,672
single one of their jobs, and you saw the children

948
00:57:21,693 --> 00:57:23,576
that were brought up on this stage, not one of

949
00:57:23,636 --> 00:57:26,041
them is a heritage American, not one of them was

950
00:57:26,121 --> 00:57:38,446
a Texan. This is not Muslims versus Hindus here. They

951
00:57:38,506 --> 00:57:41,291
are here to eradicate the Christians. They are here to

952
00:57:41,392 --> 00:57:45,059
drive us out of our homelands. You have to understand,

953
00:57:45,359 --> 00:57:48,586
these people do not want to assimilate. These people have

954
00:57:48,666 --> 00:57:51,091
not come here to become Americans. They have come here

955
00:57:51,111 --> 00:57:55,319
to drag their third world culture over to our country.

956
00:57:55,391 --> 00:57:59,156
If Jainism, if Hinduism is so great, why are their

957
00:57:59,256 --> 00:58:05,105
countries shitholes? They are bringing this ideology here to turn

958
00:58:05,145 --> 00:58:07,748
the third world. It's not a place. It is a

959
00:58:07,869 --> 00:58:10,172
people. It is an ideology. It is a way of

960
00:58:10,192 --> 00:58:12,615
life. It is a culture. And when they bring their

961
00:58:12,695 --> 00:58:15,668
people, their way of life, their ideology, and their... culture

962
00:58:15,768 --> 00:58:18,072
over to America. Do you think it's going to remain

963
00:58:18,172 --> 00:58:21,697
American? Have you ever looked across the plains of Texas

964
00:58:21,757 --> 00:58:24,602
and said, hmm, I need 5 million Jeets here right

965
00:58:24,662 --> 00:58:27,106
now to shit in the street? No, no, no one

966
00:58:27,186 --> 00:58:29,670
ever has. No one has ever looked across and said

967
00:58:29,930 --> 00:58:33,376
the football fields, the games, all of the amazing cowboy.

968
00:58:33,416 --> 00:58:35,655
I have a first amendment right and I could. Curse

969
00:58:35,676 --> 00:58:38,722
if I want it. I can talk if I want

970
00:58:38,762 --> 00:58:40,809
to. No one has ever looked across the plains of

971
00:58:40,889 --> 00:58:43,798
Texas in the football games and all the amazing cowboy

972
00:58:43,858 --> 00:58:46,847
culture and the raw American spirit here and said, let's

973
00:58:46,907 --> 00:58:50,538
replace this with Muslims. Let's replace this with Hindus. Texas

974
00:58:50,558 --> 00:58:55,620
should remain for Texans. This guy spun up. But this

975
00:58:55,824 --> 00:59:01,034
is the feeling, John. That is being created online. I

976
00:59:01,054 --> 00:59:05,606
think the reality in some places, yeah, you've got Enclave.

977
00:59:05,626 --> 00:59:09,877
Just like, is this anything different than Chinatown, than Little

978
00:59:09,977 --> 00:59:16,630
Italy? then Jewtown, Hasidic Jew, is it any different? ever

979
00:59:16,671 --> 00:59:31,166
been any different? You're muted. Yeah. Ghettos. Kiddos. But has

980
00:59:31,227 --> 00:59:35,091
it ever been any different? There's always been ghettos. Yeah.

981
00:59:37,943 --> 00:59:41,310
I think... If they're talking about people crapping in the

982
00:59:41,351 --> 00:59:44,121
streets, it's not the Hindus. It's the homeless in San

983
00:59:44,162 --> 00:59:48,471
Francisco. They're not Hindus. Don't look at those. Those are

984
00:59:48,512 --> 00:59:55,633
Americans, damn it. So this is what people watch. And

985
00:59:55,654 --> 01:00:03,740
like, yeah. There's no heritage Americans. White. That's a new

986
01:00:03,781 --> 01:00:09,367
term. Oh, that's cute. So, you know, and I push

987
01:00:09,428 --> 01:00:12,349
back here all the time. He said, you're out of

988
01:00:12,389 --> 01:00:17,092
your mind. There are 25,000 churches in Texas. and 253

989
01:00:17,857 --> 01:00:20,474
mosques over the last 20 years, not the last two

990
01:00:20,555 --> 01:00:25,952
years like you see online. I'm like, okay. Alright, well...

991
01:00:26,691 --> 01:00:30,751
Change the Constitution. Change the Bill of Rights. Only Christians.

992
01:00:32,195 --> 01:00:38,311
But this... This is the... It's flowing over from what

993
01:00:38,371 --> 01:00:41,219
happened in Europe, which is a very different situation. And

994
01:00:41,279 --> 01:00:45,632
it's not Muslims. It's Islamists. It's a big difference. He's

995
01:00:45,672 --> 01:00:48,978
right about that. It's a political ideology. And if you

996
01:00:49,039 --> 01:00:51,377
see some dudes talking about we're going to take over

997
01:00:51,417 --> 01:00:54,177
America, they should get a knock on the door. Hey!

998
01:00:54,563 --> 01:00:56,781
What's your problem, son? Let's make sure you don't have

999
01:00:56,821 --> 01:01:00,729
anything strange going on here. Yeah, they should get a

1000
01:01:00,770 --> 01:01:02,797
knock on the door. We don't do that enough. I

1001
01:01:02,858 --> 01:01:07,079
agree. But, you know, we wait till somebody does something,

1002
01:01:07,119 --> 01:01:09,819
then we arrest them. When you should just, you know,

1003
01:01:09,860 --> 01:01:16,119
preventative. Crime prevention is very easily done by just a...

1004
01:01:16,159 --> 01:01:18,917
you know hey stop doing stop it yeah stop that

1005
01:01:18,957 --> 01:01:22,037
for a moment will you stop it Exactly. Well, I

1006
01:01:22,077 --> 01:01:25,762
don't have enough of that. We agree on that. So,

1007
01:01:26,146 --> 01:01:29,095
you know, so then you get this. Well, that doesn't

1008
01:01:29,156 --> 01:01:34,631
surprise me. I have the MSNBC report just to wrap

1009
01:01:34,651 --> 01:01:36,560
this up. You know, Robert, when I... I want to

1010
01:01:36,841 --> 01:01:44,195
piggyback off of Ayman's idea about the peace of this

1011
01:01:44,255 --> 01:01:48,764
community being this mosque, its longevity in this community. I

1012
01:01:49,084 --> 01:01:52,711
want you to listen real quick to the Imam, to

1013
01:01:52,972 --> 01:01:56,619
Hassan, and what he had to say about this moment.

1014
01:01:57,075 --> 01:02:03,855
It is... Extremely outrageous. to target a place of worship.

1015
01:02:04,531 --> 01:02:08,478
Our Islamic center is a place of worship. People come

1016
01:02:08,661 --> 01:02:14,255
to the Islamic Center to pray. To celebrate, to learn.

1017
01:02:15,315 --> 01:02:19,040
Not only Muslims but We have people from all walks

1018
01:02:19,100 --> 01:02:23,498
of life, just this morning, earlier. a group of people,

1019
01:02:24,025 --> 01:02:27,758
non-Muslims coming just to learn about our faith and our

1020
01:02:27,818 --> 01:02:33,416
cultures. So... This is something that we have never expected.

1021
01:02:33,477 --> 01:02:38,513
Eamon noted that, you know, They've been there since the

1022
01:02:38,653 --> 01:02:42,819
late 1980s, so the depth and the roots of this

1023
01:02:44,201 --> 01:02:50,149
community and this center of faith and learning clearly is

1024
01:02:50,169 --> 01:02:56,137
not enough. Those roots are no longer enough in this

1025
01:02:56,197 --> 01:03:01,071
new... space where... God, I didn't realize he stammered so

1026
01:03:01,111 --> 01:03:03,707
much. Well, he's trying to, you know, he's in his

1027
01:03:04,129 --> 01:03:06,961
sincere mode. Now he has a... Yeah, this guy's a

1028
01:03:07,022 --> 01:03:11,695
stooge. Yes, he is a stooge. He is. He is.

1029
01:03:13,203 --> 01:03:16,486
Anyway. Well, let's go to another story that I think

1030
01:03:16,567 --> 01:03:21,782
is... To me, it's weird. I don't understand it completely.

1031
01:03:21,802 --> 01:03:23,832
I don't know how we can do it, but we've

1032
01:03:23,872 --> 01:03:29,262
done it. Which is Castro indictment. Yeah, this is good.

1033
01:03:29,282 --> 01:03:30,887
Which one do you want to play first? Well, I'll

1034
01:03:30,927 --> 01:03:33,115
start with the NPR, which I think is the overview.

1035
01:03:33,175 --> 01:03:39,054
You mean the NTD? Did I? Yeah, NTD. Tonight, the

1036
01:03:39,074 --> 01:03:42,799
Justice Department's indictment of former Cuban dictator Raul Castro today

1037
01:03:43,240 --> 01:03:47,025
marks a significant move in the Trump administration's escalating pressure

1038
01:03:47,065 --> 01:03:50,810
against Cuba. NTD's Arlene Richards has the story. Federal authorities

1039
01:03:50,890 --> 01:03:54,896
in Miami on Wednesday announcing charges against Raul Castro tied

1040
01:03:54,916 --> 01:03:59,284
to the 1996 shootdown of... civilian planes operated by Brothers

1041
01:03:59,324 --> 01:04:03,111
to the Rescue, an incident that killed four people. Castro

1042
01:04:03,191 --> 01:04:05,696
served for decades as one of the most powerful figures

1043
01:04:05,776 --> 01:04:09,123
in Cuba's communist regime. He was Cuba's defense minister at

1044
01:04:09,143 --> 01:04:11,508
the time of the attack and later became the country's

1045
01:04:11,568 --> 01:04:17,119
president, succeeding his brother Fidel Castro. Today we are announcing

1046
01:04:17,351 --> 01:04:22,759
indictment charging Raul Castro and several others with conspiracy to

1047
01:04:22,859 --> 01:04:27,065
kill U.S. nationals. Mr. Castro and the others are charged

1048
01:04:27,606 --> 01:04:31,131
with additional crimes as well, including destruction of aircraft and

1049
01:04:31,251 --> 01:04:35,858
four individual counts of murder. Castro faces a maximum term

1050
01:04:35,898 --> 01:04:39,104
of life imprisonment. on the conspiracy and murder charges and

1051
01:04:39,184 --> 01:04:41,208
up to five years on each of the destruction of

1052
01:04:41,228 --> 01:04:45,396
aircraft charges. Prosecutors accused Castro of involvement in the order

1053
01:04:45,497 --> 01:04:49,585
to shoot those planes down. Raul Castro ordered those fighter

1054
01:04:49,625 --> 01:04:54,595
jets to shoot down unarmed civilian aircraft. It was not

1055
01:04:54,655 --> 01:05:02,130
an accident. It was... intentional, premeditated, state-sanctioned murder. And their

1056
01:05:02,190 --> 01:05:07,220
criminal conspiracy violated Florida's sovereignty. The announcement comes alongside a

1057
01:05:07,280 --> 01:05:10,907
commemoration service for those who lost their lives. Federal authorities

1058
01:05:10,967 --> 01:05:14,454
say that the charges are a step toward accountability. For

1059
01:05:14,514 --> 01:05:20,686
nearly 70 years, the communists... has acted with impunity in

1060
01:05:20,727 --> 01:05:24,795
its systematic repression of its people. And for the last

1061
01:05:24,815 --> 01:05:29,925
30 years, this regime's senior leadership has gone unchallenged for

1062
01:05:29,965 --> 01:05:34,173
its murder of four Americans. While it remains unclear whether

1063
01:05:34,213 --> 01:05:37,372
there are plans to bring Castro into U.S. custody, The

1064
01:05:37,433 --> 01:05:40,897
indictment represents one of the strongest legal actions yet taken

1065
01:05:40,937 --> 01:05:45,399
against Cuba's former leadership. To me, it seemed very obvious

1066
01:05:45,440 --> 01:05:51,284
what this was. Solidify Florida. For the midterms, we've got

1067
01:05:51,304 --> 01:05:53,118
to have Florida. Got to make sure we nail that

1068
01:05:53,179 --> 01:05:58,312
down. But I don't think... Heh. I don't think Florida's

1069
01:05:58,373 --> 01:06:02,843
in play. Well, it isn't now, that's for sure. Well,

1070
01:06:03,070 --> 01:06:07,757
the other thing... I have mixed feelings about this. One,

1071
01:06:08,460 --> 01:06:12,961
they claim that the Cubans sent some fighters to shoot

1072
01:06:13,021 --> 01:06:17,357
down these planes in Florida airspace. If that was true,

1073
01:06:17,417 --> 01:06:21,782
why weren't those fighters brought down by missiles? No, I

1074
01:06:21,823 --> 01:06:25,004
don't think the story is important. I think it's all...

1075
01:06:25,145 --> 01:06:27,581
Well, I'm just saying, I'm asking these questions. I don't

1076
01:06:27,621 --> 01:06:30,229
know. And Cuba says, no, no, no, we did this

1077
01:06:30,329 --> 01:06:35,575
over our land, and these planes were in our airspace,

1078
01:06:35,615 --> 01:06:38,400
and we shot them down. The other thing is this

1079
01:06:38,441 --> 01:06:42,168
went on for 30 years. Yeah. It's 30 years ago

1080
01:06:42,188 --> 01:06:45,017
this happened. Yeah, this is just posturing. They're just getting

1081
01:06:45,077 --> 01:06:47,967
ready, getting ready to take over the place. Well, let's

1082
01:06:48,027 --> 01:06:51,919
listen to the analysis because I have a theory about

1083
01:06:51,980 --> 01:06:57,161
this. Okay. Let's go to analysis one. Next, officials in

1084
01:06:57,201 --> 01:07:00,207
Florida today reacting to the federal indictment of former Cuba

1085
01:07:00,247 --> 01:07:04,075
dictator Raul Castro, saying it will be life-changing for people

1086
01:07:04,175 --> 01:07:07,362
living in Cuba as well as the U.S. NDD's David

1087
01:07:07,402 --> 01:07:10,448
Lam has more on that. Officials in Florida sharing their

1088
01:07:10,488 --> 01:07:14,075
thoughts on the latest developments regarding Cuba after the federal

1089
01:07:14,136 --> 01:07:18,003
indictment of Raul Castro. the former head of Cuba's communist

1090
01:07:18,084 --> 01:07:22,352
regime. Alexander Díaz-Rodríguez is, I think, 45 years old. Look

1091
01:07:22,392 --> 01:07:24,276
how old he looks in this. You know why? He

1092
01:07:24,316 --> 01:07:27,422
was starved. He was tortured. He has cancer. They didn't

1093
01:07:27,442 --> 01:07:30,388
give him treatment. That's the face of the Cuban regime.

1094
01:07:30,949 --> 01:07:34,877
The indictment describes how Fidel Castro, his brother Raúl Castro,

1095
01:07:35,197 --> 01:07:39,585
and others... established a ruthless communist dictatorship in Cuba after

1096
01:07:39,665 --> 01:07:44,953
seizing power in 1959. Secretary of State Marco Rubio addressing

1097
01:07:45,013 --> 01:07:57,424
the Cuban people directly. And currently... The only thing that

1098
01:07:57,444 --> 01:08:01,368
is interposed in the path to a better future They

1099
01:08:01,388 --> 01:08:05,227
are the ones who control their country. Congressman Carlos Jimenez,

1100
01:08:05,428 --> 01:08:09,367
a Cuban-American, says he looks forward to a free Cuba.

1101
01:08:09,947 --> 01:08:15,719
Very happy for today. I was born in Cuba, returned...

1102
01:08:15,727 --> 01:08:18,471
to Guantanamo about a year ago, and I made a

1103
01:08:18,531 --> 01:08:20,935
promise that I would never return to Cuba again unless

1104
01:08:21,015 --> 01:08:23,139
it was free. I believe I'm going to be able

1105
01:08:23,179 --> 01:08:25,182
to keep that promise and I'm going to see a

1106
01:08:25,202 --> 01:08:28,347
free Cuba in the not too distant future. Castro's indictment

1107
01:08:28,467 --> 01:08:31,912
stems from his alleged involvement in Cuba's shooting down of

1108
01:08:32,032 --> 01:08:36,716
two planes belonging to a humanitarian group in 1996. in

1109
01:08:36,777 --> 01:08:40,703
which three American citizens and a U.S. resident were killed.

1110
01:08:41,187 --> 01:08:43,540
And people were swimming across the Florida Strait and the

1111
01:08:43,601 --> 01:08:45,592
Brothers to the Rescue were going out on their own

1112
01:08:45,914 --> 01:08:48,991
to help people get to our shores to escape tyranny.

1113
01:08:50,115 --> 01:08:52,818
And they gave the order, Raul Castro, to shoot them

1114
01:08:52,878 --> 01:08:55,414
down, to shoot them out of the sky. Well, today

1115
01:08:55,435 --> 01:08:58,385
there will be justice. What's the difference between now and

1116
01:08:58,466 --> 01:09:01,536
then is that we have President Trump in the White

1117
01:09:01,576 --> 01:09:09,022
House. That is the big difference. Here's a thought. Two

1118
01:09:09,082 --> 01:09:11,938
things happened this week. Can you be vice president for

1119
01:09:11,978 --> 01:09:15,919
a different president twice? So could J.D. Vance could be?

1120
01:09:15,927 --> 01:09:19,286
Lou Biot's vice president? There's absolutely no reason you can't

1121
01:09:19,327 --> 01:09:22,123
do that. Oh, perfect. This is it. Lou Biot for

1122
01:09:22,183 --> 01:09:27,827
president. And he'll have a huge, huge base behind him.

1123
01:09:28,247 --> 01:09:30,939
And J.D. Vance, you know, we just saw he's great

1124
01:09:31,482 --> 01:09:34,114
at the press conferences, so he'll be vice president slash

1125
01:09:34,475 --> 01:09:40,225
press secretary. Forever. Forever, forever. Yeah. This is positioning. Look

1126
01:09:40,245 --> 01:09:43,768
at the difference. Lubio gets to say what he just

1127
01:09:43,808 --> 01:09:47,309
did? And Vance gets to run the press. It's a

1128
01:09:47,390 --> 01:09:52,617
winning team, man. Let's go. Now we have a CIA

1129
01:09:52,637 --> 01:09:56,342
guy they brought in. Which brings me to my thoughts,

1130
01:09:56,503 --> 01:10:00,411
which I'll, after this second clip of the analysis. And

1131
01:10:00,431 --> 01:10:03,156
joining us to discuss the implications of these charges against

1132
01:10:03,216 --> 01:10:05,922
former dictator and defense minister Raul Castro is Michael Waller.

1133
01:10:06,283 --> 01:10:09,309
He's a former CIA operative and senior analyst for strategy

1134
01:10:09,369 --> 01:10:12,595
at the Center for Security Policy. Michael, today for you

1135
01:10:12,716 --> 01:10:15,723
must be surreal. You've spent your... career in defense, national

1136
01:10:15,764 --> 01:10:19,235
security, and foreign policy development with a specialty on Latin

1137
01:10:19,255 --> 01:10:22,647
America. What is the significance of this May 20th Cuban

1138
01:10:22,667 --> 01:10:26,199
Independence Day with accountability on the horizon for a Castro?

1139
01:10:27,035 --> 01:10:29,390
It's a great day. Raul Castro killed a lot of

1140
01:10:29,431 --> 01:10:32,168
my friends. He had them gunned down across Central America

1141
01:10:32,209 --> 01:10:34,836
and elsewhere, so this is a really... Exciting time to

1142
01:10:34,877 --> 01:10:38,815
see this man finally. brought in for justice in shackles.

1143
01:10:39,907 --> 01:10:43,556
Your response gives me chills. Would you expect Castro to

1144
01:10:43,656 --> 01:10:47,184
turn himself in or perhaps a Maduro style operation? Or

1145
01:10:47,265 --> 01:10:49,330
is he just too old to even be able to

1146
01:10:49,390 --> 01:10:52,337
make that trip back to the U.S. in his mid-90s

1147
01:10:52,377 --> 01:10:55,718
at this point? Well, I think he'd rather die than

1148
01:10:56,261 --> 01:10:58,532
surrender. That's part of his nature, so he'll have to

1149
01:10:58,592 --> 01:11:01,274
just... make a choice or we'll make it for them.

1150
01:11:01,595 --> 01:11:05,142
Just noted today the U.S. Southern Command announced that the

1151
01:11:05,322 --> 01:11:11,495
aircraft carrier Nimitz Strike Group has just entered the Caribbean

1152
01:11:11,555 --> 01:11:13,078
and if you look at the video that they posted

1153
01:11:13,138 --> 01:11:15,504
on X. There's a map of Cuba in the very

1154
01:11:15,564 --> 01:11:19,827
last half second. Okay. Yes, well, this is not unexpected.

1155
01:11:20,887 --> 01:11:24,924
So I think this is Trump. Finally getting around to

1156
01:11:25,146 --> 01:11:28,907
completing the Bay of Pigs operation that Kennedy chickened out

1157
01:11:29,028 --> 01:11:33,019
on. Yeah. It's like, okay, the CIA wanted to do

1158
01:11:32,999 --> 01:11:36,305
take this guy out right away. They couldn't. While the

1159
01:11:36,345 --> 01:11:40,953
getting was good and then Kennedy didn't have the wherewithal.

1160
01:11:40,993 --> 01:11:44,539
He didn't have the, he just didn't like it. And

1161
01:11:44,579 --> 01:11:47,724
he was also part of it. No, man. No, man.

1162
01:11:47,884 --> 01:11:51,074
Israel told him not to. Yeah, it was part of

1163
01:11:51,134 --> 01:11:54,800
that era where people were kind of... soft on communism

1164
01:11:54,820 --> 01:11:58,783
uh and this you know and Castro presented himself kind

1165
01:11:58,823 --> 01:12:02,667
of not as a full-blown communist And so Kennedy couldn't

1166
01:12:02,687 --> 01:12:05,877
pull the trigger. And so they let the thing fail,

1167
01:12:05,937 --> 01:12:10,491
the Bay of Pigs event fail, which it did. And

1168
01:12:10,572 --> 01:12:13,961
it's got to be, it's been a... Thorne and the

1169
01:12:14,322 --> 01:12:19,332
CIA's Paul Eversensen. Trump is fixing it. That's the only

1170
01:12:19,372 --> 01:12:21,236
thing that could be going on. That CIA guy was

1171
01:12:21,316 --> 01:12:24,643
all jacked up talking about it. And he also mentions

1172
01:12:24,683 --> 01:12:28,170
he thinks Raul Castro is still running the country, despite

1173
01:12:28,210 --> 01:12:31,036
the fact that he's retired. And there's some other tidbits.

1174
01:12:31,056 --> 01:12:32,940
I could have gotten three or four more. clips it

1175
01:12:32,980 --> 01:12:35,284
was going to get too boring but i didn't do

1176
01:12:35,365 --> 01:12:38,050
it but the uh i think that's what's going on

1177
01:12:38,110 --> 01:12:42,659
and trump's gonna end up you know besides uh being

1178
01:12:42,699 --> 01:12:45,404
in the quagmire it looks like in iran he's gonna

1179
01:12:45,444 --> 01:12:49,031
fix the cuba situation for good well if this is

1180
01:12:49,111 --> 01:12:52,420
true and i like i like the thesis What other...

1181
01:12:52,523 --> 01:12:55,962
blunders could trump go and fix from the past can

1182
01:12:56,003 --> 01:13:03,966
we finally get the vietcong Viet Cong. There's got to

1183
01:13:04,007 --> 01:13:07,493
be something else he can do. One of these blunders.

1184
01:13:07,533 --> 01:13:10,529
We've had a lot of blunders. Well, he did Panama.

1185
01:13:10,811 --> 01:13:15,017
We got Panama fixed. I guess. I don't hear anything

1186
01:13:15,057 --> 01:13:20,071
else about Panama. He's fixing the Hormuz Straits. No problem.

1187
01:13:20,491 --> 01:13:22,796
And I think he will fix it, and I think

1188
01:13:22,816 --> 01:13:26,617
he will fix it before July 4th. one way or

1189
01:13:26,638 --> 01:13:31,034
the other. He's got the Cuba thing. He's come in

1190
01:13:31,114 --> 01:13:34,188
as the mechanic. that fixes all the screw ups. Here's

1191
01:13:34,228 --> 01:13:38,403
some CBC analysis. Trump declined to say whether the U.S.

1192
01:13:38,503 --> 01:13:42,357
military would conduct an operation to seize Castro, similar to

1193
01:13:42,417 --> 01:13:47,897
what American forces did in Venezuela. when President Nicolas Maduro

1194
01:13:47,938 --> 01:13:50,836
was captured and flown to New York to face drug-related

1195
01:13:50,876 --> 01:13:55,152
charges. The move facilitated a leadership change in Caracas viewed

1196
01:13:55,233 --> 01:13:59,860
as more favorable to Washington and U.S. oil interests. Castro

1197
01:13:59,960 --> 01:14:03,125
will appear in court one way or another, says Todd

1198
01:14:03,145 --> 01:14:06,270
Blanch. This isn't a show indictment. We expect that he

1199
01:14:06,310 --> 01:14:10,056
will show up here by his own will or by

1200
01:14:10,557 --> 01:14:16,556
another way. Thank you. Cuba's president, Miguel Diaz-Canel, is condemning

1201
01:14:16,616 --> 01:14:19,540
the indictment. In a post on social media, he says

1202
01:14:19,600 --> 01:14:23,727
the case against Castro has been fabricated to justify military

1203
01:14:23,787 --> 01:14:28,254
aggression against Cuba. The Cuban leadership is certainly not going

1204
01:14:28,274 --> 01:14:31,219
to just turn him over. Peter Kornbluh is a senior...

1205
01:14:31,227 --> 01:14:34,432
Cuba analyst with a research group in Washington, and he

1206
01:14:34,512 --> 01:14:37,317
predicts tensions are about to rise. I think we're living

1207
01:14:37,377 --> 01:14:40,902
in a very grim moment in which the dark cloud

1208
01:14:41,103 --> 01:14:44,428
of possible U.S. acts of war against Cuba are coming.

1209
01:14:44,708 --> 01:14:47,172
Donald Trump has said many times he built up the

1210
01:14:47,212 --> 01:14:49,877
military in his first term, and now he's going to

1211
01:14:50,057 --> 01:14:52,778
use it in his second term. If the U.S. does

1212
01:14:52,878 --> 01:14:56,306
decide to take action, it won't likely happen quickly, since

1213
01:14:56,386 --> 01:14:59,393
so many resources are already deployed to the Middle East

1214
01:14:59,554 --> 01:15:02,059
for the U.S. war in Iran. That's not even true.

1215
01:15:02,100 --> 01:15:05,487
Didn't the Abraham Lincoln just come back into port? No,

1216
01:15:05,508 --> 01:15:08,154
it was the Nimitz. No, that was the Ford. The

1217
01:15:08,194 --> 01:15:10,888
Ford, yeah, Ford came back. It was also big. Ford's

1218
01:15:10,928 --> 01:15:13,452
not small. Yeah, that was deployed forever. That's the one

1219
01:15:13,472 --> 01:15:15,536
I think that had the bad toilets or something. Yeah,

1220
01:15:15,556 --> 01:15:17,820
for 11 months. They had to park in Greece to

1221
01:15:17,881 --> 01:15:20,465
have them fixed because nobody in Europe would take the

1222
01:15:20,546 --> 01:15:22,549
ship. We're not going to fix that. It really pissed

1223
01:15:22,589 --> 01:15:25,034
everybody. Italy would. No, no, no. Get that thing out

1224
01:15:25,074 --> 01:15:28,828
of here. Especially with the bad toilets, we don't need

1225
01:15:28,869 --> 01:15:33,023
that aggravation. We already have enough toilet issues in Venice.

1226
01:15:33,571 --> 01:15:37,277
Here is the ramp up opportunity. As President Trump publicly

1227
01:15:37,337 --> 01:15:41,104
weighs taking military action in Cuba, the country's president, Miguel

1228
01:15:41,124 --> 01:15:44,550
Diaz-Canel, is warning that doing so would create a, quote,

1229
01:15:44,770 --> 01:15:48,958
bloodbath. In an exclusive, Axios reports that Cuba has acquired

1230
01:15:49,038 --> 01:15:53,343
more than three... military drones and is discussing using them

1231
01:15:53,463 --> 01:15:57,853
to potentially attack the Guantanamo Bay U.S. detention center and

1232
01:15:57,933 --> 01:16:02,163
possibly even parts of the U.S. mainland. White House correspondent

1233
01:16:02,203 --> 01:16:05,490
for Axios, Mark Caputo, joins me now to discuss his

1234
01:16:05,711 --> 01:16:09,419
new reporting and walk us through what you've learned, Mark.

1235
01:16:09,459 --> 01:16:11,492
Well, you sort of set it up pretty well is

1236
01:16:11,512 --> 01:16:17,724
after the toppling of Maduro in Venezuela. Venezuelan intelligence began

1237
01:16:17,804 --> 01:16:21,876
telling the United States that around mid-2023, Cuba had begun

1238
01:16:21,956 --> 01:16:25,407
acquiring drones and had as many as 300, which surprised

1239
01:16:25,427 --> 01:16:28,977
the United States. And recently, according to the intelligence officials

1240
01:16:29,017 --> 01:16:32,769
we spoke to, There were intercepts of chatter, of discussions

1241
01:16:32,910 --> 01:16:36,903
in Cuban military circles of not only buying more drones

1242
01:16:36,963 --> 01:16:42,564
from Russia, but also discussing possibly attacking these targets. Now,

1243
01:16:42,584 --> 01:16:45,720
we are told that there's no imminent threat from Cuba,

1244
01:16:46,242 --> 01:16:50,379
that Cuba was talking about launching these attacks. in case

1245
01:16:50,439 --> 01:16:54,724
hostilities erupted, military hostilities. Yeah, Shahid drones is what I'm

1246
01:16:54,784 --> 01:16:58,232
thinking. So that's the next thing. Oh, they got drones.

1247
01:16:58,717 --> 01:17:03,470
Oh. They got the drones and they can hit Guantanamo.

1248
01:17:03,510 --> 01:17:08,741
They can hit Miami Beach. Well, it's only 90 miles.

1249
01:17:08,903 --> 01:17:10,552
That's what I'm saying. It's a ramp up. This is

1250
01:17:10,594 --> 01:17:17,471
a ramp up. Yeah. Well, that's just maybe they're being

1251
01:17:17,591 --> 01:17:20,758
set up so they can send a drone or it

1252
01:17:20,799 --> 01:17:23,385
could be a false flag, a fake drone. Now we've

1253
01:17:23,425 --> 01:17:26,392
got the notion that they've got the drones. Some drone

1254
01:17:26,452 --> 01:17:29,519
hits Miami Beach. It could be one of our drones.

1255
01:17:29,783 --> 01:17:32,371
A complete false flag. And then we attack Cuba and

1256
01:17:32,452 --> 01:17:36,424
grab Castro and change the government. And then, well, maybe

1257
01:17:36,745 --> 01:17:39,554
could Marco, could he be the president of Cuba? Could

1258
01:17:39,575 --> 01:17:42,570
we give him a gimme? I like that idea. I

1259
01:17:43,702 --> 01:17:47,620
bet he would like it too. Think of the vacation

1260
01:17:47,640 --> 01:17:50,535
destination. I'm so bored of all the islands. The CIA

1261
01:17:50,555 --> 01:17:55,538
guy said that... He claims, I can't verify this, I've

1262
01:17:55,578 --> 01:17:57,602
discussed it with some people, though, to be honest about

1263
01:17:57,662 --> 01:18:02,411
it, that Rubio can speak fluent, perfect Spanish, but he

1264
01:18:02,451 --> 01:18:08,443
spoke, in that speech, he spoke with his Cuban accent.

1265
01:18:09,247 --> 01:18:11,963
So he has a Cuban Spanish, which... According to at

1266
01:18:12,224 --> 01:18:16,727
least one friend of mine who speaks fluent Colombian Spanish.

1267
01:18:17,051 --> 01:18:22,506
Cuban Spanish is like gutter Spanish. It's like talking like

1268
01:18:22,587 --> 01:18:25,274
this when you know you have a funny accent in

1269
01:18:25,294 --> 01:18:27,541
the United States. You talk funny. Are you making fun

1270
01:18:27,581 --> 01:18:32,513
of Texas? No, it's actually not like this. That's different.

1271
01:18:32,733 --> 01:18:36,703
Speaking of Texas, something interesting happened in Houston, which I

1272
01:18:36,783 --> 01:18:42,135
believe is at the very same hospital where our vax

1273
01:18:42,156 --> 01:18:44,926
guy is. What's his name again? The one with the

1274
01:18:44,947 --> 01:18:51,161
glasses? No, yeah, Hotep. Hotep, exactly. It's his hospital. and

1275
01:18:51,181 --> 01:18:55,194
this is what's happened. A controversial settlement over transgender care

1276
01:18:55,234 --> 01:18:58,866
for minors reached today between Texas Children's Hospital and... Hey,

1277
01:18:58,886 --> 01:19:01,474
man, you are really banging your mic a lot. I'm

1278
01:19:01,675 --> 01:19:07,660
moving things around. And I'm hitting the mic by accident.

1279
01:19:07,881 --> 01:19:11,868
I can explain the setup. There's this wire. That I

1280
01:19:11,908 --> 01:19:14,493
keep bumping into and it makes it it makes a

1281
01:19:14,553 --> 01:19:16,476
noise when it when I hit it. Get some gaffer

1282
01:19:16,496 --> 01:19:18,579
tape man lock that down this is a professional podcast.

1283
01:19:18,599 --> 01:19:20,843
I need gaffer's tape. I don't have any here. Here

1284
01:19:20,863 --> 01:19:24,489
we go I'll start over. A controversial settlement over transgender

1285
01:19:24,549 --> 01:19:28,275
care for minors reached today between Texas Children's Hospital in

1286
01:19:28,435 --> 01:19:32,262
Houston and Attorney General Ken Paxton. After years of back

1287
01:19:32,282 --> 01:19:34,767
and forth and the involvement of the U.S. Department of

1288
01:19:34,867 --> 01:19:38,274
Justice, Texas Children's is agreeing to pay $10 million to

1289
01:19:38,494 --> 01:19:41,921
the state, revoke the privileges of several doctors, and create

1290
01:19:41,981 --> 01:19:45,808
what Paxton calls the nation's first detransition clinic. This all

1291
01:19:45,828 --> 01:19:49,576
stems from a 2023 state investigation into allegations that the

1292
01:19:49,636 --> 01:19:54,987
hospital improperly billed Texas Children's. In a statement, Paxton says

1293
01:19:55,067 --> 01:20:12,859
in part, quote, We may have a lot of Muslims,

1294
01:20:12,879 --> 01:20:15,814
but we're stopping this nonsense. Can I ask you a

1295
01:20:15,894 --> 01:20:21,344
question? Yep. Okay, so Trump is ousting Cornyn, who has

1296
01:20:21,525 --> 01:20:25,275
always voted with Trump on all issues, including the big,

1297
01:20:25,295 --> 01:20:27,582
beautiful bill and everything else. And Cornyn has been a

1298
01:20:28,023 --> 01:20:32,891
staunch Republican. you And they're running Ken Paxton, who I

1299
01:20:33,395 --> 01:20:37,947
understand is somewhat controversial within this. boundaries of Texas itself

1300
01:20:38,087 --> 01:20:40,277
for some reason. I think that goes back. We talked

1301
01:20:40,338 --> 01:20:46,219
about this guy before. What's going on? Why is Ken

1302
01:20:46,300 --> 01:20:52,747
Paxton being run against Cornyn? I think because he won't...

1303
01:20:53,359 --> 01:20:59,527
put in anti-ai laws but he's very much i think

1304
01:20:59,547 --> 01:21:04,161
he may he may even be in the In the

1305
01:21:04,445 --> 01:21:11,864
Trump... Faith office? What? I think he's in the office

1306
01:21:11,904 --> 01:21:16,698
of faith. He's one of the people there. Office of

1307
01:21:16,819 --> 01:21:22,102
what? The faith office. There's a faith office. Oh, a

1308
01:21:22,283 --> 01:21:27,218
faith office. Yes, faith. office. So why is he ousting

1309
01:21:27,459 --> 01:21:30,516
Cornyn? Yeah, Cornyn is a shoo-in. Why would you do

1310
01:21:30,617 --> 01:21:35,246
this? Just because of the faith office? I don't think

1311
01:21:35,306 --> 01:21:38,939
so. No, but he is in the White—my point is

1312
01:21:38,959 --> 01:21:41,950
he's in the White House all the time. He's saying,

1313
01:21:41,970 --> 01:21:46,415
look, make me attorney general. I will make sure there's...

1314
01:21:46,435 --> 01:21:49,892
Attorney General, they're making him Senator. Oh, yeah, or he

1315
01:21:49,954 --> 01:21:54,514
is the attorney general. Sorry. Yeah. Hello. Hello. I'm asking

1316
01:21:54,555 --> 01:21:59,019
the wrong guy, apparently. Come on. You have to have

1317
01:21:59,040 --> 01:22:02,625
the answer to this question. You're the Texan. All I

1318
01:22:02,665 --> 01:22:05,797
know is that everybody I know voted for Cornyn. They

1319
01:22:05,837 --> 01:22:09,571
did not vote for Paxton. So that's my Texas beat.

1320
01:22:10,234 --> 01:22:12,801
Why Trump is doing that? is as much a mystery

1321
01:22:12,861 --> 01:22:14,884
to me as it is to you. I'm trying to

1322
01:22:14,964 --> 01:22:17,288
come up with some theories and you're just berating me

1323
01:22:17,328 --> 01:22:19,691
and you need to stop. No, I'm not berating you.

1324
01:22:20,012 --> 01:22:22,676
Yeah, I am. You are. But I'll stop berating you

1325
01:22:22,776 --> 01:22:25,300
once you come up with a theory that's understandable because

1326
01:22:25,460 --> 01:22:28,525
I sure don't get it. And nobody else does. Here's

1327
01:22:28,585 --> 01:22:34,392
what the litany is. The litany is that... Trump is

1328
01:22:34,432 --> 01:22:40,708
that Paxton is the result of the mega base demanding

1329
01:22:40,748 --> 01:22:43,676
that Paxton be put in and Cornyn be kicked out.

1330
01:22:43,696 --> 01:22:45,841
It's got nothing to do with Trump at all. It's

1331
01:22:45,902 --> 01:22:50,087
the mega base. But why? I don't know. You have

1332
01:22:50,835 --> 01:22:53,850
theories. as good as any. Is the MAGA base that

1333
01:22:54,071 --> 01:22:57,726
stupid? No, the MAGA base, which lives in Fredericksburg, is

1334
01:22:57,887 --> 01:23:01,890
voted for Cornyn. Well, there you go. So now even

1335
01:23:01,930 --> 01:23:04,679
that theory doesn't make any sense then. No. So I

1336
01:23:04,759 --> 01:23:06,905
don't know why I'm trying to tell you that he's

1337
01:23:07,106 --> 01:23:09,574
in the president's face all day long because he's in

1338
01:23:09,654 --> 01:23:13,319
the face office. And he's running around there doing all

1339
01:23:13,380 --> 01:23:17,306
kinds of stuff. So, okay, so let me... Think of

1340
01:23:17,815 --> 01:23:22,396
possibly this being it. Because I've worked in organizations where

1341
01:23:22,477 --> 01:23:26,961
you are, like, as a writer, for example. You're not

1342
01:23:27,083 --> 01:23:31,319
in the office. But there's some conniver in the office.

1343
01:23:31,299 --> 01:23:35,710
trying to get your job. Well, there you go. That's

1344
01:23:35,750 --> 01:23:39,089
as good as anything I can come up with. And

1345
01:23:39,129 --> 01:23:41,182
they end up getting your job because you're not in

1346
01:23:41,202 --> 01:23:45,747
the office to defend yourself. Mm-hmm. Yeah. But again... Oh,

1347
01:23:45,767 --> 01:23:49,245
that's terrible. But, yeah. And I am not a... That's

1348
01:23:49,286 --> 01:23:52,867
bad management on Trump's part. I'm not a... Paxton fan.

1349
01:23:52,907 --> 01:23:56,842
Someone's in his ear about Paxton. Nobody likes Paxton. That's

1350
01:23:56,902 --> 01:23:59,652
the reason I think I'm asking this. He seems to

1351
01:23:59,712 --> 01:24:08,887
be disliked by the Texans. Yes. Yeah. Man, there's a,

1352
01:24:09,190 --> 01:24:13,254
I can't tell this story on the air. But, what,

1353
01:24:13,758 --> 01:24:19,775
there's a, he, Paxton came to our church. a couple

1354
01:24:19,816 --> 01:24:24,292
weeks ago. and I can't tell you, but I just

1355
01:24:24,312 --> 01:24:27,184
can't tell you on the air. But I will tell

1356
01:24:27,224 --> 01:24:30,934
you off the air, but there's, I have... We have

1357
01:24:31,016 --> 01:24:34,080
secrets, people. I do. I have reasons to not like

1358
01:24:34,141 --> 01:24:39,385
this guy because he swore me. And... And I think

1359
01:24:39,425 --> 01:24:41,665
you don't even need to meet him to know that.

1360
01:24:41,988 --> 01:24:49,347
He swore me. Swarmy or smarmy? Yeah, both. shmarmy, shwarmy.

1361
01:24:49,735 --> 01:24:53,696
Icky. Swarmy, I think is some sort of soup. Icky.

1362
01:24:54,627 --> 01:24:59,457
Yeah, creepy. Creepy. There you go. Creepy. Creepy, but he

1363
01:24:59,497 --> 01:25:03,956
has a lot of political power. And I don't know

1364
01:25:04,037 --> 01:25:09,055
why, but... Sorry, I've been sworn to secrecy on this

1365
01:25:09,176 --> 01:25:16,363
one. Okay, no problem. It happens. Let me switch topics

1366
01:25:16,383 --> 01:25:20,232
for a second because this is an interesting story. It

1367
01:25:20,934 --> 01:25:24,543
comes across as a problem, and I think it is.

1368
01:25:25,091 --> 01:25:32,482
This is the Trump... blind trust, so-called blind trust. Yeah,

1369
01:25:32,523 --> 01:25:35,356
this is great. Here's MS Now. Okay, I think you're

1370
01:25:35,397 --> 01:25:37,266
going to want to take a deep breath before this

1371
01:25:37,386 --> 01:25:41,680
one because we got President Trump's financial transactions. What? I'm

1372
01:25:41,720 --> 01:25:44,933
taking a deep breath. It's MSNOW. This is how they

1373
01:25:44,973 --> 01:25:48,607
talk. From the beginning. They're doing podcasts on television. This

1374
01:25:48,647 --> 01:25:51,719
year, and it is stunning. His filing with the US.

1375
01:25:51,699 --> 01:25:57,430
show that he has done more than 3,700 stock trades,

1376
01:25:57,831 --> 01:26:01,178
many of those trades with companies that this administration is

1377
01:26:01,218 --> 01:26:03,863
doing business with. And if you're wondering, I don't know,

1378
01:26:04,003 --> 01:26:05,827
I don't trade stocks. Is that a lot? It's a

1379
01:26:05,887 --> 01:26:08,472
lot. Steve Ratner, who you know from Morning Joe, he's

1380
01:26:08,532 --> 01:26:11,699
a professional investor, said in his decades and decades of

1381
01:26:11,719 --> 01:26:14,625
investing, He doesn't think he's done that many trades in

1382
01:26:14,685 --> 01:26:22,540
total. I'm talking Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, Nvidia, just to name

1383
01:26:22,581 --> 01:26:33,483
a few. week alone when he went to China. Who

1384
01:26:33,523 --> 01:26:37,451
was there? Tim Cook, Apple CEO. Jensen Wang, Nvidia CEO.

1385
01:26:37,871 --> 01:26:40,837
And the timing of these trades is raising some major

1386
01:26:40,877 --> 01:26:44,685
red flags. Oh yeah. So here's Rachel Maddow's version of

1387
01:26:44,785 --> 01:26:47,511
it, and then I will give you my best deconstruction.

1388
01:26:48,112 --> 01:26:50,898
Nine days after he buys millions of dollars worth of

1389
01:26:50,958 --> 01:26:54,003
stock in Dell, Trump veers off script in a speech

1390
01:26:54,063 --> 01:26:56,668
in Georgia to tell the crowd literally, quote, go out

1391
01:26:56,729 --> 01:26:59,995
and buy a Dell computer. Then in March, he buys

1392
01:27:00,175 --> 01:27:01,739
up a whole bunch of stock in a company called

1393
01:27:01,879 --> 01:27:06,628
Thermo Fisher. Repeated purchases of Thermo Fisher. Judd Legum at

1394
01:27:06,749 --> 01:27:11,418
Popular Information reports that Trump repeatedly buys up Thermo Fisher

1395
01:27:11,478 --> 01:27:14,691
stock. And then he goes and visits Thermo Fisher on

1396
01:27:14,751 --> 01:27:18,197
a presidential visit. And on this presidential visit to Thermo

1397
01:27:18,217 --> 01:27:22,183
Fisher, he praises the company repeatedly as an incredible company.

1398
01:27:22,444 --> 01:27:25,889
He says, as president, that he wants other pharmaceutical companies

1399
01:27:25,929 --> 01:27:29,215
to start working with Thermo Fisher. He buys their stock,

1400
01:27:29,315 --> 01:27:31,538
and then he goes out and boosts the company as

1401
01:27:31,619 --> 01:27:35,362
president. Judd Legum also notes that that same day, March

1402
01:27:35,382 --> 01:27:38,968
11th, same day as the Thermo Fisher visit. That same

1403
01:27:39,008 --> 01:27:41,537
day, Trump bought hundreds of thousands of dollars of stock

1404
01:27:41,617 --> 01:27:44,427
in Apple. And then that same day he bought the

1405
01:27:44,467 --> 01:27:47,859
stock, he did another event where he singled out Apple.

1406
01:27:48,279 --> 01:27:52,135
And Apple CEO Tim Cook for praise. Apple, a great

1407
01:27:52,175 --> 01:27:56,248
company. Then after that, Trump buys between $50,000 and $100,000

1408
01:27:56,308 --> 01:28:01,849
of Micron stock. Okay? Between $50,000 and $100,000 in Micron

1409
01:28:01,869 --> 01:28:05,159
stock. The very next day, he calls into the Fox

1410
01:28:05,199 --> 01:28:08,288
News channel and tells them, Micron, it's one of the

1411
01:28:08,368 --> 01:28:13,541
hottest companies. Then it's Palantir, CNBC reporting. Trump makes seven

1412
01:28:13,782 --> 01:28:17,269
separate purchases of Palantir stock, hundreds of thousands of dollars

1413
01:28:17,630 --> 01:28:20,696
worth of Palantir stock. Then he gets on True Social

1414
01:28:20,996 --> 01:28:26,568
and praises Palantir, Palantir technologies, great capabilities and equipment. He

1415
01:28:26,708 --> 01:28:31,277
literally even posted the stock ticker abbreviation for Palantir right

1416
01:28:31,357 --> 01:28:34,574
after he bought. hundreds of thousands of dollars of their

1417
01:28:34,614 --> 01:28:38,199
stock and got online to boost it, giving people the

1418
01:28:38,259 --> 01:28:41,063
stock ticker abbreviation to make it easier for them to

1419
01:28:41,123 --> 01:28:44,387
go buy some Palantir to boost the value of the

1420
01:28:44,427 --> 01:28:47,572
stock he just bought before he said this online. Okay.

1421
01:28:47,592 --> 01:28:51,557
So Rachel, of course, gives us no analysis. By the

1422
01:28:51,597 --> 01:28:58,843
way, he's... Buying the stock high. Well, here's my observations.

1423
01:28:58,903 --> 01:29:02,870
First of all, I think it was... Eric Trump who

1424
01:29:02,910 --> 01:29:06,775
said, it's in a blind trust. And it's not. It's

1425
01:29:06,876 --> 01:29:12,032
a revocable trust. And the two Trump brothers are completely

1426
01:29:12,113 --> 01:29:15,364
in charge of it. So they can buy and sell.

1427
01:29:15,384 --> 01:29:18,903
It's not blind. They can do whatever they want. Now.

1428
01:29:19,419 --> 01:29:23,323
You'd have to think they'd be really, really, really, really

1429
01:29:23,383 --> 01:29:27,813
stupid. to be taking insider information. And I agree, if

1430
01:29:27,853 --> 01:29:31,820
you look at the trades. It's not like he's buying

1431
01:29:31,901 --> 01:29:34,263
them at the bottom and then hyping them up. But

1432
01:29:34,324 --> 01:29:41,089
the key is 3,700 trades. That's HFT. They've got an

1433
01:29:41,210 --> 01:29:44,865
algo running. It's high-frequency trading. They're not in charge of

1434
01:29:44,906 --> 01:29:50,094
anything. They're running an algo for this stuff. 3,700 trades?

1435
01:29:50,215 --> 01:29:53,297
Ask Horowitz. I'm sure he'll tell you that has to

1436
01:29:53,357 --> 01:29:57,526
be... high frequency trading. So they're just letting some algo

1437
01:29:57,606 --> 01:30:00,802
run based upon, I don't know, Twitter? That's what you

1438
01:30:00,822 --> 01:30:03,575
do when you have that kind of money. Yes, exactly.

1439
01:30:04,283 --> 01:30:07,194
So they're trying to make it look like there's all

1440
01:30:07,274 --> 01:30:11,027
kinds of insider trading and everything's all wishy-washy, but I

1441
01:30:11,068 --> 01:30:13,597
don't think so. I think they just let an owl

1442
01:30:13,617 --> 01:30:17,174
go run. Because that's what family offices do. I just

1443
01:30:17,214 --> 01:30:19,876
run the algo. And that thing buys and sells a

1444
01:30:19,937 --> 01:30:22,811
hundred times a day. up and down up and down

1445
01:30:22,912 --> 01:30:25,710
taking a couple of pennies in each each direction of

1446
01:30:25,751 --> 01:30:29,486
the trade and that's how it works That's the buried

1447
01:30:29,547 --> 01:30:33,795
lead here. That's not... Very gleeful. I love seeing that.

1448
01:30:33,836 --> 01:30:36,283
I love seeing that. saying that. Jargon. Woo, yeah. But

1449
01:30:36,323 --> 01:30:40,171
then this... Married lead. This story, I think, is a

1450
01:30:40,251 --> 01:30:43,017
problem. We turn now to the dark world of online

1451
01:30:43,057 --> 01:30:47,245
betting markets that allow bets on virtually any news event.

1452
01:30:47,265 --> 01:30:49,610
For a small group of traders, the war with Iran

1453
01:30:49,650 --> 01:30:52,756
has been a windfall. On the night of February 27th,

1454
01:30:52,776 --> 01:30:59,270
16 bets... platform known as Polymarket made $100,000 each for

1455
01:30:59,490 --> 01:31:03,719
accurately predicting when the US would strike Iran. Soon after,

1456
01:31:03,779 --> 01:31:06,986
one trader made over half a million dollars betting that

1457
01:31:07,126 --> 01:31:11,094
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would be toppled moments before he was

1458
01:31:11,134 --> 01:31:15,189
assassinated by Israeli forces. The same surge was seen in

1459
01:31:15,370 --> 01:31:19,136
oil futures trading as well. Right before President Trump announced

1460
01:31:19,196 --> 01:31:22,882
a temporary ceasefire with Iran on March 7th, traders bet

1461
01:31:22,902 --> 01:31:28,090
$950 million that oil prices would drop, which they did.

1462
01:31:28,110 --> 01:31:32,317
On the same day, 50 polymarket accounts placed bets that

1463
01:31:32,337 --> 01:31:36,505
the U.S. and Iran would before Trump announced it on

1464
01:31:36,586 --> 01:31:40,994
social media. Overall, traders have placed over a billion dollars

1465
01:31:41,075 --> 01:31:44,241
in perfectly timed wagers relating to the Iran war. A

1466
01:31:45,022 --> 01:31:48,710
recent analysis by the BBC of online bets placed throughout

1467
01:31:48,790 --> 01:31:52,898
President Trump's second term found a consistent pattern of spikes

1468
01:31:53,079 --> 01:31:57,447
just hours or sometimes minutes before a social media post

1469
01:31:57,547 --> 01:32:01,195
or media statement from President Trump was made public. The

1470
01:32:01,255 --> 01:32:04,742
timing of these bets and the huge windfalls they've created

1471
01:32:04,762 --> 01:32:09,712
are raising concerns of possible insider trading. Prediction markets and

1472
01:32:09,752 --> 01:32:14,261
platforms like PolyMarket and its biggest competitor, Kalshi, are governed

1473
01:32:14,301 --> 01:32:19,071
by the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, or the CFTC. This

1474
01:32:19,171 --> 01:32:22,798
means they can avoid state-level restrictions in place for traditional

1475
01:32:22,838 --> 01:32:26,666
gambling and sports betting today. A growing number of states

1476
01:32:26,766 --> 01:32:29,411
are trying to stop this, but the Trump administration has

1477
01:32:29,532 --> 01:32:32,558
pushed back. Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr., has advised the

1478
01:32:32,578 --> 01:32:34,786
U.S. to stop the trade deal. advisory roles in both

1479
01:32:34,866 --> 01:32:38,120
polymarket and Kalshi. Yeah, he should get off those boards.

1480
01:32:39,305 --> 01:32:44,472
That's a really bad look. I agree. That's a very

1481
01:32:44,554 --> 01:32:48,790
bad look. Yeah, there's some guy, some soldier was busted.

1482
01:32:48,810 --> 01:32:52,926
Yeah. There's been a lot of... Hanky Panky. But this

1483
01:32:52,967 --> 01:32:57,778
whole thing is... Write for it. We've talked about this

1484
01:32:57,818 --> 01:33:01,591
before as a prop bets. Yes. Yeah. But if you're

1485
01:33:01,631 --> 01:33:04,099
the president's son, and I do not think he is

1486
01:33:04,661 --> 01:33:08,132
intellectually the same as the president, you know, he's he's

1487
01:33:08,212 --> 01:33:11,974
swarmy. There it is again. In fact, this is how

1488
01:33:12,096 --> 01:33:15,406
schwarm-y they are. Hold on, where is it? Schwarm-y. Swarmy.

1489
01:33:15,426 --> 01:33:18,743
Swarmy? There's no such word. What is the word? What

1490
01:33:18,783 --> 01:33:23,440
is the word? Swarmy. Swarmy? Yeah. That doesn't sound right.

1491
01:33:23,501 --> 01:33:29,899
Smarmy? Yeah. Smarmy? So finally, this is, I love our.

1492
01:33:30,319 --> 01:33:33,387
I love our MAGA women here, the women of Fredericksburg.

1493
01:33:34,159 --> 01:33:38,260
I know several women. Who had pre-ordered this months and

1494
01:33:38,361 --> 01:33:41,147
months and months ago. They were so excited about getting

1495
01:33:41,208 --> 01:33:45,297
it and finally it's here! Gold casing, a flag stamped

1496
01:33:45,378 --> 01:33:48,626
on the back. This long-awaited T1 phone from Trump Mobile

1497
01:33:48,866 --> 01:33:51,753
is finally here. It was in June last year that

1498
01:33:51,793 --> 01:33:54,901
the president's sons announced a bold new venture. Today we're

1499
01:33:54,941 --> 01:33:58,208
here to introduce Trump Mobile. The phone marketed as a

1500
01:33:58,288 --> 01:34:01,896
patriotic alternative to big tech and promised as an American-made

1501
01:34:01,976 --> 01:34:04,422
phone. Trump Mobile said the phone would be released in

1502
01:34:04,602 --> 01:34:08,270
August. NBC News put down the $100 deposit that same

1503
01:34:08,350 --> 01:34:12,576
month. But nine months passed. with 12 phone calls and

1504
01:34:12,678 --> 01:34:15,868
countless emails to the company. But one day after this

1505
01:34:15,968 --> 01:34:18,657
report last week, here we are in May of 2026

1506
01:34:19,198 --> 01:34:21,325
and there appears to be no sign of it. Someone

1507
01:34:21,385 --> 01:34:23,893
on behalf of Trump Mobile contacted me and said devices

1508
01:34:23,933 --> 01:34:27,283
were going out to the media. Okay, here it is.

1509
01:34:27,303 --> 01:34:32,443
Here is. The long-awaited Trump mobile phone. The phone is

1510
01:34:32,543 --> 01:34:36,073
taller than an iPhone 17 and comes with... 512 gigabytes

1511
01:34:36,113 --> 01:34:40,138
of storage at a relatively cheap $499, which the company

1512
01:34:40,199 --> 01:34:45,145
says is promotional pricing. Truth social. Pre-installed on the phone.

1513
01:34:45,466 --> 01:34:48,270
Like any other phone, it can make calls, send texts,

1514
01:34:48,290 --> 01:34:51,314
have some wide angles, and takes pretty good photos too.

1515
01:34:51,775 --> 01:34:54,819
The phone looks different from how it was originally advertised.

1516
01:34:54,955 --> 01:34:57,200
The original language on the website said the phone would

1517
01:34:57,240 --> 01:35:00,066
be made in the USA, language that has since been

1518
01:35:00,187 --> 01:35:04,235
scrubbed from the website, now saying American Proud Design, with

1519
01:35:04,276 --> 01:35:08,084
an American flag that has only 11 stripes. Experts say

1520
01:35:08,104 --> 01:35:11,191
the phone resembles a phone made in Taiwan. Representatives for

1521
01:35:11,231 --> 01:35:13,416
Trump Mobile did not respond to questions about whether the

1522
01:35:13,476 --> 01:35:15,440
phone is made in the U.S. And the White House

1523
01:35:15,480 --> 01:35:18,085
did not confirm if President Trump himself is using the

1524
01:35:18,145 --> 01:35:21,733
phone bearing his name. It's a piece of crap. I

1525
01:35:21,773 --> 01:35:24,478
love the 11 stripes on the flag. That's my favorite.

1526
01:35:24,859 --> 01:35:27,685
That is that, you know, some dude in China went,

1527
01:35:27,705 --> 01:35:32,634
oh, let's do this. That'll be hilarious. There's no room

1528
01:35:32,675 --> 01:35:34,919
for all these stripes. You can't fit all these stripes.

1529
01:35:34,991 --> 01:35:41,621
And it is a reference of another president's phone. Keep

1530
01:35:41,642 --> 01:35:47,052
on poppin' You know? He gave us... Oh man, what

1531
01:35:47,294 --> 01:35:51,455
a canard this phone is. It's a piece of crap

1532
01:35:51,576 --> 01:35:57,091
Android. It's no good. Ugh. Yeah, but it's gold. I'm

1533
01:35:57,131 --> 01:35:59,786
looking at a picture of it now. It's gold, man.

1534
01:35:59,886 --> 01:36:04,294
It's gold. It looks like every other phone. So we

1535
01:36:04,355 --> 01:36:09,995
miss this. General Patton on the down low, Scott Besant.

1536
01:36:10,639 --> 01:36:16,532
was at the G7 Paris meeting. And he laid down

1537
01:36:16,592 --> 01:36:22,186
the law, man. He is going after terror financing. And

1538
01:36:22,206 --> 01:36:25,836
I had completely missed this, but here's a report about

1539
01:36:25,876 --> 01:36:29,967
it. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Besson called on allies to

1540
01:36:30,027 --> 01:36:35,233
more forcefully disrupt Iran's financing networks and said... The Treasury

1541
01:36:35,273 --> 01:36:39,284
would scrub its sanctions list of outdated designations to make

1542
01:36:39,325 --> 01:36:42,373
it easier for financial institutions to root out the most

1543
01:36:42,413 --> 01:36:48,584
sophisticated terrorist financing schemes. In remarks prepared for delivery at

1544
01:36:48,624 --> 01:36:52,540
an anti-terrorism financing conference after G7 finance leaders met in

1545
01:36:52,640 --> 01:36:57,701
Paris, Besson said that participants needed to stand with us

1546
01:36:57,903 --> 01:37:03,242
in full measure against Iran. Bessence said that will require

1547
01:37:03,302 --> 01:37:06,653
their European partners to join the United States in taking

1548
01:37:06,673 --> 01:37:12,934
action against Iran by designating its financiers, unmasking its shell

1549
01:37:12,995 --> 01:37:17,333
and front companies. shuttering its bank branches and dismantling its

1550
01:37:17,413 --> 01:37:21,421
proxies. As the Trump administration tries to pressure Tehran to

1551
01:37:21,501 --> 01:37:25,289
reopen the Strait of Hormuz to unlock vital oil flows

1552
01:37:25,369 --> 01:37:29,923
disrupted by the U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran, The U.S. Treasury

1553
01:37:29,964 --> 01:37:33,290
has stepped up its sanctions efforts through a program dubbed

1554
01:37:33,915 --> 01:37:39,076
Economic fury. It aims to disrupt Iran's shadow banking networks

1555
01:37:39,738 --> 01:37:42,508
and has frozen nearly half a billion dollars worth of

1556
01:37:42,629 --> 01:37:48,538
cryptocurrency linked to Iran's regime. Most U.S. Treasury sanctions are

1557
01:37:48,599 --> 01:37:52,975
imposed on individuals, companies, and other entities that are added

1558
01:37:53,015 --> 01:37:57,613
to its specially designated designated nationals list. which contains tens

1559
01:37:57,693 --> 01:38:00,498
of thousands of designees that are cut off from the

1560
01:38:00,598 --> 01:38:05,986
dollar-based financial system and see assets frozen. Anyone that transacts

1561
01:38:06,066 --> 01:38:10,774
with designated entities risks being sanctioned themselves. He said the

1562
01:38:10,814 --> 01:38:14,692
most effective sanctions are aggressive and targeted. and those left

1563
01:38:14,752 --> 01:38:18,317
in place too long could create unintended consequences. He said

1564
01:38:18,357 --> 01:38:23,945
the Treasury's approach would maintain agility to maximize effectiveness and

1565
01:38:24,005 --> 01:38:27,890
cited examples of easing sanctions on Syria and Venezuela after

1566
01:38:27,971 --> 01:38:32,437
regime changes as examples of how the Trump administration intends

1567
01:38:32,537 --> 01:38:36,032
to adjust sanctions. So what Besson didn't say, but what

1568
01:38:36,072 --> 01:38:41,437
is in the anti-terrorism document from the White House, I

1569
01:38:41,497 --> 01:38:45,773
believe. is that all of this nonsense, all terrorism, is

1570
01:38:45,974 --> 01:38:50,471
ultimately funded through the Muslim Brotherhood. And we know... Which

1571
01:38:50,532 --> 01:38:54,165
is a creation of the British MI6. Exactly. So if

1572
01:38:54,205 --> 01:38:57,083
you look at the OFAC list, this is the Office

1573
01:38:57,143 --> 01:38:59,960
of Foreign Assets Control, I think it is. What is

1574
01:39:00,040 --> 01:39:03,806
it? OFAC. I think that's what it is. Listen to

1575
01:39:03,846 --> 01:39:07,267
the companies that are on the list and that are

1576
01:39:07,327 --> 01:39:15,993
sanctioned and blocked. Um... We have London. tanker op london

1577
01:39:16,053 --> 01:39:21,865
domiciled tanker operators Science Obedient International Company Limited. These are

1578
01:39:21,905 --> 01:39:29,134
all UK companies. Double in. Global Fortune Shipping Limited. Luna

1579
01:39:29,235 --> 01:39:36,239
Luster, all British companies. Sparkling Courage Limited. UK company. Gala

1580
01:39:36,320 --> 01:39:42,736
Rose, chemical oil tankers, UK company, all UK companies. I

1581
01:39:42,796 --> 01:39:47,295
think this is more significant than people realize. They're cutting

1582
01:39:47,376 --> 01:39:49,960
off these networks, and it all goes back to the

1583
01:39:50,021 --> 01:39:56,523
Brits. All of it. Now I have a question. Mm-hmm?

1584
01:39:57,071 --> 01:40:01,646
In their report, he says they froze crypto. How do

1585
01:40:01,666 --> 01:40:04,716
you freeze crypto? I thought crypto was impossible to freeze.

1586
01:40:04,957 --> 01:40:10,093
Well, that's because they're using a general term. Iran, funny

1587
01:40:10,154 --> 01:40:19,699
enough. had USDT. tether, tether stablecoin, which is completely controllable.

1588
01:40:20,823 --> 01:40:23,332
And that's what he sees. Just click, just lock it

1589
01:40:23,433 --> 01:40:29,398
up. So that's not going to encourage its use. Oh,

1590
01:40:29,559 --> 01:40:31,687
no, but this is not for if you want to

1591
01:40:31,727 --> 01:40:34,056
do something illegal, you go to the to the Mac

1592
01:40:34,076 --> 01:40:36,377
Daddy, you go to a bitch. You don't go to

1593
01:40:36,498 --> 01:40:39,958
Tether. Well, why didn't they go to Bitcoin? Who says

1594
01:40:40,019 --> 01:40:43,403
they didn't? It's very hard to prove. If you ask

1595
01:40:43,443 --> 01:40:46,835
the Bitcoin community, oh yeah, it's all Bitcoin. Okay, I'm

1596
01:40:46,895 --> 01:40:51,431
sure. No, but part of that toll system was stablecoin.

1597
01:40:51,451 --> 01:40:54,000
You remember we had the clip? When they would say,

1598
01:40:54,021 --> 01:40:55,660
"Oh, you gotta come by us." and go through the

1599
01:40:55,700 --> 01:40:58,306
toll and they were charging stable coin, which is really

1600
01:40:58,426 --> 01:41:00,971
easy to get. You know, then you don't have to

1601
01:41:01,011 --> 01:41:04,317
go through a lot of know your customer KYC stuff.

1602
01:41:04,337 --> 01:41:09,127
But I guess the Iranians, the guard didn't think about

1603
01:41:09,167 --> 01:41:11,972
the fact that the general patent on the download could

1604
01:41:12,033 --> 01:41:14,978
just grab that, which is exactly what you can do

1605
01:41:15,079 --> 01:41:18,635
with. Stablecoin. But stablecoin is not for us. Stablecoin is

1606
01:41:18,675 --> 01:41:21,021
for the rest of the world. Stablecoin is for Venezuela,

1607
01:41:21,542 --> 01:41:25,071
for South America. It's going to be for Cuba. It'll

1608
01:41:25,091 --> 01:41:29,568
be for Iran eventually. Anyone who wants to have... an

1609
01:41:29,628 --> 01:41:32,805
American dollar in a digital dollar will be able to

1610
01:41:32,845 --> 01:41:35,398
get stable coin. And then you play along. Otherwise we

1611
01:41:35,419 --> 01:41:40,322
take. your stablecoin I'm under no illusion that's what they're

1612
01:41:40,343 --> 01:41:44,210
doing here. But it's not, I mean, to say it's

1613
01:41:44,291 --> 01:41:53,321
crypto is just dumb reporting. Huh. Yeah. Dumb reporting. Yes,

1614
01:41:53,341 --> 01:41:58,559
go figure. Whoever... thought that would happen. Dumb reporting. Exactly.

1615
01:41:59,363 --> 01:42:03,715
But so if you, so people are saying, you know,

1616
01:42:03,735 --> 01:42:08,408
this war. is not good for America. I disagree. I

1617
01:42:08,448 --> 01:42:11,378
think it's good to shut down all of this financing.

1618
01:42:11,398 --> 01:42:14,047
Look, all the shipping is run out of the UK.

1619
01:42:14,435 --> 01:42:16,479
Screw that. We should be running that. I don't know

1620
01:42:16,520 --> 01:42:17,978
if we're good at it, but we're going to find

1621
01:42:18,119 --> 01:42:22,263
out. I heard from a guy yesterday that I met.

1622
01:42:22,715 --> 01:42:25,609
I thought Lloyd's of London was just like one building

1623
01:42:25,669 --> 01:42:28,503
and a whole bunch of people writing up insurance policies.

1624
01:42:29,147 --> 01:42:32,218
That's not true. It's a trading floor. Did you know

1625
01:42:32,258 --> 01:42:35,319
this? I always thought it was. Yeah, it's a trading...

1626
01:42:35,299 --> 01:42:37,824
floor and it's always been that way there's a movie

1627
01:42:37,904 --> 01:42:40,088
about it oh what is the movie i'd love to

1628
01:42:40,128 --> 01:42:42,814
see that i think it's called lloyds of london it

1629
01:42:42,834 --> 01:42:45,198
was like done in the 30s or i think and

1630
01:42:45,238 --> 01:42:48,625
they have all these different reinsurers all with little booths

1631
01:42:48,785 --> 01:42:51,791
on this trading floor and they're all bidding it's like

1632
01:42:51,811 --> 01:42:54,276
a stock market yeah yeah i didn't realize that i

1633
01:42:54,296 --> 01:42:56,645
thought it was just one big company that rights insurance

1634
01:42:56,686 --> 01:42:59,768
policies or reinsurance. That's why people like, you know, every

1635
01:42:59,809 --> 01:43:02,993
so often you'd have Rod Stewart. You know, or some

1636
01:43:03,194 --> 01:43:08,772
famous person being the underwriter for some insurance policy because

1637
01:43:08,813 --> 01:43:12,987
they did the trade to get it. Oh. Oh, that's

1638
01:43:13,048 --> 01:43:20,188
interesting. I didn't know that. I like it. What else

1639
01:43:20,208 --> 01:43:24,980
you got? I mean... Well, Putin went to China. I

1640
01:43:25,000 --> 01:43:26,894
guess I got those clips. Well, of course he went

1641
01:43:26,934 --> 01:43:31,233
to China because this is the arc. America, Russia, China,

1642
01:43:31,314 --> 01:43:33,916
we're gearing up to kill the old world order, the

1643
01:43:33,956 --> 01:43:40,350
dying world order, man. I do want to play, we

1644
01:43:40,450 --> 01:43:41,993
need to play that, but I also want to play

1645
01:43:42,033 --> 01:43:45,760
the China listening devices clip. Okay, here we go. Before

1646
01:43:45,780 --> 01:43:49,106
a single American boarded Air Force One to leave Beijing,

1647
01:43:49,507 --> 01:43:52,192
staff lined up at the door with trash bins, and

1648
01:43:52,352 --> 01:43:55,918
everything China had given the U.S. delegation went straight into

1649
01:43:55,959 --> 01:44:01,649
them. Credentials, burner phones, delegation pins, lanyards, anything and everything

1650
01:44:01,669 --> 01:44:04,876
handed out by Chinese officials during the summit. A pool

1651
01:44:04,916 --> 01:44:07,581
reporter on the scene watched it happen in real time

1652
01:44:07,862 --> 01:44:10,808
and reported, nothing from China was allowed on the plane.

1653
01:44:11,128 --> 01:44:13,573
Not a phone, not a pin, not a piece of

1654
01:44:13,633 --> 01:44:16,719
paper. Let that image sink in for a moment. The

1655
01:44:16,759 --> 01:44:19,806
most powerful delegation in the world just spent days in

1656
01:44:19,866 --> 01:44:24,355
Beijing negotiating hundreds of billions of dollars in deals, smiling

1657
01:44:24,395 --> 01:44:27,882
for cameras, shaking hands, sitting across the table from Xi

1658
01:44:27,902 --> 01:44:31,489
Jinping. And the moment it was over, every single item

1659
01:44:31,610 --> 01:44:34,576
China had touched went into a trash bin on the

1660
01:44:34,636 --> 01:44:38,707
tarmac. This is not. an accident. This is not over

1661
01:44:38,767 --> 01:44:42,253
caution. This is the United States government operating on a

1662
01:44:42,353 --> 01:44:46,080
doctrine that has been earned through decades of documented Chinese

1663
01:44:46,200 --> 01:44:50,648
espionage. We already reported how the entire delegation arrived with

1664
01:44:50,728 --> 01:44:55,796
burner devices, no personal phones, no personal laptops. We reported

1665
01:44:55,877 --> 01:44:59,951
how U.S. federal guidelines prohibited plugging into any Chinese USB

1666
01:45:00,011 --> 01:45:04,138
port or charging station. We reported how every Wi-Fi network

1667
01:45:04,198 --> 01:45:08,084
in China was treated as compromised. Now we know the

1668
01:45:08,124 --> 01:45:10,789
protocols held all the way to the last second on

1669
01:45:10,869 --> 01:45:14,695
Chinese soil because here is what China does. They embed

1670
01:45:14,775 --> 01:45:19,274
tracking technology in delegation pins. They install malware on phones

1671
01:45:19,354 --> 01:45:22,959
through standard charging cables. They use hotel room key cards

1672
01:45:23,019 --> 01:45:26,784
with embedded chips to map movement patterns. They slip listening

1673
01:45:26,844 --> 01:45:30,790
devices into gift bags and commemorative items. They have turned

1674
01:45:30,830 --> 01:45:35,977
ordinary objects into intelligence collection tools so effectively that American

1675
01:45:35,997 --> 01:45:41,230
counterintelligence agencies... treat every Chinese origin item as a potential

1676
01:45:41,311 --> 01:45:46,367
threat by default. Yeah. That's what I'd do. Yeah, this

1677
01:45:46,428 --> 01:45:51,399
is why Megyn Kelly hates China so much. Did they

1678
01:45:51,480 --> 01:45:56,215
spite on her? No, but she and, what's his face?

1679
01:45:57,391 --> 01:46:01,301
Uh, Glenn Greenwald. We're going on and on and on

1680
01:46:01,342 --> 01:46:03,953
and on and on. about uh here i have the

1681
01:46:03,993 --> 01:46:07,708
clip as far as the students it's 500 000 students

1682
01:46:07,789 --> 01:46:14,483
they come good students I could tell them... I don't

1683
01:46:14,523 --> 01:46:18,662
want any students. It's very insulting. thing to say to

1684
01:46:18,722 --> 01:46:22,310
a country. They would then immediately go out and start

1685
01:46:22,330 --> 01:46:26,179
building universities all over China. I frankly think that it's

1686
01:46:26,219 --> 01:46:28,925
good that people come from other countries and they learn

1687
01:46:28,985 --> 01:46:31,471
our culture and many of them want to stay here.

1688
01:46:31,827 --> 01:46:38,140
Ugh. Glenn. Glenn. Who wants that? Literally, what American? once.

1689
01:46:38,762 --> 01:46:42,791
It was 300,000 Chinese students like two months ago. Now

1690
01:46:42,831 --> 01:46:45,858
it's 500,000. And he goes on to say many of

1691
01:46:45,918 --> 01:46:48,344
them will stay here. We don't want that either. We

1692
01:46:48,364 --> 01:46:50,449
don't want them taking up our university slots at our

1693
01:46:50,509 --> 01:46:53,416
most prestigious universities. And we definitely don't want them staying,

1694
01:46:53,757 --> 01:46:57,321
nor do we want them buying up American farmland. Well...

1695
01:46:57,299 --> 01:47:00,690
There are some Americans who actually do want that, particularly

1696
01:47:00,710 --> 01:47:04,020
Wall Street and the corporate community. They love the right.

1697
01:47:04,301 --> 01:47:06,187
They're in bed with the Chinese and always have been.

1698
01:47:07,855 --> 01:47:11,231
They were going on and on. What? I said please.

1699
01:47:11,271 --> 01:47:14,406
Yeah, on and on and on about the Chinese. When

1700
01:47:14,526 --> 01:47:17,178
I was a kid, and I went to Cal Berkeley,

1701
01:47:17,198 --> 01:47:19,248
they played was filled with Chinese back then. That was

1702
01:47:19,329 --> 01:47:24,896
before the Chinese took over the place. Yeah. And bully

1703
01:47:24,936 --> 01:47:28,574
for them. Because the jobs are not going to be

1704
01:47:28,614 --> 01:47:31,599
in university. You're not going to need a piece of.

1705
01:47:32,115 --> 01:47:40,184
paper to get a really good job anymore. How are

1706
01:47:40,204 --> 01:47:42,709
you going to get a good job? Well, I will

1707
01:47:43,090 --> 01:48:01,314
give you an idea. He's from CNBC. that the company

1708
01:48:01,354 --> 01:48:11,671
needs more workers like Kyson. that's going to be essential

1709
01:48:11,771 --> 01:48:18,363
to the AI generation. three years that are the front

1710
01:48:18,563 --> 01:48:21,209
side of this, trying to make sure everybody's connected and

1711
01:48:21,309 --> 01:48:25,036
has access to our fiber and wireless networks. We'll do

1712
01:48:25,096 --> 01:48:27,441
a 3,000 this year. We find that we've got to

1713
01:48:27,481 --> 01:48:29,545
go out and find them, train them, and send them

1714
01:48:29,605 --> 01:48:31,750
to come in. It's not like we're growing them on

1715
01:48:31,830 --> 01:48:34,275
trees in the United States. It sounds like you're saying

1716
01:48:34,315 --> 01:48:37,601
there's sort of a misalignment between what... the structure is

1717
01:48:37,762 --> 01:48:42,050
to provide and train employees and what business, especially AT&T,

1718
01:48:42,090 --> 01:48:45,236
needs. Yeah, I probably have a point of view personally

1719
01:48:45,316 --> 01:48:48,081
that as a society and within the United States, we

1720
01:48:48,101 --> 01:48:51,889
put a huge premium in value socially on a college

1721
01:48:51,949 --> 01:48:56,357
degree, and yet we're short HVAC repair people, we're short

1722
01:48:56,437 --> 01:48:59,600
electricians. technicians that can go in and work on fiber

1723
01:48:59,640 --> 01:49:02,210
like we talk about, we maybe have missed the mark

1724
01:49:02,270 --> 01:49:04,740
in some places. Now listen to your Uncle Adam and

1725
01:49:04,780 --> 01:49:10,316
Uncle John. Don't go to college. Whatever you do, don't

1726
01:49:10,356 --> 01:49:12,323
go to college is another clip. So when you got

1727
01:49:12,343 --> 01:49:14,651
to college, what made you realize that it wasn't working?

1728
01:49:14,671 --> 01:49:17,019
Oh, there's some kid who dropped out. Smart. Not for

1729
01:49:17,039 --> 01:49:20,473
you. Oh, I was miserable. Kyson graduated high school with

1730
01:49:20,533 --> 01:49:24,840
a 3.89 GPA. Graduated from high school. Way to go.

1731
01:49:25,341 --> 01:49:28,245
Oh, you're getting good grades. Go to school. He immediately

1732
01:49:28,265 --> 01:49:31,110
enrolled at Wright State University and planned to study either

1733
01:49:31,210 --> 01:49:33,914
math or engineering. I wanted to work with my hands,

1734
01:49:34,054 --> 01:49:37,219
but it was hard because I did get good grades.

1735
01:49:37,199 --> 01:49:40,579
expected to go to school. Once I started college, I

1736
01:49:40,619 --> 01:49:43,617
was like, this is not for me. After about three

1737
01:49:43,637 --> 01:49:46,486
semesters, he dropped out. I was in the same four

1738
01:49:46,526 --> 01:49:49,074
walls every day. Did not want to be there. I

1739
01:49:49,114 --> 01:49:52,023
wanted more for myself. I was hungry to start life,

1740
01:49:52,043 --> 01:49:54,811
and I felt like I was extremely stagnant. I was

1741
01:49:54,892 --> 01:49:57,580
in accounting. I loved my professor. I really do. I

1742
01:49:57,600 --> 01:49:59,824
mean, looking back, I feel bad, but there was a

1743
01:49:59,884 --> 01:50:01,888
guy that was sitting behind me and we had just

1744
01:50:01,948 --> 01:50:04,333
finished a midterm in the other class. We both were

1745
01:50:04,353 --> 01:50:07,198
like miserable. I was like, you ready for accounting? He

1746
01:50:07,238 --> 01:50:10,124
said, nope, I'm going to get lunch. And I had

1747
01:50:10,244 --> 01:50:13,731
never, ever, ever skipped class. And I said, you know

1748
01:50:13,771 --> 01:50:16,416
what? I'm getting lunch with you. And I knew I

1749
01:50:16,456 --> 01:50:19,457
was like, my priority is not. The boy. After Kyson

1750
01:50:19,497 --> 01:50:23,406
left college, he worked a mix of odd jobs. Retail,

1751
01:50:23,506 --> 01:50:27,375
coaching wrestling, laying solar panels, and he even rode bulls

1752
01:50:27,415 --> 01:50:29,320
for a little while. I woke up one morning and

1753
01:50:29,400 --> 01:50:32,467
said, I'm spending so many hours working and I'm not

1754
01:50:32,567 --> 01:50:35,735
making enough and I wanted a career. I wanted to

1755
01:50:35,895 --> 01:50:37,479
be somewhere where I could be a part of the

1756
01:50:37,499 --> 01:50:40,745
world. could move up in the company. AT&T was familiar

1757
01:50:40,785 --> 01:50:43,992
to Kyson because his dad and grandfather worked there. But

1758
01:50:44,012 --> 01:50:46,958
when he applied, he didn't tell his father. It's pride.

1759
01:50:47,679 --> 01:50:50,805
Pride. I didn't want any strings pulled. I wanted my

1760
01:50:50,866 --> 01:50:53,270
voice to speak for itself. I didn't want to be

1761
01:50:53,330 --> 01:50:55,876
Jason's son or Cook's boy. I wanted to be Kyson.

1762
01:50:56,497 --> 01:50:59,225
I think it was a job. program for AT&T. They

1763
01:50:59,265 --> 01:51:04,142
bought time on CNBC. But there's hundreds of thousands of

1764
01:51:04,242 --> 01:51:08,182
jobs that are going to go unfilled. And let all

1765
01:51:08,222 --> 01:51:12,919
the Chinese go to the universities. It's fine. And the

1766
01:51:13,000 --> 01:51:16,767
universities don't seem too high on AI these days either.

1767
01:51:16,787 --> 01:51:21,035
You've heard the commencement speeches. No, I have not heard

1768
01:51:21,055 --> 01:51:23,804
the commencement speech. I usually don't listen to that. Here's

1769
01:51:23,924 --> 01:51:26,212
Gloria. Well, there's a lot of them. And I'm still

1770
01:51:26,252 --> 01:51:28,479
waiting to do a commencement speech so I can become

1771
01:51:28,539 --> 01:51:32,130
an honorary professor. I mean, they don't give you that.

1772
01:51:32,653 --> 01:51:34,621
They don't make you honorary professors. They give you a

1773
01:51:35,204 --> 01:51:38,519
fake PhD. But you can get that from the show.

1774
01:51:38,499 --> 01:51:40,543
If you wait long enough. You can get it from

1775
01:51:40,603 --> 01:51:44,391
no agenda. Who needs to go to college? Gloria Caulfield

1776
01:51:44,471 --> 01:51:48,720
is a real estate person in Florida. She spoke at

1777
01:51:48,941 --> 01:51:56,076
UCF. The rise of artificial intelligence is the next industrial

1778
01:51:56,156 --> 01:52:14,907
revolution. you Boo! Boo! Let's do it. - Polar topic

1779
01:52:14,967 --> 01:52:17,672
here, I see. - Yes, she got booed, and then--

1780
01:52:17,692 --> 01:52:19,873
- There was somebody else-- got booed off the stage

1781
01:52:19,893 --> 01:52:23,514
recently. Eric Schmidt. Yeah, it was Eric Schmidt. He did

1782
01:52:23,574 --> 01:52:25,577
the same, pulled the same stunt. Here it is. Last

1783
01:52:25,638 --> 01:52:29,905
December, Time magazine selected its person of the year for

1784
01:52:29,925 --> 01:52:33,411
2025. And it was this time, it was the architects

1785
01:52:33,491 --> 01:52:43,602
of artificial intelligence. Interesting. So today we stand on this

1786
01:52:43,883 --> 01:52:48,860
edge of another technological transformation, one that will be larger,

1787
01:52:49,342 --> 01:52:54,203
faster, and more consequential than what came before. It will

1788
01:52:54,284 --> 01:53:00,465
touch every profession, every classroom, every hospital. Every laboratory, every

1789
01:53:00,546 --> 01:53:05,220
person, and every relationship you have. I know what many

1790
01:53:05,281 --> 01:53:07,394
of you are feeling about that. I can hear you.

1791
01:53:08,320 --> 01:53:15,290
There is a fear. People were walking out on him,

1792
01:53:15,733 --> 01:53:19,797
which he's not used to. That dude, he's not used

1793
01:53:19,817 --> 01:53:25,278
to that. you um Kurt Schmidt's done okay for himself.

1794
01:53:25,640 --> 01:53:28,412
Oh, he's done very well for himself. He's fantastic. I

1795
01:53:28,452 --> 01:53:32,660
mean, I knew him when he was at Novell. And,

1796
01:53:32,681 --> 01:53:37,720
uh... He was, uh... Just a day, he was a...

1797
01:53:37,699 --> 01:53:40,893
You know, he's really his personality's changed quite a bit

1798
01:53:40,953 --> 01:53:43,404
his looks changed. I think he did some work done.

1799
01:53:43,444 --> 01:53:47,912
Hmm Didn't he get a really young girlfriend slash wife?

1800
01:53:47,992 --> 01:53:50,840
He has a girlfriend and he's still married. He's one

1801
01:53:50,880 --> 01:53:52,805
of those guys who can pull that off. I don't

1802
01:53:52,886 --> 01:53:55,473
know how he did that. Magic. Magic. So he's obviously

1803
01:53:55,533 --> 01:53:59,536
a sales guy underneath it all. Baby, this is good

1804
01:53:59,596 --> 01:54:03,755
for you. Trust me, this is good for you. So

1805
01:54:03,796 --> 01:54:09,560
then we had... Google I-O. The big presentation, Google I/O.

1806
01:54:10,102 --> 01:54:12,933
And Google has seen the light. Google is going to

1807
01:54:12,994 --> 01:54:16,700
create their own version of Claude Bot. But it doesn't

1808
01:54:16,761 --> 01:54:19,403
run on your computer. No, no, no. It runs on

1809
01:54:19,523 --> 01:54:21,408
Google Cloud. I got a couple of clips. This is

1810
01:54:21,468 --> 01:54:25,057
too funny. Particularly excited for what we are bringing right

1811
01:54:25,097 --> 01:54:26,781
into the Gemini app. Hey, if we're going to get

1812
01:54:26,821 --> 01:54:29,889
rid of Indians, start with this guy. Particularly excited for

1813
01:54:29,929 --> 01:54:33,894
what we are bringing right into the Gemini app. Introducing

1814
01:54:33,934 --> 01:54:40,784
Gemini Spark. Spark! It's your pfft. man you used to

1815
01:54:40,844 --> 01:54:42,976
be a tech reporter this should be exciting to you

1816
01:54:43,398 --> 01:54:47,233
it's gemini spark I was always the tech reporter who

1817
01:54:47,273 --> 01:54:51,902
was skeptical. Well, I'm with you on this. It's your

1818
01:54:51,982 --> 01:54:55,686
personal AI agent that helps you navigate your digital life.

1819
01:54:56,450 --> 01:54:59,884
Huh? Oh, please. What do you think it does when

1820
01:54:59,904 --> 01:55:01,869
it helps you navigate your digital life? Oh, it probably

1821
01:55:01,969 --> 01:55:04,174
sets your calendar, wakes you up in the morning, and

1822
01:55:04,555 --> 01:55:07,743
it looks at your to-do list and then makes another

1823
01:55:07,783 --> 01:55:10,590
list for you that you won't get done. And then

1824
01:55:10,670 --> 01:55:12,394
it tells you that you have an appointment at 2

1825
01:55:12,514 --> 01:55:18,116
o'clock. On your behalf and under your direction. It runs

1826
01:55:18,217 --> 01:55:23,215
on dedicated virtual machines on Google Cloud. And it's 24/7.

1827
01:55:23,603 --> 01:55:26,771
And yes, you can close your laptop. Thanks, Sundar. It's

1828
01:55:26,811 --> 01:55:29,097
great to see everyone. And let me show you how

1829
01:55:29,137 --> 01:55:33,208
Spark works. Oh, get ready, John. Email your chats and

1830
01:55:33,268 --> 01:55:37,318
grabs the most important information that you need to by

1831
01:55:37,378 --> 01:55:39,786
step. Look at all these steps, all the time it

1832
01:55:39,886 --> 01:55:43,236
saves you going through. And again, work across the various

1833
01:55:43,296 --> 01:55:45,804
skills. You can see it creates right in Google Slides,

1834
01:55:46,365 --> 01:55:48,853
perfectly integrated. And you can see it even pulls in

1835
01:55:48,913 --> 01:55:51,300
things like our giant bounce house that's going to be

1836
01:55:51,341 --> 01:55:54,813
in the cul-de-sac. Now all of this is happening... The

1837
01:55:54,894 --> 01:55:59,969
bounce house? Yeah, this is... You caught it. So. The

1838
01:56:00,154 --> 01:56:05,395
AI. Google Spark is so smart, it's going to do

1839
01:56:05,455 --> 01:56:08,263
something very important with your bounce house that you have

1840
01:56:08,363 --> 01:56:10,890
planned for your backyard. - In the cul-de-sac. - In

1841
01:56:10,930 --> 01:56:13,578
the cul-de-sac. - Pulls in things like our giant bounce

1842
01:56:13,618 --> 01:56:16,715
house that's gonna be in the cul-de-sac. Now, all of

1843
01:56:16,817 --> 01:56:20,300
this is happening. in the background and under my control.

1844
01:56:20,801 --> 01:56:22,685
And what's amazing is Jim and I can even go

1845
01:56:22,745 --> 01:56:26,153
a step further and pull out things like your neighborhood

1846
01:56:26,253 --> 01:56:29,961
homeowners association won't let you set this up before Friday

1847
01:56:30,062 --> 01:56:32,888
afternoon at June 5th. That's pulling from a file in

1848
01:56:32,908 --> 01:56:36,396
my Google Drive. So it's incredibly helpful about how it

1849
01:56:37,478 --> 01:56:41,429
pulls it all together. This is perhaps the lamest example

1850
01:56:41,469 --> 01:56:44,598
you could ever come up with. Because we all live

1851
01:56:44,658 --> 01:56:47,366
on the cul-de-sac and we all have a giant bounce

1852
01:56:47,406 --> 01:56:51,601
house. And we all have a homeowners association that won't

1853
01:56:51,641 --> 01:56:54,630
let you set up a bounce house until 5 o'clock.

1854
01:56:54,670 --> 01:56:57,919
You need to move out of that homeowners association neighborhood.

1855
01:56:57,959 --> 01:57:02,288
But here's a more practical example. And Spark is amazing

1856
01:57:02,308 --> 01:57:05,514
at just brain dumping things on your mind. If you're

1857
01:57:05,534 --> 01:57:08,460
super busy, it's almost you can just throw tasks over

1858
01:57:08,500 --> 01:57:11,446
your shoulder. Super busy, man. You can throw stuff over

1859
01:57:11,506 --> 01:57:13,891
your shoulder, I'm telling you. Listen to this. If you're

1860
01:57:13,931 --> 01:57:16,837
super busy, it's almost you can just throw tasks over

1861
01:57:16,877 --> 01:57:20,245
your shoulder. Sparkle, catch them and then run with them.

1862
01:57:20,346 --> 01:57:24,332
Okay. So watch this. Watch. Start a few threads for

1863
01:57:24,393 --> 01:57:27,164
me. The first one, find all the upcoming meetings with

1864
01:57:27,265 --> 01:57:29,977
Sundar and turn them all hot pink so I don't

1865
01:57:30,037 --> 01:57:32,757
miss them. The second one, last night I met our

1866
01:57:32,797 --> 01:57:34,886
new neighbor, John. Write a note to him and his

1867
01:57:34,967 --> 01:57:37,317
family. Invite them to our block party because they weren't

1868
01:57:37,357 --> 01:57:40,897
on our list. originally. The third one, create a document

1869
01:57:40,917 --> 01:57:42,811
with the top things my wife and I need to

1870
01:57:42,851 --> 01:57:44,724
do for the kids before the end of the school

1871
01:57:44,745 --> 01:57:48,709
year. Categorize it by deadline and priority. Make it easy

1872
01:57:48,770 --> 01:57:53,066
to digest. I don't want to miss anything. All right,

1873
01:57:53,086 --> 01:57:54,756
so we'll send that in. And you can see at

1874
01:57:54,978 --> 01:57:58,319
the speed of my voice, it's taking that one task.

1875
01:57:58,615 --> 01:58:01,526
And it will capture all of that context as fast

1876
01:58:01,587 --> 01:58:04,283
as I can talk. It starts out as a single

1877
01:58:04,323 --> 01:58:06,456
thread here, and in the background, it's actually going to

1878
01:58:06,497 --> 01:58:10,321
go through and break those down into individual tasks. Now

1879
01:58:10,904 --> 01:58:12,793
I can just put my phone away and get on

1880
01:58:12,833 --> 01:58:15,908
with my day. And Spark works in the background for

1881
01:58:15,968 --> 01:58:18,319
me. We'll check in later and see how it's doing.

1882
01:58:18,299 --> 01:58:23,918
Wow. How do you check in? I don't know, but

1883
01:58:23,938 --> 01:58:25,300
it's going to happen later. Yes. Wonderful. Wonderful. You can

1884
01:58:25,360 --> 01:58:27,443
see, this is one of the first times we've been

1885
01:58:27,463 --> 01:58:28,946
able to put a phone down and let it keep

1886
01:58:29,006 --> 01:58:32,731
working on the IOS stage. It's great. Because we're prioritizing

1887
01:58:32,751 --> 01:58:34,975
safety, we're rolling. It's in the cloud. It's not on

1888
01:58:34,995 --> 01:58:37,238
the phone. No, it's in the cloud. It's in the

1889
01:58:37,258 --> 01:58:39,124
cloud, so it's... So you put your phone down, you

1890
01:58:39,164 --> 01:58:40,750
didn't put your phone down, you hit the phone with

1891
01:58:40,830 --> 01:58:43,239
a hammer, doesn't make any difference. That's right. It's working

1892
01:58:43,299 --> 01:58:44,905
in the cloud. It's in the cloud. Who are they

1893
01:58:44,925 --> 01:58:49,610
kidding? Oh, you got to put your phone down. Now

1894
01:58:49,711 --> 01:58:51,743
listen to what this is going to cost. In the

1895
01:58:51,823 --> 01:58:54,499
future, you'll be able to create new docs and edit

1896
01:58:54,539 --> 01:58:58,169
them directly, all with your voice. Doc's Live is rolling

1897
01:58:58,250 --> 01:59:01,377
out for pro and ultra subscribers this summer. and the

1898
01:59:01,458 --> 01:59:04,776
same powerful voice capabilities will come to Gmail and Google

1899
01:59:04,796 --> 01:59:11,727
Keep then too. *Growls* incredible to see the pace of

1900
01:59:11,807 --> 01:59:16,620
innovation rolling out across our products. Supporting all of this

1901
01:59:16,627 --> 01:59:20,353
scale for our users while also serving enterprises and developers

1902
01:59:20,414 --> 01:59:25,328
around the world. requires massive investments in infrastructure. And we've

1903
01:59:25,348 --> 01:59:28,775
been investing for today and for the future. In 2022,

1904
01:59:28,856 --> 01:59:33,563
we were spending $31 billion annually in CapEx. This year

1905
01:59:33,583 --> 01:59:36,519
we expect that number to be about six times that.

1906
01:59:36,943 --> 01:59:46,570
Approximately 180 to 190 billion dollars. Whoa! Whoa! $190 billion

1907
01:59:46,832 --> 01:59:54,346
on turning your emails pink in the cloud. This doesn't

1908
01:59:54,427 --> 01:59:59,435
seem right. Right. Doesn't seem right. This is not the

1909
01:59:59,495 --> 02:00:02,406
future of computing. I can tell you that right now.

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02:00:02,768 --> 02:00:05,177
That's not how it's going to go down. Not with

1911
02:00:05,197 --> 02:00:12,366
that kind of money. That is insane. Anyway. It's all

1912
02:00:12,386 --> 02:00:14,366
gonna be on your- Well, you know, you- I'm gonna

1913
02:00:14,406 --> 02:00:16,742
give you a borderline clip of the- day for having

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02:00:16,782 --> 02:00:22,260
that insanity on here. Thank you. You want to do

1915
02:00:22,280 --> 02:00:26,720
something before we thank some people? Well, let me see

1916
02:00:26,741 --> 02:00:30,347
if I got one last clip here. uh the putin

1917
02:00:30,407 --> 02:00:35,620
clips but there's nothing really important there uh The slush.

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02:00:35,599 --> 02:00:39,552
fun clips, that's always good for a laugh. Elon Musk

1919
02:00:39,632 --> 02:00:42,602
lost the lawsuit. I'm just wrapping things up here for

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02:00:42,683 --> 02:00:47,076
people. The slush fund clip, I like that because... First

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02:00:47,137 --> 02:00:50,575
of all, everyone's categorizing it as a slush fund for

1922
02:00:50,655 --> 02:00:57,157
Trump's allies. It's a very interesting deal that the president

1923
02:00:57,197 --> 02:01:01,334
made with himself by setting up by saying okay i'll

1924
02:01:01,394 --> 02:01:05,069
drop my 10 billion dollar lawsuit for the irs spying

1925
02:01:05,209 --> 02:01:10,479
on me which arguably is a big deal that they

1926
02:01:10,600 --> 02:01:15,900
spied or they released his documents. Yeah, it was. I

1927
02:01:15,920 --> 02:01:18,991
mean, that's a huge deal. I mean, I wish it

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02:01:19,011 --> 02:01:20,436
had happened to me. I don't know if I'd get

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02:01:20,456 --> 02:01:22,483
$10 billion, but you'd get something out of it if

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02:01:22,684 --> 02:01:26,748
you have suits and boots on the case. And then

1931
02:01:26,788 --> 02:01:28,855
he turns around and says, well, I'll do a deal

1932
02:01:28,875 --> 02:01:33,211
and let's get some money together for people who were,

1933
02:01:33,431 --> 02:01:37,348
who got screwed over, got screwed over. Old grandmas that

1934
02:01:37,368 --> 02:01:40,037
weren't even at the event, they got thrown in jail.

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02:01:40,097 --> 02:01:43,829
This is a horrible situation that nobody wants to discuss.

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02:01:43,849 --> 02:01:48,148
So two points. One. The actual amount of the fund

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02:01:48,228 --> 02:01:53,470
is $1.776 billion. None of the news media really said

1938
02:01:53,511 --> 02:01:56,081
that. 1.8. No, they did. They did. Oh, they did?

1939
02:01:56,161 --> 02:01:59,151
Well, most of them were 1.8, 1.8, 1.8. No, I

1940
02:02:00,074 --> 02:02:05,832
heard 1776. Not the predominant number. And the second thing,

1941
02:02:05,852 --> 02:02:10,065
I know two people personally whose lives were destroyed. The

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02:02:10,286 --> 02:02:14,207
J6 or Jenny, she's hanging on by a thread. You

1943
02:02:14,529 --> 02:02:18,881
know, she, her whole life was destroyed. She got run

1944
02:02:18,941 --> 02:02:23,595
out of town. She had a, I think a salon.

1945
02:02:24,175 --> 02:02:28,148
And she was called a terrorist and her entire life

1946
02:02:28,189 --> 02:02:31,279
was destroyed. And so that's when she... Well, hopefully, let's

1947
02:02:31,299 --> 02:02:33,988
see if she gets money. Well, she should. And also,

1948
02:02:34,108 --> 02:02:36,821
Luke Coffey. Luke is the guy who had the crutch

1949
02:02:36,902 --> 02:02:40,100
over his head telling everybody to pray and was arrested

1950
02:02:40,120 --> 02:02:43,685
for apparently beating cops over the head with his crutch

1951
02:02:43,765 --> 02:02:47,591
of which there's no evidence, his life was completely destroyed.

1952
02:02:48,491 --> 02:02:51,521
He's now producing Laura Logan's podcast. Just give you an

1953
02:02:51,582 --> 02:02:56,077
example of what happened to him. Wow. So we want

1954
02:02:56,157 --> 02:02:59,668
Luke. We want Luke to get some money too. Absolutely.

1955
02:02:59,991 --> 02:03:04,020
Absolutely. But that's not the way it's being played. We'll

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02:03:04,040 --> 02:03:05,930
see if they get the money. Yeah, but that's not

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02:03:05,950 --> 02:03:07,618
why. Yeah, well. Okay, I got three clips that we

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02:03:07,638 --> 02:03:09,992
can play. Okay. Let's get him out of the way.

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02:03:10,012 --> 02:03:11,839
This is the first one. Let's start with the grilling

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02:03:11,899 --> 02:03:18,289
of Senator Todd Blanch. Senators get... Todd Blanch over slush

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02:03:18,350 --> 02:03:22,656
fund. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanch faced bipartisan backlash over

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02:03:22,696 --> 02:03:26,682
the creation of the nearly $2 billion fund. The president

1963
02:03:26,722 --> 02:03:29,747
has set up a slush fund and he literally will

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02:03:29,787 --> 02:03:33,192
get to choose through his handpicked appointees who gets paid

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02:03:33,233 --> 02:03:37,018
that fund. That is absurd. The president did not set

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02:03:37,079 --> 02:03:39,243
up a slush fund. this fund. It's not a slush

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02:03:39,323 --> 02:03:43,231
fund. Ask repeatedly whether those who assaulted police officers on

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02:03:43,291 --> 02:03:46,938
January 6th could be paid. Blanche didn't rule it out.

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02:03:47,399 --> 02:03:50,105
Do you feel they should get compensation after being convicted

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02:03:50,185 --> 02:03:53,411
of violent acts? My feelings don't matter, Senator, in my

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02:03:53,471 --> 02:03:57,259
mind. My mind is not limiting to say this. I

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02:03:57,299 --> 02:03:59,464
will commit to this or that. At the White House,

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02:03:59,664 --> 02:04:02,329
the vice president was pressed on the same issue. We're

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02:04:02,369 --> 02:04:05,055
not trying to give money to anybody who attacked a

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02:04:05,115 --> 02:04:09,143
police officer. We're trying to compensate people where the book

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02:04:09,203 --> 02:04:11,588
was thrown at them. They were mistreated by the legal

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02:04:11,648 --> 02:04:15,216
system. The fund was established after President Trump dropped his

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02:04:15,236 --> 02:04:18,162
$10 billion lawsuit against... the IRS over the leak of

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02:04:18,202 --> 02:04:21,188
his tax returns. As part of the settlement, the DOJ

1980
02:04:21,248 --> 02:04:25,376
said today the IRS is forever barred from prosecuting past

1981
02:04:25,516 --> 02:04:29,023
or existing audits into the president, his family, and the

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02:04:29,083 --> 02:04:32,310
Trump Organization. Do you believe those terms are fair? I

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02:04:32,370 --> 02:04:35,436
think that there are and will be, continue to be,

1984
02:04:35,917 --> 02:04:42,301
a lot of questions. around that. who defended the Capitol

1985
02:04:42,521 --> 02:04:46,213
on January 6th tell me if this new anti-weaponization fund

1986
02:04:46,233 --> 02:04:54,621
is used to pay those who committed the attack. Yep.

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02:04:55,679 --> 02:04:58,309
Well then let's take it to these clips which discuss

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02:04:58,349 --> 02:05:02,456
a little bit about the DOJ IRS situation. This DOJ

1989
02:05:02,576 --> 02:05:07,143
IRS forever banned from auditing Trump. Tonight in an extraordinary

1990
02:05:07,243 --> 02:05:11,170
move, the Justice Department declared the IRS is quote forever

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02:05:11,390 --> 02:05:15,877
barred and precluded from auditing President Trump, his family, his

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02:05:16,037 --> 02:05:20,108
oldest sons. and their companies or pursuing any claims for

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02:05:20,189 --> 02:05:24,036
past actions. It's part of the unprecedented settlement after President

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02:05:24,096 --> 02:05:28,364
Trump dropped his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS. The

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02:05:28,424 --> 02:05:31,389
deal was orchestrated by the head of the DOJ, Acting

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02:05:31,429 --> 02:05:35,577
Attorney General Todd Blanch, who is Trump's former personal attorney.

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02:05:36,138 --> 02:05:39,888
Blanch faced tough questions on Capitol Hill today. You're the

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02:05:39,928 --> 02:05:44,597
president's consigliere. Your perspective is completely wrong. Well, I think

1999
02:05:44,657 --> 02:05:47,281
the facts will prove me right. The president's settlement also

2000
02:05:47,361 --> 02:05:52,230
creates a nearly $1.8 billion fund, taxpayer money, to pay

2001
02:05:52,310 --> 02:05:55,395
for Trump allies or anyone else who claims they were

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02:05:55,476 --> 02:05:58,826
mistreated by the Biden Justice department i love all the

2003
02:05:58,907 --> 02:06:05,039
little gotchas in there tax taxpayer money slush fund allies

2004
02:06:05,491 --> 02:06:09,260
It's a group that includes the roughly 600 people charged

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02:06:09,300 --> 02:06:14,933
with obstructing or assaulting police on January 6th. Assaulting police

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02:06:14,973 --> 02:06:19,745
bullcrap. bring all that back. and bring it all back.

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02:06:20,185 --> 02:06:24,934
Police on January 6th. Will individuals who assaulted Capitol Hill

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02:06:24,974 --> 02:06:28,501
police officers be eligible for this fund? Well, as it

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02:06:28,601 --> 02:06:31,727
makes plain, anybody is- Just let me know if they're

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02:06:31,847 --> 02:06:35,414
eligible for the fund. Anybody in this country is eligible

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02:06:35,454 --> 02:06:38,319
to apply if they believe they're a victim of weapons-

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02:06:38,359 --> 02:06:43,731
I think this show. is a victim of this weaponization.

2013
02:06:44,567 --> 02:06:49,656
because we had to speak truth to power. And we

2014
02:06:49,676 --> 02:06:52,567
were telling everybody that, no, that's not true. And people

2015
02:06:52,627 --> 02:06:55,136
left in a huff. And I think it hurt our

2016
02:06:55,196 --> 02:06:57,203
income. And I think we should put in a claim.

2017
02:07:00,567 --> 02:07:03,352
Talk to Rob. At the White House, I followed up

2018
02:07:03,392 --> 02:07:06,497
with Vice President J.D. Vance. I assume you're not going

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02:07:06,558 --> 02:07:08,281
to apply. You don't think you should get money out

2020
02:07:08,321 --> 02:07:10,685
of this fund? So isn't it just as easy to

2021
02:07:10,745 --> 02:07:14,672
say that people that attacked police officers should not get

2022
02:07:14,712 --> 02:07:17,457
taxpayer money from this fund? Well, look, John, we're not

2023
02:07:17,577 --> 02:07:20,442
trying to give money to... Anybody who attacked a police

2024
02:07:20,583 --> 02:07:23,488
officer, we're trying to give money, not give money, we're

2025
02:07:23,549 --> 02:07:26,053
trying to compensate people. Give money, not give money. Where

2026
02:07:26,074 --> 02:07:28,198
the book was thrown at them, they were... He screwed

2027
02:07:28,278 --> 02:07:29,841
up there. We're trying to give money, I mean not

2028
02:07:29,901 --> 02:07:32,707
give money, compensate. Trying to give money to anybody who

2029
02:07:32,787 --> 02:07:36,053
attacked a police officer, we're trying to give money, not

2030
02:07:36,153 --> 02:07:39,640
give money, we're trying to compensate people. Where... The book

2031
02:07:39,700 --> 02:07:42,085
was thrown at them. They were mistreated by the legal

2032
02:07:42,165 --> 02:07:44,991
system. We do have people who were accused of attacking

2033
02:07:45,031 --> 02:07:50,642
law enforcement officers. That doesn't mean that we're going to

2034
02:07:50,702 --> 02:07:53,167
completely ignore some of the claims that they're going to

2035
02:07:53,187 --> 02:07:55,591
make. It's a very complex building. It comes as Republicans

2036
02:07:55,631 --> 02:07:59,359
are trying to set aside another $1 billion in taxpayer

2037
02:07:59,399 --> 02:08:02,559
money. for President Trump's new ballroom. They say it's for

2038
02:08:02,599 --> 02:08:07,791
security. Back to that $1.8 billion fund, some of which

2039
02:08:07,971 --> 02:08:11,860
could go to people who attacked the Capitol building on

2040
02:08:11,940 --> 02:08:15,268
January 6th. It's not just Democrats who don't like it.

2041
02:08:15,629 --> 02:08:18,816
Senate Republican leader John Thune said today, quote, I am

2042
02:08:18,896 --> 02:08:23,465
not a big fan. Yes, here's the president himself explaining

2043
02:08:23,545 --> 02:08:27,392
the fund. But this is reimbursing people that were horribly

2044
02:08:27,453 --> 02:08:32,503
treated, horribly treated. It's anti-weaponization. They've been weaponized. They've been,

2045
02:08:32,523 --> 02:08:36,150
in some cases, imprisoned wrongly. They paid legal fees that

2046
02:08:36,170 --> 02:08:38,514
they didn't have. They've gone bankrupt. Their lives have been

2047
02:08:38,554 --> 02:08:41,692
destroyed. And they turn out to be right. I mean,

2048
02:08:41,712 --> 02:08:44,115
it was a terrible period of time in the history

2049
02:08:44,175 --> 02:08:46,619
of our country, and they worked on it. I know

2050
02:08:46,639 --> 02:08:50,464
the Justice Department, it's really been working on it very

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02:08:50,504 --> 02:08:53,228
hard. There's been numerous other occasions over the years where

2052
02:08:53,288 --> 02:08:55,852
things like this have been done, but these were people

2053
02:08:55,892 --> 02:09:00,018
that were weaponized and really treated brutally by a system

2054
02:09:00,058 --> 02:09:03,344
that was so corrupt. with corrupt people running it and

2055
02:09:03,384 --> 02:09:05,970
they're getting reimbursed for their legal fees and the other

2056
02:09:06,511 --> 02:09:11,261
things that they had to suffer. Yeah, please. Yeah, I

2057
02:09:11,301 --> 02:09:13,165
got to tell you, I mean, I've seen the damage

2058
02:09:13,185 --> 02:09:16,572
that did and I'd like to see J6 or Jenny

2059
02:09:16,612 --> 02:09:19,217
and Luke get some money out of it. Well, let's

2060
02:09:19,258 --> 02:09:21,119
hope they do. Let's hope they put a claim in.

2061
02:09:21,223 --> 02:09:24,694
I know Luke has a claim. I've got to talk

2062
02:09:24,714 --> 02:09:27,543
to Jenny about it. Yeah, make sure she does it.

2063
02:09:28,245 --> 02:09:32,137
Maybe Rob should help them. No, that was part two.

2064
02:09:32,298 --> 02:09:35,267
That was your part two. I have a part three.

2065
02:09:35,591 --> 02:09:39,952
which is Comey. Former FBI director James Comey faces trial

2066
02:09:39,993 --> 02:09:42,902
later this summer on charges. he threatened President Trump's life.

2067
02:09:43,383 --> 02:09:46,249
The case stems from this Instagram post a year ago,

2068
02:09:46,509 --> 02:09:50,918
a photo of Shell spelling out 8647. Prosecutors say the

2069
02:09:50,958 --> 02:09:54,124
slang term 86 meant intent to do harm to Mr.

2070
02:09:54,144 --> 02:09:58,372
Trump, the 47th president. It is the second indictment against

2071
02:09:58,432 --> 02:10:01,498
the former FBI director in one of several investigations and

2072
02:10:01,558 --> 02:10:06,183
lawsuits. involving people President Trump sees as his political enemies.

2073
02:10:06,507 --> 02:10:09,320
Comey also has a new crime novel out, Red Verdict.

2074
02:10:09,401 --> 02:10:12,877
It's a legal thriller centered on Russian espionage. I spoke

2075
02:10:12,897 --> 02:10:16,649
with him earlier today. Former FBI Director James Comey, welcome

2076
02:10:16,669 --> 02:10:18,640
to the NewsHour. It's great to be with you. I

2077
02:10:18,660 --> 02:10:21,819
want to start with your reaction to this DOJ announcement.

2078
02:10:21,799 --> 02:10:26,027
The department says it's creating a nearly $1.8 billion fund,

2079
02:10:26,488 --> 02:10:30,176
taxpayer money, to compensate Trump allies who say they were

2080
02:10:30,276 --> 02:10:33,983
unfairly targeted by the previous administration. What kind of precedent

2081
02:10:34,063 --> 02:10:36,568
does this set? I've never heard of it, and I

2082
02:10:36,809 --> 02:10:38,933
first thought it was an onion piece when I read

2083
02:10:38,993 --> 02:10:42,140
about it. I don't know how it will work. and

2084
02:10:42,220 --> 02:10:46,914
how it will be administered. Kiddingly, want to know, do

2085
02:10:46,974 --> 02:10:50,224
I get to apply? Do all victims of weaponization get

2086
02:10:50,264 --> 02:10:53,032
to ask for attorney's fees? We'll have to see. Would

2087
02:10:53,072 --> 02:10:56,854
you submit a claim? I might, maybe just to be

2088
02:10:57,155 --> 02:10:59,104
humorous about the whole thing, but if it's for people

2089
02:10:59,164 --> 02:11:03,550
who've been targeted for reasons other than the normal... standards

2090
02:11:03,611 --> 02:11:05,920
of the Department of Justice, I'm ready to get in

2091
02:11:05,940 --> 02:11:09,495
line. Now you're going to have to look this clip

2092
02:11:09,555 --> 02:11:13,411
up. This clip is called Comey on Trump January 2021.

2093
02:11:14,087 --> 02:11:18,568
Comey on Trump. No, let me set it up. No,

2094
02:11:18,588 --> 02:11:21,933
I don't see it, John. Comey... Is it Comey on

2095
02:11:21,974 --> 02:11:26,531
Trump? Yeah, K-C-O-M-E-Y on Trump is the name of it.

2096
02:11:27,623 --> 02:11:31,049
I'm not seeing it. It's from three weeks ago. I

2097
02:11:31,391 --> 02:11:37,690
believe you, but I am. I don't have any... Only

2098
02:11:37,855 --> 02:11:43,439
on Trump. Um... Comey on MSNBC about Trump? No, it

2099
02:11:43,479 --> 02:11:46,323
says call me. Well, that might be, that actually might

2100
02:11:46,363 --> 02:11:49,363
be the same clip. What are the principal points of

2101
02:11:49,424 --> 02:11:53,936
danger within the Justice Department if there's another Trump presidency,

2102
02:11:54,196 --> 02:11:57,545
given his nature, given what you know about him? He

2103
02:11:57,646 --> 02:12:00,633
is a threat to the rule of law in America.

2104
02:12:00,814 --> 02:12:05,224
To me, that's what this election is about. about what

2105
02:12:05,304 --> 02:12:10,995
kind of country are we going to be. to use

2106
02:12:11,036 --> 02:12:13,300
the power of the Department of Justice and the FBI

2107
02:12:13,320 --> 02:12:15,925
to target his enemies especially, the rule of law in

2108
02:12:15,965 --> 02:12:18,029
America will change in a way we haven't seen in

2109
02:12:18,069 --> 02:12:25,123
our lifetime. He would express it in his first term

2110
02:12:25,183 --> 02:12:27,728
as a wish. I want people to go after so-and-so.

2111
02:12:27,748 --> 02:12:30,394
I want people to go after Andrew McCabe, the former

2112
02:12:30,434 --> 02:12:33,319
deputy director of the FBI. In his second term, he

2113
02:12:33,359 --> 02:12:36,065
would go a step further, I'm highly confident, and say,

2114
02:12:36,105 --> 02:12:39,071
I want him criminally investigated. And he would have, he

2115
02:12:39,111 --> 02:12:41,014
was close to the bottom of the barrel. That's not

2116
02:12:41,115 --> 02:12:44,054
it. Uh, yes- because you can't find it because it

2117
02:12:44,155 --> 02:12:49,058
is in the pile. Let me see, make sure, yeah

2118
02:12:49,139 --> 02:12:54,396
it says Comey. C-O-M-E-Y, oh well. Um... I'm sorry. Anyway,

2119
02:12:54,416 --> 02:12:57,248
in 2021 he was... The worst. Oh, I got it.

2120
02:12:57,328 --> 02:12:59,159
I found it. I found it. I found it. Okay,

2121
02:12:59,239 --> 02:13:01,170
let me tell you what this clip is. This is

2122
02:13:01,834 --> 02:13:07,833
an example of... This is an example of... of using

2123
02:13:07,893 --> 02:13:11,760
the Justice Department as a weapon. Convict him, bar him

2124
02:13:11,840 --> 02:13:15,386
from future service, have the prosecutors, the local prosecutors in

2125
02:13:15,426 --> 02:13:18,372
New York pursue him for the fraudster that he was

2126
02:13:18,492 --> 02:13:22,319
before he ever became president, lock him up for the...

2127
02:13:22,299 --> 02:13:25,619
garden variety florals he did there, but don't give him

2128
02:13:25,659 --> 02:13:29,683
that center stage, that dominant role in our national life.

2129
02:13:30,359 --> 02:13:32,637
just down the street where Joe Biden is trying to

2130
02:13:32,698 --> 02:13:40,157
heal this nation. Yeah. Yeah, lock him up. Lock him

2131
02:13:40,280 --> 02:13:43,871
up, yeah. Yeah, that's that's that's reasonable it's also fake

2132
02:13:43,892 --> 02:13:46,492
and gay the guys are creep i i mean i

2133
02:13:46,532 --> 02:13:50,132
think that they're This thing about the 86-47 is a

2134
02:13:50,172 --> 02:13:54,281
bit much, but, you know, they're sending a message. And

2135
02:13:54,321 --> 02:13:58,490
with that, as it is a value-for-value program where we,

2136
02:13:58,630 --> 02:14:00,515
I haven't heard an ad in the past two hours.

2137
02:14:00,615 --> 02:14:02,218
Have you heard an ad? You haven't heard any ads?

2138
02:14:02,258 --> 02:14:07,404
No. That's because we have chosen a different path. And

2139
02:14:07,445 --> 02:14:09,660
I would like to thank you, John C. Dvorak, for

2140
02:14:09,701 --> 02:14:11,715
your courage. You are the man who put the C

2141
02:14:11,755 --> 02:14:16,146
in the... Astro indictment? Ladies and gentlemen, say hello to

2142
02:14:16,166 --> 02:14:17,756
my friend, the other and the one, the only, Mr.

2143
02:14:17,817 --> 02:14:22,376
John C. DeWare! Well, good morning to you, Mr. Adam

2144
02:14:22,416 --> 02:14:24,286
Craig. Good morning to all ships and sea boots on

2145
02:14:24,326 --> 02:14:26,234
the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water,

2146
02:14:26,274 --> 02:14:27,820
and all the dames and knights. In the morning to

2147
02:14:27,860 --> 02:14:37,280
the trolls in the troll room. 1329. It's vacation time.

2148
02:14:38,531 --> 02:14:41,451
It's a holiday coming up. Yep, holiday coming up. It's

2149
02:14:41,491 --> 02:14:44,152
how it always rolls. what happens and of course we

2150
02:14:44,192 --> 02:14:47,156
have vbs which i just learned today is a thing

2151
02:14:47,317 --> 02:14:52,232
vbs What, VBS? VBS, yes. Vacation Bible School. I had

2152
02:14:52,292 --> 02:14:57,970
no idea. People are in VBS? Vacation Bible School. So

2153
02:14:58,435 --> 02:15:01,600
why don't you just go to, okay. Let's just go

2154
02:15:01,621 --> 02:15:06,416
to what? Bible school. No, it's vacation Bible school. What's

2155
02:15:06,457 --> 02:15:10,431
the difference? You go to it on vacation. Why don't

2156
02:15:10,452 --> 02:15:12,423
you just go to it? Well, maybe they do. But

2157
02:15:12,443 --> 02:15:14,314
then they do it during their vacation too. I don't

2158
02:15:14,354 --> 02:15:17,398
know. I'm just telling you that people are out. Because

2159
02:15:17,458 --> 02:15:19,753
of VBS is what I'm hearing. I can't make it,

2160
02:15:19,793 --> 02:15:24,772
man. VBS. I don't know. So... As I said before,

2161
02:15:24,832 --> 02:15:29,335
we are value for value operated. Which means we, uh...

2162
02:15:29,915 --> 02:15:32,415
We only ask you to send us some value when

2163
02:15:32,475 --> 02:15:36,021
you feel you have received value from the program. Now

2164
02:15:36,061 --> 02:15:38,556
I'm, let's see, the people are already trying. It's typically

2165
02:15:38,596 --> 02:15:40,830
in the summer, man. I'm telling you, people have not

2166
02:15:40,850 --> 02:15:42,662
been able to do meetings with me because. Their kids

2167
02:15:42,703 --> 02:15:46,355
are in VBS. I don't know. Or they're teaching VBS.

2168
02:15:47,415 --> 02:15:50,384
So Value for Value, we started this over 18 years

2169
02:15:50,444 --> 02:15:53,433
ago. We think that it's the best way to run

2170
02:15:53,513 --> 02:15:58,167
an honest podcast, particularly when it is regarding news and

2171
02:15:58,227 --> 02:16:01,717
current events and culture and politics. So you get the

2172
02:16:01,817 --> 02:16:06,467
true, honest. from us and it shows because a lot

2173
02:16:06,507 --> 02:16:08,972
of people get mad and go away and we just

2174
02:16:09,312 --> 02:16:11,917
keep doing the same thing and so if donations are

2175
02:16:11,937 --> 02:16:15,103
down that's just because you didn't feel that you got

2176
02:16:15,143 --> 02:16:17,428
any value from it but it turns out a lot

2177
02:16:17,468 --> 02:16:20,293
of people continue to find value in our analysis and

2178
02:16:20,333 --> 02:16:22,658
you can support us with your time, your talent or

2179
02:16:22,718 --> 02:16:27,090
your treasure. We thank everybody who supports us financially with

2180
02:16:27,110 --> 02:16:30,400
$50 or above, and that is a wonderful way to

2181
02:16:30,460 --> 02:16:33,289
show value, to return the value that you got from

2182
02:16:33,309 --> 02:16:36,953
the program. Or you can do things like, I don't

2183
02:16:36,994 --> 02:16:40,348
know, prompt away, make some artwork. And this is valuable

2184
02:16:40,389 --> 02:16:44,699
for a couple of reasons. Not only is a good

2185
02:16:44,739 --> 02:16:47,305
piece of art valuable for us to use to promote

2186
02:16:47,345 --> 02:16:50,192
the show as the album art, but also it tells

2187
02:16:50,312 --> 02:16:55,062
us what's hitting a nerve when we did something that

2188
02:16:55,083 --> 02:16:57,548
you liked, that you found very valuable. And it was

2189
02:16:57,989 --> 02:17:01,377
fun to watch, fun to see. Well, first we should

2190
02:17:01,397 --> 02:17:05,365
probably thank... Thank the person whose art we actually used.

2191
02:17:05,385 --> 02:17:09,393
And that was for our episode 1869. We titled that

2192
02:17:09,513 --> 02:17:13,661
Trollery. This was controversial on the inside of the program.

2193
02:17:14,583 --> 02:17:17,008
I wasn't too sure about it. Blue Acorn created a

2194
02:17:17,950 --> 02:17:22,901
curry and dvorak chokemeat chili cook-off. Wait, wait. with the

2195
02:17:23,603 --> 02:17:26,672
OG Catholic in action, the Pope, with his little CIA

2196
02:17:26,713 --> 02:17:31,005
hat and his CIA insignia, and two babes making the

2197
02:17:31,066 --> 02:17:36,138
chili. John wanted it and I succumbed to it. But

2198
02:17:36,178 --> 02:17:38,834
it was fun to see people really picking up on

2199
02:17:39,036 --> 02:17:45,326
dead mice mice being mutilated in in glue traps. The

2200
02:17:45,366 --> 02:17:48,234
blueberry got a lot of traction. A lot of blueberry

2201
02:17:48,375 --> 02:17:51,745
art, for some reason, was interesting. And what else did

2202
02:17:51,785 --> 02:18:02,456
we see, John? Ugh. Just nothing good. We had... You

2203
02:18:02,476 --> 02:18:04,971
know what? It's like there's these new models that people

2204
02:18:05,031 --> 02:18:09,355
are using. And again, they're overcomplicating things. It's too much.

2205
02:18:10,351 --> 02:18:13,338
It's just, it's too busy. It's too much going on.

2206
02:18:13,859 --> 02:18:16,385
I'm not even sure if we see anything fantastic yet.

2207
02:18:16,846 --> 02:18:19,873
So now it's all babes. See, this is what happens.

2208
02:18:20,013 --> 02:18:23,384
I should have mentioned this to you. when you choose

2209
02:18:23,444 --> 02:18:26,522
a piece of art with babes, then everyone thinks, oh

2210
02:18:26,602 --> 02:18:28,433
yeah, that's how I'll get my art chosen. I need

2211
02:18:28,453 --> 02:18:32,121
to do more babes. Which we don't do babes that

2212
02:18:32,201 --> 02:18:39,228
much. I'm looking at the last few pieces. How many

2213
02:18:39,289 --> 02:18:44,990
have babes? What? The first one? two, skip, three. No,

2214
02:18:45,090 --> 02:18:48,897
the numbnuts has no babes. Oh, no, but I'm saying

2215
02:18:48,937 --> 02:18:50,920
since we chose babes on the past one. Oh, no,

2216
02:18:50,940 --> 02:18:53,364
yeah, I'm talking about pieces that are actually picked with

2217
02:18:53,464 --> 02:18:56,369
babes. We have numbnuts and we have a mouse. I

2218
02:18:56,429 --> 02:18:58,212
know, but once you do babes. And then we have

2219
02:18:58,352 --> 02:19:00,716
a shoe with mice all over it, black and white,

2220
02:19:00,917 --> 02:19:03,643
cartoony thing, and then a... a bunch of pills that

2221
02:19:04,104 --> 02:19:09,380
show insanity. Yes, yes. I'd say once a month. I

2222
02:19:09,460 --> 02:19:14,174
know, but the psyche of Gitmo Nation, our producers, is,

2223
02:19:14,876 --> 02:19:17,870
oh, babes. I just need to do babes. and now

2224
02:19:17,910 --> 02:19:20,144
this is the way it is with everything it's like

2225
02:19:20,184 --> 02:19:23,573
it's follow the leader oh well that work then let's

2226
02:19:23,593 --> 02:19:30,197
do it again Probably right. So, yeah. So that's probably

2227
02:19:30,217 --> 02:19:32,441
not going to work this time. But thank you very

2228
02:19:32,461 --> 02:19:35,026
much. No babes. No two in a row babes. No,

2229
02:19:35,266 --> 02:19:38,913
definitely not. Thank you very much, Blue Acorn. We appreciate

2230
02:19:38,933 --> 02:19:44,640
you. We appreciate all kinds of support. people do meetups.

2231
02:19:45,061 --> 02:19:47,246
We've got people sending in clips. We had a great

2232
02:19:47,306 --> 02:19:50,613
boots on the ground earlier. All of this is incredibly

2233
02:19:50,673 --> 02:19:52,858
appreciated. It is the value for value model. If you

2234
02:19:52,898 --> 02:19:55,143
want to support us financially, you can do that by

2235
02:19:55,203 --> 02:19:59,533
going to noagendedonations.com. And that is where we thank the

2236
02:19:59,573 --> 02:20:03,261
following people. And the way it works is... $200 or

2237
02:20:03,301 --> 02:20:07,248
above between $200 and $300. Not only are you guaranteed

2238
02:20:07,289 --> 02:20:09,172
that we will read your note, but also you will

2239
02:20:09,212 --> 02:20:12,379
get an associate executive producer credit, which is good anywhere.

2240
02:20:12,659 --> 02:20:16,307
Hollywood credits are recognized, including imdb.com. Go ahead and see

2241
02:20:16,667 --> 02:20:18,411
some of the big Hollywood names in there, along with

2242
02:20:18,491 --> 02:20:22,760
thousands of others. $300 or more executive producer credit. And

2243
02:20:22,800 --> 02:20:25,244
we will read your note. And we have a limited

2244
02:20:25,325 --> 02:20:28,772
promotion for the Red Knight Order of the Heart. And

2245
02:20:28,832 --> 02:20:32,098
I believe we have at least two to award today

2246
02:20:32,118 --> 02:20:36,347
as we start with Sir Ronald Laffery from Livermore, Washington,

2247
02:20:36,427 --> 02:20:40,415
who comes in with $1,000. And the note I see

2248
02:20:40,555 --> 02:20:43,200
is, note the address change. Is that? Is that his

2249
02:20:43,260 --> 02:20:47,809
official note? It's all he got. Note the address. I

2250
02:20:48,049 --> 02:20:51,736
didn't even know there was a Livermore in Washington. Isn't

2251
02:20:51,776 --> 02:20:57,587
Livermore like Massachusetts? No, Livermore's right outside of California. It's

2252
02:20:57,687 --> 02:21:01,394
just outside of Pleasant Hill around Pleasanton in the Bay

2253
02:21:01,514 --> 02:21:06,605
Area. Livermore. Scaramanga in the troll room asks if we're

2254
02:21:06,665 --> 02:21:11,499
sure Adam isn't gay. What? Yeah, I know, right? This

2255
02:21:11,539 --> 02:21:15,812
is what they're busy with over there. So Sir Ronald

2256
02:21:15,852 --> 02:21:18,784
Lafferty, I wish we had a note to read, but

2257
02:21:19,306 --> 02:21:20,873
I don't know. We'll give him a double up karma

2258
02:21:20,893 --> 02:21:26,474
just to make sure we take. care of that. And

2259
02:21:26,554 --> 02:21:30,509
you will become one of the few exclusive Red Knights

2260
02:21:30,810 --> 02:21:32,977
Order of the Heart, which comes with a beautiful pin

2261
02:21:33,259 --> 02:21:36,611
and a certificate of authenticity and some more goodies in

2262
02:21:36,651 --> 02:21:43,086
a beautiful red envelope. Hmm. uh Another order of the

2263
02:21:43,126 --> 02:21:46,531
red heart coming up here with Sir Sala Housers already

2264
02:21:46,591 --> 02:21:51,413
at night in Melbourne, Florida. ITM wishing you a quick

2265
02:21:51,533 --> 02:21:55,463
and full recovery. John, thank you. You're there already, man.

2266
02:21:56,345 --> 02:22:01,697
You seem recovered. I still have to do these balancing

2267
02:22:01,797 --> 02:22:06,466
exercises. I should take Tai Chi. I'm told by my

2268
02:22:06,546 --> 02:22:08,932
physical therapist. Is it like a sobriety test where you

2269
02:22:08,952 --> 02:22:10,937
have to stand on one leg and touch your finger

2270
02:22:10,997 --> 02:22:12,641
to your nose? If I have to do that, yeah,

2271
02:22:12,741 --> 02:22:15,267
I'd probably have some issues with some of the crazy

2272
02:22:15,287 --> 02:22:17,212
stuff that cops make you do. Have you driven your

2273
02:22:17,232 --> 02:22:19,317
car? Are you allowed to drive your car? Yeah, I've

2274
02:22:19,357 --> 02:22:25,435
driven. Yeah? Cool. Sir Secretary General Commodore SX-64 from Granger,

2275
02:22:25,455 --> 02:22:29,235
Texas comes in with $555, and we're very grateful for

2276
02:22:29,255 --> 02:22:32,305
that. And he says, gentlemen's. To add to John's tip

2277
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of the day about the stirrup hoe, I own multiple.

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The best way to use it is to, this is

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a tip. The best way to use it is to

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sever the roots from the greenery about half a meter.

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half an inch below the surface. That way it will

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not regrow. The wheel stirrup hoe is the most effective.

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But as of recent, True Temper has a 14-inch mini

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hoe that has done wonders for close in-hand weeding in

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my world. It's like a six-shooter for weeds. Thank you.

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What other podcast gives you this kind of information? None.

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Keep up the good work and take your time with

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the exit strategies. We enjoy what you do. Sir Secretary

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General Commodore SX-64. Helmet or 64, huh? Dennis Cady, is

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it Cady or Cato? Cato. Tampa, Florida, 333.33. ITM gentlemen

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from the Manuka Gold. Oh, here's our Manuka Gold guy.

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Adam mentions our relief gel. We've been thrilled by all

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the emails and phone calls we get from listeners who

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week and support the amazing podcast. Go to manukagold.com and

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use code ITMFREE. We do offer a... What? Arnica version?

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Arnic, what's that? I don't know. We use an arnica.

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We do an arnica version for people who can't use

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CBD. This must be some other chemical. So if you'd

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like one without CBD, just put a note in the

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memo section when you make your purchase. Thank you again

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to Adam and John for what truly is the best

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podcast in the universe. Dennis Cato. Tampa. All right. And

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that's our executive producers, associate executive producer Amy Moritz comes

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in from Leawood, Kansas with a row of ducks, 222.22,

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and says, Hi, John and Adam. Please give a shout

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out to my two human resources, Ben and Lainey. Keep

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up the good work. And she wants Rubberlizer Karma. Oh.

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Hello. The Rub-A-Lizer is exclusively for Rub-A-Lizers. so we can't

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really do that i mean the rubble oh yeah we

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made that a rubbleizer donation only yes so i will

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that's been limited yes i will give you a karma

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of course you've got karma you Chad Finkbeiner in Highland

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Heights, Ohio. 222.22. Another row of ducks. Thank you for...

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uh for keeping me informed and for the laughs No

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Agenda is the best podcast on this side of the...

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you, Fox. Really really really really really It's like those

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emails we get. I am amazed that you missed this.

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We miss a lot. We don't know anything about stuff.

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No. In fact, we know nothing about anything. No, we

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just learn on the show. That's right. Martell Hart. Thank

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you for teaching us, Lady Vox. Martell Hardware is in

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because John appreciates that. Martell Hardware, coupon code ACERBIC. There

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you go, more freebies for you, trolls. I thought it

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was Acer Bic. Eli the coffee guy in Bensonville, Illinois,

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order. Stay caffeinated. Eli, the coffee guy. Thank you very

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much, Eli. We appreciate that. And our last associate executive

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producer, she's always there with $200, and we appreciate that

2345
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very much, Leni Lupakin from Castle Rock, Colorado. Jobs Karma,

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and she says your resume has about 10 seconds to

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and impact. That's Image Makers Inc. with a K. And

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Linda Liu, Duchess of Jobs. and writer of winning resumes.

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Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs. Let's vote for... You've got...

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And we continue now with the rest of our Time

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Talent Treasure supporters with value coming back to the show.

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02:28:00,231 --> 02:28:03,222
And at 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. is Nathan Cochran

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02:28:03,262 --> 02:28:06,771
from Franklin, Tennessee. Nathan, of course, bass player for Mercy

2357
02:28:06,811 --> 02:28:09,136
Me, not a small band, and I will be seeing

2358
02:28:09,196 --> 02:28:12,224
him this weekend. Tina and I are going to Nashville

2359
02:28:12,304 --> 02:28:17,166
for the big K-Love Music Festival. That's the K-Love Music

2360
02:28:17,206 --> 02:28:22,496
Festival. It's a festival with music, and it's in... Tennessee

2361
02:28:22,599 --> 02:28:26,308
and Nashville. What is it? K-Love. What's K-Love? K-Love is

2362
02:28:26,368 --> 02:28:28,958
a radio station that organizes. They're very big. They have

2363
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like 400 stations around the country. And Mercy Me is

2364
02:28:32,753 --> 02:28:35,623
performing. So we'll be hanging out. Do you need a

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02:28:35,643 --> 02:28:38,117
backstage pass? Oh, no, I don't even need a pass.

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They have their roadie come out and get us. That's

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02:28:41,118 --> 02:28:45,184
the coolest. Hey, go get Adam and Tina. We're in,

2368
02:28:45,449 --> 02:28:50,275
man. We're in like Flynn. Nathan, check your levels, man.

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You've got to be at least a baronet by now,

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if not more. Jason Holsing. Yeah, I see. Jason Holsing

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02:28:55,927 --> 02:29:00,797
in Chanhassen, Minnesota. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. And I

2372
02:29:00,997 --> 02:29:03,262
will point out... Says this is seed money for John

2373
02:29:03,302 --> 02:29:05,687
to set up his OnlyFans account. Well, that's very nice.

2374
02:29:07,090 --> 02:29:09,214
Do you need money to set up an OnlyFans? It's

2375
02:29:09,254 --> 02:29:10,576
not free. I think so. I think you just need

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02:29:10,617 --> 02:29:15,667
to sign up. Spencer Richter in Craig, Arkansas. $100. Thank

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02:29:15,687 --> 02:29:18,472
you. Ian Field, 100. Kevin McLaughlin. There he is. Concord,

2378
02:29:18,492 --> 02:29:22,472
North Carolina with the boo donation. $80.08. 8-0-0-8. He is

2379
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the Archduke of Luna, lover of America and boobs. And

2380
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he says, God bless America and boobs. Ladies, it's melon

2381
02:29:28,332 --> 02:29:31,021
season. Time to show them off. A melon song for

2382
02:29:31,041 --> 02:29:33,569
end of the show? Sorry, man, I don't have any

2383
02:29:33,630 --> 02:29:38,203
for you. Nicholas Leary, 7272 from Columbus, Ohio. Dame Becky

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02:29:38,264 --> 02:29:41,819
from Arlington, Washington, 6996. We see what you did there.

2385
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And the same is for Sir Paul, who is back

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02:29:44,985 --> 02:29:47,711
with a donation from Twickingham. And he says, as much

2387
02:29:47,791 --> 02:29:50,056
as I love John, when is Mimi coming back to

2388
02:29:50,096 --> 02:29:55,567
do another episode? 69.69, he says. Dame Rita, Sparks, Nevada,

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02:29:55,587 --> 02:30:00,256
$68.33. Thank you, Dame Rita. Baron Henry of Outpost West,

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Ranchos Palos Verdes, California. California, $59.92. Samuel Nagel, Athens, Georgia,

2391
02:30:05,527 --> 02:30:09,396
double nickels on the dime. Reese Longhurst, Bath. And Bath,

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that's in the UK. Once a de-douche. You've been de-douched.

2393
02:30:14,987 --> 02:30:18,114
Thank you, Reese Longhurst, and welcome. There you go. I've

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02:30:18,134 --> 02:30:21,120
been to Bath. I've been to Bath, too. Funny enough.

2395
02:30:21,140 --> 02:30:23,124
Yeah, they got Roman baths there. That's why it's called

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baths. Funny enough, they got baths, indeed. Kent O'Rourke, Frostburg,

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Maryland, $52.72. Forrest Martin, $0.505. I don't see that one

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often, $50.05. Same for Andrew Benz, $50.05. Here are our

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$50 supporters. Andrew Grusek. in Greenboro, North Carolina. Terrence Boyer

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in Tuscola, Illinois. Grant Clift in Cherryville, North Carolina. Ryan

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02:30:49,337 --> 02:30:54,467
Acido in Argyle, Texas. Amy Galinas in Burien, Washington. Lindsey

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Christensen, $50, says, congrats, Massey. They didn't deserve you anyway.

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02:31:01,199 --> 02:31:04,686
Chris Campisi, Round Rock, Texas. Thank you for your courage.

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Got a bonus at work. Wanted to pass along some

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value. Thank you very much, Chris. Patrick Bomer. Bomer in

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Amstelveen, the Netherlands. Now $50 and says, gewoon voor de

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best podcast of the universe. All the best for John.

2408
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En groetjes voor jou, Adam. We are a multilingual podcast.

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Sir Yogi, Night of the Carnival, Midway in Washington, $50.

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Leanne Shipley in Covington, Washington, $50. A lot of Washingtonians.

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And John Maurer, also from Washington, $50. And that wraps

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up all of our Value for Value treasure supporters, $50

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and above. And we want to always thank our executive

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and associate executive producers, Profuse. because you help us out

2415
02:31:42,754 --> 02:31:45,953
a lot. And remember, those credits are real. Our formula

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02:31:46,074 --> 02:32:03,004
is this. We hit people in the mouth. So very

2417
02:32:03,145 --> 02:32:08,471
interesting today we have no nights no dames no birthdays

2418
02:32:08,923 --> 02:32:13,233
Which, how often does that happen? Like not rarely, not

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02:32:13,273 --> 02:32:15,511
very often at all. We do have a make good.

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from Nick Della Croce, your favorite. - Let's make good

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note, but. It's not really. What does that mean? As

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you read it, you can read it and you'll see

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02:32:23,767 --> 02:32:26,178
what I'm talking about. Should I not read it? No,

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you should read it. Okay, I'm going to read it.

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02:32:29,271 --> 02:32:31,376
I'm reading it. Oh, you want me to read it

2426
02:32:31,417 --> 02:32:35,668
out loud? Oh, okay. Nick Della Croce. No, just read

2427
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it. We're good. Yeah. Nick Della Croce, my recurring monthly

2428
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donations of a... Wow. I'm very grateful I stumbled onto

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02:32:55,630 --> 02:32:57,423
No Agenda at that point in my life. Adam, my

2430
02:32:57,463 --> 02:32:59,618
girlfriend, and I had the pleasure of meeting you at

2431
02:32:59,639 --> 02:33:01,623
a... meet up in Fredericksburg. I know exactly who this

2432
02:33:01,684 --> 02:33:04,270
is. A few months ago. After chatting together, you looked

2433
02:33:04,310 --> 02:33:06,515
at us and said, you two need to get married.

2434
02:33:06,896 --> 02:33:09,141
You're a really good thing going on there or something

2435
02:33:09,201 --> 02:33:13,872
like that. My girlfriend's exact words, exact words afterward. Wow.

2436
02:33:14,453 --> 02:33:17,300
He's so tall and so handsome for his age. See,

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02:33:17,541 --> 02:33:20,591
this girl is a keeper. John, you're the GOAT! My

2438
02:33:20,631 --> 02:33:24,437
girlfriend also finds you absolutely hilarious. Laugh a little too

2439
02:33:24,497 --> 02:33:27,201
hard at your jokes, if I'm being honest. You two

2440
02:33:27,261 --> 02:33:29,544
both keep me sane and thinking clearly. Thank you for

2441
02:33:29,604 --> 02:33:31,767
everything you do, show after show. Please call up my

2442
02:33:31,827 --> 02:33:36,234
father, Vince Della Croce, as a douchebag. In the morning,

2443
02:33:36,294 --> 02:33:39,598
from Nick Della Croce, your favorite Gen Z-er in Austin,

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02:33:39,638 --> 02:33:43,124
Texas. P.S. My smoking hot girlfriend is a private chef,

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classically trained, lived in Spain and Italy studying food. If

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you're ever looking for someone for a dinner party or

2447
02:33:48,994 --> 02:33:52,821
special event, reach out. She's the real deal. Done. Done.

2448
02:33:53,261 --> 02:33:55,625
I say done. We just celebrated our anniversary. That would

2449
02:33:55,645 --> 02:33:59,757
have been very cool. Alright, so let's straighten something out

2450
02:33:59,798 --> 02:34:01,902
here. for our Zetters that don't seem to have missed

2451
02:34:01,962 --> 02:34:07,827
a boat. Uh... You don't accumulate for associate executive producer.

2452
02:34:08,215 --> 02:34:11,508
You don't accumulate for executive producer. You don't accumulate for

2453
02:34:11,548 --> 02:34:16,387
red knight. You don't accumulate for PhDs. You don't accumulate

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for anything except knights and all the... All the things

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02:34:20,347 --> 02:34:23,026
that come after night, like barons and dukes and the

2456
02:34:23,066 --> 02:34:27,020
rest, that's it. Very good. Now, you also don't, as

2457
02:34:27,060 --> 02:34:30,291
you said, you don't accumulate for a red knight. That

2458
02:34:30,371 --> 02:34:33,521
comes only with a one-time donation. And we have two

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02:34:33,602 --> 02:34:53,248
today. Behold. BOO! Red Knights Order of the Heart 2

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02:34:53,328 --> 02:34:56,283
today, which is a nice score. And I think we

2461
02:34:56,303 --> 02:34:58,233
only have 50 of them, so if you want these,

2462
02:34:58,273 --> 02:35:02,307
you better get in on this. Sir Ronald Lafferty and

2463
02:35:02,427 --> 02:35:06,939
Sir Sadahouser, both of you, are hereby official Red Knights,

2464
02:35:07,180 --> 02:35:35,394
the Order of the Heart. Congratulations. BIS Oh, uh, I

2465
02:35:35,434 --> 02:35:38,169
don't have any good meetup reports, people. You're falling down

2466
02:35:38,249 --> 02:35:40,019
on the job, but there's a lot of meetups to-

2467
02:35:51,739 --> 02:35:56,863
Marcy, Marcy, oh, this is our Baroness Isabelle Pearson, the

2468
02:35:56,924 --> 02:36:04,468
first Marquiaque No Agenda Mixer, 7.30 in. in Mont-Lazune, Gers,

2469
02:36:04,548 --> 02:36:07,474
France. I hope somebody shows up. If not, it doesn't

2470
02:36:07,514 --> 02:36:11,161
matter. Baroness Isabel, please send us a meetup report, even

2471
02:36:11,201 --> 02:36:12,664
if it's just you. But I have a feeling we

2472
02:36:12,704 --> 02:36:14,768
may have some people who drop by. They're all there

2473
02:36:14,808 --> 02:36:17,474
for the Tour de France, you see. On Saturday, the

2474
02:36:17,554 --> 02:36:22,243
Trifectas and Trolls local extraction meetup... 12.30 in Delaware Park,

2475
02:36:22,263 --> 02:36:26,953
Stanton, Delaware. Saturday, number 75 for Flight of the No

2476
02:36:26,973 --> 02:36:30,320
Agendas, Leo Bravo, now organizing that in the Proud Bird

2477
02:36:30,520 --> 02:36:34,187
in Los Angeles, California. Goonies in the Boonies on Saturday

2478
02:36:34,247 --> 02:36:38,416
at 5 o'clock, New York, Pizza Department, Hickson, Tennessee. Oh

2479
02:36:38,476 --> 02:36:41,578
man, there's two meetups. Saturday night. And I'm going to

2480
02:36:41,679 --> 02:36:45,608
be in Nashville to see if I can visit one

2481
02:36:45,648 --> 02:36:48,154
of these. Because we also have the Franklin getting fired

2482
02:36:48,194 --> 02:36:51,341
up for summer meetup, six o'clock at Salvo's Pizza in

2483
02:36:51,441 --> 02:36:54,649
Franklin. So we have Hickson, Tennessee and Franklin, Tennessee. Then

2484
02:36:54,709 --> 02:36:57,054
on Sunday, our next show day, and I'll be doing

2485
02:36:57,094 --> 02:37:00,770
that from Nashville. We drink and we know things. I

2486
02:37:00,830 --> 02:37:04,355
need a drink edition. Two o'clock at 3BR Distillery in

2487
02:37:04,436 --> 02:37:08,222
Keyport, New Jersey. Also on Sunday, the No ID pop-up,

2488
02:37:08,282 --> 02:37:13,410
4.30 at the Alibi Room in Vancouver, British Columbia. So

2489
02:37:13,450 --> 02:37:16,375
Monday. A meet-up on Monday. That's kind of rare. Monday

2490
02:37:16,435 --> 02:37:19,390
Madness in Squim. Ah, yes, it's the 30th. That is

2491
02:37:19,490 --> 02:37:22,030
Barhop Brewing in Sequim. That'll be on the 30th. And

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of course, is that the 30th already? No, that can't

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02:37:26,343 --> 02:37:31,983
be the 30th. That's not the 30th. Is it? That

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02:37:32,023 --> 02:37:34,080
doesn't make any sense. Well, I think, no, that's the

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02:37:34,100 --> 02:37:37,935
25th. Is that the one Mimi's going to in Squim?

2496
02:37:39,731 --> 02:37:41,601
Well, the one in Sequim is the one she's going

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02:37:41,682 --> 02:37:44,074
to. Well, then that's the one on Monday. What we

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02:37:44,115 --> 02:37:47,151
do have coming up on the 30th is Anchorage, Alaska.

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02:37:47,859 --> 02:37:50,760
So please, people, go... Oh! And then we have, I

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02:37:50,942 --> 02:37:54,447
just have to mention this one, June 6th, Bila Tcherkva.

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02:37:54,771 --> 02:37:58,934
in kiev oblast ukraine man we get around with these

2502
02:37:58,974 --> 02:38:01,583
meetups we have people everywhere in the world, even in

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02:38:01,623 --> 02:38:05,170
war zones. So go to noagentameetups.com and find out where

2504
02:38:05,210 --> 02:38:08,998
you can join the party. Make some connection because these

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02:38:09,058 --> 02:38:11,903
connections give you protection. Everybody you meet at No Agenda

2506
02:38:11,923 --> 02:38:14,689
Meetup will be a first responder in any emergency you

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02:38:14,749 --> 02:38:17,094
have. Check them out. Go find one near you. If

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02:38:17,134 --> 02:38:19,619
you can't find one near you, here's an easy solution.

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02:38:19,851 --> 02:38:23,529
Start one. It's free, it's easy, and guaranteed always a

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02:38:23,590 --> 02:38:48,262
party. Noagendameetups.com. *music* Now this is weird. head That's very

2511
02:38:48,486 --> 02:38:53,461
odd. I had... Hmm. But my meetups are missing. My

2512
02:38:53,501 --> 02:38:57,677
ISOs are missing. How does that happen? You didn't do

2513
02:38:57,798 --> 02:39:00,540
any. I did. I certainly did do Mido. I had

2514
02:39:00,704 --> 02:39:03,347
four of them. You said meetups, not ISOs. I mean

2515
02:39:03,468 --> 02:39:06,726
ISOs. I'm confused, all right? I'm confused. Yeah, apparently. Yes,

2516
02:39:06,766 --> 02:39:09,200
my ISOs. My ISOs are missing. How did they go

2517
02:39:09,260 --> 02:39:14,454
missing? All right, well, I guess you win. This is

2518
02:39:14,554 --> 02:39:17,207
a cheap-ass way to get out of it. Well, I

2519
02:39:17,267 --> 02:39:20,481
can't help it. I mean, I've lost them. could spend

2520
02:39:20,561 --> 02:39:23,050
an hour looking for them. I mean, if you really

2521
02:39:23,090 --> 02:39:25,217
want to wait, but I'm... No, no, no, I don't

2522
02:39:25,377 --> 02:39:27,103
want to. No, no, no, no, no, no. Okay, well,

2523
02:39:27,123 --> 02:39:28,949
you get two chances here. Here we go. Which one

2524
02:39:28,969 --> 02:39:31,336
do we play first? Let's start with Nailed It. These

2525
02:39:31,457 --> 02:39:35,447
two geniuses nailed it again. Hey, she got a little

2526
02:39:35,507 --> 02:39:38,650
British there at the end. No, a little British accent,

2527
02:39:38,711 --> 02:39:42,447
yes. These two geniuses. nailed it again. She starts in

2528
02:39:42,507 --> 02:39:45,798
American and ends up in English. These two geniuses nailed

2529
02:39:45,858 --> 02:39:48,145
it again. Nailed it again. Okay, we nailed it again

2530
02:39:48,205 --> 02:39:52,110
then. What's the other one? Better podcast. Is there a

2531
02:39:52,170 --> 02:39:55,925
better podcast than this? I think not. All right, well,

2532
02:39:56,286 --> 02:39:58,355
we know what the answer is. Of course there's none

2533
02:39:58,395 --> 02:40:06,003
better than that. for the tip of the day. Just

2534
02:40:06,023 --> 02:40:10,897
the tip with JCB. And sometimes, Adam. All right, so

2535
02:40:10,938 --> 02:40:13,310
this is kind of a, it has a double effect

2536
02:40:13,410 --> 02:40:17,692
because it also plugs a veteran's operation, veteran-owned. Mm, very

2537
02:40:18,919 --> 02:40:21,644
nice. Blind Rabbits, the name of the company. And they

2538
02:40:21,704 --> 02:40:26,594
make something called Screw Lube 2. I'm sorry, Screw Lube.

2539
02:40:26,914 --> 02:40:31,864
And it's a two-ounce wood screw container of screw, a

2540
02:40:32,024 --> 02:40:35,772
lube for screws that's better than beeswax. It's better than

2541
02:40:35,812 --> 02:40:38,216
soap. It's good for if you've got like a three-

2542
02:40:38,236 --> 02:40:40,828
or four-inch screw that you've got to... put into some

2543
02:40:40,868 --> 02:40:46,729
wood you want. Screw lube. wood screw lubricant. from half

2544
02:40:46,870 --> 02:40:49,469
blind rabbit and you can find it on amazon it's

2545
02:40:49,510 --> 02:40:52,991
about nine bucks and it's A superior product is something

2546
02:40:53,071 --> 02:40:56,986
everyone should have for their... The pros use it. I

2547
02:40:57,047 --> 02:41:02,539
have screwed a lot. I cannot ever recall using screw

2548
02:41:02,640 --> 02:41:05,863
lube. Is that something you're supposed to use for screwing?

2549
02:41:06,699 --> 02:41:08,673
If you're going into wood, yeah, and it's a, if

2550
02:41:08,714 --> 02:41:11,656
you're going, say you've got more than an inch. Or

2551
02:41:11,696 --> 02:41:13,889
two inches. They got to go in two inches. You

2552
02:41:14,231 --> 02:41:15,900
have to back it off and push it back in

2553
02:41:15,920 --> 02:41:18,415
and back it off. No, you just use this stuff.

2554
02:41:18,435 --> 02:41:21,446
Go straight through. And it doesn't stain and it doesn't

2555
02:41:21,567 --> 02:41:25,394
cause issues. It doesn't cause problems. Yeah. You're supposed to

2556
02:41:25,674 --> 02:41:28,239
use screw lube. I can hear about five end of

2557
02:41:28,319 --> 02:41:31,705
show mixes coming from this very conversation. Give me the

2558
02:41:31,745 --> 02:41:33,688
name of the product again, John, so people can go

2559
02:41:33,748 --> 02:41:36,714
find it. Screw lube. Screw lube, everybody. There you go.

2560
02:41:36,754 --> 02:41:39,158
Another fine tip from John C. Dvorak. Find them all

2561
02:41:39,178 --> 02:41:53,279
at No Agenda. fun.com. Created by David Lurie. I am

2562
02:41:55,232 --> 02:41:58,635
off to the races after this production ends. We're on

2563
02:41:58,695 --> 02:42:01,517
our way to Austin. and on our way to Nashville.

2564
02:42:02,181 --> 02:42:06,325
Look out, Nashville. We're coming your way. And even though

2565
02:42:06,485 --> 02:42:09,493
I'm out there having a good time at the festival,

2566
02:42:10,134 --> 02:42:13,202
I will be ripping myself away from my wife and

2567
02:42:13,262 --> 02:42:17,132
friends to do this podcast for you on Sunday. And

2568
02:42:17,152 --> 02:42:19,658
I look forward to it because I love doing this

2569
02:42:19,698 --> 02:42:23,046
show. Do you love doing the show, John? Yes, and

2570
02:42:23,086 --> 02:42:25,477
that's why, according to Elon Musk, the show is so

2571
02:42:25,537 --> 02:42:29,885
good. Elon Musk said that? He got it. I should

2572
02:42:29,905 --> 02:42:32,614
clip it. He's going on about how some of his

2573
02:42:32,675 --> 02:42:35,283
cars are good because they're made with love and love

2574
02:42:35,444 --> 02:42:40,260
comes across to the eventual customer and they... I think

2575
02:42:40,320 --> 02:42:42,865
it's great because of that. If you hate doing the

2576
02:42:42,925 --> 02:42:46,151
show, it would come across as hate. Oh, no. It's

2577
02:42:46,352 --> 02:42:48,797
all about the love, baby. Yeah, there you go. Up

2578
02:42:48,817 --> 02:42:50,821
next on the NO Agenda stream and in your modern

2579
02:42:50,881 --> 02:42:54,468
podcast app, the Millennial Media Offensive. This will be episode

2580
02:42:54,488 --> 02:42:58,316
219. And end of show mixes. We got a few

2581
02:42:58,396 --> 02:43:02,725
for you. Danny Luce, Just Bake. MVP and Niko sign

2582
02:43:02,805 --> 02:43:07,556
back and doing his best until Sunday Remember us at

2583
02:43:07,596 --> 02:43:10,442
no agenda donations calm in the morning everybody. I'm Adam

2584
02:43:10,482 --> 02:43:14,110
curry. Yeah, and from refinery row I'm John C. Dvorak

2585
02:43:14,892 --> 02:43:18,199
Until then adios mo foes a hooey hooey and such

2586
02:43:40,327 --> 02:45:01,727
*outro* And it's a doozy, folks. Trump's in the big

2587
02:45:01,788 --> 02:45:08,238
chair, pulling every strange over. Two mega heavyweights, Marco and

2588
02:45:08,258 --> 02:45:13,345
young JD. He's running the rea- ♪ We show no

2589
02:45:13,365 --> 02:45:30,745
votes, no mercy ♪ This movie is- Who handles it

2590
02:45:30,909 --> 02:45:40,821
better? Trump's watching from the couch, deciding who. Who's the-

2591
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that gets the with that hillbilly ♪ Friendship ♪ Trump

2592
02:45:58,275 --> 02:46:01,237
tweets the results. You're hired or you're fired. 12 no

2593
02:46:05,175 --> 02:46:27,424
It's happening. ♪ And tame that Nigeria ♪ Ooh, hey!

2594
02:46:30,499 --> 02:46:40,784
From the couch deciding who's next. Not to re- the

2595
02:46:40,865 --> 02:47:04,772
night for 28 ♪ I just got no ♪ SHOOOOOO-

2596
02:47:05,703 --> 02:47:11,557
up to the dawn. Trump TV 2028, stay tuned for

2597
02:47:11,597 --> 02:47:22,248
this election. ♪ Connection is protection ♪ There's a woody

2598
02:47:22,308 --> 02:47:30,598
mystery waking us up. A sudden sensation, we can't really

2599
02:47:30,739 --> 02:47:43,416
stop. Bye. Wild momentum, that's hard to explain the world

2600
02:47:43,456 --> 02:47:49,293
tries to hide it but nature prevails in locker room

2601
02:47:49,413 --> 02:48:02,186
stories and locker room tales Well... We know physically magic

2602
02:48:02,708 --> 02:48:10,926
someday we'll find it the erection connection The horny, the

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hopeful, and me. Hearts with a fondle, spark in the

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02:48:18,871 --> 02:48:25,551
dark. ♪ Logical walk in the park ♪ ♪ From

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02:48:25,812 --> 02:48:31,051
morning till evening ♪ ♪ The energy grows and wears

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02:48:31,071 --> 02:48:38,388
♪ will lead us. Everybody knows an unstoppable force that

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02:48:38,469 --> 02:48:43,985
is ready to ♪ Happens to everyone ♪ ♪ Time

2608
02:48:44,168 --> 02:48:57,146
♪ I'm sorry. that it's physically ♪ Magic ♪ Someday

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02:48:57,449 --> 02:49:05,475
we'll find it. The erection. Connection Horny, the hopeful, and

2610
02:49:05,495 --> 02:49:11,091
me. ♪ Take some Noah Jan to Wisdom, dear ♪

2611
02:49:12,759 --> 02:49:20,817
I have to learn Thank you. Please. There was never

2612
02:49:20,957 --> 02:49:24,326
anything to even be afraid of. All that stuff. They

2613
02:49:24,346 --> 02:49:27,475
just made it up. Stop corrupting your mind. Stop wasting

2614
02:49:27,495 --> 02:49:35,930
your time and listen to No Jim. It's a philosophy,

2615
02:49:35,950 --> 02:49:39,920
and it's just like it ought to be. Shots of-

2616
02:49:39,899 --> 02:49:44,256
Until you see. Ask us, will it take to wake

2617
02:49:44,337 --> 02:49:47,916
you up? The being woke is a practical joke, a

2618
02:49:47,936 --> 02:49:51,647
backroom bank, a cigar smoking cane, tapping blokes, and you're

2619
02:49:51,728 --> 02:49:59,558
the punchline. No agenda. VALUE ♪ See, works itself out

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02:49:59,599 --> 02:50:03,190
♪ Naturally As far as who should and who should

2621
02:50:03,251 --> 02:50:07,018
not be listening Those who should do ♪ And they

2622
02:50:07,038 --> 02:50:13,480
give time and treasure to come to conclude ♪ to

2623
02:50:13,542 --> 02:50:33,296
like my Feels good too, that's true MoFo. Dvorak.org. than

2624
02:50:33,377 --> 02:50:35,279
this? I think not.