Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
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Speaker 1: A panel of judges of guys, of comics, of big names,
Speaker 1: and you get a minute, You do your stand up
Speaker 1: for a minute, and you either you kill it or
Speaker 1: you get killed is essentially the whole bit. I had
Speaker 1: never heard this podcast before I saw it on Netflix.
Speaker 1: It was pitched to me. I started watching it. They
Speaker 1: have a Donald Trump comedian thereon Gillis uh huh, does
Speaker 1: very well.
Speaker 2: I watched that right before I went to bed, and
Speaker 2: then I woke up.
Speaker 1: I'm listening to the news and I'm listening to Trump's
Speaker 1: comments at that dinner last night, and I was conflating
Speaker 1: the two because they were not that far different.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was pretty funny.
Speaker 3: Those people that do his do an impression of the president.
Speaker 3: They're really good freaking nail it. And I've heard in
Speaker 3: an interview with the guy who does it, Justin Austin,
Speaker 3: Tom Justin something Something, whatever's name is that does it
Speaker 3: on Saturday Night Live, and he described how he does it,
Speaker 3: like what are the what are the key things that
Speaker 3: he does to do an impression of Donald Trump, and
Speaker 3: you've when you listen to him, it's so easy, like
Speaker 3: he just boils it down to the simple things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but oh my gosh, that I was dying from
Speaker 1: that guy. He was the funniest thing last night on
Speaker 1: that Kill Tony. And I looked at the reviews. Apparently
Speaker 1: everyone who likes kill Tony hated the Netflix thing for
Speaker 1: a couple of reasons. Number one, Netflix is obviously trying
Speaker 1: to cater to a conservative comedy group. And number two,
Speaker 1: it's behind a paywall, and it was a week show
Speaker 1: of Kill Tony. It wasn't the best of the best.
Speaker 1: And and then all the liberals hate it because now
Speaker 1: this uh, this conservative comedy hours infiltrated their Netflix queue,
Speaker 1: and it's just it's a It's it's everything I hate
Speaker 1: about politics infiltrating something I love in comedy. You know,
Speaker 1: It's like, it was funny. I had a great time
Speaker 1: what I watched about an hour of it. Some guys
Speaker 1: got up there and just bombed. They were awful, and
Speaker 1: it was uncomfortable, and I loved being uncomfortable. Uncomfortable Tony
Speaker 1: was roasted a bunch like him or hate him, whatever. Okay,
Speaker 1: he spoke at one of Trump's rallies, Big deal, who cares?
Speaker 1: It's comedy For.
Speaker 3: A lot of people, they didn't know who Tony Hinchcliffe was,
Speaker 3: and did lighten up, lighten up? Well, here was the
Speaker 3: president last night at that at the dinner.
Speaker 4: And for those of you that want to know the
Speaker 4: tariffs you've been hearing about, tariffs were taking in almost
Speaker 4: two billion dollars a day in tariffs, two billion a day.
Speaker 4: And we're doing very well. And we're doing very well
Speaker 4: and making I call them tailor deals, not off the rack.
Speaker 4: These are tailored, highly tailored deals like.
Speaker 1: That com that that cut could have been in the
Speaker 1: comedy special, right. The other cut that could have been
Speaker 1: is you wouldn't believe it. I've got people from other
Speaker 1: countries that are coming in and they're kissing my ass
Speaker 1: like it's just this is exactly how he talks. The
Speaker 1: other quote coming out of Trump in the past twenty
Speaker 1: four hours be cool. He's like lu Wan had a
Speaker 1: real Housewives retreat. Be cool, don't be like uncool about
Speaker 1: the tariffs and what's going on on Wall Street. That
Speaker 1: was his message, Like it's nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he wrote that untruth social just before the market's
Speaker 3: opened or right after. Right at the beginning of the
Speaker 3: markets today, he wrote, be cool, Everything is going to
Speaker 3: work out well. The USA will be bigger and better
Speaker 3: than ever before. This is a great time to buy,
Speaker 3: he added two minutes later, stocks have been mixed. I mean,
Speaker 3: this is kind of the way we're going to have
Speaker 3: to be able to judge this right now, because this
Speaker 3: is the first real indicator that we've got. It will
Speaker 3: take a couple of days and weeks for us to
Speaker 3: figure out exactly what the tariffs.
Speaker 5: Will be doing. The now right now is been bouncing
Speaker 5: up and down.
Speaker 3: It's up fifty nine points right now, S and P
Speaker 3: five hundred Nasdaq also positive territory. The big winner today
Speaker 3: so far has been gold. Gold has been up about
Speaker 3: four percent, well over it's approaching that thirty one dollars
Speaker 3: announce Mark.
Speaker 1: I talked to some money guys last week, and when
Speaker 1: Trump says in all caps it's a great time to buy,
Speaker 1: that's not out of the line.
Speaker 2: Of advice that I read about, where.
Speaker 1: If you've got some fresh cash lying around, now may
Speaker 1: be a time for investment because the media is so negative. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm not giving advice. I'm just saying when I
Speaker 1: was reading advice, that's what it said.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I don't know how, but that's the biggest
Speaker 3: issue is if you've got the money right now to
Speaker 3: play with a lot of people are looking at it,
Speaker 3: and even if they do have the money to play with,
Speaker 3: they're you know, clenching tighter to that money now because
Speaker 3: of the app the uncertainty, and people are not they're
Speaker 3: not comfortable putting their money into a market that is uncomfortable.
Speaker 3: Well so, so last night, nine o'clock our time is
Speaker 3: when the tariffs went into full effect and China immediately
Speaker 3: announced retaliatory tariffs. Rise up right now, there is one
Speaker 3: hundred and four percent rate on Chinese goods coming into
Speaker 3: the United States and a twenty percent tariff on the
Speaker 3: European Union.
Speaker 1: We talked about it yesterday. China means business. They're here
Speaker 1: to play ball. The New York Times wrote it up
Speaker 1: as a risky game of chicken between the two and
Speaker 1: that's exactly what we're dealing with. We'll talk about the
Speaker 1: implications with China and how we could be hurt the
Speaker 1: most when it comes to things coming from China, like
Speaker 1: everything the President by the way last night said something about,
Speaker 1: you know, pharmaceuticals, and I'm like, maybe we got to
Speaker 1: sit this one out. We should sit this one out
Speaker 1: because a lot of the pharmaceuticals we rely on every
Speaker 1: day in this country come from China. Yeah, they come
Speaker 1: from other places. They come from the places that we
Speaker 1: have directly put a target on for these terrafts.
Speaker 3: Well, and what he wants is he wants to see
Speaker 3: those drug shakers make the drugs here in the area.
Speaker 1: You know what that there's a reason why companies moved
Speaker 1: it all to China. It's a hell of a lot
Speaker 1: cheaper because they don't have the regulations that we have.
Speaker 3: The one example that everybody's been talking about, we'll get
Speaker 3: into it as well later is the iPhone. The iPhone
Speaker 3: ubiquitous in terms of everybody knows somebody who has one.
Speaker 3: If you don't already have one yourself, are you willing
Speaker 3: to pay a few thousand dollars opposed to one thousand,
Speaker 3: a few thousand dollars for something like an iPhone because
Speaker 3: of these terrorists.
Speaker 5: That's just one of the examples. But all of that's
Speaker 5: still coming up.
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Speaker 2: Do you want to know what your drag queen name is?
Speaker 5: Didn't know that it was up in the air.
Speaker 1: Do we have any.
Speaker 2: Drag queen music?
Speaker 5: Of course we do?
Speaker 2: Why not?
Speaker 3: Non your dad booty, show me the booty, give me
Speaker 3: a yeah.
Speaker 1: That's okay, that's the word.
Speaker 2: Not this.
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 1: This is kind of your drag queen song. I can
Speaker 1: totally see you owning the stage with this. Your grandmother's
Speaker 1: first name, it's Dixie.
Speaker 2: Last dessert or sweet you ate.
Speaker 5: Maple cookie?
Speaker 1: Dixie, maple cookie, Elmer. I'm going to need your grandmother's name.
Speaker 1: Just pick one, Flavia and the last dessert or sweet
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Speaker 1: we haven't heard everybody else's is ke the okay?
Speaker 2: I need your your grandmother's name.
Speaker 1: Just pick one surely surely last dessert or sweet cake?
Speaker 2: Sureley cake.
Speaker 3: I would add an S to that and call her
Speaker 3: Shirley Cakes. Listen, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1: Mine is oh wait, Amy's not there. Mine is anime eminem.
Speaker 3: An eminem oh anime eminem Anime, Eminem and Shirley Cakes headlining.
Speaker 1: I like Flavia Mochi. That's who I'm showing up to see.
Speaker 5: Flavia is definitely the headline.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I can see her right now.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 3: President Trump on Monday announced that we are planning talks
Speaker 3: with Iran. Right, we're trying to get into and stop there.
Speaker 2: We're blowing them up, is what we're going to do.
Speaker 3: Well, here's here's some evidence that we may be doing both.
Speaker 3: There are now six B two bombers on Diego, Garcia,
Speaker 3: exactly what my whole island militarily run by the UK
Speaker 3: and their friends, and we put a.
Speaker 5: Bunch of ourselves.
Speaker 1: It's going to be the exclamation point. Kids, this is
Speaker 1: it's gonna be. Oh China, Oh, China is not gonna
Speaker 1: oh oh okay, all right, well, then we're going to
Speaker 1: drop bombs on Iran so that they don't have a
Speaker 1: nuclear weapon.
Speaker 3: Apparently, this is the largest single deployment of B two
Speaker 3: stealth bombers in the history of the United States since
Speaker 3: we've had them. Yes, and they forward deploy these six
Speaker 3: of them. And by the way, they don't I don't
Speaker 3: know if the hangars are large enough to put them inside.
Speaker 3: They intentionally park them on the taxiway.
Speaker 5: Big battle.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my penis is huge and it's stealthy, super or
Speaker 1: something like that. China doesn't want to play with it.
Speaker 1: We will give it to Iran to play with, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is all I don't.
Speaker 5: Know where you're going with that. I want to.
Speaker 1: This is all related the tariffs, the fact that China
Speaker 1: won't get involved the show of force against Iran.
Speaker 2: It's all involved.
Speaker 3: China, speaking of, has pushed back against the tariff pop.
Speaker 3: They've hiked levies on US imports to more than eighty percent.
Speaker 3: Tariffs on US goods that go into China will go
Speaker 3: to eighty four percent starting April tenth, that's tomorrow, according
Speaker 3: to the Office of the Tariff Commission of the State
Speaker 3: Council in China. This of course, comes in response to
Speaker 3: the US tariff increase on Chinese goods to more than
Speaker 3: one hundred percent that began last night. The European Union
Speaker 3: also voted today to approve its first set of retaliatory
Speaker 3: measures to counter the terriff imposed by the US on
Speaker 3: steel and aluminum. The European Commission Commission said that the
Speaker 3: duties would start being collected from April fifteenth. I wanted
Speaker 3: to add at least one voice into this, Jamie Diamond
Speaker 3: from CEO of JP Morgan Chase. He knows a thing
Speaker 3: or two about money. He has said, Yeah, this could
Speaker 3: get a lot worse.
Speaker 7: I'm taking a calm view, but I think it could
Speaker 7: get worse if we don't make some progress here. And
Speaker 7: of course, you know, trade wars you saw in China.
Speaker 7: Raise it rate today, you know, and people to get angry,
Speaker 7: and they're gonna have responses. And every country's got choices,
Speaker 7: so there are short term choices or long term choices.
Speaker 7: Let them settle down, take a deep breath, negotiate some
Speaker 7: trade deals.
Speaker 5: That's the best PA.
Speaker 2: I would love that to happen.
Speaker 1: I would love that all to happen, the settling down,
Speaker 1: the taking the deep breath. The United States comes out
Speaker 1: as getting a better deal with everybody globally, US doing
Speaker 1: better because of it, US bringing manufacturing back to America.
Speaker 2: I just don't think it's feasible.
Speaker 1: I mean, like I said earlier, there's a reason why
Speaker 1: CEOs have outsourced the manufacturing of goods to places like China, Vietnam, India.
Speaker 2: It's a hell of a lot cheaper. How would you
Speaker 2: make it cheaper here? You cannot?
Speaker 3: Well, and I just don't think that people have I
Speaker 3: agree that in general those would all be great things.
Speaker 5: I don't know if we have the appetite to wait
Speaker 5: for those things.
Speaker 6: We do not.
Speaker 3: And I mean you see that in the stock market again,
Speaker 3: it's not the wrecked indicator of the strength of the economy,
Speaker 3: but it is, you know, when people sell off things
Speaker 3: because they want to, you know, take the money. Now,
Speaker 3: we're just that's we're bad at We're bad at patients.
Speaker 3: We not just Americans, I mean we humans. We're just
Speaker 3: bad at patients.
Speaker 1: Well, and the inherent problem with this plan is that
Speaker 1: his term lasts four years. Even if we're good with patients,
Speaker 1: it does not matter. The next regime comes in and
Speaker 1: they change the game, and then suddenly you've had patience
Speaker 1: for what to see your your personal net worth go
Speaker 1: down substantially.
Speaker 5: Right. Here's one more comment from Jamie Diamond from this morning.
Speaker 7: I hope what they really do is let Scott Bessen
Speaker 7: when he's a professional negotiating. I know, Japan, see I gather, Korea,
Speaker 7: Vietnam called, and then adventually Europe get those things done
Speaker 7: quickly if you want to calm down the markets, show
Speaker 7: progress in those things and let Scott take the time.
Speaker 7: Trade deals are very large and very complex. They can't
Speaker 7: be done overnight, but you really have to have teams
Speaker 7: working them to get them right.
Speaker 3: So again, the one example that's been held up a
Speaker 3: lot is would you be willing to pay thousands of
Speaker 3: dollars for your iPhone? Or can you make it in
Speaker 3: the United States.
Speaker 2: Sure, it'll just cost a hell of a lot more.
Speaker 5: We'll talk about that we come back.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we were talking about the jet Set club in
Speaker 3: Santo Domingo, packed with musicians and professional athletes, government officials,
Speaker 3: when the ceiling collapsed just a couple days ago. Minutes later,
Speaker 3: the entire roof collapse. Concrete slabs that fell killed more
Speaker 3: than one hundred and thirteen people, trapped dozens of others
Speaker 3: on a dance floor. I had mentioned and at least
Speaker 3: one professional baseball player. A former player, Octavio Dotel, who
Speaker 3: I mentioned, had played for the Cardinals. He won a
Speaker 3: World Series with the Cardinals, but he played for thirteen
Speaker 3: other teams, including the Dodgers. So Golf Masters begins tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Golf coach Matt Thurman was escorted off the practice range
Speaker 3: this morning at the Masters at Augusta. Do you know
Speaker 3: why he was wearing shorts? And as a player or
Speaker 3: coach or caddie, you cannot wear shorts. You should on
Speaker 3: the course or the practice rung.
Speaker 2: He should know this. It's like the Yankees with facial hair.
Speaker 3: So he's working with this new amateur kid, Hosele Biastaire,
Speaker 3: I guess for this year's Masters, and he showed up
Speaker 3: on the practice range to help his buddy out, help
Speaker 3: his mentee, and the officials that Augusta escorted him off
Speaker 3: the course till he went to go change his pants.
Speaker 3: Angels beat the Rais yesterday four to three, four oh five,
Speaker 3: first pitch there in Tampa. Dodgers lost again to Washington
Speaker 3: eight to two, so they'll play. They have an afternoon game,
Speaker 3: so one oh five first pitch for them. We've been
Speaker 3: talking about the tariffs. Of course, China vowed to fight
Speaker 3: to the end in this escalating trade war with the
Speaker 3: United States, and they announced that they would raise tariffs
Speaker 3: on goods to eighty four percent starting tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Some people are visiting Apple stores this week they want
Speaker 1: to get an upgrade on their iPhone before the prices
Speaker 1: of the iPhones rise. China, obviously, is where Apple produces
Speaker 1: the bulk of its iPhones. Insert sweatshop stupid joke here.
Speaker 1: With Trump increasing the minimum tariff on Chinese goods to
Speaker 1: one hundred and four percent, this will drive up the
Speaker 1: cost of Chinese made goods in the United States, which
Speaker 1: is pretty much I don't want to say everything, but
Speaker 1: it's Chinese made goods. Are you abiquitous? And the iPhone
Speaker 1: is just a really great example of one. The thing
Speaker 1: with the iPhone, I don't understand why it's such a
Speaker 1: talking point with this is it's something that you buy
Speaker 1: and then you've bought it. It's not something you buy
Speaker 1: every week. It's not the stuff at the grocery store.
Speaker 1: It's not the reoccurring costs of the things from China
Speaker 1: that we're going to be buying hell of a lot
Speaker 1: more than the iPhone. You buy a new Well, I
Speaker 1: buy a new iPhone, and then I wait several years
Speaker 1: before I buy the next one. I will buy the
Speaker 1: next one in the next administration, probably, So that's not
Speaker 1: gonna that's.
Speaker 5: Not gonna effect you because you and I are the
Speaker 5: same way.
Speaker 3: And that I I'm not getting rid of that thing
Speaker 3: for a long time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the new iPhone doesn't come out and I go,
Speaker 1: I have to get it. I have to pay one
Speaker 1: thousand dollars to get something that has a better camera.
Speaker 2: Like, that's just not how I live.
Speaker 1: I know that people do live that way, But there's
Speaker 1: so much other stuff from China that's gonna hurt every
Speaker 1: day every week starting now.
Speaker 3: Well, and I think it's it's because it is a
Speaker 3: significant piece of technology. It's not a piece of plastic
Speaker 3: that we're getting from China. It's something that is an
Speaker 3: example of how complicated international manufacturing has become. So Fox
Speaker 3: Cohn makes the iPhones, They assemble the iPhones. They employ
Speaker 3: about three hundred thousand people in iPhone City. It's a
Speaker 3: place called Jengzhu, China. And Apple, knowing that this tariff
Speaker 3: thing was down was coming down the pike, they had
Speaker 3: said they would be outsourcing some of their phone assemblies
Speaker 3: to India, which has its own manufacturing workforce already in
Speaker 3: place and ready to go. If you were to do
Speaker 3: this in the United States, and again that's part of
Speaker 3: what the pressure is is to get manufacturing back into
Speaker 3: the United States. That kind of internationally sourced parts and
Speaker 3: pieces that go into a product like an iPhone would
Speaker 3: mean you would have to have similar set up here
Speaker 3: in North America. For example, about forty different parts and
Speaker 3: pieces from the iPhone come from different countries. Most of
Speaker 3: the complex and the specialized pieces come from about a
Speaker 3: half a dozen countries, and.
Speaker 5: Those are made in or near China.
Speaker 3: China's close to Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, where some of
Speaker 3: the other big important pieces come from. The only realistic
Speaker 3: path to an assembly line here in the United States
Speaker 3: is to reconstruct the supply chain by shifting some of
Speaker 3: the components out of Asia into North America, Canada, Mexico,
Speaker 3: something like that, and even northern Europe. But that's difficult.
Speaker 3: That doesn't just happen automatically. It's taken decades for that
Speaker 3: supply chain to develop into China. It would take arguably
Speaker 3: as much time maybe to redevelop here if the United
Speaker 3: States was to kind of be the key for all
Speaker 3: of it. The other thing is it would require a
Speaker 3: dramatic increase in the amount of manufacturing jobs here in
Speaker 3: the United States. I mentioned that there's about three hundred
Speaker 3: thousand that live and work in this iPhone city, this
Speaker 3: jiang Zhu, China that work for Fox con Hiring is
Speaker 3: one of the biggest problems that we face here in
Speaker 3: the United States. There's a skills gap. In twenty seventeen,
Speaker 3: Tim Cook said the incentive to build in China wasn't
Speaker 3: the fact that it was cheap labor. Tim Cook said,
Speaker 3: it's that it's advanced tooling and that the United States
Speaker 3: you could have a meeting of tooling engineers and they
Speaker 3: couldn't fill a room. In China, you could fill football
Speaker 3: stadiums with people who know how to engineer the.
Speaker 5: Team as it would be required.
Speaker 2: We know this.
Speaker 3: So all of this thing then it takes mountains of money.
Speaker 3: Not only do you have to have the jobs, you
Speaker 3: have to have the parts. You have to have the
Speaker 3: money to just build a facility somewhere. Where are you
Speaker 3: going to put that? In China, they have a city,
Speaker 3: They literally have us yep that they build this stuff
Speaker 3: and we don't have the place for it.
Speaker 1: So it's why we ride. It's a small world. Different
Speaker 1: lands bring us different things. You know, I'm not going
Speaker 1: to go to China for for a hot dog. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to go to the side of garlic fries.
Speaker 1: That's that is a brilliant analogy. Thank you, Thank you
Speaker 1: very much. You've seen land Man. This headline reminded me
Speaker 1: of land Man. Oh Mexico warrens against potential US drone
Speaker 1: strikes on cartels.
Speaker 2: Could you imagine that? I wouldn't. I don't think that's
Speaker 2: a bridge too far either.
Speaker 5: It's not. It's not too far away from reality. Right.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about what the likelihood that will be that
Speaker 1: the US would deploy drones against the cartels there at
Speaker 1: the border.
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Speaker 1: We're following for you today and we continue to check
Speaker 1: up on Wall Street. Another volatile day. Stocks have been lower,
Speaker 1: have been up and down since then, per usual. A
Speaker 1: China announcing an additional fifty percent in retaliatory tariffs on
Speaker 1: US imports today in response to the one hundred and
Speaker 1: four percent tariffs on Chinese imports announced overnight.
Speaker 3: The president of Iran has again said what We're not
Speaker 3: trying to get a nuclear bomb US. This, of course,
Speaker 3: coming ahead of talks between Tehran and the United States,
Speaker 3: eve entangled the prospect of direct American investment in Iran
Speaker 3: if they can reach some kind of a deal. This
Speaker 3: President Makmood Poseshkian said that this is not the previous
Speaker 3: stance from Iran after the twenty fifteen nuclear deal at
Speaker 3: the time. Back then, Iran sought to buy American airplanes,
Speaker 3: but in effect barred US companies from coming into the country,
Speaker 3: such that business proposal could now draw the interest of
Speaker 3: President Trump.
Speaker 5: We shall see how it goes.
Speaker 1: On Saturday, there are reports the Trump administration is considering
Speaker 1: drone strikes against cartels. The Mexican President Claudia Sinbaum has
Speaker 1: reiterated her strong opposition to anything of the sort. She
Speaker 1: told reporters today, we do not agree with any kind
Speaker 1: of intervention or interference. This has been very clear, very
Speaker 1: sensitive topic, as you can imagine. They say that it
Speaker 1: has been talked about in the current administration aerial strikes
Speaker 1: on cartel targets, and that the administration is prepared to
Speaker 1: act unilaterally if Washington cannot secure Mexican support, why wouldn't it.
Speaker 1: That is the way that this administration likes to operate unilaterally.
Speaker 2: I will just do it. We don't want to wait
Speaker 2: for the okay, what is it? Ask forgiveness and not permission.
Speaker 1: Yesterday, NBC News sited six current and former US of
Speaker 1: officials saying that Trump is weighing drone strikes to crack
Speaker 1: down on the narcotics that have streamed across the border.
Speaker 3: There is an agreement in place. What I don't quite
Speaker 3: understand is what Claudia Scheinbaum. What is Claudia Shinbaum's view
Speaker 3: on Mexican drug cartels.
Speaker 1: Well, it's a very delicate relationship between the powers that
Speaker 1: be in Mexico and the cartels. Look no further than
Speaker 1: al Chapo and what he was able to do for
Speaker 1: governmental figures and the community as well. I mean, they
Speaker 1: are you think our government's in bed with the FDA
Speaker 1: and the pharmaceutical companies. This is a government that's in
Speaker 1: bed with the cartels. It's a dangerous trip wire exercise
Speaker 1: in terms of surgically going after the cartels without going
Speaker 1: after the Mexican government.
Speaker 3: But there is an agreement in place right now to
Speaker 3: a stepped up military surveillance and CIA surveillance flights over
Speaker 3: Mexico in an attempt to gather information about what the
Speaker 3: cartels are and what they're doing. And I don't know
Speaker 3: enough about that agreement. I would hope that that would
Speaker 3: include intelligence sharing, not just from what we get sharing
Speaker 3: with Mexico, but what Mexico has and knows that they
Speaker 3: would share with us.
Speaker 1: Mexico's not going to share anything. Mexico cares about money.
Speaker 1: Mexican government cares about money they get from the cartels.
Speaker 1: That's why there's so much poverty. The government doesn't care
Speaker 1: about the people in Mexico, and they certainly don't care
Speaker 1: about sharing anything with us.
Speaker 3: There's a guy who is a professor of government at Cornell,
Speaker 3: Gustavo Flores Masius. He said the Mexican government would face
Speaker 3: if there were drone strikes, the Mexican government would face
Speaker 3: tremendous domestic pressure to respond in the strongest possible terms,
Speaker 3: including severing diplomatic relations with the United States and collapsing
Speaker 3: bi national cooperation on migration, security and other topics. That
Speaker 3: to me is an how could you possibly do that?
Speaker 3: They in terms of the share of geography that we
Speaker 3: have with Mexico.
Speaker 1: This is the administration liking the idea of sending drones
Speaker 1: to take out cartels. It's very Saturday Morning cartoon. It's
Speaker 1: very cool sounding. Let's send in the drones and that
Speaker 1: way we can say we're fighting the drugs flowing across
Speaker 1: the border. But when you get into what that all means,
Speaker 1: like what you were just saying, it gets very much
Speaker 1: more complicated than just a showing of air power.
Speaker 3: There was a when Claudia Scheinbaum took office. It was
Speaker 3: a strict departure from President Manuel. A lot of names,
Speaker 3: too many names, many of I think I got three
Speaker 3: out of the six. Yeah, he talked about hugs not bullets,
Speaker 3: and that's always a great slogan, mean bloone. She at
Speaker 3: least was able to drop that and has a sort
Speaker 3: of backbone to her when it comes to fighting these cartels.
Speaker 2: Well it's not hugs.
Speaker 3: Well, there's an awful story that has been bubbling in
Speaker 3: the valley in this valley, San Fernando Valley that reached
Speaker 3: up into the Antalope Valley as well. This soccer coach
Speaker 3: who is now accused of killing a thirteen year old
Speaker 3: soccer kid. There has been a history of abuse.
Speaker 2: To which the question comes to mind right away.
Speaker 1: Why was he free? Why was he in this country?
Speaker 1: Why was he allowed to continue coaching kids. We'll get
Speaker 1: into that history when we come back to Gary and Shannon.
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