Speaker 1: And here we go. Look who's back. Welcome to the
Big Podcast. It's Friday. Today is the twenty sixth day
of September, Year of Our Lord, twenty twenty five. My
name is Tom Sullivan. And yeah, yeah, yeah, I wasn't
on the sick, lame and lazy list. I've been gone
for three days only because I was out in California.
I was asked by the city of Folsom to keynote
speak at their gathering about the future of that city.
And so Tuesday I had to travel out there. Wednesday,
I gave the speech, and then I went around in
a bunch of other business while I was there, and
then yesterday flew back. So it took three days to
do a forty five minute speech. But no, I mean
the city of Let me tell you something about the
city of Fulsham. And I was kind of teasing the
people there about this. I said, you know, and if
I asked ten people on the sidewalk of New York City,
what do you know about Fulsom, California, they would say, well,
let's see, Oh yeah, that's Johnny Cash went to fulsome prison,
the famous Fulsom prison. And it's all true. And I
think even Metallica went there. So it's an old, old prison,
still used, still full of convicts that are in there,
but the city itself. I used to live in that area,
but it's been nineteen years and they asked me to
They asked me to come speak to them about growth
and the economy and where we stick today and how
to go about the process of growing the economy. And
I got there and I haven't seen that area in
a couple of decades. But I'm thinking, no, they they
should be the ones teaching me about growth because the
city has absolutely exploded. It's all brand new buildings. As
far as the eye can see, homes. They've been building
homes there. You can you can see lots and lots
and lots of new home construction, a lot of commercial
building construction, a lot of a lot of oh medical centers,
a bunch of big medical centers located facilities there, which
helps with a lot of retired people who especially in
primarily the San Francisco Bay area, and also la that
they're retired and they want but one of the things
that retired people seem to like is being near, getting
out of the busyness of the big city and the
noise and the crime and the violence and everything else,
but being near some quality medical care. In other words,
you don't want to move out to the middle of
nowhere and be hours away from having a doctor at
your disposal. So that's that they've got major medical facilities,
major hospitals, the whole business are all located there, and
it's all It was interesting. So there was a panel
of people that were all the way from from Microsoft
and commercial development, land development, real estate, medicine. One of
the big utility companies was there. So the idea that
you've got to have because it's also what happened to
Fulsom was I don't know how many years ago, was
thirty forty forty years ago Intel opened a huge facility
there and Intel was the giant of semiconductors in that
whole business, and yet it did not really spur the
kind of development that they have today where they've got
all the big micro micron and all the big tech
companies are now located there and that's just bringing in
more and more people as they continue to grow. So
it was it was an honor of surprise, a pleasure
to see Fulsom California. The other thing that happened. When
it was there, I met the mayor, yep, Mayor Sarah,
and she told me with pride, she said, I saw
her before I gave my speech, and she said it
was Wednesdays. It was Tuesday nights. They had a city
council meeting there and they voted to cut spending and
they had a bunch of different cuts that they made.
And I said that should be national news because I'm
always griping about the fact that government never ever seems
to want to do anything other than the increase spending.
And they argue about what to do with the increased
revenue coming into, the tax money coming in, but they
never talked about cutting anything. So the city of Fulsom
California just voted to do spending cuts. So a way
to go, congratulations. I think it's terrific. So that's what
I've been up to the last few days. But back
to the Salt Mine, and we've got a lot to
cover the day. The big story obviously is James Comy
and the indictment that was handed down, and this goes back.
You actually have to go back to twenty seventeen and
actually twenty sixteen, the election between Donald Trump and Hillary
Clinton and just before the election. This is where I
don't know what's going to happen, if he's going to
be convicted or not, but he's going to be reigned
on October ninth, and we'll let the courts take it
from there. But this is you go back to twenty sixteen,
and I will never forget the fact that we cut
into programming because he was then the head of the FBI,
and he came out and he said, this is like
a week before election day, and he came out and said,
I know you know this, but he just absolutely tore
Hillary Clinton from one side to the other, up and
down about what a terrible, reckless person she was. And
then he said, but there's no prosecutor that would ever
prosecute her for this. First of all, he's the FBI
director's he wasn't the attorney general. He's not a brad.
Police are not prosecutors. Police enforce the law, but they
do not prosecute people. And so he had no business
standing up there talking to the national media about Hillary
Clinton and the fact that he wasn't going to charge
her with anything. That's not up to him. It's up
to the attorney general. But the whole thing it shows
is that the man had loose lips. He just one
of those guys who loved the cameras, and the cameras
were all there, and he loves standing up in front
of the cameras and blabbing his mouth off. And Hillary
Clinton to this day still blames him for her loss.
I don't know if that's true, but it's possible that
he cost Hillary the election. It was close. So that
was twenty sixteen. Twenty seventeen, he was before Congress and
Charles Grassley, the senator from Iowa, was asking him about
his investigation regarding not only Hillary Clinton, but also what
about this Russia, Russia, Russia then that everybody's focusing on.
In twenty seventeen, regarding Donald Trump. Here's from twenty seventeen,
Grassy questioning Comy director Comy.
Speaker 2: Have you ever been an anonymous source in news reports
about matters relating to the Trump investigation or the Clinton investigation?
Speaker 3: Never?
Speaker 2: Question two one, relatively related, Have you ever authorized someone
else at the FBI to be an anonymous source in
news reports about the Trump investigation or the Clinton investigation?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: So there you go. The answer was never and no,
So then we go fast forward up to twenty twenty.
Here's Senator Ted Cruz talking under oath in front of
Congress in questioning James Colemay on May third, twenty seventeen.
In this committee, Chairman Grassley asked you, point blank, quote,
have you ever been an anonymous source in news reports
about matters relating to the Trump investigation of the Clinton investigation?
You responded under oath quote never. He then asked you, quote,
have you ever authorized someone else at the FBI to
be an anonymous source in news reports about the Trump
investigation or the Clinton administration? You responded again under oath No. Now,
as you know, mister McCabe, who works for you as
publicly and repeatedly stated that he leaked information to the
Wall Street Journal and that you were directly aware of
it and that you directly authorized it. Now, what mister
McCabe is saying and what you testify to this committee
cannot both be true.
Speaker 2: One or the other is false.
Speaker 3: Who's telling the truth. I can only speak to my testimony.
I stand by what the testimony you summarized that I
gave in May of twenty seventeen.
Speaker 1: So your testimony is you've never authorized anyone to leak,
and mister McCabe, when if he says contrary is not
telling the truth?
Speaker 3: Is that correct? Yeah, I'm not going to characterize Andy's testimony,
but mine is the same today.
Speaker 1: But I have to remind you he was talking about
Andrew mccab who was the number two guy at the
FBI under James Comey. And what happened to Andrew McCabe.
They fired him for line to the internal investigators at
the FBI. So McCabe is a certified car carrying liar.
And maybe Komy's right, maybe he was telling the truth
and McCabe was not. But Ted Cruz is trying to
get to the bottom of somebody was lying. After the
indictment was handed down late yesterday, Koby posted this online.
Speaker 3: My family and I have known for years that there
are costs to standing up to Donald Trump, but we
couldn't imagine ourselves living any other way. We will not
live on our knees and you shouldn't either. Somebody that
I love dearly recently said that fear is the tool
of a tyrant, and she's right. But I'm not afraid,
and I hope you're not either. I hope instead you
are engaged, you are paying attention, and you will vote
like your beloved country depends upon it, which it does.
My heart is broken for the Department of Justice, but
I have great confidence in the federal judicial system. And
I'm innocent, so let's have a trial and keep the faith.
Speaker 1: So I have faith in the judicial system too. He was.
He was a wrecking ball I think at the FBI.
I mean, again, going back to the Hillary Clinton episode.
What egotistical I'm the most important person. I'm more important
than my boss. That was what he has. That's the
way he operated. And so his ego has gotten in
the way, and we'll see what the judicial system says.
But if he wants to have a trial, I'm hearing
from lawyers in that part of the world that the
Eastern District of Virginia is very quick and even though
the enrayment isn't until October ninth, that's two weeks away.
It's he's going to get a fairly quick trial. So
we'll figure out what the real store is about Jim
Comey when that comes along. There's no question that he
and President Trump do not like each other. For good reason.
Coomie was very much behind all of the what turned
out to be fake Russia Russia Russia investigation. Here's Donald
President Trump before he left this morning from the White House.
Speaker 5: I think there'll be others. I mean that corrupt, these
were corrupt radical left democrats. Has told me essentially was
that he's worse than a Democrat. I would say the
Democrats are better than Komy. But no, there'll be all this.
Look it was that's my opinion.
Speaker 1: So there will be others, he said. And you can
bet that they're all lowering lawyering up Brennan, all those Clapper,
they're all were involved in this whole fakery that turned
out truly turned out to be fake information about Russia, Russia, Russia.
So we'll see where we go from here. But this
late this afternoon, James call me came out with yet
another post. But he can't help himself. He loves to
do the camera. His mouth is getting him in more trouble.
I mean, everybody's been taught that hapn' they And yet
here's what he had to say this afternoon. He's try
to he's trying to dare people to come after him.
Speaker 6: I'm still considered a villain in Maga world.
Speaker 3: I hope.
Speaker 6: I said that correctly. Although I've offended enough people in
Maga world, it doesn't matter at this point. I'm not
sure exactly why that is. I often joke on the
relationship that Trump can't get over wakes up in the
middle of the night thinking about me and how I'm
living my best life. I think it has some combination
of I really have had a happy, productive life since then,
and then I spoke out about him and that despite
their absolute best efforts, there never able to get me.
Speaker 1: They were never able to get me. So he is
putting this on the fact that Prump's coming after him
simply because of revenge. But if Colemy could look in
the mirror honestly for just a moment, there's no question
the guy has a massive ego. He thinks he's the
most important person out there, and he has a big mouth,
and both of those will get you in trouble every
single time. Jim Trustee, former federal prosecutor, he is looking
at the case this way, well.
Speaker 7: Probably, I mean, you do have a grand jury that indicted,
They carefully considered the case. They actually shaved it down
to an area that makes a lot of sense. You know,
nobody's actually talking about the specifics of his false statement.
But this was a director of the FBI who had
a special employee designed for one purpose to leak things
to the New York Times. Now, when he was pressed
in Congress on whether or not he had leaked something,
he had authorized the leak of a memo he retained
wrongfully at his house. He said, no, that's not my recollection.
They challenge him about McCabe, another guy who had referrals
to the Inspector General for lying, and comy said that's
not my recollection. So, in a weird way, through all
this chaos, through all this kind of political interest of
what's going on behind closed doors, who knew what? At
the end of the day, the indictment that's left is
actually pretty simple. He either lied about leaking to The
New York Times in a tantrum because he is getting fired,
or he didn't. And I don't think it's going to
lend itself to the easy dismissals that some of your
other folks have been saying they're going to get.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 7: I think there's a lot that's unusual. I don't envy
Lindsay Halligan being put into the storm but I don't
really think that Lindsay is the one that's necessarily making
all the decisions here. We don't know what's happening behind
closed doors at the US Attorney's office. We don't know
how long the Deputy AG and AG have been on
this matter, deciding whether or not they think it's a case.
And let me just tell you, you know, there's different things.
Selective prosecution and vindictive prosecution tore two separate things. But
at the end of the day, if you're able to
point to an Inspector General report and say, hey, look,
here's the Inspector General specifically saying Comy set a dangerous
example for thirty five thousand FBI employees because he wrongly
leaked information to the New York Times that he shouldn't
have even possessed. That's their finding and that investigation. And
so if you have witnesses that are locked in, if
you've talked to the special employee, maybe you've even talked
to the New York Times, I mean, there may be
ways of proving this case quite nicely at Comy's expense.
And before we relegate him to pet status for being
such a patriotic hero, let's remember his little seashell shenanigans
where a former director of the FBI makes fun of
killing the president. Well, he wasn't indicted for the Seashells.
He was indicted as a chief law enforcement officer. Well,
I look, this is not something where she's going to
come in and say I don't want to hear from others.
I mean, odds are that for a high profile case
like this. The Attorney General, the Deputy Attorney General, and
perhaps many people around them, including some senior people from
Eastern District of Virginia, have been talking about this case
for a while. You know, Yeah, there was four years
of silence when Garland was the AG and there was
not a snowballs chance in hell of Comy facing trouble.
But in terms of the last six months, there's probably
been a lot of robust conversation about the good, the bad,
and the ugly of indicting James Comy. So I'm not
really prepared to assume that this was just this imperial
moment of Lindsay Halligan announcing from on high she's going
to indict it no matter what the evidence is. I
think there's probably a lot of authors of this indictment
besides the person that signs it, which is typical. The
Inspector General report from August to twenty nineteen, and by
the way, I have to give the date because Comy
had like five negative Inspector General reports for abusing his
position and violating DOJ policy, including what he did with
Hillary Clinton. I mean, the common denominator for everything that
gets him in trouble is hue. He writes books, he
finds seashells, he announces that there's a tyrant in the
White House. This guy thinks he's much taller than he is.
And the bottom line is that brings that invites this
type of problem. But when I look at the Inspector
General report, I think there's at least a valid basis
for getting the indictment. How it plays out a trial,
how it's pretrol motions, I don't know yet, but we'll see.
I mean, are you sing? Look, can any of us
be surprised that a guy who went through four years
of insanely weaponized DJ, including komy at the Helm, would
have some animus towards him? Of course, he has some
animis towards him. What I was actually heartened to see,
and you played big trucks is him kind of backing.
But let me just say he also modified a lot
of this to say, Hey, I've got people with DOJ
making this decision. I just think Comy's a bad guy.
Look from everything I've seen about Jim Comy and from
FBI agents that I talk to, and I'm talking about
a lot of people that are former agents that are
around for a long time, they realized that Comy did
lasting damn image to the FBI and his behavior, his
ambush interviews of Flynn, his little jokes on the beach,
his condescending and obnoxious behavior, even in the Hillary Clinton
situation where he, as a former deputy Attorney General, had
no business going out there and talking about that case
at all. But this is a guy who injects himself
into the spotlight because he thinks he's so important.
Speaker 1: There's a lot there and Jim Trusty has a long,
long cut, but he is a good lawyer. He's a
former federal prosecutor. He knows what he's talking about. And
we'll see where the justice system takes this. I presume
Comey's going to want a jury trial, and it's in Virginia,
which is more blue than red. So we'll see where
this goes. In other news of the day, there's a
lot going on. We've got the TikTok deal that in
the last three days has been assigned into There's still
has to be approved by China. And also I'm not
sure if Congress needs to but there needs to be
regulatory approval of the fact that TikTok will be an
American operated company. The other thing people seem to be
getting all upset about, and I don't know why, is
Secretary Pete Hegseth is asking all generals from one star
to four star in all flag officers, all the admirals
to show up at Quantico, Virginia next Tuesday. And they're wondering,
what are you going to say to them? That's none
of our business. If he's talking to the Secretary of Defense, sorry,
Secretary of War, is talking to the top echelons of
the military, I would think that that should be private.
I mean, the last thing they want to do is
share their information with all of our enemies around the world.
I do find it odd that it's not done via
technology that we don't have. They don't have zoom meetings
or something. And I know they have all kinds of
classified You can't you know, they got ways to do
things so that people can't break into the meeting. That
would be a lot easier, it would be faster, it
would be simpler. But I came from the world where
a lot of corporations to this day still bring in
their top people for big conventions where they press the flesh.
Nothing better than pressing the flesh. You can speak to
somebody over the telephone, you can see somebody over your tablet,
but there is nothing that replaces the human one on
one pressing the flesh, grabbing that hand and shaking it.
And so I don't know what they're going to do,
but this is kind of a regular operator procedure in
the private sector world. But people are all nervous about
why is Haig sayth doing this. I don't know, and
I don't think we'll ever find out. The other thing
that is going on is the the guy who shot
up the ice office. The guy who shot up the
ice office and killed the detainees. Apparently his motive was
to kill ice officers. He killed one detainee, leaving two
others seriously injured. Before he did the typical turned his
gun on himself. But after they've searched his homes, they
found notes that he left behind revealing that he hoped
to inflict terror on the ICE agents and wrote, yes,
it was just me. In other words, there's nobody else
involved here. That they were ICE agents, were merely working
to collect a dirty paycheck, and he tended to maximize
lethality against them and to maximize property damage at the facility.
So the guy was a really bad shot. He sprayed
bullets indiscriminately into the facility, stood on the nearby rooftop,
and then killed himself. But I mean, it's just the
guy's crazy. He's just crazy. I don't know what else
you can say about him. Cash Patel said that he
also left the bullet casings engraved with the phrase anti ICE,
which is his ideological motive behind the attack, and that
he had conducted multiple searches of ballistics and he also
conducted searches of the Charlie Kirk shot video that was
in the days leading up to the shooting. But he's
been doing this. He's been planning this for a very
long time, for months, according to the FBI in Dallas.
So this is intended to do an assault on ICE personnel.
ICE is their law enforcement, their police. They're targeted police
on people that are here illegally. So if we got
twenty million people that came in across the border when
Joe opened up the gates, how do we get them
back out again? And there are lots of ways to
do it. One of the ways is to try to
incentivize them, and Homeland Security seems to be trying to
do that. They're running the ad saying you should leave,
and if you leave, we'll give you some money and
we'll buy you a ticket. So I'm curious as to
what the numbers are of how many people of the
twenty million have left, and how many of the people
that came across the border illegally are part of the
roundup that they've done so far. But they've got a
big mountain to climb. Twenty million people is going to
take a while, So this isn't going to stop anytime soon.
That Yahoo, Benjaminette Yahoo was at the United Nations this morning.
He's going to stick around here in the US until
Monday's meeting with the President in the White House on Monday.
They're old friends, but they're going to have a come
to Jesus moment when it comes to what Israel is
doing and what Trump wants them to or not do.
Katie McFarlane, Oh, I thought, let me go back to
the speech at the un so net and Yahoo gets
up there and all of a sudden he had to
wait because there was a crowd I wanted. It was
more than half, maybe two thirds of the delegates to
the United Nations got up and left before he could
say a word. And that's not surprising. The United Nations
has for years, I want to say decades, they have
been anti Israel in every single one of their actions.
They always are anti Israel. So Benjaminette Yahoo gave a speech.
People left, They did not want to hear what they
didn't want to hear. Katie McFarlane used to be the
deputy National security officer in the Trump one point zero
KT had this to say about what happened.
Speaker 8: So here's what happened.
Speaker 3: I mean.
Speaker 8: President Trump gave his address at the United Nations, and
on the sidebar in that he had a separate meeting
with a lot of Arab and Muslim leaders, people who
part of the Abrahamic corus. But the people he's been
talking to all along and what looks like it came
out of that was a Trump proposed peace plan which
looks kind of like the following immediate cease fire, all
hostages go back. Israel does not occupy Gaza. Israel does
not have any annexation or new territories in the West
Banker in Gaza. A post Gaza post Hamas government does
not include new Hamas. Might be the British primeate Fromer
Prime Minister Tony Blair would somehow work with technocrats to
have a post Hamas government, but it all is predicated
on one thing, eliminate Hamas, because Hamas will agree to
none of this. President Netnyahu has just talked about it
and he said, you've got to get rid of Hamas.
So I think that the next step is that they
obliterate Hamas and then all the other Arab countries in
the region. Maybe they're going to say strong words, but
they're going to be applauding on the sidelines, or they
want to be part of the solution. Here's the thing.
Israel doesn't want to occupy Gasa, but the other air
of nations, for the first time under President Trump's leadership,
seemed to be talking at least on the sidelines about
what kind of a post Hamas Palestine, Gaza plus the
West pak what would that look like? And that would
be probably spent and paid for by the rich golf
Arab countries. That would be participation of Palasinians. But everybody
agrees no Hamas, No Hamas, and the government no Hamas.
Speaker 1: So everybody agreed no Hamas anywhere not in the government
not remaining. Clear them out and then move on with
trying to re establish peaceful relations. The Jeremy Diamond, who
worked for CNN, was in Doha and sat down with
the leader of Hamas and this is what he had
to say.
Speaker 4: If you look to the you know assembly yesterday went
about one hundred and ninety four people opened their eyes
and looked to the actricity, to brutility of Israel and
all of them that condemned Israel. We waited for this
moment for seventy seven years. I think this is a
golden moment for the world to change the history. I
think that now the world is a change. The history
has a changed now.
Speaker 3: And you're here.
Speaker 1: Sixty five thousand deaths is worth it in order to
achieve what you've achieved.
Speaker 4: Look I know the press so high, but I m
ask you again, what is the what is show it?
What is what is the what is the option lifted
the person?
Speaker 1: You know what?
Speaker 4: We waited for a peaceful process, for a peaceful means
since nineteen for ninet ten ninety three. Is it's also agreement?
Tell now, I think it is miracle because the rockets
are very close to us, we are under target and
it was a brutal attack on us. So I think
it was long and very strong message to us and
even to Katari that we are not interested in negotiation.
We want to kill, we want to destroy, we want
to assassinate. This is our own policy to handle the
whole situation.
Speaker 1: So there you go. They want to kill, they want
to destroy, they want to handle the whole situation. He
was asked about whether or not MS will give up ruling,
and they said, yeah, we'll give up ruling. But you
can't separate us from the Palestinian people. We are one
and the same. So no, no, they weren't bending at all,
like they have not bent at all during the last
three years. So that continues on. We have, oh, some
news out of television land Sinclair, which is the second
largest television ownership group in the country. They own one
hundred and eighty five television stations, a number of them
are ABC stations. They made the announcement that they are
going to end their boycott of Jimmy Kimmel and that
Kimmel will be back on the air tonight on the
Sinclair TV stations around the country. The other station that's
been boycotting is Next Star and no word from them
yet on what they are going to do. So with that,
let's take a look at how money did today before
we get to Wall Street, there's other money news apparently
the one million dollar gold card immigration plan that President
Trump came up with. Originally it was a five million
dollar price for this gold card and he's reduced it
to one million dollars. He promised it would grant residency
in record time, and guess what, it is one of
the most thought after golden visas in the world. Advisors
to ultra wealthy say their clients around the globe are
expressing interest in getting access to the US educational system
which think you are you sure, healthcare system yes, banking system,
and the US financial market. So by the President cutting
the price from five million to one million. It's on sale,
and apparently it's very coveted in many high income places
around the world, and that people would be able to
get a Golden visa. I mean this, We're not the
only one. Singapore has one. They charge eight million dollars
for theirs. New Zealand has a program for Presto Chango
citizenship for three million dollars. Even Samoa is more expensive.
They they're charging one point four million dollars. So this
one million dollar card, I don't know how many people
are going to jump on it, but apparently it's very
popular out there in the wealthy world. And in the
wealthy world, oh man, I've worked with the guy years
ago used to always introduce me with the rich People's report.
Majority of people have some finger in the stock market,
whether it's through their four oh one k or whatever
it might be. But the market did find today the
Dow up two hundred and ninety nine, the Dow at
forty six thousand, two forty seven s, and P up
thirty eight, Nasdaq up ninety nine, Gold was up eighteen
dollars to thirty seven eighty nine, and oil was up
twenty cents a little more than sixty five dollars for
one barrel of oil. So that's it for today. Thank
you for coming by. We will wish you a wonderful weekend.
We'll be back on Monday. Hope to see you then