1 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:29,199 Speaker 1: And Hi, Hello, Hi, how are you? Happy Friday to you? 2 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:33,119 Welcome to the Big Podcast. Today's the fifth day of December, 3 00:00:33,799 --> 00:00:36,679 Year of Our Lord, twenty twenty five. My name is 4 00:00:36,719 --> 00:00:41,320 Tom Sullivan, and man's been busy, busy, busy, busy last 5 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:46,719 couple of days. Today's no exception. You want to start 6 00:00:46,719 --> 00:00:48,880 with the latest time we had the bomb guy yesterday, 7 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:53,039 the guy that laid the bombs around Washington, DC five 8 00:00:53,119 --> 00:00:56,679 years almost five years ago January of twenty twenty one, 9 00:00:57,359 --> 00:01:02,799 and uh well the night before or the riot at 10 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:07,519 the Capitol. So the question that people are asking today 11 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:11,799 is you know, who is this guy? And everything else? 12 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:21,359 It's pretty fascinating because he is a very quiet person 13 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:26,640 who lives He lives at home, mother, sister, father, He 14 00:01:26,719 --> 00:01:29,599 works part time for his father. His father, father is 15 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:34,120 a bail bondsman and a very quiet, low key guy. 16 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:37,799 And what I'm searching around for, and I don't have 17 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:41,640 an answer, is if he'd laid these bombs back in 18 00:01:41,799 --> 00:01:48,920 January fifth and sixth overnight twenty twenty one, has he 19 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:52,519 done anything since then? It doesn't sound like it sounds 20 00:01:52,519 --> 00:01:54,680 like that was a one time, one and done deal 21 00:01:54,760 --> 00:02:00,599 for him. John Miller, former NYPD looks into the investigation 22 00:02:00,799 --> 00:02:02,120 how they caught this guy. 23 00:02:02,159 --> 00:02:04,400 Speaker 2: And one of the points Bongino made today was there 24 00:02:04,439 --> 00:02:07,079 was no new evidence. Everything that they found that broke 25 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:10,520 this case had always been available out there. But it 26 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:13,919 was about putting new people in the investigation, fresh set 27 00:02:13,919 --> 00:02:16,479 of eyes and saying, what questions have we not asked before? 28 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:19,560 But what they did is they did subpoenas and then 29 00:02:19,599 --> 00:02:22,199 searches through the records of home depot and lows and 30 00:02:22,319 --> 00:02:26,680 people in the Washington Capital area to see who bought 31 00:02:27,039 --> 00:02:32,039 among the twenty two thousand eight inch galvanized pipes, who 32 00:02:32,039 --> 00:02:35,280 were the purchasers of those who brought among the five 33 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:40,360 hundred thousand threaded end caps for such pipes, also bought 34 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:44,759 those wow who also purchased the black and red wires 35 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:47,840 with the little nine volt battery connectors on them were 36 00:02:47,919 --> 00:02:51,919 the white kitchen timers. And then they had to bring 37 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:54,120 that down to Okay, well, these are all the people 38 00:02:54,159 --> 00:02:58,360 who bought all those things, but what person bought each 39 00:02:58,479 --> 00:03:02,639 one of those things in total, as opposed to plumbers 40 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:05,800 by pipes, and kitchen people by clocks and so on. 41 00:03:05,919 --> 00:03:08,639 And it came down to just a couple of people 42 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:12,560 to look at and once they focused on Brian Cole, 43 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:14,639 they said, okay, so that puts him with all the 44 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:17,680 bomb components. How do we put him on the scene. 45 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:22,479 Then subpoenas for telephone cellular tower records show his phone 46 00:03:22,599 --> 00:03:26,919 allegedly pinging that night in the area of both locations. 47 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:31,680 Then license plate readers come to show allegedly his car 48 00:03:32,159 --> 00:03:35,800 ticking the license plate reader at the South Capitol exit 49 00:03:35,879 --> 00:03:39,080 off of three ninety five. So all of that taken together, 50 00:03:39,479 --> 00:03:42,719 according to the FBI's affidavit, shows that he had each 51 00:03:42,759 --> 00:03:46,240 one of the bomb components, had bought additional equipment common 52 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:50,280 to bomb making, had had his car near the scene 53 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:52,960 on the night the bombs were placed, and his phone 54 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:58,080 pinging around both locations. None of the prevailing motives that 55 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:01,280 people thought of, which is where well it may have 56 00:04:01,439 --> 00:04:05,000 been an organized distraction to pull resources away so that 57 00:04:05,039 --> 00:04:08,680 the January sixth attack would on the Capitol would go 58 00:04:08,759 --> 00:04:11,879 more smoothly, or that he was a trumper, or that 59 00:04:11,919 --> 00:04:15,919 he was an anti trumper. He seems to be a 60 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:19,639 bit of a owner who pretty much stayed to himself, 61 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:23,000 worked in the bail bonds business with his father, who 62 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:29,040 was a bail bondsman and apparently didn't like politicians in general, 63 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:32,399 because placing a bomb both at the RNC and the 64 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:37,120 DNC on the eve of the election count in Congress 65 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:40,759 was probably one of the rare bipartisan things that happened 66 00:04:40,759 --> 00:04:46,800 in Leushington. But a specific motive has not emerged yet. 67 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:50,680 It's a highly circumstantial case, but that's a lot of 68 00:04:50,759 --> 00:04:52,920 circumstance it is. 69 00:04:53,319 --> 00:04:59,079 Speaker 1: But the reporting today is that he supposedly told the 70 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:04,199 police that he planted the bombs because he thought the 71 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:09,839 twenty twenty election was stolen from Donald Trump. That's the reporting. 72 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:14,800 I'm kind of waiting to see more on this, but 73 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:17,639 from what John Miller was talking about, it does appear 74 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:21,160 that this is a guy because you ask yourself, why 75 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:25,319 would somebody put a bomb outside the DNC and also 76 00:05:25,439 --> 00:05:29,759 another bomb outside the RNC. But he's not a pro 77 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:33,759 Trumper anti Trumper, I think what he is. I hate 78 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:38,439 to say it kind of my attitude about things. I 79 00:05:38,439 --> 00:05:43,720 don't like any of them. I don't like politicians in general. Now, 80 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:46,199 I'm not going to try and build a bomb about it, 81 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:47,800 but I mean, I can see there's a lot of 82 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:51,240 people who look, I know, we are not alone. There's 83 00:05:51,279 --> 00:05:54,120 a lot of people that look with disgust at the 84 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:58,279 people that think that they're so smart because somebody they 85 00:05:58,319 --> 00:06:02,439 calmed enough people into voting for them to take a 86 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:05,920 position in high office. But I'm serious. I think he 87 00:06:06,079 --> 00:06:10,720 was an anti establishment guy. He didn't like the establishment. Republicans, 88 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:17,199 didn't like the establishment. Democrats probably pro Trump mad that 89 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:21,560 Trump did not win in twenty twenty. And you know, 90 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:23,959 I'll let you decide whether you think it was stolen 91 00:06:24,079 --> 00:06:29,240 or not. But he may have one more thing that 92 00:06:29,399 --> 00:06:32,879 you know, John was talking about all these little pieces 93 00:06:32,879 --> 00:06:35,800 of evidence that they had to find and now that 94 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:38,600 today a lot of people are asking the question, why 95 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:43,040 did the FBI not find anything about this guy over 96 00:06:43,079 --> 00:06:46,120 the last four years. Well, there's a couple of answers. 97 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:51,120 One of them is Dan Bongino, the deputy director of 98 00:06:51,160 --> 00:06:55,000 the FBI. This has been a big deal with him. 99 00:06:55,680 --> 00:06:59,920 Now he's admitting that he was wrong. When he had 100 00:07:00,079 --> 00:07:04,000 his radio show, he had a conspiracy theory about this, 101 00:07:04,720 --> 00:07:11,040 and it was absolutely wrong. But he now says they 102 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:13,600 have gone through this with a fine tooth comb and 103 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:17,360 they've got all this evidence and that the facts are 104 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:19,879 the facts. He says, I was paid for my opinion before. 105 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:23,399 Now I'm paid for the facts, and these are the facts. 106 00:07:23,439 --> 00:07:26,759 So he's saying, this really is what happened. So one 107 00:07:26,839 --> 00:07:31,279 of them is Bongino led the charge to go after 108 00:07:31,319 --> 00:07:34,680 this case. Well, what were the what was the FBI 109 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:36,959 doing the previous four years. Well, I'll tell you what 110 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:41,120 they were doing. The guy dropped the bombs outside the 111 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:46,680 DNC and the RNC the night before January sixth. I 112 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:48,879 don't know if this guy had a clue that the 113 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:51,680 President was going to meet with people on the on 114 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:54,160 the wall or any of what was going to happen. 115 00:07:55,319 --> 00:07:59,360 But once all hell broke loose on January sixth, that 116 00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:02,959 kind of took the attention of law enforcement. I mean, 117 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:09,399 the DOJ under Merrick Garland prosecuted one thousand and six 118 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:14,920 hundred people because of January sixth. That meant that FBI 119 00:08:15,439 --> 00:08:18,319 agents had to go out and do the investigations and 120 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:22,639 write up the indictments on these sixteen hundred people. They 121 00:08:22,639 --> 00:08:26,560 were busy. They were busy up to their ears on 122 00:08:27,079 --> 00:08:31,959 prosecuting the people went into the Capitol on January sixth. 123 00:08:33,039 --> 00:08:36,440 I think that's probably the answer why it wasn't solved 124 00:08:36,559 --> 00:08:40,639 during the last four years. So now Trump's pardoned all 125 00:08:40,639 --> 00:08:44,480 those people, so that's done, and the FBI, whatever they 126 00:08:44,480 --> 00:08:47,840 were working on, all those cases are basically tossed in 127 00:08:47,879 --> 00:08:51,960 the trash and now they had time and with Bongino 128 00:08:52,759 --> 00:08:57,039 making this a huge deal, he put the efforts of 129 00:08:57,080 --> 00:09:00,519 the FBI on this case. And one more thing. I 130 00:09:00,519 --> 00:09:04,039 said this yesterday. I still stay with it because of 131 00:09:04,120 --> 00:09:10,120 the huge hundreds of thousands of pieces of evidence, maybe 132 00:09:10,159 --> 00:09:12,879 more than a million if they had to go through. 133 00:09:13,279 --> 00:09:18,639 They now have AI that I'm sure they used to 134 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:20,799 go through and match up all this evidence to see 135 00:09:20,840 --> 00:09:23,840 if there was a correlation somewhere in all of that. 136 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:28,840 US attorney for DC, Janeine Piro, she waited on this 137 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:31,120 case today as well. 138 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:34,840 Speaker 3: What I can tell you is that he was always 139 00:09:34,919 --> 00:09:38,120 wearing his headphones. He would take his dog out, he'd 140 00:09:38,159 --> 00:09:41,159 go to the seven eleven. He was very, as you say, 141 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:44,519 low key, low profile. There wasn't a lot going on. 142 00:09:45,039 --> 00:09:47,960 His closest friends or his family. He lives with his 143 00:09:48,039 --> 00:09:51,919 mom and his sisters. He would go to work for 144 00:09:51,919 --> 00:09:54,320 a few hours a day. His father had a bail bonds, 145 00:09:54,679 --> 00:09:58,320 bail bonds from company, and he was just a very 146 00:09:58,360 --> 00:09:59,240 low key person. 147 00:09:59,639 --> 00:10:02,639 Speaker 1: Streng Jim and the fact that it was a one 148 00:10:02,679 --> 00:10:05,120 and done deal. He has a pair apparently not done 149 00:10:05,159 --> 00:10:10,159 anything since cash Battel also was asked more about it today. 150 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:13,799 Speaker 4: We looked at three million lines of evidence. We went 151 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:16,360 back and looked at the cell phone towered data dumps. 152 00:10:16,519 --> 00:10:19,120 We went back and looked at the providers and what 153 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:22,440 information they provided, pursued to search warrants at the time, 154 00:10:22,919 --> 00:10:25,080 and asked questions such as why weren't all the phone 155 00:10:25,159 --> 00:10:27,320 numbers scrubbed, and why weren't they connected? And why wasn't 156 00:10:27,360 --> 00:10:30,240 there any geolocational data done? Now that is either sheer 157 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:34,200 incompetence or complete intentional negligence, and neither of which is 158 00:10:34,240 --> 00:10:37,080 acceptable for this fbis Yeah. 159 00:10:36,960 --> 00:10:40,159 Speaker 1: I know that's Cash Btel. I really do think that 160 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:44,759 they were. They had their arms full of investigations regarding 161 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:48,240 all the people that were in the capitol on January sixth, 162 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:51,080 and that probably took well, I know, it took a 163 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:54,600 lot of time, probably enough to where it made it 164 00:10:55,039 --> 00:10:58,840 hard to focus on this particular case. So we've got 165 00:10:58,879 --> 00:11:03,759 that speaking of bad guys that are behind bars. Fourth 166 00:11:03,840 --> 00:11:08,799 day of wrapping up Luigi and his arrest and the 167 00:11:08,879 --> 00:11:15,440 fact that manager of the McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania, where 168 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:19,240 they caught up with him. They played the nine to 169 00:11:19,279 --> 00:11:24,240 one one call today on what the manager at McDonald's 170 00:11:24,240 --> 00:11:27,240 had to say about turning in and finding Luigi. 171 00:11:27,960 --> 00:11:31,720 Speaker 5: I'm a manager at Clainburg McDonald's dog here the boulevards, okay, 172 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:35,919 and I have a customer here that some other customer 173 00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:37,240 forced that pessions of that. 174 00:11:37,279 --> 00:11:40,120 Speaker 4: He looks like the CEO shooter New York. 175 00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:41,639 Speaker 1: It is this individual full there. 176 00:11:42,679 --> 00:11:44,840 Speaker 5: Yeah, he's fill in the back of our lobby by 177 00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:48,559 the bathroom. He's wearing a black letter jacket with a 178 00:11:48,600 --> 00:11:53,879 medical mat and a hand khaki colored like being okay. 179 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:58,440 So they're just really upset and they're like coming to me, 180 00:11:58,559 --> 00:12:00,840 and I was like, well, I can't approach you know, no, 181 00:12:01,039 --> 00:12:02,480 of course, not the only thing. 182 00:12:02,399 --> 00:12:06,679 Speaker 1: He can see. So it goes back to that old 183 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:09,000 saying about if you see something, say something, But most 184 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:11,679 people are not willing to do that. And you could 185 00:12:11,679 --> 00:12:15,759 hear the manager of the McDonald's hesitant about what, I 186 00:12:15,759 --> 00:12:17,919 don't mean to bother you, but we've got this guy. 187 00:12:18,159 --> 00:12:21,080 He kind of looks like the guy anyway. So that's 188 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:25,200 how it all started. So they're going through and I 189 00:12:25,240 --> 00:12:28,399 can't believe it takes as long. Like I said yesterday, 190 00:12:28,480 --> 00:12:31,440 it was one year ago yesterday that Luigi shot and 191 00:12:31,559 --> 00:12:35,799 killed the CEO of United Healthcare on West fifty fourth 192 00:12:35,799 --> 00:12:40,679 Street in Manhattan. And I don't know why this, Why 193 00:12:40,720 --> 00:12:43,279 does it take a year? And they're just now having 194 00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:47,720 pre trial motions to find out what the judge will say, 195 00:12:47,759 --> 00:12:50,279 what can be used in the trial and what can't. 196 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:55,279 And this has been going on all week. I just 197 00:12:55,279 --> 00:12:58,279 don't understand why the jud the justice system has to 198 00:12:58,279 --> 00:13:00,759 be careful. But man, this is taking a long time. 199 00:13:02,360 --> 00:13:08,159 I want to talk about Let's talk about this vote 200 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:13,399 that was taken the day. This is the committee that 201 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:18,440 has been set up to recommend to the CDC vaccine rules. 202 00:13:18,960 --> 00:13:23,240 And the issue that they have been struggling with is 203 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:30,840 hepatitis B. And hepatitis B they decided back in nineteen 204 00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:35,000 ninety one, so well over what thirty four years ago 205 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:39,240 they'd said, why don't we give babies when they're born 206 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:45,200 hepatitis B vaccine? Apparently fairly soon, like right away or 207 00:13:45,240 --> 00:13:48,759 within a couple of days and lot and so people 208 00:13:48,799 --> 00:13:51,399 that are worried about vaccines, one of them being RFK 209 00:13:51,639 --> 00:13:56,200 Junior said, well, why are you doing that? And the 210 00:13:56,320 --> 00:13:59,759 answer is is that you don't know if you have 211 00:14:00,039 --> 00:14:03,679 hepatitis B. In all cases, you can be it's very 212 00:14:03,759 --> 00:14:06,879 highly contagious, but you may not know that you have it. Well, 213 00:14:06,919 --> 00:14:10,480 if a mother is carrying a baby, there's a pretty 214 00:14:10,519 --> 00:14:14,879 good chance that that baby is also going to be 215 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:19,639 positive for a hepatitis B. It's an interesting vaccine because 216 00:14:19,679 --> 00:14:25,440 again the decision was delayed yesterday. Apparently the paperwork and 217 00:14:25,519 --> 00:14:29,759 the questions it was a complete mess. And these doctors 218 00:14:29,759 --> 00:14:33,200 that were on this committee had no idea. It was 219 00:14:33,720 --> 00:14:35,320 such a mess. They had no idea what they were 220 00:14:35,399 --> 00:14:38,240 voting on. So they decided to scrap it yesterdays. They 221 00:14:38,320 --> 00:14:43,720 voted today to drop the hepatitis BE shot for newborns. Now, 222 00:14:43,840 --> 00:14:48,759 there's about, according to the data, about twenty five thousand 223 00:14:48,799 --> 00:14:52,519 babies born in the US every year to mothers who 224 00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:56,720 have hepatitis B. A lot of people, a lot of mothers, 225 00:14:56,759 --> 00:14:59,960 a lot of people don't know if they have hepati 226 00:15:00,440 --> 00:15:08,320 but it's highly highly infectious. Ninety percent of infants that 227 00:15:08,360 --> 00:15:11,759 are born to mother to a hepatitis B developed chronic 228 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:18,720 hepatitis B and increases their risk for liver cancer. They've 229 00:15:18,799 --> 00:15:21,799 replaced all seventeen members. He fired all seventeen members of 230 00:15:21,840 --> 00:15:25,360 the vaccine panel. Not a one was kept, so these 231 00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:28,120 are all new people. There's a lot of people are 232 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:33,039 skeptical now about what the CDC says. I've been skeptical 233 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:37,000 about them ever since they started changing their rules every 234 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:41,200 other day during COVID nineteen. A lot of conspiracy theories 235 00:15:41,200 --> 00:15:46,240 out there. So it's a very successful vaccine. It's at 236 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:52,200 thirty four years of a track record of safety. They 237 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:57,320 have cut eighteen thousand babies back in nineteen ninety one 238 00:15:57,399 --> 00:16:02,159 that were born with hepatitis be eighteen thousand a year. 239 00:16:02,679 --> 00:16:07,480 It's now down to twenty two zero. That's it. Doctor 240 00:16:07,679 --> 00:16:14,600 Chief Jaw, head of Medical Facility Medical Education at Brown University, 241 00:16:14,639 --> 00:16:16,039 had this descent look. 242 00:16:16,080 --> 00:16:19,879 Speaker 6: Captitis B is transmitted into newborns, one of the major 243 00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:23,720 modes of transmission from moms who might be infected, and 244 00:16:23,799 --> 00:16:27,080 giving vaccines at the time of birth essentially immunizes that 245 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:31,960 child against developing long term chronic complications like liver failure 246 00:16:32,039 --> 00:16:34,440 liver cancer. So it's an enormously useful thing to do, 247 00:16:35,120 --> 00:16:37,440 and we've been doing it for twenty five years. It's 248 00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:40,399 worked great. Kids think largely don't have hepatitis B in 249 00:16:40,399 --> 00:16:43,399 the US because of it. There's no reason to go 250 00:16:43,519 --> 00:16:47,080 back and revisit this policy at this point, and that's 251 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:50,080 what ACIP is doing, is revisiting all of these well 252 00:16:50,159 --> 00:16:52,480 established policies in a way that's really just not helpful. 253 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:54,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, the argument is, why are you giving them to 254 00:16:54,919 --> 00:16:58,080 all babies, because not all mothers have hepatitis BE. In fact, 255 00:16:58,120 --> 00:17:00,840 most of them do not. But the problem is is 256 00:17:00,840 --> 00:17:02,679 that there's a lot of moms that don't know they 257 00:17:02,679 --> 00:17:06,440 have hepatitis B, and a lot of these babies that 258 00:17:06,519 --> 00:17:10,480 were being born eighteen thousand a year wound up getting B. 259 00:17:10,960 --> 00:17:13,519 So they do it as a precaution just in case 260 00:17:13,599 --> 00:17:17,799 mom doesn't know that she has hepatitis B. Meg Correll, 261 00:17:17,920 --> 00:17:22,720 who covers all the things regarding vaccines, had this report. 262 00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:23,599 Speaker 5: Yeah, Kate, I. 263 00:17:23,559 --> 00:17:25,559 Speaker 7: Think everybody's kind of trying to figure that out. There 264 00:17:25,599 --> 00:17:27,200 was just a lot of confusion. There was a lot 265 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:30,400 of disagreement yesterday about the language that they were voting on, 266 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:32,680 and so as this meeting gets underwagh in just a 267 00:17:32,720 --> 00:17:34,920 couple of minutes from now, behind me, I think there 268 00:17:34,920 --> 00:17:37,640 are questions we've seen new voting language posted on the 269 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:40,440 CDC's website, So is that the language they're going to 270 00:17:40,480 --> 00:17:43,400 vote on today about whether to change this universal recommendation 271 00:17:43,519 --> 00:17:46,440 for the newborn dose of the hepatitis B vaccine because 272 00:17:46,480 --> 00:17:50,599 there was disagreement even among the committee members themselves about 273 00:17:50,640 --> 00:17:52,799 the language that they should be voting on, and there 274 00:17:52,839 --> 00:17:56,119 was not universal agreement among these members that they should 275 00:17:56,200 --> 00:18:00,200 remove this universal recommendation. However, it doesn't need to be 276 00:18:00,240 --> 00:18:03,200 a unanimous vote. It's really the majority of the members 277 00:18:03,279 --> 00:18:05,480 that will influence the recommendation that then goes to the 278 00:18:05,519 --> 00:18:08,160 CDC Director, who can decide whether to accept it or not. 279 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:11,640 If the director accepts it, it becomes CDC policy. 280 00:18:11,799 --> 00:18:12,079 Speaker 4: Sokay. 281 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:14,599 Speaker 7: Just a reminder of how significant a move this would be. 282 00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:16,440 This is a recommendation that's been in place in the 283 00:18:16,519 --> 00:18:19,960 United States since nineteen ninety one, and experts say there's 284 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:23,559 a more than three decade track record of safety using 285 00:18:23,599 --> 00:18:26,880 this vaccine at birth. It has brought down the number 286 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:30,880 of hepatitis B infections in kids by orders of magnitude. 287 00:18:31,240 --> 00:18:33,160 And one of the parts of the vote that they 288 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:36,839 could take today is whether to recommend delaying that birth 289 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:40,240 dose to at least two months of age if moms 290 00:18:40,240 --> 00:18:42,880 test negative for hepatitis BE and decide not to get 291 00:18:42,880 --> 00:18:45,680 the birth dose. And there has been modeling done to 292 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:47,920 see what the implications of that would be, and one 293 00:18:47,960 --> 00:18:50,519 study found that delaying the birth dose to at least 294 00:18:50,519 --> 00:18:53,519 two months old would lead to more than fourteen hundred 295 00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:57,680 hepatitis B infections among children every year, more than three 296 00:18:57,759 --> 00:19:01,200 hundred cases of liver cancer, and almost five hundred hepatitis 297 00:19:01,240 --> 00:19:04,119 B virus related deaths. And of course this is a 298 00:19:04,119 --> 00:19:07,079 disease that can be preventable with a vaccine. 299 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:10,640 Speaker 1: So vaccine world is still very controversial. In RFK is 300 00:19:11,119 --> 00:19:13,920 radically changing a lot of the things that medicine has 301 00:19:14,160 --> 00:19:18,200 has offered. Listen, you can do whatever you want, your choice. 302 00:19:18,759 --> 00:19:22,880 Amy Walter who runs the Cook Political Report, Usually she 303 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:26,200 talks about politicians and who's ahead and who's behind, But 304 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:29,880 she was asked about the polling that she has done 305 00:19:29,880 --> 00:19:33,920 and her company has done on this whole business about vaccines. 306 00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:36,880 Speaker 8: And I think, when we think about the MAHA, that 307 00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:38,880 is very good to point out that it does span. 308 00:19:39,039 --> 00:19:46,359 It's not very strictly ideological from a partisan this issue, though, 309 00:19:46,440 --> 00:19:48,119 I think a lot of folks came into it. I've 310 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:51,039 been talking to folks who've been doing a lot of 311 00:19:51,559 --> 00:19:54,240 political work with some of these voters, people who are 312 00:19:54,319 --> 00:19:56,960 either considered themselves to be part of the Maha movement 313 00:19:57,039 --> 00:19:59,839 or say that they're Maha curious. And when you look 314 00:19:59,839 --> 00:20:02,680 at at them, all of them, what does bind them together, 315 00:20:02,799 --> 00:20:05,839 not surprisingly, is a skepticism of the healthcare system. And 316 00:20:05,880 --> 00:20:09,960 that's understandable. We're all somewhat skeptical of all whether it 317 00:20:10,039 --> 00:20:11,599 is you have your first child and you get all 318 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:14,960 this information coming at you. What is the CDC think? 319 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:17,640 What about these pharmaceutical companies? Who's making money off me? 320 00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:20,720 How does the system work? Do I have access? Understandable? 321 00:20:20,920 --> 00:20:24,119 Some of it is about they came in through a 322 00:20:24,160 --> 00:20:29,000 healthy eating and exercise piece of it. But the one 323 00:20:29,079 --> 00:20:32,559 thing that was really interesting about some of the focus 324 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:36,160 groups that these groups that this group has done is 325 00:20:36,519 --> 00:20:39,359 that even as we say this is very confusing for 326 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:44,480 a lot of people, there is still trust in actual doctors. 327 00:20:44,599 --> 00:20:48,359 There is still trust in the system itself. So while 328 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:52,480 they may be skeptical, what a lot of these folks 329 00:20:52,519 --> 00:20:55,519 will do is hear recommendations like this and then go 330 00:20:55,559 --> 00:20:57,240 talk to their doctor about and say I've heard all 331 00:20:57,240 --> 00:20:58,839 of this stuff about the CDC, what do you think 332 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:02,440 about this? Or here's something that someone says and then 333 00:21:02,519 --> 00:21:05,960 Google it or chat gpt it. So they're not taking 334 00:21:06,079 --> 00:21:11,000 necessarily everything that RFK Junior is saying and making that 335 00:21:11,119 --> 00:21:11,880 part of their. 336 00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:15,799 Speaker 1: Lives, which makes all the sense in the world. The 337 00:21:15,799 --> 00:21:21,279 Political Report, which Amie Walter runs is excellent work, and 338 00:21:21,319 --> 00:21:26,480 I think her point on this is we're not listening 339 00:21:26,519 --> 00:21:31,400 to government medical experts, whether it's the CDC or the 340 00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:34,079 FDA or whatever it might be, we're listening to in 341 00:21:34,119 --> 00:21:37,079 the case of our health, we're listening to our doctors. 342 00:21:38,519 --> 00:21:40,839 You call your doctor up and ask them a question 343 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:44,480 or her, what do you think about this? So the 344 00:21:44,599 --> 00:21:48,799 vaccine thing, it is, in my estimation, it is full 345 00:21:48,839 --> 00:21:53,400 of all kinds of kooky conspiracy stuff. I think RFK Jr. 346 00:21:53,559 --> 00:21:57,319 Is a weird guy and he's radically changing all of this, 347 00:21:57,440 --> 00:21:59,799 But I don't think it's going to change the world 348 00:22:00,079 --> 00:22:04,119 a lot because, if at all, simply because of the 349 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:06,880 fact that we have grown to the point where we 350 00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:11,359 don't trust government, and that includes government doctors. So call 351 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:14,799 your own doctor up about whether or not you need 352 00:22:14,839 --> 00:22:20,400 a vaccine, or you don't need one the drug boats, 353 00:22:21,119 --> 00:22:25,440 So that continues to keep being battered around. What we're 354 00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:29,799 getting out of the drug boats is we're getting is 355 00:22:29,839 --> 00:22:33,680 becoming partisan. If you're a Democrat, you're probably and you 356 00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:37,200 don't like Donald Trump, you're saying this was outrageous. If 357 00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:40,039 you're a Republican and you do like Donald Trump, you 358 00:22:40,119 --> 00:22:42,359 think this made all the sense in the world. Tom 359 00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:46,799 Cotton one of those Republicans who was briefed in the 360 00:22:46,839 --> 00:22:49,960 super secret Senate meeting yesterday, and this is what he 361 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:50,599 had to say. 362 00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:55,559 Speaker 9: I saw the survivors trying to flip a boat loaded 363 00:22:55,559 --> 00:22:58,799 with drugs down for the United States back over so 364 00:22:58,839 --> 00:23:01,759 they could stay in the fight and potentially given all 365 00:23:01,759 --> 00:23:04,960 the contacts we heard of other narco terrorist boats in 366 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:08,000 the area coming to their aid to recover their caro 367 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:10,400 and recover those narco terrorists. 368 00:23:10,839 --> 00:23:13,119 Speaker 1: But then there's a little bit of a montage of 369 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:19,079 various Democrats in Congress who are looking at this completely different. 370 00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:21,720 Speaker 10: They pay people to do that. 371 00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:24,880 Speaker 11: People on a boat in the middle of the Caribbean 372 00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:29,519 carrying cocaine are not a direct threat to the lives 373 00:23:29,519 --> 00:23:31,359 of our service members or Americans. 374 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:33,720 Speaker 12: There is no such thing as a narco terrorist. There 375 00:23:33,759 --> 00:23:38,480 are very very bad narcotics people, cartels, et cetera. But 376 00:23:38,559 --> 00:23:40,839 they're desperate to make this look like it's isis or 377 00:23:40,839 --> 00:23:41,640 a la kaita. 378 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:43,559 Speaker 1: Wow, did you hear that there's no such thing as 379 00:23:43,599 --> 00:23:47,240 a narco terrorist? I think there have been, and there 380 00:23:47,319 --> 00:23:50,240 have been. They've been called narco terrorists for decades of 381 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:52,599 prove it here in the second But the other part 382 00:23:52,599 --> 00:23:56,039 about the one that said, the one Democrat that said 383 00:23:56,039 --> 00:23:59,680 they're not a threat to the United States, Well, ask 384 00:23:59,799 --> 00:24:03,759 the eighty thousand people who lost loved ones last year, 385 00:24:03,839 --> 00:24:07,319 one hundred thousand the year before that from illegal drugs. 386 00:24:07,759 --> 00:24:11,400 Of course they're a threat. Another whole story about the 387 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:13,880 people taking the drugs, but the people supplying them are 388 00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:16,839 definitely a threat. Now you want to hear about these 389 00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:21,039 narco terrorists, listen to this guy. This is the guy 390 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:27,359 that is by the name Senator Joe Biden, September nineteen 391 00:24:27,559 --> 00:24:28,240 eighty nine. 392 00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:30,880 Speaker 10: We think we should do more to stem the flow 393 00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:33,720 of drugs across our borders, and we think we should 394 00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:37,960 go one step further. Let's go after the drug lords 395 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:43,319 where they live with an international strike force. There must 396 00:24:43,319 --> 00:24:46,920 be no safe haven for these narco terrorists and they 397 00:24:47,319 --> 00:24:47,960 must know it. 398 00:24:48,759 --> 00:24:51,079 Speaker 1: Well, how about that. I agree with Joe Biden was 399 00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:55,839 nineteen eighty nine and he called him narco terrorist. But 400 00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:59,640 why have we not done anything? And it doesn't matter 401 00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:04,079 republ Democrat. We really haven't done a thing to go 402 00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:07,279 after the people that are supplying the drugs. So finally 403 00:25:07,319 --> 00:25:11,079 we are. But there are people that are all upset 404 00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:13,400 about it because there's a guy in the White House 405 00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:17,559 who they don't like. Rick Crawford is the head of 406 00:25:17,759 --> 00:25:22,400 the House Intelligence Committee, the number one guy. This is 407 00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:27,119 his take on what he saw regarding the attack on 408 00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:29,319 that boat back in September. Yeah. 409 00:25:29,319 --> 00:25:33,640 Speaker 11: I think he characterized that pretty accurately. I wouldn't disagree 410 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:36,359 with his characterization at all. I got the same grief, 411 00:25:37,079 --> 00:25:41,000 and you know, Tom pretty well nailed it. I mean, look, 412 00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:43,319 these are got to remember who we're dealing with here. 413 00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:44,279 Speaker 13: I mean, we're dealing. 414 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:49,079 Speaker 11: With cartel operatives. They are so vile the things that 415 00:25:49,119 --> 00:25:51,119 they do. You know, say nothing of the fact that 416 00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:53,440 they bring Ulsted drugs in the United States, but their 417 00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:56,599 conduct makes isis look like boy scouts. So I don't 418 00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:58,839 know that we should shed a tear over these strikes. 419 00:25:58,839 --> 00:25:59,799 That are keeping Americans. 420 00:26:00,799 --> 00:26:02,960 Speaker 1: I played this for you yesterday. It's a different version 421 00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:06,519 of a different interview. But Congressman Jim Hines from Connecticut, 422 00:26:07,079 --> 00:26:09,680 who's the ranking member on the Intelligence Committee, he sits 423 00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:14,000 next to Crawford, and this was just a reminder he's 424 00:26:14,039 --> 00:26:16,960 all upset about this boat blowing up on that room. 425 00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:19,079 Speaker 13: Was one of the most troubling things I've seen in 426 00:26:19,079 --> 00:26:22,160 my time in public service. Any American who sees the 427 00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:25,160 video that I saw, we'll see the United States military 428 00:26:26,079 --> 00:26:32,680 attacking shipwrecked sailors. Bad guys, bad guys, but attacking shipwrecked sailors. 429 00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:35,680 Now there's a whole set of contextual items of the 430 00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:39,880 admiral explained, Yes, they were carrying groves. They were not 431 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:42,319 in the position to continue their mission in any way. 432 00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:48,839 Speaker 1: Hmm. He said something about the admiral had contextual items 433 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:51,400 that he explained. We never really heard what that was 434 00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:54,799 all about. Back to Rick Crawford, the head of the 435 00:26:54,799 --> 00:26:56,319 House Intelligence Committee. 436 00:26:56,799 --> 00:26:59,279 Speaker 11: Yeah, this isn't the Stipper and Gilligin on the ss 437 00:26:59,319 --> 00:27:01,920 MENO that we're going on after here. This is these 438 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:04,680 are hardened drug traffickers. 439 00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:06,960 Speaker 1: That was Look. 440 00:27:07,039 --> 00:27:11,039 Speaker 11: I have the utmost respect for my ranking Member Jim Hines. 441 00:27:11,079 --> 00:27:14,839 But respectfully, you know, we just disagree. We're dealing with 442 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:19,839 a vile element here, and they were as as my 443 00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:24,680 friend Senator Cotton characterized, they were trying to ripe that ship. 444 00:27:24,799 --> 00:27:27,200 It was still laden with cargo because it was strapped 445 00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:32,400 end of the boat. They were potentially signaling other vessels 446 00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:35,440 in the region. We don't know if they had access 447 00:27:35,519 --> 00:27:40,480 to satcoms or not, but as he characterized, still in 448 00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:43,079 the fight. And this is characteristic of these kinds of 449 00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:46,400 strikes where we hear the term double tap. It's completely 450 00:27:46,599 --> 00:27:50,480 consistent with the same tactics and techniques and procedures that 451 00:27:51,039 --> 00:27:54,240 took place under President Obama's watch when he took strikes 452 00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:57,160 on terrorists, some of which were US persons and or 453 00:27:57,279 --> 00:28:00,599 US citizens. So I didn't I don't recall the outrage 454 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:04,160 on those strikes when it was the Obama administration exercising. 455 00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:07,640 But we have all this righteous indignation because President Trump 456 00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:10,839 is taking an active role in protecting Americans. 457 00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:15,400 Speaker 1: David shed a name that I did not recall. He 458 00:28:15,799 --> 00:28:20,039 was the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency. This is 459 00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:24,680 the CIA's brother, if you will, in the military. This 460 00:28:24,759 --> 00:28:28,400 is the intelligence group within the military. He ran the 461 00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:33,759 Defense Intelligence Agency during the Obama administration, and they asked 462 00:28:33,839 --> 00:28:36,720 him about blowing up this drug voat. 463 00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:41,119 Speaker 14: My read of that particular hit is that if you 464 00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:43,799 look back on the history post two thousand and one 465 00:28:44,119 --> 00:28:48,240 and the Authorization for the Use of Military Force the 466 00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:53,240 AUMF as it's known applicable to terrorists in terms of 467 00:28:53,279 --> 00:28:58,400 their designation, resulted in the hits that would take out 468 00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:04,079 al Qaeda subsequentle Isis as well and other extremist groups 469 00:29:04,119 --> 00:29:07,920 that were designated under the AUMF in terms of targets, 470 00:29:08,279 --> 00:29:12,079 and as a result, the second tap, as I would 471 00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:15,880 call it, if there was in the term of art, 472 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:21,839 was squirting. If individuals were running from the vehicle or 473 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:25,839 running from the cave or wherever the hit took place, 474 00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:28,599 there would be a second strike, perhaps even a third 475 00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:33,039 strike if necessary. It certainly does satisfy me. Although I 476 00:29:33,079 --> 00:29:36,000 will tell you, as a non lawyer, maybe perhaps an 477 00:29:36,079 --> 00:29:39,640 armchair one, I will tell you that getting an opinion 478 00:29:39,759 --> 00:29:42,880 from the Department of Justice in terms of the Legal 479 00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:47,279 Council on what constitutes a target large in terms of 480 00:29:47,319 --> 00:29:51,400 falling under the AUMF, is really a vital step to 481 00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:55,200 be taken in terms of the designation now of FTOS, 482 00:29:56,079 --> 00:30:00,880 foreign terrorist organizations and individuals associated with these drug smuggling 483 00:30:01,799 --> 00:30:05,119 boats that are being targeted now at the twenty second 484 00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:08,839 vessel that has been hit as recently as in the 485 00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:10,079 last twenty four hours. 486 00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:12,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, he broke little news. So there was a drug 487 00:30:12,759 --> 00:30:15,599 boat hit in the Eastern Pacific. This is where the 488 00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:21,599 fentanyl is coming up through the Eastern Pacific up to 489 00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:23,960 the United States or up to Mexico then to the 490 00:30:24,039 --> 00:30:27,359 United States. So all the Caribbean stuff that's going on 491 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:33,599 apparently is mostly, if not all, cocaine. Affordability, that word 492 00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:36,640 will not go away. It's going to be brought up 493 00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:39,640 over and over and over again Byron York and the 494 00:30:39,759 --> 00:30:45,680 Washington Examiner was asked about affordability and the President going 495 00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:48,480 on the road next week to try to sell his 496 00:30:48,599 --> 00:30:49,440 economic plan. 497 00:30:49,599 --> 00:30:53,480 Speaker 15: Absolutely, after the Biden inflation, the voters elected Trump to 498 00:30:53,599 --> 00:30:56,880 do something about the economy, and we've had pole after 499 00:30:56,960 --> 00:31:00,359 poll after poll that suggests voters don't think Trump has 500 00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:02,799 paid enough attention to it. He hasn't made it his 501 00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:07,039 absolute number one agenda item. So the reason we're seeing 502 00:31:07,079 --> 00:31:11,279 this tour starting next week is because those voters don't 503 00:31:11,279 --> 00:31:13,519 have a lot of faith in what Trump has been 504 00:31:13,559 --> 00:31:18,680 doing about the economy. Now, Trump's economic plans has always 505 00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:23,160 been very very simple. Cut taxes, cut regulation, and make 506 00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:26,400 energy cheaper. And it's a pretty good plan. It works 507 00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:29,079 a lot. So he'll be touting that. The one thing 508 00:31:29,119 --> 00:31:32,119 he can't do on this tour is tell people things 509 00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:34,839 are great for them when they're not. They need to 510 00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:35,960 know what he's going to do. 511 00:31:36,519 --> 00:31:38,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, that was the trap that Joe Biden got into. 512 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:42,759 They constantly told us, you don't understand you're doing better 513 00:31:42,799 --> 00:31:45,880 than you think you are. And I think we're in 514 00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:49,519 that same boat again where people are going I don't 515 00:31:49,559 --> 00:31:54,680 think so. And yet the economics people are saying, oh, 516 00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:57,400 we've got these great plans and it's going to be 517 00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:01,079 a great twenty twenty six. Ben, I'm going to weigh 518 00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:01,960 in on all of this. 519 00:32:02,279 --> 00:32:04,279 Speaker 16: I think the problem that they have is that they 520 00:32:04,319 --> 00:32:07,240 have short time in terms of the mindset that people 521 00:32:07,279 --> 00:32:10,559 have as voters going into the next election. Effectively, what 522 00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:13,119 we know from prior elections is that people start to 523 00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:15,599 make up their minds on this stuff in the spring, 524 00:32:15,799 --> 00:32:18,359 not in the fall, and they are aware of the 525 00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:22,599 different factors that are hitting their pocketbook at that stage, 526 00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:25,119 I'm not sure that you're going to see the ramifications 527 00:32:25,119 --> 00:32:27,279 of policy here. And I think one of the problems 528 00:32:27,279 --> 00:32:29,960 here is actually the success that Donald Trump had in 529 00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:32,200 his first term. A lot of people thought that re 530 00:32:32,279 --> 00:32:36,680 electing him would automatically lead to an economic turnaround, and 531 00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:38,559 I don't think that they actually had built into their 532 00:32:38,599 --> 00:32:42,119 heads how bad the Biden economy was. And because of that, 533 00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:44,039 I think that there's going to be a lot of 534 00:32:44,079 --> 00:32:45,519 work that needs to be done on the side of 535 00:32:45,559 --> 00:32:50,200 Republicans in order to encourage people and to frankly message 536 00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:51,720 against what they're going to get hit with. 537 00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:55,079 Speaker 1: Here's the guy that's been charged with the messaging, Kevin Hasseid. 538 00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:58,279 He was out on the White House long today talking 539 00:32:58,319 --> 00:33:00,359 about how thanks are going to get better. 540 00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:03,279 Speaker 17: We understand that like if a typical person buying a 541 00:33:03,319 --> 00:33:06,039 home saw their monthly mortgage payment will go up by 542 00:33:06,079 --> 00:33:10,079 more than one thousand dollars, Grocery prices a typical families 543 00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:12,519 grocery bag went from about four hundred dollars to five 544 00:33:12,559 --> 00:33:14,920 hundred and twenty five dollars a month. And so that 545 00:33:15,119 --> 00:33:17,680 all that happened under Joe Biden, and now we're getting 546 00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:20,720 inflation under control. We're getting wage growth to grow again. 547 00:33:20,799 --> 00:33:24,000 People's spending power is up about twelve hundred dollars so 548 00:33:24,079 --> 00:33:27,200 far this year after dropping three thousand dollars under Joe Biden. 549 00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:29,440 It's going to take a little bit more time to 550 00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:32,400 get the whole that Biden dog to be completely filled, 551 00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:34,039 but we're going to do it. We're highly confident we're 552 00:33:34,039 --> 00:33:35,119 going to do it well. 553 00:33:35,119 --> 00:33:37,640 Speaker 1: I hope for all of us that he's right, that 554 00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:42,599 the policies will start kicking in better economics for everybody. 555 00:33:43,079 --> 00:33:47,160 We did get one economic report came out today, consumer 556 00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:50,519 Sentiment Index. There's two of these done. The Conference Board 557 00:33:50,519 --> 00:33:53,440 does one, University of Michigan does the other. This is 558 00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:58,599 the University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index, and it went up. 559 00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:02,359 It went up from fifty one in November up to 560 00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:08,760 fifty three point three in December. This, however, is YIX. 561 00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:12,960 It went up, but it's near the all time low 562 00:34:13,639 --> 00:34:17,719 that we've seen on consumer sentiments. The sentiment improved a 563 00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:21,800 little bit, but very near historic lows. People are still 564 00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:29,480 concerned over high prices. They asked about inflation expectations, and 565 00:34:29,639 --> 00:34:39,079 people thought that inflation expectations were down for tenth, for 566 00:34:39,199 --> 00:34:42,000 fourth month in a row, so people are thinking inflation 567 00:34:42,119 --> 00:34:45,920 maybe is under control. They expect an inflation rate of 568 00:34:46,039 --> 00:34:50,599 four point one percent versus they thought last month. They 569 00:34:50,639 --> 00:34:54,000 thought the inflation next year will be four point five 570 00:34:54,119 --> 00:34:57,960 So a little bit better. It's still pretty bad. People 571 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:01,039 still need to get warmed up. So the President is 572 00:35:01,119 --> 00:35:04,360 going down the road Tuesday. He's going over to the 573 00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:08,239 Poconos in Pennsylvania, and that's going to be the start 574 00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:13,760 of him giving speeches on his economic plan and trying 575 00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:16,920 to get people to feel better about it. It will 576 00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:19,079 be interesting to see if he can focus on that 577 00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:21,960 because when he does these kinds of he hasn't done 578 00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:25,320 a real rally sort of appearance in a while, but 579 00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:27,519 you know how he gets going all over the place. 580 00:35:28,079 --> 00:35:33,719 So Wall Street today was also feeling a little bit better. Yesterday. 581 00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:37,280 We had a very slow mixed market today. The Dow 582 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:41,719 up one hundred and four to forty seven, nine fifty 583 00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:46,199 four s and P up thirteen, NASDAC up seventy three, 584 00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:50,039 so all the major indexes were higher. Price of gold 585 00:35:50,039 --> 00:35:53,559 fell fifteen dollars down to forty two twenty seven, and 586 00:35:53,679 --> 00:35:56,159 oil went up a little bit more. It's back above 587 00:35:56,280 --> 00:35:59,760 sixty up half that forty seven cents today. It wasn't 588 00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:03,239 much to a change, but oil now is sixty dollars 589 00:36:03,679 --> 00:36:07,280 for one barrel of oil. Thank you, thank you, thank 590 00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:11,239 you for coming by. Have a wonderful weekend. We'll be 591 00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:19,679 back on Monday. I hope you are too,