Speaker 1: Well, here we are gathered around the old podcast. Welcome
to the podcast on this Thursday. Today, it's the fourth
day of December, year of Our Lord, twenty twenty five.
My name is Tom Sullivan. So we've got a lot
to get to today. I mean, there's it's a pretty
busy Thursday, which speaking of December fourth, Luigi mad Gioni
is or mad gione I put the I put the
e on there. I'm never sure with with those Italian
names like that, but anyway, it was. He's in back
in court again on the pre trial hearing and they're
going over what the judge will allow in when they
actually get to the trial. But the reason I bring
it up first is because it is two things. One.
I literally go buy the exact spot that the United
Healthcare CEO was gunned down outside the Hilton Hotel. I
go buy it every single day. And it was exactly
one year ago today that Luigi got out there six
forty four am in the morning as the CEO was
going to the annual conference they have for Wall Street
people and gunned him down on the streets right outside
of the New York Hilton with cold blood. He not
only shot him in the back, but then he walked
over to where he had fallen and shut him two
more times. So I mean cold blooded. And you've got
these small group of people, but they get all the
media attention, the people that are in love with him
for some reason. Paul Morrow, former NYPD chimed in on
this or.
Speaker 2: In the early stages right now. And the defense attorney
is doing what defense attorneys door, right especially defense attorneys
who are being paid quite well to challenge every aspect
of this thing. So what do you do? You start
at the beginning, and that's why we're getting all of
these challenges to when the police first showed up, right
even to the nine to one one call. The Miranda
stuff is where they always go right away. They want
to get this evidence suppressed, and some of it's quite
key evidence. The good news for the prosecution is the
following The cop was relatively recently graduated from the academy.
Now that sounds like a negative, but it's not, because
he's got all of those procedures and culcated in him.
That sometimes jaded cops kind of let go a little
bit because they take things casually. This guy comes out.
He made sure the body cam was on You see
him asking questions, but he's not interrogating in an intimidating way.
Miranda comes down to the following I remember from the academy.
The guy wrote it on the board, no missing anything,
drill it into you. Custody plus interrogation equals miranda. That's
the formula. So the way they're gonna go is they're
gonna say he was in custody and you interrogated him,
You didn't mirandize them. Prosecution is gonna say he wasn't
in custody. He could have left whenever he wanted, and
we were asking general questions. We weren't interrogating him per se.
That's where the gray area is, and that's what they
got it with you. Yeah, I mean, look, for whatever reason,
bad boys, especially bad boys, will look like a member
of a boy band. They get a lot of support.
History is rife with situations where even really reprehensible serial
killers have people writing to them in jail, I'm in
love with you. This kind of stuff. There's no accounting
for this kind of thing. All I can say is
it's a dead end. The evidence is strong. He's all
but admitted it in some of the statements that he made.
This is gonna end badly for which means it's going
to end badly for his supporters. My advice to him
would be to move on to something more productive.
Speaker 1: So it's been the here, and I imagine by now
Luigi has gotten as used to as far as you
can get used to a correctional facility. He's being held
in the Metropolitan Detention Center over in Brooklyn, and it's
not known for its comfort. So I wonder if he
is brought over to the court in Manhattan, if he
isn't rethinking about the move that he made. Maybe wasn't
the brightest thing he's ever done. So anyway, the hearing
is supposed to last again through tomorrow. I don't know
why it takes so long. It seems like this has
been dragged. I think I got a ton of evidence
the judicial system. I appreciate the fact you want to
be careful, but this is ridiculous.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: The other big crime story today, which kind of popped
out from nowhere, is that the police and the FBI
in Washington, d C. Have arrested the suspect who planted
pipe bombs around Washington by the DNC headquarters and by
the RNC headquarters on the night before January sixth. It
was overnight January fifth into the morning of January sixth.
Later that day was the MAGA crowd showed up on
the Capitol and marched through the Capitol. So it was
a big day. But before all of that went down,
they started finding these pipe bombs and they that was yes,
almost five years ago, come January, so they'd been working
it and gradually, slowly but surely, they have identified a
suspect and they arrested him this morning. His name is
is Brian Cole. He's thirty years old, I believe, and
lives in Woodbridge, Virginia, which is just south of Washington,
d C. Here's Cash Patel.
Speaker 4: We did not discover any new information. What we did
an investigation spearheaded by the Deputy Director and the adic
of our Washington Field office, brought in a new team
of investigators and experts, re examined every piece of evidence,
sifted through all the data, something that the prior administration
refused and failed to do. As a result of that,
we generated numerous investigative leads, executed multiple legal process with
their US attorney partners, and came to this conclusion today,
and that is why we were able to safely secure
this individual into custody summer heat. His priority to come
in here and solve it for the American people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty amazing. Do you hear what cash Ptel said?
No new information, They just went over all the old
stuff and came up with They brought in a new team.
And so well, you know, you hear this all the time.
Bring in on these cold cases, bring in fresh eyes.
Paul Morrow again talking about his views on this bust
of this guy and just out of DC today.
Speaker 2: So all the two possibilities that we posited, it looks
like it was b which is there was nothing new.
It was just a set of fresh eyes, a new
task force where everybody got on the same page. And
you know, look, you do have to say to yourself,
after all of this time, what was it that they
found that was so new that allowed them to get
so far on this case relatively quickly? I mean, if
you think about it, the administration here is what now
ten to eleven months old. They probably didn't get going
on this until a few months into it, and yet
they buttoned it up. And so you have to say, ahood,
and yet there is this patina of him being anarchists.
Some of this doesn't quite track.
Speaker 1: They had news conference today, a bunch of the law
enforcement people, and they said, this is under investigation. We'll
give you the name of the guy. We'll give you
the charges, a little bit of the work that they did.
But they're not telling us who this guy is about
why was he planting bombs? The US Attorney for Washington
d C is Jeanine Piro, and the interesting investigative numbers
coming from her.
Speaker 5: Four years, ten months, and twenty eight days ago, an
individual placed a bomb in the vicinity of both the
RNC and the DNC, and for that amount of time,
that individual evaded accountability. Today, as a result of the
cumulative efforts of the men and women in the FBI
and the Police Department and the Department of Justice, we
are finally able to make an arrest of an individual by.
Speaker 4: The name of Brian Cole.
Speaker 5: He is arrested for transporting an explosive device and interstate
commerce as well as the attempted malicious destruction by means
of explosive materials. There were two hundred and thirty three
thousand black end caps of the type that were used
in this case, I want you to think about the
fact that the FBI had to go through the sale
of every one of them to try to find commonality
with an individual. Along with the purchase of the pipe itself,
the cap ends, the wires, the steel, and the nine
volt batteries, every one of those had to be mined
and reminded to the point where we were able to
then connect.
Speaker 1: She didn't use the words AI. Are the about the
initials AI? But apparently and we talked about, well, how
does AI apply anyway? How's it really going to work?
Apparently they they in this case what was different between
now and the same evidence. But AI was able to
go through the hundreds of thousands of pieces of evidence
and make some connection to all of it along with
everything else that they had. AI apparently was a pretty
important part of the investigation that came back around again
almost five years after the event. Steve Moore former not
not the investment guy, the economist guy, Steve more former
FBI guy, did some bomb work.
Speaker 6: The bomb itself or the device itself is going to
give a lot of clues. Obviously, they're going to probably
use gloves things like that, so they don't leave any
kind of fingerprints on it. But every bomb is kind
of our device is kind of like a fingerprint in
and of itself. The person who creates those creates some
in a very specific way that is unique to that person,
and it's it will generally lead you to that person.
Plus the materials they use are traceable.
Speaker 1: Yah. I've heard that before about bombs have signatures to them,
and if you are a bomb maker, you make all
your bombs in a way that has a has a signature.
So now that they've got this guy, they've got him
in custody, and now the rest of it will come
spilling out. But that's all we know. We know his name,
and we know where he lived and what he was
doing planting bombs, and was it related in any way
to the event at the Capitol on January sixth, twenty
twenty one. We don't no, So stand by on that.
So let's get to the drug boat and the big
investigation on what happened in the blowing up of the
drug boat on September. Second, this is getting interesting. There
were the admiral testified behind closed doors with the Senate
Intelligence Committee. Martha Raddits, who was longtime anchor at ABC News,
was doing this story and this is what she came
up with. This is last night.
Speaker 7: According to a source familiar with the incident, the two
survivors climbed back onto the boat after the initial strike.
They were believed to be potentially in communication with others
and salvaging some of the drugs. Because of that, it
was determined they were still in the fight and valid targets.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's ABC News reporting that they were still in
the fight. They climbed back into the boat. There's other
reporting about the fact that they had some sort of
radio and there were other NARCO boats in the area
that they were trying to get to come over to
rescue them, and also to rescue the drugs, to get
them that had been knocked into the water. They were
in bales. Jim Himes, Democrat from Connecticut, is the ranking
member of the Intel Committee in the House. They showed
the full video today to the Intel Committee. He saw
it and this was his reaction.
Speaker 8: What I saw in that room was one of the
most troubling things I've seen in my time in public service.
Any American who sees the video that I saw will
see the United States military attacking shipwrecked sailors.
Speaker 1: Kind of surprises me because Jim Hmes is considered to
be a pretty straight shooter, not a big police wonk.
But this sounds very political because you've also got Tom Cotton,
Senator from Arkansas, who saw it, and this is what
he said.
Speaker 3: The first strike, the second strike, and the third and
the fourth strike on September second were entirely lawful and needful.
I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat loaded
with drugs down for the United States back over so
they could stay in the fight and potentially give them
to all the contacts. We heard of other narco terrorist
boats in the area coming to their aid to recover
their carero and recover those Narco terrorists.
Speaker 1: I'm Cotton is a veteran was in the Iraq War.
I don't know who to believe. They both seem like
they're fairly honorable men. At the same time. I know
that Jim Himes said he was asked the question do
you think that the video tape should be released? And
he said yes, And President Trump has said go ahead
and release whatever you want to release. So I'm starting
to suspect that this is going to come down to,
first of all war is ugly, and battles are ugly,
and soldiers getting killed. Nobody likes to see anybody getting killed,
So it's going to be ugly. But the question is
where they still combatants? Were they still in the fight,
because a lot of veterans are saying, this is what
we do. And did you hear Tom Cotton say the second,
the third, and the fourth we're all legit. So we
were talking about the two strikes. Now we're apparently there's
four strikes. Mark Theeson wrote a piece in the Washington
Post today about it.
Speaker 9: Here's Mark cars Pete. HEGKSAF with the war's crime. Better
start with Barack Obama. Barack Obama had a drone campaign.
He fired five hundred and sixty drone strikes, killed not
just terrorists, but killed an American citizen on Mura Alackey
did it on the ground for violating sovereignty instead of
in international waters. And he regularly did what are called
double tap and even triple tap strikes. I interviewed David
shad who on my podcast What the Hell is going
On Today, who was the head of the Defense Intelligence
Agency under Obama, and he said, we did double tap
strikes all of the time. In fact, we usually had
a second predator in the sky waiting for the intelligence
to clear to see if there were any survivors so
we could take them out. So this was a regular
practice under the Obama administration because they were going after terrorists.
Trump has declared these people for foreign terrorist organizations. He's
using the same authority as the Obama administrator.
Speaker 1: Again, I'm starting to get a sense that I don't
know if Jim Himes ever spent a day in the military.
He may have. I don't know, but I do know
that with the Dan Crenshaw cut that we played yesterday,
Dan was a Sealed Team member before he was a
member of Congress, and he said, yes, when you attack
a building, a car, or whatever it might be, and
there are people there, do you kill them?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 10: You do.
Speaker 1: So the veterans seem to be looking at this going
that's standard operating procedure. Major Mike Lyons is obviously a veteran.
His impression about what has heard so far is.
Speaker 11: This, so they survive the initial tack, they were going
to continue to try to somehow move those drugs. Does
that justify the second strike?
Speaker 8: Major?
Speaker 12: I think that the audio and video will tell the
whole story on this and another reports that are leaking
out on a lot of different ways, as the White
House and the Pentagon trying to get in front of
the story. But I just have a hard time believing
Admiral Bradley committed a war crime. We would not fire
to health fire missiles, especially at just individuals in the water.
There must have been a target there. There must have
been something that the admiral thought that would be a threat.
It was maybe the materi that was floating around, or
maybe they didn't get the entire ship, and from that perspective,
that's likely what they'll say. It didn't violate that law
of land warfare. So again, I'm confident that the admiral
did not commit a war crime. I think it's important
that they speak to it, and I think that it's
good General Kine is there as well, I think, to
protect the joint forces here. I think it does bring
up this point about there might be some ambiguity about
what's going on between the Secretary of Defense though and
the Special Operations Command, and I think maybe we'll try
to get that fixed as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what he's talking about there, and this is where
haig Seth is got some answers to come up with
because or to clear up some of his answers. At first,
he was asked about this this event, and he denied
that it happened, and then came back later and had
another story saying, well, it happened, but it was not
a war crime. And then he said, well it happened,
but I wasn't there for the second shot, and well
where were you? What I mean, They're going to have
to ask him more specifically about his role. But there's
a lot of people, and this is where this may
come down. A lot of people. I told you this
the other day. They don't like Donald Trump, and they
certainly don't like Pete haig Seth. And so there's going
to be a group of people that are going to
go after hag Seth. There's only one person that at
this point really counts, and that is the President. In
so far, the President appears to be on the surface,
at least supporting Pete haig Seth. How about the drugs
that are coming in from Venezuela. Terry Cole has been.
Speaker 2: A career.
Speaker 1: Drug enforcement DEA guy and has so he's been on
the ground his boots have been on the ground. He's
now the head of the DEA. He was asked about
this whole business of the drugs coming from Venezuela.
Speaker 13: And this is all about saving American citizens and protecting
our national security. And I just want to reiterate, in
the last twenty four hours, the last twenty four hours,
our host nation counterparts, our Federal Task Force have seized
twenty thousand kilos of cocaine that were destined for the
United States, destined to the United States to spread this
poison that's being sent here by these foreign terrorist cartels
that are preying on our kids.
Speaker 1: Well, let's go back to Jim Heins, the congressman who
says that there's no such thing as a narco terrorist.
Speaker 8: There is no such thing as a narco terrorist.
Speaker 14: There are very very bad narcotics people, cartels, etc. But
they're desperate to make this look like it's ISIS or
a La Kaida, because that's the very thin line on
which they're illegal use of the United States military to
take these people out resides.
Speaker 1: So you see where they're going with this, and they're
going to find themselves walking into a corner. Because I
don't think other than illegal drug users who are buying
cocaine and fentanyl. Everybody else in this country I think
would like to put a stop to the drugs coming
into our nation, the illegal drugs that are killing a
lot of people. Now, granted they voluntarily took these illegal drugs,
most of them, but still the idea of we have
been going after the drug dealers for as long as
I've been alive, and we haven't really won the drug war,
have we. So now for the first time we're actually
going after these people. Are the Democrats led by Jim
Himes going to say they're not so bad? Why are
you so upset about all this?
Speaker 13: Here's Terry Cole So, how many more Americans need to
die at the hands of the cartels? How many more
cartel members are going to kill American citizens before we
treat them like terrorists? They are terrorist, They're causing terror.
They're coming at us from every different angle, and we
need to put a stop to the cartels and their
dominance when it comes to sending this poison to the
United States. Well, I think you're going to see a
shift and a lift on their part. They're going to
go to the areas where they deem it easier to
send their narcotics and then listen. They do not want
to deal with the US military. They are scared, they
are petrified. They are running, and we have them on
the run. We need to continue to apply as much
pressure as possible from a federal law enforcement standpoint, from
a coalition standpoint, we need to empower our host nations
to continue on the offensive against these cartels because we
are destined to win this. We cannot lose this. We
are going to win this. We are going to save Americans,
We're going to protect our national security, and we are
going to hold these foreign terrorsts accountable for their actions.
We are getting closer, but we have a lot of
work to do. This is about saving kids, This is
about educating the public. This is about prevention, but this
is also about enforcement. People need to be held accountable
for their actions. We cannot continue to sit back and
allow these cartels to sell this poison in our country
and kill our kids. This is the number one priority
of DEA. Currently, we are back to global operations, global
enforcement and allowing our agents that are on the street
every single day to do their job.
Speaker 3: We have their back.
Speaker 13: They know their president has their back, We know the
Attorney General has their back, and now that you have
two agents back in charge at DEA, we have their back.
We are on the offensive.
Speaker 1: So now it depends upon if the Democrats are going
to try to stop the government, the Trump administration from
going after these narco drug boats and where else. They're
going to try and do something different than every administration
has done for the last fifty years. And as a result,
the car tells just keep growing and getting stronger. There's
billions of dollars involved. So we'll see whether or not
the Trump administration is going to keep the pedal to
the medal on going after these drug narco people. Oh,
let's talk to the economy for a little bit. We've
got a couple of polls that are out. We've got
an announcement today that in the first eleven months of
this year through November, one point one million layoffs were announced.
One point one million people lost their jobs in the
first eleven months of this year. That is up fifty
four percent over the previous year. Harry Anton has looked
into exactly what the story is about job.
Speaker 10: It's rough out there. That's how folks feel about it.
Is rough. Rough, rough, I mean just take a look here,
good time to find a quality job among US employees.
You go back three and a half years ago. Look
at this, It was the clear majority, seventy percent. Remember
there was all that talk about quiet quitting. Oh I'm
gonna leave my job, I'll find another one. No longer
do we feel that's the case. Look at this. That
is a drop of more than half, down to just
thirty three percent in the latest reading of Gallop back
in August of twenty twenty five. The bottom line is,
three years ago, we were dealing with what Americans thought
was a good job market. Now they think it is
a terrible job market for those who are trying to
get out and potentially get a job. If you see
this drop of more than half, this slide won't surprise you.
I mean Trump's net approval rating on jobs and employment.
In January he was at plus nine points. Hey, hey, hey,
pretty gosh darn good, well above water. But look at
this now, look at this. Now, that is a drop
of nearly thirty points. And over the course of his
presiden see the minus nineteen points. And then my little
nugget down here, he's at minus thirty five points on
the net approval righting, yah, will zoom right in with independence.
So look, the bottom line is this on jobs and employment,
it was a plus for Trump coming in. It was
one of the reasons they got elected. And now it
is a massive, massive negative, in large part because it's
just tough to get a job out there, according to
those who are trying to do so. Yeah, your four
oh one k is doing pretty gosh darn well, But
that's not what Americans look to in terms of judging
the economy. I mean ways to judge the economy is good.
Thirty seven percent say the stock market. That's well less
than the majority, the clear majority, fifty four percent say
the jobs report, the unemployment numbers. That's the way they
judge whether or not the economy is good when it
comes to those national metrics. So the jobs reports potentially
being bad, that is far, far, far more important and
far more devastating to the president. He can't just point
to the stock market, because when you have ADP numbers
like we had coming out this week, that's a massive
negative in the minds of the va Okay, so you
know what, we had, the ADP, but of course we'll
be getting and a little bit time the actual numbers
from the US government on this and the chance November's
unemployment rate, according to the prediction market odds, is above
the previous four point four percent seventy percent chance that
we have a worse unemployment rate and the next jobs
report coming out than what we previously had. That's where
people were putting their money where their mouth is. And
it's not much of a surprise when you have that
ADP number coming out like we did earlier on because
right now it just looks rough out there.
Speaker 1: Well, let's talk about the ADP number, because it wasn't negative.
They said they were thirty two thousand jobs lost, no gains.
It was the thirty minus thirty two thousand in the
month of November. ADP does a good job, but it's
not ever. You can't ever count on that being the
same as the government jobs report. Sometimes they are, other
times they're not. So the fact that it was a
minus thirty two thousand, okay, but let's wait for the
For the first the government's compiling the numbers again, and
instead of the first Friday of the month, which is tomorrow,
they have delayed the release of the jobs report for
the month of November until Tuesday, December sixteenth, So a
week from next Tuesday we finally get our first government
jobs report. Now, the other calendar item is before that.
Next Tuesday and Wednesday, the Fed meets and they're going
to try to decide what to do about interest rates.
And the bet is very high in the prediction markets
that the Fed will cut another quarter of a percent.
Everybody would be surprised if they don't. So Tuesday and
Wednesday of next week we find out on Wednesday afternoon
what the Fed's going to do. Then the following Tuesday,
the government comes out with their jobs report. Kevin Hassett,
the head of the Council Economic Advisors to the President,
and the betting favored on the being the next FED
chair Where it reacted to all of this about what
Henry was talking about.
Speaker 15: Well, don't don't forget that there's hires and there's fires,
and there's you know, separations and new jobs, and so
net job creation for the year is very positive, but
you know, the flow of jobs in it out is
a little bit higher. There's a little bit more turnover.
A lot of times that could happen because people feel
like they're actually able to get another job.
Speaker 6: If they leave this job.
Speaker 15: What we really need, though, is we've got a little
bit of a dark period because of the government shutdown.
We don't have the job's data for a couple of months.
We'll get them in a few weeks and then we'll
have a clearer picture on this. The thing that was
a real puzzle going back to the first half of
the year is that while employers were saying that the
job creation was somewhat tepid, in the household survey, where
you just asked people have a job, we had two
hundred and eighty thousand jobs, for example, in August. And
given that the GDP numbers are saying that we're growing
at four percent, there's something of a puzzle if the
household number is not the right number. And so I
still I'm kind of hoping that I'm going to believe
more in the household number.
Speaker 1: So we'll see. But Harry was talking about the fact
that especially independents are losing faith in the economic stewardshift
of the president. Here's Kevin.
Speaker 3: Now, he absolutely is not.
Speaker 15: And you know, the President has talked about the affordability hoax,
and I want to talk about what he means when
he says that the fact is that inflation went up
almost to ten percent one year with Joe Biden, over
twenty percent as you know over the four years, and
right now the inflation rate is running maybe at about
a two and a half percent rate. But people lost
dot average about three thousand dollars worth of purchasing power
because of Joe Biden's inflationary policies. And while we're making
a lot of progress. So as you mentioned that, we
had all the CEOs of the car dealerships in the Oval.
I was in there in the Oval with the President
yesterday talking about all the things that they're doing to
make it so that cars will be cheaper next year.
We've gotten all the above approach that is definitely going
to make things inflation lower and things cheaper. But don't
forget that it's not just what happens to prices, but
what happens to wages. And so far after losing three
thousand dollars in purchasing power after Joe Biden already this
year in Trump's economy, then people have gained twelve hundred
dollars in purchasing power because of the moves that we're making.
Speaker 1: I've heard Kevin talking about this a number of times.
So during the four years of the Biden administration, you
and I lost three thousand dollars worth of purchasing power,
and you feel it. That's why, Yes, prices are up,
they came, well, they're still up. They just the inflation
has moderated, but prices haven't, as an overall number, haven't
really been reduced. So with the fact that you can't
buy as much because the prices are higher, but it's
really you can't buy as much because you're purchase power
is less down by three thousand dollars. And what Kevin
keeps repeating is that number about the fact that we
have earned back twelve hundred of the three thousand in
the so far this year. So they've got to hurry
up and make sure that they can make people feel
better about their wallets by the time mid year elections
come around next fall. And part of that starts with
the getting back to getting good economic data again.
Speaker 15: Well, one of the things that we've seen and we've
studied over the last couple of weeks is that when
there's a government shut down, then the things that we
economists call the soft data, the survey data, tend to
really really tank because everyone's in a terrible mood because
Washington can't work and the government shut down, and they're
worried about how bad it's going to be. But the
hard data are what do people actually do with their lives,
with their pocketbooks? And so for example, we just saw
the best Black Friday ever, you know, people went out
getting ready for the Christmas holiday shopping season. Feeling very
very optimistic about the economy as we go into next year.
Don't forget that all the people who have no tax
on tips, no tax on social Security, who are going
to be able to deduct the interest on their car
loan if they buy a car, all those things are
kicking in big time as we go into next year.
That's why Secretary Vesset and I are both very confident
that we're going to be looking at growth in the
four numbers for the first half of next year.
Speaker 1: So they are optimistic about twenty twenty six. But I
don't know. Part of it is their economist, at least
Kevin is part of it is they're hoping and praying
for their political futures that things will get better. Besides
you and me hoping that things get economically better, I
do need to correct Kevin on a couple of things.
I really have great respect for him. But there's no
tax on tips, that's real. The no tax on Social
Security is not technically right. There will be a tax.
There's a deduction that's going to be added for some
people that are on Social Security the law. The income
you have, the more you can make a deduction. But
it's about I think a six thousand dollars deduction gets
phased out if you make too much money. But there
will be a tax on some Social Security. So no
tax on overtime, that's easy to do. So there's still
I mean, I know he doesn't want to get into
the weeds on this stuff, but when you hear that
just kind of get a John to die for just
a moment. As far as will the economy improve before
the midterms next year, we don't know. We'll have to
wait and see if all these policy policies that they
put in place actually do have an economic benefit. Speaking
of economic benefits, how did the Wall Street folks do today? Well,
nothing to really shout about. It's a mixed market down
that's been really bouncing around, so today it was kind
of a pause. Down thirty one to close it for
forty seven eight fifty s and P up seven Nasdaq
up fifty one. So, like I said, mix market, not
much movement. Gold was up seven dollars to forty two
forty and oil was up almost a dollar to just
under sixty dollars for one barrel of oil. Well that's
it for today. Thank you for coming by. We'll be
back here again tomorrow. Hope to see you then