1 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:24,839 Speaker 1: And Hi, how are you welcome to the Big Podcast? 2 00:00:25,719 --> 00:00:32,119 It is Wednesday. Well, we had a holiday on Monday. 3 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:35,240 It's the third of September, year of our Lord, twenty 4 00:00:35,359 --> 00:00:38,359 twenty five. My name is Tom Sullivan. So we've got 5 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:41,560 here's kind of a rundown of what I've got on 6 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:47,359 my list for you today. Chicago. Will federal troops wind 7 00:00:47,439 --> 00:00:53,039 up in Chicago? Maybe? Maybe not. We're waiting to find 8 00:00:53,079 --> 00:00:56,240 what that's all about. We've got in DC today at 9 00:00:56,240 --> 00:01:01,479 the Capitol. There are a large number of Epstein's survivors 10 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:05,640 that are there. They're trying to get a bill passed 11 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:11,439 that would require everything be divulged from the Epstein files. 12 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:15,799 What else do we have today? Oh? Have you bought 13 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:19,439 a lottery ticket? I know, I feel like I'm pitching 14 00:01:19,439 --> 00:01:22,239 for the lottery. I'm not, because the odds are one 15 00:01:22,319 --> 00:01:24,760 in two hundred and ninety two million that you'll win. 16 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:28,159 But what I say, you must you got to play 17 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:31,879 if you're going to win. So one point four billion 18 00:01:33,079 --> 00:01:39,359 on the line for tonight. Speaking of money, ill hand 19 00:01:39,719 --> 00:01:44,040 omar the lady who keeps jumping up and down about 20 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:47,480 rich people and taxing rich people. We find out that 21 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:52,239 she is a multi multi millionaire, and that money has 22 00:01:52,319 --> 00:01:55,439 been coming in rather quickly over the last year. So 23 00:01:55,519 --> 00:01:59,480 we'll get into all of that. Let's start start with Chicago, 24 00:02:01,159 --> 00:02:06,480 because there's a variety of people in Chicago that feel 25 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:11,280 like they want the National Guard. They are worried about 26 00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:15,120 the crime in their city. Here's a little montage of 27 00:02:15,199 --> 00:02:18,000 some of the people that they're all for the National 28 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:18,879 Guard coming in. 29 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:22,000 Speaker 2: They're just getting works and works every day every day. 30 00:02:22,759 --> 00:02:26,719 Speaker 3: You know, the local media sometimes they report the crime 31 00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:29,319 for one day and that's it. 32 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:33,719 Speaker 1: So it just gone from bad to worse to disasters. 33 00:02:33,919 --> 00:02:36,439 These kids are carrying guns, like around the ages of 34 00:02:36,479 --> 00:02:38,879 eight years old, and they're killing other eight year old 35 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:41,520 kids with guns. It's insane to me. 36 00:02:41,639 --> 00:02:43,400 Speaker 4: I think the biggest piece of a pie has to 37 00:02:43,439 --> 00:02:45,680 be more police officers, more protection. 38 00:02:45,759 --> 00:02:49,919 Speaker 1: That's what the people want, more more visibility, all right. 39 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:51,719 So those were some people that we found on the 40 00:02:51,719 --> 00:02:55,520 street that are bringing in the National Guard. Crime is 41 00:02:55,560 --> 00:03:00,120 bad in Chicago. Then there's another group of Chicagoans on 42 00:03:00,199 --> 00:03:01,120 the other side of the aisle. 43 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:08,719 Speaker 5: The purpose of federal military forces are not too police citisen. 44 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:11,360 That's why we have the police, so we don't need 45 00:03:11,719 --> 00:03:12,800 federal forces to do. 46 00:03:12,879 --> 00:03:13,560 Speaker 6: The police saying. 47 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:15,639 Speaker 1: Chicago won't be what it is and I don't care. 48 00:03:15,639 --> 00:03:17,879 Speaker 7: You can send the National Guard, you can send anybody 49 00:03:17,919 --> 00:03:18,439 you want to see. 50 00:03:18,479 --> 00:03:19,400 Speaker 1: It is not going to stop. 51 00:03:19,479 --> 00:03:22,719 Speaker 8: I think at this point, man trying something because nothing's working. 52 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:24,680 So if this works, and then what any helps? 53 00:03:24,719 --> 00:03:25,800 Speaker 4: I mean, why not cooperate? 54 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:28,719 Speaker 1: Okay, So that last guy is kind of uh yeah, 55 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:33,879 why not cooperate? It's that's the problem with montage. You 56 00:03:33,919 --> 00:03:36,719 can find people that will say either side of the isle. 57 00:03:37,039 --> 00:03:40,120 So let's go to the man in charge. Let's go 58 00:03:40,199 --> 00:03:43,879 to JB. Pritzker, the governor of Illinois. Let's see what 59 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:47,000 he thinks about how safe Chicago is or is not. 60 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:49,400 Speaker 8: Hi, everyone, Governor J. P. 61 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:49,879 Speaker 1: Pritzker. 62 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:52,039 Speaker 8: Here, I'm here in the little village, a beautiful part 63 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:54,560 of the city. Was able to just walk down the 64 00:03:54,639 --> 00:03:57,360 street and say hello to some of the small business 65 00:03:57,360 --> 00:04:01,680 owners and the patrons in those small business is just 66 00:04:01,719 --> 00:04:06,280 a lovely day here. No emergency. So Donald Trump understands 67 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:09,120 no emergency in the city of Chicago to send troops in. 68 00:04:09,159 --> 00:04:12,560 But I know people are very afraid because ice officials. 69 00:04:13,039 --> 00:04:16,160 Ice officers are planning to come here to a little 70 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:18,879 village and I just want people to know that we're 71 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:21,199 doing everything we can in the state and in the 72 00:04:21,199 --> 00:04:24,759 city to keep you safe. We'll make sure protect your rights, 73 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:27,360 but you need to know your rights and make sure 74 00:04:27,399 --> 00:04:30,959 that you understand that the ICE officials don't have a 75 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:34,120 right to knock down doors to take people away. But 76 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:36,759 make sure you stay safe. All right, We're thinking of 77 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:39,000 you and doing everything we can to protect you. 78 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:44,040 Speaker 1: So that's the governor walking with a bunch of his 79 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:47,839 staff and security people around him and media around him, 80 00:04:48,199 --> 00:04:53,360 and everything's great, everything's fine. There's no emergency. Oh oh 81 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:57,399 there is one. I mean, I don't blame you for 82 00:04:57,480 --> 00:05:01,120 being afraid that ICE is a run around in Chicago. 83 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:04,240 And you got to be afraid of those federal police 84 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:09,560 officers called Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Yeah, that's worth being 85 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:12,920 afraid of. But everything else here is fine in Chicago. 86 00:05:13,399 --> 00:05:18,680 Are A Fleischer, former press secretary for George W. Well. 87 00:05:18,959 --> 00:05:20,360 These are his thought. Well. 88 00:05:20,879 --> 00:05:23,600 Speaker 3: Mayor Muriel Browser of Washington d C is a smart 89 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:26,560 one here because she has actually talked about how much 90 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:30,000 help the federal intervention in Washington CEA has been, how 91 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:34,120 it's achieving the goals of reducing crime, reducing murder, reducing carjackings, 92 00:05:34,319 --> 00:05:37,480 particularly in the poor awards of Washington, d C. So 93 00:05:37,519 --> 00:05:40,040 what you've got are Democrats who are hung up on process. 94 00:05:40,879 --> 00:05:42,680 They want to be in charge of the cities, and 95 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:45,079 it doesn't matter if it's been done well or poorly. 96 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:47,879 Leave it to them, they say. Trump looks at us, 97 00:05:47,879 --> 00:05:50,680 says it's a mess. Crime is too high. We can 98 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:54,839 change who's in charge. I just want better results. I 99 00:05:54,839 --> 00:05:56,959 think results matter a lot more to the people who 100 00:05:56,959 --> 00:05:58,560 are victims of crime than process. 101 00:05:59,319 --> 00:05:59,399 Speaker 9: Well. 102 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:04,120 Speaker 1: Megan Hay of Democrat Rategist, she has a very good 103 00:06:04,199 --> 00:06:08,399 point about what happens when the National Guard leaves someday. 104 00:06:08,759 --> 00:06:10,920 Speaker 10: Americans overwhelmingly have said that they do not want the 105 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:14,439 National Guard deployed into their cities, whether it's DC, Chicago, Memphis, 106 00:06:14,399 --> 00:06:16,600 anywhere in the United States. They don't want that. But 107 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:19,360 I do think that there is a way that the government, 108 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:21,800 the federal government in these states governments can work together. 109 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:23,839 But they need to actually work together. Trump just can't 110 00:06:23,879 --> 00:06:26,160 threaten to send them in and without talking to the 111 00:06:26,199 --> 00:06:28,720 states governor and mayors to make this effective. One thing 112 00:06:28,759 --> 00:06:30,759 I worry about here in Washington, DC, where I've lived 113 00:06:30,759 --> 00:06:33,680 for over twenty years, is what happens when the National 114 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:36,240 Guard pulls out? What happens when this thirty day period 115 00:06:36,319 --> 00:06:38,000 is up? Is crime going to go back up? We 116 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:40,800 still haven't solved the problem. We're still not investing in 117 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:44,639 more policing, We're not investing in more community resources here. 118 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:47,279 So then what happens when this goes away? Then it 119 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:49,439 just becomes all theater. And I think that people want 120 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:52,199 actual results, like Ari was saying, not just theater. 121 00:06:52,639 --> 00:06:55,600 Speaker 1: She makes a great point. What happens when the National 122 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:58,120 Guard can't stay there forever and they can't be in 123 00:06:58,120 --> 00:07:01,839 every study forever. So what happens when the National Guard 124 00:07:01,839 --> 00:07:05,720 goes away? Is crime solved? That's why I say President 125 00:07:05,759 --> 00:07:08,040 Trump has to be very careful. Remember what George W. 126 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:10,680 Bush got mocked for a long time because he landed 127 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:13,319 on an aircraft carrier and they put up a big 128 00:07:13,399 --> 00:07:17,839 sign mission accomplished. And he got rightfully mocked about that 129 00:07:17,879 --> 00:07:20,040 for a long time because the war continued on and 130 00:07:20,079 --> 00:07:22,519 on and on and on. And I'm just thinking that 131 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:27,199 crime is not solved in Washington, DC. So he's kind 132 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:31,680 of putting up a mission accomplished sign, And what happens 133 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:33,680 when crime goes back to normal? 134 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:38,439 Speaker 3: Yeah? First of all, ICE, by law, does have the 135 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:40,439 ability to knock down doors and take people away if 136 00:07:40,439 --> 00:07:43,759 they're here illegally or suspected of being here illegally. So 137 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:45,639 I don't know what the governor is talking about when 138 00:07:45,639 --> 00:07:47,879 he tries to inform people like that. If you want 139 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:50,879 to make people safe, stop being a sanctuary city, stop 140 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:54,439 being a sanctuary state. Enforce the law. Work with your 141 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:57,680 federal partners. You were talking earlier about work with state 142 00:07:57,759 --> 00:08:00,879 and local partners. Work with your federal partners. Don't say 143 00:08:00,879 --> 00:08:04,040 to ICE, you're not allowed, we won't cooperate, we won't 144 00:08:04,079 --> 00:08:07,319 turn people over to you. Why wouldn't you turn somebody 145 00:08:07,399 --> 00:08:09,879 over if they're in America illegally, and especially if they 146 00:08:09,879 --> 00:08:12,639 were in America illegally and committed a second crime, why 147 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:17,240 they were here having arrived illegally. So this is the 148 00:08:17,279 --> 00:08:19,800 difference between red states and blue states and their approach 149 00:08:19,839 --> 00:08:22,120 to law enforcement. And the final point I'll make is 150 00:08:22,160 --> 00:08:25,199 it's not a question of investing more to get more police. 151 00:08:26,519 --> 00:08:29,600 Police aren't joining because they think the politicians don't have 152 00:08:29,639 --> 00:08:32,799 their back. That's why there's a recruitment crisis in law enforcement, 153 00:08:33,039 --> 00:08:37,159 particularly in blue cities. Red cities, the National Bard Patrol. 154 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:39,759 They're getting people to sign up because they know their 155 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:42,440 leadership supports them and will let them do their job. 156 00:08:42,879 --> 00:08:44,440 That's the difference between red and blue. 157 00:08:45,279 --> 00:08:49,039 Speaker 1: Amen to that. He's absolutely right. I don't understand why 158 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:53,279 we've gotten so divided in this country that a Democrat 159 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:56,759 governor cannot work with the Republican administration and vice versa. 160 00:08:57,080 --> 00:08:59,879 They just won't do it because the other side might 161 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:03,360 get a political browning point out of it. Many many 162 00:09:03,440 --> 00:09:06,440 years ago, telling old police stories. When I was in 163 00:09:06,519 --> 00:09:10,919 law enforcement, they had a federal program. I was highway patrols, 164 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:15,120 so we were interested in drunk drivers, and we flooded. 165 00:09:15,159 --> 00:09:17,159 They brought in a bunch of federal money and they 166 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:20,399 paid us overtime. Me and a whole bunch of my 167 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:24,039 fellow troopers, we were out and we flooded this area 168 00:09:24,840 --> 00:09:28,559 of the interstate highway system. It was I forget five 169 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:32,000 mile zone something like that. If you wobbled in that 170 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:35,919 five mile zone, you were being pulled over and checked 171 00:09:35,919 --> 00:09:37,720 to see if you were a drunk driver. So what 172 00:09:37,759 --> 00:09:40,799 do we do. We arrested a lot of drunk drivers, 173 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:44,600 many more than we normally would have. But then the 174 00:09:44,639 --> 00:09:47,320 program ran out and we went back to our normal schedules, 175 00:09:47,519 --> 00:09:50,799 and I don't think we solved drunk driving. I wish 176 00:09:50,879 --> 00:09:55,120 we did. So what happens when some of these programs 177 00:09:55,159 --> 00:10:00,480 get pulled back. I will give you this. During President clinton'sministration, 178 00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:04,799 he saw the crime problem and he knew that crime 179 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:09,240 was something that bothered people. So he funded a federal 180 00:10:09,279 --> 00:10:15,200 effort for police departments to hire one hundred thousand police officers. 181 00:10:15,919 --> 00:10:20,440 And it took a few years, but they did. Did 182 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:24,480 it solve crime? No? But I think the effort was 183 00:10:24,480 --> 00:10:27,600 about a much smarter way to go about it is 184 00:10:27,639 --> 00:10:32,679 to hire, recruit, and train many more police officers for 185 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:37,360 whether it's Washington, d C. Or Chicago. I mean, Chicago 186 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:41,120 has just a very small police force compared to the 187 00:10:41,159 --> 00:10:44,960 size of its city. So they'll fight with each other 188 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:51,440 for political points. But so far it looks like President 189 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:53,960 Trump wants to send troops to Chicago and then the 190 00:10:54,039 --> 00:10:59,320 lawyers are going to get involved. That's the Chicago angle today. 191 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:02,639 What else have we got on the list here? Oh yeah? 192 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:09,879 Epstein big hearing in a big news conference outside the 193 00:11:09,879 --> 00:11:12,840 Capitol today with a whole bunch of women that are 194 00:11:12,879 --> 00:11:18,279 now middle aged women that were abused and victims of Epstein. 195 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:21,480 The reason they were in DC today was because of 196 00:11:21,519 --> 00:11:24,320 the fact they're pushing Congress to pass a bill for 197 00:11:24,559 --> 00:11:29,279 more documents documents to be released. Well, I don't I 198 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:33,919 play eclippment from James Comer here in a minute, but 199 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:40,120 they have released yes, was it yesterday? They released thirty 200 00:11:40,519 --> 00:11:47,320 thousand pages. That's from the DOJ released thirty thousand pages 201 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:51,080 to Congress. Congress that we want the files on Epstein. 202 00:11:51,720 --> 00:11:56,120 There were reactions in there to protect names of victims apparently. 203 00:11:56,919 --> 00:11:59,519 But the problem with this is the people that have 204 00:11:59,639 --> 00:12:02,000 received this in Congress, the staff have gone through and 205 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:06,960 has said ninety seven percent of those thirty thousand pages 206 00:12:07,039 --> 00:12:10,919 have already been made public, so you didn't really release 207 00:12:11,039 --> 00:12:14,679 all that much that was new, and they estimate there's 208 00:12:14,720 --> 00:12:19,600 another one percent of documents still held by the DOJ. 209 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:23,159 So this brings up a couple of observations. Number One, 210 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:26,960 do you think there's any member of Congress that is 211 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:31,879 going to read through thirty thousand pages, especially since a 212 00:12:31,919 --> 00:12:35,080 lot of it's already public. No, the answer is clearly no. 213 00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:40,639 Secondly is why are they keeping anything at the DOJ? 214 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:48,519 Redact names of victims, but otherwise the pressure is not 215 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:51,559 going to back off on they want to see these names. 216 00:12:52,159 --> 00:12:55,799 So two members of Congress are pushing for everything to 217 00:12:55,840 --> 00:13:00,240 be released. One of them is Rokana, the Democrat from 218 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:04,440 San Jose, California. The other one is Tom Massey, the 219 00:13:04,559 --> 00:13:09,000 Republican from Kentucky. Here's what Tom Massey had to say. 220 00:13:09,159 --> 00:13:12,799 Speaker 6: What dishal information are you looking to get beyond the. 221 00:13:12,799 --> 00:13:13,840 Speaker 1: Thirty FI thousand patres? 222 00:13:13,840 --> 00:13:16,919 Speaker 5: What is actually out there the administration is what's holding by? 223 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:17,519 Speaker 1: Well? 224 00:13:17,799 --> 00:13:18,600 Speaker 11: How about this? 225 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:21,960 Speaker 9: This is the flight logs they're withholding who was on 226 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:25,559 these planes? Like, this is a document that's publicly available, 227 00:13:26,039 --> 00:13:30,840 Go find it on their website. They are redacting things 228 00:13:30,919 --> 00:13:35,399 to prevent embarrassment, They're not redacting things to protect victims. 229 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:39,799 And in the process of preventing embarrassment, they're hiding some 230 00:13:39,879 --> 00:13:45,799 criminals embarrassment, no embarrassment to rich and powerful individuals who 231 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:49,120 are connected to the president. I don't think the president 232 00:13:50,080 --> 00:13:54,159 is redacted here. I don't think he's implicated in these files, 233 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:57,759 but I think his donors are, I think his friends are, 234 00:13:58,480 --> 00:14:03,200 and I think our own DOJ and government are implicated 235 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:04,080 in this too. 236 00:14:04,559 --> 00:14:08,840 Speaker 1: So yeah, Matthew thinks there's a big conspiracy about keeping 237 00:14:08,879 --> 00:14:13,240 back some of the names of maybe some important wealthy 238 00:14:13,279 --> 00:14:19,279 friends in high places. Donald Trump was asked about it 239 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:25,480 yesterday in the White House, and he's been in favor 240 00:14:25,559 --> 00:14:29,120 when he was campaigning about releasing all the Epstein files, 241 00:14:29,759 --> 00:14:32,879 and even as a matter of a week or two 242 00:14:32,879 --> 00:14:36,519 ago he was saying, yeah, we need to cooperate on this. 243 00:14:36,879 --> 00:14:40,080 And now yesterday this is what he said. 244 00:14:40,279 --> 00:14:44,519 Speaker 12: Democrat hoax that never ends. From what I understand. I 245 00:14:44,519 --> 00:14:48,000 could check, but from what I understand, thousands of pages 246 00:14:48,039 --> 00:14:51,600 of documents have been given. But it's really a Democrat 247 00:14:51,639 --> 00:14:54,879 hoax because they tried to get people to talk about 248 00:14:54,919 --> 00:14:58,399 something that's totally irrelevant to the success that we've had 249 00:14:58,480 --> 00:14:59,960 as a nation since I've been present. 250 00:15:00,759 --> 00:15:04,159 Speaker 1: Well, I think we're capable of talking about the successes 251 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:06,919 that you're having as president, and at the same time, 252 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:11,600 we can chew gum and walk. I mean, we can 253 00:15:11,679 --> 00:15:14,559 also talk about the fact that this cover up and 254 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:16,519 it appears to be a cover up, and the more 255 00:15:16,559 --> 00:15:18,600 you fight it, the more people are going to dig 256 00:15:18,639 --> 00:15:21,440 in and the more they think you're hiding something. So 257 00:15:21,639 --> 00:15:26,440 and it's certainly not a hoax. Lisa Phillips is one 258 00:15:26,480 --> 00:15:30,440 of the ladies who spoke today outside the capital. She 259 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:35,519 is a victim of Jeffrey Epstein, and she not only 260 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:40,440 said it's this isn't a hoax to these ladies, but 261 00:15:40,519 --> 00:15:43,440 I also was amazed that she's not getting more coverage 262 00:15:43,480 --> 00:15:46,879 because she brought up the idea about we know who 263 00:15:46,919 --> 00:15:49,639 the people are that abused us. We know their names. 264 00:15:50,559 --> 00:15:52,879 We're going to put a list together and reveal who 265 00:15:52,960 --> 00:15:54,200 they are. Listen to this. 266 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:58,440 Speaker 2: Congress must choose will you continue to protect predators or 267 00:15:58,480 --> 00:16:03,799 will you finally protect And also, I would like to 268 00:16:03,799 --> 00:16:08,879 announce here today us Epstein survivors have been discussing creating 269 00:16:08,960 --> 00:16:09,639 our own list. 270 00:16:10,720 --> 00:16:11,559 Speaker 13: We know the names. 271 00:16:12,519 --> 00:16:16,320 Speaker 2: Many of us were abused by them. Now, together as survivors, 272 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:20,480 we will confidentially compile the names we all know. 273 00:16:21,279 --> 00:16:25,080 Speaker 1: I think that's a fantastic idea. They know who the 274 00:16:25,279 --> 00:16:29,120 who the who the perpetrators are. They know who abused 275 00:16:29,120 --> 00:16:32,720 them when they were underage girls. She said, they're going 276 00:16:32,759 --> 00:16:34,919 to put out the list confidentially. I don't think so. 277 00:16:35,159 --> 00:16:38,919 You've got to You've got to bust these pedophiles. I 278 00:16:38,919 --> 00:16:41,120 don't care how rich they are, I don't care how 279 00:16:41,159 --> 00:16:45,399 powerful they are. You got to go after them. So 280 00:16:45,559 --> 00:16:49,039 James Comer, the head of the Oversight Committee that's looking 281 00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:53,120 into all of this, he I don't know, man, he's 282 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:56,240 talking about they need this, they need that. But like 283 00:16:56,279 --> 00:16:59,000 I said, they've already released the DOJ has already released 284 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:02,440 thirty thousand files or thirty thousand pages and not sure which, 285 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:08,519 and there's nothing new in ninety seven percent of them. 286 00:17:08,519 --> 00:17:10,640 Here's Comer, Well, we're. 287 00:17:10,480 --> 00:17:13,000 Speaker 14: Already doing that. I mean, we've already posted a bunch 288 00:17:13,039 --> 00:17:18,440 of documents. And I don't think the discharge petition is necessary. 289 00:17:18,519 --> 00:17:20,680 And if I don't think that they'll get the Republican 290 00:17:20,799 --> 00:17:24,839 signatures on there to even require the discharge petition to 291 00:17:24,839 --> 00:17:27,799 be on the floor. We're already four or five steps 292 00:17:27,839 --> 00:17:30,640 ahead of what the distart petition wants to do. The 293 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:33,799 discharge petition would honestly only slow us down because we'd 294 00:17:33,799 --> 00:17:35,319 have to wait for the Senate, and you know how 295 00:17:35,359 --> 00:17:38,799 slow the Senate is to approve that. We're moving forward. 296 00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:41,200 We've been doing this for about four weeks now. We've 297 00:17:41,240 --> 00:17:44,400 already deposed former Attorney General Bill Barr. We have a 298 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:48,039 date set to interview alex Acosta, and that's going to 299 00:17:48,039 --> 00:17:50,359 be a tough interview. That's again, bar and a Costa 300 00:17:50,440 --> 00:17:54,279 are both Republicans. We're not making this a partisan investigation. 301 00:17:54,880 --> 00:17:57,799 We're going to bring in Republicans and Democrats. We're going 302 00:17:57,839 --> 00:18:00,480 to try to get the truth and finally provide some 303 00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:05,039 accountability to the victims. The resolution gives us even more 304 00:18:05,039 --> 00:18:08,720 authority than what the discharge petition does. And as I 305 00:18:08,759 --> 00:18:12,960 said earlier, the resolution requires the Department of Justice to 306 00:18:13,440 --> 00:18:17,119 explain why they were adacted a name or a certain 307 00:18:17,160 --> 00:18:19,519 part of a document. So I think this is a 308 00:18:19,559 --> 00:18:23,519 better deal. And you know, I would argue that the Democrats, 309 00:18:24,680 --> 00:18:27,680 it appears if you watch the Rules Committee testimony last night, 310 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:31,519 they're more concerned about trying to embarrass Donald Trump then 311 00:18:31,599 --> 00:18:35,000 trying to provide justice for the survivors. And that's what 312 00:18:35,039 --> 00:18:38,519 our objective is. And I'll say this, the Trump administration 313 00:18:38,839 --> 00:18:41,480 is working with us. They have complied with their subpoena 314 00:18:41,559 --> 00:18:46,000 unlock the Body administration did last administration when we tried 315 00:18:46,039 --> 00:18:48,759 to get documents. The Trump administration is complying with the 316 00:18:48,799 --> 00:18:51,960 subpoena and I fully expect to get even more documents 317 00:18:52,079 --> 00:18:53,519 very same from the Trump administration. 318 00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:56,759 Speaker 1: So what about the names that the victims have that 319 00:18:56,839 --> 00:19:00,440 they say that they're going to be releasing confidentially, gonna 320 00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:02,400 do with those names when they're released. 321 00:19:02,680 --> 00:19:05,440 Speaker 14: The attorneys are giving us names. Look, if they have 322 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:08,279 names of people that were on Eptey Island, we will 323 00:19:08,319 --> 00:19:11,039 we will make those names public once we verify you 324 00:19:11,079 --> 00:19:13,720 know that they were on the flight logs and everything else. 325 00:19:13,799 --> 00:19:17,519 We want to provide transparency and we want to provide accountability. 326 00:19:17,599 --> 00:19:21,480 So we're going to do everything that that that the 327 00:19:21,599 --> 00:19:25,319 victims requested in your clip that you just showed, as 328 00:19:25,359 --> 00:19:28,480 well as the private meeting we had in a bipartisan 329 00:19:28,519 --> 00:19:29,279 manner yesterday. 330 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:33,279 Speaker 1: Forgive me. I mean, it sounds very nice that he's 331 00:19:33,519 --> 00:19:36,799 working hard to get the truth or the American people, 332 00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:41,640 uh and all of that, but the history shows that 333 00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:46,319 these committees in Congress never achieve anything. I don't know, 334 00:19:46,359 --> 00:19:49,119 I mean, he talks a good talk, but I will 335 00:19:49,119 --> 00:19:52,599 be surprised if they actually are able to accomplish anything. 336 00:19:53,279 --> 00:19:57,119 One of the attorneys representing some of the of the 337 00:19:57,119 --> 00:19:59,680 they call them selves survivors, victims, whatever you want to 338 00:19:59,680 --> 00:20:03,359 call them, named Spencer Covin. This is his reaction to 339 00:20:03,440 --> 00:20:03,720 all of this. 340 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:06,759 Speaker 6: Well, it's about time. It's about time that people are 341 00:20:06,759 --> 00:20:08,799 getting to hear the voices of these victims, you know, 342 00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:12,359 and I applaud the bravery of these young women to 343 00:20:12,359 --> 00:20:15,279 come forward. We know that there were tens, if not 344 00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:19,680 hundreds of victims of Jeffrey Epstein and Glenn Maxwell. Some 345 00:20:19,720 --> 00:20:23,240 of those victims have chosen to move past this issue 346 00:20:23,279 --> 00:20:25,599 in their lives and they've decided to keep this in 347 00:20:25,640 --> 00:20:28,640 their past and not come forward. Others have bravely stepped 348 00:20:28,680 --> 00:20:32,599 forward and decided to speak their truth. But regardless, what 349 00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:36,599 is unbelievable about this entire process is since I got 350 00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:39,240 involved with the first victim in two thousand and six, 351 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:44,480 the federal government has never kept the victims in the loop. 352 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:48,000 They have never discussed what they were doing with the victims. 353 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:51,759 In fact, a federal judge in South Florida found that 354 00:20:51,799 --> 00:20:56,039 the federal government violated the Crime Victim's Rights Act by 355 00:20:56,119 --> 00:20:58,599 not keeping the victims in the loop during the sweetheart 356 00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:01,599 deal that they negotiated back in two thousand and nine. 357 00:21:02,279 --> 00:21:05,680 So it's about time that these victims are being heard. 358 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:09,119 We should listen to them, and the government should turn 359 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:12,799 over all of the information they have. Continue to protect 360 00:21:12,839 --> 00:21:16,599 the victims, but turn over everything else. I mean, look, 361 00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:23,000 there are different groups. When someone is sexually abused, especially 362 00:21:23,039 --> 00:21:26,319 as a child, if you have gotten therapy and move 363 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:30,680 past that issue, then all this does is a constant 364 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:34,319 reminder of your abuse. So some of the victims have 365 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:37,119 chosen to move on with their lives and not play 366 00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:40,519 a part of this. Others have decided to pick up 367 00:21:40,519 --> 00:21:43,440 the mantle and step forward and be brave about this 368 00:21:43,839 --> 00:21:47,160 and want the world to know. You know, look, it's 369 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:50,200 an individual victim's choice as to what they want to do. 370 00:21:50,359 --> 00:21:52,640 I've written an open letter to the committee saying that 371 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:55,680 I'm willing to step forward and testify to give them 372 00:21:55,720 --> 00:21:59,680 a history of how this litigation played out from its inception. 373 00:22:00,759 --> 00:22:04,240 My letter was completely ignored by the committee. You know, look, 374 00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:06,880 I don't think they're really trying to get to the 375 00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:09,680 truth or get the information. I think what they're doing 376 00:22:09,759 --> 00:22:12,759 is just trying to get past this problem for them 377 00:22:12,799 --> 00:22:15,519 at this point. What I would say what's important is 378 00:22:16,279 --> 00:22:22,240 this has spanned across multiple different administrations, be a Democrat 379 00:22:22,319 --> 00:22:26,160 or Republican. This is not political, regardless of how our 380 00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:30,079 current administration wants to couch this. This is about the truth, 381 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:36,000 it's about openness, and it's about protecting young children. That's 382 00:22:36,039 --> 00:22:37,960 all this is about. We don't ever want this to 383 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:41,279 happen again. So let's see the evidence and let's bring 384 00:22:41,319 --> 00:22:41,839 it forward. 385 00:22:42,759 --> 00:22:44,839 Speaker 1: I know I can come across the cenecal, but I mean, 386 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:49,599 I just a I don't trust congressional committees to achieve anything. 387 00:22:50,279 --> 00:22:53,519 And I also don't believe anybody that has anything to 388 00:22:53,559 --> 00:22:58,319 do with Washington, DC is ever held accountable. So I 389 00:22:58,359 --> 00:23:01,599 applaud their efforts, but to mark me down as surprised 390 00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:06,119 if anybody actually gets charged with any of the pedophilia 391 00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:10,400 that they committed years ago. So onto under money. Uh, 392 00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:13,160 today we had the big what was it mega million's 393 00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:16,640 yesterday three hundred million or something. Yeah, just three hundred million. 394 00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:19,880 Today we've got the Now they're saying it's the fourth 395 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:25,400 largest ever lottery of power ball. It's one point four 396 00:23:25,519 --> 00:23:30,720 billion dollars. And uh, I don't know. Here's a couple 397 00:23:30,759 --> 00:23:33,640 of people they always they always ask these people on 398 00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:35,200 the street, what would you do if you won? 399 00:23:37,279 --> 00:23:38,200 Speaker 15: I would I would take care. 400 00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:39,920 Speaker 3: Of my family, of course, you know, maybe doing it 401 00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:42,000 a little bit of charities, live a good life, retire. 402 00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:44,920 Speaker 7: I'm gonna help all those who help me. That's what 403 00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:46,680 I'm gonna do, and I'm gonna build. I think I'm 404 00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:49,599 gonna build like a church or something for kids to 405 00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:53,920 go a church, plus like kids ground, kids playing ground. 406 00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:54,880 I'm gonna do that. 407 00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:59,160 Speaker 1: So back in my days when I had my investment company, uh, 408 00:23:59,519 --> 00:24:03,640 I did have quite a large number of lottery winners 409 00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:07,240 as clients. They yes, this was when I was out 410 00:24:07,279 --> 00:24:11,119 in California, and people said you should write a book 411 00:24:11,119 --> 00:24:14,160 about them without using their names. But I mean, there 412 00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:17,279 were some great stories and sad stories. There was a 413 00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:20,400 guy who was very young guy and he won a 414 00:24:20,519 --> 00:24:24,160 very large prize. It wasn't this big, and he literally 415 00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:29,480 couldn't handle it. And he moved off to a location 416 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:32,559 in the middle of nowhere in the woods and became 417 00:24:32,599 --> 00:24:34,920 a hermit. And he had all this money and he 418 00:24:35,599 --> 00:24:40,359 just couldn't handle it. There was also some wonderful stories. 419 00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:44,319 I remember there was a single mother. She had a 420 00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:48,680 daughter that she told me. She says, I always wanted 421 00:24:49,519 --> 00:24:52,039 to be able to send her to college when she 422 00:24:52,119 --> 00:24:54,599 gets that age. I think she was in high school 423 00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:58,599 at the time. And the mother said, I just never 424 00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:00,000 thought I was going to be able to do it, 425 00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:04,200 and now I can send my daughter to college. There 426 00:25:04,279 --> 00:25:11,880 was another guy that worked as a guy for heating 427 00:25:12,359 --> 00:25:17,440 an air conditioning company, and he took the money that 428 00:25:17,519 --> 00:25:21,359 he won. He quit, of course working for this company, 429 00:25:21,519 --> 00:25:24,240 but he started his own company because he said, this 430 00:25:24,319 --> 00:25:26,119 is great. Now I'll be able to provide for my 431 00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:29,400 family forever with this company. And he built up a great, big, 432 00:25:29,599 --> 00:25:33,160 h fat company. So there's good stories and bad stories 433 00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:35,720 that come out of the lottery, but I'll tell you 434 00:25:35,759 --> 00:25:38,240 this much. One of the things that I used to 435 00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:41,400 do was I told all my clients, I said, when 436 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:50,000 the family and friends call, especially distant cousins and people 437 00:25:50,039 --> 00:25:52,960 that you haven't seen in a long long time that 438 00:25:53,079 --> 00:25:55,920 claim to be your dear friend, have them call me 439 00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:58,079 and I'll be the no guy. I'll tell them I'm sorry, 440 00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:00,480 know that we got all that money tied up in 441 00:26:00,759 --> 00:26:04,440 long term something or others. And so it was it 442 00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:08,200 was an experience that people, when they all of a 443 00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:11,480 sudden have a lot of money that did not the 444 00:26:11,559 --> 00:26:15,680 day before, it takes quite an adjustment. And you really, 445 00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:20,880 if you win, you need you need a lawyer, you 446 00:26:21,039 --> 00:26:27,000 need an accountant, you need an investment person, and you 447 00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:31,400 need an insurance person. That will those four people and 448 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:33,359 if you have them all work together. They kind of 449 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:37,119 keep tabs on each other, so nobody really takes advantage 450 00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:41,559 of you. So good luck. If I'm not here tomorrow, 451 00:26:41,599 --> 00:26:46,200 you know why, No, I'll be here. The chances are 452 00:26:46,599 --> 00:26:51,359 one in two hundred ninety two million that you will 453 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:58,000 win if you If you don't, they're given a thirty 454 00:26:58,039 --> 00:27:00,480 year annuity. But if you say no, I want the 455 00:27:00,519 --> 00:27:05,000 cash now, and Harry Anton, we'll point this out. Everybody 456 00:27:05,039 --> 00:27:07,119 takes the cash. They don't want to wait thirty years 457 00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:10,240 for the thing to pay out one thirtieth every single year. 458 00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:13,759 But if you take the cash, it's five hundred and 459 00:27:13,799 --> 00:27:17,799 eighty nine million, and then after tax three hundred and 460 00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:21,720 seventy one million. But out of that they only take 461 00:27:21,759 --> 00:27:25,880 out taxes, which is a standard number, but it's going 462 00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:28,160 to be higher than that because of the huge amount 463 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:31,480 of money coming in for your tax return for this year. 464 00:27:32,039 --> 00:27:36,480 So Harry Anton has the rundown on all of this. 465 00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:40,759 Speaker 4: They're saying, there's a chance. I mean, look, I'd like 466 00:27:40,839 --> 00:27:43,680 to think I can sometimes contort my body like Jim Carrey, 467 00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:46,559 but I think I have a little bit more mathematical skill, 468 00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:48,960 even if I am not nearly as funny as he is. 469 00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:51,319 And I will say is, yes, you have a chance. 470 00:27:51,519 --> 00:27:53,519 But the chance of winning the power ball has been 471 00:27:53,519 --> 00:27:56,000 going down over the years. You know, back in nineteen 472 00:27:56,079 --> 00:27:58,200 hundred and ninety two it was one in fifty five million, 473 00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:00,599 two thousand and nine was one in one hundred ninety 474 00:28:00,599 --> 00:28:03,079 five million. Now the chance of winning is one and 475 00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:06,240 two hundred ninety two million, And that is because they 476 00:28:06,279 --> 00:28:10,319 added more balls, which makes the odds go extremely longer, 477 00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:13,279 but also means that, of course many people don't win, 478 00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:16,400 so allows the jackpots to go higher and higher and higher. 479 00:28:16,599 --> 00:28:19,240 To quote Jackie Wilson. Okay, so you see one in 480 00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:21,519 two hundred and ninety two million. But the key thing 481 00:28:21,559 --> 00:28:23,079 to keep in mind is if you're going to go 482 00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:25,440 for at all, what you don't want to do is 483 00:28:25,519 --> 00:28:28,359 tie with somebody else and then have to split the jackpot. 484 00:28:28,559 --> 00:28:30,839 So how do you make sure that, in fact, you 485 00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:34,279 don't have to split that jackpot? Will always choose numbers 486 00:28:34,319 --> 00:28:38,079 above thirty one. Why is that? Because people often choose 487 00:28:38,119 --> 00:28:40,839 their birthdays. And while I may not be a great 488 00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:45,000 mathematical genius, I can tell you that according to my calendar, 489 00:28:45,279 --> 00:28:47,680 there are no days in any month during the year 490 00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:49,880 in which there are more than thirty one days, So 491 00:28:50,039 --> 00:28:53,319 choosing numbers above thirty one strengthens your chance that if 492 00:28:53,319 --> 00:28:56,599 you do somehow hit all the numbers, you won't have 493 00:28:56,640 --> 00:29:00,279 to split that prize with anybody else. Look, if you're 494 00:29:00,279 --> 00:29:02,759 a headline ryner, go with the annuity. But if you're 495 00:29:02,799 --> 00:29:06,039 actually talking about what people actually take. Look, I looked 496 00:29:06,079 --> 00:29:08,960 at all of them Powerball's biggest jackpot winners get this. 497 00:29:09,319 --> 00:29:13,279 Fifty five out of fifty five, they all took the lumsum, 498 00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:16,880 not the annuity. So it's really the lumsum we should 499 00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:19,240 be looking at. Which, while it's not north of a 500 00:29:19,279 --> 00:29:22,880 billion dollars, you know, hundreds of millions of dollars, still 501 00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:25,640 seems pretty gosh darn nice to me. 502 00:29:26,359 --> 00:29:29,400 Speaker 1: Well, speaking of people with money, this might surprise you. 503 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:36,599 But Congresswoman il Han Omar, who is constantly ragging on 504 00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:40,119 taxing the rich, she wants to tax the rich, more 505 00:29:40,839 --> 00:29:44,519 taxes for the rich. Well, what's happened is that her 506 00:29:44,519 --> 00:29:52,039 twenty twenty five congressional disclosure form just reveals The headline 507 00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:55,079 going around is that she's worth thirty million. Well, she's 508 00:29:55,119 --> 00:30:00,519 worth something. Between congressional disclosure forms are weird that says 509 00:30:00,559 --> 00:30:03,759 that she signed it, and she said that she and 510 00:30:03,799 --> 00:30:07,279 her husband have a net worth ranging between six and 511 00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:12,960 thirty million dollars, despite claims that she is not a millionaire. 512 00:30:13,519 --> 00:30:17,920 Most of the money came from her husband's companies. He's 513 00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:23,079 got They have a winery in California, and he also 514 00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:30,000 has a venture capital firm. So they have, yeah, between 515 00:30:30,039 --> 00:30:34,160 six and thirty million dollars worth of money. And I 516 00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:36,319 don't know if she's going to keep claiming about the 517 00:30:36,359 --> 00:30:39,039 fact that she wants to tax the rich. Here's a 518 00:30:39,079 --> 00:30:44,400 little bit of a montage from Congresswoman Omar talking about 519 00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:45,599 taxing the rich. 520 00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:51,039 Speaker 13: Could increase the taxes that people are paying who are 521 00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:56,759 the extremely wealthy. You are a billionaire, you could have 522 00:30:57,119 --> 00:31:02,400 seven hundred dollars a day. Billionaires are getting tax cuts. 523 00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:06,920 They voted to have the biggest Walsh transfer from the 524 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:09,759 poorest of Americans to the richest. 525 00:31:10,319 --> 00:31:12,240 Speaker 1: Hmm. I wonder how that's going to go over with 526 00:31:12,839 --> 00:31:14,599 all the people that have been cheering or on for 527 00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:18,279 taxing the rich. It's Charlie Hurt from the Washington Times. 528 00:31:19,079 --> 00:31:21,440 Speaker 16: You know, it's interesting, and of course it's important to 529 00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:24,720 remember that these figures about her wealth are not a 530 00:31:24,759 --> 00:31:28,359 Republican talking point. These are figures that she herself, her 531 00:31:28,559 --> 00:31:34,039 office provided the House in terms of, you know, to 532 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:39,880 comply with House you know, reporting guidelines. So this is 533 00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:44,839 not some sort of right wing thing. It's a remarkable exposure, 534 00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:47,640 especially when you consider not only just the things that 535 00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:51,599 she herself has said about rich people, but also when 536 00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:54,200 you look at sort of the direction of her party 537 00:31:54,279 --> 00:31:57,000 right now, which is going very much in the direction 538 00:31:57,200 --> 00:32:02,680 of full blown socialism because of their you know, unhappiness 539 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:08,119 with wealthy people and the supposed income gap that occur 540 00:32:08,319 --> 00:32:11,240 that you know that exists in this country. It's a 541 00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:14,480 it's a real bad play for her. And when you 542 00:32:14,559 --> 00:32:18,559 look at in particular, it's not just the wealth, it's 543 00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:22,359 the sudden wealth when you look at somebody who by 544 00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:25,599 her own based on her own numbers, her own wealth 545 00:32:25,599 --> 00:32:29,839 has increased three thousand greater than three thousand percent, and 546 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:33,720 it's largely because of her access to power in Washington. 547 00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:37,160 That's a real problem. At the very least, she should 548 00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:38,680 be forced to explain all of that. 549 00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:42,920 Speaker 1: Well, I'm not sure if it's about her access to power, 550 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:47,519 because this came from a winery and also from her 551 00:32:47,599 --> 00:32:51,079 husband's venture capital, from a venture capital people business could 552 00:32:51,079 --> 00:32:53,440 go to him because of the fact that he's married 553 00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:56,119 to a member of Congress. I'm telling you it takes 554 00:32:56,119 --> 00:32:58,799 a little while, but if you look up the spouses 555 00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:04,440 of the congressional representatives and senators, you will see there's 556 00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:08,559 a lot of conflict of interest in Washington, DC, tons 557 00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:14,920 of it. The fight over at the CDC about vaccines continues. 558 00:33:15,079 --> 00:33:18,119 There's a whole bunch of former I think there was 559 00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:22,960 nine former CDC directors that have written a letter saying 560 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:26,640 that RFK Junior has to go. They do not like him. 561 00:33:27,119 --> 00:33:32,359 One of the big deals in immunization in our country. 562 00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:35,640 His name is doctor Paul. Often he doesn't like anything 563 00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:36,880 that RFK is doing. 564 00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:39,960 Speaker 11: You could not have found a worse person could be 565 00:33:40,039 --> 00:33:42,440 in charge of Health and Human Services during this meetles 566 00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:45,200 outbreak than him. And the only reason that had ended 567 00:33:45,359 --> 00:33:48,559 was summer, because this is generally a winter and spring disease. 568 00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:51,559 And I fully suspect that as we go back to 569 00:33:51,559 --> 00:33:54,119 school again and we enter winter, you're going to see 570 00:33:54,119 --> 00:33:57,400 measles once again flare up. Because Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 571 00:33:57,559 --> 00:34:02,720 Has consistently decried the the harness falsely of that vaccine. 572 00:34:03,079 --> 00:34:05,920 Speaker 1: So we'll see if he's right, but it did raise 573 00:34:06,039 --> 00:34:10,880 the suspiciousness of the fact that we basically pretty much 574 00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:13,280 got rid of measles in this country and then we 575 00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:16,519 had a big outbreak and there's a lot of people 576 00:34:16,559 --> 00:34:20,159 who are afraid of vaccines and they did not want 577 00:34:20,199 --> 00:34:24,920 to have that and the measles illness spread. So we'll 578 00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:27,440 wait and see what happens. I got a phone call 579 00:34:27,519 --> 00:34:32,800 from Sharon in Tennessee. She is a nurse and she 580 00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:37,480 also some strong thoughts about RFK Junior. 581 00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:41,840 Speaker 15: Hey, Tom, it's Sharon, your friendly neighborhood public health nurse, 582 00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:45,960 and I could not let the yesterday's podcast go without 583 00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:49,880 calling and commenting that the one thing that people don't 584 00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:54,719 realize is the CDC's recommendations and the Advisory Committee on 585 00:34:54,719 --> 00:35:02,639 Immunization Practices ACIP. Their recommendations are what govern medicare, Medicaid 586 00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:06,440 and for most private insurances on what they will cover. 587 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:10,719 So if the recommendation is not there, yeah, you can 588 00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:12,480 go get the vaccine, but you got to pay for 589 00:35:12,519 --> 00:35:14,360 it out of pocket, and a lot of people don't 590 00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:17,360 have that money. So it's really putting people at risk 591 00:35:17,639 --> 00:35:21,639 who really can't afford to pay for immunizations. Because if 592 00:35:21,679 --> 00:35:24,920 it's not put out by the CDC or ACIP as 593 00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:29,559 a recommendation, the Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance will not 594 00:35:29,639 --> 00:35:33,000 cover it. So it's a money thing. Like you always say, 595 00:35:33,159 --> 00:35:36,280 follow the money, and I'm totally against even though I 596 00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:39,440 lean to the right. As you know, I'm totally against 597 00:35:39,559 --> 00:35:44,760 what Kennedy is doing with the CDC and the Advisory 598 00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:48,199 Committee on Imanization Practices. I think he's just stacked it 599 00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:50,719 full of people that are yes men and women that 600 00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:53,719 are just going to go along with his in my opinion, 601 00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:57,400 whack a doodle things. We need to get back to 602 00:35:57,440 --> 00:36:03,519 some sanity here and just be because it's what he says, 603 00:36:03,639 --> 00:36:06,880 doesn't make it right. Sometimes it's wrong, even though I 604 00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:09,639 lean to the right. Hop if you're having a great day, 605 00:36:09,679 --> 00:36:11,559 by the way, I love the podcast. 606 00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:14,880 Speaker 1: Well, thank you, Sharon, and but that's a real eye opener. 607 00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:17,440 I've got to dig into this even more. And she's right, 608 00:36:17,519 --> 00:36:20,920 follow the money, and I'm very libertarian about it. If 609 00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:24,519 you want to get a vaccine, go get your vaccine. 610 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:28,440 If you don't want to, then don't, but leave the 611 00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:30,639 people alone that do want to get the vaccine. But 612 00:36:30,679 --> 00:36:34,360 if if the CDC is not going to give the 613 00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:37,960 thumbs up for the vaccines that we do have, and 614 00:36:38,079 --> 00:36:40,400 you want to go get them, you're going to have 615 00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:44,480 to pay for them yourself. And I don't want the government. 616 00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:48,760 I don't want the government this heavy handed on whether 617 00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:50,920 or not you can get a vaccine or not. Are 618 00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:55,119 they are they banning you from getting certain vaccines? Because 619 00:36:55,119 --> 00:36:59,079 well they're not technically banning, but I mean, how expensive 620 00:36:59,119 --> 00:37:03,519 are vaccines? Wore out insurance coverage? So I thought I 621 00:37:03,519 --> 00:37:07,039 wanted to play Sharon's call for you because it's it's 622 00:37:07,119 --> 00:37:11,039 very disturbing to me at the very least. All right, 623 00:37:11,079 --> 00:37:16,320 what do we have left to? Oh? We got you see, 624 00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:17,719 you know the Big Beautiful Bill. 625 00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:18,039 Speaker 10: Do you know? 626 00:37:18,119 --> 00:37:22,400 Speaker 1: That's the actual name of the bill, is the Big 627 00:37:22,559 --> 00:37:29,440 Beautiful Bill. And what's hilarious is apparently it's not polling 628 00:37:29,599 --> 00:37:33,159 very well. No, apparently a lot of people do not 629 00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:36,599 like it, and they're yelling at their members of Congress 630 00:37:36,599 --> 00:37:38,800 when they did their town halls when they were home 631 00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:42,039 for the month of August. So they have decided at 632 00:37:42,079 --> 00:37:47,000 the White House to change it. The name is now no, 633 00:37:47,119 --> 00:37:49,559 you can't say Big Beautiful Bill. They're going to change 634 00:37:49,559 --> 00:37:55,280 it retroactively to the working Family's tax cut. Well that 635 00:37:55,559 --> 00:37:58,719 sounds a lot better, doesn't it. Who could be against that? 636 00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:03,800 Richard Hudson, who is a Republican from North Carolina, was 637 00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:07,639 asked about this earlier today. Use the name one big 638 00:38:07,639 --> 00:38:09,840 beautiful bill to help get it past, and now to 639 00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:12,719 try to explain to American people, he's suggesting we call 640 00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:14,000 it the working Family's tax cut. 641 00:38:14,159 --> 00:38:16,159 Speaker 4: So you guys will also tell members, so when you 642 00:38:16,199 --> 00:38:18,239 when you're when they're holding town halls and things like that, 643 00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:19,800 to refer to it in that way. 644 00:38:20,119 --> 00:38:21,760 Speaker 1: Well, that's what the White House told us this morning. 645 00:38:23,159 --> 00:38:26,440 That just there's layers of problems with that. That's what 646 00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:30,000 the White House told us this morning. So are they 647 00:38:30,119 --> 00:38:33,960 just ponds members of Congress and they just salute whatever 648 00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:37,800 the white House tells them to say? Here's your talking point. 649 00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:40,480 Don't you call it the big beautiful bill anymore. It's 650 00:38:40,519 --> 00:38:45,440 the working Family's tax cut bill. Do you understand? I'm 651 00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:49,440 telling you, man, everybody is just it's such a cheesy 652 00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:53,800 town I could no more via Congressman. No, you're telling 653 00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:55,280 me what to say and what to do when to 654 00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:58,400 stand up on you. No, I'm too much of a rouble. 655 00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:02,960 But anyway, Wall Street today other than the nattack. It 656 00:39:03,079 --> 00:39:06,400 basically I don't even know why it opened, because it 657 00:39:06,519 --> 00:39:09,239 wasn't a bunch of movement. The Dow Jones industrials down 658 00:39:09,559 --> 00:39:12,960 twenty four. The close of forty five thousand and two 659 00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:16,320 seventy one, the S and P was up thirty two, 660 00:39:17,079 --> 00:39:20,119 the NADAC up two hundred and eighteen. Decent day there. 661 00:39:20,519 --> 00:39:24,639 The price of gold another big upday, up thirty two 662 00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:29,599 dollars now at thirty six twenty four three thousand, six 663 00:39:29,639 --> 00:39:32,480 hundred and twenty four dollars for an ounce of gold, 664 00:39:32,719 --> 00:39:35,639 and oil prices fell almost two bucks, down to six 665 00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:39,000 just under sixty four dollars for one barrel of oil. 666 00:39:39,599 --> 00:39:43,480 Thank you for coming by today. Like I said, if 667 00:39:43,519 --> 00:39:46,199 I'm not here tomorrow, you know why I won the lottery. 668 00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:50,840 So I'll be here tomorrow. I hope you are too. 669 00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:51,719 See event