Speaker 1: And hello, Hi, how are you? How you doing on
this Wednesday? Today is the ninth day of July, Year
of Our Lord, twenty twenty five. My name is Tom Sullivan.
So we've got a lot to go over today. We
are watching the latest on the floods, not only in Texas,
but also huge floods in New Mexico. Same thing, all
of a sudden downpours. Gavin Newsom is on the presidential
campaign trail. They're not calling it that, but it's clear.
And speaking of California, so Ice goes into MacArthur Park
in Los Angeles, and I got to give you a
background on MacArthur Parks. There was a song about MacArthur Park.
MacArthur Park was named after General Douglas MacArthur. But it
is a hellhole in Los Angeles, and so Ice went
in there yesterday and Karen Bass literally physically showed up
and told him to stop, to get out. So she's
fighting for the illegals and against federal law enforcement. But
we'll get into all of that. And finally, when you
go to the airport, you can bring your shoes with
you all the way through. Giving update on the new
rules from TSA. But let's start with the floods. Latest update,
and this number keeps changing. One hundred and nineteen dead,
one hundred and sixty missing. The dead, that number has
come down a few the number of missing has gone
way up there. In addition to Texas, like I said,
in New Mexico, Roduso Mexico, huge increase in They had
more than twenty feet of water in less than one hour.
So they've got the same sort of problem. But back
to Texas again. I told you monday, I told you yesterday.
I'll tell you again today. Everybody's trying to find somebody
to blame. This is a natural disaster. Can they make improvements?
Of course. Apparently there are sirens along rivers in Texas
in other areas, but not in this particular county. And
apparently it was suggested, they said no, it costs too much.
So you can bet they're going to put sirens in.
But I don't even know if that'll work. It seems
like all of the alert systems we have become what
do you call it when you just get numb to something,
because we get alerts all the time. I got a
flash fuddle alert this morning on my phone. Am I
going to do something? About it. No, I don't think
the streets of New York are going to be full
of water, but give me a flash of fuddle alert.
So that's what happens. You get these things and you
just kind of get fatigue from alert. Fatigue, I guess
is a way to say it. So that's what's going
on with with all of this. The other sad part
about all of this, too, is that two days before
the fourth of July, apparently they have some sort of
state inspectors that approved camp Mystics disaster plan two days
before the disaster hit. So again they try their level best,
but everybody's trying to find somebody to blame, and I
just I'm sorry. This is a natural disaster and there's
not a person that I think you should hold responsible
for that. California. There's a lot about California today. Gavin
Newsom is in South Carolina and it's funny to watch
him because in California they really don't have high humidity
in California rarely, and there's Gavin Newsom sweating like a pig.
Is croft hare is not all it's not all perfect,
but he's down there in South Carolina. It's going to
be done for a few days, and he's going around
to eight different parts of the state to take a
look at you know what he wants. He wants to
get raise money, meet the voters. He's not saying he's
running for president, but I mean, you know he is.
What do you want to start with this? How about
Noah Rothman from National Review?
Speaker 2: Well, listen, the guy has a rather only agnus character
to him. He's obviously ambitious, he obviously wants the presidency.
Good for Congressman Clayburn to not play the game. He's
running for president. Let's not pretend otherwise. And if he's
running Joe Biden's strategies what it seems to be. We
don't even know what the calendar is going to be
like for twenty twenty eight. Yet South Carolina went first
last year for Democrats and media goes this year that way. Again,
we don't know. But the key demographic they are African
Americans right now, very early preliminary polling landscape. Kamala Harris
tends to dominate with that demographic if she runs, and
that is those are the king makers in South Carolina.
They rescue Joe Biden's campaign after a dismal performance in
Iowa and North Carolina and in twenty twenty, that's what
he wants to do there. And if Kamala Harris doesn't run,
I don't see why Newsom couldn't lock up that lane.
His only other competitor is Pete Fuddagge, who's doing very
well in preliminary polling, but he doesn't perform well with
African American voters. Newsom could lock that.
Speaker 1: Up, yeh. Jim Leiburn, the very influential congressman from South Carolina,
was there to introduce Gavin Newsom to a crowd, and
what Noah was referring to is Jim Cleiburn is not
playing around. He says, these people are the people that
are running to be rex president, and here's Gavin Newsom,
and Gavin Newsom is trying to play koy and looks
kind of embarrassed like, well, I'm not supposed to be
running for president, not yet. I'm going to yes. So
what he meant was Jim Cleiburn is not playing games.
Gavin Newsom is playing games. And as far as the
Emerson pole goes, Pete Buotage Judge is number one when
it comes to who would you support for the twenty
twenty eight Democratic Democratic presidential nomination. Pete Bodhaged sixteen percent,
Kamala Harris thirteen percent, Gavin Newsom twelve. Josh Shapiro, Governor
of Pennsylvania, is at seven so and then the undecided
is twenty three percent. It's way too soon. I understand
they're starting, but I think it's too soon. But Gavin
Newsom's running on his own beat of his drum, and
we'll see what they come up with for support from
from South Carolina and of course for raising some money.
Lydia Monahan Moyna and Cheese with The New York Post.
This is her take on what Newsom is up to.
Speaker 3: But it's a bit ironic. You know, the Democratic donors
I'm speaking with who have been supportive of him are
pretty irate.
Speaker 4: That he's there.
Speaker 3: At the same time that over the last six months
there's only been one hundred permits issued for the areas
that were ravaged by the wildfire, and so a lot
of these people aren't going to go on the record,
but they're very fed up with his handling. A lot
of from California and California in particularly. The irony, though,
of course, is that probably California is going to go
to any Democrats. So even though there's a lot of
frustration with him there, it kind of doesn't matter that.
Being said, data you would know this better than anyone.
The governors who are successful in manting a presidential campaign
have very high favorability ratings in their state seventy percent,
as Clinton or Bush did, so California for Newsom, I
don't think it's going to impede him, but it is
going to be a liability rather than an ask.
Speaker 1: Oh so, previous governors that have become presidents, like Bill
Clinton and George W. Bush, they had high favorability ratings
of seventy percent or more. Gavin Newsom doesn't. And like
you heard, what she said is that the people that
are even some of his supporters, are going why doesn't
he stay and manage the state of California. Only one
hundred permits have been issued six months seven months now
since the big fires in Los Angeles, and Gavin Newsom
hasn't lifted a finger, neither has Karen Bass. So you've
got thousands of people that are waiting for approval from
the government to rebuild their burned down homes, and Gavin
Newsom says, I'm sorry, I got to go to South Carolina.
I've got to run for president. Seeya. But let's go
back to South Carolina. Jim Clyburn again, extremely influential Democrat
congressman from South Carolina. He was hosting Gavin Newsom meeting
with some people yesterday somewhere in South Carolina. And so
he starts it off, and Gavin Newsom listen to what
he has to say. There's no ideas, there's no policy,
there's no this is what I want to do. This
is why I'm running. It's rather odd, doesn't seem like
he's he's not quite ready for primetime. Here's Jim Clyburn
and then Gavin Newsom following him.
Speaker 4: You ask me, you go around welcoming these candidates for
a running for president, Let's not forget.
Speaker 5: You know, you always look back what it could have,
should have. Every time you lose a campaign, You think
about those moments. You think about, you know, could you,
you know, been more aggressive in terms of just you know,
getting on the road a little bit more, maybe making
some more phone calls, fundraising. Nothing dramatic. I think it's
sort of you know, it's not just me I think
it's all of us that, you know, as Democrats are
locking our wounds. A question is, how do we not
only repair the party brand, repair this nation and how
do we move from a defensive posture to an inspiring
vision to go on a journey together where everyone feels
heard and included. And so that has to also be
the project that can occurs concurrently as we push back
against Trump, and Trump is a.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, So he said that, Yeah, he really,
he's thought about making more phone calls and getting out
there on the campaign trail. And that's what he's been
thinking about. And that's what that's what candidate should do,
and that's what they need to do, and they need
to inspire people and bring them together. I'm sorry, that's
not a winning message. It might it might be nice
to chat, but I'm watching Gavin Newsom. I just don't
think he has it. I don't think I know he
thinks so. So he talks also about trans people. This
is what Kamala Harris really flubbed on supporting transgender surgeries
for illegals and for prisoners, and Donald Trump had a
classic ad where She's for they them, I'm for you,
and so Gavin Newsom is trying to talk out of
both sides of his mouth because at a podcast that
he did with it, was it Charlie Kirk or somebody
like that? He says, no, I he went against the
Democrats on I feel bad for the transgender people, but
it's not fair for them to be in women's sports.
So then he turns around and says this in front
of a crowd in South Carolina.
Speaker 5: My position is, I don't think it's fair, but I
also think it's demeaning to talk down to people and
to belittle the trans community. And I don't like the
way the right wing talks about the trans community. These
people just want to survive.
Speaker 1: Okay, So he doesn't think it's fair for transgender men
athletes to be in women's sports, and yet the righties
are mean in the way they talk about transgenders, and
so therefore that's not right. I don't know what he means.
Does he want these transgenders who are pretending to be
women in women's sports or not? And if he doesn't
say so, he did, But now he's going I'm being
very equivocal. I don't like the way people on the
right talk mean about them. No, it's not mean about transgenders.
It's about letting the little kids that are under eighteen
not try and force medications and surgeries on them until
they are at least at lead of legal age. That's
what the fight is all about. So Gavin Newsom on
the road in South Carolina, there was a poll that
came out recently from I believe it was Emerson, I mean,
any guys. They said fifty five percent of people asked
a question about transgender rights and fifty five percent say
that it's gone too far. So it's the majority of
people in this country are going I'm not on board
with this huge transgender item, and Democrats have been and
it really was a huge stumbling block for Kamala Harris.
It's more than just Gaven news I'm saying that he
doesn't like the mean talk from people on the right.
It's also about the fact that they said to the
federal government, we are not going to obey your federal
rules about prohibiting transgender people on women's in women's sports teams.
We're going to let them go ahead and do that.
So Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education, says, stand by, We'll
see you in court.
Speaker 6: We investigated this, the Office of Civil Rights at the
Department of Education investigated. We told Governor Newsom that we'd
be investigating these violations. We've found California to be in
violation of Title nine. We turned it over to the
Justice Department, and they announced this morning that they were
a filing suit against California. So this is something that
President Trump campaigned on. His promise is made and promises kept.
I think it's just it is just totally unfair to
have men competing against women in sports and also to
share their intimate locker facilities, et cetera. And women fought
hard for these rights, and it is the law, and
the President means business with it. Well, the goal would
be that they'll take action on their own before we
have to sue them. I mean, lawsuits are costly, they
take time, you know, on both sides, but sometimes you
just have to let them know that you're putting teeth
into what you're doing. This is not idle threats. We
mean business. We expect them to comply with the law
and we're not going to back down from the right
kind of actions that we're going to take.
Speaker 1: So, Gavin news I'm trying to have it both ways.
He's saying, oh, no, it's not fair to have transgenders
swimming on or playing on any sports team, women's sports team,
And at the same time he says, I'm not going
to obey the law Title nine. So you heard Lynn
McMahon say that this morning the Department of Justice had
filed suit against the State of California. I think this
is a slam dunk. Here at the US Attorney for
the Central District of California talking about the lawsuit.
Speaker 7: I see Gavin Newsom is now a known, boldfaced liar.
He cannot have it both ways. He cannot say it's
unfair to let boys compete against girls and at the
same time refuse to use his authority as the governor.
He's not a spectator, he's not a podcaster. He's the
governor of the city of California. And when given the
opportunity to stand up for women, to stand up for
their civil rights here in California, he refused to comply.
But let me be very clear here at the Department
of Justice, we're working with Harmeat Dillon. California will come
into compliance. It will either come into compliance on its own,
or we will make them do it through the court process.
You can rust assured.
Speaker 1: I don't think Gavin Newsom gives a hoot about the
DOJ suing. He's going off to get his next job.
He's in South Carolina. He wants to be president. He's
wanted to be president for as long as I can remember. So,
speaking of federal law and California, was it yesterday or
day before? It was yesterday that ICE went into MacArthur
Park in Los Angeles and they were rounding up illegals
and arresting them. And Karen Bass got word of this,
and this is the way she describes what happened next.
Speaker 8: I was on my way to the press conference with
the governor. While I was on the way, though, I
got alerted that there was a ICE operation, military intervention
who knows at MacArthur Park. I turned around, we went
to the park. I could see a helicopter in the air.
I think it was a black Hawk helicopter, and I
saw military tanks. It was the Custom and Border Patrol
and it might have been military on the periphery. To me,
this is another example of the administration rationing up chaos
by deploying would look like a military operation in an
American city. Now, you can spend it any way you like,
But in my opinion, it's a political agenda of provoking
fear and terror. Frankly, it is outrageous and Unamerican who
were in the park today were children. It was their
summer camp, their day, their summer day camp. And I
spoke to an eight year old. I never let on
what was going on upstairs. But did this eight year
old tell me that he was afraid of ice? I
think it's pretty dramatic that a child said to me
that he was fearful of ice. So what I saw
in the park today look like a city under siege,
under armed occupation. I just think it's important that we
continued to tell the truth to the American people. There
was no protest, there was no disorder that required that.
Speaker 1: So a couple of things. One is, if you've ever
been in Los Angeles, you know that there's a lot
of helicopters overhead all the time. LA is full. This
guy's always busy with helicopters, now LAPD. If there's an
event going on, they always have a helicopter overhead. So okay,
she acts like it was a Blackhawk. She doesn't know
children in the park, and she said that an eight
year old told her that this eight year old was
fearful of ice. I got the feeling she probably asked
the question, are you fearful of ice? Oh? Yes, I am.
I questioned Karen Bass's veracity. Let me put it that way.
But let me also tell you just a little bit
about MacArthur Park. MacArthur Park, like I said, it was
named after General MacArthur. It's in the Wilshire Boulevard. It
splits it in two. And this park was a lovely park.
They wrote a song about it back in the seventies
or eighties or something like that. But over the time
it has become a real problem. There are stories in
the La Times about the businesses that have had to
shut down that are on the border of MacArthur Park
because of all the gang activity and the drug activity,
increased prostitution. It's a disaster. Let me just put it
that way. And so the crime a MacArthur Park and
the areas surrounded has been widely reported. It is considered
to be MS thirteen territory. There are illicit businesses in
the park. People are forced to pay attax to the
gang in exchange for being left alone. There are multiple
attacks on transgender sex workers in the park. The attacks
have continued into the wider MacArthur Park neighborhood. I mean,
it's nothing but trouble, So this is a high crime area.
The police know that there's an MS thirteen area, they
know there's nothing but trouble there, so they didn't just
go walking in casually. Look at I can debate the
whole thing about ICE wearing masks and unmarked cars, and
I understand why the protesters wear masks. Nobody seems to
have a problem with that. But when the when the
ICE officers wear masks, they don't want to be identified
because people are coming after them and their families. At
the same time, it bothers me. Police have to have
the support of the community. The problem with Los Angeles
is it is heavily Hispanic. And I'm going to take
a wild guest that there's probably a significant number of
illegals that are in Los Angeles. So LA is going
to get more attention from ICE than probably any other
city in the country. But this business about MacArthur Park,
she knows darn well. It's in one of the poorest
areas of Los Angeles. She knows the crime rate, she
knows about the thirteen territory, she knows all that. But no,
she's going to do You think she's just trying to
talk to her constituents to make her buddy buddies with them,
or is she genuinely trying to protect the illegals and
the MS thirteen gang members. Is she trying to protect
them or is she trying to protect the citizens of
Los Angeles. I'll bet you a large one of the
drive up window that the people that live in that
area would love to see the LAPD come in and
ice and anybody else and arrest those guys that are
in the park and turn the park back into the
beautiful park it used to be years ago. People that
live in high crime areas are not happy, but they're
usually poor and they can't do anything. They can't move,
And I think that's a pretty good description of MacArthur Park.
Here's one more that is says something about the Democrats
always wonder what's wrong? Why don't people vote for us?
We need to get our messaging done. Here's another cut
of Karen Bass followed by Brandon Johnson. In Chicago, the
mayor so the number two and number three city mayors
sound like they're defending the ill the MS thirteen's and
not defending their citizens. Listen, we are.
Speaker 8: A city of immigrants and we will stand with Angelinos
regardless of what country they came from, when they got here,
or why they're here. And so with that, I am
proud to stand in unity as we file this lawsuit.
Speaker 4: Our local police department will not ever cooperate with Ice,
whatever their constitutional authority is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was Brandon Johnson. He doesn't care what the
constitution says. He doesn't care if they're federal law enforcement.
They're just not going to cooperate with them. You can't
have cities within the borders of the United States telling
the United States we're not going to follow the federal laws.
Because if you do that, why should we follow Chicago laws,
follow Los Angeles laws. We'll just pick and choose and
have a patchwork of laws. So that's and the Democrats
really do wonder why are people not voting for us?
What kind of message do we need to come up with?
How about supporting law and order? Just the basics. You
don't have to go overboard. But then there is good
news for those of you that travel a lot or
just travel once in a while. TSA has changed the rules.
Look at it's another whole show about is TSA effective
or not. Should we even have the blue shirts? But
we do and they're there and they make a lot
of people feel comfortable that there's some form of security.
I think it's minimal at the best. But here's Christinome,
the head of DHS, and she's talking about the fact
that they are going to change the rules about taking
your shoes off at the airport.
Speaker 9: TSA first to implement it, the no shoes policy Can
Too thousand and six, almost twenty years ago. And in
those twenty years since that policy was put in place,
our security technology has changed dramatically. It's evolved. TSA has changed.
We have a multi layered, a hole of government approach
now to security and to the environment that people anticipate
and experience when they come into an airport that has
been honed and it's been hardened.
Speaker 1: No, I don't know what the drum beet was behind
all of that, but Christina, I'm holding a news conference
about the fact that you don't have to take your
shoes off when you go to the airport. So here's
the deal. I have a pre check card and so
I haven't had to take my shoes off ever because
I had the PreCheck card. And so they think that
they know me because I went through a couple of
build out a couple of forms years ago, and so
I get to go through without taking my shoes off.
But you have to go through and take your shoes
off if you want to go through the SA checklist.
Now that's all changed. So are they going to do
away with pre check are they? I mean, what's the
difference now? And really, if it's been twenty years that
they've had this shoe policy and nothing's happened, do you
feel comfortable with the fact that they might there might
be a bad guy out there like rich This kel
came of Richard Reid. Remember that guy Richard Reid was
flying from somewhere in Europe to from Paris that's right
to Miami back on December twenty second, two thousand one.
So this is right after nine to eleven, and he
people complained about smell of smoke in the cabin shortly
after a meal service, and one flight attendant thinks she
smelled a burned match, walked alongside the aisles of the
planes trying to find the source, and she found Richard
Reid was sitting near a window attempting to light a match,
and that he was warned that he wasn't allowed to smoke,
and a few minutes later he leaned over his seat.
She asked him what he was doing. He grabbed her,
revealing one shoe in his lap with a fuse into
the shoe and explosives in his shoe. That is why
they said, Okay, everybody has got to take their shoes
off so they can look for explosives in your shoes.
So Richard read by the way, he's in prison for
I know, for life, maybe a couple of lives. Oh,
he's still there. He's not getting out anytime soon. But
I'm not so sure. If this doesn't tell people like
Richard Reids out there, they're going, oh, so, now I
can pack my shoes full of explosives because nobody's going
to check. I have lots of questions about TSA and
their rules, but from now on, Nope, you are going
to be able to walk on through like you have
a pre check. Here's the reaction of some of the
people at an airport yesterday.
Speaker 4: Bomb in his shoe, and then for the next fifteen
years we all have to act like be treated as
if we're that guy. That's not a way to do it.
Speaker 7: Well, apparently this has sparked a lot of conversation.
Speaker 3: Here's what we heard from some airport travelers.
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 8: I think it's really going to speed it up a lot.
Speaker 7: No more stepping on other's toes and getting your shoes
on tie, slipping them off, slapping them on shore.
Speaker 5: I personally think that it's very convenient, because like, taking
off your shoes is just a hassle, especially if you're.
Speaker 8: In a rush like I usually am. I love it, yes, well,
you know, I usually come prepared to take them off,
but because I don't like being barefoot, very happy for that.
It saves a lot of time.
Speaker 10: Oh I love it. Yeah, yeah, I don't like to
take our shoes off anyway, right, and not in public.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 10: It's a little uncomfortable most of the time, but yeah,
I mean here in the US is quite common, but
where I come from, we don't do that that often.
PRINSI we don't have to take off your shoes and
all of that for security.
Speaker 8: It's a good thing if to me, is that hey
for my feet to be on the floor perier.
Speaker 1: Yeah, some of those people said they didn't like their feet,
bare feet being on the floor. Can you imagine all
the bare feet that you're walking on top of all
the bare feet that have walked in front of you?
Talked about athletes feed in any case, So that's going
into effect rapidly and may not be at your local
airport yet, but a lot of airports have already started
the no shoe check policy, which makes me again wonder
why do we have a difference between pre check and
the rest of the lines. I don't know Wall Street today. Oh,
I got a nice email from a gentleman who said
I pronounced na Vidia wrong. I say na video. He goes,
it's not no video, it's n video and video I've
said in the video for a long time. So I'm
trying to I have to break that habit. But Nvidia
is now worth more than four trillion dollars. For trillion,
they make graphics cards so that games will be cooler,
and it's been a giant business to this guy that
started this company. He did an interview with one of
the channels and he was at a Denny's because he said,
this is where I used to work. He worked as
a janitor at Denny's. He cleaned the restrooms at Denny's.
And now he owns a company worth more than four
trillion dollars. It's just been going higher and higher. So
and Vidia is the name of the company. Back in
two years ago June of twenty three, it cracked one
trillion dollars. June of twenty five, a month less than
a month ago, it cracked three trillion dollars. And today
first company to be worth more than four trillion dollars.
So Wall Street was a roller coaster. Today started off strong,
then gave up a lot of points. Today almost four
hundred points came back to where the NASDAK closed at a
new record high. The reason why it came back was
because the FED minutes were released for the mid June
FED meeting, and in those minutes, the Federal Reserve Board
basically was talking about the fact that interest rates could
be lowered by the end of this year, either the
burst of inflation expected from tariffs will not be as
bad as expected, or that the economy will start weakening.
But the consensus was that the should say a general
sense was that the Federal Reserve is talking about lowering
interest rates by the end of this year, so that
gave Wall Street all they needed. The now up today
two hundred and seventeen to forty four thousand, four point
fifty eight s and P up thirty seven NASDAK up
one hundred and ninety two at the new record close
of twenty thousand and six eleven on the Nasdaq, the
rights of gold up seven dollars, the thirty three twenty
three frights of oil later and changed today sixty eight dollars.
A baron, thanks for coming by. Hope to see you
again Tomorrowble try it again then,