1 00:00:22,559 --> 00:00:25,000 Speaker 1: And here we are. How are you welcome to the 2 00:00:25,039 --> 00:00:29,800 Big Podcast. It is Thursday. Today's the seventeenth day of July, 3 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:32,960 Year of Our Lord, twenty twenty five. My name is 4 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:36,159 Tom Sullivan. We've got a lot to go over today. 5 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:44,000 We've got well, the Senate has approved the spending cut 6 00:00:44,039 --> 00:00:47,600 that basically tries to do something about the Big Spending Bill, 7 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:50,799 the Big Beautiful Bill. What it does is it takes 8 00:00:50,799 --> 00:00:53,960 away the money for public broadcasting. I want to get 9 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:56,439 into that with you, and also some of the latest 10 00:00:56,759 --> 00:01:01,759 surveys about how the Democrats in general are looking. Yeah, 11 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:04,959 the Epstein story, No, it's I think it's starting to 12 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:08,879 go away, but there are still some hangovers. For example, 13 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:16,519 the prosecutor in Julane Maxwell's case, and also before Epstein died, 14 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:20,280 the prosecutor was a woman by the name of Maureen Komy. 15 00:01:20,879 --> 00:01:24,400 She's been fired. She's the daughter of James Comy. So 16 00:01:24,439 --> 00:01:30,959 we'll dig into that. And vaccines. Always good to debate vaccines. 17 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:34,519 But I want to start with something that's quite different 18 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:36,480 than I usually do, not the news of the day. 19 00:01:37,159 --> 00:01:41,959 It is kind of because it involves Scotty Scheffler and 20 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:45,640 Scotty Scheffler for those of you that don't know who 21 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:50,400 he is. Is the number one ranked golf in the 22 00:01:50,439 --> 00:01:55,439 world and they are starting the British Open today. So 23 00:01:55,480 --> 00:02:00,760 he sat down with the media before teen off today 24 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:05,079 and I mean, the guy has won everything. He's just 25 00:02:05,239 --> 00:02:09,400 one of the most successful golfers ever. He just keeps winning. 26 00:02:10,199 --> 00:02:13,759 And I thought it was interesting because it's, yes, he's 27 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:17,280 made a lot of money, Yes he's achieved all kinds 28 00:02:17,319 --> 00:02:22,199 of golf titles. But he has an attitude. I don't 29 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:25,439 know how you take it, but it's like, eh, yeah, 30 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:32,759 so what. I'm not here to inspire anybody. I'm not 31 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:36,360 here to he just has an attitude, yes, so what? 32 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:39,840 And I'm not sure what the sow what attitude is 33 00:02:39,879 --> 00:02:42,800 all about. The guy is very gifted and I guess 34 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:47,080 he's gotten used to just winning everything. But I wanted 35 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:49,280 to play this for you because what he does is 36 00:02:49,319 --> 00:02:54,240 he puts his job. His job happens to be golf 37 00:02:56,319 --> 00:02:59,960 down the list compared to other things in his life, 38 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:04,120 such as family. So here, listen to this. It's about 39 00:03:04,159 --> 00:03:07,759 four minutes of Scottie Scheffer talking to the media over 40 00:03:08,599 --> 00:03:10,719 in Europe as they start the British Open. 41 00:03:11,479 --> 00:03:13,560 Speaker 2: I'm not here to inspire somebody else to be the 42 00:03:13,599 --> 00:03:15,479 best player in the world, because what's the point? You know, 43 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:19,639 this is not a fulfilling life. It's it's fulfilling from 44 00:03:19,639 --> 00:03:21,840 the sense of accomplishment, but it's not fulfilling from a 45 00:03:21,879 --> 00:03:25,479 sense of like the deepest, you know, places of your heart. 46 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:26,960 You know, there's a lot of people that make it 47 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:30,120 to what they thought was going to fulfill them in life, 48 00:03:30,159 --> 00:03:31,479 and then you get there, and all of a sudden 49 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:33,080 you get to number one in the world, and then they're like, 50 00:03:33,199 --> 00:03:36,560 what's the point? And you know, I really do believe that, 51 00:03:36,599 --> 00:03:39,000 because you know, what is the point? You're like, why 52 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:40,599 do I want to win this tournament so bad? That's 53 00:03:40,599 --> 00:03:42,560 something that I wrestle with on a daily basis. It's 54 00:03:42,599 --> 00:03:44,479 like showing up with the Masters every year. It's like, 55 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:47,599 why do I want to win this golf tournament so badly? 56 00:03:47,759 --> 00:03:49,840 Why do I want to win the Open Championship so badly? 57 00:03:50,599 --> 00:03:53,759 I don't know, because if I win, it's gonna be 58 00:03:53,759 --> 00:03:56,400 awesome for about two minutes, and then we're gonna get 59 00:03:56,400 --> 00:03:57,560 to the next week and it's gonna be like, hey, 60 00:03:57,599 --> 00:03:59,199 you want two majors this year? How important is it 61 00:03:59,199 --> 00:04:00,639 for you to win the Fex Cup playoffs, and it's 62 00:04:00,639 --> 00:04:04,120 just like we're back here again, you know, So we 63 00:04:04,159 --> 00:04:06,680 really do. We work so hard for such little moments, 64 00:04:06,719 --> 00:04:09,800 and you know, I'm kind of sick of I love 65 00:04:09,919 --> 00:04:12,000 putting in the work, I love being able to practice, 66 00:04:12,039 --> 00:04:13,599 I love getting out to live out my dreams. But 67 00:04:13,639 --> 00:04:15,400 at the end of the day, sometimes I just don't 68 00:04:15,479 --> 00:04:20,480 understand the point, you know, because I don't know if 69 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:23,560 I'm making any sense or not. But am I not. 70 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:26,720 It's just it's just one of those deals, you know. 71 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:28,959 I I love the challenge. I love being able to 72 00:04:28,959 --> 00:04:30,600 play this game for a living. It's it's one of 73 00:04:30,639 --> 00:04:33,319 the greatest joys of my life. But does it fill 74 00:04:33,399 --> 00:04:35,759 the deepest you know, wants and desires of my heart. 75 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:38,319 Absolutely not. You know That's why I talk about families 76 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:40,720 being my priority, because it really is. You know, I'm 77 00:04:40,839 --> 00:04:42,480 blessed to be able to come out here and play golf. 78 00:04:42,519 --> 00:04:45,600 But if my golf ever started affecting my home life 79 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:48,120 or whatever affected the relationship I have with my wife 80 00:04:48,199 --> 00:04:49,560 or with my son, you know, that's gonna be the 81 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:50,959 last day that I play out here for a living. 82 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:53,319 You know, this is not the be all end all, 83 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:55,279 This is not the most important thing in my life. 84 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:57,600 And that's why I wrestle with why is this so 85 00:04:57,639 --> 00:04:59,839 important to me? Because you know, I would much rather 86 00:04:59,879 --> 00:05:01,680 be a great father then I would be a great golfer. 87 00:05:01,959 --> 00:05:04,759 You know that at the end of the day, that 88 00:05:04,759 --> 00:05:08,319 that's what's more important to me. Yeah, I mean, I 89 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:11,160 could not care any less about being the favorite or 90 00:05:11,199 --> 00:05:13,040 not being the favorite. We all started even par and 91 00:05:13,560 --> 00:05:16,319 tournament starts on Thursday. It's pretty much all that matters. 92 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:18,759 And in terms of links golf, I love the style 93 00:05:18,759 --> 00:05:20,040 of golf. I think it's a ton of fun. I 94 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:22,720 think you have to be creative, you have to hit 95 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:25,839 a lot of really good shots, and there's you know, 96 00:05:25,879 --> 00:05:27,279 there's a challenge to it. But I think it's a 97 00:05:27,319 --> 00:05:28,560 lot of fun. And you know, we'll see how the 98 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:31,560 weather turns out this week. Weather has a pretty dramatic 99 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:33,279 effect on how the golf course is going to play, 100 00:05:33,319 --> 00:05:35,079 and so you know, you can play your practice shounds 101 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:37,600 and prepare, but ultimately, I think when you step on 102 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:40,160 the seat on Thursday, whatever the weather presents is going 103 00:05:40,199 --> 00:05:42,639 to be probably the strongest part of the test. It 104 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:44,680 doesn't really change year by year, you know, I don't 105 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:47,519 I don't look at at wins and losses or stuff 106 00:05:47,519 --> 00:05:47,720 like that. 107 00:05:47,759 --> 00:05:48,079 Speaker 3: I don't. 108 00:05:48,079 --> 00:05:49,439 Speaker 2: I don't sit down at the beginning the year and 109 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:51,079 say I want to win X number of times, I 110 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:53,120 want to win this many majors, I want to win 111 00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:55,279 this many tour events. That's that's not something that I do. 112 00:05:55,360 --> 00:05:57,160 That's not something that works for me. 113 00:05:57,360 --> 00:05:57,560 Speaker 4: You know. 114 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:00,480 Speaker 2: I have some dreams and aspirations that I'm always striving towards. 115 00:06:00,519 --> 00:06:02,279 But at the end of the day, I try to 116 00:06:02,319 --> 00:06:04,759 stay present. I try to practice hard each and every day, 117 00:06:04,839 --> 00:06:08,240 and I feel like, for me, when I start looking 118 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:10,920 too far into the future, I think I'm a bit 119 00:06:10,959 --> 00:06:13,079 of a procrastinator. That's how I always was in school. 120 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:14,439 And so if it's like if I wanted to look 121 00:06:14,439 --> 00:06:16,040 at my career and say I want to win let's 122 00:06:16,079 --> 00:06:19,839 say five majors, you know, I think sometimes when you're 123 00:06:19,959 --> 00:06:21,839 a human, you just have that invincibility where you're like, 124 00:06:21,839 --> 00:06:23,519 I'm just going to play professional golf my whole life, 125 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:25,959 like this stage is never going to end. But you know, 126 00:06:26,079 --> 00:06:28,000 ultimately it's not, and I'm only gonna be doing this 127 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:30,079 for a finite amount of time. And so what works 128 00:06:30,079 --> 00:06:32,000 best for me is just to stay present and continue 129 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:34,879 to put in the work, which I would argue is 130 00:06:34,879 --> 00:06:36,680 probably the most fun part for me. I love being 131 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:40,079 able to practice and that's what I enjoy doing, and 132 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:41,480 you know, just trying to get the most out of 133 00:06:41,519 --> 00:06:46,120 myself each day. Well, yeah, I think the rankings are 134 00:06:47,319 --> 00:06:49,920 Being number one in the world is a great accomplishment 135 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:52,319 I think as a golfer, I think as a professional, 136 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:54,160 to be ranked as the best in the world, I 137 00:06:54,199 --> 00:06:57,000 think is a huge career accomplishment. I don't think that 138 00:06:57,079 --> 00:06:59,839 it should be taken lightly. But you don't become number 139 00:06:59,879 --> 00:07:03,680 one in the world by thinking about rankings. You don't 140 00:07:04,399 --> 00:07:06,240 stay number one in the world thinking about rankings. You know, 141 00:07:06,279 --> 00:07:09,319 each tournament is its own challenge, and you know, it's funny. 142 00:07:09,319 --> 00:07:12,040 It's like, look at this week, for example, what's the 143 00:07:12,040 --> 00:07:14,759 best case scenario? Is I win this golf tournament and 144 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:17,680 then I'm going to show up in Memphis and it's like, okay, listen, 145 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:19,319 you know you won two majors this year. What are 146 00:07:19,319 --> 00:07:21,800 you going to do this week? That that's the question 147 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:23,240 you're going to get asked. And if I come in 148 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:25,920 second this week or if I finished dead last, it's 149 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:28,519 no matter what happens. We're always on to the next week. 150 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:30,560 And so that's one of the beautiful things about golf, 151 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:32,160 and it's also one of the frustrating things because you 152 00:07:32,199 --> 00:07:34,639 can have such great accomplishments, but you know, the show 153 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:38,000 goes on, and that's just how it is. You know, 154 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:40,399 it's it's great to win tournaments. It's a lot of fun. 155 00:07:40,959 --> 00:07:44,120 Sometimes the feeling only lasts about two minutes. It seems like, 156 00:07:44,199 --> 00:07:45,879 you know, when you're celebrated and then it's like, okay, 157 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:47,759 now you got to go do all this other stuff, 158 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:50,600 and which is great, but you know, sometimes the feeling 159 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:53,040 of winning only lasts a few seconds, and you know, 160 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:57,560 it's pretty exciting and fun, but it just doesn't last 161 00:07:57,600 --> 00:07:58,000 that long. 162 00:07:58,959 --> 00:08:01,879 Speaker 1: So that's what I was talking. What do you make 163 00:08:02,079 --> 00:08:05,079 of him? What do you make of what he was 164 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:08,199 talking to the media. The media even started laughing at him, 165 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:11,879 the sports media, and he said, am I making any sense? 166 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:17,720 Apparently he started, well, he was rambling, and but I 167 00:08:17,759 --> 00:08:20,360 mean it sounds like a guy who has an absolutely 168 00:08:20,399 --> 00:08:24,480 poor work ethic. And yet obviously the guy is very 169 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:28,560 talented and he loves going out and practice practice, practice, practice, 170 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:30,600 so he does have a good work ethic, and that 171 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:33,519 leads to his success on the golf course. But it's 172 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:36,440 like he says, I don't care whatever. I'm not here 173 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:39,759 to inspire anybody. Yeah so I'm number one in the world, 174 00:08:39,879 --> 00:08:44,000 and yeah, you know, but I got to go to 175 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:45,960 Memphis next week and they're going to ask me what 176 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:48,639 have you done lately? So I don't know if you 177 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:54,399 have the same attitude about your job, but I would 178 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:58,679 hope that you would have an attitude of striving to 179 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:01,559 be the best. I don't think he does. I think 180 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:05,799 he's just naturally gifted. He doesn't strive to be the best. 181 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:09,840 He is the best, but he doesn't think of his 182 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:12,279 efforts to try. He doesn't think of that as a 183 00:09:12,399 --> 00:09:14,799 as a goal. He just wants to go out and 184 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:19,320 swing a club, hit a ball. I don't know what 185 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:22,679 you make of it, but I found it from a 186 00:09:22,759 --> 00:09:28,960 highly successful professional athlete. I never heard anything like that before. 187 00:09:29,399 --> 00:09:31,279 But I try to apply it to your job in 188 00:09:31,399 --> 00:09:36,000 mind and go is that is that the guy with 189 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:39,279 the poor work ethic but just happens to be good 190 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:40,080 at what he does. 191 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:41,639 Speaker 4: Is that you? 192 00:09:42,799 --> 00:09:46,200 Speaker 1: Or are you like most people where you're always trying 193 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:49,240 to be better but you're not the best In the world, 194 00:09:49,679 --> 00:09:53,600 but you like to be I don't know, it's I'm 195 00:09:53,639 --> 00:09:55,639 baffled by what I heard. I've heard a lot of 196 00:09:55,639 --> 00:09:59,720 people say different things about ambition and careers and all 197 00:09:59,759 --> 00:10:02,639 of that. And he did put in the odd g 198 00:10:02,960 --> 00:10:05,879 part about you know, my family comes first. Of course, 199 00:10:05,919 --> 00:10:08,320 your family comes first. Your family comes first. To the 200 00:10:08,399 --> 00:10:11,399 guy push him the broom at night in the factory, 201 00:10:11,919 --> 00:10:15,759 his family comes first too, but he has to push 202 00:10:15,799 --> 00:10:18,960 the broom in order to bring home some bacon, to 203 00:10:19,039 --> 00:10:21,600 take care of putting food on the table, to roof 204 00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:25,759 over his family's head. This guy's making millions. Maybe it's easy. 205 00:10:26,559 --> 00:10:29,200 It's easy to say when you've got millions of dollars 206 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:32,240 in the bank, and it's not that hard to win 207 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:36,759 golf tournaments. I don't know. Let me know your thoughts 208 00:10:36,799 --> 00:10:41,320 on what you thought of Scotti Scheffler basically going, yeah, whatever, 209 00:10:42,159 --> 00:10:45,360 I mean when you win the about two minutes of 210 00:10:45,399 --> 00:10:49,639 happiness and then it's just a weird interview. Phone number 211 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:52,320 you want to chime in on that phone numbers eight five, five, 212 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:57,840 two nine five sixty six hundred. How what do you 213 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:01,200 make of what Scheffler was trying to say? Eight five 214 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:05,399 five two nine five sixty six hundred, or you can 215 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:09,480 send me an email. It's on my web page Tom 216 00:11:09,519 --> 00:11:13,480 Sullivan dot com. My email address is right there, and 217 00:11:13,519 --> 00:11:16,759 the phone number and the link to the podcast. So 218 00:11:16,799 --> 00:11:19,159 we got all of that. We also today got a 219 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:23,200 little bit of a surprise. There's been some reporting and 220 00:11:23,240 --> 00:11:28,320 there's been some photographs of concern about President Trump's health. 221 00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:35,879 And the photograph showed bruises on his hands that all 222 00:11:35,919 --> 00:11:40,360 of a sudden there were bruises and puffiness and also 223 00:11:40,879 --> 00:11:44,519 puffy ankles. Photographs of his ankles while he was sitting 224 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:47,320 at some conference somewhere and somebody took a photo of 225 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:51,360 his ankles because they thought they were they were large, 226 00:11:52,639 --> 00:11:55,840 so long and behold. The president went to the doctor. 227 00:11:56,639 --> 00:12:02,480 And the Press Secretary, Caroline Lovitt came out today and said, Okay, 228 00:12:02,639 --> 00:12:06,279 the President's been to the doctor and he's been diagnosed 229 00:12:06,320 --> 00:12:13,000 with chronic venous insufficiency. And she my sister's a nursed 230 00:12:13,039 --> 00:12:18,039 and she sometimes she writes emails they're like in nurse ology. 231 00:12:18,639 --> 00:12:21,159 He can't understand half of what she said. So here's 232 00:12:21,559 --> 00:12:26,399 Caroline Levitt reading what is up with the President's health. 233 00:12:26,840 --> 00:12:32,960 Speaker 5: The president underwent a comprehensive examination, including diagnostic vascular studies. 234 00:12:33,360 --> 00:12:39,360 Bilateral lower extremity venus Doppler ultrasounds were performed and revealed 235 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:45,240 chronic venus insufficiency a B nine in common condition, particularly 236 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:49,440 in individuals over the age of seventy. Importantly, there was 237 00:12:49,519 --> 00:12:54,840 no evidence of deep vein thrombosis or arterial disease. Laboratory 238 00:12:54,879 --> 00:13:01,279 testing included a complete blood count, comprehensive metabolic panel, coagulation profile, 239 00:13:01,720 --> 00:13:07,279 D diimer B type natriotic peptide, and cardiac biomarkers. All 240 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:11,919 results were within normal limits. An echo cardiogram was also 241 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:16,639 performed and confirmed normal cardiac structure and function. No signs 242 00:13:16,639 --> 00:13:21,200 of heart failure, renal impairment, or systemic illness were identified. 243 00:13:21,559 --> 00:13:25,279 Speaker 1: What's interesting about this is that Joe Biden did everything 244 00:13:25,399 --> 00:13:29,399 in his power to hide anything about his medical condition. 245 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:33,200 They had, they had a doctor's visiting, and they tried 246 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:37,440 to hide that. Doctor Mark Siegel was asked about his 247 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:39,120 interpretation of what this all meant. 248 00:13:39,480 --> 00:13:42,120 Speaker 6: Well, first of all, I'm actually impressed with how open 249 00:13:42,159 --> 00:13:44,440 it is and how detailed it is, because they actually 250 00:13:44,480 --> 00:13:47,320 answered all the questions that I would have had. Maybe 251 00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:50,600 contrast that from the previous administration, when everything was cloak 252 00:13:50,639 --> 00:13:53,559 and dagger. Look, she has a lot of details that 253 00:13:53,679 --> 00:13:57,679 reassure me. He doesn't have a deep vein thrombosis. He 254 00:13:57,720 --> 00:14:00,240 doesn't have a deep vein there. They checked that. They 255 00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:02,240 checked it with ultrasound, and they checked it with a 256 00:14:02,279 --> 00:14:05,399 blood test called d diimer. They checked his heart. Why 257 00:14:05,679 --> 00:14:08,120 his leg swelling, could it be back up from the heart. No, 258 00:14:08,559 --> 00:14:11,480 his echo cardiogram is normal. So they ended up with 259 00:14:11,559 --> 00:14:14,879 a diagnosis that it's venus disease, which is very common 260 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:18,080 in his age. And it simply means that the valves 261 00:14:18,159 --> 00:14:21,000 in the veins don't do that. They're not as hearty 262 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:24,000 as they were before, so blood pools on its way 263 00:14:24,039 --> 00:14:27,720 back to the heart. That's not serious. It's completely benign. 264 00:14:28,159 --> 00:14:31,519 It's cosmetic, and it's expected from a man in his 265 00:14:31,639 --> 00:14:32,879 late seventies who's. 266 00:14:32,639 --> 00:14:34,159 Speaker 3: Standing on his feet all the time. 267 00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:36,919 Speaker 6: And to your point about shaking hand, her point about 268 00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:39,879 shaking hands, Calin Levitt says, Look, he's on an aspen. 269 00:14:39,919 --> 00:14:42,320 He shakes a lot of hands. I've shaked the man's hand. 270 00:14:42,519 --> 00:14:45,759 He gives a very vigorous handshake. They did something called 271 00:14:45,759 --> 00:14:49,360 the coagulation tests. That doesn't look like there's any sign 272 00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:52,879 of anything any problem with excess bleeding there. So I 273 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:56,759 accept that explanation that he does vigorous handshakes all day 274 00:14:56,799 --> 00:14:59,279 long and he's on an aspirin, So I think they've 275 00:14:59,320 --> 00:14:59,799 covered this. 276 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:02,759 Speaker 3: I don't think there's anything hidden there at all. Well. 277 00:15:02,799 --> 00:15:04,879 Speaker 6: I spoke to Todd Berlin, who's our head of the 278 00:15:04,919 --> 00:15:07,799 outpatient vascular at NYU land Going, just a couple of 279 00:15:07,799 --> 00:15:11,080 minutes ago, and he said, this is extremely common. 280 00:15:11,159 --> 00:15:12,440 Speaker 3: It's going to stay benign. 281 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:15,360 Speaker 6: You can elevate your legs by the way, which will 282 00:15:15,399 --> 00:15:17,919 decrease the legs swell. And though I doubt the President's 283 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:20,080 going to do that, he certainly could do that. And 284 00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:23,639 down the line he could have some very benign procedures 285 00:15:23,679 --> 00:15:27,919 done to relieve the venus problems if he starts feeling discomfort, 286 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:30,480 But those would be elective and they don't show a 287 00:15:30,519 --> 00:15:33,480 sign of anything serious going on. So yes, you could 288 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:36,759 have procedures as an outpatient done to make this better. 289 00:15:36,840 --> 00:15:40,759 Venus stripping laser. Those are all possibilities, but they're not 290 00:15:40,919 --> 00:15:42,840 anything that would seem to be pressing here. 291 00:15:43,559 --> 00:15:46,279 Speaker 1: So somewhat surprising that this news popped up out of 292 00:15:46,480 --> 00:15:49,200 nowhere and nobody knew that he was having all these tests, 293 00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:51,960 but the minute they ran the test, they thought it 294 00:15:52,039 --> 00:15:54,799 was the right thing to do was to disclose his 295 00:15:54,799 --> 00:15:58,519 health condition. And as you heard from the doctor, it 296 00:15:58,559 --> 00:16:02,919 doesn't sound like this is any big deal, and that 297 00:16:03,080 --> 00:16:05,480 most men his age apparently are many of them not 298 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:10,759 surprising that he would have this condition, doesn't hurt and 299 00:16:10,799 --> 00:16:14,879 not not a danger. So with that we move on 300 00:16:15,279 --> 00:16:18,360 to where do you want to go next? How about 301 00:16:18,679 --> 00:16:23,519 the Senate did approve at two o'clock this morning. I 302 00:16:23,519 --> 00:16:25,320 don't know what's the matter with those people? Why are 303 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:28,720 they working? They're old people, talk about old men. There's 304 00:16:28,759 --> 00:16:30,360 a bunch of old people there. They need to go 305 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:33,320 home and go to bed. In any case, they approved 306 00:16:33,639 --> 00:16:41,240 nine billion dollars in spending cuts because Dosee had gone 307 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:43,799 in and found what was that? I forget the number 308 00:16:43,799 --> 00:16:46,519 one hundred and fifty hundred and sixty billion dollars worth 309 00:16:46,559 --> 00:16:50,279 of waste that they got rid of, and they wanted 310 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:52,320 to get to two trillion. Then they finally say, well, 311 00:16:52,440 --> 00:16:55,200 maybe we'll get to one trillion. The reason they wanted 312 00:16:55,240 --> 00:16:57,799 to get to two trillion is because we spend about 313 00:16:57,840 --> 00:17:02,000 two trillion dollars more than we in so that that 314 00:17:02,159 --> 00:17:05,000 was the goal. Then they changed it to be more realistic. 315 00:17:05,079 --> 00:17:08,400 They thought to one trillion, and they didn't come close 316 00:17:08,839 --> 00:17:11,400 with one hundred and fifty hundred and sixty billion dollars 317 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:15,119 worth of cuts. So a bunch of Republicans said, we 318 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:17,839 need to cut more. And the best they could do 319 00:17:18,759 --> 00:17:21,640 was to cut nine billion. So it's nowhere near the 320 00:17:21,680 --> 00:17:25,039 two trillion or the one trillion or one hundred and 321 00:17:25,039 --> 00:17:29,680 sixty billion. They cut nine billion dollars in this bill 322 00:17:29,720 --> 00:17:33,920 that they passed this morning. It passed fifty one to 323 00:17:34,039 --> 00:17:38,119 forty eight. This is the Senate. The two Democrats, sorry, 324 00:17:38,119 --> 00:17:40,839 the two Republicans have voted against it, not a surprise, 325 00:17:40,920 --> 00:17:45,319 Susan Collins from Maine and Lisa Murkowski from Alaska, and 326 00:17:45,359 --> 00:17:48,160 they said no. So the vote was fifty one to 327 00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:52,440 forty eight. They're cutting nine billion dollars in four and 328 00:17:52,519 --> 00:17:57,519 AID and money for public broadcasting. There's about eight billion 329 00:17:57,880 --> 00:18:02,119 cut in four and AID. This is USAID sort of stuff. 330 00:18:02,160 --> 00:18:05,680 That's where they started. And then one point one billion 331 00:18:05,799 --> 00:18:09,839 dollars they are cutting in public broadcasting. Now it goes 332 00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:13,720 to the House, not right away, apparently it may take 333 00:18:13,720 --> 00:18:16,720 a while to get to the House. The executives from 334 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:21,039 PBS and NPR are running around doing as much as 335 00:18:21,079 --> 00:18:26,400 they can on the mainstream media, trying to cry about 336 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:29,720 all the money they're going to lose. I don't. I mean, 337 00:18:29,799 --> 00:18:32,319 my position on this has been the same as forever. 338 00:18:32,759 --> 00:18:36,160 They should compete. I understand when they were first started 339 00:18:36,160 --> 00:18:40,200 by Congress, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, they were funded 340 00:18:40,240 --> 00:18:44,200 by the government, But they now should be on their own. 341 00:18:44,279 --> 00:18:48,440 That was sixty years ago. Shouldn't they be able to 342 00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:51,079 go out there on their own and compete, just like CBS, 343 00:18:51,079 --> 00:18:56,599 at ABC, and NBC, Fox, CNN, all of them. They 344 00:18:56,599 --> 00:18:59,519 don't know. They don't get money from the government, so 345 00:18:59,559 --> 00:19:02,039 why should these people get money from the government. The 346 00:19:02,119 --> 00:19:05,559 worst part behind the whole thing is the executives at 347 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:09,119 NPR and PBS come out and say we have we 348 00:19:09,279 --> 00:19:13,400 just don't have. Show me any story we've done that 349 00:19:13,599 --> 00:19:17,480 is biased to the left that the right keeps accusing 350 00:19:17,599 --> 00:19:21,079 us of, and everybody on the right just absolutely bends 351 00:19:21,119 --> 00:19:25,440 over in laughter. There's lots of documentation not only about 352 00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:29,960 the stories, the angles they're they're very left. That's that's fine, 353 00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:33,880 but why should taxpayers have to pay for that? If 354 00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:37,960 they want to be one more leftist broadcaster, join the crowd, 355 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:42,200 go to MSNBC's doing just fine, and they're out on 356 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:47,720 the left and they get advertisers. So this is things 357 00:19:47,759 --> 00:19:50,680 are not going well for the Democrats and so cutting 358 00:19:50,759 --> 00:19:53,720 this off. I don't know when the effective day will be. 359 00:19:53,799 --> 00:19:55,119 We have to wait for the House to do their 360 00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:58,160 legislation on it. But I've been waiting for a long 361 00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:01,839 time and the President, this is another president promise. President 362 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:07,720 almost delivered now on saying goodbye to funding public broadcasting. 363 00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:14,559 And speaking of Democrats, they're really having troubles. One survey 364 00:20:14,559 --> 00:20:17,319 out this morning, he says twenty eight percent of people 365 00:20:18,279 --> 00:20:24,039 view Democrats favorably. That's it, twenty eight percent. As far 366 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:29,559 as Democrats in Congress, what do you think of them? Well, 367 00:20:30,839 --> 00:20:35,880 sixty six percent disapprove according to a Fox poll, seventy 368 00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:39,960 two percent disapprove of the Dems in Congress according to 369 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:43,200 a CNN poll, and fifty three percent this is the 370 00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:47,440 best they did fifty three percent disapprove of Democrats in 371 00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:51,960 Congress in a Quinnipiac poll. And when we talk about polls, 372 00:20:52,559 --> 00:20:56,720 like to check in on Harry Inton over at CNN 373 00:20:56,920 --> 00:20:59,839 on his take about Democrats and polling. 374 00:21:00,519 --> 00:21:02,680 Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean look, I think this one surprised me 375 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:06,079 a bit because of all these complaints online going after 376 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:08,720 Trump and the Epstein files, you might think his approval 377 00:21:08,759 --> 00:21:12,160 ratings were going down with Republicans. If anything, they're going 378 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:14,440 on Republicans who approve of Trump. Look at our CNN 379 00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:16,200 pull the prior one to eighty six percent, the one 380 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:18,680 out this week eighty eight percent with Republicans. How about 381 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:22,279 Quinnipiac the prior poll eighty seven percent approved of Republicans, 382 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:26,039 this week out ninety percent with Republicans. If anything, Donald 383 00:21:26,079 --> 00:21:29,039 Trump's approval rating has gone up since this whole Epstein 384 00:21:29,119 --> 00:21:29,960 saga started. 385 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:32,400 Speaker 3: He is at the apex. 386 00:21:32,039 --> 00:21:34,720 Speaker 7: Or close there too, in terms of his popularity with 387 00:21:34,799 --> 00:21:38,599 Republican voters. Epstein files complaints or not. I mean, on 388 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:41,920 X all you hear about is the Epstein files. But 389 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:44,799 how about out in the real public Republicans who said 390 00:21:44,799 --> 00:21:48,279 the top issue was Epstein case, The answer is one 391 00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:52,240 one and not one percent. One one responded, This is 392 00:21:52,279 --> 00:21:54,599 a great little finding that Ariel Edwards Levy, who of 393 00:21:54,680 --> 00:21:57,480 course is part of our polling unit, found just one 394 00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:01,279 single Republican said that the nameation's top problem is in 395 00:22:01,319 --> 00:22:05,119 fact the Epstein case, not much of a surprise that therefore, 396 00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:08,039 Donald Trump's approval rating has not suffered with Republican because 397 00:22:08,079 --> 00:22:10,079 of the Epstein case, because the bottom line, as most 398 00:22:10,079 --> 00:22:12,200 Americans say, it's not up. 399 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:13,599 Speaker 8: High up on their priority list. 400 00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:15,000 Speaker 3: Here's what's so important. 401 00:22:15,079 --> 00:22:17,519 Speaker 7: You know, we talk about the potential of Republicans leaving 402 00:22:17,559 --> 00:22:18,240 Donald Trump. 403 00:22:18,279 --> 00:22:19,200 Speaker 3: They're not leaving them. 404 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:23,000 Speaker 7: But what about congressional Democrats and problems with their own base? Democrats? 405 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:26,279 And that approval of congressional Democrats According to Quinnipiac University 406 00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:28,640 in June of twenty twenty five, it was their second 407 00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:30,200 worst ever at minus twelve points. 408 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:32,279 Speaker 3: It's not not low enough for you. How about we 409 00:22:32,279 --> 00:22:32,960 go even lower? 410 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:36,319 Speaker 7: In July of twenty twenty five, minus thirteen points, their 411 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:40,240 worst net approval rating for congressional Democrats Among Democrats, ever, 412 00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:42,279 Donald Trump is not the one who has problems with 413 00:22:42,319 --> 00:22:44,920 this political base. It is Congressional Democrats are the ones 414 00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:47,519 who have problems with their own political base. 415 00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:50,839 Speaker 1: So that is somewhat surprising that all is Epstein fuss 416 00:22:51,319 --> 00:22:55,400 and nobody cares. I don't know. I guess it's just 417 00:22:55,440 --> 00:23:00,799 salacious humor. The people are following David the actual and 418 00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:06,079 David Urban Actual Rod speaks for the Dems, and Urban 419 00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:09,079 speaks for the Republicans. They weigh in on all this 420 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:13,720 sour news about Democrats. Let's start with with Axle Rod. 421 00:23:14,799 --> 00:23:17,920 Speaker 9: I let's let's talk about the Democrats. I mean, may 422 00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:20,400 be this Recision Package, by the way, that passed in 423 00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:23,480 the middle of the night through Congress, where Congress sort 424 00:23:23,519 --> 00:23:27,640 of gave their authority a way to the president that 425 00:23:27,839 --> 00:23:30,039 was handed to them by the Constitution. But we'll set 426 00:23:30,079 --> 00:23:32,759 that aside. That's a trivial matter when you're thinking about 427 00:23:32,839 --> 00:23:36,240 Jeffrey Epstein and so on. But on the on the 428 00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:39,319 issue of the Democratic Party, the reason those numbers are 429 00:23:39,319 --> 00:23:42,640 so low are in part that Democrats themselves are disillusioned 430 00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:46,079 because they don't think Democrats are doing enough to stop Trump. 431 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:48,599 And there's a limit to what they can do to 432 00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:51,799 stop Trump when they have neither House of Congress nor 433 00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:54,680 the White House. The real answer for them is to 434 00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:58,839 win elections. So it's kind of paradoxical. But just as 435 00:23:58,839 --> 00:24:02,680 Trump tries to rally his base by flaying Democrats, come 436 00:24:02,759 --> 00:24:04,680 next year, this election is going to be very much 437 00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:10,200 about Donald Trump and Democrats, as disillusioned as they are 438 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:14,160 with each other. I suspect will rally behind him, and 439 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:17,599 what he should worry about are where independents are relative 440 00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:20,559 to him. The people who are going to decide this 441 00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:27,920 election are much less, much less happy with him than 442 00:24:28,079 --> 00:24:29,440 he should want them to be so. 443 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:33,119 Speaker 1: Anyway, So to talk about the other side, David urban Is, 444 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:36,720 spokesman for the Republican Well, that's. 445 00:24:36,559 --> 00:24:39,440 Speaker 10: An incredibly great spin on what I just heard Harry 446 00:24:39,599 --> 00:24:43,559 Enten say, which was a gloom and doom for the Democrats. 447 00:24:43,599 --> 00:24:46,839 The lowest Kate, would you just recounted the lowest numbers 448 00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:49,920 in the history of CNN polling. I mean, there's no 449 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:53,160 way to spin that and say that's good. You could 450 00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:55,920 try to, And look, I agree with acts. The midterms 451 00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:58,640 are going to be incredibly close. Midterms are never you know, 452 00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:01,160 well I shouldn't say never. They're really not blowouts in 453 00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:04,799 either direction, although as enjoyed that when he was when 454 00:25:04,839 --> 00:25:08,680 his his former boss was in power. But this upcoming 455 00:25:08,759 --> 00:25:11,680 midterm election is going to be incredibly, incredibly close. And 456 00:25:11,759 --> 00:25:15,799 so I think the numbers that Harry was showing, he 457 00:25:15,839 --> 00:25:19,839 had showed some numbers yesterday about what Democratic numbers, favorability 458 00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:23,640 and numbers look like in the previous two midterm elections 459 00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:26,640 and they were much much higher. So I think Democrats 460 00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:28,319 that are a giant hole they need to dig out. 461 00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:31,880 Trump's favorability is really really strong amongst the base, which 462 00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:34,559 is incredibly important in midterms when you've got to have 463 00:25:34,599 --> 00:25:35,440 your base show up. 464 00:25:35,599 --> 00:25:36,480 Speaker 3: But action is right. 465 00:25:36,519 --> 00:25:38,359 Speaker 10: It's all about where these independents kind of go. 466 00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:39,359 Speaker 3: The people in the middle. 467 00:25:39,839 --> 00:25:41,680 Speaker 10: A lot of those folks that the President got to 468 00:25:41,759 --> 00:25:45,200 join his coalition Democrats who may have not traditionally voted 469 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:48,160 for Republican We need to keep those folks on the team. 470 00:25:48,799 --> 00:25:52,680 Hispanic families, young men, African Americans. We need to keep 471 00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:55,559 that coalition together if we stand a chance of keeping 472 00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:58,119 the House and picking up even a couple more seats. 473 00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:01,240 Speaker 9: Well, I just said, let me make a couple of points. 474 00:26:01,559 --> 00:26:04,559 One is that enthusiasm really is important in these midterm 475 00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:08,240 and sort of off year elections. And Democrats one of 476 00:26:08,279 --> 00:26:11,559 their strengths is they are doing better among the most 477 00:26:11,599 --> 00:26:15,160 engaged voters. That's why they do well in midterms and 478 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:17,880 special elections. And the question for Trump is can he 479 00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:23,400 get his people out in a midterm election. That's an 480 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:27,119 open question. The second is history suggests that Democrats will 481 00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:30,960 do well. In the midterm elections, Incumbent presidents rarely pick 482 00:26:31,039 --> 00:26:33,319 up seats. The last time was two thousand and two 483 00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:36,920 after nine to eleven George W. Bush, and the House 484 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:40,680 is very narrowly divided. This is why Trump is urging 485 00:26:40,759 --> 00:26:43,759 Texas to remap their state, because he wants to pick 486 00:26:43,839 --> 00:26:47,279 up more seats, because he doesn't have any confidence that 487 00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:50,920 under the current circumstances they're going to do very So. 488 00:26:50,799 --> 00:26:53,880 Speaker 1: What's the latest on Evsein. I can told you I 489 00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:57,400 think the story is starting to die off. It won't ever, ever, 490 00:26:57,519 --> 00:27:00,920 ever go away. It'll be like who shot Kennedy or 491 00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:05,359 who shot Jr. But it seems to do a natural 492 00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:11,119 death in the media. Last night, Shane Gillis, comedian, was 493 00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:13,960 at the eSPI Awards, and I thought he had a 494 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:15,119 pretty good line about it. 495 00:27:15,279 --> 00:27:17,559 Speaker 7: Actually, there was supposed to be an Epstein joke here, 496 00:27:17,559 --> 00:27:23,000 but as it got deleted, must have probably deleted itself, right, 497 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:25,240 probably never existed. 498 00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:27,880 Speaker 8: Actually, let's move on as a country and ignore that. 499 00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:29,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not sure if we're ready to move on. 500 00:27:30,279 --> 00:27:32,720 I think so. I think it seems like the Epstein 501 00:27:32,799 --> 00:27:35,920 story is starting to die away. It'll never completely go away. 502 00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:39,880 People will always ask was he murdered, did he commit suicide? 503 00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:44,720 Who were the other purpose that were involved with him? 504 00:27:45,559 --> 00:27:50,279 Even Josh Hawley, the conservative Republican from Missouri, he still 505 00:27:50,799 --> 00:27:52,440 wants to know more on this. 506 00:27:52,559 --> 00:27:55,680 Speaker 8: One of the most interesting dissenting voices are not the Democrats. 507 00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:58,440 They are the Republicans who want more than what the 508 00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:02,599 president is giving them. Well, I think it's Here's what 509 00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:05,000 I think is maybe a little difficult to believe the 510 00:28:05,039 --> 00:28:08,680 idea that DOJ and the FBI, who prosecuted cases relating 511 00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:11,279 to this, don't have any idea who Epstein's clients were, 512 00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:14,279 and that he had no record of it of the clients. 513 00:28:14,559 --> 00:28:14,880 Speaker 3: I don't know. 514 00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:16,799 Speaker 8: I spent that kind of hard to believe. I mean, 515 00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:20,519 my view is make public everything you can make public. 516 00:28:21,039 --> 00:28:22,559 That's what the President said yesterday. 517 00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:25,759 Speaker 1: But now we add a new pink to this whole story. 518 00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:30,359 The prosecutor who prosecuted Julane Maxwell and also was in 519 00:28:30,359 --> 00:28:35,599 the middle of prosecuting Jeffrey Epstein before he died. She 520 00:28:35,759 --> 00:28:38,640 her name is Maureen Comy, and she was fired yesterday 521 00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:42,079 from the Department of Justice as a prosecutor. Been a 522 00:28:42,079 --> 00:28:45,279 prosecutor there for many years, has a very good, successful 523 00:28:45,319 --> 00:28:50,680 track record, Why did they fire her, Andy McCarthy, Well, 524 00:28:50,759 --> 00:28:55,559 he brought listen her name again, Maureen Comy. She is 525 00:28:55,680 --> 00:29:00,160 the daughter of James Comy. So Andy McCary, who who 526 00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:04,480 also was a prosecutor for the DOJ, had this response. 527 00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:09,319 Speaker 4: She got high profile cases in the premier federal prosecutor's 528 00:29:09,359 --> 00:29:12,640 office in the United States, so it says that she 529 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:15,160 was a pretty good prosecutor, which is what the track 530 00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:20,839 record bears out. I think what happened here is clearly retributive. 531 00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:25,079 The Trump administration opened what I think is a baseless 532 00:29:25,119 --> 00:29:31,119 criminal prosecution, criminal investigation at least against Jim Comy. Last week. 533 00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:34,599 I wrote about this over the weekend. President doesn't like Comy. 534 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:38,319 He thinks with a lot of reason that Komy tried 535 00:29:38,359 --> 00:29:42,119 to take his first administration down. He promised to be 536 00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:45,319 the retribution president, and this is for the retribution. He's 537 00:29:45,319 --> 00:29:48,519 got the constitutional authority to do it. But I think 538 00:29:48,519 --> 00:29:51,160 it stinks. He could have, especially if he wants the 539 00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:54,279 Jeffrey Epstein talk talk talk to go away. He could 540 00:29:54,319 --> 00:29:57,960 have done nothing. She's just she's a line prosecutor in 541 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:00,160 the Southern District of New York. She's got nothing to 542 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:04,119 do with the president. She was evidently doing a fine job, 543 00:30:04,559 --> 00:30:07,680 and she could have just gone about doing the public business, 544 00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:11,200 which is what the two hundred or so prosecutors in 545 00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:15,400 that office have always strived to do. He decided to 546 00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:19,839 reach down and slaughter because she's the daughter of his 547 00:30:20,079 --> 00:30:23,920 political nemesis. The constitution gives him the authority to do that. 548 00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:27,000 I mean, to the extent this is legally interesting. It's 549 00:30:27,039 --> 00:30:30,000 that the president is trying to show that he's got 550 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:34,359 the authority to fire executive branch subordinates even if they're 551 00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:38,799 protected by Congress's civil service laws. That's the interesting legal 552 00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:41,759 aspect of this. But as far as a story, it's 553 00:30:41,799 --> 00:30:45,440 sheer vindictiveness. Very often the politics is more important than 554 00:30:45,799 --> 00:30:50,400 the legal technicalities. But yes, technically, legally he's on solid ground. 555 00:30:50,839 --> 00:30:56,519 There may be litigation over it because the progressive administrative state. 556 00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:00,000 The theory of it is that you have these bureaucrats 557 00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:03,160 who should be able to do their jobs without political 558 00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:07,319 interference because they work for the public good. You know, 559 00:31:07,359 --> 00:31:09,160 that's one way of looking at it, but it's not 560 00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:12,240 the original constitutional way of looking at how our government 561 00:31:12,279 --> 00:31:14,480 is set up. So I think the president has the 562 00:31:14,519 --> 00:31:16,759 authority to do this I just wish he hadn't done it. 563 00:31:17,319 --> 00:31:21,640 Speaker 1: And finally some economic news came out today. First of all, 564 00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:25,640 retail sales were out and what a surprise this was. 565 00:31:26,359 --> 00:31:31,359 Retail sales were down nine tenths of a percent in 566 00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:33,920 May and people say, oh, that's it. People are zipping 567 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:36,559 up their wallets. Well they opened them back up again 568 00:31:36,599 --> 00:31:41,359 in June. Retail sales up six tenths in June. Clothing 569 00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:48,240 was up strongly, Electronics and appliances down slightly. Food and 570 00:31:48,319 --> 00:31:52,279 drink establishments they did pretty well. So it was a 571 00:31:52,319 --> 00:31:54,640 mixed bag as far as the kind of retail sales. 572 00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:59,079 But retail sales it shows that people still have money 573 00:31:59,079 --> 00:32:02,680 to spend and they're out there spending it. First time 574 00:32:02,759 --> 00:32:07,240 jobless claims two hundred and twenty one thousand, down from 575 00:32:07,319 --> 00:32:10,680 two hundred and twenty eight thousand the week before. It's 576 00:32:10,799 --> 00:32:14,759 a little bit lower, which is good, but it's not 577 00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:19,519 anything to write home about. Continuing jobless claims one point 578 00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:23,799 nine to five million, that's been pretty steady. Also, when 579 00:32:23,799 --> 00:32:27,160 it comes to prices, import prices, the things that we're 580 00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:31,039 bringing in, remember they're all supposed to be somewhere in here. 581 00:32:31,039 --> 00:32:35,440 They're going to be attacked with tariffs. Import prices were 582 00:32:35,519 --> 00:32:38,519 up one tenth of one percent last month month of June. 583 00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:43,200 That's it, up one tenth. Export prices, the things that 584 00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:46,759 we are shipping out of here up a half percent 585 00:32:46,839 --> 00:32:49,559 last month. Year over year, up two point eight percent. 586 00:32:50,119 --> 00:32:53,880 So that was a surprise that export prices were up 587 00:32:54,599 --> 00:32:56,640 two point eight percent. So a little bit of a 588 00:32:56,680 --> 00:33:00,880 mixed bag on all of that Wall Street. Today, let's 589 00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:08,240 see the markets up two hundred and twenty nine. So 590 00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:11,440 all of this worry about tariffs, if you go back 591 00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:15,839 to when the President first introduced tariffs back on Liberation Day, 592 00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:19,400 April second, the markets got went straight down. They were 593 00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:21,400 all worried about what the impact was going to be. 594 00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:26,000 This time, we're waiting for August first for all these 595 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:30,039 new tariffs to take effect, and or continuing tariffs to 596 00:33:30,039 --> 00:33:34,359 take effect. And Wall Street's just blowing it off, hitting 597 00:33:35,039 --> 00:33:38,839 not a new record for the Dow, but a number 598 00:33:38,839 --> 00:33:41,519 of new records recently on Wall Street. The Dow up 599 00:33:41,559 --> 00:33:44,720 two hundred and twenty nine at forty four thousand and 600 00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:48,279 four eighty four, the S and P up thirty three, 601 00:33:48,559 --> 00:33:51,880 the Nasdaq up one hundred and fifty five. The price 602 00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:55,279 of gold it fell thirteen dollars down to thirty three 603 00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:59,400 forty five, and oil bouncing around in the sixties, up 604 00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:02,920 a bucket a quarter today sixty seven dollars in some 605 00:34:03,039 --> 00:34:08,960 change for one barrel of oil. That's it for today, 606 00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:12,519 Thank you for coming by. Hey tomorrow's SHRODDI we'll look 607 00:34:12,559 --> 00:34:22,880 forward to seeing into them