1 00:00:23,199 --> 00:00:24,559 Speaker 1: And here we are welcome. 2 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:29,600 Speaker 2: Welcome to the Big Podcast on this Thursday, Today's thirtieth 3 00:00:29,679 --> 00:00:33,159 day of April. Man, we polish that month off fast. 4 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:37,399 You're of our Lord twenty twenty six. My name is 5 00:00:37,439 --> 00:00:41,799 Tom Sullivan, and we've got a lot to cover here today, 6 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:45,600 so let's get started. I mean, we'll give you some 7 00:00:46,039 --> 00:00:50,679 breaking news late this afternoon. The House, they're making a 8 00:00:50,679 --> 00:00:52,479 big deal about it, and I'm going, I don't know 9 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:55,520 if this solves much, but the House has passed past 10 00:00:55,640 --> 00:01:02,439 the past. It past the Dhsartment of Homeland Security funding bill. 11 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:06,280 It was a bill from the Senate. The House finally, 12 00:01:06,359 --> 00:01:08,280 under a lot of pressure from the White House, took 13 00:01:08,319 --> 00:01:14,439 it up, passed it seventy six days that DHS has 14 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:19,840 been shut down. So it funds the FEMA and the 15 00:01:19,879 --> 00:01:25,879 Secret Service and TSA, which is important if you've got 16 00:01:26,079 --> 00:01:30,079 travel on your calendar. But it did not fund ICE 17 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:34,280 or the Border Patrol. Now they're going to take that 18 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:37,840 up in some other piece of legislation. I'm going, this 19 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:40,680 is crazy, But in any case, I wanted to give 20 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:44,040 you the update on its kind of kind of passed. 21 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:49,239 It's the funds FEMA, Secret Service and TSA. Department of 22 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:52,760 Homeland Security. It's funding for the department, but not for 23 00:01:52,879 --> 00:02:01,959 ICE or the Border Protection. Crazy, but that's DC. So 24 00:02:02,159 --> 00:02:06,840 where do you want to start today? We've got the 25 00:02:06,879 --> 00:02:14,719 war is coming down to who chickens out first, and 26 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:19,000 we're talking about we've got our blockade, and Iran says 27 00:02:19,039 --> 00:02:23,280 they have got their blockade, and so they are hurting 28 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:25,840 because I've seen the estimates of what is it, four 29 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:29,560 hundred and some million a day in revenue that they 30 00:02:29,599 --> 00:02:34,960 are not collecting. And meantime, oil prices are going up 31 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:37,039 again today. We'll get to that in a minute, but 32 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:41,159 they're higher, which means when you gas up in the 33 00:02:41,199 --> 00:02:43,439 next few days, the price of gas will be higher. 34 00:02:44,599 --> 00:02:47,879 But I'm looking at this and thinking, so, who can 35 00:02:47,919 --> 00:02:53,800 outlast the other one? Well, Iran is hurting, I mean 36 00:02:53,879 --> 00:02:57,680 they are really hurting. And the people here, the president 37 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:00,479 and some generals, everybody says, oh boy, these guys are 38 00:03:00,479 --> 00:03:04,439 their economic their their economy is on the skids. They 39 00:03:04,599 --> 00:03:10,199 can handle more pain than in many cases, a lot 40 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:13,199 of American taxpayers who are going, I'm tired of paying 41 00:03:13,199 --> 00:03:19,360 these prices for gasoline. Stop the war, That's what That's 42 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:24,439 the question. What kind of pressure is on President Trump 43 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:31,080 to stop the blockade and let Iran go ahead and 44 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:33,680 sell their oil or what is does he have more 45 00:03:33,719 --> 00:03:39,599 willpower than the regime in Tehran who is willing their 46 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:43,439 Their economy is in deep, deep trouble. So let's start. 47 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:48,000 Let's start with the Admiral Mark Fox. He was the 48 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:53,000 deputy sent Coom Commander. And this is what Admiral Fox 49 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:54,039 has to say. 50 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:56,639 Speaker 3: Well, what what's going on in Iran right now is 51 00:03:56,919 --> 00:03:59,840 they're kind of consolidating who who really has the power 52 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:03,879 in Iran? I don't think it's the Ayatola, he hasn't 53 00:04:03,879 --> 00:04:06,120 been seen, as it was pointed out earlier, since the 54 00:04:06,199 --> 00:04:10,800 very beginning of this conflict. But the IRGC, the Iranian 55 00:04:12,159 --> 00:04:15,800 Guard Corps, the Revolutionary Guard Corps, they're the ones who 56 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:18,240 are the hardliners, and they are the ones who also 57 00:04:18,319 --> 00:04:24,079 hold power. So I don't see this regime willingly giving 58 00:04:24,199 --> 00:04:28,360 up their nuclear aspirations. I honestly don't. And so this 59 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:31,519 is one of those cases where it's sort of the 60 00:04:31,759 --> 00:04:36,120 irresistible motion against the immovable rock kind of problem. And 61 00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:39,199 as I said, I think we own all of the 62 00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:41,560 cards in this situation, and it's a function of how 63 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:45,920 long their economy will take to collapse before they've got 64 00:04:45,959 --> 00:04:48,199 to deal with that. We see that this regime is 65 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:52,959 willing to negotiate. Okay, So he's an admiral, he's a 66 00:04:52,959 --> 00:04:56,720 military man, and he's looking at diplomacy and saying that 67 00:04:56,879 --> 00:05:01,519 isn't working. So let's go to General Keith Keller, and 68 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:06,040 he's also a military man, and he says, military is 69 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:06,600 the answer. 70 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:10,120 Speaker 4: Tell him the President has done this brilliantly, and the 71 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:14,120 Secretary of War today was exactly right about defeatism. This 72 00:05:14,199 --> 00:05:16,000 is not defetism. Now I'm going a little bit further. 73 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:19,240 I'd say you're looking at a theocratic government that doesn't 74 00:05:19,279 --> 00:05:22,360 care about its people, doesn't care about its military, and 75 00:05:22,399 --> 00:05:25,560 we've taken it apart. I would go a little bit further. 76 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:29,759 The blockade is working. Economic key to falling apart. I would, 77 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:33,839 as I've said repeatedly on shows like this, take carg Island, 78 00:05:33,879 --> 00:05:36,920 take the islands in the Gulf region, because you've got 79 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:40,120 to put the regime at risk. It's like a king 80 00:05:40,199 --> 00:05:42,800 cobra and a mongoose. One of them is going to die. 81 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:45,600 And right now I'm looking at some of them are 82 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:48,600 going to have to be gone die, like Fahiti who's 83 00:05:48,639 --> 00:05:51,319 the commander of the Republican Guards. He probably needs to 84 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:55,279 go rashiter foreign minister. He's a good negotiator, But put 85 00:05:55,319 --> 00:05:58,199 him in a position where their government is at risk 86 00:05:58,319 --> 00:06:01,959 of survival, and take to them that they realize we're 87 00:06:01,959 --> 00:06:04,040 going to take apart from the military and everything else, 88 00:06:04,279 --> 00:06:06,240 but you won't have a regime money more. And then 89 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:10,040 remember the Revolutionary Guards is not the army, and you 90 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:12,720 put those two against each other, even put a provisional 91 00:06:12,759 --> 00:06:15,759 government on carg Island. Do something to make sure that 92 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:19,199 these guys that realize that their survivability is at stake 93 00:06:19,279 --> 00:06:22,680 right now, the enemy between our two countries is going 94 00:06:22,720 --> 00:06:24,839 to be there. They don't like us, we don't like them, 95 00:06:25,319 --> 00:06:29,360 and get there. Enrich uranium, get it out of there, 96 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:32,560 make sure we've got it stored it in another country 97 00:06:32,959 --> 00:06:35,399 or in Switzerland, I don't care where it's at. But 98 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:37,639 we need to put them in a position where it's 99 00:06:37,759 --> 00:06:41,800 pure survival of their government and make sure they understand 100 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:45,480 that if they're willing to have punishment, they'll get the punishment. 101 00:06:45,639 --> 00:06:47,800 We just make it take it to a level that 102 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:50,439 they cannot sustain. And that's the reason I've always said, 103 00:06:50,639 --> 00:06:54,079 go to the heartland, take their islands, take straight of Hormuz, 104 00:06:54,120 --> 00:06:57,639 the islands there, take carg Island. Do something strong that 105 00:06:57,759 --> 00:07:00,800 just says enough of this, We're done. They think they 106 00:07:00,839 --> 00:07:04,079 can survive another day, another two day's number three days. 107 00:07:04,319 --> 00:07:06,199 You want to make sure you tell them, You let 108 00:07:06,279 --> 00:07:09,439 them know you're not going to survive this. Your military 109 00:07:09,519 --> 00:07:12,720 is not, Your evolutionary guards are not. And they've got 110 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:16,040 this mosaic doctrine where they've totally decentralized the defense of 111 00:07:16,079 --> 00:07:18,800 their country. Make it so they understand their regime now 112 00:07:18,879 --> 00:07:21,639 is at risk of survival. And that's the reason I said, 113 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:24,000 you take the most important things they've got. You've taken 114 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:27,360 away their military. President Trump is in that brilliantly sector 115 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:31,399 war and the Sherman chiefs who've done that brilliantly. You 116 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:33,759 now do it economically. You've done that with the block eate. 117 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:36,639 You take it to a position where they don't have 118 00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:39,800 any options at all. You put the country at risk, 119 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:42,959 the survival at risk, and that's where we want to 120 00:07:42,959 --> 00:07:43,720 be in the end state. 121 00:07:44,759 --> 00:07:48,399 Speaker 2: So let's see, the general said, the plombacy hasn't worked, 122 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:54,040 and economic warfare hasn't worked, So what else were we 123 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:55,040 going to do well. 124 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:58,040 Speaker 4: This is a theocratic regime. They don't care about their people. 125 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:01,040 They've proven that by killing thousands of their own. They've 126 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:03,759 killed more. And if you take something like the islands 127 00:08:03,759 --> 00:08:06,160 and hold them, and you take carg Island and hold them, 128 00:08:06,199 --> 00:08:08,959 you don't destroy it. You don't destroy their bridges, you 129 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:12,240 don't destroy you know, their power plants. But you take 130 00:08:12,319 --> 00:08:14,920 something that you can give back to them. Once you understand, 131 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:17,360 we need to get rid of these guys. They are thugs. 132 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:20,879 It's a theocratic regime. They shouldn't be in charge. You 133 00:08:20,959 --> 00:08:25,040 cannot work with a group of people that says every 134 00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:27,839 time they have their parliament open, that's to America. That 135 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:29,800 hadn't worked for me, and I don't think it works 136 00:08:29,839 --> 00:08:31,120 for most Americans as well. 137 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:31,720 Speaker 5: Well. 138 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:37,679 Speaker 2: Kareem Savagepoor is with the Carnegie Institute. He's not from Iran. 139 00:08:37,759 --> 00:08:42,080 His parents fled from Iran after the Iatola came in, 140 00:08:42,159 --> 00:08:44,519 but he was born in the US. But he knows 141 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:49,279 a lot about how things work in Iran and also 142 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:52,360 how things work here in the US. The Iotola sent 143 00:08:52,399 --> 00:08:56,279 out a tweet yesterday and while listen to Kareem talk 144 00:08:56,360 --> 00:09:00,519 about where, he thinks that that tweet is actually coming from. 145 00:09:00,440 --> 00:09:02,279 Speaker 6: I think, first of all, Anderson that he is not 146 00:09:02,399 --> 00:09:05,440 writing his own tweets. There's probably someone in Los Angeles 147 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:08,039 who is writing those tweets. Really, Yeah, one of his 148 00:09:08,159 --> 00:09:10,679 former aides, it turns out, is writing those those suits 149 00:09:10,720 --> 00:09:14,120 from in Los Angeles, it turns out. But I think 150 00:09:14,159 --> 00:09:18,799 that the regime publicly is maintaining their defiance in this 151 00:09:18,960 --> 00:09:22,399 idea that they have prevailed. But when you talk to 152 00:09:22,519 --> 00:09:25,519 people in Tehran, it is a country which is who, 153 00:09:25,799 --> 00:09:29,240 which is economy has been totally decimated, and you don't 154 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:34,200 hear that a lot because it's essentially imposed blockade internet 155 00:09:34,879 --> 00:09:38,120 censorship on its own own population. So you're not hearing 156 00:09:38,159 --> 00:09:40,879 the voices of Iranians who want this word to stop. 157 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:43,360 And this is obviously what we've been talking about the 158 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:46,279 last two months, is that President Trump needs the American 159 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:49,960 economy to thrive. All these Lomak republic needs is for 160 00:09:50,159 --> 00:09:53,480 their regime to survive. And at the moment, it's a 161 00:09:53,559 --> 00:09:56,480 it's a regime which you know, has a monopoly of violence, 162 00:09:56,519 --> 00:09:59,320 and they're not yet feeling that their population is about 163 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:02,519 to rise up again. So there is that disconnect between 164 00:10:02,519 --> 00:10:04,679 the men who are managing the war, which is the 165 00:10:04,759 --> 00:10:08,000 Islamic Revolutionary Guards, and then the men who need to 166 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:12,200 make Iran's budget work, and that's the presidency and the 167 00:10:12,240 --> 00:10:16,039 parliament and those people who are mindful of the country's 168 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:19,480 economic woes. They're very eager for this war to end. 169 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:24,279 But the military men, you know, they're they're kind of 170 00:10:24,279 --> 00:10:28,000 distracted by the war, and they're also concerned that once 171 00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:31,159 the war ends, then people's focus is going to be 172 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:35,000 on internal wares and internal mismanagement and lack of political 173 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:40,240 and social freedoms. It's very difficult to communicate with this regime. 174 00:10:40,919 --> 00:10:43,799 But that said, you know, there's been a taboo that's 175 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:46,679 been broken, and that JD. Vance and Iran Speaker of 176 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:51,399 Parliament Koalibov spent twenty hours together that didn't happen when 177 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:55,320 ityl Hamany was living. So that taboo has seemingly been 178 00:10:55,360 --> 00:10:59,039 broken inside Tehran about direct talks with the United States, 179 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:01,480 And now it's that's the question, Okay, what are the 180 00:11:01,559 --> 00:11:03,919 terms of a deal going to be? And I totally 181 00:11:03,960 --> 00:11:06,120 agree with Edward that we're very far away from that, 182 00:11:06,519 --> 00:11:08,840 but I think we're seeing what the basic contours of 183 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:11,919 a deal min which there will be there will need 184 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:15,480 to be a deal on getting out this highly enriched uranium, 185 00:11:15,519 --> 00:11:18,080 as much as one thousand pounds of that, and then 186 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:22,879 the question of whether Iran will suspend it's enrichment every 187 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:23,919 uraniument for how long? 188 00:11:24,039 --> 00:11:25,720 Speaker 2: Jane, That's the part that I don't trust. That's why 189 00:11:25,720 --> 00:11:27,960 you have to change the regime. In my humble opinion, 190 00:11:28,320 --> 00:11:30,360 Mark Short, who used to be the chief of staff 191 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:36,159 for Mike Pence, was asked about, Well, Pete HEGs has 192 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:38,879 been before Congress two days in a row, and it's 193 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:42,879 just a battle royal. I mean, it's typical in Congress 194 00:11:42,919 --> 00:11:48,519 that if the person testifying is a Republican, the Democrats 195 00:11:48,600 --> 00:11:52,320 are going to throw hardballs and vice versa. But what 196 00:11:52,440 --> 00:11:57,159 about the hardball back and forth between the Secretary of 197 00:11:57,200 --> 00:11:58,840 Defense and Congress. 198 00:11:59,279 --> 00:12:01,559 Speaker 5: I think that Pete's geting a lot of criticism for 199 00:12:01,639 --> 00:12:05,120 the confrontational nature. But I don't think that the members 200 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:06,759 of the House center are looking to have a high 201 00:12:06,799 --> 00:12:09,720 growd conversation here. This is not the right form where 202 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:12,200 you're acting to get that anymore. Unfortunately, both sides are 203 00:12:12,240 --> 00:12:16,000 looking for the confrontation. I think to Pete, the reality 204 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:20,080 is that recruitment is up. The Milch operation in Venezuela 205 00:12:20,159 --> 00:12:22,519 is a huge success. The first strike in a Ran 206 00:12:22,679 --> 00:12:25,720 was successful, and by all accounts, the military operations here 207 00:12:25,759 --> 00:12:27,840 have been incredibly successful, and he. 208 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:28,840 Speaker 1: Deserves credit for that. 209 00:12:29,519 --> 00:12:31,639 Speaker 5: I think that my challenge is is I think the 210 00:12:31,679 --> 00:12:33,720 administration can do a better job explaining to the American 211 00:12:33,759 --> 00:12:36,960 people why and what the goal is. I think it's 212 00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:40,240 a historic opportunity for the Trump administration. They can reshape 213 00:12:40,279 --> 00:12:43,480 the Middle East for generations to come, and if they're successful, 214 00:12:43,639 --> 00:12:46,639 ask actually the risk premium on energy prices. 215 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:46,960 Speaker 1: Will go down. 216 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:50,600 Speaker 5: But so far we've heard it's to make sure we 217 00:12:50,759 --> 00:12:54,080 get all of their uranium. We've heard it's regime change. 218 00:12:54,159 --> 00:12:58,279 We've heard it's to destabilize the military, mixed messages, and 219 00:12:58,320 --> 00:13:00,759 even yesterday the President is saying russ that's going to help. 220 00:13:01,039 --> 00:13:04,720 That's preposterous. I mean, basically, Iran has been supplying drones 221 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:09,159 to Russia to kill innocent Ukrainians, and so the messaging 222 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:11,879 I think overall, I think I have concerns with. But 223 00:13:12,159 --> 00:13:15,120 I actually think that a lot of the complaints about 224 00:13:15,159 --> 00:13:18,480 Pete in this particular hearing, it's not like Democrats are looking. 225 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:19,799 Speaker 1: To have a high roud conversation here. 226 00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:23,639 Speaker 2: Oh, it's a bat Royal when they go. They love 227 00:13:23,720 --> 00:13:26,919 the confrontation because they know that that will make the 228 00:13:26,919 --> 00:13:30,679 evening news. The TV cameras. They love them being there, 229 00:13:30,799 --> 00:13:33,799 and the TV cameras wouldn't be there unless there was 230 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:35,080 some sort of confrontation. 231 00:13:35,799 --> 00:13:36,279 Speaker 1: All right. 232 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:40,840 Speaker 2: The other big story that's rolling over from yesterday is 233 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:45,879 the Supreme Court decision about the fact of jerrymandering about 234 00:13:45,960 --> 00:13:52,159 congressional districts in the map in Louisiana being unconstitutional. I'll 235 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:54,399 go back and set it up for just a second 236 00:13:54,440 --> 00:13:58,799 here again. This goes back to the Voting Rights Act 237 00:13:59,320 --> 00:14:04,919 signed in nineteen sixty five. What was that something sixty 238 00:14:05,039 --> 00:14:08,240 one years ago, and it's kind of like affirmative action. 239 00:14:08,399 --> 00:14:14,120 The question about affirmative action, especially in hiring and admissions 240 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:18,360 to universities and things like that. The big question about 241 00:14:18,399 --> 00:14:22,159 that was it's not completely gone, but I think it's 242 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:25,879 been a race pretty much. But the whole point was 243 00:14:25,919 --> 00:14:29,720 do you still need to have affirmative action rules? In 244 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:35,480 two thousand and twenty six, same question applies. Do you 245 00:14:35,639 --> 00:14:40,840 need the Voting Rights Act to apply in twenty twenty six? 246 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:45,440 That was written to solve problems in nineteen sixty five. 247 00:14:46,559 --> 00:14:49,240 The issue was, and there were a number of Southern 248 00:14:49,279 --> 00:14:52,200 states that went out of their way to make sure 249 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:56,799 that blacks could not vote. They gave them literacy tests. 250 00:14:57,480 --> 00:15:00,320 It was crazy what they did to make sure that 251 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:03,440 blacks did not vote. So out of that, the Voting 252 00:15:03,519 --> 00:15:08,120 Rights Act essentially set up states to say you have 253 00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:13,600 to draw congressional districts that allow blacks a more than 254 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:17,960 decent chance to elect people that they want to elect, 255 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:22,200 primarily African American people. And so that was the history 256 00:15:22,240 --> 00:15:25,559 of all of this. But are those districts that these 257 00:15:25,559 --> 00:15:30,519 states in the South are still having to draw congressional 258 00:15:30,559 --> 00:15:35,000 districts as the populations move and shift around every ten years. 259 00:15:35,279 --> 00:15:38,440 Used to be they would redraw it and they had 260 00:15:38,480 --> 00:15:43,879 to make sure that there were districts that represented African 261 00:15:43,919 --> 00:15:50,360 Americans heavily so African American would be elected. That's fine, 262 00:15:50,960 --> 00:15:53,799 But in twenty twenty six, do we still need those? 263 00:15:53,840 --> 00:16:01,159 And the court said you cannot draw congressional jerrymandering redistricting 264 00:16:01,600 --> 00:16:06,480 boundaries based on race. You can do it on population, 265 00:16:06,639 --> 00:16:08,039 you can do it on a lot of things, but 266 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:11,200 you can't do it based on race. And the left 267 00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:16,519 is going crazy about it. And I because there are 268 00:16:16,559 --> 00:16:19,919 going to be districts that have been drawn specifically to 269 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:24,360 make sure the African American voters were the dominant force 270 00:16:24,399 --> 00:16:27,320 in those districts. And if they take those and break 271 00:16:27,360 --> 00:16:33,440 them up, will candidates for office that are African American 272 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:38,480 will they have a fair shot? And the Democrats are saying, no, 273 00:16:38,679 --> 00:16:41,320 they won't. We have to have these special districts and 274 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:44,639 the course that you can't draw districts based upon race. 275 00:16:45,519 --> 00:16:48,360 So a woman from the ACLU, she's the head of 276 00:16:48,399 --> 00:16:51,720 their voting rights group. She was asked by one of 277 00:16:51,759 --> 00:16:55,519 the anchors about the fact that, well, what if this 278 00:16:55,919 --> 00:17:00,879 benefits Democrats? What if it actually wipes out out some 279 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:03,799 Republican districts? And this is what she says. 280 00:17:03,799 --> 00:17:07,079 Speaker 7: Is possible here with the Supreme Court decision that in 281 00:17:07,119 --> 00:17:10,359 some of these blue states, New York has districts which 282 00:17:10,359 --> 00:17:16,440 are majority minority, those districts could be redrawn in ways 283 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:18,880 that spread out some of these votes which tend to 284 00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:23,119 be Democratic and actually take away Republicans cease. What would 285 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:25,400 the ACL you have, would the ACL you feel about that? 286 00:17:27,880 --> 00:17:33,880 Speaker 8: I think any kind of this excessive jerrymandering wherever it happens, 287 00:17:33,920 --> 00:17:37,880 whenever it is done, that that is a tragedy for democracy. 288 00:17:37,880 --> 00:17:41,200 And we've been seeing this already happening with the opening 289 00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:44,920 of Pandora's box during the mid decade districting. All that 290 00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:47,799 that we are seeing that now may be hypercharged after 291 00:17:47,960 --> 00:17:52,640 yesterday's ruling that this is not a good thing. 292 00:17:52,759 --> 00:17:55,519 Speaker 1: We want voters to be choosing. 293 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:59,640 Speaker 8: Their politicians, not politicians choosing their voters. 294 00:17:59,640 --> 00:18:01,119 Speaker 2: At well, I tend to agree with her on the 295 00:18:01,119 --> 00:18:04,240 fact that you don't want the politicians choosing their voters. 296 00:18:05,279 --> 00:18:08,960 But this and right now, you can see that with 297 00:18:09,440 --> 00:18:13,599 it started with Texas benefiting the Republicans, and then you 298 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:16,759 go to other states like California, where they're going to 299 00:18:16,839 --> 00:18:21,680 wipe out five Republican seats, they'll benefit the Democrats. And 300 00:18:21,759 --> 00:18:24,839 all of the pointy heads that study all of this say, 301 00:18:24,880 --> 00:18:29,000 by the time everybody's done, if Florida gets involved here, 302 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:33,240 which they probably will, that the redistricting in one state 303 00:18:33,319 --> 00:18:35,599 versus another, it's going to wind up to be a 304 00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:40,519 net zero, no advantage to either party. The problem with 305 00:18:40,640 --> 00:18:45,640 all this is you've got states like Virginia that just redrew, 306 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:48,599 and the voters vote voted for it, just redrew their map. 307 00:18:49,279 --> 00:18:53,359 They have eleven members of Congress. It was a six 308 00:18:53,559 --> 00:18:57,319 and five six Democrats, five Republicans, and now with the 309 00:18:57,359 --> 00:19:01,839 new map, it's going to be ten days Democrats, one Republican. 310 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:06,000 That doesn't represent For example, I think Donald Trump got 311 00:19:06,039 --> 00:19:10,519 forty percent of the vote in Virginia, but right now 312 00:19:10,559 --> 00:19:13,559 it's going to be ten percent of the people will 313 00:19:13,559 --> 00:19:19,000 be represented by a Demo, by a Republican. So yeah, 314 00:19:19,119 --> 00:19:23,559 jerry manning. Jerry mandering is crazy. It causes all kinds 315 00:19:23,559 --> 00:19:26,920 of problems. But people are squealing on the left about 316 00:19:26,960 --> 00:19:30,920 the decision yesterday. But listen to Harry Enton, the statistician, 317 00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:35,720 who says that they say, oh, this is going to 318 00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:38,359 be terrible because the Republicans are going to get an 319 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:45,119 advantage by basically forcing black votes into other districts than 320 00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:50,960 black majority. And the other thing that's very arrogant about 321 00:19:51,039 --> 00:19:54,559 this is they assume that black voters are going to 322 00:19:54,640 --> 00:19:59,759 vote for black people. That maybe probably makes sense, but 323 00:19:59,799 --> 00:20:02,519 that it's still I find it very arrogant. So here's 324 00:20:02,720 --> 00:20:06,359 here's airy Harry Enton talking about the fact that a 325 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:10,160 lot of blacks have gone Republican without the change of 326 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:10,640 a map. 327 00:20:10,839 --> 00:20:11,079 Speaker 1: Yeah. 328 00:20:11,119 --> 00:20:13,039 Speaker 9: I think what you're seeing right now in the numbers 329 00:20:13,119 --> 00:20:16,599 is President Trump and the Republican Party are chipping away 330 00:20:16,799 --> 00:20:19,559 at the long term advantage that Democrats have had with 331 00:20:19,599 --> 00:20:20,200 black voters. 332 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:21,960 Speaker 1: With African Americans. You can see it right here. 333 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:24,319 Speaker 9: Look Trump's approval among African Americans at this point in 334 00:20:24,440 --> 00:20:26,960 term one, he was a twelve percent. You know, he's 335 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:30,119 been losing ground with a lot of he's gaining He's 336 00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:33,400 gaining ground with African Americans. He's up to sixteen percent 337 00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:35,599 at this point. And you say, this isn't that big 338 00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:38,799 of a shift, but I will tell you Republicans absolutely 339 00:20:38,880 --> 00:20:41,920 love this shift that's going on because Democrats have had such. 340 00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:43,640 Speaker 1: A long term advantage. 341 00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:46,799 Speaker 9: The fact that he's actually gaining ground versus where he 342 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:50,599 was in term number one, this has major implications for 343 00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:53,519 elections down the line because Democrats, especially in a lot 344 00:20:53,519 --> 00:20:56,000 of these type races you talk about places like Georgia 345 00:20:56,119 --> 00:20:58,000 right down in the South, you see this type of 346 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:01,720 movement for Trump actually gaining ground have major ramifications and 347 00:21:02,039 --> 00:21:04,599 help put Republicans over the top and a number of 348 00:21:04,599 --> 00:21:06,279 Southern places in the midterm election. 349 00:21:06,559 --> 00:21:10,119 Speaker 2: So Trump has actually gained ground on support from African 350 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:14,480 Americans in an era which he is getting he's losing 351 00:21:14,519 --> 00:21:19,799 support overall. His approval ready just terrible, but not with 352 00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:21,119 Black Americans. 353 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:23,920 Speaker 1: This is absolutely part of a bigger trend. 354 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:28,720 Speaker 9: Donald Trump's Republican Party is absolutely gaining ground. Not just 355 00:21:28,839 --> 00:21:31,240 him gaining in terms of his approval rating, but look 356 00:21:31,279 --> 00:21:33,319 at the Party I D margin, because this, to me 357 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:36,400 was absolutely stunning. Look at this Party ID margin among 358 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:39,000 African Americans. At this point in Trump term number one, 359 00:21:39,039 --> 00:21:42,279 Democrats had a sixty three point advantage. That is absolutely 360 00:21:42,319 --> 00:21:44,359 fall and look at where it is now, a double 361 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:47,599 digit shift away. Democrats of course still have the advantage, 362 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:50,039 but it's a twelve point shift to the Republican Party. 363 00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:52,160 Speaker 1: And I look back through GALLUS records. 364 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:54,559 Speaker 9: They sent me their records, and this, in fact lead 365 00:21:54,599 --> 00:21:58,359 that Democrats have is actually smaller than any lead from 366 00:21:58,359 --> 00:22:02,319 two thousand and six to twenty twenty one. So Democrats alan, 367 00:22:02,519 --> 00:22:05,519 but again we're talking about chipping away. Republicans are chipping 368 00:22:05,519 --> 00:22:08,559 away at this long term advantage that Democrats have had 369 00:22:08,559 --> 00:22:11,119 among African Americans. We see it in terms of Trump's 370 00:22:11,119 --> 00:22:13,440 approval rating, and we even see it to a wider 371 00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:16,079 degree among the Party I D margin, where all of 372 00:22:16,119 --> 00:22:18,359 a sudden, there are a number of African Americans who 373 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:21,119 are walking away from the Democratic Party and a number 374 00:22:21,119 --> 00:22:24,039 of them who are walking into the Republican tent fascinating. 375 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:28,680 Speaker 2: Well, but don't. But that doesn't stop the squealing on 376 00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:33,559 people from acou and other places Karl Rove. Let's find 377 00:22:33,559 --> 00:22:36,680 out what Carl says, because he's a walking computer when 378 00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:39,640 it comes to politics. Well, first of all, in Louisiana, 379 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:42,559 there are two black majority districts. One of them is 380 00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:47,200 from New Orleans to Baton Rouge straight up the Mississippi River, 381 00:22:47,519 --> 00:22:52,359 and that's historically been a black district. They created because 382 00:22:52,359 --> 00:22:54,160 of the Voting Rights Act, they felt that they had 383 00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:57,759 to create a second one, this sixth district. It runs 384 00:22:57,799 --> 00:23:00,960 from Shreveport in the north west corner of the state 385 00:23:01,319 --> 00:23:04,359 and runs in a narrow sort of ribbon all the 386 00:23:04,359 --> 00:23:07,160 way across the state to New Orleans to close to 387 00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:10,559 New Orleans. And you look at it and you say, 388 00:23:10,599 --> 00:23:13,880 this is odd and riven. It is drawn for one 389 00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:16,319 reason and one reason only. That is to create a 390 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:19,640 majority black district. So you know, they literally at one 391 00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:22,359 point are like almost down to the size of a 392 00:23:22,519 --> 00:23:26,640 road connecting parts of this district. Alabama has historically had 393 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:30,480 Alabama six which has been dominated by Montgomery but in 394 00:23:30,599 --> 00:23:33,240 order to create a black majority district. This district runs 395 00:23:33,279 --> 00:23:36,680 from the nearly the western border of Alabama to the 396 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:40,839 eastern border of Alabama, making its way across the state. 397 00:23:41,079 --> 00:23:44,039 In order to grab black precincts in black counties. They 398 00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:47,400 created a new district to meet the voting rights requirement. 399 00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:50,000 And again it has it runs from the eastern part 400 00:23:50,039 --> 00:23:51,599 of this it should be the western part of the 401 00:23:51,599 --> 00:23:55,160 state up from Tuscaloosa and the so called Black Belt 402 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:57,759 to Birmingham, And if you look at it, it's like 403 00:23:57,839 --> 00:24:00,359 a giant finger poking north in order to grab enough 404 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:03,079 black voters in Birmingham to create a majority district. So 405 00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:06,039 these are drawn for one purpose and one purpose only, 406 00:24:06,039 --> 00:24:08,720 which is, let's create a district with a majority of 407 00:24:08,759 --> 00:24:11,319 black voters in it, and we can't under the Voting 408 00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:14,279 Rights Act. Then have what's called retrogression. We can't reduce 409 00:24:14,319 --> 00:24:17,240 the number of black voters. So each census were required 410 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:19,680 to do even more extraordinary things in order to keep 411 00:24:19,839 --> 00:24:22,319 the number of black voters in the majority. Think what 412 00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:24,240 we would be saying if we said, all right, you 413 00:24:24,319 --> 00:24:28,680 have to draw white majority districts, or Latino majority districts 414 00:24:28,759 --> 00:24:33,680 or Asian American majority districts and engaged in that kind 415 00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:36,720 of you know, sort of you know, race groupings in 416 00:24:36,799 --> 00:24:40,319 order to create districts dominated by one race. And going 417 00:24:40,319 --> 00:24:44,039 back to the Voting Rights Act nineteen sixty five, there 418 00:24:44,079 --> 00:24:46,319 were a number of Southern states that remain that were 419 00:24:46,319 --> 00:24:50,200 put under federal supervision regarding the way they handled elections 420 00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:54,359 because they did not want the racism that was taking 421 00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:58,519 place before to pop its head back up again. Those 422 00:24:59,079 --> 00:25:04,960 federal super vision rules mostly were removed, largely removed in 423 00:25:05,039 --> 00:25:08,400 twenty thirteen. Well, first of all, this is going to 424 00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:11,920 Most states have already set the elections, they've had their primaries, 425 00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:15,400 they've set the filing deadlines. The Alabama has already said, look, 426 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:17,599 we recognize that we've got to redo this, but we 427 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:19,200 cannot do it this year. We're going to do it 428 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:20,880 in the future. We're going to do it before the 429 00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:24,000 next election. Louisiana is thinking about trying to do this. 430 00:25:24,039 --> 00:25:25,720 We'll see if they're able to pull it off. The 431 00:25:25,759 --> 00:25:28,160 second thing I'd say is is that it increases the 432 00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:31,240 influence of black voters because no longer are they grouped 433 00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:33,480 together under the notion of the only way that you 434 00:25:33,519 --> 00:25:36,160 can elect somebody who can represent blacks is to have 435 00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:38,839 a majority of blacks in that district. Now you're going 436 00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:42,039 to have blacks that are in a in a district 437 00:25:42,039 --> 00:25:46,079 that has community of interest and is more compact, in 438 00:25:46,079 --> 00:25:48,039 which the both parties are going to say, we need 439 00:25:48,079 --> 00:25:51,160 to get inroads in that community or dominate that community 440 00:25:51,279 --> 00:25:53,039 in order to elect one of our own to the 441 00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:55,759 US Congress. So I see it just the opposite. Black 442 00:25:55,839 --> 00:25:58,359 voters are no longer being sort of segregated and put 443 00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:01,079 into a black district. They're now going to be part 444 00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:06,240 of a larger community of interest. This is southwestern Alabama, 445 00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:11,079 this is northwestern Louisiana. And as a result, the smart 446 00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:13,680 political candidates and the smart political parties are going to 447 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:16,680 be going after their votes. So it will change things, 448 00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:19,920 no question about it. And everybody will watch and see 449 00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:23,039 how the states behave and what's going to happen to 450 00:26:23,559 --> 00:26:30,160 minority majority areas. Meantime, John you who's a former assistant 451 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:34,559 Attorney General, had this comment about the change in the 452 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:37,400 ruling by the Supreme Court. 453 00:26:37,799 --> 00:26:40,720 Speaker 10: Unfortunately, this is President Obama again saying the sky is 454 00:26:40,759 --> 00:26:43,279 falling because of the Supreme Court, and because of this, 455 00:26:43,319 --> 00:26:46,039 we're going to have more racial divisions when actually, when 456 00:26:46,079 --> 00:26:48,440 you look at what the Court's trying to do is 457 00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:51,039 trying to end the use of race by the government 458 00:26:51,079 --> 00:26:53,480 in every field. This is a follow on to the 459 00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:55,880 Harvard case where the court said, stop using race when 460 00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:58,119 you pick who gets to go to college. Now the 461 00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:01,359 court saying, stop using race when the government decides how 462 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:05,000 to draw districts. Plus and Carl should get a law 463 00:27:05,039 --> 00:27:08,039 degree here because he hit on the Supreme Court's main point, 464 00:27:08,079 --> 00:27:11,680 which is it is offensive for the government to assume 465 00:27:11,759 --> 00:27:14,240 if we put a lot of blacks together, they're just 466 00:27:14,279 --> 00:27:16,559 going to want to vote for a black candidate. Why 467 00:27:16,559 --> 00:27:18,839 do we assume that people of the same of a 468 00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:21,400 race want to just vote for whoever is of their race, 469 00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:24,039 rather than who represents their interests or who they like 470 00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:27,880 better or worse. Second thing is the Court has said, 471 00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:30,480 now quite clearly, we want to get out of the 472 00:27:30,519 --> 00:27:34,759 business of reviewing gerrymandering. This follows on a case a 473 00:27:34,759 --> 00:27:36,359 few years ago where the Court said we're not going 474 00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:40,359 to review Republican versus Democrat Jemmy ferrymandering, and now we're 475 00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:44,240 going to tell the lower courts stop ordering states to 476 00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:47,160 increase the number of minority districts that we're getting out 477 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:48,000 of that business too. 478 00:27:48,079 --> 00:27:51,480 Speaker 2: Go back to the shooting at the White House correspondence dinner. 479 00:27:52,039 --> 00:27:56,720 Janine Bireau, US attorney for Washington, she was asked today 480 00:27:56,880 --> 00:28:00,799 about there's a lot of controversies about this. Imediately on 481 00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:06,720 Saturday night, the X and other social media sites were 482 00:28:06,799 --> 00:28:11,319 on fire with all kinds of controversies. It was fake, 483 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:13,200 it was made up, and so forth and so on. 484 00:28:13,599 --> 00:28:16,799 They can't figure out, and I can't figure out. You 485 00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:20,680 see the guy in the video running through the metal detector. 486 00:28:21,079 --> 00:28:24,759 There's only one that was there, but he ran through 487 00:28:24,799 --> 00:28:28,519 the magnetometer and he saw four or five of the 488 00:28:28,559 --> 00:28:31,359 officers pull their guns out and it looked like they 489 00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:35,559 were shooting at him, but he never got hit by 490 00:28:35,559 --> 00:28:39,559 a bullet. I'm wondering if they need to go back 491 00:28:39,599 --> 00:28:44,079 to the firing range and practice. If four or five 492 00:28:44,279 --> 00:28:47,559 police officers or Secret service people could not hit the 493 00:28:47,599 --> 00:28:51,319 guy and he wasn't that far away, I'm telling you 494 00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:56,240 they're poor shots. They need to be they need to 495 00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:59,440 be trained again. In any case, here's Janine Piro. 496 00:29:00,279 --> 00:29:02,839 Speaker 11: Well, I don't think there's any question but that Cole 497 00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:07,359 Allen was intending to fire that Mosburg, And what we 498 00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:10,000 do know is that he fired off that twelve gage 499 00:29:10,279 --> 00:29:14,400 shotgun one time. The cartridge was still in the weapon. 500 00:29:14,799 --> 00:29:17,279 He fired that gun in the direction of the Secret 501 00:29:17,319 --> 00:29:20,359 Service officer. And what we do know is that the 502 00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:25,319 Secret Service officer fired his weapon five times. And we 503 00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:29,200 know that based on the number of the bullets that 504 00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:31,880 were left in the weapon. We know it based on 505 00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:34,799 the fact that we found five areas consistent with being 506 00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:37,880 hit by a nine millimeter and we also know it 507 00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:40,839 as a result of the fact that there were so 508 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:46,759 many holes in the area that we knew were hit 509 00:29:46,839 --> 00:29:50,599 by that nine millimeter. So this Secret Service agent did 510 00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:54,519 not shoot himself. And you've got Cole Allen going there 511 00:29:54,559 --> 00:29:57,599 shooting off one round and I don't think there's any 512 00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:00,759 question of what happened here. We're waiting for the official 513 00:30:00,799 --> 00:30:04,359 ballistics test. But at the same time, we filed papers 514 00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:08,160 in court this morning for the detention hearing today indicating 515 00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:12,400 that this defendant was calculated, he was free meditated, He 516 00:30:12,519 --> 00:30:16,119 had every intention of killing the President and anyone who 517 00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:18,640 got in his way. That once we get into the 518 00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:21,799 grand jury, there will be many more charges. As you know, 519 00:30:21,839 --> 00:30:26,799 the complaint that's been filed is just a holding charge. 520 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:29,680 There will be a lot of testimony, there will be 521 00:30:29,759 --> 00:30:32,480 many more charges, but these are some of the most 522 00:30:32,519 --> 00:30:36,079 serious charges in the Federal Code. One of them has 523 00:30:36,119 --> 00:30:40,759 a mandatory minimum of ten years at his consecutive The 524 00:30:40,799 --> 00:30:43,559 other is life in prison for the intent to assassinate 525 00:30:43,599 --> 00:30:46,240 the president. We are now coming through all of the 526 00:30:46,279 --> 00:30:51,000 digital evidence, all of the footprints in terms of his 527 00:30:51,599 --> 00:30:55,839 social media and any other communications he's had to find 528 00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:58,720 out whether or not he had the intent to and 529 00:30:58,759 --> 00:31:01,960 whether we can prove the intent to kill additional people 530 00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:07,799 by name based upon what we determine from the investigation. Well, 531 00:31:07,839 --> 00:31:11,640 I think that what has happened is that people, especially 532 00:31:11,759 --> 00:31:15,359 younger people, have been you know, kind of brought up 533 00:31:15,359 --> 00:31:17,559 to believe that the only way there's going to be 534 00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:22,079 social change is through political violence. And it's not unusual, 535 00:31:22,319 --> 00:31:25,200 I think, to expect that there were going that there 536 00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:30,160 are reactions like this based upon the outrageous rhetoric that's 537 00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:33,319 going on. If people tell you that the President of 538 00:31:33,319 --> 00:31:37,119 the United States is Hitler, he's a Nazi, he's a terrorist, 539 00:31:37,519 --> 00:31:39,720 sooner or later, people are going to start to buy that. 540 00:31:39,799 --> 00:31:41,279 Speaker 1: You cultivate a seed, and. 541 00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:43,839 Speaker 11: You know, sooner or later, there's going to be something 542 00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:46,400 that grows from that sea, and I think that the 543 00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:48,839 only way to stop that is to take sure and 544 00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:51,559 make sure that these people are prosecuted and that there 545 00:31:51,599 --> 00:31:54,319 is accountability. Law and order has to be in place 546 00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:56,559 or this thing will be out of control. 547 00:31:56,880 --> 00:31:59,440 Speaker 2: Well again, Jennine Pirou pointed out the fact that they've 548 00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:01,720 got bull of holes all over the place, but nobody 549 00:32:01,759 --> 00:32:04,960 got hit. At least the suspect didn't get hit. So 550 00:32:05,319 --> 00:32:10,880 I'm serious. I find that shocking that professional police officers 551 00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:15,279 can't hit a target that close. With so many of 552 00:32:15,319 --> 00:32:19,839 them shooting multiple rounds, not a one got him. Meantime, 553 00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:23,319 so she was being asked about all things regarding the shooting, 554 00:32:24,039 --> 00:32:28,240 but then she was asked at the end about Jay 555 00:32:28,319 --> 00:32:30,799 Powell because she was the one who was given the 556 00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:35,319 job by the President to investigate Jerome Powell for the 557 00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:40,440 cost overruns at the Federal Reserve building. Well, a lot 558 00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:43,480 of people on Wall Street thought that Jay Powell is safe, 559 00:32:44,079 --> 00:32:48,599 that the FED dropped their charges. Not exactly. She's the 560 00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:52,799 US Attorney for Washington, d C. Listened to her, She's 561 00:32:52,839 --> 00:32:56,240 still looking for a way to prosecute him. 562 00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:59,039 Speaker 11: Oh, I made a decision a long time ago, there 563 00:32:59,079 --> 00:33:03,680 was no question, but we will appeal Judge Bolsburg's quashing 564 00:33:03,839 --> 00:33:08,599 of our subpoenas requesting information. You've got billions of dollars 565 00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:12,279 in cost overruns on a very small project. And when 566 00:33:12,319 --> 00:33:14,839 a federal judge believes that he can stand in front 567 00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:17,119 of the door of the grand jury and prevent a 568 00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:20,599 prosecutor from going in, when the United States Supreme Court 569 00:33:20,599 --> 00:33:24,519 has said a prosecutor can go in on suspicions or rumor, 570 00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:27,759 we've got to appeal that decision, and we will appeal 571 00:33:27,799 --> 00:33:31,400 that decision. We await the decision of the Inspector General 572 00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:35,559 of Michael Horowitz, and based upon that decision, we will 573 00:33:35,599 --> 00:33:37,160 then decide what we're going to do. 574 00:33:37,279 --> 00:33:40,960 Speaker 2: It brings up Kevin Walsh. He did pass the Banking Committee, 575 00:33:41,119 --> 00:33:43,720 what was it yesterday or the day before, So now 576 00:33:43,759 --> 00:33:47,079 it goes to the full Senate, and again Tom tell 577 00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:49,400 Us is that he's going to block Kevin Walsh from 578 00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:53,640 being the new FED chairman if there is an investigation 579 00:33:53,759 --> 00:33:57,880 that hasn't been squashed. So it sounds like it hasn't 580 00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:01,319 been squashed. And as a result, who knows if the 581 00:34:01,359 --> 00:34:04,000 Senate's going to go ahead and give thumbs down for 582 00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:06,799 Kevin worsh being the next FED chairman. By the way, 583 00:34:06,839 --> 00:34:11,000 going back to Janine pirot ranting about how there must 584 00:34:11,079 --> 00:34:14,039 be justice and we can't allow this, and well, guess 585 00:34:14,119 --> 00:34:20,239 what there have been. While John Hinckley tried to assassinate 586 00:34:20,679 --> 00:34:24,480 Ronald Reagan, that was in nineteen eighty one. He was 587 00:34:24,599 --> 00:34:30,039 released from custody in twenty sixteen. He's still alive and well, 588 00:34:30,079 --> 00:34:33,239 he's seventy years old, but John Hinckley was released, so 589 00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:38,280 they don't keep him for life without the possibility of parole. 590 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:43,760 Sarah Jane Moore, she tried to kill President Gerald Ford 591 00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:49,039 in San Francisco in nineteen seventy five. She was released 592 00:34:49,039 --> 00:34:54,280 from prison in two thousand and seven. She's died since then, 593 00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:59,320 so she's gone. And then in Squeaky from who in 594 00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:03,920 nineteen s seventy five, two weeks before San Francisco and Sacramento, 595 00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:08,639 she tried to kill President Ford. He had two assassination 596 00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:14,840 attempts in two weeks, both in Northern California. Well, Squeaky 597 00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:18,639 got out in two thousand and nine, so she's free. 598 00:35:18,679 --> 00:35:23,519 She's seventy seven. So this business about cracking down and 599 00:35:24,199 --> 00:35:26,679 the wheels of justice and all that. I think they 600 00:35:26,679 --> 00:35:31,119 should all still be in prison my personal opinion. All right, 601 00:35:31,199 --> 00:35:34,199 let's see what the markets did today. First, the markets 602 00:35:34,199 --> 00:35:37,119 had to digest a little bit of economic news. We 603 00:35:37,199 --> 00:35:43,679 got our second We got our first quarter GDP, and 604 00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:50,440 this was up two percent, good solid growth first quarter 605 00:35:50,639 --> 00:35:55,199 of this year. Much better than a half a percent 606 00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:58,599 growth in the fourth quarter of last year. So half 607 00:35:58,599 --> 00:36:02,360 a percent then two percent growth in the first quarter. 608 00:36:05,079 --> 00:36:07,239 A lot of the spending in the fourth quarter was 609 00:36:07,519 --> 00:36:11,360 consumer spending especially was down because of the government shut down. 610 00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:15,800 The Personal Consumption Expenditures index, this is one of the 611 00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:21,239 Fed's favorite things to follow, personal consumptions. What is it 612 00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:24,440 you're actually buying as opposed to a market basket that 613 00:36:24,519 --> 00:36:30,039 makes up the GDP. Personal consumption expenditures up three and 614 00:36:30,159 --> 00:36:33,559 a half percent in the month of March. Much hotter 615 00:36:34,079 --> 00:36:39,320 inflation than had been expected. So we got growth, strong growth, 616 00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:44,400 and we got strong inflation. But Wall Street really really 617 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:49,519 seemed to like it. The Dow Jones industrials up seven 618 00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:54,039 hundred and ninety to close it forty nine thousand and 619 00:36:54,079 --> 00:36:57,639 six point fifty two. The S and P up seventy three, 620 00:36:58,119 --> 00:37:01,519 the NASDAC up two hundred nine nineteen, the price of 621 00:37:01,559 --> 00:37:06,320 gold up sixty eight dollars to four thy six twenty nine. 622 00:37:07,159 --> 00:37:10,239 And oil it actually went down a. 623 00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:11,000 Speaker 1: Little bit today. 624 00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:15,119 Speaker 2: It started higher, finished down a little more than a dollar. 625 00:37:15,559 --> 00:37:19,760 West Texas Intermediate one barrel of oil one hundred and 626 00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:23,360 five dollars. So that's it for today. Thank you for 627 00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:27,079 coming by. We will be back again tomorrow. I'll see 628 00:37:27,119 --> 00:37:27,440 you think