Speaker 1: And hello, how are you on this Tuesday, the ninth
day of June, year of all over, twenty twenty six.
My name is Tom Sullivan. We are well. We've got
a lot of the reactions to the NBA game last
night where the President went, we've got ice is saying
they're going to start doing some work in New York City.
So the New York officials, the governor, the mayor, everybody's
having a cow We've got the big primary is going today,
and Maine is the one that's getting all the attention,
but Nevada and North Theoda, uh, South Carolina. I believe
we're all having this four of them today. So they're
going through the process of picking their their candidates. But
the war, you know, it's it's gotten to the point
where the President keeps talking about the fact that and
he always got a couple of days, a couple of days.
He always puts a timeline on it, put the clock
on it. Ah, Yeah, we're gonna hear it. In a
couple of days, we're gonna have We're gonna have. This
gonna be great. They're gonna give us everything. Today he said,
we're going to that total victory. It'll be announced in
two weeks and then he also said some other dates
about various things. So that's before the word came out
that a US helicopter was shot down by one of
the Iranian drones over the Strait of Horror Moves. The
helicopter went down into the water next to Oman, so
they didn't get very far, but they got over by
that point and the rescue, there was a lot of questions.
They weren't telling us what it was that all we
knew was a helicopter went down. Yeah, it was shot
down by the Iranians. That has changed everything. Even the
President came out today and made it very clear that
this was going to have to be responded to. And
this is the guy that will not do any sort
of military response. But the President said that the US
must respond after the US Apache helicopter was shot down
by the Iranians. So now the question is what is
he going to do? First and foremost, the two pilots.
It's only a two man helicopter, the gunner and the pilot,
and they both were rescued. And that's a story in
itself because how they were rescued was by I'm not
sure if it was an underwater drone. But it was
in the water. No, it was not involving any crew
on this boat that we sent out, and the two
pilots hopped on to this drone boat that we have
and that drone boat brought them back to safety. So
they're fine. They were sent for medical checks, but they
are fine. But the President said the US will respond.
The pilots are safe and uninjured, but that the US,
he wrote, must of necessity respond to this attack. So
the Iranian Foreign minister said, foreign forces in proximity to
our territory are at constant risk of account on account
of their own human air plane accidents and potentially being
caught in a crossfire. Now this they shot this down,
and Mark Theeson was asked about that going, well, maybe
they were maybe they were accidentally, you know, maybe they
didn't mean to shoot them down. Mark Theeson shot that down.
Speaker 2: Or accidentally fire on US bases in Iraq or accidentally,
I mean they could wait in deniring it to be
taking target practice at US. For weeks, We've just been
stopping the attacks. This is the this is the first
one that's gotten through. This is not just a single
you know, incident in a sea of tranquility. This is
an incident in a sea of escalating attacks, not to
mention them working with HESBLA to attack Israel. The Iranians
are telling us where they stand. When someone tells you
where you where they stand, take their words seriously. And
here's the thing President Trump when he calls it. When
he started the ceasefire, he was about ten to fourteen
days away from finishing his target list that that he
had given to General Admiral Cooper. The tiget list has
expanded a little now because the Iranians took a bunch
of the ballistic missiles that they had buried and dug
them out so that they could use them again. Finish
the target list, Go out and finish finish Operation Epic Fury,
which was stopped at about at about the twenty yard line.
Take it into the into the finish line. And now,
since you've achieved your objectives, then once they've been disarmed
of all that capability, open up the straight by force,
and then over time hand that off to an Iranian
to an international coalition, and then arm and train the
Iranian people to take down this regime.
Speaker 1: I'm right there with mark it. Take down the regime.
You're going to have to you can't trust them. But
for some reason, the president, even though they shot down
this helicopter and the President said we're going to have
to respond, he refuses to throw out the possibility of
a peaceful cease fire. Back to Mark, incredibly patient.
Speaker 2: He's also been trying to do the same thing with
Vladimir Putin and Ukraine and it hasn't come to anything.
The problem is, as great a deal maker as Donald
Trump is, you have to have a negotiating partner who's
willing to make a deal with you. And in Russia
he doesn't seem to have that, though maybe that's changing.
And in Iran it's very clear that he doesn't have
a negotiating partner because there's no Delsi Rodriguez is president.
These people are these are these are these people there's
and you know, when you're talking about moderates versus it's
like saying that we killed Hitler and now we've got
the really bad Nazis, or now we've got the moderate Nazis.
There are no moderate Nazis, and they're no moderate Iranian
radical Islamic radicals, and so you have to finish them
militarily and quite frankly, what what's dangerous for the Republican
Party going into the midterms is having this muddled situation
going into the midterms. It has to end decisively in
some way, either a deal that's really good or it
has to be ended militarily, and it's got to be happen.
Speaker 1: Six. Yeah, And I know a lot of you are
convinced that I'm just a warhawk. I'm not. I don't
I don't want war. I don't like war. But if
you're going to start a war, you better do it
and do it right, finish the job. And he's not
willing to do that. Marine General Arnold Punero weighs in, well, Iran.
Speaker 3: Has committed a mortal sin here and they're going to
pay the price. The President had been showing remarkable restraint
the last couple of days. Is Iran was attacking Kuwait,
as they were attacking Israel, as they were stirring the
pot with the Huties and Hasballah, and now the President
basically correctly. First of all, thanks to our great rescue
capability in the new technology, our pilots are safe. But
the President, i think, would have our military and they'll
be ready to go they're ready now go after military targets,
which would include command and control, the military leadership, their
legitimate combatants, other high value military targets. So I fully
expect the military already knows they have what we call
in Iran a target rich environment. The president has been
very remarkable in trying to keep the peace negotiations on track.
This is a huge, as I said, immortal send by
Iran in that regard.
Speaker 1: Oh, he was asked, is there anything that cannot be
on the table or is everything everything on the table?
And this is the general's response.
Speaker 3: Should be on the table. It should always be on
the table. We never signal to our adversaries you know
what we're going to do or not do. But my
point would be, and God bless and thank god our
pilots are safe. But again it's a mortal sin. They
tried to kill our pilots. Just like you said, we
have tremendous economic pressure on a Ran right now because
of the way that we are, you know, doing the
blockade as well as they're not letting oil flow through
the straits our moves, so that economic pressure is there.
I would think the appropriate situation would be a legitimate
military target but certainly much more damaging than just going
after one helicopter.
Speaker 1: So the general went on to talk about the fact
that there are areas that you want to be careful of.
One of them would be you don't want to take
out oil production that would drive the price of oil
worldwide higher.
Speaker 3: Well, I would say that's another reason you probably would
not want to go after the oil infrastructure and the
energy infrastructure. If we did that, obviously you'd see those
prices to start to spike in a big way. And
you know, even though I think this is a huge
setback because of Iran on the negotiating track, I think
the President will do what's appropriate in terms of the
military response, teach them a lesson, for sure, and try
to get the negotiation back on track. We certainly want
to see that the oil infrastructure and the energy start
to flow, because that's important, not just to the world economy,
and you know everyone's concerned about that. But on the
other hand, we can't let them, and I know the
President is not going to let them get away with this.
Speaker 1: Well, all these generals say the same thing. I trust
the President won't let them get away with it. I
don't know. I don't understand Donald Trump's thinking. He had them,
he had the military going to beat the band. They
got about seventy percent of their of their mission completed
when he stopped them cold in their tracks. Why does
he not want to finish the job? I do not
understand that. Robert Greenway, who is a national security guy
over at Heritage, had this to say.
Speaker 4: Look, I think the problem is twofold, but the solution
is either going to come from diplomatic means, which obviously
the president, vice president and the team would prefer heading
into the midterm election with shipping prices up one hundred
nine percent per containers in fuel of fifty percent. The
reality is I think it's going to require yet more
application in military force.
Speaker 5: There are two problems.
Speaker 4: There isn't really a negotiating partner on the Iranian side
that is willing or able ten Iranian violations since the
cease fire on the sixteenth. There have been fifty five
hundred rockets fired by his Bulla since the cease fire
on the eighth, and under those conditions, I don't think
they'd honor the terms, however agreed upon. And in the end,
I think it's going to be the elimination of the
capability that's required. Well, I think General Keane's comments are
exactly right. I think they are playing for time. The
mid term they think applies unique pressure against the president.
I think their calculations are wrong because their economy is
essentially dead. We're just waiting for the funeral to be announced,
and that of course puts pressure on what's left of
the political leadership, and the RGC are fragmented, and I
don't think they're in charge entirely of the running insistent.
So I do think that the president's right to achieve
a diplomatic breakthrough. I don't know that it'll be a breakthrough,
but it might allow for a slight alleviation of the
pressures and the economic difficulties. But ultimately, I think there's
probably only one answer. We're headed to to eliminate the
irunning threat once and for all.
Speaker 1: Okay, so there's another advisor that is saying eliminate the threat.
I mean, in other words, eliminate the regime. There isn't
any other answer to this. What we hear from the
President is he's close, He's got a deal, will only
be a couple of days. I've got a couple of
things to play for you here. One of them is
he says we're going to have total victory that will
announce in two weeks. Another stop with the media, he
talked about it'll be two or three days. He's thirty
seven times. If somebody's been counting this, he said, we're
only a couple of days away. Thirty seven times over
seventy eight days. Nobody's believing him anymore. I don't know
how he thinks, but it's weird to me. Michael Weiss
from The Insider Jen.
Speaker 6: I mean, this is what he does, right, How do
you declare, say you're going to declare total victory if
you're still in the process of negotiation. They're giving us everything. Really,
what are they giving you? Are they going to leave
the strait of hormous? Are they going to release their
control over it?
Speaker 4: Which is the common sense tells you that's just not realistic.
Speaker 6: Look, I think there's another component to this. I mean,
your correspondent just amply laid out all of the kind
of military dynamics. We're in a state of flux. It's
not quite war, but it's not quite peace either. We're
going to see these incidents so long as there's a
naval blockade and the United States is interdicting tanker flow
and so on. But there's an information campaign being waged
here and I think the Iranians know that and they're
playing it very well. What happened over the weekend, they
launched a rock at a missile at Israel, the first
time since this one hundred day ceasefire has been imposed.
They did this because of the bombardment campaign Hasrael's been
waging in Lebanon or so.
Speaker 1: They say.
Speaker 6: They did this with two things in mind. Number one,
we still have missiles to fire at Israel. Number two,
we want to see Donald Trump's reaction to this, and
what was the reaction.
Speaker 1: He journalists called him up on the phone.
Speaker 6: You can apparently call the President of United States on
his cell phone very easily, and he said, I've told
the Israelis don't retaliate. The Iranians got their shot off, like,
let's just put it to bed right In a way,
he was protecting, yes, condemning Netsan Yahu, who wanted to
go all in a massive retaliation, hitting energy, infrastructure and
so on. What happened is natiaw It's spent an hour
on the phone with Trump saying I have to retaliate.
Israel cannot abide by an attack by a terrorist regime
without a retaliation. So Trump said, fine, do what you
have to do, but keep it limited. Right, So the
Iranians are reading this as daylight between the United States
and Israel. I was talking to some Israel Israeli security
analysts and former intelligence officials, one of whom said, this
is a quote total strategic disaster for US because we
went to war with the United States thinking this was
a grand opportunity to cut the head off the snake, right,
getting rid of the Iranian regime. That was going to
be the end of the October seventh Wars that Israel's
been waging for the last several years. We saw in
Donald Trump the most pro Israel president we've ever had.
But now it's like a pair of golden handcuffs are
on our hands. Right, we cannot act in a sovereign,
autonomous manner because the United States is dictating the terms
of what we can do. For the first time in
the past, Israel, we just do something the US would say, please,
don't do it, they do it and say sorry, we
have our own affairs in this neck of the woods
and We're just going to carry on with our business
and you can't tell us what to do as a
sovereign country. Now, Donald Trump says, I call the shots.
I'm daddy, Netaya, who must listen to me. This is
not where bb Netanya who wants to be right now?
Speaker 1: So now the question is is the United States and
Israel are we going to break apart? Because we were
supposed to go in as partners and now Trump is
telling net and yah who what to do? And net
and Yah who is not going to stand for that?
Speaker 6: I don't see a breaking point. I mean, the Israelis
see the United States, and quite rightly as their strongest,
most important ally. They can't afford or to decouple the
way that certain European countries might flirt with that idea.
Now that the US has basically declared war on NATO
and the European Union in various manners. But I do
think that they're beginning to realize that they were a
little too hubristic, a little high on their own supply.
I mean they had massive operational victories, I mean decimating Hisbola,
killing the Secretary General Hassan Maasrala. They think that they
have strategically defeated Hamas and Gaza in spite of the
horrific toll in that area. And for them, as I said,
getting rid of the Iranian regime was I mean, the
coupdi grap If they could do this, in their minds,
there would be equilibrium in the region. Now, there have
been positive aspects for Israel in this war. Number one,
their relationship with the UAE has grown incredibly close. I mean,
I've been talking to Arab governments and some of the
advisors to those governments who say, rather like the Israelis
are now saying about the United States, they feel like
they were sold a bill of goods by Washington. They
thought Donald Trump went to war, he should protect them,
He should have protected us, He should have imposed these
sort of anti drone measures, this integrated defense. As your
correspondent said, it's Kuwait, Saudi, you know, the Arab Gulf
states that get pounded first when Iran wants to retaliate.
So they're quite upset. But relationship with Israel and the
UAE has grown quite strong because the Israelis to provide
an iron dome intelligence sharing. So I think the new
reality of the region has yet to be written, But
there's some interesting dynamics that play here.
Speaker 1: I think his comments were salient. The relationships of the
countries in the Middle East are changing all because of this. Well,
we should have gone in and finished all of this
what would have been done by the end of April,
but instead of being dragged out, and Donald Trump is
happily going along with dragging it out. Meantime, oil and gas,
we have not solved that problem, have we. The straight
of horror moves is still closed. Michael Summer is the
head of the American Petroleum Institute, and he's saying for now, oh,
we are lucky that the prices aren't much higher, but
stand by because they could break very quickly before the
Summer's out.
Speaker 7: Well, first of all, we're in month three of a
shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz. That means about twenty
percent of the world's flow of oil has been essentially
shut down for over three months. The reason we haven't
seen a significant increase in gasoline prices is because of
American production here in the United States. It is because
that we produce more than thirteen million barrels of oil
every single day that the United States has been relatively
insulated from the shock that we've seen elsewhere throughout the world.
Speaker 1: One of the big concerns now is about inventory drawdowns
that the oil companies are drawing down their inventories and
the Strategic Petroleum Reserve not only here, but other countries
being drawn down as well to very low levels. So well,
back to Michael Summers about the draw downs, what's going
to happen with that?
Speaker 7: Very inventory draws are significant. We're seeing significant inventory draws,
particularly in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, but you're also seeing
draws in commercial inventories as well throughout the world. This
should be very concerning to every American consumer because as
those inventories go down and production isn't increased, you're going
to start seeing a significant impact at the pump. That's
going to happen over time. But again it's because of
American production that we haven't seen those same price surges
that you've seen in other parts of the world. We're
raising alarm bells right now. We're at about a three
hundred and fifty million barrels left in the Strategic Patroleum Reserve.
You have to have about twenty percent of that left
for it to be operational. For our system to operate.
So we're getting to levels where we're starting to be concerned.
I will say, though, you're starting to see production increase,
not just in the United States, but in other places
as well. We're seeing some green shoots in the in
the oil patch. Rig counts have been going up consistently
week on week. You're seeing more production, potential production in
a last in the Permian Basin and in other parts
of the United States as well as a consequence of
higher prices. But consumers should be very concerned that as
inventories continue to draw down. I'll give you a great
example of this. We've seen already seen a draw of
gasoline inventories of thirty eight million barrels. That is almost
the entire amount of the inventory that we use in
the summer driving season. So we're starting to get very concerned.
The only thing that we can do in the short
term to fix this problem is to get the straight
open as quickly as possible.
Speaker 1: Okay, so we are getting draw downs and you're raising
alarm bells. Why have the prices stayed fairly tame.
Speaker 7: Are still very concerned about what those inventories are. But
there are a couple of key reasons why you haven't
seen the shock that I think anybody would have anticipated
if you'd shut down the Strait of Hormuz for three months.
There are a couple of things going on here. First
of all, China has cut their oil imports by fifty
percent since the beginning of this crisis. They have tremendous
strategic petroleum reserves themselves. One actually knows what that number is,
but they think it's over a billion barrels of strategic
petroleum reserve in China. So China has essentially left significant
amounts of oil on the market that they previously had
been importing. That's one key reason. So you don't truly
know how much oil is out there right now. So
you've also seen a significant demand repression going on in
Southeast Asia in particular, so they're putting in rationing in place.
They're telling people not to go to work, so their
energy use is going down also. So it's really an
issue of we didn't know how much inventory was out there,
China not importing as much as they previously had, and
rationing going on throughout the rest of the world. You're
not seeing it here in the United States. Again, that's
a reflection of increased American production.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, but pross your fingers that they solve whatever
it is they need to solve before the petroleum miss
who says, we're going to see much much a shock
in higher prices, so be prepared. Meantime's go up to
Maine where they have the primary. There's four primaries today,
but the big one that is everybody's paying attention to
is this Graham Platner guy. And it's interesting to watch
because there's a question about character and morality and in
the same paragraph with politics, and sadly those don't go together.
They used to years ago, but now morality and politics.
Why people laugh about that, But it's being brought up
because Graham Plattner is a guy who has had lots
of morality problems. But here is Rocanna, and then Bernie
Sanders and then finally aoc Here you have a case
of someone who had a dark chapter in his life
was in coxsic. Relationships, and the main voters are saying, look,
let's give him some grace.
Speaker 5: What I do know is.
Speaker 7: That there are people in the United States Senate right
now who are not saints.
Speaker 5: Should he be the nominee?
Speaker 2: I think we are all very committed in making sure
that there's a Democratic majority in the Senate.
Speaker 1: So there's some truth isms in all of that. Roe
Connor was right about, you know, maybe people want to
give the guy a second chance. It's been more than
two And then Bernie, he's so right. He says there
are people in the US Senate that are not saints,
no kidding, and AOC is just being realistic saying we
just want to make sure the Democrats control the United
States Senate. So it's coming down to morality versus politics.
Josh Gotheimer from New Jersey Democrat, though he still doesn't
like Graham Plattner.
Speaker 5: No, what I would suggest is that grand Platner get
off if he wins to the which I assume he
will because there's no one actively campaigning against him, that
he get off the ballot and let another Democrats step
in at the main Democratic Party puts somebody else in.
I mean, if this were in Jersey and you had
a candidate who abused women obviously has a Nazi tattoo
that now it's clear that he knew was a Nazi tattoo,
not to mention many of his other lies and his
comments and extremist comments pro hamas a terrorist organization and
other things of that nature. He should get off the ballot,
and Jersey would throw him off the ballot or bury
him under the meatal lands. I mean, I don't understand
how somebody like this is going to represent our party,
and I think the best actually will be for him
to leave and get somebody else who's qualified onto the ballot.
Speaker 1: I thought it was kind of funny. I know he
wasn't trying to be funny, but that was a very
mob type of thing. We either throw him off the
battle or bury him under the meadowlands. You know, that's
where they think Jimmy hoff is buried. But that's another
whole statement. So there's a political commentator on MS now
he very much Democrat. His name is Solon Kana Kannan
Young's and he brings up the whole question about wait
a minute, you can't all of a sudden be moral
and then all of a sudden not care about it.
Just here he is.
Speaker 8: It's such a great question. I mean, this race in
Maine has almost become sort of a litmus test for
whether this kind of personal baggage, these kinds of controversies
and arguments about sort of the moral authority.
Speaker 1: Still carry weight with voters.
Speaker 8: Now, as my colleagues have done reporting to get the
reactions to voters reactions to these stories and reports about
Grand Platner, some voters would argue that actually there is
still a case for moral authority here and that's and
then they point to the morality of trying to beat
Donald Trump, right and sort of what they would describe
as the threat that Trump's poses to their way of living.
That being said, the Democratic Party has has a challenge here.
You look at a race like that, the one tell
Rico is running in Texas right now, and that is
a campaign that very much is based on that sort
of moral authority that we're talking about here. And then
on this in Maine, you essentially have elected officials saying
that Grant Platner has moved on and hoping that voters
move on too. That could be even more difficult when
you look at a general election rather than the primary,
a general election where Platner is going to need some
independent voters.
Speaker 1: And he brought up Texas about Tallarico. Taller Rico is
a seminarian and he is very very much a religious man,
and he's running against Ken Paxson, who is anything but
has all kinds of morality problems in his past. So
what's going to happen there is the Democrats are going
to be talking about is the thing and character counts.
But then you go to Maine and say, well, I
guess it doesn't really count that much. We're willing to
forgive him. So it's not just on the Democrats. I mean,
I go back to well, Bill Clinton was a classic example.
But people will forgive somebody because of their moral errors
if it helps their political messaging. They've done it time
and time and time again. Some of the others today. Oh,
there was an interesting piece written in the Washington Post
yesterday by Platner's campaign manager, and she said, once she
found out about who he really was, and she has
the same exact disagreement, she resigned from the campaign, same
as Ram Emmanuel told us yesterday. It wasn't about all
the barious sexting and everything else. It was about he
lies about everything, He has no faccent, he has no integrity,
and she says, I can't work for this guy. In
South Carolina, Lindsey Graham has some competition with a guy
who's a Republican going against Lindsey Graham. I think Lindsay's
way ahead in the polls. Nancy Mace, congresswoman from South Carolina,
she is not running for reelection, she's running for governor.
But there are five other Republicans running for governor in
South Carolina too, so Nancy Mace has her political work
cut out for her. And since she's not running for
reelection in the House, her open seat in the primary
in South Carolina has seventeen candidates are running for the
open seat in South Carolina. So we'll have all the
results tomorrow, I know. And they bring up California for
a minute, because everybody's jumping up and down going about
the fact that, oh, there must be a rigged election
in California, and I maybe I'm not willing to say
it's not possible, but I told you yes, they you know,
Spencer Platt is now out, he's number three, and Karen
Bass is going to go against a Democrats socialist in
the general election in November. And people are going, oh,
Spencer Platt, he couldn't have lost. It's impossible. I'm thinking
there's only fifteen percent of registered voters that live in
Los Angeles are Republican if I mean to me, it's
I would have thought that he would have lost, and
lost by quite a margin. He did better than a
lot of people thought. I mean, if if he won,
I would have said it was rigged because they don't
vote for Republicans in Los Angeles. They just don't. But
people are going, oh, he must it must have been much,
it's been cheating. I'm thinking no, if take a look
at the statistics, and I know, when when your guy loses,
people yell it's been rigged. But if your guy wins, somehow,
it's not rigged. But I'm telling you again, I was
watching this Spencer Platt race, and if he won or
came in at least two for the runoff, I would
have thought, oh, somebody rigged that, because there's no way
that a Republican would would have any sort of support
in Los Angeles or in California as far as that goes.
So I wish Steve Hilton he's still in the race.
I wish him all the luck in the world, but
he's going to need it. In a state like California,
they don't vote for Republicans. To want to talk about
the NBA game last night, Man, that was a lot
of hype. So the New York Knicks VERSU since the
San Antonio Spurs are in the championship playoffs, and New
York went to San Antonio one game one, one game two.
The game came back to New York for two nights
last night and then tomorrow night, and last night san
Antonio won. Let's score one fifteen I think, yeah, one
fifteen to one to eleven. So it was a good
close game, and the President attended and it caused just
I mean, presidents come to New York fairly often, and
the New York PD has it down to where they
try to keep the traffic congestion that's already bad. They
try to minimize the problems of the president's visit on traffic.
But no, they shut down five blocks north, five blocks south,
and blocks east and west of the of the Madison
Square Garden. Jo. It was a nightmare. But anyway, the
President gets in there, he goes into the owner's booth.
I never really looked up to see that, but I
guess there's one there, and so he goes in there
and the crowd boos, and then they start on the
jumbo tron. They started the national anthem and it's playing along,
and then they flash up a photo, a live shot
of Trump in the owner's box, and the crowd was
so predictable that the crowd would boo him. Again, New
York is a Democrat town. It has been for a
long long time. Yes, Rudy got elected, but that was
because of a horrible mayor that they had before, General Dinkins. So,
I mean, it's happened, but Donald Trump is not popular
in New York City. And I knew that they would
be booing him because, first of all, that's what sports
audiences do. But anyway, they booed and the president after
after the game, he's out at the airport to get
back on air Force. We want to go down to Washington.
This is this is what he really said. It was
certainly amazing.
Speaker 5: It was.
Speaker 1: It was I think mostly cheers.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 1: It was loud, and it was very enthusiastic. He said
that mostly cheers. I don't know. Maybe he has a
hearing problem. I'm not sure, but in any case, no,
it was. It wasn't even close to Jersey. It was
a long, loud booing of But again, is anybody surprised,
and it's kind of what sports fans do around politicians anyway.
But one guy, Stephen A. Smith, who kind of is
dipping his toe into politics. He was ramping about the
president going to the game last night.
Speaker 9: You saw Willis Reed come out of the tunnel with
seventy You saw Walt Clive Fraser and do what he
did in game seven it's seventy three. You saw Jemi
West get set told he was twenty six and a
Knicks fan. But you're gonna sit up here and show
up tonight at the expense of thousands upon thousands.
Speaker 1: Of New York Nick fans.
Speaker 9: Why why you know what, It's ridiculous and it's selfish
and somebody needs to say so. I'm saying it. This
ain't politics. It has nothing to do with politics. It
was about New York Knicks, you know, I said, and
the momentum that they're riding and anything that disrupts it.
If it causes the New York Knicks to win, to
lose tonight, I'm blaming him. I'm blaming the President of
the United States. I'm gonna stay on that. I'm gonna
stay on that, and damn it, I hope the GOP
lose votes because of it. If we lose tonight. I'm
gonna be against them all, all of them. I'm telling
you that right now. You better not lose the night's game.
We better not lose the ninth game. You under say
what I'm saying. We bet I've been I've been fair
minded down the middle as an independent for the long time.
Speaker 1: Well, they lost what fifteen to one to eleven, and
so the next game is tomorrow night at the Garden.
So we'll see if Donald Trump was a Jenks and
changed the pace of the Knicks or what if they
lose again? So stephen Ah who rants if a cloud
goes by? Was all. I think he likes Trump, but
he just had a ramp because that's what he does.
All right, let's see what Wall Street did today. Well,
it was mixed. It was a mixed market in the
now up eighty six points, very volatile lately, was very
volatle today it was mostly underwater, but worked out a
little tiny rally at the end. So up eighty six
to fifty eight, seventy two s and P fell nineteen
the Nasdak. Oh my gosh, they're getting those AI and
textocs are getting hammered. They're the ones that were leading
the charge, and now they're leading the drop down two
hundred and fifty. That was a nasdack down two fifty.
Price of gold fell eighty dollars to four thousand and
two eighty three, and oil went down down almost three
dollars to eighty eight dollars. We have seen an eight
on a closing price for a barrel of West Texas
for quite some time, so down almost three dollars to
eighty eight dollars and some change for a barrel of
West Texas. That's it for today. Thank you for coming by.
We'll be back tomorrow. I hope to see you there