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Speaker 4: Is really in kind of just not even moving all right.
Speaker 5: We've got it unchanged, unchanged as anticipated. So this is
not the futteral reserve here bowing to the pressure the
President saying he's been too late, it's time to lower rates,
he's decided not to, and Kevin hasse just said that
the economic indicators all point to the need to lower rates.
Speaker 4: But that is not what is happening.
Speaker 5: So the market reaction basically is quiet because this was
what was anticipated, right, But.
Speaker 4: It's going up a little bit, which is kind of surprising.
Speaker 3: It's kind of ticking up I mean the rates are
as Kevin Hasset said, the rates do need by a
lot of accounts come down. But the Fed bord I mean,
you're talking about twelve people and they decided no.
Speaker 2: Again a three percent of.
Speaker 6: Three percent better than expected. That would be the highest
level since the third quarter of twenty four, when it
was up three point one percent. On the consumption side,
up one point four, very close to estimates. Up one
point four would be the best since the last quarter
of twenty four.
Speaker 2: Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the economy front and center today.
This is James Golden Both nearly Welcome to the rush hour,
the fastest hour in American media if you look at
the headlines. Hard to say if you're not in double take. Okay,
if I said to you US economy slowed in the
first half half of twenty twenty five as tariff scrambled data,
you might think would you think that the Let me
ask you this, Jonas US economy slowed in first half
of twenty twenty five, what does that mean to you?
The US economy slowed in the first half of twenty
twenty five, that basically has started losing momentum, is not
doing well. Mhm. Okay, right, that's what you're supposed to
get from the headline. Now, the same newsday, same story.
Let me give you that first headline was from the
New York Times, US economy slowed in first half of
twenty twenty five as tariff scrambled data. Now let me
give you a contrasting headline from the Wall Street Journal,
US economy rebounds in second quarter. What does that headline
say to you? Rebounds?
Speaker 1: Basically, it started off slow but now is doing well,
like it's increasingly better.
Speaker 2: M m. Now do you believe they're talking about the
same thing? One would lead walking You would walk away
with the impression, Oh no, the economy's in the tank.
The economy slowed in the first half of twenty twenty five.
Oh those damn tariffs. Oh no, oh no. The second
headline from Wall Street Journal, US economy rebounds in the
second quarter. GDP grew, but signs of weakness emerge in
first half of the year. First half of the year.
So the New York Times looked at the whole year,
They went through all that commotion with the tariffs and
put it in a conclusion that the US economy slowed.
Wall Street Journal economy rebounds in the second quarter. We're
in the second quarter. These are quarterly numbers, and the
economy has ticked up in the second quarter of this year.
And that's the takeaway. Yeah, not what the New York
Times would And so you will have New York Times
people that only read The New York Times today walking
around telling each other, see, we knew it a Trump,
We knew the economy slowing down, the economy slow. They
do this on purpose to Offusekate. What is true, and
what is true is that the US economy is growing again,
helped by trade swings and American consumers who keep spending.
There are also signs of caution. The Commerce Department says
US Gross Department domestic product, the value of all goods
conservative produced across the economy, rows at a seasonally and
inflation adjusted three percent annual rait in the second quarter.
That's up from zero point five contraction in the first quarter.
So this is a remarkable rebound in just one quarter.
And that rebound, by the way, was caused emotional reaction
to when Donald Trump came in and started implementing the
tariff negotiations that are now taken route. Taken together, the
two quarters showed an economy that's growing, but more slowly.
GDP grew an average annual rate of one point two
percent in the first six months of this year stepped down,
but that was because of the first quarter was so tumultuous.
These are big changes. This means to me the economy
is really and we haven't seen the impact of what
Trump is doing yet. The real impact of it is
just now. Princess Diana had said earlier she expects it
to be about a year. She follows these things very closely.
You see about a year and this economy is going
to be at boom level. And given all the announcement
that we have had regarding the tariffs and everything else,
I couldn't agree more.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 2: Let me see, all right, I believe you take now
from either Lady Benedict or Princess doing. I have to
click it open and see what this says. Here seems
to be some sort of domestic thing. Victim. Oh, that's
something different. That's the Kamala Harris story. Ladies and gentlemen,
Kamala Harris has decided she doesn't want to lose another
I'm sorry. Kamala Harris has decided Former Vice President of
the United States, the Campaign of Joy, the candidate of
Joy and Happiness and Exuberance, has decided that she will
not put her feet, or her hat or her face
in the campaign for the governor of California next year,
leaving open the possibility that she would mount mountain, or
that she would mount do We want to know who
Kamala Harris is, what that she would mount a third
run for the White House? She's going to mount possibly
mount it. Over the past six months, Miss Harris says,
I spent time reflecting on this moment, and she sounds
burdened by the past. Over the past six she sounds
like she is burdened. Over the past six months, I
spent time reflecting on this moment in our nation's history
and the best way for me to continue fighting for
the American people and advancing the values and ideals I
hold dear. I wonder who wrote this in a statement
released by her office. I wonder if the office wrote it.
I have given serious thought to axing the people. She
didn't say that, she said asking, but I'm, you know,
trying to help her relate. I've given serious thought to
axing the people of California for the privilege to serve
as that governor or. I love this state, which we
Democrats have turned into a Third World encampment. She didn't
say that. Let me stick to her script instead of
adding the truth to it. I have. I've given serious
thought to asking the people of California. Kate, No, I'm sorry,
I did it again. Stick to her script, Jane, stop
trying the ad lib through this. Stick to her script. Yeah,
I've given serious thought acting the people of California for
the privilege to service a governor or. I love this state,
the people in this promise, it is my home. But
after deep reflection, I have decided I will not run
for governor in this erection. In this election, She's gonna so.
She never mentions Trump directly, even said our politics are government,
and our institutions have too often failed the American people
culminating in this moment of crises. For now, my leadership
and public service will not be in elected office. I
look forward to getting back out and listening to the
American people, hoping elect Democrats across the nation who will
fight fearlessly, and sharing more details in the months ahead
about my own plans in the United States of America.
Power must lie No power must lie with the American people,
not anyway. And we the people must use our power
to fight for freedom, opportunity, fairness, and dignity for all.
I will remain in that fight, she says. But she
will remain in that fight, not running for governor of California.
Now there may be some insight that we had in this,
you know, her political It's too bad some ways that
you're so young, Jonas, because you'd know so of these
figures and I can't go through them all. But anyway,
her mentor in California was downtown Willie Brown. Downtown Willie Brown,
this is way before you were born, was one of
the biggest black politicians in Mecca. Total total like you know,
coach to coach. Even though he was out there in La.
Out there in California, people knew who downtown Willie Brown was. Downtown. Well,
he ain't like the godfather, no, but downtown Willie Brown
was like the political godfather in California. In fact, Kamala
apparently was his girlfriend at one point. When I say mentor,
I mean mentor. She was a young thing. And you
know when she was young, just by the way she
didn't put it like this, you he took it downtown.
You had taken it downtown for a date. Put it like, yes,
that's a very good, very quicker on your feet. Yeah,
when she was those pictures are when she was young. Yeah,
you'd have taken her downtown too, Bro, I'm telling you,
and you'd have been like, ma, look at me, Ah,
I'm doing good. Yeah, I'm doing good, Ma, look at me.
You'd have taken a downtown right now. Now. Downtown Willie
Brown was is a political legend in California. Downtown Downtown
Willie Brown is her political godfather. In fact, there are
several uncomplimentary posts on social media about her relationship with
Downtown Willy Brown, which I, because I have classed, will
not stoop to getting into. But Downtown Willie Brown was
interviewed last week or something and he was asked about
Kamala and this is what Downtown Willie Brown had to
say to the interviewer.
Speaker 8: I gave her the advice that when she was under
consideration one of the final five to be the person
that President Biden, then candidate Biden would take as his
running mate iris her, so that if he comes to
you a VP, tell them you want to be the
attorney general. Oops, because from the attorney generalship, you may
land where you I suspect the most talented, and that's
the Supreme Court, and you could easily end up being
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court with your real talent.
I think she stopped speaking to me as a result
of that.
Speaker 2: May let me stop you there.
Speaker 9: That's very interesting. So your observation knowing her over a
period of time is that her talent was to stay
in her lane as Attorney general potentially of the United States,
not as an executive or on the executive track.
Speaker 2: Correct.
Speaker 8: Interesting now, and particularly where you are second tier. Yes,
the vice presidential job isn't good. You don't pass that
up if you're a politician, usually because it could lead
to your next step if that's where you're really hitted,
and that's where your talent seems to fit. I do
think people running for public office really are to fit
eventually where they are trying to land. And I really
do hope, frankly, that she comes to that of reality.
She may not want to run the governor of the
state of California. That may not be where she should
be going.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 8: I think it's gonna be difficult for her to win.
Speaker 2: Yeah, goodness, folks, do you hear that? That was an
amazing put down. She should stand sucking tell she should
not get out of ha lane. She'd go with her
talent lies, and that's not elective, also not the executive exactly. That,
my friends, is just really amazing. I could break that down. Kamala,
don't run for president. You are not suited for it.
You should have never been vice president. That's not where
your talent lies. You're second tier, you're not first tier.
That's her mentor, that's the guy who's who's Oh, I
can't go there.
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Speaker 2: So today in Congress, my friends, the act passed through
committee known as the Pelosi Act. It would it still
has to be voted on by the full House, but
it got out of committee. Eight to seven. Was the
vote this Donald Trump was asked about it. This is
what he said.
Speaker 10: I like it conceptually. And you know, Nancy Pelosi became
rich by having inside information. She made a fortune with
her husband, and I think that's disgraceful. So in that sense,
I'd like it, but I'd have to really see the
I you know, I study these things very carefully, and
this just happened, so I'll take a look at it.
But conceptually I like it. And what I do think
is Nancy Pelosi should be investigated because what she has
the highest return of anybody practically in the history of
Wall Street save a few. And how did that happen.
It happened by she knows exactly what's going to happen,
what's going to be announced, you by stock, and then
the stock goes up after the announcements made, and she
hare to be investigated.
Speaker 2: Absolutely right now. We'll have more on this, but there
are so many other competing stories today too. You know
that American Eagles story still it's just gaining steam. It's
not going away. That stuff is happening. We've got so
much going on in the world and in the news.
We'll cover as much as we can. James Golden, Slurly
both Slurly's rush hour, fastest hour in American media will
continue and what we like very much is for you
to be here as we continue it. By the way,
the trade deals that is fascinating. News is still being
generated about that don't go away.
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Podcast Network. The Rush Hour with James Golden on the
Red Apple Podcast Network.
Speaker 2: James Goldan sternly, Okay, we have so much to do.
I mentioned the and you've already heard the a bit
about this Pelosi thing. It's still got a long way
to go in Congress, so I don't want to spend
too much time on at the Pelosi Act, but let's
listen quickly cut three. Senator Josh Holly, talking about the
Pelosi Act.
Speaker 4: Say that we have an opportunity here today to do
something that the public has wanted us to do for decades,
and that is to ban members of Congress from profiting
on information that frankly, only members of Congress have in
the buying and selling of stock. Eighty six percent of
Americans say that members of Congress should not be able
to buy and sell shares of stock individual stock while
they are members of this body. And they are absolutely correct.
And the reason is, you can see it. There was
just another ethics referral in the House last week. We've
seen the former Speaker of the House make millions of
dollars in profits. We've seen members of both parties, I'm
sad to say, be investigated for their stock trades. And
the reason for all of this is is that, quite frankly,
members of this body are privy to information that the
normal person just is not. Now is that insider trading.
It is not under the laws. Sometimes people say, well,
we already have insider trading laws, we don't need a
stock band. Well, the information that members of Congress are
privy to is technically not covered by the insider trading laws.
But nobody really believes that the information that we get
isn't valuable.
Speaker 2: It is quite valuable, exactly. So one of the things,
by the way, I think I'm mistakenly said, he clear
to House Committee, clear to Senate Committee eight on an
eight to seven vote. So anyway, it still has a
long time to go before the full Senate can vote
on it. We shall see where it goes. Yesterday after
the show, one of the funniest Spartacus had a meltdown.
Corey Spartagus Booker just had a full drama mode on
the Senate floor. That's cut two. Let's just take a
few listen for Spartagus. He was wound up, he was
off his Rocker yesterday, and this is what that sounded like.
Speaker 11: The Democratic Party needs a wake up call.
Speaker 2: Wig up Gold.
Speaker 11: I see your pole bending a knee to this president.
I'm hearing about the larger principles that does free speech
rights that you could take on any client.
Speaker 2: Why are you bending the knee.
Speaker 11: I see universities there should be bastions of free speech
bending at the knee to this president. I see businesses
taking late night talk show hosts off the air because
they dare to a president. I see people who want
mergers suddenly they're gonna have to pay.
Speaker 2: Tribute to this president.
Speaker 11: And one of the very people here elected to defend
the constitution of the United States saying, oh, well, today,
let's look the other way and pass some resources that
won't go to Connecticut, that won't go to Illinois, that
won't go to New York, that will go to the states.
Speaker 2: He wants we we we we we we we.
Speaker 11: That is complicity with an authoritarian leader who is trashing
our constitution. It's time for Democrats have a backbone. It's
time for us to fight. It's time for us to
draw lines. And when it comes to the safety of
my state being denied, these grants. That's why I'm standing here.
Don't question my integrity, don't question my motives. I'm standing
for Jersey. I am standing for my police officers. I'm
standing for the Constitution, and I'm standing for what's right.
And Dear God, if you want to come up me
that way, you're gonna have to take it up with me,
because watch on the line out America. Process rights and
freedom of the speech rights and secret police running around
this country picking off the streets who have a legal
right to be here.
Speaker 2: This too, I don't have a legal right to be here. Lies.
Excuse me?
Speaker 11: Where are we going to stand together for principles that
I just heard that we're agreed with?
Speaker 2: When are we going to stand together? Wa? This goes
on and on and on. You got the gist of it.
He's mad, everything's mad about everything. And by the way,
for the record, Cobert got thrown off because this show
was losing money. Your liberals can never get you know
who said? You know who did a really good, good,
good bit on that, Piers Morgan. Piers Morgan cut fifteen.
We're not gonna listen to the whole thing on that.
We don't have time. But Piers Morgan was on uh
that Fox show Outnumbered, I think it is, and he
mentioned that let's listen in.
Speaker 7: So much heard so much guff about a reason for
a guy get canceled. His ratings were tanking. He was
costing them forty million dollars a year. You had two
hundred stuff. How many do you guys have? I mean
too are you say?
Speaker 12: Does that bring it to two?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 7: I know that Fox. You're number one by miles in cable,
and you have these very nimble teams of people, two
hundred people, and all they do all day is prepare
anti Trump jokes. So whenever I watched Colbert, which was
not a lot, whatever I did endless sneering, mocking, Trump bashing.
You know what, it's just boring. And so many of
those late night guys. Kimmel does the same, you know,
Seth Myers does the same. John Oliver does the same.
It's a one trick pony Trump batching, trump bashing, Trump bashing.
And what happened is in the election, America went, you
know what, we quite like Trump, so we're going to
vote him back in because we're sick of you whiney liberals.
And other wise I used to identify as them. I'm
sorry you.
Speaker 2: Got to gist to that. It was great. It's you
know what we caught rock him. We vote you mean
again right now? This Outnumbered crew also did a segment
on that attack that happened in Cincinnati that has just
gone so viral if you did not watch it over
the we I mean goodness. The videos are terrible, but
I will say this, and I'm not commenting on a
lot of it, because we are only seeing on those
videos from where the recording started. We are not seeing
what took place before. And there's a news account today
that's kind of like what buried in all of the
rest of this. So here's the segment from Outnumbered. Batragan,
who I love her. I believe she is one of
the guests. Peers was on, Harris Faulkner was on. So
this was the segment they did on what's taking place
in Cincinnati. That would be a cut number fourteen. Jonas, Yes,
Cincinnati up in the newes you're telling.
Speaker 13: Me it was a fight when you see one hundred people,
one hundred black people beating up two white people, and
you're not what if this was one hundred white people
beating up.
Speaker 4: Two Asian people.
Speaker 13: I think it would be pretty clear there is no
place for this in our civilized society. And the fact
that Cincinnati downtown in that area was bare and devoid
of law enforcement, that is on the shoulders of that
police chief, Terry, And there is so much more accountability
to be had. That woman was a single mother who
was just attending a birthday party. Now she's fighting for
her life to the cheers of those one hundred plus people,
and now we're going to have to pay for their
see three square meals a day by the way, in
prison going on, that's what they're gonna get. They're going
to enjoy the royal treatment in prison. How you look
at this, there's going to be zero accountability for those monsters.
Speaker 12: Well, unless they get a soft on crime policy deal.
I mean that's what we you know, where is the
justice can of be meted out the way Emily said
and if the fence get involved. I totally get that.
Speaker 7: So what has happened to our society? We have this
in the UK as well, when the first thought of
people when they see a woman knocked unconscious who may
be dead is to take your phone now and record
it on their phone and then post it on their
social media for likes. That is a sickening as almost
any other part of this. None of them apart from
one person cool for help, one person with a woman
who might be dead on the ground.
Speaker 12: Well, and it's still not clear yet, Cheryl, if the
one person was in the bank of cars that was
being pushed back to traffic that couldn't come through it,
because this.
Speaker 2: Was right there. Okay, so Fox as you put today
on this third suspect in brutal Cincinnati beat down, arrested
and charged with assault. And anybody saw the video, So
there's a bunch of black people's warmingness, the two white
people beating them down, and what the question? And she
quickly you could hear the clicks in her mind when
she said, what would happen if if one hundred white
people started beating Now she changed it to Asian, But
what would happen if it were one hundred people beaten
down to black people? You know what would happen? And
you know what would happen. You don't even have to
ax it. You know what the headlines would be, right now,
everybody knows, right, So you have the report from Fox today,
third suspecting brutal Cincinnati beat down. Arrested charge with assault,
third person and rested in connection with the brutal beatdown
that left two people seriously injured. Police officers confirmed one
of them is name Jermaine Matthews has been arrested charged
with aggravated riot and assault. Days after the beat down,
three people have been arrested. The arrest comes a day
after thirty four year old Montenes Merriweather and twenty four
year old decra ordikra or a Decra Vernon were arrested
on charges of felonious assault aggravated riot assault. All three
suspect appeared in court. Merriweather got five hundred thousand dollars bond,
Matthews one hundred thousand dollars, Vernon two hundred thousand dollars. Now,
I'm getting to the point. During the hearing, detectives alleged
Matthews was seen on the video chasing one of the
victims into the street. When the victim fell, Matthews allegedly
started kicking him several times. When he stopped kicking, the
suspected detectives playing Matthews appeared visibly just in rage before
going on to hit another person When asked if the
punch looked like a surprise punch, the detective explained that
it appeared intentional. Still pay attention, Still, detective set in
one video, Matthews was seen standing in the area when
the victim punched him in the face. Nobody's talking about
that yet, So maybe the guy that was doing the beatdown.
We don't know. This is just one sentence, but it
is possible based on this one sentence, and we still
don't know all the time. This is why I've kept
my mouth shut about this whole thing. I looked at
the video. I said, this is terrible, this is awful.
I don't know what the hell happened here because we're
only seeing a certain point. But this one little sentence here, still,
detective said. In one video, there was one video Matthews
was seen standing standing around in the area, just standing
standing there when the victim punched him in the face.
Now we're looking into that, says the detective. Matthews is
seen square up when someone with someone. When he gets
punched in the face, everything goes south from there. Oops,
that's an unexpected little thing. Now, by the way, some
of these Merriwether, one of the other people charged has
an extensive criminal history. Seventeen years old, convicted of aggravated
robbery robbery. He also has faced robbery, aggravated burglary, kidnapping
charges themming from a similar incident. Blah blah blah. There
are a lot of questions that are going to have
to come out, a lot of things are gonna have
to be answered here. Now let me say this, and
I shouldn't say this, but I'm gonna say it anyway.
If you're around like a hundred black people or something,
and then all of a sudden, some guy pits another
guy in the face, just let me stop because we
need to get the facts on what happened here. I
don't need to say anything that could be taken out
of context. All I know is there. And am I
saying that there's justification for no that beat down? Just
let me be real clear. And that woman doing that,
what was done to that woman, There is no excuse, none, none,
no excuses. It needs to be punished. And people that
jumped in there beating both of these people that weren't
a part of anything. This cannot happen without consequences. Cannot
and it's time to stop it and you have heard
me in this program talk about black racism before, which
is alive and prevalent and growing and growing unchallenged. There's
an aspect to we keep talking about these narratives what
happens when white people target black people. There is a
segment of black racist in this society who live for
altercations with white people, and that's a part of reality.
And sadly, we don't have leaders with the moral courage
to speak up against the racism that is being taught
to black children at an early age, that is being
taught and excused by black people, including elected officials, who
see this stuff and who will not speak up against
it because they're afraid of being called names like oh
you are tom Oh you ain't black, oh blah blah
blah blah blah. But there's so much behavior that is
inexcusable inside of what is commonly called the black culture.
And the black culture is not monolithic, by the way,
and it is Look, it's time America will not heal
until that crap is just as unacceptable as any other
racist behavior should be unacceptable, period. So we have that.
I didn't even get to Texas. This tex Texas redistricting
thing is jumping off, and it is jumping off hugely.
We're gonna get to all of that. We gotta take
a quick break though.
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Speaker 2: My friends, we are gonna pick it up with There's
so much more. I didn't even get to all this
business with this Sydney Sweeney. By the way, I had
no idea who this woman was, anything about her before
this American eagle thing took flight. It is still going
into high gear. We had a sound bite today. I
don't think let's just play some of it. Sixteen Jonas,
let's just start. This is just and this is not
even an inkling of a sampling of what's out there.
Go ahead, Jonas.
Speaker 14: I really wasn't going to weigh in on this, but
here we go. It is so difficult to grow up
as a person of color, specifically a woman, and view
yourself as beautiful in any sense of the word. Growing
up in this country. I remember growing up in a
predominantly white community, wishing myself out of this body, out
of this culture. Take my name if it meant that
I could wake up blonde haired and blue eyed, never
having to explain who I am or worry about being accepted.
That is why this American Eagle ad with Sidney Sweeney
is especially off putting. There's a lot of rhetoric right
now online.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, and if you get the gist. First of all,
why are people so hung up on their own self?
Why would you feel that it's so difficult to just
be who you are and appreciate God for who he
for who you are. There's a lot more that I
want to say about this stuff, but we gotta go.
May God bless protect each and every single one of you,
your families, your loved ones. Love and gratitude my friends.
Always you're being here with me, allowing me to be
with you, God willing. We are back tomorrow for the
Thursday edition of both nerds Rush Hour. Until then, my friends,
I bid you, I do and hope that you have
the best day of your life. Bye.
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Speaker 2: What the heck is going on here