1 00:00:17,239 --> 00:00:19,800 Speaker 1: And hello, Hi, how are you? 2 00:00:21,519 --> 00:00:26,199 Speaker 2: How you doing? It's Thursday, the last day of the month. 3 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:29,239 It's the thirty first day of July. Year of all 4 00:00:29,239 --> 00:00:32,679 over twenty twenty five. My name is Tom Sullivan. So 5 00:00:33,320 --> 00:00:39,679 to start today with Russia Gate and when Tulsa Gabbard 6 00:00:39,719 --> 00:00:45,560 first started releasing all these basically declassifying documents that have 7 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:49,439 been in the file cabinets at the government, and that's 8 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:53,679 the beauty of our system. Administration's change. And another group 9 00:00:53,759 --> 00:00:56,240 comes along and says, let's take a look at these 10 00:00:56,240 --> 00:01:00,719 old files here. And so as the Director of National Intelligence, 11 00:01:00,719 --> 00:01:05,400 she's going through and the classifying documents after documents, there 12 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:14,159 were more unclassified documents classified documents she unclassified today. So 13 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:20,680 this is growing as it goes along. And I refer 14 00:01:20,840 --> 00:01:24,040 back to a tweet that came out from Matt Walsh 15 00:01:24,439 --> 00:01:30,159 that I saw that said I'll be I'll be concerned 16 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:34,879 about this when they actually file charges. So she has 17 00:01:36,599 --> 00:01:41,480 done a criminal referral on I'm not sure who, but 18 00:01:41,599 --> 00:01:46,040 I presume it's Clapper and Brennan and that crowd that 19 00:01:46,239 --> 00:01:51,120 was the Obama crowd. And we'll see if the if 20 00:01:51,159 --> 00:01:55,239 the DOJ is going to file any charges. But if 21 00:01:55,319 --> 00:02:00,920 nothing else. They're basically doing a payback. That's the minimum 22 00:02:01,359 --> 00:02:04,640 about what went on when Donald Trump was accused of 23 00:02:04,719 --> 00:02:07,920 being in cahoots with the Russians, or the Russians in 24 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:10,479 cahoots with him, whichever way you want to play it. 25 00:02:11,159 --> 00:02:13,680 And we're finding out that the more this comes along, 26 00:02:13,719 --> 00:02:17,840 what I'm reading from all these releases is that the 27 00:02:17,919 --> 00:02:21,759 Russians truly, of course they were meddling in our elections. 28 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:26,400 They always have, they always will. But what they were 29 00:02:26,439 --> 00:02:31,199 doing wasn't to be in favor of Donald Trump. Vladimir 30 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:36,719 Putin and his henchmen did not like Hillary Clinton, but 31 00:02:37,919 --> 00:02:41,840 it was clear that they thought, as the world did, 32 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:45,080 that Hillary was going to be the successful candidate in 33 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:51,000 twenty sixteen. Everybody was surprised, i think, including Donald Trump himself, 34 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:56,639 that he won the election. So what they were trying 35 00:02:56,719 --> 00:03:04,159 to do was basically make her look bad, go after her, 36 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:08,120 do a lot of different things. But then she turned 37 00:03:08,159 --> 00:03:15,759 around and went to Russian documents and Russian basically the 38 00:03:16,280 --> 00:03:20,680 Steele dossier, to use Russian sources to say Donald Trump 39 00:03:20,719 --> 00:03:22,680 did this and did that, and it was all bad, 40 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:26,639 and she was the one that was meddling with the Russians. 41 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:30,599 But the Russians also had more material apparently that they 42 00:03:30,599 --> 00:03:34,120 were going to spring after Hillary got elected to make 43 00:03:34,159 --> 00:03:37,319 her a week president. So it wasn't so much that 44 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:40,520 they wanted Donald Trump. They just wanted to rough up 45 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:45,879 Hillary Clinton before and then after she got elected. Trump 46 00:03:45,960 --> 00:03:49,759 turned out to be the beneficiary of that. So basically, 47 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:53,400 this is uncovering a lot of the mystery behind what 48 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:58,560 was going on. Senator James Langford from Oklahoma, I've always 49 00:03:58,599 --> 00:04:02,199 thought this guy was a great shooter, and let him 50 00:04:02,479 --> 00:04:05,479 explain what it is because he was on the Centate 51 00:04:05,599 --> 00:04:09,560 Intelligence Committee, what it is that he's getting out of 52 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:10,520 these documents. 53 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:12,400 Speaker 3: I want them to know the facts and the information 54 00:04:12,439 --> 00:04:14,639 as it really happened on. This is something I've talked 55 00:04:14,639 --> 00:04:17,759 about for years. The Russia collusion that was happening during 56 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:20,560 the twenty sixteen campaign was not with President Trump. It 57 00:04:20,639 --> 00:04:23,199 was with Hillary Clinton. Her campaign was the one that 58 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:25,920 was actually working with Russian services. Her campaign was the 59 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:28,519 one that was creating all of this. They were pushing 60 00:04:28,519 --> 00:04:32,199 it into the administration. The administration's time, Barack Obama's administration 61 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:35,600 and all the levers of government were immediately assuming all 62 00:04:35,680 --> 00:04:37,959 this is true, We're going to run with investigation and 63 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:40,439 we're going to try to prove it wrong rather than 64 00:04:40,439 --> 00:04:41,360 what they should have done. 65 00:04:41,399 --> 00:04:42,639 Speaker 1: And what CIA. 66 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:46,920 Speaker 3: Career folks were saying at the time, and that was, hey, 67 00:04:46,959 --> 00:04:49,439 we have no evidence for this, this doesn't smell right. 68 00:04:49,759 --> 00:04:51,600 But they were pushing it forward to be able to 69 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:54,519 drive this line that somehow the president was colluding with 70 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:57,079 Russia when it was literally exactly the opposite. 71 00:04:57,160 --> 00:04:59,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, So it seemed to be that it was an 72 00:04:59,839 --> 00:05:05,319 org frustrated event created by the people that were leading 73 00:05:05,319 --> 00:05:09,759 government agencies, starting with the President, Barack Obama and then 74 00:05:09,839 --> 00:05:12,839 the people that were the head of various agencies, and 75 00:05:12,879 --> 00:05:15,879 they were using the big boot of government to try 76 00:05:16,319 --> 00:05:20,600 to prevent Trump from being elected. And they hate him 77 00:05:20,639 --> 00:05:22,839 so much and they still do to this day that 78 00:05:22,959 --> 00:05:25,160 they were going to do anything and everything. I can 79 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:28,040 imagine they probably thought, if they were not directly told, 80 00:05:28,519 --> 00:05:33,079 do whatever you have to do to get this guy stopped. 81 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:36,399 And you know that they've been doing that for a 82 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:39,920 long long time. I mean even the Republicans were trying 83 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:43,240 to stop Donald Trump from being the nominee back in 84 00:05:43,279 --> 00:05:47,839 twenty sixteen. So there's been widespread effort to stop this 85 00:05:47,879 --> 00:05:51,879 guy all the way along, and I think it's becoming 86 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:55,480 clearer and clearer that they were using all the tools 87 00:05:55,480 --> 00:06:00,160 of government to try to stop a candidate, which which 88 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:03,160 is wrong on so many levers they talk about they're 89 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:07,240 the protectors of democracy, just the opposite in this case. 90 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:12,879 So with this good old Chuck Grassley ninety some years old, 91 00:06:13,519 --> 00:06:16,040 he's been around for so long and he's past the 92 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:19,879 age of playing political games with this stuff. This is 93 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:21,759 what Grassley had to say, that. 94 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:26,720 Speaker 4: It was all effort of total distraction and to make 95 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:30,399 it look like Russia was playing a very major role 96 00:06:30,959 --> 00:06:34,639 in helping Trump to be elected. And now we know 97 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:38,600 none of that was true. And now with this Durham 98 00:06:38,639 --> 00:06:44,279 Report annex out, it finally proves that the FBI was 99 00:06:44,399 --> 00:06:45,079 covering up. 100 00:06:45,199 --> 00:06:49,879 Speaker 2: The FBI was covering up. Like I said, there were 101 00:06:49,959 --> 00:06:53,920 orders from the Oval Office to the various leaders of 102 00:06:53,959 --> 00:06:56,800 these government agencies. James call me the head of the FBI, 103 00:06:57,439 --> 00:07:00,480 Brendan Clapper. The list goes on to you use and 104 00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:04,000 do whatever they could to stop this guy, Donald Trump. 105 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:05,720 Back to senat der Langford. 106 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:07,920 Speaker 3: So the interesting thing is most of the people that 107 00:07:07,959 --> 00:07:09,959 have been involved in this have all been fired already. 108 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:12,079 They're already out of the administration that was long ago. 109 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:14,759 Trumpet fired them during the first administration, so that it's 110 00:07:14,759 --> 00:07:16,560 a matter of just following up to be able to 111 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:17,959 see what needs to be done or what needs to 112 00:07:17,959 --> 00:07:19,800 happen from here. So there's a lot of decisions need 113 00:07:19,839 --> 00:07:21,959 to be made. Let's get all the information on and 114 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:24,079 figure out what steps need to be done. But house 115 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:27,199 has been cleaned on this already within the FBI, within 116 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:29,800 the CIA. If there are additional folks that are still 117 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:31,720 a part of that, that this report continues to be 118 00:07:31,759 --> 00:07:33,360 able to find when need to follow through and they 119 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:35,199 do exactly the same thing to be able to make 120 00:07:35,199 --> 00:07:37,439 sure allding to be able to account. The tools of 121 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:40,720 government should never be used for political purposes. You try 122 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:42,600 to accomplish this, and certainly not to be able to 123 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:43,480 undercut an election. 124 00:07:43,879 --> 00:07:46,839 Speaker 2: I mean, amen, the tools of government should not be 125 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:51,000 used for political purposes. The thing is the people that 126 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:55,680 are in big time politics, national politics. It is major 127 00:07:55,759 --> 00:07:59,879 league hardball, and they play tough and they play rough. 128 00:08:00,199 --> 00:08:03,000 As Mike Kakabe told me many times, for people who 129 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:05,160 said they wanted to get into politics, he said, you know, 130 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:09,360 it's a blood sport, right It truly is. But in 131 00:08:09,399 --> 00:08:13,160 this case, they did not stop at the line of 132 00:08:13,399 --> 00:08:17,759 using the tools of government to impact a political event. 133 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:23,439 They used all the tools of government. So John Brennan 134 00:08:24,279 --> 00:08:26,439 reacted to all of this earlier today. 135 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:30,199 Speaker 5: All the legitimate reviews that were done of the assessment 136 00:08:30,319 --> 00:08:33,720 subsequent to it, including the Senate Select Committee of Intelligence, 137 00:08:33,799 --> 00:08:38,879 bipartisan multi year review, endorsed and said that those conclusions 138 00:08:38,919 --> 00:08:42,320 and those findings were accurate. They were based on intelligence, 139 00:08:42,559 --> 00:08:45,000 and so there was no dispute about it, except when 140 00:08:45,039 --> 00:08:47,799 there are partisans who come out in support of Donald Trump. 141 00:08:47,879 --> 00:08:50,559 Right now, I think his reputation is pretty well intact. 142 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:55,639 Talk about partisans, John Brennan is as deeply partisan as 143 00:08:55,679 --> 00:08:59,440 you can imagine, a deep, deep Democrat. That's fine, but 144 00:08:59,519 --> 00:09:03,399 don't use the tools of government to push your political agenda. 145 00:09:03,879 --> 00:09:06,360 But he said, if you had just heard what he said, 146 00:09:06,399 --> 00:09:11,519 he said, well, all the legitimate reviews, said the legitimate reviews, No, 147 00:09:11,679 --> 00:09:14,440 that's not all the reviews, And then he went on 148 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:17,440 to talk about the Senate Intelligence Committee signed off essentially, 149 00:09:17,919 --> 00:09:22,080 and the Senate Intelligence Committee never read all of the material, 150 00:09:22,919 --> 00:09:26,360 So all the legitimate reviews said that everything was fine. 151 00:09:26,519 --> 00:09:30,399 What are you talking about that's what he's couching in. 152 00:09:30,519 --> 00:09:34,399 But he did carefully say he's very good. He carefully 153 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:37,320 said all the legitimate reviews said everything was. 154 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:38,200 Speaker 1: Up and up. 155 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:41,559 Speaker 2: What about the other reviews. The only reason you don't 156 00:09:41,559 --> 00:09:44,120 call him legitimate is because of the fact they're calling 157 00:09:44,159 --> 00:09:48,360 you out. Back to one more from James Langford. 158 00:09:48,399 --> 00:09:49,039 Speaker 1: None of the law. 159 00:09:49,320 --> 00:09:51,840 Speaker 3: This should be consistent. I have every confidence in an 160 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:54,960 Apartment of Justice and Pam Bondy and what will happen 161 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:57,159 as they walk through this process to say, let's get 162 00:09:57,159 --> 00:09:59,159 the facts and the information out so finally the American 163 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:01,080 people can know. I would tell you people that I 164 00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:04,320 know in Oklahoma have said for years this doesn't smell right. 165 00:10:04,759 --> 00:10:06,840 This continues to be able to come public to them 166 00:10:06,879 --> 00:10:09,000 to be able to say that's what I thought, and 167 00:10:09,039 --> 00:10:10,519 they're getting a chance to be able to get the 168 00:10:10,519 --> 00:10:11,240 facts behind it. 169 00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:13,519 Speaker 1: So that's a good thing. I have to tell you. 170 00:10:13,679 --> 00:10:15,759 Speaker 3: Just as a person of faith, I always say, what 171 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:17,879 is whispered in the secret place will one day be 172 00:10:17,919 --> 00:10:20,320 shouted from the housetops. It's a good thing for all 173 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:22,279 this information to be able to come out and let 174 00:10:22,279 --> 00:10:23,279 people see it in the daylight. 175 00:10:24,919 --> 00:10:26,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it is good for all of this 176 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:29,440 to come out. Again. I don't have a lot of Sorry, 177 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:32,639 I don't have a lot of hope that anything's going 178 00:10:32,679 --> 00:10:36,720 to happen. But what it does tell us is all 179 00:10:36,759 --> 00:10:39,559 of us, as citizens of this country, regardless of your 180 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:43,200 political stripes, that you've got to be on guard about 181 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:49,200 the government using the tools of government to put their 182 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:51,960 thumb on the scale regarding who is elected and who 183 00:10:52,039 --> 00:10:55,480 is not. So as we wrap up the month of July, 184 00:10:55,720 --> 00:11:00,240 that means we've got some new things happening tomorrow. We 185 00:11:00,279 --> 00:11:06,600 can start with student loans. Student loans have been on hiatus. 186 00:11:06,639 --> 00:11:14,360 There was a year ago during the Biden administration they 187 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:16,240 were trying to get rid of student loans and did 188 00:11:16,279 --> 00:11:19,879 not have the authority. Supreme Court told President Biden, you 189 00:11:19,919 --> 00:11:23,919 can't do that, So he did reduce loans wherever he 190 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:27,559 could according to the programs that that was what they 191 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:30,759 should have been doing, because certain programs were offered to 192 00:11:30,799 --> 00:11:36,120 people that went into public service, first responders, police fire 193 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:38,480 that sort of thing. But there were a bunch of 194 00:11:38,480 --> 00:11:40,360 other loans out there as well, and he was trying 195 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:45,200 to get rid of those. Well, starting tomorrow, those loans 196 00:11:45,279 --> 00:11:49,600 will start accruing interest. Again, there has been a forbearance. 197 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:53,320 There has been no interest due the balance whatever it 198 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:58,840 was a year ago, hasn't increased and unless the students 199 00:11:59,399 --> 00:12:02,600 made pays then it's still the same as it was 200 00:12:02,639 --> 00:12:07,679 a year ago. Starting tomorrow, those loans will go up 201 00:12:07,879 --> 00:12:10,679 by the amount of the balance of the loan, will 202 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:14,360 go up by the interest on the loan unless the 203 00:12:14,399 --> 00:12:17,679 student makes the payments on the loan, not only interest, 204 00:12:17,720 --> 00:12:21,559 but also principal interest or principal payments. So eight million 205 00:12:21,639 --> 00:12:28,679 loans are in play. There's a woman by the name 206 00:12:28,759 --> 00:12:35,000 of Bronti Remsick. She is an interesting case because she 207 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:38,440 has gone through medical school. She is now aid, she's 208 00:12:38,440 --> 00:12:42,279 in her residency, and as all of us know, I 209 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:46,000 think we do people that want to become medical doctors. 210 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:50,039 It is a long slog through a lot of schooling, 211 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:54,279 and then when you graduate with your degree, your medical degree, 212 00:12:54,559 --> 00:12:57,159 then you've got to go do an internship, and then 213 00:12:57,200 --> 00:13:00,159 after the internship, then you've got to go do a residency, 214 00:13:00,440 --> 00:13:03,919 and then after the residency, finally you get to go 215 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:08,000 out and actually work as a doctor making money. So 216 00:13:09,320 --> 00:13:12,879 doctor Bronti Remsick, she has her medical degree, she's done 217 00:13:12,879 --> 00:13:18,200 her internship and listened to what she talked about because 218 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:20,720 she's facing the fact that these loans are going to 219 00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:22,200 start a crowing interest tomorrow. 220 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:28,480 Speaker 6: I've spent my entire twenties in school and so now 221 00:13:28,559 --> 00:13:30,919 in my thirties and as a young professional, I would 222 00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:33,000 love to have a life. I would love to be 223 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:37,000 able to, you know, go on vacation and to eat 224 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:39,799 dinner out and to live a normal human life in 225 00:13:39,879 --> 00:13:43,360 the very limited free time that I have. And now, 226 00:13:43,519 --> 00:13:46,600 you know, the financial walls just feel like they're crushing 227 00:13:46,639 --> 00:13:50,080 down around me. When I thought graduating medical school was 228 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:51,519 the big win, well. 229 00:13:51,639 --> 00:13:54,960 Speaker 2: Graduating medical school is a big win. And I don't 230 00:13:54,960 --> 00:13:58,440 know how much she looked around to try to find 231 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:02,320 ways to pay for medical school. There are lots of 232 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:06,279 programs out there. I don't know if she qualified or 233 00:14:06,279 --> 00:14:09,440 did not qualified, if she even looked. So I did 234 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:13,679 something that maybe I was prying a little bit, but 235 00:14:13,759 --> 00:14:17,360 I went to Instagram and I pulled up her Instagram account. 236 00:14:17,759 --> 00:14:22,200 And she's a lovely young lady and we need doctors, 237 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:25,919 so God bless her. But she's he acted like she 238 00:14:25,960 --> 00:14:28,399 wants to live a life. I don't know. I think 239 00:14:28,399 --> 00:14:31,759 she yeah, here's a photo of her wedding she got married. 240 00:14:32,360 --> 00:14:36,960 She and her boyfriend slash husband, looked like they have 241 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:42,639 traveled all over the world. They have been, I mean, 242 00:14:42,720 --> 00:14:46,080 some beautiful resorts and some you know, things on the 243 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:51,720 ocean and outsailing, and it looks like they're in down 244 00:14:51,759 --> 00:14:56,679 in you know, ad moab Utah. The big rocks down 245 00:14:56,720 --> 00:15:00,440 there looks I don't know, all beaches look the same 246 00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:03,399 to me, but there's a lot of beaches. There are 247 00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:07,600 a lot of mountains, a lot of skiing vacations, a 248 00:15:07,639 --> 00:15:14,320 lot of boating vacations. I don't think we need to 249 00:15:14,360 --> 00:15:17,879 deny her the fact that we all would like to 250 00:15:17,879 --> 00:15:20,480 go out and do all those things. But when push 251 00:15:20,480 --> 00:15:22,360 comes to shove, she talks about the fact that she 252 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:25,799 needs to she'd like to have a life. And it 253 00:15:25,879 --> 00:15:29,080 seems to me like she's had a pretty good life 254 00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:31,320 and that she spent a lot of money on having 255 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:34,879 a good time. And again, good for her, But did 256 00:15:34,919 --> 00:15:37,679 she ever stop to think about, oh my, I may 257 00:15:37,759 --> 00:15:40,480 have to pay back those loans. So how much she 258 00:15:40,679 --> 00:15:44,600 owes well, medical schools a long slog. Like I said, 259 00:15:45,080 --> 00:15:52,480 she owes three hundred thousand dollars, and she sounds like 260 00:15:53,279 --> 00:15:55,919 she doesn't want to take responsibility for the fact that 261 00:15:56,480 --> 00:16:00,279 somebody paid for her medical education. So she just wants 262 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:03,039 of many out there, they're going to face the music 263 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:08,559 starting tomorrow. I personally know a handful of doctors. The 264 00:16:08,639 --> 00:16:12,200 way they did it is they went into the military. Yeah, 265 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:15,200 they were military docs. And the way it works is 266 00:16:15,279 --> 00:16:17,759 you do so many years as a military doc, usually 267 00:16:18,039 --> 00:16:21,080 four I think it is, and they will pay your 268 00:16:21,080 --> 00:16:24,039 medical school. So I mean, there are Like I said, 269 00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:28,440 there are options. That doesn't sound like maybe she's got 270 00:16:28,480 --> 00:16:31,200 them all figured out. I could be judging her completely wrong. 271 00:16:32,080 --> 00:16:34,320 I'm not trying to judge her. All I'm saying is 272 00:16:34,360 --> 00:16:37,480 that she owed three hundred thousand dollars, and if I 273 00:16:37,519 --> 00:16:39,559 owed three hundred thousand dollars, I think I would be 274 00:16:39,879 --> 00:16:43,320 working on trying to figure out how to maybe put 275 00:16:43,320 --> 00:16:46,919 off some of my vacations and pay the debt down first. 276 00:16:47,759 --> 00:16:51,480 And speaking of the medical the White House today came 277 00:16:51,480 --> 00:16:56,759 out with a fact sheet President Trump announces actions to 278 00:16:56,879 --> 00:17:02,039 get Americans the best prices in the world for prescription drugs. 279 00:17:02,840 --> 00:17:06,319 And in this letter let me read it, kind of 280 00:17:06,359 --> 00:17:08,759 skip over a little bit of it here, but it 281 00:17:08,799 --> 00:17:13,240 says the President sent letters to leading pharmaceutical manufacturers, outlining 282 00:17:13,279 --> 00:17:16,359 the steps they must take to bring down the price 283 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:20,279 of prescription drugs in the United States to match the 284 00:17:20,440 --> 00:17:25,519 lowest price offered in other developed nations, known as most 285 00:17:25,720 --> 00:17:31,000 Favored Nation price. The steps include calling on manufacturers to 286 00:17:31,039 --> 00:17:35,759 produce most Favored Nation prices to every single medicaid patient. 287 00:17:36,759 --> 00:17:40,559 Requiring manufacturers to stipulate that they will not offer other 288 00:17:40,599 --> 00:17:44,480 developed nations better prices for new drugs than prices offered 289 00:17:44,519 --> 00:17:48,480 in the United States, Providing manufacturers with an avenue to 290 00:17:48,519 --> 00:17:54,000 cut out middlemen and sell medicines directly to patients, provided 291 00:17:54,039 --> 00:17:56,440 they do so at a price no higher than the 292 00:17:56,480 --> 00:18:01,200 best price available in developed nations. Use trade policy to 293 00:18:01,240 --> 00:18:08,160 support manufacturers in raising prices internationally, provided that increased revenues 294 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:14,240 abroad are reinvested directly into lowering prices for American patients 295 00:18:14,319 --> 00:18:21,039 and taxpayers. The letter basically informed the manufacturers to if 296 00:18:21,039 --> 00:18:23,920 they refuse to step up, the federal government quote will 297 00:18:23,920 --> 00:18:27,799 deploy every tool in our arsenal to protect American families 298 00:18:27,799 --> 00:18:32,240 from continued abusive drug pricing practices. So this went to 299 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:38,160 all the big ones. Adv amjen Astrodenica, Bristol Meyer, Squib Eli, Lilly, 300 00:18:39,119 --> 00:18:43,200 Genen Tech, Johnson and Johnson, Mert, No, Varda, I mean 301 00:18:43,240 --> 00:18:46,039 the whole list. They're all there. So now we wait 302 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:50,839 and see what happens. The letter goes on to say, hey, 303 00:18:50,880 --> 00:18:55,079 back on May twelfth, presidents signed an executive order about 304 00:18:55,119 --> 00:19:00,440 all of this, and it looks like they have done 305 00:19:00,720 --> 00:19:04,920 nothing about it. So this is where he's cracking the 306 00:19:04,960 --> 00:19:09,039 whip on the pharmaceutical company. So stand by to see 307 00:19:09,079 --> 00:19:12,799 what happens with this effort by the president to get 308 00:19:13,119 --> 00:19:18,200 prescription prices lower here in the US. I you know, 309 00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:22,599 Biden did get the price of what was it for 310 00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:26,559 diabetics insulin down to like thirty five dollars a month 311 00:19:26,640 --> 00:19:30,240 or something like that. That was nice, but it doesn't 312 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:34,160 apply to that many people. This is huge. This is 313 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:37,640 across the board with all the pharmaceutical managers that are 314 00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:41,240 out there, and he brought that up the middleman. Those 315 00:19:41,279 --> 00:19:44,279 are the ones that really drive up the price. And 316 00:19:44,359 --> 00:19:46,880 so the question will be wherever if you get your 317 00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:50,400 insurance from your employer, the employer has to deal with 318 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:55,920 a middleman, pharmaceutical benefit managers what they're called, and they 319 00:19:56,000 --> 00:20:00,480 will say to the employer, here are the rugs that 320 00:20:00,519 --> 00:20:05,400 you can look that you can include in your insurance 321 00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:09,480 policy for your employees, and these are the prices and 322 00:20:09,559 --> 00:20:12,680 the employer goes through and picks out what they will 323 00:20:12,839 --> 00:20:17,160 cover and what they won't. So that's another step along 324 00:20:17,519 --> 00:20:18,720 the medical world there. 325 00:20:18,759 --> 00:20:19,160 Speaker 1: Today. 326 00:20:21,279 --> 00:20:28,279 Speaker 2: Jack Keene is talking today more about more along the 327 00:20:28,279 --> 00:20:31,279 line to what I was. I played for you yesterday. 328 00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:34,480 Michael orm is the former ambassador from Israel to the 329 00:20:34,599 --> 00:20:41,480 United States, and Hamas has done a superb effort of 330 00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:46,160 making this all look like Israel is the bad guy. 331 00:20:46,359 --> 00:20:50,480 Israel was minding their own business on October seventh when 332 00:20:50,519 --> 00:20:54,559 Hamas invaded Israel and killed what was the twelve or 333 00:20:54,559 --> 00:20:58,880 fourteen hundred citizens in their homes, and they were able 334 00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:03,440 to turn it around because Israel responded with everything they 335 00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:09,039 got and get the world against Israel because how there 336 00:21:09,119 --> 00:21:14,440 they retaliate against little old Hamas and the starvation in 337 00:21:14,559 --> 00:21:19,079 Gaza that has been blamed on Israel. Yesterday, Michael orm 338 00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:22,119 made it very clear that what's happening is the trucks 339 00:21:22,119 --> 00:21:25,160 that are distributing the aid. A lot of the Hamas 340 00:21:25,160 --> 00:21:29,680 soldiers have stopped the distribution of that of those foods 341 00:21:30,559 --> 00:21:33,599 and in fact killed some of the drivers of the trucks, 342 00:21:34,079 --> 00:21:39,359 So there's always another side to the story. So Jack 343 00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:43,400 Keane General Jack Keen kind of picks up on that here. 344 00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:49,039 Speaker 7: Today including the Nations recognize a Palestinian state, which obviously 345 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:53,440 doesn't exist, and under the current conditions, it's unlikely it 346 00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:57,160 would even the Arabs are there on that situation, to 347 00:21:57,240 --> 00:22:00,759 be frank, But that's for another discussion. But yeah, the 348 00:22:00,799 --> 00:22:06,000 momentum is certainly on Homas's side here and there's strengthening 349 00:22:06,039 --> 00:22:09,680 their resolved not to make a deal, I mean, and 350 00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:14,400 the reality is Hamas for weeks now has held up 351 00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:17,920 this deal and the release of the hostages and attempting 352 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:21,240 to get a sixty day cease fire. And I don't 353 00:22:21,279 --> 00:22:24,920 see anything in the future here that's going to get 354 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:29,000 us there, at least in a near term. Certainly, Prime 355 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:32,079 Minister Nantill has a number of options to consider here 356 00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:34,519 and what he could put on the table, it may 357 00:22:34,559 --> 00:22:37,720 be a better path. So if he's willing to have 358 00:22:37,839 --> 00:22:41,720 serious negotiations over the end of war strategy, os as 359 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:46,720 opposed to the temporary sixty day cease fire, because the 360 00:22:46,799 --> 00:22:49,319 reality is as we get down to the end here, 361 00:22:50,039 --> 00:22:53,799 Hamas wants to hold those hostages for one reason, their 362 00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:58,279 own survival and the Israelis and where they're located. The 363 00:22:58,319 --> 00:23:00,640 Israelis have a pretty good feel where they are located, 364 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:04,480 and that's where the concentration of the remaining Hamas fighters are. 365 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:10,279 So Israel's not conducting operations aggressive operations in those areas 366 00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:13,759 because we need to protect the hostages. It may be 367 00:23:13,839 --> 00:23:18,000 another option open discussions for end of war strategy in 368 00:23:18,079 --> 00:23:22,200 terms of who is going to govern Gaza going forward 369 00:23:22,839 --> 00:23:27,640 and release all the hostages, et cetera. Nonetheless, this is tough. 370 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:30,079 We knew this was coming when it got down to 371 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:33,759 a much smaller number of hostages, and that really is 372 00:23:33,799 --> 00:23:35,079 the undercurrent here. 373 00:23:35,599 --> 00:23:37,039 Speaker 1: Harmas wants to survive. 374 00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:40,039 Speaker 7: I know the president wants them to surrender, SODA's Prime 375 00:23:40,039 --> 00:23:40,920 Minister Netnew. 376 00:23:41,519 --> 00:23:42,720 Speaker 1: I think that's unlikely. 377 00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:46,359 Speaker 7: I know for a fact that Israel has offered them 378 00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:51,359 exile and freedom, the leaders to leave, and they promised 379 00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:55,640 not to hunt them down after they did. But that's 380 00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:58,440 not in the cards. These guys don't want that. We're 381 00:23:58,480 --> 00:23:59,880 at a tough inflection point. 382 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:04,039 Speaker 2: General Team makes excellent points about the fact that Hamas 383 00:24:04,079 --> 00:24:06,359 doesn't want to get rid of the hostages. They don't 384 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:09,279 want a peace agreement. What will they do? They are 385 00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:16,799 basically playing survival for themselves. So at this point, countries 386 00:24:16,839 --> 00:24:21,440 are being asked to support a Palestinian state. Canada, which 387 00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:25,839 has caused problems now with negotiating on a trade agreement 388 00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:28,759 with Canada, but Canada came out yesterday and said that 389 00:24:28,839 --> 00:24:35,319 they will recognize Palestinian state if Israel doesn't, I don't know, 390 00:24:35,839 --> 00:24:39,599 bring in more aid, stop the starvation, that sort of thing. 391 00:24:40,039 --> 00:24:44,799 So here's Marco Rubio about the idea of where a 392 00:24:44,839 --> 00:24:47,359 Palestinian state would play in all of this. 393 00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:50,799 Speaker 8: It's irrelevant. I mean, it's annoying to some, but it's irrelevant. 394 00:24:50,799 --> 00:24:52,599 It doesn't mean anything. First of all, none of these 395 00:24:52,599 --> 00:24:55,480 countries have the ability to create a Palestinian state. There 396 00:24:55,519 --> 00:24:59,000 can beino Palestinian state unless Israel agrees to it. Number two, 397 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:01,160 they can't even tell you where the Palestinian state is. 398 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:03,119 They can't tell you who will govern it. And I 399 00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:04,680 think number three, it's counter productive. 400 00:25:05,119 --> 00:25:10,000 Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, it's pretty frustrating watching the political charades 401 00:25:10,079 --> 00:25:13,160 that go on here. They're receiving some internal pressure in 402 00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:18,599 those countries from some of their population base, largely Muslims 403 00:25:18,599 --> 00:25:22,720 of people from the region who have some understandable empathy 404 00:25:22,759 --> 00:25:25,559 for the suffering that's taken place there. But you would 405 00:25:25,599 --> 00:25:29,160 expect national leaders that, particularly these countries that are involved, 406 00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:32,079 have a little bit more spine than that in dealing 407 00:25:32,119 --> 00:25:35,200 with the issue here. I mean, we all know it 408 00:25:35,279 --> 00:25:38,359 is Hamas who started this war. It's Homas who who 409 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:42,279 continues this war, who Tamas who continues to hold the hostages, 410 00:25:42,599 --> 00:25:46,640 and it's Hamas whose barbarism has been on the line 411 00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:50,559 here from the very beginning. And for the life of me, 412 00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:53,359 why we don't pin the rows where it should be 413 00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:56,599 pinned right on them with a finger pointing at them 414 00:25:57,119 --> 00:26:02,279 is where this belongs, and certainly not on is And 415 00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:05,480 even dealing with the so called famine issue, two things 416 00:26:05,519 --> 00:26:09,039 can be right at the same time, and that is, yes, 417 00:26:09,079 --> 00:26:13,000 there are some issues there and food distribution and some starvation, 418 00:26:13,599 --> 00:26:18,160 but also Israel is correct, there's a significant amount of 419 00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:23,960 exaggeration and also misinformation associated with it as well, and 420 00:26:24,279 --> 00:26:28,240 these leaders have that information and they should step up 421 00:26:28,599 --> 00:26:31,920 and also recognize what the real problem here is. 422 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:33,960 Speaker 1: It's not Israel, it's Amaas. 423 00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:37,519 Speaker 2: So just keep this in mind. There's always two sides 424 00:26:37,559 --> 00:26:41,000 of the story, and Hamas has done a very good 425 00:26:41,079 --> 00:26:45,839 job of blaming Israel, and Israel is that they don't 426 00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:48,359 know what, they're not very good at basically pushing back 427 00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:51,599 on the pr Put it that way, I want to 428 00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:56,519 talk a little economy today. We got a bunch of 429 00:26:56,519 --> 00:27:00,480 things out about inflation and about what you're what income 430 00:27:00,519 --> 00:27:03,119 you have, and what you're spending your money on. The 431 00:27:03,319 --> 00:27:07,680 core personal consumption expenditure, in other words, what we buy. 432 00:27:08,799 --> 00:27:12,559 It went up. The prices went up not a lot, 433 00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:16,440 from two point seven estimate up to two point eight 434 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:20,279 percent year over year. So that's what the things you're buying. 435 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:22,960 Prices have gone up two point eight percent. They're not 436 00:27:23,039 --> 00:27:25,400 going down. They're going up, They're just not going up 437 00:27:25,519 --> 00:27:30,599 very fast. Personal income was up up three tenths of 438 00:27:30,599 --> 00:27:34,160 a percent for the month. That's slightly better than expected. 439 00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:40,039 Consumer spending was down three tenths of a percent versus 440 00:27:40,079 --> 00:27:43,039 four tenths which was estimated, So I'm sorry. Spending was 441 00:27:43,079 --> 00:27:45,640 up three tenths it was estimated to be up four tenths. So, 442 00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:51,920 in other words, personal income was up slightly better than expected. 443 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:56,480 Consumer spending was up slightly less than what was expected. 444 00:27:56,920 --> 00:27:59,640 There's more and more signs that consumer spending is starting 445 00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:04,920 to slow down here. The bottom line is, for the 446 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:07,440 last couple of years, a lot of economists have been 447 00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:10,519 waiting for the recession. We're going to have a recession. Oh, 448 00:28:10,559 --> 00:28:12,240 the recession is going to come. I'm telling you it's 449 00:28:12,279 --> 00:28:15,559 on this way anytime now. And we haven't had a recession. 450 00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:19,759 So now we're waiting to see about Oh, inflation is 451 00:28:19,799 --> 00:28:23,079 going to be coming from the tariffs. I mean, tariffs 452 00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:28,119 generally do cause inflation, but we haven't. I mean, and 453 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:32,720 the economic media is looking trying to stretch as hard 454 00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:35,039 as they can to say, oh, look at look at 455 00:28:35,039 --> 00:28:38,359 the inflation from the from the tariffs. If it's there, 456 00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:40,519 I'm having a hard time seeing. You've got to use 457 00:28:40,519 --> 00:28:43,640 a magnifying glass. So prices are up a little bit, 458 00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:47,279 in comes up a little bit, spending's down a little bit, 459 00:28:48,079 --> 00:28:52,160 but it's still I don't know if these We've got 460 00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:55,680 to wait further to find out what these terroriffs are 461 00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:59,440 actually going to do. And speaking of tariffs, guess what 462 00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:05,880 happened tomorrow? Yep, the tariffs go into effect and that 463 00:29:06,119 --> 00:29:12,000 is so far as of yesterday. According to the Budget 464 00:29:12,079 --> 00:29:17,200 lab at Yale University, the average effective tarift rate tariff 465 00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:21,960 rate imposed on goods that you and I buy stands 466 00:29:22,039 --> 00:29:26,640 at eighteen point two percent. That is the highest tariff 467 00:29:26,759 --> 00:29:33,559 rate since nineteen thirty four. So before Donald Trump took office, 468 00:29:33,599 --> 00:29:36,960 the tariff rate was two point four. Now it's eighteen 469 00:29:37,079 --> 00:29:41,759 point two. So what does that mean? Has anything shown 470 00:29:41,839 --> 00:29:45,240 up in prices? Well, the president's bragging about all the 471 00:29:45,279 --> 00:29:47,480 billions that have come in. I think he said one 472 00:29:47,559 --> 00:29:50,799 hundred and fifty billion have come in. Where did it 473 00:29:50,839 --> 00:29:56,079 come in from? Somebody is paying those tariffs. Generally it 474 00:29:56,319 --> 00:29:59,920 is the company that picks up the product at the dock. 475 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:03,680 And so are they going to pass those prices on 476 00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:06,400 or not. Some companies have come out and said yes. 477 00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:09,000 Others have come out and said we're not going to 478 00:30:09,039 --> 00:30:11,599 do it. We're not going to pass those prices on. 479 00:30:12,279 --> 00:30:15,359 General Motors was one that said that. They said it 480 00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:19,000 cost them one point one billion in just the last 481 00:30:19,079 --> 00:30:22,839 three months to eat those tariffs and not pass them on. 482 00:30:23,799 --> 00:30:27,119 And I think all of us can figure out that's 483 00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:30,240 not going to last forever. General Motors is doing that 484 00:30:30,359 --> 00:30:34,160 right now. It's more of an advertising pr campaign. See 485 00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:36,279 what a good company we are. We're not passing on 486 00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:38,720 these costs. But they're not going to be able to 487 00:30:38,759 --> 00:30:42,200 do this forever, and they're going to gradually but surely 488 00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:47,240 pass those costs on. You know they're going to. So 489 00:30:47,759 --> 00:30:52,440 this is our imports have dropped the way off. Our 490 00:30:52,519 --> 00:30:58,119 exports have actually dropped off a little bit. China is 491 00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:02,359 exporting less to a man America to come down thirty 492 00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:07,680 percent the impact of the trade problems with China. Our 493 00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:13,880 imports have come down from China thirty percent. China, however, 494 00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:17,519 said fine, we'll do business with other people in the world. 495 00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:25,039 China has increased their exports to India, to Asiana, to 496 00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:30,200 the UK, to the European Union. The only major geographic 497 00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:34,119 area where they've reduced their shipments out of China to 498 00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:38,480 the other country is US. The US, So there's a 499 00:31:38,559 --> 00:31:46,720 noticeable decrease coming here from China. China's soybean imports there. 500 00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:50,880 Guess what used to come from US? Not anymore. They're 501 00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:55,200 coming from Brazil. We'll still send some, but not a lot. 502 00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:59,240 So they're going to Brazil to get their soybeans. See 503 00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:03,640 what else we have this list? Anyway, Tomorrow is the 504 00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:10,119 deadline and we'll see what this whether things change again 505 00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:12,200 or not. So here we are at the end of 506 00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:17,960 the month. Let's get some emails in here. Penny sends 507 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:23,559 me a lengthy email. Let me open this up, says 508 00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:27,839 unsolicited comment the plate tectonic action yesterday off the Russian coast. 509 00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:31,079 I'm not a geologist, but I find it interesting. If 510 00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:35,079 I understood anything regarding the dynamic Earth, is that yesterday's 511 00:32:35,079 --> 00:32:38,079 action will pass through the Earth in the next few years. 512 00:32:39,039 --> 00:32:42,640 What is the Hague up to with regards to wars 513 00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:46,039 in Ukraine which was attacked by Russia and the attack 514 00:32:46,079 --> 00:32:49,880 of civilians in Israel? These are war crimes? Is the 515 00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:55,319 Hague another outdated, inert bureaucracy old boys club eating up 516 00:32:55,359 --> 00:32:59,640 money from the USA? She's writes the podcast is good, direct, 517 00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:03,599 dot committed and interesting. The news itself is not too good, 518 00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:07,279 often confusing or frequently drawn out from start to end. 519 00:33:07,319 --> 00:33:10,559 In years of stead of days, I'm enjoying the new 520 00:33:10,599 --> 00:33:14,920 format like the old time newsman. And she says, We'll 521 00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:17,960 see how the continuing tariffs hit it. So it goes on. 522 00:33:18,119 --> 00:33:23,640 Nice email from Penny. Tim says, why is it that 523 00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:27,119 all of Trump's tariff's deals so far are starting to 524 00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:31,400 rest at fifteen percent, which is a huge increase from 525 00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:36,359 two percent? Or five percent rates Europe, Japan, now South Korea, 526 00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:39,519 I believe UK as well. Then he says he wants 527 00:33:39,599 --> 00:33:42,559 to give some of it to the American people who 528 00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:45,839 he taxed to get it. Yeah, I don't think that's 529 00:33:45,839 --> 00:33:47,799 going to happen. If somebody asked him the other day, 530 00:33:48,039 --> 00:33:50,640 what about a rebate for the citizens, and he, of 531 00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:54,200 course is a politician, Oh yeah, that's a great idea. 532 00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:57,599 Maybe we should use the money to pay down the debt. 533 00:33:57,839 --> 00:34:02,079 And that was a much better answer. Eaglestorm's checking in 534 00:34:02,119 --> 00:34:05,920 about Kamala Harris announced she won't run as governor. Yeah, 535 00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:08,440 I don't know what you think about that. I thought 536 00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:13,719 it was smarter her not to do that. Backfire on 537 00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:18,239 Richard Nixon when he lost to John Kennedy in nineteen 538 00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:21,800 sixty ran for California governor and lost and made them 539 00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:23,679 look even worse, but didn't hurt him. He went on 540 00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:27,000 to become president. Oh, Captain S, and I'll read this 541 00:34:27,039 --> 00:34:30,920 to you. Captain S is not happy, and Captain S, 542 00:34:31,039 --> 00:34:34,519 I mean it sounds like you're angry. But I appreciate 543 00:34:34,559 --> 00:34:37,519 the criticism. He said Tom too much in New York 544 00:34:37,599 --> 00:34:39,760 Local News boring for the rest of the country. This 545 00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:43,039 country is so much more than New York City. Get 546 00:34:43,039 --> 00:34:46,079 out of your bubble. I'm so tired of the media 547 00:34:46,199 --> 00:34:51,480 mafia talking the same old subjects every day. Brent in Nevada, Brent, 548 00:34:51,559 --> 00:34:55,159 I hear you loud and clear, and I can't if 549 00:34:55,199 --> 00:34:58,320 you only knew how many times I have New York 550 00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:03,400 centric stories and I don't do them because I lived 551 00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:05,679 most of my life on the West Coast, and I 552 00:35:05,679 --> 00:35:10,159 irritated me was the media capital of the country is 553 00:35:10,199 --> 00:35:13,960 in New York City, so if a bird flies overhead, 554 00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:19,400 it becomes national news. The shooting over at the building 555 00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:24,800 on Park Avenue, I used. I did do the information 556 00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:27,880 on that, but I also talked about the information about 557 00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:34,639 the shooting at the casino in Reno, Nevada. And I 558 00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:37,440 because it's not the media capital, it didn't get the 559 00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:42,119 in depth reaction report that and everything else that the 560 00:35:42,159 --> 00:35:45,039 story did here in New York. So yesterday I did 561 00:35:45,039 --> 00:35:50,119 the story not from a shooting story, but from the CTE. 562 00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:54,719 The fact that the shooter wrote the fact that he 563 00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:59,639 thinks he had CTE the brain problem from too many, 564 00:36:00,079 --> 00:36:02,400 too many hits. That's a football player when he was 565 00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:07,039 in high school. I think that's not a New York story, 566 00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:10,599 not at all. I think about Junior Seau, who played 567 00:36:10,599 --> 00:36:13,719 for San Diego Chargers. He was the first one. I'm 568 00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:16,159 sure there were others before him, but that really it 569 00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:18,840 was clear that that's why he committed suicide. He shot 570 00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:22,840 himself in the head. So the CTE part of the 571 00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:25,599 New York story was really what my focus was on. 572 00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:28,760 But I hear you, Brent, I do, and I'll bring 573 00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:32,880 you New York stories. I'll bring you La stories the 574 00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:37,239 two media capitals. But I mix in. I try to 575 00:36:37,239 --> 00:36:41,320 mix in much much more than that as well. Well, 576 00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:45,559 we got here. Oh as far as phone calls go, 577 00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:51,880 some of you are leaving phone calls that are four 578 00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:58,599 or five six minutes long. That doesn't work. But let 579 00:36:58,679 --> 00:37:01,039 me play some phone calls here while we while we're 580 00:37:01,039 --> 00:37:04,480 talking about here's one from our old friend Eric, who 581 00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:08,280 originally lived in Russia, and this is what he had 582 00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:13,119 to say about about the big earthquake and then subsequent tsunamis. 583 00:37:13,639 --> 00:37:18,400 Speaker 9: But the earthquakes and tsunami, the main thing is not 584 00:37:19,079 --> 00:37:24,519 the strength of this earthquake. It's the direction of the earthquake. 585 00:37:25,199 --> 00:37:29,440 If it's a vertigo, you get a beat tsunami. If 586 00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:33,760 it's a horizontal shakes, you don't get much tsunami. So 587 00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:41,320 apparently in Tramchatcha. What's nice was eight point nine was 588 00:37:41,519 --> 00:37:45,320 sixty six years ago when there was the same earthquake 589 00:37:46,199 --> 00:37:51,440 in that area and it was horizontal shake, it was 590 00:37:51,519 --> 00:37:55,239 not much tsunami. If it was vertigo, it would be 591 00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:58,280 a different story today for four great show. 592 00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:03,039 Speaker 2: Thank you, yeah, no, thank you so well out of 593 00:38:03,039 --> 00:38:04,920 the side of that shake. I mean it was an 594 00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:07,159 eight point eight eight point nine something. It was huge, 595 00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:11,559 and yet the tsunami waves weren't all that big. So 596 00:38:11,679 --> 00:38:15,199 maybe he's he's right about vertical versus horizontal movement of 597 00:38:15,239 --> 00:38:18,440 the earth. What else do we have here? Here's a 598 00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:21,440 phone call from Ron. See what he has to say. 599 00:38:21,519 --> 00:38:24,199 Speaker 10: Yeah, this is a r what a CALLI about the 600 00:38:24,239 --> 00:38:28,280 homeless situation. I worked in a homeless area on my life. 601 00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:31,440 Speaker 9: And I got some points I think, would you good 602 00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:34,000 to say about the whole homeless population? Thank you? 603 00:38:34,079 --> 00:38:36,800 Speaker 10: Oh boy? 604 00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:40,199 Speaker 2: Okay, So we need to figure out the ground rules 605 00:38:40,199 --> 00:38:42,239 on some of this. First of all, Ron, thanks for 606 00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:46,280 the call. Thank you for working with the homeless population. 607 00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:48,280 And you have some points you want to make about it. 608 00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:52,400 You gotta make it as you on the call, whatever 609 00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:55,119 your points are, and then you started to give out 610 00:38:55,159 --> 00:38:59,599 your phone number. Two things one is I don't want 611 00:38:59,599 --> 00:39:02,480 to play your phone number on the air. And secondly 612 00:39:02,639 --> 00:39:06,320 is I can't call back people that call on the 613 00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:12,000 comment line. I'd be here twenty four to seven making 614 00:39:12,079 --> 00:39:15,079 phone calls, so that isn't going to happen. I got 615 00:39:15,119 --> 00:39:18,519 another one from a guy David, I think a Hawai 616 00:39:18,559 --> 00:39:21,519 David or something like that. He went on for four 617 00:39:21,599 --> 00:39:24,880 or five minutes. That's way too long. And there's another 618 00:39:24,920 --> 00:39:27,679 one I got from a guy called three times and 619 00:39:27,719 --> 00:39:31,000 wants me to call him back. I'm sorry, I have 620 00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:36,280 hundreds of these. I can't sorry, I just can't do it. 621 00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:39,639 So just trying to lay down some of the ground rules. 622 00:39:40,159 --> 00:39:45,480 Let's see Lorie the comment line lady, she's always had 623 00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:49,000 had the ground rules down. Let's see she wants to 624 00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:50,320 talk about redistricting. 625 00:39:50,719 --> 00:39:55,920 Speaker 11: Texas wants to redistrict to protect the Republicans. Now California 626 00:39:55,960 --> 00:40:01,079 wants to redistrict to protect the Democrats. I hear mel 627 00:40:01,199 --> 00:40:04,639 Brooks's voice in my head saying, we've got to protect 628 00:40:04,639 --> 00:40:06,599 our phony baloney jobs, gentlemen. 629 00:40:07,119 --> 00:40:10,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, mel Brooks classic line did I see that he's 630 00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:13,559 ninety nine years old. Now, oh, and here's a lady 631 00:40:13,559 --> 00:40:17,159 who called and it's one we've done in the past, 632 00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:20,320 but I'll play it again. About the fact that the 633 00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:25,119 way the podcast work, they just insert commercials right into 634 00:40:25,159 --> 00:40:29,079 the middle of mid sentence and it's driving people crazy, 635 00:40:29,119 --> 00:40:32,199 including me. Here she is, Oh, hi, this. 636 00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:36,599 Speaker 10: Is a message for the Tom Sullivan podcast, and I 637 00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:40,519 just wanted to get some feedback on the podcast. I 638 00:40:40,559 --> 00:40:43,920 see that you do it on spreaker, which I don't 639 00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:49,079 download it from speaker, but I download it from another downcast, 640 00:40:49,239 --> 00:40:53,360 is what it's called. Anyhow, just SYI the editing on 641 00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:56,639 it is pretty bad and it cuts you off mid 642 00:40:56,679 --> 00:40:58,840 sentence and they'll break to a commercial. So I'm not 643 00:40:59,119 --> 00:41:01,519 sure if you're aware or if that might just be 644 00:41:01,599 --> 00:41:07,000 some issue with the downcast at but it's a little 645 00:41:07,639 --> 00:41:09,719 It's not so great as a listener because you'll be 646 00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:12,800 like mid sentence, mid thought, and then boom it cuts 647 00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:15,519 off and goes to commercials. So anyhow, it's just FYI 648 00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:19,960 still love listening to you, Thanks buddy. 649 00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:23,920 Speaker 2: And thank you. Unfortunately I am aware of it, but 650 00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:26,519 I'm not aware. But when we do the recording for 651 00:41:26,599 --> 00:41:32,760 the podcast. There are no commercials. It's commercial free. They 652 00:41:33,119 --> 00:41:37,559 when we upload it to them and then they insert 653 00:41:37,679 --> 00:41:40,519 those ads and I'm trying to figure out how we 654 00:41:40,559 --> 00:41:44,119 can solve that somehow, but I know it's irritating, and 655 00:41:44,159 --> 00:41:48,440 I appreciate your indulgence until we get that corrected. But 656 00:41:48,519 --> 00:41:50,599 I know it drives me crazy too. And then finally 657 00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:53,639 one more from Laurie the comment Longe Lady. She's talking 658 00:41:53,679 --> 00:41:55,599 about Kamala Harris. 659 00:41:56,280 --> 00:41:59,920 Speaker 11: The race for the California governorship will be starting soon. 660 00:42:00,639 --> 00:42:03,519 There's a lot of Democrats who want to run, but 661 00:42:03,559 --> 00:42:07,199 they won't declare until Kamala Harris makes her intentions known. 662 00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:08,679 Speaker 10: She says she'll do. 663 00:42:08,719 --> 00:42:14,199 Speaker 11: That by Labor Day, Madame Vice President, defecate or relinquish 664 00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:15,039 the crockery. 665 00:42:15,320 --> 00:42:20,119 Speaker 2: Well, that's a very polite way of changing the old statement. 666 00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:23,320 And now we know that she has made her announcement. 667 00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:27,280 She made it yesterday afternoon, and she's not running for 668 00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:31,199 California governor, which I think is I think is smart 669 00:42:31,199 --> 00:42:34,320 because I just don't think she would have won. But 670 00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:36,880 she's going to try. I'll bet you a large lunch 671 00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:39,639 of the drive up window that she's going to try 672 00:42:39,679 --> 00:42:46,119 to run for president again. And I think it's preordained that, 673 00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:49,199 just like the last time she ran for president, off 674 00:42:49,199 --> 00:42:51,119 to a great start and was the first one out 675 00:42:51,159 --> 00:42:53,960 of the race. It was first one out of the 676 00:42:54,039 --> 00:42:58,920 race of all the Democrats. So Wall Street, let's get there. Today. 677 00:43:00,159 --> 00:43:05,159 Dow Jones Industrials, Oh, down again. It's been going up, up, up, 678 00:43:05,199 --> 00:43:09,679 so down today, three hundred and thirty points, the Dow 679 00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:13,039 at forty four thousand and one thirty, the SMP down 680 00:43:13,119 --> 00:43:19,079 twenty three, the Nasdaq down seven, price of gold down 681 00:43:19,159 --> 00:43:22,639 nine dollars to thirty three forty three, and the price 682 00:43:22,679 --> 00:43:25,960 of oil after going up to seventy yesterday, down most 683 00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:29,000 of a buck, down the sixty nine dollars and some change. 684 00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:34,199 So thank you for coming by today. Tomorrow morning we 685 00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:38,679 get the July jobs report, which is always going to 686 00:43:38,679 --> 00:43:42,599 be important, and I'm sure we'll have more than that 687 00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:45,280 as well. Hope to see you tomorrow. Thanks for coming 688 00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:55,199 by today.