1 00:00:22,559 --> 00:00:26,600 Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome on one and all to the Big Podcast 2 00:00:26,679 --> 00:00:31,760 on this Friday. Today is the twenty sixth day of June, 3 00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:34,840 Year of Our Lord, twenty twenty six. My name is 4 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:39,600 Tom Sullivan, and busy Friday. We got a lot to 5 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:44,159 go over. It's there's a couple of things out there. 6 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:46,759 First of all, there was a story out of Beijing 7 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:51,880 this morning. It happened overnight for our time, but there 8 00:00:52,039 --> 00:00:56,960 was a small plane that flew into the tallest building 9 00:00:57,079 --> 00:01:02,719 in Beijing. It's a one hundred and eight story office building. 10 00:01:03,799 --> 00:01:06,239 If I remember right, World Trade Center was one hundred 11 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:09,560 and seven, so this is the tallest building in Beijing. 12 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:13,519 And I saw a video of the plane that hit 13 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:17,480 the building. I did not see any damage to the building, 14 00:01:17,519 --> 00:01:22,359 but apparently there was some. But it looked like it 15 00:01:22,439 --> 00:01:25,879 wasn't even a full size general aviation aircraft. It looked 16 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:30,079 like it was somebody described it as a sport airplane, 17 00:01:30,159 --> 00:01:37,280 and there is a category now for they're lightweight. They 18 00:01:37,319 --> 00:01:42,040 don't have a lot of technicality to them. They're a 19 00:01:42,079 --> 00:01:45,519 smaller plane. And it looked like it was a sport aircraft, 20 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:49,640 single engine that hit into the building and then just 21 00:01:49,879 --> 00:01:52,439 fell to the ground. It did not go into the building. 22 00:01:52,519 --> 00:01:56,840 You could see the plane fall. So the Chinese officials 23 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:00,840 freaking out about it. They ran around and made sure 24 00:02:00,879 --> 00:02:05,519 that anybody had any photos of it or any video 25 00:02:05,599 --> 00:02:09,759 of it. They seized their phones. Yeah, they don't want 26 00:02:09,759 --> 00:02:14,319 anything nothing. Don't show this to anybody. So and the 27 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:18,319 other thing, apparently in Beijing is a it's an off 28 00:02:18,439 --> 00:02:22,479 limit flight area. So how this little plane got in there. 29 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:26,520 I'm sure the Chinese are going to be taking a 30 00:02:26,599 --> 00:02:30,319 very close look at that. We've also got a gas 31 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:33,000 and oil I haven't been quoting. I'm not doing it 32 00:02:33,039 --> 00:02:37,120 to avoid it, but it just it's coming down and 33 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:41,840 coming down faster than I thought it would. But the price, 34 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:45,439 the average price for one gallon of gasoline in this 35 00:02:45,560 --> 00:02:49,800 country if you're heading off for the weekend, three dollars 36 00:02:49,879 --> 00:02:53,439 and ninety cents. That's the cheap stuff. Three ninety is 37 00:02:53,479 --> 00:02:59,080 the average across the nation. Diesel four dollars ninety three cents, 38 00:03:00,039 --> 00:03:04,319 both of those down. Well. Gas is down fifty nine 39 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:09,439 cents from a month ago, diesels down sixty four since 40 00:03:09,479 --> 00:03:13,639 from a week ago or from a month ago. California 41 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:19,080 is not the most expensive gas in the nation. Hawaii 42 00:03:19,159 --> 00:03:22,879 has claimed that average price for a gallon of gas 43 00:03:22,919 --> 00:03:28,840 in Hawaii is five dollars fifty one cents. So I mean, 44 00:03:31,039 --> 00:03:33,280 first of all, I'm jealous if you're going to Hawaii. 45 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:37,400 I love going there. Secondly, you can't drive very far. 46 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:39,919 You really can't. Even if you get a rental car, 47 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:42,800 you can't go that far, so you're not going to 48 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:46,039 burn that much gas. But in any case, Hawaii is 49 00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:50,560 number one five point fifty one. California has slipped to 50 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:55,360 number two. Average price of gasoline there is five dollars 51 00:03:55,400 --> 00:04:01,639 forty eight cents yep is there an average of three 52 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:07,599 ninety California is an average of five forty eight. Only 53 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:10,439 other state that has more than five dollars gas is 54 00:04:10,599 --> 00:04:13,639 the state of Washington. It's of five dollars in twenty 55 00:04:13,719 --> 00:04:20,040 four cents there. I saw Seattle's five sixty three, which 56 00:04:20,079 --> 00:04:25,759 would make that the most expensive gas on average. So 57 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:29,519 that's your gas report for the day. We have. In 58 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:35,480 addition to all of that, we've got people still freaking 59 00:04:35,519 --> 00:04:39,920 out about the Democrat socialist and the people that are 60 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:44,319 freaking out the most are the Democrats. They don't want 61 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:47,800 those socialists being part of their party. And I think 62 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:52,800 it's pretty obvious that the Democrat Socialists of America have hijacked, 63 00:04:52,879 --> 00:04:57,519 tried to hijack the Democrat Party. And the reason why 64 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:00,480 is it they couldn't get anywhere on their own. They 65 00:05:00,519 --> 00:05:04,079 had to line up with and get on a ballot 66 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:08,879 under Democrat. And the Democrats are saying, we don't like this, 67 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:16,199 not at all. So let's start off. Van Jones was 68 00:05:16,279 --> 00:05:19,959 in the Obama administration. He's a big spokesman for people 69 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:23,480 on the left, and he doesn't like it either. 70 00:05:24,079 --> 00:05:26,360 Speaker 2: You have to be concerned, You have to be concerned. 71 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:29,439 You got to look. I used to be on the 72 00:05:29,519 --> 00:05:30,439 left side of Pluto. 73 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:33,920 Speaker 3: You know, I was a berserkly activist of the first 74 00:05:33,959 --> 00:05:36,519 few Democrats. Hey listen, I was to the left of Democrats. 75 00:05:36,959 --> 00:05:38,680 I was out there with the best of them. So 76 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:41,519 but listen, you know then I grew up and they 77 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:43,600 had a family and realized some of these ideas are nutty. 78 00:05:43,959 --> 00:05:47,839 But to have somebody who, you know, their main qualification 79 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:51,160 for being in our party is they were celebrating after 80 00:05:51,199 --> 00:05:55,160 October eighth, the murder of innocent israelis to have somebody 81 00:05:55,160 --> 00:05:58,399 and our party get the nomination whose main qualification is 82 00:05:58,439 --> 00:06:01,800 saying that there should be no police, no prisons. Israel 83 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:04,839 shouldn't exist. Uh, this is a this should is a 84 00:06:04,879 --> 00:06:08,040 red flashing light. And I think people who have more 85 00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:11,199 reasonable ideas in this party and I start working because 86 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:14,240 what's happening is uh the establishment things that you can 87 00:06:14,759 --> 00:06:17,399 just buy ads and that's gonna get endorsements. That's going 88 00:06:17,439 --> 00:06:20,480 to somehow help you win. Trump figured out and figured 89 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:22,839 out the hard way. You can't win in Iran with 90 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:25,600 just bombers if you have nothing on the ground. Moderates 91 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:28,120 cannot win in these blue districts that they have nothing 92 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:30,319 on the ground. Off All they have are as an endorsement, 93 00:06:30,519 --> 00:06:32,199 and they don't have the door knocking army of the 94 00:06:32,279 --> 00:06:32,680 ds A. 95 00:06:32,959 --> 00:06:35,240 Speaker 2: You're going to see more and more of these candidates. Listen. 96 00:06:35,519 --> 00:06:37,279 Speaker 3: I don't I want to say, as Democratic chow you, 97 00:06:37,399 --> 00:06:41,360 the Democratic Socials of America have a ground farms. 98 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:42,639 Speaker 2: It's not an acronym. A lot of. 99 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:48,199 Speaker 3: Welcome to my world, to my world where you have 100 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:51,600 to know where the ds favors, the the CPUSA. 101 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:53,040 Speaker 2: It's a whole different world over here. 102 00:06:53,160 --> 00:06:56,360 Speaker 3: My only point is this, Uh, they've got ground troops 103 00:06:56,839 --> 00:07:01,360 and passion matters and a mobilized base matters and moderates 104 00:07:01,439 --> 00:07:03,800 keep thinking that they can just say shame on you 105 00:07:04,199 --> 00:07:06,319 and sign another check. You're going have to put people 106 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:08,399 on these doors otherwise they're going to have people like 107 00:07:08,439 --> 00:07:12,639 this and worse taking off this party. 108 00:07:13,519 --> 00:07:16,360 Speaker 1: Van Jones is right. I mean there's not only do 109 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:20,600 they have a huge door knocking army, which is incredible, 110 00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:24,040 get out the boat, get people mobilized. But they have 111 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:28,439 a passion. They really are passionate about their beliefs. They 112 00:07:28,519 --> 00:07:34,839 really do want to get rid of police. Ice, which 113 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:37,680 is police, but they want ice. They want police to 114 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:41,199 be gone. They want prisons to be shut down. They 115 00:07:41,199 --> 00:07:43,959 don't want to put anybody in prison. They want the 116 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:49,519 border completely open. We had the lady yet to one 117 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:51,319 of the ones that want in New York. She wants 118 00:07:51,399 --> 00:07:55,240 to nationalize the airlines because she feels that it costs 119 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:59,560 too much to fly on United Airlines or American or Delta. 120 00:08:00,879 --> 00:08:02,879 If she wants to have the government take him over 121 00:08:02,959 --> 00:08:08,399 and we'll have government airplanes. I'm halfway trying to figure 122 00:08:08,439 --> 00:08:13,399 out how they can accomplish that. Let them have a 123 00:08:13,439 --> 00:08:16,839 government airline and let's see if anybody wants to fly 124 00:08:16,959 --> 00:08:21,079 on it. Let them. I mean, you can't open that well, 125 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:24,399 they already have been the Democrats. Well, I'm not talking 126 00:08:24,399 --> 00:08:28,680 about Democrats, socialists. Democrats across the country have been opening 127 00:08:28,759 --> 00:08:33,399 their prison walls, opening the doors, letting the people out 128 00:08:33,399 --> 00:08:38,720 of prison. So there's a that's they're not that far. 129 00:08:38,799 --> 00:08:41,039 I mean, Van Jones is trying to say, we can't 130 00:08:41,039 --> 00:08:43,799 have these people be part of our party. They're pretty close. 131 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:47,679 They're cousin, they're kissing cousins. They are pretty darn close 132 00:08:47,759 --> 00:08:51,879 to what Democrats already believe. So one of the many 133 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:55,519 Democrats lining up to take a shot at running for 134 00:08:55,559 --> 00:08:59,879 president in twenty eight is the governor of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, 135 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:05,279 and his whole his old card is that he is 136 00:09:05,320 --> 00:09:10,159 a moderate Democrat and can moderate Democrat to win. Well, 137 00:09:10,159 --> 00:09:10,960 here's the governor. 138 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:13,720 Speaker 4: I think what is important are the people who are 139 00:09:13,759 --> 00:09:17,759 making a lot of noise we're engaging in these performative 140 00:09:17,840 --> 00:09:21,480 politics have to now figure out how to deliver results. 141 00:09:21,559 --> 00:09:24,480 I think we as a party need to find our 142 00:09:24,559 --> 00:09:28,240 way toward candidates who actually can deliver for people and 143 00:09:28,279 --> 00:09:31,320 make their lives better. I think what our party has 144 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:34,679 to go through that will be very healthy and something 145 00:09:34,720 --> 00:09:38,000 we've not really done since the nineteen ninety two election 146 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:41,639 site is to have a battle over what we believe in. 147 00:09:42,679 --> 00:09:46,440 Speaker 1: Well, that sounds nice, it's the old it's kind of 148 00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:51,320 too tame for a lot of people. Let's have a discussion. Well, 149 00:09:51,399 --> 00:09:57,120 Josh gottheimer. He's more bold than Josh Shapiro. 150 00:09:57,480 --> 00:10:01,320 Speaker 5: I think there's a new group of Democrats socialists, who 151 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:04,120 are socialists who are not common sense Democrats who are 152 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:07,600 not interested in getting things done. They're interested in throwing bombs, 153 00:10:07,720 --> 00:10:09,039 not actually solving problems. 154 00:10:09,679 --> 00:10:13,240 Speaker 1: There's a lot of that. Besides in Democrats in any 155 00:10:13,279 --> 00:10:19,279 political office, they're performative politicians. They throw bombs, they want 156 00:10:19,279 --> 00:10:22,039 to get the media attention. If there's a camera or 157 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:26,440 a microphone anywhere nearby, they'll be even getting louder. So 158 00:10:26,639 --> 00:10:31,159 the calm, reasonable, thoughtful politician. I don't know if we 159 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:35,200 can elect them anymore. So. This morning on CNBC, Joe Kiernan, 160 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:39,799 one of the anchors, they had Jakim Jeffries on and 161 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:46,279 Joe Curtin said, you're next. They're they're they are literally 162 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:50,759 yelling a lot of these performative far left, the Democrat 163 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:54,360 socialists that Hakim Jeffries he's one of the leaders of 164 00:10:54,399 --> 00:10:58,879 the Democrat Party that he's next, and he totally pushed 165 00:10:58,879 --> 00:10:59,519 back on it. 166 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:00,919 Speaker 2: They were saying, you're next. 167 00:11:01,519 --> 00:11:04,879 Speaker 6: About Hakeem Jeffers, You're next, You're next, You're next. 168 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:07,639 Speaker 2: You can't you can't think this is. 169 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:11,480 Speaker 7: This is a positive development in New York politics. 170 00:11:11,519 --> 00:11:11,840 Speaker 8: Can you? 171 00:11:12,039 --> 00:11:14,519 Speaker 9: First of all, I've clearly rejected those things, and that's 172 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:17,559 number one, number two, and my records face for itself. 173 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:21,159 This is not a Dems will be DEM's situation. Donald 174 00:11:21,159 --> 00:11:23,399 Trump is the president of the United States of America 175 00:11:23,480 --> 00:11:23,799 right now. 176 00:11:23,840 --> 00:11:24,600 Speaker 2: Are you kidding me? 177 00:11:24,919 --> 00:11:27,320 Speaker 1: I'm not sure how the Trump comment got in there, 178 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:30,720 but that's what they resort to is you don't have anything, 179 00:11:30,759 --> 00:11:32,399 you don't have an answer, you don't know what to say. 180 00:11:32,519 --> 00:11:36,559 Say you know Trump is president right now? Well I 181 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:41,480 had no idea. So they are yelling he's next. And 182 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:46,000 remember he is a New York City office holder. He 183 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:50,159 represents part of Brooklyn, and all around him are now 184 00:11:50,279 --> 00:11:52,720 people that were the people in New York City were 185 00:11:52,759 --> 00:11:58,120 voting for Democrats socialists. So I think he may be next. 186 00:11:58,440 --> 00:12:00,440 Joe Concha, wait in. 187 00:12:01,559 --> 00:12:04,559 Speaker 7: Oh, it is a route at this point, I believe 188 00:12:04,559 --> 00:12:06,840 we saved the tapes around here, So let's save this 189 00:12:06,919 --> 00:12:10,600 tape right now. Chuck Schumer will not survive any primary 190 00:12:10,679 --> 00:12:14,720 challenger from the Democrat Socialists of America, especially if Alexandria 191 00:12:14,799 --> 00:12:17,919 Cassio Cortez, she just told Fox News Digital yesterday that 192 00:12:18,279 --> 00:12:21,159 she may run for Senate in New York, didn't rule 193 00:12:21,159 --> 00:12:23,080 it out. Certainly, we'll put it that way, if she 194 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:25,960 decides to take on Schumer. Schumer's done because he used 195 00:12:25,960 --> 00:12:28,879 to be a public sixty percent approval among New York voters. 196 00:12:29,039 --> 00:12:30,879 Speaker 2: He's now bogged down in the thirties. 197 00:12:31,159 --> 00:12:33,720 Speaker 7: And then you look at Hakeem Jeffries and his approval 198 00:12:33,759 --> 00:12:36,039 is in the twenties. And I think people need to 199 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:39,159 understand I think you articulated perfectly during your monologue, is 200 00:12:39,159 --> 00:12:44,080 that Democrats socialists really don't like Maga Republicans, but they 201 00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:49,120 especially hate establishment Democrats, and they are not too here 202 00:12:49,240 --> 00:12:52,120 to work with the Democratic Party in this current structure. 203 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:54,960 To your point, they're here to take over the party. 204 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:57,120 And that's what's happening in major American cities, not just 205 00:12:57,159 --> 00:13:00,240 New York. Seattle has a socialist mayor, Washington, you see, 206 00:13:00,360 --> 00:13:02,399 is going to have a socialist mayor. Los Angeles very 207 00:13:02,480 --> 00:13:04,600 well can have a socialist mayor, and one by one 208 00:13:04,679 --> 00:13:08,000 these cities will fall because the establishment right now means 209 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:11,360 status quo and Democrat voters, especially young ones with all 210 00:13:11,399 --> 00:13:13,919 the energy, don't like the status quo right now. 211 00:13:14,399 --> 00:13:17,240 Speaker 1: And he's right, they have a lot of energy. And 212 00:13:17,279 --> 00:13:19,679 so we've talked about the Democrats and Republicans and the 213 00:13:19,720 --> 00:13:24,080 fact that they change over years. The Republicans today are 214 00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:29,200 split by maga influence and it's not the old established 215 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:33,639 establishment Republican party, not at all. That was the point 216 00:13:33,720 --> 00:13:35,720 of Donald Trump with to go in and kick out 217 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:38,679 the old establishment. And the Democrats are going through the 218 00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:43,679 same exact thing. So mark your calendars fairly closely. Yet 219 00:13:43,679 --> 00:13:45,480 you don't have to go out that many years, and 220 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:49,600 we will see dramatically different political parties. The Republican and 221 00:13:49,720 --> 00:13:54,000 Democrat parties are not going to be recognizable. Carlos Jmenez 222 00:13:54,159 --> 00:13:59,879 a longtime Republican South from South Florida. He also is 223 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:03,120 very concerned about what's going on with the Democrats being 224 00:14:03,159 --> 00:14:05,879 taken over. Even though he's a Republican. He thinks the 225 00:14:05,919 --> 00:14:07,000 Socialists are going to win. 226 00:14:07,679 --> 00:14:10,440 Speaker 10: I don't think they can and they're losing the battle 227 00:14:10,559 --> 00:14:14,200 big time. And so can you imagine that you actually 228 00:14:14,279 --> 00:14:16,120 have to sign a document that says that you want 229 00:14:16,159 --> 00:14:20,480 secure borders, that you support capitalism, and that you're patriotic. 230 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:22,879 I mean, you have to go that fara and that's 231 00:14:22,879 --> 00:14:26,799 actually sign a document that shows how frightening this Democrat 232 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:30,720 Party has become and that they can never ever, you know, 233 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:34,919 get the reigns of power, because they will change America fundamentally. 234 00:14:35,120 --> 00:14:38,240 And by the way, what's happened in New York and 235 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:42,919 those supposed Democrats socialists, No they're not. They're actually fascists 236 00:14:42,919 --> 00:14:45,759 wrapped around socialism. And there are some images coming out 237 00:14:45,759 --> 00:14:48,159 of New York that are frightening to me. Things that 238 00:14:48,440 --> 00:14:50,759 I've seen, you know, I've seen images like that, you know, 239 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:54,039 back in the thirties in Germany. And so this is 240 00:14:54,080 --> 00:14:57,080 what's happening now to the Democrat Party. And there's thirteen 241 00:14:57,120 --> 00:15:00,600 of them, thirteen of over two hundred have signed a 242 00:15:00,759 --> 00:15:04,679 pledge that they are they're patriotic, they like capitalism, and 243 00:15:04,679 --> 00:15:09,080 they want secure borders. That in itself shows you the 244 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:11,320 state of the Democrat Party today. 245 00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:13,200 Speaker 2: It's a statement of weakness to stop them. 246 00:15:13,279 --> 00:15:18,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, I'm watching all these people and I'm thinking, well, 247 00:15:18,440 --> 00:15:22,440 the establishment Republicans, the old establishment Republicans are kind of 248 00:15:22,440 --> 00:15:24,480 looking for a home because they got pushed out of 249 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:27,480 the Republican Party. Are they going to line up with 250 00:15:27,639 --> 00:15:34,200 the establishment Democrats and somehow work together? You never know. 251 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:38,360 One of the leaders of the Democrat Party, Alyssa Slotkin, 252 00:15:38,480 --> 00:15:44,399 the Senator from Michigan, she wants to get rid of 253 00:15:44,799 --> 00:15:47,399 all the leadership of the Democrat Party. 254 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:52,080 Speaker 11: There is every single day a debate going on in 255 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:55,080 the Democratic Party. And for me, this is why I'm 256 00:15:55,240 --> 00:16:02,480 a big believer in just new leadership. Significant The old 257 00:16:02,519 --> 00:16:05,600 models do not work for people, and that including the 258 00:16:05,639 --> 00:16:06,440 Democratic Party. 259 00:16:06,960 --> 00:16:09,000 Speaker 1: I don't take a wild stab. I think she's in 260 00:16:09,039 --> 00:16:13,320 her forties, so she's when she talks about the old model, 261 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:17,200 I think she's talking about the old people in the party. 262 00:16:18,240 --> 00:16:21,960 All right, let's move on. Big decision today by the 263 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:29,120 jury in Los Angeles. This guy, Jonathan render Neck was 264 00:16:29,480 --> 00:16:35,840 an uber driver who was accused of causing the LA fires, 265 00:16:35,960 --> 00:16:41,519 especially Pacific Palisades, and they found him. I don't know. 266 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:43,759 He called nine to one one a number of times 267 00:16:43,799 --> 00:16:47,519 on New Year's Eve. He was an uber driver. New 268 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:50,519 Year's Eve. He was complaining the passengers that he drove 269 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:54,039 that evening, said he was angry that he did not 270 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:59,960 have a date, and he basically thought Luigi Magioni was 271 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:04,079 a hero, and he was mad at rich people. And 272 00:17:04,119 --> 00:17:06,960 you're in Pacific Palace Age, which is almost one hundred 273 00:17:06,960 --> 00:17:11,079 percent rich people. And so they said, huh, he must 274 00:17:11,119 --> 00:17:14,880 have started the fire. And so they found a lighter 275 00:17:15,119 --> 00:17:19,720 in his car. Well, I don't know, I don't have one, 276 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:22,200 but I'm sure a lot of you have a lighter 277 00:17:22,279 --> 00:17:27,079 somewhere on your person or in your purse or who knows. 278 00:17:27,880 --> 00:17:31,359 But that was that, and then they had they had 279 00:17:31,440 --> 00:17:36,000 other evidence that he was there, I guess, tracking his phone. 280 00:17:36,279 --> 00:17:40,359 But the fire that they accused him of starting on 281 00:17:40,920 --> 00:17:45,480 New Year's Eve, the fire department went and put that 282 00:17:45,559 --> 00:17:50,960 fire out, but it was five days later when apparently, 283 00:17:51,200 --> 00:17:56,319 and I had no idea, but apparently the roots of 284 00:17:56,359 --> 00:17:59,920 the bushes that were burned, the roots were still burning 285 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:03,799 and with the wind whipping up, five days later, the 286 00:18:03,839 --> 00:18:07,559 fire came back to life and led to burning down 287 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:11,359 thousands of homes. So they had a trial. The trial 288 00:18:11,359 --> 00:18:16,119 has been underway. The jury came back today. Judge had 289 00:18:16,519 --> 00:18:19,079 this is a federal courthouse in Los Angeles. The judge 290 00:18:19,119 --> 00:18:23,839 had to declare a mistrial, and the way the jury 291 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:30,359 broke down, ten said not guilty, too said guilty. So 292 00:18:30,799 --> 00:18:33,480 the Feds now this afternoon, after all of this, this, 293 00:18:33,720 --> 00:18:37,039 so this mistrial has been declared. It was all based 294 00:18:37,079 --> 00:18:40,559 on circumstantial evidence. And I thought, how can they accused 295 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:44,240 him to use him of a fire that he wasn't 296 00:18:44,279 --> 00:18:48,079 anywhere near five days later but they link him to 297 00:18:48,279 --> 00:18:54,559 the burning roots from January December thirty. First, well, here's 298 00:18:54,599 --> 00:18:58,440 some of the comments made by jury members after they 299 00:18:58,480 --> 00:19:01,200 came out of the courthouse, just too holding out. 300 00:19:01,240 --> 00:19:03,279 Speaker 12: The entire time, we were like kind of going back 301 00:19:03,319 --> 00:19:06,319 and forth and it was like undecided and decided. Maybe 302 00:19:06,359 --> 00:19:10,519 like four of us were like set on the not guilty, 303 00:19:10,599 --> 00:19:13,160 and then they were all undecided. And then there's it 304 00:19:13,279 --> 00:19:15,799 just happened that one person was not gonna budge from 305 00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:19,400 the guilties. And then someone this morning said I go 306 00:19:19,480 --> 00:19:20,400 on that side too. 307 00:19:20,599 --> 00:19:21,480 Speaker 1: And do you figure out? 308 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:25,519 Speaker 12: But definitely started out the majority was always like not 309 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:31,680 guilty and like seven five yeah, like probably seven and 310 00:19:31,720 --> 00:19:35,880 then like three undecided too guilty. And then we talked 311 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:38,759 and talked, and when we realized it was like someone 312 00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:41,640 wasn't gonna budge, we were like what are we doing here? 313 00:19:41,880 --> 00:19:43,680 Speaker 2: I'm gonna go nuts. 314 00:19:43,799 --> 00:19:47,400 Speaker 12: I think it's such a waste of our American dollars. 315 00:19:47,559 --> 00:19:52,759 I just feel like such negligence. Like honestly, I hate 316 00:19:52,759 --> 00:19:55,839 saying that because I'm not you know, it didn't happen 317 00:19:55,880 --> 00:19:59,640 to me, but there were so many, so many people 318 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:03,160 up there said they did see smoldering, So why wasn't 319 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:06,160 it taken care of? It was put out and no 320 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:09,079 one was there. I think the photos like six am, 321 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:13,039 nobody was there. People were hiking and it wasn't until 322 00:20:13,079 --> 00:20:16,599 the huge palace dates happened and a lot of things 323 00:20:16,680 --> 00:20:20,279 were not maybe necessarily excluded, but the way that was 324 00:20:20,359 --> 00:20:22,920 presented was very misleading. 325 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:26,559 Speaker 13: Yeah, I think I agree with Serena here that you know, 326 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:28,880 I don't think he was I would have leaned not 327 00:20:28,920 --> 00:20:33,359 guilty as well. I think a lot of the witnesses 328 00:20:33,359 --> 00:20:35,839 that the defense brought really helped suade me. They brought 329 00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:38,839 in their own experts who didn't agree with the government's experts. 330 00:20:40,359 --> 00:20:45,799 Having not secured a scene for almost two weeks says 331 00:20:45,839 --> 00:20:49,319 a lot. And to pin that on one person, you know, 332 00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:51,720 at the end of the day, we're all human. I 333 00:20:51,799 --> 00:20:55,359 realize mistakes are made, but this is a man's life, 334 00:20:55,559 --> 00:20:57,599 and we can't ignore that fact either. 335 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:01,559 Speaker 1: So it was I don't understand why the FEDS are 336 00:21:01,559 --> 00:21:05,759 going to retry this guy because it wasn't eleven to 337 00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:09,599 one in favor of convicting. It was ten to two 338 00:21:11,079 --> 00:21:14,000 feeling it was not guilty. They could not. You can't 339 00:21:14,079 --> 00:21:17,799 tell the jury that something that he did a week 340 00:21:17,839 --> 00:21:21,759 ago caused a fire a week later. It just did 341 00:21:21,799 --> 00:21:25,200 not pass the smell test. In Paul Morrow, the former 342 00:21:25,519 --> 00:21:29,720 detective over at the NYPD, had similar feelings. 343 00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:34,240 Speaker 6: I actually was not just a because primarily of the 344 00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:37,920 delay in time between when he supposedly set the original 345 00:21:37,960 --> 00:21:41,000 fire and when the Palisades fire actually took place that 346 00:21:41,079 --> 00:21:43,720 did the damage that we all know so much about 347 00:21:43,799 --> 00:21:45,799 and saw the films of. There's a little bit of 348 00:21:45,799 --> 00:21:49,039 a causation issue there. Un Let's remember something. This doesn't 349 00:21:49,079 --> 00:21:52,319 mean that the ten people who found him not guilty 350 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:55,880 or were going to find him not guilty wholeheartedly believed 351 00:21:55,920 --> 00:21:58,119 that he had nothing to do with this. The bar 352 00:21:58,480 --> 00:22:02,319 is reasonable doubt, and this was a very unique set 353 00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:05,720 of circumstances. Now, look, I never worked us in an explosion. 354 00:22:05,799 --> 00:22:09,640 That's the units here in NYPD. I had a couple 355 00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:12,759 of arson things. But the idea that a fire could 356 00:22:12,839 --> 00:22:16,039 go down into the roots of a tree and sort 357 00:22:16,039 --> 00:22:19,000 of percolate for almost a week and then re emerge 358 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:22,279 is novel to me, and I suspect it would be 359 00:22:22,519 --> 00:22:25,960 novel to a lot of jurors. And so, while I 360 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:28,599 do think there was some compelling evidence here, the stuff 361 00:22:28,599 --> 00:22:31,880 on his phone chat, GBT and all of that, I 362 00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:34,920 think the defense did a good job of raising a 363 00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:38,440 causation reasonable doubt here, and the proofs into putting ten 364 00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:39,240 people went for it. 365 00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:44,400 Speaker 1: I think I'm right there with Paul. I'm having a 366 00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:48,440 hard time saying you are you absolutely sure, beyond a 367 00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:52,519 reasonable doubt that the fire that he set on December 368 00:22:52,559 --> 00:22:55,119 thirty first was the cause of the fire that was 369 00:22:55,319 --> 00:23:00,680 January sixth Maybe, but beyond a reasonable debt? Well carry 370 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:04,880 her bond. Former DOJ lawyer, she weighs in us. From 371 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:06,799 the legal side, Yeah. 372 00:23:06,759 --> 00:23:09,720 Speaker 14: You know, what may have convinced the jury or have 373 00:23:09,799 --> 00:23:14,279 certainly impacted those tenders was an expert that the defense called, 374 00:23:14,319 --> 00:23:18,319 and this was a retired LA Sheriff's Department arson investigator, 375 00:23:18,759 --> 00:23:22,480 and he testified that this case is quote probably not 376 00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:25,279 an arson and then he went on to say, in fact, 377 00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:27,680 I don't think it's arson at all to kind of 378 00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:30,119 tack onto what Paul is saying. So maybe that that 379 00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:32,200 expert given that he was, you know, part of the 380 00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:34,680 LA Sheriff's department at one point, this is this was 381 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:37,000 his area of expertise. The fact that he came and 382 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:39,119 said I don't think this is what it is may 383 00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:41,880 have put those tenders over the edge the other way. 384 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:44,759 Speaker 1: Oh again, after all this is said and done, the 385 00:23:44,799 --> 00:23:48,519 federal prosecutor in La said, we're going to retry him. 386 00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:52,240 You're wasting your time, You're wasting money, You're wasting a 387 00:23:52,279 --> 00:23:56,119 lot of people's time, I think. But in any case, 388 00:23:56,160 --> 00:24:01,480 he's set to free. He's free until until they reset 389 00:24:01,519 --> 00:24:04,079 the trial. I think before they reset the trial, they'll 390 00:24:04,079 --> 00:24:08,119 rethink this and maybe not try him again. John Bolton, 391 00:24:09,039 --> 00:24:12,000 who I've told you before, I know he's a big hawk. 392 00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:19,160 I know John. I admire him. He's so brilliant. He 393 00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:22,000 is just a brilliant man. He was at the top 394 00:24:22,039 --> 00:24:24,200 of his class at Yale Law School. I mean, he 395 00:24:24,319 --> 00:24:27,920 just he's a smart guy. So if he was so 396 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:34,720 smart and he was the national security advisor in Trump 397 00:24:34,759 --> 00:24:40,480 one point zero, he knows the rules about classified documents 398 00:24:40,519 --> 00:24:44,519 backwards and forwards. Well, what he was doing was he 399 00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:49,519 was taking notes while he was in national security meetings 400 00:24:50,039 --> 00:24:53,200 or meetings with the president, and then in order to 401 00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:56,279 remember those And I do the same thing myself sometimes 402 00:24:56,319 --> 00:25:00,000 I'll send myself an email to remember something that from 403 00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:02,400 from the office so that when I get home it'll 404 00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:04,759 be there. Well, that's what he was doing. He wanted 405 00:25:04,799 --> 00:25:07,680 to remember some of these things, so he sent them 406 00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:12,160 to himself, and therefore they were on his personal computer. 407 00:25:12,319 --> 00:25:15,319 He would, I don't know, open them up, print them, 408 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:17,599 keep them, download them, do something with him. But they 409 00:25:17,599 --> 00:25:21,200 were on his computer. And apparently he also talked to 410 00:25:21,279 --> 00:25:24,400 his wife and daughter about some of the matters that 411 00:25:24,559 --> 00:25:29,000 he was dealing with regarding national security. Well, that's a 412 00:25:29,079 --> 00:25:33,039 huge no no. And the president, you know, he's on 413 00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:37,880 a retribution at campaign, and he doesn't like John Bolton, 414 00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:41,759 and John Bolton doesn't like him, even though they worked 415 00:25:41,759 --> 00:25:46,000 together many years ago. But if they're going to be 416 00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:51,039 the NSA guy, and you know what the rules are, 417 00:25:51,519 --> 00:25:55,279 you're leaving yourself open for the President or anybody else 418 00:25:55,279 --> 00:25:58,160 in the federal government to charge you with a crime. 419 00:25:58,319 --> 00:26:01,039 And that is what he's been charged with him. Today 420 00:26:01,599 --> 00:26:07,359 he showed up in federal court in Maryland and pleaded guilty. 421 00:26:08,279 --> 00:26:11,599 Here's Kelly Hayes, the US Attorney for Maryland this morning. 422 00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:16,400 Speaker 15: Just moments ago, John Robert Bolton, the second pled guilty 423 00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:21,759 in federal court to the unlawful retention of national defense information. 424 00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:25,960 According to the terms of the plea agreement, mister Bolton 425 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:30,359 faces a maximum sentence of up to five years in prison, 426 00:26:31,039 --> 00:26:34,000 followed by a term of up to three years of 427 00:26:34,079 --> 00:26:38,200 supervised release. He will also pay a fine of two 428 00:26:38,279 --> 00:26:43,680 point two five million dollars and will forfeit his pension 429 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:48,880 under the Hiss Act. As National Security Advisor to the 430 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:53,240 President of the United States, mister Bolton had access to 431 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:59,920 and was responsible for safeguarding the most sensitive national defense information, 432 00:27:00,079 --> 00:27:02,359 including classified material. 433 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,680 Speaker 1: So this is head scratchiform me because, like I said, 434 00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:10,279 Bolton is so brilliant, but this was a stupid mistake. 435 00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:13,519 This is something This is stupid. So I don't know 436 00:27:13,559 --> 00:27:16,799 why he did what he did. He should have known better, 437 00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:22,200 but he pled guilty for illegally retaining national security information. 438 00:27:23,039 --> 00:27:27,559 And he was the ambassador to the UN in the 439 00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:30,200 In the George W. Bush's administration and then he was 440 00:27:30,599 --> 00:27:33,920 NSA National Security advisor in Trump one point zero. So 441 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:37,119 he's going to forfeit his pension. I don't know how 442 00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:41,880 many years worth, but it's it's probably decent money. Paid 443 00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:45,480 two point two five million in fines, and they're going 444 00:27:45,559 --> 00:27:49,480 to sentence him down the road a little bit and 445 00:27:49,599 --> 00:27:52,880 they may give him up up to five years in prison. 446 00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:54,920 I don't know if he's going to see jail time. 447 00:27:55,960 --> 00:28:02,440 But the problem became no One was that he discovered 448 00:28:03,599 --> 00:28:07,519 that Iran. He had knew somebody was hacking his home 449 00:28:07,559 --> 00:28:11,200 computer and it turned out to it with somebody from Iran. 450 00:28:11,319 --> 00:28:15,640 Iran also has a hit out for him, a hit contract. 451 00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:19,599 They want to kill him. He John Bolton, Mike Pompeo, 452 00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:23,720 and President Trump for killing and being involved in killing 453 00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:28,079 General Solomoni, and so Bolton's on that list. And so 454 00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:31,519 besides wanting to kill him, they also hacked his computer. 455 00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:35,119 So he knew his computer was hacked. He called up 456 00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:39,240 the NSSAY and said, hey, my computer has been hacked. 457 00:28:39,599 --> 00:28:42,359 They did the technical work and found out it was 458 00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:48,119 somebody from Iran. So he did have secret information that 459 00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:50,519 Iran was able to get, which is why they don't 460 00:28:50,519 --> 00:28:54,720 want people doing what he did. The interesting part about 461 00:28:54,759 --> 00:28:58,759 this is Donald Trump was also charged with the marral 462 00:28:58,839 --> 00:29:03,960 Lago documents his place, but they dropped those charges because 463 00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:09,920 the prosecutor did not have authority to charge him with 464 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:15,279 those crimes. And Joe Biden was also charged. Well, he 465 00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:19,240 was in charge, was he was the investigator because of 466 00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:23,160 national security documents that he had the Adam at his home, 467 00:29:23,759 --> 00:29:25,799 He had him in his home office, he had him 468 00:29:25,839 --> 00:29:28,880 in the garage next to the corvette. He Adam at 469 00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:32,200 at the University of Pennsylvania Biden Center. They were all 470 00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:35,759 over the place. But they did not charge Joe Biden 471 00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:39,880 because remember what they wrote that he was just the 472 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:44,920 doddering old man. So they didn't charge Biden because he 473 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,960 was the dottering old man. They didn't charge Trump because 474 00:29:48,039 --> 00:29:51,480 the prosecutor didn't have the authority. But they went after 475 00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:58,119 John Bolton. And he's paying dearly, dearly, dearly for his mistakes. 476 00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:04,920 And speaking of Iran, so I told you yesterday that 477 00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:12,480 Iran has fired upon a ship flagged a cargo ship 478 00:30:12,559 --> 00:30:18,200 flagged in Singapore, and President today said that it was 479 00:30:18,839 --> 00:30:22,319 a mistake on the part of Iran to do that. 480 00:30:22,319 --> 00:30:26,519 That was a huge mistake and it violated the ceasefire agreement. 481 00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:31,640 So General Keene was asked about, now what do we do? 482 00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:34,839 Speaker 8: Well, it didn't surprise me at all, I mean, because 483 00:30:35,519 --> 00:30:38,440 the reality is hold on when they look at the 484 00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:40,279 stretch of the moves and what they were able to 485 00:30:40,359 --> 00:30:43,680 achieve when they first shut it down on two March, 486 00:30:43,759 --> 00:30:46,680 you know, just several days after the war began on 487 00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:49,880 February twenty eighth, and then we went to a ceasefire 488 00:30:51,839 --> 00:30:55,680 several weeks later on April the eighth. They achieved something 489 00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:59,279 with that and that is stuck in their head. They 490 00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:05,200 believe this gives them geopolitical advantage over our over their adversaries, 491 00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:08,559 the Golf States in the region, and also some leverage 492 00:31:09,319 --> 00:31:12,920 with the United States. So remember the MoU. While everything 493 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,119 is in the future in the MU, over the sixty 494 00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:18,400 day negotiation period and then some you know, in terms 495 00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:21,799 of all things nuclear ballistic missiles, support for proxies, and 496 00:31:21,799 --> 00:31:25,359 the list goes on. But the deal, an agreement that 497 00:31:25,519 --> 00:31:27,680 was struck, was over the strait of a moves in 498 00:31:27,759 --> 00:31:31,200 the MoU, and that certainly is that it is supposed 499 00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:33,440 to be open all lanes clear of the lanes that 500 00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:38,759 are not clear and no administrative control whatsoever. And here 501 00:31:38,839 --> 00:31:43,240 Iran is doing two things. One is they're exercising administrative 502 00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:45,440 control and certainly. 503 00:31:45,079 --> 00:31:46,039 Speaker 2: That is prohibited. 504 00:31:46,279 --> 00:31:49,400 Speaker 8: But what I mean by that they're telling ships where 505 00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:52,000 they can go and when they can go in terms 506 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:55,039 of what lanes. And two you have to get Iranian 507 00:31:55,079 --> 00:32:01,400 insurance to execute that. That is absolutely prohibited by the MoU. 508 00:32:01,839 --> 00:32:06,240 And then obviously violating the cease fire is what it is. 509 00:32:06,839 --> 00:32:09,519 And taking a cargo ship, Now why did they shoot 510 00:32:09,519 --> 00:32:12,079 at that ship, Well, because it was in a lane 511 00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:15,079 that they didn't want them to be in. Elaine is 512 00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:20,359 much closer to Oman Alman and where US military forces are. 513 00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:23,240 So we're going to have to arm wrestle this out, 514 00:32:23,839 --> 00:32:26,279 make certain that they step back, and if they could, 515 00:32:26,359 --> 00:32:28,839 they continue to do this. I think a couple of 516 00:32:28,839 --> 00:32:30,759 things are going to happen. The President is not going 517 00:32:30,799 --> 00:32:35,079 to let this stand. He's been public record explaining exactly 518 00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:37,680 where he is on the straits of a moves them. 519 00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:40,519 MoU was kind of confusing in the sense, remember what 520 00:32:40,559 --> 00:32:45,200 it said, no restrictions during a sixty day period. Then 521 00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:48,200 when a sixty day period is over, Yes, Oman and 522 00:32:49,559 --> 00:32:52,160 the running is going to work out the details in 523 00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:54,240 terms of how to administer it to it, well, that 524 00:32:54,279 --> 00:32:57,920 implies a level of control. The President spoke out very 525 00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:00,319 pointedly on that and said that's not going to happen. 526 00:33:00,759 --> 00:33:03,359 If there's any if anybody's going to control the straits, 527 00:33:03,359 --> 00:33:05,359 that's going to be the United States, and we'll actually 528 00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:09,279 charge a fee if a fee is appropriate. So this 529 00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:13,279 is going to get resolved. Either it'll get resolved in 530 00:33:13,319 --> 00:33:16,240 the runnings will stand down and stop what they're doing, 531 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:20,519 or we will force them to stand down, and Step 532 00:33:20,559 --> 00:33:23,400 one would be put back in place what we were 533 00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:27,000 doing when we clear the lane and we were protecting 534 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:28,880 the ships to go through that one lane that was 535 00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:31,680 close to them on we were getting fifty five ships 536 00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:35,480 through their a day. Or if necessary, go back to 537 00:33:35,559 --> 00:33:40,119 Project Freedom, which is we absolutely open the straits physically 538 00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:42,920 and keep them open and maintain a presence there to 539 00:33:43,039 --> 00:33:47,599 guarantee that that's open. And obviously that would take some time, 540 00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:51,079 but nonetheless that's what's in front of us. Step one. 541 00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:54,119 I see the President putting his foot down here and 542 00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:56,839 tell them to knock it off. And if that is 543 00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:59,920 not enough, then we're going to move into the phases. 544 00:34:00,119 --> 00:34:02,079 Speaker 2: I think I just mentioned to you. 545 00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:05,279 Speaker 1: Well, we'll see. I mean, you can't predict what Donald 546 00:34:05,319 --> 00:34:09,920 Trump's going to do, but he keeps You know, everybody 547 00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:12,559 gave Barack Obama a hard time because of the fact 548 00:34:12,559 --> 00:34:14,800 that he had a red line and he just ignored it. 549 00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:17,960 And now the question is is Donald Trump going to 550 00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:22,119 ignore Is this a red line? Donald Trump doesn't define 551 00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:24,360 red lines the way a lot of people do, so 552 00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:26,480 we'll have to wait to see what the President decides 553 00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:33,760 to do about this violation of the ceasefire. In money News, Oh, 554 00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:38,199 We've got two things. One is after this podcast, we 555 00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:42,920 are going to post the Financial Friday version of my 556 00:34:43,079 --> 00:34:49,119 podcast Family. So again I'm going to pitch on this podcast. 557 00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:53,559 If you have money questions, you have any about investing, 558 00:34:53,639 --> 00:34:59,239 about saving, about which to do roth IRA, regular IRA, 559 00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:07,920 various interest only mortgages or adjustable mortgages versus fixed rate more, 560 00:35:08,039 --> 00:35:11,960 whatever you have in a money question, Mutual funds, ETFs. 561 00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:15,800 That's what it's all about. And you can find my 562 00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:19,119 phone number on my website, which is Tom Sullivan dot 563 00:35:19,159 --> 00:35:22,320 com and call the phone number and leave a question 564 00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:26,199 financial question. I love it. We used to do this 565 00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:28,960 many years ago and it was a very popular part 566 00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:32,800 of the show. The phone numbers eight five five two 567 00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:37,800 nine five sixty six hundred, eighty five five two nine 568 00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:42,559 five sixty six hundred and then again the Financial Friday 569 00:35:42,599 --> 00:35:44,880 podcast will be up here in just a little bit. 570 00:35:45,599 --> 00:35:50,320 One thing about money today, some newsmakers Neil Cashcari, who 571 00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:54,079 is the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, 572 00:35:54,119 --> 00:35:58,239 came out today and said he expects a rate hike 573 00:35:59,599 --> 00:36:05,199 this yes, sometime this year. Did say when, but that 574 00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:08,320 there's been more and more mumbling about instead of lowering 575 00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:12,079 interest rates, that the Fed may raise interest rates because 576 00:36:12,199 --> 00:36:17,480 inflation continues to creep up very slowly, but it keeps 577 00:36:17,559 --> 00:36:24,800 going higher. So watch for that meantime. Wall Street today, No, 578 00:36:25,039 --> 00:36:27,480 I just kind of state it was a very Friday session. 579 00:36:27,519 --> 00:36:31,320 The Dow Jones industrials down a little down forty four 580 00:36:32,119 --> 00:36:35,599 to fifty one thousand and eight, seventy six s some 581 00:36:35,719 --> 00:36:40,679 P down three, NASDAK down sixty. Price of gold the 582 00:36:40,679 --> 00:36:42,840 only thing with a green arrow. It was up thirty 583 00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:46,679 four dollars to four thousand and eighty one. And oil 584 00:36:47,039 --> 00:36:51,440 continues to keep dropping. For the first time West Texas 585 00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:55,280 Intermediate below seventy it's at six, down two dollars and 586 00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:58,920 fifty cents down to sixty nine dollars and some change 587 00:36:59,679 --> 00:37:03,159 for a barrel of West Texas Intermediate. Remember it was 588 00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:07,719 about sixty when the war started, so we're almost back 589 00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:12,199 to pre war prices. So that's it for today. Thank 590 00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:15,800 you for coming by. We will be back again with 591 00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:18,760 the Financial Friday Podcast a little bit and we'll also 592 00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:21,400 be back here again on Monday, and I hope to 593 00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:21,960 see you then