1 00:00:22,280 --> 00:00:26,679 Speaker 1: And hello, welcome to the Big Podcast. On this Friday, 2 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:33,679 the thirteenth of March, year of Our Lord, twenty twenty six. 3 00:00:33,799 --> 00:00:36,520 My name is Tom Sullivan. I don't know anybody have 4 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:41,520 a Friday the thirteenth problem, So, oh my gosh. I 5 00:00:41,560 --> 00:00:43,439 was ready to get this all put to bed and 6 00:00:44,479 --> 00:00:48,039 post it a little bit earlier today. But right late 7 00:00:48,079 --> 00:00:53,479 this afternoon there was a man alive, I mean an 8 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:58,799 episode that really jumped out at everybody. And that is 9 00:01:00,079 --> 00:01:04,719 that late this afternoon, a federal judge ruled a brother 10 00:01:04,879 --> 00:01:10,879 scathing ruling blocking the subpoenas issued by a grand jury 11 00:01:11,519 --> 00:01:15,280 to the Federal Reserve is part of their investigation about 12 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:22,879 the chairman, Jerome Powell. So well, the judge said that 13 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:27,480 this has zero evidence that there is any sort of 14 00:01:27,599 --> 00:01:32,200 criminal activity. And this is not the first time that 15 00:01:32,239 --> 00:01:36,920 this US Attorney's office, run by Janine Pirot in Washington, 16 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:40,200 d C, has been shut down. She went after James Colemy. 17 00:01:40,319 --> 00:01:42,280 She lost that. She went after well, that was the 18 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:48,239 Eastern District of Virginia. They went after Letitia James and 19 00:01:48,319 --> 00:01:51,159 all of this. They all always come back and say, sorry, 20 00:01:51,239 --> 00:01:54,920 Department of Justice, but you are targeting these people and 21 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:59,719 so this looks like it is the same that the 22 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:06,400 judge said that there's zero evidence and that essentially the 23 00:02:06,439 --> 00:02:11,319 Department of Justice is targeting Jerome Powell. Now let's go 24 00:02:11,439 --> 00:02:15,439 back to why Jerome Powell. Just reminds you he's a 25 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:18,879 chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. The Federal Reserve Board 26 00:02:19,599 --> 00:02:25,319 is an independent agency. They were created by Congress and 27 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:28,360 they have to report to Congress twice a year, which 28 00:02:28,439 --> 00:02:34,280 they do. But that's it. They are not a government agency. 29 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:38,840 They are not funded by taxpayers. Your dollars, in mind, 30 00:02:38,879 --> 00:02:41,960 do not go to the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve 31 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:46,439 is the central bank of our nation, and all of 32 00:02:46,479 --> 00:02:51,680 the banks have to be members of the central Bank 33 00:02:52,439 --> 00:02:57,120 and they pay fees to the central Bank. And that 34 00:02:57,319 --> 00:03:01,479 is how the central Bank, the Federal Reserve Bank, gets 35 00:03:01,479 --> 00:03:04,479 their money. There is no taxpayer money. And this is 36 00:03:04,479 --> 00:03:09,800 what's so crazy about this. And every television reporter, anchor, 37 00:03:09,879 --> 00:03:12,360 you name it, they all say about, oh my gosh, 38 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:16,400 there's an investigation into a billion dollar overrun on their building, 39 00:03:16,439 --> 00:03:20,879 which is crazy, and so somebody internally should be fired 40 00:03:20,919 --> 00:03:25,400 for that. But they go on to say, and the 41 00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:32,000 abuse of taxpayer dollars and there are no taxpayer dollars involved. None, 42 00:03:32,319 --> 00:03:37,599 So I guess they should probably fire the person who 43 00:03:38,199 --> 00:03:41,439 managed the remodeling of the Federal Reserve buildings in DC. 44 00:03:42,599 --> 00:03:44,840 But since j. Powell is the chairman of it, they're 45 00:03:44,879 --> 00:03:49,479 going after him. And Donald Trump has made it abundantly 46 00:03:49,719 --> 00:03:53,879 clear that he does not like Jeroam Powell and that 47 00:03:53,919 --> 00:03:56,960 he disagrees with Powell. He thinks interest rates should have 48 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:00,599 been dropped a lot lower, a lot sooner. Disagree with 49 00:04:00,639 --> 00:04:04,080 the President on that, but presidents and FED chairmans have 50 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:07,039 had disagreements for as long as I can remember. So 51 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:13,000 the judge issued the ruling today basically blocking the subpoenas 52 00:04:13,919 --> 00:04:21,759 by a grand jury regarding the Federal Reserve. So Janine Piro, 53 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:26,920 who is the US attorney for DC, I know her, 54 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:30,920 but I used to work with her. I will tell 55 00:04:30,959 --> 00:04:38,560 you how do I do this kindly? She has a temper, 56 00:04:39,639 --> 00:04:43,680 and I mean it is a hot one. I've seen it. 57 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:48,680 She's made a lot of enemies over the years by 58 00:04:49,959 --> 00:04:54,680 her demeanor. So she came out and she decided to 59 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:59,519 hold a news conference, and for seven and a half 60 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:03,079 minutes she went after the judge and how he is 61 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:07,759 an activist judge, and she went over the law and saying, 62 00:05:07,759 --> 00:05:11,639 you're stopping the people's right to a grand jury to 63 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:14,519 look into these crimes and all the anyway, she went 64 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:18,279 through all of it. She complained vociferously about the judge, 65 00:05:19,079 --> 00:05:23,000 and then she took questions. So here's a I think 66 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:27,439 it's about five minutes or so of Q and A, 67 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:32,439 and she I wanted to play it for you, and 68 00:05:32,439 --> 00:05:36,959 then we'll play also the former US Attorney Ellie Honig 69 00:05:36,959 --> 00:05:42,720 also who maybe has a more relaxed view of what happened. 70 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:46,319 So anyway, seven minutes of her complaining about the judge 71 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:49,839 blocking the subpoenas, and then she took questions, and here's 72 00:05:49,879 --> 00:05:50,879 where it starts. 73 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:54,399 Speaker 2: Go ahead, sir, you think that your office is failures 74 00:05:55,720 --> 00:06:00,160 elsecuse six numbers. So I'm not here to talk about 75 00:06:00,199 --> 00:06:03,519 six members of Congress. I'm here to talk about the 76 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:07,920 fact that the grand jury has a job. They look 77 00:06:07,959 --> 00:06:11,839 at evidence, they decide whether they want to indict. If 78 00:06:11,839 --> 00:06:15,120 they don't indict, so be it. And if you want 79 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:17,560 to know what the judge, thanks, go ask him. 80 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:21,560 Speaker 1: Next question, Tidy, your reaction to stamens from Senator Tom 81 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:24,480 tell Us, you know has been blocking and vowed to 82 00:06:24,519 --> 00:06:25,439 continue blocking. 83 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:28,639 Speaker 2: You know, honestly, I don't know, and I don't care, 84 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:33,079 and I'll tell you why. I am in a legal lane. 85 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:37,240 All of the rest is white noise. I don't care 86 00:06:37,319 --> 00:06:41,319 what they say. I have a job, I have the 87 00:06:41,439 --> 00:06:45,240 ability to go into a grand jury. There are questions 88 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:48,920 that the American public and people in DC are entitled 89 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:53,199 to know where a billion dollars has gone, and that's 90 00:06:53,319 --> 00:06:54,120 my focus. 91 00:06:54,279 --> 00:06:56,800 Speaker 1: But he is asking for an assurance that the investigation 92 00:06:56,959 --> 00:06:59,519 into power has this has ended it. 93 00:07:00,079 --> 00:07:03,160 Speaker 2: Lady Conceived, did you hear what I just said? I 94 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:08,160 just said that this decision will be appealed by the 95 00:07:08,279 --> 00:07:12,160 United States Department of Justice. That's the answer to your question. 96 00:07:13,639 --> 00:07:16,480 We're looking at one thousand and one and we're also 97 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:19,439 looking at a statute having to do with fraud. But 98 00:07:19,519 --> 00:07:22,279 it's up to the grand jury to make that decision. 99 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:28,439 We're a billion dollars over in cost overruns. Are you kidding? 100 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:32,040 A billion dollars? We're not talking about huge buildings. Here, 101 00:07:32,759 --> 00:07:37,639 go ahead, Trump stick though I don't even know who 102 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:38,040 he is. 103 00:07:38,399 --> 00:07:42,439 Speaker 3: So isn't this just essentially holding up President Trump's pick 104 00:07:42,639 --> 00:07:43,920 or any forthcoming picks? 105 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:46,720 Speaker 4: Since Senator tell Us say he will not vote. 106 00:07:47,279 --> 00:07:50,439 Speaker 2: Okay, I don't know how to explain this, but I'm 107 00:07:50,439 --> 00:07:53,959 going to try it. I've been a prosecutor, a judge, 108 00:07:54,439 --> 00:07:58,040 a DA and now a United States attorney for well 109 00:07:58,079 --> 00:08:02,920 over three decades. Politics is not the lane I'm in 110 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:06,920 right now. And I have a charge and an oath 111 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:11,879 to the Constitution, and my job is to present evidence. 112 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:16,160 And I can do so when I can merely on 113 00:08:16,319 --> 00:08:20,199 the suspicion that the law is being violated, or even 114 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:23,759 just because I want assurance that it's not. I'm not 115 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:27,720 in those lanes, and I will not allow myself or 116 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:30,920 my staff to be in those lanes. And that's why 117 00:08:30,959 --> 00:08:35,279 we brought crime down in this jurisdiction. We are focused 118 00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:38,720 on the law. We're focused on the people of the district. 119 00:08:39,039 --> 00:08:40,960 We are not focused on politics. 120 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:46,720 Speaker 4: Go ahead said that you toply complied a parent direction 121 00:08:46,799 --> 00:08:49,080 to prosecute power. Can you just stay for the public 122 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:52,159 record you have the idea or you know the impetus 123 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:52,879 to study the same. 124 00:08:53,399 --> 00:08:56,600 Speaker 2: First of all, he's totally wrong in his assessment of 125 00:08:56,639 --> 00:08:59,320 the dates, and that's why we're doing a motion to 126 00:08:59,519 --> 00:09:03,559 recon sitter because he got his dates wrong. And as 127 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:07,759 far as I'm concerned. This was something that was a 128 00:09:07,919 --> 00:09:12,360 public interest, It was something that the Senate Banking Committee 129 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:16,200 wanted information on, and it is something within my jurisdiction 130 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:20,000 and my charge. But I want to tell you a story. 131 00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:22,600 When I was a young prosecutor, I was one of 132 00:09:22,639 --> 00:09:27,320 the first people to investigate child abuse as a crime. 133 00:09:27,960 --> 00:09:30,919 Everyone thought it was a social problem and not a 134 00:09:30,919 --> 00:09:34,000 criminal justice problem. The kids are better off with their parents. 135 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:40,000 There was an organization, and that organization didn't have a 136 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:43,720 very good reputation, and it was one of the societies 137 00:09:43,759 --> 00:09:46,639 that was out there trying to prevent cruelty to children. 138 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:51,240 And I set up a relationship where they would bring 139 00:09:51,320 --> 00:09:55,679 me cases. And people were outraged that I would deal 140 00:09:55,759 --> 00:10:03,279 with this organization. And my answer to them thirty forty 141 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:08,720 years ago, I'll deal with the devil. I'll take a 142 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:12,919 case from the devil if you can give me information 143 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:19,360 that will lead me to possibly find a crime. It 144 00:10:19,399 --> 00:10:23,480 doesn't matter where a case comes from. It doesn't matter. 145 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:26,679 I can have a suspicion, I can read the newspaper. 146 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:29,720 I can just want to make sure he didn't commit 147 00:10:29,759 --> 00:10:33,759 a crime, So don't make the judges wrong on his dates. 148 00:10:34,440 --> 00:10:37,480 He is wrong that's why we're not only appealing, we're 149 00:10:37,519 --> 00:10:41,039 making a motion to reconsider. Okay, I want to say 150 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:44,320 one more thing, and I think it's important that you 151 00:10:44,679 --> 00:10:47,799 hear this from me, that there's another way of looking 152 00:10:47,840 --> 00:10:54,440 at this, and that is that it's not just the 153 00:10:54,480 --> 00:10:57,960 public being fed up with this stuff. It's the fact 154 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:02,120 that what we've got a grand jurors who are supposed 155 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:05,120 to hear this, and they haven't been able to hear 156 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:09,159 any of this because someone has decided that they're not 157 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:14,919 entitled to hear this. Can you take this thanks? This 158 00:11:15,120 --> 00:11:22,639 process has been arbitrarily undermined by an activist judge. We 159 00:11:23,039 --> 00:11:28,480 have a process. We have been asking for information about 160 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:34,200 a matter that has raised questions in many people's minds. Senate, Banking, 161 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:39,159 the public, the papers, it doesn't matter. So give me 162 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:42,240 the information so I can assess it. Give me the 163 00:11:42,279 --> 00:11:46,519 information so the grand jury comprised of regular Americans to 164 00:11:46,639 --> 00:11:49,960 say there's nothing here, and I'll accept it the way 165 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:53,799 I accept other cases. Okay, whatever it is, we'll abide 166 00:11:53,799 --> 00:11:58,440 by it. What we don't accept is a judge standing 167 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:01,360 in front of the door of a gre jury blocking 168 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:05,759 our access, a role that has never been envision a 169 00:12:05,879 --> 00:12:09,000 role that will now be used by other defense attorneys 170 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:11,840 around the country. Who's going to come in with a 171 00:12:11,879 --> 00:12:15,679 client and say, Oh, my client is being targeted. Don't 172 00:12:15,759 --> 00:12:18,720 do darego in the grand jury, a judge says, yes, 173 00:12:18,799 --> 00:12:22,679 the guy's bathed and washed in immunity and you can't 174 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:26,360 go after him. The process should have been allowed to 175 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:33,360 run its course, and it wasn't. And shame on them. Oh, 176 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:35,559 cut it out. Do you know how many convictions we've got. 177 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:39,000 Cut it out? You're in one lane. We have cleaned 178 00:12:39,039 --> 00:12:43,159 up this city yet. Historic. Really, I'll tell you what's historic. 179 00:12:43,519 --> 00:12:46,679 What's historic is that I prosecute everything other than ten 180 00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:49,919 percent of the cases, where the United States attorney before 181 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:54,159 me didn't prosecute sixty seven percent of the cases. That's 182 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:57,919 what's historic. I'm willing to take a not guilty. I'm 183 00:12:57,960 --> 00:13:00,919 willing to take a no true bill because I'll take 184 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:04,279 all the crimes and put him in Thank you. 185 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:05,159 Speaker 1: Thank you. 186 00:13:05,240 --> 00:13:06,120 Speaker 4: That's all the time we got. 187 00:13:08,320 --> 00:13:08,360 Speaker 5: No. 188 00:13:08,559 --> 00:13:13,240 Speaker 1: She was not happy. She was really really bad, and 189 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:15,679 I can't I'm not going to take the seven minutes 190 00:13:15,720 --> 00:13:18,399 where she lamb based at the judge, the judge in 191 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:25,120 this case, ready, judge Boseburg. Boseburg is a guy who 192 00:13:25,159 --> 00:13:28,600 went up against Donald Trump, and so Trump doesn't like Boseburg. 193 00:13:29,879 --> 00:13:33,639 Naga doesn't like Boseburg. And Boseburg is the chief judge 194 00:13:34,399 --> 00:13:39,000 in the federal judge system in the DC CIRCU DC courts, 195 00:13:39,519 --> 00:13:43,440 and so we'll see where this goes. She says she's 196 00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:45,960 going to appeal it. The problem with her appealing this 197 00:13:46,279 --> 00:13:51,080 is President Trump has selected Kevin Warsh to be his 198 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:54,120 next SPED chairman. Now Tom tell Us, who is the 199 00:13:54,159 --> 00:14:00,639 Senator from North Carolina, is blocking that until the charges 200 00:14:00,799 --> 00:14:05,159 against the investigation against Jerome pal is dropped because he 201 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:09,200 thinks it's bogus. But and let me just give you 202 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:14,799 an analogy. You're my next door neighbor, and you decide 203 00:14:14,840 --> 00:14:19,919 to remodel your house, and you start your remodeling and 204 00:14:20,039 --> 00:14:24,159 you find yourself going way over what your budget was 205 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:28,600 to remodel your house. How would you feel if I 206 00:14:28,759 --> 00:14:33,120 came over and called the called the cops on you 207 00:14:33,279 --> 00:14:36,440 try to commit say that you committed a crime. What 208 00:14:36,639 --> 00:14:41,240 is it my business about you spending your money on 209 00:14:41,399 --> 00:14:45,360 your house and if you go over budget? What's it 210 00:14:45,519 --> 00:14:48,679 my business? That's what the judge is kind of pointing 211 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:53,919 out is that this doesn't have any criminal element to it. Again, 212 00:14:54,039 --> 00:14:57,519 I repeat the Federal Reserve, if they went over budget 213 00:14:57,559 --> 00:15:02,519 by a billion dollars, it's a pri ivad bank. No 214 00:15:02,639 --> 00:15:08,200 taxpayer dollars involved. Not a single penny. Oh, we don't 215 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:12,039 make pennies anymore, not a single nickel. So, I mean, 216 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:17,559 it's fascinating to watch Elig Honi, who was former Federal 217 00:15:17,559 --> 00:15:22,000 Prosecutors Southern dist victim New York, was asked his reaction, yeah, 218 00:15:22,039 --> 00:15:22,440 boris So. 219 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:26,480 Speaker 6: First of all, that press conference in itself was extraordinary. Ordinarily, 220 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:28,919 whenever you see a US attorney call a press conference 221 00:15:28,919 --> 00:15:31,799 and address the cameras, it's because there's been an indictment 222 00:15:32,080 --> 00:15:34,120 or a conviction or a sentence. I don't think I've 223 00:15:34,159 --> 00:15:37,120 ever seen a US attorney or an Attorney General call 224 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:40,399 a press conference to complain about a ruling that he 225 00:15:40,519 --> 00:15:42,600 or she did not like. That was essentially a public 226 00:15:42,679 --> 00:15:45,279 temper tantrum. I want to start with that. Second of all, 227 00:15:45,679 --> 00:15:47,919 you heard Jennie Perow say that this judge, Judge Bosberg, 228 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:50,840 is a quote activist judge. Now as Paula said, this 229 00:15:50,960 --> 00:15:54,080 judge was elevated to the district court by Barack Obama. 230 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:56,000 But before that he was put on the local DC 231 00:15:56,120 --> 00:15:58,120 Superior Court by George W. 232 00:15:58,240 --> 00:15:58,759 Speaker 2: Bush. 233 00:15:58,799 --> 00:16:01,480 Speaker 6: And in this judge which is passed, he has actually 234 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:04,720 denied emotion years ago to try to get Donald Trump's 235 00:16:04,759 --> 00:16:07,360 tax returns. He ruled in favor of Donald Trump on 236 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:10,559 those tax returns. And then finally, most fundamentally, we just 237 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:13,159 heard Jennie Piro complain that the grand jury subpoena is 238 00:16:13,200 --> 00:16:16,559 an important tool of prosecutors, which it is. You heard 239 00:16:16,639 --> 00:16:19,000 Jennie Piro say that the judge quote has taken that 240 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:21,679 tool away from us. That's not quite right. 241 00:16:21,720 --> 00:16:21,919 Speaker 2: Now. 242 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:24,960 Speaker 6: The bar is very low here, but what the judge 243 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:28,000 has said is you don't have absolute free rein to 244 00:16:28,080 --> 00:16:31,559 issue whatever grand jury subpoenas you want. The judge was 245 00:16:31,639 --> 00:16:33,679 right about that. There is a very low bar that 246 00:16:33,759 --> 00:16:37,039 prosecutors have to clear, very low. However, in this case, 247 00:16:37,120 --> 00:16:39,639 Judge Bosberg said, you simply have not cleared that. And 248 00:16:39,679 --> 00:16:42,399 in the opinion, Judge Bosberg says, there is a mountain 249 00:16:42,399 --> 00:16:46,000 of evidence that there's bad faith behind this investigation intended 250 00:16:46,039 --> 00:16:48,080 to pressure the FED. And on the other hand, there 251 00:16:48,120 --> 00:16:51,919 is quote essentially zero evidence of a crime. So that's 252 00:16:51,960 --> 00:16:54,919 really important to keep in mind when we're digesting Judge 253 00:16:54,919 --> 00:16:56,320 Piro's comments right there. 254 00:16:56,519 --> 00:16:59,399 Speaker 1: So I know it's a it's it's a it's a 255 00:16:59,600 --> 00:17:02,679 it's a fight, really is what it is. And again 256 00:17:02,759 --> 00:17:07,960 I know Janine. I've seen her temper before and she 257 00:17:08,079 --> 00:17:12,079 has a hot one. So she is really mad about 258 00:17:12,119 --> 00:17:14,359 the fact that the judge ruled against her. And if 259 00:17:14,359 --> 00:17:16,920 she wants to appeal it, of course, go right ahead, 260 00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:21,519 but it will delay the appointment or the even the 261 00:17:21,559 --> 00:17:25,480 nomination process of Kevin Warsh, who President Trump wants to 262 00:17:25,480 --> 00:17:29,799 be the next FED chairman. Now there's there's another problem 263 00:17:30,559 --> 00:17:34,160 with this, and it had nothing to do with Janine 264 00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:37,960 Pierrot today or anything along those lines. The question comes 265 00:17:38,039 --> 00:17:44,200 down to Kevin Warsh and the fact that, well, the 266 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:47,759 Fed's meeting next week. I don't know if he's going 267 00:17:47,839 --> 00:17:51,160 to attend that or not because he's not confirmed. Confirmation 268 00:17:51,279 --> 00:17:54,880 hasn't even started. It's blocked in the Senate, but he 269 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:58,640 is expected that he will get through. But here is 270 00:17:58,680 --> 00:18:03,920 the problemm Tillis has a block on all federal nominations. 271 00:18:04,759 --> 00:18:10,519 If confirmed, worsh would take over Powell's term, which concludes 272 00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:15,119 in May. The problem that Kevin Walsh is going to 273 00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:18,960 have is Trump wants him to lower interest rates immediately 274 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:23,359 and a lot Well, last time I checked, we have 275 00:18:23,559 --> 00:18:29,119 a war going and oil prices and gas prices are skyrocketing, 276 00:18:29,960 --> 00:18:34,799 and that leads to higher inflation. So about the time 277 00:18:35,519 --> 00:18:38,400 that Kevin Warsh, the new FED chairman to be, gets 278 00:18:38,440 --> 00:18:41,559 in there, is he going to be able to lower 279 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:47,640 interest rates if he's looking at inflation taking off? See 280 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:49,599 the problem that he's in, He's going to be He's 281 00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:52,400 going to be in a pickle. And I'm sure if 282 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:56,720 he doesn't lower interest rates, because inflation is starting to 283 00:18:56,759 --> 00:18:59,839 flare up again, and you don't lower interest rates when 284 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:03,720 inflation is going up. You raise interest rates when inflation 285 00:19:03,880 --> 00:19:06,839 is going up to try to calm it down. So 286 00:19:06,920 --> 00:19:10,519 if he doesn't lower rates, or if, oh my gosh, 287 00:19:10,599 --> 00:19:14,240 if he raises interest rates, expect Donald Trump to have 288 00:19:14,319 --> 00:19:19,680 a major coronary. So I wasn't planning on starting about 289 00:19:19,799 --> 00:19:23,279 the Fed today. It's on my list, but I had 290 00:19:23,279 --> 00:19:26,400 no idea that Janine Piro was going to come out 291 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:30,319 and have a hissy fit day fourteen of the war. 292 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:35,519 A lot of people are asking about the fact that 293 00:19:35,839 --> 00:19:38,359 I don't know if the President knows what he's doing. 294 00:19:38,440 --> 00:19:41,039 And I don't know if the Trump administration knows what 295 00:19:41,079 --> 00:19:44,200 he's doing. And they made a big mistake. All the 296 00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:46,880 Democrats are coming out and saying all that sort of stuff. 297 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:51,200 Not at all. The war is being run by the Pentagon. 298 00:19:51,920 --> 00:19:54,200 The Pentagon. I know he's the commander in chief, but 299 00:19:54,240 --> 00:20:00,759 the Pentagon, they have exquisite plans for just to pout 300 00:20:00,880 --> 00:20:05,920 any scenario out there, and they have a three to 301 00:20:06,079 --> 00:20:08,759 five or three to six week plan, and it's a 302 00:20:08,799 --> 00:20:11,240 punctionalist and they're going down the punch list and taking 303 00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:14,960 care of things one thing at a time. It's going 304 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:17,160 to take a whole bunch of things in order to 305 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:22,400 stop the threat of hitting the ships going through the 306 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:26,440 port of hohere moves. General kin Raising Kane, the Chairman 307 00:20:26,519 --> 00:20:28,920 of the Joint Chiefs, had these comments this. 308 00:20:28,960 --> 00:20:31,960 Speaker 7: Morning, today will be our heaviest day of kinetic fires 309 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:35,839 across the operating area. Sant Com continues to attack ballistic 310 00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:39,000 missile and drone capabilities so that they are no longer 311 00:20:39,039 --> 00:20:42,200 a threat to US forces, our bases, or our partners. 312 00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:45,839 Speaker 1: And then General Jack Keene was asked what he thought 313 00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:46,599 about all of this. 314 00:20:47,079 --> 00:20:51,160 Speaker 8: Well, we're succeeding quite well in terms of achieving on 315 00:20:51,279 --> 00:20:56,319 military objectives, and so is the IDF. And here war 316 00:20:56,440 --> 00:20:59,440 is always fundamentally a test of wills, and you can 317 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:02,440 see that and played out right before our eyes. The 318 00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:07,279 Runnings are determined to survive. That is their objective. They 319 00:21:07,319 --> 00:21:10,559 believe that they can survive, then they eventually will be 320 00:21:10,599 --> 00:21:15,319 able to recover and then restart everything that they hold 321 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:19,640 dear to them, their weapons programs, nuclear et cetera, support 322 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:22,440 to the proxy, So that is where they're coming from. 323 00:21:22,759 --> 00:21:26,440 Their means to do that is one inflict casualties on 324 00:21:26,599 --> 00:21:30,880 the United States and create opposition to the war by 325 00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:33,960 doing that. That has not happened. The casualties are light. 326 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:38,440 Not that we take lightly the seven losses that we 327 00:21:38,519 --> 00:21:41,599 have taken and now four more crew members killed in 328 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:45,160 a crash. Certainly we honor all those service people who 329 00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:48,000 have given their lives here for this cause. But the 330 00:21:48,079 --> 00:21:52,640 reality is the casualties are light. Secondly, what they're trying 331 00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:55,599 to do by attacking the Golf States is again put 332 00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:59,880 pressure on the United States from the Golf States to 333 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:04,480 terminate this war prematurely so they can survive. That has failed. 334 00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:09,240 The Gulf States remarkably, How are you united around this cause. 335 00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:12,200 And look at the vote in the UN the resolution. 336 00:22:12,359 --> 00:22:15,039 They all voted for it, as did one hundred and 337 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:18,119 twenty plus other countries. In addition to that, and opposing 338 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:20,799 what Iran stands for and what and what they're doing. 339 00:22:21,079 --> 00:22:22,920 And then the third thing is the one that has 340 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:25,920 really captured the media, and that is the straits of 341 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:28,880 a Mouse. And they want that focus on the straits 342 00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:32,079 of a moves to put max pressure on the United States, 343 00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:34,880 so that becomes the pacing item for the war, not 344 00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:38,440 the achieving of our military objectives. You got to stop 345 00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:41,279 this because we got to get the flow of oil 346 00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:44,200 going out of the straits of a Moves again ended 347 00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:46,359 as soon as we possibly can. And that has to 348 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:49,799 be the objective. And they surely have got the media's 349 00:22:49,839 --> 00:22:53,640 attention here. They have not. They have not taken away 350 00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:57,359 Prime Minister Netal's attention, President Trump's attention. Not that he 351 00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:00,839 doesn't understand that's an issue, but it's not our primary focus. 352 00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:04,720 What is our primary focus complete our military objectives. Take 353 00:23:04,759 --> 00:23:08,960 their military equipment, all that capability away from that exists 354 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:13,079 now and in the future. In terms of manufacturing companies 355 00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:17,160 destroy as many of the organizations that sustain this regime 356 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:21,640 as possible. So this regime has no capability and is 357 00:23:21,839 --> 00:23:27,279 fundamentally crippled when we end hostilities against them. That is 358 00:23:27,319 --> 00:23:30,960 the path we're on. The byproduct will be relief for 359 00:23:31,039 --> 00:23:33,640 the straits of a moose if we are able to 360 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:36,839 accomplish our objectives, and your chart indicated we're well on 361 00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:39,079 our way to do that that straight some of a 362 00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:41,599 moose's problem will be resolved as a result of that. 363 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:45,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's my impression. I totally believe it that 364 00:23:45,279 --> 00:23:50,279 they are just going down their list of basically checking 365 00:23:50,319 --> 00:23:53,000 the boxes, and when they get there there won't be 366 00:23:53,039 --> 00:23:56,039 anybody to bomb the ships as they're going through the 367 00:23:56,079 --> 00:23:58,240 straight of horror moves. That will all be solved as 368 00:23:58,279 --> 00:24:01,200 they go along. Well, one of the points out of 369 00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:04,960 this is about the question about is Iran going to 370 00:24:05,039 --> 00:24:09,200 try to use sleeper sales here in the US. Let's 371 00:24:09,279 --> 00:24:13,079 go back and review, because we had in Austin, Texas, 372 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:16,160 the guy with the property of all a T shirt 373 00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:19,680 in the Iran flag that shot a bunch of people 374 00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:25,160 at a bar in Texas, killed some That was a 375 00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:28,640 couple of weeks ago. Then you've got beyond that, you've 376 00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:31,200 got the two guys here in New York City that 377 00:24:31,319 --> 00:24:34,920 threw IEDs and they would have killed a lot of 378 00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:37,079 people if they had gone off, but they made the 379 00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:39,759 mistake of how to make the bomb. So you got that. 380 00:24:39,839 --> 00:24:42,720 Then yesterday, while we were doing this podcast, there were 381 00:24:42,759 --> 00:24:47,680 two I only knew one. Yesterday there were two incidents. 382 00:24:47,759 --> 00:24:53,359 One of them we reported to you about the synagogue 383 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:56,319 in West Bloomfield, Michigan. And by the way, that wasn't 384 00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:59,839 just any old synagogue. That was apparently the biggest synagogue. 385 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:02,160 I'm not sure if it's in the state of Michigan 386 00:25:02,279 --> 00:25:05,160 or the whole country is huge. They got twelve thousand 387 00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:08,079 members in any case, So the synagogue was hit. And 388 00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:11,720 yesterday I did something that I've been bothering me taking 389 00:25:11,759 --> 00:25:14,920 myself ever since I fell into that trap of going 390 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:18,559 The guy looked like he was just anti Semitic, He 391 00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:21,440 just hated Jews and he was going to attack Jews. 392 00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:24,880 So he drove his car or truck whatever he had 393 00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:28,559 right through the front doors of the synagogue and it 394 00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:31,640 caught on fire and he got into a gunfight with 395 00:25:31,759 --> 00:25:35,640 his security guy there. A security guy killed him, or 396 00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:39,559 at least the guy's dead. The security guy was injured, 397 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:42,839 but he's going to be okay. So it looked like, 398 00:25:43,279 --> 00:25:47,440 I hate to say it a basic attack on a 399 00:25:47,519 --> 00:25:51,680 Jewish institution, but instead we find out after that that 400 00:25:51,839 --> 00:25:56,599 this guy, it may definitely be tied in with the war. 401 00:25:57,519 --> 00:26:00,680 The guy is originally from he was born in Lebanon, 402 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:09,759 the naturalized citizen. He apparently had targeted Jewish institutions in 403 00:26:09,839 --> 00:26:14,000 the past and or wanted talked about it, and that 404 00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:17,440 he had explosives in his car and he was armed 405 00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:23,440 to the teeth. So it was in fact, well we 406 00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:25,839 don't know his motive positively, but it looks like it 407 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:27,759 was tied in with the war because he was upset 408 00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:30,640 about the fact that he said he had relatives in 409 00:26:30,799 --> 00:26:36,319 Lebanon that were killed by Israeli bombs of late. So 410 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:42,440 then we've got in Norfolk, Virginia at Old Dominion University 411 00:26:42,559 --> 00:26:46,759 where there was a guy there who walked into an 412 00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:50,759 area where they were the Reserve Officer Training Corps ROTC 413 00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:53,799 where their classes are held, and asked is this the 414 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:57,000 ROTC and they said yes, and he opened up fire 415 00:26:57,079 --> 00:27:01,359 on them. He killed the professor who was a lieutenant 416 00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:04,680 colonel in the army who's professor in charge of the 417 00:27:04,759 --> 00:27:08,559 ROTC program at Old Dominion and he injured two others, 418 00:27:08,559 --> 00:27:12,799 but the rest of the ROTC students jumped the guy 419 00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:20,039 and stopped him from killing anybody else. So good for him. Now, 420 00:27:20,079 --> 00:27:25,240 the question is this guy has a background he Well, 421 00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:30,279 let's listen to Dominique Evans. She is the head of 422 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:32,599 the FBI in Norfolk, Virginia. 423 00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:37,480 Speaker 5: In twenty sixteen, Jallo was arrested and pled guilty for 424 00:27:37,519 --> 00:27:43,240 attempting to provide material support to Isle now known as ISIS. 425 00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:47,799 Jallo was sentenced to prison in October twenty seventeen and 426 00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:50,559 was released from prison in twenty twenty four. 427 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:53,720 Speaker 1: He was let out early. But this is a guy 428 00:27:53,759 --> 00:27:55,880 who he was in the National Guard, but he had 429 00:27:56,079 --> 00:28:00,319 some beef. I guessed with the military and at Old Menion, 430 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:04,920 as most major universities have ROTC programs, that is, Reserve 431 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:08,839 Officer Training Corps, and apparently wanted to get even. There 432 00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:12,720 is a guy who wrote a book about the Enemy 433 00:28:13,599 --> 00:28:20,279 of ISIS in America and his name is Alexander Hitchens, 434 00:28:20,559 --> 00:28:24,000 and it's about the homegrowing ISIS problem that we have 435 00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:27,880 here in the US. Oh and in this book he 436 00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:32,160 actually wrote about this guy who went in and shot 437 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:36,640 and killed the professor of Military science at Old Dominion 438 00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:37,640 a few reasons. 439 00:28:38,519 --> 00:28:42,240 Speaker 9: So our book gathered as much data as possible on 440 00:28:42,319 --> 00:28:45,240 the Americans who tried to join ISIS, who we tried 441 00:28:45,279 --> 00:28:48,480 to act in isis's name in America, and part of 442 00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:52,279 that was interviewing as much as possible the FBI field 443 00:28:52,319 --> 00:28:57,519 agents who investigated the cases. So in Jallo's case, there 444 00:28:57,559 --> 00:29:02,720 were three issues that made him a problem. One was 445 00:29:02,759 --> 00:29:07,039 that he had fairly significant military training as a member 446 00:29:07,079 --> 00:29:10,039 of the Army National Guard for a few years. Shortly 447 00:29:10,039 --> 00:29:14,519 after he left the Army, he actually travels to Sierra Leone, 448 00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:18,640 his country of origin, and he tries to join ISIS 449 00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:22,440 in Nigeria and make contact with ISIS members there. Then 450 00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:24,599 he comes back to the United States and he then 451 00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:28,160 gets in touch with what we call a virtual plotter, 452 00:29:28,319 --> 00:29:31,000 an ISIS virtual clutter. Essentially, these are people who are 453 00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:34,960 based who were based in ISIS territory, who were using 454 00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:39,200 their online contacts to reach out to Americans and other 455 00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:41,680 Westerners who are interested in carrying out attacks for ISIS 456 00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:43,799 and kind of act as their handles. These were essentially 457 00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:47,400 the sort of gray area between the un sort of 458 00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:51,240 lone actor with no training and the actual terrorist actor 459 00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:54,160 who knows how to direct and help plan attacks. So 460 00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:57,359 the way Jallo came across the FBI's radar was they 461 00:29:57,359 --> 00:30:01,759 were actually watching this virtual planner and they thankfully had 462 00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:05,039 an FBI infemant who was in touch with this plotter 463 00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:08,400 who the plotter then said, you need to speak to 464 00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:09,880 this other speaking. 465 00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:13,680 Speaker 1: Yeah. So he was arrested and served seven years of 466 00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:17,440 a longer jail. Sense I think it was well John 467 00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:19,559 Miller knows. We'll play him here in a second. But 468 00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:24,799 he was arrested for basically trying to join ISIS, serve 469 00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:28,160 some prison time, got out early, and this is what 470 00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:30,880 we get. He shows up at Old Dominion yesterday and 471 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:34,839 kills a lieutenant colonel and injures two others. Here's John Miller. 472 00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:36,119 It's a little more background. 473 00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:38,720 Speaker 3: We know he was the subject of a case where 474 00:30:38,799 --> 00:30:44,559 he was charged and convicted with being someone offering material 475 00:30:44,599 --> 00:30:48,839 support to ISIS buying guns for what he believed was 476 00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:52,680 going to be an attack on US soil, something he 477 00:30:52,759 --> 00:30:55,839 admitted to in his statement when he pled guilty. He 478 00:30:55,920 --> 00:31:00,319 was sentenced to eleven years back in twenty seventeen. Out 479 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:05,480 in twenty twenty five, so it's not clear as to 480 00:31:05,519 --> 00:31:09,160 whether that was for time served, good behavior or some 481 00:31:09,359 --> 00:31:13,960 other reason. And then is the kind of subject that 482 00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:18,000 the FBI probably would have kept on their radar in 483 00:31:18,079 --> 00:31:21,720 terms of spot check social media and so on. But 484 00:31:21,799 --> 00:31:24,200 when he turned up today an open fire in that 485 00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:27,960 ROTC class, this is an individual who was a former 486 00:31:28,039 --> 00:31:31,160 member of the US National Guard. So he was clearly 487 00:31:31,839 --> 00:31:35,640 asking students is the ROTC class and when they said yes, 488 00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:39,680 he started shooting, clearly targeting the US military. And I 489 00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:44,359 would suspect likely stirred by the news of the war 490 00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:48,519 in Iran and likely stirred on behalf of ISIS, even 491 00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:51,559 though ISIS and Iran are not friends. 492 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:56,880 Speaker 1: So James Gagliano, former NYPD, was asked about the threat 493 00:31:57,079 --> 00:32:00,720 that you and I face here in the US from 494 00:32:00,759 --> 00:32:01,599 the sleeper cells. 495 00:32:01,799 --> 00:32:03,880 Speaker 10: I should have gone to jail for twenty years, and 496 00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:06,400 I believed it somewhere in the neighborhood of one hundred 497 00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:09,160 and thirty two months. And again it goes back to 498 00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:13,680 that suicidal empathy. The judge here decided that somebody that 499 00:32:13,839 --> 00:32:18,480 was tried and convicted of providing material support to ISIS 500 00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:21,920 deserved the second chance, and this was his second chance, 501 00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:26,000 we are going to see more ISIS related and inspired attacks. 502 00:32:26,079 --> 00:32:27,039 Speaker 1: And why is that. 503 00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:31,920 Speaker 10: Well, propaganda and attention is the coin of the realm 504 00:32:32,119 --> 00:32:35,319 in the tear business, and ISIS doesn't want Hamas and 505 00:32:35,359 --> 00:32:38,279 HESBLA getting all the attention. So I think now more 506 00:32:38,319 --> 00:32:40,759 than ever, we need to pay attention to these potential 507 00:32:40,839 --> 00:32:41,960 lone wolf attacks. 508 00:32:42,359 --> 00:32:47,920 Speaker 1: Similar information also from former NYPD Lieutenant Paul Moore. 509 00:32:48,799 --> 00:32:51,000 Speaker 11: Well, a couple of things we have to recognize. First 510 00:32:51,079 --> 00:32:55,000 of all, these are likely homegrown attacks by people who 511 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:57,720 were self radicalized. I see noaendisha at least on to 512 00:32:57,799 --> 00:33:01,000 the facts that we have right now, that these attacks 513 00:33:01,039 --> 00:33:04,720 were directed by an overseas adversary. I know we're all 514 00:33:04,759 --> 00:33:08,160 thinking Iran right now. I don't see Iran directing any 515 00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:11,160 of these. It doesn't mean that the Iran War didn't 516 00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:13,960 have a role. I don't assess it had a role 517 00:33:14,279 --> 00:33:16,519 in what happened here in New York City that seems 518 00:33:16,559 --> 00:33:19,480 to have been an ISIS aligned attack. But we have 519 00:33:19,559 --> 00:33:22,480 to recognize that we are in a space right now 520 00:33:22,759 --> 00:33:26,519 where people can self radicalize quite easily, especially if they're 521 00:33:26,519 --> 00:33:29,920 inclined that way. You have encrypted apps, you have a 522 00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:33,960 home front right now, that is undermined by the fact 523 00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:38,559 that we're in defund two point zero DHS. Vital federal 524 00:33:38,599 --> 00:33:40,559 partners for the local police or with the point of 525 00:33:40,559 --> 00:33:43,240 the spear on this stuff are not going to be 526 00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:46,000 there for some of the state and locals who need 527 00:33:46,039 --> 00:33:49,559 that help. It also impacts things at the border, and 528 00:33:49,599 --> 00:33:51,599 we all know what happened over the last four years, 529 00:33:51,599 --> 00:33:54,720 so we are in a very fraught period relative to 530 00:33:54,759 --> 00:33:57,720 what I would argue is the most likely place they're 531 00:33:57,720 --> 00:33:59,880 coming at us, and that's going to be these home 532 00:34:00,599 --> 00:34:03,359 self radicalized individuals. We've been doing the kind of stuff 533 00:34:03,359 --> 00:34:04,519 that we've been seeing. 534 00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:07,079 Speaker 1: So they are starting to add up. You've got the 535 00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:10,599 shooting in Austin a few weeks ago. The guy had 536 00:34:10,599 --> 00:34:14,280 the property of Allah and an Iranian flag. The New 537 00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:18,760 York City Gracie Mansion IEDs that were thrown a couple 538 00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:21,719 of days ago. Thank goodness, they did not go off yesterday. 539 00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:25,800 You've got Old Dominion University and the Michigan Synagogue that 540 00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:28,840 we're both attacked, So you've got to keep your eyes 541 00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:32,400 and ears open. You've got another big event coming up 542 00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:37,159 Sunday night, the Oscars in Los Angeles. That's always full 543 00:34:37,159 --> 00:34:39,039 of lots of security, but I'm sure they're going to 544 00:34:39,079 --> 00:34:45,760 step it up for something like that. The markets today, 545 00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:50,280 well it's still very unsettled. Let mean just that's I 546 00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:52,760 guess the kind way to say it. The Dow Jones 547 00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:56,480 industrials started off positive this morning, went up, and then 548 00:34:56,599 --> 00:34:59,880 just worked its way down until we got to about noon, 549 00:35:00,079 --> 00:35:02,719 and then it went under water. And it finished. The 550 00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:06,199 Dow down one hundred and nineteen to close at forty 551 00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:11,280 six thousand and five point fifty eight, the SMP down forty, 552 00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:15,199 the Nasdaq down two hundred and six, Gold down one 553 00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:20,280 hundred and three dollars to five thy twenty three, and 554 00:35:20,639 --> 00:35:26,599 oil just keeps marching higher today, up to ninety nine 555 00:35:26,679 --> 00:35:31,280 dollars and twenty two cents just under one hundred. That's 556 00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:33,760 up three and a half dollars from where we started 557 00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:37,840 this morning. So have yourself a wonderful weekend. Put your 558 00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:40,440 head on a swivel. We'll be back here on Monday, 559 00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:41,719 and I hope to see you then