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Speaker 1: And welcome to the Big Podcast on this Monday. Today

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is the eighth day of December. You're our Lord, twenty

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twenty five. My name is Tom Sullivan. And so as

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we as we get started today, I want to reflect

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just quickly about yesterday. Yesterday was December seventh. And I

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don't know about you, but when you hear December seventh,

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doesn't it ring in your head somehow? Yes, Pearl Harbor Day,

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eighty fourth anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor by

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the Japanese. Two thousand and four hundred service members were

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killed on that day. Eighty seven thousand military were stationed

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on the island of O Wahoo. I was looking for well,

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I couldn't get it ready for today, but we had

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to go back and look, there's a gentleman that I

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used to interview every single year on December seventh, And

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since it fell on a weekend, we didn't have a

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special show about it. But the man that I would

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interview every single year for many, many years was a

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gentleman by the name of Denton Wally Walling, and he

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passed away a few years back, and I was looking

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at the how many people are still alive from that

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we could even try to interview about what happened on

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December seventh, nineteen forty one. And obviously, over the years

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the pickings have become slimmer and slimmer. I looked up

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today there is a lou Conter was the last survivor

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of the uss Arizona. He passed away in April of

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two thy twenty four. There are twelve Pearl Harbord survivors left.

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They are all over a one hundred. They are all

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in not the greatest shape where they obviously could not

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travel to any of the ceremonies. So it's one that

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you have to keep in mind because the people that

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were there to tell us the stories have all but

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twelve have passed on. In any case, never forget what

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happened on December seventh, nineteen forty one. Meantime, in other news,

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a little more up to date news, we've got the

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question about Ukraine is beginning. I know we've batted it

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around and batted it around, but it's getting to be

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to the point where it looks like we are washing

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our hands of Ukraine and that the president is not

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happy with Zolensky. Listen to what he said. This was

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last night. He was at the Kennedy Center for the

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annual awards, and well, I'll let him talk.

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Speaker 2: I'm a little bit disappointed that President Zelensky hasn't yet

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read the proposal that was as if a few hours ago.

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His people love it, but he hasn't. Russia's fine with it.

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Russia's you know, Russia, Russia. I guess we'd rather have

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the whole country when you think of it. But Russia is,

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I believe, fine with it. But I'm not sure that

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Zelensky is fine with it. His people love it, but

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he hasn't ready.

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Speaker 1: We don't know if his people love it. One of

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the cheap negotiator for Ukraine. This is another problem. Ukraine

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has that reputation of earned, reputation of lots of corruption,

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and the top negotiator for Ukraine was thrown out because

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of corruption. He was caught taking money. So Zelenski today

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was in London meeting with the head of the UK

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the head of France, the head of Germany, and they

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are all sitting there going we want to support Ukraine,

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we want to support Ukraine. And it's actually pretty phony

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what they're doing because they say they want to support

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Ukraine and yet they are buying huge amounts of oil

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from Russia. They are paying millions, if not billions of

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dollars to Russia for the oil, and Russia's using that

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money to continue to prosecute the war. So they pretend

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that they're showing solidarity with Zelensky and the UK and

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France and Germany standing there all hugging each other to

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shaking hands, nodding carefully at each other. But they're all

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buying Russian oil. And I don't know if Zelensky has

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read the document, the peace plan that's been drawn up,

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and you got the corruption angle to it. This is

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not looking good for Ukraine and it's not looking good

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for Europe. The president came out what they're supposed to

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have some timeline where the US develops and publishes their

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foreign policy, and came out a couple of days ago

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and was over the weekend. There were a lot of

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people aghast that the president's foreign policy is basically that

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Europe is being decivilized, and what he means by that

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is that they don't haven't they're not tackling their immigration problems.

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I haven't been in a few years, but I understand

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from friends who have been to London, that it's not

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the London of your and I have a friend that

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grew up in Paris and he goes back to see

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his family, he says, it's not Paris anymore, and so

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the President's right, and then he's basically pointing out the

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fact that they're a bunch of phonies. They are literally

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paying Russia huge amounts of money but standing shoulder to

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shoulder with Zelensky for the photo ops. Michael Allen, former

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National security advisor in the George W. Bush administration, weighs in.

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I think they're very strong.

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Speaker 3: They're pushing back on the United States, which seemingly wants

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to put more pressure on you than Russia. I think

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this is a show of solidarity, as Jim said, and

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it's an indication that Europe wants to stand by Ukraine.

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I think the best thing for the Trump administration, especially

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Trump wanting to win a Nobel Peace Prize, wanting a ceasefire,

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is to figure out new ways to pressure Russia so

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that Putin might make concessions. That's probably long range precision strikes,

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if not tomahawks and something close to it, and its

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additional sanctions. I would head in that direction and then

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you might be able to eventually get the ceasefire that

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President Trump craves.

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Speaker 1: I think Michael Allen is a very talented diplomat, but

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that's one of the problems. He is a diplomat. I'm

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telling you, anybody that knows anything about Putin and about

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Russia knows that Vladimir Putin will lie, cheater, steal, but

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he's not going to give up on trying to take

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all of Ukraine back under marchin mother Russia. Donald Trump

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Junior was in Doha on a stage being asked questions,

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and one of them was about the fact that is

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his father, the president, playing some sort of negotiating strategy.

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Speaker 4: Is your hunch that President Trump is going to walk away?

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Speaker 5: I think he may. What's good about my father, and

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what's unique about my father is you don't know what

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he's going to do. The fact that he's not predictable,

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he's not following the playbook of every clown who's again

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been a bureaucrat for decades. You don't know.

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Speaker 1: Well, there's a lot of truth of that you don't know.

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And that's one of the things about Trump negotiating is

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that he keeps everybody off balance. But Mike Lyons. Major

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Mike Lyons is a negotiator in diplomatic circles and he

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wasn't real pleased with that answer.

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Speaker 6: Oh, Sarah, that was an unfortunate comment. This is a

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high level negotiation that's taking place. Is very important for

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the security of our planet right now to get this

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thing right. And Donald Trump is all about leverage and

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he doesn't think Ukraine has any of it. And to

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Michael's point, if he gave Ukraine leverage, gave them Tomahawk

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cruise missiles, gave them more means in order to fight

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this war as well as and put sanctions on it,

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you'd get Russia to the table. I think this is

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how they negotiate. They put these kind of things out.

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They've sent two real estate negotiators to Russia to do

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the deal. But again, it's going to take more leverage

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on the side of Ukraine an order for Russia to

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actually come to the table because the battlefield math hasn't changed.

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Russia continues to grind away, Ukraine continues to hold him out.

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Speaker 1: My impressions is that the President would like the killing

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to stop, and I don't think he really I don't

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want to say he doesn't care, but he's going to

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let the chips fall where they may as long as

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the killing stops. I think that's more important to them

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than anything else. Picking up negotiations. It's not a world

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peace deal. But on Friday we told you about the

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fact that Netflix and Paramount were in a competing battle

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to buy Warner Brothers Discovery. Now, Warner Brothers is the

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famous studio. It goes back to the talkies. They have

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a library of movies that is unparalleled, and so over

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the weekend as late Friday, Netflix stepped up to the

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table and made an offer, and Warner Brothers Discovery said, fine,

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here's the problem with it. Paramount's not quitting. Paramount is

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owned by David Ellison, the son of the Ellison family,

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Oracle all that. So you've got a lot of money

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in Paramounts. Today said they're not going to give up

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on going after Warner Brothers Discovery. They'll buy the whole company.

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One of the things that Netflix they want, the movie

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library they want, Warner Brothers they don't want Discovery Discovery

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is in fact, it really comes down to they've got

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three cable channels in Discovery. They've got CNN, TNT, and HGTV.

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So what the proposal is from from Netflix is that

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they'll take Warner Brothers and they'll spin off into a

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new publicly traded company CNNTN, T, and HGTV called Discovery Global.

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There's a lot of people that are looking at this

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and saying, this could be the end of CNN. Nobody

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wants them, Nobody wants to buy them. Well, Paramount will

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they just bought CBS. Now they want to buy the

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whole company, the movie studios, the whole Inchalada there, plus

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they want CNNTNT and HDTV and this is going to

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continue to be battled back and forth. So what happened

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to day was Paramount finally said, you know what, We're

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just going to do a hostile takeover. What that involves

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is going directly to the stockholders. They're going to say

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to the stockholders, we're going to give you more money.

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Here's David Ellison making a very short pitch. Again.

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Speaker 7: I think the most important thing to go back here is, look,

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we're sitting on Wall Street, where cash is still king.

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We are offering shareholders seventeen point six billion dollars more

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cash than the deal that they currently have signed up

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with Netflix. And we believe when they see what is

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currently in our offer, that that's what they'll vote for.

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Speaker 1: Well, this is you know, hostile takeover, and it's going

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to be interesting to watch. But it also brings up

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the question about the future of movies and streaming and

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cable television. As much as Ted Turner started SEEINGN it

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was a new concept. Was twenty four to seven news

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never happened before The news was on at six point

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thirty in the evening and with Ted Turner he said,

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I'm going to put up news twenty four to seven

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and look what it has led to is a huge

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cable industry and also a news industry. But CNN's having

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troubles and so now the question is is anybody going

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to want to own CNN? So this hostile bid will

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keep an eye on it. We'll watch it. There's a

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lot of people saying that the Ellisons are buddy buddy

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with Donald Trump, and Donald Trump will put his finger

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on the scale. But if the truth be known, the

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Ellisons also made big contributions to Joe Biden when he

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was president. They're your basic billionaire family that they will

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support whoever is in power. It doesn't matter to them.

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If they're a Democrat or a Republican, they will support

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the person in power. They're supporting Donald Trump right now,

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and they're going to get probably behind the scenes, get

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Donald Trump to try to put more of his thumb

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on the scale. So this is going to be an

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interesting one to watch. This future of television and movies

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gets basically hammered out from this deal where they're going

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to take over Warner Brothers Discovery. So let's switch over

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to scandal City, which happens to be Minneapolis right now.

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This billion dollar fraud in Minneapolis is getting to be

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bigger by the day. This is where there was money

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that was given to a number of smalli nonprofit groups

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and the accusation is is that the money went directly

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to the Somali groups in Minnesota, and then from Minnesota,

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the money went directly to the Somali terrorist group in Somalia,

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and so we're the taxpayers supporting the terrorist. And the

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worst part about this is nobody knew about a billion

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dollars going out the door. It went on for quite

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some time, and they kept refilling, as they say, they

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kept refilling the cookie jar every time they would see

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that one of these programs. The money was low, and

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they never asked where did the money go? They just

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refilled it and sent more money out. So omar Ilham

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is the congresswoman from Minnesota. That is a lot of

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people looking at and going, well, she's Somalian? Is she

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somehow involved in funneling tax dollars under the table? Is

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she going to be prosecuted? Here's what she had to

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say on one of the Sunday shows yesterday.

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Speaker 8: It was a linkage, and that the money that did

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stolen going to terrorism. Then that is a failure of

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the FBI and our court system in not figuring that

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out and basically charging them.

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Speaker 1: You heard right, She kind of giggled, it's the fault

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of the FBI and the court system for not catching them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: There also wasn't a denial that felt like sort of

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a tell to me. I think she knows much more

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about all of this than she's let on the whole time.

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allies who were enriching themselves off of two hundred and

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fifty million defrauded from one program alone, maybe a billion

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in the state. And this is money that would have

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gone to children being fed, the homeless being housed and

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did not. That's what the compassion adds up to. But

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the fact is that a lot of people were making

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a ton of money off of this, and she just

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wants to it off on someone else. But ma'am, you're

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in charge, you're in charge of the district, you're in

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charge of making federal law, and should be interested in

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checking where federal money is going, especially when it's supposed

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to go to the compassionate services that you're supposed to

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be all about. But that's not the situation here. And

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I think it's true for Tim Walls as well as

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Keith Elson, who's on audio on tape saying to the

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folks who do frauded feeding our future, saying, I'll help

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you out with this. Let's get you out of this investigation.

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These people were in on it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is the powerful that we're in versus the

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powerful that we're not. There's a huge amount of money.

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I think this is just the tip of the iceberg.

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We'll see how good the investigators are and going after

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this tragory. Secretary Scott Besson is interested in looking at

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it from the federal level. But this isn't something that's

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unique to Minneapolis. Sadly, I think it goes on throughout

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the country. I saw a story out of Los Angeles

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where twenty four Los Angeles County employees are accused of

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seven hundred and forty thousand dollars of unemployment fraud. And

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they're well, they say the county is grappling with the

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significant scandal as they have defrauded the state's unemployment system

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for more than seven hundred forty thousand. This is the

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California state unemployment system that lost billions of dollars during

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COVID and so apparently they still haven't fixed the leak

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in California regarding their unemployment system. So there have been

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eleven of these individuals were charged with felony grand theft

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by the La County District Attorney's office, and this comes

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in the wake of an earlier announcement identifying thirteen other

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county workers involved in similar fraudulent activities. The county employees,

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they'll fully employed and earning at least three thousand a month,

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reportedly claimed to be unemployed and they got they got money,

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they got they got money for They literally this new

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DA in Los Angeles Hawkman Nathan Nathan Hackman is going

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after people good for him. One of them is George

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that he's going to add for Georgiett McKinney, a supervising

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child support specialist who allegedly misappropriated funds using her own

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identity and she made up twenty eight fictitious people. They

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are charging her with the theft of one hundred and

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one hundred and thirty two thousand dollars using fraud. So

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what's going on with these government employees that just I

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guess it looks too easy for them to steal the money.

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And speaking of municipalities, one isn't fraud. This is just

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outright doing what everybody suspected he would do. The new

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mayor elect of New York City, zor On Mondani.

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Speaker 2: He.

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Speaker 1: Has produced a video where he is instructing people on

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their rights regarding ICE. He it's on how to resist ICE.

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So well, let me play just a little piece of

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it for you.

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Speaker 9: Can all stand up to ICE if you know your rights.

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Ice is legally allowed to like, but you have the

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right to remain silent. If you're being detained, you may

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always ask am I free to go repeatedly until I

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answer you.

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Speaker 1: You are legally.

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Speaker 9: Allowed to film ICE as long as you've not interfered

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with arrist. New Yorkers have a constitutional right to protest,

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and when I'm mayor, we will protect that right.

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Speaker 1: Well, there's a plenty of protesters on whatever subject you

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want to talk about that are free to protest, and

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the police are really good about allowing them to protest.

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It's gets stopped when it becomes violent or property damage

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gets involved. Chad Wolf, former head of ICE, the previous

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Trump uh one point zero. Well, let him talk. It's

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it's incredible.

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Speaker 10: Obviously he's he's rolling back the cooperation that New York

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City currently has with ICE and with DHS, and he's

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going to join the long list of places like Chicago

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and LA and others that continue to release illegal, criminal,

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illegal aliens into their communities. But you know that video,

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you know, is he doing a similar video to know

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your rights if you're stopped by the NYPD?

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Speaker 1: Of course he's not right.

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Speaker 10: And ICE is a law enforcement agency just like any

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other law enforcement agency, and they also have rights, and

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their right is to enforce immigration law and they will

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continue to do that, whether that's in New York City

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or anywhere else.

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Speaker 1: Oh he's not even married yet, doesn't he gets to

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be mayor on New Year's Day. But this is all

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ready people racing. It's not like anybody's surprised. Nope, not

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at all. And speaking of well, real criminals. Back to Charlotte,

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we go. Charlotte is the location. Remember the young lady,

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the Ukrainian refugee, Irena Zurutsky, that was stabbed to death

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on the light rail train in Charlotte. She was going

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home from work, worked at a pizza parlor, I believe, well,

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same thing, same place, same area, on one of their

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light rail trains. Another illegal on the train has a

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very long rap sheet and he has been charged with

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attempted murder. Yeah, he stabbed a young lady. The guy's

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name is Oscar Suleizano, thirty three years of age, arrested

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in the stabbing of this young lady who is now

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in the hospital fighting for her life. When they found

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the victim, the police were dispatched to the light rail train.

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They identified this young lady was stab wounds, and so

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he'd been charged with attempted first degree murder assault with

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a deadly weapon with serious injury, breaking and entering a

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motor vehicle okay, carrying a concealed weapon, and intoxicated disruptive behavior.

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According to charges outlined by the Department of Homeland Security

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long rap sheet, he has previously been deported twice and

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came back in once in twenty eighteen once in twenty

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twenty one. His rap sheet includes aggravated battery with a

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deadly weapon, resisting arrest, and robbery. So this is now

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got the attention of the White House again. They they said,

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remember the ice surge into Charlotte, it was called Operation

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Charlotte's Web. So I don't know what they're going to

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do this time, but they've got another one on their hands,

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almost the exact same place. He didn't use well, he

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did use a knife, just like the first guy did.

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At least when he showed up in court this morning.

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They did not allow him a bond, so he's being

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kept in jail. Good And speaking of court, Supreme Court

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hearing a case today that was about a presidential power.

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It was the president wanted to fire a couple of

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the members of the Federal Trade Commission and one of

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them sued and it's worked its way to the Supreme

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Court now, and this is all about presidential power and

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the question it's an interest question because a lot of

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independent agencies, the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Reserve Board,

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which by the way, Federal Reserve Board is meeting tomorrow

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and Wednesday will find out on Wednesday what they're going

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to do with interest rates. The bet is that they

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will cut interest rates again. But back to these federal

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independent agencies. Can the president get involved in changing people

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that work for these boards? And that is the question

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about presidential power because most of these independent agencies, like

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the Federal Trade Commission, they were created by Congress, not

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by the executive. So are they legislative branch agency or

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are they an executive branch agency? And depending upon how

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the Supreme Court rules on this, will find out whether

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or not they're legislative or executive. If they're executive, that

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means the president will have the power as president and

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future presidents the power to get rid of people on

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these various independent boards. So, speaking to people, it's here

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we are. It's the eighth of December. It should be

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this week. We don't have an exact time, but Time

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magazine remember some of you don't know about Time magazine. Well,

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there used to be this magazine called Time Magazine. There. No,

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they're still in business. I think they're online only. But

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they always come up with they've been doing it for

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about one hundred years on the Time. Well, it used

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to be Times Man of the Year. Then they changed

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it because that was not right. They changed it to

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Times Person of the Year. Then they came up with

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things other than the Person of the year, with things.

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Harriet looked back at who's going to be man or

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person or thing of the year.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean at this point, you know, according to

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the prediction markets, what we see is, interestingly, it looks

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like a two thing race, not a two person or

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two entity race. That's a two entity race because right

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now what we're seeing in the top two slots are

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Ai and the co founder of Navidia. So this is

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one of these very interesting things where what you see

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at this point is it's very clear that AI is

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leading this race, but again it's a very close one too.

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It's a looks like a plurality lead. Technically i'm told

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has a non person ember one. Yes, in fact, the

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non person has won twice. You have to go back

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to the nineteen hundred and eighties. But in nineteen hundred

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and eighty two, I do believe it was the computer

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actually was the Time Person of the year, And in

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nineteen eighty eight Endangered Earth was the Time Person of

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the year. Not a person or people, though at least

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they think Endangered Earth has feelings associated. But I think

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the computer is actually an interesting one because you know,

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that sparked revolution, right, and I think a lot of

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people see AI as sparking a similar culture. Yeah, I

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mean just over the last few years. You know, I

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think a few years ago, you know, AI was this

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thing that some computer nerds kind of looked at, some

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people who are futurists kind of looked at. But now

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it is much more prominent in life. And we can

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see this in the polling data, you know, essentially looking

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at Pew Research. Over the last few years have heard

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or read a lot about AI. Look at this in

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twenty twenty two was twenty six percent. Now it's up

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to forty seven percent. Nothing are a little dropping from

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seventy four percent to fifty two percent. Yeah, this is

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I think the more interesting thing. As more people have

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gotten to know about AI, the feelings have actually become worse,

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the fears of AI become worse. Look at this, more

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concerned in twenty twenty one to thirty seven percent versus

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now fifty percent who say increased AI use in daily

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life makes me more concern more excited has dropped from

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just eighteen percent to ten percent. So look, AI has

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a pretty decent shot of being the time entity or

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person of the Year. But I think there are a

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lot of folks who wish that AIRE was not as

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prominent in our lot.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, people are. I don't understand that people are afraid

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of the unknown. I guess the future. So Man of

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the Year, I don't know what it's going to be announced,

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it's going to be. They always do it on the

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Today Show and it's usually around the tenth fifteenth of December,

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so we're getting we're getting down there pretty close. It's

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also part of what they're doing with Harry Nton is

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he's doing a lot about the prediction markets, and the

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prediction markets are becoming huge. In fact, I believe one

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of the commercial sponsors of some of his hits is

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Calshi ka l s Hi, and that's where you can

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put your money. You can bet on it. We played

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an interview last week with the guy who started a

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Robin Hood and they, you know, a Brookish firm where

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you buy and sell stocks and bonds. They have gotten

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into the prediction market and it has become massive, huge

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for them. But the money that's being spent on basically

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betting on everything under the sun. He was talking about

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the fact that it really took off when it came

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to the presidential election last November, but it has since

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grabbed a hold of just about anything that you want

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to predict what's going to happen, including I mean something

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as silly as the time Person of the Year. And

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there's money being bet on all of this. So, speaking

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of betting money, the wager on Wall Street today was

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down a little. I guess we could classify this as

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a little now down two hundred and fifteen to forty

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seven seven thirty nine, The S and P down twenty three,

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NASDAK down thirty two, So those were three downs. We'll

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keep it going with gold down twenty three dollars to

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four thy two nineteen and oil bigger than usual, down

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a buck and a quarter now at fifty eight dollars

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now for a barrel of oil. That's it for today.

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Thank you for coming by. We'll try this again tomorrow.

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Hope to see you then.