1 00:00:23,719 --> 00:00:28,079 Speaker 1: And hello, how are you happy Monday? How you doing 2 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:31,480 getting back to the grind, getting back to the groove, 3 00:00:32,399 --> 00:00:36,280 get the holiday weekend behind you. Yeah, a nice three 4 00:00:36,359 --> 00:00:39,359 day weekend. I hope you had a wonderful weekend. And 5 00:00:40,039 --> 00:00:44,920 the whole idea about talking about the weekend is obviously 6 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:52,799 the Texas floods. What a horrible story, and we need 7 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:55,000 to start there because there's a lot of things that 8 00:00:55,039 --> 00:00:59,119 I have observed from all the reporting going on about 9 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:01,840 It's now by the way, and the numbers keep changing. 10 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:06,640 Astro recording this. The death toll is ninety one and 11 00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:09,519 there's still ten people missing, so it puts it at 12 00:01:09,519 --> 00:01:12,719 one hundred and one altogether if those other ten are 13 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:17,480 not with us anymore. This is have you noticed? I mean, 14 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:23,519 this is in hill country in central Texas and it 15 00:01:23,719 --> 00:01:27,400 happened in the middle of the night, and they were 16 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:32,239 campgrounds and they were this apparently more than one, but 17 00:01:32,319 --> 00:01:36,239 there was this mystic camp for kids that kids' generations 18 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:40,280 have gone there, and so it's people that are unfamiliar 19 00:01:40,439 --> 00:01:46,480 with that territory. Cell service in that area. We have 20 00:01:46,519 --> 00:01:49,680 a young lady who is familiar with that area. She says, 21 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:52,599 a cell service in the hill country in Central Texas 22 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:56,799 is iffy. So it comes down to everybody is trying 23 00:01:56,879 --> 00:02:00,280 to find and I get this. Whenever there is a 24 00:02:00,359 --> 00:02:03,079 natural disaster, and that's what this is. Whenever there's a 25 00:02:03,159 --> 00:02:07,040 natural disaster, people try to find somebody to blame. It's 26 00:02:07,239 --> 00:02:10,800 kind of a human instinct to point the finger, find somebody, 27 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:15,800 not find somebody who's the villain. We know who the 28 00:02:15,879 --> 00:02:19,159 victims are, but who's the villain they're trying to point 29 00:02:19,199 --> 00:02:23,039 the finger in. Of course, they have to throw in 30 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:27,240 Donald Trump because there are people that just like to 31 00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:29,759 make him the villain of everything. I don't put I 32 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:31,800 know that. I know there were cuts in the National 33 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:37,599 Weather Service, but the National Weather Services coming out and saying, okay, yeah, 34 00:02:37,639 --> 00:02:41,319 we had fewer people working for us, but we were 35 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:45,319 able to issue the warnings as we always have, and 36 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:51,479 that the warnings started the day before and they put 37 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:53,680 out the warnings. And that brings up the whole question 38 00:02:53,719 --> 00:02:57,520 about you know, we've got these cell phones we carry 39 00:02:57,599 --> 00:03:02,319 around and every once in a while there is They 40 00:03:02,439 --> 00:03:04,280 used to do this a lot with amber alerts and 41 00:03:04,319 --> 00:03:10,919 those they've somehow tempered those a little bit. But your 42 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:13,360 phone goes off or doesn't even go off. There's that 43 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:15,599 one that lets out a horn. I mean, you can't 44 00:03:15,639 --> 00:03:18,360 help but check your phone for that. But a lot 45 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:20,800 of these. I can't tell you how many times I 46 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:24,719 get alerts, weather alerts from the National Weather Service on 47 00:03:24,759 --> 00:03:29,000 my phone. I want to say, at least once every 48 00:03:29,039 --> 00:03:37,280 two weeks. There's something I don't know, rain, high temperatures, snow, 49 00:03:37,479 --> 00:03:41,840 something's going to happen. Because the weather is dynamic, and 50 00:03:41,879 --> 00:03:46,280 so what do we do. We don't pay much attention 51 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:50,199 to them. I can tell you I have received I'm 52 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:56,000 sure you have too, numerous flash flood warnings. I'll bet 53 00:03:56,039 --> 00:03:59,400 you in the last year. I probably I'm just guessing five. 54 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:07,080 I pay no attention to them. And so people, I 55 00:04:07,199 --> 00:04:11,000 presume you take that attitude about the fact that we 56 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:13,000 see these all the time. So, in other words, the 57 00:04:13,039 --> 00:04:16,680 National Weather Service sending not alerts every other day, it 58 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:21,920 basically is taking away the alertness of the statement of 59 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:24,560 whatever they want to tell you about. People tend to 60 00:04:24,639 --> 00:04:27,879 ignore it. Then, on top of that, like I said, 61 00:04:27,879 --> 00:04:31,959 this was in the middle of the night. They did 62 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:36,439 send out flash flood warnings earlier that day. They sent 63 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:42,519 them out prior to the Guadaloupe River going away over 64 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:46,439 its banks. I mean it was crazy the numbers. It 65 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:51,920 was thirty feet above flood stage, thirty feet higher than 66 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:57,399 the trees, higher than two story houses. So there are 67 00:04:57,480 --> 00:05:03,759 some things that Mother Nature does that you're just in 68 00:05:03,839 --> 00:05:07,879 the wrong place at the wrong time. There's no warning 69 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:13,519 for tornadoes, well there's some, but very little. There's certainly 70 00:05:13,560 --> 00:05:18,120 no warning for earthquakes. They're trying, but the best they 71 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:20,639 can do is come up with some shake alert that 72 00:05:20,959 --> 00:05:23,839 gives you five seconds warning. What are you going to 73 00:05:23,920 --> 00:05:28,639 do with those five seconds? Hurricanes a little more advanced 74 00:05:28,639 --> 00:05:31,079 notice there, but we really don't know exactly where they're 75 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:34,600 going to go. They're called natural disasters for a reason. 76 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:41,639 Insurance companies call them acts of God. There's a lot 77 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:46,040 of children that have died over the weekend, and that 78 00:05:46,199 --> 00:05:51,120 is probably the hardest part of this because even though 79 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:54,879 they're not your children, all of us, that's the biggest, 80 00:05:55,079 --> 00:06:00,600 the biggest, saddest concerned that any parent has is their 81 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:05,199 child being harmed, let alone killed. So there's a lot 82 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:10,000 of There was a lot of news coming out yesterday 83 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:13,800 and this morning about National Weather Service has been cut. 84 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:18,720 You know who's to blame? And then the National Weather 85 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:22,439 Services come out on a number of occasions. It said, actually, yes, 86 00:06:22,959 --> 00:06:25,560 we did get we did have staffing cuts, but we 87 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:28,079 were still able to get the job done and we 88 00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:33,160 put out our alerts. So I saw some of the 89 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:39,519 videos that were taken last night. They're taking Saturday night, 90 00:06:40,759 --> 00:06:44,040 and I mean it's just black as black can be. 91 00:06:44,079 --> 00:06:46,319 They're out in the middle of nowhere. There's no lights 92 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:52,480 out there. So it's then on top of that, people 93 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:58,399 totally ignoring North Carolina. They're having huge flood issues there 94 00:06:58,480 --> 00:07:02,319 as well. And today the National Weather Service is putting 95 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:08,199 out more flash flood warnings for Central Texas. I will 96 00:07:08,199 --> 00:07:12,040 tell you yeah. National Weather Service guy I was listening 97 00:07:12,079 --> 00:07:15,160 to said that they started putting out their initial there, 98 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:17,199 they went back to their timelines, and when you find 99 00:07:17,279 --> 00:07:20,199 go back to the timelines, the reporters are going, uh 100 00:07:20,199 --> 00:07:23,480 oh yeah. Actually they did put out the warnings as 101 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:31,079 early as Thursday. So weather does this. There was a 102 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:33,759 story a couple of weeks ago. It made some national news. 103 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:36,360 It was out of Lake Tahoe, and Lake Tahoe is 104 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:39,639 a beautiful lake, but it's it's big and there was 105 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:44,680 a freak thunder and lightning storm that all of a 106 00:07:44,759 --> 00:07:49,319 sudden created itself out of nothing, and people are out 107 00:07:49,319 --> 00:07:51,800 on the lake and joining themselves. And it looked I 108 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:55,639 saw the video from that, it looked like the the 109 00:07:55,639 --> 00:07:59,720 the ocean waves were super high. They capsized a boat, 110 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:05,480 a bunch of people died. So the fact that this 111 00:08:05,759 --> 00:08:15,759 was phenomenal, thirty plus feet higher the flood level. All 112 00:08:15,759 --> 00:08:17,800 you can do is is just pray for the people 113 00:08:19,319 --> 00:08:22,720 that lost their children, that God will bring them comfort. 114 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:27,839 That's important. I mean, no, he's losing your children. There's 115 00:08:27,879 --> 00:08:32,519 no comfort there, none whatsoever. So they had a news 116 00:08:32,559 --> 00:08:36,080 conference today, and this is one of my pet peeves. 117 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:38,440 It doesn't matter Republican or Democrat. In this case, it 118 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:43,120 was a Republican. Ted Cruz got up. The sheriff was 119 00:08:43,159 --> 00:08:45,759 there and gave a bunch of information that was important 120 00:08:45,759 --> 00:08:48,320 to know, and then Ted Cruz got up. I don't 121 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:50,879 know how long he went, but he was. I looked 122 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:53,639 up and he was still talking. I looked up fifteen 123 00:08:53,639 --> 00:08:56,399 minutes later. He was still talking. Then I looked up 124 00:08:56,440 --> 00:09:01,200 ten minutes later. He's taking questions from the meeting and 125 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:03,759 the media was actually they shouldn't have played along, but 126 00:09:03,799 --> 00:09:06,799 I mean, get out of there, Ted, this is no 127 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:10,240 time for politicians, and you know he was doing all 128 00:09:10,320 --> 00:09:15,080 the the cliches about we all feel so terrible. Of 129 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:18,440 course you do. We don't need you to tell us that. 130 00:09:19,879 --> 00:09:23,759 So it's just it's a sad story no matter how 131 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:29,240 you look at this. Madeline Mendoza, she is a reporter 132 00:09:29,399 --> 00:09:33,799 for Axios and this is what she had to say 133 00:09:33,799 --> 00:09:34,240 about it. 134 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:37,080 Speaker 2: Thank you so much for having me. Yes, I think 135 00:09:37,279 --> 00:09:39,960 one of the biggest questions that residents here have in 136 00:09:40,039 --> 00:09:44,440 media has is were the alerts sent out in time 137 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:48,159 and where they received. It's one thing for the alerts 138 00:09:48,159 --> 00:09:50,799 to be sent out, and I went back and checked 139 00:09:51,039 --> 00:09:55,000 the National Weather Service messaging and about twenty four hours 140 00:09:55,080 --> 00:10:00,759 before flooding enters the conversation for Kendall, sorry Kirk County 141 00:10:01,159 --> 00:10:05,480 and the county surrounding it. But around one fourteen on 142 00:10:05,559 --> 00:10:09,759 July fourth is the first flash lot warning that's issued. 143 00:10:10,360 --> 00:10:13,000 But like we've said over and over again, this was 144 00:10:13,039 --> 00:10:16,480 a confluence of events where people were sleeping. I know 145 00:10:16,679 --> 00:10:19,519 just from for an experience that sell service isn't always 146 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:22,720 the greatest out in those areas. So yes, the messaging 147 00:10:22,799 --> 00:10:25,720 was out there, well, receiving it in time is the 148 00:10:25,759 --> 00:10:29,159 big question, and what we're hearing from officials is that 149 00:10:29,720 --> 00:10:32,480 those questions will be answered in time, but right now, 150 00:10:32,519 --> 00:10:37,559 the biggest concern is finding these missing individuals. I think 151 00:10:37,639 --> 00:10:41,320 that there is a conversation happening about whether or not 152 00:10:41,399 --> 00:10:44,320 there could have been a siren system or do to 153 00:10:44,519 --> 00:10:46,840 door knocking, but those are all. 154 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:49,840 Speaker 3: Things that are yet to be seen. 155 00:10:49,919 --> 00:10:54,080 Speaker 2: I know the situation is very fluid, and so I 156 00:10:54,159 --> 00:10:56,639 know here in Bear County, which is about an hour 157 00:10:57,080 --> 00:11:00,840 south of Kirk County, we do get a systems, but 158 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:04,639 there is a question of whether that is something that 159 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:08,279 Kirk County residents have that kind of widespread alert system. 160 00:11:08,679 --> 00:11:11,679 So this is all kind of unfolding as people are 161 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:15,600 still searching and getting out there to clear away the debris. 162 00:11:15,639 --> 00:11:19,759 So plenty of questions still circulating right And I think 163 00:11:19,759 --> 00:11:22,399 what's also important to note is that this area of 164 00:11:22,399 --> 00:11:25,279 Texas is known, as you said, it's similar to tornadoes. 165 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:29,159 It's known as flash flood Alley. So I know, even 166 00:11:29,159 --> 00:11:31,279 when it rains here where I'm at, we get these 167 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:34,039 alerts on our phones that say there's a warning or 168 00:11:34,080 --> 00:11:36,840 flash flood watch. But I don't think anybody could have 169 00:11:36,879 --> 00:11:39,519 expected something to go from you know, six inches of 170 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:42,799 rain to over, you know, close to thirty feet in 171 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:45,519 such a small amount of time. This is pretty unprecedented 172 00:11:46,159 --> 00:11:48,840 for modern times. So I think a lot of times, 173 00:11:48,879 --> 00:11:51,360 even when we are awake, when we are active about 174 00:11:51,360 --> 00:11:53,799 the day, when we get these mornings, people may you know, 175 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:56,919 blow them off as something that's not as serious. But again, 176 00:11:57,080 --> 00:12:01,080 it's just also taking into consideration that these people were sleeping, 177 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:03,759 these children were seeking, and there were a lot of 178 00:12:03,759 --> 00:12:06,080 people who were also need to be area campers that 179 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:09,159 were intell On for the holiday weekend. So as we 180 00:12:09,399 --> 00:12:12,000 just keep saying, there's just so many working parts of 181 00:12:12,039 --> 00:12:14,919 this story and so many risks that people may or 182 00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:16,559 may not have been aware of in the middle of 183 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:16,879 the night. 184 00:12:20,679 --> 00:12:23,440 Speaker 1: So so not able to blame the National Weather Service 185 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:25,679 because they did their job, and they're not able to 186 00:12:25,759 --> 00:12:30,360 blame Donald Trump or the federal government. So today they 187 00:12:30,399 --> 00:12:34,000 started asking questions of the local officials about hey, what 188 00:12:34,039 --> 00:12:36,720 did you guys? Do you got the warning? Did you 189 00:12:36,799 --> 00:12:41,279 do anything? So now the local officials are they're they're 190 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:43,879 zeroing in on that. I remember a number of years 191 00:12:43,919 --> 00:12:47,720 ago there was a California wildfire, and usually they're up 192 00:12:47,759 --> 00:12:49,960 in the mountains where the trees are, but instead it 193 00:12:50,039 --> 00:12:53,960 got down into the city of Santa Rosa good sized city, 194 00:12:54,039 --> 00:12:58,919 medium sized city, and burned right into suburban Santa Rosa. 195 00:12:59,840 --> 00:13:02,639 And I remember that at the time there was a 196 00:13:02,720 --> 00:13:07,039 big question mark where were the alerts? Where were the alerts? 197 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:09,320 And they found out that the one of the people 198 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:12,279 in the fire department decided not to put out the 199 00:13:12,279 --> 00:13:15,840 alert because it would panic people. So these alerts are 200 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:19,159 take them as a grain of salt. They're nice there. 201 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:22,600 They are a technology we have, but I'm afraid a 202 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:24,559 lot of it is don't pay much attention to it. 203 00:13:26,159 --> 00:13:31,120 One more from that from the Texas flood, a lady 204 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:37,120 named Amanda Sue Jones and her family were camping right 205 00:13:37,159 --> 00:13:40,960 on the edge of one of the tributaries and they 206 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:43,000 got out. She and her family got out alive. 207 00:13:43,919 --> 00:13:47,000 Speaker 4: So for the little ones are pretty oblivious. But the 208 00:13:47,039 --> 00:13:51,159 oldest one, the teenage boy, he's having a difficult time. 209 00:13:52,519 --> 00:13:55,240 He's strong, he's fit, and I think he thinks he 210 00:13:55,320 --> 00:13:57,559 could have done more, but we can tell him. I 211 00:13:57,600 --> 00:14:01,799 don't think that there's anything he could have done. He 212 00:14:01,879 --> 00:14:04,039 wishes he would have just jumped in and just tried, 213 00:14:04,240 --> 00:14:08,200 but the water was just so aggressively flowing through there 214 00:14:08,320 --> 00:14:11,080 at that point, it just hit so fast and then 215 00:14:11,080 --> 00:14:14,080 it was just like a wave of destruction. So where 216 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:16,559 we were camping, there was a little we were about 217 00:14:16,559 --> 00:14:18,639 twenty yards from a fork, like a little tributary of 218 00:14:18,679 --> 00:14:21,600 the river, and that's what we were monitoring because we're 219 00:14:21,639 --> 00:14:24,639 so close to it, and it was well within its 220 00:14:24,679 --> 00:14:27,039 banks for the longest time, even throughout the night it 221 00:14:27,080 --> 00:14:30,679 was rising, but still within its banks. But then as 222 00:14:30,679 --> 00:14:32,960 soon as it kind of started getting into the grass 223 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:35,320 and out of the banks, that's when the decision was 224 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:38,759 made because once it got there, there was, you know, 225 00:14:38,879 --> 00:14:41,039 not the natural place it's supposed to be, so who 226 00:14:41,039 --> 00:14:43,240 knows where the water is going to go at that point, 227 00:14:43,559 --> 00:14:47,039 it was just immeasurably fast. 228 00:14:47,240 --> 00:14:49,519 Speaker 5: It was by the time we even. 229 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:51,840 Speaker 4: Whenever we were coming from our camp ground because we 230 00:14:51,840 --> 00:14:53,919 were primitive camping, so we were kind of set back 231 00:14:53,919 --> 00:14:56,720 on the property in a more you know, remote location. 232 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:58,600 So as soon as we got back to where we 233 00:14:58,639 --> 00:15:03,000 saw the campers and happens, everything seemed quiet. There wasn't 234 00:15:03,039 --> 00:15:05,559 a lot of you know, hustling and bustling. There wasn't 235 00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:08,120 a lot of you know, it wasn't a stressful situation 236 00:15:08,799 --> 00:15:11,639 at that point. But then again, nobody could really see 237 00:15:11,639 --> 00:15:15,919 the water past where this little bridge was, and it's 238 00:15:15,919 --> 00:15:19,600 almost as like a wall of water came through because. 239 00:15:19,399 --> 00:15:20,120 Speaker 3: I said, we've crossed. 240 00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:22,759 Speaker 4: There was some flooding once we got to the campsite, 241 00:15:23,279 --> 00:15:25,480 but we were there last year during flooding and no, 242 00:15:25,759 --> 00:15:28,320 it didn't get into any structures then, And this is 243 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:31,240 about the level that the water got to, so we 244 00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:33,080 were kind of thinking, Okay, well, then that's just must 245 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:34,279 be where the floodwaters go. 246 00:15:34,759 --> 00:15:35,639 Speaker 3: This is probably it. 247 00:15:35,639 --> 00:15:39,480 Speaker 4: It's going to start receding because the rain wasn't really heavy. 248 00:15:39,519 --> 00:15:40,919 Speaker 3: It was still raining, but there. 249 00:15:40,840 --> 00:15:45,120 Speaker 4: Was no torrential downpours or anything to make us believe 250 00:15:45,159 --> 00:15:47,559 that that was about to happen. So it was a 251 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:50,759 matter of minutes from where it was just quiet everyone 252 00:15:50,960 --> 00:15:55,399 was asleep, to lights coming on slowly and the cabins 253 00:15:55,399 --> 00:15:59,519 and campers to them just being washed away. We're just 254 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:02,519 we're just really grateful for us that we made it 255 00:16:02,559 --> 00:16:08,080 out and just definitely feeling like we could have done more. 256 00:16:08,120 --> 00:16:10,360 And I think that's going to carry on probably for 257 00:16:10,399 --> 00:16:13,919 the rest of our lives, just replaying it, trying to 258 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:16,720 imagine what we could have done differently, and what we 259 00:16:16,759 --> 00:16:22,480 would have done differently, but just the just how rapid 260 00:16:22,559 --> 00:16:22,960 it was. 261 00:16:23,720 --> 00:16:25,320 Speaker 3: Like I said, we just have to tell ourselves. 262 00:16:25,399 --> 00:16:27,120 Speaker 4: I don't think there was I think we're just so 263 00:16:27,240 --> 00:16:28,679 grateful that we made it out. 264 00:16:29,440 --> 00:16:33,360 Speaker 1: I'm sure they are grateful. But the scene, the way 265 00:16:33,440 --> 00:16:36,480 that she said and the reporter said it for it 266 00:16:36,519 --> 00:16:40,480 was it was pitch black. People were not familiar, they 267 00:16:40,480 --> 00:16:44,240 were were not from that area. No cell service to 268 00:16:44,279 --> 00:16:48,600 speak of or marginal cell service, and alerts that were 269 00:16:48,679 --> 00:16:52,240 put out early, but nobody paid attention to them. So again, 270 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:56,000 pray for the people that have lost their families, especially 271 00:16:56,039 --> 00:17:05,920 the children. Tariffs, Yes they're back, Yes they're back. The 272 00:17:05,920 --> 00:17:08,680 deadline that Donald Trump gave he gave a naughty day 273 00:17:09,559 --> 00:17:13,240 pause on tariffs, and that naughty days is up on Wednesday, 274 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:20,319 the ninth of July. And so the question now is 275 00:17:20,319 --> 00:17:22,240 is Trump going to is there going to be a 276 00:17:22,319 --> 00:17:28,200 taco trade? Trump always chickens out well. When he announced 277 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:32,200 today that there's going to be a twenty five percent 278 00:17:32,319 --> 00:17:36,319 tariff on Japan and a twenty four percent tariff on 279 00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:40,240 South Korea, that the market sold off. It opened up 280 00:17:40,279 --> 00:17:42,799 down five hundred points. We'll get to the closing numbers. 281 00:17:43,240 --> 00:17:47,319 But the market. It turned out to where the market 282 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:52,599 really was down about one percent. It was it was 283 00:17:53,079 --> 00:17:55,799 a slight cell and I think people are starting to 284 00:17:55,920 --> 00:17:59,119 realize that we have no idea what these tariffs are 285 00:17:59,119 --> 00:18:01,880 going to be. I know it's only two days away, 286 00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:06,880 but we've been every time there's a teriff set, the 287 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:10,279 rules get changed again, So a lot of people are 288 00:18:10,319 --> 00:18:14,559 taking the gamble that whatever he said today is probably 289 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:17,799 not going to be true again. On Wednesday. Scott besn't 290 00:18:17,839 --> 00:18:22,200 made the rounds Dreagery secretary is for his comments. 291 00:18:22,759 --> 00:18:25,559 Speaker 6: We are going to have several announcements in the next 292 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:29,759 forty eight hours. And Joe, I think what President Trump 293 00:18:30,279 --> 00:18:32,839 is concerned about is the quality of the deals, not 294 00:18:32,960 --> 00:18:37,359 the quantity. As you could imagine as he started hurting 295 00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:40,319 the cats and trying to get everyone across the finish 296 00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:44,519 line when he said that there's a chance that countries 297 00:18:44,559 --> 00:18:50,960 could boomerang back to their April second reciprocal tariff levels. 298 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:53,359 We've had a lot of people change their tune in 299 00:18:53,440 --> 00:18:54,720 terms of negotiations. 300 00:18:54,799 --> 00:18:56,319 Speaker 3: So my. 301 00:18:58,920 --> 00:19:03,000 Speaker 6: Mailbox was full last night with a lot of new offers, 302 00:19:03,039 --> 00:19:05,680 a lot of new proposals. So it's going to be 303 00:19:05,880 --> 00:19:09,400 a busy couple of days when we send out one 304 00:19:09,480 --> 00:19:12,880 hundred letters to these countries that will set their teriff right. 305 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:16,440 So we're going to have one hundred and done in 306 00:19:16,480 --> 00:19:17,599 the next few days. 307 00:19:17,960 --> 00:19:19,799 Speaker 3: And that's not a deal, that's a threat. 308 00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:23,799 Speaker 6: No, that's the level. That's the deal. I mean, many 309 00:19:23,799 --> 00:19:26,400 of these countries never even contacted US. When you were 310 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:28,920 the deficit country, you have the leverage. 311 00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:32,400 Speaker 1: So roughly where it stands is that Donald Trump has 312 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:38,359 extended the deadline from Wednesday until August first, so three weeks. 313 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:41,839 See what I mean. I mean it keeps changing. And 314 00:19:42,480 --> 00:19:46,599 as far as Japan and South Korea, twenty five percent 315 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:49,519 tariff and twenty four percent tariff, and they're sending out 316 00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:53,640 letters to our major trading partners. There's some going out today, 317 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:57,480 tomorrow and Wednesday telling them what their teriff rate will be. 318 00:19:58,279 --> 00:20:01,359 One story that came out over the weekend that referred 319 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:05,200 to tariffs was about del Monte, the big food company 320 00:20:05,279 --> 00:20:08,960 out of San Francisco. Del Monte has been in business 321 00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:12,559 for one hundred and thirty five years. When I was 322 00:20:12,599 --> 00:20:19,240 a young bean counter, I worked on their tax returns. Nah, 323 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:23,759 they were very prosperous company, but they said the price 324 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:28,599 of ten aluminum that they make. The ten cans for 325 00:20:28,720 --> 00:20:31,880 their product that they put on the grocer's shelves has 326 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:34,160 gone up so much that they can't keep up, and 327 00:20:34,279 --> 00:20:38,440 therefore they have filed for bankruptcy. I presume it's a reorganization. 328 00:20:38,599 --> 00:20:41,079 I don't think they're going to stop after one hundred 329 00:20:41,119 --> 00:20:43,759 and thirty five years. But it also brought up, and 330 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:47,119 it's way over my head, about the fact that people 331 00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:51,200 are buying more fresh beans and fresh carrots and fresh 332 00:20:51,279 --> 00:20:54,359 this and fresh that from the produce department rather than 333 00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:59,920 buying canned foods. But again I mean soups and vegetables, 334 00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:03,440 things like that. There are certain recipes you want to 335 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:08,119 can of cream of something, it comes in a can, 336 00:21:09,519 --> 00:21:12,799 So that's again they alluded to the fact that the 337 00:21:12,839 --> 00:21:16,119 tariffs are causing a problem because of the price of aluminum. 338 00:21:19,319 --> 00:21:24,599 One other company that is having trouble Wall Street wise 339 00:21:25,599 --> 00:21:33,880 is Tesla. Tesla they thought they got Elon Musk to 340 00:21:34,039 --> 00:21:36,559 go away from politics and get back to paying attention 341 00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:40,279 to the business of Tesla. But now he has come 342 00:21:40,319 --> 00:21:43,000 out and said I want to start a new political party, 343 00:21:43,559 --> 00:21:46,680 America Party. Remember last week he called I think he 344 00:21:46,759 --> 00:21:49,880 called the Republicans the porky pig party. So he's all 345 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:52,640 upset about the Big Beautiful Bill, which again I should 346 00:21:52,799 --> 00:21:56,680 if we're talking about the long weekend on this Monday. Yep, 347 00:21:56,720 --> 00:21:59,440 there was the President on the fourth of July exactly 348 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:04,279 as he added, for the passed the one big beautiful bill. 349 00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:07,680 It will add to the deficit anywhere between three and 350 00:22:07,799 --> 00:22:13,000 five trillion dollars. But nobody in Washington seems to care. 351 00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:17,359 The real question is do you care? Do the voters 352 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:20,680 care or do they just shrug and go, yeah, whatever. 353 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:23,799 We've been seeing this for At some point it's going 354 00:22:23,839 --> 00:22:28,599 to it's getting close where the amount of interest that 355 00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:32,279 we have to pay is more than we are paying 356 00:22:32,359 --> 00:22:36,279 for our national defense. That's how big that has gone. 357 00:22:36,319 --> 00:22:39,880 And eventually it's going to eat up everything. It is 358 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:44,359 going to gobble up everything, so there won't be any 359 00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:50,160 benefits from any government program. But back to Elon, So 360 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:55,640 he said he wants to start America Party, another political party, 361 00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:58,440 and he put out all kinds of mess tweets, whatever 362 00:22:58,480 --> 00:23:00,759 you want to call him on x about the fact 363 00:23:00,839 --> 00:23:03,319 that he wants people to sign up. Now, the Republicans 364 00:23:03,319 --> 00:23:06,119 are worried about this because of the fact that might 365 00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:13,079 split the Republican vote. Phil Lebou, who does the auto 366 00:23:14,039 --> 00:23:18,920 work on CNBC at this report about Tesla understandable because 367 00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:20,400 I think a lot of people are saying. 368 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:22,039 Speaker 3: What's he doing? Where's he going with this? 369 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:26,279 Speaker 7: And Tesla investors to a large extent, have always given 370 00:23:26,319 --> 00:23:28,039 him a lot of rope to go off and to 371 00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:31,680 do and to say whatever he wants to say, because 372 00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:34,079 their belief is, look, the man has come up with 373 00:23:34,119 --> 00:23:37,319 some incredible companies, whether you're looking at Tesla, whether you're 374 00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:39,599 looking at SpaceX, and has done things that a lot 375 00:23:39,599 --> 00:23:42,680 of people scoffed at in the past. But now that 376 00:23:42,759 --> 00:23:46,160 he's revisiting the idea of politics in terms of forming 377 00:23:46,279 --> 00:23:49,519 a political party, it raises a bunch of questions. I mean, 378 00:23:49,599 --> 00:23:52,359 look at his comment in terms of you know, what 379 00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:55,319 he wants to do with the American Party when he 380 00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:59,640 posted on act saying, when it comes to bankrupting our 381 00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:03,279 country with waste and graft, we live in a one 382 00:24:03,319 --> 00:24:06,839 party system, not a democracy. Is that by itself going 383 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:10,359 to bother a Tesla investor. No, But he wants to 384 00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:13,359 form a party, which then raises the question, Wait a second, 385 00:24:13,559 --> 00:24:15,359 what are you doing with your time and your attention? 386 00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:17,240 Speaker 3: You're trying to form a political party. 387 00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:21,279 Speaker 7: It would in theory, target two or three Senate seats, 388 00:24:21,519 --> 00:24:24,440 eight to ten House seats, and the goal is to 389 00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:27,559 have enough leverage that they could steer legislative talks, whether 390 00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:28,880 with the Democratic. 391 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:29,960 Speaker 3: Party or the Republican Party. 392 00:24:30,559 --> 00:24:34,359 Speaker 7: Not surprisingly, Donald Trump said that Elon Musk is off 393 00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:37,599 his rails, is off the rails in terms of his comments. 394 00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:40,160 So this is one of those things, guys, where you 395 00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:43,400 look at it from a Tesla investor perspective and you 396 00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:46,680 sit there and say, what about Tesla. We wanted you 397 00:24:46,759 --> 00:24:50,960 to work on Tesla. That's what we think Elon Musk 398 00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:54,000 is best at. And that's the reason that shares are 399 00:24:54,119 --> 00:24:55,200 under pressure right now. 400 00:24:55,839 --> 00:24:58,960 Speaker 1: So his theory is or his game plan is not 401 00:24:59,039 --> 00:25:02,440 to complete. We have more people than the Republicans or 402 00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:06,119 the Democrats, but have just enough people in the Senate 403 00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:09,359 and enough people from the America Party in the House 404 00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:14,160 to where they could have leverage to get bills passed 405 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:17,160 or not passed, or spending cut or whatever it is 406 00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:23,720 that they want to do. But this is I've got 407 00:25:23,759 --> 00:25:27,039 to by the way, Tesla shares down over seven percent today. 408 00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:30,160 People did not like it. It's now below it's one 409 00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:34,519 trillion dollar market cap, so Tesla is shrinking and the 410 00:25:34,559 --> 00:25:37,720 stockholders have got to be very, very unhappy. At the 411 00:25:37,759 --> 00:25:40,359 same time, this guy marches to a different beat of 412 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:44,880 the drum. I understand his theory about trying to get 413 00:25:45,039 --> 00:25:48,240 a group maybe three or four Senators, three or four 414 00:25:48,279 --> 00:25:52,599 House members that are part of America Party, But there 415 00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:55,559 already is. I told you this last week. If you 416 00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:59,039 look at the Democrats, they're not one party. They've got 417 00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:02,559 the squad, the far left side, and then got the 418 00:26:02,559 --> 00:26:09,000 middle of the road, moderate to the left Democrats, traditional Democrats, 419 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:11,480 whatever you want to call them. They don't agree with 420 00:26:11,559 --> 00:26:15,240 the squad and they have to hash things out. And 421 00:26:15,319 --> 00:26:18,839 the same on the Republican side, they've got the far 422 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:23,960 right mega and then they've got the moderate old establishment Republicans. 423 00:26:24,759 --> 00:26:28,319 So we already we don't need a new party to 424 00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:31,880 have these debates. It wasn't like all the Republicans lined 425 00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:36,119 up well, they actually did pretty much to vote for 426 00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:40,000 a bill. But it really doesn't it doesn't seem necessary. 427 00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:44,720 We already have different voices representing no matter where you 428 00:26:44,799 --> 00:26:50,119 stand in your ideological view of the world, you've got 429 00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:53,960 a representative in Congress that voices for you. So Stock 430 00:26:54,039 --> 00:26:57,440 got hammered today. I don't know what Elon's doing. I 431 00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:00,720 thought they kissed and made up. But a parent not 432 00:27:04,039 --> 00:27:08,960 speaking of the markets New York City, the mayor's race, 433 00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:15,680 this is a lot of people are saying that this 434 00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:20,000 this Zoran mam donnie, you know, is too crazy. He's 435 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:23,400 out there, he's a communist and everything else. Let me 436 00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:29,079 tell you about New York City, they are not following 437 00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:32,920 the the plate of they're all Democrats and they're going 438 00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:37,480 to vote Democrat no matter what. Donald Trump won thirty 439 00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:41,200 five percent of the vote in New York City this 440 00:27:41,319 --> 00:27:47,440 past November. Now, if that isn't some rebellious voting going 441 00:27:47,519 --> 00:27:49,839 on among the people that live in New York City, 442 00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:53,720 that's exactly what it was. They're tired of the same old, 443 00:27:53,839 --> 00:27:58,440 same old. And so this Zoran Mam donnie, Yeah, he's 444 00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:02,640 a big socialist in his ideas are crazy. But at 445 00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:06,480 the same time, I can see where people are going 446 00:28:06,519 --> 00:28:09,440 to vote for him. If you go back and look 447 00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:11,359 at the numbers that have come in. Like I told 448 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:14,079 you on Friday, he got fifty six percent of the vote, 449 00:28:14,559 --> 00:28:19,839 fifty six. Andrew Cuomo got like forty three percent. I 450 00:28:19,839 --> 00:28:23,839 think something along those lines. So the main vote is 451 00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:26,319 in November, but we'll see what happens along the way. 452 00:28:26,319 --> 00:28:28,160 But I think people are going, he's a communist, he's 453 00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:31,599 always socialists. He's for all free buses and free grocery 454 00:28:31,599 --> 00:28:35,079 stores and free and that's not going to win the argument. 455 00:28:35,599 --> 00:28:39,799 There are people going, I don't care. Go ahead, go 456 00:28:39,839 --> 00:28:42,680 ahead and dump some communists, socialists. Whatever you want to 457 00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:45,519 do on is it can't be any worse than what 458 00:28:45,559 --> 00:28:48,160 the people are that we've voted into office have done. 459 00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:54,799 The big issue for New York City is affordability. And 460 00:28:55,799 --> 00:28:59,240 I know New York is a very expensive city. I 461 00:28:59,319 --> 00:29:01,559 think it's the most most expensive city in the country, 462 00:29:02,839 --> 00:29:06,119 but it's not alone. I'm betting you that your study 463 00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:10,079 is pretty darn expensive too, and so people are having 464 00:29:10,119 --> 00:29:15,119 a hard time affording things. That is the message that 465 00:29:15,279 --> 00:29:19,799 Zoron ma'm Donnie is coming up with uh Karine Hajar 466 00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:24,519 and Caroline Downey. Karine is a reporter for the Boston 467 00:29:24,599 --> 00:29:28,200 Globe and Caroline Downey is a reporter for National Review. 468 00:29:28,279 --> 00:29:33,079 This is their comments about Zoron, ma'am Downey. 469 00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:35,680 Speaker 8: Well, of course, as mayor of New York, you wouldn't 470 00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:37,920 have the same power that say Chave has had or 471 00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:41,000 today Nicholas Maduro does. But they're making the same promise 472 00:29:41,039 --> 00:29:43,759 as Mamdannie and the promise that the late chav has made, 473 00:29:43,759 --> 00:29:47,319 which was that with unlimited wealth you can redistribute without 474 00:29:47,359 --> 00:29:51,279 adverse consequences. So for Javes, that was Venezuela, one of 475 00:29:51,319 --> 00:29:54,079 the once South America's wealthiest country, is sitting on top 476 00:29:54,119 --> 00:29:57,079 of one of the world's largest known oil reserves and 477 00:29:57,119 --> 00:29:59,079 now one of the worst economies in the world. 478 00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:00,920 Speaker 3: His promise was to. 479 00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:04,480 Speaker 8: Poor Venezuelans and to rich Venezuelans. He was charismatic about it. 480 00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:06,480 They voted for him at the beginning, saying that I 481 00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:09,279 can redistribute this wealth and health uplift everyone. 482 00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:11,160 Speaker 3: I watched this decline firsthand my. 483 00:30:11,079 --> 00:30:13,400 Speaker 8: Mom's side of the families from Venezuela, and what happened 484 00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:17,480 was visits started turning into restalking missions, just basic supplies 485 00:30:17,519 --> 00:30:19,839 that you would be able to get anywhere. And we've 486 00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:23,160 seen the socialist fantasy fail over and over again. But 487 00:30:23,279 --> 00:30:26,319 all these youthful movements are fueled by hubris thinking that 488 00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:27,640 we can get it right this time. 489 00:30:28,799 --> 00:30:31,759 Speaker 9: Well, look, I think gen Z certainly was appealed to 490 00:30:31,839 --> 00:30:34,920 because of the social media aspect. But I think Zoron 491 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:37,880 Mamdani should be the death knell for the Democratic Party's 492 00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:41,400 brand as the working class brand, which we've already established before. 493 00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:44,759 But there's this other communist term called the vanguard, which 494 00:30:44,839 --> 00:30:48,000 is from Vladimir Lenin's time in the Soviet Union. Zoron 495 00:30:48,119 --> 00:30:52,960 Mamdani's vanguard is the elite, disgruntled, college educated graduate who's 496 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:56,519 probably in a mountain of student loan debt, who's probably unemployed. 497 00:30:56,799 --> 00:30:59,680 These are the New Yorkers who were ripe for radicalization 498 00:30:59,839 --> 00:31:02,200 in to socialism, and we have the election results to 499 00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:04,640 back that up. Because it was the affluent, middle to 500 00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:07,519 high income New Yorkers who were in the Democratic Party 501 00:31:07,559 --> 00:31:09,559 who went for so Roun Mamdanni, and it was the 502 00:31:09,599 --> 00:31:13,000 working class, low income folks who went for Andrew Cuomo. 503 00:31:13,279 --> 00:31:14,839 And so that's what ultimately happened. 504 00:31:14,839 --> 00:31:15,480 Speaker 3: It wasn't that the. 505 00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:18,359 Speaker 9: Proletariat of New York rose up and it was a 506 00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:21,119 socialist revolution and the workers of the world unite know. 507 00:31:21,279 --> 00:31:25,240 It was this niche New York City bourgeois that basically 508 00:31:25,359 --> 00:31:28,119 feels like there's something owed to them that mam Donni 509 00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:31,200 can maybe get back for them. But of course Marxism 510 00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:33,839 wasn't intended that way. But Marxism never goes the way 511 00:31:33,839 --> 00:31:34,440 it's intended. 512 00:31:35,119 --> 00:31:39,720 Speaker 1: So did you hear that the working class poor, the 513 00:31:39,799 --> 00:31:42,880 gen zs who voted for Donald Trump. By the way, 514 00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:46,920 a lot of them that voted for Donald Trump were 515 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:50,240 not the elite. But the elite are the ones who 516 00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:57,480 voted for Zorroon, ma'm donnie, it's baffling all of the 517 00:31:57,559 --> 00:32:01,440 political rules and just going to be fascinating see how 518 00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:06,480 this one plays out. It could be a change literally 519 00:32:06,559 --> 00:32:09,920 in just the electorate in general that are tired of 520 00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:13,759 the promises that are never kept. Here's Eric Adams, the 521 00:32:13,759 --> 00:32:18,799 current mayor of New York City, talking about, ma'am donnie. 522 00:32:19,279 --> 00:32:23,119 Speaker 10: Legitimate concerns about affordability, not only in the city, in 523 00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:26,480 the country. Everyone could talk about the prices that we're 524 00:32:26,519 --> 00:32:29,920 dealing with approachasing basic things, and we got that. We 525 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:32,440 heard that message. I know we're living in poverty. He 526 00:32:32,519 --> 00:32:35,799 knows we're living in luxury. Actually is I know, living 527 00:32:35,839 --> 00:32:39,480 on the verge of homelessness. I know I'm struggling every day, 528 00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:41,839 you know, going to school with a garbage bag full 529 00:32:41,839 --> 00:32:43,920 of clothing and frag who's going to be thrown out. 530 00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:47,440 Speaker 5: That's my story, that is not his story. 531 00:32:47,759 --> 00:32:52,039 Speaker 10: He's an academic elitist that comes with these philosophies and 532 00:32:52,079 --> 00:32:55,720 principles that don't work out on ground. The foundation of 533 00:32:55,920 --> 00:33:01,240 him paying for free busses he wants to one percent 534 00:33:01,319 --> 00:33:04,119 of high income New York is Man's don't have that authority. 535 00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:07,640 Speaker 5: You know who has that authority? Assemblyman. He's an assemblyman. 536 00:33:08,039 --> 00:33:09,559 Speaker 3: And the governor already made a cliche. 537 00:33:09,559 --> 00:33:12,000 Speaker 10: He's ever going to do it, and so the foundation 538 00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:13,799 of his program is not winniblena. 539 00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:20,200 Speaker 1: So let's turn to immigration, because the attacks on ICE 540 00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:25,519 officers are not just protesters. They are now shooting at them. 541 00:33:27,359 --> 00:33:30,200 There was a Texas officer that was shot outside an 542 00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:34,640 ICE detention center in Texas. That was earlier today. 543 00:33:35,079 --> 00:33:35,680 Speaker 3: There was. 544 00:33:38,039 --> 00:33:40,640 Speaker 1: There's two or three of them where there's shootings at 545 00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:45,559 the at the ICE officers, even at their own facilities. 546 00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:49,519 So Tom Holman was asked about all this today. Plus 547 00:33:49,559 --> 00:33:52,160 Tom Holman was also asked about the money because out 548 00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:55,759 of the one big beautiful bill, immigration probably is the 549 00:33:55,839 --> 00:34:00,480 number one expenditure forty six billion dollars for leading the 550 00:34:00,519 --> 00:34:05,759 wall forty five billion dollars for detention centers. Here's Tom Holman. 551 00:34:06,759 --> 00:34:10,800 Speaker 11: Look, they're a typical protesters that go from protest to 552 00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:13,480 the criminals. The attack on ICE officers, you've covered them 553 00:34:13,519 --> 00:34:16,599 many times, is up nearly seven hundred percent now we 554 00:34:16,599 --> 00:34:18,679 were talking five hundred percent a couple of weeks ago. 555 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:19,840 Speaker 5: So continues. 556 00:34:20,119 --> 00:34:23,480 Speaker 11: The rhetorica against the men and women of ICE is skyrocketing, 557 00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:26,800 especially by members of Congress. We have senators, we have 558 00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:30,440 Congress people that compare ICE to the Nazis, compare ICE 559 00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:34,360 to races, and and it just continues. So the public thinks, well, 560 00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:36,639 but Member Congress can't attack Ice. Why you can't wait? 561 00:34:36,679 --> 00:34:39,519 So the rhetoric has to stop or as a matter 562 00:34:39,519 --> 00:34:41,519 of time for someone to, you know, when the ICE 563 00:34:41,559 --> 00:34:44,559 officers goes down or or a criminal going down. Were 564 00:34:44,559 --> 00:34:47,400 already seen an officer go down. As far as the 565 00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:49,480 best case, I want to get ahead of local investigation 566 00:34:49,559 --> 00:34:52,000 on this, but they appear to be agitators. People that 567 00:34:52,039 --> 00:34:57,519 are protesting ICE operations, damaging ICE property want attack ICE officers. Well, 568 00:34:57,559 --> 00:34:59,880 if this is the first time I've seen ice plus 569 00:35:00,199 --> 00:35:02,800 in decades, I mean I started nineteen eighty four. I've 570 00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:05,519 saw borbitol get plussed up. You know, four or five 571 00:35:05,559 --> 00:35:06,880 times when I was in the Borg too, we had 572 00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:09,440 like four thousand ages. Now they got twenty thousand. Ice 573 00:35:09,519 --> 00:35:13,199 has never been plused up at a meaningful level. And 574 00:35:13,519 --> 00:35:16,159 that was the problem because the more you plus up Borbatrol, 575 00:35:16,199 --> 00:35:18,079 the more the rest on the border increase when they 576 00:35:18,159 --> 00:35:22,039 rest and going detention. Now Seici's job, detention, it's ICE's job. Transportation, 577 00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:25,199 it's ices job, go to immergraceperceining, he says, ICE's job 578 00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:28,079 for removal. So ICE has never been plused up at 579 00:35:28,119 --> 00:35:30,199 the level. This is the biggest plus up we've ever seen, 580 00:35:30,199 --> 00:35:32,920 which is going to create efficiencies in program. We can 581 00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:36,320 transport people, detained people, remove people quickly. But it also 582 00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:39,320 adds more or more officers to the streets, which we need. 583 00:35:39,639 --> 00:35:41,599 You just said it. We got less than five thousand 584 00:35:41,719 --> 00:35:45,119 deportation officers at ICE. We got over twenty million illegal 585 00:35:45,119 --> 00:35:48,119 aliens in this country. And I see that rhetorica. Now Ice, 586 00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:51,039 it's you know, the number three thousand days ridiculous. Well, 587 00:35:51,039 --> 00:35:53,039 I want to be clear, if you do the math, 588 00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:57,119 we would have to rest seven thousand people every day 589 00:35:57,480 --> 00:35:59,920 for the remainder of the Trump administration. Just to remove 590 00:36:00,199 --> 00:36:02,760 it was that Biden release into the country. So three 591 00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:05,159 thousand dollars, I mean three thousand people a day is 592 00:36:05,159 --> 00:36:07,880 not unreasonable. This gets more agents on the street to 593 00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:10,679 rest more criminals, more national security threats. 594 00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:12,280 Speaker 5: It couldn't come fast enough. 595 00:36:12,679 --> 00:36:15,199 Speaker 11: Look, I think it's going to make America safe, safer 596 00:36:15,639 --> 00:36:17,719 for every criminal ailien we take off the street and 597 00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:20,559 deport to another country, for every national security set But 598 00:36:20,719 --> 00:36:23,039 we got over two hundred our raetings we' are arrested 599 00:36:23,079 --> 00:36:25,320 since the Iran conflict. 600 00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:27,800 Speaker 5: So this is going to make this community safer. 601 00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:31,320 Speaker 11: We got we got over six hundred thousand illegal aliens 602 00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:34,360 with criminal records walking though streets of this nation. Well 603 00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:36,320 this plus up, we can take them to the customery, 604 00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:38,920 move them quicker. That's going to make this country safe again. 605 00:36:39,119 --> 00:36:41,039 We're going to show the whole world that if you 606 00:36:41,159 --> 00:36:43,159 enter this country I legally, which is a crime, and 607 00:36:43,199 --> 00:36:46,000 you commit you had another crime here, there's zero talents, 608 00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:47,760 We're going to find you and deport you. We got 609 00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:53,199 to show the world there's consequences forroviding violating our love. Look, 610 00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:57,800 I think every I think every registrat, right state governor 611 00:36:57,840 --> 00:36:59,960 would would want to help us do this we need. 612 00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:01,280 Speaker 5: We need a lot more beds. 613 00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:03,199 Speaker 11: We need one hundred thousand vEDS and right now we 614 00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:06,039 got about fifty eight thousand in custody, so we got 615 00:37:06,039 --> 00:37:07,400 to ramp up those beds quickly. 616 00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:09,599 Speaker 5: Thank god. You know, government Stantus came through. This is 617 00:37:09,639 --> 00:37:10,360 a great facility. 618 00:37:10,519 --> 00:37:12,280 Speaker 11: It's got an airstrip right there that we're going to 619 00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:14,840 use not only to deport people from that facility, we're 620 00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:17,159 being used as a staging area for the East Coast. 621 00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:19,800 We got staging facility in Arizona. We got one in Texas. 622 00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:22,440 It's great, and Louisiana. It's great to have one in Florida. 623 00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:25,039 But I hope all the rest state governors step up 624 00:37:25,039 --> 00:37:26,920 and help us do this because we need beds quickly. 625 00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:29,719 And you know, they got a prison system they can 626 00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:32,800 certainly build upon that. But it's also going to give 627 00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:36,199 an efficiency to American taxpayer. The detention facilies are expensive. 628 00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:37,880 We're looking for the best deal out there. We're still 629 00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:40,159 we're still going to come on our private contractors. They 630 00:37:40,199 --> 00:37:42,280 do it better, they do it cheaper than the US 631 00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:44,360 government does it. But we wanted to see the governor 632 00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:46,800 step up. This is their problem too. I mean, what 633 00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:49,719 Biden administration did this country is a problem for every 634 00:37:49,719 --> 00:37:52,440 state in this in the country, even blom states. But 635 00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:54,159 I just don't think they're going to step up because 636 00:37:54,159 --> 00:37:56,480 they're too busy attacking Ice, and they're too busy attacking 637 00:37:56,519 --> 00:37:58,920 Trump policy. As long as the false as long as 638 00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:01,079 the false stories go out being pushed out by the media, 639 00:38:01,159 --> 00:38:03,400 members of the Hill, it couldn't get ugly. I just 640 00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:05,960 hope the reduck stops, because we're talking about life and 641 00:38:06,039 --> 00:38:08,199 death here. These men and women of Ice, the men 642 00:38:08,239 --> 00:38:11,639 and women of Borbichow, remember this their mothers and fathers too. 643 00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:14,280 They don't hang their hard on a hook magal of work. 644 00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:16,719 They're enforced the laws enacted by Congress. If you don't 645 00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:19,039 like it, go protest Congress. 646 00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:22,960 Speaker 1: So that's Tom Homan talking about. Well, he's pleased he 647 00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:25,360 got the money, but he's looking at he's got a big, 648 00:38:25,519 --> 00:38:29,400 bigger job to do than he has. Just begun Wall 649 00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:33,519 Street today. Like I said, the tariff news was not 650 00:38:33,679 --> 00:38:37,039 received well. Market went down five hundred points on the 651 00:38:37,079 --> 00:38:42,079 Dow at the open and kind of stayed in that area, 652 00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:45,920 finished down four hundred and twenty two the dow at 653 00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:49,920 forty four and four h six s and p blinked. 654 00:38:50,679 --> 00:38:55,320 They just blinked down forty nine. The nasdack down one 655 00:38:55,440 --> 00:38:58,400 hundred eighty eight. That's not a big drop for them either. 656 00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:01,440 The price of gold was up three dollars to thirty 657 00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:05,320 three forty six, and oil today up a dollar to 658 00:39:05,519 --> 00:39:09,119 sixty eight dollars now for one barrel of oil. Thank 659 00:39:09,159 --> 00:39:13,000 you for coming by. Hope to see you again. We're 660 00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,159 gonna try this again tomorrow. Hope to see you then. 661 00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:16,119 Have a great day.