Speaker 1: And Hi, how are you welcome? Welcome to the Big Podcast.
Speaker 1: Is Thursday. Today is the second day of October, year
Speaker 1: of our Lord, twenty twenty five. My name is Tom Sullivan.
Speaker 1: So a fairly busy day to day. We've got I know,
Speaker 1: I know, I know, I know, I know. I can't
Speaker 1: keep talking about the shutdown. And it's their fault. It's
Speaker 1: not my fault, it's their fault. And so that's what
Speaker 1: the politicians are pointing the finger at each other. We'll
Speaker 1: dig into it. It's getting to be there's actually some
Speaker 1: focus on that I think makes more sense. We'll talk
Speaker 1: a little bit about it today being Thursday. Tomorrow is
Speaker 1: the first Friday of the month, and we're not going
Speaker 1: to get the jobs report out, but we've got some
Speaker 1: information about the state of the labor market in our country.
Speaker 1: Tragedy in Manchester, England on Yam Kapor today is the
Speaker 1: holiest day of the Jewish calendar, and mad man drove
Speaker 1: his car into a crowd that was assembled for at
Speaker 1: one of the synagogues in Manchester in the suburbs. There
Speaker 1: two dead, four injured. Drove into the crowd then got
Speaker 1: out of the car. And remember England doesn't you know,
Speaker 1: they're very tight on guns. So what did he do.
Speaker 1: He started he had a big long knife and started
Speaker 1: stabbing anybody and everybody he could stab. So violence is
Speaker 1: not just here sadly in the US.
Speaker 2: So uh oh.
Speaker 1: And speaking of violence, the mayor of Memphis, we've got
Speaker 1: some comments from him, We've got some comments from Portland.
Speaker 1: We've got some comments about the guy running for mayor,
Speaker 1: yes or on Mondani in New York City. But I want,
Speaker 1: I want to start with something that I just I thought.
Speaker 1: I thought i'd start with this so I can get
Speaker 1: you kind of thinking about it, and that is have
Speaker 1: you heard about Kamala Harris's book tour. I'm telling you
Speaker 1: her book sales are to the moon. She is doing great.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know how to say it any better,
Speaker 1: but I mean this is she's she's and she's on
Speaker 1: a tour. But so far, Simon and said that her
Speaker 1: book One hundred seven Days, about her campaign. Simon and
Speaker 1: Schuster said that as of the first week of it
Speaker 1: being on sale, they have sold three hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: thousand copies. Now to make the New York Times Best
Speaker 1: Selling List, you have to sell at least twenty five thousand.
Speaker 1: She is in one week already sold three hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty thousand copies of her book one hundred and seven days.
Speaker 1: It puts it on track to be this year's top
Speaker 1: selling memoir. Only three people have exceeded that in modern history.
Speaker 1: That would be Britney Spears, Taylor Swift, and Prince Harry
Speaker 1: in that the last time they got anywhere near that
Speaker 1: that was back in twenty twenty three. So it's a
Speaker 1: great seller, I'll tell you that. And it's all about
Speaker 1: her trip down politics Lane during the campaign for president
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four. So some of the Democrats not
Speaker 1: not all that thrilled with this. Josh Shapiro, the governor
Speaker 1: of Pennsylvania. She trashes him, saying something to the effect
Speaker 1: of he would not do well as a vice president
Speaker 1: because he would try to push to be number one.
Speaker 1: She talked about Pete Buddha Judge. She liked Pete Budha Judge,
Speaker 1: but he was gay, and I thought, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: I thought, you when it came to hiring you, don't
Speaker 1: dare say I'm not hiring you because you're gay. That's illegal.
Speaker 1: But she said, oh no, I didn't want to hire him.
Speaker 1: To be the number two because he's gay and Newsom
Speaker 1: this is a this is a crackup. So she finds
Speaker 1: out that Joe finally said okay, okay, okay, I'm throwing
Speaker 1: the talent. I'm gonna not run. And so she got
Speaker 1: on the phone and started calling good for her, but
Speaker 1: but you know, Dillon for dollars she was. She called
Speaker 1: all the major Democrats she could think of and said,
Speaker 1: support me, support me, support me. I want you, I
Speaker 1: want your endorsement. And she called all these people, and
Speaker 1: she called Gavin Newsom and he did not return to
Speaker 1: that answer and did not return her call. He sent
Speaker 1: her a text message one word hiking. So no, he
Speaker 1: wasn't going to return her call. And so she didn't
Speaker 1: like that, and so she put that in her book.
Speaker 1: But anyway, the question is, is she throwing Democrats under
Speaker 1: the bus because she's just thick of politics and that's it,
Speaker 1: this is her swan song.
Speaker 3: Or is she.
Speaker 1: Doing this to push them out of the way because
Speaker 1: you know that they're all going to be on the
Speaker 1: same debate stage. You know they are come twenty twenty
Speaker 1: seven when they're running for twenty twenty eight, when they're
Speaker 1: running for president, next time around. So I'm looking at
Speaker 1: this and I'm thinking she's going to look at these
Speaker 1: book sales and she's going to translate that to I've
Speaker 1: got a lot of support. The people love me, they
Speaker 1: really love me. Why then I'm going to run. And
Speaker 1: she's a terrible candidate, just terrible. First time she ran,
Speaker 1: she was the first one to drop out because nobody
Speaker 1: gave her the time of day. And then she got
Speaker 1: into the word salad thing, which but Joe Biden needed
Speaker 1: a black female to be his running mate, and I
Speaker 1: think there's another whole story there about how he selected her.
Speaker 1: But in any case, the part of the book that
Speaker 1: probably gets the most attention is where she threw Joe
Speaker 1: Biden under the bus, and she said that she wrote that,
Speaker 1: in hindsight, refraining from pushing him to drop out of
Speaker 1: the presidential race earlier was reckless. So she threw the
Speaker 1: whold armed party and said, how dare how did you
Speaker 1: not get him out sooner? And then on the view
Speaker 1: she said, this is just last week. She said, it's
Speaker 1: a good relationship with Joe, and it's the relationshipship that's
Speaker 1: based on mutual respect, having been in the trenches together
Speaker 1: in admiration and it's sincere, so who knows how she
Speaker 1: really feels about all. Listen, I'm sure the book publisher,
Speaker 1: Simon and Schuster, like any good book editor, is gonna
Speaker 1: want juicy stuff in there to get the book to sell.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: It's selling really well, all right, So that's this part
Speaker 1: of it. Now she's on this book tour. There are
Speaker 1: fifteen cities that she is going to. It's just started.
Speaker 1: I looked at some of the tickets for these for
Speaker 1: the for the tour. Now, first of all, she's going
Speaker 1: to make a lot of money from this this book
Speaker 1: if she's already sold three hundred and fifty thousand, and
Speaker 1: that's just the first week, so she's going to make
Speaker 1: a lot of money off of that. Good for her.
Speaker 1: But the tickets are all over the map, depends upon
Speaker 1: what city you're in. I was looking in Houston, the
Speaker 1: tickets are one hundred and seventy two dollars, and you
Speaker 1: think that's something. In San Francisco, where she used to live,
Speaker 1: four hundred dollars for a ticket, one ticket to go
Speaker 1: to see her on her book tour Atlanta. The way
Speaker 1: the book tour is she she has somebody sit on
Speaker 1: stage with her and basically ask her pre arranged questions.
Speaker 1: Atlanta four hundred and two dollars for a ticket in
Speaker 1: oh and they have it. They have no that was
Speaker 1: that's in the that's in the nosebleed seats, nine hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy three dollars in Atlanta for a ticket, six
Speaker 1: hundred seventy six dollars for a ticket in d C
Speaker 1: for the cheap seats. Then they go up to Asia
Speaker 1: as one thousand, four hundred seventy nine dollars for a
Speaker 1: ticket in DC, Chicago one thousand, one hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: two dollars for a ticket, and in Partland, we'll get
Speaker 1: to Portland. In Portland one thousand, two hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: five dollars. So the lady is doing really well. She's
Speaker 1: making a lot of money. She's going to feel like
Speaker 1: a star that these uh, these book tours are going
Speaker 1: I'm going to guess they're going to sell out. And
Speaker 1: so she'll make a lot of money and she'll have
Speaker 1: big crowds that will be applauding for her, and she
Speaker 1: will have pre arranged questions that she will be answering.
Speaker 1: I I don't know she was this was where did
Speaker 1: I get this from? Let me see if I can
Speaker 1: find this. Oh, it came from TikTok. She's all over TikTok.
Speaker 1: Let me let me play this for you. It's it's
Speaker 1: classic Kamala Harris.
Speaker 4: I have had the experience many people have had or
Speaker 4: will have had this experience of walking into her room
Speaker 4: and being the only one that looks like you or
Speaker 4: has had your life experience. And my request of you
Speaker 4: is that when you walk in that room, you walk
Speaker 4: in that room chin up and shoulders back, knowing that
Speaker 4: we are all in that room with you, and you
Speaker 4: are not alone, and you carry the voice of so
Speaker 4: many people who are proud that you are in that room,
Speaker 4: and expect your voice to be strong.
Speaker 5: I'm all the way. Let's give a warm welcome for
Speaker 5: Vice President Connor.
Speaker 1: Has Yeah, there you go, give a big hat noe. Listen.
Speaker 1: I'm not criticizing the lady. I actually think it's amazing success.
Speaker 1: But that little thing she did didn't that For those
Speaker 1: of you that are old enough, and for those of
Speaker 1: you that are not, you'll have to look it up.
Speaker 1: There was a skit on Saturday Night Live that was
Speaker 1: deep thought by Jack Handley. Jack Handy I think it
Speaker 1: was and it was just nonsense like that just said nothing.
Speaker 1: But man, she is selling books and she's selling out
Speaker 1: and not stadiums but theaters. So I don't know, is
Speaker 1: she well. I'll tell you what this says to me.
Speaker 1: This says that she is more likely than not to
Speaker 1: run for president in twenty twenty eight. I think this
Speaker 1: will absolutely solidify it. The question is, are these people
Speaker 1: buying her books and showing up at her events, especially
Speaker 1: the book buying, because they're curious or they're giving them
Speaker 1: to friends? What I In any case, I thought i'd
Speaker 1: start with a little look back on Kamala Harris. So
Speaker 1: she's doing just fine. Yeah she is. God bless the lady.
Speaker 1: The meantime, back to the world of government. We yes
Speaker 1: day two of the shutdown. I think it's becoming I'm
Speaker 1: focusing in on the gripe is about this. The Democrats
Speaker 1: say the Republicans are cutting off healthcare for millions of people,
Speaker 1: and the Republicans are saying no. During COVID, the Biden
Speaker 1: administration decided to subsidize Obamacare premiums for people that otherwise
Speaker 1: could not affect them. They were laid off, lost their jobs.
Speaker 1: It was COVID country was shut down. So the Biden
Speaker 1: administration threw trillions of dollars into premiums to help pay
Speaker 1: the premiums for Obamacare. And that's what in the big
Speaker 1: beautiful bill that was signed on the fourth of July
Speaker 1: of this year. That's what the Republicans took out and
Speaker 1: said that mean was supposed to be temporary for during
Speaker 1: the COVID era. COVID is pretty much over, so let's
Speaker 1: take that back out. And that's the one and a
Speaker 1: half trillion dollars that the Democrats said, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: you got to leave it in there. We got to
Speaker 1: spend that money. And the Republicans are saying no. So
Speaker 1: I think that's what it's coming down to. Mary Catherine Ham,
Speaker 1: she always has a good succinct view of the world
Speaker 1: in DC. That's what she has to say about that.
Speaker 6: No. I mean, bless their hearts. They can try to
Speaker 6: change the definition of clean if they want to, but
Speaker 6: it's not real. It's obviously true that the House passed
Speaker 6: a clean continuing resolution, which would have funded the government
Speaker 6: at current levels for seven weeks. It went to the Senate.
Speaker 6: The Senate had the chance to pass it with a
Speaker 6: couple of Democrats peeling off, and those Democrats decided not
Speaker 6: to because their desire is to dirty up a clean
Speaker 6: continuing resolution with over a trillion dollars in quote unquote
Speaker 6: healthcare spending. That is, these expanded Obamacare subsidies from the
Speaker 6: COVID era. Like many things from the COVID era, the
Speaker 6: price was high and the results very low. These subsidies
Speaker 6: go to basically covering the fact that Obamacare's promises were
Speaker 6: not real and that premiums keep going up, and that
Speaker 6: they need to say, oh, we've got more people covered.
Speaker 6: So what do they do. They throw a bunch of
Speaker 6: money at the problem. They increase cost costs for everybody else,
Speaker 6: and premiums go up more. They allow fraudulent and non
Speaker 6: income verified and non citizen status verified people to enroll,
Speaker 6: to double enroll. These are bad practices. This makes the
Speaker 6: problem worse. But they are very excited about spending money,
Speaker 6: and they're very excited about covering up the fact that
Speaker 6: Obamacare didn't do what they promised it would do, so
Speaker 6: they want to do it with your money. And Republicans
Speaker 6: are like.
Speaker 2: No, yeah.
Speaker 1: Republicans are saying, no, we took that out of the
Speaker 1: of the federal spending back in the big beautiful bill,
Speaker 1: and so now the question becomes, what are some key
Speaker 1: dates going forward? So we're day two into this, there's
Speaker 1: a couple of them. One of them is the employees.
Speaker 1: Federal employees got paid at the end of September Sepcember thirtieth,
Speaker 1: So what was that. That was two days ago and
Speaker 1: they got their paycheck and then they're supposed to have
Speaker 1: another one coming October fifteenth. So if they don't have
Speaker 1: the thing settled by October fifteenth, there's going to be
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of federal employees. They're going to be
Speaker 1: very unhappy about the fact that they don't get their paycheck.
Speaker 1: Another part of this is, and we'll get into this,
Speaker 1: but the unemployment reports are based upon one particular week
Speaker 1: of the month. They don't that's why they're able to
Speaker 1: give it out on the first Friday of the month.
Speaker 1: They're not going to do it this time. But the
Speaker 1: next reportable week is the week of October seventeenth, So
Speaker 1: the seventeenth is going to be critical for getting data
Speaker 1: for the FED, for you name it. So the middle
Speaker 1: of the month is when some of this might actually
Speaker 1: not go over to well. Scott Bestn't the Treasury secretary.
Speaker 1: He was talking about this this morning.
Speaker 3: What they are asking for. They're asking for one point
Speaker 3: five trillion increase in spending, and let's just go back,
Speaker 3: that would be almost as big as the ill fated IRA,
Speaker 3: which caused the worst inflation in half a century. So
Speaker 3: they want to put this inflationary impulse into President Trump's
Speaker 3: already strong economy. The economy is growing at three point
Speaker 3: eight percent. We don't need one point five trillion pumped in.
Speaker 3: The Democrats seem to love inflation.
Speaker 1: He used a little angular the IRA. That was the
Speaker 1: Inflation Reduction Act, which was a poorly worded bill, but
Speaker 1: it spent trillions of dollars. That's what he was referring to.
Speaker 1: Austin Goolsby, the president of Chicago FED, always a level
Speaker 1: headed guy. He has these thoughts about the shut.
Speaker 7: On the economy. It sort of depends how long it
Speaker 7: lasts and how widespread it is. You know, it's every shutdown.
Speaker 7: It's kind of like they say of dysfunctional families. You know,
Speaker 7: every shutdown is different. But if you look in the past,
Speaker 7: the overall impact from shorter and narrower shutdowns, they have
Speaker 7: a human impact on the people directly affected, but their
Speaker 7: impact on the overall economy is not as big it was,
Speaker 7: partly because the federal workforce is a little less than
Speaker 7: two percent of workers, so and it's not all federal workers.
Speaker 7: So I think the immediate impact is going to be
Speaker 7: felt most directly by folks who who have their pay frozen.
Speaker 7: And until the shutdown adds, it's certainly not convenient for
Speaker 7: the FED trying to sort out interest rates. Though I'm
Speaker 7: not meaning to make light. We're we're not the We're
Speaker 7: not the biggest sufferers from this, but we fly blind.
Speaker 7: Like Mohammad al Aarian said at the Chicago FED, we
Speaker 7: have developed recently Chicago Fed Labor Market indicators that take
Speaker 7: eleven different pieces of information, some from the private sector,
Speaker 7: some from these official statistics to get a real time
Speaker 7: forecast of what the unemployment rate is going to be.
Speaker 7: If we don't get the official unemployment rate, we're going
Speaker 7: to go off of what the data we have. We
Speaker 7: released it today. It suggests that the unemployment rate was
Speaker 7: unchanged for this month from last month. Get steady, you know,
Speaker 7: I think it's it indicates some steadiness in the labor market,
Speaker 7: and I think the underlying economy is still growing pretty solidly.
Speaker 1: So his ndswer is, like a lot of people, it
Speaker 1: makes sense. Depends on how long this lasts, but it
Speaker 1: doesn't have a big impact on the economy, at least
Speaker 1: short term. So another question is are Democrats starting to
Speaker 1: buzz in the back rooms about the fact that maybe
Speaker 1: there's some way to make a deal with the Republican
Speaker 1: Shelley more Capudo, she's a Republican senator from West Virginia.
Speaker 1: She thinks there's some movement behind scenes, behind the scenes
Speaker 1: with the Democrats.
Speaker 5: They're looking for a way. They're still obviously very much
Speaker 5: invested in having this tide to the premium support discussion,
Speaker 5: but at the same time they realize how damaging a
Speaker 5: government shutdown is to the federal workers, to anybody who
Speaker 5: needs services or troops, etc. And so I think they
Speaker 5: are trying to find a way out, and I think
Speaker 5: they've been led by Senator Schumer into a place that's
Speaker 5: almost an impossibility to get a satisfactory result for them.
Speaker 5: So I'm hoping they see the only way to negotiate
Speaker 5: and begin to talk about the things they want to
Speaker 5: talk about is to reopen the government, and then everything's
Speaker 5: back on the table, including appropriations. No, I have no
Speaker 5: buyer's remorse on the One Big Beautiful Bill, and I'm
Speaker 5: not going to relabel it either. I'm going to keep
Speaker 5: calling it the one Big Beautiful Bill because of what
Speaker 5: it does for working families, taxes, businesses, the certainty that
Speaker 5: it brings. On the other hand, in terms of healthcare,
Speaker 5: I think this covid era expansion that the Democrats put
Speaker 5: into effect needs to be rained back in. There's a
Speaker 5: lot of fraud and abuse in here, in terms of
Speaker 5: people double signing up, people who don't even know that
Speaker 5: they have plans and their you know, the insurance companies
Speaker 5: are getting paid for them. They don't even access the benefit.
Speaker 5: We've uncovered a lot of that. That's where the discussion
Speaker 5: needs to begin. This will not go through with a
Speaker 5: full extension of life as it is if if we
Speaker 5: get to the point where we're actually negotiating on this.
Speaker 5: But here's the kicker for me. How easy is it
Speaker 5: to reopen the government. It's a simple seven week reopen.
Speaker 5: Then we get to the discussions, because the best way
Speaker 5: to solve a lot of these problems is a regular
Speaker 5: appropriations process where we're setting priorities we're shutting down programs
Speaker 5: creating new ones that might serve better. This is the
Speaker 5: direction we should be going, rather than arguing on whose
Speaker 5: fault is this and why is this happening? We know
Speaker 5: why it's happening. Chuck Schumer and the Democrats have decided
Speaker 5: to shut the government down.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Republicans keep mentioning Schumer, and the reason for
Speaker 1: it is the Democrats are so unhappy with Schumer. The
Speaker 1: last time he cave and did something to work a
Speaker 1: long waiting he just went along with working out a
Speaker 1: deal with the Republicans and the Democrats excoriated him. How
Speaker 1: dare he do that? So he is gunshy about trying
Speaker 1: to work in any way possible with Republicans. And there's
Speaker 1: a lot of Democrats that they do not like Donald
Speaker 1: Trump so much that he better not try and do
Speaker 1: anything that makes him look like he's working with Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: So this could be a while because those feelings are
Speaker 1: deep and Schumer knows it.
Speaker 5: So.
Speaker 1: Also in the world of politics is the mayor's race
Speaker 1: in New York City and Zoron, ma'am Donnie is the
Speaker 1: guy to beat at this point. He was on the
Speaker 1: view yesterday and was asked about the fact that he
Speaker 1: used to say defund the police, but he has walked
Speaker 1: that back lately, but he was asked about it anyway.
Speaker 1: Here's his answer.
Speaker 8: Back in twenty twenty, you called for defunding the police,
Speaker 8: something you've since walked back. How can New Yorkers trust
Speaker 8: you and not not be concerned that consultants are getting
Speaker 8: in your ear to get you elected, but you still
Speaker 8: hold all of those possessions.
Speaker 2: Well, they can rest assured that it isn't consultants. And
Speaker 2: I think this is another part of to be a
Speaker 2: young person looking to lead, is also to leave the
Speaker 2: opening for growth and understand.
Speaker 8: And can I ask, have you formally apologized to the NYPD?
Speaker 2: These are conversations that I'm having individually with officers, and
Speaker 2: I've appreciated that because it's through those conversations with rank
Speaker 2: and file officers that I've learned more about the difficulties
Speaker 2: of this job.
Speaker 1: So what kind of answer was that? It sounds kind
Speaker 1: of like a Kamala Harrow's answer. He said nothing. Karl
Speaker 1: Rov I think also agrees with me on it. Well,
Speaker 1: it was a non answer, and look, go to his website,
Speaker 1: go to his plan. There is no effort in there
Speaker 1: to say we need increased police presence. In fact, he
Speaker 1: has a Department of Community Safety, and number one thing
Speaker 1: that it's going to do is expand mental health programs.
Speaker 1: It's going to have outreach workers in one hundred subway stops,
Speaker 1: and then we're going to increase the number of transit
Speaker 1: assistants to quote assist New Yorkers.
Speaker 9: On their journey. And then we're going to have violence interrupters,
Speaker 9: whatever that is. And then this statement, this is in
Speaker 9: his platform, jails are not places where people can receive
Speaker 9: from a mental health can recover from a mental health crisis.
Speaker 9: So what are we going to do. We're going to
Speaker 9: do he says, We're going to have one hundred and
Speaker 9: eight million dollar increase and spending on homeless shelters so
Speaker 9: that when the mentally ill homeless can be moved out
Speaker 9: of the jails and moved into safe housing. There is
Speaker 9: no comment whatsoever about law and order and safety and
Speaker 9: making certain the New Yorkers are safe from violence, random
Speaker 9: violence on the streets. Instead, it's a mishmash of do
Speaker 9: good or mental health blah blah blah blah blah, help
Speaker 9: New Yorkers on their way with transit ambassadors, whatever the heck.
Speaker 9: That is taken by the fact that the US Conference
Speaker 9: of Mayors, which is nonpartisan, but let's face it, most
Speaker 9: big city mayors or Democrats, had in July report in
Speaker 9: which they said, we don't want the National Guard, but
Speaker 9: we do want increased federal assistance on major crimes, on
Speaker 9: tracing guns and so forth. So their attitude was not, hey,
Speaker 9: we're out here, not concerned about it. In fact, they
Speaker 9: said the juvenile crime, violent juvenile crime is a serious
Speaker 9: or very serious problem. I think it was like seventy
Speaker 9: percent or eighty percent of the mayor said that. And
Speaker 9: then I was also taken by the fact that, despite
Speaker 9: their saying certain things and doing other things, the governors
Speaker 9: of Maryland, Illinois, and Massachusetts have formed statewide efforts to
Speaker 9: in essence, surge state resources, law enforcement resources to communities
Speaker 9: that are having a particularly tough problem with violence. And
Speaker 9: they're sending state police and backup assistance and sophisticated equipment
Speaker 9: and crime detection and so forth to these areas that
Speaker 9: are hit hard by crime. And take the mayor of
Speaker 9: San Francis, let's talk about a liberal city. They have
Speaker 9: a new mayor got sworn in, he said we're going
Speaker 9: to stop these open homeless encampments, We're going to crack
Speaker 9: down on crime, and his popularity in July, the last
Speaker 9: poll that was done was seventy three percent in a
Speaker 9: city that has been traditionally very soft on crime with
Speaker 9: soft on crime mayors. So that's good news.
Speaker 1: Big city mayors are realizing they got a crime problem.
Speaker 1: And whether they do it as citizens and whether they
Speaker 1: do it for political points is for you to judge
Speaker 1: at the battle box. The problem with what Karl mentioned,
Speaker 1: I want to go back to this business about mental health.
Speaker 1: The mental health facilities are basically closed and nobody gets
Speaker 1: mental health for more than seventy two hours before they
Speaker 1: have to be released. Insurance companies won't pay for anything
Speaker 1: more than that. So it's a nationwide problem. And you
Speaker 1: talk to anybody, any sheriff in this country, they will
Speaker 1: tell you that the mental health institutions are their jail.
Speaker 1: That's where there's a lot of mental illness and they're
Speaker 1: turning people out of jails. And the rest is the
Speaker 1: problems that you and I see in violence. So speaking
Speaker 1: of violence, speaking of cities, the President has said that
Speaker 1: he's going to send national Guard to Memphis, which, by
Speaker 1: just about any whole measure, you name it, Memphis has
Speaker 1: by far the highest crime rates, violence, you name it.
Speaker 1: It's a problem. So the question was to mister mayor
Speaker 1: in Memphis, his name is Lee Harris. Has he seen
Speaker 1: the National Guard and isn't making any difference.
Speaker 10: I don't know that we've seen a tangible impact yet,
Speaker 10: but there are hundreds of law enforcement agencies on the
Speaker 10: ground here, and you know, we want to cooperate. We
Speaker 10: want to be supportive of domestic civilian law enforcement agencies,
Speaker 10: the DEA, the FBI, the TBA, the Tennessee hiw I Patrol,
Speaker 10: and so forth. I think the problem is the presence
Speaker 10: of the National Guard. There have been to National Guard sidings,
Speaker 10: not much. We don't think the National Guard is here
Speaker 10: in full force yet, but we do have some concerns
Speaker 10: about the National Guard coming to town because you know,
Speaker 10: that'll put us all at risk for a variety of reasons.
Speaker 10: This all started with Donald Trump going on another cable
Speaker 10: show and promising to send the military, the National Guard,
Speaker 10: or whoever else he wants to Memphis and Shelby County,
Speaker 10: to Tennessee communities and to occupy it and so I
Speaker 10: mean that started a chaos in our community that raised
Speaker 10: a whole lot of anxiety. After that, the President had
Speaker 10: a second press conference where he also talked big and
Speaker 10: calls more chaos in our community. Our governor stood stood
Speaker 10: by as all this was happening, which was a serious
Speaker 10: disappointment for many of us. And then from there we
Speaker 10: haven't had much communication. We've had recently one press conference
Speaker 10: from the governor, but we don't know how many of
Speaker 10: these National Guard assets are coming to town. We don't
Speaker 10: know where they will stationed. The governor said he doesn't
Speaker 10: know whether or not they'll be carrying arms or not.
Speaker 10: He said they might be carrying arms, but they might not.
Speaker 10: And so that's not the kind of transparency that we
Speaker 10: need when we're talking about something that shouldn't happen in America. Well,
Speaker 10: I'm not sure it makes any difference over the long term.
Speaker 10: And the reason why we're at the top of those
Speaker 10: lists is because we've had a investment from both state
Speaker 10: and federal partners. So the FBI office under the Biden
Speaker 10: administration was pulled out of Memphis, the TBI Crime Lab
Speaker 10: under the governor of Bill Lee administration was pulled out
Speaker 10: of mephis. The gun violence Intervention funds was cut by
Speaker 10: President Trump, and right now we're facing a real severe
Speaker 10: strain in terms of economic opportunity. And we had Pam Bondi.
Speaker 10: She came to town yesterday and she was about twenty
Speaker 10: minutes from a town called Stanton, Tennessee, which has been
Speaker 10: was on their eyes for a moment before inauguration date.
Speaker 10: And now that town is really in jeopardy of losing
Speaker 10: the largest development project that our state is ever ever announced.
Speaker 10: We just had an announcement the same days she was
Speaker 10: there that companies were pulling out and this is largely
Speaker 10: because of their separate strategy on tariffs. And so we
Speaker 10: need the economic opportunity we need. We need a real
Speaker 10: conversation about guns because the proliferation of guns is a
Speaker 10: direct consequence of state official action to spread the gospel,
Speaker 10: so called gospel around guns and communities like ours. And
Speaker 10: so we've got guns on street corners and in cars
Speaker 10: and they end up in the criminal stream and that
Speaker 10: is what is you know, that's that's a major negative
Speaker 10: impact on our residents. I can only be I think
Speaker 10: we all should be very very fearful. I mean, just
Speaker 10: because we are fearful of what may come in America
Speaker 10: as it is changing dramatically before our eyes. That doesn't
Speaker 10: stop us from being able to take action, to stand
Speaker 10: up and resist. And so yeah, I see Donald Trump
Speaker 10: using the military and unlawful ways to target Venezuelans. I
Speaker 10: see him making big promises to occupy more cities and
Speaker 10: you know, very actual American ways and ways that are
Speaker 10: I guess the Tennessee Constitution, and I am fearful of
Speaker 10: what he meant do next. But that doesn't mean we
Speaker 10: can't speak out, that we can't challenge it, that we
Speaker 10: can't choose a hide. And when I say sides, I'm
Speaker 10: not talking about partisan size, just talking about the American traditions,
Speaker 10: the traditions that we all celebrate. It's the freedoms that
Speaker 10: we all enjoy prior to inauguration Day. I want to
Speaker 10: go back to that, and that's going to require all
Speaker 10: of us to do something.
Speaker 1: I found his thoughts fascinating. He talked about you hear
Speaker 1: this a lot. We need to have conversations about the crime. No, now,
Speaker 1: you can talk about it if you want, But I mean,
Speaker 1: this is not about sitting down and having a cup
Speaker 1: of tea and having a conversation about the fact that
Speaker 1: the guy in front of you wants to hit you
Speaker 1: over the ad and steal all your money. And he
Speaker 1: kept repeating that he was fearful of Donald Trump and
Speaker 1: what's the National Guard and all he's fearful of the
Speaker 1: wrong things. What about the fact he is the highest
Speaker 1: crime rate in the nation in Memphis, Tennessee. He has
Speaker 1: the highest violent crime rate. In addition, I mean just
Speaker 1: about anything you want to look at regarding violence and crime,
Speaker 1: number one is Memphis, Tennessee. And he is he's the
Speaker 1: term he's fearful of Donald Trump and the National Guard
Speaker 1: and he wants to have a conversation with somebody about it.
Speaker 1: So that's that's the lack of leadership that you get
Speaker 1: in a city. And what is the result. You've got
Speaker 1: criminals basically running that town. And another city that has
Speaker 1: just been the capital of violence in Antifa and rioting
Speaker 1: is Portland, Oregon. It just doesn't stop. They have apparently
Speaker 1: had one hundred nights of rioting by Antifa. So there
Speaker 1: was a young lady who I don't know if she's
Speaker 1: a real journalist. She called herself a journalist, No way.
Speaker 1: She was beat up by some of the Antifa people
Speaker 1: as she was trying to cover their demonstrations and riots
Speaker 1: last night.
Speaker 11: Last night, I got assaulted and I immediately ran to
Speaker 11: a Portland police officer and said, this is my assault suspect.
Speaker 11: Three officers just standing there watching me try to hunt
Speaker 11: down this suspect. And imagine my anger when I go
Speaker 11: online after doing all of that about an hour ago,
Speaker 11: and I see Portland Police put out a BOLO asking
Speaker 11: for the public's help and identifying my assault suspect. The
Speaker 11: Trump administration needs to start treating Antifa like isis the
Speaker 11: terrorists that they are and put an end to them
Speaker 11: here for good.
Speaker 1: Yeah. BOLO is police talk for be on the lookout for.
Speaker 1: And apparently she thought that she pointed out her assailant
Speaker 1: and they said they were looking for the assailant. Tiffany Smiley,
Speaker 1: she was a Senate candidate from the state of Washington.
Speaker 1: She lives in southern part of the state of Washington,
Speaker 1: in other words, just outside Portland, and she's familiar with
Speaker 1: what's going on in that particularity.
Speaker 12: There's a lot of people that feel that way, and
Speaker 12: unfortunately this has been This is nothing new, It's been
Speaker 12: going on for a very long time, for years, and
Speaker 12: what we are seeing, you know, with these Antifa riots
Speaker 12: in Portland, it's domestic terrorism, plain and simple. They are
Speaker 12: using intimidation, they're using violence to overthrow our laws and
Speaker 12: in our peaceful governance. So what we saw there, they're
Speaker 12: attacking ICE agents, they're dosing ICE agents, They're putting their
Speaker 12: photos online with their addresses and their phone numbers. They're
Speaker 12: violently assaulting journalists like what we just saw with Katie,
Speaker 12: and it has to stop. I think we have to
Speaker 12: ask a question, is this what decades of failed Democrat
Speaker 12: leadership gets us? Is this the result of it? And
Speaker 12: I'm happy to see President Trump sort of pushing back
Speaker 12: and calling out Antifa and designating them as a domestic
Speaker 12: terrorist group. That is exactly what they are.
Speaker 1: So Portland, I've remembered it from many years ago. It
Speaker 1: was a beautiful city, but then they got into this
Speaker 1: weird era. In fact, they literally had like a city slogan,
Speaker 1: stay Weird. And what it's done is they there's the
Speaker 1: people in Portland, our guests think it's cool that they
Speaker 1: have all of this violence in Antifa showing up every night.
Speaker 1: Noah Rothman from National Review sees that from Afar.
Speaker 13: She's correct. There's a constituency that not only is so
Speaker 13: comfortable with this, it seems to regard it as sort
Speaker 13: of a quaint feature of the Portland urban seen that
Speaker 13: a certain amount of rioting and violence is not only acceptable,
Speaker 13: but it suggests that we're all flourishing and the identities
Speaker 13: that we've chosen for ourselves. You know, you had this
Speaker 13: in many ways. The riots of twenty twenty, which Mayor
Speaker 13: Jenny Durkham called the Summer of Love, never stopped, and
Speaker 13: we've just become accustomed to them. We really don't even
Speaker 13: see them in national news.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 13: We had the No King's protests, for example, June fifteenth,
Speaker 13: which were by a marsh peaceful everywhere except in really
Speaker 13: in Portland, where rioters and black block outfits made a
Speaker 13: makeshift battering ram and barged their way into an ice facility.
Speaker 13: Nobody heard about that because it's commonplace. It happens all
Speaker 13: the time, and there's a certain level of unacceptability that
Speaker 13: needs to be inculcated in a culture. There was one
Speaker 13: dialogue liaison officer, a dialogue liaison officer with a Heatlan
Speaker 13: PD who said issued a memo in May twenty twenty
Speaker 13: five to everybody saying, listen, we don't want to be
Speaker 13: the bad guys. Imagine thinking that, Imagine thinking that our
Speaker 13: biggest threat is that we're going to be perceived as menacing,
Speaker 13: a hostile to the angry mob that's assaulting our citizens.
Speaker 13: That's a culture problem.
Speaker 1: Well, the city leaders of Portland seem to have adopted
Speaker 1: that culture problem. They really have. It's bizarre, and like
Speaker 1: Noah was saying, they have. Just the fact that the
Speaker 1: Portland Police Department has a dialogue Leisan Officer in and
Speaker 1: of itself, I guess I shouldn't be surprised that the
Speaker 1: dialogue Leoisan Officer said they don't want to be the
Speaker 1: bad guys. Well, the police are not bad guys. They
Speaker 1: are your friend. They are to round up people that
Speaker 1: commit crimes against other citizens. Portland's has turned out to
Speaker 1: be exactly what they said, stay weird, I had family.
Speaker 1: I have family in the Portland area and they're not weird.
Speaker 1: And what about normal people that live there, They're just
Speaker 1: I don't know what they're what they're going to do.
Speaker 1: I really don't. So today shut down continues. The focus
Speaker 1: is on the temporary COVID subsidies or Obamacare. Obamacare is
Speaker 1: not working. It did not achieve what they thought was
Speaker 1: all this wonderful medical care for everybody in the country.
Speaker 1: They wanted national healthcare and they never got it, Thank goodness.
Speaker 1: The mayor of Memphis is afraid of Donald Trump. Not
Speaker 1: the crime. Portland is just weird culture. And Ma'm donnie
Speaker 1: is leading in the New York City race and he
Speaker 1: truly is a socialist. And more than socialism has never
Speaker 1: worked anywhere has been tried in the world, not for
Speaker 1: the average citizen, that's for sure. So that's it for today.
Speaker 1: Let me get the Wall Street numbers in because because
Speaker 1: the market just keeps marching higher, it wasn't anything to
Speaker 1: write home about. But the we're setting records every single day.
Speaker 1: To Dow today up seventy eight now at forty six
Speaker 1: thouy five nineteen, SMP up just four points to a
Speaker 1: new record high. NASDAC up eighty eight points. Believe that's
Speaker 1: a new record high. Gold was down seventeen dollars to
Speaker 1: thirty eight eighty and the price of oil falling again,
Speaker 1: down over a dollar to sixty dollars now for one
Speaker 1: barrel of oil. Thank you for stopping by. We are
Speaker 1: going to be back again tomorrow and I hope to
Speaker 1: see you there