1 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:25,239 Speaker 1: And hello, yeah, oh yeah, we're back. Welcome to the 2 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:29,760 Big Podcast on this Tuesday. Today is the twenty sixth 3 00:00:29,839 --> 00:00:33,479 day of May, Year of Our Lord, twenty twenty six. 4 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:37,159 My name is Tom Sullivan. Hope you had a wonderful 5 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:42,799 three day weekend. No, they're great, and it's you know, 6 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:45,520 the unofficial kickoff to summer and all of that. So 7 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:52,079 here we go. We're into the summer season. I still 8 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:56,920 am fascinated by the fact I haven't seen the actual numbers. 9 00:00:56,920 --> 00:01:00,200 I don't know if anybody actually has actual numbers. But 10 00:01:00,560 --> 00:01:02,119 Triple A said that there was going to be a 11 00:01:02,159 --> 00:01:05,640 record number of people driving over the three day weekend, 12 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:08,239 and I go, But so obviously we are not at 13 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:12,159 demand destruction. When it comes to the price of gas. 14 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:14,680 People are griping about it, but they're still buying it. 15 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:18,599 As if you still buying it and paying for it, 16 00:01:17,599 --> 00:01:22,159 they're going to keep charging you for it and charging more. 17 00:01:22,599 --> 00:01:26,359 So anyway, let's get the weekend behind us. Before the 18 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:33,519 weekend Friday night, this did not get the publicity it 19 00:01:33,599 --> 00:01:37,239 should have gotten. Now, a lot of people talked about 20 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:40,040 Stephen Colbert last week and it was his last show, 21 00:01:40,159 --> 00:01:43,200 and all the people on the left for crying and 22 00:01:43,239 --> 00:01:47,079 they were all upset. There was CBS that said goodbye 23 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:51,799 to him, and he was on the CBS television network. Well, 24 00:01:52,359 --> 00:01:56,680 on the other side of the building at the CBS 25 00:01:56,719 --> 00:02:05,680 Broadcast Center was CBS Radio News, and CBS Radio News 26 00:02:06,599 --> 00:02:14,439 died Friday night at eleven thirty one PM. That was 27 00:02:14,479 --> 00:02:19,199 its final broadcast. It did the eleven thirty news headlines. 28 00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:22,840 They did that. It's a one minute it's a one 29 00:02:22,919 --> 00:02:28,039 minute update, and at eleven thirty one the CBS Radio 30 00:02:28,159 --> 00:02:32,800 News was over. Now, I'm been in radio for a 31 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:35,639 long long time, so this probably means more. 32 00:02:35,439 --> 00:02:36,719 Speaker 2: To me than it does to you. 33 00:02:37,639 --> 00:02:40,080 Speaker 1: But you look at you look at CBS News, and 34 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:47,520 I'm going they had seven hundred stations carried CBS News 35 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:52,400 ninety nine years. No, they couldn't squeak out one more. 36 00:02:52,879 --> 00:02:57,599 They started in nineteen twenty seven. They're probably the most 37 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:03,639 famous of their broadcast was World News Roundup. And the 38 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:10,800 most famous radio reporter and there's still a big award 39 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:14,759 that's given out to a top radio person every year 40 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:20,840 is because of Edward R. Murrow. That's where he worked 41 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:28,360 at CBS the World War two generation. He brought updates 42 00:03:28,479 --> 00:03:34,759 from London about yes, he was in London for World 43 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:38,159 War Two on the war status. But it's just it's 44 00:03:38,199 --> 00:03:41,000 just another it's an it was an institution in this 45 00:03:41,159 --> 00:03:46,120 country for ninety nine years, CBS Radio News, and they 46 00:03:46,159 --> 00:03:50,599 said goodbye. And it's sad to see because a lot 47 00:03:50,639 --> 00:03:55,080 of radio news is shrinking and shrinking, a lot of 48 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:59,319 a lot of radio newsrooms are a fraction of the 49 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:03,240 size they use to be. So and bear with me, 50 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:06,520 but I had to pass that along with you. Was 51 00:04:06,639 --> 00:04:10,919 Friday night, eleven thirty one pm, CBS Radio News died. 52 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:15,360 And it's not going to have it. No, no, I 53 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:21,360 mean I there are stations that would carry well. CBS 54 00:04:21,439 --> 00:04:24,480 used to own a bunch of stations, then they sold 55 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:29,680 those to a company that basically took the CBS news 56 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:32,279 at the top of the bottom of the hour, and 57 00:04:32,319 --> 00:04:35,680 then that shrunk down to where again Friday night, that 58 00:04:35,839 --> 00:04:39,279 was no more. So they're all scrambling to do their 59 00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:44,800 own news updates and things like that. So that's Friday night, 60 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:50,120 Saturday night. This shows you we were going to go. 61 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:52,279 I'll tell you what it was. It was a wash 62 00:04:52,319 --> 00:05:00,000 out in the Northeast. We got rain Friday, Saturday, Sunday yesterday. 63 00:05:00,079 --> 00:05:01,920 It wasn't just a little rain. I mean it was 64 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:07,160 raining all day long, and I mean downpours. So a 65 00:05:07,199 --> 00:05:10,560 lot of people, I'm including we scrapped our plans. We 66 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:12,839 were going to go do some things, and we scrapped 67 00:05:12,839 --> 00:05:15,600 our plans. It was just it was cold and rainy. 68 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:22,680 So I'm at home Saturday evening and I was looking 69 00:05:22,959 --> 00:05:26,959 for the Yankees because of the rain and all that, 70 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:30,439 where that they would play. And I was flipping around 71 00:05:30,439 --> 00:05:37,120 on the TV and there was a shooting outside the 72 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:43,519 White House Saturday evening around six o'clock, and it was 73 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:49,240 It turned out to be a guy who was obviously 74 00:05:49,439 --> 00:05:54,959 not mentally healthy. He had tried to make attempts a 75 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:58,120 number of times to try to enter the White House grounds. 76 00:05:58,120 --> 00:06:01,040 He would go to he would go, oh to the 77 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:04,639 check in places where the Secret Service staffs these check 78 00:06:04,680 --> 00:06:09,279 in places, and there's three of them try and get in. 79 00:06:09,439 --> 00:06:11,959 They wouldn't let them in. Well, this time he showed 80 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:18,959 up at the main one by seventeenth and Pennsylvania, and 81 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:22,519 they and he pulled out a gun and started shooting 82 00:06:22,639 --> 00:06:27,120 and missed everybody, thank goodness. And the Secret Service fired 83 00:06:27,199 --> 00:06:31,680 back and shot him and killed him and also shot 84 00:06:31,759 --> 00:06:35,560 a bystander who is still in the hospital. The thing 85 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:40,720 about it is when you see reporters reporting from the 86 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:43,600 White House from outside the White House, and they have 87 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:47,319 a beautiful shot of the from the angle of the 88 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:53,639 front of the White House. All the networks have. It's 89 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:56,639 like a it's more than a tent, but it's kind 90 00:06:56,639 --> 00:07:00,240 of like that. It's called Pebble Beach and there right 91 00:07:00,279 --> 00:07:02,879 next to each other. There's six or seven of them 92 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:05,399 that are lined up on the north by the on 93 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:08,279 the side of the north lawn, and that's where the 94 00:07:08,319 --> 00:07:12,480 reporters are. Well six o'clock on Saturday night, everybody had 95 00:07:12,519 --> 00:07:17,639 basically done their reports except for two. One of them 96 00:07:18,319 --> 00:07:22,240 was ABC and the other one was NBC, and they 97 00:07:22,279 --> 00:07:28,279 had some young weekend White House reporters that were doing 98 00:07:28,319 --> 00:07:33,360 their updates. Let me play this one. This is from 99 00:07:33,879 --> 00:07:38,079 ABC News. I don't know the reporter's name, but you'll 100 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:43,800 hear the gunshots. This woman, she immediately recognized what it 101 00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:49,000 was and she dove under the table. 102 00:07:49,199 --> 00:07:52,000 Speaker 3: Listen to this that President Trump has said a deal 103 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:58,000 is close, only for the two sides to remain far apart. 104 00:08:06,639 --> 00:08:09,600 Speaker 1: She knew what to do the minute she heard those gunshots. 105 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:13,759 She dove under the table, and again the crew there's 106 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:17,279 a producer there, there's a videographer there, there's a lighting 107 00:08:17,319 --> 00:08:19,959 person there. So there's about total with the reporter, about 108 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:23,560 four people. And she didn't waste any time running under 109 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:30,480 the table. Meanwhile, a couple tents down is NBC News. 110 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:33,919 Listen listen to. Well, I'll tell you what she says. 111 00:08:34,159 --> 00:08:37,159 So it's hard to pick out, but she goes the 112 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:40,279 gunshots start. I mean, this guy was fired and the 113 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:44,759 Secret Service fired twenty thirty rounds. There was a lot 114 00:08:44,799 --> 00:08:48,759 of gunshots, and they were right by where the reporters 115 00:08:48,799 --> 00:08:50,480 stand up and do their stand ups in front of 116 00:08:50,519 --> 00:08:55,279 the White House. And this reporter heard the gunshots and 117 00:08:55,320 --> 00:08:59,120 stuck her head out of the facilita that the tent, 118 00:08:59,799 --> 00:09:01,720 and kept going, what is that? 119 00:09:02,639 --> 00:09:03,840 Speaker 2: What is that? Here? 120 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:06,120 Speaker 1: Here she is listen to, this is the NBC reporter. 121 00:09:08,639 --> 00:09:26,639 Speaker 4: What is that? I was like, that was today, obviously 122 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:30,320 weeks after the shot had a White House. 123 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:35,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, So not only did she keep going, she did 124 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:37,200 it like four or five times, what is that? 125 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:38,559 Speaker 2: What is that? 126 00:09:38,639 --> 00:09:40,720 Speaker 1: And she stuck her head out looking around to see 127 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:43,799 what it was, and that you could hear a male 128 00:09:43,919 --> 00:09:48,000 voice saying, oh, it sounds like fireworks, and I guess 129 00:09:48,039 --> 00:09:52,600 it just it just reminds me that when there's a 130 00:09:52,639 --> 00:09:56,200 shooting something you hear people eyewitnesses go, I thought it 131 00:09:56,279 --> 00:10:00,480 was fireworks, and I'm going, those were clearly guns shots 132 00:10:01,039 --> 00:10:06,159 one of them. The ABC reporter instantly knew it was gunfire, 133 00:10:06,639 --> 00:10:11,159 and the ABC reporter sticking her head out, going what 134 00:10:11,399 --> 00:10:15,600 is that? He just a little observation I saw on 135 00:10:15,639 --> 00:10:18,960 Saturday night that I thought i'd share with you. But 136 00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:23,279 it just shows people react differently to something. Two emergencies 137 00:10:23,360 --> 00:10:27,159 like that anyway, No, but well, there was a bystander 138 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:30,360 shot and the guy that did that, tried to fire 139 00:10:30,559 --> 00:10:32,840 his way into the White House, was shot and killed 140 00:10:33,360 --> 00:10:37,039 by the Secret Service. Didn't get a lot of publicity, 141 00:10:37,039 --> 00:10:39,440 but I thought I would. I thought I would play 142 00:10:39,440 --> 00:10:42,840 that for you since we're talking about the White House. 143 00:10:44,519 --> 00:10:49,240 Oh man, the ballroom. I've been I've been to the 144 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:54,960 White House, I don't know, six, seven, eight times something 145 00:10:55,039 --> 00:10:59,720 like that. Been to events at least four or five times. 146 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:03,600 In the East Room of the White House, it's a 147 00:11:03,639 --> 00:11:09,240 big room. It holds three or four hundred people. I 148 00:11:09,279 --> 00:11:12,080 mean they pack they can pack a lot of people 149 00:11:12,120 --> 00:11:14,720 in there, and there's a lot of history that has 150 00:11:14,759 --> 00:11:16,919 taken place in the East Room of the White House. 151 00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:21,799 So I know the President says he needs a ballroom 152 00:11:21,919 --> 00:11:24,919 that will hold a couple thousand I think is what 153 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:29,240 he wants. And it started off as a two hundred 154 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:33,080 thousand dollars construction project and that he would get the 155 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:39,000 money from donors, political donors, and I would think, Okay, 156 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:42,799 he knows about building buildings, so he must know two 157 00:11:42,879 --> 00:11:47,000 hundred thousands about right, But then without any explanation, all 158 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:50,840 of a sudden, it turned into four hundred thousand double 159 00:11:51,480 --> 00:11:53,519 I thought, well, how did he get that so wrong? 160 00:11:54,759 --> 00:12:01,799 And now he's asking Congress for one billion dollars and 161 00:12:01,879 --> 00:12:06,440 they are pushing back. And part of the pushback will 162 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:09,480 get to Texas in a minute, but part of the 163 00:12:09,519 --> 00:12:15,399 pushback on not only the ballroom but also the one 164 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:19,879 point eight billion dollar weaponization bill to pay people who 165 00:12:19,879 --> 00:12:23,919 have been weaponized the government weaponized against them. They're getting 166 00:12:23,919 --> 00:12:26,799 a pushback from the Senate. Part of it being explained 167 00:12:27,399 --> 00:12:32,279 is that the senators are not happy because John Cornyn, 168 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:36,039 who has been the whip for the Republicans in the 169 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:45,360 Senate for twenty some years, the President decided to sponsor 170 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:51,840 to endorse Ken Paxton, who's running against Cornyan. And apparently 171 00:12:52,759 --> 00:12:57,480 the Republican senators are not taking that very well and 172 00:12:57,559 --> 00:13:00,840 they are in a fighting mood with the President over that. 173 00:13:02,639 --> 00:13:03,799 Speaker 2: But as far as. 174 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:09,240 Speaker 1: A proposed legislation to pay the one billion dollars for 175 00:13:09,279 --> 00:13:12,240 the ballroom, I don't run. I don't understand why he 176 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:15,799 needs the ballroom, but I do believe that he will 177 00:13:15,799 --> 00:13:20,200 get it. But Elie Honig, who's former federal prosecutor, weighs 178 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:24,120 in on the legal angle behind the ballroom. 179 00:13:24,399 --> 00:13:28,399 Speaker 3: The significance of this filing is zero because the actual 180 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:31,799 legal issue in this case is not whether the ballroom 181 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:34,480 is a good idea bad idea beautiful design, or tacky 182 00:13:34,759 --> 00:13:37,679 necessary for security or unnecessary. The legal issue in this 183 00:13:37,759 --> 00:13:42,240 case is whether Congress has authorized this construction and this spending. 184 00:13:42,279 --> 00:13:44,639 So I read this brief. It's five pages long. It 185 00:13:44,679 --> 00:13:47,200 does not have a single citation to a single case, 186 00:13:47,399 --> 00:13:50,240 a single citation to a single statute, single citation to 187 00:13:50,279 --> 00:13:53,840 a single regulation. It reads appropriately for an op ed 188 00:13:53,879 --> 00:13:56,240 you might submit to a newspaper, for a policy paper 189 00:13:56,279 --> 00:13:58,639 you might submit to Congress, but it has nothing to 190 00:13:58,720 --> 00:14:02,279 do with the legal case. District Court judge in DC, 191 00:14:02,559 --> 00:14:07,519 a guy named Judge Nol who is appointed by George W. Bush, 192 00:14:07,679 --> 00:14:11,759 has ruled that the construction must stop because Congress has 193 00:14:11,840 --> 00:14:15,559 not authorized this spending. There are various statutes that allow 194 00:14:15,600 --> 00:14:18,360 the President to make alterations or improvements quote unquote to 195 00:14:18,360 --> 00:14:20,879 the White House. But the judge said, this is not that, 196 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:23,639 this is something different entirely. However, that judge said, I'm 197 00:14:23,639 --> 00:14:26,440 going to put my own ruling on hold until this 198 00:14:26,519 --> 00:14:28,840 case can be argued in the Court of Appeals next 199 00:14:28,879 --> 00:14:31,039 week June fifth. And so what that means is at 200 00:14:31,039 --> 00:14:34,120 the moment, construction continues. So the Court of Appeals will 201 00:14:34,120 --> 00:14:37,080 hear the case next week. They may say stop construction. 202 00:14:37,559 --> 00:14:40,080 That's what the lower court said, but as of now, 203 00:14:40,080 --> 00:14:40,879 construction goes on. 204 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:41,279 Speaker 2: Okay. 205 00:14:41,679 --> 00:14:43,480 Speaker 3: This is a great example of what you learn in 206 00:14:43,519 --> 00:14:45,639 law school that possession is nine tenths of the law. 207 00:14:45,759 --> 00:14:48,200 That's another way of saying, sometimes the physical realities on 208 00:14:48,240 --> 00:14:51,919 the ground dictate the legal result. And here we have this. 209 00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:55,000 The East wing has been demolished, there is a hole 210 00:14:55,039 --> 00:14:57,519 in the ground, there's a foundation being built. So I 211 00:14:57,559 --> 00:15:00,240 don't know how practically, even if a judge decides this 212 00:15:00,240 --> 00:15:03,080 Court of Appeals decides this is not authorized by Congress, 213 00:15:03,240 --> 00:15:06,240 what do you do leave this partially building up. I 214 00:15:06,279 --> 00:15:07,720 do think there's some fault by the way and the 215 00:15:07,720 --> 00:15:10,519 people who challenge this, they should have done it way earlier. 216 00:15:10,519 --> 00:15:12,799 They should have done it before the actual I know 217 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:16,000 the demolition happened by surprise, but they should have done 218 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:18,679 it right away. Instead, they waited several weeks until this 219 00:15:18,679 --> 00:15:20,240 thing was already underway. 220 00:15:20,399 --> 00:15:23,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, and because of that, I truly believe the ballroom 221 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:25,840 will be built. I guess the part that bothers me 222 00:15:25,919 --> 00:15:29,399 about it is that it's quite as much larger than 223 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:32,840 the actual White House. White House is going to be 224 00:15:33,039 --> 00:15:37,919 a shadow of the ballroom, and I think the White 225 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:41,080 House should be the predominant building on the grounds. But 226 00:15:42,159 --> 00:15:46,320 I think he will get his ballroom. But he could 227 00:15:46,399 --> 00:15:50,919 have probably approached it in a different way. And the 228 00:15:50,960 --> 00:15:56,919 East Room is perfectly fine for having events of three 229 00:15:56,960 --> 00:15:58,159 four hundred people. 230 00:15:59,519 --> 00:16:00,000 Speaker 2: Regardless. 231 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:03,399 Speaker 1: So we move on. So I mentioned the senators were 232 00:16:03,519 --> 00:16:06,240 upset about the fact that the President would not endorse 233 00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:11,039 John Cornyn. Cornyn has been the number three Republican in 234 00:16:11,080 --> 00:16:13,360 the Senate for a very long time. He's been in 235 00:16:13,399 --> 00:16:17,720 the Senate for twenty four years and apparently he's a 236 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:22,679 very likable guy, and they did. The Republican senators tried 237 00:16:22,679 --> 00:16:26,320 to get Trump to endorse John Cornyn, but he went 238 00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:33,440 with Ken Paxton, and Ken Paxton is much more of 239 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:37,480 a mega guy and Cornyn is much more of a 240 00:16:37,519 --> 00:16:44,720 Republican establishment guy. But the thing about Paxton is he 241 00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:53,559 has a very dirty track record, corruption, impeachment, all kinds 242 00:16:53,559 --> 00:16:59,679 of affairs. He's going to be His wife is divorcing him. 243 00:16:59,679 --> 00:17:03,320 But the so I think the divorce trial starts pretty soon. 244 00:17:03,519 --> 00:17:07,400 The Democrats are going to have a field day with him. 245 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:12,720 I still think even in Texas, even so, people will 246 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:15,880 will bite their lip if and vote for him. I 247 00:17:15,880 --> 00:17:19,920 think Paxton is going to be the winner in tonight's 248 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:25,599 Today's Texas primary. I think he will. He's favored to win. 249 00:17:26,039 --> 00:17:30,039 So Paxton will probably be the nominee for the US Senate, 250 00:17:30,440 --> 00:17:35,119 going up against James tall Rico, who is got all 251 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:38,200 kinds of baggage as well, but he's a Democrat, and 252 00:17:38,240 --> 00:17:43,400 in Texas, Democrats have a hard time of winning. Andrew Desiderio, 253 00:17:43,519 --> 00:17:47,839 who is with punch Bowl News, had these comments, well. 254 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:50,319 Speaker 5: Look, a Trump endorsement in a Republican party is the 255 00:17:50,319 --> 00:17:53,759 golden ticket usually, right, And the President doesn't usually endorse 256 00:17:53,799 --> 00:17:57,119 someone unless he's very, very confident that that individual is 257 00:17:57,160 --> 00:17:59,880 going to win the primary. He likes to talent his 258 00:18:00,319 --> 00:18:03,400 you know, ninety seven ninety eight, ninety nine percent track record, 259 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:06,519 whatever it is, of picking the candidate who ends up 260 00:18:06,519 --> 00:18:11,000 winning the primary. In this case, the President had decided 261 00:18:11,599 --> 00:18:14,640 very late in this process to weigh in. Obviously, I 262 00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:16,680 think it was you know, it was probably going to 263 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:18,720 be the case that Ken Paxton was on track to 264 00:18:18,759 --> 00:18:22,920 win this runoff regardless of a presidential endorsement. But remember, 265 00:18:22,960 --> 00:18:26,319 Senate Republican leaders had been pleading with Donald Trump for 266 00:18:26,359 --> 00:18:30,079 over a year to endorse John Cornyn early on in 267 00:18:30,119 --> 00:18:33,960 this race, in part as a business proposition, right, because 268 00:18:34,400 --> 00:18:38,279 you saw Senate Republican leadership and the super pac aligned 269 00:18:38,359 --> 00:18:42,519 with them and other Republican affiliated super PACs spend almost 270 00:18:42,519 --> 00:18:47,039 one hundred million dollars to boost Senator Cornyn throughout this primary. 271 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:49,920 And they believe that if the President had simply endorsed 272 00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:53,319 Senator Cornyn early on in this process, that would have 273 00:18:53,759 --> 00:18:58,359 essentially dispatched anyone any sort of challenge, potential challenge to 274 00:18:58,440 --> 00:19:00,599 Senator Cornyn. And in the pit says they would have 275 00:19:00,599 --> 00:19:03,400 saved all that money that they could have used on 276 00:19:03,599 --> 00:19:06,200 some of these other states like North Carolina and Maine 277 00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:07,440 and Georgia and Michigan. 278 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:10,279 Speaker 1: So what this is going to come down to the 279 00:19:10,319 --> 00:19:13,880 primary in Texas again is today, we'll get the results tonight. 280 00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:17,880 We'll talk about it tomorrow. But the key here is 281 00:19:17,920 --> 00:19:22,200 not only about cornn versus Paxton, but a lot of 282 00:19:22,240 --> 00:19:27,359 people do believe that Paxton will win today, will not 283 00:19:27,759 --> 00:19:32,759 win in November in the general election, and a Democrat 284 00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:36,400 taller Rico will win and that could mean the difference 285 00:19:36,440 --> 00:19:40,559 between the Republicans holding the control of the Senate or 286 00:19:40,640 --> 00:19:43,240 losing the control of the Senate to the Democrat. So 287 00:19:43,279 --> 00:19:47,160 it's a big, big deal. There's a little bit of 288 00:19:47,440 --> 00:19:52,480 Ken Paxton and John Cornell. Start with John Cornyan making 289 00:19:52,519 --> 00:19:56,440 comments on Morning News this morning is voters were heading 290 00:19:56,480 --> 00:19:57,359 off to the poll. 291 00:19:57,640 --> 00:19:58,960 Speaker 2: So we'll be in albatross. 292 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:01,720 Speaker 6: He could well lose, but even if he doesn't lose, 293 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:04,759 he will win by such a razors thin margin that 294 00:20:05,359 --> 00:20:08,119 is likely to have a negative drag on the downball 295 00:20:08,279 --> 00:20:09,160 races in Texas. 296 00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:10,839 Speaker 2: This is not a pro Trump guy. 297 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:13,519 Speaker 1: I don't know if we could be more different on 298 00:20:13,559 --> 00:20:16,759 the Republican issues than John Cornyan and me. So that's 299 00:20:16,759 --> 00:20:20,559 Cornyn and Paxton. Paxton's argument is is that Cornyan isn't 300 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:27,680 a pro Trump guy. Paxton is what whatever President Trump 301 00:20:27,759 --> 00:20:31,920 says Paxton is for, and he doesn't try to hide 302 00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:35,119 the fact that he's not a man on it that 303 00:20:35,200 --> 00:20:40,400 stands on his own two feet. And character, I thought 304 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:44,440 in the Republican Party among conservatives, I thought character counted. 305 00:20:45,079 --> 00:20:48,839 Remember people the Republicans were going after Bill Clinton for 306 00:20:49,079 --> 00:20:53,920 his lack of character. How character counted? Not anymore, apparently, 307 00:20:53,960 --> 00:20:59,400 because if Paxton wins, John Cornyn's character is fine, Paxton 308 00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:05,240 not so much. Leanne Caldwell from Puck News is that's this. 309 00:21:06,079 --> 00:21:06,400 Speaker 2: Yeah. 310 00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:11,480 Speaker 7: So when Donald Trump endorsed Ken Paxton, Senate Republicans, kind 311 00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:16,680 of the whole Senate establishment in DC we're really beside themselves. 312 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:20,400 And the reason is is because while Paxton is much 313 00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:23,640 more popular we'll find out today, but likely to be 314 00:21:23,720 --> 00:21:27,519 much more popular with the Republican base, there's a lot 315 00:21:27,559 --> 00:21:32,119 of concern about how Paxton will perform and a general 316 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:35,839 election against a strong Democratic candidate, in this case it's 317 00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:41,599 James Tallarico. They worry that the independent the soft Republican 318 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:46,920 voters even will not support Paxton over Tallarico, and so 319 00:21:47,039 --> 00:21:50,480 they're worried that they are going to lose a Senate seat, 320 00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:54,200 a red one that should be easy for Republicans to 321 00:21:54,279 --> 00:21:57,039 keep in in their control. So, I mean, as you 322 00:21:57,039 --> 00:21:59,559 said in your opening, over one hundred million dollars about 323 00:21:59,599 --> 00:22:02,079 own nearly one hundred and fifty million dollars just in 324 00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:06,519 the Republican primary and runoff, and most of that money 325 00:22:06,559 --> 00:22:10,200 has actually been spent by John Cornan and his allies. 326 00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:13,000 They had to spend a lot to boost his approval 327 00:22:13,119 --> 00:22:17,440 with these Republican base voters. But I'm told in a 328 00:22:17,599 --> 00:22:23,279 competitive general election, Republicans alone will probably have to spend 329 00:22:23,319 --> 00:22:27,480 two hundred million dollars in order to help Paxton over 330 00:22:27,519 --> 00:22:30,279 the finish line, and that people are saying could be 331 00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:33,519 could be the base, that it could be much much more. 332 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:37,319 That doesn't even take into consideration how much James Tallerico 333 00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:41,200 is going to spend in the war chest. He has 334 00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:45,359 to play a very aggressive general election campaign. And so 335 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:48,880 this is a stake that Republicans did not want to 336 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:52,200 have to worry about. It is been extremely expensive with 337 00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:56,319 several massive media markets and they're going to have to 338 00:22:56,319 --> 00:22:58,400 spend money there while they're also going to have to 339 00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:01,759 defend more than a handful of other Republican states before 340 00:23:02,599 --> 00:23:06,000 they can even try to pick up seats in places 341 00:23:06,119 --> 00:23:06,960 like Michigan. 342 00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:09,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, the amount of money in this Texas race is 343 00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:13,079 obscene and it's going to get words. So why did 344 00:23:13,119 --> 00:23:17,880 the President decide to go with Paxton when they could 345 00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:21,160 have done it much cheaper and gotten a much more 346 00:23:21,319 --> 00:23:23,000 sure bet with Cornan. 347 00:23:23,799 --> 00:23:27,640 Speaker 7: President Trump was extremely frustrated with Senate Majority Leader John 348 00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:32,440 Thune and Senate Republicans for getting rid of the ballroom. Remember, 349 00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:36,319 Trump wants a billion dollars for his ballroom of taxpayer money, 350 00:23:36,839 --> 00:23:39,359 and John Thune told him it's not going to be 351 00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:43,119 possible to get that through the Senate. There's other things 352 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:47,680 that Donald Trump is frustrated with, including voter voter ID 353 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:52,640 and citizenship legislation. He wants to get rid of the filibuster. 354 00:23:53,559 --> 00:23:58,079 H And I was told that Trump was so frustrated 355 00:23:58,279 --> 00:24:01,920 that he said, well, okay, then I'm going to endorse Paxton. 356 00:24:02,599 --> 00:24:06,920 Paxton is the person that Trump is more ideologically aligned 357 00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:09,640 with anyway, the person he had always preferred. But he 358 00:24:09,759 --> 00:24:14,480 was going to stay out of the race, and he 359 00:24:14,519 --> 00:24:17,319 got so frustrated that he decided to endorse Paxton just 360 00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:22,640 do whatever he wanted to do and kind of really 361 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:25,559 put it to Senate Republicans to send them a message. 362 00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:29,400 Speaker 1: So it was out of spite. It's going to cost 363 00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:32,519 a lot of money that spite, and may not be successful. 364 00:24:32,559 --> 00:24:35,680 But we'll find out. The polls I think close up 365 00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:39,559 seven o'clock local time in Texas central central daylight time, 366 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:43,519 so we'll find out whether it's Paxton's expected to win. 367 00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:47,880 But you never know what the independence in Texas will do. 368 00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:52,839 So how about how about the big war? I know 369 00:24:53,519 --> 00:25:01,400 it's becoming convoluted, and I will tell you I'm not 370 00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:05,519 I'm a big fan of General Jack Keen, and I've 371 00:25:05,559 --> 00:25:08,799 played a number of his comments for you about Jack 372 00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:12,799 Keen is going. We have a military plan. We did 373 00:25:12,839 --> 00:25:16,519 not get to finish it. We were put on hold 374 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:19,920 by the president. We did not get to do We 375 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,839 had seventy five percent of it done, seventy to seventy 376 00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:26,440 five percent, and we needed to finish the other targets. 377 00:25:27,279 --> 00:25:28,960 I don't know what those targets were, but I would 378 00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:30,920 presume they were probably going to try to take out 379 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:35,599 the regime. Instead, it got stopped. And now we're more 380 00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:39,200 than six weeks on a ceasefire and they're firing at 381 00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:42,039 each other. They're shooting at it. We shot at them 382 00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:46,200 over the weekend, they shot at us. So they're playing 383 00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:50,079 some semantics game about a cease fire. They're no more 384 00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:52,359 on a cease fire than the Man of the Moon. 385 00:25:53,799 --> 00:25:57,599 But here's my big chakar u. You know, I'm a 386 00:25:57,640 --> 00:26:04,000 big fan of General Keen, but I'm very disappointed, very 387 00:26:04,039 --> 00:26:09,279 disappointed in him. And I remember, you don't get to 388 00:26:09,319 --> 00:26:13,200 be a general, let alone a four star without you 389 00:26:13,519 --> 00:26:17,519 literally need to have a member of the US Senate, 390 00:26:17,599 --> 00:26:22,039 a politician sponsor you for you to get your first 391 00:26:22,079 --> 00:26:28,079 star as a general. So you have to be politically smart, 392 00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:34,440 and sadly, I will play for you. General Jack Keane's 393 00:26:34,559 --> 00:26:40,759 comments today in which he caved, he's caving. He's going, 394 00:26:40,839 --> 00:26:44,880 oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The president's making the right decision. 395 00:26:45,039 --> 00:26:49,400 And even though you know as well as I do, 396 00:26:49,519 --> 00:26:54,359 he wanted to go in and finish the job and 397 00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:58,000 they're not allowing the military to do so. In General Keene, 398 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:00,200 I think threw in the towel today. 399 00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:03,279 Speaker 8: Listen to this, well, I think we're in the early 400 00:27:03,319 --> 00:27:06,599 stages of it. And less number one, give the President 401 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:08,559 a lot of credit for the fact that we would 402 00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:12,200 never be here where we are without what he did 403 00:27:12,279 --> 00:27:15,119 with Midnight Hammer in supporting the twelve Day War and 404 00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:18,400 bringing down their nuclear enterprise to the state that it's 405 00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:21,119 at still more work to be done there or remove it, 406 00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:24,559 to be sure. And then certainly the thirty seven day 407 00:27:24,599 --> 00:27:29,680 war that we were conducting diminishing Iran's capabilities rather significantly. 408 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:33,279 But the point here is dinner with the straits of 409 00:27:33,319 --> 00:27:36,640 a move. Certainly this is a prize that Iran does 410 00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:37,599 not want to give up. 411 00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:38,759 Speaker 2: And what do I mean by that? 412 00:27:39,319 --> 00:27:41,559 Speaker 8: It was the vehicle they used to get a cease 413 00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:43,680 fire when they took control of it. They have never 414 00:27:43,759 --> 00:27:47,559 ever had control of the straits of Moves before, and 415 00:27:47,599 --> 00:27:52,319 they did it largely with intimidation and coercion in terms 416 00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:56,119 of affecting the captains of ship, insurers of ships, and 417 00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:59,599 owners of ships. And they don't want to give that up. 418 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:03,880 That I mean, it's obviously a negotiating item, and we 419 00:28:04,039 --> 00:28:07,119 have leverage here with the economic blockade. What does Iran 420 00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:10,359 want out of this? Certainly we're talking about opening it. Yes, 421 00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:12,920 they will likely open it, but what they want to 422 00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:17,000 do is maintain authority over it. And they are claiming 423 00:28:17,079 --> 00:28:21,160 right now that this is their water and Oman's waterway 424 00:28:21,559 --> 00:28:24,759 and therefore they have territorial control over it. That violates 425 00:28:24,799 --> 00:28:28,960 international law, where the law of navigation indicates that this 426 00:28:29,079 --> 00:28:33,519 is international waters and freedom of navigation takes precedence here 427 00:28:33,799 --> 00:28:35,720 over any territorial control. 428 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:38,559 Speaker 2: So legally it's on the. 429 00:28:38,559 --> 00:28:42,200 Speaker 8: Side of it being a freedom of navigation, but that's 430 00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:43,200 not where Iran is. 431 00:28:43,279 --> 00:28:44,200 Speaker 2: Iran wants to. 432 00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:48,200 Speaker 8: Have authority and some sovereignty over it, and how we 433 00:28:48,359 --> 00:28:50,559 describe it and what words we agree to are going 434 00:28:50,599 --> 00:28:54,240 to be important here. Why is this so because the 435 00:28:54,359 --> 00:28:59,519 geopolitical advantage that gives Iran and having influencing a year 436 00:28:59,559 --> 00:29:03,400 from now, five years from now is really significant. They've 437 00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:06,839 never been able to hold that as leverage over the 438 00:29:06,839 --> 00:29:09,440 Gulf States and our allies and partners in the region. 439 00:29:09,559 --> 00:29:12,720 So this step one of negotiations is very important. Look 440 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:15,519 at the administration. Negotiators got their eyes wide open here. 441 00:29:15,599 --> 00:29:19,920 They know exactly what's at play here. But I just 442 00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:23,440 want to make sure our audience understands how significant this 443 00:29:23,559 --> 00:29:28,319 really is in terms of Aran not having any control 444 00:29:28,599 --> 00:29:30,880 over the straits of the moves and it being returned 445 00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:33,960 to an area of freedom of navigation. And then the 446 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:36,920 rest of it is very complicated, as we have seen 447 00:29:37,559 --> 00:29:41,319 over many, many weeks and even prior to conflict operations, 448 00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:46,599 dealing with nuclear issues dismantling, We're getting rid of the 449 00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:51,079 enrichment that it has and also pushing back on ballistic 450 00:29:51,119 --> 00:29:54,519 missile development and support for proxies. There's going to be 451 00:29:54,559 --> 00:29:58,839 a frameworks phase one, an agreement on what the framework is, 452 00:29:59,759 --> 00:30:02,200 then get down to the hard work of rolling up 453 00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:06,279 the sleeves and trying to figure out what a good 454 00:30:06,319 --> 00:30:08,519 deal is for the United States. We know what our 455 00:30:08,559 --> 00:30:11,400 positions are. They're very clear, and we have made public 456 00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:14,880 statements to address them. And I'm absolutely convinced we're not 457 00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:18,000 going to make a bad deal. I'm not going to relitigate. 458 00:30:18,319 --> 00:30:20,400 You know, should we or shouldn't we be in this phase. 459 00:30:21,119 --> 00:30:25,279 I felt from the outset we should have continued kinetic 460 00:30:25,319 --> 00:30:30,240 operations and then forced them into uncompromising positions. 461 00:30:30,279 --> 00:30:31,759 Speaker 2: But this is the President's decision. 462 00:30:31,759 --> 00:30:34,960 Speaker 8: He wanted to take a diplomatic action here, and I 463 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:38,480 think what we need to make certain here and assist 464 00:30:38,559 --> 00:30:41,359 us along and helping inform the American people as to 465 00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:43,640 what the stakes are, what the issues are here. There's 466 00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:47,039 a lot of things going around in the media that 467 00:30:47,119 --> 00:30:50,799 are really uninformed in terms of what's happening here. And 468 00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:53,480 one of the great thing on a regular basis that 469 00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:56,839 keep our audience informed about the facts. And if we 470 00:30:56,960 --> 00:30:59,160 kind of stick to the facts here, we're going to 471 00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:00,599 wind up in a much better place. 472 00:31:01,079 --> 00:31:05,279 Speaker 1: Well, I thought that was a long winded dance around. 473 00:31:06,839 --> 00:31:10,400 His real desire is to use the military to go 474 00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:12,240 in and defeat the regime. 475 00:31:13,319 --> 00:31:15,720 Speaker 2: So he stuck. 476 00:31:16,119 --> 00:31:19,720 Speaker 1: He can't. He does what a general does is say yes, 477 00:31:19,799 --> 00:31:23,000 sir to the commander in chief, and he's not He's 478 00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:27,240 very careful not to blame President Trump, but he's putting 479 00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:30,400 the decision on President Trump. 480 00:31:31,039 --> 00:31:33,480 Speaker 2: I mean, the reason why we got into these. 481 00:31:33,319 --> 00:31:38,000 Speaker 8: Conflict operations after the Twelve Day War back in last 482 00:31:38,079 --> 00:31:41,119 June was for a couple a couple of things were happening. 483 00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:44,400 One is, they made a decision to recover their nuclear 484 00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:47,480 program despite what we had done with them with Midnight 485 00:31:47,519 --> 00:31:52,480 Hammer number two. They were successfully recovering their ballistic missile 486 00:31:52,519 --> 00:31:57,119 program by burying the missiles in tunnels deep under the ground. 487 00:31:57,119 --> 00:32:00,160 Where we couldn't penetrate him with our bombs, and it 488 00:32:00,279 --> 00:32:04,000 was given solid fuel which would assist in using mobile 489 00:32:04,079 --> 00:32:08,279 launchers to launch those kind of missiles. And as a 490 00:32:08,279 --> 00:32:11,799 result of that, it became a matter of physics here 491 00:32:12,279 --> 00:32:15,759 based on the amount they were going to accumulate. If 492 00:32:15,799 --> 00:32:18,119 you run the math on it, it would overwhelm the 493 00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:22,400 defenses that Israel had, as well as our assistance to them, 494 00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:25,359 not to speak of our allies and partners in the region. 495 00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:28,319 So that is why we had to take some action 496 00:32:28,559 --> 00:32:31,119 here that the regime was not going to change whatsoever. 497 00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:33,400 And some people just don't want to pay attention to 498 00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:36,319 those facts. These are facts that were taking place and 499 00:32:36,359 --> 00:32:39,400 when they want to dismiss it, and it cannot be dismissed. 500 00:32:39,759 --> 00:32:42,319 And that's what brought us to this point here. So 501 00:32:42,359 --> 00:32:45,400 we got a regime, it's on its heels. We're move 502 00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:48,440 it into a diplomatic phase, and we've got to come 503 00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:51,119 out of this phase meeting our objectives and goals. 504 00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:54,119 Speaker 1: Well, you can hear in his voice he's disappointed. He 505 00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:59,839 wants to he wants to achieve the mission and goals militarily, 506 00:33:00,119 --> 00:33:03,319 but that you can hear it. He's saying I'm not 507 00:33:03,359 --> 00:33:04,839 going to be able to do that. It's it's in 508 00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:08,720 the diplomatic phase now, and you're gonna keep You're gonna 509 00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:13,559 wind up with Iran in a stronger position. I know 510 00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:17,880 They're military has been decimated. They've we've destroyed a lot 511 00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:20,720 of them. They still have lots of missiles, they still 512 00:33:20,759 --> 00:33:24,839 have lots of drones. So they will get to work 513 00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:28,079 on rebuilding their country and the problem is just going 514 00:33:28,119 --> 00:33:30,960 to be kicked down the road, in my humble opinion, 515 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:35,480 So let's see Wall Street when there was a lot 516 00:33:35,519 --> 00:33:39,640 this morning, Oh my gosh, as part of the ongoing 517 00:33:40,799 --> 00:33:44,720 we won where where the agreement's done, where we've got 518 00:33:44,759 --> 00:33:48,359 a great agreement. And yet Ron says we don't have 519 00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:51,920 a great agreement. But Wall Street gets suckered in every 520 00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:55,640 single time. It's shot up on that news this morning. 521 00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:59,680 But by the time the closing bell came along, well, 522 00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:03,119 it had lost all and wound up with a red 523 00:34:03,279 --> 00:34:07,720 arrow on it. Gas prices today are down a penny 524 00:34:07,759 --> 00:34:10,920 from yesterday. Four forty nine is the average for the 525 00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:16,440 cheap stuff diesel five fifty eight, so down a penny 526 00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:18,840 from yesterday, down four cents from a week ago. So 527 00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:23,679 maybe we're hitting the top on gas. On the markets, 528 00:34:24,039 --> 00:34:26,679 like I said, we started off positive, but by the 529 00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:30,679 time we finished, we were down one hundred and eighteen. 530 00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:34,360 At the close, the Dow fifty four to sixty one, 531 00:34:35,159 --> 00:34:36,639 but it was a mixed market. The S and P 532 00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:41,239 new record at forty five, the Nasdaq up I think 533 00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:44,480 that's a new record, up three hundred and twelve. You 534 00:34:44,559 --> 00:34:46,559 can you can see where this is being driven. This 535 00:34:46,679 --> 00:34:52,400 is all about tech, It's about the Magnificent seven. It's 536 00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:57,159 all tech stocks and AI. So the NASDAK really benefited 537 00:34:57,239 --> 00:34:59,960 from all of that. The price of gold fell fifteen 538 00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:04,159 almost sixteen dollars, down to four thousand and five oh seven, 539 00:35:04,639 --> 00:35:08,920 and oil West Texas Intermediate and down three bucks. We'll 540 00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:12,880 take it down to ninety three dollars for a barrel 541 00:35:12,920 --> 00:35:17,360 of oil. That's it for today. Thank you for coming by. 542 00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:19,840 We'll be back tomorrow and I hope to see you then. 543 00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:22,280 We'll be back tomorrow and I hope to see you then.