1 00:00:22,199 --> 00:00:25,679 Speaker 1: And hello, Hi, how are you welcome to the Big 2 00:00:25,719 --> 00:00:30,120 Podcast on this Thursday. Today's the twenty first day of May, 3 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:33,359 Year of Our Lord, twenty twenty six. 4 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:34,799 Speaker 2: My name is Tom Sullivan. 5 00:00:35,479 --> 00:00:39,880 Speaker 1: And well we've got of course, we're always keeping track 6 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:46,520 of what's going on with Iran, but we've also got well, 7 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:51,759 Congress is bucking the system. The President is looking for 8 00:00:51,840 --> 00:01:00,600 some money, and the Republicans in Congress are push back 9 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:03,960 going on. We're not so sure so they are. They 10 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:07,519 are pushing back on the one point eight billion dollar 11 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:12,280 weaponization fund. They are pushing back on the ballroom, they 12 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:16,560 are pushing back on I think even the reflecting pools. 13 00:01:16,599 --> 00:01:19,040 So they I'll get into the details with you as 14 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:23,519 we go through the program today. But we've also got 15 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:31,719 Stephen Colbert. Tonight is his last show. It's been the long, long, 16 00:01:31,799 --> 00:01:36,840 long goodbye. It never happens in broadcasting. It just doesn't 17 00:01:36,879 --> 00:01:41,040 ever happen that they let somebody stay. Usually when they 18 00:01:41,239 --> 00:01:44,640 are going to cancel the program, they cancel it, and 19 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:48,519 that is that the last time you're going to see 20 00:01:48,519 --> 00:01:49,040 that person. 21 00:01:49,959 --> 00:01:51,640 Speaker 2: But I don't know, I don't know what. 22 00:01:51,519 --> 00:01:54,879 Speaker 1: The deal is with CBS, and this is before they 23 00:01:54,959 --> 00:01:58,159 changed owners. But it's still h he's out the door. 24 00:01:58,359 --> 00:02:01,799 And the problem with all all of this is they're 25 00:02:01,879 --> 00:02:05,519 trying to make it. I don't know, they're trying to 26 00:02:05,519 --> 00:02:09,159 come up with all kinds of excuses. But bottom line, 27 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:17,879 in broadcasting, it's ratings because ratings equal advertising and advertising 28 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:22,319 dollars go up for CBS if the program gets if 29 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:25,240 the ratings go up, and they go down. With ratings 30 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:29,280 going down, well, Stephen Colbert took over from David Letterman, 31 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:33,599 and David Letterman his audience was shrinking, but it was 32 00:02:33,879 --> 00:02:39,439 much bigger, much much bigger than Stephen Colbert's and Colbert 33 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:45,039 I mean, the problem with it is is that it's 34 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:48,479 not funny. And he's a comedian, or he was supposed 35 00:02:48,479 --> 00:02:53,520 to be. I liked Colbert's show on Comedy Central. He 36 00:02:53,599 --> 00:02:59,199 was a comedian and the role he played was a 37 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:06,879 big concernervative commentator. So was that made up? Because now 38 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:10,000 they say, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's not him. But when 39 00:03:10,039 --> 00:03:12,599 he comes over to CBS and he's doing the show 40 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:17,639 instead of of making people laugh, it's all about a 41 00:03:17,759 --> 00:03:20,560 gripe session. It's been a gripe session now for eleven 42 00:03:20,639 --> 00:03:26,439 years that Colbert has been doing the Late Show on CBS, 43 00:03:26,479 --> 00:03:30,199 and not only does he have the problem of the 44 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:34,759 comedians not doing comedy, but he also has the problem 45 00:03:34,759 --> 00:03:36,080 of late night is dying. 46 00:03:37,039 --> 00:03:38,719 Speaker 2: It just is, and. 47 00:03:38,919 --> 00:03:44,000 Speaker 1: America gets up earlier and goes to bed earlier than 48 00:03:44,319 --> 00:03:49,719 they used to do generations ago. Johnny Carson, everybody refers 49 00:03:49,759 --> 00:03:53,680 to him as he was the guy who tucked everybody 50 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:55,800 into bed at night because his show came on at 51 00:03:55,840 --> 00:03:59,919 eleven thirty and I believe it was a one hour show. 52 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,719 Speaker 2: Well, funny, I can't remember anyway. 53 00:04:02,479 --> 00:04:06,280 Speaker 1: Eleven thirty and people would have a TV in their 54 00:04:06,319 --> 00:04:08,719 bedroom and turn on the Tonight Show and watch Johnny 55 00:04:08,719 --> 00:04:13,719 Carson and drift off sleep. But that isn't what happens anymore. 56 00:04:13,719 --> 00:04:18,800 In fact, but America watches morning shows and doesn't stay 57 00:04:18,879 --> 00:04:22,360 up late to watch the late night show. So the 58 00:04:22,399 --> 00:04:27,800 story on Colbert is that CBS was losing between forty 59 00:04:27,879 --> 00:04:32,079 and fifty million dollars a year, and. 60 00:04:35,879 --> 00:04:37,920 Speaker 2: That's too much CBS. 61 00:04:38,279 --> 00:04:41,000 Speaker 1: I can't believe that they had a budget well north 62 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:45,199 of one hundred million dollars. He made somewhere around fifteen million, 63 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:48,120 and the rest of it was for all the things 64 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:50,399 that the staff and everything else that they need to 65 00:04:50,399 --> 00:04:55,439 put on a television show, So it's it's been interesting. 66 00:04:55,879 --> 00:05:00,120 I haven't watched that show. I don't think maybe the 67 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:04,480 first show or two when it started. 68 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:06,759 Speaker 2: But that was a long time ago. 69 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:11,360 Speaker 1: I've never watched it since, but I've seen clips, and 70 00:05:11,399 --> 00:05:17,120 the clips are all about Donald Trump, and I don't 71 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:19,879 know how he became a political show because one of 72 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:22,240 the things about Johnny Carson, who was the King of 73 00:05:22,319 --> 00:05:25,879 Late Night, was nobody ever really knew was he a 74 00:05:25,959 --> 00:05:29,560 Democrat or was he a Republican? And did he make 75 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:33,680 jokes about the sitting president. Yes, he did, but they 76 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:39,160 weren't acerbic. They were funny, and he had entertainers on 77 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:42,519 his show, and they would entertain you, whether it was 78 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:47,600 a musician or whether it was a very rarely a politician, 79 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:52,439 very rarely. Usually it was a Hollywood person. So I 80 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:57,480 don't know. So anyway, Colebert's going away tonight, and it's 81 00:05:57,560 --> 00:06:01,680 a mystery because there are no guests listings, and yet 82 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:05,920 at the same time they're thinking that possibly there is 83 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:09,439 going to be some surprise of some kind. 84 00:06:09,519 --> 00:06:10,439 Speaker 2: Don't know what it is. 85 00:06:11,079 --> 00:06:16,360 Speaker 1: But the guy who's going to replace him, I really 86 00:06:16,399 --> 00:06:19,439 wish him the very best. His name is Byron Allen. 87 00:06:20,079 --> 00:06:21,480 A lot of you know who he is, but a 88 00:06:21,519 --> 00:06:26,680 lot of you don't. And Byron Allen is an amazing guy. 89 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:29,600 Speaker 2: He has a show. 90 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:31,680 Speaker 1: What are they going to call this thing? I think 91 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:37,199 it's the yeah, Comics Unleashed. And so at eleven thirty 92 00:06:37,199 --> 00:06:42,480 five on your local station on CBS, Comics Unleashed will 93 00:06:42,519 --> 00:06:46,240 come on and it will be a thirty minute show 94 00:06:46,759 --> 00:06:50,720 and then they'll replay it, so it's two thirty minute 95 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:54,360 shows back to back. And then after that at twelve 96 00:06:54,439 --> 00:06:58,040 thirty five, CBS is going to run another show called 97 00:06:58,120 --> 00:07:03,639 Funny You Should Ask, which is also produced by Byron Allen. Now, 98 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:08,639 this guy has been kind of a sleeper. He's been 99 00:07:08,759 --> 00:07:12,160 very quiet, but he's been gradually. He started off as 100 00:07:12,199 --> 00:07:19,560 a comedian and a funny guy, classy guy. Wasn't any 101 00:07:19,639 --> 00:07:23,240 vulgar comedy involved with this guy. He's a top notch guy. 102 00:07:23,279 --> 00:07:30,920 And so he has accumulated companies that have taken Byron 103 00:07:30,959 --> 00:07:33,959 Allen from the shadows to where he's still kind of 104 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:37,199 in the shadows. I think this will make him much 105 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:42,720 more prominent. But he started or he bought a film distributor, 106 00:07:42,839 --> 00:07:48,720 Freestyle Releasing. He started the Grio, which the Grio is 107 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:56,639 a broadcast directly aimed at African Americans. He bought the 108 00:07:56,680 --> 00:08:02,360 Weather Channel. He owns an ownership chunk of Sinclair Broadcasting, 109 00:08:02,399 --> 00:08:06,680 which is one of the largest local television companies in 110 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:10,279 the country. They have a number of TV stations. He 111 00:08:10,319 --> 00:08:14,519 owns a piece of Fox Sports Network. He has a 112 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:19,319 number of television stations that he owns. He made a 113 00:08:19,480 --> 00:08:23,160 bid to buy the Denver Broncos so he's got some money. 114 00:08:23,279 --> 00:08:25,199 He didn't get it, but he made a bid for it. 115 00:08:25,879 --> 00:08:28,639 And he also made a bid put up a three 116 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:34,440 billion dollar bid for Paramount for Beet Media, and he 117 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:36,399 didn't get that either, but he put up a three 118 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:39,639 billion dollar deal. So this is a guy his comics 119 00:08:39,759 --> 00:08:45,480 unleashed with Byron Allen, and he's a I think he's 120 00:08:45,519 --> 00:08:49,200 a billionaire. I mean he's a he's a tycoon. I'll 121 00:08:49,200 --> 00:08:53,200 tell you that. So CBS is going to try this. 122 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:57,080 Oh and oh and the way it works, CBS is hurting. 123 00:08:57,879 --> 00:09:03,720 The way Byron Allen worked the deal was that CBS 124 00:09:03,799 --> 00:09:10,120 doesn't pay anything for his shows. What he gets is 125 00:09:10,159 --> 00:09:15,200 the airtime and he gets to sell all of the commercials. 126 00:09:15,919 --> 00:09:20,159 So it's on him to make money by selling the 127 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:24,679 commercials in these shows, Comics Unleashed and Funny you should 128 00:09:24,679 --> 00:09:27,200 Ask and so forth and so on. So he's hoping 129 00:09:27,559 --> 00:09:29,519 that he will make a lot more money on that 130 00:09:30,159 --> 00:09:32,879 and it'll more than pay for the production of the show. 131 00:09:33,519 --> 00:09:38,080 So he's an interesting man. I wish him well. He's 132 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:42,879 done well almost everything he's touched. He well, yeah, he 133 00:09:42,879 --> 00:09:47,240 also bought a controlling stake in BuzzFeed for one hundred 134 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:52,559 and twenty million dollars. So he's a very successful entertainer 135 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:57,960 who is really a businessman who does entertaining. So Colbert, 136 00:09:58,039 --> 00:10:00,679 I don't know what's going to happen to him. The 137 00:10:00,799 --> 00:10:05,600 left on the has embraced him, but obviously not enough people. 138 00:10:06,240 --> 00:10:11,200 His audience is so small. When I did local television, 139 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:16,600 we had bigger, much bigger audiences than Stephen Colbert has 140 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:22,360 with a national footprint. So he hasn't succeeded, and it's 141 00:10:22,399 --> 00:10:24,919 been way pastime for him to go. I know the 142 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:28,080 politics are a lot of people focused on that. I'm 143 00:10:28,120 --> 00:10:31,200 focused on the business side of it. So it will 144 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:34,159 be uh, it'll be interesting tonight he goes away and 145 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:39,399 Byron Allen starts tomorrow Tomorrow night on CBS. All Right, 146 00:10:39,440 --> 00:10:44,480 So we've got Colbert, We've got the funding problem that's 147 00:10:44,519 --> 00:10:48,000 going on with the President. He's pulling his hair out. 148 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:52,039 There was supposed to be the Senate was supposed to 149 00:10:52,120 --> 00:10:56,360 vote for funding. Yeah, remember they still haven't funded they 150 00:10:56,639 --> 00:11:00,039 they voted to Remember they already funded DHS, but not 151 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:03,919 ICE and not the border patrol. Well, the Senate was 152 00:11:03,919 --> 00:11:06,639 going to have a vote before Memorial Day, which is 153 00:11:06,639 --> 00:11:14,159 this weekend, and instead President added the one point eight 154 00:11:14,759 --> 00:11:20,600 billion dollar Weaponization Bill to pay people for the government 155 00:11:20,679 --> 00:11:24,240 weaponizing against them. And a lot of people are going, 156 00:11:24,240 --> 00:11:27,840 what's this about. Oh, there's a lot of pushback, lots 157 00:11:27,840 --> 00:11:32,559 of pushback, including some Republicans. Democrats of course are going crazy, 158 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:36,639 But there's a lot of pushback because there are no guardrails. 159 00:11:36,639 --> 00:11:38,879 Who are you going to pay? And this this was 160 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:44,320 Donald Trump settling a lawsuit against the IRS, and the 161 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:48,960 IRS said, fine, we will drop the lawsuit. Trump says, 162 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:53,240 I'll drop the lawsuit against the IRS if the IRS 163 00:11:54,399 --> 00:11:57,000 goes to the DOJ and gets a one point eight 164 00:11:57,440 --> 00:12:03,519 billion dollar weaponization fund to pay people who were wronged 165 00:12:03,679 --> 00:12:10,159 by the government. But Todd Blanche, the acting Attorney General, 166 00:12:10,279 --> 00:12:13,879 is supposed to set up a five person committee. The committee, 167 00:12:13,879 --> 00:12:16,360 we don't know who's going to be on it. Donald 168 00:12:16,519 --> 00:12:19,519 President Trump can can fire any of those people at 169 00:12:19,559 --> 00:12:20,159 any time. 170 00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:23,559 Speaker 2: It's a lot of people are. 171 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:25,919 Speaker 1: Pointing in saying, you're you're going to pay off those 172 00:12:26,039 --> 00:12:28,559 jan six people, aren't you? That's what you're going to do. 173 00:12:29,240 --> 00:12:31,639 And a lot of Republicans are pushing back and saying 174 00:12:31,679 --> 00:12:36,679 you better not, especially you better not pay anybody who 175 00:12:36,720 --> 00:12:42,200 attacked law enforcement. So there's lots of pushback in meantime. 176 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:45,600 So because of the fact of the President adding this 177 00:12:45,679 --> 00:12:47,559 to the pile of things for the Senate to do 178 00:12:47,639 --> 00:12:51,639 before Memorial Day, the Senate folded their tent this afternoon 179 00:12:51,759 --> 00:12:54,279 and said we're out, we're going We're going away. 180 00:12:55,039 --> 00:12:57,159 Speaker 2: And so the House said, oh, the Senate is going away. 181 00:12:57,200 --> 00:12:58,080 We're going away too. 182 00:12:58,559 --> 00:13:01,519 Speaker 1: Now, not only the president, it also has problems with 183 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:05,399 the ballroom, because remember when he first announced the ballroom, 184 00:13:05,960 --> 00:13:09,200 it was going to be a two hundred million dollar ballroom, 185 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:13,519 and then by sleight of hand, all of a sudden, 186 00:13:13,559 --> 00:13:16,440 a couple weeks later, it was a four hundred million 187 00:13:16,480 --> 00:13:23,120 dollar ballroom. And then all of a sudden, the President 188 00:13:23,240 --> 00:13:27,679 was asking the Senate and the House to fund a 189 00:13:28,039 --> 00:13:32,399 billion dollars for the ballroom because they're going to build 190 00:13:32,440 --> 00:13:37,440 some military secret site underneath the ballroom, and therefore they're 191 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:39,480 trying to make it into no, no, no, it's not 192 00:13:39,519 --> 00:13:43,440 about the ballroom. It's about it's a military issue and 193 00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:46,960 a security issue. And then on top of that, two 194 00:13:47,039 --> 00:13:51,840 days ago the parliamentarian in Congress said no, you no, no, 195 00:13:52,039 --> 00:13:57,399 you can't fund the ballroom. That doesn't know, you can't 196 00:13:57,399 --> 00:14:00,720 do that. And then on top of that, there's the 197 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:05,000 reflecting pool, which nobody is giving. The answer keeps changing, 198 00:14:05,039 --> 00:14:08,159 on the fact that somebody got hired to paint the 199 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:13,799 bottom of the reflecting pool blue, and I don't know, 200 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:16,519 I've seen it. I thought it looked nice. It was 201 00:14:16,519 --> 00:14:21,360 a reflecting the Washington Monument on one side and the 202 00:14:21,399 --> 00:14:25,519 Lincoln Memorial on the other. So all of these personal 203 00:14:25,919 --> 00:14:32,279 spending wish list that the president is wanting is seems 204 00:14:32,320 --> 00:14:35,399 like they're facing a lot of blowback. So on the 205 00:14:35,440 --> 00:14:42,039 weaponization Fund, it's actually one billion, seven hundred and seventy 206 00:14:42,120 --> 00:14:48,039 six million, get it, seventeen seventy six. Well, because of 207 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:50,799 the fact that there doesn't seem to be any guidelines 208 00:14:50,919 --> 00:14:56,039 or guardrails or whatever you want to call it. Republicans 209 00:14:56,080 --> 00:14:59,480 are even pushing back in. One of them is Tom Duprie. 210 00:14:59,559 --> 00:15:02,720 We've talked about Tom dupri many times. He is a 211 00:15:02,759 --> 00:15:08,799 former federal prosecutor and he is a self proclaimed conservative. 212 00:15:09,440 --> 00:15:13,879 This is his pushback on the weaponization bill from Todd 213 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:15,399 land O Where to begin? 214 00:15:15,679 --> 00:15:17,840 Speaker 3: So my first point is that on the question you 215 00:15:17,879 --> 00:15:20,759 asked him about will people convictive assaulting police officers on 216 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:23,240 January sixth be eligible for the payment funds? He gave 217 00:15:23,240 --> 00:15:25,840 a long answer. The right answer was a one word answer, no, 218 00:15:26,080 --> 00:15:28,159 those people are not eligible. They shouldn't be eligible. And 219 00:15:28,159 --> 00:15:30,480 I think the Attorney General could give a lot of conservatives, 220 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:33,399 myself included comfort if he would put some guardrails in 221 00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:36,000 this system rather than say the commissioners will decide at 222 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:38,480 all in due time. Take a clear position, clear answer. 223 00:15:38,519 --> 00:15:40,600 If you assault a cop, no money from the fund. 224 00:15:40,639 --> 00:15:42,960 That's number one. On the point about the settlement, what 225 00:15:43,039 --> 00:15:45,399 makes this whole thing so unusual. Besides the fact that 226 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:47,679 it's the president, it's that the president is on both 227 00:15:47,720 --> 00:15:50,559 sides of this dispute. The president is both the plaintiff 228 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:53,960 and the defendant. So he's suing himself, he's negotiating with himself, 229 00:15:54,039 --> 00:15:56,200 and he's settling with himself. I think what would give 230 00:15:56,200 --> 00:15:58,159 a lot of people comfort is if you had some 231 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:01,879 independent entity like say or judge look at the terms 232 00:16:01,879 --> 00:16:04,320 of the settlement and say this is fair, this is 233 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:07,559 a reasonable outcome. That's what's missing from this equation is 234 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:10,120 that normally, when you the Justice Department settles a case, 235 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:13,080 there's typically some involvement of a court system to look 236 00:16:13,120 --> 00:16:15,080 at it and make sure that it's not an unfair 237 00:16:15,120 --> 00:16:15,960 sweetheart deal. 238 00:16:16,279 --> 00:16:17,399 Speaker 4: That's what's missing from this. 239 00:16:17,679 --> 00:16:19,320 Speaker 2: Yeah, he said it right, it is. 240 00:16:19,519 --> 00:16:22,840 Speaker 1: It is squirrely, and there's a Yeah, the president is 241 00:16:22,879 --> 00:16:27,600 the plaintiff, the defendant, and the decider. So Todd Blanche 242 00:16:27,679 --> 00:16:31,080 who has been told to set this thing up, this 243 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:32,600 is what he said about it. 244 00:16:32,879 --> 00:16:35,559 Speaker 4: Well, if you're just upset, you're not getting a dome 245 00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:37,200 on the other And I think if you said it 246 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:39,799 the American tax paper, pay that there is a horrible 247 00:16:39,799 --> 00:16:43,240 wrong committed by your government. And now you can apply 248 00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:46,159 and you can have your lawyer's fees back, you can 249 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:49,519 be compensated for what you lost financially. What American would say, 250 00:16:49,519 --> 00:16:52,120 Oh my gosh, that's terrible. I mean, I don't know, 251 00:16:52,279 --> 00:16:54,679 I very much disagree with the idea that the American 252 00:16:54,720 --> 00:17:00,080 taxpayer is indignant about the fact that a victim of weaponization, Okay, 253 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:03,840 a victim who suffered, whether it was legal fees, lost 254 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:05,880 a job, had their life turned upside down in a 255 00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:08,839 way that was not appropriate. If it was appropriate, there 256 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:11,799 should be no compensation. And that's why we have five commissioners. 257 00:17:11,839 --> 00:17:13,640 So we'll take a look at it. But I do 258 00:17:13,680 --> 00:17:16,519 not think the American people have issues with that. To 259 00:17:16,559 --> 00:17:19,119 the contrary, I think they do want their tax dollars 260 00:17:19,160 --> 00:17:20,119 spent on things like that. 261 00:17:21,160 --> 00:17:23,559 Speaker 1: Well, I don't know, that's debatable, but I will tell 262 00:17:23,599 --> 00:17:26,839 you this, if you have if the government has wronged you, 263 00:17:27,359 --> 00:17:30,079 there is a process. You hire a lawyer and you 264 00:17:30,160 --> 00:17:33,559 sue the government and goes to court and a judge 265 00:17:33,599 --> 00:17:37,319 decides whether the government is liable and if so, then 266 00:17:37,359 --> 00:17:41,839 there is a fund that the government has to pay 267 00:17:41,960 --> 00:17:45,480 if you have been wronged by your government. Jay Clayton 268 00:17:45,640 --> 00:17:49,440 he is the US Attorney for the Southern District of 269 00:17:49,519 --> 00:17:53,559 New York. He was former Securities and Exchange Commission Commissioner. 270 00:17:54,119 --> 00:17:57,640 He's on the Morning Show at CNBC this morning and 271 00:17:57,640 --> 00:18:00,880 Andrew Ross Sorkin, and he went round and around on this. 272 00:18:01,160 --> 00:18:05,519 Speaker 5: It's not the president, Pretend it's me. Yeah. And let's 273 00:18:05,519 --> 00:18:09,440 say you thought that I was a tax cheat. Why 274 00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:12,400 would you I'm not saying that he was a tax cheat. 275 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:14,599 I'm just saying, let's say you thought that I owed 276 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:17,920 the government money. Wouldn't you want me to pay the money? 277 00:18:18,640 --> 00:18:20,319 Why would the government not want me to pay pay 278 00:18:20,359 --> 00:18:20,720 the money? 279 00:18:21,079 --> 00:18:24,359 Speaker 6: And we have two things going on here. We intentionally 280 00:18:24,440 --> 00:18:27,880 leak your tax returns to embarrass you in the public. 281 00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:29,960 Speaker 2: You have a claim against us. 282 00:18:30,279 --> 00:18:33,039 Speaker 6: There's an audit that we don't know whether there's money 283 00:18:33,079 --> 00:18:36,799 owed or not owede to resolve that, we say, you 284 00:18:36,839 --> 00:18:39,640 know what, Andrew, We're going to drop the audit. We're 285 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:41,039 going to move on, and you're going to drop your 286 00:18:41,039 --> 00:18:43,200 claim against us for trying to name and shame you. 287 00:18:43,799 --> 00:18:46,319 That's a deal I think that you know, is actually 288 00:18:46,359 --> 00:18:48,400 a pretty good deal for the government. If the government 289 00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:52,559 intentionally leads somebody's tax returns, that's a horrible thing. 290 00:18:52,920 --> 00:18:56,240 Speaker 5: Do you think it's any different? I don't just look 291 00:18:56,279 --> 00:18:59,559 the leaking pieces. I agree with you one hundred percent. 292 00:19:00,079 --> 00:19:02,160 Only question I have for you that relates to this 293 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:04,920 is whether you think being in the position of being 294 00:19:04,920 --> 00:19:06,960 the president changes that dynamic at all. 295 00:19:08,599 --> 00:19:10,119 Speaker 2: I do not what he is. 296 00:19:10,160 --> 00:19:12,079 Speaker 6: The president's supposed to say, you know what, you can 297 00:19:12,119 --> 00:19:14,079 do whatever you want to me, and I have no recourse, 298 00:19:14,799 --> 00:19:16,680 and it was done when he was a private citizen. 299 00:19:18,079 --> 00:19:19,519 I don't think we're going to be time, no, no. 300 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:22,799 Speaker 5: I just wonder maybe there should be a way. 301 00:19:22,839 --> 00:19:23,559 Speaker 2: I don't know if it should be. 302 00:19:23,559 --> 00:19:27,640 Speaker 5: A third party that makes the decision or something like that. 303 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:29,680 Speaker 6: I don't think we're going to be talking about this 304 00:19:29,759 --> 00:19:32,279 issue in a week, because the American people are going 305 00:19:32,319 --> 00:19:36,119 to say, look, they leaked his tax returns. They tried 306 00:19:36,119 --> 00:19:39,160 to name and shame them, they tried to destroy him. Okay, 307 00:19:39,799 --> 00:19:42,079 we resolve that in terms of the audit that had 308 00:19:42,079 --> 00:19:45,279 been going on for years with obviously you know, no 309 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:46,200 findings to date. 310 00:19:46,599 --> 00:19:47,160 Speaker 2: That's gone. 311 00:19:47,279 --> 00:19:52,200 Speaker 6: Let's look forward this as I read the settlement, the 312 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:54,839 audit going forward, the tax returns that are filed going 313 00:19:54,839 --> 00:19:57,359 forward are subject to the same screwing as anybody else 314 00:19:57,440 --> 00:19:59,599 just in the past. It's in the past, and presidents 315 00:19:59,599 --> 00:20:01,880 get eye log it out of it every year. 316 00:20:02,319 --> 00:20:02,640 Speaker 2: All right. 317 00:20:02,720 --> 00:20:05,119 Speaker 1: So they're talking about the way this all started, and 318 00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:08,119 the reason why Donald Trump sued the IRS was the 319 00:20:08,160 --> 00:20:15,119 IRS somebody worked their contractor released his tax returns. That 320 00:20:15,319 --> 00:20:20,880 is a major sin at the IRS. And if they 321 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:24,240 released your tax return and then tried to shame you, 322 00:20:25,319 --> 00:20:27,960 then you're going to have the government. You're going to 323 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:30,960 sue the government and win. And that's what Donald Trump did. 324 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:32,799 He sued him about the fact that when he was 325 00:20:32,799 --> 00:20:36,640 a private citizen, released his tax returns so they could 326 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:40,559 shame him. Now, the other part about this is that 327 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:46,640 they've agreed not to audit any of his prior tax 328 00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:50,440 returns as of now. And people are going, oh, my gosh, 329 00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:53,599 that's crazy. Well, it was a long time ago when 330 00:20:53,640 --> 00:20:59,400 I worked in the accounting profession and that was not common. 331 00:20:59,519 --> 00:21:01,720 But I've I've seen it. I've seen it more than 332 00:21:01,759 --> 00:21:04,880 the number of times that at some point you come 333 00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:09,039 to an agreement with the IRS and everybody goes, all right, 334 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:13,480 let's start fresh. Don't know, you can't go back to 335 00:21:13,519 --> 00:21:15,960 any of my tax returns in the past. So from 336 00:21:16,039 --> 00:21:20,240 here on out, my tax returns are subject to audit, 337 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:22,519 but not the ones in the past. So it's not 338 00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:28,240 like something special on what Donald Trump has agreed to. 339 00:21:28,559 --> 00:21:33,799 What's different is this one point eight billion dollar weaponization 340 00:21:34,319 --> 00:21:38,519 fund and Congress Republicans. There's a number of them that 341 00:21:38,599 --> 00:21:41,279 are saying, I don't like it. So I don't know 342 00:21:41,279 --> 00:21:42,839 if this thing's going to go through or not. But 343 00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:45,759 the Senate and the House are gone, so this won't 344 00:21:46,079 --> 00:21:48,880 This will be taken up after Memorial Day. So let's 345 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:52,759 get the latest on latest on the war. I hate 346 00:21:52,799 --> 00:21:56,720 to say latest because it keeps changing, but it is. 347 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:01,920 I thought it was interesting. Richard who was the longtime 348 00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:05,039 president of the Council on Foreign Relations, He's a big lefty, 349 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:09,799 he's a big diplomat, and this is why we did 350 00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:13,920 not do anything about Iran for forty seven years, because 351 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:17,240 of people like Richard Hoffes, who go, I don't know 352 00:22:17,279 --> 00:22:19,119 if we should do anything because I mean, there might 353 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:21,480 be there might be some problems. 354 00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:24,079 Speaker 2: Listen to listen to the guy. Here's what he said. 355 00:22:24,279 --> 00:22:26,599 Speaker 7: It's pretty clear to me we do not want to 356 00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:31,160 initiate or resume military activities. Worried about how iron might 357 00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:34,200 respond to that retaliation could be very expensive for our 358 00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:36,119 friends in the region or for the world economy. 359 00:22:36,119 --> 00:22:39,759 Speaker 4: Do you think it's the strategic concerns is driving. 360 00:22:39,559 --> 00:22:43,079 Speaker 7: That or economic concerns here at homely largely economic, not 361 00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:45,000 to see at home, but really globally, I think so, 362 00:22:45,039 --> 00:22:48,599 I think that's a lot to talk about a military force. 363 00:22:48,799 --> 00:22:50,920 The reality it's not an attractive set of targets. 364 00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:52,759 Speaker 2: Winds the deal, And you think the administration. 365 00:22:52,359 --> 00:22:54,839 Speaker 7: Absolutely because right now we're in a situation or drift, 366 00:22:55,079 --> 00:22:57,519 But sooner or later the price of drift is going 367 00:22:57,519 --> 00:22:59,559 to go up. So I think, yes, the administration wants 368 00:22:59,559 --> 00:22:59,880 a deal. 369 00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:04,240 Speaker 1: See, he's worried about Iran. How they will respond. Of 370 00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:07,319 course they will respond whatever they've got. They're going to 371 00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:12,519 throw everything at defending their country and attacking the US 372 00:23:12,599 --> 00:23:13,279 and Israel. 373 00:23:14,279 --> 00:23:16,160 Speaker 2: But the other side of this is, if. 374 00:23:16,079 --> 00:23:18,920 Speaker 1: You don't get that regime out of there, take their 375 00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:21,599 power away, it's going to be just a matter of 376 00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:24,759 time before they are going to attack anyway. So Richard 377 00:23:24,839 --> 00:23:26,920 Haas is the one that sits around like a good 378 00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:30,480 diplomat and wrings his hands worrying about what will happen 379 00:23:30,519 --> 00:23:34,039 if they respond. Of course there will be damage, of course, 380 00:23:34,079 --> 00:23:38,759 there will be surprises. That's called war. So Rebecca Heinrich, 381 00:23:38,839 --> 00:23:41,480 she's with the Hudson Institute. Let's see what her take 382 00:23:41,599 --> 00:23:45,000 is on where we are on this stalled out six 383 00:23:45,079 --> 00:23:46,160 weeks of ceasefire. 384 00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:49,240 Speaker 8: Well, first of all, I think it's really important. Your 385 00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:52,000 reporter was talking about the White House pushing back hard 386 00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:54,960 that they're from that Reuter's report that the son of 387 00:23:55,039 --> 00:23:57,279 the Supreme Leader. So the images our viewer saw is 388 00:23:57,319 --> 00:24:01,279 the deceased Supreme Leader, that israelly An America strikes eliminated. 389 00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:04,319 But now we haven't heard much from the son of 390 00:24:04,319 --> 00:24:07,079 the Supreme Leader. If he is the one calling the shots, 391 00:24:07,559 --> 00:24:09,559 then there is no deal to be had because he 392 00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:12,880 is committed to the Islamic Revolution, and we are no 393 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:16,200 closer to a deal than we were before epic fury began. 394 00:24:16,279 --> 00:24:18,880 So I think that that's really important. Second of all, 395 00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:24,680 if the Iranians, however, were wanted the United States to 396 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:28,200 resume military strikes, I don't really know how they would 397 00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:30,839 be behaving any differently. I mean, you see them now 398 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:35,279 making increased demands. Pointed out how they're now expanding the 399 00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:37,440 zone that they want to control of the Strait of Hormuse. 400 00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:39,839 That's a deal breaker for the United States and for 401 00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:42,920 our golf partners in the region. And they're also demanding 402 00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:46,480 that the United States pay reparations and lift sanctions. And 403 00:24:46,559 --> 00:24:48,960 so I think we're no closer to a deal, and 404 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:52,440 I think President Trump of course, is ready to initiate 405 00:24:52,799 --> 00:24:56,000 military actions. Again, I do think that that's the direction 406 00:24:56,079 --> 00:24:56,799 that we are headed. 407 00:24:57,039 --> 00:25:00,599 Speaker 1: Well, I think so too, But the president's dragging his feet. 408 00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:03,839 Maybe it's the art of the deal or the fear 409 00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:07,680 of pulling the trigger. I'm not quite sure which. But 410 00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:13,759 there's another little episode. Don Junior is getting married this Saturday. 411 00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:17,079 I think think in the Bahamas. I'm not sure. In 412 00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:20,039 any case, he's getting married this Saturday, and his father, 413 00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:23,079 the President, is not scheduled to attend. 414 00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:24,079 Speaker 2: If he was asked. 415 00:25:23,839 --> 00:25:27,599 Speaker 1: About it, and he said, I don't know, I'm kind 416 00:25:27,599 --> 00:25:30,720 of busy. So it does make you wonder if the 417 00:25:30,799 --> 00:25:34,960 wedding's on Saturday, maybe the president and his advisors are 418 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:40,559 looking for pulling the trigger on Saturday. But meantime, back 419 00:25:40,599 --> 00:25:45,400 to Rebecca. She's talking about the recent testimony by Admiral Cooper, 420 00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:46,519 the head of Sencom. 421 00:25:47,279 --> 00:25:49,480 Speaker 8: Well, look, I mean Admiral Cooper, of course, the head 422 00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:52,440 of Central Command, just gave some very compelling testimony days 423 00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:54,839 ago where he said that the Iranians do not have 424 00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:57,000 an air force anymore, they really don't have a navy. 425 00:25:57,640 --> 00:26:00,000 The United States is much safer now than we were before, 426 00:26:00,559 --> 00:26:02,839 but there is still the ability that the is this 427 00:26:03,079 --> 00:26:06,039 rump regime has to coerce and compel the United States, 428 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:08,640 and that cannot stand. And so I agree with the 429 00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:10,759 general there who's making the point that this is more 430 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:14,039 than just about Iran. This is about the entire Middle East. 431 00:26:14,079 --> 00:26:17,400 It's about the United States finishing a job that it started. 432 00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:20,519 Regardless of what anybody thinks about initiating epic theory, here 433 00:26:20,519 --> 00:26:24,400 we are and the Iranians are making increased demands. So 434 00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:26,680 this is I think we're headed again in the direction 435 00:26:26,759 --> 00:26:29,759 of military force. I one last thing President Trump before 436 00:26:29,839 --> 00:26:32,839 Midnight Hammer, just a couple of days before he initiated, 437 00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:36,039 he was saying that he was still committed to diplomacy 438 00:26:36,319 --> 00:26:38,319 if the Iranians would come to the table, and he 439 00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:41,400 was really engaging in a deception campaign. I suspect that 440 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:43,720 that's what we're in right now, and that there could 441 00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:46,480 be military activity within days. 442 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:47,160 Speaker 2: Yep. 443 00:26:47,359 --> 00:26:50,079 Speaker 1: I think so too, and I kind of hope. So 444 00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:52,480 I want to get this done. I don't want this 445 00:26:52,759 --> 00:26:57,000 drag on. And meantime, Asset's dragging on the global economy 446 00:26:57,559 --> 00:27:01,400 is getting hammered. So can we hurry this up and 447 00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:05,200 get this over with. I think if we go full force, 448 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:09,680 this will end sooner than you might want to think. 449 00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:11,880 So she would talk about the general. She would talk 450 00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:16,559 about General Keane, and this is his latest comment about 451 00:27:16,559 --> 00:27:17,119 where we are. 452 00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:20,200 Speaker 9: Well, I don't think that makes any sense. I think 453 00:27:20,559 --> 00:27:23,519 what I've heard is likely transferred to a third party. 454 00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:29,680 And certainly the Iranians want to keep in Richmond for 455 00:27:29,759 --> 00:27:32,680 civilian purposes used quote unquote, you know the three point 456 00:27:32,759 --> 00:27:35,319 sixty seven percent that was in the jcp A Radio 457 00:27:35,319 --> 00:27:38,599 Obama deal. I can't imagine that being acceptable to the 458 00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:42,240 administration because you give them any capability to enrich uranium, 459 00:27:42,599 --> 00:27:46,200 they can expand that into weapons grade uranium at some point, 460 00:27:46,279 --> 00:27:49,880 which obviously is their intent. So there's a lot more 461 00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:52,240 to be seen here in terms of what a good 462 00:27:52,279 --> 00:27:56,240 deal looks like. But my problem with a deal here 463 00:27:56,960 --> 00:28:02,400 is that we leave Aron bruised but intact, and they'll 464 00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:07,200 walk away from here citing and convincing themselves that they 465 00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:10,440 got the United States to back down. And as a 466 00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:13,240 result of that, we extend a lifeline to the regime 467 00:28:13,319 --> 00:28:16,599 for sure for them to do what to recover, and 468 00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:20,319 in the deal, the unfrozen assets are about one hundred billion. 469 00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:22,960 It's likely we're going to take some part of that 470 00:28:23,079 --> 00:28:25,559 and give that to them up front, and also reduce 471 00:28:25,599 --> 00:28:27,640 some of the sanctions, and certainly we're going to monitor 472 00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:31,119 their behavior. But nonetheless, it is a lifeline to the 473 00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:35,119 regime that extends them for years to come. The next 474 00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:37,519 administration is going to wind up having to deal with them. 475 00:28:37,559 --> 00:28:40,599 That's not where we started. Remember, we started to weaken 476 00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:43,680 this regime to devastate and take away their capabilities to 477 00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:46,559 do be a predator in a region, support the proxies 478 00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:51,960 for sure, and obviously not have any nuclear capability whatsoever, 479 00:28:52,519 --> 00:28:56,880 and reduce this ballistic missile program quite substantially. And the 480 00:28:56,960 --> 00:29:00,720 idea was to weaken the regime and military and also 481 00:29:00,799 --> 00:29:04,960 economically that at some point it's on a pathway to collapse, 482 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:07,119 and we're going to leave that up to the Iranian 483 00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:11,359 people to assist them in doing just that. But if 484 00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:15,839 we cut a deal here, we're giving them unfrozen assets 485 00:29:16,279 --> 00:29:19,519 billions and billions of dollars that enables them to recover 486 00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:24,079 and it extends their lifeline. That's not where I think 487 00:29:24,119 --> 00:29:26,720 where we started on this thing. It seems to me 488 00:29:27,519 --> 00:29:29,680 that we've been trying to get a deal for six 489 00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:33,400 weeks now. The military operation would largely have been over 490 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:38,240 by now, and certainly some of the pressure that the 491 00:29:38,279 --> 00:29:41,640 administration feels would have been quite removed by that point 492 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:45,440 in my judgment, And where we are now is we 493 00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:47,839 can't seem to get a deal. I think we need 494 00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:51,240 to go back to where we started from, renew our 495 00:29:51,279 --> 00:29:55,880 commitment to the original goals of the regime, and conduct 496 00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:59,119 this combined operation with the Israelis and the United States. 497 00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:02,799 We're at full mag Maine depth. We have exquisite intelligence 498 00:30:02,839 --> 00:30:05,400 over the last six weeks of what we need to 499 00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:08,160 do and where we need to do it, and the 500 00:30:08,279 --> 00:30:11,200 attacks are going to be quite devastating in terms of 501 00:30:11,279 --> 00:30:14,640 reducing their capabilities for the future. Well, I don't think 502 00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:17,680 the President's going to accept a bad deal. I truly 503 00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:23,440 believe he's the backstop here. So that's number one. Number two, Yes, 504 00:30:24,039 --> 00:30:28,119 their likely is concerning about Iran's ability to retaliate against goil, 505 00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:31,920 oil and golf infrastructure of our allies and partners. They 506 00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:34,400 had plenty of opportunity for five weeks to do that, 507 00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:37,359 and they were not effective at doing that. If we 508 00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:41,559 need to bulk up their defenses. Certainly, we have the 509 00:30:41,559 --> 00:30:45,279 capability to do that. We've done that for Israel. Israel 510 00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:49,119 asked us to assist with their defense, and we have 511 00:30:49,319 --> 00:30:52,880 done that and done that quite effectively. And I'm confident 512 00:30:53,279 --> 00:30:56,400 if that's needed here to assist our allies and partners 513 00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:58,799 to protect their oil and gas infrastructure, we can do it. 514 00:30:58,839 --> 00:31:01,799 The other thing is, let's give some credit to what 515 00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:06,759 the military operation will do in reducing their ability to retaliate. 516 00:31:07,039 --> 00:31:09,920 We're almost looking at this thing as if we don't 517 00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:11,960 lay a glove on them, and they're going to be 518 00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:15,160 able to fire missiles and drones at all of that 519 00:31:15,279 --> 00:31:19,119 capability and destroying and hit desalination plants. Well, we're going 520 00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:21,319 to take a lot of that capability away from them 521 00:31:21,759 --> 00:31:26,000 rather quickly and reduce that effects. And plus, they have 522 00:31:26,119 --> 00:31:27,119 defenses of their own. 523 00:31:27,119 --> 00:31:27,839 Speaker 2: Give you an example. 524 00:31:27,839 --> 00:31:33,200 Speaker 9: The UAE's got nineteen Patriot batteries, nineteen in addition to 525 00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:36,920 iron dome capability that the Israelis gave them. I don't 526 00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:40,480 know exactly what the number is on the Saudia's, but 527 00:31:40,559 --> 00:31:43,039 they have effective defenses. If they need more of it, 528 00:31:43,559 --> 00:31:46,480 I think we can help them do that well. 529 00:31:46,519 --> 00:31:49,880 Speaker 1: As usual, General Kean is very optimistic about being able 530 00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:51,599 to be militarily successful. 531 00:31:51,839 --> 00:31:52,519 Speaker 2: I don't know. 532 00:31:53,359 --> 00:31:56,319 Speaker 1: My caution is, I don't know how you're going to 533 00:31:56,400 --> 00:32:00,640 change the regime with just bombs. Going to have to 534 00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:04,359 put boots on the ground, go in and literally take 535 00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:08,880 these people into custody, arrest them. And that's what we've 536 00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:12,680 done in every successful war that we have conducted. So 537 00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:15,960 we'll see what happens. But the General obviously is chomping 538 00:32:16,039 --> 00:32:20,839 at the bit. The president may have this conflict on 539 00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:26,799 his son's wedding on Saturday, maybe that's today, but well 540 00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:31,920 we'll find out. So in summary, a lot of the 541 00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:37,160 funding the president wants for things like the weaponization fund 542 00:32:37,279 --> 00:32:43,039 and the ballroom and the reflecting pool, and we can go, 543 00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:44,799 I guess, go on and on and on. There's a 544 00:32:44,839 --> 00:32:49,359 lot that he wants. And yet the Senate and the 545 00:32:49,359 --> 00:32:52,839 House are gone. So that that's going to mean, hopefully 546 00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:57,799 you have a peaceful Memorial Day weekend. Wall Street today, 547 00:32:58,319 --> 00:33:03,559 let's talk the number, and once again Wall Street is 548 00:33:05,839 --> 00:33:09,799 the President is almost using a yo yo to boost 549 00:33:09,799 --> 00:33:13,400 the market back up again. The market was underwater this morning, 550 00:33:14,079 --> 00:33:16,119 and then the President came out and said the Iran 551 00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:20,960 war will end very soon, vague, but that's what he's 552 00:33:21,319 --> 00:33:25,400 always said. And as a result, once again, the market 553 00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:30,680 followed in order, went up and finished three hundred points higher, 554 00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:34,319 the Dow at fifty thousand and three to nine, SMP 555 00:33:34,519 --> 00:33:38,920 up thirteen NASDAK up twenty three, the price of gold 556 00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:42,759 up five dollars and twenty cents to four thousand and 557 00:33:43,039 --> 00:33:47,759 five forty, and oil down almost the dollar to ninety 558 00:33:47,799 --> 00:33:50,079 seven dollars and some change for a barrel of oil. 559 00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:53,119 So that's it for today. Thank you for coming by. 560 00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:56,279 We'll be back tomorrow. I hope to see you. Then. 561 00:33:56,480 --> 00:34:00,640 Speaker 2: We'll be back tomorrow. I hope to see you then. 562 00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:01,839 Speaker 4: Time sa