Speaker 1: Well, Hi, how are you welcome to the Big Podcast.
It is Tuesday. Today is the first day of July,
year of our Lord twenty twenty five. My name is
Tom Sullivan, and kind of a different day. Today We've
got well, the Big Beautiful Bill. After all the arm
twisting and everything else going on, it passed the Senate.
So now it has to go back to the House
and the House is going to try and have committee
meetings this afternoon and then vote on the floor of
the House tomorrow. There's always going to be people that say,
I'm not voting for it, so that well, let me
give you just a little bit of a glance at
the Big Beautiful Bill, because I don't even know what's
in it. It's it's just about a thousand pages long.
I doubt that many of the people involved in voting
for this actually read it. But there was three Republicans
who voted against it, Ran Paul, Tom Tillis, and Susan Collins.
So that meant that jd Vance, the Vice President, had
to cast a tie breaking vote. So it passed with
one tie breaking vote to spare go back to the House,
where it also a different version passed by one vote.
This version the one the Senate is sending back to
them is the one the House sent to the Senate,
and the Senate has added six hundred and fifty one
billion dollars more of spending to the bill that now
goes back to the House, and they were having kittens
about even passing what they passed. So at this point,
I don't know how you feel about this. I I'm
frustrated nobody's talking about cutting. Republicans when they were not
in power used to always go after the Democrats as
the tax and spend party, and it looks to me
like the Republicans have signed on to the tax and
spend party. Elon Musk is not happy, and once again
the feud between he and the president has exploded again.
And Elon Musk is ripping this saying that he will
campaign with his checkbook on anybody who voted for this
bill because he thinks it is financially a detrimental to
the future of our country. He says, if you vote
for this thing, I'm going to use my checkbook and
find somebody to primary you, and I will get somebody
else elected. Meantime, the President has threatened to primary any
Republican if they did not vote for the bill. So
now you have if you're a Republican in the House
or the Senate, and you basically have two things basing you.
Elon Musk will come after you with somebody to take
your seat if you vote for this bill. Donald Trump
will come after you somebody to take your seat if
you don't vote for the bill. So maybe maybe that's
why Tom tell us yesterday through in the towel and
said I'm not running again, because he's looking at all
this and thinking this is just not a good way
to run business. Speaking of not a good way to
run business. So they started a debate on this big,
beautiful bill yesterday at nine o'clock in the morning Eastern time.
They went all through yesterday with the Vodama. They went
all through the night, they went all through half of
the day today. They finished around noon today. Can you
imagine running a business where everybody stays to try to
figure out how to make important decisions about the business
for an all nighter. I was never good at all
nighters when I was in college. I would not No,
I couldn't do this. I don't know how they do it.
It really looks bad. So they've added more to the
goes back to the House. House is racing this afternoon
and tonight and tomorrow morning to try to get all
the various committees that have to pass there say so,
and then it goes to the floor of the House theoretically,
but there are a number of Republicans in the House
that are not happy about this. And for example, the
guy who is the head of the Freedom Caucus, his
name is Andy Harris. He is a Republican representing one
of the districts in Maryland, and he doesn't want to
vote for this thing at all. He's the head of
the Freedom Caucus in the House.
Speaker 2: This is not ready for prime time. We support the
president's agenda. The president's agenda was not to raise the
deficit by three quarters of a trillion dollars over the
next ten years. The bottom line is now the House
is going to have it set and this is not
going to sail through the House. We're going to have
to negotiate with the Senate one more time. And that's
just appropriate. That's the way the legislative process works and
the way it should work on a bill of this size.
Speaker 1: Which brings up another point, which is the deadline they're
racing this through. They raced it through yesterday, last night, today,
and then tonight they're doing They're doing the House version,
going through the committees tomorrow. Race race, race to get
a vote on the floor of the House so that
there can be a signing ceremony on Friday, which is
the fourth of July. There's no requirement that this be
done before the end of the year, before the end
of at least the end of the fiscal year, so
this July fourth deadline is just made up for political purposes.
They want to have some sort of you know, put
your hand over your heart, patriotic signing ceremony for this
huge bill, which depending upon who you listen to, it
ranges from the CBO saying it will add three point
three billion to our national debt. Democrats say it'll add
over five is it trillion? Yeah, forgive me, this will
add three point three trillion to our national debt, and
the House or the Republicans they will add five trillion
to the national debt. If I can remind you of
a previous president by the name of Joseph R. Biden Junior,
who added trillions of dollars to the debt and what happened.
We wound up with inflation taking off and going up
to over nine and a half percent, and most economists
pointed to the massive increase in government spending. So we're
doing the same thing again now. Three years ago, people
we're griping about Joe Biden and spending in Congress and
how it led to inflation and how it harmed you
and your family and your pocketbook. And now here we
are in twenty twenty five, adding trillions of dollars to
the budget, and everybody's fine with it. Not everybody ran
Paul tom tell Us, Susan Collins are saying no, and
Andy Harris is saying no. So this this is not
going over real. Well, Scott Besant, who is a Treasury secretary,
he's part of he's Donald Trump's Treasury secretary. Of course
he has to be positive about this.
Speaker 3: This is a deal for working people because what we
have is President Trump's twenty seventeen tax bill, and we
are overlaying that with the President's campaign promises, no tax
on tips, no tax on overtime, the lower tax on
Social Security, and tax deductibility of American made carters. Those
sound like working class tax breaks to me. So the
first part of the africle is important to go back to.
He said, we're taking Donald Trump's tax bill from twenty
seventeen and just overlaying it with these promises that he
made in this last campaign about no tax on tips,
no tax on overtime. It didn't turn out to be exactly.
I have to wait to see what the final version says.
But no taxes on Social Security isn't in the bill.
What instead they're doing is giving some sort of I
think six thousand dollars credit was the last one I saw,
But don't hold me to that, because again, this thing
is still being It's still in the sausage maker being made,
the grinders grinding it out. But it is not a
tax cut. The Republicans say this is the biggest tax
cut ever, and the Republican or the Demo rat say
taxes are going to go up. This is the biggest
tax increase ever.
Speaker 1: All it is is taking the previous tax bill, which
was passed in Trump one point zero. They're adding on
some of the things that Trump promised in the latest campaign,
But basically that bill was going to expire by the
end of this year, which if they did not pass
something to basically extend the old rules. Then your taxes
would have gone way up at the end of this year.
So this is not You're not going to notice any
tax increase or tax decrease because it's basically an extension
of what they passed back in twenty seventeen. It's all
it is. Plus they added on the tips the overtime
the Social Security US made car stuff like that. So
there's the bill. We have to wait until tomorrow to
find out if this thing runs into a meat grinder
or whether that actually turns out to be some sort
of law. Oh and one more thing to add to this,
by the way, the big every time a Democrat is interviewed,
you will see they start off with this is going
to cut people on Medicare, and they go through grandma's
to babies, to all this other stuff. It's not Medicare,
it's Medicaid, and Medicaid has an enormous number of people
depend Again amoun whose estimate it is, but it's a
huge number of people that are not eligible for Medicaid
that are basically milking the system and they're just they're
playing along. So what this bill is supposed to do
is say, if you are ell, if you are able
to go to work, you have to have a job.
If you're going to get medicaid, you can't sit at
home and get free medical and that's what people have
been doing. Will people lose their medical benefits. It's supposed
to be only the ineligible people, but eligible people that
are you know, of poverty level, have a dependent, a
child that depends that depends on them. They don't have
to go to work. Everybody else needs to go to work.
And it's so it was you know, it's going to
catch some people. You're going to see stories about some
graandmar or some baby that got cut off on their
medical benefits. But it's designed to basically, just like welfare
reform in the nineteen nineties, gets the malingerers off of medicaid.
That's costing his billions of dollars. So that brings up
the fight with Elon. Elon says he's going to back off.
He got mad yesterday, but now that the bill has
gone through the Senate, he can see it's a losing deal.
He's not going to get this thing to be stalled.
He tried to stop it and he could not. Elon's
a very smart guy, but he's not politically smart. And
the other part about Elon is that he says that
he's going to start a third party because everybody that
belonged that votes for this should belong to the Porky
Pig Party. And I like the name, the Porky Pig Party.
You old enough to remember the cartoons Porky Pig. Anyway,
that would be nice, except for I don't think that's
going to happen either. It's simply Republicans don't agree with
each other. You've got the Mega and you've got the
old establishment Republicans. They don't agree with each other on
what to do. The Democrats they have the far left,
the squad, and they've got the more traditional Democrats. They
don't agree with each other. Okay, we need to get
our financial house in order. Okay, how are you going
to do that? Well, why don't we raise taxes? No?
Why don't we cut spending? Well, if you're going to
cut spending, where you're going to cut I want. I
don't want to cut that or or that, but I'll
cut over here. No, you can't cut there. How about
raising taxes on? Oh, the wealthy? That's always a good
never happens. So it's we're never going to agree where
we already. We don't need a third party to do that.
We already disagree with each other, even not only between
Republican and the Democrats, but within the parties themselves. And furthermore,
Donald Trump is more popular with Republicans than he has
ever been. Harry Enton, the statistician over at CNN, this
is the latest read that he has on the popularity
by Republicans of Donald Trump.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, so we're going to look at the strongly
approved numbers. Now, this isn't Republicans who like Donald Trump.
This is Republicans who love Donald Trump. And he's up
like a rocket. Look at this. In July twenty seventeen,
the strongly approved with fifty three percent. That's pretty good.
But look at where he is now. Sixty three percent
of Republicans strongly approve of the job that Donald Trump
is doing about five months into his presidency. Republicans love
Donald Trump the way that Americans love Disney World. The
bottom line is sixty three percent. That is a huge,
huge base. And of course it's just part of a
Republican base in which about ninety percent of them overall
approof of him, including the somewhat approves as well. It's
history making. It's history making. What are we talking about here?
So why don't we look back? We have all the
president's Republican presidents going back over the last thirty five,
thirty six, thirty seven years. What are we talking about
GOP who strongly approved five months? And look at this
George HW. Bush Bush forty one, forty six percent, Bush
forty three, fifty nine. You see Trump the first term
fifty three. But look at this sixty three percent.
Speaker 2: It's all the other.
Speaker 4: Republicans on the board here. And I was looking even
back since Reagan, and get this, Donald Trump beats Ronald
Reagan when it comes to the strongly approved five months.
And of course Reagan was coming off dot high after
that assassination attempt. So the bottom line is Donald Trump
is making history with the Republican base. He is more
beloved by this Republican base than any Republican base loved
any GOP president five months. And it is history.
Speaker 3: Make it.
Speaker 4: So you know the bottom line is, if you're a
Republican lawmaker, you see this sixty three percent, you say,
my goodness, gracious, you do not want to go against
Don Trump because the Republican base is with Don Trump.
And it's not just a polling. We actually have the
data to show that the Republican base is with Donald Trump.
The times Trump endorsees won the GOP primary for governor
and congressional races. Look at this twenty twenty four ninety
six percent, twenty two twenty twenty ninety eight percent. The
bottom line is this ninety five percent plus of the
time that Trump endorsed candidate wins in GOP primers, and
even in the cases where Donald Trump endorses a challenger
to an incumbent, the majority of time that challenger wins.
So Donald Trump is a winner in Republican primers. You
go against Donald Trump. To quote the movie Good Burger,
you go in the grinder. Donald Trump is the key nugget.
His endorsement is the key not going to a GOP
primary because he's historically strongly popular with the GOP.
Speaker 1: So even though he's, like Harry pointed out, those aren't
people who just like Donald Trump. Those are the people
that just love him. So he has an incredible popularity
and he's riding it for everything he can. That doesn't
mean all Republicans are going to salute and fall in line.
Chip Roy from Texas keeps fighting him. Here's what he
had to say.
Speaker 5: The Senate right now is messing up the bill and
risking the whole thing. This is the Senate wanting to
try to save some for their home states, like Senator
Murkowski for Alaska, trying to get giveaways to perpetuate the
Medicaid money laundering scam in Alaska. I think this is
a travesty that the Senate is going to risk the
ability of us to deliver for the American people.
Speaker 1: So, speaking of the President, he did a little midday
trip down to Florida. He went down to this new
Alligator alcatraz. YEP, that's what they're calling it. It is
a new facility and that has been built in the Everglades,
and there is a ten mile radius for it's all
Everglades around for ten miles around this particular new detention facility.
It's a detention facility to process illegals. They have the
President flu right in there on Air Force One. So
there's a They've got a nice airport, nice nice runway there.
It will hold three thousand people. There's three thousand beds.
The idea is to process illegals there and then fly
them out directly out of that facility to some other country.
And the Florida National Guard is apparently going to be
involved somehow in running this. So Governor DeSantis was there,
the President was there. They went down the alligator alley. Uh,
here's the President talking about it today? Was he was
he was trying to teach people how to run away
from an alligator. Here he is taking questions from the
media at Alligator Alcatraz.
Speaker 2: But the alligator alca says, it's the idea that it's
told them it's a life grate teeth.
Speaker 6: They didn't get a final I guess that's the concept.
This is not a nice business. I guess that's the concept.
If you you know, uh, snakes are fast, but alligators.
Speaker 7: But we're going to teach them how to run away
from an allegantory Okay, if they escaped prison, how to
run away. Don't run in a straight line, run like this,
and you know what, your chances go off about one percent.
Not a good thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, your chance if you run like he was pointing
out back and forth, that your chances of getting away
from the alligator would go up about one percent. This
reminds me remember Sheriff Joe Arpio in Maricopa County, Arizona
and Sheriff Joe, Oh my gosh, she was in trouble
all the time. They were suing him, and he just
fought back the whole way. He had a prison in America,
Copa County that was a tent city, and we're talking Phoenix,
we're talking one hundred and twenty in the summer, it's unbearable,
and he had everybody in pink, pink underwear that they
had to wear, and so he got sued over that,
and he still kept him in pink underwear. They sued
him because they had nothing to do, so they wanted
to have TVs put in, So Sheriff Joe put in
televisions with only one channel, the Weather Channel. That was it.
So they're out there in their pink underwear in tent
city in Arizona with the Weather channel as they're only
a source of entertainment. Then he got sued over and
over again. But the last time I looked, it's been
shut down now because the new sheriff didn't keep it going.
Our pile was a character kind of like Trump, and
he he had that prison going for I think about
twenty five years. So they fought him the whole way,
and he just fought right back. So now we got
Alligator Alcatraz and we'll see how that will. That'll be
a processing center for the illegals that are rounded up
by ice. So why the media was throwing questions at
the president. They also asked him about Zoran Man Dammy,
the guy who was getting all the men. He won
the Democrat primary election for New York mayor. He still
has to face off in the fall. But they asked
Donald Trump about Man, Danny Man, Danny Trouble, and this
is what the President had to say. Why.
Speaker 7: I think he's terrible. He's a communist. The last thing
we need is a communist. I said, there will never
be socialism in the United States. Tell him a communist.
I think he's bad to and I think I'm gonna
have a lot of fun with him watching him because
he has to come rights to this building to get
his money, and don't worry, he's not going to run
away with anything. I think he's a Frankly, I've heard
this total nutjob. I think for people of New York
are crazy because they go this route. I think they're crazy.
We will have a communist in the for the first time,
really a pure through communist. He wants to operate the
grocery stores, the department stores. What about the people that
are there, it's I think it's crazy.
Speaker 1: So the president thinks that's he's crazy, and the people
in New York are crazy if they vote for him.
The thing about him is, yes, he does a vow
for the same things that the Communist Party has long
been for. He has expressed his views the fact that
he wants the community to collectively own and control the
means of production. So it's not just grocery stores or
department stores. He truly believes that it is a political
and economic system that he subscribes to. So it's not
name calling. That's really what mister man Danny has expressed
himself in his own words. So well, but I'm looking
at this guy and thinking he's he has a better
chance than I think a lot of people think. You
can call him a communist, you can ridicule his ideas,
you can tell him that communism is a failure in
just about everywhere it's ever been tried. But that doesn't
take away from he's got people excited. He's young, he's
thirty three, he's different, and people are looking for something
other than the state old politician. That is why Andrew
Cuomo lost back to the City of New York ranked
choice voting. They finally came in today with the final
tally and Man Danny got fifty six percent of the vote,
so much more than had originally been estimated, and much
more than Cuomo was back in the low forty somewhere.
So he clearly has touched a nerve. But it was
a small turnout, and in the fall, when we get
back to fall election, I'm sure there will be a
bigger turnout than was happened here a couple of weeks ago.
So it was a small turn out and a small
group of people were excited about him. But I don't
I don't underestimate the sky at all. Yeah. No, he
truly is sympathetic to the communist system. But that's not
going to stop him. So let's one other New York story.
I haven't said boo about the Diddy, about Sean Diddy
Combs and his trial, and the jury is deliberating, and
I don't know if they're going to come to an
answer soon or not. But I kind of got some humor.
I haven't paid any attention to it. It's all about,
you know, sex parties and he beat up women and
dude did drugs, and I'm going, yeah, that sounds about right.
I don't know if the jury's going to say that
was a violation of the law or now. I wouldn't
be as I would not be surprised if Diddy gets off,
but they'll probably get them on something. They got a
whole bunch of counts against him. But I had to
laugh this morning because the jury has sent five notes
back to the judge, and the first one was basically,
we don't like this person on the jury. They're not
willing to deliberate. And I thought, oh man, they're already
throwing one of They're twelve under the bus. This is
not gonna go well. So there's twelve jurors locked up
in a jury room, and if you've ever been on
a jury, I mean that's it. Man. You're in that
room by yourself. There's nobody else. They locked the door
so nobody can come or go. So I'm pure speculation
on my part, but I'm thinking somebody walked in there
and it's jury number twenty five, and if you look
up jury number twenty five, you won't find the person's name.
But they have a PhD and something and they're I
think a veterinarian, and I don't know. They got there
very It's not like somebody can't Hispanic ethnicity, but it's
not like they can't speak English, and they're well educated.
I'm thinking they just went in there and said, I
made my mind up. I've listened carefully to the witnesses
and I made my mind up, and I'm not going
to deliberate. And the other juror, the head of the
jury spokesperson, freaked out and sent a note to the judge.
This person won't won't cooperate. The note said that the
judge to the judge, this person number twenty five won't
follow the justices of the Judge's instructions. And so the
judge said, here's another copy of the instructions for the
person to read again. So he wouldn't follow the instructions,
so he sent them another copy of the instructions. It
sounds like a zoo. It sounds like a complete mess.
But I mean, what would you expect from a puff
ditty Sean Combe's trial than just that, all right, another
trial which is much more serious and one that I
have not spoken much about, but I've been very interested
in it. It's such a shocker case. That's the Moscow,
Idaho University of Idaho for students that were stabbed to
death in the middle of the night. Brian Kohlberger has
been charged with the crime. They had a trial set
for the town of Moscow, it's a small college town.
They got to change of venue to the state capital
of Boise. The families have been very active with the
media on this, at least one particular that was Kaylee
calls Gonkolva's father Steve very involved will apparently last night,
which I think is rather poor taste, they got an email.
The Famili's got an email that Brian Kolberger they've cut
a deal with him to where he will plead guilty
to the murders in exchange for getting rid of the
death penalty, and also that he will not be able
to appeal this in any way, shape or form. Kevin
Fixler is a reporter who's been following this case for
The Idaho Statesman, and this is his take on this
surprising announcement that Colberger is going to plead guilty.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, you have to feel for the families,
particularly they could solve his family, who's been very vocal
throughout this period and including that they are staunch supporters
of capital punishment in this situation. The prosecution obviously has
struck an agreements. In the letter that they sent to
family members, they stated that the defense reached out. We
know from the May hearing that Stephen Hitler indicated that
a last and final offer needed to be tender to
the defense. They clearly reached out to the prosecution, and
as we can see, the agreement is Brian Coberger will
plead guilty according to that letter, an expectation in exchange
for losing the death penalty.
Speaker 1: Here is the father of Kailey Gunkalva's, Steve Gohnkalvas, who
has been very very outspoken about everything involving the death
of his daughter.
Speaker 9: This is anything but justice. This is the opposite of
our will. There was no majority believing that this was acceptable.
The fault is in leadership and the people that you
placed this evidence upon. They day or week they decided
to play god and decide what this man's decision should
be and not a jury not.
Speaker 1: A peers back to the reporter from the Idaho Statesman.
Speaker 8: Well, as you pointed to the change of venue had
an impact, the Conslvest family were consistent in attending and
they have continued to do so for the most part.
In Boise. The mother and father of victim Kayley Cansolves
and sometimes bringing other relatives, but they've been the mainstays.
We have seen Madison Mogan, one of the other victims.
Her mother has also attended. We've not seen so many
of the others, although, as Jonathan the reporter pointed to,
the Chapin family Stacey and Jim, and there are two
other children who were triplets with Ethan Chapin, one of
the other victims. They plan to be in Boise and
make the trip from Washington State, and they are supportive
of the plea deal. I can also tell you that
from our reporting at The Statesman, my coworker Alex Brizzy,
spoke with Ben Mogan, the father of Madison Mogan, and
he seemed to indicate he was also supportive of this deal.
So while Steve Cansalves points to in that interview that
the majority of family members of the four victims are
not in favor of this, at least some of them are,
and the prosecution indicated in their letter that this is
their best attempt at seeking justice on behalf of their
children who were killed in this incident.
Speaker 1: But here's a defense lawyer who claims that the trial
is in an of itself closure for the family of victims.
Speaker 10: I think sometimes for closure, families need these trials. They
need to be able to sit and listen and there's
some element of connection to their loved one and these
young girls and the one young man that were.
Speaker 2: In the home.
Speaker 10: I think their families may needed this.
Speaker 8: I totally respect and understand her perspective on that. And
we don't yet know if victim's statements will be victim
impact statements will be granted at sentencing. That is pretty typical,
so that may be the opportunity for family members to
vent their frustrations about this. We have seen the Consolvests
family on their Facebook page actually posted the phone number
for the presiding judge his office line and encouraging supporters
to reach out and form the court and also the
governor's office. Today is hearing from members of the public
that they are not supportive of this steal and they
are as frustrated as the Consultus family. But this will
have to play out tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Referring to about tomorrow's there is a hearing in Boise
to go over this plea of guilty, which is why
one of the families is fighting back on the gun
Kalva's Family Facebook page. Let me go over some of
it as I read from the Facebook posting, whoever is
the moderator for the gun Kalva's Family page says it
looks like the voicemail is full and they will not
be reviewing for the week. In other words, people were
calling the court and the voicemail system there is full,
so they posted it's Gonkalva's Family. Google that and you'll
see the Facebook page come up. So we had so
many people reach out to offer support, love, encouragement and consolas,
offering their own experiences through navigating the justice system. We
have also had so many people asking us how they
can help. We stand strong that it's not over until
the plea is accepted. We will not stop fighting for
the life that was stolen unjustly. If you feel called
or moved to try to make a difference. Please contact
the Ada County Courthouse to express your thoughts or feelings.
N goes on for quite lengthy page. Here's another statement
from the family. The death penalty is merely an illusion
in the criminal justice system. When available, it serves as
a bargaining tool for the state, and when rarely applied,
it's never enforced due to a highly inefficient appellate process.
The notion that someone complete guilty to a crime and
still face years of appellate delays reveals a systemic failure
the Latak County Prosecutor's office. Treatment of our family during
this process is something I would wish on anyone. We
questioned decisions early in the investigation. Why was the mayor
commenting on the case. Why was the coroner speaking to families?
Why was an officer with less than two years experience
leading the investigation? Why was the University of Idaho involved
when they declared it isolated off campus incident? Why was
the university permitted to write a book about the incident
while others were silenced under an overly broad order. As
a result, we were branded adversaries. So it was no
shock to how the Talk County Prosecutor's Office mishandled the
plea deal. They vaguely mentioned a possible plea on Friday
without seeking our input, and presented the plea on Sunday
LA Talk County prosecutors should be ashamed. Four young, wonderful
young people lost their lives if the victims were treated
as opponents from the outset. We weren't even called about
the plea. We received an email with a letter attached.
That's how the prosecutor's office treats murder victims' families, adding
insult to injury. They are rushing the plea, giving families
just one day to coordinate and appear at the courthouse
for a plea on July second. Who do they think
they are after more than two years. This is how
it concludes, with a secret of deal and a hurried
effort to close the case without any input from the
families on the plea details. Our family is frustrated right
now that Wilson, and that will subside and we will
come together as always indeed, with the reality that we
face moving forward. Once again, we thank everyone for their
thoughts and prayers. So you can see. They went on
to talk about that this guy is going to continue
to have a life, he's going to meet people, he's
going to be involved in the world, and his and
their children, of course, are silenced. So I presume victims
of crime their families feel exactly like the gun Kalvas family.
The other thing is probably very frustrating for the family
is that the evidence against Brian Cohlberger is not just
a little, not just a lot. It is overwhelming. They
have enormous testimony from the surviving housemate. They have cell
phone data allegedly tying Colberger to the scene. They have
data allegedly showing that he searched everything about Ted Bundy.
He well, they had surveillance video showing the car going
around and around and around and around by the victims home,
by the house they were living in. They have DNA
evidence from the ninth sheath, and they've got a series
of apparently very damning items that came from his Amazon search.
He was searching Amazon for products that apparently are very
damning to his case. So now he pleads guilty. It
wasn't a question of whether he did it or not.
I know you've always got the question about would there
be somebody that's, I don't know, sympathetic to the death
penalty that would be on the trial and he would
have a hung jury or something along those lines. But
it is one that I would think is extremely frustrating
for the family, and this Brian Kohlberger gets to live
the rest of his life three square meals a day
in a bed. I know it's not comfortable, but the
children are gone and he's still around. I was hoping
that we would be all over the trial when it
started in August, but apparently tomorrow, July second, is the hearing.
We'll find out what comes from that. Meantime, let's wrap
this up for today. Wall Street today just keeps going higher.
EF now ends up four hundred points to forty four thousand,
four ninety four. Nope, not a record yet. The record
was in December. It's a little above forty five thousand,
so we're getting closer. The SMP had a record yesterday.
It fell seven points today. The Nasdaq had a record yesterday.
It fell one hundred and sixty six points today. The
price of gold was up forty one dollars to thirty
three forty nine, and oil kind of hanging out in
that sixty five dollars range. It was up sixty cents
today to sixty five dollars and seventy one cents for
a barrel of oil. So that's it for today. Thank
you for coming by first day of July, first day
of the quarter, which surprises me because Wall Street usually
the last day of a quarter in the first day
of the next quarter usually gets kind of wild. But
yesterday was positive and today was basically positive as well.
That's it for today. Thanks again. We will try this
again tomorrow. I hope to see you then.