Speaker 1: Welcome to the program. Welcome to the podcast. It is Thursday.
Today is the twelfth day of June, Year of Our Lord,
twenty twenty five. My name is Tom Sullivan. We have
a lot to go over today. There's a plane crash
in India. Two hundred and forty two people are dead
out of that. We'll go over some of the details
because it's somewhat surprising. We've got the job report came
out today from the Thursday Morning Job Report for the
last week on first time job as claims. We've got
the Producer price Index about inflation. And we've got a
very concerning report out of the Middle East that the
State Department has told non essential personnel to get out
of the area, leave the embassies in a number of
Middle Eastern countries. So we'll get the very latest on that.
And then what happened just before we started taping the
day is Christine Ohmer is in Los Angeles, Departner Homeland Security.
I've told you I'm not a big fan, but she
was doing what she should be doing. She was holding
a news conference at the Federal Building in LA and
all of a sudden, this guy comes charging in and
nobody knew who he was. He started yelling and charging
toward Christy nome Well, her security service was there. These
are DHS officers, secret Service, and even some FBI, and
they grabbed a hold of him. One guy did, and
he pushed, tried to push through the security guy, and
the other security guys jumped on him, took him into
a back room, put him in handcuffs, and it turned
out where he came out later and said that he
was just trying to ask some questions. No, he charged
into the room. Nobody knew who he was. Maybe some
of you know what Alexda looks like. He was appointed
to the Senate by Gavin Newsom. When who wasn't he replaced?
Oh yeah, it was Kamala Harris when she was elected
vice president. So it's been four years he's been a senator,
but a very low profile senator. Nobody knew who he was.
These are all security people from Christin Home's office in DC,
and I got to tell you, I'm not sure I
could pick him out of a lineup either. So there
was just going to exacerbate the fight between California and
our nation's capital. But when all was said and done,
once they found out that he was the Senator. He
tried to just bully his way through, yelling at the
top of his lungs. They had him in handcuffs. They
took the handcuffs off, and he later had a little
news conference outside the Federal building where he talked about
how horrible the Trump administration is and how they're so
evil to the farm workers. And that's his whole background.
He's a big well. He supports a lot of the
Latino programs in the country, of federal programs and so
forth and so on. He's a smart guy. He grew
up in Los Angeles. He has a degree in engineering
from MIT. When he got back to Los Angeles after
getting his degree from MIT, he started getting into politics.
He was a very young, twenty six year old guy
on the Los Angeles City Council and he worked his
way up through politics. So his work has been since
he's twenty six, he's been a political office holder. Then
he was elected to the state Senate. He then went
from there to Secretary of State. So he kind of
went from one political job to another political job. And
I lived in California during some of those well before
before he became a senator, and I got to tell you,
I did not know who this guy was, but he
was apparently a big deal in Los Angeles politics and
he thought he could just barge in there and they
did did not know who he was. So anyway, add
that to the list of the fight between Gavin Newsom
and Donald Trump. Now in addition to that, I will
get to the plane crash in a moment, because it
is a mystery. But I want to start with the
Los Angeles Police chief. His name is Jim McDonald, and
he was being interviewed by John Miller, who was a
former Los Angeles PD and NYPD counterintelligence officer. And this
is what Chief McDonald had to say about. Well, they
try to they try to portray the protesters, the rioters
in Los Angeles. They's just good people that are out there,
you know, trying to support want and Maria. No, there
are some very bad actors. Here's the chief of the
Los Angeles Police Department.
Speaker 2: There's a core set of messages about wearing black block attire,
wearing nondescript clothing without logos, hiding your hair, using walkie talkies,
coming with leaf blowers to redirect tear gas in the
other direction. The question is what is the change in
characteristics between these protests we see in the daytime with
chanting and then as it gets later when there throwing
the fireworks at all starts. Can you quantify what is
the anarchist factor versus the organic protest factor here?
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think John you hit it on the
head that for most of the day and the organized protests,
it's people who are out there expressing their feelings peacefully,
generally beacon. Once nightfall comes, we start to see a
different group of people and among those people are people
I would describe as black block type protesters, anarchists if
you will, and they come prepared and they're very sophisticated.
They do have radio communications, they do move around, they
do monitor police channels, and they'll create distractions in order
to draw us away from a scene we're about to
make arrest, so where we have no choice but to
go somewhere else. They have weapons of all kinds. We
arrested a number of people last night for curfew violations
that I think fourteen, and three out of the fourteen
were armed with weapons handguns. And so when you look
at that, what appears to be one thing is something
very different. We've seen in those backpacks that they'll have hammers,
they'll break up curbstones and concrete ballards, break up into
smaller pieces which will then throw at police. They put
them in backpacks and walk around like that. I've seen
somebody today walking around with golf balls in a backpack,
all sorts of weapons, all very potentially dangerous. We've seen
commercial grade fireworks being fired at our people, with shrapnel
being put in from what I'm told, into some of
these packages. Again, that is pretty scary stuff when you
look at it. Liquid being thrown on our officers. The
attitude of our officers and the professionalism and restraint that
they've shown is remarkable. They've done a tremendous job out there,
and I'm very proud of them.
Speaker 2: The district attorney stepped forward with some charges today against
people for those kinds of things. Are you satisfied with
what you're seeing on the prosecutory land? I know under
the former district attorney that didn't always happen.
Speaker 3: Right exactly, No, a different approach completely. We work very
closely with District Attorney Nathan Hakman. He does give, I think,
due consideration to the severity of the crime and wants
to hold people accountable. The US Attorney as well file
charges this morning on some folks for possession and throwing
I believe of molotov cocks. We've seen that now more
than we usually see in these types of demonstrations, protests,
and uh. In further so, it's it's uh, it's icy
for our officers out there. But again, uh, we're we're
going to stay the course and ensure that Los Angeles
is the safe city that the residents deserve it to be.
Speaker 1: So interesting comments the fact that they are picking up
some of these people and they have handguns on them,
besides all the other tools that they use in their
or resistance whatever they want to call it. They mentioned
Nathan Hawkman. He is the new DA in Los Angeles.
Remember George Gascone. The people of Los Angeles threw him out,
voted him out of office, and voted in Nathan Hawkman.
And Hawkman is not playing around.
Speaker 4: Peacefully assemble and peacefully engage in first to mended protected speech. However,
when that speech crosses over from protected speech into illegal conduct,
the people who engage in that illegal conduct will be prosecuted.
They will first be arrested. They will be prosecuted and
they will be punished to the full extent of the law.
We have said this repeatedly. We've said this as a
warning to people who are thinking about conducting these illegal acts,
pretending that they are engaged in protests. But at the
moment they engage in the illegal acts, they are no
longer legitimate First Amendment protesters. They are criminals, and they
will be prosecuted as criminals. If people want to hurl insults,
we will protect that. If people want to engage in crimes,
we will prosecute them. So hurling bricks, hurling cinder blocks,
hurling fireworks will not be tolerated in this county now
or ever. And by the way, it's a quick aside
for any individual who's engaged in criminal conduct but did
not get immediately arrested, let me provide some bad news
for you. There's a tremendous amount of video out there
through social media and otherwise. We will know who you
are who engage in this conduct. We will track you down,
we will arrest you, we will prosecute you, and we
will punish you. So for people who've already engaged in
this in this illegal activity, we're coming for you. For
people who are thinking that maybe this is a good
idea to do. Please take this as you're warning that
if you engage in this conduct, please don't come to
us afterwards and say we didn't think anything was going
to happen to us, because those prosecutions will occur.
Speaker 1: What a breath of fresh air compared to George Gascon,
who wouldn't prosecute anybody. I mean, this guy's tough. Nathan
Hakmann is his name. D him to be the Los
Angeles County DA last November, and he is going after criminals.
I would expect that this might settle things down. Maybe
the LA riots are going to settle down simply because
of the fact that this man says, we're going to
track you down and we're going to prosecute you. There's
another talk about Hollywood. There's another angle to this whole
LA riot scene. Doctor Phil is on the case. Yep,
Doctor Phil. No, he's still around doing his show, but
he was in Los Angeles. I think that's where he
is anyways, I'm not sure where he is. Anyway, he
was in LA last Friday and he was had his
camera crew with him and he was doing a story
about ice and immigration issues and all that when that's
when Friday afternoon, Friday evening is when ICE went and
arrested a bunch of illegals that they were looking for.
And doctor Phil was right there. He didn't embed with them,
but he was there as an observer watching all of this,
and good old doctor Phil. I thought it was kind
of interesting what his observations were about how it went down.
Speaker 5: Listen. I found out some things that I think were knowable,
and I think some people are reporting and some are not.
First off, this was a multi agency operation. This wasn't
just an ICE operation. The particular operation, and I think
it has drawn all the attention did involve different agencies.
The ICE was there, US Marshalls was there, FBI, the
IRS was actually involved in this, ATF was there. Not
all of the agencies were involved in every operation that
went on, but there were multiple agencies involved. And this
was pursuant to a search warrant. And you know that
in order to get a search warrant, you have to
present a lot of evidence to a federal judge who
has to find probable cause to issue a search warrant.
And that was done for a particular company that was
alleged or suspected to be involved in criminal behavior. They
were alleged to have undervalued their imporse like eighty million dollars,
underpaid tariff seventeen million dollars, which involved the irs. So
when the raid took place, there were a lot of
records seized and they went in and audited the workforce,
and I think forty people were arrested at two different
sites for the company at that point because they were
illegal and there were criminals included in that group. It
wasn't just an ICE ray. There were other agencies involved,
and nobody seems to talk about that very much, although
that information is available, and there were other sites that
they went to as well. But I was apprised to
that going in because we have looked at this and
you know, people say, you know, why are you focused
on this? Well, listen, My focus from the beginning has
been to talk about things that matter to people who care,
and that has shifted from pure psychological to the more
psychosocial issues. People have become much more aware of what's
going on, and my viewers tell me what they want
to hear about. And this immigration has become a really
big issue with people. It's one of the top two
issues that Americans tell us they're concerned about. Yeah, And
the thing that really puzzles me and looking at this
is I'm wondering they're attacking agents on the street, FBI agents,
police ice agents. They didn't pass these laws. These laws
were passed, as you know, in the legislature by the
officials that these people elected. Why are they not on
Capitol Hill protesting there? They want to change the law,
change the law, but laws are not suggestions and they're
not optional. They have to either going to enforce them
or you're not.
Speaker 1: So he was being interviewed by Jake Tapper and was
asked about the question of why are they arresting people
that are illegal but are not criminals.
Speaker 5: Well, I've talked to President Trump about this and Tom
Homan extensively, and they have three priorities. Number one was
to close the border, and I think they have effectively
done that. Number two was the worst. First, to take
the violent criminals, the gang members thirteen Trendiagua. To get
these violent criminals off the streets. And I don't think
anybody wants those criminals on the street. And listen when
they go into I've seen that they target these individuals.
They're not going and doing just random sweeps, but they
target these individuals. Now, when they go in to find
these people in an apartment building or some area where
there are a lot of others around, they're going to
check who's around. If they go into an apartment there's
eight people in there and they and the target is
in there, the dangerous criminal with the violent history, they're
going to check who they're with, and if those people
are illegal, they're not going to turn the blind eye
to that. They're going to take those people into custody
as well. And they're The third prong that they're focused
on is finding the missing children. There are over three
hundred thousand estimated three hundred thousand children that have just
fallen through the cracks and gone miss saying once they
crossed the border, and some of them have found their
way to families, but others have been pushed into prostitution
and forced labor and they need to be rescued. And
when they're rescued, they need help. They need services medical, psychological,
sociological to help them recover from the trauma and then
reunited with their families. Those are their three top priorities.
Speaker 1: There are numerous polls now coming out. The posters are
running around as fast as they can to try to
get a sense of what the public thinks about all
of the protests going on, not only in LA but
also now in many other cities around the country. They're
not at the scope that the LA riots were. I
say were because I think the LA riots I would
hope are going to be much tamer going forward and
come to an end fairly soon. But CBS, you Gov
they did a poll, gave fifty four percent approval to
Donald Trump's immigration programs and fifty percent approval of the
way he's handling immigration. Then you go to the Washington Post.
Washington Post course, well, they went out and did a
survey that they said forty one percent of the people
support Donald President Trump sending National Guard and Marines to
the LA protests. Forty one percent support, forty four percent oppose,
fifteen percent are unsure other questions. Americans are roughly split
on a number of things regarding the protest if at California,
fifty eight percent are opposed to Donald Trump sending the
troops other states, forty two percent are opposed, forty three
percent are in approval. Democrats seventy six percent are opposed
to Donald Trump about anything. Only six percent of Republicans
are opposed. Eighty six percent of Republicans give the President
their approval. When it comes to independence, forty eight percent opposed,
thirty three percent are in favor. So it's as far
as paying a lot of attention to what's going on,
sending the National Guard and Marines to LA, paying a
lot of attention. Of fifty four percent are not paying
some attention forty five percent no, no, no, no, no, let
me get this great paying a lot of attention. Thirty
four percent of the country are paying attention to the
LA riots. Yeah, one out of three, So two out
of three are doing other things, paying some attention, forty percent,
paying little or no attention twenty six percent. So it's
it's rather split. Question that Washington Post asked was do
you support or oppose the protest in LA Again, it's
the federal government's immigration enforcement. Thirty nine percent support the
federal government, forty percent opposed. Twenty one percent are unsure.
It's a large group of unsured. Do you think the
LA protesters have been mostly peaceful or mostly violent? Thirty
five percent say mostly peaceful. Thirty seven percent say mostly violent,
and again the unsure crowd twenty seven percent. I don't know.
I don't know. Are the police using too much force
dealing with LA protesters, not enough force, or handling it
about right? Thirty one percent say too much force, forty
three percent say about right, twenty six percent say not enough.
I think the other obvious point here. I'm not sure
if it's the wabvies, but certainly I've seen it. I
presume you have to. When you see the television out
there on the streets of Los Angeles, what do you see?
You see LAPD? You don't see the California National Guard.
They are around, they are on the perimeter of the
federal building. They're not on the streets. They're not participating
in dealing with the public in any way, shape or form. Now,
the LAPD has overwhelmed. The chief even said that that
they only have eight thousand officers. Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department,
which has about nine thousand officers, have come in to help,
and also a number of cities that make up southern
California are sending their police as well. But it's the
police that are doing the involvement with the protesters, the rioters,
not the National Guard. And they keep talking about the Marines.
Have you seen any Marines yet? I haven't, and I'm
glad I haven't. I really I disagree with the president
on sending the Marines. I don't like the idea of
our military going against our citizens. Of National Guard, fine,
that's what they are trained to do. As far as
the police, that's really their purview, that's where they should be.
So a lot of people this is it's very, very,
very very it's very very split as to who is
supporting the president and who is opposed to him. Another
hot bit in the world is the Middle East, and
this is going on much more quietly than I would expect.
The government has ordered non essential embassy staff out of
a number of locations in the Middle East, Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain.
State Department is concerned about the nuclear talks between the
US and Iran and the fact that they appeared to
be deadlocked. So the government has ordered the departure of
non essential diplomatic staff from embassies in the Middle East,
and they're worried about apparently that Iran has threatened to
target US military bases in the region if a conflict
breaks out. The conflict they're talking about is will Israel
attack Iran and their nuclear facilities, because they keep saying
they're this close. I think they've been. I think they
got the bomb a long time ago. But the Defense
Secretary Pete Hegseth has authorized the voluntary departure of military
dependents from locations across the region. So they're very worried
about the fact that Iraq bag Dad at the embassies there,
all of those areas may be attacked by Iran if
something happens in the Middle East. So everybody's on high
tension and all of the non essential personnel have been
ordered to leave the area. Brett McGirk, who this is
one of the areas he has specialized in, has this observation.
Speaker 6: But I think, let me kind of back up. Why now,
what's happening. I think this vote in the IAEA today
in Vienna, nineteen countries found Iran in non compliance with
its IAEA obligations international energy is hugely significant. Has not
happened in twenty years. This comes after a report from
the IEA last week finding Iran an egregious failure to
basically hold up its obligations to convince the world it
has a peaceful program. Another thing, well, this is coming
to a head. I don't think it's imminent, but it's
coming to a head because the Obama erat JCPU. There's
a provision of that deal that even the critics really like,
called snapback. Any member of that deal can snap back
all international sanctions. The Brits in the French are prepared
to do that this summer. That power expires in October,
so this issue of the Iran nuclear program has to
be resolved in that timeframe. That's why there's so much
tension here. And Israel's watching this very closely because Iran
is trying to not only dramatically expand its program, it
is stockpiling uranium enriched to sixty percent grade. No civilian
need for that. It is enough for ten bonds now
and it can quickly spin that with very advanced centrifuge
is two weapons grade, and Iran announced today they're putting
these advanced centrifuges in the underground enrichment facility in Florido.
Very provocative step. So the Israelis are watching us to
say we cannot for our national security, particularly after October seventh.
We cannot just sit and wait. We have to have
this issue resolved. The Wickcoff talks in Oman on Sunday,
I think will be very important to try to reduce
some of the tension. See yeah, and I've dealt with
this issue. I negotiated with the Iranians in Oman. I
know what this is like. I actually would like the
position Steve is in. You now have a real threat
of military force, you have real pressure and the Iranians
is the problem here is Iran Their program is advancing
to a point where there's no civilian no credible civilian use,
and they need to They need to answer and try
to reach a deal that is verifiable and that we
can live with.
Speaker 1: Also some surprising news from also international news from India.
This morning, Air India had a flight that was leaving
from Amadabad going to London gat week four hundred I'm sorry,
two hundred and forty two passengers on board and it's
a brand new, well fairly new Boweing seven eighty seven.
Boeing stock took a ten dollars hit down five percent
on the news today. Boeing has been doing a tremendously
good job of getting their act together, getting their safety
program together, producing planes without problems, and then this happens today.
Here's one of the local newscasters in India talking about
the details of the crash today.
Speaker 7: So you mentioned a moment ago about the Commissioner of
Police and de A bad one of the senior cops there,
saying that he doesn't expect anyone to survive in this crash.
There were two hundred and forty two people on board,
including ten crew members. There were more than fifty British
nationals more than one hundred and sixty Indian nationals. The
worry is it's not just the people on board who
may have lost their lives to this terrible tragedy. The
hospital authorities there, the Civil Hospital which is the main
hospital to which much of the bodies are being rushed to,
have now confirmed that over two hundred bodies have been
brought there and are undergoing post bottom. The fear is
also that the building that this plane crashed into was
the lunch building of a medical school. This was a
little past one point thirty in the afternoon, so we
speak lunch hour. There were a number of these medical students,
medical school students who are having their lunch in that
building at that time. So I'm afraid there's a large
number of casualties on the ground as well aside of
the number of people who died who were on board
that ill fated flight Air in their flight one seven
to one from Mdabad to London Gatwick. What is also
of concern is that this is the first time in
the last over a decade that the dreamline of seven
eight seven has been in the skies. This is the
very first time that a flight of this nature has crashed,
and it happened within minutes of takeoff. It took off
at one thirty eight local time, is what we were
given to understand, and within the first five minutes the
pilot lost contact with the air traffic control and within
twenty minutes before two o'clock, the crash happened over this
medical school building in the outskirts of m Dabad. Also,
we're given to understand that the Prime Minister has tweeted
about this, He has its pressed his pain and anguish.
He has also instructed his number two in the government
to the Union Home Minister, mister Amashah, who also hails
in fact both the Prime Minister and the Home Minister
hailed from the state of Gujarat, that's where this air
crash happened, So he has instructed the Home Minister to
rush to Mdabad immediately. He should be reaching Mdabad within
the next hour to take stock of this situation there.
The Chief Minister of the Province of Gujrat has already
reached the hospital. He's taking stock of the fatalties and
also trying to get the information across to the loved
ones of those who perished in this terrible, terrible air tragedy.
There will be an inquiry. So far, we've not heard
from the airline authorities as to whether they've recovered any
of the debris or the black box or any of
the voice recording systems on board to try and engage
what exactly led to this. The pilot, Summit Sabber, while
apparently had more than eight thousand hours of flying experience,
the co pilot had over a thousand hours, So we
don't know what led to this terrible crash was it
Was it an engine failure? Was there a good hit
of any kind? What is very curious about this incident,
this strategy, is that both the engines failed off an
airline of the type of airline which has never crashed
before in the decade plus that it's been in the skies.
So all of these will be questions that investigators will
be asking you the next few days and weeks.
Speaker 1: Yes, it is a mystery because the seven eighty seven,
like the generalman said, has never had a crash. They've
been in service I think eleven year or something like that.
This plane is basically a computer with wings. It is
so high tech, and that's what makes us so puzzling
is because of the fact that, well they took off,
it wasn't a high altitude airport, but it was hot.
It was over one hundred degrees and the plane was
loaded with fuel and passengers pretty heavy on their long
flight to get up to London. So hot temperatures, heavy airplane.
That's always an aviation an area that you double check
to make sure you've got everything set just right. And
that's to think about this airplane. It is so high
tech that if the pilots set up the plane on
the runway, the plane knows where it is, what runway
it is from GPS, it knows how long the runway is,
it knows how much weight the plane has, and if
you don't have everything set up, it will start telling
you no takeoff, no takeoff. It will give you an
ural warning, and it will also show up on the
cockpit screen. So the video of the plane just before
it crashed, and it appears, I'm very cautious. It appears
as though the flaps were not. Flaps have to be
extended in order to give lift to a wing. And
you wouldn't take off with a heavy plane in hot
temperatures without especially somebody a plane that big and that
heavy without flaps. So were the flaps extended and they
withdrew them early? We don't know. There's a lot we
don't know. We have a lot of questions. The gear,
the landing gear was extended, which again normally, as soon
as you start getting some altitude under the plane, you
withdraw you bring the gear up so you get more.
It doesn't interfere aer aerodynamically, So there's a lot for
the investigators to work on with this. Again, the pilot
had over eight thousand hours. The gentleman we listened to
had he said the cold pilot had a thousand hours.
That's baby steps. One thousand hours is a very rookie
beginner in the airline industry. Miles O'Brien is an aviation analyst.
Let's see what he has to say about this.
Speaker 8: This was an aircraft that was struggling to maintain flight.
If you look at the video very carefully, it's in
a very unusual configuration, actually the wrong configuration. It does
not appear that the trailing edge flaps, which are designed
to be deployed. These are the aerodynamic surfaces that move
at the trailing edge of the wing and provide additional
lift during takeoff when the speeds are lower. It does
not appear those flaps were deployed based on the video
images that we've seen so far. And on top of that,
the landing gear remained down at this stage of the flight.
You would expect the landing gear to be up after
a positive rate of ascent had been determined by the
flight crew. Couple that with the fact that you had
a very hot day, which means there's less lift on
the wings because the air molecules are less dense, and
a fully loaded flight ready for a nine hour flight
to London, and you have what amounts to an aircraft
just struggling to maintain lift and air speed, and it's
just a real open question as to how it was
in that configuration.
Speaker 7: This is a.
Speaker 8: Highly automated aircraft. It's only been in service a little
more than a decade. This is the first crash hull
loss with fatalities. They had some early problems with the
batteries on board which caused them to be grounded. There
have been more recent concerns about how it has assembled
the seams on the composite fuselage, but that doesn't seem
to be coming into play here today. This is a
highly automated aircraft which is designed to check and crosscheck
the configuration of the aircraft before takeoff. So if it
was in fact flying in the wrong configuration, there would
have been all kinds of systems on board, oral and
visual to notify the crew of that fact. So this
is really kind of a mystery as to why the
aircraft was in that configuration. But without those flaps deployed
at that stage of flight, the aircraft never had a
chance to gain altitude. It just simply would have lost
lift installed, which is what we saw.
Speaker 1: We have plenty of questions. I'm sure we'll be getting
plenty of answers. The plane, like I said, is a
state of the art. So they have a cockpit voice
recorder that records well over a thousand items, and of
course the voice recorder and the flight data recorder I'm sorry,
flight data recorder over one thousand items, and of course
the cockpit voice recorder. They'll find out what the pilots
were talking about as this plane took off from this
airport in India, So lots of data we should know.
Once they have those, they should know exactly what happened
on this crash. Today in financial news, we a Thursday
so Thursday Morning Jobs report two hundred and forty eight
thousand first time jobless claims last week versus the estimate
of two hundred and forty six thousand, so it's just
about what we expected. The continuing claims a million, nine
hundred and fifty six thousand, that's up fifty four thousand
for the week, not a shocker. And either one of
those reports, we got the producer price index. That's the
wholesale inflation rate. And remember the wholesaler's inflation will be
passed on to the retailers, which will we passed on
to you theoretically, but this is another inflation indicator that
doesn't really show inflation taking off on us inflation. The
producer price index was up one tenth of a percent
for the year over year year it's up two point
four percent. Yeah, it just wasn't the core rate, the
headline rate. Nothing. There's really no big inflation news coming
out of this. And again, as I mentioned yesterday, everybody's
watching these reports because we want to see will the
tariffs start to impact the prices in so far, very
little if any insight into all of that. Speaking of jobs,
health and human services, during Doge's work, they laid off
two four hundred people. Today they announced they were hiring
back four hundred and fifty of those twenty four hundred people.
Wall Street today we got this is everything's it's very rare.
We've got the stock market, we've got the gold prices,
we've got bitcoin, all of them heading up to at
or near new highs NOW up one hundred and one
to forty two thousand and nine sixty seven, the s
and P up twenty three at six thousand and forty five,
NASDAK up forty six to nineteen six sixty two. So
none of those are giant gains, but they just keep
creeping up higher and higher. Gold went up sixty three dollars.
It's now above thirty four hundred at thirty four oh six.
And oil, because of all the concerns about what is
going on in the Middle East, is there going to
be an attack by Iran on US forces around the
Middle East, Oil went up another fifty cents today, up
to six almost sixty nine dollars a barrel for one
barrel of oil. Thank you for coming by today. I
appreciate you stopping by the podcast, and we're going to
be here again tomorrow. Hope to see you then.