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Speaker 2: I want to talk a little little bit about what's
Speaker 2: going on with the how unusual the Trump administration and
Speaker 2: how he is now dealing with members of Congress. Now,
Speaker 2: whenever there is an issue of one of the United States,
Speaker 2: let's say, in this case, bombs Iran, normally the administration
Speaker 2: would go any administration.
Speaker 3: We'll go to the leadership of Congress.
Speaker 2: You go to the Foreign Relations Committee, grab the chair,
Speaker 2: the ranking member in this case the Republican Democrat, the
Speaker 2: leadership of the Senate and Congress that is the speaker
Speaker 2: and also I don't know who called me the speaker,
Speaker 2: and also the majority leader.
Speaker 3: And that's just something that's done. Well.
Speaker 2: What the president wants to do is not tell them
Speaker 2: any matter of fact, he didn't tell the Democratic members
Speaker 2: of Congress. He did tell the Republican members of Congress
Speaker 2: two seconds before he bombed. And you have the Democrats
Speaker 2: finding out when we found out watching the news outlets. Now,
Speaker 2: a lot of it has to do with the leaks,
Speaker 2: the assessment of what happened. The Intelligent assessment leaked. The
Speaker 2: Pentagon assessment just came out and Trump was rightly pissed
Speaker 2: off because this was secret, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: the assessment comes out and it completely is at odds
Speaker 2: with what the administration says. The administration Donald Trump obliterated
Speaker 2: the nuclear facilities, the nucular program of Iran. The assessment
Speaker 2: from the Pentagon said not much damage was done, and
Speaker 2: they're at odds. Now, how do you know the Pentagon
Speaker 2: said this because it leaked, that's why.
Speaker 3: And the White.
Speaker 2: House is in an uproar. Now we don't know who
Speaker 2: leaked it. It could have been someone in the Pentagon
Speaker 2: or someone in the White House, someone in the National
Speaker 2: Security team. And there's an investigation going on right now
Speaker 2: to find out who did the leak, because these people
Speaker 2: are all sworn to secrecy on the inside, and all
Speaker 2: of a sudden we're looking at a leak. So the
Speaker 2: investigation is going forward as it should, as I said,
Speaker 2: and the President is I guess, blaming Congress or somehow
Speaker 2: Congress got hold of it and it leaked from Congress.
Speaker 2: And based on that, he said, you know what, I'm
Speaker 2: not going to share the information anymore with Congress, totally
Speaker 2: at odds with which is done traditionally, and maybe at
Speaker 2: odds with the law. But then again, and here's also
Speaker 2: the problem is in this case, he did tell the
Speaker 2: Republican leadership, I mean, just as the bombs were about
Speaker 2: to drop. So I guess the argument is we did
Speaker 2: inform the leadership, not the Democrats. And here is the
Speaker 2: problem again, and it's a big problem the way I
Speaker 2: view this administration. You know where I sit, and the
Speaker 2: democratic leadership in this case would be the ranking members.
Speaker 2: The way it works right now is the Republicans are patriots.
Speaker 2: If anybody agrees, any member of Congress agrees with the administration,
Speaker 2: he or she is a patriot. If anybody disagrees with
Speaker 2: the administration, that is the enemy. Any member of Congress
Speaker 2: or Senate who disagrees with the administration is an enemy
Speaker 2: of the administration. Can't you just disagree and still be friends?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: No. As a matter of fact, the one Senator Massey,
Speaker 2: or as a congress person I think as a center
Speaker 2: in MASSI who said, outright, I'm not voting for the
Speaker 2: big beautiful bill. It's just not gonna happen. Nope, it's
Speaker 2: a representative Massey. I'm just not voting for it. He
Speaker 2: has become an enemy and he is a Trumpist, but
Speaker 2: he's going to vote against the bill. He is now
Speaker 2: an enemy, and Trump is saying I am going to
Speaker 2: I'm going to primary you out because you're an enemy.
Speaker 2: And then the scary part, and this is the part
Speaker 2: that I have a very very hard time with. You're
Speaker 2: an enemy of the constitution, You're an enemy of America.
Speaker 3: Come on, guys, you know.
Speaker 2: You inform the leadership, you inform both sides of Congress,
Speaker 2: and maybe there was a leak within Congress. Well it
Speaker 2: couldn't have been within Congress. And you think about it,
Speaker 2: because no one knew about it. But the leak is
Speaker 2: the Pentagon assessment. And when President Trump said we, through
Speaker 2: the bombing, have obliterated the nuclear program, and the assessment said,
Speaker 2: the League assessment said, oh, that's not true.
Speaker 3: And then of course that was reported like.
Speaker 2: Crazy all over the place, particularly CNN, MSNBC. And now
Speaker 2: there's the other side of it. Now it's you know
Speaker 2: what there Maybe it was obliterated, Maybe there was a
Speaker 2: lot more damage than was first reported. Maybe it is
Speaker 2: closer to obliteration. Certainly the Israelis are saying that, and
Speaker 2: certainly members of the Intelligence Committee of the United States,
Speaker 2: the intelligence community, of the community of the United States
Speaker 2: is saying that. And to the extent that Iran says
Speaker 2: any damage was done, you have to multiply that one
Speaker 2: by ten times, because the Iranians will be complete liars
Speaker 2: about that, will understate any damage, overstate any kind of
Speaker 2: attack that succeeded. For example, we punished Israel and we
Speaker 2: won the war.
Speaker 3: We are victorious. Really, yeah, just look at the photos. Okay.
Speaker 2: You know, since the bombing of the nuclear facilities in
Speaker 2: and around Tehran actually well and also I know a
Speaker 2: lot of them were in the northern part of the country,
Speaker 2: it's the Israelis that are bombing Tehran.
Speaker 3: The bombing, the majority of the bombing that.
Speaker 2: Attacked the facilities in the north Iran were done by
Speaker 2: the American B two bomber with these bunker buster bombs
Speaker 2: that were thirty thousand pounds each. And the one airplane
Speaker 2: in the world that can deliver that bomb is the
Speaker 2: B two bomber.
Speaker 3: The one country in the world that has.
Speaker 2: The B two bomber is the United States. And you know,
Speaker 2: the pilots are pretty high end pilots. So when your
Speaker 2: kid says, I want to be an air for worst pilot, okay,
Speaker 2: how about a B two pilot where in the case
Speaker 2: of the bombing of the nuclear facilities in Iran that
Speaker 2: required that was a thirty seven hour mission in the
Speaker 2: air and they're the pilots sitting for thirty seven hours.
Speaker 3: In the cockpit. Two pilots.
Speaker 2: Melvin Dial was part of the B two crew in
Speaker 2: Afghanistan two thousand and one that was a forty four
Speaker 2: hour mission, and he said it was a tough one.
Speaker 3: It is not easy to be a B two pilot,
Speaker 3: no kidding.
Speaker 2: Now, in the attack, one hundred and twenty five aircraft
Speaker 2: were used. Seven bombers went from Missouri. This is they
Speaker 2: fly from Missouri and the planes are not particularly fast,
Speaker 2: so it takes a long time to get where they're
Speaker 2: going to go. Well, seven flew east for the attack.
Speaker 2: There were a group that flew west as part of
Speaker 2: a feint, and they had their transponders on, so everybody
Speaker 2: thought that that was part of it, and the real
Speaker 2: attack was done going the other way. Fighter jets, reconnaissance planes,
Speaker 2: refueling tankers. There were dozens of those because those planes
Speaker 2: had to be refueled. Now, how does it work well,
Speaker 2: First of all, the pilots, as in pilots of any
Speaker 2: other aircraft, both commercially and in the Air Force, are
Speaker 2: trained on a long duration simulator so they can work
Speaker 2: on their.
Speaker 3: Sleep cycles, because that is a real problem.
Speaker 2: Those simulators last for twenty four hours. They don't last
Speaker 2: the forty four hours. That deal was in in Afghanistan.
Speaker 2: And the bomber crews themselves, they know they're identified for
Speaker 2: the mission ahead of time, no.
Speaker 3: Idea where they're going, no idea where the.
Speaker 2: Operation would take place. They don't know that until literally
Speaker 2: minutes before. You talk about operational secrecy. Flight doctors give
Speaker 2: the crew sleeping pills in the days leading up to
Speaker 2: the attack to get their sleeping cycles well somewhat in
Speaker 2: tune with the airplane. So on the day of his mission,
Speaker 2: Deal who was the mission commander, woke up three to
Speaker 2: four hours before takeoff time, participating in the briefings, and
Speaker 2: off they went. Now, this happened in two thousand and one,
Speaker 2: and he only talked about his experience, and it could
Speaker 2: have changed by now, but probably not.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: Policy require both crew members to be in their seats
Speaker 2: at critical flight moments let's takeoff, refueling, bombing, landing, and
Speaker 2: in the hours between, the two crew members take turns
Speaker 2: sleeping in a small, little cot. This is a two
Speaker 2: billion dollar airplane and they're sleeping in a cot you
Speaker 2: basically get from Amazon that cost you forty nine nine
Speaker 2: this crappy little cot.
Speaker 3: Wow. And it was not easy. They tried to get
Speaker 3: some sleep. It was very difficult because what do you do?
Speaker 2: I mean, you know how many games of rock paper
Speaker 2: scissors can you play in thirty six hours and it's
Speaker 2: hard to fall asleep, so they take sleeping pills.
Speaker 3: And they are heading west across the Pacific. Those that
Speaker 3: went the other way.
Speaker 2: He went west and there was twenty four hours of sunlight.
Speaker 2: That's a problem with a natural circadian rhythm. And the
Speaker 2: flight doctor did have what they call the go pills,
Speaker 2: amphetamines issued by the medical doctor to the flight crew.
Speaker 2: How about the toilet situation, where do they pee and
Speaker 2: go poo poo. There is a really crappy little chemical
Speaker 2: toilet on the plane. You go to Arii and you
Speaker 2: buy a camping toilet and they only use it for
Speaker 2: emergency times, pertinent emergencies because the toilet well, they're afraid
Speaker 2: of overfilling the toilet. And you know what the privacy is,
Speaker 2: because it's right behind the seats. The privacy is the
Speaker 2: guy in front looks the other way.
Speaker 3: Isn't that fun? Both pilots have a packed.
Speaker 2: Lunch and they sit stationary for dozens of hours.
Speaker 3: They can walk a little bit around.
Speaker 2: The cockpit because it's a big coppit cockpit, but they
Speaker 2: don't eat very much because they're sedentary.
Speaker 3: They're just sitting there. And also you really don't want
Speaker 3: to use that chemical toilet? Isn't that fun?
Speaker 2: I want to be a B two bomber, wouldn't you?
Speaker 2: As an attorney, Yeah, it's hard to believe. I actually
Speaker 2: am one licensed umber nine to nine seventy one. Yeah,
Speaker 2: have not yet been disbarred, which is a miracle, isn't it, Neil?
Speaker 3: Yeah? And how yep.
Speaker 2: And one of the things that I talk about and
Speaker 2: I don't practice it, but I have friends, well, I
Speaker 2: have acquaintances who are attorneys, and divorce attorneys deal with
Speaker 2: prenups all the time, and even before someone gets to
Speaker 2: a divorce.
Speaker 3: Attorney, a prenup usually is in place.
Speaker 2: Bezos Bezos is about to marry Lauren Sanchez. He has
Speaker 2: rented Venice, I mean the entire city, and people are
Speaker 2: an fairly uproar and we don't know how it's going
Speaker 2: to go. But let's start with the fact that he's
Speaker 2: worth two hundred billion dollars.
Speaker 3: He's the third richest man now.
Speaker 2: When he divorced McKinsey Scott in twenty nineteen, they did
Speaker 2: not have a prenup, but he was very lucky because
Speaker 2: they divorced amicably and she took thirty five billion dollars
Speaker 2: and let him do all the voting, gave him all
Speaker 2: the shares to vote, so that worked out for him,
Speaker 2: but not for everybody for sure. Attorneys say that prenups
Speaker 2: are actually they should be for anybody who's worth more
Speaker 2: than th three dollars, who gets access to the private jet,
Speaker 2: who gets access to the thoroughbred horses, who gets to
Speaker 2: say what on social media? And you have the confidential
Speaker 2: confidentiality clauses that you might even be able to talk
Speaker 2: about the existence of the prenup itself. And the ultra
Speaker 2: wealthy prenups, you know, they have to address assets they
Speaker 2: can't be easily sold. And you've got someone who has
Speaker 2: a company or a couple as a company. One side says,
Speaker 2: let's sell it. I want the money. The other side says, no,
Speaker 2: selling a company can really involve and trigger significant capital
Speaker 2: gains tax that always has to be figured also, and
Speaker 2: what for the ultrawealthy, what a prenup does is actually
Speaker 2: focus on preserving lifestyle and it's about acknowledging the relationship
Speaker 2: and how important it is and keeping business interests and
Speaker 2: major assets off the table in the event of a divorce.
Speaker 3: Robert Cohen, a new York attorney who does this.
Speaker 2: You don't want them to have access to the other
Speaker 2: side to anything that would significantly change their wealth.
Speaker 3: And the other issue is jurisdiction.
Speaker 2: Right, people have several homes in different states, different countries,
Speaker 2: So which jurisdiction. For example, you got a prenup in
Speaker 2: New York, it's enforceable, and it gets tossed out.
Speaker 3: In London because the rules are different.
Speaker 2: Well, prenup does what virtually every contract does, and what
Speaker 2: that does is read a contract, and it said that
Speaker 2: this contract took place in the state of California, and
Speaker 2: the jurisdiction will be California no matter what. So that
Speaker 2: is critically important. Here's another one that's fun. Some clients
Speaker 2: demand in the prenup that the south spouse maintain a
Speaker 2: specific weight, and if you go beyond that weight, you
Speaker 2: don't get the money. You should see what my trust
Speaker 2: says about my kids acting out and I'm always threatening them.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's really crazy.
Speaker 2: One attorney wrote into a prenup with a regarding an
Speaker 2: NBA player that the player insisted that the prenup acknowledged
Speaker 2: that NBA players are known to have affairs, so cheating
Speaker 2: could not trigger that part of the pre nep prenup
Speaker 2: in which the player is punished or the player is nailed.
Speaker 2: It's this is fascinating stuff. I would love to see
Speaker 2: these prenups, but they're almost always confidential.
Speaker 3: And here is a rule, according to.
Speaker 2: One of them, whoever cares less about walking away is
Speaker 2: holding all the cards. If you don't care, you're walking
Speaker 2: away from everything, You're the one that's holding the cards.
Speaker 3: Which is interesting.
Speaker 2: Okay, be prepared in a few days, two in July
Speaker 2: actually to pay just a touch more for gasoline per gallon,
Speaker 2: like seventy cents more per gallon.
Speaker 3: Now it kills me. I mean, it's what I.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't have I don't drive a Yeah, I
Speaker 2: drive an EV so I don't have a gasoline car.
Speaker 3: So I'm thrilled.
Speaker 2: However, Lindsay drives a big honk and escalade which gets
Speaker 2: twelve miles to the gallon. And it's really very exciting
Speaker 2: when and it cost one hundred and twenty bucks to
Speaker 2: put in a tank full and three blocks later it's
Speaker 2: time for another tank.
Speaker 3: Full of gas.
Speaker 2: When we look at the price of gas and we
Speaker 2: hear on the news it's always the national average is
Speaker 2: and it's like two dollars less than what we pay.
Speaker 2: Used to be fifty cents, and now it's going to
Speaker 2: get even worse, a lot worse. So what drives up
Speaker 2: these prices, Well, let me start. In twenty twenty four,
Speaker 2: the California Air Resources Board approved amendments to the state's
Speaker 2: Low Carbon Fuel Standard program established in twenty eleven. Two
Speaker 2: goals in mind shifting the state's fuel dependence towards lower
Speaker 2: carbon fuels and helping the state cut fuel use by
Speaker 2: ninety four percent by twenty forty five. That's all virtually
Speaker 2: cut it completely. And this was meant to incentivize the
Speaker 2: value of lower carbon fuel. By the way, we didn't
Speaker 2: know the seventy cent figure. Actually we don't know that
Speaker 2: it is going to be seventy cents. It could be lower.
Speaker 3: No one has any idea.
Speaker 2: A lot of it has to do with the price
Speaker 2: of oil, which jumps all over the place, as you know,
Speaker 2: and it has to do with all other factors. We're
Speaker 2: talking about the number of people driving, we're talking about markets,
Speaker 2: we're talking about refineries of which.
Speaker 3: You know when they go into maintenance. We have so
Speaker 3: few refineries.
Speaker 2: In this case, one is taken offline, and all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, the amount of gasoline that we have jumps
Speaker 2: because the demand always increase, is always better or bigger
Speaker 2: than supply. And to California refineries are shutting down by
Speaker 2: this year.
Speaker 3: That's three hundred thousand barrels per day lost of oil.
Speaker 2: It's I gotta tell you when it comes to oil,
Speaker 2: when it comes to gasoline, California is a tough place
Speaker 2: to live. The highest tax state in the country, the
Speaker 2: most expensive gasoline in the country, the most restrictive OSHA
Speaker 2: laws which make business very difficult, the price of housing.
Speaker 2: I don't know how people still live here. It's just
Speaker 2: gotten so difficult. So we prepared for a lot more gas. Now, Neil,
Speaker 2: you threw a couple of figures at me as you
Speaker 2: were looking at this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought it was interesting that this comes right
Speaker 1: on the tail of the Auto Club coming out a
Speaker 1: couple of days ago and talking about that we're going
Speaker 1: to have record people on the roads for the fourth
Speaker 1: July weekend five point five million. So CAW folks are
Speaker 1: going to be out on the roads, choosing to drive
Speaker 1: to more local destinations for vacation, which I love. Who
Speaker 1: love a good road trip?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 3: I don't. Oh, you don't like driving at all at all.
Speaker 3: I hate traffic and sitting on a road trip.
Speaker 2: I have this one over here, my wife who loves
Speaker 2: road trips and wants to go on one. And I
Speaker 2: look at her and I mentioned a fact. There is
Speaker 2: not a human being on this planet that I will
Speaker 2: spend five and a half hours with, much less eight
Speaker 2: hours on a road trip.
Speaker 3: I love it. Oh, well, you never invite me because
Speaker 3: you never have to worry about it. No, but I
Speaker 3: mean you can.
Speaker 1: You could stop off the freeway and find a neat place,
Speaker 1: you know, neat little shops whatever you're you control your Yeah.
Speaker 3: The shops off the freeways are terrific. I can't no, no,
Speaker 3: they can be. Route sixty six is a lot, know.
Speaker 1: I just think it's a it's an eight alien beef jerkey.
Speaker 1: I like talking to my wife by the way and
Speaker 1: enjoy the time in the car.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't understand that, Not that your wife is in terrific.
Speaker 2: It's just talking to anybody for hour after hour after hour.
Speaker 3: You feel like a B two bomber. That's it. Here's
Speaker 3: the analogy.
Speaker 2: You're driving across the country and you feel like a
Speaker 2: B two bomber pilot like I did the previous story,
Speaker 2: forty four hours in the air without stopping.
Speaker 3: Stop.
Speaker 1: You could stop at a circle K, get yourself a snack.
Speaker 1: It's not like you have to use a chemical toilet
Speaker 1: in the back of the car.
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