WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:02.839 Portions of The Bill Cunningham Show may be pre recorded. 2 00:00:25.320 --> 00:00:33.439 Willie Brough You by Choice Hotels, Econo Lodge and Roadway 3 00:00:33.479 --> 00:00:36.280 In Hotels are serving up double points for every qualifying 4 00:00:36.320 --> 00:00:39.840 stay book at Choice Hotels dot Com. Now here's the 5 00:00:39.960 --> 00:00:43.799 man who's been recognized. There's radio's best, the recipient of 6 00:00:43.880 --> 00:00:48.640 not one, but two prestigious Marconi Awards for his broadcast excellence, 7 00:00:49.079 --> 00:00:51.320 the one and only Bill Cunningham. 8 00:00:51.359 --> 00:00:53.920 Right, Billy Cunningham, the Great America, and this glorious Sunday night. 9 00:00:53.960 --> 00:00:56.079 And I look around there right now as I speak, 10 00:00:56.560 --> 00:00:59.039 the so called House budget committees trying to get an 11 00:00:59.039 --> 00:01:02.679 agreement not to keep borrowing two trillion dollars every year 12 00:01:02.960 --> 00:01:05.400 as far as the eye can see, and as you 13 00:01:05.439 --> 00:01:07.640 and I kind of agreed to a few weeks ago, 14 00:01:07.719 --> 00:01:10.200 the best of intentions. In fact, the road to Hell 15 00:01:10.400 --> 00:01:13.400 is paved with good intentions. I know the intentions are 16 00:01:13.400 --> 00:01:15.920 good to cut federal spending, or shall I say, at 17 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:18.640 least maintain federal spending a current level. So how about 18 00:01:18.680 --> 00:01:21.959 that one. I have an actuarial coming up later in 19 00:01:22.079 --> 00:01:24.560 US Congressman that's going to say that if we had 20 00:01:24.599 --> 00:01:28.959 the same federal spending in twenty twenty five, as we 21 00:01:29.040 --> 00:01:32.400 had in twenty twenty one, four years ago. We'd have 22 00:01:32.400 --> 00:01:36.840 a balanced budget right now, not borrowing a trillion dollars 23 00:01:37.000 --> 00:01:40.439 or two trillion dollars every year. We'd have a balanced budget. Now, 24 00:01:40.439 --> 00:01:42.959 wouldn't that be marvelous? If we had a balanced budget, 25 00:01:43.239 --> 00:01:46.439 maybe Moodies wouldn't downgrade our debt again, because they've downgraded 26 00:01:46.480 --> 00:01:48.560 it again, and it's going to happen again and again 27 00:01:48.599 --> 00:01:51.040 and again, and it's not a well covered issue. It 28 00:01:51.120 --> 00:01:56.000 is the most predictive national calamity ever to strike this country. Normally, 29 00:01:56.040 --> 00:01:59.519 when a calamity happens, we don't have warning, whether it 30 00:01:59.519 --> 00:02:01.640 was not a lite or the Japanese attack on Pearl 31 00:02:01.640 --> 00:02:05.079 Harbor or something like that, but everyone says that were 32 00:02:05.159 --> 00:02:08.919 now thirty seven trillion dollars. Moody's is telling us you 33 00:02:08.960 --> 00:02:12.520 can't afford it, and instead of the media covering that issue, 34 00:02:12.599 --> 00:02:15.000 the Democratic Party stepping up to say we're going to 35 00:02:15.080 --> 00:02:18.240 help you. Have a large number of moderate Republicans that 36 00:02:18.319 --> 00:02:21.520 won't agree to maintain federal spending. They want to keep 37 00:02:21.560 --> 00:02:24.719 borrowing money. And at this rate, we won't have a 38 00:02:24.759 --> 00:02:27.759 country in about five or six years. And we have 39 00:02:27.840 --> 00:02:31.000 Congressman Warren Davidson coming up later, who says there will 40 00:02:31.039 --> 00:02:34.840 be no spending reductions until at least twenty twenty nine. 41 00:02:35.840 --> 00:02:41.360 What twenty twenty nine? Moderate Republicans want to increate the salt, 42 00:02:41.639 --> 00:02:46.199 state and local tax deductions, and more conservative members of 43 00:02:46.280 --> 00:02:51.840 Congress like Roy of Texas and Davidson of Ohio, say, 44 00:02:51.879 --> 00:02:55.800 wait a minute. We came into office promising to keep 45 00:02:55.879 --> 00:02:59.000 federal spending where it is. Now that's a cut, or 46 00:02:59.039 --> 00:03:01.599 to slow the rate of the increase. Now that's a cut. 47 00:03:02.080 --> 00:03:04.800 Instead of saying, look, the penny pen made a lot 48 00:03:04.840 --> 00:03:07.840 of sense. The Penny plan made sense to Sean Hannity, 49 00:03:07.919 --> 00:03:10.759 my good friend, and to me, just to reduce federal 50 00:03:10.800 --> 00:03:13.360 spending every year by one cent on the dollar. Can't 51 00:03:13.360 --> 00:03:16.280 get that done. And now the Republicans are going to 52 00:03:16.280 --> 00:03:20.759 increase federal spending again by about causing a two trillion 53 00:03:20.800 --> 00:03:25.879 dollar deficit this year, and the year begins October first 54 00:03:25.879 --> 00:03:29.159 to October first of next year, and we can't quit spending. 55 00:03:29.240 --> 00:03:32.400 Every constituency group in the world is organized to keep 56 00:03:32.439 --> 00:03:36.840 their particular goody alive. And why can't we have Medicaid 57 00:03:37.039 --> 00:03:40.840 work requirements? You have to be healthy under the age 58 00:03:40.840 --> 00:03:43.759 of fifty five and you refuse to work, but you 59 00:03:43.800 --> 00:03:46.800 get medicaid on your dime. We can't agree to get 60 00:03:46.840 --> 00:03:49.439 that done. So I don't know what to tell you. 61 00:03:50.280 --> 00:03:54.719 It's not good. And sometime tonight they're going to pass 62 00:03:54.759 --> 00:03:57.080 it out of the Budget Committee to the Rules Committee 63 00:03:57.240 --> 00:04:01.039 on Wednesday for its consideration, and sometime by Memorial Day, 64 00:04:01.039 --> 00:04:03.800 which by the way, is about thirteen days away's supposed 65 00:04:03.840 --> 00:04:06.479 to have a vote in the House. We'll see what happens. 66 00:04:06.919 --> 00:04:11.159 I have no confidence in the Republicans now to maintain 67 00:04:11.240 --> 00:04:14.159 federal spending at current levels for the time they're in 68 00:04:14.159 --> 00:04:16.639 the Congress. If that would happen, we'd have a balanced 69 00:04:16.639 --> 00:04:20.120 budget within five years. No, we're going to keep federal 70 00:04:20.160 --> 00:04:23.399 spending roughly at the same levels, then provide some tax 71 00:04:23.439 --> 00:04:27.800 cuts which may incentivize economic activity, which you bring more 72 00:04:27.839 --> 00:04:32.279 revenues into the treasury. But and it's a big, beautiful bill. 73 00:04:32.839 --> 00:04:36.800 But if it's a bill that Joe Biden himself may 74 00:04:36.839 --> 00:04:39.720 have agreed to, we're in trouble. I think we're in trouble. 75 00:04:39.759 --> 00:04:42.279 That's coming up later. Plus I would note that it 76 00:04:42.279 --> 00:04:46.879 was announced either late night yesterday Saturday, or today that 77 00:04:47.360 --> 00:04:50.160 Joe Biden has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of 78 00:04:50.199 --> 00:04:54.319 prostate cancer, which comes to a shock to me because, 79 00:04:54.399 --> 00:04:59.560 as you know, a responsible man has a PSA test 80 00:04:59.639 --> 00:05:04.279 done and also digital rectal exams, which I find extremely intrusive. 81 00:05:04.720 --> 00:05:07.319 I tell my urologists, you got ten seconds, that's all 82 00:05:07.360 --> 00:05:12.360 you got. They're called drees digital rectal exams, and also PSAs. 83 00:05:12.480 --> 00:05:15.800 I like to know if Joe Biden, who previously has 84 00:05:15.839 --> 00:05:20.959 contracted a few forms of cancer, including including skin cancer, 85 00:05:21.000 --> 00:05:23.519 which is not a big deal, and he also had 86 00:05:23.560 --> 00:05:27.160 polyps cancers sales removed from his coal and this is 87 00:05:27.240 --> 00:05:29.839 number three, and so I would think an eighty two 88 00:05:29.879 --> 00:05:33.120 year old man with cancer in the family would be 89 00:05:33.839 --> 00:05:38.519 treated early on proper diagnosis, and I like to know it. 90 00:05:38.839 --> 00:05:41.120 I think Joe Biden knows this to the American people 91 00:05:41.160 --> 00:05:43.040 to say, look, these are the things I did the 92 00:05:43.160 --> 00:05:46.399 last two years for my health. Forget about the mental health. 93 00:05:46.639 --> 00:05:48.879 We know that's shot, but I want to know about 94 00:05:48.920 --> 00:05:52.160 the physical health. I'm kind of shocked that Joe Biden 95 00:05:52.199 --> 00:05:57.439 would contract stage four prostate cancer have a glease in 96 00:05:57.519 --> 00:06:01.439 score of nine when he received opposedly the best medical 97 00:06:01.480 --> 00:06:05.120 care in the world. Prostate cancers are given a score, 98 00:06:05.160 --> 00:06:08.639 a so called Leason score between one and ten, with 99 00:06:08.759 --> 00:06:12.759 one being very low and ten being very high. According 100 00:06:12.800 --> 00:06:15.680 to the press release, Biden's office said his score was 101 00:06:15.720 --> 00:06:19.759 a nine, saying his cancer it spread to bones and 102 00:06:19.800 --> 00:06:23.000 maybe to limpodes, and when it spreads other parts of 103 00:06:23.000 --> 00:06:26.439 the body, so called metastasize much harder to treat than 104 00:06:26.480 --> 00:06:30.360 localized cancer inside the prostate capsule, which goes from the 105 00:06:30.480 --> 00:06:33.160 grossm the size about a grape to a small plumb. 106 00:06:34.040 --> 00:06:37.600 And so was he treated previously for this? Did he 107 00:06:37.680 --> 00:06:41.120 go through all the screenings? I don't know, but I 108 00:06:41.199 --> 00:06:45.160 offer the best of the Biden family. We may disagree politically, 109 00:06:45.839 --> 00:06:48.399 but I would not wish upon this my worst enemy, 110 00:06:48.399 --> 00:06:50.439 and he's not my worst enemy. I have worst enemies 111 00:06:50.480 --> 00:06:52.959 than Joe Biden. But Joe Biden right now is going 112 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:57.319 to fight for his long term survivability, and according to 113 00:06:57.360 --> 00:06:59.759 the things I've read, he has a life expectancy now 114 00:07:00.079 --> 00:07:02.439 less than five years. But I wish him and the 115 00:07:02.439 --> 00:07:04.600 family well as they fight and decide what to do. 116 00:07:05.519 --> 00:07:10.720 And allegedly this kind of treatment may involve hormones, and 117 00:07:10.800 --> 00:07:15.480 this particular kind of cancer is available for treatment by hormones. 118 00:07:15.800 --> 00:07:18.720 But when you're regularly screened, which I don't know if 119 00:07:18.759 --> 00:07:21.319 he spent or not. It's kind of shocking to me 120 00:07:21.439 --> 00:07:24.279 you go to stage four and at least in the 121 00:07:24.319 --> 00:07:27.160 score of nine if you've been properly screened. But I 122 00:07:27.160 --> 00:07:29.920 guess anything is possible. We'll see what happens with that. 123 00:07:30.879 --> 00:07:35.000 And secondly, I would point out that once again, the 124 00:07:35.079 --> 00:07:39.759 Congress is trying to don't say cut federal spending. Is 125 00:07:39.800 --> 00:07:44.240 to maintain current federal spending. That's the plan. Keep spending 126 00:07:44.319 --> 00:07:47.759 where it is right now, and if we do that, 127 00:07:47.800 --> 00:07:50.160 we can have a balanced budget within three or four years. 128 00:07:50.439 --> 00:07:53.040 But the Republicans in the Congress refuse to do that. 129 00:07:53.319 --> 00:07:57.120 In fact, they're going to increase spending by allowing these 130 00:07:57.160 --> 00:08:00.920 programs simply to grow, grow and grow more. And if 131 00:08:00.959 --> 00:08:02.720 they can't do it, I want to know who will 132 00:08:02.759 --> 00:08:05.319 do it. The answer I suspect is nobody's going to 133 00:08:05.399 --> 00:08:10.160 do it. That's why I strongly suspect. Secondly, we had 134 00:08:10.160 --> 00:08:14.160 an explosion Saturday morning outside of a fertility clinic in 135 00:08:14.199 --> 00:08:17.639 Palm Spring, California. A twenty five year old man named 136 00:08:17.680 --> 00:08:22.839 Guy Edward Barkas b like in boy Ar k h Us, 137 00:08:22.879 --> 00:08:28.120 decided to blow up a fertility clinic, because according to 138 00:08:28.199 --> 00:08:34.120 his manifesto, he opposed the birth of human beings, and 139 00:08:34.159 --> 00:08:39.039 the fertility clinic had many, shall we say, apparatusus and 140 00:08:39.080 --> 00:08:43.679 availabilities to put together women and men's sperm and to 141 00:08:43.840 --> 00:08:48.120 have fertility occur in a Petri dish or etc. And 142 00:08:48.120 --> 00:08:52.919 it's a consequence the embryos they say have been protected. 143 00:08:52.960 --> 00:08:56.039 But I don't know how that's possible. But this guy 144 00:08:56.120 --> 00:08:59.039 is a real nut. He's part of a pro mortalist 145 00:08:59.279 --> 00:09:03.720 group who thinks that no baby should be born without 146 00:09:03.759 --> 00:09:09.039 their consent. Go talk to a zygote, or go talk 147 00:09:09.120 --> 00:09:12.919 to an inco it life and talk to me about 148 00:09:12.960 --> 00:09:15.480 whether or not in a fertility clinic. There's going to 149 00:09:15.480 --> 00:09:18.320 be some desire to bring people in the world against 150 00:09:18.360 --> 00:09:24.320 their will. According to KCAL News in Los Angeles, Barcas 151 00:09:24.440 --> 00:09:27.639 wrote in writings and recordings that he opposed the idea 152 00:09:27.919 --> 00:09:31.879 of bringing people into the world against their will. What 153 00:09:33.720 --> 00:09:37.320 how is this possible? The writings left behind were anti 154 00:09:37.840 --> 00:09:42.399 anti pro life. Whatever that is anti pro life, and 155 00:09:42.440 --> 00:09:46.960 he targeted the clinic goes they had the potential of life. 156 00:09:47.159 --> 00:09:50.919 The FBAIOT described Barcas as an ideation and noted he 157 00:09:51.000 --> 00:09:54.720 may have been attempted to livestream the bombing on social media, 158 00:09:54.759 --> 00:09:57.240 in which he himself was killed. I guess he wanted 159 00:09:57.279 --> 00:10:01.679 to end his own life. He's against human life. Unbelievable. 160 00:10:02.519 --> 00:10:07.480 The embryos allegedly have been saved. But when I first 161 00:10:07.480 --> 00:10:09.240 heard about this, I thought, this has got to be 162 00:10:09.320 --> 00:10:13.879 a real nut job, and he is. But previously, mister 163 00:10:13.960 --> 00:10:18.320 Barkas has no previous criminal record, has never filed bankruptcy. 164 00:10:18.320 --> 00:10:21.519 In fact, he's unknown in the system completely. The explosion 165 00:10:21.600 --> 00:10:26.360 damaged nearby businesses and residential properties, and pieces of Barkers's 166 00:10:26.440 --> 00:10:29.320 car was thrown hundreds of feet in the air several 167 00:10:29.360 --> 00:10:32.200 blocks away. And of course it's hard to determine whether 168 00:10:32.279 --> 00:10:35.159 it was suicide or whether it was mistakes setting off 169 00:10:35.200 --> 00:10:38.639 the bomb. So he was not on the radar prior 170 00:10:38.679 --> 00:10:42.480 to the bombing. No criminal record, no bankruptcies, no sexual 171 00:10:42.480 --> 00:10:46.080 offenses immediately found in any public record. He was a 172 00:10:46.120 --> 00:10:49.840 resident of twenty nine palms in City in San Bernardino County, 173 00:10:50.240 --> 00:10:53.399 about sixty miles from Palm Springs. He simply wanted to 174 00:10:53.440 --> 00:11:00.159 destroy human life without their consent, so embryos zygots in 175 00:11:00.240 --> 00:11:03.600 Kowitz sperm. He wanted to destroy because there was a 176 00:11:03.799 --> 00:11:09.039 possibility that that item could become a human life. He 177 00:11:09.200 --> 00:11:13.799 was anti pro life. He was part of a mortality 178 00:11:13.840 --> 00:11:19.639 group that wanted to kill living things, and he was 179 00:11:19.679 --> 00:11:22.960 one of them. I say good riddance to him. Fortunately 180 00:11:22.960 --> 00:11:26.240 no one was killed except the bomber himself. And as 181 00:11:26.279 --> 00:11:28.519 I said, the police do not know if it was 182 00:11:28.519 --> 00:11:31.879 a suicide or mistaken setting off the device. Haven't said 183 00:11:31.919 --> 00:11:35.279 yet what that situation is. So let's continue with more 184 00:11:35.320 --> 00:11:39.039 and later on we have Jeff crew Air coming up, 185 00:11:39.080 --> 00:11:42.879 he writes. Jeff Creuer writes at townhall dot com about 186 00:11:42.879 --> 00:11:45.879 what a great successful trip Donald Trump headed the Middle East. 187 00:11:46.279 --> 00:11:49.480 Came back Saturday night or Sunday morning this morning. Is 188 00:11:49.519 --> 00:11:54.559 doing well physically struck unbelievable deals, trillions of dollars and 189 00:11:54.639 --> 00:11:57.559 new investments inside of America. He met with the new 190 00:11:57.639 --> 00:12:00.679 leader of Syria, who was a member of our Kaida. 191 00:12:01.240 --> 00:12:05.399 How about that who's now said to the Trumpster that 192 00:12:05.440 --> 00:12:07.639 he wants to be part of the civilized nations of 193 00:12:07.679 --> 00:12:10.879 the world. He has got more talks going on now 194 00:12:10.960 --> 00:12:13.799 with Iran. At some point I think Iran and the 195 00:12:13.919 --> 00:12:16.960 US will join together and take out the nuclear capabilities 196 00:12:16.960 --> 00:12:18.600 of Iran. They will act like they want to give 197 00:12:18.600 --> 00:12:21.080 it up, but they will not. And then he has 198 00:12:21.440 --> 00:12:23.840 a lot of ideas about what to do with the 199 00:12:23.879 --> 00:12:27.200 so called Palestinians or Gazans, to put them in Libya, 200 00:12:27.639 --> 00:12:30.960 paid for by the Ewan and others. As Gaza is 201 00:12:31.000 --> 00:12:34.559 real rebuilt in the image of what Israel and Western 202 00:12:34.600 --> 00:12:38.240 democracies may look like. And as you may know, Palestinians 203 00:12:38.279 --> 00:12:41.679 in Gaza have added up to hear with Hamas and 204 00:12:41.720 --> 00:12:44.559 they want him gone too. Put all that together, but 205 00:12:44.559 --> 00:12:48.000 what a successful trip. In fact, some wants to nominate 206 00:12:48.080 --> 00:12:50.919 Donald Trump from the Nobel Peace Prize, which would be 207 00:12:50.919 --> 00:12:55.279 almost impossible. You might recall that in twenty nine, before 208 00:12:55.320 --> 00:12:58.679 Obama had done a damn thing as president, they gave 209 00:12:59.120 --> 00:13:04.159 Barak Hussein Obama. Guess what gave him the Peace Prize? Obama? 210 00:13:04.200 --> 00:13:06.960 And what did he do at that point? Absolutely nothing. 211 00:13:07.360 --> 00:13:10.639 Sounds like a nineteen sixties rock song. In fact, what 212 00:13:10.679 --> 00:13:13.559 did he do the eight years of his presidency Absolutely 213 00:13:13.600 --> 00:13:16.159 nothing for world peace. In fact, he made it worse. 214 00:13:16.720 --> 00:13:19.960 On the other hand, Ronald Reagan secured a massive arms 215 00:13:19.960 --> 00:13:23.840 control agreement with the Soviet Union, reduced real fears of 216 00:13:23.840 --> 00:13:27.240 a nuclear war This is reagan massive investments in a 217 00:13:27.320 --> 00:13:31.639 military bankrupt of the Soviet Union. They collapsed, unable to 218 00:13:31.639 --> 00:13:35.720 compete economically or militarily without firing a shot. Ronald Reagan 219 00:13:35.759 --> 00:13:38.519 brought down the Evil Empire, the Iron Curta in the 220 00:13:38.559 --> 00:13:41.600 Berlin Wall, all came tumbling down. Who'd they give the 221 00:13:41.639 --> 00:13:46.559 Nobel Peace Price to? How about yes, their air Fat 222 00:13:46.600 --> 00:13:49.480 got the Nobel Peace Price along with Jimmy Carter for 223 00:13:49.519 --> 00:13:52.519 the peace in the Middle East. How's that looking so 224 00:13:52.639 --> 00:13:56.639 compared to what the Donald has done, to what Gorbachev did? 225 00:13:56.679 --> 00:14:00.279 He got the Nobel Peace Prize or yes, the air Fat. 226 00:14:00.279 --> 00:14:04.960 It's a joke that Donald is a tremendous peace giver. 227 00:14:05.120 --> 00:14:08.000 He gives peace throughout the world. What's like Pope Leo 228 00:14:08.080 --> 00:14:10.919 the fourteenth that had his first master today and met 229 00:14:10.919 --> 00:14:14.639 of course JD. Vance and Marco Rubio was wonderful. So 230 00:14:14.759 --> 00:14:18.200 later on we have Jeff crue eron from New Orleans, 231 00:14:18.200 --> 00:14:21.279 and I would note that sixty minutes is making some sense. 232 00:14:21.320 --> 00:14:24.919 For a time. They did a story on and CBS 233 00:14:24.960 --> 00:14:27.879 Morning News did it also about what's wrong with New Orleans? 234 00:14:27.919 --> 00:14:30.840 And believe me a lot when ten murderers escaped but 235 00:14:30.919 --> 00:14:33.200 none the left. Jeff Crewe Ara will be here to 236 00:14:33.240 --> 00:14:36.120 talk about why Trump deserves to know about Peace Prize 237 00:14:36.120 --> 00:14:39.679 and more. And once again we offer nothing but the 238 00:14:39.679 --> 00:14:42.960 best wishes for ex President Joe Biden. I love saying 239 00:14:43.000 --> 00:14:46.679 the word ex president who has contracted stage four with 240 00:14:46.799 --> 00:14:50.639 the Gleason score of nine Price Day cancer. That's metastasized 241 00:14:50.679 --> 00:14:53.480 to the bone. And I like to know, as someone 242 00:14:53.879 --> 00:14:56.720 age appropriate, if you're in your forties, fifties, or sixties, 243 00:14:57.799 --> 00:15:02.440 I believe that PSAs were low and digital exams that 244 00:15:02.519 --> 00:15:07.399 were regularly done gave your pretty good insurance against contracting 245 00:15:07.879 --> 00:15:12.440 prosday cancer. When contract When diagnosed early, it's somewhat simple 246 00:15:12.480 --> 00:15:14.840 to cure. But at this point they have the ex 247 00:15:14.960 --> 00:15:18.480 president have stage four Price Day cancer. To me, that's 248 00:15:18.480 --> 00:15:21.080 a shock. So let's continue with more. Do you have 249 00:15:21.120 --> 00:15:24.600 hope the Republicans and Elon Musk can in fact cut 250 00:15:24.639 --> 00:15:28.360 federal spending? By that, I mean that equals keeping it 251 00:15:28.399 --> 00:15:32.440 where it is. Cutting federal spending means keeping it where 252 00:15:32.480 --> 00:15:35.399 it is. The answer from tonight appears to be no, 253 00:15:36.759 --> 00:15:38.919 plus we have more. I want to get a grade 254 00:15:38.960 --> 00:15:40.759 from you on the trip that Donald Trump made to 255 00:15:40.799 --> 00:15:44.360 the Middle East on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. It 256 00:15:45.000 --> 00:15:48.879 was the greatest foreign policy effort by any president in 257 00:15:48.919 --> 00:15:53.240 American history. He's bringing peace to Ukraine and the Russia, 258 00:15:53.320 --> 00:15:55.200 seeming that you're going to have a big talk tomorrow. 259 00:15:55.679 --> 00:15:59.440 He's brought peace to India and Pakistan that saved millions 260 00:15:59.440 --> 00:16:03.200 and millions of lives. He's got Syria possibly within the 261 00:16:03.200 --> 00:16:07.480 Western Democratic orbit. He solidified our relationships with the functional 262 00:16:07.759 --> 00:16:10.960 countries in the Middle East, getting pledges of trillions and 263 00:16:11.000 --> 00:16:14.759 trillions of dollars and hamas Is on its heels, has 264 00:16:14.840 --> 00:16:18.279 blows in retreat in Lebanon, and the world could enter 265 00:16:18.320 --> 00:16:22.399 another and another era of peace because of Donald Trump, 266 00:16:22.639 --> 00:16:27.039 none of which happened under Joe Biden or Barack Hussein Obama. 267 00:16:27.440 --> 00:16:29.799 Let's continue with more. We have five lines open. Your 268 00:16:29.799 --> 00:16:33.399 calls are next eight six six six four seven seven 269 00:16:33.519 --> 00:16:36.279 three three seven. Bill Cunningham, the Great American, with you 270 00:16:36.840 --> 00:16:50.399 every Sunday night. I don't know about you, but I'm 271 00:16:50.440 --> 00:16:54.960 waiting to be disappointed on federal government spending. I'm gonna 272 00:16:54.960 --> 00:16:58.120 ask Congressman Warren Davidson later, what's going to happen tonight? 273 00:16:58.720 --> 00:17:00.879 And most importantly, was going to happen in the House 274 00:17:00.919 --> 00:17:03.000 that are going to pass the bill or not. No 275 00:17:03.120 --> 00:17:06.480 tax on tips, no tax on social Security, no tax 276 00:17:06.519 --> 00:17:09.759 on overtime, or promise. We'll see what happens. And normally, 277 00:17:09.839 --> 00:17:12.000 when you cut taxes a little bit, it causes a 278 00:17:12.039 --> 00:17:16.240 gross increase in economic activity, generating more dollars. It was 279 00:17:16.279 --> 00:17:18.559 that way under John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan and 280 00:17:18.599 --> 00:17:22.400 Donald Trump's first term. You don't eliminate taxes on the achievers, 281 00:17:22.440 --> 00:17:27.119 the workers, those who produce twenty five percent of the 282 00:17:27.519 --> 00:17:30.039 I'm sorry, forty percent of the revenue, with one percent 283 00:17:30.119 --> 00:17:32.799 of the income. That's being Americans making more than four 284 00:17:32.880 --> 00:17:35.680 hundred thousand dollars a year are the top one percent, 285 00:17:36.279 --> 00:17:38.519 and they pay about forty percent of the income tax. 286 00:17:39.200 --> 00:17:43.039 We already have the regressive system democrats demand, but you 287 00:17:43.119 --> 00:17:45.319 have to have the right equilibrium between how much the 288 00:17:45.359 --> 00:17:47.680 tax and they give a little bit of money back 289 00:17:47.720 --> 00:17:49.359 to those who are going to spend the money. Makes 290 00:17:49.400 --> 00:17:52.279 a lot of sense because the rising tide lifts all boats, 291 00:17:52.319 --> 00:17:56.119 and by doing that, you increase federal revenues. And I 292 00:17:57.640 --> 00:18:00.880 have little doubt the intentions are good, but the reality 293 00:18:00.960 --> 00:18:03.319 is the Washington elite are going to eat up and 294 00:18:03.400 --> 00:18:08.400 spit out Donald Trump and Johnson and those in McConnell 295 00:18:08.440 --> 00:18:11.799 and Thune and those in the Senate, because it's the 296 00:18:11.839 --> 00:18:15.039 way the system is. I'm losing faith and ability and 297 00:18:15.160 --> 00:18:18.839 Republicans to keep federal spending where it is and to 298 00:18:18.880 --> 00:18:21.640 give modest tax cuts and get rid of all the 299 00:18:21.680 --> 00:18:24.519 crap in the federal budget. Because tonight's going to be 300 00:18:24.519 --> 00:18:27.319 a precursor to what's going to happen Wednesday Thursday. So 301 00:18:27.359 --> 00:18:29.319 let's continue with the more. And by the way, my 302 00:18:29.440 --> 00:18:35.000 good friend Dan Bongino said again that disgrace phoinance financier 303 00:18:35.359 --> 00:18:38.880 Jeffrey Epstein killed himself in the Manhattan jail cell, that 304 00:18:39.240 --> 00:18:42.039 he wasn't killed by others, although I'm sure powerful men 305 00:18:42.599 --> 00:18:45.680 wanted them dead. But when Dan Bongino says it, I 306 00:18:45.759 --> 00:18:49.240 believe it. And secondly, Cash put tell later on's going 307 00:18:49.319 --> 00:18:52.720 to have more information in the Russian collusion delusion, which 308 00:18:52.839 --> 00:18:55.880 I hope comes out because those responsible for that should 309 00:18:55.920 --> 00:18:59.440 be indicted, including Hillary Clinton. I might add, let's continue 310 00:18:59.440 --> 00:19:01.759 with more three lines open. If you call it out'll 311 00:19:01.759 --> 00:19:04.240 take some calls on the other side. Eight sixty six 312 00:19:04.559 --> 00:19:07.759 six four seven seven three three seven. Tonight, the House 313 00:19:07.799 --> 00:19:10.920 Budget Committee trying to passle onto the Rules Committee some 314 00:19:10.960 --> 00:19:13.400 sort of a bill, and I hope those hardliners on 315 00:19:13.480 --> 00:19:17.440 the deficit stand their position. Bill Cunningham, the great American, 316 00:19:17.480 --> 00:19:20.359 with you and all of the great Americans every Sunday night. 317 00:19:41.880 --> 00:19:44.599 You know, I like to monitor news agencies around the 318 00:19:44.599 --> 00:19:46.799 world to give you every Sunday night what's happening. By 319 00:19:46.839 --> 00:19:49.200 the way, our phone number I'll take calls right after 320 00:19:49.240 --> 00:19:52.880 this at eight sixty six six four seven seven three 321 00:19:53.000 --> 00:19:56.279 three seven. But one of the articles of faith, and 322 00:19:56.279 --> 00:19:59.200 you've heard it recently, is that Iran has had now 323 00:19:59.279 --> 00:20:02.559 four rounds of talks with Marco Rubio, jd Vance, etc. 324 00:20:03.680 --> 00:20:06.920 And the Donald would like to do a deal in 325 00:20:06.960 --> 00:20:11.160 which the IAEA does the inspection with Americans to make 326 00:20:11.200 --> 00:20:14.519 sure they're not enriching any more uranium in Iran, in 327 00:20:14.519 --> 00:20:16.480 fact getting rid of what they got. They don't need 328 00:20:16.519 --> 00:20:20.480 it for electrical production in Iran, which is the cheapest 329 00:20:20.559 --> 00:20:23.680 the electrical cost in the Middle East. It's very cheap. 330 00:20:24.440 --> 00:20:28.039 But the Iranian Foreign minister said Sunday afternoon a few 331 00:20:28.079 --> 00:20:31.359 hours ago that regardless of whether a nuclear deal is 332 00:20:31.480 --> 00:20:35.440 reached or not with the US, Iran will enrich more 333 00:20:35.640 --> 00:20:40.240 uranium and the statement that US officials were privy to 334 00:20:40.400 --> 00:20:44.279 during the discussions. He said, quote, Iran can only control 335 00:20:44.359 --> 00:20:48.319 what Iranians do, and that is to avoid negotiating in public, 336 00:20:48.400 --> 00:20:53.279 particularly given the current dissidents. We're seeing between what our 337 00:20:53.400 --> 00:20:58.480 US US interlookers say in public and in private. But 338 00:20:58.640 --> 00:21:02.839 one thing is certain, Iran will not stop enriching uranium. 339 00:21:03.279 --> 00:21:08.119 Mark Rubio said the other day that the IAEA referred 340 00:21:08.160 --> 00:21:11.480 to the United Nations Nuclear watchdog not it in March 341 00:21:11.839 --> 00:21:15.279 what two months ago that Iran, in a stockpile of 342 00:21:15.359 --> 00:21:18.880 sixty percent of rich uranium, had grown from one hundred 343 00:21:18.880 --> 00:21:22.480 and sixty two kilograms this two hundred and seventy five 344 00:21:23.000 --> 00:21:27.519 reportedly approximately six hundred pounds in early twenty twenty five, 345 00:21:27.920 --> 00:21:32.400 capable of producing dozens of thermonuclear weapons. Once you're at 346 00:21:32.440 --> 00:21:35.519 sixty percent, you're most of the way there. It will 347 00:21:35.559 --> 00:21:38.000 take a few weeks to enrich it further in order 348 00:21:38.039 --> 00:21:40.599 to get it up to nuclear grade to use and 349 00:21:40.680 --> 00:21:43.160 to marry on top of a weapon. He said, We're 350 00:21:43.160 --> 00:21:46.920 at the threshold of a nuclear weapon and Iran will 351 00:21:46.960 --> 00:21:50.559 not back down to the US. The President said on 352 00:21:50.640 --> 00:21:54.559 Thursday that the Iran have sort of agreed to terms 353 00:21:54.839 --> 00:21:58.279 of a nuclear deal, whatever that means. Well, here we 354 00:21:58.319 --> 00:22:02.559 are the safternoon on Sunday. The Foreign Minister of Iran 355 00:22:02.599 --> 00:22:06.839 said that's not true. Said we will go our own 356 00:22:06.880 --> 00:22:10.960 way on this thing, as I've said before, and Edward 357 00:22:11.039 --> 00:22:13.160 will be my first call from Tampa Bay. I love 358 00:22:13.200 --> 00:22:16.480 Tampa Bay eight sixty six six four seven seven three 359 00:22:16.599 --> 00:22:21.000 three seven. That Iran is run by a death cult 360 00:22:21.799 --> 00:22:27.160 of iman's and mulas who consider death more desirable than life. 361 00:22:27.400 --> 00:22:31.440 Most even foreign despots, understand that they want to live. 362 00:22:32.160 --> 00:22:37.720 Even Russian soldiers are Japanese or Chinese or American soldiers. 363 00:22:37.759 --> 00:22:40.799 At the end of the day, Russians want to live. 364 00:22:42.039 --> 00:22:45.039 The death cult in Iran they want to die. They 365 00:22:45.039 --> 00:22:48.000 think by dying in some sort of jihad is there 366 00:22:48.279 --> 00:22:51.279 is there is a ticket to seventy two versions in heaven, 367 00:22:51.759 --> 00:22:54.839 and so it is a death cult. Almas Hesbalah both 368 00:22:54.920 --> 00:23:01.880 are ram the groups in Iran et h. They're basically 369 00:23:02.079 --> 00:23:05.680 desiring death. And so when you have that kind of attitude, 370 00:23:05.720 --> 00:23:09.440 we're in trouble. And Iran knows, I hope they know 371 00:23:10.000 --> 00:23:14.039 that the IDF and Americans were not exactly bluffing. Let's 372 00:23:14.079 --> 00:23:16.759 go to the calls and if a line becomes available. 373 00:23:16.759 --> 00:23:19.440 A couple are available now at eight six six six 374 00:23:19.559 --> 00:23:22.519 four seven seven three three seven. Let's go to Edward 375 00:23:22.599 --> 00:23:25.400 in New York and then a call from Joe and I'm 376 00:23:25.400 --> 00:23:28.359 sorry Edward and Tampa and Joe in New York. Edward 377 00:23:28.400 --> 00:23:30.759 and Tampa, welcome to the Bill Cunningham Show. Edward, how 378 00:23:30.799 --> 00:23:32.880 are you Bill thinking? 379 00:23:32.920 --> 00:23:35.279 We're taking my const in a while? But yeah, I 380 00:23:35.319 --> 00:23:40.160 mean President Trump gets an a on this trip, especially 381 00:23:40.319 --> 00:23:43.920 with India in Pakistan over kashimir because those are two 382 00:23:43.960 --> 00:23:46.799 nuclear powers. I mean, you didn't expect a bully like 383 00:23:47.200 --> 00:23:51.720 Turkey the Ertawan to be the peacemaker. No, President Trump 384 00:23:51.759 --> 00:23:54.960 outwit everybody else in the United Nations. 385 00:23:55.160 --> 00:23:56.079 So good job. Bone. 386 00:23:56.480 --> 00:23:59.200 You saw what they did on sixty minutes today with China. 387 00:23:59.440 --> 00:24:03.279 Yes, about that, Explain explain that to the American people. 388 00:24:03.599 --> 00:24:06.039 I watched sixty minutes many times that you don't have to, 389 00:24:06.440 --> 00:24:09.200 but explain what sixty minutes did with communist red China. 390 00:24:10.799 --> 00:24:17.359 Right, So they're they're watching, they're shadowing these uh Chinese 391 00:24:17.359 --> 00:24:20.119 that made it over here to America, and they got 392 00:24:20.160 --> 00:24:22.799 spies because they want to bring these people over. This 393 00:24:22.880 --> 00:24:25.319 is why they set up those police stations. Remember the 394 00:24:25.359 --> 00:24:26.480 police stations they set. 395 00:24:26.400 --> 00:24:27.279 Up in New York Times. 396 00:24:27.640 --> 00:24:28.480 That's the purpose of that. 397 00:24:28.680 --> 00:24:31.960 It's a smash these people and take them back to China. 398 00:24:32.160 --> 00:24:38.480 And basically our power grid, our water systems are electrical grid. Uh, 399 00:24:38.559 --> 00:24:43.440 maybe everything that we have is encoded by the Majijiao 400 00:24:43.559 --> 00:24:47.079 Pang and his regime with certain ways of cutting us 401 00:24:47.079 --> 00:24:50.039 off completely. And there are literally about half a million 402 00:24:50.160 --> 00:24:52.680 Chinese living in America and they have to have police 403 00:24:52.680 --> 00:24:56.480 stations in various American cities, police stations to police the 404 00:24:56.599 --> 00:24:59.440 Chinese inside of America. And if you act up, you'll 405 00:24:59.440 --> 00:25:01.839 be killed or back home. How about that one? 406 00:25:01.880 --> 00:25:04.960 Yeah, And the Chinese, the Chinese satellite companies are also 407 00:25:05.519 --> 00:25:08.519 giving help to the hoodies in Yemen. That's how they're 408 00:25:08.880 --> 00:25:12.440 bombing those ships because of those Chinese satellites. 409 00:25:12.720 --> 00:25:14.920 And Edward I read a few days ago that the 410 00:25:15.000 --> 00:25:17.720 communist Red Chinese have set up a deal with Colombia 411 00:25:18.240 --> 00:25:21.359 to be part of the Silken Road effort. Much like 412 00:25:21.880 --> 00:25:25.119 Peru is part of that effort, and much like Panama 413 00:25:25.240 --> 00:25:27.279 is part of that effort, where the Chinese come in 414 00:25:27.599 --> 00:25:30.640 and they loan you the money to build water systems, 415 00:25:30.720 --> 00:25:33.799 highways and bridges and then they close on the loans 416 00:25:33.799 --> 00:25:36.039 in such a way as to own a lot of 417 00:25:36.079 --> 00:25:39.480 the resources of those countries. And now they're in Colombia. 418 00:25:39.519 --> 00:25:42.880 Whatever happened to the Monroe doctor? Remember eighteen twenty three, 419 00:25:42.960 --> 00:25:45.240 the Monroe doctor. What happened to that? 420 00:25:46.640 --> 00:25:49.079 Yeah, it's gone. Yeah, this is ridiculous. 421 00:25:49.200 --> 00:25:50.920 Yeah, And unfortunately you don't hear this in the media 422 00:25:51.079 --> 00:25:53.839 because it doesn't really have to do your research on this. 423 00:25:54.000 --> 00:25:56.079 But thank God for you, because I called the brotherhood. 424 00:25:56.079 --> 00:25:58.759 I told them, Hey, we got to get these bills passed, 425 00:25:58.799 --> 00:26:02.400 because that's fun as the sharpie are. If Democrats get 426 00:26:02.440 --> 00:26:04.519 back in power, they can overturn these SHARPI store, it 427 00:26:04.599 --> 00:26:06.559 is so important that we pass built Lows. 428 00:26:06.920 --> 00:26:09.440 Well, tonight's a big night. Allegedly, I'm told they're going 429 00:26:09.519 --> 00:26:11.519 to pass it and give it to the Rules Committee 430 00:26:11.519 --> 00:26:14.119 on Wednesday. Let's see what happens. Let's continue now with 431 00:26:15.079 --> 00:26:17.519 Joe in New York, and then Bob and San Diego 432 00:26:17.559 --> 00:26:20.200 and John and Delaware, the home of Joe Biden who 433 00:26:20.240 --> 00:26:23.240 now has stage four cancer, and Bob and I'm sorry, 434 00:26:23.319 --> 00:26:26.599 Bob and San Diego, welcome to Bill Cunningham Show. Then Joe, Bob, 435 00:26:26.640 --> 00:26:27.079 how are you? 436 00:26:28.759 --> 00:26:28.960 Hey? 437 00:26:29.039 --> 00:26:30.720 Bill, I'm fine, thanks for having me. 438 00:26:30.839 --> 00:26:34.079 Yes, sir, I work for a biotech company back in 439 00:26:34.160 --> 00:26:37.640 two thousand and three to two thousand and seven, and 440 00:26:37.680 --> 00:26:40.839 if you remember, back then, there was a bill called 441 00:26:40.920 --> 00:26:46.160 Project BioShield, introduced by Bill Frist and the Republican Party 442 00:26:46.680 --> 00:26:50.519 to bring drugs to market that could protect us from terrorism. 443 00:26:50.720 --> 00:26:52.480 Yes, we had a drug. 444 00:26:52.640 --> 00:26:55.599 My company had a drug that would protect people from 445 00:26:55.640 --> 00:26:59.440 a cute radiation syndrome. If a nuclear bomb goes off 446 00:26:59.680 --> 00:27:02.440 in the thirty of people are gonna die from a 447 00:27:02.519 --> 00:27:07.359 cute radiation syndrome. That's what our drug did, Okay. I 448 00:27:07.599 --> 00:27:12.559 met with Israel the military in two thousand and six 449 00:27:13.279 --> 00:27:16.480 and I presented our data and of course the FDA 450 00:27:16.519 --> 00:27:21.440 and everybody knew our data back then, and we had 451 00:27:21.720 --> 00:27:24.559 a drug that could protect people who could stock pilot. 452 00:27:24.640 --> 00:27:27.000 It was very inexpensive at the time. 453 00:27:27.319 --> 00:27:28.039 You can look it up. 454 00:27:28.759 --> 00:27:30.799 I was on sixty minutes over this thing. 455 00:27:31.400 --> 00:27:34.440 It was a big deal. And when we presented. 456 00:27:34.000 --> 00:27:38.640 Our daily data to the Israeli military, they turned on 457 00:27:38.720 --> 00:27:41.000 the video. This is back in two thousand and five, 458 00:27:41.480 --> 00:27:46.559 and they showed me and my scientists F sixteen's that 459 00:27:46.599 --> 00:27:51.200 went in the Iraq and they took out the nuclear plants, okay, 460 00:27:51.440 --> 00:27:54.240 and they said, we don't think they don't think Iran 461 00:27:54.519 --> 00:27:58.200 has a nuclear bomb, and if we ever think they do, 462 00:27:58.960 --> 00:27:59.359 this is. 463 00:27:59.359 --> 00:28:01.559 Exactly what we're gonna do. 464 00:28:02.160 --> 00:28:03.039 I open my. 465 00:28:03.160 --> 00:28:06.359 Presentation and you can look it up with the Economists. 466 00:28:06.640 --> 00:28:10.000 The cover of The Economist that year at Arma Dinijohn, 467 00:28:10.480 --> 00:28:13.559 who was the man in power at around and in 468 00:28:13.640 --> 00:28:18.400 the background on the cover said unstoppable to the nuclear weapon. 469 00:28:19.000 --> 00:28:24.319 They will not stop enriching uranium and they will have 470 00:28:24.359 --> 00:28:28.359 a nuclear weapon. This is not negotiable. And I'm telling 471 00:28:28.400 --> 00:28:30.960 you we're gonna have to take them out. There's no 472 00:28:31.079 --> 00:28:34.559 other choice. Well I know this, I studied it and 473 00:28:34.599 --> 00:28:35.200 everything else. 474 00:28:35.240 --> 00:28:37.799 Couldn't agree more. And they can say what you want 475 00:28:37.839 --> 00:28:39.119 to say, but at the end of the day, they're 476 00:28:39.160 --> 00:28:42.039 gonna keep the nuclear weapon because they're gonna look at 477 00:28:42.079 --> 00:28:45.240 Libya as the role model. What happens when you give 478 00:28:45.319 --> 00:28:48.359 up weapons of mass destruction, you get destroyed. And they 479 00:28:48.400 --> 00:28:50.799 do not want peace. They want war because they want 480 00:28:50.839 --> 00:28:53.880 to kill Jews and kill Americans, and they see themselves 481 00:28:54.000 --> 00:28:57.920 nuclear bombs, the nuclear weaponry, and they have ballistic missiles 482 00:28:58.039 --> 00:29:00.000 as a way of ensuring their own service. 483 00:29:02.000 --> 00:29:05.680 We can't let them have it, and either Israel or 484 00:29:05.680 --> 00:29:09.240 a combination of the United States will take them out. 485 00:29:09.599 --> 00:29:13.680 There is no negotiation none. They're gonna lie and they're 486 00:29:13.720 --> 00:29:17.160 not gonna They're not gonna stop now. They're right on 487 00:29:17.720 --> 00:29:20.240 the cusp of abingdon. I'm telling you, if they don't 488 00:29:20.240 --> 00:29:21.279 have it already. 489 00:29:20.960 --> 00:29:22.839 And if they have it already and they threaten to 490 00:29:22.920 --> 00:29:24.640 use it and then they think they got they got 491 00:29:24.720 --> 00:29:29.160 Trump and the Trump card to play. And Israel, unlike America, 492 00:29:29.200 --> 00:29:31.519 I don't think Iran's gonna have the capability of launching 493 00:29:31.759 --> 00:29:34.920 against US anytime soon. But if they had the capability, 494 00:29:34.960 --> 00:29:37.359 they would, But they would launch against Israel in a 495 00:29:37.359 --> 00:29:40.160 heartbeat to kill six million Jews. That's what they're in 496 00:29:40.200 --> 00:29:43.079 the business to do. And can you imagine if Israel 497 00:29:43.119 --> 00:29:46.200 put down all their arms today, they would be overwhelmed. 498 00:29:46.559 --> 00:29:49.880 If Hamas and Hesla put down their arms, they'd be peace. 499 00:29:50.440 --> 00:29:55.160 Israeli's wan piece. Iranians want war and America should give 500 00:29:55.160 --> 00:29:57.359 it to them. 501 00:29:57.519 --> 00:29:59.319 Well, they've got to take it ran out. 502 00:29:59.599 --> 00:30:04.440 No question negotiable. It's not negotiable. 503 00:30:04.039 --> 00:30:05.720 Unless all of a sudden they change. 504 00:30:06.000 --> 00:30:06.079 Uh. 505 00:30:06.839 --> 00:30:10.880 I can't imagine I'm reading out of Iranian sources. What'sh 506 00:30:10.960 --> 00:30:15.240 The Iranian Foreign minister said this afternoon, no matter what happens, 507 00:30:15.400 --> 00:30:18.000 we're going to keep enriching are uranium, no matter what 508 00:30:18.079 --> 00:30:20.480 Americans say, We're going to keep doing it. And they are. 509 00:30:20.680 --> 00:30:22.000 They tell us what they're gonna do. 510 00:30:23.440 --> 00:30:26.480 Well, that's right. It's not for nuclear power, Make no mistake. 511 00:30:26.759 --> 00:30:28.680 We can give them all the energy they want for 512 00:30:28.759 --> 00:30:29.400 nuclear power. 513 00:30:29.440 --> 00:30:32.079 They don't need it. They've got more oil than anyone, 514 00:30:32.400 --> 00:30:35.400 so they don't. This is all a facade so. 515 00:30:35.279 --> 00:30:38.799 They can get a nuclear weapon, and that is really 516 00:30:38.880 --> 00:30:42.240 their motive. And I know Israel knows this, and Trump 517 00:30:42.279 --> 00:30:46.119 knows it. And I'm sorry, but I think we should 518 00:30:46.119 --> 00:30:49.079 be prepared to just take them out because it's not 519 00:30:49.160 --> 00:30:50.000 going to be any different. 520 00:30:50.079 --> 00:30:55.720 No, I wouldn't believe a word the Iranian people one piece. 521 00:30:56.160 --> 00:30:59.079 But the Iranian people can't control their own government. There's 522 00:30:59.119 --> 00:31:02.039 no free elections. Although they have so called elections there, 523 00:31:02.039 --> 00:31:05.839 they're not free elections. Iranians are hurting under all these sanctions. 524 00:31:06.079 --> 00:31:09.440 And Iranian people want peace, and unfortunately they've had a 525 00:31:09.480 --> 00:31:12.599 government since nineteen seventy nine, it wants war. If they 526 00:31:12.599 --> 00:31:15.599 want war, Israel will give it to them and that's 527 00:31:15.640 --> 00:31:16.440 what has to happen. 528 00:31:18.359 --> 00:31:19.680 I couldn't agree with you. 529 00:31:20.400 --> 00:31:27.039 Unfortunately, like Palestine, Hamas owns Palestine. I mean, it's just 530 00:31:27.359 --> 00:31:33.640 the same thing. These people are bent on destruction period. 531 00:31:32.799 --> 00:31:36.839 Killing and death, killing and death, and the Gazans, the 532 00:31:36.839 --> 00:31:40.519 Palestinians would love to have peace. In fact, when they 533 00:31:40.599 --> 00:31:44.799 protest against Tamas, the family is beheaded, the women are raped, 534 00:31:44.839 --> 00:31:48.680 the men are killed. Hamas kills Palestinians. Everything happening in 535 00:31:48.720 --> 00:31:51.559 the Gaza right now is occasion because of the behavior 536 00:31:51.599 --> 00:31:55.759 of a mass supported by Iran. But for Iran, Hamas 537 00:31:55.799 --> 00:32:02.359 could not exist. The head of the snake, that's exactly right. 538 00:32:02.440 --> 00:32:05.000 And if you don't take them out, and they're gonna 539 00:32:05.039 --> 00:32:08.599 take themselves out by continuing to go down this path 540 00:32:08.880 --> 00:32:12.680 of enriching uranium, it's the one purpose. And I can 541 00:32:12.720 --> 00:32:15.559 tell you when I met with the Israeli military, it's 542 00:32:15.640 --> 00:32:16.680 not gonna happen. 543 00:32:17.160 --> 00:32:18.400 No, You're not going to happen. 544 00:32:18.440 --> 00:32:18.799 They can't. 545 00:32:18.839 --> 00:32:21.039 They know the end result. They can't. 546 00:32:21.319 --> 00:32:24.799 The end result is six million more dead Jews, six 547 00:32:24.880 --> 00:32:29.039 million more dead Jews. And then if and if Israel response, 548 00:32:29.079 --> 00:32:32.240 which I'm sure they will, and destroy most of Tehran 549 00:32:32.319 --> 00:32:35.839 and most of Iran in response. That's okay too, because 550 00:32:35.880 --> 00:32:39.759 the Iranian leadership believes that in death comes life, that 551 00:32:39.799 --> 00:32:43.240 by killing, life comes, and so they're not fearing a 552 00:32:43.319 --> 00:32:46.359 response because after all, they believe in death. They don't 553 00:32:46.359 --> 00:32:50.920 believe in life. It's a death cult. Well, you know death. 554 00:32:51.279 --> 00:32:55.799 Unfortunately, it has to come before they attack Israel. 555 00:32:56.240 --> 00:32:58.119 Well they have to do it before. 556 00:32:57.920 --> 00:33:00.319 Bob, you and I make you think most of you 557 00:33:00.319 --> 00:33:02.240 think most of the world understands what you and I 558 00:33:02.400 --> 00:33:03.039 just discussed. 559 00:33:05.279 --> 00:33:09.720 Studied it. I studied nuclear weapony. I know how many 560 00:33:09.759 --> 00:33:13.440 people with a bowling ball size of uranium, how many 561 00:33:13.519 --> 00:33:16.799 it will kill with radiation sickness. I studied the whole thing, 562 00:33:17.279 --> 00:33:19.599 and I know it better than anybody. I wrote a 563 00:33:19.680 --> 00:33:23.480 book and a movie script about it because our government, 564 00:33:23.839 --> 00:33:26.640 even back then when Bush was president, did not do 565 00:33:26.880 --> 00:33:31.200 enough because of the bureaucracy. And unfortunately this has to 566 00:33:31.279 --> 00:33:34.160 be this story has to be told, so you're going 567 00:33:34.240 --> 00:33:37.240 to see. Unfortunately, I think you're going to see exactly 568 00:33:37.880 --> 00:33:40.000 the result. The Israeli has told me when I met 569 00:33:40.000 --> 00:33:43.640 with them, they're going to take Iran's nuclear capability away. 570 00:33:43.839 --> 00:33:46.759 I have to Bob, I wish it was different there's 571 00:33:46.799 --> 00:33:50.160 going to be innocent Iranians killed, just like there's innocent 572 00:33:50.279 --> 00:33:53.640 Gossin's killed because of a moss. The goals of a 573 00:33:53.640 --> 00:33:55.799 moss are the same as the goals of the Iranian 574 00:33:55.880 --> 00:33:58.640 leadership has blood, the same, bok are rama the same, 575 00:33:59.000 --> 00:34:01.839 the same stuff, And it's not it's not called to change. 576 00:34:01.839 --> 00:34:06.559 That's exactly right, And I don't care what spin you 577 00:34:06.640 --> 00:34:09.280 put on it, it's not going to change. They have 578 00:34:09.360 --> 00:34:14.400 an ideology that's going to eliminate the Jews and eliminate Israel, 579 00:34:14.639 --> 00:34:17.519 and we can't let it happen because we're next. 580 00:34:17.800 --> 00:34:20.840 They don't like us either. What do you think who's 581 00:34:20.880 --> 00:34:23.639 protesting in these colleges. It's them. 582 00:34:24.480 --> 00:34:28.679 It's funded and well funded protest. But it's an ideology 583 00:34:28.719 --> 00:34:32.480 that believes in death, not life, and given enough military power, 584 00:34:32.760 --> 00:34:35.719 they would they would destroy Europe, they would destroy the 585 00:34:35.800 --> 00:34:38.679 United States, they would destroy anything in their way because 586 00:34:38.719 --> 00:34:41.679 their culture is one of death not life. And almost 587 00:34:41.679 --> 00:34:45.159 every army wants to live, but the Iranian army that 588 00:34:45.199 --> 00:34:47.639 believes in this death called they want to die, and 589 00:34:47.679 --> 00:34:49.039 so why not arrange the meeting? 590 00:34:49.480 --> 00:34:54.119 That's that's exactly right. It's it's it's we've known this 591 00:34:54.159 --> 00:34:56.639 for a long time, but thank god we have a 592 00:34:56.639 --> 00:35:00.639 president that's going to address it, because you say, it's 593 00:35:00.679 --> 00:35:03.599 not even the president, it's the Democratic Party and it's 594 00:35:03.679 --> 00:35:07.920 everything that people are ignoring this threat and you can't 595 00:35:07.920 --> 00:35:08.800 ignore it anymore. 596 00:35:08.840 --> 00:35:11.280 Bob, just keep listening. This is going to happen in 597 00:35:11.320 --> 00:35:13.519 the next one to two months, and sadly a lot 598 00:35:13.519 --> 00:35:15.440 of people, innocent people is going to be killed. But 599 00:35:15.800 --> 00:35:19.119 the Iranian government's brought it on themselves. Let's continue with 600 00:35:19.199 --> 00:35:21.679 more forty nine minutes after the hour, Bill Cunningham with 601 00:35:21.719 --> 00:35:35.320 you Every Sunday Night by Billy Cunningham. My last caller 602 00:35:35.719 --> 00:35:38.880 had it exactly correct. I wish things were different. Innocent 603 00:35:38.960 --> 00:35:43.360 civilians are always killed in terrible wars brought about by 604 00:35:43.360 --> 00:35:46.559 their leaders, and the innocence of the children is lost, 605 00:35:46.599 --> 00:35:49.960 and the killing of civilians happen all the time in 606 00:35:50.079 --> 00:35:53.199 terrible wars. Make no mistake about this. Israel is in 607 00:35:53.239 --> 00:35:57.280 a fight for its life, it's survivability. If Israel was 608 00:35:57.320 --> 00:36:02.000 disarmed tonight, they would be over whelmed by Islamic extremists 609 00:36:02.000 --> 00:36:07.039 all over the Middle East. If the extremists were disarmed tonight, Hesbilahamas, 610 00:36:07.360 --> 00:36:12.400 Boko Haram, Taliban Iran. If that happened, there'd be peace. 611 00:36:12.679 --> 00:36:16.960 Israel wants peace, in Iran wants war. And that's why 612 00:36:17.000 --> 00:36:19.880 the trip by the President Wednesday, Thursday and Friday was 613 00:36:19.920 --> 00:36:23.000 so important to the Middle East to get on his 614 00:36:23.159 --> 00:36:25.880 side of the table. I'm sure in private meetings he 615 00:36:26.000 --> 00:36:28.920 told the leaders of those three Middle Eastern countries what 616 00:36:28.960 --> 00:36:31.800 the plans are, and those leaders gave Donald Trump the 617 00:36:31.840 --> 00:36:34.360 green light to do what must be done to disarm 618 00:36:34.400 --> 00:36:38.000 their enemy. Also is Iran. The only group hating Iran 619 00:36:38.119 --> 00:36:42.800 more militarily would be a Saudi Arabia, because Saudi Arabia 620 00:36:42.840 --> 00:36:46.000 has been bombed etc. By the Hoodies rebels in South 621 00:36:46.079 --> 00:36:49.599 Yem and armed by Iran. And so it's sad. It 622 00:36:49.719 --> 00:36:52.079 is sick. But the IDF can do it by itself 623 00:36:52.440 --> 00:36:55.280 with little or no American help, and they've been attacked 624 00:36:55.320 --> 00:36:59.239 repeatedly by Iran. It is time to respond, and sadly, 625 00:36:59.280 --> 00:37:03.360 the Iranian people may suffer in the process. If Hamas 626 00:37:03.440 --> 00:37:08.719 did not exist inside of Gaza after twenty five, when 627 00:37:08.760 --> 00:37:12.039 Israel withdrew, there'd be peace in the Middle East. There'd 628 00:37:12.039 --> 00:37:16.960 be functional farms and villages and factories. There'd be functional hospitals, 629 00:37:16.960 --> 00:37:20.800 and schools. Gaza would be functional, but Hamas cannot allow 630 00:37:20.840 --> 00:37:23.559 that they live by death. They live by some sort 631 00:37:23.599 --> 00:37:25.960 of code that says to get to heaven, you've got 632 00:37:26.000 --> 00:37:28.400 to kill a Jew, or kill an American, or kill 633 00:37:28.400 --> 00:37:31.599 a Westerner. They have attacked cities all over the world. 634 00:37:31.880 --> 00:37:34.920 In fact, since nineteen seventy nine, there's been a quarter 635 00:37:34.960 --> 00:37:38.599 of a million Islamic extremist attacks all over the world 636 00:37:38.760 --> 00:37:43.320 since nineteen seventy nine, with millions are killed. And somehow 637 00:37:43.360 --> 00:37:46.199 this philosophy is not taken hold yet of the Middle 638 00:37:46.239 --> 00:37:49.239 East under the leadership of Donald Trump, who stopped war 639 00:37:49.280 --> 00:37:52.519 between India and Pakistan, will bring peace to Ukraine and 640 00:37:52.639 --> 00:37:55.960 Russia and also bring peace to the Middle East. Donald 641 00:37:56.000 --> 00:37:58.840 should get the Nobel Peace Prize. Coming up, my first 642 00:37:58.840 --> 00:38:01.519 guest of the ninet is Jeff true Air on Townhall 643 00:38:01.679 --> 00:38:05.239 dot Com about making sure Trump gets the Nobel Peace Prize. 644 00:38:05.360 --> 00:38:08.119 Bill Cunningham with you every Sunday. 645 00:38:07.880 --> 00:38:38.559 Night, Willie Brock You by Choice Hotels, Econo Lodge and 646 00:38:38.679 --> 00:38:41.239 Roadway in Hotels are serving up double points for every 647 00:38:41.320 --> 00:38:45.320 qualifying stay book at Choice Hotels dot com. Now here's 648 00:38:45.360 --> 00:38:49.239 the man who's been recognized as radio's best The recipient 649 00:38:49.320 --> 00:38:52.840 of not one but two prestigious Marconi Awards for his 650 00:38:53.000 --> 00:38:58.559 broadcast exodence The One and Only Bill Cunningham. 651 00:38:57.639 --> 00:38:59.960 By Billy Cunningham, The Great American. Of course, the president 652 00:39:00.079 --> 00:39:02.760 trip to the Middle East is now complete, and the 653 00:39:02.800 --> 00:39:06.199 Peacemaker in chief has tried with the Ukrainian situation. That 654 00:39:06.320 --> 00:39:09.800 thing is ongoing. Of course, great inroads I think were 655 00:39:09.840 --> 00:39:12.000 made with Gaza, and what's going to happen with the 656 00:39:12.000 --> 00:39:17.199 hesblon Hamas and Iran Trump is unbelievable. Joining you and 657 00:39:17.280 --> 00:39:20.000 I now is Jeffrey krue Air. He's an author, radio 658 00:39:20.039 --> 00:39:23.760 talk show host, often appearing on townhall dot Com, one 659 00:39:23.760 --> 00:39:26.159 of my favorite websites, and I want to share with 660 00:39:26.159 --> 00:39:29.599 the American people. Two headlines from Jeff Crueir. One quote 661 00:39:29.719 --> 00:39:34.000 Trump deserves Nobel Prize as world's champion peacemaker. I'm not 662 00:39:34.000 --> 00:39:36.840 sure NBC News would ever call it that. Another one 663 00:39:36.920 --> 00:39:40.000 is Joe Biden the biggest cover up in American history 664 00:39:40.440 --> 00:39:43.440 about being mentally incompetent for at least two or three 665 00:39:43.480 --> 00:39:46.079 years as the president. And Joining you and I now 666 00:39:46.159 --> 00:39:48.639 is Jeffrey Crueer. In first, Jeff, how would you overall 667 00:39:48.719 --> 00:39:52.920 describe the conduction of American foreign policy under Donald Trump 668 00:39:53.159 --> 00:39:57.800 as opposed to the auto pen man Joe Biden. 669 00:39:59.079 --> 00:40:01.800 Well, it's like going from the little sisters of the 670 00:40:01.840 --> 00:40:05.920 poor to the Kansas City chiefs. I mean, we're getting 671 00:40:05.960 --> 00:40:10.960 the pros back in charge. We're getting America first, patriots 672 00:40:11.360 --> 00:40:15.000 taking command. I mean, what he has done, Bill is astounding. 673 00:40:16.199 --> 00:40:20.639 It's just incredible. He's putting American people first, he's cutting deals, 674 00:40:20.639 --> 00:40:25.039 he's putting commerce first. He's bringing prosperity all over the world. 675 00:40:25.920 --> 00:40:27.639 He's getting our hostages home. 676 00:40:27.719 --> 00:40:30.280 Bill, and he's. 677 00:40:30.119 --> 00:40:33.800 Trying to prevent war. Now, you know, Joe Biden didn't 678 00:40:33.800 --> 00:40:36.559 do anything in his four years to prevent war. We 679 00:40:36.679 --> 00:40:41.159 just had wars breakout throughout his entire administration. This president's 680 00:40:41.199 --> 00:40:42.840 got to clean up the Biden mess. 681 00:40:43.360 --> 00:40:44.719 He's doing a great job. 682 00:40:45.599 --> 00:40:48.800 On my website, I gave him an a plus for 683 00:40:49.000 --> 00:40:50.480 his first one hundred days. 684 00:40:50.519 --> 00:40:53.239 Still, and how about this. One of your great sentences 685 00:40:53.320 --> 00:40:57.280 is this incredibly Barack Obama was nominated for the Nobel 686 00:40:57.320 --> 00:41:00.119 Peace Prize a few days after it was inauguration and 687 00:41:00.199 --> 00:41:03.159 actually received it. He was given the award for promising 688 00:41:03.199 --> 00:41:05.880 what he would achieve as president. He left office in 689 00:41:05.960 --> 00:41:08.559 twenty seventeen, the world much more dangerous than when he 690 00:41:08.559 --> 00:41:12.280 took office. The Nobel Committee loves Jimmy Carter and Barack 691 00:41:12.360 --> 00:41:16.719 Hussein Obama couldn't care less about Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump. 692 00:41:17.000 --> 00:41:19.960 So is the Nobel Peace Prize just a bit political? 693 00:41:21.559 --> 00:41:21.760 You know? 694 00:41:22.719 --> 00:41:22.960 Bill? 695 00:41:23.159 --> 00:41:25.239 In the column, I cited the fact that they gave 696 00:41:25.320 --> 00:41:28.920 the Nobel Peace Prize to the communist dictator Michael Gorbachev, 697 00:41:29.599 --> 00:41:32.519 when the man who brought down the Evil Empire, brought 698 00:41:32.559 --> 00:41:37.039 down the Iron Curtain, ended Communism, freed hundreds of millions 699 00:41:37.079 --> 00:41:40.480 from the Iron Group of Communism without firing a shot. 700 00:41:40.559 --> 00:41:44.440 Ronald Reagan, he got overlooked, and they gave the communist 701 00:41:44.960 --> 00:41:48.800 the Nobel Peace Prize. They've given North Vietnamese communists the 702 00:41:48.800 --> 00:41:51.400 Nobel Peace Prize. They gave the Acer airfet the Nobel 703 00:41:51.440 --> 00:41:54.519 Peace Prize. They gave out for the Nobel Peace Prize, 704 00:41:54.800 --> 00:41:58.239 they gave Jimmy Carter, they gave, of course, Barack Obama 705 00:41:58.320 --> 00:42:03.159 for doing nothing. Ronald Reagan got no prize. And Donald Trump, 706 00:42:03.199 --> 00:42:07.920 who engineered the Abraham Accords, brought economic relations between Cosova 707 00:42:07.960 --> 00:42:12.360 and Serbia, lessened attentions with North Korea, had summits with 708 00:42:12.440 --> 00:42:14.960 Kim Jung On. Remember Barack Obama told him that was 709 00:42:14.960 --> 00:42:17.400 the number one hot spot in the world. Donald Trump, 710 00:42:17.400 --> 00:42:18.159 but dealt with it. 711 00:42:18.639 --> 00:42:18.880 Now. 712 00:42:18.920 --> 00:42:21.760 He's bringing peace all over the world, trying to end 713 00:42:21.800 --> 00:42:26.039 wars that were started during Biyen's administration. He deserves the 714 00:42:26.079 --> 00:42:28.719 Nobeltree spot more than anybody else in the world. 715 00:42:28.960 --> 00:42:31.199 Yeah, but what about that war? What about that four 716 00:42:32.000 --> 00:42:35.440 million dollar gift to the Department of Defense? What about that? 717 00:42:35.760 --> 00:42:38.159 And what about the fact that Donald Trump Junior may 718 00:42:38.199 --> 00:42:40.039 make money in the Middle East? What about that? Is 719 00:42:40.159 --> 00:42:40.840 that important too? 720 00:42:41.440 --> 00:42:41.800 Really? 721 00:42:42.480 --> 00:42:45.039 I don't like to have my president flying around in 722 00:42:45.079 --> 00:42:49.119 a forty year old plane. Boeing cannot deliver on the 723 00:42:49.440 --> 00:42:52.000 new Air Force one that should have been delivered already. 724 00:42:52.519 --> 00:42:56.880 We need to find the president a better plane in 725 00:42:56.920 --> 00:43:00.679 the interim. This is one that they're offering. I think, 726 00:43:00.719 --> 00:43:03.320 of course, once you get it retrofitted, once you get 727 00:43:03.320 --> 00:43:07.719 it checked out, sure, let's use it for the President 728 00:43:07.760 --> 00:43:10.000 of the United States. I want the President of the 729 00:43:10.079 --> 00:43:13.119 United States flying in a plane that we can trust. 730 00:43:13.400 --> 00:43:15.039 I don't want them up there in a plane that's 731 00:43:15.079 --> 00:43:18.400 forty years old. And you know, it just leads to 732 00:43:18.400 --> 00:43:20.519 a lot of questions about Boeing. I mean, what in 733 00:43:20.559 --> 00:43:22.920 the world has Boeing been doing for all these years, 734 00:43:23.159 --> 00:43:26.639 Bill Cunningham. They've been, you know, not delivering on the 735 00:43:26.639 --> 00:43:30.119 promises they made. And that's a big problem. 736 00:43:30.760 --> 00:43:34.719 Just in the last several days, the Donald's brought back 737 00:43:34.760 --> 00:43:39.119 to America trillions of dollars in economic development from a 738 00:43:39.159 --> 00:43:42.519 part of the world which has been shall we say 739 00:43:42.880 --> 00:43:45.760 cold or cool toward the United States. He now has 740 00:43:46.000 --> 00:43:50.239 Saudi Arabia, UAE, Dubai, et cetera working with him to 741 00:43:50.360 --> 00:43:55.320 take down the so called caliphate in Iran. He's got 742 00:43:55.360 --> 00:43:58.800 them talking the language back and forth. Syria, he meets 743 00:43:58.800 --> 00:44:02.679 with a Syrian presidentident who was a member of al 744 00:44:02.760 --> 00:44:07.239 Qaeda killing Americans. He meets with a Syrian president. So 745 00:44:07.360 --> 00:44:11.559 now he's reshaping, reordering the entire Middle East. And this 746 00:44:11.599 --> 00:44:15.159 is a real estate developer. And I watch MSNBC, so 747 00:44:15.280 --> 00:44:19.199 you don't have to, but I'm watching MSNBC and the 748 00:44:19.239 --> 00:44:22.639 whole world is incomplete collapse because of Donald Trump. Will 749 00:44:22.679 --> 00:44:26.159 talk to India versus Pakistan, how's that deal looking? The 750 00:44:26.199 --> 00:44:30.840 Pakistani president gave Donald Trump complete credit as the peacemaker 751 00:44:31.239 --> 00:44:35.119 for calming down the difficulties which are profound between India 752 00:44:35.440 --> 00:44:39.280 and Pakistan, and the Chinese situation is working out with 753 00:44:39.400 --> 00:44:44.480 tariffs everywhere. I look. This is unbelievable. Imagine and Joe 754 00:44:44.559 --> 00:44:49.360 Biden when he met with the leader Mohammed Binsaman wouldn't 755 00:44:49.360 --> 00:44:52.440 touch Joe Biden. They had to do a rock greeting 756 00:44:52.760 --> 00:44:55.519 and there was nothing out of that complete. Can you 757 00:44:55.519 --> 00:44:59.719 imagine Kamala Harris cackling in Saudi Arabia with any of 758 00:44:59.719 --> 00:45:03.679 this been going on, And I'm thinking this guy as unbelievable. 759 00:45:05.239 --> 00:45:08.760 He received a heroes welcome in all three of those countries. 760 00:45:09.440 --> 00:45:12.559 They treated him like gold. They respect him, they respect 761 00:45:12.599 --> 00:45:16.159 the United States. We're getting trillions of dollars in deals. 762 00:45:16.519 --> 00:45:20.679 The tariffs are working out perfectly, the economy is doing well, 763 00:45:20.800 --> 00:45:24.840 inflation is going down. The left have to find new 764 00:45:24.880 --> 00:45:29.159 things to complain about Bill. I've just been astounded by 765 00:45:29.440 --> 00:45:32.119 what he has done in this first you know, and 766 00:45:32.320 --> 00:45:35.639 one hundred and fifteen days or so. Let me say this, 767 00:45:35.719 --> 00:45:39.320 as far as these conflicts, I like the fact that 768 00:45:39.360 --> 00:45:44.639 he's going around, they're talking to Hamas, they're negotiating with Iran. 769 00:45:45.280 --> 00:45:47.239 You got the who he's now saying, they're not going 770 00:45:47.320 --> 00:45:50.000 to be attacking ships anymore because we pounded them for 771 00:45:50.039 --> 00:45:56.039 fifty two plus days in a row. He's reshaping everything, 772 00:45:56.760 --> 00:45:59.559 and at the same time he's still a friend to Israel. 773 00:46:00.079 --> 00:46:03.000 The same time, he's still trying to bring a bit 774 00:46:03.039 --> 00:46:07.039 out the end of the Ukrainian War. So he's got 775 00:46:07.079 --> 00:46:09.079 a lot of things going on. But he's a guy 776 00:46:09.119 --> 00:46:11.880 who is working twenty four to seven. On the other hand, 777 00:46:12.000 --> 00:46:15.280 Joe Biden, he slept his way through the presidency. He 778 00:46:15.320 --> 00:46:18.320 had an auto pen presidency. We don't even know who 779 00:46:18.400 --> 00:46:21.719 was in charge. There's no doubt who's in charge. Bill, 780 00:46:21.880 --> 00:46:23.480 It's Donald Trump. 781 00:46:23.760 --> 00:46:27.159 A couple of sentences from your column, Jeff Crueir. Reagan 782 00:46:27.239 --> 00:46:31.599 secured massive arms controlled deals with the Soviet Union, reduced 783 00:46:31.760 --> 00:46:35.400 greatly the fears of a nuclear war. His massive investments 784 00:46:35.400 --> 00:46:38.880 in our military bankrupted the Soviet Union, causing its collapse 785 00:46:39.239 --> 00:46:42.800 without firing a shot. Ronald Reagan and ath Eevil Empire 786 00:46:42.880 --> 00:46:45.960 freed millions of people in Eastern Europe from the clutches 787 00:46:46.000 --> 00:46:49.360 of communism. Reagan's policies brought down the Iron Curtain in 788 00:46:49.400 --> 00:46:52.639 the Berlin Wall, and the Nobel Peace Prize was given 789 00:46:52.679 --> 00:46:57.000 to Mikhail Gorbachev and also to lay Dac toe, and 790 00:46:57.039 --> 00:47:01.599 of course yes, you're aer fat and now here. I'm 791 00:47:01.639 --> 00:47:04.320 looking at this and I'm going, well, maybe there's a 792 00:47:04.400 --> 00:47:07.760 left maybe maybe there's a left wing bias, and you 793 00:47:07.920 --> 00:47:11.039 end up what Trump has done in his first four 794 00:47:11.119 --> 00:47:14.000 or five months in office, that this is the greatest 795 00:47:14.039 --> 00:47:17.039 four or five months in office of any American president, 796 00:47:17.360 --> 00:47:21.880 including FDR in nineteen thirty three, whose policies deepened, deepened 797 00:47:21.880 --> 00:47:24.800 the depression. He took a recession and made it a depression. 798 00:47:25.519 --> 00:47:28.960 And I'm looking at this and it's it's like I 799 00:47:29.000 --> 00:47:33.480 live in some alternative universe. MSNBC, the Nightly News, they 800 00:47:33.519 --> 00:47:36.679 don't lead with the fact that Ronald that the Ronald 801 00:47:36.760 --> 00:47:40.840 Reagan of today, who is of course Donald Trump. Brokeer 802 00:47:40.920 --> 00:47:43.840 to peace deal between India and Pakistan so they did 803 00:47:43.840 --> 00:47:48.039 not exchange nuclear weapons. He's meeting with the Syrian president 804 00:47:48.119 --> 00:47:51.400 as a buffer against Iran. He is Iran on its back, 805 00:47:51.480 --> 00:47:55.559 ready to accept the inspection by the IAEA. He has 806 00:47:55.679 --> 00:47:59.480 HESBA law right now in Lebanon, completely neutered. He's got 807 00:47:59.480 --> 00:48:03.920 Hamas and guys are freeing American prisoners. And on top 808 00:48:03.960 --> 00:48:07.480 of that, the trillions of dollars coming into this country. 809 00:48:08.119 --> 00:48:10.559 I watched this morning, some of the morning talk shows, 810 00:48:10.840 --> 00:48:13.280 and the whole world is in com plick collapse, and 811 00:48:13.320 --> 00:48:15.880 I'm thinking, do I live in some alternative universe? 812 00:48:17.840 --> 00:48:19.800 You know, you live in the United States of America, 813 00:48:19.880 --> 00:48:23.239 led by a truly great president. And what's also awesome 814 00:48:23.320 --> 00:48:26.440 Bill is that he surrounded himself with a really good team. 815 00:48:27.039 --> 00:48:31.039 I trust Marco Rubio, I trust jd Vance. That's the 816 00:48:31.079 --> 00:48:34.440 one big improvement that I see over Trump one is 817 00:48:34.480 --> 00:48:37.679 he's got a team around him that believes in his mission, 818 00:48:37.719 --> 00:48:41.519 believes in his agenda. They're capable, they're competent, they're working 819 00:48:41.559 --> 00:48:45.000 with him. So that's why I think he's been so successful, 820 00:48:45.039 --> 00:48:47.480 not just what he's done, but what his team has 821 00:48:47.519 --> 00:48:51.159 been able to do. So it is a rock star start. 822 00:48:51.519 --> 00:48:53.360 But then, you know, we have the critics, We have 823 00:48:53.440 --> 00:48:56.800 the Bruce Springsteens of the world. You know, we've got 824 00:48:56.800 --> 00:49:00.480 the MSNBC's of the world. The left, you know, fixated 825 00:49:00.559 --> 00:49:03.480 on this plane. I mean, they don't see the trillions 826 00:49:03.480 --> 00:49:06.360 of dollars coming in, they don't see the piece that 827 00:49:06.559 --> 00:49:10.400 is breaking out over where. I mean, he is definitely changing. 828 00:49:10.440 --> 00:49:12.880 This entire dynamic that we have with the Middle East 829 00:49:13.599 --> 00:49:17.760 is it is a tremendous step forward economically. I mean, 830 00:49:17.800 --> 00:49:21.719 we're going to bring prosperity to their region, to our country. 831 00:49:22.199 --> 00:49:24.760 I mean it is exciting, it really is. And you know, 832 00:49:24.800 --> 00:49:27.920 I credit him for his vision. He's just got tremendous vision. 833 00:49:28.239 --> 00:49:30.039 To see all this bill. 834 00:49:30.320 --> 00:49:32.320 And the other thing that has come out from the 835 00:49:32.440 --> 00:49:36.440 Department of Labor there was four hundred thousand American jobs 836 00:49:36.559 --> 00:49:40.239 supposedly created leading up to the twenty twenty four election, 837 00:49:40.360 --> 00:49:43.280 that we're all fraudulent. We now have the emails back 838 00:49:43.320 --> 00:49:46.840 and forth with Pfizer and the government indicating that did 839 00:49:46.880 --> 00:49:50.920 not want the results of the COVID COVID vaccines to 840 00:49:50.960 --> 00:49:53.079 come out before the election because it was banned for 841 00:49:53.159 --> 00:49:56.119 Joe Biden. You have another great column up about Joe Biden, 842 00:49:56.159 --> 00:49:59.559 the biggest cover up in American history. And now because 843 00:49:59.599 --> 00:50:02.920 of Jake Tapper, who by the way, covered the mental 844 00:50:02.960 --> 00:50:07.360 decline of Joe Biden like it was the Martians landing, Joe, 845 00:50:08.360 --> 00:50:10.440 CNN said what are you talking about? And then he 846 00:50:10.519 --> 00:50:14.480 got Joe Scarborough in March of twenty twenty four saying, 847 00:50:14.519 --> 00:50:17.480 listen up, record this, play it back to me. This 848 00:50:17.559 --> 00:50:21.599 is the sharpest Joe Biden that has ever existed. This 849 00:50:21.639 --> 00:50:25.079 guy is unbelievable. He does a Rubik's cube in about 850 00:50:25.159 --> 00:50:28.800 nine seconds. This guy can sprint the one hundred meter 851 00:50:28.960 --> 00:50:32.400 dash in ten point one seconds. This guy can do 852 00:50:32.519 --> 00:50:36.639 i amic pentameters backwards. He speaks five different languages. Joe 853 00:50:36.639 --> 00:50:39.400 Biden is just as sharp as can be. And now 854 00:50:39.440 --> 00:50:42.400 we have the truth coming out from Jake Tapper and 855 00:50:42.480 --> 00:50:45.960 others explain how this is somewhat somewhat unusual. 856 00:50:46.800 --> 00:50:48.960 You know, he's so sharp, Bill, he can't even get 857 00:50:48.960 --> 00:50:50.079 off of the stage. 858 00:50:50.719 --> 00:50:51.599 I mean, where am I? 859 00:50:51.880 --> 00:50:54.239 He's so sharp. He can't even stay on a bike. 860 00:50:54.639 --> 00:50:57.320 He can't even walk up air Force one stairs. He's 861 00:50:57.320 --> 00:51:00.679 got to use the baby stairs. No, the biggest cover 862 00:51:00.760 --> 00:51:03.920 up in American history. Everyone knew that this guy was 863 00:51:03.960 --> 00:51:06.800 mentally incompetent, but the media covered it up and the 864 00:51:06.840 --> 00:51:09.559 Biden administration covered it up. I mean, I think they 865 00:51:09.599 --> 00:51:12.679 were trying to somehow get him through the election. They 866 00:51:12.679 --> 00:51:14.079 were going to try to see if they could get 867 00:51:14.119 --> 00:51:16.480 him in there for a second term, and then supposedly 868 00:51:16.519 --> 00:51:18.960 they were going to put him in a wheelchair and 869 00:51:19.360 --> 00:51:21.840 again turn him into SDR. I don't know. I mean, 870 00:51:21.880 --> 00:51:28.440 it's just insane. So we really are so fortunate and 871 00:51:28.480 --> 00:51:31.960 blessed that we didn't have Kamala Harris and you know, 872 00:51:32.000 --> 00:51:35.480 this whole Democrat machine again in there. I mean, what 873 00:51:35.599 --> 00:51:38.440 damage they've done. Twelve out of the last sixteen years, 874 00:51:38.480 --> 00:51:42.960 we've had Democrat leadership Obama and Biden, and there's so 875 00:51:43.079 --> 00:51:45.960 much that needs to be you know, taking care of 876 00:51:46.039 --> 00:51:48.519 because of the mess that they made. And I want 877 00:51:48.559 --> 00:51:51.679 to see Republicans doing hearings on this Biden cover up. 878 00:51:51.760 --> 00:51:54.199 I want to see Republicans getting to the bottom of 879 00:51:54.239 --> 00:51:56.880 the lives that we were fed for all these years 880 00:51:56.920 --> 00:51:59.719 about Biden. I want to see his doctor. I want 881 00:51:59.719 --> 00:52:03.320 to see his doctor up there giving testimony about why 882 00:52:03.360 --> 00:52:06.559 he wasn't given a cognitive test. I mean, in February 883 00:52:06.599 --> 00:52:08.840 of twenty twenty four, they did not give him a 884 00:52:08.880 --> 00:52:12.000 cognitive test. That's their eliction of duty. I mean, it's 885 00:52:12.079 --> 00:52:16.079 just incredible. President Trump just took a full physical cognitive test, 886 00:52:16.400 --> 00:52:18.760 and of course he passed with flying colors, and he 887 00:52:19.519 --> 00:52:21.840 announced it to the world and presented the results to 888 00:52:21.880 --> 00:52:24.920 the world, and everything under Joe Biden was just a 889 00:52:25.000 --> 00:52:28.159 cover up, was a lie. And of course the results 890 00:52:28.199 --> 00:52:31.039 were so damaging our years of incredible damage. 891 00:52:31.360 --> 00:52:34.599 It was awful, and then we finally cackling. Kamalo would 892 00:52:34.599 --> 00:52:37.920 have been incredible. And I think Biden's doctor said at 893 00:52:37.920 --> 00:52:41.199 one point that Joe Biden could beat Spock in a 894 00:52:41.280 --> 00:52:44.880 game with three dimensional blindfolded chess, and I'm thinking, Mike 895 00:52:45.639 --> 00:52:47.960 Spok he could beat Spock in chess and do a 896 00:52:48.000 --> 00:52:51.719 Rubik's cube in nine seconds. Joe Starry, this is as 897 00:52:51.719 --> 00:52:53.800 sharp as he's ever been. Run the tape. 898 00:52:53.880 --> 00:52:57.960 Here's the reality. He didn't even know who he didn't 899 00:52:57.960 --> 00:53:00.599 know who his cabinet members were. He had a hard 900 00:53:00.639 --> 00:53:03.039 time remembering the name of Jake Sullivan, that was his 901 00:53:03.360 --> 00:53:04.599 National Security advisor. 902 00:53:04.639 --> 00:53:05.599 He called him Steve. 903 00:53:06.360 --> 00:53:09.400 He did not know who his Defense secretary was. He 904 00:53:09.400 --> 00:53:12.039 could not name Lloyd Austin. They were several times at 905 00:53:12.079 --> 00:53:14.880 events where you know, he called him the big. 906 00:53:14.719 --> 00:53:17.599 Guy, or how about the black guy or the black 907 00:53:17.639 --> 00:53:21.679 guy I managed the Republican president calling his like colin power. 908 00:53:21.679 --> 00:53:24.119 Remember he's the black guy. What's your name? And that's 909 00:53:24.159 --> 00:53:27.760 the Department of Defense who's been there for four years now. Lastly, 910 00:53:28.039 --> 00:53:30.000 you've got a great part of your colin at townhall 911 00:53:30.079 --> 00:53:32.199 dot com about George Clooney, who, by the way of 912 00:53:32.199 --> 00:53:35.679 courses from Cincinnati. Everything in the world resolves around Cincinnati. 913 00:53:35.960 --> 00:53:38.800 But George Clooney had a big fundraiser for him, I 914 00:53:38.800 --> 00:53:41.079 guess in May or June of twenty twenty four, in 915 00:53:41.079 --> 00:53:43.760 which they raised twenty five million dollars. All the Hollywood 916 00:53:43.800 --> 00:53:46.159 big wigs were there, you know, the common men represented 917 00:53:46.400 --> 00:53:49.280 all the big wigs. And George Clooney has turned out 918 00:53:49.280 --> 00:53:52.920 to be a hero, except right now he's ignored by 919 00:53:52.920 --> 00:53:55.760 the radical left. He told the truth, explained George Clooney's 920 00:53:56.559 --> 00:53:58.360 involvement in getting rid of Joe Biden. 921 00:54:00.199 --> 00:54:03.880 I think it was the key because you Clooney wrote 922 00:54:03.880 --> 00:54:06.840 a column it was in the New York Times calling 923 00:54:06.880 --> 00:54:09.199 for Biden to step aside, say that he noticed at 924 00:54:09.280 --> 00:54:13.079 the fundraiser that he had for Biden that Biden was 925 00:54:13.920 --> 00:54:17.000 someone that looked like he was mentally incomfident. He was worried. 926 00:54:17.679 --> 00:54:20.159 He saw a big change in Joe Biden. And of 927 00:54:20.159 --> 00:54:22.320 course all those are lies, because Biden was like that 928 00:54:22.400 --> 00:54:25.800 the entire term. What I think George Clooney got upset 929 00:54:25.800 --> 00:54:29.800 about is that Joe Biden didn't recognize George Clooney. From 930 00:54:29.800 --> 00:54:32.639 what I'm being told, he didn't know who George Clooney 931 00:54:32.880 --> 00:54:35.559 was so that got George Clooney upset, and he's like, 932 00:54:35.559 --> 00:54:38.119 all right, I'll write a column now that I think 933 00:54:38.199 --> 00:54:39.880 was actually written by Barack Obama. 934 00:54:40.280 --> 00:54:44.239 Now Obama and the King, Jeffries and Schumer and Pelosi, 935 00:54:44.320 --> 00:54:47.519 they were the lynch mob to pull him out of office, 936 00:54:47.519 --> 00:54:49.599 but none of them went their fingerprints on the deal. 937 00:54:49.880 --> 00:54:51.920 And I love now being asked about all these books 938 00:54:51.920 --> 00:54:54.880 coming out about how competent R is a InCom and 939 00:54:54.960 --> 00:54:56.639 all saying, what are you talking about? We're talking about 940 00:54:56.639 --> 00:54:58.840 the future. They don't even answer a question about it. 941 00:54:58.920 --> 00:55:01.400 We're moving on. Ignore the fact that we had an 942 00:55:01.400 --> 00:55:05.559 incompetent present with terrible results and almost elected a cackling 943 00:55:05.639 --> 00:55:08.320 Kamala Harris Well, Jeff Carere, we got to run. But 944 00:55:08.360 --> 00:55:12.000 your stuff is wonderful at town hall dot com. Joe Biden, 945 00:55:12.079 --> 00:55:14.519 the biggest carve up in American history and the most 946 00:55:14.559 --> 00:55:19.559 recent one involves Trump deserving Nobel prizes World's Greatest Peacemaker. 947 00:55:19.880 --> 00:55:23.840 And Jeff Crueir, you're a great American once again, thanks 948 00:55:23.840 --> 00:55:25.480 for coming on the Bill cunning Emagon. You know the 949 00:55:25.519 --> 00:55:28.000 black guy who's that black guy over my defense secretary? 950 00:55:28.320 --> 00:55:30.239 The black guy, Yeah, yeah, yeah, raise your hand. 951 00:55:31.599 --> 00:55:35.840 Unbelievable, and he was president. Bill, that's the incredible thing. 952 00:55:36.639 --> 00:55:41.280 Two am telephone call, you're gonna two o'clock. He's asleep 953 00:55:41.320 --> 00:55:44.400 at six pm. He's got the blue plate special from 954 00:55:44.400 --> 00:55:47.639 the cafeteria. But all right, Jeff Career, you're the best. 955 00:55:47.679 --> 00:55:50.599 Thanks for coming, Thanks for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. 956 00:55:50.639 --> 00:55:55.079 Thank you, Jeff you Bill. Let's continue. His stuff is wonderful. 957 00:55:55.119 --> 00:55:57.880 It's at Townhall dot com. Jeff crue Air from New Orleans, 958 00:55:57.960 --> 00:56:01.280 which again is a great, great American run city by 959 00:56:01.280 --> 00:56:05.000 the Democrats, wonderful place. Let's continue with more. Bill Cunningham 960 00:56:05.280 --> 00:56:09.119 live with you every Sunday night. Now, Billy Cunningham is 961 00:56:09.119 --> 00:56:12.760 always good to hear from. Jeff crue Air. Had those 962 00:56:13.559 --> 00:56:17.000 inmates break out of prison, like ten to twelve murderers, 963 00:56:17.079 --> 00:56:19.079 I think two or three have been found. New Orleans, 964 00:56:19.280 --> 00:56:22.800 great city. Sixty minutes this morning, did a special on it. 965 00:56:22.800 --> 00:56:25.159 I think is wonderful. I've been there several times. In fact, 966 00:56:25.360 --> 00:56:27.239 when I got one of my Marconi's it was in 967 00:56:27.719 --> 00:56:30.159 New Orleans and the People's Judge and I my wife 968 00:56:30.199 --> 00:56:32.159 went down there for a weekend at a fabulous time. 969 00:56:32.440 --> 00:56:35.719 But nonetheless, once again I want to note that no 970 00:56:35.719 --> 00:56:39.039 one here wishes anything but good health and good luck 971 00:56:39.119 --> 00:56:42.920 to President Joe Biden in this diagnosis of stage four 972 00:56:43.360 --> 00:56:46.440 of prostate cancer. On a scale of Gleason scale of 973 00:56:46.480 --> 00:56:49.039 one to ten, he's out of nine. It spread past 974 00:56:49.039 --> 00:56:52.320 the prostate, according to news releases. And I wouldn't wish 975 00:56:52.400 --> 00:56:55.960 that on my even my political enemies, because life is 976 00:56:55.960 --> 00:56:58.679 more important than politics. So I wish him nothing but 977 00:56:58.719 --> 00:57:01.079 the best as we go forward, coming up next to 978 00:57:01.119 --> 00:57:04.440 Steve Cortez, a Catholic vote, and Steve Cortes has been 979 00:57:04.480 --> 00:57:06.920 on CNN many of the outlets for a long time 980 00:57:07.400 --> 00:57:11.199 about the papal mass today with Pope Leo the fourteenth, 981 00:57:11.239 --> 00:57:14.280 et cetera. And later on, of course, is Congress from 982 00:57:14.280 --> 00:57:17.400 Warren Davidson. As you may know, the House is ten 983 00:57:17.440 --> 00:57:20.320 o'clock session tonight, going nuts trying to get the big 984 00:57:20.360 --> 00:57:23.840 beautiful Bill over the finish line. I got my profound doubts, 985 00:57:23.840 --> 00:57:25.719 and I'm going to talk to a real live Congressman 986 00:57:25.760 --> 00:57:28.679 about what's happening in the Congress. As we speak, into 987 00:57:28.679 --> 00:57:31.599 the promises that we're made, the line becomes available eight 988 00:57:31.639 --> 00:57:34.480 sixty six six four seven seven three three seven Bill 989 00:57:34.519 --> 00:57:37.039 Cunningham to Great America. With you at all Great Americans 990 00:57:37.360 --> 00:57:45.519 every Sunday Night, Billy Cunningham to Great American. Steve Cortes 991 00:57:45.719 --> 00:57:48.199 is the president of the League of American Workers and 992 00:57:48.280 --> 00:57:51.719 senior political advisor to Catholic Vote. Joining you and I 993 00:57:51.760 --> 00:57:54.360 now and once again, Steve Cortes, Welcome to the Bill 994 00:57:54.400 --> 00:57:59.320 Cunningham Show. Just in a general way. When Leo was selected, 995 00:58:00.079 --> 00:58:02.400 I thought it was fabulous, But then there's lots of 996 00:58:02.480 --> 00:58:04.519 negative stuff coming out, which I think is a bunch 997 00:58:04.519 --> 00:58:07.239 of bs. Give the guy a break. I love the 998 00:58:07.280 --> 00:58:09.880 fact he's an American. I love the fact he's a 999 00:58:09.880 --> 00:58:12.679 White Sox fan, which he knows what losing is all about. 1000 00:58:13.320 --> 00:58:15.599 I looked at twenty oh five when the White Sox 1001 00:58:15.599 --> 00:58:18.039 are in the World Series and there's a there's a 1002 00:58:18.159 --> 00:58:21.079 much younger Catholic priest they just happened to have an 1003 00:58:21.079 --> 00:58:25.440 out q of and that's Leo the fourteenth. And it's 1004 00:58:25.639 --> 00:58:28.559 unbelievable that we have this guy at this point. But 1005 00:58:29.000 --> 00:58:33.639 there's an intersection of Catholic social teaching and economic challenges 1006 00:58:33.679 --> 00:58:36.559 that I hope this pope understands. Tell the American people 1007 00:58:36.599 --> 00:58:38.840 that juxtaposition. 1008 00:58:38.920 --> 00:58:39.960 You bet and I'm listen. 1009 00:58:40.000 --> 00:58:42.480 I'm very confident he does understand it, given his name 1010 00:58:42.519 --> 00:58:45.280 and his own explanation for choosing that name. But yeah, first, 1011 00:58:45.320 --> 00:58:47.000 let me just tell you so, I grew up right 1012 00:58:47.039 --> 00:58:49.039 near the Pope. Now I'm sixteen years younger than him, 1013 00:58:49.239 --> 00:58:51.960 so we didn't we didn't, you know, overlap it all. 1014 00:58:52.039 --> 00:58:54.280 But I was at that same World Series game. There's 1015 00:58:54.280 --> 00:58:56.119 been the game one in two thousand and five. I 1016 00:58:56.159 --> 00:58:58.719 wasn't on camera, but I was there, unlike the Pope, 1017 00:58:58.719 --> 00:58:59.840 but kind of fun just to think you were in 1018 00:58:59.880 --> 00:59:00.719 the stadium, you know. 1019 00:59:00.800 --> 00:59:03.519 At this momentous game the Pope, with the Pope and he. 1020 00:59:03.679 --> 00:59:05.320 There's also been for a lot of people who are 1021 00:59:05.320 --> 00:59:07.320 from the South Side of Chicago, like he and I are. 1022 00:59:07.800 --> 00:59:10.360 There's a very famous pizza place called Aurelios, which I 1023 00:59:10.400 --> 00:59:13.159 was basically raised on, and there was he was just 1024 00:59:13.199 --> 00:59:15.719 recently a year ago back there visiting and sure enough 1025 00:59:15.719 --> 00:59:18.159 went to Aurelios, which also speaks highly of his taste 1026 00:59:18.239 --> 00:59:22.119 and his character. So but even more importantly than Chicago pizza. 1027 00:59:22.159 --> 00:59:23.800 When he chose the name Leo, first, of course, I 1028 00:59:23.840 --> 00:59:26.400 was excited a Chicago w as a sicaro guy, very 1029 00:59:26.440 --> 00:59:29.639 excited as an American a big deal for this country, 1030 00:59:29.679 --> 00:59:32.440 of course. But then when I heard Leo, I said, huh, 1031 00:59:32.480 --> 00:59:36.440 because Leo the thirteenth, Okay, his predecessor by name over 1032 00:59:36.440 --> 00:59:38.760 one hundred years ago. But his predecessor by name, I thought, 1033 00:59:39.119 --> 00:59:42.159 people names typically mean something, right there, There's often is 1034 00:59:42.199 --> 00:59:45.039 a lot of like for example, picking pious. Generally, pulp 1035 00:59:45.079 --> 00:59:48.119 pious has had been very traditional, very conservative, sort of 1036 00:59:48.119 --> 00:59:48.920 in church terms. 1037 00:59:49.320 --> 00:59:51.000 But picking Leo, I said, I wonder if this is 1038 00:59:51.000 --> 00:59:51.559 a nod to. 1039 00:59:51.559 --> 00:59:55.239 Leela thirteenth, And so I started and Rare novarum specifically, 1040 00:59:55.280 --> 00:59:59.559 which I believe is really a theological explanation of populist economics. 1041 00:59:59.719 --> 01:00:02.159 So I started writing up this op ed before he 1042 01:00:02.199 --> 01:00:04.920 had even commented on his own name. Sure enough, before 1043 01:00:04.960 --> 01:00:08.960 I submitted it. Thankfully, he clarified that was absolutely why he. 1044 01:00:09.000 --> 01:00:10.280 Chose the name Leo. 1045 01:00:10.480 --> 01:00:13.960 Was Rarem novarum, which means of new things, was written 1046 01:00:14.000 --> 01:00:16.519 in the eighteen nineties of papal in cyclical and for 1047 01:00:16.559 --> 01:00:17.159 the non. 1048 01:00:17.440 --> 01:00:18.639 Catholics out there, and it'sypical. 1049 01:00:18.760 --> 01:00:21.559 It isn't just the pope musing Okay, that's something serious, 1050 01:00:21.599 --> 01:00:23.599 and it has the power of the papacy. And so 1051 01:00:23.679 --> 01:00:26.400 for Catholics. We take that unbelievably seriously. It means real 1052 01:00:26.480 --> 01:00:28.400 Catholic thinking. They don't come out very often. 1053 01:00:28.159 --> 01:00:31.880 Because they're very scholarly, often complex works. 1054 01:00:32.199 --> 01:00:35.000 They're sometimes not that easy to read, quite frankly, because 1055 01:00:35.000 --> 01:00:35.880 they're so intellectual. 1056 01:00:36.000 --> 01:00:37.880 This one is I could encourage people to read. 1057 01:00:37.920 --> 01:00:40.920 It's not that long, and you will see he's talking 1058 01:00:40.960 --> 01:00:43.199 about the industrial revolution at that time and what it 1059 01:00:43.280 --> 01:00:46.840 means for the morality and ethics. 1060 01:00:46.039 --> 01:00:47.480 Of economic policy. 1061 01:00:47.639 --> 01:00:51.920 And he does really two things that might appear to 1062 01:00:51.960 --> 01:00:53.440 be intention but I don't think they are. But the 1063 01:00:53.480 --> 01:00:58.199 first is he completely dismisses and rejects socialism, because socialism 1064 01:00:58.280 --> 01:01:01.079 was getting very pervasive across Europe at that point, not 1065 01:01:01.119 --> 01:01:03.719 really yet here, but a little bit. And he totally 1066 01:01:03.760 --> 01:01:07.639 rejects socialism for its atheism, for its dehumanizing effect upon people. 1067 01:01:07.719 --> 01:01:11.159 But at the same time he also doesn't want raw commercialism, 1068 01:01:11.199 --> 01:01:15.000 and he thinks that crony capitalism of dismisses workers and 1069 01:01:15.039 --> 01:01:19.239 that elevates only capital in terms of public policy decisions 1070 01:01:19.239 --> 01:01:23.800 and not the success of masses of workers is also wrong. 1071 01:01:24.239 --> 01:01:27.519 And he calls for a very different kind of economic 1072 01:01:28.039 --> 01:01:33.039 theory of distributism and subsidiarity where decisions are made at 1073 01:01:33.039 --> 01:01:36.440 the lowest levels possible and you avoid a massive concentration 1074 01:01:36.519 --> 01:01:39.960 of economic power. When I read rerem Novarum, it really 1075 01:01:40.039 --> 01:01:43.000 is a churchman to me talking a lot like Donald 1076 01:01:43.039 --> 01:01:46.599 Trump talks about the economy, about a pro worker economy 1077 01:01:46.639 --> 01:01:48.840 that protects workers in every way. 1078 01:01:48.920 --> 01:01:52.039 So that makes me very happy. Listen, the Pope has. 1079 01:01:51.920 --> 01:01:54.320 Said some worries, some things politically for sure for people, 1080 01:01:54.360 --> 01:01:58.480 like being on the right, especially regarding immigration, especially regarding climate. 1081 01:01:59.280 --> 01:02:02.039 But the fact that he chose this name, which is 1082 01:02:02.079 --> 01:02:05.079 so important, and the fact that really his first addresses 1083 01:02:05.119 --> 01:02:07.800 of Pope was to explain why he chose a name 1084 01:02:07.840 --> 01:02:10.280 because of Rero Obar, and he specifically sites that were 1085 01:02:10.280 --> 01:02:13.159 in another industrial revolution, this one being. 1086 01:02:13.000 --> 01:02:15.559 Digital, you know, with AI and automation and so forth. 1087 01:02:16.679 --> 01:02:19.440 It tells me that actually he and the America First 1088 01:02:19.519 --> 01:02:22.920 movement in the United States are way more closely aligned 1089 01:02:22.920 --> 01:02:25.920 than people might think, especially on this key key topic 1090 01:02:26.000 --> 01:02:26.719 of the economy. 1091 01:02:26.880 --> 01:02:30.719 And you know, Steve Cortes, we practicing Roman Catholics often 1092 01:02:30.760 --> 01:02:34.079 we're not real happy with Francis and the media never 1093 01:02:34.119 --> 01:02:36.639 allowed those criticisms to percolate to the top. He came 1094 01:02:36.679 --> 01:02:40.440 out of an orientation out of Argentina that was certainly socialistic. 1095 01:02:40.760 --> 01:02:44.559 There was military pressures in Argentina, and Francis, God bless 1096 01:02:44.599 --> 01:02:48.079 his soul, was not as good on doctrine, not as 1097 01:02:48.079 --> 01:02:51.320 good on some of the current issues as we would 1098 01:02:51.360 --> 01:02:54.320 like him to be, and so the media played up 1099 01:02:54.400 --> 01:02:56.800 quite a bit the comments he had a JD. Vance 1100 01:02:57.199 --> 01:03:00.960 two or three months ago cardinal at that point not 1101 01:03:01.039 --> 01:03:05.320 quite the Pope fourteenth said that you don't rank love 1102 01:03:05.480 --> 01:03:11.000 for various kinds of individuals. That's in relationship to illegal immigration, 1103 01:03:11.079 --> 01:03:13.679 and what jade Vance has said, You don't like someone 1104 01:03:13.760 --> 01:03:15.280 knock on your door, open the door and come in 1105 01:03:15.320 --> 01:03:17.760 with into your home without knowing who they are, what's 1106 01:03:17.800 --> 01:03:20.840 their purpose in being there? Are they going to cause danger? 1107 01:03:21.320 --> 01:03:25.079 And did the media overplay? And I also watched some 1108 01:03:25.119 --> 01:03:28.199 of the some of the evening talk shows talk about JD. 1109 01:03:28.400 --> 01:03:33.039 Vance killed the Pope not being Francis, which is ridiculous, 1110 01:03:33.239 --> 01:03:37.079 but nonetheless, address yourself to the criticisms the Pope gave 1111 01:03:37.119 --> 01:03:41.400 the JD Vance, who's gonna of course, practicing a Roman Catholic, 1112 01:03:41.760 --> 01:03:44.320 he went through the process of my home parish at 1113 01:03:44.360 --> 01:03:48.679 Saint Gertrude's and Cincinnati. He converted in twenty nineteen. Jade 1114 01:03:48.800 --> 01:03:51.519 Vance did, and of course I know him personally. I 1115 01:03:51.599 --> 01:03:56.280 love that guy. But what about the criticisms of the 1116 01:03:56.320 --> 01:03:58.360 Pope about JD. Evans. 1117 01:03:58.760 --> 01:04:00.800 Well, let me just first say so, I spent a lot. 1118 01:04:00.639 --> 01:04:03.039 Of twenty twenty two in your state working for JD. 1119 01:04:03.199 --> 01:04:05.079 Vance in his Senate race, and really got to know 1120 01:04:05.119 --> 01:04:07.960 the state well, the wonderful people and him, and I 1121 01:04:08.000 --> 01:04:10.639 can certainly tell you far away from cameras and microphones, 1122 01:04:11.000 --> 01:04:13.360 he's the most principal man that I have met in politics, 1123 01:04:13.599 --> 01:04:15.320 and a big part of that is his commitment to 1124 01:04:15.360 --> 01:04:18.000 his Catholicism. He really takes it seriously with the zeal 1125 01:04:18.039 --> 01:04:20.360 of a convert, and it's one of the reasons that 1126 01:04:20.400 --> 01:04:22.880 I so admire him. Now politically, did he and Francis 1127 01:04:22.960 --> 01:04:25.639 have differences? Of course, I also think it's a real 1128 01:04:25.719 --> 01:04:28.000 gift regarding him seeing Francis. Wasn't that wonderful that he 1129 01:04:28.039 --> 01:04:30.639 was probably one of the last people to see him alive. 1130 01:04:31.440 --> 01:04:33.760 What a gift to America, right that our vice president 1131 01:04:33.920 --> 01:04:35.400 got to go there. So that's the way I see it, 1132 01:04:35.440 --> 01:04:38.480 not that not convoluted rumors and so forth. But regarding 1133 01:04:39.119 --> 01:04:41.960 this the new pot Pobolio. Listen, Yes he was critical, 1134 01:04:42.039 --> 01:04:45.360 publicly critical in some tweets, which I bet he regressed setting. 1135 01:04:45.360 --> 01:04:48.000 Now who knows about JD vance. 1136 01:04:48.320 --> 01:04:50.280 But you know, I want to focus on this again, 1137 01:04:50.400 --> 01:04:54.639 the prudential judgment on tactics that belongs in the secular 1138 01:04:54.679 --> 01:04:58.000 realm of elected politicians here in the United States. What 1139 01:04:58.119 --> 01:05:01.559 kind of principles they bring to that, to that agenda, 1140 01:05:01.599 --> 01:05:04.840 and to that job, right, that incredible job of leadership. 1141 01:05:04.880 --> 01:05:08.679 Those principles, though, absolutely should flow from your faith, from 1142 01:05:08.719 --> 01:05:11.159 your worldview, and your worldview is formed more than anything 1143 01:05:11.159 --> 01:05:14.519 if you're a believer in Christianity, is for more than anything, 1144 01:05:14.559 --> 01:05:17.519 by Jesus Christ, the Bible and the teachings of the Church. 1145 01:05:18.239 --> 01:05:21.360 And so you bring those principles then into practice. But again, 1146 01:05:21.400 --> 01:05:24.760 the specifics of the practice is not where Pope Francis 1147 01:05:24.840 --> 01:05:25.239 or even. 1148 01:05:25.119 --> 01:05:27.159 Pope Leo belongs. 1149 01:05:28.159 --> 01:05:30.159 Giving advice that should be taken beyond that of just 1150 01:05:30.199 --> 01:05:33.159 a person, right, a very smart person, to be sure, 1151 01:05:33.159 --> 01:05:35.159 But he's not then teaching with the authority of the church. 1152 01:05:35.440 --> 01:05:36.920 He gets into those kinds of tactics. 1153 01:05:36.960 --> 01:05:39.639 So will there be disagreements, Yes, you know, I mentioned 1154 01:05:39.639 --> 01:05:41.840 too climate and immigration. I think are probably where the 1155 01:05:41.880 --> 01:05:44.760 Vatican and the American First Movement are furthest apart, but 1156 01:05:44.840 --> 01:05:47.599 on the economy, right, which is for most people the 1157 01:05:47.719 --> 01:05:50.199 number one issue, right most people in the world, serving 1158 01:05:50.239 --> 01:05:53.559 most Americans. On that key, key issue, I think we're 1159 01:05:53.559 --> 01:05:56.639 actually totally in alignment. Even if we don't use exactly 1160 01:05:56.679 --> 01:05:59.440 the same terms, We're after the same goals. We're guided 1161 01:05:59.440 --> 01:06:01.920 by the same price that I'm telling you Rerem novaram 1162 01:06:02.199 --> 01:06:03.840 you know which Again he cited. 1163 01:06:03.639 --> 01:06:05.320 As the as the reason for his name. 1164 01:06:05.360 --> 01:06:10.280 Popello fourteenth Rerem Novarum is practically a primer for America 1165 01:06:10.360 --> 01:06:11.840 First economics, even though. 1166 01:06:11.760 --> 01:06:13.280 It was written one hundred and thirty five years ago. 1167 01:06:13.360 --> 01:06:15.840 So he understands the rising tide lifts all boats, the 1168 01:06:15.880 --> 01:06:19.079 way to make money's available to the poor, homelessness, the 1169 01:06:19.079 --> 01:06:21.440 way to take care of hunger. The way to handle 1170 01:06:21.480 --> 01:06:24.320 all these issues is to have any economy that supports 1171 01:06:24.519 --> 01:06:27.079 throws off enough money to provide for the least among us, 1172 01:06:27.360 --> 01:06:30.280 and to have any economy that's almost collapsing. I look 1173 01:06:30.280 --> 01:06:32.719 at the major blue cities and blue states in this country. 1174 01:06:32.800 --> 01:06:37.880 Those economies were almost collapsing because of the politics infecting capitalism. 1175 01:06:38.239 --> 01:06:42.679 But he sees America as a benefit. Some have said, 1176 01:06:42.679 --> 01:06:44.599 why doesn't he come here quickly? I don't think you'll 1177 01:06:44.639 --> 01:06:46.920 be here for three to five years. He can't be 1178 01:06:47.000 --> 01:06:50.960 perceived as being an American sadly because in Europe, which 1179 01:06:51.000 --> 01:06:54.800 is very socialistic, that they were a little bit antagonistic 1180 01:06:54.840 --> 01:06:57.760 at this point. A couple issues on your website, Well, 1181 01:06:57.800 --> 01:07:02.239 one is dealing with about the attacks on Catholic churches 1182 01:07:02.280 --> 01:07:05.599 and pregnancy centers and pro life groups that would never 1183 01:07:05.719 --> 01:07:08.559 be agreeable if it happened on the other side. And 1184 01:07:08.920 --> 01:07:12.960 what's happening to the attack on pregnancy life centers and 1185 01:07:13.079 --> 01:07:15.320 pro life groups that will change under Donald Trump and 1186 01:07:15.360 --> 01:07:16.000 Jade Vans. 1187 01:07:16.800 --> 01:07:17.840 Yeah, well, I'll tell you one thing. 1188 01:07:17.920 --> 01:07:20.760 Federal law enforcement has taken it incredibly seriously, and we're 1189 01:07:20.760 --> 01:07:23.599 already seeing that just a few months into this administration. 1190 01:07:23.719 --> 01:07:26.440 So that's for certain that will happen. But no, this 1191 01:07:26.519 --> 01:07:29.440 is tragic, and I really commend Catholic Vote, who's been 1192 01:07:29.480 --> 01:07:32.199 tracking this for quite a while, basically since the riots 1193 01:07:32.239 --> 01:07:34.079 of the summer of twenty twenty, which is when this 1194 01:07:34.159 --> 01:07:39.519 unfortunate trend accelerated with attacks on Christian sites, whether it's 1195 01:07:39.519 --> 01:07:43.119 Catholic churches, pro life pregnancy centers, other Christian churches. They've 1196 01:07:43.119 --> 01:07:46.960 been documenting the attacks on Catholic institutions and sadly we've 1197 01:07:46.960 --> 01:07:49.440 reached five hundred, five hundred attacks. And some of these 1198 01:07:49.480 --> 01:07:53.039 are very serious, right, some are still serious but less 1199 01:07:53.039 --> 01:07:54.800 so graffiti that sort of things, but some of them, 1200 01:07:54.840 --> 01:07:56.760 you know, are actual break in is much more violent 1201 01:07:57.039 --> 01:08:00.639 at times, hurt actual people, not as property. It's a really, 1202 01:08:00.679 --> 01:08:05.159 really unfortunate trend and gets almost zero attention to the 1203 01:08:05.199 --> 01:08:08.360 corporate media. Thank you for bringing it up, and thankfully 1204 01:08:08.360 --> 01:08:10.039 Catholic Vote is tracking. 1205 01:08:09.639 --> 01:08:10.039 All of these. 1206 01:08:10.079 --> 01:08:12.320 You can go to the website and see every instant 1207 01:08:12.360 --> 01:08:13.039 it is cited. 1208 01:08:13.559 --> 01:08:14.599 None of this is hyperbole. 1209 01:08:14.639 --> 01:08:16.680 We are we are tracking this and we hit a 1210 01:08:16.680 --> 01:08:18.479 sad milestone, which you know, we kind of knew we 1211 01:08:18.479 --> 01:08:20.199 were going to get to that roughly around the time 1212 01:08:20.520 --> 01:08:23.399 of the new Pope. And but regarding law enforcement here 1213 01:08:23.439 --> 01:08:26.560 in the United States, listen, I believe that people like 1214 01:08:26.640 --> 01:08:30.039 Cash Betel and Dan Bongino now at FBI, Pam Bondi 1215 01:08:30.119 --> 01:08:34.279 at DOJ, overseeing the entire federal legal apparatus, they take 1216 01:08:34.319 --> 01:08:37.600 this extremely seriously and specifically for Catholics. I would say 1217 01:08:37.760 --> 01:08:41.000 the Trump administration in the first term, and even more 1218 01:08:41.039 --> 01:08:42.920 so I think in this term has a lot of 1219 01:08:42.960 --> 01:08:45.800 Catholics in really prevalent positions. And so that doesn't mean 1220 01:08:45.800 --> 01:08:47.520 that we're gonna get special treatment. But I will tell 1221 01:08:47.560 --> 01:08:50.479 you this, Catholic concerns will not be dismissed. Right and 1222 01:08:50.520 --> 01:08:53.039 Catholin's Church is getting an attack. It's something that Donald 1223 01:08:53.079 --> 01:08:55.560 Trump cares about. He's somebody who's not calling himself but 1224 01:08:55.640 --> 01:08:58.119 loves the church. Came to the Al Smith dinner for example, 1225 01:08:58.159 --> 01:09:00.399 when Commas there skipped it, which I think was one 1226 01:09:00.399 --> 01:09:03.079 of the worst political mistakes of her of her campaign. 1227 01:09:03.880 --> 01:09:05.840 So this stuff, you know, he's very close with Cardinal Dolan. 1228 01:09:06.079 --> 01:09:09.119 This stuff matters to him and matters his administration. And 1229 01:09:09.319 --> 01:09:12.239 of course we don't want lawlessness against any institution, particularly 1230 01:09:12.239 --> 01:09:14.000 religious ones. I wouldn't care if they were hint to him. 1231 01:09:14.000 --> 01:09:16.640 Course we should all decry it and work to stop it. 1232 01:09:16.720 --> 01:09:20.199 But it's it's clear that there's a targeting here of Christianity, 1233 01:09:20.560 --> 01:09:24.560 and and really within Christianity, of Catholicism in particular. 1234 01:09:24.319 --> 01:09:28.279 Steve Cortes, Catholic Vote dot Org, et cetera. As far 1235 01:09:28.359 --> 01:09:33.399 as the prognostications, I want to over again, who was 1236 01:09:33.479 --> 01:09:35.399 going to be the new Pope, and of course it 1237 01:09:35.560 --> 01:09:40.840 was Leo the fourteenth privost. It wasn't perceived to be 1238 01:09:41.720 --> 01:09:44.600 as in the front of pact because he was an 1239 01:09:44.640 --> 01:09:49.079 American and now here he's the least American cardinal. In 1240 01:09:49.119 --> 01:09:53.520 other words, he's the least he's the most acceptable American 1241 01:09:53.560 --> 01:09:56.359 cardinal because the fact he's an American as a negative 1242 01:09:56.520 --> 01:09:59.439 explain that dynamic around the world. How not to be 1243 01:09:59.479 --> 01:10:01.119 an American is a positive? 1244 01:10:01.920 --> 01:10:03.520 Right, Well, first of all, I don't believe that that 1245 01:10:03.560 --> 01:10:06.039 he's not American. Again, if you're pretty American, I think 1246 01:10:06.079 --> 01:10:07.239 if you're a white size stand who goes to the 1247 01:10:07.279 --> 01:10:09.359 World Series in the South Side in two thousand and five, 1248 01:10:09.439 --> 01:10:11.600 I mean that tells me just culturally, if you eat 1249 01:10:11.600 --> 01:10:14.199 pizza Aurelios as I said, which is a legendary South 1250 01:10:14.199 --> 01:10:16.079 Side Chicago pizza place, I mean that tells me you're 1251 01:10:16.119 --> 01:10:18.720 pretty dang American. Even though he has spent three decades 1252 01:10:18.760 --> 01:10:21.680 mostly in South America, right as a missionary, that's something 1253 01:10:21.720 --> 01:10:22.439 that should be commended. 1254 01:10:22.439 --> 01:10:24.880 It doesn't mean you lose your americanness or your heritage. 1255 01:10:24.880 --> 01:10:27.079 And where he grew up in Dalton, Illinois, when he 1256 01:10:27.119 --> 01:10:28.960 was a boy there again, I knows there's super well 1257 01:10:29.239 --> 01:10:32.319 from there myself was really kind of almost just an idyllic, 1258 01:10:32.479 --> 01:10:34.479 middle class suburban life. 1259 01:10:34.760 --> 01:10:37.279 It's unfortunately changed for the worst since then, but. 1260 01:10:37.279 --> 01:10:40.279 At that time, when he was young, it was heavenly Catholic, 1261 01:10:40.359 --> 01:10:42.800 very ethnic, and just kind of one of these wonderful 1262 01:10:42.840 --> 01:10:46.520 middle class neighborhoods with picket fences and you know, where 1263 01:10:46.560 --> 01:10:48.880 family could thrive on a single income. That that's his childhood. 1264 01:10:48.880 --> 01:10:50.520 So I think he's thoroughly American. But to answer your 1265 01:10:50.600 --> 01:10:56.600 question regarding yes, is there anti Americanism particularly among elite Europeans. Absolutely, 1266 01:10:56.680 --> 01:10:59.239 and even within the church, Yes, there is absolutely. I 1267 01:10:59.239 --> 01:11:01.760 think also the Italian cardinals quite frankly, and they're the 1268 01:11:01.760 --> 01:11:02.680 biggest voting block. 1269 01:11:02.720 --> 01:11:03.079 Of course. 1270 01:11:03.840 --> 01:11:05.720 They now haven't had an Italian pope in a while, 1271 01:11:05.800 --> 01:11:07.840 right since the nineteen seventies, and I think some of 1272 01:11:07.840 --> 01:11:09.439 them were saying, isn't it maybe time. 1273 01:11:09.319 --> 01:11:10.119 For an Italian again? 1274 01:11:10.119 --> 01:11:11.760 After I guess it was about four hundred and fifty 1275 01:11:11.800 --> 01:11:14.319 years prior to John Paul the Second then you know, 1276 01:11:14.359 --> 01:11:17.239 no Italian since, so it was there some anti Americans 1277 01:11:17.239 --> 01:11:19.439 and probably that's you know, look, they are human beings, 1278 01:11:19.520 --> 01:11:21.199 even though we hope they're got about the Holy Spirit 1279 01:11:21.439 --> 01:11:24.000 and believe they are. But in the end, yeah, I 1280 01:11:24.000 --> 01:11:25.920 think that the fact that he's an American is probably 1281 01:11:25.920 --> 01:11:28.119 a plus. And just to be very practical about this, 1282 01:11:28.960 --> 01:11:30.600 and I don't think this is crass to point out 1283 01:11:31.079 --> 01:11:32.600 most of the Vatican budget comes. 1284 01:11:32.479 --> 01:11:35.720 From American donors. We are way more generous than European Catholics. 1285 01:11:35.880 --> 01:11:37.439 A lot of the rest of the Catholic world frankly 1286 01:11:37.439 --> 01:11:39.840 doesn't have a lot of money to give, so it 1287 01:11:39.880 --> 01:11:42.000 really is financed by American donors. So I think that 1288 01:11:42.039 --> 01:11:45.159 probably was at least part of the text here in 1289 01:11:45.239 --> 01:11:47.319 choosing him. But in addition to being an American, of 1290 01:11:47.319 --> 01:11:49.840 course he's got the Latin American experience, understands the Third World. 1291 01:11:49.880 --> 01:11:52.319 And then by the way it transferred to headquarters and 1292 01:11:52.399 --> 01:11:54.920 working as the head of bishops in the Vatican, where 1293 01:11:54.960 --> 01:11:56.399 I'm sure a lot of the Italians didn't get to 1294 01:11:56.439 --> 01:11:58.279 know him and respect him. And you know, it didn't 1295 01:11:58.279 --> 01:12:00.159 take very long. So that tells me it wasn't too 1296 01:12:00.239 --> 01:12:03.399 much of a fight, right, because this happened on day two, 1297 01:12:03.439 --> 01:12:06.479 so it seems like pretty quickly people call us behind him. 1298 01:12:06.479 --> 01:12:08.319 I mean, of course we're not supposed to know all 1299 01:12:08.359 --> 01:12:10.119 of the details you read leaks, you don't know if 1300 01:12:10.159 --> 01:12:11.359 they're valid or not. 1301 01:12:12.119 --> 01:12:16.560 But I think what we can reasonably determine is this wasn't. 1302 01:12:16.479 --> 01:12:18.399 A knockdown, drag out fight because they got to a 1303 01:12:18.439 --> 01:12:19.600 decision pretty quickly. 1304 01:12:19.920 --> 01:12:22.800 Well with the last few popes have been from Poland 1305 01:12:23.319 --> 01:12:28.399 and Germany and Argentina now Peru. I think Leo's got 1306 01:12:28.399 --> 01:12:32.520 a twenty five year run, which are well over a 1307 01:12:32.520 --> 01:12:36.039 half a century, quite unusual. Lastly, on the immigration issue, 1308 01:12:36.039 --> 01:12:39.159 which is extremely popular. What Trump is doing, despite the 1309 01:12:39.199 --> 01:12:42.880 predilections of the mainstream media is extremely popular. Is that 1310 01:12:43.000 --> 01:12:45.560 going to be the main rub? Because Catholic teaching is 1311 01:12:46.239 --> 01:12:48.680 welcome the stranger, open up the borders. Of course, the 1312 01:12:48.760 --> 01:12:51.479 Vatican itself have walls that are like twelve feet thick. 1313 01:12:51.560 --> 01:12:54.199 That's a different issue. But nonetheless, is that going to 1314 01:12:54.199 --> 01:12:55.039 be the major rub? 1315 01:12:56.279 --> 01:12:56.439 You know? 1316 01:12:56.640 --> 01:12:58.560 My guess is yes. I think Here's again. I think 1317 01:12:58.600 --> 01:13:02.840 they're actually super aligned. On the economy. I'm hoping that 1318 01:13:02.880 --> 01:13:04.840 a lot more people in the Vatican are waking up 1319 01:13:04.840 --> 01:13:07.600 to the climate scam, to the climate hysteria, So I 1320 01:13:07.680 --> 01:13:10.359 don't see those as flash points. To me, it probably 1321 01:13:10.439 --> 01:13:14.399 will be migration and look I think actually that that 1322 01:13:14.560 --> 01:13:16.680 being tough on borders, insisting on law and order is 1323 01:13:16.720 --> 01:13:20.479 actually very consistent with Catholic doctrine. But there are some folks, 1324 01:13:20.560 --> 01:13:23.039 even in the hierarchy who clearly would not agree with 1325 01:13:23.079 --> 01:13:23.680 me at that point. 1326 01:13:23.800 --> 01:13:26.600 So we may have to agree to disagree on those points. 1327 01:13:27.520 --> 01:13:30.279 But you're like I, For example, I just posted today 1328 01:13:30.319 --> 01:13:32.439 on my social media and interview I did forty minutes 1329 01:13:32.520 --> 01:13:35.680 of a cop, former Phoenix cop, talking about the cartels, 1330 01:13:35.760 --> 01:13:39.119 the Mexican cartels activities in Arizona in the United States, 1331 01:13:39.159 --> 01:13:41.640 how violent they are, how vicious they are inside of 1332 01:13:41.680 --> 01:13:42.439 the United States. 1333 01:13:42.760 --> 01:13:46.000 That's because of an open border. And there's nothing merciful 1334 01:13:46.079 --> 01:13:46.399 about that. 1335 01:13:46.479 --> 01:13:49.399 There's nothing merciful about allowing criminal organizations to own a 1336 01:13:49.479 --> 01:13:52.359 border region and to then infiltrate into our country. And 1337 01:13:52.439 --> 01:13:54.840 so I would challenge any any churchman I would I 1338 01:13:54.880 --> 01:13:55.800 would challenge any you know. 1339 01:13:55.920 --> 01:13:58.479 Pro open borders or propoor as borders. 1340 01:13:58.239 --> 01:14:01.640 Catholic explain to me how that is just and moral 1341 01:14:01.720 --> 01:14:03.560 in Christian I don't think it is at all. I 1342 01:14:04.039 --> 01:14:07.199 think law and order actually and protecting the weak and 1343 01:14:07.319 --> 01:14:10.239 protecting your country. You know, we lock our doors at 1344 01:14:10.319 --> 01:14:12.159 night in our homes not because we hate those on 1345 01:14:12.239 --> 01:14:14.520 the outside, but because we love those on the inside. 1346 01:14:14.560 --> 01:14:16.960 And I think the same goes for your home as 1347 01:14:17.039 --> 01:14:20.600 for a cause country. And we have every rights, I believe, 1348 01:14:20.640 --> 01:14:23.560 every obligation as a matter of fact, to effectively lock 1349 01:14:23.640 --> 01:14:27.359 our doors to protect ourselves from preventable dangers. And I 1350 01:14:27.399 --> 01:14:30.119 think not only is that just practical imprudence, but I 1351 01:14:30.159 --> 01:14:34.319 think it's actually totally consistent with Christianity and Catholicism. 1352 01:14:34.000 --> 01:14:38.000 In my view, that capitalism is the cure for climate difficulties, 1353 01:14:38.119 --> 01:14:41.319 not the cause. And right now we have the cleanest dai, 1354 01:14:41.359 --> 01:14:43.720 the cleanest water, and let's keep doing it. Once again, 1355 01:14:43.760 --> 01:14:47.000 Steve Cortes, good to helk up with you again Catholic 1356 01:14:47.119 --> 01:14:49.960 vote dot org. All the issues are there, including what's 1357 01:14:50.000 --> 01:14:54.560 happening with transitioning gender transition, which has completely been debunked 1358 01:14:54.600 --> 01:14:57.680 by every independent study. But however, the media won't let 1359 01:14:57.760 --> 01:14:59.720 go of the fact that boys can be girls and 1360 01:14:59.800 --> 01:15:02.680 girls gonna be boys. I thought science was real. I 1361 01:15:02.760 --> 01:15:06.039 thought biology was a fact. Maybe it isn't, but I 1362 01:15:06.119 --> 01:15:09.319 got to run Steve Cortes once again, Katholic vote dot org. 1363 01:15:09.479 --> 01:15:10.000 Is that correct? 1364 01:15:10.920 --> 01:15:11.079 Yes? 1365 01:15:11.319 --> 01:15:12.800 Thank you so much for having a lot. 1366 01:15:12.680 --> 01:15:14.880 Of good stuff there, Steve, Thank you so much. Thank you. 1367 01:15:16.039 --> 01:15:18.560 Let's continue. Let's continue with more and if a line 1368 01:15:18.600 --> 01:15:22.479 becomes available, you know the routine. But for the last 1369 01:15:22.720 --> 01:15:25.279 couple of three years, I've lost track of Stephen Cortez. 1370 01:15:25.319 --> 01:15:27.840 I'm glad I hooked up with him again. Let's continue 1371 01:15:27.880 --> 01:15:29.960 with more. Bill cunning In The Great American Live with 1372 01:15:30.079 --> 01:15:40.880 you every Sunday Night by Bully cunning in the Great American. 1373 01:15:40.920 --> 01:15:43.760 Once again, we wish good health the ex President Joe 1374 01:15:43.800 --> 01:15:48.159 Biden as he fights prize day cancer stage four. That's fantastasized, 1375 01:15:48.199 --> 01:15:50.520 and that's always a bad situation. We wish him and 1376 01:15:50.560 --> 01:15:54.239 the family chemically, medically, nothing but the best going forward. 1377 01:15:54.640 --> 01:15:57.199 Coming up next is a real life congressman about what's 1378 01:15:57.239 --> 01:16:00.760 happening in the so called House Budget Committee tonight and 1379 01:16:00.960 --> 01:16:03.199 later on Wednesday. It's supposed to be reported out on 1380 01:16:03.279 --> 01:16:05.600 the Rules Committee. Then away we go. Bill cunning and 1381 01:16:05.680 --> 01:16:08.039 the Great American with you and all Great Americans every 1382 01:16:08.119 --> 01:16:08.760 Sunday night. 1383 01:16:29.279 --> 01:16:30.000 Willie. 1384 01:16:34.279 --> 01:16:37.479 Welcome you. By Choice Hotels, Acono Lodge and Roadway In 1385 01:16:37.600 --> 01:16:40.520 Hotels are serving up double points for every qualifying stay 1386 01:16:40.840 --> 01:16:44.039 book at Choice hotels dot com. Now here's the man 1387 01:16:44.079 --> 01:16:47.880 who's been recognized as radio's best, the recipient of not 1388 01:16:48.039 --> 01:16:52.640 one but two prestigious Marconi Awards for his broadcast excellence. 1389 01:16:53.000 --> 01:16:56.079 The one and Only Bill Cunninghead. 1390 01:16:55.800 --> 01:16:58.000 By Billy Cunningham, the Grand America. Of course, we offer 1391 01:16:58.079 --> 01:17:01.119 symplevation to the Biden family for the announced that he's 1392 01:17:01.159 --> 01:17:04.560 contracted stage four Price day cancer, which is a UH, 1393 01:17:04.920 --> 01:17:08.560 which is difficult diagnosis in your eighties. I can't imagine why. 1394 01:17:08.920 --> 01:17:12.239 I like to know politically and culturally and also medically 1395 01:17:12.359 --> 01:17:15.760 what's happened the past several years. Most of us older 1396 01:17:15.840 --> 01:17:18.159 guys tend to have these exams on a regular basis, 1397 01:17:18.239 --> 01:17:20.520 so maybe it was missed, maybe it wasn't missed, but 1398 01:17:20.600 --> 01:17:22.680 it's a caution to us all to make sure we 1399 01:17:22.760 --> 01:17:26.640 have PSA's done and also drees which are uncomfortable digital 1400 01:17:26.720 --> 01:17:29.680 rectal exams, and have other blood tests done. I would 1401 01:17:29.720 --> 01:17:32.920 assume that ex President Joe Biden had that done with 1402 01:17:33.720 --> 01:17:37.960 without depicting it until recently, and we'll see what happens 1403 01:17:37.960 --> 01:17:40.840 down the road. But joining us now is Warren Davidson, Congressman, 1404 01:17:41.119 --> 01:17:43.439 one of the leaders of the UH of the House 1405 01:17:43.479 --> 01:17:46.640 of Representatives and Congressman Davidson welcome again to the Bill 1406 01:17:46.640 --> 01:17:49.079 Cunningham Show. And I first, I'm sure you joined me 1407 01:17:49.159 --> 01:17:52.800 in offering help and sympathies to the a Biden family 1408 01:17:52.920 --> 01:17:53.800 for this diagnosis. 1409 01:17:55.199 --> 01:17:57.399 Yeah, it's wonderful to join you, Bill, And it is 1410 01:17:57.600 --> 01:18:00.600 tragic to hear about Joe Biden anyone stage or cancer. 1411 01:18:01.119 --> 01:18:05.119 That's a tough diagnosis at any age. And certainly, you know, 1412 01:18:05.479 --> 01:18:08.159 just knowing, you know, Joe Biden didn't seem to be 1413 01:18:08.279 --> 01:18:12.119 in great health as he was president, and frankly as 1414 01:18:12.199 --> 01:18:15.159 he was in his waning days as president. And this 1415 01:18:15.319 --> 01:18:18.520 is obviously tough news for even a guy that I 1416 01:18:18.560 --> 01:18:21.239 didn't particularly care for. I certainly wouldn't want hi to 1417 01:18:21.239 --> 01:18:21.880 stuff not like that. 1418 01:18:22.199 --> 01:18:25.479 No, politics is one thing, health is another. And hope 1419 01:18:25.520 --> 01:18:28.800 he lives a long and productive life and post presidency. 1420 01:18:29.159 --> 01:18:31.359 In fact, I wish he never had become the president, 1421 01:18:31.399 --> 01:18:33.319 but that's a different issue. But I wish him and 1422 01:18:33.359 --> 01:18:36.159 his family well in the future. But nonetheless, there's a 1423 01:18:36.319 --> 01:18:39.399 sense now that the Budget Committee is going to pass 1424 01:18:39.439 --> 01:18:43.119 out and the legislation onto the Rules Committee, which is 1425 01:18:43.199 --> 01:18:45.439 going to happen on Wednesday. I could ask you what 1426 01:18:45.600 --> 01:18:48.920 took so long? There were four or five originally voted no, 1427 01:18:49.079 --> 01:18:50.760 now that I understand, the vote's going to be yes. 1428 01:18:51.600 --> 01:18:52.880 But the big thing is going to be the Rules 1429 01:18:52.920 --> 01:18:56.159 Committee on Wednesday, and then the House will vote I 1430 01:18:56.239 --> 01:18:59.800 guess later on in the month of May. Because you're 1431 01:18:59.800 --> 01:19:02.960 looking looking forward to Memorial Day. Can you tell us 1432 01:19:03.920 --> 01:19:05.680 you don't know yet how you're going to vote. I 1433 01:19:05.680 --> 01:19:07.960 would assume because you have to see the final package. 1434 01:19:08.479 --> 01:19:12.319 But one thing that's upset many real conservatives is borrowing 1435 01:19:12.359 --> 01:19:16.640 another four trillion dollars. Moody's just downgraded on Friday. The 1436 01:19:16.760 --> 01:19:19.680 US dead again after downgrading, and I think in twenty 1437 01:19:19.720 --> 01:19:24.039 eleven it went down again. That's a bad sign. And 1438 01:19:24.199 --> 01:19:26.760 the four trillion dollars of new money being borrowed, isn't. 1439 01:19:27.199 --> 01:19:30.560 That's a tough pill for many to swallow, including Representative 1440 01:19:30.640 --> 01:19:35.239 Roy in Texas. But nonetheless, do you have confidence that 1441 01:19:35.439 --> 01:19:38.560 sometime later this month, the big beautiful bill is going 1442 01:19:38.600 --> 01:19:39.159 to pass or not? 1443 01:19:41.079 --> 01:19:41.239 Yeah? 1444 01:19:41.279 --> 01:19:43.239 I mean, great questions. It's been top of mind for 1445 01:19:43.279 --> 01:19:43.880 a long time. 1446 01:19:44.119 --> 01:19:44.279 You know. 1447 01:19:44.840 --> 01:19:48.239 When I was home over Easter break, everyone was like, yeah, well, 1448 01:19:48.279 --> 01:19:49.880 it's good to see you, but where's the bill? 1449 01:19:50.279 --> 01:19:51.920 Yeah. People have been waiting for this thing. 1450 01:19:52.239 --> 01:19:55.199 It's been promised because you put so much of the 1451 01:19:55.279 --> 01:20:00.000 president's agenda into this one big bill. I will say Friday, 1452 01:20:00.319 --> 01:20:04.560 I was thanking the four guys who voted no, because 1453 01:20:05.000 --> 01:20:07.119 it really does need to get better. I mean, you 1454 01:20:07.319 --> 01:20:09.640 wonder like, well, why would you guys need to raise 1455 01:20:09.680 --> 01:20:12.439 the debt ceiling? Well, if you cut taxes and increase spending, 1456 01:20:13.920 --> 01:20:16.199 well you're gonna have to raise the debt ceiling because 1457 01:20:16.199 --> 01:20:18.560 it seems like really basic math, right, you got less 1458 01:20:18.600 --> 01:20:19.920 revenue and you get more spending. 1459 01:20:20.760 --> 01:20:22.760 Of course there's gonna be debt. And that's basically what 1460 01:20:22.960 --> 01:20:27.000 the Big Bill did on Friday. 1461 01:20:27.439 --> 01:20:29.920 When they were looking at it on Friday, it said, well, 1462 01:20:29.920 --> 01:20:32.000 we're gonna cut taxes. We're gonna do that right away, 1463 01:20:32.399 --> 01:20:35.000 and then we're gonna get around to cutting spending. Well, like, 1464 01:20:35.119 --> 01:20:37.479 how far out are you gonna cut spending? Well, like, 1465 01:20:37.560 --> 01:20:39.840 the future congresses are gonna cut spending. But see what 1466 01:20:39.920 --> 01:20:42.159 we're gonna do is we're gonna spend a little more. 1467 01:20:42.760 --> 01:20:45.439 And you're like, well, I mean it's better to promise 1468 01:20:45.640 --> 01:20:48.640 that some future congress is gonna cut spending than not to. 1469 01:20:48.840 --> 01:20:51.439 But frankly, we can't even guarantee who's going to be 1470 01:20:51.520 --> 01:20:53.479 in a future congress. Let alone that they're going to 1471 01:20:53.560 --> 01:20:56.119 follow through and deliver the actual cuts. What we can 1472 01:20:56.199 --> 01:20:59.079 control is what we're voting on right now. And so 1473 01:20:59.359 --> 01:21:01.800 you know, my understan is that there's been enough commitments 1474 01:21:01.840 --> 01:21:03.159 made that it is going to wind up in a 1475 01:21:03.239 --> 01:21:06.199 better place, you know, but by the time it goes 1476 01:21:06.239 --> 01:21:07.600 to Rules Committee on Wednesday. 1477 01:21:08.159 --> 01:21:10.319 And so my hope is it's something I can vote for. 1478 01:21:11.159 --> 01:21:14.079 But if it's if who thinks that the President promised 1479 01:21:14.399 --> 01:21:15.640 to deliver more spending? 1480 01:21:16.159 --> 01:21:16.600 I didn't. 1481 01:21:16.600 --> 01:21:18.079 I mean, I think the whole point of Doge is 1482 01:21:18.119 --> 01:21:20.319 we're going to cut spending. So I think that's the 1483 01:21:20.439 --> 01:21:23.079 question is if this isn't all the cuts, where are 1484 01:21:23.159 --> 01:21:26.640 the cuts? And that's a question I think not just 1485 01:21:26.760 --> 01:21:29.840 members of Congress one answered, our constituents one answered. And 1486 01:21:29.920 --> 01:21:31.399 they're going to be mad at us if we vote 1487 01:21:31.439 --> 01:21:33.720 for it, if they don't get good answers. They want 1488 01:21:33.840 --> 01:21:34.479 less government. 1489 01:21:35.399 --> 01:21:37.960 And if we had the same level of federal spending 1490 01:21:38.520 --> 01:21:41.079 as in the year of twenty twenty, now, twenty twenty 1491 01:21:41.199 --> 01:21:43.840 wasn't exactly the dark Ages. If we have the same 1492 01:21:44.000 --> 01:21:47.399 federal spending as we had in twenty twenty, we'd have 1493 01:21:47.479 --> 01:21:51.720 a balanced budget right now. But the explosion have a surplus. Yeah, 1494 01:21:51.720 --> 01:21:54.039 we'd have a surplus. Explain that to the American people. 1495 01:21:55.159 --> 01:21:58.000 Well, look, prior to COVID, you know, we were spending 1496 01:21:58.479 --> 01:22:00.399 the year prior to COVID, we spend like four point 1497 01:22:00.399 --> 01:22:03.720 six four point eight trillion dollars right Well, right now 1498 01:22:03.800 --> 01:22:06.600 we have over five trillion in revenue. It wasn't like 1499 01:22:06.640 --> 01:22:09.880 we had a small government back then. But what's happened 1500 01:22:10.000 --> 01:22:13.079 is they've loaded not not just like the one time 1501 01:22:13.159 --> 01:22:17.560 spending on COVID, but structurally just higher levels on everything 1502 01:22:18.119 --> 01:22:19.840 that have increased. And you know, a lot of this 1503 01:22:20.000 --> 01:22:22.880 came through with the you know Biden Plan. They put 1504 01:22:22.920 --> 01:22:26.800 all these reforms in that grew spending and accelerated the 1505 01:22:26.880 --> 01:22:30.439 growth rate, and all that government money going into the economy, 1506 01:22:31.000 --> 01:22:34.600 it helped drive inflation. And when you spend more money 1507 01:22:34.640 --> 01:22:36.720 than you have and you pour it into the economy, 1508 01:22:37.399 --> 01:22:40.760 it causes inflation. And that is is a tax. You 1509 01:22:40.800 --> 01:22:42.880 think about your value of your house. If you own 1510 01:22:42.920 --> 01:22:45.399 a house, think of the value of your house. And 1511 01:22:46.119 --> 01:22:48.319 if you don't own one, in your renting you can think, 1512 01:22:48.399 --> 01:22:49.920 well my rent went up by this much. I know 1513 01:22:50.000 --> 01:22:52.039 the value of the property I'm saying, and surely went 1514 01:22:52.119 --> 01:22:56.000 up too. Well, think if Congress passed a tax of 1515 01:22:56.640 --> 01:22:59.600 that kind of price, or your food when you go out, 1516 01:22:59.720 --> 01:23:01.960 or you think five dollars foot longs are like twelve 1517 01:23:01.960 --> 01:23:04.279 dollars right now. I think if we put a five 1518 01:23:04.359 --> 01:23:07.399 dollars tax on foot longs that subway, people would be like, 1519 01:23:07.680 --> 01:23:10.600 you guys, got to go. But that's what happens with inflation. 1520 01:23:11.000 --> 01:23:13.960 You spend too much money, it's effectively a tax. It 1521 01:23:14.039 --> 01:23:14.920 shows up somewhere. 1522 01:23:16.039 --> 01:23:16.520 We're going to have. 1523 01:23:16.600 --> 01:23:19.960 The only remedy for that is to spend less money. Well, well, 1524 01:23:20.000 --> 01:23:23.439 you know, kind of a numbers guy. Twenty twenty, we 1525 01:23:23.640 --> 01:23:27.439 spent about four point seven trillion. Today we're bringing in 1526 01:23:27.600 --> 01:23:30.800 a little over five trillion dollars. And I guess it's 1527 01:23:30.880 --> 01:23:33.760 impossible to go back to twenty twenty spending levels or 1528 01:23:33.800 --> 01:23:36.399 twenty twenty one. You can't go back. The more money 1529 01:23:36.439 --> 01:23:39.039 you spend, it's never cut. And I think I related 1530 01:23:39.159 --> 01:23:41.960 this to you before, Congressman Warren Davidson, that I have 1531 01:23:42.039 --> 01:23:46.199 a sense that the constituency groups around more government spending 1532 01:23:46.279 --> 01:23:50.119 are so strong that it is difficult for anyone to 1533 01:23:50.720 --> 01:23:53.279 not cut the rate of the increase, but actually to 1534 01:23:53.399 --> 01:23:55.520 hold the budget to where it is, or God forbid 1535 01:23:55.600 --> 01:23:59.399 cut spending. There's too many constituency groups ready to cry foul, 1536 01:23:59.720 --> 01:24:02.840 and the media trumpet their cause that it can't be done. 1537 01:24:02.880 --> 01:24:05.600 And I'm a little bit I want's a disappointed with 1538 01:24:05.760 --> 01:24:08.319 Elon Musk, and it has only been I guess four months, 1539 01:24:09.039 --> 01:24:13.159 but nonetheless he's kind of fading away. The one trillion dollars, 1540 01:24:13.239 --> 01:24:16.279 the two trillion dollars in cuts over ten years seemingly 1541 01:24:16.399 --> 01:24:18.560 is down to about one hundred and seventy five billion, 1542 01:24:18.800 --> 01:24:21.720 which is fine. It's pennies on the dollar. It's better 1543 01:24:21.800 --> 01:24:25.000 than nothing. But I don't see a significant cut to 1544 01:24:25.159 --> 01:24:29.199 federal spending, not the rate of growth of federal spending, 1545 01:24:29.439 --> 01:24:31.920 but an idea that, Okay, we spent this much money 1546 01:24:32.039 --> 01:24:35.439 in the year twenty twenty one, and we have revenues 1547 01:24:35.479 --> 01:24:38.600 today to equal that spending. Why can't you say, okay, 1548 01:24:38.720 --> 01:24:41.039 in twenty twenty five, twenty twenty six, we're going to 1549 01:24:41.079 --> 01:24:43.760 bring it over five trillion dollars. That is the level 1550 01:24:43.840 --> 01:24:46.560 of federal spending, which is similar to twenty twenty one 1551 01:24:46.640 --> 01:24:49.039 or twenty twenty two. Why can't Congress do that? 1552 01:24:50.800 --> 01:24:53.039 You know, this is exactly the thing that people don't 1553 01:24:53.079 --> 01:24:55.720 understand because they would do this in their own household. 1554 01:24:55.800 --> 01:24:58.359 I mean, if you think, like, would it be possible 1555 01:24:58.479 --> 01:25:01.279 to live on five percent less, most people would say yes. 1556 01:25:02.319 --> 01:25:04.159 Most people would say, well, it'd be tough, but I 1557 01:25:04.159 --> 01:25:06.119 could do ten percent. But they could look at the 1558 01:25:06.159 --> 01:25:08.119 government and say, well, probably needs to be shrunk by 1559 01:25:08.119 --> 01:25:11.760 at least twenty percent. You know, probably at least twenty percent. 1560 01:25:11.960 --> 01:25:13.960 And that's what I did a sort of social media 1561 01:25:14.239 --> 01:25:17.640 somewhat unscientific poll, but hey, the people that follow Warren 1562 01:25:17.720 --> 01:25:20.560 Davidson on X at Warren Davidson. 1563 01:25:20.239 --> 01:25:22.279 They'll follow it out there and say, hey, here's what 1564 01:25:22.359 --> 01:25:22.680 we think. 1565 01:25:23.079 --> 01:25:26.079 And overwhelmingly people thought, well, the government should shrink by 1566 01:25:26.119 --> 01:25:30.039 twenty percent. The next biggest block was ten percent, and 1567 01:25:30.079 --> 01:25:33.600 the next blocks was plus five. Almost everyone knows it 1568 01:25:33.680 --> 01:25:35.880 needs to shrink some but I guess there's people that, 1569 01:25:36.279 --> 01:25:39.079 you know, everybody left the center wants more government. But 1570 01:25:39.520 --> 01:25:42.560 if you look, the most aggressive plan that the House 1571 01:25:42.600 --> 01:25:46.319 has proposed doesn't even cut spending by two percent. And 1572 01:25:46.439 --> 01:25:49.800 the reality is this big bill that we're voting on 1573 01:25:50.279 --> 01:25:54.840 supposedly this week, unless they improve it, doesn't actually cut spending. 1574 01:25:54.920 --> 01:25:57.600 This Congress doesn't cut it at all. It actually grows 1575 01:25:57.640 --> 01:26:03.199 spending this Congress until well until twenty twenty nine, and 1576 01:26:03.319 --> 01:26:05.439 in twenty twenty nine, and it starts to go down, 1577 01:26:05.760 --> 01:26:09.039 which is after Trump's president. It's not even in this Congress, 1578 01:26:09.079 --> 01:26:11.159 it's not even in this presidency. It's out in some 1579 01:26:11.680 --> 01:26:17.119 future congress and future presidency. So again, those are hollow promises. 1580 01:26:17.279 --> 01:26:20.840 You know, I hope future congresses, you know, you do that. 1581 01:26:20.920 --> 01:26:22.439 But the way to do that is you set the 1582 01:26:22.520 --> 01:26:24.880 example and we spend less money and you hope it 1583 01:26:24.960 --> 01:26:27.520 catches on in future congresses. Go oh, you know, those 1584 01:26:27.560 --> 01:26:30.279 guys campaigned on less spending and then they went and 1585 01:26:30.399 --> 01:26:33.319 did it, and people liked it, so they elected them. 1586 01:26:33.680 --> 01:26:35.640 I fear what's going to happen is we campaigned on 1587 01:26:35.720 --> 01:26:38.600 less spending, we launched those everybody finds out you've been 1588 01:26:38.640 --> 01:26:42.199 spending my money on what, and then you don't do it, 1589 01:26:42.880 --> 01:26:45.000 and they're going to be why would I vote for you, clowns. 1590 01:26:45.039 --> 01:26:47.840 You're not doing any of this stuff, even like work requirements. 1591 01:26:47.920 --> 01:26:50.439 You know, that was bipartisan back when Bill Clinton was president. 1592 01:26:50.920 --> 01:26:52.840 Barack Obama and crew turned it off in O eight 1593 01:26:52.880 --> 01:26:54.560 oh nine. We haven't been able to turn it back on. 1594 01:26:55.439 --> 01:26:57.640 And look everybody I know would help a friend in need, 1595 01:26:58.159 --> 01:27:00.479 but you wouldn't say if you were open a friend 1596 01:27:00.479 --> 01:27:03.079 of kneed out right now that well, look, as long 1597 01:27:03.079 --> 01:27:04.920 as you get a job by twenty twenty nine, I'm 1598 01:27:04.920 --> 01:27:07.640 going to keep helping you. No one's that generous, right, 1599 01:27:07.720 --> 01:27:09.439 you'd be like, hey man, you're going to get a job, right, 1600 01:27:09.479 --> 01:27:11.279 I mean, I'll help you for a little bit. But 1601 01:27:11.399 --> 01:27:13.520 if you're an able bodied adult, you don't have depend 1602 01:27:13.560 --> 01:27:15.720 on kids at home. People are going to expect you 1603 01:27:15.800 --> 01:27:18.520 to work, and they should. And that kind of an 1604 01:27:18.560 --> 01:27:21.600 expectation doesn't affect working poor, it doesn't affect people with 1605 01:27:21.720 --> 01:27:24.600 disabilities or anything else. We're not talking about taking stuff 1606 01:27:24.600 --> 01:27:27.840 away from you know, kids on you know, food stamps. 1607 01:27:28.039 --> 01:27:31.079 We're talking about a able bodied adults with no kids 1608 01:27:31.119 --> 01:27:33.840 at home. And they don't want to turn that on 1609 01:27:34.079 --> 01:27:35.119 until twenty twenty nine? 1610 01:27:35.119 --> 01:27:37.640 Are you kidding me? And they got to fix that 1611 01:27:37.760 --> 01:27:38.159 in the bill. 1612 01:27:38.840 --> 01:27:41.279 Well what chance do we have. I mean, we did 1613 01:27:41.399 --> 01:27:44.720 this and all the dough stuff with the chainsaws etcent. 1614 01:27:44.960 --> 01:27:47.000 I thought, okay, we're going to have a five hundred 1615 01:27:47.039 --> 01:27:50.399 billion to a one trillion dollar cut. I watched the 1616 01:27:50.520 --> 01:27:53.920 GAO in the Congress say every year there's between three 1617 01:27:54.000 --> 01:27:57.199 hundred and five hundred billion dollars in waste, fraud, and abuse. 1618 01:27:57.439 --> 01:28:00.199 We know it's there, we can't find it. And now 1619 01:28:00.279 --> 01:28:04.039 we have Donald Trump saying the same thing as conservatives 1620 01:28:04.159 --> 01:28:06.279 like you and the Congress, but we can't do it. 1621 01:28:06.760 --> 01:28:08.840 In fact, you're gonna get no votes in the Senate 1622 01:28:08.880 --> 01:28:11.840 for any of this. Democrats are like a pack. They're 1623 01:28:11.920 --> 01:28:14.319 like a pack of dogs. They followed the leader. Cats 1624 01:28:14.520 --> 01:28:17.560 tend to roam everywhere. That's what's happening. And so if 1625 01:28:17.600 --> 01:28:20.880 we don't do it now with this president and this Congress, 1626 01:28:21.600 --> 01:28:22.680 when will it ever happen? 1627 01:28:24.119 --> 01:28:27.199 Well, supposedly in twenty twenty nine, twenty miles gonna take 1628 01:28:29.199 --> 01:28:31.520 I don't believe that that's the magic according to the bill, 1629 01:28:31.840 --> 01:28:33.119 And you're right to be skeptical. 1630 01:28:33.159 --> 01:28:34.439 And that's why I say, you know, kudos. 1631 01:28:34.640 --> 01:28:37.039 Look, how rare is it for the Wall Street Journal 1632 01:28:37.119 --> 01:28:39.039 to say, well, the real problem is the moderate it's 1633 01:28:39.079 --> 01:28:41.000 not the conservatives, right, I mean, Wall Street Journal is 1634 01:28:41.079 --> 01:28:44.079 usually ready to throw conservatives under the bus in a heartbeat. 1635 01:28:44.560 --> 01:28:46.960 But even the Wall Street journals like, well, really the 1636 01:28:47.079 --> 01:28:48.880 issues the moderates. They had a good op ed out 1637 01:28:48.920 --> 01:28:50.960 over the weekend through it out there, and I was 1638 01:28:51.039 --> 01:28:53.159 kind of surprised because usually the Wall Street. 1639 01:28:52.960 --> 01:28:54.920 Journal doesn't run interference for concertos. 1640 01:28:55.119 --> 01:28:57.199 No, they're ready to say, you know, let's find common 1641 01:28:57.239 --> 01:28:59.479 ground if you're in the center, and that's really where 1642 01:28:59.479 --> 01:29:00.640 the Wall Street it is, you know. 1643 01:29:01.079 --> 01:29:03.079 But I think they're looking at it going, yeah, these 1644 01:29:03.119 --> 01:29:06.319 are reasonable, these are reasonable cuts that we're talking about here. 1645 01:29:06.359 --> 01:29:07.359 We're not talking about. 1646 01:29:07.760 --> 01:29:12.560 Yeah in draconian slash, you hack saw chainsaw to the government. 1647 01:29:12.960 --> 01:29:16.920 They're minor tweaks and it can't And you're telling me 1648 01:29:17.119 --> 01:29:20.399 there's gonna be some minor tweaks and later this week 1649 01:29:20.520 --> 01:29:22.560 or next week it's going to be passed. It'll go 1650 01:29:22.680 --> 01:29:25.560 to the Senate. God knows what will happen there. I 1651 01:29:25.920 --> 01:29:28.680 kind of began losing faith a few weeks ago when 1652 01:29:28.720 --> 01:29:31.399 they're reading stories about Elon Musk. I kind of watch 1653 01:29:31.479 --> 01:29:34.439 all of his devotees on with Jesse Waters, et cetera 1654 01:29:34.560 --> 01:29:37.000 doing a great job. But when rubber hits the road, 1655 01:29:37.520 --> 01:29:40.279 why can't we spend as much federally as we spent 1656 01:29:40.439 --> 01:29:43.279 in the year twenty twenty one. Why can't we say 1657 01:29:43.399 --> 01:29:46.800 twenty twenty one is the benchmark, and if we did 1658 01:29:46.920 --> 01:29:51.680 that then the tax revenues generated would equal the budget. 1659 01:29:51.800 --> 01:29:54.600 We have a balanced budget immediately. Why can't we do that? 1660 01:29:56.000 --> 01:29:57.760 Yeah, I mean that would be like a ten percent cut. 1661 01:29:57.880 --> 01:29:59.840 If you think about it, people think that's very re 1662 01:30:00.880 --> 01:30:03.960 and I'm looking at it going. Man, I thought a 1663 01:30:04.000 --> 01:30:06.760 two percent cut wasn't very ambitious, but we're talking about 1664 01:30:06.840 --> 01:30:07.560 not even a cut. 1665 01:30:07.960 --> 01:30:09.640 It's just a promise of future cuts. 1666 01:30:10.199 --> 01:30:13.119 And you know, I think really to get robust support, 1667 01:30:13.800 --> 01:30:16.279 not just from members of the House, members. 1668 01:30:16.039 --> 01:30:18.359 Of the Senate, but the public, I think you got 1669 01:30:18.439 --> 01:30:20.520 to actually cut spending, you know, I. 1670 01:30:20.560 --> 01:30:21.600 Think that's where we need to go. 1671 01:30:22.720 --> 01:30:24.880 The bill is not going to be The bill is 1672 01:30:24.960 --> 01:30:25.840 not going to be beautiful. 1673 01:30:25.880 --> 01:30:28.640 It might be okay, but it's certainly going to beautiful 1674 01:30:28.640 --> 01:30:29.560 if we don't cut spending. 1675 01:30:30.279 --> 01:30:35.439 Does the bill eliminate payroll income taxes on overtime, social 1676 01:30:35.560 --> 01:30:38.600 security and tips? Don't we know yet? Depending on what 1677 01:30:38.680 --> 01:30:42.039 happens in the Senate. What about social tips? 1678 01:30:42.439 --> 01:30:44.520 Well, the final will be you know, the Senate bill 1679 01:30:44.600 --> 01:30:46.760 has to ultimately match the House. We have to agree 1680 01:30:46.800 --> 01:30:48.359 before we can get it to the President's desk. But 1681 01:30:48.439 --> 01:30:51.119 the current House bill does eliminate taxes on tips. It 1682 01:30:51.199 --> 01:30:53.560 eliminates tax on overtime, and it gives a four thousand 1683 01:30:53.560 --> 01:30:58.039 dollars credit for Social Security eligible people. And the reason 1684 01:30:58.319 --> 01:31:01.760 it doesn't completely eliminate acts on Social Security there's almost 1685 01:31:01.800 --> 01:31:04.920 nobody that gets more than you know, that much money 1686 01:31:05.039 --> 01:31:08.600 in Social Security to where the four thousand dollar credit 1687 01:31:08.640 --> 01:31:10.319 wouldn't cover the Social Security taxes. 1688 01:31:11.520 --> 01:31:12.640 And that's the goal. 1689 01:31:12.760 --> 01:31:14.479 But there's a lot of people that are on Social 1690 01:31:14.479 --> 01:31:17.199 Security that have income from other source, like they have 1691 01:31:17.279 --> 01:31:19.880 mental properties or some investments. And then pointed out there 1692 01:31:20.199 --> 01:31:23.800 or talk show host or congressman or the yeah, they're 1693 01:31:23.880 --> 01:31:25.359 running running a great arc. 1694 01:31:26.359 --> 01:31:29.199 Yeah, And so the four thousand dollars, I think the 1695 01:31:29.199 --> 01:31:32.159 average Social Security checks about eighteen hundred, that's about twenty 1696 01:31:32.199 --> 01:31:34.239 two to twenty two thousand. So the tax on that's 1697 01:31:34.279 --> 01:31:38.039 about four thousand. And I get that. I get that. Well, 1698 01:31:38.199 --> 01:31:41.279 we got to run Congressman. I'm disappointed, of course, I'm 1699 01:31:41.319 --> 01:31:44.439 waiting to be disappointed. I didn't think the system would 1700 01:31:44.479 --> 01:31:46.680 allow Trump to do what he wants to do, and 1701 01:31:46.800 --> 01:31:49.640 the system won't allow Warren Davidson to do what you 1702 01:31:49.640 --> 01:31:51.960 would want to do. The system eats people up in 1703 01:31:52.159 --> 01:31:54.720 Washington and spits him out. And I think this is 1704 01:31:54.800 --> 01:31:56.760 one more occasion that's going on. Am I wrong? 1705 01:31:58.119 --> 01:32:00.720 Well, stay the course, we haven't lost it. Yeah, we're 1706 01:32:00.760 --> 01:32:02.560 fighting to save this thing. We got to get it 1707 01:32:02.760 --> 01:32:06.760 across the finish line and the you know, it's worth 1708 01:32:06.800 --> 01:32:08.479 the fight. I mean, this is a big effort. But 1709 01:32:09.079 --> 01:32:10.680 in the fate of the country's in balance here, we 1710 01:32:10.720 --> 01:32:11.479 got to save the country. 1711 01:32:11.600 --> 01:32:13.960 We can't do it. We can't have thirty seven honest 1712 01:32:14.000 --> 01:32:18.439 way to fifty trillion dollars and national debt. We can't survive. 1713 01:32:18.640 --> 01:32:21.319 And the media doesn't report on that fact. They're very 1714 01:32:21.439 --> 01:32:24.920 myopic looking at next week and grandmother being pitched off 1715 01:32:25.199 --> 01:32:28.920 a cliff or or some pregnant woman not getting food stamps. 1716 01:32:29.159 --> 01:32:32.039 The big issue is we owe thirty seven trillion dollars. 1717 01:32:32.279 --> 01:32:35.159 Had a Moody's downgrade, which means borrowing money's gonna get 1718 01:32:35.159 --> 01:32:38.840 more expensive. We're gonna borrow again this year. What two 1719 01:32:38.960 --> 01:32:39.800 trillion dollars? 1720 01:32:40.319 --> 01:32:40.800 Is that about? 1721 01:32:40.840 --> 01:32:40.960 Right? 1722 01:32:41.039 --> 01:32:41.239 Yeah? 1723 01:32:41.319 --> 01:32:42.800 Roughly that's about right, yep. 1724 01:32:43.319 --> 01:32:45.600 And next year we're gonna borrow two trillion. 1725 01:32:47.279 --> 01:32:47.479 Yeah. 1726 01:32:47.520 --> 01:32:49.239 And here's the other one that people don't talk about. 1727 01:32:49.279 --> 01:32:51.640 That's new borrowing. The reality is you have maturity, so 1728 01:32:51.720 --> 01:32:54.600 we're going to refinance around eight trillion dollars got a 1729 01:32:54.640 --> 01:32:57.720 higher rate when old debt. Yeah, so old debt that 1730 01:32:57.800 --> 01:33:00.399 we were financing back with interest rates were like, you know, 1731 01:33:00.479 --> 01:33:03.880 half a percent, one percent. We're refinancing at you know, 1732 01:33:04.000 --> 01:33:06.439 four and a half percent, and so it's getting more 1733 01:33:06.560 --> 01:33:07.680 extensive fast. 1734 01:33:08.439 --> 01:33:11.920 Or Warren Davidson once again, Congressman, thanks for coming on 1735 01:33:11.960 --> 01:33:13.680 the Bill Cunningham Show. I don't know what's going to 1736 01:33:13.720 --> 01:33:16.239 happen later this month is going to be wild. I 1737 01:33:16.399 --> 01:33:20.279 suspect strongly that the best intentions will be chewed up 1738 01:33:20.600 --> 01:33:24.640 by the Washington establishment. Congressman Warren Davidson, soldier and Congressman, 1739 01:33:24.760 --> 01:33:28.119 thanks for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. Thank you, Warren. Yeah, 1740 01:33:28.359 --> 01:33:30.520 always it honor. God bless you and your listeners. God 1741 01:33:30.560 --> 01:33:33.800 bless America. Let's continue with more. The Road to Hell 1742 01:33:34.039 --> 01:33:37.479 is paid with great intentions. Bill Cunningham with you every 1743 01:33:37.560 --> 01:33:41.840 Sunday night. All right, Billy Cunningham, the great American. You 1744 01:33:41.880 --> 01:33:44.159 just heard her from Congressman Warren Davidson. This thing's going 1745 01:33:44.199 --> 01:33:47.720 to get out of the Budget Committee tonight, and then 1746 01:33:48.039 --> 01:33:50.000 on Wednesday it's going to go to the Rules Committee, 1747 01:33:50.279 --> 01:33:51.840 and then later on in the House is going to 1748 01:33:51.880 --> 01:33:54.000 be chopped up some more. I have a simple question, 1749 01:33:55.119 --> 01:33:58.800 if we can't actually cut federal spending now, when will 1750 01:33:58.840 --> 01:34:02.199 it ever get cut with this president and this Congress. 1751 01:34:02.800 --> 01:34:06.439 And the answer is probably not. I said to you 1752 01:34:06.560 --> 01:34:08.800 two or three weeks ago, I had a sense that 1753 01:34:08.960 --> 01:34:12.760 the Washington system would eat up and spit out Donald 1754 01:34:12.800 --> 01:34:16.319 Trump and the best intended Republicans. And it's happening as 1755 01:34:16.399 --> 01:34:20.479 we speak tonight. It's going to happen between now Memorial Days. 1756 01:34:20.560 --> 01:34:24.119 Just some rough numbers to pay attention to. In twenty twenty, 1757 01:34:25.039 --> 01:34:28.159 the year twenty twenty, we had federal spending of about 1758 01:34:28.239 --> 01:34:32.359 four point seven trillion dollars, and this year we have 1759 01:34:32.560 --> 01:34:36.560 federal revenues of five trillion. We'd have a three hundred 1760 01:34:36.600 --> 01:34:39.840 billion dollar surplus if we go back to twenty twenty levels. 1761 01:34:39.960 --> 01:34:41.720 In fact, if we take the year twenty twenty one, 1762 01:34:42.039 --> 01:34:45.800 go back to twenty twenty one, we spend about four 1763 01:34:45.960 --> 01:34:49.520 point nine trillion, and this year we're taking in five 1764 01:34:49.600 --> 01:34:52.920 trillion dollars. So if we can't balance the budget with 1765 01:34:52.960 --> 01:34:56.159 those numbers, now, when will we Every time the media 1766 01:34:56.239 --> 01:34:58.640 reports on it, it's a slash, it's a cut. There's 1767 01:34:58.680 --> 01:35:01.960 never a cut there's only a slight decrease of the increase. 1768 01:35:02.600 --> 01:35:04.960 And right now Moodies is cut down the debt rating 1769 01:35:05.000 --> 01:35:07.119 again in this country, which means we're going to pay 1770 01:35:07.199 --> 01:35:09.960 more and more and more. We're becoming a deadbeat nation. 1771 01:35:10.319 --> 01:35:12.600 This year, we're going to borrow about two trillion, next 1772 01:35:12.680 --> 01:35:14.960 year about two trillion year, have to that about two trillion. 1773 01:35:15.199 --> 01:35:17.920 Maybe in twenty twenty nine, it may level off to 1774 01:35:18.000 --> 01:35:21.199 one trillion dollars, which means we're a debtor nation, completely 1775 01:35:21.239 --> 01:35:23.680 out of business. And if it can't be done now, 1776 01:35:24.119 --> 01:35:27.000 guess what it cannot be done. Stay tuned for more 1777 01:35:27.279 --> 01:35:30.600 coming up next to this, doctor Stanley Goldfarb on the 1778 01:35:30.760 --> 01:35:33.439 history of the world. Now that's a topic. Bill Cunningham 1779 01:35:33.479 --> 01:35:41.720 with you every Sunday. We try to understand what's happening 1780 01:35:41.760 --> 01:35:44.079 in our major elite institutions. You would like to think, 1781 01:35:44.159 --> 01:35:47.840 whether it's UCLA or Columbia or Ohio State, for example, 1782 01:35:48.319 --> 01:35:51.199 that the best and the brightest, the best intentions that 1783 01:35:51.319 --> 01:35:53.720 the leaders have thought, so to speak, in America, they 1784 01:35:54.239 --> 01:35:57.079 churn out the leaders in ten twenty thirty years from now. 1785 01:35:57.520 --> 01:35:59.720 I have the honor going to the University of Toledo 1786 01:35:59.800 --> 01:36:02.439 Law School. Got a great education there. I could not 1787 01:36:02.560 --> 01:36:05.239 be admitted to UCLA or Harvard or Yale if I 1788 01:36:05.319 --> 01:36:07.600 tried to. I didn't even try because I wasn't elite 1789 01:36:07.640 --> 01:36:09.800 in the minds of some. And so we look forward 1790 01:36:09.800 --> 01:36:12.720 to the big schools to churn out the best doctors, 1791 01:36:12.760 --> 01:36:15.800 the best architects, the best lawyers, the best business leaders, 1792 01:36:16.239 --> 01:36:20.399 and hopefully they don't practice race discrimination as the Democrats 1793 01:36:20.439 --> 01:36:24.239 did for most of their history. They have in the South, 1794 01:36:24.359 --> 01:36:29.279 especially between about sixteen nineteen and eighteen sixty five, did 1795 01:36:29.279 --> 01:36:32.680 everything in their power to practice racial discrimination against black folks. 1796 01:36:33.159 --> 01:36:35.920 And that was the Democratic Party. The ku Klux Klan 1797 01:36:36.039 --> 01:36:39.439 was the Democratic Party hanging black men with Democratic Party 1798 01:36:39.760 --> 01:36:42.239 and destruction of many of our urban schools today or 1799 01:36:42.279 --> 01:36:45.720 the Democratic Party doing that. But I note with interest 1800 01:36:46.119 --> 01:36:51.279 a column by doctor Stanley Goldfarb, who's the medical watchdog 1801 01:36:51.359 --> 01:36:55.000 of donoharm dot org has filed a class action lawsuit 1802 01:36:55.079 --> 01:36:58.680 against the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA for 1803 01:36:58.760 --> 01:37:02.199 discriminating based upon race and doctor gold far but welcome 1804 01:37:02.239 --> 01:37:04.119 to the Bill Cunningham Show. And first of all, I 1805 01:37:04.239 --> 01:37:08.000 know the name. Tell the American people who is David Geffen. 1806 01:37:08.319 --> 01:37:10.159 I guess gave a lot of money to have the 1807 01:37:10.239 --> 01:37:13.279 school named after him, a school of medicine producing doctors. 1808 01:37:13.319 --> 01:37:14.560 But who is David Geffen? 1809 01:37:16.319 --> 01:37:18.640 Well, it's good to be with you, Bill. 1810 01:37:19.000 --> 01:37:25.960 He's a major Hollywood mogul producer. I don't know all 1811 01:37:26.000 --> 01:37:28.039 of his ins and outs of all that he owns, 1812 01:37:28.159 --> 01:37:31.600 but he's been a major figure in the American movie 1813 01:37:31.680 --> 01:37:33.640 making industry for many years now. 1814 01:37:33.920 --> 01:37:36.840 Lots of money. And give me the essence of your 1815 01:37:36.920 --> 01:37:40.760 lawsuit against the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. 1816 01:37:40.840 --> 01:37:41.800 What is the essence of it. 1817 01:37:43.000 --> 01:37:46.119 Well, like a lot of the elite institutions that you mentioned, 1818 01:37:46.800 --> 01:37:49.800 there's a rottenness at their core. And in this case 1819 01:37:49.880 --> 01:37:54.279 of UCLA Medical School, what's really rotten has been their 1820 01:37:54.319 --> 01:37:58.560 admission policies for medical students for the last several years. 1821 01:37:59.319 --> 01:38:02.880 And this is probably going on in many medical schools 1822 01:38:02.920 --> 01:38:04.399 around the country. In matter of fact, we have some 1823 01:38:04.560 --> 01:38:06.960 evidence that it is. But this has been a particularly 1824 01:38:07.079 --> 01:38:12.560 egregious place because they're director of admissions at Doctor Lucerno, 1825 01:38:12.640 --> 01:38:17.640 who's a physician and an associate dean for admissions, has 1826 01:38:17.760 --> 01:38:22.000 been very outspoken in her desire to have a racially 1827 01:38:22.159 --> 01:38:27.920 based admissions process and Our lawsuit involves students who were 1828 01:38:28.000 --> 01:38:32.199 denied admission to UCLA who had excellent, in fact superb 1829 01:38:32.319 --> 01:38:36.960 academic credentials, much better than minority students that were accepted, 1830 01:38:37.000 --> 01:38:39.239 and yet they were rejected over and over again from 1831 01:38:39.279 --> 01:38:39.720 the school. 1832 01:38:40.760 --> 01:38:41.279 And again. 1833 01:38:41.560 --> 01:38:45.319 Doctor Rosano has been very public in her statements, and 1834 01:38:45.439 --> 01:38:48.800 we have whistleblowers from the UCLA Medical School who are 1835 01:38:48.840 --> 01:38:53.279 willing to testify about things she has said and things 1836 01:38:53.319 --> 01:38:58.760 she has done, and policies that the school has adopted 1837 01:38:59.399 --> 01:39:03.279 that favors individuals based on their skin color rather than 1838 01:39:03.399 --> 01:39:05.520 their academic potential and performance. 1839 01:39:05.800 --> 01:39:09.520 You know, doctor go Goldfarbe. That's been declared illegal for 1840 01:39:09.640 --> 01:39:13.600 a very long time, including Title the Civil Rights Act 1841 01:39:13.640 --> 01:39:16.319 of nineteen sixty four, the Civil Rights Act of eighteen 1842 01:39:16.399 --> 01:39:20.000 sixty six, which was codified largely in the fourteenth Amendment, 1843 01:39:20.079 --> 01:39:22.760 and the California Civil Rights It is well known you 1844 01:39:22.880 --> 01:39:26.319 can't pick someone or give somebody favor based upon skin color. 1845 01:39:26.680 --> 01:39:29.359 That is racial discrimination. And I would think if you 1846 01:39:29.600 --> 01:39:31.920 put this dean in a deposition, which you're likely to 1847 01:39:32.000 --> 01:39:34.520 do soon, she's going to say, yes, we did it, 1848 01:39:34.600 --> 01:39:36.640 but we have good intentions. In other words, we want 1849 01:39:36.680 --> 01:39:40.039 to have diversity diversity is our strength. Actually, I think 1850 01:39:40.199 --> 01:39:43.600 unity is our strength. So what are the difficulties when 1851 01:39:43.640 --> 01:39:47.560 you pick individuals for medical school based upon skin color 1852 01:39:47.920 --> 01:39:51.279 and not merit. How does that manifest itself to patience. 1853 01:39:53.079 --> 01:39:55.600 Well, ultimately, it really means. 1854 01:39:55.359 --> 01:39:59.479 That you have less qualified individuals delivering healthcare. And we 1855 01:39:59.600 --> 01:40:03.359 have lot of evidence now from the performance of minority 1856 01:40:03.439 --> 01:40:07.520 students in medical school and in their training programs that 1857 01:40:07.680 --> 01:40:11.319 show that they're performing much less well. And it's pretty 1858 01:40:11.399 --> 01:40:13.800 obvious that if you perform less well as a student 1859 01:40:13.880 --> 01:40:16.520 and less well as an intern and resident where you're 1860 01:40:16.560 --> 01:40:20.079 actually performing all the functions of a physician, that you're 1861 01:40:20.079 --> 01:40:22.479 going to perform less well for the rest of your career. 1862 01:40:22.560 --> 01:40:25.920 And in fact, we have evidence for that from some 1863 01:40:26.079 --> 01:40:30.840 of the exam performance that has been noted on when 1864 01:40:30.880 --> 01:40:34.800 people take their board certification exams, So we have evidence 1865 01:40:34.880 --> 01:40:38.920 that the performance is less good. And the other great 1866 01:40:39.000 --> 01:40:43.159 problem here is a problem where the medical the minority 1867 01:40:43.199 --> 01:40:48.159 medical students who are capable and are qualified are tarred 1868 01:40:48.319 --> 01:40:52.720 by this terrible racialism because it seemed that they were 1869 01:40:53.439 --> 01:40:56.760 given this opportunity not because of their capabilities, but because 1870 01:40:56.800 --> 01:41:00.239 of their skin color. So it works, it works harm 1871 01:41:00.399 --> 01:41:04.680 for lots of people. It harms patients potentially, and it 1872 01:41:04.800 --> 01:41:08.439 harms those black students who deserve to be physicians and 1873 01:41:08.520 --> 01:41:11.960 who deserve to have the honor that they've achieved when 1874 01:41:12.000 --> 01:41:15.760 they've been successful in their careers, and yet they're diminished 1875 01:41:15.800 --> 01:41:16.920 by this kind of program. 1876 01:41:17.279 --> 01:41:19.960 And doctor I hear the argument, well, you need doctors 1877 01:41:20.159 --> 01:41:24.960 or lawyers, or politicians or teachers that look like their 1878 01:41:25.039 --> 01:41:28.199 patients or their students or their clients. That the greater 1879 01:41:28.359 --> 01:41:31.840 good is to choose based upon race, So that if 1880 01:41:31.920 --> 01:41:35.000 you walk into a doctor's office and there's a black 1881 01:41:35.119 --> 01:41:38.439 female face, or you walk into a lawyer's office and 1882 01:41:38.600 --> 01:41:41.880 there is a gay rights lawyer, you walk into your 1883 01:41:42.399 --> 01:41:45.000 your classroom and you have a teacher that looks like you, 1884 01:41:45.920 --> 01:41:50.399 there are positive societal events for that that needs to 1885 01:41:50.479 --> 01:41:52.840 be imposed. How would you react to that argument from 1886 01:41:52.880 --> 01:41:53.600 the radical left. 1887 01:41:54.760 --> 01:41:57.840 Yeah, and that is the typical argument that's used to 1888 01:41:58.039 --> 01:42:03.199 justify this kind of behavior, an argument for reparations. The 1889 01:42:03.359 --> 01:42:06.079 truth is that there is a great deal of evidence 1890 01:42:06.159 --> 01:42:09.279 that that's simply not the case. There are over sixty 1891 01:42:09.359 --> 01:42:14.399 medical studies and they've been evaluated through systematic reviews, which 1892 01:42:14.479 --> 01:42:16.439 is a very rigorous process. 1893 01:42:16.600 --> 01:42:18.800 Published in peer review medical journals. 1894 01:42:19.279 --> 01:42:22.439 Five systematic reviews have been published in peer review medical 1895 01:42:22.520 --> 01:42:25.279 journals to show that when you look at questions of 1896 01:42:25.399 --> 01:42:29.119 how well do doctors communicate with their patients, how satisfied 1897 01:42:29.159 --> 01:42:31.600 are the patients with the care they're getting, one are 1898 01:42:31.640 --> 01:42:33.239 the medical outcomes of these. 1899 01:42:33.199 --> 01:42:33.800 Kinds of fear. 1900 01:42:34.319 --> 01:42:37.319 There's no evidence that having a doctor that's books like 1901 01:42:37.439 --> 01:42:40.159 you is going to provide better care than the best. 1902 01:42:41.359 --> 01:42:45.760 And despite this, studies are cherry picked. You know, an 1903 01:42:45.760 --> 01:42:49.000 occasional study will show will claim that there's a benefit, 1904 01:42:49.159 --> 01:42:51.760 but then there are five other studies, for example, that 1905 01:42:51.840 --> 01:42:54.199 will show that there's no such benefit. So when you 1906 01:42:54.279 --> 01:42:57.439 look at the totality of the literature, there's just no 1907 01:42:57.640 --> 01:42:59.960 evidence that that's true. And you know it's not true 1908 01:43:00.520 --> 01:43:03.399 vis have the teachers. It's not true in any sphere 1909 01:43:03.439 --> 01:43:06.600 where it's been proposed. It's just a myth that's out 1910 01:43:06.680 --> 01:43:09.880 there and it's used to justify this kind of racialism 1911 01:43:09.960 --> 01:43:11.920 that's gone on in medical school admissions. 1912 01:43:12.239 --> 01:43:14.600 And you know, it's true across the board, right, and 1913 01:43:14.640 --> 01:43:18.840 it's true for lawyers, doctors, architects. Is completely true. It's 1914 01:43:18.880 --> 01:43:20.319 inculcated in the groundwater. 1915 01:43:21.560 --> 01:43:23.920 Yeah, absolutely true, And you know the point you made 1916 01:43:23.960 --> 01:43:27.359 about we've had laws that have prevented this kind of 1917 01:43:28.039 --> 01:43:34.000 racialization of medical school admissions. You know the Supreme Court 1918 01:43:34.159 --> 01:43:37.439 case the Students for Fair Admissions, by the way, are 1919 01:43:37.600 --> 01:43:40.800 co binktives in our case with us. 1920 01:43:40.880 --> 01:43:42.079 With our members. 1921 01:43:44.760 --> 01:43:49.319 That there cannot be any such destination in our education 1922 01:43:49.520 --> 01:43:51.760 at all. This was one sort of exception that was 1923 01:43:51.840 --> 01:43:55.560 out there for several years, but that's been completely eliminated now. 1924 01:43:55.640 --> 01:44:01.479 So what is illegal? It defies the Supreme Court rulings, 1925 01:44:01.600 --> 01:44:04.000 and the time has come for it to stop. And 1926 01:44:04.479 --> 01:44:06.920 time has come for us to have the color blind 1927 01:44:07.000 --> 01:44:10.359 society that was envisioned by Martin Luther King Junior, and 1928 01:44:10.479 --> 01:44:12.600 that represents the American ideal. 1929 01:44:12.840 --> 01:44:15.039 Yeah, if I get on a Delta, if I get 1930 01:44:15.079 --> 01:44:17.840 on a Delta airplane, I don't care if the crew 1931 01:44:17.960 --> 01:44:21.479 is black, white, Asian, I don't care if they're straight 1932 01:44:21.880 --> 01:44:24.680 or gay. Just get me to where I'm going on time. 1933 01:44:24.880 --> 01:44:28.680 And it's kind of a situation where I have a 1934 01:44:28.760 --> 01:44:32.399 sense because of this US Supreme Court because though hopefully 1935 01:44:32.479 --> 01:44:35.239 we'll follow the law, I can recall the comments of 1936 01:44:35.359 --> 01:44:38.199 a Supreme Court justice about thirty thirty five years ago, 1937 01:44:38.520 --> 01:44:41.920 Santre Day O'Connor, who kind of winked, nod, nod, and said, look, 1938 01:44:41.960 --> 01:44:46.079 we're going to have to have some okay, benign racial 1939 01:44:46.119 --> 01:44:49.720 discrimination for the next twenty years in order to spend 1940 01:44:49.760 --> 01:44:52.279 more money on the public schools, more mamy, more money 1941 01:44:52.359 --> 01:44:54.960 on public education. We've got to spend more money on 1942 01:44:55.119 --> 01:44:56.960 Section eight. We got to spend a lot of money, 1943 01:44:57.279 --> 01:45:01.000 and we spent literally trillions of dollars twenty to thirty 1944 01:45:01.079 --> 01:45:03.439 years in order to make sure that a kid you're 1945 01:45:03.439 --> 01:45:07.359 in Los Angeles, I assume, but La County School about 1946 01:45:07.359 --> 01:45:09.720 the Sandmount money is spent there is in a private school. 1947 01:45:09.760 --> 01:45:12.880 I live in Cincinnati, And in fact, the public schools 1948 01:45:13.199 --> 01:45:17.079 spend more per student than the so called Catholic private 1949 01:45:17.119 --> 01:45:20.079 schools with less results. And so the argument was we 1950 01:45:20.279 --> 01:45:24.119 have to violate the law for about twenty years and 1951 01:45:24.279 --> 01:45:26.640 after that, which would be like the nineteen nineties or 1952 01:45:26.720 --> 01:45:29.000 two thousand, which is a quarter of a century ago, 1953 01:45:29.680 --> 01:45:32.359 were that okay, okay, everyone's up. We're going to treat 1954 01:45:32.399 --> 01:45:35.079 people not based upon the color of their skin, but 1955 01:45:35.359 --> 01:45:39.279 rather that their merit to get in. And this has 1956 01:45:39.359 --> 01:45:43.159 not stopped, especially especially in urban areas. It's not stopped. 1957 01:45:44.079 --> 01:45:45.960 And so hopefully it'll stop this time. 1958 01:45:47.199 --> 01:45:49.720 Well, you know, and the thing about medical school missions 1959 01:45:49.800 --> 01:45:54.319 is that any qualified black student has been preferentially admitted 1960 01:45:54.359 --> 01:45:57.960 for many, many years, which okay, if they're qualified, they're qualified, 1961 01:45:58.000 --> 01:46:00.520 and that's fine. If they're qualified as much as an 1962 01:46:00.560 --> 01:46:04.479 Asian student that's being denied admission. But you know the 1963 01:46:04.560 --> 01:46:08.119 problem with medical schools is, unlike undergraduate schools, where you 1964 01:46:08.159 --> 01:46:10.039 could always go to another school if you don't get 1965 01:46:10.079 --> 01:46:12.880 excepted by one, there's always another one. That's not true. 1966 01:46:12.920 --> 01:46:13.680 In medical schools. 1967 01:46:13.720 --> 01:46:17.159 There are fifty five thousand applicants for twenty two thousand spaces, 1968 01:46:17.760 --> 01:46:21.680 and if a student is denied admissions, then some other student, 1969 01:46:21.720 --> 01:46:26.479 who in this case is better qualified, is denied that admission. 1970 01:46:26.920 --> 01:46:31.239 And that's really a major problem. You cannot have fairness 1971 01:46:31.399 --> 01:46:33.399 in this kind of system. And again that's very un 1972 01:46:33.479 --> 01:46:36.119 American to have such an unshared situation going on. 1973 01:46:36.319 --> 01:46:38.439 Yeah, I didn't know those numbers. I know, in the 1974 01:46:38.479 --> 01:46:40.600 state of Ohio we have seven or eight law schools, 1975 01:46:40.600 --> 01:46:43.039 and of course, if you're bright and intelligent, whatever, you 1976 01:46:43.119 --> 01:46:45.319 might go to Case Western, you might go to Ohio State. 1977 01:46:45.640 --> 01:46:49.680 But there's always Ohio Northern, there's always university of Toledo 1978 01:46:49.880 --> 01:46:53.039 and in California, though, I would assume there's a few 1979 01:46:53.159 --> 01:46:55.840 medical schools, and you want the best in the brightest 1980 01:46:55.840 --> 01:46:58.479 because you're not dealing with not to writing a complaint 1981 01:46:58.560 --> 01:47:01.079 or a lawsuit, or maybe not writing a will properly, 1982 01:47:01.119 --> 01:47:03.960 we're talking about someone's life, that is. And if you 1983 01:47:04.000 --> 01:47:06.600 would ask African Americans, do you want the best doctor 1984 01:47:06.680 --> 01:47:09.279 to treat you for your cancer? I don't think the 1985 01:47:09.399 --> 01:47:12.199 typical African American patient would say, you know what I 1986 01:47:12.319 --> 01:47:16.920 wanted an affirmative action doctor. The patients themselves don't say that. 1987 01:47:17.840 --> 01:47:17.880 No. 1988 01:47:18.079 --> 01:47:21.079 In fact, we've asked that question, and there you're exactly right. 1989 01:47:21.319 --> 01:47:24.760 Black patients want the best doctor. That's what they want, 1990 01:47:24.920 --> 01:47:28.479 and it demeans them to suggest that they are so 1991 01:47:28.800 --> 01:47:32.239 racially biased that they can only deal with a black doctor. 1992 01:47:32.319 --> 01:47:33.239 It's just not true. 1993 01:47:33.560 --> 01:47:36.159 It doesn't reflect the Black community, and it certainly doesn't 1994 01:47:36.199 --> 01:47:39.039 reflect what's best for the health of the American people. 1995 01:47:39.640 --> 01:47:42.520 Lastly, you have in your lawsuit. April twenty twenty five, 1996 01:47:42.600 --> 01:47:47.079 a whistleblower said that you see LA circulated a memo 1997 01:47:47.319 --> 01:47:52.399 requiring admissions committee members to consider race when picking students 1998 01:47:52.479 --> 01:47:56.800 to serve as admissions officers, and then to go through 1999 01:47:56.840 --> 01:47:59.159 the medical school process. I think it takes three, four, 2000 01:47:59.319 --> 01:48:04.239 five six years. Are the principles of racism and shall 2001 01:48:04.319 --> 01:48:08.439 we say diversity taught throughout the class work doesn't end 2002 01:48:08.479 --> 01:48:11.159 at the admission and the next four years in medical 2003 01:48:11.199 --> 01:48:14.119 school that race never comes up, that you have no 2004 01:48:14.279 --> 01:48:18.319 benefit or costs for someone being black. Is this diversity 2005 01:48:18.479 --> 01:48:20.479 DEI taught throughout medical school? 2006 01:48:21.399 --> 01:48:24.640 Oh? Absolutely, And it's integrated into all courses. Even when 2007 01:48:24.680 --> 01:48:27.800 students go on a surgical rotation, they'll have a lecture 2008 01:48:27.840 --> 01:48:32.479 about diversity and about racism and surgery and it's all nonsense. 2009 01:48:32.840 --> 01:48:38.960 And the reality is there are important health disparities that 2010 01:48:39.079 --> 01:48:43.119 the black population suffers, but the idea that it's because 2011 01:48:43.159 --> 01:48:46.239 their patients are being treated in a biased fashion by 2012 01:48:46.279 --> 01:48:50.279 physicians is just simply wrong. There are other genetic, behavioral, 2013 01:48:50.840 --> 01:48:53.640 all sorts of reasons that have to do with why 2014 01:48:53.760 --> 01:48:59.079 there's discrepancies in health outcomes. The real problem and not 2015 01:48:59.239 --> 01:49:02.560 to create this this myth that the problem is biased 2016 01:49:02.600 --> 01:49:05.279 on the part of physicians and that patients need doctors 2017 01:49:05.359 --> 01:49:06.880 that look like them in order to get rid of 2018 01:49:06.960 --> 01:49:12.640 this bias. That's this line that's been perpetuated for several 2019 01:49:12.760 --> 01:49:16.199 years now, and it's just wrong and it's just counterproductive, 2020 01:49:16.359 --> 01:49:18.920 totally counterproductive because it doesn't get at the root of 2021 01:49:19.000 --> 01:49:21.159 the issue. The root of the issue is that black 2022 01:49:21.199 --> 01:49:24.159 patients need to have better trust in the healthcare system 2023 01:49:24.279 --> 01:49:27.319 and need to identify their symptoms earlier and need to 2024 01:49:27.399 --> 01:49:30.479 get health access earlier. We know, for example, that the 2025 01:49:30.600 --> 01:49:34.640 high maternal mortality that black women suffer in large part 2026 01:49:34.760 --> 01:49:38.800 is due because there's a tremendous gap between they're getting 2027 01:49:39.399 --> 01:49:44.600 first trimester prenatal care in order to identify high pertension 2028 01:49:44.640 --> 01:49:47.279 and other problems that can be controlled early on in 2029 01:49:47.439 --> 01:49:52.880 pregnancy and prevent problems later on, and these opportunities are available. 2030 01:49:53.479 --> 01:49:56.399 There are laws that provide the funding for black women 2031 01:49:56.479 --> 01:49:58.720 if they're poor to be able to get this care. 2032 01:49:58.800 --> 01:50:00.760 They need to get the care. Then it needs to 2033 01:50:00.840 --> 01:50:03.800 be an educational process that goes on in the black 2034 01:50:03.840 --> 01:50:07.319 community that would help mitigate this problem. It's not due 2035 01:50:07.319 --> 01:50:11.239 to the fact that obstetrics and gynecology doctors are biased 2036 01:50:11.279 --> 01:50:12.159 against Black women. 2037 01:50:12.960 --> 01:50:16.039 Well, I would think DEI principles apply as you say, 2038 01:50:16.119 --> 01:50:19.600 throughout medical school and if, as some conservative a student 2039 01:50:19.960 --> 01:50:23.680 doesn't buy into the idea, I'm not going to acknowledge DEI, 2040 01:50:23.880 --> 01:50:26.239 I'm not going to acknowledge racism, that student would have 2041 01:50:26.319 --> 01:50:31.560 difficulties getting residency, getting grades, things to that character. And well, 2042 01:50:31.600 --> 01:50:35.279 hopefully is that the case, doctor, Well, yeah. 2043 01:50:35.119 --> 01:50:38.520 You know, it's interesting that the agency that credit that 2044 01:50:39.039 --> 01:50:43.319 credits residency programs now just yesterday announced that they were 2045 01:50:43.399 --> 01:50:48.159 going to eliminate their diversity requirements for residency programs. And 2046 01:50:48.239 --> 01:50:50.560 in the past what you said is absolutely the case 2047 01:50:50.720 --> 01:50:54.600 that there are students that were denied opportunities and specialties 2048 01:50:54.680 --> 01:50:59.000 like neurosurgery or radiology because of their skin color. And 2049 01:50:59.560 --> 01:51:02.479 this is going on to at the medical establishment, and 2050 01:51:02.600 --> 01:51:04.319 that time has come when it must stop. 2051 01:51:04.880 --> 01:51:08.600 Doctor Stanley Goldfarbe, go online, Do No Harm dot org, 2052 01:51:09.119 --> 01:51:12.199 Medical director. Let's begin, and let's go back to the 2053 01:51:12.319 --> 01:51:15.920 ideas that race should not play a factor in these admissions. 2054 01:51:16.000 --> 01:51:18.479 Rather it should be merit and everyone should agree with that, 2055 01:51:18.880 --> 01:51:22.239 Doctor Stanley Goldfarb from UCLA, thanks for coming on the 2056 01:51:22.279 --> 01:51:25.079 Bill Cunningham Show, and doctor you're a great American. Thank 2057 01:51:25.119 --> 01:51:28.000 you very much. Thanks so much, God bless you. Let's 2058 01:51:28.000 --> 01:51:31.319 continue with more and there it is, race should play 2059 01:51:31.399 --> 01:51:35.239 no part. Merit should trump race whenever it's available and 2060 01:51:35.399 --> 01:51:39.079 that's the law. How about enforcing the law? What a 2061 01:51:39.159 --> 01:51:41.359 novel concept. No one is above the law. I thought. 2062 01:51:41.359 --> 01:51:44.439 Bill Cunningham, the Great American live with you every Sunday night. 2063 01:51:44.840 --> 01:51:47.319 All right, Billy Cunningham, the Great American, thanks for listening 2064 01:51:47.439 --> 01:51:49.119 at this Sunday night. And once again I want to 2065 01:51:49.199 --> 01:51:53.079 offer nothing but the best for Joe Biden's health going forward. 2066 01:51:53.479 --> 01:51:55.680 It's shocking to me that an next president with the 2067 01:51:55.720 --> 01:51:59.680 best medical care in the world could develop stage four 2068 01:51:59.760 --> 01:52:02.159 p stay cancer and a score of one out of 2069 01:52:02.239 --> 01:52:05.359 ten on the gleas and scale of nine. That's metastasized 2070 01:52:05.960 --> 01:52:10.119 without knowledge before I guess Friday, and we'll find out 2071 01:52:10.159 --> 01:52:12.640 more about this. It has hoped that when one has 2072 01:52:12.760 --> 01:52:16.159 PSA's done regularly at least once a year, and also 2073 01:52:16.359 --> 01:52:20.640 has digital rectal exams called drees, it's a pretty good 2074 01:52:20.680 --> 01:52:24.600 insurance policy against getting staged four prostate cancer. But maybe not. 2075 01:52:25.119 --> 01:52:27.319 We wish Joe Biden and his family nothing but the 2076 01:52:27.399 --> 01:52:31.680 best they as they grapple with cancer. And secondly, having 2077 01:52:31.800 --> 01:52:35.359 on Congressman Warren Davidson is pretty obvious coming out of 2078 01:52:35.399 --> 01:52:39.279 the Budget Committee will be certain promises made about keeping 2079 01:52:39.399 --> 01:52:41.880 federal spending where it is I would hate to say 2080 01:52:41.960 --> 01:52:45.000 cut federal spending. If keeping the same budget where it 2081 01:52:45.119 --> 01:52:48.399 is today is cutting federal spending, then I don't understand 2082 01:52:48.479 --> 01:52:52.880 cutting federal spending because cutting federal spending means spending less money. 2083 01:52:53.560 --> 01:52:56.319 And I fear that in six months or so, when 2084 01:52:56.359 --> 01:52:58.239 you and I are together again, as we're to get 2085 01:52:58.359 --> 01:53:01.000 together every Sunday night, I'm gonna remind you that way 2086 01:53:01.079 --> 01:53:04.000 back in May, I said that despite all the words 2087 01:53:04.399 --> 01:53:08.039 and the chainsaws, there's no significant cut whatsoever in federal 2088 01:53:08.119 --> 01:53:11.159 spending because the system will not allow it. And if 2089 01:53:11.199 --> 01:53:14.960 the system run by Donald Trump and these Republicans like 2090 01:53:15.159 --> 01:53:18.000 Fune and Johnson cannot get it done, then guess what 2091 01:53:18.159 --> 01:53:21.760 it'll never get done. If we've returned the federal government 2092 01:53:21.840 --> 01:53:26.239 budget to spending in the year twenty twenty one, four 2093 01:53:26.359 --> 01:53:29.680 years ago, we have a balanced budget right now. Why 2094 01:53:29.760 --> 01:53:35.399 can't that happen? Too many well funded power groups interest 2095 01:53:35.479 --> 01:53:40.199 groups decide that anything other than an increase in federal 2096 01:53:40.279 --> 01:53:43.680 spending is a cut to keep federal spending where it 2097 01:53:43.800 --> 01:53:45.920 is and not a cut. We'll see what happens on 2098 01:53:45.960 --> 01:53:48.239 Wednesday and the Rules Committee, but that's the way it's 2099 01:53:48.279 --> 01:53:50.960 going to be. Once again. Thanks for listening tonight especially. 2100 01:53:51.000 --> 01:53:53.439 You also want to thank Jeff crue Air of New 2101 01:53:53.560 --> 01:53:57.079 Orleans for setting the record straight on the Nobel Peace 2102 01:53:57.159 --> 01:53:59.840 prices should be awarded, of course, to Donald Trump, Bill Cut, 2103 01:54:00.079 --> 01:54:01.359 I am with you every Sunday night.