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Speaker 1: How do you want a big concast?

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Speaker 2: It's two day.

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Speaker 1: Today's the twenty sixth day of August, Year of Our Lord,

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twenty twenty five. And even though it's the last week

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of August, a lot of people are on vacation. The

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news barrel is overflowing today, and I mean the earth

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shattering news that I think the world actually stopped spinning

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was Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey announced that they are

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engaged to be married. Okay, we got that done, check

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that off. I know, listen, I've told you before. I

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know a lot of people go, oh, Tom, you can't

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keep man gard and talk about Taylor's. Yes, I can.

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The woman went on her tour and made two billions. Well,

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brought in two billion dollars. I admire anybody that is.

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I mean, my goodness. So anyway, congratulations to them. They're

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off on the whole deal. I mean, it'll give the

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entertainment industry lots of following them around even more. And

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football college football starts next weekend. I'm excited. I hope

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you are. Like I said, food the new food bol

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The news barrel is overflowing, and we I mean, I'm

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right there with everybody else. The financial markets have been

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going crazy about the fact that the government owns ten

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percent piece of Intel and I still am shaking my

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head about do they not understand? Do they not understand

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why that is so bad? But that has been put

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on the back shelf because now the president, he loves

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to push the envelope, he loves to test the rules

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and man alive, is he doing it again. And the

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financial markets are even more gasping today because he fired

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Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook last night. And well,

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the rules say he can't do that, and that doesn't

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bother him. He went ahead and did it anyway. Since

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the FED, I mean, is not only about Lisa Cook.

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This is the lady that was appointed by Joe Biden

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to the Federal Reserve Board back in twenty twenty two.

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And so she we told you the story yesterday. She

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has been added to the list. Adam Shit is on

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the list. Letitia James, the Attorney General for New York

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is on the list, and now Lisa Cook of mortgage fraud.

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And the fraud that is being accused is when you

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fill out an application for a loan, Somewhere on that

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list it asks is this going to be your principal residence,

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yes or no. If you say yes, you get a

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better rate and it's less risk for the lender because,

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as I repeat often, you may if you get into

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a tight financial situation, you may skip the Macy's bill

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making payments, you may skip the some other bill to MasterCard,

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but you're not going to skip the payment on the

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roof over your head. So that is why a principal

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single family home loans that are going to be your

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principal principal residence have a better rate than if it's

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going to be a second home, a rental home, whatever

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it might be. So Lisa Cook, according to Bill Poulty,

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he is the head of the Financial FHFA, which is

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the Financial Financial Housing Finance Authority, And how he got

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on this is well, they're going to dig into it

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and find out just exactly was this a political hit?

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Was this a political target?

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Speaker 3: But she.

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Speaker 1: Poulty is made a criminal referral to the Department of

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Justice about Lisa Cook and said that she may have

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committed mortgage fraud. So the President fires her last night,

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and you'll hear from I've got a bunch of people

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from Wall Street jabbering about this today very upset and

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they are there. It's not so much about Lisa Cook

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and about mortgage for it's about the fact that the

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FED is supposed to be independent and the President doesn't

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have any say so over the FED. The President nominates

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the FED Chairman and that is it, and supposedly cannot

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fire the FED chairman or any of the Federal governors.

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Let me go back, if you don't mind, to the

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beginning here. There's twelve people on the Federal Open Market Committee.

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Those are the twelve people that vote every six weeks

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on what to do about interest rates, raise them, lower them,

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leave them the same. Well, of that twelve, seven of

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them are Federal Reserve governors, of which Lisa Cook is

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one of them. How do you hit to twelve? Whether

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there's those seven and right now it is, I believe

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three that have been appointed by Republicans and four that

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have been appointed by Democrats. So if you're going to

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look at those positions as political, which you probably should not,

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because the job isn't political, but it's a political agency

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because of the fact that, even though it's independent, the

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FED Chairman is appointed by the President and the FED

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governors are appointed by presidents. So there's right now, it's

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balanced four to three in favor of those that have

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been appointed by Democrats. And then you said, well, you

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said twelve, Tom, Yeah, well there's the seven plus five

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Federal Reserve District Bank presidents are on there, and they

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rotate as far as how they get on the Federal

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Open Market Committee. So there's a little bit of I

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know we're getting into the weeds, but this is important

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because if President Trump can appoint another person as the

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Federal Reserve Governor, that will tip the scales in favor

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of a Republican, more Republicans than Democrats on the Federal

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Reserve Open Market Committee. And well, there's another whole theory

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here too, is that Lisa Cook says she's not going

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to she's not going to step down, she's not going

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to go away. She's going to fight this. She has

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hired Abby Lowell, who is the same guy that represented

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Hunter Biden in court. He represents I believe correct me

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on this, but I think it's all only Democrats. He's

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a big lawyer in Washington that represents people that are

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involved in political scandals. Usually he's going to represent her.

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And the problem is that how can you fire somebody.

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The only way the president can fire somebody on the

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FED is for cause. Well what does that mean?

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Speaker 3: We don't know.

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Speaker 1: It's going to have to be for a court to

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determine what's caused. But the other thing is she hasn't

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been accused of anything formally, she hasn't been charged. Yeah,

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Bill POULTI sent a criminal referral to the Department of

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Justice a couple of weeks ago, and so far nothing.

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I expect they'll come out with something, but they're going

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to have to investigate to see these mortgage applications and

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see what she wrote, and see what box she checked,

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and see whether or not she did commit mortgage fraud

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or not. So how can you fire somebody for cause

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that has only been a criminal referral? There hasn't been

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a charge. Now, if she is guilty of mortgage fraud

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and she is found guilty or even indicted for it,

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I think she should step down. But it looks like

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the President is rushing this because he wants to get

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those infistrates down and if he can appoint another governor

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that's loyal to him. The problem with all this is

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the world's financial markets look to the Federal reserve system

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in the United States as being trying to be independent.

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whoever is in power in the US. They want it

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to be separate from that. And if it looks like

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the Federal Reserve is going to be a mouthpiece for

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the president, and I often say this, Okay, so maybe

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you love Donald Trump, but what about the next president

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or the one after that, of a mouthpiece for Joe Biden.

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Wouldn't that have been fun? So you do want this

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to be independent? And the world financial markets are watching.

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They're asking questions like, why did Bill Poulty find her

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mortgage applications? Is this a political witch hunt? Is the

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Fed under attack? I mean, the Supreme Court has ruled

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that the president does have the authority to fire agency heads,

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even so called independent but they carved out an exception

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for the Federal Reserve Board, saying he doesn't have the

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authority to do that. But the president is going to

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test the rules, no question about it. So where do

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we start today? How about with Roger Ferguson. He is

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the former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve. Here's what

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Roger had to say.

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Speaker 4: No question, we've been trying to get an answer to

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this and been debating it all morning. Do you know

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if she is already fired and will now appeal that decision,

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or if it's the other way round that the president

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needs to go to court to enforce his wishes.

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Speaker 2: There are a couple of questions. One is you know

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what is it? First? Is she guilty of anything? We

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do not know that yet. There are allegations. I don't

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think you've never seen any proof yet that's been made public,

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and we should all keep that in mind. We're speculating

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here with a big if. Secondly, there's a question of

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the power, the presence power to fire a federal reserve

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governor for cause, And what is the definition of for cause?

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Most people have thought for cause is for some misbehavior

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in office, not an alleged misbehavior as a private citizen.

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And so I think the question that you're asking, you know,

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has she been fired, if she fired, et cetera. Ultimately

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only the courts will be able to determine that, and

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we have to find out is she guilty of anything.

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If so, that was if she was a private citizen. Secondly,

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what counts for cause to allow the president to remove

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a sitting Federal Reserve governor, So still some ambiguity. I think,

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you know, I think there is a distinction in the

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market's mind between a governor and the chairman of the board.

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And also we've seen this president move back and forth

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quite a bit on a variety of things, including tariffs.

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of conditioned itself to wait for the next shoe to

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drop and the one after that, and then we'll finally

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see where this also goes out. All of this will

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go to court, and then we'll find out first is

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Lisa Cook guilty of anything. If she is guilty of something,

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is that sufficient cause for the president to fire her?

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fired and the chairman of the board does not enforce that,

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is that cause. These are questions that have to be asked.

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You were asking the right questions, but no answers yet,

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And I would encourage all of us to not speculate

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Speaker 1: The question about Lisa Coogan, whether she signed a document

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that said she had two primary residents at the same time,

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the other questions being asked by the financial markets. Is

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the independence of the Federal Reserve Board? Has it been pierced?

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Speaker 2: So I think you're right to take us to that

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bigger question, because that is, in fact the question that matters.

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There's a risk. I think this unprecedented move, and there

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have been other moves that the President has taken visa

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visa FED, all of them I think pile up on

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the side of you know, is the Fed's independence now

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being questioned? And is the FED therefore able to make

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decisions consistent with its legislative mandate which will pass long

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past anyone administration. And I think that is a very

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legitimate question. I think our friend Christian Guha puts it

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the rite issue on the table for all of us

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to consider. And we should not be complacent about this

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matter whatsoever. An independent FED, as I said to you,

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I think last week is central to welling, well performing

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bond market, well performing economy, and we need to respect

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and protect that independence as best we can.

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Speaker 1: Well, let's go to the New York SoC Exchange and

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the CNBC anchors were all a buzz about this. Here's

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Jim Kramer and David Faber primarily, and their discussion.

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Speaker 5: It's a tax on the FED. Today, the President says

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he has fire FED Governor Lisa Cook affect him immediately,

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and a letter to Cook posted last night on Truth

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Social President states there is sufficient cause to remove her

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because she is, in his words, may have made false

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statements on one or more mortgage agreements. Cook responded with

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a statement saying, quote, President Trump purported to fire me

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for cause when no cause exists under the law and

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he has no authority to do so.

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Speaker 3: I will not resign.

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Speaker 5: I will continue to carry out my duties to help

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the america An economy, as I've been doing since twenty

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twenty two. A lot of reaction Jim on the street

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about whether she could get an injunction from the DC

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District Cord, whether that eventually moves to the Supreme Cords.

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Speaker 3: Well, I think the hard problem here is she has

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Speaker 6: So until she's charged, I don't know why the President

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would go now unless he's really confident she will be charged.

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Speaker 3: I don't think he knows that.

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is is that without her being charged, it's really difficult

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to fire her, because you're just basically saying I said

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she may have called I'm firing her had she committed fraud.

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Speaker 3: Being appointed, it's very hard to serve the Federal Reserve

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I mean, let's let's let's take her out of the equation.

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considered someone who shouldn't.

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Speaker 7: We have no idea if if in fact she's guilty

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of this charge there's.

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Speaker 3: Been there's no due process. No, there's nothing. No, there's

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no process.

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Speaker 7: I mean, the charge is being made by the President

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and by my others.

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Speaker 3: There's been a referral, a criminal referral.

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Speaker 7: But we have no idea if it's been undertaken as yet, correct, Carl,

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in terms of the Justice Department deciding to prosecute, which

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then she would obviously have the opportunity, I would believe,

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to defend herself, and then we might a court might determine,

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and a judge might determine whether she is in fact guilty. Now, typically,

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by the way mortgage fraud is litigated, when it's large,

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at stake or who knows billion, those kinds of when.

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Speaker 5: You're inflating the value of your assets.

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Speaker 7: Sometimes that or okay not typically when you are on

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a form saying that you have two.

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Speaker 3: Primary residences, which is what is charged, not to just

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a department. No, that's my buddy.

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Speaker 6: I do think that we have to go back to

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what common sensus, which is, if you've been indicted from

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Morgans freud, you shouldn't serve.

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Speaker 3: But she hasn't been indicted from Mortgus fraud.

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Speaker 6: So why should should she step down on the possibility

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that she's being investigated.

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Speaker 3: No, no, she shouldn't step down.

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Speaker 6: And by the way, this you know, the decision made

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twenty second twenty twenty five by the Supreme Court, Yes,

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says that there's a carve out right where they he

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can't just say listen, you gotta resign that there is

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a sense that the Federal Reserve is independent. Now, all

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that said, when you come back to the notion of

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Federal Reserve independence, if you can go after someone who

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hasn't been charge and just say listen, you're fired.

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Speaker 3: Wing it like that. Well, why couldn't he do that

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to anybody? You can? You can, Well, what do you feel?

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Speaker 8: Well, no, I'm not way I feel about it. Listening,

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going to set up an interesting potential path through courts

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because the Supreme Court has given the President certain powers

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in terms of firing so called independent employees that are

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not necessarily under the purview that said, they kind of

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carved out the Federal Reserve in the same in the same.

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Speaker 6: Uh, well, I think suppose that's the only part of

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the government that is considered to be independent.

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Speaker 1: So the discussion goes on and on and on, and

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we will wait to see what happens next. But so far,

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Lisa Cook is not stepping down, and she's going to

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fight this firing. It's interesting because just three weeks ago,

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another member, another Federal Reserve governor, woman by the name

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of Adrianna Kugler, resigned from the Board of Governors. And

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the only reason she gave was she wanted to return

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to Georgetown University as a professor. So that opened an

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earlier than expected slot for President Trump to nominate a

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new member to the Fed's governing board. And now if

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he could get this person out, that would again give

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him the four to three advantage. If I just have

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never thought of the FED governors on what party or

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what president appointed them, but I guess some people do.

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Lisa Cook also came from an economics professor job. She

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was a professor of economics at the University of Michigan.

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I remember, right, So that fight's going to go on.

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And then to the point we were making about Intel

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the last couple of days and the government owning a

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piece of that. That's apparently not the end of what

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the government is. Least, the Trump administration is thinking about

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having ownership in some other companies that they do business with.

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Here's Howard Lutnick, the Commerce Secretary, being questioned about this

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by Andrew Ross Sorkin.

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Speaker 9: Why shouldn't the US government say, you know what, we

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use Palenteer services, we would like a piece of Palenteer.

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We use Boeing services, we would like a piece of Boeing.

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There are a lot of businesses that do business with

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the US government that benefit by doing business with the

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US government.

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Speaker 3: I guess where's the line.

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Speaker 10: Oh, there's a monstrous discussion about defense. I mean Lockheed

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Martin makes ninety seven percent of their revenue from the

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US government. They are basically an arm of the US government.

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They make exquisite munitions, I mean, amazing things that can

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knock a missile out of the air when it's coming

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towards you.

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Speaker 3: But what's the economics of that.

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Speaker 10: I'm going to leave that to my Secretary of Defense

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and the Deputy Secretary of Defense. These guys are on

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it and they're thinking about it. But I tell you what,

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there's a lot of talking that needs to be had

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about how do we finance our munitions acquisitions. I think

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a lot of that is talking, And now you have

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the right people in the jobs and Donald Trump at

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the head thinking about what is the right way to

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do it. I tell you the way it has been

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done has been a giveaway.

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Speaker 1: So Howard Luttennek admitted that, yeah, they're looking at taking

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ownership a piece of ownership of various defense contractors. I

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don't know about you, but the reason, yes, Lockheed Martin

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is a defense contractor, So yes, they make ninety seven

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percent of the revenue comes from the US government. Who

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else buys bullets and things like that and missiles? So

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do you want the government to just take over private companies.

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Private companies have a long cherished history of doing things better,

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more creative, faster, less expensive than a government aid.

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Speaker 4: See.

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Speaker 1: So can you imagine why don't they just buy Lockheed

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Martin and turn it into the government agency for bullets

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and missiles. I don't think. So that's the private sector

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outperforms all the government larg that is out there. And

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lut Nick, I can't believe Howard is saying this, but

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he's talking about Yeah, they're thinking about taking pieces of

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companies that the government does business with. This is crazy. So,

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speaking of crazy, the one executive order of the president

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has signed now of these eos of late is that

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he's saying that you can't burn the US flag. I

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don't know what he's going to do, but he's going

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to he wants to ban burning the US flag. I

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don't know when you learned about the fact that burning

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the US flag was I guess okay, I don't remember

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exactly what year was, but I think I was a young,

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very young man, probably in school, when somebody said you

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can burn the US flag and they can't do anything

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about it. I thought, what that seems so wrong? That

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anybody can burn our flag, but the Supreme Court has

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ruled on multiple occasions that burning the US flag is

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protected under the First Amendment. That is your speech to

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be able to push back against our government and tell

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them that you don't like them. Well, Donald Trump, like

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I said, he's trying to test the rules, and he's

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pushing envelopes. That's what he does. And what he wants

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to do is revisit this whole business about burning the

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US flag. John yu who is a longtime federal prosecutor,

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was I believe, an assistant Attorney General years ago. He's

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a professor of law out at Berkeley in California, and

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this this is his take on the executive order.

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Speaker 11: President Trump has an uphill battle to fight. I completely

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sympathize with him. I don't think anybody really approves of

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burning the American flag. Let me quote the great Justice

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Scalia here, who said, if he were king, he would

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throw every scruffy, bearded, sandal wearing weirdo who wants to

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burn the American flag in jail. But then Jessice Scalia said,

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I'm no king. The Supreme Court held in these two

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decisions from nineteen eighty nine and nineteen ninety that burning

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the flag is protected by free speech. But you notice

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President Trump rested his decision on incitement. There is an

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exception for speech that's something along the lines of yelling

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fire in a crowded theater, speech that really is designed

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not to express thought, but is designed just to get

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people to fight. There, the government might have more discretion

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to try to limit the burning of the flag, But

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I think the answer is, rather then try to change

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you'll creating pride flags or any other kinds of symbols.

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That's all equally protected speech. And so if there are

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states and cities who are punishing people for that, those

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laws should be struck down by the Supreme Court too.

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There is no clause in the Constitution right now. You

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would have to amend the Constitution, or, as President Trump's doing,

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try to get back to the Supreme Court and see

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those decisions from thirty five years ago. They were five

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to four, and they were interesting mixtures. It wasn't all

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conservatism on one side and all liberals on another. So

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President Trump might try to see if this new Supreme Court,

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I don't think any of the justices on this court

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were there back thirty five years go see if this

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new court would change its mind, and you could make

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the argument that the flag is unique. It's the one

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thing because it expresses the nation's existence, that men and

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women have died on battlefields to protect it, that it

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has a unique symbolism that the government's allowed to take

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off the platter of all the other things we allow

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people to burn and destroy in the name of free speech.

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Speaker 1: All right, since we're on this role, the president's on

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a roll and he hasn't said he's going to do it,

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but he's implied pretty heavily that he's going to be

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sending National Guard troops into Chicago. He wants the National

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Guard to create special units that can go in two

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cities to basically do or supplement law enforcement there. So Chicago,

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of course, the mayor there is having kittens about it,

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so is the governor of Illinois. But here's a lady

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who her name is pianre Pirae Easley. She is a

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mother in Chicago who was asked about why would the

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governor of Illinois and the mayor of Chicago be against

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troops coming in to help them fight crime.

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Speaker 12: Here's her answer, because obviously they're benefiting from the chaos.

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Speaker 13: Think about it. Our governor has been in charge for

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a while.

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Speaker 12: Our mayor has a platform that puts the migrants before

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the American people. He's doing exactly what he said he

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was going to do on his campaign website. And because

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they're failing the American people, we deserve help. We don't

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have to live like this. And if President Trump wants

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to come with troops and prosecutors, because we want just

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as many indictments as there are arrests, then we don't.

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That's what we want. Don't listen to JB. Pritzker. Don't

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listen to Brandon Johnson. We asked Brandon Johnson to give

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us the ability to vote on whether or not we

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were going to remain a sanctuary city, and they did

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it that in the city council.

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Speaker 13: Because this is their plan.

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Speaker 12: It seems like they want to bankrupt the American taxpayers

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in order to force us to pay for our replacements.

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Speaker 13: And we say absolutely not. Every number is a bad number.

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Speaker 12: Right now, the City of Chicago is touting the lower

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crime by saying that we're at the same rates we

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were at INTWOY fourteen in twenty fourteen. My first cousin,

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Abraham Cooper, was murdered in the city of Chicago, and

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Operation Legend that President Trump sent to the city during

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the last administration saw that crime. Each person that dies

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is a grieving family. No grieving families are acceptable. So

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for them to say, well, we don't need help because

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violence is down, because murders are down, people are still

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being hurt, people are still being murdered, Drugs are still

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being sole, humans are still being trafficked. So what is

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the baseline And their baseline is confusion and we want safety.

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Speaker 13: So thank you, President Trump. We can't wait to see you.

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Speaker 12: Please don't listen to them, but we're also asking you

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for protection because yesterday our governor did a press conference

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and he said that they are taking the names and

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making a list of people who support the president. So

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I'm asking the President and everybody in America to pray

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for our safety and security as we fight to get

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justice in our city.

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Speaker 1: Wow, very well spoken, lady. We always hear from the

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governor and from the mayor, but you don't hear from

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the citizens. And there's a bunch more like this lady

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that live in Chicago that want to get the crime

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behind them. I still don't know. You've got to do

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more than just send troops. It's a much much deeper, deeper,

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deeper problem. But they want anything to help them with

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the crime problems in their city. So there's a lady

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from Chicago giving her view. Some other news headlines floating

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around today. As far as the economy goes, the Consumer

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Conference Board came out with their consumer confidence number for

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the month of August. I know the month isn't over,

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but they came out with it today, ninety seven point four.

478
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That's very high. It's better than expected, but it's lower

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than last month. So consumer confidence down notch from the

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previous month, but still very very high. Consumer confidence is

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baffling economists out there who thought that they would be

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pulling back, but so far they are not.

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Speaker 3: Cracker Barrel.

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Speaker 1: Story won't die. Cracker Barrel came out with a statement

485
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today and said, well, we won't always get everything right

486
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the first time. So it sounds like they're starting to

487
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feel the pushback about wanting to modernize the cracker barrel,

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which is an American staple of an old country restaurant.

489
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It's great. It's a great restaurant, best fried chicken and

490
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mashed potatoes. You ever wanted to have Anyway, they said, no,

491
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they're not walking back, they're rebranding. Why do people rebrand?

492
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Remember Coca Cola, the genius is a Coca Cola. That's

493
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a huge company. They've made a lot, I mean, wildly successful,

494
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and so you would think there's a lot of smart

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people there. But they came out. Remember they came out

496
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with new coke. They had to completely undo that whole thing.

497
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It was a huge disaster. Anyway, Cracker Barrels so far

498
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has spent seven hundred million dollars on this rebranding of

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lightening up the restaurants inside with new menus and some

500
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junior vice president. I hope he or she gets fired,

501
00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:33,880
very much like the bud light and mistake that that

502
00:31:34,039 --> 00:31:37,640
end hazard Bush made with who was that guy that

503
00:31:38,079 --> 00:31:41,359
looked like a lady that was part of the bud

504
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light fiasco. I mean, you're selling your product, just leave it,

505
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leave the brand alone, just keep advertising it. And then,

506
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of course, if you're just tuning in the big news

507
00:31:54,119 --> 00:31:58,960
of the day, the internet is melting down because Taylor

508
00:31:59,039 --> 00:32:04,640
Swift and Travis Kelsey you have announced their engagement. No,

509
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we don't have a date on Wall Street. Let's see

510
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what they were thinking about today besides Taylor Swift, Well,

511
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it was better than yesterday. The Dow Jones industrials today

512
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up one hundred and thirty five, back up to forty

513
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five thousand and four eighteen. That's I believe, this close

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to a record. SMP up twenty six, the Nasdaq up

515
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ninety four, Gold nice day, up twenty five dollars to

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thirty four forty three. And oil, after going up a

517
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buck yesterday, went down a buck and a half today

518
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it's at sixty three dollars for one barrel of oil.

519
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Thank you for coming by. Appreciate you patronizing the podcast.

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We're going to try this again tomorrow. We hope to

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see you then