Speaker 1: And hello, how are you welcome? Welcome to the Big
Podcast on this Monday. Today is the second day of February.
You're of all over twenty twenty six. My name is
Tom Sullivan. Happy groundhog Day to you. Just I'm not
one to watch a movie twice. I'm just not. I
don't go once I've seen a movie. It's like reading
a book. I read a book once, I don't go
back and read it again. Groundhog Day, the movie, however,
is one I could watch over and over and over. Well,
kind of like groundhog Day, just the same thing over
and over. It's just funny. I find something funny in
there every time. So, in any case, welcome to groundhog Day.
We've got that. We've got the government is shut down partially,
kind of You wouldn't know, would you. Maybe some of
you do, but I don't think many of us were
aware of that. We've got more reaction to the Epstein
documents that were released and apparently those that have not
been released. We've got some new updates for you on
Iran and India and oil. So we got all of
that to go through. And the Emmys were last night.
I don't know if you watched any of it or not,
I want to start. However, there's a big mystery going
on and it involves a Savannah Guthrie, the anchor for
the Today Show. She's been the morning anchor for many
many years now. She was with them before. She was
the lead female on the Today Show. She was a
legal contributor to NBC into the Today Show. She's a lawyer,
and something has happened with her mother. Her mother is
eighty four years of age. She lives in Tucson, Arizona,
and apparently she was last seen Saturday evening and hasn't
been seen since. She goes to church regularly and on Sundays,
she did not show up for church services. Somebody went
looking for her, couldn't find her. They called the police
about noon, and so it's been since noon on Sunday.
The police have been involved and they are saying that
this is not First of all, she's eighty four, but
apparently she is mentally sharp. There's no dementia, no all Zheimer's,
any of that. Physically, she has problems walking long, not
even long distances. She can't walk fifty yards. Apparently it's
very hard for her. So how did she disappear and
at the news conference today in Tucson. One of the
reporters said, do you have her phone? And they said, yes,
we do, which means you don't leave home without your
phone today, do you. So let's pick it up. Let's
start with this troubling story out of Tucson with Chris Nanos.
He is the sheriff of the county there in Tucson.
Speaker 2: That.
Speaker 3: Nancy Gotthrie, eighty four years old, was missing. We expended
a lot of resources for a missing person that we
typically always do. Our search and rescue volunteers, our search
and rescue teams, other agencies, bore Star from Boarder Patrols
sent their caneines out. They worked tirelessly all day yesterday
and all day tonight. I'm all day yesterday all last
night to know about As I said, yesterday, we saw
some things at the home that were concerning to us.
We believe now after we process that crime scene that
we do in fact type of crime scene that we
do in fact type of crime and we're asking the
community's help. This community has always stent up to help
us solve some pretty tough crimes. I'm looking for that again.
This is a four year old lady who suffers from
some physical elements, has some physical challenges, is in need
of medication, medication that if she doesn't have in twenty
four hours, it could be fatal. So we make a
plead to anyone who knows anything about this, who has
seen something, heard something, to contact us, call nine one one.
We don't we don't need another bad tragic ending. We
need some help.
Speaker 1: So again that's the sheriff of the county there in Arizona,
Pima County. And they started the search Sunday afternoon. They
went all last night, did not stop, went through the night.
They had a helic up with flour cameras which can
see the heat of a body out in a neighborhood,
under a forest, in the desert, wherever they're looking. And
the fact that he said there's no dementia, there's physical limitations,
that she did not leave on her own. Somebody kidnapped
an eighty four year old lady. They said they shut
down the search and rescue that they're now investigating this
as a crime. And what gets me about is her daughter,
Savannah Guthrie, high profile person in the media and she
seems non controversial. She's a Today show host, it's kind
of a fluffy show. But you don't know. Maybe it's
tied in with her, maybe it's not. What I'm concerned
about is that people in the media do get threats,
and one of the old mafia things was We're going
to kill your family. Even bad guys today will say
that to police officers all the time. When I was
wearing a batch, I had people threatening me, I'm going
to kill your wife. I wasn't married, but you know
they do that, that's what they do. But did Savannah
got three get threats about going after her family. The
thing about it is Savannah put photos of her mother
on her Facebook page prominently. I don't know how much.
I haven't gone through Savannah Guthrie's Facebook page, but I
wonder how much information she gave out about her family,
thinking who would harm who would harm her mother? I
don't know if that has anything to do with it,
but it certainly seemed like it was targeted because it's
just a regular neighborhood in Tucson. Randy Sutton, former law
enforcement officer, this is his reaction.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he was very very clear that they discovered evidence
at the scene that required the homicide section to be
involved in this. They did, in fact say that this
is a crime. Now what crime could it be? Well,
it could be either an abduction, which I think that
they're really really looking at as an abduction. Could there
have been signs of violence there? That would be an
indication from what he said that they found signs of violence.
When he said that they found signs that she did
not leave voluntarily, that tells me that they found signs
of violence there. Now the question is what were those signs?
Was it blood evidence, was it you know, disarray, you know,
furniture being you know, disarray. It could be any number
of things. But they are processing the scene and that
indicates that there is evidence. And of course they will
be looking at all the neighbors. You know, when they
do the canvas, they're going to be looking at all
the ring doorbells and other surveillance stuff that was there.
And that's what he's talking about when he talks about
license plate readers utilizing all the technology, and of course
that's exactly what they need to be doing.
Speaker 1: Josh Campbell, former FBI agent, also at his observations.
Speaker 5: Well, first, you know, we've obviously been focusing on this
as a missing person case. That critical update we just
got took this in a much more dire direction because,
as you mentioned, the sheriff now saying they believe that
a crime was committed at the home there, which they
are treating as a crime scene. Of course, that is
the question, well, well, who did it and where is
Nancy Guthrie at this hour? This search obviously continuing as
authorities try to appeal to the public to provide any tips,
to any information that they might have about what actually happened.
I will say that, you know, in any investigation, authority
are always trying to balance what information do they keep
close to the vests that they need to protect in
order to ensure that the investigation can continue, hopefully in
a positive direction, and what information do they need to
push out to the public. And that's that balancing act
I think we're seeing there right now. The sheriff appears
to have come to that calculation that whatever that evidence
was of a crime is something that they don't want
to push out yet. But of course they are appealing
to the public to try to assist if they can,
you know, providing this information. You know, the sheriff they're
saying that time is critical right now, based on as
you mentioned, you know she needs medication obviously, you know,
very concerning. One thing that the sheriff was also mentioning
is that the one of people in around this area
if you have you know these now you know ubiquitous
ring door cameras and you know other types of secure
security footage at residents, they want people to proactically go
through that footage, even if they don't think that they
didn't have any information. Sheriff also mentioned they're using license
plate the LPRs or things technology We've seen in multiple
cases where if you have someone who comes in to
an area, that will pop on a license plate and
they can try to determine if there was indeed a
suspect vehicle that came to the home and then left
and tried to track that to its proper location. So
there's a lot going on behind the scenes right now,
but certainly very very concerning, and this has now taken
a much more concerning direction.
Speaker 1: It has, and that's why I say it's a real mystery,
because who wants to kidnap an eighty four year old
woman living by herself. I don't know. She was divorced,
her a husband had died but she lived in this
in this area of Tucson by herself. During the press
conference by the PMA County Sheriff, the one reporter asked
do you does she do you have her phone? And
the sheriff said yes, it caught my ear. It also
caught John Miller's ear.
Speaker 6: It was the sheriff indicated, you know that we have
her phone. Well, if a thor have her phone, that
means she does not, So the opportunity to track her
through that device is off the table. But it also
suggests that nobody is going to leave the house north
of ten o'clock at night and go anywhere without their phone.
So it's just another concerning sign.
Speaker 1: It is, and it's already started off as a real
who done it? Yes, it's getting a lot of attention
because Savannah Guthrie is a high profile media person. But
it also I wouldn't be a bit surprised if it
isn't tied into the fact that she is a high
profile media person. It has something to do with that.
It's sad to see. Speaking of crimes, well, we can
go right into the eptein files. So we told you
on Friday that they're released all the files that's what
they told us. Three million, two thousand video was one
hundred and eighty thousand photos well over the weekend. Apparently,
I don't know about you. I I spent zero time
taking through the fire. I had other stuff to do.
In any case, people did, including people of the New
York Times, and they found that there were a number
of photos of nude women. I don't know if they
were underaged or not. But the New York Times had
to tell the DOJ, hey, if you got nude photos
in here. They apparently have gone back in and said, oh, oh, oh,
my gosh, thanks for lineners know. They also did not
only not disclosed, but they fully disclosed some of the
victims not only names but contact information. So a lot
of these young ladies that are now maybe not so young,
but they're victims from Epstein, are now going I wanted
to remain anous and now there's my name, my address.
I don't know what all's in there. So this has
been handled so so poorly, And now the accusation is
that they've only released about fifty percent of the files.
Jim Schultz is a former White House lawyer, a Republican,
and this is what he had to say.
Speaker 7: So not too surprising and also not surprising that he's
contradicting Pam Bondi. You know, Pam Bondi got out there
ahead of overhear Skis got out there early, started talking
about these documents early, then doubled down on talking about
who they're going to investigate and prosecute, probably playing to
an audience of one in that regard, I think Todd Blanche,
former prosecutor here from the Southern District of New York,
has you know, a more measured way about how going
handling these matters. I think that you're seeing what you're
seeing as a result of rushing through this process. There
was incredible pressure for them to get the documents out,
incredible pressure for them to review the documents to get
them out. Although everyone thinks that the dj has you know,
this vast resources, they're doing a lot of other things
as well. So yeah, there was a group of lawyers
who are reviewing them. You're going to have human error
through that process. It's a shame when that happens, especially
when it becomes public and it you know, especially as
it relates to minors, if it could relate to minors
or anyone for that matter when you're you know, producing
that kind of information. Sure you that there are people
out there today who would have hoped that especially folks
powerful people who were involved in this, this thing who
have been disclosed, would really would have liked to have
seen some of that redacted as well. And it's not
I mean that, you know, the Justice Department, you have
a bunch of career lawyers. You don't have a bunch
of political appoints these reviewing these documents. They're career lawyers.
Mistakes are going to happen. I wouldn't give I wouldn't
read too much into that. Bottom line is the Epstein story.
Justice Department also said that there was nothing in the
files to allow give them something to prosecute anybody on nothing.
Speaker 1: Nope, didn't find a thing. So the Justice Department keeps
trying to bury this story, keep trying to make it
go away. That's why on Friday said this is it,
this is everything. Look at all this and the stories
from people who know what's going on. And I don't
know if there's whistleblowers or what's going but they say
they've only released about half of the files and they've done,
like I said, an absolutely terrible job in trying to
accomplish that. Trust me, this story has not gone away,
and it's not going to until people actually believe the
DJ and I'm not sure that's going to happen anytime
in the near future. Staying on the crime topic, Minnesota,
of the two federal officers who shot and killed Alex Pretty,
they were both from South tech. One was a Border
Patrol agent who joined the Border Patrol in twenty eighteen,
so he's got he's not some new hire. I kept thinking, well,
maybe these are the new hire guys they rushed through. No,
so he's been with them for eight years. The other
one is a Customs and Border Protection officer. He joined
in twenty fourteen, but he's got twelve years under his belt.
The second one was part of a special response team
that conducts high risk operations. Like I said, both from
South Texas, so we don't know their names. They're keeping
that very hush right now. The judge in a couple
of different judges, one of them, one judge said to
the federal government, remember the state of Minnesota. Students said,
they're out of control. You've got to we want to
keep them out of the state of Minnesota. The judge
denied that and said no ICE can continue to do
that their work in the state of Minnesota. So they
got to win on that. On the little boyd Liam
with the little blue hat and Bunny ears, cute little kid,
the five year old, which has been totally misreported. We'll
continue to keep putting the truth back out there again.
He was with his His father went down to the
preschool to pick him up, brought him back to home,
and when he got back to home, Ice rolled in
and tried to detain the father. He was wanted target
it as somebody who was in the country illegally. The
father ran, leaving the five year old standing there. The
mother was inside the house. She would not open the
door for fear that if she did, she would also
get arrested. So I took the little boy for protection
into their care and the father said, well, I want
him to be with me. They said, we're deporting you,
sending you to the facility in Texas. He said, I
want my little boy with me, So they send him
down to Texas with his son. Been there for a
couple of days. Lawsuit and a judge ruled that you
have to return The father and the son to their
home in Minneapolis, and he pointed out about wording from
the Declaration of Independence, And the Declaration is a wonderful document,
but that's not the controlling document when it comes to law.
It's called the Constitution. But that's what a federal judge said.
So the little boy and his father are back home
in Minneapolis, and I presume at this point they're basically
hands hands off of them. Nobody wants to go anywhere
near fussing with them. Senator John Kennedy was asked a
lot of things on an interview I saw earlier today.
This is his comment about Christy Noam and how she's
doing as the head of DHS.
Speaker 7: Your view, Senator, has a Secretary of NOME sufficiently acknowledged
the mistakes she's made and her people made in Minnesota.
Speaker 8: Well, I haven't heard it. She might have, and I
just didn't hear it. I guess I'd make three points quickly.
Number One, I'm a big Tom Holman have had. I
think he knows what he's doing. I think he exercises
prudential judgment. I would leave him in charge. Number Two,
I think most Americans agree with me that illegal immigration
is illegal our immigration statutes are not some second tier laws.
I support enforcing them. How you enforce them, matters, do process,
equal protection, A reasonable suspicion of Terryville. How you can
legislate stuff, but if you don't have the leadership to
execute it, then it's of no moment. I think Holman
knows how to do.
Speaker 1: That doesn't sound like that's John Kennedy being very tactful.
He obviously is not a fan of Christy Nolim and
he essentially he said he once are gone and give
the job to Tom Homer, and he's a big fan
of Tom Homan. About these Democrat led cities, very interesting.
Donald Trump previously said that he was going to go
in and save these cities for the people that live there,
and now he's taken a whole different tact, basically saying,
for the Democrat led cities, we're not going to come
help you. If you want help, you've got to ask.
You've got to ask for us to come in. And
that's essentially what the law has already kind of. That's
the direction is that it's up to the governors to
run their own states and the federal government. I'm a
big small government guy, A big smoggan. I'm a small
government guy, and so the less the federal government gets involved,
the better. And I also have mentioned that let them
let them sit in that rot the people of Minnesota.
People in Minneapolis, they want to all those hardened criminals
living in their neighborhoods. I'm sorry, but if that's what
they want, they seem to. So President Trumps taken a
different tack. Here's how we had to how he addressed it.
Speaker 2: I mean, honestly, the crime regious cities are all Democrat
who run cities, and if they want help, they have
to ask for it, because if we go in, all
they do is complain. But if they want help, they
could ask what are they're gonna need help? Los Angeles
as an example, we went in, we solved it.
Speaker 1: A little noisy background. He was on Air Force one,
but basically saying they need to call us. John Fetterman,
Pennsylvania's senator Democrat. These are his latest remarks.
Speaker 9: Take the win that you secured our border, and I've
acknowledged that as a Democrat. So for me, people are dying,
and you know, I don't think America really wants people
going after otherwise, you know, hard working migrants in these communities.
Speaker 1: Well, the polls said that they did want Ice to
go after all the illegals, to send the ball back
out of this country. And yet when they saw the
way that it was being done, the poles have changed dramatically.
So they're very positive. For thank you President Trump for
sealing the border, but no thank you to Ice on
the way that they are implementing the deportation. You knew
it was going to be ugly. Some people didn't know
it was going to be this ugly.
Speaker 9: Fetterman continues also say, now some of those the agents
wearing masks, I think primarily that's driven by people are
going to dox those people. That's a serious concern too. Absolutely,
they could target their families, and they are organizing these
people to put their names out there. So don't ever
ever dox people and target their families too. So that's
part of the churn as well now too.
Speaker 1: Well Ice, No surprise, Ice came up at the Emmys
last night. Of course they did. That's what these award
shows are all about, is to get up there and
have the celebrities say something political. Here's a little montage
of some of them from the Awards ceremony they had,
they did their thank you and then of course figured
out how to get the throw some mud at ice.
Speaker 6: Before I say.
Speaker 10: Thanks to God, I'm gonna say ice out.
Speaker 11: No one is illegal on stolen land. Our voices really
do matter, and the people matter, and.
Speaker 3: Let's say sorry.
Speaker 8: I hope everybody is inspired to join together as a
community of artists and speak out against what's going on.
Speaker 11: And I'm gonna leave this a safe ice.
Speaker 1: So what happened to the days when the FCC used
to find the networks if anybody dropped an F bomb.
They were dropping F bombs all over the place last night.
But in any case, that was that was their reaction.
Julian Epstein is a Democrat strategist, and he's got his
feet firmly planted on the ground.
Speaker 11: Strange silence of the radical left that is becoming mainstream
in the Democratic Party, that turns a blind eye to
what's happening in Iran, in Sudan and Yemen, all over
the middies and all over the world where you see
tens of thousands of people being massacred, but somehow the
perpetrators of those crimes don't fit into the narrative of
the socialist left, so they sort of ignore them, which
I think sort of undermines the legitimacy of a lot
of sort of the philosophy and the ideas of the
radical left. Just because you can sing a song or
read a script doesn't mean you understand anything about the
complexity of our politics or for our polity. In fact,
it probably means you know less about it because you're
spending all your time doing other things. Ultimately, what I
think these protests at these award shows are about is narcissism.
It's sort of making yourself feel good, making yourself feel
that you're more virtuous than the rest of us. But
ultimately at backfires because most of the American public thinks
that Hollywood celebrities are sort of out of touch, and
also backfires to your point, because it's intellectually completely inconsistent.
You talk about enforcement of the law in the United States,
which ICE is doing, which is democratically driven, there's a
mandate for it, while you ignore these gross abuses that
are occurring elsewhere because it doesn't fit into your narrative.
Speaker 1: Julian Eptein, like I said, he's a democrat strategist. I
got the feeling that he's from the old school Democrats,
not from the new far left wing. And so if
you remember what Democrats used to be like before the
left wing got control of the party, I think Julian
Epstein is one of those guys. There was the President's
all upset. I don't know why he takes the bait.
I don't know why he takes debate. He sent out
a truth social where he's gonna be suing Trevor Noah
and included a bunch of insults about Trevor. Trevor Noah
was the was the host of the Emmys. He said,
this is the last year he's going to do it.
The way he did it was he kind of wandered around,
riffing on things that he saw with the people sitting
in the audience. So this was this the President's upset
because Trevor Noah told a joke. So here's the joke
that made the president so upset.
Speaker 10: That is a Grammy that every artist wants, almost as
much as Trump wants Greenland, which makes sense. I mean,
because Epstein's island is gone, he needs a new one
to hang out with Bill Clinton.
Speaker 11: So, oh, I told you it's my last year. What
are you going to do about its?
Speaker 1: Well, Trump, Trump's going to sue about it, That's what
he's going to do. So, yeah, he wants an island
so that President Trump and Bill Clinton could go have
an island. Greenland's a little cold for that island stuff.
I don't know. You might think it's funny, you might not,
but I don't know about threatening the lawsuit. Well, it
is a groundhog Day and they had the big ceremony
in Puck Satani, Pennsylvania. And here's the announcement that happened
this morning.
Speaker 12: It is my job this February two to look to
the skies and report back to you that there is
a shadow here on my ground. Six more weeks of
winter abound.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so Pockxatani Phil said he saw the shadows of
six more weeks of winter. Harry Enton, I looked into
the statistics about how correct listening to a rodent for
your weather forecast can be. I don't even like.
Speaker 11: I hate it so much.
Speaker 7: I don't even know if if they can see the
shadow of it's flitterd I mean, I don't even know.
Speaker 13: If you see the shadow, that means six more weeks
of winter and you know, there's this whole idea of
Puck satani Fil. It turns out there are a ton
of rodents out there who are predicting the winter or
the spring. And what are we talking about here? Groundhog
calls for an early spring? Look at this. We got
Staten Island Chuck here in New York. No, we've got
General Beauregard Lee down in the Great State of Georgia.
He says, no, how about Puck satani Phil, of course
the most famous?
Speaker 12: He says no.
Speaker 13: Later today, we will in fact get groundhog Sam Champion
out on Long Island, and we will also have groundhog
Harry my namesake, that's actually Harold Ramis out in Chicago, Illinois.
So the bottom line is this. The rodents are in
fact united on this. We are going to see six
more weeks of winter, according to at least these rodents.
So I think Puck Satani Phil has been getting away
with groundhog murder. But why do I say that?
Speaker 11: Why do I say?
Speaker 5: It?
Speaker 13: Turns out his prediction, his accuracy rate ain't too hot
to trot. Get this groundhog four kass accuracy pucks at
Tawny Phil just thirty five percent. It turns out that
the two best groundhogs if you're interested in predicting whether
or not we're gonna have six more weeks of winter
are General Beauregard lead down in the Great State of Georgia.
And of course Staten Island Chuck is actually number one.
Eighty five percent of the time he is correctly forecasted
whether or not we get six more weeks of winter.
And of course at this point he says that in fact,
we are not going to get an early spring there
for six more weeks of winter.
Speaker 1: Yeah. You haves to remember though, that Staten Island Chuck
was also the one Bill de Blasio when he was
mayor picked up the groundhog and dropped him and he died.
So it's not the same it's not the same chuck.
It's a new chuck that's apparently doing better than the others.
So Wow, shut down still continues. They keep saying they're
going to have it all saw, but they're not getting
it solved because they can't do anything in DC Wall
Street today, it was busy at work. We started off
this morning kind of lackluster, but then we kept building
through the day. The Dow finished up five hundred and
fifteen points, now at forty nine thousand and four seven
SMP up thirty seven nazdack up one hundred and thirty
gold down sixty four dollars the forty six't eighty one,
and the price of oil fell has been going up lately,
down almost three dollars a day to sixty two dollars
for one barrel of oil. So that's it for today.
Thank you for coming by. Happy Groundhog Day. We'll try
not the same thing tomorrow, but we'll be back tomorrow.
Hope to see you down