1 00:00:25,519 --> 00:00:29,120 Speaker 1: And Hi, how are you welcome to the Big Podcast 2 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:36,159 on this eleventh day of November. It's Tuesday, the eleventh 3 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:39,039 of November, year of Our Lord, twenty twenty five. My 4 00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:42,880 name is Tom Sullivan. It is a Veterans Day, and 5 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:48,000 so a big shout out and congratulations and cheer and 6 00:00:48,079 --> 00:00:52,200 thank you to all the veterans in the audience today. 7 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:56,719 Appreciate you coming by, Appreciate you on many, many levels. Well, 8 00:00:56,719 --> 00:00:59,520 where do you want to start today? We've got last 9 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:06,560 night the Senate did their vote and past the budget bill, 10 00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:09,359 so that means that they are going to reopen the 11 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:13,480 government after it goes over to the House of Representatives 12 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:18,959 and the House has to gather and Mike Johnson, the Speaker, 13 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:23,359 looks like it's going to be a Wednesday afternoon vote. 14 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:27,239 Once that happens, then it goes over to the White House. 15 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:32,519 President signs it and the government is back in business. 16 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:37,000 There are a number of people to chime in on this, 17 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:39,239 I guess the first one is let's start with for 18 00:01:39,359 --> 00:01:44,239 those of you that are travelers, what do you want 19 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:48,519 to know? Well, is the airspace going to be back 20 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:51,120 working or the air traffic controllers going to be back working? 21 00:01:51,159 --> 00:01:56,799 Sean Duffy, the Secretary of Transportation, gives this his best guess. 22 00:01:57,040 --> 00:01:59,439 Speaker 2: If we see the government reopen this week, could we 23 00:01:59,519 --> 00:02:01,200 see delay for Thanksgiving travel? 24 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:04,079 Speaker 3: So it depends on how are we going to have 25 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:07,239 air traffic controllers come into work. And if we have 26 00:02:07,359 --> 00:02:10,840 the controllers showing up, I know, I think we're going 27 00:02:10,919 --> 00:02:15,599 to be back to you know, regular flight schedules with 28 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:18,520 regard to controlling the airspace will be up and up 29 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:19,319 and running. 30 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:23,439 Speaker 1: Well, let's hope. So it all depends upon again, the 31 00:02:23,439 --> 00:02:26,639 airlines have to they had to go through and completely 32 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:30,520 rejigger their schedule, so now they have to rejigger it again, 33 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:33,560 and the air traffic controllers will be back to work, 34 00:02:33,639 --> 00:02:37,280 I presume pretty quickly. So I would expect if you're 35 00:02:37,319 --> 00:02:40,599 traveling for Thanksgiving that it's going to be close. But 36 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:43,400 I think things should be back to normal by the 37 00:02:43,439 --> 00:02:46,360 time we got there. But how did how did this 38 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:52,759 hole shutdown come about? I mean, what a disaster this was. 39 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:57,080 Mary Catherine Ham always has an interesting observation. 40 00:02:57,599 --> 00:03:00,319 Speaker 4: Yeah, they put themselves in this position. He put in 41 00:03:00,319 --> 00:03:02,080 in this position. And I've seen a lot of dumb 42 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:04,879 shutdowns that achieved nothing, But this was a very dumb 43 00:03:04,919 --> 00:03:08,520 shutdown that achieved nothing. And the problem for Democrats, of course, 44 00:03:08,599 --> 00:03:11,919 is that there really are people hurting, and a lot 45 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:14,199 of those people are their own constituents, and so it's 46 00:03:14,199 --> 00:03:17,120 been sort of astonishing to see the party that loves 47 00:03:17,159 --> 00:03:20,400 government rejoice that the government was shut down long enough 48 00:03:20,439 --> 00:03:23,199 to help them boost numbers in two state elections, hurting 49 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:25,560 people in the process, as they always say, when there's 50 00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:29,199 a shutdown from the other side, and then when a 51 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:31,680 couple of people get sense and say, wait, but we 52 00:03:31,759 --> 00:03:34,319 like the government to operate, let's open it again, they 53 00:03:34,319 --> 00:03:37,960 get mad at those guys, and they've demoralized their base 54 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:40,719 in the process. This is because the ask that they 55 00:03:40,759 --> 00:03:44,479 were doing, which was for the extended Obamacare subsidies, which 56 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:47,080 by the way, have no income cap go to rich people, 57 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:49,520 go to a lot of fraud, were meant to be 58 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:52,800 temporary and in an emergency situation during COVID when they 59 00:03:52,879 --> 00:03:55,199 asked for those that wasn't really the ask. The reason 60 00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:58,400 they were doing the shutdown was because everyone was ticked 61 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:00,319 off and they wanted to show they were fighting, but 62 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:03,639 they were never going to get anything because Johnson Trump 63 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:06,800 soon all turned out to be immune to the media 64 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:09,240 pressure over this, which was not put on Democrats as 65 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:11,120 it should have been, and was put on Republicans. 66 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:12,120 Speaker 2: And here we are. 67 00:04:12,159 --> 00:04:15,039 Speaker 4: They've taken their big electoral win and turned it to 68 00:04:15,479 --> 00:04:16,920 demoralization for their base. 69 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:20,360 Speaker 1: So she thinks this was all to do about nothing. 70 00:04:20,399 --> 00:04:23,600 I hurt somebody calling it the Seinfeld shut down because 71 00:04:23,639 --> 00:04:27,240 Seinfeld was the show about nothing, and this shutdown was 72 00:04:27,839 --> 00:04:33,279 basically about nothing. So that brings up the question about 73 00:04:33,319 --> 00:04:36,519 and there's a lot of knives that are out for 74 00:04:37,199 --> 00:04:43,240 Chuck Schumer. Let's start with David Axelrod, big big, big Democrat, 75 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:44,920 who had this to say. 76 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:47,319 Speaker 5: David Ashrodam, do you think the Schumer could be in 77 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:48,839 trouble here with the left flank of the party. 78 00:04:50,639 --> 00:04:53,279 Speaker 6: I think he's been in trouble. I think he is 79 00:04:53,319 --> 00:04:57,800 in bigger trouble now. I honestly, I think Sena Schumer's 80 00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:00,759 been there since nineteen eighty two. I guess is that 81 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:04,439 he won't be leader of the party in two and 82 00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:10,800 twenty seven after this election, unless something really surprising happens. 83 00:05:10,839 --> 00:05:13,120 But one thing I want to say that we haven't discussed. 84 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:16,680 We're talking about the internal strife within the Democratic Party. 85 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:21,279 Democrats had internal strife before these elections last Tuesday, and 86 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:24,480 they unified because they had a bigger concern, which was 87 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:28,279 Donald Trump. And I think one of the problems Republicans 88 00:05:28,279 --> 00:05:30,680 have to consider now is Democrats did do a very 89 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:34,000 good job of shining a bright light on this Affordable 90 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:37,279 Care Act issue, on the general issue of health care costs, 91 00:05:37,759 --> 00:05:42,959 and now Republicans were steadfast in opposing a solution to it. 92 00:05:43,399 --> 00:05:46,120 Maybe they'll change their mind, but this is a heavy 93 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:50,600 burden for them to carry into the midterm elections. Is 94 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:55,600 and healthcare has not been fixed. The Affordable Care Act, 95 00:05:55,639 --> 00:06:01,560 Obamacare was an attempt by one party. Remember, not a 96 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:05,800 Republican voted for that. That was totally done by the Democrats, 97 00:06:05,879 --> 00:06:11,160 using legislative tricks, parliamentary tricks to get that passed. And 98 00:06:11,199 --> 00:06:13,879 when you do that at the time, people said, every 99 00:06:13,879 --> 00:06:17,360 time Congress has done that in history, it always turns 100 00:06:17,399 --> 00:06:21,560 out to be a disaster. And so it hasn't fixed 101 00:06:21,959 --> 00:06:26,720 health care. I don't know if some of you may 102 00:06:26,839 --> 00:06:30,639 be very much in favor of wanting government health care. 103 00:06:31,079 --> 00:06:34,120 I personally am opposed to it because it's tried in 104 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:37,160 many places around the world and it's not something that 105 00:06:37,199 --> 00:06:38,399 I want to participate in. 106 00:06:38,519 --> 00:06:39,120 Speaker 2: Maybe you do. 107 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:44,639 Speaker 1: Mark Alford, he is a Republican, he is from the 108 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:49,480 state of Missouri, and he says, when they get back 109 00:06:49,519 --> 00:06:52,680 to work, they're going to start working on trying to 110 00:06:52,759 --> 00:06:54,839 do something about. 111 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:56,639 Speaker 2: Healthcare working hard in our district. 112 00:06:56,920 --> 00:06:58,480 Speaker 7: It's going to be good to get back on that 113 00:06:58,519 --> 00:07:02,639 floor tomorrow and vote for this continuing resolution, the same 114 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:05,839 one basically that we voted on September nineteenth to fully 115 00:07:05,879 --> 00:07:09,040 fund the government, and now three appropriation bills that we 116 00:07:09,079 --> 00:07:12,199 have previously passed are going to be attached to that. Look, 117 00:07:12,519 --> 00:07:15,319 we have to provide I think some relief for health care. 118 00:07:15,639 --> 00:07:21,560 Healthcare that the Democrats broke it. It has really devastated 119 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:25,199 our healthcare system. Premiums have gone up. These subsidies that 120 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:28,240 are going directly to the insurance companies are not right. 121 00:07:28,279 --> 00:07:30,759 I agree with President Trump maybe we should look at 122 00:07:30,839 --> 00:07:33,399 giving this money back to the American people and let 123 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:36,800 them decide what to do with that money. But this 124 00:07:36,879 --> 00:07:39,000 has got to go through regular order, and I think 125 00:07:39,079 --> 00:07:42,360 when Jake was talking with Speaker Johnson, that's what Speaker 126 00:07:42,439 --> 00:07:45,920 Johnson was saying. We can have these conversations. Number One, 127 00:07:45,959 --> 00:07:48,439 it was not time to have this conversation while the 128 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:51,920 Democrats were holding the American people hostage. Now that that 129 00:07:52,079 --> 00:07:55,199 is just about over, we can start having these discussions 130 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:59,560 through regular order, through the appropriate committees, and then to 131 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:01,800 get it to the House floor. This has got to 132 00:08:01,839 --> 00:08:07,600 be a bipartisan deal though. You know, the healthcare system 133 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:12,360 broke under Obamacare, and as President Trump said, well, I'm 134 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:14,319 not going to repeat his exact words for it, but 135 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:17,439 it's not ideal, and we're going to have to work 136 00:08:17,439 --> 00:08:20,720 together to get this fixed because the solutions are going 137 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:22,839 to be tough. I don't think we're ever going to 138 00:08:22,879 --> 00:08:27,079 go back to the way things were, but definitely something 139 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:29,439 has to be done. I think Speaker Johnson is committed 140 00:08:29,439 --> 00:08:32,039 to that, and I think most Republicans are as well. 141 00:08:32,159 --> 00:08:36,039 Speaker 1: That's interesting, but it's not going to happen before the 142 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:39,159 end of January. They're not going to solve the nation's 143 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:43,039 healthcare twenty percent of our nation's economy. They're not going 144 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:45,200 to solve it. And by the way, it's not about healthcare. 145 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:49,879 It's about health care insurance. And that is where the 146 00:08:49,919 --> 00:08:53,320 premiums and the subsidies that the government has been giving 147 00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:56,399 to people on Obamacare. They don't go to the people, 148 00:08:56,480 --> 00:08:59,679 they go to the insurance companies. Still, the insurance companies 149 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:05,679 have been raising the price of insurance health insurance to 150 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:09,000 the point where people can't afford it. The other thing 151 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:13,399 about Obamacare, which has always been wrong, was they wanted 152 00:09:13,399 --> 00:09:17,000 to make sure they I guess they think we're all 153 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:19,600 too stupid to handle this on our own. We're good 154 00:09:19,639 --> 00:09:24,720 at purchasing things, and they require that instead of going 155 00:09:24,759 --> 00:09:29,080 out and buying an insurance policy that fits your needs. 156 00:09:29,559 --> 00:09:35,840 Obamacare has a requirement that all insurance policies, health insurance 157 00:09:35,879 --> 00:09:42,440 policies must include ten things. The problem with that is 158 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:50,960 there's things like a birth in delivery care, obstetrics, and gynecology. 159 00:09:51,559 --> 00:09:55,159 I don't want that policy. I don't need that policy. 160 00:09:55,799 --> 00:09:59,840 There's things that are just you're not going to need. Why, 161 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:02,440 they'll let you decide what you want to buy. So 162 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:07,120 that was what the congressman made a mention about the 163 00:10:07,159 --> 00:10:10,279 President making a comment about giving the money to the 164 00:10:10,360 --> 00:10:15,039 people directly. Well. Health savings accounts currently exist. The way 165 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:18,399 they work is you get a credit card, you put 166 00:10:18,480 --> 00:10:21,960 money onto that credit card and that it will grow 167 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:28,320 without taxation, and you can only spend it on pharmacy. 168 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:33,399 Doctors' offices called the medical hospitals, whatever it might be 169 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:37,480 in medicine. If they did that for everybody and said 170 00:10:37,639 --> 00:10:41,919 here is your health card and you can use it 171 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:46,080 how often or as little as you want, I think 172 00:10:46,159 --> 00:10:48,960 that's promising. That take a lot of work to get 173 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:51,919 that all figured out, but I think it's very promising. 174 00:10:51,960 --> 00:10:56,120 But back to Chuck Schumer, So Axelrod says he's not 175 00:10:56,200 --> 00:11:01,279 going to stay as the head of the the Democrats 176 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:03,960 in the US Senate. He doesn't see it. You know 177 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:05,159 who weils doesn't see it. 178 00:11:05,679 --> 00:11:09,240 Speaker 3: Bernie Sanders, Well, he's leading you all in the Senate 179 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:09,840 right now. 180 00:11:09,919 --> 00:11:12,399 Speaker 2: Do you think he should be replaced by whom? 181 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:17,240 Speaker 8: Well, that's the point, you know. The question is if 182 00:11:17,279 --> 00:11:20,879 somebody look again, Schumber's views are very different than mine. 183 00:11:20,919 --> 00:11:24,039 He is an establishment Democrat, no secret, I am not. 184 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:28,679 I hope that by electing new members of the Senate 185 00:11:28,960 --> 00:11:31,440 we will have in fact new leadership. But right now, 186 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:33,679 you know, it is what it is. 187 00:11:33,799 --> 00:11:36,200 Speaker 1: So he doesn't want humor to be the leader. And 188 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:39,720 he's from the far west side of the isle. Who 189 00:11:39,759 --> 00:11:45,080 does want be the leader? John Fetterman weighed in about 190 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:48,039 his views about the reopening of the government. 191 00:11:49,039 --> 00:11:53,720 Speaker 9: I mean so relieved. I mean, I think my party 192 00:11:55,320 --> 00:12:00,080 crossed a line of now putting forty two American so 193 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:03,320 it should be a forty two million Americans with their 194 00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:08,320 snap benefits and making flying less safe and that kinds 195 00:12:08,320 --> 00:12:11,480 of chaos and not paying our military. I mean that 196 00:12:11,639 --> 00:12:13,320 that was a red line for me that I can't 197 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:17,519 cross as a Democrat. And I think that's been described 198 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:21,639 country over the party and now that I think that's 199 00:12:21,679 --> 00:12:24,279 been the truth throughout it, and it's only wrong to 200 00:12:24,360 --> 00:12:27,200 shut our government down. And I'm relieved. But the people 201 00:12:27,279 --> 00:12:31,000 now that are going to get paid and fed, and millions, 202 00:12:31,039 --> 00:12:33,039 millions of America they're going to be flying now that's 203 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:36,000 going to be made more safe and restored. I was 204 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:38,759 not in a conversation or I never got any outreach. 205 00:12:39,320 --> 00:12:42,639 Everyone understood I was. I really kind of led the 206 00:12:42,720 --> 00:12:45,240 charge back in March, and then I said, I know 207 00:12:45,320 --> 00:12:47,320 we'll be back in September, and I said, I know 208 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:50,559 where my vote will be then too. It's always a 209 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:53,240 hard yes to keep our government open. I mean, that's 210 00:12:53,279 --> 00:12:56,600 my principle, because it's wrong to shut our government down. 211 00:12:56,679 --> 00:12:59,320 And now we knew that we would put those forty 212 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:04,240 two million Amreamericans for snap and paying our military and 213 00:13:04,399 --> 00:13:06,960 you know, the Capitol police. I mean people have went 214 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:10,440 five weeks without being paid. I mean that's a violation 215 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:12,759 of my core values. And I think that it's our 216 00:13:12,919 --> 00:13:13,919 parties as well. 217 00:13:14,279 --> 00:13:17,200 Speaker 1: So Fetterman's glad to see things open back up again. 218 00:13:17,559 --> 00:13:19,960 But he was asked a question about, well, who do 219 00:13:20,039 --> 00:13:22,799 you think is running the Democrat Party at least in 220 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:23,320 the Senate. 221 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:27,320 Speaker 9: I no one, No one really knows. And and I 222 00:13:27,320 --> 00:13:31,879 think my values are reflected in my vote and the 223 00:13:31,879 --> 00:13:35,159 things that I support here. And if that might put 224 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:39,360 me at odds with with parts of my party, I'm 225 00:13:39,399 --> 00:13:41,679 okay with that. I mean, we need to be a big, 226 00:13:41,960 --> 00:13:45,480 a big party, a big tent party. So for me, 227 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:48,159 it's like these are pretty reasonable. I mean, you know, 228 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:51,720 my party has always been opposing shutting our government down. 229 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:55,559 I'm not sure why it's controversial now to devote these things. 230 00:13:55,639 --> 00:13:59,000 And I refuse to put all these people in the 231 00:13:59,039 --> 00:14:02,039 middle of this policeolitical kinds of brinkmanship. 232 00:14:02,320 --> 00:14:05,919 Speaker 1: He doesn't know who is in charge of his party 233 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:10,039 in the Senate, eh, But that's John Fetterman. He's a 234 00:14:10,080 --> 00:14:12,960 maverick and he kind of goes his own way anyway, 235 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:15,919 I don't think he really cares who's in charge. But 236 00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:19,480 what do Americans think? What do the polls say? Harry 237 00:14:19,519 --> 00:14:22,240 Benton always on top of this stuff. 238 00:14:22,440 --> 00:14:26,480 Speaker 5: What about Democrats nationwide feeling about Chuck Schumer? I think 239 00:14:26,519 --> 00:14:29,559 the word of the day is terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, 240 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:33,600 to quote another Charles Barkley, when it comes to Chuck Schumer. 241 00:14:33,639 --> 00:14:37,080 Look at this least popular dem Senate leader ever. I 242 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:39,600 looked at all of the polls going all the way 243 00:14:39,639 --> 00:14:42,320 back since nineteen hundred and eighty five. The one was 244 00:14:42,360 --> 00:14:46,120 the lowest rating among Democrats is in fact, Chuck Schumer. 245 00:14:46,120 --> 00:14:49,720 Look at this, He's underwater with Democrats, his own party. 246 00:14:49,759 --> 00:14:53,240 He's underwater. He's at minus four points. That makes him 247 00:14:53,279 --> 00:14:56,519 the least popular guy for a dem Senate leader going 248 00:14:56,639 --> 00:15:00,960 all the way back since the mid nineteen eight at least. 249 00:15:01,440 --> 00:15:03,039 Speaker 2: Why why why why? 250 00:15:03,080 --> 00:15:06,559 Speaker 5: It's because Democrats they want a fighter, They want a fighter. 251 00:15:06,639 --> 00:15:07,200 Speaker 2: That's why. 252 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:10,639 Speaker 5: Take a look here, Democrats, Dems in Congress do too 253 00:15:10,679 --> 00:15:13,120 little to oppose Trump. During the first term. It was 254 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:16,120 just forty six percent in twenty seventeen. That's the percentage 255 00:15:16,120 --> 00:15:18,399 of Democrats who said that the Dems in Congress are 256 00:15:18,440 --> 00:15:20,279 doing too little to a post down Trump. Look at 257 00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:25,000 where we are now, sixty nine percent. That is an 258 00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:29,559 increase of get this twenty three points. The super super 259 00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:33,600 duper majority of Democrats believe that the Democrats in Congress 260 00:15:33,679 --> 00:15:37,320 are not doing enough to oppose Donald Trump. And that 261 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:41,320 of course is a big, big, big, huge criticism of 262 00:15:41,360 --> 00:15:45,399 Chuck Schumer. And that is why he is underwater. Okay, 263 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:47,480 so you know, you see this opening slide here, and 264 00:15:47,519 --> 00:15:49,799 you see, of course that Chuck Schumer is underwater with 265 00:15:49,879 --> 00:15:52,559 Democrats nationally. But of course, the ultimate way to get 266 00:15:52,639 --> 00:15:54,759 Chuck Schumer out of office is to beat him in 267 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:57,279 New York State. To how do New York State democrats 268 00:15:57,279 --> 00:15:59,600 feel about Chuck Schumer? And take a look here the 269 00:15:59,639 --> 00:16:02,840 net fait among New York Democrats. Chuck Schumer is above 270 00:16:02,879 --> 00:16:05,759 water with the Democrats in his home state, but just 271 00:16:05,799 --> 00:16:09,559 by sixteen quints. Look at Alexandria Costo Kratz running way ahead. 272 00:16:09,720 --> 00:16:12,720 If she decides to challenge Chuck Schumer come twenty twenty eight, 273 00:16:12,799 --> 00:16:14,879 she's got a real leg up on the competition. I 274 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:16,759 dare say at this point she would be the favorite 275 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:18,600 to beat him, which would be something that would just 276 00:16:18,639 --> 00:16:21,120 blow my mind, even just a few years ago, giving 277 00:16:21,159 --> 00:16:22,840 a Chuck Schumer, of course as a New York born 278 00:16:22,919 --> 00:16:24,000 brad type of guy. 279 00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:27,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, well, AOC people have said, oh, there's no way, 280 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:30,120 there is no way that she's going to be anything. 281 00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:34,279 But she keeps getting re elected, and she keeps going 282 00:16:34,399 --> 00:16:37,000 up in the polls, and there is an element of 283 00:16:37,039 --> 00:16:42,720 the Democrat party that likes her a lot. So Steve 284 00:16:42,799 --> 00:16:46,240 news Come, he is a reporter for a shows and 285 00:16:46,639 --> 00:16:50,799 he was basically talking about how the people of New 286 00:16:50,879 --> 00:16:54,519 York if you want to replace Chuck Schumer with AOC 287 00:16:54,799 --> 00:16:58,000 or anybody else, well, let's check on how the people 288 00:16:58,000 --> 00:16:59,679 of New York feel about Chuck Schumer. 289 00:16:59,759 --> 00:17:03,600 Speaker 10: Yes, certainly a lot of criticism for the minority leader. 290 00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:05,799 Speaker 1: This week. 291 00:17:05,839 --> 00:17:08,519 Speaker 10: To start this week, I would say that while it's 292 00:17:08,519 --> 00:17:12,160 coming from inside of his own party, it's not coming 293 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:15,039 from inside of his own caucus at least not at 294 00:17:15,039 --> 00:17:17,079 this point. I mean a lot of the criticism is 295 00:17:17,079 --> 00:17:21,039 coming from national Democrats, House Democrats who are upset that, 296 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:24,720 you know, Senate Democrats sort of weren't able to hold 297 00:17:24,759 --> 00:17:30,000 the line in these health care negotiations. But until that 298 00:17:30,079 --> 00:17:35,799 criticism comes from inside the Senate Democratic Caucus realistically, you know, 299 00:17:35,839 --> 00:17:38,799 it really just won't have that much of effect on 300 00:17:39,480 --> 00:17:42,880 mister Schumer because those are the ones who decide whether 301 00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:45,039 he's leader or not. And again he's not up for 302 00:17:45,119 --> 00:17:49,359 reelection until twenty twenty eight, so yes, a lot of criticism, 303 00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:52,559 but not coming from from home at least time yet. 304 00:17:52,720 --> 00:17:57,279 Speaker 1: Well New York can reelect him, maybe, but that doesn't 305 00:17:57,319 --> 00:18:00,160 make him leader. Sounds like to me the Democrats in 306 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:03,799 the Senate are looking for somebody besides him, But the 307 00:18:03,839 --> 00:18:10,480 Democrat Party has deeper problems than Chuck Schumer. I was 308 00:18:10,559 --> 00:18:15,640 listening to an interview with Jonathan Carl. He is the 309 00:18:15,680 --> 00:18:19,440 top political reporter for ABC News, been around a long time, 310 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:25,359 seems like a pretty straight shooter. He was on he 311 00:18:25,400 --> 00:18:29,559 wrote a book called Retribution. He's interviewed Donald Trump a 312 00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:31,400 number of times and written I think two or three 313 00:18:31,440 --> 00:18:35,079 books about Donald Trump, but this latest one is called Retribution. 314 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:39,680 So he's on the media circuit promoting his book. So 315 00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:44,279 Katie Kerrk has a podcast and she invited him on 316 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:49,200 to talk about his book and about President Trump. But 317 00:18:49,519 --> 00:18:53,160 he went down this road of a story about the 318 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:57,759 bad blood in the Democrat Party between the Obama crowd 319 00:18:58,599 --> 00:19:00,759 and the Biden crowd listen to this. 320 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:03,480 Speaker 2: No, it wasn't an interview, just just I saw him. 321 00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:05,640 You know, I don't know if you if you saw 322 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:08,720 that he was out to dinner in Washington, d c. 323 00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:11,799 He went to he went out to dinner with a 324 00:19:11,960 --> 00:19:16,440 former Senator, Mark Pryor at Cafe Milano. Sat right there 325 00:19:16,440 --> 00:19:18,279 in my dining room, right there in the dining room, 326 00:19:18,279 --> 00:19:20,759 in front of everybody. I happened to be there. And 327 00:19:20,799 --> 00:19:22,880 you know what else was there was was Barack Obama 328 00:19:23,359 --> 00:19:26,039 who was also a dinner at Cafe Milano. But they 329 00:19:26,079 --> 00:19:28,960 didn't cross paths. They were you know, and it was 330 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:33,519 wild seeing the Secret Service, you know, the armored SUVs 331 00:19:33,559 --> 00:19:35,799 had to kind of like Biden's had to move to 332 00:19:35,799 --> 00:19:39,200 make room for Obama's. They didn't interact. But but I 333 00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:40,680 went over and just had you know, had a few 334 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:42,279 words with them, and. 335 00:19:42,039 --> 00:19:44,319 Speaker 11: They didn't interact at all. They were in the same restaurant. 336 00:19:44,359 --> 00:19:47,880 What's what's their relationship? Like, that's weird that they lend. 337 00:19:48,680 --> 00:19:55,680 Speaker 2: Really bad really really Yeah. Yeah, it's uh, the the 338 00:19:56,720 --> 00:20:00,640 Biden and the people around him very much, which blame 339 00:20:00,839 --> 00:20:06,119 Barack Obama for the effort to push Biden out of 340 00:20:06,119 --> 00:20:08,920 the out of the campaign, I document this. 341 00:20:10,079 --> 00:20:12,960 Speaker 11: You mean that earlier one where Hillary ran instead or 342 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:14,000 you're talking about. 343 00:20:13,799 --> 00:20:16,079 Speaker 2: No, no, well that I mean that, yes, but no, 344 00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:20,640 I'm talking about this time around. I had extensive interviews 345 00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:24,200 with Hunter Biden for this book over the course of 346 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:28,000 the campaign and then after it was over, and Hunter 347 00:20:28,119 --> 00:20:32,519 Biden is just you know, he's got real anger towards 348 00:20:32,519 --> 00:20:35,200 Barack Obama, and I think he's channeling not just Hunter, 349 00:20:35,319 --> 00:20:38,839 but but but the Biden family. He believes that. For instance, 350 00:20:38,839 --> 00:20:41,319 the George Clooney op ed that was such a big 351 00:20:41,799 --> 00:20:43,359 moment where Clooney calls on. 352 00:20:45,599 --> 00:20:46,279 Speaker 11: A step down. 353 00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:48,839 Speaker 2: Yeah, and they said, you know, he says to me 354 00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:51,440 on the record, Hunter says, do you really think that 355 00:20:51,519 --> 00:20:54,079 he would have done that if Barack Obama didn't say 356 00:20:54,119 --> 00:20:57,000 it was okay? I mean, do you really believe? And 357 00:20:57,039 --> 00:21:01,640 remember that moment at that fundraiser in California where Obama 358 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:06,440 basically leads Biden off the stage. Yes, I do. There's 359 00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:11,599 another real moment that went viral. Hunter describes being there 360 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:14,039 at that fundraiser and saying he wanted to jump up 361 00:21:14,079 --> 00:21:17,160 on the stage and say you don't grab the President 362 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:18,000 of the United States. 363 00:21:18,039 --> 00:21:18,279 Speaker 12: Like that. 364 00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:22,200 Speaker 2: Nobody does, I mean really like angry knowing that it 365 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:26,440 would become this moment. So it's not a good relationship. 366 00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:29,440 If they had wanted to see each other, they absolutely 367 00:21:29,519 --> 00:21:32,559 would have. They were, gosh, that far apart in the. 368 00:21:32,480 --> 00:21:36,039 Speaker 11: Restaurant something, you know, former president and his vice president 369 00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:40,200 and then you know who becomes ultimately becomes president, not 370 00:21:40,279 --> 00:21:43,720 even speaking when they're at the same restaurant. Does I 371 00:21:43,759 --> 00:21:45,240 wanted to ask you, and then we'll get back to 372 00:21:45,279 --> 00:21:47,359 the book. I think there's so many things I want 373 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:49,720 to talk to you about. But you know, do you 374 00:21:49,759 --> 00:21:53,480 think that Joe Biden or Hunter for that matter, and 375 00:21:54,079 --> 00:21:59,640 Joe Biden's inner circle take any responsibility for the timing 376 00:21:59,799 --> 00:22:05,200 of his decision? And do you think they regret, you know, 377 00:22:05,359 --> 00:22:08,440 his not being a one term president and saying as 378 00:22:08,519 --> 00:22:11,519 much so the field could be open and the best 379 00:22:11,599 --> 00:22:15,039 candidate could run against Donald Trump? Do they have any 380 00:22:17,559 --> 00:22:19,039 you know, regrets about that? 381 00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:24,680 Speaker 2: The honest answer is not really. I mean, there's a 382 00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:30,160 little bit. I talked extensively with Hunter about this, and 383 00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:32,440 I asked him, at you know, what point was the 384 00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:36,759 decision made that he would run for reelection? And he 385 00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:39,839 said to me, you know, We never really made the decision. 386 00:22:39,920 --> 00:22:44,279 The machinery just went. And I talked to other people 387 00:22:44,279 --> 00:22:46,880 in Biden's inner circle about how about at the White House. 388 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:49,759 They never had a single meeting where they said here 389 00:22:49,759 --> 00:22:53,200 are the pros and cons about running again. It was 390 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:56,599 never It was just like on autopilot. And I don't 391 00:22:56,640 --> 00:22:59,039 think that there's I think that the regret that they 392 00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:03,480 feel is that the party pushed him out and Kamala 393 00:23:03,519 --> 00:23:07,680 Harris comes in and she lost. Biden himself has said 394 00:23:07,799 --> 00:23:11,640 publicly that he believes that he could have won by 395 00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:16,920 the way when he finally made that decision, and you know, 396 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:20,559 he calls Kamala Harris and says he's dropping out. And 397 00:23:20,759 --> 00:23:25,480 I describe how Kamala Harris really pushes him to make 398 00:23:25,519 --> 00:23:28,640 the endorsement immediately, which he ultimately does, you know, half 399 00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:31,880 an hour after he announces he's dropping out. And there's 400 00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:35,319 been a lot of talk about and reporting on how 401 00:23:35,359 --> 00:23:38,200 Kamala Harris sat down and made over one hundred phone calls, 402 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:41,319 you know, to get people to support her campaign and 403 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:44,920 to get started. But Biden made a whole bunch of 404 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:48,359 phone calls that night too. You can imagine somebody his 405 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:51,119 whole career in politics. Now is it is over. He's 406 00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:54,519 run his last campaign. He calls the people that made 407 00:23:54,519 --> 00:23:59,119 it possible for him to be president, thanks them, encourages 408 00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:03,319 most of them to support Kamala Harris. I was astounded 409 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:08,079 to hear that one person he did not call was 410 00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:11,799 Barack Obama, the person that really made it possible for 411 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:15,279 him to be president by making a vice president. He 412 00:24:15,319 --> 00:24:20,519 didn't call him. Then Obama did call. I learned to 413 00:24:20,599 --> 00:24:24,119 talk to to Biden. He didn't take the call, and 414 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:26,200 the two of them did not speak for weeks. They 415 00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:30,079 eventually spoke right before the convention, but can you imagine 416 00:24:30,759 --> 00:24:33,519 I mean literally not taking the call. 417 00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:37,200 Speaker 1: So behind the scenes of bad blood and the Democrat 418 00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:41,440 Party between the two most recent presidents is not good. 419 00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:44,559 Well it never was good. I mean back in twenty sixteen, 420 00:24:45,559 --> 00:24:49,039 Joe Biden was fussing because his son bo was dying, 421 00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:52,799 but he also was basically teed up to run for 422 00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:57,920 president against Donald Trump in twenty sixteen, and instead Obama 423 00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:02,720 rearranged things so that Hillar Clinton would be the Democrat 424 00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:07,599 nominee and Joe Biden was really upset about that. And 425 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:11,559 even when he was vice president. There are many people 426 00:25:11,599 --> 00:25:15,880 in the Obama administration that said, we were worried about 427 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:20,880 Joe Biden and the family business on the side under 428 00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:24,200 the table type stuff that they did not like, and 429 00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:27,519 they were worried about him. So there's never been any 430 00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:32,000 love between the Bidens and the Obamas, even though those 431 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:36,480 are the top two most recent Democrat presidents. So they 432 00:25:36,519 --> 00:25:39,319 have a lot of problems. I'm trying to figure out 433 00:25:39,799 --> 00:25:43,720 where their leadership is going to be coming from. We 434 00:25:43,759 --> 00:25:47,799 get to watch in the meantime. In other news, the 435 00:25:47,839 --> 00:25:55,759 Supreme Court had another hearing today, this one on the 436 00:25:55,799 --> 00:26:00,960 mail in ballots, which I'm anxious to see how they 437 00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:06,759 figure this one out. They agreed to decide whether states 438 00:26:06,839 --> 00:26:13,400 can continue to count late arriving male ballots. The justices 439 00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:17,519 took up an appeal from Mississippi after a panel of 440 00:26:17,559 --> 00:26:22,079 three judges nominated by the Republican president on the Fifth 441 00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:25,680 US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last year the state 442 00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:30,160 law allows ballots to arrive shortly after election day to 443 00:26:30,279 --> 00:26:35,759 be counted, but the appeals Court said no violated federal law, 444 00:26:36,519 --> 00:26:40,200 and Mississippi is one of sixteen states and the District 445 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:46,039 of Columbia that accept mail in ballots after election day 446 00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:50,359 as long as they are postmarked honor before election day. 447 00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:56,599 So Steve Laddick is a Supreme Court expert, and this 448 00:26:56,680 --> 00:26:58,960 is his view of what's going on today at the Court. 449 00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:05,079 Speaker 12: Issue is whether the federal statute that fixes election day 450 00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:11,000 as that first Tuesday in November thereby preems thereby overrides 451 00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:15,079 states that allow for the receipt of mail in ballots, 452 00:27:15,079 --> 00:27:19,599 of absentee ballots, of overseas ballots that were cast by 453 00:27:19,799 --> 00:27:23,119 election day but that weren't received till afterwards. The Fifth Circuit, 454 00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:26,319 the Federal Appeals Court New Orleans held that the federal 455 00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:29,279 law doesn't allow for that. That's what the Supreme Court 456 00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:31,400 is going to be taken up. Yeah, I mean, okay, 457 00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:32,799 it's going to be a big impact. I mean, just 458 00:27:32,839 --> 00:27:35,720 to come back to the you know, late arriving mail 459 00:27:35,759 --> 00:27:37,599 in ballots. I mean, let's be clear on what the 460 00:27:37,599 --> 00:27:40,359 difference is. So when the rule is that your ballot 461 00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:44,160 has to be postmarked by election day, then the voters 462 00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:46,079 can control it. I mean, you know, when you go 463 00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:47,759 to the mailbox, you know, when you go to the 464 00:27:47,759 --> 00:27:50,480 post office. If the rule is that the ballot has 465 00:27:50,559 --> 00:27:53,480 to be received by election day, well all of a 466 00:27:53,519 --> 00:27:56,000 sudden we're you know, we're insert of a variable that 467 00:27:56,119 --> 00:27:59,119 individual voters won't be able to control. How long will 468 00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:01,799 the mail actually take? You know, if I mail it 469 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:04,160 four days before election day? Will I be c if 470 00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:06,599 I mail it a week before? And we're seeing this 471 00:28:06,759 --> 00:28:09,000 in these other cases too. You know, is the Supreme 472 00:28:09,039 --> 00:28:13,240 Court going to say that states can't draw majority minority districts, 473 00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:15,519 which will invite a number of states in the South 474 00:28:15,559 --> 00:28:18,000 to redraw their district maps. I think the upside here 475 00:28:18,079 --> 00:28:21,279 is that these rulings, which we expect by next summer, 476 00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:24,680 could have a real impact on not just how we vote, 477 00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:28,119 you know, in the midterm elections next November, but for 478 00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:31,200 whom we're voting and when we vote. And I think that's, 479 00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:34,400 you know, yet again the Supreme Court really inserting itself 480 00:28:34,759 --> 00:28:39,400 into the middle of these historically very politically driven controversies. No, 481 00:28:39,519 --> 00:28:42,000 I mean, you're you're you're you're absolutely right. So the Constitution, 482 00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:47,200 Article one, section four says Congress can provide for the time, place, 483 00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:51,240 and manner of elections of the House, the Senate, the Presidency. 484 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:54,839 But you know, the norm has historically been for Congress 485 00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:57,480 to leave this alone, for Congress to let states adopt 486 00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:00,839 their own rules to have you know, rules and retailored 487 00:29:00,839 --> 00:29:03,960 to the circumstances on the ground in their jurisdictions. This 488 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:06,799 is why this case is so weird. The federal statute 489 00:29:07,119 --> 00:29:11,000 that the Federal Appeals Court, the Fifth Circuit claimed created 490 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:13,839 this received by date. All it does is it says 491 00:29:13,839 --> 00:29:16,359 election day is the first Tuesday in November. People vote 492 00:29:16,599 --> 00:29:19,599 in lots of contexts before election day, and that's been 493 00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:22,440 true historically. So I think, at least in this case, 494 00:29:22,759 --> 00:29:26,000 the Supreme Court felt impelled to step in because the 495 00:29:26,039 --> 00:29:29,880 Fifth Circuit had held that the federal election day statute 496 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:32,359 does override these state laws. You know, I think the 497 00:29:32,359 --> 00:29:35,519 Supreme Court, one way or the other, wasn't going to 498 00:29:35,599 --> 00:29:38,359 let the Federal Appeals Court in New Orleans have that 499 00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:41,119 last word. But there's a broader point here, which is 500 00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:43,720 that there are so many folks out there who have 501 00:29:43,839 --> 00:29:47,440 become very cynical of the Supreme Court, and I think, 502 00:29:47,519 --> 00:29:50,200 you know, when the Court finds itself even having to 503 00:29:50,839 --> 00:29:54,599 weigh in on these big election related disputes, really leaning 504 00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:58,119 into that controversy because there's almost no way for the 505 00:29:58,119 --> 00:30:01,559 Court to rule in these cases that won't divide Democrats 506 00:30:01,559 --> 00:30:06,039 and Republicans, and that won't make the court look ideological 507 00:30:06,119 --> 00:30:08,000 to at least one chunk of the country. 508 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:12,440 Speaker 1: Oh sure, people will be either be thrilled or disappointed 509 00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:14,920 in whatever the court comes up with, but that won't 510 00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:18,240 be until probably June when we get the results of that. 511 00:30:18,279 --> 00:30:21,359 The big Supreme Court case is still the one they 512 00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:25,039 heard last week, which is about tariffs. And even though 513 00:30:25,079 --> 00:30:28,039 you can't read the tea leaves, from what the questions 514 00:30:28,079 --> 00:30:31,359 were by the justices, it sounds like they weren't very 515 00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:37,039 happy about the way tariffs are being assigned by the President, 516 00:30:37,119 --> 00:30:41,480 that it is an issue that is reserved for the Congress, 517 00:30:41,559 --> 00:30:44,319 not for the executive. But we'll see, because if they 518 00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:48,759 rule against the president having the ability to issue tariffs, 519 00:30:49,519 --> 00:30:55,160 it will be a massive financial shock to the system, 520 00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:57,400 There's no question about it. 521 00:30:57,720 --> 00:30:58,799 Speaker 2: And now. 522 00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:05,079 Speaker 1: President Trump's tried to get your support somehow, as if 523 00:31:05,119 --> 00:31:07,559 that's going to make a difference at the court. The 524 00:31:07,599 --> 00:31:11,880 courts are not raw politicians. Yeah, they know about the 525 00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:15,680 political world. But by President Trump saying we're going to 526 00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:19,720 give two thousand dollars to well, he started off two 527 00:31:19,759 --> 00:31:24,559 thousand dollars bonus to everybody from the tariff money so 528 00:31:24,599 --> 00:31:27,759 that you would get on board the tariffs. But now 529 00:31:27,799 --> 00:31:30,920 he's changed that to two thousand. It went to two 530 00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:34,359 thousand all but the high earners will get a two 531 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:37,759 thousand dollar bonus. Then it went to two thousand dollars 532 00:31:37,799 --> 00:31:42,400 bonus to low and middle class people. And I will 533 00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:44,880 bet you a large lunch of the drive up window 534 00:31:45,359 --> 00:31:49,400 that there's no bonus now or never from tariffs. It's 535 00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:52,440 not going to happen. In fact, I do believe that 536 00:31:52,519 --> 00:31:58,920 the court will rule to limit somehow the tariffs that 537 00:31:59,279 --> 00:32:02,359 are being signed by the White House against all these 538 00:32:03,079 --> 00:32:07,839 countries and products. They're so broad. I can see tariffs 539 00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:13,400 there are specific, targeted and temporary, but these are everything 540 00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:18,440 and anything that arrives on our beach. So I'm looking 541 00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:23,680 for the tariff ruling to not be in the President's favor. 542 00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:25,759 And if it's not, there's not going to be any 543 00:32:25,759 --> 00:32:29,079 two thousand dollar bonus for anybody. I just don't count 544 00:32:29,119 --> 00:32:30,519 on it, That's all I'm saying. 545 00:32:31,319 --> 00:32:32,079 Speaker 12: All Right, so. 546 00:32:32,119 --> 00:32:37,559 Speaker 1: We've got that, We've got Wall Street looks like they've 547 00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:42,839 gotten fickle on as they decided that the technology stocks 548 00:32:42,839 --> 00:32:47,519 were the big attractive stocks that were running the stock 549 00:32:47,599 --> 00:32:51,319 market up. They make up a heavy percentage of the indexes, 550 00:32:52,039 --> 00:32:57,440 but today they went a different direction. Market was positive, 551 00:32:57,880 --> 00:33:02,279 but it wasn't for tech stocks. How up five hundred 552 00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:07,079 and fifty nine points, new record high forty seven thousand, 553 00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:12,039 nine twenty seven. The SMP up fourteen, the Nasdaq, which 554 00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:17,039 is where the tech stoks live, mostly down fifty eight. 555 00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:21,319 So now up five hundred and fifty nine, Nasdaq down 556 00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:25,359 fifty eight. Gold was up eleven dollars to forty one 557 00:33:25,519 --> 00:33:30,240 thirty three, and oil up almost a dollar to sixty 558 00:33:30,319 --> 00:33:34,599 one dollars for a barrel of oil. That's it for today. 559 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:39,680 Thank you again to all my fellow veterans out there. Tomorrow, 560 00:33:39,839 --> 00:33:46,480 I have got a big family event that I need 561 00:33:46,519 --> 00:33:50,119 to and want to attend. So we've we had a 562 00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:53,880 visit with the Salty and I recorded it. We're going 563 00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:57,759 to play that conversation with Salty tomorrow, so I hope 564 00:33:57,799 --> 00:34:00,519 you check in to find out what's going on with 565 00:34:00,839 --> 00:34:04,079 mister Salty. Thank you for coming by today, Have yourself 566 00:34:04,079 --> 00:34:11,159 a wonderful day, and we'll have the Salty conversation tomorrow. 567 00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:14,960 Speaker 8: Find out what's going on. 568 00:34:16,679 --> 00:34:17,639 Speaker 12: Thank you coming by. 569 00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:23,760 Speaker 1: Wonderful conversation tomorrow.