WEBVTT 1 00:00:23.640 --> 00:00:24.839 And welcome. 2 00:00:25.239 --> 00:00:25.399 Hi. 3 00:00:25.519 --> 00:00:28.519 How are you welcome to the Big Podcast on this 4 00:00:28.640 --> 00:00:32.759 Friday today? It's the tenth day of October, year of 5 00:00:32.799 --> 00:00:35.759 Our Lord twenty twenty five. My name is Tom Sullivan. 6 00:00:36.320 --> 00:00:40.560 So as we just finished recording the podcast yesterday and 7 00:00:40.600 --> 00:00:44.600 we got the word that Letitia James has been indicted 8 00:00:44.799 --> 00:00:50.880 by a federal grand jury in Virginia, And I mean, 9 00:00:52.520 --> 00:00:59.240 were you surprised? I wasn't, was it? Well, there's all 10 00:00:59.320 --> 00:01:02.560 kinds of opin on this, but it basically no question. 11 00:01:03.159 --> 00:01:11.920 Latitia James went after Donald Trump. A selective enforcement chose 12 00:01:12.040 --> 00:01:14.719 him and then found the crime to attach to him. 13 00:01:15.079 --> 00:01:17.879 She promised she would go after Donald Trump. Are you 14 00:01:17.959 --> 00:01:20.359 surprised that Donald Trump is going after her? And people 15 00:01:20.359 --> 00:01:24.280 are like, oh, is this political retribution? Yes, yes it is, 16 00:01:24.840 --> 00:01:29.200 This is no question. But she also will let the 17 00:01:29.239 --> 00:01:30.959 courts decide on this. 18 00:01:30.959 --> 00:01:31.400 This is. 19 00:01:32.879 --> 00:01:36.879 Pretty simple to prove, I would think once they get 20 00:01:36.879 --> 00:01:41.319 into court. Is there's documents about mortgages, and when you 21 00:01:41.439 --> 00:01:44.640 get a mortgage, there's two pounds and two inches of 22 00:01:44.640 --> 00:01:48.120 paperwork to fill out. But in that paperwork there is 23 00:01:48.159 --> 00:01:51.879 some place where you need to declare is the mortgage 24 00:01:52.200 --> 00:01:55.439 going to be on a property that's your primary residence, 25 00:01:56.280 --> 00:01:59.760 or will it be on a property that's a secondary residence, 26 00:02:00.680 --> 00:02:04.359 or will it be on an investment property, because all 27 00:02:04.599 --> 00:02:09.280 of those categories have different rates of interest. The banks 28 00:02:09.360 --> 00:02:13.680 charge different amounts because the risk is higher if you 29 00:02:13.759 --> 00:02:16.800 don't live in the property, if it's a second home, 30 00:02:17.000 --> 00:02:21.199 or even more risky if it's an investment property in 31 00:02:21.280 --> 00:02:25.800 which you collect rents. So let's start off. Well, we 32 00:02:25.879 --> 00:02:28.759 got that, We've got the Nobel Peace Prize, We've got 33 00:02:29.319 --> 00:02:32.120 the President had a physical today. We'll talk about that. 34 00:02:32.439 --> 00:02:37.199 The National Guard, the court in a federal court has 35 00:02:37.199 --> 00:02:41.159 said no on the National Guard for two weeks in Chicago. 36 00:02:41.360 --> 00:02:45.680 And the farmers in this country versus Argentina soybeans. So 37 00:02:45.800 --> 00:02:50.000 we got a lot to cover with. But on Latitia James, Yes, 38 00:02:50.719 --> 00:02:53.599 Donald Trump's going after her because she went after him. 39 00:02:54.120 --> 00:02:59.719 I think it's pretty obvious. So she should have dodded 40 00:02:59.759 --> 00:03:02.120 her and crossed her t's and we'll find out whether 41 00:03:02.159 --> 00:03:07.240 she did or not. But would surprise me was the 42 00:03:07.360 --> 00:03:11.479 left media is sticking up for Letitia James because they 43 00:03:11.520 --> 00:03:14.639 don't like Trump. I don't know if they like her, 44 00:03:14.759 --> 00:03:17.520 but the fact that Trump's going after her, they're going 45 00:03:17.599 --> 00:03:21.439 to take her aside. Listen to this. This is Cassie Hunt. 46 00:03:21.599 --> 00:03:27.960 She's an anchor at on CNN, and she literally said 47 00:03:28.879 --> 00:03:34.000 about mortgage fraud that everybody does mortgage fraud, don't they 48 00:03:34.840 --> 00:03:35.360 just James. 49 00:03:35.360 --> 00:03:36.759 And again we're still getting the details. 50 00:03:36.759 --> 00:03:39.120 But if it's related to this mortgage issue, I mean, 51 00:03:39.120 --> 00:03:41.919 this is something that everyone in America, or many people 52 00:03:41.960 --> 00:03:43.560 at least if you're lucky enough to be able to 53 00:03:43.560 --> 00:03:45.080 buy a house in America, you. 54 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:45.680 Deal with this. 55 00:03:46.120 --> 00:03:51.560 Really, everyone does this. You just lie to the bank. 56 00:03:52.719 --> 00:03:56.319 And it's called bank fraud and lying to banks. And 57 00:03:56.319 --> 00:04:01.000 though those are both crimes. So here's Letitia James when 58 00:04:01.159 --> 00:04:05.319 she was running for her office as Attorney General in 59 00:04:05.360 --> 00:04:06.159 the state of New York. 60 00:04:06.199 --> 00:04:08.400 He should be charged with obstructing justice. 61 00:04:08.919 --> 00:04:11.400 I believe that the president of these United States can 62 00:04:11.439 --> 00:04:14.800 be indicted for criminal offenses, and we would join with 63 00:04:14.879 --> 00:04:18.480 law enforcement and other attorneys general across this nation and 64 00:04:18.600 --> 00:04:20.160 removing this president from office. 65 00:04:21.000 --> 00:04:23.279 About all the music in there, it was a campaign 66 00:04:23.319 --> 00:04:26.560 commercial where she said she believes that Donald Trump should 67 00:04:26.560 --> 00:04:31.079 be removed from the White House. She did not want 68 00:04:31.199 --> 00:04:33.199 him to be elected, and she would do everything to 69 00:04:33.240 --> 00:04:36.199 go after him. There were many commercials like that that 70 00:04:36.240 --> 00:04:38.680 were aired in New York that were all about the 71 00:04:38.720 --> 00:04:41.120 fact that she's going to get Donald Trump if you 72 00:04:41.360 --> 00:04:48.360 vote for her. Well, even Anderson Cooper, who certainly hangs 73 00:04:48.399 --> 00:04:51.800 out on the left side of the aisle, asked of pertinent. 74 00:04:51.439 --> 00:04:52.680 Question, Jeff I mean. 75 00:04:52.720 --> 00:04:55.319 According to PolitiFact, the day after she was elected in 76 00:04:55.319 --> 00:04:59.279 twenty eighteen, letician James was asked by a community activist 77 00:04:59.279 --> 00:05:02.040 as she was going to to President Trump, and she replied, quote, Oh, 78 00:05:02.120 --> 00:05:04.199 We're going to definitely sue him. We're going to be 79 00:05:04.240 --> 00:05:06.000 a real pain in the ass. He's going to know 80 00:05:06.040 --> 00:05:08.680 my name personally. I mean, that's not a great look 81 00:05:08.800 --> 00:05:12.879 for somebody who has just been elected or just been campaigning, 82 00:05:12.879 --> 00:05:17.120 who hasn't even looked, I guess at deeply at any evidence. 83 00:05:17.959 --> 00:05:20.160 She also made a big point of when she got 84 00:05:20.399 --> 00:05:23.959 Donald Trump indicted in Manhattan District Court. She went to 85 00:05:24.000 --> 00:05:26.600 the trial, she sat in the first row and just 86 00:05:26.759 --> 00:05:29.879 kind of had a smirk on her face as Trump 87 00:05:30.079 --> 00:05:34.199 was going through the process of being indicted in a 88 00:05:34.279 --> 00:05:38.439 local court in New York. David Urban also responded, Now, 89 00:05:38.439 --> 00:05:41.759 he does speak for people on the right. He's a 90 00:05:41.879 --> 00:05:45.120 Republican type of spokesman. This is his reaction. 91 00:05:46.199 --> 00:05:49.000 Yeah, so Anderson's a couple points. You know, Jeffrey makes 92 00:05:49.000 --> 00:05:51.519 the point that people, you know, prosecutors are elected their 93 00:05:51.560 --> 00:05:54.480 political animals. But yet I've never Jeff, maybe I'm wrong 94 00:05:54.480 --> 00:05:56.759 you point it out. I'm not aware of many prosecutors 95 00:05:56.800 --> 00:06:00.519 saying I am going after this specific individual. They're usually 96 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:03.160 political statements, I'm going to be tough on crime, I'm 97 00:06:03.160 --> 00:06:06.639 gonna make your lives better, safer communities, those types of 98 00:06:06.639 --> 00:06:09.279 political statements, not I'm going to go get the governor. 99 00:06:09.319 --> 00:06:11.279 I'm going to take down the president of the United States. 100 00:06:11.360 --> 00:06:13.800 So I think that's that's a little it's a little 101 00:06:13.839 --> 00:06:16.240 too cute by half on that. And look, Leticia James, 102 00:06:16.519 --> 00:06:18.360 you live by the sword, you die by the sword. 103 00:06:18.920 --> 00:06:21.399 There is no small crime, as Jeff knows. This is 104 00:06:21.839 --> 00:06:25.519 relatively small potatoes, as you point out, Jeff correctly, but 105 00:06:25.600 --> 00:06:28.920 it's still mortgage fraud. It's mortgage fraud. She signed on 106 00:06:28.959 --> 00:06:32.600 a piece of paper saying I I you know, I allege, 107 00:06:32.639 --> 00:06:35.879 I affirm, I swear that these things, these facts are correct. 108 00:06:36.079 --> 00:06:37.959 For those of you who filled out a mortgage application, 109 00:06:38.040 --> 00:06:40.199 it says on there at the bottom, you fill it out, 110 00:06:40.199 --> 00:06:42.079 you sign your name, that this is going to be 111 00:06:42.120 --> 00:06:45.439 my secondary residence. She did that knowingly that she was 112 00:06:45.519 --> 00:06:47.279 not going to use it as a secondary resident. So 113 00:06:47.279 --> 00:06:51.480 that's fraudulently, allegedly fraudulently. And whether it's a small fraud 114 00:06:51.600 --> 00:06:53.639 or a big fraud, when near the attorney general of 115 00:06:53.639 --> 00:06:56.560 a state committing fraud, it's a bad look Anderson. And 116 00:06:56.920 --> 00:06:59.879 to answer your question directly, look, I think the litician 117 00:07:00.120 --> 00:07:03.720 James action was terrible. I think any selective prosecution is 118 00:07:03.759 --> 00:07:07.120 bad and should be rebuffed, whether it's by Letitia James 119 00:07:08.639 --> 00:07:11.240 or by this Justice Department. I think it's bad for America, 120 00:07:11.240 --> 00:07:14.079 the American justice system, and people's trust in our system. 121 00:07:14.920 --> 00:07:18.639 So somebody did a calculation about the fact that what's 122 00:07:18.680 --> 00:07:21.920 the difference in money. Well, apparently the interest rate on 123 00:07:22.439 --> 00:07:26.079 a investment property that you rent out versus a secondary 124 00:07:26.120 --> 00:07:32.079 home was about nineteen thousand dollars of benefit to her. 125 00:07:32.399 --> 00:07:36.920 She said nineteen thousand dollars. So that is you robbed 126 00:07:37.000 --> 00:07:41.439 somebody at nineteen thousand. That's a felony. Adam Kinzinger, who 127 00:07:41.839 --> 00:07:47.240 was a Republican congressman but did not rerun because Republicans 128 00:07:47.240 --> 00:07:49.319 were mad at him because he was on the January 129 00:07:49.399 --> 00:07:53.120 Sixth Committee. But that's another whole story his reaction, and 130 00:07:53.160 --> 00:07:55.759 he's very critical of Donald Trump, you know. 131 00:07:56.079 --> 00:07:58.240 I mean, look, I think two things can be true here. 132 00:07:58.279 --> 00:08:01.639 I think the first thing is Letitia James never should 133 00:08:01.680 --> 00:08:04.079 have made those comments. She never should have run on 134 00:08:04.759 --> 00:08:07.680 I'm going to go after him before she's seen the evidence, 135 00:08:07.759 --> 00:08:12.120 before she's had anything that was wrong, not illegal, that 136 00:08:12.319 --> 00:08:15.279 was wrong. And then at the same time, there is 137 00:08:15.439 --> 00:08:17.800 no doubt and I mean, we can argue about it, 138 00:08:17.879 --> 00:08:21.519 but there's no doubt that this thing went. They went 139 00:08:21.639 --> 00:08:26.600 after her specifically for retribution, specifically because it was her. 140 00:08:26.759 --> 00:08:28.120 I mean, all you have to do is read the 141 00:08:28.800 --> 00:08:32.759 president's accidental fake tweet or whatever thing that's called posts 142 00:08:33.159 --> 00:08:36.559 and know that he was basically saying, Pam, here are 143 00:08:37.039 --> 00:08:38.960 two people we have to go after. And then all 144 00:08:38.960 --> 00:08:41.679 of a sudden, boy, just miraculously, a new person comes 145 00:08:41.720 --> 00:08:44.440 in after the other person said that they didn't have 146 00:08:44.559 --> 00:08:48.000 enough to make a case and get indicted. This thing, probably, 147 00:08:48.440 --> 00:08:51.320 like like Comy's, is either going to be thrown out. 148 00:08:51.320 --> 00:08:53.240 I'm not a lawyer, so who knows, either be thrown 149 00:08:53.240 --> 00:08:57.279 out before trial or certainly will be seen as what 150 00:08:57.320 --> 00:08:59.080 it is, which is revenge. But I think we can 151 00:08:59.080 --> 00:09:02.919 hold Anderson. Both things are true. Letitia James never should 152 00:09:02.919 --> 00:09:06.360 have said that in the campaign. And also they are 153 00:09:06.440 --> 00:09:09.200 going after her for one reason because it's. 154 00:09:09.080 --> 00:09:13.360 Her yep, just like she specifically went after Donald Trump. 155 00:09:13.399 --> 00:09:16.320 So again, like I said, I'm not surprised, But let's 156 00:09:16.320 --> 00:09:18.759 bring in a lawyer that tell us how this all 157 00:09:18.759 --> 00:09:20.320 shakes out. Here's Jonathan Turtling. 158 00:09:20.480 --> 00:09:24.120 Well, I don't remember mon Donnie coming out and denouncing 159 00:09:24.519 --> 00:09:27.279 James when she ran for office on the pledge to 160 00:09:27.399 --> 00:09:31.240 nail Donald Trump for something not even specifying what it 161 00:09:31.320 --> 00:09:34.240 might be, or when she charged him in a fraud 162 00:09:34.279 --> 00:09:37.759 case where no one lost money and in fact the 163 00:09:37.799 --> 00:09:43.039 banks wanted additional loans from Trump and his organization. None 164 00:09:43.039 --> 00:09:45.720 of these people were objecting to any of that law 165 00:09:45.840 --> 00:09:49.440 fair Now, does that mean that this is a lead 166 00:09:49.480 --> 00:09:51.879 pipe cinch of a case or that there's not problems? 167 00:09:51.879 --> 00:09:53.799 Of course not. This is going to be a tough 168 00:09:53.840 --> 00:09:57.000 case for the Department of Justice to be able to land. 169 00:09:57.960 --> 00:10:00.399 While they got this case out of New York, it's 170 00:10:00.440 --> 00:10:05.000 in a very blue district in Virginia. And also there's 171 00:10:05.039 --> 00:10:08.159 going to be some threshold challenges here, and one of 172 00:10:08.200 --> 00:10:12.000 them has some merit. It doesn't mean it's going to prevail. 173 00:10:12.559 --> 00:10:15.600 James is likely to say that the acting US Attorney 174 00:10:15.600 --> 00:10:20.240 who signed off on these charges was not appropriately appointed 175 00:10:20.399 --> 00:10:24.159 and therefore should not have held that office, and if 176 00:10:24.159 --> 00:10:26.600 that is the case, then the indictment would go. 177 00:10:26.679 --> 00:10:30.480 Down well to the overall case itself. Though, I want 178 00:10:30.519 --> 00:10:33.759 to rewind the clock back to February sixteenth of last year, 179 00:10:34.320 --> 00:10:37.759 when Letitia James really was I guess, the lack of 180 00:10:37.799 --> 00:10:40.600 a better word, bragging about the fact that she was 181 00:10:40.639 --> 00:10:43.039 trying to hold Donald Trump to account, saying, quote, when 182 00:10:43.120 --> 00:10:46.159 powerful people cheat to get better loans, it comes at 183 00:10:46.159 --> 00:10:50.120 the expensive, hard working people. Everyday. Americans cannot lie to 184 00:10:50.159 --> 00:10:52.200 a bank to get a mortgage, and if they did, 185 00:10:52.519 --> 00:10:55.480 our government would throw the book at them. There simply 186 00:10:55.519 --> 00:11:00.159 cannot be different rules for different people. 187 00:11:00.200 --> 00:11:04.159 Ironic, I think in hindsight. Well, but it's really ironic. 188 00:11:04.320 --> 00:11:09.320 Is she just asked for half a billion dollars of 189 00:11:09.399 --> 00:11:12.120 damages against Trump in the case where no one lost 190 00:11:12.159 --> 00:11:15.320 any money. Infact, the bank made money in this case. 191 00:11:15.360 --> 00:11:19.360 The government's alleging that she made serious money, that by 192 00:11:19.639 --> 00:11:24.960 misrepresenting the status of this property, she made thousands of 193 00:11:25.039 --> 00:11:28.600 dollars and so unlike her case, they can actually cite 194 00:11:28.720 --> 00:11:32.440 to money that ended up benefiting her. Now does that 195 00:11:32.600 --> 00:11:35.879 mean that they can make this case with an entire 196 00:11:36.000 --> 00:11:40.919 jury in Northern Virginia. I think the odds still favor James. 197 00:11:41.559 --> 00:11:45.480 It also there's also a good chance that this technicality 198 00:11:45.559 --> 00:11:48.440 that she's likely to raise could delay the case. The 199 00:11:48.600 --> 00:11:51.559 argument is that the president has one hundred and twenty 200 00:11:51.600 --> 00:11:55.519 days to assign acting at US attorney, but he had 201 00:11:55.559 --> 00:11:59.679 already used that period with her predecessor. And there's also 202 00:11:59.679 --> 00:12:03.080 a estion that the reason that predecessor was let go 203 00:12:03.279 --> 00:12:06.000 or forced out is that he was not going to 204 00:12:06.039 --> 00:12:08.799 sign off on this prosecution. So it's going to get 205 00:12:08.919 --> 00:12:11.159 very messy, very fast in this case. 206 00:12:11.960 --> 00:12:14.519 So this is the second case that has come up. 207 00:12:15.399 --> 00:12:19.159 They've got an indictment against James Comy, and they've also 208 00:12:19.200 --> 00:12:22.519 now got an indictment against Letitia James. The whole thing 209 00:12:22.559 --> 00:12:27.360 about political retribution was brought up with Pam Bondi, the 210 00:12:27.399 --> 00:12:31.720 Attorney General, while she was before the Judiciary Committee in 211 00:12:31.759 --> 00:12:33.440 the Senate earlier this week. 212 00:12:33.960 --> 00:12:37.720 President Trump is the most transparent president in American history, 213 00:12:39.039 --> 00:12:41.080 and I don't think he said anything that he hasn't 214 00:12:41.120 --> 00:12:45.759 said for years. Comy was indicted in the Eastern District 215 00:12:45.799 --> 00:12:48.440 of Virginia by I may point out, one of the 216 00:12:48.440 --> 00:12:50.200 most liberal grand juries in the country. 217 00:12:51.120 --> 00:12:53.919 Well, both the Komy and James are likely to make 218 00:12:53.960 --> 00:12:58.360 two claims vindictive prosecution selective prosecution. Those are very difficult 219 00:12:58.399 --> 00:13:03.559 claims to make. They will be citing President Trump in 220 00:13:03.039 --> 00:13:07.399 that posting of his complaining that why haven't you indicted 221 00:13:07.440 --> 00:13:10.519 these people? And that is going to be the central 222 00:13:10.600 --> 00:13:13.080 piece of evidence they use to try to make out 223 00:13:13.120 --> 00:13:13.799 those claims. 224 00:13:14.360 --> 00:13:15.240 The question is. 225 00:13:15.399 --> 00:13:18.639 Whether they will be able to prevail. Now in federal court. 226 00:13:19.200 --> 00:13:21.639 James went to New York Court and got a very 227 00:13:21.840 --> 00:13:25.360 favorable judge. We'll see how this plays out. But those 228 00:13:25.440 --> 00:13:27.960 types of cases, and I've made those types of arguments 229 00:13:27.960 --> 00:13:32.480 in court as criminal defense attorney, they are very hard 230 00:13:32.519 --> 00:13:35.559 to make. Judges do not like to look at motivations 231 00:13:35.879 --> 00:13:39.600 if there is an otherwise valid crime in the indictment. 232 00:13:39.759 --> 00:13:42.720 So both cases legitay. James and James Coley both in 233 00:13:42.759 --> 00:13:46.080 the Eastern District of Virginia, which is a very blue 234 00:13:46.159 --> 00:13:48.799 part of the state of Virginia, So they have that 235 00:13:48.919 --> 00:13:54.440 going for them. But there's no question Trump's going after 236 00:13:54.480 --> 00:13:59.519 them because they went after him. It's pretty obvious. Meanwhile, 237 00:13:59.799 --> 00:14:06.039 the peace agreement between Hamas and Israel is the first 238 00:14:06.240 --> 00:14:09.759 part of it is done the first twenty four hours, 239 00:14:10.200 --> 00:14:13.559 and the Israeli defense forces have pulled back to behind 240 00:14:13.600 --> 00:14:18.440 this yellow line on a map, so that that checks 241 00:14:18.519 --> 00:14:21.480 one of the boxes on the agreement. Now, the next 242 00:14:21.519 --> 00:14:25.519 seventy two hours are going to be critical, and a 243 00:14:25.519 --> 00:14:29.879 lot of people are worried whether Hamas will in fact 244 00:14:30.679 --> 00:14:33.519 complete the rest of this deal, at least phase one, 245 00:14:33.919 --> 00:14:37.279 which is to release the hostages. They're now saying Originally 246 00:14:37.320 --> 00:14:39.360 they said it would be Saturday or Sunday, then they 247 00:14:39.360 --> 00:14:43.639 said Monday. Now they're saying maybe Monday or Tuesday, and 248 00:14:43.720 --> 00:14:46.759 so everybody's kind of holding their breath to see what 249 00:14:46.879 --> 00:14:52.480 that is all about. Now, what about the impact on 250 00:14:52.559 --> 00:14:57.759 the legacy of Donald Trump. Tim Naftali is a presidential 251 00:14:57.879 --> 00:15:02.240 historian and he he thinks it is a big impact 252 00:15:02.279 --> 00:15:03.799 on Donald Trump's legacy. 253 00:15:04.240 --> 00:15:08.000 This is very important for President Trump's legacy, and one 254 00:15:08.320 --> 00:15:11.600 would wish that someone could advise him not to focus 255 00:15:11.759 --> 00:15:15.120 so much on the Nobel Peace Prize and focus on 256 00:15:15.240 --> 00:15:20.639 the next steps in the Middle East. President Trump, in 257 00:15:20.679 --> 00:15:24.360 a sense has achieved something that has eluded many presidents 258 00:15:24.519 --> 00:15:28.039 in the Middle East since the Carter era. He had 259 00:15:28.080 --> 00:15:32.559 the ability to box in the Israeli leader. He did 260 00:15:32.600 --> 00:15:35.440 something that Joe Biden couldn't do, and it wasn't because 261 00:15:35.440 --> 00:15:39.240 of Joe Biden's weaknesses. It's simply that bib Net Yahoo 262 00:15:39.759 --> 00:15:44.039 played Joe Biden and could not play Donald Trump in 263 00:15:44.080 --> 00:15:50.200 the same way because Bbtyah, who understood that there was 264 00:15:50.320 --> 00:15:54.080 no way of getting around this White House. He couldn't 265 00:15:54.120 --> 00:15:57.120 go to the Congress as he loved to do when 266 00:15:57.240 --> 00:16:00.000 Democrats were in the White House and get something better 267 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:04.080 that if he couldn't get complete support from Donald Trump, 268 00:16:04.279 --> 00:16:07.159 he wasn't going to get it from any authority, to 269 00:16:07.399 --> 00:16:09.799 any authority in the United States. So when Donald Trump 270 00:16:10.759 --> 00:16:14.679 made clear to him that he had overstepped by attacking 271 00:16:15.120 --> 00:16:19.960 hamas in Cutter, bb was in trouble. And so in 272 00:16:20.000 --> 00:16:24.080 a sense where whereas Richard Nixon was the only one 273 00:16:24.080 --> 00:16:27.200 who could go to China, donald Trump was the only 274 00:16:27.240 --> 00:16:30.799 one who could box in Yahoo. And that's going to 275 00:16:30.799 --> 00:16:34.320 be a very positive aspect to Donald Trump's legacy. What 276 00:16:34.519 --> 00:16:39.919 happens next really will to determine whether Donald Trump becomes 277 00:16:39.960 --> 00:16:43.080 known as a peacemaker. Does the United States play a 278 00:16:43.159 --> 00:16:47.200 role in the reconstruction of Gaza. Will the United States 279 00:16:47.240 --> 00:16:51.679 continue to support the fact the right of Gosins to 280 00:16:51.720 --> 00:16:54.840 stay in Gaza. We all remember that Donald Trump briefly 281 00:16:55.000 --> 00:16:59.159 discussed moving Gossins out of Gaza. He stopped calling for that, 282 00:16:59.279 --> 00:17:01.960 of course, which would have been a violation of international law. 283 00:17:02.399 --> 00:17:08.039 Will the United States help restore a political system in Gaza? 284 00:17:08.119 --> 00:17:10.920 And finally, it looks as if the United States is 285 00:17:10.960 --> 00:17:14.279 willing to talk again about a two states solution. That 286 00:17:14.440 --> 00:17:16.720 was something that was off the table. Certainly is off 287 00:17:16.720 --> 00:17:18.920 the table as far as bebing net Yahoo is concerned, 288 00:17:19.039 --> 00:17:21.359 but seemed to be a bit off the table for 289 00:17:21.400 --> 00:17:25.000 Donald Trump until the twenty point Peace pen emerged. So 290 00:17:25.400 --> 00:17:28.960 there's a real opportunity for the President to establish a 291 00:17:29.000 --> 00:17:32.960 world historical role for himself. But let's caution him about 292 00:17:33.039 --> 00:17:38.079 one thing. When the United States negotiated an end to 293 00:17:38.160 --> 00:17:41.160 the Vietnam War for the American part of the Vietnam 294 00:17:41.160 --> 00:17:45.920 War with North Vietnam, Richard Nixon didn't win the Nobel Prize. 295 00:17:46.359 --> 00:17:50.039 Henry Kissinger won it for the United States. So if 296 00:17:50.079 --> 00:17:53.000 there is a Nobel Prize for the Gaza process, next 297 00:17:53.079 --> 00:17:56.839 year it might be Steve Whitcoff and Jared Kushner who 298 00:17:56.839 --> 00:18:00.599 win it and not Donald Trump's interesting to me is 299 00:18:00.640 --> 00:18:03.279 that there was this push in the last few days, 300 00:18:03.599 --> 00:18:06.359 and it appears that the Nobel Committee had already made 301 00:18:06.440 --> 00:18:10.279 up its made up, made its decision. So the US government, 302 00:18:10.319 --> 00:18:13.000 I don't think, even understood the process by which the 303 00:18:13.039 --> 00:18:17.279 Nobel Committee did its work, which actually surprised me. So 304 00:18:18.079 --> 00:18:20.799 I think it's healthy for the world that the President 305 00:18:20.839 --> 00:18:25.039 of the United States is fixated on being used a peacemaker. 306 00:18:25.079 --> 00:18:27.559 I think that's excellent for the world, and I hope 307 00:18:27.599 --> 00:18:33.119 the President continues his fixation on achieving peace deals. It's 308 00:18:33.200 --> 00:18:36.599 good the president, I think, should keep in mind that 309 00:18:37.400 --> 00:18:40.720 the Nobel Committee looks at what happens within countries, not 310 00:18:40.960 --> 00:18:44.720 just among countries. After all, this year's Nobel Prize winner, 311 00:18:45.759 --> 00:18:49.240 Karina mark Machado, won it for what she's done to 312 00:18:49.720 --> 00:18:55.000 try to reconstitute civil society within Venezuela. The while the 313 00:18:55.039 --> 00:19:00.079 President is certainly engaged on a peace campaign outside the 314 00:19:00.119 --> 00:19:03.920 United States, at home, he's sending troops into our cities, 315 00:19:04.240 --> 00:19:09.039 which is not consistent with peacemaking at home, and the 316 00:19:09.039 --> 00:19:11.920 Nobel Committee will be looking at that in the future 317 00:19:12.119 --> 00:19:14.599 just as much as they look at his efforts in Gaza. 318 00:19:15.240 --> 00:19:18.799 The other salient point here is that, apparently the Nobel 319 00:19:18.839 --> 00:19:23.920 Committee this is for giving a peace prize to whatever 320 00:19:24.000 --> 00:19:27.400 happened in last year twenty twenty four. The cutoff was 321 00:19:27.440 --> 00:19:31.359 in January. So maybe Donald Trump will be the recipient 322 00:19:31.640 --> 00:19:35.960 a year from now, or it could be like Tim 323 00:19:36.039 --> 00:19:40.119 Daoff Talay said, it could be wit Cough or Kushner. 324 00:19:40.920 --> 00:19:45.119 But in any case, the Nobel Prize of Ari Fleischer, 325 00:19:46.039 --> 00:19:52.160 former Press secretary. He surprised everybody when was asked about, well, 326 00:19:52.160 --> 00:19:55.480 what do you think about Trump but getting the Nobel Prize. 327 00:19:56.440 --> 00:19:59.119 Well, I'm sorry to put it so bluntly, but who cares. 328 00:20:00.119 --> 00:20:04.160 The Nobel Peace Prize has been useless for generations ever 329 00:20:04.200 --> 00:20:07.799 since they gave Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize for 330 00:20:07.880 --> 00:20:11.160 doing nothing. It is the Democratic Peace Prize. It is 331 00:20:11.200 --> 00:20:13.960 the Liberal Socialists of Europe Peace Prize. It has nothing 332 00:20:14.000 --> 00:20:16.680 to do with actually solving problems or getting things done 333 00:20:16.839 --> 00:20:19.920 outside the scientific realm, where I think the actually do 334 00:20:20.599 --> 00:20:23.720 good work. But when it comes to peace, no, it 335 00:20:23.799 --> 00:20:27.000 is a totally lopsided establishment, old school view of the 336 00:20:27.000 --> 00:20:31.319 world and Here's the key factor got this agreement done 337 00:20:31.359 --> 00:20:35.000 was the fact that Donald Trump and Steve Whitkoff are outsiders. 338 00:20:35.480 --> 00:20:38.440 Anybody who followed the regular diplomatic playbook would have made 339 00:20:38.440 --> 00:20:40.559 no progress in the Middle East. They have succumbed to 340 00:20:40.559 --> 00:20:43.079 the temptation that the only way to peace is through 341 00:20:43.480 --> 00:20:46.880 a Palestinian state. Donald Trump did the exact opposite and 342 00:20:46.920 --> 00:20:49.640 worked around that issue to bring peace to the Middle 343 00:20:49.680 --> 00:20:52.599 East and now Gaza the Nobel Peace Prize. 344 00:20:52.680 --> 00:20:57.400 Who Cares, so Arii Fleischer, everybody all flustered because he 345 00:20:57.440 --> 00:21:02.400 says who Cares doesn't mean anything, never has, but it does. 346 00:21:02.799 --> 00:21:05.079 It means something to Donald Trump. He said, well, it's 347 00:21:05.079 --> 00:21:07.200 a prize from back in the old days. Well that's 348 00:21:07.200 --> 00:21:10.079 where Donald Trump kind of lives. So he really wants 349 00:21:10.079 --> 00:21:14.440 the Nobel Pce Prize. But the deadline for it was 350 00:21:14.559 --> 00:21:19.480 for long before this morning, so he did not get that. 351 00:21:19.880 --> 00:21:24.519 The woman who got it is this lady from Venezuela. 352 00:21:24.839 --> 00:21:33.799 She was brave enough to stand up and run against 353 00:21:34.359 --> 00:21:38.960 Nicholas Maduro in Venezuela. She ran for president. When they 354 00:21:38.960 --> 00:21:43.079 did the results, she won. She won the presidency of Venezuela. 355 00:21:43.680 --> 00:21:46.839 But Maduro said, I'm not going to recognize those results, 356 00:21:46.920 --> 00:21:52.279 and he stayed in office and then he sicked the 357 00:21:52.480 --> 00:21:57.319 police on her. She's in hiding somewhere in Venezuela. So, 358 00:21:57.400 --> 00:22:01.680 I mean, the lady is wildly popular and people of 359 00:22:01.759 --> 00:22:04.839 Venezuela want her to be the president, but she is 360 00:22:04.880 --> 00:22:09.200 the arch enemy of Nicholas Maduro. So does she deserve 361 00:22:09.559 --> 00:22:14.599 the Nobel Peace Prize? I certainly think so. But again, 362 00:22:14.720 --> 00:22:17.000 it really I think came down more than anything else 363 00:22:17.039 --> 00:22:19.640 to the fact that the deadline was back in January 364 00:22:20.400 --> 00:22:23.640 and she did all of her work last year. So 365 00:22:23.839 --> 00:22:26.119 Trump will have to wait till next year. And he's 366 00:22:26.160 --> 00:22:28.160 also going to have to wait at least a couple 367 00:22:28.200 --> 00:22:31.720 of weeks because the federal judge ruled that no, there 368 00:22:31.839 --> 00:22:35.559 isn't a rebellion going on in the city of Chicago, 369 00:22:36.079 --> 00:22:40.799 so therefore you are not allowed to send federal troops 370 00:22:40.799 --> 00:22:44.279 into the city of Chicago. There are laws against that. 371 00:22:45.039 --> 00:22:50.880 The governor can invite federal troops into Illinois, but obviously 372 00:22:50.920 --> 00:22:53.240 that's Prince Curry. He's not going to do that. And 373 00:22:53.279 --> 00:22:57.519 it was interesting because there's some pushback on this. Kevinstead, 374 00:22:57.519 --> 00:23:01.880 who is the governor of Oklahoma, big conservative Republican guy 375 00:23:02.440 --> 00:23:05.599 put out a statement in a peace sent to the 376 00:23:05.640 --> 00:23:09.400 New York Times today. I'll read it to you. Kevin 377 00:23:09.400 --> 00:23:15.279 Stitt said, we believe in the federalist system, that's state's rights. 378 00:23:15.720 --> 00:23:20.640 Oklahoma's would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent 379 00:23:20.720 --> 00:23:25.319 troops to Oklahoma during the Biden administration. And this is 380 00:23:25.359 --> 00:23:28.839 the point I've been bringing up. Two points. One is, yeah, 381 00:23:28.920 --> 00:23:30.920 you've got to you always have to play well, what 382 00:23:31.079 --> 00:23:34.680 happens when a Democrat is in the White House, and 383 00:23:34.920 --> 00:23:40.759 would would they play this kind of game? And if so, Stitt, 384 00:23:40.759 --> 00:23:45.079 who is a good guy, good governor in a Republican, 385 00:23:45.599 --> 00:23:49.319 very red state, would go people of Oklahoma would go 386 00:23:49.400 --> 00:23:53.400 crazy if Pritzker decided to send troops to Oklahoma. Well, 387 00:23:53.400 --> 00:23:57.039 that's what happened with Governor Abbott, who I like a lot. 388 00:23:57.160 --> 00:24:00.920 He sent troops up to Chicago now that nobody has 389 00:24:00.960 --> 00:24:03.880 seen them now because the judge says, you can't use 390 00:24:03.920 --> 00:24:08.960 federal troops in Chicago temporary state for two weeks while 391 00:24:09.680 --> 00:24:12.279 she sorts through all that. And basically what she's giving 392 00:24:12.319 --> 00:24:16.039 the government is the time to appeal that. So and 393 00:24:16.160 --> 00:24:19.920 the government has already started that appeal process. So for now, 394 00:24:20.480 --> 00:24:25.480 federal troops know in Chicago. The problem with that is ice. 395 00:24:27.559 --> 00:24:29.720 What the reason the President was going to send troops 396 00:24:29.720 --> 00:24:33.559 there was to protect federal buildings and to protect ice 397 00:24:33.680 --> 00:24:37.960 federal law enforcement officers. So they're all on their own 398 00:24:38.400 --> 00:24:46.440 until the temporary restrainting order is lifted. Mark Short was 399 00:24:46.480 --> 00:24:49.480 the chief of staff for Mike Pence when he was 400 00:24:49.599 --> 00:24:53.039 vice president, so he's a big Republican guy. And Megan 401 00:24:53.079 --> 00:24:57.079