1 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:28,480 Speaker 1: And here we go. Hi, how are you all right? 2 00:00:28,519 --> 00:00:28,800 Speaker 2: All right? 3 00:00:28,839 --> 00:00:31,199 Speaker 1: All right? Enough for the band. There, we've got it. 4 00:00:31,239 --> 00:00:35,079 Welcome to the Big Podcast. It is Monday. It is 5 00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:40,200 MLK Junior Day. It is the nineteenth day of January, 6 00:00:40,679 --> 00:00:43,600 a year of Our Lord, twenty twenty six. My name 7 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:47,079 is Tom Sullivan. And well we still I mean, I 8 00:00:47,079 --> 00:00:49,600 know it's a holiday, and I will get into a 9 00:00:49,640 --> 00:00:54,039 little bit more about that. I've it's it's been a 10 00:00:54,079 --> 00:00:58,079 holiday since nineteen eighty three. Ronald Reagan signed the law 11 00:00:58,159 --> 00:01:02,640 that declared the third third Monday of January is Mlkday. 12 00:01:03,759 --> 00:01:10,239 I so nineteen eighty three, so let's do the math. 13 00:01:10,319 --> 00:01:16,840 That's forty some years ago, right, yeah, forty three years ago. 14 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:21,200 So there's a lot of people that are not well. 15 00:01:21,239 --> 00:01:25,120 They were born after the holiday was declared, and MLK 16 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:30,519 was gunned down and killed in nineteen sixty eight. So 17 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:34,959 there's people that do not know. He's a history book 18 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:39,000 item and they may be able to say, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 19 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:40,920 he was a civil rights leader, but they don't know 20 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:46,079 much about him. And today. When the law was signed 21 00:01:46,079 --> 00:01:50,000 by Reagan in eighty three, it was basically sold on 22 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:54,000 the basis of it's a day of service, and I 23 00:01:54,840 --> 00:01:59,000 know there are people are that are out, usually people 24 00:01:59,239 --> 00:02:03,159 in churches. We'll go out and have some sort of 25 00:02:03,319 --> 00:02:07,680 service effort on their part, but otherwise it's another day 26 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:10,360 off and it's I guess if you're a skier, this 27 00:02:10,479 --> 00:02:14,479 is great because wintertime, but otherwise it's just kind of 28 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:19,599 Most businesses are open. Government has closed, obviously, but most 29 00:02:19,919 --> 00:02:23,520 the stock markets closed. But most businesses are open. So 30 00:02:23,599 --> 00:02:25,319 we'll get into a little bit more on that as 31 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:29,159 we go through the program today. Let me start. Let 32 00:02:29,159 --> 00:02:33,800 me start with Greenland. This is becoming this is it's 33 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:38,599 becoming clearer to me, but it's also weird. Yeah. The 34 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:42,120 letter I'm talking about is a letter that President Trump 35 00:02:42,199 --> 00:02:46,639 wrote to the Premiere of President I'm not quite sure 36 00:02:46,639 --> 00:02:52,919 his title of Norway. And in the letter, the President said, 37 00:02:53,039 --> 00:02:57,000 because you didn't give me the Nobel Prize. He specifically 38 00:02:57,120 --> 00:03:01,560 said that he no longer feels obliged to think purely 39 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:07,479 of peace. And first of all, the Norwegian Prime Minister's 40 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:12,759 office provided the full text of the letter. But the 41 00:03:12,879 --> 00:03:15,879 reminder to the president is that the government of Norway 42 00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:19,560 does not issue the Nobel Peace Prize. That is done 43 00:03:19,599 --> 00:03:25,080 by a private committee that goes back to Nobel and 44 00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:30,360 it's it's kind of crazy because what it makes it 45 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:34,960 makes it sound like he's that much of a sensitive 46 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:37,680 person to where he didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize. 47 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:41,319 He's going to start thinking of something else. And the 48 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:45,680 whole business about Greenland he's talking about militarily. In fact, 49 00:03:45,719 --> 00:03:53,280 they have put on alert two battalions in Greenland that 50 00:03:53,479 --> 00:03:57,039 are excuse me, in Alaska and they're the ones that 51 00:03:57,080 --> 00:04:02,879 are on alert for being moved to going into Greenland. 52 00:04:03,599 --> 00:04:07,479 In addition, the President said that he is this is 53 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:11,000 where wait to see what the Supreme Court says, maybe 54 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:14,159 this week. We're expecting them to make the announcement soon 55 00:04:14,199 --> 00:04:17,800 about tariffs. But the President said, as a result, he 56 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:22,920 is slapping tariffs of ten percent on eight European countries. 57 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:28,600 These are our allies, these are our friends, and that 58 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:32,560 ten percent now, and if the deal with Greenland is 59 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:35,639 not reached by this summer, he's going to assess a 60 00:04:35,680 --> 00:04:40,639 twenty five percent penalty on these eight European countries. They 61 00:04:40,759 --> 00:04:44,319 are getting together, The Europeans are getting together and are 62 00:04:44,399 --> 00:04:49,000 thinking about striking back and putting on a massive tariff 63 00:04:49,439 --> 00:04:54,480 against US products that we sell in Europe. So hopefully 64 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:57,000 if you have a business that sells a lot of 65 00:04:57,040 --> 00:05:00,560 your products in Europe, pay attention to what going on. 66 00:05:01,079 --> 00:05:03,600 So this whole thing about he's no longer thinking of peace, 67 00:05:04,279 --> 00:05:08,079 and he's assessing all these tariffs on our friends, you 68 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:11,199 know who. This is going to break up NATO. It'll 69 00:05:11,199 --> 00:05:16,959 instantly kill NATO. And nobody could be happier about that 70 00:05:17,199 --> 00:05:21,839 than Vladimir Putin. He has been wanting to destroy and 71 00:05:21,959 --> 00:05:24,839 break up NATO for as long as NATO's been in existence. 72 00:05:26,079 --> 00:05:28,519 So it's a real head scratch of what's going on. 73 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:30,759 But the more you watch this, and this is where 74 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:35,560 I've said many times I agree with just off the 75 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:37,879 top of my head, maybe eighty percent of what Donald 76 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:42,839 Trump wants to do. I disagree eighty percent of the 77 00:05:42,879 --> 00:05:45,560 time on the way he wants to do it. So 78 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:49,040 this is one of those times where I go, all right, 79 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:52,920 everybody's looking back and going he can't be serious. He 80 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:56,480 cannot be serious. He's not going to use the military. 81 00:05:56,839 --> 00:06:02,040 This is just a big negotiating tactic. Maybe it is. 82 00:06:02,319 --> 00:06:06,279 But in the meantime, the dollar is getting hurt, and 83 00:06:06,319 --> 00:06:12,959 our relationship with our friends is getting hurt. Start with 84 00:06:13,519 --> 00:06:20,480 General James spider Mark on his his assessment of what 85 00:06:20,639 --> 00:06:22,000 is going on with Greenland. 86 00:06:22,079 --> 00:06:24,319 Speaker 3: Yeah, it doesn't land very well. I mean when you 87 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:26,759 look at policies like this, or at least moving in 88 00:06:26,759 --> 00:06:30,759 this direction, the potential of embracing some type of policy, 89 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:35,079 I think many would say why it's being done makes sense. 90 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:38,800 The United States needs to should have a much more 91 00:06:38,959 --> 00:06:43,199 enhanced relationship with Greenland. Albeit we have when established in 92 00:06:43,279 --> 00:06:46,439 nineteen fifty one in agreement that allows the United States 93 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:49,720 to have military access and it kind of essentially in 94 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:55,160 my terms, provides cooperation between those two one autonomous nation 95 00:06:55,759 --> 00:06:58,600 or autonomous entity to Denmark and the United States, so 96 00:06:59,199 --> 00:07:02,439 that can be identified and say, yeah, this is a 97 00:07:02,439 --> 00:07:05,800 good deal. But when you look at how the president 98 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:10,360 in this administration is addressing the possibility of enhancing that, 99 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:13,600 that gets very problematic in my mind. I think cutting 100 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:16,399 to the chase, the United States is not going to 101 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:20,839 use military power to embrace Greenland or move Greenland in 102 00:07:20,879 --> 00:07:25,199 a direction more favorable toward the United States. And again, 103 00:07:25,279 --> 00:07:29,040 we already have a favorable relationship, let's not harm that. 104 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:33,920 But provocative language like this really gets our allies moving 105 00:07:33,959 --> 00:07:36,800 in a direction of hazarding what's going to happen to 106 00:07:36,959 --> 00:07:39,839 NATO if the United States suddenly says, Okay, this is 107 00:07:39,879 --> 00:07:43,000 more important. Greenland's more important this course of action. It's 108 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:46,360 more important that our relationship with NATO and NATO will atrophy, 109 00:07:46,480 --> 00:07:49,399 it'll become something entirely different than it is right now 110 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:51,839 if the United States is not a part of NATO. 111 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:54,279 So you can connect those dots pretty quickly. 112 00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:58,920 Speaker 1: Well, essentially NATO needs the US to be part of it, 113 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:02,839 or NATO doesn't ag exist Greenland. When you look at 114 00:08:02,879 --> 00:08:06,319 it on a map, it's very clear. Strategically, I get it. 115 00:08:07,199 --> 00:08:10,560 That is where Russia and China are poking around in 116 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:14,720 that area because the Arctic Circle has shrunk and the 117 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:18,399 shipping lanes are more open, and the Russians and the 118 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:22,680 Chinese will give them faster access to go over the 119 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:27,680 top of Greenland and come attack the United States theoretically, 120 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:33,480 So I'm getting the whole idea about why we need Greenland. 121 00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:36,840 But we already asked General Sparks or General Mark said, 122 00:08:37,039 --> 00:08:40,879 we already have an agreement. We can do as much 123 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:45,240 military operations in Greenland as we want to, So why 124 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:49,840 don't we just do that? I'm not sure. Scott Bessant, 125 00:08:49,879 --> 00:08:53,799 our Treasury secretary, was on the Sunday shows and people 126 00:08:53,879 --> 00:08:58,440 were asking him about this issue with Greenland. Here's one 127 00:08:58,480 --> 00:08:59,519 of his responses. 128 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:02,919 Speaker 4: We're going to remain a part of NATO. But what 129 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:06,320 President Trump does not want is for a war to 130 00:09:06,440 --> 00:09:10,720 start and the US gets dragged in again. We are 131 00:09:10,759 --> 00:09:16,440 not going to outsource our western hemister security to others. 132 00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:19,320 Speaker 1: So basically, we want to make sure that we can 133 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:23,960 protect ourselves from the Russians in the Chinese General Kine 134 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:27,240 comes in when we start talking about the military. 135 00:09:28,639 --> 00:09:31,720 Speaker 5: Well, Gleenland has always been in the eye of many 136 00:09:31,919 --> 00:09:36,919 American presidents as being vital national interests, certainly, and now 137 00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:39,440 it's even grown more dramatically. 138 00:09:39,519 --> 00:09:39,600 Speaker 6: So. 139 00:09:39,879 --> 00:09:43,159 Speaker 5: The air routes have always been an issue, certainly because 140 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:47,799 of ICBM missiles that Russia and China hold, and also bombers, 141 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:50,759 and that is why we have early warning radar sites 142 00:09:50,799 --> 00:09:53,399 already in Greenland. For that reason, the United States has 143 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:56,759 them there. But now the navigation routes are opening because 144 00:09:56,799 --> 00:10:01,080 the ice is melting. And there are two countries that 145 00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:03,600 are adversaries of the United States. Call it what you may, 146 00:10:03,679 --> 00:10:06,679 I call them adversaries and enemies. Russia and China, and 147 00:10:06,679 --> 00:10:09,919 they hold nuclear weapons, and they also have navies that 148 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:13,799 can prosecute through those through those navigation routes now that 149 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:17,159 are open considerably more of the year, so it becomes 150 00:10:17,279 --> 00:10:20,799 more of a security issue. And I think it's in 151 00:10:20,919 --> 00:10:24,360 NATO's interests certainly to recognize the United States can do 152 00:10:24,480 --> 00:10:30,759 more for NATO's security and influencing it than certainly Denmark 153 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:34,360 has done throughout its history. And now that the cooler 154 00:10:34,480 --> 00:10:38,000 heads will start to meet and we're in negotiations, I 155 00:10:38,039 --> 00:10:40,759 have a lot of confidence in Mark Ruta, who's the 156 00:10:40,879 --> 00:10:44,399 chief of NATO and getting down into this. He's a 157 00:10:44,480 --> 00:10:48,440 voice of reason. Let's lower the rhetoric on both sides. 158 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:52,600 Let's get into some real negotiations. What's the economic benefit 159 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:57,000 for Greenlanders? What's the NATO benefit here for security? And 160 00:10:57,039 --> 00:10:59,759 certainly what's the benefit for the United States as well, 161 00:11:00,039 --> 00:11:04,279 the three principal partners here Denmark, Greenland, United States. I 162 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:07,440 think we can get to some reasonable answer here that 163 00:11:07,519 --> 00:11:11,240 makes sense to everybody's mutual benefit. And believe me, we 164 00:11:11,320 --> 00:11:16,120 can help the Greenlanders prosper considerably more than what Denmark 165 00:11:16,159 --> 00:11:20,440 has done. And their history is horrific, which forced sterilization, 166 00:11:20,679 --> 00:11:23,679 forced adoption of children, and other things that have taken 167 00:11:23,759 --> 00:11:26,480 place in the repression of these people. We have had 168 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:30,320 bad history ourselves with some of this in our own country, 169 00:11:30,399 --> 00:11:33,720 to be sure. But I think the economic prosperity for 170 00:11:33,799 --> 00:11:36,720 them is an issue. I would think they would find 171 00:11:36,799 --> 00:11:37,840 quite attractive. 172 00:11:38,679 --> 00:11:45,200 Speaker 1: So Denmark lovely country, lovely people, but they really are 173 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:51,679 not capable of making for a defense from Greenland and 174 00:11:51,799 --> 00:11:54,639 the United States. So let us let us go in 175 00:11:54,679 --> 00:11:57,320 there and do that. The thing that keeps bugging me 176 00:11:57,440 --> 00:12:00,879 is we have the ability to do that. Now, another general, 177 00:12:01,039 --> 00:12:03,360 just to make sure all the generals are on the 178 00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:08,759 same page, General Ben Hodges, he also weighs in well. 179 00:12:08,919 --> 00:12:12,360 Speaker 6: First of all, of course, of the Allies sent a 180 00:12:12,399 --> 00:12:15,480 reconnaissance unit, if you will, to go there and look 181 00:12:15,519 --> 00:12:19,039 at if they were going to deploy troops for exercises 182 00:12:19,240 --> 00:12:23,320 or to be stationed there. This would be not only practical, 183 00:12:23,399 --> 00:12:28,360 but also a signal of unity with Denmark. It's hard 184 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:31,000 to imagine though, that we would get into an actual 185 00:12:31,039 --> 00:12:37,440 conflict with our allies because it's so unnecessary. There's no 186 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:41,840 need for us to use military force to seize Greenland. 187 00:12:42,080 --> 00:12:45,039 There's actually no need for us to seize Greenland. If 188 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:49,200 it really is about security, we can already do everything 189 00:12:49,679 --> 00:12:53,000 that we need to do. So I think most people 190 00:12:53,039 --> 00:12:55,559 can see that this is really not about security, that 191 00:12:55,559 --> 00:12:59,960 that's the pretext. Well, certainly this is an extraordinary letter. 192 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:04,360 I'd say it severely damages this chance for the Peace 193 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:12,039 Prize next year with that kind of language. It's extraordinary though, 194 00:13:12,080 --> 00:13:16,399 because it also shows that he doesn't understand that it's 195 00:13:16,399 --> 00:13:19,440 not the Norwegian government that awards the prize. I mean, 196 00:13:19,440 --> 00:13:23,320 the committee is separate from the government, and so is 197 00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:28,559 this what's most concerning about this entire episode is that 198 00:13:28,679 --> 00:13:33,039 it damages the cohesion of NATO. American security has been 199 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:37,320 tied to a very cohesive NATO since nineteen forty nine, 200 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:41,679 and the President does deserve credit for encouraging nations demanding 201 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:46,240 that they actually increased defense investments. They've done that, and 202 00:13:46,279 --> 00:13:50,720 they're using that investment to buy American made weapons. So 203 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:55,879 I don't understand this approach where he's trying to use 204 00:13:56,039 --> 00:14:00,960 leverage to get something that we don't actually need, and 205 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:04,519 it's causing damage to the most successful alliance in the 206 00:14:04,559 --> 00:14:05,600 history of the world. 207 00:14:06,080 --> 00:14:08,559 Speaker 1: So to me, I'm convinced that, yeah, it would be 208 00:14:08,639 --> 00:14:14,840 really important strategically defensively to have a very strong relationship 209 00:14:14,879 --> 00:14:19,960 with Greenland. Build bases there, build all kinds of defensive 210 00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:23,759 properties there. Do what you want to do in Greenland. 211 00:14:23,759 --> 00:14:26,200 They're open to it. I don't know what. I don't 212 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:28,639 want that. I don't want them to be part of 213 00:14:28,679 --> 00:14:31,639 the United States. I mean maybe they would be what 214 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:40,080 like a Guam where or Puerto Rico, something along those lines, 215 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:43,039 Marianna Islands. It might it may be something along the 216 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:45,240 I don't want another state. Let me put it that way. 217 00:14:46,399 --> 00:14:52,320 Rich Goldberg, he runs the Defense for Democracies operation, see 218 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:53,279 what he has to say. 219 00:14:53,960 --> 00:14:56,799 Speaker 7: Well, the best argument is the facts, and that is 220 00:14:56,840 --> 00:14:59,720 that China and Russia have game changing designs on the 221 00:14:59,840 --> 00:15:03,480 art to ground zero. For those designs as Greenland, that 222 00:15:03,559 --> 00:15:07,000 will impact US national security in a transformative way, also 223 00:15:07,039 --> 00:15:10,399 our economic security. But it's not only an American interest, 224 00:15:10,480 --> 00:15:13,639 it's a NATO interest. There's been a lot going on 225 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:15,759 with the thawing of ice up there in Greenland that 226 00:15:15,840 --> 00:15:19,399 has opened new navigational routes for the military, for commercial routes. 227 00:15:19,559 --> 00:15:22,039 That is something both Russia and China want to exploit 228 00:15:22,080 --> 00:15:25,360 at our expense. No one in the world can defend 229 00:15:25,399 --> 00:15:28,799 this and defend our security and NATO security like the 230 00:15:28,919 --> 00:15:31,840 United States. So that's on one hand. On the other hand, 231 00:15:31,960 --> 00:15:34,840 Denmark is an ally, and of course me as a 232 00:15:34,919 --> 00:15:38,360 Navy veteran who serve in Afghanistan, I appreciate that Denmark 233 00:15:38,399 --> 00:15:40,799 scent its finest and brightest to fight and die in 234 00:15:40,840 --> 00:15:43,679 Afghanistan as part of the mission against al Qaeda and 235 00:15:43,679 --> 00:15:46,360 against the Taliban. So we have to weigh those two. 236 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:49,320 I'm hoping that cooler minds can prevail. The President is 237 00:15:49,360 --> 00:15:52,679 starting a negotiation here, he has the right interest at stake. 238 00:15:52,919 --> 00:15:55,279 He's doing this for all the right reasons, and hopefully 239 00:15:55,279 --> 00:15:57,960 somebody in NATO can step forward, get a briefing and 240 00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:00,879 understand why this is necessary and how to bring the 241 00:16:00,919 --> 00:16:01,639 parties together. 242 00:16:01,759 --> 00:16:05,919 Speaker 1: Yeah, the idea makes sense to me. The implementation of 243 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:10,519 it is just a weird way of doing this. Complaining 244 00:16:10,559 --> 00:16:16,840 about the Nobel Peace Prize. Man, mister sensitive, you want 245 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:19,279 to talk about something a little bit lighter. I don't know, 246 00:16:19,320 --> 00:16:22,159 maybe you're still crying about it this way. I love 247 00:16:22,240 --> 00:16:25,159 playoff football. This is the time of the year when 248 00:16:25,159 --> 00:16:29,399 the best teams play the best teams, and it's just great. 249 00:16:29,440 --> 00:16:32,679 If you're a football fan, but it was. I mean, 250 00:16:32,720 --> 00:16:36,879 when you take a look at Seattle absolutely trounced the 251 00:16:36,919 --> 00:16:42,799 forty nine ers Chicago. I was rooting for Chicago, but 252 00:16:43,159 --> 00:16:45,159 the because they haven't been in the Super Bowl in 253 00:16:45,159 --> 00:16:48,080 a long long time. But the Rams beat them with 254 00:16:48,120 --> 00:16:54,840 the field goal in overtime. Buffalo and Denver, same thing 255 00:16:55,080 --> 00:17:00,879 in overtime. Denver one. New England continues to shine like 256 00:17:01,039 --> 00:17:05,759 the old days, beating the Houston Texans. I'll tell you 257 00:17:05,799 --> 00:17:07,880 it's going to so anyway, next week is going to 258 00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:14,759 be great. Tonight is Miami and Indiana in the College 259 00:17:14,799 --> 00:17:21,039 Football Championship. So I'm rooting for Indiana. They've never even 260 00:17:21,079 --> 00:17:24,559 been close to something like this. But so that the 261 00:17:24,640 --> 00:17:30,359 game tonight is in Miami. The average price for the 262 00:17:30,519 --> 00:17:35,160 cheapest ticket for this college football Championship, the average price 263 00:17:35,200 --> 00:17:40,200 today thirty seven hundred dollars for one ticket, and if 264 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:42,759 you want to park your car, you want to drive there, 265 00:17:43,240 --> 00:17:46,519 seven hundred and fifty dollars for getting into the parking 266 00:17:46,559 --> 00:17:54,039 lot going to be expensive. Meantime, I was surprised. I 267 00:17:54,119 --> 00:17:59,400 was really surprised that today after Buffalo got handed a loss. 268 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:04,119 I know they keep coming in second in this case, 269 00:18:04,160 --> 00:18:07,480 they're back even further than second. But they are a 270 00:18:07,519 --> 00:18:11,559 great team, and they're coached by Sean McDermott, who is 271 00:18:11,599 --> 00:18:15,200 a great coach. But this morning, the Buffalo Bills, after 272 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:19,759 nine years of Sean McDermott being their coach, they fired him. 273 00:18:20,200 --> 00:18:24,200 And here's McDermott after the game last night talking about 274 00:18:24,240 --> 00:18:27,839 a play that was really controversial, coming after. 275 00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:28,160 Speaker 6: It all out. 276 00:18:30,359 --> 00:18:31,799 Speaker 8: They pick it up and they go. 277 00:18:31,799 --> 00:18:35,960 Speaker 2: Deep down the field and the pass is cauk. 278 00:18:36,160 --> 00:18:41,599 Speaker 1: No, it's McMillan has the football. How about that? How 279 00:18:41,640 --> 00:18:44,039 about that? It looked to me, I don't know. They 280 00:18:44,119 --> 00:18:47,720 kept showing the replays. It looked to me like the 281 00:18:47,759 --> 00:18:50,640 player for the Buffalo Bills actually caught the ball and 282 00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:54,440 they would have easily gone in, most likely to win 283 00:18:54,519 --> 00:18:58,279 the game. But instead they said, no, actually, you did 284 00:18:58,279 --> 00:19:03,759 not catch the ball and it was intercepted therefore, so 285 00:19:03,839 --> 00:19:07,599 therefore it got turned over to Denver, and Denver went 286 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:11,680 on to win the game again. It was in with 287 00:19:11,759 --> 00:19:15,519 a field goal in overtime. And then the second to 288 00:19:15,599 --> 00:19:19,559 the last play, bow Nicks, who is the quarterback for 289 00:19:19,839 --> 00:19:25,400 the Denver Broncos, who's unbelievably good quarterback, broke his ankle. 290 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:28,160 So he's out for the rest of the games. The 291 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:32,240 next game is coming up, obviously. The next championship playoff 292 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:36,079 is for the division title this coming weekend. Jim Gray, 293 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:41,240 longtime sports broadcaster analyzer, had this. 294 00:19:41,119 --> 00:19:43,880 Speaker 8: To say, Well, there's just such a very fine line 295 00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:46,119 between being on top and being out of work, and 296 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:49,000 we just saw that and Sean McDermott has a good argument, 297 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:51,640 and the fans in Denver would have another argument. And 298 00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:53,920 it was a very controversial play and it's going to 299 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:56,319 live as one of those controversial plays for a long time. 300 00:19:56,400 --> 00:19:56,880 Speaker 1: Think of this. 301 00:19:57,240 --> 00:20:00,839 Speaker 8: Within the calendar year eighteen, had co have come and 302 00:20:00,880 --> 00:20:05,160 gone in the National Football League eighteen, that's sixty five percent. So, 303 00:20:05,319 --> 00:20:08,559 like Jerry Glanville said all those years ago, NFL, it 304 00:20:08,640 --> 00:20:12,079 stands for not for long. Doesn't matter that Sean McDermott 305 00:20:12,119 --> 00:20:15,400 over nine years went to two AFC championship games, so 306 00:20:15,559 --> 00:20:18,680 many divisional games, wild card games, and he's now out 307 00:20:18,680 --> 00:20:20,680 of work looking for a job because he didn't win 308 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:21,279 a Super Bowl. 309 00:20:21,519 --> 00:20:23,880 Speaker 1: So it's great if you're a football fan. You've got 310 00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:28,200 the college playoffs tonight and the next weekend. Again, there 311 00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:31,000 will be some great games. It's getting down to the 312 00:20:31,039 --> 00:20:34,039 whoever wins this next weekend will be the two teams 313 00:20:34,039 --> 00:20:38,279 that go to the Super Bowl. Back to serious business 314 00:20:38,359 --> 00:20:43,640 for a minute. Iran don't know what's going to happen there, 315 00:20:44,359 --> 00:20:48,960 don't know what we're doing. There are reports about the 316 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:52,000 fact that there are various military units that are being 317 00:20:52,039 --> 00:20:57,200 moved closer to the Middle Eastern Front. Here's let's go 318 00:20:57,279 --> 00:20:59,720 back to General Keen again on this business of Iran. 319 00:21:00,079 --> 00:21:02,319 Speaker 5: Well, I think he's taking the right path here. I mean, 320 00:21:02,359 --> 00:21:05,880 he wants to replace the leadership in Iran, not just 321 00:21:06,079 --> 00:21:09,240 the Ayo total, but all the Mullas and the hardliners 322 00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:11,359 that are around him, and certainly that's what the people 323 00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:14,839 in the streets are willing to sacrifice their lives for. 324 00:21:15,279 --> 00:21:18,880 And when we get a final tally. Already right now 325 00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:21,759 with the numbers of the Iranians are releasing, that's the 326 00:21:21,799 --> 00:21:25,720 most brutal attack on their own population in their forty 327 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:29,720 five plus year history. Fact, and it's going to escalate 328 00:21:29,799 --> 00:21:32,079 even more when they get the final tally on it. 329 00:21:32,480 --> 00:21:34,559 So this is the path we're on now. We want 330 00:21:34,559 --> 00:21:37,920 this regime to collapse, and that's the right path. The 331 00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:42,079 president is the eighth president to deal with this issue. 332 00:21:43,039 --> 00:21:47,000 Three of the previous seven presidents never retaliated when they 333 00:21:47,119 --> 00:21:51,960 killed Americans through their proxies. All of the presidents stood 334 00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:56,839 by while Iran increased its strength and its power and 335 00:21:56,880 --> 00:22:00,960 its influence in the region. This president in twenty eighteen 336 00:22:01,079 --> 00:22:05,200 slap maximum sanctions on him and walked away from the 337 00:22:05,279 --> 00:22:08,599 nuclear deal which would have given around a nuclear weapon 338 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:11,720 if they wanted in twenty thirty and those maximum sanctions 339 00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:15,920 are paying the price right now and influencing these demonstrators 340 00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:18,720 to get out on the streets. Then he killed Solomoni, 341 00:22:19,119 --> 00:22:20,960 who was going to kill more Americans. 342 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:21,839 Speaker 1: They knew that. 343 00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:25,759 Speaker 5: And is the guy that organized all the proxies to 344 00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:30,200 kill Israel and to kill Americans. And then he fully 345 00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:34,799 supports the war, and that Israel is prosecuting, decapitates has blood, 346 00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:39,480 decapitates the moss, and then destroys their nuclear system. This 347 00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:42,240 is the path we're at now. And now he has 348 00:22:42,319 --> 00:22:46,119 told them I want this regime to go. And he 349 00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:50,160 said that he's going to support the people who protested 350 00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:52,839 and were willing to give up their lives. And I 351 00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:55,759 would take him at his word that that is exactly 352 00:22:56,200 --> 00:22:57,400 what is going to happen. 353 00:22:57,559 --> 00:23:00,960 Speaker 1: So reporters asked the President today about what happened. Why 354 00:23:01,039 --> 00:23:04,319 haven't why hasn't he done anything? And he says, nobody 355 00:23:04,799 --> 00:23:08,319 has talked to me about holding off. So he's it's 356 00:23:08,319 --> 00:23:09,680 still up in the air. So what do we have. 357 00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:15,240 Let's let's uh, let's regroup here. We have Iran is 358 00:23:15,319 --> 00:23:19,160 up in the air. We've got Greenland is up in 359 00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:22,079 the air. Oh, by the way, the President is going 360 00:23:22,319 --> 00:23:27,960 to Switzerland to Davos for the big international business brew 361 00:23:28,039 --> 00:23:31,319 haha that goes on every year there and that's where 362 00:23:31,319 --> 00:23:34,200 a lot of the European leaders will be. So Wednesday 363 00:23:34,319 --> 00:23:38,160 he's supposed to give a speech Wednesday morning and we'll 364 00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:42,599 see whether something comes of that regarding Greenland. So we've 365 00:23:42,599 --> 00:23:47,200 got Iran in the air, Greenland in the air, Venezuela 366 00:23:47,319 --> 00:23:53,480 in the air, Cuba. What else have we got going? 367 00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:55,519 But you know what we don't have in the air. 368 00:23:55,559 --> 00:24:00,759 We haven't heard a thing about affordability, about grocery prices. 369 00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:05,440 All those things were just watch and see grocery prices. 370 00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:08,720 No matter what the White House says, grocery prices on 371 00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:14,240 net net net are higher. Inflation is still going up, 372 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:19,079 and so those are still still things that are not 373 00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:23,720 being talked about necessarily, Minnesota hasn't gone away. I don't 374 00:24:23,759 --> 00:24:26,680 know how that's going to slow down. They're talking about 375 00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:31,279 now that the president has two battalions in Alaska that 376 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:35,079 are on alert to be ready to go to Minneapolis. 377 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:41,799 Two battalions. That's another fifteen hundred. This is not National Guard. 378 00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:44,279 This is the military. By the way, over the weekend, 379 00:24:45,319 --> 00:24:49,599 Governor Walls did activate the Minnesota National Guard. Took him 380 00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:52,680 two weeks. He's a little slow on that. He doesn't 381 00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:55,240 like to do that. He didn't do that with the 382 00:24:55,279 --> 00:24:58,720 back in twenty twenty when the city was burning. Took 383 00:24:58,759 --> 00:25:03,240 him day before he finally activated the National Guard. Everybody 384 00:25:03,319 --> 00:25:06,000 was beating on his door to do so. So he 385 00:25:06,039 --> 00:25:10,039 did activate the Minnesota National Guard. I haven't seen them 386 00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:12,799 in any of the coverage that I've watched. Maybe you have. 387 00:25:13,839 --> 00:25:17,960 But you take six hundred Minneapolis police officers, which are 388 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:21,720 prohibited by law from being involved in any way in 389 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:26,519 any of this, which is nuts. Though you don't have 390 00:25:26,599 --> 00:25:31,240 the six hundred there, but you've got three thousand federal 391 00:25:32,279 --> 00:25:34,799 I don't want to say ICE, it's a variety of 392 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:39,319 federal agencies. Plus you have another fifteen hundred that'd be 393 00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:45,960 forty five hundred if the troops are actually sent in Minneapolis, 394 00:25:46,079 --> 00:25:47,880 and I think all that's going to do is just 395 00:25:48,519 --> 00:25:52,640 throw gas on the fire, there's got to be somebody's 396 00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:56,960 got to use their head and start thinking strategically about 397 00:25:56,960 --> 00:26:02,039 how to wind that whole problem down. Over the yesterday, 398 00:26:02,079 --> 00:26:05,799 to be specific, on Sunday, there was a group of 399 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:09,920 anti ICE people that marched into a church and were 400 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:16,880 protesting during a church service and that did not go overwhelm, 401 00:26:18,039 --> 00:26:21,039 just did not go over well at all. And it also, 402 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:26,799 if you will, it violates the rights, the First Amendment 403 00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:30,920 right to the people that to go and practice their religion. 404 00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:34,640 What they were looking for was they were looking for 405 00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:38,759 the pastor of the church, and he wasn't there. They 406 00:26:38,799 --> 00:26:42,039 had some other cleric that was running the service. The 407 00:26:42,079 --> 00:26:44,160 reason they were looking for the pastor of the church 408 00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:48,039 was because they got his name off of a list 409 00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:54,119 of ICE officials. Apparently a local ICE official in Minneapolis 410 00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:57,839 has the same name as this pastor. Is it the 411 00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:02,880 same person, we don't know. We don't know, but it 412 00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:06,079 has the same name, and that was what the whole 413 00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:09,920 thing was all about. But there's the Democrats are back 414 00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:16,599 to thinking that this is going to be a selling. 415 00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:21,200 This will sell with the public to defund ICE. They 416 00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:27,160 tried it back in twenty twenty with defund the police 417 00:27:27,839 --> 00:27:31,079 and that blew up in their faces. But they're back 418 00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:35,480 again on the defund the police to this case ICE, 419 00:27:36,519 --> 00:27:44,720 and the media is showing all the most aggressive actions 420 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:50,039 by ICE. And so the polling right now is people 421 00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:56,599 do not appreciate or approve of ICE. But Ayana Presley, 422 00:27:57,480 --> 00:28:01,880 one of the squad members yelling about getting rid of ICE. 423 00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:04,519 Speaker 9: But I ran for Congress in twenty eighteen. I've been 424 00:28:04,519 --> 00:28:08,359 calling for the abolishment of ICE. We see what's happening 425 00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:11,240 right now where they're terrorizing communities, but it's also what's 426 00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:14,759 happening behind the wall with ICE, people that are dying 427 00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:15,880 in custody. 428 00:28:16,079 --> 00:28:18,799 Speaker 6: So this agency must be abolished. 429 00:28:18,799 --> 00:28:20,880 Speaker 9: But I hope will happen is that people will link 430 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:23,559 arms and join with us in defense of our neighbors, 431 00:28:23,599 --> 00:28:25,799 all those lives who've been robbed of They would still 432 00:28:25,839 --> 00:28:28,559 be with us. But there must be accountabilities. 433 00:28:28,559 --> 00:28:31,559 Speaker 1: Okay, she will, Okay, So she wants to defund ICE. 434 00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:37,400 It is a law enforcement agency. I don't know who's 435 00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:40,880 going to round up the illegals in our country. If 436 00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:43,599 you abolish us. They never talk about who's going to 437 00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:47,200 do the job. Are you just going to just say 438 00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:50,400 anybody that's in the country illegally can just we'll just 439 00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:54,599 ignore you. I don't know. So she's part of the squad, 440 00:28:54,759 --> 00:28:59,119 so you kind of expect her to call for defunding ICE. 441 00:29:00,039 --> 00:29:03,319 The same for ill han Omar, she's also going to 442 00:29:03,359 --> 00:29:05,599 be she's also part of the squad, and they want 443 00:29:05,599 --> 00:29:06,599 to get rid of police. 444 00:29:07,079 --> 00:29:10,039 Speaker 10: It is appalling for them to be okay for there 445 00:29:10,079 --> 00:29:14,000 to be checkpoints in American cities where people are asked 446 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:17,599 for their papers. Those of us who escape places like that. 447 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:22,079 The one place where we thought we would never experience 448 00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:26,319 this is the us M statists. 449 00:29:27,279 --> 00:29:29,920 Speaker 1: All right, So the squad's calling for getting rid of ICE. 450 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:34,400 But Senator Rubin Diego, he's one of the news senators. 451 00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:39,559 He's from Arizona, and he seems to be more level. 452 00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:42,839 He's not a member of the squad, but he's even 453 00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:44,759 calling for getting rid of ICED. 454 00:29:45,119 --> 00:29:47,680 Speaker 7: We cannot vote for anything that actually adds more money 455 00:29:47,839 --> 00:29:49,400 and doesn't constrain ICE. 456 00:29:50,839 --> 00:29:53,559 Speaker 1: Not what we want out of ICE again. 457 00:29:53,599 --> 00:29:57,240 Speaker 2: We want a security force that is focused on targeting 458 00:29:57,359 --> 00:29:59,000 and deporting criminals. 459 00:29:59,039 --> 00:30:01,880 Speaker 1: What they're doing right now. None of that. Well, that's 460 00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:06,440 the debate because ICE is saying there's something like thirteen 461 00:30:06,799 --> 00:30:12,839 hundred convicted criminals in Minneapolis jails that could be turned 462 00:30:12,839 --> 00:30:15,079 over to ICE and they wouldn't have to go out 463 00:30:15,119 --> 00:30:18,039 on the street and try and chase anybody down that 464 00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:22,000 is an illegal criminal. Scott Johnson is a local reporter 465 00:30:22,279 --> 00:30:27,720 in Minneapolis, and this is his assessment of what's going on. 466 00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:31,200 Speaker 11: One thing that's different about this particular riot is that 467 00:30:31,319 --> 00:30:34,359 it's inside a church that by itself, what they're doing 468 00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:36,799 is illegal. What's depicted in the video and you can 469 00:30:36,839 --> 00:30:40,519 see who's doing it. But even more than that, one 470 00:30:40,519 --> 00:30:46,480 of the principal organizers of this riot self identified on Facebook. 471 00:30:46,519 --> 00:30:51,960 Her name is Machima Levy Armstrong. I overlapped with her 472 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:54,519 at the University of Saint Thomas Law School in Minneapolis 473 00:30:54,599 --> 00:30:59,880 for a few years. She's an attorney, and she claims credit. 474 00:31:00,039 --> 00:31:02,599 She's proud of what she refers to as our demonstration, 475 00:31:03,119 --> 00:31:07,920 and she refers to other organizers. She identifies other organizers 476 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:12,640 a Black Lives Matter Minnesota and Black Lives Twin Cities, 477 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:15,880 and all of this together kind of takes you back 478 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:20,920 to the summer of George Floyd in twenty twenty, when 479 00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:24,160 rioters did about five hundred million dollars worth of property 480 00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:28,599 damage around the Twin Cities. The insult of this disruption 481 00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:31,359 of a church service seems to me like an expansion 482 00:31:31,359 --> 00:31:34,400 of the battle battlefield in a way that's just unbelievable. 483 00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:39,759 Speaker 1: This woman that he's talking about, Nakima Lovey Armstrong, she 484 00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:43,440 was involved in disruptions at the church over the weekend 485 00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:47,680 in Saint Paul. Former president of the NAACP in Minneapolis, 486 00:31:48,079 --> 00:31:50,799 former professor of law at the University of Saint Thomas 487 00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:54,519 School of Law. She was or is an advisor to 488 00:31:54,559 --> 00:31:58,799 Black Lives Matter, and she was charged in the past 489 00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:04,240 with multiple misdemeanors related to participation in the twenty fourteen 490 00:32:04,359 --> 00:32:09,200 BLM protests. So that's what she wants to do. Back 491 00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:11,599 to Scott Johnson, he. 492 00:32:11,519 --> 00:32:15,599 Speaker 11: Left the University of St. Thomas Law School ten years 493 00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:18,279 ago to pursue a career as a so called in 494 00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:22,039 quotes freedom fighter. So according to her, that's what this 495 00:32:22,119 --> 00:32:25,960 is all about. But trying to understand the logic upper 496 00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:28,799 statement is difficult. I think it takes you into the 497 00:32:28,839 --> 00:32:34,240 mentality of the difficulties that Ice is facing and trying 498 00:32:34,279 --> 00:32:36,599 to impose order in the Twin Cities. 499 00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:43,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, so will fifteen hundred military members be able to 500 00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:48,160 help or hurt? That is the debate that's going on. 501 00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:51,880 One more, We've got Senator Bill Cassidy, who is a 502 00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:56,559 medical doctor. He was the guy who was questioning RFK 503 00:32:56,720 --> 00:33:02,279 Junior pretty strongly about RFK Junior's view on vaccines, which 504 00:33:02,319 --> 00:33:07,720 don't jib with Bill Cassidy's. But Bill Cassidy did something else, 505 00:33:08,279 --> 00:33:10,880 and that was in the second impeachment of Donald Trump, 506 00:33:11,039 --> 00:33:14,359 way back in Trump one point zero, Bill Cassidy was 507 00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:19,279 one of the few Republicans who voted in favor of 508 00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:24,720 the impeachment. That was the jan sixth impeachment. Well, guess 509 00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:28,599 what Bill Cassidy is up for reelection this year. He's 510 00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:32,519 a senator from Louisiana, and the President has come out 511 00:33:33,039 --> 00:33:35,400 they found somebody. It's a woman. I don't know who 512 00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:40,599 she is, but President Trump has said, I will endorse you, 513 00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:45,000 I will campaign for you. He's going to support this 514 00:33:45,039 --> 00:33:49,839 woman who's running against Bill Cassidy. So the question then 515 00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:54,200 comes down to does the president have still have that 516 00:33:54,400 --> 00:34:01,279 much pull among Republicans. Well, Harry Anton always weighs in 517 00:34:01,359 --> 00:34:02,599 on the stats. 518 00:34:03,119 --> 00:34:06,160 Speaker 2: When you voted to convict President Trump and that second 519 00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:08,000 of eachman trial, how'd you do for reelection? 520 00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:09,719 Speaker 1: Not so hot to Trump? 521 00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:12,840 Speaker 2: Because let's take a look here, okay, goop centers who 522 00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:16,280 voted to convict Trump won their next election just one 523 00:34:16,519 --> 00:34:19,079 out of five. That one is Lisa Murkowski in the 524 00:34:19,119 --> 00:34:21,320 great state of Alaska, which of course has that top 525 00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:25,360 four primary situation going on there, so very very different 526 00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:28,480 than the traditional primary structure that is throughout the rest 527 00:34:28,519 --> 00:34:31,320 of the United States. The bottom line is this, The 528 00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:35,039 vast majority of Republicans who voted to convict Trump who 529 00:34:35,159 --> 00:34:39,639 had a reelection either lost or actually they didn't even run, 530 00:34:39,679 --> 00:34:42,719 they retired, they resigned in the case of Ben Sas 531 00:34:43,039 --> 00:34:45,400 or there are two up for reelection this year, Bill 532 00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:48,679 Cassidy and Susan Collins up in Maine. But the bottom 533 00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:51,000 line is this, if you voted to convict Trump, so far, 534 00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:54,239 your chances of winning re election have been quite quite small. 535 00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:57,199 And Bill Cassidy, of course just got a major impediment 536 00:34:57,360 --> 00:34:59,519 to his road to reelection if Letlow decides to run. 537 00:34:59,639 --> 00:35:04,519 Speaker 1: Ye, so mentioned Ben SaaS. Ben SaaS retired from Congress. 538 00:35:04,559 --> 00:35:06,800 But I just got word the other day that he 539 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:12,119 found out that he has stage four cancer and he's 540 00:35:12,159 --> 00:35:15,280 not expected to last to live more than a month 541 00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:18,760 or two. So Ben SaaS, whatever you think of him, 542 00:35:19,639 --> 00:35:22,800 is in dire medical condition right now. But back to 543 00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:27,440 Harry Ansing about this whole business about the strength of 544 00:35:27,559 --> 00:35:30,199 the president's endorsement or not. 545 00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:33,039 Speaker 2: I mean, look, Donald Trump was popular in twenty sixteen, 546 00:35:33,199 --> 00:35:36,360 he was really popular in twenty eighteen, really popular in 547 00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:39,559 twenty twenty, popular in twenty twenty two, popular in twenty 548 00:35:39,599 --> 00:35:42,559 twenty four, and now we come to twenty twenty. Republicans 549 00:35:42,599 --> 00:35:46,360 among Republicans exactly right, and he is still quite popular 550 00:35:46,599 --> 00:35:49,480 amongst Republicans at this point. Look overall, in July it 551 00:35:49,519 --> 00:35:52,679 was eighty nine percent. That was six months ago. Today 552 00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:55,119 it's basically the same at eighty eight percent. How about 553 00:35:55,119 --> 00:35:57,760 strongly approved those who don't just like downal Trump but 554 00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:00,360 love him, love him, love him. In July it was 555 00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:04,039 sixty one percent. It's the same sixty one percent now. 556 00:36:04,079 --> 00:36:07,280 And that is why the GOP voters when Donald Trump 557 00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:09,880 says something, they say, how quickly can we get to 558 00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:10,920 Donald Trump's position? 559 00:36:11,199 --> 00:36:15,320 Speaker 1: So, in other words, Bill Cassidy, doctor Cassidy Senator Cassidy 560 00:36:16,199 --> 00:36:20,840 has got an uphill battle because right now, apparently according 561 00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:23,960 to the predicted markets, he's only got an eighteen percent 562 00:36:24,079 --> 00:36:27,000 chance of being re elected because Donald Trump is going 563 00:36:27,039 --> 00:36:35,199 to support somebody else. Meantime, MLK Junior's birthday, well, this 564 00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:40,480 is the holiday is the third Monday of January, and 565 00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:45,440 there's all kinds of restrictions about playing the I have 566 00:36:45,519 --> 00:36:48,800 a dream speech, but the one that has always fascinated 567 00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:52,960 me and I play at every MLKA Junior holiday is 568 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:57,360 the speech that he gave the night before he died. 569 00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:04,719 And I find it eerie. I don't know how you 570 00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:07,639 want to describe it. This was the final speech that 571 00:37:07,719 --> 00:37:10,960 he gave. It was delivered the night before he was assassinated. 572 00:37:11,519 --> 00:37:14,960 He wasn't feeling well. They wanted him to come over 573 00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:20,320 and address the striking sanitation workers. And during this speech 574 00:37:21,159 --> 00:37:25,719 April third, nineteen sixty eight at the Mason Temple Church 575 00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:30,400 in Memphis, and there was the sanitation workers were on 576 00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:33,119 strike and he was in town to support them. They 577 00:37:33,159 --> 00:37:34,800 wanted to come over and give this speech. And he 578 00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:39,000 told his people that were his support of the people 579 00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:41,679 that traveled with him that took care of him. He 580 00:37:41,679 --> 00:37:44,280 said I don't feel good, and they said, well, you 581 00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:46,440 got it, and he goes, okay, I'll go over and 582 00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:54,039 give this speech, and in it he prophetically spoke of 583 00:37:54,079 --> 00:37:57,039 the fact that he was not going to go to 584 00:37:57,079 --> 00:38:01,559 the Promised Land with them, that he was ready to 585 00:38:01,639 --> 00:38:06,559 go now. So listen to this because it really does 586 00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:11,199 make me chill every time I hear it. We've got 587 00:38:11,239 --> 00:38:15,840 some difficult days ahead, but it really don't matter with 588 00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:21,679 me now because I've been to the mountain talk. I 589 00:38:21,719 --> 00:38:30,440 don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a 590 00:38:30,559 --> 00:38:31,360 long life. 591 00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:37,840 Speaker 2: Longevity has its place, but I'm not concerned about that now. 592 00:38:39,679 --> 00:38:44,639 Speaker 1: I just want to do God's will and He's allowed 593 00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:48,079 me to go out to the mountain and I've looked 594 00:38:48,119 --> 00:38:55,079 over and I've seen the Promised Land. 595 00:38:55,199 --> 00:38:58,400 Speaker 11: I may not get that with you, and I want 596 00:38:58,440 --> 00:39:01,719 you to know the night what are we as a 597 00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:04,400 people will get to the promise there. 598 00:39:10,719 --> 00:39:14,199 Speaker 1: So I'm happy tonight. I'm not aware of it about anything. 599 00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:18,320 Speaker 6: I'm not fearing in a man, not us have seen 600 00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:20,440 the glory of the covering of the all. 601 00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:27,960 Speaker 1: Yeah. In less than twenty four hours later, he was 602 00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:31,960 shot to death at the motel there in Memphis. He 603 00:39:32,559 --> 00:39:36,840 basically called it the night before he died. MLK Junior's 604 00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:40,840 Holiday today, and I hope that there was some service 605 00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:43,360 that was given that was the idea behind it. I'm 606 00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:46,159 afraid a lot of people just took it as another holiday. 607 00:39:46,199 --> 00:39:51,360 But he was a unique individual, very talent. I mean, 608 00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:54,320 he gave that speech with no cards, that wasn't prepared, 609 00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:57,079 that was right off the top of his head. All right, 610 00:39:57,159 --> 00:40:01,440 Wall Street. The markets are closed today because of MLK 611 00:40:01,599 --> 00:40:04,760 Junior Day, but we do have the futures market. Let 612 00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:07,119 me pull them up and see if I can get 613 00:40:07,159 --> 00:40:12,719 to you what the future's markets are saying. And it's negative. 614 00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:17,400 Dow Jones industrials. The futures say down four hundred and one, 615 00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:22,119 SMP down sixty two, Nasdaq down two hundred and ninety three, 616 00:40:23,039 --> 00:40:26,719 the price of gold up eighty one dollars, and the 617 00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:31,840 price of oil basically unchanged at fifty nine dollars for 618 00:40:32,119 --> 00:40:34,880 a barrel of oil. Those are the futures markets. Because 619 00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:38,119 the markets are closed. So that's it for today. Thank 620 00:40:38,159 --> 00:40:41,079 you for coming by. Hope you have a wonderful rest 621 00:40:41,159 --> 00:40:44,760 of your Monday holiday, and we'll be back tomorrow. I 622 00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:46,480 hope you are too. We'll see you then