Speaker 1: And here we go. Hi, how are you all right?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: All right? Enough for the band. There, we've got it.
Welcome to the Big Podcast. It is Monday. It is
MLK Junior Day. It is the nineteenth day of January,
a year of Our Lord, twenty twenty six. My name
is Tom Sullivan. And well we still I mean, I
know it's a holiday, and I will get into a
little bit more about that. I've it's it's been a
holiday since nineteen eighty three. Ronald Reagan signed the law
that declared the third third Monday of January is Mlkday.
I so nineteen eighty three, so let's do the math.
That's forty some years ago, right, yeah, forty three years ago.
So there's a lot of people that are not well.
They were born after the holiday was declared, and MLK
was gunned down and killed in nineteen sixty eight. So
there's people that do not know. He's a history book
item and they may be able to say, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
he was a civil rights leader, but they don't know
much about him. And today. When the law was signed
by Reagan in eighty three, it was basically sold on
the basis of it's a day of service, and I
know there are people are that are out, usually people
in churches. We'll go out and have some sort of
service effort on their part, but otherwise it's another day
off and it's I guess if you're a skier, this
is great because wintertime, but otherwise it's just kind of
Most businesses are open. Government has closed, obviously, but most
the stock markets closed. But most businesses are open. So
we'll get into a little bit more on that as
we go through the program today. Let me start. Let
me start with Greenland. This is becoming this is it's
becoming clearer to me, but it's also weird. Yeah. The
letter I'm talking about is a letter that President Trump
wrote to the Premiere of President I'm not quite sure
his title of Norway. And in the letter, the President said,
because you didn't give me the Nobel Prize. He specifically
said that he no longer feels obliged to think purely
of peace. And first of all, the Norwegian Prime Minister's
office provided the full text of the letter. But the
reminder to the president is that the government of Norway
does not issue the Nobel Peace Prize. That is done
by a private committee that goes back to Nobel and
it's it's kind of crazy because what it makes it
makes it sound like he's that much of a sensitive
person to where he didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize.
He's going to start thinking of something else. And the
whole business about Greenland he's talking about militarily. In fact,
they have put on alert two battalions in Greenland that
are excuse me, in Alaska and they're the ones that
are on alert for being moved to going into Greenland.
In addition, the President said that he is this is
where wait to see what the Supreme Court says, maybe
this week. We're expecting them to make the announcement soon
about tariffs. But the President said, as a result, he
is slapping tariffs of ten percent on eight European countries.
These are our allies, these are our friends, and that
ten percent now, and if the deal with Greenland is
not reached by this summer, he's going to assess a
twenty five percent penalty on these eight European countries. They
are getting together, The Europeans are getting together and are
thinking about striking back and putting on a massive tariff
against US products that we sell in Europe. So hopefully
if you have a business that sells a lot of
your products in Europe, pay attention to what going on.
So this whole thing about he's no longer thinking of peace,
and he's assessing all these tariffs on our friends, you
know who. This is going to break up NATO. It'll
instantly kill NATO. And nobody could be happier about that
than Vladimir Putin. He has been wanting to destroy and
break up NATO for as long as NATO's been in existence.
So it's a real head scratch of what's going on.
But the more you watch this, and this is where
I've said many times I agree with just off the
top of my head, maybe eighty percent of what Donald
Trump wants to do. I disagree eighty percent of the
time on the way he wants to do it. So
this is one of those times where I go, all right,
everybody's looking back and going he can't be serious. He
cannot be serious. He's not going to use the military.
This is just a big negotiating tactic. Maybe it is.
But in the meantime, the dollar is getting hurt, and
our relationship with our friends is getting hurt. Start with
General James spider Mark on his his assessment of what
is going on with Greenland.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it doesn't land very well. I mean when you
look at policies like this, or at least moving in
this direction, the potential of embracing some type of policy,
I think many would say why it's being done makes sense.
The United States needs to should have a much more
enhanced relationship with Greenland. Albeit we have when established in
nineteen fifty one in agreement that allows the United States
to have military access and it kind of essentially in
my terms, provides cooperation between those two one autonomous nation
or autonomous entity to Denmark and the United States, so
that can be identified and say, yeah, this is a
good deal. But when you look at how the president
in this administration is addressing the possibility of enhancing that,
that gets very problematic in my mind. I think cutting
to the chase, the United States is not going to
use military power to embrace Greenland or move Greenland in
a direction more favorable toward the United States. And again,
we already have a favorable relationship, let's not harm that.
But provocative language like this really gets our allies moving
in a direction of hazarding what's going to happen to
NATO if the United States suddenly says, Okay, this is
more important. Greenland's more important this course of action. It's
more important that our relationship with NATO and NATO will atrophy,
it'll become something entirely different than it is right now
if the United States is not a part of NATO.
So you can connect those dots pretty quickly.
Speaker 1: Well, essentially NATO needs the US to be part of it,
or NATO doesn't ag exist Greenland. When you look at
it on a map, it's very clear. Strategically, I get it.
That is where Russia and China are poking around in
that area because the Arctic Circle has shrunk and the
shipping lanes are more open, and the Russians and the
Chinese will give them faster access to go over the
top of Greenland and come attack the United States theoretically,
So I'm getting the whole idea about why we need Greenland.
But we already asked General Sparks or General Mark said,
we already have an agreement. We can do as much
military operations in Greenland as we want to, So why
don't we just do that? I'm not sure. Scott Bessant,
our Treasury secretary, was on the Sunday shows and people
were asking him about this issue with Greenland. Here's one
of his responses.
Speaker 4: We're going to remain a part of NATO. But what
President Trump does not want is for a war to
start and the US gets dragged in again. We are
not going to outsource our western hemister security to others.
Speaker 1: So basically, we want to make sure that we can
protect ourselves from the Russians in the Chinese General Kine
comes in when we start talking about the military.
Speaker 5: Well, Gleenland has always been in the eye of many
American presidents as being vital national interests, certainly, and now
it's even grown more dramatically.
Speaker 6: So.
Speaker 5: The air routes have always been an issue, certainly because
of ICBM missiles that Russia and China hold, and also bombers,
and that is why we have early warning radar sites
already in Greenland. For that reason, the United States has
them there. But now the navigation routes are opening because
the ice is melting. And there are two countries that
are adversaries of the United States. Call it what you may,
I call them adversaries and enemies. Russia and China, and
they hold nuclear weapons, and they also have navies that
can prosecute through those through those navigation routes now that
are open considerably more of the year, so it becomes
more of a security issue. And I think it's in
NATO's interests certainly to recognize the United States can do
more for NATO's security and influencing it than certainly Denmark
has done throughout its history. And now that the cooler
heads will start to meet and we're in negotiations, I
have a lot of confidence in Mark Ruta, who's the
chief of NATO and getting down into this. He's a
voice of reason. Let's lower the rhetoric on both sides.
Let's get into some real negotiations. What's the economic benefit
for Greenlanders? What's the NATO benefit here for security? And
certainly what's the benefit for the United States as well,
the three principal partners here Denmark, Greenland, United States. I
think we can get to some reasonable answer here that
makes sense to everybody's mutual benefit. And believe me, we
can help the Greenlanders prosper considerably more than what Denmark
has done. And their history is horrific, which forced sterilization,
forced adoption of children, and other things that have taken
place in the repression of these people. We have had
bad history ourselves with some of this in our own country,
to be sure. But I think the economic prosperity for
them is an issue. I would think they would find
quite attractive.
Speaker 1: So Denmark lovely country, lovely people, but they really are
not capable of making for a defense from Greenland and
the United States. So let us let us go in
there and do that. The thing that keeps bugging me
is we have the ability to do that. Now, another general,
just to make sure all the generals are on the
same page, General Ben Hodges, he also weighs in well.
Speaker 6: First of all, of course, of the Allies sent a
reconnaissance unit, if you will, to go there and look
at if they were going to deploy troops for exercises
or to be stationed there. This would be not only practical,
but also a signal of unity with Denmark. It's hard
to imagine though, that we would get into an actual
conflict with our allies because it's so unnecessary. There's no
need for us to use military force to seize Greenland.
There's actually no need for us to seize Greenland. If
it really is about security, we can already do everything
that we need to do. So I think most people
can see that this is really not about security, that
that's the pretext. Well, certainly this is an extraordinary letter.
I'd say it severely damages this chance for the Peace
Prize next year with that kind of language. It's extraordinary though,
because it also shows that he doesn't understand that it's
not the Norwegian government that awards the prize. I mean,
the committee is separate from the government, and so is
this what's most concerning about this entire episode is that
it damages the cohesion of NATO. American security has been
tied to a very cohesive NATO since nineteen forty nine,
and the President does deserve credit for encouraging nations demanding
that they actually increased defense investments. They've done that, and
they're using that investment to buy American made weapons. So
I don't understand this approach where he's trying to use
leverage to get something that we don't actually need, and
it's causing damage to the most successful alliance in the
history of the world.
Speaker 1: So to me, I'm convinced that, yeah, it would be
really important strategically defensively to have a very strong relationship
with Greenland. Build bases there, build all kinds of defensive
properties there. Do what you want to do in Greenland.
They're open to it. I don't know what. I don't
want that. I don't want them to be part of
the United States. I mean maybe they would be what
like a Guam where or Puerto Rico, something along those lines,
Marianna Islands. It might it may be something along the
I don't want another state. Let me put it that way.
Rich Goldberg, he runs the Defense for Democracies operation, see
what he has to say.
Speaker 7: Well, the best argument is the facts, and that is
that China and Russia have game changing designs on the
art to ground zero. For those designs as Greenland, that
will impact US national security in a transformative way, also
our economic security. But it's not only an American interest,
it's a NATO interest. There's been a lot going on
with the thawing of ice up there in Greenland that
has opened new navigational routes for the military, for commercial routes.
That is something both Russia and China want to exploit
at our expense. No one in the world can defend
this and defend our security and NATO security like the
United States. So that's on one hand. On the other hand,
Denmark is an ally, and of course me as a
Navy veteran who serve in Afghanistan, I appreciate that Denmark
scent its finest and brightest to fight and die in
Afghanistan as part of the mission against al Qaeda and
against the Taliban. So we have to weigh those two.
I'm hoping that cooler minds can prevail. The President is
starting a negotiation here, he has the right interest at stake.
He's doing this for all the right reasons, and hopefully
somebody in NATO can step forward, get a briefing and
understand why this is necessary and how to bring the
parties together.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the idea makes sense to me. The implementation of
it is just a weird way of doing this. Complaining
about the Nobel Peace Prize. Man, mister sensitive, you want
to talk about something a little bit lighter. I don't know,
maybe you're still crying about it this way. I love
playoff football. This is the time of the year when
the best teams play the best teams, and it's just great.
If you're a football fan, but it was. I mean,
when you take a look at Seattle absolutely trounced the
forty nine ers Chicago. I was rooting for Chicago, but
the because they haven't been in the Super Bowl in
a long long time. But the Rams beat them with
the field goal in overtime. Buffalo and Denver, same thing
in overtime. Denver one. New England continues to shine like
the old days, beating the Houston Texans. I'll tell you
it's going to so anyway, next week is going to
be great. Tonight is Miami and Indiana in the College
Football Championship. So I'm rooting for Indiana. They've never even
been close to something like this. But so that the
game tonight is in Miami. The average price for the
cheapest ticket for this college football Championship, the average price
today thirty seven hundred dollars for one ticket, and if
you want to park your car, you want to drive there,
seven hundred and fifty dollars for getting into the parking
lot going to be expensive. Meantime, I was surprised. I
was really surprised that today after Buffalo got handed a loss.
I know they keep coming in second in this case,
they're back even further than second. But they are a
great team, and they're coached by Sean McDermott, who is
a great coach. But this morning, the Buffalo Bills, after
nine years of Sean McDermott being their coach, they fired him.
And here's McDermott after the game last night talking about
a play that was really controversial, coming after.
Speaker 6: It all out.
Speaker 8: They pick it up and they go.
Speaker 2: Deep down the field and the pass is cauk.
Speaker 1: No, it's McMillan has the football. How about that? How
about that? It looked to me, I don't know. They
kept showing the replays. It looked to me like the
player for the Buffalo Bills actually caught the ball and
they would have easily gone in, most likely to win
the game. But instead they said, no, actually, you did
not catch the ball and it was intercepted therefore, so
therefore it got turned over to Denver, and Denver went
on to win the game again. It was in with
a field goal in overtime. And then the second to
the last play, bow Nicks, who is the quarterback for
the Denver Broncos, who's unbelievably good quarterback, broke his ankle.
So he's out for the rest of the games. The
next game is coming up, obviously. The next championship playoff
is for the division title this coming weekend. Jim Gray,
longtime sports broadcaster analyzer, had this.
Speaker 8: To say, Well, there's just such a very fine line
between being on top and being out of work, and
we just saw that and Sean McDermott has a good argument,
and the fans in Denver would have another argument. And
it was a very controversial play and it's going to
live as one of those controversial plays for a long time.
Speaker 1: Think of this.
Speaker 8: Within the calendar year eighteen, had co have come and
gone in the National Football League eighteen, that's sixty five percent. So,
like Jerry Glanville said all those years ago, NFL, it
stands for not for long. Doesn't matter that Sean McDermott
over nine years went to two AFC championship games, so
many divisional games, wild card games, and he's now out
of work looking for a job because he didn't win
a Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: So it's great if you're a football fan. You've got
the college playoffs tonight and the next weekend. Again, there
will be some great games. It's getting down to the
whoever wins this next weekend will be the two teams
that go to the Super Bowl. Back to serious business
for a minute. Iran don't know what's going to happen there,
don't know what we're doing. There are reports about the
fact that there are various military units that are being
moved closer to the Middle Eastern Front. Here's let's go
back to General Keen again on this business of Iran.
Speaker 5: Well, I think he's taking the right path here. I mean,
he wants to replace the leadership in Iran, not just
the Ayo total, but all the Mullas and the hardliners
that are around him, and certainly that's what the people
in the streets are willing to sacrifice their lives for.
And when we get a final tally. Already right now
with the numbers of the Iranians are releasing, that's the
most brutal attack on their own population in their forty
five plus year history. Fact, and it's going to escalate
even more when they get the final tally on it.
So this is the path we're on now. We want
this regime to collapse, and that's the right path. The
president is the eighth president to deal with this issue.
Three of the previous seven presidents never retaliated when they
killed Americans through their proxies. All of the presidents stood
by while Iran increased its strength and its power and
its influence in the region. This president in twenty eighteen
slap maximum sanctions on him and walked away from the
nuclear deal which would have given around a nuclear weapon
if they wanted in twenty thirty and those maximum sanctions
are paying the price right now and influencing these demonstrators
to get out on the streets. Then he killed Solomoni,
who was going to kill more Americans.
Speaker 1: They knew that.
Speaker 5: And is the guy that organized all the proxies to
kill Israel and to kill Americans. And then he fully
supports the war, and that Israel is prosecuting, decapitates has blood,
decapitates the moss, and then destroys their nuclear system. This
is the path we're at now. And now he has
told them I want this regime to go. And he
said that he's going to support the people who protested
and were willing to give up their lives. And I
would take him at his word that that is exactly
what is going to happen.
Speaker 1: So reporters asked the President today about what happened. Why
haven't why hasn't he done anything? And he says, nobody
has talked to me about holding off. So he's it's
still up in the air. So what do we have.
Let's let's uh, let's regroup here. We have Iran is
up in the air. We've got Greenland is up in
the air. Oh, by the way, the President is going
to Switzerland to Davos for the big international business brew
haha that goes on every year there and that's where
a lot of the European leaders will be. So Wednesday
he's supposed to give a speech Wednesday morning and we'll
see whether something comes of that regarding Greenland. So we've
got Iran in the air, Greenland in the air, Venezuela
in the air, Cuba. What else have we got going?
But you know what we don't have in the air.
We haven't heard a thing about affordability, about grocery prices.
All those things were just watch and see grocery prices.
No matter what the White House says, grocery prices on
net net net are higher. Inflation is still going up,
and so those are still still things that are not
being talked about necessarily, Minnesota hasn't gone away. I don't
know how that's going to slow down. They're talking about
now that the president has two battalions in Alaska that
are on alert to be ready to go to Minneapolis.
Two battalions. That's another fifteen hundred. This is not National Guard.
This is the military. By the way, over the weekend,
Governor Walls did activate the Minnesota National Guard. Took him
two weeks. He's a little slow on that. He doesn't
like to do that. He didn't do that with the
back in twenty twenty when the city was burning. Took
him day before he finally activated the National Guard. Everybody
was beating on his door to do so. So he
did activate the Minnesota National Guard. I haven't seen them
in any of the coverage that I've watched. Maybe you have.
But you take six hundred Minneapolis police officers, which are
prohibited by law from being involved in any way in
any of this, which is nuts. Though you don't have
the six hundred there, but you've got three thousand federal
I don't want to say ICE, it's a variety of
federal agencies. Plus you have another fifteen hundred that'd be
forty five hundred if the troops are actually sent in Minneapolis,
and I think all that's going to do is just
throw gas on the fire, there's got to be somebody's
got to use their head and start thinking strategically about
how to wind that whole problem down. Over the yesterday,
to be specific, on Sunday, there was a group of
anti ICE people that marched into a church and were
protesting during a church service and that did not go overwhelm,
just did not go over well at all. And it also,
if you will, it violates the rights, the First Amendment
right to the people that to go and practice their religion.
What they were looking for was they were looking for
the pastor of the church, and he wasn't there. They
had some other cleric that was running the service. The
reason they were looking for the pastor of the church
was because they got his name off of a list
of ICE officials. Apparently a local ICE official in Minneapolis
has the same name as this pastor. Is it the
same person, we don't know. We don't know, but it
has the same name, and that was what the whole
thing was all about. But there's the Democrats are back
to thinking that this is going to be a selling.
This will sell with the public to defund ICE. They
tried it back in twenty twenty with defund the police
and that blew up in their faces. But they're back
again on the defund the police to this case ICE,
and the media is showing all the most aggressive actions
by ICE. And so the polling right now is people
do not appreciate or approve of ICE. But Ayana Presley,
one of the squad members yelling about getting rid of ICE.
Speaker 9: But I ran for Congress in twenty eighteen. I've been
calling for the abolishment of ICE. We see what's happening
right now where they're terrorizing communities, but it's also what's
happening behind the wall with ICE, people that are dying
in custody.
Speaker 6: So this agency must be abolished.
Speaker 9: But I hope will happen is that people will link
arms and join with us in defense of our neighbors,
all those lives who've been robbed of They would still
be with us. But there must be accountabilities.
Speaker 1: Okay, she will, Okay, So she wants to defund ICE.
It is a law enforcement agency. I don't know who's
going to round up the illegals in our country. If
you abolish us. They never talk about who's going to
do the job. Are you just going to just say
anybody that's in the country illegally can just we'll just
ignore you. I don't know. So she's part of the squad,
so you kind of expect her to call for defunding ICE.
The same for ill han Omar, she's also going to
be she's also part of the squad, and they want
to get rid of police.
Speaker 10: It is appalling for them to be okay for there
to be checkpoints in American cities where people are asked
for their papers. Those of us who escape places like that.
The one place where we thought we would never experience
this is the us M statists.
Speaker 1: All right, So the squad's calling for getting rid of ICE.
But Senator Rubin Diego, he's one of the news senators.
He's from Arizona, and he seems to be more level.
He's not a member of the squad, but he's even
calling for getting rid of ICED.
Speaker 7: We cannot vote for anything that actually adds more money
and doesn't constrain ICE.
Speaker 1: Not what we want out of ICE again.
Speaker 2: We want a security force that is focused on targeting
and deporting criminals.
Speaker 1: What they're doing right now. None of that. Well, that's
the debate because ICE is saying there's something like thirteen
hundred convicted criminals in Minneapolis jails that could be turned
over to ICE and they wouldn't have to go out
on the street and try and chase anybody down that
is an illegal criminal. Scott Johnson is a local reporter
in Minneapolis, and this is his assessment of what's going on.
Speaker 11: One thing that's different about this particular riot is that
it's inside a church that by itself, what they're doing
is illegal. What's depicted in the video and you can
see who's doing it. But even more than that, one
of the principal organizers of this riot self identified on Facebook.
Her name is Machima Levy Armstrong. I overlapped with her
at the University of Saint Thomas Law School in Minneapolis
for a few years. She's an attorney, and she claims credit.
She's proud of what she refers to as our demonstration,
and she refers to other organizers. She identifies other organizers
a Black Lives Matter Minnesota and Black Lives Twin Cities,
and all of this together kind of takes you back
to the summer of George Floyd in twenty twenty, when
rioters did about five hundred million dollars worth of property
damage around the Twin Cities. The insult of this disruption
of a church service seems to me like an expansion
of the battle battlefield in a way that's just unbelievable.
Speaker 1: This woman that he's talking about, Nakima Lovey Armstrong, she
was involved in disruptions at the church over the weekend
in Saint Paul. Former president of the NAACP in Minneapolis,
former professor of law at the University of Saint Thomas
School of Law. She was or is an advisor to
Black Lives Matter, and she was charged in the past
with multiple misdemeanors related to participation in the twenty fourteen
BLM protests. So that's what she wants to do. Back
to Scott Johnson, he.
Speaker 11: Left the University of St. Thomas Law School ten years
ago to pursue a career as a so called in
quotes freedom fighter. So according to her, that's what this
is all about. But trying to understand the logic upper
statement is difficult. I think it takes you into the
mentality of the difficulties that Ice is facing and trying
to impose order in the Twin Cities.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so will fifteen hundred military members be able to
help or hurt? That is the debate that's going on.
One more, We've got Senator Bill Cassidy, who is a
medical doctor. He was the guy who was questioning RFK
Junior pretty strongly about RFK Junior's view on vaccines, which
don't jib with Bill Cassidy's. But Bill Cassidy did something else,
and that was in the second impeachment of Donald Trump,
way back in Trump one point zero, Bill Cassidy was
one of the few Republicans who voted in favor of
the impeachment. That was the jan sixth impeachment. Well, guess
what Bill Cassidy is up for reelection this year. He's
a senator from Louisiana, and the President has come out
they found somebody. It's a woman. I don't know who
she is, but President Trump has said, I will endorse you,
I will campaign for you. He's going to support this
woman who's running against Bill Cassidy. So the question then
comes down to does the president have still have that
much pull among Republicans. Well, Harry Anton always weighs in
on the stats.
Speaker 2: When you voted to convict President Trump and that second
of eachman trial, how'd you do for reelection?
Speaker 1: Not so hot to Trump?
Speaker 2: Because let's take a look here, okay, goop centers who
voted to convict Trump won their next election just one
out of five. That one is Lisa Murkowski in the
great state of Alaska, which of course has that top
four primary situation going on there, so very very different
than the traditional primary structure that is throughout the rest
of the United States. The bottom line is this, The
vast majority of Republicans who voted to convict Trump who
had a reelection either lost or actually they didn't even run,
they retired, they resigned in the case of Ben Sas
or there are two up for reelection this year, Bill
Cassidy and Susan Collins up in Maine. But the bottom
line is this, if you voted to convict Trump, so far,
your chances of winning re election have been quite quite small.
And Bill Cassidy, of course just got a major impediment
to his road to reelection if Letlow decides to run.
Speaker 1: Ye, so mentioned Ben SaaS. Ben SaaS retired from Congress.
But I just got word the other day that he
found out that he has stage four cancer and he's
not expected to last to live more than a month
or two. So Ben SaaS, whatever you think of him,
is in dire medical condition right now. But back to
Harry Ansing about this whole business about the strength of
the president's endorsement or not.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, Donald Trump was popular in twenty sixteen,
he was really popular in twenty eighteen, really popular in
twenty twenty, popular in twenty twenty two, popular in twenty
twenty four, and now we come to twenty twenty. Republicans
among Republicans exactly right, and he is still quite popular
amongst Republicans at this point. Look overall, in July it
was eighty nine percent. That was six months ago. Today
it's basically the same at eighty eight percent. How about
strongly approved those who don't just like downal Trump but
love him, love him, love him. In July it was
sixty one percent. It's the same sixty one percent now.
And that is why the GOP voters when Donald Trump
says something, they say, how quickly can we get to
Donald Trump's position?
Speaker 1: So, in other words, Bill Cassidy, doctor Cassidy Senator Cassidy
has got an uphill battle because right now, apparently according
to the predicted markets, he's only got an eighteen percent
chance of being re elected because Donald Trump is going
to support somebody else. Meantime, MLK Junior's birthday, well, this
is the holiday is the third Monday of January, and
there's all kinds of restrictions about playing the I have
a dream speech, but the one that has always fascinated
me and I play at every MLKA Junior holiday is
the speech that he gave the night before he died.
And I find it eerie. I don't know how you
want to describe it. This was the final speech that
he gave. It was delivered the night before he was assassinated.
He wasn't feeling well. They wanted him to come over
and address the striking sanitation workers. And during this speech
April third, nineteen sixty eight at the Mason Temple Church
in Memphis, and there was the sanitation workers were on
strike and he was in town to support them. They
wanted to come over and give this speech. And he
told his people that were his support of the people
that traveled with him that took care of him. He
said I don't feel good, and they said, well, you
got it, and he goes, okay, I'll go over and
give this speech, and in it he prophetically spoke of
the fact that he was not going to go to
the Promised Land with them, that he was ready to
go now. So listen to this because it really does
make me chill every time I hear it. We've got
some difficult days ahead, but it really don't matter with
me now because I've been to the mountain talk. I
don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a
long life.
Speaker 2: Longevity has its place, but I'm not concerned about that now.
Speaker 1: I just want to do God's will and He's allowed
me to go out to the mountain and I've looked
over and I've seen the Promised Land.
Speaker 11: I may not get that with you, and I want
you to know the night what are we as a
people will get to the promise there.
Speaker 1: So I'm happy tonight. I'm not aware of it about anything.
Speaker 6: I'm not fearing in a man, not us have seen
the glory of the covering of the all.
Speaker 1: Yeah. In less than twenty four hours later, he was
shot to death at the motel there in Memphis. He
basically called it the night before he died. MLK Junior's
Holiday today, and I hope that there was some service
that was given that was the idea behind it. I'm
afraid a lot of people just took it as another holiday.
But he was a unique individual, very talent. I mean,
he gave that speech with no cards, that wasn't prepared,
that was right off the top of his head. All right,
Wall Street. The markets are closed today because of MLK
Junior Day, but we do have the futures market. Let
me pull them up and see if I can get
to you what the future's markets are saying. And it's negative.
Dow Jones industrials. The futures say down four hundred and one,
SMP down sixty two, Nasdaq down two hundred and ninety three,
the price of gold up eighty one dollars, and the
price of oil basically unchanged at fifty nine dollars for
a barrel of oil. Those are the futures markets. Because
the markets are closed. So that's it for today. Thank
you for coming by. Hope you have a wonderful rest
of your Monday holiday, and we'll be back tomorrow. I
hope you are too. We'll see you then