1 00:00:21,399 --> 00:00:26,160 Speaker 1: And hello, welcome to the Big Podcast. It is Tuesday. 2 00:00:26,280 --> 00:00:30,480 Today is the fourteenth day of July, year of Our 3 00:00:30,519 --> 00:00:35,399 Lord twenty twenty sixth. My name is Tom Sullivan. And well, 4 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:38,479 we got a little bit of a bouncing ball going 5 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:44,240 on regarding iron. It began last night Brethident had a 6 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:46,359 bunch of the media in the Oval office and they 7 00:00:46,359 --> 00:00:49,479 were asking him questions, and he brought up the idea 8 00:00:50,039 --> 00:00:53,439 about the fact that we should charge a fee for 9 00:00:53,679 --> 00:00:58,799 the ships going through the Strait of Ormus. The barricade 10 00:00:59,439 --> 00:01:02,759 is going back into effect at four o'clock Eastern time today, 11 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:05,799 and the President wanted to get paid for it. Here's 12 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:08,959 some of the back and forth with the media last night. 13 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:12,159 Speaker 2: As President, you knowed the United States is bombing Iran again. 14 00:01:12,159 --> 00:01:14,359 Speaker 3: I mean that you've been bombing around for months now. 15 00:01:14,439 --> 00:01:16,640 Speaker 4: Is this just the new normal for the America? 16 00:01:16,799 --> 00:01:19,079 Speaker 5: Well, you know, we're in Vietnam for nineteen years, we're 17 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:21,799 here for four months, so I think we've done a lot. 18 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:24,719 We've knocked out their navy in a period of one month. 19 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:27,959 We knocked out their air force. Air force is non existent. 20 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:31,120 We knocked out most of their missiles, most of their drones. 21 00:01:31,159 --> 00:01:31,719 Speaker 4: We knocked out. 22 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:36,200 Speaker 5: They had drone manufacturing capability about ninety two percent. Their 23 00:01:36,239 --> 00:01:41,200 missile capability for manufacturing, we knocked out eighty nine percent. 24 00:01:42,439 --> 00:01:44,280 And they have a little capability, but they don't have 25 00:01:44,319 --> 00:01:49,920 any capability for us. This is almost a military skirmish. 26 00:01:49,319 --> 00:01:52,680 Speaker 1: He keeps down playing this, and you never wanted to 27 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:56,879 down You never want to underestimate the enemy's that's basic 28 00:01:57,120 --> 00:01:59,799 in the art of war. And it just to skirm 29 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:03,120 me just discriber. He downplays it. And as far as 30 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:06,159 all the numbers about taking out all of the Air 31 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:09,039 Force and the Navy and all of these numbers, those 32 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:15,639 numbers are totally exaggerated. They still have plenty. There's other 33 00:02:15,719 --> 00:02:20,439 reports that are valid, legitimate reports. They have many missiles, 34 00:02:20,479 --> 00:02:24,000 they have many missile launchers, they have many drones. And 35 00:02:24,039 --> 00:02:26,879 the proof is in the pudding. They keep attacking ships 36 00:02:27,439 --> 00:02:31,599 now going through the straight of WARMUS. So he wants 37 00:02:32,319 --> 00:02:35,599 to get paid for putting the blockade back up and 38 00:02:35,639 --> 00:02:39,120 protecting ships, and we're not. 39 00:02:39,039 --> 00:02:39,719 Speaker 4: Going to put it up. 40 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:42,599 Speaker 5: Yeah, I want to reimburse you us because we're protecting 41 00:02:42,599 --> 00:02:45,400 a very rich portion of the world. We're spending money, 42 00:02:45,879 --> 00:02:48,039 and so what we've done is we are going to 43 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:51,840 be reimbursed for protection we're protecting by the countries that 44 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:56,120 we're helping. For instance, you look at the five countries. 45 00:02:56,159 --> 00:03:00,560 You have Saudi Arabia, you have Uee, you have Cutter 46 00:03:00,719 --> 00:03:04,120 or Qatar, as I always say, you have Qatar, Bahrain, 47 00:03:04,759 --> 00:03:06,520 and by the way, you have others. You have Kuwait, 48 00:03:07,039 --> 00:03:10,280 and you have others, and they will do very well, 49 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:13,199 but we think it's appropriate that we don't need them. 50 00:03:13,199 --> 00:03:14,960 You know, we have more oil than any other country 51 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:18,520 in the world when you add Venezuela, which has been amazing, 52 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:21,520 when you would tess tremendous amounts. 53 00:03:21,199 --> 00:03:22,479 Speaker 4: Of oil that we control. 54 00:03:22,719 --> 00:03:25,680 Speaker 5: When you add Venezuela and everything else, we have more 55 00:03:25,719 --> 00:03:27,360 than fifty percent of the world supply. 56 00:03:27,439 --> 00:03:29,199 Speaker 4: We don't need it, but we need it. 57 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:31,759 Speaker 5: From the same point of protecting allies, et cetera, et cetera, 58 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:38,240 including Israel, including Saudi Arabia, including Qatar, including Uee, we're 59 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:41,719 protecting all of them, and we've done a very effective job. 60 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:42,759 Speaker 4: Well. 61 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:47,199 Speaker 1: The idea of charging is absolutely was not going to 62 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:51,520 go anywhere. Everybody and their brother just about how to 63 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:53,639 fit when they heard last night that he wanted to 64 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:57,120 charge a fee. Is kind of a mob protection fee, 65 00:03:57,199 --> 00:04:01,520 We'll protect you. So this is Marco Rubio has been 66 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:05,960 saying for weeks that a fee is absolutely wrong. 67 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:08,479 Speaker 4: Fees and tolls are the same thing. To me. 68 00:04:08,719 --> 00:04:11,039 Speaker 6: Okay, if you're paying someone to go there, I don't 69 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:12,479 care if you call it a fee or a toll 70 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:15,400 or a donation. It's a toll. That's how we're going 71 00:04:15,479 --> 00:04:18,439 to define it. That's international waterway. There isn't a nation 72 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:20,480 on earth that supports having to pay money to go 73 00:04:20,519 --> 00:04:21,639 through the streets. 74 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:26,160 Speaker 1: Nope, there really aren't there. It's international waterways. And the President, 75 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:32,560 well he got I think quite a few reactions that 76 00:04:32,759 --> 00:04:36,600 he said, you can't do that, and so today he 77 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:40,279 turned things around and has a different idea. But before 78 00:04:40,279 --> 00:04:42,319 we get to that, let's check in with Bretton McGirk, 79 00:04:42,879 --> 00:04:43,920 who understands that. 80 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:45,560 Speaker 4: Part of the world better than most people. 81 00:04:46,079 --> 00:04:48,279 Speaker 7: Right now. I mean, as I was preparing to come 82 00:04:48,319 --> 00:04:52,199 on air, he announced two ships, two civilian ships Office Coast, 83 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:55,160 have just been hit by Irani and cruise missiles. Apparently 84 00:04:55,199 --> 00:04:57,319 one crew member, an Indian crew member, was killed in 85 00:04:57,319 --> 00:05:00,399 that attack. So this is very much escalating thinking of 86 00:05:00,439 --> 00:05:02,720 something we discussed on this program when this war started 87 00:05:02,759 --> 00:05:05,040 four and a half months ago. That you know, if 88 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:07,519 you don't define your objectives very clearly going into a 89 00:05:07,519 --> 00:05:10,800 military campaign, they tend to be defined for you. And 90 00:05:10,839 --> 00:05:12,879 now the objective is all the Strait of Homos. That 91 00:05:12,959 --> 00:05:15,920 is what this is all about. The Revolutionary Guard. I 92 00:05:15,959 --> 00:05:18,920 think there are rumors there's a power struggle going on 93 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:21,399 in Tehran. I wouldn't put too much stock in that 94 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:24,759 the Revolutionary Guard is in charge. They are demonstrating they 95 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:28,600 have power capability and willingness to shut down the Strait 96 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:31,759 by shooting a civilian ships. And you add another wrinkle 97 00:05:31,839 --> 00:05:35,279 now the Iran I BacT HOHU this and Yemen are 98 00:05:35,319 --> 00:05:37,399 threatening to shut down the bubble men depth straight in 99 00:05:37,439 --> 00:05:39,800 the Red Sea, which they had done in twenty twenty 100 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:42,000 three and twenty twenty four. So right now we're in 101 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:44,560 a state of escalation. And whether or not there can 102 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:47,800 be back channel diplomacy to get it back into some 103 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:50,959 sense of containment, we'll see. But that's where we are 104 00:05:51,079 --> 00:05:53,040 right now. Yes, so we are kind of back to 105 00:05:53,079 --> 00:05:56,160 where we were before the MU was even signed. 106 00:05:56,399 --> 00:05:59,399 Speaker 1: Yeah, we are. We're back to square one. The whole 107 00:05:59,399 --> 00:06:02,959 things start go. So the whole idea of wanting to 108 00:06:03,079 --> 00:06:09,000 negotiate that the new regime leaders are more rational. All 109 00:06:09,079 --> 00:06:13,959 that the President seems to finally get that they're no 110 00:06:14,079 --> 00:06:18,319 more rational than the previous regime. Here's Kareem Sakopor. 111 00:06:18,759 --> 00:06:23,519 Speaker 8: Well, there's obviously zero trust between the United States and Iran. Unfortunately, 112 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:28,279 I see these two adversaries, Trump and Tehran in a 113 00:06:28,439 --> 00:06:34,040 kind of a face off of gangster diplomacy. For the 114 00:06:34,079 --> 00:06:37,639 Iranian regime, the lesson they unfortunately learned from this war 115 00:06:37,759 --> 00:06:41,519 is that you extract concessions not with diplomacy, but by 116 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:46,519 attacking your neighbors, by controlling the Strait of Hormuz, by 117 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:51,920 not responding to US threats, and multiple generations of US 118 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:56,279 statesmen understood that, you know, America's most important, one of 119 00:06:56,319 --> 00:07:00,879 America's most important geopolitical assets is this credibility. And unfortunately, 120 00:07:00,959 --> 00:07:04,160 right now, neither our adversary is like you're on nor 121 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:06,839 our allies take our words seriously. 122 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:12,480 Speaker 1: Well, that's unfortunately true that they looked at this fee 123 00:07:12,519 --> 00:07:15,439 that the President wanted to charge and they thought he's 124 00:07:16,199 --> 00:07:19,560 He's not serious, is he? Well, apparently a few phone 125 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:23,319 calls came in from world leaders, especially from the Middle East, 126 00:07:23,439 --> 00:07:27,720 to President Trump, and today he's changed his mind. This 127 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:32,920 was from another press gathering in the Oval office earlier today. 128 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:37,279 Speaker 2: Do you have any regrets about lifting the naval blockade 129 00:07:37,399 --> 00:07:38,959 or giving the sanctions waivers? 130 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:42,439 Speaker 5: I gave them a chance. I wanted to give them 131 00:07:42,439 --> 00:07:44,800 a chance at making a deal. You know, we had 132 00:07:44,839 --> 00:07:47,079 a deal two days ago. It was done, and then 133 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:49,319 all of a sudden, they couldn't do it. They didn't 134 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:51,920 like something about the deal. They couldn't do it, and 135 00:07:51,959 --> 00:07:54,160 they shot at first. And that was a big mistake 136 00:07:54,199 --> 00:07:56,800 that they shot first, because we have been knocking the 137 00:07:56,800 --> 00:08:00,680 hell out of them. I was called by different people, countries, 138 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:04,399 kings and emirs, and they said, we'd love to do 139 00:08:04,439 --> 00:08:06,279 it a different way. We'd love to invest in the 140 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:10,240 United States with billions and billions of dollars. We would 141 00:08:10,279 --> 00:08:13,879 like to invest tremendously in the United States as opposed 142 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:17,040 to charging the fate. And I like that actually, because 143 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:18,800 I don't think anybody should be able to charge a 144 00:08:18,879 --> 00:08:21,360 fee for the uh for the straight. 145 00:08:22,360 --> 00:08:24,439 Speaker 1: No, you heard that right, he said all of a sudden, 146 00:08:24,839 --> 00:08:26,839 Today he says, I don't think anybody should be able 147 00:08:26,839 --> 00:08:29,399 to charge a fee for the straight Yet that's what 148 00:08:29,480 --> 00:08:33,519 he proposed last night. So we're bouncing around a lot, 149 00:08:33,799 --> 00:08:38,679 and he's very transactional. I don't think sometimes I really 150 00:08:38,679 --> 00:08:41,519 do wonder if he's taking this war seriously. He calls 151 00:08:41,519 --> 00:08:45,440 it a skirmish, but he talks about he gets all 152 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:49,799 excited about billions and billions being invested in the United States. 153 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:54,000 That's what some of the world leaders told him. According 154 00:08:54,120 --> 00:09:01,879 to him, what does General Jack Keene thinks. 155 00:08:59,799 --> 00:09:03,200 Speaker 9: Out surprising comment. I mean, the President has given these 156 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:06,799 people enormous amount of leeway here to come forward and 157 00:09:06,879 --> 00:09:09,080 really make a deal. And he actually signed a document, 158 00:09:09,799 --> 00:09:13,759 you know, on the seventeenth, not too long ago, that 159 00:09:13,919 --> 00:09:16,399 was supposed to provide testimony to a deal that they 160 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:17,080 had achieved. 161 00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:18,360 Speaker 4: And the Iranians, you. 162 00:09:18,279 --> 00:09:20,600 Speaker 9: Know, kind of blew a hole in all of that, 163 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:22,799 because a couple of days later they went out and 164 00:09:22,879 --> 00:09:26,799 violated the only agreement that was in the deal, their 165 00:09:26,919 --> 00:09:30,559 memorandum of understanding, was an agreement to open up the 166 00:09:30,559 --> 00:09:33,279 straits of Removes. We would remove the blockade and ron 167 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:36,519 we removed their control and interference. That was the only 168 00:09:36,559 --> 00:09:38,320 thing that was really a deal. The rest of it 169 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:41,720 was all a promise to solve the greater problems over 170 00:09:41,759 --> 00:09:44,759 a sixty day or possibly even a longer period, and 171 00:09:44,799 --> 00:09:47,879 within a couple of days we saw their violation. I 172 00:09:47,879 --> 00:09:50,360 think the President just threw up his arms and he's 173 00:09:50,399 --> 00:09:52,759 fed up with it. He's fed up with the lion. 174 00:09:52,879 --> 00:09:55,399 He fed up with, you know, being played by these people. 175 00:09:55,960 --> 00:09:58,559 I mean they look our bane, sophisticated, kind of dressed 176 00:09:58,679 --> 00:10:02,039 like us. They seen to be reasonable, They seem to 177 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:04,879 appear that they truly want to do something here and 178 00:10:04,879 --> 00:10:08,360 it's meaningful for their own people. But I think their 179 00:10:08,399 --> 00:10:11,879 actions reflect the forty seven year history. 180 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:13,120 Speaker 4: That's the facts of it. 181 00:10:13,759 --> 00:10:16,799 Speaker 9: Regardless of who's in charge right now, they are committing 182 00:10:16,799 --> 00:10:20,279 to the same ideology that their predecesors have done. And 183 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:23,240 that's where the President is and that is why we're 184 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:27,080 watching right now. The Battle of the Straits of the 185 00:10:27,159 --> 00:10:30,159 move's unfold before our eyes, and it's got two major 186 00:10:30,200 --> 00:10:33,519 focuses to it. One is to take out all the 187 00:10:33,519 --> 00:10:37,080 things in the coastal area that permit them to interfere 188 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:41,279 with shipping. So obviously that's drones, it's missiles, it's fast boats, 189 00:10:41,759 --> 00:10:45,120 it's their radars and sensors, it's their command and control 190 00:10:45,279 --> 00:10:49,240 and whatever logistic infrastructure keeps that going. You saw them 191 00:10:49,399 --> 00:10:53,399 just take down a plant recently within the last several hours, 192 00:10:53,559 --> 00:10:57,120 and that's an indicator that that plant obviously keeps a 193 00:10:57,120 --> 00:11:02,159 lot of that equipment sustained. The second focus area, and 194 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:07,360 this is crucial, is what is Oroan doing about are 195 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:11,200 attacking them? Well, one they're trying to continue to interfere, 196 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:15,200 but two they're attacking our allies and partners in the 197 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:18,440 region and US BASS and how are they doing that 198 00:11:18,759 --> 00:11:23,279 ballistic missiles and drones. So the second focus area is 199 00:11:23,320 --> 00:11:26,240 to take down as much of that retaliation as we 200 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:29,879 possibly can. So we're going after the launch systems for 201 00:11:29,960 --> 00:11:34,240 the ballistic missiles, the missiles themselves, and their transporters. We're 202 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:37,600 likely rubbling the entrances to the tunnels where they keep these, 203 00:11:37,840 --> 00:11:41,039 which we have done before they excavated and took some out, 204 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:44,200 and that keeps and contains those missiles in there. They 205 00:11:44,279 --> 00:11:47,679 can't get it out without a major engineering operation. And 206 00:11:47,720 --> 00:11:50,720 obviously we can interfere with that same thing with drone 207 00:11:50,799 --> 00:11:54,600 storage areas. So those are the two focus points. It's 208 00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:57,159 going to take some time. This is a condition based operation. 209 00:11:57,720 --> 00:12:01,039 Cooper has been given Admiral Cooper Way to conduct this 210 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:05,000 operation and he'll know when he has satisfied the objectives 211 00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:09,559 in terms of reducing their capability to interfere and significantly 212 00:12:09,679 --> 00:12:14,320 reducing capability to retaliate. Probably about a week, but I 213 00:12:14,360 --> 00:12:17,799 don't know for sure because it's a condition based operation. Obviously, 214 00:12:17,879 --> 00:12:20,799 he'll report the Secretary of War and to the President 215 00:12:20,840 --> 00:12:21,559 on how he's doing. 216 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:21,879 Speaker 4: Well. 217 00:12:21,919 --> 00:12:25,519 Speaker 1: You heard the General say that they've been playing the president, 218 00:12:25,679 --> 00:12:28,159 and I've been talking about that. I don't mean to 219 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:31,720 put down the president, but they have been playing him. 220 00:12:31,759 --> 00:12:34,360 They keep saying, sure, we'll do everything you say. And 221 00:12:34,399 --> 00:12:38,080 then that's General Keen is repeated. And everybody that knows 222 00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:42,720 anything about the people in Iran, they are liars, cheaters, 223 00:12:42,759 --> 00:12:47,240 They will do anything. They hate America and everybody associated 224 00:12:47,279 --> 00:12:51,000 with America. So we have we have a couple of 225 00:12:51,039 --> 00:12:54,679 things going. We've got the straight of Horror moves to 226 00:12:54,720 --> 00:12:59,240 blockade that again and then settle that try and keep 227 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:02,519 the ships from Iranian ships from coming or going. And 228 00:13:02,519 --> 00:13:05,639 then we also have are we going to go back 229 00:13:05,679 --> 00:13:10,360 and complete the original military mission that was stopped prematurely. 230 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:13,600 Speaker 4: Well, we're talking two different things here. 231 00:13:13,759 --> 00:13:15,799 Speaker 9: This is a battle for the straits of the moves 232 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:19,399 and the limitations of what that is we had two 233 00:13:19,399 --> 00:13:23,039 weeks to complete Epic Fury, and that deals with the 234 00:13:23,159 --> 00:13:28,639 whole comprehensive targets that we were dealing with, leadership targets, IRGC, organizations, 235 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:32,279 industrial based manufacturing capability, and the list goes on. 236 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:34,519 Speaker 4: We're not dealing with all of that here. 237 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:38,559 Speaker 9: We're dealing with a limited operation with the two focus 238 00:13:38,559 --> 00:13:42,200 points that I just provided you. That is another decision 239 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:45,080 the President will make. He has the option to go 240 00:13:45,159 --> 00:13:49,879 back to major combat operations to complete the comprehensive target list, 241 00:13:49,919 --> 00:13:52,840 and we estimated at the time it was about twenty 242 00:13:52,919 --> 00:13:54,320 five percent of the targets left. 243 00:13:54,360 --> 00:13:56,799 Speaker 4: That would take maybe ten to two weeks. 244 00:13:56,799 --> 00:13:59,960 Speaker 9: Now, obviously some of those targets are being reduced here 245 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:02,159 as a result of the focus on the straits of 246 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:04,399 a moves, to be sure, but there's a lot of 247 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:05,799 other targets out there. 248 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:09,080 Speaker 4: That are not involved in this battle that we're fighting. 249 00:14:09,279 --> 00:14:11,919 Speaker 1: So again it appears we are back to square one. 250 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:17,039 John Bolton, who was President Trump's national security advisor in 251 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:19,919 Trump one point zero, then they had a big fallout. 252 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:24,639 Bolton can be very critical of Donald Trump, but here 253 00:14:24,759 --> 00:14:29,120 it sounds like he kind of gets what President Trump 254 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:30,080 is up to well. 255 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:32,720 Speaker 10: I think it's typical of Trump. Everything's the deal, you know, 256 00:14:32,759 --> 00:14:34,159 I'm going to do this. I'm going to get my 257 00:14:34,279 --> 00:14:35,840 share of the action here. I'm going to get my 258 00:14:35,919 --> 00:14:39,440 twenty percent. I don't think it's unreasonable at some point 259 00:14:39,480 --> 00:14:44,399 to ask countries that benefit from our reopening the strait, 260 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:47,919 the Gulf Arab countries, maybe some of their consumers. We 261 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:51,000 did that back in the very first Golf War in 262 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:55,279 George H. W. Bush's administration, because we're having to act 263 00:14:56,320 --> 00:14:59,120 to keep the straight open because of Iran. But charging 264 00:14:59,120 --> 00:15:01,960 a twenty percent is ridiculous. I'll do a little mass 265 00:15:01,960 --> 00:15:05,840 for the president. If oil is at seventy five dollars 266 00:15:05,840 --> 00:15:08,360 a barrel, that maybe below where it is now, a 267 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:12,120 twenty percent total would be another fifteen dollars. So if 268 00:15:12,120 --> 00:15:14,320 Trump wants to keep the price of gasoline at the 269 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:16,720 pump down in the United States, he really doesn't want 270 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:18,600 to sell. He doesn't want oil to be at ninety 271 00:15:18,639 --> 00:15:21,159 dollars a barrel. It's just this is the way he thinks. 272 00:15:21,200 --> 00:15:23,080 I'm going to do something, somebody's going to pay me 273 00:15:23,159 --> 00:15:26,279 for it. This is not strategic thinking, to say the least. 274 00:15:26,679 --> 00:15:30,720 Speaker 1: Oh, he hasn't done any strategic thinking on this. I 275 00:15:30,759 --> 00:15:34,440 mean that John Bolton laid it out. The President obviously 276 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:37,000 wasn't thinking about let's see if I charged twenty percent, 277 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:40,879 that means oil prices are going to go up twenty percent. No, 278 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:44,399 that never, that never crossed his mind. Speaking of oil, 279 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:49,679 average price of well gasoline, what you buy now up 280 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:53,240 to three dollars eighty six cents. That is up seven 281 00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:58,559 cents in a week. Diesel four dollars eighty eight cents. 282 00:15:58,600 --> 00:16:02,159 That's up a penny in a while week. California and 283 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:05,320 Hawaii both over five dollars. They're they're the two highest 284 00:16:05,320 --> 00:16:08,799 places in the country. So we've got that. By the way, 285 00:16:08,799 --> 00:16:15,559 speaking of the president to Thursday night, the President will 286 00:16:15,960 --> 00:16:19,039 address the nation at eight o'clock. He's asked the networks 287 00:16:19,080 --> 00:16:24,000 for broadcast time. We'll see if they give it. But 288 00:16:24,120 --> 00:16:27,840 he's planning on addressing the nation at eight o'clock on 289 00:16:28,159 --> 00:16:32,080 Thursday night. And the topic, No, I don't think it's 290 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:35,159 about a run. We're told that it will be about 291 00:16:35,799 --> 00:16:41,279 foreign interference in the twenty twenty election. He is obsessed 292 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:49,639 with that. He's not gonna let go of it. I'm thinking, well, yes, 293 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:55,279 foreigners interfere in our election. Every time. That's what they've 294 00:16:55,320 --> 00:16:59,000 been doing long before the Internet came along. They've been Russia, 295 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:05,319 Soviet Union, China, Iran have been interfering, trying to interfere 296 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:10,079 in our elections since day one, which is why so 297 00:17:10,160 --> 00:17:13,640 important to keep it not a federal election, but fifty 298 00:17:13,759 --> 00:17:17,640 states have elections, and so in any case, that's going 299 00:17:17,720 --> 00:17:22,680 to be Thursday night, eight o'clock something about foreign interference 300 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:27,559 in the twenty twenty election. Moving on to other topics, 301 00:17:27,599 --> 00:17:33,319 there's more controversy regarding ice. There have been two shootings 302 00:17:34,079 --> 00:17:38,880 and deaths of people by ice in the last week, 303 00:17:38,960 --> 00:17:41,599 one in Houston and the other one in a small 304 00:17:41,640 --> 00:17:48,599 town in Maine. The question has been about why are 305 00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:54,119 they well, they happened in vehicle stops, they were trying 306 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:57,200 to make a vehicle stop, and they're carrying out their 307 00:17:57,240 --> 00:18:04,359 operations across the country. Apparently, Mark Wayne Mullen, the new 308 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:07,920 head of DHS, has put out the order no more 309 00:18:08,559 --> 00:18:12,000 vehicle stops. You're going to go find illegals. You're going 310 00:18:12,039 --> 00:18:14,000 to find them not in their cars. You're going to 311 00:18:14,039 --> 00:18:16,519 find them at their place of work or at their 312 00:18:16,559 --> 00:18:18,440 home or wherever it might be. Well, we're not going 313 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:22,319 to be doing these vehicle stops. And I must tell you, 314 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:28,119 with both of these latest incidents happening after agents tried 315 00:18:28,160 --> 00:18:31,440 to stop the vehicles, one of them that was killed 316 00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:36,799 wasn't even targeted. Angus King, who is one of the senators. 317 00:18:36,799 --> 00:18:41,039 He's classifies himself as independent, but he he works with 318 00:18:41,079 --> 00:18:46,079 the Democrats, had this. He obviously is getting a lot 319 00:18:46,119 --> 00:18:48,119 of pressure from the people in Maine. But this is 320 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:49,240 his reaction. 321 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:52,839 Speaker 3: Because here's a really simple idea. Apply to ICE the 322 00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:56,519 same standards that are applied to police forces all over 323 00:18:56,559 --> 00:18:59,119 the country, whether it's Miami or New York, or San 324 00:18:59,160 --> 00:19:03,039 Diego or Denver. Make them follow the same protocols. Number one, 325 00:19:03,119 --> 00:19:06,119 let's get these body cameras on. It's ridiculous with all 326 00:19:06,160 --> 00:19:07,799 the money they have. They have all the money in 327 00:19:07,839 --> 00:19:10,599 the world under the appropriations that they've had. By the way, 328 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:13,640 my Republican colleagues have now funded ICE to the end 329 00:19:13,640 --> 00:19:17,119 of Donald Trump's term. They've literally given up the power 330 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:22,880 of the purse over ICE, and so things like body cameras, identifications, 331 00:19:22,920 --> 00:19:26,359 no masks, those are simple things that apply everywhere else 332 00:19:26,359 --> 00:19:29,799 in the country to police forces. That's number one. Number Two, 333 00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:33,160 let's be sure that an investigation of this is real 334 00:19:33,799 --> 00:19:36,960 and that it's credible, and that involves not just the 335 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:40,680 federal authorities. And that's why I'm glad so far our 336 00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:44,279 state attorney General, our state police have been engaged in 337 00:19:44,319 --> 00:19:47,640 this investigation, and that's what we have to continue. But 338 00:19:48,359 --> 00:19:50,400 the bigger point is why were they there in the 339 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:53,599 first place. They arrested We had a big surge in Maine. 340 00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:56,440 It didn't get the publicity that Minnesota, but we had 341 00:19:56,480 --> 00:19:59,200 a big surge in Maine in the winter. They arrested 342 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:02,839 over two hundred people. Nineteen of them had criminal records. 343 00:20:03,480 --> 00:20:05,440 So this whole idea of this is the worst of 344 00:20:05,480 --> 00:20:07,880 the worst and they're going after the criminals and getting 345 00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:10,720 criminals off our streets. That's a phony, that's a fraud. 346 00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:14,119 And what's really going on is these folks have been 347 00:20:14,119 --> 00:20:16,279 given a quota by the White House, which is the 348 00:20:16,319 --> 00:20:18,920 worst thing you could do with law enforcement to arrest. 349 00:20:19,559 --> 00:20:21,720 It was thirty five hundred a day. Now I hear 350 00:20:21,759 --> 00:20:24,119 it's two thousand a day. But when you do that, 351 00:20:24,279 --> 00:20:27,279 give that kind of quota to law enforcement, you're almost 352 00:20:27,319 --> 00:20:30,039 certain to get bad results. So they shouldn't have even 353 00:20:30,079 --> 00:20:32,720 been Biteford in the first place. Bidiford is a wonderful town. 354 00:20:32,759 --> 00:20:37,039 It's up and coming. It's a very dynamic town with 355 00:20:37,240 --> 00:20:42,000 interestingly a lot of immigrant roots going back one hundred years. 356 00:20:42,039 --> 00:20:45,400 So they shouldn't have been there at all. And there 357 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:48,799 appears to be very little, if any justification for this. 358 00:20:49,519 --> 00:20:52,960 I'm going to wait for the facts, but thus far, 359 00:20:55,559 --> 00:20:56,359 it stinks. 360 00:20:56,839 --> 00:20:59,960 Speaker 1: It does stink, and I think he said a couple 361 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:03,640 of things that I thought were noteworthy. One is ICE 362 00:21:03,839 --> 00:21:08,720 should be on the same level of or better than 363 00:21:08,799 --> 00:21:13,039 local police departments. I don't think they are. And I'll 364 00:21:13,039 --> 00:21:17,279 tell you why I don't think they're training is literally 365 00:21:17,359 --> 00:21:21,680 in weeks where police officers that worked for cities, counties 366 00:21:21,759 --> 00:21:25,799 state their training is months, like more than a half 367 00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:29,680 a year in most cases most big departments. So their 368 00:21:30,039 --> 00:21:36,599 training seems to seem from afar to be lacking. And 369 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:39,160 Mark Wayne Mullen, the new head of DHS who's in 370 00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:41,920 charge of all of this. Angus King went on to 371 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:44,519 talk about the fact that he and Mark Wayne Bullen 372 00:21:44,599 --> 00:21:48,160 served in the Senate together, and Mark Wayne Mullen told 373 00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:51,440 him it looks like, uh, you know, I'll look into 374 00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:53,440 this for you, and he says, to his credit, he 375 00:21:53,519 --> 00:21:56,119 called me back and said the person who was shot 376 00:21:56,200 --> 00:21:59,559 in Maine wasn't even the person that they were looking for. 377 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:05,319 They made a huge mistake. So he's all happy with 378 00:22:05,359 --> 00:22:09,240 Mark Wayne Mullen really being straightforward, up front kind of guy, 379 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:12,960 but that seems to be who he is. But when 380 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:19,559 it comes to training, it appears that though from watching 381 00:22:19,599 --> 00:22:21,880 some of the video and I know it's all one sided, 382 00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:28,960 that ice officers are sorely lacking in basic police tactics 383 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:34,720 and techniques and the beautiful part of what Angus King 384 00:22:34,839 --> 00:22:36,759 said at the very end, he said it stinks, but 385 00:22:36,799 --> 00:22:41,440 he said he's going to wait for the facts. I 386 00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:46,680 think we all should. But in the meantime, their training 387 00:22:46,759 --> 00:22:51,839 is just a fraction of what most police officers have 388 00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:54,680 to learn in order to be a police. You can't 389 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:57,240 just pin a badge on somebody and put a gun 390 00:22:57,279 --> 00:22:59,880 on their hip and send him out. There's much much 391 00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:03,920 more that police need to know. To day at the 392 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:08,119 Capitol in d C. Two Supreme Court justices testified today. 393 00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:14,240 Elaina Kagan and Amy Cony Barrett both testified before the 394 00:23:14,279 --> 00:23:18,119 Budget Committee there. What they were there for was to 395 00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:21,960 talk about the budget for the Supreme Court, and they 396 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:26,519 want the money bumped up for security because they are 397 00:23:26,599 --> 00:23:30,440 getting more threats than they ever had before. And so 398 00:23:30,559 --> 00:23:33,960 you add a so called liberal and so called conservative 399 00:23:34,119 --> 00:23:37,279 justice asking Congress for more money. They made a big 400 00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:40,759 hooplaw the media did about the fact that they were 401 00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:44,240 Supreme Court justices testifying before Congress. Oh my gosh, that's 402 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:46,200 a separation of branch issue, isn't it. 403 00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:47,079 Speaker 4: No. 404 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:54,640 Speaker 1: Up until about five or six years ago, Supreme Court 405 00:23:54,799 --> 00:24:00,799 justices regularly testified before various committees. They're acting like it 406 00:24:00,799 --> 00:24:05,920 it's some rare occasion because they haven't testified since twenty nineteen. 407 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:08,039 Part of it was because of COVID and everything else. 408 00:24:08,759 --> 00:24:12,480 But anyway, they're looking for more money because of all 409 00:24:12,559 --> 00:24:15,440 the threats. A couple of people weigh in on this. 410 00:24:15,559 --> 00:24:17,319 Let's start with Jonathan Turley. 411 00:24:17,759 --> 00:24:22,400 Speaker 11: This is coming from a real movement to demonize the justices, 412 00:24:22,559 --> 00:24:26,880 demonize the court. They went to Justice Barrett's house knowing 413 00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:29,960 she has young children, and left bloody dolls all over 414 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:34,160 her lawn. You had an individual standing outside of Kavanaugh's 415 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:38,640 house on an assassination attempt that he backed out of 416 00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:41,440 at the last minute. These are people who are being 417 00:24:41,519 --> 00:24:46,319 triggered by this rhetoric and it's all unconnected to the 418 00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:48,240 institution itself. 419 00:24:48,519 --> 00:24:54,000 Speaker 1: Byron yorick Over at The Washington Examiner saw it this way, Well, I. 420 00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:55,759 Speaker 12: Think what it means is there's a lot of pent 421 00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:59,559 up demand on Capitol Hill for asking justice's questions. 422 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:01,519 Speaker 4: So you have Justices. 423 00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:06,039 Speaker 12: Lanna Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett coming to testify ostensibly 424 00:25:06,319 --> 00:25:10,319 about budget issues and security at the Supreme Court, which 425 00:25:10,319 --> 00:25:14,319 are real, legitimate issues that Congress needs to look into. 426 00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:16,440 But then you have you're a member of the House 427 00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:19,440 Appropriations Committee, you've never had a chance to ask a 428 00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:23,240 Supreme Court justice a question, you're outraged by the Dobbs 429 00:25:23,319 --> 00:25:25,839 decision or something else, you're going to ask about it. 430 00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:28,960 So I would not be surprised to see some members 431 00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:32,400 of Congress use their opportunity to go far afield from 432 00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:33,519 the subject of the hearing. 433 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:37,160 Speaker 1: Well, the parts I saw was they basically kept it 434 00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:40,880 within the guardrails of the budget and the Supreme Court. 435 00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:46,119 Carrie Severino was a law clerk for Justice Clarence Thomas 436 00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:49,359 years ago. This is her view of what happened today. 437 00:25:51,039 --> 00:25:53,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Byron's right that we're going to see 438 00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:55,240 some people trying to use this as a platform to 439 00:25:55,759 --> 00:25:58,240 cut clips for the next campaign videos and try to 440 00:25:58,240 --> 00:26:01,079 grill the justices really things they aren't allowed to talk 441 00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:03,039 about there. They can't ask them about what they're going 442 00:26:03,079 --> 00:26:05,880 to rule on cases or things like that the justices 443 00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:08,680 simply won't respond to. So I think this might be 444 00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:11,359 part of the reason we don't see justices putting themselves 445 00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:14,400 in this position regularly. But the security concerns are so 446 00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:17,319 serious now that I think that's what's causing them to 447 00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:20,000 come to the Court. Is we're seeing the Congress as 448 00:26:20,039 --> 00:26:23,319 we're seeing right now, because we've seen their inc asking 449 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:26,440 for a ten percent increase in their security budget, but 450 00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:29,000 that's in the wake of a fifty seven percent increase 451 00:26:29,079 --> 00:26:31,720 in threats. Of course since Dobbs that's come through the 452 00:26:31,799 --> 00:26:35,599 roof with not only an assassination attempt, but many other 453 00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:39,039 threats against justices like we saw with Justice Amy Cony 454 00:26:39,079 --> 00:26:39,880 Barrett recently. 455 00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:44,519 Speaker 1: So basically it went smoothly today and the Budget Committee 456 00:26:44,519 --> 00:26:46,920 will determine how much money they want to give to 457 00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:52,920 the Supreme Court for more security bars the economy goes today. 458 00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:56,839 We got our CPI number out this morning, the consumer 459 00:26:56,960 --> 00:27:03,440 price index, the inflation number, and it was not it 460 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:07,960 wasn't a surprise to me, but it was a very 461 00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:13,640 good report. Inflation dropped from four point two in May 462 00:27:14,559 --> 00:27:18,480 to three point five in June. Three and a half 463 00:27:18,559 --> 00:27:21,559 percent inflation rate. Now remember the Fed ones to get 464 00:27:21,599 --> 00:27:24,799 that down to two, so it's got long ways to go. 465 00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:27,599 The core rate when you take out food and energy 466 00:27:27,599 --> 00:27:30,799 and you look at everything else at the store two 467 00:27:30,839 --> 00:27:35,400 point six, still above the target, but it was still 468 00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:39,359 not bad. But the reason why it wasn't surprised was 469 00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:43,359 is there anybody on the planet that doesn't know that 470 00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:47,680 gas and oil prices took some pretty nice declines during 471 00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:51,640 the month of June. Well, we got into the phony 472 00:27:52,559 --> 00:27:58,759 ceasefire and talks between Iran and it's so it but 473 00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:05,519 a that didn't last, and B we know prices of 474 00:28:05,559 --> 00:28:11,359 gas and oil are down, but they are still like 475 00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:14,720 I told you, they're still up from where they were 476 00:28:14,759 --> 00:28:21,720 back on February twenty eighth. But's actually the inflation rate 477 00:28:21,759 --> 00:28:31,039 now is equal to January twenty twenty one. Tomorrow and Thursday, 478 00:28:31,799 --> 00:28:35,799 Kevin Walsh, the new Chairman of the Federal Reserve, will 479 00:28:35,839 --> 00:28:40,400 be giving what's called the Humphrey Hawkins Testimony. Every six months. 480 00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:44,000 The Chairman of the Federal Reserve must report to Congress, 481 00:28:44,519 --> 00:28:47,440 and the silly business behind it is he can't come 482 00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:49,960 over once. He's got to come over and report to 483 00:28:50,039 --> 00:28:52,519 the House, and then he's got to go report to 484 00:28:52,599 --> 00:28:55,880 the Senate, and they take turns on who goes first 485 00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:59,559 every six months. So tomorrow Kevin Walsh will be talking 486 00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:05,480 before the House and Senate tomorrow and Thursday. He has 487 00:29:05,519 --> 00:29:10,640 been already putting together some commentary about inflation has been 488 00:29:10,799 --> 00:29:15,000 a burden on people and on businesses, and that the 489 00:29:15,039 --> 00:29:21,240 Fed will not tolerate elevated inflation. So this sounds to me, 490 00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:25,279 even though President Trump wanted somebody to be the Fed 491 00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:28,680 chairman who would lower interest rates, this is a pretty 492 00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:32,119 loud signal that Kevin Warrish is going to try and 493 00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:35,160 talk the rest of the Federal Open Market Committee into 494 00:29:35,839 --> 00:29:39,599 maybe raising interest rates. In fact, there was a decent 495 00:29:39,799 --> 00:29:42,680 chance that they were going to raise interest rates in September, 496 00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:47,359 according to the futures markets. But after this inflation rate 497 00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:53,160 being much tamer than expected, now the estimate that they're 498 00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:55,880 going to raise interest rates has dropped significantly. But I 499 00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:58,680 still look at this and go this is so temporary. 500 00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:01,359 This was the month of June. This was because of 501 00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:05,240 the ceasefire agreement. People were I don't know why, but 502 00:30:05,319 --> 00:30:09,319 they were hopeful. And now that we're back at kinetic 503 00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:14,400 action and blocking the strait of hor moves, all of 504 00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:17,000 this is going to go the other way. In fact, 505 00:30:17,119 --> 00:30:21,519 oil prices did climb over it. It was down to 506 00:30:21,599 --> 00:30:22,839 almost seventy dollars. 507 00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:23,039 Speaker 9: Now. 508 00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:26,079 Speaker 1: I saw an eight in front of the prices as 509 00:30:26,119 --> 00:30:28,160 they were treading day. I'll give you the closing numbers 510 00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:30,359 here in a minute, but we were in the eighties, 511 00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:33,880 low eighties. But oil and gas are going back up again, 512 00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:37,000 and that means inflation numbers for the month of July 513 00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:39,720 when we get them after the end of this month, 514 00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:44,119 will most likely be higher, and everybody will act shocked. 515 00:30:44,119 --> 00:30:47,559 And I'm going no, it's pretty obvious, I think to 516 00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:50,680 most people. Isn't it all right? You're ready for a 517 00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:58,119 little not humor, No, of course not. Tom Kamala Harris 518 00:30:59,039 --> 00:31:02,640 is back speaking to people. I don't know why she 519 00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:06,839 does this. She's most people are not good speakers, and 520 00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:10,759 she happens to be, in my humble estimation, not a 521 00:31:10,799 --> 00:31:15,119 good speaker. But she was giving a motivational speech to 522 00:31:15,559 --> 00:31:18,960 the w NBA team in Los Angeles, and I've thought 523 00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:22,440 it's been a while since we've had a good word salad. 524 00:31:22,559 --> 00:31:25,640 Speaker 13: Here she is and you are having an incritical impact. 525 00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:32,240 I travel our country, young girls, boys, people of every gender, background, race. 526 00:31:33,359 --> 00:31:40,440 Watch the w yeah, and understand how inspiring it is. 527 00:31:41,119 --> 00:31:43,839 So keep doing what you're doing. You guys are impacting 528 00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:48,039 people who you may never meet, people who may never 529 00:31:48,079 --> 00:31:51,519 know your names online, but they are aware of what 530 00:31:51,559 --> 00:31:54,319 you are doing, and it is giving them a sense 531 00:31:55,279 --> 00:31:58,319 of their value and their dignity and what they have 532 00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:03,119 her right to expect from this world. So congratulations on 533 00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:07,200 this game, but congratulations as much as anything else for 534 00:32:07,279 --> 00:32:10,119 the path that you guys are charging. It is extraordinary. 535 00:32:10,279 --> 00:32:11,559 Watch that's it. 536 00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:11,880 Speaker 4: I just. 537 00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:22,079 Speaker 13: Together on three one two three. 538 00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:26,720 Speaker 1: Okay, I don't know why I played that. I'm not 539 00:32:26,759 --> 00:32:30,519 sure what she said. I don't understand what she said 540 00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:33,920 and she I don't know if she's talking in code 541 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:37,119 of some kind. Here's another recent one. This is from 542 00:32:37,119 --> 00:32:39,359 a couple of weeks ago. I don't know who this 543 00:32:39,519 --> 00:32:41,400 was too, but you got to listen to it. 544 00:32:42,559 --> 00:32:47,640 Speaker 14: We each have light inside of us, and we need 545 00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:50,440 to know that that is what inspires our hope as 546 00:32:50,519 --> 00:32:55,319 much as anything external to ourselves, and when we feel 547 00:32:55,359 --> 00:32:59,400 that and not allow an election or an individual to 548 00:32:59,519 --> 00:33:04,880 dampen that light and instead light let that light kind 549 00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:08,599 of carry some particular for moments of darkness, that we 550 00:33:09,599 --> 00:33:13,279 not only act on that hope, but we inspire that 551 00:33:13,599 --> 00:33:17,640 hope in each other. It is so important that we 552 00:33:17,759 --> 00:33:21,400 not only have hope, but that we understand that that 553 00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:26,839 should be a verb, which means that hope has to 554 00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:28,839 go hand in hand with action. 555 00:33:29,359 --> 00:33:36,119 Speaker 1: Okay, So I don't just I know I'm being very 556 00:33:36,119 --> 00:33:40,039 biased here. I'm not a fan if she runs. The 557 00:33:40,119 --> 00:33:44,160 last time she ran for president, while she took over 558 00:33:44,359 --> 00:33:47,039 in the middle of Joe dropping out, go back to 559 00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:52,640 when she originally ran in two thousand and twenty, and 560 00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:56,119 she did not last but just a few months. I 561 00:33:56,119 --> 00:33:58,480 think that she's kind of going down that same path here, 562 00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:02,279 all right, Well, I don't know, No, I don't. I'm sorry, 563 00:34:02,279 --> 00:34:07,440 I don't have a translation. Wall Street today told you 564 00:34:07,519 --> 00:34:10,039 we had a roller coaster about deciding what to do 565 00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:11,679 about the straight up horor moved. Well, we've got a 566 00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:15,639 roller coaster on Wall Street, marching right along with the 567 00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:18,360 changing word coming out of the White House. The market 568 00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:22,840 started off positive this morning. It was up nicely. Then 569 00:34:23,679 --> 00:34:27,719 things changed down at wind stayed down until about the 570 00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:31,400 last forty five minutes of treading came back to eke 571 00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:36,599 out a little gain. The DOW up nine to fifty 572 00:34:36,639 --> 00:34:39,840 two thousand and five oh eight. The NASDAK sorry SMP 573 00:34:40,039 --> 00:34:43,800 also up a little, up twenty eight. NASDAK did better, 574 00:34:45,039 --> 00:34:50,239 up two hundred and thirty three. Gold again bouncing back 575 00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:53,559 and forth, up fifty six dollars to four thousand and 576 00:34:53,679 --> 00:34:59,760 sixty one, and oil keeps climbing up almost two dollars 577 00:35:00,599 --> 00:35:04,760 eighty dollars eighty dollars now for one barrel of West 578 00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:08,159 Texas Intermediate. So that's it for today. Thank you for 579 00:35:08,199 --> 00:35:11,360 coming by. We will be back again tomorrow. I hope 580 00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:12,000 to see you then