WEBVTT 1 00:00:24.800 --> 00:00:29.399 And hello, how are you welcome to the Big Podcast 2 00:00:29.440 --> 00:00:33.679 on this Thursday. Today is the sixteenth day of October, 3 00:00:33.880 --> 00:00:37.640 year of Our Lord twenty twenty five. My name is 4 00:00:37.679 --> 00:00:42.320 Tom Sullivan. So yeah, we got a lot today. I 5 00:00:42.359 --> 00:00:45.079 want to We've got to follow up on the hostage 6 00:00:45.119 --> 00:00:52.399 releases that are stalled in from Hamas Russia. There's going 7 00:00:52.479 --> 00:00:55.280 to be a meeting between the President and Vladimir Putin, 8 00:00:56.000 --> 00:01:00.000 give you the details. Federal judges are busy, busy, busy 9 00:01:01.200 --> 00:01:03.600 telling whatever Donald Trump wants to do that he can't 10 00:01:03.600 --> 00:01:07.480 do it. We'll dig into some of those, the shutdown 11 00:01:08.200 --> 00:01:14.519 and how that's impacting people. And update on crime in Washington, DC. 12 00:01:15.319 --> 00:01:23.799 So let's start with the business about the hostages in Gaza. 13 00:01:24.920 --> 00:01:27.879 There are nine now have been released. There were four 14 00:01:29.000 --> 00:01:31.799 and then there was another. Well there was four, but 15 00:01:31.879 --> 00:01:35.640 one of them wasn't DNA showed it wasn't in a hostage. 16 00:01:35.680 --> 00:01:38.480 So there was four, and then three. That's seven, and 17 00:01:38.519 --> 00:01:41.760 then overnight there was two more. So they're up to 18 00:01:41.879 --> 00:01:47.920 nine that have been released, and that means nineteen dead 19 00:01:48.079 --> 00:01:51.400 hostages still remain to be turned over. 20 00:01:53.079 --> 00:01:53.680 Two of them. 21 00:01:54.319 --> 00:01:59.400 Two of the nineteen are Americans, one of them Omer newtraum. 22 00:02:01.400 --> 00:02:06.400 He literally was watching the war take place a Jewish 23 00:02:06.760 --> 00:02:09.599 family and he said, I'm going to go over and 24 00:02:09.759 --> 00:02:12.800 sign up with the IDF and fight for Israel and 25 00:02:12.840 --> 00:02:19.639 wound up getting captured and killed. So his father is 26 00:02:19.680 --> 00:02:24.159 talking today about the status of where and when his 27 00:02:24.400 --> 00:02:27.199 son is going to be coming home, at least in 28 00:02:27.240 --> 00:02:27.800 the casket. 29 00:02:28.199 --> 00:02:31.120 Well, it depends who you listen to, right. The IDF 30 00:02:31.199 --> 00:02:34.240 claims that Hamas know where they are. Hamas claims that 31 00:02:34.319 --> 00:02:36.039 some of them they don't know where they are, but 32 00:02:36.080 --> 00:02:39.439 they need equipment. Listen, we need the adult in the room. 33 00:02:39.520 --> 00:02:43.560 We need what we've seen so far, the American government, 34 00:02:44.039 --> 00:02:48.400 with the leadership of President Trump, to put full force 35 00:02:48.919 --> 00:02:52.680 and full influence on the mediators, whether it's Qatar or 36 00:02:52.719 --> 00:02:58.360 Turkey or Egypt. Put Israel and Ramas together and said, listen, guys, 37 00:02:58.840 --> 00:03:02.120 the nineteen hostage left. It's part of the first stages 38 00:03:02.159 --> 00:03:05.199 of that agreement. They need to come out. And you 39 00:03:05.240 --> 00:03:08.240 know the alternative. If they don't come out, this ceasefire 40 00:03:08.520 --> 00:03:11.520 is going to collapse, and this is gonna be horrible. 41 00:03:11.599 --> 00:03:14.719 We may lose our boy forever. You know, our tradition 42 00:03:14.879 --> 00:03:19.439 calls for a burial place for us to go and 43 00:03:19.560 --> 00:03:22.840 start our mourning process, and we don't have it. For 44 00:03:23.599 --> 00:03:28.680 over two years, We've been numerous times in Washington, in Qatar, 45 00:03:28.840 --> 00:03:32.439 in Tel Aviv, just saying release the hostages. Thank god, 46 00:03:32.879 --> 00:03:38.960 President Trump released twenty hostages alive, which was the impossible, 47 00:03:39.199 --> 00:03:43.199 made possible by his dedication in his leadership. But now 48 00:03:43.439 --> 00:03:46.960 second stage of the deal, bring out the disease sausages. 49 00:03:47.240 --> 00:03:51.240 As two American left the Titran and omer neutral, they 50 00:03:51.319 --> 00:03:55.879 need to come out. President Trump deserves it, we deserves it. 51 00:03:56.280 --> 00:04:01.479 So Homass is responding and they're saying, we need specialized 52 00:04:01.520 --> 00:04:05.000 equipment to find the rest. They're implying that there's a 53 00:04:05.120 --> 00:04:08.479 number of the bodies that are under the rubble and 54 00:04:08.520 --> 00:04:10.240 they're going to have to do the digging out to 55 00:04:10.280 --> 00:04:13.520 try to find them. So the question then is and 56 00:04:13.680 --> 00:04:17.519 why did they sign the agreement saying that they would 57 00:04:17.560 --> 00:04:22.600 return all forty eight hostages dead and alive when they 58 00:04:22.680 --> 00:04:25.000 knew that they had a problem with doing that. But that, 59 00:04:25.839 --> 00:04:28.439 like the father said, this puts the whole thing. It's 60 00:04:28.439 --> 00:04:33.600 on shaky grounds. The whole cease fire could collapse over 61 00:04:33.759 --> 00:04:39.279 this issue. Let's hope not, but at this point I'm 62 00:04:39.279 --> 00:04:41.120 not so sure. This thing is going to I don't 63 00:04:41.120 --> 00:04:43.319 know how much patience is going to take, not only 64 00:04:43.360 --> 00:04:45.839 for Israel but also all the other Arab nations that 65 00:04:45.959 --> 00:04:48.759 signed on to this agreement as well and said, you 66 00:04:48.839 --> 00:04:51.639 agreed to this, So how are they going to get 67 00:04:51.680 --> 00:04:54.839 the rest of them that the people at MOSS say 68 00:04:54.879 --> 00:05:00.519 they need specialized equipment? Russia back in the news and 69 00:05:00.800 --> 00:05:04.439 Ukraine and the fact that the President is going to 70 00:05:04.439 --> 00:05:09.279 be meeting, as we've told you, with President Zelensky tomorrow Friday, 71 00:05:10.000 --> 00:05:14.040 and then there is going to be a group from 72 00:05:14.079 --> 00:05:16.519 the US and a group from Russia that are going 73 00:05:16.560 --> 00:05:20.160 to get together try to hammer out some sort of agreement. 74 00:05:20.560 --> 00:05:24.439 And then President Putin and President Trump are going to 75 00:05:24.480 --> 00:05:28.319 be meeting in the near future. We don't have an 76 00:05:28.319 --> 00:05:32.759 exact date on a Dan Hoffman, former CIA guy, talked 77 00:05:32.800 --> 00:05:33.160 about that. 78 00:05:33.639 --> 00:05:33.879 Yeah. 79 00:05:33.920 --> 00:05:37.199 So first, it's important to emphasize that Russia continues to 80 00:05:37.319 --> 00:05:42.040 launch missiles and drone attacks at innocent Ukrainian civilians and 81 00:05:42.240 --> 00:05:46.920 Ukraine's infrastructure. President Zelenski does want those Tomahawk missiles. He'd 82 00:05:46.959 --> 00:05:50.399 like to strike the launch sites from which Putin is 83 00:05:50.480 --> 00:05:54.720 launching the missiles that are targeting Ukraine. The preamble for 84 00:05:54.839 --> 00:06:00.199 President Trump's discussion with President Putin. Today, Putin is on 85 00:06:00.800 --> 00:06:03.920 a mixture, i would say, of a charm offensive, the 86 00:06:03.959 --> 00:06:06.600 back channel with the First Lady, which has freed eight 87 00:06:07.000 --> 00:06:12.399 of twenty thousand children whom Russia has kidnapped, the decision 88 00:06:12.480 --> 00:06:16.360 by Russia to turn over the JFK files, the assassination 89 00:06:16.480 --> 00:06:20.000 files roughly three hundred and fifty page document to one 90 00:06:20.040 --> 00:06:25.360 of our congresswomen, and then Kmtria of the Special Envoy 91 00:06:25.439 --> 00:06:30.040 for Russia for Foreign Investment, also meeting with US congressman, 92 00:06:30.879 --> 00:06:33.240 and a charm offensive from him as well on the 93 00:06:33.240 --> 00:06:36.600 potential for economic opportunities, all while Putin is threatening and 94 00:06:36.639 --> 00:06:40.800 his senior officials threatening that for giving Ukraine tomahawks would 95 00:06:40.839 --> 00:06:44.639 be a dangerous move of escalation on the part of 96 00:06:44.680 --> 00:06:47.319 the United States. So Putin is playing his KGB game. 97 00:06:47.680 --> 00:06:51.279 His objective is to drag this out to the conclusion 98 00:06:51.279 --> 00:06:54.600 of the fighting season. Once winter sets in, it's going 99 00:06:54.639 --> 00:06:57.720 to be a little more difficult for both sides to 100 00:06:57.759 --> 00:07:01.560 strike one another. At least Ukraine Russia can still launch 101 00:07:01.600 --> 00:07:04.279 those missiles, but that's what Putin wants. The longer he 102 00:07:04.279 --> 00:07:07.519 can delay this, whether it takes another high level summit, 103 00:07:07.560 --> 00:07:09.560 with President Trump, he's prepared to do that. 104 00:07:09.800 --> 00:07:10.000 Well. 105 00:07:10.000 --> 00:07:12.519 Like I said, that high level meeting will take place. 106 00:07:12.839 --> 00:07:16.360 They picked the location as Budapest, Hungary, but they haven't 107 00:07:16.360 --> 00:07:19.519 picked the date. So they have a location. I presume 108 00:07:19.800 --> 00:07:21.879 the date is going to be coming pretty quickly. But 109 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:25.480 in addition to that, President Trump came out today and 110 00:07:25.519 --> 00:07:30.319 said that he has an agreement with Modi of India 111 00:07:30.360 --> 00:07:34.439 to have Modi stop buying Russian oil. Here was the president. 112 00:07:34.560 --> 00:07:38.759 We were not happy with him buying oil from Russia 113 00:07:38.800 --> 00:07:41.720 because that lets Russia continue on with this ridiculous war. 114 00:07:41.800 --> 00:07:44.959 I was not happy that India was buying oil, and 115 00:07:45.040 --> 00:07:47.160 he assured me today that they will not be buying 116 00:07:47.160 --> 00:07:48.040 oil from Russia. 117 00:07:48.759 --> 00:07:53.040 It's helpful, it's a helpful slow burn on Russia's war economy. 118 00:07:53.079 --> 00:07:55.839 But remember that Russia is receiving a lot of assistance 119 00:07:55.839 --> 00:08:00.560 from China, including military equipment that they're using for their drones. 120 00:08:01.360 --> 00:08:04.519 China's importing Russian oil. I think that it's got to 121 00:08:04.560 --> 00:08:07.920 be two tracks here. You've got to deal with Russia's economy, 122 00:08:07.920 --> 00:08:09.839 but you've also got to give Ukraine the means to 123 00:08:09.879 --> 00:08:12.120 defend themselves. I think that's a good lesson. We learned 124 00:08:12.120 --> 00:08:16.279 from Gaza and Israel taking the fight to their enemies 125 00:08:16.279 --> 00:08:19.680 and exhausting Hamas Russia's army is not exhausted, Putin sees 126 00:08:19.720 --> 00:08:22.639 no reason to stop. And I don't even think that 127 00:08:22.879 --> 00:08:29.000 President Trump's strong willed ability to cajole and influence senior 128 00:08:29.040 --> 00:08:32.759 interlocutors and presidents of other countries to see his view. 129 00:08:32.799 --> 00:08:35.159 I'm not that sanguine that it's going to happen if 130 00:08:35.200 --> 00:08:36.159 passed his prologue. 131 00:08:36.200 --> 00:08:36.600 It won't. 132 00:08:36.759 --> 00:08:40.679 Obviously, the bresident is trying to put together another peace deal. 133 00:08:41.559 --> 00:08:43.840 But a lot of the effort he does here in 134 00:08:43.879 --> 00:08:46.879 the US, all these various programs that he wants to do, 135 00:08:47.519 --> 00:08:50.960 and the pushback, whether it's ICE or whether it's National Guard, 136 00:08:52.080 --> 00:08:56.919 whether it's laying off federal employees. Federal judges are coming 137 00:08:56.960 --> 00:09:04.240 out from all angles. See all agents, all of the 138 00:09:05.000 --> 00:09:11.240 ICE officers involved in the Chicago immigration operations. They've been 139 00:09:11.399 --> 00:09:17.000 ordered that they must wear body cams. Another federal judge 140 00:09:17.039 --> 00:09:22.480 said that they cannot use non lethal weapons like pepper balls. 141 00:09:24.039 --> 00:09:27.679 Another federal judge said that, yeah, he cannot fire any 142 00:09:27.759 --> 00:09:32.080 of the federal employees that are sitting at home. And 143 00:09:32.159 --> 00:09:36.919 it forgive me, but I thought that the Supreme Court 144 00:09:36.960 --> 00:09:41.879 said that federal judges can't do blanket national injunctions, that 145 00:09:41.919 --> 00:09:47.559 they can only operate within their federal reserve district. Even 146 00:09:48.120 --> 00:09:50.679 Elie Hone, who hangs out on the left side of 147 00:09:50.720 --> 00:09:56.440 the aisle, former federal prosecutor, he's thinking that these judges 148 00:09:56.480 --> 00:09:57.759 are not going to be successful. 149 00:09:57.799 --> 00:09:59.919 Well, Penn, this judge already made clear that she had 150 00:10:00.200 --> 00:10:04.320 concerns about the legality of the tactics being used by 151 00:10:04.320 --> 00:10:07.360 ICE to police these protesters. Last week, this federal judge 152 00:10:07.360 --> 00:10:10.120 in the Northern District of Illinois issued in order saying 153 00:10:10.279 --> 00:10:13.480 that ICE is not to use non lethal projectiles like 154 00:10:13.519 --> 00:10:17.200 pepper balls or chemical irritants like tear gas in policing 155 00:10:17.240 --> 00:10:20.120 this area. Now what's happened today is the judge has said, well, 156 00:10:20.159 --> 00:10:23.519 I've seen media reports since then that suggests my order 157 00:10:23.840 --> 00:10:27.879 may not be may not be observed properly by ICE. 158 00:10:27.919 --> 00:10:30.159 And so now the judge is calling the parties back 159 00:10:30.200 --> 00:10:33.200 in and has ordered ICE agents to wear body cameras. 160 00:10:33.240 --> 00:10:35.639 I think the response we're going to hear from the administration. 161 00:10:35.879 --> 00:10:38.519 First of all, we know the administration has taken issue 162 00:10:38.519 --> 00:10:40.960 with some of the media images claims they're misleading or 163 00:10:40.960 --> 00:10:43.519 not in proper context. But I think the larger issue 164 00:10:43.600 --> 00:10:45.840 and response we're going to hear from the administration is 165 00:10:46.240 --> 00:10:50.279 this exceeds a judge's authority. A judge cannot micro manage 166 00:10:50.320 --> 00:10:54.440 the field operations of dozens or hundreds of ICE agents. 167 00:10:54.480 --> 00:10:56.600 So I think that's the argument that's going to play 168 00:10:56.600 --> 00:10:58.120 out in front of this judge. The judge wants to 169 00:10:58.120 --> 00:11:00.840 have the parties back in court within a week in 170 00:11:00.919 --> 00:11:02.240 order to work this out. 171 00:11:02.840 --> 00:11:05.360 All right, Whitney Wild Ali Janek, thanks so much, Wolf, 172 00:11:05.960 --> 00:11:06.440 and just. 173 00:11:06.399 --> 00:11:09.120 Ahead got the feeling that this particular judge that he's 174 00:11:09.159 --> 00:11:11.759 talking about did not get the memo on the fact 175 00:11:11.799 --> 00:11:15.600 that you're not in charge. You're supposed to interpret the law. 176 00:11:15.799 --> 00:11:19.480 But you can't say that they have to wear green shoelaces. 177 00:11:20.080 --> 00:11:23.080 You can't get down into the nitty gritty details of 178 00:11:23.200 --> 00:11:26.279 how they go about the process. If the judge thinks 179 00:11:26.759 --> 00:11:30.799 that all of the ICE operations are illegal, then rule 180 00:11:30.879 --> 00:11:33.559 that way. But the idea of saying you can't do this, 181 00:11:33.720 --> 00:11:36.080 you can't do that, you have to wear a body camera, 182 00:11:36.159 --> 00:11:41.399 you can't use these types of non lethal weapons, it's 183 00:11:41.440 --> 00:11:44.799 getting kind of bizarre. So there's a lot again everything 184 00:11:44.919 --> 00:11:47.960 that we've seen with the Trump administration. There's a lot 185 00:11:47.960 --> 00:11:51.039 of pushback and the federal judges I thought got slapped 186 00:11:51.039 --> 00:11:54.120 down by the Supreme Court. Apparently that's not the case. 187 00:11:54.399 --> 00:11:58.360 We're also getting news as we're recording this that there 188 00:11:58.519 --> 00:12:03.519 was a bill to fund the military. Since the shutdown, 189 00:12:03.960 --> 00:12:06.960 paychecks were supposed to go out yesterday to federal employees, 190 00:12:07.000 --> 00:12:11.480 including the military, and the President and others have said, oh, yes, 191 00:12:11.519 --> 00:12:15.200 we're going to make sure and get some funds from 192 00:12:15.279 --> 00:12:20.399 the Defense, from the War Department and pay the military. Well, 193 00:12:20.679 --> 00:12:23.159 they had a vote on that in the Senate today 194 00:12:23.879 --> 00:12:26.720 and it was it failed. It was an individual bill, 195 00:12:26.919 --> 00:12:30.080 eight hundred and fifty two billion dollar bill that the 196 00:12:30.120 --> 00:12:33.519 Senate Democrats block that would fund the Defense Department through 197 00:12:33.639 --> 00:12:38.960 September next year. It was a litmus test to see 198 00:12:39.399 --> 00:12:41.600 about Democrats who would vote for it, who was not. 199 00:12:42.120 --> 00:12:44.919 Three Democrats did go along with the Republicans. It was 200 00:12:45.039 --> 00:12:51.240 Senator Jean Shaheen of New Hampshire, Senator John Fetterman from Pennsylvania, 201 00:12:51.960 --> 00:12:57.360 and Senator Catherine Cortes Mastow of Nevada. But the bill 202 00:12:57.480 --> 00:13:02.519 fell ten votes short of advancing, which means that they 203 00:13:02.759 --> 00:13:07.240 are sticking to their guns and not going to agree 204 00:13:07.320 --> 00:13:10.399 unless the Republicans agree to spend the one and a 205 00:13:10.440 --> 00:13:16.480 half trillion dollars on Obamacare subsidies that were temporary that 206 00:13:16.519 --> 00:13:20.840 were put into place during COVID. So the military is 207 00:13:20.840 --> 00:13:23.200 not going to get a paycheck that was supposed to 208 00:13:23.240 --> 00:13:27.519 come out yesterday. Federal employees are not getting a paycheck. 209 00:13:27.720 --> 00:13:32.600 So this is where things start to get more interesting 210 00:13:32.799 --> 00:13:37.200 because so far there hasn't been a lot of repercussions. 211 00:13:37.200 --> 00:13:41.159 But now we're going to start hearing the stories about 212 00:13:41.200 --> 00:13:43.759 people that are hurting. They've got rent due, they've got 213 00:13:43.960 --> 00:13:46.759 to go buy groceries, they've got a variety of things. 214 00:13:46.799 --> 00:13:49.399 And the thing that really you want to get ticked 215 00:13:49.440 --> 00:13:55.720 off about this Congress still gets paid. Members of Congress 216 00:13:55.840 --> 00:13:59.360 get their paycheck. The federal employees do not. 217 00:14:00.159 --> 00:14:00.799 Terry does not. 218 00:14:02.159 --> 00:14:06.320 He says the incentive is all backwards. They should continue 219 00:14:06.360 --> 00:14:10.320 to pay the employees. It's not their fault. They're not 220 00:14:10.399 --> 00:14:13.600 the ones deciding to shut the government down. They've got 221 00:14:13.720 --> 00:14:17.000 jobs to do. You can debate the whole issue about 222 00:14:17.399 --> 00:14:21.720 the productivity of federal employees, but not their fault. The 223 00:14:21.759 --> 00:14:26.200 ones who caused the shutdown are still getting paid. They're 224 00:14:26.240 --> 00:14:28.679 the ones that should not get paid, not only now, 225 00:14:28.720 --> 00:14:33.159 but also never make a financial hardship for the people 226 00:14:33.200 --> 00:14:36.840 that are actually running the show. So last night there 227 00:14:36.919 --> 00:14:41.759 was a town hall I don't even know network. AOC 228 00:14:42.360 --> 00:14:47.399 and Bernie were the stars of the town hall and 229 00:14:47.519 --> 00:14:50.960 they had people asking them questions. And it really truly 230 00:14:51.120 --> 00:14:55.440 is AOC and Bernie are the stars of the Democrat Party. 231 00:14:56.240 --> 00:14:58.960 And this is a little bit from the town hall left. 232 00:14:59.039 --> 00:15:01.240 So it sounds like you're call on hickem Jefferies and 233 00:15:01.320 --> 00:15:02.639 Chuck Schumer to endorse. 234 00:15:03.279 --> 00:15:07.399 Think I think I believe that I do believe in 235 00:15:07.679 --> 00:15:09.320 endorsing the nominee, and I think it's the right thing 236 00:15:09.360 --> 00:15:09.519 to do. 237 00:15:11.679 --> 00:15:14.639 She's much nice of them. Are you speaking directly to Hickiem, 238 00:15:14.679 --> 00:15:17.440 Jefferies and Chuck Schumer when you deliver that message? Sure, 239 00:15:17.480 --> 00:15:20.240 I am. Okay, you're watching this, I don't know. 240 00:15:22.000 --> 00:15:23.600 Well, look, it is two things. 241 00:15:23.600 --> 00:15:26.519 Of course, Alexandrew's right, he's a Democratic nominee. How do 242 00:15:26.519 --> 00:15:29.000 you not support the Democratic? But more and boy, are 243 00:15:29.000 --> 00:15:32.799 we gonna support He's a great candidate. There should be 244 00:15:32.840 --> 00:15:36.440 the model. Yeah, that was Bernie saying that he's the 245 00:15:36.480 --> 00:15:39.759 Democrat talking about man Donnie that he's the Democrat nominee. 246 00:15:39.799 --> 00:15:42.240 Of course you're supposed to support him. Yet Karl Rope 247 00:15:42.240 --> 00:15:45.879 points out that Bernie Sanders is a hypocrite because of 248 00:15:45.919 --> 00:15:48.960 the fact that he is an independent and has run 249 00:15:49.039 --> 00:15:53.679 against Democrats time after time after time. Here's Carl Well, 250 00:15:55.000 --> 00:15:58.200 I love the hypocrisy. Bernie has run for the US 251 00:15:58.240 --> 00:16:01.200 House in Vermont eight times, and four times there was 252 00:16:01.240 --> 00:16:04.000 a Democrat. He ran every time as an independent. On 253 00:16:04.080 --> 00:16:07.080 four of those elections he had a Democrat opponent and 254 00:16:07.159 --> 00:16:09.759 he ran anyway. And then he ran for the Senate 255 00:16:09.840 --> 00:16:13.279 four times, always as an independent. The first time around, 256 00:16:13.320 --> 00:16:16.159 the Democrat party endorsed him and he accepted the endorsement. 257 00:16:16.519 --> 00:16:19.679 The next three times that he ran up to including 258 00:16:19.759 --> 00:16:24.159 last year, he ran as an independent and refused the 259 00:16:24.159 --> 00:16:28.320 Democratic nomination, including after he twice ran for president as 260 00:16:28.320 --> 00:16:30.679 a Democrat. So this is not a guy who can 261 00:16:30.759 --> 00:16:34.080 lecture about party loyalty. If you need to support the 262 00:16:34.080 --> 00:16:37.159 Democratic Party nominee, why did four times he run as 263 00:16:37.200 --> 00:16:40.679 an independent against the Democratic nominee in the state of Vermont. 264 00:16:40.679 --> 00:16:44.080 So please, Bernie, don't be a hypocrite. It really doesn't 265 00:16:44.120 --> 00:16:48.480 look good on you. So Mark Short, who was chief 266 00:16:48.519 --> 00:16:53.799 of staff to former Vice President Mike Pence, and Megan Hayes, 267 00:16:53.840 --> 00:16:57.080 who speaks for the Democrats. They went back and forth 268 00:16:57.120 --> 00:17:02.440 on this and they basically that Bernie and AOC are 269 00:17:02.480 --> 00:17:05.599 where all the energy is on the Democrat Party side. 270 00:17:05.680 --> 00:17:07.640 But I think the energy for the Democrat Party is 271 00:17:07.680 --> 00:17:10.599 with AOC and Bernie and Mamdani. I think that's one 272 00:17:10.599 --> 00:17:12.759 of President Trump's gifts is he creates a foil on 273 00:17:12.759 --> 00:17:15.119 the other side that attracts the most radical elements of 274 00:17:15.119 --> 00:17:18.519 their party. But you know, to your bigger conversations. You 275 00:17:18.640 --> 00:17:21.400 remember in twenty eighteen during the midterms, a lot of 276 00:17:21.440 --> 00:17:24.880 Democrats with campaigns saying they would not vote for Pelosi 277 00:17:24.920 --> 00:17:27.519 for speaker. Well, once she won twenty eighteen, they all 278 00:17:27.599 --> 00:17:29.559 voted for And I think it's be the same dynamic 279 00:17:29.599 --> 00:17:32.880 with Jeffries. It's like if he wins the midterms, then 280 00:17:32.920 --> 00:17:35.039 the fall in line. In the same way with Fetterman 281 00:17:35.119 --> 00:17:37.359 up in Pennsylvania. If they're winning, they're going to stick 282 00:17:37.359 --> 00:17:37.839 with what they have. 283 00:17:38.119 --> 00:17:40.880 Kind of surprising because Meghan Hayes speaks for the Democrats 284 00:17:41.400 --> 00:17:44.119 and the idea about John Fetterman, there's a bunch of 285 00:17:44.119 --> 00:17:49.559 Democrats that are trying to primary him. Megan Hayes weighs 286 00:17:49.599 --> 00:17:50.880 in on that whole everyt. 287 00:17:50.759 --> 00:17:52.359 It's reason why I think Democrats would be careful what 288 00:17:52.400 --> 00:17:53.720 they wish for. I think that there's a couple of 289 00:17:53.759 --> 00:17:55.759 things going on here Fetterman. I think people are very 290 00:17:55.759 --> 00:17:57.759 concerned about his health, and I think that it's smart 291 00:17:57.759 --> 00:17:59.279 to have a bench. It's smart to get these people 292 00:17:59.319 --> 00:18:01.480 ready to go if he chooses not to run for 293 00:18:01.480 --> 00:18:03.759 reelection in twenty eight, which is a long time away 294 00:18:03.799 --> 00:18:05.880 from now. But I also do think that we can't 295 00:18:05.880 --> 00:18:08.000 split this. We can't split the state. We cannot have 296 00:18:08.079 --> 00:18:10.920 any sort of any divisiveness in that state. We need 297 00:18:10.920 --> 00:18:12.359 to keep that Senate seat, and we need to win 298 00:18:12.559 --> 00:18:14.799 in the presidential to even have the chance of having 299 00:18:14.839 --> 00:18:16.440 a Democrat become president twenty eight. 300 00:18:16.680 --> 00:18:21.480 So back to Zora and Mondani. He was on Fox 301 00:18:21.519 --> 00:18:26.279 News yesterday. He was asked things like, well, what's your 302 00:18:26.480 --> 00:18:32.079 opinion of Hamas? And literally, this is the guy who 303 00:18:32.559 --> 00:18:35.200 is so anti Israel, and he says, oh, I don't 304 00:18:35.200 --> 00:18:38.079 have an opinion on Hamas. You know, he didn't want 305 00:18:38.119 --> 00:18:41.000 to answer the question. It was crazy. Some of the 306 00:18:41.039 --> 00:18:44.680 things he's still pushing for free buses and free grocery 307 00:18:44.720 --> 00:18:47.680 stores and a variety of things. Here's a little bit 308 00:18:47.680 --> 00:18:50.759 of that interview where he turned to the gamera and 309 00:18:50.839 --> 00:18:53.240 addressed a message to President Trump. 310 00:18:53.559 --> 00:18:55.319 I want to take this moment because you spoke about 311 00:18:55.319 --> 00:18:57.400 President Trump, and he may be watching right now, and 312 00:18:57.440 --> 00:18:59.640 I just want to speak directly to the President, which 313 00:18:59.680 --> 00:19:01.759 is that I I will not be a mayor like 314 00:19:01.839 --> 00:19:03.880 Mayor Adams, who will call you to figure out how 315 00:19:03.880 --> 00:19:05.559 to stay out of jail. I won't be a disgraced 316 00:19:05.599 --> 00:19:08.039 governor like Andrew Cuomo who will call you to ask 317 00:19:08.240 --> 00:19:10.240 how to win this election. I can do those things 318 00:19:10.319 --> 00:19:10.839 on my own. 319 00:19:11.279 --> 00:19:11.519 Well. 320 00:19:12.079 --> 00:19:15.839 Veez and I aron support of his candidacy for different reasons. 321 00:19:16.079 --> 00:19:17.640 I think it is going to be terrible for the 322 00:19:17.640 --> 00:19:20.920 Democratic Party to have as there as a symbol of 323 00:19:21.000 --> 00:19:23.759 their future the mayor of New York who says free 324 00:19:23.759 --> 00:19:26.400 buses and free this and free that and weird stuff 325 00:19:26.440 --> 00:19:29.000 on the left. This is not going to sell in Texas. 326 00:19:29.039 --> 00:19:31.359 It's not going to sell in most of America. In 327 00:19:31.440 --> 00:19:34.000 flyover country, they're not going to respond well to either 328 00:19:34.039 --> 00:19:37.480 AOC running for the US Senate or Mom Dami becoming 329 00:19:37.519 --> 00:19:40.720 mayor of New York. And let's remember all, let's talk 330 00:19:40.720 --> 00:19:44.519 about enthusiasm. New York has four point seven million voters, 331 00:19:44.720 --> 00:19:48.000 three point one million of them are Democrats. Mandabi won 332 00:19:48.160 --> 00:19:51.359 fifteen percent of the registered Democrats turned out and voted 333 00:19:51.400 --> 00:19:53.960 for him, and ten percent of New York voters voted 334 00:19:53.960 --> 00:19:57.160 for him in the primary season. So really, this guy 335 00:19:57.440 --> 00:19:59.720 has got a lot of enthusiasm. He went out of 336 00:19:59.720 --> 00:20:02.079 every six Democrats voted for him in the City of 337 00:20:02.119 --> 00:20:04.079 New York. And he's supposed to be the guy who's 338 00:20:04.079 --> 00:20:05.960 going to energize the Democrats for the future. 339 00:20:06.079 --> 00:20:06.920 Good luck with that. 340 00:20:07.240 --> 00:20:09.240 There's going to be a counter reaction to him as 341 00:20:09.279 --> 00:20:11.559 mayor of New York if he governs like he's been 342 00:20:11.640 --> 00:20:14.680 campaigning by promising all this free stuff and a government 343 00:20:14.720 --> 00:20:17.400 takeover and anti wealth and so forth. So if you 344 00:20:17.559 --> 00:20:19.400 don't live in New York, I know you're going to 345 00:20:19.599 --> 00:20:23.839 What do I care? But the idea of Democrats socialism 346 00:20:24.400 --> 00:20:29.240 is spreading and it's becoming more popular maybe, and that's 347 00:20:29.240 --> 00:20:32.000 why the tests. See how he's going to do in 348 00:20:32.039 --> 00:20:33.960 the Marya's race, which is coming up here in just 349 00:20:34.000 --> 00:20:37.960 a couple of weeks the election will be held, And 350 00:20:38.079 --> 00:20:40.240 the same with Bernie and same with AOC. They are 351 00:20:40.279 --> 00:20:42.759 where the energy of the Democrat Party is right now, 352 00:20:43.160 --> 00:20:47.640 and we'll see how much how many Democrats really do 353 00:20:47.799 --> 00:20:52.400 support them when push comes to show. Go back to Washington, 354 00:20:52.480 --> 00:20:56.119 d C. And the effort to wipe out crime. The 355 00:20:56.160 --> 00:20:58.880 President brought in troops. I think some of them are 356 00:20:58.880 --> 00:21:03.359 still there because it's a federal district. And the question 357 00:21:03.440 --> 00:21:08.079 of the day is how's that going. Because there was 358 00:21:08.319 --> 00:21:11.880 a case that became kind of the cause celeb A 359 00:21:11.920 --> 00:21:16.160 young man who worked for DOGE was beaten pretty severely 360 00:21:16.720 --> 00:21:21.279 and robbed not that far from the Capitol building, and 361 00:21:21.680 --> 00:21:25.559 the people that were involved in that were arrested. Well, 362 00:21:25.599 --> 00:21:30.599 it turns out where they were given probation. And this 363 00:21:30.680 --> 00:21:33.599 is something that you can bring in all the soldiers 364 00:21:33.599 --> 00:21:36.759 and troops and police and everything else. But the City 365 00:21:36.839 --> 00:21:40.759 Council of Washington, d C. Has passed all kinds of 366 00:21:40.839 --> 00:21:45.079 rules and the judges are very soft on crime. Until 367 00:21:45.119 --> 00:21:49.440 you get some people that are willing to enforce the laws, 368 00:21:50.200 --> 00:21:56.200 crime will continue. Jim Trusty, former prosecutor, federal prosecutor. Yeah, 369 00:21:56.240 --> 00:21:57.119 he talks about this. 370 00:21:57.559 --> 00:21:59.960 Yeah, Well, just remember Mark Twain said, there's lies day 371 00:22:00.039 --> 00:22:02.680 analyzed and statistics, so you can look at things like 372 00:22:02.720 --> 00:22:05.480 the DC murder rate and say it's way up or 373 00:22:05.519 --> 00:22:08.480 way down, depending on exactly where you use your starting point. 374 00:22:08.680 --> 00:22:11.799 That's part of the mischief of the politicians interpreting these numbers. 375 00:22:11.799 --> 00:22:14.960 But look, the FBI, that's a legitimate victory lap. The 376 00:22:15.039 --> 00:22:19.519 FBI has really changed course to emphasize heavily violent crime. 377 00:22:19.559 --> 00:22:23.160 They've had for years these task forces called Safe Streets 378 00:22:23.240 --> 00:22:26.519 or Safe Trails, task forces that team up with other 379 00:22:26.559 --> 00:22:29.680 FEDS and locals to go after violent crime. That's always 380 00:22:29.720 --> 00:22:33.400 been fairly successful. More maybe a modest effort to spread 381 00:22:33.440 --> 00:22:35.960 out into violent crime by the FBI, but the task 382 00:22:35.960 --> 00:22:39.160 force approach is obviously on steroids right now. And that's 383 00:22:39.200 --> 00:22:41.119 with or without the National Guard component. 384 00:22:41.200 --> 00:22:41.759 You can have an. 385 00:22:41.759 --> 00:22:45.279 Influx of federal agencies that are real force multipliers that 386 00:22:45.359 --> 00:22:47.720 work with the locals who know the players, that bring 387 00:22:47.759 --> 00:22:51.079 different tools from DEA, from ICE, from FBI to have 388 00:22:51.240 --> 00:22:54.000 very successful results. I live that as the Chief Organized 389 00:22:54.000 --> 00:22:56.799 Crime and Gangs for seven years. That was by far 390 00:22:56.920 --> 00:22:59.480 the best model for going after the worst of the 391 00:22:59.480 --> 00:23:02.920 worst gang is teaming up all those resources and using 392 00:23:02.960 --> 00:23:05.519 the locals who really know the streets and know the players. 393 00:23:05.559 --> 00:23:07.759 So it's a you know, there's always room. 394 00:23:07.599 --> 00:23:09.720 To question the stats, but it's a pretty legitimate victory 395 00:23:09.799 --> 00:23:12.440 lap and you look at the overall numbers. Yeah, Look, 396 00:23:12.480 --> 00:23:15.279 I think there's a big disconnect between the political figures, 397 00:23:15.640 --> 00:23:18.319 and when we talk about like police agreeing with the 398 00:23:18.319 --> 00:23:20.720 political figures, they kind of have to. Those are their bosses. 399 00:23:20.759 --> 00:23:23.200 You know, if you're the superintendent of the state police 400 00:23:23.279 --> 00:23:25.880 or if you're the City of Police City of Portland 401 00:23:26.440 --> 00:23:29.359