Speaker 1: And here we go. Welcome to the Big Podcast on
this Tuesday. Today is the ninth day of December, year
of Our Lord, twenty twenty five. My name is Tom Sullivan,
and glad you came by. Listen. We have a lot
to go over today. Venezuela chips being sent to Nvidia,
chips being sent to China. The economy. The President is
going to be in in the Poconos tonight in Pennsylvania
to talk about the economy. And we've got we've got
the Transportations Secretary. I guess everything's fine at the airport.
They want them to be family friendly, and I'm going
to I just make them so that the planes come
and go on time. That's kind of what I'm looking for.
Let's start. Oh, and we got a bunch of phone calls.
I've been I've been delinquent. We've got great phone calls
that have come in from you. Let's start with all
this business about the drug boats. Got a couple of
calls on that as well. But the drug boats and
the idea that they are going to want to release
the video of this what's going on today with the
drug boats is that Pete Hegseth is briefing a gang
of eight today, the head of the Senate for the
Republicans and Democrats, that and the head of the House
for the Democrats and Republicans, and then that the four
ranking people from the Armed Services Committee, two from the House,
two from the Senate. So this is they're going to
show the tape, And I thought, well, why do I
think they should release the video? It's apparently a couple
of hours long. I doubt most people will watch it.
I dot most people that watch it will even watch
it all the way through. And when we get through
seeing this video, I suspect what we're going to do
is we're going to disagree on what we saw, because
that's what I have gleaned from members of the House,
the Intel Committee, and the Senate that have seen it.
Tom Cotton says, everything's fine, they're trying to turn the
boat over so they can continue their ways, and Jim
Hins from the Intel Committee in the House, it was
the most horrible thing he's ever seen. So I think
that's what we will come away with it going disagreeing
about the whole thing, but about the idea. So anyway
that's going on, Yeah, John Thune and Chuck Schumer from
the Senate, Speaker Johnson and Hawking, Jeffries from the House,
and then in the Armed Services Committee, Mike Rogers and
Adam Smith from the House, and Roger Wicker and Jack
Reid from the Senate. And so those eight are getting
brief today, and I doubt they're going to say much.
Maybe Adam Smith talks a lot. He's a Democrat from Seattle.
I'll tell you who else talks a lot is Ran Paul,
and Ran Paul is kind of a maverick. So I thought, well,
we'll play. Rand Paul was talking about the whole concept
forget this particular tape, forgets the strike on September. Second,
the whole idea about using the military to go out
and get these drug boats, because I looked at the
drug boats and I always have thought that was a
function of law enforcement, not the military. The Coastguard, yes,
but law enforcement is the group that this is a
law enforcement effort to try to stop drugs coming into
our country. So Rand Paul had this to say.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm kind of old fashioned. I kind of
like to obey this thing called the constitution. The constitution
says that war only occurs when it's declared by Congress.
President doesn't have the power to take the country to war. Now,
if he does, he wouldn't be the first president to
disobey the Constitution. But I think we should obey the
Constitution because I think it makes war less likely. This
would be a war of choice. It would be an
offensive war, i'lbeit a war to get rid of people
we most of us find distasteful. But it would be
unconstitutional for the president to do this alone. So if
he thinks he wants war with Venezuela, he should come
and ask for permission from Congress the way it was intended.
Speaker 1: Well, I see his point, and I know that the
founding fathers thought that if it required going and asking
a whole bunch of people over to Congress for permission
to go to war, that it would probably keep us
out of a lot of wars. And no presidents pay
no attention to that part of the Constitution. So I
agree with Rand Paul. We should follow the Constitution and
have presidents go to Congress for permission to go to war. Now,
as far as foreign policy goes, this is getting to
be interesting too, because we told you yesterday about the
fact that the President came out with the foreign policy
doctrine that their presidents are required to come up with,
sent it over to Congress, and in there he talked
about how Europe is becoming basically decivilized. And what he's
talking about is the huge number of immigrants that have
come into those countries of Europe and have changed the
cultures of many of the Western European countries. So here's
President Trump basically answering the question. He sat down with
Politico and we'll have a bunch of clips from that interview,
but here's the one where he was talking about his
view on Europe.
Speaker 3: Most European nations they're decaying, the decaying, but Europe they
want to be politically correct and it makes them weak.
That's what makes them weak.
Speaker 1: So Chris Coons, who's a Democrat senator from Delaware, sits
on the Foreign Relations Committee. He's all upset about this.
Speaker 4: And Kate tragically, that's in keeping with the recently released
national security strategy of this administration, which fails to identify
Russia as an aggressor, Ukraine as a democracy that deserves
our defense, and NATO as strong, trusted and valued allies.
This latest statement from President Trump dishonors the decades long
bipartisan commitment in the United States and here in Congress
to stand up for democracy and human rights and to
stand shoulder to shoulder with our NATO allies. As the
President just referenced, They've stepped forward. They've made significant investments
in Ukraine security, in European security. They're showing strength, not weakness.
And a decision just made by President Trump to allow
the export of cutting edge AI chips to China further
alarms me that he doesn't understand the moment we're in
and is making national security decisions with regards to Europe
and Asia that are weakening the United States, not strengthen US.
Speaker 1: I thought Chris Coons was a kind of a reasonable democrat,
if there is such a thing, and of course there is,
but this doesn't make any sense to me. He knows,
he's got to know that. He says, well, we need
to stand I mean, look at the European allies. They
made NATO strong and they stand with his shoulder to shoulder.
What he fails to mention, and I brought this up yesterday,
I brought it up before, is that a number of
the Western European countries that are members of NATO are
still spending millions, if not billions, in buying Russian oil.
They send their money to Russia. Russia uses the money
to continue to prosecute the war, and Chris Kuns says,
we need to stand with these people. Well, maybe they
need to stand with Ukraine. They pretend they're standing with Ukraine,
but really not. And so that goes back to what
President Trump was talking about. These countries are weak. They're
very weak. He mentioned the chips. This is let me
set it up for you here. This is the END
two hundred chips, the H I'm sorry, H two hundred
chips made by Nvidia that are being sent to China.
There was another one, the H twenty, and there was
a fight about whether or not we would allow Nvidia
to sell these chips to China because that would give
them an edge. Well, now this is a much better chip,
the H two hundred, yet it's not the very latest
that Nvidia makes here in the United States. So they're
sending them a couple of cycles back. They're little, they're
a little out of date. And what Chris Coons is
upset about is that this is going to give China
the upper hand on AI. And what the argument is
is there are people like Chris Coons that are saying, yes, this,
we're sending these Nvidio chips over to China. They're going
to use these and they're going to beat us. They're
going to beat us in the marketplace with AI. The
other argument is that if you control the best chips,
nobody else will bother trying to compete against you. It's
not easy to all of a sudden go out and
figure out how to re engineer these things and make
them yourself. It takes years for these to be made
in very precise manufacturing facilities, which are in Taiwan. By
the way, there are also some that they're building it
here in the US. But what Chris cons doesn't understand
is that if if if the Vidio and Vidia chip
is the standard, then the rest of the world is
not going to give the Chinese whatever they come up
with the time of day, including Chinese companies. Besides that,
China is very worried about these chips. They the first group,
the H twenty, China said we're not going to accept
them into our country. I don't know if they've accepted
these H two hundreds. The President gave Nvidia the authority
to go ahead and sell them. What China is worried
about is these come into China and there's a back
door to them, and we, since it's a US company
and Vidia, we will use that back door to spy
on China. So they're worried about them. The only thing
I don't like about all this is is that I
don't like government mixing with the private sector. And what
for Nvidia to be able to sell these chips, they
have to pay a fee to the US government of
twenty five percent of the sales price. I don't like it.
I don't like it at all. Here's Chris Coon talking
about the chips. Look.
Speaker 4: Decades of industrial experience by leading American companies shows he's wrong.
AI chips are transformational. AI technology is transformational. This isn't
just a matter of whether cars made in the United
States or cars made in China are going to be
bought more by Chinese consumers, which is how David Sachs
is posing it. He's suggesting that chips are just commodity items.
They're not. They are the brains of the new generation
systems that are transforming everything from farming and food production,
to education and national security. A broad bipartisan group of
Senators has joined me in introducing, along with Senator Ricketts,
a bill that would prevent the export of cutting edge
AI chips, and I led a letter here in the
Senate with a significant group of leading Democrats urging President
Trump to roll this back.
Speaker 1: What Kus doesn't understand is that if we put up
fences and not let this chip be made anywhere else
in the world, you know that China will have spies,
and there will be people that they will get the technology,
and they will be able to figure it out eventually themselves,
as opposed to the other argument, which is make the
Nvidia chip the standard around the world. Nobody else would
try and do anything but that, including the Chinese. So
it's a debatable topic. But I'm in the camp that
says let them have what they a couple of cycles back,
but don't try and pretend that they're not going to
be able to figure out how to spy on your
own on the chipst and video makes sure China can
re engineer how to make a Cadillac. But this isn't
that this is precision manufacturing. That it would take many
many years at least five for the Chinese to try
to figure out how to make this. It's a lot
easier to try and be the dominant chip in the
world and not try and pretend like they're not going
to try and spy and figure it out themselves. And
speaking of the economy, where we, yes, we were. So
the President, like I said, is going up to the
Poconos tonight to give a speech about the economy, and
apparently this is going to be their plan, is to
go out and to have a number of these meetings
where the President does a lot more domestic traveling than
he did in the past. Asked the thing, I'm concerned
about it. I'll wait to see how he does tonight.
But this is how Joe Biden got in trouble, and
his staff, who were really running things, said, what's the
matter with the economy's doing great? Why do you say
it's not. You can't You can't give speeches to tell
people you're doing better than you think you are. Now
I know that, and I know the President Trump subscribes to.
This is that if you repeat something enough times, people
will believe it to be true. But when it comes
to your pocketbook, it still comes down to and people
vote their pocket number one issue on why people choose
who to vote for, so he can tell them over
and over again, you're doing better than you think you are.
But it's really going to have to come down to results.
And they are doing a lot, and the big new
beautiful bill's going to kick in right after the first
of the year. But there are a couple and gas prices.
The President's been talking about gas prices. Gas You know
how much of the household budget gasoline? It makes up
three percent. That's the statistic is most people, it's about
a three percent of your household budget, so that means
they're ninety seven percent that is other things, especially groceries,
and so there are you can you can brag about
the gas prices and has every right to because it's
down out of two dollars ninety five cents national average
for a gallon of cheap stuff. But when it comes
to other things out there, gasoline is nice, but it's
it's all the other things that you look in your
wallet and you go, man, what's happening in my money?
The other thing that the President and Washington d C.
Cannot control, And it's a huge problem in this country
is housing costs. Housing costs are controlled by your local utility,
by your local planning commission, by your local city or county,
or even state rules about housing. So a lot of
the cost of housing going up is because of local
government piling on more rules and more regulations, which cost
builders more to build a home. So I wish him well.
Doug McMillan, CEO of Walmart, briefly touched on the economy.
From their point of view.
Speaker 5: It's been really consistent for us now we're benefiting from
some share gains. People with high income levels are shopping
with us more often and have been for a while.
There's pressure at the bottom end. Inflation being low single
digit right now helps a little bit, but it's on
years of price inflation in some categories. Gas prices being
low was helpful right now. So people are behaving pretty consistently,
but there's pressure for those at lower income levels.
Speaker 1: He said that a couple of times. Its pressure on
low income levels, it's also pressure on middle income levels.
The only people that are really out there spending and
driving the economy and driving the Walmarts of the world.
Like you said that. He basically said the high income
people never used to shop at Walmart, but now they are,
which also says something essentially, yeh, Walmart's doing fine, but
the lower end and the middle income having pressure, as
he says. So in this interview last night that the
President did with Politico, he was asked about prices.
Speaker 3: I inherited a total mess. Prices were at an all
time high when I came in. Prices are coming down substantially.
Speaker 1: Look at energy.
Speaker 3: If you think it gasoline a gallon, they had it
at four dollars and fifty cents, almost five dollars, and
you go to some of the states, he had it
at six dollars. We hit three states two days ago
one dollar and ninety nine cent a gallon.
Speaker 1: I'm not quite sure where those dollar ninety nine states are,
he said, the three of them. His people probably came
to him and they found a gas station somewhere that
sells dollar ninety nine. But the averages done by Triple
A are the lowest ones are around the national average
two ninety five. The lowest ones are mostly around two
dollars and fifty cents, still much better, but that's just
three percent of a household budget. So the problem is
is I hope that he understands that a lot of
things cost more and prices haven't. Some have come down
very few, but inflation is not what it was, but
prices are still going higher, mostly by about three percent
a year. So then you get into the farm and
the president has once again, just like he did in
his first term, is having to bail out the farmers.
He's come up with a plan of twelve billion dollars
to give to the farmers. And it was twenty billion
in Trump one point zero, but this is twelve billion dollars.
And what he's doing is he's basically using tariff revenue
to provide relief to the farmers that are harmed by
the tariffs. Here's Caleb Raglin, he's the head of the
American Soybean Association.
Speaker 6: We're thankful that the administration does serious economic challenges in
farm country and this will help alleviate some of the
first the losses we've had. This is a good first step,
but this will only take care of about a quarter
of the losses that the average soybean farmer has accumulated
this year. We've lost the average of one hundred and
nine dollars an acre on this crop. We just produced,
and that's a very serious situation for the American soybean farmer,
our number one ag export. That's been a year of
challenges and uncertainty, whether that be weather, whether it be markets.
The cost of production that we have as farmers is
at a record high. Fertilized continues to go up, the
cost of our equipment is going up, and unfortunately, we
don't have commodity prices that are in line with that
inflated production costs that we're continuing to experience, and we're
operating at a loss this year, unfortunately, and without a
change in the direction we're going, we're gonna have a
lot of farmers that are not able to stay in
business and farm families that are no longer able to
continue that tradition that not only impacts our farms, but
also our real communities and the economy of our whole nation.
It's serious.
Speaker 1: So Broock Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture, makes a pretty outlandish
claim that the trade problems have nothing to do with
the problems facing the soybean farmers.
Speaker 6: There is almost zero evidence, if any evidence that what
they are doing and the challenges that our farm economy
is facing in row crops has anything to do with
these trade renegotiations.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't know how she says that, because with
China was the biggest customer of American soybeans. Leave it
somewhere in the vicinity of twenty million tons of soybeans,
and China this year said forget it. Were not bought
because of the trade retaliation by them on the trade tariffs.
So they said, forget it, We're not buying any US
soybeans this year, and they went to Brazil and bought
billions of dollars worth of soybeans from Brazil. Go back
to the head of the Soybean Association here in the US.
And by the way, he's wants to be very careful
because he's getting twelve billion dollars from the Department of
Agriculture for the farmers. Not because of the goodness of
their hearts. They know that they got they the soybean
farmers got hurt by all of this trade stuff.
Speaker 6: Well, I think our situation is a combination of lack
of market based opportunities, which goes back to trade. We
need a level playing field to sell our soy means
and other commodities. It also goes back, as I mentioned earlier,
to the inflated cost of production that we have, and
this is something that's been a problem going on five
six years, and it's really getting serious. Examples would be
five years ago, phosphate fertilized was less than half the
cost that it is right now. We can look at
our cost of equipment, see pesticides. Everything we do is
going up, up, up, and our commodity prices unfortunately don't
reflect that, and the result is net losses for most
of our farms, and that is not sustainable situation now
for the agriculture economy or soybean producers.
Speaker 1: Now, what did he say? This twelve billion dollars will
cover about twenty five percent of their costs. So he's
happy that they're getting it, but it's not going to
make things right. And China, in this back and forth
with the US regarding tariffs on China teriffs from them
on our products, China said that they would buy down
this last agreement just a month or two ago, that
they would buy at least twelve million tons of US
soybeans by the end of this calendar year. Well, we're
three weeks away and they have purchased two point eight
million tons, not twelve two point eight. So once again
China has done this in the past. They said we'll
do this and do that, and they don't keep their agreements.
I want to talk about Texas politics for a moment. Yep,
Jasmine Crockett has thrown her hat into the ring. She
is running now. She's a congresswoman from Texas. She is
going to She's running for John Cornyn's seat as a
Senator from Texas. And Cornyn the Republican, he has to
win his primary. But Jasmine Crockett, who is makes AOC
look kind of calm. She has made it clear that
she wants to be the next senator from Texas.
Speaker 7: Turning Texas blue is what I want to talk to
y'all about today. Now there are those that say, ain't
no way. We didn't try it at fifty kinds of ways.
Let me be clear, y'all ain't never tried at the
JC way. We used to telling us what I can't do.
But they have no idea what Crockett's crew will do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she is, and she's reading off a teleproperty because
otherwise she gets pretty wild. Let's see what else have
we got from Jasmine Crockett.
Speaker 7: They tell us that Texas is read. They are lying,
We're not. The reality is that most Texans don't get
out to vote.
Speaker 1: Okay, So Carl Rove, who is a political expert and
he happens to reside in Texas, what does Carl think
of Jasmine Crockett's chances? Not really, But this is going
to be highly entertaining. Let's be clear.
Speaker 8: The early coverage of this is that inside the Democrats,
this is going to be a battle between the left
and the center. That's not going to be the case.
It is not left versus moderate, It is nutty versus
not nutty. James Tallerco, the other Democrat in the race,
is as liberal as Jasmine Crockett is. It's just that
he's not as nutty.
Speaker 6: As she is.
Speaker 8: She served in the Texas House for one term. She
was known for giving inflammatory statements, generally only to reporters,
and for achieving virtually nothing. And she has been that way. Yes, absolutely,
Schumer's ability to raise money is still there, but his
ability to affect who's in and who's out in the
Democratic primary is gone. In fact, count on it. Both
Tallarico and Crockett will say that Schumer should not be
sent a leader, and then there'll be hoping that he
will shower them with cash in the general election, which
he's capable of doing. But look, let's be clear she is.
You'll notice she gave her talk off of a teleprompter.
That's about the only time we're going to see her
under control. She is capable of saying the most extraordinary thing.
Our governor who is paralyzed in a freak accident as
a young man, is in a wheelchair, and she belittles
him for that. And she is capable of doing that
kind of thing every day in every way possible. It's
going to be highly entertaining.
Speaker 1: So standby for that race with the Jasmine Crockett in
Texas to see how she does there. Let's get some
phone calls in. We haven't done this for a while,
and there's some great phone calls that I want to
play from those of you in the audience. Phone number
is eight five five two nine five sixty six hundred
eight five five two nine five sixty six hundred. If
you forget the number, it's you can go to my
website Tom Sullivan dot com and there is the number.
Let's start with this caller from Orlando.
Speaker 9: Hello, Tom, this is Rumba ron from usually sunny and
warm Central Sorda, Bell Island or Belle Isle. Actually I
like the new theme song. I've been meaning to call
you about that. My biggest right today is this Paramount
takeover of or trying to take over Warner bothers. This
is definitely right out of Wall Street with Michael Douglas.
It's it's the phrase greed is good. And now we
find out the investor group is the Saudiast it's giving
money to the Ellisons and Affinity Partners. And guess who
that is. That's Jared Kushner. I've never liked that guy
on the staff. So that's the reason Trump's behind all
these and he's pro Paramount, So this we have to
stop for that reason. I don't want a foreign country
buying one of my studios. They're very precious and anyway,
that's something that probably should not happen anyway, But like
Michael Douglas said, greed is good. This is exactly what
this is. Mister Ellison thinks now he's a god because
he bought Paramount. He's the god of movies, so now
he can buy Warner bouts because he's a god. Well,
I don't think so. Anyway, that's my gripe for the day.
My fun thing is your favorite girl pal, Christy nom
I've seen this TV ad where she's on her horse
completely in this very colorful western outfit and her new
program that a lot of the stations won't run. But
I was thinking, her look reminds me very much. If
you look up Hugh Heffer, he had a favorite galpala
named Barby Benson. They look alike, so maybe that's where
they came up with the phrase ice Barbie for her. Anyways,
I'll let you run on. Be well, keep up with
the show, glad you're there, and have a good day.
Speaker 1: Oh man, there's a lot of unpact there. First of all,
about the studios. He's right as far as there's going
to be Saudi money involved with Paramount going after out time,
Warner Brothers and Discovery. Jared Kushner is part of the
money of that as well. I've talked to some people
I know that work in the movie business in Hollywood,
and everybody in that town. They're watching the movie business
just disintegrate, just disintegrate, and they're worried about they don't
know which one is going to be the better or
the worse, whether it's Netflix or whether it's Paramount. But
I'm just parting a sample. If you I've never watched
the show. I know of it. I see ads for it.
There's a show called The Floor, and there's another one
where you're supposed to beat ninety nine other people. You
know where those are filmed. They're game shows, they're filmed.
The ninety nine show, I think is filmed in Ireland,
and The Floor is filmed in London. They found it
cheaper to fly all the contestants and the crew and
ship the equipment to London or to Ireland than it
is to do a film in California. That's how bad
the rules, regulations and taxes in California have driven the
movie business mostly out. They're they're going elsewhere to do
all of this, so we'll see how that turns out.
The other comedy made about Christinome looks like Barbie Benton.
Barbie Benton, I know her mother. Yes, she's grew up
in Sacramento and I met her mother there. And Barbie
now has got to be probably in her sixties. But
I get what you're what you're talking about. There is
kind of a little bit of resemblance. Here's a speaking
of California. Here's a caller from Auburn, California.
Speaker 9: Tom Skysteinkler from Auburn. Just letting you know that I'm
really confused with your obsession with Harry Inton. It just
seems like he's spewing propaganda all over your show. I'm
trust posters and I never have, and I don't think
they've been right about anything. I think the president's using
his tariffs to balance trade all across the world, and
the majority of people that voted for President Trump in
the last election still support his use of tariffs today
because he's getting results. I love the show and appreciate
your show for many years. I have a good one.
Speaker 1: I hear what you're saying. I use Harry Anson a lot.
I find them to be entertaining. But he's done an
awful lot of things that nobody else does that are
pro Donald Trump, pro Republican. He's also done some that
are not pro Donald Trump or Republican, but he gives
the statistics that I like to know about. And as
far as the tariffs go, you're not going to convince
me I'm sorry, we're going to have to agree to disagree.
Tariffs are They never work. They cause more problems. We've
got more chaos in our trading systems around the world. Now,
I agree that there have been countries that have abused
our country with their tariffs. You can fix those one
on one. But the broad tariffs on everything in every
country in the world. Sorry, I'm still still very much opposed.
Speaker 9: To all of that.
Speaker 1: Oh. Look, here's Salty. We haven't talked to Salty here
he's call.
Speaker 9: Hey, Thomas Salty. Uh.
Speaker 10: I just wanted to say Hi. I think I got
my Thanksgiving greeting to you a little late. So I'm
gonna I'm gonna get you to get you your Christmas
uh song here probably uh first part of week after next.
But don't want to go too far over mastise as
they say, because I don't know do you know, Lord
knows how many days I got Some days I think
it's the last one. But I hope you're doing all right.
I just had one question, you know, every time, uh,
we got something going on, uh, and we solve a problem,
and then we get all these people together, like.
Speaker 9: Uh, you know, uh, the.
Speaker 10: Old the FBI director uh, cash on the money put
tail and then uh, you know Pamela Bondo and then
uh yeah, I love Judge Janine.
Speaker 9: I think that's her name.
Speaker 10: Holy caw. I'd like to see her in U old
Judge Judy in the Celebrity death Match. But anyway, just
wonder why we always have to put out all the
information because you know, I think criminals pay attention to
that stuff and say, well, you know, we can't do
that because of that. It just seems to me that
we shouldn't be giving so much information out. I know
we live in a free society, which ain't free because
I'm getting patched to death. But anyway, I don't know
why we don't keep it a little closer to the vest.
After all, I got buddy, have a good weekend. It's
snowing here in Lynchburg.
Speaker 1: Bye wow. So I know it snowed pretty far south
this past week. But yeah, I'm with Salty. I think
I know we're hungry for every little kernel of information,
especially when it comes to crime. Crime news is big.
People love to follow crime stories. But I'm with you.
I think law enforcement would be better to keep that
stuff close to the vest. I got a call Jim
in Wichita, Kansas. I got your call, but I couldn't
play it. It was it was like so hard to hear.
There were parts that I could tell it was you,
but there was a lot of it that was just
all broken up. I could not use it at all,
but I appreciate the effort. Here's Eric, our former Russian comrade.
Hold On, let's see, here's here's Eric.
Speaker 11: About this drug war and for whom it's good for?
And you said something about that. You know the drug users,
you know that they do their choices and then they're
probably only one who suffers from the drug war and
all like the rest of the society, kind of like Glorie.
But there's one part is missing. There's a lot of
money involved in that huge amount, and that crafts our
jiujitsu and law enforcement system. The judges. Don't you see
the cartel judges yet? Do you remember the Italian message
judges on the East coast. They go on the West
coast too, So that is the biggest problem with the cartels.
They have a lot of money, they're going to use
it and they're gonna bribe our law inforce. I mean
they already bribed it, but they will get the indred more.
That is what I'm concerned of.
Speaker 1: Well, sadly, Eric, you're probably right. I've talked about it before.
I want to support law enforcement. I want to support
the judicial system. But if they're paying off judges and
polast chiefs in Mexico to get drugs up into the US,
I'm sure that they are found some judges and law
enforcement in the US to pay office. Well, the look
the other way. There have been a few that have
been caught, and sadly, it's part of human nature. Is
called greed, one of the seven deadly sins. Here's another
call about drugs, Tom.
Speaker 9: I don't think ninety of the people in this country
would care if you let drug smugglers or drug dealers
or anybody else criminal. I don't think it's ninety nine percent.
It might be about fifty five percent, because forty five
percent of the leftists dinner in this country, including the
politicians that they've run to. Those leftists, they want drugs smuggling,
they want criminality, they want terrorism. Hands down. And if
you don't believe that, I got a bridge to sell
you it's a golden game, you might you might want
to buy. It takes something speculater, but sure where that
was going.
Speaker 1: I think he started off by saying most people don't
care about the taking out the drug boats. I think
he's right on that. I don't think most people care.
I think they look at it and go that those
are people bringing in poison killing US citizens. So finally
we're getting tough on him. I don't know, Well, I
have to see how this whole thing shakes out. I'm i'm.
I don't think they're going to show the video, but
I wish they would show the video so that we
can argue about that. I think people will come up
with two different impressions depending upon their political stance on life.
Here's Laurie. Will finish with Laurie the comment line, Lady,
she always has something short, sweet and to the point.
Some politicians who advocate defunding the police should have their
security details made up of mental health counselors. Yes, I
couldn't agree more. They should. That's what they that's what
they want for us. All right, Let's see what Wall
Street did today. The market mixed mostly down. The Dow
Jones industrials down one hundred and seventy nine to forty
seven and five sixty, SMP down just six, Nasdaq up thirty,
Gold up nineteen dollars to forty two thirty six. Oil
fell again today, down fifty cents. It's at fifty eight
dollars and some change for a barrel of oil. So
that's it for today. Thank you for coming by today.
We're going to try this again tomorrow. Hope to see
you then