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Speaker 1: And here we go. Welcome to the Big Podcast on

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this Tuesday. Today is the ninth day of December, year

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of Our Lord, twenty twenty five. My name is Tom Sullivan,

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and glad you came by. Listen. We have a lot

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to go over today. Venezuela chips being sent to Nvidia,

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chips being sent to China. The economy. The President is

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going to be in in the Poconos tonight in Pennsylvania

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to talk about the economy. And we've got we've got

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the Transportations Secretary. I guess everything's fine at the airport.

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They want them to be family friendly, and I'm going

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to I just make them so that the planes come

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and go on time. That's kind of what I'm looking for.

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Let's start. Oh, and we got a bunch of phone calls.

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I've been I've been delinquent. We've got great phone calls

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that have come in from you. Let's start with all

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this business about the drug boats. Got a couple of

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calls on that as well. But the drug boats and

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the idea that they are going to want to release

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the video of this what's going on today with the

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drug boats is that Pete Hegseth is briefing a gang

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of eight today, the head of the Senate for the

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Republicans and Democrats, that and the head of the House

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for the Democrats and Republicans, and then that the four

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ranking people from the Armed Services Committee, two from the House,

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two from the Senate. So this is they're going to

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show the tape, And I thought, well, why do I

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think they should release the video? It's apparently a couple

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of hours long. I doubt most people will watch it.

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I dot most people that watch it will even watch

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it all the way through. And when we get through

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seeing this video, I suspect what we're going to do

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is we're going to disagree on what we saw, because

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that's what I have gleaned from members of the House,

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the Intel Committee, and the Senate that have seen it.

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Tom Cotton says, everything's fine, they're trying to turn the

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boat over so they can continue their ways, and Jim

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Hins from the Intel Committee in the House, it was

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the most horrible thing he's ever seen. So I think

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that's what we will come away with it going disagreeing

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about the whole thing, but about the idea. So anyway

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that's going on, Yeah, John Thune and Chuck Schumer from

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the Senate, Speaker Johnson and Hawking, Jeffries from the House,

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and then in the Armed Services Committee, Mike Rogers and

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Adam Smith from the House, and Roger Wicker and Jack

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Reid from the Senate. And so those eight are getting

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brief today, and I doubt they're going to say much.

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Maybe Adam Smith talks a lot. He's a Democrat from Seattle.

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I'll tell you who else talks a lot is Ran Paul,

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and Ran Paul is kind of a maverick. So I thought, well,

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we'll play. Rand Paul was talking about the whole concept

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forget this particular tape, forgets the strike on September. Second,

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the whole idea about using the military to go out

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and get these drug boats, because I looked at the

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drug boats and I always have thought that was a

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function of law enforcement, not the military. The Coastguard, yes,

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but law enforcement is the group that this is a

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law enforcement effort to try to stop drugs coming into

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our country. So Rand Paul had this to say.

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Speaker 2: You know, I'm kind of old fashioned. I kind of

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like to obey this thing called the constitution. The constitution

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says that war only occurs when it's declared by Congress.

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President doesn't have the power to take the country to war. Now,

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if he does, he wouldn't be the first president to

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disobey the Constitution. But I think we should obey the

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Constitution because I think it makes war less likely. This

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would be a war of choice. It would be an

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offensive war, i'lbeit a war to get rid of people

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we most of us find distasteful. But it would be

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unconstitutional for the president to do this alone. So if

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he thinks he wants war with Venezuela, he should come

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and ask for permission from Congress the way it was intended.

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Speaker 1: Well, I see his point, and I know that the

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founding fathers thought that if it required going and asking

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a whole bunch of people over to Congress for permission

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to go to war, that it would probably keep us

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out of a lot of wars. And no presidents pay

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no attention to that part of the Constitution. So I

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agree with Rand Paul. We should follow the Constitution and

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have presidents go to Congress for permission to go to war. Now,

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as far as foreign policy goes, this is getting to

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be interesting too, because we told you yesterday about the

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fact that the President came out with the foreign policy

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doctrine that their presidents are required to come up with,

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sent it over to Congress, and in there he talked

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about how Europe is becoming basically decivilized. And what he's

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talking about is the huge number of immigrants that have

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come into those countries of Europe and have changed the

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cultures of many of the Western European countries. So here's

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but here's the one where he was talking about his

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view on Europe.

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Speaker 3: Most European nations they're decaying, the decaying, but Europe they

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want to be politically correct and it makes them weak.

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Speaker 1: So Chris Coons, who's a Democrat senator from Delaware, sits

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on the Foreign Relations Committee. He's all upset about this.

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Speaker 4: And Kate tragically, that's in keeping with the recently released

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national security strategy of this administration, which fails to identify

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Russia as an aggressor, Ukraine as a democracy that deserves

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our defense, and NATO as strong, trusted and valued allies.

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This latest statement from President Trump dishonors the decades long

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bipartisan commitment in the United States and here in Congress

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to stand up for democracy and human rights and to

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stand shoulder to shoulder with our NATO allies. As the

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President just referenced, They've stepped forward. They've made significant investments

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in Ukraine security, in European security. They're showing strength, not weakness.

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And a decision just made by President Trump to allow

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the export of cutting edge AI chips to China further

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alarms me that he doesn't understand the moment we're in

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and is making national security decisions with regards to Europe

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and Asia that are weakening the United States, not strengthen US.

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Speaker 1: I thought Chris Coons was a kind of a reasonable democrat,

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if there is such a thing, and of course there is,

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but this doesn't make any sense to me. He knows,

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he's got to know that. He says, well, we need

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to stand I mean, look at the European allies. They

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made NATO strong and they stand with his shoulder to shoulder.

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What he fails to mention, and I brought this up yesterday,

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I brought it up before, is that a number of

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the Western European countries that are members of NATO are

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still spending millions, if not billions, in buying Russian oil.

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They send their money to Russia. Russia uses the money

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to continue to prosecute the war, and Chris Kuns says,

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we need to stand with these people. Well, maybe they

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need to stand with Ukraine. They pretend they're standing with Ukraine,

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but really not. And so that goes back to what

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President Trump was talking about. These countries are weak. They're

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very weak. He mentioned the chips. This is let me

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set it up for you here. This is the END

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two hundred chips, the H I'm sorry, H two hundred

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chips made by Nvidia that are being sent to China.

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a fight about whether or not we would allow Nvidia

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to sell these chips to China because that would give

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them an edge. Well, now this is a much better chip,

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the H two hundred, yet it's not the very latest

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that Nvidia makes here in the United States. So they're

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sending them a couple of cycles back. They're little, they're

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a little out of date. And what Chris Coons is

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upset about is that this is going to give China

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the upper hand on AI. And what the argument is

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is there are people like Chris Coons that are saying, yes, this,

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we're sending these Nvidio chips over to China. They're going

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to use these and they're going to beat us. They're

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going to beat us in the marketplace with AI. The

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other argument is that if you control the best chips,

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nobody else will bother trying to compete against you. It's

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not easy to all of a sudden go out and

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figure out how to re engineer these things and make

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them yourself. It takes years for these to be made

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in very precise manufacturing facilities, which are in Taiwan. By

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the way, there are also some that they're building it

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here in the US. But what Chris cons doesn't understand

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is that if if if the Vidio and Vidia chip

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is the standard, then the rest of the world is

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not going to give the Chinese whatever they come up

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with the time of day, including Chinese companies. Besides that,

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China is very worried about these chips. They the first group,

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the H twenty, China said we're not going to accept

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them into our country. I don't know if they've accepted

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these H two hundreds. The President gave Nvidia the authority

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to go ahead and sell them. What China is worried

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about is these come into China and there's a back

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door to them, and we, since it's a US company

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and Vidia, we will use that back door to spy

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on China. So they're worried about them. The only thing

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I don't like about all this is is that I

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don't like government mixing with the private sector. And what

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for Nvidia to be able to sell these chips, they

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have to pay a fee to the US government of

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twenty five percent of the sales price. I don't like it.

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I don't like it at all. Here's Chris Coon talking

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about the chips. Look.

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Speaker 4: Decades of industrial experience by leading American companies shows he's wrong.

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AI chips are transformational. AI technology is transformational. This isn't

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just a matter of whether cars made in the United

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bought more by Chinese consumers, which is how David Sachs

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is posing it. He's suggesting that chips are just commodity items.

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They're not. They are the brains of the new generation

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systems that are transforming everything from farming and food production,

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to education and national security. A broad bipartisan group of

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Senators has joined me in introducing, along with Senator Ricketts,

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a bill that would prevent the export of cutting edge

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AI chips, and I led a letter here in the

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Senate with a significant group of leading Democrats urging President

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Speaker 1: What Kus doesn't understand is that if we put up

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fences and not let this chip be made anywhere else

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in the world, you know that China will have spies,

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and there will be people that they will get the technology,

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and they will be able to figure it out eventually themselves,

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as opposed to the other argument, which is make the

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Nvidia chip the standard around the world. Nobody else would

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try and do anything but that, including the Chinese. So

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it's a debatable topic. But I'm in the camp that

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says let them have what they a couple of cycles back,

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but don't try and pretend that they're not going to

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be able to figure out how to spy on your

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own on the chipst and video makes sure China can

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re engineer how to make a Cadillac. But this isn't

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that this is precision manufacturing. That it would take many

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many years at least five for the Chinese to try

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to figure out how to make this. It's a lot

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easier to try and be the dominant chip in the

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world and not try and pretend like they're not going

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to try and spy and figure it out themselves. And

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speaking of the economy, where we, yes, we were. So

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the President, like I said, is going up to the

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Poconos tonight to give a speech about the economy, and

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apparently this is going to be their plan, is to

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go out and to have a number of these meetings

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where the President does a lot more domestic traveling than

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he did in the past. Asked the thing, I'm concerned

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about it. I'll wait to see how he does tonight.

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But this is how Joe Biden got in trouble, and

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his staff, who were really running things, said, what's the

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matter with the economy's doing great? Why do you say

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it's not. You can't You can't give speeches to tell

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people you're doing better than you think you are. Now

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I know that, and I know the President Trump subscribes to.

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This is that if you repeat something enough times, people

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will believe it to be true. But when it comes

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to your pocketbook, it still comes down to and people

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vote their pocket number one issue on why people choose

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who to vote for, so he can tell them over

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and over again, you're doing better than you think you are.

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But it's really going to have to come down to results.

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And they are doing a lot, and the big new

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beautiful bill's going to kick in right after the first

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of the year. But there are a couple and gas prices.

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how much of the household budget gasoline? It makes up

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three percent. That's the statistic is most people, it's about

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a three percent of your household budget, so that means

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they're ninety seven percent that is other things, especially groceries,

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and so there are you can you can brag about

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the gas prices and has every right to because it's

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down out of two dollars ninety five cents national average

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for a gallon of cheap stuff. But when it comes

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to other things out there, gasoline is nice, but it's

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it's all the other things that you look in your

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wallet and you go, man, what's happening in my money?

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The other thing that the President and Washington d C.

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Cannot control, And it's a huge problem in this country

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is housing costs. Housing costs are controlled by your local utility,

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by your local planning commission, by your local city or county,

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or even state rules about housing. So a lot of

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the cost of housing going up is because of local

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government piling on more rules and more regulations, which cost

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builders more to build a home. So I wish him well.

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Doug McMillan, CEO of Walmart, briefly touched on the economy.

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From their point of view.

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Speaker 5: It's been really consistent for us now we're benefiting from

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some share gains. People with high income levels are shopping

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with us more often and have been for a while.

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There's pressure at the bottom end. Inflation being low single

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digit right now helps a little bit, but it's on

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years of price inflation in some categories. Gas prices being

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low was helpful right now. So people are behaving pretty consistently,

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but there's pressure for those at lower income levels.

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Speaker 1: He said that a couple of times. Its pressure on

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low income levels, it's also pressure on middle income levels.

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The only people that are really out there spending and

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driving the economy and driving the Walmarts of the world.

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Like you said that. He basically said the high income

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people never used to shop at Walmart, but now they are,

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which also says something essentially, yeh, Walmart's doing fine, but

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the lower end and the middle income having pressure, as

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he says. So in this interview last night that the

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President did with Politico, he was asked about prices.

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Speaker 3: I inherited a total mess. Prices were at an all

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time high when I came in. Prices are coming down substantially.

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Speaker 1: Look at energy.

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Speaker 3: If you think it gasoline a gallon, they had it

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at four dollars and fifty cents, almost five dollars, and

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you go to some of the states, he had it

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at six dollars. We hit three states two days ago

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one dollar and ninety nine cent a gallon.

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Speaker 1: I'm not quite sure where those dollar ninety nine states are,

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he said, the three of them. His people probably came

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to him and they found a gas station somewhere that

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sells dollar ninety nine. But the averages done by Triple

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A are the lowest ones are around the national average

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two ninety five. The lowest ones are mostly around two

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dollars and fifty cents, still much better, but that's just

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three percent of a household budget. So the problem is

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is I hope that he understands that a lot of

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things cost more and prices haven't. Some have come down

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very few, but inflation is not what it was, but

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prices are still going higher, mostly by about three percent

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a year. So then you get into the farm and

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the president has once again, just like he did in

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his first term, is having to bail out the farmers.

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He's come up with a plan of twelve billion dollars

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to give to the farmers. And it was twenty billion

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in Trump one point zero, but this is twelve billion dollars.

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And what he's doing is he's basically using tariff revenue

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to provide relief to the farmers that are harmed by

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the tariffs. Here's Caleb Raglin, he's the head of the

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American Soybean Association.

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Speaker 6: We're thankful that the administration does serious economic challenges in

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farm country and this will help alleviate some of the

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first the losses we've had. This is a good first step,

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but this will only take care of about a quarter

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of the losses that the average soybean farmer has accumulated

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this year. We've lost the average of one hundred and

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nine dollars an acre on this crop. We just produced,

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and that's a very serious situation for the American soybean farmer,

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our number one ag export. That's been a year of

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challenges and uncertainty, whether that be weather, whether it be markets.

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The cost of production that we have as farmers is

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at a record high. Fertilized continues to go up, the

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cost of our equipment is going up, and unfortunately, we

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don't have commodity prices that are in line with that

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inflated production costs that we're continuing to experience, and we're

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operating at a loss this year, unfortunately, and without a

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change in the direction we're going, we're gonna have a

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lot of farmers that are not able to stay in

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business and farm families that are no longer able to

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continue that tradition that not only impacts our farms, but

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also our real communities and the economy of our whole nation.

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It's serious.

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Speaker 1: So Broock Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture, makes a pretty outlandish

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claim that the trade problems have nothing to do with

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the problems facing the soybean farmers.

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Speaker 6: There is almost zero evidence, if any evidence that what

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they are doing and the challenges that our farm economy

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is facing in row crops has anything to do with

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these trade renegotiations.

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Speaker 1: Well, I don't know how she says that, because with

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China was the biggest customer of American soybeans. Leave it

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somewhere in the vicinity of twenty million tons of soybeans,

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and China this year said forget it. Were not bought

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because of the trade retaliation by them on the trade tariffs.

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So they said, forget it, We're not buying any US

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soybeans this year, and they went to Brazil and bought

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billions of dollars worth of soybeans from Brazil. Go back

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to the head of the Soybean Association here in the US.

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And by the way, he's wants to be very careful

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because he's getting twelve billion dollars from the Department of

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Agriculture for the farmers. Not because of the goodness of

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their hearts. They know that they got they the soybean

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farmers got hurt by all of this trade stuff.

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Speaker 6: Well, I think our situation is a combination of lack

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of market based opportunities, which goes back to trade. We

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need a level playing field to sell our soy means

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and other commodities. It also goes back, as I mentioned earlier,

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to the inflated cost of production that we have, and

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this is something that's been a problem going on five

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six years, and it's really getting serious. Examples would be

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five years ago, phosphate fertilized was less than half the

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cost that it is right now. We can look at

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our cost of equipment, see pesticides. Everything we do is

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going up, up, up, and our commodity prices unfortunately don't

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reflect that, and the result is net losses for most

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of our farms, and that is not sustainable situation now

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for the agriculture economy or soybean producers.

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Speaker 1: Now, what did he say? This twelve billion dollars will

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cover about twenty five percent of their costs. So he's

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happy that they're getting it, but it's not going to

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make things right. And China, in this back and forth

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with the US regarding tariffs on China teriffs from them

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on our products, China said that they would buy down

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this last agreement just a month or two ago, that

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they would buy at least twelve million tons of US

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soybeans by the end of this calendar year. Well, we're

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three weeks away and they have purchased two point eight

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million tons, not twelve two point eight. So once again

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China has done this in the past. They said we'll

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do this and do that, and they don't keep their agreements.

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I want to talk about Texas politics for a moment. Yep,

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Jasmine Crockett has thrown her hat into the ring. She

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is running now. She's a congresswoman from Texas. She is

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going to She's running for John Cornyn's seat as a

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Senator from Texas. And Cornyn the Republican, he has to

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win his primary. But Jasmine Crockett, who is makes AOC

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look kind of calm. She has made it clear that

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she wants to be the next senator from Texas.

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Speaker 7: Turning Texas blue is what I want to talk to

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y'all about today. Now there are those that say, ain't

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no way. We didn't try it at fifty kinds of ways.

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Let me be clear, y'all ain't never tried at the

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JC way. We used to telling us what I can't do.

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But they have no idea what Crockett's crew will do.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, she is, and she's reading off a teleproperty because

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otherwise she gets pretty wild. Let's see what else have

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we got from Jasmine Crockett.

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Speaker 7: They tell us that Texas is read. They are lying,

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We're not. The reality is that most Texans don't get

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out to vote.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So Carl Rove, who is a political expert and

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he happens to reside in Texas, what does Carl think

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of Jasmine Crockett's chances? Not really, But this is going

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to be highly entertaining. Let's be clear.

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Speaker 8: The early coverage of this is that inside the Democrats,

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this is going to be a battle between the left

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and the center. That's not going to be the case.

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It is not left versus moderate, It is nutty versus

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not nutty. James Tallerco, the other Democrat in the race,

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is as liberal as Jasmine Crockett is. It's just that

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he's not as nutty.

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Speaker 6: As she is.

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Speaker 8: She served in the Texas House for one term. She

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was known for giving inflammatory statements, generally only to reporters,

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and for achieving virtually nothing. And she has been that way. Yes, absolutely,

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Schumer's ability to raise money is still there, but his

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ability to affect who's in and who's out in the

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Democratic primary is gone. In fact, count on it. Both

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Tallarico and Crockett will say that Schumer should not be

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sent a leader, and then there'll be hoping that he

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will shower them with cash in the general election, which

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he's capable of doing. But look, let's be clear she is.

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You'll notice she gave her talk off of a teleprompter.

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That's about the only time we're going to see her

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under control. She is capable of saying the most extraordinary thing.

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Our governor who is paralyzed in a freak accident as

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a young man, is in a wheelchair, and she belittles

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him for that. And she is capable of doing that

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kind of thing every day in every way possible. It's

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going to be highly entertaining.

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Speaker 1: So standby for that race with the Jasmine Crockett in

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Texas to see how she does there. Let's get some

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phone calls in. We haven't done this for a while,

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and there's some great phone calls that I want to

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play from those of you in the audience. Phone number

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is eight five five two nine five sixty six hundred

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eight five five two nine five sixty six hundred. If

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you forget the number, it's you can go to my

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website Tom Sullivan dot com and there is the number.

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Let's start with this caller from Orlando.

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Speaker 9: Hello, Tom, this is Rumba ron from usually sunny and

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warm Central Sorda, Bell Island or Belle Isle. Actually I

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like the new theme song. I've been meaning to call

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you about that. My biggest right today is this Paramount

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takeover of or trying to take over Warner bothers. This

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is definitely right out of Wall Street with Michael Douglas.

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It's it's the phrase greed is good. And now we

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find out the investor group is the Saudiast it's giving

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money to the Ellisons and Affinity Partners. And guess who

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that is. That's Jared Kushner. I've never liked that guy

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on the staff. So that's the reason Trump's behind all

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these and he's pro Paramount, So this we have to

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stop for that reason. I don't want a foreign country

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buying one of my studios. They're very precious and anyway,

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that's something that probably should not happen anyway, But like

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Michael Douglas said, greed is good. This is exactly what

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this is. Mister Ellison thinks now he's a god because

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he bought Paramount. He's the god of movies, so now

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he can buy Warner bouts because he's a god. Well,

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I don't think so. Anyway, that's my gripe for the day.

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My fun thing is your favorite girl pal, Christy nom

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I've seen this TV ad where she's on her horse

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completely in this very colorful western outfit and her new

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program that a lot of the stations won't run. But

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I was thinking, her look reminds me very much. If

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you look up Hugh Heffer, he had a favorite galpala

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named Barby Benson. They look alike, so maybe that's where

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they came up with the phrase ice Barbie for her. Anyways,

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I'll let you run on. Be well, keep up with

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the show, glad you're there, and have a good day.

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Speaker 1: Oh man, there's a lot of unpact there. First of all,

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about the studios. He's right as far as there's going

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to be Saudi money involved with Paramount going after out time,

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Warner Brothers and Discovery. Jared Kushner is part of the

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money of that as well. I've talked to some people

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I know that work in the movie business in Hollywood,

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and everybody in that town. They're watching the movie business

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just disintegrate, just disintegrate, and they're worried about they don't

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know which one is going to be the better or

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the worse, whether it's Netflix or whether it's Paramount. But

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I'm just parting a sample. If you I've never watched

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the show. I know of it. I see ads for it.

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There's a show called The Floor, and there's another one

476
00:31:08,079 --> 00:31:11,119
where you're supposed to beat ninety nine other people. You

477
00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:15,279
know where those are filmed. They're game shows, they're filmed.

478
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:18,119
The ninety nine show, I think is filmed in Ireland,

479
00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:24,359
and The Floor is filmed in London. They found it

480
00:31:24,519 --> 00:31:28,000
cheaper to fly all the contestants and the crew and

481
00:31:28,119 --> 00:31:31,960
ship the equipment to London or to Ireland than it

482
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:37,079
is to do a film in California. That's how bad

483
00:31:37,599 --> 00:31:41,680
the rules, regulations and taxes in California have driven the

484
00:31:41,759 --> 00:31:46,119
movie business mostly out. They're they're going elsewhere to do

485
00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:48,640
all of this, so we'll see how that turns out.

486
00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:52,599
The other comedy made about Christinome looks like Barbie Benton.

487
00:31:53,599 --> 00:31:58,920
Barbie Benton, I know her mother. Yes, she's grew up

488
00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:05,160
in Sacramento and I met her mother there. And Barbie

489
00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:09,759
now has got to be probably in her sixties. But

490
00:32:09,839 --> 00:32:12,079
I get what you're what you're talking about. There is

491
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:15,480
kind of a little bit of resemblance. Here's a speaking

492
00:32:15,519 --> 00:32:19,519
of California. Here's a caller from Auburn, California.

493
00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:25,960
Speaker 9: Tom Skysteinkler from Auburn. Just letting you know that I'm

494
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:30,160
really confused with your obsession with Harry Inton. It just

495
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:34,599
seems like he's spewing propaganda all over your show. I'm

496
00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:37,759
trust posters and I never have, and I don't think

497
00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:41,759
they've been right about anything. I think the president's using

498
00:32:41,799 --> 00:32:45,079
his tariffs to balance trade all across the world, and

499
00:32:45,119 --> 00:32:49,200
the majority of people that voted for President Trump in

500
00:32:49,279 --> 00:32:52,640
the last election still support his use of tariffs today

501
00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:58,119
because he's getting results. I love the show and appreciate

502
00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:01,000
your show for many years. I have a good one.

503
00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:04,160
Speaker 1: I hear what you're saying. I use Harry Anson a lot.

504
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:07,160
I find them to be entertaining. But he's done an

505
00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:10,279
awful lot of things that nobody else does that are

506
00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:14,680
pro Donald Trump, pro Republican. He's also done some that

507
00:33:14,799 --> 00:33:18,359
are not pro Donald Trump or Republican, but he gives

508
00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:22,960
the statistics that I like to know about. And as

509
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:26,039
far as the tariffs go, you're not going to convince

510
00:33:26,119 --> 00:33:29,240
me I'm sorry, we're going to have to agree to disagree.

511
00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:34,039
Tariffs are They never work. They cause more problems. We've

512
00:33:34,039 --> 00:33:37,519
got more chaos in our trading systems around the world. Now,

513
00:33:37,839 --> 00:33:40,839
I agree that there have been countries that have abused

514
00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:45,400
our country with their tariffs. You can fix those one

515
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:48,640
on one. But the broad tariffs on everything in every

516
00:33:49,119 --> 00:33:55,000
country in the world. Sorry, I'm still still very much opposed.

517
00:33:54,599 --> 00:33:55,160
Speaker 9: To all of that.

518
00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:58,720
Speaker 1: Oh. Look, here's Salty. We haven't talked to Salty here

519
00:33:58,759 --> 00:34:00,000
he's call.

520
00:34:00,519 --> 00:34:02,839
Speaker 9: Hey, Thomas Salty. Uh.

521
00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:05,799
Speaker 10: I just wanted to say Hi. I think I got

522
00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:10,239
my Thanksgiving greeting to you a little late. So I'm

523
00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:12,800
gonna I'm gonna get you to get you your Christmas

524
00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:17,800
uh song here probably uh first part of week after next.

525
00:34:18,199 --> 00:34:22,239
But don't want to go too far over mastise as

526
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:25,880
they say, because I don't know do you know, Lord

527
00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:28,079
knows how many days I got Some days I think

528
00:34:28,119 --> 00:34:30,719
it's the last one. But I hope you're doing all right.

529
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:34,199
I just had one question, you know, every time, uh,

530
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:37,800
we got something going on, uh, and we solve a problem,

531
00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:40,400
and then we get all these people together, like.

532
00:34:40,519 --> 00:34:43,840
Speaker 9: Uh, you know, uh, the.

533
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:48,000
Speaker 10: Old the FBI director uh, cash on the money put

534
00:34:48,039 --> 00:34:53,159
tail and then uh, you know Pamela Bondo and then

535
00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:55,679
uh yeah, I love Judge Janine.

536
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:56,920
Speaker 9: I think that's her name.

537
00:34:57,519 --> 00:35:00,360
Speaker 10: Holy caw. I'd like to see her in U old

538
00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:05,760
Judge Judy in the Celebrity death Match. But anyway, just

539
00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:07,960
wonder why we always have to put out all the

540
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:14,159
information because you know, I think criminals pay attention to

541
00:35:14,199 --> 00:35:15,800
that stuff and say, well, you know, we can't do

542
00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:18,320
that because of that. It just seems to me that

543
00:35:18,639 --> 00:35:22,440
we shouldn't be giving so much information out. I know

544
00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:24,920
we live in a free society, which ain't free because

545
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:28,159
I'm getting patched to death. But anyway, I don't know

546
00:35:28,199 --> 00:35:30,800
why we don't keep it a little closer to the vest.

547
00:35:31,159 --> 00:35:33,400
After all, I got buddy, have a good weekend. It's

548
00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:34,840
snowing here in Lynchburg.

549
00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:38,880
Speaker 1: Bye wow. So I know it snowed pretty far south

550
00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:43,440
this past week. But yeah, I'm with Salty. I think

551
00:35:45,039 --> 00:35:48,960
I know we're hungry for every little kernel of information,

552
00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:52,519
especially when it comes to crime. Crime news is big.

553
00:35:52,559 --> 00:35:55,639
People love to follow crime stories. But I'm with you.

554
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:59,000
I think law enforcement would be better to keep that

555
00:35:59,039 --> 00:36:02,760
stuff close to the vest. I got a call Jim

556
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:07,320
in Wichita, Kansas. I got your call, but I couldn't

557
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:10,000
play it. It was it was like so hard to hear.

558
00:36:10,079 --> 00:36:11,920
There were parts that I could tell it was you,

559
00:36:12,519 --> 00:36:14,159
but there was a lot of it that was just

560
00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:17,360
all broken up. I could not use it at all,

561
00:36:17,519 --> 00:36:26,239
but I appreciate the effort. Here's Eric, our former Russian comrade.

562
00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:28,280
Hold On, let's see, here's here's Eric.

563
00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:33,800
Speaker 11: About this drug war and for whom it's good for?

564
00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:40,639
And you said something about that. You know the drug users,

565
00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:44,559
you know that they do their choices and then they're

566
00:36:44,599 --> 00:36:49,920
probably only one who suffers from the drug war and

567
00:36:50,239 --> 00:36:55,840
all like the rest of the society, kind of like Glorie.

568
00:36:56,159 --> 00:37:01,519
But there's one part is missing. There's a lot of

569
00:37:01,639 --> 00:37:06,760
money involved in that huge amount, and that crafts our

570
00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:15,920
jiujitsu and law enforcement system. The judges. Don't you see

571
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:23,519
the cartel judges yet? Do you remember the Italian message

572
00:37:24,199 --> 00:37:28,480
judges on the East coast. They go on the West

573
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:33,159
coast too, So that is the biggest problem with the cartels.

574
00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:35,800
They have a lot of money, they're going to use

575
00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:38,480
it and they're gonna bribe our law inforce. I mean

576
00:37:38,519 --> 00:37:43,639
they already bribed it, but they will get the indred more.

577
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:45,119
That is what I'm concerned of.

578
00:37:45,599 --> 00:37:51,039
Speaker 1: Well, sadly, Eric, you're probably right. I've talked about it before.

579
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:54,239
I want to support law enforcement. I want to support

580
00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:59,599
the judicial system. But if they're paying off judges and

581
00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:03,920
polast chiefs in Mexico to get drugs up into the US,

582
00:38:04,639 --> 00:38:08,760
I'm sure that they are found some judges and law

583
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:12,079
enforcement in the US to pay office. Well, the look

584
00:38:12,159 --> 00:38:14,360
the other way. There have been a few that have

585
00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:18,880
been caught, and sadly, it's part of human nature. Is

586
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:22,679
called greed, one of the seven deadly sins. Here's another

587
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:25,840
call about drugs, Tom.

588
00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:29,079
Speaker 9: I don't think ninety of the people in this country

589
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:33,800
would care if you let drug smugglers or drug dealers

590
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:38,559
or anybody else criminal. I don't think it's ninety nine percent.

591
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:42,599
It might be about fifty five percent, because forty five

592
00:38:42,599 --> 00:38:46,159
percent of the leftists dinner in this country, including the

593
00:38:46,199 --> 00:38:54,000
politicians that they've run to. Those leftists, they want drugs smuggling,

594
00:38:54,480 --> 00:39:00,199
they want criminality, they want terrorism. Hands down. And if

595
00:39:00,199 --> 00:39:03,360
you don't believe that, I got a bridge to sell

596
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:06,760
you it's a golden game, you might you might want

597
00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:12,599
to buy. It takes something speculater, but sure where that

598
00:39:12,679 --> 00:39:13,000
was going.

599
00:39:13,079 --> 00:39:15,039
Speaker 1: I think he started off by saying most people don't

600
00:39:15,039 --> 00:39:20,079
care about the taking out the drug boats. I think

601
00:39:20,119 --> 00:39:22,159
he's right on that. I don't think most people care.

602
00:39:23,679 --> 00:39:25,559
I think they look at it and go that those

603
00:39:25,559 --> 00:39:31,880
are people bringing in poison killing US citizens. So finally

604
00:39:31,880 --> 00:39:34,400
we're getting tough on him. I don't know, Well, I

605
00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:38,079
have to see how this whole thing shakes out. I'm i'm.

606
00:39:39,199 --> 00:39:40,960
I don't think they're going to show the video, but

607
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:42,679
I wish they would show the video so that we

608
00:39:42,719 --> 00:39:45,400
can argue about that. I think people will come up

609
00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:50,119
with two different impressions depending upon their political stance on life.

610
00:39:51,159 --> 00:39:55,719
Here's Laurie. Will finish with Laurie the comment line, Lady,

611
00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:59,679
she always has something short, sweet and to the point.

612
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:04,719
Some politicians who advocate defunding the police should have their

613
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:11,719
security details made up of mental health counselors. Yes, I

614
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:16,760
couldn't agree more. They should. That's what they that's what

615
00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:20,800
they want for us. All right, Let's see what Wall

616
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:26,599
Street did today. The market mixed mostly down. The Dow

617
00:40:26,679 --> 00:40:30,360
Jones industrials down one hundred and seventy nine to forty

618
00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:36,320
seven and five sixty, SMP down just six, Nasdaq up thirty,

619
00:40:37,119 --> 00:40:41,639
Gold up nineteen dollars to forty two thirty six. Oil

620
00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:44,639
fell again today, down fifty cents. It's at fifty eight

621
00:40:44,719 --> 00:40:48,400
dollars and some change for a barrel of oil. So

622
00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:52,519
that's it for today. Thank you for coming by today.

623
00:40:52,559 --> 00:40:55,320
We're going to try this again tomorrow. Hope to see

624
00:40:55,360 --> 00:40:55,760
you then