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Speaker 2: We talked a great deal about these these Charlot operations,
Charlotte's web and Mayor Lyles consistently being opposed to any
action to clean up the crime and the city unless
it comes from within, and no interest in enforcing immigration laws,
even though she took an oath to off oath of
office to defend the laws of the United States. It's
picking and choosing the laws you want to figure, Nat,
I guess just Trump's bad.
Speaker 3: Therefore anything that.
Speaker 2: Comes from that administration must be opposed. I wonder if
she would oppose accepting money from the federal government because
Trump's the president. Methinks no me thinks she'll take the money.
Would she oppose anything that Charlotte receives from the federal
government because Trump is president, of course not. But what
she doesn't want to do is add law enforcement or
help her own law enforcement team. And it's interesting because
I'll bet you a lot of folks in law enforcement
want the help. They feel like they're being undermine, they
feel like they're being you know, they don't like to
see these stats go up. They don't like to see
people suffer. They don't want to see families, you know,
and criminals in you know, left out there to commit crimes. Now,
the interesting thing, and I ask it I prefaced in
the last hour, was that do our people satisfied again?
Charlotte's a Democrats said, the Democrats are going to reign
supreme There no challenges or really no significant challenges to
her fifth term for her, And this is not a
monologue against her. It's against wanting to support the laws.
It's against city officials. It's against their perspective that Trump
is bad. Therefore we don't want to enforce the laws.
And the question I think charlottean should ask, is there
anything that that council could do that would make would
make folks turn against some other than the public corruption stuff.
But can they just continue tacking? I mean, if Chicago
could go back thirty years and look at where it's
murder rate and violent crime and all that was, and
then say do we and show people what it ultimately
would look like, would they still make the same decisions.
Speaker 3: I think they would. I think they would.
Speaker 2: I think that cities reach a certain size, and for
the most part, they inevitably start tacking to the political
left and eventually, and in the irony is if you
look at New York and where New York was when
the Towers fell, and then look at where New York
is now, and it elected a socialist mayor that is
somewhat sympathetic to the cause of those who took down
the towers, and that guy sounds terrible, doesn't It sounds
like I'm really condemning him. But the perspective being how
quickly perspectives change and how far left ward the city
has gone since that point in time. One of the
most anti Semitic mayors, probably the most anti Semitic mayor
they've had, in one of the largeh that New York
has more Jews than anywhere outside of Israel as a concentration,
eighteen percent or so, I think of the voting public.
Speaker 3: It's just.
Speaker 2: That's the question that always gets me. And I'm not
surprised by it because I think largely Americans are not
dialed in on political stuff, and I think it's you know,
there reaches a point where the majority of people say, hey,
I get some free stuff. What can I get? I
can get some stuff, and if I can get some stuff,
then I'll vote for the person who's going to give
me the most stuff. That's the failure, and this has
been well documented Alexander Tittler did two hundred years ago
when they said, hey, democracy exist until the point where
the public realizes they can vote themselves stuff out of
the public treasury, or in this case, they can just say, hey,
those rich folks are the bad guys, and I want
to vote for people that will take stuff away from
them and give it to me. And that's when the
downward spiral really transpires. That's where, luckily in this country,
a lot of folks will become aware of that, and
the people who can leave, who do have, who have
income or money or net worth, will leave, and then
the city really falls down quickly.
Speaker 3: At that point.
Speaker 2: If big money pulls out of any given city, whether
it be New York, Chicago, even Memphis, or Charlotte, Atlanta.
Then the spiral the spiral downhill because there's no there's
no one to take money from. They run out of
pockets to pick his market. That you would say, you
eventually run out of pockets to get money out of.
And so again, I wish Charlotte would have a different perspective.
And it's not that I want them to become arch conservative.
That's not going to happen. Realism would say. Other So, hey,
you know, you guys want to have discussions about the
affordable housing, You want to have discussions about mass transit.
I may disagree with you on those, but when it
comes to crime and protecting the public, it shouldn't matter
who's in the White House. You guys should be held
been on protecting citizens period and stop full stop right there.
What can we do to make law enforcement better, to
prosecute crime at the highest level so that someone can't
go through the system thirteen times and then go kill
somebody on a subway or not subway but light reel.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: That's the kind of perspective that I just wish we
would have more of I mean, I really do. She
took an oath to protected to Fenn. And by the way,
Fox News did reach out to Mayor Leles for comments.
She either she refused or just didn't return the phone call.
It may have been a slip, an oversight maybe, but
I don't think she would have responded to a Fox
News request. They did reach out to her and her
office and there was no comment. So now, when we
get back from the next break in a few minutes,
I do want to talk talk a little bit about affordability,
because it is interesting that in a time when inflation
was at double digits through the Biden administration, and the
gas was a dollar gallon higher, the issue of affordability
did not seem to resonate with the political left. Now,
it's not hatred, it is that when things were spiraling
completely out of control, the political left they passed an
inflation Reduction Act, which was like pouring gasoline on a fire.
It just set it on firement worse. And when they
talk about that there's not a problem in the cities
they want to stop ice.
Speaker 3: When American cities.
Speaker 2: Burned during the summer protests and stuff like that, the
Democrats weren't concerned billions of dollars lost, cities were burning,
and the Democrats weren't concerned about crime. They weren't concerned.
It's just this juxtaposition of Democrats.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's hard to reconcile because they hate the inhabitant of
the White House. Rather than have an assalient discussion about
what we what do we do next, how do we
make society better? But all they want to do is
I don't get it. And what's even stranger to man,
it's not that I hold the elected officials to some
kind of high and lofty idealism.
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 2: It's that the people that put them in office. What
kind of people say it's okay to burn cities, and
yet you're upset when we start enforcing laws of deporting
immigrants and the cities aren't burning, or you know that
inflation is double digits, and then when it's kind of
getting under control, then you complain about affordability and how
terrible things are. Those are the perspectives out of it.
And so when we get to the other side of
the I want to give a perspective on the cost
of Since it's a week of Thanksgiving, so why don't
we talk about that, Why don't we talk about the
cost of Thanksgiving because there's some really good information out there.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: Am I going to pretend that affordability is an issue?
I think that after years of inflation under the Biden administration, sure.
Speaker 3: It's there.
Speaker 2: But you also have to look at what is happening
in the economy, and there's some pretty good things. I mean,
it looks like they're you know, the labor stuff came
out September is better.
Speaker 3: There's some disconcerting things.
Speaker 2: About where that is and where white collar labor labor
is right now, but that's that's the nature of economies
in general. But there are some really good things in
the economy. And when we get back from the break,
we're going to talk about the cost because the far
not farmuer, but the American Farm Bureau Federation has released
what the cost of a classic Thanksgiving dinner for ten
people is this year compared to last year. And you
should feel good about that.
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Speaker 2: This is from CBS seventeen Charlotte. This was two days
ago and I'm just adding it kind of at an
afterthought to remember I was saying that it would be interesting.
I think it would be easy if even if you're
a Democrat led city, to say, you know what, we
want to make sure that we are protecting our citizens.
We have enough criminals in our citizen population, and we
don't need interlopers from other countries that are not supposed
to be here. So let us just enforce. And again
there would be no operation in Charlotte's web. Remember this
is prompted by two issues, and one is that the
city of Charlotte was kind of sanctuarying itself through through
through things, and they easily could have just cooperated and
then deported people that they arrested it were criminals, but
they didn't, and then they released criminals that should have
been deported, criminals that should be in jail, child molesters
and stuff. So anyway, this to me is a an
easy solution. Like there's some complicated things like healthcare out there,
There's some pretty complicated issues. Foreign policies is dicey at best.
This Ukrainian Russia deal pretty dicey situation piece in the
middle least dicey even dealing reading the tea leaves on
the economy. That's why you have Wall Street and lots
of firms that disagree on things.
Speaker 3: It's dicey stuff.
Speaker 2: But this this is one that you just this is
a softball out into left field, past the fence. You know,
an easy pitch. This is an out of the park, or,
as the Carolina Panthers would love to believe is possible,
it's a touchdown.
Speaker 3: It's an easy touchdown.
Speaker 2: Charlotte City leaders are providing a total of one hundred
thousand dollars for people who were financially impacted by the
US Customs and Border Patrol operation during last week. The funds,
dispersed in partnership with Crisis Assistance Ministry, are to be
used to support of rent and utility bills for households
impacted by what the city calls ongoing economic disruptions across
the community. The border patrols operation in Charlotte's webs was
began as over the weekend, reportedly targeting criminals who were
in the country. According to the Department Homeland Security, over
three hundred and seventy people in the Charlotte area are
being deported or in the country illegally as of Thursday afternoon,
but this is last week. As a fallout, many in
the city's Hispanic communities feared any interaction with the agents,
leading to many businesses to close, like Manilo's Bakery and
each Charlotte. So the point is a lot of the
people that are here this is a tricky one. A
lot of people who were here legally worked very hard
to be here legally. A lot of the people who
are foreign nationals that came here and I have become citizens,
are in the process of becoming citizens. It's interesting that
rather than Charlotte say, you know what, we really want
to help and then we can deal with the fallout
or whatever, rather that what they're doing is just opposing
what's taking place and then trying to politicize it in
this way. And that's to me just kind of said.
Last week's city staff began outreach to community stakeholders to
better understand the potential economic impacts. So what you've done
is you've communicated people, hey, we're going to give you money.
If you can show us that something bad happen to
you will give you money. Give it away, give it away,
give it away now. So you're encouraging people to and
again the point, last week's city staff again outreach to
community stakeholders to better understand the potential economic not that
they had economic impacts, but there might have been and
on families and understand what needs the City of Charlotte
could help address this approach, which was influenced by the
feedback we received from community stakeholders and is aligned with
established City Council priorities related to housing stability, allows the
city to provide rapid support to households and need, and
is consistent with the city's track record of supporting residents
during extraordinary times. Interestingly enough, the city hasn't come out
and said that crime is an extraordinary thing that should
be dealt with daily. The city's not coming out and
saying crime and the crime committee against our citizens, the murders,
the per snatching, the violent crimes that is not doesn't
seem to be consistent with supporting residents during extraordinary times. Crime,
criminal activity is an extraordinary time. Have you ever been robbed?
Speaker 3: I have been.
Speaker 2: It's a horrible thing. It leaves the lasting scar on you.
You never forget that. So that's pretty extraordinary for all
the citizens and Charlie have been robbed. I feel for
you because the city doesn't seem to really care that
much about you encouraging this. Is encouraging this instead of that,
and it should be out there protecting citizens. And again,
that sounds like I'm condemning them. I'm just shocked that
they have an easy path and instead what they're doing
is trying to ramp up divisiveness. They could easily bring
the city together and say, you know what, we want
to protect our citizens. We want to make sure there
is we have enough criminals on the street right now
that we need to prosecute. We need to make sure
we do that, and we need to work with customs officials,
immigration officials to make sure anyone that's here illegally should
go back to their country or being incarcerated. But that's
not what we see.
Speaker 3: That's just not what we see.
Speaker 2: So just very it's an odd prioritization. This seems to
me to be an easy one now. And I drugged
this one out a little bit because I do think
it's important. I think we see this in all its
expanding to Raleigh. There's going to be I don't know
if the Democrats, and for Josh Stein, the Democrat governor
of North Carolina, it's putting him in an interesting position.
He's a former attorney general, does he and I think
Republicans are good to kind of push him on this issue.
Does Josh Stein, former Attorney general whose policies, some of
whose policies have not made it easy to prosecute this stuff.
Does he decide and he might, and he might. He
hasn't really taken too harsh a stand against it, but
he hasn't gone forward. He's kind of trying to stay
away from it as people are trying to drag him
into this issue. And it wouldn't be the first time
that activists there or you know, partisans have drug a
North Carolina governor into a Charlottean situation house built too.
But josh Stein's has to ultimately decide where he is
on this issue. Does he deploy the National Guard to
deal with criminal elements and to deal with crime, get
it under control?
Speaker 3: Because here's the truth.
Speaker 2: If he did, it would bring crime under control very quickly.
Would It would drive those statistics down, and it could
give someone like josh Stein the opportunity to take the
very high road of saying, you know what, if any
of our cities get out of line and get beyond
law enforcements control, we're going to stop it. We're going
to put our job number one, protect the citizens, the
job of the Charlotte City Council, the mayor, work of
the police department stop and there's a lot of PD
folks that are find folks out there, police officers that
are trying to do their jobs every day. It's a tough,
tough job and the thankless nature of what they do.
Speaker 3: Man, I feel for them, all right.
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Speaker 2: I have not gotten to the story yet, but I
appreciate your patients and letting me get to it. This
is from Realclear Energy dot org and it is a
some stats from the American Farm Bureau Federation just for perspective,
because I think context and perspective is important as we
both sides look to jockey to say, look, we're doing great,
and the other day, look they're terrible.
Speaker 3: And it is unfortunately.
Speaker 2: I talked about neighbors yesterday, how we've become a nation
of neighbors that seem to want to just eviscerate and
gut each other.
Speaker 3: And it doesn't need to be that way.
Speaker 2: And it's a shame that we've reached the point where
it's it's more about hate than love. It's more about
just not even not even wanting to learn. It's that
whatever I believe, I'm only going to look at stuff
that agrees with what I believe. And the facts be damned,
but this is worth knowing. My opinion, Thanksgiving twenty twenty
five brings something America hasn't seen much in recent years,
lower prices. According to the American Farm Bureau Federation, the
cost of a classic Thanksgiving dinner for ten people dropped
about five percent this year, landing at fifty five eighteen
after years of grocery store sticker shock. That's welcome relief,
as it stands in sharp contrast to twenty twenty two,
when the same meal hit a record high of more
than sixty four dollars, the most expensive Thanksgiving in US history.
Food prices don't rise or fall in a vacuum.
Speaker 3: Energy.
Speaker 2: Now, this is again perspective worth knowing. Food prices don't
rise or fall in a vacuum. Energy is baked into
every step of the supply chain, the fertilizer, the transportation,
the processing, and the packaging. When energy costs drop, families
feel it, and when energy costs spike, families feel that
even more. That's why Thanksgiving affordability is a story about
more than Turkey prices. It's a story about American energy dominance.
Look at the gas pump. The national average gasoline prices
in November during the Biden years has hovered around three
forty seven a gallon compared to two sixty eight during
Trump's time in office. That difference is real money for
families traveling for the holidays, and it shapes the cost
of everything on the table. More affordable energy means more
affordable food. It's very simple. If you think about the
cost of filling up a truck and driving it from
point A to point B cheaper, The cost of running
tractors in the fields cheaper. The cost of growing stuff
it's cheaper.
Speaker 3: Because the tractors are constantly working.
Speaker 2: So the cost of energy and I just touched two
of like a thousand different points of the supply chain
is cheaper. And here's the part that the left wants
you to really forget. When Thanksgiving dinner hits its record,
hit its record in twenty twenty two, not a single
Democrat expressed any outrage about affordability.
Speaker 3: Nothing.
Speaker 2: The same ones that are screaming about affordability today, they
didn't say a word back then when gas prices shattered
records and families were getting crushed at the pump. Did
the eco leftists say anything? No, it was bulk silence,
wasn't it. It was across the board. The same politicians who
now pretend to champion kitchen table economics did not care
when American families were feeling the pain. They claim to
love the word affordability now, But while they were pretending
to care, they might want to look in their own backyards,
because state level green mandates and fuel standards still punish
consumers still using Triple a's state averages. The five most
expensive states for gas, they're all blue states. The five
cheapest are all solid red states. When you look at
where gas is most and least affordable, there's a Grand
Canyon level divide in states where the eco lefts mandates
and fuel standards dominate. California, Hawaii, Washington, and Oregon. Drivers
are paying the highest prices in America about four nineteen
per gallon, but in states like Oklahoma, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee,
in Arkansas, the average is two sixty three a gallon
same gas. You don't have to be a political expert
to see there's a premium charge for Philip of the
states that embrace the green agenda. That's a dollar fifty
six per gallon penalty for living with those eco policies.
It's not ideology.
Speaker 3: That's math.
Speaker 2: It's not about left or right.
Speaker 3: It's just math.
Speaker 2: You're paying more. You fill up there, you pay more.
You fill up in the other states you pay less.
And it means a family driving a few hundred miles
for Thanksgiving in California is paying dramatically more than a
family traving the same distance in Oklahoma or Mississippi, even
North Carolina, by the way, or South Carolina. So as
we gather this year, we have a lot to be
thankful for we live. And I've said this before, I'll
continue to say it. We live in the greatest country
in the world. Are there things that can be better?
Being the greatest country doesn't mean you live in a
perfect country, right Living in the greatest country doesn't mean perfect.
And the beauty of our country as we are able
to criticize it, we are able to improve it. We're
able to make it better. And I think that history
has shown that we continue to become a better country.
In many ways. We get lost sometimes right now, I
think all this DEI and transgender issue is has forced
the country to go down a lost trail of a
lacking common sense. But I think that there's a course
correction and Americans are seeing it.
Speaker 3: I think getting back.
Speaker 2: To Christian roots do matter, doesn't mean everybody needs to
be Christian. It just means that that was part of
the makeup of the country. It's part of what makes
this country great. We live in the greatest country in
the world. The Thanksgiving meal this year is cheaper. Thankful
for that. Travel is more affordable and the planes running,
and America's energy workers continue to prove that when politicians
get out of the way, the result is lower cost,
stronger supply, and more green in our wallets. This Thanksgiving,
the green agenda loss and American families won, and American
families won one. And that's a that's a beautiful statement.
If you if you let if you let yourself go
down that road. A little bit is that those polities,
uh solar wind, all these subsidies, they didn't make power cheaper.
The transition to this is not made power cheaper, and
it's not paying off.
Speaker 3: And yet the fuel.
Speaker 2: That drives a capitalist society is the cost of production,
and the cost of production is driven by energy cost.
And that's why you see the Germans that are that
are failing, you see Europe floundering. It went all in
could it have built a lot more nuclear facilities. We
should have been building nuclear facilities for the past twenty
five years, cheap, abundant, affordable energy. And we now know
that tech there for nuclear facilities is better than it's
ever been, safer than it's ever been, and we can
make them smaller. We can make the scale of nuclear
facilities far smaller than they used to be. So there's
just so much we can do. But again, the point being,
when you go to the grocery store for Thanksgiving, it
doesn't it may not feel that way to you. And
sure prices can come down. Prices are tough on folks,
and if wages have gone up too, so that means
Americans have more money in their pocket, But that doesn't
mean it's for everybody. Doesn't mean everyone that's hearing this
it's good for them, because we're not in all country.
We're a sum. Some people are doing very well. We
hope what we hope is the bulk of our citizens
are doing better, and we hope that all of them
can have some form of opportunity through hard work, diligence, sacrifice,
the right attitude, and realizing that it takes hard work
Overnight successes about fifteen years. But we hope that your
kids have that. We hope that you have that. So
there's just so much opportunity out there, and again I
just want to bring that to your attention. This is
written by Larry Barns as an energy expert in the
communications director for Power of the Future. Has been on
Fox News, Zero Hedge, Newsmax and he defends the energy sector.
By the way, and we're producing more oil, we ever
have more to fuel the economy.
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Speaker 2: Another couple of stories that we will get to. A
weird one that's percolating up. It's just one of those
that you almost kind of scratch your head and say, really,
is that really a story?
Speaker 3: And it is. It's a New York Post.
Speaker 2: More folks are carrying it. I think even some of
the three letter legacy media are like, oh, we gotta
carry this.
Speaker 3: It's a real story. Is that the.
Speaker 2: I can't It's hard to believe it's a real story.
Speaker 3: But it is.
Speaker 2: Just when you thought the Biden administration couldn't get a
little weirder, you see a story like this the Biden administration,
this is the And I don't like headlines that say bombshell.
Speaker 3: You know that's what they're bombshell. Oh my god, breaking news.
That's just to me. It's a story and it's worthy
of discussion. So that's why we'll talk about it.
Speaker 2: And Biden administration allegedly pressured US airports to house migrants
despite warnings that it could compromise safety and put travelers
at risk, according to a bombshell Senate report. The forty
seven page document Flight Risk, released by the Senate Commerce Committee,
alleges the White House directed the Department of Transportation, the FAA,
the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, and the Federal Transit
Administration to find airport facilities for shelters or processing centers
for migrants. According to the report, the administration instructed DOT
and FAA to inventory available facilities that both federally owned
and local airports and to divert federal resources to support
migrant arrivals. Internal email side in the report show concern
among staff. On October six, twenty twenty three, one FAA
official wrote to Massport, we have received this request from
the White House to determine if there are available facilities.
This is an immediate risk, so please prioritize this effort.
Another dot staffer said, yikes, this is definitely Fox news fodder.
Speaker 3: In the making.
Speaker 2: The committee found at least eleven airports, including Boston, Logan, Chicago, Haare,
New York's JFK, were asked or even pressured to put
migrants inside the terminals of their airports. FA officials, according
to report, recognized that such use would you usually need
federal approval under grant assurance rules. Instead, they ignored them
most of the time when airports used their facilities to
house aliens. Despite that warning, the report says Logan hosted
up to Logan Airport in Boston three hundred and fifty
two migrants overnight in Terminal E, and they spent seven
hundred seventy nine thousand on security, cleaning and transportation. Chicago's
Ohair nine hundred migrants were sheltered between April twenty three
and February twenty four. The report says they logged three
hundred twenty nine service calls, twenty six arrests. Anyway, the
point being, what were they thinking? Again, and I say
this with disbelief, I guess the Biden administration was in
full control at that point. They had everything they needed.
They were running, allegedly running the government, not just an
autopen presidency.
Speaker 3: But it appears that way they.
Speaker 2: Could have easily said, let's just enforce the law, let's
just deport people, let's secure the border. But rather than
doing that, you send Kamala Harris down to Guatemala to
talk about root causes. You don't enforce the border. Millions
of people flow across as like an invading force, and
then you decide the way to deal with it is
to put some migrants in airports across the country, in
dangering US citizens. Yeah. Yeah, you can't make this stuff.
I mean, you can't make it up, but it wouldn't
be believable. Chapter one, how to screw up. Let's just
take let's not enforce immigration, let's tear the border down,
and then let's put a couple of them. Let's put
them in airports.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's it. Put them in airports. Who comes up
with this?
Speaker 2: And here's the part and I get. I get with
the mag of faithful. I get why they're upset when
they say, you know, arrest them, they need to be
in jail.
Speaker 3: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: I just want to know what happened. We don't even know.
We're hearing bits and pieces between the auto pen between
Hunter and Notice that the Hunter Biden's artwork isn't really
selling for anything. If you want to, if you want
like kind of some knowledge that it's not going well
and that they were paying for access, I'll bet you
any kind of stock in Hunter Biden's paintings has just
gone away.
Speaker 3: They're worthless.
Speaker 2: You know, you were paying him an excess amount of
money for access to his dad. And again that's my assertion,
but I'm sure, I'm sure you can probably get a
deal on Hunter Biden's paintings.
Speaker 3: Right now because it's not giving you access to anything.
Speaker 2: But again, when faced with the opportunity, and I would
go back to Mayor Lewles. And I'm not saying I'm
not being mean to the mayor. I'm just asserting that
wouldn't it be nice if we didn't have to have
these discussions, that we were on the the same It's
the same page.
Speaker 3: But we're not.
Speaker 2: It's just it's just uh sad, It's kind of pathetic, Maya.
I didn't mean to belabor that too long, but it
is to me. There are things, there are legitimate things
that we can have discussions about. But it looks like
the political left hates Donald Trump so bad that they'd
rather just release videos telling the military to disobey orders.
They'd rather, you know, make hay about giving you know,
on not enforcing the border stuff or immigration stuff. They'd
rather attack the guy in the White House than actually
put their nose to the grindstone and help solve some problems. Say,
let's get through this, Let's figure out a way to
solve some of these problems. This isn't to me, it
isn't overly complicated, and it certainly is. But again, we're
in such a politically charge and I get the President
drives you bonkers.
Speaker 3: He says stuff.
Speaker 2: I mean, even today during the Turkey partying, which was
absolutely hysterical, he took the opportunity to take a shot
at JB.
Speaker 3: Pritzker's size. He should he have done that?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: Should he be.
Speaker 2: Nicknaming everybody like a third grader? No? Is it part
of what he is and who he is. Yes, but
you know what when other people call him a fascist
and a Nazi, they're doing They're not better than him,
they're not elevating their cause. And so when someone asked
him in the White House, Mundani, didn't you call him
a fascist? And Mamdani starts to give a political answer,
and Trump says, yeah, yeah, you did, just say it.
It's easier than trying to explain it. And he brushes
it off because what he's interested in is actually having
the discussions. I mean, the Ukraine rushes stuff. I mean,
they go back to the table again and again and again.
They know Putin's the bad guy. They get concessions from
Ukraine at some point. You know, Putin's really good at
being a bad guy. He's very very good at being
a bad guy. But maybe Trump is leveraging g Over
in China to try to get the Russians.
Speaker 3: To be at the table.
Speaker 2: Right now, we have an agreement from the Ukrainians. This
could be golden, this could be you know, the Abraham Accords,
getting Saudi Arabia and other countries on board. Beautiful diplomacy.
It's not pretty, but it's consistently hitting those phone lines
and never giving up. He is whether you hate him
or not, He's tireless and relentless. Look at the energy
he brings to the table compared to the guy that
has just left the White House.
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