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Speaker 1: And hello, how are you on this Friday? Today is

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the nineteenth day of June, year of our Lord two

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thy twenty six. My name is Tom Sullivan. And well,

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I mean, it's always always something new. We've got to

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Eaglestorm sent me an email the other day and he says,

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can we talk about something fun besides the war? And

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I would love to, but I think that I come

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from the news world, and you start with the most

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important story and you work your way down you do.

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The fun stuff is a kicker that they call it

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at the end. So I mean, we've got we've got

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some things in here. We've got we talked about a joke.

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The reflecting pond in Washington, after all this time, is

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back to being full of green algae, and the paint

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that they put down on the floor of the reflecting

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pool is starting to peel off and float around in

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the water. It's a mess. So we've got that. What

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else do we have? I guess when it comes to humorous,

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there's something not humorous. But it's good news. Gas prices

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continuing to drop down a little bit. We've got the

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price of average price of regular gas, the cheap stuff

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three dollars in ninety seven cents, Diesel five nine. Both

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of those down three cents from yesterday, down thirteen cents

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from a week ago. So they're going the right direction.

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But Washington, State of Washington, and California, Hawaii, and Alaska,

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they're still all all above five dollars. But that again,

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I don't know about Alaska. I don't know about Hawaii.

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I know the state of Washington has a lot of taxes,

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but the number one cost of living in is gasoline.

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In California, number one cost and that is because mostly

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because of taxes that they have assessed to each and

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every gallum. So we've got fat. I also, well, we

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can get into some of the reflecting pool. Let me

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know something. I started talking about it. The algae is back,

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the blue paint is peeling off. The guy who was

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the contractor for this, the President said, oh yeah, it's

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gonna cost I'll do it in one week. It'll be

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one point eight million dollars because there was some bid

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from somebody before for three hundred million dollars. And I'll

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do it in a week and one point eight million.

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One of the things about Donald Trump that made him

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pretty famous in New York City was the Woman Ice

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Rink and the Woman Ice Rink in Central Park was

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in a state of disrepair and they couldn't get the

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water into make the ice in the winter, and it

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was a mess. And the city of New York had

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spent I want to say, a couple of years working

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on it and had all kinds of cost on it,

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engineers on it. And Donald Trump, this is long before

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he got into politics, he called up the city and said,

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I'll do it for you. And it was some of

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I don't remember the numbers, but it was like in

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a week or two he had the he had it fixed,

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and it was like for a fraction of the cost

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that they were paying to everybody else. So he has

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a history of fixing things like this. But the problem

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that he has and everybody has had trying to fix

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the reflecting pond in Washington is the fact that it's Washington.

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And if you know anything about Washington, d C. I

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when they call it the swamp, because before it was

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our nation's capital, it was a swamp. And so it

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still is the same weather system. If you will, it's hot,

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it's high humidity, and this time of the year, I

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don't care you set a bowl of water out on

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your back porch. You'll probably turn into some sort of

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green thing in a very limited time. So many administrations

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have tried to deal with this. The problem is the

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fact that they've got it in a swamp and it's

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in the summertime. So far, the no bid contract with

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fourteen million dollars, and there's a photo going around today

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of the contractor who apparently is a neighbor of Trump's

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and must live somewhere in Palm Beach apparently, And he's

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like this big fat guy with his cigar and he's

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got some like purple sports jacket on and on his

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arm is some young model. It, you know, typifies I

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don't know if that's really him or not, but that's

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what's going around on on X today. So the reflecting

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pool is still a problem. I don't Yeah, so I'm

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sure they're going to try to ignore that for a while.

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All right, there you go, eaglestorm. We talked about something else,

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but uh oh, and one other thing I do want

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to talk to you about. I was very surprised and

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I kind of keep one eye pretty close on aviation.

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But Monica Crowley, who I used to work with, she

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is now the some big position at the White House. Anyway,

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she travels with the President and was over in Geneva

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and was on Air Force One as they flew home

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from Paris the other night, and she took a photo

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of Air Force one sitting on the on the apron

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of Andrews Air Force Base, and instead that she was

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it was her honor to be able to fly on

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the last flight. Now what do you mean the last flight, Well,

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they have two of them. They're identical. The tale is

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twenty nine thousand, and they're not getting rid of it,

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but they are parking it in the hangar as a backup.

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Because remember the newer seven forty seven. It's not brand new,

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but it's a newer model. It's the eight hundred model

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of the seven forty seven that Guitar gifted to I

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don't know, to the nation or to Donald Trump. I'm

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not exactly sure. So he had that thing painted red,

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white and blue, and they've installed various security measures on

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it and the new communication system and things for the President,

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and that is going to be the new temporary Air

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Force one until Boweing gets their act together. So the

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last flight of the of what you perceive as Air

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Force one. The design, the blue and white design created

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by Jackie Kennedy back around nineteen sixty one, and we've

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had that on the old seven O sevens and now

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the seven forty sevens. Those seven forty sevens are thirty

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six years old. They originally were put into work when

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George H. W. Bush was president. They went from the seven,

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the old Boweing seven O seven to the seven forty seven.

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It was quite a step up, but it's thirty six

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years old, and they wanted newer, modern aircraft. So they've

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got it, and apparently they're going to be flying around

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in this red, white and blue seven seven eight hundred.

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It's maybe I'm a sucker for tradition. Maybe I'm also

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a sucker for Jackie Kennedy had style and she designed

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that schematic that livery as they call it, for seven

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for air Force one and four a bunch of government

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planes over the base at Andrews. And so I'm sorry,

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I hope, I hope the next president paints it back

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the way it was. I just do I know Trump

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does all this stuff that is the arch, the ballroom,

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that all these things that he does, and I'm just

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going I don't I'm not on the same page with

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his his gold leaf stuff and everything else. So anyway,

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don't be surprised if you see the new seven for

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the new air Force. One is red, white and blue,

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and I think it's I don't like it all right now, eaglestorm,

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can we get to the Okay, now we can get

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to the war, because this is getting to be you

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step back a little bit. Oh, by the way, the

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everybody was supposed to be in Switzerland for the big

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start of the sixty day negotiation. Well that's canceled. Yeah, JD.

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Vance never got on a plane heading there. The talks

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are on hold. Iran has backed out of the talks.

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Vance has canceled his trip to Geneva. The reason is

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is because overnight Israel and Lebanon has belaw we're firing

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missiles back and forth at each other. I think has

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belaw what started it? And they killed four Israeli soldiers

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and so Israel responded as you would expect them to,

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and so they said, oh up, nope, you know that

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that memory the fourteen point memorandum of understanding says that

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that's supposed to be a ceasefire. It's weird because neither

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Hesba Law or Lebanon or Israel are signatores to this

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fourteen point memorandum of understanding. So it's still I said

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yesterday that this I'll be surprised if we get through

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sixty days without this whole thing falling apart. I didn't

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expect it to be before the first hour. But that's

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what's going on. And it's interesting also because Jadie Vance

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came to the even like I told you, he was

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running around doing all the network shows here in New

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York Thursday, Wednesday, and then yet today he was in

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the press room, press office, press briefing room. And what

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his job is to sell the fact that this memorandum

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of understanding is a great, great, great idea. There aren't

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a lot of people that agree with him, and a

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lot of Republicans don't agree with him, but he's selling

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it based and what I don't know if this is

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really him or whether he's just selling the program because

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the boss told him to. But I got the feeling

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this is really JD. Vans, because he is very much

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along the line of, well, you know what we need

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to do is we need to trust these guys. We

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need to trust the Iranian leadership Let's give them some incentives.

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Let's give them a bunch of money, Let's drop the

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sanctions against them, Let's do all these wonderful things and

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embrace them, and maybe they will become normal, nice people.

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And I'm thinking he's I mean, I guess if it works,

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I'll eat I'll eat crow. But I'm going jd vance.

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You know what I think he's doing. I think he's

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hurting his chances to be the nominee after Donald Trump

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is out of office. I think Marco Rubio is going

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to looking better every single minute. The other day, when

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the President was still over in France and they had

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the news conference the G seven meeting, and standing behind

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him was Howard Lutnick and Marco Rubio. Lutnick was laughing

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and chuckling and smiling and shaking his head at everything

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that Trump said. Marco Rubio, I would not want one. No,

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I don't want to play poker with him. His face

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never changed. He didn't grin, he didn't he didn't look concerned,

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he didn't raise his eyebrows, he didn't smile. He was

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like a stiff soldier standing there. But Jadie Bance is going,

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come on, let's give let's give these Iranian guys a chance.

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Let's give them a bunch of money and drop the sanctions,

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and they'll be No. Without incentives, they're going to be

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good guys, I don't think so. So let's start off

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with President Trump was interviewed first interviews since the MoU

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has been off.

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Speaker 2: There.

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Speaker 1: He did a thing with Mark Caputo over at Axios.

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Here's a little couple of clips from the Q and A.

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Speaker 2: What have you learned about not just the exercise of power,

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but the limits on your power as a result of

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the conflict.

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Speaker 3: There are no limits, no, no, not I haven't learned

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that lesson yet. I know there are, but you know

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there are no limits. We defeated them totally militarily. We

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have the most powerful military in the world by far.

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Who else could have done a blockade like that. I

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did a naval blockade when one ship was able to

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get through. Some try they didn't. You know, it didn't

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last very long.

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Speaker 2: And it certainly brought around to the table more than before. However,

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beginning of conflict you had talked about you only wanted

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unconditional surrender, and well the MOLU doesn't look like unconditional surrender.

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Speaker 3: Well, it really probably is unconditional surrender. I think so.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's interesting here he says, the unconditional surrender. Unconditional

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surrenders mean unconditional. There's no thing to negotiate, not fourteen

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points to negotiate. There's nothing to negotiate with an unconditional surrender.

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It's I give up. That's it. There's no well, let's

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talk about it. There's none of that. So the President

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went on with the market, putive over at Axios and

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let me touch more, let me go back for just

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the second on jd Vance jd Vance. The more he talks,

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the more he sounds like he does not like Israel.

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He's talking down to them, going, who do you think

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you are? You ought to be grateful for us. He's

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not making friends with anybody in Israel. And the President

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has a tone of that as well.

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Speaker 3: If it weren't for Donald Trump, Israel would have been eviscerated.

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Speaker 2: Your relationship with Nan Yaho's it's good, but we have

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to keep them a little bit, saying are you going

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to be able to control Israel from attacking Lebanon? Yeah?

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I will be, I mean I would. Uh. They have

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a lot of respect for me, and they do as

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I say.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no surprise or the narcissist part of him saying

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they have great respect for me, that's why they'll I

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can control them. But the fact that they will do

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what I say? Do you know how much? That probably

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doesn't go over very well with anybody. Are you in Israel?

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I've between Jadie Vance especially and now the president are

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we are breaking our friendship with the greatest ally that

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we have in that part of the world. That's Israel,

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Middle East, with especially in Israel. And the whole idea

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about the ceasepire that Israel is supposed to do even

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if they're being fired upon by Hesbal law is what

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Barack Ravid talks about.

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Speaker 4: So first I would just add the word alleged before

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renewed ceasefire, because the seafire was supposed to coming to

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effect at four pm Local time nine am Eastern and

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as we speak, I think just like half an hour ago,

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there were still fighting, still fighting in southern Lebanon. And

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what I hear from Israeli officials, from Israeli Defense officials

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is that the guidance, the directive that they got from

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Israel's political leadership is to hold their attacks northern of

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what's called the Yellow line, which means that ten kilometer

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buffer zone that Israel occupies in southern Lebanon. So everything

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north of that is a ceasefire, but everything south of

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that is business as usual, and the IDF has been

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directed to continue taking military action against threats in this area.

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So I think that there's a quite quite a big

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difference in interpretation between Israel on the one hand, Hezbolani

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one the other hand, when it comes to what the

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seas fire actually includes.

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Speaker 1: So is this the beginning of a divorce between the

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United States and Israel.

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Speaker 4: The Israeli government is not monolithic. It has different parties

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and different elements and different characters. And NATANIAO is definitely

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much more leaning towards accommodating Trump's request this way or another,

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even if not one hundred percent of the time. But

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he's not the only one calling the shots, or at

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least he's dependent on hardline ultranationalist politicians that he has

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put in key positions in his government. And he has

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an election in less than four months so this dependency

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on those extreme right elements is even higher. And this

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is why people like Itamar Beankvir the Minister of National Security,

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or bet Salies Motrit the Minister of Finance, or even

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Nataniao's Minister of Defense, who is in his own party,

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when they do things or when they say things, Nataniao

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is not really saying anything against it. He's not going

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out against them. He's not forcing them to change course,

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especially because he knows that a lot of his political

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base supports what they say. And this is why, even

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if he wants to accommodate Donald Trump's request, he's not

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always able to do so. And this is why I

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think we got to the point that we got with

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the Vice President of the United States basically saying the

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quiet part out loud from the podium in the White

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House and saying what many people around Donald Trump think

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for a long time, that what this current Israeli government

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is doing is contrary to US national security interests.

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Speaker 1: So when Donald Trump looks at Israel, he probably thinks, well,

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wait a minute, the regime in Iran can order Hezbo

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law and Hamas and the who thies to do what

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they want couldn't he order Israel to do that, but

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you did heard a brocrat. So there's lots of different factions,

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of different political stripes within the Israeli government, which is

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why I say I will be surprised if this gets

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very far in these so called negotiations over the MoU.

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Speaking of the MoU, General Ben Hodges, who used to

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command our military in Europe, was asked what does he

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think about the memorandum of understanding?

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Speaker 5: Obviously this memorandum of understanding has so many holes in

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it that even the Republicans are criticizing it as or

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just told us. The fact that it's alleges that Israel

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and Lebanon will do certain things or implies it, yet

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neither of them are actual parties to the negotiations and

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the agreement. So I think it's naive to think that

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Israel is going to do something that's not in its interest,

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or that Hamilla is going to do something, and it's

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interesting unless it is they are compelled to. So the

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idea of a ceasefire never seemed likely to me.

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Speaker 1: Ditto the same for me. I don't see ceasefire because

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his Bella has been sending thousands of rockets during the

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previous ceasefire into Israel, and you expect Israel just to

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sit there and take it. I don't think they will.

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So General Hodges was talking about the Republicans that are

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complaining about this memorandum. There's just a little sample.

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Speaker 6: Iron's left stronger, we are left weaker, and a lot

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of stuff into them.

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Speaker 3: Everything I've heard about it causes me concern whether or

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not you can land this deal with Iran. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: They certainly would walk it around.

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Speaker 7: My history demonstrates that giving billions of dollars to theocratic

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lunatics who want to murder us is an exceptionally bad idea,

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and I think, unfortunately the President has received some really

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bad advice on this deal.

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Speaker 1: That last one was Senator Cruz. Ted Cruz started off

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with the Bill Cassidy and John Cornyan. Of course they're

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mad at Trump because he basically got them pushed out

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at the end of their term. Lindsey Graham was one

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of those. Lindsey Graham apparently he's waffling back and forth.

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One hour, he's upset about this, the next hour he's

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Donald Trump is his best friend. So that but that's

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Lindsey Graham. Michael Allen, who was one of the National

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Security Advisors George W. Bush. His analysis is Asphala.

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Speaker 8: Well, I think maybe it's given them a few moments

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in time to negotiate something that would be more stable.

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But this is a real full crumb going forward, and

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that is what will Israel do if fired upon by Hesbola.

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The United States and others say, of course, you have

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not relinquished your right to self defense, you very well

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can go them. But then you juxtapose that with what

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the Vice President said and his press briefing recently, he

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was very negative towards Israel. He said, you can't kill

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and shoot your way out of everything. So I mean,

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I think we're setting up for another divergence between the

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United States and Israel as Israel feels like we have

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to go after them. And on top of that, it's

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the Israeli elections later this year and arguably Netanya who

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has to keep being aggressive or he's not going to win.

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Speaker 1: So the theme of what I'm playing for you today

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is there's a lot of people that are Republicans or

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conservatives or from a Republican administrations that are pointing out

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that we're going to have a problem with Israel, and

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I know there's a lot of young Republicans who are

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not happy about Israel in general. And the older you are,

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the more you're more favorable towards Israel. Has nothing to

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do with your Your religion is just. Israel has been

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a good friend of the US for sent well since

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they were created back in nineteen what was it forty eight,

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So it has a long history of friendship and friendship

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should last. But it looks like it's under a little

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bit of stress right now. One of the other items

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of stress is the cia Bill Poulti, who is came

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from the Poltie Housing family, even though that corporation kind

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of pushed him out, but his grandfather started the company.

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He was the grandson who they brought in, and so

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he got a job as the head of Fannie May

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and Freddie Mack mortgage operations in the government. And he's

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the one who went after Leticia James and went after

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Lisa Cook over at the FED and went after was

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it a bunch of different politicians, all Democrats. He ignored

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the Republicans, so he apparently President Trump liked him. So

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when Telsey gabberts is I'm quitting as the Director of

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National Intelligence. He nominated Bill Poulty. Wow, has there been

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a pushback again from the right and the left. This

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is bipartisan. Guess who showed it. He's supposed to take

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over today. Felci Gabbert's packing up her stuff and leaving

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the office today. Yesterday, apparently Bill Poulty walked into the

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office and said I'm here, and they said, well, well

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you're not, And he said, I want a list of

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all the employees. Give me a list of every employee.

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I don't know if it's in just the Office of

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Director of National Intelligence or all of the eighteen intelligence agencies.

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I don't know if they gave him the list, but

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he basically was implying that he wants to look over

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the list to see who he's going to fire. The

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President was not shy about it. He said he wanted

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Poulty to go in there and fire a whole bunch

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of people. He wanted the intelligence units to shrink. So

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they tried the Republicans once. The President the other day

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said well, I'll put Jake Clayton. I'll nominate Jay Clayton

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to be the permanent Director of National Intelligence. They hustled

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and hurried to get Jake Clayton in for a nomination hearing,

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and the President called up Jake Clayton and said, don't go.

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So that's on hold. I don't know what's going to

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happen with the Director of National Intelligence, whether anybody in

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the intelligence community even is going to cooperate with him,

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But he showed up. John Zeipher's former CIA officer, was

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stationed in Russia and he was asked all about this

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from the eyes of a CIA agent.

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Speaker 6: Well, it's clear that every day more and more the

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president wants somebody in that job whose job is just

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to be a political hatchetman, cherry pick intelligence so they

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can publicize fire people they don't like, and so, yeah,

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the danger is you have serious people doing serious work.

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You have a very powerful foreign intelligence agency and agencies,

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and if you're going to use them for political purposes,

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like to go check voting machines and get involved in

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US elections, that's something that's very dangerous. And we've done

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reforms over many decades to try to avoid exactly those

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kind of things happening. So when you have somebody like

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this who's not a serious person, who's in there only

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to cause trouble, Yeah, it is going to cause trouble.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so it causes trouble, but is what do you think,

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what do you think, mister Czeipher, is just going to

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impact the morale of the people that are out there

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collecting secrets for our government.

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Speaker 6: Well, you know, most of the people who work there

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have worked there for years, who have variety of presidents,

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a variety of policies. They take their jobs seriously. They

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believe they're doing important work for the American people. So

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they do their work even if morea if you know,

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what they see in the political process goes up and down.

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But it does matter ultimately if you're not taken seriously

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by the people you work for. If the president shows

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contempt for the intelligence community by putting people in that

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probably wouldn't even be able to get an entry level job,

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nonetheless lead the DNI, it's a real problem. You got

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to remember here. The dn I, too, is a very

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different kind of thing. It was created after nine to

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eleven in two thousand and four for political reasons. It's

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very much sort of a boring nerd job whose job

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is to create standards over the intelligence community, worry about

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budgetary issues, solve problems between different agencies to have somebody

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come in and think that they can just sort of

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pull and figure out who to fire. I don't know

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how you would even do that.

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Speaker 4: But it does.

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Speaker 6: It sends a bad signal, so that the people who

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work for the intelligence community.

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Speaker 1: So put yourself in the shoes of somebody in the office.

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And here comes Bill Pulti in and he doesn't have

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a security clearance, he has nothing, and he starts starts

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demanding lists of the employees. I mean, do you say no, no,

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you can't have these. You're not even you don't have

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any degree of class information that you can have. Well,

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you won't say no to him because you know if

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you do, and he's going to get that job, he

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will be fired. You will be fired. So at this point,

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I don't know what they're going to do, but it's

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going to be one to keep an eye on. Back

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to John Cipher about the fact that this job, being

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the director of the eight seventeen or eighteen intelligence agencies

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seems more like a traffic cops job.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, so clearly it looks like the president put an

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arsonists in charge and then hope that the Senate would

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push back so that he can then bully the Senate

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to get what he wants on this voting thing. The

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Democrats clearly put held back on authorizing flies A seven

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oh two to try to put pressure. So it's going

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to be interesting to see because I do think they're

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a mixture of Republicans Democrats will come together on this

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because Pulti is is it, like I said, a political

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arsonist and is quite dangerous in that position. Yeah, flies

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A seven or two. It's a complicated thing, but as

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essentially collecting foreign intelligence over the air way, so someone's

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on computers or phones overseas and it works its way

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through United States infrastructure. We need to have a means

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to collect that. It's been complicated. But I think this

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is just a political game to try to stop somebody

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like Paulty being in charge. And so it's communediancy if

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Democrats and Republicans will work together because this person is

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so unfit to the job.

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Speaker 1: The Republicans and Democrats did work together on the Senate

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committee to try to nominate Jake Clayton really really quick

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so that Bill Poulty couldn't come in, but that was

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all stopped. So it's a political chess game. I agree

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with mister Steifer that this guy, Bill Poulty is a

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danger being in that position. This isn't fine. Put him,

477
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put him in charge of mortgage regulations, but our national

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secrets and he doesn't have any experience or knowledge about it.

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He's I don't know what kind of guy he is.

480
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Maybe he's got thick skin, but in nobody likes him.

481
00:31:02,519 --> 00:31:06,599
Nobody And speaking of people who are not well liked,

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Luigi back in court because well he wasn't back in

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court of his yesterday. His legal team had him in

484
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court and they were implying that they were going to

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use the insanity defense, that yes, that there was some

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sort of emotional disturbance. And yet now today and this

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defense team that they that he has are supposed to

488
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be really super caliber defense lawyers, and apparently they aren't

489
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looking very good because they switched today and said, oh, never,

490
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never mind on the insanity defense. Here's Joey Jackson, who's

491
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a great defense lawyer.

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Speaker 9: It's unusual. Good to be with you. But I think

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they had to do it. And what do I mean,

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Let's remember what the extreme emotional disturbance is. It has

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a couple of flaws. Why Number one, what you're doing

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is right, as Carascanal just pointed out, is that you're

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admitting that you did it. You're simply giving a justification.

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So there's that admission. Number two. It does not exonerate

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you at all. It simply mitigates, lessens the sentence that

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you will have. Now that's problematic because what happens is

501
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is that this is the state murder trial, and even

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if it were successful at the state murder trial, it

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would not have been successful in the federal trial.

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Speaker 2: How dare me say that?

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Speaker 1: I say that.

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Speaker 9: Because extreme emotional disturbance is not a defense federally, and

507
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so that's a problem. It's a problem because if you

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make the admission that I did it in state court,

509
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which is a defense because you had a reasonable justification

510
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and excuse if the.

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Speaker 2: Jury would buy that.

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Speaker 9: Now when you go across the street to federal court,

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you can't use that. And if you can't use it,

514
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and the federal prosecutors have the admission that you did it,

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and they have psychiatric records where you're giving admissions it

516
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explaining yes, I did it and here's why, and they

517
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parade that before the jury. You're guilty. And what a

518
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guilty finding in the federal case, you're facing life in

519
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prison without parole, and so it was not a viable

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play right overall when you consider his staycase and his

521
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federal case.

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Speaker 1: So if I'm ever on trial for something like that,

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I mean, I would want somebody who got good grades

524
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in law school and all those sorts of happy things.

525
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But man, one thing that would be really important would

526
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be somebody that was really smart strategically, and these lawyers

527
00:33:31,079 --> 00:33:38,759
that are working for Luigi strategically were like first first

528
00:33:38,839 --> 00:33:42,880
day law students. They really blew it. So in any case,

529
00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:46,480
we know Luigi did it. Just a question of man,

530
00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:49,200
take how much time and money is being spent on

531
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something that is so clear and obvious. All right, let's

532
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speaking of time and money. Guess what did not do today?

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We did not do anything on Wall Street because it

534
00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:05,599
is Juneteenth and it is a federal holiday, and the

535
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stock markets were closed today, so there's a little bit

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of a pause. We wait to see what happens. There's

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a lot of news that's taking place internationally, but the

538
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oil markets are definitely trending lower that you would expect

539
00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:25,840
because of the fact that there is a chance of

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00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:29,599
some breakthrough here. But as far as the markets go.

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No stocks, no bonds, but we did get oil commodities

542
00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:41,079
were trading in Chicago and West Texas. Intermediate cruise went

543
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:45,559
up to seventy six dollars and some change. That was

544
00:34:45,679 --> 00:34:49,000
up just about a dollar from yesterday, and in the

545
00:34:49,039 --> 00:34:52,559
aftermarket that I'm looking at right now, it's up another buck.

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So oil price is kind of scooting up just a

547
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little bit because I think they're looking around and going, man,

548
00:34:58,039 --> 00:35:02,840
we didn't even get the sixty days negotiation period started yet,

549
00:35:03,039 --> 00:35:06,119
so maybe they're not having as much optimism about it

550
00:35:06,159 --> 00:35:09,559
as others. So that's it for today. Thank you for

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coming by, have a wonderful weekend, Happy Dad's Day, are

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you fathers, and we'll see you back here on Monday.