1 00:00:22,199 --> 00:00:27,000 Speaker 1: And hello, how are you welcome to the Big Podcast 2 00:00:27,079 --> 00:00:31,760 on this Monday. Today is the twenty third day of February, 3 00:00:31,960 --> 00:00:35,439 year of our lower twenty twenty six. My name is 4 00:00:35,439 --> 00:00:39,960 Tom Sullivan, and we've got a lot to cover here today. 5 00:00:40,399 --> 00:00:44,119 I mean, I first of all, let me reach around, 6 00:00:44,119 --> 00:00:49,200 bat myself on the back. We're here. You would think 7 00:00:49,719 --> 00:00:53,119 the lead up to the big to the big snowstorm 8 00:00:53,479 --> 00:00:56,640 the I don't know. I thought it was going to 9 00:00:56,679 --> 00:00:59,359 be next to nothing. One of my boys, my youngest son, 10 00:00:59,399 --> 00:01:03,079 sent me in a text message and says, are you 11 00:01:03,159 --> 00:01:05,040 Are you going to be okay? And I said, ah, 12 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:09,760 it's all over hyped. Oh my gosh. We've got at 13 00:01:09,879 --> 00:01:13,799 least two to three feet of snow. I've never seen 14 00:01:13,879 --> 00:01:17,719 so much snow. It's it dumped a lot of snow, 15 00:01:17,719 --> 00:01:20,120 there's no question about it. And we're supposed to get 16 00:01:20,159 --> 00:01:25,200 more snow on Wednesday and then again next Monday, Tuesday, Wednesdays, 17 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:28,560 so we're in a pattern of more. It's a snowy winter, 18 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:31,959 let me put it that way. The problem with it 19 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:35,840 is the airports, the New York airports, they fell up. 20 00:01:36,239 --> 00:01:39,959 Aviation all over the country because you may be taking 21 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:43,400 a flight from San Francisco to Salt Lake City, but 22 00:01:43,519 --> 00:01:48,000 the plane may be coming from New York and a 23 00:01:48,239 --> 00:01:53,079 ninety percent of the flights out of JFK have been canceled, 24 00:01:54,319 --> 00:01:57,840 eight percent of the flight everything. I mean, who was 25 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:00,760 the two percent that took off? Twenty eight percent out 26 00:02:00,799 --> 00:02:03,760 of LaGuardia. We're canceled ninety two percent out of Newark, 27 00:02:04,319 --> 00:02:07,680 and Boston's about the same, Philly's about the same. So 28 00:02:07,879 --> 00:02:13,439 it's all pretty much over all but some wind, and 29 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:17,000 everybody's going to scramble to get their airplanes. The problem 30 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:21,439 is they booked the planes so full that so they 31 00:02:21,639 --> 00:02:24,080 can't They don't have room to roll over the people 32 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:27,159 from a canceled flight. It may take a few days 33 00:02:27,199 --> 00:02:31,080 for these people to get where they're going. In any case. 34 00:02:31,719 --> 00:02:35,000 The other thing about it with the TSAY, I still 35 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:38,400 don't know the answer. But because of the fact that 36 00:02:38,479 --> 00:02:44,879 we've got the partial government shutdown affecting Department of Homeland 37 00:02:44,919 --> 00:02:48,879 Security and TSA is part of that, and so they 38 00:02:48,919 --> 00:02:54,080 said the DHS is so messed up, so mismanaged. In 39 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:57,719 any case, they came out and said, yeah, we're not 40 00:02:57,759 --> 00:03:03,599 going to be able to handle the TSA pre check, 41 00:03:04,479 --> 00:03:06,879 which a lot of people have paid money and signed 42 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:09,800 up for it's much faster. It's nice, I have, it's great. 43 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:13,400 And then they came back and they said, a couple 44 00:03:13,439 --> 00:03:16,400 of hours. Okay, okay, okay, we heard a lot of griping, 45 00:03:16,479 --> 00:03:20,919 so we'll staff the TSA pre check, but not the 46 00:03:21,159 --> 00:03:27,080 global what do they call it, the it's the it's 47 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:30,840 the situation at that global entry where you come in 48 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:33,599 from the have to go through customs, and they weren't 49 00:03:33,639 --> 00:03:38,439 going to staff that, and so who knows what's staffed 50 00:03:38,439 --> 00:03:45,280 and what's not. But it's quite something, it really is. 51 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:49,240 Oh and by the way, the kind of the sad 52 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:53,039 funny out of this is like I said, a lot 53 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:59,360 of snowdrop on New York and Mayor Ma'm Donnie came 54 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:03,520 out and said, hey, help, we need we need volunteer 55 00:04:04,039 --> 00:04:08,960 snow shovelers. I've lived in New York now almost twenty years. 56 00:04:09,039 --> 00:04:11,759 I've never heard of this. They've got a couple of 57 00:04:11,919 --> 00:04:16,360 thousand trucks with snow blades on them, and I don't 58 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:20,240 know what the I've never seen a volunteer snow shoveler before. 59 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:24,759 But apparently they you sign up online in someplace and 60 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:30,040 they pay you twenty bucks an hour. But here's the 61 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:33,560 great part about it. You've got I got the list here, 62 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:36,240 hold on, I got the list of what you need 63 00:04:36,279 --> 00:04:40,639 to have if you're going to become a volunteer snow 64 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:44,639 shoveler in New York City. You must be at least 65 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:48,439 eighteen years of age. You must be eligible to work 66 00:04:48,639 --> 00:04:57,319 in the United States, so no illegal volunteer snow shovelers 67 00:04:57,319 --> 00:05:01,519 for New York. And you must be be able to 68 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:06,199 perform heavy physical labor. You better believe it. Snowshoveling is hard. 69 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:11,560 But here's the registration part. You register online. You have 70 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:18,040 to upload two small photos one uh uh and one 71 00:05:18,079 --> 00:05:22,279 half inch square. It's like a passport photo. Gotta send 72 00:05:22,319 --> 00:05:27,519 them two photos. Plus you have to send two original 73 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:31,560 forms of IDs. So no, no, no, no copies. You 74 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:35,040 gotta you gotta get the birth certificate with the perforations 75 00:05:35,079 --> 00:05:37,560 on it, and you got to send them a copy 76 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:42,439 of your Social Security card. This is all for a 77 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:47,519 volunteer snowshovel job. But you don't have to show any 78 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:51,199 ID when you vote in New York City. That's that's 79 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:54,680 the part that's sadly funny, sad and more than funny, 80 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:57,759 but I'm going, what is wrong with these people they 81 00:05:57,759 --> 00:06:01,519 have They're making this volunteer snow shoe go through all 82 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:04,480 kinds of hoops to become a volunteer snow shoveler and 83 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:12,319 yet to vote. Just walk in and vote. It's crazy. Also, 84 00:06:12,439 --> 00:06:16,279 before we get going too far in the program, congratulations 85 00:06:16,399 --> 00:06:22,759 to the United States hockey teams plural. The men are 86 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:27,839 getting all the attention today, but the women also won 87 00:06:28,319 --> 00:06:32,040 the gold medal for women's hockey. So the men and 88 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:35,839 the women both won, first time the men have won 89 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:39,759 since nineteen eighty the Miracle on the Ice, which I 90 00:06:39,839 --> 00:06:44,680 remember that game. It was exciting, and so was this 91 00:06:44,759 --> 00:06:50,000 game last night. But the difference between it is in 92 00:06:50,079 --> 00:06:53,759 nineteen eighty you could not be a professional hockey player, 93 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:57,920 and that's one of the things that this team did, 94 00:06:58,079 --> 00:07:03,360 in fact get professional hockey players there actually are from 95 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:05,959 all over the world, but they played for US hockey 96 00:07:05,959 --> 00:07:09,519 teams and they represented the United States. So first win 97 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:14,759 for men since Lake Placid in nineteen eighty, and in 98 00:07:14,879 --> 00:07:20,480 nineteen eighty they played the Soviet Union. Oh my gosh, 99 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:24,720 you know that was a whole different world then. But again, 100 00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:31,160 major congratulations to them. I'm thrilled for them. So on 101 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:35,639 the big international scene, I think this is quite a story. 102 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:40,399 El Mincho, I've never heard of El Mincho. I've heard 103 00:07:40,439 --> 00:07:46,120 of all kinds of cartels and some of the cartel leaders, 104 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:49,959 El Chapo and all that. But this guy, El Mincho, 105 00:07:51,319 --> 00:08:00,079 was a former police officer in Guadalajara area and he 106 00:08:00,759 --> 00:08:07,079 became he switched sides and started his own cartel. They 107 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:12,720 called the New Leader Cartel. It's very violent. Apparently he 108 00:08:13,199 --> 00:08:15,560 used to be with got he cut his teeth with 109 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:20,879 the Sentinel Cineloa cartel. Now he's bigger than them. Well, 110 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:25,800 now he's dead. And it was because of the Mexican 111 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:34,279 military swooped in and got him and oh in Porto Biarta. Yeah, 112 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:38,679 so the whole Halisco area. And it was because of 113 00:08:38,720 --> 00:08:43,480 the fact that the United States gave Mexico the intelligence 114 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:49,080 on where this guy was. Here's Kim Dozer, who reports 115 00:08:49,080 --> 00:08:51,120 on all things of national security. 116 00:08:51,759 --> 00:08:53,679 Speaker 2: Well, one way to look at this is that the 117 00:08:53,679 --> 00:08:56,519 pressure seems to be working that Mexico took a look 118 00:08:56,639 --> 00:09:01,080 at the US action in Venezuela and okay, we're going 119 00:09:01,159 --> 00:09:06,799 to go after this incredibly violent network. Osageta built from 120 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:11,840 being a policeman to being a Sinaloa confidant and affiliate 121 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:18,120 to something much larger. But taken another way, the Mexican 122 00:09:18,159 --> 00:09:22,039 government's top security official had been targeted specifically by Osageta, 123 00:09:22,159 --> 00:09:24,960 so this was also personal. But you can see what 124 00:09:25,039 --> 00:09:30,600 a blowback has produced. This is a heavily armed cartel. 125 00:09:31,039 --> 00:09:35,840 They've even got things like RPGs, rocket propelled grenades. They've 126 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:39,960 taken down a Mexican helicopter. So the Mexican government has 127 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:44,480 to weigh the crackdowns against the instability that it can 128 00:09:44,919 --> 00:09:46,879 produce across the entire country. 129 00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:49,759 Speaker 1: Oh, they have equipment to take the fire to shoot 130 00:09:49,799 --> 00:09:56,080 down Mexican military helicopters. Major Mike Lyons also talks about 131 00:09:56,080 --> 00:09:57,919 the intel that we provided. 132 00:09:58,600 --> 00:09:59,600 Speaker 3: I think it's big news. 133 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:01,840 Speaker 4: It's a big national security win right now for this 134 00:10:01,919 --> 00:10:05,080 administration that's putting pressure now on Mexico to go after 135 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:09,240 these drug cartel leaders. He was wanted by the United States, 136 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:12,120 but this time provided we just provided the intel and 137 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:13,840 you know, kind of the playbook that we did to 138 00:10:13,879 --> 00:10:16,679 take out Maduro. So I think that you're going to 139 00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:18,799 see a lot more of this cooperation between the United 140 00:10:18,840 --> 00:10:21,720 States and the Mexican government. As they as this administration, 141 00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:24,639 the Trump administration, leans into this very much so, especially 142 00:10:24,679 --> 00:10:27,759 in this hemisphere, using all those same tools that we 143 00:10:27,879 --> 00:10:30,600 used again to take out the Venezuela leader. And you'll, 144 00:10:30,639 --> 00:10:32,039 I think you'll continue to see a lot more of 145 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:32,919 it in time. 146 00:10:33,320 --> 00:10:36,039 Speaker 1: There's got to be at least a thousand American citizens 147 00:10:36,320 --> 00:10:39,759 in Port of r To and they are there. You know, 148 00:10:39,799 --> 00:10:42,879 it's cold here, so they go to Mexico for a 149 00:10:42,960 --> 00:10:45,919 nice winter vacation. One of them is the guy by 150 00:10:45,919 --> 00:10:51,080 the name of Scott Posselkin, and he and his friends 151 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:52,120 are stuck. 152 00:10:53,639 --> 00:10:53,879 Speaker 5: Yeah. 153 00:10:53,919 --> 00:10:54,159 Speaker 6: Sure. 154 00:10:54,159 --> 00:10:56,399 Speaker 5: So I'm down here with a group of about thirteen 155 00:10:56,440 --> 00:11:01,440 of us and yesterday, Mark, yes morning, about seven of 156 00:11:01,519 --> 00:11:03,039 us left to go snorkel. 157 00:11:04,559 --> 00:11:06,480 Speaker 6: We were in our shuttle. 158 00:11:06,159 --> 00:11:08,759 Speaker 5: Which was driven by a local, and we were just 159 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:11,679 heading down to the actual town of Puerto Vallarda from 160 00:11:11,679 --> 00:11:17,240 where perto Varda from where we're staying here. And we 161 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:20,240 were on the road and we saw a bus, like 162 00:11:20,279 --> 00:11:24,919 a full coach size bus, a horizontal across the road. 163 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:28,559 At first we thought it was a car accident just 164 00:11:28,639 --> 00:11:30,600 like the bus and hit a tree or something like that. 165 00:11:30,639 --> 00:11:33,320 But then we noticed people kind of running away from 166 00:11:33,639 --> 00:11:35,720 the bus in a way they wentn't from an accident, 167 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:38,600 and kind of while we were registering, a man with 168 00:11:38,679 --> 00:11:41,200 a gun came around the other side of the bus 169 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:43,480 and kind of waved it at us and gave us 170 00:11:43,559 --> 00:11:47,919 kind of the hand signal to reverse. So one of 171 00:11:47,960 --> 00:11:50,600 the women who'd been on the bus ran up to 172 00:11:50,639 --> 00:11:53,519 the shuttle and asked if she could get in, and 173 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:56,480 of course we let her in, and she explained that 174 00:11:56,519 --> 00:11:59,000 they'd all been forced off the bus by our men 175 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:02,639 who were gonna like the bus on fire. We took 176 00:12:02,679 --> 00:12:04,759 her in our shuttle and we tried to go back 177 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:08,320 in the opposite direction actually to go back to our airbnb, 178 00:12:08,879 --> 00:12:12,080 and we ran into another car on fire. So at 179 00:12:12,080 --> 00:12:15,240 this point we were sandwiched between these two cars. So 180 00:12:15,679 --> 00:12:18,320 we took the only turn we had available to us 181 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:22,360 and went down to a smaller beach, and after just 182 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:24,720 kind of just talking to the locals and deciding what 183 00:12:24,799 --> 00:12:27,159 to do, they said the safest thing would be for 184 00:12:27,279 --> 00:12:28,960 us to just go out on the water and hang 185 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:31,919 there for a bit. So we went on the water 186 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:35,240 and we hung out there and crazy to watch, you know, 187 00:12:35,320 --> 00:12:38,799 the town burning and all these cars being set on 188 00:12:38,879 --> 00:12:44,679 fire one by one. Yeah, and getting back from that 189 00:12:44,919 --> 00:12:49,840 was also quite a journey. No, it is very surreal 190 00:12:50,320 --> 00:12:53,000 and shocking. I also come to Mexico quite a bit 191 00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:55,840 up into weddings, you know, been tou loom, and I've 192 00:12:55,840 --> 00:12:58,799 been to Cancun and lots of other places. Mexico city 193 00:12:58,879 --> 00:13:02,399 like this. I've never seen anything like this in Mexico ever. 194 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:07,960 And the locals are local. Who was running the boat 195 00:13:07,960 --> 00:13:10,480 that we are on. The local who was driving us 196 00:13:10,519 --> 00:13:12,639 told us that they grew up here and they'd never 197 00:13:12,679 --> 00:13:16,399 seen anything like this in their lives. And you know, 198 00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:19,720 we were definitely scared yesterday. You know, we had to 199 00:13:19,799 --> 00:13:22,759 walk back to the house on that road and that 200 00:13:22,919 --> 00:13:26,600 was pretty harrowing. We saw some people on motorcycles with 201 00:13:26,679 --> 00:13:30,799 weapons and that was pretty scary. But we made it 202 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:32,799 back to the house. And now that we're all back 203 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:35,440 here and together, you know, I'm lucky. I'm with a 204 00:13:35,519 --> 00:13:38,919 large group of my friends and we're stocked on food 205 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:42,279 and anything else we would need, so we feel safe. 206 00:13:42,679 --> 00:13:44,960 I think we're all wondering how we're supposed to get 207 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:49,200 to the airport between all the cars on the road 208 00:13:49,279 --> 00:13:53,799 burnt out and all the streets shut down, and I 209 00:13:53,840 --> 00:13:57,320 think all of our flights being canceled. But we're all 210 00:13:57,360 --> 00:13:59,039 registered with the state Department. 211 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:02,200 Speaker 1: So you have a friend that's on vacation in Mexico, 212 00:14:02,279 --> 00:14:04,720 you might not count on them showing up for work 213 00:14:04,799 --> 00:14:07,799 very quickly. It's going to take a while for them. 214 00:14:07,799 --> 00:14:11,279 But this is Porto Iyarta, I mean, a major American 215 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:15,000 tourist site, and they've got buildings on fire and cars 216 00:14:15,039 --> 00:14:18,639 on fire, and it will be interesting to see as 217 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:22,080 the government pushes back for the first time I've ever 218 00:14:22,120 --> 00:14:25,679 seen against a major cartel and see if they have 219 00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:31,720 any success on it. Robert Almonte is a former US 220 00:14:31,759 --> 00:14:33,240 marshal from that part of the world. 221 00:14:33,440 --> 00:14:39,279 Speaker 3: You're an extremely vinent and Barbara cartel, responsible for many murdered, 222 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:42,200 not only in Mexico but in the United States, and 223 00:14:42,320 --> 00:14:47,279 responsible for bringing tremendous amounts of methan fet I mean cocaine, fetanyl, 224 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:49,720 and heroin into the United States. 225 00:14:49,799 --> 00:14:53,279 Speaker 1: So they're a big time operation, big time cartel, and 226 00:14:53,360 --> 00:14:57,960 like I said, let's see what happens from here. Dan Brunner, 227 00:14:58,039 --> 00:15:00,320 former FBI guy who did a lot a lot of 228 00:15:00,399 --> 00:15:04,159 work trying to defeat the cartels when he was with 229 00:15:04,240 --> 00:15:07,559 the FBI, had this to say. 230 00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:09,879 Speaker 7: Well, I'm talking to a lot of people, a lot 231 00:15:09,919 --> 00:15:12,120 of my sources on the ground in Mexico, and it's 232 00:15:12,279 --> 00:15:16,360 essentially pure chaos. As you can see from the images there. 233 00:15:15,879 --> 00:15:19,919 There there's burning, there's there's rioting, there's there's a tax 234 00:15:20,039 --> 00:15:22,159 i mean, it is all out warfare in certain parts 235 00:15:22,159 --> 00:15:26,000 of Mexico, and it's quite concerning. And certain cities there's 236 00:15:26,120 --> 00:15:30,279 zero public transportation uh CGNG and all the affiliates have 237 00:15:30,399 --> 00:15:33,799 threatened all bus drivers that and all taxi drivers that 238 00:15:33,799 --> 00:15:35,559 they're if they're moving their vehicles around, they will be 239 00:15:35,559 --> 00:15:38,360 shot and killed. There's videos out there of taxis being 240 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:42,000 overtaken and just open warfare on the streets. So it's 241 00:15:42,039 --> 00:15:45,200 extremely concerning that we're seeing this and this is what 242 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:48,360 it is, is is right on the brink of possible 243 00:15:48,399 --> 00:15:52,480 civil war because there are so many different factions under CJNG. 244 00:15:52,639 --> 00:15:55,720 CGNG isn't necessarily just a group, is more of an 245 00:15:55,840 --> 00:16:00,799 umbrella of a conglomerate of numerous smaller cartels. Now, each 246 00:16:00,840 --> 00:16:03,320 one of these cartels, well they'll mencha being taken out. 247 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:05,960 All these leaders of these smaller cartels are all going 248 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:08,159 to try and vuy for that top dog spot and 249 00:16:08,159 --> 00:16:09,720 they're going to fight and they're going to utilize all 250 00:16:09,759 --> 00:16:12,159 their weapons. And your previous guests has said it, this 251 00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:15,080 was a small army and each of these have weapons 252 00:16:15,159 --> 00:16:19,000 grade you know, battlefield weaponry, you know, straight from Ukraine training. 253 00:16:19,039 --> 00:16:20,279 Speaker 6: So it's quite concerning. 254 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:24,559 Speaker 7: It's excellent because I directly worked in operations like this 255 00:16:24,639 --> 00:16:27,639 while I was with Joint Test Force Vulcan and chasing 256 00:16:27,759 --> 00:16:31,120 MS thirteen members in Mexico, So I worked, I know 257 00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:34,000 very mentally, you know, directly firsthand of you know, providing 258 00:16:34,039 --> 00:16:37,480 intelligence to the Mexican authorities and letting them conduct the 259 00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:40,519 the you know, the event, the attack. And this was 260 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:43,919 absolutely you know, pinpoint right on there and US intelligence 261 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:48,039 providing us whether it be source intelligence for signals intelligence, 262 00:16:48,519 --> 00:16:52,200 and providing them all the information, the targeting data locations, 263 00:16:52,559 --> 00:16:56,279 letting them execute the operation, because that's important, letting the 264 00:16:56,360 --> 00:17:00,120 Mexican authorities execute the operation. And is here you can 265 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:02,320 see this and from what you're here, a Menshall was 266 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:04,599 put on a helicopter and died in a route, so 267 00:17:04,640 --> 00:17:06,920 which means that that they successfully were able to extract 268 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:10,680 him somewhat alive but wounded, and he died en route. 269 00:17:10,720 --> 00:17:14,400 So it's an overall excellent operation by Mexican authorities is 270 00:17:14,440 --> 00:17:18,240 supported by US intelligence services, whether it be DoD or 271 00:17:18,359 --> 00:17:22,359 FBI resources which are embedded there in Mexican. 272 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:26,400 Speaker 1: I'm glad to hear that we actually are are actively 273 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:31,839 working FBI, DoD, you name it. They're working on trying 274 00:17:31,880 --> 00:17:34,759 to help Mexico get rid of these cartels. It's a 275 00:17:34,799 --> 00:17:39,759 big job. We'll see if they're successful. All right, let's 276 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:44,000 get to the big stink which came out Friday was 277 00:17:44,079 --> 00:17:48,079 the Supreme Court ruling that the President of the United 278 00:17:48,079 --> 00:17:52,720 States does not have the power to issue tariffs under 279 00:17:52,759 --> 00:17:58,279 the Emergency Economic i EPA is what it's called. And 280 00:17:58,720 --> 00:18:01,400 they said, no, if it's pretty simple you read it. 281 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:07,079 It's clear, Asabelle, Congress is the only form of our 282 00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:13,319 government that can do taxes, and tariffs are taxes. What's 283 00:18:13,440 --> 00:18:17,240 interesting about the big hubub about the Supreme Court ruling 284 00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:21,559 is people are now coming out and they are this 285 00:18:21,599 --> 00:18:26,559 is clear that you've got companies lining up already, law 286 00:18:26,599 --> 00:18:30,920 firms that are lining up to get their money back 287 00:18:31,039 --> 00:18:34,440 for the tariffs that they paid. Oh wait a minute, 288 00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:37,240 we were told that we don't pay the tariffs that 289 00:18:37,279 --> 00:18:41,519 the foreign supplier or foreign government pays the tariffs, Well, 290 00:18:41,559 --> 00:18:46,599 then why are our corporations lining up to ask for 291 00:18:46,720 --> 00:18:50,960 refunds from the government. The number from under AEPA is 292 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:53,400 apparently one hundred and thirty three billion. There's about two 293 00:18:53,480 --> 00:18:56,279 hundred and fifty billion dollars worth of tariffs, but a 294 00:18:56,319 --> 00:19:00,160 big chunk of that was from other parts of the law. 295 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:04,440 But i IPA, the Emergency Economic Act that President Trump used, 296 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:08,279 that's one hundred and thirty three billion dollars that people 297 00:19:08,519 --> 00:19:13,039 want their money back. It was illegal the tax that 298 00:19:13,079 --> 00:19:20,400 they paid. And so well, Steve Moore, who is a big, big, 299 00:19:20,440 --> 00:19:24,319 big supporter, big fan of President Trump, was part of 300 00:19:24,359 --> 00:19:28,480 his economic team in Trump one point zero. He has 301 00:19:29,759 --> 00:19:32,799 been befuddled because I know Steve, and I know that 302 00:19:32,920 --> 00:19:36,920 he has been anti tariffs the whole way. But listen 303 00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:39,559 to what he says, Well, that's exactly right. 304 00:19:39,759 --> 00:19:43,240 Speaker 8: I've always been kind of conflicted on this because on 305 00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:46,319 the one hand, I don't like taxes and terriffts, and 306 00:19:46,839 --> 00:19:49,119 I do think that the Supreme Court has made the 307 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:52,000 right decision and basically saying that these kinds of decisions 308 00:19:52,039 --> 00:19:55,480 really have to pass through the House of Representatives in Congress. 309 00:19:55,519 --> 00:19:57,240 Speaker 6: This Constitution is pretty clear on that. 310 00:19:57,799 --> 00:20:01,359 Speaker 8: On the other hand, the Court has basically taken an 311 00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:06,440 arrow out of the quiver of Trump's negotiating strategy. And again, 312 00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:09,480 as someone who's not a fan of terrorists, I am 313 00:20:09,519 --> 00:20:11,960 a fan of the terror These trade deals that Trump 314 00:20:12,039 --> 00:20:16,000 has brought home, the trade deals with China, the trade 315 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:20,359 deals with Canada, Mexico, or Europe. He has forced other 316 00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:23,680 countries to lower their terrorists and our goods. And now 317 00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:28,039 he's sort of lost that negotiating tactic. So that's I 318 00:20:28,079 --> 00:20:31,359 think one of the reasons Trump was so angry about 319 00:20:31,359 --> 00:20:32,039 this decision. 320 00:20:32,599 --> 00:20:35,039 Speaker 1: Oh he's angry, all right. In fact, I'm not going 321 00:20:35,079 --> 00:20:37,599 to put it in this podcast, but following after I 322 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:41,920 finished with this podcast, I'm going to post he came 323 00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:43,839 to the to the press room at the White House 324 00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:47,079 after the Supreme Court decision on Friday, and he read 325 00:20:47,319 --> 00:20:52,640 a rather long statement of objection and then took questions 326 00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:55,559 and answers. I'll put it. It's a long one, so 327 00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:58,960 I will post it in a separate podcast, a special 328 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:02,960 podcast to follow this one today, So look for that 329 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:07,880 in your podcast list when we're done. But yes, this 330 00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:12,279 was questionable from the get goats, but he took a 331 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:15,599 risk that he could pull this off. The problem with 332 00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:19,440 it is Steve's talking about all these great deals. Well, 333 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:25,440 what's happened is the European Union has said, yeah, we're 334 00:21:25,440 --> 00:21:28,720 going to delay our vote on the US trade deal. 335 00:21:28,799 --> 00:21:33,200 They haven't approved the trade deal that they made with Trump, 336 00:21:34,079 --> 00:21:40,880 and Australia and the European Union are talking about doing 337 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:45,000 a trade deal between those two countries and just going 338 00:21:45,079 --> 00:21:49,920 around US, totally ignoring the United States. Australia and the 339 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:55,440 European Union. India put the brakes on the work that 340 00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:58,920 they're doing on a trade deal with the United States 341 00:21:58,920 --> 00:22:02,200 that Trump had put together. They said, nope, hold on, 342 00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:04,279 hold on, We're going to stop on this to figure 343 00:22:04,319 --> 00:22:07,880 out what is going on with all of this. So 344 00:22:10,519 --> 00:22:12,759 there's a lot of people that have done the calculation 345 00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:19,279 already that if we got about this fifteen percent tariff 346 00:22:19,319 --> 00:22:21,880 that he's all of a sudden laid on every country 347 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:28,680 for everything, this universal tariff, which is not allowed. The 348 00:22:28,799 --> 00:22:31,359 law says, you've got to do one on one and 349 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:34,920 you've got to establish an investigation as to what this 350 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:37,920 particular country's doing, and then you can come up with 351 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:40,240 a tariff that will be in agreement. So we still 352 00:22:40,279 --> 00:22:44,799 try to run roughshot over just fifteen percent on everybody. 353 00:22:44,799 --> 00:22:48,720 But if it turns out that's fifteen percent on everybody, 354 00:22:48,839 --> 00:22:54,920 that actually will be about the amount that he had 355 00:22:55,039 --> 00:22:59,519 basically figured out under a EPA. So as far as economically, 356 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:03,319 will be not much of a change. But the question 357 00:23:03,519 --> 00:23:08,240 is will he go forward on this universal fifteen percent 358 00:23:08,359 --> 00:23:12,880 tariff which doesn't fit what the laws that the other 359 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:15,519 trade agreements said he's going to use. None of them 360 00:23:15,559 --> 00:23:19,039 say you can do that. So this, this is getting 361 00:23:19,039 --> 00:23:22,359 to be this is going to be a giant nightmare. 362 00:23:22,519 --> 00:23:25,440 And like I said, corporations and law firms are lining up. 363 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:29,000 The problem with the corporations lining up to get their 364 00:23:29,039 --> 00:23:33,960 money back. Yes, they paid. Let's take Walmart. Walmart has 365 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:38,319 paid millions, tens of millions of dollars to pick up 366 00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:41,160 the goods that were shipped to the United States for 367 00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:46,640 their stores. But they pass that on to you. So 368 00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:50,799 why do they get the discount, why do they get 369 00:23:50,799 --> 00:23:55,839 a refund? Shouldn't that go to you? The state of Illinois, 370 00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:59,759 good old Governor Prinsker is saying he wonts seventeen hundred 371 00:23:59,759 --> 00:24:05,079 dollars per citizen. So everybody's going to be coming at 372 00:24:05,119 --> 00:24:11,799 this different ways. But the question is who paid the tariff? Well, again, 373 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:15,759 we did, whether it was Walmart or whether it was 374 00:24:15,839 --> 00:24:19,880 you and me, but it wasn't the foreign company. It 375 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:25,240 wasn't the foreign country. Americans pay the tariff. So why 376 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:30,200 is the president keep pushing the tariffs? And you wonder 377 00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:34,000 why the Fed cannot get inflation down to two percent, 378 00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:38,960 it's because of the tariffs they have bumped. They always 379 00:24:39,039 --> 00:24:44,799 tariffs raise prices. There are tax taxes raise prices, So 380 00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:50,279 it will be interesting. I saw one guy earlier today 381 00:24:50,319 --> 00:24:52,519 talking about, yeah, well, what are we going to get 382 00:24:52,559 --> 00:24:56,400 our two thousand dollars check, you know from the tariff revenue? 383 00:24:56,920 --> 00:24:59,039 And I'm going to oh my gosh. The guy actually 384 00:24:59,039 --> 00:25:02,440 believed that that is never going to happen. That's something 385 00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:04,400 that Trump just came up with off the top of 386 00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:07,000 his head. That was never going to happen. And now 387 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:10,519 it's definitely not going to happen because that money is illegal. 388 00:25:10,599 --> 00:25:15,319 It's got to go back to whoever paid it. Meantime, 389 00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:22,759 Canada and the European Union are talking about a trade deal. Canada, Australia, 390 00:25:23,359 --> 00:25:27,759 the European Union, They're they're all trying to basically get 391 00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:32,519 more power to where the United States is much much 392 00:25:32,599 --> 00:25:36,200 weaker in our efforts to try to charge them for 393 00:25:36,799 --> 00:25:41,960 trade tariffs. Gott Besant, being the good, loyal Treasury Secretary, 394 00:25:42,559 --> 00:25:45,319 he's convinced, however, this will still go forward. 395 00:25:46,519 --> 00:25:49,519 Speaker 6: We've been in contact with our foreign trading partners and 396 00:25:49,559 --> 00:25:52,599 they like the tariff deals, so you know they're they're 397 00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:55,720 not going to be changed, and the President, the President 398 00:25:55,759 --> 00:26:01,200 remains undeterred in his determination to lower trade deficit and 399 00:26:01,279 --> 00:26:03,680 bring manufacturing back to the US. 400 00:26:04,079 --> 00:26:06,599 Speaker 1: Okay, I'll believe that they're happy with the trade deals 401 00:26:06,599 --> 00:26:08,359 when I see it, because so far it looks like 402 00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:13,160 they're basically scrambling to get out of whatever Trump did 403 00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:17,319 with them and the idea that you wanted to lower 404 00:26:17,319 --> 00:26:21,319 the trade deficit. The trade deficit has gone up since 405 00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:25,880 he created the tariff programs. We have a bigger trade 406 00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:30,039 deficit in twenty twenty five than we had in twenty 407 00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:35,039 twenty four or twenty three or twenty It keeps going higher. Yes, 408 00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:41,200 we are importing more and they're buying less, even though 409 00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:45,000 the tariffs have been supposedly going to change that. As 410 00:26:45,039 --> 00:26:48,200 far as bringing jobs back to the United States, the 411 00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:51,279 job market is not growing in fact, it's kind of 412 00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:56,359 worried about fact that it may be shrinking. At manufacturing jobs. 413 00:26:56,599 --> 00:27:01,279 They have been falling every single month since April, since 414 00:27:01,599 --> 00:27:04,440 Liberation Day in twenty twenty five. So I'm looking at 415 00:27:04,519 --> 00:27:08,319 I'm just looking at the numbers, folks. Manufacturing jobs have 416 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:11,920 gone down. I will give you this. It takes a 417 00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:16,920 while to build a manufacturing facility. So maybe, maybe, maybe, 418 00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:21,279 if they build manufacturing facilities, manufacturing jobs will go back 419 00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:25,440 up again, maybe later this year. But so far, I'm 420 00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:29,799 just telling you twenty twenty five, manufacturing jobs fell every 421 00:27:29,839 --> 00:27:34,039 single month since Liberation Day, and our trade deficit has 422 00:27:34,079 --> 00:27:38,279 gotten bigger in twenty twenty five, not smaller. So I 423 00:27:38,359 --> 00:27:43,720 appreciate the fact that Scott Besant is a loyal Treasury secretary. 424 00:27:43,799 --> 00:27:47,200 But the facts, and he knows this, the facts do 425 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:51,240 not support his comment that he just made meantime one 426 00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:53,119 of the other plates that's spending at the White House. 427 00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:56,680 It would be, of course, Iran, and there are going 428 00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:58,720 to be. They said they needed a couple of weeks. 429 00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:01,960 Well it's not that two weeks haven't gone by. But 430 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:05,480 Iron says, okay, okay, okay, let's talk on Thursday in Geneva. 431 00:28:05,839 --> 00:28:11,480 So they have talks planned for Thursday. Steve Whitcoff here's 432 00:28:11,519 --> 00:28:12,359 what he had to say. 433 00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:14,440 Speaker 6: I don't want to use the word frustrated. 434 00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:17,880 Speaker 9: It's almost because he understands he's got plenty of alternatives, 435 00:28:18,319 --> 00:28:19,400 but he's curious. 436 00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:22,160 Speaker 6: He's curious as to why they haven't. 437 00:28:23,519 --> 00:28:25,799 Speaker 9: I don't want to use the word capitulated, but why 438 00:28:25,799 --> 00:28:26,920 they haven't capitulated? 439 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:34,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, President Trump is is going what are they doing? Well. 440 00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:37,920 Brett mcgark, former National Security advisor, did a lot of them. 441 00:28:38,039 --> 00:28:40,759 It took care of the Middle East. He knows those characters. 442 00:28:40,839 --> 00:28:44,039 He's worked for a number of different presidents, both Democrat 443 00:28:44,119 --> 00:28:49,119 and Republican. And very knowledgeable guy about the Iranians. 444 00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:51,839 Speaker 10: Okay, I've spent a lot of time negotiating with the Iranians, 445 00:28:51,839 --> 00:28:53,680 and I think what they tend to do is draw 446 00:28:53,759 --> 00:28:58,279 you into a very protected negotiation on a narrow agenda 447 00:28:58,319 --> 00:29:00,839 that they like to set. That's exactly what's happened here. 448 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:04,200 And I think the Supreme Leader of Iran is actually 449 00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:10,160 calculating that for him to give up his nuclear richment program, 450 00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:13,160 which is really on the table, that would be riskier 451 00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:17,200 to the survival of his regime, which is his main focus. Then, 452 00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:21,720 withstanding an American military operation, I just I think that's 453 00:29:21,759 --> 00:29:25,160 the calculus in Tehran right now, which makes it difficult 454 00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:28,440 to see the diplomatic off ramp in terms of what 455 00:29:28,599 --> 00:29:32,400 might come of these talks on Thursday. So there's a 456 00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:35,240 book by Barbara Tuckman called Guns of August about World 457 00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:38,920 War One and about once the military maneuvers began and 458 00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:41,799 there was not a diplomatic off ramp, the conflict kind 459 00:29:41,799 --> 00:29:45,079 of had a sense of inevitability. And obviously the stakes 460 00:29:45,079 --> 00:29:47,119 here are not talking this is going to be something 461 00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:50,440 on that scale, but the inevitability of a military operation 462 00:29:50,559 --> 00:29:53,119 here still, that would be my prediction. I just do 463 00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:57,559 not see that diplomatic off ramp being constructed because of 464 00:29:57,599 --> 00:30:00,680 the positions the Iranians are currently taking in the talks. 465 00:30:01,119 --> 00:30:05,559 Speaker 1: Ernie Munoz was the Energy secretary of the Obama administration, 466 00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:10,119 but he's a renowned nuclear scientist, and he was asked 467 00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:15,240 about the ability of Iran to make the nuke bomb. 468 00:30:15,519 --> 00:30:19,759 Speaker 11: I think the I think one fact of life which 469 00:30:19,759 --> 00:30:24,200 has not been emphasized enough is that they had and 470 00:30:24,319 --> 00:30:29,039 had been for several years now, enriching uranium up to 471 00:30:29,079 --> 00:30:34,640 sixty percent purity, and what's not been said is that 472 00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:40,440 that is directly usable in a nuclear explosive. So the 473 00:30:41,119 --> 00:30:45,559 June military attacks have led to a lot of uncertainty 474 00:30:45,599 --> 00:30:48,880 as to where that material is, what its condition is, 475 00:30:49,279 --> 00:30:53,119 if it's still useful. I believe a major focus of 476 00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:58,519 the administration should be to clarify that very quickly and 477 00:30:58,839 --> 00:31:02,440 make sure that Iran give up that sixty percent enrichment. 478 00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:06,079 Then the rest of the discussion will be more and 479 00:31:06,119 --> 00:31:11,160 more complicated. Certainly, the twenty fifteen agreement that I helped negotiate, 480 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:16,160 we felt very confident that that made sure that Iran 481 00:31:16,319 --> 00:31:19,480 was not pursuing a nuclear weapon. I think there's less 482 00:31:19,519 --> 00:31:25,039 confidence of their intent today, particularly since the International Inspectors 483 00:31:25,319 --> 00:31:29,000 were tossed out of Iran for quite quite quite a while, 484 00:31:29,799 --> 00:31:32,960 so we haven't really had the same kind of visibility 485 00:31:33,559 --> 00:31:36,839 into their program since since the military action. 486 00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:42,319 Speaker 1: Mike Pompeo, former Secretary of State, let's see what his assessment. 487 00:31:41,839 --> 00:31:44,440 Speaker 12: Is and on building out a nuclear program. This is 488 00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:47,799 their prophecy that says, no, we're not going to capitulate 489 00:31:47,799 --> 00:31:50,119 to the infidels, to the big Satan, the United States 490 00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:53,519 of America. So I'm unsurprised that they haven't agreed to 491 00:31:53,559 --> 00:31:56,960 the basic ask we have, which is like just behave 492 00:31:57,039 --> 00:31:59,839 like a normal nation. I suspect they will not do that. 493 00:32:00,119 --> 00:32:02,680 I anticipate President Trump will take a response that will 494 00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:04,279 put even more pressure on the. 495 00:32:04,319 --> 00:32:07,039 Speaker 1: REGINI So we wait and see what happens out of 496 00:32:07,039 --> 00:32:11,119 the tucks on Thursday. A lot of that is also working, 497 00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:14,519 the trying to stretch out the time before they have 498 00:32:14,559 --> 00:32:20,400 to actually put up or shut up. There was very 499 00:32:22,279 --> 00:32:25,079 important news item out of mar A Lago over the weekend. 500 00:32:25,119 --> 00:32:27,839 The President has been in Washington. He stayed at the 501 00:32:27,839 --> 00:32:32,640 White House over the weekend. But there was an attempt 502 00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:39,119 to with somebody. This is this is bothersome from many levels. No, 503 00:32:39,279 --> 00:32:41,799 the President wasn't at mar A Lago, but they should 504 00:32:41,839 --> 00:32:46,839 have the security there at one thousand percent all the time. Well, 505 00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:51,880 at one thirty in the morning, somebody was leaving mar 506 00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:54,839 A Lago and they have a gate that some when 507 00:32:54,839 --> 00:32:58,240 you pull up to it, it raises up the arm 508 00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:02,920 or reduces the road barrier, whatever it is, and you 509 00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:07,440 can drive out. Meantime, the guy that well he was 510 00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:09,880 finally shot and killed, but he was coming in with 511 00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:13,440 a gun and a gas can and he just waited 512 00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:15,559 for the car to drive out, and then he drove 513 00:33:15,559 --> 00:33:19,240 in that lane. You would think the Secret Service would 514 00:33:19,279 --> 00:33:21,720 be there to make sure that nobody could do that. 515 00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:24,839 That's the oldest trick in the book for a gated community, 516 00:33:24,839 --> 00:33:27,039 as you wait for somebody to go ahead of you 517 00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:32,279 and you just zoom in after them. Well, here's Rafael Barrows, 518 00:33:32,359 --> 00:33:34,559 who's with the Secret Service in mar A Lago. 519 00:33:35,599 --> 00:33:38,680 Speaker 13: Preliminary information in the case that the individual was armed 520 00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:42,200 with a shotgun and a possession of a gasoline canister. 521 00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:46,279 Agents and the deputy discharger farms to stop the threat. 522 00:33:46,759 --> 00:33:50,240 At this time, no law enforcement personnel were injured doing 523 00:33:50,279 --> 00:33:53,359 the incident. We want to be clear, the President of 524 00:33:53,359 --> 00:33:56,359 the United States was not in the state of Florida, 525 00:33:57,200 --> 00:33:59,880 and this remains an active investigation by the FBI. 526 00:34:00,119 --> 00:34:02,680 Speaker 1: So the president it was his, but still it was 527 00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:05,759 his place. Sounds like while he wasn't here, so we 528 00:34:05,799 --> 00:34:09,199 didn't put up top security. The guide drives in while 529 00:34:09,199 --> 00:34:14,440 the other guide drives out. Bill Dailey, former FBI guy, react. 530 00:34:14,119 --> 00:34:16,719 Speaker 9: And yeah, just another stunning incident. How dangerous it is 531 00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:18,000 to be President Donald J. 532 00:34:18,119 --> 00:34:18,480 Speaker 6: Trump. 533 00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:22,920 Speaker 9: You know this is now the third incident directly attacking 534 00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:26,119 him and his property. You know, I would probably say 535 00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:29,800 to your point, appears at this point that the North gate, 536 00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:32,239 which is where this individual came through, he would have 537 00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:35,800 piggybacked behind someone leaving. That's the least what was suggested 538 00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:38,480 in some earlier reports. It's important for people to keep 539 00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:41,039 in mind that mar Lago, as much as it's the 540 00:34:41,079 --> 00:34:44,840 President and the First Lady's home, it also functions as 541 00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:48,519 the White House on weekends on a vacations. But thirdly, 542 00:34:48,599 --> 00:34:51,280 it's also an active club where people are members and 543 00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:53,320 people come and go. So we don't know whether the 544 00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:56,079 gate was open to allow for a member who is departying, 545 00:34:56,199 --> 00:34:58,920 or what the arrangement was, but it appears though he 546 00:34:59,039 --> 00:35:02,360 drove through, and at some point right after that, the 547 00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:05,360 Secret Service and the Sheriff's Apartment responded and took immediate 548 00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:08,159 action to kind of neutralize what they saw was a 549 00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:08,960 viable threat. 550 00:35:09,119 --> 00:35:11,159 Speaker 1: Yeah, so he has the gas can. They told him 551 00:35:11,159 --> 00:35:13,840 to put the gun and the gas can down. He 552 00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:17,320 put the gas can down, he raised the I think 553 00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:20,519 it was a shotgun, raised it into a shooting position, 554 00:35:21,159 --> 00:35:25,639 and that's when a Palm Beach police officer and two 555 00:35:25,639 --> 00:35:28,320 Secret service agents opened fire on him and he is 556 00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:32,159 now at room temperature. But still I mean the idea 557 00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:39,159 he got into the inner perimeter of Mara Lago, it's 558 00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:43,400 it sounds very troubling to me. I don't like what 559 00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:46,960 I hear. And since we have Bill Daily, he's also 560 00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:49,519 the guy that has kept us up to date on 561 00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:52,360 a lot of what's going on with the search for 562 00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:57,159 Nancy Guthrie. So while we have him, what is the 563 00:35:57,239 --> 00:35:58,159 lightest Bill Daily. 564 00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:00,920 Speaker 9: Yeah, there's still a lot of lee to follow up here. 565 00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:04,480 We have all the equipment or the paraphernalia, the individuals 566 00:36:04,519 --> 00:36:07,079 wearing coming to the door. We have this DNA now 567 00:36:07,199 --> 00:36:10,239 is going to go through geological DNA testing. And plus 568 00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:12,840 there's also kind of revisiting all the leads is that 569 00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:16,880 we found in other PATS cases, where redoing and revisiting 570 00:36:17,079 --> 00:36:19,039 the leads that maybe first went out on the top 571 00:36:19,119 --> 00:36:22,159 of the lists, where investigators were following up on leads 572 00:36:22,159 --> 00:36:24,920 that may come in from people calling setting in information 573 00:36:25,159 --> 00:36:26,880 they need to go back through that. There could be 574 00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:28,440 that one kernel, it could be the kind of goal 575 00:36:28,519 --> 00:36:32,119 one golden nugget out there that's in those past leads 576 00:36:32,119 --> 00:36:34,320 that came across through the tip lines and other ways 577 00:36:34,519 --> 00:36:35,519 that need to be looked at. 578 00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:38,519 Speaker 1: Okay, so their working behind the scenes makes sense to me. 579 00:36:39,679 --> 00:36:44,519 Wall Street, well, Wall Street did not like the chaos 580 00:36:44,559 --> 00:36:48,719 and the confusion of the trade deals that have been 581 00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:53,360 blown up with the Supreme Court decision on Friday. So 582 00:36:54,159 --> 00:36:59,039 with that and the uncertain it's not about the amount even, 583 00:36:59,119 --> 00:37:02,159 it's about the un certainty. Not only does President Trump 584 00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:04,840 change his mind on a whim about what he's going 585 00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:08,000 to charge somebody, whether they make him happy or sad 586 00:37:08,199 --> 00:37:12,320 or mad, but it's also on again, off again ten 587 00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:14,800 percent he announced on Friday. Then all of a sudden 588 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:17,320 over the weekend, I no, I make that fifteen percent. 589 00:37:17,719 --> 00:37:22,480 Nobody knows and the countries don't know what the trade 590 00:37:22,559 --> 00:37:27,360 deal will be either. So so Wall Streets sold off today. 591 00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:33,719 Dow Jones Industrials down eight hundred twenty one, YEP to 592 00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:38,960 forty eight thousand and eighth four, SMP down seventy one, 593 00:37:39,199 --> 00:37:44,679 NASDACK down two hundred and fifty eight. Gold, time of 594 00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:49,360 caution to run to safety up one hundred and sixty seven. 595 00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:54,039 Gold at five thousand and two forty seven, and the 596 00:37:54,079 --> 00:37:58,079 price of oil down twenty cents. It's at sixty six 597 00:37:58,159 --> 00:38:01,960 dollars and some change for a barrel of oil. So 598 00:38:02,039 --> 00:38:05,480 that's it for today. I'm going to wrap this up 599 00:38:05,519 --> 00:38:09,079 and post it, and then I'm going to grab the 600 00:38:09,079 --> 00:38:12,360 the news conference after the Supreme Court decision came down 601 00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:17,119 on Friday, the President's reaction, it was something else. I 602 00:38:17,239 --> 00:38:20,119 thought I should post it for you to get to 603 00:38:20,159 --> 00:38:24,639 hear the whole thing. So with that, we're gonna take 604 00:38:24,639 --> 00:38:27,039 a short break. I'll post that and then we'll be 605 00:38:27,119 --> 00:38:29,039 back tomorrow. I hope to see you then.