1 00:00:22,079 --> 00:00:26,120 Speaker 1: And here we go. Welcome to the Big Podcast. Happy 2 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:30,440 Monday to you on this first day of June, Year 3 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:32,799 of all the Word twenty twenty six. My name is 4 00:00:32,840 --> 00:00:35,079 Tom Sullivan. We've got a lot to go over today, 5 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:39,640 very busy Monday, as Congress gets back to war. Yeah, 6 00:00:39,679 --> 00:00:44,600 they finally are back from their Memorial Day break. Man, 7 00:00:44,679 --> 00:00:47,439 their calendar or something else, isn't it. So here we go. 8 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:51,399 We've got a lot about First of all, we've got 9 00:00:51,439 --> 00:00:53,520 a lot of primaries tomorrow. We've got six states that 10 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:55,759 have primaries. We'll dig into a little bit of that. 11 00:00:56,320 --> 00:01:03,200 We've got an update on the Weapons Fund and all 12 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:06,400 the things that the President is doing in Washington, DC. 13 00:01:06,599 --> 00:01:09,680 We've got speaking of elections, the one that's getting a 14 00:01:09,719 --> 00:01:14,280 lot of pushback over the weekend is this Graham Platner 15 00:01:14,359 --> 00:01:18,560 out of Maine. But let me start you with the 16 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:22,959 update on what's going on in Iran, because we've got 17 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:28,159 a couple of different mixed messages. Middle of the day today, 18 00:01:28,239 --> 00:01:34,799 Iran came out and said that they are stopping negotiations. 19 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:39,680 They are asking for the negotiators in the middle. I 20 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:43,599 presume they're talking about Pakistan, that they are actually asking 21 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:53,959 everybody to stop and they're also apparently threatening that they 22 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:59,439 are in talks with the Huthis and others about closing 23 00:02:01,239 --> 00:02:08,719 another water waterway, which is the access to the Red Sea. 24 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:12,639 So if you can't go up the Persian Gulf that 25 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:14,680 has a dead end on it, you come back around, 26 00:02:14,719 --> 00:02:16,680 you go around to the Red Sea, that'll bring you 27 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:19,960 up to the straight to the Sieuez Canal and into 28 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:25,360 the Mediterranean. They're talking about trying to stop that as well. 29 00:02:25,759 --> 00:02:31,240 And that is another one of these areas where there's 30 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:35,319 a very narrow passageway and on one side of it 31 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:38,599 is where Yemen is located, and that's where the hoodies 32 00:02:38,599 --> 00:02:42,199 are located, and so that would be another area where 33 00:02:42,199 --> 00:02:46,439 they would try and interfere with international commerce. Now, the 34 00:02:46,479 --> 00:02:51,400 Red Sea and the Sieuez Canal are critical for access 35 00:02:51,479 --> 00:02:56,879 to the Mediterranean. Therefore Europe and Europe really counts on 36 00:02:56,960 --> 00:03:00,159 the commercial traffic coming up through that body of water, 37 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:05,039 so that is a big deal. The name of the 38 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:10,400 strait is bad L Mandeb. Bad L Mandeb is the 39 00:03:10,479 --> 00:03:13,199 name of the strait. It looks very much like the 40 00:03:13,199 --> 00:03:17,960 Strait of our moves. It's a very narrow passageway and 41 00:03:18,759 --> 00:03:22,280 that what they're talking about is nothing official. Nobody's doing 42 00:03:22,319 --> 00:03:26,000 it right now. But this is what the Iranians have 43 00:03:26,039 --> 00:03:29,360 come out and said, no more negotiating, We're stopping the talking. 44 00:03:30,039 --> 00:03:33,520 And oh, by the way, we are talking about maybe 45 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:39,199 stopping another commercial waterway now. At the shortly after that, 46 00:03:39,599 --> 00:03:43,439 on true social the President comes out and says that 47 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:48,759 we are continuing to negotiate and at a rapid pace. 48 00:03:50,879 --> 00:03:54,159 Wait a minute, you just heard me say. The Iranians 49 00:03:54,159 --> 00:03:58,319 are saying we're not negotiating, we're stopping, and the President 50 00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:02,159 comes out and says, we're work continuing our negotiations and 51 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:07,360 at a rapid pace. So you figure it out. I can't. 52 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:10,120 I don't think anybody else count either. These are in 53 00:04:10,240 --> 00:04:16,639 total conflict of each other. So this it appears as 54 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:21,879 though nothing is actually closed. Mark Esper, former Defense secretary 55 00:04:21,959 --> 00:04:25,399 in Trump one point zero. He was asked a bunch 56 00:04:25,399 --> 00:04:29,279 of questions about this earlier today on CNBC. 57 00:04:28,839 --> 00:04:31,519 Speaker 2: For the Foreseeable Future, it's broken down clearly that both 58 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:34,360 sides are and odds, and the so called ceasefire has 59 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:37,279 seen multiple tits for tats over the past few days. 60 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:39,399 Right this morning, we learned that Kuwait was hit by 61 00:04:39,439 --> 00:04:42,879 ballistic missiles, so I think this goes on for a while. Clearly, 62 00:04:43,319 --> 00:04:46,079 you know, we know that the IRGC, the Islamic Revolutionary 63 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:47,920 Guard Corps, is in charge in this country and they're 64 00:04:47,959 --> 00:04:50,160 drawing a very hard line. They feel emboldened by their 65 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:54,000 position right now in this conflict. So now what, well, look, 66 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:56,759 I think it'll the side will calm down. The negotiators, 67 00:04:56,759 --> 00:04:59,399 the Pakistanis will probably go out to Tehran, they'll talk 68 00:04:59,439 --> 00:05:01,160 to DC. We'll try and see if we get both 69 00:05:01,199 --> 00:05:03,639 sides together, and that'll take some time to play out, 70 00:05:03,759 --> 00:05:05,279 but at the end of the day, so we're just 71 00:05:05,319 --> 00:05:08,600 trying to get to an MoU of memorandum of understanding 72 00:05:08,639 --> 00:05:11,600 that gets us to negotiations. And all that MoU would 73 00:05:11,639 --> 00:05:14,560 largely do is take the economic pressure off of both 74 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:18,120 sides by freeing up the straight hor moves. Tehran's been 75 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:22,279 insisting on Israel halt its operations in Lebanon against Hezbela 76 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:24,199 for some time now. They believe, they assert that it 77 00:05:24,199 --> 00:05:26,680 was part of the original ceasefire agreement, and they've come 78 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:28,879 out I think at least the semi official news agency 79 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:31,519 has said that's no longer sufficient. We want Israel to 80 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:34,759 withdraw from Lebanon and look, I don't see that happening. 81 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:38,000 Israel sees Iran, and of course Hesbela to its north, 82 00:05:38,079 --> 00:05:40,199 is an existential threat to their country. 83 00:05:40,519 --> 00:05:44,519 Speaker 1: Well, late this afternoon of Benjamin nette Yah, who posted 84 00:05:44,639 --> 00:05:48,000 on Twitter, he said, tonight I spoke with President Trump 85 00:05:48,079 --> 00:05:51,160 told him that if Hesbelah does not cease attacking our 86 00:05:51,279 --> 00:05:56,800 cities and citizens, Israel will attack terror targets in Beirut. 87 00:05:57,319 --> 00:06:00,519 This stance of ours remains unchanged. In parallel well, the 88 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:04,959 ide F will continue to operate as planned in southern Lebanon. 89 00:06:05,279 --> 00:06:11,399 That's because Hesbelah continues to send missiles into the populated 90 00:06:11,439 --> 00:06:15,160 areas of Israel, and Israel is not going to take 91 00:06:15,199 --> 00:06:15,959 it lined down. 92 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:18,360 Speaker 2: At their point of view, we may change their behavior 93 00:06:18,399 --> 00:06:20,560 for a short period of time, maybe ask them to 94 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:22,439 hold off a little bit on the strikes, or maybe 95 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:24,439 stay out of the bey Root neighborhoods because that's where 96 00:06:24,439 --> 00:06:26,839 they struck recently, to kind of help calm things down 97 00:06:26,839 --> 00:06:28,800 a little bit. But at the end of the day, again, 98 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:31,480 Israel isn't a tough neighborhood. These are existential threats to 99 00:06:31,519 --> 00:06:32,000 the country. 100 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:36,600 Speaker 1: But Iran is now tying everything between Iran and the 101 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:40,360 US and Israel to Iran's looking over at hesbe law 102 00:06:40,879 --> 00:06:42,800 and saying, well, wait a minute, that you've got to 103 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:48,519 include that too. So it's getting more complex than getting better. 104 00:06:48,759 --> 00:06:51,360 Let me put it that way, Kareem is that Jappor 105 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:55,040 from the Carnegie Institute keeps track of everybody in Iran. 106 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:56,800 This is his viewpoint, you know. 107 00:06:56,839 --> 00:07:00,639 Speaker 3: And the islamerk Republic of Iran since nine teen seventy 108 00:07:00,759 --> 00:07:04,160 nine has been committed to resistance against America. That's part 109 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:07,680 of their identity. It's not just a policy. And President 110 00:07:07,680 --> 00:07:10,560 Trump is now in a dilemma of his own making 111 00:07:10,759 --> 00:07:14,439 because he pulled out of the Obama nuclear deal. He 112 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:19,120 called it the worst deal ever, and he's now stepped 113 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:21,800 into a situation in which he may be forced to 114 00:07:22,439 --> 00:07:26,399 provide around some pretty significant sanctions relief if he wants 115 00:07:26,439 --> 00:07:29,399 to reach at least a near term resolution. So when 116 00:07:29,439 --> 00:07:33,160 you speak to people inside Tehran now, I think it's 117 00:07:33,199 --> 00:07:37,279 pretty clear that they've reached almost an internal consensus that 118 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:41,360 the regime needs nuclear weapons as a cloak of protection. 119 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:44,759 It doesn't take a grand strategist to look at the 120 00:07:44,759 --> 00:07:48,120 world and say the countries that gave up their nuclear programs, 121 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:51,519 whether that was Saddam Hussein's Iraq, or Khadafi's Libya or 122 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:56,120 post Soviet Ukraine. They all made themselves vulnerable to external intervention. 123 00:07:56,759 --> 00:07:59,399 North Korea has nuclear weapons, has this kind of cloak 124 00:07:59,399 --> 00:08:03,160 of immunity. So the danger here is that Iran has 125 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:07,079 what they call these missile cities, which are potentially even 126 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:09,920 deeper underground than some of their nuclear sites. And so 127 00:08:10,399 --> 00:08:14,839 any oral commitment Iran gives to not pursuing nuclear weapons, 128 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:17,120 it's not something we can believe, and so we're going 129 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:21,759 to have to stay incredibly vigilant about their clandestine activities. 130 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:25,839 Speaker 1: Well again, I don't see any solution other than taking 131 00:08:25,879 --> 00:08:29,439 out the people that are running the government of Iran. Iran, 132 00:08:29,959 --> 00:08:33,879 the IRGC, they're the ones running the country. They're the 133 00:08:33,879 --> 00:08:39,039 ones who are hell bent for continuing to do fair 134 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:43,679 sponsorship around the world, and they have missiles hidden deep 135 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:48,600 as Kareem says, we haven't even gotten to those. Who 136 00:08:48,639 --> 00:08:51,120 knows what else they've got down in deep tunnels, probably 137 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:55,600 some more nuclear centrifuges. So they're not planning on stopping. 138 00:08:56,039 --> 00:08:58,840 I don't even know why we're talking to them. That 139 00:08:58,879 --> 00:09:01,720 brings up the military option. Let me stay with the 140 00:09:01,759 --> 00:09:04,720 agreement right now, because the agreement has basically been in 141 00:09:06,279 --> 00:09:08,799 Donald Trump's hands, it's been on his desk, nothing was 142 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:12,120 being done. John Bolton was asked about, well, what do 143 00:09:12,159 --> 00:09:12,919 you make of that? 144 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:17,279 Speaker 4: Well, I think there must be confusion over what people 145 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:20,720 think has been agreed, or more likely, in my view, 146 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:24,759 Trump is dissatisfied with what he sees in the agreement. 147 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:28,159 He's worried that parts of it could come back to 148 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:31,759 haunt him or be the subject of criticism, and they're 149 00:09:31,759 --> 00:09:34,279 trying to figure a way out of it. I think 150 00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:37,559 this is the sort of indecision though that's a gift 151 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:41,000 to Iran every day that goes by that Iran isn't 152 00:09:41,039 --> 00:09:44,840 being bombed. The regime can dig out, try and regroup 153 00:09:44,879 --> 00:09:47,360 and re entrench its position. It would certainly like to 154 00:09:47,399 --> 00:09:51,039 be free of our blockade of their exports of oil, 155 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:54,879 but fundamentally the regime is more interested right now just 156 00:09:54,960 --> 00:10:00,519 basic regime survival, and this delay ultimately better fits the 157 00:10:00,559 --> 00:10:03,440 regime more than that benefits us or the people of Iran. 158 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:06,440 Speaker 1: And that was part of the announcement today that they 159 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:10,080 are stopping negotiations, is that they are also going to 160 00:10:10,559 --> 00:10:15,720 again blockade the Persian Gulf, so things are going going backwards, 161 00:10:15,759 --> 00:10:20,000 not forward in our talks or even our non talks 162 00:10:20,039 --> 00:10:20,559 with Iran. 163 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:24,120 Speaker 4: Well, I think they caused enormous destruction inside Iran, There's 164 00:10:24,159 --> 00:10:27,039 no doubt about it. There appears to be from more 165 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:31,200 recent intelligence analysis that there's more that could be done, 166 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:34,120 and I think that speaks to just how determined, really, 167 00:10:34,159 --> 00:10:39,679 how fanatic this militaristic, ideological regime really is. That they're 168 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:42,799 not spending money on the welfare of the Iranian people. 169 00:10:42,840 --> 00:10:47,039 They're doing work to entrench themselves in power. So if 170 00:10:47,039 --> 00:10:50,120 there's more to be done that I think that that's 171 00:10:50,159 --> 00:10:53,440 what we should focus on, because otherwise, if the regime 172 00:10:53,519 --> 00:10:57,919 holds on and eventually gets to export oil again, will 173 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:00,919 simply rebuild all the facilities we've destroyed, and in some 174 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:04,519 definable period of time we'll be right back worrying about 175 00:11:04,879 --> 00:11:08,440 the nuclear weapons program, right back worried about their terrorist 176 00:11:08,519 --> 00:11:11,759 proxies around the region and around the world and all 177 00:11:11,799 --> 00:11:12,440 the rest of it. 178 00:11:12,720 --> 00:11:15,039 Speaker 1: The president has a pickle because if he doesn't finish 179 00:11:15,120 --> 00:11:18,120 off the regime, then it will be exactly what John 180 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:21,320 Bolton's talking about. They will rebuild as fast as they 181 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:24,960 possibly can, and if they get that port, the straight 182 00:11:25,039 --> 00:11:27,200 up Hoar moves open again. They'll make three four hundred 183 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:29,799 million a day. That'll give them the money to start 184 00:11:29,840 --> 00:11:35,440 rebuilding as fast as they can. David Rode, National Security reporter, 185 00:11:36,679 --> 00:11:38,480 his update on where he thinks we are. 186 00:11:38,559 --> 00:11:41,639 Speaker 5: Yes, I mean it is like this low level conflict 187 00:11:41,639 --> 00:11:44,720 now that's just continuing, despite what the President says, and 188 00:11:44,759 --> 00:11:47,639 despite you know, Secretary of HeiG sets saying that Irani 189 00:11:47,679 --> 00:11:51,639 military has been decimated. So Iran shot down this m 190 00:11:51,759 --> 00:11:53,639 Q nine Reaper, as you mentioned, that's a very expensive 191 00:11:53,639 --> 00:11:56,240 American drone. They're able to carry that out in terms 192 00:11:56,240 --> 00:11:58,519 of their air defenses. And then one new detail er 193 00:11:58,519 --> 00:12:01,039 MEMERSI over the weekend. Last week, uniings fired a ballistic 194 00:12:01,039 --> 00:12:04,559 missile at Kuwait and it was shot down. And again 195 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:07,759 the American Military Secretary SI didn't make this public, but 196 00:12:08,399 --> 00:12:12,360 ABC News reported and we confirmed several American soldiers and 197 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:16,720 contractors were injured as the debris from that missile fell down. 198 00:12:16,759 --> 00:12:18,960 I would appear on an American base, so it was 199 00:12:19,039 --> 00:12:23,120 close to target there and the dependingon didn't make that public. 200 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:27,000 So a low level armed conflict continues. As you mentioned, 201 00:12:27,519 --> 00:12:30,360 Israeli forces are advancing farther and farther into Lebanon. There 202 00:12:30,399 --> 00:12:33,759 isn't a final agreement even in Gaza at this point. 203 00:12:34,159 --> 00:12:36,360 And the President, as you talked about in the last segment, 204 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:39,879 is just sort of creating wish casting for where he 205 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:42,159 wants this to go with his social media posts. So 206 00:12:42,799 --> 00:12:45,600 this war is not, you know, ending, it looks like 207 00:12:45,639 --> 00:12:46,360 anytime soon. 208 00:12:46,519 --> 00:12:49,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't have word as far as how badly 209 00:12:49,519 --> 00:12:53,120 people were injured on a US base in Kuwait, but 210 00:12:53,240 --> 00:12:56,279 they fired a ballistic missile a couple of them at 211 00:12:56,279 --> 00:12:58,799 that location, and again they were taken out, but the 212 00:12:58,799 --> 00:13:01,720 debris must have been pretty close to the ground because 213 00:13:01,759 --> 00:13:04,960 the debris injured a number of US service members that 214 00:13:04,960 --> 00:13:08,720 were at that base. But what about the update on 215 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:11,440 the nuclear dust as it's called. 216 00:13:11,639 --> 00:13:15,159 Speaker 5: So again, the reporting is that from access to the 217 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:17,759 New York Times, that the President was this specific thing 218 00:13:17,840 --> 00:13:20,679 was that he wanted the memorandum some kind of agreement 219 00:13:20,879 --> 00:13:23,840 that this the enriched uranium would be removed to the 220 00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:27,919 United States. The earlier language that they would just talk 221 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:31,440 about how to dispose of that uranium, And what the 222 00:13:31,480 --> 00:13:34,039 Iranians have talked about is down blending it. That's where 223 00:13:34,039 --> 00:13:36,000 you bring the enrichment level down so it can't be 224 00:13:36,080 --> 00:13:40,480 used to make nuclear bomb. That specific offer to downblend 225 00:13:40,480 --> 00:13:42,919 that uranium was on the table the day before the 226 00:13:43,039 --> 00:13:46,679 US began these strikes. The Omani foreign minister said that publicly, 227 00:13:47,080 --> 00:13:49,240 he said it to me and to market brown Is 228 00:13:49,320 --> 00:13:52,600 CBS News, and so it's sort of here we go 229 00:13:52,639 --> 00:13:55,120 again about this same issue. And I don't think the 230 00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:57,919 Iranians are going to agree that the US can come 231 00:13:57,960 --> 00:14:00,840 in and remove that and rich uranium. Maybe that's not 232 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:02,919 reasonable on their part. Maybe they should agree to that, 233 00:14:03,399 --> 00:14:06,080 but they won't. They feel they're winning. They will keep waiting. 234 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:08,759 They would rather push off all the nuclear parts of 235 00:14:08,799 --> 00:14:12,840 these negotiations into this sixty day timeframe. The President, I 236 00:14:12,879 --> 00:14:16,639 think senses how politically damaging it would be if Iran 237 00:14:16,679 --> 00:14:19,559 were to keep it's enriched uranium as part of this 238 00:14:19,679 --> 00:14:20,320 interim deal. 239 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:24,759 Speaker 1: All right, that was before the announcement that Aron says, no, right, 240 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:27,799 let's stop the talks, no more talking, and we're going 241 00:14:27,879 --> 00:14:31,480 to start blocking the straight up hoom moves and we're 242 00:14:31,480 --> 00:14:34,720 talking to who He's about blocking the Red Sea as well. 243 00:14:35,279 --> 00:14:39,320 So let's check in with General Keen to find out 244 00:14:39,919 --> 00:14:43,320 from the military standpoint, he's got to be pulling his 245 00:14:43,360 --> 00:14:44,159 hair out on. 246 00:14:44,159 --> 00:14:46,879 Speaker 6: The face of it. Despite the board brief it was 247 00:14:46,960 --> 00:14:51,440 is excellent. The ceasefire is not holding we don't, let's 248 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:54,080 face it. I mean, Iran is doing everything they can 249 00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:57,879 to disrupt the straits of Moves even further. Why because 250 00:14:58,120 --> 00:15:00,759 we've been passing shipping through there be sure, And that's 251 00:15:00,799 --> 00:15:04,039 not a violation of any ceasefire. That Ran has taken 252 00:15:04,159 --> 00:15:07,399 very aggressive actions and we are defending ourselves against it 253 00:15:07,759 --> 00:15:10,279 quite handily, as you point out there, and just so 254 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:13,679 our audience gets a grip on what is actually happening here. 255 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:18,360 We had a ceasefire on April the eighth overall, and 256 00:15:18,399 --> 00:15:23,200 then a more specific ceasefire on April the seventeenth in Lebanon. 257 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:29,600 And since April the seventeenth to today, the Iranians have 258 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:35,360 fired over twenty four hundred twenty four hundred missiles and 259 00:15:35,480 --> 00:15:39,519 drones in the northern Israel. That is more than what 260 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:43,039 it is Israel had to defend against during the five days. 261 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:46,360 And we are at war. That is the significance of it. 262 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:48,840 And is that a ceasefire? Are they holding to that? 263 00:15:49,360 --> 00:15:52,720 Obviously they're not. I mean, it's absolutely laughable. That they're 264 00:15:52,759 --> 00:15:57,120 saying that what Israel is doing to defend itself is 265 00:15:57,159 --> 00:16:00,399 in violation of the ceasefire. We got to call it 266 00:16:00,399 --> 00:16:03,639 out for what is really happening here. And listen, give 267 00:16:03,679 --> 00:16:07,279 the president a huge amount of credit here. He's exercising 268 00:16:07,399 --> 00:16:10,639 some real strategic patients trying to get a deal here, 269 00:16:11,080 --> 00:16:13,960 and he knows full well at some point he could 270 00:16:14,039 --> 00:16:19,360 run out of patients. One because of their seriousness is 271 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:22,159 lacking and getting down to the real terms of the deal, 272 00:16:22,559 --> 00:16:24,600 and we're going to find out over time. There's no 273 00:16:24,679 --> 00:16:27,879 reason even speculated what those terms are, because we don't know. 274 00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:31,879 But the second thing is he's right when he talks 275 00:16:31,879 --> 00:16:35,320 about holding the cards here. We have plenty of justification 276 00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:38,440 to go back to a war footing right now based 277 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:41,600 on all these violations of the ceasefire that I just described. 278 00:16:41,840 --> 00:16:45,519 He's not doing it, but they also know that he 279 00:16:45,639 --> 00:16:49,039 could do it, and if this behavior continues, it certainly 280 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:53,360 undermines anything their runnings is saying about the seriousness of 281 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:56,639 their wanting to make a deal, and they're using I 282 00:16:56,679 --> 00:16:59,759 think this pressure to think that that's going to force 283 00:16:59,879 --> 00:17:04,279 us into making a deal sooner and making it more 284 00:17:04,319 --> 00:17:06,960 in terms of what they want to achieve themselves. 285 00:17:07,039 --> 00:17:10,319 Speaker 1: Again, this was general Keema was talking before the Iranians 286 00:17:10,359 --> 00:17:13,160 came out and said that they were shutting down the 287 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:16,319 strait of our moves and stopping negotiations. 288 00:17:16,720 --> 00:17:18,799 Speaker 6: One of the barriers has always been the strace of 289 00:17:18,799 --> 00:17:21,319 a mouse, and they want to have some level of 290 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:25,119 control over that and organizing it. Maybe remove the fees, 291 00:17:25,160 --> 00:17:27,799 but if they are still telling ships when they can 292 00:17:27,839 --> 00:17:31,440 go and what time to go, etc. And where to go, 293 00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:34,240 that's obviously control. We want none of that. We don't 294 00:17:34,279 --> 00:17:37,640 even want it. The implication there, well, we'd be preferred 295 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:39,720 to be if Ron made a statement that it is 296 00:17:39,920 --> 00:17:44,920 territorial it is international waters, not territorial waters that they 297 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:47,440 claim it to be, and its freedom of navigation. I 298 00:17:47,519 --> 00:17:49,799 doubt seriously they would agree to a statement like that, 299 00:17:49,839 --> 00:17:52,519 but at least remove any threat that they're going to 300 00:17:52,559 --> 00:17:55,440 stay in some kind of organizational control over the other 301 00:17:55,480 --> 00:18:00,400 stuff I'm assuming has something to do with nuclear and 302 00:18:00,440 --> 00:18:05,039 whether they're fully committed in the memorandum of Understanding that 303 00:18:05,079 --> 00:18:07,480 we're trying to get them to sign, that there is 304 00:18:07,559 --> 00:18:13,160 a commitment there to ridding themselves of the nuclear capabilities 305 00:18:13,160 --> 00:18:13,680 that they have. 306 00:18:13,960 --> 00:18:17,559 Speaker 1: So once again I mean, the President earlier today had 307 00:18:17,559 --> 00:18:20,880 said that they really want an agreement, doesn't sound like it, 308 00:18:21,160 --> 00:18:24,599 and then they cut off negotiations and said they're locking 309 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:27,920 down the Persian Gulf. So all of this is going 310 00:18:27,960 --> 00:18:33,359 backwards this afternoon, not improving at all, and by tomorrow 311 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:36,880 there'll be a whole new raft of comments and who 312 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:41,519 knows what direction it'll go tomorrow. Meantime, Tomorrow is a 313 00:18:41,759 --> 00:18:46,720 primary day for six of the states. California is one 314 00:18:46,799 --> 00:18:48,440 of the big ones. It's going to be out there, 315 00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:53,839 but Iowa, Important, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, and South 316 00:18:53,920 --> 00:19:00,920 Dakota all holding primaries tomorrow, so we'll find out probably 317 00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:03,920 obviously by Wednesday, we should know what the results are. 318 00:19:04,160 --> 00:19:08,480 In California, they've got an interesting situation with they've got 319 00:19:08,519 --> 00:19:13,119 the jungle primary, as it's called, the top two vote 320 00:19:13,119 --> 00:19:18,039 getters get to be in the runoff. In November, Democrats 321 00:19:18,079 --> 00:19:21,039 were panicking because the top two in the polls was 322 00:19:21,119 --> 00:19:26,160 two Republicans. Well, as we sit here on this Monday, 323 00:19:26,279 --> 00:19:32,319 it looks like Steve Hilton is in second place behind 324 00:19:32,599 --> 00:19:37,519 Javier Bessera. But right on Hilton's heels is Tom Styer, 325 00:19:37,599 --> 00:19:41,079 the billionaire, and apparently in California. You can't turn on 326 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:44,559 the radio or television without with our go buy down 327 00:19:44,559 --> 00:19:46,680 the road and see of billboard without it being Tom 328 00:19:46,720 --> 00:19:51,240 Steyer's face. So he is a weird duck. What a strange, 329 00:19:52,079 --> 00:19:56,319 very weak group of candidates they have to be the 330 00:19:56,319 --> 00:20:02,119 governor of California in any case, let's here's Melanie Mason. 331 00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:06,160 She's with political She's been a political reporter in California 332 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:07,599 for as long as I can remember. 333 00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:09,519 Speaker 7: I think that that's right. I think that we are 334 00:20:09,559 --> 00:20:12,920 really watching whether the question is whether the Republican voters 335 00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:16,279 in the state have coalesced enough behind Steve Hilton truly 336 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:18,960 power him into the top two, or are we going 337 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:21,759 to be watching two Democrats slug it out in November, 338 00:20:21,839 --> 00:20:24,039 between Jaby Visera and Tom Steyer. 339 00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:24,839 Speaker 1: And it's kind of. 340 00:20:24,759 --> 00:20:27,559 Speaker 7: Ironic because if you recall, there was so much panic 341 00:20:27,599 --> 00:20:30,400 among Democrats for so many months that perhaps there'd be 342 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:34,119 two Republicans in the top two because of this wonky system. Instead, 343 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:36,400 I think it's most likely we'll see Steve Hilton run 344 00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:38,799 against a Democrat, but it's possible we could see two 345 00:20:38,839 --> 00:20:40,799 Democrats going up against each other in November. 346 00:20:40,960 --> 00:20:44,519 Speaker 1: Yes, Dyer is making a very heavy last minute push. 347 00:20:44,839 --> 00:20:48,680 Kevin McCarthy, who was Speaker of the House, but he 348 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:53,200 was also the congressman from Bakersfield, California. He was back 349 00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:56,640 out in California this weekend, not only keeping an eye 350 00:20:56,680 --> 00:20:58,519 on what's going on with the governor's race, but there's 351 00:20:58,559 --> 00:21:02,039 also a big race in the city of Los Angeles. 352 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:07,559 Mark Karen Bass is in first place, but barely, and 353 00:21:07,599 --> 00:21:11,200 there's a Democrat socialist right on her heels, and then 354 00:21:11,279 --> 00:21:14,960 in third place. Very tight, very tight race in La 355 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:20,039 is Spencer Pratt, and Kevin McCarthy talks about him. 356 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:22,400 Speaker 8: You know, I was in la this weekend and I 357 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:25,079 was doing Bill Mahershaw, but I was around a lot 358 00:21:25,119 --> 00:21:28,079 of Democrats. They were talking about it. And these are 359 00:21:28,359 --> 00:21:31,839 former supporters of the mayor. This race shouldn't even be close. 360 00:21:31,839 --> 00:21:34,920 They shouldn't even be talked about. But Pratt is really 361 00:21:35,359 --> 00:21:38,839 hitting a nerve here. Everyone's showing his ads. They're excellent ads, 362 00:21:38,839 --> 00:21:44,119 and they're sticking just to three items homelessness, crime, your streets, 363 00:21:44,359 --> 00:21:47,759 and this is really a referendum on the Democratic policies. 364 00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:50,720 I think he's got a real chance of getting into 365 00:21:50,759 --> 00:21:54,519 the runoff. It is difficult down there. And a real 366 00:21:54,599 --> 00:21:58,319 tell tale sign here is after the first debate, the 367 00:21:58,440 --> 00:22:01,839 other two candidates can't and would not debate him anymore. 368 00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:04,960 So the public is not being able to see these debates. 369 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:08,200 The first one he did an excellent job. His ads 370 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:11,160 are just viral. He's not spending much money on it, 371 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:14,240 but he has his why, his reason why. He's running 372 00:22:14,319 --> 00:22:16,720 his house burnt down and he couldn't rebuild it. His 373 00:22:16,839 --> 00:22:19,039 kids can't go to the parks anymore. And that's just 374 00:22:19,119 --> 00:22:22,480 what he's showing. And this is a Democrat Democrat city 375 00:22:22,799 --> 00:22:24,960 that is frustrated with how it is managed. 376 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:29,000 Speaker 1: So here's a clip from from Spencer Pratt talking about 377 00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:31,240 the race that he is, Like I said, he's in 378 00:22:31,359 --> 00:22:33,920 third place, but it's tight, tight tight. 379 00:22:33,799 --> 00:22:35,920 Speaker 9: True breaking news because I had not heard that. But 380 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:41,599 it's not shocking because they're alleged criminal partners. Not only 381 00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:44,799 did they work together and their negligence and burning down 382 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:48,519 seven thousand houses and twelve people alive, but they're both 383 00:22:48,599 --> 00:22:53,279 complicit in laundering what twenty four billion dollars to actually 384 00:22:53,279 --> 00:22:58,039 increase almost this newsoman Karen Bass makeup status. Those are 385 00:22:58,039 --> 00:23:00,839 not real numbers. Anybody with eye in the state of 386 00:23:00,839 --> 00:23:04,279 California or Los Angeles knows that there has not been 387 00:23:04,279 --> 00:23:06,960 a reduction in one old homeless person. 388 00:23:07,279 --> 00:23:08,160 Speaker 6: This is what we know. 389 00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:10,519 Speaker 1: He's attracted to Kevin McCarthy. 390 00:23:10,599 --> 00:23:13,400 Speaker 8: But I'm very nervous Stiers are spending a lot of money. 391 00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:16,279 There's an opportunity here where two Democrats can move forward. 392 00:23:16,559 --> 00:23:20,960 Republicans need to consolidate, and I will tell you President 393 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:23,880 Trump has endorsed Hilton. Let's get behind Hilton to make 394 00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:26,599 sure we have a Republican to start talking about that issues. 395 00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:30,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not sure if a Trump endorsement is a 396 00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:33,400 good thing or a bad thing in Los Angeles because 397 00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:37,599 it's a heavy Democrat city and they don't like President Trump. 398 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:41,319 But when you look at this race, they he talked 399 00:23:41,319 --> 00:23:43,559 about it, and so did Melanie Mason about the fact 400 00:23:43,599 --> 00:23:48,440 that Republicans need to consolidate. There is another person running. 401 00:23:48,519 --> 00:23:52,039 His name is Chad Bianco. There's only two Republicans running. 402 00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:55,400 I'm talking about the governor's race again. So you've got 403 00:23:56,480 --> 00:24:00,640 Steve Hilton and then you've also got Chad Biancoco is 404 00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:07,960 the current sheriff of Riverside County and he is doing well, 405 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:11,039 but he's not in the top three he's probably about 406 00:24:11,559 --> 00:24:15,880 five or six on the list out of seven, and 407 00:24:16,799 --> 00:24:19,319 he but he got he has enough of a following 408 00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:22,079 to where if he and Steve Hilton put their numbers together, 409 00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:27,079 and he recommended, he ended he drops out and endorsed 410 00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:31,640 Steve Hilton and got all of Chad Bianco's voters, that 411 00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:34,599 would give Steve Hilton a win. He would get about 412 00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:37,960 thirty percent. That would put him ahead of all the Democrats. 413 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:41,119 So we'll see if they consolidate. But here we are 414 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:43,759 on the eve of the primary, and I haven't heard 415 00:24:43,839 --> 00:24:48,200 anything about Chad Bianco dropping out, but that would be 416 00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:52,119 the way for the Republicans to win if they consolidate. 417 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:54,039 So let's go up to Maine. They don't have a 418 00:24:54,039 --> 00:24:57,599 primary tomorrow. I think it's next week. But there's a 419 00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:02,480 big controversy with the controversy guy who's running for Senate 420 00:25:02,559 --> 00:25:06,319 from Maine, and he would, he would. He's trying to 421 00:25:06,319 --> 00:25:09,200 go up against Susan Collins, who's been a senator over 422 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:11,720 and over and over and over, and everybody keeps saying 423 00:25:11,759 --> 00:25:14,079 she's going to lose, but she keeps getting elected. But 424 00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:17,599 this time, this guy has got a lot of populism, 425 00:25:18,279 --> 00:25:23,720 lots of populism. His name is Graham Platner, and he 426 00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:31,119 has been called so many names because he's been very controversial, 427 00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:36,440 and people don't seem to find that to be a problem. 428 00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:40,839 May I refer you back to Texas and Ken Paxton 429 00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:43,319 was supposed to be the guy with all these baggage 430 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:47,039 problems that he had, and yet the people knew it 431 00:25:47,599 --> 00:25:49,680 and they voted for him. Anyway, I'll go back to 432 00:25:49,759 --> 00:25:54,160 Bill Clinton had lots of baggage and people voted for 433 00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:59,119 him for president twice. So I'm not so sure having 434 00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:04,240 all these scamnds makes a difference anymore. I really don't 435 00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:08,559 think so. So the latest one is that Graham Plattner's 436 00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:13,440 wife alerted the campaign to the fact that the opposition 437 00:26:13,559 --> 00:26:18,759 research will probably pull up all kinds of sexting messages 438 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:23,200 that Graham Platner had with a number of women, apparently 439 00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:29,559 about twelve different women, and he was up to sexting them, 440 00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:33,160 which who knows how far that went, But in any case, 441 00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:35,680 the wife was the one who brought it to the 442 00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:39,119 campaign's attention. Here is the wife. Her name is Amy. 443 00:26:39,519 --> 00:26:41,319 Speaker 8: We work on our mental health every day. 444 00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:46,160 Speaker 9: No marriage is perfect, and I don't want a perfect marriage. 445 00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:48,799 Speaker 8: I want my marriage and I want to be married 446 00:26:48,799 --> 00:26:49,240 to Crown. 447 00:26:50,279 --> 00:26:52,720 Speaker 1: Ye, she's not mad, Adam. She brought it to the 448 00:26:52,759 --> 00:26:55,039 attention of the campaign so that they wouldn't be caught 449 00:26:55,039 --> 00:27:01,480 flat footed. But Corey Booker and Chris mur they don't 450 00:27:01,519 --> 00:27:04,880 have good things to say about their fellow Democrat. Yeah, 451 00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:07,440 I have concerns that guy has questions to answer, and 452 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:10,440 that's what campaigns are for. He certainly admitted that he 453 00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:11,640 has made mistakes. 454 00:27:11,759 --> 00:27:13,200 Speaker 4: But I think this is going to be a pretty 455 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:14,039 clear contrast. 456 00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:19,119 Speaker 1: It's going to definitely be a very very clear contrast 457 00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:25,720 between Platner and Susan Collins Andrew. This is adarro. He 458 00:27:25,799 --> 00:27:30,839 worked for punch Bowl Media at this observation, Well. 459 00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:33,160 Speaker 10: We're going to find out a lot about democrats level 460 00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:37,240 of tolerance for these types of scandals. Obviously there's been 461 00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:39,759 a lot that's already come out about Grant Platner, but 462 00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:42,079 it seems to be, you know, even five months out 463 00:27:42,079 --> 00:27:44,519 from the election, that this is going to continue to 464 00:27:44,559 --> 00:27:48,240 be sort of a drip drip of opposition research and 465 00:27:48,279 --> 00:27:51,359 other information coming out about him. But look, Maine is 466 00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:53,680 a critical state for Democrats. I mean, if they have 467 00:27:53,799 --> 00:27:56,519 any hope of taking back the Senate majority they need 468 00:27:56,519 --> 00:27:59,359 to win in Maine. And so Democrats right now are 469 00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:02,759 putting all their effort behind sort of making sure they're 470 00:28:02,839 --> 00:28:07,119 unified behind Grand Platner because he is their best and really, 471 00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:10,359 at this point now they're only shot at defeating Senator 472 00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:14,319 Susan Collins, someone who Democrats have not been able to 473 00:28:14,319 --> 00:28:17,440 defeat for election after election after election, and it's really 474 00:28:17,519 --> 00:28:20,759 frustrated them, and it's especially frustrated by the way Senate 475 00:28:20,759 --> 00:28:23,960 maj Senate Minority Leader excuse me, Chuck Schumer. So this 476 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:25,440 is going to be a key race to watch, and 477 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:28,880 it's going to be interesting to see how Democrats continue 478 00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:30,799 to react to what I think is going to continue 479 00:28:30,799 --> 00:28:33,759 to be this strip drip of information coming out about 480 00:28:33,759 --> 00:28:34,759 Grand Platner's past. 481 00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:37,559 Speaker 1: Well he's not alone. There's a guy by the name 482 00:28:37,599 --> 00:28:41,000 of John Featherstone. He writes for one of the big 483 00:28:41,039 --> 00:28:46,680 newspapers in Maine, and this is his observation as well. 484 00:28:46,759 --> 00:28:49,440 Speaker 11: I would definitely tell you that the settlement is definitely 485 00:28:49,519 --> 00:28:54,640 changing on the ground. Platner has always gotten close to 486 00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:57,759 one thousand people at his event. Yesterday, he didn't even 487 00:28:57,759 --> 00:29:00,960 have one hundred people there yesterday, As you had mentioned 488 00:29:02,119 --> 00:29:04,920 they formed a human shield around him because they saw 489 00:29:05,039 --> 00:29:07,359 me there and they did not want me to get 490 00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:09,680 any access to him. And you can't even make it up. 491 00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:13,039 You had a grown man in a bear costume purposely 492 00:29:13,119 --> 00:29:18,200 dripped to block me from Latiner. It's just amazing, and 493 00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:23,559 it feels like they're in crisis mode here though they've 494 00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:27,680 radically changed the way that they've had access to the candidate. 495 00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:31,960 I've seen, even just driving around Maine, platinum signs being 496 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:34,799 picked up. I was even an Augusta today in the 497 00:29:34,799 --> 00:29:37,319 Governor's office and there was a flurry of activity in 498 00:29:37,319 --> 00:29:39,599 the governor's office. It might be that she's trying to 499 00:29:39,599 --> 00:29:42,119 get back in the race, or at least tip putting 500 00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:43,680 her toe in the water to see if she's going 501 00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:44,640 to get back in the race. 502 00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:47,279 Speaker 1: But he's talking about Governor Mills and she dropped out 503 00:29:47,359 --> 00:29:50,960 Jana Mills because he was way ahead of her. And 504 00:29:51,039 --> 00:29:55,799 now maybe maners are starting to take a third look 505 00:29:55,799 --> 00:29:59,200 at this guy. But so far, I mean, I'm serious, 506 00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:03,680 there's I'll go back to Bill Clinton. All these candidates 507 00:30:03,759 --> 00:30:07,759 with all these checkered past, it doesn't seem to be 508 00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:11,319 a deal killer for voters anymore. But I'll tell you 509 00:30:11,359 --> 00:30:14,279 who doesn't like him. And this is always I'm playing 510 00:30:14,319 --> 00:30:17,640 this kid. That's a surprise. The ladies on the view 511 00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:19,680 listen to them. 512 00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:24,039 Speaker 3: So he's a liar of racist and anti semi, he's 513 00:30:24,039 --> 00:30:24,759 a homophobe. 514 00:30:25,119 --> 00:30:26,359 Speaker 1: So he's all the things. 515 00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:28,599 Speaker 8: And this man should be nowhere near Congress. 516 00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:31,279 Speaker 2: And it is disturbing, and it is horrible, and why 517 00:30:31,319 --> 00:30:32,519 can't we do better? 518 00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:35,680 Speaker 1: Why can't we have better candidates? Well, I think for 519 00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:39,000 the first time, I'm actually agreeing with the ladies. Why 520 00:30:39,039 --> 00:30:42,759 can't we do better? Why can't we get better candidates 521 00:30:42,759 --> 00:30:46,920 out there? So they're calling him every name in the book, 522 00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:49,759 and so everybody I associates the view with people on 523 00:30:49,799 --> 00:30:52,000 the left, but man, in this case, they don't have 524 00:30:52,119 --> 00:30:58,720 any any room for this guy. And some late breaking 525 00:30:58,799 --> 00:31:03,720 information this afternoon, there's been a lot of people Republicans 526 00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:07,240 and Democrats in the Congress that had been pushing back 527 00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:11,920 against a one point eight billion dollar weaponization fund moneies 528 00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:16,759 for people that mostly the Jan six crowd and other 529 00:31:16,799 --> 00:31:20,920 people that were abused by the government and the president 530 00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:23,559 apparently has thrown in the taal this afternoon. The DOJ 531 00:31:23,759 --> 00:31:26,759 says that they will abide by a federal judge, and 532 00:31:26,799 --> 00:31:30,599 they're dropping the idea of creating the one point eight 533 00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:36,359 billion dollar Weaponization Fund, getting a lot of pushback from 534 00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:40,680 both sides of the aisle. So that's going down in flames. 535 00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:45,799 Wall Street today did not go down in flames. It 536 00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:49,079 was slightly underwater for most of the treading session, but 537 00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:54,880 at the end eked out again. The DW Jones industrials 538 00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:59,240 up forty six forty six points to fifty one thousand 539 00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:04,079 and seventy eight, the SMP up nineteen, Nasdaq up one 540 00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:08,039 hundred and fourteen. The price of gold fell eighty dollars 541 00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:10,960 down to four thy five thirteen, and oil went up 542 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:15,559 almost five dollars today again with Iran saying we're not 543 00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:19,839 talking anymore. Oil went up five bucks. The ninety two 544 00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:24,079 dollars for one barrel of West Texas Intermediate. That's it 545 00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:26,720 for today. Thank you for coming by. We'll be back 546 00:32:26,759 --> 00:32:28,920 again tomorrow. I hope see you there.