Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
Speaker 1: A M six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on
Speaker 1: demand on the iHeartRadio app. But one of my favorite
Speaker 1: memories from my wedding where I probably wouldn't have said
Speaker 1: play Shout because it is a hack wedding song.
Speaker 2: It's played at every wedding.
Speaker 1: One of my favorite memories is my uncle who's now dead,
Speaker 1: God Rest the soul, Uncle Jim dancing going to that
Speaker 1: song and getting everybody at the wedding to dance to
Speaker 1: that song and him basically doing a grand plier.
Speaker 2: What a grand plier, you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: Like, there's this point of the song of the Shout
Speaker 1: where it gets really softer and you kind of shrink
Speaker 1: down to the floor like you do at a wedding,
Speaker 1: and my uncle Jim Man, he dropped it like it
Speaker 1: was damn hot and got right back up again.
Speaker 2: It was incredible.
Speaker 3: Well, if it feels different today, it's because we have
Speaker 3: tariffs now. They took effect overnight. Business executives warning of
Speaker 3: potential recession. Some of the top US trading partners are
Speaker 3: retaliating with their own import taxes. The stock market has
Speaker 3: been uh the I've never seen this word before, at
Speaker 3: least in this context.
Speaker 4: It's been quivering today.
Speaker 3: The Dow is back and forth, up and down, positive
Speaker 3: and negative. Right now it's back positive by about three
Speaker 3: hundred and eighty points. Sm P five hundred is up
Speaker 3: sixty six points. Nasdaq is up three forty two. I
Speaker 3: mentioned that as of right now, gold is the biggest mover.
Speaker 3: Gold is up one hundred and twenty dollars an ounce.
Speaker 3: It's now over thirty one hundred dollars for an ounce
Speaker 3: of gold.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 1: The family is continuing to mourn the loss of their
Speaker 1: thirteen year old son. This is the little boy who
Speaker 1: was reported missing last Sunday from the valley went to
Speaker 1: his soccer coach's house in Lancaster, a guy that the
Speaker 1: family had had in their home, a trusted soccer coach,
Speaker 1: travel soccer coach. Thirteen year old boy Oscar, very talented
Speaker 1: soccer player. The family came here from Al Salvadora a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago. Ends up that the body is
Speaker 1: found up there near Oxnard. The soccer coach even helped
Speaker 1: look for the little boy when he was still in
Speaker 1: the missing category. That's how close he was with the family. Well,
Speaker 1: now we're learning that this guy assaulted a fourteen year
Speaker 1: old boy back in December of twenty twenty two. So
Speaker 1: if he was charged sooner, would Oscar still be alive?
Speaker 1: That was the question on the table to the DA
Speaker 1: in La County. Nathan Hawkman.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Channel seven was able to ask him that question, and
Speaker 3: here was the response.
Speaker 5: So why just now.
Speaker 4: Are we seeing charges filed in this twenty twenty two case.
Speaker 6: When we got the case, we asked for additional interviews,
Speaker 6: We asked for additional forensic evidence to be analyzed and completed,
Speaker 6: and unfortunately that the additional interviews were not finalized until
Speaker 6: very recently.
Speaker 4: Was there ever a ball dropped there? Yeah, because it
Speaker 4: does seem like that happened long ago and the timing.
Speaker 3: Some may say, well, well, it's interesting charges were just
Speaker 3: filed on that yesterday after the DA.
Speaker 7: Often, in order to get to the completion of the case,
Speaker 7: the individuals involved in the case have to be at
Speaker 7: a point at which they're willing to fully come forward
Speaker 7: and provide all the information that we need in order
Speaker 7: to make prosecutorial decision.
Speaker 6: That didn't happen fully until yesterday.
Speaker 3: He's so infuriating on many many levels here. I mean,
Speaker 3: let's start with the fact that that sources have been
Speaker 3: telling media outlets throughout LA that this guy was in
Speaker 3: the country illegally. You could start you could just start
Speaker 3: right with that one, okay, but that this guy's been
Speaker 3: here long enough that he's been able to develop relationships,
Speaker 3: that there are enough people that know about this guy,
Speaker 3: that neighbors had said, yeah, you know, he always seemed
Speaker 3: to have kids around the house, but he didn't have
Speaker 3: any kids.
Speaker 4: Apparently he married.
Speaker 1: Apparently according to his social media it's littered with pictures
Speaker 1: of him and kids at his house, and him coaching soccer,
Speaker 1: and him with more kids, and.
Speaker 2: He was here illegally. Does that play into anything?
Speaker 1: Did this get to the desk, a desk of George
Speaker 1: Gascone and his underlings who would protect the legal immigrants?
Speaker 1: I don't know, but there's so many dropped balls here.
Speaker 1: I mean, twenty twenty two, when did Hawkman come into
Speaker 1: the office.
Speaker 2: I'm just trying to.
Speaker 1: Say, if you December of last year, December last year,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'd be shifting the blame all day long.
Speaker 1: If I were a Hawkman, Yeah, I'd be saying this
Speaker 1: is this one didn't happen on my watch. And furthermore,
Speaker 1: I've put out an edict to all my das. If
Speaker 1: you've got any of these sexual assault allegations that we
Speaker 1: haven't gotten to, you're gonna stay up and work round
Speaker 1: the clock in overtime, and we'll pay for it to
Speaker 1: freaking clear the decks here, because not another little boy
Speaker 1: is gonna die on my watch, or a little girl
Speaker 1: or adult or whoever. As long as we as long
Speaker 1: as the red flag is up and somebody has revealed
Speaker 1: themselves to be an assaulter a sexual assault of children,
Speaker 1: we are going to investigate that, no matter what the
Speaker 1: office hours are.
Speaker 3: So there's a weird there, and it seems like this
Speaker 3: guy ended up in kind of a gray area, this
Speaker 3: Mario Garcia Aquino, where there were people who made accusations
Speaker 3: against him.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: There was the fourteen year old in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 3: There was the sixteen year old just over a year
Speaker 3: ago in Palmdale. So these two cases, both of them
Speaker 3: make allegations against this guy. That doesn't happen randomly, that
Speaker 3: doesn't happen on a whim. This is not some you know,
Speaker 3: social panacea where kids all of a sudden and make
Speaker 3: up stories about coach Mario. That's the hardest part about it.
Speaker 3: But because according to Nathan Hawkman, because of some investigative issues,
Speaker 3: whether it was the kids didn't want to testify, the
Speaker 3: families didn't want them to testify, they couldn't find other
Speaker 3: corroborating evidence, whatever it is, it falls into that gray
Speaker 3: area where it sounds like everybody has a suspicion about
Speaker 3: this guy, but it doesn't rise to the level of
Speaker 3: an actual law enforcement action.
Speaker 1: Here's the problem in in LA it shouldn't be a problem.
Speaker 1: You're having people who don't speak the language, who are
Speaker 1: here illegally, that do not want to tell the cops
Speaker 1: what they know. That's just the way it's always been
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles for a very long time, and there
Speaker 1: should be ways around it. And if you don't have
Speaker 1: witnesses the way cooperative witnesses the way you have in
Speaker 1: other cases, there's got to be ways to make them cooperate.
Speaker 1: There's got to be ways to work around a there's
Speaker 1: not a language barrier anymore, but there's got to be
Speaker 1: a way to work around a cultural barrier or i'm
Speaker 1: scared of ice under this administration barrier or whatever it
Speaker 1: is to protect these children, who who who come here
Speaker 1: for a better life. I mean, it's just it's so
Speaker 1: anthetical to like what this whole family came here for
Speaker 1: and was I don't know, I just I think that's
Speaker 1: not an excuse. Hawkman's excuse is not a viable excuse
Speaker 1: in my mind. Oh, there was interviews to be no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: Like you get a whiff of a kid being molested
Speaker 1: by a coach, not even a famili not that there's
Speaker 1: a good child molestation story, but not even a familial relative,
Speaker 1: like a familial assault, but somebody who's got.
Speaker 2: Access to other children. Kids come on.
Speaker 3: And that's the thing is, there's there's got to be
Speaker 3: a question asked of whoever was employing him. Was it
Speaker 3: people that were, you know, hiring this guy to coach
Speaker 3: their kid individually?
Speaker 2: Sure it was off the mark.
Speaker 4: Was it a team?
Speaker 2: I bet it wasn't.
Speaker 4: I bet it.
Speaker 1: He's a traveling soccer coach. It was also a guy
Speaker 1: from El Salvador. You know there's commonalities there. Your kid
Speaker 1: loves soccer. Here's this guy who knows where you came from.
Speaker 1: Maybe you've got some people in common or what have you.
Speaker 1: You trust him he's going to teach your kids soccer
Speaker 1: that kind of thing.
Speaker 3: Fifteen years ago, when I was a coach for my
Speaker 3: kids soccer teams, they went through a full back. That's different,
Speaker 3: I know, and I'm not saying, and I remember being
Speaker 3: so annoyed by it, like.
Speaker 4: What the what am I going to do?
Speaker 3: First of all, I have a kid on the team, right,
Speaker 3: and I'm not going to take advantage of my pay.
Speaker 2: That's just organized sports. This was not.
Speaker 3: That's and that's an issue that's going to come up
Speaker 3: in situations like this.
Speaker 4: I mean, but what do you do.
Speaker 1: You've moved here with your family family from El Salvador
Speaker 1: three years ago, you don't speak the language. You meet
Speaker 1: other El Salvadorans in the community, that's who you hang
Speaker 1: out with. This guy coaches soccer. Your kids got this
Speaker 1: talent for soccer. Why wouldn't because why wouldn't this be
Speaker 1: something that happened.
Speaker 3: It would be hard for me to believe that there
Speaker 3: wasn't somebody who's like, yeah, but you don't want there's
Speaker 3: something about that guy.
Speaker 4: I mean, word like that spreads pretty quickly.
Speaker 3: I'm surprised, Well, I wouldn't be surprised if in this.
Speaker 1: Case it took two years. That's not that long of
Speaker 1: a time. You know, the damage has been done pretty quickly.
Speaker 1: But the fact that they got wind of this two
Speaker 1: years ago and nothing was done is.
Speaker 2: A real problem.
Speaker 4: Hey, California has a legislature. Did you know that? And
Speaker 4: some of those lawmakers have ideas that actually make sense.
Speaker 2: What.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's weird how they're going to go after AI
Speaker 3: chat bots.
Speaker 4: When we come back.
Speaker 5: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Speaker 5: AM six forty.
Speaker 3: The quivering Wall Streets numbers continue to quiver as of
Speaker 3: right now, though I just looked it up during the
Speaker 3: break there, the Dow is flying. The Dow is up
Speaker 3: seventeen hundred points right now, which is about five percent
Speaker 3: some p five hundred. NASTAC also seeing quite a spike
Speaker 3: over just the last couple of minutes here. One thing
Speaker 3: that the Treasury's thirty nine billion dollar auction of ten
Speaker 3: year notes saw some pretty strong, very strong demand. I
Speaker 3: guess that's probably what it was.
Speaker 1: I don't know the Treasury report well that they were auction.
Speaker 1: The Treasury auction met with strong demand. Is going to
Speaker 1: bounce back. The doubt of sixteen hundred ghosts I don't think.
Speaker 1: So there's got to be a phone call that was made.
Speaker 1: Somebody knows something. But again, you don't get that excited
Speaker 1: over the freaking Treasury.
Speaker 3: Auction because this is also coming in. Fox is reporting
Speaker 3: that Trump is going to say he's raising tariffs on
Speaker 3: China up to one hundred and twenty five percent. As
Speaker 3: of right now, they were at one hundred and four percent,
Speaker 3: so he's going to go even higher.
Speaker 2: Well, of course he is.
Speaker 1: So everyone get out their genitals. Were in for a
Speaker 1: urination match, and Trump and China are the main card.
Speaker 2: What is it?
Speaker 1: The what card? The best card, the main event, the
Speaker 1: I'll say main event, yeah, but what what is the card?
Speaker 2: Terminal?
Speaker 1: Undercard? So well, you would be there with the main
Speaker 1: main event in the undercar. So we're the undercard. If
Speaker 1: we were to urinary measure, if we were to measure
Speaker 1: our urination utensils.
Speaker 3: Got it a urination utensil. I was trying to keep
Speaker 3: it clean, you did, and I appreciate that. But someone's
Speaker 3: going to complain that you've mentioned genitals.
Speaker 1: You did wait until ten twenty five, so it's not
Speaker 1: like we talk about genitals a lot in our body.
Speaker 1: Now she brings in the cameras I talk about Jena,
Speaker 1: the genitals begin to do. There is a bill send
Speaker 1: It Bill two forty three in Sacramento that would try
Speaker 1: to regulate AI chatbots.
Speaker 4: Remember that story out of Florida.
Speaker 3: Kid killed himself after talking with this AI chatbot for
Speaker 3: a long time.
Speaker 4: Mom sued.
Speaker 3: Mom sued the company character Ai, which is based in
Speaker 3: Menlo Park here in California, and to address this problem,
Speaker 3: state lawmakers in this bill would require operators of any
Speaker 3: chatboard chat bot platform to remind a user at least
Speaker 3: every three hours that the virtual characters.
Speaker 4: Are not human.
Speaker 3: They would also have a protocol for addressing suicidal ideation.
Speaker 3: It would require chatbots to report the number of times
Speaker 3: that their human companion brings up suicide ideation or actions,
Speaker 3: along with other requirements. It's just one way that they
Speaker 3: say they're trying to tackle the potential risks posed by
Speaker 3: AI chatbots as they're getting more and more popular.
Speaker 1: I read an opinion piece over the weekend and I
Speaker 1: forgot to bring it to the show, but it was
Speaker 1: about the proliferation of these romantic chat bots and how
Speaker 1: popular they really are, especially amongst the young people. And
Speaker 1: we've talked about it before Is it just training wheels?
Speaker 1: Is that learning how to do something before you're ready
Speaker 1: to actually do it.
Speaker 3: Well, there are people we talked about it a couple
Speaker 3: of weeks ago. There are people who advocate for that
Speaker 3: because it gives especially younger teenagers, the ability to make
Speaker 3: some of those dating mistakes without hurting anybody's feelings.
Speaker 1: Right, And I remember that conversation of people advocating for
Speaker 1: them to be training wheels, Right, But is that the
Speaker 1: purpose that the people who are actually using it are
Speaker 1: using it for. Are they getting addicted to this because
Speaker 1: in the opinion piece, the takeaway was kind of like, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're going to tell you things you want to hear.
Speaker 2: They're going to tell you the compliments.
Speaker 1: They're going to be there when you want them, They're
Speaker 1: going to respond when you want them to all of
Speaker 1: the things. And the problem with these relationships is that
Speaker 1: there is no give and take. That's the thing about
Speaker 1: relationships that's so wonderful. You know, you get sick, your
Speaker 1: wife makes you soup, your chatbot is and that's a
Speaker 1: major part of relationships, is the give and take and
Speaker 1: being there for each other in that regard, and the
Speaker 1: chatbot never needs you. The chatbot never needs you. You
Speaker 1: never give anything that is chat pot. The chatbot could
Speaker 1: be there to listen to all your problems and things.
Speaker 1: But if you're not doing something for your chatbot, then
Speaker 1: you're not getting what you need out of the relationship.
Speaker 1: Because part of that is the joy your wife gets
Speaker 1: giving you that soup when you're sick. That's part of
Speaker 1: what builds a relationship of give and take and being
Speaker 1: there for each other. If it's a one sided thing,
Speaker 1: it's not a relationship.
Speaker 3: That's These things tear. They terrify me. Not because I'm
Speaker 3: afraid of an AI chatbot. I'm terrified about down the
Speaker 3: line what it does to someone's mentality if they don't
Speaker 3: have that huge action.
Speaker 1: But I mean, it's like porn, right, It's we had
Speaker 1: this conversation about porn ten twenty years ago of like, oh,
Speaker 1: kids are watching porn and it's gone so out of
Speaker 1: control that they're not going to be able to have
Speaker 1: sex normally.
Speaker 2: Ever did that happen, Maybe it happened. I don't know what.
Speaker 4: When's last time he had sex with any eighteen year old?
Speaker 4: It's been a long time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, See, I don't think I ever had sex
Speaker 1: with an eighteen year old.
Speaker 4: I don't know if that no, I did.
Speaker 1: I did anyway, let's move on, moving on a long time.
Speaker 3: Oh gosh, I realized that it was a minefield. I
Speaker 3: wasn't trying to jump into and apparently I just both
Speaker 3: feet both feet.
Speaker 2: All right here, everyone saying, you know, throughout the hallway.
Speaker 3: Again, something's going on on Wall Street. The Dow is
Speaker 3: up about two thousand points. We'll see what's going on.
Speaker 1: Trump authorized a ninety day pause on tariffs, says the
Speaker 1: Breaking News, And that's exactly what that phone call was.
Speaker 2: Because wow, for him the last night.
Speaker 1: To say everyone be cool, don't be a pannikin relax.
Speaker 1: For him to do this, somebody got to Trump big
Speaker 1: time because he is not somebody to waiver. But I mean,
Speaker 1: he did do the pause back in what February was it,
Speaker 1: when it was Canada and Mexico. So maybe he's just
Speaker 1: trying to stop the bleeding on Wall Street. The phone
Speaker 1: was probably ringing off the hook. Elon Musk in the
Speaker 1: room as well. So this is I don't know why
Speaker 1: this image just popped into my head. If you're torturing
Speaker 1: somebody and you're trying to get secrets out of them, right.
Speaker 2: You're having sex with an eighteen year old.
Speaker 4: No, we're moving past that and pretending it never happened.
Speaker 3: You have somebody on a meat hook, right, They're chained
Speaker 3: up and they're hanging out of a meat hook, and
Speaker 3: you've got a battery and you're going to shock them
Speaker 3: right in their sides, right, and you're trying to torture
Speaker 3: them to get the information out of them. They say,
Speaker 3: I'm not giving you up any information, and you say,
Speaker 3: I'm going to shock you and they say, no, I'm
Speaker 3: not giving you any information. And then pow you hit
Speaker 3: him with that first shock and they go, okay, all right.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you. I'll tell you whatever you want to know.
Speaker 4: This is then you turning.
Speaker 1: Really freaking dark mind And I almost used a bad word.
Speaker 1: That was really dark. That was a really dark scenario
Speaker 1: you painted. You know, I'm going to go to the news.
Speaker 1: We're going to go to the news.
Speaker 5: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Speaker 5: Am six forty.
Speaker 2: I've heard enough about it.
Speaker 3: Her Caroline love It, White House Press Secretary there and
Speaker 3: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant. And again this just before, just
Speaker 3: before we went to the news. At the bottom of
Speaker 3: the hour, we noticed that the Dow had jumped up
Speaker 3: a couple thousand points five to six percent, and.
Speaker 1: We thought somebody got on the phone, something happened, somebody
Speaker 1: got worried of something, because it wasn't about the Treasury auction.
Speaker 1: And then we found out that he ordered this ninety
Speaker 1: day pause on tariffs except for China. And I believe
Speaker 1: Beset when he says that this was the plan all along,
Speaker 1: because in my mind, this was the plan all along.
Speaker 1: It was never about the other countries. It was about
Speaker 1: China from go.
Speaker 3: And he tried to push against that, but but it's
Speaker 3: he tried to say that this is not just about China,
Speaker 3: it was to expose any bad actors.
Speaker 4: But that's clearly what they were trying to do in
Speaker 4: the first place.
Speaker 1: It was assic for me, being a girl middle school
Speaker 1: bully girl technique of you try to get everybody on
Speaker 1: your side. It's you showing your power in front of
Speaker 1: everybody else, and then when you zero in on who
Speaker 1: you want to have as your rival, you get everybody
Speaker 1: else on your side. And that's exactly what the United
Speaker 1: States did. They saw China as their rival. They went
Speaker 1: up against everyone in the schoolyard and then decided to
Speaker 1: pull all the weaker personalities, all the weaker countries, into
Speaker 1: their orbit and say, okay, we're all.
Speaker 2: We've all everyone's.
Speaker 1: Playing nice with me except for you, and now it's
Speaker 1: the world against China.
Speaker 2: That's essentially what they're doing here.
Speaker 3: So officially the president. It's not official because it's a
Speaker 3: truth social post, but I mean the words that the
Speaker 3: President used. He plans to keep the administration's global baseline
Speaker 3: tariff increase of ten percent in place for all countries.
Speaker 3: That is still enough, at least according to the Treasury Secretary,
Speaker 3: That in and of itself is still enough to get
Speaker 3: those seventy five countries to come to the table to
Speaker 3: begin their negotiations to figure out what we're going to
Speaker 3: do with all of these individual trade agreement.
Speaker 2: Here's the thing, they don't matter.
Speaker 1: We talked about this before, those issues with other countries,
Speaker 1: they don't matter. It is apples and oranges, but it's not.
Speaker 1: It's like oranges and freaking orange peels. None of our
Speaker 1: contracts with those other countries mean crap.
Speaker 2: No, I think it's China that matters.
Speaker 4: China is the big one.
Speaker 3: They do matter because if you're talking about like European Union,
Speaker 3: if you're talking about Canada, if you're talking about Mexico,
Speaker 3: if you're talking about Vietnam, if you're talking there are
Speaker 3: countries where India there are sizable trade agreements that we
Speaker 3: have that are going to have an impact. None of
Speaker 3: them and even if you add them all together, they
Speaker 3: might not They might not reach what we have with China. Right.
Speaker 1: But India is a curious one that you bring up
Speaker 1: because India tries to kind of play both sides of
Speaker 1: the playground here.
Speaker 2: India tries to pretend.
Speaker 1: That they're our ally, but they're very close, maybe the
Speaker 1: closest trade partners with China. So India is not going
Speaker 1: to be like, oh, f and you China, I'm going
Speaker 1: with America.
Speaker 2: That's not going to happen.
Speaker 3: No, But I think that they wanted the minor players.
Speaker 3: I mean your pointed that these smaller ones don't matter.
Speaker 3: They do want those minor players to be able to
Speaker 3: be sure, to want.
Speaker 2: To be able to say great optics are great China.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But when you get down to the math, we
Speaker 1: don't bring in stuff from the other countries to the
Speaker 1: percent near the percentage of the percent it's an f
Speaker 1: and joke.
Speaker 2: You know when you look at this.
Speaker 1: Let's let's go down the list of the seventy five
Speaker 1: other countries they're talking about, right, and look at what
Speaker 1: our trade is with those countries.
Speaker 3: Right, five million dollars with Lithuania or whatever the exactly
Speaker 3: sample might be.
Speaker 4: I know that, you know.
Speaker 2: I love the.
Speaker 1: Optics that the whole world is on our side and
Speaker 1: how I want it to be.
Speaker 2: I want Trump's plan to work, I really do.
Speaker 1: I think it would be great to move all of
Speaker 1: the manufacturing back to this country.
Speaker 2: I think it would be great to take all these.
Speaker 1: Contracts, rip them up, throw them out, start over to
Speaker 1: where we benefit better.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: I just think that we need to be honest with
Speaker 1: what we're dealing with right now, and that's China.
Speaker 2: And that's a.
Speaker 1: Very fragile situation you've got there with Shi Jinping and
Speaker 1: what he's promised his people. He's promised his people that
Speaker 1: think the same things Trump has promised us.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and as we mentioned yesterday, neither of these guys
Speaker 3: backs down. There's no there's no political future in for
Speaker 3: either one of them.
Speaker 4: If they are appear to have backed down.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I said a bad word.
Speaker 4: Why are you apologizing to me?
Speaker 2: I feel bad.
Speaker 4: You're the one who's got to go to the FCC,
Speaker 4: not me.
Speaker 3: President Trump did announce this ninety day pause of the
Speaker 3: higher tariffs against these trading partners that went into effect
Speaker 3: earlier today last night overnight, if you want to call
Speaker 3: it that.
Speaker 4: And again the exception is China.
Speaker 3: As of about midnight d C time, the tariff on
Speaker 3: goods coming in from China was set at one hundred
Speaker 3: and four percent. After China then retaliated and increased the
Speaker 3: tariffs on American goods going to China, President Trump just
Speaker 3: a short time ago said it's going to go from
Speaker 3: one hundred and four percent up to one hundred and
Speaker 3: twenty five percent.
Speaker 4: So not only has he.
Speaker 3: Been able to in his work in his idea to
Speaker 3: isolate China, he's got all of these other countries, dozens
Speaker 3: of them. Scott Besson said that there are seventy five
Speaker 3: plus that are coming and you know, dropping a dime
Speaker 3: to call us and let us know that they're ready
Speaker 3: to negotiate.
Speaker 4: That these countries are now aligned with us.
Speaker 3: They are now pointed towards us because they know how
Speaker 3: important our trade is with them.
Speaker 1: Don't be surprised if you hear the term market manipulation,
Speaker 1: that was that that was maybe one of the goals here.
Speaker 1: I don't believe it to be the case because President
Speaker 1: Trump is talking about tariffs forever and wanting to do this,
Speaker 1: and you've got timing of this. Timing of it is
Speaker 1: odd in the middle of the day, the middle of
Speaker 1: a day, like why now? And that was one of
Speaker 1: the questions, why right now? And that's why Bescent said
Speaker 1: this was the president's plan all along. You have to
Speaker 1: follow the money on that one. That's that's a book
Speaker 1: that comes out in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 3: All right, Swamp Watch, of course is coming up. We'll
Speaker 3: talk a little bit more about this. We're getting some
Speaker 3: more information about what Scott Besson, the Secretary of the
Speaker 3: Treasury said the thinking behind all of this with the
Speaker 3: President has been saying on social media. But again, a
Speaker 3: ninety day pause on the tariffs except for China.
Speaker 2: It's on man.
Speaker 3: Gary and Shannon will continue in just a moment. You've
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