Speaker 1: And hello, Hi, how are you here? We go Happy Wednesday,
Speaker 1: hump Day. Today is the thirtieth day of July, Year
Speaker 1: of Our Lord, twenty twenty five. My name is Tom Sullivan.
Speaker 1: So where do you want to start today, boys and girls.
Speaker 1: We've got all I got to talk about the tsunami
Speaker 1: and the big earthquake over in Russia that affected the Pacific.
Speaker 1: We'll start there. We've also got some more in depth
Speaker 1: new information about the shooter at the high rise in
Speaker 1: Midtown Manhattan, the starvation in Gaza. They are moving in
Speaker 1: food faster, better, but Israel has a slightly different take.
Speaker 1: We'll play that for you. And a big economic day
Speaker 1: to day. The Federal Reserve met that kept interest rates unchanged.
Speaker 1: Oh no, President Trump's going to be all upset. Yes,
Speaker 1: but they kept as as Wall Street expected. There was
Speaker 1: a ninety nine percent chance they were going to leave
Speaker 1: rates unchanged. They did. Plus we got a bunch of
Speaker 1: economic data out today as well. But this tsunami in
Speaker 1: camp Chekta Peninsula of Russia. If you if you fly
Speaker 1: to Asia from the United States, you go up over
Speaker 1: Alaska and you come down the east coast of Russia,
Speaker 1: and that is where the Kampchukta Peninsula is located. That
Speaker 1: is where I saw this last night, and I couldn't
Speaker 1: believe my eyes. They said an eight point eight on
Speaker 1: the Rick scale, and it was about twenty minutes later
Speaker 1: they had like eight point two, and then twenty minutes
Speaker 1: later it had seven points. I mean, it was just
Speaker 1: one massive earthquake after another. And I grew up in
Speaker 1: earthquake country. A lot of people don't think Seattle is,
Speaker 1: but the whole the Ring of Fire is basically all
Speaker 1: the way South America, along the Pacific, South America, up Mexico,
Speaker 1: western west coast of US Canada, Alaska, around over through Asia, Japan.
Speaker 1: It's earthquake country. And so you know, when I was
Speaker 1: a senior in high school, we were about a week
Speaker 1: away from graduating, so we had one foot out the
Speaker 1: door anyway, and we were in my high school and
Speaker 1: earthquake hid. It was big. I killed a few people.
Speaker 1: We were in a room that literally we this part
Speaker 1: of the high school collapse, and part of it was
Speaker 1: the room that I was in. So myself and my classmates,
Speaker 1: they say, don't run. We bolted out of there because
Speaker 1: we felt the ceiling coming down on us. So they
Speaker 1: have and and then living thirty some years in California,
Speaker 1: I mean had I had my share of earthquakes there.
Speaker 1: Worked in San Francisco, went to school in the San
Speaker 1: Francisco San Jose area. We had earthquakes, not all, not
Speaker 1: every day, but they were not uncommon. And on the
Speaker 1: West Coast. People laugh because the media goes crazy when
Speaker 1: there's a three point five. People in California don't even blink.
Speaker 1: Maybe there's a five something that you know, a few
Speaker 1: cans of beans will be knocked off the shelves. But
Speaker 1: that also for people in earthquake country, they kind of
Speaker 1: roll their eyes at it. But when you see an
Speaker 1: eight point eight and it turns out it was I believe,
Speaker 1: the sixth largest earthquake ever recorded, and I would have
Speaker 1: thought it was the biggest, but it was the biggest
Speaker 1: in a long long time. So once that strikes, then
Speaker 1: that's right along the Pacific Ocean, there goes the tsunami waves.
Speaker 1: And the tsunami waves are below the floor of the water.
Speaker 1: They're down below the surface, and when they they're fine
Speaker 1: until you get to a shoreline where this where the
Speaker 1: water the surface basically comes up to the shoreline, and
Speaker 1: that's where the big waves can come in. So there
Speaker 1: were six foot waves in Kahului, which is Maui. There
Speaker 1: were Crescent City, California, way up in the northwest corner
Speaker 1: of California, they had four foot waves overnight. I was
Speaker 1: with my family. We went on vacation to Hawaii. One time.
Speaker 1: We landed in Maui and they said, hurry up, hurry up,
Speaker 1: hurry up. The rental car places are closing. So I
Speaker 1: went over and I said, what's going on. They said, oh,
Speaker 1: we've got to evacuate there. There was an earthquake. I
Speaker 1: forget where it was, Alaska if I remember right, and
Speaker 1: we have a tsunami wave warning. So everybody's got to
Speaker 1: evacuate the airport. There is right sea level if you will,
Speaker 1: and just a hop, skip and a jump in from
Speaker 1: the ocean. And so I got in the car and
Speaker 1: the local traffic turned on the radio local traffic reporter.
Speaker 1: If you've been to Hawaii, you know that every street
Speaker 1: they use a lot of j's and k's and their
Speaker 1: names and they all sound the same, and they were
Speaker 1: directing people to higher land. So we start following along,
Speaker 1: and I started heading toward where our hotel was, which
Speaker 1: was down on the beach and the police had the roadblock,
Speaker 1: and they sent us to a to a high school
Speaker 1: and an evacuation center, you know, and I've heard about
Speaker 1: those her but we went. Yeah, we went to this
Speaker 1: high school and they red Cross came over and they
Speaker 1: had snacks and water and things like that. Whereas while
Speaker 1: we waited for the tsunami waves to come crashing in
Speaker 1: to where our hotel was. Well at the time, I yes,
Speaker 1: I was working in radio and television at the time.
Speaker 1: So I went over to a neighbor's house, knocked on
Speaker 1: the door, and the lady was very nice. I said,
Speaker 1: I've worked for the media and I'd like to be
Speaker 1: able to phone in what's going on, And she said,
Speaker 1: come on in, and she said, she said, my husband
Speaker 1: has a fishing boat, you know, a trawler, a big
Speaker 1: commercial fishing boat. And he took off. He went down
Speaker 1: to get the boat and take to bring it out
Speaker 1: to sea. And I said, he's going out to see Yeah.
Speaker 1: She said, if you're out in the water some distance,
Speaker 1: the waves go underneath you. The danger is at the shoreline.
Speaker 1: So I called in the whole thing about it, and
Speaker 1: we waited, wait to wait and guess what the water.
Speaker 1: The thing you look for is you watch the beach
Speaker 1: and you watch the water, and the water starts going
Speaker 1: out like it's low tide, and it keeps going out,
Speaker 1: and it kept going out further and further, and you're going,
Speaker 1: oh boy, here it comes. It's going out. But the
Speaker 1: big wave is coming. And it turned out to be
Speaker 1: kind of a trickle of a wave. I'm glad, but
Speaker 1: the surge can last for hours and hours as the
Speaker 1: waves under the ocean finally make shoreline. Whether it was
Speaker 1: in Japan, or in Hawaii or in the West coast
Speaker 1: of the United States, they all were on tsunami watch.
Speaker 1: It's been dropped now, but always keeps you on your toes.
Speaker 1: The wave waves under the water move as fast as
Speaker 1: five hundred miles an hour, so in a very short
Speaker 1: period of time, within hours, they've gone all the way
Speaker 1: across the ocean. I'm riding long. As a seismologistic Yale,
Speaker 1: this is her comment about the big tsunami and the
Speaker 1: big earthquake.
Speaker 2: Well, it's always very sobering when we have a very
Speaker 2: large underwater earthquake that does trimmer trigger excuse me, a
Speaker 2: tsunami that travels all the way across a very large
Speaker 2: ocean basin, So you know, this event is really a
Speaker 2: reminder that we are vulnerable to tsunami waves that are
Speaker 2: generated by large earthquakes. Thankfully, what we've seen in the
Speaker 2: last eighteen or so hours, it's that the tsunami waves,
Speaker 2: while they are measurable a tsunami was generated, have not
Speaker 2: generally been so large to cause extensive damage, and we
Speaker 2: can certainly be thankful for that. Interestingly, tsunamis do travel
Speaker 2: very fast, they travel about as fast as a jet
Speaker 2: airplane flies. But the Pacific Ocean is a very large ocean,
Speaker 2: and as we've seen, it takes about eighteen or twenty
Speaker 2: hours for the waves to reach the other end of
Speaker 2: the Pacific Ocean basin. So certainly I would encourage anyone
Speaker 2: listening to heed local advisories about when is it safe
Speaker 2: to you know, be back down on the beach, be
Speaker 2: back in the water. As as Chris mentioned, you know,
Speaker 2: even after that initial first wave has passed, you know,
Speaker 2: for several hours afterwards, sometimes we see unusual currents or
Speaker 2: some you know, later successive waves. Sometimes the later waves
Speaker 2: can actually be a little larger than the first wave.
Speaker 2: So you know, my advice would be to certainly always
Speaker 2: heed local advisories, in local warnings about when it's safe
Speaker 2: to be back on the beach or at the coastline. Again,
Speaker 2: whenever you have an earthquake this large underwater in a
Speaker 2: subduction zone environment. So that subduction zone is a tectonic
Speaker 2: setting where we have one tectonic plate that is diving
Speaker 2: beneath another. In this case off the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia,
Speaker 2: we have the Pacif Plate that is actually diving beneath
Speaker 2: a portion of the North American plate. When you have
Speaker 2: a large subduction zone earthquake that happens very shallow, what
Speaker 2: that does is that displaces some of the water column,
Speaker 2: and whenever you have vertical motion of that water column,
Speaker 2: that can trigger a tsunami wave. And so in this case,
Speaker 2: the tsunami wave was triggered. It travels out in the
Speaker 2: open ocean. Actually in the open ocean, those those wave heights,
Speaker 2: our amplitudes are actually pretty small. So tsunamis are not
Speaker 2: a threat to ships or ships or boats out on
Speaker 2: the open ocean. But when tsunami waves hit that coastline,
Speaker 2: they can they can steep in the waves basically steepen
Speaker 2: and their amplitude grows and that's when it poses a hazard.
Speaker 2: So this earthquake, as you said, the sixth largest earthquake
Speaker 2: that has ever been recorded since we've had modern seismic instruments,
Speaker 2: a really vivid reminder of these kinds of hazards. And
Speaker 2: you know, luckily we were very prepared for it with
Speaker 2: our earth quake monitoring and with our tsunami warning networks.
Speaker 1: So for those of you that have experienced earthquakes, I
Speaker 1: mean eight point eight, it's not linear. I mean that
Speaker 1: is the Richter scale, and it never seen one that
Speaker 1: big of I saw that report last night, my eyes
Speaker 1: bugged right out. So earthquakes, by the way, I know,
Speaker 1: I don't have a life, I get the kind of
Speaker 1: a Google. I signed up for the notification of earthquakes
Speaker 1: around the world, and there's been a ton of them
Speaker 1: down off the coast of Australia and down near Antarctica,
Speaker 1: off of this the some of the islands out in
Speaker 1: the deep Southern Pacific. So there's been a lot of
Speaker 1: earthquakes lightly and then this one popped up last night
Speaker 1: and I whoa, that was huge. So we've got that
Speaker 1: that's behind us, hopefully this New York City shooting. They're
Speaker 1: digging in and they found some more information. They found
Speaker 1: a second note that the shooter had left at his
Speaker 1: apartment in Las Vegas. But we also have just a
Speaker 1: summary from some of the investigators that we follow. John Miller,
Speaker 1: from former NYPD guy talking about the police type of work,
Speaker 1: but also the CTE. I want to get into this
Speaker 1: because for years I've heard about the CTE. I'm obviously
Speaker 1: I'm not a medical expert, and he stretched the imagination,
Speaker 1: but I thought, this doesn't make any sense to me,
Speaker 1: because you had guys like Aaron Hernandez who played for
Speaker 1: the New England Patriots, and he was a young guy
Speaker 1: who was twenty seven when he died, and they found
Speaker 1: lots of CTE with him. Frank Gifford who played for
Speaker 1: the New York Giants one hundred thousand years ago. He
Speaker 1: lived well into elder I forget what age he died at,
Speaker 1: but I think he was in his eighties. And so
Speaker 1: he took and those one they had the old leather helmets.
Speaker 1: They didn't have the helmets that they have today. He
Speaker 1: lived a good long life. So how is it that
Speaker 1: you can have two football players, one that is crippled
Speaker 1: in his twenties and the other one who doesn't have
Speaker 1: a thing happened to him. So well, let me start
Speaker 1: with Sanjay Gupta. Doctor Gupta is a neurosurgeon, a brain surgeon,
Speaker 1: and he has studied a lot about CTE and the
Speaker 1: fact that this shooter proclaimed in his suicide note that
Speaker 1: he thought he had CTE. He played high school football
Speaker 1: in southern California for two different high schools. Apparently a
Speaker 1: very good running back. The only critique of him was
Speaker 1: he wasn't very big, so he did not get accepted
Speaker 1: by colleges or the NFL. But you've seen there are
Speaker 1: some running backs that are not very big, but they're
Speaker 1: really slippery and quick, and apparently that's what this guy was.
Speaker 1: He was very talented, but he was convinced that he
Speaker 1: had CTE. It could have been that he knew that
Speaker 1: his mental abilities were starting to be ill. Say it nicely,
Speaker 1: but here's doctor Sanjay Gupta talking about this whole thing
Speaker 1: about CTE.
Speaker 3: The only way you can definitively diagnose this is that
Speaker 3: autopsy after someone has died. But you know, people can
Speaker 3: have strong suspicion of this if you've had a history
Speaker 3: of repeated blows to the head. You develop some of
Speaker 3: these symptoms that are oftentimes associated with CTE, people might
Speaker 3: start to believe, look, is this me? Is this a
Speaker 3: possibility for me? As well? If you look at some
Speaker 3: of the studies. For example, there was a study that
Speaker 3: came out in twenty twenty three people under the age
Speaker 3: of thirty seventeen to twenty nine who all worried that
Speaker 3: they had some of these symptoms. They donated their brains
Speaker 3: to science after they died. Obviously, forty percent of them
Speaker 3: tested positive for CTE. So you can have a strong
Speaker 3: suspicion and maybe a validated suspicion, but you cannot know
Speaker 3: for sure, so you know, it really sort of is
Speaker 3: in these broad buckets of cognitive symptoms behavioral symptoms, So
Speaker 3: you look at things like memory loss sometimes that's confused
Speaker 3: for Alzheimer's if someone is older, impulse control problems, lack
Speaker 3: of judgment, depression, suicidal behavior. Even as people get older,
Speaker 3: they may develop movement problems. Tremors sometimes can be confused
Speaker 3: with Parkinson's, So CTE, you know, a relatively new diagnosis
Speaker 3: as far as these things go, and it's often a
Speaker 3: great mimic of other things which can make it very
Speaker 3: confusing for people. Yeah, there is evidence of this, and
Speaker 3: it's you know, it was a little surprising to me
Speaker 3: as well. You typically think of someone like a and Hernandez, who,
Speaker 3: as you know, John was twenty seven years old when
Speaker 3: he passed away in prison, died by suicide. This gunman
Speaker 3: also twenty seven years old. But you look back sort
Speaker 3: of at some of these studies and you find that
Speaker 3: even people as young as seventeen years old, seventeen to
Speaker 3: twenty nine. There was this study done showing that one
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty two brains were donated to science people,
Speaker 3: all under the age of thirty and forty percent of
Speaker 3: them they found CTE. Again, the youngest person being seventeen
Speaker 3: years old, So it is possible. One thing we are
Speaker 3: learning is that there is probably a vulnerability for some people.
Speaker 3: Some people may have a short career a few blows
Speaker 3: to the head still developed CTE, compared to others who
Speaker 3: have a long career, like an NFL career, lots of
Speaker 3: blows to the head, they never developed CTE. So trying
Speaker 3: to figure out who is who, why some people develop
Speaker 3: and others don't, That's what a lot of people are
Speaker 3: trying to figure out.
Speaker 1: And that's exactly my point is that Frank Gifford was
Speaker 1: an old man and had lived a long life and
Speaker 1: took a lot of blows to the head and had
Speaker 1: a very long successful football career and then broadcasting career,
Speaker 1: and then you got Aaron Hernandez who got it early.
Speaker 1: So did this shooter have CTE. Will find out after
Speaker 1: they do the autopsy. I'm sure they're going to tell
Speaker 1: us on that. But it back to the police investigation
Speaker 1: part of this. Here's John Miller, former NYPD.
Speaker 4: Well, the motive seems to be centered around his idea
Speaker 4: that he suffers from CTE. When police searched the car,
Speaker 4: they found zoloff antidepressive medication zomatriptan, which is generally associated
Speaker 4: with migrain migraines in pain, and an amount of cannabis
Speaker 4: which could be recreational or could also be for pain
Speaker 4: relief or migraines. But his notes talked about CTE, particularly
Speaker 4: a documentary called It was a frontline documentary about CTE
Speaker 4: and his impressions that the NFL's denial of this for years,
Speaker 4: according to his interpretation, is something that caused his suffering
Speaker 4: to be worse. Going into that building. You know, you've
Speaker 4: seen the picture. He's walking across that entryway with that
Speaker 4: long gun and he walks into the lobby spots. The
Speaker 4: police officer opens fire on him at that point when
Speaker 4: he wounds the NFL employee, that's the only NFL employee
Speaker 4: that he actually wounds, injures, or shoots, and he does
Speaker 4: it while he's aiming at the police officer. You see
Speaker 4: them both go down at the same time, likely from
Speaker 4: the same one or two bullets, and then he ends
Speaker 4: up in the wrong elevator. It isn't clear, but authorities
Speaker 4: are looking at the theory that he was going to
Speaker 4: the headquarters of the NFL at three forty five Park Avenue,
Speaker 4: and that it was his belief that that was the
Speaker 4: NFL building and that whatever floor he got off at
Speaker 4: would be the NFL, which is what led him to
Speaker 4: running into the open elevator, pressing the first floor, which
Speaker 4: was thirty three, and ending up in Roodent Management, where
Speaker 4: he literally went into hunting behavior, stalking people and opening fire.
Speaker 4: He had a concealed weapons permit he was able to
Speaker 4: purchase the three point fifty seven magnum the cold python
Speaker 4: that was found loaded in the car in June, which
Speaker 4: is not that long ago, and a friend of his
Speaker 4: identified as Rick, supplied him with the main part of
Speaker 4: that AR fifteen rifle, and then he built the barrel
Speaker 4: and the stock and the rest from that part that
Speaker 4: came with the serial number. When they ran that and
Speaker 4: it came back to it was sold to Rick. Las Vegas,
Speaker 4: Metro questioned him NYPD atf the FBI are on their
Speaker 4: way if not there now to talk further about why
Speaker 4: did he give him the did he sell him that?
Speaker 4: But if you note in that suicide note he left behind,
Speaker 4: one of the last things he writes is tell Rick,
Speaker 4: I'm sorry about everything, So he may have had a
Speaker 4: clue that this was going to get his friend jammed up.
Speaker 1: By the way, now they have determined Rick is a
Speaker 1: fellow employee security guard at the Hosteshoe Casino in Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: And as far as the second suicide note that they
Speaker 1: found out his apartment in Las Vegas, apparently it was
Speaker 1: to his mother and father and he wrote to them
Speaker 1: and said, when I look into your eyes, I see
Speaker 1: disappointment and I'm sorry. So he was I don't know
Speaker 1: how much of this was he was blaming on CTE,
Speaker 1: But again we will find out. Back to John Miller.
Speaker 4: When he opened fire in the lobby, people began running
Speaker 4: through the Now they have the stanchions there and they
Speaker 4: have the glass things that slide together and then come
Speaker 4: apart once you hit the censor and it finds your autherise.
Speaker 4: People didn't take time to find their idea and touch that.
Speaker 4: They literally broke through the glass stanchions. So after that
Speaker 4: he just walked through the broken glass between them and
Speaker 4: went to the first elevator he could find. They're looking
Speaker 4: to trace that weapon and figure out how the long
Speaker 4: gun got into his hands, but they're also going to
Speaker 4: look at what were those encounters that brought him to
Speaker 4: the hospital twice? Were there were there the proper notifications
Speaker 4: in that he was issued a concealed weapons permit. He
Speaker 4: was still working as an armed security person for a
Speaker 4: casino he had been with Caesars. He had moved a
Speaker 4: horseshoe and it was Sunday when he didn't show up
Speaker 4: to work that they first encountered some kind of problem.
Speaker 4: And of course we now know the day before that
Speaker 4: he started driving across the country specifically to do this thing.
Speaker 1: Oh then there's this gentleman's his name is Jonathan Wackgrow.
Speaker 1: What he does is he's one of the top security
Speaker 1: consultants for corporations and corporations. It's like the United Healthcare
Speaker 1: executive They have security, but a lot of the executives
Speaker 1: really don't want much to do with it. They feel
Speaker 1: it's too much and it costs a lot of money.
Speaker 1: But this is a guy who makes a living and
Speaker 1: advising those corporations. He's of access that this individual had
Speaker 1: in bringing the armor light rifle into the building and
Speaker 1: then launching his attack right away. In the free flow
Speaker 1: that he had from the front of the building, all
Speaker 1: the way he'll pass multiple banks of elevators deep within
Speaker 1: the building to eventually stopping where he did. Now, we
Speaker 1: don't know why he stopped at that elevator bank that
Speaker 1: would eventually bring him up to the thirty third floor.
Speaker 1: Some believe that because of the access control measures that
Speaker 1: are in place, that was a point of vulnerability. There
Speaker 1: was somebody coming out that the gates open, the elevator
Speaker 1: door was there, and he sees that opportunity. But to me,
Speaker 1: just that level of access and agility he had to
Speaker 1: maneuver inside again is something that needs to be looked at.
Speaker 1: Now that we know this type of threpresents itself. I
Speaker 1: don't know if he had ease of access. I think
Speaker 1: it was his naivete. He did not know that the
Speaker 1: whole building wasn't the NFL. He thought it was the
Speaker 1: NFL building. There's all kinds of companies that are in
Speaker 1: that building. And the other part about it was there
Speaker 1: was a woman who had taken the elevator down to
Speaker 1: the lobby and when the when the door opened and
Speaker 1: she walked out, that all he knew was that was
Speaker 1: an open elevator. He didn't know that the bottom level
Speaker 1: Florida only went from thirty three to forty four. So
Speaker 1: he pushed the first button, which was Ford thirty three.
Speaker 1: That's how he got to Ford thirty three. It wasn't
Speaker 1: because of any genius on his part. And I again,
Speaker 1: I mean people. And the fact that she got off
Speaker 1: the elevator and he did didn't bother her at all,
Speaker 1: didn't she her, didn't scare her, She got off, he
Speaker 1: got on. He had no idea that that elevator only
Speaker 1: started at four thirty three. Well, listen, first of all,
Speaker 1: let's give credit where credit is due. Since nine to eleven,
Speaker 1: the corporate security program, specifically here in New York City
Speaker 1: is become the best in the world. These buildings are
Speaker 1: fortified to the nth degree, but it doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: they can't be improved, and they are designed based upon
Speaker 1: current threat environment. The thought that someone would be bringing
Speaker 1: in an armor light rifle into the lobby of a
Speaker 1: midtown Manhattan commercial building wasn't in the rubric of the threats.
Speaker 1: Workplace violins, handguns, that is a commonplace and there are
Speaker 1: protective measures there. So right now this is a seminal
Speaker 1: moment for corporate security programs here in Manhattan to go
Speaker 1: back and reassessed because the threat landscape has now changed.
Speaker 1: We know that this was a successful attack, and property
Speaker 1: owners need to now go back and make sure that
Speaker 1: their programs are a to this new threat environment. I
Speaker 1: don't think it applies to just high rise buildings in Manhattan.
Speaker 1: I remember years ago and I worked in San Francisco,
Speaker 1: there was a disgruntled client that went up many many
Speaker 1: forwards into one of the high rises in San Francisco
Speaker 1: and shot and killed a bunch of lawyers. So this
Speaker 1: is corporate security. It may seem like it's a waste
Speaker 1: of money and time, but it is to try to
Speaker 1: prevent some of these heinous crimes. Switching topics to the
Speaker 1: starvation in Gaza, and the whole business about was are
Speaker 1: the people really starving there? I think the answer is clear.
Speaker 1: President Trump has said it's clear. He thinks it's clear.
Speaker 1: Most people do think it's clear people are starving there.
Speaker 1: But Michael orm who was an ambassador from Israel, was
Speaker 1: on this morning talking about this, and I thought it
Speaker 1: would only be fair to play their view of the
Speaker 1: starvation in Gaza.
Speaker 5: Well, it's clearly a tragic situation, and it's one that's
Speaker 5: not new. The UN has been worrying about starvation in
Speaker 5: Gaza wolf since exactly October twelfth, four days after the
Speaker 5: October seventh, twenty twenty three attacks. So we hear again
Speaker 5: and again and again it got starving Gazans, but we
Speaker 5: actually don't know the degree which Gosins are really hungry.
Speaker 5: It's true the Israeli government, not just Israel government, these
Speaker 5: really army, has set again and again that there is
Speaker 5: enough food going in. Even they even count the caloric
Speaker 5: intake per capita of every Goazin, saying is enough. The
Speaker 5: problem is the distribution that the UN will not distribute
Speaker 5: the feud the food, and then if it is distributed,
Speaker 5: Ahamas will either capture the food, it will sell the food,
Speaker 5: it will give it to its own fighters, and it
Speaker 5: will kill those people who are trying.
Speaker 1: To distribute it.
Speaker 5: So it is a hellish, hellish situation. At the end
Speaker 5: of the day, I think that Israel to accept a
Speaker 5: large degree of responsibility and do whatever it can to
Speaker 5: relieve the situation. I'm not a spokesman for the government,
Speaker 5: but i will tell you since the very beginning of
Speaker 5: this war, I've strongly advocated for flooding Gaza, flooding it
Speaker 5: with humanitarian aid and medical assistance precisely to prevent this
Speaker 5: type of situation from emerging, because there has to be
Speaker 5: a solution. I think Israeli is actually doing much much
Speaker 5: more than it has been doing, and that they again
Speaker 5: the IDEF, the Israeli Army is saying that there is
Speaker 5: enough food going in, it's just not being distributed, and
Speaker 5: the distribution has to be greatly improved. And even these
Speaker 5: distribution centers that have been set up with an American
Speaker 5: company I have to be better organized and guarded, which
Speaker 5: is a major major problem.
Speaker 4: Just simply security.
Speaker 5: I've spoken to Israeli soldiers who have come out of Gaza,
Speaker 5: who have been around these distribution areas, and they say
Speaker 5: they can actually see Hamas terrorists going over and stabbing
Speaker 5: people who are online to get food, and then labor
Speaker 5: claiming that those same Palestinians were shot by Israeli soldiers.
Speaker 5: This is the type of situation we're dealing there. We've
Speaker 5: seen the Hamas. I put up a picture of a
Speaker 5: woman with a star so I supposedly starving baby, but
Speaker 5: it turns out that this child is suffering from some
Speaker 5: type of horrible genetic condition as well, so we don't know.
Speaker 5: I'm going to proceed on the assumption that there is
Speaker 5: a hunger situation or an acute hunger situation in certain
Speaker 5: areas of Gaza, not in all of Gaza, and that
Speaker 5: this has to be addressed to the greatest degree possible
Speaker 5: by Israel in cooperation, in cooperation, finally, and not adversity
Speaker 5: from the United Nations.
Speaker 1: So the reason I wanted to play that is because
Speaker 1: the media has been full of blaming Israel and the
Speaker 1: fact that the people of Gaza are starving and it's
Speaker 1: Israel's fault. In war, there is always propaganda and one
Speaker 1: of the things that Hamas has been a pro at
Speaker 1: was ever since October seventh, they had a PR firm
Speaker 1: that basically went out to try to get the media
Speaker 1: of the world to blame Israel, make them the villain,
Speaker 1: not the fact that Hamas rampaged into and killed over
Speaker 1: twelve hundred innocent people in their homes. They were able
Speaker 1: to turn it around to where people have been the
Speaker 1: public relations has been that Israel is mean and nasty
Speaker 1: and shame on them, and that the poor people of
Speaker 1: Gaza are the ones that are the victims. Hamas is
Speaker 1: the victim, whatever it might be. So you heard Michael
Speaker 1: Orm basically saying that Hamas is out there basically stopping
Speaker 1: the distribution of the food. What the truth is, I
Speaker 1: don't know. We'll find out maybe later when history books
Speaker 1: are written about that. But ask of now, I never
Speaker 1: heard anybody else try and defend Israel in this. Michael
Speaker 1: Orm obviously would and did. Just getting word out, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's a little harder to do with the podcasts that
Speaker 1: a live radio show, but just getting word that Kamala
Speaker 1: Harris has made it as and that she is not
Speaker 1: going to run for a California governor So this came
Speaker 1: after a long period of speculation about her political future,
Speaker 1: not running for a California governor, she in a statement said,
Speaker 1: for now, my leadership and public service will not be
Speaker 1: in elected office. I'm looking forward to getting back out
Speaker 1: and listening to the American people, helping elect Democrats across
Speaker 1: the nation who will fight fearlessly, and sharing more details
Speaker 1: than the months ahead about my own plans. So she
Speaker 1: hasn't ruled out running for president, but she said for
Speaker 1: now it will not be elected office. But she's going
Speaker 1: to go back out and listen to the American people.
Speaker 1: In other words, she's going to go on the campagntrail.
Speaker 1: So I guess you can take whatever you want from this.
Speaker 1: I take you that she's going to try and run
Speaker 1: for president again in twenty twenty eight. You want to
Speaker 1: talk about money and jobs, ADP, they came out. They
Speaker 1: come out with the private sector projection of what they
Speaker 1: think happened regarding a job market for the month of July.
Speaker 1: Sometimes they're close to what the government says, sometimes they're not.
Speaker 1: But they said that their numbers came in one hundred
Speaker 1: and four thousand private sector payrolls were added last month
Speaker 1: compared to sixty four thousand that were estimated, So ADP
Speaker 1: saying the job market in the private sector was pretty
Speaker 1: strong last month. This Friday we find out what the
Speaker 1: government says meantime in government reports today. Second quarter GDP
Speaker 1: gross domestic product, broadest measure of the economy. It went
Speaker 1: up three percent. It was three point zero percent of
Speaker 1: it expected to go up two point three This second
Speaker 1: quarter GDP growth of three percent compares to drop of
Speaker 1: a half a percent in the first quarter, but that's
Speaker 1: because in the second quarter there was a huge decrease
Speaker 1: in imports, which in this equation subtracts from the GDP calculation.
Speaker 1: So this is still very distorted numbers. By Liberation Day,
Speaker 1: a lot of people stocking up on things before the
Speaker 1: tariffs hit, other things where the tariffs are hitting. The
Speaker 1: Personal Consumption Expenditure Index, the one that FED likes very
Speaker 1: very much, this was up two point one percent. Basically,
Speaker 1: they're saying that GDP is a market basket of everything.
Speaker 1: Personal consumption expenditure index is basically what you and I buy,
Speaker 1: what most people buy, and that the prices on that
Speaker 1: were up two point one percent. The core rate when
Speaker 1: you take out food and energy up two and a
Speaker 1: half percent, so it's still running hotter than what the
Speaker 1: Fed would Likensumer spending was up by one point four percent.
Speaker 1: That however, was weaker than the previous reporting period, so
Speaker 1: people are still spending, but that's a very weak increase
Speaker 1: in consumer spending. And again, a lot of these numbers
Speaker 1: the timing between first quarter second quarter. All this the
Speaker 1: Liberation Day impact, and the tariffs were on and the
Speaker 1: tariffs were off. So it's still interesting. I'm reporting you
Speaker 1: the numbers to you, but I am not. I don't
Speaker 1: think you can make a lot of hay with these
Speaker 1: numbers because of everything being distorted. As far as the Fed,
Speaker 1: they met, they came out today and they announced no
Speaker 1: change in interest rates. So the President wanted them to
Speaker 1: drop interest rates. There is a Federal funds rate kind
Speaker 1: of predicts what's going to happen with the interest rates.
Speaker 1: Sixty eight percent chance that they will drop interest rates
Speaker 1: in September. That's a big increase from what the market
Speaker 1: place has been predicting in the past, so they'll probably
Speaker 1: drop in September, but right now, Nope, they came out,
Speaker 1: so the Fed funds rate is four and a quarter
Speaker 1: to four and a half percent. Jay Powell said growth
Speaker 1: moderated in the first half of this year, that there's
Speaker 1: still uncertainty according to the FED about the economic outlook,
Speaker 1: and it remains the uncertainty remains elevated. That the unemployment
Speaker 1: rate is low, the labor market is solid, but that
Speaker 1: inflation still remains somewhat elevated. An increased tariffs, according to
Speaker 1: the FED, are pushing up prices in some categories of goods.
Speaker 1: Possible inflation effects from tariffs is what they're worried about,
Speaker 1: and that is what they are sitting on their hands
Speaker 1: than not doing anything about interest rates for now. So
Speaker 1: the economies chugging along, seems to be doing fine, labor
Speaker 1: market seems good, but the FED is being very stubborn
Speaker 1: about lowering those interest rates. So I'm sure we will
Speaker 1: hear more about that from the president. Wall Street today. Well,
Speaker 1: it basically was flat until the market got the word
Speaker 1: from the Fed and then it dropped. So basically unchanged
Speaker 1: most of the day, but at the end of the
Speaker 1: Dow Jones industrials down one hundred and seventy one down
Speaker 1: now at forty four and four to sixty one s
Speaker 1: ANDP down eight NASDAK went up thirty one points. Price
Speaker 1: of gold was up a dollar. That's it. We'll take
Speaker 1: it at thirty three twenty five. And the price of oil, ohh,
Speaker 1: up a buck, a little more than a dollar. For
Speaker 1: the first time in many weeks, if not months. Oil
Speaker 1: price is back above seventy at seventy dollars and some change.
Speaker 1: So that's all we have for today. Thank you for
Speaker 1: coming by. We'll be back tomorrow. Hope to see you
Speaker 1: them