1 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:29,480 Speaker 1: Hi, how are you hello? Welcome to the Big Podcast 2 00:00:29,559 --> 00:00:34,079 on this Tuesday. Today is the twenty third day of June, 3 00:00:34,719 --> 00:00:38,320 Year of Our Lord, twenty twenty six. My name is 4 00:00:38,359 --> 00:00:43,799 Tom Sullivan, and well, we have some serious things to 5 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:46,759 talk about. We've also got some kind of wacky things 6 00:00:46,759 --> 00:00:49,159 to talk about. I don't know, you want to start 7 00:00:49,159 --> 00:00:51,320 with the you want to start with the wacky. I 8 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:55,560 thought it was kind of a lot of the news 9 00:00:55,799 --> 00:01:02,479 is leading with the reflecting pond. Yes, the one in Washington, 10 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:05,400 d C. Goes from the Lincoln Memorial to the Washington 11 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:09,280 Memorial kind of reflects both of those. And the president 12 00:01:09,359 --> 00:01:11,319 was going to go out and fix that because he's 13 00:01:11,359 --> 00:01:16,000 beautifying Washington, DC. And I don't have a problem with that. 14 00:01:16,239 --> 00:01:19,200 Make the fountains work and take the graffiti off of 15 00:01:19,239 --> 00:01:23,760 the monuments. That's good, good, good for him, Glad he's 16 00:01:23,799 --> 00:01:27,560 doing it. But the reflecting pond we talked to, I mean, 17 00:01:27,719 --> 00:01:32,799 so my humor about it is Fox. Everybody's everybody's talking 18 00:01:32,799 --> 00:01:35,599 about it. But Fox said, I can't believe all these 19 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:38,040 media outfits that are reflect that are talking about the 20 00:01:38,079 --> 00:01:42,719 reflecting pond. By them talking about the reflecting pond. They 21 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:47,159 also got into it about Oh my gosh, they're resting people, 22 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:51,040 and there's there's all well, they're misdemeanor tickets for some 23 00:01:51,159 --> 00:01:54,159 people that probably won't hold up in court. But the 24 00:01:54,239 --> 00:01:58,599 reflecting pond has turned green. And then the people the 25 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:02,799 contractor who put down I don't know what's that is, 26 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:07,840 but it's kind of they apparently kind of rubbery, supposed 27 00:02:07,879 --> 00:02:11,000 to be some paint. Uh, they put that on the 28 00:02:11,039 --> 00:02:14,360 bottom to make it blue, and then they poured a 29 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:20,520 whole bunch of hydrogen peroxide in, which apparently damages the 30 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:22,719 paint that they just put down onto the floor of 31 00:02:22,759 --> 00:02:29,319 the thing. And they're in DC, folks. D C in 32 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:33,719 the summertime is what it used to be before it 33 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:37,719 became our nation's capital. I don't know who it was 34 00:02:37,759 --> 00:02:39,960 who thought up the idea, why don't we put our 35 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:44,400 capital here? Because it's it was. It was a swamp. 36 00:02:44,439 --> 00:02:48,919 It's still a swamp, and in swampy climates you get 37 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:51,759 green stuff that grows. 38 00:02:52,719 --> 00:02:53,479 Speaker 2: So they're. 39 00:02:55,199 --> 00:02:57,759 Speaker 1: They're all having a big fuss about the reflecting pond. 40 00:02:57,919 --> 00:03:02,919 I I think it's I mean, it's kind of it's 41 00:03:03,039 --> 00:03:06,439 not important. So that's why I thought i'd start with it, 42 00:03:06,479 --> 00:03:10,719 because we've been talking about all these serious things about 43 00:03:10,879 --> 00:03:16,120 war and peace and death and destruction. So in any case, 44 00:03:16,319 --> 00:03:21,319 the reflecting pond, now they're panicking and they literally have 45 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:24,439 put up security camera. I thought Washington, d c. Was 46 00:03:24,479 --> 00:03:28,800 free of crime. Any case they've got they're really focusing 47 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:32,120 there on this reflecting pond because and so anyway, Fox 48 00:03:32,199 --> 00:03:34,560 was asked, well, why the media talking about this reflecting pond? 49 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:39,240 Because the president is talking about the reflecting pond. That's him. 50 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:45,680 He's into building things and fixing things. And I told 51 00:03:45,719 --> 00:03:48,479 you the story. One of the ways that Donald Trump 52 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:52,280 first became famous in New York City was Woman's ice 53 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:55,759 rink in Central Park and the City of New York 54 00:03:56,599 --> 00:03:58,719 was trying to fix it, and it went for two 55 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:02,120 or three years in dist repair, and they had bids 56 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:06,520 in them millions and millions of dollars to fix Woman's 57 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:11,719 Woman's ice rink still there, Donald Trump called up sod 58 00:04:11,719 --> 00:04:13,159 He Hall and said, I'll tell you what, I'll do 59 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:15,719 it for you no charge. And he went and did it. 60 00:04:15,719 --> 00:04:18,560 It cost him very little money and he had it 61 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:21,720 done in like a week. So he has a history 62 00:04:21,759 --> 00:04:29,680 of going in and fixing things. But New York City 63 00:04:29,759 --> 00:04:33,680 is not a swamp, DC is. That's why they leave 64 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:37,680 in the summertime. It's really bad. So anyway, the swamp 65 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:42,439 seems to be or the reflecting pond, same thing seems 66 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:49,319 to be the top story. I guess. I guess assignment desks, 67 00:04:49,480 --> 00:04:53,399 assignment editors are looking around and we've done enough on Iran, 68 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:58,639 haven't we? And besides that, Vice President Vance he and 69 00:04:58,920 --> 00:05:03,480 Jared Kushner and Steve Whitcoff they're out of there. They 70 00:05:03,519 --> 00:05:06,800 got out of there yesterday afternoon and are backed in 71 00:05:06,879 --> 00:05:09,480 the US. So what are we going to do. We're 72 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:12,759 going to cover the technical talks, because apparently that's what's 73 00:05:12,839 --> 00:05:15,800 left is a bunch of technical talk people on both 74 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:18,560 our side and Orn side. And they're back. They're still 75 00:05:18,879 --> 00:05:24,360 they're still in this resort. This Have you seen the 76 00:05:24,399 --> 00:05:31,240 resort where they're doing the negotiations. It's just outside Lucerne, Sweden, Switzerland, 77 00:05:31,959 --> 00:05:36,879 and it goes back well over one hundred and fifty 78 00:05:36,959 --> 00:05:41,839 years old. It's a beautiful, beautiful place on this hilltop 79 00:05:41,959 --> 00:05:48,519 overlooking Lake Lucerne. And I started thinking the other day 80 00:05:48,519 --> 00:05:52,199 about that too, and I thought, wait a minute, So 81 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:56,519 they left a bunch of technical talkers to talk about 82 00:05:56,560 --> 00:06:00,800 technical stuff in this really palatialist a state. And I'm 83 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:04,759 thinking they're not in any hurry because if they wrap up, 84 00:06:05,079 --> 00:06:09,079 wrap up business, then they have to leave the palatial resort. 85 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:14,560 And who picks these things? Why why don't they have 86 00:06:14,879 --> 00:06:20,920 They have perfectly good meeting rooms in government buildings all 87 00:06:20,959 --> 00:06:24,240 over the world. Why didn't they go to some government 88 00:06:24,279 --> 00:06:29,360 building and have you know, the fold up tables and 89 00:06:29,399 --> 00:06:32,839 the fold up chairs and you sit down. It's not elegant, 90 00:06:32,879 --> 00:06:35,680 it's not lush. Maybe they would hurry up in their anyway, 91 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:41,199 somebody's spending a lot of money and having a wonderful time. 92 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:45,160 I would like to go to this resort in Lucerne, 93 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:49,959 Switzerland for a week or two and have have it 94 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:54,800 paid for by the government. Does seem excessive, doesn't it. 95 00:06:55,959 --> 00:07:00,959 So anyway, we got that, we're waiting for the Supreme Court. 96 00:07:01,079 --> 00:07:06,600 They have everybody's expected. Their term is up in two 97 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:12,040 days on Thursday. They've still got twelve big opinions that 98 00:07:12,079 --> 00:07:13,920 they need to release, and I don't know why they're 99 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:16,000 not doing that, but they're not. So they're going to 100 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:21,079 go over time, obviously. But today, let's talk about a 101 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:25,160 little bit about today, because today there are primaries, and 102 00:07:25,759 --> 00:07:33,839 the primaries today are in four states. You've got New York, Maryland, Utah, 103 00:07:34,079 --> 00:07:39,800 and the runoff primary in South Carolina. But a lot 104 00:07:39,839 --> 00:07:43,600 of focus because the media is here in New York, 105 00:07:44,079 --> 00:07:49,040 so we focus on New York. But I mean New York. 106 00:07:49,839 --> 00:07:53,920 I know it's a wacky place. The whole state isn't. 107 00:07:53,959 --> 00:07:56,639 It's just New York City's a wacky place. But they've 108 00:07:56,680 --> 00:08:05,639 got they have mayor Ma'm Donnie is pushing to see 109 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:10,600 if he has any political power. And you listen to 110 00:08:10,639 --> 00:08:12,600 some of the surveys and you look at some of 111 00:08:12,639 --> 00:08:16,639 the polls, and there are more and more people that 112 00:08:16,759 --> 00:08:23,560 are saying that they don't trust big tech more than 113 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:26,240 they don't trust government. It used to be government was 114 00:08:26,279 --> 00:08:30,879 always the boogeyman, but now corporations have always been a boogeyman, 115 00:08:30,959 --> 00:08:33,679 but it's now government isn't the big bad the big 116 00:08:33,679 --> 00:08:39,600 bad wolf. So I don't know what they're what they're doing. 117 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:44,399 But the Democrats that are the socialist Democrats are really 118 00:08:44,840 --> 00:08:50,320 trying to take over the Democrat Party. Now parties change, 119 00:08:50,559 --> 00:08:55,080 I mean, MAGA took over the Republican Party. For the 120 00:08:55,120 --> 00:08:58,120 old school Republicans, they're kind of homeless, they don't have 121 00:08:58,279 --> 00:09:03,200 they don't have a home. And now it's the Democrats turn. 122 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:09,399 They have these Democrats socialists and that's proudly the label 123 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:14,960 that Bernie Sanders goes by. And then Mayor man Donnie 124 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:17,840 comes along. They're calling them now locally they call him 125 00:09:17,879 --> 00:09:23,399 Mayor z Yeah, I know. Anyway, he wants to try 126 00:09:23,519 --> 00:09:29,000 and move the Democrat Party into a socialist party. And 127 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:32,720 Melissa de Rosa, who was the chief of staff for 128 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:38,039 Governor Andrew Cuomo before he got booted out, weighs in 129 00:09:38,159 --> 00:09:42,159 on what is going on with the Democrats in New York. 130 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:45,639 Speaker 3: Well, first of all, they're not Democrats, right, they're socialists 131 00:09:45,679 --> 00:09:49,080 and they're essentially parasites. They've decided that they cannot win 132 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:51,200 on their own by creating their own parties. So they 133 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:54,320 are going to latch onto the Democratic Party, feed off 134 00:09:54,320 --> 00:09:57,000 of it with the overall goal of taking it over 135 00:09:57,080 --> 00:09:59,720 and killing it. And so that's what the DSA is doing. 136 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:02,960 Started this back in twenty sixteen with Bernie versus Hillary 137 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:06,039 AOC then gets elected in twenty eighteen, you see the introdution, 138 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:09,879 introduction of the squad, and you what's been happening since then, 139 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:12,679 and so this year. They really do feel like it's 140 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:15,600 their big opportunity. They are going for broke and you 141 00:10:15,679 --> 00:10:18,840 don't see them trying to win purple seats or red seats. 142 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:22,039 You see them trying to pick off Democrats in safe 143 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:24,799 blue seats. One of the candidates that you just had 144 00:10:24,879 --> 00:10:27,840 up on the screen is actually going against the chair 145 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:32,240 of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Audriano Westbatt one hundred percent 146 00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:34,919 voting record with the Democratic Party. But he is not 147 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:37,799 a socialist, He's not an anti Semite. He believes in 148 00:10:37,840 --> 00:10:42,480 public safety, he believes in opportunity and in innovation, in capitalism, 149 00:10:42,519 --> 00:10:44,720 and for that they are trying to off him. And 150 00:10:44,759 --> 00:10:47,799 so yes, it's terrible thing for the Democratic Party. And 151 00:10:47,879 --> 00:10:51,080 if they are successful in taking over, then I think 152 00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:52,799 it's going to set the party back decades. 153 00:10:53,480 --> 00:10:56,440 Speaker 1: Welcome to what Republicans have had to deal with. For 154 00:10:56,519 --> 00:10:59,679 those of us in my little world of kind of 155 00:11:00,039 --> 00:11:03,200 establishment Republicans I used to be, I'm not. I'm an independent. 156 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:05,639 Have been an independent for many, many years now because 157 00:11:05,679 --> 00:11:08,519 the Republican Party went too far to the right and 158 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:12,279 the Democrats are going too far to the left. And now, 159 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:14,919 I mean, you've had the squad, as she mentioned, but 160 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:19,960 it's now getting to go way beyond that. So today's 161 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:24,000 primary in New York is going to be interesting to watch. 162 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:30,399 Roger Zakim, who's with the Reagan Foundation, has this observation. 163 00:11:30,559 --> 00:11:32,679 Speaker 4: He doesn't want to be the leader of the socialist block. 164 00:11:32,759 --> 00:11:35,000 He wants to be the leader of the Democratic Party 165 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:38,799 and make it a socialist party. And that is exactly 166 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:43,039 what they are doing. Bernie aoc Zooran Mamdani are leading 167 00:11:43,080 --> 00:11:46,240 the charge. They are moving this party further to the left. 168 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:48,320 They are winning congressional primaries. 169 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:51,440 Speaker 5: As our friend Matt Continetti calls it, this is the 170 00:11:51,480 --> 00:11:53,480 age of Bernie Sanders. He may have not won the 171 00:11:53,480 --> 00:11:57,799 Democratic nomination, but when sixty six percent of Democrats have 172 00:11:57,840 --> 00:12:02,320 a positive view of socialism, we are in Bernie territory. 173 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:05,039 And with the Mayor of New York double downing on 174 00:12:05,159 --> 00:12:11,120 his critique of Apak by calling them monsters who traffic 175 00:12:11,159 --> 00:12:14,399 and dark money, I mean, we're in a city with 176 00:12:14,480 --> 00:12:17,919 one point four or five million Jews. I mean, this 177 00:12:18,039 --> 00:12:23,000 is not just anti israel behavior. This is blatant anti Semitism, 178 00:12:23,360 --> 00:12:26,799 and he is trying to export it across the city. 179 00:12:26,919 --> 00:12:28,519 It needs to be sold it needs to be counted. 180 00:12:28,679 --> 00:12:32,639 I hope the candidates are defeated. But it's a new 181 00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:35,200 day for the Democrat Party and it's looking red. 182 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:38,240 Speaker 1: That is so, I mean, I know there's like I said, 183 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:42,919 there's also primaries going on in other locations Maryland, Utah, 184 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:48,000 South Carolina. But this movement of the Democrat Party over 185 00:12:48,120 --> 00:12:52,360 to the far left to socialism and more and more Democrats, 186 00:12:52,440 --> 00:12:57,639 a majority of them. He quoted some static some statistic 187 00:12:57,799 --> 00:13:03,840 of sixty six percent of Democrats. I think socialism is favorable. Well, 188 00:13:04,679 --> 00:13:07,679 there's a lot of young people especially that have come 189 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:10,320 out of school and they've tried to work, get out 190 00:13:10,320 --> 00:13:14,399 there into the workplace. They cannot afford a home, they 191 00:13:14,480 --> 00:13:19,919 can't afford barely groceries. Affordability is a problem, and so 192 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:23,679 they're looking around. They're young people, and they're going, what's 193 00:13:23,679 --> 00:13:28,799 this what's so great about this capitalism thing? If we're 194 00:13:28,840 --> 00:13:32,679 living in capitalism, why am I not able to buy groceries? 195 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:36,159 Why am I not able to buy a home? And 196 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:39,559 I see no future where I can. So they're very hopeless, 197 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:43,120 and that's where a lot of this is coming along from. 198 00:13:43,159 --> 00:13:48,399 So it's a perfect opportunity for socialists to take over 199 00:13:48,519 --> 00:13:53,039 this country. Look at they haven't. They haven't stopped crying. 200 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:58,000 They've been just because the Berlin Wall came down, socialism 201 00:13:59,639 --> 00:14:03,000 the feet of the Soviet Union. They didn't all go 202 00:14:03,159 --> 00:14:06,159 home and say, Okay, I guess we were wrong. Those 203 00:14:06,279 --> 00:14:09,919 communists and socialists are just trying harder now than ever, 204 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:13,919 and they have an opportunity in this country after almost 205 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:18,080 two hundred and fifty years. They're going, this is our time. 206 00:14:18,440 --> 00:14:24,279 So watch the election returns tonight. That's going to be 207 00:14:24,320 --> 00:14:27,720 a hint and then really in November, but a lot 208 00:14:27,840 --> 00:14:29,960 in New York. If you're a Democrat and you win, 209 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:34,120 it's like California or Illinois, you know you'll win in November. 210 00:14:35,919 --> 00:14:42,639 Frank Lunz, the big Polster, he says the same, not 211 00:14:42,799 --> 00:14:45,120 the same thing. He's looking at it and going the 212 00:14:45,159 --> 00:14:49,320 Democrats especially, you want to take over the Senate. Democrats 213 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:52,240 where people thought there was no way they may get 214 00:14:52,279 --> 00:14:56,679 the House, but the Senate, Frank Luntz says, they have 215 00:14:56,720 --> 00:14:57,600 an opportunity. 216 00:14:57,919 --> 00:15:03,200 Speaker 6: The most impactful leader that I've seen in decades. When 217 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:06,320 he made an endorsement in the Texas Senate race, it 218 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:11,000 changed the outcome, and he made endorsements in Louisiana when 219 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:14,600 he's done so in congression races in places like Kentucky 220 00:15:14,799 --> 00:15:18,159 and California. It really does matter, So it doesn't have 221 00:15:18,200 --> 00:15:21,679 to be there. He is more seen, more heard, and 222 00:15:21,759 --> 00:15:24,720 more listened to than anyone in American politics. 223 00:15:25,039 --> 00:15:28,559 Speaker 1: Okay, so Frank says that President Trump has most listened to, 224 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:33,600 most influential person when it comes to helping somebody win 225 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:39,519 an election. But what is it that Democrats? Where do 226 00:15:39,559 --> 00:15:40,519 they need to focus on? 227 00:15:40,519 --> 00:15:46,799 Speaker 6: Affordability? Affordability? Affordability, affordability, it's all that matters in the end. 228 00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:50,320 People aren't concerned about their jobs. They feel relatively secure, 229 00:15:50,360 --> 00:15:54,200 they're not concerned about their retirements. Right now, it's can 230 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:56,720 they afford gas, which you've seen prices have gone down. 231 00:15:56,960 --> 00:16:00,559 Can they afford food? Can they afford healthcare? And housing? 232 00:16:01,279 --> 00:16:03,279 Speaker 1: Again, these are the issues that a lot of young 233 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:07,080 people are going So tell me again about how capitalism 234 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:10,440 is such a great plan because of all these things 235 00:16:10,519 --> 00:16:15,200 that I can't afford. And that includes the farmers in 236 00:16:15,240 --> 00:16:18,039 this country who are definitely hurting. 237 00:16:18,360 --> 00:16:21,039 Speaker 6: Essential for him because that's who Republicans are up for 238 00:16:21,039 --> 00:16:24,440 re election, and if he loses the farm constituency, he 239 00:16:24,519 --> 00:16:27,879 loses the votes and the people who matter most, his 240 00:16:28,039 --> 00:16:30,720 efforts to keep both the House and the Senate. 241 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:33,679 Speaker 1: The problem is the people that want to go into politics, 242 00:16:33,679 --> 00:16:38,639 the people that are in politics. I've said this before. 243 00:16:38,720 --> 00:16:40,480 It's been a while since I used to use this 244 00:16:40,559 --> 00:16:44,080 a lot. They're the C minus students. They're not the 245 00:16:44,159 --> 00:16:48,120 brightest and the best. That was the concept was that 246 00:16:48,159 --> 00:16:51,039 we would send our brightest and best to Washington to 247 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:54,039 decide on all the big decisions that have to be made. 248 00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:58,039 But instead you've got some C minus students and I'm 249 00:16:58,080 --> 00:17:03,159 being very favorable using C So they're not the smartest. 250 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:06,759 So they're all of them. Democrats and Republicans are not 251 00:17:07,279 --> 00:17:11,240 meeting the needs, want and desires of the people in 252 00:17:11,279 --> 00:17:11,920 this country. 253 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:17,559 Speaker 6: Some people talk about oversight, other people talk about accountability. 254 00:17:18,359 --> 00:17:22,000 I consider it much more of a proctology exam that 255 00:17:22,039 --> 00:17:23,000 they will look at. 256 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:24,240 Speaker 2: A Congress would be doing, Oh. 257 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:28,319 Speaker 6: My god, it would the president would be more. It 258 00:17:28,319 --> 00:17:31,599 would be very difficult for him because impeachment would start 259 00:17:31,680 --> 00:17:34,200 in day one, day two, day three, day ten, day 260 00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:37,240 one hundred and nothing would get done. And I don't 261 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:39,440 think that's good for the country that in the end, 262 00:17:39,480 --> 00:17:42,240 at some point, at some point you have to put 263 00:17:42,279 --> 00:17:46,200 aside politics to do policy. And if you have a 264 00:17:46,240 --> 00:17:49,519 Democratic House and Democratic Senate with a Republican White House, 265 00:17:49,960 --> 00:17:52,200 with the leadership that they have right now, I don't 266 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:53,440 see anything getting done. 267 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:57,599 Speaker 1: Well, let's talk about that, because a lot of you 268 00:17:57,680 --> 00:18:02,640 that are cheering, going good, good, checkmate, nothing gets done. 269 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:07,160 The Republicans blocked the Democrats and vice versa. And he 270 00:18:07,279 --> 00:18:10,440 also mentioned can we can we be real about this? 271 00:18:11,319 --> 00:18:14,279 Quitt Democrats, I see a lot of you that are going, well, 272 00:18:14,319 --> 00:18:16,160 I'll tell you what we get the house back, I'll 273 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:17,640 tell you what we're going to do. First, We're going 274 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:19,640 to impeach Donald Trump. That's what we're going to do. 275 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:25,240 You've done it twice, and you've failed twice. And the 276 00:18:25,279 --> 00:18:29,519 people that wrote the rules about impeachment were brighter than 277 00:18:29,559 --> 00:18:32,880 the average person. And what they said, I have to 278 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:36,640 remind you is you need fifty point one percent of 279 00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:41,000 the House to start the impeachment process. The trial is 280 00:18:41,039 --> 00:18:45,599 held in the Senate, and you need two thirds. Two 281 00:18:45,759 --> 00:18:49,359 thirds of the Senators have to vote to convict. That 282 00:18:49,559 --> 00:18:53,599 is why, going back to Andrew Johnson, there has never 283 00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:58,640 been a conviction of a president under any impeachment trial 284 00:18:58,799 --> 00:19:03,319 ever and I doubt there ever will be, so waste 285 00:19:03,319 --> 00:19:08,160 your time on an impeachment because it's not going to 286 00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:10,279 go when you where and Donald Trump will still be president. 287 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:14,359 So the House may very well wind up being controlled 288 00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:22,880 by the Democrats. And Hakeem Jeffries is behind two members 289 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:25,119 of the House that are running for reelection here in 290 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:29,720 New York, and they're not the ones that Mam Donnie's behind, 291 00:19:29,799 --> 00:19:32,440 So Mam Donnie has got a different list of people 292 00:19:32,480 --> 00:19:36,960 he's supporting than Hakim Jeffries. So once again a big 293 00:19:37,799 --> 00:19:42,599 division within the Democrat Party. But in the Senate, that's 294 00:19:42,599 --> 00:19:45,359 still up in the air. It's still up for grabs. 295 00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:50,759 And back to Frank Lunson, does he have any opinion 296 00:19:50,799 --> 00:19:52,359 about who's going to control the Senate. 297 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:56,279 Speaker 6: There are specific Senate races, and the three that I'm 298 00:19:56,319 --> 00:19:58,559 watching the most are main because you've got a monitor 299 00:19:58,559 --> 00:20:03,400 Republican against very progressive Democrat Iowa, which would not have 300 00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:05,839 been up in play if Jony Earns said run free election. 301 00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:10,079 And now it is up for grabs in Ohio where 302 00:20:10,119 --> 00:20:13,599 the Republican incumbent was not elected initially and we have 303 00:20:13,640 --> 00:20:16,960 a former Democratic senator running. Those three states are the 304 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:19,200 states I'm going to be watching over the next one 305 00:20:19,279 --> 00:20:21,519 hundred and fifty days to see which way the winds 306 00:20:21,559 --> 00:20:21,960 are blowing. 307 00:20:22,039 --> 00:20:26,200 Speaker 1: Right, So there's a guidepost for you on all things 308 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:31,440 regarding elections. Andrew Decizadero, who was with Bunch Bowl News, 309 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:32,720 he weighs in. 310 00:20:32,839 --> 00:20:36,240 Speaker 7: Well, they're absolutely concerned, right haw Keen Jeffries of course 311 00:20:36,319 --> 00:20:39,079 from the same state. He could be the next House 312 00:20:39,119 --> 00:20:41,920 Speaker and his job is to protect his incumbents. And 313 00:20:42,039 --> 00:20:44,839 in this case, you have both Dan Goldman, as you mentioned, 314 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:49,799 and Adriana a Spayat being challenged by progressives from the left, 315 00:20:50,119 --> 00:20:52,240 and both of them are endorsed by of course, New 316 00:20:52,319 --> 00:20:54,640 York City mayors. Don't run Mondanie. This will be a 317 00:20:54,680 --> 00:20:58,480 major test of Mayor Mom Donnie's political power, not just 318 00:20:58,519 --> 00:21:01,000 within the state of New York in your city specifically, 319 00:21:01,359 --> 00:21:04,799 but more broadly because these are obviously federal races. 320 00:21:05,319 --> 00:21:09,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, in the local polls are Dan Goldman, who I 321 00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:13,480 think is a very pompous ass, but that's my opinion. 322 00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:18,039 He going up against Brad Lander, and Brad Lander is 323 00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:21,160 a is a gadfight who always is running for some 324 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:25,519 political office in New York City. Well, guess what Goldman 325 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:29,759 in the polls, Goldman's only attracting about eight percent support, 326 00:21:30,319 --> 00:21:36,279 So Ladner may finally win an election. We'll see. Let's 327 00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:41,200 you want to touch base on Irana. What's going on? 328 00:21:42,279 --> 00:21:48,279 Britt Hume, the Dean of Washington analyst, weighs in on 329 00:21:48,799 --> 00:21:53,839 the fact that there are the ground rules that have 330 00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:58,240 been set up by our president, which is which prevented 331 00:21:58,319 --> 00:22:01,599 us from basically going in and winning militarily. 332 00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:04,400 Speaker 2: Here's bread well, I think, judged against the standard that 333 00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:07,599 the President set basically when early going, when he spoke 334 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:11,039 of unconditional surrender, this is not a particularly good deal 335 00:22:11,079 --> 00:22:13,480 for the United States. On the other hand, it's worth 336 00:22:13,519 --> 00:22:17,400 remembering and not setting aside. I think the extraordinary amount 337 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:20,039 of damage and has been done to Iran militarily, you know, 338 00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:22,079 the loss of their navy, their air force, much of 339 00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:26,160 their missile capacity, their WAYDAR systems, and so on have 340 00:22:26,279 --> 00:22:29,519 left Iran a much less important power in the world 341 00:22:29,599 --> 00:22:31,920 than it was before all this. It's still as evil 342 00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:35,440 and determined as ever, perhaps, but I think greatly weakened. 343 00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:37,519 I think that's important to keep that in mind as 344 00:22:37,519 --> 00:22:40,279 a backdrop for this. It may also be worth talking 345 00:22:40,279 --> 00:22:45,880 about the unwritten but I think very real rules of 346 00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:49,480 engagement under which this conflict was fought, which is basically 347 00:22:49,519 --> 00:22:52,880 that the United States could not have any ground troops 348 00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:55,519 because the president and I guess the country as a whole, 349 00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:58,079 don't want any casualties. Hard to fight a war with 350 00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:01,559 no casualties. We had very few, though, and on top 351 00:23:01,599 --> 00:23:04,680 of that, of course, you know, no ground troops, no casualties. 352 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:08,160 And then there was an extraordinarily broad effort I think 353 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:10,880 in this conflict, with all the destruction we did, to 354 00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:13,799 try to hold a civilian population of it around harmless. 355 00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:16,319 That's a very unusual way to fight a war. Obviously, 356 00:23:16,319 --> 00:23:18,240 we're trying to keep those people on our side. We're 357 00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:21,039 not trying to hurt them all. That is true. Nonetheless, 358 00:23:21,079 --> 00:23:24,039 it does reduce the options that you have militarily if 359 00:23:24,079 --> 00:23:26,920 you're trying to protect the civilian population. So those things 360 00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:29,480 all feed into a situation which may have induced the 361 00:23:29,519 --> 00:23:31,279 administration to go ahead and make this deal. 362 00:23:32,319 --> 00:23:34,920 Speaker 1: Well, finally I found somebody that thinks like I do. 363 00:23:35,039 --> 00:23:38,960 I wanted them to go in and basically take over 364 00:23:39,039 --> 00:23:41,480 the regime, arrest them, kill them whatever they got to do. 365 00:23:41,559 --> 00:23:45,039 That's what you do in war. But the president doesn't 366 00:23:45,039 --> 00:23:47,000 want to use any ground troops, and you can't use 367 00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:50,599 because he doesn't want any casualties, and you can't have 368 00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:54,960 ground troops and no casualties. Those don't fit into the 369 00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:57,599 same paragraph. And the same with not hurting the population. 370 00:23:57,880 --> 00:24:02,720 So I've found a kindred somebody who agrees with me. 371 00:24:02,799 --> 00:24:07,559 I'm glad to hear it. General Keen again going this 372 00:24:07,799 --> 00:24:12,519 is great. Everybody's doing hooplaws about the fact that Iran 373 00:24:12,599 --> 00:24:17,680 has agreed to allow inspectors. Let me just play General 374 00:24:17,799 --> 00:24:21,599 Keen one more time. He's not impressed. 375 00:24:21,839 --> 00:24:25,640 Speaker 8: He's been conducting inspections in Iran's for decades, dealing with 376 00:24:25,759 --> 00:24:28,839 nuclear things. They're told where to go, They're told what 377 00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:30,720 time to come and how much time they're going to 378 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:33,319 spend there, and other places where they need to go 379 00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:35,680 and should go. They're not permitted to go. They have 380 00:24:35,799 --> 00:24:39,079 been manipulated by Iran for years. I'm not saying they 381 00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:43,200 shouldn't come, but we need to have us inspectors qualified 382 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:43,640 to do this. 383 00:24:44,519 --> 00:24:51,039 Speaker 1: Yes, he's talking about the IAEA and they're worthless. Senator 384 00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:56,319 Tim Sheehy, who was a Navy seal, weighed in this way. 385 00:24:56,640 --> 00:24:59,000 Speaker 9: We need to because the General's absolutely right. I mean, 386 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:01,839 these inspectors can't be coming from countries who have openly 387 00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:05,119 supported Hamas and openly supported the Iranian calls. Let's not 388 00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:08,440 forget the IEA is largely a European populator organization, the 389 00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:11,720 European the Europeans have not exactly been our friends in 390 00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:13,519 this latest phase of the conflict. In fact, in many 391 00:25:13,519 --> 00:25:17,000 cases they have declared Israeli war criminal. So politically they're 392 00:25:17,079 --> 00:25:19,680 not really aligned with ensuring Iran doesn't get a nuclear weapon. 393 00:25:19,799 --> 00:25:22,759 So the IEA, whatever that inspector framework looks like it 394 00:25:22,759 --> 00:25:25,039 needs to be American inspectors, and we need to have 395 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:27,720 free reign to inspect anything in the country we want. 396 00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:31,039 As he pointed out, it's like the Chinese Wuhan Institute inspectors. 397 00:25:31,039 --> 00:25:33,000 When we sent people there, the Chinese kept them in 398 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:34,359 the single van, told them. 399 00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:35,799 Speaker 2: What they could look at and what they could see. 400 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:39,400 Speaker 9: That's not an inspection that that's a kid's play on stage. 401 00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:42,000 We need to make sure that actual controls are in place. 402 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:46,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, So he's not in favor of the everybody's excited 403 00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:49,440 about the Iran is willing to have these inspectors as 404 00:25:49,519 --> 00:25:54,559 they know they can control them. Bill Poulti is now 405 00:25:54,599 --> 00:26:00,680 the acting Director of National Intelligence. He's a political headman. 406 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:05,519 That's what his job is. He's has no experience whatsoever 407 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:11,400 in national intelligence. He doesn't have any classified, any security clearances. 408 00:26:12,079 --> 00:26:15,400 But he's going to work. He's starting to fire. We 409 00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:18,359 don't know how many, but apparently that is what he's doing, 410 00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:21,119 is announcing all the people that he's going to be firing. Now, 411 00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:24,720 the question, obviously is if you don't know anything about 412 00:26:24,759 --> 00:26:28,799 the agency, how do you know who is fat and 413 00:26:28,839 --> 00:26:34,880 who is muscle? And that apparently we'll see if he 414 00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:37,000 does a good job on this or not. So I've 415 00:26:37,039 --> 00:26:42,279 been very critical. I've been I think it's this is 416 00:26:42,319 --> 00:26:45,880 why people don't like politicians, and it seems like nobody 417 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:49,839 likes Bill Pulty. But the more I look into this, 418 00:26:50,759 --> 00:26:55,720 the more I see where this is bipartisan. But the 419 00:26:55,759 --> 00:26:58,200 Republicans are not going to tell you that right now. 420 00:26:58,519 --> 00:27:01,519 They're going to complain. I'm sorry, the Democrats are going 421 00:27:01,559 --> 00:27:05,599 to complain. But the Democrats and Republicans have both been 422 00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:09,359 saying that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, 423 00:27:09,799 --> 00:27:15,079 which was created right after nine to eleven by George W. Bush, 424 00:27:15,279 --> 00:27:20,920 that it has grown exponentially into a big bloated bureaucracy, 425 00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:24,720 and nobody seems to be too upset about the fact 426 00:27:24,759 --> 00:27:29,759 that Polti's in there clearing things up. Here's Andrew Desisiderio well. 427 00:27:29,799 --> 00:27:33,519 Speaker 7: As Kevin mentioned, this idea of shrinking or downsizing OD 428 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:37,039 and I has long been a bipartisan sort of goal 429 00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:40,279 over the years. The Senate Intelligence Committee has debated it 430 00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:43,880 very extensively behind closed doors. However, there hasn't been a 431 00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:46,680 bipartisan agreement to actually get that done and get that 432 00:27:46,799 --> 00:27:52,079 enacted into law. Now, what Republicans are Republican leaders at 433 00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:54,920 least want from the President, is for him to stop 434 00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:58,759 blocking his permanent nominee J. Clayton, of course, from appearing 435 00:27:58,799 --> 00:28:02,119 for his confirmation here, which you'll recall last week, the 436 00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:05,640 President abruptly in the middle of the night caught every 437 00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:09,119 Senate Republican leader off guard, blindsided them by ordering j. 438 00:28:09,279 --> 00:28:12,319 Clayton not to appear for his own confirmation hearing, and 439 00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:15,839 as a result, FIZA section seven oh two that warrantless 440 00:28:15,839 --> 00:28:19,480 surveillance authority is still in limbo, has been dark since 441 00:28:19,799 --> 00:28:23,799 the night of June twelfth, and frankly, if this stalemate 442 00:28:23,839 --> 00:28:26,960 continues past this week, it looks like seven oh two 443 00:28:27,039 --> 00:28:29,480 will be dark well into July. 444 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:35,799 Speaker 1: So on one hand, Congress cannot, Washington cannot, They cannot 445 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:40,640 cut anything. All they talk about is more spending. And 446 00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:45,039 so the president doge was his idea. This is kind 447 00:28:45,079 --> 00:28:48,720 of a mini Doge. It's directed at the Office of 448 00:28:48,759 --> 00:28:53,720 the Director of National Intelligence. It would be very helpful 449 00:28:53,839 --> 00:28:56,519 if Bill Poulty knew what he was doing, so he 450 00:28:56,559 --> 00:29:01,319 doesn't cut muscle, but that that's what this is. And 451 00:29:01,359 --> 00:29:06,799 the President is basically doing a mini Doge on our 452 00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:11,079 National Intelligence Director's office. So we'll see how this turns out, 453 00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:15,960 but it is by partisan. Nobody is too upset about 454 00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:21,519 the fact that Poulti is in there making the agency smaller. 455 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:27,000 And speaking of government, agencies are not an agency the 456 00:29:27,039 --> 00:29:32,759 Supreme Court. We keep waiting for Shannon Bream. She goes 457 00:29:32,799 --> 00:29:35,480 out there every day, is pouring down rain and Washington. 458 00:29:35,519 --> 00:29:37,319 This morning she had to go out there in the rain. 459 00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:43,960 And because they've got twelve opinions, big ones, big controversial 460 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:47,400 ones that they still have to release, and they did 461 00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:52,240 not do that today, and their term expires on Thursday, 462 00:29:52,319 --> 00:29:54,720 so you know they're going to go over time. But 463 00:29:54,799 --> 00:29:58,680 we're still reporting and waiting. 464 00:29:58,599 --> 00:30:00,720 Speaker 10: I feel like a broken record. I'm doing this again, 465 00:30:00,759 --> 00:30:03,240 another release day out here in the pouring rain of 466 00:30:03,279 --> 00:30:06,240 the Supreme Court. We got five opinions. None of them 467 00:30:06,279 --> 00:30:08,440 were on our watch list. So we're coming down to 468 00:30:08,519 --> 00:30:11,359 the wire. The term is supposed to end Thursday. That's 469 00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:14,559 unlikely given that there are still twelve outstanding opinions. We 470 00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:18,480 care about birthright citizenship. There are transasthlete cases out of 471 00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:21,319 West Virginia and Idaho where they've banned biologically born males 472 00:30:21,319 --> 00:30:23,720 from being in female sports. There's a case about how 473 00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:26,880 many days past election day you can count mail in ballots. 474 00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:30,160 There are other things stretching and looking at just how 475 00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:33,160 far the president's executive power goes with things like dismissing 476 00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:36,440 a Fedboard governor. So there are a lot of biggies 477 00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:38,559 we know for sure. We're going to do this again Thursday, 478 00:30:38,559 --> 00:30:41,559 maybe some other days this week. But again five today 479 00:30:41,559 --> 00:30:44,240 that weren't on our list, twelve lifts. Overall, all the 480 00:30:44,279 --> 00:30:46,480 hard ones come down to the end. That's whyther the 481 00:30:46,519 --> 00:30:48,680 difficult ones turning back and forth with the writing and 482 00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:50,559 the descent and all of that behind the scenes. So 483 00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:52,519 we'll see what we get Thursday. If they don't add 484 00:30:52,519 --> 00:30:53,079 tomorrow as. 485 00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:56,599 Speaker 1: Well, so maybe we'll get some tomorrow, probably Thursday, but 486 00:30:56,680 --> 00:31:00,319 this I think is going to go into July. Did 487 00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:03,200 Wall Street boy? Wall Street is really in a bad 488 00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:08,640 mood about tech stocks. They ran up very very fast, 489 00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:13,720 and when that happens usually there's a pullback. So today 490 00:31:13,839 --> 00:31:19,279 it was a pullback primarily in the tech stocks. Everybody 491 00:31:19,359 --> 00:31:22,319 was down. The Dow was down forty five to fifty 492 00:31:22,359 --> 00:31:26,880 one thousand and six, sixty six, SMP down one hundred 493 00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:33,400 and seven, NAZDAC down five hundred and seventy nine. Bryce 494 00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:36,240 and goldfell seventy four dollars down to four thy one 495 00:31:36,359 --> 00:31:42,680 twenty eight, and even oil down sixty cents or so. 496 00:31:42,759 --> 00:31:45,279 But we'll take it. It's down to seventy three dollars 497 00:31:45,759 --> 00:31:49,799 and some change for one barrel of West Texas Intermediate. 498 00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:52,359 So that's it for today. Thank you for coming by. 499 00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:55,079 We'll be back tomorrow and I hope, hope to see 500 00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:55,720 Eton today