1 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:26,039 Speaker 1: And hello, how are you welcome to the Big Podcast. 2 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:27,679 Speaker 2: It's Wednesday. 3 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:34,280 Speaker 1: Today is the twenty fifth day of February, Year of 4 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:37,079 Our Lord, twenty twenty six. My name is Tom Sullivan. 5 00:00:37,799 --> 00:00:43,359 And well, I know it's it's mostly the news barrels 6 00:00:43,359 --> 00:00:46,520 fall with things from the from the State of the Union. 7 00:00:46,640 --> 00:00:52,200 We've got some latest news about Epstein and Bill Gates. 8 00:00:52,799 --> 00:00:57,799 We've got the shutdown of the government still going on, 9 00:00:58,479 --> 00:01:04,760 partial shutdown. And Gavin Newsom is an interesting cat. He's 10 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:11,120 in he's running around trying to basically sell himself because 11 00:01:11,159 --> 00:01:13,719 he wants to run for president. So but let's start 12 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:15,640 with the State of the Union. I don't know what 13 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:18,599 you thought about it. I did. I did not last Sorry, 14 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:22,439 it was one hour and forty eight minutes, so I 15 00:01:22,519 --> 00:01:25,719 went to about eleven o'clock on the East coast, and 16 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:31,200 I just I've never been a fan. I know, in 17 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:33,680 all the years that I've been in the media, I 18 00:01:33,719 --> 00:01:38,359 know we have to talk about it, but I I 19 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:42,480 find it. You this was a little different because usually 20 00:01:42,519 --> 00:01:46,840 it's a laundry list of the president asking Congress to 21 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:49,640 pass this and pass that, and he's got a whole 22 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:52,879 list of things that he wants Congress to do, and 23 00:01:53,079 --> 00:01:58,120 almost none of them come to fruition. But so I 24 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:00,159 think it's I think it's one of those things where 25 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:06,159 I told you yesterday the State of the Union was 26 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:11,639 required by the President to notify Congress the state of 27 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:13,919 the Union annually, but it used to be done by 28 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:17,159 a letter, and I think that would be better served. 29 00:02:17,719 --> 00:02:19,919 President would send a letter over to Congress and say 30 00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:23,000 here's what the State of the Union is. Then nineteen 31 00:02:23,319 --> 00:02:32,120 forty seven, I think it was Harry Truman did the 32 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:34,639 first televised presidential State of the Union, but it was 33 00:02:34,719 --> 00:02:38,000 during the daytime and there were just a handful of 34 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:40,800 people who had TV sets, so almost nobody saw it. 35 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:45,759 And then it just kind of languished until nineteen sixty four, 36 00:02:46,919 --> 00:02:55,080 and even as as John Kennedy was very into television. No, 37 00:02:55,319 --> 00:02:59,599 it was the first evening prime time State of the 38 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:04,759 Union was nineteen sixty January eighteen sixty five, Lyndon Johnson 39 00:03:04,919 --> 00:03:09,039 was the president, and it got big ratings, and that 40 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:13,919 was it. That solidified it for every president. Okay, they 41 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:16,280 get big ratings for the Okay, I got to do 42 00:03:16,319 --> 00:03:20,919 one of those. So and you know Donald Trump, he 43 00:03:22,879 --> 00:03:27,960 loves the camera. He loves camera time, he loves the 44 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:30,879 Keith Clig lights, he likes all that. So of course 45 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:33,840 this is his Bailey Wick. But this was a new 46 00:03:33,879 --> 00:03:37,919 record in length one hour forty eight minutes. The speech 47 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:44,800 was basically to his base, Republicans in general, but specifically 48 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:48,520 to the Maga folks. And oh and by the way, 49 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:52,280 the Supreme Court there were four of the nine justices 50 00:03:52,319 --> 00:04:01,039 showed up. John Roberts was there, so was Elina Kagan, 51 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:07,599 Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett. They were all in 52 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:11,800 attain attendants and the presidentcy worked his way down to 53 00:04:11,879 --> 00:04:14,560 walk up to the podium. He walked by them and 54 00:04:14,599 --> 00:04:18,399 shook all of their hands. So everything was there was 55 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:21,839 no there was nothing out of the ordinary. But I 56 00:04:21,959 --> 00:04:24,399 just don't And there were a lot of honors there were. 57 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:29,079 Ronald Reagan started that it had never done before, but 58 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:31,680 it was during the eighties when Ronald Reagan, I can't 59 00:04:31,759 --> 00:04:34,240 tell you which one of his State of the Unions, 60 00:04:34,279 --> 00:04:38,639 but he had somebody, one person that was in the 61 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:42,600 gallery and he made a point of them being there, 62 00:04:42,839 --> 00:04:45,439 and everybody stood and applauded and all that. So they 63 00:04:45,439 --> 00:04:47,920 but they had they had a lot of that last 64 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:52,360 night and the hockey team. Most of the hockey team 65 00:04:52,519 --> 00:04:56,199 was there and there were a number There was a 66 00:04:56,240 --> 00:04:59,399 soldier that was given the Medal of Honor. There were 67 00:04:59,399 --> 00:05:05,959 a number of really touching moments that the President had 68 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:09,199 all these people in the gallery. One of them was 69 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:13,759 the mother of the young lady Irena that was stabbed 70 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:20,279 to death on the on the light rail train in Charlotte, 71 00:05:21,279 --> 00:05:26,920 and next to her was Erica Kirk. So there's just 72 00:05:26,959 --> 00:05:29,279 a lot of that that went on that was nothing 73 00:05:29,319 --> 00:05:34,160 to do with political policy. It was. There was also 74 00:05:34,279 --> 00:05:38,639 the usual where the Republicans got all the exercise stand up, 75 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:42,000 sit down, stand up, applause, sit down, stand up, applause, 76 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:48,240 sit down, and just keep dealing with that. And the Democrats, historically, 77 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:52,040 the party that's not the president's party, sits on their hands. 78 00:05:52,759 --> 00:05:55,959 But the President made some I mean, he knows what 79 00:05:56,040 --> 00:06:00,800 he's doing. He put them into an awkward position about 80 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:07,000 just basic things about the beauty of our country, and 81 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:12,160 they would not stand. I've got a couple of political 82 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:15,240 observers that are saying that was a bad idea. It 83 00:06:15,279 --> 00:06:18,040 was like last year when they held up their little 84 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:21,399 placards with their signs and they wouldn't stand up on 85 00:06:21,439 --> 00:06:23,800 a plod for a little boy dying of cancer. Stuff 86 00:06:23,839 --> 00:06:26,519 like that. You go, what's wrong with these democrats? It 87 00:06:26,639 --> 00:06:32,480 makes them look small? I think, so we have. He 88 00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:34,399 came up with some of the ideas that he wants 89 00:06:34,399 --> 00:06:38,160 them to deal with it. Mostly it was about look 90 00:06:38,199 --> 00:06:40,680 what we have achieved, and I think the big message 91 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:47,079 that I got from it was we inherited a really 92 00:06:47,439 --> 00:06:51,720 terrible situation and in one year we have made a 93 00:06:51,759 --> 00:06:55,680 lot of progress. That was the message that he came 94 00:06:55,759 --> 00:06:59,000 up with. But as far as well, let's just play 95 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:03,720 this is obviously the president declaringess they usually do the 96 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:05,439 state of the nation. 97 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:11,319 Speaker 3: Our nation is back, bigger, better, richer, and stronger than 98 00:07:11,399 --> 00:07:15,319 ever before. In twelve months, my administration has driven core 99 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:18,720 inflation down to the lowest level in more than five years. 100 00:07:18,839 --> 00:07:22,279 Mortgage rates are the lowest and four years and falling fast, 101 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:25,360 and the annual costs of a typical new mortgage is 102 00:07:25,399 --> 00:07:29,839 down almost five thousand dollars just since I took office. 103 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:33,879 Speaker 1: I agree there's improvement, but the rate of inflation, yes, 104 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:36,120 it did go up to nine percent, but that was 105 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:41,120 three years ago. In twenty twenty four, when the president 106 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:46,319 inherited was a three percent. Inflation rate and mortgage rates 107 00:07:46,360 --> 00:07:48,600 have come down, but you've got to use a microscope 108 00:07:48,639 --> 00:07:52,120 to see how much they've moved down. Just a tiny, 109 00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:55,800 tiny little bit. But they're going the right direction. But 110 00:07:55,839 --> 00:07:59,199 there's a lot more work to be done. Jerry Baker, 111 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:04,800 former head of the Wall Street Journal, had this comment. 112 00:08:04,639 --> 00:08:06,279 Speaker 4: You know, I don't think he did. I think that 113 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:08,279 I think that he made a lot of good points. 114 00:08:08,319 --> 00:08:10,759 The economy is in reasonably good health. We've talked about 115 00:08:10,759 --> 00:08:12,800 this before. It's not as bad as it was years ago. 116 00:08:12,839 --> 00:08:14,560 Inflation is way down from where it was in the 117 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:16,920 Biden years. The problem is, though, that a lot of 118 00:08:16,959 --> 00:08:19,560 people are still don't feel the economy is in good safe. 119 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:21,160 Part of the reason the economy is doing well is 120 00:08:21,199 --> 00:08:23,240 we know this AI boom. This has been amazing for 121 00:08:23,279 --> 00:08:26,639 companies and the wealthy, the better off people in this 122 00:08:26,639 --> 00:08:28,040 country have done extremely well. 123 00:08:27,879 --> 00:08:30,680 Speaker 5: In the last few years. They feel great. That's powering 124 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:33,080 the economy. A lot of people on like average wages, 125 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:36,600 don't feel that good. They've had real wage increases, but 126 00:08:36,639 --> 00:08:39,120 they do see these prices that are much higher than 127 00:08:39,159 --> 00:08:42,639 they were. Prices for utility bills, prices for you know, 128 00:08:42,679 --> 00:08:44,519 a lot of food, a lot of their regular their 129 00:08:44,759 --> 00:08:48,720 their staples, they want. I think some indication that the 130 00:08:48,759 --> 00:08:51,120 administration is addressing those concerns. 131 00:08:51,279 --> 00:08:54,240 Speaker 4: I think just saying this is a golden age, never 132 00:08:54,320 --> 00:08:56,759 been better, We're in great shape. I don't think that 133 00:08:56,799 --> 00:08:59,279 comes across to people as it is as if he 134 00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:02,440 is addressing those concerns, and I think more on tax 135 00:09:02,559 --> 00:09:04,399 cuts that he might have in mind, if he could 136 00:09:04,399 --> 00:09:07,320 do that, more on addressing some of these specific worries 137 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:09,720 that people have about the cost of living. I think 138 00:09:09,759 --> 00:09:11,559 that's what Republicans want. 139 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:13,240 Speaker 5: To hear more of. If they if they had to 140 00:09:13,399 --> 00:09:16,399 pull out a victory in the midterms and anyway. 141 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:19,720 Speaker 1: So it was yeah, there's going to be more work 142 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:22,159 needs to be done, and they've got some time, but 143 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:25,320 not a lot, and they're hoping and praying that the 144 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:31,960 big beautiful bill will kick in big time with lower taxes. 145 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:36,080 And as you and I sit about our annual process 146 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:39,279 of filing our tax returns, hopefully you'll be surprised that 147 00:09:39,360 --> 00:09:43,000 you will get a bigger refund or a refund that 148 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:46,240 that you were not expecting. So with that, that's an 149 00:09:46,279 --> 00:09:49,799 extra money in the pocket and maybe you'll go out 150 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:52,480 and spend it and drive the economy better that that's 151 00:09:52,519 --> 00:09:56,159 what they're hoping for. As far as the Democrats, they 152 00:09:56,240 --> 00:09:59,120 had a bunch of them did not show. I think 153 00:09:59,159 --> 00:10:03,120 the tally we had last night was thirty six did 154 00:10:03,159 --> 00:10:06,600 not go. Some of them didn't. They just stayed at home. 155 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:12,279 But some of them put on an alternative State of 156 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:16,320 the Union, I don't know, protest, whatever you want to 157 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:18,639 call it. Now they put it on two different places. 158 00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:22,159 And this is where you've got to wonder about some 159 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:25,720 of the people that did this. But they had a 160 00:10:25,759 --> 00:10:32,759 small crowd that gathered to watch the counterprogramming outside it 161 00:10:32,960 --> 00:10:39,000 was thirty three degrees in Washington, and while another crowd 162 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:44,720 of Democrats they joined a Democrat only State of the 163 00:10:44,759 --> 00:10:47,840 Swamp party over at the National Press Club. Now I've 164 00:10:47,879 --> 00:10:51,440 been to the National Press Club once in my life. 165 00:10:51,519 --> 00:10:56,080 I remember it's really nice. It's a nice club. It's 166 00:10:56,080 --> 00:10:58,600 a club. You got to be a member. They got 167 00:10:58,639 --> 00:11:02,159 a nice restaurant and a really nice restaurant and a 168 00:11:02,159 --> 00:11:05,080 big bar. So for the Democrats that didn't want to 169 00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:07,879 stand out in the thirty three degree weather, they put 170 00:11:07,879 --> 00:11:10,799 on some sort of protest at the National Press Club, 171 00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:14,559 having a nice dinner and drinks. But The stupid part 172 00:11:14,639 --> 00:11:17,840 about it was they had I don't know who who 173 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:22,639 is behind these ideas. They came up with a bunch 174 00:11:22,639 --> 00:11:27,879 of people dressed in frog costumes and there was a 175 00:11:27,919 --> 00:11:31,480 guy dressed up in a kangaroo outfit. I don't know 176 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:35,240 who he was. He may have been an officeholder, but 177 00:11:35,639 --> 00:11:39,440 he was in a kangaroo outfit and he was jumping around. 178 00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:43,799 But they had I'm going to guess seven eight nine 179 00:11:44,639 --> 00:11:48,519 people in frog costumes, and I'm not quite sure what 180 00:11:48,559 --> 00:11:53,440 the point was, but this is what they come up 181 00:11:53,480 --> 00:11:57,200 with on the Democrat side of the aisle. Very strange, 182 00:11:57,519 --> 00:12:00,440 so that that was the alternative as far as the 183 00:12:00,440 --> 00:12:04,120 alternative goes. John Fetterman, of course, wasn't for it. 184 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:07,759 Speaker 6: And half the people in my party haven't showed up, 185 00:12:08,399 --> 00:12:10,559 and then some of them have chosen to just yell 186 00:12:10,639 --> 00:12:13,600 and say and scream during all of it. I just 187 00:12:13,639 --> 00:12:16,519 don't think that's what we want. And I don't believe 188 00:12:16,639 --> 00:12:20,399 as a Democrat, I think like dancing frogs really moves 189 00:12:20,440 --> 00:12:22,440 the ball for us as a party either. 190 00:12:24,279 --> 00:12:27,679 Speaker 1: I don't think anybody did. But there's John Fetterman, common 191 00:12:27,799 --> 00:12:30,879 sense man happens to be a Democrat, but a lot 192 00:12:30,879 --> 00:12:35,960 of Republicans are sure liking that guy a lot. One 193 00:12:36,039 --> 00:12:40,840 other guy who doesn't seem to be getting a lot 194 00:12:40,879 --> 00:12:45,559 of attention, but don't count him out. Rama Manuel. He's 195 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:48,600 been a congressman, he was a chief of staff or 196 00:12:48,639 --> 00:12:55,519 a part of the Obama administration. He was ambassador to Japan. 197 00:12:56,240 --> 00:13:00,120 He's done a lot of things. Well, Governor, I'm sorry 198 00:13:00,240 --> 00:13:05,320 of Chicago. And he is starting to sound like a 199 00:13:05,519 --> 00:13:09,559 centrist Democrat, which means he's not getting a lot of 200 00:13:09,600 --> 00:13:14,440 attention because he's not a crazy left wing Democrat. This 201 00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:18,440 is what he had to say about what's going on 202 00:13:18,519 --> 00:13:22,120 with his party and the message from the president last night. 203 00:13:22,559 --> 00:13:25,200 Speaker 7: I d I was listening to the speech all one 204 00:13:25,200 --> 00:13:27,480 hour and forty minutes, and I would just say, it's 205 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:30,519 a tale of Charles Dickens said, a tale of two cities. 206 00:13:30,519 --> 00:13:32,799 It's a tale of two speeches. One he wanted to 207 00:13:32,879 --> 00:13:35,759 tell you everything is great, it's unbelievable, it's a charge 208 00:13:36,159 --> 00:13:38,799 never been better the next three years. And then this 209 00:13:39,039 --> 00:13:41,600 dark side of the speech as he went turned to crime, 210 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:44,799 turned to immigration, and so with the basket of cultural issues. 211 00:13:44,799 --> 00:13:46,840 And it was a tale of two speeches. And I 212 00:13:46,919 --> 00:13:49,600 do think the latter part was meant to do two things. 213 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:52,840 One is people have lost sight the president as he's 214 00:13:52,879 --> 00:13:55,519 dropping is dropping also for the first time below ninety 215 00:13:55,559 --> 00:13:59,120 percent among Republicans, And it was an attempt to basically 216 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:02,679 address Republicans in that effort and really git them up, 217 00:14:02,679 --> 00:14:05,879 because there's across the elections over the last year, Republican 218 00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:08,960 turnout has dropped compared to where Democratic energy is. And 219 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:11,399 then the economy. I happen to think it's not going 220 00:14:11,480 --> 00:14:14,159 to work convincing people what they don't experience in their 221 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:17,720 everyday life. Remember you get a utility bill every month 222 00:14:17,840 --> 00:14:22,480 it's up fifteen percent. Telling people everything's going down, everything's great, 223 00:14:23,120 --> 00:14:26,159 just doesn't jive with their reality. First of all, I 224 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:29,759 go back this all started and the deterioration of the 225 00:14:29,759 --> 00:14:32,159 State of the Union. There's always been theater, going back 226 00:14:32,159 --> 00:14:35,120 to Ronald Reagan when he asked people to be in 227 00:14:35,159 --> 00:14:38,000 the upper gallery. But when Joe Wilson from South Carolina 228 00:14:38,919 --> 00:14:41,600 shouted out at President Obama when I was Chief of 229 00:14:41,639 --> 00:14:43,919 staff that you're a liar. It has been on a 230 00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:47,240 precipitous declined to the point now that it's actually less 231 00:14:47,279 --> 00:14:49,919 State of the Union and more theater and more actually 232 00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:53,440 in my view, very disrespectful on both sides, both of 233 00:14:53,440 --> 00:14:56,240 the president speaker and then the audience there. I think 234 00:14:56,240 --> 00:14:59,639 the Democrats should have shown up, don't play junior varsity 235 00:14:59,679 --> 00:15:02,720 that and listen to the president's remarks and then go 236 00:15:02,759 --> 00:15:05,240 out what they say when you disagreed with and there's 237 00:15:05,240 --> 00:15:08,200 a lot to disagree with. I don't think it helps 238 00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:11,840 the Democrats that said the President was taking them to 239 00:15:11,919 --> 00:15:15,240 play as his backboard to the shot he was taking, 240 00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:17,240 and I don't think you'd give the president that, and 241 00:15:17,759 --> 00:15:21,039 knowing full well this is all political theater for the 242 00:15:21,080 --> 00:15:23,320 public that's watching and stayed at least for an hour 243 00:15:23,360 --> 00:15:24,360 and forty minutes. 244 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:27,519 Speaker 1: I think his description's pretty good. It is it's become 245 00:15:27,559 --> 00:15:31,440 political theater. And Joe Wilson did start yelling. Ill hand 246 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:35,039 Omar yelled out at the president, but nobody could really 247 00:15:35,159 --> 00:15:38,559 hear her. And then she was sitting next to Rashida 248 00:15:38,639 --> 00:15:41,960 Talib and she started yelling, but they're kind of drowned 249 00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:45,399 out by I don't know, applause or something. Anyway, you 250 00:15:45,399 --> 00:15:50,480 couldn't barely hear them. But again, it has definitely become 251 00:15:51,080 --> 00:15:56,879 political theater. I was surprised that there was not a 252 00:15:57,080 --> 00:16:04,960 peep out of the President about China. Nothing. I was 253 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:09,679 also expecting him to do a heavy sales job on tariffs. 254 00:16:09,720 --> 00:16:13,080 He got into a little bit of that he'd mentioned, 255 00:16:13,200 --> 00:16:17,480 but just mentioned that the idea that he would like 256 00:16:17,559 --> 00:16:23,200 to see is for tariffs to replace income taxes. And 257 00:16:23,240 --> 00:16:27,840 my suspicion is is that they're never going to do 258 00:16:27,879 --> 00:16:32,120 away with income taxes, but they may add more tariffs, 259 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:35,240 which are taxes. It's essentially I've told you that a 260 00:16:35,279 --> 00:16:38,600 thousand times. It's a tax, and when you tax something, 261 00:16:38,679 --> 00:16:43,000 the price of whatever his tax goes up. But anyway, 262 00:16:43,679 --> 00:16:46,919 it's he's talked about this before, and I go, I 263 00:16:46,960 --> 00:16:51,120 think he's dreaming, because let me just give you the 264 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:56,919 numbers last year, the number of tariffs that were collected 265 00:16:57,360 --> 00:17:02,039 two hundred and sixty four billion. We collected two hundred 266 00:17:02,039 --> 00:17:06,519 and sixty four billion. And by the way, it wasn't 267 00:17:06,359 --> 00:17:10,720 he talked about the tariffs pouring into our country. No, 268 00:17:10,759 --> 00:17:13,640 they're not pouring into the they're coming from our country. 269 00:17:13,799 --> 00:17:18,880 We pay the tariffs. No, not some foreign country. We 270 00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:22,680 pay the tariffs. So we paid two hundred and sixty 271 00:17:22,759 --> 00:17:29,599 four billion. But the total tax revenue for the government, 272 00:17:30,160 --> 00:17:33,880 if you want to replace tax. Income taxes was two 273 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:41,880 point four trillion. There's a thousand billionaires that will equal 274 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:48,160 one trillion, So you need two thousand, four hundred billionaires 275 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:51,240 to pay all their income and that would add up 276 00:17:51,279 --> 00:17:53,920 to it's not going to happen. It's so far off. 277 00:17:54,279 --> 00:17:56,319 And he referred to the fact the country used to 278 00:17:56,400 --> 00:17:59,599 do that. Well, that's true. You know, back in the 279 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:02,599 eighteen hundreds, we had a much smaller country and the 280 00:18:02,640 --> 00:18:05,440 government did not need a lot of money to run, 281 00:18:05,839 --> 00:18:09,160 so they did run the government off of tariffs and 282 00:18:09,240 --> 00:18:16,279 stamp taxes and things like that. But anyway, I'm surprised 283 00:18:16,319 --> 00:18:19,440 there wasn't a big cell job on teriffs. But again, 284 00:18:19,519 --> 00:18:23,200 the Supreme Court justice is setting right in front of him. 285 00:18:23,319 --> 00:18:28,440 He also mentioned that he's brought this up a couple 286 00:18:28,559 --> 00:18:34,759 times now, that he wants to ban large companies institutional investors, 287 00:18:34,759 --> 00:18:38,480 if you will, from buying single family homes, and I 288 00:18:38,599 --> 00:18:41,440 get what he's doing. He's trying to get it so 289 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:45,839 that people who want to buy home are not pushed 290 00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:49,200 out of the way by somebody that comes in with 291 00:18:49,319 --> 00:18:53,160 a big corporate checkbook. At the same time, I don't 292 00:18:53,240 --> 00:18:57,799 like the idea of banning anybody from being able to 293 00:18:57,880 --> 00:19:02,359 buy anything. Are we going to start telling this administration. 294 00:19:02,519 --> 00:19:08,000 I'm very surprised because he's it's not a conservative, Republican administration. 295 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:13,079 It's a populist administration. That's what Donald Trump is. And 296 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:15,920 I just I'm appalled at how much he wants to 297 00:19:15,920 --> 00:19:20,000 get the government involved in the private sector. The investments 298 00:19:20,039 --> 00:19:24,519 in Intel and Nvidia and all these other places, but 299 00:19:24,640 --> 00:19:28,759 also this going you are not allowed to buy a 300 00:19:28,799 --> 00:19:32,440 particular property that the government is going to tell a 301 00:19:32,759 --> 00:19:37,519 private sector company or person that they can't buy a home. 302 00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:44,440 I get what he's doing, but I'm still I don't 303 00:19:44,519 --> 00:19:52,480 like it. It's they want to pass insider trading rules 304 00:19:52,519 --> 00:19:55,480 for members of Congress. They talked about it for years. 305 00:19:55,880 --> 00:20:01,119 That hasn't happened. They need to pass some sort of 306 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:03,759 healthcare agenda to try to fix the high cost of 307 00:20:03,799 --> 00:20:08,000 health care in this country. There's all those things. National Review, 308 00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:12,519 which is a conservative magazine, more centrist conservative, they had 309 00:20:12,559 --> 00:20:14,759 a nice summary of it. I'll get just to read 310 00:20:14,799 --> 00:20:18,160 a little pieces of it. They said the economy was 311 00:20:18,160 --> 00:20:21,640 the major focus after discontent over the cost of living. 312 00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:26,119 In twenty twenty four, people are still discontented over the 313 00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:29,640 cost of living. Trump made the case that things are 314 00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:33,200 heading in the right direction. Real wages have indeed been increasing. 315 00:20:33,279 --> 00:20:36,799 They have. Real wages are in other words, wages are 316 00:20:36,799 --> 00:20:40,880 going up more than inflation. The problem is talking people 317 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:45,279 out of how they feel about the economy is difficult 318 00:20:45,319 --> 00:20:49,200 for an elected official. And the inflation rate, even though 319 00:20:49,279 --> 00:20:53,519 it's down, it's still too high. They wrote, the new 320 00:20:53,559 --> 00:20:57,279 initiatives the President advanced to address the cost of living 321 00:20:57,359 --> 00:21:00,599 are either insignificant or they're not going to pass Congress. 322 00:21:02,079 --> 00:21:06,839 The policy that he has unilateral control. He likes to 323 00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:10,359 think that he can decide on everything was shot down 324 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:13,880 by the Supreme Court last week. He's got to run 325 00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:18,880 things through through Congress. They also wrote that as a 326 00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:21,039 matter of performance, it often had the feel of a 327 00:21:21,079 --> 00:21:25,720 Trump rally, with its over the top of boastfulness, informal asides, 328 00:21:25,839 --> 00:21:32,960 dubious claims, pointed partisan jabs and sheer length. They said, 329 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:35,640 for all the sound and occasional fury, nothing from the 330 00:21:35,640 --> 00:21:39,960 address is likely to alter the trajectory of the midterms. 331 00:21:40,359 --> 00:21:43,359 That's the thing about the state of the Union speeches 332 00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:47,039 is there. They don't do anything, they don't mean anything, 333 00:21:47,079 --> 00:21:51,359 They have no impact. And again, whoever wrote the speech. 334 00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:56,200 I'm sorry, I'm sure he wanted longer, but you know 335 00:21:56,279 --> 00:21:59,720 why high school and college classes are one hour long 336 00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:03,839 because we don't have the patience to pay attention for longer. 337 00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:07,480 Sixty minutes is pushing it. So an hour and forty 338 00:22:07,519 --> 00:22:09,880 eight minutes. It was just too long, and I think 339 00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:12,000 it was a lot of people whatever he was said 340 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:15,039 in the last hour probably weren't either they were either 341 00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:19,640 snoring or they were off doing something else. But so 342 00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:24,880 it was it was interesting. Let's talk about tariffs again, 343 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:29,880 replacing income taxes. It's not even close. As far as 344 00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:36,400 the economy, the growth of the economy for twenty twenty 345 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:41,039 five was two point two percent. That is down from 346 00:22:41,079 --> 00:22:43,880 the last year of Joe Biden. Joe Biden's was two 347 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:48,720 point eight, but the first year of Trump was two 348 00:22:48,799 --> 00:22:53,480 point two. He talked about gas prices being below two dollars. 349 00:22:54,519 --> 00:22:57,839 I checked in with the Triple A and they said 350 00:22:57,839 --> 00:23:03,119 there are fours four gas stations out of one hundred 351 00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:08,000 and fifty thousand that are below two dollars. The average 352 00:23:08,039 --> 00:23:11,160 in the country is two dollars and ninety seven cents. 353 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:14,599 So this is where you know, you got to be accurate. 354 00:23:14,839 --> 00:23:18,480 You can't be boastful, because then nobody will believe anything 355 00:23:18,519 --> 00:23:21,519 you say. And it goes back to this. You're talking 356 00:23:21,559 --> 00:23:25,640 about the tariffs, the money pouring in from foreign countries, 357 00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:29,480 they're not they're paid for by US. And as far 358 00:23:29,519 --> 00:23:32,160 as investments in the country, the President said there was 359 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:36,319 eighteen trillion dollars worth of foreign investments, and if you 360 00:23:36,359 --> 00:23:38,880 go to the White House website, it says there's nine 361 00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:44,200 trillion combination of foreign and US companies that are investing 362 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:47,000 in businesses here in the US, which is a good 363 00:23:47,079 --> 00:23:52,519 number and which should have some impact. JD. Vance was 364 00:23:52,519 --> 00:23:55,880 talking about he was kind of doing the cleanup a 365 00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:59,680 little bit about that. Karl Rove called it that JD 366 00:23:59,880 --> 00:24:03,279 was brought into to the cleanup from the speech last night. 367 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:05,839 Speaker 8: I think we're about to get over the hump. I 368 00:24:05,839 --> 00:24:08,119 think the tax season is around the corner. A lot 369 00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:11,279 of Americans because of no tax on tips, no tax 370 00:24:11,319 --> 00:24:14,599 on overtime, no tax on Social Security, they're about to 371 00:24:14,599 --> 00:24:17,880 get a massive tax income refund. Those construction jobs are 372 00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:21,039 starting to hit the economy. Then the manufacturing jobs, once 373 00:24:21,079 --> 00:24:23,720 those factories are built, will hit the economy too. So 374 00:24:23,839 --> 00:24:26,000 I think that we've got a lot of momentum here. 375 00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:30,440 Speaker 1: That's Jennie Bans and I applaud what he said. He's 376 00:24:30,519 --> 00:24:34,680 not trying to make up stuff. He's not exaggerating. It's true. 377 00:24:34,759 --> 00:24:38,880 Construction jobs are up, Manufacturing jobs have been down every 378 00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:42,920 single month of twenty twenty five. Now, as he said, 379 00:24:43,079 --> 00:24:47,559 you do the construction, you build factories, then the factory jobs, 380 00:24:47,559 --> 00:24:51,680 the manufacturing jobs will come. He's laying it out exactly 381 00:24:51,799 --> 00:24:55,640 like it probably will take place. So he's optimistic. I'm 382 00:24:55,640 --> 00:25:00,200 pretty optimistic about twenty twenty six as well. Don't know 383 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:03,799 why you have to exaggerate when actually the data in 384 00:25:03,839 --> 00:25:07,640 front of you is pretty darn good. Let's check in 385 00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:11,480 with Carl Rove, who was asked about the fact that 386 00:25:11,559 --> 00:25:16,160 Kamala Harris is actually playing coy about whether or not 387 00:25:16,319 --> 00:25:18,960 she will run for another shot at president. 388 00:25:19,079 --> 00:25:22,240 Speaker 2: Actually, Republicans could be that lucky. Maybe, I don't know. 389 00:25:22,559 --> 00:25:25,039 Speaker 5: Could Democrats stomach another Paris run? 390 00:25:25,319 --> 00:25:28,440 Speaker 2: They not remember she's the nominee of the Democratic Party 391 00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:30,480 in twenty twenty four. In less than a third of 392 00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:32,559 Democrats say they wanted to be the nominee in twenty 393 00:25:32,599 --> 00:25:35,559 twenty eight. I think it's wide open. It's really early. 394 00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:38,279 We're getting a sense of who these candidates might be. 395 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:42,400 These polls are completely meaningless. But the Democrats, they have 396 00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:46,039 both talent out there, but they got a wide field. 397 00:25:46,039 --> 00:25:47,640 Think about it. They think about the other people who 398 00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:51,240 want to run. Pritzker, maybe Whitmer, you know, Ram Emmanuel, 399 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:52,519 the governor of Kentucky. 400 00:25:52,599 --> 00:25:54,400 Speaker 7: Anybody stand out to you there. 401 00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:57,440 Speaker 2: Well, not yet, and I'm not certain they should, but 402 00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:00,839 I do know this. Everyone of these people is giving 403 00:26:00,839 --> 00:26:03,920 off signals that would indicate that they got grave weaknesses. 404 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:08,079 With maybe the exception of Ram Emmanuel. His weaknesses are 405 00:26:08,079 --> 00:26:09,839 in a primary. The rest of them appear to be 406 00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:11,240 or most of the rest of them appear to be 407 00:26:11,559 --> 00:26:14,000 weaknesses in the general election. I mean, think about it, 408 00:26:14,039 --> 00:26:17,240 she ran a terrible campaign. Gavin Newsom is the governor 409 00:26:17,279 --> 00:26:20,200 of a failed state. You know, the governor of Illinois 410 00:26:20,599 --> 00:26:22,599 first of all, doesn't look like a president, and he's 411 00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:26,359 presiding over a failed state. And you know the sort 412 00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:29,319 of the Bill Clinton types, that is to say, reformers 413 00:26:29,319 --> 00:26:33,000 who've won in read territory. They are people like Prasher, 414 00:26:33,039 --> 00:26:35,319 and it's hard to see somebody like that getting the 415 00:26:35,319 --> 00:26:36,759 Democratic noledge you mentioned. 416 00:26:36,799 --> 00:26:40,920 Speaker 1: Rob Emmanuel is the only one of the group. But 417 00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:43,720 it's not like the rest of them. But he would 418 00:26:43,759 --> 00:26:45,480 have a hard time in the primaries because he's not 419 00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:51,599 far left, crazy lefty. He's a moderate Democrat and that 420 00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:56,240 doesn't cut it with Democrats apparently anymore. Gavin Newsom is 421 00:26:56,279 --> 00:26:59,839 already on the campaign trail. He was in Atlanta talk 422 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:03,920 to the Mayor of Atlanta at a symposium retreat. 423 00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:10,559 Speaker 9: He is in retreat. This historic president historically unpopular. It's 424 00:27:10,759 --> 00:27:13,960 entire economic policy which was built on a three legged 425 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:17,599 stool of massive tax breaks for the wealthy and well 426 00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:20,519 to do on the backs of the small businesses and farmers, 427 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:24,640 and each and every one of us, mass deportations in tariff. 428 00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:26,240 It's all collapsing in real time. 429 00:27:26,519 --> 00:27:31,759 Speaker 1: So is he right? Is it all collapsing? The Trump administration? 430 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:36,079 The Trump presidential era is all? Is he is the 431 00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:38,680 president collapsing back to Carl. 432 00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:43,640 Speaker 2: That's in his dream. Look, look, there's something interesting here. 433 00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:46,799 The Democrats who, in my opinion, the Democrats who make 434 00:27:46,839 --> 00:27:49,640 this all about Trump, are playing to a wing in 435 00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:52,240 the side of the Democratic Party and that may win 436 00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:54,480 the nomination, but it doesn't set up a win for 437 00:27:54,519 --> 00:27:57,160 the general election. People want to know what the next 438 00:27:57,240 --> 00:27:59,319 president is going to do now. There's plenty of time 439 00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:01,680 for them to develop that image, but you would think 440 00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:04,279 that they would begin to lay that out sooner rather 441 00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:07,079 than later. He's doing it, in my opinion, the reverse way. 442 00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:08,880 What he ought to be doing is saying, here's the 443 00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:11,799 path back to dominance by the Democratic Party, and save 444 00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:13,359 the anti Trump stuff for later. 445 00:28:13,559 --> 00:28:15,759 Speaker 1: Carol knows what he's talking about. I totally agree with 446 00:28:15,839 --> 00:28:22,000 him because Hillary Clinton her campaign was vote for me 447 00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:27,000 because I'm not him. That didn't work. It did not 448 00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:29,160 work in Kamala Harris. There were a lot of problems 449 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:32,000 with her campaign, but she did the same thing about 450 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:35,319 I'm not Trump, so vote for me. If they keep 451 00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:38,519 doing the I'm not for Trump anti Trump, Trump is terrible. 452 00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:42,960 That's may get them the nomination, but that won't get 453 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:46,440 them the general election and get them into the White House. 454 00:28:47,079 --> 00:28:50,240 But let's go back to Gavin Newsom for a minute. 455 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:54,440 I've been obviously aware. I used to live in California. 456 00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:57,640 I'm aware when he was the mayor of San Francisco 457 00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:02,319 and he was the lieutenant governor in the state and 458 00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:04,920 then went on to governor. We knew that he wanted 459 00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:08,839 to be president someday but I did not know that 460 00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:13,119 he suffers from dyslexia. Back to this symposium in Atlanta. 461 00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:16,119 He's talking to the mayor of Atlanta, who's African American, 462 00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:20,559 and the audience was heavily African American. And a lot 463 00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:24,720 of people are criticizing Newsome because it sounded like he 464 00:29:24,759 --> 00:29:29,839 was trying to say I'm just like you, I'm not 465 00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:36,079 that smart, because he said his SAT scores was a 466 00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:37,960 lousy nine to sixty. 467 00:29:38,119 --> 00:29:41,519 Speaker 5: Listen, no better than you. 468 00:29:41,519 --> 00:29:44,000 Speaker 9: You know, I'm a nine sixty SAT guy. 469 00:29:45,119 --> 00:29:46,319 Speaker 5: Hh. 470 00:29:46,359 --> 00:29:49,000 Speaker 9: And you know, and I'm not trying to offend anyone, 471 00:29:49,039 --> 00:29:50,839 you know, trying to act all there have you got 472 00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:57,559 nine forty, but literally a nine sixty SAT guy. I 473 00:29:57,599 --> 00:30:02,200 cannot You you've never seen me read a speech because 474 00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:03,720 I cannot read a speech. 475 00:30:04,359 --> 00:30:08,000 Speaker 1: Well, that was new. I didn't know that. I know 476 00:30:08,119 --> 00:30:11,000 a lot of people, not a lot. I know a 477 00:30:11,039 --> 00:30:15,799 handful of people that are suffer from dyslexia. And one 478 00:30:15,799 --> 00:30:18,759 of the things I've learned from them, every one of them, 479 00:30:18,759 --> 00:30:22,640 not saying every person with dyslexia has been wildly successful. 480 00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:27,160 The people that I know have been wildly successful and 481 00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:31,160 also suffer from dyslexia, and every one of them. In 482 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:36,039 private conversations, one on one, they've all told me basically 483 00:30:36,119 --> 00:30:40,720 the same message was I could not read, so I 484 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:44,960 had to work ten times harder than all the other 485 00:30:45,079 --> 00:30:48,640 kids to be able to get grades and get promoted 486 00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:52,720 through the classes in school. And so I did not 487 00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:57,839 know that Gavin Newsom cannot read. I don't know what 488 00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:04,000 that means for getting everybody must give him reports verbally 489 00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:07,200 on how the state is doing because or they're lying 490 00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:09,920 to him because the state of California is not in 491 00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:15,359 good shape, but it's getting a lot of blowback because 492 00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:19,359 a lot of people are saying Nicki Minaj, for example, 493 00:31:19,559 --> 00:31:23,920 she wrote on her ex account, she said his way 494 00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:26,039 of bonding with black people is to tell them how 495 00:31:26,079 --> 00:31:29,759 stupid he is and that he can't read. This means 496 00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:32,880 my first read on him was correct. He's been handed 497 00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:36,240 so many things and put in high positions he never 498 00:31:36,359 --> 00:31:42,960 earned or deserved. And then added the video from that 499 00:31:43,839 --> 00:31:47,759 conference in Atlanta where she headlines it by saying Governor 500 00:31:47,799 --> 00:31:50,640 Knwsom to a black crowt in Georgia, I am like you. 501 00:31:50,839 --> 00:31:53,880 I'm a nine to sixty sat guy. I can't read, 502 00:31:55,039 --> 00:31:59,839 So she's not happy. Tim Scott also not happy. 503 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:03,759 Speaker 10: If you've got one president who stands tall, has the 504 00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:07,279 highest level of Black votes in fifty years as a 505 00:32:07,319 --> 00:32:12,119 Republican versus Gavin Newsom, who says they can't read, they 506 00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:15,319 can't ride, they can't score well on tests, they must 507 00:32:15,359 --> 00:32:16,759 need DEI. 508 00:32:16,599 --> 00:32:19,000 Speaker 1: Like Colonel said, it's a long way off before people 509 00:32:19,039 --> 00:32:21,799 start making their decisions. But I've got the feeling that 510 00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:24,759 Gavin Newsom is going to step in it in a 511 00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:29,039 number of ways. He's trying to be somebody. He's trying 512 00:32:29,039 --> 00:32:32,759 to create and craft an image that he's just like you, 513 00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:38,000 and the way he did it is backfiring. So put 514 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:41,279 that to bed. State of the Union for this year done, 515 00:32:41,559 --> 00:32:45,759 and now we count down to November for the midterms, 516 00:32:45,799 --> 00:32:49,839 and a lot of things will happen between now and then. Meantime, 517 00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:54,480 are you traveling because the government is still partially shut down. 518 00:32:54,559 --> 00:32:58,440 Department of Homeland Security did not get their funding because 519 00:32:58,759 --> 00:33:01,839 the Democrats don't want to give money to ICE, even 520 00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:05,559 though they know ICE has been fully funded through two 521 00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:10,680 thy twenty nine. But they're holding up DHS, which means 522 00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:15,880 the Coastguard, it means the Secret Service, it means TSA, 523 00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:18,799 And I told you yesterday there was confusion over the 524 00:33:18,799 --> 00:33:23,039 weekend that they said, now TSA PreCheck is not going 525 00:33:23,119 --> 00:33:25,880 to be staffed, and a lot of people like me 526 00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:29,559 paid a fee and have the card and find it 527 00:33:29,599 --> 00:33:32,960 to be very valuable to have the pre check benefits. 528 00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:35,359 But they said no, they're not going to staff them. 529 00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:36,920 So they got a lot of heat and so they 530 00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:41,160 turned around reverse their decision and then said, okay, okay, okay, 531 00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:44,680 we'll do TSA PreCheck, but we're not going to do 532 00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:47,839 global entry. And that's for people who have the Global 533 00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:51,720 Entry card, which I do when you come in to customs. 534 00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:55,279 It's for coming in from another country. Global entry. You 535 00:33:55,319 --> 00:33:58,519 get a much faster lane to go through. It's very convenient. 536 00:33:59,119 --> 00:34:03,200 But they said at DHS, no, we're not going to 537 00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:08,400 do global entry. Well, today they caught up with Christy 538 00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:13,760 Nome and had her ask well, they asked her about 539 00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:17,159 TSA pre checked in about global entry. Here's her answer. 540 00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:20,360 Speaker 11: You know, we as we go forward and without funding 541 00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:22,880 for DHS, if we end up in a situation where 542 00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:25,960 these TSA officers ca have to go get other jobs 543 00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:28,360 and provide for their families, will have to prioritize where 544 00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:31,719 the most travelers go through their security checkpoints. So we're 545 00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:34,400 divertized security lanes as we can staff them. So the 546 00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:37,159 ones that use the most travelers, which is the standard lanes, 547 00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:40,000 will be prioritized because most of the traveling public goes 548 00:34:40,039 --> 00:34:40,639 through those lanes. 549 00:34:40,679 --> 00:34:41,760 Speaker 3: Why did you reverse that? 550 00:34:42,199 --> 00:34:44,800 Speaker 11: We ever reversed a decision. We never released this decision. 551 00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:46,800 We just talked about what priorities we'd have to make 552 00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:50,880 if we had the situation where callouts went high. 553 00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:53,760 Speaker 1: You're heard her, She's saying they're going to prioritize the 554 00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:56,960 standard lanes, which means if they're going to have cutbacks, 555 00:34:56,960 --> 00:34:59,480 they're going to cut back the TSA pre check, just 556 00:34:59,599 --> 00:35:03,320 warning you, and they know you didn't know. We didn't 557 00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:09,599 reverse our decision, So you can't believe anything from Christinome anyway. 558 00:35:10,159 --> 00:35:12,719 So that's State of the Union. Other things going on today. 559 00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:16,159 But let's check on Wall Street to see what they 560 00:35:16,199 --> 00:35:19,880 were doing on the stock market today. The Dow had 561 00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:24,559 a good day now up three hundred and seven to 562 00:35:24,679 --> 00:35:29,000 forty nine thousand and four eighty two, price of S 563 00:35:29,039 --> 00:35:31,800 and P five hundred, up fifty six. NASDAK did well 564 00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:36,679 up two hundred eighty eight. Gold up thirteen dollars to 565 00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:41,480 five thousand and eighty nine oil down fifty cents or so, 566 00:35:41,599 --> 00:35:45,360 about sixty five dollars now for a barrel of oil. 567 00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:48,159 So that's it for today. Thank you for coming by. 568 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:51,159 I'll be back tomorrow. I hope to see you then