1 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:26,399 Speaker 1: And hello, Hi, how are you welcome? Welcome to the 2 00:00:26,399 --> 00:00:29,879 Big Podcast on this Thursday. Today is the fourth day 3 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:34,359 of June, year of our war, twenty twenty six. My 4 00:00:34,479 --> 00:00:39,880 name is Tom Sullivan. And well, there's a number of 5 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:43,840 things today to start with, and the war. We've talked 6 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:48,159 about the war endlessly, and we've talked about the President 7 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:51,320 always saying that, oh, we're about ready to Oh yeah, 8 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:53,719 it's coming, it's going to end quickly, going to be 9 00:00:53,759 --> 00:00:57,280 here soon, and he's saying that again today. But we'll 10 00:00:57,280 --> 00:01:00,359 skip past all of that. We'll wait to see. But 11 00:01:00,560 --> 00:01:04,480 in the meantime, not talking about the war, but about 12 00:01:04,519 --> 00:01:09,920 the War Powers Act, and what it essentially says is 13 00:01:10,719 --> 00:01:14,120 the president can go ahead and commit troops and enter 14 00:01:14,159 --> 00:01:18,120 into a war without the approval of Congress in advance. 15 00:01:18,239 --> 00:01:20,640 But if you do that, you've got to go to 16 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:24,840 Congress and get their approval within sixty days. While the 17 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:30,040 sixty days have come and gone. So the House had 18 00:01:30,079 --> 00:01:33,840 a vote last night on the War Powers Act. The 19 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:39,840 vote was to fifteen to pass the War Powers Act, 20 00:01:40,159 --> 00:01:43,519 stopping the President from committing troops to the war, to 21 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:48,159 fifteen to two eight, and there were four Republicans that 22 00:01:48,319 --> 00:01:52,879 joined with the Democrats in order to pass the War 23 00:01:52,959 --> 00:01:56,760 Powers Resolution. Now it goes to the US Senate, and 24 00:01:56,799 --> 00:02:00,680 the Senate looked like they were going to pass a 25 00:02:00,719 --> 00:02:06,959 war Powers Act before everybody took off for what was 26 00:02:06,959 --> 00:02:09,280 a Memorial Day I think it was. They never got 27 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:13,159 around to finishing it. But even if both chambers were 28 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:20,280 to pass this, the ability of Congress to force a 29 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:25,800 president to withdraw troops remains a contested legal question about 30 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:30,560 the fact that he is designated in Article two of 31 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:36,439 the Constitution. Asked the Commander in chief. So, yeah, it does. 32 00:02:36,719 --> 00:02:40,039 It says that you have to do this within sixty days, 33 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:44,159 mister president. But it did vote. The vote on this 34 00:02:44,319 --> 00:02:49,560 War Powers Resolution directs the president to withdraw troops from 35 00:02:49,599 --> 00:02:53,520 the conflict with the Iran or come back to Congress 36 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:56,560 to try to get approval. So that's the only thing 37 00:02:56,599 --> 00:03:00,520 I knew on the war. And obviously this gives the Iras. 38 00:03:01,159 --> 00:03:05,400 I'm sure they're cheering, thinking this is great. They're gonna, 39 00:03:05,479 --> 00:03:08,199 they're gonna, they're gonna pull their troops out. Well, they 40 00:03:08,199 --> 00:03:10,800 aren't in Iran, but there's certainly a lot of them 41 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:13,000 in that area, and I don't know how far away 42 00:03:13,039 --> 00:03:15,639 they have to be. So it's not a done deal, 43 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:19,719 but that was a big deal that the House enacted 44 00:03:19,759 --> 00:03:22,199 the War Powers Act last night, so we'll see where 45 00:03:22,199 --> 00:03:26,280 it goes from there. The four Republicans that sided with 46 00:03:26,319 --> 00:03:31,360 the Democrats, Tom Barrett from Michigan, Tom Massey from Kentucky, 47 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:38,639 Congressman Fitzpatrick from Pennsylvania, and Warren Davidson from Ohio. Here's 48 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:42,759 a clip of three of them, starting with Tom Barrett, 49 00:03:42,759 --> 00:03:45,240 then Tom Massey, then Congressman Fitzpatrick. 50 00:03:45,719 --> 00:03:48,319 Speaker 2: And how much pain is there are your constituents feeling 51 00:03:48,439 --> 00:03:49,560 as a result of this horror? 52 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:52,680 Speaker 3: Well, you know, I think that people are frustrated, certainly, 53 00:03:52,719 --> 00:03:55,400 but that's not the only consideration in this There are 54 00:03:55,719 --> 00:03:58,280 a variety of considerations that we have to take into account. 55 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:00,360 But I definitely see that, I definitely feel what people 56 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:01,560 are experiencing back home. 57 00:04:01,680 --> 00:04:03,159 Speaker 4: The vote is a good vote. 58 00:04:03,319 --> 00:04:05,400 Speaker 5: It says we're done with this war. 59 00:04:05,639 --> 00:04:08,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, you didn't come and get authorization, and now we're 60 00:04:08,879 --> 00:04:12,319 doing the opposite of authorizing, we're deauthorizing. There's a law 61 00:04:12,319 --> 00:04:15,280 in the books in the last sixty days. I don't 62 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:18,319 see what's complicated about it. Bring it to Congress, debate 63 00:04:18,319 --> 00:04:20,240 it on the merits and have his vote. That's the 64 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:21,720 way the system is supposed to work. 65 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:25,079 Speaker 4: He's going to come after you. Are you worried about it? No? 66 00:04:25,079 --> 00:04:28,079 Speaker 2: No, I got to do my job and we'll continue 67 00:04:28,079 --> 00:04:28,680 to do my job. 68 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:34,759 Speaker 1: And that was Barrett from Michigan, Massi from Kentucky, and 69 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:41,120 Fitzpatrick from Pennsylvania. In politics, Well, today's Thursdays. The vote 70 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:46,560 was on Tuesday. I'm fascinated because I lived in California 71 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:49,560 for I don't know, thirty seven years something like that, 72 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:53,439 and I remember that on election night they would have 73 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:55,959 the results of who got elected all the way down 74 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:58,879 to the county dogcatcher. They would have that by the 75 00:04:58,920 --> 00:05:06,040 eleven o'clock news. So California has really changed, and they 76 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:10,040 keep passing laws that make no sense. They apparently have 77 00:05:10,199 --> 00:05:13,879 laws that it goes back to this whole business about 78 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:18,680 every registered voter in California gets a ballot in the mail. 79 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:21,680 And by the way, I need to correct something from yesterday. 80 00:05:22,199 --> 00:05:25,920 I thought they had something like a couple million registered voters. No, 81 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:29,480 they've got the population of California's about forty two million, 82 00:05:29,759 --> 00:05:33,759 and they've got twenty three million registered voters. So twenty 83 00:05:33,759 --> 00:05:37,480 three million people got ballots. How many of them return 84 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:41,680 them don't know yet, they don't know, they're still counting. 85 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:46,079 It may be weeks before we know who won the 86 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:50,120 mayor of Los Angeles, who won the primary, not the 87 00:05:50,959 --> 00:05:54,040 general in November. And also the same with who stacks 88 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:57,600 up for the governor's race, who's number one and number two? 89 00:05:58,639 --> 00:06:03,959 So why is California? Well, listen to this guy. This 90 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:08,839 guy is his name is Dean Logan, and he's, I believe, 91 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:14,279 the recorder of all of this in Los Angeles, and 92 00:06:14,439 --> 00:06:17,160 he doesn't seem to have any problem with the fact 93 00:06:17,199 --> 00:06:18,399 that it's going to take them forever. 94 00:06:18,879 --> 00:06:22,519 Speaker 6: Importing to state that in the days ahead, you will 95 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:26,759 likely hear from voices, some big voices, some loud voices, 96 00:06:26,959 --> 00:06:31,160 that it's crazy, that maybe it's even stupid that it 97 00:06:31,199 --> 00:06:34,079 takes this long for votes to be counted in California. 98 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:37,319 I want to emphasize it's not stupid, it's not crazy. 99 00:06:37,399 --> 00:06:41,639 It's actually the law in California. You see, there's the problem. 100 00:06:42,079 --> 00:06:44,240 He says, Well, it's the law, and it never was 101 00:06:44,319 --> 00:06:48,040 the law before. Somebody's passed the law recently where they've 102 00:06:48,079 --> 00:06:50,480 made it so that it's next to impossible for them 103 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:54,839 to find their results. And okay, we'll get the results someday. 104 00:06:54,879 --> 00:06:58,319 But it does make you wonder why ever, forty nine 105 00:06:58,360 --> 00:07:02,560 of the fifty states can get their results that same evening, 106 00:07:03,199 --> 00:07:06,959 but California cannot. And they are the home of the 107 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:12,079 biggest technologies companies in the world. They seem to think 108 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:15,040 there's nothing. Well, the law says, well who wrote the law? 109 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:17,800 And I'll tell you what the problem is. It's the 110 00:07:17,839 --> 00:07:20,560 mail in ballots. A lot of places have mail in ballots. 111 00:07:21,079 --> 00:07:23,920 State of Washington, state of Oregon, they both have mandatory 112 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:28,160 mail in ballots to all of their citizens. There's something 113 00:07:28,279 --> 00:07:31,600 wrong with the way California does this. And here's the 114 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:34,680 problem with mail in ballots, and here's the problem with 115 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:38,279 where they are with a delay of weeks, if not months, 116 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:46,279 is that it breeds suspicion. It breeds people going where 117 00:07:46,319 --> 00:07:49,120 all of a sudden they find, oh, they found another 118 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:54,079 whole case of ballots behind the garbage can out in 119 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:54,600 the alley. 120 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:57,319 Speaker 1: Well, we better count those. And so then you get 121 00:07:57,319 --> 00:08:02,560 into that question about where did these other surprise ballots 122 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:07,920 come from? What was the monitoring of the ballot boxes 123 00:08:07,959 --> 00:08:12,439 where people dropped their ballots. Well, there's it raises lots 124 00:08:12,439 --> 00:08:17,439 of questions and it creates conspiracies. It's not a good 125 00:08:17,639 --> 00:08:22,040 way to do the election. But that's what this Dean 126 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:24,639 Logan is. The guy he just heard, he's the La 127 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:28,360 County recorder. He doesn't seem to have any problem with it. 128 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:33,960 Steve Hilton, who we think is the number one spot 129 00:08:34,159 --> 00:08:37,559 for the runoff for governor, he was talking last night 130 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:39,360 about how this is driving him crazy. 131 00:08:39,399 --> 00:08:42,120 Speaker 4: To by the end of last night it was something 132 00:08:42,159 --> 00:08:44,679 I don't know. I'm fifty percent counted with it. Nearly 133 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:46,720 a whole day later, it's about fifty five percent. 134 00:08:47,039 --> 00:08:48,000 Speaker 2: What have they been doing? 135 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:49,519 Speaker 4: What is going on? 136 00:08:49,879 --> 00:08:53,120 Speaker 7: It is an absolute humiliation and abject failure. 137 00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:56,919 Speaker 1: Truly is a failure, and they looked, They looked really bad. 138 00:08:58,879 --> 00:09:01,600 The guy who knows everything about politics inside and out, 139 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:04,440 Carl Rove, see what he has to say from this. 140 00:09:04,879 --> 00:09:07,480 I have a one rule that applies to both, which 141 00:09:07,519 --> 00:09:11,279 is that the late ballots tend to come from younger 142 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:14,519 voters and therefore tend to be a little bit more liberal. 143 00:09:14,960 --> 00:09:17,639 So I would not be surprised if from here on out, 144 00:09:18,039 --> 00:09:22,320 the gap between Bessera and Hilton titans. That is to say, 145 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:25,759 Besarah moves up Hilton moves a little down, and I 146 00:09:25,799 --> 00:09:28,000 wouldn't be surprised to see the same thing happen in 147 00:09:29,039 --> 00:09:32,639 Los Angeles with the Pratt and Bass, and the third candidate, 148 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:35,600 who's even more liberal than Bass, is likely to move 149 00:09:35,679 --> 00:09:38,720 up as well. But you know, Steve Hilton is right, 150 00:09:38,720 --> 00:09:41,480 this is just absurd. You know, we are not going 151 00:09:41,559 --> 00:09:43,600 to know the outcome, the final numbers of this for 152 00:09:43,759 --> 00:09:48,919 days and weeks. And the Secretary of State of California 153 00:09:48,919 --> 00:09:51,519 said this is normal. Well, if this is normal, it's 154 00:09:51,519 --> 00:09:54,440 one more reason why California looks like a joke. All Right. 155 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:56,000 I brought this up a couple of times, as we 156 00:09:56,080 --> 00:09:59,559 call ready. But there's a lot of publicity about on 157 00:09:59,639 --> 00:10:02,679 the main extreme media making sure that you know that 158 00:10:02,799 --> 00:10:09,080 Donald Trump's approval ratings have dropped significantly. So what about 159 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:13,519 the Democrats. What's not being reported is very I mean 160 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:18,679 I'm sharing it is that the Democrats are also very unpopular. 161 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:22,039 So when you look at in fact, they're less popular 162 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:25,960 than Donald Trump. Yes, so when you look at it, 163 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:28,720 there's all these surveys that are taken about you're going 164 00:10:28,759 --> 00:10:31,600 to vote Republican? Are you going to vote Democrat? These 165 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:38,080 vague general questions and Carl weighs in on that, well, look, 166 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:41,279 I'm not certain how much change there really is. You've 167 00:10:41,279 --> 00:10:44,240 got into the nitty gritty of these measures. How likely 168 00:10:44,279 --> 00:10:46,120 are you to vote, are you served to vote? Et cetera, 169 00:10:46,120 --> 00:10:46,480 et cetera. 170 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:48,799 Speaker 5: But if you look at just the top line numbers 171 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:52,879 among all the respondents in the survey in May, it 172 00:10:52,919 --> 00:10:55,600 was fifty six D forty five R. The D's had 173 00:10:55,639 --> 00:10:58,840 a one point advantage. In April it's forty eight forty four, 174 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:02,519 a four point advance. So the Democrats in the Marquette 175 00:11:02,519 --> 00:11:05,639 survey have dropped two and the Republicans have added one, 176 00:11:06,039 --> 00:11:08,720 which is inside the margin of error. Essentially, if you 177 00:11:08,799 --> 00:11:11,720 look at this one pole, what it suggests is is 178 00:11:11,759 --> 00:11:14,399 that there hasn't been much change. But if there is 179 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:17,279 any change, it's to the advantage of the Republicans. But 180 00:11:17,480 --> 00:11:20,279 we're losing the big picture. We need to step back. 181 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:23,440 We're a highly polarized country. We've just gone through a 182 00:11:23,480 --> 00:11:27,360 mid decade redistrict team that has mildly advantage to the Republicans, 183 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:30,039 and the question is how big a gap do the 184 00:11:30,039 --> 00:11:32,960 Democrats need in order to pull off a significant sweep 185 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:36,519 in the House of Representatives And having a Democrat advantage 186 00:11:36,559 --> 00:11:39,360 of one ain't much. A Democrat advantage of four is 187 00:11:39,399 --> 00:11:42,519 significantly better. But I'm thinking that they need to have 188 00:11:42,559 --> 00:11:49,639 at least five or six minimum lead in the advantage 189 00:11:49,679 --> 00:11:52,720 on the ballot if they're going to take the House 190 00:11:52,759 --> 00:11:55,600 with a significant margin. The reason is is that so 191 00:11:55,720 --> 00:11:58,799 many seats send me so many more. Democrat seats are 192 00:11:59,799 --> 00:12:04,480 earthurban and hence highly Democrat, and the Republican seats, even 193 00:12:04,519 --> 00:12:08,159 when they're in highly conservative rural America, are not as 194 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:12,799 conservative as not as Republican as their urban counterparts are Democrats. 195 00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:16,360 So the Democrats right today have an advantage, but it's 196 00:12:16,559 --> 00:12:19,960 likely to reduce a produce a relatively small margin in 197 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:23,480 the House elections. And remember this is a contest between 198 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:27,919 two unfavorables. The President's unfavorabilities at forty percent. The Democratic 199 00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:32,440 Party's unfavorability is below thirty seven. So who's less popular? 200 00:12:32,679 --> 00:12:34,039 And how's that going to affect the out here in 201 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:37,840 great analys. Well, let's check in with Jim Assina. He's 202 00:12:37,879 --> 00:12:41,039 been talking lately. Jim is considered to be the guru 203 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:46,519 of Democrat campaign managers. He got Barack Obama elected. He's 204 00:12:46,519 --> 00:12:48,559 a very smart guy. He's like Carl Rove. 205 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:51,399 Speaker 1: He knows the ins and outs of all the things 206 00:12:51,440 --> 00:12:54,440 going on in politics in our country. So he was 207 00:12:54,639 --> 00:12:58,759 asked about his view of how the Democrats are doing. 208 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:02,279 Speaker 8: That's a myth because we all thought that the ascended 209 00:13:02,360 --> 00:13:05,440 Coalition of Barack Obama was going to save the party. 210 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:08,639 We're going to have more and more young people, African Americans, 211 00:13:08,679 --> 00:13:12,720 Latinos voting, and we're going to win the national fight 212 00:13:12,879 --> 00:13:15,799 because of it. Until the twenty twenty four election, will 213 00:13:15,919 --> 00:13:18,519 you all have reported on this ad nauseum. You know, 214 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:22,480 Donald Trump did much better and got to almost parody 215 00:13:22,559 --> 00:13:26,559 with Latino voters, doubled his support with African American voters, 216 00:13:27,080 --> 00:13:30,440 did historically well with young male voters, and yet the 217 00:13:30,480 --> 00:13:34,200 Democrats sort of ignored the seventy two percent of voters 218 00:13:34,519 --> 00:13:37,639 who are white voters and decided it was all about 219 00:13:37,639 --> 00:13:41,840 this ascended coalition. The truth is Barack Obama won two 220 00:13:41,919 --> 00:13:45,240 elections because he did both. He excited his base, but 221 00:13:45,279 --> 00:13:48,000 he also talked to swing voters and turned them out 222 00:13:48,519 --> 00:13:52,000 in big numbers. We have to treat these what we 223 00:13:52,039 --> 00:13:55,440 think our base groups, Latinos, African Americans, young voters. We 224 00:13:55,519 --> 00:13:59,320 have to treat them like persuasion targets, not turnout targets. 225 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:02,039 We've got to make our case to them. We didn't 226 00:14:02,080 --> 00:14:04,159 in the last election, and if we don't do that 227 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:06,399 in this midterm, we will lose again. 228 00:14:06,639 --> 00:14:10,200 Speaker 1: Interesting, he basically said, the Democrats focused on all these 229 00:14:10,279 --> 00:14:15,600 various groups, the African Americans and Latinos and all these 230 00:14:15,679 --> 00:14:18,320 other groups, and the seventy two percent of the voters 231 00:14:18,320 --> 00:14:24,559 were white people and they totally ignored them. That was 232 00:14:25,159 --> 00:14:32,039 a mistake. Plus the Republicans focused on minority voters. So 233 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:36,559 back to Messina, he's talking about every election is not 234 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:37,840 like the previous election. 235 00:14:38,759 --> 00:14:41,080 Speaker 8: In twenty twenty two, we won an election on abortion, 236 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:43,000 and that was great and it was a big upset. 237 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:44,960 But in twenty twenty four, we thought it was the 238 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:48,279 same election, and yet abortion was the seventh most popular 239 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:51,240 issue and we lost the economic argument, which was the 240 00:14:51,320 --> 00:14:55,799 number one issue by twelve points. We can't do that. However, 241 00:14:56,559 --> 00:14:58,919 when you look at the demographics and midterm elections in 242 00:14:58,960 --> 00:15:02,759 twenty twenty six shape something much better for Democrats. It 243 00:15:02,879 --> 00:15:06,320 is older voters, it is more women voters, especially upper 244 00:15:06,399 --> 00:15:10,679 educated voters, where Democrats are doing historically well. So if 245 00:15:10,679 --> 00:15:13,080 we can continue to learn the lessons from twenty twenty 246 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:17,519 four and have a mid term election turnout. We could 247 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:20,559 do very very well. We've just again got to do 248 00:15:20,639 --> 00:15:23,039 both things. Turn our base out and talk to these 249 00:15:23,120 --> 00:15:24,440 persuadable voters. 250 00:15:24,759 --> 00:15:28,279 Speaker 1: But the problem with well both parties, but the Democrats 251 00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:32,000 are faced with you've got different groups. You've got far left, 252 00:15:32,080 --> 00:15:36,159 you've got moderate, and you've got something in between. And 253 00:15:36,320 --> 00:15:38,639 Harry Enton has been doing a lot of work about 254 00:15:38,679 --> 00:15:40,879 trying to figure out who the Democrats are, and he 255 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:44,240 says they're having trouble trying to figure out who they are. 256 00:15:44,399 --> 00:15:47,159 Speaker 9: Problem which is Democrats aren't sure what direction they want 257 00:15:47,159 --> 00:15:49,360 their party to go. Democrats want their party to move 258 00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:52,639 left twenty eight percent, not move at all eighteen percent, 259 00:15:52,840 --> 00:15:56,080 move center forty seven percent. This is a party divided 260 00:15:56,120 --> 00:15:58,600 where they're not actually giving a clear message of where 261 00:15:58,639 --> 00:16:00,840 they want their party to go. The one thing I 262 00:16:00,879 --> 00:16:03,039 will say is sixty one percent of all voters want 263 00:16:03,080 --> 00:16:04,759 their party movie at center. So if all of a sudden, 264 00:16:04,799 --> 00:16:06,879 Democrats are actually going to move to the left, which 265 00:16:06,919 --> 00:16:09,639 is not what their party wants, that will actually upset 266 00:16:09,879 --> 00:16:12,600 the rest of the electorate. The only thing that really 267 00:16:12,639 --> 00:16:15,279 unites Democrats right now is they are very upset with 268 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:17,720 Donald Trump, and I think the candidates were able to 269 00:16:17,759 --> 00:16:20,360 actually capture that. That's the candidate who are going to 270 00:16:20,360 --> 00:16:21,320 advance the general election. 271 00:16:21,440 --> 00:16:24,000 Speaker 1: Yes, but can they win the general election by saying 272 00:16:24,840 --> 00:16:28,039 I hate Donald Trump's vote for me. It hasn't worked. 273 00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:34,080 Hillary tried it, Kamala tried it. So it just it 274 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:41,240 doesn't work. In other news, John Bolton, who I admire Bolton. 275 00:16:41,279 --> 00:16:46,039 I think he's extremely smart, but he got on the 276 00:16:46,080 --> 00:16:50,240 wrong side of President Trump. He was his national security 277 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:53,200 advisor in Trump one point zero. He was the UN 278 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:58,720 ambassador back at George W. Bush's day. But he apparently 279 00:16:58,720 --> 00:17:01,240 would do things I do so things, but I'm not 280 00:17:01,320 --> 00:17:05,920 dealing with national security. He emailed, I will have things 281 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:10,279 on my computer here at work, and I want to 282 00:17:11,119 --> 00:17:13,680 save them on my personal computer or work on some 283 00:17:14,279 --> 00:17:17,680 project on my personal computer. So I'll email myself some 284 00:17:17,799 --> 00:17:21,000 of the files from my work computer. Well apparently he 285 00:17:21,319 --> 00:17:24,000 did that too. But the problem with the files for 286 00:17:24,119 --> 00:17:28,839 John Bolton was they were national security files and they 287 00:17:30,359 --> 00:17:35,279 he was accused of basically violating all the rules about 288 00:17:35,279 --> 00:17:39,240 classified documents. And they said, you got classified documents on 289 00:17:39,279 --> 00:17:42,640 your personal computer at home? So back and forth they go. 290 00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:47,240 John Bolton who graduated at the top of his class 291 00:17:47,680 --> 00:17:50,519 law school at Yale, so he knows the law, and 292 00:17:50,640 --> 00:17:54,559 apparently he's worked out a deal because today the news 293 00:17:54,559 --> 00:17:59,279 came out he is going to plead guilty to one count. 294 00:17:59,359 --> 00:18:03,640 They had eight counts against him, one count of violating 295 00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:08,240 the National Security Act. John Miller, former counter intelligence guy 296 00:18:08,319 --> 00:18:10,680 with the NYPD, chimes. 297 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:13,279 Speaker 4: In, well, this is John Bolton caught between Iraq and 298 00:18:13,319 --> 00:18:16,000 a hard place when he wrote this book in the 299 00:18:16,119 --> 00:18:19,359 room where it happened. The Justice Department came out with 300 00:18:19,440 --> 00:18:22,440 a civil suit trying to block the publication because it 301 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:26,079 had classified material in it. But it's been years later 302 00:18:26,279 --> 00:18:29,160 when the Trump Justice Department, under then Attorney General Pam 303 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:32,440 Bondi last October, and I think this is a book 304 00:18:32,480 --> 00:18:36,720 that came out in twenty twenty last October, indicted him 305 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:41,720 on eighteen counts, as Caitlin Pollenz told us, of retaining 306 00:18:41,759 --> 00:18:48,400 classified information, transmitting classified information, and failing to disclose when 307 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:51,839 it turned out that it was believed that the Iranians 308 00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:55,279 had hacked his computer to government officials that there was 309 00:18:55,319 --> 00:18:59,359 classified information in there. So each one of those eighteen 310 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:02,960 counts is ten year count for the disclosure of national 311 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:07,240 defense information. He could have been facing a significant amount 312 00:19:07,359 --> 00:19:10,880 of time in prison if he were convicted. Even if 313 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:14,599 he was convicted and all of the charges were bundled 314 00:19:14,599 --> 00:19:17,839 into one ten year or five year term, it's a 315 00:19:17,839 --> 00:19:21,680 big risk. So this guilty plea is John Bolton saying, 316 00:19:22,240 --> 00:19:25,839 let's get a recommendation from prosecutors on a sentence, Let's 317 00:19:26,039 --> 00:19:28,680 get a deal with the government. Let's boil this down 318 00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:31,240 to one count and try to get out of it. 319 00:19:31,559 --> 00:19:33,640 Speaker 1: But you heard John Miller talked about the fact that 320 00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:36,720 he was going to publish a book. He was on 321 00:19:36,799 --> 00:19:39,799 the outs with Donald Trump, and so Donald Trump or 322 00:19:39,839 --> 00:19:43,000 somebody in the White House did not want that book published. 323 00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:45,759 So they sued him and said he has national security 324 00:19:46,079 --> 00:19:49,640 documents and information in there. And so it went through 325 00:19:50,119 --> 00:19:54,920 the whole process of being approved to be printed, and 326 00:19:55,000 --> 00:20:01,960 he got approval from whoever approves national secure documents and said, no, 327 00:20:02,079 --> 00:20:05,920 this is fine. He's not disclosing anything that is a 328 00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:09,440 classified document. So they told him it was okay. Then 329 00:20:10,079 --> 00:20:14,079 I have the book in my library, it's been out, 330 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:17,440 I've read it. I didn't find anything that seemed to 331 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:22,559 be a national secret. But apparently technically he must have 332 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:27,039 violated something and you were also John Miller say that 333 00:20:27,160 --> 00:20:32,319 each count has a possible ten year prison sentence. So 334 00:20:33,079 --> 00:20:38,000 Ellie Honig, former Southern District of New York federal prosecutor, 335 00:20:38,799 --> 00:20:40,359 also had some comments. 336 00:20:40,559 --> 00:20:44,240 Speaker 7: I think this case is fundamentally different than those other cases, 337 00:20:44,319 --> 00:20:47,720 than the prosecutions of, for example, Letitia James and Jim 338 00:20:47,759 --> 00:20:50,720 call Me, the attempted prosecution of Senator Mark Kelly, the 339 00:20:50,799 --> 00:20:53,119 other cases that we would consider to be part of 340 00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:56,480 the political payback agenda that Donald Trump has pushed here, 341 00:20:56,559 --> 00:20:58,839 I think the Bolton case is entirely separate for a 342 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:01,680 couple of main reasons. One, the reporting is that this 343 00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:05,480 investigation goes back to the Biden administration and predates the 344 00:21:05,519 --> 00:21:08,839 current Trump administration. In two, the conduct that John Bolton 345 00:21:09,039 --> 00:21:11,200 has been charged with and now apparently we'll be pleading 346 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:14,519 to some of it is quite serious. It's quite straightforward. 347 00:21:14,559 --> 00:21:17,480 This is not some manufactured crime, as John Miller just 348 00:21:17,559 --> 00:21:20,279 laid out for us. John Bolton took the highest level 349 00:21:20,359 --> 00:21:23,880 sensitive and classified information which he got in his capacity 350 00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:26,839 as a key White House advisor, and he disseminated it 351 00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:30,359 to others. That is a straightforward crime, and so I 352 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:33,920 do not categorize the Bolton case along with those other cases. 353 00:21:33,920 --> 00:21:35,559 I think it's fundamentally different. 354 00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:39,079 Speaker 1: Illegally and technically. The answer is yeah, I alway's right, 355 00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:42,400 but I still think it was they went after him 356 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:45,480 because of the fact that he got sideways with the 357 00:21:45,599 --> 00:21:49,759 President Trump. But now the question is how long of 358 00:21:49,799 --> 00:21:53,440 a sentence is a judge going to give him? Going 359 00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:56,359 to be interesting. Another guy who is on the outs 360 00:21:56,400 --> 00:22:01,160 with a lot of people in Congress, but not on 361 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:03,559 the outs with President Trump, and that is Bill POULTI 362 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:06,079 we talked a little bit about it yesterday. He's been 363 00:22:06,759 --> 00:22:10,839 nominated by President Trump to be the Acting Director of 364 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:16,960 National Intelligence, the head DNI of all our nation's secrets. 365 00:22:17,519 --> 00:22:22,000 And somebody described him yesterday as a political hitman. That's 366 00:22:22,039 --> 00:22:25,559 because as the as the head of the Federal Home 367 00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:30,160 Mortgage Finance Corporation, he went after Lisa Cook over at 368 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:34,920 the FED, and he went after Adam Schiff, and I 369 00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:37,759 don't know who he hit. All political hits, if you will. 370 00:22:38,599 --> 00:22:41,039 As I mentioned yesterday, he did not go after Scott 371 00:22:41,079 --> 00:22:44,240 Bessen's the Treasury Secretary who has the same problem of 372 00:22:44,279 --> 00:22:46,839 having two homes, in which he claimed that they're both 373 00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:53,200 his primary residents. But regardless, he has no qualifications. He 374 00:22:53,279 --> 00:22:57,839 has no background in intelligence. He came from the Poulti Group, 375 00:22:57,920 --> 00:23:00,920 which is one of the nation's largest home builders. His 376 00:23:01,039 --> 00:23:05,920 grandfather started the company, and the grandfather brought his grandson, 377 00:23:06,079 --> 00:23:10,799 Bill Poulty into the company. And yet after the grandfather died, 378 00:23:10,839 --> 00:23:15,119 the board of directors literally threw Bill Poulty out of 379 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:19,240 the company. They did not like him. He was nothing 380 00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:23,359 but trouble for them. And he's been not well liked 381 00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:28,359 in the mortgage business either. So Speaker of Mike Johnson 382 00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:31,680 was asked by a reporter today about, well, well, what 383 00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:33,759 are you guys going to do about Bill Poulty? 384 00:23:34,359 --> 00:23:36,440 Speaker 6: Do you think that Bill Poulty is qualified to be 385 00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:38,480 the acting Director of National Intelligence? And do you think 386 00:23:38,519 --> 00:23:41,039 you can still pass a bipartisan fis a deal given 387 00:23:41,039 --> 00:23:42,519 some of the Democratic pushback to that. 388 00:23:43,279 --> 00:23:44,039 Speaker 4: So here's the thing. 389 00:23:44,519 --> 00:23:47,640 Speaker 6: The president obviously has a prerogative, the prerogative and the 390 00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:50,079 choice on po We had points to these positions and 391 00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:53,359 this would be an interim appointment, but. 392 00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:57,640 Speaker 1: He dodged that. But I agree with Mike Johnson, the 393 00:23:57,680 --> 00:24:00,559 president has the right to choose whoever he for the 394 00:24:00,599 --> 00:24:05,279 positions that are especially his cabinet. This is a cabinet 395 00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:12,680 level job. But man alive. Really this guy Roger Chris 396 00:24:12,759 --> 00:24:18,079 and Morphy, big Democrat, he's on the Intelligence Committee, and 397 00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:19,440 he doesn't like this at all. 398 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:23,759 Speaker 10: Well, it's time to pull Pulty. That was a non 399 00:24:23,839 --> 00:24:27,920 answer from the speaker. He didn't want to voice his 400 00:24:28,039 --> 00:24:30,599 support for this person. And there's a good reason why. 401 00:24:30,759 --> 00:24:34,480 He's completely inexperienced and unqualified for the position as a 402 00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:37,039 member of the Intelligence Committee. I look at this guy 403 00:24:37,519 --> 00:24:39,799 and what I see is that his claim to fame 404 00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:44,480 being a housing official is basically using sensitive information to 405 00:24:44,559 --> 00:24:48,720 go after Donald Trump's political enemies. Now imagine why he's 406 00:24:48,759 --> 00:24:53,119 being hired now to head the intelligence community. It's to 407 00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:57,319 basically use sensitive and potentially classified information to go after 408 00:24:57,359 --> 00:25:03,559 Donald Trump's political enemies. That is completely outrageous. The intelligence 409 00:25:03,559 --> 00:25:08,079 community performs a vital role in telling the truth about 410 00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:13,640 foreign threats, and we cannot have someone so unqualified in 411 00:25:13,799 --> 00:25:17,799 experience with nefarious motives in that position. 412 00:25:18,279 --> 00:25:20,160 Speaker 1: The other thing they're worried about is it's a very 413 00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:23,240 powerful position, being in charge of our national intelligence. Is 414 00:25:23,279 --> 00:25:26,200 to use it to somehow say that the midterm elections 415 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:30,039 in November are rigged something long. That's what the Democrats 416 00:25:30,079 --> 00:25:31,839 are worried about. We're going to keep an eye on this. 417 00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:37,400 It truly. My two sense is, whoever runs the intelligence 418 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:43,640 of our country should not be easily aligned with Democrat 419 00:25:43,839 --> 00:25:48,119 or Republican politics. It should be as a political job 420 00:25:48,519 --> 00:25:50,759 as you can possibly find. Problem is, trying to find 421 00:25:50,799 --> 00:25:55,079 somebody like that, especially in today's world, is very, very difficult. 422 00:25:56,039 --> 00:26:01,839 So they're also speaking of fraud. We've got a couple 423 00:26:01,839 --> 00:26:04,799 of things going on. One of them is there have 424 00:26:04,839 --> 00:26:08,079 been you may have seen it on the news where 425 00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:12,720 there are there are riots mostly in the evening, but 426 00:26:12,839 --> 00:26:17,519 certainly on the Saturday, Friday night and Saturday night at 427 00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:22,319 the detention center. It's called Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, 428 00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:29,480 and Charles Marino, who is a retired Social Secret Service officer, 429 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:37,359 talks about the fact that this is orchestrated. It is planned, 430 00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:41,079 it is plotted. They use all kinds of whether it's 431 00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:44,319 telegraph or signal or something online. That's that keeps it 432 00:26:44,319 --> 00:26:50,519 a secret. There's lots of supplies, gas masks, you name it. 433 00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:57,440 So this protest against ICE and their facility at Delaney 434 00:26:57,480 --> 00:27:01,839 Hall in Newark, New Jersey is a political hit job. 435 00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:03,440 Here's Charles Marino. 436 00:27:04,039 --> 00:27:08,240 Speaker 2: Well, no surprise that this is all extremely organized and 437 00:27:08,279 --> 00:27:14,240 coordinated on the financial side, on the other material support side, 438 00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:17,960 like these supplies that we see being dropped in the 439 00:27:18,039 --> 00:27:22,480 vicinity of Delaney Hall, and finally also on the communication 440 00:27:22,759 --> 00:27:28,640 side that includes internal communications and external communications, so they're 441 00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:33,559 provided essentially talking points. They're educated about an inch deep 442 00:27:33,559 --> 00:27:36,440 and a mile wide on the issues that they're protesting, 443 00:27:36,759 --> 00:27:42,359 but they're told to use those buzzwords to invite, insite, facilitate, 444 00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:47,240 and basically bring forward everything that we are seeing play 445 00:27:47,279 --> 00:27:50,720 out outside of that detention facility to try and make 446 00:27:50,759 --> 00:27:54,480 it as hard as possible for law enforcement agencies like 447 00:27:54,519 --> 00:28:00,039 the FBI to infiltrate their groups either physically or in 448 00:28:00,079 --> 00:28:03,480 to one of those messaging apps. The other thing is 449 00:28:03,559 --> 00:28:07,759 on the financing side. Unfortunately, we are going to find, 450 00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:11,359 based on the nature of these organizations that are providing 451 00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:15,640 the money, that US tax dollars are being used for 452 00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:19,880 the very behavior that we're seeing, which is very disturbing. 453 00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:23,920 The other thing is the list of private donors to 454 00:28:24,039 --> 00:28:27,920 these organizations. This is likely what the FBI is focusing 455 00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:31,119 on right now. Yes, we know it's from the extreme 456 00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:35,960 radical left, but now it's time we need names. We 457 00:28:36,039 --> 00:28:39,039 need to know who the private donors are and to 458 00:28:39,079 --> 00:28:42,759 confirm that tax dollars are making their way to these 459 00:28:43,079 --> 00:28:47,000 non governmental organizations. We saw this play out during the 460 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:51,400 Biden crisis, where these NGOs were serving as an extension 461 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:55,160 of the Department of Homeland Security to facilitate all of 462 00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:59,640 the illegal immigration of unvetted immigrants into the country. We're 463 00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:02,599 going to say the same thing playing out here and 464 00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:03,640 it's got to stop. 465 00:29:04,519 --> 00:29:07,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, people have the right to protest, but that's not 466 00:29:07,519 --> 00:29:11,359 what this is. People are being paid by these NGOs 467 00:29:12,079 --> 00:29:16,160 to go out there and raise havoc and go after 468 00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:22,759 his ice facility, but also border protection. They want to 469 00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:27,079 overthrow our form of government, and this is one of 470 00:29:27,119 --> 00:29:30,599 the ways that they just just keep chipping away to 471 00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:34,599 see if they can make any progress. So they're going 472 00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:38,359 after a lot of the money donors on this because 473 00:29:38,359 --> 00:29:42,920 they're not there to protest. And this afternoon they also 474 00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:49,000 came out in Ohio. Doctor Oz was there, the Attorney 475 00:29:49,039 --> 00:29:54,039 Assistant Acting Attorney General, Todd Blanche. They're there to go 476 00:29:54,079 --> 00:29:58,039 after a fraud that they're finding in the Medicare program 477 00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:03,480 in Ohio. Von Miller again weighs in on the fact 478 00:30:03,519 --> 00:30:06,079 that they're going around state to state to try to 479 00:30:06,119 --> 00:30:11,160 crack down finally to crack down on some really obvious fraud. 480 00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:14,599 Speaker 4: Well, this is a large effort on the part of 481 00:30:14,599 --> 00:30:17,440 the federal government to go state by state and to 482 00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:24,400 look into these programs. You'll recall the Minnesota childcare programs 483 00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:27,680 that were prevalent in the Somali community there and the 484 00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:30,279 fraud that was charged in those cases. They moved on 485 00:30:30,319 --> 00:30:34,480 to Ohio. But we're talking about thirty eight million dollars, 486 00:30:35,079 --> 00:30:38,480 two people charged with felony counts and then two more, 487 00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:41,599 both of them state employees who would have been the 488 00:30:41,599 --> 00:30:47,359 alleged inside people who pushed these billing processes through memet Oz, 489 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:51,039 the doctor Oz that we saw. He's the head of CMS, 490 00:30:51,119 --> 00:30:57,319 which is the Medicare Medicaid Administration in terms of taking 491 00:30:57,359 --> 00:31:00,599 care of one hundred and sixty million Americans. And they're 492 00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:05,920 talking about rampant fraud in Ohio involving numerous people, and 493 00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:09,200 that the state under Governor Mike Dewain, is about to 494 00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:13,920 suspend forty nine home healthcare outfits that they consider not 495 00:31:14,039 --> 00:31:18,319 necessarily charged in this but high risk for even more frauds. 496 00:31:18,319 --> 00:31:21,480 So I think we'll see more of this story rolling 497 00:31:21,559 --> 00:31:23,799 out in Ohio, and I think we'll see more of 498 00:31:23,799 --> 00:31:27,880 it rolling out in other states. There's a political backdrop here, 499 00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:32,839 which is these are programs that this administration through Congress 500 00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:36,480 has delivered serious cuts to, and there's a narrative that 501 00:31:36,599 --> 00:31:39,480 comes with that, which is not that there aren't people 502 00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:42,640 in need, but these programs are wasteful and subject to 503 00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:46,400 rampant frauds. So some of these cases are going to 504 00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:48,440 be seen as validation of those claims. 505 00:31:48,839 --> 00:31:52,480 Speaker 1: Yes, sir, I mean, I'm glad to see it. It 506 00:31:52,599 --> 00:31:56,279 sounds like the fraud was just so obvious to everybody. 507 00:31:56,759 --> 00:31:59,839 You can put in all kinds of fake claims that 508 00:31:59,880 --> 00:32:03,160 you were treating people for something, and the government wouldn't 509 00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:06,119 even question it. They would send you the money millions 510 00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:11,119 and millions of dollars. So today it's Ohio, a couple 511 00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:14,839 of weeks ago it was Minnesota, California. I think is 512 00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:18,920 also part of the latest active investigations. I hope they 513 00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:22,319 go around the country and crack down on this stuff 514 00:32:22,319 --> 00:32:26,680 so people think twice before they apply for fake claims. 515 00:32:27,319 --> 00:32:32,279 Wall Street, I don't know. You figure it out. Oh. 516 00:32:32,319 --> 00:32:35,079 By the way, again, I want to start a second 517 00:32:35,119 --> 00:32:41,319 podcast that where we take tackle people's financial questions, whether 518 00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:46,160 it's investing, whether it's borrowing, whether it is mutual funds 519 00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:52,160 or stocks or bonds or ETFs, or insurance, or saving 520 00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:55,920 for college, saving for a home purchase, saving whatever it 521 00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:58,759 might be for. We used to do this years ago. 522 00:32:59,319 --> 00:33:03,960 We take calls from people about their about their financial questions, 523 00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:07,400 and I'm getting some emails. Emails are fine as well. 524 00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:10,799 I prefer the calls, but emails work as well. You 525 00:33:10,839 --> 00:33:13,519 can find the phone number and the email address by 526 00:33:13,559 --> 00:33:17,200 going to my website, which is Tom Sullivan dot com. 527 00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:19,759 The phone number, if you have a pen, write it 528 00:33:19,799 --> 00:33:25,640 down eight five five two nine five sixty six hundred 529 00:33:26,359 --> 00:33:29,960 eight five five two nine five sixty six hundred. The 530 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:35,559 email address simple Tom Sullivan's Show at gmail dot com. 531 00:33:35,799 --> 00:33:39,000 All right, so today I've said you figure it out, 532 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:42,799 because yesterday we had the biggest drop in years on 533 00:33:42,839 --> 00:33:46,759 the Dow, and today it was up eight hundred and 534 00:33:46,839 --> 00:33:50,960 seventy five points, so it was totally a rebound. And 535 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:53,519 by the way, most of the stock market gains in 536 00:33:53,559 --> 00:33:58,359 the last I don't know since the beginning of the year, 537 00:33:58,759 --> 00:34:02,279 a lot of it has been around AI and about 538 00:34:02,359 --> 00:34:05,799 tech and the Magnificent seven is there called, and these 539 00:34:05,839 --> 00:34:08,480 are all tech companies that are leading the way with 540 00:34:08,599 --> 00:34:12,199 AI and that that's the future, and everybody's all excited 541 00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:15,480 about it. So the stocks for those companies have been 542 00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:19,000 going up, but they're out of the S and P 543 00:34:19,159 --> 00:34:22,920 five hundred. They're only seven stocks. Most of the other 544 00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:26,079 stocks have been doing some up, some down, but nothing 545 00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:30,800 nothing of great consequence. Well, now we're starting to see, 546 00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:34,679 at least today that the game broadening out. A lot 547 00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:39,639 of the Magnificent seven stocks have not participated today, not 548 00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:42,920 at all. So these are the rest of the stocks 549 00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:46,280 out there in the stock market. The Dow up, like 550 00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:50,599 I said, up eight hundred and seventy four to close 551 00:34:50,639 --> 00:34:53,360 at fifty one thousand and five sixty one. That is 552 00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:56,719 a new record. The S and P up thirty, the 553 00:34:56,840 --> 00:35:01,719 NASDAC see about those tech stocks, was down twenty three points. 554 00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:04,599 The price of gold up thirty nine dollars to four 555 00:35:04,639 --> 00:35:08,360 thousand and five oh four thousand and five oh six, 556 00:35:09,199 --> 00:35:14,840 and oil after again talk about the fact that maybe 557 00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:18,000 we're getting close to a peace agreement. I'll believe it 558 00:35:18,039 --> 00:35:22,039 when I see it. Oil fell almost three dollars, down 559 00:35:22,639 --> 00:35:25,639 to ninety three dollars, still very expensive for one barrel 560 00:35:25,679 --> 00:35:28,159 of oil. So that's it for today. Thank you for 561 00:35:28,199 --> 00:35:32,000 coming by. We will be back again tomorrow and I 562 00:35:32,039 --> 00:35:35,239 hope to see you then tomorrow, and I hope to 563 00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:35,800 see you then