WEBVTT - The U.S. Report | 22 August 0:00:02.520 --> 0:00:05.920 This is the US Report with James Morrow. 0:00:07.360 --> 0:00:10.400 Good evening and welcome to the program. Huge show. Tonight, 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:13.200 there's a new cop on the beat, Donald Trump takes 0:00:13.240 --> 0:00:15.600 to the streets of DC to help clean up the 0:00:15.680 --> 0:00:19.800 nation's capital. Plus stunning new numbers show the Democrats losing 0:00:19.800 --> 0:00:22.880 the registration race. I'll explain why this matters for the 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:27.400 midterms and beyond. And another American brand succumbs to the 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:33.200 temptation to go woke and they're already going broke. But first, 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:35.360 a lot to get through tonight, And in a moment, 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:37.360 I want to talk about Trump and Russia and the 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:41.199 absolutely appalling way that some in the media are absolutely 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:45.240 and I have to say, disgracefully cheerleading for the President's 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:49.160 peace efforts in Ukraine to fail, suggesting that they'd rather 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:52.680 have war than peace if it means denying the Donald 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:56.520 a win. But before that, there's some news out of 0:00:56.640 --> 0:00:59.280 New York where an appeals court has thrown out the 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:03.400 massive five hundred million dollar US that's half a billion 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:06.720 dollars fine levied on Donald Trump last year as a 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:10.720 result of the ridiculous business fraud case brought against him 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:15.920 by this woman New York Attorney General Letitia James. Now, 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:20.160 her case against the president was frankly ludicrous. It was preposterous. 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:24.560 She claimed that Trump committed fraud by inflating the value 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:28.759 of his businesses to get loans from the banks, loans 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:32.680 he paid back in full and on time. Now, of course, 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:37.200 there's no fraud in the bank's even testified in Trump's defense, saying, no, 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:41.080 there wasn't a problem. We were happy with the valuations 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:43.160 and we made money on the deals. It was fine. 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:48.880 But Letitia James, she was a partisan hack. Remember she 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:51.840 even ran for the office of Attorney general on a 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:57.840 platform of get Trump. It is fueling my soul right now, 0:01:57.920 --> 0:01:58.360 is Trump? 0:01:58.440 --> 0:01:59.280 Please see him? 0:01:59.280 --> 0:01:59.680 For us. 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:07.400 To go into the office of attorney general every day. 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:12.680 And then going home. Now, her case against Trump, you 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:15.799 will recall, was part of this series of civil lawsuits 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:20.000 and criminal charges brought against Trump during last year's election campaign, 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:24.280 in what appeared to be a coordinated effort to tie 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:27.520 Donald Trump up in the courts and be smirched his reputation, 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:31.079 perhaps even put him in jail to stop him from 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:36.680 becoming president. Well, how did that work out? Not so well? 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:39.799 In fact, that famous Georgia mugshot of his now hangs 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:42.720 as a souvenir on the wall of the Oval office. 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:46.040 And speaking of mugshots, Ta Teach James may be posing 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:49.320 for one for herself. Student enough, she's under pressure to 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:53.079 resign as she has investigated from Morgan fraud, where in 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:57.960 an ironic twist, she is being accused it's alleged of 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:02.160 falsifying documents to get better terms on her own personal mortgage. 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:06.240 Now some are saying that this is just Trump's revenge 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:10.120 and a weaponization of the judicial process. But I think 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:13.520 we know who started the ball rolling on that one, 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:17.240 and you know the old saying, plays stupid games, wins 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:22.000 studid prizes. Now, Trump, for his part, remains irrepressible on 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:25.359 this subject and has just posted this to his socials. 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:39.400 Do it no matter what money, everybody, and they stay there. 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:47.960 Poetic justice Now onto more waiting matters. And of course 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:50.280 I referred to Donald Trump's efforts to bring some sort 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:53.520 of peace to Ukraine a final boss challenge for the 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:56.320 president who has already helped broker peace deals in a 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:59.680 number of other conflicts around the world. Yet instead of 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:03.120 being gratulated for his efforts, much of the press is 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:06.240 sneering at him now I want to play you a 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:09.000 bit of what White House Press spokes when Carolyn Levitt 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:10.960 had to say on the subject the other day. 0:04:11.920 --> 0:04:15.440 Thing that has absolutely not changed is the media's negative 0:04:15.440 --> 0:04:18.719 and downright false coverage of President Trump and his foreign 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:23.080 policy accomplishments. From the beginning of this entire process, much 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:25.799 of the left wing media has been actively rooting against 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:29.719 the President of the United States in the pursuit of peace. Initially, 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:34.320 the media ridiculously claimed that President Trump was somehow beholden 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:36.560 to Russia for even agreeing to have a face to 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:40.200 face discussion with President Putin Inside of the United States. 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:43.280 The media said President Trump was making a grave mistake 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:46.960 by quote legitimizing Putin. They were aghast that President Chump 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:50.680 would treat another world leader like a world leader. The 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:53.839 media relentlessly attacked President Trump and claimed he suffered a 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:58.440 quote major defeat for not immediately emerging with a final agreement, 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:01.279 even though he said heading into that meeting, this was 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:03.840 a meeting to listen and to understand how to move 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:04.600 the ball forward. 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:10.039 I guess what she's right one every day of the week. 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:13.359 If the choice was between continued killing in Ukraine and 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:16.600 a piece that makes Trump look good. There is a 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:19.360 large segment of the American and I have to say 0:05:19.400 --> 0:05:23.360 Australian press as well, that would rather keep the meat 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:26.839 grinder going. Now, it's weird because the same left that 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:30.320 once protested America's endless wars seems to be the ones 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:32.680 you now want to keep this one going. Here's CNN, 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:34.560 the fact. 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:36.480 That he feels he's got to check in with Putin 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:41.800 right away, and that just as this meeting is taking place, 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:44.920 we get news that Putin is saying, by the way, 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:48.080 no NATO troops on the ground in Ukraine. That is unacceptable. 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:54.480 Still feels like Trump needs Putin's approval in a way 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:57.600 that's got to be very disturbing to Zelenski sitting there. 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:04.120 And here's Paul Reichoff on NBCJSE. 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:05.120 There's no taking a pass on the fight of our time. 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:09.000 There's no taking a pass on defending freedom from tyranny 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:12.679 and oppression. There's no taking a pass on the slaughter 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:16.240 of civilians which continues to happen. You know, this rhetoric 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:20.640 from Rubio and Trump and Vance is shameful. It's Unamerican, 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:23.640 It's a betrayal and a sellout of the Ukrainian people. 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:28.840 Also on MSNBC, here's Susan Rice, the former UN ambassador, 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:32.440 if you don't mind demonstrating what can only be described, frankly, 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:34.000 I'm sorry as plug ignorance. 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:39.280 Instead of doing the things that would strengthen the Ukrainian 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:45.599 Western NATO US partnership on their side of the table 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:49.800 against Putin, he is rolling out the red carpet, doing 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:53.400 military flyovers, giving him a ride in the presidential limousine, 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:57.599 and getting none of what he went to Alaska to get. 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:01.200 I'm sorry, what how broken is the I mean, have 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:05.279 these people never been involved in the negotiation in their lives? 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:08.720 They're so gullible though by the extended warranty on an 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:13.000 electric kettle. Seriously, that flyover Susan Wrightce refers to was 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:17.680 a show of American strength. Trump was flexing that he's 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:20.920 got B two bombers, the same planes that conducted those 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:24.720 devastating the airstrikes on Iran, and saying to Putin In 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:29.120 doing that without using words, We've got much better hardware 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:33.440 than you do, So don't mess around likewise, phone calls 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:37.840 the red carpas how things work. Look, here's a little 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:40.760 secret for the MSNBC grifters, the op ed writers at 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:43.480 the New York Times and the Washington Post. For them, 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:48.840 guess what war is good business? Their entire business model 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:52.120 is based on Trump losing. And that may be fine 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:55.360 in regular politics and cheering when the Republicans have a 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:59.960 bad day, sure, whatever, But they seem to be cheering 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:03.280 on is an endless war so long as it makes 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:07.800 Trump look bad while not reporting on the good stuff. 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:12.240 Now they complain about a lack of sanctions and pressure 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:15.880 put on Russia by the Trump administration. But Trump has 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:19.480 just hit India, a major purchaser of Russian oil, with 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:23.040 punitive tariffs over the issue because India have become a 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:26.760 major pipeline through which Moscow sold crude oil to the 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:32.120 world to earn money to fund the war. Personally, having 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:36.679 watched Trump Donald Trump for literally decades, I actually think 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:39.280 he's quite genuine in wanting to end the war, and 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:43.559 he is terrified of the conflict escalating to a nuclear stage, 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:46.600 which is leading him to push a compromise in which 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:50.880 is why the MSNBC warmongers hate him so much. There 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:52.800 may also be more to it than that. I mean, 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:56.800 Trump even revealed a little bit of his metaphysical side. 0:08:57.000 --> 0:08:59.560 The other day, I want to end it. You know, 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:02.959 we're losing American lives. We're not losing American soldiers, We're 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:08.240 losing Russian and Ukrainian mostly soldiers. Some people as missiles 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:11.880 hit wrong spots or get lobbed into cities like Kiev, 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:15.240 in towns. But you know what, if I can say 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:19.280 seven thousand people a week from being killed, I take 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:21.000 that to I want to try and get to heaven 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:24.320 if possible. I'm hearing I'm not doing well. I really 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:25.840 hit the bottom of the totem pole. 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:30.400 Who would have thought Trump would turn into the peace 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:34.160 loving preacher and the media become the masters of war? 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:39.960 All right, Well, a lot to get through tonight. So 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:42.680 joining me now is our favorite US support regular. Former 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:45.760 White House Chief of Staff and senior advisor of Bondai 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:51.040 Partners Mick mulvaney micked. This DC crime blitz just keeps 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:54.000 going on. Trump's operation to crack down on crimes seems 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:57.000 to be working. The nation's capital has actually had a 0:09:57.120 --> 0:10:01.920 murder free week. But now it looks like Donald Trump 0:10:01.960 --> 0:10:04.000 is going out with the DC cops to do a 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:07.560 little patrolling of his own. Tell us about this, Yeah, James. 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:10.000 It's absolutely fascinating to see what's happening in our nation's capital. 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:11.880 Of course, Washington, d C. Is one of the most 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:16.200 democrat leaning cities in the country, and some polling data 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:18.079 out just the last twenty four hours it says roughly 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:23.120 eighty percent of the residents there don't like what Trump 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:27.040 is doing, but about seventy five percent admit that it's 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:30.960 making crime better, it's making the city safer. That's just 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:34.839 a stunning sort of overlay. Isn't it that they hate 0:10:34.960 --> 0:10:38.160 Donald Trump, but they love issolutely what he's doing. 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:41.680 So, yeah, Trump is trying to fix the city. 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:44.320 The city has been unsafe for a long time, especially 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:46.160 in some of the public spaces. He was at I 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:48.840 think jd Vance today was at Union Station, the major 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:51.760 train station there in Washington, d C. Washington one of 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:53.720 the few cities in our nation that does have a 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:56.760 major train station, and it's been a cesspool for crime 0:10:56.800 --> 0:10:59.480 for a long time. So Trump is cleaning the city up. 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:01.840 The citizens like it. They just don't like the fact 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:02.439 that it's Trump. 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:04.680 Yeah, and Nik, but talk a little bit more about 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:07.840 Jadadvance going to Union Station a moment. But first I 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:09.840 want to ask you where this all goes, because you 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:12.600 know there's so many Democrat run cities, not just Washington, 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:14.280 d C. You know, you can think of Chicago, you 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:17.800 can think of you know, so many places. Philadelphia wants 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:20.880 great cities that have become you know, crime infested hell holes. 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:24.640 Is the plan here for Trump to parley what he's 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:30.160 doing in DC onto a general assault on Democrat lawlessness. 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:32.120 And the reason why I think this might be happening 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:35.439 is I noted Ron DeSantis said this just a few 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:38.240 days ago. People ask me like. 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:40.160 Oh, you know, Florida, you guys are leading this. You 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:41.360 just how you do it? 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:43.959 I was like, you know, as governor Florida, I get 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:45.120 this great cheat code. 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:47.560 All I got to do is look to New York, Illinois, 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:49.920 California and then do the opposite. 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:52.200 I mean, he's got a point here, Mick. You know, 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:54.680 you just you know, you do what the Democrat city 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:56.520 is and the Democrat states are doing, and you do 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:57.160 the opposite. 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:00.960 You do it to your about his Trump, you know, 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:03.200 using DC to sort of get ready to do something 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:08.199 in Chicago or New York Los Angeles. Yes, but he's 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:13.080 extremely limited in what he can do in those ordinary cities, 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:16.360 by ordinary I mean, Washington is extraordinary. Washington is not 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:20.000 a city in an ordinary state. It is a federal district. 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:22.600 And for that reason, the President of the United States 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:26.480 has tremendous authority under certain circumstances in Washington, d c. 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:29.280 That he would never have in New York City, in 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:32.480 Chicago or Los Angeles. 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:35.679 So he can't do the exact same thing. But if 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:37.560 your question is is he going to try and put 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:41.240 pressure on blue cities and blue states to do the 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:43.280 same thing that he has been doing, the answer is 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:46.040 absolutely yes. Is he going to try to make law 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:49.600 and order an issue going into the midterms, one hundred 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:52.920 percent because what he wants is people living in Chicago going, look, 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:56.080 you know, we don't like Donald Trump, Governor Pritzker, but 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:58.240 we we really sort of like what he's doing. 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:00.000 When are you going to do in Chicago? 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:02.800 Go what Donald Trump has done in Washington. And that's 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:04.599 a fascinating conversation. 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:05.720 To have as we go into the interm elections. 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:08.640 And you know, it's also been really fascinating too, Mick, 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:10.959 is the way the people on the left have been 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:14.480 protesting and losing their minds over this. I saw Pete 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:17.200 Hagsath and Jadie Vance you mentioned before they were down 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:21.240 in DC downtown, DC Union Station. They were met with 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:30.160 a bit of a hostility. Have a look at this. 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:32.280 This is the guy who makes people because the. 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:33.440 Order in their own community. 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:38.040 So we're going to ignore these stupid white hippies that 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:39.560 all need to go home and take. 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:42.239 A nap because they're all over ninety years old. 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:44.320 And we're gonna get back to the business of protecting 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:48.360 the American people as they had. JD. Vance, Stephen Miller, 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:51.800 all of them. And it's a new muscular kind of Republicanism, 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:54.760 isn't it. They're not apologizing and they're not mincing their words. 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:57.199 They're actually having been a fun with these hecklers. 0:13:58.160 --> 0:13:59.240 What is there to apologize for? 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:00.800 If you're there to try and clean up a city 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:02.720 to make it safe for the residents, what would you 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:05.199 ever be apologizing for. Keep in mind, the people that 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:07.080 are protesting, you didn't get a chance to see them, 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:08.040 I don't think in those clips. 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:10.199 I have seen them in a couple of other clips are. 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:13.080 Mostly older to Steven Miller's point, but they're mostly rich 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:17.120 and white. There's been some tremendous media coverage outside of 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:20.960 the mainstream media going into some of the less affluent, 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:23.880 more African American communities in Washington, d C. And there 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:27.680 are many of those where people actually quietly, very positive 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:30.040 about what Donald Trump is doing because he's making their 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:33.840 communities safer. My guess is that many of those protesters 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:37.440 drove back into Maryland or Virginia to their rich, white 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:39.760 enclaved suburbs that don't have a crime issue in the 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:42.560 first place, and are sleeping very safely tonight in their beds. 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:45.080 Yeah. No, I think that's right. That's the hypocrisy of 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:47.080 it all. But Nick, also need to talk to you 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:49.760 about this fascinating report in the New York Times of 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:51.960 all places. I know we get The Times a bit 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:53.840 of stick on this program, but this is a great 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:57.520 little report they've done here on the Democrat Party hemorrhaging 0:14:58.080 --> 0:15:02.840 voters in voter registration figures of the thirty states attract 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:07.160 voter registration by political party, Democrats lost ground, The Times 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:11.120 reported to Republicans in every single one of these states 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:15.000 between twenty twenty and twenty four. And they've also found 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:21.560 that jen Z men are really going hard for Republicans 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:26.040 and that blacks and Latinos that the organizer's a community 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:27.760 organizers say, you can't just sign them up and assume 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:31.440 they're to be Democrats anymore. Is this an existential crisis 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:33.320 for the Democrats coming up here. 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:35.360 It's an existential crisis. 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:38.000 They're certainly in the wilderness right now. They don't know 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:39.840 what they stand for. You know, they used to stand 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:43.720 for LGBTQ plus whatever. You know, they used to stand 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:45.520 for a bunch of things. They got rejected in the 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:47.760 last election. So now they don't know what they stand for. 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:50.480 They know what they stand against. They're against Donald Trump. 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:52.960 They're very quick to tell you that they're not Donald Trump. 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:54.640 They're different than Donald Trump. They don't really tell you 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:56.600 what they're for, but they will tell you what they're against. 0:15:57.120 --> 0:15:59.920 And you know, with Trump's approval rating hovering around, you know, 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:03.200 in the upper forties, and folks still feeling fairly good 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:05.600 about the economy. Yes, we're a little bit worried about 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:08.640 inflation and so forth, but generally speaking, you know, folks 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:11.960 are not as upset with Donald Trump as the left 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:14.560 told them they would be if he won. 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:16.280 And that's a problem in politics. 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:19.880 Over promising and under delivering is a major problem. And 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:21.720 when you tell people if you vote for Donald Trump, 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:23.440 the world is going to end. It's going to be 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:25.800 a fascist dictatorship. There's never going to be more elections. 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:27.080 And it turns out that's. 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:28.960 Not the case. And it's not the case, then the 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:30.800 people who are delivering that message are going to be 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:32.160 looked at with a good deal of. 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:37.160 Scrutiny because you can't believe what they say on anything 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:37.920 else either. 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:40.360 So the Democrats are really lost. What they need right 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:41.840 now is a message. They haven't got it. 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:43.840 They need a messenger. They think it's Kevin Newsom, but 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:45.880 they're not sure that can be different by next week. 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:48.000 But the Democrats are going through what a lot of 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:49.880 parties do when they lose an election. We went through 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:52.880 this in twenty twelve. We came out of it. It 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:54.640 remains to see where my Democrat friends do. 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:56.680 Nick, well, Vanner, I'm going to have to leave with 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:58.440 de Thank you so much for your insights, and we'll 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:01.120 see you next time. Now, let's bring in political journalist 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:04.679 John Fund to keep the conversation going. John, great to 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:07.399 see you now. At the start of the program, I 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:12.760 spoke before about the whole relationship between Donald Trump, the media, 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:15.879 and Vladimir Putin, and many of the media have been 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:21.240 accusing Trump of going easy on Vladimir Putin, but it 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:23.880 seems that Trump is now talking a bit tougher here. 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:27.840 He's slammed American policies under Joe Biden that prevented Ukraine 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:31.520 from launching full scale attacks on Russia. And he's also 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:36.959 posted himself a picture of himself pointing sternly at the 0:17:37.080 --> 0:17:40.440 chest of Vladimir Putin to kind of, I guess, reinforce 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:44.320 his point. John Fund, how do you read this change 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:47.560 of tone on Russia with Donald Trump? 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:54.040 Both leaders wanted that Alaska summit. They got great visuals 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:57.159 out of it, they got some propaganda value back in 0:17:57.240 --> 0:18:01.520 Russia for Putin, some burnishing of image in the United States. 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:05.680 But in the end it was inconclusive. And now the 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:09.040 Russians apparently are dragging their feet. They're not sure they 0:18:09.080 --> 0:18:11.640 want to have a meeting with Zelenski. They're setting down 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:15.800 conditions on any security guarantees that Ukraine would get from 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:18.840 Europe or the United States. So we're back to Vladimir 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:23.360 Putin playing foot seat under the table with people, and 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:27.199 I think Trump is eventually going to lose patients. I 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:30.639 think Cwton will drag this out until the last possible moment, 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:34.159 and he'll give the least that he possibly can. I 0:18:34.160 --> 0:18:37.399 think this war will be resolved sometime this year, but 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:38.960 very late in the year. 0:18:39.720 --> 0:18:42.119 Yeah, what sort of shape do you see that taking? 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:46.560 I mean, will will the West accept, you know, concessions 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:49.080 of territory to Russia or is that beyond the pale 0:18:49.160 --> 0:18:51.440 or could there be something where you know, maybe we 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:53.560 see a referendum in a couple of years on disputed 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:55.840 territory to see where people want to go. Where do 0:18:55.840 --> 0:18:56.679 you see this landing? 0:18:58.440 --> 0:19:01.440 Well, Russia already has twin eighty percent of Ukraine. That's 0:19:01.440 --> 0:19:04.520 a concession because no one believes that they'll retreat from that. 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:07.320 I don't think they deserve or should they get any 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:11.480 additional terrain they've not conquered. As for a referendum, look, 0:19:11.600 --> 0:19:15.240 let's take Crimea. Russia took that over ten years ago. 0:19:15.840 --> 0:19:18.520 At the time only fifty six percent of the population 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:21.440 was Russian. Now it's ninety six percent. How do you 0:19:21.440 --> 0:19:23.919 think the referendum is going to go on that? Anyone 0:19:23.960 --> 0:19:26.760 who's Ukrainian has already left those regions, so a referendum 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:28.080 would be pointless. 0:19:28.280 --> 0:19:31.119 Yeah, yeah, fair enough. And demographics is destiny. As we 0:19:31.160 --> 0:19:34.240 say here, John, I want to shift gears here too. 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:39.760 More interesting, fascinating stuff coming out about the Clinton Foundation. Now, 0:19:39.760 --> 0:19:41.879 we haven't spoken about this for a long time, but 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:45.440 there is now a report out showing that years after 0:19:45.440 --> 0:19:48.439 the FBI was forced to shut down corruption probes of 0:19:48.480 --> 0:19:53.520 the charity, the IRS began a criminal tax investigation into 0:19:53.520 --> 0:19:59.119 the foundation's dealings, but then suddenly stopped in twenty nineteen, 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:01.760 and their memos internal emails that have been reviewed by 0:20:01.880 --> 0:20:05.119 Just the News that suggest this investigation came to a 0:20:05.280 --> 0:20:09.000 dead halt, and nobody quite knows. Why are we going 0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:11.480 to hear anything more about the Clinton Foundation, Because I 0:20:11.520 --> 0:20:14.159 know there's a big effort to start looking into the 0:20:14.200 --> 0:20:16.600 past of all sorts of things, including the Biden So 0:20:16.640 --> 0:20:17.560 why not the Clintons. 0:20:18.920 --> 0:20:20.880 Well, the IRS is in a mess right now. It's 0:20:20.880 --> 0:20:24.560 on its seventh leader, seventh leader in less than a year. 0:20:25.240 --> 0:20:28.680 A lot of things they clean up. I suspect that 0:20:28.720 --> 0:20:30.960 we will come to the bottom of this and we'll 0:20:30.960 --> 0:20:33.639 find as just with one Hunter Biden IRS probe, there 0:20:33.680 --> 0:20:36.600 was political interference. So I think all of that should 0:20:36.640 --> 0:20:40.120 come to light. By the way, the Clinton Foundation as 0:20:40.119 --> 0:20:43.200 a direct connection to many of your viewers. It was 0:20:43.240 --> 0:20:46.479 the Australian government under the Labor Party that was one 0:20:46.520 --> 0:20:49.560 of the biggest donors to the Clinton Foundation, over one 0:20:49.640 --> 0:20:55.560 hundred million Australian dollars. Interestingly enough, the Australian government was 0:20:55.720 --> 0:20:58.960 scheduled to send a final payment to the Clintons right 0:20:59.000 --> 0:21:04.520 after Hillary's successful election, not in twenty sixteen. They apparently 0:21:04.600 --> 0:21:07.600 stopped it at four twenty four in the morning after 0:21:07.640 --> 0:21:11.760 the election once the results were in. So as foolish 0:21:11.880 --> 0:21:14.720 and as much as the Australian government played the sap 0:21:14.720 --> 0:21:17.760 and the sucker with the Clinton Foundation, they did cut 0:21:17.800 --> 0:21:20.040 their losses pretty quickly after Hillary lost. 0:21:20.560 --> 0:21:23.160 Boy, it's pretty telling though that they thought that there'd 0:21:23.200 --> 0:21:25.640 be something to be gained by giving money to that foundation. 0:21:25.720 --> 0:21:27.600 So I'm looking forward to a real sort of watch 0:21:27.680 --> 0:21:30.080 this base on this John, thanks so much for explaining that. 0:21:30.160 --> 0:21:32.960 Now stick around because Carol Markowitz joins me after the break. 0:21:33.520 --> 0:21:36.120 But first, well, you know the Kennedy family. They were 0:21:36.160 --> 0:21:41.040 once American royalty and who can forget JFK's stirring words, 0:21:42.600 --> 0:21:43.360 ask not. 0:21:44.560 --> 0:21:48.159 What your country can do for you, ask what you 0:21:48.400 --> 0:21:49.680 can do for your country. 0:21:53.840 --> 0:21:58.000 Well, like many prominent families, it was all downhill from there. 0:21:58.080 --> 0:22:00.760 Let's check in with the Kennedy's two generals later. 0:22:02.200 --> 0:22:07.200 Each generation descendant begin life, begin their life with a purity, 0:22:08.040 --> 0:22:13.840