Speaker 1: This is the US Report with James Morrow.
Speaker 2: Good evening and welcome to the program. Huge show. Tonight,
Speaker 2: there's a new cop on the beat, Donald Trump takes
Speaker 2: to the streets of DC to help clean up the
Speaker 2: nation's capital. Plus stunning new numbers show the Democrats losing
Speaker 2: the registration race. I'll explain why this matters for the
Speaker 2: midterms and beyond. And another American brand succumbs to the
Speaker 2: temptation to go woke and they're already going broke. But first,
Speaker 2: a lot to get through tonight, And in a moment,
Speaker 2: I want to talk about Trump and Russia and the
Speaker 2: absolutely appalling way that some in the media are absolutely
Speaker 2: and I have to say, disgracefully cheerleading for the President's
Speaker 2: peace efforts in Ukraine to fail, suggesting that they'd rather
Speaker 2: have war than peace if it means denying the Donald
Speaker 2: a win. But before that, there's some news out of
Speaker 2: New York where an appeals court has thrown out the
Speaker 2: massive five hundred million dollar US that's half a billion
Speaker 2: dollars fine levied on Donald Trump last year as a
Speaker 2: result of the ridiculous business fraud case brought against him
Speaker 2: by this woman New York Attorney General Letitia James. Now,
Speaker 2: her case against the president was frankly ludicrous. It was preposterous.
Speaker 2: She claimed that Trump committed fraud by inflating the value
Speaker 2: of his businesses to get loans from the banks, loans
Speaker 2: he paid back in full and on time. Now, of course,
Speaker 2: there's no fraud in the bank's even testified in Trump's defense, saying, no,
Speaker 2: there wasn't a problem. We were happy with the valuations
Speaker 2: and we made money on the deals. It was fine.
Speaker 2: But Letitia James, she was a partisan hack. Remember she
Speaker 2: even ran for the office of Attorney general on a
Speaker 2: platform of get Trump. It is fueling my soul right now,
Speaker 2: is Trump?
Speaker 1: Please see him?
Speaker 3: For us.
Speaker 4: To go into the office of attorney general every day.
Speaker 2: And then going home. Now, her case against Trump, you
Speaker 2: will recall, was part of this series of civil lawsuits
Speaker 2: and criminal charges brought against Trump during last year's election campaign,
Speaker 2: in what appeared to be a coordinated effort to tie
Speaker 2: Donald Trump up in the courts and be smirched his reputation,
Speaker 2: perhaps even put him in jail to stop him from
Speaker 2: becoming president. Well, how did that work out? Not so well?
Speaker 2: In fact, that famous Georgia mugshot of his now hangs
Speaker 2: as a souvenir on the wall of the Oval office.
Speaker 2: And speaking of mugshots, Ta Teach James may be posing
Speaker 2: for one for herself. Student enough, she's under pressure to
Speaker 2: resign as she has investigated from Morgan fraud, where in
Speaker 2: an ironic twist, she is being accused it's alleged of
Speaker 2: falsifying documents to get better terms on her own personal mortgage.
Speaker 2: Now some are saying that this is just Trump's revenge
Speaker 2: and a weaponization of the judicial process. But I think
Speaker 2: we know who started the ball rolling on that one,
Speaker 2: and you know the old saying, plays stupid games, wins
Speaker 2: studid prizes. Now, Trump, for his part, remains irrepressible on
Speaker 2: this subject and has just posted this to his socials.
Speaker 5: Do it no matter what money, everybody, and they stay there.
Speaker 2: Poetic justice Now onto more waiting matters. And of course
Speaker 2: I referred to Donald Trump's efforts to bring some sort
Speaker 2: of peace to Ukraine a final boss challenge for the
Speaker 2: president who has already helped broker peace deals in a
Speaker 2: number of other conflicts around the world. Yet instead of
Speaker 2: being gratulated for his efforts, much of the press is
Speaker 2: sneering at him now I want to play you a
Speaker 2: bit of what White House Press spokes when Carolyn Levitt
Speaker 2: had to say on the subject the other day.
Speaker 6: Thing that has absolutely not changed is the media's negative
Speaker 6: and downright false coverage of President Trump and his foreign
Speaker 6: policy accomplishments. From the beginning of this entire process, much
Speaker 6: of the left wing media has been actively rooting against
Speaker 6: the President of the United States in the pursuit of peace. Initially,
Speaker 6: the media ridiculously claimed that President Trump was somehow beholden
Speaker 6: to Russia for even agreeing to have a face to
Speaker 6: face discussion with President Putin Inside of the United States.
Speaker 6: The media said President Trump was making a grave mistake
Speaker 6: by quote legitimizing Putin. They were aghast that President Chump
Speaker 6: would treat another world leader like a world leader. The
Speaker 6: media relentlessly attacked President Trump and claimed he suffered a
Speaker 6: quote major defeat for not immediately emerging with a final agreement,
Speaker 6: even though he said heading into that meeting, this was
Speaker 6: a meeting to listen and to understand how to move
Speaker 6: the ball forward.
Speaker 2: I guess what she's right one every day of the week.
Speaker 2: If the choice was between continued killing in Ukraine and
Speaker 2: a piece that makes Trump look good. There is a
Speaker 2: large segment of the American and I have to say
Speaker 2: Australian press as well, that would rather keep the meat
Speaker 2: grinder going. Now, it's weird because the same left that
Speaker 2: once protested America's endless wars seems to be the ones
Speaker 2: you now want to keep this one going. Here's CNN,
Speaker 2: the fact.
Speaker 3: That he feels he's got to check in with Putin
Speaker 3: right away, and that just as this meeting is taking place,
Speaker 3: we get news that Putin is saying, by the way,
Speaker 3: no NATO troops on the ground in Ukraine. That is unacceptable.
Speaker 3: Still feels like Trump needs Putin's approval in a way
Speaker 3: that's got to be very disturbing to Zelenski sitting there.
Speaker 2: And here's Paul Reichoff on NBCJSE.
Speaker 7: There's no taking a pass on the fight of our time.
Speaker 7: There's no taking a pass on defending freedom from tyranny
Speaker 7: and oppression. There's no taking a pass on the slaughter
Speaker 7: of civilians which continues to happen. You know, this rhetoric
Speaker 7: from Rubio and Trump and Vance is shameful. It's Unamerican,
Speaker 7: It's a betrayal and a sellout of the Ukrainian people.
Speaker 2: Also on MSNBC, here's Susan Rice, the former UN ambassador,
Speaker 2: if you don't mind demonstrating what can only be described, frankly,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry as plug ignorance.
Speaker 8: Instead of doing the things that would strengthen the Ukrainian
Speaker 8: Western NATO US partnership on their side of the table
Speaker 8: against Putin, he is rolling out the red carpet, doing
Speaker 8: military flyovers, giving him a ride in the presidential limousine,
Speaker 8: and getting none of what he went to Alaska to get.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, what how broken is the I mean, have
Speaker 2: these people never been involved in the negotiation in their lives?
Speaker 2: They're so gullible though by the extended warranty on an
Speaker 2: electric kettle. Seriously, that flyover Susan Wrightce refers to was
Speaker 2: a show of American strength. Trump was flexing that he's
Speaker 2: got B two bombers, the same planes that conducted those
Speaker 2: devastating the airstrikes on Iran, and saying to Putin In
Speaker 2: doing that without using words, We've got much better hardware
Speaker 2: than you do, So don't mess around likewise, phone calls
Speaker 2: the red carpas how things work. Look, here's a little
Speaker 2: secret for the MSNBC grifters, the op ed writers at
Speaker 2: the New York Times and the Washington Post. For them,
Speaker 2: guess what war is good business? Their entire business model
Speaker 2: is based on Trump losing. And that may be fine
Speaker 2: in regular politics and cheering when the Republicans have a
Speaker 2: bad day, sure, whatever, But they seem to be cheering
Speaker 2: on is an endless war so long as it makes
Speaker 2: Trump look bad while not reporting on the good stuff.
Speaker 2: Now they complain about a lack of sanctions and pressure
Speaker 2: put on Russia by the Trump administration. But Trump has
Speaker 2: just hit India, a major purchaser of Russian oil, with
Speaker 2: punitive tariffs over the issue because India have become a
Speaker 2: major pipeline through which Moscow sold crude oil to the
Speaker 2: world to earn money to fund the war. Personally, having
Speaker 2: watched Trump Donald Trump for literally decades, I actually think
Speaker 2: he's quite genuine in wanting to end the war, and
Speaker 2: he is terrified of the conflict escalating to a nuclear stage,
Speaker 2: which is leading him to push a compromise in which
Speaker 2: is why the MSNBC warmongers hate him so much. There
Speaker 2: may also be more to it than that. I mean,
Speaker 2: Trump even revealed a little bit of his metaphysical side.
Speaker 9: The other day, I want to end it. You know,
Speaker 9: we're losing American lives. We're not losing American soldiers, We're
Speaker 9: losing Russian and Ukrainian mostly soldiers. Some people as missiles
Speaker 9: hit wrong spots or get lobbed into cities like Kiev,
Speaker 9: in towns. But you know what, if I can say
Speaker 9: seven thousand people a week from being killed, I take
Speaker 9: that to I want to try and get to heaven
Speaker 9: if possible. I'm hearing I'm not doing well. I really
Speaker 9: hit the bottom of the totem pole.
Speaker 2: Who would have thought Trump would turn into the peace
Speaker 2: loving preacher and the media become the masters of war?
Speaker 2: All right, Well, a lot to get through tonight. So
Speaker 2: joining me now is our favorite US support regular. Former
Speaker 2: White House Chief of Staff and senior advisor of Bondai
Speaker 2: Partners Mick mulvaney micked. This DC crime blitz just keeps
Speaker 2: going on. Trump's operation to crack down on crimes seems
Speaker 2: to be working. The nation's capital has actually had a
Speaker 2: murder free week. But now it looks like Donald Trump
Speaker 2: is going out with the DC cops to do a
Speaker 2: little patrolling of his own. Tell us about this, Yeah, James.
Speaker 10: It's absolutely fascinating to see what's happening in our nation's capital.
Speaker 10: Of course, Washington, d C. Is one of the most
Speaker 10: democrat leaning cities in the country, and some polling data
Speaker 10: out just the last twenty four hours it says roughly
Speaker 10: eighty percent of the residents there don't like what Trump
Speaker 10: is doing, but about seventy five percent admit that it's
Speaker 10: making crime better, it's making the city safer. That's just
Speaker 10: a stunning sort of overlay. Isn't it that they hate
Speaker 10: Donald Trump, but they love issolutely what he's doing.
Speaker 1: So, yeah, Trump is trying to fix the city.
Speaker 10: The city has been unsafe for a long time, especially
Speaker 10: in some of the public spaces. He was at I
Speaker 10: think jd Vance today was at Union Station, the major
Speaker 10: train station there in Washington, d C. Washington one of
Speaker 10: the few cities in our nation that does have a
Speaker 10: major train station, and it's been a cesspool for crime
Speaker 10: for a long time. So Trump is cleaning the city up.
Speaker 10: The citizens like it. They just don't like the fact
Speaker 10: that it's Trump.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Nik, but talk a little bit more about
Speaker 2: Jadadvance going to Union Station a moment. But first I
Speaker 2: want to ask you where this all goes, because you
Speaker 2: know there's so many Democrat run cities, not just Washington,
Speaker 2: d C. You know, you can think of Chicago, you
Speaker 2: can think of you know, so many places. Philadelphia wants
Speaker 2: great cities that have become you know, crime infested hell holes.
Speaker 2: Is the plan here for Trump to parley what he's
Speaker 2: doing in DC onto a general assault on Democrat lawlessness.
Speaker 2: And the reason why I think this might be happening
Speaker 2: is I noted Ron DeSantis said this just a few
Speaker 2: days ago. People ask me like.
Speaker 1: Oh, you know, Florida, you guys are leading this. You
Speaker 1: just how you do it?
Speaker 10: I was like, you know, as governor Florida, I get
Speaker 10: this great cheat code.
Speaker 5: All I got to do is look to New York, Illinois,
Speaker 5: California and then do the opposite.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's got a point here, Mick. You know,
Speaker 2: you just you know, you do what the Democrat city
Speaker 2: is and the Democrat states are doing, and you do
Speaker 2: the opposite.
Speaker 10: You do it to your about his Trump, you know,
Speaker 10: using DC to sort of get ready to do something
Speaker 10: in Chicago or New York Los Angeles. Yes, but he's
Speaker 10: extremely limited in what he can do in those ordinary cities,
Speaker 10: by ordinary I mean, Washington is extraordinary. Washington is not
Speaker 10: a city in an ordinary state. It is a federal district.
Speaker 10: And for that reason, the President of the United States
Speaker 10: has tremendous authority under certain circumstances in Washington, d c.
Speaker 1: That he would never have in New York City, in
Speaker 1: Chicago or Los Angeles.
Speaker 10: So he can't do the exact same thing. But if
Speaker 10: your question is is he going to try and put
Speaker 10: pressure on blue cities and blue states to do the
Speaker 10: same thing that he has been doing, the answer is
Speaker 10: absolutely yes. Is he going to try to make law
Speaker 10: and order an issue going into the midterms, one hundred
Speaker 10: percent because what he wants is people living in Chicago going, look,
Speaker 10: you know, we don't like Donald Trump, Governor Pritzker, but
Speaker 10: we we really sort of like what he's doing.
Speaker 1: When are you going to do in Chicago?
Speaker 10: Go what Donald Trump has done in Washington. And that's
Speaker 10: a fascinating conversation.
Speaker 1: To have as we go into the interm elections.
Speaker 2: And you know, it's also been really fascinating too, Mick,
Speaker 2: is the way the people on the left have been
Speaker 2: protesting and losing their minds over this. I saw Pete
Speaker 2: Hagsath and Jadie Vance you mentioned before they were down
Speaker 2: in DC downtown, DC Union Station. They were met with
Speaker 2: a bit of a hostility. Have a look at this.
Speaker 4: This is the guy who makes people because the.
Speaker 1: Order in their own community.
Speaker 11: So we're going to ignore these stupid white hippies that
Speaker 11: all need to go home and take.
Speaker 1: A nap because they're all over ninety years old.
Speaker 2: And we're gonna get back to the business of protecting
Speaker 2: the American people as they had. JD. Vance, Stephen Miller,
Speaker 2: all of them. And it's a new muscular kind of Republicanism,
Speaker 2: isn't it. They're not apologizing and they're not mincing their words.
Speaker 2: They're actually having been a fun with these hecklers.
Speaker 1: What is there to apologize for?
Speaker 10: If you're there to try and clean up a city
Speaker 10: to make it safe for the residents, what would you
Speaker 10: ever be apologizing for. Keep in mind, the people that
Speaker 10: are protesting, you didn't get a chance to see them,
Speaker 10: I don't think in those clips.
Speaker 1: I have seen them in a couple of other clips are.
Speaker 10: Mostly older to Steven Miller's point, but they're mostly rich
Speaker 10: and white. There's been some tremendous media coverage outside of
Speaker 10: the mainstream media going into some of the less affluent,
Speaker 10: more African American communities in Washington, d C. And there
Speaker 10: are many of those where people actually quietly, very positive
Speaker 10: about what Donald Trump is doing because he's making their
Speaker 10: communities safer. My guess is that many of those protesters
Speaker 10: drove back into Maryland or Virginia to their rich, white
Speaker 10: enclaved suburbs that don't have a crime issue in the
Speaker 10: first place, and are sleeping very safely tonight in their beds.
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, I think that's right. That's the hypocrisy of
Speaker 2: it all. But Nick, also need to talk to you
Speaker 2: about this fascinating report in the New York Times of
Speaker 2: all places. I know we get The Times a bit
Speaker 2: of stick on this program, but this is a great
Speaker 2: little report they've done here on the Democrat Party hemorrhaging
Speaker 2: voters in voter registration figures of the thirty states attract
Speaker 2: voter registration by political party, Democrats lost ground, The Times
Speaker 2: reported to Republicans in every single one of these states
Speaker 2: between twenty twenty and twenty four. And they've also found
Speaker 2: that jen Z men are really going hard for Republicans
Speaker 2: and that blacks and Latinos that the organizer's a community
Speaker 2: organizers say, you can't just sign them up and assume
Speaker 2: they're to be Democrats anymore. Is this an existential crisis
Speaker 2: for the Democrats coming up here.
Speaker 1: It's an existential crisis.
Speaker 10: They're certainly in the wilderness right now. They don't know
Speaker 10: what they stand for. You know, they used to stand
Speaker 10: for LGBTQ plus whatever. You know, they used to stand
Speaker 10: for a bunch of things. They got rejected in the
Speaker 10: last election. So now they don't know what they stand for.
Speaker 10: They know what they stand against. They're against Donald Trump.
Speaker 10: They're very quick to tell you that they're not Donald Trump.
Speaker 10: They're different than Donald Trump. They don't really tell you
Speaker 10: what they're for, but they will tell you what they're against.
Speaker 10: And you know, with Trump's approval rating hovering around, you know,
Speaker 10: in the upper forties, and folks still feeling fairly good
Speaker 10: about the economy. Yes, we're a little bit worried about
Speaker 10: inflation and so forth, but generally speaking, you know, folks
Speaker 10: are not as upset with Donald Trump as the left
Speaker 10: told them they would be if he won.
Speaker 1: And that's a problem in politics.
Speaker 10: Over promising and under delivering is a major problem. And
Speaker 10: when you tell people if you vote for Donald Trump,
Speaker 10: the world is going to end. It's going to be
Speaker 10: a fascist dictatorship. There's never going to be more elections.
Speaker 10: And it turns out that's.
Speaker 1: Not the case. And it's not the case, then the
Speaker 1: people who are delivering that message are going to be
Speaker 1: looked at with a good deal of.
Speaker 10: Scrutiny because you can't believe what they say on anything
Speaker 10: else either.
Speaker 1: So the Democrats are really lost. What they need right
Speaker 1: now is a message. They haven't got it.
Speaker 10: They need a messenger. They think it's Kevin Newsom, but
Speaker 10: they're not sure that can be different by next week.
Speaker 10: But the Democrats are going through what a lot of
Speaker 10: parties do when they lose an election. We went through
Speaker 10: this in twenty twelve. We came out of it. It
Speaker 10: remains to see where my Democrat friends do.
Speaker 2: Nick, well, Vanner, I'm going to have to leave with
Speaker 2: de Thank you so much for your insights, and we'll
Speaker 2: see you next time. Now, let's bring in political journalist
Speaker 2: John Fund to keep the conversation going. John, great to
Speaker 2: see you now. At the start of the program, I
Speaker 2: spoke before about the whole relationship between Donald Trump, the media,
Speaker 2: and Vladimir Putin, and many of the media have been
Speaker 2: accusing Trump of going easy on Vladimir Putin, but it
Speaker 2: seems that Trump is now talking a bit tougher here.
Speaker 2: He's slammed American policies under Joe Biden that prevented Ukraine
Speaker 2: from launching full scale attacks on Russia. And he's also
Speaker 2: posted himself a picture of himself pointing sternly at the
Speaker 2: chest of Vladimir Putin to kind of, I guess, reinforce
Speaker 2: his point. John Fund, how do you read this change
Speaker 2: of tone on Russia with Donald Trump?
Speaker 12: Both leaders wanted that Alaska summit. They got great visuals
Speaker 12: out of it, they got some propaganda value back in
Speaker 12: Russia for Putin, some burnishing of image in the United States.
Speaker 12: But in the end it was inconclusive. And now the
Speaker 12: Russians apparently are dragging their feet. They're not sure they
Speaker 12: want to have a meeting with Zelenski. They're setting down
Speaker 12: conditions on any security guarantees that Ukraine would get from
Speaker 12: Europe or the United States. So we're back to Vladimir
Speaker 12: Putin playing foot seat under the table with people, and
Speaker 12: I think Trump is eventually going to lose patients. I
Speaker 12: think Cwton will drag this out until the last possible moment,
Speaker 12: and he'll give the least that he possibly can. I
Speaker 12: think this war will be resolved sometime this year, but
Speaker 12: very late in the year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what sort of shape do you see that taking?
Speaker 2: I mean, will will the West accept, you know, concessions
Speaker 2: of territory to Russia or is that beyond the pale
Speaker 2: or could there be something where you know, maybe we
Speaker 2: see a referendum in a couple of years on disputed
Speaker 2: territory to see where people want to go. Where do
Speaker 2: you see this landing?
Speaker 12: Well, Russia already has twin eighty percent of Ukraine. That's
Speaker 12: a concession because no one believes that they'll retreat from that.
Speaker 12: I don't think they deserve or should they get any
Speaker 12: additional terrain they've not conquered. As for a referendum, look,
Speaker 12: let's take Crimea. Russia took that over ten years ago.
Speaker 12: At the time only fifty six percent of the population
Speaker 12: was Russian. Now it's ninety six percent. How do you
Speaker 12: think the referendum is going to go on that? Anyone
Speaker 12: who's Ukrainian has already left those regions, so a referendum
Speaker 12: would be pointless.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, fair enough. And demographics is destiny. As we
Speaker 2: say here, John, I want to shift gears here too.
Speaker 2: More interesting, fascinating stuff coming out about the Clinton Foundation. Now,
Speaker 2: we haven't spoken about this for a long time, but
Speaker 2: there is now a report out showing that years after
Speaker 2: the FBI was forced to shut down corruption probes of
Speaker 2: the charity, the IRS began a criminal tax investigation into
Speaker 2: the foundation's dealings, but then suddenly stopped in twenty nineteen,
Speaker 2: and their memos internal emails that have been reviewed by
Speaker 2: Just the News that suggest this investigation came to a
Speaker 2: dead halt, and nobody quite knows. Why are we going
Speaker 2: to hear anything more about the Clinton Foundation, Because I
Speaker 2: know there's a big effort to start looking into the
Speaker 2: past of all sorts of things, including the Biden So
Speaker 2: why not the Clintons.
Speaker 12: Well, the IRS is in a mess right now. It's
Speaker 12: on its seventh leader, seventh leader in less than a year.
Speaker 12: A lot of things they clean up. I suspect that
Speaker 12: we will come to the bottom of this and we'll
Speaker 12: find as just with one Hunter Biden IRS probe, there
Speaker 12: was political interference. So I think all of that should
Speaker 12: come to light. By the way, the Clinton Foundation as
Speaker 12: a direct connection to many of your viewers. It was
Speaker 12: the Australian government under the Labor Party that was one
Speaker 12: of the biggest donors to the Clinton Foundation, over one
Speaker 12: hundred million Australian dollars. Interestingly enough, the Australian government was
Speaker 12: scheduled to send a final payment to the Clintons right
Speaker 12: after Hillary's successful election, not in twenty sixteen. They apparently
Speaker 12: stopped it at four twenty four in the morning after
Speaker 12: the election once the results were in. So as foolish
Speaker 12: and as much as the Australian government played the sap
Speaker 12: and the sucker with the Clinton Foundation, they did cut
Speaker 12: their losses pretty quickly after Hillary lost.
Speaker 2: Boy, it's pretty telling though that they thought that there'd
Speaker 2: be something to be gained by giving money to that foundation.
Speaker 2: So I'm looking forward to a real sort of watch
Speaker 2: this base on this John, thanks so much for explaining that.
Speaker 2: Now stick around because Carol Markowitz joins me after the break.
Speaker 2: But first, well, you know the Kennedy family. They were
Speaker 2: once American royalty and who can forget JFK's stirring words,
Speaker 2: ask not.
Speaker 11: What your country can do for you, ask what you
Speaker 11: can do for your country.
Speaker 2: Well, like many prominent families, it was all downhill from there.
Speaker 2: Let's check in with the Kennedy's two generals later.
Speaker 13: Each generation descendant begin life, begin their life with a purity,
Speaker 13: an innocence which stands above geography, government, and ideology.
Speaker 2: Now you're not gonna believe it, but that was JFK's grandson,
Speaker 2: Jack Schlosberg, prancing around his apartment in a whig, imitating
Speaker 2: Milania Trump. What's the old saying tailcoats to wigs and
Speaker 2: three generations something like that. Anyway, Carol, Mark whatit'z is next?
Speaker 2: There's gonna be a great stick around. Welcome back to
Speaker 2: the program. Well, some shocking news out of the United
Speaker 2: States this week where United States Citizenship and Immigration Services
Speaker 2: made the shocking announcement that they are going to update
Speaker 2: their guidance to prevent and boy, this just tells you
Speaker 2: how bad things are in Trump's America. They're updating their
Speaker 2: guidance to prevent anti American foreigners from receiving visas to immigrate.
Speaker 2: My god. Well, frankly, that's a common sense change, long overdue.
Speaker 2: Discuss this and more, Let's bring an author and host
Speaker 2: of the Carol Markets show, Carol Markets. Carol I was
Speaker 2: absolutely stunned to see that people were absolutely upset about
Speaker 2: this idea that if you're anti American, you can't get
Speaker 2: a visa to go to America. Why would you want
Speaker 2: to in the first place?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 4: Well, I think it's because people think, Oh, I'm American
Speaker 4: and I hate this country. Why can't we import more
Speaker 4: people just like me? And I think that idea is crazy. Obviously,
Speaker 4: I'm an immigrant to this country, and when I was
Speaker 4: a child, I did the whole immigration process, or did
Speaker 4: the whole becoming a citizen process, And you have to
Speaker 4: kind of prove that you are going to be a
Speaker 4: worthy American, that you are going to be the best
Speaker 4: that this country offers, that you're going to live up
Speaker 4: to the values. And we sort of have moved away
Speaker 4: from that where it doesn't matter anymore and you're encouraged
Speaker 4: to bring your terrible backwards ways into the United States.
Speaker 4: I'd love to see that reversed a little bit. I'd
Speaker 4: love to see it become that you need to prove
Speaker 4: that you want to come to America and be American
Speaker 4: and be everything that that means in the best way possible.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree completely. I can't believe that people were
Speaker 2: losing their minds about this, but I want to talk
Speaker 2: about now also another American institution. There's a restaurant chain
Speaker 2: called Cracker Barrel and maybe a strands haven't heard of it,
Speaker 2: but it's a very sort of classic American down home
Speaker 2: kind of restaurant chain. Anyway, their shares have plunged by
Speaker 2: twenty percent after their new CEO decided to redesign the logo.
Speaker 2: That's stripped away both the Cracker and the barrel. But
Speaker 2: also it's come out that they're doing a broader woke rebranding.
Speaker 2: Have been involved in all sorts of pride events and
Speaker 2: things of this kind of nature. It sounds like they're
Speaker 2: going bud light. Have we got another company going woke
Speaker 2: and about to go broke here? I think?
Speaker 4: So, you know, the main thing to me that stuck
Speaker 4: out about this is that somebody took a logo that was,
Speaker 4: you know a little bit interesting, not super quirky or different,
Speaker 4: but just a little bit of an interesting logo and
Speaker 4: turned it into the most bland, generic, AI produced logo possible.
Speaker 4: And I think that that's what's really confusing to people, like,
Speaker 4: what are they doing here? Why did they change this?
Speaker 4: Cracker Barrel is a beloved kind of low priced restaurant
Speaker 4: that you see when you're on road trips with your family.
Speaker 4: My kids love it. There's a candy store with like
Speaker 4: knickknacks in the front of every every store, and you
Speaker 4: you have these rocking chairs in front. It's it's just
Speaker 4: a really cute experience. And I think that people don't
Speaker 4: want it to become just another generic restaurant, and that's
Speaker 4: what it looks like is becoming. They showed pictures of
Speaker 4: a remodel inside they got rid of kind of some
Speaker 4: of the cute, cute sea things that they had, and
Speaker 4: it's just it's sad to watch a company destroy itself needlessly. Really,
Speaker 4: I don't I don't know about the woke part yet.
Speaker 4: We'll see what happens with that. But why do this?
Speaker 4: Why make yourself like everybody else?
Speaker 2: Well, there was an interesting piece in the New York
Speaker 2: Times about this, and the New York Times actually said
Speaker 2: that Cracker Barrel Restaurants were and this was a New
Speaker 2: York Times reporting. They said they are white coated and
Speaker 2: associated with conservatives. Is this this whole sort of weird
Speaker 2: racialization and politicization of something that shouldn't be racialized or
Speaker 2: political at all?
Speaker 4: I mean, the thing is, it's completely not true.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 4: I go on road trips with my kids and they,
Speaker 4: you know, Cracker Barrel. Let's stop at Cracker Barrel and
Speaker 4: get some of the fun candy that they have in
Speaker 4: the store. And it's a mix of people from all
Speaker 4: over the country, nobody, it's not particularly white. All races
Speaker 4: are represented, and the idea that it's some kind of
Speaker 4: white coated thing is nonsense. It's absolute nonsense. It's it's
Speaker 4: them trying to bring down an American brand, and that
Speaker 4: American brand is falling for it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's afraid Sha, we can't take away there, But hey,
Speaker 2: I want to go to New York City now where
Speaker 2: you're from, where I'm from, and where Zorad mom Domi,
Speaker 2: who I've spoken about plenty of times on the show,
Speaker 2: is surging in the polls. He's now expected to be
Speaker 2: the next mayor of the Big Apple. We keep hearing
Speaker 2: more and more about this guy, his crazy economics, his
Speaker 2: adjacency to very anti Israeli and some would say anti
Speaker 2: Semitic comments. As a former New Yorker yourself, what do
Speaker 2: you make of this and what do you make of
Speaker 2: this in terms of the broader move of the Democrat
Speaker 2: Party towards socialism away from mainstream Middle America.
Speaker 4: I think leftism goes hand in hand now with anti Semitism,
Speaker 4: at the very minimum being anti Israel, and that's what
Speaker 4: Zora Muandani represents. But beyond all that, all of his ideas,
Speaker 4: all of his socialist plans for New York City, they're
Speaker 4: largely going to fail. That he can't do a lot
Speaker 4: of the things that he he can do. I mean,
Speaker 4: how many government run grocery stores is he going to
Speaker 4: have in a city of you know, seven or million people?
Speaker 4: Two three? It's not going to work. He can't really
Speaker 4: freeze rent. He wants to do it with rent stabilized apartments.
Speaker 4: New Yorker's misunderstood it as all apartments. Obviously, this is
Speaker 4: all going to fail. So the question is what will
Speaker 4: he turn to when it does fail? And I think
Speaker 4: Jews in New York need to be careful that he's
Speaker 4: going to turn to vilifying them and they're going to
Speaker 4: be in danger. And that's not a crazy idea that
Speaker 4: that's something that plenty of politicians have done in the past.
Speaker 4: When there are government policies fail, they find a way
Speaker 4: to escapegoat Jews. New York Jews need to be called.
Speaker 4: They need to think about getting out if he becomes mayor.
Speaker 4: It's time.
Speaker 2: God, It's just absolutely shocking. I never would have thought,
Speaker 2: having grown up in New York, you know, forty years ago,
Speaker 2: that we'd be talking about Jews having to leave New
Speaker 2: York City of all places. But finally, Carol, I want
Speaker 2: to ask you about this because, look, I'm not much
Speaker 2: of a Swifty myself, but former FBI director James call
Speaker 2: me apparently is He's posted a bizarre video about Taylor
Speaker 2: Swift and Donald Trump. Have a look at this.
Speaker 14: You see Taylor Swift and I go way back. I
Speaker 14: went to my first concert of hers fifteen years ago.
Speaker 14: I'm in a family's swifty group chat. I know all
Speaker 14: her music and I listened to it on my headphones
Speaker 14: when I cut the grass. So yes, I have a
Speaker 14: favorite of hers, although honestly, for me, it's a tie
Speaker 14: between all two well ten Minute Version and Exile featuring
Speaker 14: bonnye Verair.
Speaker 2: Carol, creepy is the only kind of word that came
Speaker 2: to mind there. What do you think?
Speaker 4: Look, I like Taylor Swift. I've been to a Taylor
Speaker 4: Swift concert. I've taken my teenage daughter to see her
Speaker 4: in Liverpool. I mean, I'm not against people liking Taylor Swift,
Speaker 4: that's great, But the fact that our FBI director, our
Speaker 4: ex FBI director, is so deeply unserious and so weird,
Speaker 4: so odd, does such weird things and says such weird things.
Speaker 4: This is the the first time that he's made kind
Speaker 4: of odd spectacle of himself. He recently had the incident
Speaker 4: where he said he was walking on the beach and
Speaker 4: came across a shell formation that said eighty six forty seven,
Speaker 4: which means get rid of forty seven.
Speaker 6: And it's taken kind of a front.
Speaker 4: I mean, he is a weird dude. How was he
Speaker 4: the FBI director? It just makes those sense to me,
Speaker 4: and it concerns me that someone like that was in
Speaker 4: that role for so long.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I think we're gonna hear a little bit
Speaker 2: more about James Comey in the coming weeks and months.
Speaker 2: Karen Marquis, We're going to leave it there, thank you
Speaker 2: so much. Now we've got to hit a short break.
Speaker 2: But when we come back, ay yai ai, it's going
Speaker 2: to be a very special, spicy only in America. But first,
Speaker 2: a few words of wisdom from our favorite Louisiana Senator
Speaker 2: John Kennedy. And what's that the kids say? Wait for it?
Speaker 2: Are Republicans having fun these days?
Speaker 11: I wouldn't describe it as fun. I enjoy my job,
Speaker 11: but I'm not sure that fun is the right term.
Speaker 11: I think we're winning more than we're moving. Some of
Speaker 11: that is due to Republicans, but a lot of it,
Speaker 11: as you pointed out, Leland, is due to Democrats. As
Speaker 11: I've said before, you you never interfere with your opponent
Speaker 11: when he's kicking his own ass.
Speaker 2: Great advice, Senator, Only in America. After the break, welcome
Speaker 2: back to the program, and now it's time for a
Speaker 2: little segment we like to call only in America, or
Speaker 2: maybe only in the Dominican Republic. Yes, that's right, the
Speaker 2: Dominican Republic, where Donald Trump is now playing the hero
Speaker 2: in a new hit song by Sandro Res, which is
Speaker 2: racing up the charts in that Caribbean nation. The song
Speaker 2: is about a guy who's missus breaks up with him
Speaker 2: to run away to New York, leaving him to beg
Speaker 2: Donald Trump to deport her and send her back home.
Speaker 2: The song is called May Trump Deport Her? Here's a
Speaker 2: little bit.
Speaker 5: Em hi.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, day ya da pretty catchy. Hey, I'm going
Speaker 2: to be humming that all weekend, and you have a
Speaker 2: great weekend. Don't get deported. Bye bye