Speaker 1: This is the US Report with James Morrow.
Speaker 2: Good evening and welcome to the program. Here's what's coming
Speaker 2: up tonight. Big trouble for John Bolton as the investigation
Speaker 2: into whether he shared his stash get It of classified
Speaker 2: intelligence with foreign actors heats up. Plus cracker barrel cracks
Speaker 2: a win for common sense. I'll have more on that later.
Speaker 2: And who's the more popular president, Donald Trump or Barack Obama?
Speaker 1: The answer might surprise you. Now.
Speaker 2: I'm going to talk about that horrific shooting in Minnesota
Speaker 2: this week, and the media is covering up of some
Speaker 2: of the story's most disturbing aspects, all because the facts
Speaker 2: didn't suit their narrative in a moment. But first we
Speaker 2: need to talk about the Australian American alliance forged by
Speaker 2: John Curtin and the fires of war in the Pacific,
Speaker 2: cemented by Menzies and now being undone by Anthony Albinizi.
Speaker 2: Once upon a time, the idea of bad diplomatic blood
Speaker 2: between America and Australia was such a ludicrous idea that
Speaker 2: it became a foil for comedy.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately, Bart, your little escapade could not have come at
Speaker 3: a worse time. America Australianian relations or at an all
Speaker 3: time low.
Speaker 2: But now no longer for what are largely domestic political reasons.
Speaker 2: Picking up on polling showing that Donald Trump is on
Speaker 2: the nose with a lot of Australians, particularly labor voters,
Speaker 2: Prime Minister Anthony ALBINIZI has seen fit to suggest a
Speaker 2: realignment of our foreign policy, breaking away from the US
Speaker 2: in the name of national sovereignty, while following the lead
Speaker 2: of Europe on issues like Palestinian recognition, and at the
Speaker 2: same time cozying up to China, where the PM spent
Speaker 2: six whole days recently. Now, all of this has led
Speaker 2: to the bizarre what was the point of that trip
Speaker 2: made by Defense Minister Richard Marls to Washington this week?
Speaker 2: On Wednesday, Marls posted happy snaps of himself and Ambassador
Speaker 2: Kevin Rudd meeting with a somewhat amused Vice President JD
Speaker 2: Vance and American Defense Secretary Pete Hegsath. Marls or Marls's
Speaker 2: office tweeted quote, the alliance between Australia and the United
Speaker 2: States long standing, built on our shared history of deep collaboration.
Speaker 2: I was pleased to have the opportunity to reaffirm Australia's
Speaker 2: commitment to building on this partnership with US Vice President
Speaker 2: Jada Vance and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseath in.
Speaker 1: Washington, d C.
Speaker 2: Today. Well, it seemed like things were all coming together.
Speaker 2: And Marls, who is a member of Labour's right and
Speaker 2: who I think to be fair, generally gets it on
Speaker 2: security issues, unlike some of the absolutely undergraduate bomb throwers.
Speaker 2: He shares a cabinet room with. Well, I think Marls
Speaker 2: was starting to think that he could patch things up.
Speaker 2: But then there was this headline Pentagon denies Richard Marles
Speaker 2: had a meeting with Pete Hegseth, and that was attached
Speaker 2: to an article which described what happened between the two
Speaker 2: men as a quote happenstance encounter.
Speaker 1: WHOA, what's going on here? What was the part of
Speaker 1: the trip?
Speaker 2: Then if Marls was presumably I don't know, what's it
Speaker 2: gonna do, get a day pass to the Executive Office
Speaker 2: building of the White House and wander around and hope
Speaker 2: to run in some big shots, then the Pentagon put
Speaker 2: out another statement. And here I feel like this might
Speaker 2: have been a little good will gesture on the part
Speaker 2: of the Americans to help the Aussies save face. They
Speaker 2: said that Secretary Hegseth welcomed the opportunity to meet with
Speaker 2: Marles and that meeting had been planned in advance. Yet
Speaker 2: now the latest version of the story has come out
Speaker 2: this is actually a secret mission to meet not with
Speaker 2: Hegseth but jd Vance in advance of a potential Trump
Speaker 2: Albanezi meeting. But amazingly, the Australian has reported that despite
Speaker 2: the new story that this was all about meeting jd Vance,
Speaker 2: and I have to ask why would there be secrecy
Speaker 2: around that. In fact, no meeting had been set between
Speaker 2: Marls and Pete Hegseth. According to the Australian quote, while
Speaker 2: the Washington trip was promoted by mister Marris prior to
Speaker 2: his departure of Washington as another opportunity to discuss shared
Speaker 2: defense and security matters with mister Henseth, no meeting had
Speaker 2: been locked in with the US's Defense secretary by the
Speaker 2: time he touched down. Seriously, this is frankly very weird.
Speaker 2: I mean, these sorts of trips are generally very tightly planned,
Speaker 2: and the notion that our Defense Minister's office hadn't locked
Speaker 2: something in with Hegseeth even while he was still in
Speaker 2: the air.
Speaker 1: And while Marls.
Speaker 2: Reportedly said he'd increase Australian defense spending, well, there are
Speaker 2: plenty of others I'd love to see raised here, like,
Speaker 2: for example, free speech.
Speaker 1: I wonder if.
Speaker 2: Jd Vance knows about our e safety commiss news antics. Look,
Speaker 2: the Australian American Alliance is long standing and vitally important.
Speaker 2: But frankly, this government, this labor government, has for very
Speaker 2: cynical and political reasons, decided to throw shade on it
Speaker 2: while pivoting, as I say, not just to Europe but
Speaker 2: also to China. It's a bad look, it's dangerous, and
Speaker 2: I hope Marls has the ability to put.
Speaker 1: A stop to it.
Speaker 2: Now onto that horrific story out of Minnesota this week
Speaker 2: of the shooting out of Minneapolis Catholic church where students
Speaker 2: at a back to school mass at the Annunciation Catholic School,
Speaker 2: where at least two children have died and seventeen more
Speaker 2: were injured. Now, frankly, it's really too horrible to contemplate here,
Speaker 2: but we have to talk about it because this story,
Speaker 2: this tragedy, has sadly become political.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: This individual, Robins has been identified as the shooter. But
Speaker 2: because Robin identified as trans and posted a long, violent
Speaker 2: manifesto about his transgenderism and regrets and hatred of Donald
Speaker 2: Trump and Israel and the Jews and the Catholic Church
Speaker 2: and a billion other things, well, that's created a bit
Speaker 2: of a problem for the media. This American ABC report
Speaker 2: was typical.
Speaker 3: We've also been going through it and can tell you
Speaker 3: there are crude diagrams of the church. There are also
Speaker 3: photos of the weapons, and they include all sorts of writings,
Speaker 3: the names of past mass shooters, criticism of Israel, the
Speaker 3: name of President Trump written on the guns. There are
Speaker 3: also racial slurs.
Speaker 2: The name of President Trump, racial slurs. You can see
Speaker 2: what they're doing here. They're trying to suggest maybe Westman
Speaker 2: was some sort of alt right white supremacist megafan. But
Speaker 2: what did the ABC leave out? Westmin had written the
Speaker 2: words kill Donald Trump on his gun.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I kind of think that's important, you know,
Speaker 1: for context. Right.
Speaker 2: The New York Times, of course, was just as bad.
Speaker 2: They wrote quote On social media. Some conservative activists have
Speaker 2: seized on the shooter's gender identity to portray transgender people
Speaker 2: as violent or mentally ill. The right wing uproar over
Speaker 2: ms Westman's gender identity echoed the politicized reaction to a
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three mass shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville,
Speaker 2: which was carried out by a former student who the
Speaker 2: police and was transgender. In a news conference, Mayor Jacob
Speaker 2: Fry of Minneapolis, a Democrat, urged the public to avoid
Speaker 2: scapegoating transgender people unquote. So you see what they did there.
Speaker 2: They did the right thing at the start by clearing
Speaker 2: up confusion about Westman's gender identity. But the paper, I'm
Speaker 2: so afraid of the conclusions its readers might draw that
Speaker 2: it surrounded the report with layer after layer of messaging.
Speaker 2: So like, you know, if you paid the attention to
Speaker 2: the gender issue, they're saying, well, don't do that, because
Speaker 2: if you do that, your right wing and a conservative activist.
Speaker 2: And they also reminded you that Jacob Frey a Democrat,
Speaker 2: so pay attention. Urged against scapegoating all this while insisting
Speaker 2: others politicized the shooting. Well, no, sorry, I'm not going
Speaker 2: to let that slide. But it wasn't just the media.
Speaker 2: Local democrats and officials were also in on the game.
Speaker 1: Here's the local police chief Brian O'Hara.
Speaker 4: I cannot. I have no information to share on a
Speaker 4: motive other than saying again that there was some sort
Speaker 4: of manifesto that was time to come out on YouTube.
Speaker 4: It's been taken down and our investigators are going through
Speaker 4: that to try and develop a motive from that.
Speaker 1: Ah.
Speaker 2: Yes, the old We may never know the motive routine.
Speaker 2: I mean, it looked pretty clear to me, but hey,
Speaker 2: what do I know. Minnesota Center Aby clubash Are was
Speaker 2: just as bad.
Speaker 4: These kids did extraordinary things, but they never should have
Speaker 4: been put in that position in the first place.
Speaker 3: This was a madman.
Speaker 1: He was an all.
Speaker 2: Purpose hater, by the way, hated groups left.
Speaker 1: Right, you name it.
Speaker 2: There's no way to pin an ideology on this all
Speaker 2: purpose hater. Nothing to see here, no politics involved. And
Speaker 2: Mayor Jacob Fray, as the time suggested, well here he is.
Speaker 5: I have heard about a whole lot of hate that's
Speaker 5: being directed at our trans community. Anybody who was using
Speaker 5: this as an using this as an opportunity to villainize
Speaker 5: our trans community.
Speaker 2: By the way, this is a picture of Fray five
Speaker 2: years ago, carefully kneeling at the golden coffin of George
Speaker 2: Floyd but I think that tells you something about where
Speaker 2: he's coming from. Now, look, on one level, phrase right,
Speaker 2: nobody should demonize trans people over this, But frankly, that's
Speaker 2: not what this is all about. What we are seeing
Speaker 2: here is a typical all two typical media cover up.
Speaker 2: If this had been a right wing shooter, we'd have
Speaker 2: heard no end about the motivations. We'd be hearing about
Speaker 2: this for weeks and months. But here the story is
Speaker 2: more difficult and complex for them because it goes against
Speaker 2: media pieties that have far from treating transgender people as
Speaker 2: people just like everybody else, something I reckon most people
Speaker 2: wherever they are want well. Instead, the media sanctified them
Speaker 2: and said, well, you can't talk about things like mental
Speaker 2: illness because that's not inclusive or whatever, and this story
Speaker 2: might give them pause as well. The New York Post,
Speaker 2: which unlike The Times does not try to smother inconvenient facts,
Speaker 2: has reported that Westin was quote tired of being trans unquote.
Speaker 2: According to the newspaper, Westmin's manifesto included this, I only
Speaker 2: keep the long hair because it is pretty much my
Speaker 2: last thread of being trans. I am tired of being trans.
Speaker 2: I wish I never brainwashed myself. He wrote, Well, there
Speaker 2: you go. But that's a very inconvenient fact for the media,
Speaker 2: which never wants to link mental illness and transgenderism or
Speaker 2: brainwashing at all. And it's not Republicans or people pointing
Speaker 2: out the facts here who are politicizing this.
Speaker 1: This has to be said here. No, the politicization of.
Speaker 2: This horrific crime, this horrific tragedy is coming from those
Speaker 2: Democrats and media outlets who are twisting the facts here
Speaker 2: to cover for their own agenda, and that, in my view,
Speaker 2: is disgraceful. All right, let's rip into it now. Joining
Speaker 2: me now is former White House press sector you know
Speaker 2: him well, Sewn Spicer. Shawn, thanks for joining me on
Speaker 2: the US report. Huge news broken in the last day
Speaker 2: or so involving President Trump's former National security advisor John Bolton.
Speaker 2: Now The New York Times revealed that during his work
Speaker 2: in the White House, Bolton allegedly sent sensitive information, including
Speaker 2: emails to quote people close to him on an unclassified system.
Speaker 2: Some of this wound up overseas, and this investigation apparently
Speaker 2: started during the Biden administration, putting the lie to claims
Speaker 2: that this is just retribution. Sean, what do you make
Speaker 2: of this. Is there some trouble coming here for John Bolton?
Speaker 6: Well, most importantly, I think what you said towards the
Speaker 6: end was the thing that I got a kick out of,
Speaker 6: for all these people who are claiming that this.
Speaker 1: Is somehow retribution.
Speaker 6: The New York Times very at the top of their
Speaker 6: story noted that this all started under Biden, that they
Speaker 6: their intelligence agencies run by his folks, were noting where
Speaker 6: this information was heading up in foreign governments that aren't
Speaker 6: exactly friends of ours in the United States. I obviously
Speaker 6: think it's concerning that that information is out there. And
Speaker 6: the bigger thing James said I get a kick out
Speaker 6: of are all these people who, when President Trump's house
Speaker 6: was rated, jumped to conclusions saying that he should go
Speaker 6: to jail and he should be prosecuted, and when Bolton's
Speaker 6: house got raided, called it retribution. So it is funny
Speaker 6: watching how the same thing done. Although obviously President Trump's
Speaker 6: in a very different situation. The president has classification authority
Speaker 6: and believe that he had the right to those documents.
Speaker 6: There's no scenario in which John Bolton is a classifying authority,
Speaker 6: so it would be a completely different scenario, and for
Speaker 6: all of the pontification and grand standing that was done.
Speaker 6: Well there you go.
Speaker 2: Well it is interesting to me, though, Sean, because you know,
Speaker 2: we've spoken before when the President's house had been rated
Speaker 2: about and when Joe Biden had been accused of keeping
Speaker 2: classified information as well. You know, ordinary citizens with security
Speaker 2: clearances have gone and done serious jail time for so
Speaker 2: much as you know, bringing some material back to a
Speaker 2: hotel room to work on it. It does seem like,
Speaker 2: you know, there's a bit of a double standard here,
Speaker 2: of course.
Speaker 6: Well again, I mean, look, I've had a security CLINICCE
Speaker 6: for going on twenty six years right now, so I'm
Speaker 6: very familiar with the handling of it, the yearly updates
Speaker 6: on handling sensitivities. But I will say that there is
Speaker 6: a uniqueness because, as I noted a moment ago, Jim said,
Speaker 6: the classification authority matters. So there are certain people the
Speaker 6: Secretary of Defense, the President of the United States, I believe,
Speaker 6: the Secretary of State obviously, the CIA director, the Director
Speaker 6: of National Intelligence who have what they call classification authority.
Speaker 6: The President of course in a very different category because
Speaker 6: he is the ultimate arbiter of all of that. But
Speaker 6: in a case like John Bolton or Vice President Biden
Speaker 6: or then Senator Biden or Hillary Clinton.
Speaker 1: Now he didn't have that right, So that's where this is.
Speaker 6: You know, I know everybody who's an armshair quarterback likes
Speaker 6: to try to make it all seem the same. But
Speaker 6: there is some important distinctions in these cases that's worthy
Speaker 6: of noting. But again, I just get a kick out
Speaker 6: of for all of the criticism that John Bolton specifically
Speaker 6: has made of President Trump, how he's handled himself, it
Speaker 6: looks like he was a bit sloppy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, absolutely right.
Speaker 2: Hey, I want to ask you now about another story
Speaker 2: here and explain this to me, because I'm a little confused.
Speaker 2: The President is facing backlash for saying earlier in the
Speaker 2: week that the US will allow in six hundred thousand
Speaker 2: Chinese students.
Speaker 1: Have listened to this. I hear so many stories about
Speaker 1: we're not going to allow their students. So we're going
Speaker 1: to allow their students to come, and we're going.
Speaker 2: To allow It's very important, six hundred thousand students, it's
Speaker 2: very important. I'm a little confused about this because it
Speaker 2: seems like, you know, you're closing one border on the
Speaker 2: one hand down south and then you're letting in all
Speaker 2: these Chinese students where let's be Franks that there have
Speaker 2: been some national security implications and spying and a lot
Speaker 2: of other things that have happened here.
Speaker 1: Why this change of heart?
Speaker 6: Okay, so I'm one of these people that's not exactly
Speaker 6: fired up about this. I do believe that China is
Speaker 6: our enemy that we shouldn't be doing stuff, but I
Speaker 6: understand what President Trump's trying to do. And just to
Speaker 6: be clear that the comment you made about the southern border,
Speaker 6: the issue is whether or not people are coming into
Speaker 6: our country, whether it's students or tourus or temporary workers,
Speaker 6: legally right and through the processes. And these students, again,
Speaker 6: I don't like where they're from, but the bottom line
Speaker 6: is they are going through legal process. I also don't
Speaker 6: like the fact that, you know, part of the explanation
Speaker 6: is that they pay full fare. So if you're a
Speaker 6: university like Harvard, you love the fact that whatever it is,
Speaker 6: twenty percent is coming from there because they pay the
Speaker 6: full tuition. They're not looking for financial aid or you know,
Speaker 6: work programs to get true. But at the end of
Speaker 6: the day, I believe China is the existential threat not
Speaker 6: just to America but in the entire world right now.
Speaker 6: I get what the President's trying to do, though, and
Speaker 6: this is where again, the same thing's going on on
Speaker 6: a lot of other issues with trade, etc.
Speaker 1: Which is they're trying to strike.
Speaker 6: A deal overall, a big picture financial deal with China.
Speaker 6: So you can't punch him in the face at one
Speaker 6: time and then say, hey, can we make a deal
Speaker 6: with you. On the other hand, I get that he
Speaker 6: trumps a business guy, and at the end of the day,
Speaker 6: he understands the nuances of trying to put together a
Speaker 6: big deal. And in the case right now, they are
Speaker 6: trying to really reset the balance of the economics between
Speaker 6: our two countries, the trade and balance that exists, the
Speaker 6: fact that manufacturing over in China is taking away a
Speaker 6: lot of US jobs, intellectual property issues, etc.
Speaker 1: So I get it.
Speaker 6: From a deal making standpoint, he doesn't want to be
Speaker 6: slapping their wrists on one hand and then opening the
Speaker 6: door on the other for potential trade stuff. But this
Speaker 6: is not to me the idea of bringing up with
Speaker 6: a bunch of people from China to learn all about us,
Speaker 6: our system, what's going on, to infiltrate our universities, bring
Speaker 6: it home. It's not like they're staying in America and
Speaker 6: building a great company or whatever. They're going back to
Speaker 6: a country that's our sworn enemy. So they're almost learning
Speaker 6: about how to take us on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly right.
Speaker 2: Hey, I wean't to talk to you about the Democrats
Speaker 2: now because after this week's DNC summer meeting.
Speaker 1: Well, have a look here. I love this.
Speaker 2: Here how former Democratic advisor dead turn time. He summed
Speaker 2: up what I reckon perfectly are the issues the party
Speaker 2: has today.
Speaker 7: Hew, hell does it do this as a Democrat. It's
Speaker 7: maddening that we're still not serious, like you said it.
Speaker 7: We haven't lost four and a half million voters, nor
Speaker 7: is our brand at a historic low because we don't
Speaker 7: fight hard enough. It's because we remain completely culturally disconnected
Speaker 7: and we have absolutely no agenda. You said earlier in
Speaker 7: your monologue, Trump's trying to solve problems. We always offered
Speaker 7: the three p's, the personal attacks, which you just heard.
Speaker 7: He's a dick and authoritative. We argue process, Oh, we
Speaker 7: shouldn't do this. He's violating customs and norms. Or it's
Speaker 7: the press, right, it's their job to do it, and
Speaker 7: then on the cultural issues, we literally have think tanks
Speaker 7: putting memos out that you know, these are the words
Speaker 7: you're not supposed to say. You add it all up
Speaker 7: and we're not in good shape.
Speaker 2: Sean a Democrat who gets it. But do you think
Speaker 2: they'll take his advice?
Speaker 6: You know, Dan is my co host on The Morning Meeting,
Speaker 6: which is on my YouTube channel. We take it live.
Speaker 1: You're free to jump on.
Speaker 6: We take questions from anywhere in the world every morning,
Speaker 6: nine am Eastern Time, and he brings a lot of
Speaker 6: common sense. They should be listening to Dan more often.
Speaker 6: He was Hillary Clinton's top fundraiser. He knows what he's
Speaker 6: talking about. But he's absolutely right. I mean, look, here's
Speaker 6: the problem. Fundamentally, they have a messaging issue and a
Speaker 6: mechanics issue. The messaging issue is what Dan just highlighted.
Speaker 6: They're talking about stuff. They're denying there's an immigration problem
Speaker 6: at our border. They're denying that there's crime in major cities,
Speaker 6: which just no, he believes. And then they're taking on
Speaker 6: stupid cultural wars and fighting for the lowest common denominator.
Speaker 6: But then they've also got a big mechanics issue. And
Speaker 6: this is the other dirty little secret The DNC, as
Speaker 6: of the last report, had thirteen million dollars cash on hand.
Speaker 6: The RNC and other Trump related super PACs had three
Speaker 6: hundred million. Their party chairman, Ken Martin, you referenced this
Speaker 6: summer meeting they had just literally had to withdraw a resolution.
Speaker 6: That's that's the equivalent of like a student council resolution.
Speaker 6: It means nothing. He can't even get a resolution passed
Speaker 6: through his own committee. And I mean so they an
Speaker 6: utter disaster right now.
Speaker 1: Dan'sright.
Speaker 6: They're putting out memos about what words to use, but
Speaker 6: they are flailing as a party. And when you have
Speaker 6: both things going in the wrong directions, the message and
Speaker 6: the mechanics, you're in big trouble heading into a midterm.
Speaker 1: Sean Spicer right away, we go, oh.
Speaker 6: By the way, sorry, poor thing in every state in
Speaker 6: America that tracks voter registration by party, every single one
Speaker 6: of them, they went in the wrong direction. That's that
Speaker 6: is a big problem.
Speaker 2: That is a big, big problem. And we're going to
Speaker 2: talk about it again soon, I hope. But I might
Speaker 2: even join you on that morning briefing sometimes. Shawn Spices,
Speaker 2: thanks so much to check out the Shawn Spicer Show.
Speaker 2: Thanks for joining me you Bett. Okay, Now, let's bring
Speaker 2: it a new guest here. We've not had him before
Speaker 2: on the program, but he is the host of the Politics, Politics,
Speaker 2: Politics podcast.
Speaker 1: Justin.
Speaker 2: Robert Young joins me here on the EU Westport Justin,
Speaker 2: Welcome to the program. Thanks for joining me. And I
Speaker 2: want to start out tonight by talking about the sad story,
Speaker 2: this devastating story out of Minneapolis week this week, which
Speaker 2: saw two children killed, seventeen people injured in horrific scenes.
Speaker 2: Now I spoke about this earlier in the show, how
Speaker 2: the media has really skewed its reporting on the shooter,
Speaker 2: Robert Westman, trying to obscure I think the transgender angle
Speaker 2: to this and the mental illness connection to that. What
Speaker 2: have you made of the way this horrible story has
Speaker 2: been covered.
Speaker 8: You know, I think the biggest thing that I've noticed
Speaker 8: is that both the media and even Democratic politicians, who
Speaker 8: are very very careful with their language, have actually been
Speaker 8: referring to the shooter as a hymn, which is something
Speaker 8: that I don't think that they would have done a
Speaker 8: few years ago. They have referred to Robert and not Robin,
Speaker 8: which was the name that he was going by right
Speaker 8: up until this attack, but in general, there is an
Speaker 8: uncomfortable silence that happens oftentimes with stories like this, where
Speaker 8: if there is not hay to be made politically about
Speaker 8: a shooter's motivations, then it just kind of gets memory hold,
Speaker 8: which is one of the uglier elements of American politics
Speaker 8: in general in my opinion, especially when you have something
Speaker 8: that you know, the destruction of life this young it's
Speaker 8: really ugly when political points are made on top of it.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, and that's the thing that really because I
Speaker 2: played a clip earlier where the American ABC they said, oh, well,
Speaker 2: the shooter had Donald Trump's name written on, you know,
Speaker 2: his guns, but it said killed Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: And I feel like, had.
Speaker 2: This person been you know, an explicitly right wing person,
Speaker 2: you know, committing some right wing kind of hate crime,
Speaker 2: we would hear so much more about this, and this
Speaker 2: story would kick off, you know what, do we call it?
Speaker 2: A national conversation that would run for weeks, if not months.
Speaker 8: And that's really where I think I would hope that
Speaker 8: if there is a world where the media gets better,
Speaker 8: that we can agree killers like this very very rarely,
Speaker 8: if ever, have opinions that match upon the mainstream of
Speaker 8: political thought. They're usually disturbed in some bizarre way that
Speaker 8: really takes them out of what we would understand of
Speaker 8: even the left right spectrum of modern mainstream thought. And
Speaker 8: what I think it is better is if we just
Speaker 8: leave all of that out of there and understand that
Speaker 8: these are seriously deranged people. And this is a mental
Speaker 8: illness question first and foremost.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, justin one of the interesting things here
Speaker 2: which you've sort of touched on, which brings me to
Speaker 2: my next topic. Here is this the away the left
Speaker 2: manipulates language and everybody manipulates language.
Speaker 1: But we've now had a.
Speaker 2: Story this week that Columbia Law School has had a
Speaker 2: consultant come in and tell students not to use terms like,
Speaker 2: you know, grandfathering or crazy uncle. Meanwhile, you've got the
Speaker 2: Democrat Party. They've given Democrats a whole list of terms
Speaker 2: they shouldn't use, including privileged violence, dialogue, triggering, triggering, microaggression,
Speaker 2: holding space, body shaming, subverting norms, and all sorts of
Speaker 2: other things. Tell me, why is it that the left
Speaker 2: seems much more concerned about policing language and actually, you know,
Speaker 2: making people's lives better.
Speaker 8: You actually love to one out there at the DNC
Speaker 8: meeting in Minneapolis this week, there was a presentation to
Speaker 8: show that protecting the peace pulled better than the phrase
Speaker 8: tough on crime, that tough on crime was bad to
Speaker 8: use politically, which I mean, if that person is not
Speaker 8: paid by the Republican Party, they should probably cash a
Speaker 8: check from them for the level of damage that they
Speaker 8: are doing internally to the Democrats. There's a saying here
Speaker 8: in politics in America that you know, there are only
Speaker 8: three guarantees in life, death taxes, and the Democrats believing
Speaker 8: that this can be solved with messaging. For whatever reason,
Speaker 8: the staff of the Democratic Party and the people that
Speaker 8: make it up believe that there is nothing that can
Speaker 8: be either done or undone if you just say the
Speaker 8: magic words. And they spend so much time and energy
Speaker 8: not only policing themselves, but as we saw over the
Speaker 8: last ten years, policing others where they had authority to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know, justin I think one of the
Speaker 2: phrases that we use on this showing off a lot
Speaker 2: is nineteen eighty four was a warning.
Speaker 1: Not an instruction manual.
Speaker 2: But you know, meanwhile, meanwhile in the real world, here
Speaker 2: the new poll here saying that President Trump has actually
Speaker 2: got a forty five percent approval rating, which runs, you know,
Speaker 2: counter to what a lot of the headlines would say.
Speaker 2: And funnily enough, it turns out that if you actually
Speaker 2: compare President Trump and President Obama at this same time
Speaker 2: in their second terms, you can see that Trump is
Speaker 2: actually out in front. Look, I mean, whether or not
Speaker 2: you're a Trump lover or a Trump hater or a
Speaker 2: big maga guy, this one seems suggested the president is
Speaker 2: not doing the horrible job that you know you were
Speaker 2: thinking was if you just read the New York Times
Speaker 2: and the Washington Post.
Speaker 8: You know what's interesting is that obviously, internationally, or at
Speaker 8: least whenever I've traveled internationally, there's a very specific lens
Speaker 8: on American politics post Trump. Not to say that they
Speaker 8: were ever particularly friendly to Republicans in the past, but
Speaker 8: with Trump it is kind of ratcheted up to another level.
Speaker 8: In America, he has looked at as more popular. Even
Speaker 8: in the mainstream media. You'll see more stories that he's
Speaker 8: more popular than he was in his first term, which
Speaker 8: is odd because usually in American politics, the president is
Speaker 8: as popular as they're ever going to be in their
Speaker 8: first term and then sink to a lower level in
Speaker 8: their second term. And he saw that with Clinton, with
Speaker 8: Obama and with George W. Bush, surely, but he had
Speaker 8: a war that was weighing him down. With Trump, it's
Speaker 8: kind of the opposite. The longer he's been around, the
Speaker 8: more people in public polling, and I would say even
Speaker 8: in the media lens to a certain extent, have understood
Speaker 8: that he has a very, very not only a special
Speaker 8: connection with his base, but that base in the coalition
Speaker 8: of the Republican Party is growing, and that does have
Speaker 8: to be reckoned with. If you're Donald Trump and you're
Speaker 8: the White House, you look at that number and you say, well,
Speaker 8: they usually undercount us by about three points anyway, So
Speaker 8: really where at forty eight or forty nine will take it?
Speaker 2: Justin, We're gonna have to leave it there. Thank you
Speaker 2: so much. Everybody listened to his Politics, Politics, Politics podcast.
Speaker 2: It's fantastic. Now stick around. We're gonna hit a quick
Speaker 2: break here, but when we return, our favorite form of
Speaker 2: trouble deviser. Christian Witten joins me. But first a quick
Speaker 2: shout out to this Chicago cameraman who undercut Illinois Governor JB.
Speaker 2: Pritzker's claims that he's living rent free in Donald Trump's head,
Speaker 2: and he did this in I think the funniest way possible.
Speaker 9: We're very pleased about the progress that we're making. I
Speaker 9: know that I live rent free in the President's head,
Speaker 9: and I wish he would spend some time in Chicago
Speaker 9: so that he could see what a lovely city we have.
Speaker 10: Governor, call up, what do you do if the National
Speaker 10: Guard is activated and comes here?
Speaker 2: I love those optics, you know what, I think it
Speaker 2: might be the other way around, Governor Christian Witten in
Speaker 2: a tick, welcome.
Speaker 1: Back to the program.
Speaker 2: And you know what they say, A week is a
Speaker 2: long time in politics and the culture wars.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: The last time we got together, country theme restaurant Chained
Speaker 2: Cracker Barrel was in a home as a trouble because
Speaker 2: it changed its traditional logo from this to this as
Speaker 2: part of a broader rebrand. Well, people lost their minds
Speaker 2: and the company has relented, saying, hey, we made an
Speaker 2: opsie and the old branding stays.
Speaker 1: Chalking up is a win for the.
Speaker 2: Good guys, even if there are bigger issues to fight about.
Speaker 2: But I do think it is hilarious that the same
Speaker 2: lefties who say, oh, what's the big deal. It's just
Speaker 2: a logo. Are so exercised about it? Now the logo's
Speaker 2: gone back. Take, for example, Democrat Vermont Cong's ruin Becca Ballant.
Speaker 11: I just have to say, who gives us about the
Speaker 11: cracker barrel logo?
Speaker 6: It doesn't impact our safety, our security, or ability to
Speaker 6: provide for our children.
Speaker 8: Don't take the bait.
Speaker 2: Yeah, except though she did take the bait. Anyway, Here's
Speaker 2: hoping other companies get the message that it is never
Speaker 2: too late to change or rather change back. I mean,
Speaker 2: maybe the good folks at Jaguar could relent on their
Speaker 2: woke rebrand, which is seeing them go broke and go
Speaker 2: back to giving people what they really want. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: that's the stuff, you know. I always wanted to be
Speaker 2: a Jagman. Well, joining me now is former Trump senior
Speaker 2: advisor Christian Witten. Christian, welcome back to the program. Thanks
Speaker 2: for joining me. And I want to talk to us
Speaker 2: very quickly about this cracker barrel story because it does
Speaker 2: sound like it's been another win on the commercial culture
Speaker 2: wars front. And I just spoke about the rebrand, but
Speaker 2: coming on the heels of all that Sidney Sweeney business,
Speaker 2: it does feel like something is changing out there.
Speaker 1: What's your take.
Speaker 10: It is, I think there are instances where corporate boards
Speaker 10: and executives are getting a backbone and up to wokeness. Now,
Speaker 10: it's hard if the CEO herself is the one who's
Speaker 10: generating the wokeness. But you know, I was talking to
Speaker 10: a friend who served in the first Trump administration who's
Speaker 10: saying he is a lawyer for a large corporation saying
Speaker 10: it's actually okay to be a Republican in corporate America now.
Speaker 10: And you know, you see that there's serious financial downside.
Speaker 10: It's not like an established organization called for a boycott. Eventually,
Speaker 10: Donald Trump did say that these people should change their
Speaker 10: logo back. But if you look at this, if you
Speaker 10: look at the bud light controversy, with sending a bud
Speaker 10: light to a man who dressed like a woman and
Speaker 10: having her be part of some promotional something or other
Speaker 10: that's destroyed that brand. There's a real financial consequences to this.
Speaker 10: And the uprising is spontaneous. It just comes from the people.
Speaker 10: It's not you know, organizations calling for it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, exactly. Now, I want to go on
Speaker 2: to the great topic of the Australian American alliance. Now
Speaker 2: I spoke about this at the start of the show,
Speaker 2: but I want to ask you about this, whether you've
Speaker 2: been hearing about this mass confusions surrounding our own Australian
Speaker 2: Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marls, also the Defense Minister, and
Speaker 2: his meeting with JD Vance and Pete Hegseith this week.
Speaker 1: To what degree.
Speaker 2: Christian is Australia on the radar of the Trump administration.
Speaker 2: We've got the aucust deal, but are you getting any
Speaker 2: sense that this relationship is getting frosty as a result
Speaker 2: of some of the labor government Here's actions.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a little bit.
Speaker 10: I think it is because you know, Australia's greatest asset
Speaker 10: isn't the percentage of GDP it spends on defense, but
Speaker 10: it's an image of Frankly being a happy warrior. Whether
Speaker 10: that image is correct or not, that's the one Americans
Speaker 10: tend to have, you know, it was the one that's
Speaker 10: commented on one of my videos that you have to
Speaker 10: remember Australia has fought with the States in every war
Speaker 10: since World War Two, including the dumb Ones, which is
Speaker 10: something that Briton can't say. I don't know that's always great,
Speaker 10: but if that image is cultivated. I think that's good,
Speaker 10: not just in the Defense Department, but across the US
Speaker 10: government culture. If, on the other and Australians, because of
Speaker 10: their political leaders, start to look like Karen's from the UK,
Speaker 10: just in the southern hemisphere, then I think that that changes.
Speaker 10: If Australian culture has looked like a bunch of skolds
Speaker 10: because of a left wing government.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 10: As for the trip for the Defense minister, he got
Speaker 10: to meet with the Vice president. That's pretty good. I
Speaker 10: think the relationship is good in that sense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, fair enough.
Speaker 2: Hey, now let's go to Chicago because Italy Governor JB.
Speaker 2: Pritzker potential presidential contender, I might add, so keep an
Speaker 2: eye on that one as well as Chicago Mayor Brandon
Speaker 2: Johnson have both called on the president called off the
Speaker 2: President sending in the National Guard to help the city's
Speaker 2: crime crisis. Now, remarkably, this is what the mayor Brandon
Speaker 2: Johnson said about sending war criminals to jail.
Speaker 12: We cannot incarcerate our way out of violence. We've already
Speaker 12: tried that. If we've ended up with the largest prison
Speaker 12: population in the world without solving the problem of crime
Speaker 12: and violence. The addiction on jails and incarceration in this country.
Speaker 1: We have moved past that.
Speaker 12: It is racist, it is immoral, it is unholy, and
Speaker 12: it is not the way to drive violence down.
Speaker 2: But I couldn't believe that CNN let this go to
Speaker 2: air because apparently some Chicago locals do endorse the move
Speaker 2: from military intervention o.
Speaker 1: Ours reaction was this is a good thing.
Speaker 10: I think that the governor as well as the mayor
Speaker 10: should be on board with it, just so we can
Speaker 10: get a bit more of security in Chicago the way
Speaker 10: do we need.
Speaker 3: The crime has dropped since twenty twenty four. Do you
Speaker 3: feel like the city feels safer?
Speaker 1: No, not at all.
Speaker 2: Christian Chicago said, one of the highest murder rates in
Speaker 2: the United States is not the highest. Why would anyone
Speaker 2: be against lowering the crime rate.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's weird, and of course you know they're manipulating
Speaker 10: the figures. And you know, if the mayor doesn't want
Speaker 10: to put people in jail, man, we should just do it.
Speaker 10: Singapore does and kne lower level prisoners and then they
Speaker 10: can go on their way. Just partially joking there. Incarceration
Speaker 10: works great, Police crackdowns work great. It's what rually Rudy
Speaker 10: Giuliani did to make New York safe, to clean it
Speaker 10: up after the seventies and eighties and decades of decay.
Speaker 10: And everyone said, oh, if you cracked down on crime,
Speaker 10: it just moved from one area to another.
Speaker 1: It just wasn't true.
Speaker 10: Actually, if you cracked out on crime, you cracked out
Speaker 10: on crime.
Speaker 13: And that there's one important point here is if Donald
Speaker 13: Trump can prove again what Rudy Giuliani proved in New York,
Speaker 13: if you can remind voters of that, then that's this
Speaker 13: is sort of the last vestige of Democrat power.
Speaker 1: Are these cities.
Speaker 10: There's really no city that's run by a Democrat by
Speaker 10: Republican maybe the exception of Miami. Currently it is a
Speaker 10: Democrat stronghold. And unlike other Democrat constituencies that Trump is
Speaker 10: shipped away at, like Hispanics, black men, you know, virtually
Speaker 10: everyone but Karen's frankly that if he starts to pull
Speaker 10: political support from these Democrat machines in the cities, and
Speaker 10: the Democrats really have nothing left. And just final point, Yeah,
Speaker 10: when you go and talk to actual people in these cities,
Speaker 10: not the politicians or the aging white hippies, liberal white hippies,
Speaker 10: but actual citizens who have to deal with crime. They're
Speaker 10: in favor of the crime.
Speaker 2: Hey, before I let you go, we got to talk
Speaker 2: about Gavin Newsom, because everybody's talking about Gavin Newsom now
Speaker 2: and Gavin Newsom, well, he's talking about Donald Trump and
Speaker 2: saying that he's made America a laughing stock. Hear him
Speaker 2: at the Pligo Subody in California just a little while ago.
Speaker 14: I've had the privilege of meeting a lot of foreign leaders.
Speaker 1: I mean, what's the general I'm putting their.
Speaker 14: Laughing behind his back? That did not happen. I'm making
Speaker 14: this clear.
Speaker 8: They're telling there, do not conflate.
Speaker 14: What I just said with the eating I had with
Speaker 14: the Denmark delegation.
Speaker 1: Now it wasn't them.
Speaker 10: Other foreign leaders are.
Speaker 14: I've got dozens and dozens ambassadors now with them.
Speaker 12: What are they saying?
Speaker 14: They're laughing behind his back? He's being played everywhere.
Speaker 1: It's an embarrassment. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't talk to a lot of world leaders, But
Speaker 2: what do you think are world leaders really laughing behind
Speaker 2: Trump's back?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe some are. I kind of doubt it.
Speaker 1: You know, that's exactly what they said about rond Reagan.
Speaker 10: Know they think this is just a dumb actor who
Speaker 10: reads lines in the staff behind their back. And you know,
Speaker 10: then he in Thatcher and others helped and win the
Speaker 10: Cold War and restored the United States, restored the West,
Speaker 10: and with Trump, maybe some of the Europeans still chuckled
Speaker 10: behind his back. But guess what, Europe is the laughing
Speaker 10: stock now they've proved that they can't that NATO essentially
Speaker 10: is nothing without the United States. They're all in political crisis.
Speaker 10: Vladimir put and Donald Trump. They're going to outlast all
Speaker 10: of the political leaders in Europe. And you know, if
Speaker 10: they're laughing, that's fine, but I doubt it. And I
Speaker 10: don't think Kim John Un or Putin Or's usuen PingER
Speaker 10: laughing the same way they would have if Kamala Harris
Speaker 10: had been president, or if Gavin knew some slick Gavin
Speaker 10: with a state that's in fiscal crisis, that's a beautiful
Speaker 10: state with tons of natural resources that people are moving
Speaker 10: out of because of his mismanagement and the highest income
Speaker 10: taxes in the country.
Speaker 2: That's a great point. I'm glad you brought up bring
Speaker 2: because I remember that too. Anyway, Thank you so much,
Speaker 2: Chris Wit for your time. Really appreciated. We'll see you
Speaker 2: again soon here on the US Report. Now, in a moment,
Speaker 2: I'll be joined by one of the few conservatives covering Hollywood,
Speaker 2: Christian Toto, to tell us about the new romantic comedy
Speaker 2: made just for the Trump Europe. But speaking of Hollywood
Speaker 2: in California, let's check in again on that Governor Gavin Newsom,
Speaker 2: who's also having an absolutely normal one, all because Trump's
Speaker 2: people keep trolling him by sending him Trump twenty twenty
Speaker 2: eight hats.
Speaker 14: I don't think Donald Trump wants another election. You think
Speaker 14: for a second you want I have two dozen Trump
Speaker 14: twenty twenty eight hats.
Speaker 10: His folks keep sending me, and you think he's gonna
Speaker 10: run again?
Speaker 8: Don't give me.
Speaker 14: You know who spends two hundred million dollars on a
Speaker 14: ballroom at their home and then leaves the house.
Speaker 2: Yeah, keep sending those hats. Donald, They're working, Christian Toto.
Speaker 2: After the break, Welcome back to the program. Well, joining
Speaker 2: me now is Hollywood journalist, author, chronicler of celebrity wokeness,
Speaker 2: and creator of the Fantastic Hollywood in Toto website and podcast,
Speaker 2: Christian Toto Christian, thanks so much for joining me on
Speaker 2: the US sport And I want to start with a
Speaker 2: great piece you've written this week, highlighting something that I
Speaker 2: had not heard about before, a new romantic comedy film
Speaker 2: titled The Elephant in the Room, set in twenty twenty one,
Speaker 2: which explores what happens if a leftist woman meets a
Speaker 2: maga man and falls in love. Here's a little bit
Speaker 2: of the trailer.
Speaker 1: Is he a right were?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 3: I only voted for him twice?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, you'd look past that as one. So
Speaker 1: if it's just about sex, who cares? So what do
Speaker 1: you like about Look?
Speaker 3: I don't think he's a nice guy.
Speaker 5: Okay, it's just more.
Speaker 3: Open about it, which is refreshing.
Speaker 11: That is refreshing to you. Tell her you think the
Speaker 11: election was legit.
Speaker 1: She'll eat that up. Christian.
Speaker 2: I think this is absolutely fascinating here that Hollywood's actually
Speaker 2: gone there with something that portrays a Trump supporter in
Speaker 2: at least a bit of a sympathetic way, Because you know,
Speaker 2: I think we all know people in their personal lives
Speaker 2: who've had very similar conversations to what we've just seen.
Speaker 1: They're that trailer. Tell us about this.
Speaker 11: Yeah, it's the movie we need right now more than ever.
Speaker 11: But actually that might be the case. It is a
Speaker 11: romantic comedy. It is traditional in a way, but the
Speaker 11: conflict is very of the moment, and like you said,
Speaker 11: so many people have had similar situations in their lives
Speaker 11: where they've got this conflict line. You know, friends they've
Speaker 11: known for years, if not decades, fighting like they never
Speaker 11: fought before. What about a romantic couple who seem to
Speaker 11: have a spark and a connection, but they've got this
Speaker 11: thing between them, this political divide. Can they get along?
Speaker 11: Can love really happen? It's a great idea. It's fraught
Speaker 11: with complications for sure, but I found it early charming
Speaker 11: and I thought they did a nice job with the
Speaker 11: balance that was the key issue here. You're not really
Speaker 11: citing one way the other. I think there's a real
Speaker 11: sense of both sides of this situation get to say
Speaker 11: there's their piece, and they do it in a very
Speaker 11: intelligent way. It's a shocking film from that perspective alone.
Speaker 2: Well that's pretty shocking. I mean, you know, for Hollywood
Speaker 2: to do that, and we all know the sort of
Speaker 2: the stories about and the polls we've seen where left
Speaker 2: wing people won't date right wing people. Right wing people
Speaker 2: date left wing people. So maybe this will help bridge
Speaker 2: some divides, but it does sound too Christian like. There
Speaker 2: are some other divides that are unbridgable. Because veteran Hollywood
Speaker 2: actor Luis Guzman caused a stir after he called Latino
Speaker 2: Americans who voted for Trump ignorant. Now, I guess this
Speaker 2: is because the president won a pretty large percentage of
Speaker 2: Latino vote in last year's election.
Speaker 1: What is going on here?
Speaker 2: Because this seems like again a return to the bad
Speaker 2: old days of the hard left Hollywood.
Speaker 11: Yeah, you know, I listen, He's a terrific actor. He's
Speaker 11: been doing it for decades, you know, calling an entire
Speaker 11: group of people, a very large group ignorant. I think
Speaker 11: he needs to leave his ideological bubble and actually talk
Speaker 11: to some of the Trump voters who happened to be Latino,
Speaker 11: find out why they voted the way they did, what
Speaker 11: were the issues that were top of mind. I think
Speaker 11: he might get a really interesting education if he did that.
Speaker 11: But just saying that they're ignorant, it feels a little
Speaker 11: bit weak, to say the ear least.
Speaker 1: Hmm.
Speaker 2: Indeed, indeed, hey, speaking of California though, where it all
Speaker 2: comes from. In Hollywood is Governor Kevin Newsom. He is
Speaker 2: locked into a battle with one of his predecessors, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Apparently,
Speaker 2: Newsom is reportedly refusing to honor Schwarzenegger with a key
Speaker 2: state honor because of Schwarzenegger's disapproval of Newsom's pushed to
Speaker 2: redistrict the state and jerrymander it so that basically the
Speaker 2: entire place becomes democratic. Congressionally, tell us about a bit
Speaker 2: more about this year, what the terminator is doing here
Speaker 2: to Newsom and how this is all happening.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean it seems petty as possible, just on
Speaker 11: the surface. You know, it's so funny because Newsom has
Speaker 11: been having this really aggressive effort to rebrand him on
Speaker 11: social media. He's the tough guy. He's fighting fire with
Speaker 11: fire with Trump. But if he can't stand up to Schwarzenegger,
Speaker 11: who is not very political at this point in his career.
Speaker 11: Yes he was a Republican, still is, but he's the
Speaker 11: softest of Republicans you'll possibly find, so he's not throwing
Speaker 11: sharp elbows. So this just seems like a very, very
Speaker 11: very minor way to strike back at someone who's criticizing
Speaker 11: something you're doing, but engage with the governator and see
Speaker 11: why there are why they might agree on some issues
Speaker 11: as well. So it just seems like a bad political
Speaker 11: move of someone who's got a little bit of energy
Speaker 11: right now for better or worse.
Speaker 2: But Christian, you know you're in California. I have a
Speaker 2: lot of people here in Australia talking to me about
Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom asking what I think about him, and I
Speaker 2: feel like this is one of those moments. It's very
Speaker 2: revealing about the guy's character. I mean, if he's going
Speaker 2: to be so petty about this, you know, is everything
Speaker 2: just going to be this political fight, turning everybody into
Speaker 2: either friends or enemies.
Speaker 11: Yeah, it's a bad look for sure, and it's something
Speaker 11: he shouldn't really be engaging with. He should just honor
Speaker 11: the ex governor, who's obviously a huge movie star and
Speaker 11: a pop culture icon and just leave it there. I mean,
Speaker 11: I think that's magnanimous and I think it's what people
Speaker 11: want to see from the politicians. Yes, you know, we'll
Speaker 11: get in the fight and we'll throw some sharp elbows,
Speaker 11: but then the day you've got to kind of rise
Speaker 11: to a certain level and just be above it all
Speaker 11: and just this is the perfect moment. And you know
Speaker 11: the fact that Politico is reporting on this, which is
Speaker 11: not exactly a conservative website, makes it more interesting for sure.
Speaker 11: Just a quick note, I'm actually based in Denver, Colorado,
Speaker 11: but I'm sorry Hollywood and California excessively.
Speaker 2: My apologies for the miss geography there. I guess we
Speaker 2: can call it there. Hey, before I should go there?
Speaker 1: How dare I? But it's Colorado, sir.
Speaker 2: But I want to get your thoughts finally before I
Speaker 2: let you go about this amazing story about Vanity Fair
Speaker 2: magazine where apparently the journals are going to walk out
Speaker 2: because first Lady Milania Trump is set to feature on
Speaker 2: the magazine's front cover.
Speaker 1: I would sink that.
Speaker 2: Malania Trump is this incredibly glamorous woman who speaks a
Speaker 2: bunch of languages and has brought, you know, her own
Speaker 2: flare and elegance to the White House.
Speaker 1: Yet people can't accept her. What's going on here?
Speaker 2: That even that at Vanity Fair they won't come into
Speaker 2: the office if they run her on the cover.
Speaker 11: I mean, none of this is surprising. There is a
Speaker 11: reason why she hasn't graced any covers in many years,
Speaker 11: despite what she's been accomplishing and because of her role
Speaker 11: in the White House. But I would just suggest to
Speaker 11: the people who are blowing a gasket over this particular
Speaker 11: potential cover to watch the movie we just talked about,
Speaker 11: Elephant in the Room. They may kind of open their
Speaker 11: minds a bet about, Hey, maybe we all can get
Speaker 11: along and maybe a beautiful, interesting first lady deserves to
Speaker 11: be on her magazine cover without all sorts of consternation.
Speaker 11: Or I could just say quit leave. I'm sure a
Speaker 11: lot of journalists out there would love the jobs you have.
Speaker 11: I think they'll step in pretty quickly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just amazing to me that anybody would be
Speaker 2: walking out of a magazine job in New York. But
Speaker 2: there you go, Christian Toto, thank you so much for
Speaker 2: your time, and check out the Hollywood and Tote website
Speaker 2: now so you stick around, because only in America is
Speaker 2: in a second.
Speaker 1: But isn't it great that.
Speaker 2: The United States is serviced by such a staid and
Speaker 2: serious White House press corps. I mean, here's one CBS
Speaker 2: reporter soberly taking the news that Taylor Swift had just
Speaker 2: become engaged.
Speaker 15: Taylor Swift is engaged. Taylor Swift is engaged. Taylor Swift
Speaker 15: is engaged. This come back to me. She just posted it.
Speaker 15: Oh my god, Oh my god.
Speaker 11: Oh it's huge.
Speaker 1: The ring is jo enormous. This is so exciting.
Speaker 15: Oh my god, oh my god, Oh my god. It's
Speaker 15: on her Instagram. It's on her Instagram. It's on her Instagram.
Speaker 15: Oh my god, Oh my god, Oh my god, Oh
Speaker 15: my god, my god.
Speaker 5: I feel like.
Speaker 15: Paul Revere right now. This is a very exciting moment
Speaker 15: for me in my professional career because I get to
Speaker 15: announce that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey are engaged.
Speaker 1: Call me a grump.
Speaker 2: I don't care, but I do care because Only in
Speaker 2: America is next to stick around. Welcome back to the program,
Speaker 2: and now it's time for a little segment we like
Speaker 2: to call Only in America. Well, this week on Only
Speaker 2: in America, it seems like the old Keystone Cops are
Speaker 2: alive and well and getting it done or not done,
Speaker 2: as the case may be. In San Francisco. Now check
Speaker 2: this out here. This is footage from San Francisco, one
Speaker 2: of the crown jewels in future presidential contender Gavin Newsom's
Speaker 2: crown of a robbery suspect who appears to have been
Speaker 2: pinned down and cornered by the cops in his car
Speaker 2: with nowhere to run. But let's watch for a moment here.
Speaker 2: I mean, it looks like they've pretty much got him,
Speaker 2: don't they. There got the roadspikes. They're swinging something at
Speaker 2: the car.
Speaker 1: Boa. No, no, no, he's gone. He is gone. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: What don't the San Francisco cops have guns? How did
Speaker 2: that happen? Tell you what if Donald Trump is looking
Speaker 2: for the next place to send the National Guard?
Speaker 1: Here? San Francisco was lovely this time of year.
Speaker 2: Well, that's all the time we have for this week,
Speaker 2: So until next week, Bye bye.