1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:04,240 Speaker 1: Dan Mitchinson, US correspondent with US. Hello Dan, Hello Heather 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:08,080 Speaker 1: oh Man, how's this news going down about the NBA? 3 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:12,440 Speaker 2: Boy, this is like a made for TV movie. 4 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:16,240 Speaker 3: I mean, the NBA players and coaches are among dozens 5 00:00:16,239 --> 00:00:19,640 Speaker 3: of people that have been arrested into illegal sports betting 6 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:24,000 Speaker 3: and rigged mafia linked poker games. And so you've got 7 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:26,799 Speaker 3: players from like the Miami Heat and the head coach 8 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:31,000 Speaker 3: of the Portland Trailblazers were named earlier today by federal prosecutors. 9 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:34,000 Speaker 3: There were thirty one people charged, and they're saying that 10 00:00:34,040 --> 00:00:36,600 Speaker 3: these guys were involved with four maybe five major crime 11 00:00:36,640 --> 00:00:39,360 Speaker 3: families in New York to lure victims to play these 12 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:43,279 Speaker 3: rigged poker games with high profile sports stars, and they 13 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:45,120 Speaker 3: stole millions of dollars while they were doing it. 14 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:47,559 Speaker 1: Oh so were the NBA players sort of like the 15 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:49,240 Speaker 1: bite to get people to the table. 16 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:53,280 Speaker 3: That's what it appears to be. And then the mafia 17 00:00:54,440 --> 00:00:58,920 Speaker 3: allegedly used this technology like contact lenses and glasses that 18 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:01,840 Speaker 3: could read the pre marked cards. They had a table 19 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:04,960 Speaker 3: that could sort of X ray things. I mean it really, 20 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:07,680 Speaker 3: I can guarantee you that somebody right now in Hollywood 21 00:01:07,720 --> 00:01:09,520 Speaker 3: is writing this up for a made for TV or 22 00:01:09,560 --> 00:01:11,440 Speaker 3: a big screen movie right now, and this has been 23 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:13,440 Speaker 3: going on it it looks like for a couple of years, 24 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:15,800 Speaker 3: back in twenty twenty three and last year. 25 00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:18,080 Speaker 1: And how did the contact lenses work. 26 00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:21,319 Speaker 2: I don't know. I've been looking up that. I mean, 27 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:22,160 Speaker 2: I would think that. 28 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:25,840 Speaker 3: From what I've seen in movies and from documentaries that 29 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:27,920 Speaker 3: they are able to spot. It's like when you go 30 00:01:27,959 --> 00:01:31,240 Speaker 3: in with those lights, fluorescent lights into a crime scene 31 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:33,080 Speaker 3: and you can tell where there's been blood or human 32 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:34,440 Speaker 3: remains on the floor where. 33 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:36,200 Speaker 2: You can't see with the naked eye. That's what I'm guessing. 34 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:39,280 Speaker 2: These contact lenses are able to see with the cards Jaz. 35 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:41,199 Speaker 1: That's full on. And they were like they were cheating 36 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:43,399 Speaker 1: these people out of millions at a time, right it 37 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:45,920 Speaker 1: was super liquidor allegedly it was. 38 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:47,000 Speaker 2: It was a lot of money. 39 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:49,680 Speaker 1: Ah Okay. Now, Donald Trump doesn't sound like he's shy 40 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:52,120 Speaker 1: at all about people about blowing people just out of 41 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:52,520 Speaker 1: the water. 42 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:56,720 Speaker 3: Uh no, No, he says, he's not going to ask 43 00:01:56,760 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 3: for a declaration of war and these are strikes against 44 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:02,520 Speaker 3: rug traffickers and he's not going to go to Congress 45 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:06,600 Speaker 3: without it. He says, well, he's going to notify Congress 46 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:10,320 Speaker 3: before beginning any operations, but he says this plan isn't 47 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:13,839 Speaker 3: going to get any pushback right now. And I think 48 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:15,639 Speaker 3: he said, I mean, I'm paraphrasing, he said, I think 49 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:18,480 Speaker 3: we're just doing this to kill people that are bringing 50 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:20,520 Speaker 3: drugs into the country. Okay, we're going to kill them. 51 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:23,720 Speaker 3: You know, they're going to be like Kama dead. So 52 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:26,600 Speaker 3: a very different presidential way, I guess of getting his 53 00:02:26,639 --> 00:02:28,840 Speaker 3: point across in terms of how he was describing it. 54 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:30,160 Speaker 1: And so, what was the point of the b one 55 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:31,399 Speaker 1: bomber that he's seemed over there? 56 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:35,920 Speaker 3: I think it's those things are often used for surveillance purposes, 57 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:39,120 Speaker 3: you know, and a show piece right now. They're able 58 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:41,920 Speaker 3: to fly in and able to detect things on the 59 00:02:41,919 --> 00:02:43,760 Speaker 3: ground without being detected themselves. 60 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:46,200 Speaker 1: Okay, so it's not so much about dropping the bombs. 61 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:48,520 Speaker 1: It's actually about just watching what's going on. 62 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:50,760 Speaker 3: Well it is, yeah, but you know what, those things 63 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:53,440 Speaker 3: can also drop bombs as well too, So I mean 64 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:56,960 Speaker 3: they've got, you know, several things that they can do 65 00:02:57,080 --> 00:03:00,000 Speaker 3: in several reasons obviously that he's probably sending them over there. 66 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:03,360 Speaker 1: Now Listen, why the shock about the destruction of the 67 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:06,839 Speaker 1: East Wing, because I thought that this was always what 68 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:07,519 Speaker 1: was going to happen. 69 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:11,880 Speaker 3: Well, I mean, it's you have to go through certain 70 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:15,360 Speaker 3: hoops to do something like this. For instance, you're supposed 71 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:18,800 Speaker 3: to get the approval of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, 72 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:21,359 Speaker 3: and they were saying, hold on for a second, before 73 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:23,800 Speaker 3: you demolish this thing, we need to go through the 74 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:26,680 Speaker 3: planning purposes. There is a public review process which the 75 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:29,720 Speaker 3: President did not go through. And then you've got the 76 00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:31,760 Speaker 3: price tag, which has gone upy one hundred million dollars. 77 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:34,360 Speaker 3: This is all going to cost three hundred million dollars. 78 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:36,920 Speaker 3: They're going to redo the ballroom and they're going to 79 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:38,320 Speaker 3: expand it. This is going to be bigger than the 80 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:40,560 Speaker 3: actual White House. They're going to make a bunker underneath it. 81 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:42,840 Speaker 3: They're going to redo the East Wing in the Office 82 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:45,720 Speaker 3: of the First Lady. And the President says, we're going 83 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:48,320 Speaker 3: to modernize this. We need to, and some of these 84 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:50,960 Speaker 3: things haven't been modernized since I think World War Two. 85 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:54,360 Speaker 3: But the thing is, it's a price tag and it's 86 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:56,960 Speaker 3: a part of history that he just demolished without going 87 00:03:56,960 --> 00:03:59,240 Speaker 3: through the proper steps. And like he said, this is 88 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:01,800 Speaker 3: in tax payer Mount East all this is private donations 89 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:05,280 Speaker 3: and private donors, but I mean it's still the people's house. 90 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:07,200 Speaker 3: When you do something like this, it just feels a 91 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:08,480 Speaker 3: little less like the people's house. 92 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:10,040 Speaker 1: I think I see what you're saying. Hey, thank you 93 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:13,640 Speaker 1: very much, Dan, appreciate it. Dan Mitchison, US correspondent. For 94 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:17,359 Speaker 1: more from Hither Duplessy, Allen Drive, listen live to news talks. 95 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:20,560 Speaker 1: It'd be from four pm weekdays, or follow the podcast 96 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:21,680 Speaker 1: on iHeartRadio.