1 00:00:08,800 --> 00:00:09,680 Speaker 1: Gas prices. 2 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:11,959 Speaker 2: We know about it, and we know that people are 3 00:00:12,039 --> 00:00:14,239 Speaker 2: hurting because of it, and we're doing everything that we 4 00:00:14,280 --> 00:00:16,480 Speaker 2: can to ensure that they stay lower. Right, I will 5 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:19,320 Speaker 2: say the President said this, and I certainly agree with it. 6 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:20,920 Speaker 1: This is a temporary blow. 7 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:21,759 Speaker 3: Okay. 8 00:00:21,920 --> 00:00:24,400 Speaker 2: What happened under the Biden administration is the gas prices 9 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:27,760 Speaker 2: were high for four years. Gas prices are higher right now, 10 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:29,920 Speaker 2: and frankly, they're not even as high as they were 11 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:32,840 Speaker 2: during certain parts of the Biden administration because of what's 12 00:00:32,880 --> 00:00:34,800 Speaker 2: going on in the Middle East. It's not going to 13 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:35,519 Speaker 2: last forever. 14 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:37,000 Speaker 1: We're going to take care of business. 15 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:40,040 Speaker 2: We're gonna come back home, and when that happens, you're 16 00:00:40,040 --> 00:00:42,200 Speaker 2: going to see energy prices come back down to reality. 17 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:45,479 Speaker 4: DC me, he's going to take care of business. 18 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:48,239 Speaker 5: That is your Vice President Jade Vance declaring that the 19 00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:51,440 Speaker 5: Iran war will not be forever. We were told four 20 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:53,560 Speaker 5: to six weeks. By the way, this is week four. 21 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:54,720 Speaker 4: He kind of nailed it. 22 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:57,360 Speaker 5: Though he didn't pretend the issue doesn't exist. He confronted 23 00:00:57,360 --> 00:01:00,240 Speaker 5: it head on and laid out the solution. D He's 24 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:03,200 Speaker 5: pretty good at that. It better not be another two 25 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:05,440 Speaker 5: weeks just to flatten the curve though we are on 26 00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:08,120 Speaker 5: week four, they said four to six weeks. But he 27 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:12,400 Speaker 5: did acknowledge that gas prices have gone up here in Indiana. 28 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:15,080 Speaker 5: The average gas price three dollars and eighty three cents 29 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:19,520 Speaker 5: nationally three dollars and eighty eight cents. Good morning, you're 30 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:22,760 Speaker 5: listening to Casey and Jim and coming up today. 31 00:01:23,319 --> 00:01:25,760 Speaker 4: She just loves state politics. 32 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:29,959 Speaker 6: State government kind of affects everything that you. 33 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:31,279 Speaker 4: Know, so you never get bored. 34 00:01:31,880 --> 00:01:35,679 Speaker 5: Education, it's criminal justice, it's economic development, at so many 35 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:39,160 Speaker 5: different things. That is Nicki Kelly from Indiana Capitol Chronicle 36 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:42,399 Speaker 5: and she'll be joining us today at ten and one 37 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:43,840 Speaker 5: of the things we're going to talk about is that 38 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:47,560 Speaker 5: announcement from Governor Mike Brawn about the one billion dollar 39 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:51,800 Speaker 5: initiative with the IEDC. Also on the way, US Attorney 40 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:54,720 Speaker 5: General Pam Bondi, she is fired up. 41 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:58,720 Speaker 6: And one congresswoman's scream C span wasn't in there, so 42 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:00,960 Speaker 6: she didn't want to ask questions. But all day long 43 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 6: they've been on social media saying they had all these questions. 44 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:06,240 Speaker 6: We sat there saying anything you want to ask us, 45 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:08,840 Speaker 6: ask us, anything you want to ask us, and they 46 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:11,120 Speaker 6: screamed C span wasn't they are one of them, and 47 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:12,120 Speaker 6: then they stormed out. 48 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:15,239 Speaker 5: Of the meetings. So she said that Democrats started screaming 49 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:18,240 Speaker 5: and stormed out when they realized there weren't any cameras 50 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:19,839 Speaker 5: at her hearing last night. 51 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:22,400 Speaker 4: Also on the way, I don't know if you know this. 52 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:25,560 Speaker 4: Airports are kind of crazy right now. 53 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:30,160 Speaker 7: I think it's being politicized way too much, way too much. 54 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:34,600 Speaker 7: And these people are working, They work hard, and for 55 00:02:34,880 --> 00:02:38,040 Speaker 7: TSA people not to get paid. That's civil, that's you. 56 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:40,960 Speaker 7: I'm tired of it being a political program. 57 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:43,080 Speaker 4: Yeah, travelers are over the Democrats. 58 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:46,200 Speaker 5: DHS shut down, waiting in three to four hour lines 59 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:48,320 Speaker 5: to get through TSA at airports. 60 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:49,560 Speaker 4: Back to what JD. 61 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:53,000 Speaker 5: Vance said, he said Americans should expect a rough road 62 00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:56,040 Speaker 5: ahead for gas prices. They've already jumped ninety cents in 63 00:02:56,080 --> 00:02:59,560 Speaker 5: the past month, and behind the scenes, officials including JD. 64 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:03,280 Speaker 5: Van's are meeting with oil industry leaders to stable pize 65 00:03:03,480 --> 00:03:05,200 Speaker 5: supply and mark it. 66 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:07,000 Speaker 1: Okay, see, this is a lot. We talked about this 67 00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:08,880 Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, or maybe even three weeks 68 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:12,640 Speaker 1: ago really after this Iran military action took place, and 69 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:15,720 Speaker 1: what you always get from Donald Trump and it's okay. 70 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:17,840 Speaker 1: I'm not, you know, dogging him on this, but we 71 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:21,040 Speaker 1: always get from Donald Trump is hyperbole and over the top. 72 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:23,960 Speaker 1: Everything is going great, it's the greatest ever. Some people 73 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:26,720 Speaker 1: say they've never seen a war operated this well. And 74 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:29,200 Speaker 1: he never wants to have that tough conversation with the 75 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:31,720 Speaker 1: American people, but we need to have it because he 76 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:35,480 Speaker 1: needs to properly set people's expectations and make sure that, 77 00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:38,280 Speaker 1: you know, we're not expecting something that's not coming down 78 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:40,920 Speaker 1: the road. So I actually kind of like this idea 79 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:44,120 Speaker 1: of JD being the guy that goes out there and says, hey, look, 80 00:03:44,160 --> 00:03:46,400 Speaker 1: I know it's rough. I get a gas prices are 81 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:48,760 Speaker 1: up over a buck since this whole thing in Iran started, 82 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:50,400 Speaker 1: and that's not going to be good, and that's going 83 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:53,200 Speaker 1: to affect the you know, the lives of daily Americans. 84 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:55,760 Speaker 1: But what we're doing is important and this is a 85 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:58,480 Speaker 1: temporary blip and then we'll get back to better gas 86 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:01,160 Speaker 1: prices and better economy and you can focus on other things. 87 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:03,640 Speaker 1: But I understand that this is going to be tough 88 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:06,360 Speaker 1: for the American people. Now that's the conversation we've been 89 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:07,600 Speaker 1: waiting for for three weeks. 90 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:08,840 Speaker 4: Yeah, you got to acknowledge it. 91 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:10,920 Speaker 1: You have to acknowledge it, because if you don't, then 92 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:13,560 Speaker 1: you look like you're hiding it, and then that really 93 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:16,040 Speaker 1: calls into question everything else you're saying. You've got to 94 00:04:16,080 --> 00:04:18,799 Speaker 1: be able to have that tough conversation with the American people. 95 00:04:18,960 --> 00:04:21,760 Speaker 1: And I really like what the Trump administration and JD 96 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:24,080 Speaker 1: has done there. Donald Trump's going to be Donald Trump. 97 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:26,520 Speaker 1: Everything's going to be the greatest ever that's ever happened, 98 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:29,320 Speaker 1: and all the hyperbole and bluster, and that's fine, that's 99 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:30,600 Speaker 1: what we expect from Donald Trump. 100 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:31,560 Speaker 4: We live in reality. 101 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:35,159 Speaker 1: But having somebody else, whether it's Marco Rubio or Scott 102 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:38,160 Speaker 1: Beset the Treasury secretary, or JD. Vance, the Vice President, 103 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:41,000 Speaker 1: somebody had to come out here and say this. And 104 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:44,839 Speaker 1: three weeks into this, now finally JD. Vance is that somebody. Yeah. 105 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:47,479 Speaker 5: Government says they're trying to lower prices by releasing oil 106 00:04:47,520 --> 00:04:51,240 Speaker 5: from these strategic petroleum reserve, also loosening shipping rules with 107 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:55,440 Speaker 5: the Jones Act waiver, and also easing some fuel regulations. 108 00:04:55,839 --> 00:04:58,960 Speaker 5: Oil prices surging over one hundred dollars a barrow, and 109 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:03,240 Speaker 5: now there are fears that inflation and an economic slowdown 110 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:06,240 Speaker 5: are on the horizon now. Speaking of that, we heard 111 00:05:06,279 --> 00:05:10,839 Speaker 5: from the FED chair yesterday and he said that interest 112 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:16,159 Speaker 5: rates will remain unchanged. They're taking a wait and see method. 113 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:18,200 Speaker 5: They're not going to cut rates yet, but they're not 114 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:20,880 Speaker 5: going to raise them either. He also mentioned that he's 115 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:24,120 Speaker 5: going to remain in place until a successor is confirmed. 116 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:29,040 Speaker 1: This was a very odd press conference by FED Chairman 117 00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:31,400 Speaker 1: Jerome Powell yesterday, and most of what the headlines will 118 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:33,240 Speaker 1: be is that there's no change in interest rates, and 119 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:36,000 Speaker 1: that's certainly the headline. But I was fascinated as if 120 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:38,840 Speaker 1: you listen to the whole press conference about everything else 121 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:41,760 Speaker 1: that he talked about. Jerome Powell, in a very short speech, 122 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:45,839 Speaker 1: wasn't that long. He used the word uncertain seven times. 123 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:49,560 Speaker 1: He talked about how the economy is opaque and you 124 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:53,479 Speaker 1: can't see through it. He talked about how there's so 125 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:56,200 Speaker 1: many aspects of the economy that we really just don't 126 00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:57,960 Speaker 1: have a clear picture of right now. He talked about 127 00:05:57,960 --> 00:06:02,120 Speaker 1: tariffs and oil prices, off job market, the coming impact 128 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:05,400 Speaker 1: of AI, the housing market, all of this and again 129 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:09,400 Speaker 1: fancy words to say something that is really pretty shocking. 130 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:11,440 Speaker 1: It's essentially he doesn't have a clue. 131 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:16,160 Speaker 5: Yeah, he did say uncertainty a lot. And there's been 132 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:19,119 Speaker 5: some disagreements inside the FED about what to do as well. 133 00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:22,880 Speaker 5: Someone cuts, others are worried inflation is too high. There's 134 00:06:22,920 --> 00:06:25,960 Speaker 5: also a big political wrinkle because you've got Jerome Palell 135 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:29,760 Speaker 5: his term ending soon. Trump has already picked his replacement, 136 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:33,240 Speaker 5: and pal saying that he's going to stay on temporarily 137 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:35,560 Speaker 5: if the replacement isn't confirmed. 138 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:38,839 Speaker 1: It's just it's shocking. And you can, you know, you 139 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:40,840 Speaker 1: can have your opinions about the FED, and you can 140 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:43,760 Speaker 1: have your opinion about George, about Jerome Howell and all 141 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:46,680 Speaker 1: the other FED chairs. But these guys have been studying 142 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:50,400 Speaker 1: economics their entire life. They are the experts that we 143 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:53,320 Speaker 1: have on economics. And for Jerome Powell to come out 144 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:56,479 Speaker 1: yesterday and say, in not so many words but pretty 145 00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:58,280 Speaker 1: easy to read between the lines, I don't have a 146 00:06:58,320 --> 00:06:59,720 Speaker 1: clue what's going on here, guy. 147 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:01,840 Speaker 4: They're admitting they really don't have it under control. 148 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:03,200 Speaker 1: They don't know what's going on. 149 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:04,680 Speaker 4: And that is scary. 150 00:07:04,760 --> 00:07:07,440 Speaker 5: And now you also have a power struggle between the 151 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:10,320 Speaker 5: FED and the White House. And here is a little 152 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:12,800 Speaker 5: bit of what Jerome Palell said yesterday, In. 153 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:15,560 Speaker 3: The labor market, the unemployment rate was four point four 154 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:19,840 Speaker 3: percent in February and has changed little since late last summer. 155 00:07:21,320 --> 00:07:22,720 Speaker 1: Job gains have remained low. 156 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:25,720 Speaker 3: A good part of the slowing in the pace of 157 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:28,960 Speaker 3: job growth over the past year reflects a decline in 158 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:32,320 Speaker 3: the growth of the labor force due to lower immigration 159 00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:35,760 Speaker 3: and labor force participations. 160 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:36,760 Speaker 1: Clearly saw some guy. 161 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:40,480 Speaker 5: It's like a walking ambient. It's like listening to paint. 162 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:43,160 Speaker 1: Dry if Xanax was a human being. 163 00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:45,120 Speaker 4: If you want to go to sleep, just put on 164 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:47,560 Speaker 4: a recording of this guy. You know what, Let's amp 165 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:48,680 Speaker 4: it up just a bit, shall we? 166 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:48,840 Speaker 6: Oh? 167 00:07:48,880 --> 00:07:49,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, you got something Well. 168 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:56,440 Speaker 3: In the labor market, the unemployment rate was four point 169 00:07:56,440 --> 00:08:01,880 Speaker 3: four percent in February and has changed little since late 170 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:05,840 Speaker 3: last summer. Job gains have remained low. 171 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:10,880 Speaker 4: Here we go, now, I kept us a little bit. 172 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:14,000 Speaker 1: I would love my own personal music bed. If I 173 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:17,040 Speaker 1: walk around and I've got my own music playing, that, 174 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:19,720 Speaker 1: you know, projects the mood that I'm in at that moment. 175 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:22,440 Speaker 1: But yeah, Jerome Powell needs some Motley Crue behind him 176 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:24,840 Speaker 1: to keep the press from falling asleep during his press conference. 177 00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:27,920 Speaker 5: Really, you feel like, though, if he were to choose 178 00:08:27,960 --> 00:08:30,840 Speaker 5: his own music bed he would pick something like, I 179 00:08:30,880 --> 00:08:33,959 Speaker 5: don't know, Christopher Cross or something a little bit more yacht, 180 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:34,920 Speaker 5: rocket yacht. 181 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:36,480 Speaker 4: Not going with Motley Crue. 182 00:08:36,559 --> 00:08:38,800 Speaker 1: No, but that's the problem. He's so boring. He needs 183 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:41,520 Speaker 1: somebody who comes up to him, somebody his inner circle 184 00:08:41,559 --> 00:08:43,960 Speaker 1: and says, hey, fed Chairman Powell, we got to amp 185 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:46,079 Speaker 1: this up a little bit. Here's what I want you 186 00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:48,280 Speaker 1: to do. I want you to shotgun this red Bull, 187 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:51,000 Speaker 1: fire down this Marlboro Red real quick, and we're gonna 188 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:53,000 Speaker 1: play Motley Crue while you're doing your press conference. 189 00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:56,440 Speaker 5: Probably not something who is often in the weight and 190 00:08:56,760 --> 00:09:00,000 Speaker 5: see mode. He was always He was also talking about 191 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:04,360 Speaker 5: how he was concerned about the very very low job 192 00:09:04,440 --> 00:09:05,400 Speaker 5: creation level. 193 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:09,120 Speaker 3: The thing that I think good number of people in 194 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:11,679 Speaker 3: the committee are concerned about it is just the very 195 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:16,000 Speaker 3: very low level of job creation. If you adjust what 196 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:18,480 Speaker 3: has been the trend job creation over the past let's 197 00:09:18,520 --> 00:09:21,280 Speaker 3: say six months, if you adjust that for what we 198 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:26,600 Speaker 3: think our staff thinks is the overstatement due to overcounting, effectively, 199 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:29,040 Speaker 3: there's zero net job creation in the private sector. 200 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:32,120 Speaker 5: And that's a scary thing to think about. And when 201 00:09:32,160 --> 00:09:35,479 Speaker 5: you think about jobs, there's also low wage increases. 202 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:38,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, by the way, Trump came into 203 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:42,600 Speaker 1: office in twenty twenty five with a terrible jobs year 204 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:44,840 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four, So nobody, I don't think anybody 205 00:09:44,840 --> 00:09:46,840 Speaker 1: reasonable to sitting here point now and say, hey, everything 206 00:09:46,960 --> 00:09:49,560 Speaker 1: was great under Joe Biden and then Trump gets in 207 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:51,720 Speaker 1: here and job creation goes into the toilet. No, it 208 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:54,040 Speaker 1: was terrible in twenty twenty four. We only average it 209 00:09:54,080 --> 00:09:56,920 Speaker 1: about twenty five thousand jobs new jobs added a month 210 00:09:56,920 --> 00:09:59,240 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four. We're pretty much right at that 211 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:01,320 Speaker 1: for twenty twenty twenty five, and we've kind of been 212 00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:03,560 Speaker 1: getting similar numbers so far in twenty twenty six. 213 00:10:03,679 --> 00:10:07,480 Speaker 5: And more good news for you this morning. The US 214 00:10:07,559 --> 00:10:11,960 Speaker 5: national debt passing thirty nine trillion dollars for the first 215 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:16,199 Speaker 5: time ever, and it's growing really fast. It hit thirty 216 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:19,280 Speaker 5: eight trillion just five months ago, it hit thirty seven 217 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:21,040 Speaker 5: trillion two months before. 218 00:10:20,800 --> 00:10:23,760 Speaker 4: That, and now we're at thirty nine trillion. 219 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:28,079 Speaker 5: The government just spending way too much money, and they 220 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:30,280 Speaker 5: just asked for what was it, two hundred billion in 221 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:32,640 Speaker 5: defense for what's going on in Iran YEP. 222 00:10:32,520 --> 00:10:35,319 Speaker 1: An additional minor billion in defense for what's happening in Iran. 223 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:39,840 Speaker 1: And the problem here is markets want certainty. They want 224 00:10:39,880 --> 00:10:41,920 Speaker 1: at least some level of certainty. And I'm talking about 225 00:10:41,920 --> 00:10:44,760 Speaker 1: all markets, whether it's the housing market or the stock market, 226 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:47,280 Speaker 1: or the job market, or the commodity market where you've 227 00:10:47,320 --> 00:10:50,280 Speaker 1: got gold and silver and oil prices. What they want 228 00:10:50,320 --> 00:10:52,720 Speaker 1: is to be able to to some reasonable degree of 229 00:10:52,720 --> 00:10:56,480 Speaker 1: certainty kind of predict the future. And yet everything we 230 00:10:56,520 --> 00:10:59,839 Speaker 1: see around us is completely unpredictable. From what Trump is 231 00:10:59,880 --> 00:11:02,600 Speaker 1: doing doing as president, He's an unpredictable guy. The war 232 00:11:02,640 --> 00:11:05,840 Speaker 1: in Iran is unpredictable. FED Chairman Jerome Powell, he doesn't 233 00:11:05,880 --> 00:11:08,280 Speaker 1: have a clue what's going on, and basically said it yesterday. 234 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:10,680 Speaker 1: This is going to be a problem going forward because 235 00:11:10,760 --> 00:11:14,840 Speaker 1: markets of all sorts hate unpredictability more than anything. 236 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:18,640 Speaker 5: So the CBO, the Congressional Budget Office, they released a 237 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:22,360 Speaker 5: ten year budget and economic forecasts which estimate the annual 238 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:26,840 Speaker 5: budget deficits, and they say we're going to be spending 239 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:31,199 Speaker 5: sixty three trillion dollars by the year twenty thirty six. 240 00:11:31,360 --> 00:11:33,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know how you look out with so 241 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:36,920 Speaker 1: much uncertainty. I'm going to take that information with a 242 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:38,480 Speaker 1: little bit of grain of salt here because there is 243 00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:40,640 Speaker 1: a massive amount of uncertainty, and we just went through 244 00:11:40,679 --> 00:11:42,440 Speaker 1: all of that, and then to sit here and have 245 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:45,319 Speaker 1: a chance to predict ten years into the future what 246 00:11:45,360 --> 00:11:48,600 Speaker 1: things will look like with all of today's uncertainty, it 247 00:11:48,679 --> 00:11:51,520 Speaker 1: just seems like something that is not some reliable information. 248 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:53,360 Speaker 1: I can get it, they can go ahead and predict it. 249 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:54,400 Speaker 1: I'm just not buying it. 250 00:11:54,440 --> 00:11:56,160 Speaker 5: I thought we were supposed to get an influx of 251 00:11:56,280 --> 00:11:58,400 Speaker 5: tax revenue from tariffs, that we're going to be taking 252 00:11:58,400 --> 00:11:59,280 Speaker 5: care of all of this. 253 00:12:00,559 --> 00:12:03,960 Speaker 1: Huh, maybe who knows. They don't know. Again, nobody knows. 254 00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:06,760 Speaker 1: Nobody knows if we're getting the influx of tariffs. Nobody 255 00:12:06,760 --> 00:12:09,600 Speaker 1: knows if the tariffs that have been ruled unconstitutional by 256 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:12,160 Speaker 1: the courts have to be given back to companies or 257 00:12:12,200 --> 00:12:14,880 Speaker 1: maybe given back to consumers. Nobody knows when it comes 258 00:12:14,880 --> 00:12:15,559 Speaker 1: to tariffs too. 259 00:12:15,720 --> 00:12:18,319 Speaker 5: And when nobody knows, what does this mean for you? Well, 260 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:23,160 Speaker 5: it means higher borrowing costs, mortgages, loans, it means slower 261 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:26,600 Speaker 5: economic growth, and it means lower wages over time. You're 262 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:30,400 Speaker 5: listening to ninety three WIBC, Good morning. You've been hearing 263 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:32,720 Speaker 5: about the long lines at the airports because of the 264 00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:36,320 Speaker 5: partial government shutdown and TSA workers aren't getting paid and 265 00:12:36,480 --> 00:12:39,800 Speaker 5: some of them are just flat out quitting. Funny how 266 00:12:39,840 --> 00:12:42,920 Speaker 5: shutdowns they only hurt regular people while the politicians they 267 00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:47,080 Speaker 5: keep collecting paid checks. That tells you everything. If federal 268 00:12:47,120 --> 00:12:50,720 Speaker 5: workers they're not getting paid, how about Congress doesn't get paid? 269 00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:53,280 Speaker 5: That's pretty simple, right Heck yeah, make. 270 00:12:53,160 --> 00:12:53,840 Speaker 4: Them feel it. 271 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:58,839 Speaker 5: So there is a politician, Representative Brian Steele. He's out 272 00:12:58,880 --> 00:13:02,720 Speaker 5: of Wisconsin, and he has introduced the No Pay during 273 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:03,960 Speaker 5: Shutdowns Act. 274 00:13:04,520 --> 00:13:08,280 Speaker 8: Members of Congress should be receiving their paycheck when the 275 00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:12,040 Speaker 8: federal government's shut down. Good news. The committee just passed 276 00:13:12,040 --> 00:13:14,800 Speaker 8: my bill, the No Pay during Shutdowns Act, that does 277 00:13:15,040 --> 00:13:17,559 Speaker 8: just that. It says members of Congress won't receive their 278 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:21,200 Speaker 8: paycheck if hard working Americans are required to show up 279 00:13:21,240 --> 00:13:23,520 Speaker 8: for work and aren't receiving theirs. 280 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:26,120 Speaker 4: That's fantastic. I mean, that's amazing. Right. 281 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:29,520 Speaker 5: So this has passed the US House Committee. Just the 282 00:13:29,559 --> 00:13:31,040 Speaker 5: committee they all got together. 283 00:13:30,800 --> 00:13:32,880 Speaker 4: And they said, yeah, yeah, that looks really good on paper. 284 00:13:32,920 --> 00:13:34,800 Speaker 4: Let's pass this out of committee. 285 00:13:34,880 --> 00:13:36,679 Speaker 5: Now when it actually gets to the floor, I'm sure 286 00:13:36,679 --> 00:13:39,080 Speaker 5: they're voted down because you know they want to get 287 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:39,560 Speaker 5: their money. 288 00:13:39,640 --> 00:13:41,440 Speaker 1: Well, you know, I'm not so sure they're going to 289 00:13:41,480 --> 00:13:43,880 Speaker 1: vote it down. So the interesting thing is here, I 290 00:13:43,880 --> 00:13:46,920 Speaker 1: don't think any member of Congress wants to be on 291 00:13:47,080 --> 00:13:50,000 Speaker 1: record with a vote showing that they oppose this, because 292 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:52,600 Speaker 1: it just looks terrible and awful. And interestingly enough, this 293 00:13:52,760 --> 00:13:54,520 Speaker 1: was again, like you said, just a committee. It was 294 00:13:54,559 --> 00:13:58,240 Speaker 1: the House Administration Committee that moved it out of committee. 295 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:01,720 Speaker 1: It was in a nine to nothing bipartistant vote. Again, 296 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:04,760 Speaker 1: even in committee, there's nobody in that committee room that 297 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:06,720 Speaker 1: sits there and wants to vote against this and have 298 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:09,400 Speaker 1: that beyond the official record. I think where the challenge 299 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:12,880 Speaker 1: comes is actually somebody having the guts, and pretty much 300 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:15,360 Speaker 1: Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House, having the guts 301 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:18,480 Speaker 1: to bring this to the House floor for an actual vote. 302 00:14:18,480 --> 00:14:20,960 Speaker 1: If it's going to stall, it's going to stall as 303 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:22,840 Speaker 1: it gets out of committee and before it comes to 304 00:14:22,920 --> 00:14:23,680 Speaker 1: the floor of the House. 305 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:25,960 Speaker 5: So what the bill would do It would stop or 306 00:14:26,040 --> 00:14:29,520 Speaker 5: withhold pay for lawmakers if the government shuts down. In 307 00:14:29,640 --> 00:14:32,720 Speaker 5: some versions, pay would be delayed until later or not 308 00:14:32,880 --> 00:14:33,680 Speaker 5: paid at all. 309 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:34,480 Speaker 4: And the goal of the. 310 00:14:34,440 --> 00:14:36,720 Speaker 5: Bill hey make them feel the same pressure as the 311 00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:41,200 Speaker 5: federal workers, force the lawmakers to resolve the shutdown faster. 312 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:44,200 Speaker 5: Don't do your job, don't get paid, simple enough. 313 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:46,040 Speaker 1: Yeah. And it's not like we're going to you know, 314 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:48,840 Speaker 1: you know, completely erase the thirty six to nine trillion 315 00:14:48,880 --> 00:14:51,560 Speaker 1: dollar national debt because Congress isn't getting paid for a 316 00:14:51,560 --> 00:14:54,800 Speaker 1: few weeks while there's a fuller partial government shutdown. But 317 00:14:54,920 --> 00:14:57,520 Speaker 1: it's it's a symbol. It sits here and says, look, 318 00:14:57,600 --> 00:15:00,880 Speaker 1: we are not going to make the American people shoulder 319 00:15:00,960 --> 00:15:04,280 Speaker 1: the burden of government shutdowns all by themselves. We're gonna 320 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:07,440 Speaker 1: have some pain as part of members of Congress. And again, 321 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:10,000 Speaker 1: there's just no way if that gets if that gets 322 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:12,680 Speaker 1: brought to a floor vote in the House. I can't 323 00:15:12,760 --> 00:15:16,560 Speaker 1: imagine any member Republican or Democrat in the House of 324 00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:20,480 Speaker 1: Representatives that is gonna have the cajones to walk up 325 00:15:20,480 --> 00:15:23,160 Speaker 1: there and vote no on something like that. Can you 326 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:26,680 Speaker 1: imagine trying to defend that position back in your home state. 327 00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:29,240 Speaker 5: I don't even think it's a matter of defending it. 328 00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:30,680 Speaker 5: I think it's just a matter of I don't care. 329 00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:32,960 Speaker 5: What are you gonna do primary me? 330 00:15:33,640 --> 00:15:34,960 Speaker 4: It's like they don't care. 331 00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:37,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, I get it. There may be some people that 332 00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:39,280 Speaker 1: are you know, some members of Congress that are in 333 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:42,600 Speaker 1: extraordinarily safe districts and don't have to worry about that 334 00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:45,040 Speaker 1: sort of thing. But certainly looks terrible, and what did 335 00:15:45,080 --> 00:15:47,240 Speaker 1: you win? You know that your vote isn't if you 336 00:15:47,320 --> 00:15:49,360 Speaker 1: vote no on this. You know something like this is 337 00:15:49,360 --> 00:15:52,800 Speaker 1: gonna pass, So voting no is really symbolic and it's 338 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:56,280 Speaker 1: just gonna make you look like this elitist politician in Washington, 339 00:15:56,400 --> 00:15:59,600 Speaker 1: d c. It screams that, ever, this may be one 340 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:01,640 Speaker 1: of the few things if it actually gets brought to 341 00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:04,440 Speaker 1: a vote that passes with zero no votes. 342 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:07,720 Speaker 5: There is one important detail to note. Because of the constitution, 343 00:16:07,880 --> 00:16:13,120 Speaker 5: the twenty seventh Amendment, Congress can't easily change its pay immediately. 344 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:17,040 Speaker 5: So you're talking about changing the constitution to get something 345 00:16:17,080 --> 00:16:17,640 Speaker 5: like this pass. 346 00:16:17,760 --> 00:16:20,640 Speaker 1: Well, it talks about in the twenty seventh Amendment specifically 347 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:24,920 Speaker 1: references changing Congress's pay as it relates to the timing 348 00:16:25,040 --> 00:16:27,560 Speaker 1: of an election. So it's not that they can't do 349 00:16:27,640 --> 00:16:30,960 Speaker 1: it without changing the constitution. They just have to do 350 00:16:31,040 --> 00:16:33,960 Speaker 1: it in a certain time period before the election takes place. 351 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:36,680 Speaker 1: You can't change your pay after the election. And that 352 00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:37,960 Speaker 1: was the problem, right. 353 00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:40,360 Speaker 4: Well, clock is ticking because there's an election coming. 354 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:43,160 Speaker 1: There's election coming, it's in November, and if Congress really 355 00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:44,800 Speaker 1: wants to get this pass, they got plenty of time 356 00:16:44,880 --> 00:16:47,040 Speaker 1: to get it passed before the election. They move, they 357 00:16:47,040 --> 00:16:49,320 Speaker 1: do move very slowly. But yes, you're right, it would 358 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:52,440 Speaker 1: have a struggle. They'd have another cooling off period after 359 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:54,840 Speaker 1: the election before they can vote to do anything on 360 00:16:54,880 --> 00:16:55,280 Speaker 1: their pay. 361 00:16:55,440 --> 00:16:59,080 Speaker 5: So we're barely comfortable with self checkout, and now they 362 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:01,720 Speaker 5: want to make cars without steering wheels. 363 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:03,160 Speaker 4: How do you feel about this? 364 00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:06,080 Speaker 5: Not only steering wheels, but there was one other item, Oh, 365 00:17:06,160 --> 00:17:07,000 Speaker 5: windshield wipers. 366 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:09,520 Speaker 1: Windshield wipers. That's actually a whole laundry list of things. 367 00:17:09,640 --> 00:17:13,359 Speaker 5: Yeah, so the government is moving to allow fully autonomous cars, 368 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:17,239 Speaker 5: and this is part of deregulation of the vehicles for 369 00:17:17,280 --> 00:17:20,720 Speaker 5: these self driving cars. The companies that are pushing this Tesla, 370 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:25,359 Speaker 5: Zeokes and Waim and some of these vehicles, they're already 371 00:17:25,440 --> 00:17:29,080 Speaker 5: designed without steering wheels, built from scratch to be autonomous. 372 00:17:29,480 --> 00:17:31,000 Speaker 4: And now they're saying, you know. 373 00:17:30,920 --> 00:17:33,040 Speaker 5: What, let's just get rid of some of this regulation 374 00:17:33,240 --> 00:17:34,520 Speaker 5: so that they can move quickly. 375 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:38,679 Speaker 1: Yeah, the federal government regulates what has to be in 376 00:17:38,760 --> 00:17:41,919 Speaker 1: an automobile, things like tail lights and things like headlights. 377 00:17:42,040 --> 00:17:45,040 Speaker 1: But if you've got an autonomous car, there are certain requirements, 378 00:17:45,119 --> 00:17:47,960 Speaker 1: Like we talked about a steering wheel, like windshield wipers. Well, 379 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:50,840 Speaker 1: there's no driver in the car, there's no need for 380 00:17:50,880 --> 00:17:53,680 Speaker 1: a steering wheel or windshield wipers. So I think that 381 00:17:53,720 --> 00:17:57,280 Speaker 1: this is Congress doing something, actually getting ahead of a problem. 382 00:17:57,800 --> 00:18:00,560 Speaker 1: Instead of being reactionary. They're being a little pro active here, 383 00:18:00,600 --> 00:18:03,040 Speaker 1: and they know that autonomous driving cars are coming out, 384 00:18:03,119 --> 00:18:05,800 Speaker 1: and so they're just adjusting their regulations to say, Okay, 385 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:07,960 Speaker 1: all the normal cars, you're still going to have to 386 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:11,280 Speaker 1: have a steering wheel and windshow wipers, but these autonomous cars, 387 00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:14,399 Speaker 1: we're not going to require you to have some of 388 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:17,960 Speaker 1: these features that are unnecessary if the car is driving itself. 389 00:18:17,960 --> 00:18:20,080 Speaker 1: But it really does. It's interesting because it does show 390 00:18:20,080 --> 00:18:22,200 Speaker 1: where things are going. We keep talking about. 391 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:23,320 Speaker 5: How to get in the pod and let it take 392 00:18:23,359 --> 00:18:24,639 Speaker 5: you where you say you want to go. 393 00:18:24,920 --> 00:18:27,399 Speaker 1: Every day on this show, we keep talking about, you know, 394 00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:31,520 Speaker 1: autonomous robots and autonomous cars and AI and how this 395 00:18:31,640 --> 00:18:34,280 Speaker 1: is coming at us very very quickly. And here's the 396 00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:37,479 Speaker 1: federal government working to make changes because these changes are 397 00:18:37,520 --> 00:18:40,560 Speaker 1: coming in the marketplace. It is going to be fascinating. 398 00:18:40,640 --> 00:18:43,399 Speaker 1: And yes, if I could get in a WAIM today, 399 00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:46,040 Speaker 1: I would do it just to experience what it's like. 400 00:18:46,280 --> 00:18:48,400 Speaker 4: Cars designed purely for passengers. 401 00:18:48,680 --> 00:18:48,959 Speaker 1: It is. 402 00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:51,760 Speaker 4: It's going to be like a moving pod. I don't 403 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:53,119 Speaker 4: think I feel really good about this. 404 00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:55,320 Speaker 5: I'm the type of person I don't even like to 405 00:18:55,480 --> 00:18:58,280 Speaker 5: go car pooling because I want to be in control 406 00:18:58,320 --> 00:18:59,080 Speaker 5: of my destiny. 407 00:18:59,119 --> 00:19:00,480 Speaker 4: I like driving myself. 408 00:19:01,160 --> 00:19:04,000 Speaker 5: And now you're gonna get in a little moving pod 409 00:19:04,119 --> 00:19:06,040 Speaker 5: that doesn't even have a steering wheel. 410 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:07,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, but you'll be able to control it. It's just 411 00:19:07,840 --> 00:19:08,920 Speaker 1: like an uber. It's not like. 412 00:19:08,880 --> 00:19:11,000 Speaker 4: We're in a joystick. You can control the speech. 413 00:19:11,080 --> 00:19:13,560 Speaker 5: Now, Like I would totally be the backseat driver. I 414 00:19:13,560 --> 00:19:15,879 Speaker 5: would be like, this way, Mo, should be in the 415 00:19:15,920 --> 00:19:18,920 Speaker 5: other lane. Why are you going this way? You're going 416 00:19:18,960 --> 00:19:21,680 Speaker 5: too fast, You're going too slow? Like it would drive 417 00:19:21,760 --> 00:19:22,320 Speaker 5: me crazy. 418 00:19:23,119 --> 00:19:26,840 Speaker 1: I felt that. I felt that had hit very close 419 00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:31,439 Speaker 1: to home. Actually, and I'm gonna need a minute. You know, 420 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:32,680 Speaker 1: that's the truth. 421 00:19:33,520 --> 00:19:37,479 Speaker 5: Being a passenger princess. You might have heard a comment 422 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:38,959 Speaker 5: or two. Is that what you're saying. 423 00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:42,480 Speaker 1: Look, here's my point on all of this is that 424 00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:45,199 Speaker 1: if you order an uber and you're saying, take me 425 00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:47,400 Speaker 1: to Lucas oil Field. It's not going to stop off 426 00:19:47,440 --> 00:19:49,359 Speaker 1: at Burger King on the way there. You still have 427 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:52,000 Speaker 1: control of your destiny, even in an autonomous car. 428 00:19:52,080 --> 00:19:54,160 Speaker 4: You're listening to ninety three WIBC. 429 00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:11,320 Speaker 9: I think there are anger issues. I think there's a 430 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:15,320 Speaker 9: lack of contrition those about the violence that's filtrated on me. 431 00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:18,360 Speaker 9: Really the violent episode he was involved in and set 432 00:20:18,359 --> 00:20:21,520 Speaker 9: a committee where he's told the media finally that he 433 00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:24,360 Speaker 9: doesn't progret it. He's also told the media there as 434 00:20:24,359 --> 00:20:26,919 Speaker 9: he said it again today, that there's historical president for 435 00:20:27,040 --> 00:20:29,840 Speaker 9: violence that caning and doling happened all the time. 436 00:20:31,320 --> 00:20:32,880 Speaker 4: That is Rand Paul from Kentucky. 437 00:20:32,920 --> 00:20:35,840 Speaker 5: He's confirming he will not vote to confirm Mark Way 438 00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:39,679 Speaker 5: Mullan for DHS Secretary. Rand Paul said that Mullan's anger 439 00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:44,560 Speaker 5: issues would be a terrible example for ice and border control. 440 00:20:44,680 --> 00:20:46,919 Speaker 5: So when two women get into a fight, you call 441 00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:47,640 Speaker 5: it a cat fight. 442 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:49,520 Speaker 4: What do you call it? When two dudes get into 443 00:20:49,520 --> 00:20:50,040 Speaker 4: a fight. 444 00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:54,000 Speaker 1: You call it a fight. That's the way it works, 445 00:20:54,040 --> 00:20:55,879 Speaker 1: to fight, that's the way it works. No, it's like 446 00:20:55,960 --> 00:20:58,000 Speaker 1: when you got a bunch of guys playing basketball. What 447 00:20:58,000 --> 00:20:59,719 Speaker 1: do you call it? You call it basketball, and when 448 00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:01,840 Speaker 1: you got a bunch of women playing basketball, you call 449 00:21:01,840 --> 00:21:04,520 Speaker 1: it women's basketball. He called it to fight or then 450 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:07,240 Speaker 1: it's women. It's a cat fight. Don't give me that look. 451 00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:09,040 Speaker 1: And I don't make the rules. That's just the way 452 00:21:09,080 --> 00:21:09,520 Speaker 1: it works. 453 00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:13,639 Speaker 5: They keep grilling Mark Wayn Mullen about his personality, but 454 00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:17,640 Speaker 5: people care more about whether he's actually going to secure 455 00:21:17,760 --> 00:21:22,439 Speaker 5: the border than anything. So this confirmation hearing it turned 456 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:25,840 Speaker 5: into a fight between Mark Wayne Mullen and Ran Paul. 457 00:21:26,359 --> 00:21:28,880 Speaker 1: And I think this is the interesting thing because as 458 00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:31,520 Speaker 1: soon as I saw this, and you know, obviously Ran 459 00:21:31,560 --> 00:21:32,879 Speaker 1: Paul has come out and said he's not going to 460 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:37,320 Speaker 1: vote to approve Mark Wayne Mullen as the new DHS secretary. 461 00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:39,120 Speaker 1: And so keep in mind here we got fifty three 462 00:21:39,119 --> 00:21:41,800 Speaker 1: senators that are Republicans, so you scratch one off the 463 00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:44,240 Speaker 1: list so far, that's Ran Paul. We got to go 464 00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:47,160 Speaker 1: other couple of squish Republicans out there, like Susan Collins 465 00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:49,680 Speaker 1: and Maine and Lisa Murkowski in Alaska. They can never 466 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:51,800 Speaker 1: be counted on for anything. And then all of a sudden, 467 00:21:52,520 --> 00:21:56,040 Speaker 1: we can't lose one more Republican Senator or this guy's 468 00:21:56,080 --> 00:21:58,080 Speaker 1: vote's going to fail and he's not going to pass. 469 00:21:58,160 --> 00:22:03,920 Speaker 1: Now rest assured. John Thuhn, Senate majority leader for the Republicans, 470 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:06,560 Speaker 1: has come out and said he has all the confidence 471 00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:10,000 Speaker 1: in the world that Mark Wayne Ballin, Mark Wayne Mullins 472 00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:12,439 Speaker 1: has the votes to get confirmed. Yeah, but you'll have 473 00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:14,399 Speaker 1: to excuse me if I don't have a lot of 474 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:16,639 Speaker 1: faith in John thun At this point in time, the 475 00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:18,879 Speaker 1: man can't even get all the Republicans on board to 476 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:20,720 Speaker 1: pass the Save Act. I don't know how he's going 477 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:22,480 Speaker 1: to get all the Republicans on board to pass this. 478 00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:23,760 Speaker 1: DHS Secretary, Well. 479 00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:25,440 Speaker 5: He doesn't need all the Republicans if he can get 480 00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:28,280 Speaker 5: a Democrat or two. And John Fetterman has said that 481 00:22:28,359 --> 00:22:32,040 Speaker 5: he's open to it. It was reported that yeah, Fetterman 482 00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:34,680 Speaker 5: was going to vote to confirm him, but now he's 483 00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:37,400 Speaker 5: kind of walking that back just a little and saying, no, 484 00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:40,240 Speaker 5: I'm open to it. But if Republicans are fighting each 485 00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:43,159 Speaker 5: other like this in public, it makes the whole party 486 00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:44,200 Speaker 5: look disorganize. 487 00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:46,280 Speaker 4: What are they doing not in public? 488 00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:49,679 Speaker 5: This is going to go down, as the tell me 489 00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:54,639 Speaker 5: to my face hearing, because Rand Paul was wanting an 490 00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:56,879 Speaker 5: apology that just wasn't coming. 491 00:22:57,280 --> 00:22:59,679 Speaker 10: You got a chance today. You can either continue to 492 00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:02,960 Speaker 10: lie or you can correct the record. You have never 493 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:05,199 Speaker 10: had the courage to look me in the eye and 494 00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:07,720 Speaker 10: tell me that the assault was justified. So today you'll 495 00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:10,840 Speaker 10: have your chance. Today, I'll give you that chance to 496 00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:13,360 Speaker 10: clear the record. Tell it to my face, if that's 497 00:23:13,359 --> 00:23:14,960 Speaker 10: what you believe, tell it to me today. 498 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:17,480 Speaker 4: Tell the world why you believe I. 499 00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:21,119 Speaker 10: Deserve to be assaulted from behind, have six ribs broken 500 00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:23,640 Speaker 10: and a damage lunk. Tell me to my face why 501 00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:24,679 Speaker 10: you think I deserved it. 502 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:28,000 Speaker 5: So, while I sometimes agree with Rand Paul about his 503 00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:34,040 Speaker 5: fiscal policies, especially his fiscal positions, his tone, it always 504 00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:38,119 Speaker 5: seems to be about himself. He could have spoken with 505 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:40,280 Speaker 5: Mullen privately to clear the air. 506 00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:43,440 Speaker 4: And instead he made it a personal affront at this hearing. 507 00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:45,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, and what Rand for some context here, what Rand 508 00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:49,240 Speaker 1: Paul is talking about is several years ago, Rand Paul 509 00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:52,119 Speaker 1: was assaulted in his yard and I may get some 510 00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:54,920 Speaker 1: of the specifics on this wrong assaulted in his yard 511 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:57,000 Speaker 1: by his neighbor. And as Rand Paul mentioned, he had 512 00:23:57,040 --> 00:24:01,000 Speaker 1: six cracked ribs and some hospitalized other injury and then Obviously, 513 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,760 Speaker 1: at some point Mark Wayne Mullin had some nasty things 514 00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:06,320 Speaker 1: to say about ran Paul as it relates to that assault. 515 00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:09,000 Speaker 1: And so here in front of God and everybody in 516 00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:11,640 Speaker 1: the you know, on the halls of Congress, ran Paul 517 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:14,040 Speaker 1: decides that this is the specific issue that he's going 518 00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:16,520 Speaker 1: to bring up and challenge him on. But you're exactly right. 519 00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:18,760 Speaker 1: But that's what you get when you have you know, 520 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:21,159 Speaker 1: what we used to call them mavericks. When John McCain 521 00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:23,000 Speaker 1: was still in the Senate, he was the maverick. He 522 00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:25,400 Speaker 1: wasn't afraid to go against his party. And ran Paul 523 00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:28,200 Speaker 1: certainly isn't afraid to go against his party. And I'm 524 00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:31,080 Speaker 1: all for that because I'm sick of party politics and 525 00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:33,600 Speaker 1: every Democrat just falling in line even if they don't 526 00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:36,280 Speaker 1: believe it, and every Republican just falling in line, even 527 00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:38,560 Speaker 1: if they don't believe it. And that's not how Thomas 528 00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:41,680 Speaker 1: Massey and ran Paul have operated and had their political 529 00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:45,399 Speaker 1: careers up until this point. But when you've got that 530 00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:47,840 Speaker 1: kind of maverick, when you've got that person that's not 531 00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:51,120 Speaker 1: afraid to publicly go against their party, then you kind 532 00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:53,280 Speaker 1: of get some other stuff like Hey, you know Ran 533 00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:55,040 Speaker 1: Paul does like to make it all about himself. 534 00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:57,240 Speaker 5: Well, you can disagree with somebody, but bringing up the 535 00:24:57,240 --> 00:24:59,359 Speaker 5: personal stuff like that and a hearing, it feels messy, 536 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:00,679 Speaker 5: It feels un productive. 537 00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:02,359 Speaker 4: You want to talk about unproductive. 538 00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:05,840 Speaker 5: Listen to this back and forth, the heated exchange between 539 00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:08,600 Speaker 5: Senators Rand Paul and Mark Wayne Mullen. 540 00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:10,480 Speaker 11: Mister chairman. First of all, I didn't know the exceit 541 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:13,280 Speaker 11: of your damage when a phone call was made. I 542 00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:15,760 Speaker 11: made it to you, and I try to talk to you. 543 00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:17,760 Speaker 11: You didn't engage at all. In fact, you said get 544 00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:19,800 Speaker 11: your paperwork in. It's got to be in three works 545 00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:20,600 Speaker 11: three days in between you. 546 00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:24,320 Speaker 10: You offer no apology, sir, And you offer no apology 547 00:25:24,359 --> 00:25:29,520 Speaker 10: today and no regrets. I owned the word apologized. 548 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:30,760 Speaker 1: Haven't heard the word regret. 549 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:33,879 Speaker 10: Haven't heard I misspoke, and it was heated, and I 550 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:36,720 Speaker 10: made a mistake. Actually any of those words, sir. 551 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:39,840 Speaker 11: I actually it wasn't heated, And I'm not apologizing for point. 552 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:43,119 Speaker 10: Not your good or goodn't So you're you're jolly well fine. 553 00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:45,280 Speaker 10: And you want the American public and the people up 554 00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:47,359 Speaker 10: here to vote that may or may not vote for you, 555 00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:51,159 Speaker 10: to know that you supported the felonious violent attack on 556 00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:51,959 Speaker 10: me from behind. 557 00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:54,639 Speaker 11: I did not say I supported it. I said I 558 00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:55,320 Speaker 11: understood it. 559 00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:56,960 Speaker 4: Yeah, So that's it. 560 00:25:57,040 --> 00:25:59,920 Speaker 5: He said that he understood it based on rand Paul's care. 561 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:03,919 Speaker 5: He was attacked in twenty seventeen, and Paul took that 562 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:06,560 Speaker 5: as justifying the political violence. 563 00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:08,320 Speaker 4: So Paul has said he's going to. 564 00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:13,119 Speaker 5: Vote no on Mullen's nomination, and Mullen's response he denied 565 00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:17,960 Speaker 5: supporting violence. He said he's a straightforward, direct person and 566 00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:22,320 Speaker 5: would address any of these issues openly. And despite opposing him, 567 00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:25,480 Speaker 5: Paul said he would still allow a quick committee vote 568 00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:26,920 Speaker 5: to move the process forward. 569 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:29,640 Speaker 1: This is not normal what we're seeing right now. Usually 570 00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:33,920 Speaker 1: when senators are elevated to a position like Cabinet secretary, 571 00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:36,680 Speaker 1: they get a lot of support from their fellow senators 572 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:37,919 Speaker 1: because at the end of the day, it's a good 573 00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:39,680 Speaker 1: old boys club and a good old girls club and 574 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:42,439 Speaker 1: they all support each other. Example, a of course, is 575 00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:44,960 Speaker 1: Marco Rubio when he was nominated to be Secretary of 576 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:47,960 Speaker 1: State in twenty twenty five by Donald Trump. Not one 577 00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:51,880 Speaker 1: Democrat voted against Marco Rubio to be Secretary of State. 578 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:56,720 Speaker 1: So it's odd for this debate to get so contentious, 579 00:26:57,160 --> 00:27:00,399 Speaker 1: especially within their own party. Of the Republics are the 580 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:03,000 Speaker 1: ones that were having the fights yesterday over a fellow 581 00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:06,800 Speaker 1: Republican senator. It looks like and if you believe John Thune, 582 00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:09,040 Speaker 1: and there beyond John Thune, there are others like you, 583 00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:11,320 Speaker 1: said John Fetterman thinks this will pass and he may 584 00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:14,119 Speaker 1: even vote to confirm Mark Wayne Mullen. But it is 585 00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:17,400 Speaker 1: odd and not normal usually that we see this when 586 00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:19,359 Speaker 1: senators are part of the confirmation process. 587 00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:21,720 Speaker 5: Now, the good news in all of this, at least 588 00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:25,040 Speaker 5: we're not talking about another bureaucrat who is just talking 589 00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:28,280 Speaker 5: in circles. Rand Paul did say that he would allow 590 00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:31,720 Speaker 5: the quick Committee vote to move the process forward. But 591 00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:35,680 Speaker 5: then yesterday at five oh three, after this was all 592 00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:39,080 Speaker 5: said and done, Ran Paul posted this This guy, I mean, 593 00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:41,960 Speaker 5: he just does not like Mark Wayne Mullens. He said 594 00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:46,320 Speaker 5: Senator Mark Wayne Ullen in his own words. This is 595 00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:49,480 Speaker 5: a supercut of tense Mullen's moments. 596 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:56,040 Speaker 11: You know where to find me any place, any time, cowboy. Sorry, 597 00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:58,040 Speaker 11: this is a time. This is a place. If you 598 00:27:58,080 --> 00:27:59,919 Speaker 11: want to run your mouth, we can be took some 599 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:01,520 Speaker 11: antiing adults. We can finish it here. 600 00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:03,600 Speaker 4: Okay, that's fine, perfect, you want. 601 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:03,840 Speaker 11: To do it now. 602 00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:04,879 Speaker 1: I'd love to do it right now. 603 00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:06,840 Speaker 11: We'll stand your butt up. Then you stand up, but 604 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:10,320 Speaker 11: them stop it? 605 00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:14,680 Speaker 7: Oh no, sit down, United States? 606 00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:16,560 Speaker 1: Okay, set down? Please? 607 00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:17,000 Speaker 6: All right? 608 00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:19,240 Speaker 1: Can I hold it? 609 00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:22,520 Speaker 5: If he got up to would you have would you 610 00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:24,399 Speaker 5: have gone at it right there? 611 00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:26,119 Speaker 11: And I would have probably jumped over the dice At 612 00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:28,119 Speaker 11: that point you have to be called out off. If not, 613 00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:30,199 Speaker 11: this guy continues to get away with this stuff. And 614 00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:33,960 Speaker 11: it's just, you know, it's silly, it's stupid. But every 615 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:36,080 Speaker 11: now and they need to get punch in the face. Well, 616 00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:38,200 Speaker 11: go back to the eighteen hundreds and seventeen hundreds. They 617 00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:41,600 Speaker 11: used to have canes and duels and they to have rules. Yeah, 618 00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:44,320 Speaker 11: and there's a way that men used to settle their differences. 619 00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:46,400 Speaker 11: I ignored him four times to be part of that. 620 00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:48,760 Speaker 11: And people say, yes, you're supposed to ignore it. Well, 621 00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:51,960 Speaker 11: you know, I'm not a very good Christian. I try 622 00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:53,840 Speaker 11: to be a good Christian, and I know people say 623 00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:55,840 Speaker 11: you're supposed to turn the other cheek. I prefer the 624 00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:57,080 Speaker 11: David method, but we. 625 00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:59,040 Speaker 4: Need to move from an almost way. 626 00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:00,000 Speaker 1: I'm not afraid of Biden. 627 00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:06,400 Speaker 5: I will buy that's your potential DHS secretary saying that 628 00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:08,000 Speaker 5: he's not afraid of Biden. 629 00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:10,440 Speaker 1: You stand your butt up, you stand your butt It's 630 00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:13,840 Speaker 1: like the worst fifth grade school yard fight talk I've 631 00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:15,800 Speaker 1: ever heard in my life. Your face is dumb. No, 632 00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:18,720 Speaker 1: your face is dumb. Your mom is dumb. So what 633 00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:21,840 Speaker 1: is this that was on the floor of the Senate yesterday. 634 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:24,560 Speaker 5: Well, that clip when he said you stand your butt up, 635 00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:27,280 Speaker 5: you stand your butt up, that happened in twenty twenty three, 636 00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:30,720 Speaker 5: and that was Sean O'Brien arguing with Mark waynemullen and 637 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:34,400 Speaker 5: Shawn O'Brien is the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, 638 00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:37,240 Speaker 5: and they were having this conversation, right. 639 00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:37,800 Speaker 4: You know. 640 00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:43,160 Speaker 5: The interesting interesting thing that happened though, is O'Brien yesterday 641 00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:46,480 Speaker 5: was in the front row of the confirmation hearing and 642 00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:50,000 Speaker 5: when Mark wwain mullan walked into the dayas he shook 643 00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:53,160 Speaker 5: only one hand and it was O'Brien's, the guy that 644 00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:54,680 Speaker 5: he had that you stand your. 645 00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:57,560 Speaker 4: Butt up fight with. It is so apparently they kissed 646 00:29:57,560 --> 00:29:58,040 Speaker 4: and made up. 647 00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:01,040 Speaker 1: This is just not a great look for rand Paul 648 00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:02,719 Speaker 1: at the end, I mean, because he's not a good 649 00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:05,040 Speaker 1: look for either I agree, not a good look for 650 00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:07,120 Speaker 1: either of them, but not a great look for Rand Paul. 651 00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:09,880 Speaker 1: And look, I like Rand Paul a lot because I 652 00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:12,560 Speaker 1: don't believe he's controlled by Donald Trump. I don't believe 653 00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:15,480 Speaker 1: he's controlled by the Republican Party. I think he speaks 654 00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:17,959 Speaker 1: his mind. But when he does this sort of grand 655 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:21,440 Speaker 1: standing making it all about Rand Paul during the Senate 656 00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:24,920 Speaker 1: confirmation hearing yesterday, it does give you some pause and 657 00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:27,040 Speaker 1: you're like, geez, can't you just can't you just go 658 00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:29,240 Speaker 1: back to, you know, be in the maverick in the 659 00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:31,600 Speaker 1: Senate and and being the one that stands up for 660 00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:35,160 Speaker 1: their own beliefs instead of this silly schoolyard taunting back 661 00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:35,520 Speaker 1: and forth. 662 00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:36,160 Speaker 4: Now, I think he's just. 663 00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:40,200 Speaker 5: Trying to bring attention to possible issues that he has. 664 00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:42,840 Speaker 5: At least he wants everybody to know he thinks that 665 00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:45,360 Speaker 5: Mark win Mullin has anger issues and we could be 666 00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:46,960 Speaker 5: heading down a similar path. 667 00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:50,440 Speaker 1: Okay, fine, but again doesn't absolve the fact that Mark 668 00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:53,080 Speaker 1: that Rand Paul made it all about Rand Paul yesterday 669 00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:53,680 Speaker 1: in that hearing. 670 00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:57,600 Speaker 5: University of Notre Dame expanding his financial aid programs starting 671 00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:03,000 Speaker 5: next year. They have made an announcement that families with 672 00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:05,920 Speaker 5: incomes under one hundred and fifty thousand dollars will pay 673 00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:07,240 Speaker 5: zero tuition. 674 00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:10,960 Speaker 1: Casey, let's play a little game, right now. Okay, you 675 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:14,480 Speaker 1: ready for this? So I have what the cost the 676 00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:17,800 Speaker 1: annual cost full freight if you're paying full freight to 677 00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:20,040 Speaker 1: go to the University of Notre Dame for both your 678 00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:24,520 Speaker 1: classes and room and board and books. The estimated and 679 00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:26,640 Speaker 1: this is for the twenty twenty six twenty twenty seven 680 00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:29,160 Speaker 1: academic seasons that will be for kids going to college 681 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:32,240 Speaker 1: this fall. So again, this is the all in full 682 00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:36,480 Speaker 1: freight cost for one year at Notre Dame prices, right, rules, 683 00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:38,720 Speaker 1: I want you to give me your best estimate. 684 00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:42,080 Speaker 4: One year at Notre Dame forty five thousand. 685 00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:46,360 Speaker 1: You are way off. Oh really, this is room and 686 00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:47,920 Speaker 1: board and tuition and everything. 687 00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:50,240 Speaker 4: I'm I low, Am I way low? 688 00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:56,640 Speaker 1: Ninety one thousand, nine hundred and eighty six dollars ninety 689 00:31:56,880 --> 00:32:01,320 Speaker 1: one thousand dollars to attend the University of Notre Dame 690 00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:05,000 Speaker 1: for one year, room and board, tuition, books, everything, all 691 00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:07,840 Speaker 1: in for one year ninety one thousand dollars. Wow. 692 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:10,720 Speaker 5: So yeah, families earning under one hundred and fifty thousand 693 00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:12,880 Speaker 5: dollars are going to receive need based aid that covers 694 00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:14,240 Speaker 5: one hundred percent of the tuition. 695 00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:16,480 Speaker 4: The school said that they should. 696 00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:19,440 Speaker 5: Remove financial barriers and make Notre Dame more accessible to 697 00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:22,600 Speaker 5: students from various income backgrounds. 698 00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:23,600 Speaker 6: Wow. 699 00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:26,360 Speaker 4: Ninety one thousand dollars. That's stunning. 700 00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:26,800 Speaker 1: Wow. 701 00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:29,520 Speaker 5: Over the next year, the university says that they want 702 00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:33,120 Speaker 5: to commit more than one billion dollars to undergraduate aid. 703 00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:37,640 Speaker 1: And other schools have done this for a long time. 704 00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:40,280 Speaker 1: Yale has done this. If your family makes under a 705 00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:43,320 Speaker 1: certain threshold and you get into Yale, there is no 706 00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:45,280 Speaker 1: cost to you to do that. And some other schools 707 00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:47,040 Speaker 1: have started to do it, and I think it's probably 708 00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:48,480 Speaker 1: going to start to become a little bit of a 709 00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:53,320 Speaker 1: trend because there's been a big backlash against these elitist universities, 710 00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:56,560 Speaker 1: and rightly so. They've done some dirty, rotten things and 711 00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:59,120 Speaker 1: deserve all the backlash that they're getting. And I think 712 00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:01,840 Speaker 1: they recognize and know that and know that they need 713 00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:04,680 Speaker 1: to be doing a little bit more on their public relations, 714 00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:06,080 Speaker 1: need to be doing a little bit more on how 715 00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:09,080 Speaker 1: to build up their public image. Places like Yale and 716 00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:11,840 Speaker 1: Harvard and maybe not so much Notre Dame, but doing 717 00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:14,040 Speaker 1: something like this where you say, okay, fine, if you 718 00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:17,360 Speaker 1: make family makes less than X amount of dollars a year, 719 00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:19,360 Speaker 1: you will pay the full freight. I think this is 720 00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:21,920 Speaker 1: a pr move by these schools and a very welcome one. 721 00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:24,520 Speaker 4: For sure, you're listening to ninety three WIBC. 722 00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:28,080 Speaker 5: This is a great idea in theory. Anybody supporting veterans 723 00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:30,080 Speaker 5: is a good idea. But when you have a big 724 00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:34,719 Speaker 5: celebrity introducing a brand in a big box store, it 725 00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:38,640 Speaker 5: kind of feels like marketing, and you really need to 726 00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:44,120 Speaker 5: fix the benefits and the bureaucracy, not just sell another product. However, 727 00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:48,080 Speaker 5: Tom Hanks has returned to the spotlight and he is 728 00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:51,720 Speaker 5: revealing his own coffee coffee company. It's going to be 729 00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:54,720 Speaker 5: sold in Walmart, and he would like his fans to 730 00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:59,840 Speaker 5: support this business because it is to support Hanks for 731 00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:04,920 Speaker 5: Are Troops, which is an organization to help US veterans. 732 00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:08,480 Speaker 5: One hundred percent of the net proceeds are going to 733 00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:13,360 Speaker 5: benefit organizations that he says provide critical resources to veterans 734 00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:14,360 Speaker 5: and their families. 735 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:18,359 Speaker 1: That's good coffee Eggs. 736 00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:21,640 Speaker 11: Coffee is going to be available in Walmart stores in 737 00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:26,560 Speaker 11: every single state of the Union as of February of 738 00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:27,600 Speaker 11: twenty twenty six. 739 00:34:27,640 --> 00:34:28,920 Speaker 1: And I'm not saying every store. 740 00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:30,239 Speaker 8: I'm just saying. 741 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:33,520 Speaker 1: Stores in every state. They are going to have dark 742 00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:38,560 Speaker 1: roast and mild roast. And here's some extra extra bigness, 743 00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:40,000 Speaker 1: chocolate turtle. 744 00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:42,279 Speaker 7: It's a flavor that has some people are just going 745 00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:43,280 Speaker 7: to absolutely adore. 746 00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:46,319 Speaker 1: All profits from the sale of this carton and all 747 00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:49,560 Speaker 1: of our products go to support veterans and their families 748 00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:53,320 Speaker 1: through a network of trusted partners and organizations. 749 00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:56,120 Speaker 5: I love how he says, through a network of trusted 750 00:34:56,200 --> 00:35:00,760 Speaker 5: partners and organizations. The actual groups are the Bob Wood Foundation, 751 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:06,200 Speaker 5: Student Veterans of America, Headstrong, and Higher Heroes USA. And 752 00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:08,799 Speaker 5: he said the expansion into Walmart, their aim is to 753 00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:12,560 Speaker 5: reach more communities, raise more support for veterans through everyday 754 00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:16,040 Speaker 5: purchases like coffee, and they're also going to sell single 755 00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:18,800 Speaker 5: serve pods and one of the flavors is the chocolate 756 00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:20,240 Speaker 5: turtle flavor as well. 757 00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:23,840 Speaker 1: Sounds lovely. I mean, Paul Newman pretty much cleared the 758 00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:27,360 Speaker 1: way for this with his Newman's Own brand of consumer 759 00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:30,000 Speaker 1: products and grocery stores, which, by the way, Paul Newman's 760 00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:32,919 Speaker 1: Caesar salad salad dressing still the best caesar salad salad 761 00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:35,279 Speaker 1: dressing out there in my opinion. But I love Tom 762 00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:38,200 Speaker 1: Hanks's movies. You know, anytime catch me if you can 763 00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:40,919 Speaker 1: with him and Leo DiCaprio on TV is on the TV. 764 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:44,719 Speaker 1: I'm certainly watching that. Don't like his leftist, liberal Hollywood politics, 765 00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:48,240 Speaker 1: but you cannot deny all that Tom Hanks has done 766 00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:51,080 Speaker 1: for the military and our veterans, whether it's kind of 767 00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:54,600 Speaker 1: showcasing the sacrifices they've made through his movie like Saving 768 00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:57,239 Speaker 1: Private Ryan or the TV series Band of Brothers. But 769 00:35:57,320 --> 00:35:59,399 Speaker 1: I mean, you just went down some of these organizations 770 00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:03,000 Speaker 1: that he military organizations he's supporting, like the Hidden Heroes 771 00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:06,400 Speaker 1: campaign and the Headstrong Project and Higher Heroes USA and 772 00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:09,880 Speaker 1: Student Veterans of America. Tom Hanks has always been a 773 00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:13,480 Speaker 1: huge supporter of our military and our veterans, and I 774 00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:16,400 Speaker 1: love that he's not stopping. He doesn't have to do this. 775 00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:20,960 Speaker 1: He's already been well involved with veterans projects and charities. 776 00:36:21,080 --> 00:36:23,360 Speaker 1: He didn't have to do this, but he's obviously thinking 777 00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:25,440 Speaker 1: to himself, you know what, I can still do more? 778 00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:28,759 Speaker 1: And here is you know, take the Paul Newman blueprint 779 00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:30,960 Speaker 1: that he rolled out in the eighties and nineties and 780 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:33,080 Speaker 1: made successful. I'm just going to copy that and do 781 00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:34,280 Speaker 1: it and it'll support veterans. 782 00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:37,080 Speaker 5: He also served as the national spokesperson for the momor 783 00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:40,600 Speaker 5: like the World War Two Memorial, and he participated in 784 00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:44,320 Speaker 5: a lot of other initiatives connected to US military history 785 00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:48,960 Speaker 5: and honoring service. You're right, it is a strange juxtaposition 786 00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:52,320 Speaker 5: when you're a conservative and you think about Tom Hanks, 787 00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:55,400 Speaker 5: love is acting like a lot of his movies. I mean, 788 00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:58,120 Speaker 5: he even played someone in the military in Forrest Gump, 789 00:36:58,160 --> 00:36:59,480 Speaker 5: one of people's. 790 00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:00,000 Speaker 4: All time favorite movie. 791 00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:04,400 Speaker 5: But then you know that he's got these left leaning 792 00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:08,440 Speaker 5: ideology and you try and look past threat when you're 793 00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:11,760 Speaker 5: viewing him through the lens of an actor and the movies. 794 00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:15,440 Speaker 5: But then when he does things like Hanks for our Troops, 795 00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:19,520 Speaker 5: you know that he is trying to support the veterans 796 00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:22,120 Speaker 5: and he's very pro trooped. 797 00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:24,320 Speaker 1: Well, and the Democrats need more of this because you 798 00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:28,400 Speaker 1: just don't see that much support from military and veterans 799 00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:30,759 Speaker 1: from liberals, and so for Tom Hanks to do this, 800 00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:33,400 Speaker 1: maybe he's going to set the stage and show the 801 00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:35,840 Speaker 1: way for other liberals to do this. Because our veterans 802 00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:36,960 Speaker 1: need everybody support. 803 00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:40,279 Speaker 5: Nikki Kelly from Indiana Capitol Chronicle is going to join us. 804 00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:42,840 Speaker 5: Next you're listening to Casey and Jim. It is ninety 805 00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:44,000 Speaker 5: three WIBC