1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:03,080 Speaker 1: Good morning from South Dkota and welcome to the situation 2 00:00:03,279 --> 00:00:07,400 Speaker 1: with Michael Brown on eight fifty Kowa the blow chart 3 00:00:07,560 --> 00:00:14,080 Speaker 1: of the Rockies what not until next Monday the tenth 4 00:00:14,360 --> 00:00:20,880 Speaker 1: at nine? Oh okay, uh, never mind, everyone have a 5 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:21,320 Speaker 1: great day. 6 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:27,120 Speaker 2: You gotta give him credit. Yep, I gotta give him credit. 7 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:29,480 Speaker 2: By the way, how are we doing on collecting new 8 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:31,280 Speaker 2: rules of engagement? At dawn? 9 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:34,720 Speaker 3: You still sent it's like two minutes long. No, that's 10 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:35,680 Speaker 3: not going to work. 11 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:36,360 Speaker 2: Wayne. 12 00:00:36,479 --> 00:00:39,400 Speaker 3: You sent me one that I already have, so I 13 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:46,520 Speaker 3: need the new one. We have gotten a couple new ones, 14 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:50,040 Speaker 3: so you know, but we'll we'll need more. 15 00:00:49,880 --> 00:00:53,200 Speaker 2: Than a couple. Should you tell them how many we had? 16 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:56,639 Speaker 3: I don't know how many we have. Did you the. 17 00:00:56,600 --> 00:00:59,400 Speaker 2: Figure you told me yesterday? It kind of surprised me. 18 00:00:59,600 --> 00:00:59,959 Speaker 2: Me too. 19 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:05,720 Speaker 3: No, I'm going through the rotational cart that has all 20 00:01:05,760 --> 00:01:07,759 Speaker 3: of the rules of engagement, and all I was doing 21 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:11,320 Speaker 3: yesterday was listening for six thirty or k how things 22 00:01:11,319 --> 00:01:13,680 Speaker 3: of that nature. Because that's not no work across the hall. 23 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:20,280 Speaker 3: So I went and changed the end date in that 24 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:24,520 Speaker 3: cart so that we can still use them this week. Yeah, 25 00:01:24,520 --> 00:01:26,920 Speaker 3: it's a little bit technical for probably anybody that really 26 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:30,600 Speaker 3: doesn't care. But I had to change the end date 27 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:38,160 Speaker 3: on sixteen rules of Engagement. So sixteen rules of Engagement 28 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:42,200 Speaker 3: we cannot use across the hall, which. 29 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:43,880 Speaker 2: Means we actually had more than sixteen. 30 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:47,240 Speaker 3: I didn't know we had sixteens of engagement. 31 00:01:47,319 --> 00:01:48,880 Speaker 2: That quite a bit. 32 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:49,720 Speaker 3: I like it. 33 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:52,840 Speaker 2: I love it too, So you need to step up. 34 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:55,800 Speaker 2: Come on. I know you're in mourning for the former 35 00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:59,040 Speaker 2: vice president, but that's not a reason to not go 36 00:01:59,120 --> 00:02:04,480 Speaker 2: do some stuff to I can't. I can't start the 37 00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:09,280 Speaker 2: show out without talking about the death of Richard Cheney, 38 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:16,600 Speaker 2: the former vice president. So here goes little biography. Biography 39 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:19,880 Speaker 2: you know he was. He was born in Nebraska, grew 40 00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:24,959 Speaker 2: up in Casper, Wyoming. He went to Yale University of Wyoming. 41 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:29,280 Speaker 2: He started out as I mean, this is impressive. Yet, 42 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:31,880 Speaker 2: whether you like Jamie or not, this is impressive. If 43 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:33,760 Speaker 2: he starts out as a king, you know he's aing. 44 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:37,839 Speaker 2: He truly was a swamp creature in that regard who 45 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:41,840 Speaker 2: loved li fishing. So figure that one out. He started 46 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:45,760 Speaker 2: out as a congressional intern, He became a US congressman. 47 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:48,720 Speaker 2: He became the White House Chief of Staff that was 48 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:56,800 Speaker 2: under President Ford. He became a congressman. He was George H. W. 49 00:02:56,880 --> 00:03:02,800 Speaker 2: Bush's secretary of Defense. Then he came to the Bush 50 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:06,960 Speaker 2: forty three White House as Vice President. He and I 51 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:10,760 Speaker 2: did not get along very well. His staff and I 52 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:14,040 Speaker 2: got along famously. And I think the reason that the 53 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:16,760 Speaker 2: Vice president and I did not get along very well 54 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:23,000 Speaker 2: was because in some ways we had similar personalities, sometimes 55 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:24,880 Speaker 2: a little passive aggressive, which I know comes as a 56 00:03:24,919 --> 00:03:26,880 Speaker 2: shock to Dragon that I might be a little passive 57 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:30,480 Speaker 2: aggressive at times like this morning, Like this morning when 58 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:32,120 Speaker 2: I came in and the lights were off and the 59 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:34,120 Speaker 2: blinds were still closed, and he hadn't done what he 60 00:03:34,160 --> 00:03:39,240 Speaker 2: was supposed to do, and I think there's just both 61 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:43,400 Speaker 2: bull headed. But the staff in particular was in He 62 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:47,400 Speaker 2: had an amazing staff, which always fascinates me because you know, 63 00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:51,840 Speaker 2: you go to a doctor's office, for example, a doctor's 64 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:56,680 Speaker 2: office can be saved by the staff. The front office staff, 65 00:03:56,920 --> 00:04:01,000 Speaker 2: the back office staff, the nursing staff. Everybody can save 66 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:04,880 Speaker 2: a doctor that otherwise doesn't have very good bedside manners 67 00:04:05,320 --> 00:04:07,080 Speaker 2: or is just kind of gruff and rough and not 68 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:09,880 Speaker 2: that great of a doctor. I always measure people by 69 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:17,040 Speaker 2: the staff that are around them. And Scooter Libby, who 70 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:19,719 Speaker 2: I think got an incredibly raw deal, and not just 71 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:22,080 Speaker 2: because I think I consider Scooter to be a friend. 72 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:27,800 Speaker 2: He was always helpful, David Alexander, the Vice President's council, 73 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:33,800 Speaker 2: they were all excellent staffers. And I never went to 74 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:37,760 Speaker 2: Chainey directly for anything because I knew, why waste my 75 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:40,120 Speaker 2: time go to Scooter. So I go to Scooter and 76 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:44,600 Speaker 2: get stuff done. Here's a story that you may or 77 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:47,359 Speaker 2: may not know. I remember there was an HBO or 78 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:52,880 Speaker 2: Netflix or somebody did a many little mini biopic about 79 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:57,320 Speaker 2: the Vice President which I watched, and I remember telling people, 80 00:04:57,400 --> 00:05:00,480 Speaker 2: maybe even this audience at one time after I watch it. 81 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:02,160 Speaker 2: I don't think there was a single thing in that 82 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:05,080 Speaker 2: thing that was true. Now, there were a few things 83 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:08,240 Speaker 2: that I didn't know about, because obviously I wasn't around 84 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:12,000 Speaker 2: the Vice president twenty four to seven, but the main 85 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:16,160 Speaker 2: top level things that were in that biopic were just 86 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:20,599 Speaker 2: simply untrue. The whole thing about Cheney being the puppet 87 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:24,560 Speaker 2: master of George W. Bush simply was not true. Was 88 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:28,480 Speaker 2: he influential in the White House, Absolutely he was, particularly 89 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:31,320 Speaker 2: when you compare it to someone like oh, say, Kamala Harris, 90 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:35,960 Speaker 2: who was was she even around. I mean, I wonder 91 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:41,320 Speaker 2: if anybody was around. Cheney was to some degree the 92 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:44,960 Speaker 2: architect of the war in Afghanistan and the war in Iraq, 93 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:48,840 Speaker 2: and that's primarily because of his role previous role as 94 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:55,720 Speaker 2: Secretary of Defense. Over on Drudge, it says, Maga trolls Liz, 95 00:05:56,360 --> 00:06:00,960 Speaker 2: if you are stopped her father died. I don't Liz Cheney. 96 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:04,040 Speaker 2: Don't agree with her politics. I think she was an 97 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:07,479 Speaker 2: abomination on the January sixth Committee. I think she did 98 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:10,760 Speaker 2: some unethical and perhaps some unlawful things. But leave her alone. 99 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:13,640 Speaker 2: Her father's just died. Good grief. Now I understand that 100 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:16,000 Speaker 2: their public figures and what's going to happen. I mean, 101 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:18,320 Speaker 2: I you know, I can't imagine what Dragon's going to 102 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:20,359 Speaker 2: say today that I die. So, you know, it's just like, 103 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:24,719 Speaker 2: come on, back off a little bit. But the thing 104 00:06:24,760 --> 00:06:29,279 Speaker 2: that's interesting to me about the selection of Dick Cheney 105 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:34,799 Speaker 2: belies the idea that he was chosen, or he was picked, 106 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:39,480 Speaker 2: or he was forced upon the pre Bush forty three 107 00:06:40,080 --> 00:06:43,360 Speaker 2: by Bush forty one. That simply is not true because 108 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:47,240 Speaker 2: I know the background about how that appointment occurred, about 109 00:06:47,279 --> 00:06:50,440 Speaker 2: how that selection occurred, so at the time that George W. 110 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:54,640 Speaker 2: Decided to run for president. My friend Joe Alball, who 111 00:06:54,640 --> 00:06:58,640 Speaker 2: had been the president's campaign manager and had been Governor 112 00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:02,480 Speaker 2: Bush's chief of staff, was selected to be the head 113 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:09,960 Speaker 2: of the search committee. The Iron Triangle. Carl Rove, Karen Hughes, 114 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:14,360 Speaker 2: Joe Allbaugh sat down with George W. Bush to figure out, 115 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:17,520 Speaker 2: we need, you know, to have a figurehead to be 116 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:19,800 Speaker 2: the head of the search committee to be vice president. 117 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:24,560 Speaker 2: And they decided that Dick Cheney would be the person 118 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:28,800 Speaker 2: to head that search up. So Joe and Carl and 119 00:07:28,920 --> 00:07:34,400 Speaker 2: Karen all start coordinating with Dick Cheney to vet all 120 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:38,080 Speaker 2: of these different people that might be considered by George W. 121 00:07:38,240 --> 00:07:40,920 Speaker 2: Bush to be the vice president. And they search and 122 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:43,840 Speaker 2: they search, and they search and they search. At some 123 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:49,640 Speaker 2: point Joe Allball, the campaign manager, the governor's chief of staff. 124 00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:53,360 Speaker 2: So the person who has the closest relationship with George W. 125 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:56,840 Speaker 2: Goes to George W. And I know this because Joe 126 00:07:56,920 --> 00:07:58,920 Speaker 2: was a friend of mine told me the entire story himself. 127 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:04,120 Speaker 2: He goes to George W. And says, I think we 128 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:08,960 Speaker 2: have found the perfect person to be your vice president. 129 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:13,000 Speaker 2: And W's alex Odo. You know, I tell me who 130 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:17,480 Speaker 2: it is. We think it's Dick Cheney, and they lay 131 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:19,680 Speaker 2: out the reasons, and they are all the reasons. I 132 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:26,240 Speaker 2: just gave you a Congressional intern, a former White House 133 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:29,480 Speaker 2: chief of staff, and that really tells you a lot 134 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:32,839 Speaker 2: about what they were thinking, because a White House chief 135 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:36,480 Speaker 2: of staff really is, in my opinion and based on 136 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:41,880 Speaker 2: my observations, the most powerful person, even more powerful than 137 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:47,520 Speaker 2: the vice president in the pecking order. A president turns 138 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:51,160 Speaker 2: to the chief of staff to control the Oval Office, 139 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:55,520 Speaker 2: to control the West Wing. So including the vice president, 140 00:08:55,559 --> 00:08:59,839 Speaker 2: there are very few people who can just walk into 141 00:08:59,880 --> 00:09:02,880 Speaker 2: the Oval Office at any time without going through the 142 00:09:02,960 --> 00:09:07,360 Speaker 2: chief of staff, and that's a presidential spouse and a 143 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:13,800 Speaker 2: vice president, and of course the navy officer who carries 144 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:19,840 Speaker 2: the football. If suddenly we're under attack, then the kid, 145 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:22,560 Speaker 2: it's usually a kid twenty five to thirty five years 146 00:09:22,559 --> 00:09:26,440 Speaker 2: old that's carrying the nuclear football that's able to walk 147 00:09:26,559 --> 00:09:29,559 Speaker 2: right into the Oval Office and open up the football 148 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:35,080 Speaker 2: or open up the open up the bag and pull 149 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:39,800 Speaker 2: out the code and say here's what's going on. So, 150 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:42,600 Speaker 2: of course Chaney had that authority to walk in. But 151 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:46,280 Speaker 2: I think that the search committee, after going through all 152 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:51,000 Speaker 2: the lists of you know, people in the private sector 153 00:09:51,040 --> 00:09:55,600 Speaker 2: everywhere else. But they explained to George W that the 154 00:09:55,679 --> 00:10:01,640 Speaker 2: problem is technically because Cheney was running Haliburton at the 155 00:10:01,679 --> 00:10:07,040 Speaker 2: time in Houston, he had his primary residence in Houston, 156 00:10:07,720 --> 00:10:09,800 Speaker 2: and the president the vice president have to be from 157 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:16,040 Speaker 2: separate states. Well, that would be like telling me if Polish, 158 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:20,800 Speaker 2: let's just make this totally absurd. Poliss is running for president, 159 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:24,520 Speaker 2: he's gotten the nomination, and he's looking for a vice president. 160 00:10:24,559 --> 00:10:28,600 Speaker 2: And he turns to me, well, my residency is in 161 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:32,920 Speaker 2: is in Colorado right now. But I could on a 162 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:36,520 Speaker 2: dime switch my residency to New Mexico. I pay property 163 00:10:36,559 --> 00:10:39,160 Speaker 2: taxes there, I own real estate there, I lived there 164 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:41,000 Speaker 2: part time of the year. I even work from there 165 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:43,839 Speaker 2: part time of the year. So I could instantaneously change 166 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:48,520 Speaker 2: my residency to New Mexico. And that was the issue 167 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:51,440 Speaker 2: they had to deal with Cheney. So that was the 168 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:53,280 Speaker 2: solution that came up with, you go back to your 169 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:56,680 Speaker 2: home in Wyoming, you registered vote, you change your residency, 170 00:10:56,920 --> 00:10:59,640 Speaker 2: will name you as our vice presidential nominee. So that's 171 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:03,040 Speaker 2: kind of only And I think that belies this idea 172 00:11:03,440 --> 00:11:06,840 Speaker 2: that somehow he was there because of George H. W. 173 00:11:06,960 --> 00:11:09,360 Speaker 2: Bush Bush forty one, and that's how he became the 174 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:12,040 Speaker 2: vice president. This is simply not true. This is simply 175 00:11:12,040 --> 00:11:14,080 Speaker 2: not true. And I can tell you that based on 176 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:18,920 Speaker 2: my interactions because even though I had nothing directly to 177 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:21,360 Speaker 2: do with either of the war in Afghanistan or the 178 00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:24,520 Speaker 2: war in Iraq, because of our role in continuity of 179 00:11:24,559 --> 00:11:28,520 Speaker 2: government and continuity of operations programs, all the black ops 180 00:11:28,559 --> 00:11:32,960 Speaker 2: programs that oversaw, I was in those conversations. I didn't 181 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:34,640 Speaker 2: really have much to say except you know, when I 182 00:11:34,920 --> 00:11:37,400 Speaker 2: are we ready if somebody at texts us, yes, yes 183 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:43,840 Speaker 2: we are. And then my next kind of interaction with 184 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:48,840 Speaker 2: Cheney was he was given a portfolio, which again belies 185 00:11:48,840 --> 00:11:52,040 Speaker 2: the idea that he was the puppet master. If he's 186 00:11:52,080 --> 00:11:55,120 Speaker 2: the puppet master, if he's truly Darth Vader, you don't 187 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:57,719 Speaker 2: give him a portfolio. He tells the president what's going 188 00:11:57,760 --> 00:12:01,319 Speaker 2: to happen, exactly the reverse occur, and I just kind 189 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:04,160 Speaker 2: of get kind of gets old with me about and 190 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:07,079 Speaker 2: as much as I hate to say, what I'm really 191 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:09,280 Speaker 2: trying to do here is defend George W. Bush Bush 192 00:12:09,320 --> 00:12:13,360 Speaker 2: forty three, because he was he the vice president, was 193 00:12:13,400 --> 00:12:17,160 Speaker 2: given this portfolio and the portfolio that he was given 194 00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:25,080 Speaker 2: was National Security, all of the undisclosed locations, the black 195 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:28,959 Speaker 2: ops programs that I just mentioned, continuity of operations, continuity 196 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:31,920 Speaker 2: of government. Let me tell you real quickly what those are. 197 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:36,320 Speaker 2: Continuity of government is if if we have to evacuate Washington, 198 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:39,480 Speaker 2: d C. Or we're under attack by you know, some 199 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:43,080 Speaker 2: outside forces, we have to be able to immediately know 200 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:48,880 Speaker 2: where everyone in the chain of succession is. And we 201 00:12:48,880 --> 00:12:54,720 Speaker 2: we imagine an air tag. Just imagine an AirTag. So 202 00:12:54,960 --> 00:12:57,120 Speaker 2: there is a system. That's pretty much all I can 203 00:12:57,160 --> 00:13:00,280 Speaker 2: tell you is there is a system that allows everyone 204 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:05,040 Speaker 2: that's in the chain of succession that at an undisclosed location, 205 00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:11,320 Speaker 2: we know where they are at any given moment. Any moment, 206 00:13:11,840 --> 00:13:14,400 Speaker 2: we can tell you precisely where the President, the Vice President, 207 00:13:15,080 --> 00:13:17,120 Speaker 2: the Speaker of the House, the Secretary of State, the 208 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:19,520 Speaker 2: Secretary of Defense, and on down the chain. I think 209 00:13:19,559 --> 00:13:22,839 Speaker 2: Secretary of Homeland Security has been moved up. We can 210 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:27,400 Speaker 2: tell you where they are at any given moment. All 211 00:13:27,440 --> 00:13:29,240 Speaker 2: I all I'd have to do is call out to 212 00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:34,959 Speaker 2: the a particular undisclosed location, reach the National Security Office, 213 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:38,199 Speaker 2: and ask them where's the Vice President right now? Oh, 214 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:40,600 Speaker 2: he's on air Force two, and he's at such and 215 00:13:40,640 --> 00:13:43,320 Speaker 2: such altitude, cruising and such and such and blah blah blah. 216 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:49,600 Speaker 2: We know precisely where they are. That's continuity of operations, 217 00:13:49,640 --> 00:13:53,240 Speaker 2: making sure that the Supreme Court, the Congress, all of 218 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:59,600 Speaker 2: the agencies can continue to function. This continuity of government, 219 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:04,160 Speaker 2: it's making certain that we can secure those heads of state, 220 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:08,480 Speaker 2: that we can secure and protect the President, the Vice President, 221 00:14:08,480 --> 00:14:10,599 Speaker 2: the Speaker of the House, the Chief Justice of the 222 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:14,240 Speaker 2: Supreme Court, those people that we need in place so 223 00:14:14,280 --> 00:14:16,920 Speaker 2: that if we have to reconstitute the government, we have 224 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:20,560 Speaker 2: people that can start that reconstitution of the government. It's 225 00:14:20,640 --> 00:14:26,200 Speaker 2: continuity of government. So that was Cheney's main portfolio, and 226 00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:28,720 Speaker 2: in so doing, it would be the same. Here's the 227 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:37,680 Speaker 2: equivalent in the transition from Clinton to Bush. One of 228 00:14:37,720 --> 00:14:42,920 Speaker 2: the things that was done was let we parachute people 229 00:14:42,960 --> 00:14:47,040 Speaker 2: into every single department and agency. So every secretary of 230 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:52,360 Speaker 2: every department, every director, administrator, whatever their title is, of 231 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:57,320 Speaker 2: every so called independent agency, they would parachute someone in 232 00:14:57,360 --> 00:15:00,960 Speaker 2: from the transition team and they would literally have an 233 00:15:00,960 --> 00:15:04,160 Speaker 2: office in the secretary or the director or the administrator, 234 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:08,560 Speaker 2: the exactly whatever in their office, and that job was 235 00:15:08,640 --> 00:15:15,240 Speaker 2: to assimilate and collect these gigantic briefing books about everything 236 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:18,200 Speaker 2: that was going on in that department. Let's just pick 237 00:15:18,200 --> 00:15:20,840 Speaker 2: the Department of Homeland Security, although it did not exist 238 00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:25,440 Speaker 2: at that time. Well, let's let's use the Department of State. 239 00:15:25,520 --> 00:15:29,000 Speaker 2: That's a good one. So we need to know everything 240 00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:34,800 Speaker 2: that every initiative that the then Secretary of State is undertaking. 241 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:37,720 Speaker 2: So that would have been who Madelin Albright? So everything 242 00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:40,560 Speaker 2: that Madeline Albright is doing, the things that she had 243 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:44,480 Speaker 2: planned to be doing, and all of the in conjunction 244 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:47,160 Speaker 2: with the CIA, what do all the station chiefs have 245 00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:49,920 Speaker 2: going on? So somebody would be out at Langley at 246 00:15:49,960 --> 00:15:52,680 Speaker 2: the CIA, they would be collecting all of that data, 247 00:15:52,720 --> 00:15:55,680 Speaker 2: collecting all that information and it gets put into these 248 00:15:55,720 --> 00:16:00,840 Speaker 2: gigantic briefing books so that when the new team starts 249 00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:05,040 Speaker 2: to get selected. So for example, when the new director 250 00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:08,560 Speaker 2: of THEMA is named, that director can sit down, go 251 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:13,800 Speaker 2: through the briefing book, speak to the permanent bureaucracy about 252 00:16:13,920 --> 00:16:16,480 Speaker 2: tell me what's going on here and there. Turn to 253 00:16:16,560 --> 00:16:21,160 Speaker 2: the transition members that were parachuted in and probably usually 254 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:24,440 Speaker 2: in separate meetings, tell us your take on these programs. 255 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:27,040 Speaker 2: Tell us your take on these initiatives, what do we 256 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:29,800 Speaker 2: need to stop, what do we need to start? And 257 00:16:29,880 --> 00:16:32,640 Speaker 2: so Cheney was in charge of that in terms of 258 00:16:32,680 --> 00:16:37,320 Speaker 2: the transition, which again I mean, it gives your great authority, 259 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:39,720 Speaker 2: gives you great influence, but it's not a puppet master. 260 00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:46,480 Speaker 2: Simply not a puppet master. What else would I tell 261 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:51,480 Speaker 2: you about Cheney. I think my most famous encounter with 262 00:16:51,560 --> 00:16:57,840 Speaker 2: Cheney was during Katrina. We had given he had announced 263 00:16:57,840 --> 00:17:00,320 Speaker 2: he was coming down. In hindsight, I know I was 264 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:02,880 Speaker 2: coming down because they were getting ready to pull me out. 265 00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:05,119 Speaker 2: He wanted to see what was really going on. He 266 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:08,240 Speaker 2: wanted a briefing on the long term housing program. So 267 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:12,800 Speaker 2: my housing director, who went on to become the emergency 268 00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:15,959 Speaker 2: manager for the State of New York, put together I mean, 269 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:20,000 Speaker 2: they worked twenty four hours, thirty six hours to put 270 00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:22,520 Speaker 2: together this plan about how we were going to deal 271 00:17:22,560 --> 00:17:26,240 Speaker 2: with long term housing. And Cheney and his wife, Lynn 272 00:17:26,320 --> 00:17:29,960 Speaker 2: comes in, who might absolutely adore Lynn is a wonderful person. 273 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:35,560 Speaker 2: They come in, they sit for the briefing. Lynn listens 274 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:38,800 Speaker 2: to him. Chane's busy doing something else, He's not paying 275 00:17:38,880 --> 00:17:41,600 Speaker 2: much attention to him, and it just pisses me off. 276 00:17:42,040 --> 00:17:44,320 Speaker 2: So when the briefing's done. The President, the vice president, 277 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:46,520 Speaker 2: and Lynn get up and start to leave the room. 278 00:17:47,480 --> 00:17:49,640 Speaker 2: I follow him down the hallway. I step in front 279 00:17:49,680 --> 00:17:52,600 Speaker 2: of him and I stop the movement as he's going 280 00:17:52,640 --> 00:17:55,560 Speaker 2: to greet people in an op center and tell him 281 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:58,600 Speaker 2: here's your briefing book. He left it on the table. 282 00:17:59,119 --> 00:18:01,879 Speaker 2: You really do need study this because this is our plan, 283 00:18:02,119 --> 00:18:03,800 Speaker 2: and if you object to it, I need to know why. 284 00:18:04,440 --> 00:18:08,240 Speaker 4: I agree with Michael that the staff around somebody can 285 00:18:08,280 --> 00:18:12,119 Speaker 4: really lift them up. And so Dragon, I'd like to 286 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:16,399 Speaker 4: thank you for lifting Michael up and being the wind 287 00:18:16,880 --> 00:18:19,360 Speaker 4: under his wings. It's a beautiful thing. 288 00:18:19,760 --> 00:18:22,919 Speaker 3: It's a tough job, it really is, especially when somebody 289 00:18:22,920 --> 00:18:25,400 Speaker 3: shows up, you know, fifteen twenty minutes later than they 290 00:18:25,440 --> 00:18:26,040 Speaker 3: normally do. 291 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:32,560 Speaker 2: For the first time in how long years? And of 292 00:18:32,600 --> 00:18:35,520 Speaker 2: course this is the one morning that Kowa comes running over. 293 00:18:35,560 --> 00:18:38,760 Speaker 2: Oh please, please, Grace, please. 294 00:18:38,640 --> 00:18:40,800 Speaker 3: You barely got your laptop out, and they're like. 295 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:41,680 Speaker 4: Can you hear it? Dude? 296 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:46,240 Speaker 2: They come running, can you come over? And for what? 297 00:18:46,400 --> 00:18:48,720 Speaker 2: I hadn't I hadn't heard the hear I hadn't even 298 00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:50,240 Speaker 2: heard the news yet. I don't I didn't know what 299 00:18:50,320 --> 00:18:52,200 Speaker 2: was going on, and how did I know that when 300 00:18:52,240 --> 00:18:55,119 Speaker 2: I talked about staff that somebody would pick up on, 301 00:18:55,760 --> 00:18:59,600 Speaker 2: Oh dragon, the wind beneath my wings. Can we get 302 00:18:59,600 --> 00:19:02,280 Speaker 2: some bet middler? You know thinking? Can you know I 303 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:05,400 Speaker 2: kind of go, you know, hop, skip and jump down 304 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:07,960 Speaker 2: the hallway together. By the way, I brought you some 305 00:19:08,040 --> 00:19:11,600 Speaker 2: Halloween candies out there. I'm M and ms. Yeah, the 306 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:13,960 Speaker 2: Snickers are gone, go figure. 307 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:18,720 Speaker 3: There is also Reese's kit cats and uh something else 308 00:19:18,760 --> 00:19:20,960 Speaker 3: over on the other other food bank. 309 00:19:20,960 --> 00:19:22,520 Speaker 2: See a total tam. I said that this is what 310 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:24,640 Speaker 2: will happen after Halloween. This will all show up here. 311 00:19:24,920 --> 00:19:27,879 Speaker 2: It'll all be gone today maybe maybe till through tomorrow. 312 00:19:28,240 --> 00:19:31,159 Speaker 3: Chocolate will be gone today, the fruity stuff will be 313 00:19:31,240 --> 00:19:33,960 Speaker 3: gone tomorrow, and the hard candies will last about a week. 314 00:19:35,119 --> 00:19:39,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, and eventually somebody just throw those away like the 315 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:41,240 Speaker 2: kids do when they get home. They get them to 316 00:19:41,280 --> 00:19:44,800 Speaker 2: the old farts here. You want this? Who gives away 317 00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:47,320 Speaker 2: herd candy? Do you you know? I don't get it? 318 00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:51,080 Speaker 2: Somebody on the text line, And I'm not going to apologize. 319 00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:52,600 Speaker 2: I'm just gonna tell you, I'm not gonna go look 320 00:19:52,680 --> 00:19:55,440 Speaker 2: up your text right now. But it hit me yesterday 321 00:19:55,520 --> 00:19:59,760 Speaker 2: that you were really pissed off because Donald Trump and 322 00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:07,040 Speaker 2: Andrew Cuomo, I would just simply say this. You know, 323 00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:09,040 Speaker 2: I was putting together I was telling Dragon this morning 324 00:20:09,040 --> 00:20:12,840 Speaker 2: about putting together a letter. That was one of the 325 00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:15,480 Speaker 2: reasons I was late, because I had drafted the letter 326 00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:18,399 Speaker 2: last night. I was rereading it this morning, and I 327 00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:22,880 Speaker 2: decided to submit it to an AI platform and asked 328 00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:25,760 Speaker 2: him to rewrite it and see if you can make it. 329 00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:29,600 Speaker 2: To see one if it was passive aggressive. 330 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:32,240 Speaker 3: Mean, not sound like an a hole. 331 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:35,879 Speaker 2: Yes, I don't rewrite the letter, and wow, when you 332 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:38,639 Speaker 2: compare and contrast the two, I realized just how passive 333 00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:43,400 Speaker 2: aggressive I was in the first letter. So I'm trying 334 00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:46,440 Speaker 2: to figure out how to refer to your your text 335 00:20:46,520 --> 00:20:48,280 Speaker 2: message without being passive aggressive. 336 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:50,280 Speaker 3: Well, real quick, we'll get to this text message here 337 00:20:50,320 --> 00:20:53,080 Speaker 3: from seventy five to seventy two, Mike or Michael, did 338 00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:54,480 Speaker 3: you hear that Dick Cheney had passed? 339 00:20:55,160 --> 00:20:55,200 Speaker 4: No? 340 00:20:56,440 --> 00:21:02,439 Speaker 2: Huh? What's the timestamp on that one? Uh? Two minutes ago? Okay, 341 00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:04,679 Speaker 2: all right, okay, I just want to see if they 342 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:09,360 Speaker 2: were if they were being massive progressive, right I speak, yeah, 343 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:11,480 Speaker 2: because I don't know how long it takes to you know, like, 344 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:15,639 Speaker 2: do they go through a censor program, like on a 345 00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:18,720 Speaker 2: server in San Antonio or New York, and they decide 346 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:22,360 Speaker 2: whether because if it's something really positive about the program 347 00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:25,480 Speaker 2: or you or me, then it gets filtered out and 348 00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:27,760 Speaker 2: they alter it and then they send it on to us. 349 00:21:28,520 --> 00:21:30,720 Speaker 2: You know, you know that's what happens, right of course, 350 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:34,400 Speaker 2: So this text message is all. This was from yesterday, 351 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:35,760 Speaker 2: which is why I'm not going to scroll through and 352 00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:37,960 Speaker 2: trying to find to even do a word search for it. 353 00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:42,000 Speaker 2: But you were upset because Trump had said something about 354 00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:47,000 Speaker 2: I'm encouraging people to vote for the bad Democrat over 355 00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:51,600 Speaker 2: the communist, and if the communist wins, then I'm going 356 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:53,840 Speaker 2: to try to figure out ways to withhold money from 357 00:21:53,920 --> 00:22:00,520 Speaker 2: New York. I think that Trump is spot on, but 358 00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:04,560 Speaker 2: I live in the real world. Now you could say 359 00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:09,880 Speaker 2: that maybe Trump should have just kept his mouth shut. Well, 360 00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:17,720 Speaker 2: you forget that New York City is Trump's hometown. That 361 00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:21,280 Speaker 2: would be me like saying for my little hometown, there's 362 00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:24,000 Speaker 2: some communists running for mayor, even though I haven't lived 363 00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:28,480 Speaker 2: in Oklahoma for a while. And Trump technically has moved 364 00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:30,600 Speaker 2: out of New York. Only that goes there when he 365 00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:34,280 Speaker 2: has to for court or he's doing a fundraiser or something. 366 00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:37,560 Speaker 2: He's not technically living. He's living in Marlago, he's not 367 00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:40,760 Speaker 2: living in Trump Tower. So he's trying to preserve a city. 368 00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:44,680 Speaker 2: And I would ask you, if your choice was between 369 00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:48,240 Speaker 2: a bad Democrat and a communist, wouldn't you vote for 370 00:22:48,280 --> 00:22:52,200 Speaker 2: the bad Democrat, because if you don't vote, that's a 371 00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:55,800 Speaker 2: vote for the communists. Because he's in the lead. And 372 00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:58,879 Speaker 2: I also want to say, I'm quite aware that my 373 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:03,040 Speaker 2: friend Curtis Sly is running once again for the mayor 374 00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:05,480 Speaker 2: of New York. He's this is his second run. The 375 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:10,600 Speaker 2: first time he lost by forty points or more. But 376 00:23:10,760 --> 00:23:16,480 Speaker 2: let's talk about the real world. Democrats constitute about sixty 377 00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:21,600 Speaker 2: five percent of registered voters in the City Republic. Unaffiliated 378 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:26,400 Speaker 2: independent voters account for about one point one million individuals, 379 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:30,320 Speaker 2: which is about twenty to twenty two percent. So let's 380 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:34,240 Speaker 2: just take the lower end twenty percent. That means that 381 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:38,520 Speaker 2: eighty five percent of voters in the five boroughs of 382 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:42,320 Speaker 2: Manhattan are five birls. The five boroughs of New York 383 00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:49,640 Speaker 2: are independent and Democrat. Now, of that twenty to twenty 384 00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:52,720 Speaker 2: two percent that is independent, I don't have a breakdown, 385 00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:57,880 Speaker 2: but my guess would be they're mostly Democrat because if 386 00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:02,800 Speaker 2: you take a proportional percentage of the sixty five percent 387 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:05,880 Speaker 2: of the total voters, of the total voters sixty five 388 00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:10,359 Speaker 2: percent or Democrat, then approximately the saying of independence are 389 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:17,240 Speaker 2: probably going to be Democrat or left leaning. Also, Republicans 390 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:23,080 Speaker 2: barely make over ten percent, somewhere around eleven percent of 391 00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:28,119 Speaker 2: total registered voters in New York City. So if Curtis 392 00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:32,000 Speaker 2: were to get all Republican voters, and if he were 393 00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:38,359 Speaker 2: to get all twenty percent of the an affiliated or 394 00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:42,639 Speaker 2: independent voters, that's still not enough to win. And you know, 395 00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:44,440 Speaker 2: in the real world he's not going to get that 396 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:49,439 Speaker 2: to begin with. So if I'm the president, I live 397 00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:52,480 Speaker 2: in the real world and I would say yes. And 398 00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:56,840 Speaker 2: in fact, if I lived in New York, I would 399 00:24:56,880 --> 00:25:00,359 Speaker 2: hold my nose and vote for Andrew Cuomo. And if 400 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:04,320 Speaker 2: you listen to me at all over on KOA during 401 00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:09,800 Speaker 2: the COVID crisis, you know that I absolutely eviscerated Andrew 402 00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:12,240 Speaker 2: Cuomo for everything that he did. Plus I just don't 403 00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:14,840 Speaker 2: like him. I don't like his family. I just like 404 00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:17,480 Speaker 2: what they stand for. But I'll take a liberal Democrat. 405 00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:20,160 Speaker 2: I'll take a John Fetterman a liberal type Democrat any 406 00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:24,800 Speaker 2: day over over Mom Donnie anytime, anytime, and that's what 407 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:29,560 Speaker 2: Trump say. According to New York County data as of 408 00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:34,280 Speaker 2: this past February, the number of registered Democrats is obviously 409 00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:38,040 Speaker 2: substantial larger than Republicans. Now, I can go down by 410 00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:41,959 Speaker 2: precinct by precinct, but they're about five point one million 411 00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:45,919 Speaker 2: registered voters, which is kind of sad when you think 412 00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:48,080 Speaker 2: about the population of New York is about eight million. 413 00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:51,600 Speaker 2: Just slightly over half half of them are actually registered 414 00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:56,280 Speaker 2: to vote Democrats sixty five percent about three point three million, 415 00:25:56,640 --> 00:26:03,400 Speaker 2: Republican eleven percent, barely half a million, an affiliated approximately 416 00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:07,360 Speaker 2: twenty two percent about one point one million total registered 417 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:14,720 Speaker 2: five point one million voters. So it is a statistical improbability, 418 00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:19,919 Speaker 2: not impossible, but it's certainly an overwhelming improbability that Curtis 419 00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:23,399 Speaker 2: Slilo can win. So every vote that goes for Curtis 420 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:28,320 Speaker 2: is actually a vote for Mom Dommy, because that's one 421 00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:36,040 Speaker 2: less vote for Cuomo. Then I would ask this, and 422 00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:41,160 Speaker 2: I'm really serious. I know people don't like New York. 423 00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:44,360 Speaker 2: I happen to be an individual that likes New York 424 00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:46,000 Speaker 2: because I've done a lot of business there, and I 425 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:49,879 Speaker 2: spent time there. Would I live there? No, Now, I 426 00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:52,080 Speaker 2: would not say you could never pay me enough money, 427 00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:54,200 Speaker 2: because well, I'm a whore. And if you, you know, 428 00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:56,960 Speaker 2: you offer me ten million dollars, I might go live 429 00:26:57,880 --> 00:26:59,440 Speaker 2: in New York while I might live in one of 430 00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:02,360 Speaker 2: the burbs, but I might. I'll go live in Westchester 431 00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:05,920 Speaker 2: County and then just commute in or work from home. 432 00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:07,920 Speaker 2: But it's got to be ten million dollars or more. 433 00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:10,440 Speaker 2: And then I'm not technically living in New York. So 434 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:14,360 Speaker 2: technically to live in New York, I don't know. Yeah, 435 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:16,640 Speaker 2: ten million dollars is the minimum that it would take 436 00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:18,440 Speaker 2: to get me to move to New York. And then 437 00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:20,840 Speaker 2: I might do it for a year. I can't I 438 00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:22,719 Speaker 2: can't stand I can't stand New York for more than 439 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:24,840 Speaker 2: three or four days. There was a time when I 440 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:27,639 Speaker 2: had to go spend weeks at a time, for an 441 00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:31,199 Speaker 2: entire year, every single week, fly to New York, fly 442 00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:34,200 Speaker 2: to LaGuardia, go into Midtown, sit with the lawyer, sit 443 00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:36,560 Speaker 2: with the bondholders, do all of that, fly back out, 444 00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:39,879 Speaker 2: come home, go again. I literally did that for forty 445 00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:43,800 Speaker 2: nine weeks, forty nine weeks one year. So I know 446 00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:48,520 Speaker 2: the city pretty well, and if I were there, I'd 447 00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:51,040 Speaker 2: be voting for Cuomo. In fact, I would tell Curtis 448 00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:54,159 Speaker 2: the same thing everybody else is telling him that I 449 00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:58,800 Speaker 2: admire you for running. You don't have the numbers, you're 450 00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:02,359 Speaker 2: not doing anything to get the crossover vote, you're not 451 00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:07,000 Speaker 2: appealing to them whatsoever, and you're fighting an uphill battle. 452 00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:12,000 Speaker 2: Cuomo is a known name, don't lik him. But if 453 00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:14,560 Speaker 2: I've got to have a communist and here's the other argument, 454 00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:20,200 Speaker 2: I hear, you give New York what they deserve. Really, really, 455 00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:23,840 Speaker 2: I mean we may hate New Yorkers, you may hate 456 00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:26,879 Speaker 2: New York City, you may you know they're politics and 457 00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:29,720 Speaker 2: everything about them. But I don't want the largest city, 458 00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:34,000 Speaker 2: the financial capital as far as f today still the 459 00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:36,440 Speaker 2: financial capital of the world. I really don't want to 460 00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:40,560 Speaker 2: falling in communist hands. And if you think that I'm 461 00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:45,600 Speaker 2: being overblown about that, go to London. Go to London 462 00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:49,360 Speaker 2: and see what happens when you elect a Muslim mayor, 463 00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:53,960 Speaker 2: a radical Muslim mayor, and you look at how crap, 464 00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:57,720 Speaker 2: what a crap whole city London has become. I don't 465 00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:01,920 Speaker 2: want that on American shores. Please and thank you Michael. 466 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:05,160 Speaker 5: I predict that Mondam is going to win in the city, 467 00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:08,120 Speaker 5: and I think the wealthy are going to try to 468 00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:10,360 Speaker 5: gut it out for a little bit so they're not 469 00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:15,040 Speaker 5: accused of whatever phobia their peers accused them of, and 470 00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:15,600 Speaker 5: then when it. 471 00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:18,320 Speaker 6: Gets real bad, they're going to leave. But by then 472 00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:22,520 Speaker 6: I could bet you that they're going to impose an 473 00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:25,720 Speaker 6: exit tax on anyone who decides to leave the city, 474 00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:28,480 Speaker 6: and then they're really going to be in it, have 475 00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:29,080 Speaker 6: a great day. 476 00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:36,400 Speaker 2: They'll be fascinating to watch. And I wonder what the 477 00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:40,520 Speaker 2: timeline will be if he wins, as I think that 478 00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:44,160 Speaker 2: he will, unless there's some private pulled out of the hat, 479 00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:51,600 Speaker 2: what they will first start doing. Now, remember he is 480 00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:54,760 Speaker 2: he still has the city council to deal with, and 481 00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:56,800 Speaker 2: then he also has a problem that a lot of 482 00:29:56,840 --> 00:29:59,080 Speaker 2: the things that he has proposed doing he can't do 483 00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:02,760 Speaker 2: without the approval of Albany. So so the the governor 484 00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:06,520 Speaker 2: and the state legislature have to approve a lot of 485 00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:08,200 Speaker 2: the things that he wants to do in terms, particularly 486 00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:11,280 Speaker 2: in terms of taxes, et cetera. So there's going to 487 00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:15,560 Speaker 2: be a a timeline, and I'm just not sure whether 488 00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:18,640 Speaker 2: that's a short timeline, medium or a length a lengthy 489 00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:23,960 Speaker 2: timeline before I mean, let's just use Jamie Diamond and 490 00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:28,760 Speaker 2: JP Morgan Chase. How long would it take Jamie Diamond 491 00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:33,840 Speaker 2: to see what is happening with his firm and not 492 00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:36,440 Speaker 2: just his firm but his people. What what's the effects 493 00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:40,560 Speaker 2: of these policies on his on his personnel? Now they 494 00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:44,000 Speaker 2: already have I think I think JP Morgan's already relocated 495 00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:47,480 Speaker 2: some of their businesses to Dallas or Houston, one or 496 00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:51,720 Speaker 2: the other. So will they accelerate that or will they 497 00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:55,640 Speaker 2: just boom pull it off and just go a lot 498 00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:59,840 Speaker 2: of smaller companies and by smaller, I mean obviously that's real, 499 00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:05,200 Speaker 2: but smaller companies than JP Morgan Chase may have a 500 00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:08,840 Speaker 2: very short leash and before they can impose an eggs attacks, 501 00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:11,920 Speaker 2: maybe they just pack up and go somewhere. It will 502 00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:17,760 Speaker 2: be California all over. They'll end up going to Texas, Tennessee, Florida, wherever. 503 00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:21,800 Speaker 2: And where will they go, Well, don't get too excited. 504 00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:25,080 Speaker 2: I'm not sure they'll come here, but certainly they won't 505 00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:32,040 Speaker 2: stay there. Speaking of California, Nancy Pelosi is back in 506 00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:35,240 Speaker 2: the news again. She was out in her home state 507 00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:40,080 Speaker 2: yesterday campaigning with Gavin Newsom in favor of his Prop 508 00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:44,280 Speaker 2: fifty scheme to redistrict the state. He's trying to add 509 00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:47,800 Speaker 2: a couple of Democrat districts to California, and during an 510 00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:51,960 Speaker 2: interview prior to that event, Pelosi very bluntly stated her 511 00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:56,040 Speaker 2: real feelings about Donald Trump, sending a dog whistle to 512 00:31:56,240 --> 00:32:00,600 Speaker 2: potential assassins by calling him a vile creature, who is 513 00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:06,040 Speaker 2: the worst thing on the planet. It's a vile creature, 514 00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:08,920 Speaker 2: the worst thing I want to the earth. 515 00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:11,200 Speaker 1: But my way, do you think he's the worst thing 516 00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:12,120 Speaker 1: on the face of the earth? 517 00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:13,560 Speaker 2: I do, Yeah, I do. 518 00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:17,120 Speaker 1: Why is that because he's the president of the United 519 00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:17,920 Speaker 1: States and he just. 520 00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:20,800 Speaker 2: Oh, he's the most vile creature on the face of 521 00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:24,080 Speaker 2: the earth. Because he's the president of the United States. Okay, 522 00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:29,000 Speaker 2: Well is because he's the president. 523 00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:31,760 Speaker 4: Un its States and he does not honor the Constitution. 524 00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:36,160 Speaker 2: He doesn't honor the Constitution. Okay, tell me where. 525 00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:37,680 Speaker 3: Why un its States? 526 00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:42,000 Speaker 1: In fact, he's turned the Supreme Court into a row court, 527 00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:43,360 Speaker 1: the Supreme. 528 00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:46,320 Speaker 2: Courts of road Court, Yes, because they're making decisions that 529 00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:47,400 Speaker 2: go against the Democrats. 530 00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:50,240 Speaker 1: Abolish the House of Representatives. 531 00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:54,520 Speaker 2: He's abolished the House of Representatives. Has anybody told them? 532 00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:55,920 Speaker 2: Has anybody told them that? 533 00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:56,240 Speaker 3: Yet? 534 00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:57,160 Speaker 2: Maybe they should. 535 00:32:57,880 --> 00:33:01,920 Speaker 1: He's killed the press, his child, the press. 536 00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:05,920 Speaker 2: Really, he was just on sixty minutes Sunday spared people. 537 00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:12,400 Speaker 2: He scared people. Okay, well you scare me, sweetheart, are 538 00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:15,800 Speaker 2: in our country legally? He scared people who were in 539 00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:20,280 Speaker 2: our country legally. Wow, she really is some kind of stupid. 540 00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:26,760 Speaker 2: That six bald face lies in a single statement containing 541 00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:30,800 Speaker 2: just fifty three words a ratio of by my calculation, 542 00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:33,080 Speaker 2: which you know, I may be wrong, that's about seven 543 00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:36,480 Speaker 2: point eight words per lie. Now that's a pretty impressive 544 00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:40,000 Speaker 2: pace of line, which you can learn after decades of 545 00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:44,000 Speaker 2: well careful practice and repetition by that reptile who's haunted 546 00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:46,240 Speaker 2: the Capitol Hill in Washington to see liquor stores for 547 00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:49,120 Speaker 2: I don't know what sixty years since she first entered 548 00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:54,280 Speaker 2: politics in the mid in the mid nineteen sixties. Yeah, 549 00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:55,640 Speaker 2: I was a pure dog whistle