1 00:00:00,880 --> 00:00:04,000 Speaker 1: Ronny, I was going to drive this truck, but then 2 00:00:04,040 --> 00:00:09,320 Speaker 1: I got high Well wait a minute, and yet it 3 00:00:09,360 --> 00:00:13,800 Speaker 1: sounds like, so what's what's truck different? What what's your point? 4 00:00:14,440 --> 00:00:17,400 Speaker 1: I mean, we've seen you even down the highway, so 5 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:21,160 Speaker 1: I don't I don't get what the I totally missed 6 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:23,639 Speaker 1: the point you're talking about, because I just assume, you know, 7 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:28,200 Speaker 1: snaff who's situation omer loll all left up, so I 8 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:34,120 Speaker 1: don't know. Rather than get into the naval strategy, which 9 00:00:34,159 --> 00:00:36,320 Speaker 1: is pretty complicated, so we'll wait until most of it, 10 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:37,920 Speaker 1: because I know a lot of you goobers are still 11 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:40,839 Speaker 1: you know, you haven't collected your EBT cards yet and 12 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:43,360 Speaker 1: you're still rolling out of bed and you say, haven't 13 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:45,400 Speaker 1: really kind of you know, well other than the truck driver, 14 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:48,400 Speaker 1: who's you know, just he just he drives. He doesn't 15 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:51,240 Speaker 1: pay any attention to the regulations about how many hours. 16 00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:53,559 Speaker 1: He just drives all the time. So let's put that 17 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:56,600 Speaker 1: off to the next hour, because I I just heard 18 00:00:56,720 --> 00:01:01,080 Speaker 1: that the news department is going to interview or something. 19 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:04,440 Speaker 1: The city's coming out. Somebody's coming out of that Caesar Chavez. 20 00:01:05,319 --> 00:01:07,560 Speaker 1: So here's what I want to tell you. What I 21 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:09,720 Speaker 1: think and what I know about this case, which may 22 00:01:09,760 --> 00:01:12,880 Speaker 1: not be very much. But nonetheless, this segment is really 23 00:01:12,959 --> 00:01:16,440 Speaker 1: kind of flying by the seat of my pants. So 24 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:20,959 Speaker 1: take it with a brain assault The New York Times, 25 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:23,880 Speaker 1: I would say, this is what we actually know. The 26 00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:27,280 Speaker 1: New York Times interviewed more than sixty people. They used 27 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:31,920 Speaker 1: union wrecerds, emails, other documents to corroborate accounts, So that's 28 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:37,240 Speaker 1: not nothing. That's at least some substantial evidentiary foundation, at 29 00:01:37,319 --> 00:01:41,880 Speaker 1: least as far as New York Times journalism goes. Chavez's 30 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:46,160 Speaker 1: primary accuser is a woman named Delores Hereta Herata. I'm 31 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:48,840 Speaker 1: not sure how you pronounce it. She's now almost ninety 32 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:52,640 Speaker 1: six years old. She co founded the farm Worker Movement 33 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:57,200 Speaker 1: with Chavez. She says, according to New York Times, that 34 00:01:57,280 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 1: she was pressured and manipulated to sex once and on 35 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:06,400 Speaker 1: a second occasion, was forced against her will back in 36 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:07,440 Speaker 1: the nineteen sixties. 37 00:02:08,639 --> 00:02:11,160 Speaker 2: And critically, it's not just Herata. 38 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:15,840 Speaker 1: The New York Time investigation revealed that Chavez groomed and 39 00:02:15,880 --> 00:02:19,720 Speaker 1: assaulted girls for years who were connected to the movement, 40 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:27,040 Speaker 1: and those allegations specifically involved minors. Yeah, there's just something 41 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:31,920 Speaker 1: about this whole story that maybe my smell test is off, 42 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:35,760 Speaker 1: maybe it's not. But let's walk through my smell test. 43 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:40,519 Speaker 1: There are three parts of my theory. One is consensual 44 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:45,360 Speaker 1: sex true or not true to legitimate illegitimate children? And 45 00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:48,320 Speaker 1: three all these new allegations as some sort of cover up. 46 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:51,560 Speaker 1: I'm just going to try to be objective where I 47 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:54,320 Speaker 1: think my smell test lands. Let's first think about the 48 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:58,960 Speaker 1: consensual sex argument. I think it partially survives, but I 49 00:02:58,960 --> 00:03:04,520 Speaker 1: think it has a fatal flow for the hereda allegation. Specifically, 50 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:10,200 Speaker 1: I could construct a complicated relationship narrative two powerful people, 51 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:15,960 Speaker 1: decades of proximity, ambiguous encounters that are now reinterpreted through 52 00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:20,440 Speaker 1: a modern lens. Now that argument, frankly gets made every 53 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:23,480 Speaker 1: single time that some And look, I'm not trying to 54 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:27,400 Speaker 1: defend Caesar Chavez here, not at all. I'm just trying 55 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:33,440 Speaker 1: to analyze this story. But every time a historical figure 56 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:39,480 Speaker 1: gets me tooed posthumously, the problem is her has its 57 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:46,400 Speaker 1: own language pressured and manipulated and against her will. Those 58 00:03:46,440 --> 00:03:50,800 Speaker 1: aren't words of someone describing an affair gone complicated in retrospect, 59 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:53,720 Speaker 1: And I don't think she has any mood. In fact, 60 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:57,760 Speaker 1: I think she has absolutely zero motive to fabricate she 61 00:03:57,920 --> 00:04:01,720 Speaker 1: spent sixty years protecting a shava as a reputation at 62 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:06,000 Speaker 1: an enormous personal cost. Assuming that all this is true, 63 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:12,600 Speaker 1: But here's the fatal floor of the consensual sex theory, 64 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:17,839 Speaker 1: the minor victims. You simply cannot consent theory your way 65 00:04:17,880 --> 00:04:22,800 Speaker 1: past allegations of grooming and assaulting of teenage girls. That's 66 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:27,119 Speaker 1: the categorical wall you run up against. The United farm 67 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:32,239 Speaker 1: Workers own statement specifically separated those out as the most 68 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:37,000 Speaker 1: troubling category. So the story's a lot more complicated than 69 00:04:37,279 --> 00:04:40,480 Speaker 1: I think what everybody's trying to make it. So let's 70 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:44,040 Speaker 1: think about the illegitimate children angle. It's not really in play. 71 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:48,400 Speaker 1: I don't think the New York Times investigation is not 72 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:52,560 Speaker 1: alleging affairs or secret families. The New York Times investigation 73 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:56,880 Speaker 1: is alleging sexual violence and grooming. To me, those are 74 00:04:56,960 --> 00:05:01,279 Speaker 1: legally morally distinct categories. The ill to them at children framing, 75 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:04,040 Speaker 1: I think that would require the allegations to be about 76 00:05:04,040 --> 00:05:06,480 Speaker 1: the relationships, and I don't think that's what these allegations 77 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:07,040 Speaker 1: are about. 78 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:10,480 Speaker 2: But what about a cover up? 79 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:13,320 Speaker 1: I think this might be one of the most interesting 80 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:15,720 Speaker 1: threads and I don't know that I'm necessarily wrong in 81 00:05:15,760 --> 00:05:20,680 Speaker 1: this one. I think my instinct might have a little 82 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:23,159 Speaker 1: legal traction here, just not in the direction of the 83 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:26,840 Speaker 1: allegations are false. The cover up that clearly happen is 84 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:33,920 Speaker 1: within the movement itself. Think about this. Her retter herself says, quote, 85 00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:36,719 Speaker 1: I am nearly ninety six years old, and for the 86 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:39,719 Speaker 1: last sixty years have kept a secret because I believed 87 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:42,839 Speaker 1: that exposing the truth would hurt the farm worker movement. 88 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:47,160 Speaker 1: I've spent my entire life fighting for well, that is 89 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:53,080 Speaker 1: a sixty year institutional cover up by the primary victim. 90 00:05:54,360 --> 00:05:58,000 Speaker 1: So then the United farm Workers releases its cancelation statement 91 00:05:58,760 --> 00:06:03,280 Speaker 1: before the New York Times article was even published, meaning 92 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:06,560 Speaker 1: somehow they got pre beef, They got pre notice of 93 00:06:06,640 --> 00:06:08,440 Speaker 1: what The New York Times is about to say, I'm 94 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:13,080 Speaker 1: sure I'd bet the Kingdom on it that what they did. 95 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:17,160 Speaker 1: The New York Times editors told the reporters call UfW, 96 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:20,200 Speaker 1: get a statement, give them a heads up, see if 97 00:06:20,200 --> 00:06:24,839 Speaker 1: they have any comment. They say that they knew what 98 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:30,080 Speaker 1: was coming. Yet their statement. Now, remember, the United farm 99 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:33,400 Speaker 1: Workers says they knew what was coming, yet their statement 100 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:37,400 Speaker 1: carefully says that they have quote, no direct reports and 101 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:42,680 Speaker 1: no first hand knowledge. Now that's lawyer drafted ask covering language, 102 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:47,920 Speaker 1: and I'm pretty good at drafting lawyer drafted ask covering language. 103 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:54,640 Speaker 1: The UFW's statement that some of the reports are family 104 00:06:54,760 --> 00:07:00,240 Speaker 1: issues and not our story to tell is I think extraordinary. 105 00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:07,320 Speaker 1: They're acknowledging knowledge is something they're deliberately walling off. They're 106 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:12,680 Speaker 1: not being transparent, they're compartmentalizing. So I'm not sure what 107 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:15,000 Speaker 1: the real story is. So what is the real story? 108 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:17,320 Speaker 1: Maybe that's the question, So what's the real story here? 109 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:22,360 Speaker 1: The cover up angle that holds up is not that 110 00:07:22,440 --> 00:07:26,120 Speaker 1: the allegations are fabricated to tear down a progressive icon. 111 00:07:27,080 --> 00:07:32,160 Speaker 1: It's arguably far more damning the movement new or strongly 112 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:37,120 Speaker 1: suspected for decades, and the movement, and in particularly United 113 00:07:37,160 --> 00:07:42,520 Speaker 1: farm Workers, made a calculated institutional decision to protect the 114 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:46,360 Speaker 1: brand over the victims. And I think Herreta, in her 115 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:50,480 Speaker 1: comments in her statement, has confirmed that. So the United 116 00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:53,920 Speaker 1: farm Worker's lawyered statement confirms that they had some awareness. 117 00:07:55,080 --> 00:07:57,720 Speaker 1: The question might maybe I'll be I to be asking 118 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:01,920 Speaker 1: is this real? Or maybe it's the question I probably 119 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:05,080 Speaker 1: should not be asking, is is this real? 120 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:06,600 Speaker 2: But rather. 121 00:08:07,960 --> 00:08:12,320 Speaker 1: What I typically ask who knew, what, when and why 122 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:16,920 Speaker 1: and what they do about it? That becomes a story 123 00:08:17,120 --> 00:08:22,600 Speaker 1: about institutional complicity dressed up as some sort of legacy reckoning, 124 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:28,840 Speaker 1: And that as someone who has watched institutions protect themselves 125 00:08:28,840 --> 00:08:33,760 Speaker 1: over people before, kind of rings familiar to me. So 126 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:36,520 Speaker 1: the smell that maybe I'm detecting isn't that the allegations 127 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:40,840 Speaker 1: are false. It's that the institutions circling the wagons now 128 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:45,320 Speaker 1: are the ones who enabled this silence for some sixty years. 129 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:50,160 Speaker 1: So as you start to hear whatever, you know, the 130 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:51,840 Speaker 1: mayor and all these other people come out and start 131 00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:56,280 Speaker 1: saying whatever the United farm Workers saying, ask yourself, one, 132 00:08:56,440 --> 00:09:01,240 Speaker 1: what's her motivation in coming out now? Is there really 133 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:06,480 Speaker 1: evidence of child abuse, grooming all of those things? And 134 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:10,880 Speaker 1: when you think about what the United farm Workers hasn't said, 135 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:16,160 Speaker 1: are they actually walling off and trying to protect a legacy, 136 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:22,679 Speaker 1: trying to protect a movement? When these stories break like this, 137 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:26,680 Speaker 1: it really I'm just telling you, my radar goes up 138 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:29,720 Speaker 1: and I'm thinking to myself, there's more to the story. 139 00:09:29,960 --> 00:09:31,920 Speaker 1: And now that everybody screaming and get in front of 140 00:09:31,920 --> 00:09:34,200 Speaker 1: a microphone, get in front of the TV camera as 141 00:09:34,280 --> 00:09:37,439 Speaker 1: quickly as they can. What are they trying to do? 142 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:42,679 Speaker 1: You know this, They're trying to establish the narrative And 143 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:44,960 Speaker 1: as they try to establish the narrative of all I'm 144 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:47,480 Speaker 1: asking to do is stop and say, well, wait a minute, 145 00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:50,120 Speaker 1: what about this? And why not that? Why don't you 146 00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:52,719 Speaker 1: wait so long? What prompted her, at the age of 147 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:54,160 Speaker 1: ninety six to come clean? 148 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:55,280 Speaker 2: Was it guilt? 149 00:09:55,679 --> 00:09:59,199 Speaker 1: But okay, if it was guilt, guilt about what? And 150 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:01,600 Speaker 1: the children? What about the chip? Now I'm not talking 151 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:04,280 Speaker 1: about the other children that may have been abused by 152 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:10,120 Speaker 1: Caesar Shavez. I'm talking about the children that apparently she 153 00:10:10,280 --> 00:10:18,280 Speaker 1: gave birth to. Wow, this is is the eleftist hero 154 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:26,320 Speaker 1: and a child molestor so you think about this. You know, 155 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:28,719 Speaker 1: Trump's vanished the Obama's, the Clintons and Biden to the 156 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:32,440 Speaker 1: political peanut gallery. He's revealed Nancy Pelosi's nothing more than 157 00:10:32,480 --> 00:10:36,679 Speaker 1: a drifting inside trader. He's exposed Chucky Schumer as a 158 00:10:36,800 --> 00:10:40,640 Speaker 1: rudderless leader. He actually lampoos the King Jeffries as a 159 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:43,280 Speaker 1: clown act. And then he goes on and he arrests 160 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:47,080 Speaker 1: Nicholas Maduro. He's about to liberate for del Castro's Cuba. 161 00:10:47,320 --> 00:10:51,120 Speaker 1: He's taking down the Mullas, and he's systematically dismantling Gavin 162 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:54,480 Speaker 1: Newsom's presidential prospects, and then on to While all of 163 00:10:54,480 --> 00:10:57,160 Speaker 1: that's happening, then we get the news from the New 164 00:10:57,240 --> 00:11:01,679 Speaker 1: York Post and the New York Times, which has worshippers 165 00:11:01,679 --> 00:11:04,559 Speaker 1: of communists, labor icon of the seventies, Caesar Chavez reading 166 00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:08,360 Speaker 1: he may have been the most likely or most likely 167 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:11,200 Speaker 1: have been a sexual abuser of adult women and a 168 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:14,760 Speaker 1: pedophile who abused Mexican women and girls like some standard 169 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:15,839 Speaker 1: issue coyote does. 170 00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:19,480 Speaker 2: I'm not sure these are wild claims. 171 00:11:19,520 --> 00:11:22,560 Speaker 1: They come with such an air believability that even a 172 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:27,080 Speaker 1: Caesar Chavez foundation is suddenly, like here in Colorado, canceling 173 00:11:27,160 --> 00:11:32,360 Speaker 1: planned events honoring Chavez. I would say this surprises me, 174 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:37,840 Speaker 1: but I can't say it actually surprises me. It's just 175 00:11:37,920 --> 00:11:40,240 Speaker 1: I think there's more to the story than we're getting 176 00:11:40,320 --> 00:11:46,400 Speaker 1: right now. Well, let's shift gears from it. I spread 177 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:51,080 Speaker 1: an article about how in Greece they're going to try 178 00:11:51,120 --> 00:11:53,720 Speaker 1: to deal with the high energy prices that we're all 179 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:59,200 Speaker 1: seen now. The temptation of what Greece is doing probably 180 00:11:59,200 --> 00:12:02,480 Speaker 1: echoes throughout the entirety of Europe and is probably going 181 00:12:02,559 --> 00:12:06,600 Speaker 1: to start bubbling up in this country as gas prices 182 00:12:06,640 --> 00:12:09,640 Speaker 1: start to get a little higher. Here's what the article said. 183 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:14,400 Speaker 1: Greece may benefit from a range of European Commission emergency 184 00:12:14,480 --> 00:12:19,760 Speaker 1: measures aimed at tackling rising energy costs, according to EU 185 00:12:19,920 --> 00:12:25,520 Speaker 1: Energy Commissioner Dan Jorgensen. Jorgensen signaled that Athens can make 186 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:30,520 Speaker 1: immediate use of a European Commission toolbox. 187 00:12:30,880 --> 00:12:34,600 Speaker 2: Ooh, they got a toolbox. What do he thinks? In 188 00:12:34,640 --> 00:12:35,360 Speaker 2: the toolbox? 189 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:40,880 Speaker 1: From these progressive Marxists that run the European Commission, the 190 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:48,640 Speaker 1: European Union, state subsidies, tax reductions, flexible support schemes for 191 00:12:48,720 --> 00:12:53,040 Speaker 1: householding businesses. According to Jorgensen. The story goes on to 192 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:56,800 Speaker 1: say that the proposed tools, including price caps on gas, 193 00:12:57,280 --> 00:13:01,480 Speaker 1: expanded long term energy contracts, and relaxed state aid rules 194 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:08,520 Speaker 1: could help shield vulnerable households and stabilize electricity costs. The 195 00:13:08,720 --> 00:13:12,280 Speaker 1: article ends with Jorgensen also pointed to the need to 196 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:19,760 Speaker 1: ease the link between gas and retail power prices. Well, wow, 197 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:24,520 Speaker 1: so the European Commission has a pre prepared toolbox of 198 00:13:24,640 --> 00:13:28,800 Speaker 1: ideas that are so horrible that the member states of 199 00:13:28,840 --> 00:13:32,439 Speaker 1: the EU don't have to come up with their terrible ideas. 200 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:32,560 Speaker 3: On their own. 201 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:37,800 Speaker 1: Think about, how does a relative price shock, which is 202 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:42,480 Speaker 1: what we're experiencing right now, energy costs more than other goods. 203 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:47,240 Speaker 1: How does that turn into overall inflation largely by policy 204 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:52,400 Speaker 1: responses to the energy shock itself. Europe invented a doozy 205 00:13:52,440 --> 00:13:55,000 Speaker 1: in the last price rise, and they're said. 206 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:58,640 Speaker 2: To do it all over again. People are used. 207 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:02,480 Speaker 1: In your people are using ten gallons of gas a 208 00:14:02,520 --> 00:14:04,520 Speaker 1: week at five dollars a gallon. 209 00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:06,079 Speaker 2: Sorry US units. 210 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:10,640 Speaker 1: In California, prices available gas goes down to nine gallons 211 00:14:10,679 --> 00:14:14,240 Speaker 1: a week, so the price starts to rise to six 212 00:14:14,360 --> 00:14:18,840 Speaker 1: gallons six dollars per gallon. Now, if you leave that alone, 213 00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:23,240 Speaker 1: people will find ways to use less gas. The price 214 00:14:23,360 --> 00:14:27,080 Speaker 1: becomes an incentive to use less gas. But you take 215 00:14:27,160 --> 00:14:30,920 Speaker 1: the worst combination of these tools that Jorgensen just described 216 00:14:31,520 --> 00:14:34,120 Speaker 1: would be if the government says we will pay for 217 00:14:34,160 --> 00:14:37,960 Speaker 1: the extra cost. So that means that in Athens, or 218 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:42,200 Speaker 1: in Greece, and eventually in the entire EU, you would 219 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:45,120 Speaker 1: still pay five dollars a gallon, and then the government 220 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:46,720 Speaker 1: would chip in an extra dollar. 221 00:14:48,040 --> 00:14:51,960 Speaker 2: Does that sound good? To you. If it does, you're 222 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:55,360 Speaker 2: not paying attention. Can you spot the problem? 223 00:14:56,680 --> 00:15:01,640 Speaker 1: Okay, with no incentive, people would still use ten gallons 224 00:15:01,680 --> 00:15:06,240 Speaker 1: a week. There are still only nine gallons around. Where 225 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:11,800 Speaker 1: does the price settle infinity? Now, the tools are not 226 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:15,480 Speaker 1: quite that idioty, though they're pretty close to idioty. Suppose 227 00:15:15,520 --> 00:15:19,360 Speaker 1: the government says we'll pay your extra expenses. You're still 228 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:22,000 Speaker 1: to pay six dollars to the pump, but the government 229 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:23,640 Speaker 1: gives you a check for ten dollars to cover the 230 00:15:23,640 --> 00:15:27,760 Speaker 1: extra cost. People feel the marginal price, so do cut 231 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:30,080 Speaker 1: down on gas, but they use some of the extra 232 00:15:30,160 --> 00:15:32,320 Speaker 1: ten dollars and they go buy something else. 233 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:34,040 Speaker 2: That's how a. 234 00:15:34,120 --> 00:15:39,960 Speaker 1: Gas price rise turns into general inflation. And that is 235 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:44,080 Speaker 1: exactly how Europe responded to the last time there was 236 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:47,360 Speaker 1: an energy price shock. And that's how Europe tends to 237 00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:51,160 Speaker 1: generally respond anyway to everything, and that's how Europe ends 238 00:15:51,240 --> 00:15:57,400 Speaker 1: up getting general inflation price caps. The government says gas 239 00:15:57,400 --> 00:16:01,480 Speaker 1: stations have sell five dollars. Oh, welcome back to the 240 00:16:01,560 --> 00:16:07,160 Speaker 1: nineteen seventies. Long hair, stupid clothes, bell bottom jeans, and 241 00:16:07,320 --> 00:16:12,800 Speaker 1: gas lines around the block. Ease the link between gas 242 00:16:12,840 --> 00:16:17,920 Speaker 1: and retail prices. What do you think that means ease 243 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:20,280 Speaker 1: the link between This is one of their tools and 244 00:16:20,320 --> 00:16:23,680 Speaker 1: their toolbox, ease the link between gas and retail prices. 245 00:16:25,120 --> 00:16:30,360 Speaker 1: Obviously another witch hunt on price gougers, price controls, windfall profits, 246 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:35,920 Speaker 1: taxes by any other name. A lot of emperors tried 247 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:39,280 Speaker 1: that and it didn't work. Go back to the article. 248 00:16:40,760 --> 00:16:44,960 Speaker 1: The commissioner stressed the crisis is driven by high prices 249 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:50,360 Speaker 1: rather than supply shortages, noting Europe has significantly reduced reliance 250 00:16:50,440 --> 00:16:52,200 Speaker 1: on Russian energy imports. 251 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:57,840 Speaker 2: Well, dear commissioner, where did the high prices come from? 252 00:16:57,960 --> 00:17:00,720 Speaker 1: Is there nothing going on, say, maybe in the Persian 253 00:17:00,760 --> 00:17:02,000 Speaker 1: Gulf that you might note? 254 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:05,080 Speaker 2: Now, I don't know, maybe. 255 00:17:04,840 --> 00:17:08,679 Speaker 1: The commissioner was misquoted, But what I'm trying to do 256 00:17:08,720 --> 00:17:10,880 Speaker 1: is simply point out the fallacy of the ideas, which 257 00:17:10,880 --> 00:17:14,080 Speaker 1: are pretty common fallacies, and which is the kind of 258 00:17:14,119 --> 00:17:17,960 Speaker 1: knee jerk direction you would expect from a socialist form 259 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:22,080 Speaker 1: of government like the European Union. Oh, you're the price 260 00:17:22,119 --> 00:17:26,280 Speaker 1: of her. If the price of gas goes up from 261 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:29,159 Speaker 1: five dollars to whatever it goes to, and the government 262 00:17:29,160 --> 00:17:31,360 Speaker 1: gives you some money to cover the cost, and you 263 00:17:31,520 --> 00:17:33,879 Speaker 1: reduce your use of gas, because now you get some 264 00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:37,119 Speaker 1: extra money to spend over here, you start an inflationary cycle. 265 00:17:37,359 --> 00:17:39,240 Speaker 2: Can you imagine in this country. 266 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:43,000 Speaker 1: Price you know, let's just saying different price of gas 267 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:45,720 Speaker 1: in Differ goes to five bucks, and maybe it already 268 00:17:45,760 --> 00:17:50,359 Speaker 1: is in some places. But the government says Jared Polas says, 269 00:17:51,040 --> 00:17:54,200 Speaker 1: or Congress says, oh, we're gonna give you rebates, We're 270 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:57,120 Speaker 1: gonna give you some extra money. Well, you don't want 271 00:17:57,119 --> 00:17:59,560 Speaker 1: to pay five dollars a gallon for gas anyway, so 272 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:02,120 Speaker 1: you might be cutting back regardless of what the government's 273 00:18:02,160 --> 00:18:03,960 Speaker 1: going to do, and now you got extra money in 274 00:18:03,960 --> 00:18:06,040 Speaker 1: your pocket. Oh, we're looking at COVID all over again. 275 00:18:07,080 --> 00:18:10,399 Speaker 1: We're looking at just money, floating money from one of 276 00:18:10,440 --> 00:18:12,400 Speaker 1: them heaven, and. 277 00:18:12,320 --> 00:18:14,120 Speaker 2: We're gonna start an inflationary spiral. 278 00:18:14,720 --> 00:18:20,879 Speaker 1: Watch Europe, because what Europe does may show just exactly 279 00:18:20,960 --> 00:18:23,840 Speaker 1: how stupid what we did during COVID was if Denver 280 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:26,639 Speaker 1: has a problem with Caesar Shavez, wait till they find 281 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:28,240 Speaker 1: out what MLK did. 282 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:30,960 Speaker 2: Oh funny you. 283 00:18:30,920 --> 00:18:33,000 Speaker 1: Mention that, because one of the stories that I read 284 00:18:33,080 --> 00:18:35,760 Speaker 1: late last night about Caesar shov has that very point 285 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:38,760 Speaker 1: was made. I forget what year it is. I don't 286 00:18:38,760 --> 00:18:41,200 Speaker 1: know whether it's like twenty twenty seven or twenty thirty 287 00:18:41,240 --> 00:18:44,600 Speaker 1: or whatever, but all the files are going to be released. Yeah, 288 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:47,800 Speaker 1: and then the proverbial fezis will hit the fan right 289 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:50,560 Speaker 1: and on the text line many of you have pointed out, 290 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:55,800 Speaker 1: and I'll just randomly pick one here USUS thirty six 291 00:18:55,920 --> 00:18:59,639 Speaker 1: twenty five Michael, regarding cesar shop, you don't suppose that 292 00:18:59,760 --> 00:19:03,280 Speaker 1: some people found out that he really and truly despised 293 00:19:03,320 --> 00:19:07,400 Speaker 1: illegal immigrants as scab labor. Perhaps he wasn't the standard 294 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:09,960 Speaker 1: bear that they if they could hold up on behalf 295 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:17,720 Speaker 1: of illegal immigration. Yes, conveniently canceled exactly what it is. 296 00:19:17,960 --> 00:19:20,239 Speaker 4: Just a very friendly reminder. That text line is three 297 00:19:20,320 --> 00:19:21,720 Speaker 4: three one oh three. 298 00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:24,639 Speaker 2: That's right, three three one zero three. 299 00:19:24,800 --> 00:19:26,320 Speaker 3: Keyword micro Michael, that's right. 300 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:30,640 Speaker 2: Here's the thing. I just I just hate your guts. 301 00:19:30,840 --> 00:19:31,520 Speaker 2: I just hate you. 302 00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:31,879 Speaker 1: What I do. 303 00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:33,879 Speaker 3: I'm just doing as a producer should do. 304 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:38,199 Speaker 4: When you did not give out the text line, you 305 00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:40,479 Speaker 4: just decided to read a random text. 306 00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:43,240 Speaker 3: People want to know where to text, and that's three 307 00:19:43,359 --> 00:19:44,320 Speaker 3: three one oh three. 308 00:19:45,200 --> 00:19:49,080 Speaker 1: No, because if they type in three three one oh three, 309 00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:51,920 Speaker 1: it won't come through. If they type in three three 310 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:55,800 Speaker 1: one zero three. It will come through keyword micro Michael 311 00:19:55,800 --> 00:20:02,040 Speaker 1: of course, keyword mine or Michael, or the keyword could 312 00:20:02,040 --> 00:20:03,639 Speaker 1: be Michael, or. 313 00:20:03,520 --> 00:20:08,119 Speaker 3: The keyword could be Mike or Michael. The same with 314 00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:08,760 Speaker 3: talkbacks too. 315 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:10,600 Speaker 4: If you hit that little red microphone button on the 316 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:13,600 Speaker 4: iHeart app while you're listening to KOA Live, you can 317 00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:15,600 Speaker 4: leave a keyword as well. 318 00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:16,399 Speaker 3: They're Mic or Michael. 319 00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:16,879 Speaker 2: Cand We just go. 320 00:20:16,880 --> 00:20:18,399 Speaker 1: Ahead and be honest about talkbacks real. 321 00:20:18,320 --> 00:20:20,240 Speaker 3: Quickly, okay. 322 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:27,000 Speaker 1: One, we love talkbacks, yes, Two, our boss loves talkbacks. 323 00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:30,520 Speaker 1: And three talkbacks can sometimes, as you seem, even a 324 00:20:30,560 --> 00:20:32,600 Speaker 1: little bit today, not too much, but a little bit 325 00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:35,480 Speaker 1: can cause me to chase rabbits. 326 00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:36,000 Speaker 2: Which is great. 327 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:38,480 Speaker 1: So if you're like board is what I'm talking about, 328 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:41,560 Speaker 1: you leave a really good talkback and I might just 329 00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:48,840 Speaker 1: chase it. I love chasing rabbits with a t engauge, 330 00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:52,960 Speaker 1: blow the crap out of them. And now I if 331 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:54,760 Speaker 1: I can finish this in this, in this, in these 332 00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:57,240 Speaker 1: next two segments, or not, let me at least get started. 333 00:20:57,280 --> 00:20:59,200 Speaker 2: If not, you know what, we don't care about the clock. 334 00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:00,000 Speaker 2: We'll just carry a little. 335 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:05,720 Speaker 1: This is a sentence that you probably thought you'd never hear. 336 00:21:07,119 --> 00:21:08,920 Speaker 2: The most powerful. 337 00:21:08,520 --> 00:21:12,080 Speaker 1: Drug cartel in Mexico is now run by a guy 338 00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:15,040 Speaker 1: from Santa Ana, California. 339 00:21:16,280 --> 00:21:17,800 Speaker 2: Let that sink in for a minute. 340 00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:24,280 Speaker 1: Lemisio almentcho Osuega, the man who ran the Jalisco New 341 00:21:24,359 --> 00:21:29,640 Speaker 1: Generation cartel. That's the organization that shoots down military helicopters. 342 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:35,680 Speaker 1: It puts in the field paramilitary units with fifty caliber rifles. 343 00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:40,040 Speaker 1: That's the organization that pumps VENTONYL, meth and coke into 344 00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:46,200 Speaker 1: Americans veins. That guy was buried in a gold coffin earlier. 345 00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:48,919 Speaker 1: Well actually it was earlier, this miant of late last month, 346 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:53,680 Speaker 1: I forget and before the flowers even wilted on that coffin. 347 00:21:54,520 --> 00:22:00,920 Speaker 1: He's forty one year old California born step son one 348 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:09,280 Speaker 1: Carlos Valencia Gonzalez. They call him Baldy or Bimbo. I'm 349 00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:11,200 Speaker 1: not sure I'd like to walk up to a head 350 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:13,359 Speaker 1: of a cartel and say, hey, Bimbo. 351 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:16,440 Speaker 2: Or or are three? 352 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:17,760 Speaker 3: Is that the bread people? 353 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:19,360 Speaker 2: Well, that's what I wondered. 354 00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:20,119 Speaker 1: You know, because I was thinking about you know, in 355 00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:23,000 Speaker 1: Costa Rica, in Central America, you see all the billboards 356 00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:25,600 Speaker 1: for you know, Bimbos, Bimbo's bread. 357 00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:27,680 Speaker 2: Have you ever seen. 358 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:30,480 Speaker 3: Those yeah, we've got the bimbo bread here? 359 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:32,600 Speaker 2: Can you get bimbo bread here? Pretty sure? 360 00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:34,120 Speaker 3: Yeah? 361 00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:36,520 Speaker 2: Well you mean you mean here in this building? 362 00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:44,040 Speaker 1: Well there's around here somewhere. Yea, what bimbos are bread? Okay, 363 00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:48,320 Speaker 1: all right, you just called people in this building bimbos. 364 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:50,120 Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm looking at one. 365 00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:53,960 Speaker 2: That's plice to that you've gotten the. 366 00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:55,360 Speaker 3: Thing yesterday I got. 367 00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:57,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, we got an hour and a half to go. 368 00:22:58,080 --> 00:22:59,680 Speaker 3: Let's see what I get two or three tomorrow. 369 00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:03,879 Speaker 1: Oh, like I said, I would be like the Democrats 370 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:06,440 Speaker 1: of the State of the Union. Get the ping pong 371 00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:10,399 Speaker 1: ping pong pad, just a middle finger paddle that I 372 00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:12,080 Speaker 1: can just lay right here and just everyone want will 373 00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:14,680 Speaker 1: just hold it up. If any of you out there 374 00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:19,320 Speaker 1: are good you know woodworkers I need, or just good craftsman, 375 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:23,400 Speaker 1: go buy me a ping pong paddle and either take 376 00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:26,160 Speaker 1: your you know, your jigsaw or whatever you're you're gonna 377 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:28,920 Speaker 1: use your table saw and and make it into either 378 00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:33,560 Speaker 1: either paint nicely a middle finger on it, or carve 379 00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:35,520 Speaker 1: it into the shape of middle finger so I can 380 00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:37,200 Speaker 1: just hold it up at dragon every once in a while. 381 00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:40,600 Speaker 4: And the big question is is the thumb out or 382 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:42,640 Speaker 4: is the thumb curled in which. 383 00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:45,400 Speaker 2: Oh I always do the thumb I use to hold 384 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:46,320 Speaker 2: down the other two fingers. 385 00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:48,720 Speaker 4: Okay, but because there are people that do the thumb out, 386 00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:51,399 Speaker 4: well that's just stupid. 387 00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:53,040 Speaker 3: I know it's a little weird, but it's kind of 388 00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:54,800 Speaker 3: difficult to No. 389 00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:56,320 Speaker 1: I finally get somebody to think I want to do 390 00:23:56,359 --> 00:24:00,480 Speaker 1: it efficiently and effectively, so I grab the other and 391 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:03,280 Speaker 1: make sure that one's sticking straight out like I do 392 00:24:03,359 --> 00:24:09,159 Speaker 1: with you. My dream is that sometime why should we 393 00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:12,680 Speaker 1: give it ninety days? Did I actually get a ping 394 00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:16,280 Speaker 1: pong paddle? With that I can just hold up and 395 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:19,840 Speaker 1: just you for that matter, With this glass behind me, 396 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:24,800 Speaker 1: anybody walks through, I can just reach around. 397 00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:26,600 Speaker 2: I just do my peripheral vision. 398 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:28,959 Speaker 1: I can see somebody walking through there, and I can 399 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:30,680 Speaker 1: just hold up the paddles the finger. 400 00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:33,120 Speaker 4: You know, it's just passive aggressive enough that I think 401 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:36,919 Speaker 4: this audience may actually and you gotta be careful if 402 00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:39,640 Speaker 4: you're just putting one up behind you, because the petite 403 00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:43,400 Speaker 4: big boss could be walking by and you don't want 404 00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:44,840 Speaker 4: to be doing that to her. 405 00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:46,840 Speaker 1: Well, I want her to pay attention to me. I 406 00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:49,800 Speaker 1: wanted to realize that I'm actually near working what better 407 00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:51,359 Speaker 1: way to get her attention? They just hold up a 408 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:54,080 Speaker 1: paddle that has But I could just have I was 409 00:24:54,119 --> 00:24:58,199 Speaker 1: just brenda, I was just fanning myself. You took it 410 00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:06,920 Speaker 1: the wrong way. Juan Carlos Valencia Gonzalez aka Baldi Bimbo 411 00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:12,440 Speaker 1: or R III has now taken the throne. And here's 412 00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:17,800 Speaker 1: where I think it gets legally and constitutionally interesting, because 413 00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:22,879 Speaker 1: the Constitution doesn't stop at the border. The Fourth and 414 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:27,280 Speaker 1: the Fifth Amendments don't care where you're standing. What they 415 00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:30,320 Speaker 1: care about is whether or not you are a United 416 00:25:30,359 --> 00:25:35,359 Speaker 1: States citizen, because you carry those constitutional protections with you 417 00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:40,280 Speaker 1: whether you go to Guadalajara, to Tipalpa, to the mountains 418 00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:41,879 Speaker 1: of western Mexico wherever. 419 00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:43,240 Speaker 2: That's the law. 420 00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:49,520 Speaker 1: That's what makes this situation genuinely complicated, not politically complicated, 421 00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:57,800 Speaker 1: but legally complicated. The CIA's Predator drones were absolutely critical 422 00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:04,760 Speaker 1: on Huntingdale. Elemento high definition surveillance, real time tracking, all 423 00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:09,359 Speaker 1: what we call in the business intelligence fusion, and that's 424 00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:13,080 Speaker 1: what put Mexican special forces on that mountain on that day. 425 00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:17,720 Speaker 1: But the playbook gets dramatically harder when the target holds 426 00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:22,639 Speaker 1: an American passport. Now just hold your horses. I know 427 00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:26,840 Speaker 1: where you're going. Under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act PAIZA, 428 00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:33,480 Speaker 1: the rules for surveilling Americans overseas are categorically different from 429 00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:37,920 Speaker 1: the rules for surveilling foreign nationals. So to go after 430 00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:42,159 Speaker 1: Valencia Againzales the way they went after a Stepdad, the 431 00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:45,000 Speaker 1: United States government would need sign off from the Attorney 432 00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:49,000 Speaker 1: General and would need to convince the secret Foreign Intelligence 433 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:53,040 Speaker 1: Surveillance Court, the PHISA Court, that he is acting as 434 00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:58,880 Speaker 1: quote an agent of a foreign power. Now, and here's 435 00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:04,680 Speaker 1: the part that actually matters, that hurdle is surmountable. Six 436 00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:09,679 Speaker 1: Mexican cartels, including Jalisco, have now been designated as foreign 437 00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:14,560 Speaker 1: terrorist organizations by the Trump administration, and under the under 438 00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:18,960 Speaker 1: the the statutory language which creates the PHISA Court, an 439 00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:24,960 Speaker 1: international terrorist organization qualifies as a foreign power. That is 440 00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:28,320 Speaker 1: precisely the kind of scenario that Section seven oh two 441 00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:32,719 Speaker 1: of PISA was architected and drafted to address. A US person, 442 00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:36,960 Speaker 1: a US citizen who has effectively defected to an enemy 443 00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:43,399 Speaker 1: organization operating abroad targeting Americans. I know you may be 444 00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:50,840 Speaker 1: thinking of Michael al Alwaki. Al al Alaki, can ever 445 00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:54,000 Speaker 1: can say his name? It's pretty instructive in this case, 446 00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:59,760 Speaker 1: amlar On Alaki al On war On war All Alaki 447 00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:05,400 Speaker 1: born in New Mexico, American citizen killed by a CIA 448 00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:10,200 Speaker 1: drone striking yimen in twenty eleven under direct orders from 449 00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:14,200 Speaker 1: President Obama Obama's legal team. 450 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:15,680 Speaker 2: I'll tell you what they thought. 451 00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:19,400 Speaker 3: You keep talking about naval strategy. Are you talking about what. 452 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:22,159 Speaker 4: You do with the lint and any or an Audi? 453 00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:24,800 Speaker 4: I mean, what kind of naval strategy are we discussing here? 454 00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:25,880 Speaker 2: That's exactly right. 455 00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:28,600 Speaker 3: Wait a minute, how does an audi accumulate lint? 456 00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:34,280 Speaker 1: Well, it floats down and then it kind of rests 457 00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:37,040 Speaker 1: on the audi and just kind of lays there. And 458 00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:38,840 Speaker 1: then you put your shirt on and it kind of 459 00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:41,240 Speaker 1: you know, between the sweat and the oil and your 460 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:46,240 Speaker 1: shirt and everything, it just kind of sticks there. Yeah. Yeah, huh, Okay, 461 00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:49,480 Speaker 1: were you in any or an Audi? Any? 462 00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:49,880 Speaker 2: Yeah? 463 00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:53,440 Speaker 3: I don't know if I can ever recall seeing an Audi. 464 00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:57,240 Speaker 1: I think I have, but you know, at my age, 465 00:28:57,280 --> 00:28:59,360 Speaker 1: you know, maybe I've just seen seen things that I 466 00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:01,440 Speaker 1: just think I've seen more. 467 00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:03,240 Speaker 3: No longer want to remember, no longer. 468 00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:10,360 Speaker 1: Want to remember exactly. That's exactly right. And al LACKI 469 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:13,760 Speaker 1: born in New Mexico, American citizen killed by a CIA 470 00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:20,040 Speaker 1: drone strike in Yemen in twenty eleven under Barack Obama's 471 00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:20,959 Speaker 1: direct orders. 472 00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:26,040 Speaker 2: Obama's legal team would argue did argue that. 473 00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:29,920 Speaker 1: He was an operational leader of al Qaeda, which an 474 00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:33,720 Speaker 1: international terrorist organization, and therefore that made him a legitimate, 475 00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:39,400 Speaker 1: legitimate military target. Federal courts, unlike they would do today, 476 00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:44,920 Speaker 1: ultimately refused to second guess that determination. So now let's 477 00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:50,400 Speaker 1: just play this game. Replace al Qaeda with Alisco new 478 00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:56,640 Speaker 1: Generation cartel, then add the terrorist designation, and I think 479 00:29:56,680 --> 00:30:00,520 Speaker 1: you have a legally cognizable argument. It may not be 480 00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:03,719 Speaker 1: very clean and it may not be very simple, but 481 00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:08,240 Speaker 1: it's not science fiction either. The real problem becomes speed, 482 00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:13,200 Speaker 1: because these kinds of interdiction operations move very quickly. A 483 00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:18,520 Speaker 1: surveillance window will open, then it closes. Every additional procedural step, 484 00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:23,120 Speaker 1: Attorney General sign off, the FISA court approval is a 485 00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:26,840 Speaker 1: window that can close before the paperwork clears. Now, I'm 486 00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:29,480 Speaker 1: not trying to make a constitutional argument against the process. 487 00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:33,320 Speaker 1: That's a management argument for having it ready to go 488 00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:37,480 Speaker 1: before you need it. Now, let's talk about Mexico, because 489 00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:40,600 Speaker 1: the president of Mexico is Claudia Scheinbaum, she now finds 490 00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:43,960 Speaker 1: herself in a position that her predecessors spent nearly twenty 491 00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:49,240 Speaker 1: years trying to avoid. She pulled the trigger literally her government, 492 00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:54,080 Speaker 1: with intelligence support from America, she hunted down and killed 493 00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:58,240 Speaker 1: the most powerful cartel cartel boss in all of Mexican history, 494 00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:00,760 Speaker 1: and the Mexican official Quota in the Wall Street Journal 495 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,240 Speaker 1: said it was the kind of clarity that only comes 496 00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:04,520 Speaker 1: from genuine fear. 497 00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:05,160 Speaker 2: Quote. 498 00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:07,880 Speaker 1: We have embarked on this is what she said. We 499 00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:11,240 Speaker 1: have embarked on this route, and there is no turning 500 00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:17,760 Speaker 1: back otherwise they can kill us all. That's not political rhetoric, 501 00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:22,640 Speaker 1: that's an existential statement. But here's what Scheinbaum understands. I 502 00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:26,360 Speaker 1: don't think her critics do. Cartels, like all authoritarian structures, 503 00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:30,920 Speaker 1: respect only two things power predictability. The moment you move 504 00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:34,120 Speaker 1: against them and you don't finish the job, that's a 505 00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:38,239 Speaker 1: recruiting poster, and that's a justification for every atrocity that 506 00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:41,120 Speaker 1: they commit in retaliation. So you can't have a half 507 00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:44,320 Speaker 1: measure here. You don't want to drag in and walk away. 508 00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:48,560 Speaker 1: And the timing couldnt be more pressure packed because the 509 00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:53,200 Speaker 1: world come going to Guadalajara this summer, and the haliscoed 510 00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:57,400 Speaker 1: cartel holds a monopoly in that town, in that city, 511 00:31:57,560 --> 00:32:02,640 Speaker 1: Scheinbaum cannot have cartel highlights playing out on international TV 512 00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:05,680 Speaker 1: while the world is watching. Meanwhile, Trump's on the phone, 513 00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:09,440 Speaker 1: He's offering US forces. Stephen Miller's at a conference South Florida, 514 00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:12,400 Speaker 1: declaring that there is no criminal justice solution to the 515 00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:16,000 Speaker 1: to the cartel problem and invoking the language of both 516 00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:18,880 Speaker 1: al Qaeda and isis so now, the pressure on the 517 00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:24,040 Speaker 1: Mexican President Shinbaum from DC is relentless, and frankly, I'm 518 00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:25,200 Speaker 1: not sure it's entirely wrong.